Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1890 — Page 3

i OHOBTK BY OZIAS MIDSUMMim. * The thought ‘may be Will-o’-the-Wisp* ebook >• • Mslo.es • f As fire-flies thence flew about ’mid the trees And thoughts of ghosts, goblins and demons , and those Arrayed for a jig or a whirl Bo filled Joseph'6 mind with a sense of dismay, As in the deep darkness that followed the day, Heplumed in the blackness that lay in his way Toward home from seeing his girl That church in the hollow and,mill on the hill, Though peaceful and quiet, deserted and still, Caused up and Joseph to wander or chill, As lonely they stood in the nitht; Caused him to unpocket a rusty old blade .And pucker his lips till a whistle they made, Then many shrill blasts blow, as though not afraid If demons came on for a fight. Tea, caused him to pray and'forget Mollie dear, For just then he saw a white specter appear Which waved its white arms as it came to him near » And seemed to say. “Now I’ve got yon." He bowed tp the earth in a s- ason of prayer, Remembered the wrongs be had done everywhere, Expecting to die in his boots then and there, And feeling contemptibly blue. But Joseph still lives, for the specter passed by, As at his prone figure it heaved a deep sigh At thinking he'd gone to the sweet by-and-by, His mother would never know how. Then bellowed e in lamentable woe, Which voice ’spite his frenzy Joseph seemed to know. For.seen by the light of the fir<>-flie6’ glow, The ghost w as his mother's white cow. Chicago, 111. BETRAYED; • -on— A DARK MARRIAGE MORN. j--' >, ■ * A Romance of Love, Intrigue and Crime. BY MRS. ALICE P. CARRISTON. CHAPTER Vll.—(Continued). The intellectual superiority of Ellis-i ton, refined and insolent *s it was, aided to blind Slyme, showing him eyil which was not only prosperous but was also ' radiant in grace and prestige. For these reasons he most profoundly admired his employer—admired, imitated, and hated him! The magnificent Elliston professed for him and for his solemn airs an utter con* which he did not always take the trouble to conceal; and Slyme's limbs trembled when some burning sarcasm fell from such a lofty height on the old would of his vanity—that wound which was ever sore within him. What he hated most in his employer was his easy and insolent triumph—his immense and unmerited fortune—all those enjoyments which life yielded, without pain, without toil, without conscience—peacefully tasted. But what he hated above all, was that this man had thus obtaining these things; while he, Oscar Slyme, had vainly striven forthem., . . J There was yet one thing more; he had looked upon the young wife of the fortunate man whose bread he ate, and seen that she was wondronsly, surpassingly lovely, and, like all who" had ever come with n the magic circle of her baneful influence, he had speedily succumbed to her powers—aye, the time quickly came when ho loyed her with a fierce and maddening passion, when he would gladly have run any risk, committed any crime, to win a single smile of approval frora her beautiful lips. Os course Cora was not slow to see and understand the power she had gained over the secretary, and that one word from her would make him her willing 9 «lave; J>ut for a time she treated him coolly, even contemptuously. But when she wanted an instrument wherewith to reach the heart of the man 'who had calmly and deliberately slighted her proffered love, here was pne ready to her hand, and she scrupled not to make use of it. “Take a seat,.Mr. Slyme,” said tfee lady, hastily throwing the paper on the floor, "and tell me wherein the world you have been ever since last evening." “I have, to the best of my poor ability, "Mrs. Elliston,” responded the secretary, quietly seating himself, "been carrying out your^lansand instructions." “But, Play, what has kept you so long? The girt fs dead—at least so the paper states.” “Ah! to be sure the papers say so, and, thanks to a rapidly conceived plan bf my own, which I must say I carried out most admirably, her husband thinks so, too; and now it only rests with you to nay whether or no he shall ever be undeceived.” • * Lauding your wonderful abilities again. I see, Slyme; that’s a particularly bad habit of yours. But no matter—what do you mean? How does it rest with me? Please explain yourself. Tell the whole story, and begin at the beginning, if you please.” Slyme flushed painfully at the rebuke ? »he had received, and, moving uneasily in his chair, he commenced his story, speaking in a low mid rapid tone, his eyes the while wandering aoout the partially lighted room, and never for more than a moment at a time resting on the lady’s face. _ , CHAPTER VIII. THE SLAVE TEGS A SMALL TAVOR. ‘ “ Os course,” the private secretary began, “ you know all about the decoy letters, $ and what they were intended to accom- > plish. Weil, they worked to a charm. I eent the one addressed to the bridegroom at about the right moment, and when I saw he had taken the bait and gone to the girl on Forty-seventh street, I knew he was out of the way for some time, and so thought no more about him, bnt turned my attention to the bride—ha! ha! the bride of less than an hour!" ’ “Do pray go on with your storv, Mr, Slyme. ” Well, the note I prepared for her I caused to be handed in about twenty minutes later, and it wasn’t