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' CHAPTER XXL
When again I grew conscious, my
husband was bending over ine, ready to
catch tbe first gleam of my return ins
reason. Mr. and Mrs. Motley were also
near with my children, and lr. Soy
denbam was i,nt far away. Bat I did
not realize that I had beeu ill or nnooo
ecious. Kuryihiug was confused in
my brain, ami I thought X was in Mel
bourne. I had forgotten all about the
trial.
"Gerald, iait you? and are you sober?
and do you love roe ?" I asked, my voice
so weak us to be almost inaudible.
"Yes, my precious darling; I am here,
a sober man and free. I was honorably
acquitted, thanks to your dreams and
endeavors, and I call God to witness
that I will never again allow myself to
touch or taste or handle the intoxicat
ing CUl."
Jt was a great blessing to me that I
believed iu my husband's earnest prom
ise. It gave me hope aud strength and
courage, and enabled me to convalesce, i
as I could not otherwise have done.
But it would have proved a far greater !
blessing had he only had sufficient
moral and physical strength to liave I
successfully resisted l la diseased appe- '
tite to the erd.
'Ah, id- '.
Very gradually I recovered my accus
tomed strength, and yet more gradually
my shattered memory. For a long
time everything connected with the
trial under winch I had sunk uncon
scious Whs to me as a more thau half
forgotten dream. J?U gradually glim
mers of tlie past came hack, and among
the lir-t of my confused remembrances
recurred 1 lint vh'oii of the coal-black eyes
and pale blonde hair that had hauuted
me before my nirrL-ifut season of tempo
rary oblivion had occurred, to save me
from hopeless insanity.
-vt ".-' I liitd j 'np;"tvii.M
)tte,t,oii, but I sooii saw that the task
of untangling my dilemma through
hiui was destined to prove ineffectual.
He was uniformly kind to me now, and
fought io ani.cipate my slightest wish,
hut Ills only reply to my numerous in
terrogaloi le- v :
"Wait till we get well aud strong be
fore we :.sk too many que-lious."
liut my mind was not to be thus ap
peased. Tlie curiosity of my sex which
is said to be inherited from our mother, '
Kve, is possessed by me, in common ,
with all the sous and other daughters of
women, aud the more I pondered over !
the vexed question, the more anxious I !
grew to unravel it, until finally I would
be put oft no longer at least so far as I
Mrs. Mot.Vy was concerned. 1
"You treat me as though I were nodi- 1
ing hut a half-witted child!" I said,'
sobbing fitfully, and accompanying the
complaint with tlie usual exclamations
of bitterness indulged in by peevish '
perons. I
"""il we only want to restore you to'
he.tith, little one," was the cooing an
swer, as the good woman sought for tbe
hundredth time to pacify, without satis
fying me.
"Hut I'm not an idiot, Mrs. Motley,
aud I know I can't get well till themys
Ury of that murder is cleared up," I
said, burtug uiram into tears, and call
lug my be-t friend heartiest) aud unreasonable.
Faxs Speech, Fbeb
Tmmu I'sofuc
VOLUME "VII.
j?otit;la.ivi, Oregon, frxdat, jtjtsts users?.
NUMBEK -11.
ings, that she was not dead, bat hidden
away, the better to ween the old repro
bate, the unlawful custodian of your
quintuple eagles, from nuklte suspicion."
"And how was it all discovered T'
"Partly, as I said, through your
dreams and ravings, and partly through
testimony wrung from the canting ofd
hypocrite himself, whom you will be
glad to know is now at San Quentin,
serving out a three years' seutenee for
obtaining money under false pretenies."
'Thank God!" I ejaculated, fervently.
"Yon will ardon me, Ethel dear, but
it seems In me quite inconsistent in you
to praise tbe Lord for tbe incarceration
of Elder Chalmers, when you were
ready to screen your husband, whether
innocent or guilty."
And Mrs. Motley looked at me re
proachfully, and with pity.
"ou mistake my motives my pre
cious friend," I answered, earnestly.
"My husband was on trial for murder,
of which I knew be was not guilty, and
T waa determined to see him vindicated.
cannot shake hint loose after he has
robbed, Insulted and maligned you, and
crippled your child."
"But he Is ray lawful .husband, and
the father of my children, aud I love
lilni; ami he is, or has been, the unfort-
Utiliiation of Babies,
BY I-ETBOI.EI- r.VASUY.
It wuz Tunper, I
tal Tunner. whleh v
well is a liousesprlii
like Topper, forther
ftaf
Uie ioimor-
" babe In a
pleasure." -I
t uo nonsense
nate -ielitn of a diseased appetite, and I ! about him. His poetry la ex -easy to
won't Iinar mi- Wt friend .fc ll ,.f " e I14' t " Km me
kii t. ,. Jsndrinoff
in . i saw, iiiuiguaiiuy.
'There! there! little one. You have
talked enough for one day," and my
friend again placed her hand playfully
over my mouth. "There is no law or
out uv the grasp uv the Intel
leek uv tlie most humble. You kin di
gest Topper ess easy ez you kin pumkin
pie. But I don't Intencl to stray oil Into
the Held uv criticism.
