NEWS OF THE WEEK. -— A telegram from Lancaster says formed on the Susquehanna River from in the tributary streams has broken up. - A despatch from Springfield, lil. nois, says scarlet fever is prevailing in Pana, on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, to such an extent that the public schools have been closed, There have been two deaths, and fifteen cases of the disease were reported on the 4th. — Near Hamburg, Iowa, on the even- ing of the 4th, a farmer named Tieson and his son concealed themselves neuwr the hog pen to watch for thieves, At midnight two men got Into the pen and slaughtered a hog, whereupon Tieson fired upon them with a shotgun, killing one instantly, The other started to run and was shot down with a revolver and killed. The dead men proved to be brothers named Rambeau, neighbors of Tieson. The Tiesons were arrested, A fight took place In a house of ill-re. pute in Wichita, Kansas, on the 05th, during which J. E. Gregg, Willlam Sparr and Lincoln Mills were shot, the first named fatally, Adam Spear was shot and killed by James Mounce, in Monticello; Illinois, on the evening of the 5th. The shoollng was the result of a quarrel, Mathias Busch, a saloon her throat with a razor because she re- fused to turn over to him a small sum of money left her by a relative. Two brothers named Turner quarrelied while threshing together at Port Mur- ray, Warren Co., N. J., on the 6th, and fought. The younger finally killed pitchfozk into his eye. —The heavy thaw of the 4th and the rain of the 5th caused many of the frozen creeks in all parts of Long 1s- land to overflow, especlally on the south side, and several washouts oc- curred. Near Bayport the waler car- bankment, leaving in many places nothing but the bare ties and rails of the Long Island Railroad. The con- dition of the track was just discovered in time to save the East-bound train. — A passenger train going west on the afternoon of the 6th, ran Into freight train going east at Hoosic Falls, New York. Both engines were wedged together and the buggage and head freight cars were smashed, An ex- pressman, a mail agent, and a car re- pairer were severcly injured, and an old lady on the possenger train was severely burned by being thrown against a stove, gers were badly shaken np, -33i88 T.0ulse Noyce, ! a corn crib, where he was found with ! his brother. The pair were fired upon, and the brother and Louls Payton were almost instantly killed. Payton was a spectator, and was warned to retire for fear of being shot. The shooting was done by unknown persons, William Salone, colored, attempted to escape from the Vicksburg Jail, on the evening of the Oth, apd had bur- rowed through the wall, and was about to drop to the ground, when he was shot and mortally wounded by the watchman, —Johin Dénson, whose gambiing house was raided in Wilmington, Del. aware, last December, on the 7th plea- ded guilty and was fined $1000 and costs mn each of two cases for writing lottery policies, or one year in jail; $100 for running a poker table, and $50 for selling liquor without license, —A natural gas explosion occurred in the house of T. M. Norton, in An derson, lndiana, on the morning of the 7th, The house was demolished, and Fenton C, Rogers, of Cincinnati, who wus sleepiug in the front room was killed, Mrs, Norton was severely burned about the head and shoulders, There was a leak in the main, and when Mra, Norton went to light the gas, the explosion occurred. —Near Stewartsville, Missouri, on the morning of the 7:h, William Ball, superintendent on a farm, shot and killed Miss Ella Everett, daughter of the proprietor, and then committed suicide. She had refused to marry t him. ~-Just as a train on the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad, in New York, was approaching Forty-second street station on the morning of the Tth, an unknown man, about 55 years { old, jumped from the platform to the i tracks, and placing his head on the outside rail, was instanly killed, 8S. 5, | Tattman, a prisoner in the jail in Medina county, Ohio, awaiting trans. { portation to the penitentiary to serve {a sentence of seven years for { shooting with intent to kill, committed { suicide on the Oth, He tore his hand. | kerchief in two, rolled the pleces into | balls and pusted them down his throat, | choking tlinself to death, | =A