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CRUEL - THE GRAVE; — The Secret of Dunraven Castle. BY ANNIE ASHMORE, Author of "Faithful Margaret,"’ Etc.. Etc • _ CHAFFER V.—(Continued.) “You never mean me to believe that t ’ ; you would have liked to let them drown, do you?” cried she straightening herself and looking down upon him with two flashing, incredulous eyes. Up to this, Edgar had listened as to an idle colloquy, for the mere delight of hearing Ulva’s voice, but now a more personal interest chained him to the ’\ - spot. What lover could withstand the temptation of hearing his lady speak about him while ignorant of his prox- <' \ imlty? And by the dawning rose in her cheek 2 ? ‘ and the keener gaze of the old man, he $ knew his name was coming. , “There was but one life especially in danger—and it was not I who saved it It was my lady’s will that sent me three times down after him—qnd it was my lady's ain proud hands that pulled him from the wave.” * “Hush!” whispered Ulva. blushing scarlet, and darting uneasy glances around; while Edgar turned cold and faint ’neath the shock of delight—for J ' this he had not heard till now. “Who said that?” demanded Ulva, ■: , ‘ defiantly; “certainly you were in no condition to know what happened; poor fellow, you did your duty like a brave man then, and I won’t believe you regret it now.” “Weel, then, Mr. Sircombe said it.” Ulva looked astonished; then dis- “ missed the point as trivial, and "attacked the main one “And is it Mr. Edgar you are warning me against?” “’Deed it is, Lady Ooiava; and an ill day for Dunraven when the soft and supple Lowlander won in. ” “Kenmore, you are wicked. What possible harm could he or any other stranger” (Oh, I.Iva!) “do to my father’s daughter?” • “When the day comes the deed will .> be done. ’Twas your ain hand laid it upon him as his weird. He will never ; die until he has paid ye for his life with woe and wrong. Ah, lady, ye blanch an’ falter—listen, there may yet be time .' 7 to turn the doom aside, if ye wad speak k the word. ” F Ulva was silent, however. Edgar saw that her sweet face was wan and troubled. “One word,” urged Kenmore, eagerly, “and the Englishman will be on the main land before this sun goes down?” “Nonsense!” exclaimed Ulva, indignantly." “Is Lord Inchcape’s daughter to drive forth a guest from her father’s roof like a village boor, out of respect to a barbarous superstition?” “Ohone! woe worth the day!” lamented Kenmore, “the glamour’s upon you already, he's cast his spell over you, you’ve taken that first step on that fatal road when your maiden heart to him in pity ” “Silence!” cried Ulva imperiously, pride and ghame crimsoning her cheeks and flashing from her eyes. “You overstep respect; 1 permit no such liberty. ” She descended the mossy steps, waiving him out of her path with a royal gesture, but he still stood before her with clasped hands and beseeching face. “Oh, my bonny mistress, whom I have borne in my arms a bairn, it’s not in a heart so leal to you to let you pass on unwarned to a woful love. It was his • like that brought the curse on Inchcape, and parted—God forgive mo, am I mad to come over it to her? Mind you this. Lady Ooiava: -Hearts as proud and ► pure as your own have been made a summer toy by comely Englishmen, and flung under the heel when tired of. And I warn you—l warn you—ns sure as death I’ll do it—upon that day when Captain Edgar puts forth his hand to take your heart, a Highland dirk will find a sheath in his own if all England should cry murder!” Kenmore spoke quietly, but with a fierce menace in his manner; but the lady did not flinch. Her form towered haughtily, her fine nostrils quivered; her dark eyes shot forth wrathful lightnings. “And I warn you, Kenmore, that if you ever again betray a sign of this brutal superstition—or meddle with the guest who is under this roof—if he were Satan himself—l shall banish you from my presence, and never look upon your face again.” Having thus passed judgment, she swept past him with incomparable dignity, and left the garden. Kenmore gazed sadly after her. " , “Ah, ay!” murmured he, with a plaintive lengthening of the word. “there ye * gang, proud an’ disdainful as a queen: but it’s a maiden’s heart ye carry in your bonny breast, an’ maidens’ hearts » can aye be won an’ broken. Ohone! . Ohone! black fall the day when I steered the Cursed Guest to Slcat-na-Vrecken!” Edgar sank down in his place with his head between his hands. A tumult of . thoughts whirled through his