ILI .ALVORD 4e HITCHCOCK. iPubllshom VOLUME BEIM 'IAII3O/144 )0 , t(41, 4 OA The BRADial° Barmy/a Is palladia every Thursday morning W. ALVORD and HITCHCOCK, at Two Dollars per bantam, la ad. ranee. WAdvertlslng In all eases exelnalsi ,of sub-, serlptlon to the raper. . - SPECIAL NOTlCESlnserted it Tax rearm per Hue for tr t Insertion, and TM CENTS per:line tot each subsequent Insertion. • .:. LOCAL 140TICES, VIIPTIZX CZXT3 aline. ADV EBTISEMENTB,wIII be Insertedseeordlns to the following table of rates: • 4w I2mf im Sm I lyr. UM I Inch pm 112.50 11100 117.50 I moo 14tiao 2 Inches I - 1.501 - ape 1 3.001 10.00 1 15.00 I. MOO 3 Inches .1 180 I 7.00 10.00 113:w1 20.00 10.00 4 inches 12.00 I . 8.501 14.00 I 1114111 2EOOI $5.00 cormb I GAO (12.00 !MOO I 20.00 I ZILOG S coPmn I 10.00120.00 125.00 1 column I 20.00 I 49.09 110.00 1 80.00 1 100.40 I 1110.00 Adinietstrattes and Executors Notices, A aditoes Notices, $2.60; Business Cards, Ave lines, (per year} $l, additional lines et earl. yearl7 advertisers are entitled to iensrterly changes: Transient advertisements mast tie pal for to adealsee. All resolutions of asioelations ; communications of limited er individual interest, and notices of marriages or deaths, exceeding five lines are dung. ed TEN clittre per line. The Hardness having a larger circulation than any other paper in the county, makes it the beet advertising medium In 'Northern Pennsylvania. JOB PRINTIN9 of every •Itind, in plain and fancy colors, 4 dose with neatness and olispetch. Handbills, Blanksl, Cards, Pamphlets Biliheads, statements.' Sc., of every variety snot style, printout at the shortest notice. The Baroness talk* is Well supplied With' ',power presses, oalood assort. merit of new type, abd everything in she printing line can be executed in the moat artistic manner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. Business Cards. COUNTY SUPER( NTS:MOT. ClNce day last Saturday of each month, over Turner Gonlon's Drug Store, Towanda, I's. Towanda, June 2.0, 1878. • ELSBREE &:50$, ATTOUNETB-AT-LAIR, TOWANDA, PA. N. C. ELEIBREZ. 11 PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES Painted to order at any price from f. 5 to 4.100. Oil Paintings Re-Painted, Re-Touched, or changes made as deiiired. All work done In the highest style of the Art. - JOHANN F. BENDER.. Towanda; Pa—April 18, 1818. I . ROGALSKI, • Employed with M. Handelman for the past t heir years, begs leave to announce to his friends and the puplic generally that he has removed to the . Roston Su.C,cdt Store, one door south of the First National Ranh, and opened 'a shop .for the repair of Watches. Cler ks. Jewelry. /sc. . All work :war ranted to give entire satisfaction. (Apr4 , 7B -1 WJe' YOUNG, sr 01.7701LNEY4T-LAW, TOWANDA, PA. Otilee—seeond door south of the First Nation - Ai Bane-Mein St., up stains. N., D. KINNEY,. • • AZTOTDiET-.(T-LAW. Ofilcc—Ronnie formerly occupied by Y. 31. C. A Bowling Room. Cian.2l73. WILLIAMS & ANGLE, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. \ • OFFlCE.—Formorly occupied by Wm. Watkins, Esq. , 11. X. WILLIAMS. (0c7.17. 77) E. J. ♦11(1LE. T MCPHERSON, Le ATTOANIT-AT-LAW, 'TOWANDA, PA. Diet Atty Brad. Co MASON tt HEAD, ATTOIVIRYFrAT-LAR, Towanga, Pa. OMce over Bartlett & Tracy, Mala4t. G. F.'S .d [a9l7] Anlimn lIZAD. E. L. HILLis, ATTOR N ET-AT-1. AW„• TOWANDA, PA. , [novD-75 T 1 F. (10,FF, 44, ATVIR YET-AT-LAW, 3)alni3tet (4 'doors north of Ward House). \To wanda, . (April 12.1877. Wr .H. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY • AT LAW, WV,ALUgING, PA. Will attend t 3 all business entrusted to his care in Bradford, Suilican and Wyoming Counties. °Mee wittrEsq. Porter. [n0r19.74. C L. LAMB, ATTOTINT:T-AT-LAR, WILKE.B-8/tRiE, PA • Collections promptly attended to. July 27,16. TOHN W. MIX, , r A ATIOR.NZY-AT-LAWAND U. 8. CRFIEXTESIONKR.. TOWANDA, FA." Office—Nona Side Public Square. it A D AVIES CARNOC N . ATIOIINEYS•AT•LAW " , SOUTH SIDE OF WARD HOUSE. Dec 23.75. TOWANDA, PA. R. S.. M. VOODBURNtPhysi clan and Surgeon. °Mee -- "'kelt% rockery store. Tonund.s, May 1,18721 y. MADILL Sr, CALIF_ A77OIINICT6-AT- 1 / I W, TOWANDA, lA. Office In Wood•a Block, first door south of the First National bank, upstairs. If. J. MADILL. tjanB-131y) J. N. CALIFF. ILI DLEY & PAYNE, _ ATTOII!ttYh-AT•LAW. ' ' Soulth side Mereur Block (rooms formerly oecupled by Davies & Carnocbso). TOWAlti DA, PA. Z. C. O RIDLET. (.1477) 8. 