Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1892 — Page 7

mans Influence

B ~'bJLzV& \'* AiX/ ■ . }fV< I ■l' CHAPTER XII t—Continued. ■ She bent her head, pretending to oxI amine the gleaming Btonoa, but raised ■ it immediately, to say rather slowly: “Tell me what you wish most, and you ■ Shall have it.” ■ . Brian gave a questioning glance at ■ her half-averted face. He hesitated, ■ but only for a second. The next he had I caught ner in his arms, and holding her I against his beating heart he pressed a ■ long, passionate kiss upon her passive lips. ■ She made not the slightest resistance, I though her face had grown very white. ■ He laid his own interpretation upon I this sign. “You are angry," he said, I allowing her to go at last. I “No, no, not angry; that was your I Christmas gift." I She spoke with an effort and once I more fell to admiring her pin. Brian I watched her with a longing she felt I rather than saw. To avoid his eyes she I drew her chair closer to the Are and I burled her head In its cushioned back. I “It is odd,” remarked Brian, after an I awkward pause. “I think the world I would smile to know that a husband is I «. only permitted to kiss his wife on I Christmas day. ” I i “Some other time we will talk of that, I Brian. Not now. It will only stir up old discords." I “There is always the shadow of disI cord between us," was the answer given I with a sigh. “Heaven knows I should I like to be a different man; but as I must I be what I am, why can we not be happy I together?” I “Are you unhappy?" I 1 “You know I am. What pleasure can I you find in hearing me say so? You I know your love is the one thing I long for. Yet you will kill yourself in the Interest of others, while for me ” He paused with a passion more eloquent than words. M argaret could not reply immediately. A strange, nervous weakness benumbed her faculties, and she waited for a stronger moment to * answer his reproaches. “You speak unjustly,” she said at last, with great effort. “I do not take pleasure in your unhappiness. If you knew how utterly exhausted I am, you would spare such remarks. They pain me. I —I can’t bear them now.” She had risen from her chair with the last words, and with sudden trembling swayed as though she would faint. “Margaret!” ho cried, catching her in his arms, “tell me the trouble.” “I am only tired,” was the answer, with a half sob as her head rested for a second on his shoulder. “Only very tired. ” “I have been a brute,” he rejoined, penitently. “I should have seen you were 111. Let me do something for you, darling." “Oh, no, Brian; I thank you. I shall be better when I have slept I need only that, I think. I must say goodnight now.” With a sigh hedet her go from him, and she moved away unsteadily; but coming back under the Impulse of an after-thought, she said, very slowly: “Brian, won’t you try to believe that want to see you happy and contented, and that I try very hard to make you so? If I am not a better woman it is not because I do not strive to be. ” “No more,” cried Brian, with much warmth. “Margaret, you hurt me. Not to win your love, but to be worthy of It,, that should be my ambition. You are too good for me, I Good-night.” CHAPTER XIV. A BITIBR REVELATION. The old year died amid the festivities incident to the season, and the new year was already a week old; but still Margaret had not regained her old-time spirits. 1 ' Brian was at first anxious and then annoyed. It was too bad of Margaret to look so pale and thin, when he liked to see her strong and well. Thus he argued with man’s sublime selfishness. “I wish you would tell me what is the matter with you,” he said, rather sharply, at bn akfastone morning. “You say you , feel strong. You will not allow me to ■ prescribe for you, nor will you see Dr. [ Philips; and yet you go around looking like a ghost. I can’t understand it.” “There is no necessity for trying. I Brian. I was never rosy in my best days, and people often grow thin from very simple causes. Will you pass me a roll, please?” “You need not try to deceive tae,” put in Brian, complying with her request. “It is well enough to talk of being pale and growing thin from simple causes. I know there is a reason for your indisposition. The place