From the Casket. THE DIES ERTED CHILDREN.
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REAL INCIDENT.

 In the autumn of 1893, man was descending the Ohio river, with three small children in canoe. He mad lost his wife; and in the emgrating spirit of our people, was transporting his all to a new country, where he might again begin the world. Arri- wing towards evening at a small island, he landed them with the intention ol cncampins for the night. Alter re- maiaing short time, he determined to visit the opposite shore, for the purpose, probably, ofpurchasing provisions; and telling his children that he would soon return to them, he padded off, leaving them alone onlhe island. Unfortunate ly, he met on the shore with some loose company, who had invited him to drink. Hebeeame intoxicated; and in attempt- ing to return to the island in the right, was drowned. The canoe hoated away, and no one knew of the catastrophe un- ii the following day

 The poor, deserted children, in the meanwhile, wandered about the unin- habited island. straining their little eyes to get a glimpse of their father. Night came; and they had no fire, nor food no bed to rest upon, and no parent 10 watch over them. The weather was extremely cold, and the eldest child, though but eight years of age, remen. bered to have heard that persons who sleptin the cold, were sometimes chilled to death. She continued, therefore, to wander about; and when the younger children were worn out with fatigue ael drowsiness, and ready to drop into slum- Der, she kept them awake with amusing or alarming stories. At last, nature. could hold out no longer. and the little ones, chilled and aching with cold. threw themselves onthe ground. Then their sister sat down; and spreading out her garments as wide as possible, drew them on her lap, and endeavored to impart the warmth of her own bosom as they slept sweetly on her arms.

 Morning came, and the desoiate ehl. dren sat on the shore, weeping bitterly. Atlength, thev were filled with joy, by the sight of a canoe approaching the isl and. Bnt they soon discovered that il was filled with Indians: their delight was changed into terror, and they fled into the woods. Believing that the sav- ages had murdered their father, and were now come to seek for them, they erouched under the bushes, hiding in breathless fear, like a brood of oung partridoes.

 The Indians having kindled fire, sat down around it, and ocean to cook their morning meal; and the eldest child, as she pecpej out from her hiding place, began to think that they bad not killed their father.s She reflected, too, thai they must inevitably starve, if left on this lone island; while, on the oth- CT hand, there was q possibility of be ing kindly treated by the Indians. The cries, too, of her brother and sister. Ayhq had been begging piteously for