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CHAPTER XVX
Very dittereot, indeed, was the air of
Mr, Soowdsa hh she greeted the Kmer
sons on the eauiioa of tfctsseeend visit
from that which she had displayed at
her first appearance at their humble and
unpreteutioos borne. Suffering Is a great
eveler, and whether it comes in tlte
'form of mental or physical attiietioo, or
both, it natters very little; the leveling
prooosu goes on all the same.
"The laws o' mercy. Mint Snowdeu!
Can It be partible that you are oomin'
baek to us so mhmi V asked Mrs. Etn ar
son, ner voice ana wanner Betraying a
welcome not at ail discernible in iter
word.
"lea, my Oear lire, r-merson; j-ou
treated me ao well but yesterday, that I
am like k sidled child, and must needs
Unanaes yet further upon your good na
tana. Bat where are Grace and
'LooaoT"
"Gone over to see their Hew land ln.
yond tbe rise. They're lalkl n of build
In', and are already t-etlllit' down to
bosiotwe like old people."
"Jost so with John and Iiillie," wa
Mr. Soowden's very remdble rejol oder.
"They are an admirable couple. Yon
moat be very proud of year daughters,
Mrs. Emerson."
"It don't beeome us to be over proud
of nothih1, Vttm Snowden. We're ooi
HMtnded to humble amdves that we
may be exalted, aeeordin' to script er."
"Ke vertholuae, I feel that we have a
right to feel a juotillable sense of satis
faetioo when ourehildreu'do well. Cer
tain it it that we cannot help experi
encing a deep sense of humiliation and
sorrow if they do ill.'
"That's so, Mies Soowden, tliat'e so,"
sighed Mrs. Emerson, though what it
was that earned a vague tremor of ap
prehension to dart suddenly through
her vein and nerves, xne eoukl not
for her life Imagine. "Though, as fur
me, if do any it, which orient to aay it,
Pve never bad any occasion to feel hum
bled because of any partie'ler wroogdoln'
on the part o' aay o' my children," she
added, after a panee.
Mrs. Snowden w seised with a sod
den impulse to make a eouftdeut of Mrs.
Emerson, and throw herself upon Iter
generosity of heart; though why she
ebon Id have thought of such a thing, no
body but herself could have imagined,
and even she eould not havedl vineti tlte
roaoon bad she stopped to ask
herself eoocerninK it. IWt intu
ition is a woniRiiV forte. It Is often
emphatically asserted that a woman's
mason is simply "becanse." . But be
that as It may, this reason, if such it
may be called, is oftentimes more potent
and unanswerable than the gravest
philosopher's "why."
"Mrs. Emersou," said Mrs. Snowden,
and she was not even panting now, so
overpowering were Iter emotions, "the
shadow and substance of a great trial
"Mrs. Kmerson, did you ever have n
son of your own V asked Mrs. Snow
den. Again that Men memory that like a
poorly concealed well-spring, wasalways
ready In bubble to the surfaee upon the
slightest acltation, sought vent In a
silent fit of heart-felt weeping.
"Yes, Mrs. Snowden; I did have a
sen, but God took lilm."
"Would to Owl that lie had taken
inlue, Mrs. Emerson," was the fer
ventrejoiuder or the uulmppy visitor.
"Why ? What ii the maMer ?"
"I cannot keep it from you, Mrs.
Emerson, so I will tell you all, ami
throw myself and son upen your mercy.
Aionso lias betrayed a young girl to her
ruin."
"I knowed it; I (elt it the minute you
spoke of a great trouble. Hut, really,
now, and upon the honor of a mother,
didn't you know a word of this till to
day?" "I first learned it lat evening, Mrs.
Emerson, and I am out now upon a
miesion of mercy, determined to make
whatever reparation is possible."
"Why dhiu't 'Lonzo marry the girl?"
"For tite same wicked reason that
prompts all other fellows in like cir
cumstances, I suppose. The girl loved
him to distraction. But, poor olillii,
she'll never suffer over It any more."
"She i9u't dead 7"
"Unfortunately for her, no; I would to
heaven that site were."
"I do not understand."
"Alas, do. Site Is oraiy."
"And her child T"
"Ia homeless orphan."
"Then I mean to have it."
"O, Mrs. Eniereon; would you take
it as your own ?"
"Of course I would, If I could only
have It so nobody woahl Interfere. Is It
it rfrir'
"Yes."
"I thought so."
