-r-trrii IS. A. J. CVIWAT. EilUr PresrMerj ) . KICB-Coa.FiwsTA Washij.gtoj.Stkf.kt A Journal for the People. Devoted to the InteresUof Humanity . Independent in Polities and Religion. UlTe to all Live Isones, and Thoroughly Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs TERMS, IN AKVANCK: ol tbe Masses. -i'.e year S'.x months Tlree months -. 175 -IN Free Shetoh. Kbeb Fhpm, Free People. At)V'JSKTIshMKSrMiirt !.. 11 Reasonable 1 VOIOatE VII. POKTLA'. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER l, 1JST!-".. number r;;-:. HER LOT' OR, I'ratecletf. Bt Mrs. A. J. DCNIWAY. AUTUOR OF "JPOITH UID," "ELl.ES DOVD," "AHIE ASD HEHKY Ut," "THE HAPPT HOME," 4sTB VOUI1 SPHF.SK," "MAOOBMtltUiOS," J?'" jjHt' -.u. iinKu.Aci.,rrnSre..,inthe fe. ' Mr. A.J. Dnniway, iu the office or tFVriunoiconirrenatWaohiuctoni'ity. THAITEB XXXII. Oerald was not to be found. I learnrd on diligent Inquiry tliat be bad gone aboard the boat (he night before, and was probably now at Walla Walla. His enforced fit of soberness hat! so awakened the slumbering manhood of his nature that he had not the effrontery to meet his family. I knew, by his being sober, that he was out of money and out of credit, for nothing else would have induced him to desist from drink. But I hoped that he would remain away till I would be allowed to recover some degree of financial pros perity, and this was all that I had any reason to expect. George aud Ethel, finding it useless to further oppose my plans, concluded to leave me to my own devices. The owner of the hotel, or boarding-house where we bad stopped for the day, was seeking a new lessee, and it seemed providential that I ebould have thus called upon him at he opportune mo ment. When we started back together to the ranche, my children and I, my ar rangements were completed for a new be. ginning, and, in spite of my untoward outlodk, I was not hopeless. It was not without a pang of jealousy that I discovered I was au ingredient of very little importance in the cup of the young couple's happiness. They filled themselves to their satisfaction with the society of each other, and, while I was giad to see their pleasure, It was hard for me, as it is for every biMtan being, to be always so philan thropic as to take no thought for myself. ' could not bear to remain in sight of ;ii man McCarty, who bad taken such piul.ee advantage of my husbaud's frailly to rob me of my home. I knew that Ethel was now provided for, and it tthosrred mto get a home s speedily a Pflqfble for Alice and the rest. w ! I -90 we were eoacoucea in our quarters as soon as we could gel pos session. Thanks to my excellent bar gain with my aon-in-iaw, made in the beginning of our work on the ranche, I was M& w Dolly without means. He ,r:ircbaVM from me my portion of the increase of our stock, aud with this money I added new comforts to the little hotel, aud prosperity, in au humble way, again smiled upon me. Hotel-keeping was naturally my ' lwy ,w ",ei ,,ave forte, and if I bad always been allowed en"gh l " wiU,out ,ook,uK after Muality before the law, and bad not le,a- An'1 1 ver oeeo such a superstitious simpleton as ' f "Jr1help my "-, ami cer U believe that 1 must be a living sacrl-,ly ,,evr for It. I have no Oce U Gerald at whatever hazard to j co'Dl',aiut8 ,u nake on that score, myself or family, I have no doubt but They comM ,,ot have teheu Gerald In lbafMbould long ere this have been the,r bo,nri' ,or 1 would not have jr ooMfVie wealthiest of San Francisco's mltled '- Anil it was not profitable for capitalists. And what is true in mv case is doubtless true of thoosands of other poverty-stricken women in so- illed free America. We had been several months in our .ew quartern before Gerald returned. but when he did again inflict his pres-1 ence upon us, his behavior wa imnlv . horrible. Had he been one-half as I troublesome wheu the children were all babies as be now became, be must have aometiarajftkilied us all. Poor fellow ! How he did suffer with delirium tre mens, x He was no more responsible for his actions than If be had been a de :lared mauiae, aud so he should have een considered long before the crisis lame. jliut I strove, withU the energy of a I waiting, I rapped at their door, bearing ptooa and desperate woman, to hide the "loft a loadJ tray containing a choice worst from the public. I wanted my 1 9aPrr of lua" toast ami other ex bouse to have the name of being or- tras' for which I was resolved to make lerly, aud I wanted, for my growing ' ,henl remunerate me liberally, daughters' takes far more than for my-, I started when the door was opened, sen, to keep np every appearance of re- spec lability In Gerald's besotted insanity he con ceived a fearful dislike to me. Iu my desperation I resolved, wheu lie re turned to us the last time, that, while I would never neeleet to annmrt mul provide to, him, I would never, underJ drunkard's wit,, Good reader, do sm hi.m ? n- do you not rather ou,ler that I did not reach this conclusion a0ll Bct upon ,t many years before I did ? itut wis Determination, when j diJ rnase ii maooeneu ,eraid, ai, prompter mm to attempt 10 uestroy my lingered about tbe hotel, a terror to the children add a horror to myself. He wiMifa watcp every opportunity pos- eibfp to catch me oil my guard, aud sever seemed to have any other wish or tnibition than to kill me. And yet for years and years I stood I4iis thing. Gerald would watch his op portunity to collect money from the transient custom of the bote!, and every dollar he could so procure be would at once invest in rum. Hut liquors of ery kind at lam lost their wer to tvwptdy him. They only awakened the horrid microscopic reptiles that reveled ,lis dIo(M1 anl magnified them into mammoth monsters through the In flamed leasee of his diseased imagina tion. Hobgoblins of unearthly shate and monstrous proportions grinned at bim from his chamber walls. Snakes, hydra-headed and venomous, writhed in his bed, and fastened their faogs in nis angers' ends, ills so tiering were I -l .Ml aul I 1 1 -.1. J It. tMtd of Imagination, bad portrayed and "khh. Sometimes be would escape from his room in spite of our vigilance, and inaugurate a reign of terror in the bouse tbat wouw only cease when daylight came, bringing with the blessed sunefaioe a jiower to exorcise the demons that held the once strong man in thrall. Alice remained at home to watch over her father and preveut his taking my life till a dark-eyed stranger came a-wooiug, and then she fell in love, and, in epite of her boasted strength of mi ml, got married and left me. But I did not blame her. Iet her lot lie what It might, I knew tbat she could hardly worst it by getting away from home. But what, now, was to beooaieof me? My twin daughters, who had grown up like two beautiful lilies, were away at school, for I had decided to educate them for a station beyond my own, and I had only my youngest, my Elise, with me, and she was now a tall and graceful child, almost verging upon the edge ot what Americans call ber "teens." You may judge, good reader, tbat my life was hanging upou a thread. I per formed prodigies of daily labor, such as I would not now dare to speak of were it not that I could, if necessary, bring the testimony of hundreds of eye-witnesses in proof of my assertions. Could I have handled my entire income, I might have been able to employ needed assistance. But Gerald grew very cun ning about gettiog the money from travelers, and I was often iu desperate straits in consequence about the neces sary means to pay current expenses ami keep the twius iu school. So I econo mized by making a four-fold drudge of myself, not caring, save for my children's sakes, how soon my thread of life might break aud release me from a detestable and literally unendurable bondage. But we cannot always die when we i wish, else a thousand, yes, thousand of I women who read these eo lurries to-day, wou1'' ,ouK " breathed their last as their only visible way of escape from j conditions and surroundings they have I outgrown. j I wore out my old clothes and was un able to purchase new ones, so I grew ragged, as well as wrinkled and prema- , turely old. ' George and Ethel were very eonsid 1 erate of me for a long time, but vour , nuu u,e,r ow" "m" ""l me mucn win to he was ou n"nd to wlun,'e'' whatever he could 1 U' ,,,a m,nd uPn- I " evening the weekly packet lamled at our "ttle wharf, and a man ' "d womani who somehow impressed nie "s t,,o08H lMei mlRht have leen "uown to me In the loog ago, came wal,t,0K fo'ly toward the house, In semrch of lodgings, They entered my little olUee and reg istered as Thomas Cbatman aud wife, and ordered their meals sent to their room. Kor several hour-i I was too busy as my own cook, dish-washer, scullion aud chambermaid, to pay their room a 1 visit and fill their orders, but. after lour nd well I might, for before me stood Klder Chalmers Nnd the black-eyed blonde, for whose suiposed murder my husband was once on the eve of being