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rived their information. II must. conss-
Quently. be deemed q coordinate authority to
be consulted by historians along with the
other analysts. Keating's history was. per-
haps. the most popular book ever writ
ten In Irish. and. as 1t could not be
printed It was propaRated by hundreds
OF manuscript copies all over Ireland. lie
was the author OF two other voluminous books
Of a theological and moral nature. called the
Key to the Shield Of the Mass" and the
Three Shafts Of Death" After Carew's de-
parture Keating reappeared. and seems to
have died quietly as parish priest OF Tubrid
In Tipperary about the year 1850. Mao Fir
bis was another native Irish author OF great
learning. who wrote in Irish contem importance
ously with KeatinR. He was himself descend
ed from the last pagan monarch OF Ireland.
and his family had been for time out OF mind
the hereditary historians Of North Connaught,
The great Book OF Lecan was complied by one
OF his ancestors. His own greatest surviving
work is his Book Of Genealo les, which contains
enough material to I'll 1900 pages Of O'Don-
ovans edition OF the Four Masters" This
book Mao Firbis compiled amid the horrors
of the CromweIan war. in the hope that at
least the names and GenealoRies OF the nation
might be saved to posterity. He mentions
that even in his own day. he had known Irish
cheftains who governed their clans accord
Ing to the words OF Fythal and the Royal
Precepts." that is. according to the books OF
the Brehon law. Lughaidh O'Cleary North
ern poet and historian of the O'Donnells. lived
somewhat earlier than Heating and Mac
Firbis He has left behind him. written In
difficult archaic Irish. an interesting life OF
Red Hugh O'Donnell. giving history OF the
time from 1886 to 1902 with full account OF
his hero's birth. his capture and confinement
in Dublin Castle. his escape and recapture.
his second escape. and the hardships he un-
gal. his Inauguration as The O'Donnell and
his crowded hour of glorious life" until his
death at Simancas in 1903. where he is be-
lieved to have been poisoned by an emissary
OF Mountjoy, the Lord Deputy. and Carew the
President of Munster. Another curious piece
OF historical narrative 10 the account given of
the Irish wars. from November. 1641. to Jan
uary. l847. by n northern friar called O'Melon.
who was an eyewitness OF much OF what he re-
lates. or somewhat similar nature is the
interesting description OF Nontroses wars in
the Book OF Clanranald. manuscript written
In pure Irish and in Irish characters by a Gael
from the islands. the hereditary bard and his
torian Of the Clanranalds. The author gives
detailed accounts OF several OF Montrose's
battles, In which the Gaels. Irish and Scottish
were engaged. There were several other prose
writer's In Irish during the seventeenth CEN
tury whose books, unlike those previously
mentioned had the good fortune to be printed.
but whose subjects were mostly religious.
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IL.

