WHO Mi 11UIT
My neighbor wears n cot'on drcs:
Bin- comrs with marigold ml crew
All dripping, cnllcd together.
The willow basket In licr hand
Is bright with water an l with sand,
This happy, liappy wcutbcrl
"Who'll buy I" Who would not buy I
The grew beneath an April stream,
Beneath a i April sky 1
Aga'n I mrct her, flushed and brown,
With braid and bonnet s'lpplng down:
She looks upon inc gayly.
8 o knows the grassy upland farm
Wbcro berries ripen high and warm,
And redden deeper dally I
"Who'll buy 1" Who would not buy?
She found them In the summer flclJs,
llcucath a suii.mcr sky.
To-day she enters at my gate :
S c steps Inside the sill to wait;
And so once more I find her.
Alack 1 the whlrlng leaves aro brown
And ho who shook the chestnuts down
Is Mmiditig there bclilml her!
"Who'll buv!" Who would not buy?
They found tliem In the autumn woods,
Beneath a frosty sky I
Dora Head Goolak.
Mathias Sandorf.
-BY-
JULES VERNE.
iUTHOn OP "JOUIINEY TO Tim CKNTHK
Or THIS EARTH," "TIUI" TO THE MOON,"
"AHOUND THE WOULD IN EIGHTY
DAYS," " MICHAKn STU00OKF,"
"TWENTY THOPHANI) liEAOUES
UNUEIt THE DEA," ETC., ETC.
TltAHSI.ATION COrYItlOHTKD, 1836.
CHAPTER VIL
THE TEIAIj.
Tslrin, which becamo part of Austria
Eluiig"ary in accordance with tho treaty
sf 1810, is ii triangular peninsular of
which tho isthmus forms tho base.
Thin peninsula extends from tho Gulf
af Triosto to tho Gulf of Quarnoro ;
md along tho coast lino nro sovernl
tiarbors. Among others, almost at tho
sxtremo southern point, is Pola, which
die Govornmont uns then forming into
i dockyard ami arsenal of tho first
rank.
Tho province moro especially on its
western coast, is ntill Italian, and oven
Venotian in its customs and language.
Tho Scluvo element, still struggles with
tho Italian element, and tho German
sloment has sonic difllculty in maintain
ing its influence
There nro several important towns on
tho coast and in the interior. Among
these aro Capo d'lstria and Pirano,
whoso population is almost entirely
employed in tho salt works at I ho
mouths of the Bisnno and Corna-Lungu;
I'nronzo, the headquarters of the Tut nun
Diet and tho resideuco of tho Bishop ;
Rivigno, rich in ihiolivo trees, and Pola,
where tourists llnd interest in ijo su
perb monuments of Bninan origin, and
which is dostined to become tho most
important military port in tho Adriatic.
But neither of these towns have tho
right to call itself the capital of J stria,
Tito place that boors that title is Pisino.
situated almost in the centre of the tri
angle, and thither, unknown to thorn,
tho prisonors worn about to bo takon
niter thoir secret arrest.
At tho door of Zatlinmr's houso n post
cliniso was waiting. Tho four prisonors
entered it, and two of tho Austrian
polico, who wero put in oiiargo during
tho journey, took their places beside
them. Thoy were thus prevented from
exchanging n word which might in any
way compromise them or lead to a
mutual understanding boforo their
appcarnuco in tho dock.
An escort of twelve mounted gend
nrmos, commanded by a lieutontnnt,
took up their positions in front, behind
and nt tho doors of the carriage, and
ion MinUtcs afterwards they were out
of tho town. Borik was taken direct to
tho prison at Trieste, and thoro put into
solitary contluement.
Whero wero tho prisonors going? In
what foitross of tho Austrian Govern
ment were thoy to bo lodged, since tho
castle at Trieste was not to receive thorn ?
Count Sandorf nnd his friends would
have boon glad to know, but thoy tried
to discover in vain.