Babies was alias rav espeshl aver
shuu. A hauv is a tbfcMr to be taken
gospel to prevent a man or woman from care uv, not a thing tfl take care uv
Mug a fool, if so disposed. Now go to i anybody else. Babies are expensive,
sleep ami he hannr " mk1 ,,e WMO hl" ,'"v"r uv that
T . . , ;kind of arrers must expeck to devote
e,oeed ny languidly, and lay himself religiously to Ibasa. and byjtat
there tbiaking, thinking. o much aegisst bVM- T!l; uare
"Surely," I soliloquized, "my hus-1 ,,v others and Deglectiii myself wuz
band will never again essay to i, jure 1 T, m " "d"pleU
me. I have given him so much proof jt wuz, therefore, with feel ins uv pro
of my devotion that he will consider it found disgust I saw the first uv the
his duty, aud it will certainly be his ' by Irapeudin. I didn't like It. I
prideto protect and honor me li-re.fi. r i ,,Jfctvd to it, not ouly on akount of
n . Prtiw ""nor me hereafter, j myiM.,fj but oll Mariar-s, tbe wife uv my
liut, alas! for tbe vanity of a wife's , buzzum. That excellent woman wux a
expectations under such circumstances. ! milliner, aud t felt that it wux enull for
Besides, he is, or was, a slave to a dis- The truth is, as I now know, through ,,er to uk" care ,,v IMe without bevln
for what be did while uuder tbe influ- years, that any mau who will abuse his fr that addishuel ooe lesson my cdm-
eoceofrum. He is now truly penitent,
and I have a wife's abiding faith iu his
complete refoi (nation. We shall be
happy yet."
Yoo precious, hopeful, and deluded
simpleton," said Mrs. Motley, Irjing to
speak playfully. "Don't you kuow
wife without provocation, or even per- forts ? I am not selfish.
I k no wed
sisteutly, when provoked to It, is so far th"t maii with a child coodeut care
devoid of principie that he Is not cap.- tZjXJffT ehHd'
ble or experiencing tbe lofty emotion of she cood without. Ex it wux, she could
unselfish gratitude. igive her whole time to me aud the
Gerald was obsequious, penitent, and 'ul the takin care uv me ex I ought
kind enough when his selfish needs and to. f"!"'- "IV"" "i?!;
lilt
mat tbere is about as much chance to aims inspired the feeliug and conduct, fust, and she wuz still lovm) "My deer,
cure a drunken man of his coustilu-' but he never imagined the moral emo- it's a fine boy, aud can't you take some
tioual infirmity as there is lo cure a case ! tlon of protecting aud caring for me for ,,0,,,,f"rt io tlie refleckshun that iu your
of hydrophobia
"The Ird God omnipotent reigneth,"
I answered, with a devout emphasis
that made my friend smile sadly.
"If the Lord can cure evils so effcctii-
.1.11..!.. " .
mv own -L-u l il I I,. I ,l . i ""- ers you will nev some one to
my owi sake. And I had done so mud, U,M11 , Think of that.''
r"rh,ni! "My deer," I replied, promptly, "I
Ah, me! ain't a discountin the fuciier. Te pres-
Iu a few weeks I was again ready fr e,,t !" ,?00', e"ouKh fw me, I thank you.
, j...! ... - . A bird in the baud is worth' a irood
""'" nu as our iunus .,,.,, i ,,,, r .. ...
soiis"itool went so far on oue occasion
wheu one uv em wuz III, I actllly went
and split oven wood rather thau let
Mariardrop that child and do It her
self, wieu bad alluz been her dooty and
privilege.
A father's luv Is Mir most twhln
thing in nacher. Hundreds uv nites
hev I laid in bed and permitted Marlar
in gu up mr oatiitp tea wlien I really
needed sleep, and her nrlslu disturbed
me; ami the warm water I hev allowed
that woman to bring from the kitchen
nites for therrfchlldren, would never be
believed. Like a troo father, I made
sacrifices for them children. I felt the
dooty uv ecniiomlsin that they might
eujoy advantages, and to thut end I
sternly refoosed to let Marlar pay for a
pew in the church she belonged to. and
at once cut oft her annooal subscripsheu
w toe rurnu jusuuarv isncletv.
"Marlar," I ranuliL nintin at the I
ten, "the heathen is not onffc si oni-4
uoor, oui tuey are inside thereof."
wen wood it hev bin for me ef T had
never allowed mvself to Im
suaded in this matter. Marlar sunk
under the latior uv oarlu fur them ohll
Iren, ami went to iter long home, de
spite the advice I bad given her for
twenty-live years eoncernin the proper
management of them. I drop a tear to
me memory uv mat excellent pervider.
She wuz my stay for a quarter uv a cen
try. My second wnz better lookin, but
the miuit she wuz married she closed
the shop (I have alluz married mtl
liners) and insisted on my supportin
"y nuru wuz weaRiy i wuz took
iu with tier and couldeut work. Wat
a contrast ! Marlar frekeotly put a
mortgage on litr Asters to supply tbe
father ii v her children with the uecea
ries uv life. Alas ! them fixters are all
gooe, this many a year.
