Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1895 — Page 8

TWO BUYS AND A COW. How Pete Found the Best Home He Had Ever Known. “Hello, Bunk! Come along, good old cre.itur’.” Pete patted the shoulders of the cos he was about to drive to pasture. It was Squire Hill’s cow, and the squire thought a great deal of it. He ha . a large farm, on which he raised little but horses, keeping only this one cow. The squire was passing, and stopped to give a more sturdy caress than I’ete's hand had been. "If you ever let anything happen to that cow, Pete." he said. “I’ll be likely to break every bone in your body." “Yessir,” said Pete, as soberly as if th? words had not been accompanied with a genial twinkle in the squire’s eyes. "You're the first small shaver I've ever let drive her.” "Yessir,” repeated Pete, with an impressive shake of the head. "You'll always look out for the railroad?” " Y’essir—sure.” "And the mill. There's a mighty mean slope down to the log boom if an animal got started down.” “Y’essir awful!" "And no fence along it" “Not a bit.” "Be sharp, then." “Go Tong, Bunkl” Pete trudged after the cow. very glad and proud of being trusted with such an important duty. He was a poor little stray, who had turned up on the farm from nobody knew where. After hanging about for awhile, making friends with the animals, at ranting attention by his light-hearted, funloving spirit, he had gradually fallen into place as chore boy and general convenience, rejoicing in every newlabor set him as giving evidence that he was gaining a foothold on the big farm, on which he soon came to have a home feeling. Bunker plodded lazily along until, coming near the mill, Pete faithfully tightened his hold on the rope by which he led her. The mill and its surroundings possessed a fascination for Pete. He had spent hours and hours lounging about the old-fashioned building, taking a kind of awe-stricken delight in its wonderful tangle of queer machinery. He had watched, with Ids breath held, the great saws eating their way through the logs which were hauled up an incline by the help of heavy rope and gigantic ho ks. The dam. the boom, every feature bore its charm for him. The other of the squire's bugliears. the railroad, passed just beyond the mill, crossing the road. One danger passed. Pete always began looking for the other, always bearing on his mind the many stories told by the squire of valuable animals killed by locomotives. He usually aimed to get Bunker past the slope above boom as fast as possible. But just uow he made a sudden pause. "Hello, Billy! It hat you doing there?" Billy was a diminutive boy belonging to the miller. Pete had spent many an hour playing with him before his duties on the farm had become so wejl defined. Billy was playing truant. Pete knew a glance. And not pnly that, but the truancy was of a dangerous character. “BiMy, come here!" Me on t. said Billy, with an obstinate shake of his shor.lders. “Billy, you keep off 'hat log!” “Me m y Boat." ■— small rebel held in his hand a block of w od, and. with the words, stepped out on the first of a number of logs which lay side by side in the loom. Pete fully appreciated the danger which the little rascal was braving. "Billy, I'll give you some nuts if you'll come here.” Billy stepped on the next log. "A whole pocketful. Billy." As Billy set his foot on the third log it gave a little roll under him, but he recovered himself by a quick step on the fourth. “Billy!" Pete's voice took on a tone of desperation, "if you don't c>me here I’ll thrash you within au inch of your life!" Billy hastened his step on the fifth log. Pete looked around in despair. No one was in sight. There were still two or three hours of the long summer evening's daylight, but the saw> were stopped and the wheels quiet. What should he do? With every moment his frightened eyes perceived the increasing danger to the small boy. When he should