Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1891 — Page 7

CRUEL -=ze==as~ — THE GRAVE; The Secret of Dunraven Castle. BY ANNIE ASHMORE, Author of •‘Faithftd Margaret/* Etc., Etc CHAPTER IV—(Continued.) Miles Dellamere hulked at her side rubbing his hands and chuckling to see his defeated rival — a, wretched little grizzled ape with the vanity and assumtlon of a clown. . Accrington bowed low and mockingly; •then seized the unhappy lady’s hand — raising it by the wedding-ring which he had between his finger and thumb—not even grasping her skin in his overwhelming scorn, and affecting to be admiring the lovely hand with a rough soldier’s gallantry, he said in a tone perfectly audible to those who stood about: “Madam, you promised this to me; shall I use my sword to secure my property? But faith! I believe you knew best—’twas not worth the giving. ” And with that he left her. She never saw him again until she had been ten years a widow, when he came to Inchcape Fosse the summer Lord Inchcape’s second wife was there. Laura Dellamere was then an exquisitely preserved beauty of twenty-nine. He amused himself by deceiving her as to his feelings, and left her heartwrung with grief and shame. He went abroad again, to the East this time; performed ably some special service for the Government, sold out and entered diplomatic service: and at last has returned to England, handsomely pensioned in recognition’of his usefulness. He intends to make a home for himself in his own land; he is tired of exile, perhaps weary of sad memo ies of England, and eager to exorcise them by fresh and, perhaps, brighter experiences. He had at first no settled plan; no preference of one spot above another; he was never a lover of his father’s home, and will certainly not choose that locality for his future residence. But Salford called him by its crowding memories—he resolved to pay a dying visit to it and look round upon the old faces, and perhaps hear a word or two about the old tragic romance. His • uncle Archerfkld would be his excuse, and wou d give him a bed. He had long known of Lord Inchcape’s withdrawal from society, and his hermit existence; he had no fear of encountering him. When nearing Salford he chanced to hear of the entertainment at Dorimant given in honor of the son; he smiled dryly as he thought of a certain unique enriosity he had packed into his case along with his sporting gear: although I fear he had intended it for a lar different person—one whom it might be comfortable to conciliate —it would do excellently for young ( recy. and would be a graceful gift to a transcendental poet. With this in his hands wherewith to purchase a favorable reception, he arrived at the Dorimant portal, was informed where the assembly were amusing themselves, and adowed to place his gift in a suitable manner among the grand array which already awaited young Auberon’s acceptance Then he made his way into the theater, and’was stunned by the presence of the one man above the earth whom he feared with a mortal dread —the one man who could ca'l him liar. From that brief encounter Accrington had emerged a different creature He came to Salford a man without a purpose—he had found his purpose now—ay, with a vengeance! A group of exquisites clustered around the ex-attache, each eager to renew or commence an acquaintance with one who, it was whispered in diplomatic circles, had risen to such importance abroad that he wielded no little iniluence at home. In political England statecraft is for the most able to engage in, and those who succeed are men to be courted by j the noblest of the land, for their hands hold the keys of office, and- their good word sojnetimes is enough to secure the portfolio for the anxious candidate. In copcil ating Accrington, these men, younger sons of noble housbs, and lords near the bottom of their exchequer, had an eye to the future, and paid him marked attention, conveniently smothering any suspicions they might have had of him from that passing glimpse of Inchcape’s imperious disdain. He was bes’eged with questions about his residence abroad, and his intentions • for the fu ure, all of which he answered with the discretion of the attache. “And where do you quarter yourself?” asked Lucius Ilchester, a fashionable sporting man, near the end of his patrimony. Accrington’s smile was non-commital. “With me,” chuckled Archerfield, “unless I’ve been too late, and Hal Crecy’s secured him.” “No, you re ahead of me; but let’s leave it to himself,” said the hospitable Crecy. Accrington threw an involuntary giant e toward the two great easy chairs In which Mrs. Crecy and Mrs. Dellamere had been sitting; and next instant had the mortification of perceiving old Archerfield’s red face expand in a grin of extraordinary significance. Every body hung expectantly upon his next utterance. “By these mighty contortions of our doughty Triton’s consonance, we may hope for something recherche,” remarked Lucius Ilchester; “come, sir, eiieve your mind—J shall protect you from the consequences. ” The speaker was a slim, girlish, exquisite, with an air of elegant apathy; an<f the rear.-admiral was a burly giant with a hoarse voice. Stealing a glance at Accrington’s frigid l face, his uncle complied. L “Stsw that, ye ribald crew,” said he I majesti ally; “ye should blush for the ' profligacy of yonr ideas. The expression which Luce pre; nines to describe by the offensive word hideous’ was a spontaneous tribute to the power of the fair. I know that if there was any choice between my bachelor den and Dorimant with Its fascinating hostess—not to speak of its proximity to a place called the Pavilion “Oh, as for that, you are quite mistaken!” hasii y interposed Accrington, his bright eyes emitting a flash which might : > well have intimidated the audacious jester. “I am scarcely a fit guest for ladies’ silken boudoirs; I shall with all my heart accept your kindness, admiral, for a few days—thanking yod all the same, squire, for your hospitable offer.” This matter arranged, the gentlemen joined the rest of the company, who were now strolling about the long suite of reception rooms. Auberon’s gifts were arranged in a pretty little cabinet-chamber, brilliantly Illuminated and decked with flowers.

