Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1880, Page 12

Amartyr to another woman’s efildren, rz THE .THE HOME. A Widower’s Experiences as Re= lated by Himself. How His Second Matrimonial Venture “ Proved a Poor One. Some Sample Step-Iaughters, Who Rendered Him Rather Une lappy. Patchwork Quilts Strongly invelghed Against by a Lady Gonorally on tho Right - Sldo. Margaret's Dream, and What Came of It— Miscellancous Letters; MY MIDNIGQUL REVERIE, Fur The Chicagy Tribune. Whore nro you going, my sister?” Back o'er tho path of Time, ‘To viow Lifo's panoramn, that Nature has mado Budlime, The road fs rough, my sister, together in hand wo'll yo, And we'll rest beyond the hill, whore the rippling strenm doth flow. Wo'll watch through tho silent night, with glit- tering stars above, Woaving around us strong, mystlo chains of Bnfety, peace, and love; And though at present thore prevails dense and sulemm gioom, . The glorious Go of Day shall rise ond all tho earth fuine. &o come, ictus be early to view the very first pare; Of course ft will be yellow and dim with tho hand of nge. But Tam so glad, my sister, 1 could not bear that you Bhould ace 211 tho tricks 1 played (Iwas young and foolish, ton), But hero I am, dear sister, full of childish mirth ot and glee. My heart knew naught of sorrow, thon; my mind from enre was free. Owhy deprive us of these days? O. Time, why truce them o'er? Tow can I bear to think those days will come buek novermore? i Why recall those bygono days, when Youth and Folly were X When mother's heart so often pained, till sitent tenes sho shod? And OF thought what bliss ‘twould be If 1 cond only keep All tho zeerots of tho past, Pad buried them— * Bo tleep.”" iH But hohold this tent, my sister, come dry your weeping eyes, Aero nt a link 1s broken of the chain of goklen 283 tles; ‘ Ochcer up, my loving eister, you cannot now regret Tracing back o'er tho path of Time, where memory tingers yet, re “Ab, olan! denr littic sittle sister, when you'ro ng old ug L R You'll seo through nr alearer yell ns slowly tho i NK pias Dy." weet ister, Hsten to memory’s’ grand refrnin— 4 Bbe alngs of our nobly deeds, and not of our fuults complain, o Rear. it pane through the woodland, wafted by be breere, On fatry wings ft well aweep over all tho land nid seas, But farewell, sweet memory, slecp has come— You may now depart, And close beside tho others place new weeds + torn trom my heart, Mayivoon, HL, Sept. 14, 1889, Gxonaina, A GUILLED WIDOWER. HIS PAINFUL EXPERIENCE, To the Editor of ‘The Chicayo ‘Tribune, , Des Mowes; In, Aug, 20.-—In the course of my travels I had to-stop over night ata Nttlo country inn, I pleked up trom the tublo tho Sruday Conforter, a newspaper published In an Eastern city,and in looking over its columns 1 saw on article headed “'Prials and Tribulations of a Stepmiother.? It was signed “ Dorothy Filut.” Tread It, 1 was Interested In ft. All tho sympathies of my nature went out to the woman who was. Lat onco sat down and wrote to her a fetter brimming all over with sympathy. 1: toll her that F, too, was n sufferer ef the other BOX, f: The truth {8,1 am qatepfather, The way itenme about wns this: Elost my first.wifo about seven yenrs after our marriage, We commenced Ifo very poor; but L was In- dustrious and she was q bustling, active litte Woman from Vermont, who was never lle and never wasted, and turned every thing to good neconnt. We prospered and were happy. We had two little girls, amd they made everything bright about the honse, My wife, most unfortunately, was stricken and died of a malarial fever, 1 sent for an older maiden sister to come aud keop housy for me, and help me raise the two lttle girls, She enme and stayed with me until my eldest girl got to be 18, when she, too, slekened and. Qed. 1 was left alone with’ my girls, nut thoy had got to be women, and could tao cure of themselves. Thelr evenings had, as 8 rule, always been spent at home in reading or dolng some light) work. ‘They knew 1 did not tke = to have thom running ont at night to neighbors? houses or on the streets, but as they had no inelluation that way Thad no occasion for anxloty for thon on that account, When girls begin to grow they naturally think of marriage, ‘Chey had caused me so Uitlo trouble, and had given. ime so mich happiness, that [ was in hopes they would And thelr chotco and settle down In the plaice where they had always Hved, and that 1 would be able ta spend tho of my days wilh both of thon near me, howaver, ordained otherwise, About threes months after tho death of my sister tho son of an old. friend who had moved out to Oregon cane back to our town, He was bright, smart, and goo looking, well-to-do, and with good prospects, Muggle was the unig of my ell est gir She hut never had a bean, and Hever seamed to care for one, Lut I soon discoverod two things: Firat, that the yomg fellow from an occasional had become aconstant visitor at my house; and, secondly, that when he wns away Magglo seemed lost ant absent-minded, Of epurse I know what was the matter, but I sald nothing,” Aftor things bad gone this way for some tle the young man and Maggiv came to me one nigtit as 1 ant atone on our Iittle pore. Says he, “Mr, Chiypole, Maggfo andl love each other very deart é put we want to get marriad.” ‘Then Muxpid Urst out crying, and throw her aria arene any neck, and the young fellow, he threw his arius around both of us, and wo all three cried. Then, shaking them hoth otf, J said in asort of choked volee, * Muggiv hus been one of the best of daughters, atid although £ ean hardly part with her, yel if shu bas made up her mind to imarry you, imay God's bless Ings attend you both.” Mien the next thing way the tixing of the duy for the wedding, If sald he did not want 10 go out to Oregon and thon come buck again, and so in about a month from that ity hoy were married, and Want ike want off to eae ue De, had Susle, my youn: a1 at ttomes A tele ay ee ee loubled, and F was sure she would leave que, Fate again interposed ans tw red wy hopes, About slx months after the hurrings of Muuie, a young man who hid Studied medicine in ont tewn, but who hud. one down Into "Luxas to pricttes his pro- esdion, came back on a visit T soon saw shat he and Susie were struck with each other. Ho was an Intelligent man, of good habits and good itlsposltion, ant fT could uy nothing against ht personally, Teaid to Susie one duy, after he hud made a longer visit thun usualy “Susie, after your futhor has brought you up you won't leave hin bin his old uge “and go out to ‘Pexas, where buman Ifo is worth leds than a dog's, and where some assasin may leave you # whdow in less than a year?" Poor Suse fell to cry- Tan out of the revi, lL saw tio gore of her until supwerettiy when her aves werered and swollen wil Weeping, CICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBUR 30, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES ‘The poor child ate no supper, nelther cond « Lgot ip, and Susie followed. "The poor aitl gave me a convulsive embrace, and sobbed outs) “Oh papa, Rehard ts 80 rood, ond Mwy loves ine so much | ean't halp loving him, and 1 qweuld die without hint, Lerled, too, but ¥ saw the matter