Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1892 — Page 7

THE STORY OF ULLA. Told at the Edge of the Northern Sea, ahd Written for This Paper. BY EDWIN LESTER ARNOLD.

CHAPTER I. This Ib the story of Ulla tho viking, Ulla the priest! Thin In the etory of Ulla the proud and Ulla the humble Thin is the story each sentence of which fulls on tho heart of the writer heavy as the hollow moan of breakers on some deso'ato midnight shore. And the heart of Ulla is that shore, nnd tho pulse of tho storm that Is over—tho stdrm of the life and the loving—comes distant and sad as ho wr ton with a melancholy cadence through tho hush of the even’ng ot living. I am that viking, I am that priest, and here in my lonely home by tho edge Igg; >r.'eo* •I FIT DY THE DIM SHIXB OF MV DAMP." of the northern sea I sit by tho dim shine of my lamp, while tho night wind sighs without, and across these lean, thin hands, these palsied, knotted fingers that tremble like tho white aspen leaves, lies a fair braid ot yellow hair. Long, long It seems since that braid was out from the head that grew it. Leng, long months of pain and days of regretting have passed tinea that strand was cut from its wearer; the salt se > has dimmed it, time has touched its luster, and the dark stain of blood is upon It, yet ns I, tho monk Ulla, raise that fair thing again and acain to ny lips and press it whore naught but the sign of the new faith should be pressed —press It trembling and silently to those cold lips—something of Ihe old love shoots through my shrunken veins—something of tho strong passion that once nerved them tingles into those withered fingers that smooth that gleaming toy so tenderly, and a white mist rises to my dull eyes, and my head droops forward, and tho little cell seems widening out as wide as life itself; and sad as the sound of the wind among pine trees, desolate as the beat of tho tireless pulse of the sea Upon the rim of the night comes to my lonely heart tho echo of long ago. It was in the time of my master, Halfdan tne Black, and I was a Norway jarl and lived by the white lip of the sea in Balaersund. I was young then, I was scarcely twontv, and had herds and men and farms all the way up the wild coast as far up as fair Hitteren. and a long ship lay in the creep by my homestead, and boar hounds lay on the rushes by my inglenook, and my bows and spears lay oh the tressels, and a hundred jolly fellows diank from my flowing hornsand carved my meats each day, and were proud to call me lord and leader. Three times as many stocked my yellow harvests and tilled my barns. _ And I was strong and tall and big of limb, and although I was so young I had already been twice abroad and had harried across the wide sen in distant Fareyjor and down south to Ljodhus. I had sipped the glorious wine of battle, and ■watched the red flame of burning thorp and tower leap up to heaven from my footsteps. Princes hud courted me and scalds had sung; everything I had, everything that a 1 old heart could hope for or a strong hand reach—everything but one; the chair on my left hand still stood emp y at the feast, no bright eyes welcom d Ulla returning victorious from a foray, no tall Norway maid tempered with her presence the rude revelry In his father’s hall, for Ulla was unwed. Yet it was not for lack cf Utting choice, for our maids were straight as young spruces, supple as tho yellow sedges by the tarns and fair as the spring flowers ot the fields when the May snow rolls back from them, and many such might I have had for tho asking. Thoralla there was, for Instance, whose locks were as yellow as the ripe hill barley: and Unn, whose sky-blue eyes shone wondrously kindly on her handsome neighbor when they met in shady forest path; and Thyri the slim, whose mother thought the lands of Ulla and their own would*well match together, and Thorn the smiler and many another. But I was wild and wayward, and as difficult to net as the free blue hawks that Bail along the cliff face in springtime. Matters were like this when my I waste - , King Halfdan, more easily persuaded, had determined to marry the comely Ragnhiid, daughter of Harold Goidbeard, and, everything having beou settled by the ainoassadors, one day in early summer from all the isles and fjords and every river town and mountain flat came trooping the Norway lords and chiefs to honor; the ceremonial and Bee the show. By Frlgga’s self that was a day, when all those cavaliers came riding down to the plain by the southern city, and so far as the eye could boo the meadows were aglisten with spear and cuirass and winged helms, and every way was blocked with mighty men in skins and golden armor, strong sons of . Odin with wild blue features, and yellow hair astream. upon their shoulders and mighty muscles,showing beneath their