Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1893 — Page 7

SHASTA. The Romance of a Trail that Was Scented with Roses. BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

CHAPTER Hll From my journal, kept regularly all this time, but mostly in the Indian sign, as that was briefer, I read that “on the first new moon of the third month we were camped on snow seventeen feet deep, with flowers only four miles distant " I read further that “on the third day of the new moon we had four fights over my election as captain,” Capt. Rodgers being deposed by the popular vote of the roughs “because he wore, or rather had worn, a white shirt” How that I, a boy, sensitive, shy, frail and slender as a girl, was in -full command of this miserable squad of humanity, with pickpockets and jailbirds in the majority—and, indeed, to these I owed my election. I set to work at once to descend through the fast melting snow and open an aggressive war even before the arrival of re-enforce-ments from the south. A warm south wind had been soughing through the towering pines almost from the moment we set out from the camp of wolves. This singular bit of good fortune saved us, or at least many of us, from being literally eaten alive. For the warm winds and the melting snows drove the wolves baek toward their haunts in the high Sierras, or at least kept them from crowding us too closely. And now we war* beset by a singular bird, the garrulous magpie. This gaudy Xbird of gray and black and white and particolored plumage had been increasing in numbers from the day we first began this march through the Sierras. And now with the warm weather they were in clouds. From the first this noisy and insolent bird had sat on the backs of pack animals where their backs were sore and literally eaten them alive. And now they had grown so audacious that they would perch on even the best of our animals and peck at their eyes. We had to blanket and blindfold our saddle horses to keep them from being devoured alive by these magpies. I have mentioned the fact that tbe winter had been one of incredible severity, and this may account in some sort for this plague of birds, as well as wolves. It took us many days to “pull ourselves together” on the summit of that Jiigh, bald mountain, with the green sea of grass rolling in billows at its base. But how glorious was this glad face of Nature, after the long and continued and most miserable and inglorious contact with the face of man! Never shall I forget those for any flowers, the perfume of them that came up to us in the snow from their frank ana open hearts. There was a fringe of yellow on the outer line of the great green valley. Buttercups! Millions and myriads of millions of golden buttercups! And the California poppy! Away out in the heart of the valley where the two rivers, surging full from the melting snows, gathered their waters from the lakes that almost environed the valley, lay miles and miles of snow-white hyacinths. This wild hyacinth is odorless here, but it is perfect in its beauty. In the heart of this wild white sea of sudden-born blossoms slowly rose the smoke of many wigwams. The Indians had gathered their torees and taken up their defense on one of the many islands. This was to be our battlefield. The plan of campaign formed itself almost Instantly in my mind, and that feature of the work before me was dismissed. I did not like to think of that. I had had enough of strife, of hard and horrible enmity with man. I wanted the flowers now. I wanted peace, rest. But above all, wanted to once more see the sad, sweet face of that silent captive who had been brought to me In my own camp only the year before. If I could only find her, only see her face, it seemed to me that the hard campaign with these coarse and brutal men could be forever remembered as a gold day. It was indeed full-blown spring when we set foot among the flowers at the base of the terrible spurs of Mount Shasta. The men shouted with wild and tumultuous delight. The horses, relieved of their loads, rolled on the knee-deep grass; .they threw their weary heels in the fir on the third day, and, like the men, began to grow Impatient of peace. Four fights I find recorded for the third day. Indians began to hover about us. They were tightening their lines and drawing their numbers in increased strength to a solid circle, as did the wolves back in their fearful heights of snow. The singular good fortune of the little army in escaping all peril thus far had made it insolent. It was ambitious to do battle before the arrival of