The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 19, 1890, Page 3

Time Table.| L. &S DIVISION. “The Landing of the Pilgrim TRAINS RUNNING NORTH. Fathers 2 y passenger 4:47 a.m. fs 312, local 8:30 © w yo2,passenger 3:15 p.m. BY ANNA SHEILDS. TRAINS RUNNING SOUTH. so. 30% passenger 12:30 p.m. From the New York Ledger. - an Piece . 3 Herbert Deuigon paced up and ‘ : down the small room that had been the especial sanctum of his brothor- in-law, Tom Thorpe, his brows knit in perplexed thought, his fingers nervously rattling his watch-chain. Jessie, his only sister, Tom Thorpe’s widew, was sobbing on the sofa. “Jessie, dear,” he said, presently, “it is cruel to make you talk, but if I could only get some really clear idea of the business, I might, per- haps, help you.” Jessie sat up and tried to still the . hla sobs that the talk about her hus- Capial paid in, = $75,000. band—not yet a month dead—had fe) ahora called forth. She was a woman with Surplus oe tenes $ 71.000 fair hair and blue eyes, and young President. nce still to make her deep wid Vice-Pres. | OWS mourning more pathetic. Cashier “About the house?” she said. : — “Yes. You say it is almost paid Y for?” W. E. TUCKE | “The price was six thousand doi- DENTIST, lars for the house and grounds. BUTLER, MISSOURI. | Lbere is a very large orchard and Office, Southwest Corner Square, over ee eee Peeuie he gueden Aaron Hart's Store. : in front. Tom was to pay for it just as he could, but not less than three hundred a year. We were so anxious to have a home of our own, Bert, that we worked very hard for it, and that is the reason I know all about it. I put all my writing money in it, too; not a vast sum, to be sure, but it helped along.” “And you are sure there were five thousand dollars paid to Mr. Pax- on?” “T am positively certain of it.” “And the receipts are lost?” “Lost! Gone entirely. Bert, I never dared say it, for I cannot prove it, but I firmly believe Mr. Paxon stole Tom’s receipt book.” “Why?” “Well, he is a man who is not much respected, and there have been seyeral stories told about him that would throw a doubt over his hon- esty. Still, he keeps clear of the law. Tom took the receipts for the payments on the house in a small red account book, that had nothing else init. That day—no,I am not going to cry again, dear—that dreadful day, he sent word to Mr. Paxon that he would pay him five hundred dollars. He had sold a lot of wool, and I had two hundred dol lars saved. I know he had it when Mr. Paxon came. Then there was that dreadful hemorrhage, and how — we think of anything but Tom for the next three days? But, Bert, . Paxon was alone with him when he was taken ill, and gave the alarm. There was nothing to prevent his slipping the receipt book into his pocket, and I believe he did it. It £ cannot be found, and Mr. Paxon Ae would not dare to assert that he has PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, [never been paid anything but rent Office, aor eg — P.O. _ calls | for the house, if he did not know I pence ore. cay OF night. cannot produce the receipts.” EEE given to temale dis- Aid VEO Ts oi GR not accuse a man of such a crime as T Cc. BOULWARE, «Physician and|that without some proof.” Butler, Mo. 'Diseasceof womenand chit| ‘Tunderstand thet. I think he ren a specialty. intended, if Tom got better, to pre- tend it was a mistake, or he might have meant to cheat him.” “Was there never any witness to the payments?” “No. He would come over, or Tom would go to him and pay what ever he could spare. But I have seen the receipts often! And think, Bert, how that five thousand dollars «| would help me now!” Bert did think of it! He was a young man who had made for him- self a home ina western state, over which he had asked his widowed sister to preside. He had come to her with open hands and_ heart, to St. L. & E. DIVISION. ixed, leaves 6:45 a.m. a” «? arrives 3:25 p.m. ” E. K. CARNES, Agent. BATES COUNTY National Bank, (Organized in 1871.) OF BUTLER, MOQ. : TYGARD i ca B. MEWBERRY P pc. ARK Lawyers. J. H. NORTON. Attorney-at-Law. Office, North Side square, over F. Barnhardt’s Jewelry Store.g Wro. JACKSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Butler, Mo. Office, South Side Square, over Badgley Bros., Store. H. SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Butler, Mo.f} Will practice in all the courts. Special at- tention given to collections and litigated laims. LDEN Catvin F. Boxtey, Prosecuting Attorney. CALVIN F. BOXLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Butler, Mo. Will practice in all the courts. ARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down’s Drug Store. PAGE & DENTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office North Side Square, over A. L. McBride’s Store, Butler, Mo. Physicians. J. R. BOYD, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orricr—East Side Square, over Max Weiner’s, 1g-1y ButTLer, Mo. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, J.T, WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, oyer Aaron Hart’s Store. Residence on Ha- vannah street norrh of Pine. Missouri Pacific R’y 2 Daily Trains 2 oO KANSAS CITY and OMAHA,|Offer a home to her and her two COLORADO SHORT LINE boys, knowing that his brother-in law had lived upon his salary as clerk in a wholesale house. But he had found that these two by close economy, by Tom's experiments in sheep-raising, and Jessie’s contribu- >\tions to magazine literature, had ‘nearly secured a home of their own, j when a sudden rupture of a blood- PUEBLO AND DENVER, | vessel had ended life for one, and lleft the other desolate. PULLMAN BUFFETT SLEEPING CARS | Many long talks the brother and Kansas City to Denver without cnange | ter had about this cruel wre eae : pressing upon her, but arrivin H. C, TOWNSEND tways at the conclusion that onlyt General Passenger and Ticket Ag’t finding of the receipt-bo ST, LOUIS, mo, {help her. 0 Daily Trains, 5 Kansas City to St, Louis THE o he could They were still talking, | in the room that Tom had devoted to his w.ie’s l.terary labors and his own business «ffairs, and dignified by the nam - of lib:ary, when Bert, poiuting to the wz'], said: “Where on errth did you get that horribl - dau’) ic? What is it?” “The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” sid Jessie, smiling. “It is a daub, Bert, but Tom was fond of it fer the sake of his only broth- er, who painted it. Poor Fred! He imagined himself a great artist, and this picture amasterpiece. But after vainly trying to sell it, he gave it to Tom. It wasa dreadful job to get it up, and you see it takes all the space on that side of theroom. How we are to get it down is a mystery?” “Do you value it?” “No! I searcely knew Fred, who died ten years ago, and the picture | is frightful.” | “H'm!—I think I see a light!” | said Bert, musingly. ‘Well, dear, | as there is nothing to be gained by staying here, how soon will you be ready to go to Scrantonville with | me?” “I will begin to pack to-day.” | It proved to bea tedious job to} gather all the household goods into | traveling compass, to start off box | after box, to take leave of neighbors, and make preparations for the long journey and new home. But Jessie found comfort in constant work, and ; the next week most of her packing was finished. But the day before that appoint- \ ed for their start, Bert sent for Mr. | Paxon, to make one more appeal to his honesty. There was a long, rather stormy interview in the dis- mantled library, where only the huge painting and two chairs had been left. Bert had left the room, under | some pretens of questioning his sis- ter, and Mr. Paxon was peeping about in a Paul Pry way that Jessie had told her brother was habitual with him, when he made a discovery. There was an ugly space in a recess, where Tom Thorpe’s stationary desk | had been for ten years against the | wall. Scraps of paper and string, torn envelopes, all the debris of packing were scattered about, but wedged into the top of the mop- board was an envelope, almost con- cealed, that Mr. Paxon was sure con- | tained an inclosure. Warily he crept up to it, seized it, and found it a sealed envelope, directed— “To Jessie, my wife. To be opened only after my death.” He crammed it hastily into his pocket, and when Bert returned took his departure. Something import- ant must be in that paper, that had evidently slipped out of the desk when it was moved and escaped ob- servation. But the disclosure was astartling one. Without any scru- ple of honor or honesty, Mr. Paxon broke the seal and read: “Dear Jessie: It has been long known to you, dear, that my life was a precarious one,and you will not be surprised that I have made a little provision for you and the children. Poor Fred left me ten thousand dol- lars im United States bonds, and, un- willing to trust it to any bank, I right hand corner of the picture he gave me. The interest will run on until you take the envelope from its hiding-place, as no one else will ever move the picture. Forgive me for keeping this one secret from you. Your loving husband, Tom.” No one else! tear it down any moment. A cold sweat broke out all over the rascal’s jbody. Ali his hoarded wealth. the result of scheming, cheating, saving, iwas nothing compared with this newly discovered treasure. Nobody ‘else must find those bonds! But when he returned to the have hidden it away in the lower | Why, they might | R R. DEACON, ~ THE ONLV EXCLUSIVE HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENT HOUSE BUTLER. N LYNCHERS ON TRIAL. Thirty Persons Accused of Hanging Hans Jacob Olsen—Three Confess. Minneapolis, Minn., March 12.