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CHAPTER XXl.—Continued. The truth wee Paxton’s assistant had rapped upon the door, and he alone was there. When the old woman had unlocked the door, Paxton opened It, and as he was about to leave he said, mockingly: “Good evening, Mrs. Kitts, I trust you will find your accounts all right." And turning to the man he added: “Much obliged to you, my friend, for your kindly intention of plunging your knife into my bfck, but I’ve a constitutional prejudice against such little pleasantries.” The next moment the door closed behind Paxton, and he and his assistant hurried away. „ “Defeat, defeat, nothing but defeatl" the detective disconsolately. But when they were at a safe distance, he asked of his comrade: “In the name of all mundane wonders, how came you to discover that my disguise was penetrated?" “There is a window in the side of the room back of the one in which you were. When tho old woman went into the rear room I was at the window, and through an opening in the blind I saw her tell the man who was there something. “He sprang up, and drawing his knife, started tor the door. Though I couldn’t hear a word, I knew well enough that the old woman had discovered you were not Crawley, and told the man, who, acting upon the Impulse of the moment, meant to attack you. “As the man euwang forward, the old woman caught his arm and spoke to him, so I knew she objected to an Immediate or precipitate attack. “I glided to the window at which you were seated beside the desk, and telegraphed you when I saw the wretch stealing behind you with his knife drawn. Thus Paxton’s assistant explained. “You saved my life," answered Paxton, earnestly, and he continued: “It is disheartening to find that all my care and labor in perfecting the disguise, in creating this character, is lost. I begin to think that in this case an adverse fate shadows my every step; I am at least experiencing a run of ill-luck." As he spoke the detective paused under a street lamp, and producing the letter which he had found in tho house from which he had just escaped, he told his companion how he came by it, and then proceeded to read it. . The letter ran as follows: “Mbs. Kitts: If anything should occur to make .you think the girl is not safe with you, get her to Malvin’s. Your friend,. L.K.” “L. K., Levi Kredge. This is too good to be true. I recognize the rascally janitor’s handwriting. Kredge wrote this note, I am sure of that. By the girl he means Marlon Oakburn. Sinje she Is no longer at Mrs. Kitts’, I suspect she has been sent to Malvin’s, in accordance with the janitor’s instructions.” Thus said Paxton: "Malvin’sl Malvin’s!” muttered his comrade, reflectingly. “Do you know the place?" asked Paxton. 'The name sounds familiar." “Bansack your memory. Try and recollect if you have any knowledge of the party culled Malvin.” Paxton's companion was silent for a moment, and then he exclaimed: “I have it! I know where Malvin is. This confirms a suspicion of mine." “Explain. Who is this Malvin? Where does ho "dwell?” “He is a man lately from my native elty, Philadelphia, who was formerly a criminal. He was said to have reformed, and he came to New York. “I haven’t heard his name in a long time until the other day, when I chanced to see It on a bail-bond in the Criminal Court. I asked some questions, and learned that Malvin was in the habit of going bail for criminals. It is my suspicion that he Is still secretly leagued with the dangerous characters of this and other cities. He lives in Harlem, No. —w- 8 street." “Good. This is most fortunate. My disguise may serve me well after all. Now I remember when I called at Ajax Crawley’s office I found a letter on his desk addressed to Wilkes Malvin, Harlem, but I do not recollect the street and number,” said Paxton. , “Wilkes Malvin is our man," answered 'the other. - “Then Ajax Crawley has business with him or he would not have addressed him a letter. No time like the present. I’ll visit this Malvin as Ajax Crawley,” continued Paxton.