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curiosity tor hat ttt follow,
Ami did you really know the WmI
: JVdoH?'' a-ki d Ellen, mlntf h-r mIo
cheek from H pillow.
"Know him! Ah, young lady, 1 wa
Won and cradled under 1I roof,
nourished ami brought up In hi due
trims. 1 was tin) eomankiu of hU Im
prisonment, I supported hie dying
head, ! bent over bin grave;" ' kTl
tho recollection overcame him.
"My brother," said the young min
ister, gently and affectionately placing
hi hand on his silver hairs, "bo col
lected. Ho who law Ken thus privl
h'gwl 1 steward of a gift, not to bo
wrapped up In tho hidings of selfish
sorrow, but liberally Imparted to tho
starving church of Christ."
"I know it, 1 know It; and many a
faint henrt ha waxed tttrong under tho
hearing of what Hove to toll. It la
only now, weakened by age and many
trlnk and surrounded by scenes at once
mo like and so unlike to tlioao that were
it 1b only now that nature rubola."
He gazed round hlni, and soemod to
derive encouragement from the ex
predion of so many Inquiring looks.
The entrance of Dry an and Shane
completed tho circle; tho former took
his station by tho luvalid; surprised at
the animation other countenance; ami
while nho explained tho cause, Shane
received some communication from his
nephew, which appeared to brighten
his faculties, fatigued as ho was, intend hit tor were their sufferings from
something Ukoeorrespoudlng attention
"My father," said Wasll, after hujf
bowing to his hearers, "was th
lldentlal doinestlo of that bjf,,
Ho accompanied tho bishop f-.yt, ll
to this country, cnKa (in
alTeetlon that hi-spok" I'-r',),.,.,..,,.
olUkl,tho Vjpider e'U.vqn R ,.!,,lt.SH
lent mNSi, ,en her having
' 1 ; birth, and my
Ul' "", ,:ar after. Tho
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fOueailon, Hnd,)M,tli HuU)d fct my
onjoymont hyUia num,g chalr)
Jailo desk bjin hlj) mH.nUM,rj,ta-tiiat,
vrai.se.. uiftt cf ncdell's fame, the
best mop
Irish Dmy Ln(ly ;.. exciumea shano,
and the Lady ltad already
CJtu'he hand of tho Tenerable nai
tuk'"DIessed old manl" she said,
yaiio name of my lacerated country,
thank you for the oil and the
no that can alone pour healing into
er wounds. This hand has wrought
with that good Samaritan, and my roof
1 honored to shelter it. Oh, never,
hovor shall my country know the sweets
of ptu-manent peace, until that work
commenced by Dedoll lie perfected;
until the fountain dug by his pious
labor be cleared from all obstructions,
and widened, and caused to flow in a
thousand ready channels, spreading
through tho thirsty land those rivers
of tho water of life!"
"Never!" responded Basil, "lie said
it many a time to whom, for tho
prophetic work, a prophet's spirit
seemed given. "But, alasl Lady, how
few among her own tribes seek Ire
land's welfare as he sought it, whom
you l ightly term a Samaritan; an alien,
held accursed by those for whom he
tolled, until his deeds disarmed tholr
deadly hatred, and aed it into love!"
A general assent was given, find
Basil resumed; "The tale of lorty-one
is written in letters of blood on some
memories" ho paused, for Malcolm
gave a sign; and again proceeded: "I
was still a youth, but hardy and strong;
and courageous In the cause of my bo
loved master and his family. There
lacked no among us those who would
have repelled violence, and built a
barrier round him with our slaughtered
bodies. Nay, I wrong many in not in
cluding all his flock. But it was his
care to represent tho duty of resting
solely upon the invisible arm of Jeho
vah; and while his dwelling and his
church were thronged with faithful
adherents, no breath was ever heard
but that of meek submission to the
Divine will. Dreadful were the scenes
beyond our little sanctuary! within it
all was poaoo and safety."
"And yet," observed Boss, "your
bishop understood the principle of 'No
surrender."'
