HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-05-18, Page 6b ;i: y ave *,0,t4104.00 of Ayer'oXittlx-Vigort i �I}ie ,>�1r41raxat, ort lies. po squa4;a° ,Q t4ree01413, X t 4eo0 the scalp clean, co4 au(t 1440 1., abed preserves. the color, itillness, and boautyyof the hair. wag rapidly becoming bald and Fray 1 but after using two or tbreS Fray of .Ayer et Hair Vigor my hair grew thiols land gloaey and tire, original c.Qltr was reetoredd."r,N',e1vin Aldrich, Canaan, G,eutre, 04 00240 time ago X lost all my hair in copse tense of measles. after due waiting, uG neer grosyth appeared. X then used Ayur's]3atr Vigor laud my, hair grew l T.14ck and Strong. it hes apparently coxae to stay. The Vigor IS evidently a great aid to nature." e,.T. I3, Williatlus,Floresville, Texas. , ' "I have used Ayorte Fair Vigor for the 11xlst four or five years and find it a most satisfactory dressing for the hair. It is all I could desire, being harmleso causing the hair to retain its natural color, and requiring but a small quantity to •render the hair easy to arrange."— Mrs. M. A. Dailey, 9 Charles street, iaverh111, Mass. "I have been using Ayer's Hair Vigor for several years, and believe that it has caused my hair to retain its natural color."*Mrs. H. 3. King, Dealer in Dry Goods, &;o., 13ishopvilte, Md. ys Ilair I'Z 1711.E8D BY D1. J. 0. Ayor & Co., Lowell, Mass. Bold by Druagtotoand Perfumers. 9 Tire Huron News -Record 1.51) a Year -31.25 in Advance.' Wednnesday fit ay I ti• tit, i S a ILII OURS OF IRISH DIS- TRICT VISITING. Martha, its Anty Dillon's ltlully that's here, Ile r Mother i8 Lenin' mad will the toothache, au' would ye be Kiviu' iter the ]sate taste in fife of j uu, she ,guys, if you pl,iz't, to tike the ethos out of ilor mouth, an' heli, her s,v,tlly the bit o' broad? Site hasou't elep' or et for two days,' `Mi8.9 Ellen hay guise out with the keys, ,and won't he back until alter the Bible class.' 'Shute, I Could her that, Miss, an' she says she'll curve again hiule-by.' 'Jam for toothache 1' I exelaian• ed. 'Yes; it is a greed specific,' said ltiartha ,1t'ily, 'especially i'n families where tli're Ate cllilllrerl. There is All epidemic of toothache this April](;. Last year it was intl'lenil, till I began to give black currant vinegar instead of jam. But vinegar won't do for the teeth you know—And now I ani sorry I must leave you for fur an hour ; one of illy old ' uiueu 19 dying, 11101 1111. (::]lel' hag sept to Fay that elle i. hensted,' and %vents to ;tie Ills particularly.', • , ']fay I go wi1I ,;you? . I would like it if you don't wind.' .'Oil, they will be delighted to see a strMtnga lady. Liar 1 rico afraid you will find it lugtbriou,. 'I'lieir talk will be all about death and the ;;rove, this time. however, it will he ch:trite:et is tie, ttnd puesibly .ttuus- ing ; e0 come UfUng.'• 'You see,' said my friend as we went out, 'tile .Froman Catholics are as twelve to 000 it) 1110. torvu, but More el'e a good merry PI'ute,ltante for all that—pour otitis, and the ,Archdeacon is very careful o1 then], 110 know!: tl1;:1i ell per auilty, and --- --Ceerie airi.1rrn; :1tre 8, a.orgoes to se: theta bi(1Lself whou necoss.tty, The parish is divided intodistricte, with a tidy -visitor fur each. We go our rounds once a week i'og ulal ly, and report 'to the Archdeacon anythiug that requires b18 attention. And if our people fill into necessity or tributiou, welt advice or help, thoy Behr1 for de, or Come t0 us, at any tittle. 