Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1891 — Page 7

FromSintoContritioD OB ■■ ■■ * Lucy WarwtaTs Sacrifice. The Ston r of a Hasty Marriage and Its Tragic Sequel • ir BY ERNST BRUNCKEN, Author of “The BibUfomanitufa Crime,” “A Terrible Secret," etc., etc. CHAPTER } AN UNHAPPY SUMMER. ‘ pretty girl, this little Hattie, hotiest Jack muttered to himself, as he was leisurely sauntering down the street toward the club house. “Blonde hair, blue eyes, plump figure—just my taste.” He merrily twirled his caue around, and after a few minutes surprised himself by whistling the latest popular tune. Jack had never before found himself of a mui weal turn of mind. He went to the club, took a paper, lighted his cigarette, and began to read. But ever and anon his thoughts wandered from-the newspaper to pretty Hattie Beckford. , Strange what a change the blue eyes of a girl can effect in a man. But an hour ago Jack had been as oppressed in spirit as he could well be, and now he felt as light-hearted as a schoolboy, without knowing why. He looked up from his paper when he • heard the voice of Walter Warringham, who had stepped behind Jack’s chair and laid his hand familiarly upon his shoulder as he said: “Hello, old man! You're looking very well to-day. How would a game of biliards suit yqu?” At the sight of Ralph’s brother it occurred to Jack that Waiter probably did not yet know what had occurred earlier in the day. He thought it his duty to inform him of it. Walter replied with a flippant jest that disgusted and puzzled Jack. Ho could not understand how i any one could treat so serious a matter j so frivolously. Walter Warringham had the reputation of playing an excellent game of billiards, but this afternoon he did not prove his title to such fame. He made several shots so poor that Jack looked at him in astonishment. The fact was that his thoughts were not concentrated on the little ivory balls he was chasing over the green cloth. He was thinking of the consequences of Ralph’s departure. Was his mother very much incensed, and would she of . her own accord do what he so ardently wished—make a new will to the exclusion of thp disobedient son? Or, ; would it be necessary to influence her in ' that direction? Walter determined to 1 assure himself as soon as possible as to I his prospects. As soon as he could disengage himself, 1 he went home and at once called on his mother. He found her in a great state .of excitement. whilfli she did not succeed uj concealing under a mask of coldness and dignity. “Have you heard of the pretty escapades of your brother?" sho asked him, * as soon as he had entered her boudoir. “Yes, mamma; and I can nothing but indignation at Ralph's outrageous conduct,” he hastened to reply. Mrs. Warringham was not disposed to . eonverse much on the painful subject. She walked about restlessly, looking at a picture on the wall here and stopping before a mirror there. Her excitement i seemed as yet to prevent a clear collection of ideas. After a while Walter asked, with a sneer: “And when will we have the honor of seeing your charming daughter-in-law?” Mrs. Warringham stopped in her perambulation in front of her son, and said, with a sharp voice: “I don’t suppose Ralph expects to see that wife of. his treated by me as a » daughter-in-law.” Walter observed soon that it was unnecessary to add fuel to the flame of his ’ ? mother’s wrath * against Ralph. He | thought it prudent to refrain from al- i luding himself to the'object of his desires. The following morning he was gratified to learn that Mrs. Warringham , had sent for a lawyer/ The will was evidently to'be changed, and the amiable brother’s heart rejoiced. Mrs. Warringham was closeted with I the lawyer for a long tiiqu- Neither I Walter nor Miss Beckford was invited I to attend the conference, but the foot- I man and the ladies’ maid were summon- i ed into the room at the same time, presumably in order to put their names as witnesses to a document. That night Mrs. Warringham went to bed at an unusually early hour. “My health is not as it used to be,” she remarked to Hattie as she was about to retire. Miss Beckford had herself observed that her aunt’s features showed an unusual pallor, and she even believed I she saw in them traces of wrinkles which | had not been visible before. I The spring was nearing its close and ' the season imminent when fashionable i people feel under an obligation to exchange their comfortable city residences against more or less uncomfortable country seats, or, if they cannot boast of I tire latter luxury, the still more uncomfortable.quarters supplied at watering places. Mrs. Warringham observed that the streets were intolerably dusty, and soon it was decided that the family should leave the city at the earliest opportunity. They had usually gone to the seaside, but this time the physician thought %hat the quiet of some secluded mountain retreat would be better suited to Mrs. Warringham’s state of health than the turmoil and excitement of » Newport or Mount Desert. Accordingly, about three weeks after Ralph’s departure, Mrs. Warringham and her niece moved to Fair Glen, one of the most picturesque though comparatively little known summer resorts of the country. Walter declared that the place was too much out of the way to suit his tastes, but promisfed that he would pay frequent visits. A remarkable change had come over Mrs. Warringham since her eldest son had left? She was not actually sick, yet her nervousness and an unusual languor inspired Hattie’s observant mind with apprehension. She appeared older than formerly, and there were lines as«,of care and sorrow around her mouth. Sho was more susceptible to the influences of the changing weather and temperature than she had been in the times of her robust health. A shadow of melancholy settled over her mind, and contrary to her former habits she associated IJttle with the other summer residents of the place. • • To Ralph and his wife she never alluded. A few times Hattie touched the subject, but met with such a vigorous rebuff that she perceived soon that her aunt was,determined not to hear the Dame of the prodigal son mentioned be- ‘ fore had received a letter from Ralph, written immediately after his arrival irv England. He explained at length tne couree he had pursued, hoped abe was not angry with him, and rec , * .’- I ” .

