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VOL. XXVIII,
MONTPELIEK, VT., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1871
NO- 41.
&Tt t irt
r r mm .ii 1 c i
)c freeman.
MOXTPELiER, VT.,
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 1871.
Fii W.iriM.'ii in on lYininine Litera
lure."
I U ,;v'i'(, of last week ha..-' an articl
r tiie caption Feminine Literature.'
c t- i t r-H-ci, from the title, the writer was
...-rcling to sjicak of the literature writ
ri 1 v women, and we presume he did take u;
j.n with sonic such purpose But in
,i i f treating of hook written by women.
j raising or eundi mning theui according
t: o.r merits, lie proceeds to condemn
H, 1. ".".tune Onirics Ileade, Tro'lope and
Wi'.kie (ViliDS have in theirnovels inade hcro
f unlove'y women; in other word-, he con-d'-niii-
w men, and the it,tluence of women
ir: i f ut rri literature, because men write
?t t -,-.ti. t al in vtls of a bad moral tendency.
Thi- i- out n jut as the complaint of the
v .I: iii.it thf limb, which was below him on
r k. was muddying the dream
it was. not lis for the wolf to drink.
I-, in r, as unfair to attempt to make
..i'lin -j mYc for t tie writings ol Onirics
as it vvic.ll be to condemn them
i-o of thi- views f the writer in the
u-$-i. We h e ni ilwv.t li-' i ie and
v. ri'. r. if ti.ey agreed upon no other
a;e entirely in harmony upon the
-n of woman's sphere.
writer in the Wo', hman. says
I l e .needed tftat this feminine
i.-n v m our literature is not good, alto
i r. r. 1 the vi! that ludongs to it is
r .11 v t'...t which we should expect. Woman
i i lit ..;ir h;ghct ideas of purity and r
i.. mi 'it. 1 he
mi ri.-. ;tv id' women over men, l-ecm
:ii via- 1 rtiic l out of the dust of the
ir'h. w I. ile live was made out of living
i.d. Vt .-man re presents the private
.;c f the r Her as -t nd-mey in literature
,,ug.',r to i!i-aii the a-oendancy of d-mistic
'hi rti..n of the individual, not as
t r i, hiir a-, a family man, not as a hero-
literature is unnatural and temporary, a de
praved tendency, or the principle which will
always work itrelf out where women, either
in imagination or in actual life, quit the
quiet scenes of domestic and private fife, for
the stirring nctivitiea and fierce conflicts of
the world, which have hitherto lielongrd to
men u inignt not re tiest now to express a
decided opinion If, however, it is nut a
mere temporary effect on woman in actiou to
lose her refinement and domewtic virtue, rut
the natural and necessary result of such a
life, then the nuesf ion recurs as to the li ind ol
education that she should receive. Is her
education to be preparatory to h r natural
work, or to man's natural work? Is her
fdiication to be the same with that of man,
or is it to be c mplcmentary to his? These
questions we will relegate lor the present to
the Trustees and Faculties of our Coll ges.
As we have already said, woman as she
appears in such novels aa Charles Rede's,
is not a modern instance by any means.
Se has nothing w hutevcr to do with wo
man's uruglc lor a higher dev dopment,
and for some equality of rights and duties
with those who have s long made her either
a slave or a convenience, and so eeld-.mi a
Companion and an equ.tl. Women'
Rights" are not responsible for Ctiarles
Uenles women, any more than thry are re
sponsible for Solomon's concubines or Ilrig
ham Young's wives. And w. atever vicious
tendency there may be in such novels ai
Kf ado's is not the result of woman's gre.it
er activity, but of the depraved tastes of
men, and their fier.-c assions and manly
am' ilions that are now not only bcin
noured into literature, but are finding exeus
ers and apologists in those who insist that
sin in man it n .it so unpleasant, nor so cen
surable as sin in woman.
As to the suggestion respecting WoiuanV
edueati' n, it is perhap- enough to sa thut
unloubtcdly the writ-r in tli(: H ufc hrnnn
ild hitlers advocated the ,iLI" fiirt daughters to i school where they
pursue the same st.niii s and recite in th-
same elass with buys of their age and us
it isn't easy to see why this practice
which wurk" well en., ugh at ail our 1 niori
and Il'gh Sihoolr and N minarits shouldn't
also work well in more advanced educational
iri.lirtiliiiru U'H in n..r cun I In
:it ;.s ,i:t at.g.-l in the nuiise. It ought j
..in tic j uriui-ation of literature from rvU-,i:ite6 the question of woman's -dueati..n
r is gr-si .in.il sensuous, and the e.x-i for the present t the Trustets and Facukh s
,u "1 the pn ite relations, the culture of our Colic. 'es. I
z- :.t e courtesies of life. j
.1 n ti.iTi are the central characters in i
i r i oetrv. the movement of the story
.!tliv -t..rs. full of conflict and pas- until twenty years of age, should then gradu-
witii the fierce excitements ate and stoji studying because its i.,wP.ir
i! .1, ani warlare. tiut when j 1S ;l womaR, while the ma set. lire intellect is
the novel cluster around the
Hiiortej to worn awav tor its tliiee score
Colleges. IS h not yet quite p!,i n
why one inti llect that keeps even pace with
v associates in every brtnch of learning
i .t.
.ii.
1 1 r i-1 1
V i.lu1
h-t rs
we sh i
i v w it
1
f l
1 iui.ime that it would
t.'ie mild and henn-nant I itars at. 1 ten and the Trusteis and Facn!
in" with the beauties of en-: tics ol our colb g are leir.nirii; to i..
l-':i--!'-- ',th ,inH t zraees rrcllCri j ti !lt ;,v ,a,.q tl c .,,r t!lt. in.(..,, t
i... -ti..' world. W ;ir is tlie crow runu
1'urity and love are tie j'". "R,"'-au u'e WunJ its
heroine ioual el an.'e at 'eiirioie- at -row t'l i n i
l i
r.se-iuence, our com ge- .m
body. We had to laugh, though the cruel
wind, already a fearful gale fr ui the north
tart, and incredibly strengthened by the fire,
beat upon us and utmost blinded us, and
blew scorching clouds of snd into our facee
sand which burnt like red hot iron fiilings
still we stoipe 1 in ttie street and laughed
1 ke idiots Mut at last all the fun was
waiked ana scorched and worn out us, and
we reached the lower i:ateof the park, fairly
traspin lor breath, and still pursued by the
tierce implacable wind, which necru.d to
think that the fire could not drive us out of
lile fast enough.
What a siirht the Like Drive" was
Imagine a lovely sweep of clear, bright sand,
three miles long, with hctutilul Like Mich
igan for its ocean-borfer. Imagine its u-u-ii
g iv nannrama of lovely and gaily-dres--ed
women, Chicago's best and brightest, witu
their chi'dren, in every variety of pretty and
'asteful vehicle, fr m a munificent four
horse barouche to the little ba-ket-chaise in
which Chici'go has sepeci.illy delighted. I
do not believe a serem r scene of innocent
p easure h is ever been seen than our drive
en sunny (leys, ami now stop on this bluest
of all lilue Mondays and look, if this wind
will let vnii, at the s.ime water, the saino
sand. 1) .w ti Im low, at the foot of Superior
-treet. bad been seen unhappy families by
hundreds, who, deluded by the idea of water,
had rushef lo the e le of t'io treicherous
tl iod only to find themselves tietwecn two
tfeaths. and driven by the cruel flame and
smoke into the pitders water I lere delicate
uiothci s t.e il a'.i s of w eeks, days, aud t vet
hours old. a ttrnately choking with smoke
and dreiii'lit d with water. Here w.is a young
huh,ti;,i w ild, tin. ling it impossible otherw ise
to save his I rule, co.'oicd her up with sarid,
exeept her head, and then ran between tier
tin the water, -oaking his pot ket-hanokt r
ehii f to lay i ir hi r mouth. One m'aiit,
whose p::r tits weie iitimlig the wealthiest
le q ie in Chicago, lay in h s Iceb'e mother's
nrLis from M u day at dawn nil I uesd ty
ulternn.n, w ithi ut iool. and then wasrs
cued, al t s.r.me to say, still lives. Hat 1
must not oigr-s, or i shail t.cvi r ftave done.
