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80NQ OF "THE RIVER. nr tnd cool clear end oool. Sty laughing shallow nd dreaming pool) tool and clear, cool and clear. Sir shining shingle and foaming weir; ' JwVr the crag where the ouarl sings, And tlw Iviiol wall where the cliuruii bell rlugt, njndrdlrd for tbe undeflled; jplay by me, batlM la me, mother and child. ' Iank and foul, dank and foul. Sir tbe smoky towu In Ita murky cowl; foal and dank, foul and dank. By wharf, and sewer, and slimy bank; Darker and darker Uie further 1 go, . , . .Baorr and baaer tbe richer I grow; Who dare sport with tbe aln defiled f Ihrink from me, turn from me, mother and child. Strong and free, atroog and free, The flood gates are opoo, away to the aea; Free and atrong, free and strong. Cleansing my streams as I hurry along To tbe gulden sauds and the leaping bar, And tbe taintless tide Uiat awalu me afar, As I lose myself In the Infinite main. Like a soul that has slnn'd and Is pardon 'd again, Undented for the uodeOled; Hay by me, baibe lo me, mother and child. -Charles Klngsley. i THE DEVIL'S SCRATCH. Intheyear 187-1 w.a quartered at Athlone, In tba County Westmeath, Ireland. It if not a bad military station for an Irish one ts peelally for a ma a who cars for outdoor porta, --There are good fishing and boating on Lough IUej and by Uie klndnett of the landowners of the neighborhood, many a day's good shooting of a miscellaneous kind may be had over tba Interminable bogs that 11 all around. I enjoyed myself greatly, baring a fcuta for solitary shooting excursions, and liking that uncertainty at to what bird or quadruped would neit rlsa from the heather, null-hie chiefly to be found In Irish snort- Generally, I started on tucb tipuHUom alone, aave for lha company of a smart young gossoon of the town, rlir rarreii by name, who, lialg been born with the national love of shooting and fishing, was only too glad to accompany ma for a nominal consideration, and nuke himself useful in pointing out the "mearnes" which divided tha property of different owners, ometlmea .consisting In a baiTow trench running for nilles through a bog, and some times of an imaginary line, which I had to accept In faith, not being able to sea a tract of it for myself. He also carried tny game bag, and would think nothing of a twelve mile tramp over spongy bog land with a couple of hares over bis shoulder and a full bag at his side. ' One Noremlier afternoon we had gont farther abroad than usual, and reached a bog on which I had nevor been before. Peter 'declared he knew It well, but I rather doubted tha statement. We bad had a ery fair day's rt, and It was getting time to think of re turning home, as the ihort winter daylight was drawing to a nose. I had an idea Uiat a abort cut might be made to reach the high road by holding a due northwest course, but Peter inclined to a southwesterly one. Tha argument ran high, when at length we dis cerned a rotUge with a thatched roof at the bottom of a hollow where tba high bog land 'sloped downwards to the bank of a stream. ! I sent Peter down to the cottage to In quire the way, and meanwhile directed my steps toward a little pool of water, some 100 yards In diameter, which I perrelred at ,a few furlong off. and on which 1 hoped to surprise a stray teal or wild duck. Bura enough there was a dock oi me ioriner mms feeding In fancied security near tbe tig. I elected a stunted thorn bush growing on the ;niargln a a good shelter behind which to ap proach them unpercelved, and began steathlly advancing under ita cover. Tbe pond was 'iurrounded by a large patch of light green moss; and as soon as I stepped upon It I be came a tars that it was what is called, In Irish parlance, a "shaking aoraugh;" that Is to tar. the water was here covered only by a .floating niiua of weeds and peat moat, closely interliiml and forming a curious combina tion that was neither bog nor yet terra Anna. As vou walk upon such a place it sinks be neath you and you are a wave running along before you Just as when you shake a carpet. However, there is generally tittle danger of breaking through, to closely matted are the fibers, ami I advanced with caution, bent on having my shot Hudilnily, without the least warning, my foot went through, and man In stant I was up to my n ck In the black, peaty water beneath, Just keeping my bend above the aurfaot by the bearing my outepread arms had on the moat. It waa a terrible situation I If once I sank, no power on earth could save 'me It would be like drowning under Ice, only that, Ice being trnuerent, there would be some hope of being out out In that case; and ben, under the mossy blanket, absolutely tnone. I shouted at Iba top uiy voice for help, bit with a painful conviction that If It did not come within three minutes it would h ton luto. as 1 felt in v self slowly sinking. j Suddenly 1 felt something thrust through the col ar of my coat from behind, and beard a manM wke saying coolly: "I have a good bold on yt with the graip now, your honor; if you make a good offer at It, you ran ecrautl le outl" Most comforting wera the words, In my deswrta case. I made a violent struggle, Vigorously