was seftted between them, aid sald no more, Thu next day Riohard came, and after a Road deal of stammoring asked me if he Wiehe inv stale for we tel in about ree nlouths after, she went down tito ‘Tex: ngas the Wife af Richard. NS ie Some little while after Suste's marriage L Wenttoher home in ‘Toxas, hoping that would be able ta spend’ the test. of my days thores but Leauld not stay, 1 odid not lke the el! mate, the people, tha water, or the Way tes Hved, and 1 goon returned ° Thome was broken tp, off ti distant lands, eideared to me by years of happliess spent wkhin Its wally and a. thousand tender recollections. CE went to boarding, but 1 was lonesome and discontented. went to chiurel, regularly, but’ £ sat alone fn My pews my girls were not with me, and the sermon and the services fell fiat on iy vars aud were alike unheeded, ‘To Kill tne 1 commenced visiting around a Httle, and go- {ng to church fatrs, festivals, aud sockibles, it went on this way for about a year, when I began to observe a little more elosely a younglsh woman, who, aupentell to be very modest i her manner, and who seemed to. Ive but Tittle to say. Tnoticed thit sho cane nud went without escort. [inquired Who shy wns, and was’ told that she was a widow who was. struggling hard to support herself and family of young clilldren, aud that she was working at the milinery bus. ness, Somchow IT began to feel an int in the whlow and a sympathy for her, ane she would frequently come into my mind. 1 had no thought of marrying, for} had too often warned my friends agmalnst widows, but forall that Lcould not help thinking of Chance made us peg ialtiteds Sho and a lady friend Bory golng home one night from achureh festival. Twas right behind them, totng in the same direction. ‘Phe lady friend, Ars, 1, a ashaw! that was hanging on her arm, and f gallantly picked Itup and handed ittoher, She thanked ine, mndesome Keneral renmark, Introduced me ty the widow, and suggested that us E had shown myself 50 useful to them behind L might be equally: serviceable to them atongside, 1 walked with then until we came to Mrs, P's honse, when that lady bade us good night, and said very sweeuly? * Now, Mr. Clayton, L will {rust you to sea Mrs, Randall safe to her home? ‘The home of Mrs, Randall, T found, was a good distuice off, but we at length renched I. Laid not goin, but she gave me avery urgent Invitation to callow her. aA few evenings afterwards | met her by acel- flent at the house of nv friend, and our mect- igs therentter beeame much inore frequent, he gave nie her lilstory, Ner husband had been frelght conductor on a railroad, but was killed jn a colliston two years bes fore L met her, Te left her with fivechildren, absolutely destitute. ‘The three eldest of the ehtldren vere girls, aged respectively. 15, 11 snl il, ‘The ather two ware boys, one age Mand the other 6 years, 1 notieed that tie Turniture was both seant aud plain. She was, she said, a woman of shuple tastes and hac no desire for finery or show. Her necessl- les had taught her economy, and she My saul my chitdr 1 Roll iy ltt it. it thouzht sho could live on as smallan Income us any one, us be At J, is a woman a disciplined in thosevereselical There will be no waste or dis i Everybody sald she dnd beet a very devoted wife to her first hus- bund, and there was no reason why she should not be lust as good ‘to An secoud, particukuly when that second took hor and her tive ehfldron without a cent from them, had thought myself proof against the wiles, the nrtifices, the schemes: of ny widow tn creation, and that L could be In, the compiny of Mrs. RK. with perfect safety. Somehow, but how L can't now reeall, 1 found imyself enguged to her, and, ag she thought that long engagements were goner- ally disastrous and brought trouble, the unrrlage followed hart on the eniarament, T wrote to both imy daughters directly atter the engaxement, telling them that slice they Aad left ne my toneliness had become almost sunendirable, and that L hod determined: to niarry aati, LC gave them the name of the lady that [was golne to inarry, and told them when the wedding was to come offs Hare, thought and expres: he wish to have them both present. 1 did no 4 them to come, and, us they both) knew the Indy (she had been ralsed’ In tho town), F S how they would take it, We were married abalatohourin the evening, poboly being bresent but her relations and a few friends of wlue Tho next morning L was formally ine troduced to ny now fanily, Sophy, Felicia, aid Maude were tho names of the threa girls, ‘Tho two eldest, Sophy and Tdsby ng they were called, were blz, strapping . lasses, with red hair and sandy complexions, with a stall assurtment of freckles; tho younger, Mande, had) dark heir and oyes and a fair skin, drank was the name of the eldest boy and George of the younger, Breakfast passed, off auletly. About tt o’etock L walked down. street. ‘The wenther was elear and mitd for the xenaon, and iteeemed to me everybody shunned me, ‘Phe deed was done, and hat commenced Koouliy house, stocked with an- other. man’s children, From the manner In whieti people looked atime and avolded me D began to fear that T Dad committed some griovons offense, — 1 Went to church, but the Christian brethren ed me with wv cool nod, When Lot Ling hint thera was no return tomy Was ansivus to seo pressure. About a month after my marriage J got letters from wy two daughters, ‘They: v short. ‘Shey stinnly) salt T was v responsible to no one but myself for my gets that Thad been a good father to them, and that 1 woul make 1 good husband, and they could only hope that ding would not show T hil aeted unwisely or against my own hap pines, aA fow (lays after these letters eame I ree celved one from Ripley Colton, Colton had many years before married a widow with four children, ant had afterward move to Kansna City. tle was, however, 0 bachelor at the tne or his marriage, Colton’s letter ja short, aud T give it in full: My Dear Purnnp YOUR: T have just heard that you tava mureled the Widow Handall and hor ive children, 1 gly you my hearty: condolences, Thave been thera. IF ai thar, und know somothiog of tho uxquiait delight of fowtorliy and providing for ather poople'’s cbil- dren, May you lve long and prosper, I wish could add talt, May you bo happy, Silas Jones and Lived tn the saine ward and belonged to the sume party. Silas and £ had been warn friends, but Slings some two years ago tout ft Into his head that ho was a proper person to represent our ward in the tity Counell, Ils party nominated him, and hie expected all his party friends to vote for hints and this, with some votes fram the other slo he was stra to get, would elect, him, He hind counted on my vote with ab- solute certainty, Stlas lived in one end of the ward and in the ather, ‘Tho other party fad nominated. a man from ourend, He nade us belleve that the litorests of the elty, and especlally of our end of the ward, do wanded his election, and I promised, to vote for hin Silas got to hear of it, amt he want- ed to Know Tf it was trae that L was gs Nw’ to vols against bin and my party. dtolt hin thint would do anything iu the workl for him, but that Twas an Independent vater, and