hanged. "Elder Chalmers !" I exclaimed, In astouishmeot bordering on terror. "Is it possible, or do my eyes deceive me? Surely this is not Mrs. Ethel Grey ?" he said, forgetting tle meat ured monotone in which lie had ail. dressed me in my youth, when his , greatest endeavor had been to Impress roe with an overpowering sense of his ow superior jloi,iess. "it is the wreck of Mary Ethel Graeme ; tbat you behold, sir, who, but for you prosper- our and h appy woman !" I retorted, ; scan-ely knowing what I said 1 he black-eyed bloude, upon wlwni ueuauce, out turned away as though might. There I stood, a worn-out, broken-down rack of bones, my cheeks suukeu, my back bent and clothes thread-bare, and she and this man had used my husband as a legal decoy to get possession, uuder the law, of tbe first j ten thousand dollars that I had earned, a sum for which, had they not robbed me. I could through all my days havo lived in easy circumstances. "Your ill temper has ruined your husband ami blighted "'"" '"e," said the cauting old hypocrite, his voice as suming the old monotone. My unwelcome guests w"'u welcome to all they could enjoy In my house after that greeting was over. I certainly made them as miserable as I knew how, and my temper did not Improve duriDg their sojourn, whieh wa9 necessarily prolonged a week to enable them to em bark on the next boat. Gerald kept his room for very shame while they were In the bouse. l'oor old Chalmers ! He had tried Itard to preserve the vigor of youth, but his once upright form had a suspicious stoop, and his few iron-grey side-locks had turned snowy white with the ad vancing years. He was mortally jeal ous of his guilty companion, who seemed to stand in awe of him, as though he had her bound under the power of a mysterious secret. I really believe he had Jeoret power over her. Indeed, I fancy that she Is a murderer at large, and tbat he knows it, else I do not Itelleve she oould be ruled by him, for she is yet youug as compared to bim, and he certainly Is of no advantage to her. But it seems as though come men were born to worry the very lives out of tome women. The days wore ou, and the packet came iu sight that was to benr them away, aud then I breathed more freely. Did not tiie very presence of that old hypocrite blight the countenance of my firstborn? And was it not primarily bis fault that4 was now without a sou to eare for me in my old age? Tbey paid their bill a round one without protest. Indeed, I believe they would not have returned a word if it had been ten times the amount; aud as they went their way, Knapping aud snarling at each other like a pair of en raged cats, I oould uot help remem bering Ethel Graeme, my kinswoman, and saying softly to myself, "Hear cousin, you are thoroughly avenged." I was recalled to my cares in the house by the horrible fccrearus of Ger ald, my husband, whom I fouud writh ing again under the terrible malady of mania potu. I'oor fellow ! Tbroogh a grating in his door, which I had caused to be made to enable me to pass him food and drink when In his paroxysms, he was glaring like the mauiae he was; aud oh ! how pitifully he entreated me to take his life and end ills misery. "I have blighted your whole life, Ethel. I kidnapped you In the be glutting. Then I married you that I might atone; but I didn't kuow! I didn't know ! I didn't kuow 1" he cried, his voice dying away in piteous walls, as you have sometime heard a child's when In the power of an enraged parent, who, with upraised whip, stands wait ing to repeat again and again the cruel blows. Hut it was conscience that was whipping Gerald with a cal-o'-nlne of seorpious. Ah, me ! I reached htm a portion of rum, but when he essayed to take measure from ray hand, he dropped it, as though it were an adder that had bitten him. I wish that every young man in the land who dallies on the edge of the precipice of moderate drinking could have heard the temperuuee address that my poor husband delivered, standing there, as he believed, among a writhing school of venomous reptiles. IConrladed next week. Iitiey H. Hooper, in the current num Iter of lAppincott't Magazine, says of the Junpress iuigenle, now au old woman : "With her whitening hairs she might have worthily worn the triple dicnitv of her widowhood, her maternity, and ber misfortune. She has chosen In stead n head wadded with false, yellow hair, a face covered with paint aud powder, a mincing gait, ami the airs of an antiquated coquette." Herein let some of our weak