Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1892 — Page 3

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. — LESSONS DRAWN FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR. • ■ ■ ■ t 7 . * ‘ The Many Ways la Which Men and Women Degrade Themselves to the Level of Brutes— Intemperance, Drugs, Idleness, Luxury, VnbelloL • Living Like Brutes. W Dr. Talmage chose as his text the hn- ' millatloQ of the Babylonish King who being destitute of religion sank to the level of the brute. Daniel iv. 28, “All • this came upon the King Nebuchadnezzar” Col. Rawlinson, the oriental traveler, ' Bays that the exhumed bricks, not only of Babylon, but of 100 towns In an area Os 100 miles In length and thirty. In breadth, are inscribed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar. He was a groat warrior and at the glance of hia sword nations prostrated themselves. He was a great King and bui't a city reservoir ninety miles In circumference andlSO feet deep, and constructed a hanging garden 400 feet square and seventy-five feet / high, some say to please Amuhla, his wife, who had been born among the hills, and others say to get a pleasure ground free from the mosquitoes, which afflict the levels. I think from his character the latter . reason may have Impelled him as much as the former. When he conquered King Zedekiah, so as to have no more trouble witn him, he put his eyes out—a most barbarous way of incapacitating an enemy. But Babylon was a great place, the houses surrounded by gardens and the housetops were connected with each other by bridges, and one day Nebuchadnezzar walked out on those suspension bridges and showed, perhaps to a royal visitor, the vastness of his realm as the sun kindles the domes with glistenlngs almost insufferable and the great streets thunder up thqir pomp into the ear of the monarch, and armed towers stand around adorned with spoils of conquered empires. Nebuchadnezzar waves his hand above the stupendous scene and exclaims, “Is not this great Babylon that 1 have built for the house of the Kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?" In other words: “What a great man I am. Babylon was not anything until I adorned it. See those water works; see those gardens; see those torts. I did all this. I shall never be forgotton. Why, my name is on every brick in all those walla Just look at me. lam more than a man.” But in an instant ail that splendor is gone from his vision, for a voice calls from the Heavens, saytng, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the Kingdom is departed from thee, and they shill drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth It to whomsoever he will.” One hour from the time he made the boast he is on his way to the fields a maniac, and rushing into the forests ho becomes as one of the beasts, and is after awhile covered with eagles’ feathers for protection from the cold, and his nails grow to look like birds’ claws, in order that he may dig for roots and climb the trees for nuts. The mental disaster - that seized him was what the Greeks called lycanthropy, by which a man imagines himself a beast and prefers to go out and mingle with brutes. He who had been eating pomegranates and apricots off of plates of gold inlaid with amethyst and diamond, and drinking the richest wines from the royal vats, now browsing on grass, and struck by the horn of the ox as he contends lor a better tuft of the pasturage, and instead of an orchestra on benches of ivory playing the national airs, now listening to the moan and bellow and grunt of the beasts. This is not hard for me to believe, for the forms of dementia are innumerable. I look over the pasture fields of folly and sin and find many groveling who ought to be erect. Ob, men and women, go back to your thrones! A young man ran away from home and broke his widowed mother’s heart Fourteen years passed, and he returned and came to the window where his old mother was sitting. She looked up and immediately recognized nim- and said: “Oh, Robert Robert! Come In!" “No!” said he. “Mother. I shall never come in till I hear you say you forgive me.” Her answer was: “Robert I have forgiven you long ago. There is nothing to forgive now except that you staid away so long.” My hearers, forgiveness has been ready for von a good while. With more than a mother’s tenderness God will take you back. They are waiting for you up in the palace. Nebuchadnezzar was the son of Nabopolassar, who ruled before him, and you are the child of a King! The next thought that presses into my mind from the contemplation ot this incident is that conviction is not conversion. Who is this monarch that makes the boast