Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 December 1887 — Page 2

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PAPKR FOR THE PEOPLE.

EVOLUTION.

i\l*

trui-,

ts our

^#5 4

ues7 master: teach,

r: at life vrax once bereft of sound and T:.at darkness ia the chrysalis of light. Axj'l tbe mute tocgtie tbe motherhood of is eeeli. That we v.'ltnm." gropb !U£(!D hove dflfwl to reach

Beyond the limit* of our day and night, RoeCfram t'je of ages to a height Where Oo«l gives promise to the soul of each— Then why should lore, tbe very r,t part

Of a roan's untur.-. tind tbe power which binds ZJfe to a life as leaf is bound to trw. Not crow and deepen ia the htiman heart

Till in the future of the world it finds Hate banished from tbe sunlaads and the seilf —Georgj Edgar Montgomery in Cosmopolitan.

A in a

HvKdward Bellamy In The Atlantic Monthly for December. .John Tensing flrat met Mary Hollister »L the house of his friend Finney, whose wife was hor sinter. Sho had soft gray «ye^, a pretty color in her cheeks, rosy 'lip*, and a charming figure. lu the •course of the evening some-body suggested mind-reading as a pastime, and

I.ansing, who had some powers, or su«oHoii powers, in that direction, although /ho laughed at them himseir, experimented in turn with the ladies. He failed with nearly overy subject until it came

Mary liollister's turn* As she placed Jior soft palm in his, closed her eves, and gave herself up to his influence, he knew that he could succeed with her, and so lie did. She proved a remarkably •sympathetic subject, and the spectators fairly thrilled by the feats ho was able to perform by hor aid. After that evening ho met her often, and there was mi ore equally remarkable mind-reading :&nd the mind-reading grew into heartMvudiitff, and tho old, old story thoy read in ouch other's heart had more faftclnaCioH for them than the new sclonce.

Having once discovered that their hearts heat in unison, they took no more interject i» the relation of their minds. i'iiii action proper of this story begins four years after their marriage, with a v«rv"shocking event nothing less than cbe murder of Austin Flint, who was (found dead one morning in the house in ivhlch ho lived alono. Landing had no iiand in the deed, but he might almost A* well have had for while absolutely Hoot guiltless he was caught in one of 4hose net of circumstance which no forenight can avoid, whereby innocent men are sometimes snared helplessly, an delivered over to a horrible death. Ihere liad been a inisanderstaiiding betweon .*»im and the dead man, and onty a wmc.fo of davs before tho murder thoy »d exchanged blows on the street. hen

Flint was found dead, in the lack of any other clue, pooplo thought of Lansing. Ho realized that this was so and remainder silent as to a fact which otherwise ho would have testified to at the in|UOst, but which he reared might now Imperjl him. He had been at Austin bouse U-.o night of the murder, and might /have committed it, as far as opportunity •nam concerned. In reality the motive of his visit was anything but murderous

Doepiv chagrined by tho scandal or the ':ght, ho had gone to Flint to apoloi ,vi»d to make up thoir quarrel. Biu .... l.-ew very well that nobody would be- ,* ve thit Lids was his true object In oking his enemy secretly by night .. hile the admission of the visit would .Ki.loto a case of circumstantial evi v'IK VaR*i.i*t him stronger than had of hanged men. He bolioved that no ,io but tho dead man knew of the c.\U .1 thnt It would never bo round out

Jin had not toid his wife of It at tho time .ud still less afterward, on account of |,o anxietv she wold rod at his position

Two weeks passed, and ho was bagln ming to breathe freely in tho assurance •or Hrtfoiv, when, like a thunderbolt from cI)ud't11Ht

evoryihlug. At

T-rv

I«wp*

tuen

communication was by stage, got up from the railroad the and go back the following

#in*«

Finney'was, if she had a photograph

KIU WIRO

hor.e was

Fiving

seemed to have passed over,

lie cutastrophoeanie. A friend met him *»M the street one day, and warned him ,II

ESCAPE

while ho could.