re-enforcements. That night the mdb held another election, and there was a new captain. This time the toughs chose one of their own number, the best of their number, It is true. But that is not high praise of the new captain. We had fired a good many shots, and we had also gathered up many arrows that had been sent us in return. But what the new captain most desired was not a dead but a live Indian, and who could tell him how near re-enforce-ments were, and also tell the strength and condition of hostile camos. And with the capture of a live Indian In view, the new captain, not at all a commander, signalled his election to office by taking off his shoes and taking after and attempting to run down and capture an Indian with his own hand. After that discipline was utterly out of the question. Besides we were now on quarter rations. A secure camp was selected and fortified, and we sat down to wait for re-enforcements. After a ten days’ siege, starvation, fights—both in camp among ourselves and outside with savages that hovered unpleasantly close about—the long expected re-enforcements came from the south. And then we feasted. And then we fought a little among ourselves, testing the metal of the new men, as it were, then another election; then bloody work began! For the new company had captured a small camp of Indians. From them we learned that there was a white woman prisoner on one of the Islands In the great valley.. The hearts of Bantry, Garth and myself were in our throats. Was it really she? What cared we for the desolated valley and the dead! Only time and the god of battle could tell. Let us pass hastily over the three first battles by land, or rather massacres. Their bloody details would sicken you. At length we detected the hidingplace of one vast gathering of women and children (hiding, perhaps, where they had hidden for generations while the men went to war) by the smell of burning yew wood. The Indian stronghold was more than twenty miles above us on the river. One night as we sat by our guns waiting for dawn the pleads ant smell of burning yew wood, the Sandalwood of old, perhaps, drifted down the deep waters of the river from the camp-fires of the Indians. This scent was followed up the Indiana

found and butchered. But we could find no trail of rose leaves. The melting snow had made the Indians on tbe islands more than secure up to this time, for we had no boats; , but now the waters had flowed on, and the low and fast subsiding condition of the spring freshet was making the place accessible to horses. On the last days of April we surrounded and “stormed” the Island on horseback. In most places the water was too deep, and the men only lost their arms and their temper while floundering Jn the water. But two places were ’found where horses could keep their footing. A second charge was ordered, the mounted men taking only a single pis- ; tol this time in hand or on head so as to be secure from water, and at the same time many mon firing at long range out of the tall grass. This second charge was repulsed also, and not at all by the continued storm of arrows, but because our horses suddenly came upon spears and elkhorns and sharp sticks that pointed outward from the , island. The water was made bloody and ruddy from their wounds, and they refused to go forward. At the third and final onslaught the men stripped to the waist, and waded to their necks, advancing from every side and firing their i pistols only, while the men in the grass still kept firing at long range with larger artillery. As for myself, I sat on a horse a little distance back directing the fight. Suddenly I saw a great commotion. Then boats shot out from every side. It was a cunning and a most carefully planned scheme, and brilliantly conducted on the part of the Indians. It was at once seen that they had lost all hope of defense, and had raised the old cry, “Save who can!” At first our men in the water fell back. Then they rallied and fought desperately hand to hand, often uf>to their necks in the water. Let it be confessed after forty years that it was a great satisfaction to see so many canoes filled with women and children and old men dart through that band of naked besiegers, and. escape to the wider waters, the willows, the grass. But for all that the water was red. It was like reading over again the bloody page of Prescott, the Aztec, Cortez and his boats on Tezcuco—the bloody water! Ali through the slaughter we three— STORMED THIS ISLAND ON HORSEBACK. Arthur Bantry,'’Nelson Garth, and I—kept close together. We took' no part In the massacre. Our