Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1893 — Page 2

®he gcmocrui DECATUR, IND. It-BLACKBURN, - - • l’r»l.nnn a ■ ' Tn® report that oysters are scarce la stew thin. A man must lc indeed deaf if he t hear his own Jokes when he jd-tratea them. ow that all the trainmen have , u u supplied with rifles, shooting tournaments, in which they can learn to use them, will l>e inorder. Dr. Edward Everett Hale has been represented in print as colie ting children s sayings for some philosophical purpose, as a result of which his mail is inundated with letters (rom appreciative parents and others containing anecdotes of this sort, but Dr. Hale denies that he is making any such collection for the purpose named or any other. Prince I<kaj*otkin, the celebrated Russian exile and advocate of anarchy, who makes his headquarters in London, looks the anarchist every inch of him. He is tall and lathy, with deep-set eyes, bald head, and patriarchal whiskers and mustache, which grow in a gray, unkempt mass over his breast. His principal gesture when speaking consists in spreading the fingers of both hands wide apart and see-sawing the air with his arms. Miserable Italy suffers another financial and political shock in the failure of the Credit Mobilier of Koine, which w ill puli down many of the feeble surviving banks of the country. The royal government has been playing the desperate game of carrying a lot of tottering brokers and money-lenders through its own -i.:'ky political tactics, and this is ...< another added to a long series of ii . -ters made inevitable by the .•less Jingoism of Crispi. To be’ ..iember of the triple alliance was pretty on payer, but it has brought ; Italy and the house of Savoy perilbusly near revolution.The Toronto Empire calmly remarks that the Canadian forests •furnish the only timber supply upon this continent worth speaking about. ” i It is evident either that the Toronto | editor has not traveled extensively ! •utside of Canada or that he is not particular about his statements, i There is a good deal of timber left in Minnesota. Wisconsin, Michigan and Maine, and there is much more in the Southern States, from which lumber is exported in large quantities, and these is still more in the •orthwestern portion of the United States and California, not to speak of | Alaska, where trees grow much as they do in British Columbia. Girls in all English-speaking countries will be in a flutter when they learn that the big wigs of the English courts have expressed the conviction that the law permitting actions for breach of promises should be repealed. In the opinion of the Eighty Dogberrys over the sea, this ( jacred privilege of.the sex must be taken from it because designing fe- ; (dales are constantly preying upon I the fortunes of young and also of old ' Deers What a dreadful thing! ’ Rather than sanction such a calamSty, the learned judges would prefer ;hat the aristocracy should prey upon the affections of the British spinsters Os all classes without any fear of Damages for broken vows. But Parliament will doubtless protect the girls. The quarrel the Comstockians and amusement purveyors are having in New York over a painted gorilla recalls some of tne stories Columbian guards tell freely now about the lagoon at Jackson Park. There is no doubt that many people who speak Only English did not quite underhand what the much talked of lagoon was. One lady, asked a guard In the A (.7 i ulture Building to show her to Ujr part where the lagoon was ted. /n •( her asked a guard if the lagoo'. was kept in the Woman’s Buihi i- ■ Another became confused betwi- <i gondola and lagdbn and work ■> off her confusion by calling *n el. ctric launch a galloon. All of Which shows that the vernacular hilght Just a well have been used anyway » .e would have served iequall.' '•■ell. It might have been less p but it would not have cre:i ’ . -I, much disorder in natural hisio.>

Tui. suspension of thirty students ; at the Wim na, Minn., Normal School ' for parting their hair in the middle has caused no little comment in edueatiopal circles. As a normal school Is an institution where people are taught to teach, it is to Wi presumed Jbat the teachers in a normal school and the principal who reigns over ~ them must repre-ent the veryesseoce 7 of wisdom. Therefore, when such persons perform an unu-ua) act they must have grave reasons for their deed. It must be done in the Interest of pedagogy and general intellectual advancement When the authorities of the Winona Normal set their feet down upon the pract e of parting the hair in the midu e it could not have been becatw: it wamerely a fashion that Incurred the r disapproval. learned teachers’~o teachers surely can take no In a question of hair dressing Tf»<> are looking out for what lies ur»a< r the hair.: The conclusion Is Inevitable that the Winona wise ones base discovered that parting the hair Io the middle, when , wtfesd by mates,

