The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-27
A Romance of Actual Life Worth
Reading.

Reading.
Twenty nine years ago read in one of
the numbers of Horper's Nagdz;ne "that
the history Of almost every person, be he
or she ever so humble, is worth being
told" The remark never passed from
my mind, but impressed with it as fact
| went out to see a woman who has been
making a history for herself worth listen
ing to, in the city of Atlanta.
Lett an orphan, near Swansea, in
months, she was cared for by an uncle-a
farmer who kept dairy-milking one
hundred sheep and from sixteen to twcn-
ty-tive cows. The ewes milk was used
almost wholly for making cheese. She
married and lived ten years in Wales,
when, in June, 1868, her husband "took
| a notion" to come to the United States,
her uncle pleading with her not to follow
him. She remained one year and one
month, when her wiftly affections pre-
vailed, and she set out with her two chill
dren-two having died-to cross the At
antic in search Of her husband, from
whom she had not been receiving letters
for some time. Landing in America, and
not being fully apprised of its vast tx
tent, but thinking, she says, that one
would be as easily found here as in Wales,
she began to make inquiries for certain
name, end others. Wi h her two children
she kept going up and down this broad
land, until the $4,000, which she pos
sessed when she landed, had dwinded to
$500 in two months, when, in despair, she
went to New York to take passage for
Wales, and while in the great city
and still making inquiries, she had the
glad land yet sad) satisfaction of finding
her husband sick in one of the hospitals
for INDECENT strangers! Here she COM
menced waiting upon her husband her
self, after renting room, and doing all
her own cooking, washing, ironing, be-
sides buying what coal She needed and
carrying it home upon her arms, or upon
her head when her arms were too tired.
1t was seven months she thus toiled.
| When her husband became able to work
he set about it in the earnest hope of re-
cruiting his shattered fortunes, and after
he had accumulated a small amount, con-
cluded to try the sunny land Of Dixie.
Coming to Georgia, he settled on Mariet-
ia street, nea- the rolling-mill, when he
was again taken down upon a sick bed,
and here for over two years and a half his
| persevering ana energetic wife strue gled
and fought against adverse fate in man
ner which is not only rare and praise
worthy, but carries along with it lesson
of encouraging moral heroism that may
be made profitable to thousands. Having
little home worth about $500 and owing
forty dollars, this woman went to work
upon little over half an acre of land as
market garden I" in small way" and
buying COW on credit of Uncle Jesse
Wood, she, aided by her little son Thomas,
carried the milk and vegetables to the At
lanta market daily, ana soon she bought
of the same gentleman another COW, and
in reasonably short time paid for both
OF them. During all this time she had
SIX boarders, whose washing and ironing
she did, besides attending upon her sick
husband and doing all the work of the
family with the help which Tommie
could render her.
Soon she had six COWS, and then she
| bought horse on credit Tor sixty dollars.
After toiling on this way for a few years,
gaining in means all the while, and her
husband at length becoming able to 60 to
work in the rolling mill, she in 1872, with
eighteen cows, and q horse and vehicle
with which to do hersmarketing, moved a
little out OF the city to the east of Marietta
street, and here, last Saturday, visited
her dairy farm on purpose to gather these
details, which she readily and freely gave.
She has now sixty three acres OF land,
twenty.One cows, one horse, three mules
and two wagons; has fourteen lots in the
corporate limits Of Atlanta; raised last
year 475 bushels of corn; opposes the in
discriminate buying and use of COM
mercial manures is shocked at the idea of
snutt-taking; has a heart to feel for the
poor and distressed; is even now reliev-
ing the pressing wants Of a suffering lady;
has lived to see one Of q company OF five
ladies (who were some years ago sitting
upon porch and rocking in their easy
chairs and making unbecoming and
unfeellng remarks about good for-noth
ing foreigners only being fit to trudge
through dust and mud like beasts
Of burden,) come to her to Dor
ow little tin bucket full of flour for the
| 1hildren. She has four living children,
and has recently taken q very poor widow
lady and her little boy from the Home of
Atlanta, and Is giving them fair chance
for an independent lite of honest toll. All
this is the history OF one in our midst, far
| from the land OF her birth, whose life I
must believe should not be without its
| lesson to us, for while macy who NAV
possibly regard such life of toll as too
much tor lady to undergo, yet, when we
contemplate the rich reward she may yet
reap in the education and independence
ct her children, as compared with many
whose mothers and fathers would "scorn
at the idea. of such life of toll and So
cial humiliation, may we not rise up to
the true dignity and Just appreciation of
honest labor, and taking of our sleekest
beavers cast them high up into the air and
give three hearty cheers for honest toll,
and three times three cheers tor Mrs.
Rachael Francis, the Welsh dairy-woman
Of the Gate City!-Cor. Atlanta (Ga.) Con.
stituti0n.
| NJ. PASCAL CoRDENoUs, an eminent
Italian mathematician, has just arrived in
Paris to study all the existing types of
guidable balloons, and particularly those
Of N. Gitfard and NJ. Depuy de LONE.
On his return to his own country he will
construct an aerial machine of his own IN
vention, which, in his opinion. has solved
all the difficulties Of the problem His