long before it produced visible effects. “From my post of observation I saw her rush out of the house, and almost fly in the direction of the Fielding girl’s home." ■ i “Ah! well done.” “I had a carriage ready, and, springing inside, directed the driver to keep her constantly in view. He did so, and managed the whole thing admirably. < “ She reached the house on Forty- seventh street, and a moment later saw her husband issue from >t: then she did the very thing 1 could have wished her to do. She questioned the Irish servantgirl. "The result of that interview was, as yon may easily guess, a resolution never tO'tee her husband’s face a<>ain, V “She sent the girl for a carriage. Ours \ was the first to attract her attention. I told the driver to take the job, and when the lady was safe inside, and the caniage was turning the corner, I mounted on the rack behind. “Os course, in this way, I never really lost sight of her for a moment. As she entered the waiting-room of the Grand Central Depot by one door, I entered by the other. • “She bought a ticket for Cos Cob, and direelly afterward I bought another for the same place. Then 1 was careful to keep my eyes on her until the train was made up. But, meantime, I had noticed a very curious thing." “An! and what was that, pray?" “Sitting next to her, and evidently -- waiting for the same train, was a middleaged lady with a young girl by her side. “Now, I am quite sure our friend did not se* thia girl at the time, but I could not help seeing her; and, wonderful to

r > s relate, ehewas not only about Mrs. Cleveland’s own age, but looked enough like her to be her twin sister." Cora Elliston aroused herself and showed a suddenly increasing interest. “Go on,” she said, eagerly. “Ah! I thought I should intereat you before I had finished," said the private secretary, a little dryly. "Permit me to assure you I have been deeply interested all along," rejoined the lady. “Now plea-e go on.” “Theseladies,” Slymecontinued, “went out' to the train at about the same time Mrs. Cleveland left the room, and I followed closed after them. “They found the right car first, and had taken their places before our friend came in, and she, after a moment's hesitation, sat down two seats back of them, while I, not to lose sight of her, took up my station directly opposite. "Well, as you have doubtless learned before this, some great man was about to die in New Haven, or further east, and as he wanted his relatives and friends about him, a special train started with a number of them from this city. * “It was delayed by some means near Greenwich, and the fact was not telegraphed back, as it should have been; so. directly after rounding a curve, we plunged into it full tilt, and our cars were telescoped, shattered, torn from the track, and Jumbled down a steep bankment, where they speedily took fire. “By some wise dispensation’ of Divine Providence, I escaped uninjured " “See here, Slyme," suddenly interrupted Cora, with an ill-concealed sneer, “you get that cant frpm the so-called religious people you meet with occasionally. “Doubtless when you are with them it’s all well enough to make use of it, if you see fit to do so; but in my presence—knowing you as I do - will you have the kindness to forbear?” The secretary, with a chagrined look, bowed humbly, and fixed his eyes upon the floor. “Your will is my law," he said in a low tone. and then went on, hurriedly: a How I ever mapaged to crawl out of that burning wreck I know not, but I did do it, and strangely enough, when I gained my feet, 1 found Mrs. Cleveland’s hat in my hand. I then looked around to see if I could find any traces of the lady herself, and presently, not a dozen yards away; I discovered her lying among a number of the dead and dying. “Now. you see the wonderful likeness between these two women, had occupied my mind ever since I saw them sitting so near each other in the waiting-room of the depot; and now, all at once, as I stood there, it occurred to me that I might turn that likeness to good agcount, provided the other was dead, as I strongly suspected she was. “I commenced a thorough search, and with the assistance of a brakeman and one or two uninjured passengers, soon found her body, so horrible burned and disfigured, that it might easily have passed for almost any one's; but taking into consideration the hair, her height, build, and certain features that were uninjured, and which were common to both, I was perfectly satisfied that Mrs. Cleveland’s own mother would not hesitate for a moment to declare that the dead girl was her daughter. “ But, to make assurance doubly sure, after having the real Mrs. Cleveland conveyed away, I burned the remains of a hat, which I took from the dead girl’s head, and placed the other by her side, and thus, a short time after, Eugene Cleveland found the body, and accepted it as that of his wife." “Ah! ” ejaculated Cora. Then quickly: “ And what did yqu do with the woman you took away? ” “I hired a carriage, and conveyed her to the, cottage you ordered me to lease in Roxbury." “ she is there now? " “ Yes, ma’am, and likely to remain there a long time." “ She was injured, perhaps? " ’ Badly. Her right arm was brokeh. her heal frightfully cut, and sl}e received other injuries. “ It was some time, of course, before I could put her in charge