is dull enough, dear ■ knows. I think you might try to be cheerful, if only for my sake.” Margaret's lips twitched. Her temper had been tried by several circumstances that morn ng, and now Brian’s com- I plaints capping the climax, put her in a mood for retaliation. “I wish you had thought of the dullness before you married mo,” she retorted with the bitterness that filled her breast. “I suppose you are angry now. I know you’ll drive me mad. I wish I could hate you.” “Don’t quarrel, please. I don't like it. If you do not find sufficient to interest you at home, it is not my fault, and I will not bear the blame. ” Her eyes flashed as that determined will passed her lips. “Are you going to the city again?” “Yes, to-morrow. I can’t stand more than a little of this life at a time.” “Nor of my company,” added Margaret, rather bitterly. “You are complimentary, decidedly.” “As to standing your company, Margaret, youknow my feeling perfectly well. It is of the place, not you, I complain. What under heaven can a sane man do here?" "What can he do in the city? What do you do there?” Margaret asked this question very quietly. ; “What can one do?” repeated Brian, Ignoring the personality. “Bather ask: What can’t he do? New York life Is so flexible, my dear, that It bends to every caprice. Wonderful and accommodating both. There’s pleasure for everybody. A thousand amusements to fill up one’s time. Ask a Gothamite how ho enjoys himself and hear his answer. ” ! “Then from your account I am to assume that enjoyment Is the end and ;alm of hie existence. I think your |Gothamite’s life would not suit me.” • > “Not If you hold your present prinolfples, certainly. Beally, Margaret, you fare a most self-oplnloilated young woman, and I'd be delighted if you (would drop one or two of your theories Iby the wayside.” •

“I dare say It would be ub well," woe the answer; “they could notfall on more barren soil than your unappreciative mind offers. ’’ “Bay philosophical rather than unappreciative. You must admit that I.have reason on my side. Show me the benefit of working one's self to death, when there is no necessity for it. You only see the surfs :e, Margaret, but I go deeper. ” “On the contrary,” smiled Margaret, "you see only the surface, while I look deeper. You look only at the need of money, but I see a hundred effects in which money has no part. Necessity Is a very accommodating term, and has a different shade of meaning for different people. As for working one's self to death, I’m afraid that Is also an accommodating term. A lazy man might consider the slightest exertion a stop toward that lamentable end. “I suppose I am that lazy man?” “I shouldn’t be at all surprised. And, Betting joking aside, Brian, I do think that no man has a right to do nothing. Lounging about day after day, with no higher ambition than to amuse one’s self would, it seems to me, make a man or woman (more particularly a man), tired of himself. Now, don't look at me with that expression, please. I don't want to be a shrew, or a preacher, either. I detest everlasting preachers, and I don’t intend to be one. Nevertheless, I wish to gracious you’d find something to do, and have a better reason for going to New York than your present one, which is—well, not particularly creditable. ” Margaret’s voice broke slightly, but she tried to hide the momentary weakness by sipping her coffee. Brian’s face had flushed very visibly at her allusion to the reason of his visits to the city and he, too, went on eating in silence. “Margaret,” ho said, presently, “if you have any old men or women who need doctoring call me in and I’ll show you what I can do. I’m pretty fair, notwithstanding my want of practice. “Very well, Brian, bo prepared for an early call. It is not your ability I doubt, though.” As he had said, Brian went to New York the next day. “I shall be back in a day or so,” he told Margaret on bidding her good-by. “You may expect me. ’’- Margaret did expect him, but she was disappointed. The days passed, and after his first letter she heard no more from him. She became worried and anxious, though even to herself she would not acknowledge her alarm. . tike not dream of bodily harm. Intelligence of such a mishap would have reached her