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The Farmer's Wife.
The farmer came In from the field one day ;
His languid step and his weary way,
HIb bended brow, his sinewy hand.
All showed his work for the good of the land :
For he sows, sows, sows.
For he hoes, hoes, hoes.
And he mows, mows, mows,
All for the good of the land.
By the kitchen fire stood his patient wife,
Ught of his home and Joy of his life.
"With face all aglow, and busy hand
Preparing the meal for her household band.
For she must broil, broil, broil,
And she must boll, boil, boil,
And she must toll, toil, toll,
All for the good of the home.
The bright sun shines when the farmer goes
out.
The birds sing sweet songs, lambs frisk
about;
The brook babbles softly In the glen
"While ho works so bravely for the good of
the men;
For he sows, sows, sows.
For he mows, mows, mows,
And ho hoes, hoes, hoes.
All for the good of the land.
How briskly the wife steps about within,
The dishes to wash, the milk to skim ;
The Are goes out, the flies buzz about;
For the dear ones at homo her heart is kept
stout.
There are pies to make, make, make,
There Is bread to bake, bake, bake,
And steps to take, take, take.
All for the sake of the home.
"When the day Is o'er and evening has come.
The creatures are fed, the milking done,
He takes his rest 'neath the old shade-tree.
From the labor of tho land his thoughts are
free;
Though he sows, sows, sows,
And he hoes, hoes, hoes.
And ho mows, mows, mows.
He rests from the work of the land.
But the faithful wife, from sun to sun.
Takes her burden up that's never done ;
There is no rest, there is no play,
For the good of her house shemust work
away:
For to mend tho frock, frock, frock.
For to knit the sock, sock, sock.
And the cradle to rock, rock, rock.
All for the good of the home.
"When tho autumn Is here, with Its chilling
blast,
Tho farmer gathers his crops at last;
His barns are full, his fields are bare;
For the good of the land he ne'er hath care:
While it blows, blows, blows,
And It snows, snows, snows,
Till winter goes, goes, goes.
He rests from the work of the land.
But the willing wife, till life's closing day.
Zs the children's guide, the husbatd's stay
From day to day she has done her best,
Until death alone can give her rest:
For after the test, test, test.
Comes the rest, rest," rest.
"With the blest, blest, blest.
In the Father's heavenly home.
fingers off before I should gfvo it up.
Went to England no better there;
came within an ace of jumping off
London bridge. Went into a shop to
earn money enough to come home
with ; there I met the man I wanted.
To make a"long story short, I've
brought 30.000 home with me, and
here lam."
"Good for you !" I exclaimed.
"Yes," aid he, "30.000 pounds;
and the best of it is, she don't know
anything about it. I've fooled her so
often, and disappointed her so much,
that I just concluded I would say
nothing about thie. When I got my
mnnev. though, vou better believe I
struck u bee line for home."
"And now you will make her hap
py," said I.
"Happy?" he replied, "why, you
don't know anything about it. She's
worked like a dog while I've been
gone, trying to support herself and
the children decently. They paid ber
thirteen cents a piece for making
coarse shirts; and that's the way she
has lived half the time. She'lljcome
down there to the depot to meet me
in a gingham dress, and a shawl a
hundred years old, and she'll think
she is dressed up. Oh, she won't
have no clothes after this oh, no, I
guess not!"
And with these words, which im
plied that his wife's wardrobe would
soon rival Queen Victoria's, the stran
ger toro down the passage way again,
and getting in his old corner, where
he thought himself out of sight, went
through the strangest pantomime,
laughing, putting his mouth into the
drollest shapes, and then swinging
himself back and forth In the limited
space, as if he were "walking down
An Inside Ticir of Louisiana Politics.
HOW HIS SHIP CAME IX.
An AffectinglStory of; Struggle, Pa
tience and Triumph.
I ran across what first struck me as
n very singular genius on my road
from Springfield to Boston. This
was a stout, black-whiskered man,
who eat immediately In front of me,
nnd who indulged, from time to time.