brain; pain—hope—and new-born dread of the future. Lapped in luxurious weakness since his convalescence began, he had done nothing but think of her and let his heart drift on to adoration, unchecked by one doubt. Now conscience pricked him and bade him consider to what misery he might bind her future, should he gain the prayer of his heart and awake her love. A gulf of unknown depth separated him from Lord Inchcape’s daughter; the secret which had spoiled Lord Inchcape’s life, parted him from his wife, and scut Ulva to share her exIto lie —this was the gulf that divided them, and until he had fathomed it he had no right in honor to lay one thought of love at her feet. True, he might never awake her heart; still he knew that as sure as he permitted his own to go out Irrevocably to her, he could never keen out of her life until he had fought his best to win her. “I must fly from this place,* groaned he fn sudden anguish; “it is not only my peace that I risk—it might be hers. ■ And then a great flood of passton swept over him—he scorned at that virtuous resolve. Why should he not fight it out, and perhaps win her, and save her from the mysterious life of unnatural seclusion which seemed to await her, through no guilt of hers? And again honor spoke, and he recalled the love and duty which he owed his kinsman, and the entire faith which ho had always felt In his nobility. I He could never have acted unjustly nor ctuelly toward his child. r■>;. Edgar bowed beneath these conflicting gusts of passton; his soul was in deep waters. During his illness Lady Dunraven had been much with him; he could not dis|F associate her constant, hovering proa- ; j ■

, .— - once from the tong, burning, restloss nights of delirium: qor her eager, spiritlike face from his death-like slumbers, when at first sleep came back to him. As he grew stronger, she still sat with him hour by hour; a pale, burning-eyed presence, that seldom spoke, but followed her own brooding thoughts by the hour; yet always ready with her sweet kind smile, if he sought her eye; or with her small, deft, nervous hands when he wanted help. Others served his material wants; Mr. Sircombe, my lord's bookish secretary, amiably sacrificed many hours by his pillow, reading to or conversing with him; but he felt as if unhappy Engeloude had been so very close to him in spirit through all the mystic labyrinth of fever, that he could never regard her with the impersonal interest he might have given another woman. , His unacknow’odged acquaintance with her secret had also lent such a peculiar, tender sweetne.-s to his manner, that Lady Dunraven unconsciously yielded herself to its fascinations, and gradually turned her starved affections toward him, with that loveliest of sentiments, the love a woman gives her young brother. The romance of her heart had all been lavished upon her husband—she could never take it back; but she had yet some deep emotions left, and Edgar Arden had set them flowing. She had always founw a strange pleasure in contemplat’ng his features, from that first night when he lay unconscious before her; she still indulged in these long meditative studies; he would wake in the dead of night, when nothing seemed to live around them save the roaring sea, to firid her brilliantly spiritual face bending toward him out of the darkness, with such a yearning look that, knowing her secret sorrow, his whole soul would respond to the mute cry for sympathy, and he would feel a wild impu se to offer her the service of a true knight if mortal could bring her deliverance from her grief. Edgar had not conquered himself so far as to resolve upon leaving the island and Ulva immediately, when an invitation came from Lady Dunraven to join the ladies in her parlor if he was feeling capable of the exertion. Mr. Sircombe was good enough to visit him while he was still conning over the welcome note, with sparkling eyes and bounding heart. He came upon him, gray and haggard, with some pricking discontent fresh upon him, a shade upon the lover’s exultation. “Ah. that is right; you have forsaken your invalid habits!” said he, affecting genial interest. He shook hands with Edgar, touched his pulse a moment, and shook his head with a rallying smile. “But you must not overdo it, Mr. Edgar. No new exertion to day. lam not quite satisfied with that pulse. You are too easily excited, and excitement is specially to be avoided, if you mean to escape from your captivity this week.” “I feel capitally,” said Edgar, unsuspiciously; “I