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VOL. 58.
Silent Partners.
'•Don't you ever speak to me again,"
said Mrs. Benton, "and I will never
speak to you from this hour on."
John Benton and his wife Mary had
been married neaiiy a quarter of a cen
tury at l lie time of tuis violent out
break, and had hitherto been active
and talkative inatrimooal partners.
They lived in the country upon their
own little farm, and though they had
not always held the most absolute har
mony of opinion, their devotion to each
other and their unity upon all the es
sential matters of life were undisputed.
It was only in the infinitesimal objects
of life that they clashed. Tlioy had,
together,met and surmounted great ob
stacles in their common path, but they
removed rocks only to stumble over a
pebble. They had, united, hewn their
way through an almost interminable
forest of difficulties, to be stopped in
their onward career by some insignifi
cant bramble of contention. They had
safely stemmed the flood of adversity,
yet were occasionally almost overcome
by some petty stream of wrangling
that flowed from the lips of either.
And finally the contemptible little riv
ulets that had beeu constantly trickling
for so many years in so many different
ways had seemingly met to form a
great vortex in which they were doom
ed to be swallowed up. Those hither
to active and voluble tongues were a
bout to rust in idleness, at least at
home. They were resolved to become
heuceforth Silent Partners.
John Benton accepted the situation
without replying, for what was there
to be said ? Had lie not been com
manded to refrain forever from speak
ing to his wife ?"
The first night of the self-enforced
sileDce in the Benton cottage was awk
ward. The usual curtain lecture was
omitted, and such a death like,desolate
stillness prevailed that sleep was out of
the question. About midnight the aw
ful silence had so worked upon the
nerves of John Benton that unable to
endure it longer, be arose, and going
down-stairs.soon returned with the old
which wis not only a loud tick
er, but also a cheerful striker. He
must have something foi company
that would appeal to his sense of hear
ing, or perish with loneliness. John
started and stopped as be was about
to place this new companion upon the
bureau ; he thought he heard a sound
proceed from under the bed-coverings
not unlike a smothered laugh.
The morrow brought its tribulations,
following one another iu close and an
noying succession. Mrs. Benton, find
ing the situation too irksome to be
borne without some new excitement
to replace the lost art of speech, deter
mined upon a revolution of the whole
household.
John Benton, coming in about noon
from the field,at once saw thatsomething
unusual wa3 under way. He knew
that his wife was just then out at the
barn, so be crept upstairs to ascertain
the nature of the operations. There
was a sceue of chaos indeed. It would
seem as though this energetic woman
had decided, cantrary to her usual wis
dom, to begin at every room in the
house at once.
And it certainly looked as though
order could not be restored to even one
of these wrecked apartments by sunset.
Now John was always a kind-hearted
man, and noticing the carpets rolled
up it occurred to him that here wa3 a
clear case in which he could anticipate
the wishes of his poor tired, tongue
tied wife. With him to think was to
act, so out went the carpets upon the
lawn ; but scarcely had he finished his
task before he heard his wife tugging
and panting on the stairs, trying to get
the carpets into the house again, and
back Into their respective rooms. He
bad evidently beeu mistaken, and he
hastened to make amends by restoring
the carpets to their former places ;
then, from fear of doing more harm
than good, be stood aside, and allowed
destiny to take its course. The labors
of the day pressed heavily upon Mrs.
Benton, and towards its close she es
sayed the dumb language of pantomime
to obtain from her husband some help
in getting a roo.n ready for occupancy
before bed-time. Bub either John's
perception of this language was some
what obtuse, or else Mrs. Benton's
manner of using it was imperfect, for
she was compelled lo abandon it as use
less, after going through many fantas
tic contortions of her body, and many
facial expressions that filled John with
astonishment. She at last wound up
with a look of disgust so full of mean
ing that the poor fellow he read in it
plainly enough, "I should think any
fool could understand that." But John
was not the fool to comprehend it, so
pantomime had to be given up.
Many ludicrous blunders were the
ineyitable consequence of this abandon
ment of the customary mode of con
veying thoughts ; the double orders
MILLHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2., 1884.
given to the groceryman and the butch
er, the duplicate purchases of all sorts
of odds and ends, led to much confu
sion and vexation iu the Benton house
hold.