Time rolled on, and Tom reached the
age uv twenty-two and was admitted
to the bar and got into a good practis.
ow, I seil to myself, I she reap my
reward. The first fee Tom got I
promptly asked him for ten dollars,
wicb wux to hev been tbe first drop uv
the golden shower wleh wuz to fll..r
Tom looked at me a expression that
A Talk with Whittier.
ally when his attention Is called to were exhausted, I turned with longing pint uv takin that boy thro scarlet fe-' k1 me 1,0 Rood, aud turned on his
them, or he is coaxed to do it, I cannot ' toward Nevada City, where I ex- vr, mumps, measles, colic and other ,,eel a ntl walked away. Xot u dollar
see why he doesn't preveut them alto- peeled to again resume my former hus- !' iuoideut to childhood, uv payin wood '''K've me, tho he did tqnander
gether," she exclaimed Inrei.lv "Pre- iness. r .m.rs, st uooim, close anil et cetlery, r""7 "" y " ms younger
' cALiniui, iii repiy. ire- mi U inn. n m.i.li.. , .... brothers ami sisters, .nut limuu 1
1 ' . i. . 1 II UW IIIC 111 I , . ' " -.-.v-. u.u
vention is certainly better thau cure." Hut Mr. Dllieuthal was m thoroughly
"Mrs. Motley, I believe you are grow- , disgusteii with me because of my loy
ing skeptical !" I exclaimed, in anion- ally to Gerald that he would not renew
ishnieut. my lease, and nobody else would trust
"Xo, dear," was the quiet answer. ' n,e, so I found it necessary to look iu
"I do not doubt the wisdom aud mercy "oiue other direction for a livelihood,
of our Heavenly Father, but I clearly Strange that it did not occur to me to
see that we do not always comprehend depend on my husband, seeing I k im
his laws. I am provoked w ith you be- P'lcitly trusted him, but he teemed to
cause you do not protect yourself from "le 'ke a helpless child, for whom it
1 1 irim I 1 v.. 1. . . . . I . .. . . .1 . . u.aa I - . . I 1 . . . ... . .
v.r.,.., lain i7i iimu i ucjitllll oil MIHI "J "'J iioviiib IO Uller- ' , . . . , , , ... ,,;. , I ...1,1, .. i T
. i i. ,r i . . ' . . i i . , -. . i his saluted mother, he would snonnrt 1 feue quite agreed with him, and I
to do it for yon. If I thrust my hand n"'. And yet, I considered mvself an ,..,.i ,.i.. ..'. ",r.T .. T. irted sick.
Into the fire aud keep it there, I do hut orthodox "clinging vine," to be sup- etlorts I could go thro the balance uv 1 Loo'er married a week-mlndeil young
mock my Creator when I ask him to P"eU aud protected by tbe laws aud "e vallejr and shadder in comparative, '"V" 1 eoou nev borrowed
my seer and yaller leef. I hev to take j oue By -mr I,ot g'vln em a better
ine vnances uv ills belli a billiard i l ",Ma "ru-narieu anu uu-
player, or uv sludyin meiiiciue, or uv ; S'fteful.
turmn reformer, or any uv them uu- '"'"Rene did marry a rich old man at
, profitable okkepashiius." eighteen, and moved iu a brilliant
1 sed this to let Mariar know that 1 1 lM'r- Confidently r approached her
wuz displeased, so that she would ; ""sband on tbe subject of takin up my
more keerful to please me iu everything n 'u w'm l'em, aud pa sain my de
else. ' I cliniu years iu comfort, but lie remarked
But what she sed sunk deep into my h"'11, "' lurlher first, ami he wuz
heart all the same. Ef John, wich is i ek""y onreasouable ou the subject uv
wat we named the bov. shood irmw temjiorary relief. Finally he informed
aud shood inheiit the dispnsishuu nv ,n" that he didu't marry me. and lino-
ae-
Wlien you see Whittier, you see in
stantly it is the Whittier of the pic
tores, only more thin and gray. The
pictures give you a larger head, yet not
so fine in the lines that menu most to a
man of genius; and no picture can give
you the eyes, smaller than tboee we see
in ills portrait of Burns, but dark, in
tent's aud tender, aud when be speaks
of what touches him intensely, all
nglow with the light or his soul, such
eyes, indeed, as you only see now In a
picture by one of the great old masters,
who.e genius I used to tliink, as T wan
dered through the galleries, was more
wonuerrul iu that than in anything else
that has eome to us from Uulr h.,,
Tbere is s. hint f the Quaker, you ihk
ic, in iiiecuc oi ins ilress, but not in
the color, which is black, not new at
al', but so snot less as to make vnn wink
sj would (ante alt.ycur new garments
awl put them through a course of train
ing for a few months, that they might
get tbe habit of looking as pure and
sweet as that when you came to wear
uiem; a tjuaKer in his speech, yet using
"thee" aud "thou" with such a shy,
sweet grace as to make you wonder
whether the finest manners may not
lurk, after all, within tbe homely old
S.ixon terms; quick with his words,
contrary to all his traditions and train
ing, and with no hint of the sacred sing
song bis sect has always held in such
pro round esteem, especially iu meetin'.