mean to make my first debut in the ladies’ parlors. Lady Dunraven has asked mo to try it to-dav. ” Sircombe’s hardening face showed that he had already learned this item, and felt no elation at the prospect. He hesitated a little, then looked slgnificently at Edgar, and said: “I would advise you not to try it today. ” “Indeed!” exclaimed Edgar, dryly. “Nor ever!” proceeded the director in a toneless voice. “Sorry to disoblige you,” retorted Edgar, his blood rising at the man’s cool assumption of authority, “but I feel that I will accept Lady Dunraven's kind invitation. Oh, don’t suffer from anxiety on my account lam far stronger than you im’agine,” ho added, ironically. Mr. Sircombe walked about a little, kniting his brow and gnawing his lip. He made an abrupt pause in front of Edgar, astonishing him by the intense animosity he betrayed in his face. “I warn you,” said he, quietly; “asone who has for many years been intimate with the interests of this house. 1 warn you not to take advantage of the accident which has thrust you in our midst. Retire, as you came, a stranger; in no other way can you so worthily repay the kindness which has been shown you here. ” Edgar’s own conscience echoed these words; but Mr. Sircombe’s involuntary glare of hatred multipled them in his mouth. What personal stake had he in the matter, that he should indulge in personal emotions. “Pardon, but I am quite content to submit to Lady Dunraven’s will in the matter,” said Edgar, calmly; “1 should be sorry, indeed, to cross you in anything that concerned yourself. ” “Sir, sir, I would have you understand that this matter me nearly,” cried Sircombe in great heat; “my lord placed me in this house as his own representative —I am sole director here. ” “Do you then wish to inform me that Lord Dunraven would object to my paying my grateful devoirs to the ladies of this house, to whom I owe my life?” cried Edgar. Again Sircombe walked about the room, lowering and pondering, at a loss how to annihilate this persistent antagonist Again he halted before Edgar, .giving him a bitter look. “It ill becomes either you or me to discuss the concerns of this family,” said he; “you are an utter stranger; you must accept my word as authorized by my position. Lord Dunraven does not intend to accent a husband for Lady Ulva. Were a prince of England to sue for her hand, it would be denied him. Rank, or genius, or worth—they are all alike, Lady Ulva may never marry. ” This statement as it dropped slowly and deliberately from his lips, seemed to sicken speaker and hearer alike. In passionate incredulity Edgar held his eyes with his own—Sireombe never winced t but watched his shocked and troubled face with glopmy satisfaction. **l need not apologize for offering you officious information,” said he presently. “Your face betrays the interest with which you already regard the young lady. It afflicts you to learn that she is never to be yours. Think, then, what affliction might be hers, if with such a sentiment in your heart you associated with her in the informal and intimate relations natural to her present situation? Could you deny yourself the luxury of feeding your lover-eyes upon her—of showing your best side to her; of doing all that lovers do to stir her fancy and awake her heart? You could not—you could not Then be generous, I implore you! Her father, who adores her, is not here to guard her; but I, to whom he confided both wife and child—l will guard her happiness against the world! I entreat —I command —you, to leave this home before you bring sorrow and a broken heart into it,” Without waiting to be questioned, the director bowed and departed, leaving Edgar overwhelmed. Two mornings in one day. CHAPTER VI. ’ THE KIUGHT ERRANT APPEARS. Alas for the perversity of human nature! These obstacles set in the way or the youthful pair’s interest in each other had the effect of instantly increasing it tenfold. Lady Ulva’s proud spirit resented hotly the interference of even so esteemed a personage as Kenmore, and his parting threat had the power of investing the handsome stranger with a new and romantic interest. She had naturally thought of him much while he .lay In the great state bed In the guest I chamber, battling for the life that she L-'-V-..- t- i:.- fig J?* .:4a-"'

