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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, JUNE 30, 1881.
VOL. L-N0..33..
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NEWS SUMMARY.
 »
finportant T*atelli_ ence from All Parts,.
"Domestic.
Four barges of wheat recently shipped
from St. Paul for 2sTew Orleans, thence to
be sent to Glasgow, are found to have been
badly heated, owing to insufficient ventilation.
-It is announced that Prof. Samuel A.
King has secured funds for an experimental
"balloon voyage next fall from the Mississippi
Eiver to the Atlantic seaboard.
A family of Bohemian gypsies left Castle
Garden on the morning of the 19th for New
Jersey in an antique wagon brought from
Home. They returned on the 22d, stating
that they rode thirty-seven miles through
hoots and yells, the people stoningthem, and
calling them child-stealers. They wouldre-
turn to Europe by the next steamer.
A Bochester (E. X.) telegram of the
23d says-two simultaneous dispatches had
beenieceived by Prof. Swift, of the Warner
Observatory, by which it appeared that another great comet had been discovered.
Prof. Sharpless, of Haverford College, Pennsylvania, stated that "L. T.- Edwards saw it
with the naked eye this morning, and Edgar
Ii. Lartin, at2jfew Windsor, 111., also reports
seeing it, and that it is vast. The new comet is located in the constellation Auriga,
about eight deaxees from the star
Capella. It is not improbable that it may be
the nruch-expeeteel comet of 1812, whicn
should appear not far from that locality.
There is some question as to who has the
honor of the discovery and to whom the
"Warner prize of §200 belongs—Larkin or Edwards.-"-"
yOf eleven cases of sunstroke in New Orleans on the 23d, seven proved fatal.
The National Christian Association, an
anti-secret society organization, held its annual meeting in Chicago on the 23d. During
the year $15,0Q0 bad been received and $13, -
645 disbursed. Eev. L. NY Stratton was
elected President forthe ensuing year; J.
D. Nutting, Eecording Secretary, and Eev.
J. P. Stoddard, Corresponding Secretary
and' General Agent.
The Choctaws and Chickasaws have
brought on a crisis in regard to white sojourners in Indian Territory. United States
cavalry have been ordered to co-operate
with the Choctaw militia in banishing white
men and their stock. It was stated on the
•23d that three hundred families of intruders
Jhad crossed the borders during the previous
ten days, leaving all their property behind.
The Choctaw forces were encamped at
Scullyville, three hundred strong.
The assessors in Brooklyn, N. T., are taxing the parsonages of the different churches.
TOjibstoxe, Arizona, had a large fire on
the 22d, which destroyed 160 buildings, rendering 800 people homeless.    The losses ag-
•**  gregated about $250,000.
There was a fatal case of genuine Asiatic
cholera at Cincinnati on the 23d, a Mrs.
Nen'berger being the victim.
Henry A. Grover, of Eoxboro, Mass.,
recently bought a Dicycle at Attleboro and
started to ride home, but fell off and broke
his neck on the way.
A "meeting of the National Division of
the Sons of Temperance was opened atSara-
toga, N. T., on the 23d, by Grand Officer
Evan G. Morris, of Cincinnati, Most "Worthy
Patriarch. About 130 delegates, representing the twenty-nine Grand Divisions of the
United States and Canada, were present.
The loss of members for the year was i, 693.
The Grand Division is out of debt, and has
$1,400 in the treasury.
Extensive reports are given in the Chicago Tribune of the 25th from the winter
whea.t producing States in regard to the
present season's crop, the general tenor of
the advices from nearly every section being
that the yield of this cereal will be much less
this year titan in 18S0. That paper says':
' ' 'The weather for some time past has been
of an exceedingly unfavorable nature for the
growth of grain, and chinch-bugs now
threaten to seriously damage the corn crop.
These remarks apply more particularly to
Illinois, Missouri and Kansas; but in Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan the lack of rain during the past six weeks cannot fail in some
measure to reduce the yield of cereals, although no fair estimate of the crops in those
States can be made for three weeks to
come."
The new directory of the City of New
York contains 285,477 names, an increase
over the previous year of 11,761. It estimates the population of the city at 1,257,554.
Captain Paui, Boyton, the celebrated
swimmer,, arrived at Cairo, 111., on the 24th,
having swum from St. Paul, a distance of
"1,343 miles, in twenty-three days and five
"nights. He swum the last 200 miles,
from St. Louis to Cairo, without leaving the
water.
A Chicago saloon-keeper, named .lames
Kelly, has been recently tried and convicted,
in the Criminal Court of the city, on the
charge of selling I knife to an inebriate
named Booth, notwithstanding the protests
of Booth's wife. He was sentenced to
twenty days-* imprisonment and to pay a fine
of $50,
IN the United States District Court at Chicago on the 24th John Bate,;better known as
Dr. Olin, was sentenced to imprisonment for
three years and a line of $100, and Dr. Jordan was given one year and $100. Their offenses were the use of the mails for the circulation of demoralizing literature. James
D. Doyle, the counterfeiter, was sentenced
to Joliet for ten years.