John Benton had promised his wife,
previon3 to the unhappy occurrence
that had placed this gulf of silence bo
tween them, money to purchase a now
dress for herself. One day he laid a
roll of bills upon the table, and called
her attention to it. She nodded assent,
and John was satisfied that her mem
ory was good foi anything that related
to her personal adornment. But what
was his surprise and disgust when she
returned from town and gave him the
grocer's receipted bill !
One morning, upon John's return
from the city, he astonished his wife
by bringing with him a lad, whom he
ushered into the kitchen with the re
mark :
"Now, Teddy, this is your home,and
that is your mistress, Mrs. Bentou,and
whatever she requires of you,you are to
do, of course."
John Benton, in the utter loneliness
of his heart, and fearing lest his unus
ed-tongue should become paralyzed by
this prolonged inactivity, or that ho
should lose his voice for waut of prac
tice, had, like Robison Cruso, brought
borne a little man Friday to talk to,
and also to use as a mouthpiece for
himself and wife. Things now went
on with less blundering and uncertain
ty, for Teddy was made the medium
for conveying the thoughts or wishes
alternately from one to the other. But
John monopolized so much of the boy's
companionship in bis new-found de
light at giviug vent to speech, that
Mrs. Benton still led a rather lonely
life.
"But," thought she, "what is sauce
for the goose ought to be sauce for the
gander, and I will haye a girl Friday
be fore the week is out, iu order to
strengthen and improve my vocal pow
ers."
And so she did. Never was there a
more astonished man than was John
Benton on the evening that he came
chattering with Teddy into the kitchen
and stopped upon the threshold to lis
ten to the irrepressible flood of female
conversation that was being poured
forth within. Indeed, so intent was
was Mrs. Benton on unburdening her
long-pent-up feeling 3 that she did not
notice the transfixed figure of her hus
band standing there till her startled ear
caught the remark :
"Well, Teddy, this is a surprise par
ty, isn't it ?"
"Those, Maggie," said Mrs. Bentoni
"are the other half of this family."
It was about this time that Jolm
communicated to his wife the mis
take in regard to the dress money and
refunded to her the amount. She in
turn, through her mouth-piece,intima
ted to him that his company and ser
vices in driving the family horse would
le acceptable to take her to the city to
purchase her gown.
To this he readily assented, as he al
so had business in the the city. They
had agreed upon a plan of communica
tion before leaving home, through a
small slate such as dumb people use a
mong those who do not understand
their language.
On arriving at the gorgeous store
they manifested an awkward uneasi
ness,and a few minutes before enter
ing, this mute business in public was
evideutly not relished by either of the
parties. But finally they entered.
Mrs. Benton was greeted by a polite
salesman. She made known her wish
es and soon a great mass of various fai
ries of all colors was spread out for her
inspection. She asked the price of a
piece of a particular shade that she fan
cied, she priced another piece of a dif
ferent color, and during all this time
she was vainly trying in some indirect
way to get an expression of opinion
from her husband as to his preference.
But she ignominiously failed. Tier
face grew hot and excited. She was
| not on speaking terms with her hus
band, and yet she loved him well e
nough to refuse to purchase or wear a
dress the color of whieh he might not
approve. She shrank from the humil
iation of the slate, but finding there
was no alternative but violation of her
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vow, she produced it and asked him
the simple question upon which her
heart was set, For answer be simply
put his hand on the piece of her choice,
and site smiled pleasantly as she turned
to the spruce and accommodating sales
man. The latter, taking in the situa
ation at a glance with the keen eye of
an expert in humanity, supposing it
was of course a question of dollars and
cents she was propounding to ber un
fortunate deaf and dumb husband,
rapidly wrote upon a bit of paper,
"Splendid goods ; wear like iron ; nev
er fade ; very cheap ;*flfty per ceut. be
low cost price ; never get another
chance like it," which paper he placed
in the hands of the astouished Mr. John
Benton.
"What's this ?" he exclaimed, look
ing alternately from the clerk to his
wife. "'Pears to me you're in a hurry
with your bill, young man."
Never was there a more astounded
salesman behind a counter than this.
And his chagrin equalled his surprise.
With a confused apology, which seed
ed to include something about "deaf
mute," he tried to make amends by
renewed courtesies and attentions to
Mrs. Benton, who was plunged iu mis
ery. It is hard to conceive of a woman
so wretched who had just como into
possession of a new and handsome out
fit.
