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The Hungarian Ministerial Crisis.

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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06

Smith was called upon to dispel the
charm. He gave Deacon Stowell some
instructions. The latter, sending his
Presbyterian training to the winds, went
to his stock-yard and selected eve
lamb, the finest in the fold, with pure
white skin and fleece. 1t was washed
until it was perfectly spotless. Mean
time darkness had settled down over the
Susquehanna Valley, and the rites for
the Precipitation of the demon who guar
ded the treasure were carried on by the
light of single lantern. The lamb was
brought to the edge of the pit, and a
bowl placed in readiness to catch its
blood. The Deacon got upon his knees
and prayed, probably to the demon,
while Smith drew the sacrifcial butcher
knife across the lambs throat, and then
moved in circles about the pit, sprinkling
the blood around it. Then theparty re-
sumed their picks and shovels, but
couldn't even find the top of the box any
more.
Deacon StoweIl and Joe Smith kept up
this circus in various promising places
for while, but the Deacon never got
any hidden treasure, and slowly but
surely was spending the competence he
had amassed. His sons became very
much incensed against Smith, alleging
that he had unlimited control over the
actions of their father, and caused him
to foolishly squander his property. In
February, 1926, the sons caused Joe's
arrest as a vagrant, and the trial oc,
CURED before Albert Neely, Esq, father
of Bithop Neely, of Maine. The country
folks for miles around attended the
trial. The affidavits of the sons were
read, and the prophet put upon the
stand. He testified to but little concern
ing the charge on which he was arrested,
but gave the history of his youthful
days, told about the finding of the
magic stone, and claimed to possess all
the powers which the infatuated Deacon
believed to reside in him. The magic
stone was exhibited in Court.
Joseph Smith, Sem, the father of the
prophet, who is described ashaving been
a most disreputable-looking person, testi-
fed in his sons behalf, describing his
wonderful success as seer. Deacon
Stowell also testified in the prophets
behalf, and gave many circumstances
corroborative of the supernatural powers
possessed by the young man. Young
Smith, he said, could see things fifty feet
below the surface of the ground as
plainly ashe could see the articles on the
Judges table.
deacon Stowell, do I understand
you as swearing before God, under the
solemn oath you have taken, that you
believe that?
"Do 1 believe it?' was the reply.
"Do l believe it? No; it is not matter
of belief. l positively know it to be
| true"
Thompson, one of the employees of
Deacon Stowell, related the story of the
mysterious sinking of the box told above.
Smith was discharged mainly on the
testimony of Deacon Stowell, and he
continued to reside in the neighborhood.
About four years after, it is said, Smith,
by the aid of his magic stone, found the
Book of Mormon. This, Elder Pratt, of
the Mormon Church, says was when he
was but fourteen years old, but the
people of Susquehanna say he was
nearer twenty-five.
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The Pass of Mont Gents.
National Repository.

No pass is more desolate and dreary,
or less enlivened by human habitations.
The population must be scanty indeed
where there is scarcity of beggars.
remember in my earliest crossing of
Mont Cents, that the same beggar boy
who ran on the rightside of the diligence
in tattered coat and hat, begging for a
sous pour lait, appeared soon after hat
less and coatless on the left side, with
his whine translated into date mi quelche
cosG per pOUera ma. He had taken ad-
vantage of a little run behind the dill
gence so to change himself that one beg
gar did the work of two. The villages
and dwellings are principally those that
have grown up around the twenty or
more stations where lived the men to
whose care the road is intrusted. To
these men belonged the keeping the road
in order, and the protection and care of
the lives of travellers who might be caught
in the fearful storms of snow, or the
tempests of the battling winds of Lom-
hardy and Savoy meeting in the noun
tain passes. These houses at the most
dangerous points on the route replaced
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only refuge for the struggling traveller,
and around whose walls Napoleon gath
cred the sheltering barracks for thou
sands of weary soldiers who struggled to
reach this dreary shelter as if it were
very heaven.
All this that is grand and wild and
strong the modern traveller misses, but in
winding up to the point where the tun-
mel enters the mountain, he has a fore
shadowing of what must be higher up
and farther on. He leaves behind in
the Huguenot Valleys all the soft
Provencal coloring of forest and field,
and moves up through gray crags and
somber iawoods and mountain streams,
and high pastures. He leaves behind
the brown villages clinging to the cliffs
that marked the hunting grounds for the
hardy Piedmontese. The approach is
somber enough as the mountains come
in closer and closer to prepare one for a
journey into the depths of the earth, and
invest him with feeling of mystery and
solemnity, such as the ancients might
have brought into some mighty temple
where lay hidden power they could not
comprehend. All this, and infinitely
more, awaits the traveller from Paris
through the Tunnel of Mont Cents.
But the point of departure may not be
Paris but Geneva. Then he has choice
of routes, and if the American demon
of " hurry" does not drive him whittier
soever it will he will select the Simplon.
Then before him stretch three days of
delightful journeying, the first of which
will be passed on the steamer between
the city of Geneva and Bouveret, the
| little station at the head of the lake.