assisted by my unknown friend with his "graip" (a tort of three pronged drag, which lie bad luierted under uiy col lar). Tbe cloth held; and 1 scrambled on to my kuees, aiid In that Ignominious position, with my cliitbes sLreaiuUig with black water, reached tha comparatively nrtu ground of the ling. "Uusbe, then, your honor it baUy off for aport, when you must look fur It In the Devil's rtoraugbPsaid my preserver, as I turned to look him In the face. He was a strong, burly, Irish peasant, clad in the costume that It now rapidly becoming eitinct a chimney pot hat, a f rises coat, knee breeches and gray worsted stockings. His features wera ttrikiug. I thought bush black eyelirowt meeting each other over the now; gray keen eyes; a mouth that teemed like a straight Una drawn across the face, so tightly werethe lipsoompreased; and a square chin, with a week's growth of bristly black Award upon it Altogether, not the sort of man you would care to have for an enemy. 4 "I am rea ly very grateful to you," said iL "If you had not pulled me out when you did, I could not possibly have kept my head above wr five tnlnutrs longer. It taenia like a special providence Hint you should have been there with your grli," My preserver toowled, and hit face became lest Inviting than ever. "1 taw your gossoon gotug down tbe hill to the ootlaga buyout," be said. "I suppose it wo to ask the way. There's no one lit there LuA myself, o he wont get much by his walk. If you waul to get back to Athloue, Just cross over tha bog there where you arc the tree growing its lone, and you'll strike the mad. Hoi" -as be saw me drawing my puna from my saturated pocket'Turlough 0'Pjea wants niouey from no man; (rod I or bid 1 When you tee a abating tcraugh agaiu, maybe you won't be ao ready to venture on it!" YVoereat he gave a ghastly tort of chuckle and walked nff.wilu his graip over hie shoulder, just as 1'elar coma Up, The action surprlatd ma, as the lrUh have their full share uf curiosity, and rarely rrikt tut opportunity of asking quesliotis tiheu they jet a ceauce. Feb a fact of die- . whi ha saw n.v wet clothes, tba lake, and my new acquaintance, waa a ttudy. I wanted to look lor my gun, woiuu a uw . In my Immersion; but ha drew me away in great haute. "See now, tir never mina lue guu. ... gone for aver and ever, and it's well you're not gone with It MurUieru Irish I did ever any one tea the like! Ana torra a on ui knows if we'll get home to-night at all at all, after thiaP . , "I've just found out where the road it, Id L "H If exactly where I told you over the Ug there." "The road. Is itr said reter. "An, hi, ii that were all, sorra much ma ter it would be. But we must only make the best of it, now we're here; and may the Holy Virgin have a nf and la betune ua and evil!" And devoutly crossing himself be drew me away. Neediest to say that, on me way uou, an lUnHLioii of him: and after a great deal of cross-examination drew from 7 , f . r L,l ,,.." Viuar.1 U1IU as cunous a suirj mm " -" - ....I .hi. h I hora irive. divested of the many digressions from the point, and the rich vo- caliulary or Jrisn parosee wuu uwu told me. ... ... John O'Brien, the original owner of the cottage we had seen, bad two sons, Patrick and Turlough. No one knew wneiice oe mm- telf bad come, or on what term, he bad purchased tbe land on wnlcn lie i... ii hi. mndaat dwelling: but he appears to bava been thunned by tbe people of the neighborhood, cnieny on auoouns m bit living in tuch close proximity to the Devil's Hcraugh, a place of which many wild legends had been told, and which was the fa vorite tpot chosen by the prlesta wherein to confine, "between the froth and the water," ..it ,irita TnpcieMl hv them. Probably. .;th tha exiwnttons of John O'Brien and bit tout, there was not a man in the county who would have ventured near Lough Oalllagh, as tbe pool was called, after dusk; and tho .... a . i . m I temerity of toe owners or. me mrui wo. u, versally ascrilxd to ramiuarity ana ineuu ship with the pow.rs of evil Tyi .I.i tit turn lie1 reDUiauon oi ine u oi it. . ,rma irirl. betravea and deserted by lm Invar hud drowned herself in tbe lough enme ytnrt before the time of which I wriu-; . . . . i i I . I. ....I Lia lover nniueii. naviuu wivu nninM lolned eauerlr In tbe efforU . '.. - 4k. Vwwl. made lor the recovery oi w .. t.ln,lf nmwned also in the SulIlU in ll.a nreeenoeof maiiTof hit neigh kJ mhn were unable to rescue him. and t, niv uKveeded in recovering tbe two corpses several days afterwards. There wot a "wise woman" living in a llllie canin on mo outskirts of Athlone, who, when she heard of the occurrence, mumbled something In Irlub, and then informed her awa struck llsteneia had a revelation, and hod learned that the pool wot under a ipell.euid would infallibly cause vne aeam oi u uiroui m, who hat theoouraze to drown him self therein, repeating the name of the man he would doom as uie Diaoa water aiieumu 1,1. 