Tho night was dark. By tho light of
tho carriage lamps only tho first rauk
of tho mounted escort could bo seen.
The pace was rapid. Sandorf, Bathory
nnd Znthniar remained motionless and
eilont in thoir comers. Sarcauy did
not sook to break tho silence, either to
protest against his arrest or to ask why
tho arrest had been made.
After leaving Trieste tho post-chaise
mado a boud which took it obliquely
towards tho coast. Count Sandford,
amid tho noise of tho trotting horses
nnd tho jingling sabiH could hoar tho
distant murmur of the biuf on tho rooks
along tho shore. Tor n momont n few
lights shone out in tho night, nnd almost
immediately disappeared. Tins was
tho small town of Miiggin, which tho
post chaso had just passed without halt
ing. Then Sandorf noticed that the
road lay into tho interior.
At ele von o'clock tho chnso stopped
to change horses. It was oidy nt a farm,
whero tho horses wero wniting ready to
bo harnessed. It was not a post-station.
Thy escort resumed its journey. Tho
carriage passed along n road among tho
vineyards where tho vinos interlaced
themselves in festoons to tho brunches
of tho inullwrry 1 1 oof , The mad was
Hut and the carriage made rapid pro.
(trout. Tito darkness now grew more
profound, for luvivy clouds, hrouicht up
by n violent sirocco from the soiitheoHt,
covered the sky ; mid ullhuiigh tint win
dou swore let down from time to time
to admit n little fundi nir -for the nights
lire warm i is Istriu Jt mm impossible to
distinguish anything ntou oIomi nt
liuml Altliougll tUmluif mid Ills
tritmd notod uwiry immlout on the
i.ud, tho illrootiou of tliu wind mid tho
timo elapsed sinco their doparturo, thoy
could not discover tho direction in
which tho carringo was travoling. Tho
object was doubtless to keep it ns sccrot
ns possible, so that their plnco of con
finement should not bo known to tho
public.
Aliont two o'clock in tho morning
they again changed horses. As nt tho
first change, tho halt did not Inst fivo
minuto".
Count Sandorf thought ho could mako
out in tho gloom n few houses nt tho
end of a road, as though on 'the cxtrcmo
outskirt of n town.
This was Bujo. tho chief plnco of a
distinct situated about twenty miles
south of Muggia.
As soon ns tho horses wero put to tho
enrringo lieutenant spoko a few words to
tho postillion in a low tone, and thochniso
r.ct oft at a gallop.
At half-past three o'clock tho day bo
gnn to dawn. An hour lator tho posi
tion of tho rising sun would have shown
them tho direction in which thoy wero
going, but tho polico shut down tho
shutters, and tho interior of tho car
riago was plunged into conipleto dark
ness. Neither Count Sandorf nor his friends
mado tho least observation. It would
not havo becn'roplied to; that was cer
tain. Tho best tiling to do was to sub
mit nnd wait.
An hour or two Afterwards it was
difficult torockon how tho timo went
the post-chaiso stopped for tho last time,
and tho change of horses was very
quickly performed at Visinnda.
As they loft hero all that could bo
noticed was that tho read had becomo
very hard. Thoshouts of tho postillion,
tho cracking of his whip, incessantly
urged tho horses forward, and tho shoes
rattled on tho hnrd, stony ground of a
mountainous region. A few hills with
Httln.clumps of grayish trees could bo
mado' out on tho horizon. Two or throo
times tho prisoners heard the sounds of
a flute. Thoy camo from tho young
ohepherds who wero playing thoir curi
ous tunes as thoy gathered together
their Hooks of black goats, but this
afforded no sufficient indication-of tho
country tho prisoners woro passing
through. That had to bo found out
without seeing it.
About nine o'clock tho chaiso wont off
in quite a different direction. Unless
they woro mistaken they wero descend
ing rupidlv nfter having reached tho
highost point of their journey. Tho
speed was much increased, and occa
sionally the wheels had to bn skidded.
