Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1873, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 MADAME BE MAINTENON, And the Last Years of “Ie Grand Monargue.” The Early Days of Frangoise d'Au- bigne---Her Marriage with the Abbe Soarron, Tow She Bccflnfo tho Hing’s Confidantow-r Hor Successful Strnggle with the Royal Favorite, The Madame’s Secret Marriage to the King---Her Despotic Reign for Over Thirty Years. The Edlot of Nantes Revoked Through Hor Influe enge---Tho End of Louls and the Woman Who Ruled Him. From Temple Rar, Francoles d'Aubigno waa desconded from an mnolent and honorable family of Anjou., Her grandfather waa Theodore Agrippa dAubigne, - an inflexible Huguenot, and tho friond and com- ‘pavion of the groat Houry. Hor fathor, Con- wiant d'Aubfgro, was a biack sheop, who, aftor acquiring wenlth and considoration at Court for hotraying his co-religioniats, for which trenchery his father disinherited him, was dotected in somo fressonable correspondence with the Eng- 1ish, and thrown into the prison of the Con- clergeria of Niort. His wifo, a noble, horoio woman, thon' onceinte, obtained pormission 10 sharo his captivity, and thoro, on tho 27th of November, 1635, noarly thros years before Louis the Fonrteenth, WAS DORN FRANCOISE. Hor godfathor - waa the colobrated Duko do Ia Rochofoncauld, her godmother was the daughter of tho Baron du Neuillant, the Governor of Niort. In misery, hungor, and raggedness passed the days of parents snd obildren—for thoro wore two othor littlo ones, boys, besides tho now- comer—until Madsmq do Villette, Constant's sister, hearing of thoir sad position, bronght them help and took away tha childron to hor home, which wan eitusted in the noighborhood. Bot when the prisoner was trapsforrod to the Chatean Trompotte at Bordeaus, the mothor, unable to endure the thoughts of complate sop- exation, took back her little daughter, whose home for somo threo or four years was thua within the gloomy prison walls, the prison-yard her playground, the jailor’s daughter her only piaymato. In 1689, after ondloss solicitations, Madame d'Aubigne obtained her husband's enlargoment, atter which thoy embarked for Martiniguo, to try their fortuncs ina new world. During tho voyage, littlo Francoise foll dangerously ill, and was ot last LAID OUT A8 DEAD, The body was just about to bo committed to the sea, whon tho mother, ns sho hold it ina Inst passionato parting ombraco, folt a slight movement, * My child is not doad 1" sho shriok- ed, ' ‘‘Hor hoart bonts!” Tholittle gitl was put ‘back into bed, aud in a fow days was reatored to kealth, In Martinique, fortane gave Constant d'Au- bigno yot another chance. Ho acquired some largo plantations, prospered, grow rich, Afters time Madame d'Aubigno bad ocension to visit France; when she returned she found her hus- band once more & beggar ; during hor absence he had gambled nway all -that ho possessed. After this ho obteined & small appointment in & village of the island. and there his wifo devoted her life to the education of her children, but moro eapecinlly to that of her daughter, who al- veady gave promiso of MMORE TIAN ORDINALY TALENT, odhe taught her toread Plutarch and anclent listory ; ‘ana to habituate her mind to reflection #ho obliged hor to_exerciso it both in compo- sition and lettor-writing, in which lsst Francoise excelled throughout hior life. The noxt event of importance was the death of Conatant, which happened in 1645, Madamo d'Aubigne rotwrned to France poorer even than whon ehe loft it. Ble was reduced to live by the labor of her hands ; but indefatigablo as over, she set to work to ondeavor torcolaim some remnants of her husband’s first fortune, to gather in old debts, to got for herchildren some- thmg of the heritage which bad been left behind by their grandfather, Agrippa d'Aubigne, . Bhe once more, although unwillingly, conflded ‘her daughter to Madamo do Villetto, who roadily undertook the charge. Tho cause of Madame d'Aubigne’s uuwillingness was, that hor sistor- In-law was a Calvinist, _The result justified hor Catholie scruples, for Madame Villotto at once proceeded to train her little nleco in TIE DOCTRINES OF THE REFORMED FAITH, Ono_ asy Trancolse rofused to mccom- g_nny her “mother to mass. hadame a'Au- igne, terribly slarmed for her daugh- ter's ealyation, with her usual enorgy at once appesled to Anne of Austris to issuo an ordor for th;adgirl‘a restoration to her own_custedy. The order was grented, and the voung Huguenot wag handed ovor to hier godmother, tho Countese e Nouillant, a zealous Catholic, to be brought back to the Catholic faith, But Francoise was mat ye to be converted, g0 a3 a punishmont for heor contumacy sho was set to porform the most xaenial offices, Rmong others, to mensure out tho - «corn for the horaes and to look after o flock of turkeys. Xt was thoro In tho farm-ynrd,” she usod to sy, I flrst hegan to roign. Aa not even theso degradations could bend her firm epirit, sho_was sent awny to tho Ursuline onvent at Niort. Strango to sny, hor Hugua~ oot aunt, confident in the Btrongth of her nicco's convictions, and anxious to remove her from tho puintul position sho hold In Msdame do Neuillant's house, conscnted to pay for her board whilo at the convent, Alas, for Madamo do Villotte's confidence! The arguments of the g0od abbess and her ghiostly confossor proved so potent that Mademoiselle d’Aubiguo was altor & time induced to, FORMALLY RECANT HER * ERBORS," «nd to become from that time forth a good Catholic, upon which hor good aunt indignantly withdrow from her all further pecuniary assist- ance. Pious Madame de Neuillant haviug thus preserved her goddaughter's soul, considered that sho had fulfitod her duty to the utmost, body to do tho best it could; in_ other words, she deolined to afford hor any pacunfnry aid whatovor of course, the good, pious sistera of Bt. Ursula could not be further troubled with & porson who wes penmicss; 8o, her conversion” complote, or Francoieo was shown the convent door, out~ &ids which atrotchod & desert, friendless world, ‘The only pereon to whormn sho could turn was her mother, who could scarcoly feod hersglf, much less hor daughter. It wag o mieorable, hall- famished lifo, from which in o little timo morci- ful donth releasod ono of thces womon, Yos, roor Mgdamo d'Aubigno was at last permitted to ay down lior cross and resy her weary head in thie 1ap of mothor earth. < For thres months aftor hor mother's death Francolse remained shut up in aroom at Niort, existing heaven lnows how, At the end of threo months pious Madame do Neuillant, afraid, *mrbnps,v of some seandal fulling upon hor prosg- iyto, de hor o visit, aud shortly afterwards placed her at an Ursullno convent in Tarls, from which sbe occasionally passed to tho palons of her protootresa, Mademoisolle d'Aubigne was ‘oautiful, gracefal, accomplished, clevor, spiritue ollo; sho attracted the attontion of tho visltors, among whom woro some of the most dlstine ulshed and most colobrated pooplo of the ngo, f& waa hero that sho waa intraduced to TIIE ADLE BCARRON, aot, eatirlst, buffoon, famous in the days of the Frondo for Lis lampoons against Mazarin and the Court ; B moustrous detormity, who It was waid had the free uso of no mewmber of Iis body excopt his tongue aud bisLands, Whon a young man ho hoed, fn o mad carnival freak, porsonatod & eavage, and run naked through the crowd pursued by a mob; hnluf; in danger of his life ho waa obliged to concoal him- self In a marsh ; o palay, from which he never rocovered, was the consequence of this disgraco- ful freak, 1lis appearance at 80 (throo yoars afteryards) {a houé‘ lesicribed fn his‘own words ; My head is a little broad for my shape ; my laca” fa full nnounfi: to make wy body appear vary small { I have hair ennug‘h to render s wig onnecousasy i 1bave many Wl ite bnby, fu spite of the proverb, My teoth, tormarly squara nre now wood-colored, snd wil ahortly bo slato-colorad. My lega and thigha firat formod nau obtuso angle, alterwarda au ayullntaral angle, and at. lon[(ul an acuto ono; my thigha and body form anothier ; audmy hend, “always dropplng upon my breaat, makas ma & pratty good repro- soutation of tha lotter Z, I have got my arme shortened aa well a9 my logs, _and my fingora os wall sa my arms, Inaword, I am an nbrld;i- mont of haman misorios.” But in spito of all Lo was gny, aans souci, and was forovor jostin wpon sud laughing over his own sufferings au hidoousness, This deformity fell in love with beautiful 15- rear-0ld Froncolse d’Aubigne| Hae was witty, kind, genorons, compansionnted hor snd position ?