The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-04-10

SAtNO AACHondM . plllOW, anu ne, IOOIlSl
fellow, was transported to the uppe
heaven of delight over its contents.
Three months later they were married
They were a happy and hopeful couple
The life upon which they had entered
was like new and unexplored country
but Clarence meant to work hard, anC
telt little or no doubt in regard to theil
future. He was equal to any undertake
ing, in his own determination, that would
promote his wifes happiness, and, as tt
Stella, she would do anything to help hel
husband.
He had been head book-keeper fol
many years, and had the promise Of
something a little better yet the coming
season. So the first few months of theiI
married life ran smoothly. They rented
house in a pleasant part of the city,
kept a servant, and Stella wore the pref
Y clothes which had been provided at
I'd, time of her marriage, and wondered
whysister. Belle had such funny notions
aoouoWarrying poor man.
But Inward the close of the first year of
their welded life his firm was said to be
under heaY liabilities, and the anniver-
sary OF thef' marriage found the house
bankrupt andHlarence out of situation.
lie applied atthis and that place, but
month after molth slipped by and he
i 10 no opening; They moved out of
other part of the city,
By this time their funds BEGAN TO RIM
low, and Stella wanted Smefbino new
for her wardrobe AlreadA she had he
gun to show signs of disconont
81 shall find something b, and Inv ,,
the husband said, bravely. ~ ~
1t was at this trying time tina Ettle
speck of humanity was put in iteIIa,s
arms, and its feeble cry told that To az 70,
sponsibility of motherhood was hers,
81 am the happiest man alive" Chc-
enee exclaimed, caressing wife and chilo,
1.-The very happiest," he repeated again,
kissing the baby boy.
:" Let pride go to the dogs, Stella" he
added, remembering that now his re-
sponsibility was greater than before.
''They want workmen on the new City
Hall. I'll take the hammer-it will give
us bread"
She ought to have been contented,
ought to have thought with pride of the
man who would thus brave the world
opinion.
He went out in early morning, and
came home late at night, as other work
men did, his handsome face glowing with
love.
But the very thought that her hus-
band was brought down to the level of a
common laborer hurt her.
Sister Belle had said that her tastes
were luxurious, and she wanted pretty
home now, and fine apparel for herself
and baby.
The people of the world in which she
had lived had never to count on their
money to know if they could buy anew
dress. She had never been taught to
make the best of whatever circumstance
you may be placed in, and why should
she now?
The little privations she endured wor-
ried and veXed her, and in q little while
the sweet-tempered woman grew moody
and down-hearted. She became care
less in her dress, and, instead of the
cheerful little wife he used to see, he
found a gloomy woman and disorderly
house. I
But he never complained.
"Stella is homesick,' he would say:
"and the care of baby is too much for
her. | must make some money! and
his hammer rang with redoubled en-
ergy.
Yet every day her discomfort grew
more apparent, The place and the peo-
pie were so repulsive to her refined and
sensitive nature.
6 How can you expect me to live
among such surroundings, Clarence?"
was her appeal when the husband begged
her to be of good cheer
''It's cruel in YOU she sobbed. 81
want to be back again in the old home,
among my own friends"
The warm glow came to his face, and
he drew her tenderly toward him with
out word, but there was a look piteous
to see in his handsome eyes, while his re-
solve was to work still harder.
To conquer fortune, however, requires
steady strokes.
There came day, a little later for
some. days must be dark and dreary''-
when it did seem that matters had come
to crisis.
The City Hall was finished long ago,
the Odd Fellows building completed,
and the last stroke had been given the
new church. Clarence must look for
something new. Jennie who had minded
Freddy for two or three months, had to
go, and all the household cares fell upon
Stella's hands.
They had moved from place to place
since Freddy's birth, hoping to find a
house with which Stella would be con-
tent.
&C But those people are all alike" she
said, land may as well be in one place
as another was her reply to Clarence,
when he suggested that they move into
a new block. ,,tf
1t was unwomanly in her to say this,
she knew, the moment the words es-
capped her lips, and she thought to run
after her husband and beg his forgive
ness, but just then Freddy caught at her
dress, causing her to spill the water she
was pouring into the tea-kettle, which
only increased her vexation. h.
" You cross little troublesome thingr'
she exclaimed impatiently. Take thatr'
laying her hand heavily on the little bare
shoulders. Z" I'm sick to death with
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