THE COUNTRY LIFE 
itself. There is a man passing along—He is 
looking over the fence—be suspicious of 
him; perhaps lie contemplates stealing, 
some of these dark nights; there is no 
knowing what queer fancies he may have 
got into his head. 
If you find any symtoms of any one pass¬ 
ing out of the path of duty, tell every one 
else what you see, and 
be particular and see 
a great ninny. It is a 
good way to circulate 
\ Bitch things, though it 
may not benefit your¬ 
self or any one else 
particularly. Do keep 
something going — si¬ 
lence is a dreadful 
tiling; though it is said 
\ there was silence in 
heaven for the space 
of half an hour, do not 
let sncli a tiling occur 
\ on earth ; it would he 
, too much for this niuii- 
1 dune sphere. 
•If, after all your 
. watchful care, you 
■ cannot see anything 
i out of the way in any 
I one, you may be sure 
! it t! mil. Iicimlse llicy 
1 have not done any- 
Hu ... 
1 an unguarded moment 
I you io.-il, sight of liicm 
throw out hints that 
j they arc no hotter than 
they should lie—Unit 
you s ' 10 "^ n< d 'vim- 
dcr if the people foitml 
|^| out what they were 
aflera while,then lliey 
may not carry their 
heads so high. Keep 
it going, and sonic 
Ip 7 one may take the hint 
y and begin and help it 
along after a while— 
then there "ill he 
music, and everything 
will work likeaclinrm. 
Follow the above di¬ 
rections aiul you will 
be pretty sure to make plenty of mischief. 
make a professional tour to her native land. 
Her first appearance at Steinway Hall, New 
York, October 16, was a great success. She 
carried her audience away with her and re¬ 
ceived a perfect ovation upon succeeding 
nights. Site is now singing in Now England, 
where she is every where received with de¬ 
monstrations of satisfaction and delight. 
MRS. CHARLES MOULTON. 
annus 
Not wlmt we would, but what we must, 
Makes up the sum of living; 
Heaven la both more and less than just 
In taking and In giving. 
Swords cleave to hands that sought the plow, 
And laurels miss the soldier’s brow. 
Mrs. Charles Moci.ton, whose portrait 
is given herewith, was bom in Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, and is less than thirty years of 
age. Her maiden name was Lillie Green- 
orcur. When a mere child she moved to 
Rochester, N, Y., with her mother, who be¬ 
came a very success¬ 
ful teacher of young 
ladies in that city. The 
latter was a very ac¬ 
complished,handsome / 
woman, and her / 
daughters, particular- / 
]y Lillie, inherited / 
all her charms of mind / 
ami person. The years / . 
of Lillie's girlhood / A 
were spent in Roches- / ilQI 
ter and Cambridge, / j® 
where she became / 
well known for her re- / 
ttmrkablosingiug pow- f A 
ers. When merging in- / H 
to womanhood she nc- / ™ 
eompnniedhcr mother / 
abroad, and traveled / V 
extensively on the con- I •i3 
tinent, visiting Flor- j| 
ence, Dresden and | ' 4^ Jjfl 
oilier places. 
After an extended 
tour site settled down r^'Mi 
in Paris, where she he* 
came acquainted with t 'Sj 
her present liushand, 
Mr. Moui.ton, the well vNll 
known hanker. She 
soon became well 
known in Court and 
Impel-id Circles, and 
was a welcome guest 
upon public as well 
as informal occasions 
at the Imperial Palace. xdlvo^ 
Frequently she dined 'ffik 
with the F.tnperorand 
Empress. She con- n 
tinned to devote sev¬ 
eral hours a day to 
the cultivation and 
perfection ot her voice, 
and eventually came 
to he regarded as the equal of the first pub¬ 
lic singers. Ou one occasion she sang before 
DklSARTE, who sprang up in raptures at the 
end of the performance, and declared; “It 
is the greatest voice in the world.” Under 
the instruction of Garcia, her wonderful 
fcifts of song coiiNiiued to improve. Jenny 
Lind bestowed the warmest praise upon her. 
AtmEtt desired to write an opera, for her, 
and Rossini exclaimed, after listening to her, 
“ Voila la toic "—“ The voice which sings to 
me in imagination when I am composing.” 
Two years ago Mrs. Moci.ton came to New 
York city on a visit, and sang upon two or 
three occasions for charitable objects. Her 
singing was the theme of general comment 
in musical circles. She returned to Paris in 
a short time. Her husband suffered severe 
reverses during the war, and she-turned her 
talents to good account in replenishing his 
exchequer and providing support for the 
family. 
