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FAIX OF THE BOOF-TREES.
BY EMMA AUCB BKOW.VK.
1 remember the d-ar little cabin
Tbat atood bv tbe weather-brown mill— And tho beaulirnl tldeh of thn snuahlna
That flow ovur w.-iodland und bill— And, far down tbe winding, green valleya.
And over the meadows tmooth shorn. How the -weet dew Iny fla-hlng And gleaming
On the pale rosy rubtn ofthe mora!
Bo<r the blnsb-roees shone on tbe upland.
Like H red cloud of nun^et afar; And the p-jnd-lily burned In the marsben
With lbe (Jteadfant white frame of a alar, Buw the brook chimed a rhythmical cborod
Wllfa the birds that tunK high In the treen. And bow the bright hannem ofaonaet
Mrvamed red iu the van of tfae breem. I rememlwr the ra-t^-y-rimmed tpriuglM
Ti'at gH*h*d in ibo shade of the oabn. And bow the wliite bu.!.. ofthe mintleloe
Fell dowu with ihftwo.ulmMn'aatroken. That dark murnr.ig «b-iu cruftt Karl ^¦p¦»nc.l^
Citmedowo wilh hii bnnier train. To uproot lbe uid kiuiif of the grc-uwood, Tbat tbadi-'W.id bin y .idoa grain.
For be dwelt in a lordly ca-'l Ie
Tbat lowf'red hOf way cp thi» bill. And w« in a poor little i^sliiu.
In tfae ifbadfl of the w*atbLT-broirn miM : Therit'iirn the n-ibif* Eirl Speucer
Dar-dcome wiib hi* t>msbtly train. Aud dincruwn ¦fmr giortou^ t.i,iMrpo<
Thatdbadowed hta fleUi' "f urain.
Oh. m&ny the h-auiifol aunimern
We uuilwr iheir bniuchf* bid playud! And ont from thfir dim for^^t glory
A worn j «ih »>ii" yonng feet b*d madit To the mii-hiuay npot on tbe hillside.
Where two ot os stayed with the fiowflr-^ Though the even ..fibe yellow haired nleepern
Whero bllti'd :o Ibf smiling'.'four-1
Woefully wepi onr »i.ith«r
WbfO lUi* bough- ol our roof-feaa worrt ched Aud a eni'i'^ froui tbe atrong bean of father
Was iiruailitid .m ifa-" rich man's bead— For. oh. lb-* d^^r •)1d ..ai-' thndow-
Thai cam*! ihfootb iHf -.pea dour. Hid f. ;1..,.>tJ ;le -'jr. oftbe cbildr«a
I'ot yr.M'p on tb'i i:m^>»lh wbittt floor!
TKE BIAMOiro BRACELET.
[cns-cr^UDRD.] CHAPTER IV.—COMING odt of exilk.
The Btatply rooms of ou« ofthe finest houses in London were open for the recei>tion of Hven- ing gaef^tii. Wax-lights, looking innumer¬ able wheu reflected from tbe mirrors, shed their rajs on the gilded decorations, ou the fine paintiugs, and ou the gorgeoas dresses of the ladies ; the enlivening .strains of tlie band invited to the dauce, and the rare exotics ad¬ mitted a sweet perfume. It was lbe west- end residence of a faiu-d and wealthy city mercbant of lofty st.indiiig; bi3 young wife was an earl's danghter, and the admission to the house of Mr. and Lady Adela Netberleigh was coveted by the gay world.
"There'a a mishap I" almost screamed a pretty looking girl. She had dropped her bandkercbief and stooped for it, and her partner stooped also; in his linrry, be put his foot upon her thin white dress, .she rose at tbe same moment, and tbe bottom of tbe skirt was balf torn off.
"Q,aite impossible tbat I cau finisb tbe quadrille," quoth she to him, half in amuse¬ ment, and half provoked at tbe misfortune. You must find another partner, and I will go aud get tbis repaired."
She went up stair.?; by some neglect the lady's-maid was uot in attendance there, and too impatient to wait and ling for ber, dowa fibe flew iuto tbe housekeeper's parlor. She was quite at bome iu tbe house, for sbe was tbe Bister of its mistress. She bad gathered the damaged dress np on ber arm, bat ber white silk petticoat fell iu rich folda around ber.
"Just look what an object tbat stupid "
And there slopped tbe young lady; for, in¬ stead of tbe hoQSbkeeper and lady's-maid, whom she expected to meet, nobody  was iu
the room bat a gentleman, a tall handsome
man.    She looked thunderstruck, and tben
slowly advanced and stared at him, as if not
believing her owu eyes.
"My goodness, Gerard!   "Well,  I  should
just as soon bave expected to meet the dead
here."
"How ar-3 yoa Lady rrances?" ho said,
holding out bis hand with hesitation. "Lady FraucesI   1 am much obliged to you
for yoar formality. Lady France.:; returns her
thanks to Mr. Hope for his polite inquiries,"
continued ahe ina tone of pique,and houoriug
him with a swimming curtsey of ceremony. He caught her hand.    "Forgive me, Fanny,
but oar positions are changed; at Wst, mine
is; aud bow did I know tbat you were not V " You are an ungrateful—raven," cried she*
" lo croak like that.   After getting me to write
you DO end of letters, with all the news about
everybody, and beginning ' My dear Gerard,'
and ending  'Yonr affectionate Fanny,' and
being as good to you as a sister, you  mast
meet me with 'Jly Lady Frances.' Now don't
squeeze my band to atoms.   What on earth
bave yon come to England for?"
" I could not stop there," be retarned, with = encounter her.
Lady Sarah did not. She left, and this Bpiiug Lady Sarah a&w her, and was so shooked at the ohange in her, the extent to whioli she had wasted away, that ahe bronght her to towu by main force, and we and the doctors are trying to uu'se her up. It seems of uo use."
" Are you also staying at Colonel Hope's agaiu ?"
" I iuvited myself there a week or two ago, to be with Alioe. It is pleasauter, too, than being at home." " I suppose the Hopes are here to-night ?" *' My sister is. I do not think your uncle has come yet." ''Dof s he ever speak of me less resantfully f" " Not he : I think his storming over it has only madu his suspicion.^ stronger. Not a week passes bat he begins again about that d^stable bracelet. He is unalterably per¬ suaded that yon took it, and nobody must dare to putiu a word in your defence."
" And does your sister honor me with the same belief?" demanded Mr. Hope, bitterly. " Lady Sarah is silent on the point to ui;* .¦ I think she scarcely knows what to believe Yoa see I tell you all freely, Gerard,"
Before another word could be spoken, Mr. Netherleigb entered. An aristoratic mau, with a noble countenance. He bore a sealed note for Mr Hope to deliver in tbe city.
** Why, Fanny I" be exclaimed to his si-ster- in-law, "you here!"
" Yes : look at the sight they have made me," replied she, shaking down ber dress for his benefit, a.-( she had greviou.sly done for Mr. Hope'3. " I am waiting for somo o t* the damsels to meud it for me: I sappose Mr. Hope\s prn.-ieuce has scared tbem away. Won't mamma be ina fit of rage when she sees it, for it is new to-night."
Gerard Hope shook hands with Lady Fran¬ ces ; aud Mr. Netherleigb, wbo bad a word of direction to give him, walked with him into the hall As tbey stood there, who sbould enter but Colouel Hope, Ge rard's uncle. He started back wheu he saw Gerard. " C—ca—ean I believe my senses ?" stut¬ tered he. "Mr. Netherleigh, is Ae one of ! your guests ?"
1     ** He is bere on business," was  the mer-
j chant's reply,    " Pass on, colonel."
i     " No sir, I will not pass on,'* cried the en-
i raged colonel,  who had not rightly  caught
I the word business.   **0r if I do pass on, it
[ will only be to wara yotir guests tq take eare
i of their jewelry.    So, sir," be added, turning
{ on his nephew, "yon cau oome back, can you,
I when the proceeds of your theft are spent!
ynu havo been starring it in Calais, I hear:
how   long did the bracelet last you to live
upon?"
" Sir," anawered Gerard, with a pale face, "it baa beeu starving rather than starring.— I asserted vay innocence at tbe time. Colonel Hope, and I repeat it now."
" Innocence 1" ironically repeated the col¬ onel, turuiug to all sides of the hall, as if he took delight in parading the details of the unfortunate past. "The trinkets were spread out ou a table in Lady Sarah's own home; yon came stealthily into it—after having been forbidden it for anotber fault—went stealthi¬ ly into the room, and the next minute the diamond bracelet was missing. It was owing to my confounded folly in listeniug to a par¬ cel of women, that I did not bring you to trial at the time ; I bave only once regretted uot doing it, and that has beeu ever aiuce.— A Uttle wholesome correction at the peniten¬ tiary migbt have made an honest man of yoa. Good night, Mr. Netberleigh ; if you encour¬ age him in your house, you dou't bave me." Now another gentleman had entered and beard this: some servants had also beard it. Colonel Hope, who firmly believed in hia nephew's guilt, turned off,peppery and indig¬ nant ; aud Gerard, giving vent to sundry un- nephew-iike expletives, strode after bim.— The colonel made a dash into a street cab, and Gerard walked towarda the city.
