Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1892 — Page 3

M AFRICAN ROMANCE.

A Story Blended with Some Interesting Colonial History.

BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

CHAPTER 111. Thus it is that I ain able to fix the date much better than if I had to rely on that business of the double fists and the rislu and setting of the sun. There were no newspapers in Boston, but there was a great deal of conversation, and whatever was posted up on tha town pump, or at the town house hard by, or above the whipping post, or on the front of the meeting house, was rapidly repeated from mouth to mouth. So Was it that the week had not ended before the town knew perfectly well that a “Ginny black” was offered for sale. And in one and another conference, in which Winthrop and Dudley and John Cotton took the load, as they came out from the Thursday lecture, the matter was discussed in all its relations. When John Cotton and John Williams went into the meeting house Thursday morning they, did not know much about the matter, and far less did they know what they thought about it. But, after the Informal conversation with the other elders, after the meeting was over, and before they left the house, both-of them knew very well. Winthrop knew what they thought, and Dudley knew; for, in a fashion, Winthrop end Dudley had had their share in telling John Cotton what it was as well that he should think. And so, when people went to meeting on Sunday, there was quite a general impression in the congregation that before they came out they would know what was to be done with the black man. The meeting-house was always as full as it would hold. On this occasion Wilson led the congregation in prayer; then he “deaconed out” one of the psalms, as versified for the congregation. Then Cotton led in prayer, and, after the prayer, he announced the text of his discourse. It was from the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth verses of the eighteenth chapter of Revelations. *Alas, alas, the great city of Babylon, that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgm nt come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more; the merchandise of gold and sliver, and precious stones, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, snd scarlet, and all thyine wodd, and *ll manner vessels of Ivory; and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and Iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.” The first head was a description of Babylon in all its glory. The second head showed that, although Boston was but a small town now—nay, had been sailed “Lost Town” In the sneers of the people around her —there was every why, if Boston held firmly in her Moyalty to the living God, King of kings, / (and Lord of lords, Boston should have I more wealth and trade and rule and dominion than any of the principalities and powers of the heathen. The third Lead showed that all this was impossible for Boston if she did not cleave to the living God, and did not live by His commands. 'The fourth head showed, by full reference to the books of thq Old Testament, that God’s people made no slaves excepting In war. The fifth [head pointed out. the denunciations of I the prophets against the Syrians, be--1 cause they bought and sold slaves from I the islands of the West. And the sixth I head brought all this to a close, in its denunciation of Babylon because she traded in souls and slaves. I “I have read to you," he said, "from I the word of God, the names of some of > those things which perish with the I using, which this great Babylon bought and sold. I have read to you also the names of treasures which do not perish in the using, which this Babylon pretended to sell and to buy. It is all as Boston can buy corn and fish and fur, as Boston can buy beaver and otter and skin of mink and skin of bear, as Boston can send out her sasafras to England and buy her cotton from the Indies, so could Babylon buy and sell cinnamon and frankincense." And then he read the whole verse. “But woo to Babylon, because she bought, or tried to buy, the souls of men! Babylon the great is fallen, because she bought those ■ slaves which her merchants captivated far away. And woe to this town, which we thought the Lord founded, woe to His kingdom, which we thought was to \ come even in the wilderness, in the day \ when our shipmen and our merchants shall carry away from us our furs and our spices, and shall bring back to us, for a recompense, slaves and the souls I of men." Then, pausing for a moment, < he went on to address the King of kings in prayer. The whole, congregation, thrilled and excited, rose to their feet and stood os he prayed, pouring out the anger of his eloquence in eager words. “O Lord God, save thy people, and save thy heritage! Let not thd curse and the damnation fall on this place which fell upon those heathen. Let not. thine own people, the sheep of thine own pasture and the flock of thine own hand, stray in the waste in which the Gentiles strayed. Let them not taste the fruit that was forbidden, let them not drink of the waters of Marah. Save, 0 God, save In this thy time! Blot out from the book of thy remembrance our follies and sins in the days that are past Remember thine own infinite mercy, and hold fast to thine own purpose in the redemption of this land, and show thy people, in the light and majesty of thine own holy spirit, how to undo the chains that they have bound, how to turn back from the paths of their 1 weakness, and how to proclaim liberty to the captive. 