Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1893 — Page 7

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

I CHAPTER IV. I i We crept out by the green Island of ■ ' ThymnoeH. where the white sheep wore I feeding to the water’s edge, and past I Qoddo on our right, end the long, black I ihore of Bommels on the left, and so by I many a green oeland and dark rook out I Into the spray and fresh salt wind went I loyfully lurching the old Sea Wolf. The I frothy pillow of the foam glittering I tinder her prow, and behind the green I wall of the Norway pines, and the gray I rooks, and the sweet sea surge that I tumbled forever at their febt and threw I Its white arms up as though, lover-llko, I it would enlace Its silver lingers with I the green hair of the nodding braohes I overhead. Down went our gallant shore, I down peak, and pine, and point, and as I the great black bosom of our mother I sea opened to us, her firstling sons, I proudly wo turned our faces westI ward and each eye grew bright at I thought of the plunder to come, and I each heart beat high as wo smelt the I Incense of fight in tho strong breath of | the sea. Oh! but I was proud as, my I hand on the pulsing tiller that throbbed | under tho racing surges not less loudly I than my heart, I stood by the high stern t and led the wild, free song to Odin. I Wherewith my gallant company mocked I the waves—proud! Oh, the salt spray I rises again in these old eyes of mine I but to remember tho fierce wine of life I that usurped my blood and flew here I and there in my young veins that day; I this cold mind of mine burns again but I to recall the ecstasy of the unfettered Sassions that then beset mo; but to hink for an ungodly minute on those I splendid vistas of unbridled lust and I cruelty and rapine which dazed my I soul. I Well! it is over, and I do wrong even I to remember. No more the salt wind I takes the war song of Ulla, like a herI aid of death, to the land of the stranger; I no more for him is tho joyful rattle of I the ranged shields clattering oh his I vessel’s side as she stoops to the steep I blue valleys of the midland sea; no I more the old viking's plough shall turn I that frothy furrow he did once delight I in; no more tho lovely smoke of burnI ing thorps shall rise from Ulla’s torch I to Odin’s footstool; no more his stern I heart ehall melt to pleasure as his vesI sei staggers homeward through tho I yeast and spume, and every swirl of I the cold dark water spinning enviously J against her laboring side tell of rich Clunder hid within. It is over for me, ut It was a noble frenzy while it lasted. I All that noon of our setting out we 1,, plunged before a favoring wind across I the salt water, and by the second evenI Ing tho wave began to wear another color I as the sea shealed up to the British I shore. At the same time the breeze I gave out with the sun and we took to I our sweeps, and all night long under I the starlight the Sea Wolf ciept silently I and secretly into the land. In the gray of the morning that followed a haze grew up and under the curtain of the white sea mist that lay soft and heavy as wool on the gently rocking sea we I heard the sound of tho -waves beating | on the' dim North Umbrian shore. Wo I approached as oleso as we dared, and then waited for the sun, rolling sn idle hour or two on the smooth, long heave of the swell, and, in the dead silence, listening to tho chatter of the wild fowl and tho laugh of the kittiwake on the unseen cliffs; or the chafe and croak of an oar now and then in tho rowlocks and the hiss of the water swirling gently against our sides. So still lay the Sea Wolf in the shadow of the morning mist that the shy grebes and speckled divers came paddling all about her and stared with eyes bead black with wonder to see the silver mist turn on a sudden into a painted hulk with ranked oars, and great damp sail aflap against the ruddy mast, and golden dragon head sniffing the chill morning air aloft, and grim warriors leaning on battle-ax and spear crowding her de?k. And strange fish swam lapping round, and the swift gannet's white pinions stirred Hafdan’s listless flag as she swept unheeding by through the milky haze. No man among us spoke until on a sudden the curling wavelets in tho oast sparkled with liquid fire, the hanging sliroud of whiteness flushed with ar yellow radiance, a strange, bright light shone through the green-crested waves, and as the free, sweet breath of the morning drifted down upon us, and each man drank of it deep and silently, tho curtain of tho night was lifted, and the yellow feet of the sun came striding over tho black plains of the restless northern sea. Silent and deep wo laughed 4 . with pleasure, and my grim, stout fellows shook the mist-beads from their tawny lips, then —muttering a prayer to Odin •—again the white