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MRS. HARDINE'S WILL.
By ABIGAIL SCOTT DOXIWAY,
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CHAPTER XXVni.
A DBCADB AJTD A HALF.
Tue reader Is now luvltetl lo span a
lapse of I uler veiling years a decade aud
a half of tbem ami come with me to
the beautiful Cbmaeketa Valley ami be
hold the borne of the Hardiues.
Fifteen years ah! The time seems
short wbeu you have lived it: but it
for ihs a third pari of an average humau
lifetime.
The day Is warm and balmy, aud the
mellow sunshine paints the landscape
witli a shimmering radiance that soft
ene Nature's nigged outlines ou the
bills, ami casts purple shadows In the
tree-trimmed hollows.
Yonder, on a sloping eminence in the
prairie, stands a stately rural-house,
gable-ended, dormer-windowed, while,
shatlerless, shadeless aud glaring. In
side, the house is as bare and staring aud
comfortless as an empty barn. But
that word empty will not hardly apply,
for the comfortless abode is filled with
children in slattern attire, scant, dirty
and half-buttoned. Their feet aud bands
are bare and chapped and brown, and
the clothes of the feminine element are
redolent of grease and dishwater. A
pale woman, with wrinkled faee, limp,
tallowy hair, two prominent eye-teeth
with a broad red gap between them, aud
bauds with enormous knuckles and dye
stained nails, sits wearily upon a creak
I uk rocker aud sings a soothing lullaby
lo a walling babe.
Good reader, are yon thinking of 'Lice
Jiardine? Well, for once you are mis
taken, for It is not she.
A tall boy, overgrown, loose-jointed
ttud slovenly, cotne8 stalking lu from
the fields, his brogans ladeued with
mad, and his soiled hickory shirt toru
at the elbow and open at the wristbands.
"Where's your father, Henry?" asked
the patient mother of the boy, to whom
the reader Is now to be Introduced as
the erewblte babe that be last beheld re
posing in Tincih Hardine's first crude
cradle.
"Over to old Sapp's, as usual, mother.
And I swear to you that If lie wasn't my
father, I'd kilt him quicker than I'd
shoot a dog 1"
"Henry!" and the weary mother
coaxed the wailing babe to stifle its
eries at her bosom, "you forget your
self! John Hardlne la your fatlier, my
son !'
"God knows I can't help that ! He's
a grasping,, niggardly tyrant! a chip
from the old block! a politician! a
trickster! a"
"Henry! for sham !'
"I know you think I'm wicked,
mother; but I can't bear everything!
I gave father a little o' my slack this
morning. I couldn't help It! He tore
round worse'n Satan 'cause the work
didn't go on to suit him, aud I told lilm
that a man that 'tends to his own busi
ness Is the fellow that always gits aloug
the best! There's no use In your preach
ing my duty to me, mother. I mayn't
be very smart, but I'm not quite a blank
Idiot. Father's displeased with himself
because be knows he Isn't doiug right,
and so be tries to lay the blame on
everybody eke. Haying season's on us
now, and harvest will soon be ready and
rushing, and the ole man's off half the
lime after politics fool In' round, en
gineerln' to Meet Sam Hard pan to office,
and leaving me this big farm io man
age ; and then, 'cause I can't see with
his eyes about everything, he threatens
to flog me ! Better let him try it !"
"My sou, will you htult"
"Yes; now I've had my say, I will.
But, just let the ole man dare to flog
rae, and I'll leach him a trick worth a
dozen of It. I will!"
The boy stalked through the great
bare sitting-room, leaving bis muddy
shoe-traeks on the floor and the baru-
like doors spread wide. His mother
bushed tbe little babe ber tenth to
sleep upon ber bosom, and closed her
eyes wearily.
"I've tried lo do my duty during all
these weary years, as God is my judge,"
she sighed. "And yet, If my work has
lo be kuowu by its fruits, am I justified ?
Would it not have been far better for
me and my children, when I learned in
the beginning, as I did to my shame
and disappointment and sorrow, that I
had made a grievous matrimonial mis
take, If I had fled, like Hagar, to tbe
wilderness? I thought to save my son
from tbe fate of Isbmael, but I have
failed. I bave learned, alas! too late,
that children begotten In hatred ai d
brought up In discord, however securely
tbe hatred and discord may be hidden
from tbe world, are' the Innocent vic
tims of a mighty wrong. Poor Henry !
He Is only one of half a score of these
discordant rebels with whom I am now
compelled to deal. They are Ishmaels,
everyone of them, cud no wonder!