— The trial of thirty persons arrested for lynching Hans Jacob Olsen on the night of November 24,1889 is in progress at White ; Hall, Wis., and is developing a most remarkable state of affairs. Olsen had served a term in prison for loading a stick of wood with powder, which exploded in Strand’s hardware store at Blair. His wife and children then undertook to get rid of him and circulated stories that | house he found everything in hur- |ried confusion, and Bert issuing hurried orders. “T can't talk to you now,” he said as Mr. Paxon came up. “I am oblig- ed to leave on the 7:10 p. m. train from B-—, and it is nearly two o'clock now. There is still a wagon load to go, and the children and Jessie are getting dressed for the carriage at three o'clock.” “But I must speak to you.” to be packed too,” cried Bert, bust- ling into the house. “Here, some of you fellows bring a step-ladder!” “No, no!” cried Mr. Paxon. “I—I came over to see if I couldn't buy that picture.” { ‘Buy it!” exclaimed Bert. “You might as well ask Jessie to sell you one of her boys! Why, her dear | brother-in-law painted it!” “But itlooks so well where it is, and will be so awkward to move!” eried Mr. Paxon, watching with hor- ror Bert’s preparation to tear the painting from the wall. “I will give | you a good price.” “How much? But I am sure Jes- sie will never part with it!” “Five hundred dollars.” “Bab!” “A thousand!” “A thousand dollars for such a work of art as that! Why, man alive, if Jessie ever could part with it, it ought to bring five times that sum!” 4 “Five times that sum! Five thou- sand dollars!” cried Mr. Paxon. “Certainly!” said Bert, coolly. “But we do not wish to sell it at all. Come, hurry up! Take out the top nails very carefully there.” “Tl give you five thousand for it!” cried Mr. Paxon, desperately, rapidly calculating the ten years’ interest on the bonds.” “But we leave here in half an hour! You don’t carry five thousand dol- lars round in your pocket, do you?” “No, but I carry my check-book. T'll give you a check!” “Won't do! I cannot stop to cash it.” “Tll run over to the bank with it myself.” “Well, you haven’t much time. You get the money, andT'll speak to Jessie while you are gone. I'm not sure she'll take it!” Off darted Mr. Paxon, and Bert hurried the last boxes on the wagon and sent it off just as the carriage drove up. Jessie and the boys were already seated when Mr. Paxon came round the corner, actually carrying the money in his hands. Bert very carefully counted it, the crisp notes for five hundred dollars each, that represented the exact sum that Tom kad paid the rascally land- lord for the house his widow was leaving. “Correct!” he said, presently. “There is no need of a receipt. You can see the picture through the window. Good-bye!” The carriage | whirled off, and Mr. Paxon entered the empty house. The workmen hed gone with the wagon, but when he pulled the corner of the canvass, he found it already loosened from the frame. A large, yellow envelope, | with three immense red seals, was | behind it, and with trembling fin- gers he tore it open. A long slip of paper was the only inciosare, and | half-fainting, the disappointed sche- ; mer, read: “This makes our account square.” \ An Absolute Cure. | «phe ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- | MENT is only put up in large two ounce 1 tin boxes, and is an absolute cure tor old | sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, ‘andall skin eruptions. 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Harry Hanson, who turn- ed state's evidence, gave the details of the crime, and several other wit- nesses were put upon the stand by the prosecution. Peter Johnson Loga, who was implicated in the af- fair, hanged himself yesterday. He was almost insane from the fear that he would be convicted. A Tempting Bait Held Ont. Bismarck, Dak., March 12.—The | commission appointed by the legis- lature to devise ways and means to get seed grain for needy farmers re- ported to day in favor of the Louis- iana lottery bill, with an amendment the revenue to the state be raised to $150,000 per annum, and if the bill was passed the commision could get 250,000 bushels of seed wheat ;for immediate distribution. The proposition staggers the legislature. | Dauphin of the lottery company, wired that the conditions would be | promptly complied with if the bill | was passed. There are only two days within which to pass the bill before the governor can kill it by a pocket veto. 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