M only eeii. is that w h n I think of that
time. I ciknts pre- upon my mil d as thev
i!c t hi me t he., and a It I w ard till it seems
,is it I could in vtr stoj. writing In the
patk, af. t.g t c drive, tl en. was such a
mo ley crow l .-..lleet. d as i ever w .s seen in
a pearuie ;.ud n, I think, f'ef. re. Kverv
sirtot ehicie. from tie heaviest freight
wagon to the llh'e-t p -carrirtge people
in tt.e first, goods in the last, or i trsa
but all cri-iniii- d Carriages, w ith six. eight,
and t n jeople. arid -erthmg from siIk
orts-c- to kitel i n -.n.ce-j ans, pili d in bt side
e i ii i i ri tro.-ers. w .ho seem- '1 have saved
not h ,r:g hut i hc -i but w ho Would Hot alt
w i'ii a p ni d r i.oe or n;u: ey though na
I r. ti.cr and 1 ic 1 t! cm large prices in
or I'lin k'T diet. It ws
etc wei'i -i'l.i oil people who
hiily s.in-N t at tug:it, ui,d
n I he r.1 Tie be'oi c
the laho.-.oustY
il
w
r..'t f akil:' oi what women
ii it men write and by th- 1
ney in oor lirerature." Le
the fenden -y of male noVel
pr Kiii.i-- cc th in formerly
t( It is rather hard, how
n all women, or even any'
Ch 'i h s i;...ide tho isf s to put
i.g.q,
women, a- they might t
a r
,1
,.l
Jters,
-prize 1 i ni 1
i-
il' .r e'e i '-es t l III i k e
m 1 turn upon h gamy, or
i-ii't (..isv for tiim to do
tig both men and women
r e t Vial to that crime
e c mc d-wn to our tmas
..'ii 1 'i iv found
the i '11 Test arm nt, an 1
c reck-'lied as authority
woman and man's so v.
i.ng milern in-
V,
mat
iw the Wiiirhm an
asei n lancy in lit-
the op ortuntties for trie h'g e-t icirnuig
will soon he the common inheritance of b ,:h
sexes.
FpiMMlfs if flic riiicao lire.
I wonder if it oi'r.-n bnppcr s in the hi.-fory
.I' tt.e world lai d wl en I s. v the world.
c oirr-e I mean our w or hi t r r world n t v
of w fi t te k i 1 gh .ves. arid r h-t r.t w t n g
c:i r.ls that pro T t en !e in gooil an.) i ego r
star, ling m th- kid g'nve cfMin he-. pop inr
ore iinother's hou-e un'nvite.l, and imet.v
dionieiliate tbr m-flves for a w e-k xc 1 1 i n g
bv this i-irubn't no cu ment what ver. ar-d
creating r surf t ise. I d bfrebv si leu, r.ls
-ssevera te that I am not a 11. .looi, ia n rcr a
fugitive rhue n t a rat and yet tf at I did
just a week ago ye-terdav morning, dr. p
dow n of on a house w 1 ere 1 f ail rev-r e. n
before, and to whose inmates I hud never
fx-en introduced, an i there I have stayed a
week. As we lived in North "'ocago of
course we wire but ned nut, ard I av rig Icon
routed out in eur night-clothes mid dress ng
ffowras nt o'clock in the morning, coual'v
or.it r t i in pr..
estimated that
s e i t on t o
1 (I 'hiibies w t re
morn. tig. Miry
g. i'-i- w i- re i i i d
it-eif. and a :ew
1-oll.ted out to !!ie
ti e to;.-i. I i- It
I.e. .r -I-."
A We ti gg, d
it v t 1 1 a i a. 1
v jn n i
i vc)
s tl i V so... d 111 the I'arfc
aStt rw.ud a;ci.t t man
1 1 1 e hi a p ol ashes i n
i- l.iy iuitiltuie," ran;
''ill.
,i--i i :t I.
w i i i w
who
I Tl!
1 'I
w
I I
tin -an anything more or of course we cou'd secure neither carriage
nor w.mi.n, l r-e nor wheel bat row. w I re
s a.-, en janey in literature r
J ,othtr- had fern tleem? all right. At first
We m
l;eer:si- to
r f
'.tlieve nun n is ,,,i, i.t- l tr.ef h. r..
v ..n.
an adulterer or we expected of course to be safe Kut tl ere
mv sort, than a
both
i
t he j ure, and
literature ought
ritv in the one
.-an fie no woio.
i V to
1 1
it was our late to see a regu .ar nio i mi n
f stref ts come up to us; that is. streets a
reprcsente.f by the friends who lived in them
and so we Actually WHtcbtd tie pn gitssni
the fire bv the successive refugee-. It clu
ed as if the phantoms of tho-e unh:i.pv m o
ravagttl distru t- were staiking, wai mg. an. I
u, thtii i.r n. iri fiu-ii rds i.ml ri lleet i n the a w u I
ot.tr It is not jcrhaps .cr.-"they had witc d in the scare .1 and
that men should judge pallid faces of their buiin'n ri rrt senta t ives
ifci-cnt rule than the one At last, alter seeing Knc street. Huron
.on. and we are therefore rturcri;.r. Chicago Avenve and all the streets
u ri tn oii'ini' ana r'ciiiiier t-oiue -vt't j o t
!....e:i f
M V V
io. 1 i -ui
I t
h-i.;'. a.. 1 h."
t hi. I U I hi I d
Ilk-. Ibav't a'
tfown ii t ht l!
xi
I,!'.' -tee: W ar
SIS St C
list-;
in al. 1 I
t:.r .ug!:
s-rt hi d
I, i. ni;- t-e
t-riaii.er
IC
r hensible, than
wri'er in tfie W'afh-
our turn came ngam.
ard
f.ed for l!
r.s
-'a
v ,r !u-n and another st nd time through crowds of rear-ng horsi s,
and Worn and weary f.eof le towat d lant-o'n
1'ark. There, at Iea-t. we said, we sliall be
.gti t., the writer to Hatc ut tj.p fights we saw ir pa-sing.
c n:l i t and pis-ion and One family of friends I remember vhe-e
iteni. tit.' to ir..J him an altered aspect nearly broke my heart. We
had smnt Saturday evening with tf em at tin ir
"r v,l,um',,r lnT"U sweet and cheerful home, where we bad gaily
,ns oi war ftchnghis c.(,,r,ftred our tilants newly boused for the
ei ft, warfare, but we winter, and tea.ed each other about the com-
IVir f IVa-c would not parative merits of terra-ctta vase", wire-
n i or. baskets, and iiirtimrres. The old father ol
.".lerer more ..grceab;c than tUalJ frlerlf the yollng lady daugh
li!e was marked with "the N jr,terruptcd our nonsense by de.-larmg
-gi.itr.t vntuisof home with the j that he had lived in that bouse eighteen years,
i,.rin.. and patience; with and that there had been this fuss about
flowers every winter, but that he had never
l" J'iU,t;yt,c WOr,d- Iseen the.r flowers live till spring yet, and be
to- perfect man, as we have i dilj not iijeve he ever should. Well,
t hi lii ve he was, as well as the you'll see this year, father, if we don't ail
thi- tvne of manhood would not jr.urn "P first,'"' bfughingly exclaimed his
i ru i ,h mpn I daughter. How strangely that talk all came
ll(i:.,s!, c!,ar,.-ters lor the ha,.k t() Iue. as I raw the old father pass
gloi-K s in any more than for- ,nn tnat eruel jj(in(jo.y morning.
i r I
looking as though lie had nau a mortal mow,
while his usually gay daughter, with an old
woolen shawl wrapt round her head, tried to
distract his attention and persuade him that
novels or out. j a,j WsJfl not ()T niight not be lost. Poor old
heroes. certainly mere is
f, pe of Christian manhood
i.r unlawful or unlovely for
cither in
i l
r
'mem war is r.ot the crowning man
I knew he had plodded faithfully
,o,-c th.iti of woman; purity through a long life of cxtr. mely moderate
'success, below the average of western men,
not the attractions ot woman j mc hini(8clf ruin,.d now, when brig iter
on of man. 1 male virtue and female r,.,w had hetiimc to com to him. I hen
i 1 i i i
t ni. a-u'id by one standard, I saw a srrandtuother, who I knew had been
vhtue and it.a'o excellence by an- J hcd-r.ddcn for years hobbling along sup-
P norted bv her faithful son and daughter;
but I knew by her face that tfie escape could
n-e au 1 warlare for man, o.n3 another gos- But, although you may ti-ink I am long
f 1 in coming to that which I promised. I must
a pur.ty, ict.remeiit and love for woman. n ()u of h. ludlcroul, features of the
Very
d
liu-t
Ir U the W'a: that finds it con-not hc or km", and that there would soon
i- I r r n VJ .A 1.,- k...
pre ch one gosjiel ol putsion, w- t tie no lurtner tear oi uaiuc or uo..u mi on.
scenes which spread themsejves out with in
cessan' kaleidoscopicchanges before our eyes.