'I nivel felt the loss o' ins father au' mother till Mies Mary 10t martied :lu' ;yin t away,' said an Uhl woulAfi to (110 011E0, spooking of Otte of t)9 who had left the town, they often tell mo I ntn lil.o a (,(other to there —Here 1300 caro at M rs. Nolau's. Yes ; she's still alive, I see.' , - t I o., t T. was h•0 1 1. .l mad c'Ibin, the open floor admitting to the one room which served aft kitchen, Sit• ting -loon(, (1)•1 chamber of death. A kettle was boiling on the hearth, and a teapot stood by. Two or Voted W0nleu sit round the Fire, waiting for the fin:0 ac,au°. Pine place was swept, and the furniture out in order; and by the bed, where an old woman lay nlanlborin' fit• fully, n 011air was placed for visitors ' 1110re, you're just in time, Miss Martha—she's going fast,' said one of the women as she came forward and welcomed us.—`Vis, Miss, she's sinsible,—Yo know Miss Martha, Biddy, don't ye 1' A smile (3(11(313 over the wrinkled features, and the heavy Tide un- closed. `Now, won't she Snake a purty corpse if she only !unite like that at the last !' said the woman admir- ingly. 'I am glad tos eo her so calm and peacelul,' whispered Martha. "Isn't it a comfort, Miss,' cried the woman out load. 'An' its the work o' the world we had wid her till yesterday only, whid his Iiiv- rince himself cam down an rasoned her into common since, an' she gur ilt,.11 eeneint to •> a to the ileal: altpp* thry, tildes na',aey' ' 4I,P 0¢ td, ;the tteav ,oe1aetery '. 'Xis, dies;. Shote, olio held. oak' egiuit to the leei<; mill it 'Wee fa hOrrid't cold 19>xe8Qt4Q pb oo au', 4114,141'u.iYttr lie, comfortable there, wid niver a bolas or a pinch o' dust of one belougin' to her within a mile. Cart•h.orees,elm said, shouldn't drag her there or to• any place ex• oipt a good ohurehyerd full o' da cent Christian neighbors. _fiat the Archdaco'u arguyed the . tuatthor well. 'Biddy,' His he, ho rasonable now. Where in all the counthry side would you find a whole• solver place to be laid in; sis he, 'that) the new cetnethry 1—a flue, open, airy place, high an airy. An' as for lonesomeness,' cis he, shure, its fillin' ivory day—it is. Ye'll have the neighbors gathorin' all round you in uo time. An' I'II tell you -what I'll do' foryou,' he els ; 'if you'll eonshit to go there quietly, I'll put you nixt Mrs. Dono- van,—shure, yo know her—an' thin ye wou't feel lonely or out o' the way wid her within call.' So thio alto guy in.' Tie, I guv in,' said tho dying woman feebly. 'I cudu't howltl out agin' His Itivrineo, There's no denyin' that Mary Donovan 'ud be s good neighbor, gniet an arty, an' uiver an' ill word out o' hor head ; but I'd rather be laid alongside o' Nolan. A good husband ho wile to me, an' niver as much as viz his halide to me, all the times we war togither—barrin' he was in dhriuk an' unconscious -like.' 'Alongside o' Nolan I Just listen to her now 1 And Oonagh church yard twenty miles o' rough road away. Shure, it's battered to bits you'd be afore you got there, Biddy alauna. Yer ould bones 'nd niver Aron' the jowltiu.' An' perhaps it's come to hits the coffin would, they wake 'am e0 thin nowadays.' 'Ay, ay ; I know how thin fatter, ale go hal lupin' whin they got out o' the town ; I'd bo shook all to pieces I'M• feared. au' so 1 guv my conein,t to go to the cimethrv. It's an asy road enough ; au' what does it manlier, ether all, whin the good God is in One piece as much e9 an- other!' Martha stooped down and whis' pored a fete words. 'Yis, Dlias Martha. I kno,v ; I'rn none feared o' that. But I'm 100. far gouo to9pake much, bouoy,' Then the heavy lids dropped again over the glassy eyes, and I thought I saw an added shade on the gray face. 'I thick she'e goin' now, glory be, to God ! I know that look.' 