anaheim-gazette 1880-07-10

ANAHEIM GAZETTE. RICHARD MELROSE, Editor and Proprietor PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Waiting for a Letter. I am waiting for a letter From a loving friend of mine, That will fill my heart with gladness As I glance along each line. Each sentence bearing treasure, Kind and gentle in its tone, Telling me thy hopes are ever Blended sweetly with my own. I am waiting for a letter That is couch'd in language sweet, With honey'd words and fancies fair To make my life more sweet. I will be to me like some old tune, Played with enchanted air; Link'd happy with tay own dear voice. And face so sweet and fair. I am waiting for a letter From a maid with violot eyes, Who, more than glittering gems or gold—Ay, or life itself—I'll prize. Who has won my heart completely, With her gentle, winning way. And is worthy of all the homage That a poet's heart can pay. Oh! then, darling, write the letter, And don't let me wait in vain. And I'll tell thee how I love you When I answer it again. Wagerley. The Judge's Flirtation. "In the old, old days," said the judge, "when I was in my senior year in Columbia, (I decline to mention the exact time, for some of you youngsters will be trying your skill in arithmetic on me; but I was a much older fellow than I am now) I had been here for the Christmas holidays, and was to start next morning for New York to resume my work. In those days a journey from the interior of the State to New York city was something after the winter." and that the father looked at my friend over the collar of his camlet coat in a way to snub a much braver lad than Charley. "It well, we jolted weary mile after weary mile, with nothing to break in upon the duliness of the still, white road. We would toll heavily up-hill, stop to breathe the horses, and slip down the other side almost as heavily, the wheels being held by the stout brakes. Once in a while we would hurl up with a great flourish and racket to the tavern, and, if the hour suited, we stopped for dinner or whatever meal was due. Sometimes we accepted the driver's advice to 'get out and stretch your legs'—counsel that poor little Charley would gladly have realized in person. "It was on our third day's ride, while taking a brisk walk back and forth on the road, that I got to talking more freely with the pretty girl's father, and learned that his name was Gardiner; that he was traveling for his health; that he was now on his way to Newburgh to visit a married daughter. In return I told him my name, the same as my father's; where I lived; where I was going; and in the free and easy confidence of youth was making a long story of it, when it was checked by his telling me that father and he were old friends and classmates, and without having seen each other for thirty years, he had no doubt Morris Cooper remembered him well. "Then we were thrown into the depths of despair by being told they expected to reach Newburgh by nine o'clock that evening. I was nearly frantic with all sorts of desperate thoughts going through my head. Should I go into the house and order mulled wine for the party, giving a hint to have one made very strong, and give it in the hope that it might make her watchful sentinel sleep on his post? I had once heard of its being tried with success, but I lacked the courage for it. And this was to be the end—to shake hands, say good-by, and go on our ways! You will laugh if I talk about my three-days-old love, though I believe it had really come to that. How I hoped that an accident" The truth is, I felt like having cry as I whispered, in a shake: "You will not forget me?" Yet something much tenderer than but I cannot go on with my story. Cooper looks at me in that way. "Go on, dear, tell it all; or draw on your imagination too; said his laughing wife. "Did I say before that we coach to ourselves by this time other passengers had been drove intervals along the road. The tleman was sleeping, Charlee scarceiy spoken for an hour, and waiting in an agony of dread until when the driver would shut fatal word. I suppose the creature did right to anticipate rival at Newburgh with a y enough to wake the dead, rouse to an upright position as w knowledge of his whereabouts. "Come, Nora," he said, with "here we are, and with this river to cross again. Is even ready, my dear? "In one moment," she said coach stopped, giving my hand chap before withdrawing it for Mr. Gardiner expressed with great friendliness, sent k sages to father, hoped we mi again, shook hands, and stepped into the deep snow. "In one moment, papa," she And then, in a lower tone, that not hear her, 'Pardon me, Mr. but if you and your friend through with my muff I shall trouble you for it, and I hope found it comfortable. The Good-night." And she took ther's hand and left us both still. "Even now, I cannot rewithout a feeling of shame. us two boobies squeezing each hands for two mortal hours! so much to blame, for Charles were small and delicate as a but think of his pressing sure as that, and supposing it be Nora Gardiner! I had a min him for the insult to her, but ridiculous for anything but and laugh we did, though there noise than mirth in it." The Judge's Flirtation. "In the old, old days," said the judge, "when I was in my senior year in Columbia, (I decline to mention the exact time, for some of you youngsters will be trying your skill in arithmetic on me; but I was a much older fellow than I am now) I had been here for the Christmas holidays, and was to start next morning for New York to resume my work. In those days a journey from the interior of the State to New York city was, speaking after the manner of men, only a less serious matter than death. Indeed, among the country people very much the same preparation was made for each, as far as putting all business affairs on a post mortem footing went, with a view of making a settlement easy 'in case anything happened,' as it was quite likely to do. A summer journey was undertaken only