0, rule in this thy land, thou who art King of kings and God of gods, thou Lord of hosts. Rule for our good, and do not trample us under the feet of thy vengeance. Save us, save, we beseech thee, 0 Lord! Lift up him that is oppressed, break the bonds of I him who is enslaved, and set the prisoner free. Save us, Lord Jesus, who hast been pleased in thine own flesh, to lead' captivity captive, and thine shall be the glory and the honor, the power and the dominion, forever and ever, world without end, Amen.” And then he directed them to sing the forty-fourth psalm. Wilson, as before, gave out the tines one'by one, and the congregation ail joined in a fashion in the singing. Wilson pronounced the t- bsacdiotloii and the wrambiy was ttis* I solved. I There is no diary nor notebook which I gives any account of the conversation I in excited circles on that day or the I next. But in the colony' records, brief I as fate but no less decided, is the I memorandum: , I “The Court wrote to Mr. Williams of. | Plscataqua, requesting him to send the H negro which he had of Mr. Smyth that I they might send him back to Ginny." I CHATTER IV. | It was this promptness of the general leourt whlrt dramatic K

close to the story, as It was finally told me by my four Interpreters. At the first, even after the Interest I had shown in the necklace and in the book, they had not understood how intense was my curiosity, and how eager I was to gratify It In every detail. As I have intimated already, they had one detail and another of it to give me, such as I should search for vainly, though I should go up and down among the oldest people In Boston, and ask to tell me what they remembered of October, 1645. Alas, eo soon as we give ourselves over to printing-presses and libraries, this matter of tradition, from father to son, and from mother to daughter, dies out. But this tale of the days and weeks and months which Telega the “Ginny Black" spent in Boston, while they were waiting for a mast-schooner to sail from Piscataqua, which might transfer him to a Guinea trader, which should take him to the Congo—this tale had been repeated, without any “Hussion scandal," and without any vagi eness of detail, for seven generations. Cotton and Wilson and Winthrop and Dudley, with all the pride of upper and ink, have been more reticent. They have not told whether he dined with them or I breakfasted with them or took his tea ' with them. Winthrop has not told by i what efforts of interpreters he tried to . find out whether this man knew that he | was a grandson of Ham or whether he I did not know. This is certain, that, Telega picked up some words of English, ; and I found that they still had the name of the shillings in the necklace, and they still knew and could speak the word Smyth in a fashion, and more plainly the word Cotton, and they knew as well that the wampun necklace was a treasure of a different sort from the string of silver and gold. Telega had seen • and driven horses and oxen: Telega had been taught to sail In a boat and to fish with English fishing tackle; Telega had once been trusted with the care of sheep; Telega had been able to tell of the cocks and hens for whom he had scattered corn morning and evening; and at last, when Telega had been sent, as I found, to the Plscataqua for his farewell—sent with the blessings of priests and the hearty hand-shaking of many others—he had been told that the money that was given to him was to be used for any purpose of his passage, if he should find himself in a strait; but, as the reader will see, he fell Into no misfortune which an Intelligent black like himself, with a smattering of two languages besides his own, could not fairly meet. He had carried in a bag at his neck, concealed under his clothing, the three joes and thirty-one shillings, which had been given him by the treasurer in the town house in Boston, and he had brought them out safely when he arrived at his home. He had also brought with him the copy of the Scripture, which he had been made to understand was more precious by far than the joes and the shillings. After he had gained some little knowledge of the English language, I suppose that one "nd another attempt had been made to ics.ue his squl from 11s certain danger. But