clinking armlets and bands of beaten metal. Indeed, that was a day. and I could fllLKere, as I Bit with nothing but thm’-bilink rock w’all before me, u hundred pages wljh the names and deeds Hl those who camo, and every name should sound to you like that of a giantanciprincoly brother, and every splendid dhod I linked to every namosljotildXjring tho blush of pride to ydur cheek and the pulse of pleasure td. your kindred hearts—but jhe lams byrnfs low and I am no scald, warlike shadows pass £ unchronicled again into the voids of memory from whence they came. In the mid of the plain the king’s mon had built a hall of rough-hewn pine logs, bo long and wide that 6,000 chiefs could sit to mc'at within it at once. And every vassal of the king had eent a polkt Ished buckler <.O deck the bride hbuse, and these were ranged in rows along r the roofs and sides until all these warlike trappings gleamed together with one broad ehlne that men could see from Akinfell to the white pools by Flokkerfjord. And every Norway maid had bound a fillet of green spruce and golden flower, and these were ranged between the ehlelds until a cloud of soft color wrapped the palace far and near, .. . '

and the sweet new pine smell hung warm nnd heavy over ead. Nor was this all. Every jarl and sea lord, every captain and rover who owned a long Ship or auekja, a skeld or skuta, had brought them lound to the fjord and hauled them up over rollers, and there they stood, those great navies of the vik ngs that had paled the cheeks of maids and matrons in twenty lands, their golden names—“ Deer of the Surf," “Baen of iho Wind," "Amir's Stied," “Hawk on the.Oull's Track," “Snake of the Sea,” < arvod In runic on each steep ris ng prow, In two ion < rows a m.lo or two in length, with | artl-co'orcd sails all set, and rod raiding flag streaming on the wind, and gilt draeon heads till turned Inward, and jolly crews in bright vestments in their idle lanks ot oats, rnd garlands of flowers about those sides which the white ribbons of tho sea foam were wont alone to deck. All about tho great mid hall were scores of less r houses, to that where grein grass grow a wook ago was now a gay wooden city, and a thousand troops ot horse stood munch ng Halfdau's hay, and a thousand sta wart clansmen were quaffing Halfdau's ale, and a thousand tables bent with Halfdan's provendo , and a thousand trumpets sounded Halfcan's war note, and a thousand scalds were singing Halfdau’s praises that day King Halldan married. The great prim e had chosen me to be among, his right-hand men, and thus happened that which was the sweet and the bitter, the light and the darkness of my life. King Goidbeard came ashore from his ships early in the morning, and my handsome black hatred master took the sweet Ragnhiid by the hand, ana at the head of a long procession of princes, chiefs and ladies, all on foot, marched through the mighty concourse of the shouting people and up tho long lane of dragon ships into the great hull itself. There tho feudatories ranged themselves In gallant rows at the many tressel tables while the kings and we with them went on to tho further end, where stood some oaken benches. These made three si les ot a square. On one But Harold with his peers; on the other, facing him, was Halldan — and I on his right—and four strong jarls from the corners of his kingdom to flank u?. The last bench across tho other two was filled by ladies, and amid them—all in white bride linen, with a splendid torque ot jewels binding the loose folds across her bosom and a diadem of rough gold in her golden hair — sat the bri ie. I scarcely know what followed. I saw the bride-price paid and the bench gifts made on bended knee. I saw the fair and frightened Ragnhiid clinging weeping for a minute to her father’s neck, and then I saw King Halldan take her

hWBv \ fop w “I SAW KING HALVDAN TAKE 1188 HAND B hand and acknowledge her before all Norway as his wife: the trumpets sounded, and the shout of the people outside came into the hall like the roar of a torrent sounding through the p’ne woods. I saw and heard all this but dimly, for Ulla Erlingson himself, the indifferent, the invincible, was on that moment vanquished. Among the fair Dane’s maidens on the cross bench sat an English girl, and such a queen of gentle loveliness never eyes rested on before. She was scarce seventeen years tall and shapely and slim, with a wondrous smooth figure, and her comeliness of limt) and cut ine was set off by a fair, clinging robe of the mystic druid green, of just such hue as you see hanging, pale and tender, over the strong black fields of the northern sea when the wet west wind blows at sunset. Her eyes were blue as fairy flax in summer, and shy, and clear, with a veiled light running somewhere deep down within them; her feet