the interests of our part of the ward re- quired ine to vote for hls competiior, We yartod {a anger, ‘The -election came off, ones was beaten fust one vole. It was my: vote thatdld it, id he swore everiastl Yergeancs against me. die would nat spa! tu ing on the streat, and denounced me uverye whore aan tralter, [hated ta lose his Erlend stip, but Lt felt that L had done ty duty, About tiny tog nite i waa masried gata note trom Jones tirough ast-Of- flee, Lopened 16 and Tels Sir, Christopher ClaypoleSins Thad sworn to Tevengo your pertidlous treatment of mu nt the jute election, and was only walting for prone: opportunity to unmask you, Lut you have waved ny the trouble. You hive married a widew with, five children, three girls and twoboya, Heaven could not have went you wauvercr or a more Jasting punishmunt, | My dealre for vengeance is salatied and my hatred lu turned Into pity, May God have mercy on your soul, ‘These letters brought with them no com forting reflections, bik L thought the best thing f could do would bate treat thom with silent contempt, 1 showed them to nO Che, aud sald nothing about them, Was fur from belie arieh man, though niiny persons seamed to think T was,aud hays ing now a large family on on my ‘lunds, 1 thought It was necessary for me to do sone. ting by which feonld’ earn something, faut been tn the Jasugauce busliess In my younger days, und had been eaunted a std consfut sulleltor, As Lo knew more about tia thau any other kind of business my wild naturally turned to it, v Crang Wasan Iustranes tan who had been In business here fora long tine, and Thad been associated with hit" previdusly. Lbought an interest fu tho business, Ifo Wis to stay iu the olllce, and ] was to do the outslde business and travel through the country and work up insuranee, In truth, [ Was glad of something that would take ite frou town, for Culd hut like tho way. that people treated me. L told my.wife what Lhad dong, that Twas not rich, anid would have to RO to work, although 1 was well up In year: fo make a living, 1 told her that we must practice strict economy, or my, Hetle capital would soon be exhausted, and she would have on her hands an old man without anythin thing, She agreed to everything I sale wil most cheerful alacrity. Finding her in sue mut oxcellent moud, L suecusled that the girts were large enouzh, with her assistance, to do the work of the hatise, and we might lis snve the expense of the hired-girl, ta whom we were paying $3 n week, It was n most unfortunate sigzestion, She did not get angry, but she sald very emphatleally that It was ontof the question. The girls were nat strong, and they could not stand tha work, They were going to sehool, and thelr studies. took up ail their time. Where the weakness or want of strength comes in [do not know, for tho girls have most amazing appetites, nd can get away wilh as inuelt food as an able-bodied man in hary tine; and ns to stuclying, that ig a digression that 1 have never seen them Indulge tn. But’ Ll was silenced. ‘I gota horse and bugry, and trav. eled the country vigorously with the hope of worklig up business, equently LE would be absent two and (ree weeks nta stretel, In going ont U told my wife that when she wanted any Hitle change Mr. Crane would glve it to her—and to make no bills. Settle nents ave imady every six Months In our town, Indanuary and Jiily. Tdld not get home in duly, untll about the 10th of the month, T went down to the ofice, and Crane re- marked that wo had as well look over tho books and innke our first settlement, Ldid 80. Twas astounded nt tts revelation. ‘Tho small ehunge «£ had expected to seo had swelled to an average of over twenty dollars nweek, Crane grinned, He wasin raptures BL My amazement and wonder, My wite had «unable to do a i taken ont twice as inueh ash nan few moments, however, Lo recove my elf. poss sat to hh “TL told my to make no bills, She his mide. none,s but paid ready- money for every thing sho bought. Cratie grinned again, “{ went home believing that L was free from the pest of store bills, and thatd had seen the worst, 1 ate dinner with pomuclitis uf thankfulness, and went down tw tho ollice, Crane was there, After a little while he sald to ine: “'there wera some papers came in while you were away. Ithink you hat better look at them; the: are in that pigeon-hole.” With an alr of unconcern Erusheid over and got thom. 1 noticed that thers was a number of them. 1 looked at them. ‘The first was a dry-gooils bills of several pages. L looked nt the foot- Ing. It was away up ia the hundreds, ‘Then there was the grocer’s bill, the buteher’s bill, and the Lord knows what. Controlling my- self I went out snd pald them. 1 went home and gently said to my wife, “Are these bills correct?” “Then L asked: her what sha hat done with all the money she had drawn. But tho only answer [contd web was that it took a zood deal to tive. With atone of sareagin Psald: “So Lsee, when I have to pay the bills.” 4 ‘The two elder daughters didn’t like me. They Ike me much less now. ‘They are fed, and clothed, and supported by me, but they dowt like me. ‘They are never in the house when Tain there except at meals and after 1 gotobed at aight, Where or how they spend thelr evenings I don’t know, They go out and stay out. IT have hinted to their mother that] Uought {t was dangerous for young girls of their age to be out so much at night, and that she ought to keep them at homeinore, I think she must have told them, for afterthat I thought they grew worst. One evening, only 9 short tine ago, instead of taking my usual walle Tw the parlor and lay down on the sofa. was on the “front poreh. Dr Sophy came oul, Sho asker her mothe something, 1 could not tell what. could L hear distinct! the mather was; but T thought ft was some- thing of aremonstrance. But the rejoinder of the young lady was heard, elear and dis- tinct. “Paw? (she always calls ma paw,— most of them do), she exclumed, “lie's no paw of mine, and 1 won't own hims he's Just aanenns cross, miserly ald thing; that's what he Is, rnit T hate him, so ido; and I Wish ho would git up and: git, so 1 do? “Sophy,” said her imoather, ina Fepronulibigg tone, “don’t talk so loud? “Twill talle Joud,” retorted the amiable ehilds “ he's Just. as menn ashe ean be, and Lwish he would xo away and stey, and never come back, Why, ma, Lhad talk with Aunt Prue yester- day, and sho sili she told yor that now you had arichald husband, you were a fool it you did not enjoy yourself ‘and let your children onjoy themselves, and if he wouldn't give you all the money you wanted, for you Just togo down to Mr, Grlp's store, and be would give you money and cheeS it as goods, Aint Prue says she has dous it. inany 2 Ubme, and thatl€ she gets $5 in money Mr Grip only ennrges $6 In goods for ti, and thore can’t be uy tithe wrong In It either, for Mr, Grip is a gooi Christian man, and he wouldn't do anything wrong, for Y heard hm inake such a aplendid prayer at prayer- mneeblthe the other night.” ‘Tie smartness of some chikiren la astonishing, I had heard enough. Lwanted te getnway, and, ag liek would have ft, a heavy wagon emma rim ling along, and, favored by the nolse tt made, I softly