Conspicuous among them was Colonel Accrington’s offering. This was a curious specimen of Japanese art—a small dais or stand, goldlacquered and pearl-inlaid, supported by a beetling crag with ocean waves foaming around its base, wrought in glistening sih er; and on the topmost pinnacle of the crag poised a stormy petrel cut out of mother-of-pearl, holding in its claws a rock-crystal ball as large as an apple, and polished to such a splendid luster that the eye could scarce endure to gaze upon it. A crystal drawer in the face of the stand held a handful of these same rock crystals, varying in size from a pea to a pigeon’s egg, as round and lucid as drops of dew. An open fan of elaborate Japanese design and largest size was set up behind the silver rock, with an explanation of the whole work written upon it in golden fluid by a priest of a Bhuddist temple; for the rock-crystal occupies high ground in Japanese mythology. As Crecy, Accrington and the othbrs approached, they found Mrs. Crecy, with her son Auberon and Loveday Dellamere, standing before it lost in admiring wonder. “Who could have sent such a superb gift?” Loveday was exclaiming. “It must have been a great trave er, for where could he have picked up such a curio except in Japan? It must have been a mystic, for who else wou d have thought of presenting to Auberon a number of men’s souls to eke out his own? Traveler—mystic—and millionaire; who is all that, Mrs. Creoy?” Mrs. Crecy did not answer; she looked disagreeably startled. Auberon was busy deciphering the inscription on the face, which, being written in Japanese Court-English, was somewhat obscure. Accrington joined the group, a faint glow on his tawny che k. “Miss Dellamere has not quite forgotton Colonel Accrington, who used to teach her how to manage her fiery pony five years ago?” said he, with softest, gentlest courtesy. * She started, this pure-hearted, innocent girl, who knew no evil, and raised her winsome eyes fearlessly to his, wondering at the earnestness she saw there. Gravely and kindly she gave him her hand—the was in no hurry to relinquish it. ColMSKAccrington was feeling that, much as he had [oved in the past, he had never met a woman whom to love would be such a triumph over the past, with all its failure and remorse. This girl was pure, joyous, and free; to win her whole love—what nmnixed felicity! And how weary he was of remorse and of vindictive anger! For five years a grievous memory had isolated his heart from women—the barrier was removed when he met this radiant Loveday’s. winsome eyes and held her dainty hand. “I shall marry this girl, ” he swore in his heart; and the fixed gaze of his black eyes awoke her feminine consciousness for the first time. She would think of him again. She recalled his former visit to Salford rather dubiously; she owned that she used to feel profound awe toward him in those days, when he rode over from Inchcape Fosse to walk with her mamma and her in the gardens around their home. She was then a heedless spirit of twelve, bound up in her playmate Auberon, and very shy of the gallant officer who so often strode by without a glance at her. “And you, Monsieur Auberon; have you any remembrance of me?” smiled Accrington, with unconscious condescension. Aubefon had little to say, his mild eyes were searching out the spirit of this darkr being very seriously; he never felt more unresponsive. Mrs. Crecy drew attention to the foreign bit of virtu before which they were standing. “Am I mistaken in guessing Co’onel Accrington to be the donor