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Mad all Her Days.
Bf MRS. AMELIA V. PURDY.
CHAPTER VI.
Men and women speak admiringly of his phi
losophy under hiB reverses, as opposed to» his
wife's depression and gloom. She is teaching
music and the languages, and the voung look
has died out of her eyes, color and flesh are go
ing fast, she looks thirty-five and she is but
twenty-three. .
«It is a wonder Ilorton don’t quit her, re
marks a man one evening. ‘A woman has a
right to be a comfort to a fellow when he fails.
If he isn’t to get consolation there, where will
he look for it ? If I had a wife who would nev
er give me a-smile, and go and fret herself into
a skeleton like she is doing, I'd quit her sure.
Camber overhears this and it recalls to mind
‘Mrs. Cruncher,” who would ‘flop and he rec-
oommends the book and its perusal to the gen
tleman aforesaid, who suspects latent satire and
growls 01 discontentedly: .
‘As he didn t break on purpose, it must be
awful to have his wife reproaching him for it,
in faded eyes, and bloodless skin, and meagre
bones. and gray hairs and unsmiling lips, in
neglected dress, and all that. She'd run me dis
tracted.’
‘Salome,’ said Horton one evening, ‘I wish
you would not look like you hadn’t a friend on
earth. I can make money again. If it hadn’t
been for that infernal fool of an Ellis, with his
mad speculations, I wouldn't be clerking to-day.
Business men ought to take these reckless men
and put them in straight-jackets—they do too
much mischief when let run at large. My house
would have stood through my life, solvent as
Barings, if it hadn't been for him.’
She looks up wearily.
• From what I can gather your fancyy*as taken
captive by his marble residence, his couchant
lions, fountains, procelain bridges &c., yet you
were taught in your copy book at school, that
•All that glitters is not gold.’ It would seem to
me that a child might have distrusted that
mushroom bank, that sprung up in one night,
like Jonah’s gourd.’
Horton laughs. ‘When women enter the
world with their innate distrust, and keen in
tuitions, business will be revolutionized, and
the principle of trust and risk, will be utterly
unknown. Why few women would trust one
another half a day, and I know some, you for
one, who would not trust any man, who had any
fault at all.’
«Knowing what I know of it now she observes
sadly, ‘I say God keep women from business and
its indellible soil, whether it oomes by the mark
of the business on the soul, or by the endeavor
to destroy its life. When a woman is compelled
to enter business I condole with her, but I can
not conoeive of the time when they will enter
it from ohoice. She will not who knows any
thing about it. What women need is not busi
ness, but pleasant homes, and rest and she can
well spare the knowle lge that defiles.’
He smiles and tosses her a well filled pocket
book. „
‘Here! take that, and buy yourself some
clothes. I made it to-day. Grant gave me some
grain to sell and told me what he wanted for it.
I got two hundred dollars more and my com
mission beside.’
She does not touch the pocket book and her
eyes are full of reproach. He understands her
mute distress and says.
• Salome you are such a goose ! that is strictly
legitimate.’ ... , .
‘I? ifch.onorable ? Would you i^° ^nn to servo
you so? Would he do it ? • .
• Would be ?’ Well ; I’ve known him to do it
time and again, and he is a Sunday School
Superintendent. Pshaw you don t know any
thing about men ! Bradlaw collected tbe insur
ance on the life of Saul Green and kept it. Mrs.
Green told me, she had only received S>,o00 and
the Policy called for 10,000, and Bradlaw is a
‘'judge James is a good Christian. I never
heard finer prayers than he .makes, Salome
observes. ‘It surely isn’t possiole that he is al
so a hypocrite?’ . ..
Horton leans back and, ‘ha has outright.
‘ Pious is no name for it, he’s holy he can t
talk without quoting from the Bible, and yet he
is a cruel unfeeling husband. He is worse to
his wife than Quilp was, and the woman dwells
in a state of perpetual terror. 111 givo you an
instance ot his piety. He was authorized
to
1U9UIUV/U l J , v
negotiate for the building of a new cuurch, and
he made a contract with a builder and out of
the funds in hand kept half.’
‘But why was it not discovered? she asks
innocently. . ,
. Discovered ! my dear you are innocent as a
baby ’ He made false accounts of lumber,
shingles, nails, paints &o., and accounted lor it
readily. Every chuch is lull of these men wno
make religion a cloak.’ .