11m. fnrevne. n'ltrUn and his sons were more slimmed than ever after the event Just related; but Mrl.Mi tha nld man rllxl and It waa found that be had left the whole of his small posseaiiont to bis eldest eon rati lot, anu wiai mnuugu ww n..i. ,rnvlilirl for. iMiDular oiilnloii veered round, and tut In wrongly in favor of the younger brother, all Uie uuii.e aue to aim hainv a.ldl to the thsst of Patrick. From what Peter told me of "o latter man, I do not think he deserved the opprobrium which fell uponblin; beseems to have been kind enough to Turlough, giving him a share of bit bouse and of the proceeds of tbe land; though declining, perhaps wisely enough, to make tliem over to hlin by K'al document Turlough said little, lived in apareiit friend ship with hit brother, and bided bit time. It came earlier than be expected. Patrick, like most Wsetmeatb men at that date, was a thorough Feniau at heart, and managed to get greatly involved in the plots which led to that most abortive attempt at rebellion, In which the government appears lo have knowu quite as much as the conspira tor! themselves of the secret oouncils of the latter. As a natural consequence, Patrick wot "wanted," and equally at a matter of course, be wut not to be found by the police who invaded hit domi cile. No one was there but Turlough, who waa politeness itself, gave them a gloss of whisky all round, and showed them with some pride a deed of gift from Patrick, which, iu due tegul form, made over to bis brother Turlough the former's Interest lu the farm. Clearly, nothing was to be done, and the disnpioiiitod police had nothing for It but to return to barracks. In what part of Ireland Patrick lay hidden during tha years that followed Peter could not tell me, but it was on a spring day iu IsTO that be came again, attended by certain friends of hit as witneesue, to claim back the deed of gift from his brother. The seven days' wonder had passed, Ireland was quieter than usual, and there was no more tutk of prosecuting ex Fenlana Tht farm had only beeu made over to Turlough that he might manage It till better times came, and that there might lie no danger of confiscation. What could be simpler than that the rightful owner should now reclaim poaannlonf But he had reckoned without hit brother. Tur lough tat unmoved by the passionate In vective that was poured upon him, and stolidly reiterated his assertion that he had given Patrick full value for the farm, and bad no Intention whatever of giving It up. Words ran high, and doubt less blows would have followed, bad not Turlough at hut produced an American re volver from his pocket, and threatened to shoot every man in the house bit house If they did not at once leave it Against tuch a practical argument there wot nothing to be urged, and the men left the hut, carrying with them tht frantlo Patrick, mod with rage and Orel with a true Irish thirst for revenge. Their road home lay by Lough Oalllagh. As they neared It Patrick broke away from Ms friends, rushed across the quaking Devil's Bcraugh, and plunged into tthe peaty water with a scream of his brother1! name, mingled with a ban. The party he had left stood still a moment in horror, and then hurried cau tiously toward the margin of the pool But tbedeeperate man never roseagaiu. Some thought that be must actually have twum under water till be was beneath the tcraugh, to as to render rascue impossible and make sum of Uie anathema. LVm tli.L lima fitrth nn livlna- man iwil.l be avoid It, would approach Lough Gallia i i - . , . n , . x-tj wl . or epeaa a worn to lunougo j orieo. joe lallMr waa Ant of from all human inimiuiiui. ship, and driven to sulisist on the potatoes he grew on uu (arm ami uie mini or a cow which be kept there. Whether his terrib e penance did hira good or not, Peter could not say, but I hoed It bad done to, A man whose heart was wholly bad would have left me to perish in the ecraugb, No one had dared to attenit tbe Boding of Lha nu-tMM nf Patrick O'llrien: bus. alinnat daily for years past, Turlough had been teen working witn ms graip nere ami mere along tbe margin of the lough and in the Devil'! Scraugb iteelf, so the probability was that be was eudeavorlng to flud his brothers body rltMtJta a hiuia nt avnLti,- tha han nM. uounced on the pool, or with tbe better ob ject of giving (. lirutlan burial to the remains of his vu-Uni. ao oust muld aav. though, nf course, Uie peasantry inclined to Uie former Ao doubt l baa nsot wilt ray acci dent In one of tlio Holes be bad dug 'In the tcrauBh, which had bod tlmo to cover itnell with a treacherous layer of weed. The pop ular opinion wot that Turlough himself would tome day be drownea in tucn a oou-, ami tbtu fulfill the weird of tha "wie woman." Wo reached Athlone that evening long after dark, but In safety, to Peter's great turprlse and telf congratulation. He bad been thoroughly frightened by finding himself in proximity to tbe dreadnd tpot, and for tome time afterward boasted less than usual of bis kuowledgeof "every bole and corner in the bogs from Moato to Athlone." e e e I am an irishman I birth and education, and have beard many weird stories in my native laud, but seldom one which Impressed me to much at that which Peter had told me. It kept my mind bmty and my body wakeful that night till far into tbe small hoiin. I did not know which to pity the most the desper ate man hurrying Into the pretence