The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-09

ut any time step into ease and compe.
tence where you must labor patiently
for it. A little weeping, little wheed-
ling, little self-degradation, little
careful use of our advantage, and then
some man will say. Come. be my wife.'
With good looks and youth. marriage
is easy to attain. There are men
enough but woman who has sold her.
self, even for ring and new name,
need hold her skirts aside for no crea-
ture in the street. They both earn
their bread in one way. Marriage for
love is the most beautiful external SYM
Dol OF the union of two souls; marriage
without it is the uncleanliest traffic that
defiles the world" She ran her little
finger savagely along the topmost bar,
shaking off the dozen little dew drops
that still hung there. ''And they tell
us we haven't mems chivalrous atten.
tion" she cried. when we ask to be
doctors. lawyers, Lawmakers, any thing
but ill-paid drudges, they say, No; but
you have mems chivalrous attentions;
now think of that and be satisfied!
What would you do without it?"
The bitter little silvcry laugh, so
seldom heard, rang out across the
bushes. She bit her little teeth together
II was coming up in Cobb & Co. s
the other day. At little wayside
hotel we had to change the large coach
for a small one. We were ten passcn-
gers, eight men and two women. As (
sat in the house the gentlemen came
and whispered to me, There is not
room for all in the new coach, take your
seat quickly We hurried out, and
they gave me the best seat, and covered
me with rugs because it was DRILLING
Then the last passenger came running
up to the coach--an old woman with a
wonderful bonnet, and a black shawl
pinned with 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-in-law is i'll, and must 60
and sec him. she said.
"'My good woman said one. 4 am
really exceedingly sorry that your SON.
in-law is i'll; but there is absolutely no
room for you here
"'You had better get down. said an
other, 'or the wheel will catch YOU
II got up to give her my place.
"'Oh, no, no" they cried, I'VE will not
allow that
81 will rather kneel,' said one, and
| he crouched down at my feet; so the
woman came in.
There were nine of us in that coach
and only one showed chivalrous atten'
ton, and that was a woman to a wo
man. ] shall be old and ugly too one
day, and shall look for mems chival
rous help. but | shall not find it. Thu
bees are very attentive to the flowers
till their honey is done, and then they
fly over them. / don't know il In
flowers feel grateful to the bees; the.
are great fools If they do"
"But some women" said Waldo
speaking as though the words force'
themselves from him at that moment
"some women have power"
She lifted her beautiful eyes to hi
face.
| Power! Did you ever hear of me-
being asked whether other souls shoul
have power or not? 1t is born in them
You may dam up the fountain of water
and make it a stagnant marsh, or yo
may let it run free and do its work; bu
you can not say whether it shall b
there; ii is there. And it will act,
not openly for good, then covertly 10
evil; but it will act. If Goethe ha
been stolen away child, and reared i
robber-horde in the depths of Gel
man forest, do you think the worl
would have had Faust and Iphigenie
But he would have been Goethe still
stronger, wiser than his fellows. A
J night, round their watch-hre, he wOul
, have chanted wild songs of rapine an
murder, till the dark faces about hil
were moved and trembled. His song
would have echoed on from father t
, son. and nerved the heart and arm
for evil. Do you think, that if Napt
} leon had been born woman, that h
would have been contented to Civ
small tea-parties and talk small scar
} dial? He would have risen; but I'll
world would not have heard of him {
+ it hears of him nova man great an
. kingly, with all his sins; he would ha,
t left one of those names that stain IL
leaf of every history-the names
+; women who, having power, but beir
denied the right to exercise it openl
i rule in the dark, covertly, and
t stealth, through the men whose pa
n sions they feed on and by whom tht
S climb.
s "Power!" she said suddenly, SMITH
a her little hand on the rail. Eyes, v
t have power; and since we are not to G
h pend it in tunnelling mountains, n
It healing diseases, nor making laws, n
S money, nor on any extraneous objet
r we expend it on you. You are our good
Il our merchandise, our material I
:, operating on; we buy you, we sell 20
Il we make fools of you, we act the wi
VI old Jew with you, we keep six OF y
o crawling to our little feet, and prayi
" | only for a touch of our little han