despalch from Olympia, Wash- { ington Territory, says fourteen bodies | from the wreck of the Abercorn have {| been washed ashore, Among them are Bg Clerks Johnson, of Astoria, and { Captain Irving. Those saved are | Andrew Akin, cabin boy, Angus | McCloud and Robert Rankin, seamen, ~The United States customs offi. pcials at Watertown, New York, on the { evening of the Tih, captured a sleigh { containing 825,000 worth of opium, | which was being smuggled across the | boundary line, near Redwood, Jeffer- i son county. The smuggler and owner | of the sleigh were arrested and taken to 0 Fls0 PO John Aas LW ~—Jolin Moore, John Brinton. “Fatty” Brinton, Th Brinton and her i exposure, of the Baltimore and Ohio and Miss Shattuck. amount goes to Miss Shattuck, who lost both her legs. on the 6th, and the money will prob- ably go to her parents, ~A coal train dashed into the of a freight train on the Reading Rail- road, at Port Clinton, on the morning of the 6th, The engine of the coal train was badly damaged, and about thirty cars of both trains were thrown from the track, many of them being partially wrecked. ~—A dynamite explosion, works of the Hancock Chemical Com- pany, at Marquette, Michigan, on the 6h, destroyed two buildings and killed Ytsls. William Summerville, 18 years oid, was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, on the evening of the 5th, by coming in contact with an electric hght wire, One of the Brush lights was on the ground and a lot of boys were having fun with it by touching it and being shocked. Sommerville touched it with a piece of hoopiron and was killed by i i i Wg eo —— i an. A A A PEELS of age, was accidentally hanged in Titusville, Penna., on the 6th, while pulling up a clothes line. Her neck was broken. The timbers supporting a second-story, addition to Chamber's plaining mill, in Allegheny City, Penna,, gave way on the 6th, and five men were burned in the debris, and one, Patrick Conroy, was dangerously hurt, —Frank Rominski, aged 26 years, was killed in No, 3 slope at West Nanticoke, Penna., on the evening of the 7th, by a fall of coal. ~An express train on the Penau- sylvania Railroad struck a wagon con- taining {wo men, at Gordonville eross- ing, Pa., on the 7th, The wagon was knocked to pieces, and the occupants, Dr. Hoover and Jacob Brua were se- verely injured. A truck of ome of the Pullman sleepers on an express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad jumped the track near Conestoga bridge, Penna., on the morning of the 7th, The pas- sengers escaped with a severe shaking up. A freight train onthe Reading Railroad while moving slowly near Lewisburg, Penga.. on the morning of the Tih, was overtaken by another freight train the engine of which plowed through the caboose and two The engine then ran off the track and was stopped by a bank of earth, into which it plunged. All the train hands escaped injury by jumping into the snow bauks, % —A laborer named O'Neill, living in Pittsburg, shot and killed his wife on the morning of the 7th, and then shot through the head. The wound considered fatal. The cause of the y. The eouple had Poloted, 1 f if i 2 g ! £ iz : fifi : £ g ‘ | £ g -—A man, supposed to be T, C, Day- ton, of Caldwell, Essex couuty, New | Jersey, shot himself in the head on the {evening of the Sth, The wound will | probably result fatally, { =—Christian Hoeteher, a out ner was { nearly killed on the evening of the 4th, | by a two-year-old Newfoundlana dog, i which he had to guard his premises in | St. Louis at night. The man’s breast, | arms and sides were fearfully torn by | the dog, and the man’s life was only saved by his wife's presence of mind, ' able to use it without danger to her | husband, she passed it to him, and he cut the dog's throat, killing the ani. i mal. Hoelcher’s recovery is doubt. ful —John Weisser, a farmer, of O'Hara township, Penna., committed suicide on the 7th by hanging. He was said to be worth at least $100,000, and the ver- dict of the Coroner's jury was that “his mind became impaired on account of his having too much money." ~ An accommodation train on the Jacksonville and Southwestern Ilail- road was derailed near Athens, Illinois, on the evening of the 7th, and the eight passengers were injured, one of them. Herman Hornbeck, dangerously, — Amos J, Snell, one of the largest real estate