• The two detectives took a car to Harlem, and Boon reached tho residence of the man they now believed to be in league with Levi Kredge. After giving his associate some instructions Paxton rang the bell, and he p*was admitted to Malvin’s house. Paxton’s assistant experienced some misgivings as ho saw the door close behln I his principal. Malvin himself admitted Paxton, and, .deceived by his perfect disguise, ushered Kim into the house, addressing him as Ajax Crawley. The man led the way to an Interior apartment, and, opening the door, disclosed an assemblage of half a dozen men. . * At one glance Paxton recognized them .M desperate men, well known to the police, but who managed to keep beyond Uhe reach’of the law. Among tho selected company the de--teotivo saw Levi Kredge, the janitor. Paxton was well aware that every than In the room hated and feared him, and it ■was an experience to try his nerves 'as he was ushered into the midst of this company of foes, for he knew that every moment he was among them was fraught with deadly peril. Meanwhile, concealed without, the defective’s agent watched and waited, but aS the time went byand Paxton’s stay, in the house was unreasonably prolonged he became anxious, and he said -to himself: “Can it be that they have led him into j»me trap?" Even as he thus reflected he heard the sound of some commotion in tho house. . * CHAPTER XXII. When Malvin ushered Paxton into the .apartment where half a dozen men, including tho janitor. Levi Kredge, were Assembled, he introduced the detective Ao the company as his lawyer, Mr. Ajax Crawloy. The introduction was mutually acI knowlcdgcd in . most gentlemanly way. I Thon Malvin drew Paxton aside, and I while the others resumed the conversa-l-tton, which hod been interrupted by toe ME- . ■fe -iiV

entrance of the disguised detective, Malvin said: “I expected you would drop me a line to-day.! - i “I wrote yon. Strange if you did not receive my letter," answered Paxton. “Well, Idid not receive it. But tell me, how about Andrews’ case?" Paxton felt that he was in deep water, but he knew that if he hesitated he was betrayed, and so he promptly replied: “I think we shall fix it all right, pro rata." Malvin regarded tho detective with a look of amazement. Paxton comprehended that ho must I have made a mistake In this answer. “What has so completely changed your opinion? Didn’t you tell me there was no possibility of getting the sentence commuted?” the other asked. The detective saw his way again. He replied: “Yes. But since I saw you I’ve made the acquaintance of a local politician ‘ who Is a power with the authorities, and he has promised to use his influence to secure the clemency of the law for Andrews. Beyond the poese comltatus is our hope." He had not forgotten Crawley’s fondness for using law Latin terms, whether correctly or otherwise. “This is good news. You are a trump, Crawley. You have taken a weight off my mind. Andrews might have made some ugly disclosures if we did not help i him cheat the hangman." “I thought you were anxious about the matter, for in my note I told you to call at my office to-day. I had an idea my letter might have failed to reach you." i “I should have been to the office If I j had heard from you,” answered Malvin. ; At that moment a colored waiter an- : nounced supper, and Malvin said: “You have dropped in just in time. 11 am giving a supper to a few of my select friends. There will be plenty to drink. Will you join us at the table?" “Certainly; I am not non compos mentis. When was I ever known to decline such an offer?” Thus answered the pretended lawyer, and his host conducted him and his other guests into a spacious diningroom at the other end of the hall upon which the street door opened. The table was resplendent with silver and cut-glass. At each plate several bottles of wine ' had been placed, and upon an elaborately carved sideboard there was a col- ■ lection of stronger liquors of all kinds. As the company was becoming seated at the table, a colored woman entered i and whispered to Malvin. What the woman said the detective I did not hear, although he was' on the alert and tried to catch her words. But he heard Malvin’s answer: “Let her make all" the noise she chooses, she cannot bo heard beyond the walls of the house.” Paxton smiled. “I was right in thinking I should find ; Marion Oakburn here. She is the female captive who must be imprisoned ! here,” he thought. ■ , Ho knew, however, that there was a possibility that he was mistaken in the j identity of the female captive. “I'll find out the truth before the' night is over. Everything is working to suit