Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1891 — Page 7

TROUBLES OF A KANSAS MAN. ( > —— BY PHIL L. BARKES. Thirteen years I’ve been away. And I’m a stranger, most; Why, some folks looked at me to-day Ez if they saw a ghost. Twuz thirteen years ago to-day I left here, full of woe. Because the girl I thought would say A-falt’rin’“yes,” said “no.” I wuz a slender. weakly lad, A dreamy sort o’ chap, But my best dream turned out so bad I hed to leave old pap And ma, and all the other folks, But Annie most of all, Fer it was-her I couldn’t coax To marry me thet fall I hed some money I hed made A harvestin’ and such. And pap fer all my cattle paid Me half again too much; Fer he wuz anxious, don’t you see, His boy should git along— I wuz the last one uv us three. And wtizn’t very strong. S So fer the change I Westward went; I took up prairie land In Kansas, and my body bent To work ez I hed planned. I thought I could in work forget Sweet Annie Denham’s face; But no—it comes before me yet In every sort o’ place. Forget? If ’twuz to do agin I’d seek a better spot Than on the wild and lonesome plain . Where I had cast my lot. Alone, what could I do but think Os her I loved so well? Sometimes, when I wuz tired, I’d sink o Into a sort o’spell. I’d seem to see the sudden smile, So full t > me of charm, And feel a thrill SJioot through me while Her hand,wuz on my arm. Agin, the playful nighjt-wind blew Her hair agin my cheek, ‘And in my heart a longing.grow That still I feared to speak. I’d see her by my cabin door A-sittjn’ in the shade An’ knittin’, whi e upon the flore Our little children played. We’d bring our children up to be — The Ixfys, the best of men; The girls, the best of wives: you see We’d live for somethin’ then. What —you don’t mean to tell me she— Thet womawover there— Is the same Annie Denham we All thought so sweet and fair? And she’s been married?—all this time She’s been another’s wife? Been helpin' cousin Bill to climb The rugged hills of life? More i/v a drawback than an aid? And somewhat uv a scold— Ddn’t say no more; I wish I’d stayed In Kansas—4vhy, she’s old. And thin, and sour, and looks like one That never had been young; Her husband dead?—she’s best alone . Who hex a scoldin’ tongue. I suppose thet all thet’s left for me Is to go back again; There’s nothin’ here thet I kin see Fer which I would remain: The Annie thet I loved for years. And would hev made my bride— My fair, sweet Annie—it appears Hez in the meantime died. From Sin to Contritioii OR Lucy Warrtoita’s Sacrifice. The Story of a Hasty Marriage and Its Tragic Sequel. BY ERNST BRUNCKEN, Author of “The Bibliomaniac's Crime," “X Teirible Secret," etc., etc. CHAPTER IX. fashion's flame. It was true Mrs Warringham had enjoyed this last day of their journey, which site spent in the company of Count Hohenfels, more than any of the preceding ones. Lucy was not ordinarily given to reflection on her sentiments and actions. But when she had retired that evening she'could not help thinking over the incidents of the day. She had Jiked Count von Hohenfels since the first night of their acquaintance, when he was introduced to her in the green-room of a Washington theater. Hcr<predilection for him had grown with every meeting, but never had she felt it to be so strong as this day. Never had Hohenfels appeared to her so entertaining, so chivalrous, and so handsome. She had felt a strange elation during his presence, and was even conscious of having blushed involuntarily geVeral times, when his hand had inadvertently touched hers. She never had these strange sensations in the presence of her husband. Her professional knowledge as an actress would have told her, if instinctive intuition had been silent, that she, a bride of scarcely sixsweeks, was in love vzith a man net her husband. ‘ She could not help shuddering at the discovery. Lucy Warringham was not a depraved woman. By nature, education, and surroundings she was disposed to take . things light, pleasing-loving. and sensuous. She had always considered the —talk about love and passion very nice for "''-the stage, but entirely out of place in real life. It had seemed to her entirely - natural to marry for the sake of gaining fortune and social ✓position, and these were the sole reasons why she had accepted Ralph’s suit. To bo sure, she liked Ralph well enough, but not better • than a score of other admirers, to any one of whom she woqjd have given the preference if she had thought Irim wealthier than the Doc* tor. As yet. she had had no experience of the flame that conquers a woman’s whole being, and either exalts her Into an angel or drags her down to the deepest depths of sin. Ralph’s fervid protestations of devotion she had partly smiled at as romantic extravagance, partly deemed wholly conventional and hypocritical like, the vows to which she listened night on the stage. Now, she became conscious that the