- .. • quested her good offices to effect a reconciliation with his mother, whose resentment, he said, he felt as an intolerable burden. Hattie read and re-read this letter a hundred times, although the words of glowing affection in which he spoke of his wife gave a violent pang to her heart everytime she saw them. She hid the lines in the bosom of her dress and looked at them whenever she was alone. Poor child! How glady would she have softened her aunt’s cold heart But what could the poor girl do? At the same time, with the fetter addressed to her, Ralph had sent one to his mother. It had been returned unopened, but Mrs. Warringham had told Walter to write Ralph that there could be nothing in common be- * tween her and him, until his relation to woman” was dissolved. Thus passed a dreary summer. Often Hattie climbed on one of the hills that surrounded the valley in which, their village stood, and sat there alone for hours with a book in her hand. She hardly knew what the lines said. Her thoughts were far away across the Atlantic waves, where one lived who cared 'only for another woman. When ,she returned home at dusk, she looked distressedly into the pale features of her aunt, whose now was more that of sadness than of haughtiness as of old. Was it a bodily or was it a mental trouble which had caused this change? Who could tell? Perhaps there were more causes than one. A few weeks after the arrival of the Warringhams at Fair Glen, Hattie was not disagreeably surprised to see Jack Spofford alight from the somewhat primitive vehicle that did service as an omnibus between the village of Fair Glen and the railroad station that was about two miles away, down a picturesque mountain road. What had brought Jack Spofford to this out-of-the-way He had never shown particular inclination to “Slowly trace the forest’s shady scene,” Or “To climb the trackless mountain all unseen.” a In fact, there was some uncertainty whether Jack had ever read these lines, or many others by the poetic lord. But Jack knew why he had come to Fair Glen. He did not tell anybody, however. There was in that solitude a certain young lady with golden tresses and blue eyes, whom whimsical Jack desired to see at least once a day. With the young gentleman’s arrival life in the little colony of summer residents, which had up to that time been rattier monotonous and sluggish, began to assume a different aspect. He told Hattie on his arrival that he was bound to have immense fun', and he set diligently about to accomplish his purpose. He proved himself a master in arranging all sorts of amusements, excursions by carriage, on horseback or afoot, to neighboring points of interest, picnlqs in the shades of the magnificent forest that covered the hills, dances at the hotel, fireworks, and innumerable other varieties of “having fun. ” A clear, if not very large, brook run through the valley, or “glen” as the natives insisted on calling it. Jack maintained strenuously that there must bo trout in that little stream, and the landlord of the hotel eagerly upheld him in this opinion, which added additional luster to the splendor of his establishment. The skepticism of the majority was overcome by argument and rhetoric, and one beautiful morning fourfifths of the summer population, provided with fishing tackle of more dr less .elaborate pattern, began the war against the speckled denizens of the brook. It is true that nobody ever heard of any trout being taken, but the .fun was immense. just the same—at least the ladies all declared so. Gs course it was but a short time until Jack Spofford was by all the ladies declared to be positively “too awful nice for anything. ” The men, indeed, did not quite agree with this judgment. They never do, creatures’ But as the ladies werethe vast majority, Jack could boast, when he had scarcely been a week .at Fair Glen, that he was the most popular man in the place. Os course Mr. Spofford insisted that Miss Beckford should participate in every amusement that he arranged, and Hattie’s lonely musings on the hill became in consequence less frequent. It can hardly be said, that Jack's popularity was shared to any extent by his fair friend. The ladies almost unanimously pronounced her insipid. On the other hand, the perversity of the male minority led them to differ oh this subject likewisa They said that Hattie was the most charming girl in town, always excepted the fair one with whom the gentlemen was, at the time being, discussing the question. The two parties generally agreed, however, on the fact that Mr. Spofford succeeded in monopolizing Hattie to a scandalous extent. But the conclusions drawn from this given premise were again different, according to the female or male persuasion of the reasoner. The