of hit maker with anathemas on bit lips and a pur pose of vengeance in bit heart, or the living one who "dreed his weird," solitary amonget his fellows, unbelped and unpitied by tbem. j Ere morning I bad resolved that, to far as I wot concerned, tbe matter should not rest there, but that I would at once pay Turlough O'Brien a visit, express my gratitude to hira better than I had been able to do it In tbe hurnr of tbe moment, and try to belp him, at least by sympathy, if In no other way. He had refused to accept the money; but ne could scarcely decline a few articles, of use to a man in bis circumstances, if brought to him at aprstentand not at a reward, and these might be my excuse for Intruding upon biro. Truth to toll, I was rather doubtful at to tbe reception I might meet with at the farm. "Man proposes, and God disposes." It It a trite saying, but a practical ons. . When I rose In the morning I taw tbe sky covered from tenith to borisnn by a leaden pall of cloud, whence descended an unbroken torrent of rain, turning tbe street to rivers of mud, and splashing on the pavement from every gutter, as If the deluge were come again. BngtrotUng was, in such weather, out of the question, and I resigned myself to the inevitable, though reluctnnfly, as I knew well that when steady rain begins In the County Westmeath In November with a falling barometer, no man can say when it will t.op. But I wot scarcely prepared for the rainfall of that November. Ten whole days it continued without a symptom of cessa tion; then came a break of sunshine late one afternoon, a fine night, and again rain in the morning. When, ou tbe fourteenth day, the mercury in tbe barometer that hung in tbe anteroom showed tignt of rising steadily, In place of Jumping up and down every few hours, and Uie clouds thinned away and lot a water glimpse of sun come through, we were all thoroughly tired of inaction and indoor confinement, and half tbe country was under water. Next morning wot a glorious one, with a cloudless sky ; and 1 started on my expedition alone this time, as I did not think it fair to ask Peter to accompany me, knowing his feelings on the subject of my destination. I found locomotion very diffcult, at the bogi were ankle deep In water In tome places, and once I thought seriously of turning bark; but my good Intentioni were too strong for me, and I ttruggled on. About noon I passed the "lone tree" and came In sight of Lough Oalllagh. It bad become a respectable sheet of water by this time. The Devil's Bcraugb was quite covered, and evidently my friend Turlougb's engineering operations must have been suspended for tome time past by tbe laws of nature. The cottage still stood where I lost taw It, and a thin wreath of smoke rose from the chimney, proving that tbe owner was at home. The stream below it bod become a swollen river, moving sluggishly onward close to the walls of tuu hut, having evidently flooded the potato garden and fields adjoin ing. I was pleased to think that I bad brought a few luxuries with me, a pouud or to of to- baoco and so on; for evidently Uie outcast bail need of something to keep his Spirits up, in view of the desolation around him. Having thus reflected I looked again toward the gloomy pool where I hnd to nearly lt my life. Curiously enough, it teemed larger than when I had viewed it a few minutes before. As I tried to account in my own mind for this phenomenon, I felt a trembling of the ground beneath my feet; and, with a dull, sullen roar, the whole bog, from Lough Uallingb downward, splitaway, opening a vast chasm, Ailed with black foaming water, and slid away bodily toward the stream below. A few yards it (hus moved unbroken, and then split In every direction into a mate of inlands, all borne downward by a resistless rush of water, that had accumulated twenty feut beneath Uie bog upon the impervious mail sulisoil, and now bore away ita load tri umphantly, In a roaring torrent, directed straight uon Uie cottage by the stream. At Uie first dull roar, I bad teen I teemed to see everything at once the door of the hut open and a man standing on the threshold looking toward Lough Qalliagb. Then the flood broke, and cottage and man vanished like a dream In tht stream beyond, followed by the great mosses of peat, which choked up the bed of the channel and piled themselves on tbe further bank like chaos. I am uot aihanied to say that I turned and ran for my Ufa. There was no saying whether my part of the bog would not follow Uie other. How ever, tbe release of the water had saved Uie remainder of Uie peat; and I was able, by making a long detour, to avoid that chasm where once was Lough Oalllli, and to strike the bed of the stream about a mile farther down, where already a crowd of country peo ple had collected, and were gating In bewil dered astonishment at the devastation around them. One or two ot the moat practical or perhaps most apatbetio amongst them were groping In the rapidly diminishing waters ot the stream, and fishing out relict ot tht fur niture of the cottage, which had been struck by the first force of Uie released waters and carried doun tbe stream In fragments, before the mast of