The Press., 1889-10-31

 ble valleys, hills and beeches. But Anna showed her how false was her coloring, and out of all rules her drawing. "Artists would only laugh at your pictures, dear Josephine, Y she said. ssWhy waste your lstime in pursuit for which you have absolutely no talent ?"
 "How could you be so cruel ?" Kate cried, with angry tears, when Josey went ont of the room. s.She suffers constantly. | She never can look forward to the life of other women. If her poor little sketches give happiness, why should you rob her of it?"
 ..It is not right to even tacitly aid in deception" said Anna. Besides, I wish Josephine to iembroider an altar carpet. Why should she not give her time ard la- bor to religion 2''
 Josey that night, pale and red eyed, burned all her sketches.
 stWhy did you not tell me they were worthless daubs 2" she said to Kate, bit terly. .'As for altar carpets and chenille work, that is not religion. will have nothing to do with them!' P But in week she was at work upon the carpet. \ "Bob's wife shall never interfere with my life. Kate boasted, hotly. ' Yet it was Anna who called Bob's atten- tien' to the fact that young Whiting had been hanging around the glrl for months.
 'His salary is mere nothing and his health is not good, :" she urged. F .Katey has something of her own, and if she loves Billy she may wish to nurse him back to health, said good-natured Bob.
 s.It is not right that her life should be sacrificed to an invalid.''
 Really, Anna, cannot interfere Kate is old enough to judge for herself as to the right course"
 "Dear Robert, there can be but one right course have told you what it is. :" In consequence of this and many other talks Bob treated young Whiting with such coolness that he left the house one evening deeply offended. Soon afterward he emigated to California, there to grow healthy and rich and in time marry girl who resembled Catherine Trench. Kate is still unmarried. Grandma Trench died in the second year of Annas reign. .sShe was unaccountably weak" the physician said, "and unable to resist acute disease" He told his wife that he suspected Mrs. Roberts dietary was not of nourishing kind and the old lady belonged to 8 laIge-bodied, hungry race, who required rich food and plenty of it."
 The poor old woman crept into her grave l with dull sense of starvation in her mind and heart as well as body. She had been ' Methodist in her youth and would glad l iy have gone to that church in the last days of her life and have joined in pas. sionate hymn or in shouting ''glory." But Anna, when she told her this gently shook
 her head.
 "I do not think such excesses are rev
 ent," she said. "Dr. Patey will come and pray with you this afternoon"
 1T will not see Dr. Patey," cried the
 old lady, vehemently. Anna told her hus
 band of this refusal.
 | stMother used to be Methodist. Per Ihaps she would like to go to her owr
 church ?" said Bob, anxiously.
 ssAs if there could be more than one lchurch r thought Anna. She-let the mat
 ter drop. If Mrs. Trench would not heal religion in decorous fashion it would b, better she should hear nothing. So tn, tdying woman made her peace with Go( lAione, if she made it, and died, and Dr \ Patey buried her.
 II Soon after this, Nelly, Bob's widowed sister, told him she would take her chiI dren and make little home for them t.'Josey and KateswAl go with us, brother,
 "But father m4anf II thought we woult ] keep together while we lived, Nslly," saie
 Bob, his black eyes growing dim He wa
 an affectionate fellow, and his sisters were very dear to him. Life alone with his wifi lyawLed very bare and empty before him
 s'I hope you and Anna have had IL words ?'
 r '.No, indeed. Nobody could have word with Anna. But-it would be better for u Ito go, Bob"
 She said to Josey afterward 'sGod hell
 him l She is stifing him. l would stay but will not have the children's live Iorannl o1. She has her little rigid idea 0 lduty aud she goes about forcing every oth Ter human beings life into it. She nigh
 as well have an iron shoe made to fl herself, and then crush all out feet int that.''
 Anna smilingly bade her sisters fare well. and prayed God to bless them.
 tsI never thought to see the girls leav "Father meant their home should be here.
 Anna's heart was warm with triumpl that she was at last mistress of the olt , homestead, but she really did not knoy the cause of her triumph. She though she was pleased that her sisters had dom
 their duty.
 "After all, it is but right that Ellel
 should exert herself for her children" sh, said.
 "Ohs suppose soi' broke forth Bob s'ssYou always know the right, Anna, and is always so cursedly disagreeable P To be just to the little woman, when sh went about with her idea of right like al
 iron shoe, she did not suspect that her ow1 selft hness or ignorance had nodded it. I ] was, she sincerely believed, of Gods mak ing, and it was His will that all human fee should be crushed into 1t and walk in it. | After this she reigned supreme Th'
 only Trench left was Bob, oyer ewhos'
 stupid, afectionate, hot-tempered na
 tnre as he grew older she lost all power
 He would not listen to her scientific read
 ings nor to her expeditions of the creed O her own sect and condemnation of all oth ters. ss
 "God help you if that is the religion you teach your sons," he said. But why should poor Bob talk of relig lion, who si ent most of his.time now in th'
 tsarroonh Of the 0fEord inn !? His old neig h bors gave *tpoor Trench, who was going k the devil, the cold shoulder, and pitiet
 his sweet. tempered, pions wife. Anna had two boys, twins. On then fshe. had full time and power to experiment TShe dictated their diet, their words, theil beliefs, their very thoughts j; she was thei { nufse. their gOverness, their tutor sht