The Federal Government has received
$96,000 from Chicago banks for back taxes,
and nearly as large an amount is pending
settlement.
Prof. Henry Draper, at his observatory at Hastings, N. Y., on the Hudson
Biver, succeeded on the morning ofthe 25th
in getting a photograph of the comet, something never before accomplished. He said
the picture was by no means a perfect one,
but it demonstrated the fact that a comet
can be photographed, A Rochester special
says the observations made at tlie "Warner
Observatory on the night of the 26th showed
that the comet was receding from the sun,
. and probably from the earth, and would be
seen for some time yet, but would undoubtedly grow dimmer. Claimants for the
Warner prize of $200 were pouring in by the
hundreds from all parts of America. A
Connecticut man claimed that he found Ifc on
the 19th.
At Washington on tbe evening of the 23th
William G. Whitney, a son of the well-
known litigant, Mrs. Myi'a Clark Gaines,
-** was murdered by his brother-in-law;, James
Y. Christmas. The two men and their families had been in business together, and the
quarrel which caused the murder was in regard to the settlement thereof. They left
the dinner table together, and as; they
passed into the hali Christmas drew a re
volver and shot Whitney through the heart.
The murderer was arrested.
At the close of business on the 25th there-
had beenrecelved at the Treasury Department in Washington $56,000,000 of five-percent, coupon bonds, for continuance at
three and one-half pgr cent. The latest advices from the London agency report that
more than $24,000,000 had been presented
there so far for continuance, making the aggregate amount about $80,000,000. This
left $38,000,000 or coupon fives outstanding,
with but five days left for presentation.
Edward D. Porter, a rejected suitor
for the hand of Silora Knockardt, of Pater-
son, N. J., fatally stabbed her father on the
26th and then attempted the life of Arthur
V. Capella, the favored lover.
During the week ended on the 25th there
were 226,000 silver dollars issued from the
mints of the United States. During the corresponding week in 1SS0 the number was
168,000.
Pour prominent liquor-dealers of Omaha
Neb., two of whom are members of the City
Council, have been indicted for violating the
High License law. *
Personal and Political.
At the session of the National Temperance
Convention at Saratoga on the 22d resolutions were adopted aflirming the wisdom and
duty of total abstinence, indorsing the movement for the introduction of text-books
inculcating temperance principies on scientific grounds into our schools and colleges,
declaring that Christian people should
pledge themselves to total abstinence as a
protest against the liquor traffic, and
should pursue the work of inculcating temperance in church organizations, and as
Christian patriots should cast their ballots
in aid of the temperance cause. The sale of
liquor on the Lord's Day was denounced,
and the use of alcoholic wines in the communion service was condemned. Congress
is asked to present to the people a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting forever the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
in this country.
Mr. Conkling addressed a Stalwart conference at Albany on the 22d. He counseled
his hearers '' to be steadfast to the party of
true Bepublican ideas and principles, and to
beware of the corrupt group of politicians
who are striving to destroy that party and
its prestige." He warned them against
'■' the men who are approaching them with
corrupt enticements," and referred, in this
connection, to the bribery investigation in
progress before the Assembly Committee
and Grand Jury. After dwelling upon
the growing power of monopolies in
this country, he spoke of various corporate
influences alleged to have been arrayed
against the Stalwarts. He said it was almost inevitably a severe task to fight wealth,
but more especially was it difficult to do so
when the millions were unscrupulously
used by corrupt agents. He alluded to
some of the persons who had been acting as
leaders of the " half-breeds,"' and asked if
any honorable man could " for one moment
think of compromising with such notorious
characters."
At a caucus of the Democratic members
of the New York Legislature on the 22d
Senator Jacobs stated that he had been informed that the Governor would declare the
votes cast for him for United States Senator
as void. He said he had, on the moment of
being informed of this, determined to withdraw7 his name from the canvass. The effect, he said, of declaring his vote void
would be the election of some Republican
candidate Avho happened to get a majority
of a quorum with the Democratic vote omitted. The caucus then unanimously nominated Clarkson N. Potter as candidate for
United States Senator for the short term, in
place of Jacobs, withdrawn.
The Missouri River Improvement Convention, in session at- Council Bluffs, Iowa,
on the 22d, adopted resolutions demanding
$5,000,000 from the public Treasury foi the
improvement of that stream, $400,000 to be
expended in 1S82 in extracting snags. The
policy was urged that no vote be given by
Western men in Congress to a River and
Harbor bill which fails to contain the above
appropriation.
The Administration members of the New
York Legislature held a largely-attended
meeting on the evening ofthe 22d, at which
there was a general feeling expressed in favor of concentrating their strength in support of Messrs. Wheeler and Depew as successors to Messrs. Conkling and Platt.
Colonel Cash, of South Carolina, who
killed Shannon in a duel, has been acquitted.