slipped out through the. aining-room and Kitchen into the back yar Then 1 caine round to tho front whistling the * Dead March." As son us the young lady saw me she tossed up her head, crooked hor nose, sped ontofthe gate, and I saw nothing o: heruntil the next morning nt breakfast. “What's the matter with Sophy 2? I quletly asked, Nothing,’ as quietly answered tho mother, | * oe My wife has an unele tn our town. “Ho hngs a big store, anc fs sald to be very rich, Ho doosn’t vislt his relations much, partlenlarly they are poor. Js name Is Starke, When A first married lids niece he hardly notleed me, but after n while he seemed more friend: ly, and L heard that he has hitely eriled at the House, auc spent sone tine talking with ny wife. A couple of mornings ago Dwas piss: ing his store. He stoad In the coor, and ns £ came by ho exclamed, “Claypole, my boy, how do you do; how are the tunity 2 * and, elving me amost cordial grasp, he centine ued: “Claypole, come in, 1 want to talk to you,” Lwyont luto his private room, We wero by ourselves, ° *Claypole,” said he, “Eo am proud (of yous my fam. lly, ore proud of you; all your wlfo's relations are proud of you. Some of these days su must ding with mo, take Wa with me. “You haye shown yourself 1 man, sia nan of the rizht mettle, sir. Sit down,” L was overwhelmed at his unlooked for condescension, and stummered aut some- thing about huping that £ would never do anything to forfeit the xoud opinion or thoy had of ime. “CO! ne,” said he, “you have a treasure In iene wife, you have tive treastires In her children, ‘Chey wre now your ebildren, Yours In the sight of God and in tho sightofiman, You huye duties towards them which you ought notte negleet. You fro getting old, nud you are not looking well, You mny dio at any moment, You should make your will, sir, make it withott ielay shes Twill draw it for you, sir, 1 will draw it now, L will be your execttor and settle up your estate, and take care of“ what you leave, for tha benefit of your Wife anid tho five fathorless children, to whom God hag nde you a fathor” He spoke yery rapidly and very earnestly, aud was cons fused, 1 sugested, however, that T would think of it; that 1 had two children of my own that 1 ought not to overwork. Your for Neither what the answer of chihtven, alr” sald he, “are inarrleds thoy are provided for; they huye husbands that are young and vigorous and making money, They nre doing well, It Ja these other elif dren that you must look after. [was feeling decidedly uncomfortable, He lind taken hig pa ml wa preparing to write my will, £ old him L had but little, and 1 thought the Taw made a vory Just whl" Slr,” sald he, stvongly, “IE tha law makes a just will, why dos lt allow a anon to thwart its’ jude thes by Jelginie Hhhn make his own will? No, sir, the Jaw dogs not always dake a just wilh * But, Cluypole,” sul he, “it you ave not prepared: Just now to make ‘a will, ye" ought to pub your money where it will be ante, Banks wre not gate, ‘They aro breaking up all over the country, Ef you put it inmortgages the na sessor finds (tout, and the tux eats up the Ine terest, Now, slr, [have more money of my owl than L have use for, but to let you seo how much f think of aan gil what ty inters est take in you, L will take your money, pay you a reasonable Interest, tho sume that te WVEFUMENL pays—t ier cent, 1 will ho sate; you wud your wifeean getnionyy whe ever you Want It aid nolthor he dasessu hor any one else need know muy thing about 1. Ltokd tn he was very kind, and £ would think of ft. Well, sit,” sald he, * re- member delays are dangerous” My wife's unele, Starke, ly avery plous man, and a deacon or something of tho sort in the chureh, aint ho has Uible phases at hls tongues ond. Everything, he says, slain on God's providence. It ls Mls providence that mukes some rich sone poor, He says that when pea- Ot Ket to be poor Gol has rought poverty on then for seme wlio pur- pose, and that ty releye the poor fs to payin the face of Providence, to thwart Ilis pus pose, aad to rebel against Ils will, For that Fousun be gives ott to the poor, for he xays that Gud will in His own good thug atid In Ilis own good way tft them aut of thelr peyeron if in His ‘providence Ie deans ft Tek and guakea My wife's unely frowned ag L took my hat and went vat of the door, I got out into the ulr and breathed more freely. Ln less than a Yoar nearly a fourth of {ny possessions had been spent by my new family. Chad heard my loving step-datghter express hor opluton of me, nnd suggest a mode by whieh Eeould be robbed by degrees, nnd, to eap the etimax, here was my sharp step-nnele seeking to taka itallatoneautp. Twas distreted, My wife is 0 good wonn If left to herself, but she thinks. Marat deal of hor clilldren, and she enn't find tt In her heart to refuse anything they asi, and the children seem to think that tho only possibly use T can be to then ts to let them do) whatover: they plonse and to spend money for whatever thoy want Tinarrled a woman. who hid not a cent, and C thought Fwould find In hera partner of saving and econamy. 1 jus isnppolnted. if warried five chittren, hoping that I would find In thom something of the obedience and love, that: my own children gave to. me, Again L was disappointed. Now, whatam 1 todo? Cuntsrornen CLAYPOLE, PATCIIWORK QUINTS, WUAT TOPSEY THINKS OF THES To tha Iiditor.of The Chtcago Tribune, Ctcaav, Oct, 28,—-May it please the Court, Lwould Ike to enter a complaint against that form of work which appears to ine as tho no plus ultra of useless sewing, that whieltt I xbomlnate for myself and dislike to see others doing-—the making of patchwork quilta. It gives mé pleasure to bo able to say that in all my Ife {haya never done even so Intich as ono square Inch of the hideous thing. Unilk the thrifty creatures of whom sonio one wrote not long ago, £ have, no poodly supply Iatd up against the time when Prince Charming shall come to carry me off; not even do £ possess 9 bag at * pices” all ready to be prt together, and when his High- ness leads me a tearful-blushing brile,— conventionally speaking, brides nro ‘sup posud todon great deal of blushing, they are always so reported,—it will be with the distinet understanding that quilts will be numbered among the things whieh he will be oxpected to finish our menage. { lave never, elthor, whether by gift or Inheritance, owned a patchwork “speend.” though one nice old daily, fretful at my lune state, was kind enough to offer-me one of her eholcest chefs Watuvre in that tine as an inducement 1 eateulated fn her mind to overcome any tong 1 might entertain to entering this “holy and huppy.t But "Sarkis was not “willy,” and the mateh did not con olf Sonctimes T reproach myself that b did not secure thoturtistic gem at any saeritice to my feellngs, ‘The quilt was of that pattenn edled “the Pralrle Rose,” and it infght have: been worshiped: with impunity, as It hore not the sllghtest resembinice to any thitye in the = “heayens . above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth ? ind, had tt been’ cherished carefully through the years and handed dawn to poss terlty, those entice blosgoins would haye le splred the botanist of the