under the most urgent stress of business, as the time occupied and the expense incurred, were things to be thought over and talked over before being realized. Of course we had steamboats, such as they were; but to the farmers in the retired districts the idea of going to 'York' in a steamboat was about as practicable as it would be to talk about crossing the ocean in a balloon in these latter times. They much preferred the cheaper and safer sloops and other sail vessels which made regular trips between Albany and New York for the accommodation of passengers. "If a summer journey required all this forethought, for one undertaken in the winter, when we were obliged to cross the river and other streams hardly less dangerous on the ice, in a heavily-laden coach drawn by four horses, to break our way through deep snow-drifts, or to go to the wheels' depth in mud, the risk was very much enhanced. The advertised time for the winter trip was three or four days, and the small wayside taverns where we used to 'put up' at night are still standing. The promise as to time was rarely kept, depending, as it did, on the condition of the roads, and the last day of the journey we generally rode pretty well into the night. I remember very well being on the road eight days during my college years, when the passengers were obliged to pry the coach out of the mud several times, but as this doesn't seem to be intimately connected with my theme I'll defer it. "Charley R—was my companion, and had been home with me for the holidays. A nice, clever chap enough, and to this day my good friend, but as a boy he was too effeminate to be very popular among his hardy classmates. He had remarkably small hands and feet like a girl's, and, we used to say, was proud of them. I could never understand why Charley, with his soft, womanish ways and manners, should take to the church; but he did brave and effective work on the Western frontier, when it required as much courage to be a missionary as to lead a forlorn hope. "We are obliged to go twenty-seven expected to reach Newburgh by nine o'clock that evening. I was nearly frantic with all sorts of desperate thoughts going through my head. Should I go into the house and order mulled wine for the party, giving a hint to have one made very strong, and give it in the hope that it might make her watchful sentinel sleep on his post? I had once heard of its being tried with success, but I lacked the courage for it. And this was to be the end—to shake hands, say good-bye, and go on our ways! You will laugh if I talk about my three-days-old love, though I believe it had really come to that. How I hoped that an accident might happen, that we might collide with something, though it wasn't the fashion then to collide; and if a horse had gone lame or the coach tipped over, I should have regarded it as a special blessing. "But fate sometimes will bring us our desires in a matter-of-course way so natural and simple that we overlook it in our high-strung moods; and thus came my deliverance. I had noticed that Mr. Gardiner seemed uneasy and nervous about something—that he had loosened the mighty brass clasp that fastened his cloak, and had made vain attempts to unbutton the leather curtain at the side that he might admit the air. Both failing, he leaned across to me and whispered: "Would you object to changing seats with me? It disagrees with me to ride backward, and I feel quite ill." "Object! I couldn't believe my ears, and in my eager delight and haste sprang to my feet, fearing he might change his mind and cheat me of my blissful chance. I tried to steady my voice and take a little of the evident joy out of it before saying: "Certainly. I am sorry you did not speak before.' And with the most hypocritical carefulness helped him to my place, hoping the air would revive him sufficiently to relieve his illness, but not to make another change of saats possible. "We changed just as the day began to fade, and she was to leave the coach in a few hours, and I should never see her again! You can imagine my desperation, so I will spare you the recital, only waiting to say that, if you think it an exaggerated state of feeling, you must remember that in those days young people did not take those matters in their own hands. Young girls were then surrounded by many prim formalities that would be laughed at now; but I never lost my admiration for a fair blossom of a girl, having many of the sweet ways of the violet, especially its quality of shyness. In short, such girls as present company. "I was happy enough at first in merely sitting beside the charming girl and watching in the half-light her sweet, comforting face, anxiety for her father being uppermost in it now. But the old gentleman presently settled down into a heavy sleep, evidently relieved of his vertigo. "During my exile on the middle seat I had thought of many bright things to say, if I could only have the chance, but now they were all gone. I made an awkward protest against the time going so swiftly, or something equally intelligent found it comfortable. The Good-night." And she took her hand left us both stairs. "Even now, I cannot re-read without a feeling of shame. Us two boobies squeezing each hands for two mortal hours! so much to blame, for Charles were small and delicate as a bird but think of his pressing such as that, and supposing it be Nora Gardiner! I had a smile him for the insult to her, but ridiculous for anything but laugh we did, though more noise than mirth in it." Charley's excuse was that a lovely neighbor kept only one her muff, and desiring to meet tender demonstration before he thought it wouldn't be amused ture and hold it, and was when the indignant hand drawn. Before he could follow seems I was seized with the sire, and he thought she was not And there sat Nora behind her own hands half frozen our coming discomfiture, but like a prim little saint, into which no thought of mischief ever It was very queer, but without a promise from