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. ATWBJWBW. The Story o! a Woman's Atonement, E / by Charlotte M. Braeme. Up;, i > f CHAPTER XXX Vl— Continued. E < “Do not doubt me, Paul," she whigpared. “My life is ho novel to me. Let me enjoy it undinturbed for Home time longer. lie was satisfied: be was beside himL self with joy that she had voluntarily given him thia little caress—she who >\ so dlstantand reserved. Her manner had often puzzled him. He had no right to doubt her, yet there jvas something so strange about her conduct. She seemed always as though she were trying to make amends to him for something—as though all her affection , J and kindness came from a desire to make atonement. He could not understand her. She had never wronged him; it was not her fault that she was the nearest of kin. There was “Ha reason why she should accept him if she did not Jove him. She had had offers from some of the most distinguished men in England, and had refused them for his sake. She must love him after all, but ho wished that she would show her affection in a fashion that he could better understand. Ho saw her often —he rode over from Weildon every day—but, in some strange kind of way, he never seemed to draw nearer to her or to understand her inner life better than he had at first. Ethel Dacre was still at Crown Leighton, althought it was sorely against her will that she remained there; but General Dacre had gone abroad, and he had said that he should much prefer his daughter's residing with her friend during his absence than keeping house all alone at Westfield. Ethel could offer no reasonable objection, therefore she remained. » * » » » » « One bright morning in September Leonie stood at the library window alone. The lilies were dead, the roses faded, and in their place great sunflowers turned their bright faces upward, and tall dahlias reared their heads with handsome flowers. The leaves were falling from the trees; they lay, crimson, brown and gold, on the ground; the wind swept them along, and then moaned over them. The fair face looking wistfully from the window at the falling leaves had changed most remarkably. It was not less beautiful; but the brightness and radiance were gone—there was a worn look that did not belong to youth—the eyes were very fright, but there was somewhat of fever in their brightness —there was a flush on the beautiful face, but it told more of unrest than of health —there was a tremulous movement about the white jeweled hands, a sudden quivering of the lips, both tokens of a mind ill at ease. No one saw I-ady Charnleigh without remarking the change. Miss Templeton had been from Kew to spend the summer vacation, as she told the par--1 ents of her pupils, with the Countess of Charnleigh, of Crown Leighton, and when she had seen Leonie, she had cried out in wondei—“This gay life does not suit you, Lady Charnleigh; you are so changed. You look as though you had had long years of incessant gayety—you want rest." “Restl” the girl had re-echoed . mournfully. “There is no rest in this world." And after Miss Templeton had been there for a few days, and had noticed, to her dismay, the fever of unrest in which the girl lived, her surprise had become greater still. “You cannot sleep in the dark, ” she had said, one day, after overhearing a conversation between Leonie and her maid; “you do not like the twilight: you cannot endure to be left alone, you crave for continual excitement as children do for foed. My dear Lady Charnleigh, you give me the impression that you are at war with yourself.” How the words had taunted her. How they taunted her still! They described her state of mind as no other words could have done. It was not a tempest, not a struggle, but a continual warfare—and the warfare was self against self. There was hardly a single moment, night or day, during which her better, nobler, higher self was not crying out in rebellion against the deed she had done. There was hardly a single moment in which heart or soul was free from that war. She was swayed by impulse as were the leaves by the wind. She would rise one morning determined to write to Paul Flemyng, and tell him all—determined to undo her great wrong—to give up the wealth she was so unjustly keeping from him—to be honest, loyal and true. The resolution would last until she went downstairs and saw the magnificence that surrounded her. “I canndt give it up,” the unhappy girl would say: “it is the best part of my life. I could Hot endure poverty after this." 7 At other times,' the memory of the lover she had lost would be so strong within her that she would be ready to give tsp everything she had in the world only to see him again. At such times she loathed even the name of Paul Flemyng; she avoided seeing him when he came; she went out into the green solitude of the woods and called by name him whom she had sent from her with a lie. No wonder that the radiant face grew worn-looking, and that the bright eyes lost their clear light; no wonder that sweet snatches of song and sunny laughter