ladfes all thought Hattie’s conduct simply shameful, while in the eyes of the gentlemen this fact was one of the main causes of Jack’s unpopularity. Strange how people will differ on the simplest matters. Hattie, young and full of animal spirits as she was, naturally enjoyed the diversions Jack arranged, evidently in the first place for her own benefit. She had always regarded her cousin’s a kindly feeling, and now, during their closer association, which the sojourn at Fair Glen facilitated, she liked him more and more. In her open-hearted, ’ frank manner, she did not care to conceal her sentiments from him. What was more natural than that Jack flattered himself the prospects of his suit were growing brighter everyday, and every night when he wont to bed he promised himself that he would take the firstopportunity to declare his sentiments to her. But day after day passed, and the love-sick swaini had not the courage to take the tremendous step. Alas, poor Jack! Ho neve dreamed that he Was doomed to disappointment—that Hattie's heart was far, far away, whence she would never recover it! The young lady, on her part, never dreamed that her amiable friend would ever appear in the guise of a suitor. He was her playmate, as it were—nothing more. Merry and joyfyl as she showed herself to him, there were every-day moments of solitude when her thoughts wandered to him who had gone, and the deeply hidden sorrow of her heart overcast her very mirthfulness with a subdued shade . which made her still more attractive in his eyes. As for Mrs. Warringham, she very rarely took part in the sports and wiles of the younger people. It was as if some insidious disease were gnawing the very roots of her life. The physicians were at a loss how to answer the anxious questions of her niece- They could only vaguely say that Mrs. Warringham’s nervous system needed recqperation—that sho must be preserved from all excitement and from bad climatic influences. At times she felt so weak that for whole days she was unable to leave her bed; then Hattie nursed her with the utmost tenderness, and never left her bedside. On the whole, Mr. Spofford’s honest efforts notwithstanding, it was a dreary summer which Hattie Beckford spent at Fair Glen. CHAPTER vil A QUESTION AND AN ANSWER. Weeks grew into months, and the alight tinge of scarlet or crimson oxbibIm.

ited by the maple leaves gave an admonition to the summer Idlers at Fair Glen that it would soon be time to return to the city, to the desk for work or to the drawing-room for that unceasing round of pleasure which is to people who are in society a weary duty. Mrs. Warringham grew anxious to be home again. With the nervousness of valetudinarians she began to fret about her stay in the uncomfortable cottage', and ascribed to the faults of the dwelling all her ailments. Some of the guests had already departed. It was accordingly decided that the Warringhams should go by the first of the following week, if Mrs. Warringham’s state of health would permit exposure to the fatigue «of a long railway journey; for she had during the last few weeks grown very weak indeed. It was understood that Mr. Spofford should accompany the ladies. Jack felt himself in a peculiar predicament. Almost three months he had come into daily contact with the girl he loved, and yet he had not asked her the q uestion the answer to which would be of such importance to him. At. the same time he felt reasonably assured, except at intervals when his courage failed him, to have found favor in the eyes of’ his chosen charmer. And yet he could not bring himself to speak the words. Well might he curse his modesty—or cowardice, as he called it—in moments of self-reproach. Why, it was ridiculous! Jack Spofford, who had always taken pride in his pluck, who could ride the wildest horse as good as any man in the country, who at college had been considered champion at football, afraid to ask a little girl a simple question! Poor Jack! This same ridiculous modesty did him one good service—it put off the bitter hour of disappointment. Miss Beckford treated him one day like the other, with never changing friendliness. She liked him as a friend of hers and, perhaps still more so, as a friend of Ralph. Never for a moment did she have the faintest suspicion that Jack returned her feelings with immeasurably more than equal fervor. For this young man’s modesty prevented him from ever showing the slightest trace of warmth, which might have put her on the right tack. Jack was not by any means the typical ardent lover for whom the conventional maiden that, ivy-like, pines for an elm tree to cling to is supposed to sigh. But now, when the day of departure from this mountain valley was but a few more days distant. Jack