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Bt Mrs. A. J. DCNIWAY.
AUTUOR OF "JPOITH UID," "ELl.ES DOVD,"
"AHIE ASD HEHKY Ut," "THE HAPPT
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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.