Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 February 1878 — Page 1

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION

Town-Talk.

WEALTH VS. SSOOND MARRIAGE. One advantage of being poor is that a man can marry Just as many times as an accommodating wife makes room for another, and the other can be found to take the place, and nobody will make any fuss about it on accoant of the property. When an old uian in poverty takes a young wife, people simply remark what a fool she is, and go about their own business, and the children don't care, or if they do care and don't like the match they simply leave the couple to themselves. But when a rich 'old man attempts to provido for the comfort of his latter days by taking to himself a wife, the publio very likely, raises a terrible hullabaloo, and the children by the foraaer wife, or

only rave, but

wive9,

Bet

He has

not

about proving their

lather an incompetent idiot or lunatic. There la old Mr. Lord, of New York, Just now going through the process of reconciling a nice family of boys to his new

wife.

been

industrious,

frugal aud skillful, and as a

result

is a

millionaire. He is very old, but naturally

desires

to have a pleasant evening

to his day, and so he invites

Mrs.

Hicks

—Mr. Illcks having previously departed —to spend the evening of life with him, and she amiably consents. Nobody's business bui their own, or it would not be but lor the money. But as he has money which his affectionate sons want, they at onoe attempt to throw the old man into an Insane asylum, or at least to prove bim crazy, so that none of the property may be aileuated. But the old man ha* got hia back up at last, and proposes to show these boys of his, who are mere strlpllngs-of forty of fifty years, that he is neither crazy nor fool enough to allow them to say whom or when be shall marry, or when he ahall stop marrying. The old man is sane enough to take care of his property and make /money still, and T. T. hopes he will prove both sane enough and smart enough to eat off these same boys without a shilling. It has come to a pretty pass when men having made their money must be taken in oharge by their children lest they apend some of it.

There is altogether too much of this on the part of children. T. T. knows a man here in Terre Haute who la as Jealous of his father's giving anything for charity or benevolent objects, as if it was his property instead of his Jhther's that was going. Hang these children who look upon (heir parents •imply as the goose that laya the golden aggs. Every soul of them, if they got their deserts, would go to the poor bouse tor all they sot of their father*. This everlasting amelllng around on the part of rich men's children, to find whether their expectations are being •pent reveals one of the very meanest traits in human nature.- The ohlldren of the poor need to thank the Lord that jthey have not the temptation to that meaanese. And, by the by, In reference to this whole matter of

OLD PKOPLS OBTTINQ MARRIED,

why not let them do aa they please? Whose business la It Young people would do as well to attend to their OWD business, and let their father ar mother alone. T. T. know* a oase in which the children paid not the (lightest regard to the wishes of their parents when they got married, In fact some of them almost broke the hearts of thme aatne parents by their matches, but now that the mother Is gone, these same ohlldren absolutely forbid the remarriage of the father. Somebody aay* that whan the Lord wants to make a big fool he lets an man become a widower. But what of that? If he enjoy* being a fool, who •hall say him n^ Besides, ten chanoe* to one he la no bigger fool than his children were when they wanted to get married. The same sort of gallantry to the ladies,or "running after the girls," which we expect in young folks, we set down as indications of idiocy in later llfa. T. T.'s advice to the young folks 1* to do their own courting and marrying, and let the old folks take care of themselves. T. T. thinks both youag and old wauld show better sense if they would follow

bis example and keep out of wedlock entirely. But if they will not, then be says let them go la and take the consequences. If they like it, It is no affair of T. T.'s. But he doee say that It is outrageously mean on the part of children, when themselves enfoying matrimony, to forbid or mske a fuss about the old people having the comforts and pleasures of wedded life. And the very quintessence of' this meanness is to take this course to prevent the parent from spending the property.

Husks and Nubbins.

,r No. 290.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. When Hawthorne was thirty-two years old be went to Boston to edit the

American Magazioe of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge—(that was the age of big names)—on a aalary of 9500 a year but the employment proved not useful enough and too little entertaining and after receiving |20.90 for four month's labor he left it.