8. PAYNX. AMES WOOD, Artowczy-AT•i, !LW,. meh9-76 TOWANDA, PA. CHAS. it. ItALL, A ATTDDNIM-AT-LAW AND NOTAUT: MJtl give careful attention to any Mildness entutst ed to him.. Office with Patrick & Foyle, (over loernal Office), Towanda, Pa. ' (innerrt. GEORGE. D.:STROUD, ATToniraY-AT-LAW. 011ice—Main-st., four doors North of Ward House Practices in Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and 'United TOWANDA, PA States Courts.—Meer.•76. •STREETER, . EL. ATTORNEY -AT -L kW, TOW ANDA. PA. Stig2o OVERTON & MERCUR Y fit - ATTOUNST 13-AT-LAR, TOWANDA. PA. . • D s i i ! e 4Mi e l r tgre m . "' B IZ:NEPA. ffiEBCIIS. WN.'MAXWELLi ATTO!INZT4T-L AW. TOWANDA, PA. "Office over Dayton's - Store. April 12.1878. . PATRICK &FOirLE, ArfORXT.I4-AT•LAW, , TOWAIiDA, PA. °Mee, . Weneurs J. ANDREW WILT, - ArrOwszir-AT-LAw. • Office over Cross' Boot Store, two doors nortb of Stevens it Long, Towanda. Pa. May be consulted In German. (April 12,'71.3 C e S. RUSSELL'S • • GENERAL IN B II.RANOEA(IEN.CT, Ma72S4ittf. TOWANDA, A. • INSURANCE AGENCt - The follinwing RELIABLE AND. FIRE TRIED COmpaales repreprntsd; ANCSIIIRE,PIIOr.SI,I,IIOIIE INEltelfalitTS, 31Lar0 11,•?74 - b. a. imAca ME OVERTON & .SANDERSON, , ATTOZAZINAT44II:II 4 , • TOWANDA. PA; ICOniarow, as. - - ions P. Saatinsox WB.XELLY, Ding2Officte aye K. Z. itisendeld , n, T Pa. th im Geld, Myer. E b , and Al. embus bud. Tee th extracted without - Odt• 3441.- E. D. PAYNE M. D., - PIITUCI.4I4 AND 81111112011. Slice over Youtanyea , Store. OMmi hours from 10 to 12„ A. it,. sad from 2 to 4, P. Y. Special attention given to Abeam of the *ye awl Sarrect.lo.lll4., Eni =I IXOACI 113.00 DR. T. B. JOHNSON, FutunaAer Imp Straosoet. Mee over Dr. Porter kton.eDrog Stoee, Towanda. Dat4ittf. 1364. -187 s. IrWANDA INSURANCE AGENCY. Mats Sh ed opposite tits Cour Muss. W. S. VINCENT / MANAGER. ' _ FIRST- NATIONAL BANK, TOW AND A, PA. CAPITAL PAID IN , $123.000 SURPLUS FUND 00,000 This Bank offers unusual facilities forth° trans- action of s general banking business. • N. N. BETTS, Cashier. JOd. POWELL, President. Feb. 14. 1878. TIM EL, '44OUTIP etas PUBLIC SQUARE.) L. Et.snuss. • Tilts welt.knoim house has been tkoronghly ren narated and repaired throughout, and the proprie— tor is now prepared 'to offer first•ctass scrammed*. tions to the labile, on the most ressonahleterms.- \E., A. JENNINGS. Towanda. Pa., May 2. 187.1 HENRY HOUSE, \ CORNER MAIN • WASHINGTON STRESTS This large, commodious and elepntly-furnlshed house has just been opened to the traveling public. The proprietor has spared neithertains nor expense In making his hotel first•eass In all its appoint.; manta, and respectfully solicits a share of public patrons s te. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Terms to snit he times. Large stable attached, WM. HENRY, PILOPRISTOR. Towanda, June 7, 17.tf. ELWELL HOUSE, TOWANDA, PA, JOHN SULLIVAN, Having leased this house, la now teady to accom modate the travelling public. No pains nor expense will be spared to give satisfaction to those who may give him a call. aa-Notth side of Public ST are, east of Mercer's new block. T HE CENTRAL HOTEL, 311..5TE11,. PA. The undersigned having taken possession of the above hotel, respectfully solicits the patron age of his old friends and the public generally. - angle-ft. M. A. FORREST. QEELEY'S OYSTER BAY AND EUROPEAMHOUSE.—A few doors sonthof the Means House. - Board by the day or week on *tamable terms. Warm meals served at all hours Oysters at wholesale and retail. fed 'ff. Ereb.r7B. SUMMER CASH PRICES ! Jam 1,1875, I HAVE NO TV .ON HAND II FULL LINE OF Figured Lawns, Figured Lawns, White Goods, White Goods, Buntings, &e. 3a1741. IN GREAT VARIETY AT REDUCED PRICES. Tinned% PLi Joss r, MR& Padua Clark, BotelL -, -4011' ZUnOPEAX PLfl!,) TOWANDA, PA. 3. L. Kent. GOOOS Buntings, tee. Fans and P arasols 3. L. 