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BsagPipsess&nd -Pipers:
The bagpipe And the harp are the , most
ancient insitiueuients. Representations of
the bagpipe= are to be found on the painted
walls of palaces, and temlee, and tombs of
Egypt; on the acul.ptu monuments of
Nineveh, on the fescoes of erculaneum and
Pompeii ; and in the rude carvings of the
rock temples of India.
The bagpipe is mentioned by. the most
ancient poets and historians.. Homer sings
of it in his Iliad Odyssey, and Heredotus
refers to it in his book of tree\ els,
The bagpipe was known in northern and
western Europe long before civilization had
extended thither, for we find it frequently
portrayed on the fantastically. sculptured
Runic crosses and monumental stones, of
which many- perfect specimensstill remain,
Bagpipes are frequently met with in .the
decorations of Gotihc architecture, and in
the illuminations of missals which date
back many centuries.
The bagpipe__ in its rudest and most an-
cient form is still in use among thei peasan-
try of Italy, some of whom—poor wander
ing p- 'erari . (pipers)—are occasionaly seen
in our streets, The bagpipe is still a pop-
ular instruement in many lands, its most
perfected form being that of the great
Highland bagpipe.
In times not very remote, pipers were to
be found in every English and Scottish vil-
lage and town, •holding a position equal in
importance to the buil-man or town -crier.
Their duty was to play at civic festivals and
other public merry -makings, and they were
frequently called upon to assist and en-
courage by their lively strains the reapers
and the wood -cutters in their arduous labors.
No '(harvest home could be celebrated with-
out their presence.
A4 piper was formerly attached Lo the
house of each Highland chief or head of a
clan, whose services were required alike at
festivals and funerals, and who was also
bound to accompany his- master to the
foray Ind the fight. Some Highland chiefs
still include a piper among their retainers,
who performs on the terrace or lawn out-
side the dining hall during the hour of din-
ner, and in the evening tunes his pipes a
second • time to planitive pibrochs and
lightsome reels and stratnspeys for the de-
lectation of his master's guests. A piper
has for many years been attached to the
Royal Household.
The bagpipe in the hands of the unskil-
ful performers who perambulate our streets
sounds most discordantly, but when played
by a skilful musician among the echoing
hills and valleys, its notes, sometimes of
triumph, sometimes of lament, fall with a
plaintive sweetness on the ear.
About two hundred years ago a school
for instruction in pipe -music was opened
and conducted in. Skye by McRimmon, a
native of the island, at that time . the most
musicsl district in tl_e Highlands. "Mc-
Rimmons Lament" is a well known air
throughout the Highlands. it was written
by him, whose name it bears, and played
by him as he strode down the , mountain
side to the Bay of Uig, where the ship flay
that was to bear him to the shores of Am-
erica, never again to revisit "the island of
the misty _mountains. "
Farewell to Dunvegan, its rock and its river;
McLeod may return, but McRimmon shall never.
Twenty years ago when sailing along the
coast of Skye, I was driven by stress of
weather into a rock sheltered cove and far
from the rugged headland of Ru-naliraddare.
I was cordially welcomed by the fishermen,
who invited me to their both►, and insis-
ted upon my sharing i their plentiful and
humble .Meal -.54'Y t
ter theta -UA"
T
and potatoes. Ai-
' t of the
k� caned sea
which once
�/a1,JVY
belonged . W-#� _° '. r`, who ` had been
Japer to Sir Walter Scott, John played
,A - inaan y tunes, and tola many stories of pipes
and pipers, the welt -known anecdote of the
piper who had never learned to play a
• "retreat" not being omitted. John was
present at the "'last funeral in which pipe-
' music
ipe''music formed part of the ceremony. It
was the funeral of Mrs. Campbell, who
was buried in tho old chnrch-yard of Dun
t' ulm, the most northerly part of the Island.
;The effect of the pipe -music was very im-
_ presssive. While the long procession of
e mourners would round the bases ' .of the
hills,. the wild, wailing strains of the Camp-
bell's Bibroch, floated out over t'ae grey
waters of the Northern Sea.
John was well acquainted with the; piper
who was wounded by a spent ball during
the decisive charge at Waterloo.