4 hat ho had been seen to enter Hint 8 liouse that night, ills eoncoalment of the tact had been accented asoorroborat tin: evidence of his guilt, and the police •wh had shadowed him from the lirst, .night arrest him at any nionion The vlction that ho was guilty, which tho fnond Who told him this evidently had, v. IX a terrible comment on tho dosperncne^of his position. He walked home ,,s in a dream, His wife had gone out to neighbor's. His little boy came to him and clambered on his knee. xv hat makes your faco so wet? ho askui f.»r there were great drops on his foreheail. Then his wiTo came in, her race %vhite, hor eves full of horror. "Oh Ji.'lin! she exclaimed. -Thoy say vou %vere at Mr. Flint's that night, and thoy -nre going to arrest von. Oh, John, what „1.,M it moan? Why don't you speak? fi shall no mad if you do not speak. ou LJli not them! Tell me that y«« «.o! ttion*!" Tho ghiustly face he raised to hers might well liavo seemed to eoure.Hs

least she seemed

to take •weeping sank to i,or face in her hands upon a chair, children, alarme«l at the scene, began to

it so.

mid in a tit of hysteric*} tho tloor, nnd buried The

was growing dark, and as he

looked out of the window lousing saw in orticer and a number of other persons japproachlng the house.

Th^v^^rwA\'

ina arn^t him. Animal terror, tlu wtirt. of self-preservation, seised upon ||u Hilties, stunned and demonillxed he w"s by the suddenness with which *hln ealamltv had come upon him. He d,xr and iknl. with a score of

kindly, making incredible

fantastically

^else

?*SiSf*by.

obstacles. ares whether

"notlmes do In nightmares, he

Jl with himself, as he ran, whether «,ni«V i«M».Mblv le a waking oxjertiSmnrto think that itcofild incllmnl ««t.

must be dream It waai too horrible to be anything

in a

vi IHHXI hUP

If he could btttajuMj-®

r-' ?W^' 7:?^ """SUf"' "'"'n

TERRE

TT A TTTE

That evening Mrs. Pinney told him she is walking to -he church how his wife and children bad fared 'in

'"laiisimr groaned at hearing tliis,

tethered to a post of the front

niazZH Tlie dooIM and windoxvs of

room

reachod the frontdoor ho heard Pinney and his wife talking in agitated tones. "Oh, how could God let such an awrul thing happen?' she was exclaiming, in a voice broken by hysterical sobbing. "I'm sure thero never was anything hair horriblo before. Just as John was coining home to her, and she worshi him so, aud he her! Oh, it will kill him. Who is going to tell him? him?

fiaS^aB5SKiS«as

but in those

nightmare, and

off

Hlrltwl uS,dS l»

to his

lfe

{thould awake

od heaaiong

rUS l^cSUlrl^ont of »l?h, U«l»th the.larktnW floating object his arms, and.

if his P»rtUer,from

*ky. A throw up nw aruos »««. paused blm heclambem! «lutchintf^n»elh«ng freshet

fnin

W2r'!M!^.£ASG

not tell, except that the engrossment of you. I cannot i»y^^ wteh you coma the struggle liad helped him to forget be P^nM°' ^"jthini\ mil his wretdbedness. Not that he ever did joyful day to me. But when I meet forget it. His wife and babies, from! John in heaven, be will hold me to

wlwae embraces he had been so suddeu- count for the children he left me, an# WTtaW» thoughw. thto If the only fto tSSISt oil hnmiiM not fonret the look 1 vide for tbeni. So long as it is well wifii Above all, ho could "not forget the look

of horror in his wife's eyes in that last them. 1 ought not to^eue J°r my self terrible scene. To see her again, aud lour sister, convince her. if not others, that he was

innocent, was a need which grew upon I would take P^

him that at the end of three years he de- I bride, at six clock the afteruoo oj termined to take his life in his hand, I the 27th of Juue. and return home openly. This life of exile was not worth living.

One daj% in the order or setting his affairs in order for his return, he was visiting a mining camp remote from the settlement when a voice addressed him bv his old name, and looking around he saw Pinney. The latter's tirst words, as soon as his astonishment and delight had found some expression, assured Lansing that ho was no longer in danger The murderer of Austin Flint had been

di^e™T ~nvi"cted,.i.l hanged twoIro°r°

his absence. Her father had helped them I of time always in his headJ *«din» one

r„df KL'nT^n.n.e the t.-oTod,Ugt-JJ,^,^e^

passed hours, locked in his room, brooding over Mary picture. The rest of the day he spent wandering about the place smiling and talking to himself like an

but of the

-f mov comforted him. It was

ney

worth while havin

said, if thev could be made up to e*ie, as all Mary's would be to her when she saw her husband again.

