Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1893 — Page 7

* ■t-..;..; 1 1. 1 P RIVALS. | . - ‘ 11 '' ' “ ' ' e A Story of the Vengeance of the Sea, Written for This Paper. BY MAXWELL GRAY.

CHAPTER I. The village straggles over a windy,treeless level above steep cliffs, the bases of which are eaten away and tunneled under by the perpetual action of the eea. Thence in quiet weather comes the low lullaby of a scarcely audible surge; there at the broken base of the storm-battered wall It murmurs on caressingly through sunny noons and moonlit nights, rarely quite still; it deepens at times to a mellow roar, when a white sheet of surf spreads over the far-stretching reef. From this low roar, through many a crescendo, the sea music rises to a complex symphony of warning thunders and blending harmonies, heard far inland, then the soft surf rolls and rages into tumbling avalanches, the breakers rise and rush up the cliffs till these are half sunken in a white waste of foam and crowned by a blinding spray mist Sometimes the-billows rush like winged monsters out of the very heart of the sea and hurl themselves crashing on the limestone walls, till the spray flies far over the summits arid dissolves, dream-like, upon the windy waste. That is why the square, rock-like tower, rising above the graves of shipwrecked strangers, is often crusted over with fine salt, and only sea-loving things grow near it. All this fury of waters has so wasted the shore that only the hardest rocks remain in towering cliff and ragged reef; the sandstone has either been torn out by the sea or worn out by a tiny rill wandering seawards and making a chasm, irregular and broken into many a ledge, steep at the bottom and shelving broadly toward the top. Here is short, scant pasture, and many a sea-loving plant, with heather and gorse feathering, away at the top. And here, high in u sheltered nook, commanding the southward sea, is, or rather was some years ago, Mary Deane's low stone cottage, in its welltended garden, with its shining myrtles and fuchsia bushes. Walled from the north and east by the cliff, partlaliy screened from the west and fully open to the south, this garden was a paradise, and was for many years the chief support of Widow Deane and her son, now a strong, broad-faced man of much resource, partly fisher, partly gardener, and partly boatman, who tended the cow, the pigs, the few hardy shcep browsing on the broken cliff, and the donkey which drew garden stuff, crabs and lobsters, eggs and butter to market weekly. Itobert Deane could knock up a shed out of a. few planks of driftwood, and most things out of odds and ends. He was a comely, squarebuilt fellow, with bright merry T blue eyes, and short, curly brown board and hair. One gray still October afternoon he was whistling in front of a lean-to shed at the foot of the cliff chopping firewood, of which he had already piled a good stock, made chiefly from the spars and ribs of a bark-that went to pieces on the reef in the 'last winter. Through the open cottage door ho could see his mother sitting at work by a crackling hearth fire, ovet which a swinging kettle sang. An oak-cased clock ticked cosily by the staircase. The dark oak dresser displayed its gleaming crockery. Flowers bloomed in the window.. All Was tidv and clean, including Widow Deane in her white cap and gray hair. Sea shells, coral and foreign figures on the mantelpiece, the shell of a large tortoise, and the model of a full-rigged man-of-war gave the little cabin a full sea flavor. Presently Robert’s rough-coated dog Reefer cocked his ears, Robert’s face brightened, foot steps sounded along the cliff, the gate clicked open, and two women stepped up the single path. “Here wc be, Robert," said the elder ofthe two. “Ay, ay, Mrs. Fielding,” he replied, dropping his bill-hook and coming forward; “here you be, and welcome you be, and here’s a fine lot of fire-wood for Rosie come winter." The younger woman colored with happiness and spoke to the dog dancing round her. “Reefer. knows the new missus already," said Widow Deane,\oming out and kissing Rosie’s fresh, firm cheek. A man was passing down the steep path, screened from their sight by a fuchsia-tree growing by the gate, but not so thickly that he could not see through its outer sprays. When he saw the two mothers and Robert and the Tit,*?' 3 I' V N TtXT «* *■ BE STOPPED AND SWORE QUIETLY TO HIMSELF. sunshine bringing out the gold gleams in Rose’s hair, and the red coming to her cheeks at Robert’s voice, he stopped and swore quietly to himself, until the fair one went in by the fireside and the door was partially closed. Then he turned away. “Cursed jiltl" he muttered, pursuing his downward path, with his lobster pots on his shoulder. “Ay, Bob Deane, v you smiles superior on me, do ye? Mar- , tied a Monday and me to ring your bells, eh? George Attrlll ring for another , chap’s wedding his own girl! Look to yourself. Bob Deane; a deal may chance between this and Monday!” He stopped again at a lower turn of the narrow patch and looked once more at the faint glow from the cottage window, fronting the moaning sea, then he suddenly dashed his lobster-pots to the ground and himself beside them, face downwards. The wail of a sea-gull flying homewards and the low murmur of the surf at the cliff bases alone broke the silence of the desolate place. “But I’m not to be mistress here," Rose was saying, standing in the glow of the hearth, so soon to be hers; “the house and all is yoiirn, Mrs. Deane; 'tsn’t'even Robert's." So she said in her courtesy, looking round the pretty neat nest she meant to keep and arrange bo carefully. “ 'Taint all shipshape yet, Rosie," said Robert; “but mother and me reckons to get all trim and taut by bedtime.’ "To be sure. Robert worked like a iftWifeA.'A' ' A . ■ ’"Y'-by’trW r

