Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1893 — Page 7

! | • WHEN I MEAN TO MARRY. — 1 When fln I mean to marry V—Well-. I Tls Idle to dispute with fate; I But If you choose to hear me tell. I Fray listen while 1 fix the date. I I When daughters haste with eager feetA mother's daily toll to share; Cao make the pudding, which they Mt, And mend the atooklngi which they wear. When maiden, look upon a man • As in himself what they would marry. And not a. army soldiers aeon A sutler or a oomuilaaery: n. When gentle ladle, who have got J The otter for a lover’, haud, Consent to .h.re hl. ‘ earthly lot,* And do not mean hl. lot of land; When voung mechanic, are allowed To And end w> d the farmer.' girl.. Who don’t expect to be endowed With ruble., diamonds, and pearl.; When wive., in short, shall freely give Their hearts and hand, to aid their spouses. . And live ns they were wont to live, j r Within their sire's one-story houses. Then, madam—ls I'm not too old— Bejoiood to ault this lonely lite, I'll brush my beaver, cense to scold. | , And look about mo for a wife I THE AUNT’S EARRINGS. Dectective stories have always been my favorite form of literature. I have read many, and have gained from them a thorough contempt for probability and the police. The first thing you should do when a crime has been committed, as I often said to Uncle Poffkins. is to suspicion the most unlikely man as being the criminal. That was the course I adopted when Aunt Poffkins’ earrings were stolen. It was in the morning when the theft was discovered. Aunt camo down late and ran into the room where Uncle Poffkins, Dora, and I were breakfasting. My aunt bore traces of strong agitation, and she had forgotten her cap. “My earrings,” she cried. “They are gone—they are stolen!" “God bless my soul!” exclaimed Uncle Poffkins, dropping his teacup as if he had been shot, and leaping up with a yell of pain. He said the yell was attributable to the heat of the tea, which was trickling own his legs. My aunt explained. The earrings were kept wrapped in cotton wool in a jewel-box on her dressing-table. ,t The box was never locked, and the housemaid had access to the room. The girl had only been in the house a week, and was known to have a beau. My aunt and cousin at once concluded she was the thief, and sent for a policeman, who searched her trunk ana found nothing, of course. I could have told them that. Meanwhile 1 kept my eye on Uncle Poffkins. Ho was the one person who could have no motive whatever in stealing the earrings. He was very rich, most respectable and extremely slow and noisy in his movements; moreover, my aunt would have given him the earrings at any moment if he had asked lor them. Evidently he was the last man to attract suspicion. Accordingly I watched Uncle Poffkins closely. We passed a week of excitement. The police were running in and out. Dora cross-examined the housemaid Incessantly. Aunt Poffkins went about weeping and reminding every one she met that the earrings were a present frem Uncle Poffkins on the occasion of their engagement. My uncle himself affected to make light of the matter and went so far as to loudly and ostentatiously curse the earrings. He was wrong if he thought I could be put off the scent by that clumsy munenver. I never left him alone; I tracked him to the city, hung about all the • morning, shadowed him when he went to luncn, when he returned, when he crossed over to the exchange. Unknown to him I was on his bus, inside if he rode on the top, and on the top when It rained and ne stowed himself away inside. He never escaped me, except while he was in his office. At last, after ten days’ weary chasing, I was rewarded. I need not say that the police had discovered nothing. The house was still topsy-turvy, and my aunt subject to intermittent hysterica That wronged creature, the housemaid, did her work with a mop in one hand and in the other a handkerchief wet with innocent tears. But to return to Uncle Poffkins. The tenth day after tho earrings had disappeared, as he was brushing his bat before leaving the house and looking at my aunt’s tear-bedewed visage, his conscience smote him and he so far forgot himself as to exclaim audibly: |.i “I’m blamed if I can stand this any longer!” The folly of the man was incredible. I had him now. In an instant I was after him. He took a bus, I took a cab, and started for o the city. Now came the odd thing —UncleiPofikins disappeared. How It happened I do not know, but when the bus pulled up at the bank Uncle Poffkins was not to be seen. I .questioned the conductor, but he had evi- ‘ dently been bribed, and told me very rudely that he had something better to do than answer my riddles. He drove on, and I was left for the first time at fault. It was evening before I saw Uncle Poffkins. I was going home in a very disconsolate state, when, about two hundred yards from our gate, I espied him ahead of me. Quickening my pace I stealthily approached him. He opened the gate and passed in; noiselessly I followed. A little further on, sheltered by the shrub? bery, he