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THe Chinese thluk It meet
To dwarf their women's feet.
"U'e, with oar higher taste,
Cramp and contract the waist.
1m maeh more wise are we than they,
T)w JooJUli people of Cathay.
Some WrBw, as Catlln shows,
Vt'ear rings In ears ami nose.
Our mere fastidious dears
Only so deck their ears;
Heittg thus mueh advanced In grace
Beyond a wild site coppertaoa.
The Hindoos, It is said,
(Hre to the ftre their dead ;
"Wo ours to Milling elay,
To worms, aud foul deeay.
Yea, more humane are we than these
HarbarUn llindoatanese.
. Some tribes sleep in the breeze,
la hammocks gwaug In trees.
"We VrMttiM In alr-Ugst rooms
' nmtalr and fetid fumes.
Saeh coin (tut do our arts confer.
Unknown to the poor Islanaer.
Home tribes, from darkness sprung,
l'usse is ho written tongue.
Ow feot" flit their nobs
lYtitper pen, and Cobb's.
Thereto H shown our very great
Advance beyond the savage slate.
Overland Monthly.
ELLEN DOWD, THE PAEMER'S IFE.
PART SECOND.
Bnlered according lo the Act of Congress In
the jraar IsTC by Mrs. A. J. lMinlway. In the of-
Mee of the Ufa-mrbui of Congress at Washington
CHAPTER XL
winter in California. Black clouds
sometimes hung low over the Golden
Gate, or now settled themselves in vap
orous masses over San Francisco and
the Bay; and then a stiff breeze would
roll them back and pile them in fantas
tic heaps, now upon the ocean, and
again upon the distant mountains. The
balmy sun shone down upon the velvet
verdure of the emerald-colored earth.
and countless flowers opened their pet
als to admit tltc amorous embraces of
the limpid air.
A staunch old steamer had been tele
graphed for hours, and among the many
anxious liearts that waited wearily for
wind aitd tide, none throbbed more
wildly than Ellen Dowd's. Sunset
closed upon the scene, and midnight
came before the signal gun was fired,
and the great, unwieldy vessel moored
herself at the dock. Long lines of car
riages were in waiting. Hotel runners,
with the impudence and enterprise of
their class, filled up the gang-way, and
making night hideous with their bulla-ba-Ioo,
well nigh distracted a rustic old
physieiau, who, having spent the whole
of his years of manhood upon a very
different frontier, was not prepared for
the noise and bustle that ho met.
Cruching down upon a seat in the vi
cinity of the smoke-stack, whose warmth
was very welcome to his rheumatic
frame, he sat and waited, feeling moro
home-sick and helpless than ever in his
life before. One by one the weary trav
elers filed off the ship, leaving him at
last alone. A dumpy steward, rough
ami taciturn, moved rapidly back aud
forth upon the deck, condescendingly
giving gruff, monosyllabic aud unsatis
factory answers lo the old man's que
ries concerning his San Francisco
friends. The old doctor was thoroughly
miscmblc. "Why he had not gone to
a hotel while he had opportunity was a
mystery, even to himself, and his ver
dancy, or oversight, had produced i
very frigid effect upon the steward, who
fcoon changed his monosyllables to very
important grunts.
Meanwhile Ellen and her husband
had almost despaired of finding their
friend, although his name, published in
the list of passengers, had led them to
expect him witli certainty. At length
they ventured to accost the steward, who
directed them to Dr. GofPs retreat It
is useless to attempt a description of tho
meeting. The Doctor had failed so rap
idly since the reader last beheld him
that it will be difficult to recognize in
lIs infirm form and tottering gait the
strong, able-bodied man who was first
introduced in Peter Dowd the First's log
cabin, where for several days subsequent
to the birth or Ellen Dowd the Second
ho, with good old Auut Betsey Graham,
had kept watch and ward for days with
gaunt, grim poverty and life and death.
"How did we happen to miss you.
Doctor?" was Ellen's anxious query.
"We should have gone home and given
over the search as fruitless, only I fell
that you were not a man who would fol
low those deafening hotel runuers while
you had any hope of meeting friends."
"I was out on tho decks watching the
scenery and thinking of winter in Cali
fornia as compared to the winter when
you were born, my child. I supposed
that you would come lo meet me, so I
was not anxious, or indeed I scarcely
thought of myself until the confusion
and bustle were all over, and I found
mysolf alone."
"We inquired for you everywhere.
We tried every state-room and failed to
find any trace of you, and then my bus
banu consulted the ship's register. We
feared that you had fallen overboard."
"Commend me to a woman for volu
unity," laugueu lier husband. "The
first Hung for us to do is to get the Doc
tor home. The wee small hours of the
morning are already upon us. You may
talk all day to-morrow, but now you
need some rest."
"Spoken like a man of sense," said
Dr. Goft, with something of his old
manner and vim. "Edgar, I believe I !
shall like you first-rate." I
'.'Of course you will," said Ellen
proudly.