“12 offered hor his hand, and, marvelous to re- ato, arls, aur AgoRrTED I7l Bho was just 16 at the timo of hor marriage. #1Pha naw wife," says Snint-Simon, * plossed all the company who froquonted Bearron's house, which was vory numorous and of oll kinds; it was the fashion to go thore—wits, courtiers, and oitizons, tho highost and moat distinguighed porsonagoes of tbo day; snd tho oharms of his wit, of his knowledge, his imagination, aud of- that incomparablo gaioly, alwnys fresh amidst oll bis afllictions, that rare fecundity and plona- antry of the Dost taste that wo till ad 0 In his works, nitracted ovorybody to his houso,” 'This was tho age of the Frondo, an ngo in. which evory moral rostraint was broken through, snd riot; dobauchory, and liconttousnces rulod suprome. Soar- row's houso .in the Marals assombled all that was noblo, gront, witty, and_dlasoluto, Hithor camo ‘Turouno, and Condo, Benufort, Do Rote, Coligni, Villarcosux, Madamo do_Sevigno, Sain{ Evromond, La Rochefoucsuld, Bussy Rabutin, Moliero, La Fontaino, Cornoillo, Bailoan, Chas pollo, Bachaumont, the Abbe Chaliou, oto, ‘Whother Madame Senvron ¢ REPT HERSELF IMMACDLATE in tho midst of this mnoble, brilliant, and vory immoral qnnlntg we have mo mwoins of positivily detormining. Ninon I'Enolos, in a vory brondly-stated anecdoto about her and tho Ohovalier do More, who profossod himself hor adorer, nesorts sho was not, Ma- damo Bearron was certainly the bosom friond of that colobrated courtosan and of all the other Taises and_Aspneins of the period, and wo all knoyw the old Krovnrb abouthandling pitch, But, on tho othor hang, it may be \l.rgug that Ninon I'Enclos sund her slstors were tolorated in the bost socioty of the time, ovon by such women as Madame do an‘l%na' that they wore among the most brillisnt and witty of her husband's coterio, nnd, boing Ench, it was impossivlo for hor to noglook thom. Yet, oven whon she becamo the cold sscetic wife of Lonis XIV., Mndamo do Maintenon mover slighted Ninon I'Enclos, nover refused a favor to hor or her frionds. 8ho ovidently feared hor. Beandal compromised Madamo Scarron's name with that of - : . THE ALL-CONQUENING FQUQUET, from whom bor husband regolvod s ponsion, and who bad hor portrait hung boside that of 1a Val- lioro ot Vaux. The letiers, however, which would confirm snol an sccusation aro generally admitted to bo forgaries, But, bo that as it may, sho was prudent, pro- sorved tho ontward forms of deconcy, and was ab a1l times oxact In tho porformance of roligious obeervancos. She won grent influenco over her orratio husband, and oxorcised jt for good ; from tho time of thelr marringo his writings became leos gross and immorsl, sod the convorsations at big reunions eomewhat puror. Nino years was tho period of this atrnnqu union, and-thon Searron died. Incorrigible Jester to tho last, his almost parting words wore, * I naver thought it was 60 onsy o mattor to Immgh ot the spprosch of donth. But, novortheless, ho was groatly troubled about the future of bis young wifo, .to whom he was tonderly attached. GUIM POVERTY, which had been kopt at by during theso nino imn of married life, onco more pounced upon is victim. Bearron posscssed 110 more thau Lie derived from tha productions of his pen and tho bounty of his friends, and all such moans. died with him. Moro soandald against poor Fran-~ colso; Fuugunt again, and tho Marquis do Vil- larcenux. Bho goes baok once more to tho Urku- lino Convent in the Ruo St. Jacques, whors sho is suddenly surprised by tho Queon renowing in Lher favor bor husband's ponsion, with an addition of five hundred franca; aftor which she rotires to the hcaEilnl of the Placo Royale, lives an ir- roproachable life in tho oxercisa of chnrity and roligion, ig received at tho Iiotel d'Albret and nt other great houses, whore hor Exncarul‘ plensing, nml.trullned mounors render her a univorsal fa- vorito. The death of Anno of Austria again doprived ‘her of ier pengion, nud reduced her onca nioro to aatato of deatitution, Sho applied to tho King for it remewal, but in vain. She was on the point of nccopting n small post in tho housohvld of Mademolsolle d’Aumalo, who was about to leavo Franco to wed tho King of Portugal, when sho wag sdvised to seek an interview with MADAME DE MONTESFAN, whom she had frequontly met in socioty, Tho interview was grantod, sud Aladamo do Monto- span, dooply moved by tha widow's ead story, undortook to prosent o petition to "the IXing, and to uso hor utmost endeavors to got it granted, It was imposuiblo that 80 small 8 favor shonld bo rofused to ihwo favortte Sultans; and so widow Searron was preserved from voluntary oxilo, Wo now como to the turning-point in hor career, Honcoforth tho bright side of Trancoiso's character is turned away from us, and wo shell seo ouly its dark and baso qupact. 1 tho year 1860, 810 s solicitod to take chargo o 4 SOAE ONILDREN OF NODLE DINTH, the namo of whose paronts, howover, was not to bo ravealed. Sho at once divined tho secrat. Resolved, Liowaver, to_be no blind agont, but & confidauto, she wrote in roply, ‘It the children are the KhIEB, T will do it will nglg; 1 wouldnot uundortake tho chargo of Madame de Montospan's without scruplos, Thus it is the King who must ordormotodo thls, . . . . Throo yonssago I should nob havo had this delicacy, but since then I have learned many things, which now prosoribo it to mo as & duty.” Madame Scarron’s dcruplos were rospooted and gained for hor all that eho roquired. Slho was catablished in o houso at Vaugirord; carriagos, horses, and sorvants wera provided for her uso.. THE MAINTENON ESTATE was for salo: its proximity to Versailles would rondor it n most convenient residence for tho royal childron and their guardian, and Madamo do Mantospan bogged the King fo purchass it and bestaw it upon Madawa Scarron, Bub Louis disliked hor ; she had been mixed-up with the socioly of tho I'rondo, of which throughout hia life hae entortained tho greatest horror; sho ‘was a Procieuce, and Louis, ill-educated himself, hated learued women, Thora had been too much done already for_ “that creature,” Le gaid sngrily; ko could not undorstand Madame do Monto- apan’a faney for Lior; to him she was insupport- able. Wearied at last, however, by his mistress’ importunities, he consonted to grant this favor, Emv{ldod that Lo should never again look upon ar face. But timo and accidonts work wonders, M. dn Maine, ono of thae childron, was lame, Madame de Matonon (8hd had now assnmed that title) took him into Xlanders, in order to obtain the advice of & colebrated physician aud the benefit of cortaln medicinal waters, Sho wrote long lottors to her patroucss, in which abo very aphically described tho inoidonta of her mu'nn{\. These lotters were shown to the ing + hio was ploased with thom ; his projudicos agaiust tho widow DEGAN TO GIVE WAY, andupon her roturn sho was admitted more frecly to the royal presouce, sometimos passing wholo ovenings in tho sooioty of Louis aud hit mistross, Madamo do Mantespan was fuil of yain and eapricious hutore, which at timos sora- ly tried tho pationce of hor royal lover, who by~ and-by found o congofation in talk- ing ovor such yesations with tho