Our Pictorial Calendar.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 574, 28 December 1889, Page 10

Our Pictorial Calendar.

"GOOD INTENTIONS."

It is astonishing how many people spend the best days of life in manufacturing that paving material which is used on the broad way that leads to Sheol. Everyone— even the greatest saint that ever lived— has made a number of those paving stones. Happy is he who knows how to construct with those stones a " ladder of St. Augustine," wherewith to reach the "path to higher destinies !" William McSwilligari, Esqr., whose year's experiences are pictorially depicted on the Calendar which is to-day presented to every reader of the Obsbbver, is of a type of oharacter that seems to have been specially designed by an all -wise but wonderfully inconsistent Providence to do good work at paving that slippery downhill road which we are warned to avoid. William is a remittance man — and there is more hope of a fool than of him ( Of all known ways of reclining scamps (Are there any known ways ?) the most idiotic is to send men lacking in resolution to a strange land where bad whisky is abundant, and forward them at regular intervals the means of purchasing the infernal beverage. Poor old Bill! He is now caught in the vortex of our most sacred and Christian festivities, to the great detriment of his manly qualities. If he could only keep clear of the " lambing down " publican on the one hand and the whining teetotaller with his useless "pledge" on the other, and be got to cultivate the virtue of selfcontrol, he might