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My DJotbelr.
' t 1 nsked an infaut as it lay.
Doling the mora of lifo away,
.Dependant on another
What char ma, weak one! has earth for you
Whose woes are many, pleasures few!
It seemed to smile/ "My Mother!"
I asked a youth just grown to man,
SWhat visions bright, as moments ran,
lllum'd his path to honor!
"My star of hope, my motive power,
index through the darksom hour, ,
lias been," he said, "My Mother."
I hailed one on the battle field,
Whose fate the battle shock had seal'd,
As eyes fjrew dim and reason reel'd, ,
You die, said I, my brother!
Yto. u:. 1 1 1 1 _ 1
jiv wiowou ? ( wuuiiuB, uiMi tirojjpmi u voar,
Tlica in a tone <li?tinctauul clear
lie said "Remember^ Mother."
I asked a maiden drowned in griof{
From which ahe vainly sought relief,
Tclliuc; nor sorrow smother? j
"Oh" she exclaimed in anguish deep,
"My only solaee is to weep I I
She's gone?-it is o?y mother."
I asked a ehri-tian to relate, 1
His fimt impression, and their date, ,
Which led him to disooTcr ,
His lost condition here on earth? a
The Saviour's love, the Saviour's worth! 1
The short reply was, Mother." 1
L-_ . |
JptorttB far tjje JSame Circle, j
"Sodding Out;"
OR,
COMFORT VERSUS APPEARANCES.
BY OLIVER OPTIC.
CHAPTER I.
44 But, my dear, it would ruin me to board
?t such an establishmenti" exclaimed Mr.
Fulton to lii* amiable wife.
44 Nonsense ? It will be money in your
pocket."
"Have you counted the cost of the experiment
t"
44 To be sure I have."
"Our expense* since we commenced housekeeping
have averaged twenty dollars a
week, you say," replied Mr. Fulton with a
little hesitation.
44 Well."
44 Now I am sure we can get nice, genteel
rooms in a fashionable establishment for
eighteen dollars."
44 Perhaps we can ; what does that prove!'
44 Prove f Why, that it is cheaper to
board than to keep house."
44 Fire and lights, a dollar more," added
the husband with a smile.
4A TL ?1 a * M
xiihi# u? uui ninoken.''
44 Washing about throe dollars more."'
Mm, Fulton looked blank; alio had not
thought of these things.
44 And then you win have to go to the opera,
the theatre or a concert five times n
week, which will oost from five to ten dollars
more."
44 We needn't do that/'
44 But if you keep up with fashionable people
you must do it." I
44That would still be inside of thirty dollars
a week; and you were boasting the
other day that your ineotne was about forty."
* 44 Sound logic, my dear! Yet: women
aM shrewd financiers."
- Just try it for a kmod, to please me."
M1 have other aud better objections than
the expense," said Mr. Fulton.
" Whatf
"Start are Charley and Ella-?would you
like#6 take them into a hotel!"
<v*\Vhy not!"
"Ilia not a proper place for children." >
"What can you mean T
" Don't you Know, my dear, that the family
la the only proper ephere for a child!"
L. 14 Pooh 5 How Hilly P
I "lean point yon to a young man, who
cpeatt hit boyhood in a faahjpnau!? hotel; he
m now a miserable aot, aypunbler, a thief, j
for aught I know "
* I uon't eee any danger," <
M liowerer good an<1 uious the manager (
* ahotal may be Ijiibaelr he cannot poaaibly
th ^ *?Uk^ people 1
ra AetM have room# all to o?^ ,
xA'"i ' 1.1
,
I m " * flK "im '
" You don't mesu to keep the children
tied to your apron strings all the time, dp
yon P*
"But they needn't associate with such
characters as you speak of.**
" I do not like a hotel; I think it is the
very antipone of domestic happiness,"
" It noed not be."
r "There is nothing like home about it"
" Pooh! and then it is (he fashion you
knnw.M Ko lo/ttr wUk
_..V I .v^avv V?IV WNAJf ? IkU VVIIQIUVIMUIV |
earnestness. 44 All the first people board at
hotels. Wo cannot afford to keep house in
such stylo as the Smiths Jonee' and Browns;
but if we go to a hotel, we shall be on a
level with the best and moat aristocratic of
them. Give me the hotel, and I will teach j
Mrs. Smith to turn up her nose at roe, as:
she did last Sunday when she came into
Aurch."
