Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 27 February 1895 — Page 2

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.Tx the House yesterday twelve Demo•oiitfs voted for the Nicholson bill and lour against it, while sixty-three liepub2'.:ians voted for and sixteen against it. Zc is JJOt therefore a party measure.

'THE Republicans of Hancock county •rare much pleased over the late actions of rhe Republican caucus in leavicg the appointing power in the hands of the Governor. This former course would have j-vasti suicidal as it was directly opposed ail the teachings and preachings of "She Republican party for thirty years.

TrtE Nicholson temperance bill passed cae House yesterday and this ac ion of t.iie legislature will meet the approval of alL law abiding citizens regardless of party. The bill is not a party measure, .••.us a majority of the Democrats voted for

While the bill is probably not what \zisziy would like, that is, not being as r.-siriugent as it should, yet it is a move in i'Lhe right direction. As it is the legislahas gained the good will of a majorciy the people of the great State of In•iliana. Now let the Senate come forth -ui.-i do its whole duty aud pass the bill.

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Morrison Bros, are erecting an outfit foi" drilling water wells. It is very complete and convenient.

Mr. and Mrs. Israel Fied visited Mrs. £7red''s sister on Sunday. Several of our citizens went to Indian^njo] is today (Tuesiay) to hear the dis••.senssion of the Nicholson bill.

Xewtou Warren brought up over 300 fpoands of butter in four days last week. .Pretty good for February.

J. G. and J. P. McCord have purchased SSL fine gas engine of fifteen-horse power ••to be placed in the elevator. They will eTCefc a much more substantial engine room than the previous one.

Attendance at the M. E. S. S. 120 colSection $2.12.

~£?eter Hinds aud family visited Levi ^Jolunder's' of Laurence on Sunday. The teachers of Vernon will hold ckeir sixth institute at Fortville next Saturday.- ,s

The members of the Epworth League wzlt give an entertainment at the M. E. •eihurch on next Wednesday evening March •6. The program will consist of songs, recitations, dialogues, tableaux &c. .Admission oc.

James Hamilton sold two new wagons Monday. "Will Bills, of Martinsville, visited rel--ulives here over Sunday.

Mrs. A. J. Apple aud daughter, Blanche, visited relatives at Wilkinson osi Sunday.

Mr. Laws and family, of Anderson, •visited H. M. Thompson and family last week.

J. S. Packard has taked up a tempojracy residence in Illinois.

Eiev. Slack, of Fortville, was In MeCordsville last week on business.

Geo. Vanover and family, of Greenfield, jmoved to this place last week. Mr. Vanover will pursue the painters trade.

Ed Day, of the Capital City, visited his parents on Sunday.

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ee Dosia Stoner is seriously ill of catarrhJOI fever. Vv Mrs. J. P. McCord is quite poorly. •!irjtndma Bartlinger is quite sick.

mt Harry Apple has been afflicted with a •sgatiiered jaw, rendering him unable for .school work for two dayp.

Ham bier of the Democrat was in town .Jast week. He is one of those genial 4»road hearted men who always shed xadience'around them. Come again •Jjiothar Hufford.

Washington's birthday wag celebrated in a very interesting manner by our schools. The program consisted ot patriotic songs, dialogues, recitations, flag drills &c. The exercises were highly appreciated.

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The M. E. church is improved by placing double doors in the central front. The ladies of the Universalist church gave a lunch social at the church last Friday evening. The proceeds of the evening were §11.50. A good time was enjoyed by all.

Miss Mayme Roberts gave an elocutionary recital at tlie M. E. church last Tuesday evening. Her articulation was faultless, her voice clear and her -manner graceful and expressive. The audience was highly pleased with her efforts.

Kev. Forker preaches at the Univerbalist church every Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

We certainly agree with the correspondent to the Democrat in stating that Carle Morri-on is an energetic, ellicient superintendent and deserves success.

Oda Kimberlin goes to Danville next week to complete his course in phonography and short hand. 1 C. Piekel and J. G. McCord made a business trip to Castleton last week.

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Rev. Smith of Arlington, commenced protracted meeting at the Christian church last Friday night. The meeting will continue for two weeks and probably longer. He is an excellent speaker and revivalist.