passion, the very existence of which she had denied, was entering her own heart! A..vague feeling that she was guilty of an execrable crime mingled in-her mind with a dreadful fear of the consequences when Ralph should discover her secret. She Knew that her husband must discover it sooner or later. A man whoso jealousy was roused so easily, as she had „ already experienced, could not be blind to the faithlessness of his wife,. What then? Lucy resolved to renounce {his dangerous love at once—to tear it up with its very roots as, it were. Alas! she little knew the power of passion. She. greeted the Count with queenly grace on the following morning, as he called on her for the proposed excursion to the opposite side of the HVer. Looking at her husband, her troubled conscience already imagined thathe greeted the Count with a somewhat constrained

civility, as if even now suspicion had entered his mind. Bnt her fears werp soon forgotten, when she found herself seated by the side of the diplomate in the little rowboat that took the party across the stream. Just below Bingen the river bed is full of rocks, part of which had to be removed by explosives in order to make the river at this point navigable for vessels of any considerable size. The passage, through the canal thus produced in a row-boat is not without a little excitement and even danger, if only of a thorough drenching by the spray. Mrs. Warringham uttered a little feminine cry* as a few drops of water were cast into her face by the boisterous billows. The Count gallantly folded a slaidparound her shoulders, “to protect her against the too cordial greeting of Father Rhine,” as he gallantly expressed it. What a sweet, languid sensation she felt, when he for a second was busying himself about her. She had never had such an experience before. The party landed at the little village of Assmannshauser, famous for its wine. There Mrs. Warringham and the Count mounted two of the little donkeys which in the mountainous parts of Eurbne take the part of our more serviceable mules. Ralph and Lieutenant von Greibern preferred to ma Ke the ascent on foot The diminutive animals seemed to them ridiculous and inadequate to support the weight of a man. The drivers of the donkeys, by the vigorous application of stout sticks, persuaded them to proceed deliberately in an up-hill direction, and the little cavalcade moved on. Mrs. Warringham, however, did not notice the heat nor the roughness of the road, nor the jolting jog of her donkey,’ which was more fatiguing than walking would have been. She had only attention for her companion. Contrary to her habit, she spoke comparatively little, and thereby compelled the Count to hear the main expense of the conversation, How the loved to hear his voice! While she rode by his side she frequently east sidelong glances into his face, but was careful not to attract his attention. How handsome he was! she thought again and again. Lucy Warringham had been kissed on the stage by scores of actor* and off the stage by her husband. She had never felt any particular sensation at these demonstrations of intimacy. Now she longed with all her heart to be kissed by Count Hohenfels. . What heavenly bliss it would be, she thought, if she could throw her arms around his neck and shower kisses.upon his lips! And the Count? He would have been less or more, than human he had not felt the electrical intluenpu of a loving woman’s presence. When he helped her into the saddle she let her hand rest in his a little longer than might have been absolutely necessary, and he even thought to feel a scarcely perceptible pressure. When, arrived at the summit, he assisted her in dismounting, her arm clung to his neck for ever so brief a moment, he wished it had been longer. He never had an idea that she was making him advances, but he could not help noticing how beautiful she was—far more beatiful, he than she had ever appeared to him before. Lucky dog. this War* ringham, he thougnt, to have such a treasure of a Wife. The day passed pleasantly enough for both Mi'S. Warringham and the Count Lieutenant von Greibern also enjoyed himself well enough. He had several opportunities to study the question whether Assmannshauser or Reudesheimer was the better brand, and decided in favor of the former. At the base of the colossal monument he harangued the Doctor on the military glory of the German Empire, the only subject which in his small heart could kindle something remotely akin to enthusiasm. Yes, he enjoyed himself very well. It is not difficult to make creatures of his stamp happy. But poor Ralph spent a most miserable day. If he had entertained suspicions yesterday that all was not right between his wife and the Count, his suspicions grew into certainty to-day. And yfet, he had to confess that there were very few tangible reasons for his terrible conclusions. She had been riding by his side —that was