were sandaled with doe skin and white ermine, her middle was beltt d with a broad zone of pearls and amber beads, none of them smaller than a linnet's egg, and her hair, the crown and consummation of her loveliness, was bound up with a single fillet of red English gold. A strand of that hair now, fifty years after, lies before mo In the pale flicker of my feeble lamp. The luster has gone from it, and the dull stain of blood is cn it, and it is pale with the kisses of those priestly lips, and bleached by salt sea water, and I h’do my eyes a space from the silent reproa h of that sweet toy, for even now I cannot look upon it without a throe of heavy grief and sorrow. But nothing I recked of this then, and before the hungry, laughing chieftains bad settled down to the marriage feast—before Bagnhild and Gnnna, my Sweet maid—and I as flagon bearer — had once made the c rclo of the hundred tables and first filled with beer each princely feaster’s flagon, I loved eaeh thing she touched, ay, and the very air she breathed. CHAPTER 11. Throe brief days we spent In happy nearness, and I found she was the daughter of an English prince—one of those lordlings whose lands we pillaged and who had sent the maiden over under the care of a surly churl, her uncle, with a woman-gift to Bagnhild in order. to enlist that great lady's mediation. The first day I spent haunting the maiden’s footsteps, a prey to such f|ts or'hot hopefulness and cold despair as I thought surely no o her man had suffered hitherto. The second day we had sports and contests, and plucking tip heart of grace I threw Oftar, the Dane, in a wrestling bout* and hurled my spear on the first try sheer through the great iron shield old Langaness of Iceland had hung for us to cast at. Ay! and under the < yes of Queen Bagnhild and all her court I spread'the great sail of my long ship and urged the rowers and bunt through the Jostling ranks of my compeers, and ■

sailed round tho fjord and back ahead of any, and won a prize and laid it on fa r Gunna’s knees. And tho third day, between the rising of the sun and tho setting of it, I had mot tho ma'don among tho pines by the lonely shore, and had poured my heart *’ /A/ \ r: a. w to her with such eloquence as surely Fiigga’s self gave me, and she hud blushed and sighed, and told me how wide apart were our kindred and how hostile our countries, and that it could never be, and then hal blushed again and dropped a tear and slid her hand Into my own, and thus I Ila was happy—happy with an incredible happiness, happy beyond expectation and knowledge. bweot was the breath of the pines that afternoon, pleasant' the distant murmur of, >he sea upon the hollow rocks; soft the carpet of felted mosses, and fair tho nodding flowers that fringed our path! On the next morning I wont to the tent where she lodged by the sullen old churl her uncle, and it was empty! The pennon was gone from in front; the red-haired sentinels were gone, the benches were empty and deserted, the doors were opened, and, sick at heart and fearful, 1 turned to one who stood near and asked where was the barbarian envoy and whore the fair white girl who had come with him. Heavy as lead fell the answer on my cars: “Tho stranger had.quarreiod last night at tho feast—had struck and been struck by a hill chieltain.and in a moment of drunken lury had ordered out his ships, had taken the white maid from her couch, and, scarcely giving her time to slip on cloak and sandals, had gone down to the strand, and, cursing everything NorWeg.an, launched into the black, midnight sea, and sailed away through the darkness to tho laud of tho strangers.” Bitter was my grief and disappointment! For half a day I ran up and down the distracted, rage and chagrin alternately mastering my soul. Then I bethought me of my longship and had her dragged to the shore, and, swift as a white sew-mew be:ore a squall, I fled out to sea, and < rosslng over the rough water, beat up and down the English coast for a week hoping to see them, and when that hope was vain back I came disconsolate to the vikings'shore and sailed lor many days about the islands, asking at every town from kooky Jar to merchant. Nidaros whether a ship of the foreigners with a white maid and red-haired men on boasd had put in there, and got laughed at for my pains, and so I came back emptyhanded anu empty-hearted at last to my own homestead. Very weary were the days and months that followed. The sunshine had gone out of the world, and I shunned my jolly comrades; the light laughter of the Norway maids was bitter to me. I hated my hawks and my wolf-dogs; I no longer fed my sleek horse; my weapons rusted on their hooks; my lendirmen. unreproved, pillaged my stocks and barns, ' and day and n'ght I hung, disconsolate, over the rememirance of my loss.