future with awe aud wonder at the marvelous flora of our times, a8 the artisé Improved pon the Al- uilzhty and Invented flowers to sult herse Quito recently [ attended a meeting ofa Dorens Society, of which [ania member. Ag entered the room Unoticed that all the 1s dies present were very Intently engaged upon A Breat quantity.of geometrically eut scraps. ‘teeomitzing iny bugbear, I paraphrased Mr, Sankey and sang with fecling, * Nothing but THER: nothing but rags. “Why, Miss Tinkle,” ected one,“ Just In time, to bo sure! Wo are making a bed- sprend forthe Falr--proceeds to go ty tho Prector’s salary,” she added plously, “and 7m sitre you van help us out with the pat- tern, It's the* Old Mald’s Puzzle,’ ya know.” an audible sinite went round on the delivery of this kind remark, and TL overheard n wor. an who hasbeen a widow three times, aut, according to current gossip, tins cast her evil ore upon No. 4, say of me, “ Poor Topsey, sho's had her ‘old mali’s pizza this many tyear Been puzzling her brains to find ont why no one asks her to marry, he, he,” and thon thoy laughed again. Liitled my tap with ploces and tried to. got them nlf tugether, exactly like the block whieh was furnished meas copy. L worked and worked away, arranged nid rearranged, hut invatn did Lstrives those hnplsh little hree-cornered tities utterly refused to solve thensolves Into n square. Finally, dt lenntal iny aching head on iny tired hands and rested, “Why, Miss Tinkle,” cried she-who-had- It, been-n-widow-three-tlines-with-her-evil-eye-- on-ntiber-four, “erying over the puzzte 2’? aud she Infused as‘arch an expression as shoe could tito hor glass eye, “No,” sald “Tam not wasting any tears over ft, though it wore enough to causo weeping AMONG the gods to seo wiyes anit iiatrons, mothers, women of culture and Inthigence, all apparently sane and fn thelr TiaNE tninds, dollberately cutthig up bits of print Into Ineh blgnesses for the sole pur- bose of sewlng them together agaln,” © Dut, ‘Topsey, jist think, 1,185 pleces in this (yutlt and no two allkel ‘all nade out of old seraps, too. So economical, you know; deesn’t cost us huytlings Just tht “Yes,” Tanswored, “Ludo think, Uhnave been thinking: a good deal since i came in here and Lye come te tho conclusion that that is a mysterlous dlspensatlon of Provi- deneg whieh binds the feminine mind to the fact that, while you may save a few pomics on your oll pateh-work, you waste that preclous thing which business-men recognize as of such Importance that the expression of its value hing passed Into the proverb: ‘Time jamoney. And? L£ continued, “1s ita dig uified and, fitting thing that aiminister of our great faith shonld be dependent for his attpport upon the sale of a bedspread? Why tlon’t you prt the Gospol on aaound dnanchil basly, pay for what you getin that way aw you would for anything else, and don't ex- pectaman to be able to give you his very best when nll the time his human needs com. pel him to wonder how much tho quilt will LS ¢ at present thore'ts a marked cootness be- tween the Doreas Society and myself, 1 do suppose-though that even so tlno- wasting 0 thing as 4 patelework auilt has buen of somo use tn the world. Years ago, when childhood was made to feel In decd aud in truth that there was no royal yond to learning, when tho overeasting of longseans and the henming of sheats und towels were the approved vehicles of Instruction forsmall fluzerd—these being selected, indeed, as much for the most oxcollant dlselpline snp. pos togxist in anything which compelled Nttlo ones to dg that which they de- tested,—the sawing of bits of bright-cotored. cloth must have been a ploasant reliat Yram tha monotonous whiteness. That was in tho day when it was considered a flve mental tonte far all the young twlgs to compel thom to bend In Just tho way they felt the least In- ellned to, when nobody felt that Itt ehil- dron had any rights worthy of respect. 16 may bo that out hero In the Great West, where wo all talk so much of free dom, owe have gone too far tn an opposit, direction, yet it seoms when th extcneles.of fe are, pretty sure te give us ench day.our dose of discipline as it it savored In some degree of ernelty to fuvent anything espectally disagreenhte for the chile alten. But autre temps, autre mia, remember when T was httle girl reading that aga nithatlo. story “Tho Wide, Wide World,” and tha part over whieh iy tears full fnstost was the chapter In which the evonomleal wunt is deserted as putting all tha poor little huroine’s nice outit of white stocklugs into the dye-potto sive washing, At Unt tlie twas considered quite vulgar to weir colored hosiery, and 1 felt a ae sympathy for the imental ngony tho bred Inasie saifored yvery thie sha her faut.) Yesterday & wee maiden me inn tons eepreasivy of great wot Isn't it dreadtul, Miss ‘Clakle. iy erandig huis. sent ng adozen palrsof white stockings wilh- out even aateipe or a thing oo them, and my jam days sho won't allow me to waste tham, and there {ntust walk to school every tay with white logs when tho other girly ive coluyed.” ‘hose awfil “other girls," ‘Then, L suppose that away out tn tie coun try, on the frontiers, away frony the contras of culture, a patelwork quilt may bu quite waxponentof hich art to tha maker, “The est hed, with ts muny hued coverlig, staring in state inthe “front reom,” may bon striving after an expressloa of the hoa litul, of the highest formof houxeholt dec- oratlve art at wiloh the good wife's soul fs capable, and ko, as oven A poor chrome {3 Lutter chan no pletnya, it serves Its uten, Tthink E knew the why aud wherefore of Mr. Daliy’s exceeding blueness, fis) Damo- erade mud prgphetls soul Nas peered inte the future, and the coming Mepublicun victory in November hag casts ‘Turn from the. error An upon hin. of your ways, my frlend, for, while tha "iin holds out to burn, tha vitust {pollticall siiior may re- tim.” Votes the itepublican teket, aud thus pive yourself auch a surprise as will shack ron your brain tho thick aud noudy funeles which naw cloud it. 7 Fred Greenwood, E hope you will write again, PSEY TINKLE, MARGARET'S DREAM, AND WHAT CAME OF IT, ‘To the Eddior of Ths Chicaco Tribune, Cuicago, Oct, 25,—1 had been reading The Moms, 1 was espeelally interested in the remarks of Biue Stocking, aud felt it to ben burning shamo that when Cleero tind been introduced inte The Home no one had risen to welcome him; and L resolved that ere another sun had set C would write to The Home and “make tt allright” with Cleero, With these thoughts ngitating my brain, Alny down to rest. Senreely had I closed my eyes when there came a fond rap at my door, Sald I," Who's there? Cano the fnswor, * Cleera,* “ALD salt I, and rose. and prepared to meet him. Thon 1 sald, “Walk tn, when tho door opened and to! thera stood before tne Cleary the imlghty Roman orator of the mast, Tsald, “Pray hoseated,” and then nquteed, in at frlemdly way, about his wife and family, who, he replied, were well Then sald “And how was Catiline when yaw Ins Heard from him???) ‘Phus, wuwitiingly, F touched upon the very subject which, of all othors, { should hava avolded, Cleero, visiug froin his seat, walling rapidly neross-the room and striking at the ate with As fist, as he would strike at the heart of tho conspirator Catallne, if he were there, spoke thus: “Quotsqie tandem abutere,Catllina, paitlentia nostra? quiunidin etl furor iste tus nos cludet? 