It was clear enough that nobody pretended that he had thus gained any understanding of the vital truths of the religion of John Cotton. There had been no blasphemous baptizing, and he had been left—unwillingly, I dare say—to worship such gods as he found in the streams or the stars. Only John Cotton had borne his testimony in a fashion, by holding up for him and giving him, as a precious keepsake, the copy of the Bible, which had with such reverence been shown to me. As soon as I had been made to understand this I begged that the book might be brought to me again. I opened and examined it carefully, hoping to find John Cotton’s name, or some notes from his hand. But there was hardly a written word. Once or twice a palpable printer’s error had been corrected. For the rest, it was as it had been sent to Boston from London. Why, 0, why did not dear John Cotton, if it were he, write something on that flyleaf, which seemed made for writing? Or, putting it in general, why did people who wrote so much that is dull, and said so much that there wns no need of saying—why did they hold the pen, just when we their cliildren are most eager to road and hoar? CHAPTER V. This ends the story, so far as the Massachusetts records go. A year after, the Bay people had'to send back a “Ginny Interpreter” and another black, who had slipped into their hands in much the same way. Telega, who had

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had the name of “Cotton" given him ' also, In sign, I suppose, of the friend-1 ship of that preacher, went, I think, to i Bristol In England. Certainly It was to some English town larger than the American Boston. Clearly he was no fool, and in Bristol he needed no one to take care of him. There were enough of his own race there, though I suppose none of his own village. For a special reason he was eager to be at home. He had, however, to take care what vessel he chose. Fortunately for him he did not choose wrong. Whatever the vessel was, as they passed the latitude of the Straits of Gibraltar, they fell In with a pirate rover from Salle, on* of the Moorish ports. Os the fight which followed all my ntary-tellere had much more ’to" ten than of anything that happened to him in Piscataqun or in Boston. In that fight poor Telega had a bullet shot through his chest, and of this shot I am told he bore the mark when he died, seventy years after. His real dangers did not begin—and this he knew—until he was in the Bight of Benin. Had not his English captain been true as steel he would have sold him there to the first Portuguese trader he found. But Telega had not chosen a knave nor a pirate among the British shipmasters. He had chosen a Godfearing man, who would have kept his promise though he had “promised to hl*

low.* I was told, in delightful det«S, how ho was kept below until the ship wm fairly at her anchorage off the mouths of the rlvor. Then J was told how, on a dark night in July, he was called and how the English captain bode him good-by. He was put upon a boat, with a good store of hard bread and a bit of dried beef and, what he prized more, what we might call a carbine, a pouch with match and bullets and a flint and steel. The captain fell on his knees on the deck and prayed to hi* God and bode Telega good-by. A sea breeze was blowing so that the sailors could put sail on the boat, and when morning came she was well up the river. I was told how Jong they hid themselves from Portuguese marauders and then, at length which I could have well spared, I was told where at last he was landed on the northern bank, not an hour too early, as it proved. In what followed in this long story, the reason appeared for his pressing haste. On the morning of the fourth day after he parted from his Bristol friends, he came out on the hillside, where I first saw the village. It was a year to a day since the wedding proces-

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■lon had been interrupted so wretchedly. He knew that, and he knew what depended on the passage of a year. By all the customs of his tribe, his sweetheart, his almost wife, was a widow for that year. But it was for that year only. When the year was ended she might be betrothed again. Telega did not believe that there would be any 1 careful astronomy in this affair. He knew very well that when twelve moons ■ were over every man in the village would think he had a right to the prettiest girl and the most lovely in the village. Here was his leason for refusing to wait with the English captain till he should have gone to Fernando Po, and still he should have come up the river to trade for ivory. As I have said, he was not an hour too early. As he approached the village no one met him. “He was afeared, it was so still.” -This was Philip’s phrase to me, in interpreting. He hurried all the • faster. He passed a elose grove of pepper trees to see in it the pretended ambush