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THE SUNDAY TlIIIirNE: SUNDAY MORNING, LY 1 Ill') I. --TWENTY PACKS. 1 WHERE WITCHCRAFT DOWH SOUTH. SUCH AS DISPLAYED IN OUR SHOW WINDOWS ARE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Story of the Famous Bell Witch and Its Tragic Persecution of an Entire Family in Ten fill Timo lo Ynnr Ttmn nessee.

wu" HIIIU IO IUUI 1 111 J. OS, she said. "I'm soon as ie Miss Hie down mi d.tt man he need ter Kit happy atan win des ma shed ban outcn De tfcbbil he tuck out under de (lode man he holler up! Limine up! tilery! It was this woman's familiar which the Hell Witch proclaimed itself to lie. The tortured family, though, gave the proclamation neither credence nor currency. They come out from North Carolina to libelee, in lVH.

It was in the sumrner oT 1M7 that anything unusual first made itself manifest. Then John Hell, the father, met a strange dog. shot at it and saw it vanish, Chunking; its shape as it went. One of his sons had the same experience with what had seemed to him a wild turkey. Dt-an, the negro wagoner, reported that a black witch-dog had chased him to his wife's house.

Last of til, Hetsy, the ounger daughter, a girl of fourteen, saw little girl in light-green garments swinBitig under the limbs of a great oak. Though Betsy was so young, she had already a lover, as was fit and proper for a tall, pretty girl with eyes blue as the sky, skin like cream and rose leaves, and the finest yellow hair. He had been her schoolmate at Mr. 1'owell's academy, and, next to herself, was the master's favorite pupil. Gentle, amiable, the household pet and pride, It was certainly a most malign spirit that could slap her face till it reddened with the mark of ghostly fingers, pull and tangle her fine yellow hair, stick her full of invisible pins until she screamed aloud, and end by throwing her into a sort of spasmodic trance, from which no effort could rouse her until the witch chose to re- "Old Kate Batts Awful Spill, Demoniac Ribald Words and Marvelous Manifestations, More Strang-o Than Anything in Spiritualism.

THE SIGH CLEARANCE SALE MEANS: Here in almost the strangest story ever rittc-n a tragedy of witchcraft beyond anything in tli? annals of Salem, now published for the first time. In its day it was the Sensation of two states. People of eminence and reputation, Andrew Jackson unions them, went miles to investigate it. The fame of it spread throughout the South. The witchcraft was wrought by t-omething outside of human hen something which had the power to take any hi I.

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fef 4 HALF PRICE. Men's Kangaroo and Russia Mon's Kangaroo and Russia Low Shoea Xjr IJW Shoes. Np We can list but a few Sample Bargains in ad. A call will convince the most skcptical of the genuineness of this sale. shape It pleased, to change from one to another in the twinkling of an eye; that spoke and fought, raced and ran.

It all happened 75 years back. Unlike those other noted manifestations, the Cock Lann. ghost and the Rochester knockings, --Do explanation has ever been given of it. Those afflicted shrank from publicity, regarding what they called always "our family trouble." For their own protection, however, one of the sons wrote down an exact statement of all Its wonderful manifestations. A family council decided that it was better left unpublished so long as any of the original sufferers was alive.

The last of them died a year or two ago, and now the history has been made public In a most interesting and well illustrated book. M. V. Ingraham. 'of Clarksville, Is the compiler and responsible author of the book.

By his permission a synopsis of the story has been obtained for the Sunday World. It is the most pitiful recital bald and. severe as Greek tragedy, yet at times dripping unctuous humor. The Witch the Bell Witch, to give the full name, style and title was a creature of infinite Jest, and more iniinite The central figure, John Hell, was an honest. God-fearing planter in Robertson county, notably thrifty, Intelligent and upright.

Ha had land a thousand acresslaves and Hock. His wife was a never failed to shout before it was finished. At one vival there had been a great outpouring- of the spirit. One of the sinners had been stricken and was on his knees, sobbing and crying out. He was almost prostrate iu the straw which covered the altar floor.

As the witch-worker came in she marched straight up the aisle, spread the riding-skirt upon the poor fellow's back and sat pluniply uiKn him. He thought the weight ft of sin had suddenly Increased some, two hundred pounds. "I am sinking, sinking," he shouted. "Save me, Lord Jesus! or I am eternally lost!" One of the deacons asked the sitter to rise. She was noted for her line speech.

