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ADealiWiMLanis OR, THE FW for the Musselshell Millions, BY LEON LEWIS. ■— - r — CHAPTER lll.—(Continued.) The quick, sharp glance of comprehension Hiram Skidder shot at him (escaped his notice. • “As you know,” pursued Jerry, “them lands jine my hundred and sixty on the feast,, and are wuth more to me than any one else. I not only want ’em for a range for my cattle, but I think I might sell a forty or two for a tritie to Col. Whipsaw, one of my neighbors." 1 “I should think you might,” said the merchant, smiling sarcastically. '/ “Os course you’ve been very kind to me, Hiram,” continued the visitor, “to give me the use of these lands so long Jest for the taxes, but we're both getting bld, and if you should die and your estate be divided, there might be no end of trouble, and so I told Daisy I’d come and buy these lands of you while she’s getting bested a little from her long journey. ” “How much will you give me for my half interest, Jerry?” I “Well, I thought three hundred dollars plight strike you as a fair offer, Hiram,” replied the visitor, “and so I’ve brought you the money ” The merchant’s sarcastic smile deepened as his brother drew out a pocketbook which looked as if a considerable, slice of the Rocky Mountains had at some time fallen upon it. “Don’t be so fast, Jerry,” he said. “Now that you are here. I’ll show you the sights a week or two, and then we'll go to Montana together. Nothing would me more than to see how you have been living all those fourteen years-—” Jerry waved his hand in nervous impatience “All that is very kind, Hiram.” he declared, “but business is business, and I must get the little matter of the lands off my mind" before I can take a’’step with you ” The merchant surveyed him again inquiringly, not a little interested by his clothes, which looked as if ho had taken them from some scarecrow he had encountered in his travels. “I couldn’t think of selling you the lands in this off-handed fashion, Jerry,” he then said. “Wait till I have looked them over in person ” “Nonsense. Let me have the deed now. ” “But three hundred dollars, Jerry?” returned the merthant. “You must remember that these lands cost mo five thousand. Probably, too, I could make .better terms with Colonel Whipsaw than you can. Let’s wait. ” . “No, Hiram,” protested Jerry. “There's no time like the present. Give me the deed now. and I’ll make the payment five hundred dollars. ” 1 “That’s more like it,” commented the merchant, still wearing his quizzical smile, “but I must have a thousand!” “A thousand?” repeated Jerry, catching at the remark as an offer. “I mean a couple of thousand,” amended the merchant. “I couldn’t think of taking 'a cent loss. I really couldn't. ” “Well, let me have the deed now and I’ll give you two thousand,” returned the visitor, with evident eagerness. “Oh, yes, I have the money right here,” he added, surprising a peculiar look on his brother's face. “Here it is!” He drew out a large wallet and opened it, showing that it was full of greenbacks. “Y T ou surprise me.” cried Hiram. “I thought you barely mhde a living in Montana!” “True. But what is $2,000?” x “A mere nothing, to be sure. And that’s why I won’t sell the land for that sum, now that I think more about it,” declared the “merchant. “I’ll hold the property forever, Jerry, if I can’t get the sum it originally cost me.” “Do you mean it?” “Absolutely!” “Then I shall have to give you the amount, said Jerry. ” “The fact is, Daisy is about to marry a man named Sam Gaddler, who has nothing, and I want him to have this property for a sheep ranch. Five thousand it is, then. Give me the deed and I’ll count you out the money. ” “Not to-day, Jerry. Give me time to write to Colonel Whipsaw. Let me get his opinion as to what the price ought to be. ” I • “The Colonel’s away, Hiram, traveling somewhere in Europe,” returned Jerry, getting more and more nervous every moment. “He has been gone a whole year, and no one knows when he’ll be home again.” “Then I must write to the postmaster of Musselshell, or to some other person who is on the spot,” protested the merchant. “How do I know that these lands are worthless? May there not be a gold mine upon them?” ■ He went on in this way until tho face of his brother was beaded with perspiration, and then thrust under his gaze the letter he had received from Colonel Whipsaw, of Rattlesnake Ranch. “Read that,” he said. Jerry complied, turning all sorts of colors, and finishing with a howl of consternation. “And now tell me what this means,” commanded Hiram. “It means—that there is gold there,” panted Jerry. “Ah, I though so! Go on!” “Jest how much I can’t say,” continued Jerry, returning the Colonel’s letter, “but I am willing to risk $50,000 