of a bridegroom and his men in full dress waiting for the bride’s procession. Telega had been stealing along as a i cat does, and this merry group did not see him. But he seems to have seen his advantage. He passed them on the Instant, he went twenty paces further, he hid himself under a heavy tuft of banana plants, and he bad not to wait long. The bride came, wretched enough for all her I bridal toggery. She had insisted on wearing two or three sea-gull feathers, ; which were tokens of deepest mourning, i She wept as if she were at her husband's ; funeral. She flung away a bunch ot ' flowers which the new bridegroom’s mother gave to her. None the less was this a bridal procession. Banjos and tomtoms and the whole village behind and before made this certain. A large stone to-day marks the corner where Telega, gun in hand, sprang out like a tiger, and, in literal fact, seized his bride. Pluto was not less expected in Enna. The girl screamed now to some purpose, and in a minute was sobbing with her head upon his shoulder. The banjos and the tomtoms were ■ silent. And bridegroom number two, with his handsome cohort of “best | man” — hearing nothing after, they I should have heard music and song— I after a mysterious minute or two came out from their lair to learn what had hindered the procession. At this point the story, which I heard i. two or three times at least —once as I we went up the river, twice as we came ! down —varies in its forms. Who can i wonder, after nearly 250 years? But there can be no doubt that when i Telega caught his bride with his left I arm, and when she sobbed upon his j shoulder, his right hand held the matchlock, and he blew the match to be sure that it was a live coal. And when that braggart, groom No. 2, came up, howling and storming, Telega turned over his bride to one of her women, dropped the gun to a level, and, in very classical language of Mandara, told bridegroom No. 2 tliat, if he did not keep a civil tongue in his head, he would blow his brains out. Nay, more, I am afraid that Elder Cotton’s seed I had sprouted so ill that Telega would have done what he said, had there been occasion. But there was no occasion. The game was played through. There were elders In the village who had as much to do with its affairs us in that other village of mud walls and thatched-roofs called Boston, where John Cotton and John Wilson and Thomas Dudley and John Winthrop did the thinking for the rest, and told them what was right and i what was wrong. Nay, the evident public opinion of the procession was in favor of the handsome young traveler, who had been in Europe, hot to say America, and had brought home its latest fashions. There were bridemaidens, as you saw, and they whispered: “ ’Twere better by far to have matched our fair cousin to her old sweetheart.” And so, after some flourishing of clubs and knives, much scolding, swearing, threatening and other debating, three or four elders, much like ’ those I have described, I think, stilled all voices and bade the tom-toms and the banjos begin again. I doubt if It were the march in “Midsummer Night’s Dream," but it answered every purpose of that midsummer noonday as well. Bridegroom No. 2 sulked off. But all his men joined in the procession, and afterward, I fancy, partook of the banquet. And, though his cabin was not occupied for a day or two, a sufficiently good cabin was found for all purposes of TeTega and his bride. This happy conclusion to a story so sad yras brought when the general court in the bay voted to send the “Ginny black man" home. But I should never have heard it but for “King Chariest. Shilling." ■ .. - (R— ■ ——■ — Slang from a Good Source. An English paper recently alluded to the expression “dark horse” as a piece of American slang. It would probably surprise that editor to know that Thackeray in “The Adventures of Philip," and Beaconsfield in “The Young Duke” both used the expression, and in each case in precisely the sense in which it is now employed, to denote a candidate who early in the race does not appear at alt'

Extraordinary Calculating Faculty. I This gift, like Blind Tom’s musical talent, very often Is accompanied by rather inferior mental power or even very defective intellect In other respect*. A correspondent of the Sclentitle American (N. J. Allison of Columbus, Kan.) gives the following notes regarding the prodigious calculating faculty possessed by Reuben Field, native of La Fayette county, Missouri, about forty-five years old. Field Is described as a very strong, heavy-set man.” He never went to school’ even a day, for the sole reason that he was always regarded an Idiot He, can neither read nor write, and his reasoning powers have never developed lieyond those of a child of the most ordinary intellect In the face of these facts, however, he has the keenest perception of the relation of numbers and quantities, and is able, as if by