"No," she said, shaking her head decidedly "No, I thank you. This place Is so consol- BETSr BELL SEES THE Ing to my disposition I feel decidedly corrugated." "But, sister, the man Is suffocating," the deacon expostulated. "Yes, bless Jesus! Let him suffocate. It brings him closer to the Lord," was the response. Then the sinner rose tumultuously, shout- Ing aloud his joy In redemption.

The sister shouted too, as she was caught by those about her and saved from a violent fall To the mind of Phyllis, her negro maid the conversion was her work. "Umph! Nebber seed Satan whupped outen meetin' so quick In all my bawn P.n-t'-r. Mrs. i. a iieiibor coming Ji out to gr- et her, but II.

who was joined I' ll t. went out io ii 1 the lane. feuni an app.c.j.'iien two younger wny, nd a boy. All four at wii''' bent doiHi s(ij iimtn, and rode them ciiii.iri-n Bi came out to see the phenuiiv lion. Mr.

l'rfiter Ciime up with his gun, and fired atthfii.g behind which the witches had sl jei1 themselves. That night at Mrs. Bed's he witch Black Dog mat for ter a uuiiei nad Jerusalem's leg." The witch slniw.1 i fierce, concentrated malignity against Mr. Bell. For Betsy there was the same petulant tenderness, the same entreaty, 'Don't, please don't, marry Joshua artlfer.

herever she moved, there tit 'witch followed. Few niseheilds in the neiyhborhod escaped her isllation. Dean, the negi wagoner, reported some wonderful experiences. When the black took to following him homo he cleft Its head with the ax he always carried. 'he ax sunk out of sight in the ground.

"he next night the black dog was as chip per as ever, with two heads Instead of the Ingle one it had worn at first. Then can's wife made hint a witch ball of fox- re wrapped with her own hair. The next time the witch met him she ennanded it upon pain of turning him to horse which she would ride over the river to the Btill-house. "Den," said Dean, I say: 'I ain't gwine gin you my balL I gwlne split you open clur ter de tail ef you Joan' git out my But sho's you bawn I 'menced ter git weak. De ax drap outen my nan.

Dar pintedly wus er spell on me. rrtren I r.toop ober icr pick it up, couldn' git up no An' dar I wus stannin on fo' han's en foots. Den suppin-say: 'He's to high bchine. He 'oont tote ouble wuff nuffln'." Den suppin' else say: lebel him down." Den my tail wus jerked ard, an' I kicked out, an' bofe my foots felled off kerflop in de road." Dean declared In a most convincing man or the witches had turned him temporarily into a mule. In the throngs who came to see and hear was Gen.

Andrew Jackson, not yet presi dent His home, The Hermitage, was some 40 miles from the Bell house. He came 1th a party 'mong whom was a famous itch doctor. He boasted that within three ays he would unravel the mystery ny means of a silver bullet ana two inches ot black cat's tail. It "-as the tip of what had once been a witch cat. i'e had but to tickle his nose with it to make the whole Invisible world plain to his eye.

Then the liver bullet would do the rest. Presently the party came to a halt. The road was dry and firm. The team id not been over driven, yet in some mysterious fashion the wagon was stuck fast. In vain the driver lashed and swore; In vain men tugged at the wheels.

At last Old Hickory threw up his hands, exclaiming: "By the eternal, boys, it's the witch! Nothing, else!" At once a metallic voice called from a near thicket: "Yes, general, It Is the witch. You may go now. will see you again tonight." At the Bell house the witch doctor said that he would soon unearth the Imposture. en. Jackson said, in a disgusted aside: I wish the thing would make mince meat the braggart.

I know he's an arrant coward." As if In answer the witch called out: "Here I am, general, ready for business!" Then to the witch doctor: "Now, Mr. Smarty, here I am! Shoot away!" In spite of the cat's tail the seer saw not. Instead, he felt a rain of blows that sent him howling and scuttling around the room. Gen. Jackson laughed, rolled on the ground and swore: "By the eternal.

boys, this is better than fighting the Bru sh! I never much fun In my life." Round and round, out of doors, up the lane went the seer, witch still pelting him until he howled Jiluud Pre the 1 unseen voice called: General, Is that fun enough for tonight? 1 will come tomor row, and show yoO another rascal In your crowd." One mornlg In early fall, when Mr. Bell went out, his shoes were snatched from his feet as fast as thev were tied on. He was beaten and twisted until there came upon him a seizure so violent that when at last he got home he had to take to his bed. He was never out doors again. His seizure had been accompanied by demoniac singing in the air above him, that died at last to bloodcurdling shrieks of triumph For two months he had the tendered care.