each other. If either of us ever told the story the temptation to do so was given. But tell us, judge, did see the pretty girl again? and came of Charley?" queried ener. My dear, I am glad to hear you enough to have you know that Charley is a right father in the church, and we earned his promotion. As for think she must have gone down after our little supper. So follow her? "Ah, judge," said the Mrs. Cooper's name is not Nner at all, but Mary Robertse may have cheated us about it; too. No, my dear child, every it is true; but I did try the familiar to my craft, and prairie wife with an alias. I could you in advance the only poor little story. But let us stop in. It is getting late. Anecdote of Sir Isaac K An amusing instance of forgetfulness of self to which studious devoted savant brought is afforded by the anecdote of Sir Isaac Newc incident occurred while he wn in compiling one of his great Dr. Stukely, a particular sonfere of Sir Isaac, went visit him by appointment,and formed by the servant who his summons that the host study; he sat down in the litter to which he had been conducted for him. The servant, recover visitor as one of his master friends, offered to announce; but the doctor,seeing nearly ready,and knowing hethe great scholar was to be when at his work,said he wn wait." Sir Isaac has no and had been home with me for the holidays. A nice, clever chap enough, and to this day my good friend, but as a boy he was too effeminate to be very popular among his hardy classmates. He had remarkably small hands and feet like a girl's, and, we used to say, was proud of them. I could never understand why Charley, with his soft, womanish ways and manners, should take to the church; but he did brave and effective work on the Western frontier, when it required as much courage to be a missionary as to lead a forlorn hope. "We were obliged to go twenty-seven miles by private conveyance to reach Albany, from which place the stage started. We arrived there about ten o'clock in the evening, and enjoyed our night of freedom at the then famous Congress Hall—enjoyed it almost too well, we thought next morning, when we came down to the dimly-lighted breakfast-room, shivering and dispirited. "It was the custom for the stage to go round from house to house to collect the passengers, the seats being secured in advance, like boxes at the opera; so when it drove up to the hotel that dismal morning it was filled, with the exception of the two places which we had bespoken, on the middle seat, where the only support to the back was a awaying leather strap, and the other on the front. We could see dimly by the driver's lantern that the two occupants of the front seat were an elderly gentleman, looking very cross, and evidently an invalid, and a pretty, fresh-looking young girl, roiled up to the eyes in a fur-lined mantle, and, as I found out later, the old man's daughter. I don't think I ever saw so sweet a—" "Come, come, Morris," interrupted Mrs. Cooper, the judge's wife, "don't go into particulars or you won't finish to-night." "Charley had the good luck to get in first, and of course seized upon the seat by the pretty girl's side, leaving me to share mine with an old lady who took anuff, and carried a carpet-bag upon her lap, poking me in the side with the brass rod that fastened it; when she did not crush my feet by letting it slide to the floor. With the daylight came a general straightening up, and a putting of ourselves in better shape, excepting the pretty girl, who was from the first, distractingly graceful and sweet. I glared jealously at Charley, who was beaming with satisfaction, and already trying to be attentive, in a brotherly way, to his fair neighbor. 'Was she comfortable?' 'Had she sufficient room?' And I was delighted to see further civilities were not encouraged by the daughter, "I was happy enough at first in merely sitting beside the charming girl and watching in the half-light her sweet, comforting face, anxiety for her father being uppermost in it now. But the old gentleman presently settled down into a heavy sleep, evidently relieved of his vertigo. "During my exile on the middle seat I had thought of many bright things to say, if I could only have the chance, but now they were all gone. I made an awkward protest against the time going so swiftly, or something equally intelligent,and felt relieved when we stopped to change horses. On getting back again into the coach, I had the felicity of holding the young lady's muff while she adjusted her wraps. I even passed the cord attached to it over her head as she resumed her seat, which was something more of a favor than had been accorded Charley. Then, growing bolder, I folded her mantle around her, that had slipped from its place, and she thanked me in a way that was entrancing. "So far, you will see, nothing very original had been said, nor any advance made toward intimate acquaintance, but it was enough to fill me with delight and make me forget everything, except that our time was short. Papa was asleep, but you may depend there was no sleep in our young eyes. We had some small talk among ourselves, during which she referred to my being on my way to 'school,' making me feel as young as the respectable butler did David Copperfield. I took special care to say 'college' with strong emphasis, and refer to my graduating the coming summer in a tone that had a strong flavor of mannishness in it. "In the meantime we were riding fast toward the dreaded hour, and I was wretched with the thought of never seeing the dear girl again. For three days we had been together, and it was the one blessing of an old stage-coach that hours did the work of weeks in the way of making friends or enemies, for I am sure I hated the snuffy old woman as much as if I'd known her twenty years. And now a lurch of the coach forced me into a position most delightfully close to her side, and with my hand resting on her muff—an old-fashioned, generous muff, in which you could lose one of