Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1892 — Page 3

WOMANS INFLUENCE

i CHAPTER I. MAHOARIT. On the afternoon of a day early in April two ladies were driving along a level country road Ono was evidently a stranger to the place and its surroundings, for she observed the scenery with curious inter■est, and frequently questioned her companion about the persons and residences they passed. The other, who drove the handsome bays with an unmistakable air of proprietorship, was an old resident. She had found her way to this small but pretentious town some years before, and, building a handsome home, had since devoted her energies, supplemented by the magical influence of money, to gaining an entree into its exclusive society. Both were deep in conversation, when a turn in the road brought them face to face with a young girl riding. Mrs. Downs was in the act of checking her horses, but the newcomer, as though quite unconscious of any such intention, nodded indifferently and rode on. “The proud piece," commented the slighted lady, endeavoring to hide her chagrin. “Who is she?" questioned her companion, glancing after the rider with some curiosity. “Miss Leigh. You remember I pointed her home out a few moments ago." “Ah! Then she’s the heiress?" “Yes, an heirness now, though a year ago she was poorer than her own cook. I never could tolerate her, but I manage to keep up a show of friendship. She’ll .be one of the leaders of society here when she gets rid of her mourning." The speaker concluded this remark •With a very visible frown. She was forcibly reminded of her own doubtful position and her inability to disregard any person or thing that could contribute to her social advancement. Annexation was indeel a burning question with her. and while she found , her dollars an important ally, her lack I of a presentable grandfather was decidedly a draw back in the furtherance of her ambitious aspirations. “A graceful rider and quite a pretty girl,” remarked her companion, breaking In upon these unpleasant reflections. “Where did she get her money?” j “From her uncle. The case is a.to- ■ gether peculiar. It seems that her father was disinherited for marrying contrary to his father’s wishes, and her . uncle, being the only other child, came : In for all the property. A fortunate ; thing for him, as you say, though, ap- | parently, he had some scruples about 1 enjoying his good fortune, for his father was scarcely buried before he began to search for his brother. “Yes, he found him dying, I believe, in some obscure California town. Miss Leigh came to Elmwood. That was five years ago, and now she has inherited all of her uncle’s money. He died last October, and his son " “His son! You don’t tell me he has a eon.” “He certainly has. lam not surprised at your astonishment. It seems almost impossible that a father could enrich a niece at the expense of a son, yet that is what Mr. Leigh has done. “The young man gets something, of course. Two thousand a year, I believe. A small sum in comparison with the whole." “A very unusual case. Perhaps he intends the young people to marry.” “Perhaps, but as they have never seen each other, the result Is scarcely probable. The son has been in Europe for the Inst five years. He was considered quite wild, I am told, and he and his father quarreled frequently. No doubt, that fact had some connection with the terms of the will, but, I think there was undue influence somewhere " i With this broad accusation the subject was allowed to drop. Meanwhile the object of these remarks was pursuing her way homeward. Mrs. Downs’ companion had called her pretty, but the word scarcely did her justice. Her face, while lacking perfection of feature, was singularly winning and attractive. If the mouth were a trifle broad, the full red lips with their expression, half pleading, half imperious, made ample compensation. If the nose ■deviated from the straight and perfect line, the fault was forgotten in the clear contour of the beautifully molded brow, the liquid depths of the clear gray eyes, and the sweet personality beaming from the expressive countenance. Absorbed in thought of an unpleasant character, as evidenced by her very perceptible frown, she rode on, quite lost to her surroundings, until her horse, through force of habit, rather than the guiding hand of his mistress, turned into a broad elm-lined avenue, and she looked up in some surprise to find herself at home. Ten minutes later she had divested herself of her riding habit, and made her way to her sitting-room. A bright, cheeiful apartment whose tasteful furnishing revealed something of the individuality of its owner. “I was sure I should find you here," she said, approaching the old lady established before the glowing Are, and laying her cool hand against the warm, smooth cheek. “I’m afraid I shall have to assert some authority. You should be enjoying this delightful