me, and this supper invitation has given me an idea. I’ll personate the character of Ajax Crawley to the letter, and get stupidly intoxicated, in appearance. They will be obliged to stow me away somewhere to sleep off my drunk, and thus I may gain an opportunity to search the house.” Thus Paxton reflected. He acted his part perfectly. As Ajax Crawley naturally would have done, under similar circumstances, Paxton drank, or, what amounted to the same thing, seemed to drink very freely. Finally, after passing through the various stages of intoxication with all the skill of a veteran impersonator of such characters, he fell across the table in a well-feigned drunken stupor. “Here, Dan and William, put this sot to bed," ordered Malvin. A couple of burly colored men responded to Malvin’s call, and, lifting the detective between them, in a by no means gentle manner, they carried him up stairs and deposited him on a bed to a little hall sleeping-room, and left him. The detective had heard Malvin and his companions express their determination to “make a night of it," and he knew, therefore, that it was useless to wait for them to retire before commencing his search for the girl captive, whom he believed to be beneath that j roof. ' Perhaps half an hour elapsed, and then Taxton arose and crept forth from the room where the negroes had deposited him, and gained the hall. A gas jet in the rear end of the hall burned dimly; but Its light enabled the detective to see his way. He listened for a moment, and he heard the sounds of revelry from the dining hall below. His acute ear also presently caught another sound, which seemed to emanate from above his head. The bpllding was an ordinary threestory structure. In a inoment or so Paxton was convlnced that the sound which came from the third story was the muffled sound of blows, such as might be made by some one pounding on a door with naked hands. He surmised that he should find the captive whom he thought to be an inmate of the house, in some apartment on the next story. He silently glided up the stairs and gained the hall above. He almost instantly located the sound Which he had heard, and gained the door upon which some one who occupied the apartment to which it led was pounding. The detective tried this door, but as he had expected, he found it looked. He habitually carried a bunch of keys in anticipation of such emergencies as this, and with the aid of a key of this bunch, he was not long in opening the door. Quickly he stepped inside, closed the : door, and placed his back against it. Paxton found himself in a small windowless rooqi, face to face with Marlon Oakburn., In the Character of Ajax Crawley the ■ detective was not calculated to Inspire confidence. i Os course Marion did not penetrate his disguise. * At his appearance she retreated with an exclamation of fear. i Her face was deathly pale, and her • features worn an expression of fright i “Hushl" cried Paxton, and then in a i low voice he told Marion who he was. : She uttered a glad exclamation as she recognized his natural tone of voice. "Oh, how thankful I am that you have , come. I prayed for deliverance, fori I am o-prisoner, held a captive here by ■ sordid wretches. You must save me. I ; am ready to explain all you wish to

know. I will correct a terrible mistake. I will save Stuart Harland's life,” said I Marion, In intense tones that thrilled her hearer. ]lt seemed that In the excitement of tho moment the words rushed from her lips unbidden, and that she scarcely realized their Import. She trembled from head to foot. Paxton answered her hastily: “You may depend upon me to save you if I can. You can repay me by lifting the veil of mystery which has shrouded your conduct. Come, we will attempt to escape from this house without delay, while ita Inmates are at table.” He cautiously opened the door and listened. i Still the sound of loud voices, laughter and the merry clink of glasses was wafted to his ears from the dining hail, where the revelry was still going on. Paxton took Marlon’s hand, saying: “We must not make a sound.” They stole from the room, and gained the second story • Here they paused for a moment, and then descended the stairs loading to the ; front door. , But fortune declared against them. ■ As they gained the foot of the stairs, a | negro camo out of the