were no longer heard. Lady Charnleigh stood watching the falling leaves. The wind no longer wafted to her rich, warm gusts of perfume; it was wailing over the dead flowers. “My life was virtually over,” she was thinking to herself: “this world has no more to give me. I have lost my lover: nor spring nor summer will ever bring him back to me. Some time, sooner or later, I shall marry Paul Flemyng. I shall live and die Countess of Charnleigh. I shall live and die one of the fairest and richest women in England. But my life will not have been a happy one, though I have my heart’s wish granted to me. Oh, if I had never found that will, or if, on finding it, I had but acted loyally. Bertram would H„to been mine, and 1 should have been happy!” She had made herself believe that in a short time she should forget all that was unpleasant and enjoy her wealth as she had been wont to do. She had believed herself capable of growing hardened in her sin; but the conscience she had done her best to trample under foot seemed to grow more vigorous in its opposition day by day. “I am at war with myself," she said, “and peace will come to me never more. Was the prize worth the sin? Too late! It is too late now. I cannot change what I have done. I must take my life as it comes, and make the best of it." So through the autumn and winter she did her best to drown all regrets. Even Lady Fanshawe, who enjoyed gayety as much as any one, was almost astounded. There was no cessation to her young relative's dissipation; balls, fetes, charade parties, dinner parties, archery meetings, croquet parties, picnics, every variety of amusement that it was possible to imagine, followed Mthi other in rapid succession. No;

day passed without some kind of entertainment. Leonie seemed to dread only one thing, and that wae time and leisure and thought. Lady Fanshawe and Miss Dacre had grown tired of asking each other what had come over her. Ethel thought she had been decelvoa fn hw first estimate bf her character. She seemed to live <shly to kill time, and not to turn "it to profit. Even those who I shared, her hospitality began to talk i of her and Hay that it was sad to see oop.ao young giving up her heart and . soul to the pursuit of pleasure. - Paul Flemyng was the only one who t saw no faults in her; he made all al- ■ lowanccs. It was but natural, he said > to himself, that, on suddenly finding herself possessed of almost Unbounded wealth, she should want to enjoy it in i her own way. • Spring came round again, and it was i decided that Lady Charnleigh, Ethel > and Lady Fanshawe should go early to • London. The Duchbss of Warminster I had Invited Leonie to spend some time i with her in her beautiful villa near the Thames, and she had joyfully aci cepted the invitation. i “The ghost that haunts me at Grown Leighton will stay there,” she said to . herself, “and I'll be happy again.” CHAPTER XXXVII. People in London made the same rei marks about Lady Charnleigh as her neighbors in the country had made. Gayety and pleasure were delightful; but it was possible to have too much of both, and the young countess went quite to the extreme. Did she ever rest? Did she ever sleep? Her days 1 and nights seemed to bo one long round -of gayety; she danced, sang, qcted most gloriously in private theatrreals and charades—she did everything except reflect. The season was half over when the Duchess of Warminster insisted upon Lady Charnleigh's paying her promised visit. “I saw you at the opera last night,” said her' grace, “and although you talked and laughed so gayly, I thought you looked very tired,and not at all well. They tell me you lead the gayest of lives In London—a week at the villa will do you good. Life is not so hurried there.” "It is not quiet, I hope,” returned Leonie, quickly: “there is nothing I dislike so much." “My dear Lady Charnleigh, forgive me—remember 1 am old enough to be your mother —but I would not counsel you to speak often in that fashion; you mean no harm, but such words do not sound well. No, we are not quiet—that is, there is a large party always staying with us, and each one amuses him or herself according to taste or fancy. 1 have never yet seen any one looking dull." Lady Charnleigh went, leaving Lady Fanshawe and Miss Dacre, who had declined a like invitation, in the London mansion alone. Leonie found lite at the Duchess’ villa gay enough and pleasant enough; no one ever interfered with visitors there—each on? did just as he or she liked; and one Sunday morning, when Leonie awoke, the world around looked so fair and bright that she decided upon a ramble through the woods. As a rule, she hated and dreaded solitude, but to-day heart and soul desired it. She said to herself that she would go out away from the world of men and women to where the green boughs waved in the wind, and the birds sang of peace and of love. She wandered through the woods — how far she did not know; she walked fast, memory and fancy both busy with that terrible past which she could never undo. She wandered over the rich