"He did. sir; and with holy daring
acted upon it. I was with him when
that startling summons came, to de
liver up the fugitives sheltered in his
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P(. ivttel ai'ixilnl.Hl t jjimnl ?h in-
n.nviit rnpllvo had Invn i ji tleulm ly
MtjrHi t nie; and through hi Inwr
ertwittii 1 ai x'tuiiiti'a i muow,
hough not to nvomany, my lolovisi
mauler and hi ooim. Defore my depar
ture, i iw the HlHtmtnatkm of dewda-
lion standing In thai place, wiiere
Hodoll had olterud to liod tho aerlllee
of prayer and pralie. i cn, 1 beluld
tho Host olevaU'd, where holy liand
had Uen lifted up, and weapons in-
runted with tho bUKkl of the gulltlcxR
were gniumteu; wnue urn crimson
flngvrt that boro them smote upon the
breast tho murderers yielded homage
to tho blighting mockery." Indigna
tion burnt on his cheek as ho recalled
the eene. Bhano looked hard at hlH
nephew; but tho latter merely com
pressed hU Hps. and listened with un
divided attention.
Uatdl went on; "I was conveyed to
my minder's prlnon, far from the un
hallowed pageantry that desecrated
his pajheo. I found him encloed In
tho toyer oi Lioenwater, tiiai uesoiaio
dwelltfiff which arlaou from tho center
of a 1ko, without so much land about
It aAiight Bullleo to support the foot.
December's storms swept over tho un
sheltered spot, and found entrance on
ery aide, for the building was most
ralnous. Tlis few prisoners whoso gnr
monts had been left upon them, were
constrained to pan with all but a slight
oortlon
lo cover Vpe more mnnorous
vly.inis of rapaclouaVruolty, stripped
wrally to tho sklny their jailors;
cold and damp. Provision, was liberal
ly supplied, but in every instance raw;
so ituit those who knew anything about
eookuij were Incessantly employed for
ft r-.t. , Tho good providence of God
woit a pious carpenter to bo our com
panion in captivity andjy, J)L skill
oino llUo repairs were xlleeted, for
whlcjfcr'we wero most thankful. But
'0(ir best, our dearest pledge of Jeho
vah's gracious presence, we received In
the unlooked for permission from our
keepers of worshiping together, ac
cording to tho accustomed rites of our
church. No interruption assailed us;
and deeply sunk the word of exhorta
tion into our bosoms from those revered
lips, that never ceased to proclaim tho
unchangeable love of God under what
soever dispensation Ills wisdom laid
us,"
"Answer mo this question," said Ma-
grath, with a look oi restless impa
tience, "will you answer me trulyV"
"Assuredly, young man; I would not
dare to do otherwise."
"Well that good man, that heretic
bishop, did he ever curse tho Catholics
with ye?"
"Och, tho fool's head that's upon
your shoulders!" exclaimed Shano;
while Basil gazed with astonishment
on tho querist.
"Answer him!" exclaimed tho Lady.
Basil now seemed for the first tlmo to
comprehend that a member of tho Ilo
inlsh church was present. With a look
of placid kindness, ho said, "My
answer, brother, is short, simple and
true. No! as soon would tho sweetest
springs of your natlvo plains send forth
the waters of bitterness and corrup
tion, us those lips could have given
utterance to a curso. But they of
whom you speak wero the objects of his
deepest, tendorest sympathy and lovo;
and their welfare was a constant theme
of prayer in our afflicted JIHIe congre
gation." "Come, now, you'll bo after making
tho Iwst of it, and no blame to yourself;
but you won't pretend that you prayed
for the fellows who gave you that lodg
ing, took the clothes oil your backs,
and treated you like dogs, I'll engage?"
"Wo did," answered Basil. "Our
sufferings were great, and our op
pressors cruel; but morning, noon and
night, we made our supplication for
them; that tho light of the gospel,
visiting their dark minds, might show
them under what deadly delusion they
lay. Every murmur excited by our own
bodily pains was hushed by the awful
consideration of what awaited tholr Im
mortal souls, blinded and ruined under
the influence of their falsa and perse
cuting religion."
"That's enough," saldMngrath; and,
folding his arms, he leaned back
against tho wall, his eyes fixed on the
speaker.