symps- thizing gouvernante,whoso conversation ho found to be quite charming, AMadame de Montospan began to grow uneasy, joulouy, under which fn- fuences Lier humors woro moro violont sud un- bearablo than ever, The King begnn to grow ospan) vamd to myhouso yosterday - and: ovor- wholmod mo with ropronchos and "sbuso. Tho King surprised ua In the middlo of this conver- untlon, which endod bottor than it had bogun, Ho ordorod .us to ombraco and to lova each othior, but you know that the Jast articlo caunot bio commauded, 1o added, laughing, that he found it mora easy to rostore ponco to all uropo than botwaon two wowmen, sud that wo took fire upon trifles.” Asgistod by Louvols, Madamo do Montospan #ought out and resuscitatod ALL, TRY: ANCIENT S8OANDALA which Lad been promulgated againat the widow Bonrron, Writlug to hor brother about this timo, Madame do Maintenon saya: ‘“*All aro mnd’ agafust mo, and do evorything in thoir power ta injure mo; if they do not succend, wo shall Jaugh at thom; if thoy do, wo shall enduro woury of quarrels and ropronohos, and attachod Dimeolf more and more to Madame do Mainte- non's kocloty, ‘Uhe widow falt her power, and gendually withdrow from the mothor all control over tho mnlluxinmunt of tho obildron, refusing to taka auy orders concerning thom exoopt from the King himsolf, By-and-by, sho grow oven bolder, aud preached’ fo hor royal patron upon the oriminality of flliait love, tha boauty of v?mm, tho uoblanees of coutluence, exhor lnF hLim to penitonco ; and to all this ho lont & wills ing enr ; for whon we grow woary of onr vicosit it 50 delfghtful to akoribe thoir renunoiation to awakenad pioty, And now the § BTRUGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO WOMEN began {n earnest, and was contluucd through sevoral yoars { & vory unoqual Htrugila sinca tho alrongth of oue wat o overwl u(mlnhqu greater than that of the othor, Writing of Ma~ dame do Maintonon as early as 1070, Madame do Hovlguu eays, “ Lvorything is subjoos to her empire,” There were bitter quarrels botwesn iha two womon, froquontly in the King's pros. once, 1a which ho Lad o play the dignl- fied part of arbitrator or poscomnkor, In ong of hor letters, Madame do Mainlonon thus doseribos & keons of thiv kind ¢ * Sho (do Monte it with fortitudo,” Dotermined, strong-minded, propared for olther furtune, sho ealmly facod her snemies—and gonquered, In testimony of hisdis. beliof in tho vilo storles circulated, Louls creatod hor, in 1080, socond lady iu wmting to tho Datipbino. One of tho first uses sho mado_ of this “position was to win tho ossistance of that Princoss to bring nbont a pormanent sepaiation botwoen tho King and his mistross, UER BTAR WA] NOW IN FULL ASOENDANT ; tho ostoomod and honored friond of the Queon and the Dauphine, and the companion for four or fivo hours enob ovening of the King, who took graat ploasure fn her “convorsation, 80 ad- mirable for ita woll-choson longunge, it8 Engno- ity, torsenoss, great knowladgo of ' tho world, and brilliant wit, tho wholo so intoned with roy- orontial ploty. Added to thoso charma of the mind woro the woll-presorvod remains of lier youthtful bosuty, an iufinito graco and oag0 of domoanor, andl a cortaln plonsing defor- onca of mannor which sho lnd acquirod fn_her daya of povorty, and which sho still displayed in tho royal Prenancu. In 1G83 the Queon, who hiad concolved » groat regard for Do Maintenon, dlod in that lady’s arms, ‘This created a now tie to still furthor at- tach hor to the King. ~Bmoto with romorse by the momory of tho sufforing that he had {nflicted upon tho gontlo apirit of bor who had possod away, {0 which among the womoen he loved ar Lhiad loved could he turn for consolation with so freo & consolence as to hor whow Maria Thoress bad called friond ? There are no grounds for Lolioving that this communion ever EXOEEDED TILE OUNDS OF PROPRIETY, “That Louia frequontly importunod hor is past s doubt, but she who could at fittecon become the wife of the Pm\lynu cripplo Soarron was not likely to yiold to T“hu ot forty-five, Yot whilo sho drow back from such advances, sho did not flually zejoct thom, ag is proved By tho (Dl.\o\!ln%l.lnu, which ocours in one of her lai- tors: “I gond him awoy always afllicted but naver fn dospair.” Thus sho strengthenod hor empiro ovor his fcklo affections, and tompt~ sg ‘him into a more konorable medo of gratifying cm, From the hour in which the Queon died, Madame do Maintenon proposed to horself bu ono objoot in Jife—to become tho wife of Louis XIV, Aud in that object there is LITTLE DOUBT BUT TIAT SUE SUGOREDED, Horo is Saint-Simon'y testimony & Mo {tho Wing) passed tho firet dsys_ aftor tha Quean's doath at Bt, Cloud, ot Monslour’s, whoncs ho wont to ~ Fonlairableau, whero ho apent the aufumn, On his roturn, s {a safd, for {t i neceasary to distinguish whiat {s_cortain from what is not, that the King spoke moro_frocly to Madamo do Mofntenon, snd that she, venturing to try her power, ekilifully entronchod hierdelf boliug her prudery snd Qovotion ; that the Ring wns not diacournged’; that 2o proachiod 6 bitn, s put him i fone of o dovll, and that bie plsyod bls lovo and bor consclence witk s0 much att ono agalnst tho other that slto brought to pass that which our eyos ipva scen, but which posterl- iy will refuso to bellovo, But what ia very ceriain and vory truo fy, that in the middlo of the wintor which followed the Queon’s deathh, o thing which tority will ncarcoly_credit, nithough pesfectly trus and authenticated, Fother In Obiutse, tho King's con- foseor, porformed mass at midnight in ono of tho King's cabluots nt Versailles, Bontems, Governor of Veraailles, first valet do chombre in waiflng, and the ‘most fu 1o King'a confidence of tho four, served this ‘mass, Whero tho monnrch and Mafutenon’ wero mar~ hed, i 1ho prosenco of Hurlay, Archbiehop of Parls, a8 tlocesan, of Louvols, both of whom had oblained & ‘promigo from the Klug that o wonld never acknowl cdgo thia marrlage, aud of Aontclevout, a8 tho thied tuces. Medame do Maintenon erased from her car- riage tho arms of ber first lusband, substi~ Tutlug hior own in thoir placo, Apartmenta were given her at tho tfop of the and staircaso, oppoeite thoso of the King ; here ho passed sovoral Lours of onch day, and wherever eho wont sho was lodged noar biw. Ministors, Generals, the royal family, all wero ut hor foot ; affairs of etate, of justice, of roligion, all wera in Lier hands, *‘What she was; how she governed without lnlcm‘x‘puon, without obstacle, without the lighost cloud, MORE THAN THIRTY £NTIRE YEARS, and oven thirty-two, is the incomparablo specta- 11;:0 which hoa “been presonted to tho eyes of all Surape,” Fm-p o timo, unable to reslizo her down- fall, Madamo do Bontospan &till lingorod about tha'Court woaring away hor heart with tho sight of lior tival's triumph, until that rival, weary of Tior reproachiful presonco backed by the authiori- ty of tho King, signified to hor that sho iad bottor retire from tho Court altogethor; and, to giva s sharpor odge to the harsh mes- sag0, Madame do Maintenon causcd it to be con- yoyed to lier by hier awn con, tho Duo da Maine. Blia diod at Bourboa in tho year 1707, at tho age “of 66, being, 1t is sald, ovon thon in nlmost full poescesion of Lior matchless bonuty. This secrot marriago may Lo said to commonce tho third and last epoch of tho reign of Louis XIV. With a scared conacfenco, with a hauuting focling of an ill-spont lifo, tho prosent darkenad by the dread shadow of tho bereafter, the groat- nesa of his youth feding day by doy as tho faith~ ful old servants dropped oud by one, Louis be- came tho more tool of the priests and of A PRIEST-RIDDEN, AMDITIOUS WOMAY, Wit but evil could come out of the influence of wnch counsollora 7 Against. the Hugucnots, loft in peaco for many yoars by bho Jidict of Nantes, and now forming the moss industrious, intolligant, and some of iho wealthiast