In December the crisis came. The witch, sMd: "You need not try to wake Old Jack. I have got him this time. He has had his dose, and will never wake again." She had given the dying man a dose from a dark vial in the medicine closet. A straw dipped In the same liquid was drawn over a cat's tongue.

Within three minutes the creature had died In sharp convulsions. Mr. Bell lay in stupor, breath ing heavily. The scent of the stuff in the bottle was distinguishable in his breath. The vial and its contents were thrown in the fire, where they blazed up into sul phurous flame.

The next morning Bell died. The Witch kept silence until the clods were falling over him. Those nearest the grave heard high in the air the weird voice pinging: Row me up some brandy, 01 Row! row! rowl row! Row me up some brandy, Row me up some more! For three weeks the spirit lingered, mild and harmless. Then It left, but promised to return each seven years to some de scendant of John Bell. It came earlier.

After a year Betsy plighted herself to Joshua Gardner. It was at a fishing party upon Red river, just beyond her home. Soon a monster fish began to play pranks with the lines and poles. It digged sev eral Into the stream and made the other fish leap so high every one knew some unusual thing was happening. As Betsy sat with, her lover on the bank, the old cry sounded in her ear, "Please, please, Betsy, don't marry Joshua Gardner." Betsy broke the engagement at once.

After a time she married Se-hoolmaster Powell, whom the negroes had all along suspected of bringing on the trouble with that end in "Dat dar Marse Powell, he strak de flint an' ketch de fler in he eye." they said. These marvelous stories of the Bell Witch are still current in Robertson coun ty, which was populated, as was tiie Blue Grass region of Kentucky, with emigrant yeomanry and gentry from Virginia and the Carolinas. They de voutly believe all that Is here set down and much more besides. Now for almost three generations the Bell Witch has been a most fascinating history and mystery. Stories are current there of Its reappearance as late as 18(16.

With Her Trunk by Cyclone A cyclone played peculiar pranks last night at the home of Peter Williams, a farmer, living in the southern, part of Ne braska, savs the Chicago Inter Ocean. When the storm came on he was on his way to the barn, but before he reached It the wind picked up an outhouse from Its foundation and it against him, throwing him against the wheel of a wagon and jamming hinv between the spokes In such a manner tpat he had to stay there until extricated. After the blow was apparently over Ills granddaughter was about to enter the house, when she, saw It move from Its moorings. Throwing herself flat on the ground the buldihg passed over her, and she escaped uninjured. Mrs.

Williams was in the house and was unable to escape fwheti the frail structure whirled into the air. It collapsed In the twisting air currents and was totally destroyed. Mrs. Williams was found later In a dazed condition on a part of the roof on the Slevers farm, several hundred feet away, pinned down by a large trunk. She was badly bruised and her clothing was torn to shreds.

The house and barn were torn to pieces and scattered all over the the surrounding country. A team of tnults In the barn were uninjured, the wind carrying the structure away and leaving the animals standing on the dirt floor. AmU Any Cook She will tell you that you can't make a failure with Washburn-Crosby's "Best" flour. Dollar Mlnneiotika Tours. Tickets are now beins sold by the Chicago, Milwaukee St.

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There were five sons and two daughters. The witch's human exponent was a neighbor, in almost the same social grade as her victims a big woman, strident and coarse. She went through the country daily, walking: In front of her old gray horse, with a copperas homespun riding skirt flung over her arm. A negro girl led the horse, and two smaller negrews walked one either side of it. Ostensibly the woman's business was to buy wool, flu, butter and egga.

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Half prica 88c Children's Red Goat Oxford Tios; $L33 quality. Half price 68c HALF-PRICE SYNDICATE BLOCK at Westminster Church. His selection will bo "Holy City," by Adums. TUB DAGGER THAT KII.LHDCAROT It Hum a Sharp Triununlar Ulude, About Six Indira Look. The accompanying cut Is an authentic representation of the dagger used by the assassin Cesarlo In taking the life of President Carnot.

Cesario remained In Cette, where he had been working for several months In a bakery, until June 2, when he left for Lyons, the scene of the crime. The dagger was purchased in Cette on June 22, two days before the murder, from a cutler In the Rue Gambetta named Guillaume. The triangular blade is very sharp and measures 10 centimetres, about ti'i inches, from the point to the guard. Its greatest thick ness is 2t-i centimetres, about an inch. It bears the usual Spanish inscriptions, on one side "Toledo," and on the other "Ite- cuerdo." NOT A WIMv KLERP.

