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The author may be consatted upon any of the disease? upon whieh his books treat either person ally or by a ail. and medicine?sent to any part ol he" world. dec23wp BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20. 1870. Jit? sdford ©ilgfttf si) IN TIIE CLOSET. A STORY FOR WIVES. "Bedlam let loose! Pandemonium in rebellion ! Chaos turned inside out! — What i- the reason a mart cannot be al lowed to sleep in the morning without this everlasting racket rai-ed a I.tout his ears ? Children crying— door slam ming—l will know the reason of this uproar." Mr. Luke Darcj shut the door of bis bedroom with consideiable emphasis, and went straight to the breakfast par lor. All was bright and quiet and pleasant tilerc ; the coal snapping and sparkling in the grate, the china and silver neat ly arranged on the spotless datnask cloth, and the green parrot drowsily winking hi- yellow eyes in the sunny glow of the eastern window—Bedlam plainly wasn't located just there, and Mr. Party went stormingly up stairs t > the nursery. Ah ! the field of battle was reached at last. Mrs. Darey sat iu her little low chair before the fire, trying to qui et the - reams of an eight month's old baby, scion of the house of Darey, while another—a rosy boy of five years —lay on his back, prone on the floor; kicking and crying in an ungovernable fit ofchildish passion. "Mrs. Darey!"enunciated Luke, with a slow and ominous precision, "may I enquire what all thi- mean-V Are you aware that it is fifteen minutes ia-t nine o'clock? Do you know break fa-t i- waiting?" "I know, Luke—l know," said poor perplexed Mrs. Darey, striving vainly to lift the rebellious urchin up by one arm. "Come Freddy, you are going to be good now, mamma is sure, and get up and be washed." "Xo-o-o!" roared Master Freddy, performing a brisk tattoo on the ear pet with his heels, and clawing the air furiously. Like an avenging vulture, Mr. Dar ey pounced abruptly down on his son and heir; carried him promptly to the closet, and turned the key upon his screams. "Now, -ir, you can cry out at your liesure. Evelyn is waiting for the baby, we'll go down to break fast." "Bui, Luke," hesitated Mrs. Darey, "you won't leave Freddy there?" "Won't! I'd like to know why not? It's temper, nothing else, that is at the bottom of all these demonstrations, and I'll conquer that temper or I :1 know the reason why. It ought to have been checked long ago; but you are so ridiculously indulgent. There i- nothing I have so little tolerance for a- a bad temper—nothing that ought to be so promptly and severely dealt with." "But, if he'll say he is sorry, Luke?" Mr. Darey wrapped sharply at the panel- of the door. "Are you sorry for you naughtiness, young man ?" A fre-h outburst of screams and a re newal of the tattoo was the answer. "I am sure he is sorry, Luke," plead ed the all-extenuating mother, but Mr. Darey shook his head. "Entire submission is the only thing I will listen to," he -aid -hortly. "I tell you, Evelyn, lam determined to uproot this temper." Evelyn, with a dewy moisture sha dowing her eyelashes, and a dull ache at iter heart, followed her liege lord down to the breakfast table with as little appetite for the coffee, toast and eggs as might lie. A tall, blue-eyed young lady, with a profusion of bright chestnut hair, and cheeks like rose velvet, was already at the table when they descended, by name Clara Pruvn, by lienage Mrs. Darey'- sister. She opened her blue eves rather wide as the two entered. '•Gooti gracious, Evy, what's tha matter?" "Nothing," answered I.uke, tartly. "Mrs. Darey, you appear to forget that I have eaten no breakfast." "Something is the matter, tliough," said Clara, shrewdly. "What is it, Evelyn? Hat? Juke had one of hi tantrums?" Luke sat down his cofFee with a sharp click. "Y'ou use very peculiar expression-, Mis- Pruyn." "Very true ones," -aid C'lara, sauci iy- Evelyn smiled iu spite of herself. "Its only our Frec'dy who feels a lit tle cross, and—" "A little cross," interrupted the in dignant husband. "I tell you, Evelyn, it's quite time that temper was check ed. Oh, that parrot! what an intoler ant screeching it keeps up! Mary take him into the kitchen, or I shall lie temp ted to wring his neck. Strange that a man can't have a little peace once in a while! What ail- these eggs, Evelyn? I thought 1 had asked you to see that they were boih-d fit for christians to eat?' Mr. Darey gave his egg, shell and all, a vindictive throw upon the grate. Evelyn's brown eyes spark led danger ously as she observed the maneuver, but she made no remark. 