— NEWS OF TH E WEEK -—A pillar in the west gangway of the Best Colllery, at Ashland, Penna, gave way on the afternoon of the lst, bringing with it a large quantity of gas, Frederick Ostrich, fire boss, aged 40 years; John Cochran, aged 33; John McDonald, aged 20; John Gulliam, aged 17, and Park Tully, aged 14, per- ished by suffocation, Thirteen others were rendered insensible, but at last accounts all were doing well, The col- liery is owned by the Reading Com- pany. On the morning of the 1st, a cave-in occurred at No. 3 lift of No. 2 shaft of the Susquebanna Coal Com- pany, at Nanticoke, Penna. The aec- cident 18 similar to that which, in De- cember, 1885, killed 26 miners. A flood of sand from an upper working poured mto and filled the main gangway. For- tunately, the two hundred men who had been at work on the had just left the mine. —Xev, Henry Clemens, a Methodist preacher, committed suicide near Mil- lersburg, Chio, on the 30th ult., by blowing off the top of his head with a shotgun. He is said to have been in- sane, Samuel Johnson, Treasurer of the Hamilton Powder Company, in Montreal, embezzled $7000 a few days ago, and fled to Ogdensburg, where he was arrested, While being taken back to Montreal he alluded the officers. Search was made for him, and on the morning of the 31st his dead body was they have been arrested. Lockett can. not live many hours, jand it is feared the announcement of his death will be the signal for a rush upon the jail. Joseph Iastings, who on the evening of the 8d shot and killed John Clancy, at St, Denis, Maryland, was arrested on the 4th at Elk Ridge. A despatch from Cincinnati says the mystery sur- rounding the murder of Henry Kem- per, a grocer in that city, which oc- curred 1m January, 1885, has been solved by the dying confession of the murdered man’s son John, aged 24 vears, who said he killed his father to secure a large sum of money he was supposed to have had on his person at the time. ~The floors tepants on the upper pistol by his side. afthiction is thought the defalcation and ~The boiler and pumps at Bliss & Marshall's kyle works at Uniontown, and a be the cause of suicide. + Lo mite on the evening ‘he employes have been on strike for several weeks, On party of the strikers surrounded houses of the non-union men for the purpese of driving them away, they were frightened off ficers, —A special train on the Oswego and Phoenix Railroad, New York, on the 3d, collided with a ’ tario and Western Railroad, near the eastern limit of Oswego. The engineer and fireman of the swlich engine throttle flew open and the locomotive miles an hour, motive of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Rallroad, wrecking it. The engineer jumped, but the fireman’s leg was broken, were awakened about 2 o’clock on the morning of the 4th by a noise on the first floor, occupied by Francis Macha, a saloon keeper. It was found that a fire had been kindled in a hallway, and three men were seen running away, while cries came from Macha’s room. When the other tenants entered the room they found that Macha and his wife were bound hand and foot. They had been chloroformed by the incendia- ries, who had robbed them of $143 in money, The building was damaged to the extent of about $1000, ~The mills of the Bloomington Roller Mill Company, together with granaries containing 20,000 bushels of wheat, in Bloomington, Lilinols, were burned on the 4th, Loss, $80,000. D. Iilinols, were lightning on the evening of » a'r) KB ¥ 5 Loss, $22,500; in- by the 34 and burned. —The schooner Havana was sizhted off St. Joseph, Michigan, on the morn- ng of the 3d, flying signals of distress, The vessel was in a sinking condition. shore she went down, and the crew were seen to climb into the rigging, There seven men on board. Captain Steward John Morris and into the rigging. As the vessel gave a iurch the mainmast crashed overboard carrying the three men into breakers, They were probably The remaining four men hours, when they were rescued by a tug. Phoenix passenger train on the way to the station for its passengers, Both engines were demolished, and the coaches were broken also, The specla carrying Justice Vann was not injured. —In Cincinnati, on the evening of the 2d, a strand came loose in t