®k iiwtte ♦ BELLEPONTE, PA. Xks Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTY. ROBERT EMORY PATTISON. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. There is a current saying that of a man it is asked in Boston, what does he know ? in New York, what is he worth ? in Philadelphia, who was his father ? The personal character and official worth of our candidate alike invite inspection hy any one or all ot these tests. ROBERT EMORY PATTISON, the only Democratic candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, and the one who pro poses, when "chosen for the office by the people, to perform its duties to their satisfaction," was born on the Bth day of December, A. D.,lßso,atQuantico, [Somerset county, Md. For the place ot his birth there is no apology needed further than that he "had to be born somewhere," as Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, said of himself, in answer to the taunt that Waxhaw, North Caro lina, was his own humble birth-place, itself in name, like Pattison's, sugges tive of aboriginal origin. Indian names are numerous on the Eastern Shore ot Maryland, which has also been called by a recent writer in Harper''s Magazine. "A Peninsula Canaan "a land ot rivers of waters." One of these gives name to the new county of Wicomico, set oil from Somerset a few years ago, in which is located the little town of Quantico. That was the first place to which the late Rev. Robert H. Pattison, D. I)., for many years grand chaplain of the grand lodge of Masons in Pennsylvania, was appointed, after his marriage with Miss Catharine Woolford, of Cambridge, by the presiding bishop of the Philadel phia M. E. conference, which at that time included the peninsula within its bounds. A short time thereafter the father's appointment was to Odessa, Delaware, and next to Philadelphia when the first born son wa3 but six years old. IIIS EDUCATION. Robert was at once started to school, and entering the primary, passed during the years following through the succes sive grades of the common schools, the glory of our commonwealth, on up to and through the Penn grammar and central high school. Ilereyoung Patti son made his first speech, being called upon to deliver the valedictory address, and graduating with the highest honors of the fifty-fifth class. In this way he became known to Lewis C. Casaidy, esq., then a member of the board of educa tion, in whose office he registered as a law student in December, 1809, with the recommendation of Professor George Inman ltiche, the high school principal. The elder Pattison had intended his son should graduate also at Dickinson college, where he himself hud been educated, having named him in honor of one of the most honored presidents of that institution. Robert Emory was a native of Philadelphia, afterward a law student of Reverdy Johnson, in Baltimore, and in the end a divine of great learning and masterly in man hood. Such a man, too, was the senior Pattison, one whose knightly appear ance and chivalric bearing coexisted with great kindness of manner, that made him friends in all classes of so ciety, and caused him to be mourned in death—which came to him in ]B7. r > wherever his personal and social worth were known. His solicitude for the future of his only son may be best ex pressed in words written by James Mill to Jeremy Bentham, with reference to his son, John Stuart Mill: "However, if I were to , die anytime before this poor boy is a man, one of the things which would pinch me most sorely would be the being obliged to leave bis mind unmade to the degree of excel lence I hope for." A STUDENT OF LAW. Fortunately Dr. Pattison did live to Bee his son Robert apply himself not only to the mastery of law books in the office, but also after office hodTTat home, to general literature, and especially to the history of the old Feudal days; so familiarizing himself with the ground work of his chosen profession, and at the same time keeping up with the times in his general reading during half holidays, and on his way to and fro. The father lived to see him a good student of human nature ns well, using the ample opportunity Mr. Cassidy's large criminal practice afforded lor this; and in every way at his command thor oughly qualifying himself for admission to the Philadelphia bar, where he en tered upon the practice of the law on his own account in 1872. That year the young lawyer was married to Anna, daughter of Edwin A. Smith, of Phila delphia, and settled down in the small twostory house 3247 Hansom street, where he has continued to reside ever since, and where two children, a boy and a girl, have been born to them in their happy home. From the age of seventeen, when he was already developed beyond his years, following in tho footsteps of his grand father on his mother's side, Col. Thomas Woolford, who commanded in the Mary land line in the Revolutionary war,* Pattison had been a popular member of the Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, known as the Fire Zouaves, and he was subsequently identified with tho reorganization of the State Fencibles. LAWYER, ORATOR AND MILITIAMAN. There he formed the friendship of that good old Democrat, "a man with out fear and without reproach," Col. James Page, whom Pattison succeeded as president of the organization. He won bis first laurels as a lawyer in an able argument in defense of some thirty militiamen of the 4th Regiment Penn *Qatre •ccordlngly detached Col. Woolford, of tho Maryland Hue, with l(*i regulars, a party of artillery aud two brawl field pieces. On the same evening lie moved with hla main forre to take post at a deep stream about seven miles from Camden, Intending to attack Lord Rawdon or his redoubt should he march out In force to repel Hitmter."