'And the plates are ids cold as a stone, when I've implored again and again that they might be warmed. Weil, I shall eat no breakfast this morning.' 'Whom will you punish most?' de manded Miss Clara. 'Evelyn give me another cop of coffee; its perfectly de lightful.' Luke pushed his chair back with a vengeance, and took his stand with his back to the fire, both hands under his coat tails. 'l'leasfcsir,' said the servant depreca tiugly ; 'the ga bill—the man says will you settle it while—" ( 'No!' roared Luke tempestou-iy. i 'Tell the man to go about his business. I'll have no small bil's this morning, I won't beso persecuted !' Mary retreated fpcrtij ilately. Clara raised her long brown eyes. 'Do you know, Luke; she said de murely, 'I think you would feel a great deal better if you would do just as Freddy does—lie flat down on the floor and kick your heels against the carpet for awhile. Its au excellent escape valve when your eholer gets the better of you.' Luke gave hi- mischievous sister-in law a glance that ought certainly have annihilated her, and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him with a bang that would bear no inter pretation. Then Clara came round to her sister and buried her pink face in Evelyn's neck. 'Don't scold me, Evy,please— I know I hove been very naughty to tease Luke so?' •You have spoken nothing but the truth,' said Evelyn quietly, with her coral lips compressed, and a scarlet sj>ot burning on either cheek, 'Clara I sometimes wonder how I can endure the daily cross of uiv husband's tem per.' •Temper!' said Clara, with a toss of her chestnLt brown hair. 'And the poor dear fellow hasn't the least idea how disagreeable he makes himself.' 'Only this morning,' said Evelyn, 'he punished Freddy with unrelenting severity for a fit of ill humor which he himself has duplicated within the last half hour. I am not a moraiist, but it strikes me that the fault is rath er to be censured in a full grown, rea soning man than in a child.' 'Evelyn,' said Clara gravely,' 'do you suppose he is beyond the power of cure ?' 'I hope not; but wh u can I do? — him up as he -hut littte Freddy?' Evelyn's merry, irresistible laugh was checked by the arch, peculiar ex pressioa in Clara's blue eyes. 'The remedy need- to be something short and -harp,' said Clara, 'and the dark closet system certainly combines both requisites. Tear- and hysterics were played out long ago in matrimo nial skirmishes, you know, Evy.' "Nonsense!" laughed Mrs. Darey, rising from the breakfast table in obe dience to her husband's peremtory summons from above stairs, while Clara shrugged her shoulders and went to look for her work-basket. Luke was standing in front of his bureau drawer, flinging :-hirts, collar-, cravats and stockings reckie— Iv upon the bed room floor. "I'd like to know where my silk handkerchiefs are, Mrs. Darey?" he fumed. "Such a -late as my brain is in, is enough to drive a man crazy!" "It'senougb to drive a woman crazy, I think!" said Evelyn, hopelessly, stooping to pick up a few of thescatter ed articles. "You were at the bureau last. Luke, it is your own fault." "My fault—of course it's my fault!" snarled Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy's poodle a kick that sent it howling to itsmisstress. "Anythingbuta woman's retorting, recriminating tongue. Mrs. Darcy, 1 won't endure it any longer." "Neith r will I !" said Evelyn, res olutely advancing, us her husband plunged into the el -et for his busines coat, and promptly shutting and locking the do >r. "I think I've en dured it quite long enough—and here is an end of it." "Mrs. Darcy, open the door," said Luke, scarcely able to credit the evi dence of his own senses. "I shall do no such thing," said Mrs. Darcy, composedly beginning to re arrange shirts, stockings and flannel wrapjiers in their appropriate recep tacles. "Mrs. Darcy," roared Luke, at a feaver heat of impotent