anxiety was to see some possible sign of the captives. After a while we saw a boat which filled us with concern. It consisted merely of two bales of dry weeds lashed together. It held a female figure, which from our distance could only be distinguished as slight and supple. We hurried our horses along the shore and through the edges of the water in eager pursuit “It Is Rose—it is Rose!” Bantry shouted. “Or is it my wife?” The child had grown to young womanhood in the semblance of her mother, as the artist had fancied In his singular portrait, and, in spite of her Indian costume, we all recognized her. There was only one other person in the boat, a bent old Indian. Guided by the girl’s strong, sure hand, the strange craft got through the besieging party and came to land a few hundred yards from where we were, the girl landing first, stooping low, running forward leading the decrepit man, almost dragging him in her swift run through the long, green grass. We plunged forward. Our hores sank to their bellies in the marsh. Then we took to our feet. The old man was badly shot and made the water in which the rank grass stood bloody as they ran. He fell on his back as a .fierce pursuer came up, and kicked at him, trying to keep him baek for the girl to escape. “Spare her,” Bantry yelled. Hjs outcry seemed only to alarm her afresh, and, realizing that she could do no more for her dying companions, she flfid. We saw h er standing irresolute fork moment, evidently making up her mind which way to likeliest escape from iT v «1 SAT ON MV HORSE. A LITTLE DISTANCE BACK.” her father, her lover, and me, whom shbfor enemies. Before we could regain our horses, and on their backs renew the pursuit, she was out of sight, and we were dismayed by the probability that we might never see her again. But we rode furiously through the woods, clear , away from our comrades of the expedition, but without overtaking the object of our chase. Suddenly Arthur Bantry made a joyful outcry. “Bee that!" he said, pulling up his horse and pointing to the ground. A roseleaf lay in the grass and fluttered gently in the breeze. The man was distracted by thia sign of that scented trail which, years before, had led his wife and daughter away from him. Garth and I were not less agl>tiikfod “Look yonder!’ Garth exclaimed; ; “there’s another leaf. ’’ “With more beyond," I said, seeing I that, Indeed, a roseleaf trail was be-' fore us. We followed? it as swiftly as our I horses could be guided in and out' among the trees and bushes, and soon , we came upon the poor frightened girl. j “Rose, Rose,” her father cried, dis-!

mounting and clasping her in his arms; “don't you know me?" She understood the name, but no more, for she was Ignorant of English. A subtle something in the parent’s embrace partially reassured her, however, and she submitted quietly to the detention. “We are friends," I said, in the Indian tongue. “We will save you from all danger." * In an hour we knew from Rose Bantry that she remembered, very vaguely, her capture by the Indians, but it seemJEBt- * ■ STANDING IRRESOLUTE TOR A MOMENT I : i ed to have been followed immediately ; by the death of her mother, and so the girl knew, only in a shadowy way, that ; she was somehow different from the , Indians with whom she grew up. The > old man, whom she defended in the > boat, had defended her against all > harm. ■ “And why did you scatter rose leaves r along your trail?” I asked. 1 “Because it is nearly all I remember > of my mother,” was the pensive reply, “that she told me to strew rose leaves • in my path whenever peril pursued me. j ‘I will follow you In spirit,’ she said, i ‘and who knows but the Great Spirit miaht waft the scent of them to your > father.’” “And so it has come true,” Bantry i exclaimed. . i His words, and much more, 'were I translated to her by me. Slowly, yet i surely, she comprehended. > Out from the great rich valley of • grasses and flowers the army of Cali- > forma roae on toe first day of May, r leaving not one living Indian behind. I Some of their horses were hung with i scalps, as if they had been fringed in t black for a funeral. The army of t Northern California as it rode through ' the glorious pines was literally loaded i down with scalps. But there were three t happier men who brought out from the > shadow of Shasta a daughter for Arthur Bantry, and a surely prospective bride t for Nelson Garth. r I THE END. I , Copyright, 1890. Childish Simplicity. When RauCh, the German sculp- ' tor, was a child, he was conscientious to an amusing degree. One rainy day, when