ELIT. All br tife long Sara Holmes had It began and ended with these words: “When Elihu eymes home.” And though she was but nineteen years old at the time of which | write, it seems to her on the evening of that burning July day, as she sat there in her bed-room and looked out upon the moonlit fields, that she had been living one or two centuries in this world at the very least, and all the time dreaming gol- den dreams of Elihu, only to find them shivered into atoms at the last, For Elihu And the time and the manoer of his coming 80 upnex- had 8 romance. bad come. were s0 unlooked for and pected 10 her, as well as to everyone abso, that it was no wonder the girl sat there in the moonlight, saying to herself : “He is here, I need never watch or wait for him again. In the pext chamber to mine he is sleeping— that is, it he can sleep. Poor Elihu!” The earliest stories she could rem- ember had been toldjto her by her mother about “Cousin Elihu,” and the enormous fortune that he had made “down South,” at a time tanes could yet be made in that un happy land. She had heard fabulous tales of the place in which he lived, when for- of the negro slaves who flew to do his biddings, of the beautiful carriages sad horses that bore him from place to place, and of the jewels, the silks, salins and that woman would possess who would one velvets fortunate day become Elihu's bride. (Other girls had heard these stories also, and the belle of the Holemsdale often said when school she was 16 she wonld “go traveling,” and find her way “down Bouth,” and “set her cap” at Elihu Holmes. That the result would follow for which looked, no girl among them all doubt- ed, for even “the master's stern face softened and smiled upon Rosanna Meadows, when she shook back her golden curls, and lifted her large blue eyes, with a blush, to his. Poor Rosanna !| Serah leaned her caeek on her hand, and looked over the hill-top toward the village grave- yard, where the village besuty was lying, with her blue eyes close, her golden ringlets smoothed back from | her white brow, and her hands clas ped in an unearthly quiet on her breast. Elihu had never known bow her girlish fancy went out to- ward him. And now Elihu had come home! As Sara Holmes grew up and de- veloped from the tall, angular girl | into the queenly and self possessed young woman, the thought would sometimes occar to her, as she stood bufare the mirror braidiog her dark baie, “If he should come back, would be think me pretty, now that Ros- sana is gone I” The broad, low brow the oval cheeks and dimpled chin answered her ; the healthful color, the deep, dark eyes, the sudden, bright, bewildering smile, said “Yes.” For bers was now a higher beauty than Rossana's pink and white loveliness bad ever been, and the treasures of kx mind and heart might well have woa an older aod wiser man to love hr long before Elihu came home. Aad now she drew a lang breath, and set herself to recall all the inci. dents of sudden and startling return. Tea was over, the milk was strain ed, and they were all sitting on the Trout piazza, ander the shade of the wsple and the locusts, while her father red bits from the weekly village paper aloud. Her stepmother was knitting ; her sister Grace was lining « has, and her brother Ben was whit. tliag out a toy boat from a bit of wood while she, Bara, sat beside him and held his tools as he needed them, and lost herself in a reverie about her hero in the South. A carriage drove up the valley read and halted at their gate. The driver decended from his seat and beckoned to her father, who hurried dewn to the gate to meet him. After talking for some time together a small trunk was lifted down aod left beside the gate. Then the carriage door was opened and a tall figure descended and directly after, Ben, who had followed the father in a fit of boyish curiosity, galloped back with distended eyes, whispering loudly : “Mother—girls | Cousin Elihu has come! And he has lost every cent of his property dowa South I I heard the driver toll father so! And they at | che } have sent him off up here alone, be- cause they thought he was going to be sick ; and there he is, you see, leaning on father and the driver, and he can't but just walk. Isn't it a blamed shame of those Southerners!” “Mercy I" exclaimed Ben's step- mother, rising, as they all rose, when the tall, slender figure approached, Sarah looked up, with her heart in her eyes, to greet her hero—no less a hero to her for the pitiful history of loss and ruin that she had just heard. She saw a tall, upright, elegaot- looking man, with a fair complexion, large melancholy blue eyes, a long, straight nose, drooping eyebrows, eye. lids and lips,and a firmly rounded counteracted listless sadness chin, that somewhat and contradicted the of the rest of the face. turning gray, and the heavy, golden brown mustach had one or two threads of silver, but with that exception, he wore no look of age. Elihu was well bat plainly dressed in & traveling suit of gray. He mov. ed his hat as he drew near the ladies, but he look- warm welcome with a courteous grace ; ed in vain for the from the second Mrs, daughter Grace, that he would Holmes and have received fiom his own cousin had she been alive. Mrs. Holmes bowed to him coldly, [though civilly; and Grace, angry with him, and with herself for the sud- | den collapsing of sundry ambitious { hopes which she had never confied