ore. —John O, Hatch, aged 20 vears, and aged 16, were Lamerock, drowned the 6th, at Norway, Maine, — Dr. Robert O. C. Knoepl, a leading physician and local on the 4th by swallowing poison, Jd the Second National Bank began suit against him for the alleged forge: wrapped around the grip of a car, car was full of passengers and went on at a great speed. It overtook another car full of people and pushed it along. On both cars went, passengers screams ing and hundreds of excited people fol- lowing in the middle of the street, After going some distance they struck a horse car on Fifth street. This street is ditched deeply, and horses and passengers were piled in the diteh, from the track with a cable so violent that every car on the track clear up to Walnut Hills was de- railed, Thirty or forty people were bruised, apd Lewis Kalb and Mrs, Brockman, of Covington, were dan ously jured, -— A despatch from Wabash, Indi- ana, says the hog cholera is rapidly spreading in Ul vicinity. In one neighbortiood five miles north of that city four hundred khogs have died in the last three weeks. Every effort possi- ble has been made to check the scourge, but to no effect. The Lealthiest nals appear most liable to attack. . wildy Twenty-two young Crow Indians under Chief returned to the Crow Agency on the uth ult, from a successful raid upon the Piegaus, living 200 miles north, They brought some sixty ponies they had captured, Agent Willlamson or- dered them arrested for horse-stealing, whereupon they began firing into the damage. The agent soon had four troops of cavalry from Fort Custer on the ground, and the Indians say they will not resist the soldiers, Trouble 18 feared when the arrest Is attempted, ~— Annie Biecke and Richard Arndt, while passing through a lumber yard mn Chicago on the afternoon of the 3d, on their way home from school, were killed by a pile of lumber falling on them, ~—Two local freight trains on the Penuvsylvania Railroad collided near Conewago, Penna., on the morning of the 3d. A number of cars were wrecked, and the wreck, catching fire, was par- tially destroyed. Engineer Kratz, of Harrisburg, was killed, A passenger train was wrecked at Salem, Indiana, on the morning of the 3d, It struck a cow and was thrown from the track, one passenger coach falling on its side, All the passengers were more or less njured, Mrs, John Hoppens, of Salem, probably fatally, ~The murdered body of Mrs. Frank. lin Hawkins was found on the 2d on the highway over a mile from Islip, Long lsland, Asbury Hawkins, a son of deceased, has been arrested and committed for theerime, It was alleged that he induced his mother to leave home on the evening of the 1st on the pretence that his uncle was very sick in a neighboring village, and that, while driving thither, he shot her, after strik- ing her with the butt end of a whip, Young Hawkins, on being arranged, confessed that he killed his mother bes cause she would not consent to his marriage. ~J. M. Lockett, a night policeman in Brenbam, Texas, was waylad by three colored men on the evening of the 3d, who shot him in the thigh and cut his throat with a razor. They left him for dead, but he revived suffici. e——— — William Wood, aged 15 years, and George Hawkins, aged 28 years, drove to the Allen Coal Mine, an abandoned slope near Youngstown, Ohio, on the Jd, to explore it, and on the 4th, they were both found dead in the slope. where they had been suffocated by foul air, Edward and Thomas Moran, aged 28 and 20 years respectively, were in Chicago, on the morning of the 4th, suffocated by gas, They came from Ardake, Dakota, —The propeller California left Chl- cago on the evening of the lst bound for Montreal, Si 16 was laden with 20.