"Spare your compliments until you
know me better, Doctor. People some
times appear to better advantage upon
first acquaintance than afterwanls.
Wait till you see how I .shall wear."
"I wonder who is talking now," said
Ellen," archly. "'Commend me to a
man for volubility.' "
"Trust a woman to get oven," was
Ihe Doctor's comment,as tho trio left
tho vessel; aud through tho dimly
lighted and now deserted wharf they
proceeded and found their way to tho
waiting carriage.
Tho morning star hung low in the
heavens, like a mam mo tit lamp. The
city lights, in pleasing contrast, climbed
the hills in stately rows like regulated
sentinels, as they were, orquletly set
tled themselves in lowly places lo guard
the crowded marts where humanity, in
the race for subsistence or gain, deprived
themselves continually of-the great lux
ury of free, pure air and water, verdant
earth and limpid sunshine.
"Is it possible, Ellen, that your home
Is as grand as tills?" said Dr. Go 11", as
tiie carriage rolled up through the
grounds aud stopped in front of two
great globes of light, at whose feet mon
ster marble lions crouched as if guard
ing the portal from intrusion.
"es, Doctor, this Is tho home of
Ellen Dowd, the farmer's wife, whom
you used to take pity upon sometimes
in her lowly cabin aud help her wash
and cook."
"Let's not talk to the Doctor any
more to-night, my dear," said her hus
band. "Remember you have all winter
to talk to him after ho gets rested."
"I can't see any winter about hero,"
replied the Doctor; "but we all need
sleep, and must try to take it."
Edgar "Worth's mother had grown
much more disordered in her mind of
late ; yet, with tho cunning peculiar to
persons of disjointed Intellect, and with
a constant ovorflow of wit and repartee,
which seems always to come ready-made
to the brain of a lunatic, she was a
source of great amusemut to Ellen's
household. Sho fancied that everybody
she met was insane, especially every
visitor, and when, after a few hours'
rest, the family assembled in the break
fast parlor and greeted Dr. Gbff, hearty
as was tho greeting between lilm and
the older children, who well remem-
bored him as tholr mother's friend, she '
outdid them all in expressions of wel
come.
"Do you think it is safe to havo that
mad man hero among your children,
Ellen?" sho whispered, after the greet
ings were over.
"Certainly, dear; he's harmless," hu
moring her delusion as tho easiest way
to get rid of her queries.
"Well, It's my impression that he
needs a straight jacket," and rising from
the table witli a wise, mysterious look
upon her face, slie glided from the
room.
"What do you think of hor case, Doc
tor?" queried her anxious son.
"It Is a peculiar form of lunacy that I
fear is incurable. But is she not some
times furious?"
"O, no. Sho gets freaks of temper
once In a while and scolds us roundly,
but she is usually so full of practical
jokes and general jollity that we don't
remember other tantrums."
"I'm afraid, my friends, that you
have summoned me hero upon a fruit
less errand. Had I had the case a dozen
years ago, with such surroundings as
these, I could have curciTher, but I fear
not now."
While tho breakfast party were talk
ing up her case, the lunatic wad quite
busy in another direction. Summoning
a carriage, she hastened to tho abode of
a noted physician and employed him to
como with a police force to the house of
Edgar Worth to arrest a madman!
In a few moments tho physician and
officers were at the door. The lunatic,
who kept her face closely veiled, opened
door after door and conducted her party
to the breakfast-room.
"Why, mother, who havo we here?"
said Edgar, starting at the sight of the
officers. .
"There ho is, there!" pointing stead
ily at Dr. God", and speaking in a whis
per. "Be cautious, or he'll murder us
all."
The great brawny men, without wait
ing for orders, seized the Doctor by lite
arms, and dextrously slipped a straight
jacket over his shoulders.
"It'sono of mother's jokes. I under
stand it now," said Ellen, who, deeply
as she was mortified by tho scene, could
with difficulty refrain from an outburst
of laughter.
fTo be continued.
A recent London Iccluror on tho
humau voice referred lo "the common
error of considering that the voices of
men and women wero the same, an
octavo apart. The truth was," he said,
"that our Creator had given us oue
great voice, the lowest part of which be
longs to the bases, tho next to the
tenors, tho next to the contraltos, and
the highest to the sopranos. The voices
of tenors and contraltos, for example, on
indentical notes, could not be dis
tinguished one from theolhor. It was
a great mistake in tenors to think there
was anything unmanly in the falsetto,
and for contraltos to think there was
anything unwomanly in lite chest
voice."
Belinda Bree,
tE BOSTON SEAMSTRESS, AND HER NEW
HAMPSHIRE NEICE.
BY MIS. A. D. T. WHITNET.
Bel was named for her Aunt Belinda.
Miss Belinda Bree came up for a week,
sometimes, in tho summer, to the farm.
All the rest or tneyear she worked Hard
in the city. She put a good face upon
it in her talk among lier old neighbors.