Meanwhile bis literary reputation was slowly but steadily increasing. In 1837 his friend Bridge, without Hawthorne's knowledge, procured Goodrich to publish the volume entitled Twice Told Tales," himself undertaking the pecuniary risk. Some six hundred or saren hundred copies were sold, but a though Longfellow.greeted It with enthusiasm in the North American Review, the book was received quietly and did not Improve the author's financial condition.

The next year Bancroft, the historian, then collector of the port of Boston, offered Hawthorne the appointment of weigher and gauger, at a salary of $1,200 a year, and the offer was gladly accepted. He retained the place for two year* when the Whigs, under General Harrison, came into power and there was an exhibition of civil service reform which relieved Hawthorne from the burdeus of his office.

About this time the Brook Farm project at West Roxbury was assuming shape. This was a kind of socialistic community of men and Women, founded by George W. Ripley, and its object was to distribute labor in such a way as to give each member time for mental cul ture. Pratt, Brownson, Horace Sumner, (a brother of Charles,) George W. Curtiss and Burrill Curtiss, were members of the commuulty at various tlaaes. It was in this singular haven that Hawthorne tired of the disappointments of authorship, and feeling that be wanted "a little piece of land, big enough to stand upon, and big enough to be buried in," for a time took refuge. The arcadian experiment was not, however, satisfactory, and after remaining on the Farm a little less than a year he left it and left also the $1,000 he had put into its treasury— nearly all his savings from the.custom house.

In July 1842, being then 38 years old, he was married to Miss Sophia Peabody, to whom h* had been for some time en gaged, and immediately took up his residence In the "Old Manse," at Concord. The real sunshine of life bad now burst upon him snd "being happy," he says,

I felt ss If there was no question to be put." The four hsppy years he spent here are felicitously described in the introduction to the "Mosses from an Old Manse." The gray old parsonage bad never before been profaned by a long cocupant. A priest hsd built It and a succession of priests had Inhabited It from that day down. In the little study where Hawthorne eomposed hi* Charming tales, Emerson had written "Nature." Its windows peeped between the willow branches down through the orohard,totbe lasy Concord, slumbering between broad prairies, kissing the long meadow gtass, and Imaging each rock and tree along Its bank* in Ideal beauty. Each aatatnn the old orchard poured down such a profusion of apples, pears and peaches as netthor to be eaten, kept nor scarcely to be given awy. The garden, In return for an hour or two of morning labor, responded in beans, peas, squashes and Dutch cabbagee, until the production was little less than appalling. Sometimes Ellery Channing oaroe over to J*in him In a fishing ex* cursion and they made a delightful day of it on the Oonoord and Asaabeth. Of Emerson he says: "It was good to meet him In the wood paths, or sometimes In our avenue, with that pure, intellectual gleam diffused about hia presence like the garment of a shining one and he, so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as If expecting to receive mote Chan he could Impart."

Bat iese peaoeful yean fled all too swiftly by and the time for departure oame for the owner of the Old Manse was pining to return to it. And one day, as Hawthorne gosadplngly tells It, "we gathered up our household goods, drank a fsrewell cup of tea In our pleasant little breakfast room,—delicately fragrant tea, an unpurcbaaable luxury, one of the many angel glfta that had fiallen like dew upon as.—and passed forth between the tall gateposts, aa uncertain as the wandering Arabs where our tent might next be pitched. Providenea vodk me by the band, and—an oddity of dispen­

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sation which, I trust, there is no irreverence In smiling at—baa led me, as the newspspers announce while .1 am writing, from the Old Manse into a custom house."