•And tee, go to the marriage altar, with soul-
lepers like these; tee promise to love, honor and
obey—what ?’ She says slowly and deliberately.
•Promise to honor thieves and liars-, to obey men
who scorn to obey the civil or divine law. To
love our inferiors, men, that we are bound to
look down upon as our conscientiousness is
always finer than man’s, but hastily—‘Good men
are living, and have lived, you can t make me
believe that men are totally depraved.
•I don’t believe in total depravity he replies,
•the worst man in Sing Sing has good qualities,
if one could get at them. Charity is the strong
point of the depraved generally. I know of but
one man, who to my knowledge, never deviated
a hair’s breadth fromgthe line, in the acquaint
ance of years, rigidly just too always, and you
would not guess his name in a century.
‘She is silent and reflects. She knows several
ministers, but in them, she sees that their life
of dependence, has destroyed independence ant}
manliness. How can the Rev. Mr. Jones repri
mand Mr. Clav, who gives three times as much
towards his salary as any other man m the con
gregation. He drinks and is profane and a neg
lectful husband, and Mr. Jones recoils from him,
but dare not express his loathing, or toe richest
parishioner with-draws, and his salary is unfor
tunately diminished. Mrs. Graves is a giddy,
heartless, fashionable woman, but she is gener
ous, and it would not do to offend her, and so on
through the congregation, till it leaves him a
small margin, from which to preach, or he will
be personal and so he gravitates to the old Biule,
always a safe refuge, and preaches ot Jonan and
Elijah and the Children in the furnace, and
Daniel in the lion’s den. while many a mortal,
who has been compelled to listen to tho thous-
andlk repetition of the latter narrative, wishes
most devoutly that the lions had oaten Daniel,
and areouite confident, that had Jonan been able
to tak«'*off bis bead and put the gourd in its
place, the quality of bis bruins would have been
much improved. Preaching of everything for
eign' to the sins of the people, because he dare
not do otherwise. If he denounces deceit and
Ivina ha hits hard the entire congregation,
an isolated exception here and there, and the
people do not want, nor-will they pay for per
sonal sermons, and out of the pulpit he must
walk with numb tongue, deaf ears anu blind
eves, or lose his pastorate.
“ ‘Who is it ?’ she ask3, and he answers: »
•Camber,’ and lifts tba purse she disdains,
and replaces it in bis pocket and goes away.
She sits still, her mind confused and per-
mlexed. Camber ! a man whom she had charac
terized in her girlish disgust, as unfit for the
society of decent people. How ootild she reoon-
cilesncb palpable contradictions, when he set a j
defiance one of Gods imperative laws, why
should the violation of any other, cause any
scruples of conscience; unless there was a con
stitutional tendancy towards one, and a consti
tutional antipathy towards the other? Was it true
after all that men were born truthful and honest,
as they were born poets and inventors, and that
there must always be some evil trait of Titan
proportions, to weigh down the Titan of good ?
That the evil must always, in the moral econo
my over shadow and outweigh the good, because
its influence is the most powerful. Then arises
the question that sorely troubles the thinker.
Why Ged permits evil to be the stronger know
ing that men will succumb to it? Whyjroa
would permit the devil He oreated to possess
more power over the Universe than He possesses?
Why'Go if would be content to rule over units;
while the subjects of the devil are as countless
as the sands of the sea. Who reflects upon this
at all, must reject the belief in a personal devil,
who has more power over man than the God
who made man, and who through all eternity,
will in darkness and pain, lit only by the blue
lights burning like stars on his brow, torture the
feeblest and the grandest work of God’s hands
while God up in the“heavens, will reign over a
handful of men, His Kingdom like that cf
Hesse Darmstadt compared to the whole known
world. From the contemplation of this subject,
her mind reverted again to her husband, and
was he any worse than the vile men who ma
ligned him, who magnified and exaggerated his
offences, generally ? Horton had passed over
these stories with contemptious silence, but now
and then, he had faced the slanderer coolly, but
with a dangerous gleam in the eyes, that could
at will awe a madman, and the slander quickly
shifted the blame to ‘they say,’ and got out of
the scrape. Accused of crimes that would make
him amenable to the law, no one had prosecuted
him. This gave his wife not a morsel of com
fort, for had he not proved to her, that the law
took no cognizance of what was palpably as
criminal as theft. Heart pleaded for him, and
honor fought hard against him.