We are glad to say that Win. Ratl'erty who has been so very seriously ill is recovering.

J. E. Smith was at Indianapolis Tuesday. Mrs. Baruett and daughter Maggie visited relatives at Indianapolis the latter part of the week,

Mr. Nigh, of Greenfield called on friends here Thursday. Mrs. Cleg and little daughter, of Indianapolis are the guests of Marion Ayers and family.

Jas. Coliee has the measles. Mrs. Shank was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Ora Boyce at Carrollton, Tuesdry.

Mrs. Hilt and son Bernard, of Morristown are guests of her mother, Mrs. Cole.

Mrs. Win. Pierson is visiting her parents at Ed inburg. Mrs. Kenton and daughter Bertha, visited relatives at Indianapolis, Friday and Saturday.

Addie Campbell spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother at Fairland. Howard Branham and wife, of your city were guests of her sister, Mrs. James F. Reed and family, over Sunday.

Fannie Ayers, who has been visiting relatives at Indianapolis, returned home Saturday.

Ed Smith, of Miiroy was the guest of Geo. Smith and wife, the latter part of last week.

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Mrs. Garrett, of Wilkinson, called friends here last week. Ed Hill has moved to his former place of residence on Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Bell, of Cleveland, wilPoccupy the place vacated by Mr. Hill.

Mr. Morrison and family, of Wells county, are the guests of Elder Hammond aud wife. Mr. M. is a brother of Mrs. II.

J. F. Shultz and wife visited P. J. Bohn aud wife, of Greenfield, this week.

Pastor Morris, of Friends' church, attended monthly meeting at Westland Friday.

The splendid crayon -portrait of John Addison at the post office was done by Miss Rose Smith. "Old folks singing school"'taught by Prof. ^Harrison Staley is .among^the latest happenings.

Miss Bertie Rock visited at Henderson McKowns last week. "What think ye of Christ?" was the text from which Elder Shutz preached a very interesting discourse at the Christian church last Friday evening.

The celebration of Washington's birthday by our schools was witnessed by a large crowd and considering the lack of room the exercises were excellent, the pupils doing splendidly.

The Good Templars had one of the most interesting meetings at its last session that it has had since its organization, and it is proving a power for good in this community.

Mrs. Glass and sons, Messrs. Milburne, of Johnson county, were guests of her son, William Milburne, Sabbath.

Otto Bennett is painting the scenery in the I. O. O. F. hall.

Pastor J. W. Bowen discoursed Sabbath on "The Law of Liberty," and made many excellent points. We hope conference will return him to us again,

R. T. Ward visited his children in Indianapolis last week. Temperance meeting at Friends' church Sabbath eve. was very interesting.fand will be at the Christian church next Sabbath 2:30 p. m.

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QUID PRO QUO.

I begged a kiss of a little maid. Shyly, sweetly, she consented. Then of a sudden, all afraid,

After she gave it she repented, And now as penance for that one kisa She asks a poem—I'll give her this.

But how can my song be my very best When she, with a voice as soft as Circe's, Has charmed the heart from my lonely breast—

The heart, the fountain of all true verses? Why, oh, why should a maid do this? No—I must give back her kiss. —R. U. Johnson in Century.

OUR PHANTOM GUIDE

"Any light out there? My, but it's dark, and the roadbed seems to have been washed away. Say, Hugh, whatever are we to do after losing our -way in this fashion?"

Hugh McClure and I had been shooting over a Perthshire moor, and dallying too long after game had been caught in tlio descending night and the far more unpleasant descending rainstorm. "Blest if I know," answered Hugh, wading his way out of a mudhole and shaking himself like a huge Newfoundland dog. "Gents, I can guide you to a place of shelter," said a deep, hollow voico beside us. Wo both sprang back, for there, but a few feet away, stood a horse and his rider, the dark mass being partially distinguishable from the darkness of the night around.

That a horseman should bo in a place •where it was difficult for a pedestrian to get a secure footing was strange enough in all conscience, but that he should have apparently risen up among us without any warning whatsoever was stranger still. "How did you ever steer your horse down here?" I queried in a tone that I tried to make one of surprised pleasure, but miserably failed in the attempt. "I have lived on the borders of this moor all my life," replied the voice, "and my horse knows every foot of the way since ho was a foal."