of this magnificent gift?” demanded she, haughtily. He bowed with a humble and deprecating air. “Madam, may you never know the melancholy of the exile,” said he, in sad, mournful tones, which impressed Loveday like some heart touching minor air. “There is no sorrow so subduing, so lingering. Then one learns the meaning of sleepless nights, when the whole hea,t turns back to Eugland with inextinguishable regret, when 1 the faces we have left behind us hover forever before bur eyes, and the faults—the omissions we may have been guilty of—are repented of with strong crying and tears. In such a mood 1 entered a Bhuddist temple in Japan, and saw these flawless crystals—they called them jewels. ’Tis a wild conceit; may I rehearse it to these children?” Who could resist him? His eyes were humid, his air was gentle and depressed; and nothing could be more wistfully sweet than the glance and the tone with which he named them “children. ” Mrs. Crecy, utterly unimpressed, however, gave him the permission he sought by ad impatient wave of the hand. “It Is part of the Japanese religion,” said Accrington, delighted with the opportunity of posing before all Salford as the deeply Interesting friend of the popular Mrs. Crecy, “to believe thrft a good man’s spirit passes in death into a rcckcrystal, the comparative purity of which depends upon the sanctity of the man’s life. ‘Thus, when a saint dies, and his body has been consumed (for they practice cremation), a rock crystal, perfectly flawless, is found in the ashes. That crystal is the saintly soul. The principal globe there is the cast-off soul of the illustrious Rin O, martyr and priest. The small: r stones in the drawer are the ghosts of a now extinct house; they were sold by the heir-at-law.” Loveday and Auberon were immensely ’amused with this odd conceit, and made several jests apropos of it. Even the appearance of such amity between her family and Colonel Accrington was as vinegar to Mrs Crecy’s teeth. Her frigid demeanor cost the Colonel decided anxiety; what if she should reject his gift in the presence of all these people? “When I saw that flawless star, ” continued he, indicating the ball in the petr •I’s claws, “«ny homesick fancy went back to a place where I had seen several pure spirits—to Salford; and I thought, ‘some day young Auberon will be twenty-one, or will celebrate his wedding day,’ and I provided myself with this souvenir. My chance to prbseqt it came mtich sooner than I expected though. ” Au be rem, disturbed by his mother's repressed agitation, expressed his thanks more gracefully than effusively; but Loveday, charmed at all this appreciation of Auberon and its melancholy romance, beamed radiantly. Suddenly Mrs. Crecy put an,end to this scene by saying: “Colonel Accrington, I request your attention lor a few minutes; will you accompany me?” t w He started, and looked amazedly at her. Was the lamb going to turn upon the lion? But he acquiesed blandly and offered his arm, which with a faint bow she declined. In silence they walked side by side through one salon after another until she bad conducted him to the long picture gallery, which was not Illuminated, and was therefore unoccupied. The pallid moonshine poured tn through the long side window, and lay across the polished floor in bars of black shadows. One portrait at the extreme end was completely framed with white roses'; a silver lamp burned on a "pedestal in front of it. This was Auberon’s portrait; it had been decorated for the occasion by Loveday and her companion nymphs.

