No Great Loss

A lady at San Francisco, on the morning of the sailing of ono of tho Pacific steamers, was qviictly seated, readingover the list . f those persons who had eutered their nsinus :ts pM8eng6fB, when tshe sudduiily luid down tlwj paper aud exclaimed: " Can I belicve my eyes ? - why, my husband isa passenger here!" Sho right. Her husband's trunk had boen carefully packed ; he hod intbruiud hor that ho w.is " oliliged to go to Sacramento on business, which would detain hüu u few days ;" and she saw the wholo gamo at a glance. He was about to desert lier - to roturn to New York - and to lcavo her dc-stitute in a land of strungors Startlod as well ns convinced by the truth thus made tnatfifést to her, she concluded to opeu the trunks of her huaband (whioh he bad left word would be sent for), whioh sho ut onco proceeded to do. In them sho found eight thousand dollars in hard cash. This she dividnd, t iking three thouaand henelf and leaving iivo thousand 'lollava.- her woman's generobity deoliniñg the ' liou's share" - looking tbc tru'nksf ars' beforo she found them. In dtt'e time the " affectionate" husband eame back to the house, accompanied by a porttr, bade his wifo good-by with man y tokens of endeannent ; bada hor not bo down-hi'iiited, for he should bo back in four or live days, little susperting all this wliile that his wifo was not only p;rfctlv cogniztnt of his villainy, but that, out of his abundance, she bad am ply supplicd herself with means to lei t'lrc to her friends, having the good soKio ío peroaivë tlmt . hnsband who would once huve deseited her coald never tbereafter desirve or receive her confidenco. The husband left, went on board the steamor, and while on bis way to New York learaed for the firat time that at least uiiu dnfaith'ful husbund had been most "justly taken in and dono for."