John Benton's special business in
town was to pay an insurance pre
mium, and he and bis wife called to
gether at the palatial office of the com
pany. While waiting their turn to be
come accommodated, John and his wife
stood near the door. As he was look
ing ovet a city directory to pass away
the time, his wife, being seized with a
new idea wrote it out, and handed him
tbe fatal slate. John for convenience
m reading the sentence on the slate,
put the directory under his aim,where
upon, just at that moment, the pomp
ous secretary of the insurance company
came in from the street, and taking in
the situation with the keenness of
sight and astuteness that characterize
the discerning city man, from a dry
goods salesman up to a high official in
an insurance company, he touched the
fated John upon the arm, and pointed
to a card upon the wall on whicti the
legend ran thus, "Nu beggais, ped
dlers, or book agents allowed to pursue
their avocations here." It was some
time before John or his wife could
comprehend the connecting link be
tween themselves and that card ; but
when, with the mild assistance of the
officiel dignitary, it dawned upon them
that John was mistaken for a book a
gent, Mrs. Benton turned purple with
rage, and in explaiung their business
there did not spare the feelings of the
wretch who had given another sting to
her wounded pride. But John WHS dis
posed to laugh it off, and still further
ad Jed to the confusion of those present
by transacting his business in good au
dible English.
It remainssto this day a mystery to
the unfortunate dry-goods clerk as well
as to the non-plussed secretary what
could induce a couple to converse to
gether on a slate who could use such
forcible and intelligible language to
others.
After their unfortunate experiences
in the city the unhappy pair began to
weaken a little in their resolution.
Not only were their mutual interests
suffering in various ways by reason of
this very imperfect means of communi
cation, but as their love for one anoth
er was strong and genuine, in spite of
the foolish embargo they had put upon
their speech, they chafed under the irk
some restraint of a protracted silence.
While they were both revolving in
their minds plans that might lead to a
way out of the difficulty, fate came to
their rescue,and saved them from them
selves, though iu an unexpected and
painful way.
Upon the anniversary of their silence
John Benton and Teddy were busy in
the hay Held, and as a storm was
threatening, Mrs. Benton and Maggie
came to their rescue with their rakes.
A large load was on the wagon, and
Mrs. Benton and Maggie volunteered
to arrange the hay upon the cart as
John threw it up to them. John had
just started to lead the horse to auoth-
er part of the field, when, on looking
up at the load, he saw bis wifo still
standing. He motioned to ber to sit
down, but she failed to notice bis sig
nal, and the horses started ; at the
same time John saw her lunge back
ward and slide, head-foremost, from
the load. Before he could stop the
team and get to her, she had struck the
ground, upon her head. With a faint
gasp, and with semi-conscious but da
zed cry, she said, "Don't you ever
speak—"
"Hush I" said the scared man ; "for
God's sake, Mary don't talk that way
now !"
In another moment .she lay uncon
scious in his trembling arms, pale and
st ill as death.
"Oh 1" exclaimed the unhappy man.
"if I had only si reamed to her to sit
down iustead of trusting to that con
founded pantomime, perhaps it wouid
Dot have happened."
Taking her up tenderly in his strong
arms, Le carried her to the house, and
all the way into her own deaf ears he
poured out bis loye and lamentations ;
his tongue was loosened, and seemed
to be trying to make up for lost time.
And as he bathed her head, and tried
to kiss back tbe color and to coax into
actiou that long-silent voice, he moan
ed. "What would I not give now to
hear her talk to me again ! It would
be bliss to bear her scold even. Per
haps—perhaps," and he shuddered as
he said it, "she may never speak a
gain !"
The new-mown hay threatened by
the coming storm was nothing to him
now. He neither knew nor cared
whether the sky was black or blue.
All was black about him, and there
was only one object that he could see.
Even Teddy, who had shared his con
fidence, and Maggie, who had been the
solace of liis poor wife during the dull
blank year that had just closed in such
a tragical manner, were obnoxious to
him by their very presence. He saw
in them only the go-betweens that
served to keep up this odious silence.
"If I bad never brought Teddy here,
perhaps we should have spoken long a
go," he muttered ; "for it was getting
to be pretty hard to keep still any long
er about that time."
He was just thinking seriously about
sending for a doctor, when he felt a
pressure npon the hand that had all
this time clasped one of his wife's, and
looking into her face, he saw with de
light that her eyes were wide open and
bent upon him.
