Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 April 1895 — Page 4

THE BANNER TIMES. GREENCASTLE, INDIArfA. THE USX)AY ABRIL II. 1805

SKETCHES OF LINCOLN. More Unique Letters to Mary

S. Owens.

AN TJNFOP.TUNATE COMPOSITION. The Firnt Letter After the Drawn Hattie. He Seems Kasily Satisfied A IVeuliur Screed to a Friend AIIhm Owens' Opin-

Ion After Her Marriage.

(From “The Life of Lincoln’' by William II. ! Hermlou and Je.«o W. Wcik. CJopyriyht, Jo63, ! by Jesse YV. Wcik. Copyright, by D. Ap |

plcton & Co. 1

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Daring tho warm,dry sunnnor months Linoolu kept up tho lovo siego without npparcnt diminution of zoal. Ho was ns assiduous as ever, and in August was anxious to force a decision. On the 10th ho had a meeting with her which terminated much like a drawn battle—at loast it seems to havo afforded him but little encouragement, for on his return to Springfield he immediately indulged in aft epistolary effusion stranger than

any that preeedvd it:

Fhif.ni> M.\ky—You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the Rome day on which u* 1 parted, and I ran only account f. r it by supposing that seer ing you lately makes me think of you more than usual, while :.t our late meeting we had but few expressions of thoughts. You must know that I cannot see you or think of you with entire indifference, ami yet it may be that you are mistaken in regard to what my real feelings towards you are. If I knew you were not, 1 should not trouble you with this letter. Perhaps any other man would know enough without further information, but 1 consider it my peculiar right to plead igno ranee and your bounden duty to allow tho plea. 1 want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so in all cases with women, at this particular time, more than anything else, to do right to you, and if I knew it would bo doing right, us 1 rather suspect it would, to let you rJ<me, I would do it. And for tho uurposo of making tho matter as plain as possible 1 now say that you can drop the subject, dismiss your thoughts—if you ever had any— from me 1 >rcvor, mid leave this letter unanswered without cal ling fort hone accusing murmur i < : i mo. And 1 will even go further and say that if it will add anything to your comfort or p<;ace of mind to do so it is my sincere wish that you should. Do not understand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance. I mean no such thing. What I do wish is that our further acquaintance shall depend upon yourself. If such further acquaintance would contribute nothing to your happiness, 1 am sure it would not to mine. If you feel yourself in any degree bound to mo, 1 am now willing to release you, provided you wish it, while, on tho other band, 1 am willing and even anxious to bind you faster if 1 can be convinced that it will in any considerable degree add to your happiness. This indeed is the whole question with me. Nothing would make me more mis ernblo, nothing more happy, than to know you