horse,” added his mother; “but things isthirtover when anybody's in it hurry." Everything was perfect, the Findings said. They admired the various contrivances effected by Robert's ingenuity—the fresh curtains he had nailed up, and the sofa he had made out of a chest, covered with chintz, the new crockery, the largo new family Bible. “And father's present ain’t come yet," Mrs. Fielding said mysteriously., Rose grew brighter ns each treasure was displayed. She thoughfrof the short winter days, when Mrs. Deane was to be with a brother ten miles away, and she and Robert were to be alone together. How sweet the cottage would look in the early dusk, when Bob came home tired and cold to his bright fire and his tea. And then the long evenings with the concertina and n book and her needle, and his pipe and the pleasant chut And then “Come on, Rosio,” Robert said, holding the stair-foot door open; “mother is gone upstairs." She woke from golden dream to golden reality, took and returned Robert’s kiss, and followed him up the steep stairs opening upon the sitting-room below to the •sloeping-rooms above, one on the right hand, which was Mrs. Deane's, and one on the left, screened from the open stair by a partition of Robert's contrivance, with an adapted door bought second-hand and put into a rough lintel of his making. “That is nice." Rose exclaimed. “Why, Robert, you’re as good as any ’prenticed earpentdr!” All was made ready, neat and spotless by Robert’s deft hands. A satisfied smile crisped his brown face when ho looked at the simple plenishings and askek if all were as Rose wished. The mothers commended and commented; Rose, looking shyly .on, thought everything perfect; the new lookingglass, the clean, coarse linen, the geraniums blooming in the small dia-mond-paned Window set nest-like in the thatch; the row of pegs fixed against the gay, new wall-paper for the wife’s gowns; Robert’s wedding suit folded neatly on a chair. Rosy morning sunbeams would steal in through that window, turning to gold and tracing a cross-barred pattern on the boarded floor that she would keep so white —on the strip of carpet and on the patchwork quilt. Through dark Winter nights the sea would roar its hoarse lullaby, shrieking winds would coll themselves round the safe cottagenest till it shuddered in their grasp; at times the deeogroundswell would boom through the stillness of the coming storm. Summer moonbeams would weave a silvery glamour about the room, while soft, airs stirred the myrtleblossom, and the low murmur of surf on the beach sounded faintly through the charmed silence. The mothers were busy putting some final touches; Robert called Rose’s attention to a lettered scroll on the wall: “Lord, Thou hast heen our/dwellingplace in all generations.” A sudden bewildering, half-grasped sense of the deep significance of life, the solemnity of human ties, and the divinity emolding all, rushed up from hidden depths to the girl’s unawakened soul and broke upon. her. just as a giant billow rushes out of the sea’s heart, and breaks on the cliff-face in storm; her face crimsoned; her heart throbbed. Robert led her to the window. “Look,” he said; “a vessel in the offing! Many a craft you’ll make out of a summer’s day. And here’s myrtle still abloom.” He leaned out of the open casement and plucked a epray, leaning dver it and talking of the sea, while the mothers laughed with nodding heads and hands held before their mouths, together. A robin was piping softly in the sheltered garden. The song of the sea came up from below, louder now and with something more of menace in it than a while since. Robert’s brown face was traced upon the wide, slowheaving sea-plain; and far down at the mouth of the chasm, by the white surffringe on the yellow shingle, was the figure of a solitary man, too fhr off to be recognized. But it came into Rose’s mind that it might be George Attrill, and the thought was like a cloud passing across the sun. “’Tis a pleasant lookout;” she said, taking the myrtle blososm. “I never could seem to get on for long without I could see the sea.” ”Me and you like the same things mostly,” ho replied; “I seem lost away from the sea. Look at her now! Storm’s coming. There’s a groundswoll growling. Mother, she can’t abide the groundswell. Minds her of father,” he added, in an undertone. “But it’s meat and drink to me to hear it. Many a time I’ve said I should never have nor a wife, only the sea. She was my first sweetheart.” “That’s true enough," broke in his mother, for whose sake