"My dear Mary ! thank God !" he
said, as he bent down and kissed her
pale face, while the tears dropped from
his cheek upon hers. "Speak to me,
Mary."
She gazed around her upon the scene
of masculine havoc for a few moments;
the wet cloths, the blankets, the cam
phor and arnica bottles, the flooded
floor, and then at the face of the man
beside her. In the latter she saw only
intense misery and unfeigned contri
tion, but she could not resist the im
pulse, in spite of the accident, iu spite
of Johu's sufferings of mind, to test
him still farther. She slowly raised
her limp hands, and with the forefinger
of the right she began to trace upon
the palm of the band, at the same time
directing a questioning look at ber
husband. "Good heaveus!" thought he,
"can it be posible that she has been
paralyzed by her fall, and is now truly
aud in earnest dumb ?" But a glance
at her tace dispelled that horrible
thought. She was smiling,but she still
continued to write with her finger.
Simple, honest, John Benton caught
her meaning then, and exclaimed, al
most petulantly, "The slate, Mary ?
Confound the slate I No more deaf
and dumb language for me. One word
from you now is worth more to me
than a year's chatter of these youug
ones; besides, it will do you good, my
dear."
"John,! really believe you are speak
ing to me," said his wife, while tears of
joy came to her eyes.
John Benton bent close to her face,
and kissing her again, said, "Yes,
Mary, I am going to Keep it up, too,
from this time on. for—." And here
he put his mouth to her ear, and whis
pered a few vvoids that, in spite of her
tears, and pain, made her laugh out
right. He had whispered, "No beg
gars, peddleis or book agents allowed
in the Benton Cottage hereafter.
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Lferald , are surprised at the number of
women who occupy desks and are called
clerks. It is but a few years since a
woman was thought fit to be a clerk in
the State department; now there are a
dozen or more on the rolls of its clerical
force. Much of the work in a diplomat,
ic office is perfunctory. Letters must
be copied, records made up and often
duplicates of dispatches of no public
value have to be prepared for informa
tion m official circles. All this can be
done as readily by woman as by men.
In the composition of instruction to
ministers and consuls, of course, only
the experienced heads of divisions are
employed.
Though women had been employed
elsewhere by thousands, there was at
least a recognition of the fact that the
State department was not superior to
the United States Supreme court, for a
woman had been recoguized by that
body as worthy to be 4 *of counsel" and
to appeal before this most high judicial
body, attired even as the judges them
selves,in a black silk gown. The ques
tion is naturally asked, Do women
make good clerks ? Are they as com
petent, as skillful, as reliable as the
male clerks ! The experience of those
who have been long in civil service is
that women do not average in their
work as well as men. This is not only
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ual amount performed. There is in the
Treasury department one lady who gets
SI,BOO per annum— that is, she rates as
a fourth class clerk. There are in this
department altogether nearly one thous
and women—all intelligent, and many
of them liaye been in public service for
years. But they seldom rise aboye the
first class, or a $1,200 clerk. Many of
them are graded as copyists, receiving
but S9OO a year, and there is not. the
slightest prejudice against their promo
tion. It would be invidious in such an
article to specify particular talent.
There are ladies in all the departments
of the government who receive the
same pay as their male associates, none
higher than SI,BOO a year ; a few at sl,-
600, more at $1,400 and a majority at
$1,200.
The first employment given to woman
by the government was during the war,
when paper money had to be substitut
ed for gold and silver. Redemption of
the mutilated notes issued by the gov.
ernment and national banks made the
services of women indispensable. The
mass of filthy and torn currency return
ed to the treasury for redemption made
the employment of dexterous figures a
necessity,and none were found so apt at
handling it as the women employed in
the bureau of engraving and printing,
and in the office of the United States
treasurer. The counting of the new
ana old fractional currency gave em
ployment to huudreds of women ; and
as they became accustomed to the accu
rate form of the genuine notes, it was
next to impossible to deceive their prac
tised eye and delicate touch, so that a
counterfeit note had no earthly show of
redemption. Not only was this true of
the fractional currency, legal tenders
and national bank notes, but of govern
ment bonds and the thousands of cou
pons that had first to pass the inspec
tion of women befoie they could be
credited to governm •nt account. It is
in the bureau of engraviug and print
ing aud the United fetates treasurer's
office that the greater number of fe
males are employed. At the govern
ment printing office there is a large
number working in the folding and
press rooms, and bindery. There skill
Is more of a mechanical than a clerical
kind. This is also true of the majority
of the women employed in the bureau
of engraving and printing, yet there
are women whose services are graded
as high as those of men.