of a physician, and by that time fever had set in. She is out ot her head now, and the doctor says ten to one she will never recover her reason." “She has brain fever, then?" “Yes.” . “She may die?" “It’s more than likely.” “H’m—and the—the other; what did they do with that?” “I made inquiries afterward,” said Slyme, slowly, “and found they. had taken it to Mrs. Cleveland’s mother’s, at Biverside, from whence it is to be buried to-morrow, I think.” “Ah!" Then, after a moment’s pause: “Slyme.” “Yes, ma’am.” - J>You must attend that funeral.” “Attend the funeral! What possible good can come of that?” “I should greatly like to know who the guests will be. What information you are able to gather there may, in a great measure, shape our course for the future.” , i - “Then I will certainly be there. And now, madam, have you any further commands for me?" “Have you told me all I ought to know?” “I believe so—unless " “ Unless what?" ' ’ “Why, I am inclined to think, from what I have been able to learn since I reached the city, that young Fielding and his sister are ‘ likely to make quite a stir about the liberty taken with their names, and the fraud practiced upon them the other night.” “Pooh! let them stir. If they go too far, they'll suddenly find themselves without bread and butter, that’s all. And now. Slyme, I think our interview for this time is over." But, seeing that the secretary still lingered, she thought it wise to bestow upon him a little honey; so, with her sweetest smile, she said: “My friend, I am very well pleased with you. The ardent zeal you have displayed iu carrying out/my plans and wishes has quite won my heart.” A flush of pleasure mantled the secretary’s face. His lips quivered and his eyes lighted up with a new fire. “Mrs. Ell iston,” he said, eagerly, but in trembling tones, “I have—l am proving to you. as best I can. that I ask no better than to be your slave. Bnt even a slave may now and (hen kiss the hand of his mistress; you have not as yet granted me so much as this favor." Cora bit her lips with vexation and suppressed anger, but quickly dissembling, she held out her hand with another of her gracious smiles, while she said: "You have, indeed, earned so poor a reward. Continue to be faithful if you would stand even higher in my regard." With a low cry of rapturous joy, the infatuated secretary threvr himself upon his knees before the woman, and ferventIv pressed her hand to his lips; then, as she softly whispered: “You must go now, my friend, indeed, yon must, " he slowly arose and staggered from the room as one drunk with wine. Ah, if he could qnly have seen that same woman the next moment! If he could only have seen her flushed face, her angry, flashing eyes, her oompret sed lips, as she rubbed the spot on her hand that had come in contact with his lips. Then if he conld only have teen how she threw from her the delicately embroidered handkerchief she had used, as if it had been some unclean thing, he might have doubted het: sincerity. He might even have doubted hie own great power of fascination. CHAPTER JIX. AN VNSEEN WITNESS. Oscar Slyme was perfectly right. Grace Lester accepted without question the poor disfigured body, brought to her the morning after the frightful accident, ai that .of her only and well-beloved child.

Her grief was unbounded; yet, ill and I wholly unprepared though she was. super- I human strength seemed given her to bear np under the terrible affliction. The hour for the funeral arrived, and, i as was to be expected under the strange, and even dreadful, as well as romantic circumstances, the little cottage and! about it, were filled with sympathizing or curious friends and neighbors. The lonely widow, who now deemed heiself childless, and the unhappy husband, with a few intimate friends, among whom were Raymond Fielding, his sister Meta, Mr. Henley, and old William Rawley, and his wife, Hannah, occupied a i little room by themselves during the services. a In the crowded parlor, where the closed I coffin occupied a place in front of the i mantel, Oscar Slyme had taken up his ■ post of observation. He had selected the corner nearest the ' head of the casket, from whence, without . running much risk of being observed ' himself, he could see all that passed in the I room, as well as note through a window j at his elbow all who entered or passed out l through the front door. The assiduous secretary remained until ■ the services were over, and the funeral I cortege had started for the picturesque ’ cemetery on .the hillside: then, feeling j confident he had learned all his mistress i .would care to know, he took an early ■ Wain for New York. “Ah!” murmured Cora, when he had' made his report, "it is just as I expected; ! that Fielding girl was well enough to be . at the funeral, even if she was too ill to j be at the wedding. I’m inclined to believe ' that I shall find it necessary to remove her also from my path.” Oscar Slyme was watching her face intently, and while he did not catch her words, fully understood, from hes looks and tone, that something displeased her greatly. “I have told you something that you would rather not have heard?” he said, inquiringly. She looked up hastily, and regarded him attentively for a moment. “Listen, my friend," she at length said. “It does not Diease me that this