the toy affairs of the present day. Presently, from the outside I shyly passed my hand inside the muff, and I can remember nothing in my after life that has made me so entirely happy as when in that warm covert I felt her little hand clasp mine. I wished that the road would lengthen out indefinitely, and that nine o'clock could be postponed a week or two. Dr. Stukely, a particular confrere of Sir Isaac, went on visit him by appointment,and formed by the servant who his summons that the host study; he sat down in the litter to which he had been conducted for him. The servant, recorder visitor as one of his master friends, offered to announceence; but the doctor, seen nearly ready,and knowing he the great scholar was to be when at his work,said he would wait." Sir Isaac has not. "No; sir; but his dinner very soon ready for him." "Then we will chat over and wine. I will not disturb Dinner was brought in-chicken, under cover, with sings,and a bottle of light cloak usual alarm was sounded,and tor looked every moment friend; but the minutes pass did not come. Stukely was impatient; and moreover,hairry. At length—at the exact almost an hour—thinking,the he had earned the right up to the table, uncovered tha cat the fowl,picking the bone that a dog would have passed disdain; then he returned t its place,and bade the servant that another chicken was cooked master. Before the cook had compied ever,Sir Isaac came down. "Doctor-I am very sorry have kept you waiting mind. Let me take a bite and I will then be at your long as you please." He went to the table; recover; and finding the empty beholding the denuded bondthe least emotion of disappoint surprise he turned to Stukely pleasant smile,saying: "You can see Doctor,how absorbs my attention.I has forgotten that I had dined!" Ledger. Our present marriage marks an intelligent journeymarkatively modern investiture is traceable not to the clam agitators,but to the chivalrytian men. Its leading princessa man clings to one wife,a only,for her life—not merelyhas youth and beauty,but with Tennyson says,"gray and siire." Any shorter,Lighter limited contract modern lawto the old Roman and prescribescustom—refuses to recognizemodern law was made by me The truth is, I felt like having a good day. I whispered, in a shaky voice, that will not forget me?" Yes, I said nothing much tenderer than this, and cannot go on with my story if Mrs. Ever looks at me in that way." Go on, dear, tell it all; only don't cry on your imagination too much," his laughing wife. Did I say before that we had the right to ourselves by this time? The passengers had been dropped at arrivals along the road. The old gentleman was sleeping, Charley had spey spoken for an hour, and I was sitting in an agony of dread the minnow when the driver would shout the word. I suppose the wretched nature did right to anticipate our arrival at Newburgh with a yell loud enough to wake the dead, rousing papa an upright position as well as a knowledge of his whereabouts. Come, Nora," he said, with a yawn, here we are, and with this horrible ear to cross again. Is everything my dear? In one moment," she said, as the tooth stopped, giving my hand a closer grip before withdrawing it forever. Mr. Gardiner expressed himself in great friendliness, sent kind messages to father, hoped we might meet him, shook hands, and stepped down to the deep snow. In one moment, papa," she repeated. Then, in a lower tone, that he might hear her, 'Pardon me, Mr. Cooper,' if you and your friend are now enough with my muff I shall have to handle you for it, and I hope you both find it comfortable. Thank you. Good-night." And she took her father's hand and left us both stunned. Even now, I cannot recall this about a feeling of shame. Think of two boobies squeezing each other's pads for two mortal hours! I wasn't much to blame, for Charley's hands were small and delicate as a woman's, but think of his pressing such a hand that, and supposing it belonged to her Gardiner! I had a mind to cushion for the insult to her, but it was tooiculous for anything but laughing, and laugh we did, though there was no noise than mirth in it." The Women's Protective Union. This society was established some sixteen years ago, to promote the interests of women who obtain a livelihood by other employments than household service, and especially to provide them with legal protection from the frauds and impositions of unseruptuous employers. In making shirts at fifty cents a dozen there may not seem to be scope for fraud; but little as some working-women are paid, it is diminished by a variety of tricks of the trade, and sometimes it is withheld altogether. There are employers who are never able to make the exact amount of change on pay-day, and who deduct a few cents from week to week, until the total loss to the unfortunate employees is many dollars. There are other employers who find no little profit in exacting a deposit from the women to whom they give work, ostensibly as security, but practically as a premium, the depositor never obtaining her money again; and another way of still further impoverishing the fagged-out women is to deduct something on the ground that their work is not as good as the sample, or that it is delayed in delivery. The sewing-machine frauds are pretty familiar. Every woman who lives by sewing must have a machine, and a machine is a costly article. But there are hosts of accommodating agents who supply the desideratum on easy, even generous, terms. "Here is a silent, lock-stitch, fully-improved article. Take it home, madam, and pay for it in installments of five dollars a week. Nine fives are forty-five; in nine weeks it will be yours. More than this, I will give you work to the amount of five dollars a week, and you need not put your hand into your pocket once." Who can say that it is a bleak, faithless, and merciless world when such men as these abound? The woman signs a paper, almost invariably without reading it, as the greater part of it