quickly. Yet in some intangible way she felt that he was in danger and needed her. In cases like this philosophy is of little avail. To tell herself that this or that was impossible, that Brian was merely forgetful and indifferent, augmented rather than relieved her fears. To relieve her mind she rode over to The Cedars to see and talk with Alice; but upon reaching her destination she was told that Alice had loft the house with the intention of returning in a short time. As she had the afternoon at her disposal, Margaret decided to wait; so she found her way to the small room adjoining the library and seated herself in a lounging chair. The house was very silent, and the room unusually warm, and as a consequence Margaret, becoming rather drowsy, was soon quite unconscious of her surroundings. How long she remained so she did not know, but presently she was aroused by loud voices raised in some altercation. At first they were rather indistinct and seemingly put part of a dream. “Very well, sir, go to the devil for all I care.” “The Colonel’s voice,” Margaret decided, still unable to shake off the impression of dreaming “What’s the good of your education, I’d like to know?” the voice continued. “Do you imagine I gave you the opportunity of reading law for you to give it up when you grew tired? No, sir! This Idea of writing that’s turned your heaj is only another name for doing nothing. Confound me! I believe you want to be like that d scoundrel, Leigh ” Margaret started. Was this dreaming? “You are mistaken,”.came the answer in Bertie's voice. “I have no ddsire to emulate Brian in any respect. Please credit me with some consideration for Alice.” “If you didn’t show more for her than he does for his wife, I’d shoot you with my own hands. He ought to be hung, . the scoundrel! Leaving his wife as he | has been doing, allowing his domestic affairs to be the talk of the neighborI hood and her name to become the sub--1 ject of discussiqp with every vulgar gossip in the place, and he galivanting around the city like a loafer, lounging in clubs mornings, noens, and nights, and I drunk at that. Beale saw him the other day lying on the club house steps, too drunk to move. And Margaret has thrown herself away on such a creature. Don’t get so excited, you say? Do you think lam made of stone? Do you ’ think I can talk quietly and calmly when I remember her? Why in the name of heaven do such men have wives? Why in the name of a just heaven should she have such a husband? I And why in the name of the devil don’t some one shoot or hang him? Margaret had heard all—every word, the Colonel’s high-pitched denunciations, Bertie’s lower but not less emphatic ones, and now she could hear the Colonel angrily pacing the library, his regular rapid steps seeming to keep time with her quick heart beats. No, this was not dreaming. She was fully awake. And crouching down in her chair she pressed her hands over her eyes as though she would shut from her sight the shame and disgrace that was actually touching her life. Why had it never occurred to her before? Why had she not guessed that, while she passed her thoughtless, unthinking days in the safety of her own home, ho was following a path of ruin amid the gilded temptations of New York? How much of the blame would lie at her door, and what would be the end? Ah! those bitter questions, with their more bitter possibilitiesT Before her mind rose the memory of a solemn moment and the nover-forgot-ten words: “Don’t forget Brian. Bo good to him for my sake.” - ■ Did she need such memories to make her realize that now as never before his future, his destiny rested .In her hands? She could not sit here and wait quietly for Alice nor could sho be found here by either Bertie or the Col6nol. She must leave the house unobserved If possible. a Alas! it was not possible. Scarcely had she reached the hall than Bertie, leaving the library at the same moment, came suddenly upon her. “Margaret,” he said, starting at sight of her. “You here? I did not know. You are in trouble. You are 111. Tell me." ‘‘Heart-elok, Bertie, only heart-sick," she returned, with a half-sobbing breath, while' she caught at the door for support. “I came >o see Alice. She is out; I cannot wait longer.”

