The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-02-08

head and give me food to eat with the
Kaffirs and d right to sleep with the
dogs. That would be the first step In
our progress very little one, but ev-
cry step to the end would repeat It
We were equals once when we lay,
newborn babes, on our nurses knees.
We will be equals again when they tie
up our jaws for the last Sleep"
Waldo looked in wonder at the little,
auivering face. 1t was a glimpse into
a world of passion and feeling wholly
new to him.
mark you" she said, 1--WE have al
ways this advantage over you've can
at any time step into ease and COM
petence, where you must labor pa
tiently for 1t. A little weeping. little
wheeling, a little self degradation, q
little careful use Of our advantages.
and then some man will say, Come, be
my wifer With good looks and youth,
marriage is easy to attain. There are
men enough, but woman who has
sold herself, even for a ring and new
name, need hold her skirts aside for no
creature in the street. They both earn
their bread In one way. Marriage for
love is the beautifulest external SYM
Dol of the union Of souls; marriage
without it is the uncleanliest traffic
that defiles the world" She ran her
little finger savagely along the top
most bar, shaking off the dozen little
dewdrops that still hung there. "And
they tell us we have mems chivalrous
attention. she cried. when we ask
to be doctors, lawyers, lawmakers,
anything but i'll paid drudges, they say:
No, but you have mems chivalrous at
tention. Now think Of that and be sat-
isfied! What would you do without itT'
The hitter little silvery laugh, so sell
dom heard, rang out across the bushes.
She bit her little teeth together.
81 was coming up in Cobb & Co.'s the
other day. At a little wayside hotel
we had to change the large coach for
small one. We were ten passengers
eight men and two women. AS l 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 cover
ed me with rugs, because it was driz-
Zling. Then the last passenger came
running up to the coach-an old wom-
an 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,
hands.
"'My son-in-law is ill, and must go
and see him. she said.
My good woman said one, L am
really exceedingly sorry that your
son-in-law is ill, but there is absolutely
no room for you here
"'You had better get down. said an
other, or the wheel will catch YOU
81 got up to give her my place.
"'Oh, no, nor they cried. We will
not allow that en-
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
woman.
81 shall be old and ugly, too, one day,
oh alr.n,1
help, but l shall not find it.
'"The bees are very attentive to the
flowers till their honey is done, and
then they fly over them. l don't know
if the flowers feel grateful to the bees.
They are great fools if they do"
But some women" said Waldo,
speaking as though the words forced
themselves from him at that moment.
"some women have power"
She lifted her beautiful eyes to 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 cannot say whether it shall be
there. 1t 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 child and reared in
a robber horde in the depths of Ger
man forest, do you think the world
would have had Faust and 1phe-
genie? But he would have'been Goethe
still. stronger, wiser than his fellows.
At night round their watch fire he
would have chanted wild songs of
rapine and murder till the dark faces
about him were moved and trembled.
His songs would have echoed on from
father to son and nerved the heart and
evil.
do you think If Napoleon had been
born a woman that he would have been
to give small tea parties and
talk small scandal? He would have
risen. But the world would not have
heard of him as it hears Of him now
a man great and kingly, with all his
sins. He would have left one Of those
names that stain the leaf Of every
history, the names Of women who. hav-
ing power, but being denied the right
to exercise it openly. rule in the dark,
covertly and by stealth, through the
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