—Page 04, Vol. IV, Irv ing'e Life of Washington. . During the war of tho Revolution the "Maryland Dine" was famous for Its valor, taking an active part In most of the great battles of the war. 001. Wiail ford was in active service throughout tho entire war. sylvania Volunteers, before a court as sembled by General Prevost, and ac- quitted them on apleaas to jurisdiction. After this he was ever the chosen orator of the command, and never without clients. Among the cases which after wards came to him and were prepared with the thoroughness which distin guished all of his professional ami politi cal work, were those of Orr vs. Hydrau lic Works and Kehoe vs. same, leading cases in determining the law of negli gence and the duties of property owners to the public. Thus far the father lived to see the success of his son, who, with strong filial devotion, refusing to bask in other people's sunshine by acceptance of in vitations to membership in the richer churches, has of preference rigidly ad hered to a kind of "little church around the corner," wherein was his father's last ministry. RECOLLECTIONS OF DICKINSON. Previous mention of Dr. Pattison's earlier education in Dickinson College recalls a fact or two that may as well he put down right here in refutation of the assertion made here and there in stal wart organs, that "hitherto Pennsyl vania has invariably elected governors born in the State." Now, to begin with, without hunting up the baptismal re cord of thein all, John Dickinson, whose name that college bears, according to Jefferson "one of the most accomplish ed scholars the country ever produced," was himself a native of Maryland, lived for a long time in Delaware, and was in 1782 elected executive of Pennsylvania. And he was succeeded in the office of governor of Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin, who, until now when ol jec tion is made to the Providence that gave Pattison his birth in Maryland, was always supposed to have been horn in Massachusetts, and to have walked from Boston to Philadelphia, whoreunto Pattison was brought when barely old enough to walk to school, ami where, ever since he was six years old lie has been aliko by his education, profession and public service a Pennsylvanian. Surely the men who worked " like Beavers" to put Grant in nomination for a tided term at a time when he had been altogether out of the country for four years, and who applauded to the echo Conkling's exclamation "if it be asked whence comes our candidate, he hails from Appomattox" should not now make serious objection to the like Indian but less savage sounding Quan tico, which Pattison bade " hviii and farewell " by proxy, if at all, since he was removed from there before he could cleverly articulate. Nor is the Gamer onian cry of "foreigner" against the city controller of Pbialdelphia, alto gether consistent with even the old straight out-and-out Know Notliingism, which is sought to be rehashed, it seems in the coming campaign, und to be serv ed up with an altogether new infusion of a peculiar kind of states - rights. And, what is more remarkable than this, the whole and sole objection that lias been raised against Controller Pattison as a man, originates at and is sent out from tho headquarters of the Cameron State Central Committee, the chairman of which, and wouid-iike to-have-been candidate for governor, was himself born " out west " in Ohio. IN POLITICAL LIFE. Upon Pattison's introduction into pol itical life, at the first brought forward t>y his friends for clerk of the court of quarter sessions, he gracefully gave way to an older and more experienced law yer, Henry S. Hagert, Esq., whose nom ination he helped Insecure. Afterward when his name was presented to the •State Convention in 1877, for Auditor General, although then but little known outside the city, Mr. I'attison received the next highest vote to thai by which Mr. Schell was placed in nomination. A little later in the same year, 1877, Robert Emory Pattison was nominated (or City Controller of Philadelphia, and wis elected by 1.952 majority. He was re elected in JBBO by a majority of 13,- 593 in a Presidential campaign that gave General Garfield 20,883 majority in the cit v. Byway of explanation of this rapid rise, it pa s;ed into history that at the time of Mr. Pattison's first election, the business men, property holders, woik ingmen, and the people of Philadel phia generally, were first waking up to the fact that for years they had been going In-hind in their municipal affairs. There had been a steady and alarming increase in tho t*x ran- the depart ment expenses, and for ten yeais thorn had been on annual averagn add tion to the city debt of jjs.'l (122 40(5. Unparalled municipal extravagance pievniled. There was reckless waste in (he appro print ions, criminal neglect in the col lection of taxes and hideous and open corruption in disbursement. THE RKVEIJ OF THE KINO. While the population of Philadcl phia increased only one fifth anil the value ot its property scarcely one-third, its debt was ilouhleii and the interest on its