felt that he would have to come to a conclusion. When they had gone back to the city, he would have far less opportunities to take the awful step, than now. For he would hardly expect to see her every day, except, perhaps, at balls and receptions—the very worst places for a conversation that is destined for the ear of just one person, whatever the novelists of the routine sort may say. Here at Fair Glen he was with her almost from morning till night, and yet he had not availed himself- of a hundred opportunities that had been thrown in his way. Something must be done -at once. That he saw quite clearly. But he felt at the idea like the boy with 'the swimming master’s line" around, standing hesitatingly on the board, from which he is to take the uncomfortable plunge into the water. Finally ho concluded that he would invite Miss Beckford for a walk to a favorite place of hers, about two miles up the river, where the rocks formed a picturesque grotto in the midst of the most beautiful primeval forest. There he would tell her all. After he had thought over the plan a little, he found it charming, quite romantic—adelaration of love in a sylvan bower, far away from the profane crowd! Why, I’m a poet, he said to himself, and smiled.merrily at the idea. Ho paid extra attention to his toilet that morning, and stood before the looking-glass longer than was his wont. He could observe with satisfaction that he looked very presentable in his flannel shirt, blue scarf with the ends fluttering in the breeze, kuee “ pants ” —he did not ride a bicycle, but had taste enough to fancy short trousers, and need not feel ashamed of the shape of his limbs—and the broadbrimmed straw hat with a ribbonj.hat he had begged from her. With a tuck at his moustache he mentally declared himself ready for the fray. But his heart would not stop beating quite impertinently as he walked the short distance from the hotel to the cottage in which the Warringham ladies lived. Hattie showed at first some hesitation, for her aunt felt very poorly that morning. But when Mrs. Warringham herself insisted upon her going she accepted Jack’s invitation very readily. It should be remarked here that Mrs. Warringham and Mr. Spofford were on very friendly terms now. When Jack saw her the first time after the ominous message he had brought her he was considerably embarrassed, but as she never alluded to that occurrence by word or mien, he was soon at his ease in her presence. In a few moments Hattie had donned her bonnet and light summer wrap, and soon the two young people were seen leisurely walking on the shady path that followed the windings of the brook up to the grotto. It was one of thefee days in September whose warmth, after an interval of cooler weather, once more recalls the heat of July. - When Hattie and Jack had walked this path for the first time, in June, they had picked yellow violets and blue veronicas on the water’s edge, while in the deeper shadows of the wood they found magnificent orchids and on occasional open sunny plots wide-awakes and anemones. Now the seed capsules were ripening where all those blossoms had shown forth from their curtains of foliage. The only flowers to be seen anywhere now were asters of a dim violet color, or here and there a few sunflowers that seemed to be making preparations for a speedy death. But the brook rippled over its bed of sand and gravel as lustily as weeks ago, or once in a while made an impatient leap when a stubborn piece of rock tried to obstruct its progress. Just as weeks ago, every minute particle of sand or many-colored pebble could be seen on the bottom of the crystal flood. The cooling shade was as grateful as ever, and the sunlight painted the same shining ovals and circles on the somber green carpet of moss. ‘-Even a stray bird would send forth a few sweet notes from its little throat now and then, although the full sylvan orchestra had long since ceased to play its springtime symphonies, for the little artists now must direct %ll their energies* to the bringing up of large families. Conversation was not very brisk between the two young people, as they pursued this pleasafit path. Persons at all susceptible to the subtle influences of nature will always be averse to destroying its impression on.them by misplaced conversation. A quiet woodland ramble is always apt to evoke lyrical emotions, just as the spectacle of a storm on the water or the open prairie rouses men to epic energy. If a lyrical mood is awakened by the charms of the woods in every-day people, even in the experienced, cynical man of the world, how much more must this be true of two uncorrupted young people each of whom is in love.. Hattie’s thoughts were where they always strayed in moments of sentiment —following Belph over the sea. She had received a letter from him the day before, in which he announced that he was at the moment in Eisenach, Germany, the place where Martin Luther

