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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.
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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. Two years ago last Sep
tember I noticed an account of Dr.
IWUliamT Plak Pitfa for Pale People,
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regon Central
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Fare trom Albany and Points West to Ban
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Cabin . $6 00
Steerage 4 00
ToCoosBayandBortOrford; "
Cabin ..; .'. 6 00
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Cabin 4 8 00
Bonnd Trip Good for 60 Days Special.
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Ueiiiroiiie, boats leave Portland same
dav os above at 6 a. ., arriving at Albany
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Manager. H. B. Bcav,
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Agent, Depot Albany.
To The Mothers.
Yon have nice children, you know,
ud ttoluing pleases tliem better than
a nloe nobby suit of clothes that keeps
them warm and healthy. Baker Jtat,
them and for but little money? Can
you stand $1.00 for a suit of .clothes, or
up to 14.00? AH these low prices you
will find at Biram Baker's.- i
Mill
and what they had done for others,
and some cases so nearly resembled
mine that I was interested. But I did
not know whether the testimonials
were genuine or not and I did not
wish to be humbugged, so I wrote to
one who had given a testimonial, an
eminent professor of music In Canada.
The reply X received was even strong
er than the printed testimonial, and It
gave me faith In the medicine.
"I began taking the pills and found
them to be all that the professor had
told me they would be. it was two or
three months before I experienced any
perceptible betterment of my condi
tion. My disease was of such long
standing that I did not expect speedy
recovery, and was thankful even to be
relieved. I progressed rapidly, how
ever, towards recovery, and for the
last six months have felt myself a
perfectly well man. I have recom
mended the pills to many people, and
am only too glad to assist others to
health through the medium of this
wonderful medicine. I cannot say too
much for what it has done for me."
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. SAOXLEY PASS.
These pills are manufactured by the
Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Sche
nectady, N. T., and are sold only in
boxes bearing the firm's trade mark
and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six
Doxes lor 12.50, and are never sold ta
bulk. They may be had of all drug
gists or direct by mail from Dr. Wil
liams Medicine Company. The prico
at which these pills are sold makes a
course of treatment Inexpensive as
compared wiu otfier remedies. '
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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.)
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