were so

in what 1 have said 1 think I cannot bo mis understood, and to make myself understood is the solo object of this letter. If it suits you best to not answer this—fare well—a long life and a merry one attend you But if you conclude to write back speak as plainly as 1 do. There can bo neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think just in the manner you think it. My respects to your sister. Your friend, Lincoln A Ludicrous Letter. For an account of tho final outcome of this affaire du coour tho reader is now referred to tho most ludicrous letter Mr Lincoln ever wrote. It has been said, but with how much truth I do not know, that during his term as president tho lady to whom it was written, Mrs. O. II. Drowning, wife of a fellow member of tho legislature, before giving a copy of it to a biographer, wrote to Lincoln asking his consent to the publication, but that he answered warning her against it because it was too full of truth. Tho only biographer who ever did insert it apologized for its appearance in his book, regarding it for many reasons as an extremely painful duty. “If it could bo withheld,” ho laments, “and tho act decently reconciled to tho conscience of a biographer professing to bo honest and candid, it should never see tho light in these pages. Its gro tesque humor, its coarse exaggerations in describing the person of a lady whom tho writer was willing to marry, its imputation of toothless and weather beaten old age to a woman really young and handsome, its utter lack of that delicacy of tone and sentiment which one naturally expects a gentleman to adopt when ho thinks proper to discuss the merits of his late mistress—all these and its defective orthography it would certainly bo more agreeable to suppress than to publish. But, if we begin by omitting or mutilating a document which sheds so broad a light upon one part of his life and one phase of his character, why may wo not do tho like as fast and as often as tho temptation arises*/ An 1 where shall tho process cease?” I prefer n°t f° tako such a serious view of the, letter or its publication My idea is that Mr. Lincoln got into one of his irresistible moods of humor and fun —a state of feeling into which he frequently worked himself to avert tho overwhelming effects of his constitutional melancholy—and in tho inspirati< of trio moment penned this h ttcr, which many regard as an unfortunate composition. The class who take such a gloomy view of the matter should bear in mind that tho letter was written by Mr. Lincoln in the fervor of early manhood, just as ho was emerging from a most embarrassing situation, and addressed to a friend who, he supposed, would keep it sacredly sealed from the public eye. As a matter of fact, Mr. Lincoln was not gifted with a ready perception of tho propriety of things in all cases. Nothing with him was intuitive. To have profound judgment and just discrimination lie required time to think, and if facts or events were forced before him in too rapid succession the machinery of his judgment failed to work. A knowledge of this fact will account for the letter, and also serve to rob the offense, if any was committed, of half its severity. How Ho Got Out of It. The letter was writen in the same month Miss Owens made her final departure from Illinois: HiMUMoriKLO, A|»ril I, 1KJ8. Deak Madam—Without apologizing for ix-ing egotistical, 1 btmll make the history of ho much of my life an has elapHcd since I saw you the subject of this letter. And, by the way, 1 now discover that, in order to give a full and in Zellti/ihle acennnfc of thothlmo* I hnv<* rinvw* uttri

nr.xicrea since i saw you, I snail ncccssani. have to relate some that happened liefore. It yvjih, then, in tho autumn of 1SJ6 that a married lady of my acquaintance and who was a great friend of mine, being about to pay a | visit to h«*r father and other relatives residing J in Kentucky, proposed to me that on her re- j turn she would bring x sister of hers with her cn condition that 1 would e ngage to become her brother-in-law with nil convenient dispatch. 1 < f course accepted the proposal, for you know 1 could not havo done otherwise had 1 really been averse to it; but, privately, between you and me, I was most confoundedly well pleased with the project. I had seen tho I 8ai<l sister some three years before, thought I her intelligent and agreeable, and saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand | with her. Timo passed on, the lady took her journey, and in duo time returned, sister in | company sure enough. This astonished me a | little, for it appeared to me that her coming i so readily showed that she was a trifle too I willing, but on reflection it occurred to mo | ! that she might have been prevailed on by her I I married sister to come without anything eon- ! cerning me ever giving been mentioned to her, and so I com frjdcd that, if no other objection prese nted itself, 1 would consent to waive ' this. All this occurred tome on hearing of her j arrival in the neighborhood, for, be it remembered, 1 hud not yet seen her, except about | three years previous, oh above mentioned. In j ! a few days wo had an intervie w, and although | j I had seen her before, she did not look as my j imagination had pictured her. I know she j I was oversize, but she now appeared a fair j ■ match for Falstaff. I knew she was called an | “old maid,"and 1 feltnodoubtof the truth of i at least half of tho appellation, but now, when i 1 beheld her, 1 could not for my life avoid ' thinking of my mother, and this not from . withered features, for her skin was too full of j fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles, j but from her want of teeth, weather beaten | i appearance in general, and from a kind of no- ! i tion that ran in my head that nothing could | , have commenced at the size of infancy and j reached her present bulk in less than 85 or 40 years, and, in short, 1 was not at all pleased j | with her. But what could I do? I had told j j her sister I would take her for better or for ; • worse, and 1 made a point of honor and con- ! J science in all things to stiek to my word, espe* i dully if others had been induced to act on it, ; i which in this case I had no doubt they had, | 1 for 1 was now fairly convinced that no other j I man on earth would have her, and hence tho '

1 want ^ conclusion that they were bent on holding me

1 to my bargain. “Well," thought I, “I havo said it, and, be tho consul urn cos what they i may, it shall not bo my fault if I fail to do it.*' I At once 1 determined to consider her my wife, ! and, this done, all my powers of discovery j were put to work in search of perfections in her which might be fairly set off against her j defects. 1 tried to imagine her handsome, ! which, but for her unfortunate corpulency, was actually true. Exclusive of this, no woman that 1 have ever seen has a finer face. I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than tho person, and in this she was not inferior, as I could discov- ; er, to any with whom I had been acquainted. Shortly after this, without coming to any positive und< rstanding with her, 1 set out for