I Thn curious ineoualitv of the V.lluC of the
i win 'tc me canninais, anu nave 1 i in.i;
proiierty saveu siruc. ui m-iiw v
growing iieucatb their shoulders. r i j tDe midst of the terror of our
as wo suppose the ineradi- plirty of fugitives. One man walked along
ce will still f'ave to be kept j apparentlv perfectly happy m lugging out
l i e W'ah.iunan t xj rt-s ?s the apprehen
ii that w ht n the women become Amazjns.
tl i
lloW othtTWiSJ CoU
Id
men maintain
f'..u- v-i ibtcd so; eci rity, and keep the
gi-i.t r si x in Mihjectiori Darwin's phil-
p. y development would come in to
aid t- ..i ia the tran-iormation. Our read
ers ii,: v t s, c the editors of the U atchman
hirejuetoig on ficman flesh, end goiog about
witii t!; ir la ads bemath tlicir shouldeie, as
a prjf their manhood, and to aid thtm
still to k'cp woman's state one of 44 subjec
tion and anguish."
The aichnuin concludes
Whether this characteristic of modern
of dangerin one hand a kerosene lamp, and
in the other an oinameuuti v-uuuo iu"-
Here struggled an enormously fat German
woman, wi7o held by the middle a cord to
which was attached at one end a little kid,
and at the other a terrier dog. Oh the in
sane behaviour of that unwilling and un
naturally united couple! With what won
derful ingenuity they succeeded in entangling
the legs of unwary ami aosent-mioue.j u-
gitives'till one uDhappy man, who was labo- j
riousiy escaping witu part of a gas-tixture
end an umbrel a, fairly succumbed to this
new olistacle, aud measured bis length on
the pavement with bis treasure, while the
dog sod kid pranced wildly over his prostrate
ggt ..he g. gv.mg at t!i- Irantic
ait t Ci.oht d 1 V the hot W Hid.
i ll t e I t. 1. tjt.ti't ou
m v as Will I .c at live I
t. -t. liS o I i -i-t, i, t tie rtai
i cd o ati iiu i 1 1 og a bug g v
ii'iv it. v i d to go i i Mr.
l e V it w just at.ove the..irK.
.-ut -ur friend of the bugy
-.V at 1 evel h dv w h w -II 1 1
e :i a kt. v Mr. ...t ita
r.i v .:i 1 1 :u! s 1 a r m our vv t r ant.
r- I.- 1 t 1 1 e f. I r I C 1 e( i ticillr: n
c, ,'t.e tic :r. tw t g l.ogi 'shtiaiti. f- r
i o t i i ii.ti.elt.f.-.! s., a!t t
g d 'I .M t g t t f e d je t V s to T e-
o i u e -:ti t gt!:. we mat ag -1 t
1 ,e lelnge. lit d i l.f t. on- i -it
s a i I s,; t'e rv
try, t a t 1 u -e, w ich
to 1 1 1 gt as Ms t .w ni r's
-hi i' t ii 1 all Chi- ago. t,
I i 1 V kl IW 1 t -ft met)
I '.a gat- i. nd I -.ik
r am :g a d of -piabv
aid w :.i.n aid n-iol ii-
W aril Cs- elUI Tt St lint t c'
te:, wh'.e o: t botty. ott.erwi-c
I I v a i hi tie n i.gi -e- j u i
ri in- I d t h -t :og, iil.d Cointott
li that t ri h c tlay. Filty lav
ii t e i a: i r l! n i or in i he h ti
re ia '.a. in. I we blcssi tl our en
tiid tin light our Iri tis weieovt r.
Kut a cctlaiti tmeas.iic-s I egan he'itie night
to be luati dt st i, mi ii g ll.c h 1 1 d of int ii w o
s ci Hi e d to lave tak-ti our late into their
I al -Js. an i to h.ve i;. !n:in!,oJ l.otut.ly to
iid. tin; la ga.it 1 and I im' care ol their
.-n .0 i e 1 guero- it i t..ey 1 Imn of their
i. is,, '1, at ii hi i. Lade s. vve tioii'l
i-h 1 a hi I :n voit, in: ti cre seems to
some bk ai o d to a I.. i- house w i,l g,. A 1
the g nt em ti it t nd t st ly ai d light t.a
Hi c. I. u v tiu it ti i it it h 1 1 m ml
1 1 f iii.it;'. la Lt rt.i ii 1 1 n and it hri'i e,.j it-
are lu I vve ii.; use io iii "ii i
F.vtits'.oii (1J !u.l s awav and 'il the Lou
is M an d. v.. il sii.iil lii'' haek in the luolli-
(i" course there w .s nothing to In
-.I'd -the l.e was uri ib itcd I he I li III tl 1 1 l Ii
thepaik wa- it i It asi t g ati 1 the iciuiita n
ol hue that t-. '.vi it i up at the south and west
wa- I igl er a: d .aoe t hit a ten itig than ever.
So the goods that h-'t.se, oiigmaj aid
new 1 v -rV ret! were hastily brought out a-
lar hs might ie, j.i.tl ja-kfi in huge dravs
whith our gout ft. .st luckily l a 1 at his eoiu
maud. Ke-- that Ki.pne Line! Never
st all l or a score i t o'.hi r i.nh rt mm tes meet
one of its (ri ight w.ig.u.s i n the street with
out gnite'ul metiiories
It wool I t'ke too long to tell el hasty
wra j ping--, and hastier pilings-m of plenti
lul 1'i.ii kt ts hli'i matrifscs, mid co-y snug
"liic under tf ein.ol a long night-ride witti
the lining tii in v t'.er raging b. hind us
of faint jests mat att.- mpted s.mgs which were
me; nt to cheat ourselves into believing that
this was ail a pic-n c, but which ta led sig
nally to -show anything but tie sad hearts
and exhau-ted col") tioii oi rne singers. gu
last vve reached Kvan'on. where we found
a guard of i'.' men tutting down tries, and
pafoling the woods to give the first intima
tions of the approach of the tl tines. I must
not tell the name of the kind resident ol
Kvan-ton who met our exhausted party and
urged us to take his hou-c and use it us our
own. I must not tell it, but is it not vvrit'ei
in a record which fire cannot destroy And
st), oblivious oi fiic and terror, I slept sweetly
that night, and vv-ts waked hy the joylul an
nouncement" Ladies, i invite von all home
to Lake View, our hoti-e is stved Ves. it
was true, the hie was over a soft ram had
failen during the night, ami so floor if we
hajhtcn rich in hous-s and land, ggar
if we had owned only w hat would burn we
were at liberty to return and accept shelter
and food from public or private charity till
w e could recover our feet alter this disastrous
and dreadful fall. The bouse of our kind
host at Lake V iew had been saved but only
bv the aono.-t superhuman efforts of a dozen
brave men, who had fought, they said, as
inen fight aiter a battle is already List, to
give their trains. And yet in this house,
where rop!s hid hung dangling from the
root by winch to save its defenders' lives,
ou Mondiy night we had a welding on Thurs
day. Where l iik Fire CovimenOo. John Hay
of the New York Tni-une, thus describes a
visit to Dekoven street, in Chicago:
Nothing could tie more ignoble and com-moi.-pLce
.than this quarter of -Chicago.
