Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-01-03

up TO the coach IAN old woman with
wonderful bonnet, and black shawl
pinned Wiiha yellow pin
{. There is no room, they said; you
must wait till next weeks coach takes
you up; But she climbed on to the step.
and held on at the window with both
hands
My son-iu-law il III, and must 90
and see him. she said
My good woman, said one, i am
really exceedingly sorry that voar SON
ln-law is i'll; but there Is absolutely no
room for you here.
You had better get down. said an
other, or the wheel viii catch YOU
Il got up TO give her my place.
Oh, no, mol they cried, NC will not
allow that
- Il will rather kneel. said one, and
he crouched down az my feet: so the
woman came in.
There We're nine of us in that coach,
and only one showed chivalrous atten-
ton, and that was woman to wo-
man. ! shall be old and ugly TOO one
day, and shall look for mems chival-
rous help, but | shall not find It. The
bees are very attentive TO the flowers
tin their honey is done, and then they
fly over them. | don't know il the
flowers feel grateful to the >bees; they
are great fools if they do
''But some women" said Waldo,
speaking rs though the words forced
themselves from him at that moment,
''some. women have power"
She lifted her beautiful eyes 10 his
face
Power! Did you ever hear of men
being asked whether other souls should
have power or not? 1t is born In them.
You may dam up the fountain OF water,
and make it a stagnant marsh. or you
may let it run free and do It's work; but
you can not say whether il shall be
there; IL is there. And it will act, if
not openly for good, then covertly for
evil; but it will act. If Goethe had
been stolen away a child, and reared in
n robber-horde in the depths OF a Ger
man forest, do you think the world
would have had Faust and Iphigenie?
But he would have been Goethe still
stronger, wiser than his fellows. Az
night, round their watch-iire, he would
have chanted wild songs OF rapine and
murder. ill the dark faces about him
We're moved and trembled. His songs
would have echoed on from luther to
son. and nerved the heart and arm
/ for evil. Do you think, that il Napo-
\ leon had been born woman, that no
would have been contented to give
small tea-parties and talk small scan
DALI He would have. risen; but the
! world would not have heard of him as
it hears of him nova man great and
kingly, with all bis sins; he would have
\ left one Of those names that stain the
leaf Of every history-the names of
women who, having power, but being
denied the right to exercise it openly,
4 rule in tho dark, eovertly and by
( stealth. through the men whose pas
sions they feed on and by whom they
climb.
"Power!" she said suddenly, shifting
+ lCf lllbiG NUM- OIi tlo Ittll. tS, VIC
have power; and since we are not TO ex-
pend it in tunnelling mountains, nor
healing diseases, nor making laws, nor
money, nor on any extraneous object,
we expend it on you. You are our goods,
I our merchandise, our material for
operating on; we buy you, we sell you,
we make fools of you, we act the willy
old jew with you, we keep six of you
crawling to our little feet, and praying
only for a oh Of our little hand;
and they say truly, there was mover an
ache or a pain or broken heart but o
Z woman was at the bottom Of ii. We
are not to study law, nor science, nor
art, so we study you. There is never
o nerve or fibre in your mans nature
but We know it. We keep five or six of
you dancing in the. palm OF one little
hand, . she said. balancing her ont
stretched arm gracefully, as though
tiny beings disported themselves in its
palm. "There-we throw you away,
aud you sink, she said, folding her
arms composedly. There was never
man who said one word for woman
but he said two for man, and three for
the whole human race. - DIRE Schrets-
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