"Ami why did you think so V
"I don't know. I s'pose it was only
became. Bat, I've had a warnin' of
this, and somehow it don't seem Midden
like. Where Is the poor erasy mother ?"
I suppose she is in lim asylum by
this time. And the. child will be upon
the town."
"Would yoo allow that?"
"I couldn't help myself. Mr. Soow
den would not fiermit me to Interfere
with It."
Mrs. Emersou did not believe a wont
of that, but she was too generous to say
so. The idea that the wiry, nervous lit
tle man whom ebe had met at the wed
dlugeouid ever successfully oppose the
specimen of ieminiue avoirdupois be
fore her, when that specimen had her
will set, was simply absurd. But Mrs.
Emer-oo eould not help but look the in
eredntity idle did not speak, uud Mrs.
Snowden seeing the fact, thought fur
ther explanation neesry.
You see, we have a large family of
marriageable daughter. And we can
not allord to Hjioil their chances by a
(while scandal. Ihtt you ctuild take the
child and nobody would ever dream that
anything was wrong."
"Has tile poor girl no mrenH?"
"She has a father."
"Doesn't he want the child ?"
"No. You see, the law in some In
explicable way mwgnisee married
women as men's property. And when
my poor, misguided son got Into this
trouble, the girl's father, who is a very
hard man, demanded heavy damages In
you turned up your nose at the idea of QUE EUROPEAN COERESPONDENOE
living In the country," said Grace, a lit
tie pettishly, for in truth she was sorely
disappointed over the bursting of all
her magnificent air castles.
Alnnzodld not reply, nor Indeed did
he appear to take any notice of her
querulous reminders. She was his wife
now, and it mattered little to him if
site did fret, teeing lie hail all the ad
vantage. "How soon do you propose to begin
with the building?" asked Grace, after
a long pause, as they halted upon a
gentle rise, which she 11 mil I y decided
to ohooseas a location.
"I can't tell exactly, Grade dear.
Tt would tie very hard for me to tear
thyself afray from "you' for a" Mitticietit
length of time to order the uecessary
material,"' he avowed, with a melting
smile which Grace was certainly to he
pardoned for enjoying, so very bewitch
ing was It.
"Then, dear, let me go with you. I
can go wherever you can."
"But It wouldn't be at all ladylike
for you to seem to take so much Inter
est in my aflalrs, darling. Now that
you are my wife, you must trust me to
manage my own business.'
"And am I to iiave no will ot my own
ajmut anything ?"
"Oh, certainly. Ladles always have
it will of their own, my dear. IVut I
mean that you must not expect to in
terest yourself too ruueh about business
matters'. My mother lias never known
anything at all alio tit my father's pe
cuniary a I1U Irs. It is Ids delight to
shield her from every annoyance, and
he keeps her in blissful Igitorauceof all
hii financial perplexities."
"Then Alonzo, you will pardon me,
dear, but lie doesn't do right, either by
your mother or himself. I'll warrant
he'd not get off that way if lie hud me
for a wife. I consider it n wife's duty
LETTS NCMBKR SIXTBC.
SOUTHERN ITALY.
When we see what we have proposed
for our last letter, aud go over metitully
the places to be mentioued, Verona,
Florence, Pisa, Genoa, Milan, Turiu, and
the beautiful northern Italy, we can
but Instinctively tdirink from the at
tempt to crowd into one letter whut
would receive poor treatment In n half
dozen.
Verona Is attractive to the traveler
for two things, the amphitheater and
the swindle known as Juliet's tomb.
Next to the Coliseum at Home, the Ve
rona Amphitheater is the grandest work
fef Hie ancient Bomnne whBh. lias come
down to us. But little inferior In size
to the Coliseum, it Is so remarkably
well preserved that In its vast rows of
seats which rise one above unolher
hardly a stone Is missing, aud it could
seat its audience of fifty thousand peo
ple as comfortably now as in the un
known time, more than two thousand
years ago, when it was built. If the
arena was excavated to its former level
and the dqngeous and ileus cleared out,
the Iloman prefect might again take
bis place of honor, the Roman audience
again crowd in upon the stone seats, and
even the gladiators ami wild beasts
spring from the under-ground passages
futo the arena as in former times.