working girl —this Meta Fielding, as you say she is called, should be anything more to my husband’s nephew than she is at this moment; and cannot yop see that already she and her precious brother are 'scheming for the place made vacant, as they suppose, by the death of Mildred Lester?" “Ah! It does look like it,” assented the private secretary. “More than that,” Cora went on, hastily; “unless something is done, and done speedily, they will succeed; for being more lonely than ever now. and full of grief, as undoubtedly he is, naturally he will turn to them for comfort and sympathy; and loving him, as I am sure she does, it is very easy to see how it will all end; and it doesn’t please me, Mr. Slyme —I repeat—it doesn’t please me at all.” The secretary looked at her curiously. "You must love or hate this man very much,” he said, with more than a trace of suspicion in his tone. Cora raised her beautiful eyes, and threw upon him a quick, searching glance. “Have I not already told yau,” she said, sharply, “that he has mortally offended me—that I Will never forgive him —never, if I can prevent it, allow him a single moment’s happiness on this earth?" and her looks and tone convinced the jealous secretary of her sincerity. “What wouldyou have me do?” he asked, humbly enough. She threw herself back into the chair from which she had risen, and resting her head upon her hand, said, after a moment’s hesitation: “I don’tknowyet; let methink." Then, as if speaking to herself: “We mustn’t have the brother turned out of the bank; that was a bad move in Eugene’s case. No; whatever is done now my hand must in no wise appear. Besides, it would do him no good to throw him out of hie situation; the publisher would give him a better, as readily as he did the Other. “No, no; we must manage in some other way; and suspicion—well, suspicion must be directed toward some other source. And there’s another thing—Slyme, are you listening?” “Yes, Mrs. Elliston.” *yVell, you must find out if I—that is, iF we are in any way suspected of the plot that ended in the young bride’s supposed death; and if so, you must find some way to free us from the suspicion.. I don’t choose to have it rest on me, at all events.” “I don’t think, ma’am, it can be done,” said the secretary, slowly. “And now with regard to the other matter; I believe I have a plan that will work, and which I am sure will in no wise compromise you. ” “Then let me hear it, by all means." The secretary, in a diffident and deferential manner, drew his chair a little nearer, and began to speak in a low and rapid tone. • - As he continued the lady’s face flushed, and her eyes sparkled with excitement and satisfaction. “Yes, yes, Slyme," she was saying; “that will do most admirably. You are indeed a real treasure, and if you carry this through as successfully as you did the other your reward ” And here she was interrupted by a knock on the library door. “Come!" she called, impatiently, and a footman entered with a card on a silver salver. Cora glanced carelessly at the card, and then, as every vestige of color left her face, gasped out rather than spoke the name of Eugene Cleveland! ' I “Cleveland!” echoed Slyme, in a tone of consternation. “What can he want here at this time? He must have come directly from the depot.” “I don’t know what he wants, I am sure," murmured thl guilty woman, thoughtfully; “I wish I did." “Shall you see him?" “I am trying to think what is best to dot If I refuse most likely he will say I was afraid. If I see him But pshaw! I will see him.” And hastily recalling the footman, who had discreetly retired, she said: “Show the gentleman inhere.” Then, turning to the Secretary: “You go into Mr. Elliston’s private room; it will be quite as well if he doesn’t see you.” Slyme, who was of that opinion himself, hastened to retire, and the door had hardly closed upon him when Eugene was admitted from the reception-room. Cora slowly rose to receive him. The young man advanced, and when he had nearly reached the table, by the side of which she was standing, stopped and regarded her fixedly, yet without speaking. For a moment Cora bore his close scrutiny, then, feeling that she coula not keep her feet another instant, rapidly said: “Please take a seat, sir, and tell me ot what chance I am indebted for the honor of this call,” and, vyithout waiting for him to accept her invitation, she sank baek into her own easy chair. Eugene, however, made nd movement toward seating himself, but advancing another step and resting his hand upon the table, he calmly said: ° “Mrs. Elliston, I*have called to ask you if yon are now quite satisfied with your completed work?" “Sir! I do not understand you,” answered the lady, with quivering lips. “And yet it seems to me I have'spoken quite plainly,” said Eugene, bitterly. ‘Trom the night of our interview in this very room yon have pursued me with a vindictiveness that has never rested nor alept. And now it has come to this: You have caust d the death of my wife, and not only that, bnt she, poor innocent child, died, thanks to you, believing me un aithful to her; 1, who never wronged her e«en in my inmost thoughts.” “You have married, then, since I saw you, and ypur wife is dead?" said Cora, in a low, questioning tone. "Yes; bnt I apprehend there is no neces■ity of telling you about it."

