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MEETING 1794 1891. HOUSE, The blue hills rise in stately strength. v Streams ripple soft below,, i As on those long gone Sabbath days ' One hundred years agb. 1 When In those crumbling, Yooness wallas? Where birds flit to and fro, f '. the Quaker fathers worshiped God i One hundred years ago. . ' And word of truth, or praise, or prayer. In measured tone, and slow, Was spoken as the spirit moved One hundred years ago. Here many a calm and saintly brow , ; " Seemed lit by heaven's own glow, And eaught the promised peaoe of God One hundred years ago. Perhaps just here the sunshine fell ' On golden heads below, i Where children lifted patient eyes ' One hundred years ago. . . Here youths and maidens primly sat In silent, decorous row, , . But, as to-day, Love, stole his glance One hundred years ago. In ancient graves, where trailing vines And tender wild flowers grow, Sleep those whose footsteps thither turned One hundred years ago. Long have these altar fire been cold ' And only ruins show. The temple holy to the Lord One hundred years ago. But true and simple faith abides, Though centuries , onward flow- The fathers did not build in vain , Who reared this modest forest fane One hundred years ago. Tmoy E, Fleming, in Harper's Bosar. A LEAP FOE LUCRE.- BX THOMAS & BLACKWELL," 'HEN the gallant "Green Lancers ' got the route from gay4 "dear, dirty Dublin" for the Weet of Ireland, it was looked upon by the younger members of that sporting corps as something akin to penal servitude. "Beastly bore," lisped Charley Nu gent, the last-joined sub, as he pulled viciously at an imaginary mustache, "isn't it?" and he looked appealingly round on his brother officers, who were lounging about the ante-room at Island Bridge Barracks. "Look here, youngster, "growled the Major from his lair on the sofa,, "you "don't know what's good for you. It trill be the saving of you boys to get away from the late hours and confec tionery that you are indulging in here. 'The Wild West' is not half bad." "Tell us all about it, Major," came in a chorus from "the boys." "The Major" was an authority on all subjects in the "Green Lancers." If it was a love affair, some detail of regimental duty, a financial difficulty, of one of the many complications pe culiar to "young bloods," "the Major" was always the trusted guide, philosopher and friend. A perfect man of the world, a thor ough soldier and good sportsman, with a kind heart, . despite a rather sarcastic turn, he was adored by all the youngsters of the regiment, to whom he was a regular oracle. "Yes." said the Major, "the West is a jolly place for any fellow with health and heart to enjoy the fun one gets there. The Chief and I were down on detachment in the County Mayo in '81, when boycotting came into fashion. We had lots of work, to be sure ; but we had a splendid good time of it all the same. The best of shooting, fish ing and nailing sport with the South Mayo hounds. As for hospitality there was no end of it, and as for girls I ' Heigh-ho ! it was a lucky thing for the Colonel and I that oar old chief then was death on matrimony in the regiment, or we should not be shaking louse legs now. I tell you, 'boys, if you don't lose your lives over the walls, or your hearts over the girls, you are a tougher lot than you look." ' ' "Any betting fellows down in the wilds there, Major?1 drawled Fred. Hall, the captain of C Troop, as he languidly crossed the room and joined the gronp. ; 'By Jove I Dolly, but you will be in your element." The men there are ready for any sort of extraordinary wager, and I think Will even make you open your eye. Nothing is too hot or heavy for them." j . "I suppose they will, lisped the Captain, in. such' an innocent, artless' way t hat a roar ol laughter went around th room. ' - i. "Dolly" Hall was a man of about seven-and-twenty, with fair, curly hair, light mustache, and face that would have looked more in place over 'silk dress than surmounting the en-faced .tunic of the Lancers, thing was a "bore" to Dolly; ' duty (or pleasure for the mat t), was gone into without an lamentation over the hard back in having to exert the; fellows in the regi H " Dolly could rouse nion required, as he netitioued in dis v in the Soudan 'THE OLD 5 it amte annoyed Dolly to b re minded of these lapses from his nor mai state of ennui. ; ' "What the duoe' could I do ?" he would say in a piteouBly apologetio tone when asked about an Egyptian exploit. . ... ' f With plenty of ' money and an ar dent love of sport (in his own peculiar fashion), Hall was never happy unless he had a bet on ! something, it did not matter what, from a Derby favorite to a cheese maggot race across a plate. Some wonderful betting transactions he had had since he joined the Lan cers, and as he was always pretty cer tain to be on the winning . side, the merriment of his brother officers was natural. "The Green lancers"; left Dublin for the West, and ' the Major and a squadron were quartered j at Ballin robe, "Dolly" Hall being one of the offioers with him. The gentry and ladies) of the neighborhood received the gallant Lancers with - open arms, and the depondenoy of the subs quick' ly vanished. What with salmon fish ing, grouse, woodcock