Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1892 — Page 7

A/INTER NIGHT AT "HAYS.” A Tale of Love, Desertion, and Disobedience.

BY BRET HARTE. •

CHAPTER I. It was difficult to say if Hays’ farmhouse, or “Hays," as It was familiarly called, looked any more bleak and cheerless that winter afternoon than It usually did In the strong summer sunshine. Painted a cold, merciless white, with scant projection for shadows, a roof of white pine shingles, bleached lighter through sun and Wind, and covered with low, whlte-oapped chimneys, It looked even more stark and chilly than the drifts which had climbed its low roadside fence, and yet seemed hopeless of gaining a foothold on the glancing walls, or slippery wind-swept roof. The storm, which had already heaped the hollows of the road with snow, hurled Its finely granulated flakes against the building, but they were whirled along gutters and ridges and disappeared in smoke-ilke puffs across the icy roof. The granite outcrop in the hilly field beyond had long ago whitened and vanished; the dwarf firs and larches, wjiich had at first taken uncouth shapes In the drift, blended vaguely together, and then merged Into an unbroken wave. But the gaunt angles and rigid outlines of the building remained sharp and unchanged. It would seem as If the rigors of winter had only accented their hardness, as the fierceness of summer had previously made them Intolerable. It was believed that some of this unyielding grimness attached to Hays himself. Certain it is, that neither hardship nor prosperity had touched his character. Years ago his emigrant team

nA 1'1" 7 m \ “HB HAD BEEN INVESTED BY WINTRY drifts.”

had Lroken down in this wild but wooded defile of the Sierras, and he had been forced to a winter encampment with only a rude log-cabin for shelter, on the very verge of the promised, land. Unable to enter it himself, he was nevertheless able to assist the better equipped teams that followed him with wood and water, and a coarse forage gathered from a sheltered slope of wild oats. This was the beginnihg of a rude “supply station,” which afterward became so profitable that when spring came and Hays’ team were sufficiently recruited to follow the flood of Immigrating goldseekers to the placers and valleys, there ’ seemed no occasion for it. His fortune had been already found in the belt of arable slope behind the wcoded defile, and in the’miraoulously located colgne of vantage on what was now the great highway of travel and the only oasis and first relief of the weary journey. The breaking down of his own train at that spot had not only been the salvation of those who found at “Hays’ ” the means of prosecuting the last part of their pilgrimage, but later provided the equipment of returning teams. The first two years of this experience had not been without hardship and danger. He had been raided by Indians, and besieged for three days in his stockaded cabin; he had been invested by wintry drifts of twenty feet of snow, cutoff equally from incoming teams from the pass and the valley below. During the second year his wife had joined him with four children, but whether the enforced separation had dulled her conjugal affection, or whether she was tempted by a natural feminine longing for the land of promise beyond, she sought It one morning with a fascinating teamster, leaving her two sons and her two daughters behind her; two years later the elder of the daughters followed the mother’s previous example, with such maidenly discretion, however, as to forbear compromising herself by any previous matrimonial formality whatever. From that day Hays had no further personal intercourse with the valley below. He put up a hotel a mile away from the farm-house that he might not have to dispense hospitality to his customers, nor accept their near companionship. Always a severe Presbyterian and an uncompromising deacon of a far-scattered and scanty community who occasionally held their service in one of his barns, he §rew more rigid, sectarian and narrow ay by day. He was feared, and, al- / though neither respected nor loved, his domination and endurance were accepted. A grim landlord, hard creditor, close-fisted patron and a smileless neighbor, who neither gambled ilor drank, “Old Hays,” as he was called, while yet scarce fifty, had few ao- ■ qualntances and fewer friends. There were those who believed that his domestic infelicities were the result of his unsympathetic nature; it never occurred to any one (but himself, probably) that they might have been the cause. In those Slerran altitudes, as elsewhere, the belief in original sin—popularly known as “pure cussedness” —dominated and overbore any consideration of passive, impelling circumstances or temptation, unless they had been actively demonstrated with a revolver. The passive expression of harshness, suspicion, distrust, and! moroseness was looked upon as inher- . ent wickedness. The storm. raged violently as Hays emerged from the last of a long range