Tho upcoming stage brought the mall and tho next day Pinney rode into camj

People

win »i?th wh°lo hav1nK troubles, »he' »™'v-

amp ing

'tVi'ireV'his'weeklv newspaper, ami engage I well, an elderly well-to-ai furnitareto get his "Jt &£n{nfC.

for

S'ft It XlS ii»ve I oSn easier to get Ing you used to, do, with her.

noon ne sauuiuu ""IWI 1

tho country, thus disposing of a couple ing now.

When

That's

the

dead?"'he ^klTc%ietV°°^ could no? fmpro^

Si 'tromXt 'hehkd o^M'thii I

wn"help

she was. "God him! it now," exclaimed Pinney. "Is sho dead!" repeated Lansing. "No, she Isn't dead."

"Sho Is dying thou." "No, she is well." "It's the children, then. "No,' answered Pluney.

what serious eviF could have

him it nothing had befallen

a,"Wo

wit ,lread

SSfK 8&S' te? !u£

is Impossible to support

All nig", ho

,, »wift current, and in

hJ"/

"""rh

had tor oo fault whatSo John '^'"ror of

ever e*e«pt *n eriw from ^^Ated hi. family allionw. ««d ii t* wew jitost as hojele!«». meet au ac**usaTo return ^urU,L^.h^h bis has tion of iuui^*' weight, ailded overwholmjn* of the

ioubi e^ washed her closely,

law, who doubltf^ xpon his

90e,^ nHme

I nder an

he made bis

jKSS

«»lf

MARY LANSING.

ThVcard announced that the weddmg

^Sruwn of

It was June 27th that day, and was nearly five o'clock. "The Lord hfelp you," ejaculated Penny, a» be saw, by the ashen hue which overspread Labsing's face, that the full realination of his situation had come home to him.

u\Ve

meant to keep it tiffm you till tomorrow. It might be a little easier not to know it till it was over, than now, when it is going on, and £ou int able to lift a linger to stop it."* "Oh. John," cried Mrs. Ffenney once

"'tememler,she

drowned when he leaped into tbe river, the room, unable to endure tbesi^t of and there hadbeon no further search for Lansing face. him His wife had been broken-hearted He had fallen into enair, ana ever since but shHind the children motionless, save for the tow and laWd

sr srsxr-K ssasn

vesr previous*

Of Krae rinsing's onlv idea now home oi.e thousand mil^i awav was ..as to tjetnomeas fast as s'teapi could hisVlfe

It would next day,

nilcs from Ihe miningoamp, to poMllie jof h» exile, by way ottoeivbn'yl^ in^pTtti

vVhfln she brouflfht bitn one from vanwis points in tolonado, so

hi. ho.T». |h.™uld,»y

Not till he bad gone to his rooo and putting tke locked the door did he trust himself to see aifain tho face of his beloved Mary.

•^^^1

o^°S''^r

on the wall before him* It there-fore wanted but five minutes of six, the hour of the-wedding, at home, the difference-

hi." I in „n hour.

Hrnt ihititr lie asked Mr». vividn^jw ei his dreams ot n®4B6, ue iwa

w^hat

of such things being done. I ve

were opened, and as he them. Try it, for God's sake! Don

IDHI

TO HHNJEIR

"Now

MM, I.

Mary

New Ibisher

own bedtime." "Now she is waking upy" "Now the ehurch bells are riaging, a«d she is walking to *he church-" He was accustomed to carry these twe»standards

(,,,„„i_

sce«ve being enacted so.far away.

were prompt at weddings. No

doubt already the few guests was amv ing. stared at by the neighbors from their adows. The complaeent bridegroom was by this timo on his way to the hont&of the bilde, or perhaps knock at tbe door. Lansing knew him

Lansing gasped. The mountain wlndt was 6lowiirg~through tberoomr but a& wassittfocating.

Pinney's voice seeming to come fi^m. verv far away, was in his ears.

he came back to the house, ho say there's more than a chance, but ,,, mt Plni had returned, for his there's that. There's a bare

give up. At any previous moment of his life suggestion that he could, by mere will power, move the mind of a person a thousand miles away, so as to reverse a deliberate decision, would have appeared to Lansing as wholly preposterous as no to an who read these lines.

doubt it does to any But a man,, however, logical he may oe

Who can tell on land, will grasp at a straw when drowuing, at» if it were a log. Pinney had no need to use arguments ar said

no mood to balance probabilities against

^£^4,

He'll have to know I band there was nothing but an intolera-

ble despair, aud a fate that truly seemed more than flesh and blood could bear. feet while

Lansing bad sprung to his feet wh Pinney was speaking. 'Tm| I??'".?