44 Mrs. Smith is a fool 1"
44 I know it."
44 And you desire to imitate her J"
u I wouldn't be like her for all the world!"
44 Why ape her follies then!"
441 don't."
44 Well, well, Ellen, you shall have yonr
own way; but_ I confess that it is with a
great deal of regret that 1 leave this comtortablo
house."
The thing was settled. Mr. Fulton agreed
to the point, and ou the very day o? the
conversation, went to a first class hotel, and
engaged board for himself and family.?
Mrs. Fulton went with him. They intima
tea mat tney wanted rooms at eighteen dollars
a week, and and were shown a single
department in the fourth story. The lady
could not think of such a thing. She wanted
a suite of rooms?a parlor and bed-chamber?and
the obliging landlord took them
down one flight to a couple of dingy rooms,
having a delightful prospect of a brick wall
iust four feet from the windows. They were
Iffered these at the very moderate price of
Iwenty-five dollars a week.
Mrs. Fulton turned up her nose and retreated
without a word of comment. Another
suite on the same door was shown
rhem, but fronting on the street. Tly? parlor
was thirteen by sixteen, the chamber
eleven by thirteen, and the landlord, in consideration
of the diet that Mr. Fulton hnd a
targe southern and western trade, and could
inmiehce custom to the hotel, would let
them have tho rooms as a particular favor
at thirty dollars a week, exclusive of "extras."
lie positively would not let any one else
lmve it at such a seriously low rate?not
even the Governor of the State.
Mrs. Fulton was reluctantly making up
her mind to forego the cherished experiment
when to her surprise, ber husband closed the
bargaiu and engaged the rooms.
14 But you can't afford it Henry."
44 O, yes?you like the rooms!"
44 Pretty well," replied the lady, dubiously
"Very wSll."
44 But the childreu !"
44 You can have a trundel bed for them,"
suggested the obligiug landlord. 44 There's
Green?worth over a hundred thousand,
has smaller rooms than these."
The suggestion was accepted, and in due
time, the Fultons, bag and baggage, children
and all, were huddled together in the
tiny rooms. The contrast between these
and the spacious apartments to which they
had been accustomed was rattier unsatisfactory
; but then it was fashionable to board
in a hotel, and like the dandy who cut off
an unseemly toe so that ho could wear a
fashionable boot, they compelled themselves
to conform to the circumstances.
CIIAPTER n.
We pass over a month. Mrs. Fulton,
who possessed a really domestic nature, was
not altogether satisfied with the experiment
of boarduig at a hotel; indeed her experience
had been decidedly unpleasant Independent
of the inferior dimensions of the
rooms they occupied, there were many difficulties
to contend with. The boarders were
not all of the first class, and they found themselves
compelled to associate with person
who, though their public reputation was untarnished,
were yet fearfully delinquent in
their private lives.
On one occasion after Mrs. Fulton had
made the ?cquJM*>t*noe of several of her fellow-boarders,
she invited a little party to a
social time in her thirceen by sixteen parlor.
They wore all respoc table people, merchants
and professional gentlemen and their wives.
U... ,l__ ...? J: i ?
wuv MIT) wuijmuj Iioti uu owner UIUJIVSOU Ol
the ordinary small talk of an evening gathering,
than it was proposed to play a game
of whist.