When we had done with our greet-
lugs, we sirucK nrsi, i caunot tell how,
on the fathomless subject of the nature
and destiny of the human, soal. My
friend and myself took tbe sunny side
of the way, Whittier the shadowy. We
tried to make out a case that should
cell ter first aud. last in the Diviue love.
He stood fast by the Jiumau responsi
bility. We marshaled our picked
forces for a Divine election of all souls
at last to the everlasting lite. He
matched us with the freedom of the
will, through which a man may elect
himself to the doom of tbe UtM, and per
sist in that to the end. We fired onr
last shot : "He shall go after tbe sheep
which is lost until he find it, and bring
it on his shoulders rejoicing." He
feared that the habit of wandering
would carry the dav airain whMir
the hapless thing got its chance to
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Ulve to all Uve Issues, and Thoroughly
RadlcaHnOpposlngandBspodlnKtbe Wrongs
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r' or n attention will be given to tbelr
eomaonieationg,
Tieie Money is Made.
the SjSL-'
and five-cent p.eces-and a larTf'
we goia ana silver coins i-i V.T
s ! 1 1 J(J
eountrv. Thr ,.r .i . '
at San Francisco and C.rJ cuy. Tnd
at these places gold and silver coins of
th- "reCoiuediD S'tqu"U-
Tboaeof yoo who have been in Pl.iia
delpMa will remember. th- .
side of Chestnut street, near Broad, a
Grecian boiidingof white marble, some
whatgray from age, with a tall chim-
?-e. jI0' itom the eete''. nd the
jolted Stotes flag flyiug from tbe roof.
This is the mint.
lt us cllutb tbe loiur flight of steps
and enter the oolidinsr. f.n ih. rf. - ,
a placard: "Visitors admitted from nine
to twelve." The door opens into a cir
cular entrance hall, with seats around
the wall. In a moment a polite usher,
who has grown gray iu tbe service of
the institution, comes to show us all
that visitors are allowed to see.
"When the gold has been weighed."
says our guide, "it is locked up in irou
boxes aud carried in the melting-room,
where it is melted and nms.1 i.,i
molds."
A small piece is then cut off, and its
fineness ascertained by a long and deli
cate process called assaying. This de
cides tbe valueof the lot. The depositor
is then paid, and the metal is banded
over to the inciter and refiner, to be en
tirely freed from its impurities aud
made fit for coinage.
And a hard time it has of it. to be
sure. Xothiug but pure gold aud silver
could ever stand such treatineut. It is
melted again, dissolved iu nitric acid,
squeezed under I mi nse pressure, baked
Iu a hot eellar, and finally carried to this
dingy-looking room, at the left of the
court-yard, where we have stood all this
time. The metal is perfectly pure now,
but before the final melting one-tenth
of it weight in copper is added to it to
make it hard enough to bear the rough
usage which it will meet with in travel
lug about tbe world.
ll)e room would h il,t i.i n...
comfort. I wux dually reeoncf IchI.
r -m fin. uiuiaiiv r - vs. vmj, tuciv aic limit T.. . - , -
" , Wl-I them that w... not see. J&Xtf&b"
"I don't understand you, Mrs. Mot- My husband had lotted much upon , "Mariar," wuz my remark, "this is
.' , r ! my restauraut, and when he found its: !'.?. Tr'1- H?8." icuhus.
"Well, my dear, I mean lust this. '',., J h , . Z . ' ,,l,t 1 "HVe kM,ru' t. looking to the
You know vour husband Is a confirmed f ,be "B"'U ,H .t kin a girl do ? She is
,.,. . . , s coniirme.1 is cuw. But lie was not cross, as he an exiense from the time uv her birth
nebr ate. ou know be is liableat any mwbfrM , 1,11 she gits oil your hands. I shudder
time to be attacked by sprees, and when of him as formerly ' when I think wat that puny girl will
he is in his cups your life, your chll- tr , M r'.i ..... i . .. 1 mI WBl We hev Got to 8 thru
., .... ' . . aud Jlrs. Motley relurnetl to their on its account "
.oC... .uu your property are in constant 01Mra ,i,... ., .
n '"oiiuinTa niiiuuir, alic ui I ll
ers, so provoked with me for elingiug
to my husband when it was plainly no
benefit to either myself or children for
me to do it, that I hail little hope of
ever meeting them again.
ij.it u ..... . l.
"AW .le,.r f,ie.l .. ... i ' "ry iouo someining.
' . . . . . v . , i -i ii. pi tir-v- e
iiou lor women unoer tlie law except j
inrougu tlie divorce courts, aud vou
jeopardy
"Then what would you have me to
do ?"
"Protect yo-irself.''
"How ?"
"I'uder the Itw."
were out of money, Gerald was
runk, and our room rent was over due.
A K.. O.I. .1 i
now an Knglisb woman nrefers ileuih ....
' oi excitement In California about the
donation land law that had recently
to divorce.
"We are all governed a great deal
more by prejudice than common sense,"
said my friend, reflectively.
