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A.LEVYS.
Learning her Talne.
"Just what I have been expecting
for about seven years," said Miss
Pauline Wortbington, looking from
an open letter in her band, with a
frowning brow. ; .
i "Is it not your letter from Her
bert, Lina?" oueotioned Mrs. Wor
thington, a tiny, silver-haired old
lady with a gentle expression.
: -'Yes, mother. Essie is very ill
with low, nervous fever, and they
want me to come . and stay until she
is better. The carriage will be sent
at three o'clock, mother" and Miss
Pauline's eyes snapped. "I think it
is about time Bert's tyranny was end
ed, lie is killing her."
"Lina, he is your brother."
"I can see his faults if he is."
"I never heard Essie complain."
"She never would. But look at
her; nine years ago sbe was a living
sunbeam, so bright and pretty. Now,
pale, quiet and reserved, her voice is
seldom heard, her smile seldom seen.
A wintry shadow of her sttmmer
brightness! Now she is broken
down. You have never seen her at
home, but surely when she is here
you see the change ?"
"Yes, dear, she has changed; but
family cares " .
"Has Louie changed so? She has
been twelve years married."
Mrs. "Worthington was silent.
Louie was her oldest child, and pre
sided over the home in which her
mother was a crippled prisoner for
lifteen years. She took all the house
hold care and had five children, and
yet Louie had gained in beauty, and
certainly in cheerful happiness, since
her marriage, even if tho merriment
of girlhood was gone.
"Henry appreciates Louie!" said
Lina, "there lies the difference be
tween her happiness and Essie's de
jection. If there is any domestic
trouble Henry and Louie share it,
while Herbert shifts his all upon
Essie. He is an habitual fault
finder." "Perhaps, dear, Essie, is not so
good a house-keeper as Louie. Her
bert may have cause to find fault."
"Once in ten times he mav. 1
never saw a faultless house or house
keeper; but Essie and her house are
the nearest apjroach to perfection I
ever did see."
"You never spoke so before, Lina."
"Because Louie and I thought it
better not to worry you with a trou
ble beyond your help. But firmly
believing, as I do now, that Herbert
is actually worrying his wife into
the grave, I intend to give him a
lesson. That is if you can spare me
to go?"
"You must cro. dear. I shall get
along nicelv."
So when Herbert Worthington sent
his carriage Lina was quite ready for
the fourteen mile drive to her broth
er s nouse. it was most unlike a
house wherein any evil spirit of re
pining or fault-finding should have
found an abode. Spacious, hand
somely furnished with well trained
servants, and all the comforts wealth
could furnish, it seemed a very para
dise on earth to visitors. But a very
demon lurked there to poison all,
and this demon Lina had come to
exercise.
For the first fortnight Essie took
all her time and care, the gentle spir
it hovering very near the portal of
the eternal home. There was a babe
too, six months old, and its wants
filled all the spare moments. Her
bert snarled and fretted over the do
mestic snortcomings, out ljina per
emptorially forbade all mention of
these in the sick room, having the
doctor's authority for saying the pa
tient's very life depended on quiet.
But when convalescence commenc
ed, Lina sent Essie and the baby to
visit old Mrs. "Worthington, and
took control of Herbert and the two
older children and tho household,
fully determined to show her brother
how far he carried his habit of ab
surd fault-finding. With all her se
verity, she did believe he was him
self unaware of the frequency of his
querelous complaints and the exag
geration of his fretful statements.
The first dinner saw the beginning
of the lesson Lina meant to teach, by
practically illustrating some of Her
bert's absurdities. Herbert entered
the dining room, his handsome face
disfigured by it3 habitual frown.
Harry and Louie were seated and the
waiter girl in her place behind Lina's
chair.
"Soup," said Herbert, lifting the
tursen cover, "perfect dish-water."
"Susan," said Lina sharply, before
Herbert could lift the ladle, "take
that toureen to the kitchen and tell
Jane the soup is not fit to eat."
