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Effective March 20, 1904 EAST AND SOUTH AM PM PM No. No. 4 No. Dally Daily Suoaly ex. Hun. Lt Rlcbmond 05 8.35 8.1 Lv CottAgft Grove t.5T 4.27 09 Ar Cincinnati 12.10 MO 11.1 AM I'M No.l No. - Dally Dally liv Cincinnati 7.4ft 4 00 Ar Klchrnonrt W.4S 7.U0 MOHTH AND WEST Alt PM No.l No.I Dally Daily Richmond 10.4ft 7.001 Ar M uncle 12, 8.ST Ar Marion 1.87pm 9.50 I Ar Peru 2.45pm ll.uO A" North Judson 6.10pm AM AM PM No. 2 Nc. 4 No. Dally Dally Stsoaly ex. Sun. . V North Judson 9.10am LiV Peru 5.05 11.3pni 4.13 Ar Rlcbmond tt.05 8.a6pm 8.15 F r-atesor Information regarding conn ecu 338 Inquire of C. A. BLA1K, Home Phone 44 City Ticket Agent. TRAINS Every Day filnncie, Marion, Pern and Northern Indiana cities via C. C. & L Leave Richmond Daily, JO: 45 am 7:00 p m Through tickets sold to alJ points. For particulars enquire of C. A. Blaib. C. P. A, Home Tel. 44 $150,000. FOR. Athletic Invents In the Great Arena at the Exposition rOR A ROUTE XookattheMai or the (r SHORT LINES A FINE On Street Car Line In Boulevard Addition AT A BARGAIN W. H, Bradbury & Son Westcott Block. TIME TABLE. On Sundays Cars Leave One Trip Later. First car leaves Richmond for Indianapolis at 5 a. m. First car leaves Dublin for Richmond at 5 a. m. Every car for Indianapolis leaves Richmond on the odd hour, from 6:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. First car leaves Indianapolis for Richmond at 7:00 a. m. and every other hour thereafter until 5:00 p. m. Hourly service from Richmond to Dublin and intermediate points, from 5:00 a. m. to 11:00 p. m. Subject to change .without notice.. RATE OF FARE. Richmond to Graves $0.05 to Centerville 10 to Jackson Park ... .15 to Washington Rd . .15 to Germantown . .. .20 to Cambridge Gity . .25 to Dublin .30 to Indianapolis . ... 1.05 lotel Rates St. Louis World's Fair. For cojy of World's Fair official Ktmphlet, naming Hotel accommodations and rates during Universal Exposition of 1904, address E. A. Ford, Sreneral Passenger Agent Pennsylva-tia-Vandalia Lines, Pittsburg, Pa.

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s miss umwn a DUTY By JOHN LANGDON H EATON Copyright, 1898, bu the International M ISS DIANA TALBOT was so pretty that she might have been pardoned if she had felt that she was fulfilling her purpose in the divine plan by merely existing. But a strain of almost morbid conscientiousness drawn from a long line of New England forbears prevented her from taking such a simple view of the problems of life. "No, Herbert," she said in the course of an animated dispute with Mr. Matteson, "I cannot turn my back upon the promptings of duty. I have been thoroughly educated expensively educated, at least as you know. More than that, I'm a specialist. I went from college to Professor Arbuthnot's laboratory. There aren't ten women in the country who know zoology as I know it. Professor Arbuthnot has often said that if Maud Jones and I wasted the chance he gave us and threw away the pains he took with us by getting married he'd never bother with another woman as long as he lived. He's right. I have a duty to him, to the students who come after me, to the community. I cannot. turn back from my task. I shall not even seek a professional chair. I shall teach young children in the common schools who need me. You do not. You have your factory to attend to, your mother and sisters" "Confound my sisters! No, I don't mean that exactly. They're well enough, my sisters are; but I don't want another. Somehow I can't get the hang of these modern philanthropic ideas. Here are you and I, plainly designed to be married, and some millions of children equally, destined to grow up in happy ignorance of bugs and butterflies. Instead of marrying me you go off to teach them lower forms of animal life. Result I'm miserable, you're lonely, they're disgusted. Unhappiness all round and not a soul the better for it. You don't need to do it either." "Not for money no. But here In Massachusetts there are plenty of girls for all the men who wish to marry. There'll be fewer superfluous women by one if I go to work. Society has made great sacrifices