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EOM NE TO BLEEP.. (The anbiotnetrposm—we do not know who wrote It—is one of the most beautiful of Its kind we film ever seen. •We do not envy the heart that does not thrill to its wild and tender music]. Backward, turn backward, oh, time In your. Bight. Make me a child again, Just for to . -nlght Mother, tome back from the °cholas* shore, Take me again to your heart u of yore— Hiss from my forehead the furrows of cue, Smooth thefew silver threads out of my hair— Over my slumbers your loving watch keep — Rock me to sicep,.mother, rock-Me to sleep.. Backward, flow backirard, oh, tide of the years I am so weary of toils and of tears— Toll without recompermi—tears all in vain— Take me and give me to my childhood again. I have grown weary of dust and decay, Weary of dinging my sours wealth away— -„ Weary of sowing fOr:others to reap; Bock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, Mottuir, oh, mother my heart calls for you! Many,a summer the grass has grown green, - Blossomed and faded—our faces between— Yet, with strong yearnings and passionate pain, Long I U 1.11110 3. for your presence again ; Come from the silence, so long and so deep— Mock me to sleep, another, rock me to sleep, Over my heart in the days that are floWn, No love like a mothers love ever has shown— No other worship abides and endures, Fsithful, unselliA, and patient like yours, None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick soul and world-weary brain; Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep— 'Bock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Come let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fan on your shoulders again as of old— Let it fall over.my forehead to-night, Shading my faint eyes away from the light—. For with Its sunny-edged shadows once more, Haply will throng the sweat Visions of yore, Lovingly, softly, Its bright billows sweep Bock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep. • Mother, dear mother, the years have been long Since I last linsbed_tn,yonr lullaby song— _ Bing them, and unto mp soul it shall seem Womanhood's years bare been but a dream; Clasp to your anus in a loving embrace, With your Irght lashes Juat sweeping my face Mover hereafter to sake or to weep,- Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep. • fflictllaprott c i. =I The Banker's Safe. , A dark and stormy night in the gloomy month of November dosed over \ the great city of London, that wondrous microcosm, and wrapped alike palace s and hovel, park and square, temple and warehouse, in its heavy folds. The awnings flapped and rattled in the blast, the swinging signs creaked \ upon their irons, the, trees in the open square groaned in the surging breeze, and the flaring street lamps were reflected in waver lines in the pools of water that/col lected fast, beneath thti rain that de scended in sheets rather than in drops. In a wretchedly furnish' in a.crazy old tenement that the-help of abutting Inilldings, in one of those narrow streets that run at right angles with ,the Thames sat \ a \ wau, wasted old,„man, in a leathern backed chair, cowering over the pale and struggling flames of a scanty coal fire. A/candle burned dimly on a light-stand.by his side, and thereon an empty phial, a spoon and a cup, still savoring of some nauseous niix lure, indicated, together with the as pect of the shivering old man, that he r was a confirmed invalid. „ A counterpane and blanket spread upon, the floor, a cnt-bed, two or three chairs, some cooking utensils, a rack containing an incomplete set of lock smith's tools, compoSed the entitle furniture of the wretched room. Within the forlorn apartment all was .silent and melancholy ; -but mingling with the dash Of the rain on the win dow, rose the hoarse tones of a rough bacelanalian - chorus and the jingling