spent his boyhood. She had been struck by the fact that italph did not speak of his wife in as rapturous tones as in the few that had preceded this one. But she had not given this observation any further thought Jack Spofford threw from time to time admiring glances at his fair companion, when he Was sure that she would not see him. Several times he was on the point of uttering the fateful word, but then he hesitated. again and postponed it till they should have reached the grotto In this manner they reached a spot whereAjthe path had risen somewhat above the bed of the little stream, and an opening in the forest permitted a full view of the lower valley. They were lost in admiration of the panorama, when Hattie was attracted by a dark mass of clouds that were rapidly being driven up the valley by a brisk breeze. She suggested the prudence of returning at once, so as not to be caught in the approaching rainstorm. This idea did not suit Jack at all, and ho employed all his ruetorical gifts to convince her that there was no probability of a storm. These clouds, he said, often stood for whole days over the entrance of the valley without ever getting into it, till a shifting of the wind dispersed them. If by any chance they did get between the rocky walls encircling the valley he owned, these thunderstorms had a habit of raging for hours and hours with a vehemence that was unknown in the lowlands. The truth of these observations was well known to Miss Beckford, and she allowed herself to be persuaded. About two-thirds of the distance had been traveled, and another quarter of an hour of up-hill walking would bring them to the goal of their journey. But hardly had they walked five minutes when the storm overtook them. With incredible rapidity the clouds covered the sky, and a strange, wailing sound went through the tops of the giant pines, as they bent before the wind. Presently branches, some of them large enough to be mistaken for young trees, were torn off and "hurled to the ground with a terrible crash that could, how/ ever, scarcely be hoard on account of the roaring of the storm, the creaking of the trees, as their gnarled trunks, bowing low before superior power, came Into contact with each other, and the thousand unheard-of sounds that the uproar of the elements awakened. Then the blue flashes of lightning illumined with uncanny, momentary glare, the scene, while the ihunder, re-echoing again and again from the surrounding hills, was louder even than the roar of the storm. At last, heavy, large dsops of water began to fall, and before the two young people, hastening as fast as their feet would carry them, could reach the protection ot the grotto, the rain came down in torments. When they had entered, the falling water formed an almost continuous sheet before them and they were completely shut off from the outer world. The fury of the storm now had abated a little and its noise was no longer as, terrifying as before the rain began to fall, but the monotonous sound produced by the latter falling first on the leaves of the trees, then dripping down on the rocks, was sufficient to necessitate a raising of the voice, if the two prisoners in the grotto would make themselves understood. ” . “Not a very promising situation,” Jack thought, “for a lover to bawl his professions of love into her - ears, as if she were deaf. ” And he again put off the great moment till it would cease to rain. But an hour passed and it still rained; a second one was nearly over - , and still there were no signs of the end of this terrible avalanche of rain. Jack’s- observation had proven true. When a storm-eioud had found the difficult entrance into this trap of a mountain valley, it had to stay there until its whole force was spent. But the situation grew very uncomfortable. The discomfort, however, had some compensations, for Jack at least What lover would not like to be incarcerated in the same cell with his beloved one, far away from the possibility of profane intrusion? Gradually the situation inspired the. young man with courage. When the rain had abated a little so that it became possible to speak in an ordinary tone, he actually, though awkwardly and hesitatingly, told her his love and asked her to be his wife. It would be impossible to describe the surprise and consternation of the girl at Jack's declaration. For a moment she looked at him in amazement, with eyes staring wide upon. Then she burst into’ tears, unable for some time to articulate a syllable. Jack very naturally gave tc her tears a meaning favorable to his