leaders of fashion see theobvlous lesson. To grow old gracefully is a dlliiotilt art, but no immortality nor continued happiness can be founded on mere beauty, dress, or show. Educate the soul. Even the Jewish women are begin ning to be tainted with woman's rights notion, as they ask that the benedic tion, "Blessed art thou, 0 Eternal, our Got), that thou bast not made me a woman," be expunged from the Jewish ritual. There are 531 women In Lowell who pay a tax on property of S1.000 or over. Their property valuation Is e.4nfinn and their tax last year was $35,070 81. They are circulating a petition for the right of suffrage. JCo one has been able to explain why it is tbat a mati feels he is more likely to get up In time in the morning by keeping his watch or clock half an liour fast. Hie church of Millstone, X. J., is now one hundred and twelve years old. Iu ISM It celebrated Its ceutennary. The present church edlllce is now fifty years old. A German woman of Pittsburg, about 50 years of age, has worked at the trade or blaeksmtlu, as a iieiper to uer iius baud, for tbe past nine years. Our so-called ancestors, the monkeys, oould n't have been so ignorant, after all. They were all educated in the higher branches. Dr. Holmes says that crying widows marry first. There is nothing like wet weather for transplanting. 0UB EUBOPEAN 00BBESP0NDHE0E. LKTTER JiUMHBR OSK. TUB SCOTTISH" LAKES. Glasgow has a remarkable history. A hundred years ago It was a small city of less than 50,000 Inhabitants and with out Importance, hut to-day It Is the commercial metropolis of Scotland, and has a population of 000,000. Its inhabi tants have shown a remarkable enter prise In buIIJIngup manufactories, nud In developing the mineral resources of the neighboring counties. The almost numberless tall chimneys with their clouds of smoke, and the continual noise of numerous iron worki, remind us of our own Pittsburgh. To the tourist the city has few attrac tions. The chief of these Is the old cathedral, which was built in the twelfth century and is otieof the few In all Scotland which survived the mad fury of thepopulaceduring the Reforma tion. The building is very large, more than three hundred feet long, aud most of its carvings and Interior decorations are in a fine state of preservation. Its crypts are the finest and most massive of any in the kingdom. But the pride of the cathedral Is its beautiful great stained glass windows, of which it has forty-four, from twenty-five to thirty feet In height, each representing some well-known Bible event. Tbeso win dows were made about ten years ago at Munich, aud are the perfection of mod ern art. Adjoining the cathedral Is the necropolis, or cemetery, beautifully laid out aud containing mauy flue monu ments. Conspicuous among these is one to John Knox, whose body, however, is buried at Edluborough. We noticed alo that of John Dick, the eminent theologian. Other things in the city, worthy of mention, are George Square with its colossal monument toSirWalter Scott; Glasgow Green containing a fine monument to Kelson, Eugland's favor ite hero; and the new university build ings. In one of the poorest streets In the old city wo are shown the quarters once occupied by Cromwell. The most noticeable thing about the city to an American just landed, Is the mass! veuess and solidity of the buildings, for they are mostly of cut stone with tile or slate roofs. There are almost no buildings made of wood and but few of brick, and the streets are all paved with stone. This gives an impression that tbe city is built to stand for all time, and accords with our generally accept ed opiulou of Scotch thoroughness. Yet miles and miles of streets with stone houses and stone paving, everything stone, gives tbo city a monotony of dull color which finally becomes wearisome, until the eye lougsforsome bright color, aud for even a little outside paint. Strolling down to ono of the public squares, one evening, a member of our party found nu excited crowd of two or three hundred working men discussing the merits of Protestantism and Cathol icism. One had been making a speech on the subject, and was reading proof passages from a small Testament. Some one gave notice that the next night there would be a discussion on the fu vorlteScotch theme forcordlnatloti. In what American city, or any city Iu the world outside of Scotland, will you find day laborers discussing until late at night questions in theology and meta physics ? The Increased length of the