Now neither Mr. or Mrs. Fulton had the
slightest objection to a game of whist* and
readily adopted the suggestion; but to the
borw of both, their fashionable guests ln-j
mated on plavin^ for " nuarter a corner,"
which gradually increased to a dollar, and
finally to five dollars. The gentloraen and
ladies got excited in th*'game, and by-andby,
when the champagne came on, they indulged
very freely in the sparkling beversge.
At elevfen o'clock the excitement became
general. The guests repeatedly raqg the
bell and ordered more wine, till at last poor
Mm Fulton began to tremble in view m the
ixmequeneea. She found that the Smiths
sod the Jones*, sad the Browns, and the
Greens, though fastidiously fashionable,
were dissipated?the ladies as well as the
gentlemen. The former were vulgar and
immodest, she would not have permitted her
children, quietly Bleeping in the next room
to have witnessed the scene for the world.
At midnight when to their intense relief
the party broke up, and she retired to muse
upon the happy home she had wantonly sacrificed
for the doubtful elegance of a hotel.
They were compelled to return these visits,
and to become a party to a series of iust
such scenes as they had witnessed in their
own rooms. They were thoroughly disgusted,
and sighed for the comfortable home
they had abandoned.
But in a few weeks, thoy ascertained tbat
there were two cliques in the houri?the
one with which they had already identified
themselves, and another, who utterly refused
to countenance the dissipations of the first,
or fellowship with its members. They were
respectable, moral and dignified people; and
to Mr. and Mrs. Fulton's surprise tbey found
themselves cut by them.
" Only think of it 1" exclaimed Mrs. Fulton,
when she realized the situation in which
she had placed herself; " to bo spurned by
decent people, because we associate wiih
such its the Smiths and Jones."
"You do not understand the trick* of the
fashion, iny dear," said Mr. Fulton odolly.
"To l>e cast out for dissipation and riotOUS
conduct what would !<"
- --? - ?J ??
he knew it.''
" He would say that you ought not to
have come inio a hotel."
441 wish we hadu't come, Ilenry."
44 So do L"
44 How can we ever get rid of these people
I"
"Out them. Mrs. Smith, in my opinion
is no better than she should be," said Mr.
Fulton, sagely.
"I know it! If you could have seen her
flirt with Jones while her husbfuid was in
New York."
44 She was intoxicated in the drawing-'
room lost week."
" And there is Mrs. Bolton, who goes to
our church, she actually refused to speak to
me the other day."
" Well, my dear, here is another argument"
said Mr. Fulton, drawing his board bill for
one month from his pocket.
44 And (.'barley came into the room with
an awful word on his tongue; he said he
had been down in the bar-room, and heard
somebody U9e it there."
Mr. Fulton Shook his head. He felt that
argument more keenly than any other.?
Fho morals of his children were near his
heart, and when he thought of his little boy
listening to the conversation of a bar-room
bis heart ached, and he trembled for the future.
" And Ella is a great favorite with the
row tenders," added Mrs. Fulton.
" Do you let the children run about the!
house when and where they please 1" asked
the husband, a little sternly.
" I cannot keep them in this little room all
the time."
"True; but look at this bill," said Mr.
Fulton, handing her the document,
" One hundred and eighty-four dollars!"
exclaimed the lady. "It's a downright
swindle!"
" But there are all the items."
"Lunch, fifty cents," said Mrs Fulton reading.
" And 1 declare, here is the same
cnarge twenty times I"
44 You ordered them, did you not I"
44 No, indeed, I did not, I have three or
four times, perhaps."
44 Think again.
441 have frequently rung for a cracker and
a cup of milk for Ella's supper."
44 Meals in room, extra,'* said the husband
quoting from the bill of fare.
44 Hut here aae two charges of that kind,
yesterday. I ordered none."
44Nothing?" 44
O, I did ring for some gruel for Charley;
he was sick."
44 And the other is probably a mistake;
boarders don't keep accounts, and servants
often mistake the number of the rooms."
' That would not make up all the bill.?
Wines, twenty-one dollars!"