weather, Miss Hilton." “I dare say I should," was the agreeable reply, “but you see I’m lazy, my ■dear. I’ve had a nice nap. Did you ride alone, Margaret?" “Yes. except lor my thoughts. I had a whole host of them for company. Really, I'm as cross as a bear." “I am eorry to hear it. What have you been thinking of?" “Oh, everything. Papa, grandfather, and yes, and this hateful money." “Hateful, Margaret? Then you don’t share the world's opinion of that useful article." Margaret drew a chair close to Miss Hilton, and seated herseL Upon it, as she replied. “Not the world that Mrs. Downs represents. I met her a while ago. She wanted to stop, of course, but I just rode on. Awfully rude, wasn’t It? I couldn’t help it. I detest her. She , wouldn't care a snap of her finger ior ii • me if I were poor, bu* simply because —Oh! I hate such p-ope! Thunk heaven, I’ll soon be away from them for ; ■nwhllo. I told you I was cross, Mies Hilton. “ . “I see it, my dear," was the half grave \ response. "Have yea quite decided to ' \ • ...;

go to that outlandish place?*’* “Whata doleful expression. If that outlandish place means Hlaebonset, I’m afraid I must plead guilty to such a dreadful decision, and 1 think I shall find my experience both novel'and delightful. I mean to do Just as I please. Take another name and forget Margaret Leigh entirely. I'm tired of her.” “Poor Margaret Leigh. I fear yon don’t appreciate her; and since you are quite determined to go to that land’send of creation I suppose ths best thing for me to do is to hope you won't regret It." Margaret laughed at this view of the matter. “You see, lam not looking for beaux," she said, with mock gravity. “I’ve always liked old men botior than young ones. I’m sure those delightful old fishermen will suit me immensely. Besides, I'm tired of civilized life and shams generally, so I welcome something genuine for a change. I suppose you think I have a very carping disposition, but I do so want to air my grievances. If it were not too undignified I should like to lie on the floor and scream," “Don't do so, my dear. The doctor la right. You do need a change. I don’’ recognize my old Margaret." “A flattering way of expressing an unflattering opinion," laughed Margaret, giving Miss Hilton’s hand a rebuking little pat “I am growing degenerate, am I not? I feel outrageously reckless to-day. I have a most overpowering desire to shock this prim and severely proper neighborhood. Don’t Iqok so reproving, Miss Hilton. You couldn’t scold if you tried, and I’m afraid I take advantage of that knowledge. Youi expression reminds me of Mr. Webb. He was dilating on my grandfather’; virtues this morning—to me, of all people, mind you!—when 1 stopped his eloquence, and horr.fled him in the bargain by saying if my grandfather was a specimen of the good men, I preferred the bat}. I do, too. I don’t believe that because a man goes to church every Sunday and occasionally puts his name to a subscription list, where it can b« seen and read by the neighborhood, that he is entitled to any admiration on that account. “Don’t scold me, please, Miss Hilton. I know such feelings are neither kind nor just. I try so hard not to have them, but when Lthink of papa I——” She paused abruptly, her face and voice filled with emotion. Miss Hilton stroked the bowed head with-an infinitely tender caress. “I would be the last to blame your loyalty to your father," she said gently, “but I wish you could forget.” 1., “How can I forget?” was the tearful answer. “How can I forget the poverty and want that embittered my father’s life and caused my mother’s death? II you had known papa as I did,” she continued, more quietly: “if you had understood his hopes and ambitions; if you had seen how his sensitive nature shrank from his uncongenial surroundings, or guessed how his heart longed for the sweet peace and restful influence o! home, you would bo unforgiving too. His father deprived him of all that mode life worth living. I can never forget that. The time has been when I felt hard and bitter to all the world, because one man had been so cru-1 to him. The money I enjoy now would have made his life so different. It is so hard for me to think of this. I know I shall regret all my life that nncle found us too late. Ail these thoughts rush over me when I think of my grandfather, and then I feel inclined to express my opinion strongly. - ■ “You can’t understand my bitterness because you are always easy and gentle. I don’t believe you could be angry if you tried; but I have a very fire of passion in me, and it flares up on occasion. “Let us talk of something else. Did I tell you of my letter from Cousin Brian? No? I intended to. It came after luncheon. I wonder he cares to write to me. Yes, I know I wrote to him first, but I felt called upon to do that. I was so unhappy ovei* the will that I wanted him to know how I rebelled against it with all