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DAT-DREAMS OF HOME. 



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THE INSriKATION OF NECESSITY, 



Chaplei 





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a talent nt staying away when tbey' 

 mud my peevish and bedridden husband as I en- 

 tered hurriedly from my long walk 1o town. 



"Did you bring the nine ami medicine, or am I 

 to be put off again?" 



" Never fear that," I hastily replied, " money ia 

 too scarce, and fretting too expensive, for you to 

 bo forgotten, or neglected." Turning away with 

 shame and vexation that I had been hetraied, by 



kind reply, I quickly prepared the medicine and 

 brought the wine, saying cheerfully, 



" And so you needed mo in my absence. I was 

 obliged to wait an hour to see Mr. Jones before I 

 could get the money." 



"0, money, money 1—Firo and torture! Am I 

 forever to bo haunted with the gaunt spectre of 

 famine? 0, Jake, what has become of our charmed 

 life I How can we learn to endure patiently such 

 an accumulation of evils!" 



iuffer long and bo kind to each 

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chance of happiness. Let us grasp 



Our story was only the common one of early 

 morriages and American fortunes. Bom and bred 

 id affluence, sailing upon the top-most wave of 

 society in our native city, and accustomed to be- 

 lieve ourselves belonging to an order of beings far 

 above those who were without our immediate 

 sphere, it is no marvel that we never had even a 

 distant conception of life as it i8, until alone, help- 

 less, and friendless, we were shipwrecked upon 

 the sea of life. My eye is dim and my brain reels 

 as I glanco backward upon that one week of 

 crowding thoughts and thrilling events. I cannot 

 even yet think calmly of the beautiful homo which 

 th oil its wealth of air, sunlight 

 ft it for my husband's elegant 

 residence, and believed myself about to 

 ) the rapture r novelists and poets, with 

 s thoroughly familiar in theory. Two 

 years or my married life had been passed in a 

 whirl of gayety, when suddenly, with the stcaltbi- 

 dcss of a serpent and tho fierceness of a lion, the 

 dire calamity came. 



I was wearily leaning back in my carriage, at three 

 o'clock in the morning, on my return from a bril- 

 liant party, when suddenly the startling cry of tire 

 and the wild glare of its light, as it simultaneously 

 burst from a long range of front windows, shocked 

 me from my stupor, paralvied with terror aa I 

 fonnd myself gazing at my own home thus deluged 

 in flame. I rushed from tho carriage frantically 

 ejaculating, " my husband," and madly dashing 

 within the crackling door-way, was, in an instant, 

 caught, and wrapped in a thick carpet, but not 

 before the lluttertug laco of my party array had 

 reached the flame, which wreathed its coiling em- 

 brace about my neck and arms. Stifled and 

 senseless, I was borue to a friend's house, awakiDg 

 to hear the agoniied groans of my husband as he 

 *as undergoing tho horrifying process of an am- 

 pmttoii of one of his limbs. In consequence of 

 » »|JBht indisposition he had not accompanied me 

 lothe party, and under the influence of an opiate, 



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The whole inm 



raging flame, before the marble front 



or the fire to be discovered from without." The 



watch gave the alarm and but a few moments had 



« vicinity of the kitcbei 

 1 impossible to asceruii 

 ' burning mass, — 



elapsed ere the aristocratic neighborhood _ 



indescribable scene of confusion. Three servant 



girls appeared at the attic window with frantic 



1 alp, and the noble firemen, heeding 



neither danger nor suffering, planted their laddei 

 and bcre Ihem safely to the ground. All this ha 

 occarred ere my arrival, and but a moment after I 

 was taken from the burning door, my husband 

 appeared, wrapped in the barning clothes of bis 

 bed and through some inadvertanl step, fell in the 

 flaming door-way. Before be could be lifted from 

 his dangerous position, the walls above had fallen, 

 fatally crushing and mangling one limb and 

 frightfully mutilating the other. The horrified 

 spectators spared no rffort to release him and saTe 

 • life which he, so often afterwards, wished had 

 been then ended. Rendered torpid by 

 he only awoke at the Uuch or Are, and springing 

 from the bed with little consciousness of what he 

 was doing, rushed with a blanket about him down 

 the burning stairway to the front entrance. His 

 whole body was burned,— even his hair nearly 

 gone, and the agony of life was, for long weeks, 

 far worse than death. His escape seemed 

 miraculous, and now, a year from that eventful 

 nigbt, be was bo weak that be could scarcely mo' 