Mrs. Crecy led the way to this spot, and when they both stood within the the small circle of light she turned and faced her companion. Then he saw that, the lamb had turned' upon the lion. She was pale as her own white robe, and her gentle eyes glowed with the great wrath of her noble spirit. “Sir, I make no preamble,” said she sternly; “your conscience tells you what I have to ask you. Where is Engelonde Inchcape?” Her accusing eyes pierced his very soul; her thrilling voice froze the blood in his veins. Overwhelmed, he gazed at her and could not speak. “You came here -five years ago and found Lord Inchcape and his young wife as bappy in each other as perfect love could make them—when you left, you fled as a baffled wretch whose mad love had been scornfully repulsed But you met them abroad not many months afterward —and Lord Inchcape returned without his wife—a ruined man. Richard Accrington, I ask you—where is Engelonde Inchcape?” Her anger and grief tore at his heartstrings; the flood of tragic memories she had unloosed beat down all pride and brazen, defiahce; he buried his face in his hands with a groan of agony. Engelonde Inchcape! How fair, how immaculate, how happy she had been when first he saw her! - A new love for him? What blasphemy to hope it! No —no—no! Loveday Dellamere belonged to the honorable and good—not to guilty Richard Accrington! “Ah! you have nothing to answer,” Alice Crecy went on. “Nothing but shame and tears. And yet you dare to come back here, as if she had never been —as if you had quite forgotten her, and were ready for a fresh love!” Oh, what anguLh lurked beneath those breaking tones! “For a moment I thought when I saw you to-night—‘He has come back to vindicate her to her husband, remorse has driven him to make late reparation!’ But no, you have only come to view the • desolation of that once happy home; and to outface the two harmless women who suspect you, with the base effront'ry of impunity. ” He raised his face, all dazed and pale. “Is it possible that you thoug’ht all these years she was with me?” asked he slowly. Mrs Crecy uttered a cry of repulsion. “With you!” she echoed with indescrihable scorn. “Never! I never doubted her. I knew her heart. Oh, she was a "flawless soul’ if ever such was on this earth. But I believed that her innocence had not saved her from her husband’s jealous misconception; that you had traded on his jealousy until he believed her guilty, and repudiated her; she then fled in shame and despair from both husband and persecutor; and that you caused him to believe her with you ever since. Is not this true?” “Madam, as God lives, the last time I ever beheld Lady Inchcape, I left her at her husband’s side,” said Accrington. Mrs. Crecy scanned his face in wild incredulity. “Is this possible?” she g ned “How can I believe you? No, in., I’ cannot. She never came back to England. Oh, sir. I beseech you, confess it, is she not in hidjng somewhere to which you could give us the clue?” He turned from her bitterly. , “I know nothing of her,” muttered he with white lips, “but I believe that she is dead. ” CHAPTER V. THE TWO WARNINGS. “Kenmore, I tell you there’s something on your mind —you can’t deceive me. I read dissatisfaction in the very back of your neck as you bend there stubbornly grubbing away among your weeds. What’s the matter, Kenmore?” “Ye hae eagle-e’en, Lady Oolava, an’ they can gaze at the sun, but can they see the pitfall that lies at your feet?” Fajr Ulva was in her flower-garden, watching the old Highlander as he raked thfi beds in the early morning; and Edgar Arden, lying in the stately guestchamber above, with a square of the lozenge-paned window ajar for. the healing salt breeze, heard the colloquy, and eagerly lent his ear to catch every sweet inflection of the maiden’s voice. For his fever was passed, he was convalescing finely, and his secret was yet his own. He had begged them to fetch his mate to his bedside in his first lucid moment that next morning, and Lady Dunraven having given orders that they should be left alone, Edgar was able to make such arrangements with the faithful, Incurious fellow, that when he and his mate left Sleat-na-Vrecken for the mainland in the first fishing boat they could hail, nobody had heard any other name tor their young master than “Captain Edgar, ” as they were wont to call him among themselves. As Kenmore had never deigned to make any enquiries concerning his employer while on board the Merganser, and his saturnine air checked freedom of speech in his presence, he had no knowledge of Arden’s identity with his revered Lord Inchcape's heir; so that upon his recovery he was quite unable to answer Director Sircombe’s searching 'questions concerning the too young and jiersonable stranger who had penetrated into my lady’s seclusion. Edgar had not seen Ulva in his room since the first night, but he had grown very familiar with her lovely voice as she talked or sung in the old tower garden, and had fed his eyes many, many times upon her maiden form as she flitted to and fro among her flowers, or in the broad stone -balconies that ran under the second-story windows across the court from his -own. He rose now, hearing