“You hare been wafting then,* he questioned, quite bewildered by her strange manner. “Margaret," be addled, with sudden rovation, “you heard.” “Yes,” she answered, lowering he* eyes l/efore his pitying glance. “I was in there and I heard all. I did not know before. “Poor child," he Bald, with unusual * gentleness. “If Brian could only seo you now. I wish I could have told you loss abruptly. It was cruel. Father will bo so sorry. Let me bring him here. He might comfort you, Margaret." Margaret smiled sadly, and leaned rather heavily against the stairway. “No, Brrtio, no one can do that. It 1s impossible, impossible. 1 think his sympathy would bo very hard to bear now. Don't pity me. Advise me. I feel so helpless. Have you known—long? Why has God sent mo this — this trouble?" It was hard for Bertie to meet this Inquiry calmly. “Not for any desert of yours," ho said, rather huskily. “You ask me If I have known long. I’m afraid I must say yes. The first time I saw Brian not himself—l am hurting you." “No. Go on, please. Tell me all. It can make very little difference now." “I was surprised and shocked. I thought of you and I talked to Brian. He promised to do bettor. I believe ho Intended to, and I think he tried, but his resolutions are weak and easily broken. Do you remember the day I met you in the road and you remarked upon my long face? It was the day before Brian left on this last visit. I dreaded the result for him, and I determined to tell you all and let your peri suasions influence him. But, Margaret, when I saw your face my heart failed me, and I allowed the opportunity to slip. Yet you can remember how earnest I was in begging you to use your influence to keep Brian at homo. Here the temptation seems to have no power over him. I think your presence must be the cause. Unfortunately, though, he loves the allurements of city life. And you are not there." “No, but I shall be,” returned Margaret, lifting her grateful eyes to his. “Thank you for showing me the way." “It is so little to thank me for,” ho returned, sadly. “I wish I could do a thousand times more for you. If Brian is not content to stay with you at Elmwooe, the next best thing is for you to be with him in New York. It will be a gain for him, but leaving your home will be a heavy sacrifice for you. Do you fell called upon to make it?” He looked kindly In her face, but he found no hesitation there. “A hundred times, if she responded. “I had not thought of that part, and I cannot speak of it yet. Will you see that John brings my horse? And remember me to Alice and your father, please.” “Keep up a brave heart,” he said, as helped her on her horse a few moments later, “and don’t forget me if you need a friend, though heaven grant you never may.” Margaret nodded. She could not speak, and pressing her hand with sympathetic warmth, Bertie watched her ride away, and then went in to recount to his father all that had passed between them. This served to increase the old gentleman's indignation at what ho called Brian’s despicable conduct. While Bertie talked he paeed the room, alternately praising Margaret, whom he loved like a daughter, and condemning Brian, who, in his estimation, had been false alike to the highest principle of miiqhood and to the honor and respect due to his wife. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Imitation Mountain. Just now, at the office of the Geological Survey, they are engaged in building imitation mountains, for the purpose of studying the way in which the eternal hills were formed by the crumpling due to the contraction of the earth’s crust. The coal basins and other valuable mineral deposits in many parts of the United States have undergone just such crumpling, so that it shall resemble in consistency the brittle rocks near the Surface of the earth or the plastic rocks which are in that condition because of the great pressure that exists even at depths of only two or three miles, as the case may be. The mixture is cast in layers of a given thickness by melting and flowing it in a wooden trough. When each layer has hardened it is taken out, and a number of layers thus made are superimposed one upon the other like layers of jelly cake, representing geological strata. The next process is to place the layers in a machine, piling shot on top of them to represent the force of gravity, after which pressure is applied from the ends very slowly by a piston advanced with a screw. This causes them to crumple up, and under the artificial contraction they are found to take precisely the forms of mountain ranges like the Alleghanies. A Queer Riff. Mr. Dennett, of Cape Elizabeth Me., who supplies the cottagers with milk, eggs, and garden truck, has a rig that attracts a good deal of attention. It consists of a 2-year-old bull, with a ring in his nose, bearing a crooked yoke on his neck, harnessed to a flat-bottomed cart, which will float in the water. The animal is driven by Mr. Dennett like a horse. Reins of rope are attached to the ring in the bull’s nose. They pass up over the horns through rings attached to them. With this queer team Mr. Dennett makes the trip to the beach two or three times a week, fording the Sperwink River at high tide. The bull swims the river like a dog and the cart floats like a boat and will sustain the weight of Mr. Dennett d‘nd his load of produce safely. When Mr. Dennett and his unique team are seen approaching the cottagers throng the banks of the river in order to see him make the passage. To Pack Collars and Cuffs. The best way to pack collars and cuffs, if you have the usual summer assortment, is to putthem in a collar and cuff box and put this in the bottom of your trunk. The most durable boxes are made of black seal and have two compartments. The box is lined with watered silk. The cuffs are placed in the lower compartment about a round piece of silk-covered cardboard made for that purpose, The collars go in the upper tray. The Simplon The longest tunnel in the work will be that now to be commenced through the Simplon. According to. the Anal plans adopted it will have a length of 12.6 miles, or 3.1 miles more than the St. Gothard tunnel. Mexico’s Cathedral. The cathedral In the City of Mexico Is the largest In America, and cost nearly 1000,000.