I "Mrs. Motley, would you advixr mr to
Icarc my Ausfranrf"
The supreme loftin-s with which I
asked the question provoked a laugh in
j response.
I "Of cour-e not," she ssid, earnestly.
"Women are made to be beaten and
robbed and trampled under foot bv
And in a bitter mood I sot down with
my head in my bands, like one whose
fuciier is gloomy. lp spoke Mariar
once more :
"My dear, Imogene will grow up Into
a flue woman, and wheu she is I went v
lour "
"Why not seventeen ?"
"Seventeen be it. When she is even
teen she will marry a rich old man.
Yoo kin do better out uv a aou-in-law
than yoo kill out uv a son, for the son-in-law
will be in love with the girl, and
a man in love kin be made to do any
thing. For your sake, deer, I hone ail
been passed for tbe Territory of Oregon, ' our children will be girls."
money, but for the Insurmountable faet
that lie lied none awl never did. He
wanted to return to tho arentle roof,
but I indlgiiantlv refused.
Joolius got lo he a mechanic, but he
ueu ins own family lo support, ami Ah
nor laueu me io scorn wlien 1 came
upon mm, Insistin that he wood do as
much for me as I had ever did for him.
S.imyool, from whom I did expect
siithiu, flouted and jeered at me, and
wheu I insisted and talked of pureiitle
authority and sieh, absolutely threat
ened me with a brick.
Meliudy, my fifth, got to he a mil
liner aud never married. Ez a lust re
sort, I proposed to live with lfir and
take charge of her blzlness, as I had a
large exjierlenee.
"Kxcuse me," wuz her hartlls re
mark. "I ain't mo."
Aud so I wuz cast oil" from all of em.
The memrv uv their mother Hz im
like a wall between them ami me, and
them ex shood have cared for me ez she
did.
And so on down. They showed great
alacrity in gittln away from me, and an
ureaK away: mere would-be no over- "ery glow of the furtuuv. u-binh 1,..
coming of the freedom of tbe will, to;,,n end of the plane. Ou these area
wander off or to stay by the -Shepherd number of small pots, filled with red
even iu tbe treen nastures ami bv the I hot liuuid metnl- ami utii ,.. i,i.
still waters of God. It was a most na- I workman lifts one after anntl.or ini ..
thetic and touching little struggle of P'r of long tongs aud iours the gold
two to one. Still, Whittier stood when lu streams into narrow iron moulds
we had done where he was wlien we lw. We would rliu- i .'.
gan, unspeakably solemn and teuder, ' ' at tbe glowing fires aud the
wishing, I thooght, he could see what , swarthy figures of the workmeu but
seemed so sure to ns, but neither able our guide is already half-way across the
nor willing to disturb the solid aud and we reluctantly follow, slen-
strong convictions of a lifetime aud of P"K aside to make room for a workman
such a life. , with his burden of Silver lura urliiAk !..
Then he said cheerfully to me: "I j is carrying to undergo the rot Hug pro
hear thee is lecturing this winter on The rollers give the metal the
Burns. I should like to hear the form of ribbons, from w hi.lt ni.nil....
Bums is to me the noblest poet of our
race. He waa the first poet I read, and
he will be the last. Our people did not
care for poetry," he said, "wbeu I was
a boy. We had iu our house an Amer
ican reader, quite popular at that time,
in which I found some pieces of tbe old
school of singers; and, beside that, we
had a poem called the 'Davidess, U
hope I have struck the title) written by
ti 'Friend,' and held in great esteem by
our body. But somehow these did not
seem to touch me. They were not what
I wanted. Oue day one of our nreanli-
ers came to stay all night, aud noticing,
as we sat bv the fire thnt t -.. i...... .
ou ii book, ne said :'I will rend lo thee, i P"0'1! "f, disadvantages that men have
I 9 Sl.nn lit... . . ' I tlQtTSlP lla.i t n a.. ... a .1 r . a w ...
machiue Hunches the nlannhet u-hi-i.
are tbe coins be-fore they are milled aud
stamped. .Sr. Nicholcu for May.
WhyJJot?
Thought, ambition, lanlniinn i..-
ideality, veneration, and all the attri
butes that go to make up the sum of hu
man intelligence and human worth, are
absolutely sexless. Genius U sexless.
Many of the brightest lights iu liter
ature and art jjf poetry, music, sculp
ture, painting are women. It hus beeu
thus all along down the line of human
history; and that even under a multl-
ir lliee like, some poems by Bobert
Burns. I have a conv with me Sn ii
got, tne booK and began to read. It was
never nau to contend with. Unlil lately
..... .-w-uituuuies lor nigiier culture
have been clo, to her. Sbe has had "
the first I had heard of Bums, and my I tot"'KK'eagaiust prejudice, oppression.
