Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1893 — Page 7

THE TfiLMF A HAT: Or, Josh Merritt’s Mania—Written for This Paper. ' BY JULES VERNE. M •

CIIAPTKR I. Early in September, 1884, a group of homeward-bound Americans stood on the deck of one of tin- White Star •teamors waving a last adieu to English shores. To judge from the easy-going iamiiiarlty which they displayed in en'tering into conversation with ?aoh other and in exchanging opinions'as to the probable length of the voyage home, one might have supposed that they wore all old friends; but far fiom it. Upto j that time they had been the oompietest i strangers in the world, with one excepItlon, however, for two of the group were mother and son, Mrs. Hetty Waldron and her only child. Captain Harry I Waldron, U. 8. A. Altnouuh still in the j twenties this young West-Pointer had i won a pair of captain’s shoulder straps I for a signal bravery in a desperate struggle with the Apa hes, the Indians being ten to his one. Captain Harry, I however, had been severely wounded f and was now returning home from a six I months' leave, quite himself again. A I glance at the lady beside bin would hove I satisfied any one as to the source of I the Captain's magnificent figure. Mrs. I Waldron was a singularly handsome I woman, only a shade the other side of I 40, tall, graceful, and distinguishedI looking, she, too, seemed born to comI mand. In fact, she had passed her I whole life among military men, and had I taken on the very color and character I of her habitat. Following her husband I —likewise an army officer—about from I post to post on the plains, she had I learned, like him, to face danger withI out flinching, and not only to draw a I revolver and lift a rifle, but to use I either of them when occasion required, I and, as far as horsemanship went, she I thought no more of a fifty-mile gallop I oyer a rough country, through canyons I and over fords, than a city woman does ■ of a three-mile canter in the park. I “I don’t think he's an American,” I said Captain Harry as his mother pointI ed out an eccentric-looking man, who, ■ wrapped in his rug, was reclining in a I steamer chair near the group, but who, I it was quite evident, was not paying the I si ghtest heed to the animated conver- ■ Bation. I “And yet he has a Chinese servant,” I observed Mrs. Waldron, as she drew I her son's attention that individual, a I man of about 35, yedow as a lemon and I shaped like one of the squatty vases of ■ his country. He look'd quite fat enough ■ to be a three-buttoned mandarin as he I sat there on the bench with a painfully I sleepy expression on his face. ■ Uni ss all signs failed, the stolid gen- ■ tieman wrapped in the steamer rug was ■ a son of Albion, British to the tips of I his nails, tall, thin, bony to a degree ■ almost fitting him to be a model for a I class in osteology. According as you ■ looked at him, he was either all neck, ■ all body, or all legs. This specimen of ■ the Anglo-Saxon race was possibly ■ somewhat past 50, and stood six feet ■ several inches above the level of the ■ sea. A full beard of an indescribable ■ yellow, a head of hair of the same hue, ■ a pair of small, deep set, lynx-like eyes, ■ a nose with little or no swell at the nos- ■ trlls, of great length, and Curved like a ■ hawk’s beak, and a cranium upon which ■ any one with the merest scattering of ■phrenology might have detected the ■■pumps of unqualified monomania and ■ extreme pertinacity—such were, crudely ■ outlined, the head and front of the man ■ in the steamer chair, a personality which ■ would have delighted the soul of any ■ genial caricaturist. The man's attire ■ was line for line of the international ■ English cut and style—a double-visor ■ cap, a waistcoat buttoned upto his chin, ■ a jacket with twenty pockets, trousers ■«f the checkerboard pattern, high ■ gaiters with nickel buttons, the soles ■of his shoes studded with nails, and ■ a gray-white duster which he kept ■wound tightly around his body as if ■desirous of accentuating his bo y build. ■ Who was this (eccentric-looking indi- ■ vidual? No one knew. One thing was ■certain, however—he had never been ■seen on board the Germanic before ■that day. The steward, who is sup■poeed to know everything, could only ■Bay that ho was an Englishman booked ■for New York, that his name was ■Joshua Merritt, which he signed Josh ■Merritt, that he hailed from Liverpool, ■and that he was accompanied by his ■body servant, Gin-Ghi, of Hong Kong, ■a subject of the Emperor of the Celes■tial Empire. The moment the steamer ■had got ifnder headway Merritt had ■ordered Gin-Ghi to arrange his chair on ■the sunny side of the vessel and had ■not budged till 4. when the lunch bell ■rang. Back he camo at 4:30, disap■pearing again at 7 to go to dinner, and ■returning to his postafter an hour's ab■sence. His attitudes and movements ■were strikingly like those of a manikin. I u r~ I —r ■tis was never seen to turn his eves.” was never seen to turn his eyes to right or loft, but kept them fixed in direction the steamer was taking, ■ b If he were dreaming of the great ■western world soon to rise before him. o’clock to the minute he arose 5 betook himself to his stato-room, a gait so balanced and even that roll of the vessel was powerless to ■tfect it. SB The next morning Josh Merritt was ■uno attitude, the same pose, even the ISklrts of his duster twisted into the IHimo wrinkles as on the day before, |Khile Gin-Ghi was seated near him the same pained expression of enJ|ui and tedium on his smooth, round I Bellow face. For Captain Harry the card-room had charms, and as ho looked about him |Kr someone to chat with, his eyes fell IHpon Mr. Joshua Merritt of Liverpool ■■rotchod to his full length in his |Keamer chair. Judge of the young ofll|Rr*B surprise as he halted alongside gentleman from Liverpool to hear IHie latter pipe out in a shrill tone,”Capraß.in Harry Waldron, of the United iKH«*army, I believe?” ■■“ The same, at your service, sir," <Bammered Waldron. “The son of the late Colonel Hastings {■tldron, U. 8. A.," squeaked Merritt.

