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l-a ■ „ ■■ 1 ‘■U litI — it JaMagag’ CHAITEK Xll—Continued. Tje next morning Margaret received a note from the rectory asking her to come to Mrs. Ivens, who was very sick. Walting only lira hasty breakfast, and obeying Brian’s Instructions to wrap herself warmly, she departed on her errand of mercy. Through the peaceful quiet of the Sabbath morning she made her way over the well kept road, until she reached the rectory, an unpretentious little house, sitting bask in an equally unpretentious garden. A narrow, beaten pathway led to the modi st entrance, ana on either side of it were tiny borders of dead flowers, around whose lifeless stems the brown leaves clung convulsively. Margaret’s ring was answered by a tired-looking maid servant, who led the way Into the poorly furnished little parlor. While she questioned the girl as to her mistress’ condition Margaret's •yes traveled wistfully about the room, whose cheery homeliness not even the disillusionizing influence of poverty, could entirely dispel. Yet there was something vaguely pathetic in the worn chairs, the faded, almost threadbare, carpet; the few inexpensive ornaments, and the numerous makeshifts; little pretensions to comfort and luxury, which deft fingers had fashioned into pretty deceptive devices, all presenting the long and patient labor, thoughtful love, and tender self-denial, so often wrought Into the possessions of the poor. Upstairs in the front room she found the brave little woman who had seemed so well only a few days before, stretched on a bed of weakness, the busy brain no longer worrying over the wants of a growing family, the tireless feet resting at last. Near the bed sat Mr. Ivens, the rector of the most unpopular church in 8 .Ho was a man of many talents and attainments, but unfortunately for himself he lacked the self-confidence necessary to meet and overcome the difficulties of life. i Margaret knew and understood a nature so similar to her father's. She discovered the wealth of learning and nobility of soul hidden under an overmastering diffidence, and she admired the qualities which others could not see. Now as she saw him, bowed bv the shadow of a coming great sorrow, holding the nerveless hand that had smoothed so many difficulties for him, yet whose cheerful aid could never more be his, she felt her heart filled with a compassion no words could express. He was so engrossed with his grief that he scarcely noticed her as she quietly glided to his place beside the bod, but Mrs. Ivens had heard the almost noiseless footsteps and opened her eyes wearily. “Ah, it is you, Margaret,” she said with a momentary flush of pleasure on her pale face. Margaret nodded cheerily, and laid her hand, with a soothing tenderness, on the hot, throbbing head. “Does it ache much?" she asked. “No, Margaret, only a little. Will you tell Mary to get the children ready for school? I should bo up to do It myself, but I am very tired. ” “I don’t believe you ever admitted as much before,” was Margaret’s rather unsteady answer, “The children won’t go to school to-day. It Is Sunday." “Sunday, and I lying here! James, why didn’t you tell me? We had so much to do to-day. ” Her eyes sought her husband’s, but he was looking rather wistfully at Margaret. Margaret read the unspoken language of that glance, and she found it very difficult to answer cheerfully. ■ “We are going to let you be lazy today, Ellen, so that formidable amount of work must wait for another Sunday. I intend to assert my authority, and, to begin, I’ll sit here while Mr. Ivens eats some breakfast. Mary told me to send him down. ” The gentleman took this hint, and, as obedient as a child, left the room. He knew that Ellen was safe and happy in Margaret’s hands, and already he felt better for her. cheerful, helpful presence. Half-way down the stairs ho was met by a preternaturally grave child of 8 years, whose wistful eyes gazed sadly into his. Evidently she had been waiting for him, for without a word she stole quietly to his side and allowed her hand to glide with reassuring sympathy Into his. In this silent way they reached the dining-room, where Mary had breakfast on the table, and three tots aged, respectively, six, four, and two seated in their high-chairs, waiting for papa. Little wonder that Margaret’s mind should be filled with painful thoughts of these babies, «s she sat by their mother’s bedside, or that her eyes became so misty when Ellen expressed such gratitude for her attentions. “If you only knew how glad it makes me to do even a little for you," she said, with a struggle to speak calmly. “You see, it is so seldom I can bo useful, that I am particularly proud now. If I had been