Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-04
how TIE EAST LOOKS AFTER TWENTY
YEARS ABSENCE.
A sacramentan Viewing Things from a
California standpoint Tewks-
bury Affair-Etc.
NEwRuRYpoRr. Mass. july 24sh,

full or turbulent, it is all the same TO them.
A passing breeze of excitsment doss not af-
feet them in the least
'.No more disturbs their calm repose
Than summer evenings latest sigh
That shuts the rose.
The shoemaker is faithful to ihs last, de-
vously confident thai full hultion is the
gusrdon of well-groundod hops, and that
the vigilant and patient will receive the
Tecompens7 # reward when the sou. Snail
have rsAcAsd is perfect condition. The
small-hsted farmer caltivstes mis- acre and a
half of corn aud pumpkins, snd carefully
eyes his fattenipg shOte, with an assiduity
which tells OF that which is 8 tbs substance of
things hoped for, and the evidence Of things
not seen"
A certain writer hiss said that in order to
raise pigs it ia not necessary to live like one.
Nowhere in this great E Piuribus Unum is
the sciences of living SO carefully studied here
as at the East. These small farmers and |
artisans own neat and tidy homes, whose ap-
pearance speaks Enthusiastically of thrift and
happiness to the passer-by. Fortunes are
not made in day, neither are they lost. |
The almighty dollar comes slowly and goes
long way. Passing along the streets of !
New England village you notics simplicity |
of dress which cannot but favoTGbly impress !
you, and tacitly you admit that well fitting |
muslin is far more pleasing to the eye than a !
dowdy satin, and you recall the old adage {: !
Besuty when unadorned is M )s5 adorned" |
One who has wandered away and mingled |
with q cosmopolitan people for a score of |
years WILL on returning, be Often reminded |
of what the Jewish maiden said TO Peter |
Thy speech betrayeth thee" The Califor-
man who visits Yankesland should be very
careful in the selection of his words, for |
there is no force here in the terms four |
bits, " SO long, '' stay wisb it" get away
with ii, Island, etc You bet :" there |
lent. A certain philolosist suggests that the
| Inhabitants of country may pitch their |
voices in harmony with the prevailing ele- |
ments; that those who inhahit high, noun
famous regions speak in sharp, shrill tones, |
1 while those who live IL the lowlsnds by the |
sea use the cultural, in imitation Of the hoarse
roaring Of the waves. How universally this I
may apply would be difficult 20 ascertain /;
but it is easily observed that while Vermont |
| ers might teach you haew to milk the |
inform you that you could not ENJOY "baf"
the pleasures Of the season wisho,t going to |
the beach TO take bsrth."
Investigations are instigased here as we'll as |
in California. Among the many obi acts of |
interest, have taken Ia a little OF the in
vestigation of the Tewksbury Alms-house,
managed by Governor Butler-understsnd |
II.
| need not deal with glittering generalities. |
for your readers have no doubt been served |
with synopsis long ere this suffice it TO |
say, that it seems to have been clearly proven |
that in the last twenty-five years the mana
ger, with an average salary of 1900 per |
annum, has reared and educated a large fami- |
ly of his own, and has contributed largely to |
the support of numerous INDECENT relatives /; |
also, that he took the office when he was a |
poor man, and left it with an Independent |
fortune. l was prepared to look compliment |
~ upon this phase of the matter being some |
what conversant with the mathematics in |
vogue on the Pacific coast but there were |
other minute which bothered me just lit
tie. notwithstanding l had actually seen the |
bad man from Bodie." When it was dis |
closed that out Of seventy-two foundlings |
which had been cent to the institution only |
one lived to grow up, l could not help think. |
ing that it was the hardest place for babies |
hAve ever heard or And it was further |
disclosed chat of the meek, lowly POOR
who were kindly sent there,
TO husband out life's taper at the Close"
a large percentage Of the bodies, after
having a dollars worth of aummery said |
over them, were carted off TO Harvard dis |
sectins room, there to be skinned and then |
chopped up in the interests Of science. Yes, |
skinned And here l must again allude to |
| this economical science of living; for in I
Puritan Massachusetts, the esthetic old Bay |
State, the school house of America, it has |
been discovered that the skins Of human be-
ings. when well tanned, make excellent slip
/ pers, gloves, purses, etc. | say when IL was |
shown that the bodies of these unfortunates
had actually been skinned, and their bodies
| had been soldfor the purposes above mentioned,
notwithstanding my schooling in the ethics
of Occidental life, l WINGED little, and the
peculiar sensation is upon me still. Carlyle,
in his g French Revolution, tells Of tam
merry at Mendon where the skins of such of
the guillotined as were worth hsying were
tanned and made into brooches, shoes and
the like. Then the skins of the aristocracy
served to clothe the peasant, but that rotary
motion which governs all has reversed the |
order, and now the skins of the psupers fur
nish articles of luxury for the rich. How
ever, the law of compensation adjusts all
inequalities. and another turn of the wheel of
| time will no doubt give the pauper bis share
OF this peculiar material for wearing apparel.
1t is not very pleasant subject TO enlarge
upon. just think of it. When we are exam
lining some beautiful slippers or pretty purses
with view to purchasing, say for Christ
mas present, it will not give very agreeable
sensation as we harbor for moment the
| thought that they may once have served az
the curicular mantle for some unfortunate
distant relatiYe-perhaps cousin or an aunt.
Reader, we are both ready to change the sub
ject.
1 am taking SIS sniff of the briny," q lux
ury which l have long held in anticipation.
L am spending few days in the quiet city of
Newburyport, about thirty miles from Bos-
ton, up the coast 1t is town Of about fif-
teen thousand Enthusiastically, dusty and
| somewhat dilapidsted in appearance. Ia
times even before the revolution, it saw its
palniest days, and since then, in many re-
spects, and especially in commercial import
ance, it has been on the retrograde move
ment. Its residences, or many OF them, are
of the most ancient style OF architecture, and
not unfrequensly do you seek admission
through the medium of the old iron
kuocker. It contains, however, many
important manufactures such as wooden and
cotton mills, collar, comb sndbrush factories,
silver and plated ware works, hat and cap
factories, etc. Ship-building is now receiv-
ing considerable attention, having had
special impetus in the last three years. The
city has many excellent public and private
educ stional institutions, and assesses pub
lie library and reading-room which would
be credit to q place of larger
szs. It is also quite a popular
summer resort, on cgunt of It's con-
tiguisy to the fashionable watering place,
Salisbury Beach. This beach is the scene of
Whittisrs beautiful poem, TENT on The
Beach," Il is a most beautiful strand, from
WHICH the eye rests upon q DOunUleSs eXpAuso
of oceau at full of tide the long line of
sand hills which skirt the shore Is washed by
the advancing surges, and at ebb
| "a The beach birds dance and the gray guls wheel
Over floor OF FURNISHED steel"
Ten miles out into the Atlantic is the Isle
of Shoals famous pleasure resort, psrticu-
larly attractive TO those who delight to lure
the fnny tribs from their watery home 1
have recently visited its fishing grounds and
enjoyed the sport of pulling in two hundred
feet Of line and about one hundred pounds
of cod-not, however, at one pull. And now,
having enjoyed visit Of about six weeks in
Massachusetts, and Maine, l shall soon turn
e.oo +ha satting s,n |