all. They had not been alone together for a single instant, for even when he had lost sight of them for a few minutes at some bend of the road, the donkey-drivers were closely behind them, and could overhear every word of their conversation. But they spoke in English, which the drivers could not understand. And once or twice he had seen her look at him with such glowing, strange eyes! Such a glance as he had never received from her! It was enough to drive him crazy. And during all this thue he had to listen to the talk of that coxcomb of an officer He could have stabbed the Count to the heart and hurled the faithless woman over the precipice into the river below. His blood was seething. His face burned as if it was atlame. Baron von Greibern sagely remarked that it was very warm. “Yes, very!” the Doctor replied, and gnashed his teeth. As the hours of the day advanced, Ralph’s jealous wrath grew hotter and hotter. Y’et he retained sufficient selfcommand to reason on the best thing to do. Should he make an end of it at once? Should he tell her to her face that she had broken her vows—that she had sunk to a lower depth than the vile creature that sells herself to the first comer? Impossible! A public' scandal! As if his marriage itself had not caused scandal enough. But there it had been different. There he had opposed his love and all the nobler instincts of his heart to the narrow prejudices of the world. But now! A bridegroom betrayed before the end of the honeymoon! And that by a woman for whom he had sacrificed fortune, family, social position, everything! And that man who dared lifte his eyes to his wife! How should he pjpnish him? Ah! He was in a country where the code of honor was still considered binding upon gentlemen. That was it! A duel! And he would kill him and be revenged! He had often condemned and ridiculed the duello as a barbarous and absurd custom. But now he greedily seized the opportunity that seemed to be open to him to avenge his wrongs. But hold! The same objection! Public scandal! The fingers of all the world pointed at him in scorn! Was there nothing for him except the miserable choice between disgrace before the world and intolerable humiliation in his own eyes? Must his love,-honor, self--esteem all perish and he continue to exist, a living body, but a moral corpse? God! - CHAPTER X. A CRUSHING blow. When Count Hohenfels and Lieutenant von Greibern had taken leave of the American couple that evening, they remained seated for a while at one of the tables in the garden of the hotel, smoking and chatting. “I say, old boy,” quoth the Lieutenant, while he rapped on the table for a waiter—for he insisted on having some more Assmannshauser—“l say, that handsome American woman Is in love with you ” “Nonsense!” the young diplqmate replied, with a laugh. ” “I tell you she is. Did you not see her make ayes at you?"

“Absurd! They’re on their wedding trip.* “What’s the difference? Stra&ger ' things than that have happened. Let j mo see—didn’t you say she was an actress? Well; I congratulate you on your luck.” “Thank you, thank you, dear boy. But you’re on the wrong scent. ’* “I will bet a case of champagne on it- * “It is a wager. ” “All right. Payable one month from date. So much time I’ll give you for developments. By Jove, but she is handsome. ” While this conversation was taking plaice in the hotel garden, Ralph had bidden his wife good night with the most formal politeness and retired to hi* room. Mrs. Warringham was terrified at her husband’s manner. There could be no doubt that he suspected her fidelity. And had fie not cause for suspicion? Lucy’s conscience was not dead yet. As she slowly undressed before retiring, she heard a voice continually in her ear. It had an ugly sound and conveyed an ugly meaning. “Faithless wife!” she heard the voice mysteriously murmuring again and again. How dreadful the words sounded in the still night. A cold shower crept over her body, yet it was a warm night In the adjoining room she heard Ralph walk up and down with hasty, excited steps. Every step rouses an echo in the stillness of the night, and the echo calls out; “Faithless wife!” Oh! She thinks of Desdemona—-no, not . Desdemona—not she, but Othello—he— Othello—yes, that is it! She violently trembles, her eyes fastened upon the door that opens into her husband’s room. The door is closed, but not locked. Stealthily, on tip-toe, she creeps to the door and noiselessly turns the Key. Then she listens—the footfalls still continue —he has not heard what she has done. Deeply breathing, she stands, then she sinks into an arm-chair and covers her bowed face with her hands. But after a while she raises her head. Her eyes shine forth defiance. Love rebels against Conscience. What right has he to demand from her fidelity? She does not love him! She loves another, who is ten times —a hundred times—worthier than ho! Is not love the supreme law of nature? Is it not impious, then, to attempt to fetter love? Vanities! Vanities! The voice will not down! Again she hears it. that (dreadful, ugly sound: “Faithless wife!