Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1892 — Page 3

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—— 'J""— A Tale of Love, Desertion, and Disobedience.

BY BRET HARTE. r ■ "■ ■■ ■*

, ' CHAPTER ll.—Continued. ' “It’ll hold one lees to-night," she said looking at the fire. 'What are you talking about?" ho aaked in querulous suspicion. She drew a paper from her pocket. ■ “It's that draft of yours that you were crazy enough to sign Dawson’s name to. It was lying out there on the desk. I reckon it isn't a thing you cure to have kept as evidence, even by your lather.” She held it in the flames until it was consumed. “By Jove, your head is level, Lottie!” he said, with* an admiration that was not, however, without a weak reserve of suspicion. “No, it isn’t, or I wouldn’t be here,” she said, curtly. Then she added, as if dismissing the subject: “Well, what did you tell her?” "Oh, I said I met you in New York. 4>You see, I thought she might think it queer if she knew I only met you in San Francisco three weeks ago. Os course, I said we were married.” She looked at him with weary astonishment. “And, of course, whether things go right or not, she'll find out that I'vb got * a husband living, that I never met you in New York, but on the steamer, and that you've lied. I don’t see the use of it. You said you were going to tell the whole thing squarely and say the truth, and that’s why I came to help you. ” .“Yes; but don’t you see, hang it all!” he stammered, in the irritation of weak .confusion, “I had to tell her something. Father won’t dare to tell her the truth, no more than he will the. neighbors. He’ll hush it up, you bet; and when we get this thing fixed you'll go and get your divorce, you know,, and we’ll be married privately on the square." He looked so vague, so immature, yet so fatuously self-confident, that the woman extended her hand with a laugh and -tapped him on the back as she might have patted a dog. Then she disappeared to follow Zuleika in the kitchen. W,hen the two women returned together they were bvidently on the best terms; so much that the man with the easy reaction of a shallow nature became sanguine and exalted, even to an ostentatious exhibition of those New

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York graces on which the paternal Hays had set such store. He complacently explained the methods by which he had deceived Dr. Dawson, how he had himself written a letter from his father I commanding him to return to take his I brother’s place, and how he had shown it to the Doctor and been three mouths in Ban Francisco looking for work and assisting Lottie at the theater, until a conviction of the righteousness of his I cause, perhaps combined with the fact that they were also short of money and I she had no engagement. Impelled him I to this present heroic step! all of which I Zuleika listened to with childish interI est, but superior appreciation of his I companion. The fact that this woman I was an actress, an abomination vaguely I alluded to by her father as being even I mor.e mysteriously wicked than her I* Bister and mother, but correspondingly I exciting as offering a possible permanent I relief to the monotony of her home life, I seemed to excuse her brother’s weakI ness. She was almost ready to become I. his partisan—after she had seen her I I father. I They had talked largely of their plans; I they had settled small details of the fuI ture and the arrangement of the propI erty; they had agreed that Zuleika I should be relieved of her household I drudgery, and sent to a fashionable I school in San Francisco with a music ■ teacher and a dressmaker. They had ■ discussed everything but the precise I manner in which the revelation should ■be conveyed to Hays. There was still ■ plenty of time for that, for he would not B return until to-morrow at noon, and it ■ was already tacitly understood that the ■ vehicle of transmission should be a let- ■ ter from the Summit Hotel. The possi- ■ bio contingency of a sudden outburst of ■ human passion not entirely controlled ■by religious feeling was to be guarded I against. ■ They were sitting comfortably before ■ the replenished fire, the wind was still ■ moaning in the chimney, when, in a lull ■of the storm, the sound of sleigh bells ■Beemed to fill the room. It was followed ■by a voice from without, and, with a ■hysterical cry Zuleika started to her feet. ■The,same breathless smile with which ■she had greeted her brother an hour ago ■was upon her lips as she gasped: ■ "Lord save us! But it’s dad come ■back!” ■ I grieve to say that here the doughty ■redresser of domestic wrongs and reKriever of the family honor lapsed, ■white-faced, in his chair, idealess and ■tremulous. It was his frailer companion Krho rose to the occasion and even part■y dragged