"Then' in God's namo, what is it?" de- sat leaning slightly forward-mangld m-inded'Lansing, unable to conceive attitude.

The

happened ouce

I.S, w.F. «oae,

"l wm man. Don't ask mo," groaned faith even as he feigned that it wallibe

Pi,,ney. "I.'s better that yon should ot^"^rehlm

Mrs Pinnev's face expressed an agouv and realized the tremendous co,,c®"tra-

of .'oT,',,SoJ L.^UII Salt clutchlmt It, tion of purpose, the agony

-l. hrtiri rnt letter to Lansing. John, I it expressed, he was impressed tnai it oh John?" she sobbed. "Remember, I would not be marvelousif some

sa'aassr4-Mra aaarjaaA'ffiS mrs

g„1^si^^,'«otkwrih^

floved John, most have taken it for Uon of the faculty. He went out of toe gmnted that I would never marry again. I room on tiptoe, and left bis e,t it coaid matter to him. Too 1 to fight this strange and terrrible battle w«dll tool the ^gulf bSw^n the dead! with thepwe«» of the air for the honor and living, to fancy that his peace could 1 of his wire and his own. a a a a mortal hearts. Indeed, he often used to preliminary effort on Lansing part to tell me that If he died, he wanted me

tor preuminary enorson uausing to! ftx tho thoughts upon Mary. It was only

3uWu\on„Uhw°hliSh°trdt4C

sure thai I should be taken drat. waa Imagined uer, "hould ^addedthe act^The who was to go ak

IVh VtH IIUWIUCU "V.,

first though, and now ity of the will, turning the former mood I children that 11 of of resistance. He never thought 11 larrv again. As I more, I find it

it'ls for the sake of his chffdre~n~~that'l I of despairintoone of am troing to do what I never thought 1J knew in what room of their house the mlTTon golngto mvry again? As| wedding party murt be pthenri and

S" Vw*Sdl?a& n^rio^andjl ™.bT. repr^ntw-him^t^ho

would wear mv fingers to the bone rath- he »wMr.Davenport, the minister, and er than aiiv other man's name after] facing him, U»^dric°aol^in beltw^lohn"8 wife. But I cannot care spot where they could well stond, before "5^r» th.y d»nld teoued for.| tK trepUce. Bot from ril_•» Whem. Johnny is now «ix, and oa«ht^to go to

A*w%»vh In Muid him. Marv has out nx uieiu uu tm «»iw mown all her clothes, and I cannot get her face as if **nTdiiti^iy her more. Her feet are too tender to go an immensely long^t^Bjwop^wtortyr, bare, and I cannot bay her ahoea. I getbut atan less and less sewing since the new dress-J this face his uNUmevM rtTwea, as maker came to the village, andsewn shall by his formlenomena him with

have none. We live, oh so plainly! For! teach and more bet* mwjf I should not care, but tbe child-1 that she was doing.

renate growing and need better food, er experimentally mental They are John's children and for tbeir seike have brought myself to do what I never would have done bot tor them. I have promised to marry Mr. Whitoomb. 1 have not deceived him aa to why alone I marry. He has promised to care for the children as hh own, and to send

:niAle-long

iugv

£nn- maker, who had been used to express a

sina The day dragged terribly to the fatherly admiration for Mary. Ihe l-uter who staved at tho ranch. He was bride was up-stairs in her chamber^, putnuito'untit for any social purpose, as ting tbe finishing touches to t®1ilet, Ur« Pinnev to whom a guest in that lor, at this very moment, bo* ll^lv nlaoe wa!s rmre trfat, found to was descending the stairs- to UKe the her sorrow, though indeed she could not bridegroom's arm and go in. to be marblame him for being poorcompany. He I ried.

4.4Roiise

ff,r Uorl's sake! Don.'t ttive it,

»»k6' si"?