peat bad dammed tbe channel "Hurroo, Johneeul" shouted one stalwart fellow, holding on Vt a long' pole with a sal mon gaff at the end ot It "Ishave a boult of something weighty this time. Lend me a hand, and we'll have it nut" I knew instinctively what was coming, and shrank from the sight The women screamed and Uie men erueed themselves at Uie body ot Turlough O'Brien was raised from Uie water and drawn toward tbe bank. His stern face with ita black hair looked tut and ghastly iu death; and it bad a great gash across Uie forehead, caused, no doubt, by tome timber of Uie hut striking it in the water. There seemed tome difllculty lu getting tbe coqiae out of the water, and It soon appeared that the right hand held a death grip ot something which looked like a bit of sir-ike browned rafter. The salmon gsT was again used, and Uie men raised Uie body and lu price together. "Ood be betune us and all evil :" shrieked an old woman, "Sure, It's hit own brother he haaahnultof! Throw hira In again, boys, or bad luck will follow yet!" "Nonwnse." said I, hastily, seeing an evi dent dlrp-vition on the part of the men to com ply wivU injunction, "Surely Uiat thing cant be body f It wu one, however, shriveled ami dried up tile a mummy, but neverthelese preserved by the strange antiseptic oowar of the peat, so that the feature! .ra narfW-tlv recoffnlubla A man lit the crowd identified it at ouce at wbat re mained of Patrick O'Brien. Clearly It bad been carried out of iu renting place by the descending water. At a suicide, tbe priest refused to bury Pat rick O'Brien la consecrated ground, and tbe puh lo opinion against Turlough wat ao strong tuat they did not dare to lay him lu the graveyard. After the Inquest the bodies were claimed by some man lu the neighbor hood, who declared hlmsel! falsely, I believe to be a relative of the deceased. No one cared to dispute bis claim, or ask wbat he did with tbem; but I have reason to think that the country people buried him somewhere near tht old site of Lough Oalllagh, by ad vice of the "wise woman," who declared that such was Uie only way to remove the ban that bung over Uie place.' Chambers' Jour nal White Hnrsee and Warm Weather. "Did you ever tee a white or a gray horse overcome by the beatf asked a well known livery stable keeper yesterday. Tbe gentleman to whom the -question was directed put on bis thinking cap. Tbe rarity of such an occurence bad never before sug gested itself to him, and although be waa among thousands of horses every day and hod seen hundreds ovsreome, be could not recall a single Instance in which a white or gray borne had been prostrated by tbe tun't rayt. 'Tbe cases of prostration among white or btb borate are very rare." continued the horseman. "We have forty or fifty of tbem among the 150 we employ, and I never knew of but one that gave out from tbe effects of the beat in my experience of twenty yean in a stable. This, too, was hardly a fair case, as tbe horse wot pulling a heavy coupe, which wo overloaded, op one of Fairmount't steep hills. His illness wat only momentary, and at soon as be received a little care he wat all right again." "Can I account for itr "Well, not exactly. But I suppose that white or gray does not attract tha beat like darker colors. You bave probably noticed this in your dress. A black, shiny surfaced coat seems to burn into your very flesh, while a garment of light colored cloth ap pears cool and breexy. This it probably why white or gray hornet stand Uie heat better They are not to susceptible to tht sun's rayt. "Keep a sharp lookout after this, and you will see Uiat rases where white or gray horses uccumb to the heat aie as rare as the 'dead donkey' In EnglamL" A veterinary surgeon, speaking on the same subject, tuid that Uie liveryman's theory that the light colors did not attract the heat so readily at Uie darker ones was correct "This it well known," said the surgeon, "hi many of the countries where the climate is very warm, and for this reason alone hornet uf dark colon are rarely seen. In Cuba white, gray or sorrel bones bring high prices, while blacks and dark bays can be bought for a song. Tbe people of the wealthier cluss will not buy them at all, and, as a consequence, no dark horses are brought into the country." Philadelphia News. Edison's First Speaking Phonograph At illustrating the versatility and fecun dity of Edison, the inventor, Mr. Edward H. Johnson, president of the Edlrau Electric Light company, tells a good story: "I was traveling through the west for Edi son," be says, "giving exhibitions of and lec tures on the telephone. Edison bod previous ly told me, in a casual way, that be believed he could make a talking machine, and meant to do It tome day. In a bunt of enthusiasm at Buffalo I boasted that the wizard would astonish them Kill more at toon at be could find time to perfect bis talking machine. The audience went wild over the announcement, and it was tome nilnutoe before I could pro ceed with my lecture. At its conclusion I was besieged and congratulated by an eager crowd, who extorted from me a promise that I would hurry up that talking machine and exhibit it first in Buffalo. I abandoned