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In the Rebellion Year, when the boys tee, and entirely outside the idea of - try. Do you grant my requeet or do
shouldered their pikes, and we bravely appealing to." you refuse it? Yes or no?"
out to die in a good cause, there was 'Then," said Mary, suddenly becoming "No, Scullin:" said Lord O'Neill.
not a braver or a bolder than. the boy possessed of life and energy again, "'I "Then," said Paddy, "may the Lord
Irmo Glenrevel who /waded them, Conn know a way to appeal to nim." Above, svho granted you you life again Black, Mixed or Creen.
hiagee—Captain Cone, as he was quickly ' "Ale" said the messenger, sadly, "no when you were on the point of losing it:
ranked.
A dashing, fine fellow was Conn—n,
strapping and an able one—as lithe as a plucked nor :Mewl off the peg and was to deal with His children! Lord O'Neill,'
mountain ash, and tall and straight as a gone. said lie—and in the onlooker's eyes Padd
poplar, Ile was a very lion cub in She readied 13allymenn, late at, night, Scullin now looked the lora, and O'Neil
strength, but bad 4 heart as good and as and the little eabin of Paddy Scullin, the a shivering serf—"I leave you to th
tender as that of a chiln. In all the rakemaker—poor Paddy &elk, who had company of your conscience, Good-bye!'
Nine Glens of Antrim there was not a couretd her in vain and besought ner to Lord O'Neill sprang after him, and. go
girl that didn't worsliip Conn for his marry him, and, broken-hearetd by his him by the shoulder as he went, delaying
oomeliness and his goodness; and the failure, had lapsed into sad aud, silent his progress.
worship of his boy commsles was little
beliind.
Conn ha a heart that always beat for O'Hara, wild-eyed, burst int° the pot- fetthed, With all speed, into which he
his country,was ever sore for his cowl- tage. put Paddy Seiillin, and entered himself,
try's wrongs, and ever and always %ger "Paddy," she said, "I want you to do after telling the coachman to drive, as
to strike for bis rights. Be carried the mo the greatest favor man can do nie in - he had never driven before, to the Vice -
United Irishmen movement like wildfire this world." regal Lodge.
over the hills and through tbe glens ot "Mary of my heart," said he,. eagerly, The Lord Lieutenant was hard to
Antrim, And, while the organizing went
on, he seldom slept in his bed at nights,
and more seldom did his own roof cover
him,
Truly a proud man was he on the day
that his band first flashed. their pikes to
the sun—the moms had shone upon them
often—and, with high hearts, marched
upon Antrim town, But, like many a
brave fellow before and since, Captain
Conn failed—failed, with barely less
glory than success would have won lahn;
and then, like many another brave fel-
low also, he had to go upon his keeping
among the poor people of the Glens—
to whom the hundred pound e reward
upon his head meant a fortune—to stay
in hiding for months and months, lurking
from byre to craw, and ham ditch to
dyke, seldom daring to let God's sun
shine on nim, coming out, like the owl,
only at night, and, under the friendly
cover of its black cloak, crawling cau-
tiously over the hills to seek the friendlie
ness of a fresh glen—when the scent had.
grown too hot in the one he was quit,
ting.
But he was eornered by the soldiers at
last, and taken at bay, after selliog his
liberty dearly. Manacled and fettered,
and. guarded by a full regiment of red-
coats, poor Captain Conn was borne off
in triumph to Carrickfergus jail, and
there put behind well -secured bare and
bolts. His capture had cost too much
for the advantage to be lightly thrown
away. The Government rejoiced, too,
that so dangerous an enemy to the Con-
stitution, and to the eealm, as he, and
one whose life at liberty would ever have
such a disturbing influence upon the
fiery spirits of the younger men of An-
trim was safe in their power at last.
Ami were resolved that their states-
men's sleep should little longer be dis-
turbed with apprehensions of Captain
Conn Magee.
A trial for life (it might then be more
apropriately termed a trial for death)
oost the authorities little trouble, and
less time, in those days; so within:thirty-
six hours after his capture, poor Conn
was arraigned on the charge of high
treason, tried, and condemned, within.
twenty-four hours, "to be hung by the
neck on the public gallows until he was
dead, and his head, afterwards exposed
on a spike over the gate of Carrrick-
fergus, as the head of a traitor."
At whioh sentence Conn, standing
erect, and with folded arnis, in the high -
stacked (leek, and meeting the judge's
look with a steadiness that caused that
officials' eyes to shift and then fall, smil-
ed a sardonic smile, though nett moment
there was a heavy weight at his heart,
for thinking that the poor world should
come to such a degenerate pass as to
brand traitor on a man who dared to
love, and to setve, and to raise up his
own fallen country!
People
Enjoy It daily. Are you on the net?