obligations required no annual levy of one per cent, on the property. On January Ist, 1878, the annual deficien cies, counting the deficiency loan of $.0,193,877, had reached $10,087,687. It cost the city of Philadelphia hundreds of thousands of dollars annual interest on its unpaid and overdue warrants. One fifth of the city taxes were uncol lected and went into the hands of the delinquent collectors, where enormous expenses were added for the profit of speculating politicians, who at the same time allowed political friends entirely to escape their municipal obligations. The poor and unfortunate were plundered for the enrichment of rapacious parti sans ; with millions of taxes collected from the people thero was complaint of mal-adpiinistration in nearly every de partment and the city seemed to be at the mercy of the spoilsman. The re form movement which has since been organized bad not yet crystallized into the committee of One Ilundred, nor any other well-defined scheme. Caven was defeated for mayor and the Reform ers had scarcely yet been able to effect an entrance of the wedge. A RECORD OF OFFICIAL INTEORITV, Almost from his first induotion into the offioijof Controller, Pattison invested it with a degree of importance which the law had given to it but with which none of his predesoesso's bad measured it. He adopted and maintained a wide view of the obligations of the office and declined to hide behind the technical ities that brought disgiace upon his predecessor. JJe refused to consider OUR NEXT GOVERNOR. ROBERT E. PATTISON. The man who possesses tlio courage of his convictions, and to whom roform is not an unmeaning, an idle platitude. the office merely clerical, but investiga ted claims and enraged partisans by re fusing to be a mere machine to deplete the city treasury, in this inflexible purpose he recognized no claimant as Democrat or Republican. How the whole atmosphere of that ofiice chang ed tinder his vigorous, vigilant and healthy administration and what com plimentary enmity he won from many whoso schemes have been rendered hopeless hy his relentless scrutiny and determination, is a mutter of public no toriety. IJe unsealed records, opened doors that had been clo-ed, ferreted out abuses, checked fraud and stopped rob bery. He determined to do the one thing that nobody else seemed able or todo—toseethat the city of Philadel phia got a fair consideration for evpry dollar of the money which he spent. In the courageous, impartial and inflex ible execution of that purpose he rec ognized neither political friend or foe, and he was daunted by no responsibility which confronted hint, lie left unused no privilege, he failed to exert no au thority that could contribute to the re sult which lie kept steadily in view. He discovered thet money was being paid to persons for work not done, and he stopped it. Ho found that work actual ly done and materials really furnished were grossly overcharged and he ended the robbery and made the robbers dis gorge. He put a stop to the illegal pay ment of bills and the unlawful issue of warrants, lie exposed and put and end to the petty pilferings and unblushing larcenies under the guie of " contin gents" and "incidentals." He found favorites given the privilege of furnish ing supplies at exorbitant figures, and he insisted upon legal advertisements for competitive bids. Ho called public attention to the fact that appropriations to'public institutions were exhausted long before the year for which they were made, had ended, lie found that fees were thievishly drawn for jurors that had not served. He unearthed frauds committed by means of bogus jury lists, ami compelled a detected of ficer of the court to flee the jurisdiction. He ascertained that large sums of mon ey had been paid for work never per formed and materials never furnished. By stern and timely measures lie was instrumental in destroying the evils ol the custom of collecting claims against the city by mandamus—asystem, which by its abuses had grown to lie a mighty evil, fruitful of con option and loi-s. In one one instance he refused credit to the city treasurer for over $.)0,t00, not certified hy the city solicitor. He exposed the iniquities and enor mities ot the delinquent tax office, bv which the honest collection of ihoityV revenues teas purposely obstructed ami tax-payers were remorselessly plundered to make gain for the city ting, who car ried of $100,(MX) annually to divide ] among themselves, to debauch the elee tions and to let their party friends escape entirely from the payment ot their taxes. He strenuously sought to reduce the number of the city officials and to lop off all supernumeraries, to abolish sinecures and cut down extrav agant salaries, lie exposed abuses o I the almsliou! • management and called its managers to rigid accountability. His innumerable ami manly efforts to stand between the people's money and those who sought to take it illegally are part of the history of the times. His controversies with the guardians of the poor, the building commission, and the water department and the benefi cial results emanating therefrom are freshly ami gratefully remembered by the people of Philadelphia. It is Paul son's paculiar glory that he did not tear to offend members of his own party in the fulfillment of what he believed to be his duty," Wherever he discovered irregularities be exposed them; wherever he found extravagances