water fretted under j, the stern of our ship and the long, slow dip of the oars fell with a pleasant sound on the calm of the morning. Bound under tho rugged knees of great cliffs crept the Wolf, so secret and y swift that the speckled loons stood agape in rows to watch the golden dragonhead go dipping by their lonely eyries, and the blue pigeon on her cavern shelf astride of her white eggs stood wonderstruck and forgot to fly—thus she went across tho mouth of lovely bays and under grassy headlands and big bights fringed with endless lonely f meadows and past fair estuaries where rank fields of westral crops were all awaste between neglected woodlands and southward constantly for many an hour, but nothing could we see to sack or burn. Noon came and went, and the warm sweat glazed tho sinewy forearms of my gallant rowers until at last I saw them begin to turn their bronze faces over their hither shoulders and angrily scan tho ruined shore and swear deep between their Strong white' teeth; swear at the Dane ' who had swept this fair country so Vs? clean, swear at Biorn Grimsar, and Hakonson the avaricious, and Ingo tho bloody, and Guthern of Hagbard, who had pillaged hero last autumn and. Wiped out maid and matron, croft and * castle, and left nothing for any honest K** viking who came after them. Ay! it was sad.’we thought, to see so sweet a country so void of life, and we pulled on southward for many miles, looking now on the sunny shore made by nature to be rich and happy, and yet had nothing on it to burn or plunder, and then turning sadly to our piles of bloodless swords and battle axes, our empty treasure boxes and untenanted rows of iron fetters for the white ankles of fair British girls. We had rowed on like this, cursing Biorn and Inge and Hakonson all the morning, and had seen nothing but the blackened ruins of a few villages upon the hillside, when, slipping by one lonely promontory, we saw upon the rocks a mad old & woman, sad-eyed and lean and pinched, sole remnant of some pillaged English hamlet, who knew us for what we were t upon the instant as she gathered her poor harvest on the beach and leaped noon a rock and cursed us fiercely out

of the black reservoir of her despair and hatred, cursed us for pirates and tyrants, asked where were the two-yel-low-haired girls we stole ten years ago, where her two tall sons, where her husband and her kin, and tossed her tangled looks upon the wind and yelled and cried until, as we crept by, Thoralf of Vlsund took a javelin from tho heap upon the deck and mocked her. “Whore, you foul old sea hag? Where? Why, down in hell. Go there and look.” And “THE JAVELIN FLEW AND TOO TRUK.” as he spoke tho javelin flew, and, too true, struck its mark and pierced deep i into the old crone’s withered bosom, and with a scream of surprise and deathless hatred she spun round upon her heels and grinned and staggered and then plunged headlong into the sea at her feet, and as wo passed her crimson blood was spreading in a great red pool upon the dark heave of tno smooth ’ flowing surf. I know not whether it were true, as , some among my comrades thought, that , that thin old blood spilt so would bring us luck, but presently it is true enough we had another sign, for a raven came flying off from the land and circled round us and fell into our wake behind, and as the blaek wings of Odin’s friend and messenger went flapping overhead a now spirit was born in my fierce crew. ’ They stretched their hands to heaven and shouted with one voice a verse from out the raven war song, then down they went and with new courage stretched them to their oars until the red viking flag streamed bravely out astern and the shields rattled joyfully and the water lay in a white streak along the low-dipping gunwale of the old Sea Wolf. Cape and bay and headlandslipped by. We had come into a better peopled country, when on a sudden a Dane who kept our fore-watch slapped his hand upon his thigh and cried: “A burgh! a burgh! and not yet plundered!” And there, following the point of his eager finger, we saw, three miles away, a strong hall upon a rocky promontory, with trees and meads about it green and fair,* and sheep upon the hills and clustering huts below, all sweet and peaceful, and* a little harbor —everything, indeed, that could glad a viking heart; and, truly grateful, we thanked the bird that had brought us fortune, and paused In a little creek to wait for nightfall. All the afternoon the longshlp lay out of sight in the little cavern bay with cliffs, green-tasseled with hanging grasses, nearly meeting overhead, and below the smooth swell of the water heaving tho long tangles of sea grass and weeds, and idly reflecting the stern faces and golden mail of that grim crew on board lolling about upon the deck or hanging over the loaded bulwark to watch the