LA
vay 15 any • , deal tenderer to you when you come
But Mary didn't even answer, She hen to your judgment than you are willin
THE WORLD'S PREFERENCE
Planning a Public Dinner.
Task That .Few Men Want to Undertake Twice,
,
To make the arrangemente for a bi
public dinner is no easy task. Ther
is inunense amount of detail to b
attended to.
The banquet season is now at it
height, and every slight the large hotel
and restaurants house one or more bi
dinner parties. lo arrange for a dinne
of say twenty-five persons is compare
g with the menu and tlie seleetion of the
e wines. Then came the souvenlre which
e are so much a part of every big dinner.
Dilaters at -club* aro the esnielit to
8 arrnxtge. There the club stewart finds
S out what is wanted and sees that it. i*
g eupplied Hotels will amen e nearl
r erythipg connected, with It banquet hut
• supplying the diners. When the complete
arrangement is left to the notel, the
• cost of the banquet increases a groat
s deal, and keeping the cost at a mini
° Mum is the aim of all dinner cieMmit.
tees.—N. Sun
I coolly af if he trod over the • say—that he sayed—may God bless -
0 threshold of his own little cabin in filen- iterself--and—the brave man the Lora
ravel, which, now, he was never more to has preserved to her!"
t see. On the scaffoid he Almon, and told The messenger did not see Paddy's
p o , Both of them went out together.
Paddy was aatounded to find Mary Lord. O'Neill _metered a carriage to be
J P g o feet, say what it is. awake, was in no goon humor at being
She said: "Young Lord O'Neill owes awakened, and flew into a rage when ho
you his life." discovered wbat he had been roused for
"It is so," Paddy said, modestly, for Lord O'Neillfirmly insisted on his
be lied saved him from the waters of the privilege, and, after a deal of passionate
Bann five years before;- and, proud fel- debating, a full and free pardon for Conn
low that, poor Paddy was, be bad refused Magee was signed and sealed,
all reward at the O'Neills' hands. The Lord Lieutenant contented himeelf
"Then," Mary said, "I want you to ask with the spiteful reniark, as he looked at
a life of him in return—the life of Conn his watch, tbat, "There is neither .horse
Mkgee." And she informed Paddy of the nor man in Ireland wbo can have it to
right which the O'Neill family had of Carrickfergus iutime now, anyhow."
demanding from the Government a life in e
the year. I thank Your Excellency," said Lord
"If he can grant the life," Paddy quick- O'Neill, sneering in reply; "but if my
bloodhorse fails to do it, I promise you
ly said, "I will have it. Be comforted, now to bestow him on the first.tinker
Mary a stair," that crossee his path, after."
"Lord O'Neill is in Dublin," Mary said, Said Paddy Scullin; "If it is to be got
"You have only six days. There is not there in thne—and I trust to the good
a minute to be -lost if the boy is to es- God that it will—the blood thorse that
cape."'
days!"said Paddy; airily, for hd will dolt is myself."
knew his own powers? "why, I'd go round And. Paddy could be moved by no re
the world *and back in the Sine!" monstrance; for in his heart he knew, far
"God bless you, Paddy," said Mary, better than O'Neill could guess, Ids own
"And, if it is any spur to you, I may telt superiority to the blood horse, and he
insisted on the pardon being handed
you that if you get a pardon for poor over to Min instantly, He bowed his
Conn Magee, you may have Mary O'Hara
Lor the asking—if you think her worth thanks to Lord. O'Neill, and thtn burst
away.
Paddy's eyes filled. He just bent his CHAPTER III.
head in reply. As Paddy flew through the streets of
Paddy's entire preparation for ' the Dublin, the streaks of the Sunday dawn
journey was to draw on his coat, which were filling the sky. When he got rid of
ie did with haste. As he bounded off he the city, without ceasing from his race
said: "Geod-by, Mary ,good -by. If Paddy he drew off his coat and east it from
Sotillin isn't fit to come back with a, him; next he cast away. his vest,. and a
free pardon, -it's like you'll never see his little further on his lint. He girded hiz
face more." loins with his supenders, and then
flew fast and light. And, is he went, the
eyes of Paddy were turned up to heaven,
appealing to God for strength and speed
to carry him in time over the hundred
and ten long miles that lay between him
and Carrickfergus town.
From the time that he had passed
that way, going to Dublin, the people
all along the line of route, and for far
and far on every aide of it, had talkeci
of little else than Paddy Scullin's inis-
sion, and had been, since then, eagerly
watching the way to observe his return,
And when Saturday passed -without his
coming, the despair had crept into their
hearts. But still they waited, hoping for
miracle. And when on the afternoon of
Sunday, the flying form of Paddy was
seen coming down the way, the people,
who at intervals, were lined along it,
burst into roar after roar, which rolled
away before Paddy, announcing his ap-
proach to those more distant, and sum-
moning upon the hilltops other crowds
to cheer to the skies, and throw up hats
and wave handkerchiefs and shawls. The
crowds on the road divided at his ap-
proach, closed in behind him, and, shout-
ing their encouragement, galloped after,
until he tired them down, or further
crowds bad fallen in and under took
tho guard.
