Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1892 — Page 7

AN AFRICAN ROMANCE.

A Story Blended with Some Interesting Colonial History. w . •••■'

BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

CHAPTER I. I find that very few of my countrymen understand anything of the detail of village life in Africa. Because the people who print the maps choose to color one region with carmine and another with cobalt, people take an idea that there are groat nations there, each, I suppose, with a president, a congress, reporters, and primary meetings, and everything else to make people comfortable. All this is wrong. Africa, almost everywhere, and in • particular Central Africa, south of the Great Desert, and north of what wo call, conveniently enough, the Cape, is a land, I had almost said, of villages. By this I moan that there are. I dare not so how many tribes, living comfortably enough, each in its own place, only molested when Arab slave traders come along; now that the slave trade of the Atlantic has been happily put down. It Is in a little village in one of these really independent tribes that I had the adventure which 1 now describe. If you look on any map which is old enough you will find the kingdom of Lower Mandara. In that kingdom Is, or should be, this village of sixty or eighty huts.

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But with all deference to the men who made the maps, and the chromo-litho-graph men who color them, I doubt if anybody in that village ever heard of the kingdom of Upper or Lower Mandara, or knew that he lived under a kingt They lived a good deal as the people of Cranberry Center lived, before there wore canvassing committees for the county, and when they had not voters enough to send a member to the Legislature. For me, I had come up the Congo to a point—well, say sixty miles below Houssa, when something happened to the connecting rod of the steamer and she was, laid up for repairs for twentyfour hours. I was glad of the chance to stretch my legs and to try for game, and started off as soon as the engineer made this rpport, with my two boys, as they were called, Philip and Mend! John. Philip was of no great use but as an interpreter with the other, who had a great deal of good woodcraft in him and other working capacity. We had great luck, as how could a man fail to. going through meadows and wood which never saw an entomologist before? I had bagged and chloroformed and stuck, well, twenty-five line butterflies and had left a dozen traps for moths, to be examined when we came back next day. We had lunched under a grove of pepper trees, when I saw what I afterwards knew better, but what then I had never seen—a magnificent specimen of Vanessa, larger than Erckhardt’s, and, as I supposed, rightly, wholly new. I simply called to the boys that they were not to leave the place, and started after him. A blessed tramp ho led me, up hill and down dale. Hot! oh, how hot-it was! Bamboos here, pepper trees there, plantains, bananas, palm trees—now in the shade, now in the sun, and this lovely, flattering/ fluttering llutterer ahead of me, with the wiles and wit of a Siren and an Oread combined. But I was too much for him. After an hour 1 had the splendid creature—there he is now, framed and under glass, hanging on the wall opposite where I write. I slung my box on my back after I had chloroformed and fixed him, and then started back to my men. If I had found them there would have been no story. The truth was that my handsome wood nymph there, the Vanessa, had bewitched tiie brooks and the paths so that everything ran the wrong way. Even the sun in the heavens, when ho shone at all, shone in the wrong quarter. Most of the time the sky was overcast, so that the poor sun himself could not shine at all. And how was I to know my road there in the kingdom of Mandara, Upper or Lower, if the sun in the sky did not know his? I tramped and tramped. I had lost my own tracks long before. At last I came to a path tolerably well beaten, and it brought me out—on the river in sight of the sinoke- - stacks of the Princess Beatrice? Nota bit of it. It brought me out on the slope of a hill, on a large banana patch, with a village of sixty or seventy huts’ just below me. I will not say I was frightened, for there is no good in telling tales out of school. But I will not say I was not, for there is no good in lying. The sun, wherever ho was, was well near setting. For it was 6by my watch. I could not keep it much longer. So I boldly went down into the village. Half a dozen little curs snapped at me, just as if I had been in the village of the Yanktons, or In the Sahara. I made nothing of them, but passed on; and then, meeting a pleasant fellow, as black as the knave of clubs, with a handsome, good-natured face, clad in a long blue night-gown, made in a Manchester print shop for a bed curtain, I made a salaam to him, in the best fashion of Bel-el-djeree. And he, restraining his laughter, made one In quite another — fashion to me. Then he advanced, and boldly offered me his hand, as an Englishman might have done, much to my surprise. He said something also, but I knew not what; and I took precious good care not to lisp a word of Arabic. What I did was to lay my head on one side as if I were desirous of sleeping, and to put my finger In my mouth as if I wanted to eat. I had learned the first signal from the ballot, and the second from Mother Nature and the Navajo Indians. He laughed goodnaturedly and pointed to the village. A group of boys and girls, with a few uncles and aunts, fathers and mothers, were assembled already to see the wonder. For myself, I was asking myself whether they would sing, as they did to Mungo Park: - Let us pity the white man: No mother has he to bring him milk. No wife to grind his corn. But I ani not xrrltlng for Mr. Fewkes or the Ethnological Society. Bo I will only