He now returned to Salem, bovlng received the appointment of Surveyor of the Salem custom bouse, from the Democratic administration of Polk. But the indefatigable Wbigs came into power at the ensuing election and, in 1849, Hawthorne was adrift sgain and seriously resumed bis literary work. The result was the "Scarlet Letter," of which he wrote to his friend Bridge, in February, 1830: "I flushed my book only yesterday one end being in the press at Boston, while the other wss in my hanrd here at Salem so that, as~you see, the story is at least fourteen miles long. My book, the publisher tells me, will not be out before April. He spesks of it in tremendous terms of approbation so does Mrs. Hawthorne, to whom I real the conclusion last night. It broke her heart and sent her to bed with a grievous hesc^pche—which I look upon as a triumphant success." Fields, the publisher, tells bow he found Hawthorne, one cold day in tbe winter of 1649, in a very despondent mood and asked him for something to publish. He shook his head sadly and denied ha,ving anything ready, but Fields insisted and at last, Just as he was going away, Hawthorne put ai roll of manuscript into bis bands, and on bis way back to Boston, be found that it was the "Scarlet Letter." It is needless to say that tbe book was received with universal delight. In ten days an edition of 5,000 copies was exhausted. fliW'

In the summer ot 1830 Hawthorne went to Lenox and there wrote "Tbe House of the Seven Gables" which confirmed the fame be bad achieved by tbe

Scarlet Letter." Praise now began to flow in upon tbe successful author from every quarter.

In 1S52 "The Blithedale Romance" was published. In this powerful, though sombre work, are portrayed some of the author's experiences in tbe Brook Farm community. It was published simultaneously in England and America and he received fl,000 for the English copyright.

In tbe same year he returned to Concord and bought a small house which he christened "The Wayside," from its standing within a few feet of the old Beaton road, along which the British marched and retreated. The only history the iiouse had was that told by Tboreau, namely, that it hs 1 once been inhabited by a man who believed be would never die—an Idea utilized by tbe author in tbe partially completed ro manceof ''Septimius Felton." In this year also be wrote a biography of hi* quondam schoolmate, Franklin Pierce, then a candidate for the Presidency, and who, upon his accession to the office, sppointed Hawthorne consul to Liverpool. This office be resigned In 1857 and traveled for awhile on the continent. Upon his return home, after an absence of seven years, he published in 1800, "The Marble Faun," aooording to Whipple, tbe greatest of bis work*. For tbia work he received £600 from tbe Engllah publishers.

In 1863 appeared "Our Old Home," a volume of hi* impression* of England. He had again taken up his abode in tbe

Wayside" and Field* aay* of bim: He now seemed happy In tbe dwelling he bad put in order for tbe calm and comfort of bia middle and later life. He bad added a tower to hi* bouse In which he oould be safe from Intrusion and where be oould muse snd write. Never waa poet or romancer more fitly shrined. Drbmmond at Hawthorneden, Scott at Abbottaford, Dickeu's at Gad's Hill, Irving at Sunnyside, were not more appropriately sheltered. Shut up in hi* tower he oould eaoaps the tumult of lite and be alone, with only tbe bird* and the bees In oonc ert outside his osse ment, The view from this apartment, on every aid*, was lovely, and Hawthorne eqjoyed the prospect as I have known few men to enjoy nature."

But he waa not long deettned to enjoy the serene and quiet happiness 6f tbe home he had thus prepared. While engaged in writing tbe "Dolliver Romance," (afterwards named "Septimius Felten,") his strength rapidly gave way, and on the morning of the 19th of May, 1864, while on a Journey to tbe hills of New Hampshire, in tbe hope of restoring his shattered health, in company with his old Mend Pierce, tbe gifted author passed peacefully away, like that of Irving, Presoott,tThackery, Macauley and Dickens, and aa he wished it might be, his death waa Ridden and painless.

Thus ended, in his filty-nlntb year, the lite of one of AmericeHCmos* Illustrious men—a writer whose place In the literature of hia country will eve^ remain vaosnt and whose works will be the dolight of every reader of taste and ssntlment for many generations to oome.

CHURCH NOTES.