Susan promptly obeyed. Herbert
looked rather ruefully at the vanish
ing dish. He was especially fond of
soup, and the savory fumes of the
really delicious dish were tantaliz
ing. Essie would have made some
erentle excuse never whipping off
his dinner that way. All dinner time
Lina kept up a dingdong at Susan
about the abominable soup, till Her
bert wished ho had said nothing
about it. But his imagination de
tected a burnt flavor in the pudding
and before he could remonstrate that
dish followed the soup.
"I'll get this house into some kind
of order before I leave it," said Lina
emphatically.
"Before you leave it," said Her
bert, sharply. "Do you suppose that
you are a better house-keeper than
Essie ? "Why I have not a f riend that
does not envy me the exquisite order
of my house and dainty table."
"Herbert, you surprise me. Only
yesterday I 'heard you say you did
wish there was something fit to eat
on the table."
One don't expect every word to be
taken literallv." said Herbert rather
sulkily. But not an hour later, find
ing a streak of dust in the sitting
room, he declared emphatically that
it was not fit for a pig to lyre in.
Coming in next morning he found
the curtains torn down-, tho carpets
taken up, the floor littered with pails,
soap and brushes, and Lina in a dis
mal dress, her hair tied up in a towel
directing two women scrubbing vig
orously. "Good gracious, Lina,' ho cried,
"what are you doing ?"
"Cleaning this room." ;;
"You said, Herbert, that Louie
hadn't a decent stitch and you wished
somebody would see to her. - Bo I
bought her a complete outfit.' I
could not see any fault myself, but
of course I got more expensive arti
cles, as you did not like those al
ready provided. I am glad you'call
ed attention to the poor neglected
child.
"Poor neglected child!" echoed
astonished Herbert. "Why Lina,
Essie fairly slaves her life out over
those children, I am sure I never see
any better dressed, or neater."
Lina merely shrugged her shoul
ders. A month passed. Essie gain
ed strength in the genial atmosphere
surrounding Louie and her mother,
while Lina ruled with a rod of iron.
Herbert began to experience a sick
longing for Essie's gentle pi'esence.
Lina took him so very literally in all
he said, and yet he could not rebuke
her for doing what he openly wished.
A chair with a tiny spot of dirt
being declared absolutely filthy, was
upholstered at a cost of eight dollars.
A dozen new shirts, Essie's last la
bor of love, being said to set like
meal-bags, she gave them to the
gardener, and a new set sent from
the furnishers. Harry's blocks were
burned at the kitchen fire when Her
bert stepping on one, said he "would
not have any such rubbish around
the house." Every window was open
ed after a pettish declaration that it
was as hot as an oven. An hour later
the stove was fired up to smothering
heat because he declared it "cold
enough to freeze a polar bear."
In short, with an energetic attempt
to correct all shortcomings and put
the housekeeping upon a perfect ba
sis, Lina, in one month nearly doub
led her brother's expenses, and drovo
him to the verge of distraction, keep
ing accurate account of every com
plaint. But Essie was coming home, well
and strong again. On the day of her
expected arrival, Lina invited her
brother into the sitting-room for a
few moments of private conversation.
"Herbert," 6he said, very gravely,
"I have a proposition to make to you.
You are my only brother, and I need
not tell you I love you very dearly.
It has really grieved me to the heart
to see how much there is to find fault
with in your beautiful home." Her
bert twisted himself uneasily in his
chair, but Lina continued:
"You know that mother is very
dependent upon me, Louie having
the children to care for, but I think
would sacrifice her own comfort for
yours. So if you wish, Herbert, I
will come here permanently to keep
things in order for you."
Here Lina was obliged to pause
and strangle a langh at Herbert's ex
pression of utter horror and dismay.
"You are very kind," he faltered,
the instinct of a gentleman battling
with the strong desire to tell Lina
she would certainly drive him into a
lunatic asylum by six months more
of her model house-keeping.
"Not at all. A man who has made
an unfortunate marriage certainly
needs all the aid and sympathy his
family can give him."
The last straw was laid upon the
camel's back. Herbert spoke hotly:
"You are entirely mistaken, Lina!
I have not made an unfortunate mar
riage. If ever a man was blessed
with a wife, I am that man."