Lady Frances Chenevix, her dress all right again, at least to appearance, was sitting to get her breath, after a whirling waltz. Next to her sat a lady who bad also been waltzing : Frances did not know her.
" Yoa are quite exhausted; we kept it up too long," said the cavalier in attendance on the stranger.   '• What oan I get yon ?"
"Jfy fan: tbere it is. Thauk you. Noth¬ ing else."
"Wbat an old creature to dance heraelf down I" thougbt Frances. " She'a forty, if she's a day."
Tfae lady opened her fan, aud proceeding to use it, the diamonds of her rich bracele* gleamed rigbt iu tbe eyes of Frances Chene¬ vix.   Frances looked at it, and started; she strained her eyes and looked at it again : she beut nearer to it, and became agitated witb emotion.    If her recollection did not play ber false, that was the lost bracelet. j     She discerned her sister, Lady Adela Nether- I leigh, and glided up to ber.   "Adela, who is j that lady ?" she aaked, pointiug to tbe stran-
; " I don't know who she is," replied Lady Adela, carelessly, " I did not catch the name. Tbey came with tbe Cadogans,"
« ^H idea of yonr having people in your honse that you don't know!" indignantly spoke Frances, wbo was working herself into afever. "Where's Sarah?doyoa know that?"
" Iu the card room, glued to the whist table,"
Lady Sarah, however, had unglued herself,
for Frances only turned from Lady Adela to
I do believe yoar lost brace-
emotion;  " I was fretting away my beart- j j^t is ia the room," sbe whispered, in agita" atrings.   So I tonk my resolutiou and came j tio^^ .. i tiji^j- j j^^^^ ggg^ ^„ back—guess iu what way, Frances; and what!   "impossible!" responded Lady Sarah Hope.
" It looks exactly the same ; gold links in¬
to do f"
" How should I know! To call me * Lady Frances, perhaps."
" As a clerk ; a clerk, to earu my bread.— That's what I am now. Very consistent, is it not, for oue in my position to address fa¬ miliarly Lady Frances Chenevix ?"
'* Yon uever spoke a grain of seuse in your life, Gerard, sbe exclaimed, peevishly. "What do you mean?"
" Mr. Netberleigh has takeu me iuto bis counting bonse."
" Mr. Netherleigb," she echoed, iu surprise. " What, witb that—that "
" Tbat crime hanging over me.   Speak up, j
Frances." !
" No; I was going  to say that doubl.    1 '•
dou't believe you guilty ; you know that, Ge- ¦
rard."
"lam in his hoase, Frauces, and I came np here to-niRbt from the city to bring a note from bis partner. I declined auy of the re¬ ception-rooms, not wishing to meet old ac quaintances, and tb>> servant put me into tbis."
" But you bad a mountain of debts, iu Eu¬ gland, Gerard, aud were afraid of arrest."
" I have managed that; they are going to let me square np by instalments. Has the bracelet never been beard of ?"
*'0h,that's gone for good ; melted dowu in a caldron, as the colonel calls it, and tbe dia¬ monda reset. It remains a mystery of tbe past, and is never expected to be solved."
"And tbey atill suspect me! What is the matter with yoar dress ?"
" Matter enough," auswered she, letting it down and turning ronnd for his inspection. " I came here to get it repaired. My great booby of a partner did it for mo." •' Fanny, how is Alice Seaton ?" "Yon have cause to enquire after her. She is dying."
" Dying V* repeated Mr. Hope, in a hushed, shocked tone.
" I do not mean actually dyiug thia night, or going to die to-morrow; but that she  ia dying by slow degreea, there is no doabt.— It may be weeks off yet; I cannot tell," " Where is ahe ?"
" Cnrious to say, she ia where yon left ber ^at Lady Sarah Hope's, Alice oonld not bear the house after the loaa of the braoelet, for ahe was eo obatinate and foolish as to persist thftt the Bsrvaiits must snspeot her, er«n If
terspersed with diamonds ; and the clasp is the aame; three atars. A tall, ugly woman has got it on, ber black hair strained off her face."
"The hatr strained off the face is enoagh to make auy woman look ugly," remarked Lady Sarah.   " Where is she ?"
"There: sbe is standing up now; let ua get close to her. Her dress is that beautirul maize color, with blonde lace."
Lady Sarah Hope drew near, and obtaiued a sight of tbe bracelet. Tbe color flew into i her face.
**It is miuft, F.inuy," she whispered. But tbe lady at that moment took a gentle¬ man's arm aud moved away. Lady Sarah followed her, with the view of obtaining another look. Frances Chenevix went to Mr. Netherleigb and told him. He was hard of belief.
"You caunot be snre at tbis distance of time, Fanny. And besides, more bracelets than oue may have beeu made of tbat pat¬ tern."
" I am so certain, that I feel as if I conld awear to the bracelet," eagerly replied Lady Frances.
'' Hush, huah, Fanny." " I recollect it perfectly—it struck me the moment I sa'w it. How singular that I should have been talkiug to Gerard Hope about it tbis night!"
Mr. Netherleigb smiled. " Imagination is very deceptive, Frances; and your having spoken to Mr. Hope of it brought it to your thoughts "
" But it could not have brought it to my eyes," returned Lady Frances; " Stuff and ntnsence about imagination, Mr. Netberleigh! I am positive it is the bracelet. Here comes Lady Sarah."
"IsupposeFrauoes has been telling you," observed Lady Sarah Hope to her brother-in- law. "I feel convinced it is my own brace¬ let."
"But—as I have just remarked to Frances —otber bracelets tban yours may hava been made precisely similar," he urged.
"If itia mine, the initials "S. H." are scratched on the back of the middle star. I did it one day with a penknife,"
"Younever mentioned that fact before
Lady Sarah," hastily responded the mlRhant.
" No. I WM detennlned to g^ve no olue. I
was always afraid ofthe affair's beiug traced home to Gerard, and it would have beeu suoh a disgraoe to my hnsband'a name,"
" Did yon apeak to ber ?—did you ask ber where she got the bracelet I" interrupted Frances.
"Howoould If" retorted Lady Sarah.   "I do not know her." " I will," cried Frances, in a resolute tone. "My  dear  Frances t" remouatrated Mr. Netherleigb.
" I vow I will," persisted Prances, aa she moved sway.
Lady Franoea kept her word. She found tbe strange lady in the refreshment room ; aud, locatiugberselfby herside, entered npon a few trifling remarks, which ware civilly re¬ oeived. Suddenly ahe dashed at once to her subject, " What a beautiful bracelet!" "I think it is," was the stranger's reply, holding out her arm for its iaspection, with¬ out reservation.
" Where did you bny it ?" pursued Frances. " Garrards are my jewellers." This very nearly did for Frances; for it waa at Garrard's that the colonel originally pur¬ chased it, and it seemed to give a coloring to Mr. Netherleigb's view of more bracelets bav¬ ing been made of the samepatturn.   But sbe was too  anxious and  determined  to utand upon ceremouy—for Gerard's sake;  and he was dearer to her than the world suspected. " We—one of my  family—lost a bracelet exactly like .this some time back.    When I saw it ou your arm I tbouG;hi it was the same: I boped it was."
The lady froze directly, and laid down ber arm.
" Are you—pardon me, tbere are painfal interests involved—are you sure you par¬ chased this at Garrard's ?"
" I have said that Messrs. Garrard aro tny jewellers," replied the stranger, iu a repelling voice; aud the words sounded evasive to Franoes. " More. I canuot say ; neither am I aware by what law of courtesy you thus ques¬ tiou me, nor who you may be."
Theyonng lady drew herself up, proudly secure in ber rank. " I am Lady Frances Chenevix ;" and the other bowed, and turned to the refreshment table.
Away weut Lady Frances to fiod the Cado¬ gans, and inquire after the stranger.
It waa a Lady Livingstone. The husband bad made a miut of money at sometbing, had been knighted, and now they were launching out into bigh society.
Frances' nose went into the air. Oh law I a city knight and bis wife! that waa it, was it. How could Mrs. Cadocau have taken up with ihein?
The Honorable Mra, Cadogan did not choose to say : beyoud the assertion that they were extremely worthy, good kiod of people-— She conld have said that her spendthrift of a husband had contrived to borrow money from Sir Jasper Livingstone ; and to prevent being bothered for it, and keep tbem in good humor, they introduced tbe Livingstone s where tbey could. ¦
Frances Chenevix went home—that ia, to Colonel Hope's—an-l told ber strauge tale to Alice Seaton, not ouly about Gerard beiug in Eugland, but about the bracelet. Lady Sarah had nearly determined not to move iu the matter, for Mr. Netberleigh bad infected ber witb hts disbelief, especially since she beard of Lady Livingstone's assertion that Messra. Garrard were her jywelers. Not so. Lady Frances ; she was determined to follow it up; and nest morning, saying evasively that abe wauted to call at her father's, she got posses¬ aion of Lady Sarah's carriage, and down sbe , went to the Haymarket, to Garrards. Alice Seaton. a fragile girl, with a ouce lovely countenance, but so faded now that she look¬ ed, as Frances bad said, dying, waited her returu in a pitiable state of excitemeut.— Frances came in, looking little less excited.
