Show i for fob FOR FOB FATHERS HONOR I 1 so much gone I 1 might have known how it would be said mr air sterling looking up from the morning paper with a most unpleasant expression on his face I 1 what is t gone asked his wife my money is is gone 9 one answered mr sterling fretfully what money that money I 1 was foolish enough to lend mr granger why do you say that hes hea dead replied mr sterling coldly dead the cifes voice was full of surprise and pain sorrow overshadowed her face yes gone and my money with him heres a notice of his death I 1 was sure when I 1 saw him go away that hed held never come back except in his coffin why will doctors send fiend their patients from home to die poor mrs granger poor little orphans sighed mrs sterling what will they do A As well without him as with him was the unfeeling answer of her husband who was only thinking of the three hundred dollars he had hail been over persuaded to loan the sick clergyman in order that he be might go south during tile tiie w winter winten inter hes hed neeti becu mo e c a i r beu than a support to them these theme the se two years oh harry how can ay you oti speak so remonstrated mrs sterling A kinder hinder man iu in his family was never seen poor mrs airs granger she will be heartbroken kindness is cheap and easily dispensed coldly replied mr sterling he would have been of more use to his family if he had fed and clothed them better I 1 reckon they can do without him if I 1 had iny my three hundred dollars I 1 but he checked for shame not for any better feeling 0 the almost brutal words his heart sent up to his tongue not many yards away from mr air handsome residence stood a small plain cottage with a garden in front neatly laid out in box bordered walks and filled with shrubbery A honeysuckle twined with a running rosebush covered the latticed portion and looked in at the chamber windows giving beauty and sweetness the hand of taste was seen everywhere not lavish but discriminating taste two years before there was not A happier home than this in all the plea piea pleasant sant saut town of C now the hand of death was upon it poor mrs airs granger poor little orphans well might mrs sterling pity them when her mercenary husband was sighing over the loss of three hundred dollars the young widow lay senseless with her two little ones weeping over her childish terror the news of his death found her unprepared only a week before she had received a letter from mr granger in which he talked hopefully of his bis recovery I 1 am stronger nger ngee he said my appetite is better I 1 have gained five pounds in flesh since I 1 left home three days after writing this letter there came a sudden change in the temperature he took cold which was followed by congestion of the lungs and no medical skill was sufficient for the case his body was not sent home for interment when the husband and father went away two or three months before his beloved ones looked upon his face for the last time in this world loveana honor made the heartstrom heart strong stron 9 mrs granger was a gentle retiring woman she had bad leaned upon her husband very heavily she had bad clung to him as a vine those who knew her best felt most anxious about her she has no mental stamina they said she cannot stand alone but they were mistaken As we have just said love and honor made her heart strong only a week after mr sterling read the news of the young ministers death he received revved a note from the widow my husband said she was able to go south in the hope of regaining his health through your kind hind kindness liess iless if he had lived the money you loaned him would have been faithfully returned for he was a man of honor dying he left that honor in my keeping and I 1 will see that the debt is paid but you will have to be a little patient with me all very fine muttered mr air Sterli sterll ncr with a slightly curling lip ive heard of such things before they sound well people will say of mrs airs granger what a noble woman what a fine sense of honor she has but I 1 shall never see the three hundred dollars I 1 was foolish enough to lend ind her husband very much to mr surprise and not a little to his pleasure he discovered about three months afterwards that he was mistaken in his estimate of mrs airs granger the pale sad fragile bragil e little won woman an brought him the sum of twenty nive five dollars he did not see the tears in her eyes as he displayed her husbands note with its dear familiar writing and made thereon with considerable sid erable formality an endorsement of the sum paid she would have many drops of her hearts blood to have been able to clutch that document from mr air hands his possession of it seemed like a blot on her dear lost ones memory katie granger is the queerest little girl I 1 ever knew said flora temple to her mother on the evening of the very day on which her first payment was made mr air sterling heard the tile remark and letting his eyes drop from the newspaper pa er he was reading turned his ears listen to listen I 1 think her a very nice little C girl replied the mother so she is nice returned the child but then she is so queer what do you mean hy by queer oh she like the rest of us girls ire tre hue said toe tue oddest tine tink tocci almost laughed out bud but pin im giai glad I 1 