clover meadows, past the hedges all covered with hawthorn, past pretty limpid brooks that sang of Heaven’s great love for men in making earth so fair. She came to a narrow green lane, where wild flowers grew in rich profusion; there was a rude stile at the end, and when Leonie reached that she stood for some moments lost in admiration. There was a broad path that ran through the clover meadows, and the path was bordered by tall, stately elm trees, it led to the most picturesque village that she had ever seen; and there, at the foot of the hill, stood an old gray church,, the tapering spire and the arched windows of which were covered with ivy. There was a quaint, old-fashioned gate standing open, as though inviting all to enter; within were green graves where the dead slept in that beautiful summer calm. As she stood watching the tranquil loveliness, the bells began to chime. Never while life lasted did she forget the solemn beauty of that hour. The birds were singing around her, the bees hovered over the rich clover 1 , the bright-winged butterflies sought the wild roses, the sweet western wind came laden with the rich odor of hawthorn, and above all was heard the sweet chiming of the Sabbath bells. It was all so fair so calm, so sweet, so like a glimpse of the far-off heaven, that the girl stood still and felt the solemn, beautiful calm stealing over her. How long was it since she had knelt at he? mother’s knee and learnt her simple prayers? Exalted in rank, how long was it since she had risen in the morning and said one word of prayer—since she had offered one word of thanks to Heaven ere she had retired to rest? How long was it since she had ceased to read the grand old Bible stories? She had done nothing right, nothing good, since she had bartered her soul for riches and her love for luxury! They were going into church now, gray-haired men and little children; the sweet, simple faith of her childhood seemed to come back to her as she watched them — the time recurred when she had believed with a child’s faith that if she was good she would go to heaven. Was there any heaven for her, her hands laden with theft, her soul stained with dishonor, with fraud, with untruth? She had hardly looked at the religious side of the question before; but now that it was brought before her she stood, a- it ware, face to face with her own soul, with its dark stain of crime, and she turned, shuddering, from it. In the whirl of dissipation she had kept such thoughts at bay; in this sweet,,solemn time, when the Sabbath bells were chiming, she could not evade them. The conscience she had so long deadened cried loudly at last. Leonie drew her veil tightly over her face and entered the church; 'it was not likely, she though to herself, that any one herd would recognize her; she was only a visitor, and might never see the place again. After morning prayers the congregation sang a sweet old hymn, ai d then a white-haired minister stood up to preach. He was not eloquent, he was no grand orator, but his lips had been touched by divine fire. He spoke from the depths of his heart, and nls words touched the hearts of others. He spoke on a common theme; he told his simple hearers that no one who persisted in sin could ever go to heaven. Such plain, earnest words, so true, so strong, no one who heard could ever forget. Long before he had finished, the fair, stately head was bent, and tears flowed like rain from the wearied eyes. No hope, np heaven! Was an earthly ! crown to be weighed in the balance

with an eternal one? What mattered I it that a diadem should shine on her ' brow here if het* face was never to be 1 seen Among the angels in heaven? Could |t be possible that the punishment of her sfn would be so terrible, ho ? treat? She did not fear punishment n this world) Here she could Keep her ill-gotten goods, here Hhe could enjoy the wealth for which she had given so much; but the justice of that other world was Inoxoiable. She wept, and the tears of pain' caused by an awakened conscience were as the cooling dew to the thirsty flowers. Suddenly she raised her head and saw that most of the people had left the church, and that the white-haired minister stood In the vestry alone. Impulsive as she had ever been, Le mle rose and wont to him. As one in a dream she saw a little square room with the branches of a laburnum-tree waving against the window. She turned to the minister—neither then nor afterward did she learn his name. “You are a truthful, earnest man,” she said, “and I want to ask you about a soul that is in trouble—will you answer me?” \ “To the best of my power,” he replied. “Thus it was—where it happened matters not,” she began. “Some time since there were two claimants for a large property—one a man, the other a girl.