0 tempor! O mores Buntatig han, \itollinets consul videt: hie maven Viv" “Shates of tho departed! thought J, “ how he rattles off the Latint And that tho very frience that L have spont long hours over J was about to Speak, to him again when he suddenly vanished, and, the door slowly open ing, in walked iterate “Why? sald 1, somewhat astonished, “good evening, Py- thiauarnas.* T wid he jun hotlow volee, which Jed ‘y strony to sttspect that he hil just risen fram the deat, “Gaod Hg. WV RIS have heard that you wero Tnterestedt in fines: ant Shave brought fe the diagram "of one of ny propositions fo exandae” LT bowed my thpnks, asd, take ing the serotl from his hands, reeoxnized my favorlt, the famous * Pythagorean proposl- tion? LT proceeded to read, “The square de. seribed on the hypotencuse of n right-angled triangle,” but was here Interrupted by the opening of the door and the entrance of Demosthenes, I bowed, and sald, Good eventig, Mr. D. | Lai very happy to mect you. Your orations have always been my dellght. | Pray will you not repeat one for me? ‘Then Demosthenes spoke, und his volee, though clear and penetratlag, was not Joud, nelther were his gestures many, but as he proceeded he became more nnd more elo. quent, antll Lwas lost in: adiuiration. sn for sonie thine absorbed In thought, and when atlast £ raised my eyes ib was to find 1 snes gone and in hls placa ave ty and elegant gentleman, whom Ci mediately recognized as Sir Walter Raleigh, Hd in his hands tho mitnttseripts of several of lls most celebrated plays, sinong ion Hamlet,” “Macbeth, and “ King aunt Rowing politely, ha proceeded to explain how. ho had been deprived of the benetit of iis writings, and how, when imprisoned all those loug years, he had written not only his “Hlstory of the World,” but also “Tiamlet,?? Macbeth? “Richard 110.” nnd all those pinys which have, through accident, been attributed to Shakspeare, Billy Shakspeare, a jolly, rollicking fellow, then stepped forward and gave it as his opinion that it was a mean siamo that sueh a “deuced good fellow” a3 Slr Walter should be cheated out of the credit of his plays; and sald that it was far from his thoughts that they would buattrlbuted te him, when, as an actor, he played prominent parts in. them, “But,” added he, “even suet ts Ufe? And Tremarked, * Whataver is, is right” Just then up stepped Socrntes from a cor- ner of the room, where, unnoticed by ine, he had been sitting. “ How do youd, Socrates 2??? said I, and, grasping his hand. was just about to ask about Xuntippe, his wife, and whether she was as great a seold ns ever, when I suid- Manis civae, and found that L was shaking hands with the bed-post. Demosthenes and Cleero, Pyfuarovis and Soerates, all had vanished, and in thelr place were the stitf-legged tablo and the matter-of- fact chatrs of my own room, My dreain was gone, but the thoughts that it sugmestod Tomalned, Aniong the most tmportant of then were these two: Did Sir Walter Raleigh write Shakspeare's plays? Was Phantippe such a pirat scold after all, and ff sho did scold a ittle onee in a while, had she not good renson ? 7 ict us hear from the Homeltes on theso subjects, ‘ MARGARET, A NEW-COMER. SOME GOOD KUGGESTIONS. To the Euitor of Ths Chieago Tribune. Cincaao, Oct. 9%4—-On arriving In your beautiful city n few mouths azo with the in- tention of nmking it my home, It was not long before L had the pleasure of becoming interested In your pleasant circle of Lome. Stes, and, a8 my acqunlutanes advanced, 1 could not help noticing, and admiring tho amlabllity that exixtedamone you. L thought it quite an unusual sight to see an assorted crowd, composed of “eld imaids,” Forty Years, Polly Phemus, Chat, Eta Beta Pi, ete, ete, working so harmoniously together, Lhave often been tempted to knock at your door and ask if you had another vacant. seat In your Home, but fearing that I did not possess the necessary Sntellect, and owning i little of Polly Phemus' uatural timidity, have always turned away without asking, School compositions many years ago wero my only efforts at writing for others to read, and £ ever expected to attompt Itagaln. But,.on reading the new applications “you hays this week to enter your fLoine, now, a3 the wiuter draws near, Iam golug to try to steal In with the crowd, Gale Forest, don’t do think your model wite Is a Mttle overdrawn ? Any woman that can be as soft” ag you picture your model wit, to be so deeply dnfatuated ‘with her hus- Dand that sho is bat Nttles more than a immeok, cringing, cowering slave to him, deserving her fate, und not worthy the un- just pity she woul naturally create, Cannot a won beg true and loving wifo suid stil maintain her fidepondenco ? L would Ike to take you by the hand, Blue Stocking, and thunk you for so nearly Ox pressing my views, Din with you heartand soul, and hope you willbe able to Induea most ot the Hoineltes: to Join in discussing who are ourinost favorit” literary tights,— their traits and abliities, 1 bes to disagrea with you, however, in ine dorsing Kphemernt’s saying, vias The ma- Jority of real Home peaple take but Ittle hn terest in tho Inborod discussions of heavy topics”? Lt ks that class only that ure aces tome to Nght reading that require but little AY any thought to digest that the milseniied heavy? toples do not Interest. Lean hard- ly believe that there are Home people who WHI not think » trifle in order to get the ben- olit of anything that may require & little thought to got the writer's full meant, Emerson Js my ideal and 1 would iike to hear a fow of the many Womelites’ talnion of this great, 1 not the greatest, philosopher the ¢lyiized workt has ever seen. EStunsonran, MISCELLANEOUS, OYSTER PIE, ‘TD the Rdttor af The Chlcago Trisune, Citicago, Oct.24,—Will somvof The Home vonders sive a recipe for making au oysters = ACPROPRIATE TITLE, ‘To tha Eulttor of The Chteayo Tribune, Syoamonn, UL, Oct. 24.—Will you give mo spree to say uo few words to Blne-lyed Stranger in reannl to her idea of firtlng? 1 agroo with her In that it is not @ hoart- breaking business, but would like to avk her if shodocsn'tthink itrather flat and silly? Now, J, Cor one, cau to the conclusion, seine thine aga, that what Is termed as an “tnno- cent filrtatlon” 1s about os fnsipld an ALUsCIENT AS ONE cun easily eigage ln Looking back u tow years iv tho thie when J would sit fory whole evening tn some res mote vornor of 1 batl-roa or atherwige and fealty and say silly, uoantiiess things, and oe elegled nt ant live silly, meainless tiligs sald 4o me ln return, -Lthink: What, afoot L was?! And yet Uthonghe it tun, “ut,” yousay, “twas fnnecent enough?! Well, perhaps ft hin but ‘there’s nothing edifying Jn it—noth! iP to bo Iearned ar ned. Ju this short [te of ours there 1s ho thue ty spare glegiiug aud talking silly, unless there Is something to be gained by 50 doing, “whieh dle same,” L think, is impos- sible, When one has wolldigented his knowledge of bovks and men, he thids Jittls enjoyment outside certain picked copaniols, who cotue nearest to what he thinks people should be ‘The rest fall so fur short of hits ideal that he cares Jittle for thelrcompany. And 60 when ong bovones to feel in this way, the dippance of filrtation crows to be alinost dls- gusting eyes, A good, frank, open in- tyrcoutss between persons Is, I think, far more benecin}, and ean be mado more pleas: rable. Don't you think av, Mlue-Byed Stranger? Youxasren A MINENS LETTER ‘Twthe Editor of The Chieago Tribune. Divine, Mon, Oct. 1.