dining-room and saw them. The senant turned back to the dining-room door and shouted an alarm. , Instantly Malvin and his guests came rushing into the hall. Mart n and the detective had gained the street door, but It was doubly locked 1 and bolted. There was no time to open It, for the I key had been removed. “What is this! a traitor in camp!” shouted Malvin, and he and Levi Kredge rushed at Paxton. The odds were more than three to one against the detective, Including the servants. “If I seem to desert you now, It is that I may live to save you,” whispered Paxton to Marion. Then he wade a leap through a door in | the side of the hall leading to the front parlor, just as his foes were about to close In upon him. The detective at that moment of peril thought rapidly, and he had resolved i upon a desperate attempt at escape. i Closing the door of the parlor the instant he had passed through it, he over- ' turned a table against it with a crush I and sprang to a window, which he opened | as Malvin and his confederates burst jnto the room. ■ But the way of escape was not yet open to Paxton. A pair of heavy shutters barred his flight through the window. chapter xxrrr. Meanwhile Paxton’s assistant, who had remained in the street, became in- ■ tensely excited and solicitous in his • principal’s behalf as he listened to the [ commotion which was taking place in | Malvin’s house. He heard men’s angry voices, the slamming of doors, and a heavy crash as of j falling furniture, but above all the din 1 a woman’s voice rang out in a frightened scream. 1 “Why does he not give the signal if 'he needs me? The last instruction he ’ gave me was not to show myself unless I heard his whistle,” thought the detective’s assistant. An instant subsequently, with a crash, the blind which protected the front window of Malvin’s residence was dashed . open, and through the opening a dark ! form leaped down ten feet to the pavement below. “Paxton!” exclaimed the detective’s ■ assistant, recognizing his principal. I The latter had alighted on his feet uni hurt. i At tho instant when the enemies he I had encountered in the house were rushing at him in the parlor after he had I opened the window, he sprang back, and ' taking a running leap crashed through the Intricately fashioned blinds, as we have seen. Marion t Oakburn uttered the shriek which Paxton’s assistant had heard. While Malvin, Kredge, and the other white men pursued the detective, in obedience to an order from Kredge, two of the colored servants* had seized Marion and dragged her back to the room whence she had escaped. Then it was she uttered a scream of terror. Marion’S despairing cry rang in the detective’s ear, and the thought that he was powerless to render her assistance almost maddened him. “If those miscreants harm one hair of her head they shall pay dearly for their work!" he cried. . Paxton saw that the street, which was an isolated one, was desertejl. No police assistance was at hand, and yet he knew that only prompt and rapid action could avail to accomplish his I purpose, which was the rescue of Marion and the capture of Levi Kredge. He did not pause an instant. “Watch the house and shadow the villains if they attempt to remove the girl,” he said, and then he darted away. He was going for help, as his assistant understood. Paxton’s auxiliary darted across the street, and concealed himself in an alley just as the door of Malvin’s house i opened, giving egress to Kredge, Malvin, and several others. They saw Paxton, who was running like the wind, but they did not discover his agent. “The spy has escaped!” cried Kredge. “Yes. Given us the slip after we had him in our hands,” said Malvin, regretfully. Seeing pursuit would be useless, and fearing to call the attention of the police, they re-entered the house and closed the door. “The fellow will return with help. He’ll be sure to seach the house. The girl must bo hurried away, and I must not delay in fleeing myself,” said Kredge. “You are right. The girl must not b.e found here," assented Malvin. His guest hurried away. None of them wished to be present when the man who had escaped returned with the police, as they believed he soon would do. Paxton’s assistant saw the men leave the house, but he did not desert his post. Malvin was a man of resource and forethought. He instructed one ,of