They have honestly Inherited their
fate 1"
And then Tirsah's thoughts went
wandering back through the departed
years, and, searching through them all
for justification of ber constant adher-
ouce to the lettsr of a contract which
had been killed in spirit In its very out
set, what wonder that she failed to find
It?
I am aware that I am treading now
upon forbidden ground, good reader.
well know that there be those who read
these pagea who will cry out In well
assl mutated horror, as though the wrong
were In my own Imagination rather
than In the facte I state. Bat all the
outcry of all the Pharisees in all America
will not cause me lo swerve a single
inoh from my duty, which consists In
declaring to ynu the whole power of the
truth, God-made and hutnaolty-vlo
lated, which visits the slas of the par
ents upon the children to the third ami
fourth, generations of those boo ml In
wedlock who, whether openly or
cretly, hate each other, Instead of lieing
"one flesh," or oue in heart and thought
and love and purpose, as only those
should be who unite to bestow existence
upon the children of nren. Itall, Phari
see; cant, hypocrite; uiutn, rnocK-
modesty; deny, ye consciously guilty
but the truth will live ou ; and way
down, deep in tbe inner conscience of
thousands of my readers, will my earn
est thoughts flud answering echo.
There Is, there can be, no other sin so
heinous as that of unloved or unloving,
wedlock, for there Is no other.sln that
so constantly breeds dhcord, crime and
misery as this, and none other thai
brings them forth like this to curse the
race.
But, while I am moralizing here, a
messenger is coming In hot haste from
the homo of the senior Hardlne. A half
mile away from the junior Hardine's
stately-looking farm-house sits the cabin
home of the old inau, a low, blackened,
moss-grown pile of logo, leaky and
wind-shaken, and, except that it lias re
ceived additions in tbe shape of another
room and some dingy out-houses, ap
pearing but little different from tbe
homestead as we last liebeld it, fifteen
years ago. But the mlle-eqoare farm,
like the junior Hardine's, has beeu sur
rounded by high, old-fasbloued rail
fenees, and the broad acres are smiling
in the faee or the Summer euo, ladened
with many tons of matnring wheat.
We have only time to note all this, for
here, and already entering tbe junior
Hardine's doorway, is tbe Identical
messenger, Joe Ridgeway, now a mid
dle-aged raau, who once surprised Uraah
in the long ago by bringing the sad
news that her fattier, 'Squire Tag let on,
hail committed suicide.
Tbe doors of memory swung whin le-
fore the weary woman at ber brother-in-law's
approach.
You're bringing me bad tidings,
Joe," she said, rising In lay Iter sleeping I
babe in Its cradle. "I know it, for you
look just as you did when you came to
tell roe that my father was dead."
"Aud I have news of the same pur
port, Tirzah. The senior Hani toe
breathed his last an hour or so ago."
"This Ih very sudden!" exclaimed
Tirzah, turning ashy pale. "I thought
he was In his usual health."
"So he was, to all n ppen ranees. But
he never got overexposing Mm-f to
all sorts of bad weather In the uiiue.
But you needn't worry. John Har
dine's a lucky dog, and you're richer by
twenty tbousan' tbau you were a week
ago."
"How's that, Joe,?"
"Tbe old man's been elocetrd with
John a heap of late, and it turns out
that he's got a clear deed to every
thing." "Surely he didn't forget to make some
provision for poor 'Llze?"
"I don't know whether he forgot It or
not, but I do know he didn't leave ber
anything. Seems to me you take the
matter cool, Tirzah. You just ought to
see Sally. She's taking on awful."
Tirzah did not reply to this last re
mark. Indeed, she was oouecious of bo
little emotion over the sad event that
she felt ashamed of herself.
"Where's Jobu ?"
"Gone ovor lo Sapn's, as usual. I
hardly ever see him uow-a-dajs."
The brother-in-law mattered some
sort of au Imprecation which Tirzah did
not bear.
"Can't you go over ami toll him,
Joe?"
"I s'pow I could ; bot I've gol to rush
'round aud Inform the rest of 'em. Why
not send nenry ?"
"jueeanse trie boy has more on his.
suouiuers now man he ought to carry.
And then, I wouldn't send one of my
children where that woman is for any
thing !"
"I can't see but 'that wowau,' as you
call her, is just as good as the boy's
father."
Tirzah had often thought as much,
but loyalty to ber conceptions of duty
had kept her silent.
"You forget that John Hardlne is my
husband, and the sister of your own
wife, Joe Itidgeway."