In the most strange and unaccounta
ble manoeuvres. Every now and then
he would get up and hurry away to
the narrow passage that leads to the
door in these drawing room cars, and
when he thought himself secure from
observation, would fall to laughing in
the most violent manner, and confin
es the healthful exercise until he was
as red in the face as a lobBter.
As we neared Boston these demon
strations inoreased in violence, save
the stranger no longer rau away to
laugh, but kept his seat and chuckled
to himself, with his chin deep down
in his shirt collar. But the changee
that those portmanteaus underwent!
He moved them here, there, every
where; he put them behind him, In
front of him, on each side of him.
He waB evidently getting ready to
leave, but, as we were yet twenty-five
miles from Boston, tho Idea of such
early preparations were ridiculous.
If we had entered the city then, the
mystery would remain unsolved, but
thestranger at last became so excited
that he could keep his seat no longer.
Some one must help him, and as I
was the nearest he selected me. Sud
denly turning, as if I bad asked a
question, he said, rocking himself to
and fro in his chair the meantime,
and slapping his legs, and breathing
hard,
"'Been'gone three years!"
"Ah!"
"Yes, been in Europe. Folks don't
expect me for six months yet, but I
got through and started. I telegraph
ed them at the last station ; they've
got it by this time."
As he said this he changed the port
manteau on his left to his right, and
on the right to the left again.
"Got a wife?" said I.
"Yes, and three children," he re
turned, and he got up and folded his
overooat anew, and hung it over the
back of the Beat.
"Yon are pretty nervous over the
matter, alnt you?" I Bald, watching
his fidgety movements.
"Well, I Bhould think so," he re
plied; "I halnt slept soundly for a
week. And do you know, ' ho went
on, glancing around at the passengers
and speaking in a low tone, "I am al
most certain this train will run off
the track and break my neck before I
get to BoBton. Well, the fact is, I
have had too much good luok for one
man lately. The thing can't last;
'taint n iral that It should.
Broadway," a full-rigged metropoli
tan belle. And so on till we rolled
into the depot, and I plaoed myself
on the other car, opposite the stran
ger, who, with a portmanteau In each
hand, had descended and was stand
ing on the lowest step, ready to jump
to the platform. I looked from his
face to the faces of the people before
us, but saw no sign of recognition.
Suddenly he cried, "There they
are,' and laughed outright, but in a
hysterical sort of a way, as he looked
over the crowd. I followed his eyes
and saw some distance back, as If
orowded out, shouldered away by the
well dressed and elbowing throng, a
little woman In a faded dress and
well-worn hat, with a face almost
painful In its intense but hopeless ex
pression, glancing rapidly from win
dow to window asjthe coaches glided
in. She had not yet seen the stran
ger; but a moment after she caught
his eye, and In another instant he
had jumped to the platform with his
two portmanteaus ; and making a
hole in the crowd, pushing one here
and there, and running one of his
bundles plump Into the well devel
oped stomach of a venerable looking
old gentleman in spectacles, he rush
ed toward the place where she was
standing. I think I never saw a face
assume bo many different expressions
in so short a time as did that of the
little woman while her husband wa3
on his way to her. She didn't look
pretty. On the contrary she looked
very plain, but someway I felt a big
lump rise in my throat as I watched
her. She was trying to laugh ; but
God blesB her, how completely she
failed In the attempt! Her mouth
got into the position, but it never
moved after that, save to draw down
the oorners and quiver, while she
blinked her eyes so fast that I suppose
she only caught occasional glimpses
of tho broad shouldered fellow who
elbowed his way toward her. And
then, as he drew close and dropped
those everlasting portmanteaus, she
just turned completely round, with
her back toward him, and completely
covered her face with her hands.