* Down on her knees she throws herself. “Oh. God help me, for I am lost!” • But prayer does not avail the impenitent! Love will not submit! She will love him! How handsome ho is, how chivalrous, how noble! She will not be bound to him she hates, whdsc caresses she loathes! She rises from her. knees—the dreadful voice goes on: “Faithless wife! Hast thou not betrayed him? Didst thou not lie to him? Hast thou not told him thou lovest him?” She will hesjr the voice no longer! She must go to bed! She must sleep! She will dream of him she loves. She does go to bod! She sleeps! What does she dream? Who knows? There are days in summer when the atmosphere is sultry and oppressive, and a threatening thunder cloud stands on the horizon. Everybody expects, nay, almost hopes for. a Violent outbreak of the elements. The most destructive tempest would be preferable to that dead calm, that scorching sun, that leaden sky. But day after day the suspense continues. Such was the condition of the Warringham matr' .ionia! atmosphere. The journey was continued to Mayence and thence to Frankfort. Both husband and wife knew that the other was aware of the situation. But Ralph shrank from a decision, and contented himself with treating Lucy in a chillingly polite manner, that was more painful than the most violent outbreak of passion. Mrs. Warringham, on her part, gave herself up to her passion with an rabandon that sometimes became almost reckless. Count von Hohenfels must have been obtusel, indeed, if he had not soon become convinced that his friend Greibern would win his bet. This conviction produced decidedly mixed sensations in the young diplomatist. On the one hand, his vanity was, of course, immensely gratified by the easy conquest of one of the handsomest and most amiable women ho had ever known. Tickled vanity, however, of this kind is very apt to engender a feeling which, if not love, is at least a close counterfeit of it On the other hand, he was perfectly conscious of the embarrassing consequences that such a liaison would in all probability have. The Count was in a quandary. Finally, however, his good sense prevailed, and at Mayence he proposed to take leave of his American friends and proceed southward, while they turned east toward Frankfort, with the intention of going further to Thuringia. Count von Hohenfels, however, had not taken into his calculations the obstinacy’ of an enamored woipan. When he intimated his plans, Airs. Warringham directly invited him to accompany them to Thuringia. She did so in the very presence of her husband, who shot a glance at her that revealed a terrible aby s of jealousy and rage. She met his eyes boldly with a look of defiance. He tunic I pale, but said not a word. Count Hohenfels had the weakness to accept the invitation. A few days later the whole party found itself at Eisenach, in Thuringia. As yet Ralph succeeded in restraining his rage. The fear of public humiliation still prevailed. Mrs. Warringham, in whose breast passion had now entirely overcome the scruples and pangs of conscience and fear, took hardly any pains to conceal it from her husband. The Count gradually worked himself up into a state of mind in which he felt it a sort of point d’honneur to persevere in ah adventure into which he had entered somewhat recklessly. The thunder cloud still stood ominously on the horizon, and everybody momentarily expected to hear an explosion. Lieutenant von Greibern, in the meantime, insisted on his friend’s paying the bet which was done. Ralph participated in the little banquet, of course without knowing how it originated. A few days after the arrival of the party at Eisenach, the Doctor found in his mail a large, official-looking envelope from America, and a small one with his family crest, at the sight of which he turned pale. It had a black margin. He recognized the hand of his cousin Hattie. Hastily he tore it open. It was the announcement of the death of his mother. The large letter came from his lawyer. It contained a copy of his mother’s will. He looked over the obscure legal phrases. The whole estate was divided equally between Walter Warringham and Hattie Beckford. Not a penny to Ralph. He threw down the document. The cold sweat stood on his brow. Mechanically he wiped it with his handkerchief. Then ho re-read Hattie’s letter. Hex mother’s last thoughts, in the night ol feverish madness, had been of him. Os him! Wretch that he was! What did he care for the fortune now! And she? His wife? His mother was dead. He was a pool man. The hour of decision had come. ;ro be continuum

