Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 13 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.

CHAPTER VI. ft, was just at dusk that evening; the Wet/ern sky was stfeakuil with crimson and black; the white mist was lying in thin wreaths along the purple river meadows; the landrails were croaking In the fern and the night jars churning on the oak; the little stars were twinkling In the smooth heaven, and the pale crescent of the moon was adlp upon the sea when a thin curl of smoke rose from the thatch of a hut in the fishing village below the burgh. A minute after a bright tongue of flame shot up and a cry of alarm rose from inside the stockades. "Surely some careless housewife had let an ember fall among the thatch,” they thought, and the great oak gates creaked upon their hinges an I out to the extinguishing rushed in their loose •heepskln cloaks two luckless herds. As they passed the portal an arrow sped across the grass, and, plunging deep into the chest of the foremost, he bounded half his height into the air, then fell with a heavy thud Into the *fern and went rolling and kicking and screaming down the hillside. At the same minute an unseen hand from behind, with a single sweep of a good Norway ax, severed the head of the other from his body as he (Stood glaring after his was twinkling os and mail of hurrying Norsemen, and while the fierce cry of rtJdin! Odin!” went up to the black sky, and the dusky crows, startled from their roosting places, flapped dismally about between the Stars, u long, low wail Os fear and terror rose from the hundred corners of that doomed citadel. And the game was ours from the beginning. Numerous and strong, fierce “and bloodthirsty as bloodhounds on the trail, we raced for the open gates, and carried the ilrgt one and swept round the way between under the unguarded palisades, where a dozen men might nave held us at bay, and so to the inner portal, whore wo stabbed a bravo old crone who tried to shut it in our face, and there the place had fallen —the wolves wer > in the fold. , And wild work wo made of it! As wo gained the entrance the English chieftain rushed out of the mid-door of his hall in his nightwear (for he had already gone to bed), a naked sword in his hand and by his side a fair young boy with curly yellow hair. By Thor, I would not have been the wild fowl on the neighboring marsh when that comely lad was hungry. He shot s<j close and Straight, although the light was poor for shooting, that had there been a dozen Such it would have gone badly indeed with us. At the first shaft he .pierced Kolbiorn through (ho wrist, and the second wounded stalwart Bveinke in the thigh; then he shot one in the throat and anotht r in the stomach, and kept us all at bay Until his last arrow was spent, and then died far down on the haft of bloody Dagson’s bear spear like the fierce young cub he was. As for the other — although he was stout enough of heart, yet his limbs were iffi «BY HIS BIDE A FAIR YOUNG BOY. M lean and old, and my merry fellows made short work with him, and he lay i in the moonlight as they left him, pale and bloody across his threshold, all the evening. Then we shut the gates to keep the screaming women in and lit a stack or two to give us light and so fell on. But why should I try to tell you all we did that evening? Why should I try to picture the wild, fierce hell of lust and cruelty and rapine that raged within those grassy shambles under the mild white starlight? And if I had n hundred pens I could not tell each incident as it rnfell, ana if I did you might not eare to listen. If I- had a hundred pens I could scarce recount how, one by one, we first dragged the men from their hiding places, and how some of them fought desperately, while some submitted sullenly, but whichever way it was we killed them. Or how the women screamed and struggled in the arms of the sea rovers and cried for mercy and tyre the yellow beards of their new, grimly laughing masters, and were sent down to hades, the old and lean ones, and how the others —the pale, fair girls, with fear-bright eyes and long, loose hair and bare feet, all in their torn, dishevelled night gear—wore bound hand md foot and lashed to the pillars in the lining-hall, or how the little ones noaned and wailed, and hid behind the eaps of dead and strove to wake with imtd petulance those who would never wake again, 'or, often, with their cherished playthings locked tightly within ;heir arms, crept into wondrous corners md hid from us —ask me no smaller dealt, for I could surfeit you with horrors Until compassion dimmed your eyes and itayed your reading! hor an hour the place was full of the guttural shouts of men and the shrieks >f women, the scream of the maiden and )ty of the mother losing her little one; :he well of the captive and the moan of he dying down in the shadows; and nen ran here and there struggling with vhitd'-shrouded forms, or drugging by reel or ha r strange shapes into dusky and the fires blazed and the (arkw fell—-and then, presently, bemuse there were no more to kill, the wise died down until presently silence •signed, broken only by the laughing ind shouting of my mon, and thus we gathered in the hall, relit the lamps, rrushod off the remnants of the earlier ivonlng supper and laid out for ourlelves all the best we could put our rands on. And fierce, wild revelry my ellows made of it. The hot blood of aplno and pillage hud got into their reins and they heated it higher with the trong, abundant drink from That Biitsh chieftain’s hiding places, until they rare more like a tawny, handsome band t furies than mortal men—gods! I hlnk I never brought such a crew of evils to that shore before. They made he rafters ring with their wildLpagan Eymns; they danced and shotted and Ete and drank, while the palb captive Eirls stood hudd Ing in the shadows or patted trembling on them, and the wine End ale went streaming down the floor T--- Al . .