When Hannibal Hamlin entered Congress
the slave power, not content with control
ling the entire South. was beginning to plan
the extension of the institution OF human
Serytude. in the hope Of acquiring perma-
nent ascendancy at Washington. Hamlin, be-
fore leaving home. had made up his mind
that he would not interfere with slavery In the
Bouthern States. and would advocate giving
the South all its constitutional rights. hut that
IL the Democracy went further and upheld the
extension of slavery over free territory he
would abandon the party. From this position
Hamin did not sw-rve during the Twenty
eighth Congress, nor in its successor. to which
he was elected, and the course pursued by him
gave so much satisfaction to the anti
5olAvery Ting Of the Maine Democracy
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I in pursuit OF them, and obviously on the
ground that he had lost not only the three
COWS. but the three calves which would die from
lack Of nourishmentl seized six milch cows at
the Idebtorsl house at daybreak Pledges were
given for them afterward for the seizure,
for tho distress. for the acknowledgment. for
triple acknowledg gment. for acknowledgment
by one chief. for double acknowledgment" -"
These things are supposed to have happened
In the days OF Con OF the Hundred Battles
"a. ID. 100l Yet the case remained n leading
one until the sixteenth century. The passage
quoted was already old in the time Of Cor
mack mac Culnan. who died A. d. 0O7. that 1t
required gloss.
There were. according to Irish history. four
periods at which special laws were enacted
by legislative authority: first. during the roign
OF Cormao mac Art in the third century
secondly. when St. Patrick came; thirdly.
by Cormac mac Cullnan. the King Bishop
OF Cashe who died. as we have said. in oO7.
and. lastly. by Brian Boru. about century
later. The great mass of the brchon code. how
ever. seems to have been traditonary. or to
have grown with the slow growth OF custom.
None OF the brehon lawbooks shows any at
tenn to grappe with the nature OF law in the
abstract. or to deal with the fundamental prn
ciples which underle the conception Of Juris-
prudence. According to the Four Masters. that
part OF the brehon law which is called tho
Seanchus Nor was put together in A. d. 4IS.
NJ. d'Arbois de Jubainville. who has made this
book the subject OF special study maintains
that the Seanchus Nor is really made up of
treatises belonging to different periods. OF
which that upon Immediate Seizure is the
oldest. While. in his opinion. some of
the other treatises must be OF much
later date this tract he has proved can
not. In Its present form. be- later than the close
OF the sixth century A. d. because 1t contains
no trace OF the right OF succession granted to
women by an Irish council held about A. ID.
800 while at the same time it cannot lie
anterior to the Introduction Of Christianity. be-
cause it contains mention Of altar furniture
among things seizable. and contains two Latin
words. namely. altar and census. How far GER
tain parts Of the law may have reached back
into antiquity and become stereotypcd by GUS
tom before they were committed to writing
there Is no means OF saying 1t Is to be
noted that the text OF the Sennchus Nor
relies upon judgments delivered by ancient
brehons. such as Sencha in the time of
King Conor mac Nessa Ia little before the
birth OF Christi: but there Is no allusion in the
text to books or treatiscs. The gloss. on the
other hand. which must have been in exist
ence before the year 200. is full Of such allu-
sions. and 1t is evident that. in early Christian
times. the names of tho Irish law treatises were
legion. Fourteen different books OF civil law
are mentioned by namo in the CLOSES on the
Seanchus. and Cormac mac Culinan in his
glossary gives quotations from five such works.
only one OF which is among the fourteen men
toned in the CLOSES on the Seanohus Nor.
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in the rest OF ireland, There was no influen-
to copy Irish manuscripts as there were all over
Munster Consequently. the greater part Of
the mlnstrclsy OF tho Northwestern province Ia
hopeessly lost. That there existed. however,
among tho natives OF Connacht q widespread
have persisted. is ccrtnln. for Mr.. HYDE has col
looted among them not only Ossianic LAYS.
but also volume o' love poems aud
wholly taken down from the mouths Of
the peasantry. with regard to the present
Irish poetry. The early part OF It. during
which irish was still the general language ot
the nation. Witnessed few or no attempts at
except among the people themselves. who, too
poor to employ the press. kept on copying
their beautiful manuscripts with religious
zeal, Then came the famine. and after it,
total collapse The old literary life OF ireland
may be said to have come to nn end amid the
horrors of starvation. fever and expatriation.
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A POPULAR MISTAKE.
The Idea That Professional Me
Have an Easy Time.

The Idea That Professional Men
Have an Easy Time.
people who work with their hands
especially farmers, are apt to think
that professional men have an easy
time of it." said a lawyer of this city
Its an amusing mistake. The farmer
stops at shutdown. and the laborei
works ten hours at the outside The
average professional man works from
II to IA hours day in and day out all
the year around. Often, at pinch, he
will work from 16 to 20 hours for sew
eral days In succession, and he will
work when he is sick or suffering Sc
we're physical pain, something the man
ual toiler wouldn't dream of. Of course
he takes short intervals of rest, like
everybody else. The human engine
isn't capable of absolutely sustained
endeayor for over an hour at stretch.
watch day laborer, who seems to
be plodding along like q machine, and
you'll find that he really rests more
than half the time. He looks at some
well dressed doctor, lawyer, broker OK
man of affairs and says to himself:
oh. you doggoned lazy rascal If you
only had to work like me! The truth
is that the chap he envies is putting an
amount of concentration and continued
energy into his daily toll that would
kill the man who works with his hands
alone In less than a week.
Il don't mean this as any reflection
on the laborer, who is also no doubt
doing his level best. 1 simply mean
that the demands on brain production
are third again as severe as the de-
mands on muscle production. For
sheer staying qualities there is nothing
in the world that equals the nervous,
high strung, frail looking modern pro-
fessional man."-New Orleans Times
Democrat
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BAcKsLIDING INDIANS.
Unsuccessful Attempts to COnver
Them In EARLY Times.

