Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 November 1874 — Page 6

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

UB8TI0N8 OF THE HO UR.

4R nw AUTHOR or "A WOMAS'B FOKM8." '-d [Marian, tt years old.] "Do angels wear white dreaae#, say?

Always, or only In tbe summer? Do, 1k their birth days come like mine, ID May? Ite Uxmy have scarlet sashes then, or blue?

•When little Me died last night, How could, she walk to Heaven—it Is so Cur? How did sbe find the way without a light?

There wasn't even any moon or star.

Will ahe have red or golden wings? Than idle will have to be a bird, and fly Do they take Men like Presidents and lungs in hear^e* with black plume* clear to thv akyf

How old is God? Has Ife gray hair? (tea He we yet? Where did lie have to •lay Before—yoa know—He had made—Any gps where? ..Who does He pray to—when He has to pray?

"How many drops are Inthe seii^ How many stars?—well, then, you ought to know, How many flowers are on an apple tree?

How does the wind look irta it doesn' blew? Where does the rainbow end? And why Did—Captain Kldd—bury gold them

When

Will this world bora? And will the liremen try To pus the lire oat with engines then?

"1/ you should ever die, may we Have pumpkins growing iu the ground, so Hy tairy godmother can oom« /or me, when thJre's a prince's ball, and let mi '"•fell got

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*l£nad Cinderella just once more—' What makt* other man's wives so mean 1 know That I was Ural, I may be cross before lanat the pointed book tor her to go.

later, from a child's white bed I heard the timid, last queer question star Mamma, are you tny stepmother?" li sak. Thy ihuocont reproof crept to my heart, =5==== (Overland Monthly.

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tton't know Billy Then allow mo to introduce to you ''an Irishman by trade, and a mechanic by the grace of God a perfect pet among the girls, as handsome as the day is long, and as good a.be Is handsome. That is Billy, or rat In-1 mat Billy when first I knew him. He W48 the youngest of the squad of carpenters that worked on our new building, and altogether tbe most active and efficient of the party. They sent him to fell tho exposed positions, and he risked his life gayly every day. "There is a special providence" for fools and children," said He, "and I claim protection ander the first clause of that law."

I was watching him oue day at work •n tho top of tbe bouse, when his foot flipped, and he started head foremost for tetra firma. When within ten feet of the bottom be touched some scaffolding With his hand, "swopped ends," and lighted on bis feet, like the tumbler in a circus, made me an elaborate salaam, and climbed up again to his eyrie full fiwtylbet above my bead.

Billy had not worked long ibr us when it became apparent that there was something on his mind. The jolliest of fellows among the men, he vet strove fc get away troin them in his leisure 'hours, and passed-the greater part of flunday out In the meadows, or under the teeM.- Even in the bouse he was addicted W reverie, and his absent-minded replies to remarks made to him gave rise io many a laugh. The query went sound, "What's the matter with Billy?" but found no solution until I guessed it.. lie was in love. The neighboring girls, laughing-eyed, dimpled-cheeked Tustic "beauties, who came visit mo, could anako no impression on his mlthful heart. Being myself* motherly individual of that type which Byron deScribes as "fair, fat, and forty," Billy took to me as naturally as ducks to wst* ter, and before long he told we all about 5t. "The prettiest girl in all the world, If rs. Brown," he said "but that would fee nothing if it wasn't for her goodness. To be sure she la two years older than I, but why should I care. She is so trutbsful land innocent, you tan look clear down thr .ugh ber eyes into her very sottl. So is a big girl she weighs a hundred ai 1 titty pounds." I judged it to be nearer one hundred and eighty. "But then you are big, you know, ana the boss certainly made a ten-strike when he .got you. I like big girls myself. If they are sweet and good, }*DU can't have too wk ioh of 'em. I am like a Chinaman keying boots I want tbe biggest I can

for tbe money. Then Alii* is smart, toil you: In fact, she Is too smart to be tied to such a numskull as I am, and 1 aan't tell wnat shcaeos In me to love but there is no accounting for taste. She doe* love me, anyhow, in spite of my ignorance and awkwardness. God bkis her] And I atn wholly grateful to her ttr It, Yes, I am. The thoughts of it bring u-ara to my eyes often, though you pouidnt take me lor audi a granny.

