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VOLUME
VII.
HER LOT
OR,
Has She
lreleell.
BtMhu. a. J. DCXIWAY.
ACTUM O "JCDITH KEID," "EIXRX DOWO,-,
"AMI AXS HEXRT LEE," "THE BATPT
VOJR, 0 t VOIA.VK SPHERE,
"BOI MORKISON,"
tir., rrr., etc.
fJTnleHin.au rdncl" Art ofT'oncrem, In the
year Knt, by Mrs. A J. Ininlwny, Inihe oilier of
the Librarian of Congress hi Washington City.
fit PTKn xv. .
At a round table, near by a dozen
others of similar character that were!
Is. ' . I lAMi i F 1 1 I, TWA 1 1 u tMi'1,tf A,. (..11- I I
a r . . . , i I
Door, put Gerald, niv tiimliatMl. hi nrtM t
unsteady, his eyes inflamed, his features
bloated
I could with difficulty recall a
single trace" of the l-eauty, grace, and
Stril?lltllllP44 that h.t.1 cntiti v-ntsii mpnn
that Well-rememhered mornin i.. I
Both wick meadows when he led the
rlw n.. H.P ki,lritl . .lfrV ,rf . 1..1
of Both wick. I coud not trace in
sinele feature an v ,., t ti i.,, i
lectual promise aud goodness of heart I
with whieh he greeted me on that
never-to-be-forgotten afternoon when,
as I verily believed, in answer to a
prayer to Almighty God, he had
brought me a slaughtered hare as evi
dence of his skill in the chase, and, In
proof of bis respect and admiration for
my humble self, had presented it as a
tribute to my mother.
I thought of ail these things as I
watched hitn at the gaming table. Op
posite hiiu sat a woman in exquisite ap
parel, her faultless attire of soft gray
slufl" set off by filmy laces, contrasting
t-caliariv uiih th II iif til I h Biirriiiiiiil,
it.es. r l.lv-l-.l ....... ..H ft ,
pcilii-lii-l flag stones, men and floor alil.e
covered ill uneven patches with a lih
eial Mjpply of dirty saw-dust.
My heart stood still. Iu spite of my-s-lf,
I was as though riveted to the spot.
Beside them, on the table, were several
coin iu ns of t lie lifty-dol'ar com, at that
time peculiar to California, and known
as "tiug." K.u-li pHrlii-r was playing
an earnest game, hut the woman bad
the steadier hand aud cooler head of the
two. I do not pretend to understand
the intricacies of even the most simple
game of curd-., -o I cannot descrllie to
you, neither can I recollect, the terms
they used, nor .lo I know the name of
the particular-game they were engaged
upon. I only know that the throbl.mg
arteries of my husliaii'l's .'eatple were
corded into knot, and his heavy breath
ing was painfully audible. His com
panion as as serene as a summer
niorning. Willi her soft, white, jeweled
hands hetrajing never a tremor, she
play pi! on and
I could no more move than if I had
beeu iu the f iM-mating to, 1.-of a serpent.
knew the Makes she was w inning were
my own hard-earned quintuple eagles,
aud I knew she was ulaviiiz to win. be-
cause I felt the fact iu every fiber of my
inner consciousness.
The play went on lor half an hour,
though the time seemed to me as an
age. Then my husband saw that he
was beaten. For an instant he seemed
to realize the rum he had wrought; for
he made a de-perate clutch at the hex-
agonal colonnades of com, and glanced
about him m a frightened way, as
though seeking some mode of escape.
Ah, the silv. ry, rippling laugh of that
snbtlesireu ! Ilsstingiug melody hauuts ,
me yet ! !
"You ought not to mind losing, since
it's that wins, my merry Caplaiu," i
the exclaimed, as, ordering an express- ;
man who bad stood watching the game ,
to take charge of her treasure, and de- '
nianding a receipt therefor with a busj-
ness air, she turned from my huhaud ,
aud glanced uneasily at the door. Never
have I seeu a more voluptuous-looking
woman.