upon your half interest!” “I should want cash, Jerry!" “I have it with me!” “Besides, I should want at least a hundred thousand dollars for the property, Jerry,” announced the merchant. “In fact, I won't take a cent less, now that I begin to see what the situation of affairs is. Colonel Whipsaw will doubtless arrange with me for the property if you don’t want it For SIOO,OOO, Jerry, if you say so ” “Well; I do say it,” interrupted the visitor eagerly. “Give me the deed!” “That’s a big pile of money, Jerry. ” “Nevertheless, I have it with me, Hiram.” “It doesn’t seem possible. Let me see it” The visitor produced the amount in a not very bulky wad from an inner pocket, with the remark: “It’s yours as soon as you give me the deed.” > The assurance served to intensify the two red spots which had been rapidly gathering on the cheeks of Hiram Skidder. How angry he was that the falsehoods of Jferry had induced him to part with his interest in a property now shown by the offender’s own actions to be running up into hundreds of thousands. “You have it, sure enough,” he admitted, after a rapid glance at the money. “And the grand question now Is, how did you come by It?" “Stock-raising, Hiram —stock-raising.” The sneer with which the merchant received thia statement was simply savage. “So much the more reason why X

I I I ■■■■■■■■ll !■■■ should go to Montana before giving you the deed,” he declared. “I can become a ‘stock-raiser,’ too. • He took two or three turns across the floor, and then resumed: “I was only joking in what I said about selling.- I’ve no intention of disposing of the property—not the slightest. No offer can tempt me!” This declaration worried Jerry Skidder quite as much as a similar one from Wynans had previously worried the merchant “What! You’re going, back on your word?" he protested, after a long stare of anger and consternation. “1 ought not to say a word more on the subject But I told Daisy she should have the land for a wedding present, aiuEl’m willing on that and other accounts to give you ten or twenty times what it is worth, the more especially as I’ve just sold twenty thousand cattle and*don't know what to do with the money. What will you take, Hiram?” “Once for all, isn't it? “Yes, a final offer.” “Cash down, too?” “Yes, cash down, Hiram." “Well, you may have my interest in that Musselshell property for $200,000, “All right; I’ll take it,” said Jerry, without an instant’s hesitation, producing a second wad of greenbacks like the first. “Give me the deed and I’ll hand you the money. ” For nearly a minute Hiram Skidder looked as if threatened with a stroke of apoplexy. His eyes had a glassy stare; his tongue lay motionless in his open mouth. The veins on his forehead stood out like skeleton fingers. The thought that his brother had takw all this money secretly from the lands which had been so persistently decried, and which had now been so fatally fooled away by Jerry’s falsehood, was simply withering. But he managed to conceal in part the -tempest raging in his soul, and to remark, with forced calmness: “I’ll get the deed, Jerry, and let my cashier draw up a new one. Make yourself at home a few moments I’ll be back soon.” Wiping his damp brow vigorously, he took his way toward Perry’s desk. His senses were in a whirl. Just what to do he didn't know. Perhaps he would make another attempt to buy Perry out. He was busy with -all sorts of desperate schemes for recovering his lost footing when he reached Perry’s desk, only to find that he was not there, “Where is Mr. Wynans?” he asked of the first clerk he encountered. “He went out a little while ago, sir,” was the answer, “but he didn’t say where he was going or when he would return. ” “No? That’s odd. Have you any idea where he is?” ’ “Not the slightest, sir. He said, however, this morning that he should not be here longer than to-day. ” “Not longer ” The words died away upon the lips of Hiram Skidder, and an awful trouble looked from his eyes. “Gone?” he gasped. “Where can he be?” “There's a note on his desk addressed to you, Mr. Skidder.” said the clerk. “I noticed it a moment ago, and should have brought it to you if you hadn’t made your appearance just as you did.” “A note!” cried tho merchant; “let me have it instantly!” The note was handed to him. and he hastily tore it open, reading as follows: 1 beg to resign niy position as cashier, Mr. Skidder. I have taken the precaution to have my accounts examined by Mr. Spoor, the well-known accountant, and he finds their quite correct. The balance of my salary you may hand to any public charity. If any one inquires for me, you inay say that I am going to Montana to take care of my wild lands, which have become immensely valuable, and that my future postoffice address will be