say that my guide was evidently a topsawyer In the crowd, and that ho made them march right and left as he would. Before ten minutes had passed I was lying on two or three nice sweet mats of indescribable perfume, and a gentle blaek woman, dressed also in a high-colored Manchester chintz, had brought mo a cup of coffee. After this there was enough -Co eat, and of the best, too. And, to make the story as short as I can, in this house I spent the night, on these same mats, indeed. Conversation is very hard when it has to be confined to pantomime. I described the river as well as I could, and the play of the walking beam of the engine of the Princess Beatrice. Os one thing I may say I am certain—that my friend had seen her or had not. But, whether ho had seen her or not Ido not know. At one time I thought he had, and went on with Inquiries as to the distance that might part mo from her at that moment. But afterward I hail reason to think that ho supposed I described the Jumping up and down of some monkeys who had been playing upon the tree. Such are the dangers of sign language. After a little conversation of this sort I Intimated that I would like to go to sleep. He intimated that there was no better time nor place. With a consideration I had not expected, he stretched a mat, or sort of a curtain across the room—or house, for there was but one room under the roof —and I found myself in my bed-room. I cannot say that I went to bed. I was already in my bed —a rapidity of comfort I have not found in more elaborate forms of civilization. It was the next morning that the revelation came, which I am trying to write out in this story, if by good luck and persistent effort I can get to it. I wbs wakened early from a sound sleep, by the singing of the birds, I believe it is called by the poets. It was, in fact, the rasping and exasperating screaming of cocks, guinea hens, geese and ducks. For these African villages arc nothing without their poultsy. It is easy to dress when you have not undressed, and it was scarcely 6 o’clock when I found myself, not at table, for we were all on the ground, but at breakfast, with a larger company than the night before. The fare was much what it was then. There were plenty of bananas, much finer than the newsboy ever sold me on tl train. The resistance-piece was a platter of rice, with boiled chicken and butter, all together. The chicken was jointed so that one’ could take hold of j any piece he wished. For wo ate as I Adam and Eve did —if, indeed, they had come as far as kabobs of chicken. As I bent forward to take a side-bone which looked attractive, a fine old fellow in a white nightgown happened to see, hanging from my watch-chain, an old, very old, silver shilling. It was a shilling of Charles I. in perfect condition, which I dug up several years before in our orchard when I was setting out some quince trees. When the old man saw this ho bent over eagerly and begged me to show it to him that he might examine it. His manner was perfectly courteous. But I confess I thought I looked my last on my shilling. All these tokens of Manchester were enough to show that they had learned the value of money. This was the first time they had seen that I had any, and I was graceless enough to think that it would bp long before I handled my luck penny again. But in this I thought as a Philistine thinks, as you shall see. I gracefully unhitched it from the chain and gave it to him with my best manner. What says Jacob Abbot: “When you grant, grant cheerfully.” Old nightgown showed it eagerly to blue nightgown, and to a red nightgown on the other side. Their faces beamed with astonishment and delight. Then they pointed to each other the stamp on the obverse with evident joy. Then, with great ceremony, they handed back the piece to me. If it had been sacred it could not have been more reverently handled. Then blue and red nightgowns scrambled up from their haunehes, more rapidly than gracefully, and hurried from rhe house. What in thunder all this meant I could not guess. And I was more than satisfied When they returned, this time again with certain ceremony. For what I might call an escort, rather than a bodyguard, came with them. Through the great open doorway I could see the procession come of ten or twelve men, I could see it open to the right and left to make