Sometimes I wonder greatly at the in
nate stupidity of otherwise sensible
men who become fascinated with
shrewd,-well-preserved, and affectedly j resort. Once only, on tbe door-step,
woman-like wautons. Such a man may she paused to look np in his down
fancy himself iu love with such a worn- Ltiirned face. It was a look nf triumph,
an. Indeed, few men, or women, in-I sudden, decisive, aud full of meaning,
sanely peijure their own happiness or' And I knew that Captain Gerald firey,
resiiectabilitv for another's sake, except without money, would hence forth be to
ulii.,1 illlu'lul u'i.li mm or n.tf.PA atutvu.
ot the love malady. But when thus
fascinated, they are fit subjects for hos
pital treatment, and ought not to be al
lowed to run at large, imperceptibly
scattering Uie infection in the com
munity, any n. ,re than a patient af-
mcie-i win. mik.ii ,,)1X Mlou(, tM!
mitted to go a.M.m unrestrained.
er
The principle In both C!tBtt! , the arae
Tbe causes and enVoi, alue are differ
ent iu kiud, though parallel in degree.
Tbis womail was a blonde, with l,ia,.k
eyes, and she was as plump, j i,tff alll,
babyish in her pcreom tic as any .. f
the many men-supported Women one
oiteu see. at note.., wuo manage lo n.t-
ter meuof mean, aud position into the
e.ie. mat ney are poor.y appreciated , .,-.rary pallet, and wi.U my little
by their wives and beloved by them- , "p held eWly , B,y arms, I fell iuto
selves, and thus m.atuate their pa,iou- , deep, refreshing sleep.
eii.laved du,ss, t.ll they fancy thesireus The sun was shining brightly when I
arc t them. awoke, and a pack train, composed of a
, ' ' .. loDK liae ot 're,Kht nml. was halted
JJ'n vtr?r ,Te f Vtl,,edoor- l'ccustome.itol.,,,,
V' T"2 : " y e h ' Wbere ' ,nUle ,rain8 iU lbe cHy' fr ,hi' "m
, . , , , '"et" ... .a...... -..oU. me only killed a fine jack rabbit and served its ennobling pastime myself; so redoubling
Ubii.ka one the miners had yet adopted; so the ham for me in tempting style; but the my kieks and otitis, I finally Induced
c.i wi .. un.awiu, loveshouid presence of this one awake, ed no M.r- sight of it recalled the memory of the my charge to make some show towards
i.. ...'j.ci,t ti.l the disease is prise. Yet I stood in the doorway, gaz- , hare that fJeruld. mv- l, i.,i t .il IH. bis fore le. . i.
plication o
man alllo-t
have like
cured.
But I wit not thinking of these practi
cal fancies then.
Ah, me!
That woman, who had won my own
hard-earned gold from my hard-earned
and poorly-paying husband for surely
be liftd proved a worse than dead invest
ment! that woman, who "toiled not,
neither did she spin," yet Solomon, in
II his glory, was arrayed to compare
her; that woman, for whose baseness I
have no adequate words, took my earn
ings without a.perceptlbie shudder, and
fastening her great black eyes upon the
arbiter of my destiny, made him ten-
' fold more her slave than Itefore.
You will wonder that, seeing all thii,
through the intuitive knowledge that
God siives to all women, I did not then .
T ' 1
and there ru.h to mv husband's rescue. !
and beak the awlul spell that bound I
I did not because T could not. I was
"tupefle.1 with horror, shame, mortifioa-
i lion, and the fear that 'the geueral dis-
nJ acknowledgment of n.y
husband sguilt would bring inetrievable
disgrace upon my children and dishonor
upou ln',M;,f-
Then, I have told you
that I feared my husband; and Uod
knows tile reverential love 1 brought
him as a holy sacrament when iu tuy
chiUlit.li exHrience I became his wife,
was iMit dead, and scarcely even slum
lie red.
Though, during his long alseuce from
Melbourne, I hail well nigh wrecked my
ideal self r.s-et by a passing fancy for
Rev. Cvrus Stivdeuham. and though i
felt as badlv self-condemned over tills
one brief mental lape from the strictest
and straightest line of rectitude as the
pure in heart mut ever feel when they
have met and successfully reoi-ted
temptation, I could not forget that (ier-
aid was niv husband, tbe father of mv
children, and the one man of all others
for whom I ws- in honor bouud to keep
myself so long as we Ih.Hi should live.
I am ii"t a new-fanhioued woman. To
this day I deprecate, detest, and utterly
repudiate the "affliiily" doctrines of cer
tain latter-day reformers, who attempt
to palliate and excuse Iheir own ler
llctjom. I.y accusations, no matier how
truthful, against their erring lor.!-.
Two urotKj never did make one r'njhl,
aud, iu my liumb'e judgment, never
will. I did not, as I have said, eonlront
and denounce my hiMiaud and his evil
genius simply because I could not; and
I could not .lo it simply because be was
my husband, and I felt that any mr-li
accusation againt him would doubly
react upon uiyneil and his children.