A SMOKELESS BATTLEFIELD. How the Army Will He Affected by the New Powder. In the ensemble of battle and in the practice of following its different phases the smoke of the field has been a useful auxilary to the commander-in-chief. The clouds and puffs floating over the lines of fire, which he followed from his post of observation—usually an elevated one, where the atmosphere remains clear—certified the troops engaged, revealed to his practiced eye an estimate of the adversary’s forces* and showed him step by step the fluctuations of the battle. *ln fact, they often told him more than the delayed reports of aides-de-camp. But powder without smoke is nbw an established fact. Artillery and infantry open fire, and no smoke is visible! A single shot from the skirmish line is henceforth absolutely imperceptible, and a salvo from a line of infantry at 300 yards only produces a thin binewhite vapor like tobacco tgnoke, that vanishes almost stance, not even in the firing of heavy ordnance, is the vapor dense enough to indicate even at short firing range, the position of artillery cr infantry. These facts and others showing the insidious properties of this new agent of modern warfare were discussed at length at a recent meeting of a military board in the Army building, when it was decided that it should be tested officially at Springfield with a view to its introduction into the American army. Os course, powder, without smoke cannot become the privilege of the American army. t European nations have taken up the problem, and several of them boast of having a formula of their own. Hence advantages and disadvantages attending its use on the field of battle will be common to both sides. Each acquires a better view of his adversary, but loses the protection that a veil of smoke afforded him. A priori one can judge how doubly important becomes the advantage of being the first to see the enemy, unseen by him, if possible. In spite of all the precautions which may be taken to discard those details in the uniform that might mark too conspicuously the presence of a troop, surprises—and surprises are common occurrences in war—will be much easier to effect than before. The side that first receives the tire will suffer a serious disadvantage, for some time must elapse before it can ascertain whence comes the attack, and the forces belonging to either side, though not two miles away, may know nothing of the skirmish. Owing to the distance that two armies preserve during the preliminaries of a combat, cavalry is intrusted with the honor of getting information—a perilous trust at best, when it is considered that a mounted troop is not easily kept out of sight, and that the chances are against its being the first to discover a well-entrenched advance post. Moreover, if it is true that in recent wars the increased improvement of quick-firing arms has diminished the efficiency of the cavalry role, its future charge without the protection of smoke to cover its advance is looked upon as problematic. The results of the new powder in what concerns infantry are doubtful, so much depends on the. quality of the troops. As long as he is ambushed the infantry soldier will be a myth; firing at 600 yards, his shot will neither be seen nor heard, only felt But, it is stated by army officers, his role is not to remain stationary. /He must advance and show himself. No longer protected by a cloud of smoke, he will have to face a fusilade tenfold more appalling than Antietam or Gettysburg. Then ? Artillery, say the veterans, gains everything by operating in a clear field. Before it worked blindfolded; the enemy’s smoke served as aim, and it was often deceptive. Now the exact, position of the opposed artillery will be visible. With even chances, when once a battery has attained precision in its aim, which before could but imperfectly be determined On account of smoke, it will serve as a guide to neighboring batteries, and thus the fire will be concentrated and more effective. So that the artillery, if not the infantry and cavalry, would seem to be the gainer by the great martial transition from much smoke tp no smoke at all.— New York Times. A Knowing; Dog. There is a Newfoundland dog, Lion by name, which gives daily proof of his comprehension of what is said to him. A lady called on his mistress the other day. During her call Lion came in rather slyly, lay down on the parlor carpet and went to sleep. The conversation ran on, and the visitor said finally: “What a handsome Newfoundland you have!” Lion opened his eye. “Yes,” said his mistress, “he is a very good dog and takes excellent care of the children.” Lion opened the other eye and waved his tail complacently to and fro on the carpet. “When the baby goes out he always goes with her, and I feel perfectly sure that no harm can come to her,” his mistress went on. Lion’s tail thumped up and down violently on the carpet. “And he is so gentle to them all, and such a playmate and companion to them that we would not take SI,OOO for him.” Lion’s tail now went up and down, to and fro, and round and round with great and undisguised glee. “But,” said the mistress, “Lion has one serious fault.” Total subsidence of Lion’s tail, together with the of an expression of great concern on his face. “He will come in here with his dirty feet and lie down on the carpet, when I have told him time and time again that he musn’t do it” Here Lion arose with an air of the utmost dejection and humiliation, and slunk out of the room i with his lately exuberant tail totally crestfallen.