poor, I believe I should have taken up nursing as a profession.” “Yes," but you need not do it now, Margaret. You don’t know what it is to be poor. It is hard for him and the children.” The voice was full of pain. “ I have known,” Margaret answered. *1 have known the pain and cruelty ot' it. The scales of life are so uneven. I have no more right to comfort and luxury than you have, and yet—r But I did not come here to talk on such doleful subjects; I want to see you bright and cheerful." “It is hard to be bright and cheerful, Margaret. Lying here with nothing to do, so many thoughts come to me. I’m afraid I have given up so often when I should have helped and encouraged James. Now it is so near Christmas and so much to do, while I am here helpless. You must help me to get •well, Margaret Help me to get strong. Why do you turn your eyes away? Is it, because Ahl is it because you think I shall never bo well again? Sometimes I have thought so too, and I have prayed that it may not be so, for James’ sake and my babies. ” The weak voice broke, and Margaret, incapable of a word, could only press the hot hand between her own cool ones , while her eyes burned with the tears . she found so hard to withhold. She was very glad when the rector came in a few moments later and she could leave the room to overcome her I emotion and write the following note to Brian: “Dbab Bbian—Do not expect me]

homo to d nner. Mrs. Ivons is very ill. Will you come hero this afternoon? I am nnxlous to sec you." Finding a boy, Margaret directed him to leave the note at Flmwood. CH APT Hit XIII. BHiAw's emit; rr as cut. When Brian camo to the rectory that afternoon Margaret asked him to go up. and see Mrs. Ivens. “I wish your candid opinion," she said. “I think tho is very ill, for Ellen is not the one to give up until forced to do so.” From his brief visit Brian came down with a lerious face. Margaret was standing in the lower hall,' and one glance made her heart sink heavily. "The case is Jiopoloss,” ho said, in answer to the question she was trying to frame. “I am so lorry for you." “Bather be sorry for them," she rejoined, trying to shut out the sympathetic face, which made it more difficult for her to be calm. “Who will toll him? Do you suppese ho can ever bo reconciled to her loss?" "I don’t know," Interposed Brian, for want of a bettor answer. “I suppose wo must all be reconciled to whotovor comes to us. ” “Ah! don’t. It is cruel to talk of being reconciled. I’d never be reconciled. Never!" » With these abrupt words, she started to move away, but her tears blinded her, and sho would have fallen had not Brian, qu'ek to detect her weakness, caught her In his arms. “This will not do, Margaret,” ho said, with some authority. “I think you had better go homo with mo. You will make yourself 111." “What nonsense, Brian! 11l from watching a few hours with a sick friend? I wouldn’t be fit to live if that were the case. ltrs Is not physical weakness." “Aren’t there others to do for Mrs. Ivens?" he asked, with some warmth. “Why should it all fall on your shoulders?" “AU fall on my shoulders? Oh, Brian, how you do exasperate me! Os course there are others. Plenty of them. Everybody loves her, but for some reason she likes to have me with her. And with her I intend to stay.” “Then stay you may,” he answered, meeting her defiant eye. “I sha'n’t carry you away by bodily force, though I don’t think you should have your own way in every case. I have one request to make. Perhaps you will condescend to respect It. Don’t kill yourself." “I ain not one of the killing kind," rejoined Margaret,going up-stalrs. “Goodby for the present. You may call tomorrow, if you will.” Brian did call to-morrow, and this second visit only confirmed the opinion expressed in his first. Mrs. Ivens was dying—from no special disease, but from a gradual giving away of the vital forces. A life of care and anxiety, vexations and privations, and wearying struggles to make both ends meet, had told at last on the delicate constitution. Many who fall by the wayside are not less bravo than those who reach the martyr’s stake, and, If the truest heroes are those who bear life’s burdens uncomplainingly, Mrs. Ivens might justly wear the crown of heroism. Margaret was faithful to her trust. Others came and went, but she remained by the sick bed. Erian exhausted his e itreaties in vain, and even Christmas Eve could not tempt her to leave her friend. “You tell me her hours are numbered. Let me stay until the end. It cannot be very long now.