And away he went Hinging in a rich, el ear voice, "I'm lonely to-night, love, without you," and 1 passed in but of tbe moonlight to put. little Pickle to bed. thmking all the time of Billy, and hoping bis girl would be at rood and true be believed. But somehow, without any particular reason, I felt sorry for ftiitn. 1 have a sort of old-fashion**! pity for men, anyhow, thinking of my own good husband, and how fee has struggled to supped me and tite children, nnEtl ear® ana anxiety have farrowed his du*r Use* and blanched hi* hair, white I have been so sheltered and protected that time has left me almost untouched.

About as young as when I married ywu, Lia, and a heap better looking," he «ad l*at Sunday, when I had on my s««f blue and white calico tor tbe Am iiuve.

Beftwe Bii got Ustveof »baen«c, and wen' s*i-ramento, wheneo he aoon returned, bringing his wlfb. Mhe w.m willing—even anxious—to lH?lp me •with the house-work and soon, with 4 Irig-hflMtod tyranny, she monpolixed it ail Of course I could not rest in my ea»y-obair, feeling all the time that I mm imposing upon her kindness and •u, after conferring with my husband, it wasdeddtodto pay her Air wages for ber Work.

She was a remarkably handsome woman, with a "taead-ptaoe" on her. Ft*, •sen years older than Hilly leas* tmo I# Qttlled it, l«at be was youn* ha years mini in the machinations of our charm tag sex, and took her word on all «ol .huta 1 never aaw a tuau so muafe love in all my life) and though be mad* mo effort to conceal it, there was nothing

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puer d, i,e should have been hanged but in either case the object is attained namely: to render it difficult to reproach No. 2 with the contrasted excellencies of No. 1.)

About six weeks after she came, our boy brought out the mail, and handed Billy a letter. Without glancing at the superscription, be opened it, and read nearly a page, when be took up tbe en velope and looked at it.

Alice," be said, "this is your letter, I opened it by mistake* but it is so queer should like to read it, if you don't object. Here, you read it hist, and see what you can make of it." 1 dont understand it at all," she said after glancing hastily through it. "It reads like a love-letter, and tbe signature is new to me. 'George Thorndike* —I really don't know any one of thut name." Then she went to thestove and raised tho gridiron on which the meat was broiling. Iu doing so, she held tbe open letter in such a position that the dames caught it and spruug up around oer hand, so that she was forced to drop it iuu the tire. Was It an accident She said it was, and uttered many regretful exclamations.

But three weeks after, there wasanoth er letter in tbe same hand. It was given to Billy asbelb.e but alter looking at tae address, he broaght it to her.

You'll let me read that one, won't you, Alice?" be said. "If any one choos-~-s to persecute you with unwelcome letters, ought to kuow it."

She opened the letter and read aloud the first few lines, and then closiug it, she told Billy that supperwas just ready to put on the table, aud that he should see the note before bed-time,

Ail right," he said "but don't let it get burned this time, will you?" She promised him, and he went to the table with the 6ther men. As soon as ue sat down she lit a candle and went to oer room. Sue was ouly gone a short hue, but when she returned she burnt he letter unobserved by her husband.

Alter supjier, when the meu had all one, he asked her to read the letter to oim.

Why, Billy," she said, innocently, I burnt it up but I saved the signature, as you told me, and here it is."

Billy burst out into a tempest of suspicious anger and disappointment, Wiiy didn't you read that letter to me, Alice?", he said. "Your conduct convicts you of complicity with this fellow. I know now that you answered ds last letter, aud that you know perfectly well all about the man who wrote .t."

