Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 September 1870 — Page 7

'l COXCL UNIONS. i4 I1Y I'HKHK CAItY. I said if I might iu,k again lo the very hour ami place of mv birth Alight have my 1 iTo whatever I cluwe

And live it in any

]mrt

«,f tin* earth

Put perfwt sunshine into my sky, Banish the shadows of sorrow and doubt: Have allmy happiness multiplied.

And all my muttering stricken out

^»£IC04^ known in tin- year* now gone, I no bnst tha? woman to know Could have had whatever will make her blest,

Or whatever slu- thinks will make her so

lliyve found the highest ami purest bliss That the bridal,wreath and ring enclose And gained the one out of all the world.

That my heart its well as my reason chose

And if this had been, and I stood to-ni lit By my children lying asleep In their bed*. And coul 1 count in m.v prayers for a rosary,

The shining row of their golden h-ads.

Yea! I said, if a miracle sneli as this Coul I be wrought for nit', at my bidding, still I would choose to have my past as it

And let my future come as it will.

I would not make the path I have tro 1 More pleasant or even, more stia ght or wide, Nor change 1,13- course the breadth of hair,

This way or that way, to either side.

Mv past is mine and I take it all its weakness—its folly if'you please Nay, even my sins, if you come to that.

May have been helps, not hindrances.

If I saved my body from thetlames IJeeathat once I inul burned my limd Or kept myself from a greater sin

Ity doing a less—you will understand

It was better I suffered a little pain,f|ji lii'tter I sinned for a little time, It the smarting warmed me back from death,

And the .sting of sin withheld from crime.

Who know.-s its strength, by trial will know What strengh must be set against a sin And how temptation is overcome

He learcs. who has felt its powfr within.

And who knows how a life at the last may show? "Why, look at tb" moon from where we stand, Opaque, uneven, you say yet it shines,

A luminous sphere, complete and grand.

Ko let my past stand Just as it stands. And let me now, as I may, grow old, I am what I am, and my lite tor me,

Is the be.jl-or It bad not been, I hold.

[For the Saturday Evening Mail.) URO \VJX(r OLD.

ItV ADKI.I-:.

It is the fortune of but few people to grow old gradually awl naturally. It is not often that tlio rosy spring time of life unfolds into tho.glowing summer, then deepens into the purplo and crtm-son-tinted autumn, then melts away into somber winter.

Only a few favored mortals roach tlio full and perfect development of an even tenored life, and then with children, and children's children around them, their daughters all amiable and virtuous and their sons till honorable and brave, are gathered to their graves in peace

As fades a summer cloud away, As sinks (lie gale when storms.it As gently shuts the eye of day or dies a wave along the shore." The transition from youth to ago, ii often a series of shocks, each of which brings us suddenly and irrevocably nearer the final conflict.

er,

Many of us pass through all the agony and fin' ignominy of growing old, by the time we are twenty-five.

Some terrible calamity comes crashing into our lives, and after the first .stunning effect, we recover consciousness, to find a few heart-string!* broken —a few threads of silver streaking ti braids of jet or chestnut or auburn, a few hard lines in tho face, hollows in the checks—tho glitter and sparkle of our spirits vanished, and the romance that encircled us like halo of glory, all melted into thin nit

Then if you nro a wOnum. vou will find the scepter of oinpiro falling from your grasp. If boauty has been your dower, and many havo done homage to the glorious gift, J'our butterfly admirers will flutter around sonio fresher blossom—newer beauties will unfold around you, and you will become a wall-tlower.

If you have charmed by brilliant conversational powers, your sway is on tho wane. The same smart speeches which nsed to bring down the house now pass almost unheeded. The effort at witticism which would oncc convulse an admiring circle of friends with laughter, is now scarcely noticed—the circle remains uneonvulsed—only here and there some magnanimous soul, smiles dolefully a ghastly smile,to help you out of an awkward situation.

Sometimes a little of the old buoyancy will return. A chance ray of sunlight will tlash into your soul the laugh, or song or jest will lo upon your lip, your step will once more become elastic, ami unless you should ohaneo to catch tho reflectioiTof your changed faco and figure in the glass*, you may forget for a while that you are not still young. In such eases you are sure to find some of those useful people near, whose mission is to tell disagreeable things, they look upon you as if they thought you insane, and you are made to feel sharply, that what is winning and lovoablo in "sweet sixteen" is odious in faded twenty-six.