-" „• And Brian said ho more. Mrs. Ivens’ hours were, indeed, numbered. The flame of life burnt fainter and fainter, and when the night of Christmas Eve passed into the dawn of Christmas Day, the angels of life and death crossed in their pathway, and the tired soul found the land of perpetual rest —tho joys of an eternal morning. The incidents of those closing moments were indelibly photographed on Margaret's mind. She had to be brave and strong for the sake of those so sadly benaved. Mary had sobbed and the rector had bowed his head in anguished grief, but she had shed no tear. She had brought the solemn, awe-struck children to their mother’s side; she had seou the kiss of infinite tenderness pressed upon each sad little face; her heart had echoed Elsie’s cry of anguish when for the last time that little head was pillowed on a dying mother’s breast; yet her eyes had been hard and dry, though the painful tightening at her throat had made her promise to be a friend to these motherless little ones, so hard to speak. And even now the tears would not come, though she had thought and thought until her mind was weary. The sunshine lay all about her, the bright, glad sunshine of Christmas; on the floor, where the carpet looked so faded and wofn; on the very spot that Ellen’s fingers had mended so often and so patiently In their old busy days; on the old chintz sofa, where she was lying now—so carelessly, so thoughtlessly—while the heart whose tender, unselfish'' love had made this house a homo, in all that gives that word its highest, holiest meaning, was forever stilled in its last sleep, and the tired, patient hands lay folded in the calm lest to be broken never again. A sound in the hall! She started up to listen. The long period of watching had made her nervous and sensitive, and the house had been so still.- Even the baby voices were awed to silence. The heavy footsteps jarred sharply on her ears. They were not Mary’s and not the rector’s. They were Brian’s. Ho entered the little room where she was trying to rest, and with his sympathy reflected on hie face, came to her side. “Mary has told mo,” ho said, quietly. "I am so sorry. I suppose I may take you home now. It is Christmas, you know, and I " “Christmas!” she echoed, in a faraway voice. “Are you sure, Brian? Christmas always brings happiness, I thought, and there is no happiness here. lam ready to go homo, though. I believe I have been waiting for you. lam so tired, so very tired. I don’t feel that I can over be rested again.” Brian looked his concern. Such weakness was unusual In. Margaret. “l am afraid you have done wrong,” he said, with some reproach. “You should have taken my advice, Margaret; but I suppose it is too lat to scold now. You need rest. That is evident.” Margaret scarcely heard him. She rose rather unsteadily and started to leave the room, but with sudden remembrance she turned back with the words: “I shall take the children to Elmwood. Christmas here would be a mockery for them." A shade of annoyance passed over his face. “It would bo useless to oppose you, oven if I desired to do so, ” ho returned. “Take them, of course, but do let Mrs. Davis care for them. I won't have you worrying yourself dnto an 111ness. I believe in a certain amount of sympathy, but too much Is too much.” - "I only want to go to bad and sleep forever," was Margaret’s answer. "I am so tised from being sorry. ’’ “Then the sooner you go homo the

| better. I have the carriage, and If you arc ready— * “In a second, Brian. I will not keep you waiting long." Th s time of waiting was spent by Margaret In tho darkened loom, where tho rector sat by all that remained to him of a beloved wife. Bho approached tho still form and pressed a long kiss on tho palo brow. Sho felt tho rector’s burning eyes upon her and she heard tho hoarse words with which he turned to her: “Hew am I to live my life alono?" 6ho longed for tho power to comfort him, yet all tho sympathy she could express seemed to hold the mockery oi easy consolation. “There are the children,” she said In n low voice. “Four loving little hearts to make your life less lonely. And there Is Gcd, Ho sends the cross, and He sends tho strength to boar It. Wo see so dimly. What seems so hard to us Is often a kindness from our Father’s hands. We must linger hero in suffering and tribulation, but for her the crown has come before the cross had grown too heavy. Father, teach our hearts to say ‘ Thy will be done.’ " Leaving the echo of her prayer behind her, Margaret joined Brian, with the four grave-faced children, upon whose childish minds the intangible shadow and silence had made such a solemn impression. She found It hard to meet the pathetic Inquiry of those baby eyos, and she was quite relieved when she could give her new charges into the kindly care of the surprised Mrs. Davis. After this, she went to bed and slept for the remainder of the day, and when dinner time arrived her inclinations were so decidedly against rising that she could scarcely force herself to dress and join Brian. “He'll find me rather doleful at best," she remarked to the heavy eyes and pale, tired face which looked at her from the mirror. “1 suppose I must try to be cheerful. ” But her short talk with Elsie, just before dinner, did not tend to brighten her spirits. The child had spoken eo earnestly of the great care her mother’s death had left upon her, and expressed such a pathetic wish to grow bigger so that she could help papa more, that Margaret found It hard to answer calmly with those earnest eyes upon her. “You may be Jittle, Elsie, yet you can help papa even now. These little feet can be tirelessUn his service, this dear face may always wear a smile for him, and this tender little heart may love and comfort him in every trouble.” “Little people, and big people, too, can only do their best. ” “Poor little tot," commented Brian, when Margaret repeated this conversation after dinner. “Let us not think of them any more to-night, Margaret. Let us try to be happy. lam so sorry our Christmas has been clouded. I got you this little remembrance, and I really have not had a chance to give It io you.” “Only a remembrance?” she asked, taking the exquisite little jeweled pin from nis hand. “This is fit for a princess. How it flashes in the light. It dazzles me. I—l don't know how to thank you, and I have nothing for you, Brian." [to be CONTINUED. I Suicide of a Monkey. Whether animals ever really kill themselves intentionally has often teen questioned; but well-authenti-cated cases of dogs and cats compassing their own death have been known, and here is a strictly true story of a monkey who apparently 1 did the same. It was a spider monkey, a pet, who was ill, and plainly could not live. To save her suffering her loving mistress decided to have her shot, and she was intrusted to a kind-hearted man, who agreed to put a merciful end to her troubles. He took hex to his place out of town, and while he made his preparations left her alone in a large, unfurnished room. The room had been used for some of an entertainment, and had, hanging from a beam, a rope with a noose at the end, used to hold a lantern. There was no way of getting up to the beam except by climbing the upright side beams and the monkey was weak from her illness; yet when the man came back in about a half hour, he found her hanging and dead. No one had been in. She had climbed to the beam, drawn up the rope, and put her head through the noose, or else climbed down the rope for the purpose. There is scarcely a deubt that it was a deliberate suicide. The man who found her, and who had had great experience with tbe spider monkey, declared that she understood her condition, and preferred to end her career. The Kosctta Stone. The “Rosetta Stone," a famous Egyptian curiosity now in the British Museum, was discovered in the year 1799 by M. Boussard, a French explorer, near Rosetti, a seaport of Lower Egypt. It is of black basalt, about forty inches long by thirty wide, with three engraved inscriptions upon its surface. The first of these is in Greek, the second is a conglomeration of hieroglyphics and the third is enchorial writing, a system used by the Egyptian's in recording every-day matters. After years of laborious research the savants of Europe ascertained that the three inscriptions were three versions of a degree in honor of Ptolemy Eplphanes by the priests of Egypt, because ho had remitted their taxes. This wonderful relic dates back to about thr year 200 B. C.—Philadelphia Press. A Mixed Brood. A resident of Friendship, Ga., owns a turkey hen that not onlj keeps his family well supplied with young turkeys, but sometimes surprises the family by the presentation of a mixed brood. On the last occasion, after setting on twelve eggs foi her usual term of incubation, she was found the other morning hovering over ten young turkeys and one young opossum, it having required two turkey eggs to produce one 'possum. The young'possum in questioti was about the size of a half-grown rat, and was nestling under the turkey as contentedly as anv one of the legitimate brood. _. To Clean Copper. To get the tin, solder and dirt off old copper bottoms, so as to make them clean, cleanse first in a boiling solution of three parts caustic soda, one part niter and five parts water, and then in dilute sulphuric acid; or dip momentarily in warm ql trie acid, specific gravity 1.2, and wash immediately in running water. Tramp— “ Madam, have you got. anything in the way of an old pair of i trousers that your husband don’t) want?” Lady of the House—“ Yes, i there’s a cord of wood out there.”— Detroit Free Prasa.