portion of the population, wero their.machinations first directed. Tey danced iho cloven feot and tho horns betore tho oyos of the superatitious King, and porsuaded bim that tho ouly way to avoid thom and get to lieaven as to root ont Tioresy ; theyflattorod his wndm{‘pdau by point- ing out tolim tho glory which would™ attach itself to his name by recomplishing &_feat thut Liad surpagsed all the power of his prodecossors ; they painted tho, Huguonots in tho blaokosf colors, rominded’ him of their rovolts, their foreign_sllisuces, Liow thoy had imposed lsws upon their Kings, and how by destroying thoir power o would bo more than over abso- Iuto in suthority, stuce af prosent they, b{ thoir diforont iags bud raliglop, formod, ot it worey o Btate within o State, Aud he listoved to ihe counaala of these wretclid bigots, and THE BPINIT OF PENSECUTION was sent abroad. Littlo by little tho Protestants wore doprived of their civil rights. Bodics of troops, accompanied bya locust-siwarm of monlts, oversproud tho laud, compelled the Prolestants to reuowuce their faith, and put to death their pronchers, But this was only tho beginning; such crumbs of porsscution did not satisfy the ravening maws of those worthy apostlos of tho mercifal Bavior; and on tho 23d of October, 1085, tho King Atruck a blow against hor groat- nows'and proaperity, from wliol, oven nt the rosent doy, Brancs hisa novor wholly rocovorcd. t was on that day that, yiolding at last to the aolicitations of his devout wife, and his con- fosnor, Ia Chafso, he WEVOKED T EDIOT OF NANTES, blotted aut all tho previous glory of Lis reign, and raisod for himsolf & hidoous, blood-stained monument in the Pantheon of bigots, Tho effects of this act of oriminal madnoess are thus olcquently deploted by Baint-Simon: Thio revocution of the Ediot of Nautos, witkout the Teast pratoxt aud without any need, and thio various roscriptious, rathor than proolamations, which fol- Towed, woro tuo fruita of st Abominaiic conspirucy whicl dopopulated & fourth of tho Kingdom, ruinoil its commorco, weakened it fu all its parte, delivered b ovor to_thoplllago of dragoons, who auiharized tha tormonts ana puslsbments by which thousand of fue uocent peopto of both soxes porihed 3 which ruined & great body of tho population, dostroyod a world of families, armed kinsmon 'sgainst kinsmen to Tob esch offier of ther posscenfons amd to loawo tho weakest to dio of luuger; whicls pent myoy our manufactures fo forolg rialions, causing them to Hlourish at the expenve of vur own, ralsing amon tliom now cilfes, which prosented tho'pictura of u vas Lody of people, proscritied, naked, fugitive, outcasts, without crimes, soeking an'asylun far from thefr na< tivo laud ; which sent the noble, the weaithy, the old peoplo, outeomod for thelr plety, thelr learnidg, tholr virtuo, pooplo brad fu_overy cémfort, wonk, dellcato, tothe galloys, 1 ordor that thero might' b only one roligion 1 ' In fine, which filled the Proviuces of thio Kiugdowm with perfury and sacrileo, ond. with tho groans of (hoso uifortunste viciims of crror, ‘wlulo many othiors agorifcod thelr cousclonces to thelf csslons and roposo, sud purchased Lotk by pro- ended abjurations, whiich compoliod them to worahin thiat fn which they had 0 bollef, aud to rocelva in reality the divino body of the foly of hollea whilo oy wore siill Smly convinced that thoy wove eatiug only broad, which {t was still thelr duty to ablior, Buch was thogonoral alomination, born’ of fattory and cruclty, All the mfatrosses with whom ho Lsd Iived in s#in had never wrought A TITHE PART OF TUE MISONIER braught about by thia dovout wife. Only one thing’ wan wanted to ocontout Nadawo do Malntenon's most ambitious nepivations—tho ublio scknowledgmont of her marriago; but to is Louls, guidod to & great oxtent by tho councila of Bossuet and Fenelon, would not con- sont. Finding that polnt not to ba gainad, she, rudence, frealy abandoned it, and by this solf-ssoriiolng rosiguation eatab- :‘luhud & furthor claim upon his lovo and confl- ouce, In private hor conduct was haughty androvers y ovon tho King's daughtors npvmnchufl hor with fear and trombling, nud_quitted lor prosonco soldom withont tenrs. Bho received but fow poople, visited fowor, It was moro dififoult to obtain'an andienco with Lor than with Mojesty itsolf, Whon sho way at Voraaillos, pooplo, ovan of tho grontost, congoquonco, who dosirod Spocoh with for, could obtaln It 0dly by watcl- ing for hor ogross or lngross, avd oven then it waa af tho briefost. HER USUAL DAILY ROUTINE was ns followa: Upon llulug{‘ after having porformed hor dovotlons, she would go away to Bt, Oyr, » magnificont convontunl catab- Tistimont, ehlols shia bad founded In Parln for tha oducation of young girls, Thoro sho would dino alono in hor aparimont or with somo fayor- ito of tho houso ; nrsrmnnn hor oharities, which woro vory Inrge, amounting to botweon 50,000 and 60,000 Yivras yoar ; road and roply 0 the enormous muss, of lottors sho daily recotvod, srlnalnnlly updn church affairs, and, thoso ispatchod, roturn in time to recolvo tho Xing ot tho hour f{n which he waa nccustomed fo vislt hor lflurlmontu. At 0 ollook sho partook of a light sap. o, aftor whiok hor womon put er to bed, and hat in tho prosonco of tho King snd any olio of tho Ministors with whom ho might bo engaged that ovening, and who still continued tholr work 88 boforo. At 10 tho King went to auppor, tho cnrtaing of tho bed wero drawn, and Madame do Maintonon was loft to_her roposo. Whon prosons at tho Court dinuors, ber mannora: wero Bingu- larly unaysuming, coding tho firsb {:hwu not on}; to Monsoignour, o Monslour, aud to thoInglis} Court, but even to ladios not of royal blood. ‘Tho King always showed her TIE GREATEST RESPECT, more eepecially during their promenades and ridos in tho gardons of Alnrli. A gho grew oldor shio took up hor. abode nt Marly, and no longer appoared in public ; ** nnd Whon by chanco ono cauglt sight of her, ouo conld soo_nothing but hoods and black wrap~ mgs.” In hor chambor, on oithor sido of the gmplnco, there wera two arm-chairs; ono for horsolf, tho other for the King ; boforo each wng 8 ' toblo, and in front of the King's taple wero two stools, ono of which waa for the attending Ministor to slt upon, tho other for his bag. Ou businoss days tho royal pair woro nlone togothor but a very short timo boforo tho Ministor arrived, and s atill shortor time nfter ho bnd left. Duripg theso councils Madamo do Maintenon rend or worked upon_tapestry, heard all that passod, but rarely spcke. Somotimes tho King would ask hor advice, which she gave with groat olreumspoction, Blio nover appoared to havo any bias, or to intoreat hordolf for any particular porson., But the Miniator had DEQEIVED I8 INSTRUQTIONS DEFOREUAND, for ho dared mako no proposition provious to hnv- ing consulted hor, Then followed much finessing Dotsweon thin o, shoatill nplslunrln’spurreully e concerned and impartial, aud yot aimost lnvarls ably contriving to gain Ror proposed point ; and it wag thus that throo-fourths of the businces of thoBtato was docided—Louis imagined, by his solo nuthority, but in roality it was by hors, Littlo by.littlo o sad chango came . over the Court of France; the dark shadowa of romoree and fauaticiem which baunted tho King avmurmm‘l ita atmosphoro and oxtin- fiulsho(l its brilliancy. Tvon from do Maintonon orgelf, tho creator of this regimo, A QUERULOUS PLAINT Lurst forth at times. In ono of hor lator lottora slio says (writing of her royal spouse), “I am obliged to enduro his griofs, his silenco, hia va- pors ; ho ofton sheds tears, which he cannof ro~ press, when ho foels grontly troubled. o hag no conversation.” Che courtiors wero dull and holt dead with enuur Litoraturo lost its joy- ouaness ; Moliors was doad; Corneillo, "his cning passed nway, wrofo lugubriously; La E‘Dnlni.uu protendod dovotion, ~translated tho