to {any one except her mother, swept { him her latest dancing school cortesy, and affected not to see the hand that | he held out. | Elihu colored slightly and turned ) | {fixed with a gaze of tender pity upon | his refined and melancholy face. “You have a face that I ought to “You are your mother's child, dear Sarah ! » ‘ | know,” he said to her, gently. | I hoped she would be here to meet me when I came home at last!” Sara's heart was already full, and this reference to her dead mother caused her tears to overflow, she, “Dear cousin Elihu,” said taking his hand in both hers, “my [mother remembered and loved you | to the last day of her life. She would have been glad indeed to see you here {once more. Iam glad, too. | All my life long I bave looked for- ward to your coming.” “Bat you did not expect to see me return so poor,” said Elihu, sighing. “Poor or rich, it matters little,” re plied Sarah, fervently. “You are | here, at home once more, and that is enough to make vs all rejoice.” “Aye,” said Elihu, looking trom ber beaming countenance to the cold faces of the rest. “I should have been glad to bring gold enoughto make me welcome. But what has happened, has happened, and I do not wish to com, plain, Cousin Joshus, for my cousin's sake, and for the sake of the old times when you and I were boys together, I suppose you will Jet me stay at the old homestead for a few days. “Eh? Oh! To be sure! Stay and welceme, cousin Elihu,” stammered | the farmer, who feeling the eyes of his wife and daughterSara fixed upon him, was like a man between two fires. So it was settled, and Sara flew about like a good fairy to prepare supper for the wanderer and afterward to set in order his room and bed. At {9 o'clock he retired, and then the { storm burst fourth. The second Mrs. Holmes inquired shrilly if their house was to be tnrned into a poor farm,” and make the abiding-place of every shiftless crea- | ture who had wasted his substance in | riotous living among those negroes”— only to come at the last, without a penny in his pocket, to be supported by those who had the misfortune to be related to him in a very distant way. Mr. Holmes said meekly that it wasn’t likely Elihu would want to stay long and that he had once redeemed the farm, which was heavily mortgag. | ed, with his own money and given a | deed of the place to his first wife, he | didnt very well see how he could re, fuse him a shelter there if he claimed it. For a time at least,” he added, nervously, seeing his second wife's black eyebrows knitting themselves together in a way that he had learned to dread, Grace upheld her mother in all her denunciations ; though Sara thought His hair was | privately that it would have been more delicate hal she kept silence, since, as the daanghter of Mrs, Holmes by a former marriage, she conld not be suppose | 1) have auy great ioter- est, pecuniary or otherwise, in the disposition of the homestead, As for Bon, like most boys of thir. teen, he was on the side of right against might, and he did not scrup- | Je to «ay that for his part, he hoped Cousin Elihu would stay there for- ever, and that he was sure, if he had redeemed The farm, that he bad a per. feat right to do so. His sister Sarah cond have kissed him for the answer, but she kept silence, The days went on. By every art that a mean and paltry epirit could Mrs. the showed plainly to Elihu how invent, Holmes second unwel- come he was beneath her rooftree, need me, Elihu, snd J—I have thought and dreamed of you, and, I really believe, loved you from the | days when my mother first told we | about you, when I was a baby at her : knee,” ; So they were betrothed, and after a | brief storm at the farm-house, when | her decision was first made known, Sara followed the fortunes of her lov: | | ) " " er to a distant city, where they were married, Ben went with her as her protector and “ best man,” Her father kissed her and cried over her, as he bade her farewell, and put a pocketbook econ. taining five hundred dollars into her hand as a wedding portion, “I can’t go with you to give you away, my dear, and I can't let you be | married here,” said the poor man, | “for I shall never hear the last of it, As for Grace, she simply ignored him. As for Mr. Holmes, though he would have been bith greatful and kind, he | was 50 tamed and worried by nightly | curtain lectures, hours long, that he | dared not show the ruined man any | attention, and only looked at him wistfully now and then, as if wonder- ing when he would be gone, Eliha's plate, knife aod fork were placed upon the table at every meal, | it 1s true. He fared asthe rest fared, in the house, To her and to Ben he owed each morgent of But this was Sara's doing. [happiness that he enj The [protaes were always glad wed in the old house. sister and her young to be with the other inmates of the | him, bat | | house looked over and around him, {and even when he ate of their bread | they knew him not. Sara's proud spirit blazed up for | his sake at 8 thousand petty insults and affroots each day. She wondered | privately to herself, and aloud to Ben | how Cousin Elihu, with the memory of his past wealth and grandeur fresh it. Nor was she surprised when, one pleasant | in his mind, could endure evening, just four weeks after his ar- | rival, Elihu told ker thet he must go | “I cannot blame you. treated you shamefully!” They have | she “said, | while her heart sank down, down in | her breast, like a stone rinking into | the depths of the lake on whose bank they sat. “But where will you go | cousin Elibu? What will you do?