A PATHETIC STORY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12503, 2 April 1909, Page 4

A PATHETIC STORY.

i A pathetic story of a child's heroism is told by a resident of Dublin to a writer on a .paper of that city. '■ Recently he, 'proposed to -drive with his wife, to the beautiful Glasnevin Cemetery. : .. Calling his little. ; son, a • bright little boy some four years old, he told him to get ready to accom- ■ -pany • them; ■ The child's countenance . fell; and the father said J— '■."-• „-: "Don't yon "want to go. Willie?" .>^.|Phe~little lip .•quivered, but the " child : answered,.: ''xes, papa, if you t-T^jshi""- J ' '.. .■■'.,- '• ... •■■■ :. ■"The child was strangely silent during the drive, and when the carriage j drove up to the entrance he clung tophi's mother's side':and : looked tip in-, ■her facC-with^ pathetic- wistfiilness. i ; "The party ; .'alighted ariii walked among the graves and along the tree- '; shaded .avenues, lobking at the inscriptions on" the last .resting-places bftne dwellers of the beautiful city of \ the". dead: After an hour or so thus Bpent "they returned vto the •■■"' .. ( and the father Ufted His little son to ■ ; his seat. The child looked surpiised, ! .'drew a breath of relief and -iske.i • "Why, am I going back with yOU?". ■"'- ■' ■'• ■•: * '' r . • -. '■'Of course you are ; [why not ?".-" ' . :>:."I ; thought when they .took little -• ■boys to the cemetery they .'left them" there;^ said the child. ' . .-'Many a man does- not" show . the heroism in the face of death that this child evinced in wfiat had evidently been a eiimmqns to leave the-world. V-- OPIUM IN PETTICOATS.: •-'Quito a mild sensation was.oreatcd : ' on boardtho German; steamer Prinz Sigismund. berthed at r Sydney,, one night last week, when. an 'encounter■tpok'place between two -.lady visitors to the vessel and a -.Custom-house ' ofScer (says the "Sydney Morning ' Herald"). It seems that for.some time past the authorises have suspect- . ed that the Chinese smugglers employ- '■ ed the services of women- to assist them in ! landing the -contraband, and ~hro women- wlio boarded the vessel and--remained on board for several' hours aroused the suspicion of Officer Ander- " son, who concealed himself dn the wharf. As the women were walking along the inain r deck with a yiew; to making for the gangway, ' QfilceT An- '" derson suddenly sprang on board, and :the women slmeked and fled; . The officer gave chase along the deck and through one of the dining rooms, but before he 'was able to overtake 1 the women they divested themselves of their petticoats, which they -left on the floor., of one of the compartments, and; con- ; tinued their flight. Tho petticoats : were secured by the officer, and found to contain 37 tins of opium. The gar>. ments had evidently been specially, constructed for the purpose of- smuggling There were rows upon, rows ot flounces, in each of- which was-apock-et sufficiently large to hold one tin of opium. By an ingenious arrangement, upon an alarm being given, the - wearer could drop the- garment without difficulty. The., petticoats ..and their contents were taken to the King's Warehouse, but the women are still at. large. /..-'