Why, Billy," she said, "I rawi the letter to you, and you told me to save he signature, which I have duue."

Alice," he cried, turning as white as sheet, and trembling all over! "my God, how you have deceived me! You are telling me a lie, and you kuow it. O, Alice, to think how I trusted you and now

He sat down from very faintness, and wiped his cold lace aud shaded his eyes with a hand that looked palsied and dead.

I went to him and touched his curly hair caressingly. "She can explain it, Billy, no doubt," I suggested. "Explain it," he groaned bitterly.

She can explain hell away, aud darkess, and ail the sin and hypocrisy of this miserable world. O, you cion't know how this little thing throws light upon so many other things that were a mystery to ine before. But I trusted her so I took all for granted. I would have been ashamed to insult her by a suspicious question."

Pretty soon my husband came in and tried to coinlbrt him. His contidence in Aliue was uabounded, though 1 must confess that I had become distrustful of her honesty, That she was cognizant of my distrust she betrayed in many ways, but chiefly in the desire she maniiested to dodge my eyes when they were fixed upon her. I had told Mr. Brown how 1 felt toward her, aud he blamed mo severely for it. "You women are always so unjust to each other." lie said. .. Like most gopd men, he yielded in a great degree to that superficial charm of manner that women of extraordinary tact acquire by association with many men, and, without knowing it, he was evidently just a little bit infatuated.

I know there is a plausible explanation of this," be said to Billy "lam sure you have not been deceived in Alice. If she isn't a good, true-bcaried woman,' 1 on't know of any." .Ue should have said, "If she isn't a good-looking woman,", etc. bat she had spun a web about him out of her graces and beauties and he saw through it but aiiuly.

All this time Alice had not offered to explain, but stood like a statue by the dish-pan, and waitedr as I supposed, for chance to throw soiue winning card into her hands, being pcrfcctly well aware of the fact that her nimble tongue would not serve her now.

Mr. Brown walked toward her with the intention of urging her to say something in her own justification, when suddenly, with a most tragic scream, she rushed past us, and went out of the house. "Pretty well done," I said jealously to myself "in ail probability acting is your natural vocation, madam." It was a cold night—ibout as cold as ever comes in in our genial climate—there would be frost before morning. o, Lizzief* said Mr. Brown, "goafter her and beg her to come back she may injure herself in some way."

Not the slightest danger," observed the cynical individual thus addressed. He gave me a reproachful look, and started after hor himself. He was gone five minutes, and came back without her. ifilly and I were sitting by the fire in solemn silence, and be sat down between

I could not find her," be said. "You go and bunt her, Billy. She will come wbea you call her. 1 am afraid she will do herself some harm."

No," said Billy, "she hi a woman to harm others, but not herself." Ho an bour passed, and tbe night grew very cold. Even hard-hearted Mrs. Brown became uneasy. Not that I ieared anything more serious than that Alios might mute herself sick by boing out so iaie, so that I should have tbe work to dr. But what interest moves the heart of poor humanity like a selfish interest? Thus prompted to generosity, I started after her. I went to the barn, and called her—called her until I was hoarse. There wait no answer. At first wait vexed, then frightened. What could have happened I came back into lite house, and sent Mr. Brown. Billy refused to go. "Let her have it

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irie out of th*««pm»oa maaunawas ami domemlc warfare. If wives all under- pom, hut tomh«c^iw

that they don't! So Billy became restless, starting at every noise, and casting frequent glances toward tho door. At last be started up, and went out

In about ten minutes I heard both searchers calling me. I ran out, aud down the ravine, guided hy the sound of their voices, ana soon met them coming back. My poor old man was carrying the baggage in his arms, Billy being too much excited to render any assistance, "Bring water f* screamed Mr. Brown "Alice has a fit she is dying." I knew she was not dying. I believed she was makingthe fit, so I did not go tor the water. The water was broaght, however, ibr Mr. Brown, completely exhausted^ was compelled to lay ber down then be ran and brought a pitcherful. "Sprinkle It upon hetikce," he

