Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1893 — Page 7

«*■■■- Business Directory TOE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital •SO.OOOI Surplus, »W,*OO Orlganlsod Angus* U, IfX Mlrni T. T. Dorwin, I’r**ld*nt; P. W. Smith, Yloa-PrMldaatiß. B.Psterson o*l War; T. T. Dorwin. P. W. Smith, Hsnry Dirku, J. H, ■olbrook, B. J. Tarvaar, J. P. Bala and & * Paterson, Dlrootors. 1 Wo ara praparad to maha Loam on food loanrtty, raaalva Dapoilti, furulsh Domaitia and Foreign Etching*, buy and tall Oovarnmaat and Municipal Bondi, and furnlih Loiters at Credit available in any of tha principal cities at Europa. Also Passu* Tlokat to and tram tha Old World, inUudlng transportation io Daoatnr, Adams County Bank Capital. *78,000. Surplus, 76,000, Organized in IM7L Officers—D. Btndabakar, President: Robt, B. Allison, Vlca-Praiidant; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business Collaotloaa ■Mda In all parti of tha oountry. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and ■old. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney at Law Decatur, “a • Indiana. EJ, LoBRUN.i Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Successfully treat! all dlieaeei of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prioee reiouable. __ ■***■, B. K. MXNN, * ». ERWIN & MANN, ATTORNEYS--AT--LAW, And Notarial Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Offloe in Odd Fellows’ BuUding, Decatur. Ind. XTUtANCB A MERRYMAN. J. T. ntAirca. r 1.1. tatLivrukti Attorney* at Xim.-w, DXCATUB, INDIAN*. Office Noe. 1,2 and 3. oyer the Adame County Bank. Collections a specialty. A.«. HOLLOWAY, I>liy«lolan db Burgoon Office over Burns’ harness shop. rertdenoa one door north of At. B. church. AU calle promptly attended to in city or oountry night M, It. HOLLOWAY, M. D. Offloe and reeidence one door north of M. * ehurck. Dlaeaaee of women and children epoetalUee. B.T.Miy.I.H, myeloinudh ffiurfoon Bionroe, ... Indian*. AB oalle promptly attended to day er night Office at reeldenoe. S. B. 8080, B. T. 8080. Master Commissioner. 8080 & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Baal Batata and Collection, Decatur, lad. O.P. M.ASDBEWS, SE’lxy aioian Burgoon MONROE. INDIANA. Office and reeidence 2nd and Brd doore west of M. E. church, ** Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterlniry JKHi Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orohe M 2J tomv, Overotomy, Castrating, Rldg ling, Horses and Ppaylrfg Cattle and Dehorn Ing, and treating their disease!. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. 3. S. Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, M D. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce's Drug etore. Decatur, Ind H. F. COSTELLO, X»liy nlcian & Surgeon, Office over Terveer’s hardware store. Residence on Third street, in the old Derkes All calls promptly attended to r or country, day or night Lifl Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. T Q. NEPTVNK, S*s/ DENIST. Now located over Holthome's shoe store, and fl prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the nee of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. All work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN 0* Pares Property on Long Ttasa. Wo OOBUBaaulffilffiSiOSAa Low Bate of Interest. IPMTtlol 3P»x*na.M>.«4ffi la any asoouata can be made at any time aaffi stop interest. Call on, or address, A. K. GRUBB, er .F. F. MANN, Offiaot Odd Fellows' Building, DoeaSa* ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS Off ICE. - *

LOVE AND I IIS SHADOW. BY ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP.

