The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-12-31
TALES OF The BORDERS
The First and Second Marriage.
~ JoHv A1ckAr Wilson
lCONCLUDED.

One day, after a close examination int
hjs books, (and it was a very beautiful day
Tut there had been wet weather for some
time before, and the roads were bad and
/ disagrecable 70 walk upon,) he returned
/ home with the determination of saying un.
10 his wio-"I Harriet, it il impossible for
me to stand the course Of extravaganza we
arc nov pursuing. ] shall be very happy
to entertain your friends occasionally; bat
really this treating Of them every week,
might almost say every day, is too much
for any man in business to sand Look at
nv profits and expenditures during the last
three years. And be had a statement
drawn out
But, as I have said, this was only a
speech which he intended to deliver in the
presence of hi. wife Scarce had he sat
down in the Parlor where she was, until he
perceived, from her looks and manner that
there was coming StOrm ANU nc Aut v
that the address which be had prepared
would b ill-timed. He therefore sat 10
silence but she did not long follow his ex-
ample.
Kerr, said she, 81 dOa't know wbeth-
IL you mean to kill me, or what you mean
to do but am kept here, mewed up like
prisoaer."
Me keep you mewed up, dear - said
be eye certainly know ye have full scope
and liberty to do as ye please-ye are mis-
tress Of your own actions" -"
''Me mistress Of my own actions !" ex
claimed SIZE me 90 where ! please -
what do you mean! How can ! 90 any
where? Would you have me to 20 WadiRg
through the mire to visit any respects ble
person ~
"Certaiuly not, my de - said he; ''bui
ye can take fine day for your visits, when
II is dry under foot
90 you brute n exclaimed the delicate
Mrs Kerr, when shall | teach you TO know
ANYTHING? When shall / get your ideas
carried beyond your counter? Is it not
disgraceful to see you trudge, trudging in
to the town every day, Ike some poor beg
gar that had to work for his bread n
''Beggars dinna work, hinny," said he
"but do not be in a passion"
Passion" cried she 81 tell you what,
Kerr-if you continue to disgrace me as
you have done, | shall never set my foe
upon the outside of your threshold again
WHY don't you get a carriage p
"A carriage = be exclaimed. as though
thunderbolt had startled him in it's flight
Eyes carriage" she resumed-"I asl
YOU, why don't you get ono ? Don't tell mi
YOU can't afford it. know better"
II cannot tell what ye know, love, saiC
Mr.. Kerr but a carriage is cut Of th'
question"
cit is not out Of the question" she re
sumed "and question or no question, yO'
must have one Do you suppose | am to b.
kent here like nun all my life y
More conversation Of similar characte
passed between them but it ended in this
that within two months Walter Kerr had {
coachman, a carriage, and pair Of horses
But in noticing the doings Of the secOnt
Mrs Kerr, have overlooked the situation
of the children Of poor Hannah. | bav,
seen sccpmOthers who have been as kind Il
the children entrusted to their care i hav,
thouobt even more so-than If tbev haC
been their own. But such the reader vii
already have imagined, was not the trcat-
weut Of the children of Hannah Jordan
Within twelve months from their father
marriage, they became subjected to daily
almost hourly scenes Of Cruel, petty, au'
caprieious persecution.
But they endured their had treatInen
and murmured not In the society of eacl
other they were hapPY-they spoke Of thei
mother and wept. To JacObini she was a
a dream-mether-like the "dream-children'
of poor matchless ELLA.
But Francis remembered his mother sn'
by that name he could never be brought t
call her who bad now taken her place. Mr.
Kerr. indeed, though she bad no children
Of her own, was wont TO say
Don't let the creatures call me moth
er."
Time had passed on until Francis was
bow or, pOrhsps, / should say youth, .
nearly fourteen, and JacObini was approach
ing twelve. Nov, it occurred. that, at tb
time refer to, she had offended her step
mother. in what way I know not +; but. &C
cording to the statement Of the latter, Il va
an every day ofTence-although Jacohin
was gentle child, dOcile as ber mother was
But Mrs Kerr was in an evil humor. and
after having caused her fsvorite servingmai'
to beat the child in her presence, not satin