and . pheasant shooting, and hunting with the South Mayo's, the station was - voted a first class one. ' . ' Dolly Hall was a particular favorite with both sexes of the natives the men liked him because he was a rat J tling Jgood sportsman whatever way I you took him. and the ladies made a perfect pet of him from his being so . totally different to the men they were in the habit of meeting. When I saw Dolly was a favorite with all I ought to have excepted Giles MoCarthy, of Bollyboden, who looked upon the gal lant Captain with anything but a lav orable eye. There was no better man to hounds in the oounty than McCarthy, and chiefly on this account he was the fav ored squire of the Diana of the dis trict, Rose Mahon. But when Dolly came on the scene McCarthy was no where, and the rage of the latter at being deposed, was . desperate. : What galled him most was that the Captain treated him so coolly, and never ap peared in the slightest degree ruffled at the most cutting thing that could be said. Toward the close of the hunting season the Lancers gave a dance at the Barracks, and the oounty people came en masse to it. .The meet of the South Mayo's had been at Ballinrobe that morning, and Rose Mahon and Dolly were in the first flight all through a fast forty minutes from Greagh. Rose was radiant at the dance. . oho had got that coveted trophy the brush in the morning, and Dolly was her devoted attendant in the evening, dancing more than he had ever been known to since he joined the regi ment. J Giles McCarthy was not a dancing man, so he was doing wall flower, and a very dark wall flower he looked. His black hunter, Owenmore, had never gone so badly with him, and flatly refused to negotiate a small drain he met at the beginning of the run, leaving the disgusted Giles quite out of the hunt. It was gall and wormwood to him to see that "fop of a cockney captain" beside Rose Mahon, sailing away over everything. ' Dolly and Miss Mahon were floating round in a waltz, and brought up just wnere tne ginm jucuarthy stood. "Ah! Mr. McCarthy, are yon there? I thonght you were still in one of those Creagh ditches, said Rose, with a merry laugh. "What on earth came over the redoubtable Owenmore to behave in such a fashion?" "Neither he nor his master care for bog-trotting, Miss Mahon," replied Giles, looking as black as thunder. So Irish, don t you know, Miss Rose won't have water at any price," lisped Dolly, in the silkiest of tones. "If you call those bits of potato fur rows that we-had to-day, water, I don't like it," snarled McCarthy. . But I wish .We had you over our side for a dhy - amongst the walls, Captain Hall, and perhaps some of the gilt would come off your gingerbread."- "Why,: my dear fellow, I adore walls." ': "There are walls, and walls in. it Perhaps you wouldn't adore a 'good, five foot, coped one," sneered the now ' furious Giles. - v "Oh! That's only a trifle,': drawled Dolly. , "I'd drive a horse and trap over that"- "Yon would, would you I" yelled MoCarthy, "I'll bet you a hundred you don't!" ; "Make it two," was the quiet an swer, "and I'll do it within the week." "Done!" cried Gile"s. "Right,"-from Dolly; and with a ''shall we?" to the astonished Rose, they glided off into the waltz again. - The news of the bet went round the ball room like a bit of scandal through a country town. For McCarthy cqtrfd . not repress his jubilation over the soft' thing he had got on the English Cap-' tain. ' , - ; -- ' . "Hang it all! Dolly, what sort o! an absurd wager "is this I hear you have made ' with that fellow, Mo Carthy?" said the Major, as soon as ha coald get a chance of speaking to Hall. VWhat do you intend doing about it?" ; "Haven't an idea, my dear Major, but it will come out all right, you'll find."- ' " "But the thing's ridiculous, man, and we'll have a whole county laugh ing at us," urgd the Major. : . - "Let tl :;i laugh-, wha- win. Wait till I think it out over a cigar and you'll see we come out on top after all" - :.:'.;?:: "Well, you know it is only making that boor a present of two hundred. However, it is you will have to pay it,".said the Major, with an impatient shrug of his shouldersj "and exoept for the credit of the regiment I sup nose it is no business of mine. An other case Of 'a fool and his money. "Yes, but remember what the Latin poet says : Tortuna favet fatuis. And perhaps I may be an idiot that Fortune favors, Major," replied Dolly, in a dreamy sort, of way, as he saun tered off to claim Rose Mahott for an other waltz. -; ' Nothing was talked of in Mayo for the next couple of days but Captain Hall's extraordinary wager, the gen eral opinion being that he would in the end declare off and pay over the money. ' . ' :" Three days after the ball a letter ar rived from McCarthy, reminding Dolly that half the time named had expired, and asking his intention with regard to the bet. "As, ne wrote, "it ' was a play or pay bet, I shall thank, yon to send me your cheque for two hundred pounds by Tuesday next, in the event of your not carry ing out your part of the business. " , The reply to this epistle was : "Dear -Sir I shaU be quite prepared to carry out my part ol tne Dusinees on Mon day next if you will drive over here to lunch "jours nucniauy, " '. ;' "Fbjsd