A decision just made by the United
States Court of Claims brands George Taylor, ex-Member of Congress, as guilty of
subornation of perjury, and as having manufactured a claim before the Franco-American Commission upon which he was paid
nearly $300,000.
Rev. Dr. Henry McCracicen, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of Toledo,
has been elected Chancellor of the Western
University of Pennsylvania, looated at Pittsburgh.
It is announced that Parnell, the Land
Leaguer, will revisit the United States in
July.
IN the bribery investigation at Albany, N.
Y., on the 23d, James Tillinghast, of the
New York Central Road, explained what
use he made of $20,000 in currency in his
private business. John I. Davenport testified that he was authorized by Henry E.
Knox, of Washington, to tender a Marshal-
ship to Senator Strahan.
General Brady, ex-AssistantPostmast-
er- General, made application in the Criminal Court of Washington on the 23d to have
the charges of fraud made against him tried
at once. Colonel Cook, the special counsel
for the Government, stated to the Court that
not a single case was yet ready for submission to the Grand Jury, and that complete
failure would result from using the testimony In its present condition. The Court,
therefore, ordered that the cases go over
until Septem ler, to which date the Grand
Jury has a recess.
There was a gathering of representative
white Republicans from "Virginia at Washington on the23d to express tothe Administration their desire for a coalition with
Mahone.
The Maryland Democratic State Convention met at Baltimore on the 23d and nominated Thomas J. Keating for Comptrollor.
JOHN H. BUCHTEL, of Akron, Ohio, has
given another check to the college bearing
his name. His gifts to the institution aggregate $200,000.
A San Diego (Cal.) dispatch of the 23d
says of the new Tiehborne claimant that
he is well known in that vicinity, and is
a pure delusion.
The Albany (N. Y.) Bribery Investigating Committee concluded the taking of evidence on the 24th, and notified counsel to
hand In their briefs by the 28th,
William P. Eustis, of Pittsfield, has
been nominated by the Prohibitionists of
the Second Congressional District of Maine,
to succeed William P. Frye.
Leakder Warren, commercial editor of
the Baltimore Gazette, died suddenly on the
24th, of heart disease. He was sixty-two
years of age.
Silas C. Herring, the noted safe manufacturer, died suddenly at Plainfield, N. J.,
on the 24th.
Judge Samuel H. Woodson, ex-member of Congress from the Independence
(Mo.) District, died at that place on the
24th.
An Albany (N. Y.) special of the 25th
says: "Anew movement is to be started
next week for a party caucus. The feeling
is becoming more general that the dead-lock
cannot be broken until a caucus is held in
the regular way, and nominations for Senators made, the minority submitting to the
majority. H the caucus programme is accepted by both sides; the dead-lock will end
next day. * At present this seems io be the
only chance."
President Garfield held an informal
reception at Long Branch on the evening of
the 25th, which lasted about an hour. Just
before the close of the reception General
Grant entered the room, extended his hand,
and conversed quietly for a moment.
Ex-Senator Conkling suddenly made
his appearance in Washington on the 25th.
He said his visit bad no political significance;
that his mission was to attend to some private business and look after numerous public documents which he had not distributed.
, Ex-Senator Spencer stated on the 25th
that a report that he was to be appointed
First Assistant Postmaster-General was untrue ; that he never asked for the appointment, did not want it, and would not take
it. Judge Tyner also announced on the same
-day that his resignation of the office had not
at any time been tendered to the President
or any one else; that he did not expect to
resign at any time in the near future, and
he had reason to believe the position had
not been tendered to any person.
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.Foreign.
A London telegram of the 24th says the
negotiations between England and France
for a new commercial treaty seemed likely
to fail.
It is stated that the lowering of tolls on
the Canadian canals has served to divert
considerable quantities of merchandise from
Europe to Cleveland and Chicago by Avay of
Montreal.
The London bankers have signed a memo«
rial to Mr. Gladstone urging the Government to offer practical aid toward the rehabilitation of silver, * .
Two oil mills and a factory in Marseilles, where Italians Were almost exclti-*
sively employed, were burned on the 24ih,
involving a loss of six million francs.
The German authorities have prohibited
the public exhibition of placards of emigration agents or of foreign steamship companies, and will, it is stated, take masures to
impede the exodus,
A Train plunged into the San Antonio
River near the Village of Mailpois, MexIco>
on the evening «f the 24th, in consequence of
the fall of the. bridge located there; The
train was laden With soldiers) Of Whom thirteen officers and 192 privates were killed, and
fifty others sustained serious injuries. The
road was of narrow gauge and had been in
operation only a week.
Sixteen Jesuit priests, the advance guard
of a large body driven out of Nicaragua,
have made their appearance in Panama.
Seventeen persons were killed by a
coal-mine explosion in Westphalia, Germany, op the 25th
Herr Auer, a Socialist member of the
German Parliament, ventured to return to
Berlin on private business, and was arrested, having no privileges beyond the session.
The Abyssinians are said to be maltreating French Catholic missionaries, and the
French Consul at Massowah has demanded
satisfaction of the King.
liATEK   "NEWS.