Bob had given up his wish to follow his shipwrecked father’s calling. The inspection over, and all pronounced in order, they went down stalys. The. earthenware teapot was set on the round table, and Bob took up the mushrooms and potatoes which had been roasting in the wood ashes, and they fell to wlth>country heartiness, while Reefer looked on, bolt upright, with his paws dropping beseechingly on his chest, and a heedless and improvident kitten playefd with his tail and frisked about in irresponsible gayety. Many details had yet to be discussed, because, as Mrs. Fielding said, "Folks don’t get married every day, ” and each arrangement evoked some reminiscence of her wedding and that of Mrs. Deane, and they suggested some sage counsel to Robert and Rose, so that before they rose from table dusk had begun to close in, with little shivering gusts of wind and ominous rumblings in the chimney. The sea-song was rising in fitful crescendo; the firelight played upon Rose’s face and bright braided hair. Her lover thought her more and more like her own flower, especially when he drew something bright from his pocket and fitted it on her finger under the table. “It’s a big 'up for to last," he whispered, replacing it in his pocket. Just as the Fieldings stepped o,ut onto the winding path on the way home with Robert they almost ran against a man climbing up from the shore. “Good night,” Bob sang out "Good n ght," the other returned, gruffly, shrinking back in the dim light that still lingered. “Why, ’tis Jarge Attrlll," cried Robert; “come on, Jarge. say you’ll come a Monday. Me and you was always mates, you mind.” “Me and you’ll never be mates no , more, Robert Deane," he growled, I striding on, a tall, strong fellow, with a sailor’s gait and dark eyes flashing through the obscurity. Then he turned on a sudden and shouted: “When that, light wenoh gets tired of you, same as I

she done of me, you’ll wish you'd a let marryin' alone, Bob Deane,’ ajjjj, marched on again, ,' “It’s a shame!” cried Rcao, bursting into tears. “I never favored him, Robert." All that night the sen’s song was loud and exultant. Next morning the waves came rolling In like long-ranged cliffs of glassy green, with beetling foam summits, raging into snow cataracts and clashing up the Cliff face in blinding musses of spray; the groundswoll sucked the shingle back with a threatening rattle that sounded like an angry cry above the continuous thund -r of the breakers. Men stood gazing seawards, battling with the gusty wind, and talking of the lifeboat house in the adjacent bay, saying that It < ould never round the point with such a surf. Rose was little troubled by the gathering storm, her heart was too full of personal matters. The church bells rang out ftom the windy tower In fitful clashes as the sound was caught and tossed about by the gale, now pealing loud on the blast, now unheard lor inlnutes together, and then pealing out, jangled again. She did not go to church, partly because her banns wore called, and the hours flew swiftly on to the wedding day. Robert came up to tea in the afternoon, all blown about and staggering in the gusts, which grew fiercer with the lift Um a ». Iri j * “I NEVER FAVORED HIM.” close of the day; he was to take Rose to church, but her father advised her to stay in. “You’ll be blown over the cliff, and then there won’t be no wedding,” he said laughing. “The Lord help any vessel anigh this -coast to-night," said Robert, as they heard the sudden swirl of church bells above the roar of the sea, aud Rose pressed closer to him. When the moon sailed out from the wrack they could see the great breakers caught sideways by the wind and thrown up in tall white columns, moving ghostlike and vanishing in a white whirl of foam; misty white wings of it flew over the land, the salt was in their faces and hair. The church was some way inland by the village proper, a second village having grown up about the seaward gorge, the ancient haunt of smugglers and wreckers. When.the lovers reached the church they drew up breathless in the lee of a buttress to recover before going in. Rose was to go home with her brothers, Robert having promised to get back early to his mother, who was lonesome in storms. "So good-night Rosie,” he said, “this hero’s the last unmarried kiss, my dear. Ten o’clock sharp, mind.” As he spoke, a low, sullen boom sounded, through a slight lull in the wind. The heavy stroke fell as if on their hearts. “Hark!"