CHAPTER HL Ten years had passed; I had forayed north and south and asked with every lessening hope for news of her I sought from captives and merchants, but one and all shook their heads and could tell me nothing. In many a bloody fray bn tho English shore and sack of thorp or castle I had borne her image in my mind hoping to find her likeness somewhere, and thus, I say, ten years had passed, and presently still another spring came round and we had eaten all our winter provisions and were weary of last year’s’concubines, and rusty with basking by winter’s fires and yearnful for the breath ot tho free ocean, or the yet dearer breath of adventure, and thus one day I went down to the strand where my good ship lay hauled up and tented ovbr against the storm and snow, to see the work that Skaun the carpenter nnd Vedrey of the brushes had done upon her. And as I walked about that gallant hulk my blood took a new color and beat a quicker measure than It had done for long, while the winter sloth dropped from me and the hunger of the rover for q lest and danger was born anew in my heart. ' A better skeid never was steered by a sea king's son, I thought. Her sides wore blue—blue as last winter’s ice in the shadows of June —right up from the water edge to the high gunwale, while' inside the Trondhjem forest oak was scoured ns white, as a maiden's linen. The tall mast in the center was slim and straight os an arrow, and on either side were rowlock holes for six'y oars. A lovely ship, indeed, and cunning Vedrey hail

‘Vw \\d\ Lili U VlWi /Mimi I 1 k 4 i t v\r O f II n \ c /1 JliM “I HAD MKT TUB MAWBN AMONG THE PINKt’ varnished her until her clinker slfkg shone like the back of a new caught salmon, and had carved and gilded every oar hole with a golden serffl ol twistii.g serpents, and here and there mid everyWheie had been at work so deftly that it was a day’s wonder to explore,, the workings of the lot Mg zeal wherew th ho had a lorned the vessel front glittering stem to stern. And Skaun had seen to every peg and sinew that laced her 'shapely sides; he had been a t and forwatd; above*, below; had scraped the oars and set new st ats lor rowe s, and caulked afresh each seam with red cowhair and res;n—oh, a lov ly ship, indeed, and in my pride sure y I thought such n one never stood on mortal slips before. Once wore I would v.ntur a cast with tortune, and In a burst of pleasure and such li 1 e as hud lain asleep too long within my heart 1 vowed then and there to start on a foray before three days were over. And, hot in he revulsion ol my teelings, I set Ska; n and Vedrey running here and there as they had never mn before, and co looted some of the laay-boned villeins who had

basked tn my porch and snored by my pine wood Are all through the snow and frost, and made them work as they had not worked tor many a da, *• Under our busy hand! the beautiful winter hulk put on her war gear and blossomed like a summer tree. We fetched out her sixty great oats, “Feet of the Sea-wolf,” Os ash 'four men sat at each) and strapped them Into their painted rowlock hobs. Then wo slung in the landing boati nnd sot the grout rudder a t on the starboard; wo put the black leather tent on board, an I under It the hudfat sleeping-bags to shield me and my jolly pillagers from tho J nglish rain. Wo shipped the land ng planus—many wore the white feet ot captive girls wo hoped would tread thorn—and a hundred stout rollers in ease our longship needed to be beached. Then wu put in tho arms chest an 1 tilled it to tho brim with glistening sWorls and axes, praying all tho time to Odin that their shine m ght be dlmmed-crc we returned; we put tho brass kettles on boatd, and the provisions, and barrels of water with little lids. Next wo set up tho tall mast that shone In its w.nter coat of bear’s grease and wus so red nnd straight, and hoisted to the spar the great square sail, “Cloak of the Wind." It wus the great jarl Kand oi Viskerdal, my foster-brother, who gave me that sheet, and it was color d blue and white and made of woolen stufT as soft as silk. Lastly of all the glistening dragon head was put upon the prow, and tho .warriors' shields, b ack and yellow, ea h overlapp.ng each, were set along tile bulwarks, an I the o, flashing In the sun with a hundred colors, beautiful and complete from stem to s era, my sea bride sat shining on the ways! (So well had we worked that the dawn