fhat I heard I B"" ",0ot eonleiuptible of all tyr-
aud I conceived the idea of removing A" 1 rdereu. It wood not he rerrU WH' 1 ,,ev.er
lhjln s ad thing to hev a rich son-in-law, to I account for. In speekln uv the
i Willi you coon go aiiii iKirrer teti ilol- I . " " " proioose in re-
ve.ni me tuerary oi ineir motlier. wich
didn't need it, but they didn't reveer
jiy uusuaiiu seemeu io nave uo care 1 lars every time you needed it, Wat
for the present or the future, aud the "on-ln-lsw in this Christ In land wood
management of the enterprise devolved ''!'''" '"'"M-ln-law, the awtbor of his
wholly upon me ! T1'" " ,brfu',8 nr lor the lack of a
wnoiiy upon me. few paltry dollars? And besides, if he
Thanks to Judge Downy, I was not : didn't like it and saw any chance uv
without influential friends, aud I was I olJ man's drinkiu' hisself to death,
able to secure a Jiositioii for my husband 1 be "f"1 h",D '"at eonclushen. Wat
as commander of sbm.l.l I,. glorious deth ! I aceepte.1 tbe dawter.
drunkards, Whv should thev com- . . , , . " anu oore .Marlar' s increest labors lo per-
" ve eraoarkl tor Portland, where we vide for it with resignashun.
r ' 1 landed, after a rough voyage, on a raw ! -"i I narrate how oue follered
This sarcasm was a revelation more j aod foKy xoveraber day. QrnH bad ,er .,M PW ocioti1 how the
potent to me than any other method of ' Wn ?lr . , . . number Increest till there wuz ten uv
re..,...i i i . . .. ..... r I teea sober "uri'K l"e journey, and had nlem, aud how eairerlv I look..) r.. i
"Well, little woman. I more thau half ... ,i... ;.;..,. , I olrect1 b very liberal wages to be to the tmie when I shood rest from Mu-
believe you'll get well ail the more ' r i .d flii i i ' pall over to me. But for this timely "d sit dowr, umler Ihelr
relief I do not know what would have ",,u "V . elyoy ,,re7
. ....... 11 wuz a terrible strain on 'Mariar
become of us, for he fell again Into his and I sympathized with her. Tt.i .. .ill
1 was determined to cleave to Gerald, and
MuicHiy irnra Knowing all about it, but
the doctor's order is imperative, you
know. He said we must mil t,IL- ..
.. . I J
nor let you ask questions
And Mrs. Motley looked so exceed
ingly wise,, mysterious, and discreet
that I saw I was gaiuing my poiut.
"Aod you won't tell him if I tell vou
al! ?"
"Of course I won't."
"lhen, my dear, to begin at the be
ginning, do you remember anything
about Klder Chalmers?"
"Rcmrmber O, Mrs. Mot ley 1 Can
I cease to remember the faet that I so
loathed bim tlmt I cursed my dear In
nocent baby Gerald with his looks and
mauuers? And can I forget that Ger
ald, my husband, made the poorehiid a
hopeless cripple io his drunken rage,
because he could not bear to see tbe
striking resemblance to Chalmers, for
which he alone waa to blame?"
"Tbere, little woman; I feared to talk
to you, lest you'd get excited, just as the
"Tell me more atmut the trial, Mrs.
Motley. What did my dream have to
do with acquitting my husband ?"
"In your delirium you seemed to be
always talking with tbe woman of
whose murder be was accused, and you
were so positive that she was not dead,
but a living accomplice and companion
of tbe hypocritical ex-Elder, that my
husband was constrained to thoroughly
investigate the matter, ami he proved
that yoo were right."
"Bat I have been certain all aloog
that the creature was dead."
"Yes, you have thought so in your
normal senses, but in your delirium you
have teen differently."
"Absurd !"
"I know it seems absurd, but the fact
remains, nevertheless, that you so
plainly explained all the minutiae of
tbe plot laid to entrap your husband and
wreeu the guiltier parties, that Judge
cups before we had beeu ashore an hour. ' dren cost money ez well ex labor.
I left him In charge of the obliging C'liureu cost me ez follows:
landlord of a primitive hotel lu the very
primitive eily, ami with my children
aeeompauied a jmrty of land-hunters
up the Willamette to a point above
Oregon City, and from thence with
teams across the country to a level ex
pause of wood and prairie land, where I
decided that our future home should be.
I should like to tell tlie reader exictly
where he may find that old donation
claim long since the property of my
Them
lVianl uv rny motber-ln-law three weeks.
lor eacu... ajg of,
Mtillklr attendance, each
NootliliT isyruiw, rarmlnntlve balsams!
I'liiiilorsnd Klcli.eaen, .10 00
f nuiiii mr i-DHU
st'inir u Iw-hiIh for child .
uv wife's si-rriivs lor three works
'loi Ii iii.whoolin and medikle attendance
I c. ui-o.tlll ihry cood liro-se lot
Jen oo
3 UK
111
to UU
tticinielves, each..
Or, say in round mimtutru sann ni.