day, ow ing to the extreme northern latitude, is plainly noticeable, for I was able to read fine print by daylight after 10 o'clock at night, while daybreak comes about 2 o'clock. Indeed, in clear weather the morning and evening twilight almost overlap. The policeman with Ills pot shaped cap Is everywhere, a constant terror to the evil disposed small boys, who at once take to their heels when the cry is raised, "The bobbles are com ing." I know a worthy American lady who on her first day In Glasgow in an innocent way asked, "What kind of a musical instrument Is a bobby?" Leaving Glasgow by early train, we soon reached Balloch on Loch Lomond, where we take steamer for Inversuald, near the opposite end of the lake, a sail of nearly thirty miles. A Scotch mist, as it is politely called two should say a rain storm), soon settled down upon us, and although it was the Fourth of July, and we had on our overcoats, we were shivering In the cold wind. The High landers hare a saying that "when Ben Lomond puts ou his night-cap the rain will come down," and as we looked up toward the mouutain and Baw bis head obscured with clouds, and tbe rain fall ing arouud us, we decided that there are weather signs which are true. Sailing up the lake which is surrounded by Scotland's highest mountains, we are in tbe midst of scenery scarcely equaled by any lake in Europe, Maggloro in Italy, alone excepted. eariy every mouutain pass, rock and village is associated with some of fccott's characters. We see Ballocb castle, beyond a ruined fortification, a traditional stronghold of Flngal; a beautiful wooded Island, the deer nark of the Duke of Montrose; Rob Boy's prison; a rock from which he dipped re fractory captives in the lake until they were willing to pay the required ran som, and his cave; which also sheltered Robert the Bruce. Xear Inrersnald Is the ruin of a fort once commanded by General Wolfe, the hero of Quebec At Inversnald we take coaches for Stron achlacker, on Loch Katrine. These coaches are the few remaining from the famous old English coach system, the drivers being dressed In redcoats, plug hats, and high-topped boots. The four horses are started up tbe steep hill at a full run amid the fearful suapplng of whips. About this snapping of whips, I have yet to see the country In Europe where the drivers of all sorts of pleasure carriages are not provided with long whips which they delight to snap al most constantly. It seems to be a sort of understood arrangement between tbe driver an d the horses, that thecracklng of the whip means notblug more than to give the passengers the impression that tbe driver is whipping up hie horses and going very fast. Shortly after leaving Inversnald, we pass the ruins of the house in which Helen McGregor, Rob Roy's wife, was born. The drive of two hours was over a desolate country, in the midst of high mountains whose sides are covered for the most part with heather, that merci ful provision of nature for covering un sightly rocks and rugged mountain sides. Occasionally there was a little pasture for sheep and a wretched-look ing stone house. The trees were few in number and mostly scrub oaks. Peat, which is abundant, Is the only fuel. To an American the country looks forlorn, and It Is his constant wonder why any one should fight either to gain or defend it. The li ttlesteamer "Rob Roy" carries us over the pretty Loch Katrine, which re minds us strikingly of our own Lake George. We pass "Ellen's Isle" and tho "Silver Strand," where the fair hero ine is represented as first meeting the Kuight of Snowdon. In less than an hour's time we are at tbe end of the lake near the "Goblin's Cave," where Douglas is represented as hiding his daughter wheu he took herfrom Roder ick Dbu's island. For a mile we ride through the "Trossachs" or "Bristling Territory," a narrow, rugged gorge, so called from its many pointed roeks. This is the very center of the "Lady of the Lake" region, and filled with ro matitie interest. We pass Loch Aehray and soon cross a small, single-arched bridge where, " And when the Brigs of Kirk wh won The headmost honeman rode alone." Soon after on an eminence DnneraKcan' hnta appear at but. And peep like most iown rock ball aeea. Half bidden In the copse no green." Xot far beyond Is "CoIIantogle Ford" whioh was "Far beyond Clau Alpine's outmost guard," the scene of the en counter between Roderick Dim and Fitz James. Riding several miles farther we reach Callander, where the train for Sterling awaits us. Near Callander we pass through a forlorn-looking village, where the wretched Inhabitants still speak only the original Gaelic. There is a settlement of the same kind near Ster ling. This whole region through which we have been passing was studied care fully foryeais by Scott, as a prepara tion for his landscape descriptions in "Bob Roy," "The Lady of the Lake," aud "Waverly." The scene of Word- worth's "Highland Girl" was also laid near Inversnald. Deprived of these historic and rotnautic associations, the region would lo?e much of its luterest. O. R. Bukciiard. 