stopped, and i after a stealthy glance toward the house took from his overcoat pocket a small morocco case. I stood on tiptoe just be- ' hind, and, with mingled horror and satisfaction as I looked over his shoulder. I saw the earrings! I was rlghtl Uncle Poffkins sighed/ “Shall 1 give ’em to her or not!” h&’said to himself. “It’s waste, Still it will keep her quiet” I watched the struggle between his good and evil angel. Clearly his good angel had triumphed so far as to bring the earrings within fifty yards of Aunt Poffkins; but now came the tug of war. It was severe, and it ended In the victory of evil. Unole Poffkins, shutting the case with a snap, exclaimed: “It’s all blamed nonsense. I’ll take 'em back to Abraham’s to-morrow.” Abraham no doubt was the receiver, for my uncle went on, in a satisfied tone: “He’ll make no trouble about taking 'em. " He was putting the case in his pocket when my feelings overcame me. Respect for one’s elderly rela- . tives is a praiseworthy feeling, but it must not he allowed to override

higher duties 1 flung myself on Uncle Poffkins, crying: “Surrender! You cannot escape me!" My uncle fol! heavily on the gravel path. I fell heavily on top of him and pinioned his’arms to the ground. ‘Tomi" ho exclaimed, “what tho mischief—aro you drunk?” “It is useless, sir,” I began, “to affect Ig " 1 had reached this point when'l was vlojently collared from behind, lifted bodily off my uncle’s chest, where I had been sitting, and was deposited on a grass plat, while a deop voice said in my ear: “Now, then, young man, turn it up. You’re a lively ’un, you are. Fust your aunt and now your uncle." The new comer was a policeman. From his pocket he produced a pair of handcuffs and put thorn on my unresisting wrists Then I found my 1 voice. “What are you handcuffing me for?” I demanded. “There’s the thief.” “Gammon!" said he, grinning. “Why, you fool, there’s the prop erty," said L He looked and saw the earrings lying on tho ground by Uncle Poffkins. An expression of bewilderment overspread tho officer’s face as groping again in*hls pocket he brought forth a pair of earrings. Then gazing from the pair in his hand to the other pair on the ground, he ejaculated softly, and, to my ears at least, mysteriously: “These earrings in my 'and was found in your drawer, young man, wrapped in cotton wool. ’Ow do you account for that?” “These on the ground,” I retorted, “were found in Mr. Poffkins' pccket How do you account for that?” He shook his head sadly. Then he suddenly brightened up. He had an idea. He produced another pair of handcuffs, clapped them on my uncle’s hands and cried cheerfully: “We can’t be wrong now, can we? March!” So Uncle Poffkins and I marched, the policeman between us,with ahold on each of our collars, and in this predicament we were presented to Aunt Poffklns,| to Dora, and to the housemaid. - The housemaid giggled consumedly, for which under the circumstances one could hardly blame her. Aunt Poffkins experienced a relapse, and Dora alone was equal to the situation. She made us sit down and gave us each a glass of sherry. Then the recrimination began. Uncle Poffkins declared his earrings were not the stolen pair. Distressed at my aunt’s sorrow, he had gone to the jeweler’s and bought her a similar pair. They cost 80 guineas. The struggle I had witnessed was between love and economy, not honesty and crime. I swore that the earrings found in my bureau had not been placed there by me. “And you are both quite right,” said Dora. “Uncle's earrings are not the stolen ones. Tom, do you remember having the toothache?” It was clear to me in a moment. I had asked for cotton wool, had been directed to my aunt’s jewel box, and from it 1 grabbed a large handful and carried it to my room. Then, on reflection, I had tried brandy instead of laudauum. and the cotton wool was thrust in the drawer out of the way. The earrings had been buried in the cotton wool. “So you were the thief yourself!" laughed Dora. It was true. If only I had strictly followed what my reading had taught me' For, improbable as it was that I should think Uncle Poffkins guilty, it would have been still more improbable had I fixed the crime on myself. 1 lacked the full courage of my principles, and tho result is Uncle Poffkins and 1 do not speak. —Chicago Post. Whaling. Whaling is a glorious sport, superior to your fox hunting, tq bobbing for gudgeons, or chasing rats with a terrior. The ideas suggested to a landsman by the description of an attack on a whale, are those of extreme peril to all engaged in it, a peril from which the chances against their escaping alive is about ten to one A few hardy fellows pull up to a creature that looks like a small island on the surface of the sqa, and one sweep of whose tail or flukes is sufficient to knock their frail bark into splinters; they dash their harpoons into the large flank, and submit to be towed through the waves by the maddened monster at a rate that makes the water boil around their bows. Such is the power of the fish, that it he came in contact with a ship