"You amaze me, Herbert," cried
Lina in well feigned astonishment.
"I do not see why you should be
surprised. Essie is gentle, loving,
orderly, a gentle mother, and a per
fect home-angel God bless her!"
"Herbert, is that true?"
"Certainly it is true."
"I cannot believe it!" was the slow
response. -
"Because" and Lina dwelt im
pressively upon the word "during
the nine years of your married life,
though visiting here frequently, I
have never heard you speak one word
of encouragement or nraiso. in F.ssio
I never saw one look of approbation
or appreciation of any effort she made
ior your comfort upon your face.
continual fault-finding, constant
uinmo, nave cuangeu. ner irom a
happy, winsome girl to a pale, care
worn woman. Even her last illness
was out the unspoken dispair of a
heart crushed under a load of daily
wcuauru uuu constant striving ior the
approbation never given. And you
tell me now she has never failed in
her duty to you. There is a grave
error somewhere, brother.
The sadly earnest tone, the face of
tuougimm gravity, sent every word
nome to Herbert W orthington's heart
He spoke no word of self-defense as
Lina slowly left the room. In the
profound silence that followed, con
science reviewed the nast 'and ho
knew that his sister had spoken only
the truth. The habit of fault-finding
meeting no resistence in Essie's gen-
ueness iiaa grown in force till all its
monstrosity stood revealed in the
experience of the past 'month and
Lina s words.
In the days when Essie lay dan
gerously ill there had been no self
reproach like this in her husdand's
sorrow. He had eriven his wife a
fair home, an ample income, fre
quent social pleasure, many costly
gifts, and loved her faithfully, while
poisoning her whole live.
"God help me," he whispered, "to
conquer this fault. Essie shall near
no more fault-finding, , and if I see
her drooping I -will send her -to
mother and have Lina here to keep
house.
Never - had a wife and mother
warmer welcome than greeted Essie.
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The - children . were unchecked in
their, loudest demonstrations of de
light.' But Lina had to rush into
the hall to hide her merry eyes when
Herbert kissing Essie said: "We
must let mother have Lina now, dear.
She has been very kind and worked
for my comfort; but there is no
home fairy like my Essie." .
The quick, glad , look in his wife's
soft eyes told Herbert one step had
been . taken in the right direction.
As the days glided by; and Essie
found appreciation meeting every
effort to add to home comfort, a word
of praise to every - little triumph of
cookery or needle-work, her pale face
grew bright with happiness. "Grad
ually the care-worn expression was
obliterated by one of sweet content,
and Herbert found his own heart
lightened by the cheerful voice, the
sunny smile, the bright eyes of Essie
he had wooed years before.
And Lina, making a visit six
months later, told her mother on her
return:
"Herbert learned his lesson by
heart, mother. He appreciates Essie
now at her value, and lets her know
it." S. Annie Erost, in Hearth and
Home.
" They Lire by Cheating.
Shreveport
(Tja.) Letter, from
Commercial.
Cincinnati
There is a colored man hero' who
hac done what not one in a quarter
of a million of his race have suc
ceeded in doing. Born and reared a
slave, he has since the war accumu
lated about twelve thousand dollars'
worth of property. The name of
this man is Abner Hall. He has the
confidence and respect of all classes
and color.
In company with a friend I went
around to see Hall. He works at the
foundry of L. W. J ones as a patern
maker, earning good wages and put
ting in every day. I asked him
about the polical situation of his
race in this region, and first as to his
own political views. He said he had
always voted with the white people.
and used all his influence with his
race to get them to do so. The
white people own this country," he
said, and we must live here if we
livo anywhere. A cold country
such as up Isorth doesn t suit us.
This is our home, and we must be at
peace with the white people. They
will do the fair thing if the colored
people do. My idea is that the Con
servative party is the party for us
colored people to go into. They al
wava nominate the best men for
office, and always go for a peaceable
Government and low taxes, luese
high taxes which tho Radicals put
on the country finally come out of
tho poor negro, if ho had sense
enough to seo it. A white party and
a black party, such as we have had
so much of here, will ruin any coun
try. Look what is has done for
Louisiana. The Radical party is a
cheating party. . Look how they got
us all to deposit our money in what
they call tho Freedmen's Bank and
then slole it. Little do they for the
nigger except to get his vote and steal
what little money he makes through
the banks."