I readied It by crossing over the long draw
bridge at Twelfth street, which was swing
ing gi acrtf ully on its pivot as I came. The
streets were all fi led with wagons loaded
down with furniture, which eiDoscd to the
g-ize of the loungers the broken life of the I
lamily. The air of the quarter was wholly'
foreign and not quit, reputable. Even the
little Church of St. Wen.el added to the that house. The fare hovanccJ R.J gave dotting tbc navigable inlets of fireen Diy
b.ttlc. t tt ing torches into hispiren.it ie truth tnea p o j o-ing tie suu. wry
1,'irl" thtu through the windows, ic began
B ihemian air of th district. oVrman
t .i- .i. .i:..i
uunicers were cuarutiiir me mm nunta r a
S5 s on.l L..,ii nr. fi lit. Ktmli trtlinent ol tlainin.'r
who would make irreg- t i 1(
slloi. upon toe rtxu. lie me. --aicij
from hunirry Ci-'chs,
ular forays on the pr.vision. U tth sides
thought their dignity requ red they should
ppeak English instead o their native t gue.
Keep your fingers von dem pert Is off', or
you'll g a hit on you." Ves i I lct yo'.i
got a heap o style don't it Tliese c-dlo-
OU es aoiuei line" li vt; un iiitiiii.-iiio oi coo t-eLt.i
ui'ii'r M,t. u nail into his cistero 2nd It
w is ilrv. ine blankets were on nre. inen
fioint with hands and Mo 'ts, with Water an I
w.-t hlanl I-, nod finally :g the la-t waveot
fire enveloped the building in n sirocco and
whirl vl through hc crackling tree tojis, aH'l
gyrated ir.al'y o?cr the adjicent walls and
vv iveied and whirl-d oTCi- ths "looking ro d.
the "ellinger genius rone triumphant He
asaul etl his eider bine s, and, little by lit
tle, emptied their contents on the roof, ft
gave Ii i in victory. Hi blankets were
scorched, hi- hands blistered. Ins boots dis
torted, and Mil citler Fpilled, but nis house
w is saved. A id Bellm :cr haf! gocc to tak
ing boarders Chuay-j Cor.
1. v Bi'RNEt) Ciicaoi. Despite the recent
a to the final do un ol our laniruage. l noun.
Dekoven street at last, a mean littlestreet of
shabby wooden houses, with dirty door yards
aud unpaintcd fences tailing to decay lt
had no look ol Chicago a'out it Take it up
bod.iy and drop it out on the nirie and its
name might fx; Lickskillet btation n well
as anything else. The tercet was un paved
and littered with ld boxes and mildewed
papers, and a d. .on absurd geese wander- d
about With rustic familarjty. Natterny I
u. i t.i on h.iri.rA.l it fhr rril.'K nn.l hn r' lp ei I
children k. pt un an evidently traditional c .nil igratton. there i? yet a lai.t city left at
Chicago. The iinnf. tays
It Mpfteavi tl at out of the till. (MM) build
ings in t.'nic tgo, only ehout Id 5 'If hv
li.eti destroyed, and that While. lg-J.U"lt
person- b ye tieen driven trom tfn-ir fioiu s,
(,vci-2 p", nOit have not beeti afl'-cted in that
wiy l't.e vvh ,1c it;iii:''ns '-;i of tho West
Divisioi. with its miles ol dwelling houses j
its stores and its busitosS blocks, IS situ 'st
intact, whi e the south side retains thegrent
mass of .is duelling houses of the bette.
chi-s, many m tnufaetories. and the fine tus-ine-s
.o.'H- which have b.-'n erecting ot
I went v s. c in l stre.t aud Arc'ier avenu",
iind at li'Mr points, many ot Its finest
churches, and the innumerable m muLieto
ins which ah mud m the I-isth ward."
kept lip
warfare of skirmishing with the g.-es- On
the south side of the street not a h u?" was
t.uehel. On the north only one remaned.
All the rest were simply ashes. There were
no pile of ruin heie The wooden hovels
left no land narks except here and t ere a
stunted chimney too squat to fall. I he
grade has b.-en rus -d in places and left un
touched in others, eo that how, as in the
north divismn, the roads seem d like via-
j ducts, and scorched and blackened trees
seemed growing out of sod led ci bar-. Kut
of all the miserable plain strete dog "Ut 'C
fore me to the burning eoi:l heaps in the
northern ditsanee, I was only mteicsted in
the narrow block ltweeu iMk-ven and
Taylor stn cts, now quite II it and cod, with
small gntt.r b.ys mtrcliing through the
lots, s me kicking with hare ft et in the
light ashes lor suspected mid spoindie coals,
and others prudently m ninted on sti t-.
which sunk from time to time in the
spongy soil and caused the young a, t. bits
to det-cind ignominou-I v and fuill t1 cm out.
Th s whs the Mecca oi mv ilgnmage, t r
fire Jiegsn. One signal. d li't'e
ne letiirtined intm't in till t! at
warped and weat lier-hcat. n
shanty ot two rooms, erehed on thin pins
with tin plates nailed hull" way divvti them
bke dirty f anta'ets. There was no -hah'uer
hut in Chicago or in I ipp. ra v. Kut it
st'iod there sale, w hile a city had j ri-lc d
before it and around it lt was preset ed
by its own destructive significance. It va
made sacrt d by the curse that listed on it
a curse more deadly than that w hich d trkci e i
the lintel- ol the Louse ol Cyests I .rout;
ol that bouse, ii-t Sunday night, came a
woman with a lamp to the lain behind the
house to I. ills the Cow With the ,T!1 ill I. d
t in er, thai kicked the 1 imp, that Sf n cd
the kero-ene, that fir. si the raw that barm ;1
Chicago. Ai l tl etc t i this h .ur st.it i
tlatcr.iTcn little hoti-e, ho'dii "ti tightly
to it miserable t xi-'etn e.
I stood on tf e si. I. walk .qjo.-itc. a-' in
duty Istlind, caliilg u f tie a r q r I a te
emotions. A strange, wrinkled lace on a
dw irtish btdv f mie up and sat i. T.'i it'-
a tlrtitdlul sight." I a-s nted, an-t
tinuid in a ine'ii i.eh. v ero, n
bete ttie
hove! III.
I'nenom, n.i iintl Iiiciilfnts of the
.onheru Fire.
There are s one pb tses ol tiicgrcat cal
amity worthy of si-icnt die investigation
I he ti-l inony of the cooler-lit m!t d survi
vors ,,f ihe tin-- at re-htigo. if e Sugar Ku-h
itnl W t It nis.inv lile. is united as o one phe
nouiina I lev say t hat t ne tire di 1 net come
up.ui t! em gr -dually tr-ou burning tret s nni
er H '-ts the wirdward, but the ti st
notice, thev h i i of it .s n wlnrl-W lllil ol
i! inn', in gr. at clouds, Irom a' "tt- the top
.il t' e trt vs. w f.'n a le 1 up .n and envelop, d
.v.rvtlong. I'i f .i'tii..spr,eie se mc.l one ol
tiie." 1 he poor pc q.!. innalel it, or the m
t. 1 v hot air, ii',1 diwn dt ad. l hi
is verified '-y the appearance "t many ol t ie
.-or,
and
ii. ai k
itig ill ii t
ug ir K.i-:
in seine ph.
v. ere :.d
W loCO W- i t
of I.r- w i-
lt- 11 .,S.(-
pl.t 11 ttl-
c u j
e V
we-1
s. it'll
ii.
'un I d. a 1 in t' e ro J
et!:eie were no visi' ie
with n i trice ..f burn
i
i
fas ,T clothing
i is an ex tended 1
r miles i.i w i .th.
At the
leai iog.
cor. s
la'
1
-'a j'-ri r ,a f is'tween 'iiit-''-lv
-lightly t.urneJ. N in irk
'i t :f :i tint taey laid ttiere
l .o- p'.ie lomcnii seem- t i c
that so in any wcie killei in
e- T v see in to l ave I.;.
io wti.it were t viit ir 1 v r gar!
