A Coloma (Tenn.) paper has this
may of Miss Wilkes: “Miss Mary
of this city, not only one of the
quecnly and typical beauties of
nly womanhood, but of the
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mossce's sponsor at the Richmond (Va)
Confederate States’ Reunion, in June,
Besides her many attractive accomplish
ments, she is also a woman of talent and
80d sense. She will reflect credit upon
herself and honor upon the State.”
AN ARKANSAS BEAUTY.

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Miss Tomple Toland, who was chosen
by Major-General John G. Fletcher, com
manding the Arkansas Division, U. CU.
Y., to represent Arkansas at the reunion
as sponsor, resides at Nashville, Ark.
She 18 regarded az one of the beauties
of her State, and her popularity sskends
beyond the Hmits of Arkansas. She ig a
brunctte, with delicately-chiselied fea.
teres and graceful figure She is the
daughter of Mr. Thomas I. Toland, who
was one of the bravest private soldi rs
who served in the Confederate army. lie
was fn Captain Wadson's Company, Nire
teenth Arkansas Regiment Infantry, lle
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SPONSOR FOR MISSOURI,
Migs lalees Kennard, danghter of
Samuel Kennard, president of the Pusi
ness-Men's League, of St. Louls, was
chosen by General Joe She by as sponsor
for Miossouri at the Confederate reunion.
Miss Kennard is a handsome young lady
of uncommon accomplishments, and is
a fit selection to lead the fifteen maids
of honor from Missouri at the reunion,
The honor conferred upon her is much
prized and is well-bestowed,

There were a number of nrominent
young ladies in St. Louls and in various
(Spousor lor
other parts of Missouri who would have
felt highly honored at the choice.


FROM THE BLUE-GRASS STATE.
Miss Julia Hugres Spurr, sponsor for
the State of Kentucky, is the daughter
of Hon. Richard A. Spurr. Her mother
was Miss Ruth Sheffer, f Fayette county,
Ky.


Hon. Richard A. Spurr was captain in
the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, Cluke's
Regiment, General John H. Morgan's
command, Army of Tennessee. He was
with Genoral Morgan on the famous
Ohio raid, and continued in the service
until the close of the war, and has since
served for ten years in the lower house
and Scnate of Kentucky.



Miss Spurr graduated from Sayre le
male Institute, Lexington, Ky., which
institute has for its principal, Major IH.
B. McClellan, of General J. EK. B.
Stuart's staff. She finished her education
under Madame efebvre, in Baltimore.
She comes from good, old Virginia an
cestry; on the paternal side, from the
Montgomerys, dmunds, Winns, Cot
tons Chandlers and Robinsons,


On the maternal side, she numbers
among her ancestors the Pattons, Camp
bells, Hughes, Humes, and Popes. She
was one of the original charter-members
of the Lexington Chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Miss Spurr is 5 feet 6 1-2 inches in
height, of slender, graceful figure. She
is a brunette, and is a typical danghter
of Kentucky. 8he is handsome, and is
regarded as one of the noted Blue-Grass
beauties,
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The Lexington (Ky.) Daily Argonant
has the following to say about Miss Spurr:
“Miss Julia Spurr, of Pine Grove, than
whom no young lady in the entire State
is better known or more richly descrves
the distinetion, has just heon chosen
sponser fo the Confederate Veterans' As
sociation of the State of Kentucky, The
National Association will meet at Rich
mond, Va., in June, on which occasion
Miss Spurr will be the central figure of
the Kentucky Association.

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“Miss Spurr is a brilliant voune wo
man, a charming conversatonalist, and,
withal, a most unique selection for that
distinguished honor.”
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DISTRICT OF COLUM

