Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1893 — Page 7

AN UNCONSCIOUS CRIME. A Story Written for This Paper by William Westall.

CHAPTER IV. The morning wm fair and myself in high spirits, for I was going to see Miss de Bouza, and I inferred from her brother's silence on the subject that his fears and mine touuhing Delmar's supposed designs were proving groundless. True, my friends were going away, but they liked Paris so well that I felt sure they would soon return I I started at 10, a world too soon, but by loitering on the way and making a jfow detours I contrived to arrive at my destination not many minutes before the appointed time. After exchanging bon jours with tho porters and Mme. Mijoux, the landlady, I went up stairs. My friends' rooms were on the first floor, en suite. Delmar's bedroom was bn the second floor (No. 56). The de Souzas were waiting for me, and as I went Marie rang the bell for breakfast She looked as bright and happy as usual, but her brother was pale and heavy-eyed and complained of headache. His sister suggested that a walk would do him good and proposed a stroll in the Bols, a proposal to which 6 assented gladly ana de Souza with earning hesitation. So soon as breakfast was over Marie went to her room to put on her things. • Two minutes afterwards there came a knock at the door, followed by Mme. Mijoux, looking flurried and anxious. “Pardon me for Intruding on you, M. de Souza. But M. Delmar —I am very .much concerned about him—and you are his friend, and I want your advice as to what I should do. ’ “My advice will be quite at your service, Mme. Mijoux, when I know what has happened. I suppose something has happened." “I hope not, monsieur. Still it is very strange. Last night, before he went out, M. Delmar ordered himself to be called at 10 and his breakfast be served at half-past Jules called him at 10, without response; he has called him twenty times since, always without response. It is now 11:30; his breakfast has been ready an hour. Jules has called him again. I have called him myself, always without response. What ought we to do?” “Burst open the door, I should say. He may be ill.” “There is no need to break open the door. The chambermaid has a key. But if he is well and simply very fast asleep he might be vexed. I thought you would, perhaps, kindly ■" “(to in? Certainly. Where is the key? Como along, Davenport ” The key was brought anil wo mounted —— HJ .- Lj® “MT OOD, LOOK AT TH AT. ” to the next floor. Before attempting to open the door we knocked vigorously and shouted our loudest. “Something wrong here,” said de Bouza as he put the key in the lock. We went Into the room together, leaving the landlady, Jules and the chambermaid in the corridor. “Why, ha is fast asleep still. Wake up, old man. My God, look at that!” Then I saw that the bed-clothes ware smeared with blood, and a thick pool of it was coagulated on the carpet. “He has either been murdered or broken a blood vessel,’’addedde Souza, bending over the body. “At any rate, he is dead.” “Suicide, perhaps." “No. The wound is there between tho shoulders. It is a case of murder. Don't disturb anything. Jules, go to the nearest police station and toll them what has happened—go running. Nobody must go in until the police come,” locking the door and putting the key in his pocket. “A murder in my house! Oh, mon Dleut mon Dleu! I shall be ruined,” cried Mme. Mijoux, wringing her hands. •What shall I do? What shall I do?” Hero Miss do Souza came up, looking much more frightened than grieved, I was glad to see. After telling her that it was really true Delmar had been murdered, her brother advised her to return to their own apartments, which she did promptly. Presently a commissary of police and two gendarmes arrived, followed at a short Interval by a juge d’instruction and a surgeon. The magistrate, aided by the surgeon, drew up a proces verbal, and questioned everybody who could throw light on the affair. De Souza told all ho knew, which was very little, no more, in fact, than I knew myself. Mme. Mijoux and the chambermaid knew nothing. The night porter, who should have been an important witness, was just as ignorant. M. Delmar went out at 7on the previous night, but at what time he returned the man could not tell. He slept in an alcove, near the front door, which he opened with a cord to any of the guests who rang the bell and gave his name. But as he had .acquired the habit of performing this duty automatically, and invariably fell asleep again the next minute, he could give