She spoke of tho grand streets, the pa
rades, Duke's balls for which she made
dresses aud jubilees, of which she
heard afar off as if sho were part and
parcel of all Boston enterprise aud mag
nificence. It was a great thing, truly,
to live in tho Hub. Honestly, she had
not got over it, since sho camo there, a
raw country girl, and began her appren
ticeship to its wonders and to her own
trade. She could not turn a water fau
cet, nor light her gas, nor count the
strokes of the electric fire alarm, with
out feeling the grandeur of having
Cochltuato turned on to wash her hands
of making her own little spark of the
grand illumination under which the
three hills shown every night of dwell
ing within car-shot and protection of the
quietly imposing system of wires and
bells that worked by lightning against
a fierce clement of dally danger. She
wa3 proud of policemen; she was thrilled
at the sound of steam engines thunder
ing along tho pavements; sho felt as
though she had a hand in it. When
they fired guns upon the Common, sho
could only listen and look out of win
dows; the little boys ran and shouted
for her in the streets; that is what tho
little boys aro for. Somebody must do
the running aud tho shouting to relieve
tltc instincts of older and busier people,
who must pretend as if they didn't care.
All this kept Belinda Bree from ut
terly wearing out at iter uuu work in
the great ware-rooms, or now and then
at days' seamstressing in families. It
really keeps a irrcat mauy people from
wearing out.
Miss Brcc's work was dull. The days
of her early "mantua-making" were
over. Twenty years had made things
very different in Boston. Tho "nice
families" had been more quiet then; the
quietest of them now cannot manage
tilings as they did in those days: for
the same reason that you cannot buy
old-fashioned "wearing" fgoods: they
are not In the market. "Sell and wear
out; wear out and sell;" that is the
principle of to-day. You must do as
tho world does; there is no other path
cut through. If you travel, you must
keep on night and day, or wait twenty
four hours aud start in the night again.
Xobody or scarcely anybody has u
dress-maker now, in tltc old, cozy way,
of the old cozy sort, staying a week,
looking over the wardrobes of tho whole
family, advising, cutting, altering, re
marking, getting into ever so much
household interest and history over the
daily chat, and listening over daily
work; sitting at the same table; linking
herself in witli things, spring and tall,
as tho leaves do with their goings and
comings; or like the equinoxes, that in
March or September shut about us with
friendly curtains of rain for days, iu
which so much can be dono in tltc big
up-stairs room with a cheerful fire, that
is devoted to tho rites and mysteries of
scissors and needle. We were always
glad, I remember, when our dress
making week fell in with the Equinoc
tial. But now, all poor Mis3 Brcc's "best
places" had slipped away rrom her, and
her life had changed. People go to
great outfitting stores, buy tlieir goods.
have themselves measured, and leave
tiie wnolo thing to result a week after
ward in a big box scut homo with every
thing fitted and machined and finished,
with the last Inventions and accumula
tions, frills, tucks, and reduplications:
and at the bottom of tho box a bill
tucked and reduplicated in the same
modern proportions. Miss Bree had
now to go out, like any other machine
girl, to the ware-rooms; except when
sho took homo particular hand-work of
button-holes aud trimmings, or occa
sionally engaged ltersoir for two or three
days to some family mother who could
not pay the b'g bills, and who ran her
own machine, cut her own basques and
gores, and hired help for basting and
finishing. Sho had almost done with
even this; most icoplo liked young
help; brisker with their needles, sow
ing without glasses, nicer aud fresher
looking to have about. Poor "Aunt
Blin" overheard one man ask his wife
in her dress-room before dinner: "Why,
ir she must have a stitching woman in
the house, she couldn't find a more
comfortable one to look at; somebody a
little bright and cheerful to bring to
the table, instead of that old callari
per?" Miss Bree behaved like a saint; it was
not tho lady's fault; sho resisted the
temptation to a sudden headache, aud
declining her dinner, for fear of hurting
the feelings of her employer, who had
always been kind to her she would not
let her suspect or bo afraid that the
speech had como to her ear she
smoothed her thin old hair, took off her
glasses, wiped her eyes a little, washed
her hands, and went dowu when she
was called; but after that day she "left
oil going out to work lor iamiues."