 and so sore and sensitive that but a touch of cold 

 gave bim intense pain, while a flush of hot ai 

 renewed the tortures of that fearful night. Tb 

 lightest breath of smoke was suffocation, and lb 

 sight of fire, thrilling agony. Pitiable as was hi. 

 condition, calamitous enough for human enduranc 

 it would seem, — yet bis cup was not full. 



Ten days after the destruction of our mansion 

 Mr. Gliddon, President of Monteith Bank, ii 

 which our funds were mostly invested, called upon 

 me with the astounding intelligence thot he shouk 

 be obliged to suspend payment ; and that, in con 

 sequence of other failures, which were daily mul 

 tipljing, the whole capital was exhausted and my 

 husband's drafts could no longer be honored. I 

 demanded immediate investigation, and employed 

 tbe most skillful attorneys to examine papers, but 

 all agreed in taking from us every dollar and, as 

 usual, deploring tbe unfortunate necessity. A 

 month before, my father had been ruined in the 

 general crash which has so leveled society, and 

 the sudden desperation of his tireless energy and 

 unconquerable piide had burried to the West wi 

 tbe wreck of his fortune, and purchased a farm 

 new land, which his unwearied spirit hoped 

 redeem from utter worthlessness. 



Hard words bad passed between my husband 

 and father, and he left us in anger. I conld ni 

 appeal to him and now, in my utter helples?nes 

 I felt most unwillingly crippled and inert, even a 

 most insane. I appealed to my numerous friends, 

 (as I believed them,) and they, although deeply 

 grieved, could seo no possible chance for recovei 

 ing any portion of our possessions, or any chee: 

 ing prospect for the future. One after another of 

 them failing to recognize me as I passed down 

 Broadway, opened a new vista to my tear-dimmed 

 eyes and sickened my soul with despair. Now 

 that the truth was fully evident, I turned to my 

 stricken husband, and, in the silence of tbat long 

 night of watching, while banging upon his inco- 

 herent words, took a stern resolve, and in the 

 strengh and heroism of youth, and the revivingol 

 early faith, determined to do battle bravely for 

 myself and the helpless one beside me; and kneel- 

 ing by his couch in a chance moment of hia sleep, 

 I felt tbat my vow was registered in heaven. 



One might almost hope for affliction, were il 

 only to feel, for one moment, the God-given power 

 to struggle with difficulties, and see clearly, by the 

 light of faith, through the daikness of midnight 

 gloom. I bad an attached servant, who would no 

 leave me when told of our misfortunes, and Hire 

 her good offices I obtained part of a suburban col 

 tagc, occupied by her aunt. With the jewels an 

 diamonds adorning my party- costume, I resolve 



! the world I 



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would not be periled thereby, we quieily removed 

 to our humble quarters. I forbear to look back 

 upon the scene when I was obliged to darkly hint 

 our circumstances and suggest a change of resi- 

 dence. Alone and desolate, save the absorbed na- 

 ture of the care thus cast upon me, yet I turned 

 not back upou the paist. feeling happier and more 

 satisfied, notwithstanding my unceasing anxiety 

 than at any other period of my life. Language is 

 as powerless to utter the wearying torture of a 

 useless life, as to portray the satisfaction of an 

 active one, spent in tbe unfaltering discharge of 

 pressing pn uni duties. Heeding no bodily weari- 

 ness as I felt my better nature eipand, bewailing 

 no misfortune, I experienced the welcome throes 

 of this unlooked-for soul-birth. The marvelous 

 power within, supplied at our need, availed me 

 now ; and I, the crawling earth-worm, scarcely 

 awaited the chrysalis ere I could flutter my wings 

 and fly wherever Our Father should bid. 