I had an idea. In a moment it magnetized me into a sort ef spasmodic activity. I .took hold of tbe pitcher, aud dashed its contents violently into her face. For a moment she had a terrible struggle Ibr her breath (no affectation it that,) then relapsed again into fcerwhat shall I call it?—tantrums. She was still as steelyards, and looked like a big doll cut out whole from oue piece of wood. Mr. Brown took bar up again with infinite difficulty, and carried her into the house, where he dropped her upon a bod. I wanted him to stand her on her bead in one corner and prop her up with furniture, but did not dare suggest it. Immediately there was a clamorous demand for hot water and other restoratives.

Half Hour, indeeil, I had some vinegar that was simply pyioligneous acid very slightly dilutco. I mixed it with that, and instead of weakening tbe affects of the mustard with flour, I weak ened it with red pepper. Then my charmer asked me to put the poultice* on her. Of course I could' not take so delicious a job from him, and told him so. I am bound to admit that the hussy's feet and ankles weiie the prettiest I oversaw. I have no doubt but Mr. Brown thought so too.

This wonaerftil, unparalleled combination poultice had not been on more than two minutes before she opened her eyes—her charming blue eyes—and bewail to squirm. My dear, delightful nusband rushed to the rescue and pulled the mustard off her, and In an instant she stiffened herself in ano'her convulsion. All this time she had not lost color, and her pulse was Uucuangcd She knew perfectly well that'lhadno confidence in iter acting, fend rathe* suppressed herself when I was in the room. When I went out, aud peeped through the key-hole, I could see her tearing at her bosom and hair, and trying to bite her two attendants. I hope they enjoyed tbe performance!

Poor Billy sat on tbo bed, toying to hold her hands, to keep her from hurting herself. He was all anxiety now, and nil .contrition. He bqgged hep forgiveness in the most humblo and patheti way. He told her that no matter what she* should do in the future, he would nover ask her a question nor utter a reproach, Then sho.wouid roll her eyes up quite out of sight, and her one hundred and ninety pounds avoirdupois would settle* an inch deeper into the mattress. O, dear! how I trembled for the springs. "Will she die, Mrs. Brown?" said Billy, during one of these (literal) sinking spells.

No danger, Billy." I sniffed. O, look at her!" he said, in an agitation so painful to witness, that I found it difficult to restrain myself from choking the suffering angel as she liiy on tbe bed, ao conveniently before me.

I would rather have died than have Iseen her so," he added, with a groan. "Perhapsyou will learn from this how to treat a woman," said Mr. Brown, sternly.

I could not stay in the room another moment without danger of an explosion. .So I went out. But what relief could I gain by going out, unless I had someone with me before whom I could boifc over In that high-prossure style suited to the effervescent state of my feelings. "Mr. Brown, I want to see you a moment."

Mr. B. cam©. I did not take hold ot one of tbe buttons of bis coat, as. I usually do in domestic conference,- but stood apart and looked at him with a look that would probably have passed muster as a good caricature of "thestony British stare" we read of.

At first I could not speak for some thing In mv throat, that might have been Utile Pickle's trap-ball from its slxe aud shape but I swallowed it and began: "Billy is not the only ono who has learnea something to-night. 1 have learned how a woman can ciuali a. man in the very toco of truth and lustlce, and cover up her own wicked, wicked ways, bv practicing upon his silly sympathies, And I now give you fair warning, Mr. Brown, that whenever I want my own way, and can't have it on straightforward, honest principles, I Intend to have fit*. And when you see me in fits, hope that you'll know how to treat a a

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possible to got an idea in his head without a surgical operation but oven the partner or his joys and sorrows will admit that it requires something little short ol a mental earthquake tado It. In this Instance he looked at me, and kept looking, at first with a perfectly blank face, then with an exjfrcision af utter bewilderment, then amazement, then with awakening intelligence, and last with something like scorn in his eyes. He did not sp ak. Like Barkis, lia is not over.

burdened with colloquial powers but unlike Barkis, when lie does speak it counts. Aa Aunt Becky used to say about him, "John Brown is a man of mighty tew words, but what John Brown says, ho generally says to the pint." Pending, as 1 suppose ne did, on this occasion that even he could not speak sufficiently to the pint" to do justice to the subject, he turned slowly and walked hack into Alice's roam.