The warehouses did not nay her very
well; neither there was sheaulo to com
pete witli the smart voting seamstresses;
she only got a dollar and a quarter a
uay, and bad to lodge and iced norsen;
yet sue Kept on: it was her lot and liv
ing; site looked out at the uurd-siory
wiudow upon tho roofs and spires, lis
tened to the tiro alarms, heard the
chimes of a Sunday, saw carriages roll
by and well-dressed pcoplo moving to
and fro, felt the thrill of tho daily bus
tle, and was, after all, a part of this
great, beautiful 35oston! Strango
though it scorn, Miss Belinda Itrco was
content enough to tell charming
stones or it up in tho country to her
niece jiw, wiien she was questioned by
her. Of her room all in horsnir sr. ivnrm
in winter, witli a red carpet (given her
mo i.iy -urs. "uauariper," who
cpu a not neip a misgiving, after ail,
mat flitss Jiree's vocation had been
ended with that wretched word) and a
coal stove, and a big. snlendid. brinillnl
cat Bartholomew lying before It; or
uur snug nine nouse-Kcepiug, with
kindlings iu the closet-drawer, and milk-
jug out ou the stone window-sill; or the
music mistress who Had the room be
low, and who came un sometimes and
sat an hour with her, and took her cat
when she came away, leaving in return,
In her own absense, her great English
ivy witli Miss Breo. Of tho landlady
who II veil in the bascmcut, and asked
them all dowu, now and then, to play a
game ofcassino or double cribbage, aud
eat a Welsh rabbit; of things outside far, on the principle of not "having ob
that younger people did tho girls at I jcctlons." Ho had none now, "If
tho ware-rooms, aud their frieud9. Of . ma'am hadn't, and Blin saw best." He
Peck's cheap concerts and tho public
library books to reatl on holidays and
Sundays; of ten-cent tripe down the
harbor, to see the surf on Nantaskct
Beach; of the brilliant streets and shops;
of the public garden, the flowers and
tho pond, the boats ami tuo bridge; or
the great brouzc Washington reared up
on his horse against the evening sky;
of the deep, quiet old avenues of the
common; oi tuo uanoous aud fire
works on the "Fourth or Julles." I
do not think she did it to entice her: I
do not .think it occurred to Iter that she
was nutting anything into Bel's head:
but when Bel all at once declared that
she meant to go to Boston herself aud
seek her fortune do machine work,
or something Auut Blm felt a sud
den thankful delight, and got a glimpse
of a possible cheeruess coming to herself
mat sue nan never uroameu oi. it it
was pleasant to tell over these scraps of
hcrsmall, husbanded enjoyments to Bel,
what would it be lo have- her there, to
share, aud make, and enlarge them?
To bring young girls homo sometimes
for a chat, or even a cup or tea; to fetch
books from the library, and read them
aloud of a winter's evening, while she
stitched on by gas-light with her glasses
on her little homely old noso? The
little nose radiated tho concentrated tie
light of the whole diminutive, withered
face; the intense gleam of the small,
pale blue eyes that bent themselves to
gether to a short focus above it, and the
eagerness of the thin, shrunken lips
that pursed themselves upward with an
expression that was keener than ti
smile. Bel laughed, aud said sho was
"all puckered up into one little ail mi ra
tion point!"
"I'll lako you right in with me, and
look after you, if you do!" said Miss
Bree. "And two together wo ean house
keep real comfortable!"
It was as if a new wave of youth from
the far-retreated tido had swept back
upon the beach sands or her life, to
spend its sparkles and its music upon
the sad, dry level. Every little pebble
of circumstance took new color tinder its
touch. Something belonging to her
was still young, strong, hopeful. Bel
would be a brightness in the whole old
place. The middle-aged music-mistress
would like her perhaps even give lier
somo fragmentary instruction in the
clippings of her time. Mrs. Phiniminy,
tho landlady old Mr. Sparrow, tho
watchmaker, who went up anil down
stairs to and from his neat under the
caves tho milliner in the second-floor
back why, she would make friends
witli them like the sunshine! There
would be singing in tltc house! The
middlc-uged music-mistress did not
sing only played. And this would bo
her doing her bringing; it would be
tliird-lloor-frout's
lory! The port girls I
at the ware-room
would not snub the
old maid anv more, and shove her Into
the meanest corner. She had got a 1
pleeo or girlhood or ht-r own again. Let !
them just see Bel Bree that was all!
Yet she dill set before Bel, consei-1
cntiously, the difference between the ,
free country Home aud lite close, ;
bricked-up city.
"There isn't any out-doors there, you
know, round the houses; no homo out
doors; you have to be dressed up
aud go somewhere when you go out.
The streets are splendid, and there's lots
to look at; but they're only made to get
through, you know, after all."
They were sitting, while site spoke, on
a flat stone, out under the old elm-trees
between the "fore-yard" and tho barn.
Un above was a great blue depth into
which you could sec through the delicate
stems and flickering leaves of young far
tips of branches. One little white cloud
was shining down upon thorn as it
floated In tho sun. Away oft" swelled
billowy tons of hills, one behind an - j
other, making you feel how big the
world was. 'Ihat was what Bel had ;
been saving.
"ou reelsoas long as you stay Here,"
replied Miss Blin, "as if there was room
to hilla
Jyr 'it
L 'i '
anu ciiancc lorcverytutng "over me
and far away.' isut iu the city
crowds up together; it gets just as close
as it can, aud everybody is after the
samo chances. 'Tain't all Fourth-of-
July; you musu't think it. Milk's ten
cents a quart, aud jest as blue! Don't
you 'sjkiso you're better oil" up here,
after all? Do you think Mrs. Bree
could get along without you, now?"
Jiel replied most irrelevantly, bile
sat watching the fowls scratching around
the barn-door.