" Aha 1 Johnnie lad " said the wounded
man in relating the adventure on his return
dome, " though I couldna steer mylegs, ,I
could steer my pipes, and when the kilties
and the red -coats were runnin' past me I
. struck up 'The braes o' Glenorchy,' and I
'can tell ye I ne'er blew wi' siccan birr nor
saw codgers run at siccan a rate."
The piper in the following story was dis-
tantly related to John Bruce.- A detatch-
ftnent of Highland' troops was encamped
near Allahabad, in India. - The regiment to
which the detatchment belonged had been
absent from home for many years, .yet war
and sickness had but slightly diminished
ta, numbers. Scarcely, however, had the
� • etatchment been encamped for a week
:when a disease broke out among the men
..::..::ths symptoms of which greatly puzzled the
. . -tor and his staff. No deaths occurred,
co
t those. attacked were zppletelY a'ros-
..
,.; rated, and day by day the v ckness spread
;One evening, when the doctor was return
- from the town, he heard the notes of isigpipe at a distant part of the encarfp-
to which:he sn once proceeded. Ile-
`-
t• here found a ,dumber of the men sten in,
circle, liitenrug to the strains of the pi-
�`consumate taste and feels<ng
was playin the old.lank,plaintive melody
�4We',.11 maybe return t•I�cs�chaber°nontorc.►,
The doctor in
the nature of
men ° were s
i
nas>rahy ')ecame aware
$e stud its cause, Tet;
, f"rom home -sickness,
known among" .znedieal' • men as nostalgia:
on the strains of this melody, which the pi-
per had been playiug night after night,
their thoughts were borne away from the
burning plains of Inds to the heathery
hills and blue lochs and , the firesides of
their Scottish homes. On the following
morning the doctor sent for the piper, and
told him that`he must no longer play 'Loch-
abar,' but substitute in its place the most
liveliest tunes in his repertory,. The piper
did as he .was ordered, and the disease
speedily disappeared.
About fifty years ago, before the great
tide of emigration began to flow westwards,
Lachlan McDonald• left his home at Gar-
viemore in Strathspey, and "settled" on the
shores of Lake Winnepeg, in the Far_ West.
While clearing his fend he was wont in the
intervals of labour to assure himself
with It tune on his bagpipe, which he al-
ways took to the woods wiih him. One
day, while.- merrily swinging his axe, he
was suddenly surrounded by a party of
Indians, who gesticulated in a most threat-
ening manner, He seized' his bagpipe and.
blew a blast so loud anil shrill" that the
Red Men took to their heels and were
soon lost to sight in the forest -gloom, Af-
ter this McDonald was known among the
T radians of the district as the "Great Scream-
er of the Pale Faces.".
These are a few of the pipe -stories of
good old John Bruce, whose bones are laid
near the rocky shores he loved so well,
and whose memory is revered by all the
dwellers in the 'East Side of Skye.'—British
Work—num. -
Madagascar
A remarkable religious revolution las
taken place in Madagscar. W e learn from
a letter from Rev. W. Poole, dated from
the capital on the 23rd of Septmeber, and
published in a weekly contemporary, that
the Queen has had the royol idols publical-
ly burned, that she and her aristocracy have
embraced Christianity, and that the whole
Province of Imerina, in which the capital
is situated, has followed the example of the
Government. The Queen embraced Chris-
tianity early in the year, and has all the
year been - building a chapel royal. Mean-
while the wooden fence round the Temple
of the great national idol had been pulled
down, and the priests assumed a threatening
aspect, even hinting that their god had
medicine which would avenge him on the
heretic Soverign. `On the 8th September
tbey came in force to the capital to claim
their rights as nobles. A council was called,
and it was decided to send the Chief Secre-
tary of State and other high officials to the
sacred village, seven miles from the capital,
and burn the idol before its keepers return-
ed. They set off the same afternoon, and
by an authority from the Prime Minister
seized the idol's house. The wood of the
fallen feude was collected. and a fire was
made, and the contents of the temple were
brought out to be burned. First, the long
cane carried before the idol in procession
was thrown in; then twelve bullocks horns
from wihch incense or holy water had been
sprinkled; then three scarlet umbrellas and
the silk robe, worn over the, idol by the
keeper who carried it, Then came the idols
case—the trunk of a small tree hollowed
and fitted with, a cover,•aud last of all the
idol itself. Hardly any of the present gen-
eration had seen the god- and great was the,
surprise when he was produced. Two
pieces' of scarlet silk about three feet lcng.:
and three inches wide, with a small piece
of wood as big as a man's thumb inserted
iu the middle between. them, so that the
silk formed as it were twos wings, was the
great god of Madagscar,' whose touch was
sanctifying, and whose nearness was pre-
servative. 'You cannot burn him, he is a
god,' said the people, said the officers;' we
are going to try,' and held it on a stick in
the fire, that "the people might see itasait *as
consumed. The victory -:was complete.