of ; cas and glasses that proceeded from a party of .revelers in the room without. The clikic :in - the neighboring church tower struck the hodr, of twelve. -A the vibrations were dy ing on the air, the -door of the room. opened, and a faint smile lit up the countenance 'of,the\ invalid, as his eyes rested upon the face- of a young man of twenty-five, a handsome, frank face, though traces of taco and illness were stamped upon the fert \ tprea. The new corner wore his lelit arm in a slim , . He tossed aside his drip ping felt hat and a. rough frieze'coat buttoned round his throat, and ad vanced to the fireplace, , ”My dear father," he said, in an anxionslone, how do you feel now ?" • " Much as usual, Frank," replied the inValid.•‘" Life within me is like yonder flame—it .burhs low, with an occasional flicker, and there is little warmth in it." 111 ciN " You will be b r by-and-by, sir. Has the doctor bee ere 7" f " Yes, he came her about an hour since." . " God bless hint-for his care ofyon I Did he leitve anything ?" " He. had no medicine with him, Frank," replied The old man. 493ut he left this prescription," and the in valid pointed toga scrap of paper ly ing on the table.;' "He was very !um ious I should take this to-night. . 1 But it is too stormy for you to go out again. Frank 7 -I dare say it will be -quite as well to-morrow. " I care not for the storm," an swered Frank Bedford, with, an ex pression of pain and trouble, "but—" He left the sentence incomplete, and rising, paced the room to and fro, with irregular ; and irresolute steps. " Hullo !" wheys the matter, Frank ?" said a rough voice—and a burly, ill-favored personage made his way into the room. He was a young man, but dissipation had done the work of years upon his face. There were lines upon his brow and at the corners of his &de which were death ly pale, though the eyes were blood shot, and the lids red and swollen. "Hush! don't speak so lond, Mas ters—my father has just sank into a dcize. How came you up so late?" " Why. I:lay albed till twelve, you see," answered the.new comer. "And then I've been having a jolly time with the old , set below.' Why didn't you join us ?" - "You know very well, Jack," re plied Bedford, "that I have no taste for such - society. Even if your comrades were more reputable, do you think I could _en joy myself, out of employment as I am, with thisunfortunate lame arm, and my father needing so mucheare TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY,: Pia, THURSDAY ,MOOING,, itrebst " What have you bees stiout to day ?" pursued Molten.' • - . " I've been seeking for work. I can afford to be idle no long.' - ' : "The The doctor said you must not use your hand." ' • "I cannot help it; necessity sari otherwise." "It was your own faidt your arm was injured. It was mighty Quiz; °tic deed:to fling yourself before a pair of fiery hories that were rtmnipg away, merely becatuse a painted stria toemtic doll in the carriage was: in danger of having Its pretty neck broke." "I merelyobeyed the impulse ofmy nature," replied Bedford, calmly. " did my duty and no more. Yon would have done the same." "Not I," replied Masters,; with a sneering laugh. "I should have stood back and let the horses rub. -It would have been but one aristocrat less in the'world. But you were-al ways a sort of gentleman in your feel ings. Quite above your fellows. It was like you, too, -never to answer that -advertisement 'in ',the Times, which stated that if the person who saved the life of a young lady in a certain street, on such a dily, would address X. Y. Z., he would hear of something to his advantage!" . " I scorn to accept a reward fot'.. service I'could not help rendering. Besides, I was amply paid by the! smiles and the- thanks of that beauti ful girl - I bore in my arms from the carriage. I could not appear before her as a mercenary claimant for Te tvard." "Aye—and, so rather than ask for what the parties would have been glad to give, you have .exhausted your little savings, sold _your watchi and books, and are now, I suppose, reduced to your last ha'penny !"