So, as they arose from the table and
prepared to leave the building, I bowed
my head and stole silently away, with
a feeling that Gerald's guilt was n.y
condemnation also, and I must conceal
a" "r perish.
You may ask, good reader, w hy I see
proper to ili-cloi-e these humiliating
facts at this time, since I wis so anx-
to conceal them then.
The adventurous manner who lias
guided his ve-sel tlirough a long-continued
storm, pat rooks and shoals aud
breaker1-, striving vigilantly tbe while
to keep his traveling companions iu
hii.-sful ignorance of tl.e common dan-
ger, does not forget, when the peril is
l"'. ,u place lacons iu the great high-
way of the ocean, as a warning to those
who may come after him, that happily
they may steer clear of the difficulties
that once beset bis way. So I, by the
experience light ot my three-score years
of trial, hope to make life's roadway
pWner for those who are to come after
if, in so doing, I am compelled
t reveal the suukeu crags that wrecked
my happiness.
I turned a corner and sought a narrow
alley, where I took refuge, like a guilty
creature that seeks lo hide from ooscr-
vation, behind some blackened adobe
walls, from which the wooden frame-
work bad beeu burned by the recent
coufligration.
I watched my husband and the siren,
aud saw them enter a uameless jalace of
ll.-r A Vtr v .1 1 ilerel. I iHtrwiii frnm fnttlsin I
Gerald Grey, with abundance of cash.
But, ob, (how eye! They were tbe
same I had seen in my dreams! They
were the same I had sometimes encoun-
tered when my own were shut!
Ah, roe!
It was uight when I again crowed the
hay aud sought tbe bumble abode of my . Sisters of Charity could not have treated , Nimrod were not particularly Hatter
Spanish friends, where my children j me and mine with more respectful ten- Ing, but from my rickety perch I could
were. I was like a wrecked ship with , denies. A tent was pitched for our plainly see aud greatly enjoy the anl
rudder and mainmast gone. But I was , especial use, in which an army bed, a mated scene. At times I could discern
conscious of only one impulse. I must camp stove, crick chairs, and Kanaka ' a nude savage totally hemmed on all
tlee. My lii shand must not find me. caret were placed as furniture, while sides by the frightened aud Infuriated
How I was to get away from bis water, soap, wine, towels, food, every- beasts, apparently In Imminent danger
vicinity was not vi clear, but I decided t !.. tUm Mm, mWnrAml wmtm bnunl iuI 1 nf lu.1 n mrwl or t n. 01 oll .!..-.!..
- rf ,
j l wul, do it. So. with this reso-
, '' firmly taken, I crept Into my
i ing earnestly about me.
"Good-morning, Mrs. Grey," said a
familiar voiee.
I started like a gollty creature, for I
felt like r fugitive from justice.
"Have you forgotten roe?" was the
nest query.
And Mr. Lilllenlhal, the good-natured
German friend who hail given me my
first ft art In business, flood before me,
proffering bis hand.
"I believe God vent you, Mr. Lillien
thal," I said, bluntly.
And then, in spite of myself, I sobbed
hysterically.
"What's the matter, little woman ?"
asked my friend, bis voice betraying
real emotion.
"Again I am penniless and destitute,
and aniii I wai.t to go irtto a busino
copartnership," l said, .rolling through
te,r" tbe urdily of the propo-
"Would yon like to run h pack
train?" be asked, laughing aud rubbing
liis hands, as though tbe idea were a
good one.
"Xot that, exactly," I answered, my
spirits rising; "but I want to go with
you to Nevada City; and when I get
there I waut to keep a restaurant; and,.
if you will supply me, I will give you
half the profits of my latmr."
"But how can you gu with me? I
have nothing but freight mules and
p.ick saddles for riding."
"I don't care," I said, stoutly. "I
couM ride a tlaxbrake or a saw-horse, or
" ,,M"' " 1 w "" ' "K
fr niy children at the end ot the jour-
ney. "
"Did you ever ride a-mule-back?"
"No; but I will learn."
"But the kittens. What will you d.1
with them ?"
I really did uot know. But while I
was considering ways and means M
manage this new dilemma, my Spanish
hoMess kindly loaned advice and aid;
and in a little while I was mounted on
a clumsy, sore-barked mule, my chil
dren swinging at my side in panniers,
and myself seated UKn a Spanish saddle-tree
with a protruding horn, to
which I clung uneasily, while the bur
dened Least trotted along afan uneven
jog that cut my breath short at every
Jolt. But the chililreu enjoyed the rhle,
au.l I wns too happy at the prospect of
escaping from San Francisco to heed
my own discomfort or consider the pos
sible consequences of the fatiguing jour
ney to myself.