Vandalia, when and where you first saw me. During my stay there 1 had letters from her which did not change my opinion of cither her intellect or intention, but, on tho contrary, confirmed it in both. All this while, although I was fixed, “firm ns the surge repelling rock,’’ in my resolution, 1 found I was continually repenting the rashness which had led me to make it. Through life I havo b * n in no bondage, either real or imaginary, from tin? thraldom of which 1 so much desired to be free. After my return home I saw nothing to change my opinion of her in any particular. She was the same, and so was I. 1 now s]>ent my time in planning how I might get along through lifo after ray contemplated change of circumstances should have taken place, and how I might proemsti mite the evil day for a time, which 1 really dreaded ns much, perhaps more, than an Irishman does the halter After all my suffering upon this deeply inti resting subject here 1 am, wholly, unexpectedly, completely, out of the “scrape," and now I want to know if you can guess how I got out of it, out, ch ar, in every sense of tho term, no violation of word, honor or conscience. 1 don’t believe you can guess, so I might us well tell you at once. As tho lawyer saj's, it was done in the manner following—to wit: After I had delayed the matter oh long as I thought 1 could in honor do—which, by the way, had brought me round into tin* last fall—I concluded I might as well bring it to a consummation without further delay, and so I mustered up my resolution and made theproixjsal to her direct; but, shocking to relate, she answered no. At first 1 sup- j posed she did it through an affectation of modesty, which I thought but ill became her under the peculiar circumstances of her case, but on my renewal of the charge 1 found she repelled it with greater firmness than before. I tried it again and again, but with the same success, or rather with the same want of success. 1 finally was forced to give it up, at which 1 very ' unexpectedly found myself mortified almost beyond endurance. I was mortified, it seemed to me, in a hundred different ways. My vani- j ty was deeply wounded by the reflection that 1 had been too stupid to discover her intentions, and at the same tine* never doubting that 1 understood them perfectly, and also I that she, whom I had taught myself to believe nobody else would have, had actually rejected me with all my fancied greatness. And, to cap the whole, I then for the first time began tosus | pect that 1 was really a little in lovo with her. But let it all go. I ll try and outlive it. Others have been made fools of by the girls, but this i can never with truth be said of me. I most i emphatically in this instance made a fool of myself. 1 have now come to tho conclusion • never again to think of marrying, and for this 1 reason—I can never be satisfied with any one who would Ik* blockhead enough to have mo. When you receive this, write men long yarn about something to amuse me. Give my re i spects to Mr. Browning. Your sincere friend, a. Lnrooui Mrs. O. H. Browning. As before nii iitinuod, Miss Owens wt« afterward jrarrieH and hneame tho I mother of five children. Two of her sons served in the Confederate army, j .She died July 4, 1877. fSi.t-akiiig of Mr. Lincoln a short time befuie her death, «bo referred to him as “a man with a heart lull of kindness and a head full of

sense. ”

Not According to the Code. While at the rendezvous at Knshvillo ! and on tho march to the front Lincoln, I ot course, drilled his men aud Kuvotlicm such meaner instruction in military tactics as he could impart. In marching one morning at the head of tho company, who were following in lines of 20 j abreast, it became necessary to pass through a gate much narrower than tho lines. The captain could not remember the proper command to turn the company endwise, and the situation was becoming decidedly embarrassing when one of those thoughts born of tho depths of despair came to his rescue. Facing the lines, ho shouted: “Halt! Thiscompauy will break ranks for two minutes and form again on tho other sido of the gate.” The maneuver was successfully executed. Lincoln at the liar. He never took advantage of a man's low character to prejudice the jury. Mr. Lincoln thought bis duty to his client extended to what was honorable and high minded, just ami noble—nothing further. Hence the meanest man at tho bar always paid great deference and respect to him.—David Davis, Sept 10, 1866, M& Lincoln said, “History is not history unless it is the truth. ”

