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
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~—Jolin Moore, John Brinton.
“Fatty” Brinton, Th
Brinton and her
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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
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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
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-—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-
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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,
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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
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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.
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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?’
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his letter
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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,
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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
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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