"No, I don't forget It. Would to Gud
I could, unless he'd do better. But
there! Ion't-Ket angry! It beats all
tarnation the way women will hold up
for their husbands, right or wrong.
We've no time to discuss these things
now, though ; and, if we'd all the time
in the universe, aud would dUcusa 'em
to eternity, we never could agree. I'll
go over and tell John, aud you and the
children had belter get reedy and go up
to tbe bouse. Sally's there now, with
Mother Hardiue. Somebody mutt take
a horse and carry the news to 'Llze."
"Henry can go after her, Joe. And
he'd better take two-horse wagon
Poor 'Llze ! She has her bonds full."
"Very well. Arrani-e that lo suit
yourself."
And now, reader, while I ho awo-
strickeu kindred aro collecting In groups
at the paternal home, let us go with
Henry Hardlne lo the abode of Pter
Tubbs.
It is verv blncular. the mltfortuues
that fifteen years have brought to the
lot of this man. The reader knows of
his early prospects; knows that he was
frugal, industrious and enterprising, and
that 'Lize, his wife, was a model of
thrift, Ingenuity and ambition. And
yet, theie was nothing that ho at
tempted that did not fail. Little by
Utile the bri'Sd acres of Ihelr donation
olslm were yielded up to the demands
of tbe senior Hardlne as recompense for
money he had loaned him, sometimes
for speculations, but always for what
proved some sort of n losing venture.
Peter's claim weut first, and then
'Lize's, though she had held fast to hers
till her health failed, and then, being no
longer able to do tho work of the dairy
and kitchen and poultry-yard and laun
dry, she was compelled to tfow to ad
verse circumstances and be turued adrift
with an iucompetent, unhappy hus
band, broken strength and helpless fam
ily, to struggle hopelessly with life's
hard endeavor, as over and over again
she asked herself the unanswerable
question:
"What Is all this struggle for, and
what does life amount to, anyhow?"
For some mouths prior to the time of
which I now write, sho had been strug
gling with her fate ill a dilapidated
down-town boarding-house In the grow
ing city of Portland.
Peter Tubbs had striven for several
years after their marrlago to carry on
great mining projects, all of which had
fulled lo meet his over-sauguiue expec
tations; and, after ri-tiealed failures, lie
had given up all sense of responsibility,
and thrown a double burden upon his
long-enduring spouse, whose material
cares had multiplied In Inverse ratio to
her strength, until she had become a
physical wreck of her former self, and(
like Tirzah Hardlne, a bupeless mother
of a discordant family of helpless mal
contents. I am sorry that veracity compels me
to paint so dark u picture, but truth to
nature will not be ignored by the con
scientious artist, aud tills pen picture is
nothing If not accurate.
Had Peter Tubbs permitted his wife to
exercise the imttvo talents with which
she was so richly endowed, she could
have carried her matrimonial burden
with at least financial ease; but she soon
learned, to ber cot, that white she had
a legal master, their business had no
caable, responsible bead. Tbe strug
gles of such a woman to maintain her-i-elfand
family under such circumstances
would fill a volume; and tho lessons they
would convey are of sufficient import
ance to humanity to justify their recital.
But for the present I have another sub
jeet in baud, and must postpono tho fur
ther elucidation of this everyday theme
till a more convenient season.
The Inug table was almost ready for
sirs. Tubbs' boarders, who, being labor
ing men with ready appetites, gave her
as little trouble a9 possible in the prepa
ration of their daily food. This much
was in her favor; but the rent was high,
tbe surroundings for her work inoon
venlent, and the pay not over liberal.
And, to crown all, the wages of -her toil
belonged to her husband and were al
ways iuvested by him tosult his inclina
tion. 'Lice has broken rapidly Iu hoaltb and
appearauco in these fifteen years of un
congenial endeavor; and yet you will see
at a glance, as you enter her dining
room and take uote of herself and her
surroundings, that no disappointment
can crush her spirit. The same glorious
eyes gaze nt you from beneath tho same
oval forehead, wrinkled now. but sur
mounted by the same waving mass of
silken hair. You wonder, as you gaze
.it her, that the hardships of her life
have not spoiled her complexion norde
stroyed tbe wonderful beauty of her
symmetrical figure. But your wonder
ceases when you reflect a moment; for
you know that ber life is two-fold; that
that which is, though altogether difler
em from that which should have beon,
has been so far conquered by her Indom
itable courage that it has not, cannot
crush her.
"How are you to-day, Aunt 'Llze?"