f - ’ ' —————— had saved from the waves, but now she looked upon his image with very different eyes. Poor blundering Kenmore! He had with his own hand unsealed the fountain of the maiden’s romance, and made Edgar the hero of it As for Edgar, the secretary’s interference had thoroughly roused his opposition. The more he pondered over the extraordinary statement he had made concerning Ulva, the more fiercely he doubted It A deep distrust of Sircombe's character and motives began to haunt him; he felt it almost as a necessity laid upon him to stay and watch the man long enough to learn something of his nature and aims. Evidently Lord Inchcape trusted him fully, or he would never have placed him in such a position tn his household; but then. Lord Inchcape nevqr came to Dunraven, and knew no more than was reported to him —probably by Sircombe himself. As a near connection of the family, Edgar reasoned that he had a right to remain with them if he chose, or could, and though ho did not quite close his eyes to the fact that Jove had a great deal to do with his decision, he would not allow this to daunt him. He joined the ladies as he had been Invited, and found *Mr. Sircombe installed beside Ulva by a distant window, and Lady Dunraven seated apart by a little work-table. But she was not working; like some antique statue of sorrow she leaned forward with both arms outstretched across the table, and {istless hands dropping from the edge, ter face all pale and rapt, her bright—bright eyes fixed upon the heaving waste of waters which stretened between her and the world. r No mortal, spending sickness could have spread such a haggard shadow over that beautiful countenance; there was the very abandon of hopeless, agonizing misery in her attitude. Never before had Edgar chanced to see her thus, when, supposing herself quite unobserved, she had forgotten all around her, and given herself up to her despair. Silently as a shadow he was at her side before one of the three noticed his entrance; heart-wrung and sore dismayed as he was, it was an ungovernable impulse that’ made him grasp the hand that hung so lifeless, and hold it close between his two palms, while he gazed at her with devotion in his eyes. She was not startled—her thoughts had been too far off for that. She slowly came back to the present, and looked at him with recognition—a strange glance, that seemed to appeal to him like a murmur of pain; not asking him for help, but needing it as the drowning mute needs rescue. Then, with a faint quivering sign, she her hand and signed him to a place on a couch, luxuriously cushioned, which had evidently been prepared for him. “Ah, you are not strong yet; be docile and recline here beside me,” she said with sweetest solicitude. And then she raised her voice and ca led Ulva, who turned round with a little bright cry of surprise, and came swiftly down the long room, smiling welcome. She wore a dark-blue transparent dress, lucid as the mountain mists, and threaded here and there with gold; her slender waist was also girded with gold, and her blue-black hair, dressed for the evening, was fastened by a comb of pretty gold filagree. His whole heart went out to her as she came smiling to welcome him. Not only beauty had she, but such modesty and truth, and gentle womanhood, that all that was noblest in him bowed down before her. This fair woman doomed to a loveless solitude? By that nobility which he had ever found in Inchcape—no! Yonder dark-lined, lowering face be longed to a traitor, that was easier to believe. “Now you shall soon be well,” said Ulva, giving him her hand while her lustrous eyes beAned pure friendliness upon him. “The worst is passed when you can leave the sick room; before the week is out I prophesy that you will be exploring all the wonders of this old fortress with Mr. Sircombe, who is an enthusiastic archicologist ” ’ Mr. Sircombe, from nis distant vantage ground, bowed here as Edgar glanced at him; and a queer smile, just the end of one, flickered about his mouth. “And are you also archaeological?” asked Edgar covetously, as a vision of that charming girl wandering by his side -through gloomy dungeons and halfchoked corridors rose before his mind’s eye. She had seated herself close to Lady Dunraven, and was spreading out the meshes of some exquisite bit of needlework she had been busy over, on my lady’s knee. Edgar watched the fairy nimbleness of her fingers, small and pointed as a Spaniard’s, but ivory white, with rosy nails; not a ring marred their delicacy, not a bracelet spoiled the perfect arch of her wrists; her gauzy bodice clung about her warm pearly shoulders like the diaphanous veiling of a chiselled water-nymph. He watched her with the feeding gaze of enraptured