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A SCOLDING WIFE.
BY OATII BRITTLE.
When lightning fires the arch of heaven,
And echoing thunders sound;
When furious whirlwinds rend tlio air,
And earthquakes split the ground,
Deep horror sits'xm every face,
And raises every luiir.
And men whomever prayed before
Are kneeling everywhere.
But there’s by far ah angrier sight
Than lightning in the sky;
A frequent sound more terrible
Than thunder rolling by;
The lightning and the thunder-crash,
The whirlwinds in their strife,
Cannot excite more dread in man
Than a ruthless, scolding wife.
When oeeaq lieaYcs his billows high.
And drives them to the shore;
Where, one by one, platoons meet death
Iu louJfJtenaritToftiY” r
The sight is weird, the sound is wild,
But wilder, weirder still
I® the sight of the scolding wife in aims,
And the sound of her trumpet shrill.
She stands erect w
Iu the Amazonian faslnon,
With lips as pale as the foamy sea,
White with its tidal passion;
With quiverbg nostril, flashing eye.
Set chin film'blitzing cheek,
She drives her pronouns out with a scream,
And her adjectives with a shriek.
What if ’tis seen her nouns and verbs
Do hardty iiiorc agree
Than her bitter tongue with the sweet
spring air?
Not th^ossof.^pln caresshe.
’Tis hers to scourge a wretched man—
Lord hrf$ tlio iiiau I pray—
Whose home and life are both accursed
By a scolding wife this day.
Give me the measles, an aching corn,
A tooth with two pittilcss nerves;
Give me a term in the county jail,
Give all that a felon dcscrvCs—
Let the savage come with tomahawk,
And spear, ibnl Scalping knife—
I drend them not; but keep me safe
From the tongue of a scolding wife.
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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1878.
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BY Flt'Cfflt LEE BENEDICT.
“And you"never knew tJinfc your
husband bad been engaged to any
body else? Perhaps I ought not to
have spoken, but it is such an old story
that it never occured to me it could
be news to yon. I have not hurt
your feelings, have I?”
The littferrer-shook her head; for the
moment she could not trust her voice
to speak.
“I dont think yon seem well, Mar
garet; you looked pale when I first
came into the room.”
“I am well, finite )volli” ; she said,
faintly.
“But you did not tell me your
story eonpoctedly. Mr. Hope was
engaged.”
“Of course, my dear; no doubt of
that. Ho had been spending the
winter South, and ho met this Miss
Melville a beautiful girl she was,
and very rich. What broke off the
affair I never knew, but we were all
sorry, it-seemed 'jfi§rthe match for
him beauty and wealth. Not
that I care now, you 5 know, Margaret,
for you are a nice little thing; but I
owri"at the time I did feel provoked
to see my cousin take up with such
a sioklyJeokmg body as you were
when I first saw you.”
“I had suffered so much,” Marga
ret said, ‘>nd;!l never was hand'
somo,” she added, mournfully.
“Oil, beauty isn’t as much ”
“I know, I know! I was poor, and
that is worse than a misfortune, it
is a crime.”
“Oh, Margaret,!11 amjsure I have
said nothing to deserve so bitter a
speech.”
“Was it bitter? I am sorry, I did
not mean it to be so. But 1 sliduld
like to hear something more of this
Miss Melville.”
“Oh, it is not easy to explain 1 ! She
was very proud and ij^tnous, : and
Arthur was not patient in those days!
I suppose thero was some misunder
standing which ended in acfptiye.”
“Have yon ever heard that J this
was the case?” T.I/iltAtf
“No—not in soma«y*words—
/ one gathers those things one scarcely
^ knows how. Arthur looked pale
and sad for some time: IMtlie Mdms
am glad it is so. To be sure, lie con-1 cied annoyances which had caused
coals his feelings wonderfully always her so much pain. But now a sud
—that is a peculiarity of our fam
ily—still I have no donbt that lie
is quite contented.”