during his headlong couYse his weight and impetus would stave in her sides. Sometimes he runs straight forward; at others in circles, with irregular rapidity, still the boat sticks to him, until the smart of his hurt subsiding, or through fatigue, he slackens his speed, enabling his epeuies to approach him with fresh wounds. At last, when the waters are reddened with his blood, then comes the death fl Urr y_ s tern all 1 The boat stands clear and the fish disappears in a cloud of spray that he dashes up in his dying agonies. His flukes quiver, he plunges heavily and all is over. Entertaining the Butcher. Do you remember the Irishwoman who told her consumptive son to “Cough for the lady, Jimmy?” One of my nursemaids gave me a yarn to match that. Baby Bob had been ailing, fretful, and wakeful for a few days, and it occurred to me that perhaps, If his carriage was wheeled up and down the path, the sunshine and sweet summer air might be the best anodynes for the poor little chap. Sure enough when I looked out at the end of half* an hour Baby Bob was rosily sound asleep; and my heart rejoiced. A little later the butcher's boy, coming in at the side gate, stopped to gossip with Kathleen. “A fine baby you have there!” said he. “And if you think that when he’s asleep, it’s awakq and laughing you should see him!" said she; and to my horror she bent to give the baby a brisk shake, crying joyfully, “Bobby, dear! Wake up and laugh for the butcher, Bobby I"—Boston Commonwealth. . —- The man who can stand, the most liquor Is generally the last to itand treatI

FOOD FOR VISITORS. HOW IT WILL BE KEPT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. A Big Cold Storage Warehouse on the Exposition Grounde-Tlnterlor Arrangement* of th* Place—Where 100 Cream Will Bo Made. The Week at Jackson Park. Chicago correspondence: Directly south of the Transportation Building annex and close to the Stony Island avenue boundary of tho Fair grounds stands a spacious five-story building covering an area of 130 by 250 feet deep. It is solidly built and with ornaments. It forms tho cold-storage I '\A 4-P « -I THE JAPASF.SE WILL. and ice-making plant of the Exposition, and will be a very necessary adjunct during the hot summer months of the great show. There will be numerous restaurants, cases, ice-cream and soft drink stands on the grounds, and these places will depend on the cold-storage warehouse for the preservation of their edibles. In it will be stored the tons of

THE ILLINOIS STATE BUILDING.

meat, vegetables, butter and eggs used. In it also will be manufactured icje-cream by the hogshead and ice by the ton. The whole apparatus will be so arranged thatvisitors may freely circulate through the building and see just how the various methods of ice production are carried on. One will pass through a higharched and many-columned doorway I MONSTER TRUCK WAGON AT THB GROUNDS into a circular gallery looking down upon a 900-horse power steam plant—the only Steam plant on the grounds. It will furnish the power for the large elevators placed in each end of the building, for the ice-hoist-ing apparatus and the dynamos for the arc and incandescent lights. A door leading to the ice-machines opens to the left. Here may be seen the full workings of an ice-plant with a capacity of 105 tons a day. On the opposite side of the building are the storJge-rooms. Provision will be made for the storage of 3,000 tons of ice. The walls separating the rooms are what are technically known as “insulated.* They are composed of alternate layers of heavy paper and cleated boards, with a double air space intervening. Around each room run the coils of pipe by means of which the rooms are cooled. Each room is supplied with an automatically acting thermostat, which keeps up a thorough ventilation and preserves a uniform temperature of any degree reiSS - THB. COLD STORAGE BUILDING. quired. In the rooms practical tests will be made with a view of ascertaining what the proper temperatures are for the storage of different kinds of produce. On the fifth floor will be placed the ice-cream plant, where all the icecream used on the grounds will be manufactured. The freezers will be immense concerns, operated by steam and cooled by ammonia vapors. The roof will be surrounded by a heavy balustrade, inclosing a promenade, and at each corner will be placed a tower 100 feet high. The Illinois Buildlug. The work of construction on the Illinois building is complete, and the closely following decorators will soon have finished their task. The building presents a very handsome appearance both withlc without. The main floor is once more strewn with shavings and bits of wood left by

