A Modern Cinderella.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2990, 30 August 1888, Page 2

A Modern Cinderella.

One of the saddest cases that lias occurred in my observation (writes the Araorioau correspondent of a cont«mporary)ia that of Emily Ruter, who has boon suiug in tlr Courts to he released from the' guardiansliiii of hiiv lirothor. It almost souiiOs like i. theory of Cinderella,- without-tho glas^slipper/and .tho princely;[lover, andthe substitution of a brutal brother / for the cruel sisters. * Emily's fatho died soiuq years ago, leaving a fortune of about 80,000 dol, Emily'B brother had himself appoiniod oxeoutor of- his father's estate, and also, the guardian of his sister,. Tho wretched girl was. takt'to h'er 'Kiotlier'S ! liom4 ( .and made the drudge of the family; . she had scarcely clothes enough to cover. driven [into the'street to TOllebtCinuers' frotiT'ash barrels ; 1 alio was beaten and abused till lifctoino a horror and a burden, will Jlibn Mi'o l toj bay Mile liop of

'^lTorami'CivFoloolc Kor in and slielteredilferH The brother watched the house for days, and finally caught the sister nijhe'strcct, and dragged lier Loiag r ;- th^i;she .Ccscapetl again, and suit was. entoretl to change■ her, guardian. J Afttr a careful investigation, Judge Barriitt decided that llio brutal brother w'ai liot a fit guardian for his sister, and' romanded her to tlie, custody of her aunt; and in defer- , c'.'de t6 the Surrogate, Jiulgu Uurriitl loft to him the iliity'of Amoving -tlio brother:' 1 his the Surrogate for some liacrutablo lcnspu refused to do, and: omanded the girl buck to slavery. I • : ' ' ' - • , j ! i Thin Plantations. I

The folly of the extremely thin . . planting usually practiced in .this Colony is well sllbwn by the following 1 ' extract from aii article in Woods and JfcKorests, and it must liot be forgotton ; *iat'English planter plant twice as tbiok as Colonial .ones do .—"I think : it only fair to add, as the result of considerable experience and very extensive observation, that the majority of our plantations seem far too tlnu of plants, thus encouraging the production of side branching and dmilling the boles-tho only 'profitable part of the tree—to the most puny dimensions Some few days ago, in measuring a numbor of oaks.uui elmes of great age and large sized found that not one of tliera gave more than 80ft of bole fit to measure as timber. Nearly the whole of these: trees had a littlo forest of ■' top useless for , every purpose hut firewood. Boles of oak from 20ft to 25ft long have been , the rule; longer ones quite the excop- , tion. Short bole t are less prevalent in plantations o' cotcli and other firs. fa This arises partly, from the more ver- ! tical habit of the trees, but cliielly from Iheir being planted closer and left closer together to form timber. No te can pass from tlio timber-growing itricta of Great Britain to the forest • of Fontaincbleaii, in France, without being much astonished at thecontrast in the character of tlio timber. Boles straight as arrows, and almost touching each other through their close proximity, shoot up to heights of from 50ft to 70ft or more without a single Ijoikl, and one is compelled to auk whether ojr excessively thinned forests are a national bluniler, if not a ci'imo.

AMERICA,

A French savant, M. Marcoit has found out tlmt tlio hitlierto-recL'ivod derivation of tlio- word " America," from the name of an Italian sailor called Amerigo Vespucci--is nil ut mistake, based upon a misreading oi ' bad writing. ' Vespucci's iianio was , not" Amerigo" at all, but" Alberico," common enough one among men of jMbs< nationality and time, whereas the Tithor bad novcr been heard before, • It to a scribbling old monk of St Die who iirst wrote the navigator's . pre mm so that it, read "Aniorigo," and from thi» blunder originated tlio notion that has imposed on the civilized world for tlireo centurion, The fact is,- according to Hi Marcou, that America was called by that name by its own natives, long ages before its discovery by Columbus, tlio word being still found in the vocabulary of more than one of the Mian tribes of Central, America, and being indeed , applied to a particular tribe—the " Amerricas." It signifies" tlio country of tlio winds," so that a moro appropriate designation could not possibly be imagined. For vie got our atorins from America, and when •the United States do not happen to bo ' suffering from tornadoes, blizzards, or <tlier atmospheric variations of that iiul, thoy arc.generally blowing—their own trumpet. S*' ■ The Chinese at Home.

. Mr Bret Harto's description oflho " Heathen Cliineo" lias been so often quoted that it has bccomo hackneyed, but it might bo held thnt this is only besauso of its undeniable truthfulness and applicability. Certainly a recent article in the Chinese Times on law and order in Pokin reveals quite enough,of " ways 'lmt aru dark, and tricks that are vain"to justify Mr Bret Hartc. Banditti prowl about tho streets of tho Chinese capital, and not only waylay tho unwary "silver carriers" and depriyo them of their .valuable burdens', but capture private citizens atid hold thorn to ransom. Pickpockets abound in tho streets, and leap up behind Indies who aro travelling in caita and snatch from them their valuable head coverings and ornaments, 'i'ho,thieves have depots or warehouses where they deposit their plunder, and people who have had property'stolen can sometime . N jffeovcr it by attending a market held .#fatavcry early" Lout' near one of the cily gates, where stolen goods are sold. Other goods are qlso sold at this market not stolen, but come by in a manner scarcely less dishonest. Bain boots may be bought which tutus into noth>. ing hutsodden pnperattho litatsliowcr, and roast ducks aro said to bo purveyed tluit prove to be nothing but artistic" arrangements" in mud. " The whole system of : predatory crime," says tho Chinese Times, '"is tolerated as the ordinary lot of humanity. In fact, foulness, impassable roads, defective laws, and all oilier forms of suffering' aro 'borno with for want of tho energy to resist and overcome them."

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