Contented! How Margaret Hope’s
whole soul rose in rebellion at the
word! She, who had given the midi
den reality was given her doubts—
Mr. Hope had married her from pity
while his heart was another’s. The
thoughtless gossip of Mrs. Chilton
a silly, frivolous woman, had destroy
ed the happinoss of that wayward
vided devotion of her woman’s heart but highminded girl, and thero was
to meet with this reward, and to to power to remedy the evil,
know that she must be satisfied there- Tliore Margaret sat m tlio solitude
with! But she gave no expression of her chamber, almost maddened by
to those feelings, and sat waiting to the feido of jealous bitterness which
hear what her coihpanion migh t next desolated her soul. All was explain
1 elate, what other firm lifo-liopo was od now; Mr. Hope’s coldness, his sad
to bo torn away by the utterance of a. gcntlo manner: he did not love hor
single careless word. sho was an alien from his heart, a
“X.ou are not annoyed by all this, burthon in his homo. Her first ini
aie youjr Margaret?” pulse was to leave the house forovor
“No,” she replied, in a voico which it seemed impossible for her to re
only betrayed her- repressed emotion main thero another hour, to moot
by its peculiar gentleness; “I am | again as her husband tlio man who
vory glad to have heard it —it avus
best cA'ery Avay.”
“I dare say it was; uoav you Avill
lcnoAV precisely Iioav to manage—
only if Arthur ever dreamed of my
telling you he wduld be - frightfully
angry.”
from
had made her liis Avife only
feelings of commiseration.
Tlio crying of hor child roused her
from those harroAying reflections, and
she Avont. into tho inner npar v tmont
Avhcro it lay, Sho took up the infant
mid returned to tho sitting-room^
HaAC no fear; I shall never speak hushing it to rest again with her
of it to him.” soothing voice. WhiloHlio babe
‘lhatis right! IIo is very kind I slumbered uponher knee, tho littlo
—he told mo he was going to havo boy stole into the chamber, and crept
governess for your nephew; the) to her side with tlio confiding air
care of him and your baby Avas too ’ ’ ’ *
much for you—lam sure you both
humor the boy to death.”
“Ho was my only sister’s child,”
Margaret said, firmly, “and Avhon
she died lie became mine; while 1
which her gentleness had mado hab
itual Avith him.
“Mon must ho quiet,” she said,
when ho began to talk, “I cannot
hear you iioav.”
... . The child looked. Avouderingly in
have a crust of bread he shall share her face, and then stole iiAvay into a
- ^ cornor of tho room intimidatod by
“Oh, of courso, I liavn’t a Avord to that slmiigo severity. Margaret avus
say against it! But isn’t that the not even aAvaro that she hud spoken
baby 1 hear? I won’t keep you, good- to him, and sat engrossed by her
night,. I shall see you soon again.” painful,thoughts.
"-i?!’ 8 ’ Chilton .WflUt.Qut of tha room At loitetb her . husband’s step
ud left Margaret Hope sitfciugralonc sounded t'qiiJii'fho stair, chilling 'iior
f 1 the W o£ fcll ° gathering twilight, very heart as sho listened.
The girl crouched down into her “All in the dark, Margaret,” he
chair, clasping her hands tightly to- said, opening the door; “shall I ring
gothor, and trembling in every limb for lights?”
from the chill Avliich had fallen upon | “If you choose,” she replied, cold-
hor heart.
Only a year before Margaret had
become tho wife of Arthur Hope: a
year in Avliich had been concentrated
much happiness, disturbed only by I some letters.
iy-
When the lamps Avo.ro brought, ho
stooped for a moment over tho child,
then soatod himself at a table to read
the AvayAvard fancies that she had at
times conjured up to mar her oayii
quiet. Mr. Hope had become ac
quainted Avith her only a few months
bofore their marriage, during a sea- j
son of much suffering, Ayhonsho suav
“He does not even notice that I
am suffering,” thought Margaret,
and her heart greAv hard.
A sudden exclamation from her
husband caused lidr to turn toAvard
him. When ho caught her oye lie
her fortunes wrested from hor by dis- strovo to appear calm, but she bad
taut relatives, and herself and little distinctly heard tho smothered cx-
nopheAv left in absolute poverty. pression of pain, and saw his features
Then m the midst of her anguish working with agitation. But- she
came Arthur Hope, and before she made no remark, and Mr. Hopo sat
had recovered from the painful, leaning his head upon his hand in
dream-like state of feeling which sue- deep ^bought,
coeds acute suffering, she found her- Wlibn tho bell rang for dinner, ho
self his Avife. | rose aiid turned toAvard hor.
There folloAvcd long Avecks of hap
piness, for Margaret truly loved her
husband, aud his manner to hor,
though always quiet, was full of affec
tionate interest. At length a sort of
shadoAV crept between them, which
threatened Avholly to blot out their
sunshine. Margaret Avas. exacting
“That avus the bell, I. think?”
“I am not going doAvn to dinner,”
she replied.
“Areyou ill?”he asked, anxiously.
“There is nothing the matter, but,
I do not Avisli any dinner.