about Babylon? The very man who, under the revelation of dreams that Daniel made from Heaven, deeply humbled himself, while he confessed that God is a God of Gods and a Loro of Lords, yet behold that that humbling and arousing which he before felt did not result In a radical change. There Is no mistake more frequent than of supposing conviction a synonym for conversion. Conviction is merely a sight of sin; conversion is a view of pardon. Conviction is merely alarm; conversion is confidence. Conviction is dissatisfaction with depravity; conversion is a turning away from it Conviction is a sword wound; conversion is the healing. Conviction is the fever of thirst; conversion is the slaking of that thirst Conviction is the pain; conversion is the medicine that cures it Thou- * sands have experienced the former and never experienced the latter. There are multitudes who think as soon as a man is serious he is fit for profession of religion. What if a man should only think seriously of being a merchant; would that make him a merchant? What if a man should only think seriously of being a lawyer; would that make him a lawyer? What if a man should only think seriously of being a Christian; would that make him a Christian? Felix was convicted but not converted. The jailer was convicted before he got dot of bed, but not converted .. until at the advice of Paul he believed in J? Christ Are you convicted but not confrV verted? Learn also from my subject that pride ‘ is the precursor of overthrow. Pride is a commander well plumed and caparisoned, but it leads forth a dark and frowning host “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.’’ The arrows from the Almighty s quiver are ant to strike a man when on k the wing. Goliath shakes his great spear in defiance, but the smooth stones - from the brook make him stagger and fall like an ox iinder a butcher’s bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall. Vessels scudding under bare poles do not feel the force of the storm. What are those three sleds that have just gone into the yard of a miserable hotel in Warsaw, Poland, on the cold night of December the loth, 1812? Who are they, who from these sleds have .ml-. ST tered. and the servant Is try Ing to build

from M< ascow. The fire amid the green I wood has gone out and the Emperor Is walking the floqr to keep from freezing. Then bounding into his sled, the thermometer 20 degrees below zero, he disappears In the darkness. Ho who a little before had an army under bls command, together with other troops offered 1 by other nations, in all 1,187,000 men, 1 now retreating through that December ■ night with throe sleds, and those of his army not dead under the snow, reduced for food to a handful of rye dough, seasoned with gunpowder for lack of salt, and a mouthful of horseflesh. From what . a height to what a depth! Nobucbadi nezzar in the palace; Nebuchadnezzar > forsaken In the fields. Again learn from the misfortune of ■ the King ot Babylon what a terrible thing is the loss of reason. There Is no calamity that can possibly befall us in this world great as the derangement of . intellect—to have the body of a man and i. yet to fall even below the instincts of a 1 brute. In this world of sad sights the - saddest Is the idiot's stare. In this > world of awful sounds the most awful is , the maniac’s laugh. A vessel on the - rocks, when hundreds go down never to ; rise, and other hundreds drag their i mangled and shivering bodies up the > wintry beach, is nothing compared to i foundering of intellects full of vast hopes and attainments and capacities. Christ’s I heart went out to those who were epi- ; leptic, falling into the fire, or maniacs cutting themselves among the tombs. We are accustomed to be more gratei ful for physical health than for the prop- ; er worgfng of our mind. Wo aro apt i to take it for granted that the intellect ; which has served us so well will always ■ be faithful. Wo forget that an engine i with such tremendous power, when the i wheels have such vastness of circle and i such swiftness of motion and the least ■ impediment might put it out of gear, could only be kept in proper balance by I a divine hand. No human power could i engineer this train of immortal faculties, i How strange it is that our memory, on i whose shoulders all the successes and ' misfortunes and occurrences of a lifei time are placed, should not ottener i break down, and that the scales of judgment, which have been weighing so i much and so long, should not lose their i adjustment, and that fancy whifh holds . a dangerous wand, should not sometimes i maliciously wave it, cringing into the ' heart forebodings and