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ft passage for red and blue and stand fixed as they came in. Instantly the mats were cleared from the platters as if a meal were done. Then they put down «a groat covered basket, tightly tied. With endless manipulations and ceremonies it was opened. The covers and cloths, napkins and mats taken out from it were numberless. But at last we came to a handsome necklace, ma.de of three gold coins and say thirty silver coins. This really elegant thing they handed fearlessly to me. You know I am a bit of an expert in coins. The three gold pieces, which were made, so to speak, the center of the necklace, were perfect Portuguese Joes, as perfect as If they had been struck yesterday. The silver coins, also fresh from the mint, were English shillings, exactly like mine, but that they were not in the least worn, out of the coinage of Charles I. As everybody knows, these are, if in good condition, among the very rarest coins in the world, poor Charles having, for reasons known to history, very little silver to coin. The Joos, as I said, were fresh from the mint Os King Joannes of Portugal, the fourth of that name. In another wrapper, where I found a husk or two of Indian corn was a very handsome wampum necklace of Narragansett manufacture. It had boon my business to study wampum; not to say to make it, to buy it, and to sell it. I have never seen more perfect beads

than these, white and black both, and all of the best forms. I have no doi/bt that the string was in the same condition as when It was traded away by Canonious or some of his men. This revelation was more extraordinary than the other. Sliver and gold, almost of their nature, go all over the world. But wainfluin does not. How did this necklace—it was not a belt—come hero? I expressed by every sign—by raising of the eyebrows, holding up of my open palms, and radiant smiles—my interest, curiosity and surprise, I might say puzzled amazement. Then I handed back the two necklaces, respectfully, to Bedgown. Then the ceremony continued. More mats wore withdrawn from the basket. Another parcel was reached, largbr than the first. This was carefully opened, with sundry prostrations, and a knock or two of the forehead upon |t. When all was opened it proved to be a bound book, which was handed to me reverently. I opened it at the title page, to find a perfect English Bible. For an instant I thought it was a waif from Mungo Park’s equipment. No, it was of a

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date much earlier than he. "Cum Privilegio, London, 1642. Published by the King’s Printer.’’ How, when or why, by what agency of church, state or trade, had these things found their way here? CHAPTER 11. I did not choose to abate the reverence with which I saw this book was regarded. I am as little given to bibliolatry as any man. But in this case I made no scruple. I bowed as low as Bedgown had bowed, and touched my forehead to the volume. Then I commanded silence. I opened at the Sermon on the Mount. I read the first three beatitudes and the Lord’s prayer ' aloud,as solemnly and with such dignity as I could express. By a signal I made them all bow <&ieir heads. And, with all my heart, I awrSure, on my knees, I said, “Father in heaven, tell me what to do, what to say, and how to lead these people.” I am sure they understood that I offered prayer. I gave back the book to the curious and dignified old chief, who was, I think, a priest of some kind. .1 carefully watched the folding of it in mats, anti the business of taking it away with the necklace. Then I began g series of signs, and such interrogatories as can bo expressed by them, wishing At the time that I had the skill of Harlequin or of Columbine, in translating into “visible speech” the languageof the ear. They led me out into the open air. They showed me the sun, which tfas by this time half an hour high. I was made to understand that he rose at one spot in one part of the year and at another at another season. Then I felt that we were advancing. I had the night before been made to understand that two doubled lists made ten. Now by repeated pilings together of the fists of one and another chief and priest, I was' taught that it was twenly-four tens of years since these things came into their possession. The son* of Bed Gown was brought forward, a vigorous man of 50, and his son, a small lad of 15. I was made to understand that Bed Gown’s father’s father’s father, seven generations back, brought the sacred things from a country beyond the sunset. He had preserved them, and, as I found afterwards, by oaths the most sacred in formulas more binding than anything which is known to book-ruled lands, he had bound his children and his children’s children to preserve them. I say “I was made to understand this.” How much I really gained from that long and trying conversation in pantomime I do not precisely know, but when my interpreters appeared, my guesses were confirmed or corrected, so that I find it now hard to say at what ’moment I gained the correct ideas. By this time they had missed me from the ship. My black fellows had gone home at ten o’clock at night and reported that I was lost. At sunrise they sent these two out again and some ■ volunteer skirmishers. By nine o’clock 1 some of the Blue Gown’s people met; some of these scouts, and by ten I had Phil and John to talk for me. Bed Gown produced a man who had taken a Mepdi wife, and so, with four languages and interpreters, we understohd each other in away. The first time I was at home in Connecticut, some five years after this happened, I made a run down to Boston, and there, in their archives, I got their part of the story. Strange enough it is, and you shall hear it now. It was in the year 1645 that, in this same village of Lower Mandara, looking much then as it looks now, there was to be' a first-class wedding. This young fellow, as ho was then, who is the hero of this story henceforth—his name was Telega—was to be married. And ho was to be married to his sweetheart, as it happened. lam afraid it did not always happen so. But all the accounts agree that it was a match of Ids making ■ —nay, I believe they think, as I do, that this is the reason why we ever hoard of him again. Well, the forms of marriage were not ours. But in all countries lingers the tradition that the groom seizes the bride as, with her maidens, sho goes unescorted by him. So Pluto seized Proserpine in Enna. And so, to this ■ day, in a high wedding at church the . bride and her maidens walk up the aisle, with the flowers they have gathered in ; their walk, and the groom, rightly . dressed, with his men perhaps, steps I out and takes her for, his own. So the bride walked with her maidens that day; so at an ambush prepared an‘d known of , all, Telega and his men scizeil her,’and j then the-procession passed oh, he lead- i ing her to the great central house of the village, where the rite would comb to an end. i Well, just as the tom-toms and banjos were doing their best that day, and j the dancing girls dancing their best, , down came a dozen Portuguese slavedrivers, with quilted cotton jackets on, I such as turned arrows, and with guns loaded and matches burning. The , dancing-girls shrieked and ran. The I tom-tom men and boys ran. And Telega J and his father and his friends fought like wildcats. But what had they to { fight with? They wore not oven i It ended in the Portuguese rascals clap-; ping handcuffs on seventeen of them and marching tlfom off to a dhow which was waiting for them on the river. It was, as the traditions agreed, at the very bluffKwhere the Princess Beatrice was mending her connecting rod, the day I wandered so far. Tradition is far more |