shining fishes at play deep down below. Who would have thought that pretty shadow listlessly rolling there on the heave of the wave was bent on such an errand? It was so still as we lay screened in the cover that you could hear the larks singing to themselves high up in the blue over the cliff grass, and the bubble and play of the water in the crevices of the rooks all round us; it was so still that presently this monotony grew wearisome to my fierce and heated spirit. I chafed and turned and impatiently watched the sun which seemed as though it would never set, until at last a happy idea entered into my head—l would go and spy this burgh we were to plunder, see how big and strong it was, how many men held it and how much profit we were like to come by in the venture. Whh this fancy in my mind I roused my handsome sleepy fellows, who, at my voice stretched their great limbs where they had lain sleeping on the rowers’ benches or turned their eyes from gazing on the shining sea to look on one another and say “Ulla is mad! young Ulla Erlingson is wholly mad!” But I pointed out how the madness would vantage us, how greatly it would help us to know the lie and nature of the hold, how I could disguise myself so : that my mother should not know me, I and learn and see all I could and be ’ back again with them safe and sound, “or by dangling on a gibbet above the highest roof gave them something new to fight for”—as Sarp of Boyr said —before the twilight fell. CHAPTER V. Like the brave fellows that they were, the bold fancy pleased them, and forthwith I was disguised as a ragged out- . .cast, with a slouch hat and sorry coat I and dirty-gartered legs, with worn wolf- ! skin sandals; my yellow hair was knot- | ted up and hidden in my cap, my face I was daubed gray and lean with ash and mud, and with a little paint good Ved- ‘ rey put a sore or two upon my naked arms such as mlght pome by want and | long travel, and with a touch of red and green made to look most.hideously new a long-healed wound or .two I had upon my bosom, I seemed when It was done so miserable and lean and put so piti.ul a whine into my voice and leant so heavy on my long ash siaff that all my jolly vikings fell a-laughing, and laughed so loud they hushed the droning of the blue pigeon brooding on her eggs and started the shaggy, greeneyed sea crows from their rocky pinnacles a mile away, and then they rowed me to a landing, and with jest and sage advice sent me on my dangerous errand. It was a sweet place, that English burgh. Even now, long years after, I, old and wrinkled, still dream in tho winter nights of the warm incense of that afternoon, and how the grateful sun drew fragrance from out the earth, and how sweet the yellow meadow flowers did smell about it, and how tho apples blossomed on the hanger; and then across my evening vision even now there i comes the black reek of its burning thatch and the hot steam of the blood in the hall by the banquet tables —ay, I conjure again all these years after in restless slumber the shine of its many . roofs a-basking in the April sun, tho |

blue-eyed children rolling In frolle sport about the grassy court— the twittering love songs of the new-come swallows on tho roof ridge—and then athwart my sleep the black column of avenging smoke leaps to the star-lit midnight sky, the cruel tongues of leaping Crimsom flame spring up, and the fierce, gasping cry of stricken men, the piercing shriek of women, and the low wall of butchered little ones aiffright my old and unstrung t ars! ' Ay, it seemed a sweet place that untouched, ancient English citadel as I hobbled out from the hazels and humble and decrepit as became me, craved its hospitality. All inland — stretching away into tho dim blue distance—lay fertile fields and woods, shining greener than any other woods can shine, with brooks and strenmo between them flashing in tho light, and splendid herds, enough to feast an army for a year, knee deep in the many colored grasses, and then all this richness swept round by the shore of a little crescent bay to here whore on a gently rising promontory the prince’s castle stood. It stood upon the very topmost flat of the hill, and was approached from below by a rough track fashioned of beams laid side by side, which circled up through the gorse and fern to its outer fence. Getting out upon that track I walked up the hIU, secretly noting as I went each stock and stone of cover, and soon came to the first sweep of outer stockade. Tills was a great circle of pointed timbers sloping outward over a ditch from the crest of a tall earthen rampart—strong fence, indeed, and one that twenty men might hold against a hundred. I entered through the open gate of this and right in front rose another rampart and another palisade that made me sigh to look on—l had to walk half-w’ay round the