! has an injurious effect upon the brain or is a surface indication of a brain j that Is not adapted to the intellectual work of instructing the young. An explanation from the Winona authorities is in order. —«=- I The object of public school in- ! struction is not alone intellectual I culture, but also to render the future citizen self-supporting and well equipped to enter the battle of life. Acting on this proposition, the enemies of the high school erroneously, as we believe, condemn the curriculum as being of small practical value, seemingly forgetting that knowledge thus obtained is at the best little more than the stepping stone to the education that is to follow. Tte successful man is a student all his life: not necessarily a student of books, but of business, of human nature, of the world in general, and his chosen profession or his trade in particular. The early culture reI eelved in the high school is essential as teaching the boy, as a boy, to profitably study as a man. The highI school education teaches the youth to reason; it makes easy for him the more trying practical study of busi- ! ness. Anything that will develop the reasoning powers of the youth Is a true educator and invaluable as such. For this reason, if for no other, the high school is a success. That King Humbert should miss a chance to meet Chauncey Depew is another added to the King's numerous misfortunes. The King was engaged in the minor business of trying to fix up a cabinet and of extricating a score of banks from the debris of the Credit Mobilier when the suave New-Yorker called. The King found it impossible to see the caller at Just that moment, but was sure he could if Chauncey should remain for a few days. Chauncey could not, and the King has no suspicion bow much he has missed. At this time, too, in his experience, for if any man could lift up his spirits Chauncey could. Chauncey, on the other hand, realizing that the contretemps is the King's misfortune and not his fault, may retrace his steps to the Eternal City before returning to the United States. If the King were only shrewd enough to open away to it. Chauncey could make in the name of the New York Centr'al an offer for all Italy that the house of Savoy might find eligible.

The official returns of the British Board of Trade, giving the statistics of railway accidents during the year 1892, may give the railroad managers of this country food for thought, and justify the question whether o«r own great lines of interstate communication are managed with a due regard to the safety of passengers and the necessities of traffic. A comparison between the numbers killed and injured in collisions, derailments and ordinary traffic running accidents, shows a fearful difference between the English returns and those of our own country. In Great Britain the figures show that for the year 1892 there were 29 passengers and 9 employes killed in such accidents as have been indicated; while in this country, for ten months only, 260 persons were killed and 841 injured. And even this was better than in 1891, when 790 persons were killed and 2,685 wounded. Nor will it do to assume that the railroads of Great Britain are such small and insignificant concerns, when judged by our own trunk line standard, as to make comparisons worthless and misleading. In the United Kingdom the railroads are big enough to give employment to about 400,000 men, and they handle about 900,000,000 passengers during the year. A network of lines which can show figures of this sort is not too small to be used as a test compared with ourowu roads, particularly when we find that in this country one person was killed for every 306 employed and one injured for every 33 employed. It is neither creditable to American companies nor fair to their passengers that they should be so far in the rear in the means of assuring safety of travel. This country is too intelligent and progressive and its mechanical and engineering skill of too high a standard to permit its vast railroads to remain as elements of danger instead of being means of perfect safety in travel; and the public will demand and managers be compelled to provide such appliances of equipment and conditions of roadbed as will bring all the railways of the country to that level which has been developed in the great lines of Pennsylvania, in the New York Central and on one or two other roads which are as safe as the best British lines and far surpass them in their ■ comforts and conveniences.

