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A very estimable friend of ours, who is
not to be named, though he might not o5
ject to it, once gave US confidenlially, the
following anecdote about himself He
was old when he told the s'ory to us, but,
as may be logically inferred he had once
been young.


La his young days he married a wife.
wholly from impulsive passion; but his
you hful liking soon grew into concentra-
ted fame of early love, heallhful emotion,
intellectual admiration and moral obliga'
ton. The latter term he used to say to
us. should never be known to a married
man. Moral obligation may be mentioned
to men who have none, but when sounding
in the ears of those who have ties and few
means, they are tones Of terrible discord
Our fine hearted friend married a wife,
and in her found woman of superior in>
telligence, as well as amiable tempera-
ment. He lived happy through his hons
eymoon. aud grew even more contented af'
ter j., but from the inward uneas;ness caus.
ed BY some chronic affection he gradually
fell into the use Of alcoholic stimulation.
His gentle wife, upon discovering this,
was afflicted deeply but knew full we'll
that aggravatlon rather than reformation
would arise from her interference /; so the
mild creature remained sile mt, and The en-
ly tone of reproach she ever uttered was the
semi sigh, semi>exclamation of 'Ehm 'hen,P
When he appeared before her with
slig bit wildness in the eye, too MITCH red.
ness in the check, or an abrupt hiccough
coming from the throat. her smile would
be the same her words as kind, but she
would turn aside with her melancholy
aspiration of "Ehm hem"


| He understood this though he took no
notice of it and being man Of fine sensi
bilily, this delicate and kind forbearance OF
his wife wrought upon him with wonder
ful effect. No curtain lecture could ever
have fallen on his ear with such potency as
his wife's simple "Ehm 'hemi"


The agitation OF other and better princi>
pies come about and our friend was one of
the frs. to sign himself teetotaller. The
deed, however, was not mentioned, and his
wife remained in complete ignorance of it.
"Ehm hem !" at any rate. was heard no
more from her lips.


Some time elapsed. and one evening the
husband sat down with quaint, happy
smile beside his wife. He looked her 10
she face and smiled still merrier. She
| laughed in return, but was still compelled





"Ehm, 'hemi" said the reformed inebri-
ate.


"What!" enquired the wife, for she was
still. as she had ever been. unconscious that
he knew aught of her suppressed grievance
on his account.


"Ehm 'hem" said the husband wife,
don't you remember tha. sound p


The whole truth then flashed upon the
r.,
had felt deeply and in secret her quiet
grief, and how j, had worked upon him e
ven 10 The abandonment Of his vicious habit
She threw herselfupon his neck, and he
laughed with renewed joy as he kissed her
flushed cheek and breathed merrily in heI
ear the simple signal of departed troubles
"Ehm 'hem!'


MONEY WELL EXPENDED.
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