the voice he had come to thrill at as the dearest music on earth, and folding his invalid gown about his rather attenuated frame, tottered over to the window and threw himself upon the broad window-seat, to see her, trembling with emotion as much as with weakness. She was standing on the top step of an ancient sun-dial, carelessly dressed in a long, filmy white robe of many folds, with “angel sleeves,” from which her exquisite arms stretched forth, offering crumbs to a cloud of sea-birds which had followed her up from the shore; whither it was evident she had gone for her morning bath, for her hair streamed over her dress in endless ripples, and her upraised face was fresh and rpsy, and brimful of animation. Old Kenmore, standing below her on the garden walk, leaning on his rake, with his broad bonnet in his hand, eyed her with a mixture of proud affection and dogged resolution. “I see no pitfall at my feet, Kenmore,” cried Ulva, looking at him wonderlngly; “but I have noticed that ever since you came home you have not been like your own old self. What is vexing you, Kenmore? Not I, I hope?" She tossed the last of her crumbs upon the broad slab at her feet, and was instantly the center of a fluttering, hustling, white-winged cloud of birds, who pecked and quarreled with each other quite confidingly. Ulva crossed her soft warm arms upon the gray lichened stone, and leaning there, showered all the gentle beauty of her eyes upon her old servant. “It is not my Lady Oolava that could vex Kenmore, ” said he solemnly; “but the weird that is laid upon her—that will break his heart.” “Now, Kenmore!” she held up her finger with a laughing menace, “I know something supernatural is coming. You’re going to prophesy bad fortune for me.” “God forbid!” exclaimed he, fervently. “An’ the doom will pass ts ye will bn* beMlntime«Well, speak, Oracle, I listen.-

“Laugh an ye will, my lady, I’m your own to laugh' at—only heed the words I’ll make bold to speak. ” He sunk his voice to a more impressive key, and drew himself up to a more imposing attitude. “It’s not for naught that I’ve lived for eighty years within hearing of the voices of the sea. 1 here's many a true word uttered by those who have hearkened to the waves. It has been said that whoever saves a man from drowning, that man will be his curse. ’Tis an old la,w, •that, my lady, but well known to be a true one. ” Ulva received this dark utterance astonishment, and dawning indignation. [to be continued.] . •>At a Gallop.” The rushing, pushing, restless, ambitious American tells you, when he pauses long "enough to institute comparisons, that he despises a man who is content.. Contentment is an evidence of lack t of spirit. “Excelsior” is the motto dh the banner. So the average American has no time to expend upon the beauties around him. He gobbles—he does not eat. He gallops through the papers—the characters that meet the eye assist him in his calculations on ’Change and in the counting-room—but of the legson the record of one day’s life should teach a man he knows as little as a Hottentot. He might as well be made of wood or stone. There is a famine abroad—millions craving for wheat, dying of starvation. Ttiat is a deficit in breadstuffs, to be reckoned up on the profit side of the ledger. A singer with a voice like a nightingale thrills the souls of thousands. The ambitious man feels something stir within him. There is a glimpse at a world lying entirely beyond his daily round; he realizes it is impossible to enjoy the splendors of that world and yet remain in the business groove, but he is so sodden,' so wedded to his idol, that he shrugs his shoulders and tells himself that one day he can buy the new world. He obtains a glimpse at the beauties of art and literature; these, too, he will buy, by-and-by, Now his chief aim is to distance Brown in the accumulation of wealth. Competition is keener than any Damascus blade ever wielded; the blow as telling. The ambitious merchant or manufacturer presses on. His wife or his children may find time to look at the forests, lakes, and seas; to mingle with other pleasure-seekers, possibly, but the pushing man is not content with $50,000, nor with $500,000. He rushes on at a speed that increases in proportion as his enterprise grows larger, until suddenly, and without a moment’s warning, he is stricken down. The man collapses; his lack-luster eye, his shrivelled figure, tell the story. The active man is dead. , Hq might as well be in a tomb for all the use he is to the world now, or all the enjoyment he can extract from the world now. Not All Selfishness. “We read a good deal about the ‘hog,’ as he is called, on railway trains,” remarked an old traveler, “but there is one thing that I have noticed in my journeys that seems to me to deserve more attention than it receives. That is the regard that travelers show for the rights of others. I nevffl" go on a trip that I fail to notice it. It is the universal custom to recognize the right of a person to a seat if he or she has pre-empted it by leaving a valise or other property in it to indicate that it has been reserved, so to speak. In all my experience I never saw any one seize upon such a piece