The wife or Peter Tubbs was startled.
Henry Hardlne, though awkward, half
clad and ungainly, possessed a volee so
like the well-remembered one df John
Ingleton Aer John that Us very souud
rolled back a tidal wave of olden memo
ries over her soul and brought crimson
blushes to ber cheeks and brow.
"Why, halloa! Uncle Pete! You
here?" continued the boy. "I h' posed
you'd a' been ofl to the mines.''
"Xo," replied the uncle, "I've bad
euough o' the mines. I propose to spend
the rest of my days in ease and comfort."
"You're in luck now, Uncle Pete,"
said Henry. "It's an ill wind that blows
nobody any good."
"What's the matter?" exclaimed
Mrs. Tubbs, turning deathly pale as she
spoke, and clutolilng at a chair for sup
port. "Surely my father Is not dead?"
"Yes; that!s It. Died this morning.
I've brought the farm wagon out hero to
take yon all over home. Drove like
thunder, too. norses awful tired. Have
to go back by moonlight."
'Llze did not shriek nor faint. It was
well for her that bIio knew the worst at
once, she thought, as sho mechanically
arranged her house for her departure
from Its treadmill round of duties, and
prepared herself and children for her
hurried journey to the paternal home.
(To bo continued.)
THE PEESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
KKOM OUn ItEQOLAK COItKESPOXDBXT.
XEW YoitK, May 8, 1ES0.
To HIE EiiITor. oftue Sew North west:
The latest rumor, to the eflect that
Mr. Tllden has set apart $2,000,000 for
tbe purchase of enough New York Al
dermen to confirm nominations of Mayor
Cooper, is agitating the politics of this
city and State. John Kelly had. faith
enough In the rumor to summon his
Tammany braves together aud appoint
a committee to lake charge of tho Taru
many Aldermen and keep them out of
the market. Republican leaders are
excited over It, because they say that by
such a maneuver, Tllden, through Mayor
Cooper, could get control of all the local
political machinery. Outside of politics
the report Is ridiculed, tin tho ground
that tho entire Board of Aldermen could
be purchased for one-tenth of $2,000,000,
and that Tllden never wastes his money
by paying any more than au article Is
worth.
The results of the several State Con
ventions held during the week nre the
subject of a good deal of commei.t among
the politlelaus. The Blaine men gener
ally feel elated over the same, claiming
that their favorlto has forgtd considera
bly ahead. There Is no doubt that the
Xew Hampshire delegation, headed by
Wm. E. Chandler, will stand by Maine's
Seuator first, last and all the time.
Blaluo's friends now claim that ho will
have over forty of Xew England's solid
eighty votes. At the Cincinnati Con
vention of ISTC, he did not have half of
that number. The friends of Mr. Blaine
claim, too, that lliey will have Mary
land aud Delawaro solid, and thai when
the tug of war comes In the Convention
they will have nearly all the Witconsln
delegation.
The Democrats seem to be a little
mixed touching the action of the Ohio
Democracy. While It Is true that Sen
ator Thurmau was omlorsed and Ohio's
delegation was requested lo vote for him
aud as a unit, it Is likewise true that the
four delegates at large are not what can
be claeed loyal Thurman men, first, last
and all the time. Wade, one of the del
egates at large, Is a Payne mon ; Gen
eral Stcedman, of Toledo, has a weak
ness for Tllden ; McSweeuey Is claimed
as a Jewett man, and Durbln Ward is
an old Bourbon, who thinks the so-called
fraud of 1S7G should be righted. The
Ohio situation Is summed up about
thus : That Seuator Thurtnaii-can have
tho Ohio delegation solid a3 long as
there is a chance to nominate him ; but
if it becomes apparent that there is no
improbability of Thurman's miccch, the
built or the delegation will go for Tll
den all of it, In fact, ir the unit rule Is
followed out. It Is certain that the del
egates at large elected are not tho list
of delegates Senator Thurman would
have preferred to havo been sent to Cin
cinnati. The probability is that they
wero elected by a combination between
Tllden and Payne men.
Tho Grant men claim half the Mary
laud delegation, and also some votes In
Wisconsin. It Is evident, however, that
tho gains made by Blaine have alarmed
thorn. They had expected the Tennes
see delegation solid, aud feel chagrined
that It Is broken. They had also ex
pected more "substantial" support In
Mississippi. Notwithstanding these
losses, they still affect a confidence
which is refreshing to the Graut fol
lowers, as it is exasperating to the other
candidates. They say Grant will be
nomiuated on tho first ballot, aud that
Is all there Is about It. It Id noticeable,
though, that with all their exultant
confidence they are a little feverish
about Illinois, and admit that it is tho
key of the situation, but that tbe Illi
nois delegation will "oo solid for Grant.