There is perhaps nothing In the Eng
lish language so attractive to lovers us
Shakespeare's "Borneo aud Juliet," ami
this Is probably the reason why travel
ers who stop at Verona, almost without
an exception, go through a large garden
to an ordinary house, and in the wood
shed adjoining, gaze In admiration ou u
large stone horse-trough, which, with
out the slightest foundation in fact, is
called the tomb of Juliet. Nothing can
be less romantic, and after one fair view
! of thesupposed wonder, itbeglns todawu
to 1m a lilnHiittM fur liur liiiultatu! In
everything. If I had thought to sink T n" llmt lbe ,,0,e lM one of
to the level of either dollshlp or drudg
ery on your hands, I should never have
consented to niarry at all."
those numerous devices wliteh are so
common to get money out of the utiiu
itated traveler. It
"Which Is Just the mine as saying
that you do not trust me as a wife
should trust her husband."
Alonzo's air was that of an aggrieved j
and injured man now, and Gruee some
how felt that she had been unreasona
bly self-asserting.
"Be It as you say, 1113- dear," she said,
with an air of resignation. "Though I
don't feel satiaHed, because everything
is turning out so diilerenlly from what
I bad anticipated. I can't help feeling
as though you hail caught mo through
falte appearances. Ami yet, I wouldn't
wrong you for my life."
Perhaps It was well for Grace that the
clatter of her horse's boofa umhi the
1 flinty road which they had now reached
1 011 their way bona-ward, prevented Iter
j husband from hearing this last remark.
For certainly trouble was coming to
them in another shape quit soon
enough, and there was no need of her
aggravating matters by raising an Incip
ient quarrel over their iecuuiary con
cerns. To be rantlnned.)
has fallen upon our household. It is a money, wbirh my husband met. But
trial of which I did not have the faint- this did not compel the roan to take
est suspicion before my son became your care of the girl. It only appeased Ids
on-in-law, and your daughter became wounded honor according to men's code.
mine, else I should have washed my So lie turned her and the child adrift."
hands of the entire responsibility by
telling you all before the marriage took
place. Are you ready to hear the
worst?"
Mrs. Emerson sank into a ehalr and
rocked rapidly to and fro.
"I knowed it! I knowed it! I told
Pap all the time there was ssmetbin'
wrong. Bnt 'Inio has oeh a takln1
way, Miee Snowden. There eeukiu't
toy of ns resist him.
"You know all, then?" and Mrs
Soowden gave vent to a deep sigh of
relief.
"What should know, Miss Snowden?
29o; I don't know uothiu', for certain,
only it has 'pea red to all of us, not even
'oaatln' Grace herself, that
some mystery afloat."
"But soppofte Aionso were yoar own
eoo, Mia. .emersou, your very own.
Would you love him tbeb. in sidte of
hi faolte !"'
"It would be ag'in oatur1 If r didn't
Mies Snowden. Bot you haves't torn'
we what was the matter. U'8 uothiu1
about a girl, is it?"
"Whatever made you think of that?"
"But it was tlie gal that was dam
aged, I should 3ay."
Ami so would any woman decide,
my dear. Men do not look at justice In
the same light that we do."
'I should say they didn't, if that's the
wBy they manage matters," said Mrs.
Emersou. "But I've always had enough
to do to look after my own affairs, and
leave law-makin' to the men."
I am afraid wa women have been
eulpably negligent all along the by
gone years, else we'd have had things
different," was Mrs. Soowden's very
wise rejoinder.
"It ain't quite clear why you. should
o' come to me about this trouble." said
there was 1 irM Vnunu, u-i,i. .. i.vt- r ,iun !.
straetiou inher usually not very expres
sionless face.
"I really didn't mean to tell you any
thing about it, my dear madam. A sud
den impulse seized me, though, and I
obeyed It. And now, since you express
yourself so humanly, I feel as though
the angel might have prompted the idea.
My business here was meant to be
strictly nrivato with (I
akl Aiooso's mother turning ghastly Uoti ,K you klKlw alK)Ut
p"e, in !""' """" w-i- naps you nut belter tell the captain "
iM evwuniw wnraunni. . leil HUH 7 1 EUeSS I will Vnii
"Oh, nothin', only he's so slick- ,wt catch me keepiu' nv imm,int
long tied, like, and no doubt he's bad a secret like that from pap."
takln' way among other women besides While this conversation was xolng on
the Emereons. I beg your pardon if I between the mothers, Alonzo and
hurt your feelin's, but I told pap an Grace were ridlug here and there over
Buffs. Do our fair readers know for
what the Spanish rull was used at the
outset? To conceal the yellow throat of
the Queeu of Navarre, and to hide a scar
on Henry Il.'s neck ! Books have lieen
written about the run, atiauiemasiiorieu
nt its wearers yes, even murders com
mitted witli its aid, if contemporary
soandal.mongers are to be believed.