being printed; it has every appearance of authenticity; and the machine, with all its improvements, is delivered to her. Not unlikely, unless she is shrewd a worn-out article, regilt and The Game of Kite-Cutting. I wish to tell the boys about a game I learned to play when I was a boy. It is a game played with kites and cutters, by Mexicans and Cubans. Cutters are things made of glass. You fasten them on your kite's tail and cut other fellow's strings with them. With a good, steady breeze, you must put your kite up about twenty yards, and have your ball of string so arranged that you can let out or pull in, as you wish. Your object is to bring your kite's tail across the string of your opponent, and so cut it, letting his kite fly off. You have the right to cut every other kite that carries cutters, and you are fair game for any of them; but you are bound in honor, of course, not to interfere with those who you know are not armed. Your best plan is to get what the sailors call "the weather-gage" of the other kite. If the wind is blowing from your kite to his string, you have him at your mercy, for you can make your kite fall to his by letting out string. If you are to leeward of a kite, with the wind blowing to you past it, you can hardly hope to get at it. On one occasion, I had been very lucky; and after cutting half a dozen kites and having several narrow escapes myself, only mine and one other were left. We were both on the bank of the creek, and the only chance left for one to cut the other, was to get one kite over the other's string, either by making the kite go straighter up, or by reaching up and putting one string over the other. He had a little more string out on his kite than I had, but he was taller. I ran off down the bank, and he followed me. He thought that he would cut me soon, for there was a high fence that would compel me either to stop or to turn off and give him the chance he wanted. But I had a plan of my own. As I ran, I pulled in about thirty feet of string and coiled it in my right hand. When I reached the fence, I turned to leeward a dozen feet, and then, when my enemy was not more than five yards off, I wheeled round, threw my ball of string over his string, caught it on the other side, let loose the string in my and it comfortable. Thank you. good-night." And she took her fathers hand and left us both stunned. Even now, I cannot recall this moment of a feeling of shame. Think of two boobies squeezing each others' hands for two mortal hours! I wasn't laugh to blame, for Charley's hands were small and delicate as a woman's, but think of his pressing such a hand that, and supposing it belonged to Laura Gardiner! I had a mind to cuff him for the insult to her, but it was tooiculous for anything but laughing, and laugh we did, though there was no noise than mirth in it." Charley's excuse was, that seeing his likely neighbor kept only one hand in his muff, and desiring to make some under demonstration before parting, thought it wouldn't be amiss to cape and hold it, and was surprised when the indignant hand was withown. Before he could follow suit it was I was seized with the same deeds, and he thought she was relenting. And there sat Nora behind her muff, our own hands half frozen, enjoying her coming discomfiture, but looking at a prim little saint, into whose heart thought of mischief ever entered. Was very queer, but without exacting promise from each other, I don't think her of us ever told the story, though the temptation to do so was great." But, tell us, judge, did you never see the pretty girl again? and what became of Charley?" queried his listener. My dear, I am glad to have interested you enough to have you care to know that Charley is a right reverend her in the church, and well has been his promotion. As for Nora, I think she must have gone down to look over our little supper. Suppose we blow her? "Ah, judge," said the girl, "but Ms. Cooper's name is not Nora Gardiner at all, but Mary Robertson, so you may have cheated us about the rest of too." No, my dear child, every word of its true; but I did try the subterfuge familiar to my craft, and provided my life with an alias. I could not give up in advance the only point is my or little story. But let us go down supper. It is getting late." Anecdote of Sir Isaac Newton. An amusing instance of the entire forgetfulness of self to which a deeply radious, devoted savant may be brought is afforded by the followingecdote of Sir Isaac Newton. The incident occurred while he was engaged compiling one of his greatest works: Dr. Stukely, a particular friend and conferee of Sir Isaac, went one day to sit him by appointment, and being informed by the servant who answered summons that the host was in his study, he sat down in the little parlor which he had been conducted to wait for him. The servant, recognizing the visitor as one of his master's chosen friends, offered to announce his presence; but the doctor, seeing dinner early ready, and knowing how averse the great scholar was to being disturbed at his work, said he would prefer wait. "Sir Isaac has not dined?" Dainty Eaters. A menagerie elephant eats about am, and pay for it in installments of five dollars a week. Nine fives are forty-five; in nine weeks it will be yours. More than this, I will give you work to the amount of five dollars a week, and you need not put your hand into your pocket once." Who can say that it is a bleak, faithless, and merciless world when such men as these abound? The woman signs a paper, almost invariably without reading it, as the greater part of it being printed, it has every appearance of authenticity; and the machine, with all its improvements, is delivered to her. Not unlikely, unless she is shrewd, a worn-out article, regilt and reburnished, has been feisted upon her; and in this case she will be allowed to hold it when the installments are complete. But if it is a valuable machine, the intention of the agent is to eventually deprive her of it. Perhaps