Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1891 — Page 3

“WHERE THICK LIFE PRESSES.” ■T MBS. WAPOWtON B. SIORANQE. Blooping, dreamtnjn U O9 city. Like u giant, prone and harmless j Like a wild boast, without pity, ▲ll day long it chased the helpless, Parted children from their mothers, Thrust the aged from his home, Riches took with greed from others. Drove the houseless forth to roam. Now it sleeps, the monster city, Sleeps, and dreams, perhaps, of pity. Grim and lone the workshop towers, Silent as a desert tomb, Where a thief in daylight hours Steals from cheeks their virgin bloom, Now the pallid thousands borrow From the treasury of nig lit Strength to battle on the morrow; Present foes quite, ’ For they stray in endless number Through the roseate land of slumber. It is morning In the city; Vagrants through its by-ways creep,; And the chill dawn without pity. Wakes the thousands up to weep. From his downy bosom Soinnus Lets the sleeping ones be torn, While the dreamy oaths of Morpheus Are exchanged for pavements worn; Back they come, ail endless number,' From the happy land of slumber. AWEIKIIMYSTI'KY OR Tracing a Dark Crime. BY ALEXANDER ROBINSON, M. D. CHAPTER VIII. Leonore was in the library. She stood before the window looking out upon the dreary day. It had commenced to rain, and the drip of the water from the trees in the garden made a dismal picture, in keeping with the affliction that had visited this house. •As It entered she turned quickly', and seemed somewhat relieved wdxui she found it was myself. “Boctor, are those people gone?" she asked. “Yes, Miss Leonore. That was the Coroner and his jury—a very necessary infliction in eases.of this kind. r “Yes, 1 know. .What was the verdict. Doctor?” ' • She was wonderfully calm and selfpossessed. . I could not but notice this fact. . “They decided that Dr. Seabury camo to his death by ]>oison, administered with his own hand.” i Watching her face-closely I could not see that she experienced any emotion. Iler features were calm as the. Summer sky. .“When can I look upon my poor old friend?” Iler words relieved me from a duty 1 did not like. “Now if you desire. Are yotijcapable of standing the shock?” . “Do not fear for me; I am stronger than you imagine. Will you go up with me. Doctor?” ' , 1 “I have a little writing to do connected with the case. So w ith your permission I will remain lu re until yon comedown.” So saying, 1 seated myself at a deßk and began to examine the phial I had takeq from the. dead man’s hand, at tin; same time drawing.writing paper to me. « This phial wasan odd little thing, made of crystal, to all appearances. ft had been buried in the tombs of the pyramids for thousands of years, and no doubt might have aroused a fever of interest in the breast of a man like Doctor Schliemann. \ Leonore had left the room. M realiz' d what a shrewd t ri<'k this was on the parbof the old detective, and displeasing as the idea was to me. 1 could not forget that his aims were justice itself. The innocent would never suffer at the hands of Abner Ketcham, and if guilty •it was; only the right thing that they should be brought to the bar. I commenced my writing. Some time passed by. So nervous had T become'l hat it was with difficulty that 1 kept at my work. At last 1 iteafd the rustle of skirts on the stairs. When Leonore’ entered the library 1 was folding up what I had written, around the ancient, phial. 1 looked up into her face, Unless iny eyes deceived me there were traces of tears there. o , There ruslusi upon me a mad desire to console her. to pour out burning words of regret at her lonely situation, and to offer my services in atty manner acceptable: but wisely 1 restrained myself. She was yet under the' ban of suspicion. Much as I believed ftnflly in her innocence, it had not yet beep clearly proven, and there were some things needed the closest investigation. I now desired!to sy>- Mr. Ketcham. To do so, 1 must go ii]>-stairs again. In looking around for my hat, I found that I had left it in the chamber abbve, and leaving Leonore, I ascended. I found Mr. Ketcham standing thoughtfully by the window. He turned as 1 entered the' room, ami although I looked eagerly in his face. 1 was baffled. “Close the doiir and sit (lown. Doctor.” His