The first day's travel was accom
plished iu comparative comfort. Kverv
hour was widening the distance Ik?-
tweeu my liege and I. aud I thought of
liltle else till uiaatifU!. Then web died
on the bank of tbe Sacramento Ui-er,
in a clump or overgrown willows, with
a One grove of live oaks near, to which
we were comi-ellcl to remove at dark to
escape the hungry horde of rousquitoes
which attacked us in myriads, stamed-
Ing the mules, and almost destroying
my chililreu, iu spite of ray continued
ellorts to keep them at bay.
But for tru- musquitoes, my benefactor
said be would have tarried a day or two,
to give me opportunity to rest lefore
trying the broken ridges of the Sierra
Nevada; but the pests proved lutolera-
ble, and we aJvauced our columns the
next morning, as soon as the stampeded
lrall be collected together.
The agonies of that dreadful second
.lay's lide I never shall forget. Only
those who have encountered likeexe
riences can form an idea at all approxi
mating to tbe situation. I was in
agony in every nerve and fiber of my
brain and body. During tbe forenoon
the fierce sunshine beat upon us with
j jnsuflerahle beat. But at one p. M. we
began to aicend tbe mountains, and
goon the rarer atmospherewas more en-
, .titrable. But long before night I was
( lne victim of a racking ague. Not
j wishing to discommode my obliging
benefactor, I would uot complain, but
endured the torture until evening
j landed us in the heart of the great
i mountain gorge, where Fortune played
. wjt0 tDe fateg f thousands as with
a worthless toy, and reveled alike
in tbe success of her favorites and the
despair of her victims.
When I alighted from the jaded mole
I was far more tired than be; for, as
soon as he was released from his trap
pings, be began grazing upou the bill
side, while I fell sick and exhausted to
the ground.
! My children were cross and weary
aln, and but for the great-hearted men
I who ministered to our needs, we must
I have ierished, for I was utterly uuable
1 to help myself or them. But a bevy of
,UIU IIIB V ..-J' ....-.., I ' " "
,n profut,0.
One kind old gentleman in corduroy
aml demlns, with a knife and brace of
,,,, ,t bis belt, and more grime and
; wou,j
been required to sprout a hill of pola -
! toes, washed ami drewed the children,
' gave them their supper, aud put them
,0 i,. Auolheri & y0ling man iu
! oeer-skin aud shabbier hickory,
tributed as a peace oflering to my poor
mother, and the old scene eame op
so vividly before me that I could wot est.
After a while the children slept, and I
was left alnne with them anil theangels.
Then I rote and, closing my Usit door
securely, availed myself of the eoii
veuleneeat.batMl; ami though the ef
fort cost me excruciating torture, I gave
my body a vigorous soap-and-water and
towel bath, after whieh I slept soundly.
To he eon tinned.
IBOHTIEK SOT0HE8. NO. 4.
BY M. O. ft. RETM1A.
Knowing that a bountiful repast gen
erally conduces to cheerfulness and lo
quacity, I attempted another assault
i.,-.11 il.e imperturbable French: an'a ,
breastwork of reticeuce, after seeing The proximity of the enemy was an
him retire in perfect coniHwure from a j nounced early iu the moruiiig by the
full feast of delicious bollalo hump, but ' sentinels that were fiosled around our
I found it invulnerable as before. But camp, and the utmost consternation
after quoting an old French maxim for seemed to sieze the whole lrty. But
my delectation that might l rendered, j no time was to be lost. The horses were
"one fool can ask more questions than forthwith brought Iu, and either securely
a score of wise men can answer;" as tethered or caprisoned for service, ami
if to illustrate its truth, he turned the warrior, hastily denuding himself of
querist himself, ami never was a diffl- j hU every hutilimeut,8trapped his trusty
dent bumpkin forced to pa a more bow upon his person, ami shouldering
trying ordeal at the bauds of a self-con-1 his lance, stood forth ready to "door
ceited jietttfogger than I was while uu-
dergoiug his searching examination,
And since, for reasons that will heap
parent to-the reader, I would just then
much rather ask than answer questions,
I was at times sorely puzzled how loan- , flashing iu the bright suuiight, and J ffxy with such of his political brelh
swer. He -impounded his Interroea- j watch their trained steeds frisking, ; rel, are regponsiWe for his humiliat-
iions in rrencii.anu immediately trans-
lated my answers when I gave any
to bis swarthy comrades iu a language
that elicited frequent grunts of satisfac-
lion or astonishment fiom them. Dur
ing the evening he drew nut of tue that
I was
diaiis;
fugitive from a village of In-
thai I was lost upon the prairie,
without chart or compass, and that I J
felt the urgent need of sympathy and I
aid; and, although I waxed eloquent iu j
my appeals to him, as an Influential j
representative of my own people and I
race, who could succor me In my il-s- i
p. rate situation, lie sal as impassive as;
a stone, evincing le interest in me ,
ami my condition than tne untutored ;
savages by his side.