ARSIRI A Ur LLU MBLIA.
Miss Virginia Semmes Payne, of War
renton, Va., the sponsor for the District
of Columbia, is the youngest daughter
of General William H Payne, a Very.
distinguished cavalryv-officer in the Corns
federate States army. She is the ol of
her parents, and at the elegant homes
of her father, In Warrenton, Va., and
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MISS MARY ADEANE WILKES,
MISS MINNIE BOYD,
IKX=nannenr far TCXas.
of frlenda She Is a lovely g'rl of the
of friends, She Is a lovely girl of ihe
blonde type, her face sweet, and joyous
with a gleaming smile for all who ap
vroach 9% “The following well-known
ladleg have bean selected as her malds
to honor Misses Mattie Tyler, daughter
of Captain Nathamel Tyler; Glorvina B,
Gerdon, danghter of Wilitam A. Gordon;
Lindsay Lomax, daughter of General
Lindsay 1. Lomax; Annie L. Biscoe,
daughter of Major Henry L. Biscoe;
Charlotte Nelson, daughter of Rev.
George W., Nelson: Esther Cordon,
daughter J. Holdsworth Gordon; Joseph
ine B. Yermck, danghter of George Mer
tick; Halen (Clarke, danghter of Hon.
Richard M. Clarke; Anna R. Heth, daugh
ter of General Harry Heth; Birdie Wash
ington, dunghter of the late Captain Bur
reil Washington; Virginia Goodwin, niece
of Mujor William P, Couper; Eliza R.
Peachy, daughter of Willlam D. Peachy;
Mary Young, daughter of Dr. William P.
Young; Iulia Hunter, daoghter of Major
Robert W. Hunter, and Mary PB. Black
ford, daughter of Captain B. Lewis Black
ford.
Miss i"ayue 15 exceedingly popular In
Warrenton, and {ts people are highly
gratifted that she should have recelved
this honor, which ls 2 very distinguished
one, That she will in the discharge of
the Aunties assigned her acquit herself
with great credit {8 the conldent expec
tation of all who know her.

SPONSE FOR OKLAHOMA.
One of the most attractive young ladles
expected to be in the tableaux of Southern
beauties is Miss Mary M. Beale, who was
appointed by Major-General Edward 1.
Thomas, commander of the Oklahoma
Divielon of the United Conftderate
Vaterang, to pot as sponsor for Oklahoma
Territory. iss Beale Is a native of Ken
tneky, and the youngest child of Dr.
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Andrew J. and Mary Tucker Beale. Her
grandparents were natives of Fauquier
county, Va., but emigrated to Kentucky.
Her grandfather Beale fonght in the war
of 1812. Her father was graduated in 1853
from the medical department of Transyl
vania College, in Lexington, Ky., and
practiced his profession about thirty
years in Cynthiana, Ky.
Dring the lute war, he was captain of
Company D, Ninth Confederate Ken
tucky Infantry. His brigade was known
as the Orphans’ Brigade, After being
wounded at Murfreesboro’, he was, in
1863, transferred to the medical staff, and
acted as surgeon till the close of war,
He has hela many positions in county
and State governments, Moving West,
at the opening of the “lerritory, he was
lected first Mavor of Oklakema City. He
ju now commander of the Confederate
Veterans at Oklahoma City, and has been
elected delegate trom OKlahomi A=rri
tory to the National Democratic Conven
tion at Chicago. During the war he
fought bravely for the Confederate cause,
and rendered valuable service throughout
the entire struggle, He is a man of
means, and has a wide influence through
out the district of country where he lives.
Dr. Beate now lives an honored, retired
lite on his valuable farm, near Oklahoma
City.


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Miss Beale is tall and graceful, and of
a decided brunette type of beauty. She
was cducated in Kentucky, having at
tended “Science Hill” at Shelbyville, and
finished her collegiate course at Central
College, Missonri,
HER MAIDS OF HONOR.
Miss Ophelia Overstreet, one of Miss
Reale's maids of honor, is a Missqurian by
birth. When oo child she moved with her
parents to ureka Springs, Ark., where
she spent most of her life. She was prin
cipally educated at Clarke's Academy,
but after finishing there, ghe 100K 2
course in the N. N. University, in Chio.


Her father was born in Bedford county,
Va. and her mother in Madison county,
Ky. They each came with their parents
to Jackson county, Mo., when anlte
young. All of her relatives who served
in the civil wal weve in the Confederate


ary. ller father was under General
Miss Virginia Tucker, who is also a
Price.
maid of honor to Miss Btale, is the only
chitfd ft Berkeley Montagne everly
Tucker and Add Byron lewis Tucker,
and was born in Saline county, Mo. She
was reared in St. Joseph, where she was
educated, and graduated from the St.
Joseph High School in 1891. Since then
she has resided in Oklahoma city.

She had many relatives who served in
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brother, Thomas Smith Beverly Tucker,
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paternal grandfather was Judge Nathanie]
Beverly Tucker, of Willlamsburg—a half
brother of John Randolph.
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Lewites and Quarles, of Albemarle coun
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A CHOCTAW MAIDEN.
po i Bch
General Coleman struck a popular note
when he appointed as sponsor to repre
sent the Indian Territory at the reunion,
Miss Sudie McAlester, of McAlester, 1. T.
Miss McAlester, after whose father the
town in which she lives took its name,
is a typical daughter of the prairie, and
is, perhaps the ost popular young wonm.in
in Indian Territcry. She is just 21 years
of age and was born and reared at Me
Alester. Her father is James J. McAles
ter, and was first leutenant in Company
B, Twenty-second Arkansas infantry,
Confederate States army. Ile was a gal
lant €oldier, and rendered valuable service
to the cause he represented throughout
the entire war, participating in many im
portant battles. After the war he settled
in Indian Territory, and has amassed a
lage fortune. He is now United States
marshal for the Central District of the In
dian Territory. He is the wealthiest man
in the Territory, and one of the most in
fiential eitizens in that section of coun
try. He marred a daughter of a Confede
rate soldier, who was a Choctaw Indian,
His wife was, notwithstanding her na
tionality, a woman of fine attainments
and genuine culture,