grassy flat between these two before I found a gate to pa-s the second timbers. But this latter entrance gained, it made me master of tho place. Those two tall fences, strong in oaken timbers, mossy gates and iron rivets, shut in tho whole hilltop, of which the other boundary was the sheer cliffs that dropped steep down into the sea below. And all this space was full of sheds and buildings, and huts and houses, and granaries of corn and stacks of fodder for the beasts, and corn for soldiers, and hero a thrashing floor, and there a well with rope bucket, yonder a row of ovens and a drinking trough and much else. Then camo a grassy green and next, along tbo verge, a little aloof from all, the prince’s house. A fine wide house it stood upon the crag, with terraces and courts, doors and windows, strong stone outer walls and timbered arches, a goodly place, indeed, with the sun shining on it. a good wind-cock twirling about, red fish-tail tiles upon the roofs, brass studs upon the doors, and a colonnade round it with wide projecting eaves supported by unsmoothed pillars of oak, to which solid oak logs made steps all round. Partly behind this was the strong place of the fort, a tall, rougli tower of solid masonry rising sheer into the air on the very verge of the cliff from the more peaceful dwell- \\ \\ \ \ \ \\ \ \ \ ' K \ \ \ \ \\ \ \ /W4\\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ rvjflrll 'u /wTl*\ \\ \ i \ M Vi /|f '« \ V “I ENTERED BY THE OPEN SATE.” ing places around, and grim and win-' dowless frowning down 200 feet into the white surge that broke and thundered far below. As I entered this burgh a few children were playing about upon the grass and some women were grinding corn in a stone mill at one place, while at another a young and fair serving maid was spinning flax upon the steps of the chief’s house. A dog or two lay basking in the sun, and as they saw me and fell a-bark-ing the damsel stopped her spinning, the corn mill came to a stop under the hands of the old crones, and the little ones fled to cover like a flock of startled partridges. But I looked harmless enough, a ragged fellow there by the gate, gaunt and humble, and presently seeing they were reassured I advanced slowly and begged of the younger woman in the meanest whine my wit could master a drink of milk and an oaten cake to stay my hunger. That fair foreigner got up and took me into the hall —and a splendid hall it was —and put me at the servant’s tressel, then calling some others, get milk and bread before me. So I ate and drank and all the time kept counting the golden plates and ewers on the master’s distant table and scanning his weapons or costly furs hung round the hall, and thinking how much my ship could carry home. Ay, and as each fair damsel filled my horn and platter, asking me in gentle civility the while of my home and wayfaring, little did she know that I was wondering how much she would letch at the slave stakes in Throndjem market place, or whether she would scream greatly that night or no. Indeed, those comely, red-haired English nfaidens were so civil that had they not been barbarians and thus to us what tho hinds of the valley are to the hill wolves and the speckled salmon to the gray ospreys I might almost have rued the red night’s work that was at hand. But as things were, I should have blushed as soon to think myself compassionate as coward, and thus I laughed and chatted with them, and while I finished 111 J’ bowl learned of those incautious women tongues that all the men were away inland; that the women and children fro n all rpund came in and tho palisades wore closed at nightfall, and saving some half-dozen herders there were, to bo no mon in the burgh that night, I learnt that their master had a fair daughter, though I saw her not. as she was thou spinning with her maidens in the turret; that the master was wondrous rich, but old and feeble, and thus, having learned all I hoped for, with a last quick look round the place, I rose to go. As I turned one gentle maid put a silver penny that she had taken from a little store in the corner of her thread box into my hand. “Farewell," she said, “did man, and may the good God guide you; it ever grieves my heart to see one poor and hungry,” and that penny was put out at good interest, for that very night, when the burgh wap burning, I saved her from the brief wooing of Vidkun the rough, and, leading tier to the foss, showed her the coin and, pointing to the dark shade of the thickets, let her go free and unharmed. Thus I rejoined my comrades and told them all I had seen. [to be continued.] Jay Gould is pushing forward his sons into positions as directors of corporations with which he is connected, but he will-never be able to make them the manner of man he is. One Jay Gould in a century is all this world can .stand.