Study of the Hand. An interesting di-ewdoohassprung up among the pa.mists in regard to ' the J ice oMh» hand known as the marriage line. One recognized authority says that wfa<n this line curves upward the possessor is not , likely to marry at al; Other experts reply that they know many married and happy peop e with such a line. It is also alleged that the transverse line on the Mercury." which one party sa>>. > ’he marriage line, Is not *o the Chirological Society. •©» says the editor of the pan. organ. “is that thpvr lines ar<- of attachment, and tbe.r i> >/a"e y a Landover seen w.thotr at < r.': io the hand of ether ma’' ' - • oomrrtel people.” t ' \ ' * • - ‘ . *-ri< h.* . A ” 'ewmaker, who was d ' .'k.t4/ tk aasbtentar ad«. < . ■ t»o girfa-te her etnp; 0.. i.. • 7 * »9rt at m Jus«day azz';. ug a'/d wof/ed oootteuotly ■’ll' w v >..oeoday oJgtet, thlri ■ i) tour a half for r est

OTHERS WILL THRIVE DISPENSE WITH TARIFF-FOSTER-ED FACTORIES. Industrie* Feed, Entirely on Protection Pap Are Expensive to the Country —Scftue Information Furntahed by a Wool-Grower. Changing Io Profit. From the manufacturing center* of the East a few croaks and threats are arising. Fortunately there are such papers at the Boston Globe and Herald. the Philadelphia Times and Record anij the Providence Journal to keep an eye on subsidized machine owners and report on falsehoods. In the political columns of Republican newspapers we get information that manufacturers are reducing wages much against their philanthropic desire, but to meet the Wilson bill reductions. In the trade columns we learn that the great glass works of West Virginia and Eastern Pennsylvania are taking orders and resuming work. We read Carnegie’s boast that ho can turn out with 2,000 men as much steel of better grade than he could with 10,000 when the tariff of 188 ft was passed. We are told by the deepwater steel and iron manufacturers that they will do more business with free ores and low rates on finished goods than with taxed ores and high rates on finished goods. Even at the worst it therefore appears that the manufacturers themselves, as a class, will gain more than they will lose from the revision proposed by the Ways and Means Committee. We might admit that some manufacturers will be unfavorably affected for a time. We might go further and admit that some may not be able to continue. In every business improvement the useless must go. It Is stupid to stop an improvement that will benefit a thousand men because one man may be thereby asked to look for other work. The nation may be regarded as a huge business institution. It finds that it is running under a bad system. Useless exp?nses are eating into profits. Sales are being cut down by rules which displea »e customers. Men are employed whose work is not only worthless, but sadly in the way of good work on the part of the useful men. A reorganization is decided upon. It is known that the plan is good, that the general profits will be immensely increased. the volume of business enlarged and the expenses reduced. But the few useless men set up a howk They do not want a change. They object to learning a new system. They declare their woes and not only plead but arrogant!® demand that nothing shall be done.*What does a business house do in such a case? It effects the reorganization. The useless men are taught the necessity of learning the new methods. In the end better wages are paid all around. Goods are handled at less expense, The house, the customers and the employes are all the gainers. The world is better for the change. Unprofitable business systems are immoral. because they lower the scale of eomferts in every'family touched by their operations. A reorganization into profitable and active systems is the best religion and morals for them. The tariff is essentially a business question. It is a moral question in its injustice. But all badly handled business is immoral and the tariff's immorality is a commercial immorality in its effects, though a political immorality because the powers of the Government are employed io prevent an improvement. The threats and croaks of the monopolist are in no way different from the reproaches and howls of the unprofitable employes of a business house that is reforming its abuses and departing from its venerable blunders. If they were all telling the truth they would * not be worthy of attention. Most of them are telling falsehoods. A protective tariff is the most expensive business blunder/! nation ever made. Wars and conquests do not cost as much. Give us the business reform and let us all get down to straight business that will pay everybody.—St. Louis Republic.