The twenty-eighth unsuccessful ballot
for United States Senators was taken in tha
New York Legislature on the 2?th, with
the following result: For successor to Mr.
Conkling: Wheeler, 32; Potter} 31? Conk»
ling, 24; Lapham, 8; scattering, 6. For
successor to Mr. Platt: Depew, 3;j' Ker*
nan, 32; Platt, 21; scattering, 13v
President Garfield returned to "Washington on the 27th from Long Branch.
A terrific thunder-storm passed over
Washington on the evening of the 22d, unroofing Ford's Opera-House, the Art Hall
and a large number of residences.
The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Anti-Monopoly League
reported on the 27th that he had established
a League in every Assembly District in New
York State.
It was announced in the British House of
Commons on the 27th that twenty-seven
Justices ofthe Peace were guilty of corrupt
practices in connection with the election last
year, and that fifteen of them had resigned.
The nail-makers of Staffordshire, Eng., to
the number of 30,000 have struck for an advance of thirty per cent, in wages.
The lumber dealers of.Chicago, at a meeting held on the 27th, adopted a scale of prices
which is an advance of from fifty cents to
one dollar per 1,000 on all classes of lumber.
The fifty cents advance covers siding, fencing and culled, while the one dollar advance
is on select timber, flooring, clear ooards,
scantling, etc.
According to the revised and finally approved census of Boston, that city had 362,-
839 inhabitants when the enumeration was
made last year.
In the eight-oared race of four miles on
the Thames River, near New London,
Conn., on the 27th between the Harvard
and Columbia- College crews, the former
won by three lengths in twenty-one minutes and forty-five seconds.
Nearly 400 molders and other ironworkers of Newark, N. J., struck on the
25th because the bosses refused to grant,
half-holidays Saturdays with full day's pay.
The employers said they could not afford to
pay for holidays, and sent for other
workmen to New York and elsewhere.
The Board of Agriculture of Ohio estimates the wheat crop of the State this year
at 44,000,000 bushels.    "
All the gambling houses of St. Louis have
been closed, an act of the Legislature declaring the keeping of such houses a felony having recently gone into effect. *
Mr. Griscom entered on the thirty-first
day of his fast in Chicago at noon on the
27th. He confessed to being very hungry,
but insisted upon it that he should persist
in his abstinence from all nourishment except water during the specified time of forty-five days, if not longer. He had lost
thirty-four and one-quarter pounds since
the beginning of the fast, hia weight on the
27th being 163 pounds,
TEE GOLDEN WEDDING.
Wake up, wife!—the black cloak of Night begins to fade,
And far in the east the Morning his kitchen
fire has made;
And he is heating red-hot his stove of iron-
gray,
And stars are winking and blinking before the
light o' day.
Mind you what I was doin", just fifty years
agone?—
Brushin' my Sunday raiment, an' puttin* my
best looks on;
Dlothin' myself in courage, So none my fright
would see;
An' my coward heart within, the while, was
pounding to get free.
Ten mile, wood an' bramble, and three mile
field an' dew,
In the cold smile of morning 1 walked to marry you;
No horse had I but my wishes—no pilot but a
star;
But my boyish heart it fancied it heard you
from afar. „
So through the woods I hurried, an' through
the grass ah' dew,
An' little I thought o' tiring, the whole of my
journey through;
Things ne'er before nor after do so a man rejoice,
As on the day he marries the woman of his
choice.
And then our country wedding—brimful o*
grief Tin' glee,
With every one a-pettin' an' iokin'you an'
me:
The good cheer went and came, wife, as it
sometimes has done
When clouds have chased each other across
the summer sun.
There was your good old father, dressed up in
weddin' shape,
With all the homespun finery that he could
rake an' scrape;
And your dear-hearted mother, the sunlight of
whose smile
Shone through the showers of tear-drops that
stormed her face the while;
Also your sisters an' brothers,  who hardly
seemed to know
How they could scare up courage to let their
sister go;
An* cousins an' school-house comrades, dressed
up in meetin' trim.
With one ot them a-sulkin'because it wasn't
him;
An' there was the good old parson, his neck all
dressed in white,
A bunch o' texts i$ his left eye, a hymh-book
in his right;
An' the parson's virgin daughter, plain an' severely pure,
Who hoped we should be happy, but wasn't
exactly sure;
And there was the victuals, seasoned with
kind regards and love,
And holly wreaths with breastpins of rubles,
up above;
An', there was my heart a-wonderin' as how
such things could be,
An' there was the Avorld before us, an' there
was you and me.
"Wake up, .wife! that gold bird, the Sun, has
come in sight,
And'on a tree-top perches to take his daily
flight,
He is not old and feeble, an' he will sail away,
As he has done so often since fifty years to-day.