—Whoopt ore wo are right In the midst of ‘The Home! Pard, 1 told you how It would be tf T dared to cross the sacred threshold; here ts Polly, growling atmy snow-shoes; Eugene whis- pering. an aside about’ “long hale’; Chat wanting to know what in the world Lam do- {ng with that horrid revolver and knife tn my belts; Park Hidge offering one of his wife's reelpes for removing candle-grense from clothing; Eat-a-Dit-of-Ple telling Forty Yeara that the “ horrid fellow looks awful hungry; and. only Litile Sister and Melene offering 9 hand of welcome. to a poor scout and miner Just in from the far-away snow-banks of Slon- tam, My dear friends, L did not mean to startle yous Lonly stepped In to thank you for The Tome breeze that warts to me tho murmur of old Michigan's wases, and tho play of the wind through the Cottnge Grove oaks, taklig mo back to my boyhood Polly, did “you know that your adve with the bachelor had thrown 1 six-foot ininer into eouvulsions, ond started tha mountain rats in nf i aA shabby log enbin, a shaky ing cabin, A Jolly lo chin far ont In the West? Migs Ella Wheeler, Pard ond 1 thank you with deen feeling for the utterance of your henrt’s best thoughts. Mave you ever dreamed that they wowd awaken a refrain fn the heart of frients so far away? Tho Home should be proud of a writer who, une Jess our mood be unalterably allen to het OWN, posse: us, pervades us, transfus hor 8: Antin our spirit, and mates us fe wlth her, ‘There tg inher songs a von trated intensity of feeling, n resonant tte trong, yeb with o pathetle anaver in Itwhich thrills nnd smeits tts. As we read we know nob whether we ave most keenly touched by the poem or by the benting of tho pees heart behind it.—by the throb of warm blood in its pulsating Hines. ‘Tho most com- Inonplace man or women, Who has known what it is to love purely and unseliishly, feels that his soul, or her soul, not lesy than the soul of Miss Wheeler, fiuds a voice In these poet i ty , You Tove the good, thetrue, tha Forty Ye beautiful, and only mean to overthrow cant and liypocrisy; bit have you ever thought that your words sometines hurt Ghose who have looked nt closed eyes and dumb ps, and smiled through their tears as they thought My loved one fa not bid in this clay;.sho has : sone * hone,” Aud ‘ts well; for In no better way Ja Hteavon mado tose than thus to take away The very ones whom most our hearts hold dear ‘To nmuko home there us they have mado it bere, Forty Yenrs, if you are not too rheumatic come fo my camp, live on moose nent, cilind with me over the mountains, read the ser mons Jn the stones, and at night as you watel: tho smoke of the campilre curl Into fan- tastic frames for pictures of home and loved! ones you will feel more hearty and henithy, mentally and physleally. Onainust be constantly among the mountains to ap- preciate thelr grandeur and magnitude; It crows upon one insensibly; and if this tg rue of tho created, ty it not equally, true of tho Creator? Well, well; I did not intend to turn this yisit Into a “necting "5 but a home atmosphere atfects one speedily whon thoy have been Jong unaccustomed to it. Sitven Bent, MATRIMONIAL, An Imporial Prince to Wed a Gam-= blor’s Daughter—Four Million Dollars for a Murriage Portion, Paris Correspondence Cineinnats Enquirer, Mile. Marla Blane and Prince Roinnd Bo- napurte will soon be married, Mademoisello isthe second daughter of Mme. Blane that was. ‘The Inte M. Blane, who nsed to ban clerk In tho banking-houso of M. Lafitte, here in Parts, made an iromense fortune en- tively out of tho gnming-tnble at Monneo. When ho took charge of the pince he en- tered Into an agreement with Florestan L, the inte Prince, and afterward with Charles HL, the present Prince, by which he con- trieted to defray all the civil and military expenses incumbent on Monnco,—to pve ‘and light tho atreets, clothe, feed, and pay the standing army of the Principallty, and to allow the Prince himself $150,000 a year. Look fu your Almanac de Gotha and you will find the Prince Charles IL, there among other sovereigns; nnd what matters tif lls standing army consists of only forty men? Certainly they are splendidly dressed InJight blue with searlet facings, are armed with genuing American rifles, and alto- gethor ure not an inconsidorable lot of war- tlorr, Ie wasa liberal man, was tho lato M. Blane; for uot only did he thus SuEaO himself to the soverelgn of Monaco, but he also paid out an enormous stim of money to. settle the debts of the Duke de Valentinols, tho Princo’s helr, on the oceaslon of his mar- tlage with Lady Mary Jlumilton, the Duke ot Hamilton's sister. “The fll-matehed couple were divorced only the othor flay the Pope, fora wonder, consentlug to thelr tinal separ- ation, Aftorward she married an Austrian somebody, to the great Indlenation of Queen ‘Yictorla, who loves her subjects so well that she cannot bear to have ay of them wedded without her express permission. It was so with Lady Mary when: she marred the young Duke, and lf was so when the di- yorced Duchess unrried a Baron, or sone- thing of that. sort, ever in Vienna, It le so now with Lady Burdett-Coutts, whom she ts trylog to prevent marrying Ashmead Bart- le the But Iam getting away from my story. BE Bhine died and has gone where all gainblers go. Opinions differ as to the direction; but 1do not cars to enter inte this branch of the question. He dled werth close on to $40,- 00),0001 But, thon, that is not so much ay ane other celebrated gambler deft behind bin te Keep up the respectability of the funity. M, Benazet, who tied to “boss” the Baden: Baden gombling-tables, died “worth over $00,000,000, Shortly after he had.