/ " By heavens ! you are right, Jack,"' said Bedford. " I haven't a penny— and here is a prescription the physi cian has left, but I know , not - how to procure the means of buying it." ' "See. what a thing friendship is " said Masters, taking_i coin from his wainscoat pocicet./."liere's a half crown. I reckoned on converting it tomorrow into Hollands. Take it I Never say I deserted a friend in dis tress. There it is." ' • " You're/ a good , fellow at heart, Jack; I / alwikys . said it," said Bed-. ford, taking the coin.. "And I ac cept this money with the. less . tame because I am going to pueit to abetter use : than you designed it for. ,Oh, Jack, wby don't you leave off that one t evil habit?" • - " Don't preach, boy,"said • Masters —" but go and get your doctor AWL The old man will want it when he wakes up." " Fool !" muttered Masters, when the door closed on the young .ylock smith. He isn't quite starved to m purpose. yet,. But misery will bring down his proud scruples. One evil habit, did he say ? He forgot I have ,five senses, all cravings for enjoyment. Work ! who would work in a city like London, with wealth , hoarded' up in Millions round him; 'only waiting for the \ bold heart to snatch it? This key.!" lie muttered, drawing out , a smaltbilnis key as he spoke, must be the basspda, to golden treasures. The Old hunks, .would keep a pretty round sum in' his safe. How strange it should have fiillen into the bands of the only man besides himselC and Bedford, who knew`it and it&value. I suppose I must trithe adventure alone. Well—well—the, nest enter prise I project, he shall alit me. The loan of half a crown shall\he Odd with interest" \\'; • As Masters fi nished this sbliloquy, Bedford returned with the meilicine, and, thanking him for his kindness, bade him good-night' The invalids arOutikd from his slumber, and Frank administered the medicine. In a few moments the effect was perceptible. ; His eyes brightened, his breathing became more regular, lie looked more like himself than he had for many a day. " Frank," be said, "I am afraid I shall never be •able to repay your care." ii "My dear failiCr," said the young man;i" do not speak thus. Do I not owe everything to you—not Only my life—not-only the skill to which owe my dailrbrea4, but the knowl edge and the taste 'that solace my sorrows and ' above my hum ble *There!" \.. . Th© old man shook his head. " Life, my boy," said he, ".to us as we are, is a weary burden ; the skill you speak of barely suffices to keep starvation at arm's length; and, lit emtUre to the Helot • is but a ques tionable gift." "I have not found it so," replied Frank. " Has it never given you aspira, tions inconsistent with your lot ?" " It has given me aspirations, fath er,-and hope. - Nothing is impossi ble to the strpng heart and hand and cultivated mind. I : look on the pri vations we endure as temporary—l promise myself to bend circumstan ces to my will." " May the future prove as bright to you the past has been dark. to me 1" replied the invalid. "Hear me, Frank. I was not always the toiling slave that you have known me. 31y father was a man of - wealth. But all . that 'wealth was destined for my el der brother, and he fondly fancied that he would gram it with the tastes and accomplishments of a gentleman. He was mistaken in his character-- all that Rupert Ilarland lived for was gold--as the event has proved." " Harland, then, was the family name ?"- "'lt was. For my'part,, though I was fond of letters, I did not disdain the mechanical arts. I amused self. with learning the locksmith's trade, and that confirmed my father in his notion that I would never do Credit to the family. Still the por tion of a younger son was reserved for me. But even that I' lost by my own fault. I beelme enamored of a beautiful girl, the daughter of one of my father's cotters. Despairing of ever gaining his 4:xonsent, and too hi patient to - await the slow couriWof events, I married her. My father's indignation drove me fromhiathore ;: I never saw his'faee again..',lle died unforgiving, and left the whole of his property to my brother.,/l dropped the family name, assu med that' we 0 . 