hopes, and tried to seize her hand, but she repelled him, not angrily but decidedly. “Oh, why have you spoken to me that way, Mr. Spofford?” she exclaimed at last, and burst into another paroxysm of tears. Jack was puzzled. She had not refused him distinctly, and her exclamation might as well be interpreted one way as tho*other. He began to press his suit, and became quite eloquent now in his supplication. His former awkwardness and hesitancy were completely overcome. He asked her whether there was anything in his character or his circumstances that she objected to. He tried again to seize her hand, but a second time she firmly though gently withdrew it. Thun he endeavored to look into her eyes, but she averted her face. To all this she had no response but a sad shake of the head. At last she said, when Jack’js pleadings and protestations became more and moie importunate: “Please don’t talk to me any more about it, Mr. Spofford. I»cannot auswer yes.” [to be continued.] The Interview. To the newspaper interview we are indebted for a vast amount of enlightenment, learning, and wisdom that the interviewer has got from men who, without his suggestion, would never have given it to the world. The principle of interviewing, going right to the source of information, gives us accuracy also. And, take it all in all, the American newspaper contains the most truthful history that has ever been written. A fine interviewer is one of the most valuable men on a great journal. He must be a man of education, acquainted with affairs, skilled in the use of words; above all, he must possess an instinctive understanding of human nature. A fine man who is being interviewed is like a fine fish that you have hooked. You will fail if you attempt to “yank him.” You must humor him a little; play out and reel in ; let him have his own'way, and then he is lost and you land him. —Philadelphia Ledger. A farewell banquet was given a Syracuse lawyer the other night, and among the speeches was a* Fourth of July oration, which the orator was prevented from giving last Fourth of July. It was not only well received, but was declared to be the hit of the evening. All mines are infested with rat% and when the rodents begin to leave, a “squeeze” or cave-in can be expected. Gen. Howard says that at the close of the war Sherman could probably call 5,000 oficers by name.

Business Directory. THE DECATUR NATIONAL HANK. Officer*—T.T.Dorwin, President: P.W .Smith. Vice-Pi-eeident; R. 8. Peterson. Cashier? T. T. DortrizuP.W.Smith,Henry Derkea, J. H.Holbrook. B. J. Terveer, J. D. Hale and R.S. Peterson, Directors. We are prepared to make Loans on *ood security. receive Deposits, furnish Domestic and Foreig a Exchange, buy and sell Government and M unicipal Bonds, and furnish Letters of Credit available in any of the principal cities es Europe. Also Passage Tickets to and from the Old World, including transportation to DOCfttWa Adams County Bank Capital, Officers—D. Studebaker, President: Jesse Hibllck, Vioe-Prealdem,; W.H. Niblick. Chahlar. 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. "IDRANCE * MERRYMAJL j. T. mANCB. i. T. MBBBTMAN Attorneyai at Ij*w, DBCATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1,2 and 8, over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. j£IEBSE HOOSE, L J. MIESSE, Proprietee, Decatur, Ind. . T<« l Court House. The leading hotel la the city. A.«. EOLLOWAY, PliyEiclan Surgeon Office over Burns’ harness store, residence at Mr. Elias TyrriU’s, southwest corner Third and Monroe streets. All calls promply attended to in city or country night or day. JQ. NEPTUNE, • DENTIST. Now located over Holthouae’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. XI - 3EE. XnASXVerxer. Veterinary Surgeon, RTonroe, Xtxcl. Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices reasonable. James JR. Bobo, -Auttomey at Xbaxrp* JDeeatw, - • Zn<Mm«o Paul G. Hooper, jfikttoxrxxey at Decatur, - • Yndiana. 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 • to 11 a. m. and 2 to 4:30 p. m„ except Thursday and Saturday afternoons. 36 MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Property on Long Time. No CommlaaioxL. Low Rats of Intorest. 3F , nax*-tls*.l Faymexitai In any amounts can be made at any time and stop interest. Call op, or address, A. K. GRUBB, or. J. F. MANN, Office: Odd Fellows* Building, Decatur. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. Time card for Decatur station. In effect Sunday, February 1,1890. GOING NORTH Accommodation 6:20 pm Fort Wayne and Grand Rapids 1:14 p m Fort Wayne and Grand Rapids 2:21 a m GOING SOUTH. Accommodation 6:30 a m Richmond and Cincinnati....; 1:30 p m Richmond and Cincinnati 12:63am Jeff Bryson. Agent GETYOUR Job Printing AT THIS OFFICE.