You   know   there's   company  Coming—our
daughters an' our sons";
There's John, and James, and Lucy, an' all
their little ones;
And Jennie, she will be here, who in her grave
doth lie
(Provided company ever came from out the
sky);
And Sam—I am not certain as he will come or
not;
They say he is a black sheep—the wildest of
the lot,
Before a son's dishonor, a father's love stands
dumb:
But still, somehow or other, I hope that Sam
will come.
The tr.Be bends' down its branches to its children from abovd—
The son is lord of the father, and rules him
with his love;
And he will e'er be longed for, though far they
be apart,
For the drop of blood he carries, that came
from the father's heart.    '
Wake you, wife! the loud sun has roused the
sweet Daylight,
And she has dressed herself up in red and yellow and white: -
She has dressed herself for us, wife—for our
weddin' day once more—
And my soul to-day is younger than eA'er it was
before.
—From Farm Festivals, by 71-iZl Garleton.
M[ CONFESSION.
It was doubtless a terrible calamity.
I tried to reason with my husband, and
persuade him that, after all, it was what
might have been expected. I reminded
him that ever since the insurance company had failed and thrown him out of
employment, he had been tramp	
•'That's the Woi'd,*' he interrupted,
fiercely, " You needtt't say any more.
That covefs everything. Tramp! That's
what I have come to at last. A tran_>.
Look at that boot! Mended ? Never.
Look at it, 1 say—look at it!"
i had been looking at it ever since he
put it on the fender, It was terribly
broken, to be sure. It was like the
one-horse shay, and had given out all
over at once.
So had Charley. All- his patience,
perseverance and persistence had oozed
out at that awful hole. " A man can
stand anything but that, Kate," he said,
mournfully. "His^overcoat can become weather-beaten to all the colors of
the rainbow; the knees of his pants may
grow baggy and the seams white; his
hat, so long as it's felt, can get to any
condition. Hut; a broken boot! O, great
Heaven! I wish I was dead!"
" You'mean, selfish wretch!" I cried,
flinging my arms about him. "What
would become of me and the children?"
"Your peo]3le would take care of you
and the youngsters, Kate. I'm only a
clog and a curse to you, my dear. Your
people would be glad to be rid of me,"
"O, Charley!" I cried.
But they were. There's no doubt
about it. On that dreadful day Charley
kissed us all as usual when he Vent out.
He seemed to be calmer and more resigned. But I remembered the ghast-
liness of his smile when he drew a rubber over-his broken boot. The day was
certainly uusuited to rubbers, and Charley hated them in any weather. He
was calm, but it was the calmness of
despair. Days and weeks, a whole
month, went by, and Charley did not
Come back to us.
My family decided that something
must be done. They appointed a conference to meet at my house, which was
already rented, and the new lessee desired immediate possession. My family
were far fromsympathiziu^ in niy awful
suspense about pharley. Their convictions were very decided.
" He must have gone and drowned
himself that very morning," they said,
and added, with an air of commendation and relief, that perhaps it was the
best thing he could do under the circumstances. My heart was full to bursting. I flew into a passion*bf grief and
rage and drove them all from the house.
"You'll send for us when you get
cooled down," they said. And doubtless I should, if Aunt Maria had not
been belated at the family conference,
and arrived when my passion was at its
lowest ebb, I was as limp as a rag and
quite as helpless.
" Just like 'em," said Aunt Maria,
" A more selfish, cold, heartless set of
people the Lord never allowed to live."
This consoled and strengthened me.
We began abusing them, and I felt better and stronger. Auttt Maria's was
one of those scheming, turbulent natures that had never agreed with mine
in the days of my prosperity, but it was
a kind of bitter tonic to me just then.
"I'd 'a given 'em apiece of my mind
if I'd 'a got here in time. But, you
see, Mrs. Kogers—you know the woman that kept our boarding-house."
I shook my head. Aunt Maria's presence was already losing its strengthening and consoling qualities.
"Well, she died last night, and Mr.
Chandler he came to me to talk things
over. I've boarded there off and on,
before and after your uncle Job died,
for nigh on to fifteen year; and Mr.
Chandler's wife she died the very next
summer, and he's kept his second story
front ever since. You see, he owns the
house, and like enough has a mortgage
on the furniture. He's a wishy-washy
sort of man that 'most anybody can get
the best of——   Good gracious me!"
" What is it, Aunt Maria? What's the
matter?"
"Why, souls and bodies! if there
ain't a special providence in this thing,
my name ain't Maria Peckham. It came
to me then, just like a flash—the hull
thing. Why can't you step into Mrs.
Rogers' place, and earn alivin' for yourself and children? Mr. Chandler wants
some one right away. It'll be kind 'o
comfortable for me to have some
one there that I can depend on,
and the Lord knows it'll bo comfortable to you to hev some one
you can depend on; and Mr. Chandler, if you get the right side of him, is
as easy as an old shoe. The funeral'll
"come off to-morrow. Her children'11
hev to be divided round among the relatives. I'll go home now and talk the
hull thing over with Mr. Chandler, and
you come around to-night and settle
everything. There is nothing like
striking when the iron's hot. It don't
do to let the grass grow under your feet.
