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Show ULSTER, GARDEN OF IRELAND Writer Paya High Tribute te thi Scotch-Irish Who Have Made the Country What It Is. It would not surprise me In tbe least if the late J. P. Morgan had tbe blood of the Ulster-Scot In his veins, as your correspondent Mat at, says the writer of a letter to the editor of the New ; York Tribune-. - ThJwiJHX tr even more Scottish than the Scotch themselves stern, shrewd, energetic and thoroughly reliable. When James VI, of Scotland -James I. of England offered facilities for the settlement of Ulster, thousands of Scots availed themselves of the chance, and by their energy helped to transform that district Into a garden of Ireland. Belfast, one of the most peaceful and prosperous cltl'S In the world, is nothing more or less than a second Glasgow. To Scotland, Indirectly, to Ulster directly, di-rectly, we are Indebted for such men aa Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk. James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun. Chester A. Arthur, T. A. Hendricks, Horace Greeley. C. D. McCutcheon. Jamas Q. Blaine, Charles Foster, Samuel Sam-uel II Grey and many others who helped to make th United State what she Is today. Robert Fulton, though an Irishman of Scottish descentbis father being forced out of Scotland In Cromwell's time Is sesreely an Ulster Scot. But. then, if it were not for the Livingston -family, who were descended from the kings, nobles and lords of Scotland. Fulton could nover have ecccanpLsbed what be did. s A pleasant adventure, one thai 1 usually reserved to much younger daughtera, has happened to Mile. MIs-tlnguette. MIs-tlnguette. of th opera. Paris. France. She haa been reclaimed as a long lost daughter by a woman of Bergerollea, whose daughter disappeared alxteen years ago, and whom she affirms sfie recognizes in tbe distinguished artist. Mite. Mlstlnguette has a good heart She would like nothing better than to recognize the maternity of this honorable honor-able dame, but unfortunately she already al-ready has an authentic mother, and at tbls time of life cannot accept the luxury of a supplementary mamma. |