Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1875 — A Story With a Moral. [ARTICLE]

A Story With a Moral.

One day, twenty-five years ago, four gentlemen, were sealed around a table in a restaurant in San Francisco. One of them was the Postmaster of that city, and all were, or have since become, distinguished in the politics of the Pacific coast. The Postmaster took a letter from his pocket and said: “See what 1 got to-day.” It was from a young woman in Central New York, and directed simply to the Postmaster of the city of San Francisco, she never having heard of him except officially. It stated that the writer was poor and depended upon her earnings as a teacher for a living. Salaries in Central New York were low, and she wrote to ask if the Postmaster would not send lier the n&ney to pay her fare out, she engaging to repay hun when she should get a position to teach in California. Here was a most singular proposition; but she had not reckoned without her host in appealing to the generosity of a California man of that time. Our four politicians made up a purse, large and full enough not only to pay her expenses, but also to provide her with a handsome outfit. She came and they exerted themselves to get her a position to teach. Of course she married in-a short time, but not before she had repaid them the money that they lent her. They lost sight of her for years, until one of them, happening to be in the town in which she lived, inquired for her. He found that her husband, having been for a while Postmaster of the town, had been displaced, and that she had left her baby with him and gone to Washington to have him reinstated. In thisshe succeeded, and it is to be hoped that the reward of all her efforts was that they, as the story-books say, “ lived happily ever after.” This woman, with her “ clear grit” and indomitable pluck, is a type of a large class of her sex in New England and New York. They are to be found all over the country, sewing, teaching, practicing medicine and, sometimes, even preaching. In New England, when the father dies, leaving but tew of this world’s goods behind him, his daughters do not, as is too common in this part of the world, depend for support upon their brothers and other male relatives, practicing a pinching economy, injurious alike to their bodies and their minds. Having been fitted to support themselves they soon find opportunities to do so, and thereby enjoWtheirown respect, that of others, and the contentment which is the result of both of these.— San Francisco Paper. 4 pertain publisher in this city gets his wife to read the manuscripts of juvenile hooks offered to him to his little daughter, and if (he child enjoys the story he accepts it He argues that his little girl has about the average child intelligence, and if a book failed to please her it woulcLnot please other children. The idea is not-a baa one.— S. T. Herald. “ Work, work, women of America,” elo i qnently urged Miss Myrtle Hooke Bo* ne in her*lecture in Philadelphia Jhe other evening; “put your hands to the plow.” And she ..gracefully gestured with her snowy-gloved hand and stamped with her shoes of most delicate white! A latchkeytudinarian—a bachelor.