At about this stage of decay, you turn in desperation to the dentist, the hairdresser and tho costumer, for succor. You add a faint roso tint to your pale chock from bottlo of tho ••Bloom of Youth" and from a box of Pearlino you blend tho lllly with the rose. Alas! and alas! You soon And this will never do. If you are a sensible woman your si nee rest friend, tho mirror, tolls you that a natural complexion, however, sallow or tawny, is uioro endurable than a painted face. No, no: You turn in disgust from the tricks of art to which those poor creatures resort, whoso lives have not only been darkened by sorrow, but blasted and blackened by sin.

The story of one, is the story of thousands. Wo are but parts of "that great unchanging multi-vertebrate" which we call Humanity. As well might a grain of corn that had been ground and bolt

ed, soek to individualizo Itself by a special narrative as for a woman (o attempt to tell something now, about tho disappointments and humiliations of growing old.

I write now for those of my sox who havo a human side to their natures, who love this world and wish to bo loved, and not for those saintly ones who possess a special gift for martyrdom, and only fail to fly away and bef'niiio angels, for lack of wings.

Hut is it after all, unmitigated ignominy to grow old Must tlio inner life grow sore, as tho outer garment docays with yours? No! there are ho trfs blooming with perennial youth, which time cannot touch, which age cannot wither. It would seem sad enough to find ourselves failing into superannuated old gliosis, when we should be mellowing into "Fair, fat and forty," but what seems so utterly torlorn in prospect unfolds, as we advance many assuaging circumstances, and if wo but keep a brave heart and unsullied conscience, our pathway throw and yellow conquests.

rh tlio sere

leaves uiav bo .strewn with

Tho consciousness of having overcome our vouthful vanities and Hfleetations and'of becoming strong enough to go straight forward in the path of duty courting not a smile and fearing not'ii frown is compensation for all past mortifications. She who, when some impertinent creature asks her age, can with calm brow and firm lip and steady eve answer "thirty-live" may write "Victory" 011 her banner—she is mistress of'the situation.

On some of life's autumn days, you mav chance to meet the man who long ago trampled upon your heart, and east vottr imago from him to make room for a vounger and fairer face. "Where now is the panorama of fair young faces that shoved you into the background? Ah! they too, have till grown old and plain—and he has grown frightfully old and plain at last. His form is bent, the frost is whito upon his head, his step is feeble and unsteady, his voice is harsh and broken and "though charming neverso wisely," has lost all its fascination for tho young and fair.

You turn with an emotion of pity, from tho skeleton of what you once so devoutly worshipped. In the great literace you have got the better of it at last, though once the odds seemed all against you.

It is a sad, sad victory. While he, with face averted from the inevitable future, fought desperately with the proprietor of the Glass and Scythe, you havo anticipated your fate bravely— vou have "met tho enemv" an.I "are liis."

No pang of remorse for broken vows or disregarded obligations preys upon your memory, 110 despairing, "It might have been" haunts your soul.

It is not reconcilement to doom as destiny alone, that renders approaching ago endurable it brings us upon a higher plane, it unfolds a broader horizon to our view, and 011 those serene bights to'which wo ascend, wef breathe a pure exhilirating atmosphere, never found in tho vapory vales below. Tho baptisms of sorrow through which we pass, wash out the selfishness from our natures. *f» whero wo may, humanity is around us, and tho lovo"of humanity is ever fresh—ever new.

Tlio burdens of life grow light in selfforgetful ness, and 111 loving and living for our race wo find an immortal youth.

Build thee more stately mansion my soul, 4 As th*t swift sea-sons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nobler than tha last, Biiut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length are free Leaving thine out-grown sn-ll, by life's 1111re in a

E A E O E A

The battles of boauty, savs the Brooklyn Eagle, can bo cogentfy classified The temperament of the antagonists is largely dependent upon their latitude, and their rules are mainly regulated by their temperament. Tho southern slayer of hearts each havo other sectional imitators, albeit the selfishness of the pursuit does not permit them to bo allies. Tho western women adopt the moods nd methods of their southern sisters. Tho middle state Phillises follow with their northern neighbors. The typo o. the lirst is brunette, of thesecoHd blonde. Tho faots simplify the situation. Those forces arc now flirting each one of their members for herself against all tho others of both classes, from one end of tho land to tho other.