words, innocent/ in themselves, sent a claiii through my heart. They meant that he had diseAveted something worth while repeatinty to rhe. Being deeply inwXsted in the case, I could not do otherwise than listen, eagerly. “When Leonore entered the room, she stood right there for a minute with her hands clasped, her eyes glued upon the bed and that motionless figure. “Then she seemed to break the spell that bound her,.and gliding forward fell } cm her knees beside the dead. “Doctor, 1 have in my time looked upon- some strange sights, but never one quite equal to that, where a girl we believe guilty of murder bends .over the form of her aged victim, and fondles his hand. ” I could not restrain a cry. “She is innocent, sir. A guilty soul would turn from such a sight in terror. Why the dead must f,ven arise to condemn her did she dare do that.” “Listen!” I calmed myself under his magnetic eye, and waited to hear more. The quiet assurance of ' his manner gave me warning, that in some way Leonore had not improved her case by • the visit she had made to the death bed. “She remained there, apparently convulsed with grief, and yet uttering no sound. “Then I saw her raise her head and clasp her hands convulsively, while she gazed down upon the body. f > “Words fell from her lips. They Reached my ears, and were treasured every one as having a decided bearing on the case. • . “This was exactly what she said, breathing the words in apparent deep emotion: “ ‘My poor, murdered guardy, to think that it has come at last, that which you have feared so long. Heaven forgive me for belng the cause of It all.’ - , “Then she gave way to a fit of sobbing. This lasted but a short time r however, and Leonore became herself again.

“She bent over and kissed the cold lips of the dead, then left the room. I could sit still no longer. “Do you mean to say, sir, the girl who could be guilty of such a base crime would act in that manner?” I neither condemn nor acquit until the returns are all in. I simply say that, according to the evidence, it looks black for Leonore. “Remember, Doctor, the peculiar circumstances under which the girl committed the crime, if she did do it. “They would account for the words she spoke, and allow of her actions. She seemed to know that in a time of mental irresponsibility she had committed this awful deed, and bewailed the fact. At least, that was the construction I put upon the words she uttered. ” I was silent. Although he had not broken down the barriers of my' conviction, still his argument was unanswerable. Before my mind was arrayed the evidence against the girl. In one way it was overwhelming. I put it down under different heads, so that it could be regulated. First. The photograph on the back of vyhich the old doctor had written “Leonore—the cause of my sleepless nights and watchful days.” Jt would indicate, as Mr. Ketcham said, that there was something wrong with the girl’s mind, and that her loving guardian was constantly expecting a periodical outbreak, during wljich she seemed to seek his life. His assertion to the detective relative to an enemy who had followed him from India might be only a blind to hide the truth, as he was apt to be sensitive upon this point. 1 dismissed this from my mind, and proceeded to the next point: Second. The discovery ot the lock of black hair ill the hand of the dead, undoubtedly torn from the head of the assassin, and that, a woman. It matched Leonore’s hair exactly, and although in itself this fact was a simple thing, taken in the light of corroborative evidence it would’amount to a good deal, since she had been in his room that night. Third. The footprints in the dust of the old store-room. We had fitted Leonore’s small slipper to some of them, and found that they tallied exactly. Fourth. The discovery of the Malay creese in her room. It was ostensibly a paper cutter, but was just the weapon to . be caught up and be put to deadly use by a person whose mini! was unbalanced, and who in the delirium of sudden insanity was bent upon taking human life. Fifth. Leonore’s own words and actions, as witnessed and heard by the old detective, were strongly savored with the view of the ease as he put it. She seemed to avow that she was the cause of the Doctor's death, and bewail the cruel fate that made it so. Os course a different construction might be put upon her words under new light, but just then they seemed to imply the worst. When all these facts were arranged 1 in a line before me, they presented a terri-ble-indictment against Leonore. No wonder I was silent. There were a few things on the other side, but as yet they were overshadowed by the colossal proportions of the opposite evidence. I was ready to work hard in order to prove her innocence, but for the life,of me just, then 1 did not know'how to begin. While my mind had been dwelling upon these things, Mr. Ketcham was regarding me with interest. 