of outbuildings and sheds, and crossed the open space between him and the farmhouse. Before he had reached the Sorch with its scant shelter, he had oundered through a snowdrift and faced tljp full fury of the storm. But the snow seemed to have glanced from Ifls hard, angular figure as it had from his roofridge, for when he entered the narrow hallway his pilot jacket was unmarked, except where a narrow line of powdered flakes outlined the seams, as if worn. To the right was an apartment, half office, half sitting room, furnished with a dark* and chilly iron gafe, a sofa and chairs covered with black and coldly shining horsehair. Here Hays not only removed his upper coat but his under one also, and drawing a chair before the fire, sat down in his shirt sleeves. It was his usual rustic pioneer habit, and < might have been some lingering reminIsSenbe of certain not remote ancestors . to whom clothes were an impediment. He was warming his hands ana placidly

| ignoring his gaunt arms In their thinly I clad “hickory" sleeves, when a young I girl of eighteen sauntered, half perfunctorily, half inquisitively, into the room. It was his only remaining daughter. Already elected bv circumstances to a dry household virginity, her somewhat large features, sallow complexion, and tasteless, unattractive dress did not obviously suggest a sacrifice. Since her sister’s departure she had taken sole charge of her father’s domestic affairs and the few rude servants he employed, with a certain Inherited following of his own moods and methods. To the neighbors she was known as “Miss Hays’’— a dubious respect that In a community of familiar “Sallies,” “Mamies," “Pussies,” was grimly prophetic. Yet she rejoiced in the Oriental appellation of “Zuleika.” To this it is needless to add that it was impossible to conceive anyone who looked more decidedly Western. "Ye can put some things in my carpet bag agin the time the sled comes round," said her father, meditatively, without looking up. “Then you’re not coming back tonight?" asked the girl curiously. “What’s going on at the Summit, father?" “I am,” he said grimly. “You don’t reckon I' kalkilate to stop thar! I’m going on as far as Horseley's to close up that contract afore the weather changes. ” “I kinder allowed it was funny you’d go to the hotel to-night. There’s a dance there; those two Wetherbee girls and Mamie Harris passed up the road an hour ago on a wood sled, nigh blown to pieces, and slttin’ up in the snow like skeert white rabbits. ” Hays’ brow darkened heavily. “Let ’em go,” he said, in a harsh voice that the fire had not yet softened. “Let ’em go for all the good their fool parents will ever get outer ’em, or the herd of wayside cattle they’ve let them loose among." “I reckon they haven't much to do at home, or are hard put for company, to travel six miles in the snow to show off their prinkin’ to a lot of idlejouts shiny with bear’s grease and scented up with doctor’s stuff," added the girl, shrugging her shoulders with a touch of her father’s mood and manner. Perhaps it struck Hays at that moment that her attitude was somewhat monstrous and uiinatural for one still young and presumably like other girls, for, after glancing at her under his heavy brows, he said, in a gentler tone: “Never ycgi mind, Zuly. When your brother Jack comes home, he’ll know what’s what, and have all the proper New York ways and style. It’s nigh on three years now that he’s had the best training Doctor Dawson’s Academy could give, sayin’ nothing of the pow’ful Christian example of one of the best preachers in the States. They mayn’t have worldly, ungodly fandangoed where he is, and riotous livin,’ and scarlet abominations, but I’ve been told that they’ve ‘tea circles,’ and ‘assemblies,’ and ‘harmony concerts’ of young folks —and dancin’—yes, fine square dancin’ under control. No, I ain’t stinted him in anythin'. You can remember that, Zuleika, when you hear any more gossip and backbitin’ about your father’s meanness. I ain’t spared no money for him." “I reckon not,” said the girl, a little sharply. “Why, there is that draft for two hundred and fifty dollars that kem only last week from the Doctor’s for extras." “Yes,” replied Hays, with a slight knitting of the brows, “the Doctor mout hev writ more particklers, but parsons ain’t alius business men. I reckon these here extries were to push Jack along in the term, as the Doctor knew I wanted him back here in the spring, now that his brother has got to be too stiff-necked and self-opinionated to do his father’s work.” It seemed from this that there had been a quarrel between Hays and his eldest son, who conducted his branch of business at Sacramento, and who had in a passion threatened to set up a rival establishment to his father’s. And it was also evident from the manner of the girl that she was by no means a strong partisan of her father in the quarrel. “You’d better find out first how all the schoolin’ and trainin' of Jack’s is goin* to jibe with the ranch, and if