his guests before the fellow left, to send a cab in haste from the nearest stand. A few moments subsequently, a carriage was driven up> to the door of the house. Paxton’s auxiliary was on the alert now. “They mean to carry Marion Oakburn away in that carriage," he said men--1 tally. »• Even while this thought was in his i mind, It was verified. The door of the house again opened, and he saw a female form carried by . tWo men, one of whom he recognized as Levi Kredge, brought out of the house and placed In the carriage. > The janitor and the other entered the vehicle with their captive, and it was > rapidly driven away. The detective’s agent said to himself: i “I’ll try the old dodge.” He Immediately pursued the carriage, • and sprang upon the rear springe, when he overtook the vehicle. i The detective’s auxiliary had ridden but a block or two, when suddenly he i received a heavy blow on the head, and he fell stunned and bleeding upon the > ground, while the carriage dashed on- [ ward. . _ r While these Incidents occurred, Pax- [ ton had succeeded in getting the asslst- > once of four police officer*. ,

As soon as possible he returned to I Malvin’s house, almost breathloHs with hard running, and he was closely followed by the nollej officers. He ran to the entrance of the alley whore he had left his agent, and failing to discover him, he called his name. Os course he received no reply. “I comprehend. The rascals have made off with the girl, and Bayer has followed them!” cried Paxton. His assistant on tho present occasion .was the man Bayer, whom wo hud occasion to previously name. Although Paxton was quite confident that it would be a fruitless proceeding, he determined to search the house. In answer to his demand for admission a colored man opened the door. This one negro was tho only person found in the house and from him Paxton was unable to gain any Information. He professed entire ignorance as to the whereabouts of any of the recent inmates of the house. “There is nothing for it but to return to my office and await Sayer’s return. He will trail Marion Oakburn to the new hiding place to which she has been taken,” cried Paxton when the search of the house was concluded. He dismissed the police and returned to his own quarters. Meanwhile, but a few moments after Paxton and the police left Malvin’s, Sayer, who bad sufficiently recovered to do so, returned .to his old hiding place in the alley. The blow which he had received had been dealt by Levi Kredge. The janitor discovered him perched on the carriage springs, and clubbing his pistol, he reached through the window in the rear of the vehicle, and dealt the b ow which felled the detective’s agent to the ground. After waiting in the alley for a reasonable length of time, Sayer, concluded that he had missed his principal, and so be made his way to the office and reported. Paxton’s disappointment may be imagined. “We have lost the trail completely this time, unless the carriage and the driver of the vehicle can be Identified. Did you notice the number of the cab?" he asked. • “Yes. It was number 1111." “Find that cab in the morning, and then report,” ordered Paxton, and then he dismissed his agent. Sayer made an investigation relating to the discovery of cab No. 1111, and the result was that he obtained trustworthy information that the cab licensed under that number was not out at all the preceding night. • The detective’s agent was forced to the conclusion that the cab in which Marion had been carried away was one of those unlicensed vehicles called “Night Hawks,” which in violation of a city ordinance are driven by night, and upon which a different number is traced every nighty or even more frequently, order to baffle the police. As usual Paxton received a call from his patron, Mr. Stanmore, the next day, and the two discussed the situation now presented by the perplexing mystery in which they were both so deeply interested. Stanmore seemed even more anxious than ever for Marion’s safety. Paxton assured him that despite her mysterious conduct at the house of Mrs. Kitt, the cashier’s daughter was now really a captive in the power of Levi Kredge and his confederates. “I knew she had been abducted!” cried, stanmore. Then Paxton told him of his brief interview with Marion in Man in’s house, and he repeated her words