-cried Bob, and through the fury of the storm and the broken pealing of the bells they heard the low boom again, the guns of a ship in distress. “The Lord keep her off this coist!” said Robert, lingering after Rose went in, and looking seawards in a moonglimpse, and seeing nothing but the raging waste and the light on the headland. His heart yearned to his first love, the beautiful, terrible sea; she was calling him; he did not go into the church. Try as .she would to fix them on the prayers, Rose’s thoughts wandered to tne iris-tinted future, and George Attrill’s words haunted her. Conscience told her that she had given him some slight encouragement before she knew that Robert cared for her. Foor George! She heard him come in witli the other ringers after the service began. The clergyman’s voice sounded thinly through pauses In the wild revelry without. The church shuddered at the fierce onset of the winds, the roof shook, now and then a bell gave out a tremulous vibration, the storm noises were multiplied and prolonged in the lofty spaces of the high vaulted building, which had battled with and echoed the tempests of centuries. The congregation was small and thinly scattered about the large, dimly lighted church; the responses died in ghost-like murmurs; the clergyman's raised voice was drowned from time to time in louder gusts of wind; the hymn was like a faint cry of distress hoard fitfully through the tempest. Oh. hear us when we cry to Theo For those In peril on the sea. rose quaveringly from the choir, when through the dying cadence of the last line there broke forth a loud and hurried knocking on the solid church doors, which were shut and barred against the storm. The organ rumble stopped abruptly, the more resolute voices beginning the next verse were left solitary and ceased In half-uttered notes; the knocking was repeated more loudly and urgently, a veritable stroke of doom to some present. It was the call for such of the lifeboat’s crew as wore there. The congregation stood silent and expectant. The heavy tramp of men's feet down the windv aisles sounded through the rumble and crash of the storm, and echoed in the hearts of women. Rose was ignorant of Robert’s absence; the young men sat behind her; but she knew, though she co.ild not see, that George A trill, one of the. crew, went out, as did most of the men. A heavy sadness fell upon her; the sound of the ehurch doors closing with an echoing clang struck to her very heart. The organ rumbled out again, the grand hymn, with its surge-like rhythm and long-gathering swell, became, in the tremulous women’s and boys’ trebles, a piteous wall, dying away into the storm and darkness. Rose’s full voice failed her, and she sang no more. The sparse congregation were visibly disquieted, they could scarcely keep their seats, the pulpit candles went out In a. gust, the unheeded sermon broke off prematurely, the clergyman dismissed his flock, and went down to the shore. Late that night Rose’s younger brothers came home with tidings that the vessel had struck on the reef, the lifeboat had twice gfcpe out to her, and twice had to put back; nothing could live near her. Midnightcams, but Moses, the grownup son, had not returned. The mother and daughter sat up for him fur into the night, listening to the roaring storm and talking fitfully, now of bygone wrecks, now of Ihe approaching wed- | dtag, until Rose was sent to bed, and Immediately fell asleep, with the golden tissue of her dreams perpetually broken by that loud and hurried knocking on the church doors. ITO BE CONTINUED. I «

BLOODY REBELLION. moretrouble for PRESIDENT DIAZ TO FACE. Mexican Town* Naakwl by I.nwleta Do»pcradona — Govemincn l Troops Routed and Captured—Cold Weather and Excessive lialus Cause Damage tn ( cops. Rebellious Mexicans. A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico, says: A fugitive from justice in New Mexico named Amalia recently returned to his native mountains and stirred up a large force of ignorant malcontents, outlaws and religious fanatics, and, arming them, captured the town of Tcmaxachie, near Guerrero, an important mining town beyond the summit of the Sierra Madro. Little resistance was offered, but three nien were wounded and the town was sacked. Amalia then went southward towards Tomnehlca and had a skirmish with General Santa Anna and 300 men, who surrendered and afterward joined him. The combined forces under the leadership of Amalia then marched on the town of Santa Tomas and captured it without resistance. The rebels then took the town of Guerrero, which was garrisoned by volunteer troops, who surrendered without fighting. At this point the Federal troops came up, and the rebels fled to Santa Tomas, pursued by the troops. The Federal troops were surprised at the latter place, and in the battle that ensued 130 of them were killed or wounded. The rebels suffered little loss, but the troops were completely routed. Several officers were among the number killed. Re-enforcemcnts of the Government troous arrived after the battle and will attempt 1o defend Guerrero. Great .excitement prevails, as further fighting is soon expected. Businesses at a st an ’still. RAIN DID SOME DAMAGE. Showing Made by the Weather Crop Bulletin for the I/wt Week. According to the weather crop bulletin issued at Washington, the past week has been cooler than usual, except in the South'Atlantic States aud in the vicinity of the lower lakes, where a slight excess in temperature was reported. The ureater portion of the wheat belt, which was deficient in moisture at the last-report, received during the week from one to two inches more than the usual amount of rainfall. The spring wheat region also received about one inch more than the n rmal lainfaU, but in this section the moisture was already in excess. Generally the week was cold and not favorable for farm work throughout the principal