of tho second day from my vow we were ready, and half tho valley mine to see us off. All went well w. h the launching and in a few minutes after the props were lint.eked away we slid out into the fjord and floated true and straight, and at tho same Instant my live score lighting men set up the hymn to Od.n, the sail was spread, and the long oars began .to dip, sw.ft and strong, into the merry water that ran rippling by us. Loudly, loudly I prayed from my place by the high tiller to the three fatal sisters who live beneath the ash kggdrasil that they would send me this time to the arms of my love, and loudly, loudly to this moment I bewail me that my prayer was granted. |TO DE COSTISLED.I

The Surrender of Granada. Columbus remained at Granada and joined valiantly in the fight. At length, on the morning of January 2, 1492, Boabdil, with h;s brilliant following, surrendered himself to the King Don Ferdinand. A legion of pages, with gold-embroi lered garments, went before the King on foot, opening the way for his triumphal procession to the high scene of his glorious contest. The.most exalted ricoshombres of Castile and Aragon, mounted on gayly trapped palfreys, and clad in robes of state, surroundbed the monarch, with such display of blazonry and insignia, such splendid apparel, such varied standards, such gorgeously attired mace-bearers, that they seemed themselves to be an army of kings. # Ferdinand 11. had donned his royal robes, and his crimson mantle lined with ermine almost concealed his horse, while the co'inte-s’crowns of his house and line were seen in miniature, glittering with jewels, attached to his splendid, plume-bedecked cap. Boabdil, on the contrary, was clad in black, as befitting his jlignity and his situation, wearing a casque of gold-incrusted steel adorned with mottoes appropriate to his rank, his body adorned with those famous Ori-, ental amulets, whose efficacy he himself had never known, but in whose potency man trusted even in the midst of his irreparable misfortunes. He attempted to dismount when he came to Ferdinand, and even removed his feet from the stirrups in order to alight and kneel before him who had broken and humbled him, but an imperious gesture of the Christian monarch stayed his purpose. Whereupon, deeply moved by’ such signs of kindness and benevolence, the Rey Qhico, the “Little King,” begged earnestly to kiss the royal hand, but Ferdinand replied that such homage was proper from a vassal to his lord, never between equals. Then Boabdil, reining his horse beside the Aragonese King, eagerly bent forward and imprinted an ardent kiss upon the latter’s right arm. Having fulfilled this act of courtesy, which he deemed to be imposed by defeat upon the vanquished, he quickly put his hand to his girdle, and his tawny visage flushed as they touched the thing they sought, the. two great keys of the magic city, keys that opened the twin portals of that paradise whence Mohammedan genius and Mohammedan culture had shot foith their last rays of dying splendor.—Cen fury. Worms That Raise Tons of Sand. Mr. Darwin a few years before his death made the nonscientiflc world familiar with the work of worms in passing earth through their bodies, and with the wonderful results effected by them in a comparatively short space of time. More recently C. Davison has followed up Mr. Darwin’s researches in this Held of science. Last year Mr- Davison examimed the sands, between Holy Island and the coast of Northumberland, a large flat stretch of beach familiar to most persons who travel by the east Coast route to Scotland. Theobserver found that the number of cast ngs of sand thrown up by the lobworms gave an^a verage of 50,00Q,000 to the square mile. A portion of the castings was weight d and the total weight thrown up annually was thus sh wn to be, in some places, about 901 tons per acre; at other points it was a good deal less than this, but in still other parts it amounted t > no less than 3,146 tons per acre. If all the sand thus passed t.irourh the bodies of thes- animals i.i the course of twelve months were spread out it, would give an average thickness of not less than thirteen inches. How many and var.ou- are the changes produced in the san-l by the wonderful activity of the-e industrious worms it is impossible to sty. But it is easy t • so 1 how the p o once of such cn at;, cs in :ug • nu fibers ope- 1 rate with’other toices to produce aj kind of on e on the surface of the earth, and to replace crudeness by beauty. The thing that strikes oue ! most, however, is the magnitude of , the results wh o i can bs produced in a short tlfue when a la ge nu fiber of separate individuals work In co- ipecation by the same methods toward the same end.—London Hospital,