- O00 bushels of corn and 700 barrels of ii pork, and carried a crew of 22 persons, During evening he 3d, when Helena the sea he gangways t ont the » then swung trough of the sea and bre persons were drowned, Ca Trowell were supplied wit is probable that 3 will be recovered, a gale on the just broke in 8 . Qe about St, 4 + Lv it ins ae says all the bodi ~Hiram Corliss, a lineman, was killed while fixing some electric light wires at a street corner in Detroit on the evening of the 3d. His body hung before it was | ~The captain and men of the schooner Kalfage, ashore near Port Blake, Ontario, arrived at Goderich on the 6th. They saw a three-masted ves- sel founder with all aboard. about miles off Thunder Bay, Lake Huron, in the gale of the 8d. A hand satchel and trunk picked up on the beach identilies the lady passenger who was lost in the wreck of the propeller California, off St. Helena Island, Lake Michigan, on the evening of the 3d, as Minnie Membery, of Sackett’s Harbor, New York, Miss Membery and Cor- nelius Connerton, of Detroit, were the only passengers drowned, The bodies of nine of the victims have been washed ashore. The Schooner Jesse dearth, with 26,000 bushels of corn from Chicago, for Toronto, sank on the evening of the 4th, eight wiles north of Manistee. The captain and crew were saved. --An attempt was made on the 4th to wreck a passenger train on the Illinois and St. Louis Railroad, near Belleville, 1llinols, An excursion train from St. Louis ran into an open switch and went half way through before it could be stopped by the en- gineer, About a quarter of a mile further on the switch rail bad been 80 adjusted that it would have lunged the train down a steep em- mnkment, August Franz and Joseph Gohr, now in jall at Chicago under Indictment for taking out the spikes from a rail on the same road near the same place, have confessed their guilt, saying ‘it was the result of a drunken spree.’’ It is belleved others are associated with them, ~Three unknown men were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the lake at Chicago on the Oth. ~The saw-mill of David Young, near Amanda, Ohio, was blown to pleces by a boller explosion, on the evening of the Oth. Four men were killed, and a woman who was two hun- dred yards from the mill was danger. ously injured. -Doctor M. O, Davis, a prominent citizen of Milton, Pennsylvania, was struck by a tram and killed, on the 6th, while driving over the railroad crossing. He was 065 years old, The Bollinger and San Angelo stage was again robbed on the evening of the 3d, about 8 miles from Dollinger, Texas, by the same highwayman who stopped it on the evening of the 20th ult. He was recognized by his voice, his looks and his horse. He got §0, There were two ladies aboard, one of whom had over §45, but the highway- man *‘was too gallant to accept it,” saying that he never took money from ladies, He cut the mail bags and opened every letter, but, it is said, only got about $15 in all, -—Samuel Branch, a colored man, was found guilty of grand larceny in the Circuit Court, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the morning of the 6th, and was sentenced to five years’ im- prisonment. As the verdict was ren- dered Branch exclaimed, ‘*God knows I'm innocent,” and drawing a large knife from his pocket, thrust it into his throat. He died in a few minutes, —Burglars stole $5600 worth of cut- lery on the evening of the 4th, from the store of L. Herder & Son, Philadelphia, —It 18 sald the qissatisfaction among the Crow Indians culminating in the recent outbreaks dates back the visit of Sitting Dull ana his Sioux braves to the Custer battle-ground last summer, where they held a commem- orative war dance, Sitting Bull made an address to the Crows, in which, it alleged, this language was used: **Look at that monument, That marks the work of my people. We are re. spected and feared by the white man because we killed his great chief and more than 300 of his warriors cn this We receive and one-half to BpoL. one pound, yet we do n work, but and visit our friend as we please, See your little houses and farms, You are white man’s slave, He is teach- to labor only you forget the use of only one-half ride +} LAC bisa fb Lia our ing you may paint, Great Spirit to hunt and to fight, It is the white man’s business to work. He 1s only a soldier when he is pald.” The Secretary of the Interior said oh the 6th that, before sending a rep sentative to investigate the trouble at the Crow Agency, he would send letter to the agents of the department now allotting lands in severaity tot Crows, asking their oplnlon as to the ity for such mmvestigation, t ¥ Ie . he HecCess William McKinney, trustee of the iblic schools of the Second Judicial Ih:trict of the Choctaw Nation, was robbed of $1028 belonging to the gechools a