instinct, to solve the most intricate mathematical problems. He does not know figures on a blackboard, but he understands them perfectly in his mind. No one has ever been able to “catch him" to multiplication or division. He has been given such problems as The circumference of theearth is, in round'numbers, 25,000 miles. How many flax seeds, allowing twelve to the inch, will it require to reach around it?” Within a minute he returns tne answer: “19.008,000,000. If the distance to the sun or to any of the planets is taken, he answers with as great ease. If given the day of the month and the year on which an event occurred, he instantly gives the day of the week. But what is yet more remarkable is that he can tell the time at anv hour, day or night, without ever missing it, even a minute. If awakened out of a deep sleep in the darkness of night, and asked the time, he gives it at once. Once in my office I asked him the time. He repled at once: “Sixteen minutes after three.” In older to tost him, I drew him off upon some other question, not letting him know my object, and when seventeen minutes had passed, I looked at my watch, and asked him the time. He said: “Twenty-seyen minutes to four,” , , The Chisholm Cattle Trail. The most famous trail of all was the “Chisholm Trail.” It was named after John Chisholm, an eccentric frontier stockman, who was the first to drive over it. Chisholm lived at Paris, Tex., was a bachelor, and had many thousand head of cattle on the ranges in the southern part of the State. From 200 to 400 yards wide, beaten into the' bare earth, it reached over hill and through valley for over 600 miles (including its southern extension), a chocolate band amid the green prairies, uniting the North and South. As the marching hoofs, wore it down, and the winds blew, and the waters washed the earth away it became lower than the surrounding count r y, and was flanked by little banks of sand, drifted there by the wind. Bleaching skulls and skeletons of weary brutes who had perished on the journey gleamed along its borders, and here and there was a low mound showing where some cowboy had literally “died with his boots on.” Occasionallya dilapidated wagon frame told of a break-down, and spotting the emerald reaches on either side were the barren, circlelike “bedding grounds,’’each a record that a great herd had there spent a night. The wealth of an empire passed over the trail, leaving its mark for decades to come. The traveler of today sees the wide trough-like course, with ridges being washed down by the rains, and with fences and farms of the settlers and the more civilized red men intercepting its track, and forgets the wild and arduous life of which it was the exponent. It was a life now outgrown, and which will never agaln.be possible. —Scribner. Keeping: Their Courage Fp. Parisians extract atousementfrom everything that happens to them, no matter how terrible. Recently they were much agitated and excited by explosions of dynamite brought about by anarchists; but in the midst of their alarm and indignation, they found time to make a great many jokes about the mater. One writer, for instance, demanded that a law should lie passed providing for the arrest and imprisonment of all wives who were suspected of an intention to blow up their husbands. The proprietor of a large apartment building amused passers-by with the following sign above the street door of his building: “No Cabinet Ministers or Magistrates Allowed on these Premises.” This notice derived its point from the fact that the wrath of the anarchists was supposed to be directed toward these officials. One journal states that a tenor singer applied to a manager for employment, and sang two or three songs to show what he could da “You sing very well—very well,” said the manager; “but—” “But what, sir?” “Well, you see, your style is rather explosive, and at the present time your audiences would be likely,to take alarm!” Easily Distinguished. It is the fashion now to speak of “optimists” and “pessimists.” The distinction itself is nothing new, as there have always been two classes of people, those who look on the right side ot things, and those who look on the dark side; but the words have no doubt puzzled some readers. One man, a learned farmer, we may suppose, defines an optimist as a person who believes that all eggs will hatch. An exchange reports a dialouge overheard in a barber’s shop; “Do you ever study the faces of the customers here?” said one man. “Vq«” —........ _, _ — —--— “Well, did you ever try to distinguish the pessimistic from the optimistic?” “Yes; and there is a little difficulty in doing it.” “Indeed!” “Yes: the pessimist is ihe man who s waiting for six other customers to be shaved, and the optimist Is the me distinguished by the appellation >f ♦next*” • About the first thing a boy learns liter he puts on pants, is to spit like a nap- . ' . | ■

“Indeed!”