among the blood and littrr.'and the torches flared, and the dogs howled outside. Oh, it was strange, wild revelry and went on for half the night-time. It must huvo been near the dawn and most of the maidens lay swooning upon the floor between weariness und terror, and half the rovers were drunk as swine, when they fetched in the dead chieftain, setting him, pale and bloody, in his chair, and putting a cup into his hands while the ribaldest fellow there made u song and sung it to him. Then next a cry arose—who started it I know not, but may God forgive him—for the English franklin’s daughter! We had not seen her—she was not among the captives—and now a hundred buxom fellows were on foot hunting with torch and lamp high and low in every crack and corner of the burgh to find her. Unhappy damsel, they hunted futilely everywhere until .they came to the small round tower on the cliff verge; there the strong oak door was barred and shut from within, and a wild yell of drunken pleasure told their quarry was at bay. What was it that made me just then so sick of all that revelry and sat like a black foreboding on my soul? I know not, but I turned, and, weary of the glare and tumult, slowly left the burgh and walked down to the beach, where lay my ship, just os the men were making a tall mound of sticks and heath and timbers about the door of the doomed tower that held the silent princess. Climbing on board I gave orders to those who had stood by the Wolf to make all ready for the sea, then threw myself down listless, strangely sad, and chilly as one in ague, by my place at the tiller to await the com'ng of the pillagers. And presently, one by one, the sons of the creek came reelingdown the path, singing as they stumbled down the darkness and carrying bundles and bags, and furs, and cups, and weapons in sheafs, and dragging faltering slaves, and surly, snarling dogs in leashes, and so at last when they were a'l on board but one, that one came running down the path, and before he had got half way to us lhe burgh was all illuminated with a rosy light, and looking up we saw that the laughing villain had fired it in twenty p aces, and not only the dwellings but also the great mound of fuel his friends had built against the tower door. CHAPTER VII. Up carhe our anchor and out we lurched upon the waves once more. We set sail and drifted slowly uown under the cliff where stood the castle, and as we came the fire raged furiously until when we were below that beetling brow we were sailing on a heaving molten sea of blood, and all our spars and cordage were shining copper red, and all the upturned faces of the vikings were flushed and hectic in the shine—and then—oh, bow can I write it?—just as we came the nearest a white woman’s form stepped frantic out on top of the tower and clasped her hands across her eyes, and hid her lace and wept. And I—oh the fiercest, strangest gust of agony and joy sprang up within my heart—l gasped and glared, and, all forgetting the strangeness o< it in the horror of the moment, dropped the tiller, and leaping to the clanking bulwarks stared another moment, and then, out of my deepest heart, out of the hot inspiration of my very soul, burst a fierce, wild cry of “Gunna!" And in an instant that white form was on her feet and staring terror-dazed at us, and then she saw me by the shrouds as I stood limned in gold,‘with all my ship against the black setting of the night, and gazed town steadfastly .upon me for a minute, then clapped her hands upon her bosom and stretched them wildly to me, and above the hissing of the flame ami the thud of the white surf upon the rocks I heard her cry, “Ulla! Ulla!” And now the strength of twenty jarls was in my heart. 1 tossed off as though | they were baby fingers the strong grip of two stout fellows who thought to stay me and in a m'inute was in the surf an 1 striking out bravely for the land. The great frothy pillows of the tide boiled for a space under my chin, and now I was deep down in a humming black sea valley and anon mast high upon a curling crest of spume, and then, all in the blaek shadow of the cliff, the black wnters seemed to dissolve into a hell of ghostly chaos and white thunder, and my feet touched the pebbly bottom. I landed somehow, but how only the pale Norns can tell, and scrambled up a sheep track the boldest of my men had said in daylight was impossible; came to the palisades and ' cla nbered over them, and rolled into the fort on top of two mangled bo lies, and up again, and now, in the golden shine