no information as to the murdered man’s return. The position of the body and the nature of the wound left no doubt that Delmar had been killed while he slept ' —in the opinion of she surgeon, about 3 or 4 o'clock—with a long-bladed, sharp-pointed knife. Save tor a few pieces of silver, the t victim's pockets were empty. Ills watch was under the pillow. The door had been locked, of course, from the outside, and the key taken away. When the proces verbal had been drawn up, and the preliminary investigatlons completed, the d'inatruc,tion, to whom de Souza was.well known, asked him what he thought of the ,afffair. “Obviously a case of murder; its motive robbery; possibly revenge. ” •Revenge! Ah, you know something of the victim’s antecedents then?" “I have no doubt," said de Souza, after telling the magistrate what he knew of Delmar, and mentioning the natter's visits to the Club and his skill „ as a gambler, “I have no doubt that he Srent to the Club last night and won as usual. In that case, and you can oasito ! find out whether lam right, is it not at least conceivable that his antagonist followed him here, and with one stroke of the knife retrieved his losses and avenged his defeat? Ruined gamblers ! don’t stop attrfles; or some onlooker or outsider, who knew that Delmar was . ■ <

in (he habit of going homo with money In his pocket, may have done the deed. Another supposition that suggests itself is that the murderer is an inmate of this house.” “At any rate, ho must well know the ways of the house and the situation of M. Delmar's room." “Knowledge easily obtained by inouiring at tho office and passing a night In the house*s guest" “And about the door? It was opened with a key." “That would be easy. The look is not complicated, and who knows that Dolmar did not leave his key outside ? I know I often leave mine outside." “It is possible, and the chambermaid has, of course, a duplicate." “This is no woman’s work, M. le Juge.” “But the woman may have an accomplice, either in the house or out of it. For the moment, however, we know nothing positive except that this gentleman has been murdered. We want facts. I shall place all the inmates of the house, guests as well as servants, under suiveillance—unknown to themeelves, of course—and without even informing Mme. Mijoux. I shall also ascertain whether M. Delmar was at his club last night, what happened there, and what time he left. And should any further Idea occur to you, M. de Souza—above all, if you observe here any suspicious sign—kindly let me know.” And then the magistrate and commissary went away, leaving one gen'darme on guard at the door of Delmar’s room and two at the street door, which was already beset by a crowd of Idlers and busybodies. “I have seated for a long time that Victor Delmar would come to a bad end, but I little thought ho would be murdered in Paris, almost in my own presence,” said De Souza pensively. “He was not a good man, but that is no reason why I should not use every effort to bring his murderer to justice. It is an interesting case, too, and I shall not be surprised You remember our conversation at the Case Anglais. I have a feeling that this will be added to the long list of undetected crimes. But I must go and cable to New Orleans.” While do Souza went to the telegraph office I went to the Chanticleer office and wrote a long and, as I flattered myself a vivid account of the murder, which caused even a greater sensation than the murder in the Jtue de Bac, and proved a perfect godsend to the paper, for owing to my personal knowledge of the paper, my visit to tho club, and my familiarity with the scene of the crime, we were able to give fuller details and more thrilling “word pictures” than any of our contemporaries. CHAPTER V. Inquiries made at the Club confirmed de Souza’s surmise that Delmar was there on the night of tho murder. He had gambled, won, and gone homo, as usual, about three o’clock. But though Delmar was not liked, and it was supposed that he did not always play fair, there was nothing to show that any member of the club was privy to the murder. The last man with whom he had played cards, and from whom he had won tho most money, could account for every miatote es his- time, from Delmar’s departure to the discovery of tho crime. The night porter, the head waiter, and tho chambermaid wore arrested and examined; > but, as there was not a particle of evidence against them, and they made no damaging admissions, all were released after a short detention. Wherefore,; to o’Yea's chagrin, the boom did not last long. There was nothing to keep it going, and except by the police and a few others the “ Crime of the Hotel Mijoux” was soon forgotten. Among the few others was Mme. Mijoux. Several of her visitors left, and though the room in which Delmar died was one of the best in the house no one would have it at any price. “Why don’t you come and live here?” said de Souza to me one day. “I wish you would." “I wish I could. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to.” “Yes, you can, it you are not superstitious. Are you? “ Tho idea of a sub-editor being superstitious!" “Well, I have spoken to Mme. Mijoux, and if you will occupy Delmar’s room for two months she will let you have it for nothing, and give you a good breakfast every morning Into the bargain.” “Pour encourager les autres, I suppose?" “Exactly. She thinks you will bring her la bonne chance" (good luck). “All right. It’s a bargain." “When will you come?” "To-night.” And I did, and the arrangements ! suited me to aT. It was a great sav- 1 Ing, an important consideration In those | days. I was alsp nearer to my work, I ail'd I saw Marie and her brother everj’ ' day and dined with them at least once ■ a week. Shortly after I took up my quarters ' at the Mijoux she asked me whether I ' was not afraid of sleeping in “that j dreadful r.oni." “Not the least. Why should I be?" "Well, I know I should be. Os course, ; you are always careful to lock your ; door.” “I never lock my door on principle. I I knew a man who always locked himself ■ in his room. One night ho was roused ]. by a cry of lire, but the lock being j hampered ho could not get out, so had ’ to drop from tho window, thereby sus- I taihing injuries that crippled him for | life. Besides, I regard number fifty- l six (Delmar’s old room) as the safest I in Paris. Who ever heard of two mur- | ders being committed In tho same room I within a few months? Its associations ! are a better protection than all tho J bolts and bars." “I dare say you aro right. It sounds ' very sensible. All tho same, do you I never feel nervous?” “Never; and I sleep like atop.” “Well, I would not 8] end a night in I that room —sleep would bo out of the question—with tho door unlocked for all Purls." It was quite true. I did sleep soundly, but that night—probably from the effect of supping with O’Yea, Hertz and : some other pressman, I slept badly. I After dozing one hour and lying awake I two, I rose, wound up the blind and looked out. It was light of moon, but; the light was occasionally obscured by a drifting cloud. All was quiet in the street and the house. I was turning ; round with the intention of going to bed . again and wooing sleep once more, 1 when I thought I heard the door creak. I I listen intently. There can be no question about it The door does creak, j and I fancy I see It move. Slipping Into a dark corner between j the bed and door, I await developments. ; Slowly, slowly, the door is pushed - open, and a shrouded and hooded figure ’ glides noiselessly Into the room and makes towards the bed. In the robber's 8 right hand gleams a knife. As he sVops to see where to strike I

spring from my hiding place, dash the weapon from his hand and hurl him on the nod. The next moment, for he le too much surprised to struggle, I have him by the throat and on his back. Just then the moon emerges from behind a cloud, pouring a flood of light into the room, and In tho ghastly face and terrified eyes of tho midnight murderer I recognlz d tho features of—my friend. “You, de Souzal” and surprised in my turn, I relaxed my grasp and let him rise. "Davenport! Davenport! You here! Why—what aro you doing in my room? Why this violence?" he asks in a hoarse whisper. “Violence! In your room! What do you mean? Aro you mad? This is my room and you came here to kill mo. Here is your knife” (picking it up from the floor). “Only a minute ago I dashed it from your hand as you were in tho very act of striking." “Oh, my God. what an escape for both of us! As He is my witness, Davenport, I knew not what I did. The last thing I remember before I found myself in your grasp just now is falling asleep in my own room. I am—l must be—a somnambulist. I have suspected it for seve'al days, but I had no idea it went to this fearful extent. You yourself proved my susceptibility to hypnotism. Somnambulism is the same thing; and yes. there can bo no doubt of it—l am tho murderer of Victor Delmar.” “You! You are raving l " “I wish 1 were. I fear, however, that it is only too true. The other night I left