she assures her that he has the fullest confidence in her, that she need not be over-punctual with her installations, and she, perhaps, believing him, delays payment for two or three weeks, when she is within a few dollars of her last installment. On the pretext that she has not fulfilled her part of the contract she is dispossessed of the machine; and when the document that she has unwittingly signed is examined, it is found to be so constructed that the seizure is legalized. In nearly all cases the price put upon the machine is more than its value, and the sum is increased if the woman pays for it by her own work, the employer deducting various amounts on the pleas, before mentioned, that her work is not up to the standard. It is against such mean swindles as these that the Protective Union exerts itself, and to prevent which it was founded. Left to themselves, the women imposed upon often too ignorant to know how to seek the recovery of their machines, or too poor to prosecute. They appeal in vain for consideration, scold the agent, and then subside in the smypathy of their neighbors, unless they find the Union, which is an implacable litigant for them, carrying their cases from court to court, and employing the most capable counsel, if necessary, to secure justice. The mere fact of its existence represses much wrong, and it has contested its cases with such persistence that few defaulting employers are willing to defend a suit brought by it; but at the same time it should be said that it does not proceed to law until it is convinced of the validity of its cause, and it does not immediately take for granted all the ex parte testimony brought to it. Once a week a lawyer attends the rooms of the Union in Bleecker Street, and the persons complained of are summoned to meet the plaintiffs. If the former do not appear, and also ignore a second summons, the case is taken into court at once; but usually the employer presents himself to answer the charges made against him, and sometimes he proves that it is he who has been injured—sometimes—by no means often. WILLIAM H. RIDEING, in Harper's Magazine. Dainty Eaters. A menagerie elephant eats about am, and pay for it in installments of five dollars a week. Nine fives are forty-five; in nine weeks it will be yours. More than this, I will give you work to the amount of five dollars a week, and you need not put your hand into your pocket once." Who can say that it is a bleak, faithless, and merciless world when such men as these abound? The woman signs a paper, almost invariably without reading it, as the greater part of it being printed, it has every appearance of authenticity; and the machine, with all its improvements, is delivered to her. Not unlikely, unless she is shrewd, a worn-out article, regilt and reburnished, has been feisted upon her; and in this case she will be allowed to hold it when the installments are complete. But if it is a valuable machine, the intention of the agent is to eventually deprive her of it. Perhaps she assures her that he has the fullest confidence in her, that she need not be over-punctual with her installations, and she, perhaps, believing him, delays payment for two or three weeks, when she is within a few dollars of her last installment. On the pretext that she has not fulfilled her part of the contract she is dispossessed of the machine; and when the document that she has unwittingly signed is examined, it is found to be so constructed that the seizure is legalized. In nearly all cases the price put upon the machine is more than its value, and the sum is increased if the woman pays for it by her own work, the employer deducting various amounts on the pleas, before mentioned, that her work is not up to the standard. It is against such mean swindles as these that the Protective Union exerts itself, and to prevent which it was founded. Left to themselves,the women imposed upon often too ignorant to know how to seek the recovery of their machines, or too poor to prosecute. They appeal in vain for consideration,scold the agent,and then subside in the smypathy of their neighbors，unless they find the Union，which is an implacable litigant for them，carrying their cases from court to court，and employing the most capable counsel，if necessary，to secure justice. The mere fact of its existence represses much wrong，and it has contested its cases with such persistence that few defaulting employers are willing to defend a suit brought by it; but at same time it should be said that it does not proceed to law until it is convinced of the validity of its cause，and it does not immediately take for granted all the ex parte testimony brought to it. Once a week a lawyer attends the rooms of the Union in Bleecker Street，and the persons complained of are summoned to meet the plaintiffs. If the former do not appear，and also ignore a second summons，the case is taken into court at once；but usually the employer presents himself to answer the charges made against him，and sometimes he proves that it is he who has been injured—sometimes—by no means often. WILLIAM H. RIDEING，in Harper's Magazine. Dainty Eaters. A menagerie elephant eats about am, and pay for it in installments of five dollars a week. Nine fives are forty-five; in nine weeks it will be yours. More than this，I will give you work to the amount of five dollars a week，and you need not put your hand into your pocket once." Who can say that it is a bleak，faithless，and merciless world when such men as these abound? The woman signs a paper， almost invariably without reading it，as the greater part of it being printed，it has every appearance of authenticity；and the machine，with all its improvements，is delivered to her. Not unlikely， unless she is shrewd，a worn-out article，regilt and reburnished，has been feisted upon her; and in this case she will be allowed to hold it when the installments are complete. But if it is a valuable machine，the intention of the agent is to eventually deprive her of它. Perhaps