owners in Chicago, heard burglars in his residence on the evening of the Tth, and, taking a revolver, went down stairs, and, it is supposed, fired a shot through the door. The burglars opened the door and returned the fire. The bullet, striking the woodwork and rebounding, hit Mr. Snell in the breast. He then ran toward the rear of the hall, The barglars must have followed him and shot him again, for the mur- dered man was found at the head of the basement stairs, with a bullet-hole just behind the ear, John Currie, a farmer, shot and killed Henry Main, a private banker, in Galt, Ontario, on the morning of the 8th, and then com- mitted suicide. Mre. George W. Mil. ler, wife of a wealthy farmer living in Shelby county, Indiana, made four at- tempts to kill ber husband on the even- ing of the 7th. First she struck at him with abutcher knife, and the blade passed through his coat; then she stab. bed bim with a pair of shears; then tried to kill him with an axe, and last tried to shoot him. Jealousy was the cause of her deed. Miller has left the woman, and he fears she will kill the cuildren, ~ Miss Louise M. Royce, the school teacher who lay on the prairie, in Ne- braska, all night, during the recent blizzard, with three of her pupils, all of whom died in her arms, had feet amputated at Plain View, on the Sth, The physicians think it will be neces. sary to amputate her left arm. New express York, Boston and Railroad on the 8th ran over and killed two men who were walking on the track at West Mystic. The of one was identi. Bot 8 th of Captain Thomas Car- ~=At ling two men and fatally injuring two others. Stinson’s Hotel, in Delle Ewart, Ontario, was burned on the evening of the 7th. Murs, Nesbitt and her youngest child were burned to death. While blasting near Bouth Pittsburg, Tennessee, on the 8th a premature explosion of dynamite killed James and Ludwig Williams, brothers, the contractors, and severply injured five workmen. ~The thermometer in Chicago, at 6 o'clock on the morning of the Oth, reg- istered 10 below zero, or within 8-10 of a degree as cold as it was January 16th last, the coldest day experienced there so far this winter, ~A land slide occurred on the Co- lumbus and Port Deposit Rallroad near Fite's Eddy, Penna., on the morning of the 9th, Over 500 tons of earth and rock covered the track, ~—An epidemic of typhoid fever has Eroken out in the State Industrial Home for Girls in Adrian, Michigan, and thirteen cases are reported, The attacks, so far, are comparatively mild, It is believed defective sewerage caused Lhe fever, — Five cases of trichinois bave oc- curred in the family of William Maun, of Toledo, Ohio, embracing himself, his wife, two children and his wife’s brother. The disease was contracted from eating the flesh of a young hog purchased January Sth, All five are in a dangerous condition, -A despatch from St. Ignace, Michigan, says a serious snow blockade occurred on the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway on the 8th, and the express, accommodation and some freight trains are still stuck west of Seney. The thermometer registered 20 it was 35 below, tly ha Jolin Janauschek, a farmer living near New evening of the Sth, Oth, At Ishpeming Marquette 206 and Mackinaw ( shot and his wile quarrelled about a of property. which the owned, and she had begun a sult divorce, Clement Arthur Day hanged at He plece ain. in June last, of gullly and imprisonment for life against George Dolzer, wno murdered bis cousin, Nicholas Hau, at Streator, in July last. Seven Indian Territory Parker, in the at Fort Smith, Court Arkansas, ~Japan’'s foreign trade last year was greater than ever before, and that with the United States and Canada was greater than with any other country. But the balance was all against us; for while we exported to that country about $3,000,000 worth of goods, we imported from there no less than £10.. O00, O00, Great Britains trade with China was just the reverse of this, We bought their tea, rice and silks, and pald cash, and the cash drifted fin- ally into English products to pay for cotton and woolen, ~The lord mayor elect of London is a foreigner by birth, and a curious Brit. Isher has lovked through the records and found that in 1713 the lord mayor was of Itallan birth; in 1716, a Fleming; in 1724 a Frankforter; in 1754, a Swede; in 