he ain’t been eddicated outof all knowledge of station business or keer for it. New York ain’t Hays' Ranch, and these yer ‘Assemblies’ and ‘Harmony doin’s and their airs and graces may put him out of conceit with our plain ways. I reckon ye didn’t take that to mind when you’ve been bustlin’ round payin’ two hundred and fifty dollar drafts for Jack and and quo’Uin’ with Bijah! I ain't sayin’ nothin', father, only mebbe if Bijah had had drafts and extrys flourished around him a little more, mebbe he’d have been more polite and not so tough spoken. Mebbe," she continued whh a little laugh, “even I’d be a little more in style to suit Master Jack when he comes es I had three hundred dollars’ worth of convent schoolin’ like Mamie Harris." . “Yes. And you’d have only made yourself fair game for ev’ry schemin’, lazy sport or counter-jumper along the . road from this to Sacramento,” responded Hays, savagely. Zulefka laughed again constrainedly, but in away that might have suggested that this dreadful contingency was still one that it was possible to contemplate without entire consternation. As she moved slowly toward the door she stopped with hand on the lock and said tentatively: “I reckon you won’t be wanting any supper before you go? You’re almost sure to be offered somethin’ up at Horseley’s, while if I have to cook you up suthin’ now and still have the men’s . regular supper to get at seven, it makes all the expense of an extra meal. ” Hays hesitated. He would have preferred his supper now, and had his daughter pressed him would have accepted it. But economy, which was one of Zuleika’s inherited instincts, vaguely appealing to him to be as a virtue, interchangeable with charity and abstemiousness, was certainly to be encour-. aged in a young girl. It hardly seemed possible that with an eye single to the integrity of the larder she could ever look kindly on the blandishments of his sex, or, indeed, be exposed to them. He said simply: “Don’t cook for me,” and resumed his attitude before the fire as the girl left the room. As he sat thebe grim and immovable as one of the battered fire-dogs before him, the wind in the chimney seemed to carry on a deep-throated, dejected, and confidential conversation with him, but to really have very little to reveal. There was no haunting reminiscence of bls married life in this room, which he had always occupied in preference to the company or sitting-room beyond. There were no familiar shadows of the past lurking in its corners to pervade his reverie. When he did reflect, which was selApm, there was always in his *

mind a vague idea of a central injustice to which he had been subjected, that was to be avoided by circuitous movement, to be hidden, by work, but never to be surmounted. And to-night he was going out in the storm, which he could understand and fight, as he had often done before, and he was going to drive a bargain with a man like himself and get the better of him if he could as he had done before, and another day would be gone, and that central injustice which he could not understand would be circumvented, and he would still be holding bls own In the world. And the God of Israel, wfiom he.belleved in, and who was a hard but conscientious Providence, something like himself, would assist him, perhaps, some day to the understanding of this same vague injustice which He was, for some strange reason, permitting. But never more unrelenting and unsparing of others than when under conviction of sin himself, and never more harsh and unforgiving than when fresh from the contemplation of the divine mercy, he still sat there grimly holding his hands to a warmth that never seemed to get nearer his heart than that, until his daughter re-entered the room with his carpet bag. To rise, put on his coat and overcoat, secure a fur cap on his head by a woolen comforter, covering his ears and twined round his throat, and to rigidly offer a square and weather-beaten cheek to his daughter’s dusty kiss, did not, apparently, suggest any lingering or hesitation. The was at the door, which, for a tumultuous moment, opened on the storm and the white vision of a horse knee-deep in a drift, and then closed behiud him. Zuleika shot the belt, brushed some flakes of the invading snow from the mat, and, after frugally raking down the Are on the hearth her father had just quitted, retired through the long passage to the kitchen' and her domestic supervision. It was a few hours later; supper had long passed; the “hands” had one by one returned to their quarters under the roof or in adjacent lofts, and Zuleika and the two maids had at last abandoned the kitchen for their bedrooms beyond. Zuleika herself, by the light of a solitary candle, had entered the office and had dropped meditatively into a chair, as she slowly raked the warm ashes over the still smoldering fire. The barking of dogs had momentarily attracted her attention, but it had suddenly ceased. It was followed, however, by a more startling incident—a slight movement