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leisure maments, but he could not af,
ford it. The club rate was one dollar
and fifty cents year.
"Aye, and SO it goes" said the other
gentleman, ''well that mans wife may
be wishing at this very moment that she
had her paper to read, while he is pay.
ing almost its full price for year-for
what ? And yet, how smilinsiy he does
it. All! those sympathizing wives.
How many clouds often darken upon
them from the brows Of their husbands
when they ask for tritling sums of mon-
ey, and how grudsingly the mite is
handed over, when it is given What
foods of joy that dollar and forty cents
might have poured upon the children OF
that unsuccessful billiard player. All
it is well for such wives and children
that they do not know where the money
all goes ..-.r. .
They had finished at the nearest table.
The two gentlemen moved on, and Al-
bert Landman arose from his seat and
left the house. Never had he such
thoughts as now possessed him; he had
never dwelt upon the same grouping
ideas. That morning his own true,
faithful, loving wife had been sad and
heartsick, because he had harshly and
unkindly met her request for o small
sum of money. And his sweet Lizzie
had crept away to her home almost
hroken-hearted for the want of a single
toy such as her mates possessed. And
yet the sum of both their wants amount
ed to not as much as be had paid away
that evening for billiard playing.
Albert Landman wanted to be an hon-
est husband and father, and the lesson
was not lost ufion him. On his way
home he stopped at Mr.. Grants and
purchased the best and prettiest hoop to
be found, with driving stick paint ed red.
white and blue, and in the morning,
when he beheld his child's delight, and
received her grateful, happy kiss, the
question came to his mind; which was
the best and prettiest result, this or tho
five aames of billiards The hoop has
COST thirty oents.i He could play two
games of billiards less, and oe the gain
er of ten cents by the pleasant operation
A few mornings a4ter this, as Albert
rose from the breakfast table. he detected
an unusual wistful look upon his wife's
face.
Rate. what Is 1t %
Albert. could you spare me half
dollar this morning ?''
And ont came the wallet, and the
money was handed over with a warm,
genial smile.
What Tears at that ? Was 1t pos
sible she had been so little used to such
scenes on his part, that simply an act Of
loving kindness thus affected her.
How many games of halliards would
be required to secure such satisfaction
aa Albert Landman carried with him to
his shop that morning.
A very simple lesson, is it not But
how many may gain lasting profit by
giving heed to it.
SUFFRAGING WoMEN-The Washinc-
ton correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin, Jan. II, says:
The Women's National Suffrage Con.
vention. of the Woodruff wing of the
Women Suffragists, otherwise irrever.
emily known as 1.-The Hen Convention"
is now in session in this city, and at,
tracts tolerably large audiences, oompoa.
ed to small extent of the faithful. but
mainly Of the curious, who go to laugh.
and return to pray that they may never
again witness such a conglomeration, adj
hesion and intermixture of respectable.
ty and vulgarity. intelligence and ilsan.
ity, brains and brass. as may now daily
be found on the platform where 81.
together Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Victoria c. Woodruff, Susan b. Antho.
ny and Mrs. DIR. Mary Walker. Amols
the speakers last night was Mrs. Laura
DeForce Gordon, who had just arrived
with Mis- Anthony from California.
She gave an account OF her recent can.
yasS for State Senator and detailed thA
history of the Women Suffrage move.
ment in California in good set terms.
dwelling with great pathos on the de,
plorable fate of the Female Suffrage pc,
tition to the Legislature, which 'tha
chivalric gentlemen" ESQ she styled them
with sarcastic emphasis) referred to the
Committee on Swamp Lands.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beechsr has
written letter, which was read last
night. addressing the aforesaid Wood.
hull as "My dear Madam" and only
limiting his disinclination to take part in
the Convention.
Delegate Garfield of Washington Ter
ritory replies to similar invitation very
decidedly, saying, in his letter to Mrs.
Stanton, that be does not believe suff.
rage will elevate woman or better her
condition. and adding: "Had no 9th.
er reason for this opinion, the recent
tendencies of the suffrage movement in