4 G2 
^railing for Uje goiing. 
REMINISCENCES OF A LITTLE GIRL. 
MRS. M. J. GAI.riN. 
CTIAPTER IU. 
We will now leave the fugitive pair and return 
to L —, and see liow matters progressed after their 
flight was known. The rage ot McGregor, alter 
he found bis daughter had flown. In express con¬ 
tradiction to his orders, was boundless; in fact, it 
left him powerless to do mischief, to any but him¬ 
self, and resorting to the wbtskyln flrst- class style, 
he was soon oblivious of all hLs surroundings. Ills 
broken-hearted little wire wept silent, bitter tears 
over what she considered her daughter’s disgrace, 
and her misery was full lo overllowlug when she 
heard the abandoned little one’s walling for 
“ mamma,” 1 never approvod of the action of this 
headstrong pair (when I had learned the facts) In 
thus flying in the face of all obstacles to obtain 
their own ends. Aunt Katie (tor she was my auut) 
was far more to blame than Uncle Tommy, be¬ 
cause he was as yet, but a boy In years, aud she 
had been married and had the holy ties of mother¬ 
hood to bind her, but when we once give way to a 
blind and ungovernable passion, It is very hard to 
tell where it will end. Tommy's family were in 
the deepest sorrow and felt themselves forever 
disgraced by tlielr son’s action; but alas! poor 
uncle, he suffered for it all the remaining veavs of 
his life. When at last Roy McGregor came to his 
senses, he gave strict orders that hts child’s nuinc 
should never be mentioned In hts house, nor did 
her little helpless ones dare to utter the name of 
mother. When under the influence of liquor ho 
used to take his bayonet urid charge around look¬ 
ing for those worse than erplians “to put tlimn 
out of their misery,” as he said, and not have a 
“ turn-coat priest” lor a father, but the little 
waifs soon learned to know his ways and used to 
make themselves “scarce” lu a hay stack till his 
fury was over. The anger of the church against 
its “recreant son” was lnteuse, while the rabble 
were ready to burn the “ vile heretics” should 
they dare to appear. The church proceeded to 
pronounce its “ anathema” against Father Tom 
and all that might pertain to him. 
While the fugitive pair were still wandering as 
if the “mark of Cain" were on their brows, that 
fell disease, small-pox, bo fatal among the Irish, 
appeared in the town in Us most malignant form. 
The family of Father Tom (as we shall still call 
him) were among lis victims, also the children of 
his wife were stricken down. The little, hot, 
weary heads aud restless hnnd3 were never stiff, 
and at last It was apparant that only death would 
relieve their Bufferings. The bravado and light of 
the redoubtable Roy cowed before this unseen foe, 
and he became as tractable as a child. The gentle 
grandmother did all In her power lor the helpless 
sufferers, bu> her heart was torn with grief for her 
absent, wandering child, who knew not at that 
moment that the Jives ot Uer little ones were fast 
ebbing away; ttiat never again would she behold 
two of those forms so dear to her heart. The In¬ 
cessant cry or the dying children was, “Won’t 
mamma turn at all.” Alter the ninth day the 
eldest or the three rallied and showed signs ot im¬ 
provement, but Ahulo and Charlie departed to 
climb tbe “ Golden Stair.” Their last words were 
to tell their mamma that they were “doin’ to 
Heben when she’d turn.” Charlie said that he 
would “ tlss mamma good night.” blessed tittle 
ones 1 theirs was the gain, for sad and dreary were 
the days of the little orphan who was spared H orn 
the hands of the fell destroyer. Two of Father 
Tom’s family died, a brother aud sister, and those 
that were spared were almost ruined by the traces 
of the disease, as they had it such a loathsome, 
violent form that they had to be turned and hand¬ 
led In sheets. Nearly every house mourned the 
1035 of one or more loved ones, and general gloom 
pervaded the town. Masses were said In the 
churches and prayers offered, but they seemed of 
no avail—the scourge ran its course till it stopped 
for lack of victims. Now the most Ignorant of the 
misses thought that the sacrilege perpetrated by 
Father 't om In marrying and In giving up his tatth 
and “holy orders” was tho reason that God had 
sent the pestilence among them, and if the guilty 
ones could have been found by the rabble they 
would have been hatshly dealt with. 