few days ago, near Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, He was traveling alone, and was stopped by twe high- waymen, It was discovered, on the Oth, by he President of the Fulton Bank, in Brooklyn, New York, that Arthur H. Snell, its payiog teller, was “short” in his accounts. Snell was subsequently arrested and locked up on a « of larceny. The President says ‘it was a case of over-confidence on the part of the paying teller, who advanced about $12,000 on checks that were worthless to a friend who had an account.” § Large —Duriog the Latonia races at Cin- cinnati, on the Gil, one of horses belted, ran and overthrew two others, and fatally injured their jockeys, Covington and Watson, During one of the races Jerome Park, New York, on the horse Rupert stumbled and 118 jockey, Little- : 3 . tax} field, causing ous if not fatal the tnt ino at Ten- James 15t month, near Brunswick, ur white a colored men killed Easter, man, Albert Me- M shon, one of the alleged murderers was arrested at Ord, Nebraska, and deputy sheriffs with a requisition from Gov. Taylor, of Ténnessee, went after him.Gov, Thayer, of Nebraska, refused to recognize the requisition. He gave no expianation, simply saying that he declined to issue a warrant of extradi- tion. nessee, fo ~Duricg the recent cyclone which passed along Lhe coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the lighthouse tender Migno netle, with fifteen persons aboard, was blown out to sea from a puint near Brazoria, on the Texas coast, She has now been missing for nearly two weeks, and it is feared that the veasel and all on board have been lost, ~The tug Orient, owned at Fair Haven, Michigan, was lost on Lake Erie on the 5th, and her crew of six men were drowned, -ne hundred feet of the Nashua Company's canal bank, at Nashua, New Hampshire, was washed out on the 6th, causing the mills to shut down. The water from the canal lowed into the Nashua river, Col. A. W. Quint, late of the Quartermaster’s Department, U, 8S, A., committed suicide in Manchester, New Hampshire, on the 7th, by hanging himself. The act is attributed to mel- ancholia consequent upon the death of his wife. Jobn M., Keim, a wealthy farmer of Labachsville, Berks county, Penna., committed suicide on the even- ing of the 6th, He had been indicted on ho charge of defrauding a bank of y (U0, ~Train wreckers shifted a switch on the Dayton and Michigan Railroad near Dayton, Ohio, on the evening ef the Gih, and an engine and four loaded freight cars were thrown into a gravel pit. No person was hurt. It is thought the intention was to wreck the express train: that was due shortly after the freight. The switch was forced with a crowbar, ~-At Concord, New Hampshire, on the Tih, Josiah Mills, for criminally assaulting a little girl in a cemetery where she bad gone to place flowers on her mother’s grave, was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. ~(ieneral John Baldwin, of Los angeles, California, has received a . Leon Baldwin, was murdered by Mexican bandits a few weeks ago. The letter gives new facts concerning the affair, and says that, after robbing and killing Baldwin, the bandits went to Ventanes and robbed the store of an old man, and algo took his son for ransom, The villagers pursued the bandits and killed five of them. — While a number of men were cleaning an embankment near Albur- tis, Lehigh county, Penna., on the 7th, the dam broke and two of them —Au- gust Phifer, aged 40 years, and Charles Heimback, aged 18--were smothered to death in the mud, William Mercer, a moulder and in- ventor, died on the 7th, In Lancaster, Pennpa,, from swallowing morphia, He had been on a spree for several days, and, being unable to sleep, took a spoonful of the drug. -—A house In Toledo, Ohlo, was cated a short time ago and a new tenant moved in, A stench from the cistern caused an investigation, when the bodies of thirteen infants were found, The honse was formerly occu- pied by a mid-wife, who was arrested. ~The physicians in Tampa, Florida, on the 6th, pronounced the fever there to be of the yellow type. The author ties of Tampa have been permitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to use the Government tents there, and the Collector has been directed to use