" Alice, it is tbe bracelet. I am more cer¬ tain tban ever. Garrards' people say tbey bave sold articles of jewelry to Lady Livings¬ tone, but not a diamond bracelet; and, more- over, tbat they never bad, of tbatprecise pat¬ era, but the bracelet Colonel Hope bougbt." " What is to be done ?" exclaimed Alicy. "I know; I shall go to those Livingstone's. Gerard shall not stay under tbis cloud if I cau help him out of it. Mr. Netherleigb won't act in it—laughs at me; Lady Sarah won't act; and we dare not tell the colonel, he is so obstinate and wrong-headed, he would be for arresting Gerard, pending tbe investi¬ gation."
" Frances—-"
" Now don't you preach, Alice. When I will a tbing, I will / I am Uke my lady moth¬ er for that. Lady Sarah says she scratched her initials inside the bracelet, and I sball demand to see it, if those Livingstones refase, I'll put the detectives on the scent. I will— as sure as my name is Francis Chenevix."
" And if the investigation should bring the guilt home to—to—Gerard !" whispered Alice in a bollow tone.
" And if it sbould bring it bome to you 1 ahd if it sbould bring it home to me 1" spoke the exasperated Frauces. "For shame, Al¬ ice ; it cannot bring it home to Gerard, for he was never guilty."
Alice Seaton sighed ; she saw there waa no help for it ; for she knew that Lady Francea was resolute. " I have a deeper atake in this than you," sbe said, after a pause of consid¬ eration ; " let me go with yon to the Livings¬ tones. You must not refuse me, I have an earnest motive for wishing it."
" Yon, you weak mite of a thing! you would faint away before you got half through tbe interview," uttered Lady Frances in a tone between jest aud vexation.
Alice persisted. She had indeed a power¬ ful reasou for urging it, and Lady Frauces al¬ lowed the point, though with ranch grum¬ bling. The carriage was still at the door, for Lady Frances had desired that it sbould wait, and Alioe hastily dressed herself aud went down to it, witbout speaking to Lady Sarab. Tbe footman was closing the door upon her, when out flew Frauces. ^
*'Alice, I bave made up my mind to go with yoa, for I canuot guard my patience uu¬ til you are back again, I can sit in the car¬ riage while you go in. Lviy Livingstone will be two feet higher from to day—that tbe world should have been amazed with tbe spectacle of Lady Frances Chenevix waiting humbly at ber door."
Frances talked incessantly on the road, but Alice was silent; sbe was deliberating wbat she should say, and was nerving herself to the task. Lady Livingstone was at home, and Alice, sending in her card, waa conducted to her presence, leaving Lady Frances in the carriage.
Lady Frances bad tbua described her: a woman as tbin as a whipping post, with a red nose ; and Alice found Lady Livingstone an¬ awer to it very well well. Sir Jasper, who was also present, was mnch older tban his wife, and short and tbick; a good-natured looking mau, with a bald head.
Alice, refined aud sensitive, scarcely knew how she opened her subject, but she was met in a different manner from wbat sbe had ex¬ pected. Tbe knight aud his wife were really worthy people, as Mrs. Cadogan had said, on¬ ly she bad a mania forgetting into "high life and high-lived company," a thiug sbe would never accomplish. They listened to Alice's tale with courtesy, and at length with interest.
" You will readily conceive the nightmare this has been to me," panted Alice, for her emotion was great. *' The bracelet was under my charge, and it disappeared iu tbia ex¬ traordinary way. All the tronble that it has been productive of to me, I am not at liberty to tell you, but it has certainly shortened my life."
"You look very ill,"ob3erved Lady Living- atone, with sympathy.
" I am worse than I look. I am going into the grave rapidly. Others, lesa sensitive, or with stronger bodily health, might have bat-
tied Buooeaafnlly with the distress and annoy¬ ance ; I eoQld . not. I aball die in greater peace if this unhappy affair oan be cleared.— Sbould it prove to be the same bracelet, we may be able to trace ont how it was lost."
Lady Livingstone left tberoom and retarned witb the diamond 1 raoelet. She beld it ont to Miss Seaton, and the oolor rushed into Alice's poor wau faoe at the gleam of the dia¬ monds ; she believed she  recognized  them.
"But stay," she said, drawing baok her hand as she was about to touch it; "do not give it me just yet. If it be the oue we lost, the letters S. E. are scratched irregularly on the back of tbe middle claap, Perhapa you will flrst look if they are tbere, Lady Living¬ stone."
Lady Livingstone tarned the bracelet, glan¬ ced at the spot indicated, and then silently bauded it to Sir Jasper.   The latter smiled.
" Sure enongh,'^here'3 something—^I can't see distinctly without my glasses. What ia it, Lady Livingstone ?"
"The letters S. H., as Miss Seaton de¬ scribes: I caunot deny it."
" Deny it I No, my lady; what for should we deny it ? If we are in possession of an¬ other's bracelet, lost by fraud, aud if the dis¬ covery will set this yonng lady's mind at ease, I don't think either you or I shall be tbe oue to deny it. Examine it for yourself, ma'am," added ho, giving it to Alice.
Sbe tarned it about, she pnt it on her arm, her eyes lighting with the eagerness of con¬ viction. " It ia certainly the aame bracelet," abe affirmed : " I could be sure of it, I think, without proof, but Lady Sarah's initials are there, aa she describes to have scratched them."
" It ia not beyond the rauge of poasibility tbat initials may bave beeu scratched on this bracelet, witbout ita being the same," observ¬ ed Lady Livingstone.
"I tbink it must be the same," mnsed Sir Jasper.    "It looks suspicioua."
¦"Lady Frances Chenevix understood you to say you boaght this of Messrs. Garrard," resumed Miss Seaton.
Lady Livingstone felt rather foolish.— " Wbat I said was, that Messrs. Garrard were my jewellera. The fact is, I do not know ex¬ actly where this was bonght; but I did not feel myself called upon to proclaim that fact to a young lady wbo was a stranger to me, and in auswer to questions I thought verging on impertinence."
" Her anxiety, scarcely less tban my own, may have rendered her abrupt," replied Alice, by way of apology for Lady Frances. " Oar hope is not so much to regain the bracelet, aa to penetrate the myatery of its disappearance. Can you not let me know wbere yoa did buy it ?"
"I can," interposed Sir Jasper; "there's no disgrace iu having bongbt it where I did. I got it at a pawnbroker's
Alice's beart beat violently. A pawnbro¬ kers [ what dreaded discovery waa at hand 7
" I was one day at the east eud of Loudon; walking past, wben I saw a topas and amethyst cross in a pawnbroker's window. I thougbt it would be a pretty ornament for ray wife, and asked to look at it. In talking about jewelry with tbe master, he reached out tbis diamond bracelet, and told me that would be a present worth making. Now I kuew my lady's head had beeu running ou a diamond bracelet, and I was tempted to ask what was the lowest figure be would put it at. He said it was tbe most valaable artiole of the sort he had bad for a loog while, the diamonds of the first water, worth four hundred guineas of anybody's mouey, but that being second¬ hand he could part witb it for two huudred and fifty. And I bougbt it. There's where I got tbe bracelet, ma'am,"
"That was just tbe monoy Colonel Hope gave for it new, at Garrards'," said Alice.— Two bandrnd and fifty guineas."
Sir Jasper stared at ber ; aud theu broke forth witb a comical attempt at rage, for be was one of the best tempered meu in tbe world.
" The old wretch of a Jew ! Sold it to me at second-band price, as be called it, for the identical sum it eost uew 1 -Why, be ought to be prosecuted for usury."
"It is just wbat I tell you. Sir Jasper," grumbled bis lady ; "you will go to these low, second-hand dealers, who always cheat where they can, instead of to aregnlarjeweller; and nine times out often you get taken in."
" But yonr having bonght It of tbis pawn¬ broker does not bring me any nearer the knowing how he procured it," ohserved Miss Seaton.
" I shall go to him this very day and ascer¬ taiu," returued Sir Jasper. "Tradespeople may not sell stolen goods with impunity."
Easier said than done. The dealer pro¬ tested his ignorance and innoceuce, and de¬ clared behad bongbt it. in the regular oourse of buainess, at one of tbe pawnbrokers' peri¬ odical sales. Aud the mau spoke truth, and the detectives were again applied to.
CHAPTER V. ' In au obscure room of a low aud dilapidated lodging-house, in alon aud dilapidated neigh¬ borhood, there sat a man one eveuing iu the coming twilight; a towering, gaunt skeleton, whose remarkably long arms aud legs looked little less than skin and bone. The arms were fully exposed lo view, siuce tbe owner, though he wore a walttcoat, dispensed with the use nf a shirt. An article, once a coat, lay on tbe floor, to be douued at will—if it could be got into for the holes. Tbe man Bat on tbe fioor in a corner, bia head fiuding a resting-place against the wail, and he had dropped into a slight sleep, but if ever fam¬ ine was depicted in a face, it was in his.— Unwashed, unshaven, with matted hair and feverish lips; the cheeks were bollow, tbe nostrils wbile and pinched, and the skin round the mouth had a blue tinge. Some one tried and shook the door; it aroused him, and he started np,bat only to cower in a bending attitude and listen.