Paddy was a very stoic, though t no
cheer to the skies no wavingof hats and.
shawls and no tide of enthusiasm seemed
to affeet him. His face was grim and
set,•his.eyes fixed on the horizon far
ahead, his body stretched; and thus,
more like a figure of an ancient heroic
epic than a man of real flesh and blood,
he flew onwards, the big official packet,
which he bore in his right hand, the
sign to all of the success of his mission.
As they saw him coining the people
ran to the road meta food and drink. Ile
consented to grasp in his hand, as he
passed, a bit of food here, and to pause
and gulp a drink there; but it was on
rare occasions that he could afford to do
so. At noon he cast his shoes and socks,
and went lighter and fresher thereafter.
The fuether north be went the bigger
were the crowds that lined the way, and
tlisliniore intense the excitement became.
Tried and proved runners were strapped
and girded and ready, as he came up, to
relieve him of his packet and go forward
with it; but Paddy disdained and curtly
declined all help, for he could not, or he
would not trust it out of his hands, the
great document.
In the northern counties, all through
the people were in and out, and about
the road, restlamly, despondently. They
bad lighted fires on the hilltops to cheer
him on his way, in ease a messenger
should come. And at one hour or another
in the night, as they lived further and
further north, the cheer that had rolled
before Paddy from Dublin struck at
the doleful -faced people that he had been few; for, as he gave this reply, he was
rejoiced to come out with his pike when bent ver low over a I d h
Mother Ire/and called, and now he was laboriously dressing.
proud to give his life for her.
No cheer, but a great murmur went
A MODERN MEDICINE.
from the gatherine and they 'turned.
again to a distant hill eyes that had 1,VhIch Beaches and Cures All the
wearily watched that hill since daydawn.
Capt. Conn, baying spoken, strode to Little Ailments or Infants and
-his ilace underneath a dangling mom • Ch
. As t is big church clech tolled out eight, Baby's Own Tablets is a modern inedi-
the noose was dropped upon his neck. eine which replaces barbarous castor oil
. The crowd hereupon raised a terrible Oa- and poisonous "soothing" stuffs. The
mow, and the sheriff, who was a humane Tablets are a sweet, harmless little loz- -
man, drawing out his watch, said: "I enge, wineh children take readily, and
have no hope of a pardon coming for whieh may be crushed to a, powder owater .r.
And then he was gone.
11.
In those days our peoplt were hardy,
good avalkers ; thirty, f orty miles at a
stretch they looked lightly upon. Paddy
Scullin, who was probably unrivalled as
a pedestrian, throughout the harvest
months walking twenty-six long miles to
the market in Cookstown, carrying a
load of rakes, stood the market, and re-
turned bome, lightly, the same night
again; and, moreover, thought it no
great achievement, No journey, how-
ever long and fatiguing to other men,
was ever known tp tire Paddy. It was
not that be.was a muscular, big fellow;
for, on the contrary, Paddy was small,
angular, and poor of body, rather awk-
ward in gait, also the very last man that
an unwitting stranger would have chosen
to undergo extraordinary fatigue. But
the stranger would have been mightily
disappointed; for, though bis frame look-
ed small and poor, it was very sinewy.
And, though his gait was awkawrd, be
managed to sling along to his journey's
end—however far that might be—faster,
and with less fatigue than more likely
men. The hundred and seven good miles
from his home to Dublin was a good
trot to him; and he sped along almost
jauntily. As he went the word spread
As Conn, by his ever sterling qualities, far and fast along the way that Paddy
and more perticularly by. certain noble went to make a last great effort for a
and generous acts of Ins in th;e heat of pardon for Conn Magee, who was to be
the late struggle, had unwittingly made hanged at Carrickfergus at 8 o'clock on
himself friends, even in the camp of the Monday morning next; and the. people
enemy, there was a great effort put ran from the houses, and the neighbors
forth, by friend and enemy conjointly, to from the fields, to wish him God -speed,
save his life; and many influential guar- and give him n rousing cheer to lift him
ters were moved to action, with the re- on his way. Wherever he deigned to
suit that, though the authorities lime- stop for food and drink, the best of both
diately on the ground granted a respite that the neighbrohood could provide was
for five clays to permit of the higher hastily to the fore and pressed upon him.
powers being approached, the letter ab- Great crowds filled the house where he
soluetly and. curtly refused to hear any baited, debating, encouraging, advising;
appeal on behalf of such a dangerous while Paddy, who was a man of few
rebel, and of one who had caused them words, gave apparent atteption to all,
so much trouble and money, and. so many but said little in return.