Tho brunette is more passive, yet more intense. Tlio blonde is more active, vet more propense. The brunette lures) the blondo pulls. Tho brunotto draws, the blondo dazzles. The brunotto does much with her eves. The blonde does not a little with her shoulders. Thebrunottetixesyou withalook pensive and passionate wit halt ho blondo unpirts spontaneous and unsolicited confidence. Tho brunotto exacts following, the blondes exact fellowship. Tho brunette is statosquo, the blonde is mercurial. The brunette sways you to her, the blondo sways herself to you. Tho brunette honors you by accepting your service, tho blonde anticipates vottr wants by service of her own. The brunotto inspires, tho blondo incites. The brunette is stellar, the blondo is solar. Tho brunette labors to suggest her l)ost self to you, the blonde labors to suggest whatever self pleases you best. Tho brunette puts you in sympathy with herself, the blonde puts herself in sympathy with you. The brunette is a magnet, the blonde is an assimilator.

Such are their habits for purposes of conquest. Their coquetry assumes these ways and develops these diflerences. These are graned on to all tho opulent opportunities of a summer season at sea shore, rural resort, mountain retreat, and amid similar scenes. Their subjects untilize all the recreations, likewise, for resources. Drive:*aro decoys, walks aro wiles, bathing means business, and teto-a-tctes toll tales that tend to trosseaus and culminate in cradles.

As to which of the feminine forces are the most successful, and as to which of them works lest in the harness of marriage, let each man be his own judge. We have too much fondness for a quiet life to court the havoc of hair which a definite opinion would provoke.

A writer in the Scientific American thinks that there is an explanation of the hanel-witch, that tells where to dig Cor water, on philosophical grounds. Rctrrring to the experiments or Arago, which show that wood and other substances are capable of electrical attraction, he asks if it is absurd to conceive it possible that a rod, in the hands of a person in a certain electrical condition,

A O N E E E S

At tho call of our faithful guide, writes Dr. Robinson in 0110 of his letters from Asia Minor, wo arose. Refreshed inexpressibly by tho pause in our Journey, we mounted our horsos with alacrity. and strung along out Into the road again.

As wo departed from tho town

wo found ourselves suddenly confronted among tho Ijodgl'S ot aloes with a crowd of lepers, Thoy WffP crying ah* jectly for money, and extending their most monstrous deformities almost so as to touch us with their hands. So hideous and loathsome are these creatures that all pity shrinks into apsslon of recoil from them. Their liumls dropping oil-, finger by flngor, and joint by Joint their noses oaten tnvay their lips 'rotted oil' their voices hoarso and tin earthly their forms shrunken—oh, cannot make words say, in any force ot violence, how dreadfully repulsive this seeno was to us all. I havo soon many shapes and conditions of sutforing humanity before, but I do not remember to have turned it all aside ever in my life until now yot I could not abide those horrible visions of corruption a moment, and whipped my frightened horse frantically to got him through tho crowd and beyond it so that I could dare to breath once more. I could not help fooling, however, tho singularly appropriate positions thoso caricatures of human form had taken up for these knobbed, ugly cactus trees seemed almost enough of themselves to make my very flesh creep.

PI IE GREAT

HEADQUARTERS

FOR

DRY GOODS!

IS THE PLACE TO BUY

GOOD, HONEST,

:?^S

••it

AND

1*%

CHEAP GOODS.

BE SURE AND

Examine our Stock and Prices

Before yon buy.

ONE PRICE TO ALL.

1 WARREN, HOBERG & CO.,

1-lf.

Successors to Edsall & Co.,

Cor. 4th and Mnin Streets.

SAY E S

."S

JONES & JONES

HAVE THK

FARMERS' FRIEND

GRAIN DRILL

(Kuhn, the Celebrated Drill Inventor's last and best.) A FORCE FEED DRILL, OPERATED BY

SPUR GEARING.

.Yo Loots Cog WheeU About It!