hallucinations the most appalling. Is it not strange that ; the expectations of thiS intellect should i not be dashed to pieces on its dlsappointi faents? Though so delicately attuned, this instrument of untold harmonies plays on, ; though fear shocks it, and vexations rack it, and sorrow and joy and loss and i gain in quick succession beat out of it i their dirge or draw from it their anthem, At morning and at night, when i in your prayer, you rehearse the objects of your thanksgiving, next to your salvation by Jesus Christ, praise the Lord for i the preservation of your reason. i How many fine intellects are being de- ' atroyed by anodynes and anesthetics, i which were given by Providence for occasional use in alleviation of pain or insomnia, but by being employed continui ously after awhile capture and destroy. • Chloral, cocaine, bromide of potassium, opium and whole shelves of seductive etceteras that help turn Ncbuchadnez- ' zars into imbecility or madness. Do not i trifle with opiates that benumb the braip. If you cannot live without the perpetual and enslaving use of them, you had better die. Better die a sane man than live a fool. What right have you to kill your brain and put in wild jangle your nerv- , ous system? But rum is the cause of i more insanity titan anything else. There is nothing like rum to put a man, like i Nebuchadnezzar, down on all fours. Again, Jearn how quickly turns the i wheel of fortune, from how high up to . how far down went Nebuchadnezzar. : Those now in places of position and i power, even though they should live, , will in a few years be disregarded, I while some, who this day are obscure ■ and poverty stricken, will ride up on the i shoulders of the people to take their turn at admiration and the spoils of office. Oh, bow quickly the wheel turns! Ballot boxes are the steps on which men come i down as often as they go up. Os those who were a few years ago successful in ; the accumulation of property how few i hase not met with reverses of fortune, i while many of those who then were i straitened in circumstances now hold the bonds and the bank keys of the Nation and win the most bows on the exchange. Os all fickle people in the world Fortune is the most fickle. Every day she changes her mind, and woe to that man 1 who puts any confidence in what she promises or proposes. She cheers when you go up and she laughs when you come down. Oh, trust not a moment your heart's affections to this changeable world. Anchor your soul in God. From Crist’s love gather your joy. Then come sorrow or gladness, success or defeat, riches or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or sickness, life or death, time or eternity, all are yours and we are Christ’s and Christ is God's. Learn also from my subject the comforting truth that afflictions are arrested as soon as they have accomplished their mission. For seven years did Nebuchadnezzar dwell among the beasts of the field, but at the expiration of that time his reason returned, and as soon as with proper humility he acknowledged the God of Heaven he was brought back to his palace and reinstated in his former affluence and power. Now it does seem that when heavy trials come upon us it is as though they had no limit. We exclaim, "AH thy waves and thy billows have gone over me;” but forget that the depth ot that sea and tbe power of that billow are definitely determined. The defeats and sorrows of life have sometimes been the greatest advantage. It was because Dante failed as a statesman that he gave up politics and wrote his immortal “Divlnia Commedia.” It was a violent thunderstorm that first set Martin Luther seriously thinking, and the thunder of this world’s disaster has started many a reformation. James "3. Simpson went from a surgeon’s operating table to experiment and see if he could not find something that would alleviate human pain, and he kept on until he had discovered chloroform as an antesthetlc, and the story of distress has almost always been followed by the Story of rescue. , For many years after Shakspeare’s death his work was so little appreciated that in 1606 there was only one edition of his works, and that of only 300 copies, in existence, and that edition was nearly all burned in the great London tiro. But forty-eight copies had been sold out of the city, and those forty-eight copies saved Shakspoare for all nations and alt time. Your suppression on a smalleg scale may last a good while, but for all you are worth you will yet shine out on earth oj in Heaven. Again, learn from my subject that connected with the most distressing judgments of God there are displays of divine mercy. God might justly have left Nebuchadnezzar in the field, but infinite compassion brought him back to the palace. No sooner was Eden blasted than a blessing followed on the hoots of the curse promising the coming of One who would destroy sin and make the whole world a paradise. The deluge descends, but not until Noah had invited the people into the ark, The destroying angel comes upon Egypt for the smiting Os the first born, but left unmolested every house whose door was sprinkled with the blood of sacrifice. , Fiery tempests beardoWn upon Sodom, ■