agricultural States, except in the east portion of the cotton region, where the weather was generally favorable for farm work, but where ratn is needed. Special telegraphic report.; are: Arkansas—Weather not so favorable; severe local storms of wind, rain and hail did considerable damaste. chiefly in eastern portion: corn doing well; cotton planting general; small grains fine. Tennessee— All crops looking well: low lands badly washed by floods on 13th and Uth; some damage to corn by cut worm: tobacco plants improving since rain. Kentucky—Excessive rains retarded farm work: grasses amt meadows improved. Missouri—Fields generally look fair, but work retarded and ground too wet and cold for germinating. Illinois—Oat seeding complete, some up and looking fine; fruit Injured by Irosts, especially in southern counties: wheat improving: njeadows and pastures good in southern portions. Indiana—Rainfall excessive: temperature and sunshine deficient, favorable to crops but not to plowing and seeding; wheat improved. Ohio—Wheat, oats, clover, and grass made splendid growth; farm work, plowing, and seeding stopped by heavy rains. Michigan—Crops have advanced slowly owing to high winds and cool nights; plowing for oats general; some potatoes and early vegetables planted; meadows and pastures in fine condition: fruit prospects excellent. Wisconsin—But little farm work done during the last week, owing to freezing weather; the season is, however, ten days early; all crops and conditions are very favorable; cranberry vines wintered well. Minnesota—Snow on ground in northwest; nothing done and little progress made elsewhere; soil too wet and cold; potatoes being planted in southern connties; weather during the week very unfavorable for seeding. lowa—Jn southwest district dry, cold winds have injured winter wheat; seeding practically completed; plowing in progress; corn planting begun in southeast district. North Dakota—Excessive precipitation and low temperature has stopped all work since Tuesday; seeding, of which but little has been done, will be resumed this week should weather be favorable. South Dakota—Seeding and other farm work retarded by wet, stormy, and freezing weather; bottom land wet. Nebraska—Small grain mostly sown, bnt germinating slowly and unevenly when at all; much seed blown out of the ground by high winds; full-sown grain killed in southeast portion. and below average elsewhere. Kansas—Cold, rainless week except in southeast counties, where from two to four inches of rain fell; wheat, oats, and pastures making no progress; corn growing well. To Change Bank Examining System. A Washington correspondent telegraphs that at soon as Mr. Eckels, Controller of the Currency, assumes his duties. Secretary Carlisle intends to reorganize the system of examining national banks. The Secretary has expressed the belief that there are "too many banks for the examiners to look into, and it is said he has decided to reduce their number. Banks are supposed to be examined annually, but under the pi esent circumstances it is sometimes more than a year before an examination of the books is made. It is probable the States will be redistricted and the banks evenly divided among the examiners. It is thought that the Secretary will not appoint any examiners before June, and then the appointees will be pra tical bankers. He desires to prevent such dishonesty as shown in the affairs of the banks which re ently failed in Boston, Philadelphia, and Nashville, and for that purpose, after making the redistricting, will ask Congress to enact a law giving the examiners more power in looking out for the perpetrators of frauds. Terrible Disaster on Lake St. Clair. A disaster, resulting in the death of two men, the probably fatal in.ury of a third, aud the severe scalding of a fourth, occurred on Lake St. Clair Wednesday morning. The steamer . Choctaw, Capt. W. W. Smith, coalladen from Cleveland to Milwaukee, was entering the lake when the cylinder head blew out. Nelson t hambers, the cook, who was standing nearest the engine at the time, was so badly scalded that he died within ten minu'es. C. tones, fireman, died after being taken to the hospital. F. P. Thompson, oiler, was badly burned about the hands and head and in the mouth and throat from inhaling steam. His recovery is doubtful. The engineer, F. Smith, was badly but not dangerously scalded about the hands. Miny Hurt by a Cyclone in Arkansas. At noon Wednesday a terrific cyclone passed through the valley just south ot F ayetteville, Ark. Its path was about 3<io yards wide, and it lelt a barren waste. Many houses were utterly demolished. Out of one family, whose name is Wright, consistingor eight per-' sons, not one escaped serious injury; but it is prolable that all except <ne child will recover. Parts of their house were carried miles away. A number of others were reported injured, but how many and to what extent cannot be'determined. The citizens are doing everything possible for the distressed. Stanfor’i'- VTioyard. The largest vineyard in the world, according to a corresp ndent, belongs tri Senator Stanford, of California. It consists of 3,50 i) acres of bearing vines.