accurate, before books, paper, and Ink camo in. What happened then I do not know. But It Is clear enough that Telega and his neighbors were not used to being slaves, and that they led the Portuguese a wretched life. They knocked them down, they jumped overboard, they set the biirraooons on fire, and at the last the Portuguese captain was glad enough to trade Telega off to a man whose language he could not understand, who hod boon blown south from Salles, a Moorish port where he was trading. This man of the unknown language was no other than Nathan Gibbons, a roaster who had sailed out of Boston, in a ship rigged as a brigantine, whose name Ido not know. He looked around him in. the Bight of Benin, he picked up some cotton and some palm-oil and a little gold-dust, ho watered his vessel and wont back to Lisbon with her. What happened then Ido not know. Ido know that, four or five months after the wedding was broken up, Master Telega, the oridegroom, was landed at Gibbons’ Wharf In Boston. I know that Gibbons’ uncle was selling off the cargo, and that Telegn was advertised by poster and by town-crier, to bo sold, ns a hearty, strong, negro boy, just arrived from Africa. [TO BE CONTINUED.’ Only a Cabin Boy. A big battle was being, fought between the English and Dutch navies; Sir John Narborough was the English admiral, and the masts of his ship had been shot away almost directly after the fighting began. In spite of the greatest care and the most splendid bravery, Sir John saw that the English must be beaten unless he could get help. There were a few ships some distance off to the right, but they were to act as a reserve, and would not enter into the battle without a message from him. Sir John stood a moment considering how the message could be sent. It was not possible to signal; there was only one way—the message must be carried. The admiral wrote his order, telling thefeserve to come’and help him at once; then he called for any one who was willing to be the messenger. Think of the scene a moment, and then you will understand what a brave heart was fiqeded for the service. Below was the sea; around, above, in it, there rained a heavy shower of bullets. The long swim would be trying enough, but to swim with the chance of tr- ng shot every second was terrible. Yeb many sailors came forward at their admiral’s call, ready to risk their lives fortheir country’s good. They were all grown-up men, and they must have stared in Wonder-as one of the Cabin boys, Cloudesley Shovel, said: “I can swim, sir; and if I am shot I shall be missed le’ss than any one else.” After a moment’s hesitation the paper was handed to the boy, who put it between his teeth and sprang overboard. How the men watched him as long as he could be seen! He reached the reserve ships in safety, and, as they went into action at once, a victory was gained by the English. When the sun was setting Cloudesley Shovel stood once more upon the admiral’s ship, and received his heartiest thanks. “I shall live to see you have a flag ship of your own.” he said. The admiral’s words came true, for the brave cabin boy became Sir Cloudesley Shovel, one of the greatest British admirals. Higher Authority. When Sherman reached Atlanta, he had much trouble in keeping back camp-ipllowers, sutlers, women,’ cu-riosity-seekers, and so on. He gave stringent orders that no one was td be allowed to go to the front without a specific order. Just about that time a surgeon came back from a furlough. He had passes through to Atlanta, but at Chattanooga they refused to allow his wife to accompany him further. They had only been married a few weeks, and he had resolved that she should go with him, orders or‘■no orders. Accordingly he dressed her as a soldier, and managed to smuggle her op a train. At Resaca, she was stopped, her sex being discovered. The officer of the post absolutely refused to let her go on. The surgeon pleaded. Finally, after appealing to the officer’s sense of mercy, he fell back on Scripture. “My pass allows one to go to the front,” he said, “and Scripture says a man and Ins wife are one.” “Thunder!” retorted the officer; “Sherman outranks Scripture all tc blazes in these times.” Paper-Covered Bullets. In consequence of the enormous initial velocity of the bullet in the new Mannlichcr rifle, and the resulting friction and wear on the barrel, it has become necessary