Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-13


was nearly frozen to death, and
they carried her to the valley, and
it was hours before she came to,
and she had long spell, and was
delirious, and they said at the time
she just went over the whole trail,
and all the points that had been
made, and it would have melted a
heart of stone to see the pretty
young thing lying here in a foreign
country, deserted by her husband
and disowned by her family, and
yet so loving through it all, and SO
brave and forgiving to the man
she had promised to honor. She
wrote a good deal, and they say a
better educated woman, nor one
who knows more about science, is
not to be found in any country.
Every one in the valley was sorry
when she left, and they all say,
God bless the young English
woman!' and she took my hand
and my wife's and says she, q
have found such rest from the
world, and noise and trouble of
the world, in bere among these
mountains. They have calmed
me. can think again. Oh ! what
friends these still old granite walls
have beer ! The Yosemite Valley
of America has been the only place
in the world where l have been let
alone and allowed to breathe free,
and says she, | will always love it
next to my child's home. / often
think of that hymn, "Flee like a
bird to the mountain" says she,
and it always seems applicable to
me. | did flee like a bird from the
destroyer to these hills, and l have
found peace here. | will do the
best I can all through life and leave
my future to One higher than
man."
"Oh" said Mr.. Snow, bringing
the front legs of the chair to the
floor with force that shook the
house, "when do see such edu-
Gated, lovely, beautiful women as
| Mrs. Yelyerton getting their hearts
broken by fellows who are not their
equal in anything, / feel that there
is something wrong in the universe,
and that God or man, nature OF
society, has got curse fastened to
it that ought to sound a shrek from
every human who has a heart to
feel or a head to think"
| Iinwardly honor this man Snow,
and | 90 up and shake him by the
hand, and say: You are a noble
fellow, Mr.. Snow, and / honor you,
and am sorry l called you a
cross old bear, and | am sorry
| stole your book for my ferns, and
| am sorry for everything, and l adj
mire you more than anybody fol
taking the part of the weak against
the strong"
And after we have made up and
everything is all right again he goes
on to his work and / lie down on
an old spring lounge, whose springs
are broken or stick through the
hair like clothespins, and while the
girls are talking all around me my
mind goes back to the newspaper
reports Tread several years ago oI
the beautiful Mrs. Yelverton, who
was travelling through America,
and whose name was promi.
nently before the legal world
because Of the many fights she
had made in the courts ot
her native land. Her mind wa:
called extraordinary, her energy
untiring, her accomplishments va
ried, her beauty angelic. All Amer.
lea was dazzled by her wit and at
tainments, and her diamonds and
family history were discussed
with equal freedom by tht
: personal journalists = those by
enas of the world of letters
/ Yet this brilliant, fighting, indie
= pendent woman, who flashes like ;
I meteor across our zenith, wa
shown me here in her refuge, tn,
= Yosemite, to be a heartbroken crea
, ture, with feelings just like tn,
! rest of us, with tears hidden b,
:. smiles, with the heartaches counted
q only by herself,
!. How little we know of the inne,
: by the outer life. How often vii
: this story, .old by Mr.. Snow NJ
there in Spray cottage yesterday
!, return to my mind, and with wha
: kind and loving fe lings will l al
= ways read the name of Yelvcrton
= a woman who wept and prayed an
suffered, and who still suffers, Will
J her husband--a peer, mind you,
!. gentleman Of the proud old Britis
/, isle-sits in ancestral halls, an
= = wrars about him the convenient oil
+ great coat of British family prid
: and family honor and pushes int
= the world the woman whose wealtl
= y he has squandered; and takes t
: his heart another whose immens
!, wealth he has his eye upon.
10 Parisian BeggArs' RnIes.
C The slang of "betandier" as
i i a