reach the other log and attempt to launch his tiny craft—what then? Pete called aloud for help, but was answered by only the hollow roar of the water washing over the dam. The miller s house was beyond the mill, back out of sight. A switch was so arranged as to back cars up for the convenient 1 fading of lumber. Pete's perplexed giance fell upon a loaded ear standing on the track. W ith a rougher pull on the rope bv which he was leading Bunker than that animal had ever before felt. Pete dragged her towards it. Another moment and he had secured the cow to one of the iron step-ladders and was wildly rushing down the bank towards the logs. "Billyboy"—Pete said it c axingly, all the while realizing how gladly he would have carried out his threat of a thrashing—"if you’ll wait just one minute I'll make you a boat with three masts. Honest, Billy!” Carefully he made his way over the logs just as Billy stooped to launch his boat. Whether the catastrophe would have come quite so soon but for the friendly pursuit can never be known, but Billy, quickening his motions in fear of being prevented in his design, stumbled and toppled into the water. With a few swift steps Pete was at his side as he clung with a small, dirty hand to a cleft in the rough bark. But the grasp soon failed, and Pete was

just in time to prevent his sinking in tl.e cruel water. With lond cries he he '. tightly to Pete's arms. "Mop, Billy! Wait till I get a good But Billy would not wait. Before Pete could secure any hold on the logs a desperate pull from the frightened child had caused him to lose his balance. The next moment he was pulled under water by Billy's weight. U ith Pete's first gasping breath as he arose to the surface he fixed one hand firmly on the rough log, then sought how he might best help Billy. It seemed as if both must go down together, but not once did he think of 1 osening the grasp of those small, clinging hands. Waiting until he had fully recovered his breath, he, by great exertion, contrived to pull himself partly up on the "No. Billy, I won't let you go. Say, Billy, just let go my arm, little fellow, « ' I can help you. Now. up! That's it. Take hold here.” It ith an effort which brought rings before his eyes and a roaring into his head Pete at length drew Billy to a sale position on the log, and, still holding him fast, lay back for a momeat. dizzy and faint. Then he sprang to his feet. Bunker must be seen to. With difficulty he restrained his impatience and carefully led Billy to a place of safety. All this while the small boy's father an.; mother had been peacefully at work in their back yard, out of sight and-hearing of the threatened shadow on their home. "Now, Billy, go'long to your mother, and don’t you never go on them logs again.” With the caution, half petting, half threatening, Pete turned and hurried i to where he had left his cow. Gazing blankly about him. he gave a shriek of dismay, then shot away j like an arrow loosened from a bow. j "Bunk!—Bunker! Le* go my cow. I say!” Tn his excitement and the rush and .inf th-- Hater Pete had failed to j realize the dreadful thing which was happening. A freight train had backed on the switch and coupled on the car to which Bunker was securely tied. Bunker had started on a placid walk with the first pull on the rope, next had unwillingly hastened her footsteps and as Pete's despairing glance reached her, was disappearing around a curve on a brisk trot. ’A ith repeated cries Pete followed at his highest speed, the cries gradually | living away as his breath failed him. The miller and his boys ran out of the yard just in time to wonder whether 1 • :e had taken leave of his senses, and j fined in the chase. hounding the curve. Pete could see Bunker far ahead of him. Fortunatethe train was heavily laden and not n: ring very fast. The’ trainmen were ' a.l ou the forward part of tl train and entirely unaware of what was going on.

