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Show It was said it was spoken. The fiat of rigour had gone forth, and the dauntless hero, having expended all his aiiimuiiiti n in this one t lling shot, thought it the better part ol valor with one masterly movement to tli row thy enemy to the rear, aud take refuse in an audible snore. Had the dead spoken, Mrs. Jones would have been scarcely lessstartled thau by this outbreak of a meek, For a molong-- f uffi;ring spouse. ment anger a ruse so near the stiflins pmnt that s;he was positively silent from indignation. But in a few minutes the crisis was passed, and 6he gasped out: "Home here in this hause!" Jones' answer was a snore. That snore brought the good dau.e squarely to the situation. 8ittiir:up in bed seizing her lord by theshoul-- d r, amidst shakes and punches, she cried: "If you do, if you dire to do it, I will leave this house, I will take my little children out into the wide world, an i you shall never see their faces again. I will publish you to the world, a deceiv r, a seducer, a d.shonorable man! 1 will no longer hs your wile, disgraced by your mine aud abutuiiiatiuiis. I am not si easily befooled as that. I will sue lor a divorru. and return to my old aod happiness, 1 wi 1 go; you pi. rtill see that 1 will go!" Jones fairly snorted, and from the J tVra resided . in of Georgia a well-t- ., L,tAas iu the name of .'rcao .ho honorable ll.iu'n of maternity to a band of th, upper r;.r;n; jiw bouueing boys. lu hc same . comity flourished a it. .T.,n.. widower, aud by lineal ot quite a number ri.rht proprietor of .sub Juiues. lu the course of human event?, natural than that what could be more Jones should of the untable husc desire a union with the A proposition to nuwutnl Smith? being kindly received, in tUffft-cof time ihe bond was ratified pivots ud Mrs. 3 until becoming pa trier ol inthe firm, marched hor infantile vestment ulous:, aud in position of settled down in joint stockholder, deified complacency. peace and plenty ruigncd in this but alas! what new arrangement, mailable is un by the sharp company To one there rumor? this if wo-ld-- rc t -- tongue securitc:iuu a report that struck its ies w the Ivart, and happiness and to tneir foundations, aud distiust jealousy sauk it. vlnie tottered love, stuck below par. It oie day that a female imported to the rem id happ'.-i'- tWi'pi-- J a Hint- that Mr volved in a discreditable nes was inMason, which had cicuttni quite a scandal among that people This piec--onews c'uiuied in so well with Mrs. f high-mii.d.i- d of the J, .lies' preconceived notions virtue of lucu, that she swallowed it with avidity, and began to lay up wrath against the hour when thj un- should come aud unsuspeeted retorts greeted the recently installed suspecting tiru;inte heme. Dark frowns benedijt, aud when lie tenderly in the reason of this change, quir.-matters culminated by making him the recipient f such a storm of iu donation, that the poor bewildered thoroughly cowed before man stood added half. When he did gather the meaning of the outburst, his newly ! it by no means helped his cause to promptly deny the charge. 'There is no use to tell a falsehood about it," said the discerning lady, with the air of one who cau see "there is I know, I feA it is true!1 Condemning the culprit upou dearly through a mill&toue; t J deny. uo use men infallible evidence, she van-(juice- d every defence by a positive "hake of the head, and stamp of the fact, reiterating, "No, uo; it is so, i jetl that it is 80. YOU CANNOT DERIVE me!" "But my dear ," interposed the husband. ' Dear!" screamed Mrs. joa dale to dear me?" "No. Mothe Jonss,"do lve, I only nieant my to you." ''So'itlw niel soothe me!"' derisivc-7- . "Vile villain, it's be I ' am many a day I am insulted. soothed. I am disgraced! V,m . never to me epcak again. Go to dlsh-nore- Pw vile asocite, and unlawful -- ofl-sPri- D? and leave me to my poor dis little children. Oh! that 1 W Jouidhve to see this day I that 1 have renounced the name Smith, for brute as this!" And the Jame bursting into tears, sauk Jo. her rocking chair, buried her 7 meuiuryofmyangel her handkerchief, aud ij swayed wa fro, sobbing out her burning it . e u?'- - el; P0r Joncs strove t0 dc u vaia tried to propitiate "d.gnatmu; uncountable iutui- .were dead against him, and at full nSf L j within C? Diert'y 1 ?. awaed the ""er rested up tu lliui whett he c d hungry; it Upper' t:red down oQ Wu hen the W iT Wd onH ew ?n8'jr tucked ' "uu lue gathered da.k ness it hi:r?,atidpe. ... null u,urui"g I 9Ltrt, hifA i . ttrJ l''e Inner m... eaine L'l e.-.t- - . and mouthtul that. A de.