The Indianapolis journal., 1892-05-22

apart from his profession. TWO great Occu-
pations in life-one was backing horses
and the other was abusing foreigners. Jim
was generally out of employment He at
tributed the fact TO foreign competition
and them darned Germans" His friends
thought that his intense devotion to the
''sport of kings" and consequent neglect of
duty had more TO do with it.
Be that as il may. jim had long ago
drifted out of regular employment. and
was content to be taken on now and again
as "a extry hand" in busy time. He didn't
feel his position so acutely as he might
have done because he had a good. hard
working wife. who went out nursing. and
she. having q good connection, was able to
comfortably furnish and to pay the rent of
tae three rooms they occupied in Bsyham
street. Camden town.
Jim was very fond of his 'mlssis" and
freely confessed that she was a jolly good
sort He always maintained. however,
that her frequent absences from home en-
tailed by her professional duties were a bit
of a draw back to his domestic happiness.
especially as In her absence Jim and his
only son, o lad of eighteen, didn't get on
well together at all.
Tom Dester was an object lesson in hered-
tty. He not only at an early age devel-
oped q pronounced partiaIity for sporting
literature, and hszarded sundry sbillings
on morals" dead certs." and even occa-
sionally went nap" on real good thing"
TO the extent of half O crown. but he also
inherited the paternal characteristic of be-
ing constantly out of employment.
Hia fad hx-h har in
hividual exertions procured him place after
place, but Tom never stay ed longer than a
month. He had been errand boy at a gro
GERS, at q fruiterer's at q linen. .draper's,
and at a chemists but IN each instance he
had lost his place after very short proba-
tiOn. The first duty of an errand boy is to
go his errands with punctuality and dis
patch" Tom Dester might have been
backed with safety TO be longer on an CT
rand than any boy In the three Kingdoms.
DE wasn't dismissed from the grOcer's, be-
cause there he was employed about toe
shop, but this position he resigned. They
put him to tie mp pounds of tea ana bags
OF sugar. and the young mans dignity re-
volted at the menIal occupation. He re-
signed at the end of week. and told his
mother that that there wasn't nothing to
be learned at tying strings round paper
bags, and he wasn't going TO waste his time
at IT."
son, both of sporting turn of mind and
given to snack each other and row" when
they are together at home, Door Mrs. Des-
ter's lot was any thing but happy one.
1t would have been an intense relief to her
TO be called away on a months job but for
one fact. That fact was the habit
her husband had lately developed of
selling or pawning various articles
which went to- make up the little
home during her absence. In order
to raise ready money for the purposes of
turf speculation, Jim Dester thought
nothing of parting with portions of his
wifes wardrobe, or the clock. or the win
ter blankets. He had even on one great
occasion. when he had heard of moral
for the City and Suburban at SO 10 ], called
on dealer and disposed of the bulk of the
sitting-room furniture for ready cash. The
sale realized three pounds. just the amount
wanted to enable Jim to win q hundred
When his wife came back and found only
one chair for the three of them, and no
side board and no clock, and various other
articles missing. she sat down on that one
chair Jim was gallant enough TO offer 1t to
her and stand himself and wept Her
husband begged her not to take on"
What he had done, he had done for the
best. He had merely parted with q sprat
In order to catch mackereL The Shark
was certain TO WIN the City and Suburban,
and with the hundred pounds they would
be able to buy any amount of furniture
and of much superior quality to that which
he had parted with.
Mrs. Dester was not to be consoled. She
had heard of Jim's certainties before; but
be sensible little women. and knowing
that to cry over split milk won't put it
back in the juG. she presently dried her
eyes and worked herself ND into temper
and vowed that she would have a separa-
tion and go to a magistrate and see If the
law wouldn't protect her earnings.
She had never uttered such threat be-
fore. Jim Dester at first could hardly be-
heve his ears. He had very pronounced
views of the duty of wife to her hus-
a h.l., y
ferIority of women. The words which his
wife uttered were to him rank blasphemy.
They caused him the most intense pain. 1t
was with difficulty that he mastered his
emotion sufficiently to express his eenti-
ments in coherent words.
His face flushed. his bosom heaved. the
indignant man and the outraged husband
had fierce struggle in his breast for the
first word.
His first idea was that he ought to give O
lesson to the entire sex by administering
personal chastisements. But he CONQUERED
his wrath and fell back upon his dignity.
Maria" he said. as calmly as his emo
tions would allow him. "if them's your
sentiments the time has come for us to
part
think so. too. and the sooner the better.
Pm sick o. slavln' and toilin' to support a
goes and sells everything as Eve bought
with my own earnings. Oh, yes-you can
look, and looks Amt arguments. It's true,
and you know ii. I've kept you for years
you've lived on me. that's what you've
done. and you call yourself q man9"
Maria" yelled Jim Dester. how dare
you speak to your own ully-beRotten
husband like thatf What's come to you,
womans You've been nussin' In some Rad
ical family. and you've become n hatheist."
Don't you call me batheist. Eve been
q good woman to you. and Fve kept you in
idleness worked hard for you and kept
the home together, and what's my rewardf
Thisw
Mrs Dester pointed to the solitary chair
with gesture worthy of Mrs. Slddons in
her best days.
"Oh, that's your game. is itf" exclaimed
Jim. You're going TO ride the high hoss,
are youi"
II amt agoin' to ride no boss at all, Jim
Dester. leave the hosses to you. and
much good they do you. but tell you what
I'm going to do. Pm aaoing before q mag
istrate this very minute. and Pm going TO
expose you. Pm sick of il. What earn
I'll have. and what's bought with my mon-
ey Is mine under the property wOman's
marriage act, and that's what you've got
to learn"
Don't talk to me about your hacts. if
you please madam-a beastly low hact as
was passed by q lot o. dirty Radicals: don't
mention IL in my 'ome. Pm Henglish-
man. and Pm proud of it. and q Hengljsh-
mans home IS Us CASTLE"
mo. it amt: it's his wife's castle if abe
pays for It, and If you don't believe it
put on your hat and come with me to the
magistrate"
What. me 60 before a magistrate and
take his orders about my own 'Omei What's
magistrate tn do with mo or mr. ,oua