CHAPTER ill. The next morning Prescott prepared to start for the village postoffioe, as usual, to got his mall. Ho was Just going to admonish Nina to keep within doors until he should have made a few inquiries which, it was to be hoped, might dhulgo that Grenfell had left the vlvlnity, when his wife peremptorily refused to have him drive over the lonely road without her. “Good gracious, you don't expect mo to stay nt home, like a rabbit In u hole!" exclaimed Prescott. “I only know that I consider it unsafe for you to go on so lonely a road, yet," she said. “Well, 1 must snap my fingers at the fancy,” replied Prescott. “Unless I sally forth, wo can never know anything more about that 'extraordinary visitation of last evening. But I should like you to be a little cautious, yourself. Keep the lower doors and windows looked. If there is to be an Interview between you and this mad young sculptor, I should prefer to be present." “I hope I shall not hhveto meet him.” she faltered. “At all events wo will not get fright.ened,” Prescott cheerfully responded. “You remember we made up our minds that nothing should alarm us in this remote corner of loneliness, and we must not weaken In our resolution. There’s the other pistol, on your entry table. An unpleasant thought, perhaps; but the Puritans who once lived around here went to church with their guns, which was a worse severity?" He gayly waved his hand, and drove off. p Nina complied with all he said, but her eyes and lips had grown, over night, very sad. When Prescott came back from the vil)age he brought a letter for his wife from Mrs. Minsing Bentley, who occasionally wrote city gossip, and sarcastic comments upon up-country vacuities. By this mall she explained that she hoped her letter would reach Nina before Fleet Grenfell did so. She said that he was a cousin of hers, although she had never made anything of the relationship till of late, when he had leaped into world-wide fame with his “Joan of Arc," After arriving from abroad he had dropped in to see ner; and he had caught sight of the large photograph of Nina (in the white opera cloak) looking so exactly like a statue. But this ecstacy was changed to evident agony upon his learning that Nina was married. It was all very queer to Mrs. Minsing Bentley that ho should immediately express his intention of going to Flitter’s Lodge. However, he had promised to try to persuade the Pres;otts back to town for the holidays. Still, why on earth did Fleet “want to travel so far into the country side to see a girl (no matter how beautiful she might be) after she was dead—or rather, married —and gone?” •‘So it was not a ghost!” muttered Preseott, stroking his chin, as his wife finished reading the letter to him. “But, on the other hand, no cne has seen or heard anything, as far as I could make out by judicious inquiry, of a stranger in the village. lam tasting the difficulties, he added, laughing with an admiring glance, “of having espoused you. Marvel.” “When ne comes again,” she said, thoughtfully, “he will be more respectful; and I am sure we can persuade him into being rational; even friendly." That evening a horse’s canter was heard approaching from a long distance over the frost-hardened road. It ceased near the farmhouse; but no one asked admittance. A dark night, with fine snow just beginning to fail, was a barrier io Prescott's gaze as he looked out to see what he could see, and hoping to hear some retreating hoof-beats; I though he was disappointed in this. “He must be about here.” the young Jhusband confided to his wife, on withdrawing to the cheerful parlor. “Perhaps it was only a peddler or some such wayfarer,” she said. “If we did not hear the horse pass on, It may be that he went upon the turf. ” “I give you my word, I can hardly think of anything else besides this man!” Prescott growled, in disgust. Nina became pallid. But she brought out the chess-board, and their two young faces soon grew radiant over their eagerness to win, and yet not to let each other lose. They played until quite late, and before retiring stood over the sunset lights of their heartfire, in the leisurely way of two creatures left well alone to love. A log fell apart with a faint crashing sound. “Did you hear that?” suddenly exclaimed Nina. “Yes; It was a distinct utterance, as the loc broke to pieces, as if some one had cried, ‘No!’ ” “Beneath us?" “Yes.” “Tom, we are growing horribly nervous!” « ' “I Relieve we are. It must have been imagination. Come, let us put it all aside, this instant and forever!” - Plump had crept into the cellar, while Miffln dozed with her back against the wall, haying fallen accidentally asleep in the warm kitchen. There was a particular spot in the cellar, dark and un promising as the place otherwise showed iorth, which Plump loved. He had no fear of anything when he was on his Way to this spot His candle never flickered or trembled as he shaded it with one palm, while he penetrated the dark shadows of the cellar on those fortunate, unwitting nights when Miffln’s eyes disappeared behind her black face drowsily. The old negro patted along, half smiling, picking his footsteps with eyes bent upon the ground, A fragrance smote his grotesque nostrils and he raised his glad gaze. Then he bent down in terror, as if he were burdened with a ton’s weight upon his shoulders. Sitting upon a keg of wine was a young man who smiled, with" raised eyebrows, and quaffed a deep draught from the contents of a bottle of old port, which he had taken off of an adjacent shelf, and held, empty, over his knee. He drank from a mug with Plump had supposed was undlscoverably hidden In a cranny of the cellar wall. “Massa! massa!” mumbled Plump, “we got burglars, shu’ ’nuff!” “Don’t call your ‘massa,’ ” the apparition retorted, in a low, penetrating voice. “I’m only one of the devils. If you let me alone, I .will not throttle you. ” The negro began to retreat backward. “Stop that,” said the youth. “Massa will as’ you to come upstairs,” Plump averred, with a nauseating excess of manner and sweetness, still making his escape In a surreptitious way. “I tell massa a nice young ’ trabbler popped in-so very L ompnnioit- ' able ” “No!” the other cried, slipping from the keg and springing upon Plump. “If you say a word,” he went on, in a clear whisper, “I will kill every one of you! I should like nothing better, and am only sitting here for a quiet drink, out of the kindness of my heart. ” “I won’ say a word, young gemman; I won’ tell, I won’ tellr “Then go. .1 keep my promises, and

you shall keep this one of yours, since it is made to me." The stranger fixed his eyes upon tne negro's rolling orbs, and caught them with a fierce, scornful ' glance. Plump gave un all volition to the young man who stood over him. He doted on the lordly fellow’s power of will, although he believe! his own life hung on a turn of the vlse-llke hand. 1 The next day was one of deepest , snowing. The world was snow up to a rnlle overhead. Allioicefe of men and sounds of all sorts—there happened to bo more passing thah was customary — seemed to ride in a closely walled room; but what a room! The atmosphere was as stimulating as youth itself, and as free from poftion iis the breath of angels. The rustling of the falling snow shivered like aspen leaves iwiwig niiirr “WE GOT BUBOLAHS, SHU StJrri” heard in the dream of a seraph. Prescott and his wife had thrown off all care, and were soon intoxicated with th< elixir of the breeze at the open win dows. They dressed themselves for n bout in the lovely stdrm, and rollec over in the enow and ate of it, and hugged it to their bosoms and finally sat enthroned in it while Prqscott gave some experiences of his trip to Russia. It was as pure and beautiful to examine as our dearest Illusions. The cheeks of the young lovers became rosy with the rose that shines in vapor, which is so clear and light. Anyone, whoever it was, would have been nettled by the perfect bliss which this couple drank in so impetuously without a thought or a look for a third personAt evening the storm ceased. The stars flickered and gazed in the heavens. The moon came up nobly and tar-seeing, like a saint's soul. The young people leaned on their windowsill and looked around and up. Slowly a dark figure moved toward their old house, along a lane ending in the main-road before their door; stopping every moment or two, and then moving nearer, sadly, then stopping. IVhat eloci uence there was in the slow plunging over the uneven, snowy toundof the broad shoulders, and in the slight upward tilt of the head, as if hoplessly looking. “Who is it?” Prescott said, wondering, but carelessly. His wife’s hand pressed his shoulder, and she murmured: "Hush-sh! The snow carries voices a long way!" “I will go and speak to him” Prescott answered, quickly understanding that Nina thought it was Grenfell. He drew himself back into the room. “Oh. not” • “My dear,” the young husband declared, “something must be done. ” “Then I will go, too, and speak with him,” Nina answered. “I will not let you go without me. ” “It might be very well for you to go,” I admitted Prescott, “He will have seen fyou, for one thing, and nothing will be left for him to do.” In a few moments they ran out into the keen, fine air. They walked up and down and about, but saw no one. “Are you sure it was he?” asked Prescott. “I know it was he,” Nina replied, very sadly. That night she wept floods of tears. CHAITEK IV. At breakfast her husband grumbled at her pale cheeks, for he was greatly worried. “We must leave this place at once," he concluded. “That wretched Grenfell is probably safe in New York