-pcrat-c, . l ... .1 and minute" furious the next despairing. Alas! she saw too late that she had driven her husband to the wall, aud she must now take the consequences. No work was doue that morning, she neither washed the dishes, nor swept the floor; her anxiety was too great; she walked the passage like one demented. Jones would briug that child home to atl'rout her eyes, to disgrace her house, she knew it, she felt, aud what should she do? She wrung her hands aud wept, and repented, yes repented that she had scolded and persecuted him so; but of what avail was repentance nuw, he was on his way to get the child, and had driven him to it. Her agon'' settled to the calm of despair, as dowu the road hovered iu sight no less an apparition than the redoubtable Jones, uuder a huge white cotton umbrella; ambliug along ieisurely, witli a small object uestliug in his arms from which depended that long flowing rube, comuiuu to huumukind in a state of undeveloped manhood Mrs. Jones fixed her eyes upon the twaiu with a stolid, frozeu gaze, aud without moving a limb or feature, awaited the approach. Slowly aud cautiously Jones came along; he had uo idea of hurting that delicate burden by masculine awkwardness. White aud rigid, like a statue, sat Mrs. Jones in her chair, and when her spouse drew rein before the dour, and procicded to dismount, she said d'pthsofhis .stomach there sienud in a deep sepulchral tone, that made his biuod run cold as he looked teu- to come au echo to that last word ' "Go! derly upon the little thing in his Mrs. Jones had paused for aiep'y, ami-- : "D in't you bring that child iu this for a few entreaties, for a little tender house!" expostulation; but veriiy this was a Jones halted, for the first time it I came ou the red heat (Ueticlier. like a tucket of cool water, aud bring- seemed to flash over him how entire ing her unexpectedly to a corner in ly the little creature would be in the her argument, she set off in another power of his wile, and how utterly miserable she could make its poor direction, little proscribed existence, if'he forced 'Gu! go! no indeed! It would It it upon her hate aud disdain. During please ynu too much, Mr. Jones oald be leaving you iu such a heav- that pause Mrs, Jones read what was en, you would never think of the going; on iu his mind, and hope iu world above. Dring it here, brini stantly reviving, roused all her dis it to this house! I'll take it to my mayed indignation, and she repeated heart. ' I'll take it to my home, and with swuie little asperity: "D n't you bring that child in this praise it, and show it to everybody; hou-e!- '" and won't you be au hom red father; There was vengeance,' hate, conan exemplary ehriMian; aud Uut here Jones interrupted with tempt, iu that tone, aud Jones began such a gush of nasal harunuy that to realize the danger of the situation. was dreadful, it was a condition of the poor perforce, became It silent. Clearly she saw there was uo things he haa not looked for; and a use to contend against this uproar; troubled, lost expresion stole over pinches, bhakes aud shrieks were his lace as Mrs. Jones reiterated for the third time, slowly, decidedly and alike of of no avail. Nothing but a dignified retreat portentously : "Don't you bring that child into remained, aud she sank into the thin house!" arms of Murpheous, muttering to "Well, whatsW 1 do?" he burst herself. "I'll kill it. Til kill itifh forth vehemently. "Poor little dares!" ! had die it better Ye?, let Th next morning, as if the sub wretch, will die. take it it into Speak, you ject had been exhausted, neither hus band nor wife once referred to it; but the house, or shall I kill it here be a look of unusual determination iu fore your face?" He was perfectly desperate, and Mr. Jones' face made the lady tremseized it by the clothes as if he was ble. In vaiu she tiied to catch his dash its brains out. eye aud dauut him with a Kern look; going to "Great God!" cried Mrs. Jones, he never deigned her one single kill it! don't kill it!" "don't Then she watched his glance. He "Will you paused a minute. to see if an uncontrollable trehouse?" take into the it tell-talmor flush of excitement di "No." net betray this quiet as the effects of "Very well," was all he said, and cowardice; but coolly and Boutha his wife could utter another before lently he performed his duties, u?ed the air the little thing was iu sound his knife and folk as steadily as if nothing in the round world had hap- tossed, just over the hard stone stepi, be spattered pened. Then Mrs. Joines knew that in a few moments to this man had taken to his heart a with its blood and brains. This waj nioie than Mrs. Jones stern aud fierce resolve, and she truly stand. All the woman lising could felt that he was prepared to carry out iu her, she sprang from the top to his declaration of the night before. up Now the good dame was no coward; the bottom steps, aud asiustinctively the Brown blood that tiugled iu her as if it were one of her own darlings, veins was jjluck to the back bone, extended her arms and caught the and she resolved just as firmly and little creature to her breast. Almost she sank upon the murdersurely that the child never should fainting, euter her house. Under