“Yes, sir,” gasped Harry; I see that you are acquainted “ “Oh, yes—your father—great Indjan fighter—with Custer on the Little Big Horn—Custer ought to have taken hie advice—yes, that’s so—your mother Is a wonderful woman—yes. that’s so. I've had a loss, too " and here this bit of human machinery seemed to suddenly run down. “Daughter or wife?" timidly suggested Capt. Harry, hoping to start it up again. “Oh, no—never married—that’s so—ls I had lost my wife I wouldn’t be looking for her—that's so ” “Then you are searching for " “A hatl" “A hat?” queried Waldron with a puzzled air. “You have lost your hat?” “My hat?“ squeaked Merritt “Oh, no; not mine yet; yes, that’s so—present my compliments to your motherwonderful woman—yes, that’s so,” and again the human clock ran down completely, and Josh Merritt’s lips were pressed together so tight that the young captain took the hint and walked away. , “Is he a lunatic or Is he shamming?* muttered Harry to himself, as he looked about in search of his mother, to whom he made known the astonishing fact that this eccentric tourist was well acquainted with their family. The Germanic was well on her way across the Atlantic before the truth leaked out that the eccentric Englishman in the gray-white duster was no less a personage than Mr. Joshua Merritt, the retired L.verpool lock manufacturer, worth a cool £1,000,000 sterling. At once there was a flutter among the women, young and old, and the human talking machine was kept busy squeaking out in excruciating monotony the sole phrase which It seemed capable of uttering—“ That’s so; yes, that's so; that’s so; yes, that’s so.” Mrs. Waldron had not abandoned all idea of taking a second husband, only he must be rich, very rich, so that Harry might resign from the army and they be enabled to settle down in gay and frivolous New York, the Paris of the new world. Mr. Merritt filled the bill exactly. What harm did his eccentricity do? As for his checker-board trousers, high gaiters, etc., once hers she would soon make another man of him. But although It was only too evident that the heart of the machine man felt the wajmth of this radiant soul, yet he stood firm, or rather sat firm in his steamer chair. Once he so far forgot himself as to invite the “wonderful woman" to sit down beside him. GinGhi was asleep. The moon was full. The supreme moment seemo 1 to have arrived. After an almost endless string of “Yes, that’s so’s,” Mrs. Waldron succeeded in dragging in the remark that nothing was more beautiful than a moonlight night at sea. “Yes, that's so! Yes, that’s so!” squeaked Mr. Merritt, “but I would like it better,” he added after a pause, “If the man in the moon only wore a hat —yes, that's so, that’s bo I he repeated slowly over and over, and then the clock-work came to a dead standstill. The man of $5,000,000 and Gin-Ghi, his factotum, were Ijoth sound asleep. CHAPTER 11. No one drew a muscle as Mr. Joshua Merritt, closely followed by Gin-Ghi, loaded like a pa kmule with valises, hat boxes, canes and umbrellas, strode into the corridor of the Brevoort House, and approaching the desk, set down in a bold, staff hand the words: “Josh Merritt and man servant, Liverpool." People are accustomed to curious types in a cosmopolitan city like New York, and to eccentric Englishmen In particular at the Brevoort. The rich manufacturer had softened a little bit in taking leave of Mrs. Waldron on the wharf and had actually invited mothec and son to visit him in England the next year. Mrs. Waldron was delighted. And now comes the question: What ,was this strange pair—one hailing from the extremity of Asia and the other from the extremity of Europe—doing in New York?., Where were they bound? How did it happen that they should be racing around the world together, the one footing the bills, the other doing the work? If we listen to their conversation, possibly it may all come out But, first and foremost, a brief word concerning the Celestial in the service of the Anglo-Saxon. This son of the Orient had not laid aside his national garb. He still wore the chemise (tethan ohaol), the tunic (ma coual), the robe (haol) buttoned on the side, and the loose trousers with cloth belt. His name was Gin-Ghi, and he deserved it, for it signified “lazy man," and edch he was, if there ever was one. Neither work nor danger seemed to quicken his pace. If ten steps were required to executes commission, it went undone; if twenty were necessary to escape danger, he took his chances. The wonder is that Merritt’s stock of patience did not finally become exhausted. But the truth is, the Englishman had become aci ustomed to Gln-Ghi’s peculiarities, and he now liked him for his defects. When his orders were not executed he executed them