but not until two angels have warned Lot and his family to flee from the destruction. Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, but not until Jeremiah had sounded an alarm, bidding them turn from their abominations. On the darkest cloud of wrath there is a rainbow of mercy. Zechariah in bls prophetic vision beheld four chariots, symbolical of God’s government The first chariot was drawn by red horses. They indicated the wars that were coming. The second chariot was drawn by black horses. They Indicated tbe coining of a famine and pestilence. The third chariot was drawn by white horses. They Indicated the spotless purity of his conquests. But mark well that the fourth chariot was drawn by horses “gristed and bay,” denoting that mercy was mixed with all the desolating judgments of God. Sinai cannot thunder so loud as to drown the invitations of Calvary. Tbe Lori irtters the admonition, “Tbe wages of sin is death.” but oxhaustless mercy responds, "Deliver him from going down to tbe pit, for I have found a ransom.” Hide theo quick in the rock, Christ Jesus. Let not this Insignificant “Now” absorb thee more than the great hereafter. The path leading to this side of the grave is only a few furlongs, but the path which commences at tbe other side of it is without end. The powers of darkness gather about your soul, and the temptations of an evil heart and the alurements of tbe world I know are trying to drown the voice of the preacher, but taking hold of tbe silver trumpet of the Gospel which made Felix tremble, and at the Pentecost brought 3,000 souls out ot their sepulcher, I would blow one long, loud blast, crying, “Whosoever will, let him come.” Take this goodly religion which has done so much for me that I can commend it all. Without it I should have gone the whale downward career. Stolid and phlegmatic natures going astray do not go so far, but natures like mine, sanguine. intense, emotional, optimistic, social to the last degree and echoing to all the heights and depths of mirtb, they get off the track they go with one wild leap to hell. As to the restraining power of this religion upon a mercurial temperament, I testify. This is not abstraction or something gotten from books. I speak of what 1 know. Go out and as.t all who have tried this religion and ask them how it works. Three young men In a factory came out on the Lord’s side, but two of them, overcome by the jeers of their comrades, went back and joined the scoffers. The one held on to his Christian hope, and one day when they pressed him hard and were telling how much infidelity had done for the world, and that Christianity had done nothing, the persecuted Christian turned upon them, and pointing to Henry and George, who had for a little while followed Christ, and then turned back, he said: “You have tried your principles on them and know what they have done for them. When they tried to serve Christ they werq civil, good tempered, kind husbands and fathers. They were cheerful, industrious and ready to oblige. What have you made them? Look i|nd see. They are cast down and, cross; their mouths are full of cursing and filthiness; they are drunk every week; their children halt clothed, their wives broken hearted, their homes wretched. That is what y.dur principles have done. Now I have tried Christ and His religion and what has it done for me 9 You know well what I used to be. Then was none ot you that could drink so much, swear so desperately and fight masterly. I had no money and hobody would trust me. My wife was ill used, I was ill humored, hateful, and hating. What has religion done for me? Thank God, I am not afraid to put it to you. Am I not a happier man than I was? Am I not a better workman and a kinder companion? Would I once have put up with what I now bear from you? I could beat any of you as easily now as ever,. Why don’t I? Do you ever hear a foul word from my mouth’ Do you catch me at a public house? |Has anybody a score against me? Go and ask my neighbor if I am not altered for the better. Go and ask my wife. Let my house bear witness. God be praised, here is what Christianity has done for me; there is what