and unlawful expendi tures he refused to allow them. That conservative journal, the Ledger , declar ed : "He has been attentive, vigilant and faithful, and since bis installation in the office the ORGANIZED PLUNDER nv THE DEPARTMENTS, which formerly patted there, and in some instances was carried on by collusion, hat wholly ceased so far as his power extends." A UROAD VIEW OF 1118 DUTIES. Had he done no more than thus guard the treasury, had ho been simply the passive obstruction to greed and corruption, he would yet have been en titled to the regard of all honest men. But he was much more than this. His conduct discloses a broad and compre hensive view of his duties. He did not content himself with keeping vigilant watch over the money. He strove to lower the high salaries of the city's em ployees. He was full of intelligent and economical suggestions upon the man agement of the municipal finances. He suggested to tlie boat'l of revision of taxes the wisdom of a more correct as sessment of the real estate. By a letter dated October 1878, he advocated the payment of 4 per cent, interest on the city warrants after January 1, ]B7O, seeing that upwards of $70,000 a year would be saved. " I can not see any good reason," he wrote, " why tlie city of Philadelphia, with its warrants 1 j percent, above par should continue to pay a greater interest than the general government." Many of the municipal reforms from winch Philadelphia now reaps advantage were the results of his suggestions. His first balance sheet was tlie first clear statement that Philadelphia had had for many years of its financial af fairs. He awoke the citizens to a knowl edge of the actual condition their mu nicipality. He exhibited the frightful tendency toward bankruptcy and dis closed to them that a false and mislead ing exhibit had been annually placed before them by carrying along worthless or uprofitabje assets as cash. It was these reforms which enabled the controller to say in his last annual report: "l'he burdens of the tax pay ers aie being lightened, encouragement is given for the employment of capital within its limits, and an auspicious beginning has been made in freeing the second city of the Union in population, and the first in industrial enterprise, from taxation for indebtedness." APPROVED JtV TIIE PEOPLE. It is no wonder, then, that his hrn* orahle and intelligent course disarmed prejudice, swept away the barriers of political feeling and evoked universal approbation. The common council, on December 18, 1879, passed a resolution of compliment to tlie controller. The tax-payers of the Twentieth ward, in meeting assembled, adopted a resolu tion of th inks. Mr. (Jeorge 11. Karle, the distinguished lawyer, who for years iiad labored with a single hearted pur pose in the cause of political reform, wrote him: "For yourself, I meet no honest man who does not wish to take you by the hand and thank you." The press of the city were unanimous and outspoken in then'commendation. The Evening Telegraph said : "Hubert JJ. Put tison is a man t.f the people, for the peo ple, and in the end they will sustain him il they are worthy such a re pre Ben tntivp." The Timea ctiled on the He publicans to indorse l'attison and not make a nomination against him. The Ledger told Mr. McMancs that if, as he aid, lie really wished a candidate who was the equal of Control!- r Pattison in ability, integrity and courage, to nomi nate l'attison himself. In short, alti r lour year* of experi ence with hint as controller the people re-elected Lira by 13..V.10 inaj >rity, though he was simply the Democratic candidate, there having her n at that time no Committee of rine Hundred organized for independent political ac tion. THE OEFICE OF CONTROLLER. Tire year and a half of his second term that has thus far passed has been replete with similar evidences of his comprehensive grasp of the duties ol his position. The Philadelphia iS'ar (Ind.), recently referring to his official career, thus sums up his services to Philadelphia: "There wns a time, and not ve y long since, either, when a great many people entertained the idea that the functions of the controller were of the simplest character—that he was, in fact, nothing more than a mere clerk, whose princi pal duty consisted in approving war rants drawn against the city treasury, which approval was given without in vestigation. When the present con troller was renominated it was boldly declared by some of those opposed to him that tberewere.no duties connec e i with the office that could not he dis charged by any one possessed with com mon intelligence, and that, therefore, the general popular demand for Mr. Pattison's re-election, was not warrant ed by the facts of the case. These dec larations, strange as it may seem, were made by prominent lawyers and other citizens, supposed to be familiar with the work of the office, and from whom bet ter things were expected. Since then the people have learned how absolutely essential to honest and economical gov ernment a capable and fearless control lership is. As at present administered, the office is a constant check, not only to dishonesty, but upon hasty or il) ad vised legislation which involves the ex penditures of public money, flow many dollars of the public funds have been saved by the conscientiously careful in vestigation of the legal claim of every warrant to the controller's approval, cannot B he [told, but it is safe to say that they approximate to millions. The law has been maintained with rigid impar tiality, while favoritism has not in a sin gle instanco been charged. It may therefore be said with truth that as iar as the outgo of public money is con cerned, the controller is the most im portant olhcer connected with our mu nicipal government, provided always he is the right man for the place. The wrong man there—and there have hcen wrong controllers—is an evil, the mag nitude of which can be comprehended only by a comparison of the present management with that of five or six years ago." The Philadelphia Times said that mil lions of dollars were stolen from the city treasury under l'attison's predeces sors because they conducted the office of controller with the idea that the con troller "does nothing more than approve oily warrants, if they are drawn legally." because l'attison took the higher view millions were saved to Philadelphia. NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR. 11l view of all this and of the fact that during his term a complete administra tive reform had been inaugurated in the second city of the Union and the first in Pennsylvania, it was not strange that the Democratic State Convetion found in him its nominee for governor. Year by year the political issue of adminis trative reform has become the supreme concern of intelligent men. Kecogniz itig Iti.s special fitness to embody this issue, the. convention gravitated towatd him on the sixth ballot and without any adjournment alter it began to ballot, llts nomination was no personal nor factional triumph or defeat. It was ac complished without " management " or "trade." It was the well considered action of an unusually earnest and in telligent body and that no mistake was made :s assured by the universal appro bation with which it has been received, not only by the party press of the State but by all independent journals of any standing, while it has challenged the opposition press, and for seven weeks has been almost absolutely free from unfavorable criticism from any source. Possibly never before in the history of the Democratic party of Pennsylva nia was a nomination ratified with such unanimity. Prom every quarter of the State litis is the unvarying report, anil present indications point to its ratifica tion at the polls, not only by the largest vote ever polled for any candidate of the party in this .State, but also by an increase upon that cast fer Gen. llan eock by tlie addition of the suffrages of tens of thousands of Independent lie publicans and conservative citizens who tie willing to aid the election of an honest and capable man for governor, pledged by a platform which declares •gainst the spoils system and bossism. for good government and an honest ap portionment. The Baby's Hand. Mrs. Arnold was showing a frieud through her pretty new house which was undergoing a second and final coat of inside paint, and gave promise of being as aesthetically beautiful as the decorative fervor of the age de manded, the color being a delicate shell pink like the inside of a rose. "Isn't it lovely." said Mrs. Arnold admiringly to her friend. "You see thut is an east room, and so it is to have the tints of the morning. ,Some might think it too delicate for every day use, but I shall make that very delicacy a means of education. I have taught baby already that she cannot touch it. 'Come here dimple' to the little one toddling behind her. 'Baby wop't touch the pretty paint," "Baby won't," cooed the little one in its sweet idiom, and giving it a kiss and admiring caress, the young mother pninteu out to Iter frieud the beauty of the window embrasure and the view it commanded. "I shall sit here Summer afternoons with baby. Won't it be lovely? Lace curtains within and green vines with out. It will he a picture and a poem both." And they strolled on, leaving the two-year-old baby looking with far seeing eves through the pretty window, and it was not the rosy tint of the paint, nor the flush of healthy child hood that spread slowly over the little face, and sent a tired little head to seek iu vain for rest on its mother's bosom. All thought of the tributaries of beauty or art passed from the mind of the young mother as she saw her dar ling's lever flushed face, and she lock ed the beautiful eust room and left it to the gloom and solitude until the crisis was past! MAud titc dviir ljttl Jinndf, llkr row leap*! hrfpifd from A ro*e, lay Mill, to minti-h at the minahitio That crtpt to tli shrouded •ill." Yes, it came to that I ami an awful emptiness of all life, and then a hard, rebellious acquiescence in the decree of fate, and one bright day the mother went into the nretty east room, and with her friend lived over that day when they had last stood there, and looked with exceeding bitterness on the tinted color that was to k<we made all her Summer bright. And what could brighten it now ? Ah, me 1 how strange that when the voico of redeeming love says) "My peace I give unto you," we will have utne of it. If Mrs. Arnold had read ou the walls iu letters of light. "Let not your heart be troubled" she would never heeded,and when her friend point ing through the window to the blue sky beyond said tenderly, trustingly, "she is safe," the mother oast down her heavy tear-dimmed eyes, and with a cry of joy kissed again and again one single blemish in the smooth paintiug of the