... AN INCIDENT IN MARRIAGE. (From Jade the Obscate, by Thomas Hardy.) We are rather a sad family, don't you think, Jude ? She said we made bad husbands and wives. Certainly we make unhappy ones. At all events, I do, for one ! She as silent. Is it wrong ...

... also been attended by our (omrades. The first lecture, on Capital and Labour, by a popular temperance lecturer, Mr. Thomas Hardy, ended in that gentleman leaving the discussion and platform, as there seemed to be a very strong element of Socialism ...