Beriptuses, wroto commontaties upou them, and . pobnod nn oxtravagamt eulozy upon’ the _ revecation - of = the Edict of Nantcs, Raciuo, however, was m tlo hoight of his fame; ho was do Mainionon's poot. It was for the uso of Ler establishment ot Bt, Oyr that he wrote * Athalic” and “Esthor.” DBut, with hor customary henrtless sgolflshnoss, sbo sbandoned * her poot ™ in his disgrace. DARKER AND DARKER grow the clouds that lowored over the closing yoars of that long eventful roign. Domestic troubley, thoe terrible and mysterious deaths of tho Dauphin and Daupline, the plots and cabals of the bostards and tho legitimates, an ompty Trensury, n boggarod people, vilages do- populated by war and by tho Huguonot oxodus, woak Ministors, incapable Genorals ; the crush- ing defeats of Hochstadt, Ramilics, Turin, Oude- narde, Malplaquet ; Franco, stripped of Lor con- quests, suing for pesce; tho I_{m‘g ‘broken in hoalth, devonred by romorse, insidiously gov- erned by o withered, rhoumatio old womnn, cow- ering over the firo in the gloomy, coll-like cham- ber at Marly, quorulously complaining, woeping, groauing. What a clange from tho France o Colbert, of Coude, nnd Turenns! What & change from tho lover of la Vallicre nnd do Monteapan | But thio ond of all was ot hand ; in August, 1715, Loula was solzod with & fatal illnesy, in which he suffercd great agony, but endured with noble fortitude. During tho end time Madame do Maintenon showed . LITTLE OR NO_SENSIDILITY 3 her eyos were dry, hor face cold and resigned. A Catbollo by protession, and doubtloss by conviction, she was by natwre a Calvinist ~—cold, sour, fatalistio. Four days bofore the King's death she left him and retired to St. Cyr. Ha took this much to heatt, and nevor ceasod asking for her until sho was compelled to return. T'wo days after Lis deatn she was again at Bt, Oyr, calmly n.rmnnlnf hor chambor and superintonding tho aflairs of tho ostublish- ment a4 if nothing bad happoned. Boyond a fow of his immediate attondants Lounis was littlo rugmuadl oven by his childron, ~Tho nation “trembled = with Joy." Ovorwhelmed with taxation, crushed boneath tho horrors of uncoasing war, the dospairing pooplo offered up thanks to God for thoir Jdolivoranco ; a hidoous nightmare, 2 nightmaro of priest-craft, of war, of famine, seemed to have boon lifted from off thom. Louis Lind outlived his age. From the day that sho flnally returned to &t. | Oyr her foot nover again passcd BEYOND 1T8 GLOOMY CLOISTEBS, Orleans continued her pension to the last; but in the hour that Louis passed away hor star was oxtinguishod, and tho great world thought of her mo mora, Bho received but fow visitors, only thoso with whem she had beon iutimate at Marly, The Due de Maine, howavar, spent threo or four hours with her in oach weok, and hor affection for him never cooled. Bl died in 1719, at tho agoe of 84, And for such a life and for such an ond, unlov= ing and unlavod, ehe bad Yod, and achemed, and betrnyed, roprossed every nstural- instinet, and played the hypoerito for forty yenrs! A CONFIDENCE. 80 you would learn my history? Well, It {8 o bittor tale to tell— T—ah, I oneo was young as you, An young and moro good-lookizg, oo, Yes, and—forglyo tho rlaing tear, For though 1ho heart ia brown ahd eere, ¥rom out the well-eprings of he heari— Nomattor] Lot mo play s part1 1 once—how fondly momory clings To small but unforgotten things i~ oro triflos that to othors scent Like ompty bubbics on a iream. But o resurno—you must forgive I, whon (ho paal ngain 1 live, 1 fomorwhat Wandor from U Uiread, TLol's eec—-wliat waw it lnst T nafd 7 Well lot it pnes| ¥ can renow “Tho gtory, and explain o you irhint whvh—forgtvo wo i1 sigh g tfuk of yoututul duys gous by 3 I'hat whon—but thera | you've heard onough, Lifo's ups and dowus axd alway rougl, ‘I'licre—Xkeep mf‘ secret] Tl not doubt you— You Laven't balf-a.crown about you? ~Lotidon i, Among other customy enforced by Persinn oti- quotte (says & contemparary) is o rulo that, whero n suporior dines with an’inforior, the lattor Dyinga in tho flvst dish himeolt—a practico not without ‘pmcodunt at Western courtd, Tho IJrluF- Ing in of a dish_is, Lowover, In Porsia no light undortakiing, snd requires considerablo skill, strongth, and practico, for the maunor in which {Lio operation 18 to Lo porformod is, espeoilly ut court, strlotly presoribed, Tho dish or tray must bo held st arm's longth, carried por- orfaotly horizontal, and doposited procisos ly in tho yight plice nt onco. Bome Indi- crous storles aro relntod about this practico, Ono old gentleman with & magniicent beard had to bring in & largo tray contuininguoveral dishes, and placo it in front of the Bhah, The fray was hieavy, the bearor fooblo, and, to mako matiors woru0, junt as bo was about to depouit it, a onn= dlo, which hio had not observed, gob o to his magnificont board, For a momont ho was m & utate of the utmost por[l)lexuy. To put down tho tray olsewhore thnu in its appointod place— an operation which required some deliboration— was out of the queation, ‘'o allow his cherinlied board to be consumed was slso impossible, He was oqual o the accaslon, and, plunging his flaming board into a diuh of ourds which stood on the tray, he calmly completod his task, amidsy tho applawso and smigomont of tho beholdors. 1873, THE LABOR QUESTION, ‘Why Trades-Untons Were Organ- fzed, and Xow Strikes Have Resulted. The Antagonlsm of Lalor to Capliale.- ‘Whnt Will Bo the Result of That Feeling ? Much of tho machanieal work of tho world is now done by the pioco, and mon of lttla experi- onco an workmen, but possossed of much natlve onorgy and a dotermination to rigo in the world, have offored to work cheapor by the pleco thsn . compotont workman conld do with justice to himsolf, Aman who wants to hiro a ploco of work porformed naturally ondeavors to obtain ho most for his money, and ususally, ignorant of the difforonoe betwoon skilled and unskillod la- bor, ho gives his work o the lowest biddor. Tho lowost bldder Is, from tho very com- mencemont, A FRAUD. : In tho first placo, lio ropresonts himeolf as good workman ; and his employer, not knowing or nob caring, 8o that his work is done for the lenst amount of money, hires him on bis own roprosontation, In the socond place, ho takes tho work at such low figures that no honest, connclontions skilled workman ean compoto with him; nnd, in the third placo, he caloulates and contiives how much ho esn docolve snd chest Lis employor, in ordor to ssve himsolf. THE BKILLED AUTIBANS, finding that thoy are constantly underbid by these moh, aud that thoy must work at thoir prices or starvoe, were obliged to sucoumb to the proasuro brought npon thom ; but, boing mon of intolligonco, thoy bogan to cast about for s romody for this evil, which was fast bringing thom down to a lovel with the most ignorant laborors, In'doing 8o, thoy becsmo mwaro that tho unskilled workmen woro groatly in oxcoss of thom ; that all wero practicing, but none loarn- ing, the vartous trades. As Boon 8s a man could 8w a board atraght and shave a plano, ho was o carponter; as soon a8 & mon oau lay one brick upon another, ho i8 & magon and a bricllayer; as goon as & man loarns to hold a paint-brush and draw it ovenly over tho surfaco, hols s paintor ; and those men can_command as good ‘wages a8 thoso who have had yoars of oxperienco in tho various trades, nnd thoy must cone down to the lovel of those would-bo-artisans, unless o moana was dovised to provent it. 