three of us katie lillie boi bon field and aud 1 I were walking round the saure at recess time when came along and taking out three bright ten cents pieces he said heres a dude dune for each of you girls to buy su diar ugar ga plums lillie and I 1 screamed out outa and nl were starting away for the candy canadyan h in an instant but katie stood still R the dime in her ben her hand come coine al aloni sit git no r cried she move but as at leu lim 4 strange and serious kerious Aint mutt you 9 0 11 buy candy with it I 1 I 1 asked the thence shook her head gravely and pul pu Bufie he dime in her pocket saying 1 I flot think she meant me meto to hear the w wj wih h its for fathers honor and leaving went back to the schoolroom school room I 1 wai wat did she mean by that mother matli r a she is so strange her mother is very poor you ku enoi replied mrs sterling laying up ka kat singular to be pondered bovee oves she must be said flora for katie I 1 i worn the same frock to school el evy day for almost three months mr sterling who did not let a slat sin word of this conversation escape hi hu was far from feeling as comfortable a ful der the prospect of getting back tl a money he be ha had loaned mr gir granger i 1 he had felt an hour before he dundei stood the meaning of katies remark its for fathers honor tha truth flasha at once through his mind there was another period of chrs months and mrs airs granger called a agabi upon mr sterling and gave ta hia him ml twenty five dollars more the pall pah thin face made a strong impression 0 01 him it troubled him to take th money from her small fingers in the blue veins shone through the tram tran parent skin as it was counted out hil eil H wished that she had sent the monel instead of calling it was on his lips 4 t remark do not trouble or pinch youa self to pay faster than convenient amri AU granger but cupidity whig whis whispered whisperer perea th tha she might take advantage of his considerate si kindness and so he kept silent ko no dear its for fathers honor 1 I cant a spend end it A mr air 91 sterling terling was passing a fruit ishop op where two children were looking in m at the window when this sentence struck i liis his ears i an apple wont cost but a penny katie and I 1 want one so badly ans ansi the younger of the two children a little girl not nive five years of age come away maggie said the other drawing her sister back from the window dont look at them any more dont think about them but icart I 1 cant help heip thinking ayoutt hem hemi i sister katie pleaded the child it was more than mr sterling could coul stand every want of his own children was supplied he bought fruit by th of barrel and here was a little child eliad pleading ing for an apple which cost cent but the apple was denied lecausi the penny must be saved to make goo gox the dead fathers honor who hel hell that honor in pledge who alho took thi sum total of these pennies saved in self denial of little children and addel them to his already brimming cofler fl A feeling of shame burned the cheek of mr sir sterling here little ones he be called as t tl two children childr went slowly away fro frol the fruit shop window he was bouc ed with the sober look on their swe sw young faces as they turned at autt his biffin inv dinv tation come in and ill get you some 31 ai pies ples he said katle katie held back but mar maggle maggie gie gle I 1 d drew rew 01 0 her hand eager to accept the theon theof nero offer lerf she was longing for the fruit come repeated mr mf sterling speak ing very kindly the children then followed him into the shop and he filled their apron with apples and oranges their thank ful eyes and happy faces were in bis his memory all day this was his and it was sweet three months after and again mr ift i sterling had a visit from the pale youn i widow this time she had only twenty dollars it was all she had been able to save she said but she made no excuse and uttered no complaint sir lir sterling took the money and co counted u toch ted it over in a hesitating way the tobb I 1 thereof was pleasant to his las fingers fingen for por r he loved money but the vision of sober child faces were before his eyes and the sound of pleading child voices in his ears through over taxing toll oil and the denial of hers elfand little oon own the poor widow had bad gathered this seiw sum and aud va fjon w paying I 1 it into his hands to ji make ake ade good the honorable contract tractor of ther tier er dead husband he hesitated ruffling in a half absent way the tile edges of a little pile of bills that lay iny under his his bis fingers one thing was clear t to 0 him he never would take anything more from the widow the balance of the debt must be forgiven people would get to understand the widows case they would hear of her self denial and that of her children in order to pay the husbands and fathers debt in order to keep pure his honor and they would ask naturally who was th the exacting creditor this thought affected him unpleasantly unpleasant aly slowly as one in w whose hose mind debate still went on mr sterling took from his desk a large pocket book and selected from one of the compartments the note on which mrs granger had now nov made three payments for some moments me he held it in his hands looking at the face thereof he saw written