him with her. "Go back to ■he hotel,” she said, quickly, “and take Khe sled with you; you are not fit to face ■lim now. But he does not know me, ■ind I will stay.” To the staring Zuleika: ■ l am a stranger, stopped by a broken Kleigh pn my way to the hotel. Leave ■ho rest to mo. Now clear out, both of ■rou. I’ll let him in.'' ■ She looked soeonfldent.solf-containcd superior that thiytfiought of opponever entered their minds, and ■s an impatient rapping rose from the they let her, with a half-impatient, gesture, drive them before from the room. When they had in the distance she turned the front door, unbolted and opened Hays blundered in out of the snow a mntterod exclamation, and then, the light from the open office door a stranger, started and fell Miss Hays is busy,” said the woman ■lit my sleigh broke down oh the way ■the hotel, and I was forced to got out Hire. I suppose this is Mr. Hays?" MTa. strange woman—by her dress and iP®pearanee a very worldling, and even I

braver in looks and apparel than many ho had seen in the cities—had, in spite of all his precautions, fallen short of the hotel and been precipitated upon him. Yet under the influence of some odd abstraction he was affected by it less than he could have believed. He even achieved a rude bow as he bolted the door and ushered her into the office. More than that, he found himself explaining to this fair trespasser the reasons of his return to his own home; for, like a direct man, he had a consciousness of some inconsistency in his return, or in the circumstances that induced a change of plans, which might conscientiously require an explanation. “You see, ma’am, a rather singular thing happened to me after I passed the Summit. Three times I lost the track, got off it somehow, and found myself traveling in a circle. The third time, when I struck my own tracks again, I concluded I’d just follow them back here. I suppose I might have got the road again by trying and flghtln’ the snow, but there’s some things not worth the flghtin’. This was a matter of business, and, after, all, ma'am, business ain’t everything; is it?" He was evidently jn some unusual mood, the mood that with certain reticent natures often compels them to make their brief confidence to utter strangers rather than impart them to those intimate friends who might afterward remind them of their weakness. She agreed with him pleasantly, but not so obviously as to excite suspicion. “And you preferred to let your business go. and come back to the comfort of your own home and family.” “The comfort of my home andfamlly?” he repeated in a dry, deliberate voice. “Well, I reckon I ain’t been tempted much by that. That isn’t what I meant." Buthe went back to the phrase, repeating it grimly, as if it were some mandatory t'ext. “The comfort of my own home and family! Well, Satan hasn’t set that trap for my feet yet, ma’am. No! Ye saw my daughter? well that’s all my family; ye sec this room? that’s all my home. My wife ran away from me; my daughter cleared out, too; my eldest son, as was with me here, quo’lled with me and reckons to set up a rival business against me. No,” he said, still more meditatively and aeliberately, “It wasn’t to come back to the comforts of my own home and family that I faced round on Hcavytree Hill, I reckon.” ■As the woman, for certain reasons, “had no desire to check this suspicious and unlooked-for confidence, she patiently waited. Hays remained silent for an ins'tant, warming his hands before the fire, and then looked up interrogatively. “A professor of religion, ma’am, or under conviction?” “Not exactly," said the lady, smiling. “Excuse me, but in spite of your fine clothes, I reckoned you had a serious look just now. A reader of scripture, maybe?” “I know the Bible." “You remember when the angel with the flaming sword appeared unto Saul on the road to Damascus?” “Yes.” “Itmout hev been suthin’ in that style that stopped me,” he said slowly and tentatively. “Though nat’rally I didn’t see anything, and only had the queer feelin’. It might hev been that that shied my mare off the track.” “But haul was up to some wickedness, wasn’t he?” said the lady, smilingly, “while you simply going somewhere on business.” “Yes,” said Hays, thoughtfully, “but my business might hev seemed like persecution. I don’t mind tollin’ you what it was if you’d care to listen. But mebbee you’re tired. Mebbee you want to retire. You know,” he went on with a sudden hospitable outburst, “you needn’t be in any hurry to go; we kin take care of you here to-night, and it’ll cost you nothin’. And I’ll send you on with my sleigh in the mornin’. Per’aps you’ll like suthin’ to eat—a cup of tea — or—l’ll call Zuleika," and he rose with an expression of awkward courtesy. But the lady, albeit, with a self-satis-fied sparkle in her dark