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital. eso.ooo. Surplus, *IO,OOO Organised August 15,1883. Offiours—T. T. Darwin, Preaidrat; P. W. Smith, Vice-President; R. B. Peterson Cashier; T. T. Dorwln, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkea, J. H. Holbrook, B. j. Terveer, J. D. Hole and R 8. Peterson, Director.. We are prepared to make Ix>ans on good security, receive Depo.lt., furnish Domeetlc and Foreign Exchange, buy and (ell Government and Municipal Bond., and furnish letters of Credit available In ray 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; Kobt. B. Allison, Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general braking business. Collections made in all parts of the country. County. City rad Township Order, bought. Foreign rad Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney a,t Law Decatur, - - Indian*. El. S. LeBRUJST. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices resonable. BBTTN, B. X. MANN. J. V. ERWIN A MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office In Odd FeUows’ Building, Decatur. Ind. TABANCB A MEBRYMAN. J. T. HIANCB. -I? J. T. MXHHYMAN Attorneys «s.t Liei-vr, DZCATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 2 and 3, over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. JjteßSE HOUSE, L J. MIESSE, Proprietor, Decatur, Ind. Location Central—Opposite Court House. The leading hotel in the city. JQ. NEPTUNE, . DENIST. Now located over Holthouse s sboe store, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dentaf profession. Gold filling a specialty. By the nse of Mayo s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. All work warranted. Kent K. TFheelock, M. D., EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST fH Calhoun-st, Fort Warne. Ind. D. NKUENSCHWANDEB, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Berne, ... Zndfwn*. Children and Chronic Disraaes a Specialty. Twenty yean experience. A. O. HOLLOWAY, Phy aiolazxi <*> Hnrgeon Office over Bums’ harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. All calle promptly attended to In city or country night or day. L- HOLLOWAY, M. ». Office and residence one door north of M. B. church. Diseases of women and ohildrea speclalUee.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad I Trains run on Central Standard Time. 25mln. utes slower than Columbus orfortner time. Took effect Sunday. June 12.1H«1. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati. Ire 810 am iMpm Klchmondl 220 pm 10M 1125 Winchester.... 3 17 .. 1155 .. 12 12am Portland IM.. 1236 pm 12 <5 . ....... Decatur 610.. 181 . 128 Ft. Wayne., arr 500.. 215.. 205 " •• ...Ive ..„ ... 236 . 215 8 06am Kendallville ..3 41 309 . 9 10., Home City 3M 322 . 928 Wolcottville 4 01 (9 31 Valentine 411 942 . IJi Grange 4 19. 341 '951.. Lima 4 29 lt)(B .. Sturgis 4 40.. 4 00. 10 19.. Vicksburg 638.. 455 . 1109.. Kalamazoo, arr 6 06 .. 12 01 .. Ive 720 am 626.. 520 . 1216 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 929 .. 810 . MO .. 160 .. Ive 4 15pm 10 30 .. 720. 200 . D.G.H.AM.cr 429 . 1045. 727. 214 Howard City... 640.11 60 841.. 3 14.. Big Rapids 662 1236 am 945.. 3 56.. Heed City 7 30. lOH . 10 20.. 420 .. Cadillac arr 9 00.. 2 06.. 11 30.. 615 .. •• Ive 215 . 1140 .. 520 .. Traverse City. 10 45 126 pm 666 .. Kalkaska 3 48.. 110 Petoskey 645.. 315 Mackinac City 7 15.. 445 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. * Mackinac City. 845 pm 8 00am 200pm .... ... Petoskey 10 20 . 9 30.. 315 Kalkaska 12 36 .. 11 36 . 508 Traverse City 1110. 4 80.. 630 am Cadillac, arr 2 05am 115 pm 6 30.. 8 05..| •• u . Ive 215 .. 136 650 pm 810 .. Reed City 328.. 230 760.. 900.. Big Rapids 400 . 2 58.. 8 26.. 946 .. Howard City.. 456.. 343 .. 9 20.. 10 32 .. D.G.H.AM.cr 6 06.. 606 .. 10 25 .. 11 36 .. Gr. Rapids arr 620.. 5 20.. 10 40.. 1150.. “ " ..ive 700 600 . 1120.. 2 00pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00. 1255 am 340 .. " ..Ive 8 66.. 806 345 .. Sturgis !.. 10 19 926 1 503 .. Lima 1031 .. 940 513 ~ LaGrange. ... 10 44 .. 952 5 23.. Valentine 10 58.. 10 02 6 31.. Wolcottville. 1104. 10 14 6 40.. RotnejClty 1109.. 10 19 5 46.. Kendallville. . 1125 .. 1039 606 .. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 7 15.. '• “ Ive 100.. 1210 am 6 45am Decatur 146.. 1250.. 630 Portland ’ 2 40. 1 46 7 30 Winchester . . 317 .. 235 . 800 Richmond 4J® .. 340 915 .. .> Cincinnati 7 00. 6 .In 1201 pm ... ” " Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent. JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind. LOOK HERE! I am here to stay and can sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford to sell them. I sell different make*. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable Bee me first aad mt* money. J. T. COOTS.Deoatur, Ind. Scientific American Agency for j| ■mmvi ■ F w J t ■ m U / i 1 I J i ■ Bk I■Rk ■ I • 1 CAVEATS s 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 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; f 1.50 six months. Address MtJNN & CO, vrBLISHERSv 361 Broadway, New York.