the several score of carpenters who 1 have moved in to begin the work of erecting pavilions. The State Agrlcul- ; tural Department has op< neo up offices in the building close to where its pavilion is being erected and a large pile of samples from the forestry division await 1 the completion of a set of shelves be- • fore their complete installation. Each 1 variety of wood is to be sh< wn, wi h the lark covering one side. Tho other side will be cut and planed in such a way as to show the longitudinal, cross and oblique sections. i In the south end of the building, in ’ what will be used as the kindergarten, • may be found a rosy-cheeked Wiscon- ’ sin girl absorbed in u creation entirely > ber own, which she calls the “Genius* i of her State. The fair sculpior Is Miss » Nellie Farnsworth Mears, whose pe- . cullar talent was fortunately brought to the lecognltlon of the State Fair Commission, who immediately gave the Oshkosh maiden her first order. Her figure stands in repose, lightly leaning on a mass of rook symboiizing firm foundation. The figure affectionately rests her left arm on the neck of an eagle perched on the rock, and from under the protecting outspread wing, gazes upward with a trustful air. The right hand gathers up the folds of m American flag. Th® Japanese Exhibit. The Japs have begun work on their pavilion in the Liberal Arts The structure now being unpacked in sections promises to be a very neat and handsome affair. It is constructed of hand-carved native hardwoods, with metal ornaments in the way of figured nail-heads, chairs and a bronze image of the sacred pheenix. On the wooaed Island their ho-o-den begins to assume tho palatial aspect intended. Over at the Horticultural Building the Japanese gardeners are putting in a stone well top near their rustic bridge. The well-casing used is from one of the oldest Japanese wells, and shows the • primitive method there of drawing water. The stone used is a sort of red sand--9 stone, neatly mortised together at the 3 four corners. Ek Led by a Canine Pilot. r A blind man, piloted about the cenf ter of the city the other day by a

dog, attracted a good deal of atten--1 tion. The man was deatly dressed, ■ and carried a sachel containing articles to sell swung over his shoulder. J He carried a stick in order to enable . him to feel his way up or down a ■ step. The dog, a plump, well-fed, r brown animal, had on a sort of har- • ness, to which a stout cord was attached from his back. He was, ap- < patently, in a hurry to do business, for he tugged at the cord vigorously as he went along. Every few steps he would look around at his master "in the most intelligent way, as if to discover whether he was coming along safely. As soon as he got to a door he stopped and looked up at his master. If the door was one on which was posted the sign. “The other door,” the man would try the knob, and as soon as the dog saw that his master could not go in he would immediately move on to the next door. When a door was opened the dog appeared toi understand exactly how to transact business. He would pilot bis master straight to the office, in the baick or ‘ front part of the house, stop, and: look up. When anybody bought any- , thing and “Good-day” was said, the 1 animal would lead the way out again, often looking around at his companion, and, when the street was reached, he would be sure to start exactly where he left off and try the next door. If the animal was not fond of 1 that man. the looks and actions of a dog go for nothing.—Baltimore American. Appearances Were Deceptive. He was a very shabby person indeed. His clothes were of that muchworn character that precludes any attempt at description. He had cotton in his ears, and he wore a most disreputable hat, yet there he was in one of our large city dry goods stores,' as much out of place as a stoker in ai drawing-room. No one paid any attention to ffim, every one having come to the conclusion evidently that he- was a workman or some porter looking for a job; anything, in fact, but a purchaser. At last, after he had flgeted about for some time, he started off toward the cloak department and presently came back with an obsequious floorwalker, who called out: “Show this gentleman your fl nest sealskin wraps.” Everyone looked in astOhishment at the seedy figure, and one young woman had the grace to remark: “Excuse nX„. sir, I thought you were looking for a cloth garment.” “No, miss, seal skin ain’t good enough for my little gal, and I guess if there was anything more expensive her pap ’ud buy it for her.” Only a little every-day happening; but it teaches the lesson that flr.e clothes do not always mean the fattest po,cket books. , lu Ancient Egypt. M. Philip has discovered near the site of Heliopolis, in Egypt, the necropolis used by the Pharaohs, at least so says M. Grebout, until recently director of the museum of Ghizeh, and now professor at the Sorbonne. Heliopolis was as ancient as Memphis, and formed with it a twin city, with the Nile between. Memphis was the royal abode, Heliopolis was the priestly capital. rotnt-cr for PrMchera. A writer says “that the average limit of sustained attention in an audience is about twenty minutes, and that it is very difficult for a speaker to interest his hearers thirty minutes. It was not so In the old days when we had great orators and It Is not so now when an eloquent speaker has a speech to deliver. But, for the average talker, twenty minutes Is long enough.”