I ne sutircm calming ol fiflit-g., wl o-e
dead are even yet unburieu, ha iverwhlui
td the pitiable picture of three counties
depopulated. The dead of Pishtcgo exceed
50: Th-j dea I of the desolated counties is
estimated at 1,20, with liow much trutn
can only fe shown by tiiue.
In Hdddion to the refugees to tell the
dreadful storv, a comanttee of relief ent
out fruui Milwaukee rep irt the results of a
mission to toe starving country. Ine evi
dences of wounied in h ispitals, and i he dea l
Modus burietl and awaiting Mori il, leave no
room to discredit i he hist awml m:n.'u .c -meutsof
the disaster in ttie tire-afil'.-t.-d
uounties. There a-e not enough living -and
uninjured lelt to nu -c ir or care lor the Ciic
te I. Mrs. Williauisio and s ni are the only
i iuh'ers le t of a family o' sev n. IK-r
sjipe was almost a miracle. Fixing hersc t
uu a large pile of stives in a great elciruig.
she lay on tue groun i vritb her y .'ingests m
and heard the d .-nth-gasps o; her tmmly and
the pe -p'C in the neigh'iorhood. b ie ctrtrt-
oJ lea 1, and not a vcstigo ol civil ztti m iel
mi the county. This is the n; ist meig.-r
outline "i ono harr wiug iiic d ut out oi a
volume uiOie tcrnhlfi tu.in a-iytnuig g ne
betore L sts of the dead are m iking up as
rapidly as fiocsi de, and g'-eit e'Jirtsme
uirtdt; on very h ind to succor an 1 ivo toe
fi'ic cd district Toe supplies ni- d s
lavishly ior Chicago nre oel lor t e-e un
happy sutlcreis. and they need all that can
be d me. With little remnant ot p il ttl n
icit iccuperntion m i-t be a iu i.t r i tm:e
1'hey cannot da3. i lorwird Iikc the cncrg tic
Chicagoans w ere the deiu it: d t!a le m uc
a teeming dtm.nd I ir m .ney mil I :'"ir.
DlTRolT, Jt t. l'.
i e-t u it tut' lake tn
V ear
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but
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I li. t i eg iv id w.-i
M V t III it t I U. g silt s! ct r:
I'lont vica ot the si a' tv I Weill -.roi,
near, and then loiu.d the in tt
sitting Wit': two ot las troll,:.-
b,r La iv of the 1. ii j. r.
ne.iv a r liisa-tf r t at' t.hat w
arret to th.- I d-i :c ot I'r.
w il d e. ktotta g. I
t c II as,- and gav.
lata', d u with s!
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i.'v gr.'tt-.jiie in th u'tiina'e
t sei.-e oi rt sp- .t:-i to! ty f o
i st u j cm lou-. and st r V n g bv
i must have Lc.tviiy t ix d tn-
u! im :tg inat l in to t-cipea
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ti.vei s 1 te-t lie 'ti V that t
n t. t t.e tt t r r st i it' en
c s w i- f a' the hist l
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v at n ii g and s a. ti l ca; .ng
v 'i.'tt the skv.s. thirk
n g: at C!..ud. lire
e-t t' -hic running
i-t I t he st" le'licnts, a
mm'. I'.aritig l.e.l ol lire
it. l. the on.i f.ii -cel.
uu-1 tig ol tt.e .a-t
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t v el a I ti t V
rc i r w t li
r -a v s to a j t i s hi not in the lire
t b- th tt -o many should navt
tie ;1 lines. To me, and I pre
i-t ol til -e wi.o were in the fir.
mir.cle tn tt so m in v were sav. .1
I
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rc-l- nit r
ip ol run I'ii
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a ;ter the worr
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Was ill
s lied.
't i.rc
lilt- lot
ttl e
1 th.
ol
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ut
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t i s v
w t re
fa go C
w rites
V hoe r iu "V ing g t i- fr-m th
w i o uncoil i ai ot i -igiit to s e tbieve- t k.ug
at t it'lt s (roin the h.ids. walking wtv vit
th. m t:s ct li'.. rati ly as it thev were tt
i ightful "W tiers. l' ice 1 -i civi t a d a le
st'ti waiki! g into the tr. l t hall, I iking lata
wih lion irtnle- ol v title I h.l.owt.i the
j ei 11,1 cc' .yen tl the art n h s plating 1 1 t m
ba.-k agtjp j., the had, when in a ew 1,1 -un
n;s In a j i cart d i'gi-n ami took the s.ian
tiling", his departure at this tune ho- th.
sidewalks wis -u in iiuiril v ha-tt-ned hv tie
forcdile iis-istanee ol a w illing ti .ot, and th.
t tl' ct siettic I t i s Mti.-ti.etory that n--return
of tiie individual wa- set n. Il la
had. 1 am afraid indignation would bay.
eui-ed him to tie tnd hi some lamp post a
lood lor th" tl.v, Hiring Ilimes
My brother assisting a neighbor t ok
cha'ge of the silver plate and pf eis y.t u,
lielongiiig to the lam ly, hui ri d y piact tl
them under the seat ol a light fuggy at.u
w ith the assistance ot the coachman started
for the west sole. The coachman soon lcli
I im t i take care of his own f.niidy Altc
drawing it alone some distance tic was t x
haustcd and It it the buggy in a vacant ho
near the street On re uining the next
morning it was found iinmoiest. ti. the vaiu
ablts being exactly as when lelt, sale an j
secure
A lady friend of mine became separate d
froui her husband in the crowd, and was
driven with tier infant of two months old in
her nrms, to seek refugj on the north pici
extending into the lake near the light house
-several hundred people had already githered
here, and more and more came crowding on,
but thetlwues soon found t em even litre,
the wind Mowing a gale towards them.
brought the fire nearer and nearer, produc
ing consternation and terror indescribable.
Many sufloeattd and fainted, ami were push
ed off into ti e water to make room for oth
eis. All hope was lost; it seemed sun
ueath by fire or water. At last they wa re
s.i'cly taken out to a propeller on the lake
by a tug b vat.
The terrible suffering of these lew hours
can hardly !e imagined. Many may think
that the accounts they read are exaggerated,
but it seems to me that no anguage can
hard y he strong enough to describe tl o ter
ror ol those lew days. I saw un the prairies
men, niuiau .iicj uniuit-u uiituii ity tuts: jl( elot il 11 r to
same n.e n id, wicueUu shelter or 1 iod, and
toe wots: sn hv storm vuu
1 at. 1 etc i snow 11 ike a Co il ol
H t v ri cutc a Ii. rce w ind, v ol
e-i of the state of t C atin-.s
hiii.. the fir-' Mm k the t .w
ir i.v. s in atu' uj ting to sav.
t;- v mv have If n h'liii i
ttaiiil g t ict tit atlci'ti.Hl III
il :le act ol shielding them
M'lihcrs were drcadiuliv
th. ir tin then. lltishtinos
ie humtil. but saved their
w,.s dsa id ii 1 1 v binned in al
his w ilc and two children
burned A young laov ran
liver will, a cbi'd in htr mu.s. bur.
by th. heat and fright, hunted ami
"id t tiie wale- hi some one and
In t c in oiling -he iciriitd that her
s s(t r wa- i'Uttef. I bie old man. alter tin
tire ah t t.tl. was ion in 1 so burned in the side
t at his entrails hung out lbs hands and
l ice vve; c honihly burned, and he l eg.ed
mtft.a-Iv fir stime one to kill him and end
i
tos mist ries.
Mr Snepard, ol I cstitigo, was aroiist-a on
Sunday night bv the servant girl alter he
had retired, with the I nhirmat mil that there
w is danger Iroiu tire. 11c ran to the mill,
itlael e 1 ti t- hose, and commenced welting
down the mill. When the tornado came
and he s iw t it all W is hist, he ran to the
house t .save his wife ami children, in which
f e succeeded. Alter the village was burned,
when Mr. S. sopvosed he had not an article
lelt but the clothes they had ou. winch were
burned lull of holes, the servant girl wem
tt the house and dug out ot the sand all
nis best clothing, toe silver ware and most
Ailuable goods, that she had buried without
his knowledge, while he was trying to save
the mill. Mr-. S. lost some of her clothing,
us the lire did let give the girl time to bury
it d.-ep enough. That g i t w a jewel.