'Miss Mertha, could you bo afthcr singiu' •a bit of a hymn 1 Tha• 1uuld bring her to, if any thin' ()tort tnl could ; she was always feud o' tile 81ngi0',' said the w0Mar1, ]Martha hesitated, locked at the still face, and thea at toe'-'ieeel' of Ay;:,r,' I whispered—:old she began the dear old hymn at 'While 1 draw this fleeting breath.' I saw the pale lips clove, cud stooped down. 'Nolao's vol it) ! Shure I'] know it a Mile olf—Yo're late, men ; hurry on. It'd tired 0' wtti1111' 1. arl1.— Och, but ye're the pick of the world for the Singin'1 It's gettin cowld, alarms, an, the night's fall - in', Nolan, au' I'm tvariell right out —Hero yon are at long -last. Glory be to God !—Nolan !' 'Glory bo to_ Go:l ! ec11Q9d,one nf t -i the Omen, ' p11C'8 gone.' It was even so. 11,01 Nolan really come up the 'der': valley' to meet her; I wandered, as :Martha, stopped, and the women broke into ready Irish' to:us and ejaculatious, in th© midst of which we moved 131Va1, The person who had acted as (1119 tress of the ceremonies followed ps to the door, 'Wasn't it well she didn't go back 00 her word about the new ciruethry? Ail' wont sho melte a lovely corpse, Miss Martha wid that pleasant look on hor face ? We'll sin(1 to thu house for the things, Miss?' 'Yes ; Jane will give them,' `Sheets and things,' MalIha ex- claimed to me, as ere walked away, for the wake, you know. They firs town them round the bell, and cover over the tables with white, We ale wars keep some to lend fur the par. poen,—Bet here is my `dowu•heart- ed' wumau looking for me. I won• (der whet.she (1'alet3 cheering up for t11133 time.' `Come in, come, Mies 'larthn.— An' you, Miss.—Shue, it's most wore out I am lookiu' fur you.' The poor old soul evidently felt aggrieved. A sickly looking crag tura with bright eyes, and a crook- ed back, which showed plainly, as she presently began to rock back- ward and forward on her stool. The one room was bare of comfort. As stranger visitor, I was installed on the only unbroken chair, while Martha balanced herself en a three- legged elderly ono. 'I came as soon as I could,' said Martha. 'I was delayed at Mrs. i olan's. She is dead.' 'Ooh, wirra, wirra! 1s she gone thin'? That's what I sint fur you for, Miss Martha. Shure, His Rio - evince, he sie I'll be the next. He had the heart to say that to me, a poor, crooked old body.' 'Ho couldn't say that, Mrs. Mors nye tits; Y44, t 4iti444.ttstootl i tire, „e Teed,' .he did-' thiza,thita. Very Wer) 8•-,.4taptl fir, Vlore tol:ninGt the 011 the. liars, I\Z1a, 1!Morria,' sis he, ]lire, `,To149 la„ oln' fast:; she'll be in glory hereto another Sufi sett over her stead.' 'Gori forbid;' eta 'Slue will,' els he. 'An' the qurra• tion le,' ho sis, 'which ofetteowill be onlled away ? It behoves ut' to bg prepared,' sic lie.' 'That wage not baying you would, be next. "A,h, but it was, Hiss Martha, just ell its one o' eayin' it. A hearty, able, active than like him, what thought, wpuld he have of dyin'l At11 sorra priparation he wants! Ho might just walk into heaven any day, wid a flower iu hie button -hole, an''God•save all herd!' on his lips—No, not Miss ; it was uiver himself 11e meant at all, at oll. but me. 'Mary Morris, you're goin' to die, an you're not reedy' -that's the mauin' of his spaehe.' 'And are you ready, ilio. Morris, if you should bo called next 1' ' 'I'nl not, 1111813 114arthn, nut I don't want to be called yet 8 hit ; I want to live ray life out. 'That'd why 1 Sint for you, I want you to pray the God this night to bit No live out me full life.' 'Why, you are an old wemen, and a s'ifforlr, and I should think you would be thankful to be releas ed.' 