Too Easy on the Trust*. The Wilson bill is excellent so far as it gees. It,makes raw materials free This will reduce prices of manufactured goods, enlarge the demand for them and compel the manufacturers to employ more labor at higher wages. It reduces duties and will lessen the cost of living without lowering wages. It will be a boon to manufacturers and laborers and a God-send to consumers. But in cne respect, at least, the bill will not do all it should do. It will take much from trusts, but it will still leave them good pickings. Take, for example, the steel rail trust. Duties on steel rails have been reduced from $13.44 per ton to 25 per cent.—about $5 per ton. But why leave any duty at all? It will yield no revenue except to the trust. There is not a shadow of a doubt but that steel rails can be, and are manufactured in some of our largest nrills for less than S2O, and probably for less than sl9 per ton. These are figures that could not be touched by, foreign manufacturers —at least in our own markets. Indeed, it is probable that if our manufacturei-s were not favored by duties they weuld soon be exporting’ more rails than are exported by any foreign country. About the time the new tariff schedule was under consideration by the Ways and Means Committee, the st el rail .trust let go its grip, and prices fell from s29,where they had been for several years, to less than $22. After the 25 per cent, rate had been agreed upon, the trust took a new hold and fixed prices at s2s—just below the point at which it would cease to be profitable to import. The duty will enable the manufacturers to charge about $5 mere than they otherwise could do on every ton t of steel rails sold in this country. It is worth tens of millions of dollars to the trust, but nothing whatever to the government. It will take millions out of the pockets of both the producers and consumers of grains, meats, etc., shipped over railroads, and return nothing to their pockets. The one-fourth cent per pound duty left on refined sugar has no foundation in justice. It will simply license one of the worst trusts on American soil to extract $10,G00,000 per annum from consumers. In no other country is sugar refined as cheaply as in our great refineries. Our exports greatly exceed our imports. During the past year this trust, protected by a duty of onehalf cent per pound, has paid dividends of about $20,000,000 on an actual capital of less tnan $50,000,000, and besides has laid by»a surplus of between SS,<XX>,OOO and $10,000,000. The saw, ax, cartridge and dozens of other trfists can still ply their nefarious business after the Wilson bill is in operation. They all export their products and give special discounts to foreigners. They need no duty whatever, and it will be an act of shame to leave ! them even one per cent. Wjlson has clipped the wings of these vultures: he should cut off their heads. Why has he nr A done so? Is the fear of in- , trenched corporate capital so great that even a party which represents the .wishes of nearly two-thirds of the American people dare not lift its arm

to strike the death blow to monopoly? If so, it will bo In order f>r another congressman to arise and Inquire, "Whore are wo at?"—Byron W. Holt. Waked Up the Wrong Pnwwmfar. A wool-grower In Wyoming having received a circular from the firm of Justice, Bateman & Co., wool commission merchants of Philadelphia, asking him to send to the Hon. Julius Caesar Burrows, M. C., the answers to certain leading questions touching tho wool tariff, tho person thus interrogated sends a copy of his answer to the World. It must bo very ihtasting to Burrows as well aa to Justice, Bateman & Co. Being asked what price he got for his last dip of wool, he says that it netted him 01 cents per pound, that the clip of 1802 netted him 14 cents, and that of 1891 brought him 17 cents. Tho crops of 1892 and 1893, he adds, were Bold after the McKinley tariff wont into force, while that of 1891 was sold before. The circular reminds the woolgrower that in Australia the sheep graze out all the year round, that the government fences the land, sinks the wells, and leases the land in large tracts for less money than our woolgrowers pay taxes alone. To this tho wool-grower replies: The sheep graze out hero all the year the um« min Australia. The pasture is better here part of the time in enniiner than in winter, bnt if the sheep are properly handled they are fat all the year ronnd. The government does not fence the land here, neither does sny one else, so we have the whole country as an unobstructed range. We need no wells. Wo have the use of the range without owning it or leasing it or even paying taxes on it. The wool-grower that can’t compete with any other wool-grower S'hcn he has all these advantagee doesn't know enough to take advantage of a good thing when it is offered to him. In reply to another question he saye that the cost 6f wool-growing in Wyoming depends on the way the business is conducted. Some people lose money when they get 15 cents per pound for their wool and others make money when they get only 9 cents. As for himself, he says that the increase of his flocks is worth more than it costs to take care of them. Evidently Messrs. Justice, Bateman & Co. have “waked up the wrong passenger.”—New York Evening Post. .