BeaHtimi Thing* in Paper. Ono need* to see the artistic flowers made from paper to realize how beautiful they are. It is though that thd best French flowers, with flexible stems and made from silk and velvet, sometimes almost rival nature, but certain of these paoer flowers, noticeably tho orchids, morning glories apple blossoms and narcissi, have a delicacy and translucence seen only in real flowers. Great neatness is needed by the amateur who attempts to make these pretty things, and if one has not the skill to make certain of the flowers, they may be bought by the dozen and added to the articles made at home. A few dozen fine flowers will go a great wav in beautifying picture-frames and the various kindsof boxes. Such flowers as buttercups. violets and roses ono could soon learn to make for herself. Nothing is prettier to finish the lids of the boxes and edges of baskets, etc., than the narrow frill described. The crepe paper is pasted on the boxes and they arc then lined with a plain tissue paper of the color used for the outside. A thin piece of pasteboard is pasted to the bottom of the boxes to conceal the places where the paper is turned under. The craze for these perishable yet attractive articles made from paper is carried to an extreme in an Eastern-city, where screens and even table-spreads are made from them. The screens are covered with the crepe paper and ornamented with bunches of large flowers. The prettiest have round frames. When used for a table-spread the crepe paper is laid over a covering of cheesecloth, silesia, or some other fabric of the same color, and the edge is cut in a fringe, or occasionally edged with a fringe of fine flowers on flexiblestems. A novel bazaar soon to be given will sell these paper trifles in different colors, a different tint for each table, and candles and wire frames for shades and candelabra. ■ To tempt the mores serious minded there will be a Whittier table and a Tennvson stall, where lovers of the American and English poets may buy their photographs, or poems, or dainty book covers for the same. Some of the covers are of the lovely Dresden china brocades, with light grounds sprinkled with rosebubs, carnations or convolvuli. Others are of chamois with English violets or golden rod painted on the covers. Tne brocades are also used for covering picture frames and for making dainty workpockets and bags.—New York Even ing Post. Too Wise. A lady who has recently returned from traveling in Europe tells of a wise man whom she met, who seems to have been a cousin of the famous wise man of Gotham, who put a fence around a bush to keep in the nightingale who was singing there. She was going northward to visit North Cape, and to see the Midnight Sun. ()n the steamer she made the acquaintance of an elderly gentleman who said that he was traveling simply for pleasure and the improvement of his mind, and who seemed to be a person of much learning. She was especially struck with his knowledge of* astronomy, and they talked of this subject a good deal. "You must have given a great deal of attention to the study of the stars,” she said to him one day. "Oh yes,” he answered, "I have been interested in the subject for years, and I have made it one of my chief occupations as well as pleasures. It is reallv because of my love for astronomy that I decided to take this, trip.” "How was that?” she asked. "ItiQccurred to me,” he said, "that so far north as we are going the constellations must be seen to greater advantage than thev are farther south. The air is clearer, and the northern stars, of course, can be seen much better.” "But, my dear sir,” she said, some.xvhat astonished, "I do not see how "you expect to study the stars to advantage by daylight, and what we are going to see is . the sun at the time when it does not set at all.” An expression of astonishment and dismay came over the face the wise man. "I don’t See how 1 can have been sostupid,” he exclaimed, -“but really I never thought of that until this moment,” —Youth’s Companion. Finely Translated. We may render the words of one language literally into those of another, and yet lose the very spirit of the whole, but there are cases of what may be called "sympathetic translation.” An instance of this comes from Kate Douglass Wiggins's "Children’s Rights,” in the speech of a woman who had no intention of being epigrammatic, and builded better than she knew. Some years ago a San Francisco kindergartner was threading her way through a dirty alley, making friendly visits to the children of her flock. As she lingered on a certain door-step, receiving the last confidences of some weary woman’s heart, she heard a loud-.but not unfriendly voice ringing from an upper window of a tenement house just round the corner. "Clear things out from under foot!” pealed tho voice, in stentorian accent. "The teacher o’ the A'uls’ Guards is cornin’ down the street. The "Children's Guards” from impurity and ignorance! No more elegant translation has yet been found to render the German word with such faithfulness and sympathy, Violets. It is said that the assumption of the violet by the Imperialists dates from Napoleon's last day at Fontainebleau, when a child who was playing in the gardens ran up to the emperor with a little bunch of violets in his hand, saying he hoped he would be back before the violets bloomed again. To which the great man, who had just signed his abdiction, replied that he accepted them as an augury, and, turning to his suite, begged they would use the violet as their badge henceforth. - ——M———. X(1 "Did you make a good impression, Annette?" asked her mother. “Well, rather," returned Annette. "He tnod to kiss me and I loft the print of ten pink finger-nails right along his two cheeks."

