Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-03-12


number OF miles every day, nor did any
1 body, except the tram car conductor-and
even he gets every other Sunday of, which
the doctor does not-work for longer hours.
There were. IN Dr. Cronan s case. the usual
compensations; though the income was small
the family was large; there were plenty OF
wants to exhaust the scanty means; though
the ioaves were few the mouths were many
Ihls Is, as mas often been remarked, one OF
Dame Natures playful ways. She substl-
tutes for the things which are missing those
: which are superfuous or least prayed for;
she ADDS to the Things which are already
possessed otners winch may oeprlve eneih
Oh tneir Value. mus on nun VINO mas tne
greatest sooo fortune iuGA anu worioiy nap
p!ness sue oeS'o"s an aS'.ni0 Which, oepIVss
nun OF 1ne power Oh enjoying anything az aA
ana "hen poor nian nas succeeoeu WIN IN
, mite rouoie ana sei-oen,ai IN saving NIUE
money sne senos MIN an Illness OF misior-
tune WHICH sooo'es up nis iie'is aii' ~ JUG
rich man she denies an he'r' ana TO the poor
man. who has nothing to leave. she mowers
heirs and nelresses however, lame Nature
means wen, ana we are out poor puma NOR
tais. and, dountiess, know not Wnat Is pest
for u.s. on tnls Princlpie OF playIuiness
Nature had enr tched Dr. Hyaclntn Cro-
nan with ten children, OF wnom Cailsta, the
eldest, now In her twenty-secono year, was
as we nave seen, sister at tne Cnilofens
Hospital Inc second, named dyaclntn,
after his 1ather, was at university Couege
Hospital, on the point Oh completing nus
student-ume' A1ter nyacin1n came Nofan'
private secretary TO geneaiogist' recently.
engaged TO Hugn Aqula. ihen Ioiio"ed
fatrick' VINO iollo"eo one sea- ana was
il nowcalled on board P. O. boat in In
dian waters. After Pat followed those who
we're still at school-Alberic. Terence. Ger
aldna larry Honor and Kathleen
II will be understood from these names
that DIR. Cronan was of Irish extraction. He
was horn in fact in Dublin-he still nro
nounced IL Doblun-and he praduated at
Trinity college. and such relations as he had
were understood bv his wife. who never saw
any of them. to be still resident in the dis
! tressful country. where Irish people are fond
of talking about their families. Dr. Cronan.
however. hardly ever mentioned his people.
Vet he gave all his children Christian
names more common in Ireland than on this
side Of the channel When a man is tact
turn on the subject of his origin there is
generally a presumption that it is not such
as make men stick out their chins. On the
p,otbar,s side however To nakeur,-Nature's
wav aoain-the children could boast of
the most honorable connections. Their
grandfather had teen an alderman
More important still he had made
money of his trade of chronometer maker.
He rose to be an alderman. and was war
den of his company. and in both capacities
devoured in his time quantities of turtle
soun every year. 1t was entirely through
his v;rtuous self denial that Mrs Cronan.
his dauobter whom he did not live to see
was nossessed of a substantial income-no
less than two hundred pounds a year. What
the ten children would have done without
that two hundred a year one cannot even
think. What became of all the rest of the
alderman,s money know not. Some of the
orandchildren had. no doubt run through
their portions. and were gone abroad: some
were Clerks: some had shops; some were pro-
fass;on,I men not one lam sure. was imitat.
inc The great example of his grandfather.
and saving money for those of the twentieth
cont,,rv to snend.
One evening in lime about balf-nast nine
,,cIock while il is still almost light enonph
y, ,,aad ,vitbout lemn Dr. Cronan sat bv
tha or,,,tv f;ranlaca n the family dining
,oo,,, Surrounded hv his family f was not
a,,orn evan;ne that he could TINS sit at his