" I hear you," cried the voice. " How are yon to-night, Joe ?   Open tbe door."
The voice was not one be knef('; not one that might be responded to.
" Do you call this politeness, Joe Nicholls? If you don't opeu the door, I shall take the liberty of opening it for myself ; whicb will put you to tbe troable of meudiug the fastenings afterwards."
" Who are you ?" cried NicboUs, reading determination in tbe voice. " I'm gone to bed, and I cau't admit folks to-night."
" Gone to bed at eigbt o'clock ?"
"Yes—I'm ill."
"I give yon one minute, and then I come in. Yoa will open it if you wish to save trouble."
Nicbolla yielded to hia fate, and opened the door.
The gentleman—be looked like oue—caat bis keen eyes round the room. Tbere was not a vestige of furniture in it; nothing but tbe bare, dirty walls, from which the mortar crumbled, and the bare, dirty boards.
" What did you mean by saying you were gone to bed, eh ?"
" So I was, I was asleep tbere," pointing to the corner, " and that's nay bed. Wbat do yon want ?" added Nicholls, peering at tbe atranger's face in tbe gloom of the eve¬ ning, but aeeing it imperfectly, for hia hat waa drawn low over it.
" A little talk with you. Tbe last sweep¬ stake you put into "
The man lifted bis face, and burst forth with such eagerness, tbat tbe stranger could only arreat his own words and liaten.
"ft waa a swindle from beginning to end. I had scraped together the ten ahillinga to put in il: aud I drew the right horse, and was shuffled out of the gains, aud I have uever bad my dues, not a farthing of 'em.- Since then I've been ill, and I oan't get about to better myself. Are you come, sir, to make it right ?"
" Some "—the stranger conghed—*' friends of mine were in it also," said he; " and they lost their money."
"Everybody lost it; the getters-np bolted with all thfly had drawn into their fingers.— Have tbey been took, do yon know ?"
" AU in good time; they have left their trail.    So yoq have been ill, have you ?"
"Illl Just lake a sight at mel There's a arm for a big man." ¦
Ue stretched oat bis naked arm for iimpeo- tion : it appeared as if a touch would snap it. Tbe stranger laid his hand upnnits fingers* and his other hand appeared to be stealing furtively towards bia own pocket. " I should aay tbia looka like starvation, Joe." " Some'at nigh akin to it." A pause of unsnspioion, and tbe handcnfis were clapped on ihe astonished man. He atarted up with an oath.
" No need to make a noise, Nicbolla," aaid the detective, with a careless air. "Ihave got two men waiting outaide."
"I awear I waan't in the plate robbery," passionately uttered the man. "I knew of it, but I didn't joiu 'em, and I never had the worth of aa mnch aa a salt apoon, after it was melted down. Aud tbey oall me a coward, and leave me here to starve and die 1 I awear I waan't iu it."
"We'll talk of tbe plate robbery another time," aaid the officer, as he raised his hat; "you have got those bracelets on, my man, for another sortof bracelet. A diamond one. Don't you remember me ?"
The prisoner's mouth Ml. " I thougbt that was over and done with all this time—I don't know what you mean," be added; cor¬ recting himself.
" No," aaid the officer, " it's just beginning. Tbe bracelet is foand, and bas been traced to yon. You were a clever fellow, and I bad my doubts of yos^cSJt the time: I thought you were too clever to go on long."
"I should be ashamed to play tbe sneak and catoh a fellowin tbia way. Wby couldn't yon come openly, iu yonr proper clothes ? not come playing the spy iuthe garb ofa friendly civilian!"
" My men are in tbeir 'proper clothes," retnrned the equable officer, "and you will have the honor of their escort presently. I came, because tbty did not know yon, and I did."
" Three officers to take a aingle man, and he a skeleton!" uttered Nicholls, with a vast sbow of indignation.
" Ay; but you were powerfal once, and ferocious too. The skeleton aspect ia a re¬ ceut one."
" And all for notbing. I don't know any¬ thing about auy bracelet."
" Don't trouble youraelf with inventiona,
Nicbolla.   Your friend ia aafe in our bands,
and bas madea full confession."
"What friend ?" asked Nicholls, too eagerly.
" The lady yon got to dispoae of it for you
to tbe Jew."
Nicholls was ^artled to iucaution. She hasn't split, has she ?"
" Every particalar she knew or gueased at. Split to save herself."
" Then there's no faith iu woman." "There never was yet," returneil tbe officer. " If tbey are not at the top and bottom of e7ery mischief, Joe, they are sure to be in the middle. Is this your coat ?" touching it gin¬ gerly.
" She's a disgrace to tbe female see, she ia," raved NicboUs, disregarding the question as to bis coat. " But it's a relief, now I'm took, it's a weigbt off my mind ;I was always a expecting of it, and I shall get food in the Old Bailey, at any rate."
" Ah," said the officer, " you were in good service^as a respectable servant; you bad better bave stuck to your duties."
" The temptation waa ao great," observed the man, who bad evidently abandoned all idea of denial; and now tbat he bad done so, was ready to be voluble with remembrances and particulars.
" Don't say anything to me," said the officer. " It will be naed against yon."
" It came all along of my long legs," cried NicboUs, Ignoring tbe friendly injunction, aud proceeding to enlarge on the feat he h^d per¬ formed. "I bave never bad a bappy hour since ; I was second footman there, and a good place I bad; and I bave wished, thousands of times, that tbe bracelet had beeu in a sea of molten fire. Ottr folks had tock a honiie inthe neighborbood of Ascot for the race week, aud they had left me at home to take caro of the k-itcbeo-maid and anotber inferior or two, taking the rest of the servants witb them. I had to clean the windows afore they retarned, and I had drov it off till the Thurs¬ day evening, aud out I got on the balqueny,
to begin with tbe back drawing-room "
" What do you say you got out on ?" " The balqueny. The thing with tbe green rails round it, what encloses the winders,— While I was a leaning over the rails afore I begun, I beerd something lik- click—click, agoing on in tbe fellow room al the next door, which was Colonel's Hope's. It waa like as if somethiug light was being laid on a table, aud presently I heered two voices begiu to talk, a l?,dy's and a gentleman's, and I
listened "
"No good ever comes of listening, Joe," interrupted tbe officer.
"I didn't listen for tbe sake of listening, bat it was awful hot, a standing outside tbere in the sun, and listening was better tlian working. I didu't want to hear, neither, for I was thinking of my own conceras, and what a fool I was to bave idled away my time all day till the snn came on to theback winders. Bi by bit, I heered what they were talking of —that it was jewels they bad got tbere, and that one was worth two hundred guineaa. Thinka I, if tbat waa mine I'd do no more work. After awhile I heered them go out of their room, and I thonght I'd have a look at the rich things, and I stepped over alanting- ways on to the Uttle ledge rnnning along the houses, bolding on by our balqueny, and then I passed my hands along the wall till I got hold of tbeir balqueny—but oue witb ordiuary- legs aud arms couldn't have done it.   You couldn't, sir."
" Perhaps not," remarked the officer. " Tbere wasn't far to fall, If I had fell, only onto the kitcben leads under ; but I dida'ti fall, and I raised myself on to their balqueny and looked in. My 1 what a sbow it was I stnuning jewels, all laid ont tbere ; so close that if I had put my hand inside it muat have struck all among 'em ; and the fiend prompted me to take one. I didn't stop to look; I didn't stop to think ; the one that twinkled tbe brightest aud had the most atones iu it waa the nearest to me, and I clutched it and alipped it into my footman's undress jacket, and stepped back again."
" And got aafe into your balcony?" " Yea; but I didn't clean the winder that nigbt. I waa upset, like, by what I had done, and I tbink if I could have put it back I should; but there waa no opportunity. I wrapped it np in my winder I eatber, and tben iu a sheet of paper, and then I pnt it up the chirobley iu on of the spare bedrooms. I waa up the next moruiug afore five, and I cleaued my windows: I'd no trouble to awake myself, ^or I had never slept. The same day, towards evening, yon called, air, and asked me some questions—whether we had aeen any one ou the leads at tbe baok, and such like. I said aa master was just come home from Ascot, would you be pleased to apeak to bim." "Ahl" again remarked the officer, "you
"Oatba are plentiful jwith the genus," re¬ marked the detective.
" She stood to it ahe hadn't, aud ahe stop¬ ped and helped me to spend It. . After that was done, she went over to stop with some¬ body else, who waa in luck; and I hava tried to go on, and I oan't; honestly or diahooestly, it seems all one, nothing prospers, and I'm naked and famishing—and I wish I was dy¬ ing."
" Evil conraea never do prosper, NiohoUs,'* said the officer, aa he called the policemen to their care.