Musselshell, Mont. * Perry Wynans. CHAPTER IV. BAD BLOOD BETWEEN THEM. The reading of Perry’s brief farewell note gave Hiram Skidder a tremendous shock, telling him that the actual owner of the Musselshell property was for the present beyond his reach. What a mistake he had made in getting rid of it. At a very moderate estimate, what a fortune had slipped through his fingers. Nevertheless, like all men who are wholly unscrupulous, daring, tireless and capable, Hiram Skidder found a peg on which to hang his hopes at that moment of distaster. He instantly accepted the suggestion of his evil nature that he would eventually find means, no matter how vile, dishonest, or murderous—in Montana, if not before—to recover the ground he had lost He would yet be the possessor of the Musselshell property. He would yet make all secure by getting hold of Perry's deeds before they could be put on record. “Just how long has Mr. Wynans been gone?” ho asked, as soon as he could find voice, thrusting the letter into his pocket. “He went out at the heels of your niece, sir,” answered the clerk who had ushered Elfie into the merchant’s presence. “Ah, he did?” The fact seemed highly significant to Skidder, who was that Perry had been a frequent visitor at Ingleheim. “Did he speak to her before she left the store?” he continued. “No, sir. But ho watched her in a way which showed that he was following her and that he intended to speak to her later.” The merchant flushed with disgust. “I see it all,” he muttered, turning on his heel. “They’ve gone away together. ” It cost him a keen pang to realize that ho had given Elfie the protection of Perry Wynans by refusing his own. “Fool that I am,” he said to himself, “why didn’t I take her to Hilda? A few soft words would have made her my friend, and she would now be in my clutches. ” The situation was too pressing for him to linger upon these sterile regrets, and he nurried back to his brother.. His plan of action was decided upon. “I find my cashier has gone out on business, Jerry,” he reported. “We shall have to draw up the deed ourselves, or go to my lawyer’s. ” 1 “Oh, we can attend to it,” returned Jerry, with anxious promptness. “It’s no great task. ” Stepping to his safe, the -merchant produced his deed of the Musselshell property and handed it to his brother. “Sit near me and read it, Jerry, ” he said, seizing a pen, “and do not read faster than I can copy.” Taking their places at the desk, the brothers entered upon their labor, Jerry reading the old deed carefully and slowly, while Hiram proceeded to trace the new one. “That’s all right,” finally ejaculated Jerry, with a long breath of relief. “Somehow I fancied, Hiram, you were intending to trick me, ” “How trick you?” “I didn’t see how, but I knew you were none too good ” “The pot should never call the kettle black, ” interrupted the merchant, smiling grimly, as he touched a call belL “The notary will be here in a minute to witness the .deed, and I trust you will have decency enough not to ijjsuft me in his presence." A clerk appearing, the merchant gave him an order, and a brief Interval of silence succeeded, which was broken by the appearance of a notary. “A deed to sign and deliver, Mr. Norris,” said Hiram Skidder, without taking

the trouble to present his brother to the newcomer. “It's all ready for our signatures. ” The document was duly perfected and handed to Jerry, who counted out the $200,000 agreed upon, and the notary, after a few words in the ear of his client, took his departure. It would be hard to say which of the two brothers was the most delighted at the transaction. Their mutual expansion was tremendous. “And now for the other half of this property, Hiram,” said Jerry, gaining hi 3 feet and securing the deed in his poeket, with suppressed jubilance. “How far is it to Ingleheim—to the home of our brother-in-law, Chariest Tower, who bought these lands with you?" “About eighteen miles, Jerry,” replied the merchant, who was in the act of depositing in his desk the money which had just been handed him. “There are trains every hour or two, do doubt?” pursued Jerry. “Oh, yes; every half hour, I think, at about this time of the day. But why do ask?” “Naturally, ” explained the visitor. “I am going to Ingleheim to see Charley Tower, the husband of our sister Mary, to buy his interest in these lands, and I’ll frarfkly warn you, Hiram • “Oh, save your threats, Jerry,” interrupted the merchant, with insolent jubilance. “I shall make no attempt to warn Tower of your coming or of your errand. The fact is he has been dead over a year!” Jeremiah Skidder dropped heavily into the chair from which he had arisen. “Really?” he muttered, seeing the merchant was perfectly serious. “Then I shall have to deal with sister Mary, and