walklag with his father, he took pains to step exactly into h’s elder’s footprint?, :nl as|hls|egs were but short, and he was obliged to spring from one to another, his father’s stockings were soon splashed with mud. “What nonsense is this, youngster?” called Herr Rauch. “Father,” was the grave reply, “the teacher says children must walk in the footsteps of their elders!” The boy by no means intended a joke; his act was merely the literal - fulfillment of a duty. Another true incident illustrates II his simple and lovely belief in all ’ things beautiful. Every spring aq i old linen weaver came to the house, ■ set up his loom there, and made cloth ■ for the family use. He slept in the i same room with the boy, who found him an Interesting companion, and ’ had no hesitation in telling him his . thoughts. As the story of the death of Jesus was read in school at that time, the lad became so absorbed in it that he thought the scenes of the crucifixion to be actually taking place at Jerusalem. He believed in the resurrection, end, thinking it must spread over the whole earth, waited anxiously < for Easter morning. ; “It is going on now,” he called out suddenly, raising himself in bed. “What is going on now?” asked the weaver, waking also. “The resurrection of our Lord!” Then the gentle old weaver taught him how to modify his belief, and the child was content, though disappointed. An Accomplished Southern Girl. A Southern paper publishes the following advertisement: “Wanted— By a young lady, aged 19, of pleasing countenance, good flgurej agreeable manners, general information and varied accomplishments, who has studied everything from the creation to crochet, a situation in the family of a gentleman. She will take the head of his table, manage his household, scold his servants, ’muse his babies, check his tradesmen’s bills, accompany him to the theater, cut the leaves of his new book, sew on his buttons, warm his slippers, and generally make his life happy. Apply in the first place to Miss , Hickory Grove, Ga., and afterward to papa, on the premises. ” Th© Proper Course* Most people are aware, says Life, that it is the custom of turf gentlemen to settle their accounts every Monday at Tattersail’s It was on one of these occasions that a backer, by an oversight, paid his bookmaker a betting debt which he had settled already. This put the “bookie” in a mental fix as to what would be the best course for him to take. “Shall I rdb my wife and family,” he argued with himself, “and return the money; or shall I keep It and go about with a seared conscience?” Unable to decide the point himself, he sought the advice of a brother professional of greater experience. “Paid you twice over, did he?” said the latter. “Ask him for it again!” He Wax a Citizen. A certain Desaugiers, at the time of a popular uprising in Paris, when • the people took possession of the Tuil erles, hastened to the palace at midnight to see what was going on. At the gate he was stopped by two revolutionists of ominous appearance “Why do you not wear a cockade, citizen? Where is your cockade?” they I asked. A mob gathered about him I and demanded, fiercely: “Citizen, 1 where is your cockade?” Desaugiers took off his hat, turned it around and ! around, looked at it on all sides, and then said, in a tone of mild surprise: j “Citizens, it is strange, very strange! I I must have left it on my nightcap, “

INCOME TAXATION. IT IS LESS BURDENSOME THAN THE TARIFF. Its Evil* Would Ito Confined to the Rich Instead of the Poor—An Expose of Cuetom House Corruption — The Mexican Cora Famine. Tariff Versus Income Tax. Representative John DeWitt Warner thinks that the people would “suffer** an Income tax sooner than a tax on tea and coffee. They would "suffer*’ tn either event. Let the present tariff alone and the people will not "suffer* at all.—New York Press. Does the Press know of a tax that does not make the people “suffer?" Undoubtedly such a tax is possible, though it has never been put into operation. It is, however, at the opposite pole from the indirect, insidious and accursed protective tariff tax which stealthily robs the poor consumer of from one-tenth to onefifth of his food and clothing; which cripples the great bulk of legitimate and Independent industries to pamper up a few favorites; and which injures a nation by turning its producers from profitable to unprofitable occupations, making It unable to compete in any but its own “protected” markets. An income tax is a burden, but. to the extent to which it can be worked, it is less of a bur-* den than any direct