Fourteen men perish. LOST OFF MILWAUKEE IN THE FEARFUL STORM. Working Upon the Waterworks Crib, Their Companion* 1-nahle u to Reach Them from Ahorr, They Take Refuge in the Air Shaft Only to Die. Tale of a Fearful Night. Tn the fearful gale which swept over Lake Michigan Wednesday night fourteen men who were st work on the orib on the cuter end of the intake tunnel at Milwaukee, 5,000 feet from the shore, met their death. Ono of them escaped in a manner aln ost mira'-ulous and lives to tell the tale of terror and suffering. The dead are: .lack Mcllrldo. engineer. 1 Michael Dwyer, tire man. George Gregg, miner. Charles Johnson, miner, Chicago. Ona Lerkowltz. miner. 1 William Preuxuner. miner, Chicago. John Plseau, miner. Jack McConnell, miner. Eben Allen (colored/ cook. Jim Murphy, miner. To.n Healey, miner. , Jim (last name unknown), miner. Joe McCarty, miner. Filo Spenner, miner. The dreadful storm raging throughout the night had lashed the lake into a seething mass of foam. Immense waves were rolled toward the shore by a furious east wind and carried away the house built on top of the crib at the mouth of the tunnel about three-quar-ters of .a mile from the pumping works at the foot of North street. The house on the crib contained two stationary engines and the tools used by the men, , It was built of heavy timbers fastened with iron bands, yet it was swept into the roaring waters like an eggshell and washed ashore. .For a mile or two the shore of the lake was strewn with timbers, boards, tools and • articles of clothing worn by the men in the ill-fated crib. At daybreak the men at the pumping station noticed that the , house on the crib had disappeared, and the tug Welcome took a lifeboat with a crew of five in tow and headed for the tunnel. The progress of the Welcome was , watched by thousands of people. When Capt. Petersen succeeded in reaching the crib he was met by a horrible sight. One man, James Miller, was still alive and clinging to a post. About him were the bodies of two or three of his comrades. Miller was safely brought ashore, and told a story of peril and suffering which has rarely been equaled on the lakes. Fifteen men were on the crib. The lake had been very rough, the men on land had not been able to get out to them, the provisions gave out, and the doomed men ate their last meal thinking that certainly before nightfall the boat would be able to reach them. In the evening the storm increased and the men became alarmed. They had confiden e in the strength of their house, however, and contined their work. It was not until about 8 o’clock that the men f illy appreciated their position. Work was stopped aid the men, one and all, determined to seek safety in the air shaft. The big cast-iron cover was raised and the fifteen men descenoed into the tub, clinging as best they could to the ladder. There out in the lake in the midst of the furious gale they listened to the storm outside arid heard the waves beat against their refuge and literally tear their shelter apart. But they knew they were safe? The water could not get into .he shaft, and under the circumstances they could live there for many hours. The steady click of the autorra ic pump forcing air and life into their subteranean prison cheered them to further efforts to save their lives. So the hours sped on. All through that fearful night the men hung to the ladder and heard the waves which every second were smashing and pounding and tearing at the little house on top. Piece by piece and part by part the cribhouse was washed away, and at six o’clock the air pump, the mainstay of the imprisoned men, was washed away. They did not hear it go, but its loss was plainly made known to them by the slow but steady rise of the water in the tube and the increasing foulness of the atmosphere. Slowly but surely ; the water climbed up on the men. an I they knew that the time had come for action. A consultation was held and for over two hours the men hesitated. Soriie were in favor of waiting in the shaft until the last moment, others thought a break for the top of the crib at once their best