r jge, "what on earth do you mean !" "I mean to beep you in the clothes press, Mr. Darcy, until you have made up your mind to come out in a more amiable frame of mind. If the system succeeds with Freddy, it certainly ought to with you : and I am sureyour temper is much more intolerable than his." There was a dead silence of full sixty seconds in the closet, then a sudden burst of vocal wrath. "Mrs. Darcy, open the door tins in stant. madam." But Evelyn went on humming a sau cy little opera air, and arranging her clot hes. "Do you hear me?" "Yes—l hear you." "Will you obey me!" "Not until you have solemnly prom - ised me to put some sort of control on that temper of yours; not until you pledge yourself hereafter to treat your wife as a lady should be treated : not as a menial." "I won't." "No! Then in that case I hope you don't find the atmosphere at all op pressive there, as I think it probable you will remain there some time." Another sixty seconds of dead si lence, then a sudden rain of heels and hands against the relentless wooden panels. "Let me out, I say, Mrs. Darcy!— Madam, how dare you perpetrate this monstrous piece of audacity ?" "My dear Luke, how strongly you do remind me of Freddy. You see tiu-re is nothing I have so little toler ance for as a had temper. It ought to j have been cheeked long ago, only you know Tin so ridiculously indulgent." Mr. Darcy winced a little at the fa miliar sound ol his own words. Tap-tap-tap came softly to the door. Mrs. Darcy, composedly opened it, and -aw her husband's little office boy. "Pleas, ma'am, there's some gentle men at the office in a great hurry to j see Mr. Darcy. It'saloiit the Apple gate will cast-." Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant; j there was a triumphant rustle in the closet, ami her determination was taken. "Tell the gentlemen that your mas ter ha- a bad headache, and won't be down town this morning." Luke gnashed his teeth audibly, as soon as the closing of the door admon ished him that he might do so with safety. "Mrs. Darcy, do you presume to in terfere with the transaction of business that is vitally important, ma'am, vitally important?" Mrs. Darcy nonchalantly took up the little opera air where she had left it, letting the soft Italian words ripple mutually off her tongue. 'Evelyn, dear!' 'What is it. Luke,'she asked mildly. 'Please let tne out. My dear, this may be a joke to you, but—' '1 assure you, Luke, it's nothing of the kind; it'.- the soberest of serious matters to me. It is a question as to whether my furure life shall be mis erable or happy." There was a third interval of silence. 'Evelyn,' said Luke, presently, in a subdued voice, 'will you open the door ?' 'On one condition only.' 'And what is that?' 'Ah, ah !' thought the little lieuten ant general, 'he's beginning to enter tain terms ofcajntulation, i? lie? On condition,'she added aloud, 'that you will break yourst-lf of the habit of speaking crossly to me, and on all oc casion.- keep your temper.' 'My temper, indeed!' sputtered Luke. •Just your temper,' returned his wife, serenely. 'Will you promise?' 'Never, ma'am!' Mrs. Darcy quietly took up a pair of hose that required mending, and pre paired to leave the apartment. As the door creaked on its hinges, how ever, a voice came shriiiv through the oppo-ite keyhole. 'Mr>. Darcy Evelyn! wife!' 'Yes.' 'You are not going down -tairs to leave me in this place?' 'I am.' 'Well, look here—l promise ail and everything that you require—con found it all !' Wisely deaf to the muttered sequel, Mrs. Darcy opened the door and Luke slalked out, looking right over the top of her shining brown hair. Suddenly a little detaining hand was laid on his coat sleeve. •Luke, dear !' 'Well?' 'Won't you give me a kiss? And Mrs. Darcy burst out crying on her husband's shoulder. "Wellejaculated thepuzzled Luke, 'if you aren't the greatest enigma go ing. A kiss? Yes, a half dozen of 'em if you want, you kindhearud little turnkey. Do not cry, pet, I'm not angry with you, although I sup pose I ought to be.' 'And may I let Freddy out?" •Yes. on the same terms that his papa was released. Evelyn, was I very intolerable ?' 'lf you hadn't been, Luke, I never -hould have ventured on -uch a vio lent remedy.' 