Chapter II. 



"Mrs. Raritox, shall I make you out a receipt 



for thia month's rent," said the gruff agent, one 



morning, putting his bead unceremoniously within 



"If yon please," said I, advancing with the 

 money in my hand— a hand that shook just a little 

 as it parted with its lost penny. But I consoled 

 myself with the fact that I had a piece of sewing 

 nearly finished, and that Mr. Rariton was igno- 

 rant of the state of our exchequer, supposing that 

 the income of the little remnant of our fortune 

 was sufficient to support us, which idea I had not 

 attempted to dissipate, however unorthodox such 

 truthfulness may be considered. Our little all 

 was now gone. I had endeavored to eke it out as 

 long as possible by trying to sew, that being the 

 first resort for a woman in need, and finding my 

 health sinking in the attempt, I grew positively 

 frightened at the suffering and privation which 

 stared us in the face. I walked to town that eve- 

 ning, and presenting my work, was told that it 

 was cot sufficiently good to command the usual 

 price, and that they would pay me when I had 

 finished another garment, if the work was satis- 

 factory. With a heary heart and tottering frame 

 I turned to find my way home, and absorbed in 

 irrows, did not observe a stranger intently 

 gazing and then following as I left the store ; but 

 after walking some distance became conscious of 

 footfall behind me, even out upon the obscure 

 reel through which I was hastening. Visions 

 ' garrotiog, murder and abuse loomed up as I 

 »ed on, the measured footstep continuaUy gaioing 

 >m me. I had an alley to pass through, and 

 at as I turned to enter, was grasped by the 



shoulder and suddenly turned face to face with 



" Are you Mrs. Baritos T" he almost shrieked. 



Trembling with flight, I gave a faint affirmation, 

 when he said fiercely, and with an oatb, 



"Ab, you are poor, are youf And that pappy 

 husband,— he'll find out what it is to grind ai 

 dig. Poor!" screeched the maniac, "ha I h 

 what's good for us before we di 



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" I do not know yon. Lei me go," replied I, 

 with sudden courage, looking bim commandingly 

 in the ey* With the imbecile leer of insanirj 

 be visibly flinched and dropped my arm, only 1 

 seiie it again when I turned my eye from bin 

 His wild shout as be ca.ught me again, brought 





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Redoubling my speed, I arrived safely at norm 

 oiling within the doorway in a fainting fit, from 

 rhich I did not recover in nu hour, and which 

 hrew our patient sufferer into a new paroxyi 



" Never mind— I suppose you forgot it, to-day," 

 was the apologetic remark as he noted my dis- 

 tressed silence. 0, tbe agony of poverty, when il 

 denies what have become necessaries of life to the 

 beloved sick and Buffering. 



My head laid achingly and wearily open its 

 pillow that night, and even faith seemed lost and 

 stifled. With the morning came new hopes, and 

 my sewing progressed with new vigor. Mr, 

 Raeitox had grown gradually weaker and less 

 earthly, — worn to a shadow,— yet the glowing and 

 peaceful light beaming from his spiritualized face 

 gave him tbe look and manner of one about to I 

 ith.-isid from the fetters of clay which had so loi 

 bound him. His thoughts were more of heav, 

 than earth, and, clothed in the sublime language 

 of Scripture, they came as a voice from the spirit- 

 land, breathing words of wisdom and prophetic 

 inspiration. I felt a solemn resignation and 

 almost joy pervade my soul, as I sat beside bim 

 with my sewing, and all through the summer day 

 drank hope and comfort from his inspired lips. 



"There is no possibility of my recovery, Jane, 



deuce, it is that I must leave you without even 



temporally beyond the reach of want. I have an 

 atonement to make to your father for the harsh 

 words spoken at our last interview. How itgoadi 



sad heritage tbat has fallen to you, my dear, — toi 

 and poverty,— but God will reward such palienci 

 and labor." 