"Your party to the Smiths, the Jones,
Ac." ad'*eu Mr. Fultou, with a smile.
"Washing, over twenty dollars! Do let
us leave, llenry, as soon as we can."
" But, my dear, hotels are fashionable!"
" Nay, nay?"
" And bonding would be money in my
pocket."
" I was wronrf"
" And the children are perfectly safe; we
shall have rooms all to ourselves r
441 give it up; you were right, llenry.?
1 have been very foolish."
u ir - - - ? - -
" iou have taught Mrs. Smith to turn un
her nose to you when she comes in church.
* I lira satisfied now."
44 So am I," replied Mr. Fulton, laughing
heartily at the doleful air of his wife. *1
was satisfied before, and therefore retained
my lease of our coinfortablo house, and have
not sold the furniture."
" Oh. Henry, forgive me; I will trust your
jjjfawili mors to-morrow."
I Tw'bhijgi ngjaadlord was sorry to lose
aq^ao* a hoartTO la Mr. Fulton. His wise
bill was very toleroble for a month, anJ the I
44 extras" perfectly stunning as a whole. i
Mrs. Fulton returned to her former picas- i
ant home, peifeetly assured that her own i
happiness and the morals of her children
could be better promoted in her own house 1
than in the oomusion of a fashionable hotel ;
so that she never had occassion to try the ;
case-r-CoMKoBT vs. Appearances. <
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8 JLobe ?etor)
sketched accordks' to natcr*.
I've heard folks say that tho wimmin was
contrary. Weil, tliey is a little so; but if
you inanuge 'em right?haul in here and let
em out there?you can drive 'ein along without
whip or spur, just which way you wish I
'em to go.
Wlw.n T - tru *1 I
.. uvm Mivia uvnil M LMWI1, UlUrU WltS n
I good many fust rate gals down there, but I
didn't take a iikin to any of'ein till Squire
Cumtnins cum down there to live. The
Squire had a mighty pretty darter. I said
aoine of the gals were fust rate, but Nancy
Cummins was fust rate and a leetle more.
There was many dressed liner and looked
grander, but there was something jam about
Nance, that they couldn't hold a candle to.
Jf a feller seed her once he couldn't look at
another gall for a week. I tuk a likin to her
rile off, and wo got aa thick as thieves. We
used to go the same meetin, and sot in the
same pew. It took mo to hud sarins and
hymns for her; and we'd swell 'em out in a
manner shockin to hardened sinners ; and j
then we'd mosey hum together, while the
gals and fellers kept a lookin on us as though
they'd like to mix in. I'd always stay to
supper; and the way she could make injun
cakes, and the way I could slick 'ein with
merlasses and put 'em away, was nothin to
nobody. She was dreadful civil tew ; and
ahvay, gettin soiuothin nice for me. I was
up to the hub in love, and was goin for it
like a locomotive. We.l, tilings went on in
this way for a ?]>ell, till she had me tigli
enough. Then she begun to show off, kinder,
independent like. When I'd goto meetin,
there tvasuo room in the pew ; then she'd
cum and she'd streak it ofi" willi another chap,
and leave ine suckin my fingers at the door,
instead of stickin to nic as she used to do,
she got to cuttin round with all the other
fellers, just as if she cared nothin about me
no more?none whatever.
I got considerably riled?and I thought 1
initeas well cum to tire end of it at once ; so
down 1 went to have it out with her. There
was a hull grist of fellers there. They seemed
mighty quiet till I went in ; then she got
to talkin all manner of nonsense?said nothin
to ine, and darned little of that. I tried
to keen my dander down, but it worn't any
use?f kept morin about as if I had a pin in
my trowsers; I sweat as if I had been thrashin.
My collar hung down as if it had been
hung over my stock lo.dry. I couldn't stand
it; so I cleared out as quickly as I could, for
I seed 'twas no use to say nothin to her. I
went strait to bed and thought the matter
over a spell. Thiuks If that gall is jest tryin
of me; 'taint uo use of our plavin possum ;
I'll take the kink out of her; if I don't fetch
her out of that high grass, use ine for sausage
meat.