exactly. Stanmore sprang to ’his feet and excitedly made the transit of the room several times while he muttered: , “I would give all my fortune to save her!” “Ah!” thought Paxton. “I wonder what your secret is, friend Stanmore. it’s clear you take a surprising interest in this girl. If I mistake not there is a mystery of the past behind your conduct.” Stanmore knew not that his thoughts had found expression in words. The interview lasted for tome time. While Paxton and his agent were thereafter continuing the quest for Levi Kredge and Marion Oakburn, Stuart Harland was wandering about the dity day and night, hoping he might chance to meet the supposed assassin who had exchanged coats with him on the railway train. ’ 9 [to bb continved.] Timely Hint. In some small parishes where the minister has no regular salary, but depends upon the contributions of his thin congregation for support, It undoubtedly seems a little hard at times that the parishioners are so much more ready to provide for the heathen id far-off lands than for the poor ' clergyman who faithfully preaches to and visits them year after year. Parson Cliff had an invalid wife and a large family, but. though some of his parishioners were well-to-do, and respected him highly, they were often, dn their zeal for the heathen, forgetful of their duty nearer home. The old meeting-house was badly in want of repair, and the minister’s ' family were in need of many things; but as the house could not complain, l and the family did not, the “Burmese Gleaners” society absorbed all the 1 zeal that was available in the parish, as well as most of the funds that could be raised. ' “They’re only thoughtless, my dear,” the minister patiently exi plained to his wife one day. “But I think, perhaps, it will do no harm, now that matters have gone so far, ■ for me to give them a little hint 1 next Sabbath as' to the way things 1 stand. I would not wish to take , from the heathen, but ■” i The pastor never finished his sentence, put the next Sunday morning I he said, as he buttoned his thread- > bare coat closer about his spare ’ form: “Brethren and sisters. I have no- ’ ticed that some members of the congregation are shivering from the t cold. I would gladly have replaced the broken pane of glass in the wini dow directly behind me weeks ago, ■ but no rags could be spared from the family wardrobe. The collection for ’ foreign missions will now be taken up, after which we will sing the misr sionhry hymn!" i The pastor received a number of i calls during the week wnich followed, in the course of which his heart was 1 made much lighter and his purse ' heavier, and at the next meeting of . the Burmese Gleaners it was voted that a portion of the sum raised each month was to be reserved for i home missions. — Youth’s • Companion. * '. , . i English statesmen are trying to l find some means of protecting that > country from typhus from America. ,r The best way would be a thorough inspection of her emigrants to this ' country to prevent it being canted over here. • k ■ ...

Business Directory. THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital, SSU.OOO. Bntplnn, *IO,OOO. Orgoulzed Anguit IS, 18*3. OMooro T. T. Darwin. Preaident i P.WAmtth, Vtoe-Preeldent; R. 8. Patoraon, Cashier: T.T. Dortrln, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkea, J. H. Rj4brook, B. J. Terveer, J. D. Hale and B, S. P* tereon, Dlrootort. We are prepared to make Loaneon foodoeoo rtty, rvwelve Depoalta, furniah Domestic and Foreirn Rrcbanre, buy and sell Government and Municipal Hoads, aud furnish Letters of CTOdlt available in any of the principal cities of Europe. Also PaseafO Tickets to and from the 014 World, inoludla* traasportattoa ts MKMbCUJt Adams County Bank Capital, *75,000. Surplus, (75,000. Organized In 1871. Offloers—D. Btudabaker, President: Bobt B. Allison.Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking bualneae. Collections made in all parts of the country. County, City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time depouts. Taul O. Hooper, Attorxxey at XsaxTv MB. SC. XaoBTR.TTKT. ■ / Veterinary Surgeon, lASoxxxroA, Xxxd. •uoeessfully treats all diseases of Horses and Catti*. Will respond to calls sd any tisasu Priosß mason a bls ~ ' — ■swu, n. x, nan, ». t ERWIN A MANN, ▲TTOBBITS -AT - LAW. And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted. Oflco in Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. IRRANd A MXBRTMAM. J. T. PBAVCM. A? g, «. MMUTMAM ▲ttorxioyai Xadb-ww* DBCATun. mixna. OSes Nos. 1. > and 8, over tho Adams ConnW Bank. Collections a specialty. j£UE*BR ROVBE, L J. MIEBBE, Proprletas. Deoatur, lad. Location Osntral-Oppostte Court Hoasa T*s laadfa* hotel la tho city. «. xxrruxi ’ • DENTTST. Now located over Holtbouss’s shoo store, sad Is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dess, taf profession. Gold ftUing a specialty. By the ass of Mayo's Vapor hs is enabled to extract tooth without pain. AH work warranted. Kent K. Wheelock, M. D., EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST M Calhoun-st. Fort Wavne, Ind. D. NEUENSCHWANDKR, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. iternc, “ - Tniiano. Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A.«. HOLLO WAT, FlxirmloiAXX <*» 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. iyyKM- M. L- HOLLOWAY, M. D. Office and residence She door north of M. A church. Diseases of women and children spacial ties.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, Si minutes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Sunday. lan. 10. IbK. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 6 No. 7 Cincinnati..lve 810 am HBOpm Richmond ..... 281 pm HIM.. 1133.. ........ Winchester.... 317.. 11M. l2.V>am Portland 4 04.. IZiinpm 118 Deoatur RIO.. 181.. 221 Kt.Wayne...arr 300.. 21J .. 225 ■ A “ •• ...ive.... ... 235.. 825.. 806 am Kendallville 841 4 30.. 9 10.. Rome City 3M 4 47.. 9 20.. Wolcottville... 401 4 68.. 9 81.. Valentine 411 942>. LaGrange. 420.. 511.. 951.. Lima 431 .. 524 .. 10 08 .. Stiirgis..... 443 .. »37 .. 1019 .. Vicksburg 5(9 631.. 11 18.. Kalamazoo.nrr 6 06.. 7 00.. 1150.. •• ..Ive 845 am 626.. 720.. 1210 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 515.. 810 . 920.. 200.. •• “ . Ive 706.. 1030.. 1130 4 15.. D.,G.H:4M.or 720.. 1045.. 11 45. 428.. Howard City... 836.. 1150 . 110 pm 5 50.. Big Rapids 918 .. 1236 am 201.. 652 .. Heed City 9 52.. I<«.. 2 30.. 7 30.. Cadillac arr 1100.. 2 05.. 406 .. 9 00.. “ ....Ive 215.. 415.. 910.. Traverse City «35.. 10 45.. Kalkaska..., 844.. 620 •pgtaifW":..:. 5 40.. 820 MacklnacClty. 700 .. 245 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 MacklnacClty. 720 pm 745 am Petoskey 910., 905.. Kalkaska...... 1142 * 1106 Traverse City.. 10 45 6 30am Cadillac ... arr 215 am 1255 pm 806 .. " ....Ive 2 25.. 126.. 645 pm 810.. Reed City 331.. 2 20.. 7 60.. 9 20.. Big Rapids.,... 400 .. 801 .. 826 .. 945 .. Howard City.. 451 .. 368 .. 920 .. 10 35 .. D.,G.H 4M.cr 6 05.. 6 15.. 10 25.. 11 35.. Gr. Rapids .arr 623.. 5 80.. 10 40.. 1150.. •* ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 1105.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 1230 am 3 40.. “ ..Ive 856 .. 806 345 .. Vicksburg 924 .. 833 418 .. Sturgis 10 19.. 926 507 .. Lima 10 32 .. 940 517 .. LaGrange ... .10 44.. 952 5 29.. Valentine...... 10 53 .. 10 02 6 37.. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 5 46.. Rome City 1109 .. 10 19 651 .. Kendallville ... 11 25 .. 1039 *06.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 YWy- “ “ ..Ive 100.. 1210 am 5 45am Decatur 1 16.. 12 53.. 630 Portland 2 40.. 153.. 730 Winchester ... 3 17.. 2 38.. 809 Richmond 420 .. 340 .. 915 Cincinnati 71)0.. 6 55. 1201 pm... ■ Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent. JEFF. BRYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind. LOOK HERE! I am here to stay and can sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford te sell them. I sell different makea. CLEAKiNG AND REPAIRING done reasonable Bee me first and lave money. J. T. COOTS,Decatur, 2nd. Scientific American Agency for ,njj II l-T-J B y w J ■! 1 n al J A W ■ J L M 1 Bk k J| trade marks, n?SsHSKrDEsicN patents • COPYRIGHTS, etc. For information and free Handbook write to MUNN & CO.. 361 Broadway, New J ore. Oldest bureau for securing patents in Amenca. Every patent taken out by us is brought before the public by a notice given free of charge m the Scientific Largest cirenlation of any sclentiflc paper in the world. Splendidly illustrated. No In tell tost man .should be without it. Weekly, 53.00« year; 81.50 six months. Address MUNN X CO, VTBUSHKBS, 3K Broadway, New York.