eyes, here carelessly assured him that Zuleika had already given her refreshment, and, indeed, was at that moment preparing her own room for her. She begged he would not interrupt his interesting story. Hays looked relieved. “Well. I reckon I won’t call her, for what I waA goin’ to say ain’t exactly the sort o’ thin’ for an innocent, simple sort o’ thing like her to hear—l mean," he interrupted himself hastily, “that folks of more experience of the world like you and me don’t mind speakin’ of. I’m sorter takin’ it for granted that you’re a married woman, ma’am.” The lady who had regarded him with sudden rigidity here relaxed her expression and nodded. “Well,” continued Hays, resuming his place by the fire, “you see this yer man I was goin’ to see lives about four miles beyond the Summit on a ranch that furnishes most of the hay for the stock that side of the divide. He’s bin holdin’ off his next year’s contract with me, 1 hopin’ to make better terms from the prospects of a late spring and higher prices. He held his head mighty high and talked of waitin’ his own time. I happened to know he couldn’t do it.” He put his hands on his knees and stared at the fire, and then wont on: “Ye see this man has had crosses and family trials. He had a wife that left him to join a lot of bally dancers and painted wompn In the ’Frisco playhouses when he was livin’ in the Southern country. You’ll say that was like my own case —and mebbee that was why it canto to him to tell me about it—but the difference betwixt him and me was that, instead of restin’ unto the Lord and findin’ him, and pluckin’out the eye that offended him ’cording to the Scripture, he fallowed after her, tryin’ to get her back, until, findin’ that wasn’t no use, ho took a big disgust and came up hero to hide hisself where there wasn’t no play-house nor play-actors, and no women but Injin squaws. He pre-empted the land, and, nat’rally there bein’ no one es cared to live there but himself, he had it all his own way, made it pay, and, as I was sayin’ before, held his head high for prices. Well—you ain’t gettin’ tired, ma am?” “No,” said the lady, resting her cheek on.her hand and gazing at the fire; “it’s all very interesting; and so odd- that you two men, with nearly the same experiences, should be neighbors.” “Say buyer «nd .seller, ma’am, not neighbors—at least, serlptoorlly—nor friends. Well—now this is where the speshal providence comes in—only this afternoon Jim Briggs, hoarin' me speak of Horseley’s offlshness " "Whose offlshness?” asked the lady. "Horseley’s offlshness — Horseley’s the name of the man I'm talkin’ aboqt. Well, bearin' that.he says, 'You hold on, Hays, and he’ll climb down. That wife of his baa left the stage—got sink or it —and la driftin’ reund in ’Frlaoowfth ... *

some fellow. When Horselg gets to hear that, you can’t keep him here; he’ll settle up, sail out, and realise on everything he’s got to go after her agin, you bet.' That’* what Briggs said. Well, that’s what sent me up to Horseley’s to-night, to get there, drop the news, and then pin him down to the contract.” "It looked like a good stroke of business and a fair one,” said the lady, in an odd voice. It was so odd that Hays looked up. But she had somewhat altered her position and was gazing at the ceiling, and with her hand to her face seemed to have just recovered from a slight yawn, at which he hesitated with a new and timid sense of politeness. “You're getting tirpd, ma'am?" “Oh, dear, no!” she said in the same voice, but clearing her throat with a little cough. “And why didn’t you see this Mr. Horseley after all? Oh, I forgot —you said you changed your mind from . something you’d heard." He had tumefl his eyes to the fire I again, but without noticing as he did so | that she slowly moved her face, still I half hidden by her hand, toward him and was watching him intently. “No," he said slowly, “nothin’ I heard, somethin’ I felt. It moufr hev ben that that set me off the track. It kem to me all of a sudden that he might be Bittin’ tliar calm and peaceful as I might be here, hevln' forgot all about her and hie 1 trouble, and here was me'goin’ to drop down upon him and start it all afresh | agin. It leaked a little like persecution ! —yes, like persecution. I got rid of it, I sayin’ to myself it wasn’t business. But | I’d got off the road meantime, and I had to find it again, and whenever I got I back to the track and was pointed for ■ his house, it all seemed to come back on me and set me off again. When that happened three times, I turned round and started for home.” “And do you mean to say,” said the lady, with a discordant laugh, “that you believe, because you didn’t go there and break the news, that nobody else will? That he won’t hear of it from the first man he meets?” “He don’t meet any one up where he