THE FAIR CITY OF PERTH.
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them, to M riao op and call her blessed."
Their tender consideration for her, from
the least to the, greatest, haul a touch of
chivalry in it, and I alwaya consider
that privileged fireside interview, gencr
ously act apart from all other visitors,
aa sacred to friendship. In her I was
constantly reminded of tho description
giren of M Indy Christian " and felt that
M to see tho raiment of her life about
her, one should sw the way the ha
made tho body and vesture of her home;
the sweet attitude in which the stand
with mother, children and friend; tho
moral and spiritual grouping, and all in
the light of tho shining of Hod's face
upon hi heavn; a heaven that liei hero
and there in hearU and households and
societies, not only where tho kingdom
haa begun to come," but wherever she
may aid it to enter.
Tho tio which bind thoao who mourn
tho same dead is greater than that which
unites thoHO who love tho rarno living.
Tho family residence, ono and one-half
miles out from town, is approached by a
long avenue, and is surrounded by ex.
tensive ground. It is of gray stone,
and in its solidity, it heraldic carving,
iU archil passages and tnaaaivo walls,
four or fivo fix t iu thickne, looks liko
a houao with a hi tor;; and it has one,
in so far that it is over four hundred
years old, and oneo harbored, for a tim,
Prince Charlie, who planted the gnarled
and twisted oak tree, which one im
from the drawing-room window.
The Tay auiaes noble proportions at
Dundee, and the house commands, dU
agonally opjite, the new railway bridge
over the river, with its curve a mile arid
a half long, which was, at the time of
our visit, in process of construction. Wo
all remember the fearful disaster in con
nection with the railway train of the oi 1
bridge, and our boot d'-cribd to us,
in vivid language, with that apjalir;g
and ixopreasho iLtctte that cornea
from personal carration of a cataatropho
witneM!, or aa having taken placo in
ono'a immediate vicinity, the events of
that winter night, with thai wild ele
mental atrifa. Almost within atono'a
throw of them, while the family were on
their knevs at evening prayer, amid tho
howling wind and the frenzied wave,
that bridge went down, with its freight
of human life, without a survivor to tell
the tale, or the jxwiibility of help or
hop from either short. In the morn
ing, tho find realisation the family had
of the mournful tragedy was the awful
alwonco of the familiar structure span
ning the Tay from shore to shore. A
dread blank, that Denied tui words of
fiplanation-of Import too significant
to require it
Our invitation to our friend homo
was for a week, but, to our regret, wo
hail but a day to give, and of that wo
made the mL Dining early, aftr the
secluiion of tho foreign, with the chit
dren and govern, contrary to thecu
tomary late dinner, wo drove, in the af.
ternoon, around the city and to the park
an I eastern tivwfxdi. Thee grounds
cover nearly forty acres in rstent, and
are tastefully laid out, with many hand
some monument, and with a greatly di.
versified landcaj commanding, at va
rious joints, eitensive views of thTy
and the surrounding country. I)ur!ri
is the third town in Holland in eitnt
of pulation, and is the principal S'-at
of the linen trale in Great DrtUin. Tin
housea are many of th-M old, Mty ail
dark, and, with it gUwy street, it
Irars some rrtetablancv to a continent
Ul city. It is a plar of great liajor.
tancw as a maritime town.
The Albert Inatitut. erected In hut
of the Is!a Print Conft, conUit., m
the lower ht, the fr library, Utg
the first of iU ktal, I brieve, rUL.
lishM la any of the Urge town of Hod-iax,L