It may seem strange to the children how Father 
Tom and hts wife could remain Ignorant or all 
that was occurring, but you must remember that 
they were hiding from the vengeance of their 
people and their church, and only frequented 
small villages In an obscure retreat, where news 
arrived months after It had occurred. Ireland Is 
not as large as some of our states, yet In those 
days one could travel miles without meeting a 
human habitation. Rail-road communication 
only extended to important places or cities, so 
that suburban villages, at that time, were about 
as isolated as the black Hills were to us a few 
years ago. Did you ever hear of a pestilence or 
famine that was not attributed to God’s wrath 7 
Now I don’t think so, because all those events 
have a purely natural cause. Some of the most 
terrible afflictions wc attribute to the “ hand of 
God," whereas. If we but traced them to their 
source they are easily explained. Known unto 
God from the beginning were all things and when 
He formed man to lqhalUt this earth, which lie 
had made for him, He well know how the trans¬ 
gression against the laws af Nature or the Uni¬ 
verse would affect him. So that we may know 
when trouble overtakes ua; or a nation Is plunged 
into war or famine, that It Is but the Just result of 
the transgression or natural laws, sometimes 
those very disasters are the stepping-stone, or en¬ 
trance to jpol. Loik to day how Ireland Is 
writhing under the heel of England's iron rule; 
out of all this contention good is bound to come, 
though now we xnay not see It. Whenever Ireland 
allowed free schools, religious toleration and 
freedom of thought and action, then will the 
THE HUfliU, IN £W-¥ 
MARCH 6 
“ Green Isle " blossom as the Rose and be as Tom 
Moore described It, “ First gem of the sea.” The 
Irish are a bright, witty, fun-loving race. They 
can be led with a silken string, but cannot be 
driven with a lash. I heard an uneducated Irish¬ 
man say once, that “ Falx, they wor like their own 
pigs, mighty atsy to coax, but very hard to drive.” 
1 hope I shall live to see the day that Ireland Is 
blessed with freedom and Independence, or that 
England will sometime come to her senses and see 
that according to the Irish nature, her policy of 
coercion, that she has always and Is still practic¬ 
ing, Is totally wrong, And If she wishes to retain 
Ireland In her clutches, Bhe w ill either have to 
change her tactics, or bo forever on tho lagged 
edge ot annoyance. In my next we will follow the 
fugitive pair and see how they are prospering in 
their perambulations around the country. 
SVatervllle, Kan. 
-» ♦-»- 
THAT BROTHER OF MINE. OR HORTICUL¬ 
TURE INDOORS-SPICED. 
MBS. M. L. SAYEKS. 
“ Will, do help me to move 1 hese boxes from the 
mantel to the sun on the porch," said bliss, as she 
looked at her array of pots and boxes In which she 
had planted seeds, watered and placed over the 
llre-pjace to get bottom heat. 
“ Wbat arc you doing with some plied on the 
others like a ‘stack of black cats,’ not to be seen 
In the dark? Do you raise flowers by elemtton 7" 
said Will, as he mounted a stool to reach tho 
highest. 
“ I stacked the boxes up, In order to have room; 
besldc3, the seeds germinate quite as well In the 
dark and keep moist on Hie surface, while the air 
la warm’beneath and around them,” and bliss 
carried out the Geranium-box to a bench on 
the porch, for Bhe had planted a few cuttings in 
the fall, then u week ago had stirred up the earth 
around them with her little floral set or garden 
tools, and planted line seeds, sifted over them pul¬ 
verized earth, watered and left them to germinate 
while the cuttings would start new leaves. 
She was bending over the Geranium picking off 
the dead leaves and spying out the new tender 
ones, when will exclaimed, “ Hello, Bliss 1 Here's a 
tnousand tittle pale bicepnalous chaps peeping out 
at me, like pigmies at Gullver.” 
bll*s found Will on tiptoe peering Into the secor d 
box, and asked, “ Are they up already ? Read the 
label—no, bund them down—Daisies, 1 declare—up 
so soon! 
“OhI lack-n-datsy!" said Will, looking Into the 
next box, " Shoo-llyer I Here’s your string of wild- 
geese with their wmg-8 spread, and their necks 
stretched,” aud Will handed down the next box. 
“Tomatoes,” said bliss, as she carried them out. 
“ The sun and air will soon bring the color to 
them. They will no longer be white geese, as you 
call them, Will.” 
‘-Yea, colored Tommy-foes, all In rows, HJce a 
flock of crows," and Will examined the next Cox, 
and the next, as bliss carried out those with Ver¬ 
bena, Tansy, Lychnis, Canna. Candy-tuft, and so 
on, till she hid them all out In the sun; when she 
sprinkled them gently with luke warm water, 
will continued to comment, sometimes In original 
rhyme, sometimes In slang, which bliss reproved 
as highly vulgar and low. and not at all suitable 
for flowers, which breathe purity and should de¬ 
late. 
“OhI yea, you were trying to make an elevator 
of those boxes for your brother, were you ? And 
did get me up as high as a three-legged stool and 
my tip-toes would lift me? much obliged,” said 
Will. “ but why do you call these Uttle fuzzy 
plants Jtsh Geraniums. Do they bloom ichytho'.o- 
yy 7 They ought to be aquatics." 
" Their right name Is “ Zonale," possibly because 
belts of shade, like zoneB, around their leaves. We 
call them “flsh,” because of a fancied resemblance 
In the smell of them,” explained bliss. 
“ And do you carry them In and out, and set 
them up and down, because they smelt like flsh? 
I ll catch you some to wear at your throat-latch, or 
in your vlualgrette," said WUI, os he snatched a 
minnow from the aquarium and held It to bliss’s 
nose-poor girl! 