Now there is no Insult so galling to a

Irishman, the one thing be could not pointment was born another idea. tied It was to wilt. He had not tho grand} Quito remarkable, I think, you will to be nius of patfrw*. 1 think that in a. admit, for a little dumpling of a womau

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niauditu or «»ii«mHal in his exhibit^ dumnoc. I doubt whether even tlf Was altn^ wblirne I tart «he J®***11® •r .t. It was *lov* so trusting,*! be«u- m^phl^raaticof Dutchmenjwild ait

quietly under the grand silent svtrtem of to attend the p^tomimo in

IMaiAacrlihw of fMRfeiinUy. Alice had stood this, their influence over their ht»-, In short, to eloci myaelf theatrical man- Don hurt your dear little dimpled

fe*na widow—of that trpe which Phi- hand* would he Without limit, But agpr. .. a, lo^httr ndrnwi titan fee ibey nt itk* tin liethf of 1I10 flrtdi-! So I wnl WH!

Maury her huabaitd was In the State they dont know their own power, gfrira Ibr lit*. (AmwMaUg to Fkikiau* And what a bteaMd thing It Is for men

Mr. Brown." She looked disgusted even through her fit. But I wet them with fresh vinegar, and newly sprinkled them with red pepper, and banded them over to Mr. Brown to put on." "Now, Billy"

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Here, Lizade, take off her shoe» and stockings, and batho her feet/ Well, I declare!—and It seemed that I did not hear, for I went out and sat down by tho tk-e. Pretty soon it was,

Lhasie. make mustard poultices for Alice's ankles." I would have refused, but that I had another idea, and complied. "Make them weak," said my beloved, from tho sick-room "mix them half flour."

said, "she will be

better anon. Wh«n she begins to recover consciousness you will observe that the corners of ber mouth are violently drawn down, while the outer comers of her eyes will be drawn upward. I have seen many such caaw,and I

know all the changes perfectly. Aftei that she will remember bow cruelly you have treated ber, and will cry bitterly, aud probably reproach you for your aokintmesa. Then she will begin to fetl the poulticcs, and to beg us t» take them off. After which she will drink a glass of wine and go to sleep."

It was a sweet thing to see bow, as soon as the poultices began to make her think herself—well, warm—she fitted to shape herr face in accordance witftt my prediction, Slie cut this part of tbe performance short, however, and passed rapidly into tbe next act. Here sbe- was at home. Haeb feces as she made in her effort to stfoeaze out a few tears may

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never more behold, The pantomime ended here, however her cries and

screams wero terrific, and more than made up in tragic and ear-splitting enunciation for her lachrymal deficiency. O, bow she wriggled, and how that quintuplo, back-action, doubie-refiex-coinblnation poultice was pulling at the dainty cuticle of ber so charming feet "She is getting better." said Billy "O. speak to me cnarest!'?

Ho bad better have left this entreaty alone, for he soon found himself in the position of Ahasueros, when he called for his satanlc majesty, who presently came and made Ahasuerns wish he bad called for -somebody else. Such reproaches as she heaped on his devoted head were enough to make his mother turn in the grave. Afterexbaustiug her vocabulary of abuse, she ordered us to take off the poultices.

No," said that thoughtful Mis. B. "you will have another fit as soon as they are removed."