FrUiT ss c «“» .‘ vyUrTti’a T-.* / “ ■ -*

IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. Direction* For SowIiik the Seed*—Trmi*plauUtiS m!i<] Cultivating the Seedling*. The best method to obtain early dowers in northern localities is to sow tho seed of tender aud half hardy species in pots and keep in greenhouse or window until tho soil is warm enough for outdoor planting, when the seedling may be transplanted. Heeds may bo sown in patches among the border plants in rows or groups where they are to remain or in a nnrs. i v be.l and afterward transplanted. As a general rule, tho surface soil shm.1.1 bo rather dry than Otherwise at the tiino of sowing The operation must not be nudertaken when tho ground i- very wet, especially at an early period of spring. The depth at which seeds should bo sown will vary with their size. Largo seeds, such as Lupins, Marvel of Peru or sweet peas, should bo sown about half an inch deep; medium size seeds, such as balsams, convolvulus or thunbergia, about a quarter of an inch deep, while such as aro very small require to be sown on the actual surface, a light pressure being then sufficient to imbed them to a proper depth. In the absence of rain, water the seeds occasionally from a watering pot with' a vi ry fine

rose spray.

As soon as tho seedlings are an inch high they may be transplanted to different parts of tho garden. Remove the plants carefully with a small garden trowel, retaining as much of the soil to the roots as possible. Place the largo growing kinds in tho rear aud the small in frout. Above all things avoid crowding them. Transplanting should, if possible, be performed in cloudy weather or toward evening, and unless the soil is wet the seedlings should be slightly watered to settle the soil about tho roots, shading them for a day or two afterward if necessary. The trouble of transplanting may be avoided by adopting the method of sowing the seed suggested in Bridgemaii's Annual < ■ uido. Take a package of, say, 20 varieties and number the bags from 1 to 20; then sow a small circle from each bag in tho order in which they are numbered, and insert a short stick in the center of each circle as a mark. By this method tho 30 varieties aro distribntod along tho border in succession, and as each hag will be sufficient for about three circles, or three assortments of 20 varieties each, they may bo sown in threo different aspects of tho garden, which will not only give tho various flowers the best possible chance with regard to exposure, but show the varieties to tho best possible advantage. By preserving tho bags tho mero novice, by referring to the name and number on each, will become acquainted with tho different varieties from the order in which they stand in the garden. As the plants advance in growth, frequent weeding and hoein:; will be necessary, as well for tho sake of neatness as to stimulate their growth. Tie tho tall growing kind to cat rods or sticks and train tho vinos or climbers on trellises, strings or poles. The Carolina I’oplar. Aii authority on such matters calls tho Carolina poplar a very useful tree for avenues, streets and screens. Its distinguishing characteristics are rapid, luxuriant growth and large, handsome foliage. It thrives in almost any soil and is admirably suited to plant where quick results or immediate effects are desired. It can bo planted alternately with the elm or maple to produce immediate effect, tho poplar to be removed when the elm or maplu attains size. For protection aud shelter it is extremely valuable. For tho hiding of unsightly buildings it can bo employed very satisfactorily. Tho tree is healthy and hardy aud without disease of any kind.

KNITTING STOCKINGS. An Kronomical ri.in Whirti Ia Practiced by German Housewives. Abroad some of the thrifty housewives, who knit their stockings with five needles, manage tho heel so as to bo easily unraveled when worn ont to knit others instead. Tho same method may i be followed by workers who only use four needles, provided they do not object to five needles for the heel part. Tho Housewife explains just how to

do it:

Taking 84 stitches for a stocking, when ready for tho heel divide them | equally into two parts, 42 on tho two j front needles, which will he left as usual while doing tho lied, and 42 on the back noodle, half of which slip on a sec- [ oud one, then cast on 88 stitches on two new needles, 2‘.i on each Join in a cir- : ole of 100 stitches held on four needles. ! Tho 16 extra stitches will bo decreased at the sides from the two new needles of the 20 stitches to form gussets, al ways narrowing two stitches after the beginning of one needle and two before tho two last ones of tho second needle. Thus 4 stitches will bo lost in one round—1st, 3d, 5th and 7tli rounds: Flain—Second round: Knit 2, purl 2 together, knit 6, purl 2 together, knit 34, purl 2 together, knit 6, purl 2 together, knit 2 Knit tho two other needles plain; 06 stitches left. Fourth round —Knit 2. purl 2 together, knit 4, purl 2 together, knit 34, purl 2 together, knit 4, purl 2 together, knit 2, the two other needles plain; 02 stitches left. Repeat tho decreasing in the 6th and 8th rounds, when s i stitches will remain— viz, 21 on each of the four needles. Start the long sido bars by reducing 20 stitches, or one on each needle for five rounds. Ninth round—Knit 1 i, purl 2 together, knit 4, pari 2 together, knit 17. Repeat on the 2 other needles; leaves 80 stitches. Tenth and eleventh rounds—Knit Twelfth round—Knit 10, purl 2 together, knit 4, purl 2 together, knit 10 aud so on. Repeat for the 16th, 18th aud 21st rounds, knitting 2 rounds plain between each reduced one. When 1 <i stitches are left on every needle, begin to take in 40 stitches, 2 on each needle, for the short arms of the cross. Twenty-fourth round—Knit 2, purl 2 togt ther, knit 8, purl 2 together, knit 4, purl 2 together, knit 8 to tho end of tho round. Twentyfifth and twenty sixth rounds—Knit. Twenty-seventh round—Knit 2, purl 2 together, knit 6, purl 22 together, knit 4, purl 2 together and so on to end of round. Repeat until 24 stitches are left Thirty-seventh round—Knit. Thirty

eighth round—Knit 1, purl 2 twice, knit I Thirty-ninth Knit. Fortieth round—Knit

together, knit 1

Twelve stitches now left on tho needles. Cast off Raise the heel stitches on two needles and once more form a round for the foot with the two front needles that hud been left aside, and on both of these two last reduce eight stitches, 16 in all, for gussets, as douo at the beginning.of heel, knitting two plain rounds between each of the eight decreasing ones. Repeat, reducing thus, until about 80 stitches remain, which divide on three needles, and proceed with tho foot in the ordinary manner

U/au<?rly Bicycles Within tho J'tocich of All RICH AND POOR ALIKE Waverly Wheels Strictly High Grade Price §40, §50, §75, §85. O i easy ll>oiUhly payment*. See sample Wheel at Adams Express office Harris^ Anderson, Agts..

Local Time. GiircL BIG FOUR. GOING EAST. No 10* Vustilmh-ii Express— 5:38 p n No indiftitftpolia YooommodMtioa. .8:42 a M Nolrt* Southwestern Limited .1:5<! p x No 8* Mall i 16 p ■ No l .i ■ GOINL WK ST. No 7* Wstlbuled Express 12:82 am N(• 9* Mail 8s LS a m No 17* ^outliwesternLimited 12:49 pm No 3t Terri* Haute Accommodation. 0:28 p m Noll* 12:58 am * IMiily + Except Sunday. Train Vo. 14 hauls Blooper* to Boston and Columbus, sleepors and coaches to Cincinnati. No. 2 cnniirots for Chicajfo, Cincinnati « Icvohttid and Miehl/iin division points. No is hauls sleepers for YVashlnifton via (’.A ■deeper for New Yora and c mneets for Columbus No. S connects foi < iucinnnti and Michigan division points at Wabash. No. 10. "Knickerbocker Special" sleepers for New Voi k. Nos. .. 11, 9 and 17 connect in st. Louis Union depot with western roods. No. 9 con* Meets at I’uriswith < airo division for points south, and at Mnttoon with I. t . for points nort h. F I*. Hitkstis. .Went

Mar TlnNSat

\ii Timiid No Dill

On

NO SMOKE.

and after April i, 1895,

all through trains of the BiC FOUR ROUTE will arrive and depart from ST. I.OCIS via the NEW MERCHANTS' BRIDGE: ami ELEVATED

RAILWAY.

A "Daylight Ride’ into St. Louis! No smoky and Dirty Tunnel! A beautiful ride of four miles along the river front! All trains enter (MEW UNION STATION. K. O. McCormick. Pass. Traffic Mgr. 1). B. Martin, Gen. S: Ticket Agt.