‘Knowing him to be corrupt yon share in the
degredation if you remain with him,’ honor de
clared sternly.
‘The accessory in crime is as bad as the prin
ciple, if he will net amend his life; you must
leave him.
So the straggle began and was fought through
sleepless nights, and desolate days, and of the
final issue of the struggle there oou d be no
doubt The woman was oast in too grand a
scale, to let selfish considerations weigh, but the
heart is no mean foe, and its pertinacity is a
proverb. It will contest every inch. It knows
well how to ca ry a redoubt—where to throw out
its sappers and miners, and where the Quaker
guns are mounted, and where the W6ak points
are, and it will be on the alert to take advantage
of them and moreover it is not familiarized with
defeat. In one million of contests it will gain
every battle, for only the very few in comparison
are separated or divorced.
Salome is paying her own board. She knows
quite well that he is practicing dishonesty now
as he has always practiced it and will take no
share in it.
• Mrs. Horton is mad,’ averred a positive look
ing lady at the usual church sewing society.
‘ There is no sense in her giving music lessons.
Her husband’s salary is quite large, and I hear
he is the brain of the establishment’,
‘ I never liked her,’ replied a butterfly in a
profusion of jewelry. ‘ She is a born censor. I
told her a fib once, about the price of an article
I had purchased, all women do that, and she
found it out, and gave me her opinion of un
truth. I’d like to know where she’d find a wo-
—T" > u “- notitell such stories.’
• Speak for yourtjerr, st« -* '
ing lady with unaspiring nose. ‘I dont; but
she must have a sweet time censuring Horton!
My husband says he is the grandest rascal in
the nation. If I was going to be a rascal, I
would be a grand one too. 0 I tell Mr. Clark:
anything for me but your mote sized villians.
They all laugh.
• Did you ever see any one change as she has
done,’ observed another lady, with a waist about
the thickness of a man’s thumb. ‘But, really,
I never considered her so beautiful as some did.
Her chin was too broad.
‘ My i adgmeat in regard to beauty has nev
er be m impugned,’ Mrs. Clark interrupts hot
ly ‘Chiu indeed! I’ve always noticed this,
and more shams for us, that if any woman, is
just enough to give unqualified praise, some
woman introduces a bad chin, or bad teeth, or
weak eyes, or poor nose, or something. Mrs.
Horton is and always will be beautiful. It does
not detract at ail from one’s looks to praise
another and there’s more merit in my praising
her for I don’t like her, but you kiss her and
make the world of her when you meet, and run
her down when =he is absent.’
She takeB up her parasol and marohes away,
the personification of insulted dignity,, and
when she is out of bearing, the one whom she
has annihilated recovers her wits, and says:
‘ Isn't she funuv ? No one would tolerate her
at all only she's rich. They say she has a ter-
rible’temper, and that her husband will have to
live in che hen-coop before another year, but I
must go. Come around, Mrs. Smith! Mrs.
Halo. I am not goiDg to ask you any more !
Good-bye! I must burry ! I am afraid now that
I have staid too long from the baby and I don’t
altogether like the looks of my new nurse,’ and
away she sails, and the hostess says dryly:
. jj ur3 e ! well, I don’t see for the life of me,
how a man can keep a cook and nurse on a sal-
aay of $125 per mouth, but then it is a railroad
condactor and they have facilities, and are ex
pected to be dishonest by the corporation that
employs them. I understand he keeps a bank
book and she wears diamonds, but then he has
a rich mother who makes them handsome pres
ents. They always have rich mothers or rich
relatives, or have a legacy. That is throwing a
sop to Cerberus that Cerberus neither eats or
recognizes.’
‘Oh you are too bad ! Mrs. Wilkins ! laughs
her auditor, a giddy looking blonde. ‘ But she
is no favorite of mine. She hasn’t a thought
above dress, and she is quite content to be m
society if she brings up the rear, like the spid
ers in the procession entering Noahs arm
I declare, I never see Arlington arrange the pro
cession that the spiders do not suggest her.
I’d rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Of course, vou understand me, 1 have no refer
ence to Biblical regions, I mean the grades ot
society. Good-bye ! Don’t stay away an age.