every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease. A strict quarantine Va- Surgeon General Hamil- received from Dr. of the Health Tampa, saying that there are indi- us of a rapid spread of Jacksonville, ton, on the 6th, Wall, President of call —— A Gambling Debt of Two Dollars Pays Twenty Thousand. I was talk‘ng with a gentleman from Nebraska recently, and was tel wonde real 148 taken in some {8 of that State, but one incident he quote a8 par- ticularly interesting. fe sald that about two years ago a former army offi acquaintance ith the deeds city and asked him where roperty was It was in the and the gentleman told the officer to { ith him all night and they would 18 prop- ly in the morning. pleas. L evening, gol life and swapping stories of life on the rontier when were both young and lively snd liable bet a month's salary on a poker hand, In morning they looked up the property, which happened to consist of five acres of good iand within Lhe of the city. “What do you think it is worth? asked the officer. he estate regular of his, of some the P located, evening old they were to the mits 3 *A bout renty thousand dollars,” was the answer. *‘I've been offered ten tnousand dol- he officer, ‘and I'm glad I met you, Now do you know how I got that property?’’ “I haven't the slightest you bolight it,” answered man. “Well, X took it for a two dollar poker debt when I was on the frontier years ago.” Great Scott! A twenty thousand dol- lar property for two dollars. Join the army and go West aud play poker, - nn AA As 3 lars for it," said t unless s+ gentle- idea, the the A Destructive Snow Slide. The most destructive slide I remem~ ber was one that came down upon the Sheridan and Mandota mines near the op of the range thal rises above Ouray. t carried] away the kitchen and bunk- house of the men, and covered Some who escaped come down over a perilous the way along t{ fifteen rail, running nearly al recipices, and overhung with cliffs, aring trembling masses of snow, wweatening other slides. They begged 8 for help to dig out their imprisoned comrades, We sent a party up on snow shoes immediately, eight of the nerviest men in camp, They got up to the mines safely and dug out the bodies and two livemen. Then they put seven of the dead men into sleds, and with the rescued men started back to Ouray, a party of fifteen. There were half way down when an- other slide came down on the trail and swept away sleds, corpses and rescuers, There was a space of {ifty feet wide from the trail to the brink of a canyon, over eighty feet deep. Some of the men were released by the snow before they were carried to the edge of the gulf, but most of them, with all the sled bearers went over and down upon the deep snow at the bottom, Not one of the party was killed, although they were somewhat bruised, and they all, singly or in small parties, made their way back to Ouray within the next three days. The corpses lay embalmed in the snow until spring, when the thawing of the snow made them visible, They were then brought down to Ouray and buried. cnt ——— HE MARKETS, PROVISIONS Beef city Iam Dl. cov sisinivres S00 @ 8 00 HOMB. oo sivnscres covinrinnssl an ° Prime Mess, NeW... ooo... 16 80 Sides smoked, ou Shoulders swoged, ay 40 IN BAIL. yovenvrrsnninrrrerv= Bi Beef, , srsrnnsnrenne= 14 1S ! £ FLOG Re ww West, and Pa. 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I have always malntiined that it impossible for any man to be a great surgeon if he is destitute, even in a considerable degree, of the finer feelings of our nature, I have often lain awake for hours the night before an Important operation, and suffered mental distress for days after it was over, until I was certain that my patient was out of danger. 