lives, as Captain Conn Magee. On no In two days be easily reached Dublin,
account would they consent to spare his but, on arriving there, dsicovered, to his
life—altering his death sentence even in- dismay, that Lord O'Neill was in London,
to one of perpetual imprisonment—far but daily expected back.
they hated deeply this noble and en- Paddy despatched a messenger home to
thusiastio. young fellow, and were deter- warn thein that he was compelled to wait
mined on exacting the. last drop of his a few days; but be asked the messenger
life's blond in requital for the sedition to bid Nary O'Hara and all the friends
he had stirred. They aaid: "We shall of Conn Magee, as well as all the friends
not be Satisfied until the head of Conn of Ireland, to keep up their hearts, for
Magee droops on its pike above Carrirek that, if man or mortal could obtain the
gate, as a warning and a terror to all pardon, and fetch it there in time he
traitors," would do it.
.01 all, the one Person on whom this And Paddy's determination grew more
bad intelligence bore hardest was little grim as the probabilities against him
black -haired Mary O'Hara of the Braid, grew greater.
who loved the gallant Conn with a fer- . Lord O'Neill did not return on tlhe
vor with which man was seldom loved, next day, nor yet on the day after that.
who had encouraged and strengthened There was a fog in the Channel that de -
him in -his determination to free his layed all ships: Saturday morning came
country, and who had promised with her and still no Lord O'Neill, nor yet Sat -
hand and heart t,o complete his lutppi- urday noon, and Saturday evening brought
ness on the day of Freedom's Dawn. In no tidings of hint. , length upon his ears and roused them al -
his narrow prison, too, were it not for Then things were black. most to frenzy as, feeling its full inn
thoughts of little Mary's broken heart, Late on Saturday night the ship that port, they took it up and sent it for -
the noble•hearted Conn could have look- bore the expected lord at length came in• ward with swollen volume. Then they
ed. upon his coming fate with scornful Paddy, who had to be hei•e, there and waited for him and closed in behind, and
indifference. everywhere, missed him at his incoming; carried him on his way, until they also
These last bad tidings would have fin- bastened to his house when be -got the were tired down and out -distanced.
ally prostrated poor Mary but that one intelligence, and tliere found that he had When the morning light began to grow
thin little hope -gleam reached her. The gone off to some friends to spend the in the eky, Parry Scullin was running
messenger who had broken the news to night. After an agonizing these through faster than he had done on quitting Dub-
ber said: "They are bitter men, surely, Dublin city, he discovered, it fesv hours lin. But the way was far and long be- ,
when they will insist upon the blood of after midnight, that Lord O'Neill had fore the poor fellow yet, and the time,
the poor boy, though, by raising their lit- come to his club. After figliting„ and
chis, had grown almost hopelessly short.
tie finger, any one of them could save giving 4 well-deserved drubbing to the Altogether hopeles sit might have seem -
hie life, which is more than any other supercilious flunkey who frowneilsoithim, ed to any other man, but to Paddy Soul -
man in Ireland could do—barring Lord and would contumeliously have turned lin, not so. "I'll make it, with God's
of Shane's Castle, and he, you him out es a vagabond, Paddy forced help,' he said, while still he was twelve
know, has the 'Old, ancieot right of his his way into the club rooms, and thin+ miles from Carrick, and had but two
fansily of demanding a life in the year them, till he found his num, luxurione y hours to spare.
from the Government of the country, enjoying himself among fellows of his An Paddy passed this remark to those
)34 of some, bitter as the Government ilk, in it room of revelry. that ran with him out of Belfast, be
itro against Conn Magee and itis sort, Poor Paddy certainly had not the dress
trod on sharp stone, gave a false leap,
Lord O'Neill—whose father's life was or aspect of the club -going man; but
lost in Antrim battle—is ten times bit- the scornful look he gave the lords, who ,R,t,aengerlo'etlin9d.ani(ile Nivony° stihttirovend 0nheavilytop of
roared at him, quickly quelled the noise
hie exact. But his grip upon it we's as
in their throats and made some of them
a deiath grip and those who would
ashamed. Tile astounded Lord O'Neill
siattell it from' him failed in their endea-
took him by the hand and shook it;
vors.
IV
beartily and bestily led him aside, With -At a few minutes before eight a drew"!
roceseion emerge' from the oltee of
Out waiting for question or word, 1 eddy
poured his business upon him, and re-
quested the pardon ot onn Magee.