outside, and an attempt to raise the window! She was not frightened; perhaps, there was little for her to fear; it was known that Hays kept no moqey in the house, the safe was only used for securities and contracts, and there wdre half-a-dozen men within call. It was, therefore, only her usual active, burning curiosity for novel incident that made her run to the window and peer out; but it was with a spontaneous cry of astonishment that she turned and darted to the front door and opened it to the muffled figure of a young man. “Jack! Saints alive! Why, of all things!" she gasped, incoherently. He stopped her with an impatient gesture, and a hand that prevented her from closing the door again. “Dad ain’t here?” he asked, quickly, "No.” “When’ll he be back?” “Not to-night.” "Good,” he said, turning to the door again. She could see a motionless horse and sleigh in the road, with a woman holding the reins. He beckoned to the woman, who drove to the door and jumped out. Tall, handsome, and audacious, she looked at Zuleika with a quick laugh of confidence as over some recognized absurdity. “Go in there,” said the young man, opening the door to the office; “I’ll come back in a minute.” As she entered, still smiling, as if taking part in some humorous but risky situation, he turned quickly to Zuleika and said, in a low voice: “Where can we talk?” The girl held out her hand and glided hurriedly through the passage until she reached a door, which she opened. By the light of a dying fire he could see it was her bed-room. Lighting a candle on the mantel she looked eagerly in his face as he threw aside his muffler and opened his coat. It disclosed a spare, youthful figure, and a thin, weak face that a budding mustache only seemed to make still more immature. For an instant brother and sister gazed at each other. Astonishment on her

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part, nervous impatience on his, apparently repressed any demonstration of family affection. Yet when she was about to speak he stopped her roughly: “There, now; don’t talk. I know wnat you’re going to say—could say it myself if I wanted to —and it’s no use. Well, then, here I am. You, saw her. Well, she’s my wife—we’ve been married three months. Yes, my wife; married three months ago. I’m here because I ran away from school—that is, I haven’t been there for the last three months. I came out with her last steamer; we went up to the Summit Hotel last night —where they didn’t know me—until we could see how the land lay, before popping down on dad. I happened to learn that he was out to-night, and I brought her down here to have a talk. We can go back again before he comes, you know, unless ” “But,” interrupted the girl, with sudden practicality, “you say you ain’t been at Doctor Dawsoh’s for three months! Why, only last week he drew on dad for $250 for your extras!” He glanced around him and then arranged his necktie in the glass above the mantel with a nervous laugh. “Oh, that! I fixed that up myself and got the money for it in New York to pay our passage with. It’s all right, you know. ” CHAPTER 11. The girl stood looking at the ingenuous fotger with an odd, breathless smile. It was difficult to determine, however, if gratified curiosity were not its most dotninant expression. “And you’ve got a wife —and that's her?” she resumed. J?Yes.” “Where did you first meet her? Who is shb?” “She’s an actress—mighty popular in ’Frisco—l mean New York. Lots o’ chaps tried to get her—l cut ’em out. For all dad’s trying to keep mo at Dawson’s —I ain’t such a fool, eh?" Nevertheless, as he stood there stroking his fair mustache, his astuteness did not seem to impress his sister to enthusiastic assent. Yet she did not relax har

breathless, inquisitive smile as she went ou: "And what are you going to do about dadf* He turned upon her querulously. "Well, that’s what I want to talk about." “You’ll catch it,” she said, Impressively. But here her brother’s nervousness broke out in a weak, impotent fury. It was evident, too, that in spite of its apparent spontaneous irritation its intent was studied. Catch it, would he? Oh, ses! Well, she’d see who’d catch it! ot him! No, he’d bad enough of this meanness, and wanted it ended! He wasn’t a woman, to bo treated like his Bister, like their mother, like their brother, if it came to that, for he knew how he was to be brought back to take Bljah’s place in the spring; he’d heard the whole story. No, he was going to stand up fqr his rights—he was going to bo treated like the son of a man who was worth half a million ought to be treated! He wasn’t going to be skimped while his father was wallowing in money that he didn’t know what to do Vith —money that by right ought to have been given to their mother and their sister. Why, even the law wouldn't permit such meanness—if he was dead. No, he’d come there with Lottie, his wife, to show his father that there was one of the family that couldn’t be fooled and bullied, and wouldn’t put up with