admiration, a hectic fire kindling in each wan cheek. It was the beautiful hour of first love; poor Edgar’s heart was at her feet. “I am nothing so severely intellectual,” replied she lightly to his last question; “though of course I am interested in all that belongs |o my father’s race, and I believe this ancient sea-tower has been in our hands 300 years. I have been in all the holes and corners that Mr. Sircombe would allow me to explore, but the best are sealed mysteries to me. There are chambers cut in the solid rock beneath the tower—below the level of the high tide mark; in old days we smothered our enemies there. ” “I should like to explore them,” said Edgar, thinking 'ess of the death-traps than of the ruby lips that spoke of them. Mr. Sircombe abruptly stepped through the window beside him, and leaned over the broad stone balustrade, gazing at the glittering waves which lapped against the base of the cliff below. The conversation proceeded between the youthful pair, Lady Dunraven leaning back in her carved chair, and listening or seeming to listen less than she looked at each animated face. Sometimes she roused herself to take part; and then Edgar, with mournful regret, could trace the signs of a once brilliant and accomplished mind, now smoldering down to dull indifference. He had heard mnch of this unhappy lady’s spirit and fascination in the days when she reigned as queen of the social circle In the Inchcape Fosse; like so many of her countrywomen, she had created a furor by her intellectual graces as mnch as by her refined and spirttuelle type of beauty. No women in the world are more fervently admired than American women of culture when they come to shine in English circles. They wield the- peculiar power of soul, and their delicacy and vivacity are rare charms in stately England. Edgar wvs quickly adding links to the chain which bound him to Dunraven Towel. Love attracted him, but a more generous sentiment subjugated him—this wronged lady needed help. .That strange glance of hers whlcff seemed to follow him like a low murmur of pain, how could he chfcck it? She asked no help, she only pined and suffered for lack of it. To this chain, fastened upon him by his own feeling alone, he could oppose no considerations of selfish caution. Sitting there between the girl he now boldly acknowledged to himself that he adored, and the woman who had roused

—— all that was most generous nn his nature, he said to himself: •I must, I will do my best to bring back her happiness.” Glancing upward with the fire of that inspiring resolve in his eyes, he met the gaze of Mr. Sircombe fastened upon him. Caught unawares, Sircombe had let his very soul look out through those windows, his eyes, and Edgar started in pure amazement. It was like a glimpse through the windows of hell. But even as he stared the expression changed to a natural one, and Mr. Sircombe sauntered along the balcony out of sight. looking into the garden when he came to the corner of the tower, he saw old Kenmore training up his young lady’s roses upon their trellia Mr. Sircombe entered the building by a summer portal upon the balcony, and very soon sauntered into the garden and came to a halt by Kenmore. He had something in his mind to say to that superstitious person. Hg said it by degrees Eagar looked about Lady Dunraven’s usual living room with sympathetic interest. It was crammed with articles of beauty or for amusement—but all Were for Ulva. There stood the piano, of dark and lustrous wood, in a niche arched with pink-veined marble, the white keys smiling out of the darkness. A tangle of brierroots and heather lay across the top and dropped upon the key-board, and Ulva’s blue velvet Scotch cap with its single feather nestled among the odorous hean The gloomy duskiness of the antique- ' paneled room had been brightened by voluminous draperies of palest blushrose and palest sky color; against this background Ulva’s harp stood out prettily upon its gilded pedestal Bright cabinets, gilt and carven, filled in tho alcoves; the carpet was like palest moss, the very tenderest, early green, dashed with flower petals; luxurious lounges and ottomans were provided for the relief of changing attitudes to the poor captive wife; lovely figure-pictures hung thickly upon the walls—no landscapes, to wake the maddening thirst for freedom. The windows were modern in shape and size, and were filled in with many exquisite flowers, over which the sunset glory was now streaming into the room, turning it