During the summer Mrs. M. decided to 
THE YO-SEMITE VALLEY. 
The beauties of the Yo-Semite Valley are 
seemingly Ibe work of chance—the result of 
the old time upheavals and depressions 
caused by volcanic action. Yet. together 
they constitute a spectacle so sublime and 
imposing as to raise the inquiry whether the 
Divine Architect did not work out a sym¬ 
metrical plan in this Yale, and really de¬ 
sign it lobe his grandest ami most imposing 
piece of handiwork. Certain it is that no 
other spot, not even the three grand centers 
of the Alpine regions, produces such a com¬ 
bined feeling ofawe, wonder and admiration. 
" Had the mountains,” says Mr. Greeley in 
Otis description of them,‘‘spoke to me in 
.-audible voice, or begun to lean over with 
the purpose of burying me beneath their 
•crushing mass, I should hardly have been 
surprised.” This valley was first visited by 
a white man in 1851. Prior to that time 
it had been a sort of harbor of refuge for 
hostile Indians, who fled thither, if closely 
pursued by the whites in California. When 
told that they would all be killed if they did 
not make peace, they would laugh in deri¬ 
sion, and say that they had this stronghold 
to flee to. 
The view represented by the accompa¬ 
nying picture, is afforded from the Mariposa 
trail as t he tourist turns off toward Mount 
Beatitude. Standing on a precipice nearly 
three thousand feet high, the latter looks 
upon the entire Yo-SemUe Valley and its 
surroundings,Unrolled like a map before him. 
Near by arc the “ Sentinel Dome,” the 
“ South Dome,” “ Clouds Rest ” and “ Tit- 
tock-ah-nu-lah Mountain,” majestically rear¬ 
ing their heads heavenward and presenting a 
front as hold and blunt ns Gibraltar. The 
Three Graces, three thousand six hundred 
feet high, appear in the background, and 
still further away are seen the snow-covered 
peaks of (lie Sierras mingling with the 
clouds. Tins Yo-Sendle River 
Mo whom tho city hold*, whoso feet 
Iluvo worn 1(8 stony highways, 
Familiar with It* loneliest street,— 
Its ways word never my ways. 
My eruiiio was bealtlo the son, 
Ami thuvo, 1 hope, niy grave will bo. 
Old homestead!—in that Old, gray town. 
Thy vnne Is seaward blowing: 
Thy slip of garden stretches down 
To where the tide is Mowing: 
Below they lie, tholr sails aU furled. 
The ships that go about the world. 
Dearer that little country- house. 
Inland, with pines beside it; 
Sumo peach trees, with unfruitful boughs, 
A well, with weeds to htdo it; 
No (lowers, or only such as rise 
Self-sown— poor things!—which all despise. 
Dear country homo ! can I forget 
The least of thy sweet trifles? 
The window vinos that clamber yet. 
Whose bloom the bCO still rifles? 
The roadside blackberries, growing ripe 
And in tho woods the Indian pipo? 
Happy the man who tills his Hold, 
Content with nisiie labor; 
Earth does to him her fullness yield, 
■ lap what may to his neighbor. 
Well days, sound nights oh! can there bo 
A life more rational and free? 
Dear country life of child and man ! 
For both, the best and strongest, 
That with tho oiirllest race began. 
And has outlived the longest: 
Their cities perished long ago ; 
Who tho first farmers were wo know. 
Pel-Imps our Babels ton will fall. 
If so, no lamentations, 
For Mother Earth will shelter all. 
And feed the unborn nations ! 
Yes, and the swords that menace now 
Will then be boattoi to the plow. 
[it. IT. Stoddard 
ROSINE BRUNTLEY 
BY MAltY HARTWELL 
pursues a 
very serpentine course, forming many minia¬ 
ture islands and fed by numerous water falls 
ami cascades, which break the stillness as 
thcycomo leaping down the mountain sides. 
On the right is seen one of these falls, the 
Bridal Veil, which is nine hundred feet 
high. Occasionally this river, which is rep¬ 
resented in our engraving ns flowing so 
placidly, becomes a fierce torrent, sweeping 
everything before it. In the autumn of 1867 
it tore huge boulders from their setting, 
snapped forest trees like pipe stems, or tore 
them up bodily by their roots and filled the 
lower part of the valley with debris. 