1 could detect a faint smile lurking in the corners of his mouth, as though ho could guess what was passing in my mind. Then fpr the first time I noticed he held a paper in l his hand. The thought flashed upon my mind that he had found something in the ebony desk bearing upon the case. Perhaps it was more evidence tending to fasten the coils around Leonore. As he held the paper out I mechanically took it from his hand. It seemed to be a letter. There was no date on it, and yet something about the paper told that it was several years • old * I saw it was addressed to the old Doctor, and seemed to bo from some friend out, in Singapore. Most of it was mere gossjp*about the old friends of Dr. Seaburv in India. Then came a paragraph that riveted my attention. “And Leonore--1 hesitate to approach that subject, knowing how it concerns' your days and nights—how is she? Has anything occurred yet? I hope not, in Heaven’s name, and that that terrible scourge may never visit again my old friend Seabury.” That was all on that subject. Sick at heart. J handed the paper back to the detective. “Well, Doctor?” “I am afraid all roads lead to Koine, sir ” “Then you admit that at least I have good reasons for my suspicions?” “Alas! it is too true.” “Doctor, you take*it too much to heart. Remember that, even if guilty, the girl cannot be punished. She was insane at the time.” “What you say does not take away the sting, sir?” “See here, Doctor, am I to depend upon you any further in this case?” I turned upon him indignantly. “No, sir; not so long as it comes to hunting down a poor girl. That is business with you, but none of mine.” “Then you wash your hands of it?” “Not at all. While you are seeking to tighten the coils around Leonore, Mr. Ketcham, I shall be using my utmost endeavors to prove her innocence. We shall see who will win the game.” His face brightened. “Give me your hand, Doctor! I honor you for the stand you have taken. If ever that poor girl needed a friend it is now. Strange though it may seem, I sincerely hope you will succeed, but at the same time I say frankly I fear the worst. ” Those words drew me toward that man as I had never been drawn before. I left Mr Ketcham seated'in a rocker, his eyes glued upon the hieroglyphics on the ceiling, while I went out to start upon my hopeless task. CHAPTER IX. «LTHOUGH considerably cast down by the condition of affairs, I was not yet ready to throw up the case. Mr. Ketcham had not proved his theory. One false move would knock the bottom out of it, and this was what I intended to find if such a thing were possible. I was arrayed against the keenest man in the detective line in New York. My only hope lay in the fact that his heart was not in his work, while I could go at mine with the greatest of zeal, having before my eyatt the vision of a woman’s appealing face, as Leonore’s appeared to me when she declared that if ever she nw need of friends it was, now. Yes; I would be her friend, poor girl! What wax the danger she seemed to dread? Was it discovery? I shut my eyes to the terrible array of evidence against her. as set forth in the arraignment of Abner Ketcham, and

