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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 (
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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 *<n
ration. It -preid from one to ttte oth
er, till, finally the whole school had
learned that the new hoy had gone it
lone to the garret to face the gho-t.
At first they gathered in the lower
hall listening.
There was no sound.
Then some of the bol ."er ones ven
tured into the second story. Thepres
enee of the whole school stimulated
them to this unparalleled feat of har
dihood.
•Still there was no sound.
They waited some time, and at last
Torn found courage enough to venture
up to the top of the stair- leading to
the third story, in company with
three or four others, while ail the re?t
crowded into the staircase, listening
and watching.
At fir.-t they heard nothing ; but at
la-t, amid deathly stillness, they heard
a sliding noise, of a mysterious charac
ter, then a long, low sigh, which grew
louder and louder till it seemed to
come close to them, and die aw ,y in a
sharp wail. Then, immediately there
came that mutfled tread—tramp—tramp
tramp; measured solemn, awful! and
their hearts stopped beating, while all
shrank back.
But suddenly there came another
sound.
It was another footfall!
Tramp—tramp—tramp—it sounded,
and the step was firm, and solid, and
loud ; and it seemed as though the
footfalls went side by side; as though
two were walking there, where only
one had walked before. What was it?
Who was it? What had become of
Jack ? As the second sound arose, a
rush of superstitious terror earr.e over
them and they shrank back down the
stairway, back into the lower hall,
gathering into a pale crowd, and lis
tening to the awful sounds.
But there suddenly came a loud cry.
'Tom! Hallo-o-o-o-o! Tom Finch!
To-o-o-o-o o o-om ! Halio-o-o-o-o-o !'
It was not the voice of a ghost. It
was not the cry of fear. It was the
strong, healthy, cheery voice of Jack
Bolby himself.
Instantly the crowd gave a stait, af
ter which they made a wild rush for
ward, and up the stairs into ttie thiol
story, and up auother stairway into
the garret. Tom was the first up, but
a great crowd was following closely at
his heels-
They saw Jack in the middle of the
garret with a lamp in his hand, star
ing at them. As he looked a smile
came over his face, which ended in a
merry peal of laughter.
Now at that very moment, there
sounded thoghost's footfall, and a Jong
sigh, but somehow or other the sound
| of Jack's laugh and the sight of his
face took away all fear; and that which
a moment before might have made
them almost die with horror, now be
gan to assume the character of a thing
that might be ludicrous.
'What! you're all here,' said Jack.
'That's right. I've found the gho-d.
Come here,' said he, and he led the
way to the window at the end of the
garret, which he had opened. Now
listen. There doycu hear it ? The foot
fall is tiio rap, rap, rap, of the lines
gainst the flagstaff, fastened at the end
of the hou-e, ust overhead; and I con
fess it sounds exactly like some one
walking. As to the sigh, it is only the
wind in this long garret.
All was plain. The ghost was laid
aud Jack gained no end of renown.—
Youth's Companion.
Mr. Beecher's annual auction of
choice reserved seats in Plymouth
Church came off the other night in the
Church. Mr. Beecher encouraged the
sale by his presence. The bidding was
quite spirited. Mr. Gage carried off
the best seat which is near to the stage
and orchestra, paying $615 then for, in
cluding the annual rent. Mr. Bow en
of the Independent, and Mr. Claflin, the
dry goods prince paid respectfully $490
and for the next best selections.
The net sum realized was larger 1 than
in any previous year, ami shows that
Mr. B -coher's attractiveness as a "star"'
preacher has not declined.
The Governor of Colorado, in his
message to the Legislature, recom
mends the establishment of female
| suffrage.