window sill. What was it? Only the dear, dear hand of her baby imprinted there—the little hand, which had been laid one moment on the wet paint that had moulded it into this perfect shape, and that now seemed to point and beckon the way she hud gone; a baby's sinless hand tliut would some day be reached out to welcome her — ith the light of Heaven tlifrfton." A Header's Complaint. I have never wished that I had been borisiu some other century than the nineteenth. Our age, if not a picturesque one—and I think it has ils picturesque aspects—is without doubt the most comfortable to live in, take it on the whole, the world has yet known. It seems to me that per sons of rational mind and humane disposition cannot he too thankful to belong to it, for it is hard to see how such persons could ever have enjoyed life in earlier times as we of the latest days can. The world has certainly gone forward, and the feature of it's progress that I chiefly rejoice in is its advance in humanity. The elder world—the world hut a very little el der than our own—was such aterribly cruel one! The only objection to liv ing in the present time that I know of, is the increased quantity of things one must know or would like to know. Eighteenth-century people didn't have to read Lecky's history of their times in four volumes, or a hundred thous and other books it now seems obliga tory upon all cultivated persons to ac quaint themselves with. Nowadays one is required to read a small library every year, if one would have even a smattering of knowledge on the vari ous subjects that invite an intelligent man's interest. The specialists in the abundance of whom we glory, carry investigation so far forward, each in his own line, that the general reader can not hope to do more than accept a number of things at second hand, or be content to have no understanding ol them at all, It is hard to resign one's self to ignorance of so many in teresting matters, and yet that is what one seems driven to. One finds that ' the first thing to learn is " how much ' need not be known," which is perhaps a sort of sour grapes wisdom, hut ap parently the only wisdom attainable. A (ross Legged (Question. The neatest way to modestly display a foot is to cross the leg which it be longs to over the other. This lifts the foot about six inches from the floor, and lets it hang in easy, graceful sus pension. The lower edge of the skirt should lie across the instep, so that not only the front half of the foot is shown, hut that is sufficient in the present fragmentary state of slippers and san dals, to show a good hit of the fiuely embroidered or delicately woven stock ing. The position is a common one to the most elegant and refined girls in the politest society, not only here, but in London and Paris. It is not in the least hold, nor is it at all awkward. Still, my grandmother—dear old lady—says it is vulgar for a woman to cross her knees. She was taught so when she was young, and she stoutly maintains that the law on the subject has never yet been changed. She well remembers a week spent in the same house with Mrup. Jerome Bona parte in Baltimore, than whom she believes no more ladylike person ever lived j and she recalls that inadam ah ways sat with her kuees two inches apurt —no more and no less. She de clares that no girl with pretentions to delicacy should sit cross-legged. I have thus stated both sides of the sub ject, leaving my readers to decide whether they will practice a pose that is both comfortable and artful, or avoid it because there is a tradition that it is impolite. I suppose that the sticklers will pretty soon object to women crossing one foot over the other. Even that feminine habit of sitting on one foot, to the peril of getting it caught in the hustle and making the owner go hop scotch on rising, will next he assailed. — From Clara Jicflt'x Letter. Muiiagiug 11 Husliuml. The next best thing to pleasing u | man's stomach is for his wife to dress jup a bit, for his especial benefit; lie is so hungry that it would need but a spark to kindle a flume, but when he enters aud sees the appetising dinner in the act of being dished, his little woman smiling, neat and tidy, it acts upon him like a dose of soothing syrup. The dust might be an inch thick on the mantel piece—he would not gee it; broken crockery aud cobwebs might fill every corner—he would look upou them with all the complacency imagin able. While washing, he tells his wife how pretty she is, how becoming her hair is arranged in that fashion, says po other man ever had such a dear little love of a woman for a wife, asks what she has for dinner that smells so good, and though he is literally starv ing waits upon the table with all the grace and politeuess of a Chestei field, and selects the best of everything for his little wife's plate. During i>u>al time he tells her all about his asks her advice in regard to his plans,■ tells funny stories, propouuds couun-V drums, cracks jokes, and renders the dinner hour a very enjoyahle affair. After it is over he makes love to bis wife, plays with the children, sings comic songs, then goes off to his work, whistling merrily, at peace with all the world, thinkiug he has the hap piest home in the land, while his wife follows him to the dxr, saying within herself, "What a blessing it is to have such a dear, good, oheerful, loving husband."
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