0UB WASHINGTON LETTEB. 'IothkKditokoptiikNew Nokthwest: A few days ago our detectives ob tained information of a daring plot to rob the oOlce of the Metropolitan Street R. R. Co., located iu Georgetown, and took immediate steps for the capture of the burglars. The timeof the premedita ted attack was about midnight, after tbe last car had been stowed away for the night. Owing to the ninny ulghtenter tainments of tbe season, the cars have beeu running later thau usual, and It was supposed the company's safe was stored with an unusual amount of the coveted cash. Accordingly, when the silence of night began to make tbe lo cality of the office lonesome, and now portentious, the olllcers, with some- of the company's officials, had stealthily concealed themselves about the prem ises. Twelve o'clock came, aud soon after mu illed sounds were heard in tbe rear, then the forms of five masked men, two colored and three white, were seen, who, passing through the car-house, ap proached the door and suddenly burst It open. Eutering, they proceeded to the safe and were about to begin operations, when, discovering a concealed officer, one raised to shoot him, but his arm was dashed aside by one of his confede rates. The detective at ouce fired upon the would-be murderer. This was the signal for a general onslaught from those awaiting outside. Then for a few mo ments the building rung with the fast repeating pistol shots and the noiso of the desperate encounter, as tbe robbers endeavored to crowd their way through to the street and escape. Three succeeded, but.it Is tbougbt,bearlngserIous wounds, while two were stretched upon tbe floor, oue fatally wounded, who has since died, the other disabled by a bad wound in one of his legs. The latter it was who gave the information of the In tended robbery to tbe police. He has since stated that it was tbe purposeof tbe killed robber, his brother and the ! two colored men, to kill tbe watchman in charge of the olllce, and commit whatever other murder necessary to their purpose. The parties are all known to be hard cases, some of them penitentiary birds. The olllcers partic ipating in the afluir acquitted themselves bravely, and, though exposed to Immi neut peril, stood to their posts. Fortu nately, none were injured. Another storm burst upon us last week more terrific than thatof the week before. Its greatest fury, however, was expended on and west of Fifteenth street, sweeping through Georgetown, where tbe greatest damage was done. Houses were literally lifted from their foundations aud carried to somedistancc, whole streets of trees leveled to tbe ground, and house-tops profusely scat tered around. It is said to be the heav iest storm that has ever visited this city. Our postal servlee is fast striding to perfection, as is evinced by the three late Important steps. First is the regis tering of third-class matter; next the transportation of coin by mail, a ship ment of forty tons of silver from Nevada having been already made; and now the consummation of tbe Universal Postal Union Scheme, by whioh nearly all of the nations of the earth have agreed to exchange correspondence. There is no doubt but the whole civilized world will enter into the arrangement. Secretary Thompson Is proving himself an eco nomical and prudent executive of his department. The appropriation Con gress made for the navy in its econom ical fit was entirely too small, but the Secretary Is chronically opposed to de ficiency bills, and, to avoid them, he has divided tbe money allotted to him in seven different funds, to correspond to the different divisious of his department, each of which is required to carefully expend its funds so as to make it reach over to tiie next appropriation. He also makes use of all the old iron aud fix tures, instead of selling them, as hereto fore, at a great sacrifice. This Is admin istering government affairs like a wise man looks after his