, 1869-12-25
WIDOW sAULsBURY's rKmprA.
TON,



ua5 ospny memories Of patriotic Foufths, Of thank
s4' 1hanSs2ivlnga, OF Merry Christma3 ant. OF
nspp5 New Tears, bat must VIC not ts1co thar,
aack 10 Inc dAJa when deo crackers, and mkay.
ana stockings nued with candles. coming In thar
appropriate aeasona fulfilled cur childish dresons
~ pIsas HfRhtr joJa indeed onr later lives mny
u.se AaoWn, but foW OF a., fancy, eau hear the
|. sn'n'ne bells, and tue booming cannon. or ex-
caaneo The merry greeunRs tnst belong To auy of
ooF annual festivals, without conscious under.
tole OF sadt ess That wlll mingr in I'LL our me!o.
o'es stf1se aa We may to droWn it. There are
III Rome cert0ta streets where, though
Ae sun may ehlne and tho air be fragrant with
pef1aneas though men and women walk merrtly
IN fhen c!aap!cH banda aud exchanging kindly
*ofus, Jet the stcp Of every pusse1 avatena q
oeep' nouoW echo beneath his feet. Far uudef-
ueatn the pavement, shut out from the suushiue
ano 1ne busy walks OF ife, lie the DARK, damp cata.
eomps, Win caVcfnous vaults and subterraneau
pafsagef, Wladtng in gloomy aud ine1tr,caoe
mazes- Everywhere beneath the surface lie con-
cea'ed these abooes Of darkness and death; and
tne louder the sounds Of payety and the carnival
le1o'ciuge, 20 much the more deep and terrible
ere the echoes from bei0W. And 80 thtaE there
are lev Of us to whom IN the nids: Of Ioyrol
music there does not come rome gloomy,
hollow echo from the hidden sepulchra Of dcaI
Past. Ez
1o0|G p4l4 4Su4n&Aa III kuESE WEEC Qa39luX
betseen Mts. Salisbury, my 1audla1y, aud
myself on the aftetnoon OF Decemoer 81, one year
ago. We we're sitting together by the kitchen
IRE In onr dwelling. On -,-I won't Say
what Street, because 1t Il n'Tays better, aa
. general principle, to avoid mentioning namea 1t
vas rather u sual Dire, smal!tr tha1 WAY strictly
IN good taste for so cold q day; but WIDOW Sauls.
6utS and had long since ceased to conform to q
purely aatbetic Btaudard In such matters. We
t1T11n ReHa tn%fS
closed the oamper slipped my feet into the oven
and 60 managed 10 keep comfortable, tnonga it
does make one as cold as a corpse TO att and sew
ali day.
I may rs welo candldlg that we were d,s.
nnll5 POOR. because IL WILL surely ieak Gut some
Way Il attempt 10 conceal 1t. / say dismaIly,
because 1t Is Just what I mean. We Herc not
cheesiui'y, nor contentedly, ncr even resgnedly,
poor, like the Interesting examples to be met
with IN story-booka. Our poverty was stuply
blank, hopeless, and Eismai. Our position. too,
was peculiarly !ing one, iraniie!y worse for
heart and brain tnas outright, Abject, acknowl-
edged destltution. For. woful!y piached as We
TcEc, we still ulcd 10 keep whole the
outet shell OF respectaof'lty, and
though had grown tnGatfn!ly thta 10
places, 70 far 1t served 10 hide our struggles and
our sorro1s from the world outside. No "ahao.
by geIteel tosinuasions, n you plcase, MADAM.
Tttrc 1ss not the nrtt particle OF aEscta.!on NOT
srobbcty abou: Mra. salisbury. We made no
pre,trsjops 10 quality. though We ha,t hoth IN
our time. known the oenntpe article 1rh,cn !,
tomernts called by thai desestah;e uame-a 1ac,
In itteif sutlu,ent 10 account for Our no, netnu
ablc to tolerate Its lmitaIone.
Could we have suuk quc,ly down Iato the posi-.
t1ye suun,or aud dizziness that b long tn ca,T,a
poverty,lt would have been tar easter lor u.s. Az:
but theic vas the 'uo: We cnulan'i: and Jet
tow to hetp oursclyc.7 II WAS hard. t,,,aed ~
psc M nil the datnt.pess ard del,cacy that ara 90
Gear 10 Ell bred woman the soit clothes ,e ,oe
cozes md boots and aIt the little tte,s that or ~
frrm ba1moninrs ontnt We conld not ~ = =,
least nor vtthout n strppr,e so vc c,nneo,tat
md advised. rose nm eaTly and sat nm ,.tc
n,ac,ised nnr utt,e econn,n;as AND -.e,-,ns
IN ever, de,,ce ia restore the raaed n-o,t1nns.
of nur teanty wayt,rones = x,stnu nnt n rno, t,n-
lr for,orn ard dtrpr II. TsaT nnt us,n " a 49,
no,i,,ou, n:odestY Of antoorsn,n. hn. l,ac ,ns. :
nad NO, at,nnst .uo rn--, uIt1, ", s.1,.s,,..
and wc had Ihs, 81, .acn o,ne,,. n,.na ena nsass
ard rae,e, ,,r ve ha1 orown inn c,nsa ana,n,,n,
,.,rsn,her ,ha tnc,enn,one f,e,,cnt NJ W. ~,
fan. rore u,,h har 11nw n za.nao =, - go
c,oven foot mr. n,act cot must conn onnas- a,,...
the n,e,rIses--for nv eyuerercps nf hna.,,,no
h,nsea had m, heen snab as tn evaIt nv conn
dacca IN hutran ra1pre. Reverseq or for,nno no.,
rs,e mr familiar with tnch nhaeas or Ito ~
rt1on fhens.Iyes In the msttire and ,nwer o,ot,sz
of 1oartnua. I eeem 10 see II Al, grain. ,Sa ,ovy
weather bea,en houtc On a bace s,1ect ,r,,h n.
,.n,nytt,pr y1ndo4s aud its worn threshho,d its
r,cte,r toorbe;] md shabby o,lc,oth. and namorv
roo viv,dly briggs to nv nostnl. thnt 1ndescTI,v.
h,e I'M ell . n,ci Ia neither ,he ot,or of sh ncs,
MIR foH1. soap creases ucr soapsuds. yes,erdav,4 -
soup no. To- day pork fat nor Kerosene
onions. Garlic nor cobbapc. bufnt pancnsc, NOR
Scotch snutf, but a-combtna.lon embracing all the
urnl.era,,le esserce of ali oiractorv ahnm,no.
,lona.
From out such Tartarua came to dwell with
Mrs. Suulsbury, a "lone womnnn whose husband
had been lost q. sea q few months nrerlons,r
she Was native of Msss1chns "a alta. INT th,nrGnn
IN escane from that fesrro, n1ct,om,n.nc, -. ,ne
sem,nino etament which nreacnta snch ,-oe,a.,.
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