So Gerard Hope was innocent.
" Bnt bow was it you skillful detectives could not be on tbia man's scent ?" aaked Colonel Hopa of tbe officer, when he heard the tale.
"Colonel, I was thrown off it. Your posi¬ tive belief in your nephew's guUt infected me, and appearances were very atrong against bim. Mias Seaton alao helped to throw me off; she said, if you remember, tbat she did not leave the room; but it now appears that ahe did leave it when your nephew did, tbo* ouly for a few minutes, Thoae few moments aufficed to do the job."
"It is strange she could not tell the exact truth," growled the Colonel.
"Sbe probably thought she was exact enough, since she only remaiued outside tbe door, and coald answer for it that no one en¬ tered by it. She forgot the window. I thought of the window the instant the loss waa men¬ tioned to me, but Miss Seatou's assertion that she never bad the wiudow out of lier view prevented my dwelling on it, I did go to tbe next door, and saw this very fellow wbo had committed tbe robbery, but bis mauner Wiis sufficiently satisfactory. He talked too free¬ ly ; I did not like that; but I found he bad beeu in the same service fifteen months; and, as I must repeat, I laid tbe guilt to another."
" It is a confoundedly unpleasant affair for me," cried tbe colonel; " I bave published my nephews disgrace and guilt all over Lou-
" Iu a manner, yes," he laughed, " Do yoa know what did drive me?"
She bad known it at the time ; and Gerard read it in her oonoious face.
" I see it all," be murmured, drawing her olorier to him; "yoa have been far kinder to m*t Ibao I d*'(iprv*fd. Fanny, let me try and n-pa    /ou f.ir it."
Fi.±ncrs endf.avored to look dignified, but it wnaM not ilo, an 1 ube was obliged to brush away the tears of happiness that sLruggled tn ber eyes. Alice caaght her bands togMth- er and beld them between her own, with a mantal aspiration for their lifo'a fature hap¬ piness. Soma time back she could not bave breathed in ao fervent a spirit; but—a.^i dbe said—tbe present world aud ita hopes had olosed to her..
" But you knew, Gerard," cried Lady Fran¬ ces, iu a saucy tone, "if you do help yourself to a bracelet in reality, you must not expect me to go to prison with you."
"Yes I sball," answerde he, more saucily; "a wife must follow the fortunes ofher hua¬ band."     ¦•"-'
THRILLING INCIDENT.
MIDNIGHT   ADVESTDHE OF A  BRIPB   ELECT—EX- TEAORDIXART   BEVEL.
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I. NEWTON PEIECE, Editor,
To wliDin uU cominuuicationa intended fur this dc- pa-rtmcnt may he nddrcssad.
don."
" It is mora unpieasaut for him, colouel," was the rejoinder of the officer,
"Audi have kept him sbort of money and suffered him to be sued for debt; and I bave let him go and live amongst tbe runaway scamps over the water, aud not hindered his engaging himself as a merchant's clerk; and iu short, I bave played up tbe very deuce with bim."
" But reparation is doubtless in your own beart and hands, colouel."
" I don't know that, sir," testily ooncluded, the colonel.
CHAPTER VI. Once more Gerard Hope entered his ancle's bouse ; not as an interloper, stealing into it in secret, but as an honored guest, to whom reparation was due, and must be made.— Alice Seaton leaued back in ber invalid cbair, a joyous flush on her wasted cheek, aud a joyous happiness in her eye. Still the shadow of coming death was there, aud Mr. Hope was shocked to see her—more shocked aud startled tban he bad expected, or chose to express.
" Oh, Alice 1 what bas done this ?"
"Tbat," she answered, pointing to the bracelet, wbicb, returned to its true owner, lay on the table. " I should not have lived mauy yeara; of that I am convinced; but I might have lived a little longer than I now shall. It haa been the canse of misery to mauy, aud Lady Sarab says sbe sball never regard it but as an ill-starred trinket, or wear it with any pleasure."
" Bnt, AUce, why should yon have saffered it thus to affect you ?" be remonstrated.— " You knew your own innocence, and you say you believed and trusted in miue; what did you fear ?"
"Iwill tell you, Gerard," sbe resumed, a deeper hectic rising to her cheek. "I could not bave confessed my fear, eveu iu dying; it was too distressing, too terrible ; but now that it is all clear, I will teU it. I believed my sister had taken the bracelet."
He uttered an exclamation  of amazement.
" I have believed it all along. She bad called to sea me that night; and was, for a minute or two, in the room alone with the bracelets: I knew she, at that time, was sbort of mouey, and I feared she had beeu tempted to take it—^just as this unfortunate servant man was tempted. Oh", Gerard, tbe dread of it bas been upon me nigbt aud day, preying upon my fears, weighing dowu my spirits, wearing away my health and life. And I bad to bear it all In sileuce—it is that dreadful silence which has killed rae."
"Alice, this must have been a morbid
"Not so—if you knew all. Bnt now; tbat I have told you, let us not revert to it again ; it is at an end,; and I am;very thankful.—^ That it should so end, has been my prayer and hope; not quite, the: only hope," she added, looking np at Jitm with a enniiy smile; "Ihave had another."
" Wbat is it ? You look aa if it were oou¬ neoted witb me."
" So it is. Ah, Gerard ! can yoa not guess it?"
"No," he answered, ina stifled voice, "I can only guess that yon are lost to me."
"Lost to all bere. Have you forgotten our brief conversation the night yon went into exile? I told you then there was one far more worthy ofyon than I could bave ever been."
"None will ever be balf so wortby; or I will say it, Alice, in -spite of your warning band—half so loved,"
"Gerard," she contiuued,sinking ber voice, '•she has waited for you."     ^
"Nonsense," he rejoined.
"She bas. I have watched, and seen, and I kuow it; and I tell, it you under secrecry; wben she is your wife, not before, you may tell ber that I saw it and aaid It. She is a lovable aud attractive girl, aud she does not and will not marry: you are the cause."
"My darling " -^
"Stay, Gerard," sbe gravely interrupted;" "tbo^e words of endearment are not for me.' Give them to her; can yon deny that yoa love her?"
"Perhaps I do—iu a degree.   Next to yonr-
SHlf "
"Put me out of yoar thoughts  while  we
speak.    If I were where I soon shall be,
would she not be dearer to you thau auy one on earth? would you not be  well pleased to make her your wife?" "Yes, I mightbe."
"That is enougb, Gerard. Frances, come hither."
The conversation had been carried on iu a whisper, and Lady Frances Chenevix came towarda them from a distant window. Alice took her hand; sbe also held Gerad's.
"I thontht yon were talkieg secrets," said Lady Frances, "so kept away."
"As we were," answered AUce. "Francea, what cau we do to keep bim amongst ua?— Do yon know wbat Colonel Hope has told him?"
"No.    Wbat?"
"That thoagh be aball be reinatated in favor as to money mattera, he shall not be in bis affection or iu the house, anless be provea aorry for his rebellion by retracting it. Tbe rebellion, you know, at tbe first outbreak, wben Gerard was expelled from the house— before that unlucky bracelet was ever boaght. were a clever fellow tbat day. But if my j I think he is sorry forit; you mnst help him suspicions bad not baen atrongly directed ; to be more so."
to another quarter, I might have looked yoa "Fanny," said Gerard, while her eyelids up more sharply." ; drooped, and the damask mantled in her
" I kep' it by me for a mouth or two, and   cheek, deeper thau AUoe's hectic, " will yoa tben I gave warning to leave.    I thought I'd   help me ?"
have my fling, aud I became acquainted with ' " Aa if I conld make out bead or taU of her—that lady—and somehow abe wormed ; what you two are diRcuasing 1" cried sbe, by out of me that I bad got it, aud I let ber dis-   way of helping herself out of her confusion,
as she attempted to turn away ; but Gerard caught her to his aide and detained her.
" Fanny—will yoa drive me again from the house ?"
She Ufted her eyea, twinkling witb a Uttle
Women often present preaence of mind andthe power of self-control, under circum¬ stances of imminent peril, whioh seem almost foreign to their nature and beyond tbe endu raoceof a delicate physical organization. A atrtking instance of self command, by a lady who.se fears must have been powerfully exci¬ ted, and whose life of aifl-uence had probably never before given hernorvesany SHverertest thau is incident to the vexations of domestic cares, is giveu iu Chambers'Journal for Octo¬ ber., We copy tbe adventure, promising by way of explanation tbat the lady was tbe daughter of a rector, residing lu a quiet Eug¬ lish Couutry viUage, and was upou the ove of marriage:
The wedding was to be on the morrow of that on whioh our adventure happened.— Grand preparations were made for the wed¬ diug ; and the rector's flne old plate and the costly gifts of the bride, were dlacnssed with pride and pleasure, at the Hare and Hounds, ill the presence of some strangers who had come down to a prize fight, wbich had taken place in tbe neighborhood.