Lord O'Neill's face fele and then grew Carrick jail, and, 'between deep)incsof
stern, as be listened. He said: ..peday armed redcoats, solemnly treaded its
&wee, say now, ns said fivp yeayR way up Gallows Hill, folloonel by an
ago, esk ine any request, within the immense concourse of wading people..
hounds of reason, and it will be granted The only man who seemed of stout '
as soon as it is asked; but the life of heart, end bright eye there that inorni•ng,
the rebel Magee I cannot—would not was Captein Conn Magee, whose stop
was bold, and rhos6 bead was erect, and
give!"
"Lord O'Neill," stud Paddy, boldly who never before lookedlarever or more
looking him in the eye, "five years age liaielsome. On and on, step by step, the
I saved your life to you; line tinw I have procession trehned its slow and painful •
journeyed on my tWo feet to Dublin,' Way.
and waited in agony here for you. to ' Whett at length the gallows WAR retch-
beeeteh you the life tit the poor boy, ed. up its awful Oahe Conn Magee step
Whoge crime was that he loved his wen- ped as firmly and just e't
tively simple, but when one starts to
plan a, dinner for a hundred, two bun
dred or three hundred people it become
a tremendous job. Men who have gon
' through it ouce seldom want to tackle r
again.
'Yet, as a rule, the tusk falls on the
same men year in and year out. If the
• make a success of the first banquet of a
society or organization they are sure t
be called on each year to shoulder th
reeponsibility again.
One man, a member of, a well -know
organization of business men,. wno ha
just gone through the experienee an
creditably, says he will never again at
. tempt to arrange a 'banquet; and he de
Wares that. nothing will -ever make him
ehange his mind.
"It is a thankless job at the best," swill
this man, "and I wouldn't tackle it agait
for love or money. That I made a sin':
cess of the undertakine is no inducemen
•
A SPRINO DANOER.
e, Stony reeple Weaken Their System bY
e • the Vse otPurgative Medicines.
Ask any doctor and be will tell you
s that the use of purgative medicines
d weakens the systeni, anti -cannot pos.
sibly cure disease. Thousands of pee-
• ple take purgative medicines in the
. spring, and make a most serious elite
take in doing so. People who feel tired.
and. depressed, who find the appetite
variable, who have occasional aeadaches
„ and backaches, or whose blood ;shows im:
t purities through hnples and eruptione4
needs a spring me tome. But they should
not dose 'themselves with hareh griping
purgatives that gallop through the bow'
els, tearing the tissues and weakenmes
_ the syetem, tone medicine is what
is needed in the spring, and Dr, Wil-
liams' Pink Pills is the best tonic that
science has yet discovered. They ure
quietly aboorben into the system till-
- Ing tbe veins with pure rich red blood,
that _carries health and strength to ev-
ery part of the body. Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills cure skin eruptions, indiges-
tion, /aeadaches, nervousness,rneumatism
and all blood troubles. They improve
. the appetite, and make depressed, easily
- tired raen and wonten _cheerful, active
and strong. Mr. James McDougall, Lit-
tle Sluppegan, N. says "I have used
Dr. Wilhams' Pink Pills as a tonic and
blood purifier and have founa them su-
perior to all other medicines."
- If yon need a medicine this spring—
and who would not be the,better of a
tonic after the long dreary in -door
• months—give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a
trial. They will send rich, red blood
. coursing through your veins and give
• you the buoyancy of perfect health. nee
that the full name, "Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People" is printed on the
wrapper around each box. All dealers
in medicine sell these pills or you ean
get them by mail at 50 cents a box or
Isvixinhiaomxes,s mfoeid• ieVe0c boy., Brockville,writingtheOnDt.r.
W/FE BEATING.
—.—
Maxim Gorky's Vivid Picture of the
Popular Ceremony of "Leading Out."
A strange procession makes its way
with savage outcry between the white
mud huts of the village street. The
crowded mass moves forward—moves
gthreicaktlywamn.ed. slowly like the flow of some
Before it travels a little horse, its coat
sweat. And it lifts its fore-
feet one before the other; its head goes
up and down as though its nose would
touch the dust, and at each movement
of the hind legs the body lurches as
though nothing could save it from fall -
A woman not much more than a girl,
and perfectly naked, is tied by her hands
to the forepart of the cart. She is oblined
to go forward in an awkward manner
on, one side. Her head, with its thick,
disordered, lustreless blonde hair, is lift-
ed and a little inclined, backward, and
her eves, wide open, gaze vaguely into
the distance with a dull and meaningless
regard something less than human. Her
whole body is covered in every direc-
tion with blue and purple stripes.
On the left the firm, girlish breast is
broken by a blow, and the little pur-
ple runlet of blood trickles down the
body as far as the knee. Below is a
crust of •cinnamon -colored dust. Long
ribends of skin have been torn from the
woman's body, which is terribly blue and
• swollen, as though long beaten with
sticks.
Her feet, small and. graceful, seem
hardly able to carry her, and her whole
form so bends and sways that one won-
ders how she eau remain on her feet, for
on them also, as on the rest of her body,
could be found no inch of space not swol-
len and discolored.