'Well I wouldn't thin. You 533e4 Miss Martha, it's not as if I wits , strong, alile bodied women. Thin, I couldn't complain whin rr)o tittle was out. Lee always been ail in' and wake, an' 111vor got 11(0re 110r half the good o' life that others got; an' I think it 'ud be only fair o' the good God to let ole livo twice as long, to make it ever, all' jest.— Yull'll ask hint, M i(8 1lwrtha, }lora l'y1' I'll pray for,vo't, certlinly, Mor- ris. that you In ,y not be taker) away before you aro ready and will- ing.' 'Some payple are cln,ire, nn' say it's a wary world, 311' they'll like to bo gone from it : but l'in not that kind. The worst day •I Iver had, Wee Martha, L uiver wiskmd I was dead. Yon've tuk a lurid of me mind alal03, fur 1'ut sure the Lord 11 hear you. Ile'0 very good to thim that puts Idol in wiled of their wants,' 'Very, very good and pitiful, You remember what Dlvidanys'-_— 'Shure I wasn't thiukin' o' David,' interrupted the 01,1 creature, ruthlessly. 11 Wan; going to tell you about 1110 Own niothet•'e lirst•couaiu. ould Mollie Malone. She wee au ou'd, ould woman, au not a bit like me, for 91133 rely wanted to die. But she lived, ani' liver], till elle could bear it no lunger, an' the bed ridden fur live ,years all' lyrarn..c••c92:,sis she to her son Tim .one Clay—he was her youugsst sou, au' gettiti' to lie an ould boy, too, waitin' for the Mother's death to bring home a wife --'Pini.' Tru thio kin' the Lord has forgotten me.—`Frith, 814' I'm of that Same opinion, tuea(:lf, mother, lin cis.—'I don't like to be overlooked,' sis she. 'too the donkey, Tim,' she 618,'.30'. wrap hue in me cloak, an' carry me up to the top o' the road, till I put Him in remrtnbrauee,' 018 x110.—An' he did. Ile put an ould bell in th33 cart, au' her atop of it, au' juwIted hor up to the _to}I-. 0' the—hill ale'--4Io-w u agi• r- widout a word. Ato signs on it ! Misa Martha, whin he stopped' at his own (lure she Waft a (lead woman. —'Troth, nu' she watt in the ri;,•h1 of it,'si.e Tim, 'As sown as ivor Ito soon her, lle kindly give her the call.' 'I think the jolting had some- thing to do with it,' said Martha riding, --`lire, Morris, I can't stay longer now. I will come and read to you another (ley. Goad -bye.' `Goo,] -bye. ; au' thank yo kindly, Miss. I fuel quite cheered up now, honey.' 'Isn't it extraordinary,' said I to 'iarth:l, when we were out of the 'louse, 'the clingiug to life some people show ? Th 1 poorer and ((lore miserable they are, the loss desire they (Vines to give it el).' 'Except they think they are being overlooked,' said Martha, 'like old Molly Malone. I've heard that story so often I can't laugh at it. She only told it to put me off road- ie:; the psalm for her. Yes ! utero are the almshouses,' Continued Martha, pointing to a row of neat 11ttlo hoose9,w1t11 pretty porches and gardens in Trout, 'We won't go in. It's not my day. They are not very pleasant to taut to, poor things, just now. You see their endow- ment is in land, and for the last two years, owing to 'Laud League' and other troubles, there has been no rent paid. But for the Arch- deacon they would actually starve. Ile pays their weekly money out of. his own pocket. It is just the same with the Orphan Fund, and Aged and Infirm Protestant Relief Fund. I don't'know what wo shall come to in the end ; the Archdeacon can't go on supporting all the poor of the parish•in this way.' 'Why doesn't he got help from the people around 1' 'Ile can't. They have not eny money. The gentry are most of them living on borrowed money, waiting for bettor times ; and the shop- ' iioppe a kty- bt elnteea,'ia had, TAM; ya114 are the only' people, who aro 1)1441110 .any.ttt'7)10.