“Mother!" called bliss, and Will dashed the flsh 
Into the Jar and fled. 
Bliss now enjoyed looking over her little garden 
in the warm sunshine, picking off the green aphis 
with tho point of a darning needle and feeding the 
flsh with them, and the tiuy worms from the damp 
earth In the boxes. When the sun got low, she 
placed the boxes again upon the mantel for tho 
night, bhe will have early plants lor her beds. 
-- 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Deak Uncle Makk and Cousins;— 1 suppose 
that I can hardly claim relationship, as l have 
been silent so long. I was at Chautauqua last 
summer. A short time ago a brief skelchwas In 
tho Rubai, about Chautauqua. I wrote, several 
letters, after my return home, about ray expe¬ 
rience while there; but, finding all too long, 
would not send them. 1 received quite a collec¬ 
tion of presents on Christmas; one of which was a 
large autograph album, in which I would like to 
have you all write. I do not live on a farm and 
never have, so l know very little about farming, 
never havtng raised anything but flowers, with 
the exception of the radish seeds Uncle Mark Bent 
to me. I must tell you about Ihcrn: After 1 had pre¬ 
pared some ground, about & foot square, I planted 
allot the seeds, and covered them over lightly; I 
watered frequently, and was Boon rewarded by 
seeing a regular bed of greeu heada peeping up. 
When they grew larger, I intended to transplant 
them; but some one told mo that they could not 
be transplanted. 1 knew that they should not be 
so thick, so 1 pulled some up. Some of them grew 
to he quite large, but were so crowded that they 
had very little chance to flourish. 1 am study¬ 
ing painting, with the intention ot making it a pro¬ 
fession. One small panel, that I painted, sold 
for ten dollars. I have some pastil pictures 
also, hut do not know as yet whether they are 
sold or not. One word to Ilellotrophe. I heard 
Joseph Cook’s lecturae, while at Chautauqua, 
and am also reading his latest ’ectures. You 
addressed the editor as U. M. In your last letter 
and signed yourself as “your loving cemdu.” 
Ilow Is that? Two sisters and also Slayer-of- 
concelt, why do you not write again ? With love 
to all. ’ FRizzle Tor. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— It has been a long time 
since 1 have written to you. I have been pretty 
busy getting subscribers for tho Rural, and 1 
suppose this will go Into the dreaded waste-bas¬ 
ket ; but I will ti ust lo the best. Welt, about hor¬ 
ticulture; 7 have not done much. I have got a 
few raspberry plants, but did not have very good 
luck. I tried to get a club for the Rural. I trav¬ 
eled Borne and got three (3) subscribers but let Mr. 
Knapp have them. Shall try again another year 
If nothing happens. Well, It this finds its way 
Into the Rural I will try to summon courage to 
write again. Hoping to hear from the cousins 
soon. I remain ever yours, Willie K. 
Chenango Forks, N. Y. 
[You should not have given up getting sub-crlb- 
ers too early, Willie. A very few more would have 
entitled you to a printing press, asetof telephones, 
or to that wonderful pocket-kDtfe, or to any one of 
the multitude or things offered tn the rural Pre¬ 
mium List. It would have paid you well for the 
trouble.— Uncle Makk.j 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I would like to Join your 
Horticultural Club. I have never done much gar¬ 
dening, but I nmgolng to have a garden ot my own 
next summer ir the wind will hold up long enough 
for me to get Hie seeds In the ground. I am going 
to have water-melons for one thing and peanuts 
ror another. I shall have some Dowers, too, I 
like Tansies. 'Tho flowers look like Uttle faces and 
I like to see them nodding at, ono another. We 
moved here last Bummer, aud into a new house 
built In a corn field. The corn Is gone now and It 
looks bare, so we arc all thinking of the trees we 
will plant lu t he spring. I am ten years old. I go 
to the town school; have a mile to go. It Is very 
pleasant here but the wind blows hard sometimes. 
Clay Co., Kansas. Raymond N. story. 
Dear uncle mark:— will you please to open 
the Horticultural door to two little Texans who 
very much eujoy your letters as well as those from 
tbe dear Rural Cousins. We have a long season 
here and raise two crops a year. Last year we 
had a cottou patch, and a sweet potato lidge. be¬ 
tide some hills of watermelons, all of which did 
well. Nobody else did any work on them. This 
year papa is going to give us some peart millet 
seed, such as your paper sent him, and if you too, 
win favor us with some steds—we will “ am what 
we shall see,” and In due time report to you, our 
success. From your Uttle nephew and nelce, 
Harley and Ella Matthews. 
Bexar Co., Texas. 
Dear Uncle Mark. —Some time ago I promised 
you i hat I would report my success as a florist I 
suppose you will think It Is rather late, but as the 
old saying is, better late than never, 1 think that I 
can say that my flg wer garden was a success. I re¬ 
ceived the second premium at our county fair for 
the largest and best variety of cut flow era. I In¬ 
tend to have another flower garden next spring. 
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