ONE WOMAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 66, 27 November 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

ONE WOMAN.

Couom Qssxi* still a crude metropoli Society has not yet arrived at the white yes and lawn sociable' period there. There is nothing to Hamper any one or throw a tiresome restraint around him. You walk up 4 and down theltreet without feeling that the vigilant eye of the policeman is upon you, and when you register at the leading hotel, the proprietor doesn-t«Bkhow^nuoh.oaggage you hare, or insist upon it that your valise ought to be blown up with a quill to give it a robust appearance. Speaking of this hotel, however, brings to my mind a little inoidenfc which really belongs in here. There are two ladies at this plaoe— the only .ones' in ithe titylimite/jif/my memoTy serveß me. One of these ladies owns a lot of poles or house-logs, whiohlwere, at the time of which I speak, on the dump, as it were, ready to be used in the construcnon" ! df ! a new cabin. It seems that some of the f 'Male citizens of th^ corporation, without the^iear of God or the Common Council' of 'Cummina Citj-y had been appropriaiiiig-iheselog* nfital, out of a good, fair assortment, there remained only a dejected pile of oulls. The owner had watched, with great annoyanoe, ithe^grpdual disappearance of her property from, dax to day, and it made her lose faith in the final redemption' of all mankind, one became oynioal and misanthropical, lost" her interest in the future, and'tecame low-spirited and unhappy. One day, hoxrever, tlaftar-- Übia thing had proceeded about far enough, r »she went to her trunk,' and taking out a latjjesize navy revolver, 'the kind- that-. sendsi so many Western men to their long; home, -she went out to where a group of , men^had scattered themselves out around oamp^-to smoke. She wasn't a large woman at #11, but these men respected her. Though they were only rough miners there in the wilderness, they recognised that she waaVwdman, and they reoognisad if almost at a glance, too. TZwre she was, a2one among' » -wild group of men in the mountains, far, frontthe protecting arm of the, law.. and softening influences of metropolitan- life, --and yet , the common feeling, of .gallantry implanted\in the masculine breast, was there. She indicated with a motion of her revolver, thaV she desired to call the meeting'*to order.' There seemed to be a general desire ok the parr of every man present to come to order' just as aoon as circumstances would, permit. , .Then she made a short speech relative .to'&the matter- of : home-logs, and suggested *tiiat unless a number of those articles,- now invisible to the naked eye, were placed at a certain point, or a certain amount of kopecksjjhjped on file with the chairman of the meeting within a specified time, perdition would be popping on Main-street in about two-and-one half tiofcsof the oW>hometer>'i There didn't seem to be any desire on . the. meeting to amend the motion, or lay it on the table,. Although it was arbitrary and imperative, and although an opportunity was given for. a free expression of opinion, there didn't seem to be any desire to take advantage of it. A,, committee of three^was appointed to oarry out the suggestions;©! the ohair, and in about half an hour, the houselogs and kopecks having Jbeen placed on deposit at the places designated, the meeting broke up, subject to the callof the ohainnan. It was not- a very long session, but it was very harmonious — very harmonious and very orderly. There was no calling to a previous question, or rising to a point of order. The pale-faced men who composed the convention did not look to lie casual observer, as though 'they had come there to raise points for debate over parliamentary practice. They iepfc their eyes on' the' speaker's desk, and; didn't interrupt each other, or stmggle, to> get the floor. It is wonderful, this inb.er.ent strength of weakness, as I might say, which enables a woman, amid" a throng of reckfess 'men, to command their respect and obedience sometimes where maixTstrerigth and awkwardness would not avail.— Denver Tribifne. ,