Chailes Kuhens. in the town ol Lincoln,
had a house and store, and when he saw
they coul 1 not !c saved, he put his children
in the well. Afterward he took them out
and put tin in in tho mid lie ot afield and
threw- tl e goods fr on hi- store into the well.
In saving his last chill Ins lace was bvily
burne-l ami shirt burned so that he tore it
off. The go. n!s put in the well were ail
burned but otic pio. o of fliunel in the water,
lie has b n blind ever since the tire.
Mr. Dix got ins family in tho river, hall
naked The baby hid on nothing hut a
night-gown is uiiels.tly brought a bundle o'
river. Mr. lix opened
in many ciscs h.otily clothed, their only pro
tection for two Tiiguts teing whatciuhl be
improv.sel from the liirnitute and articles
tiu-y had saved, and most ol them were wet
through by the rain which soon quenehtd the
lire.
The church with which I was connected
was burned, and ot its 2oO members and OUO
attendants, not one taunly ot the w hole nave
now a noine and what is said ot tnis can
probably be Bud of many other churches,
mere being about thirty in all destroyed.
it at '1 took out i sheet. Tiie owner wanted
to take it away tr im him Jor Mar it would
)t fair rc tl, nut he sec ired it, spied it uvei
hislamily, an t kept it wtt by ihrowing
water on it with his hat. He thinks bt
could not have savid bis h.ihv without it.
A correspond nt tmni Ctrecu Hay, writfng
under date of Oct. l'.Jth, says
There is a desolation as profound as Chi
cago presents. The few suff. r.-rs who were
able to t.'ar their smirched tiodit-s fro'n the
threat Sirocco ol fr ;ir Cumin. on fciiillo
How he Saved his 11,1.18. One more this and neighboring erics, lillmg the hearts
building that remains, au oasis in a bleak of all with r.itv nn.l horror nt thr fr;hf
and black Sahara, is a email, white, wo len fui details Cnlike other calamities, "the
cottage on Lincoln place. A policeman ni real details of this far exceed the wild and
ed Bellinger lived here. He hauled up tno incredible rumors. These refuses come
sidewalk, raked up the leaves and burned mournin.. ,.ni tm,r ,l.-itrifl I,,.. k.
them, hewed down the fence and carried it bands, brothers, and children, whose lives
into the house, in pieces, and not tied his went out in the hot fluue betore their very
neighbors that live or die, he would stkk to eyce. From the innumerable email towns
A eon est, indent who
Ihf Kcsscndell W'ht ll
she made her second n lie tr y writes:
As lar as beard from in the regi n of
White Kock, including the town oi far:-.
!,:.oO people are destitute o: every t u mg.
Some have oi.d shelte r in s -no l- i..t;-e-me
have dug hole- sn the groin d and .n
living in tin in at nig .t like tt:c g ic.-s t -ey
imitate, others are without I'.'T it al
and pa-- day and ingot in t ta-i r s -in iy elo'.n
lug. mi. wring ti. rough th keen, c M n g it.-,
pcria'ips ottlv to -he at I i-t 'd.ire betp cn
reac t it in linck id Kock Fall-, w h ico wa
sitvel, there arc 'J"" j eis.ius wi.o nc 1 as-i-t-an.:c.
The ste unci next start. .1 oql'ort II 'pe
hut w;t3 uit.thue t i find the place tii.il nig o
ii acco out ot the sm .ke. I i t ie morning
liiC-miii tint was scut eff I'.'ie steam r
'vnsiantiy s'g.i.tled it wiiii the vvhi-t e am:
tired two nun-. l't.e -ma l-'-cit at n Ii'n
reached the shore. a'i-i lound if oidorn and
weaiy m iu uii'iu lot- beech lie s il l thai
the place was ihe township ''ire; t'a
here wen one or two tiou-t s m tin- i u:
ViU u ty. aud that ttie c tnle h .d b e
ing the tire to stvc the u A yoke
di.ig-ng a cart 'iilei with barn is ol
evi.nrmeJ Ms story. It w .s learm
l'crt 11 .pe lay off lo the ,ul'i we
ll nide l ,rt in.it.e vy.is 1
Ward.
M .r;v x- n, she- p. an i t- 'ws were urne
in tticciuntiy surr .uu.liiig r.irt I pe. In
rem in. ier. and tht re
must be killed a- so.. n
u i Io ..ier. t'ui .rtu
no salt, and so c.inlj .1
t.t un i ban ei- arc
I o-tt nd .-i aiding sa 1
uiitlec shoo. s, nd sui
ue b a.
a light-
d -sen
Willi
J fa .t
t a '.ii
u r -.it. i
st: 1
p 's-r
v tiie
UJ t u v 1
,e. tor t
pe oj 1- h
I'.
1 r.
l;
.in
bit-, hints, and gir ten staff
r c t :.c ai.' it
re t i ect r-;ty
.-.c K- in I Couj
'V a: vegc-a-the
tire .ii I n t
lout h, t e cattle and n -g-i
at tit ft in their wild rush
a ierw nd by trauipi ng an
..I the root cr p, lurnn s
ravel in the ground; hjt
ol p ttattscs had bcii dug
i- .st ill const jiicnce.
i tie Fissciiacti f uin i t
Ktvcr .m vlttt, i.iv, t r wtiic:
.mg .ind sii ui.-ucct -rial, y
heavy wind i.ai drum i'c
stioi ii lid We s.uic 1 q i it I. V
rock-t n w.hicii we tuaib.ed
ycd.
ihe
either
par t icul.it iy
i.frg.- ..nam
and -t'lied,
ho c
arc
.tiC-
au
aw n i N.
w
h 1 la
gr,q.
V t
Id e
!.J til
ls at. 1
w ha
led li
te r
f the prev i
There aie
Kivcr. in ad l;u
a dest.tutt
into house
aim
is vve. k
aitout
11 to
comb 1 1 1 1 1
itii. rs,
j i it I
,tii
as
mte
nil IOCS tt'
at I'i
arc er.
l.s -S
New
is, m
wd d
.r la v
the t-.tid
K.l!l 'lis
enoles-.
nig at, were wi'h ,ut any -la It- r 'cit
lew w hid covt ia d them. I he c
ol ditli -uity in tios region set m
N vtT.il te.ius whica b it I c rt Austin ii
1'iid.iy t- relit ve the people ot the interim
arc blocked in ttiere, in c ns- .j icii.-e ol the
gtleot Satur.hiv night, wtncii lii ed up the
road- they had just cut through with the
trees lli.it ha 1 ls.cn 1 .useut-t the tires
bit' Mid? a l r v ugh ttl tt section arc ex
posed id C .litlh.l tl i'loC.iad'.' 111 C .US ijuC'l
ot wiinl! tils
rinic are but t wo savv-mdls r. .w st.it: 1 ng
tin tht--hore ol the burnt distiict one ai
New K ver, tt eoth r n l'. rt
at Me v 11 ver c ai
needy bl sawing
tn ui-. s. Ku t the
d give
luiu.be
ci a k
Austin. I'h.it
t ui p.. v un. n t oi t e
It tut.ir wiatci
1- tirud up, aiul
until it rams tiie 1 'g
so tout it w ni be m c. s
tl these poor creatines .ret
this wiii.er, tinKss n r.tiiis heavily
tiiiie
cainiot be g w h
.try to un pot t luuibci
Lave an v stn Itei
it a short
AVoek ('Ut Wee Cu'd Wf.tk (Kil
been neglected, and when he reached his
majority, hs sought and obtained a situa
tion as clerk in the city where I first met
hira and finally became his wife. Soon
alter our marriage, he began to talk of a
fariu and the independence of a farmer's
life. I readily became imbued with his
fancies; although having always lived in
the city, I kne as much about it as I
d d the ju igl s of Ind a, bat 'I knew
of course, it he liked a farm, shout 1.
certainly. An 1 vve talked and dreamed,
until I had almost persuaded h'ni to g
and claim a homestead awy on the west
ern plains when uncle Ili'ph wrote, to a-k
if wo would o .me and tae his tarm trie
one (Joorge had helpel to till fo- nearly
eight years --vvhde he and aunt visited
and rested a no'i the r married" daugh
ters a relax tt '00 that she very mu m
needed, he said, (le generously place!
the use of the finn. alreaiy s'ockei as it
wis. at my husSmd's disposal tor a year,
to rthtUo whatever ho could, and retain the
procee Is.