And thus she was when the strong
man gathered her up in his arms as if
she had been a baby, and held her
sobbing to his breast. There was
enough gaping at them, heaven
knows, and I turned my eyes away a
moment, and then I saw two boys in
threadbare roundabouts standing
near, wiping their eyes and noses on
their coat sleeves, and bursting out
anew at every fresh demonstration on
the part of their mother. When I
looked at the stranger again he had
his hat drawn over hiB eyeB; but his
wife was looking up at him, and it
seemed as If the pent up tears of those
weary months of waiting were stream
ing through ber eyelids. .
To tho Editor ot the Inter Ocean.
JNew Orleans, La., Dec. 12, 187G.
Your telegrams from Louisiana have
long since informed your readers how
the White League Reformers tried to
buy an electoral vote forTilden. But
much more yet remains to bo told.
Other electors besides those mention
ed were offered bribes. Tooneof them
tho agent of Reform said: "You can
visit the bank and see the gold if you
doubt the reality of our offer. With
thatsumyou can go to Europe and live
there. It will make no difference
there to you what is said or done
her."
Jf Jt be true, as some assert, that
"every man has his price" then the
Republican electors must value'them
selves very highly, tor not one of tiie
whole number could be bought for the
prioe which the champions of Reform
and Honesty offered them.
When we reflect that the electors
were selected without any special care
or inquiry and that no legal penalty
would be inflicted if they vote for
Tilden instead of Hayes, and then con
eider the immense bribe offered, the
result speaks well for the honesty of
Republicans everywhere. Some to
whom these offers were made are poor
men, who have devoted many years
of the best part of their live9 to the
support of the party, without receiv
ing the recognition and reward due
their services yet they could not be
tempted to betray their trust. Dem
ocrats call themselves tho party of re
form, and denounoo Republicans as
the party of plunder, yet we find
the self-styled party of reform offering
bribes and the party of plunder refus
ing to take them. The true name of the
Democracy of Louisiana is, "The Par
ty of Murder and Perjury."
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Recently a young man was driving
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when the linch-pin of the wagon
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rolling a barrel of cider upon him, and
breaking hia leg in two places. In
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A Wreck of a Man.
you
Know. I've watched it. First it
rains, then it shines, then it rains
again. Ii rains so hard you think It's
never going to stop : then it shines eo
bright you think it's always going to
shine; and just as you're settled in
either belief, you are knocked over
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the only thing that makes me think
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think I won't."
"Well, that Is curious," said I.
"Yes," he said. "I'm a machinist
made a discovery nobody believes
in ft; spentall my money trying to
bring it out mortgaged my home
all went. .Everybody laughed at me
everybody but my wife spunky
IJttle woman she would work her
What wreck is so shocking to be
hold as the wreck of a dissolute man
the vigor of life exhausted, and yet
the first steps In an honorable career
not taken In himself a lazar-houeo of
disease, dead, but, by a heathenish
custom of society, not buried !
Rogues have had the Initial letters
of their title burnt into the palms of
their hands even for murder. Cain
was only branded on tho forehead ;
but over the whole person of the de
bauchee or the inebriate, the signa
tures of infamy ar written. How na
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probrium ! How she hangs labels all
over to testify her .disgust at his exist
ence, and to admonish others to be
ware of his example! How she loos
ens all his joints, sends tremors along
the muscles, and bends forward his
frame, as if to bring him upon all
fours, with kindred brutes, or to de
grade him to the reptile's crawling !
How she disfigures his countenance,
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swear that she never made him! How
she pours rheum over his eyes, sends
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pore of his body, "Behold a beast !"
-ft. Y. Varieties.
John Morley says tho very best
thing he can think of as happening to
a young man is, that he should have
been educated at a day school in his
own town ; that he should have op
portunities also of following the high
er education In his own town ; and
that at the earliest convenient time.
he should be taught to earn his own
living.
Dr. Allen Thompson, at the recent
meeting of the British Association,
exhibited and described two skullB
from the Adamite Isles, and referred
to the custom the natives had of pre
serving portions of their friends' skel
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The skulls of their husbands were ac
tually worn upon the shoulders of
widows.
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political muddle, because as she says,
"there is for once, a terrible muss,
with no woman in it to lay the blame
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