Illinois has Instructed for Grant. Ed.
Tbe Sherman men feel even more con
fident tbun ever. They reason that
Grant cannot be nominated on the flrjt
ballot, aud that thin a combination will
be made lo defeat Blaine, tho net result
of which will be that Secretary Sher
man rill booths beneficiary. On the
other hand, there ore dispassionate ob
servers who say that tho very possibil
ity of Blaine's nomination makes Gen
eral Grant's nomination a certainty.
Aca ust.
A Text. That was rather an Intelli
gent Christian, who called unon a slgu
palnter to have a Sunday School pro
cession banner painted, and said:
"We are going to have a tearln' lime
with our I-ourth of July Sunday School
celebration, and our folks waul some
thing tall for a banner."
"Well," natnrally enough responded
the painter, "you ought to havo one.
What will yon have painted on It?"
"Wal, I d'n know; we ort to hev a
tex o' skrlpter painted onto It for a
motto, hadn't we?"
"Yes, that's a very good idea: what
shall It be?"
"Wal, I thought this would bo about
as good as any : 'Be sure you're right,
then go ahead !'"
Maud (an aristocratlo child): "How
pretty and.clever you are, mother! I'm
so glad you married Into our family."
Punch.
LETTEB PBOM WASHINGTON.
from our regular CORRESPONDENT. J
Washington, D. C, May 8, 1SS0.
ToTlIEBntTOROFTIIKN-rW Nokthwest:
Though thoro is much that the Dis
trict of Columbia has to be thankful for
to Congress, yet there are times when it
is made such a cal's-paw that we are
iuclined to feel somewhat rebellious.
and wish, at least, that matters were
conducted differently. For instauce,
tho Senate devoted two whole davs to
discussing whether 20,000 should be
paid for tbe leased church building now
occupied by our Police Court, aud final
ly decided, by a strong majority, to
make the purchase. Arrayed against
tho proposition were our District Com
missloners and many leading citizens,
who showed, by indisputable evidence,
that tho property was not worth over
SH.000 at tho utmost, aud, beside, was
located In an undesirable part of the
city. Mr. Beck championed the Dis
trict In his most vigorous manner, but
was beaten in tho final vote, which
doubtless was as much a surprise to him
as to us, for tbe sole eud accomplished
was making a present lo a congregation
that wanted to dispose of an old, rickety
edifice that would have fallen down long
ago but for the strengthening walls
built by the city slnco leasing it for po
lice purposes. Again, Congress proposes
to give $00,000 for charitable purposes,
of which sum one-half is charged to us.
But, were tho District Commissioners to
dstermino whether or not this appropri
ation should be made, our judgmeut Is
that the amount would be pruned at
least one-half. Congress has a happy
faculty, at times, of disbursing liberally
certain funds which do not belong to
the Government, aud, now that we have
to pay one-half the bills, It is often
wonderfully profuse in ordering expend
itures which our people deprecate, just
a9 in these wholesale charities to church
corporations and hospitals. We are well
aware that if we were relegated again
to the tender mercies of tbe herds of un
washed voters who swarm in Murder
Bay and other slums, the experiences of
our popularly-elected Legislature of past
years would be re-enacted. It vied with
the Boss Tweed dynasty of New York
Iu squandering millions. Yet, for all
that, we wish Congress would heed our
wishes iu regard to our so-called chari
ties aud certain other appropriations,
asked for by only a few citizens, who
have axes to grind.
Senator Voorhees dollvored an Inter
esting and valuable speech upon the
necessity for Congress to provide addi'
tional accommodations for the Congres
slonal Library, aud made a very strong
appeal to the Senate for immediato re
lief, which will, in all likelihood, be
given In a year or two. It always re
quires several years to perfect such de
sired legislation as he aks for, after its
necessity Is admitted. Mr. Voorhees
said that there are In the library 375,000
volumes, while there is only shelf-room
for2S0,000, leaving 03,000 volumes to be
piled on the floor and stuck away in
nooks aud corners. Iu addition to these
volumes, there are 120,000 pamphlets,
and over 0,000 bound volumes .of news
papers, besides a largo number of valu
able maps and charts, all of which have
to bo packed away liko dry-goods In a
crowded store. When they are called
for, whole stacks must be overhauled
aud dark recesses ransacked.