Unsuccessful Attempts to Convert
Them In EARLY Times.
In report to the Chassis of Amster-
dam on the state of religion in the New
Netherlands in 1857, Rev. Johannes
Megapolensis and Rev. Samuel Drisins
made the following somewhat discour-
aging statement in regard to the eff
forts to convert the Indians. 1t will
be noted that the conclusions arrived
at by the reverend gentlemen in the
first sentence Of the extract were in
the nature of a prediction which has
been completely fulfilled:
"Of the conversion of the heathens,
or Indians, here, we cantsay but little,
nor do we see any means thereunto
until by thenumbers and power of our
nation they are subdued land brought
under some policy and ourlpeoplelshow
them a better example than theyshave
hitherto done.
Eve have had one Indian, here with
us full two years. so that hetcouldaread
and write good Dutch. We4instructed
him in the grounds of religion. He also
answered publicly in the church and
repeated the prayers. We likewise pre-
scented him with Bible in order to
work through him some good among
the Indians. But it all resulted in moth
ing. He has taken to drinking of bran
dy. He pawned the Bible and'became
real beast, who is doing more harm
than good among the Indians
bany Argus.
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kEENER THAN MANKIND.
Illusions That Deceive Men Have No
Eject UDOn Animals.

Eject Upon Animals.
Its singular fact" said a man in
the show business, that illusions, as
we call 'em, don't fool animals. I've
seen that proved over and over again.
A few years ago l had what is known
as the Mystic Maze at the Nashville
exposition. 1t was simply small room
filed with mirrors. so arranged that
you seemed to be in narrow corridor,
full of turns. 1t was very puzzling,
and used to get lost in it myself but
it never bothered my dog moment.
He would run through it from end to
end at full speed and never bump
against a mirror.
Il saw something on the same line
in Frisco not long ago. A friend of
mine had an illusion called The
Haunted SWING You get in what
seems to be an ordinary swing, hung in
the center of a good sized room, and the
thing begins to move. 1t goes back
and forth and finally clear over the top
that is to say, it seems to. What
really turns around is the room itself.
The swing stands perfectly STILL 1t is
good Illusion, and when the room is
reyolyed rapidly there never was a
man who could keep his head in the
swing. 1t seems as If he must certain
ly pitch out. and if the motion is kept
up he gets deathly sick. But pet cat
belonging to my friend used to lie on
the edge of the seat and never turn a
hair, no matter how fast the thing was
worked
1.-THE elder Hermann told me that
animals were never deceived by false
table legs, built up with looking glass
es and used in stage tricks. They al
ways passed around on the other side.
guess they must see better, somehow,
than New Orleans Times-Dem-
0praf
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SHE RAISED THEM.
A Georgia Widows Recipe Fo
Bringing Up Her Sons.

4 Georgia widows Recipe For
Bringing Up Her Sons.
During visit to the army camp in
Savannah General Joseph Wheeler was
entertained by party of northern men
at the De Soto. When, in the good hui
NOR Of after dinner cigars, one Of the
men said laughingly:
"How is it, general, that the sleepy
farms of the south produce such whirl-
wind fighters in such small packagesY'
"Well, gentlemen" said the little gen.
eral, putting at large mans cigar, 81
believe I'll have to give you the answer
an old cracker woman once gave me
when l asked her a similar question
Not many years ago 1 had occasion to
make a saddle journey through the
pine barrens of Georgia, where most
everybody is cracker and mighty
shiftless. One day, however l rode
into a little community that showed
such signs of thrift as to be quite out
of keeping with the general character
of the barrens, I do assure you, gen
tlemen. rode up to a cabin where q
gaunt old woman stood in the doorway
and asked her who owned these little
farms that were so well kept
That farm on the left belongs tc
my son Jabez,' said she, and the next
one to my boy Zalim, and the next tc
my lad Jason, and the next is my boy
Potiphar's place, and
Hold on, sister, said l. How did
you manage to raise such a fine lot OF
boys way off here in the woodsY
"'Waal. stranger she answered, q
am wildly woman, and all 1 had tc
raise 'em on was prayer and hickory
but raised 'em powerful frequent -
Philadelphia Post.
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CLOCKS OF BYeoNE DAYS.
Curiosities In the Museum of n Clock
Making Village.