•n-011t l bola, walk. qiinete 1 this ie Agcy 7iii4>t1'a,'' A sofx'IAolt;ing woman : with bare, red. arms. flecked vyitha sea -suds, came to the o'p art door at the sound of,our vai(jea,'Goad oveuin', bliss. Martha 1 --Won't you come i0, Miss 1' !Not today, Anty, thltny you.--- Wheii did'yqu hoar front yeti daugh- ter, Rosanne 1 T hopo she gets on well in her'eituation'1' "Deed, thin, Mist) Martha, not to bo rather teltiu' you a fie, etre don't like it at all, at all. She's t'orcotn- iu' home again.' '1Vhyl I heard it was a very good, elm place,' `She's not fanlike the situation, Miss ; but, Ohure, no servant stays i13 it, ei)eeially*oese maids, en' 80 elle give otice to leave this (laar- te1'.' 'For wat ret] 1' t sou 'Tile Histhrer;e, Nobody eau put up wid'her, She doesn't kill thin) with work,' but she wories thin out with (100aiuieul talk about 1h0'r gloats, lanes, RP if they were an the 8 point of (tenth. Tint Sure, slit'. not Protestant at all, 1)118.4 Martha, slits ie nue o' thin) 31e1hod009. 1lartha turned away it) vexation. 'I heti the greatest work to get her that plane, end uuw she is leaving it for frthing. They aro 01id331•ahly floor; and she will 001110 horns nod lfvo with thorn till her luoutly is all (IOU() 1311(1 her 0luthea in pawn, and then she will effect me to find her another place.' 'Into' (nether oughtn't to encourage her as She does.' 'fare 11•trt}ua began to laugh. 'Iler Mother, ! Didn't ,you recognize her 1 That tray Aunty Dillon, who ons reported as `tearin' clad with the toothltcite,' an hour ago.' 'Aad wearing a bit of jun to help her to oat and sloop ! She doesn't look much pulled down by her sull''riugs.' 'Wait tiff I catch 'folly, I'll jun her !' said Martha, in a tone of good-natured vexation. Presently we came to a neat, white -washed, tidy•lookiug, two - room cabin. 'This Is one of our Orphan Ifonles,' explained Martha, 'Our way is to put the children by families, under the care of respectable elderly peo- ple, who bring them up 40 if they ware their own. [t answers Very well. Brothers unci sisters are not separtted. 1'hey have all .tho ad- vautages of house -life; and the tie between there and their fo,tor- paren a strengthens with time into real filial affection in many ctsea— Our orpitaus generally turn out, well,' continued Martha with ex• cusable piide. 'We look after thorn, educate them' to some extent, bind them to trades, or find situations for thorn as sera -an -la. T,ut I think a great deal of their future success del(uuda on the foster -Mother. '1'1318 w.(tllan has brought, all twotfamilies most creditably, who are doing for themeelvee in 1110 world now.-- Goo.1-evening: 3frs. Moore ! ]low are the children 7' A !milling little tvom.n, in on oddfaslliored cap and a big apron, turned round from scrubbing s deal table with freestone. 'Good•eveuln, kindly to you, ladies! Wait till I take all (11•y 1.lras'keen ; denuding her -self Jeep -id -1y as -she srok-o-•of the - apron, and dusting 1150 white chair wi(h it. 'Wou't. ye sit down, Mies rather yer loilg walk 1—Shure the childro is well an' hearty, thank God! they are away at school now.' `\'o, thank you ; tee won't sit down now. You're busy. I only cane in with these little things for' Betty. I think they will fit her,' '0311 ! they'll be made to fit Miss. She was just wentin' that; an' a'asii't it the good Lord put into yet' mind to b ing thin this day, bi- fore the lain comes,' 'Urs, Moore,' sail 31:rtl's li si- tatingly' 'dirt you hear there wo not bo t)0 much meetly as Reuel this month ?' ' 'I (lid, Miss,. Tho Archdacon conte himself' to insincu me into the ration of it. Ho tees rale rlotvn• Cast. I tould him niver to rouble about it ; shure, lvu'it gin along somehow.' 'flow will you menage ..this month on so little ?' 