That night, Adelaide, who occupied a sep¬ arate room from her sister, sat up late—long after all the bonsehold had retired to rest.— She had a long interview with her father, and bad been reading a chapter to which be bad directed her attention, and had packed up her jewels, &c. Sh'e was, conseqnently, still dres¬ aed wben the church clock tolled midnight. As it ceased ahe fancied ahe beard a noise Uke tbat of a file; sbe listened, but could dis¬ tinguish nothing clearly. It might bave beeu made by one of tbe servants still about, or perhaps it was only tbe creaking of the old trees. She heard notbing bat the sighing of winter winds for many miuutes afterwards. House-breakers were mere myths in primi¬ tive Tbycdon ;Hud the bride elect, without a thought of fear, resumftd her occitpation.— She was gazingonaglitteringsetof diatuonds, destined to be worn at the wedding, when her bed-room door softly opened. Sho turued, looked np, aud beheld a mau with a black mask, holding a pistol in his hand, standing before her.
Sbe did not scream, for ber thought was for her father, who slept in the next room, any sadden alarm might \je death, for he was old, feeble, and suffering from Uver c'omplaiut. She coofroutedtbe robber boldly, and addres¬ sed him iu a whisper:—"Yon are come," said she, "to rob us. Spare your soul the awful guilt of murder My father sleeps next to my room ; aud to be startled from his sleep would kill him. Make no noise I beg ofyon." The fellow was astonished and cowed. " We wont make auy noise," he repUed suddenly, '¦' if you give tis evervthing quiet¬ ly."
Adelaide drew back and let him take ber jewels—not without a pang, for they were precious love gifts, remarking at tbe same time that two more masked ruffians stood at the half-opened door. As he took the jewel case aud watch from the table^'and demanded her purse, sbe asked him if he intended to go into her father's room. She received a snr- ly affirmative: " he wasn't agoiug to ran all the risk and leave half the tin behind?" She proposed instantly tbat she shoald go herself, sayiug: "I will bring yott whatever you wish, and you may guard me thither, and kill me if I play false to you." The fellow consulted his comrades, and after a short parley they agreed to the proposal; and witb a pistol poin¬ ted at ber bead, the dauntless girl crossed the pa.'^sage and eutered tbe old rector's room.— Very gently she stole acro.qs the chamber, and removing his purse, wateb,keysanddesk, she gave tbem up to the robber.^ who stool at tbe door. Tbe old man slept peacefully and calmly, thus guarded by his child wbo soft¬ ly shut tbe door, and demanded if tbn robbers were yet satisfied.
The leaderreplied that they sboald be when they had got the show of tbe plate spread out below, aud that they could'nt let her out o^ sight, and tbat sbe must go witb them. Iu compliance with tbe mandate sbe followed tbem down stairs to tbe dining-room, where a splendid wedding-breakfast had been laid to save hurry aud trouble on the morrow.— To her surprise, the fellows—eight in num¬ ber were assembled—seated tbemselves and prepared to make a good meal. They order- dered ber to get the wine, aud cut up her own weilding cake for thetu ; and then, seated at the head of the table, she was compelled to preside at this extiaordlnary revel.
Tfaey ate, drank, laughed aud joked; and Adelaide, quick of ear and eye, bad tbus time to atudy, in her qniet way, the figures and voices oftbe whole set.
When tbe repast was eudt-d and tbe plate was transferred to the sack, they prepared to depart, wbi3per.=ing togetber and glancini; at the youug lady. For the firsttimo Adelaide's courage gave way, aud abe Ifiubled ; but it was uot a consultation agaiust her, as it proved. The leader approached her, told her 'hat they did not wish to harm her—tbat sho was a '•jolly wench,reg'Iar game,"and they would'ut hurt her, bnt she must swear uot to give the alarm till nine or ten o'clock tbe nest day, when they ahould be offall safe. To ibis, of course, sbe waa obliged to aasent, and then they all insisted on shaking handa with her. Sfae noticed during this ceremouy, that one of tbe ruffiaus had only three fingers on the left hand.
Alone, andin the despoiled room, Adelaide faint and exbausted, awaited tbe first gleam of daylight, tben, aa the robbers did not re¬ turn, she stole up into ber room, undressed and fell into a disturbed slumber. The con- steraation of the family next morniug may be imagined; and Adelaide's story \vas slill more astonishing than the fact of the rob¬ bery itsell. Police were sent from London, and they, gaided by Adelaide's lucid descrip¬ tiou ofher miduighl guests, actually succee¬ ded iu capturing every one of the gang, wben the yoang lady bad no difficulty iu Mentify- ing and swearing to the " tbree-fiugered Jack," buing the guiding clue ofthediscovery. The stolen propery was nearly all recovered, aud the old rector always declared—aud with truth—that he owed bis life to tfae self posses¬ sion and judgmeut of Bis eldest daughter.
Tfae only ill effect of tbe great trial to her nerves, was a dispoaitlou on tfae part of tfae young heroine, to listen to midigfat soands, and start uneasily from troubled dreams, but time aud ofaange of residence soon effected Its cure.
. COriginaL]
Iiancaster Counjty Superintendent.
AU^r the publication of tbe Education col. aran in laiit week's paper, we received the in- telUgeiM-e of the appointment of Mr. David Ev'aus, as tfae Superintendent for Lancaster county, to fill out the unexpired term of Rev. John S. Crumbaugh, deceased. Judging of the characterof this new Soperintendent by the past, tho Teachers of onr couuty may con¬ sider tbis a very happy appoiutment. For our own part we rejoice in it. From what we cau leara, we believe bim to be a man of urin- ciple; affable bnt firm. The teachers may ex¬ pect rigid justice at his bands, as far as his experience will extend.
The task of a County Superintendent is a very difficult oue and many of its most impor- tautduties quite onerous aud unpleasant. We are aware tfaat mauy teachers througfaoat tbe county, and our own city is uot exempt from it, are very apt to throw Uio blame all npon tbe County Superintendent, if tbey do not get as good certificates as they had been deslrviug.
We sincerely hope that in our next sum¬ mer's examiuaUon of teacher.-), the teachers of oar city as well as the coauty will make proper allowance forthe first year'a acquaintance of our uew Saperiuteudent, remembering that he faas uot faad tfae opportanity of being familiar witfa their examinations of years past.
Remembering tfais will mako tfae task easier ou both sides, and mucfa more pleasant. If teacfaers do not come up to their expectation?, tfae fault may be tfaeirs not his. We are sat¬ isfied that teacfaers have nothing to fear from faim bat much to fear from tbemselves. Let us busily prepare ourselves for the future aud all will be right; neglect this, and the conae" queucBS must be npou our own heads. We wisb the best success to Mr. Evans in tbe dia¬ charge ofhis new and arduous duties.
broken, unoleanable floor; rude, comfortless ill-arranged benches; ceiling black and walls dilapidated ; a broken down stovo la tbe cen¬ ter, reposing on an arrangement of brick-bats; and no provision actual or posdib'e, for venti¬ lation, for separating the individuals of the jostling crowd, for keeping mad, rain and snow off tho door, or for a dozen other necessities contioually felt in a school-room ;—the^a are among the positive evils u.iaally crowded togeiber in our country sohool-hooses, to make tfaem cost tfao amallest possible tax in the be¬ ginning, and the largest in the long run, wbile yielding tbe very least good and the most evil, whichthe expenditure of a given sum iu educatiou can bo so contrived as to realize.
Much faas beeu printed, spokeu and circula¬ ted in every acbool-district of onr land in be¬ half of a reformation in these mattera ' but as
yet, on the general scale, with  littto  eff-ct	
The very shanty in whichthe pKitriarohs'of the district passed their cbeerl^ss boyhood still is good enough for tlieir grandchildren, or If actually fallen dowu with decay, ia replaced by anotber very much like it. Iu village dis¬ tricts, perchance, an ampler structure, with cupola and bell, and aome easy improvements may bo found; but eveu here, taate, beauty' and all that ia attractive or refining, .=eem ata- diously ignored, and everything is done tliat neglect aud par.-iimony cau do, to make the village manners and the village edncation con- tempUblo in tfae sight ofthe infaabitanta tbrtm- selvea, and a thing to be inconUnently run away from, as sooa as freedom aud capacity to run ean ba attained.
 Scrivening and Conveyaneine.
npil E UNBK USIGNE D rcipeetfaUyan-
_|_ aoanco. to Ihe pobllc thai ho Um uk.,D llie offlea hiwiy "cciipledbyJ..t,DA.mp..,Uua,£.., .w|,.,rBl.«Wili bB [.lea-«j i„ irnwact hII tmhiae-n cuuecte.-l wiib tbe
p" omc^ ?"• '-"^ *^""'' "lilt" ^tr„-l. Un<:*Ht-r, Pa. feblS.ly-ia c. K. 11AVB4. OUy Kegulatar^
DXTKEOFNOaMANDT.
"VTOTlOl'^ to I'Wmur.s and JirooJera of
jLI I.»nM:*tr couQly. the above KORMaN <*I IJll-ORTEO.-^TALLlO.N.will ».fiind f-r ^ei vice/«C> Hgaiu ibiB cuinluj! «eaBon, at tb« «t(ii>le o Hep--¦' '^- ry Bl in ken-^d wrier, ia tlia city of Lioca-MBr, wbere be rtnodlwoyHAMagy, from tht lir.-*i of April antll the lst Ihli'i^'^m J'" '^'¦"? **"' I'»rlicaI«rH .«» hand BUU f K  1^  l*'.^,'"''"'*''"'°»^'«»«-   SAMUEL HOLMAN.
feb. IC U-l::] Jacob mpi*.