she assures her that he has the fullest confidence in her，that she need not be over-punctual with her installations，and she，perhaps，believing him，delays payment for two or three weeks，when she is within a few dollars of her last installment. On the pretext that she has not fulfilled her part of the contract she is dispossessed of the machine; and when the document that she has unwittingly signed is examined，it is found to be so constructed that the seizure is legalized. In nearly all cases the price put upon the machine is more than its value，and the sum is increased if the woman pays for it by her own work，the employer deducting various amounts on the pleas，before mentioned，that her work is not up to the standard. It is against such mean swindles as these that the Protective Union exerts itself，and to prevent which it was founded. Left to themselves,the women imposed upon often too ignorant to know how to seek the recovery of their machines，or too poor to prosecute. They appeal in vain for consideration,scold the agent,and then subside in the smypathy of their neighbors，unless they find the Union，which is an implacable litigant for them，carrying their cases from court to court，and employing the most capable counsel，if necessary，to secure justice. The mere fact of its existence represses much wrong，and it has contested its cases with such persistence that few defaulting employers are willing to defend a suit brought by它; but at same time it should be said that it does not proceed to law until it is convinced of the validity of its cause，and it does not immediately take for granted all the ex parte testimony brought to它. Once a week a lawyer attends the rooms of the Union in Bleecker Street，and the persons complained of are summoned to meet the plaintiffs. If the former do not appear，and also ignore a second summons，the case is taken into court at once；but usually the employer presents himself to answer the charges made against him，and sometimes he proves that it is he who has been injured—sometimes—by no means often. WILLIAM H. RIDEING，in Harper's Magazine. Dainty Eaters. A menagerie elephant eats about am, and pay for it in installments of five dollars a week. Nine fives are forty-five; in nine weeks it will be yours. More than this，I will give you work to the amount of five dollars a week，and you need not put your hand into your pocket once." Who can say that it is a bleak，faithless，and merciless world when such men as these abound? The woman signs a paper， almost invariably without reading it，as the greater part of it being printed，it has every appearance of authenticity；and the machine，with all its improvements，is delivered to her. Not unlikely， unless she is shrewd，a worn-out article，regilt and reburnished，has been feisted upon her; and in this case she will be allowed to hold it when the installments are complete. But if it is a valuable machine，the intention of the agent is to eventually deprive her of它. Perhaps she assures her that he has been injured—sometimes—by no means often. WILLIAM H. RIDEING，in Harper's Magazine. Dainty Eaters. A menagerie elephant eats about am, and pay for it in installments of five dollars a week. Nine fives are forty-five; in nine weeks it will be yours. More than this，I will give you work to the amount of five dollars a week，and you need not put your hand into your pocket once." Who can say that它 is a bleak，faithless，and merciless world when such men as these abound? The woman signs a paper， almost invariably without reading it，as the greater part of它 being printed，it has every appearance of authenticity；and the machine，with all its improvements，is delivered to her. Not unlikely， unless she is shrewd，a worn-out article，regilt and reburnished，has been feisted upon her; and in this case she will be allowed to hold it when the installments are complete. But if it is a valuable machine，the intention of the agent is to eventually deprive her of它. Perhaps she assures her that he has been injured—sometimes—by no means often. WILLIAM H. RIDEING，in Harper's Magazine. Dainty Eaters. A menagerie elephant eats about am, and pay for它 in installments of five dollars a week. Nine fives are forty-five; in nine weeks it will be yours. More than this，I will give you work to the amount of five dollars a week，and you need not put your hand into your pocket once." Who can say that它 is a bleak，faithless，and merciless world when such men as these abound? The woman signs a paper， almost invariably without reading它。As if I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support you you got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit you，和you wanted a diamond pin and a case！" Say,Lucy,我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you?” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support you you got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit you，和you wanted a diamond pin and a case！" Say,Lucy,我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy,我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy,我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy,我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry，”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你，和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry,”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你,和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry,”he mumbled.“So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？” No reply. After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support你你 got tired of your family did you？