’-*■* '.ickly oat of breath, and exhausted Iy the compulsory speed, poor Hunker nee remitted her efforts, but the cruel rope dragging upon her compelled her to go on. It is easy to guess what might hare been her fate had not help appeared just as Pete was beginning to ■ ize that his small legs were not equal competitors in a race with a railroad train. A farm wagon was approaching the track on a road which crossed it. The ey es of two or three men in the wagon were attracted by the unusual attachment to the train, and the sight of Pete’s wild gesticulation. With halloos and waving of hats they brought the train to a standstill. “What’s the racket?” The men gathered behind the train t find Bunker much the worse for her run. and a tatterdemalion of a boy, - aked and panting, sinking down beside her. "Oh, Bunk, Bunk!” he cried, with :■first free breath, "what’ll the squire say to me now?” What does it all mean?” asked the conductor. "Tell us about it, youngster," observing that everyone but the boy seemed as puzzled as himself "Who tied the cow? How did you get so wet?” "I—tied Bunker—on to the carwhile I went to get Billy out o’ the water.” "Billy in the water!” exclaimed the miller, who had come up. “It wa n t my fault," said poor Pete, p. .ssessed with the idea that in every f-.". t are of the calamity he must in some way be held blameworthy. "No, I guess it wasn't," said one of the men, gazing with sympathy on the ■y. “We were just passing, and seen tie whole thing. Couldn't get there til. he was cornin’ up the bank with the little chap. It’s all along o' him 3- u ain't goin' to have a funeral to your house this week, miller.” Oue of the trainmen flung down a r ugh flannel shirt in which Pete gladly wrapped himself. What's that you call your cow?” 3'ked one of the men. "Bunk. That is. Bunk for short. W.T.le name's Bunker Hill. I named her Bunker 'cause she's Squire Hill's cow, you see!" "If we were a bigger crowd we'd give three cheers for you and Bunker Hill,” said the conductor. "As we can't—hold up his hat.” Pete’s eyes beamed in bewilderment >f delight as a rattle of small coins sounded in it. “If I had my way, it would be a hat full of gold,” said the miller. The train moved on. amid cordial farewells to Bunker Hill and her faithful caretaker. "But 1 think he's too good to take care of cows.” asserted the miller's - “I should never feel safe about Billy unless he comes here to be one of us.” So Pete —happy boy!—went to live at the mill, finding there, he assured him--i If every day, the best home that ever was known. It is pleasant to be able to say that Bunker Hill very soon recovered from the effects of her firstand last run with a railroad train.—Sydney Dayre, in Outlook.

3 Honduras Items. e j Farmers are busy making hay in this vicinity this week. e Surveyor Fulk and wife spent Sunday s of las I week with relatives here. ' The ice cream social at No. 6 was well attended and agoodtime was had. H. H. Steele will erect a new barn in the s near future. a JH. Fulk passed through Linn Grove 1 on his way to Geneva on Sunday of last week. I A large number of our young people a- - the society at Yera Cruz on Sun day of last week. 1 Snue stock have been wounded by hunt- ■ ers for some of our citizens, and they say ' you had better go slow. C. E. Walters and J. H. Fulk and their best girls, Misses Martha and Ida Reppert, , spent last Sunday with relatives at Decatur Children’s day at the Reform church * last Sabbath was well attended. i — i Blue Creek. Mrs Wm. Custer of this community, ireceiving medical treatment at the hands of a New Y'ork doctor. John E. Durr and Samuel Myers, made . a business trip to Geneva last week. Mr. Cross and wife visited relatives at Bluffton last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Orpha and sister Olie Jacobs, called on friends at Berne, Sunday last. Charley Evans' of Champaign county, Ohio, is visiting associates in this community. The oil well south of Willshire is a sue cess, it is a gusher. Frank Davis and Mrs. Cottrell are guests . ,of relatives at Lima, Ohio, the past few days. Dr. George Calderwood and daughter of Monroe, visited Mr. El.ton and family last Thursday. James and Walter Hakes, took a living trip to Monmouth last Sunday. Wheat is being harvested here this week. James Kiley of St. Marys, Ohio, smiled I very pleasantly in this vicinity last Sunday with old friends and relatives. Wm Lotzenhizer of Payne, Ohio, ha> returned, he contemplates making his future home with his sister, Mrs. Marsh Lyons. R. O. Elston, a well known young man of this vicinity, went to see his best girl, Sunday, on finding that she was not at home, made his exit very sudenly. Wm. Springer of Greenwood, was seen with his smiling face in this vicinity Suni day evening. Making Lay is the order of the dav, it is very light on the ground in this locality.