'Did I atakeyou very unhappy?' •Very'. And the gush of warm, sparkling tear? supplied a dictionary full of words. Luke Darcy buttoned up his over coat, put on his hat, shouldered his umbrella, and went upon the new state of affairs that had presented it self for hi- consideration. 'Bv Jove,' he ejaculated, 'that little wife of mine is a bold woman and a plucky one.' And thus lie burst out laughing on the steps. It is more than probable that he left his stock of bad temper in the iaw buildings that day, for Evelyn and Clara never saw any more of it ; and Freddy i- daily getting the be-t of the peppery element in his infantile di— position. Men, after all, are hut children of a larger growth; and so Mrs. Evelyn Darcy had reasoned. A VOOI) STORY. "Gas," writing to the Cincinnati &'!- selle, say: Here is a little story for you. It happened at the L'tiea re-tauram. A man entered the other day and called for a dinner. His orders were of the most elaborate character, and fairly staggered the resources of even a Uti ca restaurant keeper. He lingered long at the table, and finally wound up with a bottle of wine. Then lighting a cigar h" had ordered, leisurely saun tered up to the counter and said to the proprietor : "Very fine dinner, landlord; ju-t charge it to me, I haven't got a cent." "i_ut I don't know you," said the proprietor indignantly. 'Of course you don't. If you had, you would't let me have the dinner." "Pay me for the diucer, I say!" "And I say I can't. Havne't got the blunt." "I'll see about that," said the pro prietor, - omewhat furious at tie "bilk." Tnen he snatched a revolver out of a drawer and leaped over the counter, collared the man, exclaiming, as he pointed it at his head, "Now see if you will get away with that dinner without paying for it, you scoundrel." "What is that you hold in your hand?" said the getter away with free dinners, drawing back. "That, sir, is a revolver, sir." "Oil, that's a revolver, i> it? I dv n't care a d—n for a revolver, I thought it tau u stomach pump The Indians of the Grand Itiver a gency ask of the "Gnat FJ. ITR" IT Washington, tli^ privilege ol provid ing for the family of the late Major C. E. Gal pin, their interpreter, whom they had learned to love:: .1 considtr as a chief. THE ROY WITH NTKONb .VEUVES. When Jack Bolby first came to New ton school he found all the boys iu such a state of excitement that his arrival as a new scholar was hardly noticed.— Jack had never been to boarding-school before, and, of course, did not see any thing strange in the fact that the other boys left him to himself; nor would he haveev?r found out it was unusual if Tom Finch had not told him so, the evening after his arrival. Tom was i Jack'-: cou-in, and a- soon as he could getaway from his classes he came to give Jack welcome, and help him ar range his room. "What! this?" This was the exclamation uttered by Tom as he crossed the threshold of Jack's chamber and looked around with consternation on his face. , "What's the matter, Tom?" asked Jack, in surprise. "Matter?" cried Tom, "Do you mean to say that this is the room they've given you?" "Yes." "Whe-e-e e-e e-e-e-ew!" "What in the world's the matter ? What are you whistling abou ?" "O—nothing !—it's nothing—only— I was thinking—that they would give you another one, somewhere else." Tom stammered and hesitated while saying this, but Jack did not remark it. "Well, it's not a bad room," said he; "I'm glad I have so good a one." Tom had to leave pretty early, and promised, as he left the room, to be back on the following evening. On the next evening, as they sat at supper. T o*n suddenly changed the conversation with— "O, Jack, I forgot to ask you how you slept last night." ' Sound as a top," said Jack. I "Hern! Didn't you hear any—any ' disturbance ?" "No." "No noises?" "My dear Tom, I was so far away in tiie iand of Nod, that no sounds, from this world could reach me." "And you like the room still?" "The room ? Like it ? Of course I do. It's a first-rate room. But ex plain what all this means. You have a peculiar look whenever you speak a bout that room. What's the matter with it ? Has any one died there with the small pox ?" "No." "Well, what's the matter with it?" "O, never wind." "But I want to know." "I'll tell you sometime." *• Why