Have not Catherine of Medluis' detract
ors accused tier cqteuly that she poisoned
Queeu Jeanne of Navarre by a perfumed
rull, ami persuailHl the LluKeor Aien
eou to get rid of his brother Henry by
having him scratched with a poisoned
ruff pin.
There were Spanish rufls and Medicls
ruffs; single, double, triple piled, and
dspdalian mils of cambric; rufls of lawn,
tluted and straight, embroidered and
edged witli gold, silver, pearls aud pre
cious stones; ruffs of cut-work, rufls of
bone, lace, etc The Spanish ruff came
first to England under Henry VI If., and
was made of cambric, lawn, or simple
linen, a lluled ring of moderate dimen
sions encircling the neck, and worn by
men and women, high and low.
vivid Imagination to realize that the
officious attendant who is jingling our
money in his ocket, Is laughing at us
as a party of nlnneys while he smiles
-o blandly upon us as we quickly take
our departure.
There Is probably 110 city In Itoly
which is, on the whole, so pleasing to
travelers and In which so many cul
tured foreigners live, as Florence. Be
sides being a city of palace's, nod beauti
ful drives, It is the blrth-idnp- and home
of art. Her many beautiful churches,
her numerous ami rich galleries of art,
and her hundreds of studios and artists,
make her u favorite home of literary
and cultured people. Florence has been
the birth-place or home of many dis
tinguished men, and their homes are
yet polntedutit to the traveler. Among
th eise may lie mentioned Miehuei Au-
gelo, Dante, Galileo, Ghlberti, Machia-
villi, and Amerigo Vespucci, from whom
America took its name. In the English
cemetery lie tbo remalnsof Mrs. Brown
ing, Walter Savage I.indor, Theodore
l'arker, and many English aud Ameri
cans who names are not so widely
known.
Every one can remember the picture
of the leaning tower of Pisa, which
used to be in all the geographies, and I
can well remember that I thought there
was something supernatural about it
that kept It In this position right in the
face of nature's laws, and when
climbed its one hundred and eighty feet
and looked over Iheside aud saw myself
hanging In the air thirteen feet outside
the base, the supernatural Impression
was not In the least removed. At the
first glance you cannot get rid of the im
pression that the tower has commenced
tipping over. It is supposed that after
the structure was commenced one side
sattleil, and that In finishing it, care. was
taken to make the lower side the lighter,
so that the center of gravity of the
whole mass might not fall outside of the
base. Galileo used this slanting tower
Kverv peasant hath hi. .lately bande. j ' experiment" ' neiei
MonilroiM ruffes, bow cotlr iwevcr lu " 14ws of gravitation. The baptistry of
The size gradually increased; one ring ; lbe catl)edrul Is a circular building, and
was pi eti op tne oiner, cosily 1 "; u celebrated for Its marvelously beauti
ful echo. The attendant sounds the
four notes, do.mi.iot, do, and the whole
and edclncs of Ileticella and Fleniih
lace introduced. Freuoh and English
courtiers vied with eack other who
should wear the largest rut I. A ttiitd of
an ell was its depth under Catherine of
Medieisnnd Henry III.; but in England
they wore their rufls n quarter id a yard
deep iu Elizabeth's time.
A Lakk of Fike. Mrs. Braev, an
English woman who accouinleil her
husband In a recent yacht voyage
around the world, thus describe, ine loss or the Holy L.anu, tne arcnnisiiop
crater of the great Sandwich Island j1Bj flfty.tbree ship-loads of earth from
volcano, Kllauea: "We were standing 1 yu Ca,very conveyed here in order that
bumlrMl feet below us. and nearly a mile ' There re "'"' other things of interest
across. Dashing against the otitis nu ! in this old, decaying city, hut we must
the opposite side, with a noise like the (?aV(j Uem aml clae far,,er Up the
roar m a stormy ocenu, w , ,i. tlmdv ituatMl nllv nf
I ' I TJ mnwa w r - -
the gals both of 'em, that a dashin',
citified young chap like him would
hardly o' eoine out here to this uupre
tendin' place, and among such plain
people, to make a marriage settlement
if he hadn't had some reason for it that
wasn't on the surface."