A Illr-rl1nt'a Hlile of Over Tliree Days Wllliout Tnkliin Any Kent One of the great "record breakers" has set all his compeers at defiance, says the London Lancet, by the truly marvelous effort of cycling from the Land's End to John o' Groat's In 86 hours, 15 minutes that Is, 9 hours and 40 minutes quicker than the "safety" record. We are Informed that he experienced little fatigue, and that to all appearances he was not in any way Injured by his success; but the most re markable part of this act is Included in the fact that he performed his task without Indulging in one moment of sleep. He was three days, fourteen hours and fifteen minutes without reclining once or resting or ceasing his active movement of propul sion, except for the very briefest moments. We know from the best experimental proofs that the healthy heart will beat 100,000 times in the 24 hours, and that the lowest estimate of the work done by this labor Is equal to lifting 122 tons one foot. but It has recently been shown that cycling tells severely and specially upon the circulation, and that the number of strokes of the heart Is doubled during such active exercise as that to which the rider subjected himself, so that the lowest estimate we can assume for the work of his heart each day was 212,000 beats, with work done of 244 foot tons; and this, maintained for three days and fourteen hours and fifteen minutes, was equal to more than 851 foot tons, without repose.

The experiment, for it must be looked upon physiologically as an experiment, is not without Its useB. It shows that there remains much that Is as yet unexplained In respect to the cause of sleep, suggesting, Indeed, that there Is something In persistent motion of the blood, sustained by volition of a resolute kind, which prevents thenervous system from passing Into that passive or negative state to which the term "sleep" is applied. The practical lesson we are most called to dwell upon, however, bears on the ultimate influence of extreme exercise on the bodies of these young men who make themselves the victims of self-inflicted Injury. "White Lily" Best flour, Try It. llEi Ipnt.

The -seizure ran for an -hour or so. If she were left undisturbed, she came out of it as one waking from refreshing sleep. Physicians who examined her said she was in perfect health. Her father had even more mysterious ailments. His tongue would seem to swell, until speech or swallowing was alike 1m-pcssible.

It was, he said, as though a stick had been set crosswise In his mouth. By and by the swelling turned to a series of spasmodic twltchlngs of the whole body. For more than a year the witch showed Itself only at intervals in the form of a hare, very old and thin and lame, or a biack dorf or a big strange bird. But every night, as soon as lights were out, there began a carnival of noise knockings, scratch lngs, gnawings, the sound of heavy chains dragged over bare floors. Investigation showed nothing.

The whole house was ransacked, turned upside down, but in vain. The noise became so unindurable that Mr. Bell called In one of the neighbors, a brother Baptist, Mr. Johnson, hoping that his powerful prayers might send away the witch. Mr.

Johnson came and prayed, but did not conquer. He was' hardly snug in bed when whiff! went sheets, counterpane, pillows and bolster. Thus it happened that he Bell house was thronged every night with watchers. At first the witch answered questions by raps and knocks. But soon it made articulate speech, at first slow and faltering, but strengthening until it was heard throughout the room.

What follows only the book can adequate ly tell. The witch gave a hundred accounts of Itself. It was an Indian spirit whose bones had been disturbed; a child done to death in North Carolina, and haunting the WITCH IN THE WOODS. Bells for vengeance; an early settler who had burled gold and silver under a big rock near the Bell spring, and sought to have It exhumed and given to Betsy Bell; then it was the spirit of an evil stepbrother at last, when questioned by a minister and taxed with lying, it admntted itself to be Old Kate Betts' witch," and that it meant to worry old Jack Bell to death. Here was a sensation with a ver.genace.

Old Kate Betts, she of the riding skirt, was known to have a slight disagreemnt with Mr. Bell. Neither he nor his family. though, took the witches statement for truth. Their neighbors were less forbear ing.

Thereafter the witch was known as Kate or Old Kate, and held more than ever In awe. It was certainly a most astonishing goblin. co')il scripture in a way to taiound the most learned minister. No transgression could be hidden from it. It searched out the most secret thoughts ami proclaimed them from the housetops.

It took supreme delight in going to church, and later, when the minister came to the Hell house, repeated his sermon, mimieing him exaojly. The witch was omnipresent, omniscient She replied to Mrs. Bell's Inquiry about her son's trip to Carolina that he had returned and had fared badly, and thus heralded his return before the family saw him. She repeateil Parson Johnson's sermon, deliv ered 13 milts away, to the parson himself as he sat that night in Mr. Bell's house.