" Did you lose anything by the
Freedman's Bank?" I asked.
44 No sir; but I had a whole year's
earnings in there, and just did get it
out in time. I smelt a rat. I took
it out and put. it in a bank run by
men who live here, and who I know
will do right. The next day I tried
to get out fifty-nine dollars that a
friend had in tho old trap, but it had
done shut down, and the money
went up the spout. Ah, sir, you
don't know how much worrying and
suffering the poor colored men have
had about that bank. Some had in
three hundred dollars, and from
that all the way down to fifty cents.
" That, sir, is jnst one of the main
reasons why the Conservatives car
cried the election in this parish.
Tho colored men voted with them
right straight along. I think I in
fluenced as many as two hundred
myself. I reckon more. I worked
as hard as I could. I put in all my
time, for I knew I was doing a good
work for my race."
44 The Conservatives carried the
election, did they?"
" Yes, sir, carried it in this parish
by over six hundred majority, as
true as you and I stand hero. The
counting out of the men we elected
to the Legislature was the biggest
cheat that ever was. What's the use
of us having an election if they can
do that? The Radical party live by
cheating. It is all that they have
to go on. Nobody pretends that
they carried the election in this par
ish. You can't find a Radical who
will say it. They knew we beat them
and Aat the Returning Board cheat
ed us out of what we had fairly won.
The Conservative party, sir, as much
as has been said about it, wouldn't
do that mean."
" Did the colored men vote tho
Conservative ticket freely and volun
tarily?" "Yes, sir; the election was tho
fairest and most quiet wo have ever
had here. Everybody says that.
But the Returning Board counted
in the very men that were beaten.
What's the use of having an election
when they can do that way?".
I mentioned that it was necessary
to count out a few Conservatives so
as to give the Republicans the Leg
islature. But Mr. Hall protested
that it was no fair way to do, and
that if the will of the majority can be
set aside that way, we may as well
abolish elections'and give the coun
try entirely to the Returning Boards.
A Westebxeb's Views. Senator
McDonald of Indiana has been inter
viewed, and says that the Presiden-
.mm m , J -a
tial nominee tnis time must be a
Western man, that is if the Demo
crats wish to succeed. He thinks
that Hendricks and Gordon would
make a good team. -
The Demand for Oregon flax.
: From the Bulletin." : - j . -We
have lately learned of the for
eign market for our wheat. But our
wheat has many competitors, and its
price varies every year between wide
limits. Farmers cannot rely on large
profits, though they can rely on sure
crops of prime quality. . Hops,
which now attract . much attention
and create a speculative fever among
producers, fluctuate in ' price more
than wheat. Other cereals, as oats
and barley never fail in our soil and
climate; neither do our vegetables or
fruits fail. We can affirm good har
vests without a failure' for the last
twenty-seven years. Food is easily
raised, making it abundant and
cheap. Wo welcome immigrants to
a country in which it is easy for an
industrious, temperate and econom
ical man to supply himself and fam
ily with food from a few acres, where
land is comparatively cheap. Bat
the trouble is, our crops of all kinds
grain, fruits, vegetables and grass;
as well as our herds of cattle and
flocks of sheep, our products of sal
mon and the productions of our for
estsare quickly found in excess of
the market for any one kind in any
one year. We rush into the thing
which pays best, as the wheat raisers
and salmon canners did last year,
and as the cattle raisers did the year
before.'
Sixteen years ago apples, pears and
cherries and plums paid largely, and
every man went into fruit growing.
Prices declined, and orchards went
to waste. But those men who cared
for good qualities have done a fair
business all the time. Agricultur
alists have had no difficulty in
changing from one crop to another
to meet changing demands. The
rains now falling so abundantly are
the pledge of sure crops this year.