of baggage and eject it, and then sit down and occupy the seat. That seems to me to be really remarkable. And then how rarely does it happen that a passenger loses any baggage that he may have left unguarded in a seat. A man may go into the smoking car and remain an hour or more, and on his return he will find the property intact. At stations where there are eating houses, passengers get out by the score, reserving thetr seats with bags, overcoats, books, magazines, etc., and on coming back will find everything undisturbed. What would happen if a new-comer into a car should remove the traps from a seat and take possession of it? I don’t know for I never saw a case of that kind, but I fancy that the public opinion of the other passengers would speedily make itself felt in an unmistakable manner. This regard for others’ rights is one of the characteristics of American travelers that ought to be emphasized. I have seen numerous specimens ©f the genus ‘hog,’ and nobody can be more disgusted than I at the exhibition they make; but over against them I like to set the other quality of which I have spoken. There is a good deal of unselfishness in the world after all. ” — New York Tribune. Care of an Invalid’s Bed. The care of an invalid’s bed is apparently a very simple affair. But every invalid knows that few except professional nurses understand the art of changing the sheets in such a manner as to relieve rather than weary the patient. An exchange gives these directions, which are at once simple and practical; “After placing your invalid on one side of the bed, begin at the opposite side and roll the sheet its entire length in a tight, straight roll, until it reaches the side of the patient. The clean sheet, which should be aired and warmed, should now be put on and carefully turned under the mattress, the other half being also in a long tight roll. “It is easy to pass these two soft rolls under the patient’s body by taking first the top and then the bottom. The work should be done very slowly* and without nervousness, else the patient will be weary. The old sheet, in its rolled form, is now slipped out of the bed, and the fresh one unrolled and tucked in smooth and straight. It B a good plan to secure it in place with safety pins, which prevent annoying wrinkles. The upper sheet is put on in the same way except, of course, it does not require the same position. And the patient has a nice, fresh bed, and has not become exhausted in the change.”—-New York Ledger. For some months, T. H. Hood, a resident of Frankfort, Ind., has been subject to fits. A physician treated him, giving him pills, one ol which was taken every night. Now M*. Hood’s entire body hae become aa blue MincliiiMb bin ••**•*© v 8 WMV* ***** **W**X<M w 4 V *» deeper shade.

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Business Directory. THE DECATUR NATIONAL RANK. <Moer»-T. T. Darwin. President; P.W.BmtA, ▼ice-Preeident: R. 8. Peterson, Cashier: T. T. DorMn. P. W. Smith, Henry Derkee, J. d. BM* teookTk J. Terveer, J. D. Hale as 4 B. B. Pe> tenon. Director*. We are prepared to make Lous on good eeew rity, receive-Deposits, furnish Domestic and Foreign Kxchange, buy and sell Government and Municipal Bonds, and furnish Letton of Credit available in any of the principal dtiofl of Europe. Also Passage Tickets to and from toe Old World, including tranaportaUoa to 30- SE. Veterinary Surgeon, XbdCoxxroo* XsEncl.. Successfully treats all diseases of Hones and Cattie. Will respond to calls a* any time, PriOM IWMOBAbISb «7amea JB. Bobo, .Zk'ttOZ’Xlft:?’ At Xaft'W’ Paul <?. Hooper, j&.ttox’xie'sr At Xbavcf Deee(wr> • • Zedfewe. IITHANCR B MBRBYMAnI J.r.raAlK* A? a. t. mnancaa oe-ff Xsob'Wg DSCATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 3 and 8. over the Adams Oouato Bank. Collections a specialty. • i i, —. -i.

jpBSM MOUSE, L J. MIESSE, Proysfstsc Decatur, Ind. Location Central—Oppoatto Court HMua. The leading hotel in the city. OTMay, M. ; PlxyaioihiictJ Sl-ux**moxi. Monroe. > Indiana. Ail calla promptly attended to toy or night. I Jffioe at residence. > Adams County Bank Capital, 875,000. Surplus, 875,000. Organized In 1871. Officers—D. Studabaker, President: Robt. B. 1 AlUson,Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in ail parts of the country. County, City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. 18. «T. Jordan, Attorney-at-law and Pension Agent Collection of Claims a specialty. Eeet, ' ! *r, XatHawa. Kent K. Wheelock, M, Z>.» EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST 94 Calhoun-st. FortWavne. Ind. JJEV. D. NEUENSCHWANDER, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Eerne, ... Zndfana. Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years’experience. f A.«. HOLLOWAY, dto Suxtbooex 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. D. Office and residence one door north of M. B. church. Diseases of women and children specialties. MONEYTOLOAN On Farm Property on Long Tima. 3NTo OoxkX33a.lmmlon. Low Rate of Interest. □PawtltoX X s nay xxkmxxtm In any amounts can be made at any time and stop interest. Call on. or address, A. K. GBUBB, of, «F. M MAKK, Office: Odd Fellows* Building, Dscatur.