In the war department,excepting the
quartermaster general's bureau, the
the gentle voice of a woman is seldom
heard. So, too, in the navy depart
ment there is a dearth of women.
Whether there is a prejudice against
women being employed in the war and
navy departments does not appear, ex
cept that they are not employed ; but
the postoffice and interior departments
make up for it. In the dead letter office
a number of women experts are engag
ed whose ability to make sense out of
nothing is daily demonstrated. In fact,
the officials say the office could not be
run without them. There is a certain
kind of patience that is peculiar to the
fair sex, necessary to decipher what on
ly the stupid or ignorant writer could
possibly explain. But they do it. Their
explanation makes the direction on let
ters, which intelligent and exper
ienced clerks could not make out, as
plain as copperplate. But it is only
women who have genius who can dis
coyer where a letter ought to go ; the
natural sympathy between their nature
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vert an apparently meaningless super
scription into a direction which a
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session of women clerks in the dead let
ter office.
Are they al' young ? Are they mid
dle aged ? Are they spinsters ? these
four thousand female employes in the
government offices? AU of them old
enough to vote, and at that matter
have arrived at a marriageable age. For
the most part the women are widows
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They come Jfroua all parts of the coun
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al thing the beautiful women don't stay
clerks very long. Some stunning young
man who is clerk in the office where the
pretty one is employed makes up his
mind to marry,and married women are,
with very few exceptions, ruled out of
government service. To one
with department life but very few
changes can be noticed from year to
year in the ranks of the women clerks.
Few die, none resigned a small per
centage only drop out on account of
matrimony. The interior department
perhaps affords the finest field for wo
men clerks. Probably three-fourths of
the women have been found especially
expert as typewriters, and the corres
potidehce of the interior department
and its bureaus is sent out in printed
form. It not only makes it easy for
the checking clerks to scan the matter,
but saves in bulk and letter paper be-
side.
The patent office necessarily has a
great mass of business which is matter
of record, hence there is scarcely room
in this overcrowded bureau, where the
rattle of the typewriter is not heard
from morning until night, the fair fin
gers of the operator making the ma
chine a very thing of life. A woman
has not yet been appointed an examin
er, but it is certain that one-half the
labor performed in the patent office is
done by women.
The attorney-general has found that
woman is a very useful assistant in
keeping the records of the department
of; justice, and if he desired, he could
even employ a woman to write legal
opinions, for such a one lives in this
city, whose ability no one will question.
At present, however, the female em
ployes are mainly occupied in copying
the opinions of the learned juiists who
are called assistants to'the attorney
general.
A Startling Confession.
'Sir, f said the business manager of
a Willmington daily paper, coming
with drooping head into the presence
of the proprietor, 'I have a startling
confession to make to you.'
'What can it be ?' asked the pro
prietor, trembling with excitement
that could not be concealed.
'Oh, sir, spare me,' said the busi
ness manager. 'I know I have done
wrong but the temptation was
very great. I have spent the year's
profits of this paper for my own pri
vate use.'
'What have you done with the
money ? gasped the proprietor, as he
clutched the back of a chair to steady
his quivering frame.
'l—l—' answered the business
manager, as his head feli lower and
lower upon his breast and a blush of
shame came to his cheek—'l—l have
spent it for two plates of ice-cream.'
Condensed Sermons.
True wealth consists in health, vig
or, and courage, domestic quiet, con
cord, public liberty, plenty of all that
is necessary, and contempt of all that
is superfluous.
The erection of Christ's kingdom is
purity in His church, and thrusts out
the outward pomp and magnificence
that we naturally like so well. His
kingdom of grace can not be in the
soul without the forsaking of all our
accustomed and pleasing ways of sin.
But they who know the excellency of
His kingdom are well content to fore
go all that suits not with it. Thus,
that His kingdon of glory may come,
the world must be burnt up ; and that
we particularly may come to it, we
must pass through death. But it ia
worth all.
A patent medicine manufacturer ad
vertises for bald men, who are willing
to have advertisements painted on the
tops of their heads, '-for a high pecuni
ary recbmpense."
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