“And you accuse me of your misfortune —of her death?" pens sred the lady. “I do, most positively," said Eugene, firmly. “You do so wrongfully, then. I have never lifted a finger against you. I have not had the heart." And the words were uttered in a mournful netting tone that, spite of himself, thir led the hearer’s whole’being. , He regarded the wo man with a look of amazement. ■ “In that case,” he managed to ask, at last, “why did my uncle cause me to be dismissed from the bank?" * “Your uncle is a person who does not like, to have others set np opinions in opposition to his own. He told you it was right to take the hundred dollars his wife offered you, and yet you. refused. He regarded that refusal is a direct insult offered to as well as an upardonable slight to me, ind in spite of all I could say or do, he agisted upon having you turned away from the bank. ” Eugene continued o regard her fixedly. “Then yon solemnly declare to me that you did not persuade my uncle to have foe turned away from the bank?” “On the contrary, I urged him, even with tears in my eyes, to have you retained in the place. More than that, I showed him how hard it must be for you to live on the meager alary you were receiving, and begged him to have you advanced, so that you might live as yon, had been accustomed to from your youth.” ‘ Eugene was still inc -edulous. “Mrs. Elliston," he said, “so rar as 1 know, besides yourfiel:, I have not an enemy on earth—you rem ember, you told me you we e my enemy, and that, sooner or later, yon would make me feel the weight of your wrath. Now. then, can you tell me how it is that all iuy movements were watched up to the ho rof my marriage, and how, before I ha 1 been married an hour, I was decoyed f om the side of my bride, and how she oon afterward was roused to jealousy ai d induced to flee from the man who lov id her with all his heart?” “I know nothing of dl this,”said Cora, sadly. “Indeed, Mr. Cleveland,” she continued, fixing on him er wonderful eyes, “since the interview o which you once referred, I have been ill—a part of the time, very ill." “Can it be possible, madam," he said, drawing yet a step r arer, “that I have* wronged you—that I have accused you unjustly?” r ’ “If you really belie ed me capable of what you have charge me with, you have indeed wronged me most grievously," answered the lady, in t le same sad tone, and with downcast eyes. “Then will you—ca you forgive me?" exclaimed the young man, carried away by a sudden impulse. “Willingly—freely, cried Cora, starting from her chair. And with an hysterical sob she threw he rself into his aftns. ? At that moment t’ e door connecting with Mr. Elliston’s private apartment noiselessly opened, and a face, as it might have been tl a face of a fiend, looked out upon the ouple, united, to all appearances, in a pt isionate and loving embrace. CHAPT EB X. EUGENE RECEI ’ES A VLSTTOB. Eugene Cleveland est his uncle’s house in a strange state f mind. His head was dizzy—confuse . as though he were drunk with wine. He had promised o spend the evening with the Fieldings. They had considerately urged him to do so, knowing how lonely he would be, JI by himself, in his own desolate home. But he forgot h s promise. He no longer remembered the dear friends of Forty-seventh stree* He went directl? to his own apartments, let himself iu, threw himself into an easy chair, and thought not of her whom he had lost— .ot of the sad cere- . monies that had be n performed in the little New England villaee that day, but of her whom he ha< just left, the siren of the Fifth avenue m nsion—her whom his micle called wife! .TS’e absorbed was e that he forgot the flight of time, and when the little'clock on the mantel-shel struck the hour of midnight, he awol e, as it were, with a start, and with a .uilty feeling at his heart, slowly prepared to retire. \At length his pre >arations were made, and extinguishing he light, he got into bed; but alas, not .