to devise some method preventing botli of these evils. The manager of the Government Laboratory at Thun. Switzerland. has consequently devised a method of inclosing th© leaden bullet in a thin metallic covering, while over this he places a wrapper of specially prepared oleaginous paper, which reduces Hic weaf of the rifle barrel to a minimum, without inter sering with the course of the bullet. Used Them for Observatories. The white ant constructs habitations many yards in height, which arc so firmly and solidly built that the buffaloes were able to mount , them and use them as observatories; they are made of particles of wood joined by a gummy substance, and are able to resist event the force of i> hurricane. a Birds of Great Swiftness. The speed of a hawk or gull on the wing, is almost incredibly great.• One of the swiftest hawks Could make a circle round the smoke stack of a locomotive traveling 60. miles an hour; while a gull has often been known to fly before a favorable wind at the rate of 100 miles an hour. Unique I inbrella Handles. The mew umbrellas have unique handlesJlwhich serveadouble purpose. One of the latest London novelties is a dog’s head of carved wood.The mouth opens on a tram ticket. Another handle has a whistle for calling cabs, and in the third is an opera glass. The Prince of Wales has trouble with the inside of his throat, probably duo to continual friction.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Timo, 28 minutes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Sunday, June 12,180!. 1 f- GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No, 5 No, 7 Cincinnati..ire 810 am Hflflpm Richmond) 220 pm ID M.. 11125 Winchester.... 317 .. 11 55 . . 112 I2air. Portland 404 .. 1235 pm 12 45 Decatur 5 10 .. 131. 128 Ft.Wayne...arr 0 00.. 2 15.. 235 " “ ...Ive 2 35,. 215 805atn Kendallville 3 41.. 8 00. oil).. ■ Rome City 3 50.. 823.. 920.; I Wolcottville... 401 '931.. Valentine.. 4 11 9 43 .. I,at;range .... 4 10.. 341 951 .. Lima.., 4 29 110 03.. Sturgis 4 40,. 400 . 110 19., Vicksburg 5 30.. 4 50. .1109.. Kalamazoo.arr • . O<K ....112 01 . - ive 720 am 0 25.. 520.. 1215 pm Or. Rapids, arr 929 810 6 50.. Ino .. •• Ive 415 pm 10 80.. 720 . 2'10.. D., GH.4M.cr 4 29. 1045.. 727.. 2 14.. Howard City... 540 .. 11 IK) 8 41.. 314 .. Hlg Rapids 053 .. 12 3flam 945 .. 350 .. Reed City 7 30.. 1 03.. 10 20.. 4 20,. Cadillac arr 9 00.. 3 05.. 1130-.. 5 15.. •• ....Ive 215 .. 11 40 .. 520 .. Traverse City. 10 45 125 pm 0 55.. Kalkaska 348 .. 110 Petoskey 545 .. 315 Mackinac City 71b.. 445 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 0 No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City. 845 pm 8 00am 200pm Petoskey 10 20 .. 930 .. 315 Kalkaska 1230 .. 11 30 .. 502 Traverse City 11 10.. 430 .. 0 30am Cadillac ... arr 2 05am 115 pm 030.. 8 05.. J - o ....Ive 215 .. 135.. 050 pm 810.. Heed City 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 50.. 900.. Big Rapids 4 00.. 2 58.. 8 25.. 9 45.. Howard City.. 455.. 3 43.. 9 20.. 10 32.. D.G.H.iM.cr tios .. 5 05.. 10 25.. 1135.. Gr. Ranlds arr 0 23.. 5 20.. 10 40.. 1150.. " “ ..Ive 700 . 6 00.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55am 340.. ..Ive 855 .. 805 345 .. Vicksburg - ,.... 924 .. 833 412 .. Sturgis 1019 .. 920 503 .. Lima 1032.. 940 513.. LaGrange.... 10 44 .. 952 523 .. Valentine 10 53.. 10 02 5 31.. Wolcottville...lll 04 .. 110 14 540 .. RomeJTty 1109 10 19 5 45.. Kendallville. .'ll 25 . 1039 006 .. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 715 .. •• “ ...Ive 100..|1210am 545 am Decatur 146 .1250,. 630.. Portland 2 40.. 1 46. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 35.. 809 Richmond 4>7).. 3 40. fl 15 Cincinnati 700 ~ 6 55, 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 HERE! I am here to stay and can sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anvbody else can afford to sell them. I sell different make*. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable See me first and save money. «T. T. COOTS,Decatur, Ind, aAAAta. Scientific American Agency for ■ J WJ J L iW■ J I ■ I■k■ E • 1 19| CAVEATS TRADE MARKS, PATENTS COPYRIGHTS, etc, For information and free Handbook write to MUNN A CO„ 351 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 roan should be without it. Weekly, 53.00 a year; SLSO six months. Address MUNN & CO, vrsusHERS. 361 Broadway, Nev York.