my soul. You remember what a candid, generous letter he wrote in answer. This letter is equally characteristic’. Ho tells me he is coming to America soon.. Do you know, I am really anxious to see him.” “I am sure you will like him,” put in Miss Hilton, with suspicious haste. “I confess I always had a tender place in my heart for Brian. He has some excellent traits, despite his shortcomings. He lost his mother when he was very young, poor boy, and his after training was left in the hands of servants, and was not very judicious, as you may imagine. ’’ “He and uncle quarreled a great deal, didn’t they?" asked Margaret, after a thoughtful pause. “Yes, quite often," was the answer. “Brian spent money more freely than his father approved. Your uncle once remarked to me: ‘lf Brian were not sure that I would pay his bills he would be less Industrious in making them.’ I think he was rather anxious for him to marry and settle down to the practice of his profession. He could not tolerate a man with no occupation." “I agree with him there,” returned Margaret quickly. “I perfectly abominate a man without ambition. If I had a husband of that disposition I’d make him do something or I wouldn’t have him around me." “Still," she added more thoughtfully, “uncle need not have disinherited him on that account Buch a course seems to be a peculiarity in this family. It humiliates me to te?l that my coming here had anything to do with it-.” “I am sure your mere coming had not, Margaret. Your uncle evidently had some good reason for his action. I think ho believed that leaving Br.an an income sufficient only for the neeesities of life would morally force him to use his own exertions to secure the luxuries ho prizes. You can see the force of such an argument.” Margaret she ok her head unconvinced. “The argument and reason may bo good,” sheagreed, “but I don’t care to be the instrument for the Working Out of the benefit. It makes mo feel responsible for my cousin’s inconvenience, and I hate it” ‘ i«’• ’ ■ “You allow pride Io blind your judgment. Your regret is quite ineffectual. You couldn’t, if you would, return the money to Brian, unload— —" “Unless what?" Miss Hilton hesitated'. ' “Unless you marry hlrnl” ’ " , Margaret Hushed at these Words. "He Is not the kind of a man I admire," she returned after n thoughtful pause. “Indolence and want of ambition uro not commendable characteristics. I fear I should become disgusted, or he would, which would amount to the same thing. Try to think of Aorfie other plan, Miss Hilton; and while you are puztling your dear old brain, i'll answer some letters. And do torget tho things I've said. Fin always repenting of something I’vo said or done. I can't afford to lose your good opinion." ’ With these words Margaret loft tho room, and Miss Hiltou's eyes followed her with a very loving glance, “Dear Margaret,” she said gently. * Dear, dear child." |TO IX COXTIXUIb. j

A KIND-HEARTED DRUOOIBT. ••Mark Twain" Telia an Intereating Story at Him. Mark Twain was present at the banquet of the National Wholesale Druggists’ Association at Its recent meeting In Washington, and in return for his dinner related the following story, given in the Pharmaceutical Era: “About a thousand years ago, approximately, I was apprenticed as a printer’s devil to learn the trade, in common with three other boys of about my own age. There came to the village a long-legged Individual, of about nineteen, from one of the interior counties; fish-eyed, no expression, and without the suggestion of a smile—couldn’t have smiled for a salary. We took him for a fool and thought we would try to scare him to death. We went to the village aruggist and borrowed a skeleton. The skeleton didn’t belong to the druggist, but he had imported it for the village doctor, because the doctor thought he would send away for it, having some delicacy about using [Laughter.] The price of a skeleton at that time was SSO. I don’t know how high they go now, but probably higher, on account of the tariff. [Laughter.] We borrowed the skeleton about nine o’clock at night, and we got this man—Nicodemus Dodge was his name—wc got him downtown, out of the way, and then we put the skeleton in his bed. He lived In a little, one-storied log cabin in the middle of a vacant lot. We left him to get home by himself. We enjoyed the result In the light of antici1 pation; but, by-and-by, we began to drop into silence; the possible consequences were preying upon us. Suppose that it frightens him into madness, overturns his reason, and- sends him screaching through the streets! We shall spend (sleepless nights the rest of our days. Everybody was i afraid. By-and-by, it was forced to the lips of one of us that we had better go at once and see what had happened. Loaded down with crime, we approached that hut and peeped through the window. That longlegged critter was sitting on his bed I with a hunk of