* The girl, by the chief judges in the land, was pronounced next of kin, and as such succeeded to the inheritance. When she had enjoyed it long ehough to appreciate its value, she found a will, by which the late owner left all to the man. What was she bound to do?” “Give up the inheritance to him, most certainly,” replied the minister. “But she could not—she could not go back to poverty and privation—she could not give up the wealth and luxury. She kept the will and determined to marry the Inan whom she had defrauded —did not that meet the difficulties of the case?" she continued, eagerly. “Was not that restitution sufficient? She would give him all in that way. Speak to me—tell me, was not that enough?" “No,” he said, “that was not enough —either to satisfy the law of man or the law of heaven.” She clasped her hands with passionate eagerness and drew nearer. “But do you not tee that by marrying him she gives him the property just as though sne had put the will into his hands?” “No," he objected; “it would be but left-handed justice after all—not pure and perfect. The sin of theft and fraud —of injustice and dishonor — would still be upon that girl's soul." “Would there be hope of heaven for such a soul?” she asked. “I cannot —I dare not say: I should not like to die with the same stain upon my conscience. ” |j“You are a good man,” she said, turning away, “pray for a soul in pain.” Before he could answer her she had gone: but all day anfl all night those words rang in his ears—“pray for a soul in pain.” |TO BK CONTINUED. I HE IS A GOOD FELLOW. A Traveler Has a Good Word for the Original Turk. Os the Turks it may be doubted whether they should be called a nation or an agglomeration of individuals of many races who find one common bond in Islam, says a traveler writing in a current magazine. In the first mosque you enter at haphazard, you may see the pure Turk, often as fair and flaxen as any Norwegian, prostrating himself and repeating his prayers beside the blackest of black Africans. And as you enter the sacred place both, at the self-same moment, will instinctively glance at your feet to see whether you have taken off your shoes or have slipped on a dusty pair of the “babuj" which will generally be offered you the door. Among Mohammedans, as among Roman Catholics, the universality of common .practices has something imposing in it, and you instinctively respect the Mohammedan for requiring you to reverence Ute spot on which he prays. And here at the very outset let me say that after many visits and some residence in the East lam strongly inclined to believe in the original Turk—when he is to be found. Greeks. Armenians, Persians and Africans have given him a bad name by calling themselves Turks and sometimes by misgoverning his country, but he himself is a fine fellow, and belongs to the superior, dominant races of the world. He is naturally a fair man, with blue eyes and of fresh complexion, well grown, uncommonly strong, and very enduring. He is sober; he is clean; and he is honest even to his own disadvantage, being by no means a match for the wily Greeks and Armenians who are perpetually fattening on his heart There is a common proverb in the Eact to the effect that it takes ten .Tews to cheat an Armenian, and ten Armenians io cheat one Persian. The pure Turk has no chance against such people. Uncle Sam’s Prisoners, There are now about 1,500 individuals, sentenced for violations of the laws of the United States, scattered about in forty odd penitentiaries in various parts of the country. The government sadly needs more prisons. It owns at present only five penal establishments . —two penitentiaries in Washington State and Utah, and jails at Washington City, Portsmouth, Ark., and Sitka, Alaska. Besides these it rents a few jails in Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory. The institutions mentioned being insufficient, Uncle Sam is obliged to make use of those belonging to the States. A bill was passed by the last Congress establishing three federal prisons big enough to accommodate 1,500 guests, but the necessary clause appropiating money to build them with was omitted from the law by accident. Married One Hundred Years. The twenty-fifth anniversary of a marriage is a silver wedding, the fiftieth is a golden wedding, the seventyfifth is a diamond wedding, but what is the one hundredth? Au impossible thing, savs the learned editor, when the question is referred to him. Yet such a wedding is actually reported as celebrated not long ago in the town of Zsombolyl, Hungary, where the venerable couple have long been allowed a pension in recognition of their great age and their fidelity to each other. The marriage of this aged pair is duly and officially recorded as having taken place in May, 1793, at which time, according to the record, they were of marriageable age. As in Hungary at that time a bridegroom must “have reached the age of 20 and a bride that of 15, the pair must now be at least 120 and 115 years old. The highest pressure used to drive a water wheel is claimed by a valley near Grenoble, France, where a turbine ten feet in diameter has been operated since 1857 with ahead M 1,038 feet A flow of about seventy-five gallons of water per second gives a force of l,sotfhorse power. Do NOT force others to bear the burden of your song.