This explanation was satisfactory enough for men in desperate circumstances. Hugh and I thanked him for his proffered services and requested him to lead the way. We sought to obtain a glimpse of his features, but they were wrapped in the invulnerable gloom of the night.

As he passed I noticed that his horse was a very tall one and that its eyes shone through the darkness like the eyes of a gigantic cat, but with a far more unearthly and ferocious light than that of the docile grimalkin ourled up beforo the fire, speculating profoundly on the rise and fall of stock in the rodent market, qfe? §g|g

The horseman rode a short distance" in advance, holding in his beast occasionally to enable us to catch up. It was a hard task to do so. The rain was descending iu torrents. The wind howled and whistled across the moor. At every step we sank above our boot tops and often almost to our knees.

A vivid flash of lightning shot across our way. For an instant the features of our mysterious guide and the form of his steed were revealed. Ho was half turned in his saddle and was glancing back at where we wero floundering behind. His face was like the face of a skeleton covered over with tightly drawn skin, through which two malicious eyes gleamed with a vindictiveness that was startling in its intensity. Over his form and over that of his horse wero cast somo long robes that looked like the trappings of a funeral car, the horse's head being also enveloped, savo for two eyelets, through which it surveyed us with the blazing eyes of an unbroken mustang. The rider woro a tall hat like those worn by our forefathers 100 years ago and with something fastened around the brim that I could have sworn was a bow of crape. "For Gou's sake, stop, Hugh!" I criod, holding his arm. "Did you see that fellow's face? I do believe he is no living man. Not of our world anyhow.

Hugh McClure was as practical a Scotchman as ever failed to appreciate a joke or pass an examination in Edinburgh university.

Through the opaque night I could feel his withering glance of scorn as ho made answer, "If you want to talk of ghosts in the middle of this God forsaken spot in this heaven condemned weather, you can do so, Percy, but you shan't have nie for an audience," and he forged on, calling to our guide: "In the name of tho first pilot, how long will it be beforo you can steer us to the world again?"

The hollow voice came echoing back: "One mile to the right is a cottage where we can find shelter. Come on!" "A mile of this!" wailed Hugh. "Oh, my sins have been many, but what I suffer tonight should atone for all!"

We had, however, passed the worst portion of our journeying, and the footing now became more secure. Still the rain descended in sheets, and the wind blew with a force that ofttimes threatened to sweep us off our feet.

Like a far distant star we at length saw a light ahead. It appeared, then disappeared, then appeared again. "There is the cottage," said our guide. "We will reach it soon now." "What a mean fellow not to offer us a lift on his horse!" Kmmbled Hugh. "I certainly have enough trouble to keep my own footing not to have to guide a horse over these bottomless holes, but he might have been civil enough to make the offer anyway."

We were now proceeding over the soft, damp turf of the moor, and I had frequently stopped from timo to time to feel if the horse left any tracks behind him. Not the trace of a track could I find. "Hugh," I whispered, "that horse is leaving no tracks behind him." "Do stop your ghost stories," said Hugh impatiently. "Anyhow, restrain them until we get out of this lost part of Scotland.

AftGr hi an hour's trudging we

stood before the cabin from whence the light had proceeded. It was a small, mud walled concern covered with a thick roof of thatch. Two little windows on either side of the narrow door had the|r shutters up, and through the jagged chinks the rays of a strong illumination within shone brightly. "Go right in and make yourselves at home, while I take my horse to stable, said our mysterious guide as he turned off to the rear of the hut.