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital *50,000. Burplui, *IO,OOO Origaniaed Augu«t 15,1883. Offlc«r»-T. T. Dorwin, Prealdent; P. W. Smith, Vioe-Preildent; R. H. Peterson Caahior; T. T. Dorwin, P. W. Smith, Henry Derkea, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Terveer, J. D. Bala and R H. Paterson, Directors. We are prepared to make Tz>an« 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 1871, Officers—D. Studabaker. President; Bobt. B. Allison, Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all parts of th. country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Intereat paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hoojter, Attorney at Law Decatur, - - Indiana. ZEL HZ. TjejOjELmV. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. WIU respond to calls at any time. Prices resonable. KEVIN, B. K. KANN, J. ». ERWIN <C MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IIIANCE 4c MERRYMAN. J. T. FRANCE. -D J. T. MERRYMAN AttornoyK o.t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. y 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. Q. NEPTUNE, • DENIST. « LLJLI i L— Now located over Holthouse's shoe store, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dentalprofession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. Kent K. Wheelock, M. D,, EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST 94 Calhoun-st, Fort Warne, Ind. D, NEUEN3CHWANDRR, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Berne, - - - Zndianw. Children and Chronic DiMases a Specialty. Twenty years experience. A. O. HOLLOWAY, JE»lxy «lol»xx cfc Surgeon Office over Burns’ harnen shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. AU calls promptly attended to In city or country night or day. M, L. HOLLOWAY, M. D. Office and residence one door north of K. M church. Diseases of women and chUdrea specialties.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, 28 minutes slower tbanColnmMlk or former time. Took effect Sunday, Sept. 25,1KSU. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 6 No. T Cincinnati..lre 805 am 850 pm Richmond 2 20pm 1’155 .. 1125 Winchester.... 317 .. 1155.. 1223 am P0rt1and....... 4 04.. 1235 pm 105 Ilecat ur 510.. 131.. 203 Ft.Wayno...arr 600.. 2 15.. 2 50.. •• •• ...ive....... 235 .. 3 10.. 805 am KendAllvllle 3 41.. 418.. 910.. Home City 3 56.. 4 34.. 926.. Wolcottville 4 01 9 3).. Valentine 4 11 9 43 .. LaGrange 410.. 501.. 951.. Lima .. 429 10 IB .. Sturgis 440 .. 526.. 1019.. Vicksburg 536.. 6 20.. 11 09 .. Kalamazoo, arr . 605 12 01.. " ..Ive 345 am 1010.. 710,. 1215 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 6 15.. 810 160.. “ “ ..Ive 720 am 1030.. 110 pm 200 .. D.. G.H. AM.cr 4 29.. 10 45.. 727 .. 214 .. Howard City... 5 40.. 11 60 . 841 .. 3 14.. Big Rapids 652 ..1236am 945.. 856.. Reed City 730 .. 103 420 .. Cadillac arr 1130 .. 205 .. 5 10.. •• ....Ive 230 9 10 .. Traverse City 700 pm Kalkaska 3 48 Petoskey 6 35.. 9R .. . MackinacClty 800,, 10 45 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 MackinacClty. 715 pm 745 am 200pm Petoskey 910 .. 920 .. 345 .. Kalkaska 12 36.. 11 38.. 502 Traverse City.. 11 10 .. 460 Cadillac .. ..arr 2 20am 115 pm 7 00.. 8 05am " ....ive 2 15.. 135.. 650 pm 810.. Reed City 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 60.. 900.. Big Rapids 4 00.. 2 58.. 8 25.. 9 45.. Howard City.. 455.. 343.. 920.. 1032.. D..G.H.4M.cr 6 05.. 5 05.. 1020 .. 1135.. Gr. Rapids .arr 630.. 515 .. 11 00 .. 1150 .. •• ..ive 700 .. 600 .. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 800 .. 12 55am 340 .. “ ..Ive 855 .. 805 .. ........ 3 45.. Vicksburg 924 .. 833 .. 412.. Sturgts ..1019.. 926.. .... ... 506 .. Lima 1032 .. 940 517 .. LaGrange.... 10 44 .. 952 5 29.. Valentine...... 10 53 .. 10 02 5 37.. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 5 47.. Rome City 1109.. 1019.. 552.. Kendallville... 11 25 .. 10 39.. ' 6 08.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 1150 Ho?- “ “ J..lve 100.. Iz 15am 545 am ........ Decatur 146 .. 12 58 .. 630 Portland 240 .. 166 .. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 36.. 809 Richmond..... 4 20.. 3 40.. 9 15.. Cincinnati 7 00.. 655.. 1201 nm ....•••• Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, qfti. Pass. Agent. JEFF. BRYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind. LOOK HEREI I am here to stay and can seU Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford t* sell them. I seU different make*. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable See me first and tari money. J. T. COOTS,Decatur, Ind. Scientific America® Agency for !11 II 1 JIMI ■ijim Os J wa d h J i w ■ "H t aJ « IS k Si a, J trade marks, patents COPYRIGHTS, etc<> For information and free Handbook write to MUNN k CO n 3GI 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 >werifan Largest circulation of any scientific paper in the world. Splendidly illustrated. No intellurent man should be without it. Weekly. 53.00 1 year; 51.50 six months. Address MUNN & CO, V’ Blishers, 361 Broadway, New York.

SI.OO ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO AND A YEAD S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEEKLY ENQUIRER A Docker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, SGSO.CO A Gladiator Watch and Caso 30.00 A Lemaire 24 lino 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 aad Boss Case 25.00 A Haydock Rice Coil Spring) rivaim Handy Topifnirgy A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Caso. 75.60 A Life Scholarship in Watters’) — Commercial College j A Six Octave Champion Organ .... 200.00 A Doable Barrel Shot Gan 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 150.1)0 A Gladiator Watch. Dneber Case. . . 30.00 A Jojin C. Dueber Watch Case. . . 40.00 And 82 other valuable premiums will be presented to yearly subscribers of the Weekly Enquirer in 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 Clau Night aad Day Service b*tw**a Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour, DAT OR NISHT, at moderat. cost. iskfor tickets via Toledo, St Louis 4 bnsasCity 1L Clover Leaf Route. For further particulars, call on n*ar**t Agent of th* Company, or addre** O. C. JENKINS. Owml ruwamr 1(M, TOLEDO, OHIO, jolkErie Lines. Schedule In effect May 15. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 5, Vestibule Limited, daily for I j.™ P w Chicago and the west f ’ No. 3. Pacific Express, daily for I w Chicago and the west f No. 1 Express, daily for Chicago Ijj.jj p w and the west i No. 31, Local >10:35 A. M TRAINS EAST. No. s. Vestibule Limited, daily for I p M New York and Boston j No. 12. Express, daily [for New I j A ’ York f No. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-) ~« p a _£epLSundax f }f0.30-I.ouaU. —-..;.....9 10136 A. M. J. W. De Long, Agent, Frank M. Cafliwell. D. P. A. Huntington, Infi.; F. w. Buskirk. A. G. P. A., Chicago, ILL O.P. M. AXDBEWB, ZE’lx.y Biclaix cfc Surgeon MONKOE. INDLANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 28-* ■ """i Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon. Modus Operandt, Orcho tomv. Overotomy, Castrating. Ridg Ung, Horsesand Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indian*. AGENTS WANTED Good Solicitors Only. Ladle* or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from 32.00 to *B.OO * day. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. The Cincinnati Enquirer and theDiMOCax* one year for 32.30. By subscribing now, yoa can have both papers through th* great eaa palgn of 1892. Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. ~ MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Property on Long Tim*. Bffo Commi«»loxi. Low Kat* of IntorNt. JP»rtFaymenta In any amount* ona bo mad* at any tim* *■< stop interest. Cell on, or addr***, A. X. GBUBB, or J. P. MANN, OS**: Odd Fellow*’ Bunding, Doontu*. •.T. *wur**o» ■name. • • ladlaaa. All call* promptly nttendn* to day ar nlgM. lido* at residence. L S. 8080, R. T. BOBa Mml* 1 a ■lon or. 8080 * SON. ATTORNEYS AT L,AW. _