of the tire, rushed to the great hall. There in his chair of state was the dead chief just as my robbers had left him, with mouth wide open and fixed eyes staring grimly down his hall and golden wine cup clinched within his fingers and bloody night gear wrapped about him, while on his face the streaks of pain and anger twitching with a hideous mockery of life as the smoke curled and the flames wentsoaring overhead in rosy eddies. To right and left was wild disorder, tables overturned 4 and benches cast’obout, broken flagons and squandered victuals, bent swords and cleft targets, and costly stuffspu led into shreds and dead men o-sprawl upon their faces, and blood and dirt and litter, and over all the 1 re was humming its fierce song as it mounted from point to point in the roof and shed great burning —T ■ 1 ■ — r “was in tub ’ svnr and strikihq out BRAVELY.” flakes and embers on us below. But nothing 1 cared for bloo I and litter, but with a foot of wind and a heart hotter than the flames above rushed through the banquet place and brushing rudely by the scowling king got out to the inner court and so reached the.portal of the tower. Over a red path < f cinders I flew, and with my bare hand test the flame-rot ten doorway into red ruins, and up the twining oakeu steps I i seed—scarce

noticing that they fell to ashes as I passed—and in another moment, in a moment of wildly m ngled feelings. I was out upon the burning parapet, and there upon her knees, leaning against the outer walls, and seeming asleep was the white maid whose fair face had haunted my forest path and shone upon mo through the drift und reck of ten years' storm and battle. Down I wont upon one knee and, deep, strong love and gentle compunction welling up In my hi art, took the maiden's head upon my shoulder and her hand in mine, and in a minute she gave a great, shivering gasp of pain and four and opened her eyes and looked up. By sweet Skulla he: seif, it was nearly worth the interval of pain to s. e the glad light of pleasure that was lit within them as they met mine, to f« el the warm clasp of her hand and to know unspoken that our hearts ' were one and our troth unbroken. It 1 was a ha; py moment, but all too brief, ' for 1 knelt and framed tho hot words of love and courage an 1 drew her sweet, yielding form to my bosom, I and rained iny long garnered kisses on her dear, pule face. I felt the oaken I platform whereon wo stood heave and i tremble, and, with a gasp, I looked i about and saw tho cruel flame had gnawed through every joist upon that turret, and tho whole platform was crackling and blistered and hanging by a thread, while down below, hungry for its fall, was the great roaring, seething fuueial of the inner tower. “Gunna!” I cried, “my own? there is but one way. Look! look! Tho : stairs are gone, tho platform rocks, and ; down below the courtyard is cruel hard. | Gunna, my life! come—quick!—there—- ' so—and hide your face deep dowa to my wolf-skin folds!” And as she fled to i mo and leapt into my arms I hid her face in my cloak and stepped off on to : the narrow rim of cracke 1 and ragged parapet just as the platform fell into ruins and went thundering down into the yellow and crimson caldron underneath. Enron e grim minute I poised myself upon that narrow, giddy shell qf blackened wall with the howling flame roaring behind and the dark vortex of the sea thundering in dim dreadfuiness two hundred feet below upon the other, then —wrapping my sweet burden still clo-er to my bosom and muttering between my

S - “ 'now For green bat.deiisund—or old valhalla!’” teeth. “Now for green Baldersund or ol<£ Valhalla!” —leapt bravely out into the, night! This is all! This is the story of Ulla the viking, Ulla the priest. The lamp wavers to its ending—the ink is dry. When the clansmen picked us up the maid was dead, and so was the light and the loving of Ulla. For three days we staggered back across the melancholy ridge and furrow of the black North Sea, and then we buried her here under a grassy mound by the white lip of the ocean in Baldersund. And grief, dull and abiding, sat in my heart, and none j could assuage it. At last, after many years, there came one barefooted, a cross and a staff in his hands, from over : seas and whispered comfort. He poured i the unction of the new faith into my | heart and the baptismal water on my head and bid me forget and arise anew. And I took tho cowl of him, learning to I read and write, and built me a hut by the green mound I loved and strove by ; penance and