How like balm came the words of praise from 

 lips so loved. I scarcely heeded the new rebuff 

 which awaited me at night,— the refusal to furnish 

 any more work on account of the stains upon tt 

 last piece. Dear reader, they were tears of joy 

 my husband's sympathizing words. I still felt 

 the genial elevation and peaceful 

 from his heaven-solaced spirit, and 

 to calculate consequences, did not beed this De 

 difficulty. The haggard face and gleaming ey 

 of the wild maiiae who had followed mo, glared 

 through a shop window, and I should have been 

 again persecuted by his presence, except for the 

 protection of a police-officer. I only felt 

 when I bad arrived at home in the presence of my 

 lK-!pk>s husband, whom God would save from all 

 barm,— his weakness being certain safety. Such 

 a composed and settled frame of mind w 

 hibed from his holy serenity, that I slept 

 fully, with only hope between myself and absolute 



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seeking employ 

 ment in the large sewing establishments of tht 



city, all of whom preferred to employ those wht 



mended me to such and such num 

 tbey gave out work, and all these hi 

 seamstresses as they wished. One di 

 with the remark, "You have too much of a fine 

 lady air about you, to do your work right"— 

 another said, "Go to some family"- another, who 

 knew me, and pitying my distressed look at his 

 refusal, said kindly, " Why not try embroidery— 

 we will pay you well;" and handing mo several 

 bands, mentioned the price, which was so meagre 

 for the labor that I found my spirits ebbing low, 

 and my heart very sore. 



Let those who scoff at discouragement and 

 mock at tbe calamities which so often beset the 

 struggling child of adversity, leave for one day 

 their comfortable homes, and, clad in the garb of 

 labor, go forth into the broad streets, tbe byways 

 and lanes, sueicg for employment. "Ah," says 

 one, "this happy laud of free institutions leaves 

 none to want who are willing to work." Try it, 

 ye croakers, — forget your pompous prosperity, 

 and limit yourself by that surrounding of circum- 

 stances which must envelop every person. Try 

 it just after a panic,— take the position allotted 

 me,— my husband ill, whom I could not leave,— 

 myself unused to labor,— fresh from the lap or 

 luxury, — hurled from tbe tide-wave into an inex- 

 tricable whirlpool of difficulties,— how slight tbe 

 chance for a successful issue of the struggle with 

 staring want,— weakness unutterable the foe to 

 be overcome. Xot one lesson of my whole life 

 had been given with a view to independent effort, 

 and how could I survive. I might teach music, 

 painting, or a school, perhaps ; but my sick charge 

 could not be left. I had no capital to purchase a 

 painting materials, and thus pursue tbese 

 home,— my path was narrow, yet 



light, although faith whispered that it 



ltitnatcly reach Heaven. 



led slowly homeward, having cxham 





a sort of numbness in my limbs, I paused 

 before the pictured-Iined window of an extensive 

 bookstore, more through weariness than from any 



■st in tbe life-pencilings there traced. Look- 

 ing mutely and passively at the miniature rcpre- 



tions in still steel, of the great artists and 

 grand masters, I wondered, in my heart, Lf any 

 il of their lives had gnawed into their souls as 

 porerty was now griping mine. I turned sadly 

 and slowly away, meeting the wistful, gladdened 

 eyes of— a friend. My God, had I a friend V How 



my heart leaped,— how tbe fountains onc'ojcd 

 and the summer dews cooled the fever-heat of my 

 throbbing poises,— a friend, true and tried, tender 

 and faithful. My teacher, my governeaa, whom I 

 bad Dot seen for a long, long time, smiled in my 

 joy. I had lost wight of her 



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sentative. Time* were changed with ns, b 

 hearts do not forget, and her pure nature poured 

 tbe healing oil into mine with nu unsparing hand. 

 She became to me in that half-hour • beacoi 

 light,— n guiding star,— a rock of refuge and a 

 haven of safety. Thank Goo for those dear hu- 

 man friends which He is sore to send in aurilireat 

 need I [Concluded next week ] 



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