O, do take them off, do!'" No!" gently and firmly. Billy—" O, do take them off." Alice.—"O, do, do,

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Interested Malevolence.—"Do you waut to see your darling dying before your eyes in another fit

Disinterested Benevolence.—* Lizzie, they must come off they are- driving her wild."

Alice.—" They are skinning o«e they are killing mef Yah-h-h!" (prolonged into a roar like that of a brute). "O, Lord, I'm dyiag!"

General rush toward tho foot of the bed. I held the clothes down firmly and tfcld the men to stand back. Surprised at my vehenvnee, which was certainlv impressive, as contrasted with my languor in the warm-water stage ol lie pertormancos, they gavo way and stood back."

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my darling, try and bear it a little longer," said Billy precipitatiug himself upon hor Beast in an embrace so violent as to cut another yell in two parts. Of course she could not stand this' so she struck him such a bloy in tba face as made him think there were fifty mustard poultices in his eyes.

Then happened what I expected* She kicked the bedclothes up to the ceiling tnd sprung into the middle of the floor as nimbly as an athlete, tore the poultices off her ankles, and rusbed frantically after so«ne water to stop the burn-

She'll do.""observed that erne of the spectators wh®se malevolent disposition has been bef»re alluded toj "If she should have another fit, Billy, locate the mustard plasters in a pew position. I don't think there is any skin left where they have beeau Good night I a«i going'to bed."

Once domiciled under the canopy of old-fashioned four-poster, with Mr. Brown beside me, he began to retnonfltnttfliwUh

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Lizzie," he said, "I am ashamed ol your heartles&ness. How could- you treat that poor suffering angel as you did? I should have thought the sight of her innocent, baby-looking feet would have moved you to compassion, if. nothing else. It is-perfectly plain to me that Billy ought to be whipped for his cruelty to her in the first part of the evening. Duriderhcadedt Irishman he's no more fit to bo married, to that gentle and refined creature than to an angel of light."

Perhaps one of your sympathetic disposition would have suited her better," said Mrs^B., with witheriag sarasm.

YOit are trying to insult me, Lizzie but let ine tell you that if I was married to a woman like hor—so sensitive to all disagreeable influences—I should bo tempted to keen her in a bandbox, and never let any otbhe worries of the world como near her."

The kind of bandbox hor first husband is in," I suggested. Certainly, that would meet my hearty approbation."

How is it, Lizzie, yon woman can be so cruel to each other Women of her stripe, sir I said, •don't shine to dazzle other women. And while they concentrate ail their rays upon you men, we from ou*shaded position can see clearly all that is going on and the motive that lies hidden from you."

The baseness ot your suspicions dlshe said. "Can it bo that you gust met are the woman I considered the most tender-hearted and the most credulous creature in existence only one month ago? What has chanced you so? In po*9ible thai are jeaktmf

O. what a blow was there, my countrywomen Much too close to the truth to taken as a joke. As may be imagined, all tho seeds of Satan lyfaig so long dormant In Mrs. Brown's tender littlolicart took coot at oncc upon tills charge so monstrous—ao (Heaven forgive the lie) untrue. Thev no^only took root, but achieved a growth so sudden and gigantic as entirely to ecllpe all such prodigies as Jonah^s gourd And Jack's beanstalk. She started up in bed. Itcaineinto her head to have a fit, but she doubted her genius in an extemporaneous production of such magnitude, and concluded to put it off until she had a private rehearsal. The mnat tragic thing she could substitute was to throw the bedclothes on tho floor. This had been a decided success in Alice's drama, but Mr. Brown arrested tho movement and roll«l himaelf up like a huge chrysalis.

woman aa for her husband to refuse to Baffled at every point, she wanted to

still refused to go. "Let her have it listen to her when she has determined fight and was encouraged in this idea out "he said. "Ho would not demean to give him apiece of her mind. To by remembering to have heard of some himself bv running after her he could I wor-K up one's whole soul to a pitrt of woman who whipped her husband whenwait by tfL fire as well as any place tor angry woquenoe and find no audience! evei she wantedto—after first tying him the next uieve in the game.*' Bat being Out of the bitter depths of my disap- up in a sheet. Mr. Brown had already —!tied hlinaeif up. How accommodating, sure! our last move was just exactly in

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you would like that better and with this last shot there came again that something about the size of att aptiledumpiing into her throat and this time sbe could not swallow it. She did get real fits, and tbe gymnastic exercises she went through that night to get rid of them would make an article of twentyone oolumns "continued of it.