A "Work for our Lancaster Connty Teacher's  Institute.
^ Our Teacfaer's Institutes have done much good, and for this we are thankful. But its work is not yet doue. The Schools of Lancas¬ ter county are not yet all redeeme*!. By the report of our county Superintendent, for lasi year we fiud we have ffty-one Scbools iu this coanty, that are taught witbout the scholars being classified or the blackboard used ! Now is not this a particular field of labor for our connty Institute ? Tbe teachers of these Schools, bave no doubt never attended an Institute. Theyshoaldbe broughtoutinsome way and induced to attend. Tfaose wfao can be iuduced to do so will perhaps learn to apply those means tfaat give otfaer teacfaers so mucfa advantage over tfaem. And ^se who will not attend, nor cbange tbeir ofaTOgle method, will have to be supplanted by better and more elficjeot teachers. " Let the matter be first laid before those teachers, by some frieuds, who may be acquainted with tbem, or perhaps by tbe County Superintendent; andif they wUl not take tbe friendly advice, and opeu their eyes, and see the light, then let tbem be warned, that their permanency in the teaching profession, will be uncertain. We can not aud must not bave such as teacfaers iu tfais county much longer.
We want live teacfaers, who wili labor for the best improvemeut of their pupils, not tbose wbo go through a dull routine, for tbe sole rea¬ son tbat it is tbe easiest way that they tan make a little money.
Money is the motive power of many opera¬ tions,—but it shoald not be tfaa end and aim of a teacher; aud is not to one wbo is true and faithful to his profession and feels the respon¬ sibility of bis calling.
T -Dissolution of Partaerstiip. IIK jpartuership heretofore existing', uader ih^oiiinflaod Urm of I'ErERS Jt SIETZGER iu tUH Saw Mill, Lumber «nd Co,l ba^ioe^ i« thi. day dUaolveJby maiail cmsani. The b^olc nccooatH aod trana&ctlona of the late Ann will be settled by either of the aflderblgned, re«idltig»t P^ter^i* Mill. lo C^De^.oiro towBfchip.   I J.G. PETKKS
  A. a. METZGER.
The undersigned will continue the business aud relurnii hi.s thank-i for the liberal patrooaze be.-'towed upon tbe 1ati> flrm. aod hop^^ by >iiricl atlenituu to boA. iaean lo TOftrit « ctfatinttance ofthe 6am<i.
J''ih':'l*^*:iHL... : ^J. 0. PETERS.
I       'FOB. BENT.     ¦
FOR reut from the first of April next, the DWELLISOandSTORkROOMln East JS—, Km/f Slmet, now lo the occupancy of Jobo P ffilJI ije)f III.    Eoqilro oa the premtneti o( M*m
Jan. a6.lf.9.]_ d^ McCOutT*
'FOB, RENT. ^pHR subscriber has for rent a LARGE
J_ SUOI'. satiable for a Carpenter. Cabinet or Coach- m*;cer Shop nr any olhRr nn^chHtical bBsioets W by 27 feol, well m up by thirteen windown, with eufflcleiit- yard room and .Shedding for iheaccommadaiioa oriora- Iier, kc, located i n the rear of the " Merrimack Honse " half a hfiuare from the Kailroad. jaulO-lf-S AMOS FU.VK.
Merctiantg and AU'
WHOLEf^ALE PURCHASERS! !
TtTE lllh  OF FEBKUARY. ST. VaLE.NTINB'S DAT
YAL1']NTX.V1':S Cheap at wholesule or on commission. The ntock of Cupid's Choicest Mimves on baud tl liie Cheap Bn-tk Siore i- wry Kelect ami amplylarge and cheap loenxble nil to be uccoiii- mitdalod on the iiM>^t reiHOuabl*' lerm.a. Now in the tlmn to provide yonr^elvei wiih Valeniines on reason¬ able terma al tbe Book Store of
,     „...,„ ^ JOH>-SHEiFFER.
Jan 2G-ir-9 Succeaaom to Mnrray. Youug k Co.
Are you Insured? f^^HE. LYCOMINO   CUUNTY  MU-
I TUAL FIKE INSDRANCE CO.. cftntlnoot to in- fiure Rtjalni^ lo-s or damage by Hre, properly located la tbe ciiy or county. Tbij company ia coudiict^J on pnrely mainal prindplea, and ba> been in «ucce^-fnl oprtraiioB over IS years, during which pari.'d It baa paid loM-es amounting lo nearly one million of dollars. No debt is permitted to accumnla'e against baid com¬ pany, every claim beinp promptly mm.
Applications for iusuraoce way ba madeto the aoder¬ signed Agi'nt for f<aiti company.
,     „    i HDGfl S. GAKl.
j tn S6.3in-9 Xo. ."il East Kmg Ht.Lane .tier.
Brown's Bronchial Troches,
FORthenlloviatioDofEKO.VCiHTIS, HOARSENESS. C0t;0I15.ASTII.«A. r.OI.O-' CK- TaRH and all dlsorderH oflhe Breath and Luags. 'prica 25cenl«.per hox     For nale at
JOH.V F. LOSO k CO.'S DRDO STORB jan^28-ir.!)   N'o. .1 North Que^n i^ire^t.
Problems.—Answers and Solutions,
SIathkmaticai, Problem 21.—"^hat num¬ ber is that, which If multiplied by a number eqnal to the sum of the digits of the mul- tiplieand minns 1, wiil produce a. product the sum of whose dij^its as well iis their continued product will equal the first mul¬ tiplier? MINNIE.
Solution OF Problksi 1o.~As no solution has bei'n seut iu for Problem 15 we ofler the following-:
Let A B C D be the rectangular field, tbe length, A B, 100 rods, and the widtb, A D, 50 rods. From A prolong A B indefi¬ nitely aud from A prolong A D indefinite- Jy. Near the point A, on the liue A.B, H.^ lhe point E as a centre, and with a radius 50 describe a circle. AVhere tbe circle intersects the extension of the line A B mark F and whore it intersects tlie line between A und B mark G; and where- the circle intersects tho exteiLsion of A I) mark I, and at the intersection between A anil D mark IT.
By the conditions of the question the area to be pastured over is 2500. By con¬ struction the semi circle has an area ot 392G.99. But A U II is to contain an area of 2.5U0; hence, F E a II F—A G II=F A 11=1426.0!); and 1420.99x2=285:11)3 =afoa of the segment F I A H, this gives a versed sine 39.185040-i-. 'I'lie distance from F to A, F E—F A=AK, or 50— 39.1S5040-i-=:10.814959, the distance from A to where the stake should be driven.
ED.
Solution to Problem 17.— Let x^pricc of first Horse. "   y=    "     " second *' and z=value " third     " «
Then x+30=(y-f-z)-;-3. y-f30=(3.\-HJz)-^o. z-f-30=(21x+2ly)H-19. By substitution  and elimination wo find x=TO, y=120 and z=180.   Hence, STO value of the Iirst horse,.S120 value of sec¬ ond horse, and $180 value of third horse. COCALICO.
Solution to Problem IS.—12 A, 2 R, 10 P=12.3. or 12.5G25 acres. 5 A, 3 R, 30 F .='"'iC' or 5.9375 acrea, and 12,",;—ol^^GJ acrea. Then 20x0j-=132.50, hence, §1,- 137.50—6132.50=SiU05H-12 ,''6=S80, amt. A paid an acre, and S80-j-20=§lOO, price B paid an acre. G^- acres is the amount of 1 ind B receti'ed, and 51^ acres is the amouut of land A received. COCALICO.
; BROAD TOP COAL. SEMI-BITUMINOUS.
HAVING been appuinted Agent for the fiale of tb»> abov* Coal, from the ce'lehra'ed Ciok Velu, lhe beht vein in the Broad Top re«i.m. I am pre¬ pared lo Kiipply it to dealers in any qii.iDiillfj«. at the very lowest ratef. For hlackntnilh'rf piirpo-K^ it 14 im- snrpa=sodJ All orders Kiidr.»»<ed l.» mt ivill receive prompt atlenlion, JACOB L. SaKE'C Ag«nt
fob9 3-.-ll . L^ucaiier. Pa.
steam: engine por sale,
AFOUR-IIOUSK ENGINK in run oSdk order, fnr sale cbeap. Euqnire at lhe Ex.iil- i»ER AND Herald OQlco. Jan-l-tf-ti
PURS! ETTRS!! PTTRS!!! "WANTED.
ALL kinds of Shipping Furs, such as Minlc. Fox, Coin, Op-H^-nm. afosk-Rat?, Bears Ftnhero, Olteri, Ac. ke., by ibe undersigncj. who will pay the higbeat cash prices.