Mrs. Emerson's memory was shorter
than the reader's, else she would
nave recollected that it was "pap" in
stead of herself that prognosticated evil.
their new iloraaiu, the former secretly
intent upon calculating bis probable
realizations from its speedy sale, and
the latter openly planning, with the In
nocent artlessness of a child, as to the
site, style and surroundings of her new
country abode.
"It will not be as you promised, any
way, Alonzo, for you told me that we
should have a city home, with elegant
furniture and a grand observatory. And
AsI florv liniiiil Inva hnrlrtl ihrlr till
lows upon an iron-bound headland, and Genoa, which has been celebrated from
then rushed up the face of the ditli to H tue for Its cxeell-nt sea-port. It
toss their gory spray high in le air. , 1111ls ,.4e nges, ami the
1 ue restless, neavnig iaKe .Kmc- ;. ,., ,,..,, , M,ll,rt
lltllilklutfl ,iu,ur rmtriitif. tli wnfOH lor wwci - - -----o
two minutes tocether. There 1 cit. While it libs many churches,
"as au Island 011 one side nf the lake, I ,.al.e and naileries. It has none of
To-!!?1' Uie ller' waves denied to at- .Ial importance to a casual visitor,
. If uenTo H T ' ' but many which arc well worthy the nt
On the other side was a large cavern, ' teution of the art critic who has time
i11', Ue burning mass rushed ' , disposal. It Is associated In the
impetuousSVonetr Sganllc American minds chiefly as the home of
stalactites tlmi .,: ..... ..i. ..r r-i. .minis, and the traveler Is shown his
materfaTfor1 tl1 0'"K,"K UP lue n1ui1 ' palace and two statues of him, one of
It was all terriiTiv . 1 . uu . them very fine, itany who reau tuts
uSto will recall the adm.rab.e article
describe such a scene." 0n the celebrated bank of St. George.
which appeared In one of our leading
magazines a few months ogo. This was
one of the earllests aud most famous
banks In Europe, and came near absorb
ing the entire republic of Genoa.
From Genoa, u ride of less than a
hundred miles northward brings us to
Milan, the capital of Lombardy, the
second city in Italy in population, and
the most prosjierous. Itaud Turin show
evidences of being largely modern cities,
most of the streets being wide and well
paved, ami many of the buildings very
line. Siuce the revolution of 18o9, no
cities iu Ilaty have made such rapid
improvement as these two. The rich
plain iu which the olty is situated lias,
been fought for by French, Austriana
and Itnliaus from time immemorial..
The battle fields of Lotli and Marengo,
where the great Napoleon won such
signal victories, ami of Maueuta, the
military glory of Napoleon I IT., are all
near the city. While Milan lias cared
for her material prosperity, she has not
neglected her opportunities for art, and
to-day is a vigorous rival of any city in
Italy In these matters. Milan, the
graud, is uoted the world over for her
wonderful cathedral, which Is the larg
est and finest gothiu church in the
world. It covers au area of about two
and a half acres, and is distinguished
more for its exterior decorations than
for the beauty of its interior.
There are positions from which the
view across the cathedral discloses a
wonderful number of great pillars ami
gives au impression of massiveness
which I do not remember to luve
received in any other cathedral.
The chattel of St. Borroiueo, un
derneath the chureh, is rich iu work
in silver and in prealnus stones. But it
is a visit to tlie roof ami spires of this
great cathedral which calls forth our
wonder ami admiration. Tlie roof,
which is of blocks of solid marble, is
such a labyrinth of turrets, hutments,
anil elaborate ornament of every kind
that guides are generally sent up witli
the narties to itreveut them from wan-
does not require a j ,eTujr uround and losing the way.
From the platform of the spire the view
is probably tlie finest to be had from
any cliureh-tower in tlie world. The
broad plain of Lombard), which lies be
low us, is seen to lie bounded on the
north by the best known of the Alps,
and on the south by the Appeniiies. To
the extreme east, beyond Turiu, the
lofty Mount Ceuls can be distinguished.
Not tlie least interesting of all is the
wonderful roof which we look down
upon, with its thousand of pieces of stat
uary, for it is said that when the deco
rations are completed there will be ten
thousand marble figures, mostly nu the
outside ot the building, and more than
half of thesearealreaily in plaee. There
is a small engine on the roof for hoist
lug material, ami houses in whlah the
workman cut the marble. The roof is
almost a city in Itself.