Ho urged hor for several moments,
and then left tho room. Wlion he
and jealous, though she mado no returned he Avas dressed to go out.
complaints. Mr. Hope never knew “I may not be in till late, Margu-
what Avas passing in her mind, but ret,” he said, “do not sit up for mo.
ho felt at .times that a change had Good-night, dear.’ 5
come over both, and strove in vain Ho kissed the chil#and Avould
to assign a cause for the alteration. I Iiua'o pressed his lips to hors, but sho
Margaret Avas morbidly sensitive resolutely turned away hor head,
in regard to pecuniary affairs, and He regarded her for a moment with
her pride suffered intolerably at the a surprised, pained look, and Avont
thought of the, obligations under away.’ She heard tho hall door close
Avliich Mr. Hope hud placed her, for behind him, and for the first time
every debt of her mother’s had been | gave ivay to a burst of tears.
paid out of his own fortune. The
slightest coolness in his manner caus
ed her pain, and as his Avas a sensi-
tive^ uncommunicative nature, she
i'rtmj a thousand trifles OA’er which
to. make herself Avretehcd for days.
“Mamma!” exclaimed the boy.
"Are you hero still?” she said.
‘Go to bod at once.”
“Has Willie been naughty?” he
pleaded, “he is very sorry.”
“No, no; good-night—God bless
A single suspicion of her feelings my boy,”
would have led to an explanation on Sho rang the bell and gave both
Mr. Hope’s part, hut he never dream-1 children to the nurse. As she re
ed ox her sufferings, and so tho shad- turned, to her seat, she saw a paper
Owe darkened imperceptibly-aronnd | lying upon tho floor and picked it
* 1C A m '- , up—it was the letter her husband
A few weeks before Margaret had had been reading. Even at that mo-
becomo a mother* and iu-the en-1 ment Margaret Avould not havo been
was Miss Molvillo’s—and sho read
tho lines.
“It seems that your particular
friend, George Anderson, is to
marry your old flame, Julia Melville
—so goes tho AYorld. They sa.v you
married to annoy hor—is sho return
ing tho compliment?”
The sheet foil from her hand—this
was the cause of Mr. Hope’s agita
tion—ho had loft tho house,;iu qi
to conceal his suffering.
Wlmt right had ho to marry nie?
sho oxcluimod, indignantly. • “Then
|t Avas to rovongo himself upon that
k'irl—coAVurdly traitor!—and I havo
loved this man.”
When her husband entered the
chamber lato in tlio evening sho
seemed asleep, for ho addrossod her
fliid she yoturijcd no ansAVor. But
ail-night long she lay listening to his
irregular breathing, and maiiy times
caught a low sigh, which proved that
ho was Avakoful as herself.
The next morning Mr. Hopo rose
earl}', and Avhhn Margaret Avoko from
the uneasy slumber into Avhioli she
iiad fallon rafter day-break, ho avus
sjunding.by tho bod-sido in a travel
‘M dress.
1 “I am obliged to leave town for a
&AV days, Margaret,” ho said; “tho
si ness is urgent, and I know
nothing of it until last night.”
That letter Avas tho causo of this
sudden journey—Margarat felt cer
tain of it, and. her grief gave Avay to
a sort of stony indignation. ; "
“If you are going at once Jl will
not rise,” she said, coldly, and when
ho kissed hor farewell* her lips re
turned no kindly pressure. Mr.
mpo paused at-tlio door—ho' seemed
about to speak, then cheeking him-
« ct !V^M;ded his wifo fixedly for an
i tpjvtierad w i ny?prr;> wl\\\ gos|ti re
passed out of the room.
All that day Margaret avus alone,
ami in a state of excitement Avliich
was littlo loss than insanity. She avus
convinced that her husband had loved
Miss Melville, and that iu a moment
of anger lie had marriod anothor.
The weight of obligation which had.
always Avoighed heavily on Margaret's
soul could no longer bo borne.
There' avus only ono thing to bo
done—sho must go uAVuy forovor. Slur
would not remain under that roof
which could never again bo a home
to hor. Lot hor husband bo happy
if ho eoiihl; and sho felt a bitter sat
isfaction at hor oavu desolation.
She liad in her possession' a foAv
hundred dollars, realized from the
salo of some valuables, Avhioli Mr. baby.”
IIopo laid insisted upon her retain
ing as her oav.ii, that littlo pittance
would serve; anything, beggary itself
would be more endurable than that
luxurious home.
