Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-15

| himself has given him power to command
others. Even his enemies admire him.
| His English lineage and education has
given him a prestige that Will assist him
! in the coming struggle Then his impris-
onment has made him hero for the Irish
people"
Eyes, Sir Wren," I said, chat is true.
l remember the influence it had on my
own mind. Then the Irish are quick to
make a hero of any one who has suffered
Tor their cause They have keenly sensi-
tive hearts ready TO respond to the call for
sympathy, while the English are cooler
and calculate the results that may be de-
rived from it,
''You have read the English heart to
some purpose. We are not so imaginative
nor so quick to feel the power Of old asso-
Citations as the Irish.
THAT brings TO mind something | saw
not very long ago. An American and my
self were walking past an Old tenant
house when we saw little child crying
by the open door. She was beautiful, but
dressed with filthy rags. Ny friend stop
ped and said:
"'What is the matter, little one?'
"'Father is dead she replied, looking
up, amazed that any one should speak to
her. We entered the wretched hovel,
where the peat fire, burning on a stone in
the corner, was filing the room so full of
smoke that we could hardly discern any
object in the room. We saw man lying
in one corner on a heap of old leaves, dead!
A woman sat beside him holding his hand
and sObbing piteously. There We're two or
three children in the room, bat all were so
ragged. After talking with the poor WO-
man for awhile my friend told her that he
would like to take Katy, the child we saw
at the door, for his own. He said he would
give her twenty pounds and something tC
dress the child with beside. if she would
let him have her to adopt into his own
family as daughter.
"'But,' said the poor woman with sob
Il cannot let her go among strangersn'
"'YOu may choose a companion TO go
with her, and l will provide for her also,
said my friend.
''After time the woman consented and
chose young sister Of her own to go with
the child as its companion and nurse. Nv
friend paid the woman twenty pounds and
an additional five pounds to furnish decent
clothing for the children. It was agreed
that we should come in the morning for
Them as my friend was just ready to re-
turn to America.
"In the morning we went with the car
rage to take the children to the railroad
station. But, although the children were
dressed in the new garments the money
had bought, the poor mother could not
part with her darling She gave my friend
back his twenty pounds and what was left
of the i've after paying for the Clothes and
was pulling them off as fast as she could
when we left the room. When we reached
the carriage my friend turned back and
handed the poor woman the money she
had paid him, saying:
Take it, and may it do you some good
''The poor woman could not speak, but
tears ran down her cheeks like rain. My
friend was silent for time then he said
81 cannot blame the poor woman; bat
may the curse Of heaven follow those who
cause this terrible sufferingn
4 could not help saying amen, though l
am counted as one of the number. The
mothers love was stronger than the love
CT money"
To bo continued