himself. This simplified matters. It was quite possible that the day was not far distant when he would act as Gln-Ghi’s body servant No doubt the Chinaman was inclined to think so, and to his mind it would only be a fair turn about. In the meantime, while waiting for this piece of good luck, Gin-Ghi was obliged to follow his master wherever the sweet will of that eccentric personage dictated. On this point Josh Merritt brooked no remonstrance. He would not hesitated to carry the Chinaman’s trunk on his shoulders rather than leave Gin-Ghi behind when a train or steamer was about to start. So willy-nilly, the “lazy man” was forced to lock step with the Englishman and even up things by sleeping all he could during the journey. In this way the pair had accompanied each other for thousands of miles in the old and new worlds, and, as a result of this continuous locomotion, they now found themselves in the great metropolis of the Western hemisphere. “Yes, that’s so, that’s Bo,” grumbled Merritt in his beard; “I suppose that you have everything ready?” It is hard to say why he put this question to Gin-Ghi, since he himself had done all the work with his own hands; butbe never failed to ask the question on principle. "Ready ten thousand times over," replied the Chinaman, who had not been able to rid himself -of the style of phraseology current among the children of the Flowery Kingdom. “Our valises?” "Are locked and strapped." "Our firearms?" - "Are ifi most excellent condition, 0, man of all perfections. “ "And our supply of provisions?" "It was you, O. Master Josh, who took the receipts for the same from the

express agent. But Irlon't see why this li y Dg In a supply of provisions Is neces.ij, e-noe if wo continue this globe-trotting it is a mere question of time when we shall be eaten up ourselves." “Eaten up, Gin-Ghi? O, yes, that’s so, that’s so. Then you expect to be eaten up, do you/" "Yes, sooner or later, Master Josh. Six months ago wo ca lie very near ending our existence in the stomach ot a cannibal. ' I especially." “You, Gin-Ghi, my lalthful servitor?" “Yes, for the good reason that I'm fat, white you, oh man of all perfections, are very lean, so these people would not hesitate to pick me out." "Pick you out? Oh, yes, that’s so, that’s so." “And, moreover," continued Gin- ' Ghi, “I'm Informed that cannibals are particularly fond ot a yedow Chinaman, «whose liesh. on account of his feeding upon rice and vegetables, has a very delicate flavor.” “Yes, that’s so, that’s so,” replied ' Merritt dryly, “and for that reason I have always counseled you to smoke a great deal, for you know the anthropophagi don't like the flesh of a smoker.” J But, thank heaven!" murmured GinGhi, rolling up his little eyes as well as their oblique position would permit, “the North American Indian Is not a man-eater!” "Yes, that’s so, that’s so,” putln Josh Merritt with an almost imperceptible chuckle, “but they are a Lepta in scalping. and nothing affords them more pleasure than to find a nice long scalp lock a reaty braided for them.” “Ayya!Ay<a!" broke out Gin-Ghi, reaching up and clasping his hands over his precious queue. “And all this peril for a single hat, when the world Is full of hats! 0, when I think of this the tears trickle upon my yellow cheeks like raindrops upon golden chrysanthemums.” "And when shall you get through this trickling?” demanded Joshua, knitting his eyebrows sternly. “But this hat you are searching for. Master Josh, when you find it, it will be in shreds and tatters.” “Yes, that’s so, that's so; but I’ve heard enough, Gin-Ghi—more than enough. I iorbld you to talk about this hat or any other. If you disobey me I’ll have you bastinadoed, fifty blows of a rattan on the soles of your feet. ” “We are not In China, Master Josh." “I’ll take away your rations ” “Good; that’ll reduce my flesh.” “I’ll have your queue cut off close to your head. ” “Cut off my queue?" gasped Gin-Ghi. “I’ll stop your allowance of tobacco!” “The god Fo will not refuse me protection." “It won’t do you a bit of good. Yes, that’s so!