-o sleep. In spite of him, ill that had occurred from the time Ray folding had confessed to him the loss of the hundred dollars, down to that very liour, passed in review before him, like ar endless panorama; for no sooner was the ast act in hfoupcle’s library passed, th in the first scene with Ray sprang up aga in. And now, gradu: lly, he once more began to doubt Cora Jliston—he once more began to look upo: her as the author of all his misery—a the murderer of his pure and innocent bride, and then, as he remembered how I had held her, clasped in his arms, as age nhe felt her hot kisses on his cheek—his yes, his lips, he shuddered, and, shudd ing, slept. [to be ontinued.j Cornfield Philosophy. Whom the god love die young may be very true. If o. the gods certainly show good taste, as most people who are spared are iot calculated to inswre love in god . or anyone else. swallow does not make a spring,” sang tl ,<? ancient proverb. But I have seen me swallow make a man jump as if h< had aspring. You will notice that all the mother-in-law jokes are v ritten by single men. Married men don dare write them. “Love thy neighbor as theyself” is next to imixjssibl- if she happen to be a toothless and p< nniless old maid. “To accept a b mefit is to sell your liberty,” runs th ancient Latin proverb. Most men i know of, judged by this rule, are the most abject slaves. Homer said “the learned man is always rich in hii self.” This is very poor consolation to the man whose great knowledge is discounted 1,000 per cent, by an unappreciative world Jvhile he starves The Tailor's Little Joke. “I see,” he said as he entered the tailor’s shop, “tl. it you advertise for 100 sewers to go to Chicago.” “Yes,” replied the tailor, “they’ll be putting in a new sewerage system there soon and they’ll want at least a hundred ” “I’ll teach you to joke with a poor man out of work!” cried the newcomer, drawing his knife r for he was a cutter also, and he spring at the tailor, collared him, laid him out, cut him, basted him and pressed him against the floor until the poor n an felt sewer all over -and begged for mercy between his pants.— Clothier end Furnisher. The old belief in the blindness of the mole—a be lief justified by the creature’s invisil le eyes and odd life—seems to have beeU partially supplanted by theories of defective vision, one naturalist arguing that the eyes are near-sighted. A thorough microscopical examination lately been made in Germany by < 'otl Hess, who fails to confirm either of these views. The mole’s eye, thoti jh only a twenty-fifth of an inch in di imeter—appears to be perfectly developed, and as well adapted for seeing a that of any mammal. The mole doubtless makes use of his eyes when he is above the surface, especially in /swin ming, and he is able to do this/by sinply altering the erect position of the lairs which cover and protect the eyet when underground.

Business Directory. THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital, KQ.OOO. Surplus, rr.OOQ. Organized August 14.1882. T. Dorwln, President; P.W.Bmlth. Vice-President; R. Sj Peterson. Cashier; T. T. Dorwln. P.W. Smith, Henry Derkes, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Terveer, J. D. Hale and B. 8. Paterson, Directors. Weare prepared to make Loans on good security. receive Deposits, furnish Domestic and Foreign Exchange, buy and sell Government ■md Municipal Bonds, and furnish Letters of Credit available in any of the prindpal cities Also Passage Tickets to and from tuo Old World, including tr&nsportatioii to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital, 175,000. Surplus, 175,000. Organized in 1871. w 2? c ? r fc' D ’^® tu<iabaker ' President: Jesse Niblick.Vice-President; W.H. Niblick, dashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parts of the country. County, City and Township Orders bought. Foreign ana Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. YpKANCE * MERRYMAN. ' j.t. VRANCB. J. T. MKBRYMAN ▲ttorxxoyai «at DECATUB, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 2 and 3, over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. |£IESBE HOUSE, L J, MIESSE, Propriatm. Decatur, Ind. Location Central—Opposite Court Renas, IW laadtag hotel in the aityT A.«. BOLLOWAY. Fhy aloiaxi Surgeon Office over Burns’ harness store, residence at Mr. Elias Tyrrill’s, southwest corned Third and Monroe streets. AU calls promply attended to in city or country night or day. JQ. NEPTUNE, • , DENTIST. Now located over Holthouse's shoe store and Is prepared to do all work pertaining to the’dental profession. Gold filling a specialty. By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AD work warranted. ■■ ° " ®7 T-May. PlxT-ffiticisksicto Monroe. ... Indiana. All calls promptly attended to day or night. Office at residence. WILLIAM H. MYEItS, 3E*lx7’aiiol»xx ciiSurgeoxx Specialty—The Treatment of Women. Office at residence. 