We pushed open the door. The apartment we entered was a large one, much larger than the outside of the hut would lead us to believe, but what astonished us the most was the luxurious manner in which it was furnished. Heavy tapestries covered the four walls, a thick Turkish carpet was spread upon the floor, four chairs of solid mahogany, two lounges of the same material, all upholstered in tho richest velvet, a huge bureau of polished pine and a mahogany table were situated in various parts of the room, the lounges standing temptingly before the wood lire that crackled up the chimney unrestrained by any grate. A hanging lamp suspended from the cross beam, whose shade seemed studded, if not with actual jewels, with wonderful imitations thereof, cast a brilliant, almost dazzling, light over all. "Well, "said Hugh as soon as lie could realize the situation. "This seems like a fairy tale, but then in a fairy tale this would be an enchanted castle and not an enchanted hut. Ah, but those lounges look tempting, however! This must be some great man's shooting box, though it looked very unlike one from the outside as well as I could see. That man you took for a ghost must be the owner. His invitation for us to make ourselves at home sounded as if he was. Well, I would not mind meeting such a ghost again under like circumstances, from which circumstances, however, may heaven forefend!"

We were so tired and wet, and this apartment being evidently the only one in the house, we proceeded to undress and hang up our garments to dry. Under one of the sofas Hugh had discovered two dressing gowns of superb finish, which we calmly appropriated, and our host delayed so long about rejoining us we lay down on the lounges and were soon sleeping as worn and weary wayfarers alone can sleep.

What sounded like the clash of a mighty cymbal brought me erect on my feet and wide awake after enjoying a much needed and refreshing sleep. I looked about. The lamp had gone out. So, too, had the fire. But in the center of the room a jiillar of light seemed to descend from the roof to the floor. In the midst of the pillar was the upright form of a venerable oid man. His head was thrown back, his long, white hair falling in a mass over his shoulders. His great beard covered his entire chest. He was clad in a:i ox's skin, fastened by a hempen girdle. His bare arms, powerful and sinewy, were bound behind him to a shadowy stake, and his naked feet—merciful heavens!—wero resting upon live coals of firo. On looking closer at the face I saw a look of hopeless, unspeakable anguish thereon, but not a moan escaped from the writhing lips. As I stood horror stricken, a sweet female voico rose and swelled in a weird wild chant of heart piercing sadness. The words were Gallic, but the tones in which they floated through tho silence of the room were the tones of a soul to whom hope is lost forever. As it ended, a mocking laugh rang loud outside the window and was followed by a horse's neigh. We knew from the cold blast that rushed in that somo one had opened the door. Simultaneously the specter disappeared. I felt an aweome presence not of earth approaching.

Hugh's voice gasped in my ear, "For God's sake, let us fly!" Dressed only in the gowns wo had discovered, wo rushed madly to tho door. As wo passed its threshold, we heard behind us a yell of disappointed rage that made the blood run cold in our veins.

We dashed on blindly, panic stricken. At length toward morning we met a party of hunters, who at first very naturally took us for a pair of escaped lunatics roaming aimlessly on tho moor and clad in two old tattered, mildewed dressing gowns that had seemed such handsome dresses when we first saw them in the hut. On our relating our adventures their voices rose in a mutual cry of astonishment. "Aweel! Aweel!" exclaimed the eldest of the hunters, a grizzled veteran, with the snows of some 60 winters on his head. "Yo air th' first men that ever slop' in the laird's hut and lived to tell the tale."

We begged him to explain, for sick and scared as we were wo were anxious to know what we had escaped from. "The hut, said tho old hunter, "was occupied o'er 80 years agone by the laird of Knockeranie, tho eighth of the namo. On his young wife dying he betook himself and his infant daughter to it. He furnished it from tho castle. Then he shut himself out from the world. No one ever saw him, but when his daughter got to be a guid pert girl she used to be beard singing, tho' few e'er cast eyed on her. It was said that the laird had mickle gowd hid in the hut, and one night robbers broke in, killed the daughter and her father after almost burning his feet off trying to make him tell where his money was hid. A liorBe and his rider were found drowned in the marsh next morning, and they do say he

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blood stains tho water could not remove were on his clothes. He is said to haunt the marsh yet, so's to bring lost folks to the hut wliar the murder was, and whoever entors the door is never seen again."

I tell the story as it liapponed. Whether we wore suffering from temporary aberration, caused by the germs of a fever that laid us low for many days, I leave for others to decide, but Hugh and I often gaze in awe at the old dressing gowns wo still possess, tho relics of that terrible night.—Vere V. Hunt in Chicago Tribuna

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