Christian Chapel—G. P. Peals, pastor. Services at 11 a. m. Subject, "Robbery." No services In tbe evening.

Prof. Moss will preach In the Baptist church to-morrow morning.

O N E A E S

Items of Interval to Business Men and People Generally

The two cent p'ecea were abolished Ave years ago. There are five times as many one cent pieces used as threes.

Less than 910,000 of one ceni pieces wero mined last year. No fives or threes (nlokel) were coined last year for circulation.

The old-fashioned silver dollar has not been made fur five years. Tbe Eastern, Middle snd Western States take mosi of tbe nickel and bronze coins.

Double esgles are being made for the depositories because they *e more saleable. -V

In the South the people are now using •ne cent piecei and threes and fives very extensively.

There are lying in tbe depositories at^l vaults of the Sub-Treasury in New York nearly |300,000 in five cent nickel pieces.

Five cent piedei are circulated conaiderably in New Orleans. Pennies were recently sent to that city, which were tbe first ever oalled for.

The demand for one cent piece* ba* increased within tbe last three or four months, and tbe demand for fives baa decreased. This is due to tbe issue of so many dimes. ..

No trade dollars have been made this year. Several miilious were coined in 1877. Their coinage was suspended in December. They were only coined to a limited extent for circulation.

Nickel and bronxa are kept at par by redeeming tbem in greenbacks. They are deposited in the mint in sums not less tban 920, receipted for, and checks sent to tbe depositor.

No silver five cent pieces. have been made for five years. In fact, tbey have been abolished as well as tbe silver three cent pieces. The nickel threes are still issued, slthougb but few are used.

From five to ten thousand dollars of eagles, half eagles, quarter eagles, snd three dollar pieces are made every year in order to keep up the history of tbe coin. About 92,000 of ones are made annually for the same purpose.

Tbe greatest demand for silver Coins is for tbe half dollar. The quarter dollar is tbe second favorite and tbe dime is the third sod last in tbe list. Tbe demand for half dollars is twice as great as for quarters, and five times more halves are required tban dimes.

ADVICE TO U1BLS.

Trust not to uncertain ricbes, but prepare yourself for every emergency in life. Learn to work and be not dependent on servants to make your bread sweep your floors snd darn your own stockings. Above all, do uot esteem too lightly those honorable yourt^ men who sustain themselves and tbsir aged parents by the labor of tbeir own hands, while you caress snd receive Into your company those lazy, indolent fops, who never lift a finger to help themselves so long as tbsy can keep body and soul to aether, and get money no matter how, to live in fashion. It you sre wise you will look at this subject in tbe light we do, and when you are old enough to become wivea you will prefer the honeat mechanic, with not dollar to commence life, to the fashionable loafer with a capital of ten thousand dollars. Whenever we bear It remarked, "sucn a young lady baa married a fortune," we always tremble for her fotnre prosperity. Experience teacbee that aa a rule, where riches are left to children by wealthy parents, tbey turn out to be a curse instead of a blessing.

Girls remembfer this, and rather than sound tbe purse of your lover* and examine the out of their costs, look Into tbeir hablta and their bearte ase that they have minds that will lead them to look above a ussless existence, to one of aotion and persistent effort to be useful member* of society In this great world.

MaaaiKD, at Virginia, Nev., on tbe 4th Instant, by the Rev. Fatber MoGrath, Ah Wan, Esq., and Miss Nan Ying. The following waa the ceremony: 'Ah Wan, you likee this one plecee woman much good 'You bet!' 'Nan Ylng, you likee this one pietne man way an good?' 'Me likee this piecee.'

4Ah

Wan, you never catchee no more woman but tbia one pieoee, d'ye moind that?' •No mora caiebee.' 'Nan Ying, you catchee no more man but Ah Wan. D'ye understand that 'All lightee.' 'Then, In the name of tbe Almighty, I callee you alio same one pieces meat.' The groom paid 9800 for tbe bride to tbe company that had imported her, and when be learned that If be had married her the law would have given him posssssion of her without paying a cent a gloom was cast over the community.

