-4 ? 1 ' -V, ' '"Vk, Tell Your Wife. 'riELL your wife!" said Aaron Lit X tie, speaking aloud, yet to him self, in a half-amused, half troubled way. " Tell my wifo, indeed t Much Rood that will do 1 What does she know about busi ness, and money matters, and tlio tricks of .trade f No, no; there's no hope . there." . . And Aaron Little sat musing with a perplexed couutcnance. He held a news paper in his hand, and his eyes had just been lingering over a paragraph, in which the writer suggested to business mc-n in trouble, tho propriety of consulting their wives. " All a very nico theory," said Aaron Little, tossing tho newspaper from him, ' and loaning back in his chair, " Hut it won't do in my case. Tell Betsy 1 Yes, ' I'd like to see myself doing it.' A man must be hard pushed indeed, when he goes homo to consult his wifo on business affairs." And so Aaron Little dismissed the ' subject. Ho was in considerable dnubt and perplexity of mind. Things had not gone well with him for a year past. Dull business and bad debts had left affairs in rather an unpromising; condition. He eould not soe his way clear for the future Taking trade us it had been for the past six months, he could not imagine how, 1 with the resources at his command, his matured payments were to be made. " I must get more capital," he said to himself. " That is plain. And with more capital must come a partner. I do not like partnerships. It is difficult for two men to work together harmoniously. Then you may get entangled with a roguo. It's a risky business. But I see no other way out of this trouble. My own capital is too light for the business I am doing, and as a measure of safety more must be brought in. Lawrence is anxious to join mo, and he says ho cau command ten thousand pounds. I don't like him in all respects ; ho is a little too fond of pleasure. But I want his mon ey moro than his aid in business. lie might remain a silent partner if he chose. I'll call and see him this very night and have a talk on the subject. If ho can bring in ten thousand pounds I think that will settle tho matter." With this conclusion iu his mind, Aaron Little returned homo, after closing his warehouse for the day. Tea being over, he made preparations for going out with tho intention of calling upon Mr. Law rence. As he reached his hand for his great coat, a voice seemed to say to liini : " Tell your wifo. Talk to her about it," But he rejected tho thought instantly, and commenced drawing on his coat im mediately. " Where are you going, Aaron ?" ask ed Mrs. Little, coming forth from the dining-room. " Out for a little while," he replied. " I'll be back in half an hour or so." ' " Can't you say where you are going, Aaron ? Why do you luuke a mystery of it ?" "Oh, it's only a matter of business. I am going to soe Mr. Lawrence." " Edward Lawrence ?" " Yes." " What's the matter, Aaron f You've been dull for some time past. Nothing going wrong with you, I hope V Aud his wife laid her hand upon his arm, and leaned toward him in a kind way. " Nothing very wrong," bo answered, in an evosivo manner. Business has been dull this Bcason." "Has it? I'm sorry. Why didn't 'you tell me '(" " What good would that have done V ' " It niisjht have done a eood deal of good. When a man's business is dull 'his wifo should look to the household expenses, but if she knows nothing about it, she may go on in a way that is really extravagant under the circumstances. I think that men ought always to tell their .wives when anything is wrong. ., V You do?" ! , , ,.; ("Certainly I do,. What better reason .can you want than I have iriven? . If she knows that tho iucomo is rcdueod, as a prudent wife, she will endeavor to reduce tho expenses. . Hadn't you better take on your coat, and sit down and talk with me a little before vou go to see Dir. ' Lawrence?"' ' ' r t ' Mr, Little permitted his wifo to draw 'off his overcoat, which she took into the passage aud replaced on the hat rack. Then returning into the parlor, she said : Now, Aaron, talk to me as freely, as you choose. Don t keep anything back Whatever tho trouble Is, let me know ' i to the full extent." ' " Oh, there's no very great trouble yet I am only afraid of trouble. I see it