Claude de Worbtss. About the year 1666 a doj? wtui mad in a village of Provence, France, As he rushed down a deserted street oersons who had fled to places of security were horrified to see a small boy run to meet it. Heedless of commands and warnings, thechild seemed about to throw himself upon tho animal’s open, foaming jaws. There was a struggle, but it was quickly over, and the 10-year-old hero was unhurt lie had given his hat to the dog, and while the creature was tearing it, hud seized him by the hindlegs and plunged a knife into his stomach. When a crowd of men reached the scene to render assistance the dog lay motionless and djing. Tiie boy was Claude de Forbin who as a young man achieved fame as a brave soldier and sailor, and who died a commodore oi the French navy. His career was full of acts of audacity and impetuous courage. At one time the French Government ordered him to attack a certain Venetian war vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. The vessel retreated to the port of Venice. Forbin, with fifty men, two boats, and a canoe, entered the port unperceived, boarded the vessel and took possession of it before the enemy realized what was happening. He carried away the officers and crew, set fire to the ship, and before it was fully understood in Venice what the burning of the ship and the terrible explosion of its powder-maga-zine meant, he was well on his way to his own frigate, which he reached in safety. In a terrific storm, which so frighttened his ordinarily stout-hearted sailors that they yielded to despair and did nothing but call upon all the , saints in the calendar, Forbin shouted, “All your prayers are [good, my lads, but Saint Pump! Saint' Pump! he will save you!” The men went to the pumps, and , the ship was saved. • When Forbin’s vessel was anchored off Algiers, and he was negotating for peace between Algiers and France, some Christian slaves swam out and begged him to rescue them. The treaty between France and Algiers forbade the French sending out gunbeats to rescue slaves, but Forbin determined to save these unfortunates. He put 400 fathoms of rope to a canoe, and told the coxswain to rescue the drowning slaves. If he was discovered by the Algerian gunboats, he was to order the men toship their oars and to pull on t he cable, at which signal the canoe would be drawn back to the vessel. The Algerians chased the .canoe; but without success. They demanded the return ol the slaves, but Forbin replied that all on board a vessel of the King of France were freemen. . Then be set sail across the Mediterranean and carried the refugees to ’ France. Swapping Wives in Crackerdom. ! “Twenty years ago the people of 1 that section of country embraced in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee were primitive in the extreme,” said F. P. Dalton to a St Louis Globe-Democrat man. ’ “Few could read; not one in a hunr dred had ever seen a railroad or a ’ town of 1,000 inhabitants. I was ' tramping through the mountains ’ making some sketches, and my wife, ’ then an exceedingly handsome woman of 20, accompanied me. We ! stopped one night at the cabin of a squatter who was a typical mountl, aineer. His wife was a tall, raw-boned, slatternly woman with a snuff-stick { and a sharp tongue. After supper of ‘corn pone,’ milk, and fat pork the host took me outside and, pointing ’ with his thumb over bis shoulder to ‘ our respective wives, said: ! “ ‘How’ll you swap?’ “I had heard the people of that i country sometimes traded wives, but ' regarded it as a foolish burlesque. “ ‘Well,’ said I, inclined to get 1 some amusement out of it, make an offer.’ 1 “ ‘I kinder reckon.’ said the would1 be swapper, ‘that my wife’s wuth the 1 most. She’s the biggest’n strongest 1 She kin milk cows, dig seng r .and kin 1 cook a ’possum to a turn. ‘ But I’ve had her nigh onto a year an’ am ge,ttin’ tired of her old clapper of a tongue. I’ll swap even.’ “I declined the offer and he finally offered to give as boot a squirrel rifle and a dog warranted to be death on coons. This liberal offer did not tempt me, and as we were about to leave he offered to add a jug of moonlight whisky. This was too much for the temper of his partner. •“Weil. Zack Jenkins,’ said she, with asperity, ‘l’ve been swapped four times, an’ you're the first feller that didn't cackerlate that I was wuth a deai more in a trade than t’other woman.’ “We departed, leaving Zack to explain matters as best he could.’ - Not Appreciated. AU honor to the brave! To know the American soldier well you must toil with him over the desert trail where the sun beats hotly down on ; the dry and verdureless earth, and | the dust rises in white clouds that | hide the column from view, and till the eyes, the mustaches, the ears,the | mouth with profanity and vexation. I Here is where his songs and jokes proclaim the stuff he is made of. Then, when you are sent out with him in the dead of winter in over twenty inches of show, your equipments and supplies on bobsleds, he it is that dismounts time and again without a murmur, pushing to help the mules uphill, and repacking the overturned bled a dozen times a day; then, after ftll, digging a hole in the snow, and Eutting up his tent at night, all tie time joking with t*he “bunkie,” ftnd ready as ever to steal a whisp of haft’ or a handful of oats for his shivering horse. He it is who rises to meet every emergency; who sprang into the boiling spring to save a drowning girl; who lost his life for his fidelity in attempting to swim an icy stream with dispatches; who, single-handed, served a field-gun thrqugh an action with a bullet in his ’leg to hold a position; he that you believe incapable of anything but “bucking faro” and drinking strong liquors. " A church of the Good Shepherd is being built in Philadelphia, but it is in no waj l connected with the good shepherd who edites the Mail and Express.

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1 he Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most salable Organ of the Day ifefil Organs sold on Installment Payments at Low Figures. SEND FOB CATALOGUE. r - Fred K. Shafer, Agt. BERNE. IND. ORANGE BLOSSOM V tKS ALL FEMALE DISEASES. emit: fiC TUC CVUDTHUCt a tired, languid feeling. low spirited and despondent, with no apparent vUInL Ul InC OlniriUwiOi cause. Headache, pains m the back, pains across the lower part or bowel*. Great soreness in region of ovaries. Bladder difficultv. Frequent urinations. Constipation us bowels, and with all these symptoms a terrible nervous feeling is experienced by the patient, i iitu vju.wk BLOSSOM TREATMENT removes all these by a thorough process of absorption. Internal remedies win never remove female weakness. There must be remedies applied right to the parts, aha then there is permanent relief obtained. EVERY LADY CAN TREAT HERSELF. 08. Pile Remedy. I H.OO for one month’s treatment. |O. B. Stomach Powders. O.’ a Catarrh Cure. I —prepared by— I O. B. Kidney Cones. J. A. McCILL, CO., 4 panorama place. Chicago, ill FOR SALE -DY Holthouse & Blackburn. Decatur. Ask for Descriptive Circulars. HOFI-MAN & GOTTSCHALK Keep a full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Groceries, Lamps, Tobaccos, Cigars, and a general stock of Merchandise. Prescriptions carefully compounded. LINN GROVE, IND. * SO At Magley, keeps a large stock of Dry ;.|AVh||*b AA Goods, Notions, Groceries, Boots, Shoes Ik ||||| y and in fact everything kept in a general I Uli I store. Buys all kinds ot Country Produce or which the highest market price is paid. Kdff kv - J guarantee to euro all nervous diseases, such as Weak Memory, WHr wtf '’’’3sk dD !