the remainder of my trip, packed my gripsack and started for Newark that night All tbe way home I was wondering whether I hadnt bit off more than I could chaw. "Tom," said I, as soon as I could reach him, "you must let everything else go and finish that talking machine without delay. The leople are crazy over it 1 made a bluff at them In Buffalo, and the whole audience called me down." "All right," told Edison, unconcernedly. "In three days he received from New York the metal cylinder, and before nightfall the phonograph wat an accomplished fact" Now York Evening Bun. A Funeral In Mexico. A curious feature of Mexican life It the manner of conducting funerals. The rich go to the cemeteries In carriages, at elsewhere; tbe middle classes go on tbe street can, coffin and all, while the poor walk and carry their dead upon their shoulders. When bone can were tint introduced into the Mexican cap! tal the manager of the Hue conceived the Idea ot buying and retiring all the hearse. Then he put funeral can on that branch run ning to the cemetery, and the result was Uiat everybody withlng to bury in consecrated ground wat at bit mercy. It toon became tbe fashion to visit the panteon in the horse cars, and all except those twoextreme classes, tbe very richest and Uie very poorest, now avail themselves of the privilege. One frequently encounten a funeral pro cession of this kind en route to the grave, the car draped in black if the corpse be that of a man, or in white if it be that of a woman or child; thecofflu exposed to Uie full glare ot tbe sun and the gate of tba populace; Uie horses, with their nodding plumes, driven by a spruce young man In conventional uni form, and the car containing the "mournen' gliding gayly over Uie rails. The price of this service is graduated to suit Uie taste or necessities of the bereaved, and ranges from $3 to $300, depending upon tbe hearse equip ments, Uie number of horses and liveried at tendant. Tbe Argonaut Whlttler aad Robert Burns. The poet WhitUer once narrated to the Re. Robert Collyer this episode in hit early life. Tblt It something like what he said in his old quaint style: When I was on Uie farm lu New Hampshire, and was quite young, an old friend who was visiting Uie meetings came to stay one night a ter supper he said to me, "John, lad, I've something for thee," and then brought out of his saddle bags two little volumes, which turned out to lie Burns' poems. -I think thee'U like Uie book," he added. I bad never read any poetry before except Friends poetry, and thee'U know what Uiat be. I began to read Burns' and was lost In wonder. It teemed ts if tbe sky bad lifted and the world widened, and I saw mankind outaide Uie narrow bounds of Uie Frieuds. I read on till mother came down and told me to get to bed. Next day, when the gray light wat dawning I crept down and got Uie volumes, and read as Ion : as I could. The old Friend came and said, "Thee seems to like it; I'm going further. and I'll leave it till I come back." That wat Uie firrt revelation to me of what pot-y may be and do. A good many folk find fault with Hums. Tbey say Uiat hit poetry it im pure. Does thee believe me when I tell thee that I have not detected Uie least Impurity in Uf Hia genius b so great and noble that if Uiere be blois they are to litUe Uiat I dont tee the. Home Journal DEATH PENACTV IN CORE- Peculiar Manner of Kllf Criminals It tbe Oriental Feaintuia. . mi i. nacullor and Ii iue manner oi mm - . especially obnoxious to tbe C.tholloChrls tlant, who are abundant lu tblt country- An ordinary Roman crcet it tet ,p on i hg cart drawn by oxen, i am --- -with arm. extended, end be is thu. d raw., through the ttreeta. A -tar! process on, announcing vu ' , . n,.ni.)Mrt. His friends are me wan w iia f" : , , i..M,re allowed to follow end protest and bewail hit sad rate, " --- . ment 1. usually visited .upon be toy treason bat been glaring, " friends It apt to be rathrr sroalL There .r. two piece. while Uie cwei pia j--- ,"m.rowj. gate, on .hillside, where the upon the city won nu ... get . good view of the Interesting tight Whether the primer, in bis "L hus succumb! to the torture on the croe. or not, on arriving at ine pia is pioc face downward, with ,LU i uec-k upon . block, when, by one stroke, tt it h I food the bony, i ue unu - . . into tbe city ana iam, i "n. of the .treeu, where It must lie for three ui- . .,nt that the people, and jven the dogs, avoid that street for the time iH ing, and tbe adjoining .hop. are closed. n.ey count from the evening when the body i. laid out till daylight of the third day, so that the body only lie. there one day in re 1ity. The fonignen resident in the capital, . .