FACING A BEAR. rii. Chances One Ha. to Take When Drain Is Aroused. I'd rather face a Denver burglar ,han a she bear when her cubs are in light. Any man who tackles a bear mder such circumstances is taking Dig chances on the hereafter. I shall sever forget one afternoon when I tvas out with a party on the Dolores river and got lost from my corapanons. We became separated In the lense forest, and in endeavoring to iross a steep ravine on a tough-headed nulc I wandered from the trail, and ilthough I shouted at the top of my mice, I could gain no reply. As J ivas well armed I bad no fear, and I (topped awhile to view the scenery, which is the most beautiful in the State of Colorado. The mountains ire thickly studded with trees and the river winds like a stream of silrcr through valleys as fair as the sun ihlncs upon. .Some distance ahead on the side of tbe slope I noticed an immense rock which had been broken )ff the top of the mountain .’I,OOO feet ibove and lodged on the incline about JOO yards from the river bed. The rock had plowed Its way through the pines, but had at last been brought to a stop by three forest monarchs that had stood for centuries. I deckled to ride up to the rock and start i lire on its smooth top, hoping that tbe smoke might attract the eyes of iiy friends. As I approached tho rock my mule showed signs of gredt uneasiness, and It was only by the most vigorous use of the spur that he was persuaded to push ahead. I soon discovered the cause of his alarm. There at the base of the rock lay a beautiful bear cub, playing with the shadows as they moved to and fro against the side of the rock. The cub lay on his back, and looked like an over-grown kitten. In a few moments he was joined by another of the family, and they began romping together with the most graceful movements. 1 had forgotten that there might be danger at hand, but was brought to my senses by a shudder which passed through the frame of mv mule and sent a cold chill along my spinal column. The mother bear was at hand. Right in front of mo a big head, with two glistening eyes, was thrust from an opening at the base of the rock and the body of the largest bear I ever saw came into full view. One move more and all my prospects of becoming a millionaire miner would have been dashed to pieces. How I got away I shall never know, but I have a faint recollection of clinging desperately to my mule as he turned tail and made frightful bounds for safety. In one of his spurts he actually cleared a canyon 500 feet deep and not less than twenty-five wide at the top. When • I came to a stop I was perspiring in every pore and my teeth rattled like a pair of castinets. Did I have a gun? Os course I did. I was armed with a repeating rifle, two large revolvers and a bowie knife.—H. B Stevens, in the Great Divide. A Queer Barometer. t One of the most curious of the many natural barometers consists of a halfpint glass half full of water, a piece of muslin and a leech. The leech must be put in the water and the jnuslin tied over the top of the glass so that the creature cannot get out again. When fine weather is to be tbe order of the day the leech will remain at the bottom of the water, coiled up in spiral shape, and perfectly motionless. If rain is to be expected it will creep to the top of the glass, and remain there until there is a likelihood of more settled weather. If there is to be a storm of wind the little animal will contort itself violently and squirm about. For some days before thunder it will keep out of the water almost all the time, and will occasionally move its body in a convulsive fashion. For frosty weather it behaves