They kiss and separate, and a tad, cynical
looking man comes in from a back room, wnere
he has been for an hoar, and when ms wife
breaks out With
• Oh dear ! I am tired out with these shallow
gossips who do nothing but criticise from dawn
fill cL-k. I wish T sensible.
which has been told you a hundred times, is be
ing repeated, is to be in a miserable condition.
CHAPTER VII.
Domestic troubles are aptly termed ‘living
troubles,’ and many a wife over the land turns
the question of separation o?er in the solitude
of her chamber, ofteO'kneeliQg with eyes blind
ed with tears, praying God o show her wherein
trne duty lies and to be a amp to her feet and
to make her superior to seiish considerations,
and many remain because hey can not get their
own consent to leave, othea, because the world
is oold.and dreary and the foar to work. Oth
ers from false notions in «gard to separation.
Who would remain one ho rbeside the physical
leper who could get away »nd it is not one
whit less imperative to wah one’s hands clear
of the moral leper and esepe before the virus
enters the blood. Qthersemain from the no
bler motive to work nigbhnd day to win back
to paths of peace the maun whom their sonl is
oentered. The man wh( gives them a stone
when they ask for bread, md who seldom re
forms or even notioes tl ( sacrifices bitter as
death. It is not an easy, natter even to leave
a crnel, disrespectful, diipated man, for mem
ory ever intrudes with h pictures, fresher and
brighter than Landseers.<!he earlier bridal days
and the time when iite wan rare June day and he
was all a man should bend Hope, well named
the siren, comes forwardith her pleasant prom
ises of ultimate reforms® and whispers ‘wait’
and ‘wait’ and alternate depresses and exalts
till life exhales.
Conceive now, if you n, of the intensity of
this struggle. Hadjm t even loved her, the
chivalrous element waeo large in his nature
that he must perforce he been kind to her, but
loving her with passiote idolatry from first
to last the most exaotinfoman could have found
no fault. He gloried iber beauty and intel
lect. In crowded asse»lies where brilliant wo
men met, he, cooly cieal even in his love,
saw with exultation tt she eclipsed them ( all.
When the era of remstrance sets in, in mar
ried life, happiness iover. Quarrels are pi
quant among lovers—s vanilla to ice cream —
but there must be noautr&diction, no fault
finding or altercatioamong the married folks
or the marital barque^now on the breakers.
He ohafes at her siiedistress and resents bit
terly her extraordinaicruples—scruples with
out precedent he daiieclares.
‘I believe ycMroulsthor have me a tramp,’
he says one day; ang% ‘than to have me do
business as other ij do. Salome, you are
surely deranged.’
Close by lived a woo whose husband was
an idler and a drunk. The process of kill
ing to which she hadan subjected had been
mercilessly slow and# had wearied of it and
had ended it. Shei young, only thirty-two,
but her hair was si white, and grim and si
lent and desolate tiro man went to her daily
work. This was sepion; looked at as you will,
it is a picture colordth umbers and blacks and
coid grays, in whino gold or crimson can
possibly enter, anithis life honor was reso
lutely impelling h>
‘I made twelve dred dollars to-day, Sa
lome,’ Horton saice evening late in the fall.
‘Keep me down! ihow them! I’ll be back
in my old place irs than five years. I am
going to leave thee; I can do better on the
street. Pluck als wins, and he who ‘en
dures—conquers.
‘Where did you the money to operate on?'
she enquires, wit dreadful sinking at her
heart.
‘I borrowed it 1 the Safe,’ coolly, ‘Mason
will never know iere wa3 no danger of his
ever losing a dol Had there been a particle
of risk, I wouldave done it.’ ,
' k^.4s c fe d 0 15 i\ e }L
prison,’ she says seriously,
m has borrowed money in
lei in that way, not par
ing his employer, but who,
ii»d and swindled his em-
Iself a thief. Mr. Horton,
efor your character that
■Ursuit of wealth, since you
'• be honest and true and
11-gotten gains, right here
.rite. I can be happy with
Viot stay with you till you
1 isgust^I love you too well
fyour derelictions. The
before he unites himself to a rigidly conscien-
tons woman; at any rate the average man, whose
conduct at the best is decidediy ‘twisricsl,’
Spite of his declaration that he would never
forgive her, he met her weekly and importuned
her to return. He left the store and beoame a
speculator in stocks, bonds, and re«l estate. He
bought at cool gain, held at his own figures and
got them. Ever on the alert, clear-headed aud
unscrupulous to the last degree, men as essen
tially corrupt advanced him money and were
repaid a thousand told. A eool observer will
point out the well-to-do men oa the pave., and
the look of importance and complacence he had
temporarily lost, returned to him once more.