lives, and only Briggs and myself know it, and I’ll see that Briggs don’t tell. But it was mighty queer, this whole thing cornin’ upon me suddenly, wasn’t it?” “Very queer," replied the lady, “for," [ with the same metallic laugh, “you don’t seem to be given to this kind»of weakness with your own family.” If there was any doubt as to the sarcastic suggestion of her voice, there certainly could be none in the wicked gliti ter of her eyes fixed upon his face under her shading hand, but haply he seemed ■ unconscious of both, and even accepted her statement without an ulterior significance. “Yes,” he said communingly to the glaring embers of the hearth, “it must | have been a special revelation. ” I There was something so fatuous and I one-sided in his attitude and expression, so monstrously inconsistent and inadequate to what was going on around him, and so hopelessly stupid—if a mere simulation —that the angry suspicion that he was acting a part slowly faded from her eyes, and a hysterical smile began to twitch her set lips. She still gazed at him. The wind howled drearily in the chimney; all that was economic, grim and cheerless in the room seemed to gather as flitting shadows around that central figure. Suddenly she arose with such a quick rustling of her skirts that he lifted his eyes with a start; for she was standing immediately before him, her hands behind her, her handsome, audacious face bent smilingly forward, and her bold, brilliant eyes within a foot of his own. “Now, Mr. Hays, do you want to know what this warning or special revelation of yours really meant? Well, it had nothing whatever to do with that man on the Summit. No. The whole interest, gist and meaning of it was simply this, that you should turn round and come straight back here and”—she drew back and made him an exaggerated theatrical courtesy—“have the supreme pleasure ot making my acquaintance. That was all. And now, as you’ve had it, In five minutes I must be off. You've offered me already your horse and sleigh to go to the Summit. I accept it and go. Good-by!" He knew nothing of a woman’s capricious humor; he knew still less of that mimic stage from which her voice, gesture, and expression was borrowed; he had no knowledge of the burlesque emotions which that voice, gesture, and expression were supposed to portray, and finally and fatally he was unable to detect the feminine hysteric jar and discord that underlay it all. He thought it was strong, characteristic and real, and accepted it literally. He rose. “Es you allow you can’t stay, why I’ll go and get the horse. I reckon he ain’t bin put up yet. ’’ “Do, please.” He grimly resumed his coat and hat and disappeared through the passage into the kitchen, whence, a moment latter, Zuleika came flying. “Well, what has happened?” she said, eagerly. “It’s all right," said the woman, quickly, “though ho knows nothing yet. But I’ve got things fixed generally, so that he’ll be quite ready to have it broken to him by this time to-morrow. But don’t you say anything till I’ve seen Jaek and you hear from him. Remember. ’’ She spoke rapidly; her cheeks were quite glowing from some sudden energy; so were Zuleika’s with the excitement of curiosity. Presently the

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sound of sleigh bells again filled 't’ie room. It was Hays leading the horse and sleigh to the door, beneath a starlit sky, crisp from a northeast, wind. The fair stranger cast a significant glance at Zuleika, and whispered hurriedly: “You know ho must not cotae with me. You must keep him here.” “But you cannot go alone,” said Hays, with awkward courtesy. “I was kalkilatin’ " “You’re too tired to get out again, dad," broke in Zuleika, quickly. “You ain’t fitujtbu’re all gray and krinkly now, like as when you had one of your last spells. She’ll send the sleigh back to-morrow." * “I can find my way," said the lady, briskly; “there’s only one turn off, I believe, and that ’’' “Loads to the stage-station three miles west. You needn’t be afraid of gettin’ off on that, for you’ll likely see the down-stage crossln’ your road as soon as you get clear off the ranch." “Good night,"said thelady. An an