turned my attention toward the other side. Certain things haunted me. If the party who had climbed that trellis of vines on the night of the murder could be found I believed I could learn something that would be of value. I purposed devoting my first energies toward finding that person. Os whom could I get particulars concerning the dead man? A name I had seen upon a visitor’s card, coupled with the words “your old friend, ” decided me to visit the Sturtevant House with the intention of visiting him. There was a strong possibility that he might no longer be there. I consulted the register. “Major Beebe, late of her Majesty s Royal Highlanders, Bombay ” That was the important entry I found in the register, written in a great sprawling hand. “Is Major Beebe still here?” I a.sked the gentleman at the desk. The clerk smiled, and replied to my question with a nod toward a rather pompous, red-faced gentleman, who was twirling his blonde near by. This gentleman having surveyed me as I approached, assumed a stoical, freezing air that told me, without further investigation, that he had had some bitter experiences with New York confidence men. “Major Beebe, I believe.” “The same, sir. What can 1 do for you?” “I wish to talk a little with you. Major, on a subject of interest. Will you be so kind as to sit with me over yonder?” s . He kept up his freezing manner, but accompanied me to the chairs'. “Now, sir, state your business,” and he glanced at me through his spy glass, as though he would annihilate mA Not one whit troubled by his fierce aspect, I proceeded in my own way. “I understand, Major, that you were a friend of the late Dr. Seabury.” He almost jumped from his chair. “What the deuce do you mean, sir, giving me such a shock? I am a friend of Dr. Seabury, if that is what you mean,” he replied, with some asperity. “When did you see him last?” “Twenty-four hours ago.” “He was well then?” “Unusually so. We took dinner in company in this house. By-Jove, young sir, am I to understand anything has to him?” “Dr: Seabury is dead!” He seemed stunned for a minute. “This is terrible. When did he die?” “About two o’clock this morning.” “It must have been very sudden.” “Terribly so,” “Os what did he die?” “The coroner’s jury has agreed that he came to his death by his own hand.” “Suicide?” “Yes. ” “The poor fellow must have Jost his mind. Ho was the last one in the world to do such a thing.” “That may be so, Major. lam a doctor who was called to his bedside in the hope of doing something, but the poison was deadly and there was no hope. I wish to ask you what you know of the Doctor. ” “We have been friends for, let me see, possibly a dozen years,” “Was there any mystery connected with his past life?” . “I have heard such hinted, but could not say positively.” “Do you know his ward?” “Leonore? Yes, I. have met her. She is a charming girl.” I thanked him mentally for that. <■ “What is her last name, Major'?” “Seabury, of course.” “Then she was an adopted child?” “I always understood she was the child of his cousin, by the same name. ” “Did you know her mother or father?” “I did not.” “Do you know anything about her?” “Nothing, except that, while Seabury loved her fondly, I have seen him look over his shoulder at mention of the name Leonore, as though some sudden fear had come upon him. ” My heart went down to zero. One more question. “Major, if I affirmed it as a fact would you believe it. that Leonore has been subject to occasional spells of insanity, during which, like most mad persons, she sought to injure the one she loved the best, and that it was this which haunted Dr. Seabury day and night.” “I would believe it possible,” hereplied, in the calmest of tones. 1 had no more to say in this regard. “Major, if you go to the house to see the body of your old friend, please do not say a word of having met me, or what I have talked about.” “I promise you. Doctor.” Shaking hands with the soldier, I left the hotel. My first attempt, instead of bringing a gleam of light, had added to the darkness. If this kept on. I would soon be compelled to grope my way. All my energies were now to be devoted to finding the party who had climbed the vines on that night. 