41 * bear, and' ante MPto Linidelt to lortmatams DEMMatTioN ThOilt ANY 51trearla-- try my fo une, In this -overcrow ed mart, O inteßeet and handwork i steam is the remit, of ehanoe. , - 11 was of the many . unlucky.-.• My poor' wife died in giving you birth ; since' then your life and mine have. been a aeries 'of continuous struggles for mere exish3nce.- I have reached the term of Mine - and I could die con tent, but that-I know I leave only a legacy of trouble to lu." "My dear father, be f good cheer," said the young ajuin. Trust wimp , ury of , better *we.' But _have you Bever made an effort to discoveryour . brother ?" ' "Never—too well I know the'ob. dunicy •of his nature. Besides, my pride is equal to his;atid I would ratheifstarve than owe existence to his disdainfid charity." . Frank Bedford was :not the only, listendr to this tale, at the close of whichifather and son retired for -the night.l Eaves-dropping was one of the amusements of Mr. Jack Maiters, and feeling a peculiar - interest in the young locksmith, he had during this revelation, remained :with his ',ear 'glued to a crack in the old door; re. tiring discreetly at its , close,lest, per adventnre, Mr. Frank ,Bedford land di c overed him, aid - cbasthied him foxhis impertinent curiosity. ,' So, then," hd muttered, as he be took himself to his dormitory,-net " Mr. Frank/Bedford, after all, biat Mr. Frank, Harland.. Harland! now I think of it, that's the name of the banker,on whom . l propose to operate tomorrow. Well—well—this is a queer world. Harland! and the silly fool never worked that mine. As- 'ton-iehing. !". * * _Midday. The dim sunlight found its way through gorgeous curtains into. a small apartment, richly and thickly carpeted, on the walls of which hung several old family por traits. On one side was a bookcase aid writing-desk, on the other stood, ill 1, small recess,an iron safe. There were two, doors in this room the Aka opening into the entryi the see . and into auother room. 1 Patel as a ghpst,,trembling in spite of the or imis ltations he had taken to inspire courage, there stood in the center ofhe floor, no other person than—Ja k Masters.. . {, ... "If thi isn't the. most daring ex ploit man ever attempted ! to enter a house ut noonday 11 I'm 'astonished at myself. But desperation works wonders. Here's the safe, and here's the key. Aid me, Satan, for one min ute, and I'm yours tfuly, forever and a day." -I lle applied the' key to the lock and lifted the lid.lt , contained, !appar ently, a mass' o papers. Opening these carefully, Master's eYes I spark led with lurid light as they rested-on a well filled pocket book, which be instantly secured.'i He was proceed ing to search further when ,he heard a- footsteOn the next room. Hastily closing and locking the safe, he raw. {shed with his prize through the door which led . into thAntry. A moment aft.erwards an elderly, hard featbred man entered. He drew a repeater from his pocket, consulted it, and then walked the i room with haity strides. ' " Time flieS," saki he ; I am waited for on 'Change, and the, fellow is not yet come. How confounded unlucky was the loss' of that key. Old Trivet dead, his shop burned doin 1 his journeyman nowhere to be traced— and the lock a secret. I wonder' if Jathei will be more successful to-day than he was yesterday." ; - The door opened ; two men enter ed. One waslthe , steward, the other dur friend, FaankHarland. k I " I. have found 'Mr; sir," said the former, and he retired,eaving Frank \ and 'the banker alone. `" A locksmith VI sa d the banker, hthightily. 