—2Vew Orleans States. A Comparison. “Isn’t that sunset perfectly beautiful,” cried au enthusiastic and sentimental young lady one evening last autumn when she was spending a part of her vacation with an old couple - who lived on a barren little farm at the base of the White Mountains. “I never saw anything lovlier. in all my life. See those lovely purple and crimson apd' scarlet tints 1 Isn’t it lovely ?” Her landlady glanced carel4sriy—ward the glowing western skyLaiia samT with some little show of en th? siasm: “It is purty. There’s (no ardgin’ that. It puts me in mind \of the way my ole man’s face looked) 1 ast spring when he came so near dyiu’ of the airyupelas. ’Twas exactly thepa dolor's.”— Free Frees. / A man can subdue the elephant, the lion and the rhinoceros, but the “tiger” generally gets the beat of him. J

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Newton...; Bolivar Hun tin tn .. 105 pm 750 1220 am 5 15 am Kingsland. Decatur.... 222 . 842 111 845 Ohio City.. 2 55 1 42 10 20 Spenoer’lle. Lima 3 54 9 54 2 30 1 00 pm Alger Kenton .... 4 59 10 38 3 17 4 15 Marion ..ar 1 • 00 1120 4 05 6 40 New York 1 805t0n..., GOING WEST. Stations— No. 1. No. 5. No. 3. No. 17. Boston New York Marion.. .Iv 935 am 12 45 pm 11 20 pm 6 15 am Kenton ... 10 30 1 25 IS 10am 9 00 Alger A Lima ...... 11 29 2 07 12 55 U 05 Spencer’lle Onio City .. 12 27 pm 2 55 a 55 pm Decatur .. . 1,05 323 214 450 Kingsland. .V....... Huntlntn... 2 25 4 20 3’25 7 30 Bolivar ; Newton.... Akron Rochester.. 358 528 445 N. Judson. Kouts Cr. Point .. 6 35 Hammond. 7 15 750 725 Englewood. ......... ..A..... Aveher ave. *..aaaooaa <•••••••• aaaaaoaaa ooeoaoeae Trains 5,3, 8, and daily. Trains 1,2, 30 and 83 daily except Sunday. For rates, time tablas and other information call upon sta- ion ngeuts or address, W. C. RHIKAIWIN, D. I. ROBERTS, Gen Paus. Agu, Asst. Gon. Pass. Agt. 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Biisiness Directory. THE DECATUR NATIOHAL DANK. Capital. 180.080. Surplus. n/M. Organized August 15,1888. OStoera-T. T. Dorwin, President; P.W.Bmtth, yice-Preeldent; R. 8. Peterson, Cashier: T. T. Dorwin, P. W. Smith*Henry Derkee, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Terveer, J. D. Halo and R. B. Paterson, Directors. We are prepared to make Loans on good security, 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 World, including transportation to Adams County Bank Capital. 875,000. Surplus, I7MBB. Organized in 187 L Officers—D. Studabaker, President: Jesse Niblick,Vice-President; 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 sold. Interest paid on time deposits. IHRANOE A y. T. rKANCS.' J. T. MBBBYMA> -Jh-ttox-xxoT-mi gat Izaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 3 and 3, over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. MOUSE. L J. MIESSE, Proprlotae. Decatur, Ind. , location Central-Opposite Court House. The leading hotel in the city. A. Ci. HOLLOWAY, Pl&T'anlolauxx Surgeon Office over Burns* harness store, residence at Mr. Elias Tyrrill’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 Holthouee'e shoe store, and la prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty. By tha use ot Mayo’s Vapor be is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. X>. 3S. XaenSXl'CrMr. Veterinary Surgeon, XbdCoxxxroe, Ind. Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices reasonable. James R. Bobo, at Xbaxv Decatwr, • • Xndtonn. Paui G. Hooper, ■ .■ -J Attorney at MRS.M.LHOLLOWAY,M.D, Having again located In Decatur, one door north of the M. E. Church, will engage In the Sractice of Medicine, giving especial attention j Nervous Diseases peculiar to Women and ChUdren. Will attend cases In the country when conveyance is furnished. Office hours 9to 11 a. m. and 2 to 4:30 p. m., except Thursday and Saturday afternoons. 85 MONEYTO LOAN On Farm Property on Long Time. INTo CoxxAZxxlasmloxx. Low Rate of In tercet. JPmx-tlsnl Fgfcy-xkxoxxtns In any amounts can be made at any time and atop interest. Call on. or address, . A, K. GBUBB, or J, R. MANN, Office: Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. Time card for Decatur station. In effect Sunday, February 1.1890. GOING NORTH Accommodation 5:20 pm Fort Wayne and Grand Rapids 1:14 pm Fort Wayne and Grand Rapids 3:21 a m GOING SOUTH. Accommodation 6:30 a m Richmond and Cincinnati 1:30 pm Richmond and Cincinnati 12:53 am Jxrr Bryson, Agent GET YOUB Job Printing AT THIS OFFICE.