Multiply this by ten, aud you hev the
comfortable sum of S,000. wich these
addishuns to the census subtracted frum
Mariar's earnings, wich win Inst n..
legal protector's creditors hut I do not i amount taken frum tne. But ez it wuz
want my identity to be tooanoarent. for I S".",'", "n.'J 'iex.eT. i'"1 r murmured.
famllv reasons. Mv children are overi-if ..V.. ,ii. 1 lo
- - i " " " 1 it I M VV . r Mllil ii-i 1 1
sensitive about our early misfortunes j wl" distinkshen and fees. That dis
and their father's infirmity, and I will i tinkshen I will share and the fees like
spare their feeling, so much as my duty I JrlnU;iS,:.iribjl
to the public will admit, so I will not stay." Sammy I destined for the minis
be too explicit, as to my real name or ,r' Tom for baukin, and the others,
erewhile whereabouts. !" t,,e Rlrl in the cradle. I had ar-
t... . i I...... , ,i ,.,.,,., ranged in my mind's eye so ez to make
ynn 1 i iiicit: isle: iiuikii ttvj 3 v wiiri loiiatiuu tlJr-HM ItJCUQI
u... .rtlld Pn ' Lh? r""1.lt " ,l'.t,be i ela,,,,s 0f'n 80 n,OKi oun ,hat I K I over tbem children I felt
ou iu wnole scheme. Kl.Ier . . . . 1 .i..i, i ..i i ... .i .... ,
wueu i nave oescnoeu one you may i iobiu e an in vest-
know all about the rest; ami which par- mf"'. ''tter than life Inshoorauce or
, , , , . i ' savings banks. Theluvuvaehitd for Its
ticular oue belonged to us is no matter, j p!kT, , more uin than bank or life
To be continued. ; lusliiHirauce. They may break, but na-
cher can't be wipeil out uohow, and Is
certain to endoor. And iu most states
You are a onward if afraid to tell the there is a law cointellln uiiltdren to
truth when you should do so. You are I take keer uv their jiarents, whether they
a coward when you insult the weak. I want to or not.
iu are a coward if alrald to do right, if j An 1 so, communln with myself, I let
1,
wny was constrained lo give heed to
di-ctorsaid von would."
And Mrs. Motley placed her band ! C , jT ' ! fWh'e 8Cheme- EWr
playfully over my mouth with wltam,u'UB
"sh-e-e e." after the fashion of school ! u , d",""" "e
children in their glee. .4d a sTp ,h e cu
i ui . , . raisea a stop tniel cry through the i-
Isubdued my rising temper with ade-. )lCe,odivert public attention fro.uhtnT
termined effort, and soil led faintly. self." r'u '"m"
"What of Klder Chalmers?" I asked, "But you don't mean to say that t.
as patiently a- I could school myself to i bei Martinez was Infatuated with that
speak. old reprobate?" I said, incredulously.
"i iir Vfimiii h. . ieri.... i . . i . . j ........
. , - x..r.c I, .WUu..oS ,r tasie, ; .mm maintaining that which you as she ch.e to. I found myself lookin
his rnend and ally, and it was proved little woman. It is not more wonderful know to be just and good; and you are with soli.,sjtood on them ofl'-prings, aud
during the progress of the trial, and in- than that you should be so deeply in- Ttes otv """fl'1 lf i"11 know certain I saw to it that they wuz kept iu good
directly through your dreams and rav-1 fatuated with Gerald Grey that you ! theol to yMrer "e Uot 10 own condishen and not XkhI to any dis-
' J J ,iuWJuraii. i ease that wux likely to prove fatle. My
you shrink from defending your opiu- Mariar work for them children as muoli
me, wich did need it, a particle. Then
i reauzeu :
" "w snrper than a aerpent's tootb It It
Jo Ucv a tlianklis ohlld."
My children are most all of em in
good circumstances, ami their children
are well clad and well cared for. I am
a lonely old man, deiendiu for a sub
sistence ou mv borrow!
among strangers, a precarious aud dan
gerous method uv livln. My invest
ment didn't pay. The $8,000 that them
children cost my various wives wood,
eflhed it now, give me a decent in
kuui, aud enable me to live in compar
ative comfort. It wuz the mistake uv
my life, and I am too old to. begin agin.
Aud so life is to tne a weary dreem, and
my fucher is overcast with leaden
clouds through which I see no rift.
May heaven forgive my wives and my
uuuacnerai ouspring.
Thk Stewart Woman's Hotel a
Failukk. The Stewart Hotel for wom
en in New York City is no longer to be
kept open for the exclusive benefit of
ladies who earn their own living, as
was inieuueu ny us loumier. After two
mouths' experience it has proved a fail
ure, the class of ladies for whom it was
erected not rescinding in sufficient
numbers to warrant its continuance.
The building is, therefore, to be changed
into a general hotel for all comers, and
alterations are now beiug made for thut
puriose. The building was commenced
by Mr. Stewart iu 1868, and took nine
years to construct. Iu his will ample
provision was made for its furnishing
uud running excuses, until It should
either succeed or fail. It cost to build,
finish, aud furnish, $3,700,000. There
were accommodations for 1,000 women.
The exfienses are very heavy, gas cost
ing $9,000 jier year, water $2,000, and
taxes $,000, besides the enormous pay
roll of the army of employes necessary
for so large a structure. Exclusive of
the above expenses, the hotel has cost,
since its opening, $500 per day more
than the receipts from boarders, and
Judge Hilton, manager of the Stewart
estate, is unwilling to continue the ex
periment longer. As soon as the neces
sary changes can be made, It will be
opened to the general public
A Sunday .school bov. li twin hat tin
asked what made tlie tower of Pisa lean,
replied, "Because of the famine In the
land."