this determ- ous steps, aud forgetting all her anination she grew dignified and calm. tipathy, tore off the little I Still sileuce was uubroken, but a third and gazed into the face of a rag doll "Hal lul ha!" broke forth the departy would instantly have detected the painful relation between them. lighted Jones. "Well, old woman, Breakfast was at last dispatched, and what do you think of the little child if" ouly as the gentleman quietly mount- now Not a word uttered Mr?. Jones. ed h.s horse, to ride upou his mission, the good wife thought it but right to Chagrined, overcome by her waste of sentimental display, she arose, walk say : 'Jones, if you bring that child to ed into the house, letting the cotton deception fall to the ground, and with my house, I will kill it." determined air went to work on 'Very well," was the reply, as he athose dishes, swept that floor regally, rode off. without and looking to the right or Now while her husband slowly and the left, proceeded to cook the resolutely trotted out of sight, Mrs JoNtu' courage to decline, Never after that did Jones hear Didn't she know that she couldn't kill the child, and J' nes knew it too; an) tiling more about that iufuuliue and yet he could bring it to the accu.v itii.n. Allow tue to add, the above inci Uousv? This made h'.r oue ac-tio- us e dent is strictly true, and only one of the many instauces in whieh an irritable disposition too gladly seizes on any object to vent its own ill feelings at the expense of the happiuess and comfort of all around. Not many have the art of managing like Jones, and too often is domestic happiness completely wrecked by a jealous, suspicious womau. and Telegraph Messenger. fault-findin- Cleaning Kid l!l i." , 11 UtUitt maucr tomorrow uuru- - thought OUGHT to KNOW grEED AND JlGllT JUNSINU, Coupled with immense power and duraSewThe only Btrairbt-Deelbility tbett wliicli combines Mavbioe ing ObnerTation and pracgi eat essentials. h tice Lave demonstrated lct lht s on all done be cn good sewing machines. Then the enquiry arise; Which Machine ruiu the lightest?. Ci lores. Till! WEED. During the warm weather kid Which Machine sews the lasiesi? gloves are easily soiled, particularly THE WEED. as the prevailing colors are quite Which Machine Las the handiebt aplight, aud it costs some time and pliances? THE WEED. money to have them cleaned at the dyer's. We let our readers into the Query Can you fw, successfully, with No. 8 cotton? Yes! secret of cleaning thent at home, which cau be done just as well us if OX THE WEED. paid fur outside, l ake a Jittle sweet milk aud a piece of white or brown soap. Fold a clean towel three or four times, spread it over your dress and sjread out the glove smoothly upou it. Take a large piece of white flannel, dip it in the milk, then rub it upon the soap, and rub downward toward the fingers, holding the wrist of it by the left hand. Continuj this process until the glove, if white, looks like a dingy yellow; but if colored, looks dark and entirely spoil id. Now let it dry and then put it on your hand, aud it will be soft, smooth, glossy and clean. Take care, however, to omit no part of tre glove iu rubbing it, and see that all soiled parts are thoroughly cleaned. fins process applieJ only to white and colored kid gloves. For blaek gloves that are soiled, turned white, and otherwise injured, take a spoonful of salad oil, drop a few drops of ink into it, and rub it all over the gloves with the tip of a feather; then let them dry in the sun. White kid boots and slippers can also be cleaned by the first process to "look as good as new," and black kid boots aud slippers oan bo restored to their prif-tiu- e gloss by the latter 'net hod. An English Miss alias Wilson alias Spencer, Clay, was some little time ago sentenced in Faris to three years' imprisonment. e In tho female penitentiary of St. her conduct is describad as exemplary. She knelt down devotedly at mass, very frequently communicated, and so gained the confidence of the Sisters of Charity in charge that, after au unnsuallv short period of probation, she was allowed the run of the prison withuut biiug watched. vailing herself of this privilege she slipped into one of the Sister's cells, and, speedily dressing herself in the costume of a nun, walked straight into the street, the warder saluting her as she passed. She was not missed till three hours after her escape, and th efforts of the polieo to apprehend her have been hitherto unsuccessful. Being well known to her fracountrymen of the iu is domiciled it Paris, supternity posed their gallantry has found ways to send her to London. N. B. Saturday being the day which Culls in my from the outlying towns lo Ogden City, I shall make it a point to t l'ouud in my oflice always on Saturdays. OrFIOE AX0 SHOW ROOM ON rr It 13 K X, MAIN Olp. Titbing Yard. J. A. P. PERKINS, SS to th Old S. Weed Agent M. 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