The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-07-05

Isn't this funny? Here is the way it begins:
MY own darling Oh, isn't this fun
stop, Mrs. Sinclair +" said my compan-
ion, taking the letter from my hands and
holding it close to her heart. THAT is my
letter, and claim the right to read italone !"
And without waiting for another word, she
turned away and walked like queen into
! her own apartment.
sat like one spellbound until she return
ed to my room.
Where is your bro'her?" she said.
"Down stairs in the library" answered.
"Take me to him !" was the next SEN
tence she uttered. * E H
John lay Just where Thad left him on the
lounge, With a sigh, which was almost a
groan,. shea valEsf to his side, and said (:
" John, have Just received your letter"
If you could have seen him then, you
would have thought just as [ did, that the
fellow was going mad. He cleared that
sofa with bound, and the next thing knew
my dressmaker was in John Bittinger's arms.
"What did all this mean,?" you ask.
Only this, my brother was formerly in
partnership with Mr.. Andrews. This Mr..
Andrews was desperately in love with the
lady John was engaged to. He succeeded
in parting the lovers, that very letter 6gur-
ing conspicuously in the separation. This,
John (who it seems, up to this time must
have placed entire confidence in him), plac-
ed with others to mail upon his desk. An
drews must have withdrawn it-not being
able just then to destroy it-and mixed it
with others. This letter explained the
whole situation, which Andrews had been
for some time shrouding in mystery. At
any rate, he made trouble enough and my
dressmaker married the wrong man, and the
wrong man drank up all his money and
died.
She is Johns wife now, and I am happy,
for they both love me. ...--
INTRODUCTION OF COACHES INTO ENGLAND.
Coaches came into general use in England
earlier than on the continent of Europe.
Queen Elizabeth's state carriage was the
first vehicle which was designated by that
name in the island. In 1888 the queen rode
from Somerset House to Pauls Cross, to re-
turn thanks after the destruction of the
Spanish Armada, in a coach presented to
her by. Henry, Earl of Arundel. 1t is de-
scribed as /" chariot throne drawn by two
many imitators ;and although the coaches
of that period must have been clumsy and
uncomfortable, they multiplied so rapidly
that Decker, satirizing the follies of his day,
complains that the wife of every citizen
must be jolted" nova very expressive
phrase, since the coaches were made with
out springs, and the roads were Of the most
primitive kind.
But long after the introduction of coach
es it was considered effeminate and disgrace
full for men to use them. Queen Elizabeth
always preferred to make her journeys on
horseback, and even in old age and sickness
took reluctantly to her coach. /" In Sir
Philip Sdney's time," says Aubry, so fa-
nous for men at arms, it was then held to
be as great disgrace for young gentlemen
to be seen riding in the street in a coach as
it would now for such one to be seen in
the street in petticoat and waistcoat; so
much is the fashion of the times altered"
Like most other improvements, coaches were
vehemently attacked, on the ground that
they promoted effeminate luxury. Taylor,
the waterproof, declares I" that housekeep-
ing never decayed till coaches came into
| England )" and much later, in 1872, a Mr..
John Cresset wrote pamphlet urging the
abolition of the stage-coaches between Lon
don and the interior. Among other grave
reasons for their Suppression, he urged that
such stage coaches make gentlemen come
to London on every small occasion, which
otherwise they would not do but upon. ur-
gent necessity nay, the convenience of the
passage makes their wives often come up,
who, rather than come such long Journeys
upon horseback, would stay at home. Then,
when they come to town, they must present
| ly be in the mode, get fine clothes, 60 to
plays and treats, and by these means get
such habit of idleness and love OF pleasure
as makes them uneasy ever after.
+ we are told also that the shop-keepers
complained bitterly that they were ruin
ed by the coaches Formerly" they said,
when ladies and gentlemen walked in the
streets, there was chance of obtaining GUS
toners to inspect and purchase our commo-
dities; but now they whisk past in the
coaches before our apprentices have time to
cry out, What dye lack y" Another com
plant was, that in former times the trades
men in the principle streets earned as much
as their rents by letting out their upper
apartments to members of parliament and
country gentlemen visiting London on pleas
ure or business, until the noise made by the
coaches drove the profitable dodgers to less
| frequented streets. Another class of men
was scarcely less bitter against the new
mode of, locomotiom-the boatman on the
Thames, whose business was sadly interfered
with by the introduction of the more conve-
nient vehicles; and one OF their number,
who is known in English literature as "Tay-
lor, the waterproof" wrote an invective
against the new system, entitled g The
World runs upon Wheels" In this compo-
sition he vigorously attacks coaches, and
enumerates, in his peculiar style, all the dis
advantages caused by their general intro
duction. In another publication, called
1.-The Thief" he thus nveighs against them:
l"Carroches, coaches, jades, and Flanders mares
| Do rob us of our shares, our wares, our fares:
Against the ground we stand and knock our heels,
While all our profit runs away on wheels. r.
Is : -Hnpers Magazine.
A TAX ON CATs.-ln England some Of
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