private interests, and Is calling forth expressions of satis faction ou every baud. Tiie five heavy rain-storms have dem onstrated tbe Imperfection of Washing ton's sewerage, and have aroused tbe whole city on that subject. Committees of our highest olllcers and most promt uent citizens have waited upon the commissioners, recommending Imme- diateaction in the mostdecided improve ments. Tbe damage the city has sus tained comes apropos to the purpose of the Congressional committee for the In vestigation of sewerage. Attention has been called to the London aud Paris system. These, taken with tbe impera tive demand for a radical improvement, will, no doubt, result in an entire change at au early day after Congress convenes. Felix. Washington, D. C. August 16, 1S7S. A Fair Partnership. Mrs. Nottingham, being unable to get the means from her husband to supply her necessities, at last informed him that she should resume her profession of teaching, so as to be independent, as she was before she wa married. "You're uot in earnest, my dear?" said Mr. Nottingham. "Of course I'm in earnest. Why not ? Do you suppose I intend to go on this way, begging and praying for every dol lar I spend? I've been independent once, and I can be so agaiu." "No; but look here." Mr. Notting ham had risen, and was pacing up and down rather uneasily. "My wife oau't go to teaching! What is it that you want ?" "What I can earn," proudly retorted Mrs. Nottingham. "But put it iuto words." "Well. then. look here." said Mrs. Nottingham, "I have always done the whole housework and sewing. Consid ered as a cook, I demand fifteen dollars a month; as a seamstress, five dollars: as your wife, aud the lawful mother of your children, at least fifty dollars more. And then I shall not consider myself properly compensated." "Wbew-w-w! Let me see; it's nearly a hundred dollars a month !" "I consider my services as worth that at least," said Mrs. Nottingham, with dignity; "but if you would rather hire a nouse-keeper, I will prosecute my orig inal idea of opeuing a select school." Mr. Nottingham walked un aud down the room once more, rumpling lis hair Into porcupine fashion with his finders. "I'll cousult Uncle Wetherbee," he sum. "Very well," said Mrs. Nottingham; "I'm quite willing to abide by bis de cision." Uncle Wetherbee, a brouze-visaged ex-sailor, who was comfortably smok ing uis meerscnaum up-stairs, was sum moned at ouce. He came down rather slowly, an account of a wooden leg, and listened to tbe pleading on either side Willi great gravity. "D'ye want to know my opinion ?" said Uncle Wetherbee, when they bad finished. "Certainly," said Mr. Nottingham. "Of course," said bis wife. Then look here." said Uncle Weth erbee. "Matrimony's a copartnership of joys and sorrows, and it ought to be or money as wen. iiy advice Is, Nephew Nicholas, that you divide even with your wife." "Divide even !" blankly repeated Mr. Nottingham. "Or, better still," went on Uncle wetueruee, "lace one-tbird of the money yourself, lay aside one-third for household purposes, aud give the otht,r imru 10 your wile." "Yes. but Uncle " tv"?i0V9ked..4JJ.y a,,ice." said Uncle Wetherbee. "There It Is, and I have uvkuiMg mure io say." And he stumped off. up-stairs amir, flr- Nottingham looked at his wife. "well," said Phoebe. T trill Irn I, 1, o.t.1 r . . . nr. . ' J .. '. , , ,u ur- oiungnam, "It seem a wild idea, hut T7nni erbee Is a remarkably sensible mar. Yes. I'll trv it." And for tho next three years Mr. Correspondents writing oer assumed signa tures must make known tbeir names to tbe Editor, or no attention wljl be (riven to their communications. NotUuKuam reruanea ,n partnership condition on tB8e unusual fiuanclal w3h0U8,' Sor "IP of m. I ee sah?urhKh yr raOUe" "The very idea that has often sug gested self to rne in regard to yoSr iaughfi. retriea Mre-ottiglfam, . Vim? iln,.eV.Ur1 buy a ,,OU8e 'or you, if it hadn't been for this unexpected appropriation of my funds," said Mr Nottingham. "I can wait, dear," said his wife, se renely. "All iu good time." But one afternoon Mr. Nottingham came home early from business, and rushed up to Uucle Wetberbee's room. "My dear Uncle," said he, "that house of Falkirk's Is in market at forced sale. Such a bargain ! Only three thousand I" "Why don't you buy it, then?" said Uuele Wetherbee, scooping fresh to bacco out of his jar. "Because I've only been able to lay up two thousand outof thatdeucedly small allowance of mlue," said Mr. Not tingham. "Ever since I divided