The Yo-Semite has been so fully described 
by Ludlow, Greeley, Bowlen, Brace and 
other writers, as to render a long descrip¬ 
tion of its beauties unnecessary. They are 
rapidly becoming a resort for summer tour¬ 
ists, and will soon draw thousands of lovers 
of natural scenery from the old world every 
year During 1870 seventeen hundred per¬ 
sons visited the valley, being an increase of 
six hundred over 1869. Up to the end of 
October tho number of visitors this year 
numbered 2,133, and the total for the season 
is estimated at 2,200. Extensive prepara¬ 
tions are being made for 
visitors next year, while ^ . 
the extension of the rail- 
road line in that region 
will shorten the stage / 
ride and horseback por- / 
lion of the trip. The 
question us to who owns 
the valley is to be bro’t 
prominently before Con¬ 
gress and tho Califor- 
nia Legislature. Mr. 
Hutchins will represent 
the interests of Lite set- p 
tiers at Washington. 
MRS. CHARLES jVIOTJI/JL'OjNT. 
Iler engagements for the East and West 
extend into mid-winter. Mrs. Moulton 
combines with her remarkable voice, tine 
conversational powers and a magnificent 
form. She is a little above the medium 
size, has beau Utility t^’lch brown hair, and 
other attractioii'KRflrc^’nn which go far 
toward captivating tho public eye. Want 
of space compels us to postpone a critical 
notice of her performances. 
The editor of a magazine iu New York 
city has received MSB. from persons who 
say that they “ liavo had no experience in 
writing; no intellectual training of any kind 
in fact; but want to make money by iLett’ 
pens, so as to be able to give themselves the 
education which they feel they stand so much 
in need of.” 
to perceive that there was an unhappy 
being inside. 
She was so tired by the tasks her aunt 
lmd laid upon her before going out to tea; 
and she was so low under the task of bear¬ 
ing her “ probationary stale,” as her aunt 
laid that upon her. The unsealed fountain 
of her tears began playing reluctant jets 
into tho grass. How ghastly the world 
looks through tears 1 Blue and green and 
amber lose their healthy fullness and become 
the ghosts of such colors. 
Even little children have fils of despair. 
Don’t l remember when my heart has been 
dead within me ’Youth’s despair is more 
absolute than tho dc- 
-spair of age, for as wo 
N. grow older we have ap- 
\ pointed unto us two 
good hand - maidens, 
Experience and Pa- 
Bj lienee, who lift us up 
gl and support us until 
the calamity he over¬ 
past. But when Youth’s 
■ hope is broken, ho falls 
like one slain, though 
__happily it is a hickory 
Jfc „ H,, d long resists 
Rosine reviewed tho 
Indian squaw trot of 
-k-r k !lC1 ' life- Her ambitious 
J --kx y^i^liinte kicked 
Bj& | HR luul S uw ; ,l< ' 1 ‘ ‘ llSI!l "l , ‘ 
Si ,,lUt K,,e ii l ,r,l,l 6 "l*.with 
I! HH 6eing stiff and sore, 
W Uty back among the 
g*‘uss and cried in quict- 
Her mint was one of 
who make you half be¬ 
lieve the old tale of 
wier-wolves. A snnrl- 
BS»fiSl for all human comforts 
HOW TO MAKE MISCHIEF. 
Do not talk about yourself or your family, 
to the exclusion of other topics. What if 
you arc clever and a little more so than 
other people, it may not bo that other folks 
will think so, whatever they ought to do. 
Keep your eyes on your neighbors. Take 
care of them. Do not let them stir without 
watching. They may do something wrong 
if you do. To he sure you never knew them 
to do anything very bad, hut it may be on 
your account they have not. Perhaps if it 
had not been for your kind care they might 
have disgraced themselves a long time ago. 
Therefore do not relax any effort to keep 
them where they ought to he. Never mind 
your own business—that will take care of 
France 1ms four professors teaching the 
Chinese and Japanese languages, and Ger¬ 
many ten. 
“ Social teas” are a new style of enter 
tainment very much in favor this year. 
WHICH? 
A glass of whisky is 
manufactured from sev¬ 
enty grains of corn, the 
value of which is too 
small to be estimated. 
A glass of this mixture 
sells for a dime, and if 
a good brand, is consid¬ 
ered worth the money. 
It is drank in a minute 
or two. It fires the 
brain,deranges and wea¬ 
kens the physical sys¬ 
tem. On the same side- 
hoard on whicll the de¬ 
leterious beverage is ser¬ 
ved lies a newspaper. 
It is covered with half a 
million type—it brings 
intelligence from every 
laud. The newspaper 
costs less than the glass 
of grog, yet there are a 
many people who think 
corn juice cheap and 
newspapers dear. 