Next day four other idols shared the same
fate, and the rest followed. One was a
little bag of s4nd, anotherconsisted athree
round pieces of wood united by a silver chain
The people looked on in- wonder, and when
the process was over, seeing that - they now
had no gods to Worship, they sent to the
-Queen to ask what they were to worship
in future. The Government, says the
English Independent adding to the infor-
mation contained in Mr. Pool's letter, there -
.upon appealed to native Christains to send
Christian teachers,_ and they at once respon-
ded. It was found that out of 280 towns
and villages in Imerinas 120 already had
Christian Churches, and teachers were at
once found for all the rest' This move-
ment; which -is remarkable for. its purely
native origin, is another proof that in cer-
tain stages of civilzation nations may be
converted by authority. The conversion of
Madagascar bas been- accomplished in the
nineteenth century much as that of the
Saxons was accomplished in the sixth. The
icoiioclist is the reformer's forerunner. To
overthrow a fetish worship, the fetish it.
self must be first -destroyed.
.re ems,,
Ramance in the Life of
.body.
I E �.` <, r
foiinc khu nt lf; ins -no 80100011tt¢ltnar He
was not willing she should= waste her youth
and glorious beauty inwaiting through
long years for the day to come . , when he
could Caliber his own, so.he flreleaaeds• ,.her
from her vows, and they parted she going,
as I said before, to Europe. There she met
`'the late. George Peabody, then comparative-
ly speaking, a young man, but one who
was already making his mark, and whose
wealth was beginninag to pour in on every
side. He saw her and was struck (as who
that ever saw her was not 4) with her grace,
her winning ways, her exceeding loveliness,
and, after a while he "proposed." Her
heart still clung to her loved one across the
wide Atlantic, but after some .time . she
yielded, perhaps to the wishes of her friends
perhaps to the prompting of worldly ambi-
tion, who can tell 1 Who can fathom the
heart of a young and beautiful maiden'?
She became the affianced wife of Mr. Pea.
body. After a little interval she came
back to this country, and soon after her ar-
rival met her first love, and after events
justify me in saying her " only love." At
sight of him all her former affection came
back, if indeed, it had ever left- her, and
Mr. Peabody, with his wealth and brilliant
prospects, faded away, and she clung with
fond affection, to her American lover, and
was willing to share a moderate income
with the chosen of her heart. All was• told
to Mr. Peabody, and be, with the manli-
ness which characterized his every • action
gave her up, and in due time she was mar-
ried and settled in a city not more than
three hundred miles from Providence.
What she suffered in coming to a final con-
clusion was known to but few. - Her fair
cheeks lost their roundness, and grew wan
and pale, leer lovely eyes had a mournful
wistfulness that touched every heart. Some
blamed her, others praised her. o- Those who
were ambitious of worldly honors pronoun-
ced her mind " mad," " foolish" to throw
over a man like George Peabody, whose
ever increasing wealth weuld bestow every
luxury upon her, and place her in a.position
in London that would makeeher lot an en-
vied one, to many a man who might never
have more than a limited income to live
upon. Others—and shall I say the nobler
part 1—justified her in thinking that love,
true love, was more -to be desired than
wealth or earthly fame. The painful con-
flict was at length ended. Her true wo
manhood vindicated itself, and she wavered
no more. I well remember, when in Lon-
don, 28 years ago hearing all this . talked
over in a chosen circle of Ameriean friends,
and also at a brilliant dinner party given
by General Bassin Versailles, it was thor-
oughly discussed mall its length and breadth,
Whether in his visit to this country Mr.
Peabody ever met his once affianced bride
I cannot say, neither do I know whether,
when she heard of his more than princely
wealth, her heart ever gave a sigh at the
thought, "all this might have been mine."