of whits spray sprang ttefore the forward rufiner, and ths sleigh vanished in the road. Father and daughter returned to the office. 'You didn’t get to know her, dad, did ye?” queried Zuleika. "No," responded Hays, gravely, “except to see she wasn’t no backwoods or mountaineering sort. Now, there's the kind o’ woman, as knows her own mind and yours, too, that a man like your brother Jack oughter pick out when he marries.” Zuleika’s face beamed behind her father. “You ain’t going to sit up any longer, dad?" she said, at sho noticed him resume his seat by the lire. “It’s gettin’ late, and you look mighty tuckered out with your night’s work.” “Do you know what she suid, Zpty?" returned her father, after a pause, which turned out to have been a long silent laugh. “No.” “She said,” he repeated, slAwly, “that she reckoned I came back hei\ to-night to have the pleasure of her acquaintance.” He brought his two hands nwivily down upon his knees,rubbing them down deliberately toward his ankles, and leaning forward with h:B face to the Hrg/and a long-sustained smile of Complete though tardy appreciation. He was still In this attitude when Zuleika left him. The wind crooned over him confidentially, but he still sat ■ there, given up apparently to some ' posthumous enjoyment of his visitor’s j departing witticism. It was scarcely daylight when Zuleika, I while dressing, heard a quick tapping upon her shutter. She opened it to the scared and bewildered face of her brother. “What happened with her and father last night?" he said, hoarsely. “Nothing—why?” “Bead that. It was brought to me half an hour ago by a man in dad’s sleigh, from the stage station." He handed her a crumpled note with trembling figures. She took it and read: “The game is up and I’m out of it. Take my advice and clear out of it too, until you can come back in better shape. Don’t be such a fool as to try and fol-

“HE HAD APPARENTLY SUNK FORWARD.”

low me. Your father isn’t one and that’s where you’ve slipped up. ” “He shall pay for it whatever he’s done,” said her brother with an access of wild passion. “Where is he?” “Why, Jaek, you wouldn’t dare to see him now.” “Wouldn’t I?” He turned and ran, convulsed with passion, before the windows toward the front of the house. Zuleika slipped out of her bed-room and ran to her father’s room. He was not there. Already she could hear her brother hammering frantically against the locked front door. The door of the office was partly open. Her father was still there. Asleep? YeS, for he had apparently sank forward before the cold hearth. But the hands that he had always been trying to warm were now colder than the hearth or ashes, and he himself never again spoke, breathed, nor stirred. * # » * » * It was deemed providential by the neighbors that this youngest and favorite son, alarmed by the news of his father’s failing health, had arrived from the Atlantic States so opportunely. But it was thought singular that after the division of the property he entirely abandoned the ranch, and that even pending the division his beautiful but fastidious Eastern bride declined to visit it with her husband. [tile end.] Babies in the Dog Days. In view of the fact that an unusual number of cases of dogs suffering or supposed to be suffering from rabies have recently been reported, a New York World reporter called on Dr. Paul Gibier, of the Pasteur Institute, 178 West Tenth Street, to see what light he could throw on the subject. When asked if he could account for so many cases of hydrophobia so early in the season the Doctor said: “You refer, I suppose, to the popular belief that hydrophobia becomes more common during the so-called ‘dog days.’ Well, like most popular ideas, it has absolutely no foundation in fact. , That portion of the year known as the ‘dog days’ derives its name from ancient times, from the fact that at that season the ‘dog star’ or Sirius rose with the sun. It has no possible connection with hydrophobia.” “Do you not believe that in a great many cases dogs are killed that are believed to be mad that really have no symptoms of rabies?” Many times,” replied the Doctor. “But also I believe that there are many cases of dogs being mad who go quietly off and die in a corner without anyone ever having had the slightest suspicion of the fact. In many cases it takes some onside influence to goad the animal to that state of fury when it attacks other animals or persons. But dogs are not the only animals that suffer from hydrophobia. At one time I treated six children, all of whom hadrboen bitten by the same cat. To-day I discharged an old man who was bitten by a horse.” The case of 16-year-old Johnnie tiuvien, whcr“held up” a stranger on one of the piincipal streets of Chicago, and, failing to secure money with which to buy cigarettes, murdered his victim in cold blood, should give a boom to the Home Missionary Society. Why send missionaries to the half-starved cannibals of Fiji and the unregenerate heathen of Borioboola Gha while suehan inviting field for mission work lies within Chicago's corporate limits ? The crown jewels of Russia arevalued at 811,000,000, but sentimental Americans still take up collections in order to feed the Czar’s starving subjects and thus cement the. ancient friendship with the man who flaunts the jewels and ignores the famine. A summer school for female students is to be established in the Eiffel tower. The girls ought to be way up in their studies.

