lilt DEIEMQ U OFTBEPEATED STORY OF TRUE PHILANTHROPY What Chas. H. Hackley has Done for Western Michigan How the only Cloud in the Life of an Honored Man was Brushed away by Science. t J ill Omd MapuU, CHAS. H. BACKIXT. The moot beautiful spot In Mmke- ton la inseparably associated with the Dame of Hackley, and in all 'West ern Michigan there la not a name bet ter known, and among- the studious and those interested In deeds of phil anthropy, this name Is known and ad mired. Chas. H. Hackley has been In the lumber business continuously since 3&C and In that time has amassed a fortune, which gives him a rating; among the wealthy men of the na tion. Hut with wealth there did not come tbat tightening; of the purse strings which Is generally a marked characteristic of wealthy men. There is no prettier spot In the State than Hackley Park In a square sur rounded and pierced by stone walls, emphasizing with their whiteness the green of faultlessly kept lawns. Its crowning priue a towering soldiers monument on the top of which stands a bronze figure pointing ever In re membrance of the heroes who died ttiat the nation might live. Surround ing this park are the magnificent 1 tackier Public Library a poem In granite with its 0,000 volumes, and the equally stately Hackley school. ii'ie a bee-hive with its COO children. Other elegant buildings testify like wise to the liberality and munificence of this man who has pulled wealth out or tne -forests of Michuran. It is no wonder then that the name or Charles H. Hack lev is known at home and abroad. His munificence to &uskegon atone represents an outlay oi nearly nan a million, for the past twenty years be has been a constant cunerer from neuralgia and rheuma tism, also numbness of the lower limbs, so much so that it has seriously interfered with his pleasure In life. For some time past his friends have noticed that be has seemed to. grow I'oung again, and to have recovered the health which he had in youth. To a correspondent of the Press. Mr. Hackley explained the secret of bis transformation, and to his friends who have known how he suffered. It Is Indeed a transformation. '1 have Buffered for over twenty years," he sam, seated in his private office, "with pains in my lower limbs so severely that the only relief I could get at night was by putting cold water com presses on my limbs. I was bothered more at night than In the Hay time. The neuralgic and rheumatic pains In my limbs, which bad been growing In intensity for years, finally became chronic I made three trips to th? Hot Springs with only partial relief, and then fell back to my original state. I eouldn:t -alt still, and my Bufferings began to make life look very. blue. 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Uplemltdl llliiMnutKL So lirtIIi?iil Vim tfaould ta without It Weeklr, B3,0Oa Addiwa, jsuss cut - Upas Tftbutet our tllHlptH 1 A i is k 9m rmr- eunm. I 0 V Y.Tr ConauOT. dMSwasuuVi. '. (I If Then, sitting on the arm of his chair, she darted a violet my of half reproach and half mischicvousitrsB. into his amused and rvtroHOfOtiveeyea. ''There used to be room for two in that chair, Klaxus." The use of the old childish diminu tive for his name seemed to him as natural (is her familiarity, mid lie moved a little niiU-wnys to -ntakr room for her with an Instinct of pleasure, but the same sense of irrcspoiiHibility that had characterised his reflections. Nevertheless, he looked critically iuto the mischievous eyes and sa:d, quietly: "Where is your husband?" There was no trace of embarrass ment, apology or even of conscious ness in her pretty face, as she replied, passing her hand lightly through his hair: "O, Jim? I've pocked him off!" 'Tacked him off!" echoed Clarence, slightly astonished. ' "Yea to Fair Plains full tilt after your wife's buggy. You see, Clarence, after the old cat that's your wife, please left, I wanted to jnaka sure she had gone, and wasn't hangin' round to lead you off again, with your leg tied to her apron string, like a chicken'at No! I said to Jim: 'Just you ride after her until yon see she's safe and sound in the down coach from Fair Plains, without her knowin' it, and if she's inclined to hang back or wobble any, you ost back here and let me know!' I told him I would stay and look after you, to see you didn't bolt, too!" Hue laughed and then added: "But I didn't think I should full into the old ways so soon, and have such a nice time. Did you, Clarence?' She looked so irresponsible sitting there with her face near hia, and so childishly or perhaps .thoughtlessly happy, that he could only admire her levity, and even the slight shock that her flippant allusion to hia wife had given him seemed to him only a weak ness of his own. After all was not hers the true philosophy? Why should not these bright eyes see things more clear ly than his own? Nevertheless, with his eyes still fixed upon them, he con tinued: "And