In one of the Inferior ehtirrlies is the
celebrated "Ijttst Supper," by Vernundo
de Vinci, one of the best known ami
most admired of the great 'xiintings of
the world. It has unfortunately received
very bad treatment, and is now very
much injured. Probably no finer face
of the Savior has ever been paiuted, and
yet the great artist himself said that he
was not able to realize on the freso his
conception of the heavenly beauty, aud
grace of the countenance. There was a
very beautiful copy of this picture in
tapestry at the Paris Exposition.
Tlie gallery of Victor Emmanuel, a
covered arcade, with shops on each side,
costing more than $1,500,000, is the fin
est building of its kind iu Europe.
Wlien its two tnousaml gas jets are
lighted in the evening, it Is as brilliant
a plaee as one can well imagine.
We were pleased with Northern Italy,
with the enterprise and ambition of the
people, ami most of all with the confl
deuce which they seemed to have in
themselves to again beeome a united
and (Miwerfui nation, loung Italy has
shaken "II the dust of her former dead
es, ami arising In all the hope and
vigor of her newly found life, is making
rapid strides toward regaining what she
lost while she slept, and many who read
these lines will live to see her again, as
of early times, a power omong nations.
I tlo not feel that I can conclude this
series of letters without thanking my
many readers for the Interest with
hich they . have perused them ami
borne with my Imperfect attempts to
place before their minds what mauy of
them have not as yet had the pleasure
of seeing with their eyes. From the
first I have most painfully realized how
Impossible It was for me in the narrow
limits to which it was necessary to re
strict myself to tiegln to tlo justice to
the many things of interest in the places
mentioned, and It has been with great
regret that I have been obliged to leave
uunoticrd things Iu which I was greatly
0UE WASHINGTON LETTEB.
To thk KnrroB op thb Xkw Northwest:
Mr. Blaine certainly has cause to feel
that be is a popular man, since the no
tice that he will make a formal speech
always suffices to crowd the galleries
and lobbies with people who are anx
ious to hear him speak, hundreds lie
ing unable to gain admittance to the
galleries when he was speaking in sup
port of his resolution looklnjj to inves
tigation of tlie recent Southern elections.
Every nook and corner was occupied by
listeners; the floor with Senators and
members of the House ami other priv
eleged persons, while tlie plebeians
jammed the galleries and the corridors,
and with strained attention, listened
during his hour's eflort. It is not his
eloquence or his arguments whioli at
tract these crowds, for he is not the equal
of Voorheea in oratory, or of Bayard or
Edmunds iu solidity. But there is a
certain uuiinal magnetism about him
whieh attracts the masses, much as was
the case with Henry Clay, ami as a
consequence, he never makes his
speeches to empty seats. Mr. Clay was
tiie only man ever iu the House or Sen
ate who was uniformly greeted with au
audience, and his peculiar power of fas
cination or attraction never ceased to
draw around him, aud to the galleries,
a pleased audience. It seems strange
that so many men, blessed with large
intellects, who in the courts command
princely fees, am! whose legal and argu
mentative powers are unsurpassed,
should so lack in ability to command
listeners iu the halls of Congress, aud
whose auditors are mere empty seats,
and that, too, at times when they are
debating measures utlecting the weal or
woe of our country. We can only ac
count for the faot on the same ground
that we admit the power of some illiter
ate preacher to surpass his learned
brother ministers in swaying the masses
with sweeping revivals. We may often
laugh at the painful lack of scholarship,
the uncouth muuuers iu the pulpit, aud
tlie ignorance of all the graces of oratory,
aud yet we have before us the undis
putable evidence of power in the eflrcts
produced upon the crowds which pour
in night after night for weeks to listen,
ami to be afleetet! by him. So in the
capital. We do not regard Mr. Blaine
as the intellectual equal of some of his
associates, but he has beyoud this a
magnetic force whieh the others do not
dome seems tn fill with echoes and re
echoes, ami before they have died away
lie repeats the notes, nnd the two echo
choruses are heard blending and com
bining for nearly a minute. Near this
Is the burial ground, a quaint structure,
remarkable from the fact that lifter the
The Oaarities of a Poor Woraat.