But what our farmers need, especial
ly those who have but few acres in
cultivation, and little means beyond
their own labor, is a variety of crops,
and one or two that will bring cash,
as sure as a bank check over the
counter, every year.
The question of food and fuel and
most home comforts is easily settled
for every one here, but the producer
wants something that he can always
raise and always sell at a remunera
tive and almost unvarying price, and
something that his own labor and
skill can produce,
small farmers who
one to four or five
production.
Flax, for the lint
opportunity. The
I speak for the
can spare from
acres ior a new
offers him this
demand for all
grades of lint and tow
The President of the
is unlimited.
Belfast Flax
Sujply Association in Ireland, Mr,
Mulholland, says the supply is fail
ing there each year they must look
to foreign countries in future. New
Zealand flax cannot be used except
for ropes, and they. break when out
of water and dry. Russia fails to
supply the demand for the finest
qualities which we in Oregon here
produce. Ono gentleman remarks
that if Oregon had 100,000 acres of
flax for export next fall it would not
reduce the price in England, Scot
land and Ireland one per cent.
The net profit over all expenses on
every acre raised, as tested last year,
was ovor 30. That profit can be
secured on every acre that a farmer
can sow and cultivate. If a man has
one acre and raises straw enough to
make 500 lbs of lint, he can hand
brake and hand-scutch it himself;
that is, break and swingle it, as the
early pioneers did forty and one hun
dred years ago for their family use.
lhis 500 lbs will be worth, accord
ing to quality, from $300 to 3375 per
ton, and some of it will bring $450
to $500 per ton for cambric, lace and
lawn manufacture. He will have
about 200 lbs of tow, from the same
acre, worth from 4 to G cents per lb.
If he will let 20 per cent, of the flax
ripen for seed, his seed will bring
from 8 to 10 cents per pound for the
next year's crop. If a few farmers
will join and put in from 80 to 100
acres, they will more promptly gath
er the crop with a reaper, losing
some fibre, than to attempt to pull
the flax, which will cost $ti to S7 per
acre. . This amount of land in flax
will warrant the expense of putting
up a mill with a small engine or on
small stream to break and scutch it,
and thus prepare it quickly for mar
ket. Such a mill can be put in
working order for about $500, and
they can be multiplied over the State.
Canvas for sail cloth is made of
the coarser kinds, which is hand
scutched in Scotland and Ireland.
Large factories are employed in mak
ing this canvas, and the demand in
creases with ship building and fur
nishing. Brown Brothers & Co, of
Dundee, Scotland, have tho contract
of furnishing the British and Ameri
can Governments with all navy sails.
Let Oregon begin to raise fiax, and
spinners and weavers will come here
to manufacture it, saving 55 per cent,
of tariff and expenses over present
cost to consumers on this coast add
ing a new argument for shipbuilding
here.
The water of our streams and
ponds has proved very good for ret
ting the. flax. This i3 a matter of
great importance. The great differ
ence in the value of the lint retted in
one stream or ditch over that in an
other, which abounds in lime or iron
rust or some other impurity, some
times equals 50 per ton. Water
from a swamp, tinted with oxide of
iron will stain the lint indelibly and
destroy much of its value. Soft
rain water, or water from melted
snow is usually . the best, and such
water always enables the producer
to get a better price for his flax
Some men need experience in raising:
uax. doii must do wen oroken up.
plowed, harrowed into a mealy, tilth
ana rouea smooth, sown and covered
m . mi
as ior ciover. ine longest grown;
nDre seus ior tne nignest rates. The
middle cuttings are taken by spin-,
ners for choice . fabrics. Lint, four
and five feet long will give two or
three middle cuttings, the ends be
ing clipped, for other purposes and
used for three different errades of
linen. Our soil proves equal to the
best for long fibro when well culti
vated, that for which is the greatest
demand for export
Great care must be taken to pull
or reap at the right time, not one day
too late. - Great care is needed in
retting and curing, but our freedom
from rain storms, as a rule, in Au
gust and early September helps" to
insure the crop, even better than in
Ireland. Experience can soon be
gained to decide when to pull or
reap. The books say when the seed .
first tinges brown. Mr. Smith says
when the stock colors a little above
ground. But knowing that the crop
wanted is good fibre, young, fresh,
strong, soft and pliant, the trial of
soil and sun will help every grower
to dechle" the question for his own
field. Flax growers from Scotland
i m ii T"J . A "1 T A
as well asirom tiie jjasicni anu fbt-
ern States, are now among ns, and
they can, if they will, lead on in this
business. The Riga and Holland
seed is now here for the first time,
imported pure, and can be had of II.