The New Tariff BiU. “Ultimate destruction” is what Mr. John D. Long, of Massachusetts, sees in the new tariff bill. He must be gifted with a very vivid imagination. —Providence Journal. The new tariff bill, as proposed by the Democrats of the Ways afd Means Committee, might properly be termed a bill for the emancipation of American industries.—Florida Times-Union. It is by no means merely the bill ol one man or even of one committee. It will rank among the most earnest, thoughtful' and comprehensive plans ever formulated in the annals of tariff legislation. —Boston Globe. The bill is admirable in theory and is a practical tax measure carefully worked out. It will need few amendments and only a short debate. Our Federal taxation is getting close to the Constituticn.—St Louis Republic. The best feature of the Wilson tariff bill is its free list There can be no possible , doubt that those products which lie at the basis of great industries should be free of duty. To tax these is to tax production.—lndianapolis News. It is to be expected that extreme McKinleyites will indulge in tales of woe over the Wilson bill, but they will not get much sympathy from the great mass of the 'manufacturers and the consumers of the country. —Buffalo Courier.

The Tax on Invomes. England has an income tax and it is enforced without trouble. The English as a hation of people are certainly not more truthful than Americans.—Chattanooga News. Thoughtful men in both parties admit that a tax on incomes is just and equitable. It is the best of all taxes, because it is paid by those who can easily afford to pay it.—Atlanta Constitution. The income tax is not only just and right considered by itself. It is the keystone of a rational revenue system which shall impose crushing burdens one, but will do and exact justice to all.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. An income tax is not imposed upon any one class of citizens any more than any other tax is. The tax on whisky is class legislation in the sense that people who do not drink whiskv do not have to pay it; the tax on tobacco is the same. —Seattle Telegraph. All the Republican papers are opposed to the income tax. They oppose it for the reason that an income tax strikes the rich and thus lowers the taxes of the poor, and the Republican theory is to always support the measures of the rich.—Mohawk Valley Democrat. Tariff Bill Prospects. There seems to be no room for doubt that the business men of the country, irrespective of party, are anxious to have the bill passed and put in operation as soon as may be consistent with proper deliberation and attention to harmony of detail. If the Republicans as politicians really think that the bill will be injurious to the country, they must think it will be injurious to the party responsible for it. Therefore they ought to be entirely Willing to see it pnt in operation as soon as possible, so that its effects might be seen before the Congressional elections next November. Hence there is ground for the hope that they will make no factious opposition. There is even ground for the hope that they will not lend their aid to any faction of the majority which may attempt to emasculate the bill.—Chicago Herald.

Tax Figures. The Republican Congressmen are said to oppose an income tax because they regard it as “the first step in the direction of free trade. ’ It is the old story. The defenders df a tariff for bounties have repealed all of the direct taxes on wealth and most of the internal revenue taxes, and have at the same time largely increased the permanent appropriations, all with the same object of preventing a reduction of their monopely-fostering tariff taxes on the necessaries of the people. It is for the Democrats to move in the opposite direction — untax necessaries, tax luxuries and superfluities. x A<i Valorem Du tie*. The chief protectionist objection to an ad valorem tariff is that it is plain and easy to be understood. They prefer a form of duties as complicated at possible, and McKinley achieved a tri' umph in that line bv making a very large number of duties'both ad valorem and specific. No one but an expert could tell what such duties actually amounted to. and even an expert has to wait until after the duties are collected to calculate the rate.—-Indianapolis Sentinel. _ The fat-friers threaten to retire Chairman Wilson from public Use. It remains to be seen what the people of West Virginia think of this sort of impudence. ______ The laborer who depends upon the tariff to raise or lower wages very naturally takes to the idea of having the foreigner pay his taxes. GOOD kings are slaves and their people are free. Marie Leozeinsfat.