On tho evening of that terrible
day, Margaret IIopo stoic out from
the shelter of her husband’s roof,
and Avith those tAVo helpless children
went forth into tho Avido Avorld.
Three days after, Mr. IIopo re
turned home and found the place
dcsolato. lie oonld obtain no clue
to liis Avifo’s departure—tho only
trncoof her avus a noto upon his
dressing-table.
“I have left your houso forovor;
henceforth avc must be ns dead to one
another. Do not search for mo, it
would bo in vain. Bo happy in your
oavu way, and forgot CTen tho exist
ence of Makoaukt.”
Actors Avho expect to rant should
use somo good expectorant for their
voico.
v
Tho Paris Figaro has been study
ing that American invention “le slee
ping carr,” :
Florida farmer fainted in his
Gabriel appeared and
was innocont.”
“ Very good, sir; then tako
sunimonB, ; iuid have it served o
briol at qnco.”
An Important Witness.
Jeremiah Mason was engaged as
counsel in the celebrated trial of Rev.
K. K. Avery, a Methodist divine, for
tho murder of a young lady in Rhode
Island.
Ho had groat difficulty in obtain- „ 1U , ulvl Aauituu VJ
nig ovidenco sufficient to establish harn-yurd aiid the liogs ate off tho
us ease, when ono night about calves of his legs,
twelve o clock, and ashe was hardrat I .. .
work, a AVoll-kuoAVti clergyman rush- bad marriage is like an eloctrio
ed in upon Dim, breathless with c .k- I machine—it makes you dance, but
oitbiiient, ami exclaimed: you can’t let go.
Bfi&Tla 1 ^ ,rd tobl " slra -
It Avas a Frenchman avIio remar
ked to a black-cvcd lady that her
optics wero in mourning for tho
murders had commited,
A tax 'on profane lagunge would
I raise moro rovonuo thaw the Moffot
| drink register, mid the more a man
was taxed tho moro ho Avould swear.
“At wlmt ago Avoro you marriod?”
asked she, inquisitively. But tho
lady avus equal to tho emergency,
and quiI oly responded: “At the par-
| somigo.”
Near the cemetary in Rouen, Franco
is a hotel with this sign: “Mourners
, . -. n , Return—Choice Wines and Liquors,
instantly bather Jraylor turnod Isolated rooms for guests who Avish
the attention of tho largo audience to weep in private.”
to the insolent rowdy, aiid then very ....
forcibly said, as ho pointod to liis A .1 omiossoo nogross avenged her-
viotjm: |80u upoii her employer, Mr. Aloxan-
A ItoAvdy Relinked.
At this -time Avlicn tlio tonipcra-
turo cause is so earnestly advocated
in somo quarters, an anecdote of Fa
ther Taylor may not como a miss.
Several years ago, as Fathor 'L’ay-
1 or avus delivering a tomperanco ad
dress, a certain drunkard was so
much offended with his sovoro but
truthtul remarks that ho began to
hiss the spoukor.
“Thoro’s a rod nose got into cold ( P r Youroo, for a scolding ho iiad
water: don’t you hear it hiss?” j p lvon hor, by “pouring a bucket of
A New Diinii).
hot water into liis loft car.”
, Within a fortnight after tho oc-
A certain phr<$qlogi«t Avns rocont- Potion of Cyprus six companies,
ly making an examination of tlio I wifclfiui aggregate capital of *20,732,
head of a pu^llistto individual, and ^00, had boon registered iia iiingirtnil
after describing him gonoraliy, ho M 50 . carry on operations in eoimooticn
oxolaimod, with astonishmont: ‘ W tlio island.
“Sir, yon havo eonilmtivenuss and a hi -i .
somo man!” but Avliy say it? I hoaoi toldy.on
Thero Avas a sudden epheussion, r° U wwnfc0( ^
and when tlio phrenologist; picked One of tho editors of tlio (JUmlanil
liimoolf in ho discovered that ho I Herald has scon from the deck of a
possessed a iioav bump.
A Disturbed Baby.
Many mothers are oithor com polled
to stay away from church or take
their babies with thorn. In order to
yficlit “a school of blackfigli or porpoi-
! sos a quarter of a mile long,” bo-
injgr four times tho longth of the lou-
I gOst sea-sorpent that avus over soon.
[concluded next week.]
A Tell-Tale liistrumeut.