- It., .mailt, nf INM. luring the ume following mo when to many political criminals were exe ;uted, often stumbled upon these horrible about the trecta. On one occasion wheu the bodies were near :he legation. Uie representatives w ind asked for their removal It should be uientionoit that tbe humane kir a otiDOsed to this practice, which custom xiiis still to demand. In case the accuser ihould be proved an Impostor ana to uaru mr .....u h. man fiilfUUV. the Dritoner or hw ;UC14 VUV ' J - a friends bavo the right to demand an eyo from aim. Their method of obtaining toe urn"" j quite novel, and if well performed It Is nore expeditious than is ine inoueni - ....utintt The rulnritis made lietuuu ui - , stoop over and Is then bit with tbe loaded md of a flexible stick upon a poi on wo f tbe head,when tbe eye protrudes sufficiently that it may be cut off. If, however, the leople who wish the eye are not prompt in loing the cutting operaUon, the prisoner may juickly replace tne eye ana poesew . liter iu peace, all of which is .aid to have jeeti done many times, but unfortunately has .( lwm vitiivimed. as vet. bv foreigner. fcoul Cor. 8au Francisco Chrouiclu. Poisoned by Mummy Eyes. A weird interest attaches to mummies, and heir coming to life, or exerting an occult in- luence wheu resurrected in one day, has urnlihed the foundation for teverul ro- nances. Here is a prosaic and tire story, vith the Kcene laid In mntterof fact New Pork, which goes far to relieve the rorr.nncen rom the charge of romancing. Home lime igo Messrs. Tiffany & Co. received an Invoice if mummies' eyes. I do not go so far a. to ay that tbey were the actual eyes of leading tititen. of Tbebet and Memphis, hut they vera taken from the eye sockets of i .ummie. ixhumed from EgypUan tomos. Tt y may lave been the actual eye. reduced to Uie lardnes. of .tone by Uie process of einliulin ng, or tbey may have been only fabe eyes Ike those used by modern taxidermists In lerpetuatlng the life semblance of some pet Hdo or Tabby. At all event, they wer tubbed "mummy eyes," and Uie jewelen est ibout getting tbem ready for the market rhey-were amber colored,' opaque and luster- eat. It wot thought best to polish them before etting, and a workmun was tet at the task, 3efore he had been long at tbe work he be anie HI of a fever, and another man wat put iu tie job. Ho, too, became ill of the same tind of a fever before, he had spent much time in the job, and three or four other workmen vho succeeded him were taken with tho tame ymptoms and suffered a similar illness, nl- .hough others, working on other job. amid he same surroundings and under the tame omlitions, were enjoying their uwal good lealth. Here it an excellont opportunity for he Society for Psychical Research. Were bem) illnesses simply a coincidence, or did the iiummy eye. really exert some occult and laneful tower for their own protection Sew York Commercial Advert ter. Yihj Corn Dread it Scarce. Corn bread, once a staple and common ar- ice of food, is coming to be regarded as a uxury. Not only is this true of the north, iut also ot the south, where Indian corn was it one time preferred to wheat for making iread. A Georgian said In explanation of iie change: "Ihe complaint that a really irime article of corn or Indian meal cannot ie obtained in towns and cities is general A wuntry miller told me Uiat he could not pro luce good com meal by tbe use ot modern rrinding machinery. The softest and best lavoied meal it made from new corn. This ho proprietors at large nulls refuse to grind. To get good cormueal tbe grinding must be lone slowly, and it must be given time to ol properly bef ore it is moved. This can uly be done in country mills, and the supply j far behind the demand. "Besides this, nornmeal cannot be kept long without deteriorating. It it not In the matter if bread making alone, however, that corn meal hat fallen into disuse j it it let. used for looking purposes generally. ' The great in Tease in wheat growing and tbe improve ments in the flour making line, together with the high price of corn and low price of wheat, is In pal t responsible for this state of things. Few persons now use corn for economical reasons. Many, however, would prefer it for t considerable portion ot Uie ume, it a good article could be procured. . The southern corn Is preferred to all others, although the flint corn raised in New England is an excellent article; but it requires a large amount of cooking. Corn that grows in the prairie region or tbe west Is Uie most undesirable, and as this represent, most ot tbe cereal uiat is f orale it is not used to any great extent" New York Mail and Express. High Priced Peaches Abroad. An American who recently returned from England says that before tailing be noticed one day a pUte of flue peaches among tbe fruit of the dining room at the hotel He inquired their price, and wat told that the peaches were sixty cents apiece, and that they were "a.1 or nothing" for Englishmen is Uie fruit has not vet been brought in quantities which inmre cheapness. Chicago i lines. Tax Colleetl i-j In Morocco. Mulcy Hassan knows bow to collect taxes. inyway. Recently many of his subjects aiunllesteu. a tendency to be delinquent. Thereupon be cut off the bead, of a doxeu or lo and .tuck tbem up iu front ot hi. palace. to encourage prompt settlement on the part ji iue oiners. u workeu splendidly. Evorv leliuqueut taxpayer iu Morocco settled up ji iuu.iwa.tuaj. .ew aom tribune. LIGHT AND AIHY. X Great Frobleaa. we are problems In arithmetUl ' 'aTpHf fellow'. andalgebraioeorken And geometric plus. But tbeougbert of all problem., That with dread a husband Bile, It to buy tbe earth "at special tale- . rortwotmaUlblllf. Chicago Inter-Oceaa. Change of Base. n .... T have an InflnnnS Kanaa. Ulty iwp"' . . of. feZw guilty of ell aort. of brutalitie. which o3 to teud him to the poultontiarj 'orl"e Tf-ii- l.m .,n and TH da- Able Editor"""' mand of tbe authorities their roaaon for not . U'kn I. hut arresting nun. . ., .. . 