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital, *56,006. Surplus, *IO,OOO Origan lied August U, 1883. Offioors—T. T. Dorwln, President; P. W. Smith. Vice-president; R. 8. Peterson Cashier; T. T. Dorwln, P. W. Smith, Usury Derkes, J. H. Holbrook, B. J, Terveer, J. D. Hale and R 8. Fslerson, Directors. We are prepared to make Izians on good security, receive Deposits, furnish Domestic and Foreign Kxobange, buy and sell Government and Municlpel Bonds, and turmeh Letters of Credit available In any of the principal cities of Murope. Also Passage Ticket to and fr u the ‘Old World. Including transportation to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital. ffIB.OOO. Surplus, 75,00a Organized In 187 L Officers— D. Studebaker. President: Bobt. B. Allison, Vice-President; W. 11. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made In all parts of the country. County City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domes: Io Kxehauge bought and ■old. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul O. Hooper, Attorney a,t Law Decatur, - - Indiana. jEJ. H. LoBRUN. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Succeeifully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices resonable. KBVLN, B. K. MANN. J. F. ERIFIN & MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, , And Notaries Public, Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office In Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. FRANCE A MERRYMAN. J. T. FRANCE. J. T. MEIIKVMAN Attoraeya at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 2 and 3. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. J£IESSE HOUSE, L J. MIESSE, Proprietor, Decatur. Ini Location 'Central—Opposite Court House. The leading hotel in the city. Q NEPTUNE, • DENIST. Now located over Holtbouse'e shoe store, and Is prepared to do nil work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a sjieclal'y, By the nee of Mayo's Vapor be is enabled to extract teeth without paiu. All work warranted. Kent K. WTtMlock, M. D. t EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST M Calhoun-st. Fort Warne. Ind. JJEV D. NEUEN3CHWANDER, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Berne, - Indiana. Children and Chronic Diaeasea a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A. G. HOLLOWAY, Phy ■iclan db Surgeon Office over Burns' harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. All calls promptly attended to in city Or country night or day. M, L. HOLLOWAY, M. D. Office and residence one door north of V. * church. Diseases of women anSchildren specialties.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Ti al ng run on Central Standanl Time, 28 minutes slower than Colmnbus or former time. Took effect Sunday. Sept. 2fi. THU!. GOING NORTH, STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 6 No, 7 Cincinnati..lve ’.. 80Sam 850 pm Richmond 220 pm ID W> .. 11 26 Winchester.... ■’) 17 .. 1165.. 12 23am Fhirtiand 4'14.. 1235 pm 106 Decatur 5 10.. 131.. 203.. Ft.Wayno...arr SCO.. 2 15.. 250 •• •• ...Ire 235.. 8 10.. 806 am Kendallville.. 3 41.. 418.. 910.. Rome Citv 350.. *34 .. 9 26.. Wolcottville 4 01 9 31.. Valentino 4 11 9 43.. LaGrange 4 19.. 5 01.. 9 51.. Lima .. 429 10 03 .. Sturgis 4 40.. 620.. 10 19.. Vicksburg 6 30.. 6 20.. 1109.. Kalamaaxi.nrr 006 ;....1201„ •• ..Ive 345 am 1010.. 7JO .. 1215 pm Gr. Rapids..urr 615 .. 810 160.. •• “ ..Ive 720 am 10 30.. 1 10pm,2 00 .. D..G H.4M cr 429 .. 10 46.. 7 27.. 214 .. Howard City... 540 .. 1150 . 8 41.. 314 .. Bigßapids 063 ..1230am 9 45.. 356 .. Reed City 730 .. 103 420 .. Cadillac arr 1130.. 205 .. 510 ....Ive 230 9 10 .. Traverse City 700 pm Kalkaska 3 48 .. Petoskey ...2 qi3s .. 915 Mackinac City. (4'B 00.. 10 45.. GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 MacklnacCity. Tlspm 745 am 200pm Petoskey 9 10.. 920 .. 345 .. ........ Kalkaska 12 36 .. 11 30 .. 502 Traverse City 11 10 .. 450 Cadillac .. ..arr 220 am 115 pm 7 00.. 8 05am “ ....Ive 215.. 135.. 650 pm 8 10.. ReedCltv 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 50.. 