That was the trouble with your Charley;
he was too slow; hadn't enough push
about him—leastwise that's what the
folks say."
"Slanderers! backbiters! falsifiers!
My Charley was the best, the dearest "
"Yes, yes, no doubt; but he ain't
here just now to earn a livin' for you
and the children, and you don't, want
to sponge on your folks."
"No, no, Aunt Mafia, anythiug but
that."
" Well, the ways of Providence is inscrutable. It seems to be app'inted
that you should take that house. Mrs.
Rogers dyin' that way, just in the nick
of time, and your heviu' a row with the
folks—it's wonderful! I'll go home
right awayj and hev a talk with Mr.
Chandler before he falls in With somebody else; he'll let you hev the furniture" on installments, I know. The
kitchen oil-cloth'll stick to the floor,
anyway. ButJHlgohomeand see about
it, and you coineraround to-night, d'ye
hear j Kate ? ■?-.; K ''.;
"Yes. m^latni'"' I* said, and gulped
down a sigh-that was almost a groan as
she disappeared; The consolation had
all gone out of her presence long ago.
I suppose 1 ought to have been grateful.
My need was desperate, but Aunt Maria
made the proposal so repelling—the
poor dead woman, the division of her
children, the mortgage on her furniture;
I couldn't even see much comfortinthe
kitchen oil-cloth sticking to the floor.
I looked upon my children as they
trooped in, shabby but rosy, from their
winter sport, and wondered how they
would fare among my hard-hearted relatives when nry turn came to die, and
theirs to be disbanded. Charley and I
had always said we'd rather die than
board or keep boarder's. Charley had
died, possibly; but the children "and I
were left, and something had to be done.
It seemed as though Ml*. Chandler was
my only hope' but I went around there
with a heavy heart, and nearly tumbled
off the stoop when I saw a flutter of
crape on the .bell handle. I never in
the world could have gained courage
to pull it. Fortunately a young man
came out. I slipped in "and he slammed
the door after him and went whistling
his way down the street. I crept by the
parlor floor, Avhere some people stood
in groups, talking and laughing quite
unconcernedly in the awful presence of
death itself. The dishes were clattering on the dumb-waiter; a woman came
down the stairs, smiling and happy,
cloaked and hooded for the opera. She
carried a huge bouquet in herhand,and
I wondered how she could pass the
parlor door. The people in that house
may say what they please about my
coolness and assurance, but I should be
very sorry to have as little heart as they.
Aunt Maria was already haggling about
the kitchen oil-cloth, and nothing would
do but We must all go down and see that
it'really did stick to the floor.
Mr. Chandler was a short stout man,
with scarcely any hair on his head, and
a short little nose that he had to keep
perched in the air so his spectacles
wouldn't fall off. His eyes were very
round, and his cheeks were fat and red,
and a fringe of white beard gave him
somehow a very benevolent "air that
was calculated to inspire confidence.
We descended into what seemed to me
the very bowels of the earth, and as we
entered the big cavernous gloomy kitchen there was a scamper that betokened
rats, and an army of Croton-bugs fled
at our approach. I was weak and nervous, and uttering an exclamation of
terror, clung to Mr. Chandler's arm.
"God bless my soul!" said Mr. Chan
dler,   starting  back.     "O;   it's  you!
Don't be frightened, madam.  Don't be
at all frightened. I'll take care*of you."
He had himself been considerably
shaken by the size and quantity of this
subterranean army, and it was evidently a great relief to him to find somebody even more startled than himself.
He took the hand with which I had
grasped his arm and herd it in his own,
assuring me that lie "would protect me,
Nevertheless, I was glad when he was
so easily persuaded that the kitchen
oil-cloth would really stick to the* floor,
for although I was very favorably impressed with Mr. Chandler as to domestic confidence, he was not the champion,I would choose in a combat with
rats and1" Croton-bugs. Aunt Maria
seemed more to the purpose. . She
gathered up her skirts from the first,
and seemed prepared either for battle
or flight, and was the last one to mount
the lower stair. Mr. Chandler protected
me all the way to Aunt Maria's door,
and bade me good-night, with the hope
that all was arranged satisfactorily.
"You've as good as feathered your
nest already," said Aunt Maria. "I'm
glad you wore your black dress."
" "I
on.
re-
"I had no other fit to put
plied.
"It's just as well," she continued,
"for- I told him j-ou were a widow—
there's no use enterin' into partie'lars
about Charley--—"
'-'It's nobody's business about Charley."
"That's what I thought; so I said
you were a widow, and only mentioned
the twins. I didn't speak of the boys,
for you don't look old enough anyway
—nobody'd dream they belonged to
you, and Mr. Chandler's naterally of a
timid turn, and it might spile everything at the start. They never need
come where he is. They'll eat at the
second table and play out in the street,
and in a b'oardin' house there's lots of
things that only growin' boys can eat,
so they won't count. It's all fixed.