I heard tell of a boy wunce that got to
skewl late on Sunday mornin ; master sez? ]
-1 ou utrnei sieepin criuur, what lias k?pt
you so late ?"
uWhy," says the boy, "it's so everlastin
slippery out, I couldn't get along, no how ;
every step I took forward, I went two steps
backward; and couldn't have got here at
all, if I hadn't turn'd back to go t'other way."
Now that's just my case, lhavc been putting
after that gal a considerable time. Now,
thinks I, I'll go t'other way?she's been sliten
of me. and now I'll slite her. What's
sass for the goose, is sass for the gander.
Well, 1 went no more to Nancy's. Next
Sabbath day, 1 slicked myself up, and I dew,
say, when I got my fixinson, I took the shine
clear off any specimen of human natur in our
parts. About meetin time, I put otf to Eltiiunt
Dodge's. Patience Dodge was a nice
a gal as you'd see twixt here and yonder, any
more than she wasn't just like Nancy Cummins.
Ephraira M assay had used to go and
see her; he was a clever feller, but he was
dreadful ielus. Well. I went to meetin witli
Patience, and set right afore Nancy ; 1 didn't
net my eye* on her till after meetin ; she had
a feller with her who had a blazin red head,
and legs like a pair of compasses; she had a
face as long as a thank jgi via dinner. I know'd
who she was thinkin about, and it wasn't the
chap with the redhead, nuther. Well, I got
to boein Patience about a spell. Kept my
eve on Nance, seed how the cat was jurapin ;
she didn't cut about like she did, and looked
rather solemnly; she'd gin her tew eyes to
kiss and make up. 1 kept it up till I like to
have got into a mess about Patience. The
i rittur thought I was goin arter her for good,
and got as proud a* a tame turkey.
One day Epbe cum down to our place
lookiH as rathy as a mil why officer ae a trainin
day.
"Look here," set he, "Beth Stokes," as
loud *s a small clap of thunder; "I'll be darned?w
"HalloT" sex I: "what's brokef
" Why," set he, "I cum dowwto hev satisfaction
about PatieocH Dodge. Horal've
' j
H*on courtin ever since last year, end she,
was just as good as nyne, till you cum to gon
artcr lior, and now I can't touch her with
i foi ty foot pole. '
" Why," scz I, "what on earth are you
lalkin about! 1 ain't got nothin to do with j
jrour gal; but 'pose I had, there's nothin for |
jrou to get wolfy about. If the gal has taken
a likin to me, 'taint my fault; if I have
taken a liken to her, 'taint her fault; and if
we've taken a liken to each other 'taint your
fault; but I ain't so almighty taken with her
aud you may get her for all me; so you
hadn't ought to getsavAge about nothin."
" Well, sez he, rather, cooled down, "I'm
the unluckiest thing in creation. I went
t'other day to a place where there was an
old woman died of some disease, and they
were sellin out her things. Well, there was
a tliunderin big chist of drawers, full of all
sorts of truck; so I bought it and thought 1
had made a speck; but when I cum to look
at 'cm, there warn't notliin in it worth a cent,
except an old silver thimble, and that was
all rusted up, so I sold it for less than 1 gave
for it. Well, when the chap that, boucrht it i
took it hum, he heard somcthin rattle?-"broke !
the old chist; and found lots of gold in it, in
a false bottom I hadn't seen. Now if I hnd
tuk that chist hum, I'd never found that
money; or if I did, they'd all been counterfeit,
and I'd been tuk up for passing on :cm.
Well, I jest told Patience about it, and she
rite up and called me a darned fool." .
"Well," sez I, "Eplie, that is hard;?but
never mind that?jest go on?you can git
her; and when vou do git her, you can tile
the rough edges off jest as you please."