You could

Perhaps you may save her yet

There's a chance you may do it. 1 don't

mine

botter thiui giving up. I ve heard

bad in a measure Dual tbe mode of addressing Idas powers to such an undertaking as this, ygtbemesent effort was on a scale ao mj» that his will for a time seemed appaued, and refused to go oot from him, asa mrd put forth from a ship at see reborns and

__ V-,:-'' ./

SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

and again before daring to essay distant night to land. He felt that

Mr. Whiulhe was gaining nothing. He was as one *ho beats the air. It was all he could do nst influences that tecd-

to struggle against inroien«es that tecc ed to deflect and dissipate bis thoughts, Again and again a conviction of the oselessness of the attempt, of the madness of imagining that a mere man could send a wish, like a voice, across a continent, laid its paralyzing towch upon bis will, and nothing but a sense of tbe black horror which failure meant enable him to throw it off* If he but oiwe admitted the idea of failing all was lost. He must 'believe that he could do this thing, or he surely could not. To question »t was to surrender his wife, to despair was to abandon her to her fate. as a wrestler strains against a mightjy antag onist, his will strained and tugged iu supreme stress against the impalpable obstruction of space, and, tightii* deepair with despair, doggedly held to its purpose and sought to keep his facilities unremittingly streaming to the end. Finally, as this tremendous effort, wfcieh made minutes seem hours, went on, there came a sense of efficiency, tbe feeling of achieving something.

sounding-lino, telling that it

touches bottom. .Fainter far, as much tims* as is mind than matter, yet not le^w aaruistakeable was tho thrill which told' the man, agonizing on that lonely tnoun--tain of Colorado, that the will which ho had sent forth to touch the mind of another, a thousand miles away, had found its resting place, and the chain between them was complete. No longer projoctted at random into the void bu as if sent, along an established medium of comlauaacation, nis will now seemed to work upon hers not uncertainly and •with difficulty, but as if in immediate contact, Simultaneously, also its mood changed. No more appealing, agonizing. desperate, it became insistent, imperious, dominating. For only a few liMMiients it remained at this pitch and then the mental tension suddenly relaxing, ho aroused to a preception of his surroundings, of which toward the last he had become oblivious. He was drenched with presuiratlon and compJetely exhausted. The iron horseshoe which he had held in his hands was drawn half-way out.

Thirty-six hours later, Lansing, aceompauied by Pinney, climbed down from, tho stage at the railroad station. During the interval Lansing had neither eaten nor slept. If at moments in that time he was able to indulge the hope his tremeudous experiment had been successful, for the main part the overwhelming presumptionof common sense and common experience against such a on made it seem childisn folly to en-

notion tevtain it. .. At the station was to be sent the dispatch, the

reply to

which would deter

Mary's fate and his own. Pinney sigued it, so that if tue worst were true Lansing's existence might still remain a

going back to hor, in that her a sharer of his shame,

secret for ot case, to mako

there was

thought ou his part. Ihe

dispatch was addressed to Mr. Devenport, Mary's minister, and merely asked Tthe wedding had takon place.

They had to wait two nours for the answer. When it came Lansing was without, on the platform and Pinney was in ttie office. The operator merci fully shortened his suspense by reading the purport of the message from the tape: "The dispatch in answer to yours savs that tho wedding did not take place.

Piunoy sprang out upon the platform At sight of Lansign look of ghastlv questioning, the tears blinded him and, he could not speak, but the wild exultation of bis faco and gestures was speech

eiThehsecond

try it, and may God Almighty help me! he cried, in a terrible voice.

"Thev are I "Amen!' echoed Pinney. Lansing sank into hischair again, and

expreMien of his eyes a

became flx^. His features

and the mu«L« ot

can't keep it from bitn now," by a physical one, hehadlaken

"You'"hav° SdhSd

HLSJ.EE

inal

abandon" of loveln h— day, Suddenly, seeming to airse out of this painful contrast of the past and present, a feeling of abhorrence for the ict to which she was committed, possessed her mind. She had all alongshrunk from it, as any sensitive woman might from a marriage without love, but there had been nothing In that shrinking to compare to intensity with this uncontrollable aversion which had now siezed upon her to the idea of holding a wife relation to tbe man by her side. It had all at once come over ner that she eouia not do it. Nevertheless she was a sensi ble and rational woman as well as sweet and lovely one. Whatever might be the origion o? this sudden repugnance she knew it had no rlason. She was ful

filling

a promise which she had natureW considered, and neither in Justice to herself nor the man to whom she had considered it could *be let a purely hysterical attack like this prevent its con summation. She called r«*a»on and com nion sense to her aim. and resolutely SE^edto banish the distressing fancles that assailed her. The moisture stood oot upon her forehead with the severity of the conflict, which momen-

