Year: 1859


Ewife the next morning after the great speech
at the CITY Hall, without murmur. She saV
at glance what future was before her,
some wonderful revolution did not stop he
husband from minging with the vile creature
who constitute the leaders in political cabals
Woman, true to her instinct, hopes on; ever
contrary to circumstances she still thinks tha
the future will be brighter and fairer. llei
husband, the idol of her heart, is ever fore
most in her mind, and it matters not how de.
based he may be, she still clings to him, like
shipwrecked mariner to single plank in
mid ocean; he is her all, her ark of safety
when he rises, she is elevated; when he falls,
her all is gone.


About ten o'clock in the day'one of Frank s
employers called to see ii anything was the
matter with him. The artless wife knew not
what excuse.to make shetold him that Frank
was in bed. He inquired ifhe was sick. She
replied in the negative. Tile employer, with
out uttering word, walked up stairs and on
tered the room where the sleeping man lay.
But, OH horrible the very first glance be-
traycd the whole truth. Frank in bed with
his clothing on the odor of whiskey and to-
bacco pervading the premises, and all the ap-
pearances of man brutally drunk, were
present. lie was struck with utter astonish-
ment. While he stood thus aghast at the
spectqcle before him. Helen entered the room
and burst into tears. The whole truth would
now be made public, and the consequent
shame would be attached to her forever.


The employer, deeply mortified at the scene
him. The drunken man turned over on the
bed, and without opening his eyes, told his
employer to mind his own business and clear
out. 1t was too evident that Frank was be-
yond getting up until the effects Of the liquor
should die out. The employer left the room,
and Helen followed him down stairs to the
parlor, where she implorcd him to forgive her
erring husband and try AMI help restore him
to usefulness and society. The employer
shook his head nourfully the reality flashed
before his mind he now saw too plainly the
cause that had kept his foreman away from
his business, the time before, when he feigned
sickness. Without answering the weeping
wife, Franks employer left the house and
went to the manufactory. Here lie related to
his partners what had trailspired at Franks
house and the prcdicanent he found him in,
leaving nothing untold. One of the firm, to
appear extra smart, had seen something wrong
in their foreman many weeks; he had taken
notice that Frank had not attended to his
business as well as usual OH the days follow
ing large democratic assemblases. This was
an objectionable sin. One of them had once
asked hiifi-to support the Wing ticket, oil the
ground that that party was in favor of the
protective policy, and their business depended
in great measure, they fancied, upon the
success of their candidates. But Frank very
modestly differed with his employers, and de-
clined doing as he was desired. This was
brought up in evidence against him, and a
majority of them thought that he ought to be
discharged from their employ. Indeed it was
a serious offence to oppose protection i'll any
shape, when the business of the employer was
so materially interested in it. After a long





consultation it was agreed to place man in
Franks place, whose political bias was in ac-
cordance with their own feelings. Oh patti
zan politics, to what extremes you can run,
and what depths you can fathom to accomplish
your detestable ends. Friendship, fidelity,
unerring capacity everything must fall before
thy blighting influence. If there is one curse
greater than another, il there is one poison
moro subtle than all the rest, say that that is
politics. If my warning voice should reach
some fresde where innocence is unpolluted
with crime, and make such an impression upon
some young mind that will save it from falling
into the political current, where crime and all
its concomitant evils flow, l will be satisfied.


TO BE CONTINUED.