A Syraeuscan bought a phono
graph. It stood on a table m the
dining-room. The little joker runs
by elqek-AVork, and his wifo started
it going the other day, and then
Avent up stairs for a few minutes,
leaving her husband below. When
slio returned, she suav somo indenta
tions on tho cylinder, nml sho run it
through to soo avIio had been talking
in hor absence. The little truth-tol
ler blurted out:
VJano, come boro, you sweet little
gum-drop. Noav give mo a kiss be
fore the old Avoman comes doAvn
stairs.”^ •. .
Janowastho hired girl. Sl o is
Mr. A. .Hudson, of Luporto, Ind.,
pom- W on„ m took] , to , it|ob&i ,, 1 , o r 5,,,^ „* t hi, m iIko“ndli.rcaG
ai ms. I ho loud voico iroin the plat- onod to kick hor out, and slao took
tho child ami mado it poison a Avook . from hor weddin<>-
oty, and its mothor got up and Was day. °
loaving the church Avhon tho ministor J
stppiiod hor by saying: The Cimimli Gaxetto thinks tlmt
“My good woman, don’t go aAvay; Mr. Thurman, in swallowing the
tho baby doesn’t disturb me.” ’ Ohio idoa, has mado himself the
“lb isn’t for that, sir, I loavo.” most vulnerable public man in tho
sho ropliod, with perfect iinconcious- country; furthor, that in trimming
ness of sarcasm: “it’s you disturb tho M 118 mu Is ho has dosorted his bul-
t ,i..... n warks • -
A man was sitting for liis photo-
tograph. The operator said. “Now
I sir, look a kind o’ pleasant—smile a
a till lit.” The mini smiled, and then
tho operator exclaimed. “Oh, that
will never dp! Yon smilo too wide
[ for the instrument.
A clotliior has excited public cur-
Stump-Speeches.
Not long since, a gentleman was
Avatching the process of packing somo
hundreds of Avoodon logs for expo
rtation for the future benefit of the
gallant soldiers of tho Sultan.
“Ah” quoth tlio momlizor, “tlicso. oxainin „„„
pieces of tiinhor are but so many cl- iosity by having a large apple min-
“SroP™ “ g, “ ° rrorS °' 4 m “ ig "- Ufed f‘, "u
“Exactly,” Haiti a by-Htunckr '' X| - ll -°
“stump speoehes!”
Stmiigc diseases.
, .. inquired: “If it
hftdn t hceu for an apple, whore
would all tho ready-made clothing
stores bo b) day?”/
“Let mo see.
you Avoro up.
At Roehostorvillo, a suburb of Ot-
compulsion.” “My littlo brotherl
died of some funny name.” A great
white cat drawed my sister’sbreath {$#», Out., forty young men Avont to
and she died of it.” “Applortdexity.” Mrs. Pelletier’s house for a dance,
“llurmlger in tho head.” “Short-1 iimumcments being imperfect
ness of breath,” “Indigotion of the “'ey two the plastor off the Avail,
lungs.” “Sister avos eonsumpted, | smashed tho furniture and doors and
hut uoav she’s quite avcII again.’
hurled a five-pound rock at hor. It
did not striko her, but sho fell doud
[of fright.
Sir Walter Scott used to tell of a.
baronet \$io made himself the host.
“I told her I’d never smoko an
other cigar,” lie said, softly, “and I
won’t. A pine’s plenty good enough
for me, and lie gracefully drew a of a number of Presbyterian miX
match ovor the leg of Ins trousors. istors, seven of whom were put into a
.... • ,1 capacious muny-bedded room, avIioio
A subscriber wrote to a journal to tho butler eavofully provided for
mako some inqnrios about tho next each a Bible and a bottle of beer
worlds lair, whereupon tho wicked “My friend,”said ono of the divines'
editor replied that ho was under tlio addressing this funotiomivy, nfto- ft
imnnuiiinn that tho next world I brief general consultation, ‘-you must,
knoAv that tho yonngost ‘minister
reads aloud a portion of tho Script-
imjireHHion tlmt tho next
Avouldn’t havo any fair.
anu sa or some time: IMtlie&dms gassing cares of matomity, she for- guilty of the meanness of look in nut. i *l“ n0 W 9 B tho g‘ rl - ^1 o is man for a husband. IIo at once re- more bottles of alo.” The youngest
veryhappyat present, I am sure ! < got, a littletime Gic thoiLd ^ ^ milT to | ^ ^ ^
An Illinois Avoman 1ms written to uro to tho rest; only one Bible, thore-
one of the assistant postmostor-gen- foro, is necossiuy. So take away tho
orals to pick hor out a good young other six, and in their place bring six jg
man for a husband. IIo at onco re- more bottles of ulo.” The youngest