V\/ s 11 .oi fu»ea « jto r«*<l thU typo »t 1* Inel.e* from ’ ^ Ih f ine, y. u ha t t" tt'T go to hr. Q. W. Itun.o aud hart yot*'* f-lfh m nsir of

together round— 1, purl 2

The largest Stock of

m mm Ever brought to the County. Do not trust your eyes to Peddlers or Jewelers. <3. W. BE3NGI3. •Jlu-lyr-e. p. iv.—II-lyr-e. o. w.

Crruin of Corn Soup. Tho following recipe is gleaned from Tablo Talk: Remove tho corn from one can, cover with 8 cups of water and simmer for one hour. Strain, press through a sieve. Scald 3 cups of milk, add the corn and 1 tablospoonful of butter rubbed smooth with 1 tablospoonful of flour Mix until smooth; season with salt, pepper and a few drops of colory extract Add ouohalf of a cup of cream and stir until heated. Take from tho fire, add the beaten yolk of an egg aud servo at once. The egg or cream may bo omitted, but tho soup is far more delicious with tho addition of both Tho eflfrn trom 12 ears equals one can.

Mic Weather.

The indications for this vicinity for the coining thirty-six hours are as follows as received by II. S Renick & Co. from the official weather bureau at Indiatianoiis; Indian wm is, April 11, 189(>. Increasing cloudiness and wanner tonight. Friday light

jshowers and

-liO) Iouisyuu NtwAiof.sYS Chicago Ryy(Q-

In effect Sunday, May 27, 1893.

NOHTIl' BOUND.

No 4* Chicairo Mall No fi* “ Express No 44t Local. ..

SOUTH BOUND.

No 3* Umisviiie Mall No 5* southern Express Ni 131 l/ocal * Daily, t Except sunda,.

.... 1:20 n m . .12:05 p m —12:05 p m .... 2:17 a in .... 2:22 p m .... 1:45 p m

VANDALIA LSNE.

Trains leave Grecneast le, It» J.,

20,1

FOB THK WEST.

In effect Jar

No ir>

Ex. son.

... . 8:40a m, for st. Louis.

No 7

Dally...

12:2b a m, for st. Louis.

No 1

Daily...

.. .12;.i2 p m, for St. Louis.

No 21

Dallv...

1:35 p 111, for >t. Louis. !*:01 a in, for St. Lou's.

N (> 5

llallv

No :t

Lx. >un

5:28 p m, foi Terre Haute,

FOK TH K EAST.

No 4 No JO

Ex. >un. Bally . .

.. H:40am, for lixlianapolis 1:35 p in. •*

No S

Daily . .. Ex. >1111.

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No Id

d:2s p m, “ “

No

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... .2:85 a m, “ “

Vo d

Dally

3:32 a m “

No ’4

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6:10 p m “ •*

n:oKi v division

lea'"

Torre Haute.

No75 Ex >un 7:05 a in. lor Peoria. No 77 *• “ .. .3:55 p tr, for Decatur. f or complete time card, ndviutf all trains and stations, and for full information as to rates, through curs, etc., address

.1.8. Dowijng, Agent,

W. F Hkunnkr, Grccncastle.

Asat. Gcn’l Pass. Agt. St. Louis, Mo.

Travel Is best accommodated in the Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars running over the lines of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.

warmer.

I

Mookx.

.xrtirHinn.

Tree Protectors. An effective tree protector, originally designed for American Gardening, shows how iron piping can bo utilized to make a strong and ueat support for the young trees in lawn or garden. Irou ! pipe an inch aud a half in diameter is ( firmly fixed in the ground quite close to | the trunk of the tree, the top of each 1

The Hairbook Fad. One of tho latest fads which the feminine sex is cultivating is that of keeping what is termed a “liairbook.’’ This interesting article is supposed to contain a lock of hair of each football player who has in any degree become famous on the gridiron field. It is claimed that the first collection was made by a California woman

lliji Four llnine >ccKei*8*

At half fare we will sell tickets tel Matrima, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky, New Orleans. Mis*i**jppi. North (’aro-1 linn. Sniitli Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia March 5, April 2 and April 30. Return limit 20 to 30 days,

F. P. llt’KSTIS, Agt.

0 R I D A A N 0

This line runs double daily (morning and evening departure) trains from Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville, and St. Louis to the principal Southern cities. This line affords two routes to points in the Southwest, via Memphis and via New Orleans. This line has double daily sleeping car service to lacksonvllle, and the only through line of Sleepers to Tbomasville and Tampa. This line has three daily trains to points in the Southeast. The passenger equipment of this line is not execlied in the South.