again by this time. But wo shall fancy he is in the vicinity for weeks, and guess him to be at the bottom of every footfall and shadow. Let us good-naturedly give up our hobby of getting rich by solitude and go away." Nina held her head proudly, and her lips looked stern. “I could not bear to be driven away or otherwise controlled by that man," she angrily cried. “But I don’t believe he is here. It is I who shall control you, believe me." “Well, Tom, don’t ask me to go away. We are happy here. We can forget ' Grenfell. But in town all my old acquaintances would tell me I could not live on our income, nor in humble quarters, nor expect them to invite us to grand dinner parties; and yet they would not let us hide in peace. It will be much better next year, and we shall tell fine things of a Massachusetts winter and our occupations in it.” “It is delicious, this leisurely quiet,” sighed Prescott. There was a step upon the piazza beside the breakfast-room; another, another, and a man looked in upon them. It was Grenfell. He stood defiantly, with bls hands in his pockets. He had assumed a picturesque position, with that vivid sense of the tragic and the romantic which makes up the life of some young persons of intense individuality, who are conscious every moment of their good looks, their exactions from life, but never of their conscience. “Impertinent ass!" cried Prescott, starting to his feet. Grenfell pulled off his soft felt hat: and bowed to Nina, with ever so much ■ reproach. Nina essayed to rise, but fell back in ’ a faint Prescott had at that instant raised j the window, and Grenfell rapidly thrust; himself over the sill and sprang to , Nina’s side, and lifted her up as she was falling to the floor. Her husband j sprinkled water on her face. How white he was himself to see her so crushed by , the presence of this man. “She must not see you," he said to Grenfell, in a sad, cold voice. “Do you think it . would hatm her?" the other answered, with deep, sweet tones. j fell’s eyes as he knelt beside her chair with his hands on her arm supnortlngly, In' a moment she was herself. ~ “It is the first time I ever fainted, and 7 it was not much!" she said, with a smile and a pleasant posture of her head. “I hardly know whether you were avision or not, Mr. Grenfell. Oh, I am quite strong again, Tom, thank you, dearest,” t she added, with a loving glance as ho held a glass of water for her to drink. ,

Grenfel stood up before the window •nd looked at her, •eomlng a dark portent, It was plain that Nina tried to steady h*r tones ae she wont on to say: "Mr. Grenfell, this is Mr. Prescott, my husband. Tom, Mr. Grenfell must be seated and break bread with us for go id-fellowship. The young man still stared at her, motionless. Ho was a specimen of flawless masculine beauty, with the individuality of fado which gives satisfaction. But Nina only wondered that his aspect and personality had ever at all enthralled her. Her really penetrating study of faces as an artist of no I small talent had taught her the types which have strength of soul, and those which have only strength of nature; and what had once struck her as vital merit now appeared to bo the coarse I husks enwrapping a divine vitality, i which in many young people, as in Grenfell, Is undeveloped. But how subtly this young genius veiled his ordinary cbaractbristlcq by the gi aces of oarnestnossl How elaborate his pageantry of materiality was, so that you might have Imagined a glance of his eye was worth a thousand years of spiritual death! “1 was to bo your husband," said tGreqfell. “I never assured you of It; I always denied it," Nina quietly replied. “Yet I almit that I thought it possible. Come, Fleet Grenfell; sit down. I have something to say to you." She motioned him to a chair with dignity and unflinching gaze. “It Is very true that i I amired many things in you, and I liked you better than anyone else. But I had not then met my husband. If you knew him at all well, you would not wonder that I chose him in preference to you,” Grenfell’s Ups parted in suffering at this blow, and he glanced fiercely at Prescott, whose face was suddenly lighted by reassurance. “You are false, of course," the young sculptor muttered, and proceeded in a louder but hoarser tone: "A beautiful girl who does not use her power fears to make herself a very commonplace woman. Do I not know, through you, how all that is?” “Mr. Grenfell,” interposed Prescott, “I am willing to have another madcap wrestle with you, but wo had better leave my wife’s presence for that, and you had better hold your tongue." “I shall be the one to say the last word you will hear,” Grenfell coolly replied. “Oh, no, you won't,” Nina said. She started up and took one of Grenfell's hands in both of hers, and commanded: “Be decent and kind." If she had not