The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-03-05

wise man, fr--esing Ihs evil. vii hiur my
self, ratucr l'iau pas ou Ike the foe! and br
puuishej. This u.lt cni',l IN yogr cold waite
army, and ru.tto ns kra brave soldier
Parker sat down when instantly shout went
up that startled tho h,r ~ -ur,beIrng rch"ss--
Suigcss, yielding 10 lhr ir-pGise OF his teelIugs
-pfwg fam the stage, and grasping the young
mans hand, said, il. voice not YET restored to
,almuess--
My son = born oflovc for this high and hol,
cause bless you! Stand hiWl BE faithful
soldier Our sneni. srn named legion but ",
shall yet prevai, -Yans lhem."
Here We drop the curtain ~ our narrative
Parker, vh,s t,c trur of cool u hpct"n cam.
Jaw noreason to rcprnt oi What he had dome
He is now faithful soldier Of the cold water
amy.
II wa knew al that snne advocates of tie
Temperance eau,e had Suffered, We n.iaht well
pardon M enthusiasm that, at ''wr., se,r,'s to
verge nn iaDalrr,hi 3aey ha7r fel, the cuse--
hsv have .pcur.d the pam know the mon
stsr vice in every phase of it- lld,nus Gefrr,iiv
No We need not Wonder at thrir rnthuslasm; the
v vnd.r sI, uld rhlhcr be thst it is not greater
VINO Il THE DucIiEss or SUTHERLAND This
question /. answered bv the following extract
/ from letter published IN the New York Tribune
| good authority We suppose, in matter OF tins
I kind After describing the misery and pa'peri.m
/ produced by the tyranny and usu'paton Of the
{ noble familic, in Scotland, the writer goe4 on 10
say:
Ii was only after 1871 thrt the ultimate and
real usurpation was enacted the l,rriblr transfer.
nation Of clean property into tie private proper
I ~, in lLe modern sense, ot The Chef J he per.
son SLo stood al tie head of lhi. economical re
voluHou was female Nehcmrt Ali, Who had well
digrs'ed her Msifhus-- tle Cuuntcss uf Su,hrr.
land alias Marchloness ui Stafford.
lie, II. iir-i state hat the ancestors NJ lie Mar.
eliuucr. of S'aiTul vlc'r tie "gira' men ufthr
most norlLrrn pant # Scotland II very near three
quarters ot SnlhsrlanJ,hlrp This comfy i.more
extensive than many French Depa,tuem or
small German ptlurpaltirs. When thc Couu
t,.s of Sutherland Inherited hc~e estates whic,
she afterwards brought to her husband The Mar
gus of StaiTmd, afterwards Duke "f Su'h.rlnd
the population Of .hem was already reduced t,
1900.
Ny lady countess Tesolrcd upon radical eco
uomical reform. and Determined upon trrr.tarm
ing the whole tract u country into sh"epwaks
From 1914 tu lS20 these $4,000 inhabitants
about 3 0Oc families were systematically cXp'lloC
and ,xierminGtcd. All their villages were dc
m0iisnei aud burned Gown and all their field,
icouyerted into pa.turagc British soGels ver,
commanded for tie execution and came to low,
with the natives An old woman refusing tu qgi
her but Nas burned in the flames Of II. Thus a.,
lady countess appropriated 10 herself seven luu
dred aud nIuet' four Thousand acre. "ilsnd Nhel
from time immemurial had belonged to the clan
In the pxuberarce OF her grnrrusv me nllo't,,
to lie expelled na'i',s about 60Oa acres.
acres pei family. These 5000 acres. had heel
ayirg waste until then, aud brought 50 '.vcuU,
to the rtoprttars The touulris var ry-rfuu
cno.gh osrll the acre at 2. 81 on an avcragr :,
The csn mrn who i"r centuries raSl had she'd thoi
blosd for her fomlv Tie vi o.r uf III" urrgh'
fully Appropriated clan lnrd she uiyilcd INTO g
large sheep farms each II lh'm inhabited by on
single family. mostly English fam iahurcr. an,
IN 1921 the $4,000 Gaels had already been super
seeded by 600
A portion Of the sharigincs had hccn lrovr
upon the sca,hore, and Ht'"mp ptsj 70 live BY h-h
ing. They hecawe nmphlhl"u-, and an Eng
lush author SAYS Ivsd hall On land aud half o
water, rId after all did MT half live upon buti