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Miss McAlester ig one-half hoectaw hy
Blood, and is a typical Indian in stylt and
beauty. She Is very handsome, with
fine educational attainments, and is an
heiress. She 18 treasurer of the mother
chapter of the Daushters of the Lollieace
racy in Indain Territory
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Miss McAlester will have with her a
corps of maids of honor, all of whom are
of Indian extraction, They will form a
thoroughly representative delegation of
women for the Indian Territory Division
of the United Confederate Veterans,

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MARYLANTYS SPONSOR.
Miss Martha Parker Ramsay, who has
been appointed sponsor for Maryland, 1s
the daughter of Colonel Henry Asnton
Rameay, of Baltimore, commander of
Franklin-Buchanan Camp, United Con
federate Veterans, Col, Ramsay was
chief engineer aboard the ram Merrimac
during the famous engagement with ihe
Monitor in Hampton Koads, March, 182,
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Like her father, Miss Ramsay is tall and
fs of commanding presence. She 1s a
brunette, She studied under the Misses
Hall, of Baltimore, and was graduated
with first honors at the Virginia emale
Institute, at Staunton, of which Mrs. J.
12. B. Stuart, widow of the cavalry leader,
is principal, Since her graduation Miss
Ramsay has been prominent in soclety,
she has also taken an active interest in
literature. She Is vice-president of the
Quadriga Club, and is a member of the
Shakespeare Club, She is an expert whist
player.
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The inquiry has recently gone the
rounds of the press of the country, Why
do not Southern women write more of
the war? A Southern woman answers:
They bid us tell the story
Of our na.don’'s golden past,
And sing ler livinns of conquest
And chant her dirge at last.
But when the wounds mre fresh and
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MISS VIRGINIA 8. PAYNY,
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MISS TOMP IE TOLAND,
(Sponsor for Arkansas.)
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!3 there any place ror art?
Cin we print the stories graven
Ua the tablets of the heart?
Wecemen hide their dearest treasures
From the public's curious gaze;
When ber thoughts are of her lover
Does uv maiden speak his praise?
Nay, the brown lark hides her secret
In her faithful frightened breast,
Ard she flutters farthest from fit
When the school-boy seeks her nest.
Bu we sng of other nations
And the glories they have known,
But our pride is in our Scuthland
And our hearts speak of our own.
When we sing of lofty courage
Ard of Knightly chivelry,
We trey write the name of Sidney
Eut we think the name of Lee.
We muy write of reckless Rolang
As Le led his gallant band,
I'.t we thinR of dashing Morgan,
In cur peerless Southern land.
Wien we praise all England's Stua'ts,
‘fis our own we fain would sing
Tnera was none so goey and gallant,
"hire was none moce truly King.
We avd the bold erusader
With *he red cross on his breast,
Wau sought the Holy City
Frcm the Moslems’ grasp to wrest,
But a knighthcod no less noble
Claims now our pride and love—
The grey-clad ranks of Southrons
Wali their red cross high above.
it may be a woman’: folly
That she guards her treasures so,
Bot shall History's pase be blott a
By o.r tears go quick to flew?
Let our children tell the story
Of the cause their fathers led,
For cur sorrow Zeals our utterance.
And cur silence shrines our dead.
An Appeal to the South,
Aye, rear a monument, Tennessee,
To the soldier-bov whose life
Was laid bravely down to make you free
Iu those dark years of strife.
But not you alone let the whole South
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in the glorious task unite,
And each Southron give, with a willing
hand,
To the sacred cause his mite.
There were many as young and brave as
lie, a
Who for Dixie gladly died;
Who left home and friends to follow Lee,
And with Stuart and Hampton ride;
Under Stonewall Jackson's lead to fight,
Or advance 10 meet the foe,
‘Neath Beauregard, our gallant kpight,
Or the soldiers’ friend, “Old Joe."
In the battle's shock they bravely fell,
With their comrades close beside;
With the music of the Rebel yell
For their requiem, they died,
No nobler death could a patriot crave
Than to yield, in fearless strife,
Back to our God the gift He gave,
A brave and stainless life,
But this hero boy died all alone,
In the midst of that cruel band;
With no farewell word, no loving tone,
No grasp of a friendly hand;
With no gun or sword, on the battle
plain,
With no comrade at his side,
For he, whose life had Dbesen free from
stain,
On the shameful gallows died,