gingerbread in his | hand, and between the bites he played a tune on a Jew’s harp. There he sat I perfectly happy, and all around him on the bed were toys and jiin-cracks and striped candy. The darned cuss, he had gone and sold that skeleton I for $5. (Laughter.) The druggist’s SSO skeleton was gone. We went In tears to the druggest and explained the matter. We couldn’t have raised i that SSO in 250 years. We were Wetting board and clothing for the first year, clothing and board for the second year, and both of them for the third year. The druggist forgave us on the spot, but he said he would . like us to let him have our skeletons when we were done with them. I There couldn’t be anything fairer ' than that; we spouted our skeletons j and went awav comfortable. But i from that time the druggist’s prosperity ceased. That was one of the most unfortunate speculations he ever i went into. After some years one of ’ the boys went and got drowned; that was One skeleton irone, and I tell you the druggist felt pretty badly about it. " J A few years after another of the boys went up in a balloon. He was to get $5 an hour for it When he gets back they will be owing him one million dollars. The druggist’s property was decreasing right along. After a few more years, the third boy tried an experiment to see if a dynamite charge would go. It went all right They found some of him, perhaps a vest-pocketful; still, it was enough to show that some more of that estate had gone. The druggist was getting along in years, and he commenced to correspond with me. 1 have been the best coTesponi dent he has. He is the sweetest-na-tured man I ever saw—always mild and polite, and never wants to hurry me at all. I get a letter from him every now and then, and he never refers to my form as a skeleton; says: “Well, how is it gettjng along—is it in good repair?” I got a night-rate message from him recently—said he was getting old and the property was depreciating in value, and if I could let him have apartof it now he would give time on the balance. [Laughter.] Think of the graceful way in which he does everything—the generosity of it all. You cannot find a finer character than that. It is the gracious characteristic of all druggists. So, out of my heart 1 wish you all prosperity and every happiness.” A New Way of Saving Money. In 1855, Longfellow having resigned his place as professor of modern languages and literature in Harvard I College, Lowell was appointed his successor, with leave of absence to I perfect himself in his studies. Lowell at once went abroad, but did not remain as long as he had intended. In later years he usexl to tell how he happened to cut short his European studies. It appears that he left instructions with his London bankers to notify him as soon as his account was reduced to a specified sum. Then he settled down to his work, drawing j upon his bankers as he needed monev, ! but keeping no account of his drafts. He was still in the midst of his Studies, when one day he received word that his balance had been cut down to the specified figure. The news was surprising: he' had supposed himself well within his limits, but, as he had no records of his own, there was of course no disputing the banker’s statement, even had it occurred to him to do sa He packed up at once ana returned to America. ■ ' Some years afterwards he received a letter from the bankers, stating that ow ing to the error of a clerk, his account had been charged with a certain cum which had been drawn, not by him, but by another Lowell, a kinsman of his. The bankers apologited for the blunder, and of course had placed the amount of the draft, with coinpound interest, at his credit. They kindly suggested that if ho were not in present want of the money, they would invest it for him in away which they believe woald turn out to his advantage. Mr. Lowell thanked them, and asked them to invest the. amount at their discretion. About a year afterwards he received a draft for nearly

three thousand fife hundred dollars, and found It very timely as he was Just then wishing to furnish a house. Thanks to his own carelessness and the blunder of a clerk, he was able to do it In a fairly sumptuous manner. .1. ... - « _ Dust From the Kky. Some of the oldest records of human history contain accounts of the fall of great stones from the sky. Until the opening of the present century it was generally believed by men of science that the ancients only Imagined that they had seen rocks fall out of the heavens. Modern science, however, has verified the truth of the ancient records, and we now know, not only that stones and metallic masses, called aerolites or meteorites, do come tumbling down out of space, but that a fine dust called cosmic dust is continually sifting down through lhe atmosphere. It is like the smoke and dust of a Journey, for the earth Is really journeying, along with the sun, toward t the