, 1875-03-21

i Hu6llE{ IL ta lT01 Ut AA4b6t DESSLE tHNER4
! the protegs of Mr. Tnrox and the school
girl whose tuition for severalyea ut Steuben-
vile, O., Mr. BEroHEn paid, has told most
; remarkable story concerning the domestic lie
! OF 1l. Tnros. True on false, it does not
! affect the question Of Mr. BEEoHKR's guilt or
!: innocence oneway OF the other, but, If true, it
! will have the effect To reducs Mr. TnroS's
! claim for damages in 91o0, 600 down to the
/! minimum Of about one cent II these littl =
episodes concerning tho "red lounge" the
; conversation with Mrs. Tu4Toa in BEss1E's
!: presence, and with Bsssm in the absence Of
any third party, aud the extraordinary carry
F., ing Of BEssn from one room to another while
she slept soundly, ba true, Mr.. TuroN has not
been damaged one penny by anything
! Mr. 3xzonEs has done, even admitting that
/; he has done tho worst things charged agninst
, him. II all this bs true, then Mr. Throws
. atmosphere is very elastic one, and his
| mode Of life and thought il bomb-proof
i against harm, 10 far Is it can bs measured by
j; dollara and eenta. Worse than this, it ex-
poses Mr, T11rox to the eharge Of being u
! mercenazy man, seeking to make pecuniary
!: good thing out Of reports affecting his wife's
chastity. It places him in mora degraded
/ position than Mr. BKzoHEs, even admitting
that Er. BEscuEn is guilty Of adultery. It
exposes him to the contempt Of men and
;; women, and no jury will award him more
: than one red cent.
It is impossible, however, to read BEssH's
story, delivered in all its nastiness with bold
mien, glib tongue, and rnblushing face, and
, with degree Of self-control not usually
. characteristic Of the mddesty which pertains
to young ladies Of her age, without instinct
; lively asking tbs question, Can this be true
and without feeling that when Judge FULLER
/ TON gets hold OF this witness he will reduce
her to very Gnap and sorry y-looldng Bessie.
Her record, it must b remembered, is not
so straight that we can placs i'm
1'lic:t reliance upon what aha says. It
has been already shown that her eye
sight is heaeherons, or, At least, TINT she ha.
fancied she saw something which never took
place. Perhaps her other senses are equally
unfortonate. A young lady who could see
Hiss ANTHONY upon THEoDoaE's knee when
aha wasn't there, and who can b carried
round in the nighttime from room to room
without knowing anything about it, is cer-
tainly liable 10 make some dreadful mistakes
with regard to domestic matters in the
household which happens to b blessed
With her pretty presenco- In any event, it
is morally certain that Miss ANTHONY did not
sit upon TMoDoRE's knee, and that I" the
silly, balf-witted schoolgirl" rs SUSAN affec-
tionately called her, did not sec the venerable
maiden in that undigni6ed position Having
been caught tripping in the ANTHONY story,
how can We place implicit reliance in the IT,
TON stofy? But time will tell Perhaps BEs-
SIZE is right II 50, what cosy picture Of
TnroE1Ax life she presents usl Contem-
plate that pretty procession of the
white aou1s- THEODORE grows restless, tnrna
over, and remarks to ELIZABETH: "Sonl Of
my soul, my inmost heart, sleep forsakes my
eyelids. I must seek another couch" Then,
lie ths miller who DIRE ew the Crosby Opern-
House, he rises in his 1ong-tailed night-shirt,
ELIZABETH replies: "My lord, follow thee,"
and shs arises and takes the pillows, and
tho march of the whits souls commences,
Where is OFTKsBAoR, to set that march to ap-
propriats strains7 Bessie hears the steady
tramp Of the two, and springs from her couch
to seek another, lest she may be surprised by
visitation from TKoDoEE en- 6eshoLtue
But sho is not long at ease, for in few
minutes the tramp is recommended, snd she
has to change again, and thus the poor girl is
kept osci]lating like q pendulum from one
room to another, until at last the one white
soul finds the couch which suits him. The
other white soul drops the pillows with q