—■— : A BIVAL OFNIAGAKA. MIGHTY WATERS HARNESSED FOR HUMAN USES. ■ Wonderful Reaouroa. of a New Region— VMt Industrie. Springing Up-How the HUiouri’H Swift Current Is Utilised—- , Young and Promising City. Marvels of Montana. Orest Falls. Mont., corrbspoo-lnnoe: It was not until the return of Lewis and Clarke from their remarkable journey, covering two and a half years, to the Pacific coast, in the first years of the century, that any definite knowledge was obtained of the Falls of the Missouri. The intrepid explorers spent many months rowing and poling their heavy batteaux against the swift current of the muddy river, which became clearer as they left the bluff deposits of the prairies and plains and neared the falls, above which the water is as clean and pure as its sources of supply in mountain springs and snow. We wish our space would permit reprinting the long but graphic descriptions given cf this wonderful series of falls, in America's greatest river, around which the exploring party spent nearly a month. From the highes-t point of land, 350 feet above Black Eagle Fall, on which now stands a smokestack 200 feet high, as prominent an object as the Washington monument, the top as high above the furnaces as that noble shaft, Lewis and Clarke looked for the first time over the site of the present city, but then temporarily occupied by a herd of buffalos, and later, in an encounter with a wounded one. Lewis was chased into the water opposite the town, where the river is 2,800 feet wide, and compelled to swim to the, other shore. A new edition of “The History of the Explorations of Lewis and Clarke” has just been issued under the direction of Prof. Elliott Coues, of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a recital of a most important event in our history, and Drought down to date by numerous foot notes. It is dedicated as follows: To the People of the Great West: Jefferson rave yon the country. Lewie and Clarke showed yon the way. The rest is your own course of empire. Honor the statesman who foresaw yonr West. Honor the brave men who first saw your West. May the memory of their glorious achievement be your precious heritage! Accept from my heart the undying record of the beginning of all yonr greatness. • E. C. According to Eastern ideas of calculation, this is a very young city, but undeniably it is one of the most promising in the West, and is bearing out the predictions of the explorers, that an important industrial city would spring up here. The first settler, Hon. Faris Gibson, an honored and still active citizen of the sturdy young giant with over 12,000 population, and as enthusiastic over the future as ever, with much now to back up his opinions and prophecies, broke ground for the first house about ten years ago. Its growth was slow until the first railway, the Great Northern, reached there four years later. Now railroads reach out in various directions. The reader will naturally inquire what there is in the Northwest to make great States and cities. Is not this country in the American desert the school books used to tell about? Yes, but the desert has since been chased hither and thither, until it is now located in spots among the lava beds and high ranges of the far Southwest, and what there is of it contains borax, salt, and resources of value to man, and there is no such thing as the “Great American Desert.” What made the older States of this Union wealthy? -Pine forests, iron ore and copper mines supplied the raw materiai upon which Northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota was built. Coal, iron and oil made Pennsylvania great. Corn and hogs brought riches to lowa and Illinois. An extract of corn and rye distinguishes Kentucky. Wheat has given prominence to Minnesota and the Dakotas, ana'so on through the list. Montana is a new State, and but little known, except as a grazing regidn and producer of precious metals. Stock shipments last year exceeded $6,000,000 worth. Herds of cattle and flocks of sheep are brought into this State from the country south as far as Texas, to fatten on the ranges for Eastern markets. All the conditions here, grass, water and climate, are conducive to the highest development of physical life. The State produces horses of large lung power and endurance, much sought after by the .War Department for cavalry purposes. Budd Doble feeds his horses on Montana hay and oats. It was too far west, so stockmen said, to raise wheat, but a roller flouring mill with 500 barrels