northern pirtof the universe, and as it goes It draws In with Its attraction refuse particles that apparently exist through space. But while there can be no doubt as to the existence of this silent rain of minute matter upon the earth, the difficulty has been to recognize it after It reaches the ground. Os late years, however, it has been found mingled In the ooze dredged up from the seabottom, and a few years ago when Baron Nordenskjold visited Greenland he gathered a quantity of dust particles from the great snowfields there, which were believed to have come from the sky. This conclusion was afterwards disputed, but lately a new analysis has been made, which seems to show decisively that a large part of the material really is cosmic dust. A computation based upon the amount found on the Greenland moors, indicates that the earth must gather in, over the whole of its surface, at least one hundred and thirty-two thousand tons of the dust of space every year. Experience a* a Slaver. “Queer experiences'?” said Henry Cooper, a retired Boston sea captain, as he rolled to a seat in the rotunda of the Southern. “Well, I had one that was queer enough. It was in the ’so’s, while I was a man before the mast. I shipped one night from Havana for a voyage to Good Hope, but we didn’t go there. We went up to Congo and got a cargo of slaves. The queer thing of it all was that the crew never got sight of the captain and when the first mate came on de ’k he wore a mask. The craft, a swift sailor, was apparently unarmed, but a twist or two with a handspike was sufficient to bring six ugly-look-ing. eighteen-pounders on deck. We were not molested, however, and on our return we stood off the coast of Cuba and all the crew but four were sent ashore in the longboat. As we passed into the boat the masked mate put an envelope into each man's hand. Mine contained $250.”--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Shifting Weights.' Self-acting ballast-shifting devices to prevent vessels from rolling, bav« long been used on our river and sound steamers. In some cases the weight is shifted by mechanism, but a mote common method is to make use of boxes containing iron weights, such as chain cables. ’ The boxes ate mounted on wheels, and when this boat begins to roll, the seamen, oh signal from the pilot, move the weight as required to bring the boat back to even keel. Some such contrivance might be advantagebuslj applied to sea-going vessels. The application of anti-rolling devices to Atlantic passenger steamers certainly would render the sea passage much more comfortable than it often is at the present time. All Indian Woman’s Honesty. About six months ago a Umatilla reservation Indian named O-we-o was killed by a train. He left no estate and very few recognizable remains. Before his death he had borrowed S2O from a bank in Pendleton, giving his note, secured by the name of the Indian She-wa-wa. O-we-o’s bereaved better half, Lucy, was not content that any of her lord’s debts should remain unpaid, and skinned dead sheep during the winter and spring until she earned the amount required. She presented herself at the bank Tuesday and paid the note, much to the astonishment of its employes. She tendered the interest also, but this was refused by the cashier A Child’s Question. Children will ask puzzling and sometimes mortifying questions. In “Ethics tor Young People,” Prof. C. C. Everett tells of a question he asked when a small boy. He says: A lady was talking with me about “easily besetting sins.” She said that her besetting sin was pride. I looked at her in innocent wonder and exclaimed, “Why, what have you to be proud of?” I saw at once by her confusion that I had made a very impudent and unlucky speech. We cannot ask this question of others; but if any one who is dispose! to he proud should ask himself the question, “What have you to>be proud of?” and answer it truly, it might do him good. Must Have Been a Kentuckian, To be killed by a glass of water is certainly an unusual fate. A beggar who lived in the Rue St. Marguerite, Paris, and was known throughout the quarter as the “terrible Savoyard,” and was an habitual drunkard, was abusing the waitress at a wine shop, when she threw a glass of water in his face. He fell backward insensible, and a doctor who was called testified that he was dead. Death bad probably been produced by the shock acting on a diseased heart and brain. Remarkable Wooden Blnaks. The Falklands produce no trees, but they produce wood In a very remarkable shape. You will see, scattered here and there, singular blocks of what look like weather-beaten, mossy, gray stones of- various sizes. But it you attempt to roll over one of these rounded bowlders you will find vourself unable to accomplish it. Tn fact, tile stone is tied down to the ground—tied down by the roots; hr, in other words, it Is not a stone, but a block of living wood.

