How She Got Even With Him

An eMerly married woman in Byfield, Mass., who possesses properry n her own riahl, says the Newburyport Herald, had irequentlyexpresstd a desire to maka a gift to the chnrch with wbicfa f he is ronnccted. Acrordingly when tlie society determlned on repaiiins and remodeling the meeting house, the minister, a3 chairman o the soliciting coniinitte?, ralled on her foi1 a coiitiibution and was presfiiited with a checK lor $5Ü0. The cleryyman went hoino liiglily elateil, but 1 was taken abacktbenext dy when tne lmly's hasbtuid and son callcl to protest ajainst hernuin i íicenre. They declarei) that she had noL been in her riy}t mind fora lonq time nnil didn't lcnow what he wal loin when she yielded to the nndue influence bronglit to bear upon lier. Thcngh the minister knew that she was as Balie as lier husband, to say the least, he sent back the mrney. The hitsliaml recently oíd a tract of land. The deed was duly drawD, nisned and nenled by the prantor, who passed it to hia wife to i 8iii foi the relinquishment of dower. Ibut to hisastonishim-nt sim remarked: 'No, I am not in iny richt mimi. yon i k-non', and my act wonld be void." j The old emitletnan bas the land Rtill ! on lus hands, iustead of the mouey in i hia pock:t9.