privation to do as I was bid. But can I forget? Can the sharp I thong and the mean fare purge the hot, free, loving spirit in my blood? At times it shakes off the shackles of sweet ; insipidness, and then I—l, old Ulla Er- ■ lingson—while the pale ghost-lire plays upon the. dark summit of my mound and. the black sea booms dismal in the black night distance, go out upon that <Jear, shrouding turf and cast myself upon my face, and tear my white hair, and mock the wild wind and waves with my still wilder grief. (THE END. I Copyright, by the Authors' Alliance. All rights reserved. Strange Applications. The Salvation Army has in London a bureau of information where ladies may obtain servants and those in need of employment find work. It has been extraordinarily successful. Dur--1 ing the first year 1,300 employers I found servants, and 1,000 girls ap- ' plied for work. Strange applications come to the office. One lady recommended her departing servant as “clean, tidy, honest, sober, truthful, and a good i worker.” Wondering why maid and ! mistress should part under these conditions, the bureau, found that terribly bad temper was the cause of separation. “But, strangely enough,” said the chief, “it happened that a lady had just applied to us for a servant with a bad temper, believing that such girls make the cleanest handmaids. ; So we are able to meet every requirement." Some of the wants sent to the I bureau are of a peculiar nature and 1 oddly expressed. j “Kindly send me a girl who is a vegetarian,” writes one lady, “or who is willing to become one.” “Not taller than five feet two. A girl who does not talk loud. She must not sing or laugh loud.” Neither are the servants who apply easy to please. ■» “Get me ;V place with two quiet, elderly people,” said one. “I like to be alone. ” “1 am a good singer and a good speaker, and I want a good place,” writes ahi then “I have had a good education, and can play the piano.” “Please get my daughter a place, as she is unmanageab.e at home and has an awful temper," asks a fond and candid parent. Wb have noticed that when anyone in a crowd has a bit of scandal to relate, it is not until the speaker s through talking, and all have had their dirloslty appeased, that someone says something about gossiping being 80 Improper. Employment, which Galen calls “Nature’s physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. • , 1 ’ •

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Januaby s.—The Atty-eighth biennial session of thp General Assembly of Indians met to-day. The Senate organized by the selection of Senator Griffith as President pro tern.; Geo 8. Pleasants, Secretary; Joseph Friedman, Assistant Secretary: William T. Msnnlx, Doorkeeper. Tne House organized by electing the following oflicers: James B. Curtis, Speaker; Chales E. Crawlev, Clerk;.John I). Carter, Assistant Clerk: Ik D. L. Grazebrook, Doorkeeper. Immediately after organizing both branches adjourned until to-morrow, when the message of Gov. Chase will be read. January o.— Tho Indiana Leglsla’cre met this morning In joint session in tho House chamber to hear the annual message of Gov. Chase. The message was long and read by the executive himself. After paying tribute to the memory of Gov. Hovey, who died last February, tho Governor passed directly to the important matter of state. He spoke hopefully of the new tax law and Its working, saying that it had enabled the Statu B I \ v f V OOVEUXOB CHASE. to receive Increased revenue, and that It would insure the ability of the State to pay off its debt in a short time. He thought that the debt might be paid in about eight years. He advocated a reduction of tax for school purposes from 16 to 11 cents, lor the reason that the educational fund already has a large interest bearing surplus. Ho also urged the reduction of the State, maintenance fund tax from 13 to 10 cents, and advised the placing of 4 per cent, of the total revenue aside for a sinking fund. He urged additional appropriations for the •World’s Fair commission, and also one to the city of Indianapolis for the entertainment on behalf of the State of the G. A. R. encampment next September. He urged as the most important subject of legislation before the General Assembly the passage of laws for the creation of better highways. He reported the benevolent Institutions progressive. On the subject' of penal legislation he urged the creation of a commission for the hearing of applications for pardons to be advisory to the executive. After reading of the message the vote