been sincere herself she could have done nothing with him. His unleashed animal nature was held in check by her spiritual nature, so vastly superior. Grenfell was surprised that he did* not clasp her in his arms, but he could not have done it. A woman knows how to disenchant a fervor she does not wish to excite. By her eyes he could see that she was not thinking wholly of him. He dreaded their calm, and he hated it, for it was not of to-day. He seated himself at the table. The door opened, and Miffin came in, behind a plate of hoe-cake. She was evidently galvanized at the unexpected sight of the stranger, and went through various feats of motion without dropping any of the contents of the plate; and not a sound escaped her mammoth lips, it seemed as if her eyes would do the shouting. But she came of ancestors who had not murmured under the lash. She made a grotesque long reach for the table with her shining black stick of an arm, and shoved the plate onto it, staring at Grenfell. He was quite worth a prolltti MW '• —J mess r - Uta O-J ; A MAS LoOKEP IN UPON THE.V, tracted inspection. Her young mistress directed her to fetch a cup. for guest, and then Miffln let / her gaze glide toward Nina. All at onee the whites of her eyes dazzled about her like lightning and she was gone. “Miflin is one of our amusements,” Nina said. “Tom is giving you some of our Southern dish of chicken. Tom is a Southerner, although we are living just now in a mimic Iceland.” “Yes, an Iceland,” Grenfell echoed, leaning back in his chair as lightly as if he might spring to the window in the next breath. Still, Nina’s face wore the look of one who has become convinced of something higher and better and stronger than humanity. This look was detestable to his animal selfishness. If it would only melt into the enthralling, I girlish subtlety again! It let the cold i air of endless reaches of sacrifice in upon his tender desires. If he had kissed her hand, or even her lips, she would have been uninterested. Hut she ' looked profoundly content. He was so entirely outside her needs that she regarded his love as a disease of the soul! Above all, the girl w hom he had adored he was beginning to venerate. He loathed the cold wave that was curling over him. the change that was being wrought in him. Let him stay, he silently begged of her spirit, in the warmer lights of a lower horizon, where the colors were the ruby of hope and I the gold of gain. He found that she was handing him a cup of fragrant coffee and smiling, both gently and commandingly, into his eyes, i He roused himself, took the cup in an unsteady hand and set it down at random. Revolt touched a flaming spark to his brain and he was lost “It must seem unaccountable to you,” he said, “that I am not atile to find sufficient delight in my art to enable me to I bear the loss of a woman of mere perI ishable flesh. I know how it usually is ’ with a great artist; and I do love my ; art as I love myself, as I love this right I hand of genius. And have I not that ; perfect marble portrait of you, which 1 1 I made when you thought of me aS a j friend, Nina,” he went on, smiling j gently Into her face, "which Is a bit of art enough to take the love of any man. ’ It is constantly before my eyes, but I lam not satisfied." He drew a revolver 1 from his pocket and held it on one knee. Nina sprang up, her husband rose calmly. Grenfell remained sitting, studying first one and then the other of these young people who were so good to the j ‘ Bight. "“A ttozan times In my wanderr* ings I have spared the lives of thieves and cut-throats, at some risk of my own safety. Surely I may kill a man at my 7 choice who has stolen all I cared for." Nina looked at Prescott, wondering that he did not pullout his pistol, which in the habit of carrying about him. Ho answered the message of her eyes by directing his glance to the mantel shelf behintl her, ana she realized I that he must have laid his pistol there

I by accident. If she handed it to him, if he stepped toward the mantel himself to take it, the delay would be too great, nnd would not Grenfell at once lire? Prescott’s face was resigned. He saw the deadlock, and hoped for no res/cue. "1 have kept myself very close while I coming horo and haunting your precincts,” Glenfell proceeded. “No one will trace me. The Bentleyo are the only persons who know I came, and they are nut the people to tell Hint they have a Kobin Hood in their lamily. Moreover, lam not afraid to kill." He rose and levelefl the revolver at Prescott, who looked at him with noble courage. Nina sprang to the mantel like a bird for swiftness, nnd caught up the pistol which lay there, and held it to her temple. Grenfell called to her, aghast, in incoherent words of appea' and love, and her husband in a moment was at her side, to seize the