it any longer. There would have to be a fair division of the property, and his sister Annie's property, . and hers— Zuleika’s —too, if she’d have the pluck to speak up for herself. All this and much more he said. Yet even while his small fury was genuine and characteristic, there was such an evident incongruity between himself and his speech that it seemed to fit him loosely, and in a measure flapped in his gestures like another’s garment. Zuleika, who had exhibited neither disgust nor sympathy with his rebellion, but had rather appeared to enjoy it as a novel domestic performance, the morality of which devolved solely upon the performer, retained her eurlous smile. And then a knock at the door startled them. It was the stranger—slightly apologetic and still humorous, but firm and self-confident withal. She was sorry to interrupt their family council, but the fire was going out where she sat, and she would like a cup of tea or some refreshment. She did not look at Jack, but, completely ignoring him, addressed herself to Zuleika with what seemed to be a direct challenge; in that feminine eye-grapple there was a quick, instinctive, and final struggle between the two women. The stranger triumphed. Zuleika’s vacant smile changed to one of submission, and then, equally ignoring her brother in this double defeat, she hastened to the kitchen to do the visitor’s bidding. The woman closed the door behind her and took Zuleika’s place before the fire. “Well,” she said, in a half-contemptu-ous toleration. “Well?” said Jack in an equally illdisguised discontent, but an evident desire to placate the woman before him. “It’s all right, you know. I’ve had my say. It’ll come right, Lottie, you’ll see.” The woman smiled again and glanced around the bare walls of the room. “And suppose,” she said dryly, “when it comes right, I’m to take the place of your sister in the charge of this workhouse and succeed to the keys of that safe in the other room?” “It’ll come all right, I tell you; you can fix things up here any way you’ll like when we get the old man straight,” said Jack with the iteration of feebleness. “And as to that safe, I’ve seen it chock full of securities." [TO BE CONTINUED-! Known of Old. Sojourner Truth, a sort of prophetess and reformer, of African blood, who went about in slavery days announcing the wrath to come, was for a time the guest of Mrs. Stowe. In the sunny atmosphere of that liberal household <she freely aired many of her views, some of which were noble, and some decidedly original. Sojourner had her own ideas as to the relative capacity of the sexes. “S’pose a man’s mind holds a quart, an’ a woman’s don’t hold but a pint, ” she was wont to say. “Es her pint is full, it’s as good as his quart.” “Sojourner,” said some one, point blank, “what do you think of women’s rights?” Then came in a personal prejudice, born of hard experience. “Well, honey,” said she, “I’se ben to der meetins an’ harked a good deal. Dey wanted me fur to speak. So I got up. Says I, ‘Sisters, I ain’t clear what you’d be after. Es women want any rights more’n dey’s got, why don’t dey jes’ take ’em, an’ not be talkin’ about it?’ “Some on ’em came ’round me, an’ asked why I didn’t wear bloomers, an’ I told ’em I’d had bloomers enough when I was in bondage. You see, dey used to weave what dey called nigger-cloth, an’ each one of us got jest sech a strip, an’ we had to wear it width-wise. Them that was short got along pretty well, but as for me!” She gave an indescribably droll glance at her long limbs and then at her listeners, and added, “Tell you, I had enough of bloomers in them days!” •'Ashamed q* the Weather.” The Highlanders are loyal to Scottish genius. Sir Walter Scott, while making a tour of the Western Highlands, wrote to the inkeeper of Arroquhar, Loch Long, to have rooms prepared for him. On the appointed day it rained ceaselessly. As Scott drew* near the inn, he was met on the hill near the house by the landlord, who, with bared head and backing every yard as Scott advanced, thus addressed him: “Gude guid us, Sir Walterl This is just awfu’! Sic an a downpour! Was ever the like? I really beg your pardon! I’m sure it's no fault o’ mine. I eanna-think how- it should happen to rain this way just as you, o’ a’ men of the warld, should come to see us. It looks amaist personal! I can only say, for my part, I’m just ashamed o’ the weather!” “Brother Jonathan.” At one time when the Continental army was in distress at Boston, General Washington made use of the remark that “He must consult Brother Jonathan,” with regard to ways and ’ means (referring to Gov. Jonathan 1 Trumbull, of Connecticut). Trumbull furnished the necessary assistance, and the expression “Brother Jonathan” was often used by the army, and henceforth took its place among distinctively American expressions; having application collectively to the geoplo of the nation. • ' Does MUM Get SourT The rarest thing in all Ariao&m it is said, is a thunderstorm. Sometimes there la not one a year.