a half-written letter on my desk. In the morning I found it finished, signed, addressed and stamped. I had fallen into the hypnotic condition and done it automatically and unconsciously. For years I have studied the psychology of crime and played the part of criminal investigator and amateur detective. I have considered cases —actual and imaginary—from every —- — ten. ——— “I HAVE HIM BY THE THROAT AND' ON HIS BACK. ” point of view. Without the remotest intention of committing crime, I have imagined how crimes might be committed without detection. I have had crime on the brain. My own psychological state became abnormal. You remember the conversation at the Case Anglais and how troubled I was about Delmar; he was always on my mind—and I killed him, killed him while we both slept. That is the only solution of the mystery. And now 1 h ive been repeating the past —‘reconstructing the crime,’ as the French say. Thank God you were awake, Davenport Yes, thank God. Will you denounce {nd to the police? You may if you like.” “Denounce you! Betray my friend! Good heavens, what do you take me for? Besides, there is no proof that you did kill Delmar,. It is pure surmise. And how about the money? His pockete were ilfled." “I suppose I took the money to make the police believe that robbery was the motive —and hid it awiy somewhere. At any rate I have seen nothing of it." “I think you are wrong after all, de Souza. I don’t believe. Anyhow, thie must be put a stop to. You might go sleep-walking into some other body’s room.” “You are quite right. I shall goto the Alps, live in the open air and reinvigorate my overstrained jiervous system. I shall also discontinue the study of crime and take up some saner and nobler pursuit. Meanwhile, I must ask you to lock me in my room every night. You will not tell Marie?" “Os course not ’ “And now, my dear friend, I want to ask you a very delicate question. If I am wrong I know you will pardon me, tor it is prompted solely by a desire for your happiness. I have thought sometimes that you admire my sister.” “More, de Souza, I love her. You have asked me the question and I answer frankly; also I admit as frankly that it is the merest midsummer madness for a poor devil of a subeditor, with 75 francs a week, to think of love and marriage.” “I thought as much. But you needn’t let any scruple of that sort stand in the way. Marie has an ample fortune and I am her sole guardian. ’’ W » * * « As touching my courtship I will only say that for once the course of true i love rau smooth. A month later we j were married in Switzerland. I’hilip | was with us, for unfil he was radically I cured < f his somnambulism I was deter--1 mined not to lose sight of him. A few days after tho wedding Qe 1 Souza took me to his room—we were 1 staying at Grindelwald. His writing- | desk lay open on tho table. “I have been looking for some pa- ■ pevs,”he said, “which I put away ever I so long ago and could not remember ; where. While I was looking I be- ' thought mo of a secret drawer in this I desk, the very existence of -which I had ; forgotten. I found my papers — and I something else. See here!" I With that ho opened the drawer, and I saw lying there side by side a bundle ; of bank notes, and a key with a copper i label marked "No. 56.” (THE END.] - ' — A Railroad Funeral. j "One of the most impressive funeral ’ corteges I ever saw,” said an undertaker, “was that of a railroad employe killed in the discharge of duty and ; whose remains were taken to Terre ; Haute, Ind. Tho funeral was a rail- ! road affair entirely. The casket, ; shrouded in black, reposed on a catai falque seton tho tender of a locomo- ■ tivo and following it at intervals of ; about one hundred yards came fifty mas- ; sive locomotives all draped in mourn- ; ing, and clanging muffied bells. The mourners on a ieng train of draped i coaches followed all. It was a sight i never to bo forgotten. ” . , _ - Ohl Proverbs Made New. It never rains but it leaks. Fine bottles don’t make fine wines. There’s many a leap twixt Who boat and the slip. Conscience is the chamber of justice, but the judge is seldom present Many hands make light work. This accounts for the rapidity with which the hands of a gas meter get round. Man Sleep* Twenty Out of F ifty Years. By the time a man reaches his fiftieth birthday he has passed 6,000 days or nearly twenty years Uj sleep. No marvel that a fellow sometimes rubs his h*ad and wonders “where on earth the .dime has gone to?” Or, more correctly, under the new regime, “whar it has been at?”

