St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-07-05

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but her father being too poor to pay
her tuition, the little child-woman hor-
roWcd the money from il friend agree
ing To pay it after She should hrcome Il
teacher.
Vt fifteen. little Emma succeeded in
securing Il class of twenty poor children.
W no came to rcritc at her mother :
house. At that time. she sang in the
/ Hebrew ~ nago@uc Il kind "ld rabbi.
MarA Moses. teaching her To pronounce
in Hebrew and German.
The spring of her sixteenth birthday
found her father poorer than ever he
fore and our little woman, tn help her
mother. tried to secure Il rk>hip in Il
store. but failed. In great distress. size
heard of Il school nine miles from PEORIA
which WAS in need of Il teacher. Thithrr
she went on foot. through the mud and
Slu,h. She found the principal trustee.
i kind old man. at dinner.
Nv hat do You want, my little We
man ," asked the old farmer. ;tS he laid
down his knife and fork to survey our
little heroine.
Il live in Peoria. Sir. and walked "
Nv hat walked. child - interrupted
the old man, in ;lStoniShmcnt.
'-lrs. sir, and | want t" teach your
school"
"Well, declare, my child there are
fifteen applicants. but You're Il pretty
Yirl, and pluck as Julius Caesar. Have
Nnu got Your certificate -
No. sir" fnltcrcd little Emma.
"Wrll. if You've walked nine miles
through this mud and >lu>lI. You'll do
Ia teach school for me. Sit up and have
some dinner.
/ Emma commenced the school the
next week won the respect of the
parents and the love of the children.
and in f"ur months took sixty dollars
back to her father i'll Peoria. where the
large family soon used it up.
cur heroine. with the assistance of
her father. NOW gave her first great con
cert III Peoria. Quite Il number of
amateurs assisted her. Rn>>e> Hall
wa> filled. the people chccred, and
/ E.mna> rather received one hundred
dollars. This wa> all used 10y her ia-
th,r. mother. and sister. except three
/ dollars. With this amount she left her
father >truggln" at home. and started
/ for Rock Island. To visit Il Young lady
friend. She found her friend absent.
and her money dwimdlcd to twenty
cents. With this she went To Moline
tnr ten cents To call upon Il gentleman
hN the name of Deer. III whose family
her father had taught music twenty
Years before. Her idea WAS I" get np
Il concert. Mr.. Deer wa> absent. and
Mrs. Deer. Il crotchcty faced old woman.
was very cross. She looked in>inuat-
imgly at Emma. and said she didn't
know what Il pretty Young girl wanted
of her husband. just then Miss Abbott
>picd the piano. and asked if she might
PLAY la Il moment she Wa> warhling
a sweet song. The old lady dropped
her dishes. wiped her hands on her
apron, and came and looked over her
glasses in establishment. just then Mr..
Deer entered.
"By .I"vc. Matilda, That's darmcd
nice singing. he exclaimed. 'whn :
dom it -
mudc~tly. "mN father used to teach in
Nour family.
..Thumder. YES hut what are y"u do
rIg here >
''Wrll, pa and ma are very poor. and
I've come here to give Il concert. and |
want Nou to help me.
"All hight. loulc Il pluckN girl. and
I'll help Nou. luu shall have the Con
gIrgatinmal church" said Mr.. Deer.
And >I, did have it. She got hen
bills printed. Went around personally
and announced the concert. up i'll til"
schools. and the house WAS crowded.
She sang with her usual Sweetness.
touching every heart. 1t MIS- Il Warml
night. her concert guitar WAS out "i
tune. and the strings broke >i\ times
during the evening. The audience ap
plaud,d while She mcndcd them. and
laughed. and called her ont - dozen
times. " hen the concert closed they
wanted her /" IrpcaI il. which she dId.
She returned home at the end of Il week
with sixty dollars in cash. In the aston
>hmrmt of her poor mother. who hrld
up both hands and exclaimed
80 Emma, | hope N"m la\m't been
ruhhng somebody
Emma WAS now seventeen. She >talI
eel "n It concert tIip through Illinois,
sending all the money home which Sh,
did not want IL u~r. t'n the route u
Chicago opera troupe came up behind.
-;Iw her bills. and heard such praises
from the people. that they engaged her
tossing with them for seventy five nights,
through Michigan. Indiana, Iowa and
" l>conSIn.
When her engagement WAS finished.
she started "ul alone again. Al Grand
Haven. Michigan. she got out of money
l'lIc audience came late. but among
them IL railroad man who gave her Il
pass to New York.
Passing through Canada, little Emma
had bad luck. Many times she walked
hungry from place to place, and once to
raise money. she cut of her haiI and
sold it, Music was her love. and she
forgot every discomfort III the middle
of her beautiful songs.
Once she troZe her feet. and sang
while they ached with the intense pain
that follows. The applause of the an-
dicncc oNcrc;mc hunger, SORROW and
even the pain of frozen feet.
Hearing that PIrcpa was i'll New
i. York she set ont with the intense de
sire to hear her sing. On she waited
towards the big city. At Lyons III
Wayne county. without money ol
r friends. she stopped to sing. She had
not eaten anything for hours. and ac-
tuallv sung when very faint and hun
pry. With the proceeds she bought IL
good supper and continued her way to
New York.
Little Emma finally reached New
York alone. and III the might put
: up at ii cheap house, called the Wash
ingtom House.
| The next day she haStened to the OPP
era. but to her great disappointment
Parepa did not sing. She finally heard
l Parepa sing at Steinway Hall but did
not succeed in meeting her face to face
= Her money giving out she borrowed tif.
: t.uu dollars of a lady at the hotel and