AN EFFECTIVE TREE PROTECTOR piece of pipe being fitted into a corner of a square frame of wood well joined together. The pipe can bo painted to any pleasing color. Such a tree support is not recommended whore la’tge numbers of trees aro to be protected, but for the few trees ou one’s grounds that aro features of the landscape, and that for this reason need tasty accessories. A cheaper and more quickly constructed support will he found most profitable where one is setting out an orchard, oommou rough staples answering the purpose very well under such circumstances.

A Dainty Convenience. A useful and at the same timo dainty convenience is tne glove mender roeoinir;M:dftd aud described by Modern Priscilla. Take two pieces of satin ribbon 9 inches long, leaving 13^ inches at the

iff

YniKlaliii Line Low iwiit* 4 KxetiraioiiN. April 2d and 30ih, IS'.).'). On April 2d and 30th, 1S!)5, the Vandalia line will sell excursion tiokels to points in tile south and southeast at one fare round trip. In addition to the above, round trip tickets will be sold to points ; in Arkansas and Texas on April 2d, at | rate of one fare plus $2.00. Liberal limits and stop-over privileges allowed. For full particulars call on or address any Vandalia line ticket agent, or \V. F. Brunner. Ass’t General Passenger Agent, St. Louis. Mo. tf Mure, (he celebrated Fi\ ind. Coach horse, owned by the Putnam countv Breeders’ association, will'make the season at < sloper Brothers’ barn in G roopo-i-! b* 148,% l.'ui

Winter Tourists* Tickets at low round trip rates on sale from about November 1st, good till

May 31 st.

Full information cheerfully furnished

upon application to

GEO, L, CROSS, N. W. Pass. Agt., Chicago, III. C. P.ATM0RE, Gon'l Pass. Agt., Louisville, Ky,

Write for description of

THE GULF COASl

T H E G U L F C 0 A S

B. F. JOSBIN Hunt cs the illirncst tirade I’.ruzil BIock

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Yiuxlalia L1114* LxctirMioiiR. To Indianapolis April 23 and 21, return limit 2 ,! fure *1.60 for round trip. Account order of Ka-lern Star. J. S. Dovvi.ing, Agent,

mm f. fee, INSURANCE AGENT, PENSION : ATTORNEY ANli NOTARY PUBLIC.

Pension Vouchers, Deeds and Mort-' Simply

ntid tin' Ui Kt I'ittaburKh mid Anthracite. Coa. yard opposite Vandalia freight office.

Have you tried Luetekf’s Coffee Bread

gages, Correctly

scuted.

Office in < 'entrul

and expeditiously ex-

Bank Building.

Greencastle, Ind.

You have? Well there is no i use trying to tell you it is

splendid. Comes a

little lii^li? Yes hut you can ^et along without cake if

you buy it.

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A GLOVE MENDER top as a bag for glove buttons, and feather ■titch the two together crosswise at intervals of half an inch. This forms a space just largo enough to hold tho different colored cottons which come for mending gloves. Below this insert two pieces of tine pinked out flannel to hold uuedies aud finish by fringing the ends of the ribbon. Inclose the whole in a bag made of satin ribbon an inch wider

^IGYCLES. Are the HIGHEST of ALL High Grades. Warranted mipcrior to any Bicycle built In the world, regard lean of price. Do not be Induced to pay more money for an inferior whee*. Iiialxt on “Hyin* the \\ tiverly. liiiilt and tfuttrunteed bv the Indiana Bicycle Co., a iiiiIHoq doliar concern, whose iioi««l la a» good us tfold. 24 LB SCORCHER, $05. 22 LB LADIES’, $75 ANDHRSON & HARRIS, Kxclnsive Agents 151D97