Then the witch became profane, and ribald howled, sang and swore; and, worse still became a fearful toper, filing the room with her tipsy breath. Soon there was another strange develop ment. In place of one witch there were four. Black Dog, Cypocryphy, Mathemat and Jerusalem. Up to this time the voice 1iad been feminine.

Now Black Dog spoke In a high, harsh key, withal feml nine; Mathematics and Cypocryphy had softer feminine voices; Jerusalem the rough changing pipe of a boy. All were ribal and furiously Intemperate. Many time: doors and windows had to stamt wide to escape the stench they made. They wer forever quarreling in tipsy fashion. Betsy paid a visit to her sister, who Sale! DEAN, THE COIX)RED MAN, CONFRONTED BY THE TWO-HEADED DOG.

SIXTH AND NICOLLET, MUSIC. Plans for the Next Season Are Already Being Discussed. Annual National Saengarfost Recently Held In the City of New York. Harmonious Sounds Which VI.1 brate From Various Sources. Although the season of music has been our weeks, there Is already UIUOU1 H.

talk of what will be offered next fall for the Instruction and entertainment or mat large class who constitute the music-loving people of the community. Humors of concert singers of renown and highly reputed artists are on the wing, and Minneapolis will not suffer in the distribution of the best. Among the prospective musical events none will merit greater Interest than the possible return of Anton Seldl with his reorganized orchestra. In addition to his regular work in New York and Brooklyn, Mr. Seidl will Rive a series of concerts in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore.

Chicago and other Western cities, probably including Minneapolis. For soloists in his company Seldl will endeaveor to secure Joseffy, Madamo Julia uive-iving, ivusa 1'" Der Ohe, Canipanlnl, Emma Juch, Madame Materna, Emll Fischer and such artists of the Abbey Grau company as shall be available. During July and August Mr. Seldl will be at Brighton Beach, N. Y.

The 17th national saengerfest, recently held in New York, was one of the greatest mslcal successes of the year. Nearly 20,000 singers, representative of 20 different states, took part in the opening exercise. Five concerts were given In Madison Square Garden, with programs presented by an orchestra of 150 pieces and 1,000 singers in the chorus, under the baton of Carl Heln, director of the New York Federation of Singing Societies. The soloists were Emma Juch, Conrad Behrens, Victor Herbert, 'cellist, Marie Tavray, Emll Fischer, Miss Lillian Blauvelt. Next Oct.

15 has been set apart In Austria and Germany as fete day In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Johann Strauss' accession ns orchestra conductor. Strauss la nearly 70 years of age. A silver laurel wreath will be presented on this occasion to the "waltz king." At Hennepin Avenue M. E. Church this evening there will be a song service at which the following selections will be given: Handel's "Largo" as voluntary, by MIs3 Helen Hayward; "The ltadiant Morn," quartet, by Miss Maud Kelley, Mrs.

Eleanor Plank, E. P. Browning, Thomas Taylor Drill; "I Will anthem, by Mr. Browning and chorus; recitative from "Creation, "And God Saw Everything," Mr. Drill; corus, "Achieved Is the Glorious Work," from the "Creation;" "By Thee With Bliss," from "Creation," duet and chorus by Miss Kelley, Mr.

Drill and chorus. N. M. Halfpenny, of New York, will sing Holy Father," by Maseagnl, as offertory. .1.

M. Hoot will sing "The Holy City" this morning as offertory at the First Congregational Church. Mneento Koten. Ambrolse Thomas Is at work upon a new opera, which he hopes will have the success of "Mignon." Mr. Thomas is an old man, but is emulating the activity of Verdi.

Eduoard Remenyl, he violinist, severely injured his left arm Monday at Brighton Beach, N. Uy falling in a dark pit, but after the wound was dressed he refused to miss his concert appointment, and played a concerto by Mendelssohn and an original pastorale the same afternoon. William Couruey will slug the offertory Seventh 5emiAnnual went abroad that she might beg a brass pin of whoever she met. If she got it, the giver was thereafter always subject to her pell. She was wonderfully pious In spile of ter witchery.

Though she got to church late so late the sermon was half over she A Eye Openers. limn fci innii -y fywpiiii i ii in 'M jflfp 1 We Close Out Great Many of Our Lines in All Departments at 1 a Mn C2 f. i MINNEAPOLIS..