Strange to say, both political parties
here claim to be happy over the veto of
the marshalship rider upon the defi
ciency appropriation bill, as both iuslst
that the President has given them a
strong political boost for next Fall's
campaign. The one bases Its belief on
tbegtound that the people will condemn
tbe President and his party for continu
ing the "bloody shirt" policy and Its
various consequences ; tho other, upon
the ground that the people will uphold
any course calculated to protect the
right of ballot. It Is fortuuato for the
couulry that the President can please
everybody by squelching certain legls
latlon, but we fancy some will not ex
press themselves as delighted next Fall
as they profess to be just now over his
action.
It Is persistently claimed that Con
gress will adjourn ou tbe9tb, aud that
trio appropriation bins are in such a
state of forwardness as to permit the
solons to peregrinate homeword about
June 1st; but we are so skeptical on thl
point thai we feci positive that July 4th
will find tbe Capital as full of Senators
and Representatives as it Is to-day. Tbe
Presidential conventions will afford food
for at least threo weeks of buncombe
speeches, and then a few days more will
be requisite for tbo consideration and
nassarre of the appropriation bills. It Is
an utter impossibility lo Induce Con
gress to dispose of business as the days
come aud go. The passing time belongs
to buncombe matters, and the last three
weeks to tbe transaction of real busi
ness, which should have been disposed
of weeks or months before; hence our
belief that the Forty-sixth Congress
will not prove an exception to Its pred
ecessors by leaving prior to ourSummer
beats, whicli heretofore have been nec
essary to get them lo go lo their homes.
Don Pedro.
Mrs. Amos Cummings, the erewblte
landlady of tbe old Wallula hotel, and a
thorough-going business woman, baa
struck a ,rich lead In Colorado, having
recently sold some mining property In
Leadvllle for $10,000.
How American Honey got on Qneen
Victoria s Table.
It Is a curious commercial fact that
whereas a year ago no American houev
in the comb was Imported to England,
not less than half a. million pounds will
no sent in the next twelve months.
Tho trouble was, honey could not be
Bent strained and cauued, for the reason
that it would candy. American honey
Is by far the best in tbe world as recarJa
flavor and purity of appearance. Know
ing mat. a iSew York Urm hired Mr.
Hodge, a well-known liouey expert, to
iry io inirouuce it in England.
ucr me water went iinarn wiin a
lot or the sweet stuff In a comb. It re
quired skill to pac& It and to load and
unload, but It arrived all riMit. not n
cell being burst. Tbe English dealers
in honey cavo him the cold slionldnr.
They bad the editors of the BritUh Bee
Journal give him a raking down, and
they themselves added all the mean
things they could say.
Jar. ilodse made little headwav. He
was about to give it up for a bad iob
wuen a uniiiant tuouciu struck him.
He must get the honey on the Queen's
table. How was he to do this? While
picking his teeth after dinner and
ruminating on tue suuiecr. his eve
auguteu ou a pickle jar. it bore the
name of a roan who had been liiirti
steward in Windsor Castle.
"He's my man." said Mr. Hodire to
himself, and away he went to the pickle
man.
Did he rush ud to him and blurt out.
"I want to put American honey ou the
Queen's table !" Not a bit of it. He
began to talk pickles with the man
asked him a thousand questions about
how they were made, ate a score or
more of them, and ended bv proposing
that the pickle man furnish pickles to
tho American house that he repre
sented. The pickle man was delighted.
The Now York man gave him an order.
They had a boltle-of wine together, aud
the American said :
"Now, I have helped von. vou must
help me. Cau't you put American
honey ou tho Queeu's table?"
"Ui course I can." was the reolv. and
in no time arrangements were made.
A case of honey was civeu to the
pickle man, and another was sent to the
high steward, ami in a short time some
of it was before the royal family. The
young folks liked it so well that Vic
toria gave orders for It to be kept in the
castle. That was enough. American
liouey was from that moment iu de
mand, and Mr. Hodge has ju-t Kent
orders for tho shipment of 550.000
pounds of this year's crop. The JSrUuli
Jiee Journal flopped over to the other
side and was loud iu praising the Araer
lean article. Every fashionable table
must have American honey. Corre
spondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Social Wrong We have long
been convinced that the female portion
oi our population are very inadequately
compensated tor tueir services lu pro
portion to tho male sex. To us It was
always surprising that a man should re
ceive two or three times as much as a
woman for performing exactly the same
amount ol labor, ithubarb Is rhubarb,
said me learned ami skllirul Dr. Oil!
pod; and labor Is labor, say we, regard
less oi wuo periorms n. ii we have a
pair of pantaloous well made, it is of no
consequence io us wnetner the neces
sary lub ir was bestowed upon theui In-
male or female hands. We look to tbe
quality or Iho work, and not to the rwr-
son who does it. If it be good, it is
wo"'y of a compensation proportioned
to ila excellence, and should be so paid
for.