Impossible to Choke it-The Feed Changed in One Second—Will Sow any kind of Gralu or

Seed, whether Clean or Foul!

The grain Is distributed by means of small double spiral feed wheels working in cups under tn» hopper these wheels carry the gmln vptcanb to a discharge opening in the cup and force it out, and with it force out ttrtrw* and other obttrucUont. It is utterly imxwwible to choke it, and as evidence of this 'net the wheat we have in onr sample machine is half chaff, and by turning the wheel

it Is carried through as well as clean wheat. It will sow any kind of grain, and in any quantity desired.

In other force feed drills tochange the feed you rvmove one cog wheel and put in another and the cog wheels are loose and liable to be lost. In the 4

FARMERS' FRTEXD DRILL! the wheels arc all fastened to the drill, and the feed is changed by simplu moving a small

Icrrr—H is done In one second. Send for Circular showing how the Farmers' Friend came oat ahead in I9W, to

Jones & Jones,

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NEWCharles

may lc attracted by .hidden strewn of Forrale by water in an opposite state? u. Oox Co. 1-iL

rERRB-HAUTE. IND.

BOOKS.—Put Yourself in HI* Place bv itewle Lothair, by Rt. Hon. h. DTsraeli Beyond tne Breakers, by Robert lalc Owen: Caged Lyon, bj- Yonge Home

S. COIIY. A. niCKKKKS, T. W. \VATKINS. rjOUY, DEFKEIiS A CO.,

WlioTniiito amTTtctiilTfh-iiu-re'lil

HARDWARE,

JKOX, 8TEKL, NAILS,

"s %T'

Glass, Oils, Paints, Sash,

1-tf.

Doors, I51iiuls,

t* .*

CARPENTER'S TOOLS

SPOKES, FELLOES, JI UBS,

*J' Gum & Leather Belting &c.'

Nos.

121 Main St ret,:

Anil 1 and 3 Fifth,

TERRE-IIAUTE, IND.

COX & CO.

B.G BOOKSELLERS

AND STATIONERS,

I59 MAIN ST.,

NO.

TERRE-ilAUTE, INDIANA! 1 -J-*- V'

I *11 .'

Our stock is all new and purchased at the lowest figure.

We keep constantly 011 hand a full line of

SCHOOL,

MISCELLANEOUS,

BLANK AND

-Y-.J: PASSBOOKS, "V

TERRE-IIA UTE

A W O S

«S9i

SEATII tfc HAGER, PRorn's.,

4tr 'W Of all kinds.

Manufacturers of

Cars and Car Wheels

Machinery and Castings.

Highest price paid for Cast Scrap Iron.

Repairing promptly attended to.,

^YORKS ON CANAL,

Retween Main and Ohio St^s.

ORDERS SOLICITED, .k.

1-lf.

HOUSE, SIGN,

AND®

ORNAMENTAL PAINTERS,

Sixth St. bet. Cherry and Mulberry,

XERRE-HAUTE, IND.

Special attention given to Sign Painting, Graining, Paper Hanging, Calsomlnning, Ac.

iV. B.—All our work warranted. •1-tf.

EDICAL, ONLY.

Wre have as 5

PURE WINES and LIQUORS

as any house in America. We have In stock the famous brands of

Old Crow. ntrmlUige, Xelson County, and '76 Bourbon*

Me Kim's Monongehala Bye.

Cat-atrbo, California, Peaeh, and French Brandies.

Port, Sherry, Madeira, Jloek, Mill and Sparkling Catarb*

And

a choice three year old Blaehberrp Wine.

For sale by OrUCK 4k BEKBT, Dnmfi»U. -2m. Cor. Fourth and Mai a.

nriA.Q8.-All sire*—new styles, neatly gotten I up at reduced prices, (all at TerreHaur ante Printing House, 142 Main rtwet. 1. Smith A Co.

JAM. If. LUCAS, I'ron't KDWAKU V. 1'ITTMAW, Bocrt'tary.

C°C

TJEAIEIE CITY

AND

LETTER, "v,.: LEGAL CAP, AND j'

NOTE PAPERS.

r* IT

«nm. We are closing out our stock of

MISCELLANEOUS I"

At cost, preparatory to laying in fall stock.