Important to Mankind I SPRING CLOTHING! ' < s HATS AND FURNISHING GOODS I Oar Entire Stock of SPRING STYLES -> Are now ready for your inspection. We can truthfully say that never was there such a varied assortment displayed in this market, for business. The Styles are the Nobbiest! The Patterns the Handsomest I I While our lower grades excel anything we have ever shown. Our stock of t? SPRING OVERCOATS J > ' D exceedingly large. ’ , f Our Children and Boys Department is simply crowded with the Latest Novelties of the season. We will make it pay by offering the lowest Sossible prices for the best made goods, for you to come to us for your pnng purchases. FX2E3L.E37E" db OO m 16 and 18 East Berry Street, Fort Wayne. • -a

•.T. May.M. Mewree. ... Iwdiaaa. AH calls promptly attended todayarulgMt Jffioe at residence. ■B WIN, B. M. MANN, J. 9 EBWIN MANN, ATTOUITS - AT - LAW, And Notaries Public. ™ p S nßion Claims Prosecuted. Office in Odd Fellows Building, Deoatttr t infl. Notice to Teachers! Notice is hereby given that there will be a Bublic examination of teachers at the office of he county superintendent, in Decatur, Indiana. on the last Saturday of each month. Applcants for license must present “the proper trustee’s eertlfflcffte orother evidence of good moral character,” and to be successful must pass a good examination in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography. English grammar, physiology, history or the United States, science of education, and present on the day of examination, a review or composh tion upon one ot the following named books: Tale of Two Cities. David Copperfield, Ivanhoe, Heart of Midlothian. Henry Esmond, T%e 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, McMaster's ‘Life of FrankMn.’ and Charles AMe s ‘Put Yourself in His Place.’ Said oompealtion shall contain not less shan 660 nor more than 1.000 words, shall ho in the applicant’s o*a handwriting, and shall be accompanied with a declaration that it is tho applicant’s original work. Reviews will bo graded on penmanship, orthography and composition. KxamtnsUous will begin promptly at 8:30 a. m. No Doenae will be granted to applicants under seventeen rears of ago, after August MBB. J. F. SNOW. CO. Bu»S. THE — ROUTE Standard Gauffer Splendid Road Bed! New Steel Rail! New Modem Equipment! Bverythlag Anaas»d for Contort of Pumgsn. Express Trains AIJ WT 3 Trains Each Way between Toledo, 0., and Frankfort, Indiana. 2 Trains Each Way between Frankfort, Ind M and St. Louis, Mo. ‘ t / ■ (Daily except Sunday.) AU Toledo ud St. Lorie Pueeager Traiae Arrive aad Bspart Iron Urioa Depot, avoidlag Traasfer. THROUGH TICKETS On sale at all principal Stations. Baggage checked to destination THROUH TRAINS E \vestBETWEEN Toledo, 0., and St, Louis, Mo, Full information concerning time of trains, routes, rates, &c., will be cheerfully furnished by agents, or the undersigned. * V. C. JKXKIXB, Gen’l Pass. Agent. Toledo, O. TIME TABLE The Shortest, Quickest and Best Route to tho West, Northwest, South ani Southwest. FREE PALACE RECUKIHG CHAIR CARS on all night trains. Solid Vestibuled 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. 4»r«ri XhXeskloo 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 aud descriptive printed matter, write to or cab on C. S. CRANE. F. CHAN DI.KU, Asst, G.P. A., Gen. Pass Agt, St. Louis. Mo. St. fx>uis, Mo. R. G. Thompson, Pass, and Ticket Agent, Fort Wayne, Ind.