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital, *50,000, Bnrplua, *IO,OOO Orlgonlzed Aogutt 15,1883. Officers—T. T. Dorwin, Preaidrat; P. W. Smith, Vloe-Prssldont; IL 8. Peterson Caahier; T. T. Darwin, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkea, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Terveor, J. D. Hale and R 8. Peterson, Directors. , We are prepared to make Loans on good security, receive Deposits, tarnish 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. Officers—D. Studebaker. President; Robt. B. Allison, Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parts of the country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, -A.ttora.ey at Law Decatur, - - Indiana. E. LoBRUN. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, « Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices resonable. KBVIN, R. K. MANN, J. F, ERWIN & MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. RANCE & MERRYMAN. j. T. prance. W J. T. MERRYMAN Attorneys a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos.l, 2 and 3. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor, Decatur, Ind. Location iCentral—Opposite .Court House. The leading hotel in the city. Q. NEPTUNE, • DENIST. Now located over Holthouse’s shoe store, and 1b 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. t EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST M Calhoun-st. Fort Warne, Ind. JJEV D. NEUENSCHWANDER, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Heme, - Yndiana. Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A. G. HOLLOWAY, X’lxjrmiiola.xx <*s Sxirseon Office over Burns' haraesa 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 ot women and children specialties.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, 28 minute* slower than Columbus orformer time. Took effect Sunday, June 12,1882. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati .Ive 8 10am 850 pm Richmond! 220 pm 10 55 .. 11 25 Winchester.... 317 .. UM. 1212 am Portland 404 .. 1286 pm 12 4ft Decatur 610 .. 181 .. 128 Ft.Wayne...arr 8 00.. 215.. 205 “ “ ...Ive 285 .. 215 .. 805 am Kendallville 3 41.. 309 910.. Rome City 358 .. 322 .. 928 .. Wolcottville 4 01 9 31 .. Valentine 411 . 9 42.. LaGrange 419 .. 341 .. 951 .. Ltma 4 29 1003.. Sturgis 440 .. 400 .. 10 19 .. Vicksburg 538.. 458.. 1109.. Kalamazoo, arr 0 06 12 01 .. ..Ive 720 am 025.. 5 20.. 1215 pm Gr. Rapids.arr 929 .. 8 10.. 8 50.. 150 .. " “Bl . Ive 415 pm 10 30.. 7 20.. 2 00.. D.,G.H.4M.cr 4 29..10 45.. 7 27.. 214.. Howard City..•. 540 . 1150 .. 841.. 314 .. Big Rapids 852 .. 1238 am 945 .. 3 58.. Reed City 7 30.. 118 .. 10 20.. 4 20.. Cadillac arr 900.. 205.. 11 80.. 516.. ....Ive 215 .. 11 40 .. 620 .. Traverse City. 10 45 125 pm 8 56.. Kalkaska 3 48.. 110 Petoskey 545 .. 315 MucklnacCity 71b.. 445 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 8 No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City. 845 pm 8 00am 200pm ....... Petoskey 10 20.. 9 30.. 315. Kalkaska 12 38 .. 11 38 .. 502 Traverse City 11 10.. 480 .. 8 30am Cadillac ....arr 2 05am 115 pm 8 30.. 805 ..| “ □....1ve 215.. 135.. 650 pm 810.. Rood City 3 28.. 2 30.. 750.. 900.. Big Rapids 4 00.. 2 58.. 8 25.. 9 45.. Howard City.. 455.. 3 43.’. 920.. 1032.. D..G.H.*M.cr 805.. 605.. 1025.. 1135.. Gr. Ranids arr 620.. 5 20.. 10 40.. 1150.. " “ ..ive TOO.. 6 00.. 1120.. 200ptn , Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 800.. 1265 am 340.. ..Ive 855 .. 805 345 .. Vieksburgj 924 .. 833 412 .. Sturgis ;..1019 .. 928 503.. Lima 10 32 .. 940 513.. LaGrange ... .W 44 .. 952 523.. : Valentine 10 53.. 10 02 531.. 1 Wolcottville... 11 04 .. 1014 540.. RomelCity 1109 .. 10 19 545.. Kendallville. . 11 25 .. 1039 608.. Ft. Wayne..arr 12 40pm 11 50 715.. 1 “ " ...Ive 100.. 1 12 10am 645 am Decatur 148 .. 12 50 .. 430 Portland 2 40.. 1 48.. 73ft , Winchester... 3*17.. 2 35.. 809.. 1 Richmond MJSO .. 3 40.. 9Jo Cincinnati TOO. 855 .. ll2olnm ..• Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent, 1 JEFF'. BRYSON, Agent, Decatur. Ind. LOOK HERE! I am here to stay and can sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford tn sell them. I sell different makea. GLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable See me first and aare money. «7. T. COOTS,Decatur, Ind, aUd. Scientific American Agency M v J hJ 1 L 4 /il■J i ■ Ak w■ • I TRADE MARKS, DESIGN PATENTS COPYRIGHTS, etc. For information and free Handbook write to MUNN & CO.. 361 Broadway, New York. Oldest bureau for securing patents in America. Every patent taken out by us is brought before the public by a notice given free of charge in the Scientific American Largest circulation of any scientific paper in the world. Splendidly illustrated. No intelligent man should be without it. Weekly, 53.00 1 year; fLSO six months. Address MUNN & CO, vvblishkrs. 361 Broadway. New York.

SI.OO ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO MO H riAH S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEEKLY ENQUIRER fliecker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, $650.00 l Gladiator Watch and Casa ..... 30.00 I Lemaire 24 line Field Glass 20.00 l Holman Parallel Bible 13.00 I Venice Parlor Clock. . 12.00 I High Grade Safety Bicycle 125.00 An Elgin Watch and Boss Case. . . . 25.00 L Haydock Rice Coil Spring I Handy Top Buggy j • • ” 2(h) ’ M A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Case . 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters’ I «- aa Commercial College i ‘ 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. . . 311.00 A John C. Dueber Watch A 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 b«tvre«« Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TBAIHS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUCMOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour, DAT OR NIRHT, at moderate cost. Ask for tickets lia Toledo, St Lovis k Kansas City fl. S. Clovek Leaf Route. For further particulars, cal) on nearest Agent of the Company, or address O. C. JENKINS. 6«unl riuwrr Arnt, TOLEDO, OHIO. ♦ Erie Lines. Schedule in effect May 15. Traliis Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No.n. Vestibule Limited, dailv for I p M Chicago and the west No. 3. Pacific Express, dailv for I Chicago and the west ~.. f "' w No. 1, Express, daily for Chicago I M and the west.. p-.i- x-. m. N 0.31. Local.. ?W-®> A.M TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for). -,. K p M New York and 805t0n.,.., f ’ ’ ' ’< No. 12. Express, daily It'or New I i on A M Y0rk..,.. 1 ' No. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-1 ~eap u cept Sunday [ iwr.a. No. 30. Local 110:35 A, M. J. W. DeLong. Agent, . Frank M. Caldwell. D. P. A, Huntington, Ind.; F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A., Chicago, Hl. O.P. M. ANDREWS, Fhyßician. «fc Surgeon MONROE. INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 26-* Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orcho '•J. ZJ tomy. Overotomy. Castrating. Ridg ling, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing. and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone's hardware store. Decatur Indian*. Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. AGENTS WANTED Good Solicitors Only. Ladles or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from *2.00 to *B.OO a day. ENQUIRER COMPANY. CINCINNATI, O. The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Dkmocm*. one veat for *2.30. By subscribing now, yoa can have both papers through the great cua, psign of 1892. MONEY TQ LOAN On Farm Property on Long Tima. No Oommlmmloxx. Low Rate of Interest. F*rtl*lFaymenl« la acy amounts oaa be made at any time aa* •top Interest. Call on, or address, A. K. GRUBB, or J. F. MANN, Offiee: Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur. — . - - , £ i—• O.T. Hay. M. Flay ■sioiaaxi.dto fl*-vurs«osa ' t, Mearee, ■ . ■ Imdiaaa. AB calls promptly attended W day or alghh Office at residence. J. R. 8080, B. T. 8080. Master Commissioner. ■ S 8080 & SON, A.TTOHNKYS AT LAW. ' Seal Batata sad OoUeetion, Decatur, Ind.