that will suit me better; women are so easily wheedled!” “But sister Mory is dead, too!” continued the merchant, in the same tone and with the same aspect he would have displayed in mentioning the price of a yard of tape. “She died last week, Jerry!” “Indeed? Then I shall have to deal with their daughter,” declared the visitor, without the least expression of sorrow. “Let's see—what was her name? I’ve forgotten it. ” “Her name is Elfie, ” said the merchant. “She was here an hour ago, asking me for a little assistance, but I turned her off without a penny.” “Then she don’t know the value of her inheritance, of course? Good! Capital! I can buy her out for a few hundreds! She has gone back to Ingleheim, of course?” “The point is uncertain. In any ease, it would do you no good to see her! The title you are seeking does not rest in her. Jerry. The truth is, Charley Tower sold his half of the Musselshell property some two or three years ago!” “Impossible!” cried Jerry, springing to his feet again and looking startled. “The fact is perfectly certain.” “But who bought him out?” “Perry Wynans—my cashier.” “For how much?” “Four hundred dollars.” “Four hundred!” gasped Jerry, turning pale. “You cannot mean it!” “I am telling you the exact truth.” “And you permitted it ” “I didn’t know any better at the time, Jerry,” said the merchant, his face suddenly. lighting up with concentrated wrath and disgust. “You had been telling us for years in your occasional letters that the lands were of no account, and Tower and I were fools enough to believe you. ” “And where is this Wynans?” “He has started West, as you may see by this letter. ” He handed the farewell epistle of his ex-cashier to Jerry, who literally writhed while reading it. “Destruction!” he gasped, on teaching the signature. “The fellow is posted. The cat is out of the bag. He’ll be in Montana before I am. He’ll learn all the facts in the case. I shall nqver be able to buy him out—never! never!” The very excitement of the old man tended to make his younger brother angry, so terribly did it, remind him of what he had lost by the falsehoods and deceptions heaped upon him. “The lands are a prize, then?” he cried, his face livid with passion. “A prize, Hiram?” returned Jerry, carried away by his emotions. “They’re the biggest thing on earth! We have discovered two gold mines on the property from which we have been taking thousands of dollars a day!” “And yet ” With a cry like that of a maniac, Hiram Skidder sprang to his feet and caught up the chair in which he had been sitting, swinging it aloft and approaching his brother. “And yet, you infernal rascal,” he cried, “you have the cheek to come here and offer me S3OO for a half interest in aTi those present and coming millions! Oh! what ought I to do to you ” “Look out, Hiram! Don't come a step nearer! Put down that chair or I’ll yell murder!” cried Jerry, starting to his feet and nimbly darting behind the merchant’s desk. “I’ve only done what you would have done in like circumstances. Besides, I intended to tell you all about it as soon as my title was perfect!” “Wretched fool and knave that, you are,” returned the merchant, recovering his self-possession and lowering' his chair, “you’ll never secure the least title to a foot of the land in question—never!” Jerry Skidder looked aghast at the violence of these denunciations. “Why, you’ve just given me ” ' “A mere bait to catch my own,” interrupted the merchant with grim and mocking frankness. “The pretended deed I have just given you is not worth the paper it is written upon. ” “Why not?” “To begin with, the lands have been out of my hands nearly three years,” explained Hiram Skidder, with visible joy at the gall and wormwood he was serving up to his brother. “You gave me such reports of them that I was glad to sell them to Wynans for,seven hundred dollars. ” Jerry not only tottered to his chair again, but he lay there so faint and helpless that his brother began to find him a source of amusement. “Then you have sold me a piece of property you did not possess, ” returned Jeremiah, his rascally wits beginning to recover their habitual flow; “and I need not remind you that such an offense is punishable by a long term of imprisonment.” “I’m probably quite as wise in the law as you are, Jerry,” sneered the merchant—“too wise, certainly, toplace myself in the power of such a reptile as you are capable of being. ” “Then what is that deed?” “It is a deed to a fine piece of land I have in Idaho, and for which I paid about two thousand dollars,” explained the merchant, his sardonic smile coming back to his features. “While you read one thing, I wrote another, quite certain, as the event proved, that you would fail, in your hurry and excitement, to verify what 1 had written. ” Jerry looked annihilated, but soon began to bluster again. “I’ll have you arrested for false pretenses and swindling, ” he declared. “Nd, you won’t, old man, assured the merchant, contemptuously. “I have a right to ask you what I please for my Idaho ranch, and you have no remedy whatever, in either law or equity, from the moment when you have paid over your money. Think it over a minute, and you’ll see that I am quite right. ” , The gloom of Jerry’s countenance attested that the point was well taken. “As to the two hundred thousand dollars you have handed me," pursued the