in the same manner as for tine, and it foretells snow in the same manner as it does rain. Died with Their Boots On. Just outside of the town of Tas;osa, in the Panhandle of Texas, is a bare and mound known as “Boot Hill." A correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune, who has visited the spot, writes that “there are twenty-three nameless graves in the clay and gravel of ‘Boot Hill,” wheie lie the remains of twenty-three men who died with their boots on.” To have died in this manner was considered in Tascosa in its palmy days fiie most glorious end of human existence possible, and as in giving one, in the language of the cowboys, a “dead cinch” on immortality.” Tascosa is Spanishand means low, loggv, sandy, and the town was rightly named. Once it boasted of a permanent population of 300 souls, but the Fort Worth and Denver railroad ran through it and Tascosa is now as dead as the twenty-three heroes who sleep beneath the sand and cacti of “Boot Hill.” Turtle Catches a Hmvk. A gentleman who lives in Georgia up the Oostana’ula River told of a peculiar occurrence up in his vicinity the,other day. He was fishing in the river when he saw a great red-tailed hawk fly down and light by the edge of the stream. It was a sandbar and the hawk waded out a few feet in the shallow water. ,He then observed the hawk engaged in a fearful struggle as if held by something, and with great effort the bird rose and flew out in the field, carrying with it a large water turtle which it had attacked, but which, instead of being caught, had clutched one of the hawk’s feet in its powerful mouth and held on. Out in the field the hawk tried in vain to get away from the turtle, but could not. When it became too fatigued to fly the man went out and killed both with a hickory plub. Bees. pn In tropical countries, there are in every hive what one can only describe as “ventilating bees.” That Is to say, during the hot season two or three bees post themselves on their heads at tbe entrance of the hive, and fan the interior with the incest saat motion of their wings. They are relieved at intervals by fresh bees, who carry on the process. They are kept to their duty by a sort of patrol of bees to ensure their incessant activity. This is a well-authenticated and known fac'

Business Directory THE DECATUR RATIONAL BANK. § Capitol, *50,000. Surplus, SIO,OOO Orlganlsed August 15,1«83. Officers—T. T. Dorwin, President; P. W. Smith, Vice-President; R. S. Peterson Ca.hler; T. T. Dorwin, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkes, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Terveer, J. D. Bale and 14 H. Peterson, Director.. Wo are prepared to make Loan, on good secnrlty, receive Deposits, furnish Domestic and Foreign Exchange, buy and aell Government and Municipal Bond., and turm.h Letter, ot Credit available in any of the principal cities at Europe. Also Paaaage Ticket to and (r,.ni tbe Old World, including transportation to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital. $75,000. Burplua, 75,000. Organized in 1871. Officers—D. Studebaker. President; Bobt. B. Allison, Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Ca.hler. Do a general banking business. Collections made in ail parts ot the country. County. City and Township Order, bought. Foreign and Domeatio Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time depo.lt.. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney At Law Decatur, - - Indiana. OEJ. EC. LeBRUN. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Successfully treats all diseases of Horse, and Cattle. WIU respond to call, at any time. Prices resonable. rariN, b. x. Mann. j. r. ERWIN £ MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows' Building, Decatnr, Ind. T7IRANCE 4 MERRYMAN. J. I. fbance. A! J. T. MkHHTMAN Attoraeyß a.t Law, DICATUO, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1,2 and 3, over the 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 Holthouse's shoe store, and Is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. All work warranted. Kent K. Wheelock, M. D., EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST 94 Calhoun-st. Fort Warne, Ind. JJEV D. NEUENSCHWANDER, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. jßeme, - - - Indiana. Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A.«. HOLLOWAY, Fliy aiiolan rib Surgeon Office over Burns’ harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. All calls oromptly attended to in city or country night or day. M, L HOLLOWAY, M. ». Office and residence one door north of M. B. church. Diseases of women and children special ties.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, 9 minutes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Bunday, .lune 12,18®. GOING NOKI’H. . STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati .lye 810 am 860 pm Richmond! 220 pm 1056.. 11 25 Winchester.... 3 17 .. 1J55.. 1212 am Portland 4 04.. 1235 pm 12 45 .. Decatur 5 10.. 131.. 128.. Ft.Wayno...arr 0 00.. 2 15.. 205 .. “ “ ...ive.,,. ... 2 35.. 2 15.. 806 am Kenddllville 3 41.. 3 09.. 910 .. Rome City 360.. 322.. 920.. Woloottvflle 4 01 9 31.. Valentine 411 9 42 .. LaGrange...., 4 19.. 341.. 951.. Lima 429 1008 .. Sturgis... 4 40.. 4 00.. 10 19 .. Vlckaburg 536 ~ 4M .. 1109 .. Kalamazoo, arr 6 05 12 01 .. •' ~lve 720 am 0 25.. 520.. 1215 pm Gr. Rapids..grr 9 29.. 810 . 6 50.. 150... ”* “M ..Ive 415pm10 30.. 7 20.. 200 .. D.,G.H.AM.cr 4 29.. 10 46.. 7 27.. 21*.. Howard City... 540 . 11 50 8 41.. 3 14.. Big Rapids 062 .. 1236 am 945 .. 3 60.. Reed City 730 .. 103.. 1020.. 4 20.. Cadillac arr 900.. 2 05.. 1130.. 515 .. ’• t ..i.lve 215.. 1140.. 520 .. Traverse City. 10*5 125 pm 066 .. Kalkaska 348.. 110 Petoskey 5*5.. 315 Mackinac City 71a .. 4*5 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 0 No. t No. $ Mackinac City. 845 pm 8 00am 200pm Petoskey 10 20 .. 930 .. 315 Kalkaska 1230.. 11 36.. 502 Traverse City., 11 10 .. 430 .. 6 30am Cadillac ... .arr 205 am 115 pm 6 30.. 8 06. .1 “ o ....ive 2 15.. 1 35.. 650 pm 810.. Reed City 328 .. 2 30.. 7 60.. 900 .. Big Rapids 4 00.. 2 56.. 8 25.. 9 45.. Howard City.. 455.. 3 43.. 0 20.. 10 32.. D.G.H.AM.cr 605.. 505.. 10 25.. 11 35 .. Gr. Rapids.arr 6 23.. 520 .. 10 40.. 11 50.. “ ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 850.. 8 00.. 12 55am 340 .. “ ..ive 856 .. 805 345 .. Vicksburg; 9 24.. 833 412.. Sturgis 1019 .. 926 503 .. Lima 1032 .. 940 513 .. LaGrange .... 10 44 .. 9.52 5 23.. Valentine; 10 53.. 10 02 531.,' Wolcottville... 1104 .. 101* 5*0.. Itome.Clty 1109.. 10 19 5*5.. Kendallville... 11 25 .. 10 39.., 8 06.. Ft. Wayne..arr 12*0pm 1150 716 .. “ “ ..Ive 100.. 1210 am 645 am Decatur 146 .. 12 50 .. 630 Portland 2 40.. 1 46.. 730 Winchester. .. 3 17.. 2 35.. 809 Richmond Cincinnati 7 00.. 655 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 te sell them. I sell different makes. CLEANING IND REPAIRING done reasonable Bee me first and tart money. «T. T. COOTS,Decatur, Ind, Scientific Americas Agency for I J iJ 5 L / a w ■ j l ■ 1 ■ Rk M Ik Ji 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 adentlflc paper in the world. Splendidly Illustrated. No Intelligert man should be without it. Weekly,Jß3.OO-a year; FLSO six months. Address MUNN & COw vublishirs, 361 Broadway, New York.