WEALTH OF THE STATES. Hie Riche, of Ihr Country Lie More Largely East Thun Was Muppoeed. The detailed figures of the assessment by States, in the census bulletin just Issued, shows how unevenly wealth is distributed in the different sections of this country. Os course these totals are not perfect for purposes of comparison, as the assessment laws differ in the various States, but the Louisville Courier-Journal claims that with a few provisos they serve well enough to give one a lair idea of the relative riches or poverty of the sections. Ono of the most important of the provisos is in regard to Illinois, where the State Board of Equalization estimates that the 1890 assessment represents only one-fourth the true value of the property. This estimate is upheld by the- fact that the assessment of Illinois is but little more than one-third that of Ohio, and is considerably less than that of Indiana, although Illinois has the great city of Chicago within her borders and possesses a population nearly double that of Indiana. In Massachusetts the assessment is lively to be a little high as compared with that of other states, as property there is rated at pretty nearly its true value. The figures indicate that the wealth of the country lies more largely in the East than had even been generally supposed, although it was universally known that the East, because of greater age, was the richer section. Massachusetts, though one of the smallest States in size and but the sixth in population, is the third in assessed wealth, falling less than 20 per cent, behind Pennsylvania, while New York, with a population nearly three times as great, exceeds her only 60 per cent. Her assessment is greater than that of Ohio, more than four times that of Kentucky, six times that of Tennessee, more than fourteen times that of South Carolina and nearly three times that of Missouri. More than one-third of the assessed wealth of the United States is in the three states of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and nearly one-half of it is in the five States of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and California. The assessment of California, though that State is only about forty years old, exceeds that of any other state except New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Ohio, though Illinois would be far ahead of her if property there were properly assessed. The six New England States, with about one-thirtieth of the population of the Union,contain one-seventh of the assessed wealth, Massachusetts with one-thirtieth of the population having one-eleventh of the assessed wealth. The fifteen States that were formerly slaveholding contain about 22 per cent, of the assessed wealth and about 36 per cent of the population of the Union. What was the old Northwest Territory, which Great Britain endeavored to hold, now the five States of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, contains 21 per cent of the population and 25 per cent of the assessed wealth, Illinois being given her proper assessment, about equal to that of Ohio. Some of the far western States, besides California, are rising rapidly in the scale of wealth. Thus the assessment of Washington or Colorado is larger than that of South Carolina or West Virginia or Arkansas. In fact, the assessment of Washington exceeds that of Nebraska, but we muse take into consideration that values are placed on a much higher Scale in the new and Western States than in the old and Eastern States. It is safe to say that the nbwer a State is the more inflated its assessment is. There is also another important item to be taken into consideration in estimating the relative wealth of East and West Ajarge. portion of the West is owned in the East, while very little of the East belongs to the West. The smallest State in the Union is by no means the poorest. Little Rhode Island, with her 1,300 square miles, has a higher assessment than those of twenty-six States and Territories. Os the strictly Southern States only Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas exceed her in assessed wealth, and her assessment Is more than three-fifths that of Kentucky. Delaware, the next smallest State, has an assessment less than one-fourth as large as that of Rhode Island. The highest assessed valuation per head is in Massachusetts, where it is about $965, and the lowest is in the three States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Mississippi, where it is about $135. each per human being. In Kentucky tne average is about $265, in Ohio about SSOO, in New York about $630, in Pennsylvania about SSOO, in Rhode Island abouts92o, in Michigan about $440, in Virginia about $235, in Tennessee about S2OO, and in Georgia about $205. Traveling; Stones in Nevada. The curious “traveling stones” of Australia are paralleled in Nevada. They are described as being perfectly round, about as large as a walnut and of an ivory nature. When distributed about the floor, table or any smooth surface within two or three feet of each other they immediately commence traveling toward each other and meet at a common center, and there lie huddled in a bunch like eggs in a nest A single stone removed to a,distance of four feet, upon being released, returns to the heap, but if taken away as much as five feet, remains motionless. It is needless to say that they are largely composed ot magnetic iron ore.—Grass Valley Union. What n Pity. The American Hebrew says that a minister, while visiting a farmer in the neighborhood of Glasgow, was invited to partake of some tine fruit. The good man not only declined the proffered dainties, but announced the remarkable, fact that he had never tasted an apple or any other kind of “green fruit.” The company looked much surprised, and. an old Scotchman remarked iOilry tone: “It’s a peety, but had ye been in Paradiso there might na hae been ony fa’.”