This strango episode had excited no
common interest in tho little circle;
but all were silent, and Basil resinned:
"Even under these depressing cir
cumstances, the object dearest to his
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in.iilrvd If all w, 1! lthin. A
.ml ilh llii'tn dcU'nitineil tlo" jvmtig
mm on '!.it ling thfir r l-
Ukel fr Hn flight: ami, f!.r jiin
lug In the uppfli atlons uf lh family,
tin y Milted forth, leaving on the mind
of their ft li-tid r niorv anxious lix-mor
than had wvr More nwmpanled the
iinwUllng farewell.
Shane's eurionlty had 1vb violently
exeitt'd n more than on oceaslon dur
ing that eventful day. Hl nephew,
finiti .the moment of assuming the
badge, had apjeared to throw off a
painful restraint, and to attach himolf
with unfeigned cordiality to a cause
against which he had assuredly, not
long before, harbored evil designs a
circumstance to Shano quite unaccount
able. The unexpected and unwonted
share which he had taken in tho even
ing's conversation abo perplexed him;
for Magrath's general deportment was
marked by tho extreme of reserve,
rather than its opposite. To Shane's
drowsy faculties, however, tho latter
transition appeared less surprising than
the former; but with the Lady of M'Al
istor It was far otherwise. She rightly
attributed his morning animation to a
relief from painful forebodings as to
tho sufferings awaiting the fnmlly,
whoso kindness to him had evidently
sunk deep into his mind; and also to
the removal of that restraint under
which the fear of mooting Lundy had
kept him. To tho cause, as such, she
could not suppose him attached; but to
Bryan, exceedingly so; and she verily
believed that an affectionate desiro to
watch over his personal safety was the
motive of Mtvgrath in adopting the pre
vailing budge. A more inexplicable
mystery involved his evening conduct.
The acquaintance which he seemed to
ha ve with many particulars related by
Basil was not very wonderful, the
events being comparatively recent, and
strong In the memory of those who sur
vived the scenes of 1641; but there was
an intense interest, an eager curiosity
in his aspect; and an unmoved endur
ance of reflections on his country's
faith, from the Hps of a Protestant and
an Englishman, which formed a strange
contrast with hfe fiery impatience
under the reproach of Ross. The sub
ject haunted her pillow, and prompted
many an aspiration on behalf of the in
tractable object of her frequent en
deavors, while she counted the hours
whoso flight brought on the wished
yet dreaded dawning of another day.
To be Continued.
An I'lisavory Spectacle.
Our country was recently treated to
the unsavory spectacle of a Romish
archbishop (Ireland) calling upon Pres
ident Cleveland and personally lending
his Influence in favor of the appoint
ment of one of his (Ireland's) special
friends to the postmastership in Chlo
Bgo. Mr, W. J. Onahan a Catholic,
of course is the archbishop's favorite.
Mr. Ireland had hardly time to leave
the presence of tho president before
another Catholic aspirant for tho same
office, Mr. Frank Lawler, sent in to tho
president hk special recommendation
from his friend, Archbishop Feehan.
If President Cleveland cares more for
America and our country's free institu
tions than ho cares for tho support of
Romish prelates, he will send both
these aspirants, together with their
politico-ecclesiastical supporters, about
tholr own business, and appoint for
postmaster a man who is simply and
truly a truo American citizen, ono not
owing superior alleglanoe to some
earthly potentate or power other than
our own government. Will he do it?
1'rogrcmve Tldnker.
Kesolntioiis of Respect.
Whereas, The Supremo Kiilur of the llnl
vorxo lots, in III.h lnlliilln wIhiIoiii, wi-n tit to
remove from our iuldt Our dearly beloved
friends and highly eateemed fellow-clt.l.etm,
ChiiIuIii Vox una ripemau Ouray, of Fire
Cum puny No. 7, and
Whereas. In the dcMh of (Iitptaln Vox and
I'lpeiiiiin Ouray, this city loses two of Its
tnoHt elllelent otlleerM, In their respective
olllcen. who exemplified Hint piitrloltxin of
AmerlCBii cltlzeim In stierllleliiir their lives
to save the property of their fcliow-clllzeni;
and,
wnereits, in trie aeat n on.-tipt am i:ox ana
I'lpetiiitii Ouray we lose two highly esteemed
trieiiUH. hiiu tun wire anu iiimiiv or cunta r
Cox a devoted hiiHliund nnd a kind and in-
dulK'tit father, and the brut hers and sisters
of I'lpemau Ouray a kind and dearly beloved
brother.