into a grotto in cloud-land. A large picture was suspended over the fireplace, but nothing of it was visible but a corner of the richly glided frame; tho painting was entirely concealed by a heavy ro-e-velvet curtain. Edgar guessed rightly that Lord Inchcape’s features might be seen behind those shrouding folds, and that the banwished wife had veiled thorn from the stranger. A sudden burning impatience of this misery and mystery beset him. Why, why must these two fair women live isolated, and conceal their Identity from all comers? [to ws continued. | .... M « Dogs and Their Aflectlons. It has often been mooted as a vexed question why all men of genius or greatness are so fond of dogs. The reason is not far to seek. Those who are great or eminent in any way find the world full of parasites, toadies, liars, fawners, hypocrites; the incorruptible candor, loyalty and honor of the dog are to such like water in a barren place to the thirsty traveler. The sympathy of your dog is unfailing and unobtrusive. If you are sad, so is he; and if you are merry, none is so willing to leap and laugh with you as he. For your dog you are never poor; for your dog you are never old; whether you are in a palace or a cot-* tage he does not care; and fall you as low as you may, you are his providence and his idol still. The'attachment of the dog to man outweighs and almost obliterates attachment in him to his own race. There is something shocking to our high opinion of him in the callousness with which he will sniff at the stiff body of a broth® dog; he will follow his master to the grave, and sometimes die on it; but the loss of his own kind leaves him unmoved. I never knew more than one exception to this; it was, however, a noteworthy one. I had two puppies of the Molussus, commonly called the Maremma, breed; large, white, very beautiful dogs, with long hair; varying in size between a Newfoundland and a collie; the old Greek race of watch-dogs to which, quite certainly, Argos belonged. These puppies, named Pan and Paris, lived together, fed, played and slept together, and were never , separated for a moment for seven months. In the seventh month Paris fell ill of distemper and died. Now, by my own observation I can declare that Pan nursed his brother as assiduously as any boy could have nursed another; licked him, cleaned him, brought him tempting bits to eat; did all that he could think of, and when his brother at last lay there cold and unresponsive to his efforts, his grief and astonishment were painful, to see. From that time he ceased to play; from being a very lively dog he grew grave and sad, he had a wistful wondering inquiry in his eyes which it was pathetic to be* hold; and although he lived for many years after, and was as happy as a dog can be, he never recovered his spirits; he had burled his mirth in the grave of Paris. Something was lost for him with his brother vjhich he never regained. This Is the only instance I have known of a dog’s love for another dog.—North American Review. • What Are Pearls? Pearls are carbonate of lime, the same substance of which the shell of the oyster is composed, and are identified with the “ mother of pearl” which forms the interior of the pearl oyster shell. A high temperature will reduce any pearl to common lime, and in the heat of an ordinary fire a pearl will completely lose its identity and become a pinch of white powder. All precious stones are injured by a high temperature: the diamond being almost pure carbon, is completely consumed at' a temperature somewhat greater than white heat. When the Southern Hotel was burned ( in this city some years ago, a lady guest left her diamonds in her room. As the gems were large and valuable, careful search was made for them after the ruins had cooled, and they were found, but the intense heat had covered every stone with a white crust, where partial combustion had taken place. Rubies, sapphires and emeralds lose their color on exposure to heat, while the semi-precious stones such as the amethj’st, topaa and garnet, are eompletely ruined by a comparatively low heat. — St. Louis Tradesman. The French railway companies have reduced the fare of third-WMs peaaen* gers to one eent per mile. I