A lawyer is to bo hanged In Texas.
Good beglnniug. Go ou.
wonder and delight over what
are as fresh still as if it were vminnkv
I had heard nothing up to that mo-
kibiii, ii seemed lo me, that had any
right to he ealled poetry, and I listened
as long as the old man would read. I
noticed he left the tmok on tbe table,
so I rose at gray dawn next morning
and read for myself. I was hanging
over the book when the friend came
down, ami then he told ine he was go
ing further to visit such and such meet
ings, would be back al such a time, and
if I liked, would leave the book with
me. Thee may be sure I gratefully ac
cepted his oiler. I read Burns every
monieut 1 had In spare; and this was
one great result to me of my communion
with him : I found that the things out
of which piems came were not, as I hid
always imagined, somewhere away oft
In a world lying outside I lie edge of our
Xew HaiMiehire sky. They were right
there about my feet and among the peo
ple I knew. The common things of our
common llfiM found were full of poetry.
It was a new and a perfect revelatiou."
He told me also what such a man only
can say In good faith, that he could not
understand wbat the critics mean when
they say there are things in Burns not
fit to be read, things impure and vile,
tbe spume of a fallen spirit. "I never
found such things," he said. "I read all
Burns, every hue of him, and while
there is a difference, of course, to me
every Hue is good." I know Whittier
could not have thought, as he told ine
this, that Paul said mice: "To tbe pure
all things are pure;" and how purely
true his commentary on Burns was the
great old text I The Lnkatide Monthly.
The most jierilous hour of a person's
life is when he is tempted to despond.
The man who loses his courage loses all.
There Is no more hope of him than there
is of a dead man; but it matters uot how
poor he may lie, how much pushed by
eireuiDstauees, how much deserteii by
friends, how much lost to the world, if
he only has courage, holds up his bead,
works on with his hands, and, in his
unconquerable will, determines to be
aud do what becomes a man, all will be
well. It is nothing outside of him that
kills, but what is within, that makos or
uumukes.
Goodness is goodness, rind it where
we may. A vineyard exi-ts for the t.ur
liose of nurturing vines, but he would
he a strange vine-dresser who denied
the reality of grapes because they had
ripened under u Ie pbiiI,.i ..
yoiid the preclude of hs vineyard.
The gods hel fl tflfkain trim l.A1 al
selves-men or women. ' lUem"
"Winding up buslnea3"-atartlns the
clock.
auuy, fashion. Man. In his n.n.r
strength, in offering her his protection
has feil her vanity with his seuseless
flattery, until it is a wonder there is a
self-poised, true womanly woman in all
the world. Society, with its false lights
and saaeu reefs, has lured to intellect
ual rain thousands of noble women. Iu
stead of the companion, Jrtner, and
friend of mail, strong in that intellectu
ality which is able lo counsel and sun
h.ii, she has been made his brainless
toy-hw silly botlerfly, all wiugs and
gaudy tinsel.
But, thauks to the spirit of tbe age,
woman is coming forward to take her
juace siue iy skis with her brother man
lu tlie intellectual struggles of rife The
old fogy notion that political, educa
tional, or social rights should depend
upon the nature of the sex, is coming
by our best thinkers to be regarded us
no more rational than that such rights
should depeud upon the color or the
bair, or the weight of the person.
These thoughts are suggested by see
ing the names of women enrolled among
the membership of the Bute Medical
Jsoclety that closed its session lu this
city Thnnsday. And why not? Who
so well qualified to minister to the sick,
and especially to tbe sick of her own
sex, as the educated woman physician ?
A few years ago a womau lrlicil
iug iu the deliberations of a society of
doctors would have seemed strangely
out or place. Tbe doctors themselves
would have looked upon the innovation
with horror, aud lied in dismay from
the hall. Now no one is disturbed at
the thought. Men aud women now
quaff from the same fountainsot knowl
edge, and no oue is shocked. And why
should they be? If a woman has the
brains to master any science if she
thinks she can practice the profession
of medicine, law, or divinity, why in
the name of all that is juit should she
not have a chance to try it ? If she can
edit a newspaper, or uiuuuge a farm, or
run a thrashing machine, we say give
her show sjto,, underestimating ,er
ability to do whatever she chooses to
do, or thiuks she can do. Aud above
all s op speaking of her as tbe weaker ,
and inferior vesel. S'a Jote Mercury.
Cruelty is the offspring of mental idle
ness and beastly ignorance. It should
he repressed, and not eueouraged, a8 is
too often the case with the unthinking.
A liner who. takes property from an
other has It iu his power, should he re
!eut, to make a full restoration. But
the robber or life can never give back
what he has wantonly aud sacrilegiously
taken from beiugs perhaps innocent,
and equally capable of enjoying pleas
ure or sollerlng tort ore with himself.
Every euoh death its own aveoger
breeds.
Show may be easily purchased, but
happiness Is always a home-made ar
ticle. '
A. celebrated oasf tho printer'a.