Therefore, He It Hexolved, That we, the
otlleers and members of Heseuo Council No.
1, A. 1'. A., hereby tender our sincere con
dolence to the families and friends of these
our dcpnrtJMl friends In this the nnd hour of
their bereavement! and, belt further
Hesolved, That Ihe charter of this council
bo draped In lnournliiir la remembrance of
their heroic death, and A copy of these reso
lutions bo sent to the wife of Captain Cox
and the brother of I'lpeman Ouray, and that
the mime bespread upon the records of this
council and also published IiiThb Amkhica.n.
Signed, A. M. Clark,
t'H AS, I'NlTT,
Jams H. Kvnk.ii.
Comriilttee.
EDLINQ BROS.,
308 North 16th Street. '
Hatters and Gents Furnishers. Men's
Shoes, gloves, etc. A "dollar's worth
for a dollar."
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diKir.1 Tim nisf liitiery U ran by wt
power, furtiKliwI ly an artttUn well In th
janls of the mint liuildina
Tht next room Is the dei!t room, or,
more prtr!y seakliin, the liiRut room.
Here tld nhl, silver or Jewelry Is received,
of wlih h an; one ran deHil to the value
of notlesM than UW and have It melted
Into bullion, assay el and the nei.t day re
ceive In money of full value In gold coin
with 10 per cent of copper alloy and uo
charge tiisde for coining. Uu the day of
our visit fiOO.Oiioin silver coin was beitiR
melted over. Wliyf No one could or would
explain, itlmiked ixhl to see the appnr
ently perfectly good 50-cent pieces shoveled
Into the small, red hot bowls, where the
inlense hint of tho furnace soon reduced
the coins to a molten fire, which is stirred
by small paddles held by Immense iron
pinchers In the hands of skilled workmen,
who practically "earn their bread by the
sweat of the brow." The small -paddles, as
well as the bowls in which the metal is re
duced to liquid, are made of clay and plum
bago. The ingots of gold and silver are 12
Inches long, lj( inches wide nnd H inch
thick. The value of thegoldingotis$l,COO,
and the value of the silver ingot of the
same size Is $55.
The next process through which the metr
at passes is that of rolling into long, thin
strips. This is done by heavy rollers under
a pressure of 250 tons. It takes 13 times to
roll gold and 17 times to roll silver. The
gold Btrips are now put Into long copper
tubes, which are then placed in a furnace
until they are redhot, thence thrown iuto a
vat of water, which process tempers the
metal, Kach of these long copper tubes is
handled by two workmen and will hold
30,000 in gold or $2,500 In silver. When the
gold strips are removed from the tubes, the
gold is waxed, and the silver strips are
greased. This is done to prevent abrasion.
The metal is now ready for cutting into
pieces, the size according to the denomina
tion of the money to be made. The work
men shove the long gold strips Into the cut
ting machine, which handles the precious
metal as it would pasteboard, and indeed
It is qulto soft, as what is left of the strips
Is doubled up by the bauds of the workman
and thrown Into a box to be sent back to
the ingot room. One dollar in silver and
120 In gold are cut out at the rate of 183
pieces per minub, the smaller t the rate
of 28S pieces per minute. The round pieces
of gold and silver are now passed to the
cleaning room, where they are washed free
from the wax and KreaHe.
Peeping Into the door of the cleaning
room, which visitors are not allowed to
enter, could be seen a box of unstamped
120 gold pieces. The box contained $100,000
in gold. The unstamped coins, now bright
and shimmering, are taken to the nil justing
room where the ladles work. They are
here adjusted to the exact weight of the
coin to be made. Should a coin piovo to
be too heavy it Is filed off; If too light it
goes back to he melted over. The milling
process puts the metal in blank form for
stamping. Hut first it must be freed from
oxidation, which is done by whitening.
The round coins are now ready for the
stamping which makes the metal money.
There are five stamping machines, and the
dies of these can be changed.
One dollar In silver and 20 In gold are
struck off by the same machine at the rate
of 5,000 per hour. The capacity of the ma
chines is much larger than the supply of
gold. But if all the 'machines could be
kept working In gold they could stamp
H50,000in one hour, or (3,150,000 in seven
hours, or 1945,000,000 In 800 working days.