1762, a Jamaican, and in 1703, a son of the governor of the island of Alderney was lord mayor, — Very cold weather prevails in Ontario and Quebec. At several points in the Ottawa Valley the mercury has douched 40 degrees below zero. Three inches of snow fell at Staunton, Vir- gia, on the night of the Oth, ~The packing house of the Dupont Powder Works, at Wapwalliopen, twenty miles from Wilkesbarre, Penna, , blew up on the morning of the 10th, killing four men and injuring about forly others. The shock was felt in Wilkesbarre; at Nanticoke and Wana- mie chimneys were thrown down; at Shickchinny almost every window was smashed, and in Wapwallopen nearly every bullling was damaged or wrecked, Two men were killed on the 10th at Bellevue, Ohio, by an ex. plosion of nitro-glycerine while they were digging it out of a hole where it had been buried for safe keeping, —~Suortly after the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Express had Unionville, Iowa, on the 9th, the Pull. man sleeper struck a broken rail and plunged down a 40-foot embankment, turning over twice, No person was killed, but several of the passengers were injured, ~The regular Manitoba passenger train, going north, was wrecked at Ciontorf, Minnesota, on the 9th, owing to a broken flange on an engine wheel, Mrs. Bemis, of Crookston, and Henry Gast, of Milwaukee, were fatally, and a dozen others severely injured, The mercury was 40 below, and the passen- gers suffered severely. Thomas Mul. dany, a switchman in the employ of Pittsburg, Chicago and Fort Wayne Railroad in Chicago, was run over by a freaght car on the evening of the Oth, The car was derarled but kept on its course, plunging nto another, and kil- ling John Bell, a switchman. A train on the New York, Pennsylvania and Onlo Railroad ran into an open switch near Salamanca. New York, on the morning of the 10th, derailing the train and setting fire to an oll tank car. The engineer, a brakeman and one passen ger were injured. While an Laie train was a Y » Michigan, on morn of the 9th, the connecting rod between the drivers on the left hand side broke, and the rod flew through the cab window and killed the fireman, ~Willlam Nowell was shot dead by Charles Vinkley in a quarrel about the possession as a at : Alabama, on the evening of the Oth, At M | 0 | , on he cause, Moore and Miss McMullin were to have been married within a month, --A despatch from Sheboygan, Mich- igan, says Louis Gerard, a young man employed as a teamster, attempted to cross the Straits on the evening of the 9th, and, when part way across, his team broke through the ice and disap- peared, Gerard reached a fishing hut on the ice with both feet and hands ~W. H. Less and his wife were in- jured, the latter fatally, by the explo- sion of the water pipes in their kitchen, at Uniontown, Ohlo, on the morning of the 10th, manip srs AAI ID - 60th CONGRESS.— First Sessign. BENATE. In the TU. B, Senate on the Oth, Mr. Hoar, from thé Committee on the Celebration of the Centennial of the Constitution, reported a joint resolu- tion providing a progrmme for such celebration, and it was adopted, after debate, In the course of the discussion, quite a scene was created by Mr, Rid- dleberger, of Virginia, who tried to dis- cuss the subject of the British Extra- dition treaty, and was flnally declared out of order by the Chalr. The Senate went into executive session and after- wards adjourned, In the U. 8. Senate on the 7th, Mr. Platt concluded his speech iu criticism of the President's message, A bill granting an American register to the foreign built bark Nordstjemer, now al San Franciseo, was passed, After an executive session the Senate ad. journed. In the U. 8, Senate on the 8th, Mr. Frye's resolution of inquiry in regard | to the political and economical status of Canada and her rovinces {agread to, The bill to authorize the ( Bale of certain mineral lands to aliens | was discussed, A bill was passed ap- | propriating £1,200,000 for a public building in Kansas City, The bill for the relief of importers of animals for | breeding purposes was also passed. Mr, Riddieberger made another scene in to the Treaty, and { was declared out of order. After an reference in the U, Senate on the Manderson, from the Committe Printing, reported a jomt resolution, { which was passed, for the disposition of undistributed copies of the Rebel. ion Records, Census Reports and Pab- lic Land reports, was passed appointing Audrew DD. White, of New York, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, fu place of Asa Gray, deceased. The Blair bill came up, but ail authorizing the sale of certain mineral lands to allens was taken up. After discussion the bill was recom. mitted. Bills were passed appropriat- ing $15,000 for a statue to the late Spencer F. Baird, and allowing patents to be signed by one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Interior. The cun- | sideration of a Lill appropriating $50.