daily capacity, located here, is making high-grade flour from native wheat, and this immediate locality supports two agricultural papers. Those who have not been West have little idea of the possibilities and elbow room of a State like Montana, a region larger than all of New England, and then with country enough left over to include several of the Middle States. Standing by the tall smoke stack of the copper smelter, we looked down on the mighty river, with its rapids and cataracts, and saw waters fall with quick descent, furnishing power to turn wheels to crush ores, to generate electricity, to grind flour, to make hot fires hotter, and agreed with the builder of the marvelous wheel at the World’s Fair, that where there was such enormous water power an industrial ' city must arise. The monthly pay-roll now exceeds $160,(00 for labor, and is to be largely increased. The electrical energy possible at this point is beyond reasonable comprehension. It is already used in multiform ways: To refine metals, to run machinery and street cars, to cook food, and for heating purposes. Five ranges of mountains are in sight, clothed with forests and veined with precious metals and iron, and valleys between seamed with beds of coal. Fertile lands slope back to grassy plains, where plowmen and stock j era are already busy. All these potent : and varied resources are within bound-| aries that make them • tributary to a : common center, and that location is one of destiny, for men see these natural forces, and are beginning to utilize them. With all these things, there is indefinable hopefulness and keen alertness in the air; every breath one draws is a pleasure, making it inde?d a land worth living in. In this energetic climate so condu- , cive to longevity, a few of the early fur traders still linger. We remember meeting a year ago old Hugh Monroe, who spent ninety years in the Northwest, dying a few months ago at the age of 108 years, and old man Rondout, wno lives forty miles east of here, is ip his hundredth year, coming to what is Montana in 1835, then as unknown a region as Africa. The country and conditions give men an opportunity to display their abilities. Robert W illiams, modest and quiet, is better known in scientific circles in the East and the old world as an ornithologist jmd botanist than he is as a citizen of this ' city, His collection of birds is large I

and rarfe, and of ffrasaes alone he has * more than eighty kinds, with flowers, fermt, otc., fn large numbers. Prof. O. C. Mortson has catalogued over 300 > different kinds of metals, minerals, ores, rocks, etc., found in this region. In company with Prof. Mortson, we today visited the chief copper smelter, and saw the brown metal by car loads and learned that bv the electrical * proceso used in refining over 200,000 - ounces of silver are extracted monthly from the copper output. Nine hundred men are employed, and with the proposed wire and sheet 'copper mills completed, the force *lll be largely increased. ’ Along the double banks of the river 3 for eight miles, the water everywhere , can be harnessed to wheels and turned s to human use. With millionH of pounds . of wool marketed here every year, it 3 is only reasonable to assume that this L will become the site of woolen mills, as it has of silver and copper smelters. With iron ore and coal, it is natural to " think that furnaces, foundries and roll- ’ ing mills will spring up in close asso- » elution with tne raw material. The 1 descending grade from the gold, silver, i copper ami Iron mines to this point, , must perforce of circumstances concentrate the smelting interests of a vast region along this available series of ■ falls. 1 Our space will not permit us at this > time to say more about this interesti ing and resourceful region, and we must i close with a brief reference to the recent discoveries made by Prof. Scott J and a party of Princeton College stu- , dents. They found in the Smith River Valley, south of here, whole skeletons ’ of the camel, rhinoceros, and other 1 tropical animals.comprising in all forty* , two species and twenty-two genera. Sev--1 eral specimens of the three-Uted horse wore found. The remains are petri- , tied, lying in indurated clays and pro- . truding from the banks or sides of the valleys or coulees. The Arrow Creek , Bad Lands, at the foot of the High- > wood Mountains, east of Great Falls, is I another interesting section, full of wonderful formations and abounding in , fossil shells and remains