1 do not think that it is possible for a4 criminal to feel much worse the night before his execution than a surgeon when he knows upon bis skill and attention must de- pend the fate of a valuable citizen, husband, father, mother or child. Sur- gery under such circumstances is a ter- rible taskmaster, feeding like a vulture upon a man’s vitals It 18 surprising that any surgeon in large practice should ever attain a respectable old age, 80 great are the wear and tear of mind and body, The world has seen many a sad pic. ture, 1 will draw one of the surgeon. It is mid-day; the sun 18 bright and beautiful; all nature 18 redolent of joy: men and women crowd the straets, ar- rayed in their best, and all, apparently, is peace and happiness within and without. In a large house, almost overhanging this street so full of life 1 4 cogch ema one of the { her sex, a confidin ts iB great that an g and wife and adored mother of numerous chil affectionate ne adminis nother takes charge he tourniqu i}! id anoth follow the } flaps severed, wound aj nu is pale and perceptible, the el wilh clammy perspiration, 0.08 | usky, the 8 { oue whispers in vie |i “ai he WO! x tvitieg | { ie PUise hard - pn ee - Por “< 5 Vv IDGIsu influence of the ar loss of blood, A: sentinel, is placed as with instructions tov closest care, and {« ment the slightest ci is seen, » SUTZeOn ROes a its other patients on the bi, lung after th 'n, worried Lis cold and comfor mouth almost as dry husky as h ically, exchanges WAY, RI usual hour exhausted, meal, with a and a vols 8. He eats mechan. hardly a word with any member of his aud sod- denly retires to his study to prescribe for his patients—never, during all this time, forgetting the poor, mutilated object he left a few hours ago. He is able to lie down to get a moment's re- pose after the severe toll of day, suddenly he hears a loud bell, and a servant, citement, begs h K chamber with the tion, “They think Mrs, He hurries to the scene wit! and anxious feeling. The st crimson color, and the patient An artery denly given way, the exhai treme; cordials and st brought into requisitic dressings are removed, and sant vessel is secured, The vital current ebbs and flows action is still more tardy than and it is not until a late hour night that the surgeon, literally out in mind and body, retires to his home in search of repose. Does he sleep? He tries, but he cannot close his eyes. His mind is with his patient, he hears every footstep upon the pave- ment under his window, and is in momentary expectation of the ringing of the night bell. Ie Is disturbed by the wildest fancies, he sees the most terrific objects, and, as he rises early in the morning to hasten to his patient's chamber, he feels that he has been cheated out of the rest of which he stood so much in need. Is this picture overdrawn? I have sat for it a thous sand times, and there 18 not an educa- ted, conscientious sargeon that will not testify to ils accuracy. nm ee and tiess © As Batis 8 patient tha wait presence exclama- is dying.” rapid pace of lies in a has sud- at 2) at Wig 8s ump is rir # 241 me Profiouna swoon. the réecu- anos the TE before, of the worn Love at Last, Out of a small brown house on the outskirts of White Plains a young girl stepped one evening in June. She was dressed with one white cap and apron of a lady’s maid, and looked cautiously about her as she walked stealthily along the lane. She bad not proceeded very far before a man stepped from be- hind one of the trees that stood on either side of the road and confronted her. “Dolly,” he said, In a trembling volece, “what does this mean? I saw you coming out of that house where they tell me only an old woman lives, I heard a man's voice and saw his shadow, Tell me what this means? 1 demand it!” “Can you not trust me, Edward?" the girl stammered, trembling; “I can not, dare not, confide in you!" He stood silent looking at her for some minutes, then turned sadly away, never looking back, and was swallowed W, in the night. The next morning r. and Mrs. Perkins were discussing a late breakfast in the back parlor. Mr, Perkins exclaimed suddenly in looking over his mail: “Why do you know that fellow you made me work to get clear from the charge of house breaking proves to be a sen of old Murderer Larkins, who escaped from justice ten years ago, and for whose recapture there has been ever since a reward of §5,000 offered." “Nousensel” cried Mrs. Perkins. conclusively, ‘Why, you forget my man is Dolly's father!” ‘*As if that hindered iL] impatienily ejaculated Mr, Perkins rising, **I tell you my lawyer bas evidence that your man is a house-bieaker, and the son of a murderer, and you've made me make a fool of myself, and 1% ain’t the first Lime,” “But do consider, dear,’ replied the wife in a