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SaslntN Dinctwy. THE DECATUR RATIONAL RANK. 38. 3BC. XsmSnYTTCn Veterinary Surgeon, XbdCoxax-om, XaxcA. Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to call* at any tim«B Mem reasonable. Jam«o JK. JBbAb* J&.ttOX’XlOT’ At XjAW ——■aMmßßsarnnm FAtal O, riflLttorxxesr At Xbaxnz Xaseetwr* • .limMbmb. YAKANOB * MBRBYMAN. g.e.pnuflß. g. T. MnUTMUI A.tSonß.oy« «bt Tam 6W ( DaoATua. umawa. KOVSB, L J.MlMgß,Propristos. Decatur, Ind. Dceatlon Osntnd—Oppoeito Oeurt ■owe. Thu ieadtog hotel in ths Mir •.T. May. M. Menree, ... Indiana. AH calls promptly attended to day or night. Jtfios at residence. Adams County Bank Capital. 875,000. Surplus, 175,000. Organized In 1871. Offlcers—D. Studebaker, President: Robt B. Allison,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 ana Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. fll. ar. VorddMA* Atturney-at-Lawand Pension Agent Collection of Claims a specialty. t Dem'Dr. XiuKsnm. Kent K, Wheelock, It, D<, EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST 94 Calhoun-st, Fort Wavne, Ind. D, NEUENBCHWANDES, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Bci-hs. ... XtuHeiM. . Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A.«. HOLLOWAY, FlxywlolMß. Ob Avxx?® rnoxi. Office over Burns* harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. AU calls promptly attended to in city or country night or day. lyfMN- M. L. HOLLOWAY, M. D. Office and residence one door north of M. B, church. Diseases of women and children specialties. MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Property on Long Time, 3NTo OoßfiSLkkAlaiailoxLa Low Bate of Interest. 3P Burtlaal IPaymexits la any assounts can be made at any time and stop interest. Call on, or address, K, or «T. T. JCdUTIT* (MBoe: Odd Follows* Building, Decatur. e

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J » WU2BXB. ■ •• mnmn Now located over HoUhonse’e shoe steea ssMI Is prepared to do all work pertaining to the denWprofMslon. Odd filling a upecidty. By lbs ascot Mayo’s Vapor heis enabled to entmS K teeth without pain. All work wammtod, v ■BWDt,B.K. BANNtfaP . ERWIN 4 MAW, ▲TTOBXBTS - AT - LAW, And Notaries Public. Notice to Teacheral Notice is hereby given that there will boa public examination of teachers at tho eMoe of the county superintendent, in Decatur, Im diana, on the last Saturday of each nmaSh Apnlpantsfor license must present "the proper trumse’s eertlffieate or other evidence of good moral character," and to bo successful must pass a good examination in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography. ngUsa trammer, physiology, history of the Vnitod States, science of education, and piOsoat on the day of examination, a review or competo tlon upon one ot tbe following named went . Tale of Two Cities. David Copperfield. Ivhnbco, Heart of Midlothian, Henrir Esmond, The Spy, Tbe Scarlet Letter, The Sketch Book, Knkdkerbooker's Now York. The. Happy Boy (by Bjornson), Poema.of Longfellow, Poems of Smut Poems of Whittier. Poems of Lowell. Hawthorne's 'Marble Faun,' and Carlyle's 'Herass Un,’ and Charles Baade's 'Put Yourself tn KM Place.' Said composition shall contain not less shan 600 nor more than LOGO words, shall bs ta the applicant sawa handwriting, andshaUbe aoeqmpanted with a declaration that it M the applicant's original work. Review* vnu ae graded on penmanship, orthsmphy and oo» ess: TIME TABLF MWThe Shortest, Quickest and Best Route to tbe TO, Wtliret, SoDtt and Soafliwest. FREE MURE RECURIRG CHAIR CARS on all night trains. Solid Vestibuled Traio Senice Daily, without extra charge. Palaeo ReeUnin* Chair Cars from Toledo, Detroit and Chicago to Bt. Louis, Quincy andJtansas City without change, requiring only due change of cars to San Francisco, Loe Angeles, San Diego, Port" land, Denver and all points West of Missouri River. Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars daily from st. Louis to Salt Lake City via Daver, Cheyenne and Ogden. Round Trip Tickets to principal places la California, Oregon, Utah, Arizona and Old *xa.d SQ’totour BXoxloo every day in the year. A complete Uno of tickets via any authorized route, obviatingthe annoyance to passengers of exchanging tickets at the Missouri River. For lowest rates, maps, folder* and descriptive printed matter, write to or caU on C. 8. CRANE. 4 F, CHANDLER. Asst. G. P. A., Gen. Pas*. AglSt. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. R. G. Thompson, Pas*, and Ticket AgonL Fort Wayne, Ind. I CURE FITS! cm* BPXUEPST <MP X7UUUHG SZCKKESS* AW*-loag9tody. X WARRANT my remedy to pmui the wont case*. .Becawoptoes* have failed is no reason for not now reeeivmgacare. Send at once foratrwMseandnFnnßonM •fmy JxyAixißU Rbmrdy. Give Express BWa,'«3iJWS.’asSS s?Ers H.O. ROOT, M.e-