“ But this last threat of Merritt’s was not without its effect. Gfa-Ghi’s manner suddenly changed, and, courtesying most obsequiously, he professed the utmost respect for the man of all perfections. CHAPTER IH. But what hat was this thus mysteriously referred to, and why was Joshua Merritt passing his whole life hunting after a hat? This man of many eccentricities, as has been said, was an Englishman from Liverpool, one of those harmless monomaniacs who are not met with solely in the United Kingdom, for who has not fallen in with them on the banks of the Loire, the Elbe, the Danube, and the Schelde, as well as in the region washed by the Thames, the Clyde, or the Tweed? His eccentric tastes as a collector had made the wealthy Joshua Merritt a well-known man in Lanct-ster and adjoining counties. He was not one of those ordinary collectors whose souls are satisfied with engravings, books, > objects of arc or antiquity which they spend life and fortune hunting for. Oh, no; his grand passion was hats—a great museum of historical headgear. Joshua Merritt had already laid most of the globe under requisition in his search after valuable additions to his collection of hats, and now that he had, for the time being at least, by personal efforts or by means of agents and correspondents, exhausted the stocks of Europe, Asia and Africa, and, to a de- • gree, those of the two Americas and Oceanica, the thought had come to him of pushing his searches into the far West of the United States territory. He had a special reason for so doing—a reason that would not have seemed very weighty to any one else, but which to him was very important. His studies of the aborigines had made known to him the fact that the North American Indian had a great love, nay, almost a passion, for the discarded silk hats of their civilized brethren, no matter in what state of dilapidation they might be; that very year a crop of these silk hats was harvested In the East and shipped to this Western market Therefore was it that Mr. Merritt felt quite sure of striking something rare and valuable on this trip. But, independent of this general notion, the great collector had something special in view. To tell the truth, he was oppressed by a fixed notion, a day nightmare, which threatened to make complete his partial insanity. Some way or other, only known to himself, ho had come upon the trace of a certain hat, which would add great fame to his collection. What it was, who had made it, and whether it had decked the head of prince, burgher, or peasant, Joshua had thus far kept to himself. Suffice it to say that after a long and tedious hunt, during which he Iff ’■•tX )) “THE STRANGELY ASSORTED PAIR WAS SOON MOVING WESTWARD ” ~ had followed up a dozen trails only to be thrown off the scent in the end, he had struck the right one and run his game to cover. To speak plainly, he was now convinced that this hat decked the head of some Indian chief in the far West, and he was determined to buy it at whatever price the red man might set upon it, or to steal It if the chief re- ; fused to sell. Although Gin-Ghi took good care not to quicken his movements in the least —for why should he when his master’s bands were so much bigger and stronger than his ?—yet everything was in readiness at the appointed hour, and the strangely assorted pair was soon moving westward at the rate of almost a mile a minute. Gin-Ghi awoke after they had been under way for six hours, but a glance at his face warned him that it would be dangerous to rouse Master Josh from his fit of deep thought, so he dropped off to sleep again. But the time has come when the reader can be no longer trifled wijih. He is entitled to know something about this mysterious silk hat, which with its limp and flapping brim bsckoned Joshua Merritt on and ever onward toward the

setting sun. This hat once rested upon, an Imperial brow, for it was once the pioperty of Napoleon 111., Emperor o the French. W hy, exclaims the astonished reader, that would not be such a Wonderful addition to the Merritt museum, for su ely during the nineteen years of the Emperor's reign It would not have been a very difficult matter to obtain a silk hat once worn by him. Paris must be full of tliem. One moment, Impatient reader, this was a particular silk bat worntby Napoleon 111. while ho was still merely I’.lnce Louis. It sheltered his head the morning of his unfortunate attempt to seize the Empire of Strasburg. He )adit on his head i when he escitped to America. He woie It during his brief sojourn in Now York i City, when he had lodgings in East Houston street and upon the eve of his re urn to Europe at the call of Ids dying mother, (,ue -n Hortense, he gave 11 to his frlen Mr. Smith. Is there any wonder that . oshua Merritt yea ned to | posses^this h storkal silk hat given by : a prince, s< on *to become an emneror, to Mr. Smith? But what Mr. 8m th? Who was Mr. Smith’ What did Mr. Smith do with the hat? To all these questions no satisfactory answers can be given. The reader, if he lie nn intell gent man, must surely know that money, patience and perseverance make up a strong team. Josh Merritt had all three. For twenty years he hail had his mental eye on this hut. Was he about to be rewarded for these years of sleepless vigilance, of untiring endeavor? Ito be continued. | a place of harmony. -The Manuinetan's Idea ot Wlia I’.iri.