merchant, “it is merely a portion of the sum you have stolen from Perry Wynans. You have never had so much as a ghost of a title to the lands in question. I may add that this money is merely a drop in the bucket to what you have caused me to lose by the lies and misrepresentations you have been sending me ever since Charley Tower and I invested in that Musselshell property. You see, therefore, that you have no cause of complaint against me. You have simply handed me my share of the boodie, as taken from the lands of Wynans, and the less you say about all these proceedings the better it will be for you. ” For nearly a minute Jerry Skidder neither moved nor spoke. Then he aro:-e deliberately, with a pale, rigid face, wJ stepped toward his brother. “Here is your deed. ” he said, tearing it in pieces, and flinging the fragments at the merchant. “There is very little likelihood that I shall ever have any call to visit your Idaho ranch. Fortunately,” he added, in a tone of concentrated venom, “1 still have a footing on the Musselshell which will enable me to remain there, and for the rest I’ll take my chances. As to the. $200,000 you have stolen from me,” and he slapped his breast fiercely and defiantly, “it is, as you say, a trifle—a mere percentage on the sum I have taken from the new mines while pulling the wool over you with the story of my dire hardships and misfortunes! Should you carry out your suggestion about visiting the Musselshell——” “Oh, I shall be there by the first train!” assured the merchant, with a grim resolution that could not be mistaken. ' “I will spend every dollar I possess or can beg, borrow, or steal, if necessary,” finished Jerry, “to have you squarely planted. And with this, a long good-by and a good riddance ” He faced about, with a glance at his watch, and stalked out of his brother’s presence and from the store without so much as a single look behind him. « [TO BE CONTINUED.] DID THIS WOMAN TELL A FIB? Her Habit of Saying that She Had Lost Sums of Money. A young woman calling on some friends remarked in a very straightforward and convincing way: “Do you know, I was either robbed or I lost over S6O this morning. I started out with six ten-dollar bills and some change in my purse, and was going to Jay a bill at my dressmaker’s. When got there my purse had gone out of my pocket.” Every one present sympathized with the young lady, and she smilingly said that she should not worry about the loss, though she could not very well afford it. After she had departed somebody observed that this same young lady was in the habit of losing money, and had complained of the experience on many previous occasions. “Well,” said a man who was present, “perhaps it’s chronic with her. 1 supEose you are aware that certain women ave a mania for saying they haVb lost money when they have done* nothing of the sort.” Nobody knew of this strange fact. “I found out long ago,” said the man, “that this was the case. Nine-tenths of the complaints at police headquarters of money or valuables lost and stolen come from women, and not more than one-third of these complaints are genuine. This more serious form of deception is an exaggeration of a habit peculiar to a part of the female sex, and if it is true that your friend has claimed to have lost rather large sums of money on various occasions I am rather of the opinion that she is a victim of the mania. A woman must be peculiarly careless to repeatedly lose her purse, and I doubt very much if a particular woman would be robbed more than twice in a lifetime. Therefore when an alert and otherwise competent young lady has a regular habit of saying that she has lost such large sums as S6O, I at once doubt her.” “Her mother is always losing money, too, just the same way,” spoke up one of the persons in the company. “Ah! well, then the evidence is complete,” said the man. “I must, in this instance, claim the virtue of the Ibsen theory that moral frailties are transmitted from parents to children. This mother and daughter are both members of that remarkable band of prevaricators, the constitutional money losers. Are they wealthy ?” “Oh, no,” was the reply; “they are quite poor. ” “I thought so,” rejoined the man.