Jim was willing to go?" 8he stopped, with her fingers still lifting a lock of hia hair. "Why, yes, you silly why shouldn't he? I'd like to see him refaaev Why, Lord, Jim will do anything I ask him." She put down the lock of hair, and suddenly looking full into hiseyes said: "That's just the difference between him and me and you and that woman!" "Then yon love him?" "About as much as you love her," she said, with an unaffected laugh, "only he don't wind me around bis finger." . So doubt she was right, for all her thoughtlessness, and yet he was going to fight about that woman to-morrow! Hoi he "forgot he was going to fight Capt. Pinekney because he was like her! Susy had put her finger on the crease between his brows which this supposi tion had made, and tried to rob it out "You know it aa well as I do, Clar ence," sue said, with a pretty wrink ling of her own brows, which was her nearest approach to thoughtfulness. Yon know you never really liked her, only you thought her ways were grand er and more proper than mine, and you know you were always a little bit of a snob and a prig, too, dear boy! And Sirs. Peyton was bless my soul! a Benham, and a planter's daughter, and I I was only a picked-up orphan! That's where Jim is better than you. now, sit still, goosey! even if I don t like him as much. O, I know what you're always thinking you're think ing we re both exaggerated and the atrical aint you? Don't you think it's a heap better to be exaggerated and theatrical about things that are just sentimental and romantic than to be so awfully possessed and overcome about things that are only real? There, you needn't stare at me so. It's true! You've had your fill of grandeur and propriety, and here you are! And." she added, with a little ehackle, as she tucked up her feet and leased a little closer to him, "here s me!"f Be did not speak, but his arm quite unconsciously passed around her small waist. "You see, Clarence," she went on. with equal unconsciousness of the act, "you ought never to have let me go never! Yon ought to have kept me here, or run away with me. And you oughtn't to have tried to make me proper. And . you oughtn't to have driven me to dirt with that .horrid Spaniard, and you oughtn't to have been so horribly cold and severe when I did. And you oughtn't to have made me take up with Jim, who was the only one who thought me his equal. I might have been very silly and capricious; I might have been very vain, but my van ity isn't a bit worse than your pride my love of praise and applause in the theater isn't a bit more horrid than your fears of what people might think of you or me. Thal'sgoepel truth, isn't it, Clarence? Tell me! Don't look that way and this look at me! I ain't poisonous, Clarence. Why, one of your cheeks is redder thou the other, Clar encethat's the one that's turned from me. Come," she went on, taking the lapels of bis coat between her hands, tad kslf tkimt lim fctU fctwttt i i him nearer her bright face, "Tell isnt It true?" "I was thinking of you just nowwhen I fell asleep. Busy," he Bold. Be did not know why he said it; he had not Intended to tell her he had only meant to avoid a direct answer to her ques tion, yet even now he went on. "And 1 thought of you when I was out there in the rose garden waiting to come in here." "Yon did?" she said, drawing in her breath. A wave of delicate pink color came np to her very eyes it seemed to him aa quickly and as innocently as when she was a girl. "And what did you think, Klarus" she half whis pered "tell me!" Be did not speak, but answered her blue eye, and then her lips, as her arms slipped quite naturally around his neck. The dawn was breaking as Clarence and Jim Hooker emerged together from the gate of thecasa. Mr. Booker looked sleepy. Be had found, after his return from Fair Plains, that his host had an early engagement in Santa lnex, and he had insisted upon rising to see him on. It was with difficulty, indeed, that Clar- nce could prevent his accompanying iim. Clarence bad not revealed to Busy die night before the real object of his journey, nor did Booker evidently sua :iect it, yet when he had mounted his horse, he hesitated for an instant but without extending his hand. "If I should happen to be detained," he began with a half smile. But Jim was struggling with a yawn. "Tha'a all righ' don't mind us," he said, stretching hia arms. Clarence's hesitating hand dropped to his side, md with a light, reckless laugh and a hulf sense of providential relief, he gal loped away. What happened immediately there after, during his solitary ride to Santa Inez, looking back upon it in after years, seemed but a confused recollec tion, more like a dream. The long stretches of vague distance gradually opening clearer with the rising sun in an unclouded sky, the meeting with a few early or belated travelers antl his unconscious avoidance of them, as if they might know of his object, the