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital. •30,000. Surplus, *IO,OOO Organized August 13,1883. Officer.— T. T. Dorwin, Preaident; P. W. Smith, Vice-President; K. 8. Peterson Cm tiler; T. T. Dorwin, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkea, J. H. Holbrook, B.J. Terveer, J. D. Halo and B 8. Peterson, Director.. Wo are prepared to make Ixian. on good security, receive Deposits, furnish Domestic and Foreign Exchange, buy and sell Government and Municipal Bonds, and furnish Letters of Credit available in any of the principal cities of Europe. Also Passage Ticket to and from the Old World, including transportation to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital, $75,000. Surplus, 75,000. Organized In IH7I. Officers—D, Studebaker. President; Bobt. 8.Allison, Vice-President; W. If. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parts of the country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney at Law Decatur, • - Indiana, ZEJ. X3Z. LoBZELTJJST. * Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Bncceeafnllv treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices resonable. ZBVIN, B. K. MANN, J. F. erwih & mass, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office In Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. France & mekkyman. j. t. France. J. T. MERRYMAN .Attorneys a.t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 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. JQ. 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. Xenf K, Wheelock, Jf. D,, EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST I V 94 Calhoun-st. Fort Warne, Ind. I D. NEUENSCHWANDES, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Berne, - - - Zndtan*. Children and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A.«. HOLLOWAY, I . JF*lxy«aloiaJO.<*JS-ui.rßeox*. 1 Office over Burns’ harness shop, residence i one door north of M. B. church. All c&Lui promptly attended to in city or country ni<ht • or day. I MRS. M, I*. HOLLOWAY, M. D. — Office and residence one door north of M. B. : church. Diseases of women and children specialties.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, CT minutes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Sunday. June 12, ItMl. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati..lve 810 am 8110 pm ........ Klcbmondl 2 20pm 101A .. 11 28 Winchester... 317 .. 1155.. 12 12am Portland 404 .. 12;ii>pn> 12 45 Decatur 510 .. 181 .. 128 . Ft.Wayne...arr 800.. 215.. 205 ” " ...Ivu 235 .. 215 .. 1105 am Kendallville 341.. 3ow .. 910 .. Home City.... 3M .. 8 22.. 9 28.. Wolcottvflle 401 931.. Valentine....‘.-t ill 9 42 .. LaGrange 419.. 341.. 9 51.. Lima 4 29 10 08 .. Sturgis 440 .. 400 .. 10 19 .. Vicksburg 5 38.. 4 56.. 11(19.. Kalamazoo.arr ...... . 605 12 01.. , •• . Ive 7 2flam 8 25.. 5 20.. 1216 pm Gr. Rapids ..arr 929.. 810 . 8 50.. 160.. “ "■ Ive 415 pm 10 30 .. 720.. 200.. D.,G.H.4M.cr 4 29. 10 45 . 7 27.. 2 14.. Howard City... 6 4(1.. 11 50 . 841.. 3 14.. Illg Rapids 862.. 12 38am 945.. 856.. ReedClty 7 30.. 1(B.. 10 20.. 420 .. Cadillac arr 9 00.. 205,. 11 30.. 515 .. .. .Ive 215 .. 11 4(1 . 620 .. Traverse City. 10 45 125 pm 666.. Kalkaska 3 48.. ill) Petoskey 645 .. 315 Mackinac City 715 .. 445 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. 1 No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. » Mackinac City. ! 845 pm 8 00am 200pm ....... Petoskey 10 2-1 .. 930 .. 315 Kslkaska 12 36 .. 11 36 .. 502 Traverse City e. 11 10.. 4 30.. 6 30am Cadillac .. ..arr 205 am 115 pm 6 30.. 8 05. | -• a ....Ive 2 15.. 135.. 650 pm 8 10.. Reed City 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 50.. 900.. Illg Rapids 4 00.. 2 58.. 8 25.. 9 45.. Howard City.. 455.. 