9 00.. Bigßapids 4 00.. 2 58.. 826.. 9 45.. Howard CitlL. 4.55.. 343.. 9 20.. 10 32.. D.G.H.&M.cr 6 05.. 5 06.. 10 25 .. II 35 .. Gr. Rapids .arr 631.. 615.. 1100.. 1150.. “ “ ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 11 20.. 200pm Kalamazooiarr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55am 340.. " ..Ive 865 .. 805 3 45.. Vicksburg...,. 924.. 833 4 13.. Sturgis ..10 19.. 926 5 05.. Lima 10 33.. 940 5 17.. LaGrange.... 1044 .. 953 5 29.. Valentine 10 53 .. 10 03 .. 537 .. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 1014 5 47.. Rome City 1109 .. 10 19 .. 553 .. Kendallville... ;l 125 .. 1039.. 6 08.. Ft. Wayne..arr 12 40pm 11 50 .. ........ 715.. “ “ ;..lve 100.. Uioam 545 am Decatur 146 .. 12 58 .. 630 Portland 2 40.. 155 .. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 36.. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 340 .. 915 Cincinnati 760 ■. 655 .. 1201 nm Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent. JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur. Ind. LOOK HERE! I am here to stay and can sell 9 Organs and Pianos cheaper than anvbody else can afford te sell them. I sell different makes. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable See me first and Bare money. J. T. COOTS,Decatur, Ind. Scientific American .pMiEggSffja, Agency for <Bs S F V J J 1 k d /1 «I 1 1 2 I■ko < ® I wltCt l r' TRADE MARKS. PATENTS COPYRIGHTS, etc. For Information and free Handbook write to MUNN A CO- 361 Broadway, Niew York. Oldest bureau for securing patents tn America. Every patent taken out by us is brought before a the public by a notice given free of charge in the Scientific American Largest circulation of any scientific paper in the world. Splendidly illustrated. No inteHicenC man should be without it. Weeklv, i year; $1.50 six months. Address MUNN & CO, V’tblishers, 361 Broadway- New York.

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First Class Night and Day Servico betweea Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CAR 3 DAY TRAINS—MODERM EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIQHT TRAINS. »»-Xff4£S SERVED EH ROUTE, any hour, DAT OR NISHT, at moderaio cost. Isk for tickeh via Toledo, St Louis 4 Kansu City L 1 Clovek Le.4f Route. For further particulars, call on neared Ayant of the Company, or address O. C. JENKINS, fiueral Pm aeaeer AgeaL TOLEDO, OHIO. Lines. Schedule In effect Maj 16. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 5. Vestibule Limited, daily for I 0.90 „ M Chicago aud the west f i 5“" r ’ No. 3. Pacific Express, daily for 1 u Chicago and the west f ' ! ' uu “• No. 1. Express, daily for Chicago I T 0.,0 „ u and the west f U No. 31. Local >10:35 A. M TRAINS EAST. No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for I p New York and Boston f * No. 12, Express, daily gfor New Ij on „ York... I ‘ ' Ns. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-1 ixs p cept Sunday I N 0.30. Local >10:35 A. M. J. W. DeLonp. Agent, Frank M. Caldwell, D. P. A. HiliitiUgion, Ind.; F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A.. Chicago, HL O. P. M. ANDREWS, Fliyaician cfc Slvi.x*s;ooxx MONROE. INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 28-’ Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterlnarj Surgeon, Modus Opera ndl, Orcho M. ZJ tomv. Overotomy. Castrating. Kldg ling, Horses and Spayin'# Cattle and Dehorn ing. and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone's hardware store. Decatur Indiana. AGENTS WANTED Rood Solicitors Only. Ladles or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from 12.00 to 18.00 a day. ENQUIRER COMPANT, CINCINNATI, O. The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Dimocba* one year for $2 30. By subscribing now, ywj can have both papers through the great earn paign of 1892. Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. MONEYTOLOAN On Fans Property on Long Ttma. Wo Coxnmlwoloxi. Law Ratu of IntaraM. 7F**x*tl4al X**jrxxa.a»xatag la any amounts can be made al any ume aat stop Interest. Call on, or addreae, A. X. GRXJBB, jr. f. Offioe; Odd Fellows' Building, DeoMW. O.T May. HD, X*2x7-aslolei.xx<B3 Burgeon Kenree. ... InOaaa. AU oalla promptly attended to day or nlgha Jfloe at reeldenoe. A & 8080, B. T. BOBU Master Commissioner. 8080 A SON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Beal Bilsll and Colloottan, Docatu, Ind.