Berne Items. A fine shower on Monday afternoon ; help a great deal to the good looks of our country about here. Fred Weehter is the happy papa of a big girl, who arrived at thetr home Tuesday night. One of the twin boys of Daniel Winteregg died, and was buried Thursday after noon. Austin Angsburg weni on a visit to Hamilton, Ohio, Friday morning. Prof. F. G. Hoecks returned home last Saturday. Amos Sprnnge, the head cook of Woodburn, was in town over Sunday. Adolph Witzeman went to YVoodburn Monday evening. J. A. Sprunger of Chicago, was in town the later part of last week. "§ was the number that took advantage of the excursion rates to Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesd ay. A. K. Grubb was in town Tuesday. Rev Sneider of Portland, held quarterly meeting at the evangelical church, Sunday. Jacob Atz and wife drove over to Vera Cruez Friday afternoon. T. Cummings of Bluffton, was in town Monday writing up some insurance. 8. Doak was in town Tue-lay. The teachers appointed for the coming term of school are as follows: J. A. Anderson, E. M. Rty, Mary L. Baumgartner, ! Carrie Lehman, T. W. Harris and Ciara Birder. Rev. A.C. Hirshy preached an English sermon Sunday evening at the Mennonitc church. We are sorry that it was not made public, many would have liked to hear the Rev. Children’s day at the hall, Sunday, 7:30 p. m. Notice to Teachers. By direction the state superintendent of Indiana, the following aiinouncement is herein made: All applicants for teachers' license, after the June 1895 examination, will Ire required to pass a successful examination on “Scientific Temperance,’’ in accordance with the provisions of the general assembly of 1895. Persons who are exempt by the provisions of the laws of lss9-93 will be required to take the examination in compliance with the act of 1893, section 4425, K. S. , Graduates of the state normal school and those holding state li- , cense are not required, until further notice, to take the above named ' | examination. Respectfully, J. F. Snow, Co. Supt. 1 The county superintendent will hold teachers’ examination next Saturday.

j. t. tra.scz. J-1- p EKANCT. A- MERRY MAX. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR. IND. Office Nt*. 1. S and 3. ..ver Adam* Co. Hank. We refer. by perwisaion. to Aumns to. imiu. A. P. BEATTY J- F. MANB MANN A BEATTY. ATTORNEYS AT LAW And Notaries Public Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows buiiulnM. I 8080 & COFFER ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rooms over P. O. Decatur. Ind H. F. COSTELLO. PHYSICIAN and SUKCEGa . I Office on west -side Os r. • ■ ’ ; i Teveres Hardware Story. KnJdt-i c .... ’ .-st , j Third Strect. between Munroe I ' ‘ I I Calls Diutuotlv attended today :»nu night. Money to Loan. I have money to loan <»nthe Lo." n Aa I No fees 1 • Can furnish money on a few days notice. Buy ■ a home and stop paying rent. Low rate of, ' interest. Office aver Donovan A Bremer . camp, Central Grocery. I>ecatur. Ind. PAIL HOOPER J. D. ELAXxE DEALERiX Grain, Seed, Wool, Salt, Oil, Coal, Lime, Fertilizers. Elevators on the Chicago A Erie and Clover Leaf railroads, office and retail store southea.si corner of Second and Jefferson Streets. J* - Your patronage solicited. 1