(ieorgo wis grateful, nut I wa jubi
lant. A whoie year to be hipoy in B -sides,
we on gut to lay by emia(i in that
tune to purc-Tiase, a less expoosn'e farm.
Arnv ug at the really gran I old place
mf j ey knew ho tiouoils. Tne next day
tuiit ioiX me around and showed in al
her stores and bade me enjoy them. Tuen
she took me to the da'rv room, and ex
plained ad that she thought necessary
i here. Aud tho la-t place ot all was the
a -T bin.
Vo l will want a good, s'out g;r'.Mir
girct," she said, peeping at my hundred
po ui I weig'it over her glasses.
"Not at tiist, L think, auu'y. catii
to wcru
S ie smiled, and it tool as much as in
husbml's uuhei icvi ug whi-t'e. She. too
-hall sec whtt I cm d I tohl m-seli
very prouliy. An 1 now my life, as
laru'cr's vv t'e, began. Bat two Cows gaiv.
ui Ik as yvt, an 1 I in maged with George'.
iielp to take care of that.
Ho tlnl the ti t churning, and then
-food an 1 tease I me, as I tried to mak.
ne flutter take the form of a roll, pit, o
ii) fact anything but a in i-s of yellovvis.
toun that stucx to the bo.vl, ladle ano
every thoig else it wis al owed to touch
I have seen aunt pot hot water in. I
th:rik," (ieorge s4j i, fieg nnoig to feet j
-oui-'whyf puz. c-1 as vveh as myself.
;.igcr to iearu. I tried turmng it di
rect !y on the butter. This only made ma'
ters worse. The m is.s absolutely turne
iv iite at tho indignity. I th-x' exper -meiite.l
vv th a shai o-v earthen ve-sel and
i sj.otiii. Tue-e vvorkeJ a littie better,
arid L hid fashioned it into something lit-
t pre -.'ita'tfo shaj.-h when in try ng
t'i. :i ou' tho !a-t ounce of hufterm lk, i'
from tao dish into the S'on buct et
tirt churning wa fl ushed.
i hi-nliaat eif rt was at soap
Aunt ha i s-iH there was atu I
a.-ies to mike u: all the grease,
m i lo lev an I c'e.n ..J it all. s.
I be spared that trouh'e, and ther.
bciong'iig to tht
arch to rnak.
ppc i
ao 1 mv
My'l
ill tk lilg
.ihce ,,f
h ive
Vol Will
s the ke
It it).
S'j inuch gaiued. I thought. And on.
lay when George and the n-nd aun wer
aivay. a:il wou d n it Le ho.no to 'iiiiner.
.eg i'i tny work. First. I made a fire in
'no arch, under tho kettle, then put in mv
grease, and when it was melted, fi lei up
th-' kttt:e with a-hes. B-it somehow it
iViiU";
i'i i.V
!i t vc
i d n
in X.
not
wa
he.-n
,t-.- i!
i:;o to soap, cook it as I wou'd.
1 to kiio.v that water should
ut roi the ashes I certainh
i it wafer and greaso wou'd no!
I- ti 1 1 1 v the grease took fire.
do not say to this tlay what saved th.
boa i tig. lor I had a prod'g'ous boufir-.
an 1 w.is iny-eit coiisi icrab'y burned. Au f
thus etiled mv soap-making.
I wa- suffering a good deal, but th
hungry men mut hare some supper
night I gathered up what I hid
Lei a t. oitilea;
w mg, f: tea tti.
.ti ring to he in
i-. t. -ay
i lo-o ne-t
His chet
With eve-
..t.oii t'i patl.ti-
Not l 1. it t e: c
w ail of a no an
at- least, i. .'..ilaif
ieO in las tatttii.-i
k a- i ed i- i .i-e-tleavt'ir-
t-iut
p.:l
ill ieO
Ma.
ud i-ituhhic-l ol' no-c
lose iie-ilcl in Ins uuithci''-ana-.
My week ol 1 bey renies.
l".i-t mtuildt-riu ia the hili-l-ie
Where inyrtte- nltiom an t ro-e-,
li baby int. liter lee's I ieci.
No aim hi- hum eiifltt-c:
l ast iiniul.ierMii; tm l.;s luii-i.U- tta
My wee cold lev rei'OM's.
sweet -'.umbcrer i l lovms arai---lie.u
di eaiiif r "iieatti the rt.M's
Vlay I as 1'it-e irom all aiariti
He t Wllfll tht- hriet litc el.
V In iiit.ul.lei in mi the hilt-ide
Thi- wciik old hoy Ii'ihs-i-.
V tify-bred Fjrmers Wile-
les, Margaret, it is all settled. The
farm is mine tor a year. Uncle aud aunt
are ready to leave only waiting for us to
come an I take possession. We must pack
our things perhaps it is well to have no
more aud be ready to-morrow evening."
"All right, I replied, "the t-utcker
the better. Ouce on a farm where I can
lo something, instead of hero, where
every penny is from your earnings, ca
rd will be himself again.' I intent! to
have the freshest eggs and tbc best butter
and cheese in the market.
George whistle! in the tnot aggrava
ting manner, and looked at tne in such an
odd way as he went out! Uut then, he
always would insist, because I was rather
slight, that 1 wascapab'e of no endurance
whatever liut ho should see I would
show him what I could do And now.
lest the reader should not give me credit
for what little sense I do possess. I niust
explain.
My husband was not one of those or
phans an only child, left in the care of
an uncle, cruel or otherwise, that we read
about, but one of a large family, and the
parents found more plague than profit, in
a pecuniary point of view, and had gladly
turned over to an uncle, whose boys were
all girls. The uucle was a farmer, and
George had been thus trained to thuc busi
ness. His education, meanwhile, had not
Toward
cooked, ani then went fo the barn to n to
ome egg- to boil as easiest for my bum
hati 's. I had no trouble in finding a nes
but the hen was on, and obstinately re-tu-ed
to leave. I got the eggs, however
an 1 left the fooit-h old thing in an emp'v
tn st. My hands pamcd ine so severeli
fiat George had to superintend the cook
llg of the eggs.
Are thev fr-h. M irgiret
aife i) I gathered theui myself thi
afternoon Tney were soon ready, an 1 the first on
broken disp'-tyed a tii'l grown chicken.
"Why, Margaret, where did joufi.it
them
In the f'anti'ng mill. Anil the miser
ahie old hen peeked and scolded, and was
determine 1 not to g've them up."
And no wonder. They are some egg
of f'uiey t'o'.vi.s. that aunt bought at
lahuious price, and charged me to be so
particular about tlum. ivie would hav
been gbid to have raised oue pair or evei
oue bird. I thought jou knev aoou
Mem."
"Never, and I wish tho old hen had he.
eggs, and vve were back to the city again!"
and alter this very sensible and woinanK
remark. I went off to my room to cry will,
pa u and homesickness.
A few "days after, when my hands wen
ipi'to healed, George proposed that 1
should go to a back lot on the farm, when
there was au abundance of wild straw,
berries. I hesitated a little, for I had
mortal terror of snakes.
Can't you go with me, George?"
"Ves, and show you where they are
Hut I must not stay."
I am airaid there are snake? on'
there."
Nonsense! I have not seen a snak
since 1 came. And even if there shouhi
be, they will be as anxious to run as you
win. l assure vou.
Jut half convinced, I went. Then
was a goodly supp yof the delicious fruit,
and alter George left me I picked fjurte
contentedly, until, as I changed my posi
tion, a veritable snake wiggled directly
toward me. Wi'h a scream that ought to
have frightened his snkeship, if it did
not, discovered, to my horror that some
thing was hold nguie fast by the ankle.