One canont understand how it is she
does not fall to the earth and hanging
by the hands, does not pull the cart over
on to the warm and dusty roadway.
In the cart stands a tall peasant dress-
ed in a white smock and black sheep-
skin cap, from beneath which a tangled
mat of light red. hair hangs across his
forehead; in one hand he holds the reins,
in the other -aa whip, with which he me-
thodically tin -ashes alternately the back
of the horse and the slender body of the
woman, by this time already beaten out
of all human shape.
The bloodshot eye of the red-headed
countryman glistens with an evil delight.
The sleeves of his smock rolled up to
the elbows expese strong and muscular
bande, thickly covered with a growth of
reddish hair, his mouth, full of sharp,
white teeth, is open, and at intervals
gives forth rancous shouts: "Now then!"
"Witch!" "Hey!" "Now theft!" "Hal"
"How's that, little brothers?"
Behind the bound woman surges a
erowd who howl, hoot, whistle, catcall,
incite. There follow also boys; some-
times one of them, running forward,
shouts some obscenity into the face of
the woman. Then a burst of laughter
from the crowd drowns all other sounds,
evett the sharp whistle of the whip as it
cuts through the tin
There go women, their faces full of ex-
citement, their 'eyes shining with pleas-
ure, and men yelling some abomination
or other to the man on the cart. He
terns tovvard them and guffews, with
wide open mouth. Down comes the whip
mem the wt»»an.
The whip, long and thin, falls on the
shoulder and :slings round under the arin.
Then the men draws it firmly toward
him, the woman shrieks, and in thrown
baeltward to the ground. The people
crowd round her until she is hidden from
sight.
The home mimes to standetill, but in
• Inimient kiwis again. and the battered
woman is; again drageed forward And
the miserable horse walks: slowly along
04 though it fain umild say "fiee how
ientble a thing is it to be a brute beast,
that mie is forced to bear a part hi such
obominatione."
The shy. the southern eke, is eloudlesis,
stud from it shine the bright rays of the
kindly summer sun.
This I have written is no allegorical
representation nf the pereeeution or ex-
pulsion of a prophet, without honor fa
his own eountry. thifortnnately, no!
The venation.% iq Palled the "Leading
out." In tide matimir husbands punith
unfaithful witeee this is a painting from
life --and / myself saw it in the tear
IA91, on the 15t1 of .Iuly, in the village
of Kendiborka, liherson. South Rusele.-6
Conn Magee, but, to satisfy all. I will at adm' t d
risk to myself, allow fifteen minutes."
The immense gathering breathed a sigh
of relief, and then their straining eyes
sought the hill again, observing it at the
point where the white road disappeared
over the crest. But there was no little
sign to raise again tlmir fallen hopes.
From the women a wailing undercurrent
-0
rose and fell. •
The only person there that seemed un-
moved was Captain Conn.
Five minutes passed; ten passed; fif-
teen passed; and still no sign 'upon the
hill. The sheriff, yielding onee more to
the clamour, granted another ten min-
utes, and finally five, but, alas! in vain.
"No pardon comes,' he said, "Ye were
foolish to think tbat a pardon would
come."
On the stroke of half -past eight the
black cap was drawn over the face of
Conn Magee; and the multitude, with a
mighty wail, burying their faces in their
hands, fell upon their knees, as the sher-
iff gave this final signal, But instantly
a roar of another sort arose, drowning
the wail, and checking the sheriff and
the executioner.
All men sprang to their feet again,
and Once more turned their eyes afar.
The figures of the watchers on the
hilltops were seen wildly waving their
arms; and soon the sigure of a runner
burst over the crest. Behind it a great
crowd closed, and then the great sound
of a distant but mighty cheer rolled
down to the multitude around the gal-
lows. For one moment they were dazed;
next moment there arose from the thou-
sand throats such it roar as probably
never before, and certainly never since,
rent the skies over Carrick town.
The executioner was stayed in bis
work, while the sheriff, watch in hand,
waited eventualities. Further down and
down • the distant hill came the speeding
form; larger and larger grew the gath-
ering behind, and louder and louder came
the cheering. By far the greater partion
of the multitude around the gallows
burst away, .and swept forwent to meet
the messenger, and come sweeping back
with Paddy Scullin, still calm and grim,
packet in hand, leading them, while all
the nir was filled with thunderous cheers,
which went up and were reverberated
from the hills around.
Through the lines of soldiers Paddy
burst—for nothing could stay him—and
handed to the sheriff his packet. The
sheriff tore it open, glanced over it, and .
then ordered Conn Magee to be released,
and to walk forth a free man.
Some way or other no person could tell
how Paddy Scullin had. disappeared,
when, having found their senses again
after a frenzied outburst of joy had ex-
pended itself, the crowd sought and call- .
ed for him.