'Well, Mies, y011 see Moore has got a stroke o' work.' That will bo a help, An' I had a lotther from Anlerky, from ,lady, you remi 1bor little Grace, [Mss 1dat•tha2'—an' she sint mon little in Other o' money, an' that'll tide Its over a month or more. An' indedo the other childllre will diver let me want the bit o' bread while they have it. They're foal good in sindin' me things. 'But they send tho money for your own use.' `For me an' ;Hoorn. Yea, Miss. Shn're, they look on us as their father an' mother. They can't re- mimber no others, the creatures,' 'Will they like your spending it on those children, who are nothing to you or then] 1' 'Miss Martha, do you take me for a brute baste, to have the bit an' sup meeelf au' see the fatherless go hungry ?' There wa :enl surprise and in- igttatiun Ill the 0,99d SYQ,ln1Il;'a map alOr, 14frtlla 016 011804 •o,p le applglise :for bet. 101, plied, snopiaiota Of ogettero.aity ; aail wo then torn, edour Atop homeward. 'Another trait of the Irish peewit). try, I remarked ; but my companion was absont•ruindod, and Lunde no response. 'We must pass Tom 1)aley'e,' 0138 wid atter borne medi• teflon. 'I ought' to speak to him, 1 Suppose ; but I don't. know what to say. Ho is a Protestant ; but 1 hoard he tvont to the Roman Clttho- lio chapel ou Vlreduesday night and walked in the procession of penit- ents. Ile was tipsy of course ; but that makes it all the worse.' The said Tom held down his head, and busied himself with an Old shoo 110 was patchiug es Martha entered his little cobbler's shop. I stood nIodeetly it) the door and listeeed. • -'Tom, what is this I hear about your doings on Wednesday night 1, 'llu9ha 1 I mauve, bliss Martha, l'eoplo sis more nor their prayers. 'Didn't you go to m449 and walls in the pro0e0aion before all the chapel full of' petiole 1' 'Shure I wasn't In 1010 811(508, Mira ; I 3389 I.1nCO11seionS, The boys made the just half dead ; au falx, I donut) what I did or didn't do, thin.' 'Torn, if yo't tvonld only take the pledge, it might bo the saving of you,' 'Shure, I'm alliin' enough to take it, Mitre Martha, if that'll do you ; but the keepiu' it is another lnatther. I've taken it often an' of- ten , but sorra bit o' good that did me. It was wolfs nor ever I was, as soon as I broke it.' Tom I wouldn't mind so much your guiug to masa, if you were in sober earnest. I would rather have you a good Catholic thaq a drunken Protestant. 'Oh, !Mei Martha, is it you to thin]( AO little u' the hs that 1 An' does Hie Riverinre 833110uely believe I'd do such a mane thing t)8 torn ? Drunk or sober, 1'll Liver belie mo church au' clergy. Miss siarthe, I'll 1611 you what I'll do. I wintto mess, there's no denyin' on Wed- oreday night; but was tipsy—had Koran to then, that tuk rue i ---but I'll go to church this blessid night sober, and with rite eyes opon. There's for you ! _That'll convince His Iiiverince. Shure, I niver was in church et) a week day afore, bar- rin' the day I was marrid ; but do more nor that to show the Arch t7seun I was 110 turncoat.' Tort did go to church that Friday night and edified the congregation by his serious demeanor. Coming out of the shop Martha encountered a lively group of little girls' end boys, and she, 10mystir- prier', seized the biggest 8t glTl by 31111 shoulder and gave her a good shake. 'I have just sutra yourinuther, \lolly Dillon. What did yon mean, you nenghly girl, by telling such a story 1 1)ou't you know tha11' &e. I need not give the 3ernlon which followe(1, pully looked frighten- ed and the other dhildren interest- ed. Soddenly a little boy with the bluest oyes and reddest hair I had over seen, put hed l0l'ward, 'And dol Molly tell ye a he, Miss Martha ? • 'She ,lid, Jack.' `1']3 -'13 -is an awful wiekeT thing to tell a lie, Miss? 