Aye, rear to brave Davis’ memory
A lofty burial stone,
Tipe of our southern chivalry,
Wa build, not to him alone,
But sacred to hoor, truth, and right,
Let it point from Dixie's hreast,
tele God's home of eternal light,
here the hero found his rest.
pl Ht Baruweil Morton.
THE ROBERTSON HOSPITAL,
Place Where a Brave Woman Cared For
Confederate Sufferers,
MISS SALLY TOMPKINS, CAPTAIN.
Judge Robertson's Residence on Third
and Main Converted Into a Hospital
Where Sick and Wounded Soldiers
Were Nursed Back to Strength,
The world resounds with the fame of
Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale,
for in their broad field of philanthrepic
labor, the public eye has been upon them;
but in the four years of strife which Vir
ginia knew, the self-sacrifice of hospital
nurses was as great as theirs. Much of
their work, hidden from the outer world,
hes perished, One knows that the women
of the South, with one accord, in every
way worked for the soldiers, both in the
field and in the hospitals, but the names
of the women, and the nature of their
work are unfortunately obscure. One
young Southern woman stood alone in
Virginia as the founder and supporter cf
a hospital. Born in Tidewater, of a line
of prominent people, reared luxuriously,
uscd to the Kindliest care of servants and
friends; the wonder was that she shonld
fina heart and courage fcr so grave an
undertaking: but, Jike the pampered boys
who made such glorious soldiers, she rose
above shrinking and fear, and was one of
the most capable nurses from 1851 to 1865,
The name of this little woman, whe has
been quite as unselfish since the war, in
her zea! for her church and her friends,
need hardly be written, for in the South
all know her well,
In 1861 there was a call upon the citi
zens of Richmond jnst after the first bat
tle of Manassas, The cry was “who will
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(Sponsor lor
ing at the “Arlington” with her sister,
and the old “Poplar Grove” nurse, “Aunt
'hoebe,” Her ardent desire was at once
to rent a room, and nurse as many men
as ceuld be comfortable put in it, and with
the wish burning, she talked of it to many
friends. Judge John Robertson had just
sent his family away; and he at once
offered his house, at the corner of Third
and Main, to the zealous ploneer of Cone
federate nurses,
At first sho hesitated, It seemed a great
thing, for the Judge to do; but at last
the decision was made to try; the experi
ment. Mrs. Robertson's furniture was
moved up stairs, and the lower rooms HIE
ed with cots for the suffering soldiers.
THE FIRST SICK MAN.
The battle of Manassas was fought on
the 21st of July, on the 31st the first sick
man was brought to the “Robertson Hes
pital.” The founder of the institution,
young and inexperienced, nursed him
with her own hands, and nursed him well,
He recovered and fought again, The
house was full in a short time, The plan
of not using Mrs, Robertscn's furniture
was soon abandoned. At Mrs. Robertson's
earnest entreaty, the whole house was a
sick room, and earnest Richmond women
offered themselves to “Miss Sally," as
willing co-workers, 'rominent among
many others in this labor of love and
pity, were Mrs. Eliza Semmes, sister of
Mrs, Judge Meredith; Miss Eliza Daven
port, whose energy never fagzed, whose
interest was intense to the last: Mrs,
Bowen and Mrs! Judy McGuire, Mrs,
Rebecca Jones kept the register, which is
now at the Confederate Museum.
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At first there was come perplexity as
to a “physician in charge.” Mrs, Sydney
gmith Lee suggested Dr. A. YY: P. Gare
nett, whe had 1eft, Washington and come
to Richmond as a refugee. He consented
to be the physician of the Robertson Tos
pital, and attended the patients for three
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nurse” had serions arguments upon cer
tain questions, and the woman, as is
cften the cafe cane off victorious,
Dr. Garnett opphsed the taking in of
wounded soldiers, fearing that the deli
cate Southern ladies would not have the
grit to dress the wvounds, but “Captain”
Tompking Leid the adverse opinion and
took in all she cculd shelter, informing
the Doctor on many occasions, that she
was head. The first wounded man who
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came in was from South Carolina; he
was shot through the lung. Mrs, 8. P.
Lathrop brought him; he was judiciously
and tenderly nursed, got well enough to
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ha taken home: and afterwards joined the
army again,
The “Captain” with her own hands dress
ed the wound of a poor fellow, whe about
this time had his arm fearfully shot, She
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improvised many ways of dressing
wounds and Keeping things clean. By