infidelity has done for Henry and George.” Out of this audience I could gather a thousand men and women who could tell you us thrilling a story as that as to what religion has done for them. Yea, if times of persecution should come as of old, and they may come, there are a thousand here who would for Christ’s sake as cheerfully walk into the furnace of fire as though it were an arbor of thyme and honeysuckle, and face the lions as though they were lambs frisking on the hillside, and wade down into the deep Waters which are to submerge them as happily as ever atNarragansettbeach they took the surf at a summer bathing. Come up and join those on the way to a palace. What an absurd thing for a king to be eating grass. Instead of living on the poor fodder that the world affords come and sit among the princes of God at the royal banquet and hear the bands play: “Eat, O Friends! Drink, O Beloved!” Here is a crown, wear it. Here is a scepter, sway it Here is a throne, mount it. This is your hour, improve IL , Old Gen. Sablemore was very much annoyed by a young man who persisted in visiting his daughter. “I want to tell you now,” said the General one evening, “that you shall not marry my daughter, and that if you ever come here again I’ll maul you unmercifully.” “General, you could not be so cruel as to blight my life and to destroy the happiness of your daughter, could you ?” “Rather than have you for a son-in-law, I would willingly nail my daughter in a box and send her to a crematory. I give you fair warning. 1 I don’t want you to come around here again. Light out or I’ll dust your coat-tails with bird shot.” “Who’s that in the parlor with Jane ?” the General asked of his wife several nights later. “Young Jagle." “What! is that scoundrel here again? Hand me that cane; I’ll go in and maul him out es shape. ” “Do not molest him, General. He is so devoted to Jane that I do not think he can keep away. Better let them marry, for it seems that nothing but death can break his admiration.” The General sat and mused. It was a struggle for him to refrain from striking the persistent fellow, but he wavered. A rain storm came and beat against the house, and twisted the limbs of the great trees in the yard, but still the old General mused. A blinding flash, and then a report that shook the house brought the old man f> his feet Bushing into the parlor he found the young man lying on the floor. The General raised him up. He opened his eyes and said: ' i _ “If you won’t hit me again Hl leave here and never come bhek. I can travel now. Gimme my hat and, tearing himself loose, he ran away, .and came no more. Another evidence of “saved by electricity. "—Arkansaw Traveler. In November, 1880, the telephone service in Paris had onlv 454 sulwcribers; it has now 2,892.. The aggregate length of the wires, which are all under ground, is about 2,187 milca. '*• - __ " ■ ■ . X -A

HUNTING THE ELK. Royal Sport In <he Fieiure.que Walleys ot the Far M e,t. Here is a specimen story, byway of Illustrating the sport to Ik*enjoyed by hunters In the territory contiguous to Port Crescent: William Ginger,who Ilves about five miles above Beaver prairie, on the Soleduck River, took ills rifle from the cedar pegs over the dooron which It rested and meandered forth to slay or be slain. In Mr. Ginger the Instinct of the huntsman is largely developed, and he sniffed sport in the air that morning—anil then he “saw signs,” too, that convinced him that there was what the picturesque Georgian would call “oodles” of elk in his Immediate neighborhood. The mountains that form the background for Mr. Ginger’s homestead had been covered with snow for several days, and more snow, and considerable of It, had fallen on the rahtfe the previous evening and the air was deliciously crisp. There were tracks-elk tracks, and fresh ones, too —all about, and it wasn’t long until the eager Mr. Ginger had struck the trail of what he knew must be a big band of the game he was after. He had gone but a few miles when he caught sight of a band of elk numbering thirty-five, and to his infinite delight they wereslowly passing through a little open valley but a short distance ahead of him, feeding as they went, and all unsuspecting that a rancher with a rifle had camped on their trail. Here was Gunner Ginger’s inning, and be knew what to do with if. Making a detour, he struck In at a point a considerable distance ahead of the band—one that the elks would have to pass as they headed for the mountains. On they ambled gently, while Ginger, his heart in his mouth and his rifle at his shoulder, awaited their approach. The leader of the herd, a big, noble fellow, with all the pride of his brief