for Governor was canvassed and both houses adjourned until Monday, when the introduction of bills will begin. The Walking Horse. The country would reap incalculable benefit if the walk of its ordinary horses could be accelerated a single mile per hour beyond what is now general. It would put millions of dollars extra into the national pockets- every year. We might have horses which would walk five miles an hour jnst as naturally and easily as three to three and a half} and rarely four, as is now the rule. All the farm and much of the country road and town street horsework is done at a walk. It costs no more to feed a smart walker than it does a slow, logy one, and frequently not so much. Now, let any one calculate the profit and advantage of using the former in preference to the latter. Let the farmer see how much more land per day he can get plowed and harrowed; how many more loads of hay, straw, grain and vegetables he can take to market; and how much more rapidly he is able to accomplish all his other work, and he will have little patience in keeping a slow-walking horse any longer. It will be the same with the expressman, the teamster and the truckman. Bellfounder, got by the celebrated imported trotting horse of his name, out of Lady Allport, was not only a fast trotter, but had a natural, easy walk of five miles per hour. He was kept by our family several years, and nearly all his (stock, out of quite common mares, proved excellent walkers. This shows how easily and rapidly an increased fast-walking stock may be bred by farmers, if they will only take due pains to select the stallions to which they may hereafter nick their mores. A fast-walking horse commands a considerably-higher price with those who care for the pace than a slow walker, and such buyers are constantly on the increase now, and that day will come by-and-by when a slow walker will hardly get a bid. The fastest walk that I have yet seen exactly timed and placed on record, was that of tho English horse Slove. He made, without effort 5.69 miles per hour. All agricultural societies should give good premiums to fast-walking horses, the highest prize to be awarded to the one which walked five miles per hour; the second to four and one-half miles: the third to four miles. The last should be least time for which to award a prize, and all breeds should be allowed to compete.— New York Tribune. Fire Balloon. The Scientific American says that o fire balloon has been made, in which the lower paid is constructed of asbestos cloth, while the upper part is covered with fire-proof solution. A spirit lamp is used to supply the hot air inflating it, and, being fire-proof, there is no risk, as with ordinary hot-air balloons. The system is said to be specially valuable for war balloonc, as a supply of spirit can be easily carried where it would be difficult to take the appliances for preparing gas. Work Pouch.—Take three ovalshaped pieces of cardboard, covered and lined neatly with bright worsted or silk, and whipped together, leaving qne seam open. It can only be opened by pressing on the ends. It must be larger directly in tho center that anywhere else. It will hold both spool and -trimming. 0 Gortschakoff, who was a great linguist, once said, in reply to a remark relative to his power to keep state secrets, that he knew how to hold his tongue in six languages.

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital. eiW.OOa Burpins, SKtfpO Organized Auguat 15,1583. Officer*—-T. T. Dorwln, Proaldsnt; P. W. Smith, Vice-Preaidant; R. H. I'alsraon Caahlor; T. T. Dorwln, P. W. Smith, Henry Darke*, J. H. Holbrook, B.J. Terveer, J. D. Hale and R 8. Pateraon, Director*. We are prepared to make Loan* on good wearily, receive Deposits, lurnlah Dorneatlo and Foreign Exchange, buy and aell Government and Municipal Honda, and fumiab letters ot Credit available in any of the principal citlea of Europe. Also Paaange Ticket to and from the Old World, including tranaportatlon to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital, *75,000. Bnrplua, 75,000. Organized In 1871. Officer*—D. Studebaker. Preaident: Ilobt. B. AlUaon, Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking bualneaa. Collection* made In all porta of the country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Intereat paid on time deposits. Paul O. Hooper, j£Lttoxmey at Tjcvw Decatur, - - Indiana. is. xx. uoßrLTJixr. Veterinary Surgeon, v Monroe, Ind, Successfully treat* all disease* of Boeses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at anytime. Price* resdnable. kbvis, a. K. MANN, j. r. HRJFIN & HANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IRANCE A MERRYMAN. i. T. fbanCM. J? J. T. MERRYMAN Attonicys at Z_*a.