GETTING EVEN WITH PHIPPS. A Story In Which Figure Queen Victoria’. Secretary and a Theater Manager. Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of Drury Lane Theater, having resolved during his management (to inaugurate an operatic season, desired to obtain the patronage of Queen Victoria. Ho had several friends among the nobility, who were fond of the theater, and enjoyed coming behind the scenes to have a chat with tne manager and taste his 'champagne. Amongst those was a certain Duke, with whom Smith was on a friendly footing. “Duke,” aald the irrepressible manager to him one evening, “I wantyou to do me a favor. 1 want you to lend mo your carriage for a couple of hours to morrow morning.” “Certainly, Smith. Anything to oblige you,” replied the nobleman. “What’s the fyke?” ‘■That’s a secret, but you shall know later.” Punctually at 11 a. m.. His Grace’s carriage, in charge of his liveried servants, stood at the stage door. Ini it entered the adventurous manager and his satellite. Fox Cooper. “Where to, sir?” said Jeanies touching his hat. “Buckingham Palace,’’ was the reply, aod away rolled the equippage. “Don't you think, Smith,” said Fox. “this is rather a bold venture? I don't half like it—l see trouble ahead, and smell the Tower.” ‘Pooh!” replied the manager. “You’ll see I shall carry my point; nothing like dash in matters of this sort. ” Buckingham Palace was reached. The carriage passed through the gates, the sentries presented arms respectfully to the armorial bearings and liveries. Smith expanded and Cooper shrank still smaller. Arrived at the entrance, an attendant opened the 1 door of the carriage and the buoyantjinanager was met in the vestibulq and was asked what he wanted. “1 wish to see Col. Phipps” (her majesty’s secretary) “on matters of great- importance,” was his reply in an imperious tone, at which announcement Cooper fell back into the uttermost corner of the carriage, and said he would rather stay where he was. Marshaled by the royal attendants, the unabashed manager was, after some necessary formalities, ushered into the presence of the private secretary. The apartment was large: the secretary stood with his back to the tire opposite the door that admitted the visitor, twirling a card betwixt his finger and thumb As the door closed behind the visitor, he commenced: “Well, Mr. Smith, and to what do we owe the honor of this extraordinary intrusion?” “Sir, said the undaunted manager, “1 am about to give a series of grand operas at the National Theater, and I have come in person humbly to solicit the patronage of her most gracious majesty.” “Sir,” said the secretary in his most freezingly polite manner, “the wav to approach her .Majesty the Queen of England in a matter of this kind is by memorial. Good morning” Bell. Time elapsed. Charles Mathews was playing at the theater in “The Chain of Events,” and the Queen commanded a performance at Windsor, and desired to have Mathews in the cast The secretary accordingly wrote to the management an official mandate, with the usual formality, tothe effect that the Queen had commanded a play to be performed at Windsor and required the services of Mathews in the cast. Signed “Phipps. ” This was E. T.’s opportunity. He seized it and wrote: Sm:—ln reply to your letter I have only to say that, in 11 matter of this kind, the only way to approach the managerof the National Theater is by memorial. Yours obediently. E. T. Smith. Coin in Cucumbers. A rich soil Is requisite, says the American Cider-Maker. The average yield, when the soil is all it should be, is about one hundred bushels to the acre: and strange to say. the smaller the cucumbers, the more bushels can be raised per acre, a paradox already alluded to in these columns. Where the cucumbers average 600 to the bushel, about 200 bushels might be produced to every acre, while with cucumbers so small as to require 800 to constitute a bushel, a yield even so great as 300 bushels to the acre might be obtained. The reason of this lies in the fact that where they arc allowed to grow, they not only become too large for pickling purposes, out they sap the nourishment of the vines, thus retarding the prolificacy which is the rule when they are clipped oil ata smaller stage of their growth. The vines should lie cleared entirely of all cucumbers down to those of 1] inches: all under that size should be left to attain that size or over, and a like rule should be followed in second or subsequent gatherings. Beside the increase in quantity and quality, there is an "added value in the pickles themselves according to their diminutiveness. The market demands that thev should never exceed four inches in length—three inches is better, but two inches is best. Small cucumbers gathered and putiip in good condition, never fail to command a ready sale at profitable