ing the tawny hairy skin and swollen muscies — which
was, indeed, but another species of foppery. This
rejoicing in their rags was like Antisthenes, through
the holes of whose clothes Socratss saw rank pride
peering. In the cities, the several nationalities re-
tained their peculiar style of dress, so that on the
streets of San Francisco were to be seen the silver-
buttoned trousers, leather leggings, and bright-colored
serape of the Mexican, the shooting-coat dress of the
Englishman, the corduroys of the Irishman, the black
of the New Englander, and the Paris fashions of
Frenchmen, New Yorkers, and southerners. Every
one could wear what he pleased, and no costume, how-
ever bizarre, appeared to attract much attention.
Indeed, while there is so much in dress which speaks the character of the wearer, during this most import- ant and solemn struggle there were other things to absorb the mind. For here for a time the battle of good and evil rages fiercely, and before it is fairly over, as, indeed, it never is, many will find themselves weather-bound, destined never to gather the fruits of their toil, destined never to leave these accursed shores, but forced by fate to toil on to the end, till death relieves them. Like the dart of Abaris, their new vocation renders their past invisible, while their future henceforth is destined to be filled with those accidental colors which depend on the state of the eye rather than on the hue of the object. It will be a paradise or a penitentiary, as success or failure is en- countered. Giving thus all for gold, they are like zealous missionaries giving all for Christ, many of them dropping or losing their names, so that their most intimate companions shall not know them.
The Connecticut Sunday law forbade travel and work except in cases of necessity or mercy, and in early times there were few such cases, Massachusetts laid a penalty of ten dollars on every one who travelled on Sunday, except from necessity or charity. The laws of Vermont permitted the maple sugar makers