-w, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 2 and 3. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. HOUSE, L J. MIESSE, Proprietor, Decatur, Ind. Location 'Central—Opposite Court House. The leading hotel in the city. Q. NEPTUNE, . DENIST. * Now located over Holthouse’s shoe etore, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo's Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. All work warranted. Kent K. Wheelock, M. D,, EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST 94 Calhoun-st. Fort Wavne, Ind. JJEV D, NEUENSCSWANDEB, M. D. HOMEOPATHIST. Heme, ... Indian*. Children and Chronic Disease* a Specialty. Twenty year* experience. A. G. HOLLOWAY, Physician «t» Sursoon Office over Burns' harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. All call* promptly attended to » city or country night or day. < ■jyjßS. M, L. HOLLOWAY, M. D. Office and residence one door north of If. * church. Diseases of women and children spacial tie*.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, 2S minute* slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Sunday. Sept. 25. Isl Ci. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati..lv<- 805 am 850 pm Richmond 2 20ptn Io 55 .. 1125 Winchester.... 3 17 .. 11 5» .. 1223 am Portland 404 .. I 2 f>pm lift Decatur 5 10.. Jill,. 2(3 Ft.Wavno...arr 000.. 2 15.. 250 •• •• ...Ire 235 .. 3 10.. 805 am Kendallville 3 41.. 413.. #lO „ Romo Cltv 350.. 434.. 920.. Wolcottville 4 01 9 31 .. Valentine 4 11 9 42 .. LaGrange 419 .. 501.. 961 .. Lima ... .. 429 .. 10(6 .. Sturgis 4 40.. 620.. 10 19.. Vicksburg 630.. 0 20.. 11 09.. Kalamazoo.arr 0 06 .. 1201.. •• ..Ive 846 am 1010.. 710.. 12l'>pm Gr. Rapids..arr 015 | 810 160 .. " “ ...Ive 7 20atn 10 30 .. 110 pm 200.. D.. G.H.AMtcr 42f1.. 10 46 .. 7 27.. 2 14.. Howard City... 540.. 11 60 '. 841.. 3 14.. Big Rapids..... 052 ..1230am 945 .. 850.. Ret d City 730 .. 103 4 20.. Cadillac arr <ll3O .. 205 .. 610 •• ....Ivo 230 9 10 .. Traverse City. 700 pm Kalkaska.... 3 48 Petoskey 035.. 9 15.. Mackinac City 8 00.. 10 45 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. fl No. 4 No. 0 Mackinac City. 715 pm 745 am 20<»pm Petoskey...... 9 10.. 920 .. 345 Kalkaska 1230.. 11 3fl .. 609 Traverse City 11 10 .. 450 Cadillac ....arr 2 20am 115 pm 7 00.. 8 05am •• ....Ive 2 15.. 136.. 650 pm 810.. Reed City..... 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 50.. 9 00.. Big Rapids 4 00.. 258 .. 8 26.. 9 45... Howard City.. 455.. 343 .. 92?.. 10 32.. D.G.H.&M.cr 605.. 605 .. 1025.. 1135.. Gr. Rapids .arr 030.. 515 .. 11 00 .. 11 50.. •• " ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 1120 ~ 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 66am 3 40.. •• ..Ive 855 .. 805 345 .. Vicksburg 9 24.. 8 33.. 412 .. Sturgts 1019.. 920 505 .. Lima 1032.. 940 517 .. LaGrange.... 10 44 .. 952 5 29.. Valentine 10 53 .. 10 02.. ........ 5 37.. Wolcottville... 11 04 .. 10 14 5 47.. Rome Citv 1109.. 10 19 552 .. Kendallville... 1125 .. 1039 .. 608 .. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 715.. “ i..lve 100.. 1215 am 5 45am Decatur 146 .. 12 58 .. fl 3Q Portland 2 40.. 1 55.. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 36.. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 9 15.. Cincinnati 700 .. 655 1201 pm ....**** Trains 5 and 6 pin daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent. JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind. LOOK HERE! I am here to stay and can sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford to sell them. I sell different makes. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable See me first and save money. ' J. T. COOTS,Decatur, Ind. Scientific American Agency for KH f Va VM I ■ ffiL /1 w B Jl k B n 4MI 1 U L B PL * J trade marks, TWMBgSPDESICN PATENTS COPYRIGHTS, etc 3 For Information and free Handbook write to MUNN & CO.. 361 Broadway, new York. Oldest bureau for securing patents in Ajner.ca. Every patent taken out by us is brought before the public by a notice given free of charge in the jhientifw .American Largest circulation of any scientific paper in tha world. Splendidly illustrated. No intelligent iran should be without it. Weekly, 53.00 l year; f 1.50 six months. Address MUNN & CO, V’ ulisuers, 361 Broadway New York. »

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