, 1877-12-30

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And scrolls Of crystals are the ferns
That wave like white hands bcckoning.
o Clare! the dying sunset pours
Down purple sleeps its burning glow;
1ntensc und rich, its light is spilled
Like rosy wiuc upon the snow.
We walk no more tue sylvan paths
And VOW never more shall part.
| o Clare! the snow is cold as death,
But colder iar is thy false heart.
ToLu$IA, n. Y. CARRIE T.. WHEELER.
WOMEN AS POLITICIANS.
rurts Letter. to Lnndon Ntscs Written Before Ndc
IuhnH Gagked Docn
| 4 feminine hand Is discernble in the impctu
| which is driving Marshal A1acMahon to take
bg leap into the dark; f5r when VIC talk Of tn.
! soothing influence Of wonlan1 we must nevc
| forget bow Ficrecly colnbative creature she is
One is bound to pity ruler who tries to de
| monstrate to pcttieoated relative Of all ain
bilious turn of mind, because he must not lt
| such aud such things, because they arc
| forbidden BY piece of paper called Con
! stitution. There Vas poor crowned
] wittol Of the middle agcs who advanced
an argument OF this sort, but
his admirable wife, quite equal to the occasion,
threw down her fan on the council table and
requested him to take it, and give her the sword
which he seemed afraid7to draw. We have
hcard too Of Black Agnes, Countess Of March,
"who kept I stir in tower and trcnch-that
brawling, boisterous Scottish wcnch." and
whose husband was q mild man, who, but for
her noisy golngs on, would have been coutcnt
to stop at home and toast the points Of his ro,.
boots ut the fire. It is. however, when they are
backed by clergyinen that women contrye to
make their sweet influence most powerfully felt
in politics, for then they can mix up their exhor-
tatious with threats ancnt the Evil One, until
their listener is fairly ma,idened.
road to ruin, aud they are not u few who have
done so, has had q wotnun OIL one side and n
priest on the other, both pushing him and ask
ing him what be was afraid Of when he WINGED
at tl'e sight ct sleeps hristling betow with IN
ugly look. Read the history OF 1ucklcss Louis
NfI. TIC poor man saw dangers thicken
around him, he tried to couture them, he poiut-
cd them out to his pretty wife, Marie Aftoin.
cite, aud to her good friend, Nine. dc Lam
balle, but both these ladies were Of opinion
no notice OF them. They had never heard
Of forked iightuiugs aud thunderbolts, but
had q good deal to say about Ajax,
who, armed with simple burklcr, dared the
elements to come on.'' Ajax must have been
ladys man. So supremely good m opinion OF
himself Us he eyinced could only have been de-
yclopcd by a long course OF feminine adulation.
intcrspcrsed with Occasional nagglngs when he
yeutu1cd to doubt whether he could withstand
Joyess thunder all by himself, For these fnscj
Mating creatures Queens, Emprcsscs, or She
Prcsidents-alt lag until they make q mans
soul weary; aud if, as was the case with Marie
Antoiuette, they can get members Of tue
church militant to help them, their cour-
a-cous spirit knows no obstacle. Marie
Antoinctte had rcd-lcgged Cardinals round
her, VINO brought encouraging letters
from the Pope, and these being laid BE-
fore the timid King ut brrakiast~timc convinced
him that he could only hope to hare Providence
Oh his side il he struck combatiye altitude
We know how ali this ended, and We know how
it Jared with another French monarch in our
own times for listening to au attractive LADY,
1;;,;;iihts about fighting Tic rruss1dhs, but the
Emnrcss Euse,:se had none. When Marshal
neral pair very frankly, as his duty command
I'd. 1hat he did not think the French army
WIS rcady Napoleon ncryously twisted his
nlustacile; but the valiant Empress flushed
IN and asked whether, forsooth, a Mar
sllal Of France was not ashamed u
hunseH for doubling the might Of his
own soldiers. The Marshal .stalkcd out red
in ths, farc and, upon reaching the enntechamber,
asked for pen aud sheet ot paper anu wrote
out his resignation, but at this juncturc the
En,pcror superycncd With soothing words, aud
pointed out that ladies must be humored- The
Marshal llesitatcl, but at last guye III, because
it is in the naLure Of Frenchman to let ladies'
have their. own way. So to llurnor I" Madame "
an army Of Frcnchmen marched over the border,
and soon lad to march back again faster titan
they went Are these lessons written in letters
oi flame on the walls of the EiSseca Not they.
There is lady III that palace ut this moment
who wants to sec certain modern Bayard emil
lutte the fcats Of Ajax, Louis XVI. and Napoleon
Ill, because her smiles anu the Pope's benudic-
t,on fsent repeatedly by t.lcgra1n) wll guarantee
hin SUCCESS.
Women have always been active politicians
in France. They did strange things during the
League, arnfng mems hands with dagyers and
promising kisses for ASSASSINATION. One caused
The Due de Guise to be trippcd up and stabbed;
anott.r urged on monk to despatch Henry
iii, Under the Frontie, again, the fair sex had
matters ail to themselves, and achieved the
great tcat OF setting five factions by the cars
Without letting them know what they were
lighting u,uut. When the great revolution
broke out da1nsel called Thcroignc Dc Meri-
court made herself conspicuous in getting per
sons Of backward opinions prolded with spears,
and helped up the steps Of the guillotinc. She
WIS a iine type Of the dark-cycd fury VINO
scatters slaughter about just fur the fun
OF the thing, aud she WAS one OF tho earliest
promoters of that band OF tricotcuses who
used to sit in the public galleries at the Conycn-
tiun, aud in the courts Of Justice, cnlircnlug