1 had but one clew to his identity. A portion of bis forefinger was missing Where should I look for him? The tool he had dropped seemed to indicate that he was a burglar, and could be foumj in dens frequented by such. Being possessed of an adventurous turn, 1 had seen much of the great city. Still, I would have hesitated about engaging in any such undertaking, had the cause been an ordinary one. All that influenced me was my determination to leave no stone unturned in the endeavor to save Leonore from the storm clouds gathering around her. A feverish desire to do something was upon me. Obeying my first impulse, I sought again the strange house of Dr. Seabury. Standing beside the wall at the point wherp the party had climbed the wall in leaving the grounds, I looked about me. Ppssibly there was some clew here which had escaped my first hasty search, examined the ground. had passed to and fro, and all traces of the footprints left by the man , tracked had long since disappeared. Here and there a little knot of women were to be seen talking together in low tonera, and casting mysterious glances at the old house seen over the wall and among the trees. ! Already news of the suicide had gone abroad. ’ A policeman stood at the gate. Another walked the grounds, already L nearly dry from the warm sun. As I clambered over the wall he came toward me, motioning angrily with his ’ club, but I paid no attention to him. ; When he came up I had merely to mention that I was working with Mr. Ketcham on this case, and he instantly collapsed. ’ He had great respect for that name. I found that the rain of the early morning had almost washed out the foot- , prints left by the man. It was not to examine these I had come back. Was there nothing else? ’ Again I climbed up as the man had ’ Mope, through the brambles that had ’ ‘‘grown in the breach of the half fallen ! wall. One of the obtrusive twigs caught in ! my pocket, and actually dislodged my handkerchief. I bent down to pick it up. i Ah! there was one of my letters also that had been deftly snatched out of a

» „ , ±. pocket by this self-same inquisitive bramble bush. The deuce! i I started as if; shot, for, as I picked the envelope up, it felt cold and damp. It had come from my pocket, but had lain there through the rain. Quick as thought, I turned it over to look upon the, address. ■ This was what what greeted my eyes: “Theodore Parker. “New York City." That was all. Stay, there was the postmark up in the right-hand corner. That might be a very important clew to me. I could make it out distinctly. “New York, June 6, 3 p. m.” When I had read this, I could not help smiling. This very day was June 7th, and the letter I held had been mailed in the city during the preceding afternoon. What could be plainer? The man who carried it must have passed over this wall since that time. There could not be the faintest shadow of a donbt but that Theodore Parker, whoever he might prove to be, had been in these grounds during the night that witnessed the murder. Undoubtedly he was the burglar who had climbed the vines, bent upon plunder, and who had been concerned in some way with the crime. Whether Theodore Parker would prove iu disguise I could not tell yet, but I felt sure that when I found him the identity of the man with the marked hand would be fullv established. I put the letter in my pocket, for I had already seen there was an inclosure of some sort in the envelope; Then I sought the officer, from whom I learned the address of the policeman whose beat took in Dr. Seabury’s place. In twenty minutes I was rapping on the door of a neat little house. A tidy wife opened the door and ushered me into the parlor, while she went to call her husband, who was asleep. Presently he put in an appearance. I saw he was a good-natured fellow, and at once apologized for disturbing him. Without much waste of time, 1 told him about the suicide of Dr. Seabury, and the fact that a burglary had been attempted the same night. “What I want to know, Deasley, is whether you saw any suspicious characters in the vicinity that night.” He shook his head. “We see lots of ’em at all hours, sc I can't exactly say as how there was more on last night than any other time.” “Think; was there any who seemed to hover abofit the Seabury place?” “Now that you mebtion it. my pard and me did see* a fellow near the wall, a-dodging along' but we didn’t pay any attention to him.” “Why?” “Well, we'd seen him more than once in that place, and understood that he was in love with old Seabury’s gal, and that the Doctor was down on him.” “Where did you get that impression?” “Can’t say, exactly. Might have come from my pard. who’s a great hand at reading stories. Anyhow, he kinder sympathized with the feller, who was a good-looking young chap. We never bothered him.” “Then you have seen his