Iite at night, however, I retired to i
r'" be had coolly handed me for a bed,
heset by the same vague feeling of uu
rest that hail been so long the compau
ion of my every waking hour. How
ever, I awoke early next morning much
refreshed.
After a hearty breakfast I was shown
'' " ancient horse, which I was
informed I would have the honor of rid-
lu "" I remaineilith them. If, as
son.e say, we may judge of a hors.. on-
"dinacy by the shape ot his ears, the
animal before me was certainly endowed
wl11' po"'"" "r exceeding any of the
species it had ever been my fortune lo
n,ect. But I mounted my charger with
tne rest. was WK" " way In
l"est of buffalo. As I have said, my
'"r,,e w9 ,a,n of " le" ",,u ,ook
mincing, shuffling, hobbling gait with
tbe other three. In addition to this, he
'"" "" s.
"ow" peculiarly ins owu-a uan.i i.e
indulged in to great excess. To offset
l',eHe rare qualities, however, he proved
, " ""'y " a Krixzly bear, and as uutir-
ing as a stagnounu. ine-iatter quality
might not have been constitutional, bnt
the result nf the rigid system of econ
omy practiced in disbursing his strength
and speed regardless alike of blows,
kicks, and emphatic words.
After traveling rather leisurely over a
prairie for tiiree days, the cheering cry
of "buttalo" was heard along the line.
Directly ahead, on the right and on the
, I. ft, small tdaek objects could be seen,
j more resembling sluitiii than aught
else. As we slowly approached them
they became more distinct, gave signs
I of life, mid could lie seen slowly moving
' about on the interminable plain. We
' continued slowly toward them, "in the
! teeth of the wind," until within a dozen
, rods of the nearest, when, with deafen
ing yell, the cnvnleuije dashed up to
them, using their lung lances with tell-
, ing effect upon the immense Animals.
Never Iwfore had I beheld n scene so
full of .excitement. We had not ad-
vanced u mile alter reaching their out-
KMits before we were in their nuilt, see
ing the uncouth animals speeding along
in wild eoufiision Iu every direction,
while In the distance, and far away as
the eye could reach, large numbers were
quietly feeding, nil unentiseinus of the
wild riot that stirred their fellows an
near at hand. Mounted as I was, mv
chances for winning laurels as a mighty
" ll ' .-.-...J..V,. 1 W
anon the blade of a savage lance would
glitter in the hrighlauiillght, the victim
would be seen to totter, his tall lashing
: tl.e air in furious circles, and then to
tuinuIe hettdloaf; to the earth. At an-
. other time one of the lordly animals,
! rendered furious by pain, would rush
blindly nt his pursuer as though deter-
n,ie.l to sell his life us dearly nspos.1-
ble. But I must taste the sweet8 of this
I he went, throwiug me over liia head
'sprawling on tin ground. I really hoped
the superannuated old hack had broken
his neck, but, after emitting a most pa
thetic groan, he slowly gained his feet
and very complacently proceeded to nip
the growing grass.
This was my first ami last attempt to
slaughter buffalo, and I here record It
as my deliberate opinion that nobody
should be allowed to kill a single one
unless in self-defense. Darkness at
leugth put an end to the slaughter, ami
the party made camp on a small hrook
near by for the purpose of curing the
meat. But they were doomed to sad
disappointment, for enemies, jealous of
their invading the buffalo range, were
hovering on their track and ready at a
favorable time to pounce upou them.
die." But liehold the threatening col-
u in u marshaling for tin dread affray
on yonder kuoll but a single mile away.