| you were ill when you came here, aod, thaoks to their unkindness, you are not well and strong enough yet to care for yourself. Oh, it is a shame, a shame!” she broke out again. “And if you had come rich, as they expect. ed, every one of them would have been "ww at your feet ! Cousin Elihu smiled the smile that always brightened his melancholy face, till, in her eyes, it was the noblest, handeomest face on earth. “Never mind them, Bara,” said he; “you and Ben have been so good to me that I have scarcely noticed the rest. So good that" He paused and looked at her. “Sara, when I am gone, shall you miss me?" The tears rose to her eyes- “Oh, how ean you ask? You know, Elihu, that when you go I shall be miserable, I shall think of you among strangers, poor, perhaps ill, perhaps dyiog—" She hid her face in her hands and (it I do; and I’m getting old now, and I want peace and quiet in my own house, But God bless you, Sara, and your husband that is to be. Elihu! Your mother loved him dear- ly, aod I don’t know a fault he bas iu | the world, except that he is poor.” | So strengthened by her father’s ap- | Poor proval and blessing, Sara approached the altar to consecrate her life to the hero of her dreams! | { { The ceremony over, they drove toa! and his room aod bed were the best | first-class hotel, and breakfasted in a | « OAT, style that made Sara tremble for the Elihu laid a package before her, and a cas- future. and afer breakfast ket by the side of her plate. “My first present to my wife,” said he. “As for you Ben A cry of delight form Ben made his 1 1 sister turn around to look at him. The boy was glorying in gold hunting- | 3 4 , {to Sarah, whose large dark eyes were | and dravk of their cup, seemed as if case watch. “Open your casket, love,” sai husband, smiling. She obeyed, and a river of deli seemed suddenly to flash upon her from the diamonds within. At the same moment ber husband broke the | seal of the package, and showed her a bank book inscribed with her name, | “Ten thousand dollars are deposit ed there, subject to your order,” said | Elihu, carelessly, “Ten and the | thousand dollars! { watch! and the diamonds!” grasped | Sara, turning pale. “What can it all | mean?” “I know,” broke in Ben, with a joy. | ous laagh. “Cousin Elihu has only been pretending to be poor all this time! Nicely sold all those people at the farm will be.” Bara turned to her husband. He smiled aud drew her closely to his breast. From that happy day not a wish of hers or Ben's has been uo. gratified And all the romance of ber life begun instead of ending (as she for a time supposed) “when Elihu came home.” a —— Economy | n Production. How great an economy can be de- rived from other things than labor ap- pears when we notice the relations of wages 10 tolal cost and of material to total cost. In Mr. Platoer’s estimate of the cost of paper in 1863 wages, cost of superintendence and manage. ment, aud repairs are only 17 per cent. of the total cost of making the paper, while the cost of the materials that are directly used in the paper— rags, sizing, ete.,— is 64} per cent. of the total cost. The census of 1880 shows nearly the same percentage—17 per cent. for wages alone and 63 per cent. for materials. As an element in the cost of production, materials are sobbed aloud. Elihu waited till her grief had ex- hausted itself, and then took her hand. “What you say is all very true, Sara. I am not fit to go out into the world alone, Will you ge with me? You have a good home here, I konw, but if I have you to work for I will soon give you a better one. And by- and-by Ben can come to us, and we will make a man of him. Will youn be my wife, Sara?” She looked at him with all the sol. emn fervor of a woman's love and de- votion shining in her eyes. “If you will take me, Elibu, and let me care for you, I shall be the happiest creature on earth, From the moment when I saw you come in at the farm-gate, from the moment when I koew that your fortune was gone, and that you were ill and alooe in the world, I prayed that you might love me, I don't care where our home is, or what it is, so that we share it together, I can be happier with you in a log-hut than I could be four times more burdensome to the | manufacturer than wages. If a manu- | | facturer “can’t compete,” let him look | to his materials, and not to his labor, | for remedy. The increase in the rate | of wages has been very marked in the | thirty-three years from 1847 to 1880, | Taking the wages of fourteen work- men in 1847, we find that the aggre- gate is 811.40 for a day: The same men, doing the same kind of work in 1830, earned $23.58, an increase of 107 per cent. The highest mark was | reached in 1873, when fifteen certain { workmen earned $34.97, against $11. {90 in 1847, an increase of 200 per | cent. The statisties are profuse in this country and in England, showing that the rate of wages is on the in. crease in the long run. Besides this, the comforts of the working classes are gaining, they have more and bet ter food, better houses, new conveni- ence and more fuel, warmer clothing, and more luxuries, while those things that were once luxuries have grown into necessaries through daily use. 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