Anacondas! Boa constrictors! Rattle
snakes! I gave a frantic kick auo
freed myself from the basket handle that
had tripped and held me. My berries
were spilled, but I was too thorougniy
frightened to stop for any more, and hur
ried homeward, looking su-piciouslv as I
sped along, at every stick. Had I been
looking up instead, 1 should probably have
seen ami perhaps avoided a vicious ball
that was pawing and bellowing directly in
my path. Tne low bellowing was the lirst
intimation I had ol his proximity. Of
course I ran from him, forgetting any for
mer terror in this new one. His bovin
majesty made good time, but we did nol
start even, and I reached a fence before
him. tumbled over, more dead than alive.
to find myself in a sheep pasture, and
pprawling among the scattered flic't. I
felt afraid of those with horns, hut they
did not oflf jr to molest me, an I T. scram
bled off with more speed than dignity, t
am afraid. lleichmg the barnyard, I
was congratulating myself on its surn pro
tection, when an ohl, bloatei, strutting
turkey, taking umbrage, no don it. at my
fl imc-eo!ored gown, cnne up anln");sly
barrel my way. O ice mre I retreated,
but this tune I bacnel off. ai l after a fW
steps went with a sp!ash into the bam
c'-itern, that G "orgo ha 1 thoughtlessly
lefl uncovered. I shrieked as I went in,
and I verily believe that every living;
thug in the barnyird, or njir t. echoed
m its own natural cry. H n. turkeys,
gu'ne i-fowV, even pigs and ea'vs. seemed
milling a juhdee over mv downfall. I
1 d not bl-amo the old hen whose n st I
robbed, but then, they were uot her own
iJsi. any way.
Th c ster i w as about ten feet deep,
ml tne water to my wi'st. To get out
alone wis impossible tn 1 to expect to
uike myself heard, wh-le suoh an ear
splitting concert w i go ng on to the yard,
.v-is simp'y preposterous. When they
iji etrd do vn a little, I would ven'u-e
to call. 15 it goolness! nt it they woull
go agiiu as if their very lives d.-pmidrftl
on the noise they could mike, t' ir two
mortal hours I stood there n tho watr,
upnght is a pump. Tien G-org came
t.i witer the horses, and I just escape! a
Vo frtim the ial. fir I wis too w.vtc to
prore-t. A 'adder was sovti p'une-i n tha
stern, ai.l I vvas he.'pol ouf, my teeth
.jhut tenng an I my Innhs shivanng.
Th if a f tern on a g o I, etfi e ir g rl wis
'itroddced to thedary roo n. i i 1 ny hn-
m l rol l her jesting y M tt. L wis to So
virefully looUel if'er an! tept out of" nis--h
ef. on which I see-ne 1 persistently Snt.
We st iye at the firm a year, an I 'hn
t-eturnel to the cty I, at least, com
pletely disenchanted.
The UfriicfiiMi of Firesf.
While the fi-st news of the north-w -stern
i'-es in Wisfoositi, M uu'siita an 1 M ehi
gan suggests the neoess ty of spe-Iy re
let' to the homelees c tiz-ru, in grei er
iee 1 of succor than tens of tho ism N o
j'neago, it also suggests f reh d n js of
-ertous eiimatie chmgo. Toes chinges
ne inevitable if, without rep'a'i'ing. forest
tfter forest is swept awiy by thtj S'o vs of
e wood nan's axe and ny the wholesale
lest ruction wrought by fi e
Any one pa-sng the A ps into Nrthern
t'aly an I proceediiijias far south as N p'-'s,
r travel ug from ohl 0 tstale don to 0 -l Z
tod Mi'agi. or v siting S cly r Greece,
ind still further 'O the easr, Pt'esttne au 1
ie Eiphrates v-tlley, ctnuot shu' lis eyes
otheoiu-es wh'en hav- brought a mat
oe decline of emrnrcs. Fore n sr. amo ig
ne e ctu-cs has been the dohherit des
ruotion of forests. Io tie south or Fri-iee
he disastrous conse.i ion res beoa ai so evi-l-nt
thar tie late nnp-inai giVT'inont
-uhinittel the .i'stiou to the mist s;irch
ug ii.j iTy. an I the u in mi is op nioo
given by soient Sc observers wis that the
lunate of a country is su-vjece-1 to a
er-ous change the moment the m lun'aios
ire shorn of ther moisture-attract ng for
sts. offering fro.n pro'onge 1 drou ihts
nid destructive inundations, a eoun'ry de
irivel of its wooJIauls fin Is its agricul
tural interests in constant dinger, and
s uks at last to a precir ous state of de
,ien iency on the gram-production of other
outriies.
'I'here is now but on-1 op'uioo on the
ubject of the downfall of the nations of
ie Euphrates valley. The piolonged
Iroughts enfeebled the Dhys-eal, an 1 there
ore the moral, nature of the inhih tints.
Wnen the K nnans laude I in Spam the
touotry was inhabited by forty millions
if compiratively prosperous popie, the
loerians Tie country wis then we'll
v.io led, but during the It en in an 1 sub-s-.juentiy
dur ng the Gottiic an 1 Arab
cgupation. the destruction of forests ws
uutinued in the most merciless m inner,
nd not a tree has been replan'ed to this
1 iy. F.-om forty millions, the population
luring nmeteen hundred years dwindled
o nme millions at the com nencemnt of
ne present century In Castile, especially
n the piatns, the traveler may not see a
ree during a whole day's! j -urney. Hail--torms.
droughts lasting, without a drop
if ram. from April till (J -tober, or sullen
.nd destructive inundations are the oon
etj'ience. The same thing is observable
ii every land ot Southern Europe where
he conditions are S'inilar.
We are a prosperous nation now. The
ntire failure of any crop throughout the
ml is unknown among u- yet t cannot
e denied that scorching and prolonged
Iroughts especially outside the Gu'f-streatn
ifJueuces, are yearly more freo'ient. These
lorth-western fires are an ihus'ratiors of
he fact, having had thcr ongn m th'8
ause. Tne sensitive nature of our lea Img
-'apt-, ,'otton. shou'd uot be fo gotten. A
oiig season of dry weather after the p'aot
.s a foot from tho groun 1 will do it in 10S
tarni. but a continuation of rain and of
ecasional inundations may easily refuse
i crop from five millions of biles ro three
uilbous. The longer we proceed indis
.runmately to destroy forests, without re
jlantmg a single tree, the more cpr cious
he clitn.it ewiil become from Mime to the
tl o Graude. Ou our Pacific coast, this
year, the drought has been such that more
han a tpiarter of the wheat crop is lost.
Taking example, in ther distr--sisj, from
t ie It .mans and the M ors ot Spain, the
iiriner of that State propose to ohtain
rrigation by afi ieducts through the wheat
regions. Tbe destruction of forests in
Jtlifornia and Oregon has been on a
;igantic scale during these twenty years,
nd .the consequences begm to be felt
1 1 ready.
Its it not time that a subject of pneh.
paramount importance shou d be d scasseJ
n Conrre-s and in the legislative bo-liea
of every State? Is it not time that some
stringent laws shou'd be enacted to com
pel tbe individuals and companies that are
lestroyng our majestic Ainoncan forests
to repl ct the waste p aces wi'h tr- g
vherever agriculture does not claim the
and Legislative measures should be
'aken, too, with the co-ODration of the
Canadian authorities, as the people of
the Dominion are fotest-destroying like
ourselves.
To clean a pencil drawing, and to preerva
t from rubbing out. only a few m m u e'
work and very simple materials are r. qoired.
i bo cleaning is enoctuaily done Dy taking a
piece if tho sof t part of loaf of bread aud
rubbing it over the surface of the drawing.
The bread will roll up into pelleU and tales
up tbe tbe pencil dust and stains from t e
paper without injury to tbe marks. To mike
the drawing ftet," fl ol the wholj surface
itb sweet rail It ana let it dry. It can then
be kept for an in lefiuite perud aa ireali and
distinct rs when first made.