'It is, Jack, awful wicked.' '.An' --an' it's worse to tell two nor'0ne; 1t[iss? cried Jack. stammer. ing in hie eagerness.--1lartha as 8ented,=,.,»,1i8s-: n,• �r'1��- :i -tquld us on Saililay 11).6f -titer ate than that Made woodier du a' wrong thing was the W11(l4('l,t (1' 115(3 two. It was all as one a5 if he ,1i(1 it buueelf, Only ntter.—Mice Martha, if you don't give pully the j (t)1 Imre']] male her tell two lies. She promised us a rale trete this ev(,uiu',—Miss Mar the is going to give a cull 0' jam.' 51(41 811, au' 111 give ye's every one a glare.' --:ills promised, ;Hiss ; au' elle can't haps. her word if you melte her bleat( it.' Martha. stood nonplussed, I stopped fore arc! to the rescuu , 'Soo promised you a treat. Now, )00111 sugar stick do as well as jam? ix an it would, 11iss,eal' otter• —A general chorus. 'And you would hold that Molly had honorably kept her word, if sh3 geve you a stick efsell 1'—.Ap- proving urine, ends, and assevera. tions,—'Well, let we see. How many of you are there 1 five ?— Will that do 1' General delight, and a rush to- wards rho confectioner's. 'If von had that young imp in your class Sunday after Sunday,' said Martha, ungratefully, as wo reached her own door, you would not be so realy to encourage his impudence with sixpences. But I'm glad the day's work is over.' A VOICE F'R.O M SCOTLAND, DRAB .`'tri", -1 0111 highly reonmmol d Hagya•d's 1 eo .•rral limlra'n. It ear, d my daughter of a cong+h she had born troubled wilt since cid' 3'1ood, She i, twelve years old. Mas, M. FAIRCHILD, Scotlaotl, Oat, BUQAglo Q),Q• 1FINtANi .. l4and ] oaxasalna' Uouost >l'eupla varied rettartattlre, ' Vinland, whore ".night is only waiting, flay,', and whore Twilight and 14 wit WA.et betrothed pair whose united lentpe in. the holght of s.umtrter blare with 814() clor in ilia northern heavene, 10 peol)lett with i4144T • tanto who are strong aud .. hardy, wirlu, bright, intelligea4 faces, high cheep» bone8'; yellow. hair is coininot, but by ne means the rule, black or dark brown being frequeutly meet with. FINN PEASANT GMT,. in the interior.. With regard, to their social habits, morals and manners, all travel- lera are uuaninieus in speaking well of them. Their temper ie universally mild, they are slow to anger, and when augry they keep silence. 'I'lley are happy-lteart- ed, affectionate Gr ono another, and honor- able and honest in their dealings with strangers. Tiley are a cleanly people, be- ing much given to the use of vapor baths. This trait is a can- apicuons note of their character from their ,aseroot l earliest history to the present day. Often /iix' in the runes of the .tccrrsTSTRINODEnc, "Kalevala" reference VINLtxD's nnow,$'- is made to the cleans- Itr(e ing aid healing virtues of the vapors of the heated bathroom ; they are morally up- right and have an honesty and simplicity of character tntul?y foreign to that of the Russian ; they are hospitable, faithful, and submissive, with a keen sense of personal freedom and independence, but they are also somewhat stolid and revengeful. Super- stition flourishes among the Finns to a far greater extent than is generally known, and often takes its form in quaint legends. Finland can boast of -a varied literature more or less indigenous, the ;;feat monu- ment of which is the "Kalevala," an epic poem which, until the present century, elastad only m fragments it) the memories and on the lips of the peasantry. It a'as systematically- ar- r ranged in 1835 by Dr. Elias Lomlrot, of 'Stockholm, who for years