Hewett & Co. for trial.
It will give work for men and boys
and employ days and weeks profit
ably that would otherwise be wasted;
vou can rotate the crop, sowing . tho
llax on the same acre only once in
five years, and thus keep the soil
strong as the Scotch do.
If Oregon would raiso 500 tons of
lint fibre, all prepared for export,
this year for the British market, it
would bring $150,000 to $175,000
and give us back what we pay for
half the sacks we buy of them each
year.
Next year we could raise 1 ,000
tons and load a ship and get $300,
000. After that, like wheat, our
cargoes of flax would be sought by
France as well as Brittain. But ere
that day manufactories of twine, cor
dage, sail canvas, damasks and linen
cloths of all kind would begin to bo
erected here, as in Ireland and Scot
land, near the fields of production.
Farmers of Oregon, at this moment
the call is made and the cash is
ready for all the flax you can raiso
and prepare on one, or live, or ten or
a hundred or a thousand acres. You
have the soil and climate and other
needful conditions for its produc
tion, and the seed is ready.
The seed should be sown by tho
middle or third week of April if pos
sible. This crop will be another
element of insurance for your harvest
income. It will open new and invit
ing fields of industry. It will unite
with the coal and iron and lumber
and the cereals and fruits and fish
eries to win the confidence of enter
prising capitalists and furnish para
mount business and support tor a
large population. As this product
becomes important for export tho
shipping business for our merchants
will largely increase and be another
permanent article of commerce which
we all desire to extend.
now a Boy Made hts Father Sor
ry. Another callow youth has taken
sweet and deadly vengeance on his
father by shooting himself. This ono
lived in Cincinnati, and his name
was Kcenan. Old Keenan had some
dispute or difficulty with tho boy,
and the boy ended the parley ln-
saying: "You will be sorrv for this."
So saying he went into tho next
room, and immediately a shot was
heard. The boy then walked back
into the room where his father was,
with blood spouting from his breast
and his face very pale. He had just
life enough to say, "See what I havo
done," and fell. The father gave
him a respectable funeral, and prob
ably did feel suitably sorry. This
mode of vengeance is affective on tho
fathers, but is also hard on the boys.
A pretty girl is employed to take
up collections in a Springfield church .
and the receipts are very heavy. If
a strange gentleman hesitates about
contributing, she smiles, nods and
winks in such a queer style that tho
victim first blushes up to the roots
of his hair and then makes a dive for
his pocket-book, anxious to close tho
interview as soon as possible. All
the young fellows who know her
think it worth fifty cents a week to
catch her beautiful brown
fVf
and
tho women all pay
because if they
mj T 1
lon't she savs "meanny"with her
lips, while a look of intense disgust
overspreads her face.
Reasons for Thankfulness. Wo
have great reasons for thankfulness
that a Congress which was so sub
servient to a bad Administration,
which had so littlo conception of its
duty to the country, and so constant
and overpowering sense of its obliga
tions to tho party, and which was so
short-sighted and wrong-headed as
to have Butler for a leader, has fin
ished its career. Tho New Yrok
Tribune suggests that wo may somo
time get a worse lot. God help us if
we do!
An advertisement is a quiet unob
strusive solicitor that never fails to
make itself known. Curiosity often
prompts ono to read it, and after once
being read it remains fixed in tho
mind though apparently forgotten.
Do as you will, the remembrance
comes to a person whether they de
sire it or not, and as soon as the ar
ticle advertised is needed, the seeker
knows where to go.
Miss May Read is giving readings
out west. Her business manager is
that wll known and popular indi
vidual, "He who runs May Read.'
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