THE MONTHLY PACKET HALF-YEARLY VOLUME EDITED BY CHRISTABEL R. COLERIDGE AND ARTHUR INNES. NEW SERIES.—X V. VOLUME XCV. PARTS DLXIII. TO DLXVIII., JAN.-JUNE, 1898. LONDON: A. D. INNES AND COMPANY, LIMITED. 1898. INDEX. Achill and the Claddagh. By Janet Sinclair Berger. Calculations of Budh Singh, The. By Helen Boulnois Cameo: The Eighties. By C. M. Yonge . 109, 229, 349, 469, 589, 705 Elementary School Teaching as a Profession. By Louise F. Field From my Attic Window. By Annie Groser Hurd 99, 219, 343, 464, 583, 695 68, 189, 306, 447, 572, 681 Off the High Road. By E. C. Price THE MONTHLY PACKET. NEW SERIES. JANUARY, 1898. THE GOSPEL WRIT IN STEEL. BY ARTHUR PATERSON, AUTHOR OF 'FATHER AND SON,' CHAPTER I. SATURDAY, April 13th, 1861. The day the Federal flag was hauled down at Fort Sumter under the fire of secession guns : when the citizens of the Northern States of America-Whig, Democrat, Republican-roused to a frenzy of excitement by those guns, called, with one voice, for arms the day the embers of distrust and misunderstanding between the North and South, which had been smouldering for half a century, burst into flames-the day the war began. In no part of the North was there greater enthusiasm than in the State of Wisconsin. New Yorkers and Bostonians looked upon Wisconsin as a place on the borders of nowhere; a semibarbarous land, where the bowie-knife and revolver settled all disputes, where youths grew beards at twenty, and maidens learnt to use a rifle in their teens. Nothing could be further from the truth. Frontier simplicity there was in plenty, but. rowdyism and lawlessness did not exist. Yet a Washington man would have thought the place archaic. In Chippewa, Northern Wisconsin, a town of great importance to its inhabitants and of no mean reputation elsewhere, politicians, when free from congress or senate, drove the plough on the farm, or served behind the counter in the store, and not one would have had a chance of re-election had he shown the least disposition VOL. 95 (XV.-NEW SERIES). NO. 563. I |