That tickled him, it did ; and away he
went, a little better pleased.
Now, thinks I, its time to look arter Nancy.
Next day, down I went; Nancy was all
alone. 1 axed her if the Squire was in. She
said he warn't
"Cause," sez I (mnkin bleeve I wanted
him,) "our colt sprained his foot, and I come
to see if the Squire wou't lend me his mare
to go to town."
She sed she guessed he would?better sit
down till he cum in.
Down I sot; she looked sort of strange,
and my hart felt queer all around the edges.
Arter a while, sez I;
" Air vou croin down to Betsev Mas tin's
qui I tin ?"
Said she, "I don't know for sartin ; are you
g. in r
Sed I, "reckoned I would,"
Sod she, "I spose you'd take Patience
Dodge."
Sed I, "mout, and agin mout not"
Sed she, "I heard you're goin to get married."
Sed I " shouldn't wonder a bit?Patience
is a nice gal." I looked at her; I seed the
tears comm.
Sez I, "may be she'll ax you to be bridesmaid."
She riz up, she did, her face as red as a
boiled beet "Seth Stokes!" sea she?and
she couldn't say any more, she was so full.
" Won't you be bridesmaid ?" sez I.
"No," sez she, and she burst rite out.
"Well, then," sez I, "ifyou won't be bridesmaid,
will you be the bride ?"
She looked un at me?I swan to man I
never seed anything so awful pooty ! I took
rite hold of her hand.
" Yes or no," sez I, "rite off."
"Yes," sez she.
"That's your sort," sez I, and I gave her a
buss and a hug.
I soon fixed matters with the Squire. We
soon hitched traces to trot in double harness
for life, and I never had cause to repent my
bargain.?[Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch.
id g ^ no to log One,
the biter bit.
Mr. Travers Denham, a resident of Calcutta,
was a civilian of dashing exterior and
plausible manner#,.though in fact a roue?
an adventurer?one who sought to bet and
1 to play at every opportunity, and who always
won, and won in such a manner as to raise
strange suspicions, and something worse than
suspicions, in the breast of a certain Major
Byrne, whose regiment was then stationed in
the above city.
It so happened that the latter one day entered
the house of ar. official personage?one
who, in a manner, figured high in the society
of Calcutta, whose hospitality was equal to his
wealth, and whose urbanity and fine nature
were on a par with both. On being shown
into a splendid drawing-room, where some
furniture just received from Europe lay unpacked,
he found Mr. Travers Denham, ar
nveu uiwo wriwu mm, 111 uunvereauon win*
the host, who was warmly pressing him to
dine with hin) next day. Carelessly saluting
Denham, Byrne advanced to the chimneypiece,
at the side of which a small concave
mirror, of an elegant but still o!d:fashioned
shape, was fixed among a group of small
paintings.
When Penhara was gono, Major Byrne
turned to the hprt, and said : "If Mr. Denham
offers to make a bet with you about that
dining-table," pointing tot new one, "take
him at his word."
" A bet 1 The table! my dear fellow"?
began the bther.
14 Whisht* and listen to tne," said the ma
jor; and lie communicated to liis friend what,
by the extravagant fit of laughter it produced,
must have been highly amuring. .v-. T
Tlie morrow came. The guests assembled,
and with them were Major Byrne and Mr.
Denbain. Among the uilk-je* of fuiaitue
remarked, was tiic uew dinuiiig-Lable, and,
as Byrne had cipccted, t)enL;u? waa?cpthe {
The table would certainly be ft splendid
one were is not a little too high," oRscrtWed
that latter, with a knowing glance"Wit* proportions.
"Too high? Nona#) so," relumed its
owner, latighingj/'It's only the usual height
?say thirty ineltoA"
"My eye is rareljMeceivcd," snjd Denham,
confidently; " and t am certain that it is
more than that?nay, that it isone-anil-thirty
inches high."