Behold those gaudy streamers shooting
iu the wiud, those glittering weapons
plunging, ana uancing auout, as mougn
eager for the impending contest. Now
a wild and deafening warw hoop cleaves
the air, and see the cloud of dust awak
ened by rushing feet, as, all come madly
dasihug toward ourdoomed camp! Com-
pletely surrounding us, they halt at two I
hundred paces' distauce, aud offer a fa-
vored few a chance for life. Two stal- i
wart savages, accompanied by the negro
that had met meat the Waco Village, !
slowly approach for a parley. Ou seeing j
Sambo as one of the high-contracting
parties, I immediately rise to the dig- ;
inly of the occasion, astride my noble
charger, and ride bravely out to meet
mm. ne gave me a con.iai Ria-p n
the nan. I, aud, aiinougn 1 oeggeu pit- ,
eously, if not eloquently, for the shriuk-
ing vagabonds that had lieeu kind to!
me aud my noble dog, he was iuexor- j
able. His ill tonui turn was that one-half j
of the Osages should forthwith meekly
submit to death as an atonement for
the crime of iuvading the country of
the Wacoes and slaying tbeir game,
and tbe ebony-colored chieftain sol
emnly assured me that, were those mer
ciful terms not accepted, tbey - would
proceed to dispatch tu w-!io!tf hsod ff
hated Osages. I returned at ouce to the
terror-stricken camp, aud when I in
formed them tlirough the stoical old
Frenchmau of the ouly conditions nf
mercy, they all honor to them he it
said unanimously rejected them and
dared the tyrants to strike. And there,
under a blazing July sun, hand to baud,
the horrible combat raged, until of the
fifty faithful Osages less than a dozen
remained alive. But the victory was
dearly bought, for quite as many of the
assailants fell during those two eventful
hours to rise no more.
But why should I attempt to portray
the horrors of that day, for no simile
can give tl.e reader :i fair conception of
the awful scene, and the most graphic
arrangement of words must fail far short
in describing the soul-harrowing atroci
ties that that noon day sun looked down
upon. Yet, strange to relate, while the
tell spirit of revenge aud hatred was im
pelling these savages to deeds of the
, darkest diabolism, uot a hand was lifted
against me from either side, while often
I stood where blood flowed fastest, and
once or twice interposed to shield the
wounded from the murderous bauds up
raised against them. But not so for
tunate the impassive old Gaul, for he
was knocked from his feet early iu the
engagement aud left securely bound
until the combat ended. But the most
sickening and savage scene of all to a
civilized eye was the deliberate slaugh
ter of the wounded foe aud friend alike
at the close of the battle.
Ah, mel War has horrors enough
when all the merciful provisions, of civ
ilized nations are faithfully regartled,
but the revengeful heart of the savage
invests it with many additional horrors.
After such of the wounded had been
slain as were uuable to ride, night very
appropriately draped- the heuveus in
black, while we, one and all, watched
upon the gory field.
To be continued.
A President's Widow. It li a sad
fact that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the
widow of the late President Lincoln, Is
living a secluded life in au Interior
town in France, and declines to return
to America, lest she may again he
plaeejd In a lunatic asylum. It is said
that in Frauee she still indulges, to a
moderate extent, in her propensity for
buying things for which she has no use,
and filling elo-ets with articles wholly
unnecessary.
"Marriage," twys George Eliot, "is
promotion." And this sort of promo
tion makes seme young men so proud
ami stuck up that tbey won't do a
stroke of work afl long as their wives
are able to make shirts and take iu
wash lug to keep them.
'T will not learn a trade !" exclaimed
a young city blood to Ins father. But
tills business of learnings trade Is only
a matter of lime; lor within a year that
young man was studying harness-making
iu the State prison.
OUB WASHINGTON LETTEE.
To the Editor or the New North west:
A new door-keeper presides over the
destinies of the House. Colonel Polk,
the former incumbent, was unceremo
niously laid on the shelf on Monday
last, and General Field Is the wearer of
the official honors of the position. We
have seen nothing more entertaining
tbis session than the right over Polk's
sueceeeor. Ben Butler moved to elect
General Shields, of Illinois, and tbeu
argued In his peculiar manner that the
gallant war record of Shields gave him
precedence under the law, and by right
over Field, who had perjured himself
by going with the confederacy after a
West Point education. This onslaught
ou Field of course iuvnked bitterest per
sonal discussion, in which there was as
much eloquence, sarcasm, wit, aud re
tort as we have ever heard in the hall
in one afternoon. Butler, of course, had
to bear the brunt. But his master' of
taunt and satire renders him a match
for any one iu the House in ability to
give a Rolaud for an Oliver, aud we
Here gratified with the spectacle of a
battle of the intellects. These contests
are oases in the desert of legislation, for
they are tbe only means of relief given
to the dull monotony of ordinary busi
ness. Mr. Polk is of course exceedingly
sore over this misfortune, and lie has
gone into our papers with some crisp
cutting letters, in which he deals nuite
ing downfall. But he is au "out," aud
that suffices iu Washington to bury a
politician as effectually as sis feet of
earth.
