The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-17
AT REST,
 Hannah, Aged 27 Years.

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 Only the older people in the Litch field county paradise for the summer
 loiterer about Mount Tom know the sto
 ry of Hannah. She was Hannah Stan
 nard, and she came to the Mount Ton
 country, in the midst of the romantic
 Berkshire foothills, soon after the out.
 break of the civil war, and entered the
 popular Mum school there, under cir.
 cumstances so peculiar that an interest
 was aroused in her among the people
 which her subsequent career never al
 lowed to flag. Hannah Stannard seems
 to have been born under an unlucky
 star, if there be such thing.
 Tn the carly part of 1860 Judge
 Hotchkiss, who, although of New Ha- ven percentage, was then well-to-do New York lawyer, while making an in- vestigation into the mysteries of spirit ualism found at seance in New York city the Stannard girl, then a beautiful and interesting creature and so young that she seemed scarcely entitled to the fifteen summers claimed for her. At
  guidance of her step-mother, who was q person of some wealth, and a devoted Spiritualist. Hannah Stannard was a blonde of the pronounced type with hair of an odd shade of gold. She was of a high degree of intelligence. But her marked nervous temperament and slight physique seemed lily fitted to bear the mental strain to which she was be- ing subjected, and at such times she oc- easionally exhibited symptoms of dis tress so keen that Mir Hotchkiss deter mined to endeavor to rescue her from her surroundings, and place her in different atmosphere. To this end he made his wife acquainted with her, and Mrs. Hotchkiss subsequently, became so interested in the carrying out of his plan that the husband and wife finally called in the services of Henry Lusk, young legal friend of the Hotchkisses, and, with the consent of the girl, she was borne away to Canada.
 When the excitement following this had at length subsided, Mrs Stannard, finding herself wholly unable to get any track of her step-daughter turned more devotedly than ever to Spiritualism and died soon after, a firm disciple of that doctrine, Hannah stan nard was unable to find any trace of the in after years, and as the girl grew older she numbered this failure to trace her antecedents as among the first of her great troubles in life It was soon after her step-mother's death that Lusk, acting at the suggestion of the placed the girl in the Mum school, where, in consequence of its iso- ation in a region of Connecticut com little travelled at that time, she lived for years with her where lbouts undreamed of by her former &C., luaintances in New York. The Mum school in those days claimed as it's pu- pills young men and women from all parts of the country It was fully breast of the times and it's liberal views If educational matters made it very popular institution. In it Miss Stan 1ard blossomed into a splendid woman hood and she was finally adopted by it's principal, MT. Mum, and his wife, who were childless
 Ultimately, Hannah Stannard, as she vas always called by her intimates, be- anne a teacher of languages in the chooI, and when Henry Smalley. one of he graduating scholars, left Litchfield ounty to seek his fortune in the sheep aising wilds of Australia he took with i'm her promise to become his wife vhen he should return. She was op- osed to his leaving America declaring t~ eadily to her portion in life that she cared something would happen so that Q would never come back. She was atsfied she said, to get on with him in oil rather than to wait for a gittering But Smalley was deter lined to be rich man. And so he left i CT, regretfully, but full of determina- on and the highest hopes. No communication passed between the | ouple for several years in consequence 1 the miscarriage of their letters, and | l a comparatively short space of time ! 1e once devoted lovers had drifted .idely apart Three months after leave-taking Hannah Stan ard experienced another disappoint- lent Two men, purporting to be her 'others visited her at the Mum school, nd after identifying themselves in an pparently satisfactory manner, spent ,me weeks in cultivating her acquant- nee and finding out the circumstances her condition. Then they departed as 1ietly as they came. They used the formation there gained, she atterward to secure the bulk of her epmother's estate, an undertaking that
 was little trouble to carry out as it as supposed in New York that Han lh was dead.
 Not long after this the girls own other, this time genuine one, who Id found her out through the despoil- g of their stepmothers estate, came to e her. He had been sequestered in and was of rather uncouth anners and deficient in education. annah Stannard, after satisfying her 1 If that he was really of her kin, heroi- l lily took him in hand and gave him l nat schooling and polish she could. $ len she asked Henry Lusk her friend f
 abductor, who had long before this