MIXED SENTIMENT*. [Pram the Hewark Can.]

Tbey were contributing towards a food for tbe extinguishment of the church debt the ether evening at a masting of a West Newark congregation. "Til contribute 99*,' mm one brother. **1*11 go 9* better,

and

make

It 950," aald another brother. And then thefirst contributor, In tbe excitement of the moment, aald: "111 call jou what have you got?"

Perfume there if no significance In the feet that of the only two persons aver born with double tongues, two were girls.—Worcester Press.

IN THE ICE.

BT J. T. TBOWBR1DOB.

T"

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BKKN A OOLDKS WEDDING.

Old lady Dracutt, bent with years and trouble, in black cloak and hood, walked home from meeting, with alow atepe, leaning on her cane. Old man Dracutt followed lier from the porch, took the opposite side of the street, passed her on the wsy, opsned the gate before her, and let it alam back almoet in her face as she up ii%"x .=f

This little soene, or something like it, happened nearly every Sunday in their lives, and tbe observant world was getting used to it. Elderly people, watobing it now for twenty yearaor more, bad learned to look on and make no other comment tban, 'Well, it'a just like old man Dracutt,' (or old lady Dracutt, as the case might be): 'they're crotchety and what's the use of talking?'

No eo the younger portion of the community, repxesented on this occasion by Miss Emma Welford, who, passing with her little flocK of brothers and sisters, just as tbe old ploughshsre, sagging in its short chain fastened to a stake, jerked tbe gate violently together again, said compassionately, 'Why oouldn't he have bad tbe kindness to hold It open till she bad gone through?' while even the hard featured plougbabare seemed, in her pure eyes, to look ashamed of its part in the transaction.

Oid man Dracutt, not bent at all by his troublee (he appeared to bear tbe burden of life on his head, and to have been crushed together by it considerably in tbe jaws and shoulders getting thereby that stubborn build of body and set expression of faoe)—old man Draeutt trudged on, and disappeared In tbe lonely old house, while bis wife was still feebly fumbling with tbe gate. Ab me! bow little we know what tbe effect of a casual kind look or word of ours may be sometime*. Old Isdy Dracutt took hold of tbe post instead of tbe gate, and tried to pull it open that way—very absurdly, to be sure, but you would hardly have laughed at heir ir you had seen tbe cause. The poor old creature was blind with tears. Tbe great sorrow of ber life bad never given ber a moist eye she waa proud, and strong, and obstinate to endure misery ana wrong that tough, dry stock, unkindness could bend and wither, but not soften or break and yet a compassionating alanceout or a young girl's eyes, tbe pitying tones of a sweet voice, oould melt berln an inatant.

Sbe got tbe gate open soon, with Em ma's help ('Thank you, dear child,' said she) and entered tbe bouse, where sbe found her husband settling down in bis low, square, straight backed, old oak firm chair, by tbe kitchen stove. A newspaper rustled on bis trembling knees, while betook from a blsck leathern case a pair of steel bound »pectscles, and set tbem astride his nose, which also appeared to have been flattened a little, ana pushed well down over bis broad mouth and cbin by the afofesald burden.

She put away her oloak and bood in a dark closet (from which tbey seldom emerged, except for Sundays and funerals, when they came out saturated with gloom and almost oonscious, It seemed, of the solemn use tbey served), and presently sat down in her chair (neither had ever, probably, for years, sat in ths other's chslr), with an anoient, sallow leaved well worn bible on ber lay. Both clad in rusty black be so compressed and grim, and sbe so crooked and withered be with bald crown shining In the light, over shsggy, gray ear looks sbe with Iron gray bair (once black treeses) bid den under her oap of yellow lace—there they sat, and warmed their bodies, If not their hesrts, by the stove between them neither ever looking at the other, nor ever speaking more than if each had been alone.