face?” “Often, sir.” “What kind of a looking man was he?” He assumed a reflective air. “I reckon he had bright eyes, blue, I think they were, and wore a full yellow? beard. When his cap was off I saw that his hair in front stood straight up. and ' that his forehead was more square an’ white than any I ever set eye on.” ® The words of the policeman gav.e me a severe start. I thought of a picture I had seen in Dr. Seabury’s chamber, turned face to the wall in a dark corner. True, that had been the head of a young boy. bright and keen, but it had possessed the same peculiarity of yellow hair spoken of by the night patrol. Instantly there flashed across my mind the conviction that I might discover sonic connection between the would-be burglar and possible murderer and the original of the picture that was turned to the wall. More plainly, then, a new vista seemed "opening before me. I was delighted with my success thus far, and would not feet ashamed to meet Mr. Ketcham when I Went to report my progress in the game. Perhaps the man could’establish one more link in the chain for me. * ‘STell me. my friend, have you ever been close enough to sec this man’s hands?” “Oh, yes; Sir.” “Was there anything peculiar about them?” “Well. no. sir. except I noticed one of his fingers was gone.” “Indeed! From which hand?” He reflected a moment. “The left, sir.” . ’ “You are sure Os that?” “I can swear to it. I remember he was leaning against the wall one night when we passed him, and his left hand was up against the' stones. The light from a street lamp showed us his hand plain as day. and Bill, he's my pard, you know, he spoke of it afterward.” I had no more to say. j ' The case was assuming such proportions that I really wished for the assistance of Mr. Ketcham, bht the time had not yet arrived for me to seek him. I would try and find a clew to the whereabouts of Theodore Parker. Perhaps the letter I had found would aid me. [TO BS CONTINUED.I v ■ ’ -■■■■ — 1 Advantages of Ueing a Mau. Agnes Rankiu, the venturesome young girl of Fulton, fcy., who got into the penitentiary through her penchant for wearing clothes, and who was pardoned and immediately ran away from home again, is in more i trouble. She went to work as a farm hand near Kenton, Tenh., and her sex was discovered, whereupon a very proper old magistrate of the neighborhood sent her to jail for further investigation of the case. Agnes gives a reason for her conduct which is worth some consideration. “I prefer to wear men’s clothes,” she said, “for the same reason that first led me to put them on. , They insure’ me employment wherever I go. Were I to come into this community dressed as a woman and ask to be allowed to do a hard day’s washing for 50 cents, I would neither get the work nor be allowed to stop in the house without being indorsed by some responsible person, or showing a ’ pocketful of recommendations to satisfy the household of my respectability. , But if I come rigged as a man I get plenty of work at $1 a day and no questions asked. I discovered a good while ago that it doesn’t pay to be a woman. Women are no good.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. “What’s the matter?” called a 1 toother, turning to her little boy who “set up” a howl. “What are you crying about?” “I want something?” “What do you want?” “I have forgot what it is an’ that’s what makes me cry. ” — Arkansaw Traveler. . Gibraltar, in South Spain, was i taken by the Saracens, under Tank, , whence its name, in 711. i-'J »..YW

Businass Directory. THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital, 00,000. Surplus, *7,000. Organised August 15, 1880. Oflcers—T. T. Dorwin, President; P.W.Bmith, Vice-President; R. S. Peterson, Cashier; T. I. Dorwin, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkes, J. H. Holbrook. B. J. Terveer, J. D. Hale and B. 8. Peterson, Directors. W e are prepared to make Loans on good seourity, receive Deposits, furnish Domestic and Foreign Exchange, buy and sell Government and Municipal Bonds, and furnish Letters of Credit available in any of the principal cities of Europe. Also Passage Tickets to and from the Old World, including transportation to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital, *75,000. Surplus, *75,000. Organized in 1871. Officers—D. Btudabaker, President; Jesse Wiblick,Vice-Presldent; W.H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parts of the country. County, City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and ■old. Interest paid on time deposits. LTBANCB * MKKKYMAN. j. t. tranct. A? J. T. MKBRTMAM DKCATVR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1. 