Pernoaa liaviug furi of thi!«de-:criptiaii ly dii^ro'^ 'if will find it to th ir advantace to call ou the ^^hF-c^tber. H.C. llESIUrH, feb2^*m-10 Xo Sl Eist Kin.e St., LaocaMer
pose of it for me, for she said she kuew how to do it without dauger."
" What did yon get for it ?"
Tbe skeleton shook his head.    "Thirty- foar pouud, aud I had counted on a handred
and flfty.   She took oath ahv had not helped   aploe of migohlef; " I did aot drive you be- henelf to a lispenee." fote "
1^" A Bachelor, writing from the interior of California, says that although young womeu from the Atlaatic side of the coutiueut often arrived unmarried on the California coast, they never get iu that condition to the inte¬ rior.   He aaya that, llhe misfortanes, they
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
J. B. E.—^Your solutions are correct, but our space compels us to select tbose solutions that are the shortest. "We thauk you for your favor.
, E. of Drumore,—We feel indebted to you for tbe iuterest you have takeu in our depart¬ ment of tbe paper aud by your kindly aid much may be added to interest aud instruct. If solutiou 15 is not satisfactory please let us know.
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SHAWLS!   SHAWLS!! \II.\'1-;ST0(JK'S SHAW). STORK
w tille'l wild evTT il^»cripti.>n cf
FALL  AND   WJNTLR  SUAWLS.
P.?r-<oiit lo ^earcIl of a MlAWl, of any de'-cilption would do well to vi.iii oor ptore bttforti iiurRhii<-iD>; el>-o- where, aii th«y have the lanic-i -tfcti to pclccl from.
Lod;; nr»che SliawlH. $til lo $:iri.0U.
Lnui; BlaDkel "^htwU. ent nud plain.
LouK Hl^cti ThihK .ShiwI-i
i'iaiu Black und B-)rder«d Wool Sliawld.
Wool Shawls for ^'chool Girl-*.
Heavr Black Silk Shawli
Stella, Ca-hmere and Clolh Shawls, with Plash, Brocheand Printed Border.
New Shawls receivei dailv, by which oor stock Is alwaya kept freiih and prtrnptele.
FAHNESTOCK'S CHEAP STORE.
Soalh-WitHt corner of N^irth Queen and Or.tni;e t-iTfutu Lancasier, Pa ocl 13-tf 43
' DOBiESTIC   WHISKEY.	
WE HAVE JUST llECKIVED A few BarreU of
P URE    OLD    WHISKEY,
made expecially for doinflotic npef and uitrdicinal por- pose.-4, which we now olTer for «ale by the Qnart and Onl ion.    1
AIiw, BOTTLED WHISKEY', mxieen year-* old—war¬ ranted pure. Whiskrty for common uses. PURE—ratiafC from .31 cenli* lo $3 0(1 per Kallon.
Brandies of every Grade and (Qualify. Maderia Wiue. Sherry Wine, Port Wine. I'ure Holland Gin, Jamaica SpirllD and Ll<tUor-> ot alt ktodi suited to the trade and for iiit*iliciD»l purpo-i^H. S3-None Imt fQch as are Pure and Unadulterated will he otrMr-d for -ale. C. KENEAGV* A CO.
j»n<*l« ly--:9
COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES.
Next iu power to the ties of an endeared and happy bome, is the inllueuce of pleasant school-days aud social delights, iu the seasou oflife whuu the craving for society aod pleas¬ ure is most intense. If it is auy ohject to a community, tbat its childreu grow up attached to their birthplace, ideutilled wilh it, and pre¬ pared to sustain and augment ils prosperity aud wealth, theu it is profitable for such com¬ munity to do its utmost for the children, in all respttctd. And as tbe happiness of tbeir owu children, at least, is a leading motive witb every family, tbe community in which children are cared for by the public witb the kin^HSt liberality, aud where the choicest advantages of educatiou ara enjoyed, will gradually, but surely, attract and lix a growing population, aud increase in every element of wealth aud happiness. Considered merely as a " speeula- tiou," nothing can be so proGtablu orBOdecure-
And yet how often these considerations have been overlooked 1 The traveler passiug, in some bleak, barreu, out of-tbe-way spot, a small low building of unpaiuted hoards or rough ma?ou-work, with little broken wiudows as high as posaible from iba grouud, in a posi¬ tion on a level wilh tho road-side, surrounded by filth and mud, with a few logs and chips scattered near ibe entrance—kuows instmc¬ tively that this is one, aud a fac simile of most, of the places were American youth apeud their choicest, happiest (!_) bours, aud obtain, outaide tbe family circle, tbe most im¬ portant part of their famishing and prepara¬ tion for life I Within, the Temple of Know¬ ledge la a no less fotbidding plaoe.   A loogh,
IRON  RAILING.
WK have the handsomest designs in this market of RAILING, and have the facill- tiR.-t lo Iiinlllply them fully up lo the wantii of the public, for Cemetery LoU. Verandahs. Ualcouie*, win¬ dow Gnardri, Trne Boxes. 4c. .^ vis^it l > our place, or any of onr work, will i-atlnfy the public that we cannot well be RurpdHsed, while our pricex are a- low, if no lower, than can be b»d at an^ oib^r efabliuhmeut.
MAR^jllBAKK k McCONKV. Al lhe Iron Bridge, corner of Dnke and CbenalKtu. Jan 12 I ly-G
JACOB  GABLE, Jr.,
rr I':kps cOiVstaxtlv o.\ [ia-vd
i\   athi^Pi.CMBiJuiA.viiGA'sFrrTixn E.*TABt,l:»HSlE.'(T, "^^      !   .YO. 29 EAST KING STREET.
wbere   will  be  fouud  a  l>irf!-*  assortment of
GAS FIXTURES,
ofthe Ifttertt patleruH. AUi, PLU.MBERS' GOODS, nf every variety and Buitjh,i>uch hd Copper Plani'^hi'd Bath Tubrt. Plain aod Plated Badn Cockf*. Wa».h Rowla and Standi!. WaierClo^els, RuUer't Sioki), Hhower", Lift und Force Puinp^, Lead, Oa»t. Wronpht aud Galvanized Iron PipeH. Alno. Terra Coila Pipe for walerand drainage. Ej" Plumbing and Gaa Filling work in all the varion brancheK pODCtually acd p«-sonally attended to, and warranlM) t» gire i-ttiKriietum Jnn* n-if-2S
NOTICE.
PI']KS0X3 removing to tbc  "West,   or remitting funda therft. will Bnd it to their advan- Ligolo take our drafts on  >'ew Yok or Philadelphia, which command a preminm when anetl  Went of the Ohio. Tbey are drawn InamoontxtoHntloorcaEloinerft SpaniRh coin booghl at be»t ralea. Preminm aUowed on old Ao-erlcan Kiiver. Five per cent, intereitt, per annnm, allowed on de- po^iitH parable on demand withonl notice.
7                                JOUN GYGER « CO., jan 12 ly-fJ      Bankers.
lakcaster county EXCifANGE &. DEPOSIT OFFICE.
Car. of East Kin^ and Duke Streets. BBT. THE COURT HOUSE ASB SHKECHER'S HOTEL
LANCASTEK CITY.
JOHN K. UEKU & (JO., pay interest on depoflts at th« follo^ioft mIbh :— 5^ per cent, for one jrjar and longer. 5       do.        " 30 daya   "      do. 53-ALSO. bay and sell Keal Estate aad Stocks on coiumiiiHion, nesutiate Iohdh, Ac , Stc.
53-The ondeniiKoed are iadiTidaally liable to the exteat of tbeir estateH. for all the depotit. and othor ob-
ligatloDK of John K. Reed & Co. 	
JOUM K. KEED.         AMOS. S. IIE.VDERSO.V, DAVIU SUnLTZ.        ISAAC E. HIESTEK. ]an 12 , lr:8__
EEED, McGEAKN, KELLY & CO. Ji A N K K K B ,
OKAXITE BUILDISa, HOKTH QUEEN FT., LASC'R
WILL RECEIVK MONEY on De- ponlt and pay IntereHt thereon as followa:
b per cent, for any length of time.
6}^    •*.      for one year.
Collection)) made in all parts of tbe United .States.
Money. Bent to England, Ireland, Germauy. Prance, ka.
Pasaage c'^rtlBcales for nale from Liverpool to Kew York, or Lancatter.
Land warranlH and nncurrentmoneyhoagbtandsold.
Spanihh and Mexican dollars, old U. S. gold and eUv-r coinfl bongbt al a premium.
i^pecial aitentiou will be paid by 0. K. Reed, lo the Negotiation of Commercial paper. Stocks, Loann and all marketable fecurltleH in New Y'ork or Philadelphia.
Oor frieadx may rely upon picir ^Inew. and our por- Bonal atteotlon lo their IntereftW in the iraneactioa uf any bnalneas which maybe iairosted 10 as, aod we hold oantelvea individaally liable ^or all money imnutfld to onr care. GEO. K. KEED.
RICHABO .MC0RA.M5,; I PATHICK KELLT,
]an*!M-tf-30 A. McCOKOUY.