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Show Tbe Knell of a Broken Heart. In the shops of the C. H. and D. R. B. at Hamilton, is a cracked locomotive boll that has a history. It was attached to a locomotive presided over by a strong, manly, handsome engineer, whose great objects of pride and adoration were first his sweetheart and then his faithful engine, en-gine, lie loved them both devotedly, though of course in quite different ways. One day at Hamilton he stood in the cab of the engine, boll rope in hand, ready to move the lover and start the train, when he saw a bridal party approaching. Ho glanced at the bride; it was the girl he loved. His heart stopped beating, beat-ing, he gave a groan, and dropped dead. As he fell with the bell rope in his hand he gave the bell a loud ring that cracked it from top to bottom, and it was found afterward that he had died literally of a broken heart. The bell in the shops at Hamilton is still called "the bell of tho broken heart." St. Louis Republic. |