Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-07-20

Stephen smith. "And if she's the girl
think She is, she won't grudge it to
help her sisters husband in pinch"
Gall and bitterness-gall and bitter
ness But, thought poor Martin, with
sigh, how was stephen to know all
that was come and gomez .3
Essies light step, on the passage
way, sounded at this instant; and she,
came in, dressed in picturesque
brown linen blouse; her hair still shad-
ing her forehead, like fringe of floss
silk, after the old, graceful fashion.
Yes, She said brightly when her
brother-in-law's errand was stated to
her: "Of course you shall have it.
owe You as much as that, l think,
Thomas, were it only to erase from
your memory that last scene of our
parting How defiant and insolent it
was, to-be-sure" and she laughed the
sweetest of mellow laughter. But l
insist upon it still, that my theory was
correct; woman can work, without
becoming a drudge
Perhaps she can" slowly and un-
willingly admitted Thomas Martin
"perhaps she can! But it didn't use to
be so, in my mothers days"
And he sighed to think of poor Ruth.
broken down in the meridian of her
days, by the cruel necessities that drive
the wife of an American farmer to her
doom. Was it his own fault2 Per-
haps it was.
Essie's thousand loan was the straw
which saved him from fgurative
drowning. lie paid the interest,
bought new flock of merino sheep.
and weathered the storm.
And the next year when Essie came
to the farm to assist her sister, for the
first time She found Ruth sitting on
f the piazza, and watching the little
r lambs play in the sunshine with listless.
2 heavy eyes.
eyes" said Ruth, 81 can't work any
g more. But Thomas is very kind. He
4 don't grudge the hired girls wages
and he is always saying he wished he
/ had taken more care of me in the old
, times. But it's too late now. You
il were right, Esse when you said you
wouldn't stay on here, and help with
, the housework."
r. "Y es, said Essie, fondling the thir
., hand, which lay on the arm of th'
rocking-chair, 81 think | was right, y
,e Helen Forest Graces.
at The yleerOy and the Baby.
az A Characteristic anecdote is relate
as of the late Lord Lawrence, when a
re the new Yiceroy Of India, he was re
ce turning to the country in which hi
p, best years had been passed. He wa
1t; in bad spirits, partly from sea-sicllness
n, partly from the lack of friends and con
IN genial natures around him, partly fTou
the feeling of the heavy responsibilitie
81 which he had assumed in comparativel
ne weak health. A lady was returning t
- India with her infant child, which sh
n, utterly neglected, and the baby took it
a revenge upon the passengers general
to by squalling day and night alike. The
ne complained in no measured languag
to the authorities, steward, throN
n. that baby overheard" was the CT
which came from many tempest
ii tossed and sleepless birth. But tn
:. nuisance continued unabated. AT las
the new yiceroy, perhaps he saw in tn
n child, half-uneonsciously, slight re
'e semblance to his lost BERTHE, gave it
e large share of his attention, and woul
take it for hours together on his kne
st. showing it his watch and anythin
lg that would amuse it, The child too
rs to him. as he to it, and to the gre;
relief of the passengers was alway
to quiet in his presence. 'Nhy do yo
er take such notice Of that child2' Aske
to one of them. "Why, to tell you tn
truth, said the viceroy, that child
re the only being in the ship who ca
feel quite sure does not want to g
ed anything out of me, and 50 | tai
If, pleasure in its society," How muC
an of the kindness and simplicity of
ck great nature is revealed by this simp
tn story.