coming, and wish to keep out of its way , Betsy. ' ' . ' That's wise and prudent,"- said his wifo. " Now tell me why you are going to see Mr. .Lawrence. '( , . , . . y , Mr,. Little let his eye full to tho floor and eat for. some momenta in. silence. Then, looking up, ,b said : . , . , , ,l The truth is,' Betsy, I must have more capital in my business,,' There will be no getting on without it. Now, Mr, Lawrouce can oommand, or at least k says he can command, ten thousand pounds. I think he would like , to joiu me. He has said as much two or three times," " And you were going to see him on that business?" j . ' "I was." '' ' i !' Don't do it," said Mrs.! Littlo, em phatically. ! ' " Why not?" asked Aaron. ' " Because he isn't the man for you not if ho had twenty thousand pound." " Because is no reason," replied Aaron Little "Tho extravagance of his wife is," was answered firmly. t ;,- ( i , " What do you know about her 7 " " Only what I have seen. 1'vq called on her two or three times, and have no ticed the style iu which hcr.houso is fur nished. It is arrayed in palaco attiro compared with ours. And as for drc9s,"it would take the interest of a littlo fortune to pay her milliner's and mantau-ma-ker's bills. No, no, Aaron ; Mr. Law rence isn't your man, depend on it.i He'd use up ten thousaud pounds in lets than two years." " Well, Betsy, that's pretty clear talk," said Mr. Littlo, tukiug a long breath. " I'm rather afraid, alter what you say. that Mr. Lawrenco is not my man. But what urn I to do ?" and his voice fell in a troubled tone: " I must have capital ; or " , Mr. Littlo paused. . " Or what?" his wile looked at of him weak steadily, and without a sij: nxioty. Or I may becomo bankrupt." " I'm sorry to hear you say that," and Mrs. Little's voico trembled perceptibly. " But 1 m "lad you have told inc. J. he new parlor carpet, of course, I shall not ord3r." " Oh, as to that, tho amount it will cost can make no great difference," said Mr. Littlo. "The parlor does look Bhab by ; and I know you've set your heart on a new carpet. " Indeed and it will make a difference, then," replied the little woman, in her decided way. " The last feather breaks the camel's back. Aarou Littlo shall ticver fail becauso of his wife's extrava gance. I wouldn't have a new carpet now if it were offered to mo at half prico." ' lou are a brave, true woman, J5et- sy, said Aaron kissing ins wite, in ine glow ot a new-born leuling ot admira tion. ' Suppose you had five hundred pounds within tho next two months beyond whet your business will cive you ? "That sum would make all sale tor the two months. But where is the five hun dred pounds to come from, Betsy ?" " Desperate diseases require desperate remedies,'' replied tho brave little woman, in a resolute way. I'm not afraid of the auctioneer's flag." " Let us sell off our furniture at auc tion, and put the money in your busiuess, It won't brine less than five hundred pounds, and it may bring moro. My pi nno alone is worth nearly a hundred.- We can board lor a year or two, and when vou net all right again return to housekeeping." I have something more to propose. It comes into my mind this instant ; after breaking up housekeeping we will go to mother's. You know she never wanted us to leave there. It won't cost us much more than half what it does now, taking rent into the account. We will pay sis ter Annie something to take care . of lit tle Eddie and Lizzie through the day, and I will go into your warehouse as chief clerk." " Betsy, you'ro crazy." " Not a bit of it, Aaron, but a sensible woman, as you will find before you'ro a year older, if you'll let mo have my way. I don t like that llobson, and nev er did, at you know. I don't believe he is a fair man. Let me take his place, aud you will make a clear three hundred pounds a year, and maybe, as much moro. ' ' " 1 can't think of it,' Betsy. Let us wait awhile." , , .i " Ypu must think of it, aud we wou't wait awhile," replied tho resolute wife. " What is right to be done is . best doue quickly. is mere no satety iu my nek I y. an?' "Yes, I think there is, but " ' " Then let us adopt it at once, 1 and throw all but overboard, or," and she looked at him a ' littlo mischievously, " perhaps you would rather have some talk with Mr. Lawrenee first."