<li>e Is Like. The lollowcrs of Mahomet believe that they enter paradise byway of a bridge which connects earth with heaven, and that the first taste of neverending joys is a cooling draught irom “Mahomet's Pond.“ This pond is an oddity in itself, even though it were not located just inside of the gates of paradise. It is a month’s journey in circumference and its waters are as white as milk. As many cups are set around It as there are stars in the firmament, and he thaj drinks once never thirsts again. Beyond this lake is ths Garden of Paradise, an ecstatic dream of pleasure, filled with sparkling streams and fountains of honey, shady groves, diamonds and rubies of monstrous size, flowers and fruits of every known kind, blooming youths ot both sexes, circulating goblets of nectar and carrying censers ot burning incense—in short, a region of delightsome musie and unbroken peace. In this piai e Ali has twelve palaces of gold and silver brick laid in mortar mixed with honey and musk, and In each of these is a throne. Then come the bowers of pearls and smaller heavenly structures, each with its throne of emeralds, rubies or gold. Upon each throne sits an hour! arrayed in seventy robes of green and seventy of yellow. She herself is transparent and so are the robes, all being of so tinea texture that the marrow in her ankles may be seen as distinctly as though it were a flame in a yellow glass tube. Each of these innumerable houris has seventy locks of hair, each lock under the care of a maid, who perfumes it from a censer which God has made to smoke wdh incense without the presence ot lire. Living NetS At Tetuila, one of the islands of Oceanica, M. Aylic Marin witnessed a peculiar method of Ashing. The scene, as he describes it, is picturesque and interesting. The costume of the natives of Tetuila is a kind of short tunic ot sea-weed or leaves. They powder the hair white with chaflk, and wear wreaths of gardenias or red hibiscus on their he-ds and around their necks. The warriois, unlike the men of peace, powder their hair red. As their locks are very long, thej T have quite a terrible appearance. At a signal all the inhabitants of the village assembled on the seashore. There were about two hundred persons. They plunged into the water, each carrying a branch of the cocoa palm. At a given distance from the shore they turned toward it, and formed a compact half circle, each one holding his palm branch perpendicularly in the water, thus forming a kind of seine. The leader of the party gave a signal, and this living net approached the shore gradually, in perfect order, driving before it a multitude of Ashes. Surrounded by this living wall, and caught in the cocoa palm branches, many of the Ashes were cast on the sand by the waves and others were killed with sticks. The women gathered up the Ashes in baskets. Some were at once taken to the cabin of the chief of the village, and some were cooked for M. Marin over hot. coals, and given to him without seasoning, but with bananas and cocoanut milk to complete the meal. Oh! the Horrid Man! They had been married about a yeai and were passing through their first experience in house-cleaning. He was trying to drive a picture-nail with a taek-liammer. He might as well have tried to drive a yoke of steers With a straw. Naturally, his otherwise delightful disposition was lulled, and of course his wife was to blame! But he would not quarrel with her. He was not that kind of a man. “Mary,” said he, looking down at her from the top of the step-la der, and making an effort to appear calm, “will you bring me one of those biscuits you made for breakfast this morning?" "Why, Horace,” she responded, looking up at him wonderingly, "whatever do you want with it?" “I want to drive this confounded nail with it,” he said. “This hammer is too light to do any good at all.” One of the most wonderful discoveries in science recently, says the American Machinist, is the fact that a beam of light produces sound. A sunlight beam is thrown through :Y lens on a glass vessel that contains lamp-black, colored silk, worsted or other substances. A disk having slits, or openings cut in it is made to revolve swiftly in this beam of light I so as to cut it up, thus making alternate Aashes of light and shadow. On putting the ear to the glass vessel strange sounds ire heard so long as the flashing beam is falling on the vessel. ' The Wrong Time.—Mother—No wonder you catch cold. Every night you kick all the covers off. Why do you do it? Little Boy— I don’t know, mamma. You’ll, have to ask me when I’s asleep.—Good News. “OvR taycher says that ivory man should thry to get to the top,” says little Micky “Thrue for the responded Micky’s father r “onless yez happen to be startin’ to dig a welt"—Washington Star.