'^t^artthe'mi ulster ended *?rXSf' of which she had not heard a word. The bridal pair were bidden to „r |,v band. As tbe bridegroom fingns doeed around hem, ahecootftm1 avoid a shudder, as at a loatbsome contact. It waa only by a supreme effort of self-oontrol that abe her hand away with a scr»m. She did not bear

JrtSS: For de.plt.the ahoMeriny.ro teat of every inatinet and the wild rewith which every nervetingied, detwtnined to go throogb with

V-

FK*»

this consciousness was first born a faith «, but rational, b«t and with faith came an instantaneous tenfold multiplication^ of force. The outiiow of energy lost the tendency of disposition^ ana becimoMteady. The will appeared to be getting the mental faculties more perfectly iiw band, if the expression may lie used, not onlv concentrating but fairly fusing them together by the intensity wiM» which it drove them to thoir object. It was time. Already, perhaps, Mary was about to utter the vows that would give her to another. Lansing's lips inovedi As if he were standing at her side, he murmured with strained and laboied utterance emulations of appeal and adjuration.

Then came the climax of the stupendous struggle. He became aware of a, sensation so amazing that I know not if It can be described at all—a sensatlou comparable to that which comes up the

the d^emon'« its citadel still Md oat,

Bat

The wedding broke up in confusion* land that is the way, if you. choose to ithinkso, that John Lausing, .one thou, sand- miles away, saved his wife frotUi marrying another man. "If you choose to think so, I say, fo& lit is perfectly competent

isecond

John

Exchange: You can smell sothelilrili'S'sniiles,'' even if you can't see thorn..

For forty year*, Ayer's Cherry Peotorai has been 'demonstrated to bo the inot't reliable remedy in use,

Dr.

day following Lansing

clasped his wife to his breast, and. this is the story she told him, iuterruped with weepings aud shudderings and ecs tatic embraces of reassurance. The rea sons which had determined her, in disire gard of the dictates of her own heart, to marry again have been sufficiently njtimated in her letter to Mrs. P,nu®y*

for

IjpilWLWi

tbough the tm in ut, sne knaw tba*

it cottkl not be H* long. ^Eacb grave emotion that it withstood was higher, stronger, than the test. She felf that it was going, going. Mhepray ed/th at the minister might be q»*sk, whi® yet she retained a little self-e»mmaw«and pive her an opportunity to» utter spue binding vow which would luajpe good her solemn engagement, ani #'8rt the scandal of the outbreak on t!» vwge of which she was trembling, "Do-yofe said the minister to Mr. Whitoomb, ,t*ike this woman whom you hold by the hano to be vonr wife,, to honor, protect, and love while vou Hre?" "I do," replied the bridegroom promptly. "Dcyou," said the minister, looking at Maiy, "take the man whom yo» bold by the hood to be your husband, bo love and honor while you live?" Mary tried to say "Yes," but at the effort thev» surged up against it an opposition that was almost tangible in its overpoweni®g force. N©» longer merely operating u*on her seusibilities, the inexplicable inttnence that was conquering her now seined on her physical tunctions, and laid it»interdict upon her tongue. Three times she strove to-th row off the incubus, to speak, but in- vain. Great drops were on h«r forehead she was deadly pale, and'her eyes were wild and staring her features twitched as in a spasm, while she stood there struggling with the invisible power thatsealed her lips. There was a sudden movement among the spectators tney were whispering together. They saw that something was wrong. "D© you thus promise?" repeated the minister after a pause. "Nod, if you can^t speak,'1 nvuruuired the bridegroom. His- words were the hiss of a serpent in li«»r ears. Her will resisted no longer her soul waa wheilv possessed by unreasoning terror of the" man and honor of the marriage. "No! No! No!" she screamed in pierciaa tones, and, snatching her baud troin thebridegroom, sho threw herself upon the broaat of the astonished minister, sobbing, wildly as she clung to him, "Save me,, save me! Take me away. I caivt marry him,—I can't—Oh, I can't.

