The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-03-31
,r correspondent in Cuba.

4l new orphanage this bright
,au would see something to
s ID your eyes. Forty little
...s rescued from starvation and
.. II danger of death from suf-
l3rigone, are blissfully happy
..o tays-the first they ever owned
..+s Ii came about in this way:
asset order, each child who is
a- up is put out on the broad,
.anla. which faces the whole
-.a IT the house, for an hours
Ter its bath and breakfast.
Inge a few hours the other
wis sitting out with the chill
.. .r baked in the sun bath my
... U1idiug in my lap small girl
7.o-e protruding bones could
le wooden chair-when a
..ug American sauntered up
.J proved to be an angel in
ND he: 81 came up to say
MISS Barton, as | am leaving
e,ening; and finding her out
Thought | would come over
.M, at the new orphanage. y 1t
at | was boiling over with
nf tha
rmcnt in refusing to pass
Oustom House a box of chill
Which some kind soul in the
-nt with the more substantial
u the [ nited States; there
ths young man expressed a
something for the hospital, |
story and suggested that he
nation in the form of play
the patient little children who
lie all day long on their beds.
.. ased him and he rushed away
lmvicau fashion, saying that he
u .Uo. the town" and send up toys
..vse sure enough, that very after
d.. NIX arrived, which contained
F. ...aullght solid comfort for the
Ia the form of dolls and tin
Is terra, than was ever packed III
-t before. The name of the
Mi. Butler Duncan of No. l,
ME. New York, and hope this
A meet his eye, so that he may
g much good his generous gift
mp.ished. 1t was sight to see
eI faces when the toys were dis
The look of incredulous wonder
merging into one of delight,
Flowed by an expression of
..,-- contentment when they real
T. tlr precious articles were their
Even the tiny, five year old
aa big head and pipe-stem legs,
dged as Methuselah' 5 own,
Lhed when a small, woolly
uiack bead-eyes came into his
... The little lad was found one
Los Fossos, lying on a dead
asr Although ! have watch
y duIiug the several days lie
leasylum, l never before saw
ely. or exhibit the slightest
slke Or desire. Hour after
motonless on his bed, appar-
snt to sublunary things; but
solemn eyes, black as sloes,
Vt everything going Oh, and
liable expression Of the sphinx
id face. The first human
las been known to evince was
-- woplly dog, and last night he
tightly clasped in his arms.
uin4 when | stepped into the
@ instead Of the usual rows of
-eTic figures, with listless hands
before them, waiting for-they
r. Wha-, | was greeted with a
shouts, mira Sonora! mira
BOX ady), from happy chill
b. -.-l to show their treasures to a
NJ friend. My skeleton girl of
ure, who seldom replied to any
luwever kindly put, and never
utarily, except to beg penny
- visitors, (the begging instinct
bonel -now lay smiling on her
.f "th three small dolls, brave in
and yellow, ranged in row be-
JIansfgu1ed face. Even the
1'l' rAby- brigand-a son of ruffian,
sa. heredity count for anything
e-Fmle issued his frequent orders
'i Of one used to command. and
-'daned to obey any regulations of
.4s --ation until reduced to a sort of
-t 'Wce by season of solitary con-
.nfu. an upper chamber-had tenn
@h.i 9>t sight of his own consequence
.t lperior merits of red tin cart
f lh of nature makes the whole
'A si1 Child nature is very much
IF. i1 palace or in howell. From gener-
WI IL" Iteration, among the richest and
poorest, children make their dandeliop
" The sunshine, the girls choose
'-.'le babies, and the boys noisy play
4-' 10y nstinct-as young birds build
l nests without instruction, the first
g7i.. as the last. But do not send
".i~ t"ys TO the asylum, dear friends.
'es - Mr.. Duncan. it is now well
'" that line, and the everlasting
. Nfli the t'uStOm TJnnca nav 6 ~,