157 West Wayne street. Ft. Wayne, Indiana, from 10 to 12 a. tn. and 3to 5 p. m. Telephone 89. 5m3 _-«,.4gfrof. L. H. Zeigler, “Veterinary Surgeon. Modus OperandL Or chotomy, Overotomy, Castrating Rldgling Horses and Spaying Cattie and Dehorning, and treating their diseases. Office near Romberg’s livery •table, Decatur, Indiana. U- S. Xießß-UHT, Veterinary Surgeon, IMoxiroe, Xxxd.. Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. WiU respond to calls at.jmy time. Prices reasonable. JTames E. Bobo, Deeatwr, - - Indiana. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney at Xsattv* jDoeatar, - • Indiaim. MRS. M.L HOLLOWAY, ML a Having again located in Decatur, one door north of the M. E. Church, will engage In the practice of Medicine, giving especial attention to Nervous Diseases peculiar to Women and Children. Will attend cases in the country when conveyance is furnished. Office hours 9to 11 a. m. and 2 to 4:30 p. tn., except Thurw day and Saturday afternoons. 35 MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Property on Long Time. Wo OoxmaatiMMloxx. . s bow Rate of Interest. SPm.x'Eiaal xnenta In any amounts can be made at any time and stop interest. CaU on, or address, A, K. GRUBB, or JT. F.MANN, Office: Odd Fellows* Building, Decatur. TTFOBTW® ; MAU ; and LOUISVILLE ; m Vliit Yiier BiM, The SHORT LINE Between In® NORTH and SOUTH. n® Bol,d Tr,ln * To And From ■4lm Cincinnati. KI ~ Through Coaches Between INDIANAPOLIS fill™ * FORT WAYNE BWEyw ® ur “ Connection* BK h\yAyWL In Union Depots, rem M —AND—- ‘ AV Unexcelled Bervlos I VBVS&f K WvSSM For Rates and oth- \ \\ t cr information call W’MS* Me “‘ T iv. H. FISHER, \ '' Go"’ 1 p “ s A Ti s k 2 l Agt,, Ft Wayne, Ind. GEO. W. BRADBURY, General Manager. B. a SUTTON, Sup’t Whitewater R B TIME CARD.—SOUTH. May 18, 1890. Standard Time Fort Wayne. ...Iv • 6 00 am 110 25 am * 6 40 pn Bluffton ar 658 11 21 741 Montpelier 7 30 , 11 52 8 14 Hartford 748 12 10 pm 833 Muncie 8 30 12 50 9 15 Indianapolia 10 30 3 50 11 20 Cincinnati... 5 30 Louisville 7 00 .-y- • Daily NORTH. t Ex. Sunday. Louisville f 7 30 Cincinnati 7 59 Indianapolis 17 00 am 11 15 3 15 pr Muncie *9 05 115 pm 510 Hartford 9 45 1 57 5 50 Montpeßer 10 03 2 15 6 08 Bluffton 10 30 2 48 6 38 Fort Wayne 11 35 3 45 7 40 ONE FARE FOB BOUND "TRIP SUNDAYS

Notice to Teachers! Notice is hereby given that there win be a public examination of teachers at the office of the county superintendent, in Decatur, Indiana. on the last Saturday of each month. Applcants for license must present “the proper trustee s certiffieate or other evidence of good moral character,” and to be successful must pass a good examination in orthography, reading. writing, arithmetic, geography. English grammar, physiology, history of the United States, science of education, and present bn the day of examination, a review or composition upon one ot the following named books: Tjde of Two Cities. David Copperfield. Ivanhoe, Heart of Midlothian. Henry Esmond, The Spy, The Scarlet Letter, The Sketch Book. Knickerbocker s New York. The Happy Boy (by Bjornson). Poems of Longfellow. Poems of Bryant, Poems of Whittier, Poems of Lowell, Hawthorne’s ‘Marble Faun.’ and Carlyle’s ‘Heroes and Hero Worship ’ Holmes’ ‘Autocrat of the Breakfast Tabla. McMaster’s ‘Life of FrankUm and Char lea Blade s‘Put Yourself in His S* d oompoaltion shall contain not less Shan 800 nor more than 1.000 words, shall be in the applicant sown handwriting, and shall be accompanied with a declaration that It Is the applicant s ortrtna! work. Reviews win bo graded on penmanship, orthography and composition. Examinations will begin promptly at 8:80 a. m. No license will be granted to applicants under seventeen years of ago after August 1888. J. F. SNOW. Qo. kupt. s®® Write th*e£ John F. Lachot ].-■ \ 1 - r Berxxe, Xxxct., Keeps a full Un* of Drugs Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Brushes, Oils. Toilet and Fancy Articles. Also a complete stock of Choice Family Groceries, All of which will be sold at lowest living prices. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compounded. Give him a call. SPECIAL NOTICE. I desire to say to the people of Adam* Comity that if you want an abstract to your land, Mortgage or deed executed you can get the same dons with neatness and dispatch by calling o* A MoW. BOLLMAN, Recorder.