tax —even though it be a tariff for revenue only. An income tax is necessarily inquisitorial and will lead to wholesale perjury and fraud on the part of those fortunate enough to be overtaken by it. Under it the dishonest will largely escape and the honest “suffer. ” But, even though it extends to incomes as low as 92,000, it will not cause great hardship. It will never enter the houses of the poor to shorten their stay on this earth by compelling them to wear shoddy instead of wool; to eat unwholesome and insufficient food; to suffer with cold and, perhaps, to freeze for lack of food, cheap coal and blankets; and to put up with uncomfortable and cheap ware, furniture and tools. It will enter only the homes of the few rich, or comparatively rich, and compel them to contribute somewhat in proportion to their means to the expense of the Government which protects them. It will not asx the 6,000 or 8,000 millionaires who have grown up under protection and special privileges to to return any of the wealth which they have sequestered intoj’their coffers to the consumers ffom whom it was taken, but it will ask the millionaires to turn over tc the Government a little of the interest which they are obtaining on . their ill-gotten gains. The depredations and the evils df' an income tax will be confined chiefly to the rich, who will by cunning and perjury seek to evade the tax and to shirk their duties as citizens. This tax will not cause one-thousandth of the suffering that is caused by taxes on consumption and production. If there is a particularly warm corner in the nether regions of the next world it should be reserved for those responsible for t the protective tariff system of taxation—a system that has caused more misery on earth than has any disease or famine. —Byron W. Holt The Mexican Corn Famine* Gen. Warren T. Sutton, Consul General of the United States for Northern Mexico, has just sent in his official report on the subject of the exportation of grain from this country to Mexico during 1892. As there' was a corn famine in Mexico in 1892, an-unusual amount was demanded from, the United States. Gen Sutton says: “Had it not been for our nearness and unlimited supply, thousands of the very poor of Mexico must have died for lack of food. As it was, there was much suffering, and the effects will be felt for years. ” About 6,000,000 bushels of corn were imported to Mexico in ,1892 — enough to fill a solid train nearly seventy-seven miles long. • Early in 1892 the Mexican government, not being certain that “the foreigner pays the tax,” as McKinley says, abolished the duty on imported corn. This is another open acknowledgment that protection is a burden to the masses. The burden is not so great or so evident in a big country like the United States, which produces nearly all kinds of crops and which never has a famine in all parts of the country at once; but in the countries like Mexico or Canada, dependent, especially in times of famine, upon imports of foreign commodities, the burden is unmistakable. Even in ordinary years the Mexican Government maintains a “free zone” near the United States border to mitigate the worst effects of protection. This the government is compelled to do as a measure of protection. Its subjects near the border simply refu>e to be compelled to pay high prices for articles that ,they see selling across the line in Uncle Sam’s domain at reasonable figures. In great or small countries “protection” by tariff duties is simply a curse. Its evils may be mitigated by “free zones,” by temporary abolition of duties, or, perhaps, by “reciprocity”—when two or more countries, by reciprocal agreement, let down the bars to imports; but the evil will not cease until commerce, industry and men are forever freed from the bondage of protective duties and protection superstition. <- ■ Dead Against the Poor. The working of Republican “protection to American labor” is gradually becoming very clear to the people. In the first place, a law is passed giving to privileged classes of manufacturers the power to impose exorbitant prices without danger of foreign competition. Then, ostensibly to preserve home competition, an anti-trust law is passed. But it Is not enforced. Perhaps it cannot be. At least, producers combine to limit'' production and maintain high prices, and the officials charged with the duty of preventing this do nothing about it. In order to give color to the pretext that high duties are in the interest of American workmen a law is passed forbidding the importation of European pauper labor under contract. But this law also is systematically and successfully evaded. No officer attempts to use the law to prevent the wrong. The Senate investigation, how in progress here shows