To look at the large engine of 150 horse
power that controls the machinery used In
the mint building one would scarceimaglne
It had been used for 19 years, as It appears
as bright and glittering In Its polished
metal plates as If it were new.
In this great building wh ere f 10,000,000 of
treasure is stored away, many seemingly
small economies are practiced, yet the re
sults are quite astonishing and more than
repay the labor. The floors of the work
rooms are covered with perforated iron
flooring In small sections. Every night
these sections are removed and the floor
swept. The sweepings are then worked
over with acid, and the yield In gold and
silver amounts to 10,000 per annum. Once
a year every truck about the building is
burned, Irrespective of its condition, and
also tho clothing worn in some of the work
rooms, that not a particle of the precious
metals may be lost. Once in four years the
carpets of the adjusting room are burned.
The last bunting enriched the United
States coffers to the extent of (3,200.
Leaving the stamping room the visitor
finds himself in a long stone corridor facing
two vaults, whose heavy Iron doors conceal
the treasures of $10,000,000 and in their
mighty strength of steel and Iron seem to
mock as childish play the official papers
sealed with red wax and marking them as
belonging to the United States government.
The guide now leads tho way up stairs to
the main hall, where the visitor can, If so
disposed, pass a pleasant and instructive
half hour viewing the collection of rare old
coins on exhibition in the reception room.
San Francisco Cor. Omaha Bee,
And She Never Smiled.
A middle aged man who has made enough
money to take his wife to France a dozen
times and not even miss the change, but
who has tiever known a word of French
until the lost few months, was calling at
a neighbor's not many evenings since. A
girl who took high honors In her French at
school some years ago happened to be sit
ting near him, and the attention of both
was attracted by a handsome dog outside
on the pavement,
"ng shiang," the gentleman practiced
softly to kimself. Then, turning to the
young lady, "Shiang," he repeated benign
ly; "that is the French word for dog."
The maiden did not smile; her own dear
father had been worried into studying
French of late, and she knew how it was.
Chicago News-Record.
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"It w so, h a tI mttitm, t 1 yon
rotil-l have InarJ lu It m the r I
bate twn wanting rair tiilblslef In pr h.
Tli ti t was 'JmlifetM.t, lt ytt Judge!.'
It was appropriate thai I just waHedtill
after the servie l tell oiinnlnUtrr fc. 1
told hint that It did m fit tnt at all. be
cause, as yo know, I ttrtrr pass Jitdsmmt
upon anyone, but llirr are tatiny Id
our church wliodo. They are always rritl
rising other, and R make lue o India
natit. rMI Jut told our minister that I
was glad that he had given them a dlit, as
Ihe sennon would fit at leant hf of the
congregation, even if It did not st rike me,
I rfo hope they will tak it to heart, ltut
It Is usually the way that those who really
need admonition think that It Is Intended
for some one else. Now 1 ticecr do."
That was all, but the Inaudible laughter
was so thick that It could have beeu sliced
up and sold for the Interior of a railway
sandwich. St. Louis Republic,
The Way to Succeed In Conversation.
The question arises whether it is better
to presume that tho person you are address
ing knows everything or to take it for
granted at the outset that he knows noth
ing. In cither course embarrassing results
may follow. Authorities differ on this
point, but a certain justly popular young
lady who has pondered on the matter
some says the wisest way is appear to
think the other one knows just a little
more than you can ever hope to learn, even
though you know the opposite to be the
case,
In this way, she maintains, you can man
age adroitly to give him stacks of Informa
tion and yet leave htm with the pleasant
feeling that he has been instructing you.
"Never seem to think that you know any
thing worth mentioning," Is her rule, but
she makes one strong exception. "In the
case of direct questioning always answer
something." Whether you know anything
about the subject in hand or not, make a
brave guess at it and reply as though you
did. The querist wants a positive answer,
and in eight cases out of ten yours will
chance to be correct, while In the other two
he will forget your words before he thinks
to verify your statement. No hnrm is done,
so she declares, and it Is better all around
than a stupid "I don't know."