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital, 550.000. Barplm, >IO,OOO Origanlzed Augnit 13,1888. Offiosrs—T. T. Dorwln, Preaident; P. W. Smith, Vlee-Pre.ldent; B. 8. Peterson Cashier; T. T, Dorwln, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkes, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Terveer, J. D. Hale and R S. Peteraon, Directors. We are prepared to make Loan, on good eeourlty, receive Deposits, fornlsh Domestic and Foreign Exchange, buy and sell Government and Municipal Bonds, and furnish Letters of Credit available in any of the principal cities of Europe. Also Passage Ticket to and from the Old World, including transportation to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital, >75,000. Surplus, 75,000. Organized In 1871. Officer*—D. Studabaker. 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 and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul O. Hooper, Attorney at Law Decatur, - - Indiana. □ej. Xneßivcrjxr. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices resonable. BBVIN, B. K. MANN, J. F. ERWIN A MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. TpRANCB A MERRYMAN. J. T. France. ■I? J. T. MERRYMAN DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 2 and 3, over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor, Decatur, Ind. Location 'Central—Opposite Court House. The leading hotel In the city. , JQ NEPTUNE, • DENIST. Now located over Holthouse’s shoe store, and Is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. All work warranted. Kent K. Wheelock, M. D., EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST M Calhoun-st. Fort Wayne, Tnd. D, NEUENSCHWANDER, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Berne, - Indiana. Children and Chronlo Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A G. HOLLOWAY, FliyEici an cfc Surgeon Office over Burns’ harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. ohurch. AU calls promptly attended to in city or country night or day. M, L HOLLOWAY, M. D. Office and residence one door north of M. H. church. Disease* of women and children specialties.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Train* run on Central Standard Time, 28 mln. utc* slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Sunday, June 12,1802. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati..lve 810 am 850 pm Richmond) 2 20pm 10 55 .. II 25 Winchester ... 317 .. 1155 .. 1212 am Portland 4 04.. 1235 pm 12 <5.. Decatur 510.. 131.. 128 Ft.Wayne...arr 600 .. 2 15.. 205 Kendallville... ........ 341.. 30».. »10.. Rome City 356 .. 323 .. 9 26.. Wolcottville... ... 4 01 .. 931 .. Valentine 4 11 942.. LaGrange.... 4 19.. 341.. 9 51.. Lima .. 429 10 03 .. Sturgis 440 .. 400 . 10 19 .. Vicksburg 5 36.. 4 56.. 11 09.. Kalamazoo, arr .. 6 05 12 01 .. '..lve 720 am 6 25.. 5 20.. 1215 pm Gr. Rapids, arr 929 .. 810.. 650.. 150.. ’’ "■ ..Ive 4 15pm 10 30 .. 726 .. 2 00.. D.. GH. 4 M.cr 429 .. 10 4f» .. 727 .. 2 14.. Howard City... 540 ..1150 . 841.. 314.. Big Rapids 6 52.. 12 36am 945.. 3 66.. Reed City 7 30.. 103.. 10 20.. 4 20.. Cadillac arr *OO .. 205 .. 11 30 .. 515.. “....Ive .A. ... 2-15 .. 1140.. 5 20.. Traverse City. 10 45 .. 125 pm 6 55.. Kalkaska 348.. 110 Petoskey 545 .. 315 Mackinac City. ..,.....1715., 4 45.. GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 MacklnacClty. 845 pm 800 am 200pm .... ... Petoskey 10 20.. 9 30.. 315 Kalkaska 12 36 .. 11 38 .. 502 Traverse City 11 10.. 430 ..' 6 30am Cadillac .. ..arr 2 05am 115 pm 630 .. 8 05.. J u ... Ive 215.. 135.. 650 pm 810.. Reed City 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 60.. 900 .. Big Rapids 4 00.. 2 58.. 8 25.. 945 .. Howard City.. 4 55.. 3 43.. 9 20.. 10 32 .. I>. GH.4M.cr 6 05.. 505 .. 10 25 .. II 35 .. Gr. Kaoids .arr 020.. 6 20.. 10 40.. 1160.. •• " ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55am 340 .. ’’ ..Ive 866 .. 805 345 .. Sturgis !.. 10 19.. 926 5 03.. Lima 1032 .. 940 513 .. LaGrange .... 10 44 .. 952 5 23.. Valentine 10 53.. 1002 531.. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 5 40.. RomejCity 1109.. 10 19 545 .. Kendallville... 11 25 .. 10 39 6 06.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 715 .. “ " ..Ive 100.. Iz 10am 5 45am Decatur 146.. 12 50.. 630 Portland 2 40.. 146.. 730 Winchester.... 3T7 .. 2 35.. 809 Richmond 4J» .. 340 .. 916 Cincinnati 700 .. 655 , 1201 nm ....' Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent. JEFF. BRYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind. LOOK HEREI I am here to stay and can sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford t* sell them. I sell different make*. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable See me first and mti money. <7. T. COOTS,Decatur, Ind, Scientific American Agency for B f J aJ I U /11 I J ; ■ Ok Y I■Rk ■ I ’ 1 CAVEATS trade marks, DESIGN PATENTS COPYRIGHTS, etc. For information and free Handbook write to MUNN A CO.. 361 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Oldest bureau for securing patents in America. Every patent taken out by ns Is brought before the public by a notice given free of charge in the Scientific Largest circulation of any scientific paper in the world. Splendidly illustrated. No intelligent man should be without it. Weekly, $3.00 a year; $1.50 six months. Address MUNN A CO, Publishers. 361 Broadway. New York.