After several years of wedded bliss, death
took her husband from her side, when, the
glorious loveliness had ripened into the full
luxuriance of perfect inatronhood.
George Pea -
Brussels and its Manufactories..
The Belgians, especially in Brussels, so
closely resemble the French people in man-
ners, customs, languageand other character-
estics, that you can scarcely believe but that
you are in a French city. There ismuch
love of fine sights, fine music, shows and
places. of amusement and pleasures that
characterize the French everywhere, and
while the Belgians hay e their essential
French traits and tastes, they are 'also a.
most industrious, frugal and economical
people. At least one third the citizens of
Brussels speak the French language. The
manufacturers of Belgium are something
extraordinary, relatively to those of other
people. Doubtless, few nations of the
world excel them in the extent or value
of their mechanical productions, where the
size of their country and the number of
'their poprilation is taken into. the, account.
It is the superior quality of their carpets,
for example, that has given the name of
their chief city the style of carpet used
throughout all countries where civilization
extends, while they have enormously
large interests in varicua mechanical pro-
ducts.
The laces of Brussels are famous world-
wide, and few American ladies can stand it
to see elegant thread end point lace sold
here at prices (the sixty per cent" duty be-
ing out ° of the way) iso apparently low,
without investing all their spare change, in
specimens,^ which "are so bandy to have in
the heti*you know-"
We visited the lace manufactnries, esf e -
dally some of the leading ones, and saw
enough. of them to learn that Americans
were favourite 'customers for ,their finer
goods; but did not conclude, after all, that
Brussels is a better place to select than
Paris, because there is no duty on lace: be-
tween Belgium and France, and every man-
ufactery in Brussels has its agent and re-
presentative in Paris, where 'you have so
match finer stocks to select from, so much
more extensive assortments, that it is as:
inu .h better to purchase in .Paris as it.
would be to buy at Stewa sass rather than in
a'ssmall store and from a limited stock here.
:. These laces are - all made by women and
girls, who work day after 4y and month-
after month on these e splendid fabrics pa-
, tiently, by Band, and'their wag€ range°from
Adie to two -franca ,per .day, depending upon
'tl`resfi:i11 of the irork-women, boar`d ng> at
'tro` `��''t eat to firty'rot`so `° `
at workon which _they cannot le tlong, as
rit: iDS: the.e esight. after a time* go steady.,
sorsistent and exhausting is thni kind of
Pe m:
More than thirty *._ears ago, in the far-
famed school of that prince of teachers,
John Kiniury3 4Sti^one o%ache fairest of
all .the;fair # nghterssof, Providence, cele
,s Y _ : <._,_:�_... :.. 1 ®ver.
brated far anc� nigh, 9as that city has .
been for its liively girls. Her school edu-,.
to
rte however b re .hying. -given -
L L-- • r� tS ii.. . Aw
Ther' outhful , i n> :� s $ .-young n
whom she had met an a Aster city. qt
befbr`e�:arriage had consummated their,
happiness. adverssiity .came upoit, him ,azid he
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Characters in Sco tLnd England, Ireland
Holland and other Countries in
EUROPE..
SHOWING the causes which led the present
Proprierora of Huron to leave the Old
Countries and settle in the Backwoods of the
FAR WEST.
TOVE of the Old, Old. Home, Heart Rending
Farewells, Dangers of the Deep. Sad Calam-
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RUSSIAN WAR.
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INDIAN WARFARE.
Will be published about the 1st of March next.
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HE subscribers beg leave to tender their sin-
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work with despatch), they feet confident of giving
every satisfaction to those who may favor them
with their patronage, as none but first-class
workman are employed.
Particular attention paid to custom planing,.
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Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870.
Toronto Millinery.
TH r. Subscriber begs to announce to the
Ladies of Seaforth, and vicinity, that she
has opened out a choice stock of Millinery, and
- Fancy Goods, in the Shop lately occupied by
Mrs. Guthrie, and adjoining Mr. Logan's Store,
And from herlong;experience in the Business in
Toronto, she feels warranted in saying that
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.She is prepared`. to execute- orders on the
shortest notice for all kinds of Millinery, Dress
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hair work, done with neatness.
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'Present
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Salectiona from his present extensive Steck. oom-
Prised in =pact of -
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Bureaus, Cupboards, . Tabled, ` Bedateadii
M attrrsaes, Se Dressing and Wash
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