- .:.;. "Hang Mr. 'Lawrence 1" ejaculated Aaron Little. ; ' .. " Vory well; there boiog ua help in Mr. Lawrouce, we will go to work to help ourselves. Self-help, I've beard it said, is always the best help, and most to be depended on. ' We ' may know our selves, and trust ourselves, aud that is a great deal more than we van say ' about other people. ' When shall we have the Bale?"' '' " You may be right. Betsy, but I can't bear the thought ot running out the ' red flag, of which you talk BO lightly."' ' In a week from that day; howover, the red flag was hang out. When the- auc tioneer made up his accounts, he had in id hand a little over eight hundred pounds, ' for i which a - check was. filled out to tha order pf Aaron Little. . It came into his hands just at the right moment, and made him feel, to uso . his owu words. ,' as easy as an old shoe." One week later, Mrs. Betsy Little took tho place of. Mr.. Hobsoq, as chief mana ger aud cash receiver in her husband's warehouse. There were some few signs of rebellion among the clerks and shop girls at tho beginning, but Mre.i Betsy had a quick, steady eye, and ' self-reliant manner, that caused her presence to bo" felt, utid soon mado everything subservi ent to her will. ' It w is a . remarkable fact that nt the close of the first week of her administration of affairs, tho cash re ceipts wcro over thirty pounds in excess of the receipts of any week within tho previous throe mouths. " Have wo dono moro business thaa tlsnul thh week ?" she asked of one clerk and another; the uniform answer was No." ." Then," said the lady to 'heMclf, there's been foul play here. No won der my husband was in trouble." " " At tho end ot tho next week tho sales come up to the same average, and at the end of tho third week wcro forty pounds better than bciore Mrs. Littlo undertook to mauage tho retail department. Wheth er there had been foul play or not,. Aaron Littlo could never fully determine; but he was iu no doubt as to one., thing, and that was the easy condition ol tho mon ey market after tho lapse of half a year. By the end of tho year, to uso his own words, he was " all right." Not so a neighbor of his, who, to get more cap ital, liad taken Mr. Lawrence as a part ner. Instead of bringing in ten thou sand pounds that "capitalist" was only able to put down thrco thousand, and be fore the end of tho year ho had drawn out six or seven thousand, and had given notes ot the lirm for as much more in payment of old obligations. A failure of tho house followed as an inevitable re suit. When the fact of the failure and the cause which lod to it became known to Mr. Little, ho remarked, with a shrug:. ' I'm sorry for B , but he should have told his wife." " Of what?" asked the person to whom he addressed the remark. " Of his want of moro capital, and in tention to mako a partner of Lawrence. ' What good would that havo done?" " It might have saved him from ruin, as it did mo." " You are mysterious, Little." "Ami? Well, in plain words, year ago 1 was hard tip lor money in my business, and thought of taking in Law rence. I told my wife about it. She said ' Don't do it.' And I didn't; for her ' Don't do it, was followed by suggestions as to his wile s extravagance that opened my eyes a little. 1 told her at tho same time of my embarrassments, and she set her bright little head to work and show cd me the way to get out of them. lSeloro this 1 always had a poor opinion of woman's wit in matters of business; but now I say to every man in trouble ' TELX YOUIl WIFE. ' Relative ltank of titles. The cities of New York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn maintain the same relative rank as to population they did in 180U, There has been considerable shifting of places, among those that now constitute tho remainder of the twenty foremost cities in the Union. During tho last decado St. Louis has ascended the scale from the eighth to the fourth. Chicago in a similar proportion, changes from the ninth to the filth. Baltimoro, which . in 1800 was the fourth, rctrogades to the sixth. Boston pursues the same direction, from the tilth to the seventh. Cincinnati retires a