Crcasus would reign again in Sardis and royally
as in lang syne. People began to see this and
graded their courtesy accordingly—a shade or
two greater every successful specuation. Then
a wonderful discovery thrilled the popular pulse
and men who went to bed cursing their bad
luck and the bard, barren life that had trans
formed the ‘Maud Muller’ of their boyish wor
ship into a farm drudge, woke up not famous—
but millionaires, and people flocked into Penn
sylvania in vast multitudes and invested the
hard earnings of years in land, not to g ather the
yellow ore that is the cause of much of the sor
row and distress ii> the world, but to ‘strike
oil-’ Horton had owaed a barren tract in the
favored region for years, and for years had paid
taxes on it under protest, and the only reason
‘ But the wickedest man can reform ?’
‘ 1 admit that; and at the eleventh hour—wit
ness the thief on the cross, but try* to look on
the case in this way. When we lovo we deify,
suppose yon loved a woman and von thought
her quite fit for angel companionship and after
your marriage yon should discover that she was
unfaithful, low and vile, without sense of
honor or moral rectitude how long would your
love survive? Suppose she were even actually
criminal would you make the best of it and try
to reform ber,.4nvote your days to reconstruc
tion, or put her quietly away ?’
His dark face flushes. I don’t see the connec
tion—the saum rule does not apply to men and
women. A woman who is not pure and trne is
•the most loathsome object oa earth. Men are
walking in hourly temptation and when they
fall, their fal^is never so great as a woman’s fall
is, for she stands on a higher height than they.’
‘Popular opinion,’ Vale says dryly ‘and so
long as that license is given him, so long as
his derelictions are condoned, so long as girls
will associate with men who drink and idle and
laugh at honor, so long will he disgraoe his sex.
God made each man a sovereign—a king. A
governor should be wise and great, the world
can do as it pleases, /give a man no more license
to him, than 1 give n woman, and he can only
have Carte Vanche to do good who is honored
with my friendship.’
Strong minded,’ he laughs. ‘And a South-
that he had not sold it was, that no man had ey- t era girl! I thought you had no strong minded
er asked lor it or wanted- it. He consulted the ? women in the dreamy South-land. Thought it
map hurriedly, took the train and in ten days
returned a millionaire. Out came the towu
paper in a donble-leaded column ot congratula-
was a proud boost with you, that you had no
woman preachers, clairvoyants lecturers, or
mediums, lawyers or doctors or dentists
tions and promoted him to^ a generalship, (the j drunkards, and here you are advocating the
week previous it had advanced to a judgeship a i doctrines of the Lucy Stone class. Miss Vale
neighbor who had brought totli6 sanctum an ant ! Deane, I am ashamed of you. I am satisfied
I did know one sensible,
great-hearted woman.’ ... ,
He lios down on the sofa, ana laughs till he
can laugh no longer and then proceeds to repeat
some of the conversation anu winds up in a so
ber dissertation that reduces his wite to tears.
Who has ever been sick and has been compelled
to lie in the bed and listen to different people
talking and to conversation wherein h>\if a doz
en porsuu3 participate, and who has not mar-,
veiled .whether the demented do not tala bril
liantly, since the rational talk like iuiots, nas
had a blessed experience, and has escaped a
torture for which he ought to be thanKtal every
day. To be placed in the position to criticise
and without power to change ‘ his base even
when a story is as long as the Constitution of
the United States with all its amendments and
them i:
‘Many and mai
that way and
haps intending’
nevertheless,
ployer and m
since you care
you risk it dail‘
are determined!
to prefer pove:
and now we m
you no longer,
become an cbj
to be a daily w
separation will Si, I will not be alive one
vear from to-dAT, t is my duty to leave you
and it shall be dc
•You are not ine?t?’his eyes dilate and
his ruddy face pa
‘Dead in eamete answers, ‘I will go to
Mrs. Laogley’s tol, md any time you make
up your mini to -us honest, upright life I
will return to yop
He blazes up: ‘I suppose you don’t
care what th9 ] would say? It is well
known that I haiys been devoted to yon;
what constructicou suppose will be put
upon your coadi of course I shall say that
you left me ?’ *
‘The opinion world gives me no trou
ble, I am actingling to the dictates of my
conscience,'shtt. ‘It is a bitter thing to
do, it has keptt for mouths.’