weapon from her hand. But she hod lowered it of her own accord, and stepped forward. "My friend," she said to Grenfell," the right hand of genius has never yet committed murder.” He started, in spite of himself. Site stepped still nearer to him. “For art Is away to God!" He smiled Incredulously. He had tw kw. U U life— GBENEELL CALLED TO HER rested the muzzle of the revolver on the table. “What is Gofl to me?” he sneered. “Y'ou men of genius,” she cried, “can all perceive Him. You, Fleet, can perceive Him even through me. If. there is anything fine in my life which arouses your admiration (so hard to win); if there is in my character anything blameless which has honestly touched your devotion, I owe it to God! Then is He not our friend?” She spoke tenderly, but with emphasis. “You, who are so keen to adore creative power, —are you insensible to a power which is creative genius? You have overlooked the one who chose you from millions of your countrymen to do art the highest honor. You have overlooked the Supreme Artist!" A quieter light came into Grenfell’s eyes, but he answered again: “Oh, Nina, what is your God to me?” “Your guardian.” she said. She laid the pistol (Prescott stood near her to intercept any seconc attempt at suicide) upon the table before Grenfell. “You ' saw how»easily I could have destroyed ’ myself, and made the crime you contemplated a useless one. But that would have been beneath me, and my action was only intended to stop that of yours. What I really wished to do amoment ago, Fleet Grenfell, was W ' shoot you dead in my husband’s defense. Each movement that I was eager to make was before me like a picture, ami my aim would have been true. God forbade it.” “What? me! you would have killed me?” he cried, shuddering. Suddenly he flashed a look at her. “It was love, not the power of God ” he could not go on. He saw that she had disarmed herself; that she and Prescott had given up all violent resistance. In whom did she trust? He turned away from them both, as if to be aloqe in his agony. But the light which blesses had shone full upon him. He turned back, not looking up. “Oh, man,” he said to Prescott, “can she leqd you to forgive a wretch like ! me?" ; A hand, strong but kind, grasped his. In the stillness of "the glance which the two men exchanged there came through the open window and the sunshine, from a long forgotten room shaded by the elm, a strain from an .Eolian harp. |THE END. I Copyright. 189 X Star Stones. The asterias or star stones are . among the most wonderful productions of the mineral kingdom. ' They are conundrums, the star sap- ' phire being a grayish blue, the star ruby bright red, the star topaz, a straw yellow. The star appearance in the stone is causetl. according to some mineralogists, by a foreign substance in the gem: others say it is due to peculiarities of crystallization. Whatever it may be advantage is taken of it by the lapidary, who cuts the stone in the shape of a dome, beginning at the center of the star and making the points radiate in the circumference. The stone has six points, and as the light plays on the surface of the stone the bright lines, of the star change with th? position of the gem, and produce a singularly ' beautiful effect. These stones are very valuable, the ! best specimens being, it is said, worth : as much as diamonds of the same ' weight. Burton, the great .Oriental | traveler, had a star sapphire, which ! he always carried on his person: and I in the heart of Arabia, dr in the des- ■ erts of Afrira, the sight of this wonderful gem always inspired a respect that was akin to reverence. The wild Aral s and negroes would gaze i at the stone, then at its possessor, and, concluding he had a talisman of unexampled power, would render him ■ all possible assistance for fear of ini curring his vengeance. Terrible Ammunition. j A strange war story comes from ; New Zealand. Some years ago Sir ! John Gorst lived in Waikato, and edited the Maori newspaper, Te Hakioi. The paper was printed and i published near the scene of some of • the hottest fighting of the war then raging. i During the struggle the Maoris ran short of ammunition, and having no | ball for their fourteen-pound guns : they loaded them with shop weights, confiscated from neighboring shop- ' keepers. This source of supply was soon exhausted. Then a raid was made upon the Hakioi office, and their guns were • charged with type and stereo blocks, t This new -ammunitaom so The story ! goes, proved very effective. I One of the white invaders was in- ■ jured by a patent medicine advertisement auotber was Totalided By a “church bazar announcement,” a third lost a leg through a solid leader on the land bill, and Sir John, who had taken refuge with the British troops, had a narrow escape from being hiv with one of his own poems.