'Whis fact, which wos continually sturing thom in the face, Iod to the formation of ¥ THADES-UNIONS, Mootings wero callod and members enrollea, #pecches were mado, and, in time, papers wero issued. Thesoe mootings wyero wall attonded, and tho papors wero extenslvely read ; and the effect was to rouse o dotermination in tho minds of tho mon to better their condition, Unfortunately, thoy committed A GREAT MISTAKE at the very outact of thoir organization | thoy recolved every.man, irrespectivo of hLis coni- }munuy, who mado application for admission nfo their society; nnd skilled and unskilled labor now, by virtuo of their organization, stood upon the #amo plane, The incompetent ' work- mau clamored for the same amount of pay a8 tho competent, but tho omployer, undoratanding well tho difforouce in the labor porformod, ro- fusod to pay i, Hore, thon, was a dilemmo; Liow sliould they moot it?' By ong of two ways tho skilled laboror would bo ob)lficd to come down to the lovel of the botch workman, and bo satisflod with tlio poy ho pay ho zaceived; or ho must raise tho unskilled Jaborer to his lovel, and domand for him the samo amount of pay due tho competent workmon. The lattor course was adopted, abd au ordor passed that no nan work for los than a stated prico ; and, if *the employ- errefused to givo it, they must gtrilte and the worl must conso. But horo ' . ANEW DIFFIOULTY AROSE, This ordor provonted many from uniting with tiom, and iasay wbo bnd unitgd sofussd to ro- muaun in the soclety, ug{iu};: *We connot live without work, We havo familics, nud we caunob sco thom puffor. Wo musk havo work, &t any price, to keep the wolf from tha door,” +You muy work a8 hard a8 you liko,” was tho zoply, and you cannot keop tho wolf' from the slnnlrl, ‘uuloss your already ovorworked wife o brin This Lhfilg hag to be fought out sooner or later, and tho sooner the battle takes place, tho eueier and less dostructive it will bo."” 2 *I core noubing about that. I'm not goiog to 880 my family suffer as long a8 I bnve hands to work ; 8o count mo out.” But the men counted out watched the society a8 it progresged, and hoped it would succoed. Their sympathies wore with it, if they woie not outwardly displayed. These mon, too, remem- ber how thoy were appoaled to during the War by demagogues, who told them that, if they did 1ot go to ght fha battle of Froodom, thoy, too, would bo enalaved ; and they well recollect bow they volunteorod by hundreds and thousands to proteot themselves and children from slavery ; nns that war ju the behalf of Freedom has had an infinence, a8 yot nuseon, but which will bo, nevertheless, powerful in its effects, In a conversation with a number of working- mon a short timo bofore tho Great Tire, the ucstion was asked, Can you support your ?Ami‘lfv on your wages " “*No, I catinot " replied ono,* I genorally man. :no"(o get thom onough to eat, but that is about “Do your chilldren go to school ?* “No, Icouw'tsond them, L can't out of my wagee buy thein decont alothos to go in." *' Doos your family over attend church " A fino spactaclo wo'd mako in ono of our grand churches ; wo novor think of sucha thing a8 going to chwrch.” = “"If you oan ouly just support your family dur~ in‘g !ha?a'ummur, ‘what do you expeot to do intho winter ?" T don't know; porhaps I may got a job some- ‘where, aud perhaps not, Bomotimes 1 go SBouth nd gét work theras but, i£ T dou't got any, the cl;y will have to take caro of mo aud my family. " But suppoee tha city won't tako cara of your" # I will never see my wife aud childron eithor Btarvo or freezo as loug aw thore is plenty of food and coal in the country,” ho repliod with flashing oyea, S “Tut do you never oxpect botter timos than Jou aro having now ?" N0, I NEVZR LOOK YOR ANYTHING ANY DETTER. I've nl’v'vnya worked hard, and I always expoot to o 80, *“T'ho gontloman for whom you are working is rioh; will ho not aid you if you are in want in the winter ¢ +¢ Ho caros no more for mo than if I wore a dog. All he wants of mo 18 to got all the work out of me he can for the loast movey. Ho don't care whether I have enough to eat or not. The slaves down South were n great doal betier off in slayory thau tho poor white man is in tho North to-dny, When thoy wera Alk, or too old to worlr, they wera taken .oare of ; but, when Iam siolt, or tao old ta work, thereisno oneto takecaro of mo; and, out of the littlo pay I got, with five childron to’ provido for, I mm umblo to lay up snything against & rainy day, You romembey that robbory that was committed on tho bank last wock, That clerk is a friond of wine, I lnow whoro Lo is, but do you suppose Il over toll? Y wish ho bhnd token twico tho amount. Thoy kopt him thoro, tompting him avary day witli the sight of lots of monoy, whilo they paid him only 210 a month, I toll you, if T had as good & chunce to get & pile as ho did, I phould tako it; and, If thoy grind us down much more, thay will v Lo go moro policemon thaa thoy hiave now, to proteck WItAT TULY HAVE STOLEN FROM Us," Bo it is that the poorest, n workingmon nroundorgofg & prosess of edu- ention whoroby thoy are boing oducated iuto the iden (whother true or falso) that Capital is steal- ing tho procoods of thelr Jabor, and they aro de- vlsing ways and moans to obtain what thoy con- sider their rights, Aa thoy aro, to a cortain ex- tont, uneducated and uuschoolod n the admiufs- tration of governmont, tho rights and dutlos of tho governod, and the means by which laws are framed, they know of no othor way at preas ont than Lfio nmrloymom. of brate forco, which s, at this stage of the pro- coodiugs, contlnually — eropply out all over the comntry, A fow “of tho botter educated and moro énlightoned of our artisans, foroseeing ho vesult of this iguorauce, wnd kuowing from oxporiouce that, after fou Lows of oxhausiing labor, & workingman, even if ho hind the nocesgary books and papors st command, i8 too wearied to ongago 1n sny kind of study, hayo advocated o DIINUTION OF TIIE JQURS OF LADOR, in ordor to give him a litllo botter opportunity to fnvestigate tha relation which hesbears to his fellow-man. ‘Tho education which (he workingmen have hitherto had, instend of truly culightoning them, lea tendod to array them agufust tha capls hel; lguoglng,' on a smnll secalo, of course. Efi in"money to the fnmily-bxuunq\n&hfl“ peying o part they couid live quite as w tallat,—to mako them rogard wenlthy mon as bittor onomios, as hard-learted, “rolontless monstors, wuh.hxf to ornsh ont thoir lives at wonring, oxhausting toll, in order to add a fow moro dollars to thoir alroady woll-filod purses, ‘Tbis fidon, which bnn obtnined among the works ingmon, has enkindled foolings of bittor hatrod and rovongo, which, a8 lina boon bofore stated, are_continunlly cropping out, whilo thoy aro rowing brondor aud deoper, and, hko othor leoply-choriahed ldens and principles, MUBT EVENTUALLY RESULT IX ACTION, ‘What this action will Lo, timo will rovesl, Whethor tho foud will cnntlnunfl( Incroaso until it Jond tonn outbronk, na it dfd botweon tho North and_tho South, or whothor our logislators will havo the wisdom to logietate u{wn it, and sottla 1t to tho satisfaction of all partios, remains to bo soon. O for a statesman to earry our bolovod coun- {ry through this lmnum!h!f; orlsis | Mna., M. D. Wrnzoor, THE WORKING-GIRL QUESTION. Roarding-Clubs, « To the Editor of T'he Chicago Tribune : Brn: If tho working girls could form boarding olubs, ag tho studonta in many of the Eastorn colloges do, ¢hoy conld raduce the oxponses of Liv- ing from 25 to G0por coht. Our olub, at collego, conslstod of about forly mombors, Our officors in lier, I shortly went to soo what, I could do., T found hor with n severo hord-nche, and not only that, but somoibing worso,—tho beart-noho ab Jior Jonclingss and holplosenoss. Whilo tona Woro mllnq’hur cyes, 8ho eald, **What can I do? 121 am to bo slck, what will bocomo of me? 1 bavo but ®15 n tho world, and thoto s no ono in {his great city on whom I can call for nsalat- ance.” Dur,rmfi’har palo faco I tho pillow, elis orfod, 'O mothorl doar mothor! come back, and take your homoloss girl anywhero away from this drenry, lonoly world |" 1 roothed Lior 8 woll as I conld, and promised aho should not suffer, as I would willingly nssist and tonderly watoh ovor hor through tho illnosa. Bho thanked mo most