You're to come to-morrow. after the
funeral and take hold at onst. Bring
the twins right up to my room—they're
nice gentle little girls—and I'll fix 'em
up with pink and blue ribbon. As for
the boys, let them play around till
night-fall, and then slip" in the basement way."
It was all Aunt Maria's fault—every
bit of it. I was too dazed and bewildered at first to offer any objections, and
so many things happened in that dreadful three months that I never had a
chance to make a full confession of my
domestic affairs to Mr. Chandler.
Once when he said something about
its being his duty as well as his pleasure to help the widow and the fatherless, I felt as if I must tell him all about
Charley and the boys; but the adverse
circumstances under which I labored
restrained me. I had been compelled
to ask him for an advance; there was a
great deal of expense at first, and I was
such a novice at everything. I felt
compelled to avail myself of all the
sympathy possible; but I was confident
that after the first three months were
over 1 could get along without Mr.
Chandler's help, and then, no matter
what Aunt Maria said, I determined to
tell him everything. He was entitled
to my confidence, and I only awaited a
favorable opportunity to give existence
to Charley and the three boys. Everything went along^ like eloek-Avork for a
while. If I had only put ray whole
mind to it, I might have mastered everything before the cold wea'jher set in.
And I wouldn't have fallen behind so
lamentably in my accounts if I had been
very careful, and severely watched the
scraps and crumbs that fell from the
boarding-house table. I was perhaps
too good to the tramps and beggars,
and fed too many of the Wanderers that
came to the basement door.
In vain. Aunt Maria scolded and
vowed she never came down to press
her Crimps! but she stumbled over a
tramp. In vain Mr. Chandler" mildly
remonstrated upon the loss of two overcoats and a set of razors. They knew
nothing of the way I felt, or how my
heart beat sometimes when at twilight
I saw a bio, broad-shouldered, sandy-
haired fellow standing there with broken
boots. It took me a good while to grow
calm and collected, and in the meanwhile he had eaten a good many slices
of bread and meat, and perhaps stolen
something from the hat rack in the
lower hall.
In truth, it was impossible to persuade me that Charley was dead. I felt
that some time he would come back to
me; and it was the most natural thing
in the world to look for him as a tramp.
That last sad morning was photographed
on' my memory when he stood before
nle Sd painfully shabby, and wijli such
broken boots. I couldn't give him up;
I wouldn't. I got so tired of Mr.
Chandler, with his bland respectability,
his funereal broadcloth and his .high
hat, his ever-ready money, and his
never-ending remonstrance and advice.
I did so long for dear old impecunious
Charley,
What wonder, with a mind so unsettled,
and a heart so open to vagabonds, that
I was cheated and robbed and driven
to the wall, and the second month came
so appallingly soon that I had to get
another advance from Mr. Chandler.
It was the most astonishing thing in
the world that, although I never had an
easy moment in that dreadful house,
never did time fly so quickly. The
third month was upon me before I could
realize it, and it was a matter of glad
surprise to ine\ thatl had not before me
the awful necessity Of another advance
from Mr. Chandler. U&vasnot, perhaps,
any better off, so far as actual money,
was concerned, but I was longer established and able to get credit outside. I
always endeavored to treat* the trades-
yet pie with every possible consideration, and they were very kind to me—
■very.
Everybody knowa what an awful winter it was. 1 had never had any experience with water-pipes. On* the first of
the month a cold wave started direct
from the north pole and came with incredible velocity, as the bird flies,
straight to that doomed boarding-house.
It froze the water-pipes all over the
house, soddened the bread, petrified
the clothes on the line, paralyzed the
potatoes, also apples, turnips, cabbages,
and everything else that I had put in
by the quantity for economy's sake.   *
The sun went down on that day's
wrath. Three days after it rose on
another, and if the end of the world had
come with it I should have been only
too* glad. Gabriel's trumpet would
have been a welcomer sound to me than
the step of Mr. Chandler that I heard
approaching my door. I knew he had
been hunting all over the house for me,
and I had fled from room to room, from
stair to stair, till at last I had taken
refuge in the garret lloor, which the
children, the servants and I shared together.
The awful fact was that the man's
h6use was ruined. The weather was
dreadfully against me. Even the oldest inhabitant of the boarding-house declared that he had never known such
sudden and remarkable changes. Without a word of warning, like a thief in
the night, the calamity  came.    The
pipes threw off their icy. fetters aad
burst.    The deluge was nothing "to it.
Before anything could be done, seven
different ceilings were frescoed and tattooed in a most unhappy manner, seven
different carpets were drenched, and
the occupants of seven different" rooms
were hunting me to bay. I sent"for the
calciminers, the plumbers and the
carpet men, ami found out how much
it wouxd cost to put Mr. Chandler's
house in order again. Then I fled to
my room.
I threw myself on the bed and stared
at the ceiling like a maniac. There
was n-ithing the matter with that ceiling, forthe demoniac pipes stopped on
the,floor below.
The stoniness of my gaze was occasioned by the climax of• my difficulties.'