not now?" "There's no necessity. I'd rather not. I'll tell you in a week or so. if you wish: bat you won't need trie to teii you. You'll find out soon enough yourself." Several hours passed, and Tom was in Jack"s room, telling a ridiculous story ah >ut one of the boys, when sud denly he stopped short, and stared at Jack, with his face ghastly white. "Why. Tom," cried in the world ia the matter with you? You look—" "Didn't you hear it?" gasped Tom, in a scarcely audible voice. "Hear if?" "Yes—the—the—there it is again. O, f can't stand it 1" "You are crazy?" cried Jack, start ing up, and going over to his cousin. You're as pale as death. What's the matter?" "It is there!" He shuddered. "Now I'll be blowed if I can make you out at all. What do you mean ?" cried Jack. "As he spoke, there came a dull, low s >und, like a foot's 11 overhead, rather indistinct, but regular,- like some one walking wi ha muffled tread. Over Jack's room was al. -ge, unfinished garret, ex ending the u. note length of the building, and Jack at once thought that some of the hoys were up there. "Tom's condition now was really a larming. "There, there —that is it— that is it!" he cried, and as he spoke, a low sigh came to Jack's ears. "What! that?" cried Jack. "I>o you mean to say that you're afraid of that? You are crazy. It Is only some one walking in the garret inhissiip p rs, or in his -tocking feet. I hear the wind, too, blowing about the place. Are you such a fool, Tom, as to be a fraid of that ? ' "O, you don't know—you don't know," said Tom. 'Well, I \till know precious stain.' said Jack; and seizing a lamp, he strode toward the door. 'Come along, Tom.' But Tom didn't move. 'Will you come and see for yourself?' said Jack. 'I wouldn't go up there for the world ; nor would any of the boys.— Jack there's a horror up there. None of the boys dare stay in the room. I wouldn't. You stay here because you don't know; but you'll leave it soou c nough. There is something up there; we often hear it; and it is in this room that it sounds the worst. It's a mys terious walk of something. You hear a foot-fall, and a sigh, as one in paiu On stormy nights, it is horrible. Dr. Pendergra-t cannot make it out at all. None ot the teachers can They've tri fe 1 to reason us out of fear, but they art afraid themselves The last boy we put in this rc nil rushed out at mid night, almost frightened, to death, You were put in hove because you were a new boy. lr. Pendergrast wouldn't sieep here himself, i know.' All lhi> Tom poured forth in asligiit iv incoherent manner, and concluded by entretting Jack to leave tho room at once, and pass the night with him. Jack heard him through with a look of wonder. 'Well, I declare!' he exclaimed.— 'What a set! 'Pon my word, I never would have believed all this of you if ( VOL. GS.—WHOLE No. 3.5 51 you hadn't told me with your own lijs. You tall* like a school-girl of six; and you seem to take me f< raha - by. A ghost! ah, ah, ah! What ret and rubbish! And then to find a whole school going mad after it! O, Tom ! j Tom! 1 wouldn't have thought this of you. Come, shake yourself, and be a man. Come up with me, now." Tom shook his head. 'Well,' -aid Jack, 'l'll have to go a lone, and you must feel ashamed of yourself. Come.' 'No!' said Tom, with a downcast face. *O, Tom ! Have you no pride? Will you let me stand here, and dare you to follow me ?" 'Jack, it's madness.' 'Pooh !' .-aid Jack; and, without an other word, he left the room, and walked along the hall to where the staircase ran up to the garret. Tom looked after him, and seemed, at one time, gathering up his courage to fol low. He even took one step forward ; but at that moment there came from above a heavier sound, like a heavier, firmer foot-fall, and a long shrill sigh resounded through the whole hall. It froze the very blood in his veins. He shrank back ; and instead of following Jack, he ran down stairs in terror. But no sooner had he reached the lower floor than he felt a pang of in tolerable shame. He bad deserted his fiiend and left him to encounter that mysterious fate. Yet, what could he do? He dared not go back. But something must be done. So he went to some friend* and told them what Jack was doing. The tidings created an immense *