Aud each was alone, for what Is bodil

Presence

where souls are estranged?

bis was tbe snnlverssry of their marriage did they think or it? For half a century tbey bad lived together, and to day tbey might have celebrated their golden wedding. Fifty years ago this December evening, fnll of youth and hope and lo+e, tbey joined their hands, with trust snd solemn vows, snd begian tbe journey of Hie, which looked eo beautiful before tbem. Tbe storm and rainbow of a real little romance bad given interest to tbeir courtship and marriage. Jonathan had been off teaching school somewhete, sod on bis return had fonnd his darling little Jane engaged to be married.

They had alwaya been attached to each other from tbeir early childhood, wben they played little husband and wife, aud kept bouse together, with clem shells for dtsbee, and aooroa for cups snd saucers, under a board, laid across a corner or tbe garden fence, for a house. Growing baahful as tbey graw older,tbst sweet play ceased but at school they dressed and behaved each for theeyeeof tbe other, and wait always tbe beet of friends, efceept that tbeir frequent causelees quarrels showed that there was something warmer, perhaps, than friend ship In their attachment, fie was stern, exacting, and raticent ebe was pert and wayward and pouting aud so it happened that they never game to a perfect understanding about (be future, until be returned home, and fonnd her Jost going to inarry her big cousin Jim. Abl then what a time they had of It! what sleepless nights, what haggard days, what torments of psssion and despair! He learned, wben about to lose ner forever, that he could not possibly live without her that the sight of the sky and tbe sight of tbe earth would never again be endurable to him for a day, wben all hope of ber waa gone. And being a telle of tremendoos will whan aroused, you may be mire be did not sit down and sulk over his sorrow. Becoming suddenly convinced that It wa a terrible sin for cousins to Intermarry— though he had seen eooslna do so bsip% and had not thought of tbe sin personal Interest fri suchquestionssometimes makea a man awrally mora! In his feeling*, all at once), be determined to save ber font ita commission, snd himself, st tbe ssme tiqso, from life long misery snd set to work, in tbst mdtter

of life and death, with characteristic energy. And she—why, she bad never discovered be cared so much for ber why hsdn't be told her so before It was too 1st*-? or why did be make her wretched by telling her now? In short, the more selfish lover swept everything before bim and tbe more generous one said: 'If you really prefer bim to me, Jace. I don't wish to hold you I give you up even having the good grace to be present, cheerful guest, st that famous weading.

Tbe old msn's newspaper slipped from bis band, tbe old lady's dim eyes wandered from the broad Bible page to tbe stove hesrtb, snd there tbey sat and mused while tbe dull December evening darkened around tbem. One could almoet hope, out or pity for them, that they did not think of those earlier days. How oould they bear to think of them? Dear child, whose bright eyes are now following these linee, when the summer of your life has burnt out, and hope after hope bss faded on the cold besrth of old sge, can you bear, think you, to sit in the long winter twilight, looking at tbe ashes? O, the ashes! the aabea! What a atory of bounding sap, and green leaves, and boughs waving In sun snd breeze, they might tell, if tbey bsd language! This is the tragedy of life, with tbe slow, blsck, silent eurtain descending upon tbe sosne.

It is sll tbe more a tragedy when the acton feel, aa these two must have felt, that they are tbe authors of tbeir own unbappineas. If Jonathan and Jane had been as bumble as tbey were proud, if tbey hsd treated each other tenderly, using love and forbearance toward each other all their days, this desolstlon oould never have oome upon them. Destiny is a tree that grows from roots In our own hesrts.