Ou a 8equestereT"lillslde of North
beituate, nestling amoug green hills ami
woods, stands an ancieut cottage em
bowered with creeping vines and gay
flowers, and surrounded by fair or
chards, whose trees are red and goWen
with delicious fruit. Here reside a
woman indefatigable and beneficent,
always busily at work for somebody,
although she has neither husband nor
child, ami no means but this little farm
and its appurtenances. Her home is "
pleasant and tidy, sweet and genial, aiid
happy are the many recipients of her
generous hospitality; but she is so busy
doing good deeds for the ueedy, her
time is too precious to waste on vain
superlitiities. She wears no gewgaws,
trails, or overskirts. But nearly every
week tiil cold weather comes, she may
be seen in her plain wagon, laden with
cooti things for the poor, driving into
Providence. In summer you may see
this wagon loaded with fresh whortle
berries, with her own hands from her
own Jam!, to make glad the Old Ladies'
Home; and the next week the poor
children of the Shelter are delighted
with a similar donation. In apple time
sbe is seen cheerfully driving up to the.
same institution, and the children shout
for joy as a generous hag of Sa psoas is
poured out before them. The next time
she visits the city, the old ladles at the
Home bless her with cheerful voices for
a barrel of the same delicious fruit. A
little later in the season, the aged men
of the Home are gladdened, their hearts
not soured, but sweetened by the acid
gifts, as she loads their table with a
plentiful supply of fresh cranberries,
picked by her own nimble fingers from
her owu prolific meadows.
The poor children of a certain institu
tion seem to be drooping ami puny. She"
knows that uothiiig puts new life Into
little children like a joyful surprise. So
she goes to a genial confectioner and
says, "I waut ice-cream ami cake for
thirty. What is the cost?" He makes
a liberal discount, and away with a light
heart, she bears the sweet burden to de
light the little ones, whose sad lives
were so early bereft of chi Idhood's sweet
ness. She pays the bill, and takes it to
kiud ladies with purses, who gladly re
lieve her from the pecuniary part of
this sweet work.
She is interested in an aged woman,
sick ami helple-s, who must not be
hustled oil' to the al ms-houee, for she is a
sister iu the ehurch ami must be kindly
eared for. So our heroiue, so fertile; in
practical plans of relief, obtains means to
board and uurte her for three loug years,
tenderly as if she was bh own mother'.
One album bed-quilt which shedevised
tor Her support. Hint with the aid ot
friends, nobly executed, realised over
$400. True it is, that "where there's a
will there's a way."
Happy the destitute, bed-ridden crip
ple, suffering and lielplees, that en
grosses her sympathies, so active ami
warm, tor ever afterward the pitiable
or be read by
soine one who is sick, sour, ami sou,
bpcaue so selfish, aud who may lie in
cited thereby to go and do likewise, for
get herself, bless others, do good as sbe
has opportunity, and as an ample re
ward here below, find lierelf well, vigor
ous, and happy. Mm. R. C Mather, in
Jrovidence Journal.
possess, and through it he has eager I invalid hteks no comfort that money or
listeners instead of empty benches for ! inemls can procure.
his audience. I H"Mi'. too, Uw worthy mission, near
, , , 1 ' or remote.ready to fail for want of funds,
Congiess has got down to its oma- . ,at 9he m ner heart." Forthwith
mental work of introducing bills by the ; its needs are supplied ami the good work
hundred. An occasional one may Ue : prospers.
passed, provided it has no real merit, hut 1 I"llthe ol,,en "BW- be?f"I U,e "l f
V, , , , ',. priming was known, this erneifcnt
the real labor so far has been in reading widow, so indefatigable in doing good,
the titles nf the ollereti bills, ami then re- ! would have been canonized as a model
ferrim; them to the proper committees, i for sisters of charity, and her memory
Mr. Edmunds has delivered himself of ! I" through the eturtes as
, , , , iH,,t Auiaraoev or Saint Indefatigable,
annblespeeeliiufavorof ameudlngotir ,ut in thexe latter days of the news
electoral system of voting for President, paper and pre, her published example
but other Senators am handling hl I " perhaiw meet the eye of some
proposition without gloves, so of course j SS.
ILil II of tl... f .... . f . a I . I .. f ( .. , '
lietl, and our next President may en-j
counter the same difficulty iu getting
the seat which Mr. Hayes met. No one j
doubts that Congress sllould'amend our
electoral law, but no two legislators
cun agree as lo the mode. j
Cougres made provision last winter
for enlarging Pennsylvania Avenue
where it meeh Capitol gate on the west,
by removal nf several houses on the
north side of the street. These have
recently been torn down, aud in a few
days vehicles and etlastriaus will not
be forced, as in the jstst, to encounter
each other iu a thoroughfare so narrow
as to render passage iu busy times, as
difficult and dangerous as iu Broadway,
New York. The erection of the Peace
Monument produced this contraction,
but the removal of five buildings gives
ample sitoce for all purposes, ami adds
much to the aptearanee of the Capitol
grounds at this point. A small corner
was also taken off the botanical gardeu;
thus the sweep around the moumeut is
much wider, and certainly much more
graceful ami pretty.