of sea lizards i and ancient reptile life. It is a fan- [ tastic region, with deep coulees and , rocks twisted and bent into odd and . fanciful shapes. A lofty cliff exists in [ this’same locality; well filled with peti rifled fishes. The Little Rockies and Bear Paw Mountains are also rich in fossil remains. This city is the nat- ' ural outfitting point for scientific, geological. sketching, exploring, hunting ’ and fishing parties. We are under ob- • ligations to the energetic secretary of • the Board of Trade for printed matter 1 and personal attention, and prompt consideration will be given to all inquiries. J. G. Jones. BELIEVE IN THE “EVIL EYE.” A Trial for Witchcraft in a Modern Town of Salem. The town of Salem, Ohio, was the scene recently of an extraordinary trial, which carries one’s thoughts back to the Massachusetts town of the same name that hanged witches in the seventeenth century. Salem has a pretty * little Methodist / 'v Church.at which /a A farmers worship. For the past two years several I a families attendN ing the church Av V'.t have been posBesse d with the 1 idea that they are bewitched. ' 7 \ \ Last summer / HowArd Hughes, \ ' / a well-known trustee cunr farmer, dug a (ot the Evil Eye). we n on his place, but after digging to what he considered a sufficient depth failed to strike ' water. He«a; nonplused for the moment. but, having a half belief in witches, came to the conclusion that his well was bewitched. He went to Alliance to consult wittua Doctor Hoff, a septuagenarian, who claims to be a wjtch .doctor. Hoff went back with Hughes, and descending into the well built» fire, and throwing several powders into the blaze went through a .powwow performance. ■ On coming to the surface Dr. Hoff/ .told Hughes that William Culp, d trustee of their church and the wealthiest farmer in the neighborhood, was causing all the trouble with his Avil eye and that the well would remain drv until after Culp's death. Hughes told the Breen and Loop families, who also had a weakness for witches, that Culp was the wizard who was bringing all the bad luck on them. From time to time the deluded people kept clear of Culp, but denounced him as an evil man to all who would listen to them. A month ago some cattle belonging to Norman Breen took sick and died and then a relative of Hughes fell and broke his leg. Culp was for all this and the families hav? been very active in denouncing him as a wizard and dangerous person and advised their friends to keep away from him. Their belief became so annoying to the pastor of the little church that he concluded to have the superstitious ones expelled and, preferring charges of witchcraft and defamation against them, he organized a church trial, which took place, the presiding elder of the district acting as judge. The trial occupied the whole day And. as a result, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Breen and Howard Hughes were expelled from the/fold. '» fatheFof the INCOME TAX. What Congressman Hall Says In Regard to His Bill. Os all the men in Congress none probably have a clearer view of the income tax proposition than Representative Hall, o f Missouri. He has / made the subject ft. the study of years and is the father L'l “Al of the income tax bill in this Con- Mb . gress. In a re- M' v- h\wAv cent letter Mr. Hall sajd: I have ' ' before me an es- I timate of a / j) be r of persons \ and business firms residing in u. s. hall. New York, Philadelphia, Boston and I Chicago who drew incomes to the | ainount of 250,000 a year. This estii mate placed the number at 12,000. See ■ the immense income that would be derived from this source. A writer in the Forum divides the people of our Government into three classes the rich being 182,090 families, their wealth being $43,367,000,000 averaging per family $238,135; the middle class he estimates at 1,200,(100, owning wealth to the amount of $7,500,000, or an aver- ■ ago of $6,2(0 per family, and the last he names as the working class, composed of 11,620,000 families, owning wealth to the amount bf $11,215,000,000, averaging $968 per family, and under the present system of indirect taxation the 11,620,000 families averaging $968 to the family, and who represent the great laboring mass of this Government, pay 90 per cent- of the governmental tax, while the 182,01X1 families that average $238,135 a family do not pay mode than 3 per cent, of the govern'mentjil revenue. William Peggs, horse thief, es- ' caped from the State prison at ColumI busy Ohio.