But very different from this principle
of justice is the present condition of
l in nirs. ll a man does tbe same work
that is done by a woman, be receives at
least hair as much again as the latter.
Now is this right? We say not at all.
Women are entitled to the same
amount of wages as men for the same
quantum of services, aud ought to re
ceive It. But not much will probably
be done to improve their condition so
long as they are careless aud indifferent
about it themselves. They must, as a
class, look Into the subject; see how the
machinery operates, and unitedly re
solve to better their present circum
stances. XVrhaps they might be en
abled thus to make a movement by
which their excessive toil would be
somewhat enlightened, aud their wages
increased. Ex.
The Stupid Boy Never set a boy
dowu Tor stupid because he does not
make a figure at school. Many of the
most celebrated men who have ever
lived have been set down by soaio con
ventioual pedagogue as donkeys. One
of the greatest astronomers of the age
was restored to his lather by the village
school-master with these encouraging
words: "There's no U9 paying good
money for Ills education. All he wuuts
to do is to He on tbe grass on his back
and stare at tbe sky. I'm afraid his
mind is wrong." Scientific men have
often been flogged for falling Into brown
studies over their books, and many an
artist of tbe future has come to present
grief for drawing all over his copy-book
aud surreptitiously painting the pictures
of his geography. Your genius, unless
musical, seldom proves hlmseir one In
his childhood, and your smug and self
sufficient piece of precocity, who takes
all tbe medals and is the show scholar
of his school, often ends by showing no
taleu) for anything beyond a yaru
slick. Sir Walter Scott was called stu
pid as a child, and it was not even con
sidered to his ciedlt that he was fond of
"slch trash" as ballads, aud could learn
them by heart at any time.
At Lynchburg (Va.), the other day. a
man lost a pocket-book contalnlng$375,
aud when lie offered $100 to the colored
boot-black who found aud restored it,
tbe latter refused to be paid for his hon-
eatv. The local papers, not unnaturally.
draw the moral from this surprising fact
that the negro Is Incapable or civiliza
tion.
The editor of a newspaper that has
adopted phonetic spelling received a
postal card from au old subscriber In the
country, which read as follows: "I hev
tut your paper for leven years, but if
you kant spel any better than you have
been uoin iur me last too months, you
may tea stopplt." dncinnaif Sati,r-,7n
Sight. "
You don't find dime novels nm! tlai.
story papers in tbe rooms of Vermont
boys. No, Indeed! Their tables aie
covered with -hvmn'-bonkn nn.l T,.
ments and "Tim Pilgrim'. r
They keep the other stuff hidden In the
oaru, wnere the old man won't find It.
A Discontented Baby'g Diary.
January 1. Just born. Here's n lark I
Papa does not teem verv much nleased.
though.
February 1. Every night pa walks
up and down the bed-room with mo
wiieu I squeal. I always squeal. I
must do something.
March I. Nurse is a anltufnl thine
she sticks pins into a fellow on purpose.
iru i. Alter an, one niay even
weary of the bottle.
Alay 1. I wish I had a tooth, I'd bile
nurse.
June 1. What a nuisance It is to have
relations who keep on savine "Ketcli-
etty, ketcbetty," and dig In your ribs
wiin meir loreitngers. When I grow
up I'll do it to them, and see how they'll
like It. J
July 1. Thero are thrnn hntitaa nail
door got the measles. I tret nothlnir.
It's awruliy dull.
August 1. One of the babies from
next door came in to see us to-day, aud
I heard ma say: "He hasn't trot th
measles now?" "No," said the babe's
ma. There's a. greedy sneak for you.
Left 'em at home !
September 1. Nurse drinks some
thing out of a black bottle. I've caught
her at It. It isn't the same that Is In
my bottle, ei ther. If I wore a bit bigger
I'd change 'em.
Uetober 1. Blessed if this ain't a nice
go, neither. Someone called to-day to
see ma and pa, and they said It was
uncle, and cave me to him to kiss. H
didn't kiss me, though, with what you
might call a good will. Then they
asked him again, and then they gave
me io mm 10 nurse, and no pinched me.
noveraoer -. mis is worse than
ever. Wuy. here's another baby now.
nd they say he beloues La our house:
aud they're not going to send him away.