Capital $120,000. Established 1871 THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general hanking business, makes collections in ail parts of the <?•»»:» try. Buys town, township and county or Foreign and domestic exchange bought - >l<l In- > 1 terest paid on time deposits. Officers—W. H. Niblick. Presi«l< "taele-' baker, Ylce President: R. K. Allh <>hier. and U. S. Niblick. Assistant Cashier ! ...... -— : Dr. C. V. CONNELL, Ada pMiiii IbibiiHibij »» wmU viHiulii Decatur, Ind. Office I. 0.0. F. Block. Graduate of the Ontario Veterln- I ary College .-.nd Toronto Veterinary Dental i School Tn s .Hi diseases of domesticated anima - ( a Ils attended to day or night. IS Erie Lines. ■ I3b '"S' ' ln ' vember 25, Tra ius leave Decatur as follows: WEST. No. 5. vestibule limited, daily for > <hi f 2:13 p. m. No. 3, Pacific express, daily for > Chicago.. . f 1:27a.m. No. 1. express, daily except Sun- < day for < hica.ro. 10:45 a.m. No. 31. local, daily except bun- ' day f 10:45 a. m. EAST No. 8. vestibule limited, daily for I New York and rstou. { 8:0S p. m. No. 2, express, daily except Sunday for New York ) 1:55 p. m. No. 12. express, daily for New York f 1:34 a. m. No. 30, local, daily except Sun-' day J 10:45 a. m. Through Coaches ami sleeping Cais io New j York and Boston. Trains 1 and2stop al all stations on the C. & E. Division. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus. Circleville. Chillicothe. Waver- i ly. Portsmouth. Ironton, and Kenova, via Columbus. Hocking Valley x Toledo, and I Norfolk & Western U tea J. W. Del.oxg. Agent W.G MacEl 'YaKDs. T P. A.. Huntington. The G. R. & I. (Effect Jan. 20.1«.) TKAIXS NORTH. •No. 3. ♦No. 5. *No. 1. Richmond 11:00 a m 11.25 p m 3:30 p m Parry U:IU “ 3:40 M Votaw 3 4-S “ Harley 3:51 “ Fountain City. 11:25 “ 3:57 “ Johnson 11:35 “ 4:10 “ Lyni 11.40 “ 12:02 am 4:15 “ Snow Hill 11:46 “ 4:21 “ Wikkls 11:49 “ 4:24 - Winchester.... 12:0) “ 12:20 am 4:34 “ Stone 12:10 pm 4:44 “ * Ridgeville 12:19 “ 12:36 am 4:53 “ | Collet 12:32 “ 5:05 “ Portland .12:42 “ 12:54 am 5.17 “ i Jay 12:52 " 5:26 “ i Briant 12:5? “ 5:3’ “ Geneva 1:0* •’ 1:14 am 5:41 “ Ceylon 5:43 “ Berne 1:1* “ 5:51 “ Monroe 1:36 “ 6:01 “ i T»F< ATFR 1:47 “ I:44am 6:12 “ Monmouth 6:l* “ • Williams ° “ 6:2«i “ Hoagland 2:Ufi “ 6:31 “ i Adams 6:43 “ Fort Wayne.... 2:35 “ 2:20 am 6:55 “ I •Daily, except Sunday. ♦Dally to Grand “ Rapids. TRAINS SOUTH. •No. 2. +No. 6 *No. 4. Fort Wayne.... I:lspm 11:45pm 5:45am Adams 5:5s “ I Hoagland 1:39 42:15 am 6:13 “ . Williams 1:45 “ 12:21 “ 6:18 “ i Monmouth 6:z4 “ DECATUR.... 1:59 “ 12:37 “ 6:30 “ Monroe 2:13 “ 12:50 “ 6:44 I Berne 2:25 “ 1:02 “ 6:56 “ ; Ceylon 7:04 “ i Geneva 2:35 “ 1:14 “ 7:06 “ Briant 2:44 ° 1:24 “ 7:15 “ Jay 1:31 “ 7:21 M i I Portland 3:00 ° 1:41 “ 7:30 “ Collett 1:51 “ 7:41 “ . Ridgeville... . 3:24 “ 2:03 “ 7:50 “ | Stone 2:14 “ 7:59 “ ; Winchester.... 3:44 “ 2:25 “ b:(«9 “ Woods 2:34 “ 8:22 “ ' i Snow Hill 2:36 “ 25 “ . Lynn 4:05 “ 2:42 “ 8532 “ I Johnson 2:47 “ B:3H “ | Fountain City. 4:21 ' 2:57 “ 8:49 “ Haley 8:55 “ Votaw 8 59 “ Parry “ Richmond 4:45 “ 3:30 “ 9:15 “ ♦Daily Grand Rapids. iDaily ex. Sunday. Jzvr Brtsos. Agent C. L. Lockwood. Gen. Pas. Agent.

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