— New York Sun. Cold Water, Not Ice Water. Some constitutions can endure the shock of a draught of ice water, but many more cannot, without immediate or ultimate injury. At all events, there is a widely prevailing disposition to avoid ice-water as an unsafe beverage. But to be deprived of the luxury of cold water is quite another thing, and is a wholly unnecessary hardship. A bottle of water placed in the ice-chest may be cooled to the precise degree which will be most agreeable, and if not too cold may be drank freely without harm. In Hanover, Pa., where the well-water is unfit to drink on account of bad drainage, pure water is brought a long distance in pipes, and being then quite warm, is received in tanks submerged in the cool water of the wells. Such tanks buried a sufficient depth in the ground will answer a like purpose. Pure cold water need nowhere be an unattainable blessing. The special luck of the late Marshal von Moltke in his last rubber of whist, in one game of which he is said to have won all thirteen tricks, leads James Payn to remark that Moltkq has been a ’ lucky man all his life—as regards fame, at all events, and not the less so in his death. If print and paper can make one immortal, half a dozen columns in the London Times should surely do it; and Moltkegot more than that. There are now only three men left in the world to whom six columns of obituary are likely to be devoted—namely, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Tennyson and Prince Bismarck. The sons of the Prince of Wales are unmarried. If they remain so, or are childless, the baby daughter of the Duchess of Fife may wear the British crown. She is not as far from the throne as Victoria'was when a baby. One thing commends the daughter of the Duchess to the English people. She is not exclusively of German blood. It is said that Senator Stanford pays the professor of philosophy at his new university $4,500 a vear and the cook in his kitchen $5,200, all of whiah appears, if true, to point to the interesting fact that there are philosophers and philosophers. It is sometimes easier for a man te complete a round of pleasure than it is for him to make things square afterwards.

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Business Directory. THE OECATUR NATIONAL RANN. OBtoere-T. T. Dorwin, President; P/WRitTH Tioe-Presldeßt: B. 8. Peterson, Cashier: T. T. Dortrin, P. W, dmith, Henry Derkes, J. ts. nrook, B. J. Terveer, J. D. Hale and B. 8. Peterson, Directors. Wfe are prepued to make Logos en goed eee» rtty, receive Deposits, furnish Domestio sai ’’oretan Exchange, buy and seU Government jmd Municipal Bonds, and furnish Letters of Credit available in any of the principal cities •T Passage Tickets to and from fe,* World, inoiudlßg transportatioa to 3D- ZE. XatoBXB.TTXR*. Veterinary Surgeon, 3MEosxx»oe», XsxcA. Successfully treats all diseases of Hones and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any timet Prices reasonable. «7ames JE. Bobo, J&.ttc>z»33.oy- A,t XsA.'W Baul G, Hooper, -t Xha'w* Deeefwr, - i XwMma. UIRANCB * MERBYMAnI J. t. NRANOa. ■a. J. T. MHUYMAN ▲ttomoya Xiaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. L 3 and 8, over tho Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. IgUCSBB HOUSE, L J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Decatur, Ind. . I *®* t *® a Central—Opposite Court House. Tke leading hotel in the oity. O. T May, *.», PlXT’ailolaexxefto otxx**ooxx Monroe. . Indiana. All calls promptly attended to day or night. Office at residence. Adams County Bank Capital, 875,000, Surplus, 175,000. Organized In 1871. Officers—D. Studabaker, President: Robt. B. Allison.Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parte of the country. County, City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. SI. «T. Jordan, Attorney-at-law and PensionAgeni Collection of Claims a specialty. Decatur, InMana. Kent K. Wheelock, M, D,, EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST 94 Calhoun-st, Fort Wavne. Ind.. pEV. D. NEUENSCHWANDER, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Berne, ... InMana. Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A. O. HOLLOWAY, FlXT’afflolAHX «t» Suyseon Office over Burns’ harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. All calls promptly attended to in city or country night or day. M, L. HOLLOWAY, M. ». Office and residence one door north of M. E. church. Diseases of women and children specialties. , - - MONEYTO LOAN Ob Farm Property on Long Time. INTo Ooxxxxxxlaimiloxx. Low Rato of Interest. Partial X a *srxxxoxi.tro ♦ In any amounts can be made at any time and stop interest. Call on, or address, JL. K. GBUBB, or JT, HANN, Office: Odd Fellows* Building, Decatur.