In fact, nfter leading through tho hilly
country comr.ianded by Mont Mnjour,
tho road drops down obliquely ns it ap
proaches Pisino. Although the town is
very much above sea level it seems to
bo in a deep V0II03' to judgo from tho
neighboring hills. Some distanco bo
foro it is reached tho campanilo above
tho houses picturesquely grouped on
tho hillside becomes visible
Pisino is tho chief place of tho dis
trict, nnd conlaiiis about 21,000 inhabi
tants. It is situated almost in tho cen
tre of tho peninsula, and particularly at
fair time a largo business is done among
tho mixed population of Morhiques,
Selaves of different tribes, and oven
Tsigunes, who flourish there.
Tho capital of Istria is an old city, and
has retained its feudal character. This
strikingly appears in the ancient castle,
which towers above several more mod
ern military establishments whore tho
admini'tiation of tho government is
carried on.
Itwasintho courtyard of this castle
that tho post-chaise stopped on tho 0th
of June, about ten o'clock in tho morn
ing, utter a journey of lltteon hours.
Count Sandorf, his two companions and
S.ireany left tho vehicle, nnd a few min
utes afterwards. wero shown into separ
ate vaulted cells.
Although thoy had had no communi
cation with each other, and had not been
able to exchange ideas in any way, yet
Sandorf, Zathninr nnd Bathory woro all
ongaged in pondering over tho samo
subject. How had tho secret of tho
plot been discovered ? Had tho polico
come on tho track by chanco? There
had recently been no oorrcspondenco
between Triosto and tho Hungarian and
Transylvaniau towns. "Was there a
traitor in the camp? Hut who could bo
tho traitor ? Confidence had been
placed in none. There woro no papers
to fall into a epyn hands. AlltUo docu
ments had been destroyed. Had thoy
rummaged tho most secret corners of
tho Acquedotta they would not have
found a single suspicious note! And
that is what had happened. Tho polico
had discovered nothing oxoopt tho
grating, which Zathmar had not de
stroyed incase he wanted it for further
use Hut unhappily tho grating was
serious evidence, for it was impossible
to explain its use except as a means of
ciphered correspondence.
In fact, everything rested on tho copy
of tho message that Sarcauy, with 'for
ontlml'rt connivance, had handed over to
tho Governor of Trieste after having
made out its real meaning. Hut, un
fortunately, that was quite enough to
make good the accusation of conspiring
against tho state; and it has been de
cided to bring Count Sandorf and his
friends before a special. tribunal, a mil
itary tribunal, which would proceed in
military fashion.
Surcany's game wasn deop one, and
ho played it with tho coolness nnd de
liberation that distinguished him. He
had allowed himself to bo arrested, to bo
convicted, if need bo, on the under
standing that he should roceivo a par
don; and in this way ho hoped to disarm
uuspieion.
Sandorf was completely deceivod by
him nnd wLo would not have Ihumi?
and resolved to do hit utmost to clear
him of the ohnrgo. It would not bo
dilllcult. he thought, to show that Sar
cauy had taken no pait in the conspir
acy, that he win n erely im accountant
only recently introduced into Zuthmar's
house to arrange certain private matters
which in no way had inference to the
jtlot. H needful, lie could cell Sihu
Toiontlud to testify to the young man's
inniwriiiia. There could I hi ho doubt,
tliHieforc, that H-mmny would be found
iiinoniiiit of having Ikiun either apiinai.
va of iiottessoiy, u the event of the
prosecution bouiji persisted lu.
Tho Austrian Govoinmont knew
nothing of tiio conspiracy beyond whai
thov heard nt Trieste. Tho conspirators
of Hungary nnd Transylvania remained
absolutely unknown. Thoro was no
trace in existence of their complicity in
tho plot. Sandorf. Hathory and Znth
mar need havo felt no anxiety on this
head. As far as they woro concerned
thoy had mado up their minds to deny
everything until somo material vi
denco was producod. In that case they
know that their lives wero forfeited.
