The Butler weekly times., 1882-12-06

great deal more of their business
than they do of their wives, any,
way
In this congenial atmosphere Mrs.
Rogers forgot all the decencies of
life, as well as the higher obligations
of loyalty from a wife to her hus-
band. She told of past disagree
mcnts, and dwelt with real pleasure
on the occasions when she had her
own way in spite OF her husband.
The gentle, generous. dIgnified and
Woodworking Mr.. Rogers became
an orgre with plethoric noney-bags,
tyrant, Bluebeard, miser who
begrudged his family the necessaries
of life. AT least this was the i'm
preston which could not but pre-
vah, when Mrs. Rogers had emptied
her bu lget of complaints. Not that
she meant to entirely mIsrepresent
her husband, but carried away by
her desire to do as her neIghbors
did. and believing that the pleasure
could be hers If her husband only
thought so, it came to pass that it
was not Mr.. Rogers wi o n she h I'd
held up to her sympathizing trie nds,
Before twelve clock Mrs. Rog-
ers had firmly decided to carry her
point in spite of any such slight OBJ
stacle as her husbands inability to
supply her with money.
| About two O'Clock, Mr.. Rogers,
who had been too busy to even think
of luncheon, received the following
note by a messenger:
DEAR WILLIAMS: I have de-
cided it absolutely necessary for me
and the children to have a change.
] shall borrow the amount for our
trip from brother Harry, who | know
will be willing to oblige me. l
think can get ready to start te-mor-
row. 1t you can let me have the
money, / shall, of course, be better
pleased than to get it in the way l
haye mentioned. In any case shall
go. MARY.
On the desk III front of Mr.. Rog-
ers lay 'brother Harrv's" check for
five hundred dollars. Fearing he
could not depend upon collecting
enough money to meet IA note due
that day. Mr.. Rogers had borrowed
the amount from his brother. .inl-law.
Now his wife informed him that she
was about to solicit load from the
same source. All day Mr.. Rogers
had planned and counted and taken
in every bit OF sail that the endanger-
ed business craft would stand and
still go OIL, and now his wife, should
be his best friend and real helpmate
had proved not wholly indifferent to
the situation, but absolutely without
feeling for or faith in her husband.
The messenger waited tor an an
swer as MIR. Rogers with flushed
face and trembling hands, fumbIed
over his pen and paper. The man
seemed to have become suddenly
numb and powerless. AT last he
wrote as follows:
''Do not do it. | Ian already in
Harry's debt. It seems to ne that a
wife who will ask her husband to
raise money for pleasure, when she
knows 1t is with the greatest difhcul-
ty that he can pay his honest debts,
is fatel hlndrance instead of the
help that every honest man has a
right to expect
This Mr.. Rogers scaled and dis
patched. and then with Il shudder OF
shame glanced over his wite's COM
munication.
In his nervousness and abstraction
he had torn it up-had previously
tucked the check IN the envelope,
| and now the letter, envelope and
check. torn into inch bits reposed in
the waste basket. Then Mr.. Rog-
ers put on his hat to so to the bank,
| and at last discovered that the check