343.. 920.. 1032.. D.G.H.&M.cr 605.. 505.. 1025.. 1135.. Gr. Rapids arr 629.. 5 20.. 10 40.. 11 50.. " ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. U 20.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55am 3 40.. c ..Ive 855 .. 805 345 .. Vicksburg; 9 24.. 833 4 12.. Sturgis ;.. 1019.. 926 5 03.. Lima 10.12 .. 940 513 .. LaGrange... .10 44.. 952 5 23.. Valentino 10 53... 10 02 5 31 .. Wolcottville... II 04 .. 10 14 540 .. Rome .City.,... 11 09 .. 10 19 5 45.. Kendallville... 11 25., 1039 606.. Ft. Wayne, arr 1240 pm 11 50 7 16 .. •’ " ...Ive 100.. 1210 am 545 am Decatur 1 48.. 12 50.. 830 Portland 2 40.. 1 46.. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 35.. 809 Richmond..... 4J20 .. 3 40.. 9 15.. Cincinnati 700 .. 6 55.. 120lnm .... Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON, Agent.

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SI.OO ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO XVO a r£4/?'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEEKLY ENQUIRER A Decker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, sf>so,oo 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 Rice Coil Spring 1 oAfl 0 A fl (U1 Handy Topßuggy r 200,00 A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Caso. 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters’ I -- Commercial College j ’ ' ' 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 Caifb 35.00 A Five Octave Parlor Organ 150.00 A Gladiator Watch, Dueber Case. . . 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 batwaan Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour, DAT OR NIGHT, at moderate cost. tskfor tickets fii Toledo, St Louis k Kansas City IL R For further particulars, call on nearMt Agent of the Company, or address Q t C. JENKINS, GtMrsl Pußngtr AfMte TOLEDO, OHia Erie Lines. Schedule In effect May 16. Trains Leave Decatur as Follow, TRAINS WEST. N 0.5, Vestibule Limited, dailr for 1 p w Chicago and the west f ' No. 3. Pacific Express, daily for-p o.nn * M Chicago and the west — I ' ' " No. 1. Express, daily for Chicago I. t.>.,0 p w aud the west f No. 31, Local >10:35 A. M TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I p w New York and Boston 1 No. 12. Express, daily [for New I j.3q A _ y, York... f No. ~ Accommodation, daily.ex-1 i.xg p jt, ijvpt Sunday ) No- 30. Local J. W. Delong, Agent. Frank M. Caldwell. D. P. A, -Huntington. Ind.: F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A.. Chicago, LU. O.P. M.AXDKF.WS, Fliysician <*s Stirsoon MONROE. INDIANA. * Office ami residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of" M. E. churyb, 26-“ Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon, Modus Operand!. Oroho '•J Zj tomv. Overotomy, Castrating, Ridg ling, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store, Decatur Indiana. AGENTS WANTED Good Solicitors Only. Ladles or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from 12.06 to 48.00 a day. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. The Cincinnati Enquirer and the DkMOCHA» one year for J 2.30. By subscribing now, yoa can have both papAh through the great coat palgnoflß92. Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. „ MONEY TOLOAN On Farm Property on Long Tiana. Wo Commlaaloxi. Low Rate of IntaraM. JPan-tlaal Faymenta la aay amounta can be mad. at any Um. aafi ■top interest. Call on, or addreaa, 4. X. GRUBB, or J. F. MAS IT, Offioa: Odd Fallow,’ Building, DaoaMu. O T. Bay. B D, Flx7-«ilolaxxcA> Surgeon Basra*. - Isdlaaa. Allcal'j promptly attended to day or nlgha •fflee at realtieuc. I. R 8080. it. T. 8080. Master Commissioner. 8080 & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Beal Estate and Collection, Decatur. Ind. o ’ , * < *