Others would ono day toko up tho
movement that had now proved nbortivo.
Tho cnuso of independence would find
now leaders. If they wero convicted
they would avow what had been tin ir
hopes. They would show tho object at
which thoy had aimed, and which ono
day or tho other would bo attained.
It was not without 'somo reason that
Count Snndor and his two friends
thought that tho action of tho polico
had been restricted in the matter. At
Iiuda, at Pesth, at Klausenburg, in all
tho towns in which tho rising was to
take placo at tho signal from Triosto
inquiries had been mado in vain. That
was why tho Government had nrrested
tho chiefs so secretly at Trieste. They
had sent them to Pisino, and desired
that nothing should bo known of tho
igniter, in the hopo that something
would happen to betray tho scudcrs of
tho cipher message. The hope was not
realized. Tho expected signal was not
given. Tho movement was stopped for
a timo at least. Tho Government had
to content itself with trying Sandorf
and his companions for high treason.
Tho inquiries took several days; nnd
it was not till the 20th of Juno thnt tho
proceedings began with the examination
of tho necused. Thov wero not oven
confronted with each other, nnd wero
only to moot boforo their judges.
Tho chiefs of tho Triosto conspiracy
wero, na wo havo said, to bo tried before
a court ' martini. Tho proceedings be
fore such a court never tako long, tho
trial is conducted very quickly, and
tliero is no delay in tho execution of t'jo
sentence.
It was so in this matter.
On the 23th of Juno tho court martial
met in ono of tho lower rooms of the
fortress of Pisino, and thonccused were
brought before it. The proceedings did
not tako very long, nnd nothing start
ling was discovered.
Tho Court opened nt nino o'clock in
tho morning. Count Sandorf, Count
Zalhmar and Professor Hathory, on tho
ono side, nnd Sarcauy on tho other, saw
each other for tho first timo since their
imprisonment Thoelnsp of tho hand
which Sandorf nnd his friend inter
changed as they met, gavo yot another
proof of their unanimity. A feign from
Zathmar, nnd Hathory gavo Sandorf to
understand that they loft him to speak
for them. Neither would undortnko
tho defence. All Sandorf had done up
till then had been well done. All that
ho thought lit to say to tho judges
would bo well said. Tho hearing was a
public one. Hut few prrsous were
present, for tho affair had not yet
transpired ; nnd tho spectators, somo
twenty in number, bolongcd to tho
staff of tho castle.
Tho identity of tho accused was first
proved. Then, immediately afterwards,
Sandorf asked tho president the name of
tho placo which he and his companions
had been brought for trial, but no reply
was given to tho question.
Tho identity of barcany was likewiso
established, lie still did nothing to
distinguish his caso from that ol hu
companions.
Thou tho fao-similo of tho message
handed over to tho polico was produced,
and tho accused wero askod if thoy re
membered receiving the original. Thoy
roplied that it was tho duty of tho prose
cution to prove that they received it.
At this reply tho grating which had
been found in Zathiuar's doak was pro
duced. Sardorf and his companions could not
deny that tho grating had been in their
possession. They did not try to. To
such material ovidetico thoro was no re
ply. Tho application of tho grating per
mitted thecryptographic letter to bo read,
and tho lotter must consequently havo
been received.
And thus they learned ho'.v tho secret
of the conspiracy had been discovered
nnd the basis on which the provocation
was originated.
From this time forward question and
answer passed rapidly and clearly told
the story.
Sandorf denied nothing. IIo spoko
on behalf of bio two friends. A move
mont intended to bring about thosopora
tion of Hungary from Austria nnd tho
autonomic rcooustitutiou of the kingdom
of tho nnciont Magyars had boon organ
ized by them, nad thoy not been ar
rested it would shortly havo broken out,
and Hungary would havo reconquered
its independence, Sandorf claimed to
Ihi tho chief of the conspiracy, and in
Msted that his fellow-prisoners woro
merely his agents. Hut Zathmar and
Hathory protested against this conten
tion, and claimed the honor of having
been his accomplices and desired to
share his fate.