"Well, I think this time your eye does deceive
you," retorted their hast; "and "
"And I am so confident of the contrary,"
continued Denbam, "that I should not mind
making a wager it is full the measurement I
state."
Their host looked at Byrne, who winked
j drolly in return, unobserved by the clever
: gamester, and then he quietly replied : *
" A wager ! My dear fellow you would he
1 sure to lose, take my word for it."
"Lose, eh!" and Denham smiled. "Well,
if you like, I'll bet you a cool thousand?aye,
two?that it i3 you who are in the wrong."
"Two thousand," and their host shook his
head, and looked very gravely at Denham,
and again at the table.
" 1 es, two thousand," said Denbam, getting
warm with eagerness, and taking out
his pocket-book, from which ho counted out
notes to that amount, lie had fieeccd several
young fellow lately?l>ecn "lucky," he called
it, without remorse?and was tolerably
flush of money.
"Why," hestitated the challenged, "I
think it would be a foolish wager; but, by
gad ! I don't like to be put at defiance, and
j so I bet; " and nt the instant be also drew
(forth the like sum, which, with Denbnin's
1 two thousand, was deposed in the hands of a
I gentlemen present.
j "You are sure to lose," cried Denham,
j triumphantly, and scarcely able to couceal
liis ilciliirlit -
"I am certain to win," the host said, very
gravely, as with expectation on tip-toe, .a private
in the engineers, who was at hand, and
called in, proceed to measure the height of
the table.
44 Thirty inches!" pronounced the latter,
after a pause.
44 What /" cried Denhara, with a start of
rage, flushing, and then turning pale. <4It
must be a mistake."
"No," several of the guestssaid. "Thirty
inches in the height. Come and judge for
yourself." And uumistakcably the height
so turned out
"The devil!" exclaimed Denham, carried
away now by his ruinous failure. "I'm certalh
that yesterday I measured it to bo thirty-one
iuches."
"Yes, faith," said Byrne, stepping forward,
"it's mesclf that saw ye. mo boy, marking
the same on your hip as ye stood beside it,
and, thinking what ye were up to, bodad !
we had the leys sawn off an inch ; and, now,
I think, for once the tables are turned npon
ye!" and amidst a roar of laughter as the
money was handed to the winner, the discomfitted
gambler rushed from the room,
and was soon after profitably missod from
his haunts and circle. *
Tit* Clerk's \Vike.?A merchant's clerk,
of the Rue Hauterviile, recently married.?
His master had a niece, of Spanish birth, an
orphan?she is not pretty, though very sensible,
and well informed. At the balls, last
winter, little or no attention was paid to her;
indeed she seemed to attend them rather
as a whim than from-inclination or amusement,
as she seldom ever danced. But if
she did not danoe, she noticed much and
! listed W'more. The clerk soon observed
that the lady was only invited to dance wheu
no other partner could be obtained. She
herself had already noticed the same fact.?
Being a gallant man, he acted accordingly.
The incidents that led to the denouement
may be easily divined. In six weeks after
his Srst dance with the fair Spaniard, he
obtained her permission to ask her undo
for her hand in marriage. He, astonished
1 gave his clerk's proposal a cool reception,
| and then had a long interview with his niece. '
Finally, however, all wass arranged, and the
lovers were married on Tuesday. The Thursday
after, at breakfast, Adeline said to her
husband, who exhibited considerable chngi in
at being compelled to return to the duties
of his office thus early in the honey moon?
44 Very well?don't go there?go there no
more!" ?r
44 My love, it is very easy to say so, but?"
44 Easy to sav and easv to do?bntli T
have a million and a half. Nobody knows
it but my uncle. I always made a point of
forgetting it myself, bocauso t wished to
chooso a really disinterested husband. There
need be nc more office work for you, if you
do wtt *teh it. Yet still, my advice is, hiubaud,
t'>at you neglect nothing."
Fa war fm olyeota to men shedding
tears. She says it m an infringement on one
of woman's most valuable "water privileges."