that tbe ‘’combines" which are or ganlzed in defiance of law constantly Import cheap laborers without hindrance. But tbe taxes which the consumer has to pay are enforced relentlessly. The whole system, from beginning to end, and in all its parts, operates to favor the rich and to oppress tbe poor.—New York World. Custom House Corruption. The commission to investigate the custom house, though it has only begun its work, has already uncovered great heaps of rottenness. Undervaluations, favoritism, bribery, perjury—these are the sins that have their headquarters i n the custom house and that flourish In every department It is impossible to tell from the conflicting testimony thus far taken in the Appraiser’s department who the perjurers are and who are most guilty. It is only certain that the department that appraises threefourths of the #400,000 000 worth of dutiable goods that enter bur ports annually is a den of corruption. It is also quite certain that the importers of New York City are terrorized by the custom house officers, who can, by favoritism, make or break an importing merchant As past investigations of this kind have been a farce, in that they dicj, not lead to the discharge of officials who were proven guilty of favoritism in the valuation of goods or who maliciously detained goods at the custom house until they had lost much of their value, the merchants now believe that the present investigation will lead to nothing except to cal| down upon their heads the wrath of the officials against whom the merchants testify. Hence the importers, who have goods passing through the custom house nearly every week, hesitate to incur the displeasure of the appraisers by submitting testimony against them. As an evidence of the kind of discriminations made by the appraisers, we quote some of the appraisments of silk handkerchiefs, alleged to have been of identical quality, imported by rival firms: RosenHandkerchlefe. Simon, thal. Fan. Co. Isaac!. 2-ounce to 96 $1 10 JI 06 4- 10 16) 1 79 $2 03 4!^-ounce 1 00 1 90 1 79 2 11 5- 1 75 2 20 .... 2 24 514-ounce 192 2 15 2 44 250 7-ounce 2 49 2 77 .... 3 12 7h-onnce 262 3 19 BM-OUnce 3 04 3 48 3 64 364 , 12-oumie. 4 04 4 85 Os couse, with an average discrimination of about 25 per cent in favor of J. R. Simon & Co., it is only a question of time when their competitors will be driven out of the btisiriess. So great are some of these ’ discriminations that importers can sometimes purchase cheaper of their rivals than thej’ can abroad. The temptation is so great, and human nature so weak, that it is likely that custom house fraud can bestopped only with the abolition of custom houses themselves. McKinley's Renomination. The platform on which Governor McKinley has been renominated shows no abatement of Ohio McKinleyism. Thus it—1. Indorses the calamity platform of June, 1892. 2. Praises the wise, pure and patriotic B. Harrison. 3. Ditto the ditto W. McKinley, Jr. 4. Favdrs the McKinley protection act, with “amendments thereto for protection.” 5. Stands by the Ohio ram raisers. 6. Throws a sop to tbe farmers Inclined to populism. 7. Declares for restricted Immigration. 8. Declares for free pensions. 9. Views with alarm the administration of G. C. 10. Straddles the money question. And Governor McKinley in his speech of acceptance is the same old Napoleon. He finds the Cleveland administration responsible for the financial evils precipitated by the Sherman law; is still the apostle of protection and indignant at the proposal to purge the pension rolls. Such is McKinley and McKinleyism. A Public Reservoir. I saw an interesting sight while in Venice. Entering a little square shut in by high houses, and, like most Venetian squares, dominated by the unfinished facade of a time-stained church. I noticed a singular activity among the people. They were scurrying in from every alley and hastening from every house door, with oddshaped copper buckets on hook-ended wooden bows, and with little coils of rope. Old men and women, boysand girls, all gathered closely about a covered well curb in the middle of the square; and still they hurried on, until they stood a dozen deep around it. Presently the church tower slowly struck a little old man forced his vXy through the crowd, passed his ponderous iron key through the lid, and unlocked.the well. There immediately ensued a scene of great activity. The kettles went jangling