1' You i+orked for Trivet, I believe PI I - " Till \ he died, sir," replied Frank. - "Then\ you recognize that Safe ?" "d do, sir—l put o the lock my ' self.lP N "tan you Pick that lock?" ".I can. I constructed it myself." "Very well: Lhave unrortunately lost the key. i hate' urgent need of paper i s it contains to-day. You will open it. I will leave kunlocked to day, securing the room it \ stands in. To-morrow - you will return and ibe • prepared to make another key." 1 • The locksmith went t 4 work. In a moment thesafe was utilockeil l\ and Frank stood back, giving the banker the pleasure of lifting the lid himself. " You ate a good workman," said' he. " What is the 'natter with your arm?" "I met , wfth --ace ent three 0 an - -..., weeks age." I - - "Vbry well. Here are o twq g ulp eas. Are you sufficiently paid P" "yen well; If I had aduge I wenild I return .yon a portion .of this money." - . - " Don't talk to me of change. Put up youimoney—and leave me—l am busy. come back at the same hour to-morrow." "One moment, sir, if yeti please," said Frank, whose eyes had been at tree* by a portrait on the wall. "lint pray whose likeness is that ?" " That, sir," said, the banker, red dening-tuts a portraitnf---ofla mem ber of t the family." "It is very strange !"''said Fmk, musingly. "Strange that I should have por traits) of members of my family hang brig up in my Louse ?" - ' 4 "No, sir • not that; but the refiera blance," staiamered Frank. , ''"The resemblance / to whom—tO whom, sir?" asked, the banker tines& ily.. " To my father, sir," replied Frank. ,"Your Esther I upon my word that's good./ I am much honored, I Assure yod. - Have you any -more gees font to ask about my picture, sir ? You seem to be a connoisseur." Frank uttered a sudden exclama tion.—Directly opposite - hung the lif-like image of the beautifnl young iirllthom he bad so - lately saved from destruction at the risk of his own,life. . "One Word more," he stammered, pointing to the picture. " Pray, who is that?" • KMy daughter , s ir; ' said the bank- Prl shottlY• • uAnd your na— yo :lltirland.:-I. thoughtl l4 ... l4 -mver3Ths . Rupert Aa'.4l';,6llk, iM * * * -,,',.:' - - "A" %-rt- - C : - :;i:. ,--_l'...,':' me: -- Go now,-and • attend to.iyou b*nepor-bmire , sae the=_Eauto .prliki lege." 'l' - • • .. •• _ ,__' s - "Harland I Harland " cried int& "Oh,uncle, dOn't you recegniso a finally. likenesa .in my face,? don't your. heart , fell you *at, Your nephew.' stands before you Y ' ::; /- ; ;.--.- " / 6 . the ream! , via 4 ? L You.,my nephew,t I haVe/110, nephew t . I had a brother-4 c l: erne--but he is deid-4lead! , ' ~.: . .-., , , . • "He is notd l" .cried Frank, ... Arita , . .. " triougn Tert i ciay • may , end his sufferings."/.Yon or -is his,- portrait, bal e y0ur5....1 ew it at a-glance, thO g 4 years of privation - .and toil, bar., ,wrought a fearful change. Yet the are his mild eyes, his look of proud humility—the - bearing . of the ,gentleman :that :nothing , can extin guish: 014- air, listed to your better nature. , Extend • pier hand, and solace the declining and forlorn old age, or at least close the dying eyes of that poor old man. . I ask nothing for myself, I am young and hopeful, and shall soon be strong again t. but I.am unable to provide , the comforts of life fOr my , poor r dying father." The banker stood silent for a moment. I Emotions were evidently struggling at lua heart to which he had long been a stranger, but evil habits mastered them, and after a moment he - appeitreti once , more stern, calm, impassive. - "Let. me hear no more of this," he said,'" if you value your libe,rty. - A man of my position is accust omed to tricks of impostors and knows how to deal' with them. - I ant a magis trate, y oung man, and if I said the word, I could preVent you of being any aid to your father-if- indeed you have one. - Take this word of friendly caution,. and le gone.