When tho President intorrocratod the
prisoner as to their dealings with others
they refused to reply. Not a name was
given.
" lou havo now three heads," said
Sandorf, "and that must bo enough for
you,"
Threo heads only, for Sandorf then
sot himself to exeu'pating Sarcauy, a
youug clerk employed in Count Zath
mar s hoiifco on the recommendation of
Silas Toronthal.
Saroony could not confirm what San
dorf stated. He knew nothing of (ho
conspiracy. He had been greatly sur
prised to learn that in this qmot house
on the Aoquodotto a jJot was in progress
ngniust the Mifoty of the Hutu. If he
md nindu no protest when he m ar
rested it wus lxHsuito he had no idee
what it was n about
Neither Count K.itnluif nor Suronuv
had uny dillieulty in proviujc this - and
It is piolmblt thntthtf Omit Imd ulnmdy
made up his mind in the mutter. At
the Miwedtion of the Jiul(i Advotto
the oliurue uuutiikl Rirouny was thou
luul there ubtiuduued.
By two o'clock in tho afternoon tho
pleadings were all over, and tho senteuco
was given without oven an adjournment.
Count Mntluas Sandorf, Count Lad is
las Zathmar nnd Professor Stephen
Hathory wero found guilty of lngl
treason against the State and sentenced
to death.
Tho prisoners wero to bo shot in tho
courtyard of the castlo.
Tho execution was to tako place with
in forty-eight hours. Sarcauy was to bo
kept in custody until tho closing of tho
jail books, which would not tako placo
until after tho execution of tho sentence.
By the samo judgment all tho posses
sions of tho pmoners wero confiscated.
Tho prisoners wero then removed,
TO HE CONTINUED.
Ltmcr A c.
"It is nn ill wind that blows nobody
good." Tho ill wind of despotism
was nipping nianj- a hud and killing
many a fair plant in England and
other countries two centuries ago, and
sweeping from their dear native lands
so many -of tho best and noblest ot
their children. But it was doin also
a better deed it was drifting west,
ward ninny a cargo of tho very pcoplo
whose past hardships fitted them best
for tho rough life of a now country, as
their grand fidelity to consclonco
enabled thorn to lay its foundations
firm and deep on tho rock, nnd thoro
by securo its stability and prosperity
for generations toconio. It was an
other "ill wind," nearly a century
later, that welded into ono tho various
colonies of the new world, and unfurl
ed that flag of "independence" under
wn cli tho progress of tho united
States has become ono of the irouderj
of the world. Wo con scire tho demon
of despotism chuckling with doligjit
as tho torch of freedom was extin-
iruishcd in ono fair country of luiropo
aftor another, sihiling in derision at
the pitilul efforts of tho paltry haml-
tuls that had escaped ironi his grasp
to protect themselves on tho other
s de of tho sou from tho fury of tho
elements on tho ono hand and tho
tomahawk and scalping knifo of tho
red Indian on the other, lint under
the fostering caro of an unseen hand,
the little one became n thousand, and
tho small ono a strong nation, with a
rapidity unparalleled in tho h story of
tho world; and now tho Utiitcd States',
having rid itsolf of tho great blot of
domestic shivery, is not only a suro
rofugo lor tho oppressed in nil parts of
the earth, but a glorious witness to
tho blessedness of freedom, and iles
t.ned, as wo believe, to a loading part
in spreading over the world that faith
which, by freeing moil from tyranny
within as well as tyranny without
makes ihoni "frco indeed."