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•.T.K«y.a.9, AH cans promptly attended tolday or night. Office at residence. nWIK, B. K. MANN, J. » EBWTN4 ATTOHHB Y 8 -AT - LAW, And Notaries Public. «•»!» o« F&WjJlffiTKSXE’iaa. Notice to Teachers! Notice is hereby given that there will 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 oertlfficate or other evidence of good moral character,” and to be successful must fiass a good examination in orthography, resting, 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 or Two Cities, David Copperfield. Ivanhoe, Heart of Midlothian. Henrv 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 Table, MsMaster's ‘Life of Franklin.’ and Charles Rmde's 'Put Yourself in His Place.’ Said composition shall contain not less shan 600 nor more than 1.000 words, shall be In the applicant's owe handwriting, and shall be accompanied with a declaration that it is the applicant’s original 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 rears of age, after August 18M. J. F. SNOW. (X Sunt. TME ]H£ nsas @ ROUTE Standard Gauge! Splendid Road Bed! New Steel Rail! New Modern Equipment! Everything Arranged for Comfort of Passenger:. Express Trains AND TOT 3 Trains Each Way between Toledo, 0., and Frankfort, Indiana, i 2 Trains Each Way between Frankfort, Ind., and St. Louis, Mo. (Daily except Sunday.) AU Toledo and St. lonia Passenger Trains Arrive and Dopart from Union Depot, avoiding Transfer. THROUGH TICKETS On sale at all principal Stations. Baggage checked to destination THROUH TRAINS --*WEST*— BETWEEN Toledo, 0., and St. Louis, Mo. Full information concerning time of trains, routes, rates, &c., will be cheerfully furnished by agents, or the undersigned. C. C. JENKI.tS. Gen’l Pass. Agent. Toledo, O. TIME TABLE HI 4 The Shortest, Quickest and Best Route to the Vest, Northwest, Sonth aii Sonthwest. FREE PAUSE RECLININ6 CHAIR JMJ on all night trains. Solid ilestibuled Train Service Daily, without extra charge. Palace Reclining Chair Cars from Toledo, Detroit and Chicago to St. Louis, Quincy and Kansas City without change, requiring only one change of cars to San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Denver and all points West of Missouri River. Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars daily from St. Louis to Salt Lake City via Denver, Cheyenne and Ogden. Round Trip Tickets to principal places in California, Oregon, Utah. Arizona and Old Axxd IKT exv 3MCezK.ioo every day in the year. A complete line of tickets via any authorized route, obviating the annoyance to passengers of exchanging tickets at the Missouri River. . . For lowest rates, maps, folders and descriptive printed matter, write to or call on C. S. CRANE, F. CHANDLER, Asst. G. P. A., Gen. Pass. Agt, St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. R. G. Thompson, Pass, and Ticket Agent, ,Fort Wayne, Ind.

The Chicago & Erie Railway, With its Pullman-built equipment, substantially constructed roadway, and k»w rates of fare insure a safe, speedy and economical jour* ney to all points □Elajbl or "Weart. Write to your nearest railway agent for the attractive low rates via this line. TXMMCXR2>-Z»JVee< Nee. X«, 1880. " GOING EAST. Stations— No. 2 No. 8. No. IS. Chicago Iv 730 am SSOpip 726 pm Archer are Englewood ;...; Hammond 8 30 4 17 8 25 Crown Point. 9 06 8 66 Kouts. North Judson Rochester. 11 30 6 33 10 67 Akron Newton 7 11 11 48 Bolivar.. Huntington 115 pm 7 60 12 20am Kingsland. .... .... Decatur 222 843 111 OhloCity 2 55 1 43 Spencerville 2 08 Lima 3 54 9 54 2 30 Alger Kenton. 