ODD NAMES OF PENSIONERS. Curious Specimens of Nomenclnturr on View at a Subtreasury. This is a big country and there is a big variety in the names Its readers carry-through life with them. No better opportunity to get an idea of the oddities in family and given names can be had than at one of the treasury branches, where checks from all parts fff the country come in, and none of these offices get a wider range of novelties In nomenclature than the sub-treasury in Cincinnati, says the Commercial Gazette. The sub-treasury does a tremendous business in pension checks, and some very curious indorsements appear upon th/biis of paper, which, as a matter of fact, give more conclusive evidence than do the majority of the other financial documents sent in that the ways of the American christeners are past finding out. A collection of some of the curious names under which persons no doubt manage to lead respectable lives has to inc-ude a good many Indians, but the np>st novel of their titles- are fullv matched by some of the appelatlons of whites. The colored brother, too, is no doubt responsible for his share of the queer names. As to the pious antecedents of Christian scripture there should be no doubt; and Christian Bible should be equally above reproach. John the Baptist Theophilus Ploof can no less than live up to his name, while Anna Ketchabaptist may And in hers a reminder ot some old fami y romance. Abel CaJn has to thank biblical sources evidently for the way he writes his autograph. Christian Is a favorite. There are Christian Canary and Christian Gall, while Christian Finger also figures in the list. Lizzie Barefoot, Charity Tom, Peter Menagerie, Clean Berry,. Brazil Pepper, John Duck, Millie Jbrake, John Chicken, Rose Cardinal, Winter Green, John Roseiip, Joseph Goodpasture, Eliza Stonecipher, Amelia A. Turnipseed, Sandy Beard, Bad Temper, Adam Apple, and Pleasant Ladd offer examples of rather curious combinations. There are others which are still more -Unusual. Lone Liar, for instance, is certainly an oddity. George Washington Ananias suggests an incongruity. So does Temperance Rumy, while Day Knight and August Blizzard ard not far behind. Smith Corns, Lean Redman, C. W. Ileavystfide, Daniel Death, Henry Fivecoats. Birdsong Crow, Henry Pancake, and Fred Coldsnow are all names to attract attention on a signboard. Geography was evidently respected jj. the family of Tennessee Texas Bowman, while patriotism must have assisted in the selection of America Cannon. America England.and America Patrick. Adam Skunk would naturally ask to have his name spoken with the accents in the right placa Welcome Home is a pleasing title, while there is something curious about the sound of Seneca Sly and Betsy Bump. Ripus Uptheback should run no danger ot having his mail delivered to somebody else. James Necessary, James Walkingstick, L. W. Cashdoliar, Peggy Way, Mary Tickle, Elizabeth Scalp, Hugh Hash, Simon Pure, Eaward Daddysman, Diamond Stone, Peter Pence, and John Unsold are certainly far from common names. Madison 'Square and Ashbury Park should be well-known and popular. How to Kaise a Family Horse. A writer in the National Stockman says: “1 undertook to raise an all-purpose horse. It was for myself. I had a'flne mare to start with and a good one, which weighed 1,250 pounds. 1 bred her to a trotting-bred horse. He was rather small, otherwise a perfect horse, and the kindest disposition that 1 ever saw in a stallion. The worst I could see was his service tee—s2s looks large when we aon’t know what we are going to get. Some of our large horse advocates said, ‘You will have something nobody will want.’ It is not so. I have a colt that will make a 1,200pound horse, handsome and as near perfect as you will often find. There are lots of men who would like to have him. 1 commenced to educate him when about a week old, by nut ting on a halter. By the time he was three weeks old my little girls, one 7 and the other 5 years old, could go and halter him and lead him any place. It dl l not make much difference whether the halter was on or not, he would go with them. By the time he was three months old I could drive him with lines any place. I got a bridle on purpose, with a leather bit, so as not to hurt his month. He was two years old May 15. We drive him to buggy and also double, .and he is perfectly safe for a lady. to drive. We do not give him very long drives nor put him to very heavy work. He will go to town and back in as short a time as any horse, but will make a No. 1 family horse. I am so well pleased with results that I have bred the same way again.” ■ Glorifying the Kicker. In politics, as in religion, there is a great deal of "kicking” to be done if we would get up out ot old ruts and keep up with our opportunities. "Kicking” is synonymous with progress, or at least there would be no progress without it. If it hadn't been for the "kickers” we should have gone on believing that the world was flat and that the suit revolved around, it. Had it not been for the “kickers” we should still be burning men at the stakes or torturing them with thuinb-screws for not recanting their heterodox convictions. If it hadn’t been for the "kickers” we would still l>e paying taxes to great Britain and the Declaration of Independence had never been promulgated. “Kicking” is the foundation of civil and religious liberty, and the world has none too much of either. It has required, a great deal of “kicking” to accomplish what we have done as a nation. It will requirewfcsiderable "kicking” to undo some Wfngs thaj, we have not done wisely. It must be borne in mind that "kicking” necessarily implies something to be kicked, and as a general rule it is seldom that anything gets kicked th at doesn’t deserve It—Washington Star. —Ghoosk rather to punish your apoetites than to be punished by them. —Tyrius Maximus.