"How different a rooster scratches
rrom a hen!" said she. "Ho just gives
ono kick out smart ami picks up
what he's after; she makes ever so many
little scrabbles, and half tuo time con
cludes it ain't there! What was it you
wero saying? About mother? Oh, she
don't wan'l me! The trouble is, Aunt
Blin, we two don't want each other, and
never did." She picked up a straw, and
bent it back and forth, absently, into
littlo bit", until it broke. Her lip3
curled tremulously, and her bright eyes
were sad.
MIs3 Blin knew It perfectly well
without being told; but sho wouldn't
have pretended that she did, for all the
world.
O. tut!" she said. "ou get along
well enough. You feel well enough.
You like oue another full as well as
could be expected, only you ain't con
stituted similar, that's all. She's great
for turning oil, and going ahead, anil
sho ain't got much patience. Such
folks never has. You can't bo smart
anil easy-going too. 'Tain't jxwsible.
She's right up-an'-a-eomin', and she
expects everybody else to be. But you
like her, Bel; you know you do. You
ain't goln' away for that. I won't havo
It that you arc."
"I like her yes;" said Bel, slowly.
"I know she's smart. I mean to like
her. I do it on purpose. But I don't
lovo her, with a can't help it, you see.
I feel as if I ought to; I want to havo
mr heart co out to her; but it keeps
coming back again. I could be happy
with you. Aunt unn, in your up-siairs
room, witli tho blue milk out m the
window-sill. Thcre'd be room enough
for us; but this wnoie larm
isn't com-
fortablc for ma and me!"
After that, Miss Blin only said that
she would speak to Kelltip; meaning
her brother, Caleb Bree.
Caleb Bree was just the sort of man
that by dlvino compensation generally
marries, or gets married by a woman
that is "right up-an'-a-coniin'." He
"has no objections" to this plan of Bel's,
I mean; perhaps his favorite phrase
would havo expressed his strongest feel
ing in tho crisis just referred lo, also; it
was a normal stale or mind with him:
I lie had gone through the world, thus
let his child go out from his house down
Into tho great, unknown, struggling,
hustling, devouring city, without much
thought or inquiry. It settled that
point in his family. "Bel had gone
down to Boston to bo a dress-maker,
'long of her Aunt Bllndy," was what he
had to say to his neighbors. It sounded
natural and satisfactory. Mrs. Breo
had her own two children and there
might be more that would claim all
that could be done for them. Sho would
miss Bel's telling them stories, and
washing their faces, and carrying them
off into tho barn or tho orchard, and
leaving the house quiet of a Sunday or
a busy baking day. It had been "all
Bel was good for;" and it bad been
more than Mrs. Breo had appreciated at
the time. Bel cried when sho kissed
them and bade them good-bye; but she
was gone; she and her round leather
trunk and her little bird in its cage that
she could not leave behind, though
Aunt Blin did say that "sho wouldn't
altogether answer for it with Barthol
omew." Bel herself the other little bird who
had never tried her wings, or been shut
up in strange places with fierce, prowl
ing creatures she could answer for her,
she thought!
It is worth telling the advent of Bel
and her bird in the up-stairs room in
Leicester Place. Miss Blin believed
very much in her Kit with the apostolic
name, though she had never tried his
principles witli a caged bird. She had
tutored him to refrain from meat and
milk unless lltey were set down for him
in his especial corner upon the hearth.
He took Ills airings on the window
ledge where the suu slanted in of a
morning, beside the very brown paper
parcel in which was wrapped the mutton-chop
for dinner; ho never touched
thechcese ujion the tabic, though heknew
tho word "cheese" as well as ir he could
spell it, and would stand up tall on his
hind paws to receive his morsel when he
was told, even in a whisper, and without
a movement, that ho might come and
have some. He preferred his milk con
densed In this way; ho got very little of
it in tue llutd form, and did not think
very highly of it when lie did. He
knew what was good, Aunt Blin said.
He understood conversation especially
moral lectures and admonitions; Miss
Bree had talked to him precisely as if
ho had a soul, for five years. He know
when she was coming back at 1 o'clock
to dinner, or at 9 iu the evening, by the
ringing of the bells. After she had told
him so, lie would be sitting at the door,
watching for its opening, from the in
stant of their first sound until they
came up-stairs.
Bel was charmed witli Aunt Blin's
room, when sue opened the blinds anu
drew up the colored shades, and let the
street light in until she could find her
matches and light the gas. It was just
after dark when they reached Leicester
Place. The littlo lamplighter ran down
out or the court with his ladder as they
turned iu. There were two bright
lanterns whoso flames flared in the
wnni; one jum opposite tneir wiihiowh,
and one below at the livery stable.
