The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-09-03

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1 never, never. can forget,
And dropped her teeth-1 think they were
At least fifty dollar set.
So paled my hopes, a paIes tho light
That Fancy lends her fairy scenes
She grabbed her tyOF1es up and ned,
And resumed my pork and beans.
THE WORK OF TWO BaEN.
A few years ago we lived in q
Western village where were two
men, neig hbOrs, and for a long time
friends. They were married and
each had children to call them ia
Their. One of these men lived a
few miles from the village. He
owned q small farm and was q man
able to climb up in the world and
to make his mark for good. The
other was a skilled mechanic, able
to obtain q capital situation at any
time and to abundantly provide
for his wife and five little ones.
Both of these men were real good
fellows, large hearted and full of
generous impulses.
At times the former came to the
village to sell produce. At such
times he never failed to meet his
chum, and the two would have q
season of enjoyment in this drink
ing place or that one. Sometimes
these little sprees would last two
or three days, till all the money
each man had in his pockets would
be gone. Then the farmer would
go home. He would run his poor
horses till they we're tired out,
lashing them as they ran. At
home he would be cross, ugly,
quarrelsome and often cruel. He
abused his patient wife and often
whipped his children terribly as
he gave vent to his drunken anger.
His family came to fear him. His
wife did all in the power of wo-
man to please him. She worked
early and late. She went without
the comforts OF life to which she
had been used before they were
married. She skimped and stint
ed herself in evory possible way.
She was good, kind, loving, wifely
to him, her husband, and tried by
all the arts in her power to win
him back to sober manhood, be-
lieving that when he was himself
he would be kind and generous.
One day in fit of anger at him
self he vented his spite on his
youngest child, a darling little girl,
and MANNED her for life. He struck
her a fearful blow with his hand
she fell through an open door
down into the cellar, broke her arm
and injured her spine, so that tC
this day she is a cripple.
The mechanic in the village had
long been married to 3 good wO.
man. A conscientious, devoted
religious woman. She too had
suffered from i'll treatment at the
hands of the man who had sworn
to love her. He had neglected hel
so much that her life was cheer
less and desOlate save through the
love she had for her children
They were growing up in lgnO
rance, with terrible example be-
fore them. Their father failed tO
get along in the world. He ia.
creased his potion. Crowded al
the hard times. Berated his wife
for extravaganza when all the
money the poor woman spent fol
her own use or wardrobe in q year
was less than he would squandel
Of a Saturday night on receipt o
his wages. The more he dranl
the less he was fitted for labor
Friends began to desert him. An
other mechanic was made foreman
of the shop he had for years su-
perintended. His children wer,
ragged and grew up to have no re
spect for their father or mother.
The day that the farmer so in
ljured his child, he ran his horse
all the way to the village for a sur
geon and physician. He did no
stop to call on his old friend ant
chum, but fastened to his owl
home, such as it was, with tn
man Of surgical skill. That nigh
he walked the floor in the room
where the little sufferer was strug
Cling for life. His patient viii
was doing all that q mother cOul'
do to relieve the pain of which tn
innocent child complained. Sh
did not upbraid her husband evel
then. Once during the night q
he came near to where she wa
standing by the bedside, she threV
her Rrms about his neck, burie,
her face in the bosom of the MAI
who sll of his years Of married lif
, had abused her when he was no
himself aud IS hot tears tracke,
each other down her cheeks, sh
said
90! Ny husband! My heart
broken! Had the blow only tai
len upon me! / will tell Bessie
was an accident and she shall no
know that her father Was cruel t
= herr
Gently he disengaged her frOI
his arms as the tears of manly cor
I, triton came from his eyes. H
r went to the bedside of the suffer
8 or. He tenderly kissed her on tn
forehead. Then he knelt upon tn
, uncarpeted door and to the edg
!, OF the bed whereon his child Ial
and bowed his head in prayeI
, Then he arose, went to the she
or stable where his horses WeE
kept, took one out and rode aWay
Three hours later, as the gre
3 flnsh Of morning was giving plaC
? to more light, two men entered tn
hpshed room Wherein watched th
mother and who're lay the sleepleG
! child. Slowly they walked to th
bedside and the eldest bent hi
r head and kissed the sufferer. A
: the tears came to his eyes. he too
t the younger man by the arm an
3 led him away, to the open air, an
said.