How could I see Mr. Chandler? I had
ruined his house, cheated him out of
his money, and unless I could go on
plundering and cheating him, I couldn't
fo on with the boarding-house. If
didn't go on, I couldn't* pay Mr.
Chandler; if I did go on I might only
plunder and cheat him the more. I
never had been good at problems, At
school I had always been stupid with
given quantities, yet given quantities
were my only hope just then.
Mr. Chandler was rapping at the
door. I burst into tears as I undid the
bolt, and begged him to forgive all the
trouble and expense I had caused him.
His ceilings were speckled; his carpets
were drenched; the plumber held the
very foundation of his house at an emperor's ransom; I was already hope^
lessly in his debt, and yet must have
more money, or give up and die.
*' How much money ?" said Mr. Chandler, very gently. "Don't cry, my
child. How much money?" Expiring
hope began to revive within, my agonized breast. He took my cold hand*
within his own. " How- much money
will it take to repair all the damages
here and put the house in order for a
new tenant?"
Down sank my heart like a plummet
of lead. I looked up in his face and
was startled to find a new expression
there; something indefinable, I could
almost say heroic; Aunt Maria could
never call that face " wish-washy." It
was strong and noble. He was evidently not to be trilled with. When my
miserable confession was made, he
would spurn me as I deserved. If I had
only been brave and true from the first!
It was too late now. How I hated
Aunt Maria! I thought of the terrible
winter, of the icy streets, the prejudice
people had against tramps—particularly so many, six of us—six, the twins,
.tne three boys, and myself. I clasped
my hands in agony.
"What will become of me and my .
children?" I cried.
"Come," he replied, with unspeakable tenderness—"come out of this room
into the open garret. t Sol Now all the
whole world may see and hear us. Is
it not so, my child? We are not afraid
of idle tongues?"
"N—no," I stammered, my heart in
my throat, for fear one of the boys
should pop his head up the garret stairs
and call mamma.
" You are soinnocent," he continued,   .r
"so free from hypocrisy and deceit* it t\-:
is hard to make you understand that I; „
cannot any longer lend you money, or  '^
help you in the way that I have done.   ^
The wicked  inuendoes "of  slandering,*
tongues that stab in the dark have left
xne but the one way to protect you.     I
wonder if it will be as holy, as sweet to
you as it is to me?   I wonder if you.-*;.1
would be glad to give up this vile nest j1
of scandal altogether and keep boarders ,,
no • longer, but a home for a husband,
who would adore "you, and would love   -
and cherish your dear little girls as his
own?" ' t-\ *
He didn't mention my dear little boys,, ^
who were out risking their  lives   at   "
coasting that very moment.   What a "x
noble, generous, altogether perfect old   u
gentleman  he  was!    If Charley had; 3
really been dead, and I had not beenj..
the  miserable, impostor that circum- '"*
stances had made' me, my poor, desolate, widowed heart wouldhave* melted   '
to him, I know.     That heart was d.eso-4 ■_•
late enough/.God knows, but it wasn't   ^
widowed;  I  was " sure  of that.    The' 7
time for my dreadful confession had*-***
come.    It was so hard to lose the one
tiling that seemed left me just then—
lijs" confidence, his esteem.   I felt cold
and faint and sick.
"Dear Mr.  Chandler," I began, "a
home and a- husband would be very -
sweet to me."   And Heaven was my= ,.
witness it would, only not just the hus-;
band he meant; and lAvas just goings a
to tell him so,  whea Bridget put h'er
frowzy head/above the stairs and said a
man was below that wanted to see me. ,7
and wouldn't take no for an answer. -;
" It's the plumber," Isaid, tremblingly,
"or the calciminer, or the carpet man. "
O, Mr. Chandler, dear Mr. Chandler, <&
can not face these people!" "   7Q
V You forget that you have given me
the right to share your troubles," The
said: "Come, my dear, we will face tills '*
person together." -     9-J
We found him in the parlor—a big* 5
broad-shouldered, splendid-looking,f el-..,,
low,-with a new Ulster on, and a very "
becoming hat, and a perfectly splendid
pair of boots,-without a break in thenl.ri-
The twins .w.et'e^liugiug to each of bis":
hands, and around him were dancing c~.
and howling" like Indians three dirty "
little boys. " * • *    °
"I've got a capital position, Kate, in
a new company out West.   Get the*" J
youngsters-ready as quick as you can*
I'll explain   everything on the way,,""
saidthe person. *• _
" Who*is this man?" said Mr. Chan- 7
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•thither by the wild yells of the dear little boys, and stood like a pillar7of salt ^
in tlie d'oofway. "Who" is he—her"
brother?^ ■■"■■•    "
'* HSi"*husband," said Aunt Maria.
4 • And,these boj's ?"
"Herchildren." *. r,~
''God bless my soul!" said Mr. CKan^
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heard*  Ifainted dead away in Ghar-_.
ley's:arms. . ■ ■ .      ;
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