tailed race centered in his antler adorned head, came within range and died. But he didn’t die the death of a common, sorrel bellied, short legged plug. His death struggle was a dramatic piece of business, from which Sarah Bernhardt could filch points for her Camille. The bullet struck his kingship just above the heart. Springing into the air with a wild cry, that rang through the valley and was echoed back from the cliffs, he staggered along for twenty feet on his hind legs, and, then whirling and facing the startled creatures that kuew him as their leader, he tossed his beautiful head aloft, proud but tottering monarch that he was, and with a second warning cry he reeled forward and fell among his herd, every member of which, quivering with a nameless terror, sprang past him a moment later, in a wild dash for life and safety. Three times in rapid succession Mr. Ginger’s rifle again rang out, and before the fleeing band had passed three elk were lying dead along the trail to keep their fallen leader company. Delighted with his day’s success, the hunter went home, taking with him some choice cuts of elk steak. The next day, with a neighbor, Carl Oburg, he returned to the woods to pack home as muefl ot the best portions of the elk he had killed as,they could —Port Crescent Leader. A Jerusalem Hostelry. In Jerusalem the finest, and, in fact, the only, hotel is kept and owned by a Philadelphian. Several years ago he visited the ancient £ity . and saw that a good hotel would pay, and he at once erected a first-class hostelry. Pilgrims from every land bound for Jerusalem were only too glad to find a clean, comfortable hotel so far away from home, and it is now royally patronized by travelers. Guides are kept who are experts in Biblical history and who pilot guests to all points of interest. The discussions around the hotel tables, in which Moses, Jacob. Pharoah, Paul, John and other figures of sacred history form the chief staple of conversation, are s.ud to resemble very much those of a minister's weekly meeting. —Philadelphia Record. Before he killed himself Boulanger considerately discharged all of his debts, but he overlooked the author of “The Boulanger March.” Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. Trains run on Central Standard Time. 28 minutes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Sunday, Deo. 13,1891. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati., lve ... ... 810 am 880 pm Richmond 220 pm 10 55 .. 11 3ft Winchester.... 317.. 11 o 5 .. 1235 am Portland 4 04.. 1235 pm 118 Decatur 510.. 131 .. 221 Ft. Wayne... arr 600 .. 215.. 3 05.. ........ " ** . Ive 235 .. 325 .. 8 05am Kendallville 3 41.. 4 30.. 910 .. Rome City 3 56.. 4 47.. 926 .. Wolcottville 401 ~ 453 .. 981 .. Valentine 411 .. ....... 9 43.. LaGrange 420 .. 511 .. 9 51.. Lima.s7 .. 431 .. 524 .. 10 03 .. Sturgis 4 43,. 537.. 10 19.. Vicksburg...... ........ 539.. 631.. 1118.. Kalamazoo. arr •' 06 .. 700 .. 11 50 .. ..lve 34cam 625.. 7 20... 1210 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 5 15.. 8 10.. 9 20.. 2 00.. “ K ..lve 706 .. 1030 ..1130 4 Ift .. D., G.H.&M.or 7 20.. 1045 .. 1145.. 4 28.. Howard City... 8 80.. II 50 . 110 pm 75 40.. Rig Rapids 918.. l.’lWam 201.. 852.. Reed City 9 52.. I<«.. 2 80.. 7 30.. Cadillac arr 1100.. 2 05.. 4 06.. -9 00.. “ .... lve 215 .. 415 .. 910.. Traverse City 6 85.. 10 45.. Kalkaska .... 344 .. 620.. . Petoskey 540 .. 820 Mackinac City TOO.. 8,45 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. « No. 8 Mackinac City. 850 pm 745 am ..... ... Petoskey 10 20 .. oos Kalkaska 1227 am 11 06 ..... Traverse City 10 45 6 30am Cadillac ... .arr 215 .. 1255 pm 80ft .. “ ...lve 226 . 125 .. 646 pm B’lo.. Reed City 331.. 2 20.. 750 . 920.. Illg Rapids 4,00.. 301.. 825 . 9 45.. Howard City.. 451.. 353 .. 820. I 0 ??'- D..G.H.&M.cr 6 06.. 515 .. 10 25. 1135 .. Gr. Rapids.arr 6 29.. 6 30.. 10 11 53.. “ “ ..lve 7 00.. 600.. 1105.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 60.. 8 00.. 1230 am 340 .. “ ..IVC 856 .. 805 346 .. Vicksburg 9 24.. 8 83., 4 13.. StUrgls 1019 .. 926 .. 507 .. Lima 10 33.. 940 517.. LaGrange.... 10 44 .. 052 . ~ 529.. Valentino; .. «!».. t 002.. .r.T.,.. 5 37.. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 5 46.. Rome City 1108 .. 10 19 »M.. Kendallville... 1125 .. NW «06.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 1160 Tlo .. “ " ..lve 100.. LlOiim 845 am, Decatur 146.. 12 51.. 630 Portland 240.. 163.. 730 Winchester.... 317.. 2118.; 808 Richmond 430.. 340 . 9M1.. Cincinnati 700 .. 6 M Wlpm Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. , a L. LOCKWOOD. Gen. Pass. Agent. JEFF. BRYSON, Agent,' Deqatur, Ind.