1)9 MAIN STREET,

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JAS. SEATII.

J. n. IIAGElt.

IGO FOUNDRY

**??i AND

FLMSJIlXd LUMBER.

De Soto Mutual Life Insurance Company,

•.* Of St. Louis, Mo.

Assets and responsibility to the Assured, over $500,000,

PLANING MILLS.

TiftWAK A. 1MK.\N8, State Agent.,•.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

This Tji)tnsi)aity Issues all kinds of Policies upon tho most approved plan* and being a Western Company, with their

Capital safely invested among the people of tlic West,

Peculiarly adapt it to the wants of the citizens of Terre-ilauto and Vigo county. T»«! character of the officers and stockholders of the De «Soto (some of them tho most wealthy business men of tins West) is a sufficient guarantee of its reliability.

The West can do better for the assured than the I'.ast. because Western Companies can lend their money at a much higher rate of interest than Eastern Companies do'br can, unless tlicy Invest in the West, which most of the Eastern Companies are forbidden by their charters to do. Higher rates of Interest allow of larger dividend:-., and (he advantage which Western Companies have over Eastern in this paiticular, is clearly shown by the following estimate of money invested at diliferent rates:

SI,000 Invested for f»0 years, at per cent, compound interest, yields S 18,420.10 •i 11 1 47,901.(11 10 117,B00.S5 dt can ))e seen by this statement that Western Companies can give far better dividends than Eastern Companies. The ditlercnce of tho surplus arising from dlftettjM rates of Interest is thus seen, under the operation of compound Interest, to be wowdeiTul.

Persons desiring Insurance 011 their lives will llnd it to their Interest to consider (he claims of the DeKoto Life Insurance Company. I I E O S .?!* i~ 'j.T•

ST. Loris, Mo:—Jas. II. Lucas, Jas. II. Britton, Prcs't National liank of Mlsson^i Jlcnrv S- Turner, Pres't Union National Hank, Adamantine Johnson, of A. Johnson & Co SVm Hallentlne, Win. E. lJurr, Pres't St. Louis National Bank John It. LionbergBr, Pres't Third National Bank Andrew Maxwell, of Maxwell & Patterson llenry HiCPh-

Lo^msv 11-V.K!^ Kv:—Jas. Trabuc, of Trabue, Davis fc Co. It. A. Robinson, of R. A. inson & Co. C. N. Warren, of C. N. Warren & Co., Bankers Isaac Caldwell, Escj., Atftrney at law. .•

DR. EZRA READ, Medical Examiner. 4-om.

CLIFT & WILLIAMS,

ManufaoUirers of

Sash, Doors, Blinds,

WINDOW & DOOR FRAMES,

MOULDING BRACKETS

STAIR RAILING, BALLUSTERS,

»11 irionrintt. ^ulinrr.

And all descriptions of

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JJUSIIER'S

SEATII A HAGER.

TJOGGS & FELTUS,

lvA

Wholcsalt-and Hi'tail cic:il( ill

Pine Lumber, Lath (^Shingles,

a{~ I*

Slate Roofing,

"t* ANI) ROOi rN{ l-'KI/r. i'

(Custom Hawing, Planing and Wood Turning done to order. All work warranted.

Car. Xinth d- Afnlhrrri/ Shreto

9-tf.

Photograph Gallery,

BEACH'S BLOCK, U'

COR. MAIN SIXTH STItKKTS.

Long experience and Hose ill trillion to the business enables tne to uiniij.li :11 kiudn of Pictures in the highcststylcoi 'M'l. Particular attention given to the new sty his of Photographs. including the popular Rembrant and Snaciow pictures.

Prices low. HutWfactlon guarantee!. 7-tf. .1. W. 1IUHI1KR.

L. J). WILSON A CO.

Ma 1111 fact uicrs of

STONEWARE,

Livingston, 111.

full Mipplv c.in-'tjtiulv

Chad

«-tf.

JOHN

O« IUUHI.

All order* promptly to.

JgCLIPSE STA BLE,

9-it

wick &

Monroe/

l*n»lrl i'••*.