and gifted men have spent their lives to prepare me for working. To be perfectly frank, I think I am fit for something better, industrially, than sewing on buttons." "Don't doubt it; but I refuse to consider you industrially," observed Matteson. "Ah ves " cried the girl, throwing j her head proudly back, "a toy in a gilded cage tired of, probably, as soon as won; that's the man's ideu of matrimony! Don't argue with me, Herbert. It's breaking my heart to send you away, but I must do it, and I beg you, oh, I beg you, not to make it harder for me!" At this outbreak Matteson began to look uncomfortable. His silence roused in Diana's mind the hope that he was convinced by her cogent argument a hope which proved that, much as she knew about iuvertebrata, she was little versed in the ways of the higher mammalia. For Matteson, a bullet headed ex-right tackle with a magnifi cent record in ground gaining and in terference, was by no means a "quitter." Nevertheless he kept silent for some moments, and when he spoke his words were honeyed guile. "I'll tell you what I'll do," he said slowly. "I'll go away and not see you again unless you send for me, if you'll kiss me goodby." "Not see you again?" cried Diana Talbot aghast. "But I don't want" "I think It would be best," said Matteson gravely. "Your duty prevents your marrying me. Then I must learn to forget you the sooner the better. You cannot expect to refuse me as a husband and keep me as a lover, or even as a friend. Y'ou mustn't make it harder for me. Goodby!" He rose to go. Tale and panting she confronted him. Then, flinging her arms about his neck, she kissed him passionately. "Go, go!" she cried, and, turning about, she fled from the room. Matteson looked after her reflectively and then took his departure in fairly good spirits for a rejected lover. It was only a few days after this that Nepontic became aware of an astounding rumor that Herbert Matteson had mysteriously disappeared. As lie was the most important individual in the place shops, professional men and even churches being almost dependent upon the weekly pay roll of the Nepontic Milling company, of which he was president the news caused a sensation. Many, were the queries addressed to Arthur Rankine, the treasurer of the mills, a pleasant faced young -college chum and personal friend of MatteBon. Of course, because of these relations, he put the best possible face upon the situation. "I do not know where Mr. Matteson is," he would say when he felt called upon to say anything. "I presume he went away on private business, but he said nothing to me about its nature. As for the mills, of course It makes not the slightest difference." "Oh, of course." Nevertheless the reply became monotonous after some weeks, and at last Rankine began varying it occasionally with a testy "He may be in Kamchatka for all I know." The people shook their heads, and rumor became gossip. Stripped of the I yuuiiucuiory purases circumlocutory phrases proper in speak-

main industry of the town was indulging In a "spree" of appalling dimensions. For one, Mrs. Rankine was sure of It because of her husband's persistent reticence on the subject. And because she held Miss Talbot mainly responsible she found lt hard to forgive that young woman. Still, as they had been in former years the closest friends and were yet intimate, she felt it her duty to call at Dr. Talbot's and acquaint Diana with the rumors. "Yes," said the young zoologist, looking out with sad eyes from a wan. unsmiling face, "I had heard the the stories. Do you do you know?" "I know absolutely nothing about It." "What does Arthur think?" "What he thinks I can't say, because I'm not a mind reader, and he doesn't like to talk about it, as you might suppose. He says he lias not the slightest idea where Mr. Matteson is, that all his business affairs are in perfect order, and so on. And that is absolutely all that I can get out of him. I really think he knows nothing. He isn't worried as much as I should be, but, then, men are queer." A few days later Arthur Rankine, called to St. Louis by business.. dropped into a costly hotel, where he found Matteson in good spirits, but eager for news from home. "I am glad you didn't tell me where you were going," said Rankine, puffing away at his cigar, with his feet com