However such a rule mny work to the
confusion of ordinary maidens, it seems to
fit her cose precisely, for she has the repu
tation of being the most unassuming as
well as the best Informed young woman in
her set. Chicago News-Record.
" Bclllonlan Flowers.
Flowers and new potatoes contest with
the mackerel the privilege of the deck room
of the Scilly steamers. It is far from pur
gatorial to be wedged on board between a
couple of cases of the Scilly white, an Indig
enous narcissus. They are much sweeter
than the fish. You may see the cultivators
row into the harbor with their cargoes from
tho other isles. One farmer of St. Martin's
with whom 1 staid sent as many as 12,000
flowers in a day. Atthreepcncea dozen (the
wholesale price) this clearly means money.
Of arum lilies also he was a considerable
exporter, but their price Is much more vari
able, veering between sixpence apiece dur
ing holy week and a shilling a dozen after
ward. For my part, I was much interested
In what 1 saw of the flower culture in the
Isles.
It is an Ideal profession for the "decayed
gentlewoman" who advertise In the news
papers for something to do clean and sweet
and profitable. The Scillonlans believe,
with good reason, that the trado has not
yet reached Its furthest points of develop
ment. Each year sees another acre or two
set up with narcissus bulbs. During the
spring of 1891 180 tons of flowers left Scilly
for England excluding the post parcels.
This does not look as 1 the south of France
was, as some thought, obout to push Scilly
out of Covent Garden. The few hours' clear
gain that the Scilly flowers have over the
baskets from the Ri vieraare very precious in
the esteem of florists. Cornhill Magazine.
Ideals of Physical Perfection,
Some years ago, In an article on "The
Cradle of the Semites," I had occasion to
study the Ideals of male and female beauty
shadowed forth in the crotlo composition
known as the "Song of Songs," or the
"Song of Solomon," in the Old Testament.
It dates from about 250 IJ. C. There the
male is portrayed as "white and ruddy,"
his hair black and curly, his eyes gray
("like doves washed with milk"), his
stature tall. He describes his bride as
"fair all over, without a spot," slender,
"like a palm tree" (not fat, as modern
oriental beauties), her hair "as a flock of
goats," that is, wavy and light brown,
probably, her lips red, "like a thread of
scarlet."
The interesting feature In both these
descriptions Is that they point much more
to the blonde than to the brunette type as
that which hovered before the Imagination
of the sous and daughters of Israel as the
realization of their amorous dreams. Cor.
Scienca
The Influence of the Roman I'antheon.
For five centuries the Roman world turn
ed to the Pantheon, till out of It arose anew
art in Constantinople. Then In the fifteenth
century, at therevival, the humanist artists
turned again to this same great work. It
avo rise first to the dome of Florence, and
then to the dome of St. Peter's, 150 years
later. From St. Peter's the dome spread
all over the world the Pantheon and the
Invalldes at Paris, St. Paul's In London,
the capitol at Washington, the Isaac
church at St. Petersburg are mere imita
tions of St. Peter's. And thus from the
Pantheon has sprang the architecture
which from Chill to Chicago, from the
British Islands to the Turkish empire, from
St. Petersburg to Sicily, is seen In a thou
sand varieties and in ten thousand ex
amples. Fortnightly Review.
Encountered Everything Kins,
Brown I am sorry that you met with
opprobrium on your recent dramatic tour.
H. Booth Smith Oh, it wasn't as bad as
that. We met jeers and hisses and even
iggs, but I can't recall opprobrium.
Vogue.
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droller metaphor ran ever liavtotvurrvd
to the human mind than that which de
scribe (lis point of a iiail or tin tark as its
"business end." To "keep a stiff upper
Hp," as a synonym for the display of firm
ties; to "keep Ihe eyes skinned," as an
equivalent for th4 maintenance of a vigi
lant attitude; to "have a hard row to hoe,"
for a difficult task to perform; to "take a
back seat," for to retire under circum
stances of humiliation from a sitlon of
undue prominence; to "have a brick In the
hat," for to be top heavy with Intoxication;
to "waken snakes," as tho "last word" of
dangerous and dclilierately created disturb
anceall these are phrases which "palpi
tate with actuality." They are the obvious
coinage of an intensely realistic and prac
tical race, of a people whose minds almost
Instinctively frame a visual representation
of incidents and objects which It Is the
habit of most other nations tocontemplate
in the form of mental abstraction
It can hardly lie maintained that from
the point of view of the external graces
these locutions can be regarded In all In
stances as ornaments to the literature of
our common language. It is, however, only
fair to admit that many, or most of them,
if outwardly inelegant, possess that in
trinsically and essentially literary quality
of "expressiveness" in so high a degree as
to deserve pardon for their defects of form.