4 59 10 38 3 17 Marion... ar 6 00 11 20 4 05 New York. : Boston GOING WEST. Stations— No. 1 No. 6. No. 3. Boston New Y0rk......1v 855 pm 2 55pm 8 25pm Marion 9 35 a m 12 45 11 30 Kenton 10 30 1 25 12 10 a m A1ger.............. 10 59 Lima 1129 207 1255 Spencerville 1156 Ohio City 12 27 pm »55 Decatur 105 323 2 14 Kingsland 1 34 Huntington 2 25 4 20 3 25 Bolivar 3 06 - Newton 3 11 4 01 Akron 3 37 ; Rochester 3 58 5 28 4 45 North Judson 5 14 ?. Kouts.; 6 45 Crown Point 6 35 ; Hamtnond 7 15 750 725 Englewood 7 55 ; Archer ave 8 20 8 20 Chicago. ar 8 20 8 50 8 25 Trains 5,3, 8 and 12 daily. Trains 1 and 2 daily except Sunday. For rates, time tables and other information call upon station agents or address, W. C. RIEARSON, D. I. ROBERTS Gen. Pass. Agt.. Asst. Gen. Pass. AgU Chicago, lIL Lake Erie & Western R. R. It. Wayne, Cincinnati — —& Louisville B. B. **Natural Gas Route. ’* THE POPULAR bHORT LINE BETWEEN Peoria, Bloomington, Chicago, St. Louis, ' Springfield, LaFayette, Frankfort. Muncie, Portland. Lima, Findlay, Fostoria, FremonL Sandusky, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Peru, Ro- 5* chester, Plymouth, LaPorte. Michigan City, Ft. Wayne,: Bluffton, Hartford, Connersville and Cincinnati, making direct connections for all points East, West, North and South. THE ONLY LINE TRAVERSING THE CHEAT HATURAL 6AS AHD OIL HELUS of Ohio and Indiana, giving the patrons of thfa Popular Route an opportunity to witness the grand sight from the train as they past through. Great fields covered with tanks la which are stored millions of gallons of Oil, Natural Gas wells shooting their flames high in the air, and the most beautiful cities, fairly alive with glass and all kinds of factories. We furnish our patrons with Eiegant Reelin* ing Chair Cars FREE on day trains, and L. B. &.W. Palace Sleeping and Parlor Carson night trains, at very reasonable rates. Direct connections to and from Cleveland, Buffalo, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Pittsburg. Wasnington, Kansas City, Denver, Omaha, Portland and San Francisco, and all points in the United States and Canada, This is the popular route with the ladies on account of its courteous and accommodating train officials, and with the commercial traveler and general public for its comforts, quick time and sure connections. For any further particulars call on or address any tioketagent. CHAS. F. DALY, Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. H. C. PARKER, Traffic Manager, Indianapolis. Ind. Chicago and Atlantic R r y M With its Pullman-built equipment, substantially constructed roadway, and low rates nt . fare insure a Bare, speedy, and economical joos* ney 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. ■ _ . - . - GOING EAST. Stations— Na 2. Na 8. Na 12. Nata Chicago..lv 730 am 5 2opm 7 *zspm .', Archer ave Englewood. Hammond.. 8 30 4 17 8 25 — Cr. Point .. 9 06 8 55 — Kouts N. Judson.. ...n:> Rochester. . 11 30 6 33 10 57 Akron . J Newton Bolivar... Huntintn .. 105 pm 750 12 20 am 5 15 MB Kingsland. ......... Decatur. f.. 832 842 111 845 Ohio City.. 2 55 1 42 10 20 Spencer’lle. ......... Lima 3 54 9 54 2 30 lOOjbs A1g0r..... s.eeweeee e.eeeeeoe eeeeeeaan Kenton .... 459 'lO 38 317 415 Marion ..ar 6 00 11 20 4 05 6 40 New York i Boston. GOING WEST. Stations- No 1. Na & Na 8. Na IX. Boston New York Marion.. Jv 9 35 am 12 45pm 11 20pm 6 15 am Kenton ... 10 80 1 25 12 10 am 0 00 Alger Lima U 29 2 07 1255 U 05 Spencer’lle Ohio City .. 12 27 pm 2 55 0 55 pm Decatur ...105 3 23 2 14 4 50 tKinesland Huntintn... 2 25 4 20 8 25 7 30 Bolivar Newton Akron Rochester.. 368 528 445 N. Judson. Kouts Cr. Point.. 6 35 Hammond. 7 15 750 7 25 ......... Englewood. Archer ave Chloagq.ar 820 i 8 60 825 ......... Trains 5.8, 8, and 12, daily. Trains 1,2, 30 and S 3 daily except Sunday. . For rates, time tables and other informatkm call upon station agents or address, W. G BHIEABSON, D. I. BOBERTS, Gen. Paas. Agt., Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. Chicago, IU. HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS No Hobss wm Ole of Coua Bots or La» F» recta's Powders will prevent Garas in Fowls. Fonts'* Powders will tocreaae the qusatlty or ssflk and eream twsnty per mat. and make th* batter Orm DAWTO a FOOTS. Fveprtotoa. SALTXMOM. MIX BoM by BotthmaM * Blackburn, u —cr