argue that

(the influence to which Mary Lansing, yielded was merely an hysterical attack, not wholly strange

such a moment

surprising

rtle case of a woman devoted to her nrst husband, and reluctantly consenting to

nuptials. On this theory, Lan

sing si-simultaneous agony at Pinney in Colorado was merely a coincidence interesting, perhaps, but 'unnecessary •to account for his wife's behavior., lhat

and Many Lansing should reje-A with indignation this simple method.of accounting for their great deliverance is not at all

in view of the

mon proclivity of people to be impressed* with the extraordinary side of circuin

stances

which effect themselves nor.is

there aasy reason why thoir opinion of the true explanation of the facts shou.d* be giveu more wolght than another s. The writer, who has merely ondea^oied to put tbeir story

into

has formed no

narrative iormv.

opinion

on it which is

satlsfaatory to himself, and therefore.^* stains from any

effort

reader's judgment.

to mtluence the

Strains and external injuries are the

chief

causes of weak ankles and joints.. Bv the freo use of Salvation Oil, a euro will be effected in a short time.

And there was a mask ball last night. ves,.and they kept it up pretty bvoly untili morning. Von see afraid of the early fr st—knowing ithat all the druggists keep supplied witlvDn. Bull's Cough Syrup, the old reliable standby.

colds, cougns,

tnd lung disease*. Slight colds should not be neglected. Tho Pectoral will JM*»ve»t their becoming chronic.

Montgomery Advertiser: Tho way to build a great city is to bot on your town and back it.

Sage'sT'atarrh

t,'r

the rest, Mr. Whitcomb was a highly ra spec table man, whom she esteemed aaid believed to be worthy. V\ hen the^hour set for the marriage arrived, and she took her place by his side before-the minister aud the guests, her heart was iike lead, but her mind kind and resolved. The preliminary prayer was long, and it was natural as it went on that her thoughts should go back to the day when she had thus stood by another's side. She had ado to crowd back tbe scalding tears, as she contrasted her present mood of resignation with the mingling of virginal timidity and the abandon of love in her heart the other

Remedy euros w^en

every other so-called remedy falls.

Puck: A woman never looks on Uie dark side of a bonnet.

tho Holidays,

And the colder winter weathera«»

rapidly approaching. The joyful season is eagerly anticipated by young folks in thousands of homos: but in nearly all there are one or more olderoneti to wkum the cold waves and the storms-moan renewed suffering from rheumatic back or limbs. It is not claimed that Hoods Sarsaparillaisapositive specilic for rheu matism: wo doubt if there is or can bo such a remedy. But tho roraarkablo success Hood's Sarsaparilla has bad in curing this aflcction i* siiffijlent reason for those who are suffering to try this peculiar medicine.

I have used one bottle of Kly*s Cream Balm and it is the best remedy I have found for catarrh in fifteen years.--v }. Babbage, Attorney, Hardln^Uirg, Ky

"Ah me^fstgl-

EXPEDIENCE.

The world Is

"Come now "I?

••You ne«4 neiW® P«nl»bmeotv Pteree% Pelaj

Detroit, formerljr

popular theatrical com—

Nomowhe mournetli his tsmtess low. His iMee Is cheerful, his heart whghtso^ Hts auetenoholy Is quite forgoW

The Jai%e: The human ralw scrape, very litts-together.

Tone uptbe system and improve the appetite DV

taking Ayer's Sarseparilla.

It will make-yon feel like a new person. Thousands B»ve found health, and relief from suffering by the use of thie greatJ blood purifier, when all other saeanfT failed.

New York Prifcmne: The saloon'

politics to stay, and the Domocrurt-y ll hired out as its bartender. ,'x]

Onlv two bottles. Messrs. Johnston,] Hollowav and Co., wholesale drugspfete of Philadelphia,. Pb-, report that some time ago a gentlemen handed thetu 'a dollar, with a request to send a good «atarrh cure to two army officers lu Arlaona. Recently the satwe gentlemen told them that both of the officers and the wife of a well known U. S. A. General had been cured of catarrh by the t.w» bottles of Ely's Cream Blalm.

English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin* Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stilles, Sprains Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc Have$50 bv use of one bottle. Warranted!Sold by W. C. Buntin, Druggist, Terre Haute, Ind. tf. .—— j'ttti- tf CoiiHUinptioti Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice,, bavins had placed lv his hands by an tastIndia Missionary the formula of a simplevegetable remedy tor the speedy and permanent eure of Consumption, Bronchitis, l?attarrh. Asthma aud nil tnroat andLunR AtfeoOhons, also it positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility 'and all Nervous Complaints,, adlter having Rested Its wonderful curative' powers In thousands of eases,-has felt it his 5ti»ty to make It "known to his sutterlna fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to.relieve humanbufrcrlng. 1

will

sond free or

utfaarge, to all who d«.'sln it, this recipe,

German, French or English, with -full directions for preparing aiufusliiK. Sent by mall by addressing with stamp, naming thw paper W.