‘Go,’ he says,y. ‘If for months, and
while I have beshing every attention up
on you—you ha coolly deliberating a sep
aration. You fed treacherously and you
are unworthy ution and I dan well spare
you.’
He breaks qm and his voice is husky.
‘If you were evtiinal and a sinner I would
not cast you ofke you to my breast and
pardon and for offence. I have wasted
my affection. iw, while doing all that a
man can do tooney, it is of you I think,
and of the beaings the money will pur
chase for you. ve you are mad and that
you do not ka you are doing and that I
should be doiikindneas to put you into
the Asylum, inee! what is conscience
but education'ere raised by rigid, puri
tanical parsufeir education has blasted
your life. Gftever forgive yon, never,
never!”
So she goes her desolate life begins.
She has but alars and Mrs. Langley’s
boarding house borne till she can do
better. Her nts on a graveyard, the
carpet is so o is full of wrinkles and
crowsfeet anen is so small that tho sin
gle bed and lowd it terribly. Up the
stairs is born of onions and cabbage,
and the oaeia gloomy young person
who has religie goitre asul an impedi
ment in her/ho says ‘yes ma'am’ in
place and ot, but whose capacity for
staring is stri.lass. Mrs. Langley is a
widow and ij throngh and through
with tears, aty room in the house is a
picture of thsarted,’ whose nose is like
the smoke sfcomotive, and whose ugli
ness must hijs strong point, spite of
* K " widow's on that he was ‘distia-
the
guishei tor race and moral worth.'
into this gl
minds the
e, filled with unhealthy
never penetrated. A
preacher dyivitfi consumption, a deaf
old lady wl, be talked to, and who
had the gift ‘ompleted the household.
Sometimes impressed her to that ex
tent that she d i n fiight, and wended
her way to r s b 0 p, hungering for
cheery fao« r y gpeecb. From these
visits she ret.^ej. ttn( j resolute tc bear
her cross. •
‘She will l week,’ Horton had said
when they maa fc ac i better reflect-
of Brobdignag proportions,) and thus made the
‘amende honorable for calling Horton in his dark
days a ‘Trichinea spiralis,' and a ‘conglomera
tion of the instincts of the reptile and the hyena.’
Camber met him that day and said, ‘Horton,
yon deserve yonr luck because you have kept
murderous hands off the men who gloried in
slandering you. You were always bad enough
the Lird knows, but after they had colored the
picture here and there, Lucifer was actually a
saint to you. Men have been made murderers
by a tithe of the provocation that you have re
ceived. How could you stand such a cyolone
of abuse.’
‘Poor devils,’ Horton said dryly, ‘some of them
will not make again, let them try ever so hard,
the amount I lost for them, and they knew it and
it crazed them. Crazy people are not choice in
their language. If this windfall had not come I
would be rich all the same, for that moment I
made up my mind that my cap loity for making
money had gone from me, thai moment would
have sealed my doom; I’d rather be a hog and
wallow in the gutter thau die a poor mac. If the
men I feasted and fed come about me, I will
feast them and feed them again and be reveng
ed enongh in being able to do so.’
Latter in the day four of his depositors met
him, their hearts bitter with envy, but urbane of
speeoh. These men had been particularly ex
asperating. These four men had not scrupled
to malign his virtue, though there was not the
shadow of foundation for this slander, Mr.
Horton holding the sensual man in scathing
contempt. They prefer their request with be
coming modesty and the non committal eyes in-
furi 'te them as they speak.
‘Gentleman!’ Horton says blandly, and his
face darkens. ‘When I failed, and through no
fault of my own, I made a note of those deposit
ors who bore their trying losses with composure
and philosophy, and a baby could count them
on its fingers. I resolved to pay their principal
and interest when the dark days were over, al
though there would b9 no legal obligation to do
death shVdeposTted’with’me 2J 1 UOO f an5‘after-
wards gave up bridal gifts and heir-looms to
help me to discharge my indebtedness. The
others are, Mr. Hubert the jeweler 10,000, Mr.