Our Chief of Police has at last given
orders to stop our oyster hucksters from
blowing hortrs while selling their bi
valves upon the streets. Heretofore a
tooting horu greeted one at every turn,
accompanied by a screech or yell of
"oysters" from the cracked throats of
some colored gentlemen. But Mayor
-Morgan wins our gratitude by cutting
off the horn, even though he cannot In
terfere with a freeman's right to howl
his wares upon our streets. Felix.
Washington, December 13, 1S7S.
A Franklin county. North Carolina,
man, who is 49 years old, is said never
to have heard a sermon, never read a
chapter in the Bible, never fired a gun,
and never saw n white couple married.
An old granger who came Into town
to imrohase a piano for his daughter.
interested, uud whieh I am sure would 1 the agent If lie hadn't one with a
' ti II. In tliwum "wi truiuni ull nt .
been enjoyed by my readers. As I look
back on the work I have tried to ac
complish, my highest hope is that while
I may have interested ami benefited
somewhat those who have followed me
in my wauderings over u portion of the
old world, I have excited in them a de
sire to know by study or travel, more of
the nations of the past, aud nf those
achievements iu art aud civilization
whieh are the pride and common herit
age of the eutire Caucasian race.
O. R. Bukciiard.
handle in the end, "so we cull all give it
it turn once in awniie:-'
Year after year there is renortetl from
the iMtent office an excess of receipts
over total expenditures, until a surplus
if considerably over $1,000,600 has ce
cum mat eu.
Honesty is the best policeman.
Tlie5eare hard times; but for all that,
up in Milford, New Hampshire, they
advertise church sunners at ten mntu
Ktitl beg their patrons to "please come
hl3p."
! It takes light eight minutes to come
from the sun, but It must have required
50,000 years for it to come from the fat-
I thest visible stars.
Home.
"Home," wrote Lady Bui we ri long
ago, "Home: piaee to keep wt6rand
children iu. Mutton-chops: food tar
ditto." Many a wife of lo-iiay must
smile a little bitterly over this defini
tion which the Euglish lady. In her bit
terness, gave of the word; for there are
mauy men who actually regard home
as a place where tbnee incumbrances
are to be stowed away, ant! where tbey
themselves simply sleep and take break
fast. I tlo not allude to overworked men
who have no time to rest, but to those
with ample means, wh,e business
hours are from say ten to three, and
who have tlo good reason for leaving
the women they have bound fast by
means of the marriaaru eereaioov. to
speud their time much more desolately
iiihu any witiow or vpinsterever spends
hers.
Alas! for the poor wife whose hus
band, liaviug caught her in the matri
monial noose, simply cages and feeds
her; who dines at his club and goes to
the opera afterward with his friends;
whose amusements are not of the. sort
to lie shared with his wife, ami who sel
dom spends an hour in her society, save
when too much dissipation has given
hi in the headache anil an indiges
tion, ami he desires to growl at seme
iHidy. He may give her rieh clothes
and a floe bouse, hut he has only par
tially kept the promise made at the
altar. He lias endowed her with his
worldly goods, but lie cannot lie said to
love, cherish ami protect her. The wife
of the workingtnaii who comes home to
her after his long day's labor, and who
is glad to walk out with her ou holi
days, dragging the baby wagonaud car
rying the next you ugest child, Is a far
happier woman.
All! home is a place to live in, a place
that should uol be deserted for any other
by either wife or htisbaud; ami a wife is
not it weH-dressed house-keeper, but
the partner of her husband's tife; ami
when you said to this woman,' "Will
you marry me?" you meant, or xktmkl
hare meant, "Shall our two lives be
come one? Shall our cares, our Joys
ami our sorrows mingle? Will you
help me? Shall I help you? And
shall we part as little as we can uutif
death parts us?"
Many a lonely heart beats within the
bosom of a wife, and many a woman,
too proud to utter reproaches, bears the
strange solitude and neglect to which
some men consign their wives in a
blind depth of selfishness impossible to
women often absolutely Ignorant of
their own deeds Jfar Kyle Dallai,
inXew York Ledger.
Divorce is on the increase in Ver
mont, the number of divorce oases in
1877 being two to every thirty marriages.