The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-04

as well as j. have more luau once Known
men so besotted by rum or licentious-
ness that nobody could endure them ex-
cept their wives, and they had 10; aud
YOU have heard them, after having
fairly worn the wife's life away through
abuses and privations, declare, and you
have heard other people echo the decla-
ration, that the poor fellows were more
sinned against than SHINING, for their
wives had made them what they were.
Aud yet these are the men who cry out
the loudest against womau's right to
life, liberty, and happiness, and who
predict the direst consequences TO the
world if she become endowed with her
own inalienable prerogatives.
"Do you know where Martha is
now ?" asked the injured o. husband,
with "a show Of interest.
"Indeed do not. Would to heaven
I did. But, if I knew, I would no more
give you a clue TO her whereabouts than
/ would expose the aidiug-place Of any
other runaway slave"
"What do you intend to DO about this
business? DO you mean 20 try 10 get
your money back ?n
"If 7 didn't despise you 1 wouldn't
hesitate to boot you out Of my Office for
asking such a question. No; you know
as well as I that I cannot recover the
money. As you are the woman's hus-
band, you cannot wrong her under the
law, any more than a slave owner, un-
der the old regime, could wrong his
property; but there is one mode Of re-
dress. I'll prosecute that go-between,
who aided you to swindle me. Gus
Marblehead knows all about IT,"
Long as King had been engaged as a
secret service detective, and willy as he
had grown in bringing offenders 20 jus
tice, he was thrown of his guard for
once. Thomas Jones had caughtan idea.
"And ,rhat does he know ?'
King was himself again. The ques-
tion had put him upon the alert.
Nothing"
"Then how can he know all ?"
"Its Of no consequence"
But evidently Thomas Jones, the
Honorable, did not think it was OF no
consequence. Before he slept he had
dispatched to his aecomplice, saying:
summit sacks. soap. ship sails sunday.
SAMUEL.
When this dispatch was received by
the Captain, it made a visible change in
his department. His dress encountered
a complete metamorphose, also, and by
morning he was ready to obey the tele-
gram, which be Interpreted 10 say,
"spies. Smoked out. Skedadd.e"
The closing sentence needed 10 inter
pretatiou; but the young man obeyed il.
The Honorable Thomas Jones left the
company Of Kingston Greensborough
with a strange foreboding lowering
about him. He was not wholly devoid
of conscience, and, in spite q himself,
there was lingering tenderness for the
mother Of his children in his heart,
which he could not quite dispel.
1 have seen a man beat and abuse his
patient horse till the poor animal was
dead, and then shed tears Of real sorrcw W
over the defunet carcass. SO 1 have
seen a man who haG appropriated as his
own the entire services Of an unloved
aud uucherished wife till he had lost
her, and then he has been badly sorrow
stricken. But in either case the remorse
has come too late TO benefit the injured
party, whether horse or wife.
When King essayed to prosecute the
hirsute-counteuanced Captain who had
gotten possession Of his property, the
bird had flown; aud he had himself to
thank for the indiscreiion that bad
caused him 90 take alarm.
Captain johnson well knew that, as
he was not the husband OF the swindled
party, there was danger OF a striped suir
aud hard labor in store for him in th,
peuitentiary, for il is everywhere con.
sidered a crime in law to obtain money
under false preteu~es from any one Il
whom the offending person is not mar
ried.
Colonel Augustus Marblehead pursued
the duties of his Office with much credi
TO himself His liule wifi proved
veritable Jewel, and, like an hones
man, he invariably took her into hii
counsels 10 every important matter con
cerning the affairs OF State.
To look upon one couple harmoni
ously mated, ia country and under
system where not one pair in ten ar,
+ really contented with their condition a,
each others custodians, is sight {,
gladden. the eyes and heart Of human
itarian even less susceptible Of the it
ness Of things than the humble chroni
cler Of this narrative. confess that
like to think upon and write about
happy union. But the trouble is. sucl
are SO scarce that my stock in store i
soon exhausted. In cases where ther
are no distractions to happy life
Inefe Is very little 10 tell. anyway
lake away all the bowlders. gorge.
mountains islands, and zigzag angle
that obstruct the course Of a miobt
river, and its roaring catarncts becor,
a placid current that ever sings a oh.,,
= ing lullaby to life, as it goes wandsrin
r smoothly on toward the sea. Put IN,
2 same river, or two Of them, imperfect
{ blended together, to coursing their wa
r through pent-up Gallons and over a