The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-09-06

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''My dear, dear Jeffy hurt r' cried the poor
wife, as Bella told the tale. "Oh, let me go to
him ~
Away she rushed UP the stairs to the bed
room above and bent over her husbands pill
low.
"JefTy, dear she sobbed; but, to her con-
sternation, jefferson opened his eyes, looked
at her and said:
Leave me, woman J"
sit isn't a woman. 1t is your own Emmy
sighed Mrs Jeffries.
"Take her away ~ said jefferson.
sis he dclirious, doctor ?'' asked poor Emma
Jane, trembling.
"No, madam" replied that gentleman
gravely.
''Thcn what does this mean ?" asked the
poor woman.
"Madam," said the doctor, the most solemn
of his profession, which is saying much,
''madam, l have no desire to pry into your
domestic difficulties"
'My domestic difficulties never had any.
Oh dear, dear Jeffy speak to your Emmy"
sobbed Mrs. Jeffries.
But her Jefferson only replied by saying In
'Crocodile Take her away. The sight Of
her is madness Will no one rid me of her
presence?"
'Oh, Mr.. oblings, tell me what be means ~
'Beg pardon, madam, must request you to
retire." answered Mr.. Joblings, ali his nature
apparently turned to gall 'You alone know
the meaning Of those awful words.''
Poor Emma Jane. She rushed downstairs
when the door fher own room had actually
been closed upon her. and told her incoherent
story to her friend.
"I've seen him jealous before,' she said,
"but not like this. What can 1t mean ?"
"What did you do? Whom is he jealous
Of" asked the other woman.
'Oh Ned, | don't know sobbed Emma
Jane.
And Edwipa Jones concluded very naturally
that Emma had been flirting terribly with
several individuals.
Thus, wronged by all, even her girlhoods
friend, Mrs. Jeffries abandoned herself to dis
pair.
A bullet in the calf seldom kills, and as it
was extracted promptly the wound healed
and Jefferson Jeffries began to recover, but
he still refused to see his wife, and on the first
lawyer and sent him to Emma Jane en-
powered to effect a separation.
"Ths letter is my reason" he said, with
dreadful groan, thrusting the crumpled note
into his hand. II was on my way to shoot the
fellow when Joblings managed to shoot me-
She shall keep the house If she likes, but /
never wish to see her again"
With this message the lawyer sought the un-
happy lady, and in the presence of Edwina
Jones interviewed her.
s'One comfort at least shall get from this,
said Mrs. Jeffries, with dignity. 81 shall know
''Mr. Jeffries opines that this will explain
said the lawyer, presenting her with the
crumpled letter, which with its signature sug-
gested very dreadful things, indeed.
Emma Jane took it in her hand, looked at it,
and then handed it to her friend.
my letter ~ cried Edwina dumfounded.
The puzzled lawyer elevated his eyebrows.
81 am called Ned at home,' said Miss
Jones' ''Surely Mr. Jeffries knew that. Oh,
Emma Jane, how l have wronged you il my
heart''
Explanations followed
The lawyer, choking down his laughter, re-
turned to Mr.. Jeffries apartment, and gave
them to that gentleman with dramatic effect
Never had he more trouble in preserving the
grave dignity proper to his position; when
Jefferson Jetfries, clasping his hands together,
calculated:
s''Edwina Jones p OF course, L knew But
l forgot her very existence. How | have
wronged my wife Wretch that l am, can she
ever forgive me ?o
''Never ~ Emma Jane decided. ssYou have
disgraced me before your friends, before
strangers, cast suspicion on me, and insulted
me by word and deed. demand separation
Then she went home to her parents, and
Jefferson Jeifres was left alone to reflect on
his ridiculous conduct He was obliged to ex-
plain to the doctors, to Joblings, to everybody,
and suffered agonies of shame He ionged
for his Emma, whom he loved more than ever,
and he writhed under the reproaches of her
mother and father and the menaces of her
big brothers When he was able he used to
go along at midnight and stare up at his wife's
window, and by day haunt her steps unseen
when she went out walking. At last he fol-
lowed her to church one Sunday She was
alone in her pew. He entered and sat down
beside her. Wien the hymn was given out
he offered her his hymn book Over 1t their
heads met.
"Oh, Jefferson, how could you ?" she whis-
pered but that evening she went back home
again. She felt that Mr.. Jeffries had had his
lesson and would profit by it for the rest of his
existence.
Ned says they are the happiest couple she
knows.
The New Commandment of the State.
North American Review.
The state has already passed its cold, hard,
iron-plated arms between the parent and the
offspring, and is daily dragging and forcing
them asunder. The old moral law may say,
'Honor your father and moth err etc., etc.,
but the state says on the contrary, "Leave
your mother i'll and unattended whilst you at
tend to your own education; and summon
your father to be fined and imprisoned if he
dare lay hand on you when you disgrace and
deride him. The other day working man
in London was sentenced to fortnght's i'm
prisonment with hard labor, because, being
justly angry with his little girl for disobeying
his orders and staying out night after night
in the streets, he struck her twice with a
leathern strap, and she was 'slightly Bruised
The man asked pertinently what was the world
coming to if parent might not correct his
child as he thought fit. What can be the re-
leaves the prison to which she sent him
What authority Qan he have i'm har ei.rbt .