Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-21
HERH Is PROOF.

20 wait five long nours tne arrival o.
another train. had noticed this halt "
in my hand hook, but convinced should
find shelter in some hotel near the station
gave the subject no further thought. On
alightlng from the car at Nortonsville-the
name OF this halting. place-the train
steamed away without US. i went up 20
lank, raw-boned gawky in boots, who held
. lantern in his hand, and asked him TO
direct me TO the nearest hotel
"What hotel?" queried the man.. -,
"Oh, any hotel, the nearest VIII uo,'
said /.
"But there is no hotel here"
"What. no hotel OF Nortonsville?
"Oh. i see what it is" retorted the
porter. Maybe. stranger, you don't know
the town is not yet built ="
what !" exclaimed, there is no town
Of Nortonsville?"
mo; but the survey has been made ana
IL will soon be under way"
"WelI. where is the station?"
"No station either yet, but the sur
sBut. y said intorrupting him. surely
there mast be some shelter for travellers
"Yes, there's the shanty where drinks
are sold"
"Yonder." added the porter, as he point
ed to a log cabin in the darkness.
The night was cold. and my poor wlfe's
teeth chartered with ague in getting into
the night air after the overheated car.
soon came across the booth, where man
stood behind the counter.
"Whatll yer takep" said he.
"a glass of whiskey; hot. please"
81 amt got no whiskey."
well, gin will do or any spirit you may
have. 'Tis for my wife, who is sick"
~ can let you have me-squash, but no
shirt. This country's temperate"
And thus 10 is. When q certain number
of fools find themselves in a majority they
place an embargo on all alcohol, so that no
spirituous liquor can be had for love or
money inside their district, and any one OF
abstemious habits who wishes to have
wine or beer at his meals must 90 without
or run the risk of mourning severe penal
ties. And this happens In what Is called "a
free country"
ANOTHER SAMPLE OF LIBEBTYG
II is doubtless also in the name OF the
religious liberty inscribed in their Consti-
tuition that Americans to-day persecute
and imprlson the wretched Mormons. At
anv rate they have an ingenious way or
getting round the difficulty. The Ameri-
can Constitution formally .prescrlbes that
when the population OF territory
reaches q certain figure the Territory snail
lister its own affairs. In order TO prevent
Utah becoming o Mormon State and so
nromulpate ITS own laws the Federal Gov
ernment refuses TO make census or the
population, as otherwise 1t would have to
acknowledge that the people are ten times
more numerous at Salt Lake than Is re-
CURED by the Constitution for raising the
Territory into State.
AS an Offset what is more amusing than
IL ,&b N
napers by these MormOn-persecutlng
Americans over the unheard-of tyranny OF
the Gar. who now and then takes II INTO
his cad 10 cleanse the AugeaD stables OF
his empire by expelllng few extra Jews!
The Americans, while thus laying down
the doc rine that barbarian consists IN
plUrality of wives. are rather hard" on
their fair compatriots: for you must know
that in the United States every girl -
brought up in the notion that after well
flirting right and left, and when tired of
receiving and making love promises, the
mortal to whom she afterward accords her
hand in marriage should be highly battered
at so signal favor and consider hlmseli as
under an obligation 10 her until the END OF
his days -
The Young American girl, who often has
visited every corner of Europe and knows
Iongfellow by Aeart, very seldom opens a
work which is highly esteemed by all hus-
bands. i allude TO the "Lady's Cookery
Book" The result is she is unable TO fry
two eggs on plate, and should be regard
ed In every sense of the term as an O1jet
de lure Clancy goods.
WAYS OF WOMEN.
shall never forget the anger of q smart
American matron (whose daughter, IN
company with a few other girls, minus
their papas and mammas, was at the time
- ArA Of hn of nf
the Nile). when asked what advantage
her future son-in-law was likely to reap
from his wife having seen without him the
Pyramids Of Egypt, and whether she did
not think he would by far prefer TO have
his wife know how to prepare bubble and
squeak, a mess he might more often re-
quire than information about the land of
the Pharaohs, which information. besides,
he could always get for himself more tho
roughly and completely by consulting
Bedeker?
That future mother-in-law-such one
a. trust you may never have 70 deal
with-tartly replied that she did not bring
up her daughters for any prospective nus
band, who, at any rate, would be only too
happy 10 take her child, however numerous
might be her defects.
Nor were these young princesses the
daughters of such rich families as those OF
Mackay OF Vanderbilt--a tact which would
even then only in part excuse them-no,
they were the daughters of parents belong
ing TO the middle classes, people barely
corresponding with such of our families in
France as give bowers TO their daughters
varying from $1,000 TO $4,000. Instead OF
saving money TO help the young couple
keep house when they are welded, the pa
rents spend money in sending their daugh-
tiers to visit the monuments and museums
of Europe.
Then there is another legend which the
fair sex does all II can TO accredlt-ylz.,
that American girls follow no other than
the dictates OF their own hearts IN the
choice of husband, and that marriages in
the United States are oil love matches,
never prudent ones.
For my part must say that in no other
country have seen 80 many young girls
marry old men; nor do these unseemly
matches ever elicit protest from any one.
Whyl Because the person-elect is always
provided with a good big purse. Every
thing in the United States gives way before
this somewhat unpoetic though practical
consideration. aud II ia not Romeo but q
Croesus whom the American Juliet IS am'
bilious TO get for husband.
As for equality. l have travelledin almost
every country of Europe, and ! know Of
none where distinctions and titles OF no
bility are so highly appreciated as IN the
United States.
NO rIrERTY HERE.
While travelling in the South, SHOULD
your sister or daughter take it into he
head TO marry blackamoor, and the fac
be made public, your daughter or siste
will be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced
70 be hanged. This in spite of the Law
voted by Congress ut Washington giyinl
the same rights to every American citizen
whatever the color of his or her skin
throughout the length and breadth Of tn
Union. But, you see, those foreigner
can't understand that the Legislature o
each State has also the right 20 make laws
nend that the South is only continuing tn
war of secession against the Federal Gov
brnmeDt in q disguised form when il goe
. % the length 70 pronounce the penalty o
death against any citizen. male or female
convicted Of such intermarriage.
An American may dispose Of his entir
property just as he thinks at. A father
Tor instance. may disinherit his own chil
dren 10 favor OF stranger. or be ma
benefit one child 70 the exclusion OF tn
rest, and no one has anything TO say.
Thus Mr.. Vanderbilt, when he died, be
queathed level dollar, With his curse. K
one OF his sons, young scapegrace, VIII,
had been wicked enough TO discount draft