- { 000 additional for a public bullding at Pensacola gave rise to an interesting discussion on the subject of the erec- { tion of public buildings generally. The { bill was passed. Mr. Quay introduced {a bill to amend the act prohibiting | the importation of aliens under con- | tract, After an execulive session the | Senate edjourned. In the U. 8B. House of Representa. tives on the 10th, Mr. Anderson, from the Commiltee on Post-oflices, re- ported favorably Mr. Perkin’s resolu- tion directing the Postmaster General to inquire into alleged unsatisiac. tory mall service in the West, and it was adopted, with amendment direct- | ine that official to report whether any improvements and extensions have been made in the Western mail service during the last two years. The Senale | bill for the appointment of Andrew DD. White as a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution was concurred in. Pending consideration of the bill for the relief { Nathaniel McKay, the House ad- journed until Monday. HOUSE Inthe U, 8, nous oi nepresenta- tives, on the 4th, the consideration of the Lowry-White contested election case wis resumed, Messrs. Moore, of Texas and O'Ferrall, of Virginia, spoke in support of the majority resolution de- claring the seat vacant. Mr. Cockran, of New York, spoke in support of the contestee, as did Messrs, Rowell, Wil son and Nutting. Messrs, Outhwaite and Mash spoke in advocacy of the claims of the sitting member. Pending discussion the House adjourned, in the House on the 6th, a number of bills and resolutions were intro- duced under the call of States, After the call had been concluded Speaker Carlisle entered the chamber and re- sumed his official duties, The consid- eration of the Lowry-White contested case was resumed, and the House, by a vote of 187 to 105, declared Mr. White the sitting member entitled to the seat, Forty-seven Democrats voted with the Rapublicans in the affirmative, Ad- journed, In the House on the Tth, adverse re- ports were made on the joint resolu tions amending the Constitution so as to give Congress the power to regulate the hours of labor In factories, and to prohibit the manufacture, importation, exportation and sale of alcoholic 1G uors, The latter, at the request of a New York member, was on the Calendar. A ambit i bills and res- 0 were , Among them the Diplomatic and Military Academy Appropriation bills, and the mill to limit the hours of labor ot letter care riers. Mr. Weaver's resolution asking the of the Treasury for in- formation relative to the Department’s policy of purchasing bonds and depos- iting public funds in a large number of national banks was weported and adopted. Adjourneu. In the House, on the sth, the bill making bills of lading conclusive ev- idence in certain cases was passed. The Dingley bank bill was discussed, The Speaker announced the Reading Rail road investigation Commitles as fol. lows: Messrs, Til of South Care of and olina; Stone, of M N. On Parken of New In the House, on 1 of bills were reported, among them a supplementary Urgent Deficiency bill. The bill to discontinue the coinage of the three-cent plece was passed. A joint resolution was reported and placed on the calendar to arrange for & commercial conference between the United States and other American republics and Brazil, The blll requir- Ing the subsidized railroads to main. + lines was discussed. Punctilious, A gentleman In a suburban town went to eall upon a lady whose fam- ily occupied one-half of a double house, The front door of the two parts opened upon the same stoop. At one of the doors the gentleman pulled the bell, The door was opened by a servant, who answered the ine Guiry for Mrs, 8—— by directing the caller to the othar door. The visitor then turned to the bell pull on the adjacent door post, and In a few moments that door was opened by the same servant, who solemnly replied to the second inquiry regarding Mrs. N.