Improvements and embellishment of
the grounds ami buildings are constantly
made at the Soldiers' Home. These,
unite! with the natural beauty of the
place, reuder it the most beautiful of all
our resorts. It, of course, attracts little
public notice because it does not call
upon Congress for its support, being
sustained wholly by the assessments
made upou tbe my ot all regular army
soldiers of 12) cents per month. Yet,
were our economical legislators asked
to appropriate a lew inousan.ts annually
tor its repair or improvement, tbe howl
nf protest would be alarming, and it
would become at once the subject of
constant investigation. As it is, a pres-
itieut can leave the miasmatic White
House and resideat the Home asquietly,
yet as grandly, as Queen Victoria at
Windsor Caatie. Mrs. Hayes is having
the cottage that she occupied last sea
sou out at Soldiers' Home refitted ami
brightened up in very pretty style for
another summer's residence, awl will,
as soon as Leol is over and our warm
May sunshine has put the grounds and
gardens iuto their brightest trim, re
move there with all her family. Of
course she will take Mr. Hayes with
her, for she undoubtedly thinks lie is
like the ancient woman's man a good
thing in tbe family, even if his political
brethren are somewhat Inelined toward
excluding him from their fold. The
Soldiers' Home is a grand plaee for a
presidential resilience, aud it is fitting
indeed that Mr. Hayes makes It his
home during our summer heat-, ratber
than some ocean resort with its accu
mulation of evils which curse all so
called fashionable resorts.
Our i-chool authorities have beeu
greatly excited over the strong prospect
before them of having to close all our
public schools at the end of April, aud
have been busy devisiug ways and
means for their continuance. Congress
lias drawn a check ou the disbursement
of moneys by our commissioners that
acts tsaniewliat similar to that law
which bars Chicago authorities from
expendiug lieyond a stated amount,
and tbe consequence is, no provision is
made for exigencies. Owing to the gen
eral delinquency in payment of taxes
our treasury has become depleted, and
our school lioard rind themselves neces
sarily short. We have one jieculiar
feature here which does not obtain else
where. One-half the pupils of our pub
lic schools are children of non-residents
who are in government employ, and
few of tbein pay any taxes. Tile burden
of tbeir support ialls, necessarily, on the
one-half of our community, and yet,
the most intense grumbler over any
failure to build costly school-houses.
furnish constant teachers, etc, is lie
who Is here temHrarily, and who boasts
that hu votes and owns property else
where,
The Senate judiciary committee's
fundi ug bill was passed by the Senate
on Tuesday evening, after a prolonged
ami able discussion, and by a decisive
vote of forty to nineteen. Some seven
teen Senators were absent, but had each
one been present and voted no, the re
sult would have been the same, inas
much as the forty voters were masters
of the situation. The lobby gave up
their fight after a test vote on Mr.
Blaine's proposed amendment, though
it had prepared a doseli others all look
ing to the same end the protection of
the Union Pacific Interests, rather than
those nf the government. Tbe bill is
now before the House, which, we pre'
ilict, will make short work of it, as there
Is undoubtedly a strong feeling among
the members adverse to the Union Pa
cific schemes and its prince of lobby
Ists, Jay Gould. Party I!n? were ig-
noreti in thisimporUtntdBbate and vote
Blaine ami his old opponent in the
House, Hill, of Georgia, fought side by
side against Messrs. Edmunds ami Thur-
man, and the ayes and noes throughout
display the same singular sandwiching
of llepublieau and Democrat. The
country will, through this anomaly, be
compelled to saddle whatever responsi
bility is iuvolved upon the Senators, in
dividually, aud we should uot be sur
prised if there would not be to some of
the participants in this debate a calling
to accouut in the future, pretty much
as with the credit mobilier matters.
Our past letters have shown our sym
pathies to he wholly with Messrs. Ed
munds and Thurman, aud the tiual ar
guments have only served to strengthen
oar convictions.
The Houeeis moving along as serenely
as a summer s calm, after IU storm
about tbe new door-keeper, Field. Both
parties tried bard to make iiolitical ap
ital nut of it, and, from tbeir stand
points, seem to have succeeded, at least
each Is crying victory over the other by
the matching of Bbh Butler's strategy
in comiielltug the Democrats to ignore
General Shields with the adroit flunk
movement of Mr. Bragg, by which all
parties voted to put General Shields oil
the retired list. Considerable mud was
thrown during the debate, aud it was a
difficult matter to determine who got
the worst of the war of words. Mr.