Tbe first few yearsof tboir married life bad been happy, but family cares increased, while their patience under tbem did not Increase. What triflea tbey allowed to vex them!—trifles, surely, when compared with tbe greatness and glory of love. They ooula better have afforded to lose everything else than to loee tbia, if tbey bad only known it! Tbey had tbe New England vice of excessive industrv. Happiness tbey burled in bard work. Tbey saved tbe pennies of life, and lost Its jewels. Tbe bitter and cruel things they oould ssy to each other, altera while, must have amazed and shamed eve

a

themselves wben tbey

paused to reflect. I don't know which was most to blsme, but it was sbe who said to bim, in tbe midst of a violent altercation (this was when they had children grown u£ and married): 'Jonathan Dracutt, I wish you would never speak to me again as long as you live!'

He started baok, looked at ber for a moment in silence, then turned away. 'Tell her I take ber at ber word,' aald he to their daughter Elisabeth, 'but she must never speak to me!' 'I never will,' aaid Jane.

That was twelve years ago, and tbey bad not spoken to each ether since. Nobody, not even themselves, though 'they were quite In esrnest at tbe time, could have expected that tbeir unnatural silence would lsst so long. Children and friends remonstrated but In vsiu. 'She bss told me never to speak to ber, and unless she tskes back that word, I shall sbide by it,' said Jonsthsn. 'I'll tske it beck wben be saka my forgiveness for whst provoked me to it—he was so unjefet,' said Jane which, of oourse, be would never do. tie ssk forgiveness! Not even if ha knew be wss wrong. 'Then it Isjust aa wel!,'asld sbe. 'Yes,' he replied, through sn Interpreter, 'there is more peace in tbe bouse, now her tongue is quiet.'

And this was be who bad once believed that life would not be In any degree tolerable to bim without ber.

Pride aud resentment kept both from speaking st tint, and this reserve became, in tbe oourse of time, a settled bsbit. It gsve rise, necessarily, to many inoonveniences, and sometimes to a ludicrous situstlon. If a peddler called and found tbem alone, be was sare to be amazed and puzzled to hear tbem communicate with each other through himself: 'Ask him for some money.' 'Toll her to git ve some dinner and to go away, perhaps, imsginlng be bsd been desl'lng with Inssne people. Yet tbe hsbit grew st length to fit them so easily that vlaitors were known to stop at ths bouse, converse pleasantly with tbem, in tbe preeence of tbeir children, snd slterwsra depart without discovering ths peculiarity of tbe old ooupla. Tbey did not even make direct signs to esob other, like dumb persons, for that would have been a oompromlss each waa too proud and too stubborn to make tbougb, perbsps, if she wanted sugar from tbe grocery, sb* would set out the empty bucket where he would see it, sna be. if be wished his cost mended, would ley It, rugs uppermost, scross a chair.

One comprehends more easily bow be could continue to livelK, tbsn bow she oould, with ber women's heart. But she knew him to be lmplacsble as fste, snd hsd, I suppose, no notion of bumbling herself to plesd for a reconciliation which be might not grant. Or. perhaps, when her heart swelled with tne memories of happier days, and yearned again for tbe love It bad loat, tbe recollection of hie harshness and injustice rolled back tbe stone upon it for sbe, too, wss one who fonnd it very hsrd to forgpt a wrong.

The wonder was that tbey should continue to liva together. But oblldren, aa children so often do, prevented sepsistloa at first, and when tbe lsst of these msrried and removed to tbe far West, tbey bsd sn idol of a grandchild left, tbe only son of their only son, who waa dead. The boy bad loat his mother, too, eo that hia grandparents now stood to him in tbe puKje of parents also. In him all their affections centered, and toward him even the old grandfather, who bad always been stern enough with hia ewn children, wee sometimes (ss Is sooootimee the way with grandfathers} fooliahly weak and indulgent.

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len inofc or ma QKANDP4WH(TB. "WMttt tha two sat there musing in tbe "twttlgfe^^the door opened, and a young man, or rather a big boy* bunt in, with aloud Mid abrupt manner, slamming tbe door behind nim» Mid shying bisosp st hat peg, without much apparent expectation of bittirxg it.

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