Alden the lawyer six thousand dollars. Some
thing must be done to stop the foul abuse and
detraction the average man pours out when his
Royal Highness’ temper is rufiied. To these lies,
slanders, misrepresentations, I am indebted for
the love of my wife. You had your own fun in
slandering me and breaking my heart. If every
dollar I own was a billion,' his face pales to
snow, and a bitter devil glares down from the
eyes full of passionate despair. ‘I would not
pay yon one dollaw! You low curs, who have
separated my wife from me, and destroyed my
domestic peace. Learn hereafter to bridle your
tongues, and teach your children that he makes
money who keeps a civil tongue in his mouth.'
He smiles and leaves them cursing their bad
luck and acknowledging that his retaliation is
natural if the reverse of high. Mr. Hurbert
and Mr. Alden receive their money in dumb
astonishment and their families are jubilant.
Mr. Horton calls at Mrs. Langley's and re
quests to see Mrs. Horton. Sue meets him
coldly and refuses to accept the wealth he is
prepared to cast at her feet, and his ridicula of
her present surroundings does not provoke a
reply.
• All men congratulate me and my wife with
holds her good wishes,’he says bitterly. ‘Ah
God I how you must hate me, since vou prefer
to live here,among people every bit as'strango as
the queer folks in Dickens, rather than to stay
with me, but as long as you live I will try to
bring you back. I will never give up trying
till I die or'you die. I never eared for wo
men as other men care. My mother and yon
are tho sum total of my preferences. If you are
firm I also am firm, and* if you go away I will
follow. Your conduct would have alienated the
affection ot an ordinary man, I believe you are
the victim of monomania and that you will
come home to me yet.’
And so that interview ended. These inter
views of almost weekly re-currence tortured her
Appetite tailed, sleep fled her couch, color and
flesh vanished. Horton is master of pathos and
employs it without stint. He has furnished a
palatial mansion on a fashionable street, and
people speak wonderiugly of »ma!achite mantels,
and mosaic tables,and the almost royal grandeur
ot the interior of the house, and old acquaint
ances met her and smiling swoetly asked:
‘ When are you going home Mrs. Horton?’
To all of whom she would aawer:
‘ Very soon I hope,’and leave them to marvel
at her difatoriness,'as days drifted by and the
grand house was still without a mistress.
‘I am afraid Mrs. Horton is really insane,’
Camber observed one evening. What right has
she to be so unforgiving and to keep the offence
ev6r before her ? Christ received St. Paul and
forgot his misconduct. He was evil enough too
and y9t he became che sun of the apostles. St.
Peters’ denial affected Christ’s love for him not
at all and tho Magdalene sat, a daughter at his
feet. If Horton has been a swindler and cheat
that is no reason why she should dismiss him
as one whose reformation was impossible. What
is the reason he cannot reformas other men?
as I have done. Why don’t yon try to make
her see her error. She is too hard on him.'
‘ She has not given me her confidence,’ Vale an
swers ‘and being altogether ignorant of heraf-
ffairs I am ablo tc form any opinion. Personally I
would never overlook lack of honesty and integ
rity and if I was married under false pretences
I would separate from my husband and I think
hate him forever for taking me in. Just think of
the depth and scope oh such disappointment,
think of the spectres grouped about such a life.
The spectres of youth, hope, trust, faith inno
cent illusions and heart verdure, tho murder of
these, not a whit less torrible in my estimation
than the murder that extinguished life.’
that you did not entertain these opinions when
you rolled down Canal Street in your luxurious
barouche, with a negro oa each side to fan you.’
She laughs at his absurdity.
‘ I don't think in those golden days, that I
had any deeper thought than flirtation and how
to enjoy; and had prosperity continued, I would
have been as valueless as the leives of the trees
that the frost kilis. When I look back and con
trast this life with th<xt I do not regret that
riohes took to themselves wings, for if poverty
makes greatness of existence impossible, riches
is also a strong barrier to-soul advancement."
He rises smilingly:
‘ Well I for one do not intend to let riohes
shut the golden gates on me, I beg to report
that I have done all in my power to relieve the
‘widows and the orphans’ in Baker Street. The
widow's face has shortened ten inches sinoe my
first visit When it fills oat some, she will be
quite extractive. My house is oppressively
quiet at times; I believe I will marry uer. Nine
children would make it quite cheerful. Have
you found any more dilapidated people?'
