Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-25
The Empress of Morocco.
by AUNT CHARITY.


OF a plain, honest man, who had
charge of the grounds of Glenor-
mission, around which the silvery
Tweed, over its bed of white peb-
bles, curves in the form of the
letter s. There he and his an
cestors had lived for years, raising
their families honestly, comfort.
ably, religiously. We feel that if
there is land on earth where
love is q pure, unadulterated sem
timent, unadulterated by interest,
by fashion or rank, it is the land
Of Burns, and we read his "Cot-
ter's Saturday Night" with ever
glowing pleasure.
Obedience to parents is still
taught there with the same ims
pressive solemnity as under the
Mosaic dispensation, and idleness
and the extremes of fashion are
not, as here, considered the acme
of happiness Daughters. assist
mothers, and from generation to
generation preserve their SIM
plicity of habits. Katrine was
remarkable for her beauty, and
her delicacy of figure had exempt.
ed her from the hard labor of
most girls of her class. There
are some natures SO poetic that
under any circumstances they
cannot be materialized, and thus
it was with Katiine. Along the
banks and braes of the Tweed
she often strolled, gazing upon
its encincturing nights, admiring
its villages, orchards. mansions
and its antiquities, where "boil
Tweed eddying currents.
$50 many charms by nature and by art
DO there combine to captivate the heart,
that her love for them became
irresistible, and her fancy like
"silver current flows with uncoh-
trolled meanderings." A soldier,
but Just home from the war,
there saw Katrine and often
essayed to join her in her stroll,
and participate in her fancies.
This her father observed, and,
with the sterness of a Covenanter,
forbade the promenades. ODE.
dience for q time was observed,
but at length her habit was res
sumed. The soldier had become
the ardent, fascinating lover. An
interview was observed by the
father and punished with the
utmost severity. Even the rod
was substituted for persuasion
and reason. 70 the nature of
Katrine this was insupportable.
She Immediately took service
with an Edinburgh family, who
had passed the Summer in this
romantic country, promising her
lover to meet him in New York
and in some mountain land of
America find a home to be gilded
by their love,
In q small privateer--for these
events occurred during war
Katrine wildly embarked, with a
heart buoyant with love and the
hope of meeting her lover. But
ere they reached the Azores they
were seized by an Algerine cor
sair and carried to Africa. Ter
rible was the agony and remorse
of poor Katrine. In disobeying
her earthly parents, she had
neutralized her trust and conf
dence in her Heavenly Father.
Men may be bold, defiant in
fdels, may be bestialized by their
vices. and, perhaps, some women
are, but the young girl, religi
ously educated, even by humble,
ignorant parents, can never be
happy when she has violated the
simple claims of duty-when her
soul is stained by deception and
falsehood. A grief insupportable
swelled the heart of poor Kat
rine. Thoughts of her home, of
her loving mother, of that
mothers distress, made her al
most frantic; but she was on a
boundless ocean, far from a
mothers love-from all human
sympathy; that ocean was but a
type of the boundless ocean of
life, and desolation, and misery,
upon which every woman en-
banks who leaves in disobedience
to her parents. He who hath
promised long life to those who
honor father and mother, hath
also threatened disrespect to
them with awful punishment.
When they arrived at Morocco,
the captive of peerless beauty
was brought before the Emperor.
For months she entertained the
hope of escape or rescue, but
that becoming impossible, she