Blackburn said that tbe only confeder
ate ever hurt by General Butler was the)
one eiviliau hanged iu New Orleans.
But it was diamond cut diamond. Mr.
Butler is a roaster nf sarcasm, and par
ticularly so when after Sunset Cox's
,-cnlp. The wit aud drollery of Mr. Cox
is not a match for Butler's sarcasm,
and, as a consequence, he is nearly al
ways worsted iu au encounter character
ized by the personalities aud K)lftlol
mud. flinging after debate upou Mr.
Field's election aa door-keeper. These
wordy duels, however, are intensely In
teresting to tbe non-participants. Tbe
members are all iu their seats aud eeae
their turmoil, which makes tbe floor
usually akiutoa bedlam.audtbey tangb
and applaud every hit as heartily as tha
spectators iu the galleries. Fbi.IX.
Washington, I). C, April 12t 1S73.
i
I l.ncT Won t Have It"
A Washington letter hi the Philadel
phia Prett contains the following ac
cniiut of how Mrs. Hayes entertained a
euchre quartette.:
It is said that early iu his reign
Kutherford had invited some of the boys
up for a card party, and the thing was
"set up" iu advauce. The game was to
be euchre, although Sherman aud
Thompson were yearning for a little
draw poker. The guests came, and
were ushered without ceremony into
the President's library. Kutherford was
there, aud so was madam, more inter
esting and winsome, if ixsible, (ln.il
usual. She was particularly solicitous
about the health of each and the taunly
of the same, hoped Uncle Dick Thomp
son wouldn't work himself to death,
and 'bade Mr. Kvarls beware how he
look fried clams on bis stomach at mid
night. Mr. Sherman boied they were
nut detaining Mrs. Hayes from receiv
ing other friends, or from the pleasant
duties of the domestic circle. Ob, no,
indeed. Tbis was her hour with her
husband and any of his intimate friends
wbo bapMiiel.t drop iu. Thompson
looked at Sherman and winked. Sher
man remarked: "Ah, yes, beautiful
thought, madam; beautiful thought."
Kvarls emitted a wordy eulogy on the
beauties of home life aud the President
yawned. Kleveu o'clock eame, aud
the visitors withdrew with the sweetest
of parting benedictions from Mrs.
Hayes. The next day Rutherford was
obliged to admit to his disappointed
friends, "It's no use; Lucy won't have
it; she don't say a word, but you see
how she works it." There'won't beany
wicKedne-s at the White House If .Mrs.
Hayes eau help it. There is a great
deal of intriftueiy which she knows
nothing about, but that doesn't count.
When she sliikes anything ou color.
she 'shoots it ou the spot."
UsHAPpy Marriages The univer
sal ex MfCtaliou of married people is, that
their lives will always lie happy ones.
Deluded dreamers! They Iniagtue that
they are dillereiit from other people.
and that when they enter the portuls of
matrimony, love, (leace, aud prosperity
will ever lie their attendants. Such had
better consider themselves the same as
others, but form iron resolutions to do
differently from oilier married people
resolutions that will keep them Irom
the duugerous coasts ou which so many
have beeu wrecked and ruined. Un
happy marriages depeud upon many
causes. Previous to marriage, many try
to appear more intellectual, more amia
ble, or more accomplished thati they
really are. Depend ilpnu it, that love
brought into existence by a moonlight
stroll, strengthened by deceit and fash
ionable displays, and nuaiiy consum
mated through the lulliieiice of Intrigu
ing friends, will fade iu after life utmost
as fast as. the flowers which compose
tue unuai wreain.
A literary society at Delaware. Ohio.
has a letter written by Horaee Greeley
iu IS 19, in which he thus refers to his
educational attainments: "I know a
little newspaper Latin and French, and
might nave mastered a little (Jreek tbe
same way, if the barbarians had known
enough lo ussau Intelligible alphabet.
ui matnemaiics, l learned what Is con
tained in Adam's arithmetic; of gram
mar, just enough to see clearly that
Litidley Murray knew very little and
blundered shockingly. As to ehirog
raphy, mine speaks for itself, not clearly
as to matter, but quite distinctly enough
as to manner."
If a man is to tie baptized It ought to
be done thoroughly. The other day a
convict was immersed, and when he
went home he took with him tbe min
ister's pocket-book. If he had been
held under water for half an hour this
accident would never have occurred.
Heading makes a full man, and so
docs whisky.
An old settler a piece of codfish.