chance. It was at best a choice of two evils and almost certain death in either case. It was decided to leave. Only five succeeded in reaching the outside. The nine men who were not strong enough to get out were drowned by the water coming into the shaft, and four out of the five who got out were mangled or drowned by the tremendous floods which were lashed over the erib. The first known of the disaster was Thursday morning when those living on the shore missed the familiar building out in the lake. The shanty was gone and the beach was strewn with its broken remnants. The beach was filled with weeping women whose cries for lost husbands and fathers arose even above the sfilien roar of the waves. The .shore was lined with a large crowd .gazing helplessly across the water. Finally some forms were seen on the deck of the crib. With the aid of telescopes it was made out that there were six men there who were Wav ng their arms to the people on shore. Every huge wave swept over them and it seemed as if they would be washed away at any instant. For hours the crowd watched the men, and not un it 11:35 had the weather moderated sufficiently to allow the life’.oat to go out. As none of the bodies have been washed ashore the supposition is that they are in the airshaft where the men were,drowned. Miller, the man rescued, went from Chicago not long ago. His family now lives in Milwaukee. Thursday evening at (> o'clock the revenue cutter Andy Johnson, with the life-saving crew and boat aboard, made two attempts to reach the crib, but the sea was so heavy that nothing could be accomplished, • Os the blame of this fearful loss of life little can be said. There is a feeling that the Chicago contractors were at, fault in leaving such a number of men in an unprotected position. Others lay the blame at the door of the life-saving crew, whom they accuse of dilatory and half-hea te<L attempts to save tie men. Capt Peterson of the life-saving station was noti. ed of the disaster Shortly after 5 o’clock, and had . prompt action been taken then it is possible that the six men alive then ■ could have been saved. A pier was within about 1,000 feet of the crib, and a how tzer could easily have thrown a life-line to the men. As it was, Petersen did not arrive at the scene until" o’clock, and then drove there in a carriage with a member of the crew. He walked up and down the beach for a time and decided then that nothing could be done and that he could not get his boat out. This, however, was housed some five miles away from the scene ot the disaster. It is not imSrobeble that popular sentiment will emanti an investigation ot his conduct ;' ’ o

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The Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most . . salable Organ of the Day felsl Orgins sold on Installment Payments at Low Figures. SCxVD IOR CATALOGUE. Fred K. Shafer, Agt. BERNE. IND. (IRANGE BLOSSOM ALL female diseases. W CniiE HE TUC QVUDTOVQ • A tired, languid feeling, low spirited and despondent, with no apparent OunlL LT IHu Oiu.riuiiiv» cause. Headache, pains in the back, pains across the lower part of bowels. Great soreness in region of ovaries, Bladder daficultv. Frequent urinations, Leucorrhtea, Constipation ot bowels, and with nil theso symptoms a terrible newous feeling is experienced hy the patient. THE USANCE BLOSSOM TREATMENT removes all these by a thorough process of absorption. Internal remedies will never remove female weakness. There must be remedies applied right to the parts, and then there is permanent relief obtained. EVERY LADY CAN TREAT HERSELF. 