A.NOYKS.

3£ Y.

Ul) Powers" Block* Rochester,

txjlo-l.'itcow.

11. GrAGG, nr.AI.KK IN ARTISTS'

SUPPLIES

Picture Frames.

Mouldings

Picture Frames to Order. I McIveen's Block. IM8 Main st. ... 6th antl 7th.

-CALL ON-

JOHN R. HAGEll, —roR—

Fire, Life, Accident,

AND OTHKlt

JNTo. II North Sixth Street

O S

NORSE A WO CATTLE POWDER®

HOSSB

wader torch

plIt

'Ji'fc

wilt ilte of Couc.

tkr.

HOT#

or- Lw*o- P»

if Kouiz's Powders lira lined In time.

Fontr's rowdt-ni will pure nnrt prevent HO®r,i»ot.*iU. Kont*'# l'o'vl'w will prevent (Ui'r.s W Fowl*. Foiiu1* 1'owrlem will lneren«e tlic f|onnlltr of nilljt wl cream twenty per cam., anil uitike tho butterllr "'I'onirt Vowflpr* will enre or prevent Hltmwt

This 20th day of November. IWff.

Bucket Pump and Water^Puritie 3 :,n—— FOR WELLS AND CISTERNS

Model Invention endorsed by Scientists and the Medical Professi| as a Preventive against TYPHOID, SCARJJIJT AND MALARIA FEVER, 2,

It Is simple in construction, strong and durable, as It 1|

tubing, suckers, or valves. It 4oes sot Itthe buckets bavin* a hole In the tom, discharge themselves.

It is easy to set up as there is nothing lo fasten below

wmiwrt rnst, as the chain and buekets are made of

bWegahIve,:utcWS^for

XT*B»

IMSVASK to wnlcli Horn* iiinl« uttlenre »iillect. orTJs'i* I'ou mtt# tLI. OIVK HATIVWLOTJO*. Bolil ovorywlicre.

P4.VID J3. rOUTZ, Proprl»tor, SALTTUOBJB. MU.

gHLRin \S SALE.

MOW

Hi-'virtue of an order ofsale issued fro the Vigo circuit Court tome directedan4 d«f liverecT, in favor of Krnnces D. Crews, adjniu istrator of the estate of Jeremiah BuckUj deceased, and against Musannan Buckley ail' Marv 'i• /.ollnrs. I am ordered to sell, till* tol lowing d»'«crllK'l real estate situated In VI« County, Indiana, to-wrltc. ]/ot*. numbered 108,101,108,. tW), U! It!), irii). l"»l, and

ira,

all said lots si filiated I

the town of Maxvllle, said County Htat and on Haturda.v. the 31st day of Deeembe 1«K7. between the hmrs of ID o'clock, a. tn. an 4 o'clock p. m. of said day. at the O/USl ll«w dcwr InTerre Haute, I will olTerthw rent*a|i rot it* of all the above described Rea! rmll t^r^ther with all privileges and apparlenatf ees to the same belonging, for a term not ex, ceedlng seven years, to the highest lldd| for cash, and upon failure to realise

asutf

sufficient to satisfy said order of salrift* costs, 1 will then and'there offer the feortiif tle In and to said Ileal Estate, to the hlghef}

domeatle use in the wo,

T«?Sne 1? not convinced, mtura It at our PS^WUHLSB. P-MPASJ through the water ••from the bottom to the KKIIODS

of water ate drawn. The pure oxygen of the air I liberated ventilates, vital Isesaod parlfles the water. J* a few days use all foul teste and smell will U- removed, the old fuloeM, and Insipidity Is replaced by a sparkle that of a monsUin spring. It Is the only device that will destroy wiggles, water bags, I Ice and woi such vermin cannot exist in living water.

7 Even Pump Warranted for 5

(Ml at onr place of business, No. 15 west of New Court House, and see gl action of tbe air on tbe water.

MCFERRIN BR'O^"

No. 15 South Second Street, Terre Haute, Ind.

5 yeaf

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