O.«. DOBWXX. A. A. manors. a. bobt. Christum. DECATUR STONE ANO LIME CO., Proprietors of the DOLOMIC LIMESTONE QUARRIES J And Manufacturers of Door and Window Sills and Caps, Range Work, Monument Bases, Curbing, Wall Stone and Sn.O'W White T lim g*, and dealers in Plaster Paris, Plastering Hair, Portland and Louisville Cement. We guarantee the quality of our Lime equal to any made. Call on us and we will convince you that you can save money by dealing with us. Quarry and warehouse, north of Second St. City office. Dorwin’s Photograph Gallery. 6mß J TALKS. i. ■ ' ~ And so does the prices on every article of goods at Porter’s Hamess Slop And Second-Hand Store Tell their own stary. Having removed to the Kover Hall Building, a few steps east) of Second Street, I cordially invite all my friends to call and see me when in need of anything in the line of new and second-hand Harness, Stoves, Tinware, Household Goods and a thousand and one articles that are sold ‘| ’ ' ' . ■- ' - ' ' ■ ■ ' /■ -’. ’■ CHEAPER THAN DIRT! Don’t be humbugged into buying high priced goods without first seeing noy immense stock and learning the inducements I have to offer. *®“Hunt me up and save your $ | $ $ ~ S. Porter. ■ ‘ I■ ' ' , - ? - • ■ Madison Street, West of Stone’s Hardware Store. ——— *78,000 Worth of Superbly XsOo * . '■ •' ■'. ■■ -:clothing:Due to our large facilities for Manufacturing, enables us to offer the Largest, th* Richest and most Varied Assortment of Spring Bommer Glethiag At prices that defy competition. Every Mill of worth at home and abroad te represented in our stock of Working Suits, from $3.00 upwards. Business Suits, from 17.00 upwards. » Dress Suits, from |io.oo upward* Our Children’s and Furnishing Goods Department is full of new, bright Hoveb les and admired by all. rix&nY * ooxr amy. ,4 nd ,s Beat Bern Street. Fort Wayne, Mau .; 't ' ■ \ ... . ■ ■

Chicago and Atlantic With it* Pullman-built equipment, substantially constructed roadway, and low rats* of tare insure a safe, speedy, and economical journey to all points EAST OR WEST. Write to your nearest railway agent for tbs attractive low rates via this line. TIME-CARD IN EFFECT JULY SB, 1889. GOINO WKST. I ? 5 i7 31 Stations— Ex Pacific Chic’o Way Thro’ ■ Ex. Ex. Freit Frei’t. J PM. A.M. Boston...lv 300 830 r.w. New York 830 BuO AM. PM. Marion 800 n9O 12 55 300 an. Kenton .. . 850 12 10 185 420 Jagger 917 t 5 03 ....... Lima »45 103 219 546 Bpencer’De. 10 14 8 80 Enterprise. 10 45 308 720 ....... Decatur.. .U 20 226 380 815 Ktn yaland 11 48 900 ....... TM. Huntintn... 12 35 325 425 lo 00 Bolivar 1 15Newton.... 119 408 458 Akron 1 42 Rochester.. 208 445 538 No. 15 am. N. Judson.. 3 15 5 50 Kouts 3 47 6 22 Cr. Point.. 4 35 7 15 Hammond. 510 725 800 800 ....... Englewood. 5 44 7 55 8 30 8 35 Archer Ave. 6 05 8 15 8 50 900 Chicago. ,ar 6 15 8 25 9 00 9 10 GOING UST. 18 10 12 16 32 Stations— Accom Atlanc Mail Way Thro* I Hunt Ex Ex. Frei t. Frei’t. I AM. AM. PM PM. ‘ Chicago. .Iv 10 15 750 720 535 Archer Ave. :10 25 8 00 7 30 6 45 Englewood. 10 45 820 750 605 ....... HammomL. 11 15 8 50 8 20 6 40 Cr. Point 9 23 8 50 7 15 Kouts 10 05 ....... 758 N. Judson.. 10 37 *9 57 836 PM. Rochester.. 126 11 44 11 01 ;... PM. Akron 12 05 11 211 Newton..., 203 12 30 11 42 Bolivar 12 36 No. 18 AM AM. Huntintn.. 2-ML 125 12 25 526 ....... Kingsland.. 2 05 16 If Decatur..’.. 330 230 119 652 J Enterprise 303 tl 50 740 Bpencer’lle 3 55 2 14 8 21 Lima 4 42 4 01 2 86 8 55 Jagger 4 30 t 9 40 Kenton .... 52s 455 325 10 23 Marion ..ar 605 565 410 U 65 PM AM f ' ....... New York.. 5 00 7 00 PM. Boston. ■£■ 10 00 12 40 tTrains stop only cn «ign*L Trains 8. 12, 16. 3, S, 15, daily. Trains 17 and 18 dali-. sxcept Bunday. Where no time is show" train* do not stop. Ask for your tickets via The Chicago A Atlantic Railway, and your journey will bs one ot eomfort and pleasure. F. C. DON ALD, Genl Pass. Agt, G. M. BEACH, Gen’l Manager. Chicago.