mollifying and convincing tone. ‘*‘I've had Dolly years, and she'd be as afraid of a housed murderer as | would mys Mrs. Perkins here evinced dications of bursting into tears Perkins, knowing his own weak p hastened to avert such a painful cli “After all,’’ he said, conciliatingly, “Jt likely to end iu the security of both men, A detective i8" wm At this moment the conjugal conf- dence was interrupted. Dolly herself stood before them, She looked excited, and asked per- mission to ‘‘go out for an hour's air- ing.” When she was gone, the house sald severely, “The girl mu be this be the last time alone.” Mrs. Perkins perceived a certain look in her husband’s eyes that caused her to meekly respond: “Yes, dear.” r;} pi BOLE $a is the master of wt 4 fet Ous watched, she goes arel”’ to herself would K« prevent her from 5 seeing murderers!” Dolly, by a with great speed y old Mrs, Prim. entered unbidden att Fi 118 Lr Ae, room. Io a plaintive ye can’t are-—-you'v Mary, Mary! no +} WY off T lige a palsy, the Hesence to re f is from 8 hag- ¥ 4 that u LV Ue tha: s x cried Dolly. ! 1 4 iLen iid s indeed-—ind ? respo “Do nded the oid You suppose Do you think him these ten let hin twit me now?" ng about, Dolls for me perceived evidence of prepar- for f 00 y then the oaks - Hig live he old woman went up to the wretch and said, comfort- trembling gly, “Don't afraid, und here last night, y a hand on you.” With the confidence of a sleep walker or a monomaniac, the old woman ‘ed her charge forth toward a wood at the rear of the cottage. She appeared to have utterly for- gotten Dolly, who was left sitting there blankly, entirely alone, Some words of the old rung in ber ears, Was Edward there, her Edward, representative of a law ani justice t would destroy all of hers? Dolly was no sophist to question the rectit of her position. If her hands fell listlessly in her lap, if ber blue eves filled with tears, it was be. cause she had Ler lover, not be- cause she had helped to evade justice, “In this dejected attitude she too much engrossed in mourning after her lover to see him enter. “Dear, faithful, true girl, 1 found you out at last,” said a that electrified her, Dolly, the whilom, proud, piquant Dolly, threw herself in an attitude of supplication at the feet of her lover, “Do not—oh, not!’’ she cried, “hunt him down, If you could see him, if you knew of his repentance, his misery-—oh, spare him," “Why, bless your dear heart,”’ an- swered the detective, raising Dolly in his arms. “I wouldn't touch Lim if he'd eaten my grandmother. How could I know? 1 was in bot pursuit of the five thousand dollars reward to set my little wife up in housekeeping in a style worthy of her. Now she will have to be content with something plainer, But nol you are my prisoner. I can lock you up in jail if I will, Now beg me not tol” “Can you tolerate me, knowing all? Can you overlook my being’ — “If you will ask with your arms around my neck, I think I can hear it,” answered the detective. “‘In fact, I don’t think I could tolerate your being the least bit in the world differ- ent from what you are!” Two hours later they appear®d before Mrs. Perkins, Dolly beaming, Ed ward looking like a shorn Samson, aod asked her consent to a speedy toar- I saw a man but he shan’t be AT woman sill the hat ude 1 ed 108 sal, have Voice do riage. “That evening Mrs, Perkins triumph- antly explained to her husband that he was altogether mistaken about Dolly having anything to do with the mur- derers, “How do you know, dear?’ he asked. “Why, she is actually to be married in a week to the detective who is here hunting them,” This was conclusive, and Hon, Mr. Perkins ejaculated “Ohl” Japanese Fashions, The dress of Japanese women and children is uniformly of bright-hued calicoes, fresh and clean, thelr head covering a gayly lacquerred bamboo hat of native manufacture. Every woman must have eiaborate inlaid silver breast. pins with which to fasten ber loose upper robes, Some bamboo hats ure exquisite specimens of plating; the On- est qualities are made of carefully pre. pared strips of bamboo, costmg in Ban. tam but a mere trifle, while in Paris fhe) ie retuned at a profit of nearly 1.000 per cent, as true Panama hats,
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