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Grand Rapids L Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Tima, Mml» utes slower than Columbus or former lime. Took effect Sunday. Dao. 1A USB. GOING NORTH. BTATION3. No. 1 No. 3 No. I Na. f Cincinnati .Ive 8 05am (IQpm Richmond..,.. 22»pmMM.. 1145.. ...\.a. Winchester.... 3 if . UM.. 1243 am ........ Portland 404 12:18pm in .. I. Daoatnr 510 131.. 22d.. Ji?:: S 8:: ittji Kendallville 3 41.. 4 28.. 0 t¥.7 Romo City 3ud.. 4 40.. tffi.. Wolcottville 4 01 »n„ Valentine 4 11 0 4*.. LaGrange 4 I*.. 80S.. IM-. Sturgis 4 40.. 528 .. 103.. Vlcksburff 53?.. «50.. 110#,. Kalamazoo.arr 0 05. 11 44t.. ’• ..Ive 420 am 026.. 000 .. r.’ffipm Gr. Rapids..arr 045.. 110 . ...... 2ffi, ff | •' “ ..Ive 720.. 1010.. 110 pm 4U..1 D.,G.H.4M.cr 1045.. 727 * Howard City 1150 . *4l A. Big Rapids !2 3Ham 945 .. Reed City. 100 Cadillac arr 1130.. 2 05.. 5 10.. " ....Ive 2 30 9 10 „ Traverse City 700 pm Kalkaska 3 48 ' Petoskey 8 35.. 915 ;.. Mackinac City 8 00.. 10 85 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. « No. 4 No. • Mackinac City. 715 pm 745 am 200pm Petoskey 9 10.. 9 20.. 3 45,, Kalkaska 1230 , 11 30 .. 502 Traverse City 1110.. 450.. ....... Cadillac ....arr 2 20am 115 pm 7 00.. 8 06am " ....Ive 215, 135, 050 pm 8 10.. Reed Citv 328 , 230 , “60 , 9 00... Big Rapids 400 , 258 , :8 25 , »45.., Howard City, 45<V». 343 , 9 20.. 10 32 .. D.G.H.&M.cr 505 , 605 , 1925 , 11 35.. Gr. Rapids.arr «3'l , 515 , 11 00 , 150 >.' ’’ “.. ..Ive 700 , 600 , 1120 , 200pm , Kalamazoo.arr 850 , 800 , 12 55am i 340 .. ’’ ,lve 856 , UK 345 .. Vicksburg 924 , 883 41*.. Sturgis 10 19 , 926 608 .. Lima 10 32 , 0 41) : 5J7 .. LaGrange... .1044 , 952 529.. Valentine 10 53 , 10 02 537 .. Wolcottville,. 1104 , 10 14 547 .. ’ Rome City 1109 , 1019 52.. Kendallville., 11 25 , 1089 808.. Ft. Wayne,arr 1240 pm 11 50 715.. “ “ ..Ive 100, 1458 am 545 am ........ Decatur 146 , 1258 , 630 Portland 240 , 156 , 730 A. Winchester,, 317 , 236 .. 809 Richmond,., 420 , 340 , 915 ■ Cincinnati.?,, 700 , 6 55, Igfllont ~ Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BBYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind First Clou Night and Day Sorric* b*twwa Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS MY TRAIHS—MODERN EQUIPMEHT THNOVCHfigT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS! n-UEALS SERVED EH ROUTE, any knur, SAT OR NItHT, at modtrat, cost. Ist for ticket* iii Toledo, SI Louis A him* City 11 CLOYEKLE4F_ROUTE. For further particulars, call on noaroffi Agent of th* Company, or address O. O. JENKINS. 6**«r*l Pa»*MS*r Az«*l TOLEDO, OHKX W. L. DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. And other specialtiea sos Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys and ’u. Misses are the Best in the World. See descriptive advertise* meat which will appear la j this paper. Take no Substitute, but insist on having W. DOUGLAS ’ name and price stamped OS bottom. Sold by For Sale by Henry Winnes, Second dooi West of Adams County Bank, Monroe St.