The i»xt day they wero sent to town in our bright new wagon, together with Billy's tool chest and Alice's enormous Saratoga trunk and that was the last of them for some time. When I got up to the house again, I found it stripped clean of every portable thing I had. Sheets, table-cloths, towels, spoons, unmade material of every description, clear down to the feather off of Little Pickle's Sunday hat and ber blue grosgrain sash.

It was Mr. Brown's turn to be angry now. For ray part, I thought it was a

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riddance at any price and of course soothed his ruffled feelings, after tbe manner of charming wives, by saying,

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Did Billy know it? No ho did not. I ran across him in a street car in this city only a few weeks ago. The gayety hail ail faded out of his frank handsome face. He had in bis lap a little girl about two yeans old she was the very image of him'self and tbe only time his face relaxed from tbe habitual severity of its expression'was when he looked at this child. "And how is Alice, Billy?" I asked. "She hasgonetothedevii,Mts.Brown. She ran away with that fellow who wrote her those letters, before we had been in Sacramento a month. She took what money I had with her and my best 'suit of clothes. About a year after, sbe sent me this baby. It was a helpless little darling then| but I knew it was mine, and I felt to thank God for even a child to love. I have called it Liz-

ClltNESE IDEAS OF DEA TH." A wealthy man condemned to death will arrange with his jailer to buy him a substitute for a certain sum of money, to be spent on the poor wretch's interment and preservation of his body. Should be have parents, so mnch is usually paid to them in compensation for their son's life.. China.mi» inwriatoly help tosbpport tliei? parents filial respect and devotion i»the great Chinese virtu© and religious', precept, in which they rarely fail. Regarding death as inevitable, he makes tbo best of a bad bargain, and cunningly and comically gets paid for dying. The wholesale destruction of life in this country is greatly the result of indifference. Hence the massacre of Europeans, so terrible to us, seems to them a matter of little moment, and they cannot comprehend whv we should make such a ftoss about it. "they regard our indignant protestation very mil has we might ireat our trate neighbor whose dog we h'ad shot.

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in a sporting journal with next week" at the end

The demon ef hysteria yielded to stimulants soon aft«r midnight, and it was I and not Alice who got up before davligbt to ge* breakfiast (ter the men. Mr. £rown tried to help me. He could not turn a batter cake, and, of course a great big thing like him, with No. 19 ooote to stumble ever, was awfully in my way. But I rveognized the intention of his kind beast, and suffered the inconvenience thankfully.

For f»ur days Alice laid in bed, while I did the work, and Billy waited on her. Thtie was nothing the matter, only ifewt she could not wear her slices and stockings. If I treated her cruelly, retribution followed ine. I was taken sick almost as soon as-she was able to do the work again. In* the meantime she had poisoned Billy's mind againat me to such a degree that he could hardly bear the sight of me, and she was using her indnenceto get him-to leave us and go back to tjacramento, the place where she had formerly lived. While I was still 'in bed. though convalescent, Mr. Btoown told mo that Billy was dissatified and intended going away immediately. In bis settlement with him, he found a great discrepancy between the time as he kept it and the time or Billy kept it. Investigating! tbe matter we discovered that Alice had kept the time for him since their marriage, and had put in more days than there were between tbe date of his coming to us and the date of his leaving. Billy was surprised at this, and feared we would consider him dishonest. It was a mistake in Alice," he said women are so careless, you know."

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