kindly, sincorely, and soon foll into o troubled, dreamy sloop. As I gat by hor bodsido, wlwhfmitlm faco, almont as_whits as the pillow on which it roated, I heard from tho lips, in s plaintive tono, ** Motherl Homel™ Often during the houra of the night, with its sllonce unbrokon savo by thoshort, quick breath- ing of tho siok girl, and tho consolosn tick, tick lof tho clook, marking 6o hurriedly the seconds that make up our llves, I could but think there 'woro many homoloss girla moattorad ovor this vast oity who, in restloss slumbers, wore mur- maring Mofhor! Homo 1" Nover boforo havo I roalizod the justico and tho nocessity of this class of girls having pro< vided for thom * clicorful homes and reasonable rates,” whero, in caso of nickness, some kind- honrtod woman would watch over tlmm, and, by bor kinduoss, make thom fool that thoro is some wore n Btoward and & Board of Dirgctors. Tho Btoward did all tho marketing, moda out olf the biils, handled all the monoy, presided at all the mootings, carved at tablo, &nd, 1 short, ran tho (hing, subject only fo tho Board of Diroctors, For his sorvices ho racolvad 10 couts por wook from onoh man, and, of couras, pald bonrd like the rost of na. §o it was adventageous to him to make the club popular and keep down the board. Tho woman whom wo hired to do our caoking re- celved 76 conts por wook from cach man. Bhe provided & largo room for the olub, and furnish- od it with three oxtension-tables and a sufficiont pumbor of chairs. Bho alao furnished all tablo- clotha and napkins, lnives, forks, spoons, and crookory, aud hired help to wait on us at moals. In fact, she did ovo & noodful but buy tho provisions and handle the money. By this plan our board wonld avorage §3 por week, mado up of the following items only: b Tho eare of tho woman, tho ability and businoss qualifications of tho Steward, and the tnstes snd capaciticn of tho membors, were, of courso, {actors which causod tho price of the provisions to vary much ; but tho Steward always purchased ab wholosale, and thus got a greater discount than o common boarding-house keeper could got. Tho grocor, butchor, fishmongar, and milk- man wora all {ho outsldo persons’ fhat tho Btoward bad to doal with, and his duties would not oooupy Lim more:than ton minutes s day. 11 tho working girls could organize and mpize tain such o club, they would be indopendent of boarding-housc-keepers and thelr high prices; thoy would havo a place whore, twico or thrice onch doy, thoy could moat and pesa o short timo in light donversation. or in discussing topics of gonoral iutorest (porhaps fashions); aad, best of all, thoy would bo st liberty to do aa' they ploased, and not be_subjeot to the rigid rules ‘| prescribied by n Aociaty of amiablo fomales such 8s would probably govern a Homo for work- ivg girls. Lodging bas not beon mentionod, Whoro two hire a room, this will coat about31,60 por weel. Bhould uny of tho girla dotormina on forming a club, I will willingly give them the bonoflt of my oxpericuco aya Stoward. Brup. fhe Proposcd Mome, R To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bin: If I romember rightly, the discussion on the working-girl quostion was startod in favor of having & “Homo * cracted, somothing aftor the stylo of o large Loarding-house, whore girls could find good apariments and woll-cooked foad at reasonsblo prices. This was tha quea- tion, and it had nothing to do with the subjact of housework. The *Homo™ ides ia good, of courso ; but T am inclinod to think that tho con~ sequenco would bo as one of tho numerons lot- tor-writera hag already advancod in Tar Tam- UNE: If the girls could bring their oxpensos down to #2 or 93 a week, they could afford to work for loss wages, and tho result would bo ag ho predictod. Now, if Iwero a working-girl, what I wonld dowould bo to got two or three oth- er girl-companions to go with mo, and got n fow rooms at chiosp ranlrl and sot up houso- as thoy liked ; and it would not cost much more than balf the prico they pay for board, and the truo home-fecling would bo realized by thom much more than in a crowded bLuilding, Of courao, thoro are numbors of girla in_our city who hiave paronts or relatives with whom they Livo, who do not neod the * Homa ;" and, if the truth was koown from the girls themsolves, most of them aro agroeably situatod, and would not caro to chauge. I, for one, would not wish to occupy & room in the ** Home; * and, if & girl i8 honest, nont, and saving, she will find enough congenial worl {o do, and can mauage to live ro- spoctably without holp from tho © Homo." I thiok some othar partios would make more mon- u{ruuh of the concern than the poor_ working girl, Louise. A Mecting Suggested. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: . We can searcely thank you enough for your interosting columne about working girls, I would likio to boar from some of our leading busincgs-men in our favor. Inmnenrly boiling with indignation when I read a lettor of opposition. Any man who is so small in principlo as fo try to crush down poor girls, I would like to 560 lim, and ses whether Lie bas dignity enough to look me in the face without sliame. Itis my privato opinion that thelady who slgned horselt “Exporienco,” in last Sunday's TrinUNE, Was o guntleman, Now, 3r. Editor, I'm an orphan, buk have Loon brought up by relatiyes as respectably ns any one, or, in ofher words, am & lsdy. I have cared for m{‘nll for thrao years, and can tell of many hardships, Iexpect to be far away from: Chicago beforo the ** Homo ™ ia done, but fool as though I must eay a word in it favor, I move we bave a mesting. Lot all the work- ing girle como, and loading men of tha city, and everybody olso if they can. Lot us all give our oxpoticnce, and tell what will be likoly to ine fluence poopla’s minds in favor of the * Homo." I cennot give any of my uxnarloncn just now, Lot me liear from somo ono olse, Never mind if it is hard to do and makes you norvous, Take courage a8 I did, AMERIOAN GIRL. A Slousc-gorvant on Sewing Girfs, | nost ignorant of our 1 T the Editor of The Chicago Ivribune; 8in: Iread in all the papera about the sewing gitla ; and what I havo to way myself {8, tho house-servants aro tho emartest of ell tho fe- male 8ox, and make the hest housekecpers and housowives, Tho sewing girls are too lazy to work, Thoy all live liko old maids. No man likos to marry ono of them, bocause they don't kmow how to drons a chicken or iron a shirt, and only run around and wink at the men. I have been & house-servant for tho last twelve years at §18 per month, and Ican dress gay and savo & ndem. Iam ueod woll by my employera. ivery sowiug-girl that has no lomo ought to do Liouso-work, wask pots, and sornb tho aron. Iwes oneo_» sewing girl for flve yonrs, L uover was asked to any placo of amudoment ; but now I am aakod three or four times a wook, Ob, what pleasunt tines I hava ! Now, yllmm mske thls hubllo, so tat all tho sowing glrls will read it, would not hava the old times agein, Morute, s DMother] lomuln T the Editor of I'he Chicago Tribune : Bm: It s indoed *'sad to bo fathorlons, warmth and lovo, oven for homeloss girls, in thig busy, hurryiug world, i 1t Beomd to mo that_any ono who can offor obe joctiona to thia !mlr ‘Obristian project muat pos« Bogs a hoart moro oy cold than wintor's snowy Yours with rospeat, A Mornea. A Roqucst for Intormatlons To the Editor of The Chicugo Tribune: Bme: In loat Bunday's issue of your paper ) | read & woll-written, and no doubt truthful, Iottor from *‘Exporionco,” and wish to bo sl lowed to aal, for tho satistaction and bonefit of many, Aow tha lady has succeoded 80 woll, and in what business, It {a no nees to leoture to the ‘Tmasges on offoct if wo do not go back to csuso. Thousands are miedirccting thelr efforts in life for tho wont of somo one to advise and oncoure age them, and thousands more aro dragging on 8 