— by saying that the lady was not atl home, This incident is matched by another that took place in Vienna; rather more than matched, in fact, for the person who played two parts in the comedy had a special mood and temper for each | part, | “My friend was in Vienna,” said a traveler, ‘*He had taken from here a letter of credit on one of ihe best | known banks and ne wanted to draw | on it. So he sought the agency of the | bank In Vienna, He walked into an | whieh had a big barricade in | {front of a long desk and two small | holes cut for the convenience of cus He walked up to tbe first of | them. A man came up. He handed | the leter of credit to him, The man looked at it and sald very grufily: | ‘Next window.’ “My friend went tot dow. A man came up, to of credit, at it, smile antly and said: ‘That's all rig much do you wish to drs " the same man?’ { office i | tomers, i he next win. his letter pleas How | OK looked L was — Mistook His Guest, A judicial joke 18 out an! will start the rounds on the United States cir- cuit, Everyone knows how expert and almost unerring the’ proverbial hotel clerk is when he takes in and sizes up | a strange guest, as he writes his name, for the first time upon the book before him, and how accurately he fits him {aud his pocketbook to a room, It was | about three years ago, when, having | successfully steered his canoe between Seylla and Charybdis in the United States Congress, Judge Speer, ascended | the bench of the United States Court | in Macon, He arrived in the city at night, and, going direct to the Hotel Lawmer, registered “Emory Speer” in a business like hand. When he had fin- ished bis autograph the alert clerk was already simdying his keyboard, evident- ly a little perplexed as to details. Bat presently he turned and asked: *“*Mr, Speer, what line do you earry?’? “Mr. Speer” looked at him and repeated the question in evident astonishment: “What line do 1 carry! I don’t under. stand you, sir. Do you allude to my politics?’* **No, sir, but I wanted to know whether you required a large or small sample room." Explanations followed, and thathotel clerk always keeps mighty quiet when be goes into the United States Court room, enolic In Receipt of S10 a Now, It stands to reason that if a stenographer or {ype writer is worth §5 a week this year she ought to be worth $10 a week next year, and it seems to me that apy considerate employer would recognize the enormous improve- ment in the work done, and on the general principle of equity and honesty see thal the compensation was also in- creased. The moment a girl finds herself in the regular receipt of §10 a week, where does she stand? She has a certain income of $520 a year, which is at least $150 more than the average clergyman, in this country or any other country, receives, She has as big pay as three-fifths of the bookkeepers in the big commercial houses of New York. Her Income is quite as large as thousands of salemen and clerks upon whom are dependent families, and if, as many of them do, she becomes so expert, and therefore so useful, I might also say 80 necessary Week. to her employer's success, and assured. ly to his comfort, as to earn $15 a week, she has It in her power to defy the world, to dress well, to stint herself in nothing that one in her position should desire, i Fighting With Bare Knuckles. You will hear a number of so-called fighters nowadays talking of their ability to fight wits bare knuckles, but the truth is that but few fighters have the courage to fight with the raw ‘uns, it requires great pluck to face a deter mined fighter and look at the hard, un. covered knuckles playing carefully in front of you, and ready at the owner's will to be driven Into your face or stomach, Thus men who will fight with the greatest determination with even as small as two ounce gl will quail when brought face to face with a pair of uncovered fists. No amount of coaching or tralaing will cure them, either, The fear of a bare fist seems Innate with some men and they can never conquer this fear, although thelr THE ILOCKED BRACELRTS, Or, After Many Years, I was quils a vig girl of twelve when we came to Milton to live. Papa had left the village a young man and re- turned old and broken down, but pos sessed of a large fortune, There was any number of servants in the house, and I had my governess, Miss Colton, but I felt very lonely without a companion of my own age. One day while out walking in search of Interest, I fell in coming down a hill and sprained my aokle. As 1 lay there groaning 1 suddenly heard a voice say, “Have you hurt yourself, dear?’ An old woman was standing over me. 1 shuddered at the sight of ber face, which was seamed with livid scars and puckered with horrible lines, Her kindly voice reassured me as she helped me into a tiny little cottage near by and sent for a doctor, “What is your name?” she asked, as she bathed the sprain, “I must let your mamma know where you are.”’ I told her it was Myrtle Cresson, and that my mother was dead, She seemed interested to know all about my family, and 1 wld her freely. So began my friendship with Miss Smith, who proved, In spite of her terrible face, the dearest woman ip the world, One day 1 heard her story, She bad with n young man In her own village. Being smbi- tious, he went to London to find a sit. trothed, One night the cottage where she took fire, and in attemptiz who was an B 10 § had time to receive i ber way to her grant “And your lover?” I asked. **1 have seen him since. He mn and became a rich man.” rec I feel all the romance of vouth stir my dear old friend was hing in health, and would probably = be called away from earth, she was rot confined to but bad some pulmonar and every change of a gradually a ¥ Bae It was in October that the quiet My dear father, who had never dropped his active habits, was thrown from his horse and dangerously injured. Day after day he lay upon his bed suffering not leave him, of the long night It was in one wakeful, that I noticed in some restless movement a narrow band of gold upon his arm, about half way be- tween Lhe wrist and the elbow, “Why, papa,” I said, **what a preity bracelet! You ought to have given it to Ime years ago,” He smiled as he said, *‘it will nos come off, dear, You must bury it with me." I shuddered at the idea suggested, but be spoke again presently: “It forty-five years, Myrtle, since this bracelet and its companion were locked and the key thrown into the river. It was put upon my arm by your namesake, my little Myrtle, with vows of eternal constancy. I had bought the two for a gift of betrothal, and when mine was clasped and locked 1 took the tiny key to fasten the one clasped upon Myrtle's arm. My dea little Jove! How sweet her face was as she looked up at me, promising to wear my gift till death.” ht? “Did she die, papa?" “No, darling. Circumstances sep. arated us and I never saw her afte that day. I lived a lonely life for her sake for many long years, but I loved your mother and she knew the story of the bracelet when she married me. Yet, after she dled I tried once again to find Myrtie Carpenter, but im vain. She must be old, perhaps she has been dead for years, 1 know nothing of her I examined the bracelet with all a girl's interest. It was a Land of goid, chased in a pretty design, with the word “‘constancy” upon a scroll sur- rounded by leaves and flowers. The tiny key hole was delicately chased, and held the clasp firmly. It was the eighth day of such watch} ing, when every hope was gone, aud when we only lookad for the end, when Miss Smith came nto the room just before the night watch, “I have been here every day,” she said in a low voice, “but I would not have called you down stairs. To-night you must Jet me share your watch.’ “You-—you know’ ——1I said, “1 know, dear, that probably before morning there will be a released spirii. and the peaceful end of ali suffering {or your dear father, ‘Lhe doctor tells me there will be no more pain.” “Will he be conscious? Ob." I cr «il, he has not known me for a wees!” Will be speak to me to-night?” “Darling, we cannot tell. But must rest now, and let me watch.’ **1 cannot rest,” 1 said, “and you ought to be nursed yourself, For looking into her face [ was shocked to mee how dreadfully she had changed in the trying time that | hao been shut up in my father’s room.’ To-morrow I will rest,” she sad, gently. “But you will nesd your strength. If you will lie down bere
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