It was not till the second day after
that he was discovered in his own little
cabin, at Ballymena, very busily making
rakes for the Cookstown market, which
would be two days later. He said to the
messenger who came to him from Mary
011ami "Tell—Mary O'Hara—that
Paddy Scullin—refuses to marry her—
because—he—loves—her too well—and
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PASTURE
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(By Prof. C. A. Zavitz.)
The area of cleared land devoted to
pasture in Ontario amounts to nearly
three million acres, and that devoted to
hay and clover to about two and one-
half million acres amusedly. A large num-
ber of varieties of grasses and clovers
have been grown in the Experimental
Department of the Ontario Agricultural
College both singlyand in combination,
for pasture and for hay. The mixture of
seed now used for the produCtion of pas-
ture for a two years' stand in the short
rotation on the College form is as fol-
lows: Red clover, 7 lbs.; alsike clover,
2 lbs.; timothy, 4 lbs.; and orchard/
grass, 5 lbs., making it total of 18 lbs.
per acre. This mixture can also be used
for hay, but when the chief aim is the
production of hay, the orchard grass is
not included, and only 15 lbs. of seed per
acre are sown.
Farmers frequently write in the spring
of the year, stating that through lack
of germination of the grass and glover
seed, the Min of the plants by the hot
dry weather of the summer, or the heav-
ing of the clover in the early spring, the
pasture crop is likely to be deficient in
the coming season, and asking what they
can sow in the spring of the year that
will furnish the best pasture in the same
season. In each of four years we con-
ducted au experhnent in testing fourteen
different kinds of crops for the produc-
tion of pasture in the same season in
which the seed was sown. As a result
of these experiments we find that we can
get better returns from a combination of
varieties than from any one variety sown
by itself. -The following mixture, when
sown in the spring, is likely to be ready
for use at about six weeks after the
seed is sown and to give good satisfac-
tion in furnishing pasture throughout
the summer: Oats,one and one-half bush-
els; early amber sugar cane, 30 pounds,
and -common red clover, seen pounds;
thus making a total of 88 pounds of seed
per acre.
Sometimes a farm contains a consider-
able amount of comparatively tough land
or fields whicli lie at a long distance ,
from the buildings,. and the owner is J
anxious to use a mixture of grasses and
cloves which will make a permanent
to me to do emit work again.
"I little knew how much trouble I was
taking on myself, but when I did realize
the amount of labor involved I buckled
down and tried to get results. That our
banquet went off smoothly was a satis-
faction to me, but if it. hadn't, who
would have had to shoulder the blame?"
The man was one of a committee of
three who were appointed by their soci-
ety to arrange the first annual banquet
•
He was the chairman of the committee,
and early in the game discovered that
the two other committeemen hadn't
much time to -devote to the task. Ile
started in to work, and when the two
other committeemen found he was mak-
in,g •headway they told him to go ahead
and they would. endorse everything he
So this lone man started out, His so-
ciety had decided to have the banquet
in one -of the new hotels, and this was
the only aid it gave except to spe-
cify that the dnner must not cost more
than $10 a plate. That is the average
cost a plate where wines are served.
The chairman first wrote letters to all
the members of the society, asking them
to notify him at an early date if they
intended to attend the banquet. Each
mthe was told that he had the privi-
lege of inviting a guest, but that e
member would have to pay for the
guest's ticket.
The replies came in slowly. At the
end of a week twenty members wrote
that they would be at the banquet. Five
of the twenty requested an extra ticket
for a guest.
Then the chairman went to the hotel
where the banquet was to be held. This
was two weeks before the date set for it.
He consulted the proprietor, and the
first thing's the hotel man wanted to
know was how many persons were going
to be at the banquet,
That. was the first snag the lone cbm-
mitteeman ran against. He explained
that the members were a little slow in
sending in their requests for tickets.
"But we'll have a great many more
than twenty at the banquet," said the
committeeman.
"I hope you will," replied he hotel
man, "but until you can give me a defi-
nite idea of how many will be present
I can't give you any estimates.",
The committeeman saw the force of
the hotel keeper's argument and took a
chalice and said that he would guaran-
tee that 160 men would be at the ban-
quet. That satisfied the hotel man and
gave him something to work on.
First the room where the banquet was
to be given was selected. In this par-
ticular hotel there are banquet rooms
of all SiZOR. The small ball room was sel-
ected in this case.
Then came the question of tables.
Would the committeeman want to seat
his diuers at many small tables or at
one large table? The committeeman had
never thought of this and he asked the
hotel man's advice.
"Some like the small tables best,"
said he, "but it is a matter of choice.
If I was arranging for a banquet of a
'oily good crowd of men I would put
them all at one big table. It keeps them
close together and some way or other
think
hey are separated."