si.oo ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO AND A YEAN S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEEKLYENQUIRER A Decker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, CCSO.OD A Gladiator Watch and Caso 30.00 A Lemaire 24 line Field Glass 20.00 A Ilolman Parallel Bible 13.00 A Venice Parlor Clock 12.00 A High Grade Safety Bicycle 125.00 An Elgin Watch and Boss Case. . . . 25.00 A Haydock Rice Coil Spring) Handy Top Buggy j - • •• A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Case. 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters") --nr. Commercial College f ’ /a,w A Six Octave Champion Organ .... 200.00 A Double Barrel Shot Gun. 30.00 A Silverene Case 7 jewel Watch. . . 10.00 A High Arm Improved Sewing Machine,ss.oo A 15 jewel Watch, Boss Case 35.00 A Five Octave Parlor Organ. . . . . 150.00 A Gladiator Watch, Dueber Case. . . 30.00 A John C. Dueber Watch <fc Case. . . 40.00 And 82 other valuable premiums will be presented to yearly subscrilwra of the Weekly Enquirer in April, 1892. Enclose one dollar for a year’s subscription to the Weekly Enquirer, and GUESS what will be the number of subscribers in the five largest lists received from Nov. 1, ’9l, to March 31, ’92. For same term last winter it was 2999, and the winter before was 1405. The premiums are to be presented to those whose guesses are correct or nearest correct For full list see Weekly Enquirer, now the largest 12 page dollar a year paper in the United States. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. 'jnmig' — Si KI 529 ata 3 t a iVllll SaH First Class Night and Day Service between Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY THAIHS—MODEBH EQUIPMENT THRDUEIODT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. SERVED EN any DAT GR NIQHT, at moderate cost. Ask for tickets fia Toledo, St Louis 1 Kansas City H. IL Q-ovek Le/if Route. For further particulars? call on nearest Agent of the Company, or address O. C- JENKINS, (ia&eraJ Agent, TOLEDO, OHIO. j®kERiE Lines. Schedule In effect Hov. 15. « Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. 0 - No. 5, Vestibule Limited, daily for I n M Chicago and the west J °“ ss r ‘ No. 3. Pacific Express, daily for I u Chicago and the west f -" w "• No. 1, Express, daily for Chicago I „ u and the west f No. 31. Local 119:35 A. M. TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I ...» D M New York and Boston | No. 12. Express, daily (.for New I , — . „ York I I.WA.M. No. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-1 o .— „j---eept Sunday f -• uo r - “*• No-30. Local 110:35 A. M. J. W. DeLono, Agent. Frank M. Caldwell. DJ P. A. Hnntingtoa, Ind.t F. W. Buskirk. A. G. P. A., Chicago, 11. O.P. M. AXUREWS, Physician Surgeon. MONROE, INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 26-* Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterlaarj Surgeon. Modus Operand!, Orcho *IZJ tomv. Overotomy, Castrating, Ridg ling. Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing. and treating their diseases. Office over < H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. ■ 11 Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. ACENTS WANTED Good Solicitors Only. Ladles or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from J 2.00 to 68.00 a day. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. .The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Democrat, one year for $2.30. By subscribing bow, you can have both papers through the great cam psign of 1892. IYIONEYTO LOAN On Farm Property on Long Tima. Wo Ooxxxxxxlmwloxx. Low Bate of Interoat, F*3rxaa.«»za.*a fla any amonnta oaa be made at any rima aad •top intareat. Call on, or addroee, A. K. GRUBB, or J. E. MANN, Ofloo: Odd FeUowi’ Building, Deoatur. •. T. May, M. I», VlayMilol4Miae*i M'iax***oaa ■Mauro®. ... India—, AH calle promptly attended to day or night. Jtßoe at residence. J. R. ROBO, * B. t. MB*. Master Commissioner. : 8080 & SON, Jkttorxieya *t Xi*w, Beal Estate and Collectors, Decatur,