SI.OO ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO J vo 4 rrxfl s subscription TO THE WEEKLY>UIRER A Decker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, $6541.00 A Gladiator Watch and Case, 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 In Eljiin Watch and Boss Case. . . . 25.00 A Haydock Rice Coil Spring) ouaaa Handy Top Buggy p • 200 00 A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Case . 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters’) — 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,ss.oo A 15 jewel Watch, Boss Case 35.00 A Five. Octave Parlor Organ 150.00 A Gladiatb'r Watch, DneberCase . . 30.00 A John C. Dueber Watch X Case. . . 40.00 And 82 other valuable premiums will be presented to yearly subseriberfi of the Weekly Empiirer 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 Clara Night and Day Service between Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CA-RS DAY TRAIMS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. tr-UEALS SERVED EN ROUTE, any hur, OAT j OR NIRHT, *f modvrot* co»t. Iskfor iitketi via Toledo, St Louit 4 Kansas City It 1 CLOVEKLMJrROUTE. For farther particular*, call on nearert Agent of the Company, or addrera Q. O. JENKINS. TOLEDO, OHIO. I Lines. Schedule In effect May 16. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows T TRAINS WEST.' No. Vestibule Limited, daily for • M Chicago and the west ) r ' No. 3. Pacific Express, dailv for ( M Chicago and the west • --uv . • No. I. Express, daily for Chicago M and the west i K No. 31. Local. -10:35 A. M TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for f M New York and Boston . .. r ' 1 • ! No. 12. Express, daily Jfor New j-joa M. I No.l’. -Accommodation, daily ex-1 p w j eept Sunday. t l.e» P. M. *; No. L0ca1...... ! 10:35 A. M. J. W. DeLong, Agent. I Frank M. Caldwell. D. P. A, Huntington, • Ind.: F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A.. Chicago, Hl. O. P- fl AXDKEWS, X*lxytoioira.xA cfc Surgeon MONROE. INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church, Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orcho M. /I tomv. Overotomy. Castrating, Rldg 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 Good Solicitors Only, tofflra or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from CUHtoMAt* da/. ENQUIRER COMPANY. CINCLNKAD, O. The Cincinnati Enqufrer sad theTtooromaffi one year for *2.30. By subscribing now, yoto can have both papers through the great OMA| paign of 1892. MONEY TO LOAN Oa Farm Property oa Long Timo. Wo Oonxxxxloolotok. Low Bate of Intorem. la aay aßouato oaa bo made at ray u» aaff stop Interest. Cail on, or addrera, A, X. GRUBB, or J. F. MANN. On—i Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur. Way, ■. aHy aiolaxiob *xajr**oaa> Meuraa. . ladlaaa. All cells promptly attended to day or nightJfloe at residence. J. a 8080. K T. BOBA Heater Commissioner. ® 8080 A SON, ATTORNEYS AT L. AW. rarara to woatow w esraj, oa raai to* , a agaaa