A PLUNGE TO DEATH. SPAN OF THE RAILWAY BRIDGE AT LOUISVILLE FALLS. Estimated Loss ot IJfe Varins Greatly— Engineers Bay the Disaster Wns Due to Faulty Construction and Weak Girders—■ Tho Morgue and Hospitals Full. Awful Scenes nf Horror. At 10:20 o'clock Friday morning tho fourth span of the ill-fated Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge across tho Ohio fell into tho river. This proved to be the m ist frightful ot the many disasters tn tho bridge, which has wrecked lives and swept away fortunes in a manner almost inconceivable. The bridge is under construction by the Phoenixville Bridge Company, of Phoenixville, Pa. Fifty mon were at work on the bridge, all of whom were precipitated into the river The dispatch says that the number killed will exceed twenty. The bridge has been under construction for a number of years. Several times work has been suspended for lack of funds. Two years ago the Masonic Savings Bank failed because of its connection with the bridge company. Recently financial assistance was obtained and work was resumed. Three years ago in constructing tho piers a dreadful accident happened at the caisson, resulting in the death of twelve men. Accident! have been frequent and from first to last It is said that fifty men have been killed. This accident was due to the insecure placing of the "traveler” Thursday night. The wind still further loosened it and in the morning the order was given to draw it back into itsplaee and the engines were started. The wind was high and the swaying of tho falsework forced the “traveler* from the piles on which it was placed. When the end slipped off the men realized their danger. The engineer called to the men and ten of the fifty-one on the span escaped. Fortyone fell 110 feet into the water. Witnessed by Many. The shocking accident was witnessed by men employed along the river front and on the boats plying up and down the river. The ferry company at once sent two boats to assist in securing the bodies of the dead and dying and rescuing the workmen still alive. Both banks of the river were soon crowded with people. Many women were in the throngs, and it was apparent there were present the wives and children of those who had gone down to death. Three patrol wagons were kept busy and the guards were assisted by the fire department in carrying off the deadand injured. The wagons could not go to and from the hospital fast enough to receive those taken from the river. The injured were taken to the city hospital at the rate of about one a minute. All were unooncious and as a result their names could not be learned. Some were white and others colored. J. W. Baird, Secretary and Treasurer of the bridge company, was one of the witnesses to the disaster. Mr. Baird was in the company’s office, on the fourth floor of the Commerce Building. The bridge is In plain view of his room, and it is his custom to watch the progress of the workmen through his field-glasses. Even the shock of tne sight of the terrible death plunge was enough to complhte’y overcome him for a time. He said in reply to a question: “Yes, I am the originator of the plan to build the bridge, and I guess I will bo eternally damned for it”

YACHT RACING. MHlions of Dollar* Are Spent Yearly to Maintain the Sport. The international race between the Vigilant and the Valkyrie makes interesting some account of yacht racing, the more so as most people do not know where the sport originated nor what large sums of money are expended yearly for its maintenance. Charles 11. of England was the first yachtsman, having received a yacht as a present from the Dutch East India Company in 1691. The king was also a boat-builaer, and planned the Jamie, a 25-tonner, built at Lambeth, which he raced against the Bezan, a small Dutch-built vessel of the Duke of York. The prize was £IOO, won by the Bezan. With Charles’ death interest in yacht racing declined, and was not revived until 1720, wheri the Cork Harbor Water Club was fdhnded. The club still exists as tho Royal Cork Yacht Club, and has done much to popularize tho sport. Yacht racing received its greatest impetus in 1812, with the organization of the Royal Yacht Club of Cowes. This is now known as the Royal Yacht Squadron. At first the vessels of the club were small, their number not exceeding fifty all told. This little fleet has grown into the enormous roll of over 6,000, of which about one-fourth are steam vessels. Estimating ,the total tonnage at 300,000, and tne initial cost at 8225 per tod, the magnificent sum of #67,590,000 must have neon expended alone for the building of this fleet of pleasure craft. The annual expenditure, including the maintenance of the vessels, is estimated at nearly #15,000,000; and, while it is scarcely possible to calculate the number of men engaged on shore in connection with the yacht-building industry, those employed with the management of the fleet at sea number not less than 12,000 men. Yachting has become very popular in America In recent years, and the American Register says there are now, in this country, upward of 1,300 veslels, steam and sail, and that the number of clubs exceeds seventy.