Easiness Directory • - rinwr »•» f — ' -- r -—» TBK WU IITIOUL Bill. CAPITAL, IW.OOO. SURPLUS, Ill.MffL Organized August U, 1883. Officer*:—P. W. Smith, Pre*.. Daniel Wddy, Tloo-prei., R. 8. Peteraon. Cashier, J. 8. Pete raou, A»s'l Cashier. Do a general banking business. Interest paid on time deposits. Buy and sell Domestic snd Foreign Exchange. County and City Orders. Adams County Bank Capital. ffT«.«X>. Baryta*, TS,«Mi Orgwslsed In IfflL OOesre—D. Madabakse. Prssldsat i BeM. B, AUlson, Tiee-Prssldsnt; W. M. Niblick, Cashlsr. Do a gaaeral banking hnslness. Col I set Isa* scads in all parts of ths country. County. City and Tosmshlp Orders bought. Foreign-and Domsatls Exohangs booght and sold. Utarsst paid on time deposits Paul G. Hooper, A-ttoinxey Law Beeatar, -•- Xadiana, ■•SHk B> B. MAS*. «. R. xitirnr a ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries PabHe. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. TTIKANCB * MXBBYMJUC J. t. rnANOR JJ *. T. MBMTMAN A-ttorxzeya gat DaCATOB, INDIANA. Office Nee. 1, > aad 8. over the Adams County Bank. OoUooUons a specialty. A.«. BOLJbOWAT, FlxjrMiolgAzx <•> ■urgoon Office over Burns' harness shop, residence one door north of M. B. church. AU call* promptly attended to la city er country night ■t* * a. L iollbway, a. a. Office and residence one door north of K. M church. DiMaaes es woman and children (goeuitfaa. Ltfl him, Vetoriniry Svrgesi, Decatar, Ind. Residence southeast car. Decatur and Short streets. XQ. MBFTUNB, DBNIWT. Now located orer Holthouse’e shoe store, sad is prepared to do sll work pertaining to the dea* talprofeeslon. Gold filling a specialty. By ths um ot Mayo's Vapor ho is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN Ba Bana Property on Long Ytaset Xo Ooaoam&lffiiailoaßw lav Bate off laseroM, fa aay waovati eaa boffiadoat mt Maae eat ads* iatareet. flail ea, ar aMraffi, JL X. WH7M, or Z. T. JKX2TM Offiaot Odd Fallows’ BwOdtac. DoMtae. JSjhk Erie Lines. Schedule In effect Aug. 27, 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 5. Vestibule Limited, daily for l 0 ., n o Chicago I r ' M No. 3. Pacific Express, dally fori ~,0 . Chicago f No. L Express, daily for Chicago I. yj No. 31. Accommodation, dally, I, n .,- . M except Sunday I TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I p M New York and 805t0n......... J *’ No. 2. Express, daily for New g.oj p M Express, dally for New M No. 80. Accommodation, daily ex-1 jq.jq a m Secopd No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:80 a. m daily. Solid train for Columbus. Ohio, via Merlon and the Columbus. Hooking Valley and Tolddo Railway (Buckeye Kouei; Pullman eleepore to’Columbue. Kenova, and Norfolk and other Virginia points via the Columbus. Hocking Valley and Toledo and the Norfolk end Western Lines. J. W. DeLong. Agent. W.G.MaoEdwardaT.P. A. Huntington, Ind First Clms Night end Day Berries beßweeh Toledo, Ohio, IANDI —- St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS UY TKAIMS—MODERII EfIIJIWIIEMT IHUWMWT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIOHT TNAINb! trUCALf BEAVED EH HOUTE, Ms Hour, BM Off MMHT, ot onttraU Kit. Atlfir fekih ill Tikdi, St hilt Ji birnCßj LI Clover Lmf Route.. Per further particulars, call on no«*effi Agent es the Company, or addreM O. O. JENKINS, ■soaml TOLSQO, OHlflk ~ * ♦

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