South Fourth &.. OMt,

(Opposite '-'Id I*u *otnr»'J

fi'iit niwi

TELEGA NT ll.ort*

a sp!:irtiii

WM. BAXI.ENTINK, Vice Prw't. It. C. AUKNDT, Actuary.

.n a

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ROCH. F. ROBB, Dis't Agent^

TERRE-IIAUTE,

bo 1*J'

YFEKS, STRONG & CO.

Wholesale Grocers,

190 Main Street,

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TERRE-IIAUTE, 1UB.

M. JOAB.

ATTORNEY AT LA^,.,

TERRE-IIAUTE, IND,

CJ„.VIMS COI.T.F.CTKN AND ESTATES MANATUSD, B^'Ofllce 011 Ohio street, between Third and Fourth. I-ff.

CRAWFORD

O S A N

O E S

98 MAIN" STREET,'

0-tf. TERRE-IIA UTE, AND.

BOY EmiOTIIER87^^^

"Wliolcaale dealers in

BOOTS AND SHOES,

NO. l.'W MAIN STREET,

VTERRE-IIA UTE, J1N»

WABASH

WILDY,

Mlfltfi.

WOOLEN

ESTABLISH !£D 1854.

O. F. ELLIS, WOOL DEALER,

And Manufacturer of Woolen Goods. Wholesale and Retail Office and Manufactviy, N. W. Cor. First and Walnut Streets, (Mf. TERRE-IIAUTE, 1"ND.

THOMAS & CO.

a •.}{», if

Carriage Manufacturers,

ifc ('or. Second and Walnut Streets, TERR EI [A UTE, IXD.^..^t Rep/iiriug done promptly and at low rates. 7-3111.

DWARDS & DAVIS,

,-Ml

,t jlfl Dealers in

FAMILY GROCERIES, No. 286 Main Street.

1 a 1 7-3m. fji•-inr*. TEKRE-llAUTK.

AUMSTRONG,

I,0'K AND (a'NSHIYll, jd St., Doors North Main, TERRE-HAUTK. Repairing promptly attendel. I nlsajiave a pair of NEW PLATFORM RCA LW tor weighing Corn, Hay, Ac., an(l persons lug such weighing to do are invited t« d-ly.

11.

,ANIEL BROWN, (SfCCIWVU

TO BHOWN MCI.V1K,)

Wholesale and Rotall leah*r in

Queensware, China, Fruit Jars,

(ilasx, Ortxlor/t, Tabic Cutlery, N. 78 MAIN STKKBT, TKRIIE-HAUTE,

e-tf.

OSEMAN & BORSSUM,

E A N A I O S

217 Main Street, near Seventh, ,ih TERRE-!IAUTK, IND.: \}.

Cutting and Hcpairtng done on short iiWttt. »-tf.

rpERRE-HAOTE IIOUSl^

-r,s,v,, Trrre-JIaule, Indiana.

T. C. BUNT1N, pKnritJirron.

The HCret (iiw p.u« this House every Ten Mlnufw, fr«»m the Ir:|x»t aud ltiver. The Artesian linth* we connected icW£ 1-lf. I hi* Hotel.

"1LARK

.•^1 tf.it I'rtiiUng, -i' u.. I'lllltlUg i- iil k»:i"ii In to .H'niti]

House. Th«- ni. v-m the city. Eveiyth tii ry, H2 Main el

HOUSE,

Horses. Dusic cs and Carriages non*e,or«t th. t:brk iiouxewtiihe •, .. ly atU-ndod to. 6-tI. In the eitv. tentlon.

Or»ltT« vr't! TfVHv.- vi oin pt a t."Wm.

Cor. First and Ohio Streets,

THK TKRKK-11A UTE OMNIBUS AN»» HACK 1.1NK will attend to calls for trtjlns lewvlug both (lie KanUiin and North^Kl*pots also couvejr pjtsseiigers to anyflRtnt the city. All ordcis left nt the Terre-^ttpte lloose, Po*.tofnee, National House, l^Sttn lloo^S fmu»rnT. iiauiiiini iiouw, d^iih

ATIONAL HOUSE,

COR. MAIJt Al»n SIXTH »TS..

Terrc-Haute, Indiana

W»

aosatul I'.ank, i-tr. JACOB MOTZdt BON. F**pr s.