Don't eveu know how to feed himself
out of the bottle. Well, of all never
mind.
December I. Got to sleeD in the sama
crib with him now ! Wait till he eoes
sleep; I'll give him such a one!
Here's a beast of a babv !
won't go to sleen. and not a soul in tan
same crib can eel a blessed wink
Judy's Almanac.
A Good Wife. a canable wife fa .in
admirable and delightful person, and a
prize ior any man to possess. A hus
band has no more business to say he
supports his wife than he bus to say he
supports his partner or his clerks. All
good wives render a full quid pro quo
a the partnership of the house, even
though they do nothing but make it
pleosaut and meet their husbands on
their return from business with a smile.
A young womuu, by virtue of a fine
education and natural abilities, is able
as a teacher lo earn, say a thousand dol
lars a year. A young fellow asks her to
relinquish this and join him In found
ing a home, her part of it being, per
haps, mainly to stay in the house and
overlook the housekeeping. She may
consent to do so with the most happy
results both to herself aud him; but oue
essential element In her happiness must
be that by so doing she does not place
herself iu a position that shall create u
painful sense of dependence. There i
uo high spirited woman who can endur
without pain such au attitude, yet ther
is no risbtlv const i luted
does not. under the rk'ht rnnditlnna et
joy having all her temporal wants sup
jr.icu uu ui ueiug careu ior ami pre
lected. It is her natural destlnv. Tn
vesiigalor.
The Queen of Aut Honor t!im?w.
old mother. Time has scattered the
snowy flakes on her brow, plowed dee-'
furrows in ber cheek, but is she no-
sweet and beautiful now? The Hps ar.-
thin aud shrunken, but those are th.
Hps which have kissed manv a hot ler
from the childish cheeks, and they ar
the sweetest lips in ail the world. Th
eye is dim, yet It glows with thesoft ra
diauco of holy love which can never
fade. Ah, yes, she is a dearoid mother
The sands of life are nearly run out; bu.
eeuie as sue is, sue win go lurther ani!
reach down lower foryou than any other
upon earth. You cannot walk iuto s
midnight where she cannot see you: yor
cannot enter a prison whose bars will
keep her out: you can never mount
sea Hold too high for her to reach tba'.
she may kiss aud bless you, lu evidenc
of her deathless love. When the worl !
shall despise aud forsake you, when It
leaves you oy tue wayside to die unno
ticed, tho dear old mother will gather
you in tier feeble arms and carry you
uome anu ten you oi all your virtues,
until you almost forget that your soul i-
disfigured by vices. Love her teuderl;
and cheer her declining years with holy
devotion.
Coamne. The American Home says
"We take pleasure in recoinmendlmr
this very excellent cleanser for every
purpose for which such an article is re
quired; for cleaning paint, floors, silver
ware or tinware; but we tuink mat it
does its best work in the laundry. We
ricommeud our lady friends to stee;
their clothes overnight in cold water Ir
which some cos line has been stirred,
and, If the water is not too dirty, bol!
the clothes iu the same, with the addi
tion of a little soap; take them out and
suds them through clean suds, and rins.
as usual. The clothes will come ou
clean and white with scarcely am
labor; stains of every kind disappear a
If by magic, or are so loosened that a
touch will remove them. Tbe ooallne
can be procured at any first-class gro
cery." The Greenbackers have been thrmt-
ening for a long time to reform things,
uuk as jet ik ranuut do claimed that
they have accomplished a vnat mnt
The Greenbackers of Iudiana, however,
have at last done something substan
tial, iney nave elected a womau.aDr.
Mary L Thomas, to aceomnanv Iho IU.
tiuguished James Bushanan as a dele
cate to the Convention nt f!ht
This begins to look like business. Phil-
aaetpnta limes.
A movement is made amonir the con
verts of the Church of Borne iu England
for the PUmoseof ereetlntr n. Inrtrepnthe-
dral on the banks qf the Thames, not
unworthy or such structures as St.
Paul's and Westminster Abbey, in tho
Immediate vicinity.
The man who will wait two hours for
bis turn In the barber's cbalr, will get
mad and thrash aud scold If a shirt but
tou isn't sewed on In just ten seconds.
"Is It wrong to cheat a lawyer?" ask
a correspondent. No, not exactly; but
It's rather reversing the order of things.