Ipsd -pozzTZTWT COMPLEXION POWDER: SAFE; CURATIVE; BEAUTIFYING. t. 2,3,11 three ] KitJi I POZZONTB | I TINTS Fall and Winter Clothing! Do yon want to save the middleman’s profit on your Fall Clothing purchases. If so, bear in mind that PIXLEY & CO. Are the only Manufacturing Dealers in Fort Wayne, and the only parties who can sell you Clothing at Manufacturers .Prices. Our Fall and Winter Stock is now ready and on inspection will show it to be the greatest assortment ever shown in the city* Every Department is loaded with new choice Clothing for Men, Boys and Children. When ready tor your Fall Clothing bear in mind the ad* . vantages offered by the Manufacturers and I look over our stock, fcl , - . I a V!W ßa w ik v wre—w I w 7s

fiomnoA e K DHMTm Now located over Holthouae'a shoo stos* SB* ta prepared to do *ll work pertaining to tbs d(*> Gal profession. Gold fiUing a specialty. By the > aso of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to iHMOSt teeth without pain. All work warranteA j ■BWIN.B.E. MAN*,f.ff i BBWIN <B HANN, ' > ▲TTOBSXTS-XT-U.ir. And Notaries Public. — . Pension Claims Prosecuted. Office in Odd Fellows* Building, Decatur, Ind. Notice to Teachers! I Notice is hereby given that there wiH boa > public examination of teachers at the office of theoounty superintendent, in Decatur, In* diana. on the last Saturday of each month. Apploants for license must present “the proper trustee's eertiffleate or other evidence of good moral character,’’ and to be successful must pass a good examination in orthography, read • Ing, writing, arithmetic, geography. Bnsrtlah grammar, physiology, history of the United States, science of education, and present da the day of examination, a review or compose tion upon one ot the following named booktt Tale or Two Cities, David Copperfield, Ivanhoe, • Heart of Midlothian, Henry Esmond, The Spy, The Scarlet Letter, The Sketch Book. Knteker* booker's New York, The,Happy Boy (by Bjorn* son). Poems of Longfellow, Poems of Bryant. Poems of Whittier, Poems of Lowell, thorne’s ’Marble Faun,' and Carlyle’s ’Heroes F and Hero Worship.* Holmes* ‘Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, McMaster's 'Life of Franklin,’ and Charles Beede's 'Put Yourself la HM Place.’ Said oompcaltion shall contain notices shan 600 nor more than 1.000 words, shaU be in the applicant's ewe handwriting, and shall be - accompanied with a declaration that it ts the t applicant's original work. Reviews will be I graded on penmanship, orthography and oom* position. Examinations will begin promptly at 8:80 a. m. No license will be granted to ap* nitoants under seventeen years of age. aftaff y August NN. J. F. SNOW. Co. bupC

TIME TABLE 11 4 The Shortest, Quickest and Best Route to the Vest, Northwest, South aM Southwest. FREE PALACE RECLIHIH6 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, Port* land, Denver and all points West of Missouri River. Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Can 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 Aaxd. Mexico every day in the year. A complete line of tickets via any authorized route, obviating tha annoyance to passengers of exchanging tick* ets at the Missouri River. For lowest rates, maps, folden and descrip* five printed matter, write to or call on C. 8. CRANK. 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! When I ny Cuss I dftaot mean merely to •top them tar a time, and than have ttemn* turn again. I MEAN A RADICAL COBB. 1 have made tha disease od ETXSp EPXXJSFST <MP X*AXUHG SXGKnSSp AHte-lengeMly. I wabbant my remedy to Cdrb the worst cases. Because others have CaUed is no reason tor not now receiving a enra. Send at once for a treatise and a Fuaßonut of my Infalubu BIMIDT. Give Express and Post Office. It costa you nothing tor a trial, and M will aura yoa. Address H.Q.ROOT.M.Om IUPimISt.INvYM