wandered and lived among the peas- antry, taking, down from their lips all they knew of their popular songs. These he arranged in thirty - 7. TOL'13LICA, LEAD• t.wo runes or cantos, iso roes. and so gavo to the world a (11033 glorious epic poem. Max Muller places the "Kalevala" on a level with the greatest epic of the world, Longfellow's "Hiawatha" is a good imi- tation of its style. The representative poet and author of Finland in Dr. Zacharias Topclius, of whom a good p1111030 is given. He was born near Aho it) 1818. A more gentler. lo•i•(0 anti broad -in hided nem it would l o hard' to find. His 131nsttit'8SOU) breathes the lriagie 93'111 pathy of a heart full of n0,10311089 aid atfectila for his fellowmen, and all nature receives, ft{a tr.ibattegt}j , Mery of the creator. One woiiltf-seurch in vain for a trace of b:ttcrness in his works, Angust Slvn'.l1)01.g, born in Stockholm in 1847, is of Finnish extraction ; .his writ- ings possess a 003v0118,. gi•aec'ful, hut intri- cate strength that at times reminds one of Browning, with a dash of Lola thrown in. Ho Is a 111'311 of great ability though socze- what erratic. 1,(1((31 "KA r.,1 " Why ainunio0 1 it; thy mother? Why IL lonve (0' vat iv c c•ulutrl-i Here 11)T.: 1 1( 1'li•ln'_;ut of troubI;, Fiero no Cn, lx•,u 1. t I burd(1O, liars', won, 1••1 1l 1'1 pines of (omit, '1301.u1,1e1; to the ('rages and rtl 1100, Bitter ;;ri:,fs to reeds of ular.h l ad Cnlltplaietli to lonely !Grease, Likt' 1,110 1:•af thou flnatc,1 onward, Like,tI elinttt rIt' ill-sun(tnt•r,' — - lil'ew a hay a beauteous ht,: ry In the meadow of thy mother. Yonder i, 111 ;,,;1'1;•01 .infant: There thy holy hale lies slaepiwg, iii:111rn t,i :,i , belt in water, Hidden in t3.• 1'''.1.) and rushes, A ,n,,:(11 14,.13. Island- Bing. Slut 1'r,1,11c10 1 19 groat now entortainsng rnynity it) the tlrrsen of Bing Kbtnort, of the island.of Bat ..ritsri, ono of the (filbert group of r!(e South lien, hhunts. TIo arrived in a trading schomier the other day. 'I'Inil'e u'aS 0o e'rlltte laved ler 111131 as the va.;.s01 bearing 11is Majc::ty SIIl>11od through rho \* Golden (late, yet all the sittul? 111 is more 1•f of a monarch than King Kalnkann, who ;.' • :� who was the Inst c-r>u•ned head that Sin Fran. ,icisco entertained, for libinol:•t's word is kw /f f to the ",00!1 subjects over tvhlrh he rules, i' ��� ',yr and he has tho power i �Q of life anddeath over every one of thein. RPM 33331,)a3, 1111 19 a, autocratic in fact as 1•:anpetor William is in theory, and socialism is a moral growth that has not yet taken root in the South Seas. The King is a bigg2r elan than John L. Sullivan, and weighs 1180 pounds, Ile has very little superfluous flesh. I, is all hard muscle. Isis shoulders are huge, and the muscles of his arm and of the calf of his log remind cue of the Terrible swede. Hn stands six feet in his stockings, and ho is symmetrically built. His face is not the face of a negro, although he has the complexion of the African. His head is well shaped, and only the thick nose and full lips sug- gest the negro. He wears a close beard. His eye is large, full, and intelligent, an. his whole appearance amiable and et th same time full of dignity. It is still trying for the King to we. civilized clothes, though he has worn the. for some time now, and when seen in th black Prince Albert coat and trousers h looked as miserable as he evidently fell His clothes don't fit him, and, worst of all he has to wear shoes that make him clam about exactly es though lie were short wit] horseshoes. His suite consists of iii nephew, Prince Antavar, and his interpr ter, who is known as Jack the Pilot. , eels tte t" 1;1,.