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital. 850,000. Surplui, 810,000 OriganlMd Auguat U, 1868. Offioara—T. T. Dorwln, Prealdant; P. W. Smith. Vioa-Praaldrat; R. 8. i’eteraon Caahiwr; T. T. Dorwin, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkei, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Tarvoer, J. D. Hate and B B. Peienon, Director*. We are prepared to make Loan* on good mcurity, receive Depoilta, furnlah Domeatio and Foreign Exchange, buy and *ell Government and Municipal Bond*, and lornl.h Letter* of Credit available in any of the principal citie* of Europe. Alao Paaaage Ticket to and from the Old World, Including tranaportatiou to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital. 875,000. Burplua, 75,000. Organized in 1871. Officer*—D. Studebaker. Preaident; Bobt. B. Alliaon, Vloe-Prealdent; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking buaineaa. Collection* made in all part* of the country. County. City and Townahlp Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and aold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney at Law Decatur, - - Indiana, JGJ, S. LeBRUN? Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Buoceasfully treat* all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to caUa at any time. Prices resonable. IRVIN, R. K. MANN, J. P. Elt WIN & MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, . Office In Odd FeUowa’ Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IBANCE & MEBKYMAN. J. I. FRANCK. J? J. I. MERRYMAN AttoracyM eat Xaa.-vxr. DZCATUR, INDIANA. Office Noe. 1, 2 and 3. over tho Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. HOUSE, L J. MIESSE, Proprietor, Decatur, Ind. Location 'Central—Opposite Court House. The leading hotel in the city. Q. NEPTUNE, . DENIST. Now located over Holtbo-tse’s shoe store, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dentalprofession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo's Vapor be is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. Kent K. Wheelock, M. D. t EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST M Calho in-tt. Fort Wavno, Ind. D. NEUENBCHWANDEB, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. jSeme, - - - Indianet. Children and Chronic Disease* a Specialty. Twenty yean experience. A.«. HOIXOWAY, FHy ■iol*n db Burgeon Office over Burns' harneu shop, reddenoe one door north of M. B. church. All colls promptly attended to in dty or country night or day. M. L HOLLOWAY, M. B. Office and residence one door north of M. H. church. Disease* of women and children apocialtie*.

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jHk Erie Lines. Schedule In effect May 18. Trains Leave Decatur as Follow* TRAINS WEST. No. 5, Vestibule Limited, daily for I p „ Chicago and the westJ r. a. No. 3, Pacific Express, dally for I M Chicago and the westJ “• No. 1. Express, daily for Chicago I -m-12 P Stand the west f No. 31. Local>lo:36 A. ML TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I -.«» p w New York and Bostons No. 12. Express, dailyJfor New I J.3OA M. York-.f No. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-1 1.53 p «r cept Sundayl No. 30. Local>lo:3s A. M. J. W. DeLono. Agent, Frank M. Caldwell, D. P. A, Huntington. Ind.: F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A, Chicago. HL O.P. B.ASIIBEMB, Fh.y«ician <fc Hurseon, MONROE. INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 26-' Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Vetertaarj JKXy Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orcho XL Zj tomv, Overotomy, Castrating, ttidg Ung, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. Leri Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. AGENTS WANTED Good Solicitors Only. Ladies or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from 12.00 to 18X0 a day. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Democwaw one year for 82.30. By subscribing now, yotb can nave both papers through the great campaign of 1893. MONEY TO LOAN Oa Farm Property on Long Tima. BTo Oomxnlaaloxi. Low Bate of Internes. \ ■ :<?T __ Faymoxitm la aay amouata oaa be made at nay ume am* •top Intereat. Call oa, or address, jt. X. GRUBB, «r J. F. MAJfIT, (Moo; 044 Fellow,' Building, Dsoanu. •. T. Kay.H.», Phyalolaxidb Maxr*«on Moaram. Indlama. All call* promptly •trended to day or eight, xflfoe-at“fofoaoe . — — J. R. 8080, It T, 8080. Manter Commissiouer. 8080 A SON. ATTORN EYS A C L.AW. Beal BetaM and Collection, Decatur, lad.