There was a big livery stable at the bot
tom of the court, built right across the
end; and there was n litter about the
doors and horse-odor iu the air. But
that is not tho very worst kind of city
smell that might be, aud, putting up
with that, tho people who lived In
Leicester Court had great counterbal
ancing advantages. There was only ono
side to the place; and though the street
way was very narrow, the opposito walls
shut in the grounds of a public building,
where there were trees and grass, ami
above which there was really a chance
at the sky. Further along, at the
corner, loomed tite eight stories or an
apartment hotel. All up and down this
- t fctructrcml,i upl allll down tlle
MI three-storied fronts or the court as
,vnII ,,, .vilni ,,. ,..- ,..t, m.
lumination, for these last were nearly
all lodging houses, aud at night at least
'oo' brilliant and grand; certainly to
Be1 Brcc's eyes, seeing three-storied
houses and gas-lights for the first time.
Inside, at number eight, tho one littlo
gas jet revealed presently just what
Auut Blin had told about: the scarlet
and black three-ply carpet in a really
handsome pattern or raised leaves; the
round table in the middle with a red
cloth, and the square one in the comer
witli a brown linen one; the little parlor
beauty stove, with a boiler atop aud an
oven in the side an oval braided mat
before it, and a mantel shelf above with
some vases aud books upon it all the
books, some dozen in number, that
Aunt Blin had ever owned In the whole
course of her life. One of the blue vases
had a picco broken out of its edge, but
that was turned round behind. The
closets, one on each side of the fire
place, answered lor pantry, cuina closet,
store-room, wardrobe and all. The
refrigerator was out on tho stono
window-sill ou the east side. The room
had corner windows, the house standing
at the head of a little paved alley that
ran down to Hero street. IVoni "The
Other Girls."
Pjiopkktv ok Women in Califor
nia. Section 914 of the new code of
State laws reads as follows :
Sec. 914. When iv married woman,
entitled to an estate in fee, is author
ized by a power to dispose of sucli estate
during her marriage, she may by notice
of such power create any estate which
she might create ir unmarried.
Commenting on this, the Los Angeles
Star has these observations: 'There is
no limit to the authority which this
section gives a married woman in a bus
iness point or view. All she has to do
is to procure sufilcient money for a
starter, and ever after she can build up
her fortunes on that capital with as
much facility and as little legal inter
foronrn from Imr husband as if she were
a femmr sole. It seems to us that no
broader enfranchisement from the con
trol nftlm titiah.ind could be civen than
this. Jt renders her safe from his cred
itors nml nlsrt from himself. It is the
1 corner slnim of Woman's Rights, and if,
aor that, we refuse ineni tne elective
iranciusc. wo are to otame. wuumu
whn ia lit in rarrv on overv business in
eluded iu active life is certainly fit to
vote."
A Ttons woman has arrived at SL
Louis witli ono thousand cattle, her
own nroiiortv. which slio assisted iu
driving f ronf Texas.
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The Shah gave Marshal McMahon an
allium .iiliirnoil with diamonds. It con
tains the portraits of the potentate and
his suite.
Value of a Good Trade.
Wo had a man mowing our door-vard
yesterday. I watched him pretty closely
for rear no wouiu snip on my rose
bushes. I put my shawl on and sat on
the grass, and pretended I was keeping
him company. He is a man of good
sense, and he said a great many sensible
things. I remarked that mowing must
be his trade, he did it so well, and made
such nico woik.
"Hehl" ho snuffed; "I'm Jack-of-all-trades
and master of none. I can do
most anything that I take hold of;"
and he leaned over and slayed the grass
neatly from abouta snarl of rose-bushes,
a beautiful tangle that I couldn't prune
for very tenderuess of heart.
"Ob, thank you!" I said; "you did
that as kindly as a mother would dregs
her babe. Any other man would have
said: 'Here's a dead branch, MissPotts;'
or, Yon is a useless shoot;' or, That
bush yonder ls.a-sufferin' for the knife.'
It's my bush, you see, and I want it to
grow as wild, and ranting, and riotous,
aud just as extravagantly as it pleases.
I don't care if it leaps as high as the
top of the house," said I, a good deal ex
cited. "Well, I carcalate that it would be the
better of a little trimmin', but, as you
say, it's well enough to let natur1 have
her own way, just to sec what all she
can do when she takes a notion. If I
was a reg'lar gardener, I s'pose I would
have attacked that bush whether or uo.
I often wish father had apprenticed me
to that trade poor man, he's been dead
an' gone this many a long year; he was
a good father, aud I don't find it in my
heart to bring up a word o' blamo agin
him;" and here he leaned on tho handle
of the scythe in a comfortable sort of a
way. "But, Miss Potts, I think it's
every man'sduty to give his boys trades.