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital. SM.BOa Borpltu, SIO.IN OrlganlMd Au(u.t IS, IMS. I. Dorwln, PrMidrat; P. W. Sarith, Vloa-PrMldaat; B. 8. P.tarioa Cuhlcr; T. T. Dorwln, P. W. Smith, H.nrr Dork.., J. C, ■olbrook, B. J. Torrw, J. D. Balo a>d R < P.torton, Dirootor.. Wo an proparod to mako Loan, on good wontttv, rweivo D«po.it., faml«h Dom.atlo *n4 Fof.lgn Exohang., bn/ and mH Governmant and Municipal Bond., and fnrni.h Latt.r. of Credit arallabia in any ot tho principal oltlM of Europe. Al.o Paa.ago Tiok.t to and from th. Old World, IniJudlng transportation to Dooatnr. Adams County Bank Capital. 075.000. Burplu., 75,000, Organized In hWL Officer*—D. Studebaker. Pre.ld.nt; RobL B. AUlaon, Vloo-Pre.id.nt; W. H. Niblick, Caahtw. Do a general banking bu.ln.ae. CoUectloag made in all parte of the country. County. City end Town.hlp Order, bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and told. Intere.t paid on time dopoeita. Paul O. Hooper, Attoz’neir At Law Deeotur, - - Tndiana. DVOf, a. X. MANS, 4. V. EBiriN £ MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notarie. Public. Pension Claim. ProMcutod, Office In Odd FeUow.’ Building, Decatur, Ind. . T7IRANCK A MEKRYMAN. 1. T. TRANCE. J? J. T. MXRRYMAJT .A-ttox-xxeyan «.t Xata-w, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office Noe. 1,2 and 8. over the Adam. County Bank. Collections a specialty. a A. 6. HOLLOWAY, FBy ■lolan <*» Burgeon Office over Burna’ harneM .hop, rwldenoe ene door north of M. K. church. All calls promptly attended to In eity or country night or day. TyM. M, L. HOLLOWAY, BL B. Office and residence one door north of M. M ehurch. Diseases of women and children speeialUea Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. JQ. NEFTL'NB, . DENIST. Now located over Holthouee's .hoe store, and Is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold Alling a specialty, By the nee of Mayo'. Vapor be i. enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEYTOLOAN On Farm Property on Long Tims, Wo CoxaajDaAoolone low Bate of Interest. In say amounts ean be made at any time aaS ■top Interest. Call oa, or nddmss, A. X. QBUBB, or JT. F. MANB, (Mee: Odd Fellowe' Building, DoeaSnr. A A 8080, & T. BOBA Master Comml««ioner. 8080 A SON. ATTORNEYS AT LA.W. Beal Batate aad Collection, Decatur, Ind. O.P. M. ANDREWS, Fhyalciau «*» Surgeon MONBOE, INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M.E. church. M* Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orcho Aj tomy. Overotomy, Castrating, Bldg Ung. Horses and Spayitfg Cattle and Dehorn Ing, and treating their diseases. Office otw J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. J. S. Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, M a DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug - store. Decatur. Ind

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AT Berryman’S FACTORY Yon can get all kinds of Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. Tn fact all kinds of building ma terial either made or furnished on nhnrt notice. LOOK HEREI I am here to stay and can sei Organs and Pianos •heaper than anybody else can aVergte sell them. I sell different makaa. CLEANING AND REPAIRINB. done reasonabto Bee me flrrt *■< acre money. JT. T. COOTB,Deeatur, InA, < - ,M i Scientific American Agency AVEATS, TRADE MARKS, oyaw' DESIGN PATENTS, ~ COPYRIGHTS, etc. For Information and free Handbook write to MCNX * CO.. 361 Broadway, New York. Oldest bureau for/wearing patents in America. Every patent taken out by us is brought before the public by a notice given, free of charge in the jtitnfifit Largest circulation of any scientific paper In the world. Splendidly illustrated. No intelligent man should be without it. Weekly, 53.00 a year; SLsosix months. Address MUNN A Vl'bits he its. 361 Broadway. New York City. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, 28 min utes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Sunday, Jhne 18.18H3. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 I No. 5 No. 7 Cincinnati..lve 81.5 am 900 pm Richmond 2 20pm il 00 .. 11l no Winchester.... 3 17 .. 1153 .. '1.234am Portland 404 .. 12<t5pm 103 Decatur 510 .. 131.. 243 Ft.Wayne...arr 600.. 2 15.. 215 “ “ ...1ve.... ... 2 85.. 3 20.. 805 am Kendallville... .'rr'..... 341.. 425 . 9 10.. Home City 356.. 4 40.. 926.. Wolcottville 4 01 9 31 .. Valentine 4 11 942.. LaGrange 4 19.. 5 05.. 9 51.. Lima 4 29 10 03 .. Sturgis '4 40 !526 .. 10 19 .. Vicksburg 536 .. |6 20 1109 .. Kalamazoo, arr i 605 .. 6 50... 11 40 .. ” ..Ive' 4 20ami 625 .. I 710 .. 1225 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 645 .. i 810 . 900.. 220 - ..ive 720..1030 .. I lidpm 415 .. D.. G.H.&M.cr 1045.. 117 . , Howard City 11 55 . 2 35. .' Big Rapids .... | 124iSam 325 Reed City L. 1 12 I Cadillac arr: 1135.. 210 900 .. •• . ..lve< 2 20.. 510 J........... Traverse City 700 pm Kalkaska 3 43 Petoskey 6 25.. 9 to.J. Mackinac City 805 .. jiO 35 .. : GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. | No. 2 - No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City. 90»pm 740 am i.JOpm Petoskev 10 30.. 915 .. 253 Kalkaska 12 38.. Ills.. 4.51 Traverse City 1100 .. 430 Cadillac....arr 2 30am 100 pm 6 30.. 740 am " ....Ive! 2 30.. 120.. 635 pm Reed City 3 38.. 2 35.. 750.. 9i») .. Big Rapids 408 .. 307 . 820 , . .9 32 Howard City.. 500.. 3 57.. 9 20.. 10 32.. D-.G.H.&M.cr 6 15.. 5 00.. 10 25. 11 35.. Gr. Rapids .arr 633 .. ; 5 1.5 .. 110 40 .. «ll .50 .. “ " ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 111 20.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr) 850 .. |BOO .. 12 55am 340 .. " . ive S ,V> .. ; S IF, . . 3 45.. Vicksburg |924 .. s :»i 412 Sturgis 11019 .. ! 92b" ... fli-5 .. Lima 110 32 .. 940 .. ' ; 517.., LaGrange... .-10 44 .. 952 .. I .5 29 .. Valentine 110 53 .. :10 02 .. ! 5 37 Wolcottville... 1104 .. 110 14 5 47.. Rome Citv 1109 .. 10 19 .5 52 .. Kendallville... 'll 25 . 10 39..' aus.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm, 11 50 .......... 715 .. “ “ ’..ive; 100 .. i 1410 am 54.5 am Decatur I 146 .. ;1258 .. !6 30 Portland 240 .. ' 200 .. ' 730 Winchester.... 317 |241 .. 809 Richmond 420 .. i 340 .. 915 Cincinnati I 7'o .7 15 I2iiln---Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Giand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD. Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. - Decatur. Ind Lines. Schedule In effect June a, 1893. Trains Leave Decat it ras Foiloics TRAINS WEST. No. 5. Vestibule Limited, daily for ' D ~ Chicago ,■ - 40 P. M No. 3, Pacific Express, daily fori , Chicago i‘ l A - '*• No. 1, Express, daily for Chicago | No. 31. Accommodation, daily. I m .,- . except Sunday >’ W TRAINS EAST. No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for I -.•>=„ M New York and Boston ,f ‘ r- *»• No. 2, Express, daily for New I 4, ~ ■ Y0rk...." i. J Ko-12. Expt ess, daily for New I — Y0rk.T....... f I,WA " No. 30. Accommodation, daily ex-) cept Sunday.,.. jiu.loA. M. J. W. DeLong, Agent. Frank M. Caldwell, D. P. A, Huntington, Ind.: F. W, Buskirk. A. G. P. A.. Chicago. 111.