woary, monotonous, troad-mill existence at something thoy do not ltke, and that pays but poorly, beeause thoy do not know what else to do. Whero thoro is but little work to bo had, and many are walting for an opening that will Iot them in to get their shere of it, no ona who bas ‘anything to do that will furnish broad and buttor is willlng to lay )t down snd run tho risk of goiting something—elo hes no iden what—that will pny better, Vory fow woro born with creative gonius ; henco Hhicy must walk in bonton paths. ¢ moy bo that thoy havo not tho requisite amount of will and enorgy, that they aro timid and fearful ; but it must bo remomberod that even will aad' enerzy aro nativo gifts, and not slways to bo hud for aaking, Elngo theso columns have been =0 kindly given for the bonofit of tho olaga who are reprosented hore, let us iry to derive a roal benofit for our- solves, and be as willing to confer & benelit on othora it it is in our Eowur. aud not abuse tha privilege by simply airing opinions that help no one. A great many of us wonld like * handsome wardrobes, all the comforts and, many of tha luzuries of life, and & noat bank-account of £3,000, and to live casily and happily ;" but vory fow of us could, boginnming in dobt, and unaided, alone, by any ordipary or honest mosns accomplish " it. undersiand the lady ~I suppose it is a ludly who writes—to say that any one can do it. beg leave to difier With hor, Any one, oven with health, cduca- n, and ordinary ability, can not do it. Ihave soen too many fall, to believe it,—women who seomed so worthy of succosa that you begrudged adversity and poverty their victory over them; and, with all my heart and soul, I do pity those from whoss eyes bittor tears fall ovar tho hard~ shipi of g lifo thoy have strivenin vain to better, and a fate thoy wero poworloss to control; and Iblame, far inore thanI blame weakness and sin, thoiio who having, succecded,—it may bo by accident,~logk back from o safo nnd wecure position’ with consure and contempt ou those who wero just as desorving,—perhaps more 80 ; who havo struggled just ss bnrd,—parungl harder; yot who bear in fower sheaves from the fiolds wherein they filelnnll. Until of late X hevo been & looker-on iu life, and I bave secn the atrong fall and tho weals stand, bravo barks - g0 down and wreoks float into Larbor, too ofton to lay much stross upon appear- ances or opinions. Do not lot us act the part of critica In an unkind Bfimh but with the charity and lovo which ' thinketh no ovil,” and, above a1l things, show nono of that malice towarda oach othor which Las made us evor tho subjeck of remark from the ather sex. 1f “*Experienca™ would go a lttlo further,—il she would toll ua by what moaus ghe has raised hersolf to inde- ‘pondenco,—it might be & groat favor to many of those who do not know now what or how to do. I do not ask it for misall. olther in the way of aid or curiosity, for I do not nood the former, and never indulge the lattor ot the expousoe of anotlier; bat, ainco we wish to help woman to secure a more comfortable support, lot us freely contribute any information that will furcher tha object and accomplish the dosired end. ‘Thore 18 no wind but soweth sceds Of o mors trus snd open life, ‘Which burst, unlooked for, into high-souled doeds, With wayslde beauty Tife, GarvET B, FOEEMAN. Immediate Action Needed. o the Editor of The Chicago Triduns: Bm: Ibhavoread with more than ordinary in« toroat tho numerous lotters that have sppaarod in your valuable Bunday edition for the past fow weoks, and havo come tothe conclusion that talk will-never accomplish the desired end, but what is wanted is work,—~earnest work, and im- mediato sotion, for the cold and long winter hag slready bogun; sud if. the working girls ara ever to have » * Home," the sooner thoy got ik the battor. I think the shortest and best way to settle this question ia for tho pooplo to providen suitable building, and furnish it as they think tho domands require, and_then hiro some suita- ble party to keop sald “ome," and furnish gam{ board, and charge s moderate rate therefor, which rate, I think, should not oxceed $3.50 per week, and could be lowered to $3. Buob a place, I think, conld bo made ploasant and home-like by having the right kind cfa party to take charge of it,—one who boa heash and head for euch a worthy object. This subjeot s roceived s good deal of attention from the ones mosk interostod. All good citizons, espe- cially the Iadies, should Teelan intercst in this movement, It would save manya good aud worthy young girl from falling intd a bad lifo, It is mouch easier to save them froma bad lifo than it Is to roform tlem after they Laye ouce fallon, Let all good paopls who ars abie take an notiyo part in this matter, and we will soon have (uud Truita of which we xoay foel Km nd. n BaoneLon —_———— GUINEVERE TO LANCELOT. ‘Woman 18 crownod, but fan in truth {s Ring, Iam a Queen, but Whon iy vassals bring Truit o my lps it {a not fruit to me, While bitter bread woulil be a feast with thee, And each breath tremble into ecatasy ; Buit Fato forbids th dear delight to b, Iama Queen, but Love of Queena fs lord ; 1 amw a Queon, but fottered by a cord Taght an tho silk the Cupids prassed around The boar, destroyiug Adon with a waund, . Found ity by the Loves, and siain whén found,. Ooudonmod by Venus to & death renowsed, 1am a Quoen : bo morcitul to me, My pubfect Lancalot, Theo alono X ace ‘All else Ju fadiug from my awimming oyce, “Dhint which iu 1o Was Quen, fu dead or diea, But what was woman Lives the more, aud sighs Liko weary babo athizst ut midalght oris, A Queen commands not hicart, but Up and knce, Taoe littlo Quoon, why wmust thou Toyal bo7 Knight of tho smilo and voice 8o blinding sweot, Tn not ranl ico, and passion melting hoat? Wipe off the flakes that stain thy whiter feot Upon 1y crown, Drown it, yo snows and sleet] —Rabert Jalson, —, motherloss, iomeless,oft times hopeless ;" and it i8 vory true that * thus it is with many hore in this oity,” Of ona such Inow write. Boarding at tho samo placo with the writeris a pale-faced, deli« cato girl, of vory rotiring mnuners, of whose his- tory I ouly kuow that she was born in a Southern Btato, and hor fathor, who was a Colonel in the Coufederato army, was killed In tho dofenso of | Vicksburg, Bhe is employed as & clovk ina store, and has told mo ft was protty difioult get- ting along and payiug qun@ rateu for board on the enlary a lady-clork roceives; therofore it ‘wag s nocossity to economiso in every way pos- 8] o, On Monday night, as usnal, she walked homo but the snow-storm had mado the sldowalk echi aud dawp, and, aa Ler feot wore too thinly cov- ered for such a night, she becamo obilled, On roachiug tho boarding-place, she came in, and, morely #aylng, **1 s weasry and cold,” passed to hor room aud rotired, Feoling much iutorestod The Effictcy of Prayor. From the Doston Herald, Oct, 21, At o wookly mooting of the hrathodist prench« ora at Wesloyan Hall, this foronoon, the officuoy of prayer was roforred to in_connection with the lots roported *“miracte” at Plormont, N. 1I, ho Rov, G, \V, F. Olark paid ho s porsonally acquaintod with Mra, Sherman, on ‘whom tho “miraclo " was porformod, and had no doubt that the roports published in tho asoular papors of tho clty wore true, The Rev, Joghue Gill sald lio was porsonally acquainted anith the Ley, Mr, Shorman and his wife, who wera dovoted Chrigtians, Ho fully Indoiged tho statomenta which had been published, The venorablo Fathor Merrill spoko at some lougth on special suswers to prayer, ‘Ilo relatod two wonderfnl instances in whioh the power aud officacy of Pruyer woro ghown, In ouo caeo a lady who'was affectod with a Iamoness in oue limb was oured after pnglng with friends for s number of liours; in the othor a lady who had been an invalid fog l & numbor of years was entirely oured, aud wonq about the houe alngiug praises,