-«•• es Brain Power, Headache, Wakefulness, I,o»t MenftjW w \) hood, Nightly Emissions, Quickness. £vll l)reum», Lack ot - V \* am Confidence, Nervousness, Lauiiude, ull drains and loss of M t -dffvh - power Os the Generative Organs tn either sex cauf*?d by overexerI a Uon, youthful errors, or excessive use of tobacco, opium or stlmu- . lunts which soon lead to Infirmity. Consumption and Insanity. Pul l\ to carry in vest pocket. Sent by mall In plain package any address for 1. or G lor (With every order we 1 give a written guarantee to cure or refund the money.) BJSFOKB AND ATTEK USING. ~ -' For Sale by W. H. Nachtrieb, Druggist, Decatur, Ini

Grand Rapids i Indiana i. iTßtns run on Central Standard TlmeX Utt'S slower than Columbut <> r former X. Took effect Sunday. »® O . GOING NORTH. \ STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 Noi, I W<K X Cincinnati .Ive Rosam 010 pm ' \ , Richmond 2 20pm 111 55 .. 1145.. W I '.WIiK-hestcr.... 3IT 'll .. 1243am.:"— \ Portland 404.. 1235 pm 123.. INiextiir 6 10. 131.. 220 . .L.\l Fl. Wayne., arr 600 . 2 15.. 3 00., .1. ...lye 2115.. 3 20.. fiUm Kendallville 34f.. 425.. »V. Romo City 3 6d.. 4 40., 22mL Wolcottville 4 01. l|l\ Valentine ;... 411 '.148..X LaGrange 4 10.. 506.. 061.. \ Lima 4 20 Io 08.. Siurgis 4 41).. 5 23.. 1010.. Vicksburg 6-'W .. (150 . 1100.. Kalamazoo.arr 006 11 40ff. .. Ive 4 2ri>im II2T, . 9 00. 112 26pm Gr. Rapids, arr #45 .. 310 “ '• ..Ive 720 .. 1010.. 1 inpm 416..) r> o G H,AM.tr ....... 1044 .. 727 Howard City il 50 341.. ........ Big Rapids ............ 1233 am 945.. Reed City. 103.. Cadillac arr 1130.. 2 05.. KlO.. ........ “ ....Ive 230 . .... .. 910 .. Traverse City ... .... TOCpm ........ Kalkaska... 3 48.. Petoskey #36 .. 915 .. . Mackinac City 1800 .. 10 36 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. ! No. 2 No. « I No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City . I 715 pm 715 am 200pm Petoskey 910 .. 920 .. 345 Kalkaska 112 33 . >ll 36 .. 502 Traverse City.. 1 11 10 ... 4 50 Cadillac ... arr! 220 am 115pm' 7no . i 8 Of,am “ ....Ive 215. i:js.. «50pm 810.. Reed City 328.. 230.. 750.. 900 .. Big Rapids '4OO .. 258 .. 825 .. 945 .. Howard City.. i.Vr,. 343 .. i 9 20 10 32 .. D..G. H.&M.cr! #OS . 505 .110 25.. 1135 .. Gr. Rauids arr! 3 31.. 5 15.. 1100.. 150 ~ “ •’ ..Ive! TOO.. fitXl.. >1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr ; 850 .. 800 .. 12 55am > 340.. “ ..Ive 8 55.. 8 05.. ..... . 3 45.. Vicksburg 924 .. 833 412 .. Sturgis 11019.. 92# 5 05.. Lima 10 32.. 940 517 .. LaGrange... .‘1044.. 952 5 29.. Valentine 11053 . 10 02 507 „ Wolcottville... lIM . >lO 14 5 4T.. Rome Cite 11 09 .. Hi 19 . 52 .. Kendallville.. 11 27, . .10 39 .. #OB .. Ft. Wayne.,arr>l24opm 11 50 .. \ 716.. “ “ ..Jve| 100 .. jl2s»am 545 am Decatur ~i 14# .. jl2 68 .. #3O Portland 2 40.. I 1 56.. 7 30.. I Winchester... 3if.. 2 38.. 8 09.. Richmond 4 20 .. 3 40 .. 9 15 .. Cincinnati 700 . .1#55 . 1201 nm!.... '' Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind First Class Night and Day Service between Toledo, Ohio, )ANO( — St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAIHS—MODERH EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIBHT trains! SERVED EN ROUTE, any Rour, BAT OR NIBHT, at moderalt cost. Ask for tickets via Toledo, St Louia k Kansas City 11 Clover Leaf Route. For further particulars, call on noaroet ▲gent of the Company, or address Qb C. JENKINS, Aiscrsl PuMugw AfMit, TOLEDO, OHIO. W. L. DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. „ And other specialties for Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys and Misses are the Best in the World. ‘ see descriptive advertisewjl jgSk | meat which will appear to i p ap<r ' Take no Substitute, but Insist on having W. L. DOUGLAS’ SHOES, with name and price stamped oa bottom. Sold by For Sale by Henry Wiiines, Second door West of Adams County Bank; Monroe St.