Tho persecutor in England, had been
at lirst like the dog in the manger, lie
would neither let ids victims live at
homo nor try to live abroad. At ono
tune eight emigrant ships lay in tho
Thames with thoir pnssongers on
board, their goods and ohattols all
disposed of nnd their minds bouynnt
with the thought of tho freedom they
had never known as home, but wero
now on the eve of enjoying. But tho
tyrant would not let thoin go. Sol
diers were sent to clear the ships and
drive hack the miserable emigrants,
poor, helpless, and despairing, to en
dure while life lasted the liiisoraolo
oppression from which thoy seemed to
hnvo escaped forever. In another
case the emigrants wero betrayed by
llio captain, thoir goods pillaged, and
thoy themselves sentenced to impri
sonment. Was it that their persecut
ors could not give up tho pleasure of
si ttmg tho noses and cropping tho
oars of poor wretches who would not
obey their behests, or that they imag
ined that they would more roiidily
crush the spirit of lebollion in othors
when it was tocu that neither nt homo
nor across the inhospitable ocean could
thoy oscapo from tyranny m as to
obey their consciences in tho worship
of tied? The Quiver.
(iporgiu's Picturesque Huiii.
A more romantic spot than tho ruins
of Cooper's iron works cannot bo found
in Georgia. Groat rocks rise up in
rugged grandeur, boaring on thoir
sides clambering vines and ripening
berries. Old houses aro crumbling
into ruin and trees aro growing up
through decaying Honrs. An ancient
mill stands on the river's bank and
tho watorgoes boiind ng over tho old
rock dam. It is a place whero civili
zation anil the busy hum of machinery
and of human voice has given place
again tu human nature. Far up the
mouiita n side is a little plateau, where
once lived, in a rudu rock house, an
early pioneer. It is with much difll
cully that the place is reached, but
when once there the scone that moots
the eye is grand and picturesque be
yond description. To sit thoro and
watch an autumn sunset is better than
to see the vine-chid hills of Italy. Look
ing out from under the musca'dino vine
that had climbed up and arched the
doorway, tho scene down tho river was
too rr:md for a ooor. weak non like
mine. The old "King of Day" was al
most Queuing uie tree tops in me
western horizon. A halo of goldou
glory Hooded the world. The white
clouds that lav oil' toward the south
scorned to be catching on lire. The
r.ver, under the touch of the sun,
Boomed to be rising to moot tho violet
tinted sky. The hilts wero glor.ously
radiant under tlie bewitching touch ol
Unit LM'uud light. '1 ho old Blue Hldgu
Mountains towered up far in the east,
and their stern faces hoeined almost tc
.smile as tho sunlight kissed thou
brows. From the south there came
the hoftoit touch of evening uir, bear
ing on its bosom the last sweet osiouc
of siiiniuer. From furbelow there rose
the low musical inunnoi of the i Ivor at
it splashed over rocks ami dimpled Ic
the zephyr like breath ol the uir.
Above us tho sad Miuw gently swaged
in the hrotixu and guui ft it sweut, soft
song that spuke ot peace and iot. It
wax good In he there. The snored
Millmits of the place wus elevn
tln,iiirifyliij,'.eiinubli,K--Crfff
((lu.) ,Mrtrtiei,
merrily ns the rest m a grand game of
blinaman s-buii.
ii'l'l.n cfn.A-iwra must, not bo ITIVcn 110.
on account of the little onest said
grandpa; "so we must to bod in timo to
give St. Nicholas a 011111100;" und soon a
inotlov array of red, blue, and brown
hose 'were swinging before the dying
embers of tho great liue-iog.
Then, Gladys playing a gay air, all
joined in nn old Christinas carol, the
chorus of which was:
"Hall, Father Christmas 1 hall to thee!
Honored ever Ehalt thou be!
All the sweets that love hestows,
Kndleps pleasures, wait on those
Who, like vassals hravc nnd true,
Give to Christinas homage due."
CHRISTMAS AND ITS CAROLS.