2 and 3. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. j£IESSE HOUSE, L J. MIESSE, Proprletar. Decatur, Ind. Location Central—Opposite Court House. leading hotel in the city. A.«. HOLLOWAY, Z > fiß'u.x'Kooxx Office over Burns’ harness store, residence at Mr. Elias Tyrrill’s, southwest corner Third gnd Monroe streets. AU calls promply attended to in city or country night or day. JQ. NEPTCNE, • DENTIST. Now located over Holt house'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. All work warranted. O. T. May, mTSu Bvirj;eoii Monroe. ... Indian*. ▲ll calls promptly attended to day or night. Office at residence. WILLI A M H. MYERS, FHysiol an tfcSnrgeon Specialty—The Treatment of Women. Office at residence. 167 West Wayne street. Ft. Wayne. Indiana, from 10 to 12 a. tn. and 3 to 5 p. m. Telephone 89. 6m3 L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon. Modus Operand!. Or chotomy, Overotomy. Castrating Ridgiing Horses and Spaying Cattlo and Dehorning, and treating their diseases. Office near Romberg's livery •table, Decatur, Indiana. e XI. JEE. XjeBRTTNT. ? Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices reasonable. James R. Bobo, ja.ttoxM3.ey «kt Xsewv Decatur, - - Indiana. Paul G. Hooper, at Law Decatur, - - Indiana. MRS.M.L.HOLLOWAY,M.D. 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 9 to 11 a. m. and 3 to 4:30 p. tn., except Thursday and Saturday afternoons. 35 MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Property on Long Time. INTo CozxxxkxlmadLoxx. Low Rate of Interest. In any amounts caa be made at any time and ■top interest. Call on, or address, A. K. GRUBB, or J. E. MANN, Office: Odd FeUows’ Building, Decatur. FORT . cnmin ’ and LOUISVILLE HI TOe Viler BMe, o-^— The SHORT LINE Between NORTH and SOUTH - M*o|pOM Solid Train* And From C incinnatk T[J ’ Through Coaches Between INDIANAPOLIS 118 IWlk & FORT WAYNE KfiwvV ® ur * Oonnecttone >n Unlon Depet* AV I Unexcelled Service I ‘ s IV\W\ For Rates and othl \\ ▼ \VXst.er information call i ' Gen’l Paas. ▲ Ticket 1 Agt„ FL Wayne, Ind. GXO. W. BRADBURY, General Manager. B. & SUTTON, Sup’t. Whitewater B. B. TIME OARO.—SOUTH. * May 18, 1890, Standard Time Fort Wayne... ,lv *6OO am 110 25 am *6 40 pis 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 Indianapolis 10 30 3 50 11 20 Cincinnati 5 30 Louisville 7 00 • Daily NORTH. t Ex. Sunday. Louisville... t 7 30 Cincinnati 7 59 Indianapolis 17 00 am 11 15 3 15 pn Muncie *9 05 115 pm 510 Hartford 9 45 1 57 5 50 Montpelier 10 05 2 15 8 08 Bluffton 10 38 2 48 6 38 Fort Wayne. 11 35 3 45 7 40 ONB FABR FOB ROUND TRIP SUNDAY*

Notice to Teachers! Notice Is hereby given that there will be a Subtle examination of teachers at the office of ke county superintendent. In Decatur, Indiana, on the last Saturday of each month, ▲pplcantsfor license must present “the proper trustee’s certlfficate 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 on the day of examination, a review or composition upon one ot the following named books: Tale 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. 1 Holmes’ 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, McMaster’s 'Life of Franklin.’ and Charles Rmde’s ‘Put Yourself in His Place. 1 Said composition shall contain not less ■han 800 nor more than 1.000 words, shall be In the applicant’s own bandwriting, and shall be accompanied with • declaration that it is the applicant's origins! work. Reviews will be graded on penmanship, orthography and composition. Examinations will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. No license will be granted to ’ applicants under seventeen years of age. after iugust 1888. J. £■ SNOW. Co, Bupt. FOR MEN ONLY! LVJIaJII-JffiVor LOST or FAILING MANHOOD. BLJI. I tfjfrin rtiii rn 1 and NERVOUS DEBILITY Ml’Jlilnll■ | WeaknMS ° { Body andNindj Effect* twtlfy frra SO Stat*, ud Farelga Coutrlw. Writ* lhei. John F. Lachot Berne, Ind,, Keeps a full Mne of Pure Drugs Chemicals, Patent Medicines. Paints, Brushes, * Ojls, Toilet and Fancy Articles. Also a complete stock of Choice Family Groceries, AU of which will be sold at lowest Jiving prices. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compounded. Give hiru a calL SpiHli NOTICE. 1 desire to aay to the people of Adam* County that if you want an abstract to your land, Mortgage or deed executed you can get the same dope with neatness and dispatch by calling oa A. McW. BOLLMAN, Becordsr. ■■ I ' " . ' ■