Well Fixed. The town of Gravesend is said to be the richest town or township in the world. It has no debts and it has close to 91,000,000 on deposit. Overflow of News. Clara Weiker, tho Shreve, Ohio, child-murderess, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Two street-car conductors of Youngstown, Ohio, have been arrested for passing counterfeit coin. George J. Rice, once a railroad man of prominence, is in jail at Chattanoogh, Tenn., charged with forgery. Black diphtheria to have caused the death of two of Bon Zcrsher's children at New Pittsburg, Ohio. James F. Shields was awarded 91,100 damages against the Switchmen’s Aid Association at Keokuk, lowa. John O. Chaney was arrested at La Junta, Col., for salting an Eagle County mine and selling it to Denver tenderfeet. Frank Doty, alios Andy McKinna, charged with robbing tho postoffloo at Vandalia, lowa, was placed under 92,000 bonds. Ex-Gov. J. B. Jackson, of West Virginia, died at Parkersburg while sitting tn a chair at his home. Ho was 115 years old. .... “

—- *■*»— , ■ Business Directory •• ’V .. , "I. S ll Stl "L 1... A. THE DECATUB NATIONAL BANK. CAPITAL. »».«». SURPLUS, *11.500. Organized August 16, 1888. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Prea M Daniel Wrlrty, Vioe-pres.,ll. 8. Peterson. Cashier, J. 8. Peterson, Ass’t Cashier. Do a reneral banking business. Interest paid on time deposits, Buy and sell Domestic and Foreign ■» change. County and City Orders. AdamsCountyßank Do a general banking business. OoUmUms made in all parti of the country. County, dlls and Township Orders bought. Foreign andDomsstie Exchange bought sal sold. Interest paid en time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney Xaaxnf DsseSsr, • • luA—a ■MB A«• mmol is Bnimf <0 MAjfir, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office tn Odd Fellows' BuUdlMg, Decatur, lad. TABANCB * MBRBYMAn’ J. T. nurd. J? I. T. NOSMTMAT ▲ttorzxeya sat Zsaw, nscATVB, murx. Ofloo Noe. L » end 8, over the Adams Oountg Bank. OoUectlons a specialty. A. O. BOLMIWAY, Fhyadolaui <•> *iu***oaa promptly atteadod to la elty Or country aigM lypUL «. !>■ MOMrikWAY, ■. B, Ofloo aad residence one door north off M. & ehuroh. Diseases of women and children apo* flalMeo. Lirt Nilsti, Yitirlßin Surgm, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast car. Decatur and Short streets. NBPTUNN. ■ DNNHT. Now located over Holthouso’a shoo stere, and la prepared to do all work pertaining to the de*, talprofesslon. Odd fllUng a specldty, By tbs UM off Mayo’s Vapor bo la enabled to extract teeth without pain. AH work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN Sa Jim Property on Long Bum, MTo OoasajKßai.aßasl.oau Low Bate off IntessM. SPshrtlsbl 3R wyTcm-MaaSM In aay aaoonataeaa be ssado at any Mato aad stop taterest. Call oa, or adarosA X exerßJßs ST Jf. MXNM SflMi Odd Fellows' BMMiag, DeeaSna jffflKEßiE Lines. Schsdult In offset Aug. 27. 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WBBT. Limited, daUr for 2:40 p M No. 8. Paolflo Express, dally for l . . ln . M No. L Express, dally for Chicago £ TI . WA M No. 31. Accommodation, daily, tjo-rs a M except Sunday I traixs bast. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I T .« p m New York and Boston f “ No. S,‘ Express, daily for New i H No. 12. Express, dally for Newl M York I *"• No. 80. Accommodation, dally ex- Ijq.jq y Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:80 a. m. dally. Solid train for Columbus. Ohio, via Marion and the Columbus, Hooking VjUley end Tolddo Hallway (Buckeyeßoue>rPullmao sleepors tO'Colurabua Kenova, and Norfolk and other Virginia points via tho Columbus Hooklug Valley and Toledo and the Norfolk end Western Lines. J. W. DbLono, Agent. W.O, MaoEdwardo,T. P. A.Huntington, Ind. '"■■■ j ■. w . FfcMCTMe Night and Pay gewtMhe>wis& Toledo, Ohio, >A n D( — St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR OARS ux miw-MBBBW HjoiPMariMwawr. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON nicsht train grwMU SESveo eit scute, wg' *ew, sts OshISHT, st KtStrsU Mtt. hkfu Uchh th TatoSl. St Uib i KittuCllj L1 Clover Leaf Route. Not further particulars, call M Muro* Agent off the Company, or address Q. O. JKNKIN9, ••Mrai rsswesw 2gma TOLKQg, QHK