From tho timo when the nngcls in
augurated the custom, hovering over the
stall-cradle of the infant Jesus, carols
nnd songs have ever been the favorite
music nt tho festal season of Christmas,
and antiquarians with all their researches
have not been able to iix a date at which
the popular idea of celebrating tho Na
tivity was not carried out by singing and
merry-making.
The old carols, however, were not tho
long religious ballads now popular
among the peasantry of Ihigland, and
which wero substituted by those eloso
cropped enemies to music and mirth,
tho Puritans, but ditties of good eating
and driuking and general jollity, as may
may bo learned from a rare manuscript
poem of the Fifteenth Century:
The lewld pcplc than alpatcs agrc,
And caroles Mngon even' crlste mcsse tyde,
Not with shamfastenes hot jocondle,
And holey bowghes aboute; mid al asydde
The hrennlng lyre hem eten, and hem drinks,
And laughen merell, and maken route,
And pype,and dnnsen.and hem rage; ne.swlnke
Ne noe thyngc els, twalvc daye thel woldl not.
This is the earliest allusion to tho cus-
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
torn of keeping up the Christhmas fes-
lvities for twelve days, which accounts
for our modern Twelfth Night, a great
theatrical and general holiday in Ung-
and, out to which 110 attention is paid in
lus country, i no ancient carol at the
bringing in of tho boar's head nt Christ
mas dinners, still sung at Queen's Col-
ego, Oxford, is as old as the lirst Henrv,
for at his coronation, in 1170. wo lcauu
hat it was used as follows;
Caput Anrl defero, lieddens laudes Domino,
ine nun's lu.m 111 mum unngo i
With garlmides gay and roemary
1 pray you all synge merreh
Oui osfls In convlvlo
The bores hear I undcrstando
Is tho chief service in this lande
I.oke wherever It ho fando
Sorvlto cum cantieo.
Almost all tho old enrols have Latin
burdens or intermixtures, showing thoir
monastic- origin, and it was when the
English Reformation had established tho
Episcopal liturgy that these Latin scraps
were banished from tho jovial songs of
Merry Christmas, the timo when evcry
iKidy'wus feasted, and when the meanest
serving man, the lowliest peasant was
welcomed to tho most lordly banqueting
hall, placed beneath the salt, and among
the nobles and fair ladies, sang his rude
carols and played his merry pranks; as
wo read in an old author, "among the
Christmas luisbandlie fare, good drink, a
good lire in tho hall, brawne, pudding
and souse, and mustard withal, beef,
mutton mid pork shred, pies of tho best,
pig, veal, goose, capon, and turkey,
choose, apples, and nuts, with a jolly
carol to the tune of 'King Solomon.' "
Manv of tho eiuly Christmas carols
are rudo in structure, "tlofectivo in rhyme,
ami of a childish simplicity in matter
which anpoar very comical to our en
lightened generation, while somo deal
with miracles appertaining to the incar
nation, of which nothing short of the
most primitive purity could permit tho
recitation. Of this 'latter class is tho
Carol of Holy Mary and the Cherry
Tree, still, in a somewhat modernized
form, snug by tho ixmsuntry mid lead
miners of the Derbyshire l'eak. It com
muuoes: JoMtph a sn old nwu
And sn uM Htsti ms he
And m imrrM Mary,
Qussfiuf llallk-
Christum enrol were not conlhind to
III hit th ami Isiyhood uf Chri.t. but
wore moulded on other bcripturul sub-
jeetfl, one being called Dives and Lazarus,
commencing in tho following whimsical
manner, which, when drawled out sol
emnly by a Derbyshire psalm-siilger, has
a most ludicrous effect:
As It fell out upon a day, rich Dives slcken'd
ami died,
There came two serpents out of hell, his rout
therein to guide, '
Rise up, rise up, brother Dives, and come along
with mo n
For you've a place provided in hell, to sit on a
terjycus knee. '
Another very curious carol of Christ-mas-timo
printed on ballad paper in
black letter, may yet occasionally bo
found pasted on a Derbyshire cotta"-o
wall, which is headed "Christus Natns
Est," nnd which is ornamented with a
rude wood-cut of tho Nativity, in which
tiro seen a number of domestic animals
with labels issuing from their mouths.