with Phoebe, according toyoursuggestlon " "les," nodded Lnole Wetherbee, 'according to my suggestion " "I've been a comparatively poor man," sighed Mr. Nottingham. "One can't lay up anything on such a pit- lance as mat." "Perhaps your wife thinks so. too." chuckled Uncle Wetherbee. "Ob, that's altogether a different matter," said Mr. Nottingham. "I've been thiukiug I ought to reconsider that affair." Uncle Wetherbee stared intently at his wooden leg, and said nothing. "isut," added Mr. Nottingham, "about that Falkirk place. It's a little gem of a house, aud I've always wanted a house of my own. This rent-paying uusiness uotrt altogether suit me. Aim I could give a mortgage for tbe thousand dollars if you would allow me to use your name as security." "Ud, certainly, certainly," said uncle Wetherbee, "use it as much as you like." And Mr. Nottingham went off re joicing. But tbe agents in charge of the Fal kirk place were exultant when be ar rived. "Two thousand dollars and a mort gage for the balance is very well," said one of those gentlemen, "but we had another offer this morning of cash down, and considered it our duty to Mr. raiKtrK to close with It. Very sorry, but perhaps we might suit Mr. Not tingham with some other piece of prop erty." Mr. Nottingham went home sadly dis pirited. "What's tbe use of trying to save up money ?" said he. "I'm going to give up after this." "I don't agree with you there, dear," said Mrs. Nottingham. "I have been saving money.for tbe last three years, and I have found it pays." "You have?" said her husband. "Of course I have. Do you suppose I spent all the money? Not a bit of it. I put tbe best part of it out at interest, always following Uncle Wetberbee's ad vice in my investments, aud I've bought a house with it." "What house V Mr. Nottingham's eyes opened wider and wider. "The Falkirk house," said Mrs. Not tingham, her cheeks dimpled all over with satisfaction. "I completed the bargain to-day. My dear." stealing one arm around her husband's neek, v "how do you think I have belt! un mv end of the business?" "Better than I could have done my self, Phoebe," said Mr. Nottingham. with a curious moisture coming iuto bis eyes. "1 am proud of you." So the young couple moved into tbe Falkirk house when tbe first dav of May came around, and tiie cosiest room iu the house, with a south window, ami au open fire-place for a wood lire, was resetveu lor uncie Wetueroee. Ana .Mr. Nottingham is never tired of telling his friends that his wife bought the place with her share of the business profits. "The most charming woman in tbe world," says Mr. Nottingham. TimVKit. ft SMirnriOMl Ilia allinaM nnil tiAifnlAB around tbe post ofiiee the other doy to see "Limpy Tim" oome anion; tbenJ in a quiet way, aud to hear him sy : -uwys, i want toseii my kit. Here's two brushes, a whole box of blacking, a good stout box, and the outfit goes for twoshillin's!" "Goiu away, Tim ?" queried one. "Not 'zaotly, boys; but I want a quar ter the awful lest kind just now." "Goiu' ouascursiou?" asked another. "Not to-day; but I must have a quar ter," he answered. One of the lads passed over the change and took the kit, and Tim walked straight to the counting-room of a daily paper, put dowu bis money, and said : "I guess I kin write it if you give me a pencil." With slow-moving fingers he wrote a death notice. It went into the paper almost as he wrote it, but you might not have seen IU He wrote: "Died Litul Ted of Bearlet fever; aiged three yere. Funeral to-morrer; gon up to Hevin; left won bruther." "Was it vour brother?" nabul cashier. Tim tried to brace up, but he could. uot. The birr tfnni nnmo nr. l.ta .lih - 7 f, ...a until quivered, and he pointed to tbe notice uu tue counter, ami gasped : "I I bad to sell ray kit to do it, b-but he had his arms aroun' my neck wheu he d-dled !" He hurried away home, but the news went to the bovs. ami tii- a group and talked. Tim had not beeu iiuiuc un oour Daiorea barefooted boy left the kit on the doorstep, and in the pox was a bouquet of flowers, whieh had been purchased In the market with peunles. contributed by the crowd of ragged but big-hearted urchins. Did God ever make a heart which would not respond If the right chord was touched ? Detroit Free Pre. No one living In society can be inde pendent. The world is like a watch, dog, which fawns upoo you or tears you to pieces. If you can give your word to any one, how can you possibly keep it? The average death rate in New York is 30 in 1,000.