Making Village.
In the town of Schramberg In the
Black Forest district of Wurttemberg,
Germany, where one Of the chief in
dustries is clock making, there has
recently been established an interest
ing museum of timepieces. The col
lection displays the gradual develop
ment in the making Of clocks for many
centuries.
Among the curiosites are many of
great historical value. There is an
alarm clock constructed in the year
1880 for the use of travellers. In form
1t resembles lantern and thetinterfor
The candle is slowly pushed forward
by spring, which also controls the
mechanism OF the clock. A little pair
Of shears clip the wick of the candle
automatically every minute to regulate
its light The lantern Is inclosed with
not at first disturbed by the presence
of light
The alarm is set by inserting a peg
In the second dial plate When the
required hour arrives, the alarm is
sounded and at the same time the
movable slides fall, flooding 1.-THE room
with light.
Among the curiosities is a Japanese
saw clock. The clock itself produces
the motive power by descending a
saw formed strip of metal, the teeth of
which operate the wheel Of the clock
work In another Japanese clock the
hand is attached to weight, which
sinks once in "a hours. The time is in
dicated by hand on the perpendicular
scale.-Chicago Times-Herald.
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An Ugly story of Uruguay.

Here is one of Robert Crawford's sto.
ries about Uruguay "Two men sur.
prised farmer and his wife in Their
little hut while it was broad daylight.
The man was seized and bound, and the
two villains proceeded to torture him
to make him disclose the hiding place
of his hoard. The wife begged and
pleaded as the horrors increased, the
man proving obdurate.
FINALLY she said she would tell them
where the treasure was if they would
follow her. One of the two accordingly
went over to the chest in the corner
with her. She opened it, fumbling about
inside of it for a moment until she
found what she was looking for In an
other moment the thief at her side was
dead and his fellow covered by large
revolver in the hands of small but
eager woman of the people. He got
away before she could quite make uI
her mind to shoot him too.
Then the husband was released and
the neighbors, some miles away, called
in. Word was finally taken to the cen.
trail police authority of the state; the
officers came, viewed the dead thief
and identified him as their attorney
general 1t is not unlikely, Mr.. Craw-
ford adds, "that his accomplish was the
judge of the criminal court -
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Rather Adhesive.

What stingy fellow old Hardrocks
isl By George, I'd hate to be built
that way"
what makes you think he is
stingy?"
II don't think 1t. He proves it every
day! Do you know that old curmud-
geon is so stingy that he goes out to
lunch early, before his appetite comes
on, so he can save money? It's fact.
I've been watching him." Chicago
Times erald.
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A Miraculous Escape

1t happened that in the last month OF
the reign of Charles certain ship
chandler of London was foolish enough
to busy himself over barrel of gun
powder with a lighted candle in his
hand. He paid the price of his folly. A
spark fell into the gunpowder and the
place was blown up.
The trouble was that the man who
did the mischief was not the only one
to perish. Fifty houses were wrecked,
and the number of people who were
killed was not known.
In one house among the so mother
had put her baby into it's cradle to sleep
before the explosion occurred What
became Of the mother no one ever
knew, but what became Of the baby
was very widely known
The next morning there was found
upon the leads of the Church of All
Hallowsa young child in cradle, baby
and cradle being entirely uninjured by
the explosion that had lifted both TO
such giddy height.
1t was never learned who the child
was, but she was adopted by gentle
man of the parish and grew to woman
hood. She must surely all her life have
had peculiar interest in that church
Sir Walter Besant's "London. "
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COOKING VERSUS MORALS.
Perfect Meals Are a Saving Grace to
Many Men.