figures. In gathering the crop, the cucumbers should be cut from the vines with scissors. The use of a knife disturbs the vetoes to a more or less extent, and any disturbance of this sort retards further bearing. Merely pulling the fruit off will not do at all. and in every instance about half an inch of stem should te left to each cucumber. Ice-Breaking with Dynamite. There have been divided opinions about the expediency of using dynamite for ice-breaking, and it has never been used for this purpose to any extent. Practical experiments., last winter at the Hango Harbor, in Finland, seem, however, to have given very satisfactory results. The powerful ice-breaker of the port was helpless in the face of a belt of some 1,200 feet of very thick ice, the thickness of which was measured to be as much as 18 feet. It would seem essential for successful ice-breaking with dynamite that there should <

1 he sufficient room to dispose of the | broken ice. tor if this is allowed to ; remain broken in the channel It will 1 still interfere with the progress of steamers. The cost of the dynamite ice-breaking at Hango amounted to about £SO. —London Engineering. In the Coata Rican Hwamp. 1 Go and live there, inhabit that picturesque adobe dwelling for twenty-four hours, either with or without Jungle fever, and your en- ■ ttjusiasm will possibly be considerably modified. The breeze, tepid and languorous, brings little refreshment I to the heavy steaming atmosphere. ; charged by blazing sunshine in brief alternation with torrents of rain, i deadly miasms from the rot-laden lagoon steal like ghosts through the moonlit night, and every type of winged and creeping abomination that earth produces there teems and i swelters in luxuriant virulence. Great hairy tarantula spiders, centipedes a foot long, and scorpions ' like miniature lobsters, had their being in the banana-leaf thatch above ue; land crabs burrowed up through the fungus grown floor to visit my couch: huge toads and venomous reptiles came frankly in at the door, j Alligators and enormous serpents infested the lagoon board by and might be expected at any moment. I did not see an anaconda while I was there, but a blow from the tail of an alligator struggling with some creati ure it had captured, actually* broke away some of the wall of my hut one i night. Beastly bats sailed in occasionally, and were found by dayI light pendant and pugnacious over- ; head, while more than once a yell, a ' scuffle and a rush proclaimed the dis- • turbed intrusion of some unidentified delegate of the cat tribe. Respiratory air seemed to have ac- | quired a third constituent in addition ■ to its normal oxygen and nitrogen in ! the stifling clouds of mosquitoes which tillfed the darkness—and aCen- . tral American mosquito Is as mercl- ; less an organism as any of its accursed l kind found outside the Arctic circle, which is saying a good deal. Strange things whizzed and boomed through the obscurity, dropping with a sharp ; thud as though shot, or alighting with sticky feet, reluctant of dis- ; lodgment, on one’s face; all night I long there was a rustling and a crackling and a creeping, suggestive of un- ■ seen horrors all around; walls, floor, 1 and roof crawled and were horrent with hideous animation. I am a ! naturalist by instinct and can love and cherish the meanest reptile, but : I would not voluntarily of fore- ■ thought and design, choose a hut in a i Costo Rican swamp as a shelter for ! my sick bed during the delirium of I intermittent fever. In the Andes. A traveler in the heart of the Andes teds, in “Tropical] America,” how he relieved his feelings when, having ascended the ParamiHos, he found himself at the summit, nine j thousand feet above the sea level, j The scenery had increased in ; grandeur every hour since daybreak, 1 and sow two magnificent spectacles were to be enjoyed. The first was a ! broad view of the Cuyo Valley, south- ' ward and eastward, with Mendoza, (■its shaded streets, its plazas, and ■ suburban farms and vineyards directly ’ below us and so hear that with aglass, ' streets and houses could be identi- ! fled. The second was an inspiring : glimpse of the main Andean chain, now suddenly towering thousands of i feet above us in the west. Tupun- ' gato. in solemn majesty, looked down ! upon us from the clouds. Then with a sharp turn in the bridle-path a hundred snow-clads were ' revealed at once. It was a spectacle ito fire the blood. I had no companion in sympathy with my enthui siasm, but the Chilean guide at least ! had ears to hear compliments showi pred upon his native mountains, i Leaping frem the mule, I shouted: | “Magnifico! magnifleo!” I Then feeling the inadequacy of the ] unfamiliar Spanish tongue for expressing genuine Yankee feeling, I added: 1 “Hail Columbia' Glory Ilellelujah!” ; A flush of patriotic -pride illuminated the Chilean's face, and he repeated, “Magnifleo!" | There we stood in rapture, gazing at the Andean kings, with their ; snowy ermine falling from their I stately shoulders. How They Do It in Boston. 