black shadows of foreshortened cattle rising before him on the plain and arousing the same uneasy sensation of their being waylaying men; the won dering recognition of houses and land marks he had long been familiar with, bis purposeless attempts to recall the circumstances in which he had known them all these were like a dream. So, oo, were the recollections of the iiight before, the episode with Busy, already mingled and blended with the uemory of their previous past, his fu tile attempts to look forward to the future, always, however, abandoned with relief at the thought that the next few hours might make them un necessary. So, also, was the sudden realization that Santa Inez was before him, when he bad thought he was not yet half way there, and as he dismount ed before the courthouse his singular .'celing followed, however, by no fear f distress that he had come so early to the rendezvous that he was not yet quite prepared for it. This same sense of unreality per vaded hia meeting with the deputy sheriff; the news that the federal judge had, as was expected, dismissed the prisoners on their own recognizance, and that Capt. Pinekney was at the hotel at breakfast. In the like ab stract manner he replied to the one o two questions of the deputy, cxhibl'c: the pistols be had brought with and finally accompanied biro to a Ktllt meadow hidden by trees belon the hoti i. where the other principal and his sec mrts were awaiting them. And hrr awoke! clear-eyed, keen, forccfu. and intense! So stimulated were bis faculties thitf his sense of bearing in its acutentv took in every word of the convorsntiui. between the seconds, a few paces dis tant. Be beard his adversary's seenn-' say earelesslytothcdcputyslirriff: ' presume this is a case where there wil! be no apology or mediation," and t! deputy's reply; "I reckon my ma: means business, but he seems a littl queer." . Be heard the other sceom laugh and say lightly: "They're r.t t be so when it's their first time oi, .' followed by the more anxious oiclr a' the other second as the deputy turn-.! away: "Yes, but by 0 d 1 don't his looks!" Bis sense of sight was :.! so acute that having lost the choice ; position, when the coin was tossed anil being turned with his face to the am:, even through its glare he saw with nr erring distinctness of outline the black coated figure of his opponent n.on . into range, saw the perfect outline c his features, and how the eay, supei eilious smile as he threw away h; cigar appeared to dropout of his fu. with a kind of vacant awe os he foec ' lum. Be felt but nerves ueconie i: steel as the countering began, m.il ih the word "three knew be had fired l. v the recoil of the pistol in bis levrk-li hand simultaneously with its utter ance. And at the same moment, r.tiV Ktanding like a rock, he saw his m' tersary miserably collapse, bis li'p rrotesquely curving Inward indcr hir;. without even the dignity of death in hi 'all, and so sink helplessly like a felled bull to the ground. Still erect, am' lowering only the muzzle of his pistol. its shining side, lie saw the ibvuir r.-.. seconds run quickly to tlie Isctr-. t'y t.. lift its limp impotence !iito'l.uic, r.u.. let It drop again with the o:i!s; "Iiight through the forehead, by CI l!" "You've done for him," said th? deputy, turning to 'hirer.ee wit:i n singular look of curiosity, "unci 1 reckon you'd better get out- of litis mighty quick! They didn't exjiect It they're just rngin', they nm;,' round on you and" he added more slowly "they seem to have just found out who you are!" Even while he wasspeakh c, Clarence with his quickened ears heard the words, "one of Hamilton Brunt's pups." "Just like his father," from the group around the dead man. Be did not hesi tate but walked coolly toward them. Yet a certain fierce pride which he had never known before stirred in his veins, as their voices hushed and they half recoiled before him. "Am I to understand from my sec iid, gentlemen," he said, looking round the group, "that you are not ntislied?" "The light was square enough," said Oinekmy's second, In some emluirrass men t, "hut 1 reckon that he" poiutlnj. lo Hie dead man "did not know who .on hitV" "I)o yon mean that he did not know tn:it 1 wits the son of a man proficient in the use ol units?" "I reckon that's about it," returned the second, glnnclng at the others, "I nm glad to say, sir, that I have a better opinion of his courage," said 'lutenet-, lifting his hat to the dead body, as he turned away. (To be continued.) Dress Goods, fine quality for a little money, at Read, Peacock A Co 's. Full-size cabinet photographs $1.50 to2 per I'ozen for 80 days only at Boyd's Gallery. . Get your pictures taken now by Tinkle at Boyd's Gallery. We make photos from 50 cts. to M per dozen and guarantee the licst work. Call aud see our samples. Tinkle Photo Co., at Boyd's Gullery. 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