Our style of living wasn't tony enough to suit你,和you wanted a diamond pin和a case！" Say,Lucy，我 sorry,”he mumbled.”So，你我 miserable little apology for a human being,你skipped out,did you？" compiling one of his greatest works: Dr. Stukely, a particular friend and referee of Sir Isaac, went one day to sit him by appointment, and being informed by the servant who answered his summons that the host was in his lady, he sat down in the little parlor which he had been conducted to wait for him. The servant, recognizing the visitor as one of his master's chosen friends, offered to announce his presence; but the doctor, seeing dinner early ready, and knowing how averse the great scholar was to being disturbed upon at his work, said he would prefer wait. "Sir Isaac has not dined?" "No," sir; but his dinner will be very soon ready for him." Then we will chat over our meat and wine. I will not disturb him. Dinner was brought in—a broiled chicken, under cover, with simple fixings, and a bottle of light claret. The usual alarm was sounded, and the doctor looked every moment to see his friend; but the minutes passed, and he did not come. Stukely was becoming apatient; and, moreover, he was hungry. At length—at the expiration of almost an hour—thinking, probably, that he had earned the right—the drew to the table, uncovered the dish, and at the fowl, picking the bones so clean that a dog would have passed them in deain; then he returned the cover to a place, and bade the servant to see that another chicken was cooked for his master. Before the cook had complied, however, Sir Isaac came down. "Doctor—I am very sorry. I must have kept you waiting. But never mind. Let me take a bite of dinner, and I will then be at your service as long as you please." He went to the table; removed the ever; and finding the empty dish, and holding the denuded bones, without the least emotion of disappointment or surprise he turned to Stukely, with a ceasant smile, saying: "You can see, Doctor, how my work sorbs my attention. I had entirely forgotten that I had dined!" — New York Ledger. Our present marriage system, reasks an intelligent journalist, is a comparatively modern invention, and its traceable not to the clamor of lady litators, but to the chivalry of Christian men. Its leading principle is that man clings to one wife, and to one lady, for her life—not merely while she is youth and beauty, but when she is, Tennyson says, "gray and past dee." Any shorter, lighter or more suited contract modern law—contrary to the old Roman and present oriental custom—refuses to recognize, and that modern law was made by men. Once a week a lawyer attends the rooms of the Union in Bleecker Street, and the persons complained of are summed to meet the phaintiffs. If the former do not appear, and also ignore a second summons, the case is taken into court at once; but usually the employer presents himself to answer the charges made against him, and sometimes he proves that it is he who has been injured—sometimes—by no means often.—WILLIAM H. RIDEING, in Harper's Magazine. Dainty Eaters. A menagerie elephant eats about one hundred pounds of the best timothy hay every twenty-four hours. Giraffes, camels, zebras and deer are also hay-eating animals, but are not so particular in reference to its quality as the elephant. Sea-lions have to be fed on fish, usually fresh and salt mackerel, each animal taking twelve or fifteen to each meal twice a day, and consuming altogether one hundred pounds of fish daily. Next in point of delicate livers come the polar bears, whose regular diet is bread soaked in milk, with fish now and then for a change. The black bears are also given bread, one hundred pounds being used daily. Vegetables of almost every sort are fed liberally to the different animals—cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions and turnips. The elephants are great cabbage eaters, in addition to their standard diet, hay. The giraffes, singularly enough, are great onion eaters, while the deer and goats, and animals of the cow species, eat carrots and turnips and potatoes. Bran and oats and corn are also liberally distributed—mostly once or twice a week among the hay-eating animals. But the orang-outang is the most dainty feeder of all, living on bread and honey, beef and potatoes—a diet alarmingly like that of humanity. A gang of burglars were burglaring at Long Island the other day and they stole a set of Appleton's Cyclopedia. This shows that there is a commendable thirst for knowledge among this class of night workers that has hitherto been unsuspected. No doubt these cracksmen came from Boston. When an enterprising burglar isn't burgling he loves to lie a-basking in the sun, with the cyclopedia volumes him encircling, to read the books all over one by one.—Detroit Press. Most of the animals on exhibition in this country come from the great gardens of Hartmann in Berlin. P. T. Barnum offers $100,000 for five years. Work and Live. Man was put into the world to work, and cannot find true happiness in remaining idle. So long as a man has vitality to spare upon work it must be used or it will become a source of grievous, harassing discontent. The man will not know what to do with himself; and when he has reached such a point as that he is unconsciously digging a grave for himself and fashioning his own coffin. Life needs a steady channel to run in—regular habits of work and of sleep. It needs a steady, stimulating aim—a tendency toward something. An aimless life cannot be happy or for a long period healthy. Even if a man has achieved wealth sufficient for his needs, he frequently makes an error in retiring from business. A greater shock can hardly fall a man who has been active than that which he experiences when having relinquished his pursuits he finds unused time and unused vitality hanging upon his idle hands and mind. The current of his life is thus thrown into eddies or settled into a sluggish pool and he begins to die. When the fund of vitality sinks so low that he can follow no labor without such a draught upon his forces that sleep cannot restore them, then it will be soon enough to stop work. The opening of the Mt. Vesuvius Railway was made an occasion of a splendid fete. The ascent was made in eight minutes. DR. W. N. HARDIN, Office and Residence, Corner Los Angeles and Sycamore Streets, ANAHEIM, CAL. J. H. YOCUM, M. D. 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