—
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.
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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,
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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
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~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
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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,
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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-
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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
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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
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*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
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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.
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A SURGEONS LIFE
A Page From the Experience of the
Father of Surgery in His Day.
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.
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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.”
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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
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room.
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ye can’t
are-—-you'v
Mary, Mary!
no
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the
Hesence
to re
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cried Dolly.
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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
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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,