' Business Directory. THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. * Capitol, 850,000. Hurplu.,'Blo,ooo. Orgonlzed August 15,1853. T. Barwlit PrwMentt P.W VlowPreeMcnt: B. 8. Peterson, Caehler: T.Z I DorWInJF. W. flmlth, Henry Derkea, J. H. Kot i Brook, B. J. Terveor, J. D. Hale aa4 B. 8. FW toraoa. Dtreotore. We are prepared to make Loans on reed mow rlty, scoelve Deposits, furuisk Domestic u>4 . Foreign Exchange, buy and seU Government and Municipal Bonds, and furnish letters es ' Credit araUable In nny of the principal cities es Europe. Aho Pmsage Tickets to and from the Old World, inoludbsg transportattoa to Demtur. Adams County Bank Capital, 876,000. Surplus, 875,000. Organized In 1871. Officers—D. Studabaker. President: Robt. B. , Allison.Vloe-Presldent; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parts of the country. County, Cfty and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and ■old. Interest paid on time deposits. SC. XamEtllTTK. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, XxxcL. Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time.. Prices reasonable. Jamea H. Bobo, .A.ttoi’S.ey* At X.A w Paul G. Hooper, At XjA'W’ AXseatwr, • XnM— a. aawts, n. a. aa««,«. a ERWTN A MANN, ▲TTOBVSTS - AT - LAW, And Notaries PwbHc. Pension Claims Prosecuted. Office In Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind tTBANCa * MBBBYMAN. 1. «. paawoa. A? 1.1. tmmi A.ttonxoy-Mi Xa*'w > DBCATUB, IKDLUta. Office Nos. L 3 and 8, over the Adams Oouaty Bank. Collections a specialty. j£UMU MOVBE. L A. MIESSI, Froprlstsa Decatur, lad. Losation Central-Opposite Court Bonm. Iks lending hotel Ln ths city. •. T. May. M. D. Pixy mloianxidb Murgeon ■sarse, ... Indiana. AH calls promptly attended to day or night Office at resldenoo. Kent K. Wheelock, M. D., EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST 94 Calhoun-st. Fort Warne, Ind. JJBV. D. NEUENSCHWANDER, M. D. HOMBOPATHIST. Berns, ... Xndtana. Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A. ». HOLLOWAY, Pixy wiciaii c*> Surgeon 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.

ID FULL BLAST I OURANMUAL Clearance Sale Is now in full blast and is drawing the trade to our house. For THIRTY DAYS We offers our entire stock of O V E Ft CO ATS —— WINTEILAJLOTHING. When in Fort Wayne step into our bouse. No better investment could be made than purchasing an Overcoat or Suit at our reduce prices. PIXLEY CO.. 16 and 18 East Beery Street, Fort Wayne. QUEEN'S FRENCH DISCOVERIES. wonderful than KOCH’S LYMPH. Discovered by the greatest French Scientist* TRIED.TESTED and INDORSED by the people of all Europe. SIOO will be paid for any case of failure or the slightest injury. DRUNKENNESS hair on fare V II U 11 II » 11 II » If V or any part rtf the person quickly Or liquor habit positively cured and / diywhrd Mid permanently removed the taste for liquor fotever destroyed f \ discovery without the knowledge of Patient by I ) QUtc“ 3* ANTrH AI4 'N t a<-tun-administering QUEENS SPECIFIC. -T pound we warrant to destroy the HARMLESS and TASTELESS. Can '®\ growth forever. It causesno be given in a cup of teaorcoflee. It/ jMEfe. ~ \wi I never injure or discolor the nvst never fails. Hundred* Cared. WWfe « Apply torn few mnut.s anteed Care In Every Case. Price s2l®. jEsWgSZ-- <T Md the bur disappears if by m-reic. a Bos. Sent free from observwtmn.m Price. POO per package Sent tree receipt of price with full directions; WXMMgW* «f on receipt ot n ? CT. by Express C. O. L>. pr by mail, post- I . J »' th - fu ‘‘ ■Lrecttons. by F.xprea.r. O age paid by us. p - or mail P l“ ld b > "»• With every Wderwe «dl boxtfFLDRA SK|N BBAUTIFIER FDCF Remit by PO.Order .v Re, Ist. r. TotaSere prompt delivery give fiuTSaacMa; kuDdlyaenUMithis paper. I Sb lbw iT-tter. Postage sfiuui •> iwu Q UE fcjj O || E m ML Bfl ff 4 STHEET CINCINNATI, ■" z . . . j, I nd ianapoi is Busi nessU n i versitY OLD BBTAOT& STRATTON. NORTH PBNNSTLVAKU ST.. WHIN BLOCS. OPTOSM FOST-OWlOa. THE,, HICHES-r CRADE BUSINESS AND SHORTHAND SCHOOL. Esuwisned USD; open all the year tenter any Unto; individual instruction; lectures -targe acuity; time short; expense, low: no fee for Diploma; a.trietly BusinessSchooliu an unrivaled com-' meretal center: endorsed and patronised by railroad, industrial, professional and business men who employ skilled help: no Cham for posltloaa; nncqualcd in the success of its graduates. SaiD FOR ELEGANT UTAL® riEOB & OSBORN, Proprietors, j

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