some ingenious contrivance she fixed a
tin-basin under this wounded arm, and
it made her heart-sick to see how it
wonld discharge during the night. The
colored staft of this sacred institution
MISS MARTHA P ARKER RAMSAY,
iSpousor for Marviand,)
MISS MARY CALDER.
consisted of Mammy Phoebe, mentioned
before, and two “Betseys.” One was “Gay
Betsey” the other “Sad Betsey.” The
sick soldiers named one, “Gay Detsey."
They loved her as if she was a mother.
“Sad Betsey" was faithful and kind, if a
trite lugubrious, and she still walts upon
Miss Sally Tompkins, and lives in Rich
mond,
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“sally” was the cook, and an excellent
one. She was lent to the “Robertsen Hose
pital” by Mrs. John Spotswocd Wellford.
Sally was very discriminating as to, the
“nsefulness” of the ladies who visited
the hospital. On one occasion when some
well-dressed females came in, she was
intensely “Sniffy,” “I knows dey ain't no
count to help ycu, dey’'s too fine.”
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One day a poor fellow came from camp
{Il with dysentery. When the disease
was checked, he was fearfully emaciated
and needed frequent nourishment, and
Sally was sent up to see what he fancied.
She returned with this information: “He
say ef he could git a plece of right nice
brown ‘possum he mout eat it.”
The market was well explered but no
‘possum could be found that day. The
next morning one was procured, cooked
by Sally, and eagerly enjoyed by the cone
valescent, wifh the happlest result,
Miss Sally Tompkins, did not sleep at
hor hospital, Some quiet rest was neces=
cary for her arducus duties, but she was
there at sunrise every morning and
stayed frequently until 2 o'clock, some
times all night. Once she was there alone
in the midst of a terrible storm, among
the groans of the sick ones, and the feeble
mutterings of the dying.
One of the scldiers whom she nursed
was a Southern man named O'Brien.
Since Mr. Polk Miller has been touring
through the South, he has met him, and
he was full of inquiry for his good friends
of the Robertson Hospital,
Typhoid fever cases were numercus dure
ing the war, and among the sick with
this disease at Third and Main were two
poor fellows who were wildly delirious,
They were in the same ward, One day cne
of them called for water. A good German
woman who was a detailed nurse went
in with a glass of cool water; the other
mar got indignant for some reason best
Known to himself, fnmped out of bed and
boxed the woman's ears. In a twinkling
the other sick man Pumped up and boxed
the ears of his fellow-sufferer, and the
battle between the two waxed furtous,
when the “little captain” cane upon the
gcene, and positively ordered them to bed,
they obeyed like two penitent but naughty
children, The sick always obeyed her
implicitly,
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For a long time only the money of the
head nurse was expended; friends avery
where sent her clothes and eatables, bute
ter and milk, but she assumed all respon
sibility. Her friends, however, had the
honor and office of “captain,” conferred
upon her, that she might draw pay, and
use it for the increasing demands upon
her hospitality. She has her commission
as captain in the Confederate army signs
by Hon, Jas. A. Seddon. She never drew
any pay. Judge Robertson once went to
collect it but he found the superior officer
very surly. “Good morning,” he sald
when he went in. “No answer. Again
“Good morning.” No answer. A third time
“Good morning!!” and receiving still no
answer, he was about to leave, extremely
indignant, when an assistant inquired
“What can I do for yeu, Judge?
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“Go to hI" sald the angered Judge,
and he never went again to draw Miss
Sally's pay.
Many industries were carried on at the
“Robertsen Hospital.” Mr. Edgar Gare
nett exercised a supervision over the gars
den. There was a man in Gen, Wise's
brigade named “Crumley.” He came to
the hospital sick and returned to the hose
pital two or three times. Gen. Wise was
tonched with the old felloy's persistent
bravery, but he saw that he could fight
na longer, and he begged “Miss Sally to
give h'm something to do. She did give
him employment. She got him to potide
about the garden, and made him a sort
of orderly of the Institution. Miss
would mend his clothes and he used A
go to St, James church every Sunday,
sit in the gallery, He was sick one
and he said te Mra, McGuire, “Your
is so Irish please sit dewn and talk
me.” He told her his life's history
touchingly. “He had loved an Irish la
and left her behind, while he came
America to make something so they
get married; but alas’ his little girl
died before the fortune was made.
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