And it is the satisfaction yielded by them
to the universal human desire for the di
rect, forciblu and stimulating expression of
thought a desire far older and stronger
than the literary Instinct-vhlch hns given
some of them so tenacious a hold upon Eng
lish speech on both sides of the Atlantic.-
Loudon Spectator.
Emeraon's Mil Ilota Kappa Oration.
It was my good fortune to hear In 1837
the address which Dr. Holmes calls the
declaration of Independence of American
literature Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa ora
tion of July at Cambridge. So I can re
member the surprise shall I say the Indig
nation which the simple, solid, discon
nected phases of that address awakened
among those who heard. 1 remember the
covert criticism of the gay dinner party
which followed. I remembqr how afterward
men and women freely said he wall crrfzy. 4
Alas, 1 have on paper my own schoolboy
doubts whether he appreciated the occa- ,
sionl It happened to me 40 years after In (
ono of the most exquisite homes in Amerl-
ca some two miles above the level of the
sea, on that easy slope of the Rocky moun
tains, among all the fresh comforts which
make a palace as desirable a home as a log
cabin, to find on the table of my hostess,
who is herself one of the leaders of today,
a new edition of this oration of 40 years be
fore. '
I read it then with absolute amazement.
If you will look at it when you go home,
you will share that amazement. For 1
could not find one extravagance, 1 could
not find one word which should shock the
most timid. It was impossible to under
stand where the crazlness came in. Bo had -be
led the ago in those 40 years, or so had
the God who sent him into the world led
it, that the prophecy was fulfilled over and
over again. The extravagance of on day
had become tho commonplace of another.
Edward E. Hale's Address.
The Ostrich Walts.
A traveler who is too modest to allow his
name to be made public declares that he
has discovered the origin of the waltz.
Neither America nor Europe possesses the
honor of being the birthplace of this dance,
which, like many other wonderful things,
comes from Africa at least so says our
traveler. He assures us in solemn earnest
that every morning at sunrise the ostriches
collect In groups and go through regular
and graceful movements, which is nothing
other than the waltz. Unfortunately he
docs not complete his Information by tell
ing us whether the birds dance the Ameri
can, Euglish or German stylo, so wo are
left In Ignorance as to which form Is the
most primitive. He also loses sight of the
fact that instead of tho colonists having
learned the waltz from the ostriches they
may have relieved tho monotony of tholr
existence by teaching the birds to dance.
Detroit Free Press.
The Ingenious Magpie.
The magpie Is nothing If not Ingenious.
He always barricades his bulky nest with
thorn brunches, so that to plunder it Is by
no means an easy matter; but when cir
cumstances oblige the "pic" to build in a
low bush or hedge an absence of lofty
trees being a marked feature of some
northern localities he not only interlaces
his home, but also the entire bush In a
most formidable manner. Nor does he stop
hero. To "make assurance doubly sure,"
he fashions a means of exit a well as en
trance to the castle, so that If disturbed he
can slip out by his back door, as It were.
Exchange,
I'nleavene 1 Itread.
The unleavened cakes of bread used dur
ing the whole 'of the eight days of passovcr
are called matsoth, and are made of wheat
en flour, of a round form about a foot In
diameter, perforated all over, and so very
thin that a pound's weight contains about
nine cakes. Many families distribute a
few of these fragile cakes among their kind
and affectionate,' but somewhat simple,
Christian neighbors, who treasure them as
curiosities. Temple Bar.
To Ward Off Consumption.
A celebrated specialist in lung diseases
recommends to a very delicate patient
struggling with an incipient cough and
general debility this startling remedy 10
raw eggs a day as nourishment. The poor
little woman has brought herself up
painful degrees to 10. She refuses to go a
further. Philadelphia Press.
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