91.00 ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO AND A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEEKLYJNQUIRER A Decker Bro. Grand Piano, $650.00 A Gladiator Watch and Caso 30.00 A Lemaire 24 line Field Glass 20.00 A Holman Parallel Bible 13.00 A Venice Parlor Clock 12.00 A High Grade Safety Bicycle 125.00 An Elgin Watch and Boss Case. . . . 25.00 A Haydock Rico Coil Spring] 3 Handy Top Buggy r 2fto - 00 A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Caso, 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters' ] -- m Commercial College i ’ ’ ’ /a,w A Six Octavo Champion Organ .... 200.00 A Double Barrel Shot Gun 30.00 A Silverene Case 7 jewel Watch. . . 10.00 A High Arm Improved Sewing Machine,ss.oo A 15 jewel Watch, Boss Case 35.00 A Five Octave Parlor Organ 150.00 A Gladiator Watch, DncberCase. , . 30.00 A John C. Dueber Watch <t Case. . . 40.00 And 82 other valuable premiums will be presented to yearly subscribers of the Weekly Enquirer in April, 1892. Enclose one dollar for a year’s subscription to the Weekly Enquirer, and GUESS what will be the number of subscribers in the five largest’ lists received from Nov. 1, ’9l, to March 31, ’92. For same term last winter it was 2999, and the winter before was 1405. The premiums are to be presented to those whose guesses are correct or nearest correct. For full list see Weekly Enquirer, now the largest 12 page dollar a year paper in the United States. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. First Class Night and Day Service bstxvsoa Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—M9DERH EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIQHT TRAIN eJ murALS SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour, DAV OR NIQHT, at moder ate cost. Ask for tickets via Toledo, St Louis A hnutCily R. & CLOVEKjXfIF_ROUTE. For further particulars, call on nearert Agent of the Company, or address O. C. JENKINS, Gu.nl Fumter XsMt TOLEDO, OHIO, ♦ Erie Lines. Schedule In effect May 15. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. Nc.s. Vestibule Limited, daily fori M Chicago ami the west , f Nd. 3. Pacific Express, daily-fert’ o.m a m Chicago and the we5t....™.... I ~' w No. 1. Express, daily for Chicago I j 0 .,0 p u and the west No. 31. Local. J-10:36 A. M TR4TNSV. IST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for 1 u New York and Boston f ‘ 1 • No. 12. Express, daily Jfor New I 130 A M. York I ' ’ No. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-1 ,-o D u ceptSunday... ..... I I,oS No. 30. Local 110:35 A M. J. W. DeLoxg, Agent, Frank M." Caldwell. D. P. A. Huntington, Ind.; F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A., Chicago, 111. O. Pl M. ANDREWS, □Pixy aician efts Surgeon MONROE. INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 26-* Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary /fbSw Surgeon. Modus Operandl, Oroho YL ZJ tomv. Overotomy, Castrating. Rldg ling. Horses and Spayirfa Cattle and Dehora Ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. AGENTS WANTED Good Solicitor® Only. Ladles or GentlemeiFTor Weekly Enquirer. Profits from |2.bo to 18.00 a day. ENOUIRER COMPANY, ■' ■ CINCINNATI, O. Tbe Cincinnati Enquirer snd tbe DzxoctlA* one year for ¥2 30. By subscribing now, you can have both papers through the great caM,' paign of 1892. Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur arid Short streets. MONEYTO LOAN Oa Farm Property on Long Timo. 3Wo Coxximlaalon. Low Rata of lateroM. JF’aax-tlaal Z > *yzxa*xi.sa la nay amouata oaa ba made at any lima aas •top Intereat. Call on, or addraaa, A. K. GRUBB, or J. B. MANN, _ OSea: Odd Folio wa’ Building, Daoatux. •. T. May. M. D., PliyßioiaiK* Onx-gjmoaa. Monroe. - • • laAJaaa. All calls promptly attended to day or alghk JtSoe at residence. J. B. 8080, B. T. 8080. Muter Commissioner. 8080 & SON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Beal Estate and Collection, Decatur, Ind.