She hands him a paper with the name and
address of a destitute family.
‘There’s just one thing hateful in the pisition
of almoner,’ he says with a curl of the lip. ‘The
people are too grateful in speech. One woman
called me an angel last week, Well, if she’d
call me a. ‘varmeut” I would have liked it muoh
better.’ And he bows himself out.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Humility of Jesus.
The life and death of our Lsrd Jesus Christ
are a standing rebuke to every form of pride to
which men are liable. Take for instanoe:
Pride cf birth and rank—‘Is not this the car
penter’s Son?'
Pride of wealth—‘The Son of man hath not
where to lay His.head.’
Pride of respectibility—‘Can any good thing
Nazareue^ N,47 ' irfltb? ’ He shall be called a
Pride of personal appearance—‘He hath no
form nor comliness. ’
Pride of reputation—‘Behold, a man glutton
ous and a wine-biber; a friend of publicans and
sinners.
Pride of independence—‘Many others, who
ministered to Him ot their substance.’
i d>ride , . laarnin g —‘How kaoweth this Man
letters, hiving never learned?’
thft r serveL 3UPeri0rity ~‘ I am amoa S y™ “she
Pride of success—‘He camo unto hi3 own and
His own rsceieved Him not.’
‘He was despised and rejected of men.’
I nde of self-reliance—‘He went down to Naz
areth, and was subject unto them.’
Pride of ability—‘I can of mine own self do
f* „“ g ; ’Thetjea can do nothing of himself,
but what He seeth the Father do. ’
Pride of self-will—‘I seek not my own will,
bat tie will of Him that sent me.’
Pride of intellect -‘As my Father hath taught
me 1 speak these things.’ s
Pride of bigotry—-Forbid him not ; for he
t.ia„ is not against us is oa our pa-t ’
v fre86Qtm8at '‘ Fdther - forgive them
fore urfc^ D0!: w „ hat tu °y do. ‘Friend where-
ior© art tuou cjni'3 ?
Pride of reserve—‘My soul is exceeding aor-
i 0 S:z at m T 0desth -
Ji m “
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world ° Ur JedUS Carist, by whom the
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Hoi> a Little Girl Factid Death.
touc h hin5v W te r n« C h° UDty (Ky,) Writer thn
u,,le * rt f ‘“ d
Walfcm» ae u a u right llttle daughter of Mr. T W
near Roano\/ eUe ?, tiy at her residence',
Little Willie h W* 10 seve Qth year of her age.
hire hlr ? iok a ioa g time, vet she
around her nnd u; •*. , bl “‘fler and sister
She lingered unH? a Vlded U “, 0ng - them her
without the least apparent ch^ thS SV&mng
conscious coml ,r iw ^ e l 1 “ a Perfectly
bar. She counted thU/^ V“ g ‘° those arouad
seven; aidwhenR^ a ” the clouk tolled
ber facher? and “ail ^ Q T 8h6 n’ 3be turubd to
clock strike again- d V ' 1 ut,ver boar the
was given her an’daitet^l^r appr<3 ’. TLe a PP id
began talking of dtiT * ag “ plece ofit -be
sion to being g pnt d ulde’r th« rt,S8mg i a great aver *
She was assured that' ^ud alter death.
-ewvrfs £,V-- 7 ‘ .*»
seemed to give hrn
Heaven. This U0 , a - V ‘ aaJ went to
And on being
assure 1°til’ ^ iu Heaveu V
.thanlandlet me Z’ ^ ^ ' Turu
on her side, and spok^rZ* tsndd r r r l - v tur aed
tolled eif-fit all the u? kd , EO more ‘ Pue clock
board il dSt?-*™* <«• »•«*>»«™
Mind voiar utrna \
ap the toast: ‘Woman ZZZZ’ ' n - etting
be a savage ’ got vvub P ut bor, man would
which made 8 ! reld . w m the wrou 8 plaCd ‘
“«>, would be a savage.’ ^ oman ’ wit bouc her
and she’s’ Tifst^tr- tCr seems to be going blind,
too ! O dell * f T g - road ? f or her wading,
go right on 18 to be done ? ‘Let her
mean! If anythinVcin We(ldlI } g ’ madam ‘ a11
will.’ ‘ n S can open her eyes,marriage