fortably resting on the table in Matteson's room. "By the time I got your letter the town was wild. By the way. one of the Boston papers has published your picture, with a" "Hang the papers! How about Diana?" "She's got a grouch on. Things aren't going her way. The school committee is keeping her out of the temples of instruction with a club, and they're right. Children who go to work at fourteen have more use for fractions than zoology. Of course it's important, zoology is; but, hang it all, if we tried to learn one-tenth part of the important things" "Oh, shut up! Quit preaching!" "If she wants to teach kids comparative zoology," Rankine went on, unmoved, "she'll have to open a private school and lasso 'em into it, and Dr. Talbot won't stand for that. May went to talk you over with her and have a good comfortable cry the other day." "She had heard?" "Oh, sure! Before thatN It's my private opinion, in which the wife of my bosom shares, that Di is lonely without you." "Well, Arthur, you're no end of a good fellow to take all this trouble for me. When you get back I wish you'd tell Mrs. Rankine you have heard that I am in New Orleans. You don't know what I'm doing there, and that's no lie either; you won't know. I don't know yet myself. Tell her it's very confidential and" "No, no; that Avon't do. She'd take lt too literally and keep mum. I'll tell her it's not to be gossiped about in general, as you doubtless have reasons for privacy, but that I think perhaps it's her duty to tell Miss Talbot." "All right, old boy; you know your own women folks best. Say it's duty, and it goes." A few days later Matteson received in New Orleans the following letter: Nepontic, Mass., May 16. i My Dear Mr. Matteson I feel it my duty to inform you that rumors are afloat in town which may seriously interfere with your future usefulness and influence for good. When we last met you promised not to speak to me again until I sent for you. I wish to see you now, for your own sake. Your friend. DIANA TALBOT. The young manufacturer reached Nepontic looking "as fit as a fiddle and as "Go, go!" she cried. fine as silk," as Rankine put it. "The rest has done him a world of good," he would add cheerfully in commenting upon Matteson's appearance to villagers of standing. "Stayed away till he got good and over it," was the more cynical verdict of the townspeople. Gossip was less severe upon the great man's falling from grace or, at least, less busy because of a new sensation. John R. Hawkins was paying open court to "Doc Talbot's girl" and seemed quite in her favor. Mr. Hawkins was an eminently respectable citizen of substantial means and character. The 'fact that lie was something like seventy years old and overburdened with the care of .five quite young grandchildren, left in his charge by ids only son when dying, gave his wooing, in the eyes of the townspeople, a comic rather than a romantic appearance. Still Hawkins was,

like other desperate men, a rival not to be despised. - - " ; "SheVatchully goin V have the ol coot bo's t' git them children o' his'n n learn 'em bugs 'n', mice n' things," said Uncle Nate Arkwright from the armchair by the grocery stove. "I do' know wut the world's comln t' these days. In my time mos any girl 'd jump half out'n her skin t git a man like Bert Mntteson, ylt yere this Talbot gal, she goes a-palaverin round tryln t git hoi o' other folks' childer f teach 'em a lot o' follolls 'nV contraptions, 'n' even willin' t take a roomatic or cuss like John Hawkins throwed in if she c'n git a few on 'em. I'm a good min t' git my ol' eonrtln' suit out'n the attic 'n' go n cut 'Im out myself!" "Go in and win. Uncle Nate." said Bub Saulsbury. "If Ah had gal lak dat Ah spank him. mabbo two. free tarn a week, quaite strong." said Antoine Le Caron. but no one paid the slightest attention to his disciplinary Ideas. "I wonder the ol fool ain't got no more sense 'imself," Lije Curry ventured at last. "He ain't in no ways t' blame," said Uncle Nate emphatically. "She done most o' the courtin' herself, they do say, jes' f git hoi' o them childer. Wants t learn 'em about bugs!" And Uncle Nate spat comprehensively at the box of sawdust. " 'S for John Hawkins, he'd do wuss'n that f git shet o' them young ones. Can't do nothin"