C.T. DOBWXK. * • * A. A. WICBOLS. J. ROUT. CHRISTER. DECATUR STONE AND LIME CO., DOLOMIC LIMESTONE QUARRIES ' i And Manufacturers of Door and Window Sills and Caps, Range Work, Monument Bases, Curbing, Wall Stone and Sno’CV V/V hite 1-iim.e, 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. Cm 6 MONEY TALKS. And so does the prices on every article of goods at Poiler’s Hamess SM 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 Don’t be humbugged mto buying high priced goods without first seeing my immense stock and learning the inducements I have to offer. me up and save your $ $ | $ ■ e. Porter. c Madison Street, West of Stone’s Hardware Store. PIXLEY & CO., THE HEAD OF THE CLOTHING TRADE IH Fort Wayne, Ind. Announce that their several Departments in this Mammoth Clothing House an complete with the most varied and largest assortment yet shown in ... ■. . • ■' - ° ' • '■ ■' . iO GENTS FALL AND WINTER WEAR. O--a '. ' ‘ ‘ MEN’S SUITS. OVERCOATS. We have never been able to show such For zero weather, also the Fall or Me a large variety of styles of pretty goods dium Weight, and the most desirabh as now. Our Cheviots Suits are all the things can be had of ua in Kerseys rage and we show them in Black and Meltons, Cassimeres, Worsteds, etc. Blue, cut in Sack, Double and Single cut in English Box and Plain Sacks ij Breasted, and the popular Cutaway in Slim and Stout, In Furnishing Good) Boys and Children. We are prepared for Gents nothing could be more com to meet the wants of the most fastidious, plete. An inspection is solicited. W' We also show full lines of lower grades, shall be able to save you money. VIXLEY & COMPANY, 16 and 18 East Berry Si, - - - Fort Wayne, Indiana.- —— ... i.— . .. - r >. ' ‘.T " — ,

Chicago and Atlantic With its Pullman-built equipment, substantially constructed roadway, and low rates of fare insure a safe, speedy, and economical journey to all points EAST OR WEST. Write to your nearest railway agent for the attractive low rates via this line. TIME-CARD IN EFFECT DEC. 1, 1890. GOTXG EAST. Stations— No. 3. j No. & No. 12. No. 30. Chicago..lv 730 am 3 2opm 7 .spm Archer ave. . .. Englewood .., Hammond.. Cr. Point.. 9 06 8 55 Kouts '. N. Judson ..................N..... ... Rochester. .11 30 633 10 57 j. Newton .1 ;. . Bolivar ' Huntintn .. 1 05 pm 7 50 12 20 am' 5 15 ami Kingsland I Decatur.... 2 22 8 42 111 8 45 Ohio City.. 255 1 42 10 20 Speneer’lle ; Lima 3 54 9 54 2 30 1 00 pm Alger Kenton .... 459 'lO 38 317 4 15* Marion ..ar 6 oO n 20 4 05 6 40 New York Boston. J.'.' Stations— No 1. No. 5. No. 3. No. 17. Boston ].. i New York | !... Marion.. ,lv 535 am 12 45 pm 11 20 pmj 615 am Kenton ... 10 30 1 25 12 10 am 9 00 Alger /..!... Lima ill 29 2 07 12 55 ill 05 Speneer’lle Ohio City’.. 12 27 pm 255 255 pm Decatur ... 1 05 3 23 2 14 I 450 Kingsland. 1 Huntintn... 2 25 4 20 3 25 7 30 Bolivar. Newton.... : i Akron I ! Rochester.. 358 528 445 .. N. Judson.. -. Kouts s. Cr. Point .. 635 • Hammond. 7 15 7 50 7 25 Englewood. [... Archer ave. i Chicago, .ar 820 850 825 . UTrains 5,3, 8, and 12, daily. Trains 1,2, 30 and 33 daily except Sunday. For rates, time tables and other information call upon station agents or address, W. C. BHIEABSON, D. I. ROBERTS. Gen. Pass. Agt., Asst. Gen. Pas#. AgL Chicago, 111. A Western paper says there is in the Bodie mining district of California a spring which produces gold. The spring is not exactly a geyser, but the Q water is hot, and as it flows away and evaporates it leaves a deposit. That deposit contains gold. Whether the water disintegrates gold-bearing rock far below the surface and brings the gold to the top, or whether there is going on in the laboratory of nature a chemical process which produces gold in solution is an unsolved problem.