When father died lie lefj a rami of one
hundred and sixty acres; there was
mother, and we three grown boys, and
the two little girls, and Johnny, and
grandmother. Well, wo couldn't all
havo tho farm, and we couldn't any
more than make a good living, and pay
tho preacher and tho taxes, aud school
the children, and meet an occasional
doctor's bill; and so Jack aud I talked it
over one night, and though it did seem
a little hard, we resolved, 'fore God an'
ourselves, that we'd give up ail right
and claim to the old farm to Tom, our
oldest brother, if he'd care for mother
and the children, and do me part ot
dutiful son nnd brother. It did seem
kind o' hard, strikin' out to do for our
selves, two green boys who'd always
been cared for. Jack'd always wanted
more larnin'; lie never was saiisucn, anu
so he went away to school to shift for
himself as he best could. Well, he
worried along somehow, until now lie is
qualified to teach ho teaches in the
winter and goes to school in the sum
mer. I'd taken a shine to Milly Brown
she was a modest little hard-workin'
creetur and so we concluded to marry
and help each other along. We never
regretted It; and though I don't own
a foot o' laud, ami nave uo trade, we
have always managed so that we never
had to endure much privation. Be sure
I've had to wear patch upon patch, an'
Milly's had to turn her dresses bottom
end up, an' t'other side out; but we've got
along grandly.
"But, Miss Potts, I've just as much as
I can do to stand up an' feel myself a
man among men. I aiti't nu independ
ent man; I've no trade. To-day I mow
your yard; to-morrow I help Farmer
Hutchins move his smoke-house; the
next day I plow corn for Jack Williams;
maybe the next I'll make a chimney in
Ephriam's kitchen, or elevate grain in
Taylor's warehouse, or haul coal for
Caster, or make a pavement on Milk
street, or weed somebody's garden.
That's uo way o' doin', liackin' round
for Tom, Dick aud Harry, sometimes
getting paid, and sometimes only paid
in worthless promises. Why, very of
ten I work half a day for a man and
he'll say, 'I'll do you a good turn some
time, Wilson,' or, 'It's a mighty nice
thing to be as handy a man as you arc,
George.'
"No, Miss l'otts, I'm not a iree man
I am a bondsman, I wear shackles, an'
hear I've a family comin' on, promisin'
bovs and girls, an' I'm afraid I'll not be
able to do my whole duty by 'etn. God
helpm' me 1 mean to give every boy o'
mine a good trade, anynow; mayoe my
girls, too. When Bowzcr broke up aud
nad to sell ms iurm anu movo to town,
I just spoke right up before I thought.
I said, 'Bowzer,' said I, 'now you can't
do a better thing than to apprentice Xed
and Timothy to trades, lou uon't want
to 11 ve in town anu nave two uig lino boys
trifling away their time. Don't do as
my father did, don't let 'cm ever feel as
though you had not done a father's duty.
You can have Ned learn the tinner's
trade, and let Tim be a mason or a
plasterer, or a cooper;' and what does
neighbor Bowzer do but up and get mad,
an' tell me to mind my own business,
an' that he was capable or lookiu' after
His own family.
"Well, to-day thoso Bowzer boys are
liko me, going jobbing 'round whenever
tuoy can get a nanu's turn to uo. x
think it is a shame for a man to bring
Soor children into this world and not
o a father's duty by them, just leave
them to shift for themselves, crippled
shackled, hobbled, wings clipped, and
not feeling that they belong to the class
of men who stand up and look tho world
in the face and reel themselves no man's
imenor.
'That was a nice thing, sensible, too,
that Esquire Hamilton did last week.
His youngest son, Ralth, don't like to
go to school Is dull about learning it
is drudgery to him, and so, with his
own consent, his father bound him to
the blacksmith's trade! My! what a
growth that boy'll get! He is pretty
hearty now, but what muscle will bo
developed, and what a ruddy face, and
etronir arm. and how happy he'll be.
"Oh, I think it's a God's blessing for
a man to have a trade, even if He don't
fall back upon it to make a living! fro
so well I'll try and do my duty by
my boys;" and my neighbor drew-his
sleeve across uis moist nice anu went ou
with his mowing.
My heai t ached for the poor man, and
I shut my teeth a littlo viciously iu
memory of tho indifferent old father in
his grave on the hillside. In my heart
I sanctioned every word j. Had heard.
and I thought what a pity it is that
young men so rush into the over
crowded professional ranks, preferring
to De a louriu-rate lawyer, an ungodly
minister, or an illiterate quack doctor,
to mat oi aiirst-raiobiacksniitn, wagon-
maKer or oricK-iayer.
I'd rather seo a young man know how
to iuuko a goon uasKet man a noor.
plagiarized plea at the bar; rather see
him toil horny-handed In a sweaty
check shirt than to sueak 'round public
places in seedy black, trying to eke out
a miserable, sham existence by petti
fogging forty cases and manufacturing
falsehoods, and then esteeming himself
better than tho honest toiler, just be
cause ho has tho littlo tag of Esq.
dangling to his name. Pipscy l'otts, in
Arthur's Magazine for July.
"Had All the Eights She Wanted."
UV JANE INOLEWOOD.
Mrs. Huston did not believe iu
Woman's Rights. Sho could not see
what rights they needed that were not
already in tlieir possession. It seemed "
to her so utterly absurd to sweep tho
horizon witli a telescope iu search or
rights, when under tlieir eyes lay duties
and obligations undischarged. She aud
hor husband labored together year in
and year out; she had gone hand-In-liand
with him, never stopping even to
ask for a right not already her own.