“ paased In fila checks," so to speak, bis widow went mad and was sent off to’ Clarenton, to the north of Paris, Here she was treated by a young’ assistant physteian, and who completely cured her. ‘Then, like a very good woman should jinve done, she re- varded hin with her hand snd $40,000 1 year, ‘This, of course, proyerl to her rela lives that Mine, Benazet was stl iad, and they naturally went te law about it, Batthe Catirt sustained the widow that wat and ber fusband soon became a: very wealthy man, entered Into Freneh polities on the right side, and is now a Devuty, Mine. Blane has not married again, butshe has been keeping hur weather-eye open foro good husband for her charming daughter, t least 1 suppose she ts charming; the heiress to so vast a fortune can hardly be atherwhse, After the necessary amount of skirmishing, Madwine to Mere settled upon a young nan named Roland Bonaparte, a gol- dler by profession md a Prine by title. There ts some doubl abuut this Jast fact, but then he Is called a Prince, ‘Thy truth of the matter is thias. ‘Twenty-ane years wgo, thatis: to say fn 185Y, Prines Plorre Bonaparts was juformally married before n priest at Morges, In Switzerland, to. Mile. Rinin, a seamstress, ond, by the way, daughter of a Parishin lock= sintth But Napoleon 1G refused to give his consent to this marriage, and, as they were wedded nguinst ily wishes, Une tue rluge was tuvalid In France, Towevor, Prines Merre, huvlug set his heart ou eon- tractlng a legal marriage, repaired In 1868 to Laoulsing, iu the Grand Duchy of Luxen- pourg, and was there uarried by both civil and reliclous rites. This second” marriage, owing to some alleged tregularity in the publication of the bans, was annulled; and everybody has always belleved that 1 wis done at the Tecqueat of the lite Kaperor, Prince Piorre walted until after a certain ine yasion of armed inen trom across tha Rhine hal upset Napolvon's power to annul happy: unions of hearts and hada before he Kot jarred nguin, On the 1th of Novem: ty 1, he was marred regularly at the French Legatlon of | Brussota, and Juimedlately afuarward performed all the Jegal formalities requisit hi France for the recognition of his two clildren. Hencu thoy are now as degitimat ave though thoy had been born in Jawfut wedlock under the French Coda, the law of thls country that when a father recognizes Us offspring as his children by the woman to whom he ius been wurrled, these clildron shall be ace counted legitimate as if they had pean born In wedlock, M. Cabangl. the great paluter, ved with his prpecnt wife twenty odd years before he married her, ‘T a hud ons child, A dattgiter, beauthfal, graceful, and aceom- plished but she was not admitted into the est sucloty., Five yeurs ago Af, and Sime, Cavanel were married, aud thus the: young fady was “recoguteed? by the father, Sho murried a wealthy young ‘stock-broker, and is now ty soclety, fmight mention M, Alox- andre Dumas ay another parson who wus “recognized " by his fader, Asfor Prince Roland Bonaparte, 1 thiak that be basa geod right tothe due uf Prigce, 3 ais Ing doubt Is, i4 soon ta Shun wns, the ener ne ebnse tn Donate sale dnp Uialys and then, Jater on, she palit something like $100,000 for the estate of San Douate iugett with the chatean, whieh she Intends settling on her futures son-ln-lnw. Now the estaty happens to be one of those whieh canter the dle of Trlien on Ita owner, ind this aly douhtas to Roland's right to call himsett a Prince will bo removed. Seo tineh for hig ile, “Lsatd howns by profession a sotdters nud so ho ts, “Lo be sure he ts only a suit Lientenant in aregiment of Infantry: but then all of his feflaw-olltcers spenk well of him, praising bin as an Inhustrlous, Intettie pent nud serviceable soldier, intends resigning after he Is nearricd, Then he will have a fortune of 20,000,000. franesang aclevor wifeto look aftors and, shoutd hn chance neglect tho one, it oes without says ing that Mine, it Princess wonld console hop self by taking a. lover. Tt fs the custom og the country, From what Thear of him, howe ever, he Is 1 splendid fellow, and will hardly leave off his respectable hnbits for worse ones. By tits marrige he wil become the richest member of his family. after Prine Jerome, All the Bonapartes are, by the way, reatly shocked, erat least pretend to be beentise of the forthcoming inarrlage, “They say it Is “porfectly drendful ” that one of thy family should wed the daughter of a nobady, who gulned bis gold by running a roulee shop. "Shey? say, how mean the rest of the world outside, the Napolean cip ele,—that the "family? will bo: very glad to come to Prines Roland te borrow inoney, Apropos of this marrine, [have onty toadd that Mime. Blane hag just ordered her soy AM. Blane, che somewhat celebrated turtuan, toxell ont his stable, and he bs obeying hep Instructions. Society Is agitated over this step, for M. Blane jst popular sportsinan, [¢ is, whispered that this step Is taken fn defer. ence to the wishes of the new son-tn-lay, who Is bitterly opposed to ho pyeaant carried on by the EF Jlub, 1 bollove hg A REMARKABLE SCENE, Why an Elizabeth Poltcoman Took, Ludy and Gentleman to the Policg Sintion, New York Sun. Among the passengers who arrived at Ellzabeth, N.J.,0n Monday evenlng in tne Go'elock tratn from this elty was a tall, well- formed. well-dressed man with a heavy light niustache, nud wearing gold-rlmmed eye glasses, ‘There he was met by we lady tn black, whoin he conducted to a carriage, Then he went to see about his baggage. As he was giving directions about two Into trunks that were tn the bagenge-room, a lnty with a blonds complexion, elegantly dressed, approached hin, saying: " Whero have you been, darling?” The man turned away from her, and then sho becuine very melt exelted. ~ “Why have you deserted me?” she cried with tears in her eyes. “You left meon Weilnestlay as kindly asa liusband could, T have never done anything to disgrace you, Are you golng to leave me und imy child fn, this way 2”? ‘Yhe nian endeavored to walk away, out sho followed him, talking loudly and excitedly, and dveluting that she wonld follow hin. Hihsrever he went; that he could not escapa her, “Co away from here. 1 want nothing to do with you,” said the man, Here Pollec man Ritter interfered at the excited woman's request. “Ho is my husband, officer,” she sald; Lean provelt. I want him to.come home with ime,”” Tho policeman sald that if thoy were hus band and wifs he could not Jutorfere. dust then the mun broke through the throng that surrounded hifi and leaped to the phitform ofn slow movin: train, ‘The woman followed him, and the policeinan followed the Woman, ‘The man Jumped to the ground on the other side uf the train. In following the wonsn allpped, and was in danger of falling with abystatter caught her and saved her from belng thrown under the. whe ‘Shen the pollcomun concluded that it was tine for hia interfere, and he fineisted upon ink fog the two to the police station, ‘Tha man objected, but the woman sald that sha would go anywhere, At the police-statlon they were joined by the woman In black who had first been seen with tho man, ‘The blonde Indy was frantic In her apperls to the man, She declared that he had married her four years ago, after bulng divoread from his first wife; that she could prove it as well ns her own respectable character; and she naned several well-known Now Yorkers in core roboration of her story. Shabecameso much exelted that she fiinted, and a physician wat atunmonedt, Prosecuting-Attorney Kay was summoned by Chief-of-Police Yates, who doubted hls Jirlsdiction in the matter, ‘There was a long eonfcrenco in the Chict’s privateottice, after which the man and the Indy In binck went to an obsctire hotel and passed the night, and the blonde lady was escorted to. this clty by the Chief of Poltes nnd one of his men. 11s widerstood that the lady in black: was mars ried to the man several years ago, and Is tho daughter of one of the best-known and wealthiest manufacturers of this clty. $< Mr. 1, Selm, South Adnws, Mass., writes asfollows; Ideen It tay caty to Inform you how iuch good the Hamburg Drops have done ine. 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