down in clear figures the sum seventy of this had been paid if he gave up or destroyed the slip of paper be he would loose it was something of of a trial for one who loved money so well to come up squarely to this issue something fell in between lils his eyes and the note of hand he did not see the writing and figures of the obligation but a sad pleading little face and with the vision of this came to his ears the sentence 0 no o dear its for fathers honor the debate in mr sterlin sterlins s mind was over taking up a pen peu 3 he wrote across the face of mr dir grangers brangers Gr angers note the word canceled 1 and then handed h it to the widow what does this mean she asked lookin looking bewildered it in means eans eats said mr sterling bhat that I 1 hold no obligations against your sour your husband 0 some moments went by ere mrs gran gers thoughts become clear enough to comprehend it all then she replied as she reached back the note I 1 thank you for your generous kindness but he left hi his s honor in my keeping and I 1 must maintain it spotless that you have already done answered mr sterl sterling U speaking through emotions that were re new to him it is as white as snow then he thrust upon her the twenty dollars she had just paid him no mr sterling the widow said sald sa id it shall be as I 1 will was the response I 1 would rather touch fire than your money every ewry dollar would burn upon my conscience like living coals but keep this last payment dent urged the widow I 1 shall feel better no madam would you suu throw fire on my conscience your husbands honor never had a stain all men k knew new him to be pure and upright upright when god took him he as assumed sume his early debts and did not leave upon you the heavy burden of their payment but he left with you anether and most sacred obligation which you have overlooked in part what asked the widow in an almost startled voice to minister to the wants of your children whom you have pinched and denied in their tender years giving of their meat to cancel an obligation which death had paid and you made me a party in the wrong to them ah madam mr clr cir voice softened very much if we could all see right in the right time and do right in the right time how much of wrong and suffering might be saved I 1 honor your truehearted self devotion but I 1 shall be no party to its continuance As it is I 1 am your debtor in the sum su in of 50 and I 1 will pay it in my own way and time mr dir sterling sterlin made good his word under province providence this circumstance was the means of breaking through the haril hard crust of selfishness and cu cupidity edity which had formed around his heart he was not only generous to the widow in after years but a doer of many deeds ot kindness ness and humanity to which he hid had been een in other times a stranger ii T lya aya ar WAR Par paraguay aguar as our dispatches have already announced declines the proffered mediation of the tho united states this mediation nasr was offered in the hope of bringing to an end the long and tedious war between paraguay on the one side and brazil the argentine confederacy and arid uruguay on the other the main rea reason sow soh assigned for the rejection of the interposition of mr dir seward is the existence of a treaty between the opponents of paraguay C not to cease fighting until her institutions are changed to suit their ideas in other words the allies wish to crush lopez the able president or rather dictator of paraguay lopez is a despot but there is no evia evla evidence ence enee that his people are dissatisfied with his rule at all ev events i ants they have fought most manfully for him anahis and his resources sam seem no more exhausted than those of his enemies the immediate cause of quarrel arose arole in uruguay that republic lies temptingly on th the southern border of brazil and its addition to the empire would much improve the botin boundaries daries darles of the latter for prudential rems reas reasons 0 h brazil has not lately renewed her fo former r unsuccessful attempts to conquer arugay but has contented herself with manipulating its politics A revolution no rare occurrence broke out in uruguay two or three years since one onet faction defeated another faction brazil sided with the new government which it recognized as dejure paraguay favored the rejected re acted officials she as well aa as brazil brazi doubtless had a strong desire to rule uruguay success in this direction would give her direct communication with the outside world from which her geographical position now shuts her off to send troops into uruguay lopez must necessarily march them through the argentine ar entine provinces this lege wigs was refused and previously existing jealousies became intensified into in to pos vr i e hostility The dominant party in a uruguay u brazil and the argentine states united their forces and for tor two years have been attempting to conquer lopez and drive him 0 out ut 0 of f his dominions having accomplished this and rewarded themselves with liberal slice of paraguayan soil they will be satisfied the attainment of or seems as far off as ever though 0 the war has continued for over two cars the paraguayan army has been beed forced into a defensive policy 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