'Mulligan, tne inree t " v- .i-hi Tht sluL'eer who licked the three) editonacroBstbewayr The same." "Remember the goldon rule, my boy, Deal gently with the erring. '"-Omnhg Horia. A Christmas Carol. We loathe, abhor, detest, despite The roan who does not advertise. And when he finds after New earn Enough to Justify his fean That he laid in too large a stock. That to his store folks didn't flock. And half his goods are still on shelf. He'll loathe, detest, despise himself. . Lowell Courier A Good Yearly Average. 'But, Mr. Sujierlntendent, you will admit. I suppose, that your street cor. are outrage, ouslv coldr "Well, vet, In winter tbey are pretty cold. of course, but you ought to be willlug to take a reasonable view oi tne nuuwr." "Reasonable view r "Whv. certainly. Sow, U you should put a thermometer In our can and leave it there the year round you would find that with tbe 110 degree, above zero In tbe summer and the 10 degree below tero in the winter we tlrikoa pretty good average in tbe entire year." Buffalo rows, , .The Inevitable End. Although be covett It from birth, And covets it through life's brief span, Hun never, never geta tbe earth. It is the earth that gets tbe man. Boston Courier. A Lover of Candor. Impecunious Man I wish you would be io kind as to loud me t-5. I'll pay you bark In a few days. Candid Friend If you had aiiked mo for the loan in a candid and itralghtforward manner I would have lent vou the money, but asking me in the way you lid causes me to distrust you. "I don't under rtand you." "You asked me to be to kind u to lend you $5." "Yes." "If you had been candid you would have said to me: 'Be 40 stupid, be such an ignominious ass, such i hopeless idiot, as to lend ine $5,' and you might have got it." Texas Sittings. A Traveled Man. Mr. Overtherhine (a Cincinnati drummer) Yes, I've been an extensive traveler, Miss uldo. For the post ten years I don t be lieve I bave spent more than one month out of tho twelve at home. . Mis. Waldo (a young lady from Boston) Oh, I think traveling is so interesting, and it improves one so much, you know. You bava visited Purls, Mr. Urertherhina Mr. Overtherhine No, we have another man for Kentucky; my route all lie. uoitr of tho Ohio river. New York Sun. The Cigarette. I am only a small cigarette, But my work 1 will get iu, you bet, Fur the stern coffin maker And grim undertaker Will declare I bring fish to their net. Boston Budget Science la Everything, Young Mr. Wabash (of Chicago) Are you Interested at all in muttera of a scientific! nature, Misa Wnldof" Miss Waldo (of Boston) Oh, very much. Mr. Wabash!" Mr. Wabash You think, then, that every one should possess some knowledge of jcieneef" Miss Waldo Yes; I attribute much of our Mr. Sullivan', phenomenal success to hi! scientific ability." The Epoch. Good Taste Misplaced. Fair Visitor (to convict in for life for mur a bunch you any- vory tall suit un- lering his grandmother) There is of sweet violets for you, sir. Have thing to complain of I Convict Well, yes, Miss. I'm a man, as you sue, and this striped pleasantly emphasizes my stature. I ought chock. to have something iu a pronounced The Epoch. Fashion Note. A sacrificing wife Is dear Her husband well should prize her, But the best wife this time o' year Is a sealskin sacritlcer. Detroit Free Presa, All I'p With nim. Wife I am afraid, my dear, that Clara"! qunrrel with youug Mr. Sampson is a very terious matter. Husband Nonsense; they will be a. de voted as ever in a few days. Wife No, John, I think you are mistaken. No girl will quarrel with her lover just be fore Christmas unlets there are good and sufficient reason, for it. New York Sun, Of Nut Much Interest. Lodv (to hiMhanib Vnn tnn't tall ma. John, that eleven citiea were overflown and millions ot people left homeless and starving! Husband Yes, in China, Ladv (diaaDDointedl Oh. In f,tn Inter esting matters of that kind alwayt happen such a provokingly long distance away I New York Sun, Live In the Present. "Live, live today!" the sage has sold; The present's ours, the future lent; Regret not Christmases now fled; Content be with the "Christmas present" Boston Courier. A Misunderstanding. Father (who bat given hit consent) I hope, young man, that yen know tho value, of the prixe you will get in my daughterf Young Man-Well er no, tir; I dont know the exact vJue, but at near as I can find out it's in the neighborhood of IjO.OOU New York 8uo, St. Nicholas and Culture Clash, American Youth (aged 6) Now if the effect of eighty bolu of electricity is equal in applied force to Santa Claus Holy Grail! is this the young ster that I've brought a yollow monkey on red stick fori Judge, And He Gets It. I OTKm. Im 1, tkt,l . i j . . i - --"" i ,uvk auu u-rp s ine bw-i And winter dava ar dmr ni Mao wants but Uttlt here below fcero, Boston Courier