The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-28


Are marble-white with many vein
Down to the almond-nas of pink
Her teeth white as the shining SURF
Her eyes are blue the bay in calm,
And her breath to the new-mown cloyer-turf
Is rival in its fragrant balm;
Oh happy sea that has held her form
oh, happy sands by her white feet pressedl
With her beauty the whole bright scene is warm
Her beauty OF gesture and face, and breast.
Proudly she stands in her scarlet dress,
And my eyes give culver and then grow dim
AS gaze on her infinite loneliness
Of delicate color and rounded limb;
And the bright, blue bay, with its fitting Sails
And the silver sands and the rocks of brown,
And the woods that dark the distant hills,
And the broad, green meadows that slope adown-
All seem but frame for my lady bright
A frame not worthy her matchless grace,
Her lips of red, and her eyes of light,
And the wonderful charm of her winsome face;
Oh, here let me lie and die at her feet,
Let my soul in its signs for her pass away
For my life has its climax, and death were sweet
With her eyes gazing down on me here to-day!
Ny senses swoon into blissful trance
AS her small, cool fingers touch my palm,
And through all of my veins the currents dance
AS feel on my cheek her breath of balm;
All the springs of my life in her control
For, though features more perfect know full well,
In rich womanly beauty of body and soul
There are none to compare with my seaside BELLE
The brown rocks glow as she bounds along,
And the black weeds thrill in the silver spray,
And the birds in the blue sing gadder song
As my lady walks by the shining bay
The waves that have shrined her radiant form
Must be humanzed by the sanity touch
And will spare for her sake in the next great storm
Some proud ship from their clutch
Atlantic Narragansett Bay, July, 1867 MILES ORF11LY
MIND YOUR WoRDs-Another instructive case brought
ike the former before judicial tribunals depended on the
neaning of particular word but that of particular
omma-or rather, whether a small spot of ink was
omma or not A sum of no less than eight thousand
POUNDS depended the solution of this apparently trivial
act We must ask the reader to rub up his French little
hort words in that language French gentleman made
viii In which, among other bequess he left handsome
money to his two nephews Charles and Henri The
equal in amount When the testator died. and the will
be proved the nephews expected to receive two hun
red thousand francs eac their specific requests But
he executors resduay legatees other persons inter-
ted in the remainder of the property 1--WE need go into
he French form of these maers disputed this and said
hat each legacy was for one hundred thousand francs The
egaees pointed to the word de No said the executors
there is apostrophe between the and making
der Not So" rejoined Charles and Henri, that is
My little blot of ink having nothing do with the actual
rtng" Let put the two interpretations in uxta-posi
ehacnn dsuz cent sent MILE nil francs
he first form "to each two hundred thousand francs
hereas the other had the very different meaning to each
them hundred thousand francs" This little mark ~
lade all the difference The paper had been folded before
ink dry few spots of ink had been transxed from
side OF the fold to the other and the question was whether
apparent supposed aposrophe was one such spot II
ench avoats keenwitted English barrsters we
lay easily what rich harvest might be reaped from
UGH source The leaees had very strong
1any thousand pounds rongfor wishing that the ttepo
ink should be merely blot but their opponents had
quay strong reasons for wishing that the blot should be
ccepted aposrophe proposed and proper
ement in the writing The actual decision we need not
ace hee seeing that close inspection of the verabe
iece of paper itself would be the only test
GALLEY SLAVES IN THE SIXTEENTH Observation-Disclosures
Re lou OF the prisoners galley slaves France then
worst must be decided by each ones special taste for
iner1g Inc galley slaves had the apparent advantage
IN and arr but it is doubtful if these we're sufficient set
70 n company and the ceaseless and rackng labor The
s1 concentration of criminals the gaeys be found
ne reign OF Charles VII and from the middle of the SIX
@ 70 the end of the seventeenth century the number OF
ee vessels In the feet continued increase till Louis XIV
ckoned fory-two gaeys completely equipped and armed
ne then equipment of three ros or benches OF roWers