1 “Coffee beans made of flour" are alleged to cut quite a figure on the retail grocer’s coffee scales in the goodly East The Boston “Traveler" says: j “The wily grocer docs not attempt ito palm off these imita’ion beans for coffee. He is not a fooiisk man, your grocer: no, he only drops in what he considers a fair proportion, a proportion which, well mixed with the gen- : uine article, gives about all the flavor i it is safe for a person to inhale. The cunning housewife grinds, and laughs at the foolish women who do not buy whole coffee beans. The thrifty grocer laughs too, and goes on paying hi? pew rent and building tenement rows: the son of the Yankee in--1 ventor laughs; everyone is pleased, and best of all the coffee hurts no one, even the bai>y can* take a sip with no possible bad effects” i_l ■ He Was Absent-Minded There was once an absent-minded preacner in Maine, of whom a gos--1 siping lady tells the Lewiston JourI nal. One Sunday he said excitedly i at the close of a solemn discourse: “The choir will now pronounce the benediction and I will sing the Dpxology." The choir failed to respond j beyond a faint soprano giggle and the ) minister hastily exclaimed: “No, no! I should have said, I will now 1 sing the benediction and the choir will will please pronounce the Dox- ' ology.” Before he could hazzard another attempt the quartet came to the rescue with “Old Hundred," and . the parson sat down to recover his I wits behind the friendly shelter b r ] the old-fashioned pulpit. ,— In the bright lexicon of youth ; there is no such word as fail, but ! later on when he goes out West and starts into business tor himself, then the word shows up in great shape. The best way to keep cool is not to get hot over something you can’t i help. I

Business Direclory THE DECATUR RATIONAL BANK. OwMaL •W.SNL fcrphu, •!«,«• OrlganlaM Ancnat IS, IMK Oflom-T. T. Dorwta, pTMitait; T. W. RmftK PtwMmH; R. Fataraon CaaUar; I. T. Darwin, P. W. Amllh, Haary parkaa, J. C ■olbrook, B. J. Tarvaar, J. B. Sala >a4 M * Falaraan, Dlraotora. Wa ara praparad to maka Leona on good aaanttty, raaaiva Dapoalta, furnlah Domaatla and Foraian Exohanra, bay and aall Govarnmant and Monlalpal Bonda, and lurnlah Lattara at Cradit araflabla in any of tba principal eltlaa es Europa. Alao Paasaan Tlckat to and traaa tha Old World, lxdndln( Uanaportatfon te Dacatur. Adams County Bank Capital, STS, OOO. Snrplna, TS.OOa Organlxad In 1171. Offieora—D. fltndabakar. Praaldant; Itobt. B, AUlaon, Vioa-Prealdant; W. H. Niblick, Caaktar. Do a genaral banking bualnaea. CoUactlana nada In all parte of tha country. County. City and Townahlp Ordare bought. Foreign and Domaatlo Exchange bought and ■old. Intareat paid en time dapoalta. Paul O. Hooper, at XiAxttt ■BTDf, B. X. Mum. J. V. ERWIN Jb MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notariat PnbUe. Penafon Claim a Proaecnted, Office In Odd Fallowa' Building, Decatur, Ind. TjIRANCB A MERRYMAN. 1. T. rKAMCO. JD J. I. MKBBTMAM Attorney* ant Xam.-w. DKCATUB, INDIANA. Office Noe. L 2 and 3, over the Adami County Bank. Collectlona a apecialty. AL ®. BOLLOWAY, Fhyalolon eb Burgeon Office over Burna’ harneea ahop, realdenoe enc door north of M. B. church. All coUg promptly attended to la ally or country nl<ht M, la BOLLOWAY, M. V. Office and residence one door nerth of M. M church. Diseases of woman and ohlldroa deities Let I Nelsen, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. Jq. neftvnk, • DKNIBT. Now located over Holthouae’a ahoe etore, and la prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the uae of Mayo’e Vapor he la enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN Oa Fans Property on Long Timo. Wo OoxaaJtaxldiMlonw Low Bate of lateress. la aay asieuats can ba made at aay ttao aad stop Intareat. CUI oa, or atdrwaa, X *. GRUBB, or JT. F. MAJHf, OUea: Odd Fallows' Buildlag. Pa safe. J. B. 8080, B> T. 8080. Master Oommlaaloner. 8080 & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Baal Batata sad Collection, Decatur, Ind. O.P. B AXDEEWS, Fixywlcian <As Sux*seox>. MONROS. INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. B. church. , 2M Prof. L R. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon, Modus Operandt. Orcho >1 Z1 tomv. Overotomy, Castrating. Rldg Ua<, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing, and treating their diseases. Office over 1 H. Stone’s hardware store, Decatur Indiana. J. S. Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, M D. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store. Decatur. Ind

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