SI.OO ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO AMD A YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTIOM TO THE WEEKLY ENQUIRER A Decker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, $650.00 A Gladiator Watch and Caso ... t. 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 Caso. . . , 25.00 A Haydock Rice Coil Spring) onA J Handy Topßnggy i” ’’ 200 ’ 00 A Puiiliray Watch in 14 Case. 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters’ I -- Commercial College j” ’ W A Six Octave Champion Organ .... 200.00 A Double Barrel Shot Gun. . . v . . 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. DueberCase. . . 30.00 A John C. Dueber 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 subscriber* in the five largest lists received from Nov. 1, ’9l, to March . 31, ’92. For same terra 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 sed 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 between Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. vestibuleFsleepTng cars ON NIGHT O-MF4I3 SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour, DAV OR NIGHT, at moderate cost, Isk for tickets via Toledo, St Louis A Kansas City R. & Cloverleaf Route. For farther particulars, call on nearert Agent of the Company, or address O. C. JENKINS. Ousel 4JU,. TOLEDO, OHIO, Lines. Schedule in effect May 15. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. N 0.5, Vestibule Limited, daily for I o.m p « Chicago and the west. t I r ‘ ‘ No. 3. Pacific Express, daily fori u Chicago and the west ... f " ‘ ‘ No; 1. Express, daily for Chicago I. p u andthewest.. No. 31. Local y 10:35 A. M TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for 4 p w New Vork and Boston ) J' No. 12. Express, daily {for New I ..qqa MYork .................... I No. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-1 ~^p a cept Sunday i P. M. No-30. Local. ? 10:35 A. M. J. W. DeLono. Agent, Frank M. .Caldwell, D. P. A, Huntington, Itfd.; F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A., Chicago, 111. O.P. M. AXDBEWB, r’Etysician db Surgeon MONROE, INDIANA. Office, and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 20-* .1' > Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary AfhJy Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orcho MzT tomv, Overotomy. Castrating, Bldg ling, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store, Decatur Indiana. Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur. Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. AGENTS WANTED 9 Good Solicitors Only. Ladles or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from 02.00 to fej)o a day. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. The Cincinnati Enquirer and'fheDXMOCBAV one year for *2.30. By subscribing, now, you can have both papers through th* great cam paign of 1892. MONEYTOLOAN On Farm Property on Long Tim*. No OoxxxxKXl.mal.oxx. Low Bate of Interest. JP’twtlm.l Fmyxxxmxxta In any amounts can be made at any unwaa* •top interest. Call on, or address, A. K. GRUBB, or J. P. MAJfIT, ", Offtos: Odd Fellowl' Building, Decatur. Q.T. May, M D, Pbtyalclaxxcil Sxxx*c»on Mearee, laAlaaa. All calls promptly attended to day or eight iffloe at residence. J. R 8080, R T. 8080. Master Commissioner. 8080 & SON. IXTTOKNHIYS -Xl’ LAW, Beal Bstate and Collection, Decatur, Ind.

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