— There, is no occasion for your re turning tomorrow.. I will And a enbstitute for this lock you opened with such suspicious dexterity." Frank essayed a reply, but his organ of speech failed him. And th s was , his uncle--the, father of that girl whose face htuiliaunted,him like a spell for the pakt month I His heart swelled within him as he left, hopeless, indignant and despairing, the princely-mansion of the;= hanker. fie made up his mind to sa l ); nothing of the adventure to his father, as he feared the effect of the agitation he was sure it would produce on his en feebled frame. As. he was entering, with a sad heart, his own ,miserable lodging= house, he encountered Masters, who was ou the watch for him. - A glance showed - that he bad been drinking deeply, and be tried to pass him with a brief 'word - of salutation, but be found he was not to be shaken off so easily. "I've been waiting, for . yon," said Masters. "I've important-business with you.'l "1 must see my faller," said Frank, peremptorily. "No hurry.- The doctor has just gone out,- and says he, is _getting on well. I gig ' you my word of honor, I speak the' ruths Come into my room." Frank followed Masters into Ms room.. -Hi was somewhat alarmed and annoyed when be saw him lock the door and .put the key in his pocket. They seated themsel , ies at a table, on which stood *pipes and tobacco, two tin cups and a quart of _ " Here's to you, my boy!" said the burglar, filling the cups. " What, you i won't drink P. Then there's am efor me. Your health." " You shan't drink,any more, Jack," cried Frank. "ou've drank too much already.—You're killing yourself." • • " Weill—, what of it?" replied the other, " I'm on the high ' road to fortune, and can do as ,1 like." " Say rather, on the high road to the gallows." replied Frank. Come, Frank—now seally that's quite ungentlemanly—quite un worthy of you," hiccoughed Jack. " For I know you are a gentleman -a real gentlenian, by. -George! and the heir to an immense fortune." • *"what do you • mean? cried Frank . "I know what I say," said. Jack. " I'm all right, Frank Harland." " Harland I Then you know—" " Everything, my. boy. Mum's the word!. I love you, Frank—l've loved you , upward of six years, Ah, •we used to have good times atold Trivet's. Well, well I there's no help for it, Max and I have struck hands ' for life, and I must be a luck cove till I die in the gutter." \'', Not so Jack," cried F ank earn estly,—" The most inveterate inebri ate may reform. Givenp the bottle !" "The bottle is the grit round of the ladder tO , ,the gallnws, I stand on the second," said the burglar, gloom ily. ' " What do you mean? cried Frank in alarm. / \ "Do you know this- key ? said Jack, holding up a small brass • key. " Knorr it ! I forged, it myself. It is the key to the banker's safe." "Ay, my boy, the sank," • ,"You. stole it." \ . • Y" I did, not steal it. - I saw s it drop from the tanker's pooket, and \picked it up in the street." , " I am -glad of it—l breathet freer. Then you mean to _restore it, and claim the Toward." .' , • ".Not such a fool as that. It has secured me one treasure—it shall Un lock more." ' " The banker has missed the key and sent for the to pick the lock. He will watch over the safe night and day till he has secured another lOck." - , • _ - • 4 Then that-lay,;-is done. with," said the burglar..., " Frank, you're my friend, I know.” - - • "Your true friend, Jack, ,so help me God! ", "Then • I'll trust everything - to yob," said Masters, speaking each moment with more difficulty, at the liquor he had drink had operated on his-brain. "I'm goiugto,make your fortune, and You mart take care of Mine.' - He "prodieed ikpocketoboOk and placer( It •in ••• Frank's hinds. 0 Tao Care of that it's yours. Wake me up_wheuloti've read , th opapeil In •. it = 2'm . ' slee.Py-,-irake,—nre—up . pre . -*Hsi! t o clroPping :ail bend upon tabl011 1 e . :118 15 . noon burled * l4, in. a 'polrffiken r illeep,. -, ..,'.,-' ',. and : 4 ' - r,zlf .- opmed:the:sicivl •',i-./s:=_-..---...,,, EN= MEM OM took from It, a folded •Aloctunent.. It . was the last. will, and testament of James' Harlind of. Harlandf Minor, Iseicesterehire,..revoked former will by which all property wasiefte to hie elderaan..ltubert Harland, and dividing MI estate equally, between. 'lmparts, and _Frances 'Harland his youngersoni or, in the event of the lat*rs's decease, his son's heir. The perusual of _this , paper threw . Frank into a strange agitation. The banker hsd