It
It was decided to have one long table,
filial the hotel man said he would have
lans dmwn showing the seating caw-
ty of the room and the arrangement
f the seata, going on it basis of 150
Pelt°. the committeeman any ougges-
ions in regard to the menu? Yes, he had
nd he asked thet several menus be
ot up for the diluter and the final set-
etion left to him.
The hotel man offered to arrange for
lowers and music. These comeextra,
nd the eon -mitt num ccineluded be would
tire his own inueiii and get his -own Gor-
st, reel thereby save Ms society some
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hatial work finished, he started
n writing to the eieuiliers asking them
o hurry and scud in their orders for
eats. In a week fifty more requests
or places at the banquet came in,
feantime invitations lied been sent to
score of prominent citizens asking
hem to the banquet as the society's
tests and inviting them to make it
esv renutrke at the dinner.
Two-thirds of those invited sent re -
rots and they were the men wbose pre•
encs was most desired. The other third
signified their intention of attending
and acceptiug the obligation to make a
epre('h. •
Then began the job of piecing the din-
ers at the banquet table. If every man
ked his fellow man tide would be
asy; but as the world is constituted it
di [Heel' .
The men who invite friends wauted
wir fiends next to them. The late ale
eants for SOUS th.111:111aPd as good
laees at the table as the early ones.
ery num showed the greatest interest
the Pers011 bo WItS to sit on either
de of him.
1
Twenty times the committeeman had
) change his seat diagram. Even then
. ' 1. ?tlttny ef tlw toonibor's
all an idea they should sit at the. top
taIlo, uear bbs guests." 11 •
lien the immnitteentan threatened io
he up his thankless job, those kit/ail-s
rowlingly took tile places dllotted- to
pasture. From twenty years' results in
testing different varieties of grasses and
clovers, both singly and in combination,
we would suggest the following mixture
for permanent. pasture on an average
soil: Orchard grass, 4 lbs.; meadow fes-
. cue, 4 lbs.; tall oat grass, 3 lbs.; tim-
othy, 2 lbs.; meadow foxtail, 2 lbs.; Lu-
cerne, 5 lbs.; alsike clover, 2 lbs.; and
white clover, 2 lbs., thus making a total
of 24 pounds of seed per acre. Some of
these varieties produce grass very early
in the spring, while others are later and
furnish a good bite during the hot, dry
weather which oceurs frequentiv in the
months of ,Tuly and August. The seed
am be sown in early spring, either with
or without a grain crop. Such a mixture
as this, when ones well established on
suitable land, simuld form a pasture
abundant in growth, exeellent in quality,
and permanent in character.
7 a
Tomatoes—Experiments in Pruning.
An experiment with it certain method
of pruning, tomatoes was tried this' year
with gratifying results. 'When the plants
in the hot -beds had six strong leaves
developed, which was on May 23rd, the
t' than
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it
a
gi
!t
tops were nipped of and the plaids oven f
more room being placed 5 inches apart
in the frame. The object of pinehing off
the top of the plant was to ause new
shoots to develop at the exits of the
!eaves in order to have six branehes bear-
ing early tomatoes instead of the one
Ouster usually found on the tep of the
plant. 'These were planted out on June
Oth, alongside othee plants iinpruned.
On June 22nd, half of the pruned plants
were again pruned, all laterals being
taken out and the six main branelies
only being left, the other plants WQ1.e
Mt to grow at wilt, mut it was found
that they prodneed the most ripe fruit,
though not the largest early erep. This
system of pruning is very prinising.
The further adramed t he auxiliary
shoots nre when the plants are set out
the larger the early ems) is likely to be.
In the experimentthis year the plains ,
were not started nearly early enough
to net the best resnIts. While the first
fruit was ripe WI he timeline:1. Sparks'
Earliami, on duly alltb, there NVIIS soy ,
laths ripe on that date, The eaperiment
wes suggested by Mr. ,T. S. Lit t floy, , g
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crett, ssettabington Territory, who has I
been pruning tomatoes in this way frr
some time m Washingt is) with gratify- !
ing tosults, where they have diffieulty
in ripening tomatoes.
Two varieties were under test, the
Sparke' Verlianaanne of the beet, if not;
the best- —an early variety, nod the
Matchless, a main erop sort. We would'
advise all market gardeuers to give this;
system a trial tide :veer.
W. T. MACOLNa
lem•
All the while the florists and leodere
of orehodras were being dickered with.
A scheme of de, -oration had to be for -
ululated. with the ahl of the florist tin -
:ally selected to do. 'Pullen the leader
of the orchestra was told What to play. 11,
Then followed seneral interViewe with a •
vaudeville manager, who was to pro-
vide a good clean entertainment for
the diners.
In addition there was tbe struggle