with 'em John he can't. Johnny's a terror, he is. N ye know wut hi'ed help is nowadays." An answering murmur of cordial as sent greeted this appealing statement. "Nothing is too astonishing to be true, I suppose," said Matteson, as br paused on Dr. Talbot's front porch tc mop his forehead. The day was warm and sunny and there was a sweel smell of blossoming wild currants in the air. "How well you are looking, Mr.- Mat teson." said Diana Talbot. "Shall w sit upon the porch? It's pleasant to day." "When I see you yes, it's pleasant Tell me, is it true, as they say in tli village, that you're going to marry oi Hawkins for the sake of a ready made zoology class?" She flushed. "Mr. Hawkins Is only sixty-seven," she said, "and an estimable man. I find that he sympathizes with my views on many points. He is surprisingly liberal in his way of looking at things." "Is he going to let you teach?" "I have no opportunity here," she said, with some hauteur, "and since mother's death I hardly like to go to another town and leave father alone. But Mr. Hawkins has no objeetion to my prosecuting original research." , "In the vast leisure remaining after looking out for five small children and two old men?" queried Mattesoa. "How generous! You could have more time as my wife, if that's all." "No," she said, "you would consent to anything now, but you are flippant. You do not sympathize with me deeply, seriously, as he does. You would ridicule and interrupt my life work. Perhaps it is written that I am to remain an investigator rather than a teacher. And he is lonely and but I have not yet decided. I have not given him an answer." "I hope," Matteson began, choosing his words carefully, "that you will delay j-oUr decision as long as possible and try to see if you have not duties of your own now, without assuming new ones that do not at present concern you. You have your duty to yourself. This passion for self abnegation is morbid and unwholesome. You have your duty to me. You have a duty to the generation that has reared and educated you to remain in it and not be drafted into a generation that has had its day. You can ruin my life if you will. You can ruin your own. I shan't say much now, for I can't trust myself to speak. I can only beg you not to be in haste in your decision. Goodby, dearest I must call you that goodby!" And again he stood facing her. ready to go. As Matteson presently swung off down the path toward the gate Miss Talbot was conscious of bitter disappointment that his call had been so brief and, if the truth must be told, that this time he had not offered to kiss her. If he had swept her into his big arms and crushed her against his chest, If he had rained kisses on her face and poured endearing words intj her ears, resistance would have been simply out of the question. Like man3 another young man in love, he was en tirely too cautious. Besides, the interview had taken place on the front porch of Dr. Talbot's house, which was set on a hill and could not be hid. It was most unfortunate. "Arthur," said Matteson as he burst into the mill office a few minutes later, "I fear another of my famous debauches is due about now. This time I'll tell you beforehand where I'm going, because you may need to use the information in, a hurry. Let's see. Where's a good place? Not too far away." "Montreal?" "Know too many people there. Bangor no; Maine won't do. Have to go through Boston. By George, I'll disappear like magic in New York! The great, bustling metropolis shall swallow me as if" "Know lots of people there too." "Yes, but I can dodge 'em." "All right," said Rankine, noting the number that Matteson gave him. "I'll keep my eyes open. Go along now and begin your drunk, you disgusting object." "Arthur, Where's Bert Matteson?" demanded Mrs. Rankine, rushing upon her husband like a whirlwind as he entered the house laie in the afternoon of the next day.