For years they had borne poverty to
gether; then, at hist, brighter days be
gan to dawn feebly, at first, 'tis true,
but in time tho sun of prosperity rose
high in the zenith, and they were
classed among tiie wealthy of the land.
Mr. Huston had always been the kindest
and most indulgent of husbands, and iu
their prosperous days every comfort
that wealth could lavish tipou-lier was
hers. Like many another, she judged
all women by herself, and was content.
Why should she not be, when she had
every prospect of an abundance of the
good things of this life as long as sho
lived?
But there came a time when she was
sorely tried when even hc saw how
much she needed more rights than she
hud.
Death entered herabodo of happiness,
and bore away her companion; and
when, after the last fond look had beeu
given to all that remained of the ono
dearer than life to her; when the casket
containing his lifeless form was low
ered into tiie cold and silent abode of
the dead; when the hollow sound of the
elods as they filled tho new-made grave
Had ceased to vibrate on ner ears, re
placed by the comforting ones of the
Savior "I am the resurrection and tho
life;" when witli tears and sobs she re
turned to her desolate home, she found
what site never dreamed of that by tho
laws of the State in which she lived, her
husband having neglected to make his
will, aud Icing childless, she was left
witli only a mere pittance a sum
simply sufficient to support her by the
exercise of
rigid economy, talie. lui
trusting, faith fill wife she who had
performed her part cheerfully anil
patiently through so many long years
of toil and self-denial left compara
tively a beggar; for the law gave her
only the income of one-third of tho
estate, and the remainder went to his
nearest relatives, and she was obliged to
submit witli the best grace possible.
Had she diet instead of the husband,
the estate would have remained un
touched, aud he would have enjoyed
the income from the whole.
Men with the very best intentions aro
often careless and neglectful a will is
suggestive of death, and they are apt to
defer it until the lost moment, and the
last moment is sometimes too late; so it
is very important that our laws should
be just, so that a woman's right shall
not be dependent merely on the life or
the good nature and liberality of her
husband.
Sitting for a Picture.
If you desire to test your patience,
spend half a day at a photographer's
trying to obtain a picture of a babv.
, It is almost as bad as having a tooth
extracted for a grown person to sit for a
photograph. There is something about
the camera which sets the nerves quiv
ering. Perhaps it is the black pall
stretched over it; or it may bo the rrau
tie effort to assume a particular expres
sion or countenance, cither to look
pretty, dignified, stern, thoughtfiil, pro
foundly wise, or good-natured, accord
ing to me taste oi tne sitter.
At any rate, as soon as the nail is re
moved, the blacking-box cover operated
upon by a twist or the wrist and a watch
is in the hands or the sentinel counting
the seconds or misery requisite for a
photograph the muscles of the faco
seem to become uncontrollable, a cramp
seizes the victim to glaring sky-light
aud chemicals, the Head whirls, tho
eyes water, and nothing saves the pic
ture uut tne watcn, noiiiying tiie tor
mentor that the camera has done its
best to kill the patient, but could not,
because the photograph is finished.
'tins being frequently the experience
of those having words to express their
anguish, imagine the sorrows of chil
dren whose little lips cannot lisp a re
monstrance against me addition of a
bell, a fiddle or guitar, accordeon. drum
or jews-harp being substituted for the
white patch or a lly on the wall used to
fix the attention of grown people.
If there were clashing of arms, clank
ing or chains, sawing or stringed instru
ments, and tooting or horns mingled
with many high-pitched voices and a
crying baby, saluting the ear, the infor
mation that they were trying to take n,
photograph or an infant would explain
the situation. Elm Ortou.
Woman's Rights in Russia. "Wom
an's Riglitsareextendingeven in Russia.
Formerly tlieir sole public employment
was the sweeping of the streets under
the eye, or rather under the whip, of
the police; and this was a privilege con
fined to meritorious drunkards. But
now all is changed: and at a time when
Britain is excluding them from its med
ical colleges, an edict has been issued by
the Czar to afford them facilities for ac
quiring a thorough knowledge or mid-
wiiery ami tne otner branches or sur
gery and medicine. They are also to be
admitted as workers in telegraph offices,
and special precautions are to be adopt
ed to prevent them from "bibbling."
ThftV aro. mnrpnvor. miinTnn.1 ftr.;!!..
to avoid negligence and sauciness, and,
above all, to propogato no scandal.
They arc not, however, yet to be in
trusted with the privilege of voting, or
of nicetiug in public for the purpose of
discussing philosophic questions.
It will not be long before all the small
post-offices throughout the country will
be under control of women. Within
tho last three months over thirty ap
pointments of the kind have been made.
A London newspaper has.discovered
an old soldier, named RalphMoms,
who fought tinder Sir John Moore at
formula, and was in the battle or a-terloo.