COMPLEXION POWDER: SAFE;CUBATIYE; BEIUTIHM |,2.3.| THREE | St&JI | POZZONTS | | TINTS Important to Mankind I 1 SPRING CLOTHING I HATS AND FURNISHING GOODS t ', l ! i Oar Entire Stock of SPRING STYLES Are now ready for your inspection. We can truthfully JS ' say that never was there such a varied assortment displayed in this market, for business. The Styles are the Nobbiest I The Patterns the While our lower grades excel any thing we have ever shown. Our stock of SPRING OVERCOATS ■ Is exceedingly large. Our Children and Boys Department is simply crowded with the Latest Novelties of the season. We will make it pay by offering the lowegt possible prices £or the best made goods, for you to come to us for yr ' ..-i Spring purchases. PIXLEY <*» OCX16 and 18 East Berry Street, Fort Wayne.

T Q.NHPTUNM. Now located over Holthouse’s shoo store, end Is prepared to do all work nerv-totoe to tho dsn. profesidon. Gold filling £ specialty. By tho ’ • V, P° I he is/enabled to siWSSR teeth without pain. AU wfek warranted. HHWIN I R.K. MANN.y. ff EB WIN A MANN, irsoaxm -AT - LAW, ■ And Notaries Public. OS'. <. ua Notice to Teachers! Notice is hereby given that there will boa public examination of teachers at tho ofiteo eg the county superintendent, in Decatur, Indiana. on tho last Saturday of each month. Applcantsfor license must present “the proper trustee s oertlffleate or other evidence of good moral character,” and to be successful must pass a good examination in orthography, read Ing, writing, arithmetic, geography. English grammar, physiology, history of the United Blates, science of education, and present on the day of examination, a review or eompooß tion upon one ot the following named books: Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Ivanhoe, Heart of Midlothian, Henry Esmond, Tbe Bpy, Letter, The Sketch Book, booker’s New York. The Happy Boy (by Bjornson). Poems of Longfellow, Poems of Bryant, Poems of Whittier. Poems of Lowell. Haw. thorne’s 'Marble Faun,’ and; Carlyle’s ’Heroes and Hero Worebto.* Holmes’ ’Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, MeMaster's 'Life of FrankBn, and Charles Ride's ’Put Youraelf in Hie Place. Said composition shall contain not lees ehan 600 nor more than 1,000 words, shell bo in the applicant’s own handwriting, and shall bo acoompanted with a declaration that it is tho applicant’s original work. Reviews will bo graded on penmanship, orthography and comSaamlnstiona will begin promptly at 8:80 a. m. No Ucense will be granted to ap. pHcante under seventeen years of ago, often Xuffust 1686. j. f. SNOW. cCtapk TIME TABLE I,• w The Shortest, Quickest and Best Route to tho West, Nortliwest, Soatii ani Soutiiwest. FREE PALACE RECLIRIRR CHAIR CARS on ail night trains. Solid Vestibuled Train Senice Daily, without extra charge, Palace Reclining ' s * s - 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 ail pointe West of Missouri River. Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars daily from SL Louis to Salt Lake City via Denver, Cheyenne and Ogden. ■ Round Trip Tickets to principal places in California, Oregon, Utah, Arizona ana Old. Aixd JXTe'w AdCesEloo 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 G 8. CRANE. F, CHANDLER, Asst. G. P. A., Gen. Pass. Agt, St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, MO. B. G. Thompson, Pass, and Ticket Agent, Fort Wayne, Ind. I CURE FITS! _Wh«a I tty Cure I do notmean msrstyta Stop them for a time, and then have them ro« turn again. I mban A RADICAL GD3B» 1 have made tho disease of FXTSgSFXLEFSTor FAXUNG SICKHZSS, Alffe-long study. IWAXRANTmy remedy to Curb the worst cases. Becanse others have R tailed is no reason for not nowreceiving aenre. Send at once for a treatise and a FREBBonH of my Infalliblb Rbmbdy. Give Express and Post Office. It costs yon nothinglog a trial, and will cure you. Address * « H.0.R00T,M.0, IUFuM.tr,MvYM