SI.OO ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO und n riAn s subscription TO THE WEEKLYINQUIRER A Decker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, $650.00 A Gladiator Watch and Caso 30.00 A Lemaire 24 line Field Glass 20.00 A Holman 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 llaydock Rice Coil Spring) Handy Top Buggy f • • ” A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Case. 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters’ 1--Commercial College j 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,sloo A 15 jewel Watch, Boss Case 35.00 A Five Octave Parlor Organ 150.00. A Gladiator Watch, Dneber Case. . . 30.00* A John C. Dneber Watch & Case. . , 40.00 And 82 other valuable premiums will;, be presented to yearly subscribers 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, First Class Night and Day Service bstwssa Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS! ea-MIALS SERVED EM ROUTE, any hour, DAI OR NISHT, at moderate cost. Ask for tickets via Toledo, St Louis A lanseeCiijpß. 1 Clover Leaf Route. For farther particulars, caH on nearest Agent of the Company, or address O. C. JENKINS, Fuwi(« Avert, TOLEDO, OHIO, ( .'W\ Erie Lines. Schedule In effect May IS. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 5. Vestibule Limited, dally for i <,.«» p M Chicago and the west S " r ‘ ’ No. 3. Pacific Express, daily fori M Chicago and the west f —w. • No. I. Express, daily for Chicago I to.io p vr and the west f B No. 31. Local <10:35 A. M TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I -.or, p u New York and Boston j ‘ ' ' No. 12. Express, daily Ifor New I M York 1“• No. 2, Accommodation, daily ex-( p w eept Sunday f 1.58 F. M. No-30. Local 110:35 A.M. J. W. DeLono. Agent. Frank M. Caldwell. D. P. A, Huntington, Ind.; F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A., Chicago, 111. O.P. M. AXDBEWB, T’lxyafioia.xi «Ns Su.x*seon MONROE. INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doorawest ot M. E. church. 26-* 1 \ , ■— ■■■..—■ ' i —a Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Yeterloaij Surgeon, Modus Operandi, Ordho tomy. Overotomy, Castrating BfMg ling, Horses and Spaying Cattle aad Dehorn ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indltoia. Leii Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. AC ENTS WANTED Good Solicitors Only. Ladles or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from 62.00 to *B.OO a day. ENQUIRER COMPANY, - CINCINNATI, O. The Cindn natl Enquirer and the Dkmocba* one year for 62.30. By subscribing now, yot* can have both papers through the great cam, palgn of 1898. MONEY TO LOAN On Faris Proparty on Lon* Tima. No Coxkxxxa.lasailoxto. Low Rats of Interact. l**srW*tl la say amouat* caa ba made at any time aa4 stop intereet. Call on. or addroea, A. K. GRUBB, or J. F. MANN, Offiee: Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur. •. T. May, M. Phy ailolak.xx«*J NBixjr««o3KL Maarae. • Indiana AU calls promptly attended to day or sigh*. Office at residence. d. B. 8080. B. T. BOBa Master Commissioner. 8080 & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Beal Estats and Collect ion, Decatur, Ind.