Emerson's Daughter

Ellen Emerson, daughter of R;ilph Waldo Emerson, it as independent in her niovments as her father was in tkougkt. She was octt walking tlie other day when it began to rain heavij. Along canie a rustió horae d ragging iwiU cart, with a conventional country boy on the rough plank that served for tho driver's seat Miss Bmenon calmly stopjped the eart m etlmbed up to a place on tlie plank beide tho driver, and rode home as fust as the koy pould make the animal go. The oonventional part of Conord, and that is the greater part, looked out of misty windovrs in horror, liut the proper people therehave long since grown aci ustonieil to a moro peculiar silit than the daughter of the )lnlosopher on a gwill cart. Miss Emei-son h:s a donkey, the gift of a friend, upon whic.h she lftrishes considerable affection. She has horses and oarriages, but whenevcr it suite hor faucy she hs the donkey saddled and broiight to the door. There sha mounts liim and rides unreservedly bout town. .She is so tall and the donkey so short that she has lo holil up her feo t to prevent them from dragging on the grouud. Visitors to Oonconl wlio have not heen familiar with knkey lidinj? in Europe, wkere tho habit is comparatively common, lind