step, from the sev cnth to the eighth. New Orleans falls back from the sixth to the ninth. San Francisco, taking a noble, forward leap, vaults from the fifteenth to tho tenth Buff.ilo lags behiud from the tenth' to the eleventh. Washington makes a stride from tli fourteenth to the twelfth. - XMewurk, now Jersey s thriving metro, polis, drops, nevertheless, from the elev enth to the thirteenth. Louisville, twelfth in rank in 18G0, now asaignud to the fourteenth. ,, ' Cleveland, four steps forward, mounts from nintcenth to the fifteenth. . Pittsburgh alone retains the same re I a tive rank now as then, tho sixteenth. Jersey City rices from tho tweuticth to the importance of the seventeenth, Dotn-it recedes from tho scvonteeuth to the eighteenth. , . Milwaukco from the eighteenth to th nineteenth. . '. Albany, which was, tun years ago, tli thirteenth, now takes the old place of Jersey City, twentieth. fJr Judge L , of Lafayotte, Indi ana, not only dispenscth Justice with even hand, but at times indulgeth in the jocose. During the progress of a certain trial involving the ownership of a calf, it became of importance that tho jury, in order to arrive ut a just conclusion, should be sont to view for thoumelves the chattel in- dispute. ... The plaintiff,, who had . the animal in charge, lived, some two miles from the courthouse, and one of tho elder ly jurynicq demurred (o the idea of being sent so fur.,. The judge, in his usual, full voice, replied: " Gentlemen, I anticipated this objection, and had the calf brought ip . the court-yard. , I thought it loss trouble to bring in one cairthan to send put twtlue." . , ' , ";.'" 'The jury emerged into the open ' air, and, in presence of the calf, deliberated. SUNDAY HEADING. ' Tlio Work Doiio Inside. One of my ' friends ' is a very earnest, shrewd man, who seems always to know how to do tho best tiling at tho right time. One day ho was passing a gin shop in Manchester, England, when he saw a drunken man lying on the ground. Tho poor fellow had ovidently been turn ed out ol doors when all his money was gone, iu a uiomcut my iricnd hastened ocross tho street, and entering a grocer s shop, addressing the master, said : ' Will you oblige mo with the largest sheet of paper you have ?'' "What, , my friend? Whats the matter?" ... 0 1 you shall see in a minute or two. Please let it bo the largest sheet you have.' 1 he sheet ot paper was soon procured. " Now will 1 you lend mo a picco of chalk 1" said my friend. " U hy, whatever nrc you going to dor "You shall see presently." He then quickly printed, in large letters: "SPECIMEN OF WORK DONE INSIDE." Ho then fastened the paper over the drunken man, and retired a short dis tance. In a few moments several passers by stopped and read aloud, " Specimen of work dono iuside." In a very short timo a crowd assembled, and tho publican, hearing the noise and laughter outside, came out to see what it was all about, lie eagerly bent down and read tho inscription on tho paper,and then demanded, in uu angry vuicc. " ho did that ?" " Which ?" nsked my friend who now joined tho crowd. " If you mean what is on tho paper, I did that; but if you mean the man, you did that! This morn ing when ho arose ho was sober when ho walked down this street, on his way to work, ho was sober when he weut into your gin-shop he was sober, and now he is what you mado him. Is it not a true specimen of tho work done inside?" Iii v. Charhs (Inrrctt. Saying "Hateful" Things. What a strango disposition is that hich leads men to say " hateful" things for the nicro plesuro of saying them ; you are never safe with such a person. When you have done your best to please, and are feeling kindly and pleasantly, out will pop some underhand stub, which you ulone can understand a sneer which is masked, but which is too well aimed to be misunderstood. It may bo at your person, your mental feeling, your foolish habits of thought, or some little secret opinions confessed in a moment of genu ine confidence. It matters not how sacred it may be to you, he will have his fling at it; and since the wish is to make you suffer, he is all the happier tho neater ho touches your heart. 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