08. Pile Remedy. I SI.OO for one month’s treatment. I O. B. Stomach Powders O. B. Catarrh Cure. I —prepared by— t <) I O. B. Kidney Cones. J. A. McCILL, M.D., & CO., 4 panorama place. Chicago, ill FC® SALE "F3Y Holthouse & Blackburn, Decatur. Ask for Descriptive Circulars. HOFFMAN & GOTTSCHALK Keep & full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Groceries, Lamps, Tobaccos, Cigars, and a general stock of Merchandise, Prescriptions carefully compounded. LINN CROVE» IND, jjfs~ ' At Magley, keeps a large stock of Dry ||Ah||AAA , Goods, Notions, Groceries, Boots, Sheet Ml 11 II MU and in fact everything kept in a general IM MU store. Buys all kinds ot Country Produce ?IMIIIfU or which the highest market price is paid. ■ > - - •/ \ Hrcw J ten guarantee tocure all nervous diseases, such as Weak Memory, ■b Eoss of Brainpower, Headache, Wakefulness, Lost ManfVW * hoed. Nlffktlx Emissions, Quickness. Evil Dreamt, Lack of \* v I Confidence, A’ervousncss, Eassltude, all drains and loes of w AhL; power of the Generative Organs in either sex cau*?d by over oxei* I Non, youthful errors, or excessive use of tobacco, opium or BUm u* Wx. lants which soon lead to In tlrm Ity, Consumption and insanity. Put l\ convenient to carry tn vest pocket. Sent by mall in plain packags any address for SI, or 6 for S 3. With every SA order we 1 ■ . gi T e »written guarantee to cure or refund the money.) MroiIJJCD ATTDL USIMGt - - r r — — For Sale by W. H. Nachtrieb, Druggist,

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad 1 r»m. run on Central Standard Time, SI minutes slower thsn Columbus or form.r Um*. Took effect Sunday, Dea. lit. IMH. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. | No. 1 No. 3 No. I No. f Cincinnati..lye ROSam OlOpm Klohmond 2 20pm [lO f>6 .. UM.. ........ Winchester.... 317 . 111(15 .. V’ttam \ Portland 4m.. 1235 pm 133 .. Decatur 510 131.. 220 Ft.Wavne...arr 600 . 2 15.. 300 •• ...ive 235 .. 320 .. 206 am Kendallville 341 .. 4 26. 210.. Rome City.... 356.. 4 40.. 92».. Wolcottville 4 01 9 31 .. Valentine 4 11.. 94*.. IjiGrango 419 505.. 981 „ Lima 4 29 1008 .. Sturgis 440.. 626.. 1019.. Vicksburg 530 .. t) 50 .. 1108.. Kalamazoo.arr WOfi 11 40*.. “ ..Ive 420 um 6 25.. 9 00.. 12211 pm Gr. Rapids..arr fl 45 .. 810.. ..... 220.» “ ” ..Ive 720 ..1010.. 110 pm 4 U.. D.. G.H.&M.cr 10 45.. 727 Howard City 11 50 . 841 Big Rapids 1236 am 945 Reed City. 103 Cadillac arr 1130.. 2 05.. 610 “ ... Traverse City. ..Tl;. 7 oCpm Kalkaska..... 348.. Petoskej ...... ~ 635 .. 916 ;.. Maeklnsc City . ..,,, sOO .. 10 35 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. I No. 2 I No. 6 No. 4 Nq. 8 Mackinac City. 715pm' 7 9>am 200pm Petoskey 910 .. |920 .. 345 Kalkaska 1286 .. 11l 36 .. 502 Traverse City ! 1110 .. 450 Cadillac .. ..arr 2 20am 115 pm 7(4).. Ho6am ....Ive 215 .. I 1 36 .. 810 .. Reed City 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 60.. 900.. Big Rapid Au... 400.. 258.. 825.. 9 45.. Howard Clfy.. 45f.,. 343.. 920.. 1032.. D..G.H.4M.cr 605.. 606.. 1025.. 1135.. Gr.RaDids.ani 633 .. 515 .. 1100.. ISO,. " “ ..Ive 7(».. 600.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.art- 850 .. 800 .. 1255 am i 340 .. " ..Ive! 855 .. 805 . 346.. Vicksburg 924 .. ; 833 412 .. Sturgis 1019.. 926 606.. Lima 10 32.. 940 MT.. LaGrange... .11044.. 952 6 29.. A'alentine 10 53.. 10 02 637,. Wolcottville...'ll 04 .. 1014 5 47.. Rome City..... 1109 .. 10 19 63.. Kendallville...ill2s .. 10 39 6 08.. Ft. Wayne.,arr!l24opm 1160 716 .. "■ " ..Ive 100.. 1258 am 545 am... Decatur 146 .. 12 58 .. 630 Portland 240 .. 166.. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 36.. 809 Richmond 420 .. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati TOO 6.55 . 12-Olntn Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent . JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind Flrat Clau Night and Day Servloa batwan Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAJKS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour, SiT OR NlQfiT, at modsrata cost. iskfor,,tickeh »a Tcfeda/St Louit A lansss City R. I For further particulars, call on nearer Agent of the Company, or address C. JENKINS, TOLEDO, OHIO, W. L. DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. other specialties for Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys and Misses are the W Bes * in WorldSee descriptive advertiseWfc? ‘ ifcl me nt which will appear in this paper. Take no Substitute, Jywkjiajijdnh but insist on having W, L. DOUGLAS’SHOES, with name and price stamped oa bottom. Sold by For Sale by Henry Whines, Second door West of Adams County Bank, Monroe St.