Many Men.
When q man does not get the stimu-
lating nourishment which his nature
Graves, he resorts to liquor to supply
the want. With this fact staring one
in the face, Is 1t not wise to teach that
unfailingly good food. with all the ele-
ments that stimulate and nourish the
body and the brain, has its moral as
well as its physical benefits7
There are cases on record proving
the benefits of public school cooking,
where the domestic sky has been per-
fectly cleared of clouds because good
food was offered where before 1t had
been badly cooked, and consequently
did not properly nourish. In one home
the substitution of a well cooked cup
Of cocoa for the sloppy, herby tea that
had become a component part of every
morning meal, and nice Indian cake
or plate of mullins for the dry bakers
loaf, began work OF reform. The
father was proud of the daughter s
skill as a cook; the mother, who had
grown careless and shiftiess and in
different. was shamed by 1t. The con-
sequence was better provision on the
part of one or more care In preparation
on the part Of the other.
The mother was by no means above
turning to account some Of the prac-
teal knowledge the daughter had &C
quired under such competent training,
and she began also to brush up her
own knowledge that she had carelessly
allowed to fall into disuse. The re-
suit is happy home. a united family,
cheerful, contented, busy wife, and
man who puts into the family larder
what formerly went to the saloon
Baltimore News
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JESS AND THE BEAR.


Bxu1n Saved the Man, but Lost Hts
Life I'm the Bargain.
There Ia a story connected with the
last bear killed about here which fond
grandpapas often told the children
seated on their knees. 1t appears that
the celebrated Uncle Jess'' had spent
all his life as trapper and hunter, and
never mishap had befallen him. But
one night In his anxiety to shake a
coon, he climbed the shell of an old
tree.
As he began shaking the neighbor-
Ing limb the stump to which he was
chnging gave way, and he sank feet
first into the hollow center. All efforts
to escape were impossible, and the
pfous hunter had resolved to pass the
remainder of his life in prayer, when
toward night ,supplications were In
terrupted Looking up, he beheld the
eye OF a bear looking straight down
at him
Then the animal turned about and
backed down the inside Of stump.
Hardly knowing what to do, Uncle
Jess put up his hands in protection and
grasped the bear. Now II was the
bears turn to be frightened. He
scrambled UP again, while the hunter
hung on for his life and was carried
with safetysto the,top.
Here the bears, real trouble began,
for with so'heavyta weight it was i'm
possible for him TO turn about and
back down, so he tried iii head first,
but that was no easy matter to the
beast, and he fell with heavy thud
to the ground below and was killed,
while Uncle Jess went home and told
the truthful tale, to be handed down
10 his children.-Springield Republic
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Do you remember the story Of Harry
and Georges rabbits-how Harry g rab-
bit got out Of its hutch and disap-
peared for a week and at last crept
home without its tail to die and how,
when Harry cried bitterly over his dead
tailless rabbit, George tried to comfort
him:
Don't cry, Harry, dear; don't cry.
It's only the body you seel The tai
has gone to heaven. ''-"Memories and
Fancies, by Lady Gordon.
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THE URy OF THE DREAMER

am tired Of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives Of men,
! Heart weary of building and spelling
And spelling and building again,
And long for the dear old river
Where dreamed my youth away,
For q dreamer lives forever,
And toiler dies in day.
am sick Of the snowy seeming,
OF life that is half lie,
OF the faces lined with scheming
In the throng that hurries by.
From the. sleepless thoughts endeavoF
! would go where the children play
h For dreamer lives forever,
And thinker dies in day.
Z ] can feel no pride. but pity,
For the burdens the rich endureg
There is nothing sweet in the city
, But the patient lives Of the poor.
Oh, the little hands too skillful,
And the child mind choked with weeds,
The daughters heart grown willful, /
And the fathers heart that bleedsl
No, no; from the streets rude hustle,
From the trophies from mart and stage, n
would fly to the woods low rustic
And the meadows kindly page
Let us dream as Of yore by the river, 4
And be loved for the dream Away,
For the dreamer lives forever,
But the toiler dies in a day.
John Boyle o'ReilIy.
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A bridge of Comna.

When the British forces were march
ing to Picking in 1860, after the capture
of the Taku forts, one Of the rivers be-
came SO swollen with the heavy rains
that it was rendered almost impossible.
While in this quandary a bright idea
suddenly struck one of our officers Be-
ing well aware that the Chinese gener-
ally order their collins years in advance
and keep them on the premises and also
that they are perfectly alright, he con-
suited with his brother officers, with
the result that orders were given to
search all the houses of the village and
collect every coffin. With the aid Of a
few empty casks the soldiers construct
ed pontoon bridge of collins sufficient
ly strong to bear the artillery, and the
river was thus passed in safety.