"New York," he answered shortly, "unless he's started for Kalamazoo by this time."; t -;.rr- - "The outrageous thing! Can't anything be done? She says she's going to promts; old Hawkins tomorrow to marry Mm." 'v.'.' "Who says so?" asked Rankine Indifferently. V "You you brute r' sobbed the little lady, bursting into tears. I "I'm afraid, dear," Arthur went on after an Interval of Irrelevant discussion, "that I am something of a fatalist about matters of this sort. It's fated, I suppose, that she is to do this fool thing, and that's all there is about ft. Tou mustn't blame Bertie for going off that way either. She's thrown him down, and thrown him down bard, and It hurts, and he doesn't like to stay around here. I wouldn't if you'd treated me in that way." "Tin going to see her after dinner, i - - . m .a

sue announced in tones or decision. s "Won't be any use. Her duty is plain, but she won't see it She ought to marry him for his own sake and take him out of this cursed place; go around the world or something. If she wants to do something worth while for an assortment of her fellow men wouldn't his ducats rive her the biggest kind of an opportunity?" May Rankine mentally noted her husband's suggestion. Prolonged foreign travel and a chance to study the o!i masters with a new master always appeal to women. "But it's no use," Rankine added with artful gloom. "She's as obstinate as a mule and won't be budged. You might as well stay at home and play chess." "Chess! Oh. you cold blooded" "All right," said Arthur quickly. "I'll take you round and drop into the mill office for awhile to let you talk. Bt I tell you again it's no use." "I'll hit that prediction either way," he reflected. "If I'm right I'm wise, and If I'm wrong she's happy enough to forgive me." It was some months before the Mattesons returned to Nepontic? They were married hi magic June and wandered leisurely around the world, fortunately forgetting some things they had learned and getting a new perspective of familiar ideas. They came back as merry as grigs and presently moved Into the new house that had been "closed in" during their absence and finished under their daily inspection after their return. The first night under their own roof Diana was somewhat distraught. Finally, with a deep sigh for preface, she addressed her husband abruptly out of a fit of musing: "Herbert, I have never spoken to you about those dreadful Mines when j'ou left Nepontic. but I feel tl-at now in the new hope that we have, you know, I must speak. I must ask j-ou for the sake of ask you to be careful to guard against any inherited tendencies that might blight his its future, you know. Oh, do you suppose they will be transmitted to" "What kind of inherited tendencies?" demanded Matteson, starting up. "Oh, any kind," she said hastily; "drinking, you know, or or anything." "Drinking? Never was drunk in my life!" "Oh, I'm so glad! But they said when you went away" "Pshaw! It's a pipe dream. I never was drunk. Father never was either; so he told me. Don't believe grandfather ever was. Oh, the baby ought to start fair that way. unless you're tippling on the sly yourself. But great Scott! Do you mean to tell me you married me to reform me?" "There was perhaps a little misapprehension," she replied demurely, "but I suppose it's my duty now to make the best of it." Washington,' "Xpril f8.-Gen. Joseph Dickenson, who is the only survivor of the adjutant generals of the various armies of the civil war, is hopelessly 111 in this city. He is seventy-three years old and is suffering from general debility. General Dickenson served under General Hookej. The recent marriage of a couple of cripples, each having only half the proper comple ment of arms and legs, was noted by the press asa" connubial curiosity." ,But who notes the marriaees which occur daily in which both parties are cripples in health. Crippled health means, as a rule, insufficient nutrition, and lack of nutrition points to disease of ' the. stomach and digestive and nutritive tract. Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It enables the perfect nourishment of the bodv. and so builds it up in sound health and strength. "I had been a great sufferer from indigestion for the last nine years." writes Mrs. Margaret Stingle, of Owings Mills. Baltimore Co., Md. " I was such a wreck- it seemed death was near, but to-day can say I feel like another woman. I have received much and lasting good from Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and ' Favorite Pescription.' I have taken twenty-five bottles in aU, and followed the advice of Dr. R. V. Pierce, and am happy to say that life is worth living now. A thousand thanks for your treatment." Do not be cajoled into trading a substance for a shadow. Any substitute offered as "just as good" as "Golden Medical Discovery " is a shadow of that medicine. There are cures behind every claim made for the w Discovery." The Common Sense Medical Adviser, iooS large pages, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of twenty-one one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.