into it and came slopping out again at an amazing rate, and the people trudged off home, each with a pair of them swung from the shoulder. The wells are deep cisterns. which, are filled during the night, and it is out of amiable consideration for those who love their morning nap that they are given as good chances.as their neighbors of getting an * unsoiled supply. I found, on closet, inspection, that tbe water was of excellent quality. Poetic Justice. They have had income taxes in old England for several decades. The Leeds Dally News, in commenting on the proposition to make up the prospective deficiency of revenue in the United States by an. income tax with a high exemption limit, says: “This last is an excellent proposal, and we hope it will be carried into effect. It would then be the millionaire manufacturers, who have made their “piles” by protection, who would have to provide the bulk of the immediate loss to the revenue caused by the lowering' of the tariff. That would be poetic justice, indeed." Successful Farmer—Son George got some sense durin' that foreign tour anyhow. Wife—l hain’t seen it. “1 have. You kbow he spent a good while in Lunnon, as he calls it.” “Yes, ah’ I'd like to know what good it did.” “Use y’r eyes, Miranda. He learned to turn up his pants w’en it rains.” —New York Weekly. “You say in the mean time. To what period do you refer?" “To house-cleaning. ’’—Detroit Tribune.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, Ntoito utre slower than Columbus or former tto> Took effoot Sunday. Doo. 1A IMS. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. » No, T Cincinnati.. lye 8 05am llQpm Richmond 2 20pm 10M.. 1145.. ..Avß, Winchester.... 317 .1] BA .. UOam Portland 4 04 .. 12.18 pm 1 at J.. X Deoatnr 6 10. 181.. >3 \.*.J» Ft.Wayne...arr 400.. 216.. B(M.. “ “ ...Ive IM.. 820.. Kendallville 841.. tn.. itt.T RomeOttr 3M.. 440.. tft.; Woloottvfile 4 01 Hi. LaGrange 4 19,. 506 .. 111.. Lima .. 42» 10H.. Sturgis 4 40.. .. 10H.J’ Vicksburg *??•• 8 5 0.. ljo0 v Kalamazoo, arr 106 11 40 “ ..Ive 420 am 828.. 100.. Ittoenk Or. Rapids..arr 645 .. 111).. ,w, .. *n.» ! “ K ..ive 720 .. 1010.. 110 pm 43.”1 D., G.H.AM.cr 1046.. 727 A 1 Howard City 1160 . 141 K* Big Rapids 1236 am 946 Reed City 1 OB Cadillac arr 1130.. 2 06.. 610 i. “ ....Ive 230 1 10 .<* Traverse City 700 pm Kalkaska 3 48 Petoeke} 8 36.. 916 1.. MacklnacCity 8 00., 10 86 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. • MacklnacCity. 715 pm 745 am 200pm ....,.*. Petoskey 910.. 920.. 345 Kalkaska 1236 .. 11 38 .. 508 Traverse City 11 10 .. 450 Cadillac ....arr 220 am 115 pm 7 00* .. 8 06am ....Ive 2 15.. 1 35.. 850 pm 810.. Reed City 3 28.. 230.. 750.. *9 00 .. Big Rapids 4 00... 2 58.. 08 25.. 14}.. Howard City.. 4.51»,. 3 43.. 9 20.. 1035.. D..G.H.&M.cr 6 05.. 6 06.. 1026.. 1136., Gr. Rapids . arr 031.. 515.. 1100.. ISO •* " ..Ive 7 00.. 8 00.. 1120.. 2<X)pm Kalamazoo, arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55am <340 .. •• ..Ive 855 ... 806 .. 3« .. Vicksburg 9 24.. 833 ill.. Sturgis... 1019.. 926 606 .. Lima 10 32.. 940 MT.. LaG range... .10 44.. 952 6S#.. Valentine 10 58.. 10 02 687., Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 547 ~* Rome City 1109 .1019 52.. Kendallville... 1125 .. 10 39 608 .. Ft. Wayne.. arr 12 40pm 11 50 715 .. “ “ ..Ive 100.. 12.68 am 545 am Decatur 148 .. 1256 .. 630 Portland 240.. 165.. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 36.. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati 7 00.. 8 55.. 1201 pm ...*4y Trains 5 and 8 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD. Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind

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First Class Night mid Day Service brtrw. Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS BAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NISHT TRAINS WHEALS SERVED ER ROUTE, on, tor, MT OR HIRHT, at laoAtrata colt. ill for iiclefi via Toledo, St Looii I tinmCitj I i Clover Lear Route. For further particular., call on nMTMt Afut of th. Company, or address Q. O. JENKINS, flwmi ruwaaw TOLEDO, OHIO. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE CENTLEAAEN. And other specialties f<a Xy Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys and gE jk Misses are the W Best ■" the World. s ee descriptive advertise. ■L 1 ment which will appear la | this paper. Ikjlßsßle Take no Substitute, but Insist on having w. L. DOUGLAS’ SHOES,with name and price stamped «• ■■BBMHSmB bottom. Sold by For Sale by Henry Whines, Second dooi West of Adams County Bank, Monroe St.