, 1898-08-23
FINDING A LOVER.
"Ladybug. ladybug, fly awayl
Bring me a beau without DELAY,

Bring me a beau without delay"
st. Andrews night had come around
just IS times in tho brief existence O.
Martha McClintock, and for years al
the midnight hour of the fateful day
the girl had said her little speech to the
ladybug.
1t is an cid superstition that he or she
who desires to be happily mated must
find a ladybug Oh St. Andrews day.
The'tiny black beetle must be imprison.
ed all day and DO given its liberty in
the witching hour of ghosts and COB.
Inns. Then within a year will como a
beau to marry the lady fair.
In Honiton township every boy and
girl, since they were old enough to know
anything of beaus and sweethearts, fol.
lowed IN old time superstitious custom
Oh st. Andrews night. If any of them
married within the year, they extollcd
tho efficacy Of the charm of the lady.
bug, and the young folk of Honiton be-
lieved all the more faithfully in it.
Martha McClintock began to try the
charm at the age of IA. not because she
lacked schoolboy beaus, for she was q
pretty girl, but because marriage meant
tn her more than , loy.r md 49,.
or n meant a da,;ra,or 80 y"
Kind foto
The McCl;ntocls bo,o,,od - so,,o -,
tho oldoe. f,r,;I;o. % V;..;,;o M"
had heen we'll r, do orco ,nom t;nc
but had beco,no ;,rnovor;shod Ct,
carried away M,rtb.,s mo,hor nd
then her father diod iao,inn H. 49,
GIRL Alone in tbo world sare co. tha
k;nsb;n os nm old orn, ,rho had haao,no
estroneod from Tho fa,n;lr mann ronrs
400 Sbo was tbo s;stor 81 M.r.L.,s 9,
ther. Who had forever inc,,rrad tha AZ
nile, -surc of his family bv m,rrvin, The
nrettiost g;rl in On oSio;,;nm torresh;a
rather than the bride thew had chosen
for him
To this aunt. who wal we'll off in
worldly GOODS Martbo was ssn. bn +ho
town ontborit;e. Tbo a;r, wo 10. y
weicomo Oft from tho toevnsh;n hut ="
view ~ ber close roj,t;or 70 MW,,tLo,s
father md h,r oh;litv - ha,,so 80 60
and clothe her She could not vol refusa
IN receive ber 70 tic tho sonS;.;ra to,
dor vonn, cro,trro who h.d hoo,
loved n ;do,,trv nv two dot;nn noronts
tn a sonr old maid who ,ooLsd With nss
lection mon M one Init a ho,F 5o,an
oats wos IiLo imnrison;ra a lark ;n =
dismal cage
Tn this ~1ove,ess otmosnhere tho child
o,ew into n maiden sha n,os a;ron os
1ood mn oa,,,t;,,, os .ho n,ooo .go.5,a
for her sn;nstor amt shnpnaJ tha ar;.;'
,;sn - har n-o;albors ,,I;.I -,
have hoon vowed ont nnon h.r had
h Unsolicited 70 o;vo so br;oht . a;ri
tho nocassorv sohoel;no Mor.sa ,.a.nad
ran;dIv She tool odvonta.a - &C.,
onrortrr;tv ~ our;ob hor md nd ~
iii tha .o:,hors ,,aro 800 - ~. 80
sought 70 br;na os ,n,,oh hr;ahtnass ~
~oss;L1o ;nto a. ronnn a;nfsS I;sa 49,
school d,vs ,yoro onona .ha ha,n;ast ~
har ax;st.noo A. tha ~ - "a ~.
o,,ard;an tooL hor from schooI ha,;as-
ing hat she had dono aro,,1h 90 Gov as
hsr n;oca,s m,antoI danoInnn,aut a,as
concerned.
A life Of drudperv hepan with shat
dav for Martha Mc(,iintock Tn serv.
ant was dismissed and She was install.
ed al maid of ali work. The tedinm and
hardship of mental labor might have
been borne in patience had she not beer
out of from all co%mpanionship with the
Young people of the place, She met them
only on SUNDAY at church. md even
then the ocre eve Of the spinster con.
6ned the intercourse to a mere greeting
or a friendly handsbake from the more
ooursoeous Youths of the village,
The monotony of her lonely life made
Martha desponieut, and her daily PRAYER