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Merryman’S factory Ton can get all kinds oi Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kinds of building ma terial either made or furnished on short notice. A M. 8080. B. Z. BOX Mmßmt OOBUniMIMMVo 8080 * BON, Jh.TTOIUWYm -A.T LAW. Bml BiteMi aaA DMfttaK, IML O.P. fl. ANDBfIWB, Fhyadolnn <m flKxrflflox MONBOB, INDIANA. Oflloe and resldenoe 2nd astdlrd'docts west off M.B-ohuroh. ffM Prof. L H. Zilflir, Titiriurj Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orobo M tomy, Oyerotomy, Castrating, Bldg Sag, Horses and Spayiff* Cattle andDshori tog. and treating their diseases. Ofloo over J ■.•SOM'shardware store. Deoatur Indlaaa ■■ - " I i ■ a . .I .-——Mom 1. 8. Coverdale. M. D. P. B. Thomas, MA. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomae Ofloo ovr Pieroe's Drug store. Decatur, IM LOOK HERE! * I am hare to stay aad can ssß Organs and Pianos CLEANIK6 HD REPAIRHD done nasoaabto 800 sso ffrsl aad save sseaoy. «T. T. 2ieA Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trama run on Central Standard Time, 28 min] utes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Thursday, August 17.1888. COING NOETH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 8 No. T Cincinnati..lve 815 am 800 pm Richmond 220 pm 1100.. 1160 Wlnoboster.... 8 if.. 1155.. IZSlorn Portland 4M.. 1286 pm 168 Decatur 610.. 181.. 146 KjNayne...arr 600.. 218.. 215 •• ...Ive 236.. 225.. SOtsm Kendallville 8 41.. 819.. 910.. Home City 356.. 832.. 9.W.. Wolcottville 401.. 337.. 931 .. Valentine 411 942.. LaGrange 419.. 8G . 951.. Lima 77 4 29 . .10 03.. arg 636.. «5i.. HU.. Kalamazoo.arr 606.. St*.. 1140.. “ ..Ive 710 am 626.. 525.. 1230 pm Or.Rapids..arr 010 .. 810.. 050.. 21»... “ K ..ive 1050.. 720.. 415.. D.. G.H.AM.cr 11 65.. 785 .. 418.. Howard City 1206 am 846.. 5<0.. Dig Rapids 12 56.. 947 . 6tf.. Reed City. 125.. 1020.. fM.. Cadillac^...arr 280.. 1130.. 910.. “ ....Ive 240 .. 1135 .. ... Traverse City i2»pm Kalkaska... . 4 01.. ,120 Petoskey 545.. 800 MaokinacCity.l 706.. 420.. GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. « No. 5 No. 4 No. 5 Mackinac City. 90Spm 740 am 150 pm BtMfcWLM:: IS:::::::::: fraverseClty 1105.. 496 Cadillac....arr 2 20am 100 pm f to ~ ...... “ ....Ive 280.. 12Cf.. 645 pm YSOam Reed City B*B.. 185.. 750.. |gT Big Rapids 406 .. 80S.. 8 to.. IN.. Howard City.. 500 .'. 860.. Ito.. 10N.. D.G.H.hM.or 615.. 500.. 10».. 1186.. HIS:: SS:: 'IJU !»:: 18:: ?“ !?:: •furgislol9 .. IN 508 .. Uma 1082.. 140 517.. fec.'.::.:lßS:: 18S:: Wolcottville... 1104 .. 101* 5«.. Sr 14}.. 1258.. 680 d 140..' 200.. 780 ster.... 817.. 241 .. 801 Richmond 420.. 840.. 916 Olnoinnati...... 700.. TIL, |1201pm|....— Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand .. Rapids and Cincinnati. . L 0, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. ‘ Ileostunlnd I Solentlflo Anerlcu A Agency I fITRADB MARKS, DISION PATBNTS, COPYRIGHTS. etoJ American £2 shorUd be without it WeeklyjM.tfO a