Thus tho rooster crows, Cirislus tintus
est. Tho raven asks, Qitando? The
crow answers, line noctc. The ox bel
lows, Vbil Ubi? The sheep bleats,
Bethlehem, while tho dove, coming out
of a cloud, bears in its beak tho legend,
Gloria in J-Jxcclsis.
Very many of the early carols havo
been irrevocably lost, as thoy were hand
ed down orally from generation to gen
eration and never became imprisoned in
typo, and those of the most singular
character, too. Old crones crooned
them over to tho cradled babes, nnd
young maidens learned them from their
grandmothers, but cheap literature and
national schools have banished these cus
toms, and the carols have gradually fad
ed from memory, a fragment, a stanza.
or a line hero and tliero being heard
from tho hps of a shonliord-lad or a
Derbyshire milkmaid. Thus the glad
songs of Christmas-tide which enlivened
tho festivities of royalty in the days when
Christmas had Its Christmas carols
And ladles' sides were hooped like barrels,
descended to the serving men and hum
ble laborer and havo eventually been
lost. "Tho well belov'd servant" who,
as Soulhey tolls us, "in his lord's castlo
dwelt for 'many a year," and who
could sing
Carols for Shrove-tlde or for Candlemas
Songs for the Wassel, and when tho Hoar's heart
Crown'd with guv garlands, and with rosemary
Smoked on the Christmas board,
has made wav for the modern fino gen
tleman immortalized by Thackeray and
Punch, and even the Christmas carol it
self has not escaped tho degeneration of
modern times, but has been used us u
medium for advertising, ns is seen in
"A Christmas Carol on Pokoo lea,
wherein wo are told
How Christ was In a manger lorn,
And (iod dwelt in a bush of thorn,
Which bush ot thorn appears to me
The same that yields the l'ekoe tea,
and aftor a long rigmarole of religious
fervor and cheap grocery zeal, ends with
tho devout wish that
All who do these truths condemn
Ne'er taste ono single drop of them
Here, or In New Jerusalem,
with tho added information that Pckoo
tea which is perfectly good and lino may
bo found grateful and useful all tho year
round, from Christinas to Christinas, at
Francis Hoffman's, at tho sign of the
Golden Caddie on Tower Hill, London.
This enrol was dedicated to "Queen Car
olino and tho Prijicess Carolina and all
the Royal Family," and was published
in 1720.
In spite of modern chango and novel
manners, there seems to bo a growing
fondness for making much of Christ
mas, and long may it bo boforo its cele
bration shall becomo obsolete as its car
ols. The merry timo is at hand and wo
are able to sing in tho words of ono of
the oldest of those English folksongs:
flood Christians, rise; this Is tho morn
When Christ the Savior ho was born;
All III u stable so low lee,
At llt'thU'liem In tiallltfo,
IteMce! our Saviour he was twrn
On C'hrUtiuus duy hi the moruliig.
Equal to Flt o CIu3'.
You can't dotruy a fuU m1 et twth In the
reUwt ef a crematory. This I deem one victory
of srt oYr imturn. Our mu teeth we i-un n
daws to slui with the r.t of ths body, hut
fnl.0 ttmili suit K"l'l )ots Imld tlulr own.
Hllvsr pUt ur sny other miUIuih'h uid by
dnitUls will dUtpowir, hut 4,ttW dvcrt'i1 'f
best hsve been tunnel en srtllUlsl tenth with
out detro)lnt' IhviM, sml lhi fold rlvnt hi the
U'vtti slur Ihst lust list bleu uppllt-4 will lu
Ik found Jntsct.- t'MMJfvry rtjrl,
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