Hall. f'Cavalrr Barracks. Ballinrobe. "P. 8. Would you' mind driving that clever white-faced oheetnut I saw you riding at Claremorris meet? You say he is a good trapper. I want suoh a horse and will buy bun if we can agree to a price. X. U. Many a chnokle had McCarthy and his chums over that letter. "The softy of a fellow is not content with making me "a present of a couple of hundred quid," he said to Peter Blake, "bat wants to throw away Borne more on that old chestnut screw. He's a smart hunter, no doubt, and showy in harness, but no vet would pass him with those hocks. - However, if I can knook another fifty or so out of the dandy English Captain, I shall have a good day of it next Monday." The MoCartbyites got on all the money they could at two to one against the Captain. Such good business was it thought that several of them drove over to Ballinrobe on Saturday to see if any of the offioers could be fonnd willing to put on some more with them. , w ;.:A v.'t They were rather taken aback . by tne readiness of the Lanoers to acoom modate them, and the feeling increased to one of real uneasiness, , when the Major dropped in and cheerfully re marked that "if all the money wasn't exhausted he didn't mind having a 'pony' or two on Hall at evens." .foob I nonsense ! blurted the con fident "Giles, when his cronies' came back and told him... "Those soldiers always try to bluff you. They know right well that ' their' man has not a ghost of a chanoe' bnt , they won't acknowledge 'it.' , Our ' money ' is safe chough, never you . fear. it s not like.- a .case where you could train a horse to the work : big a fool as the fellow, is he s not going to smash np a horse trap -and himself, to try if the thing can be done. - i n sorry you didn't get some more on at evens, for- it s sure money J you may take my word for it", : I don t nee how we can possibly lose either," said Peter Blake, "but the whole lot of them seemed so cook sure that -1 couldn't help thinking they had a trump up their sleeve some way or another," , , . Monday came and it found.. Giles MoCarthy onthis way over ' to ' Ballin robe, driving the white-faced chestnut in a smatt, light polo cart. Jiis friends Were following him in force, all anxious to see the Englishman lose his wager. ' , About half a mile outside -Ballinrobe Who should they meet but Polly Hall sauntering quietly along the road. . "Ho! -McCarthy, glad to see you. Come to win that two hundred pounds off me. .I'll take a seat with yon up to the barracks if vou'-ve no objection. ", "Delighted," said Giles, in the best Of good-humor at the prospect , of pocketing his money, and of making a good deal' over the chestnut screw, 'This is the horse you asked me in your note to drive over, Captain." . "Capital trapper, remarked Dolly ; and you say he can jump?" ' ' Uedad I he can. The wall ian t built in Mayo that would stop the same horse. I sever knew him turn from fence and he's good ' ior ; ten Irish, miles an' hour, between the shafts." .'. - L. : ; r- ,.; "Just the thing to suit me," said Dolly. ''What's his price?" Well, I don t care to sell fritn bt all ; but I'll give him to you at '75 aad.3ie's fck cheapest, .horse in Ireland at t&nWn6yi K ?-. "" , r.. h :8ay 50. pounds and it's a 'deal." replied Dolly. ' Would y on min d let- tin g me have the ribbons till I see how he feels."., - ; . "With pleasure,' said the delighted Giles, as he saw a certain sale in view. 'You'll know what he is the minute you take a hold of him. Dolly professed to be greatly pleased. praised mouth, style and paoe, and' declared that the horse, was worth the price aeked for him. WustHhea they came to a corner where turn was made into a road leading to the barracks. . With a phont that oonM be heard a mile away, Dolly brought the whip down sharply on the chestnut, whojre sented suoh unusual treatment by a couple of wild plunges and dashed round a bend in the road, where, not thirty yards in front of them, was stone wall built right across their path. "Stop ! stop !" yelled Giles. "Are you mad?" and he tried to seize the reins from the Captain, but Dolly leant to one side, and holding his arm well out prevented hia getting hold of them. . - .. ( Another shout and the chestnut went at the wall like a rooket Then came a spring, a crash, and a con fused heap of wreckage on the off side. Dolly was the first to struggle to his feet from the debris, and shouted to McCarthy, who was doubled up in athiokolumo of blackthorns by, the road side : ' . , "I've won my bet McCarthy ! ; I'll srive you 100 for the lot now, and will thank you for the balanoe." Half a dozen heads were now seen looking over the walls on both rides of the road, and the Major was the first to iumo over and shake Dolly by the hand. .:: 7k ' Giles was furious. His clothes were torn into ribbons, his faoo and hands had the appearanoe of having been thoroughly gone over' with a fine garden rake, and altogether he was a most dilapidated . spectacle. His mutter ings were both load and deep. "An action," an "infernal swindle," and so on, was the burden of his song. 1 "No swindle at all, my dear fellow," Baid ; the Major, pleasantly. VMr, Crawford, the county surveyor, is here with us to certify that the wall was the correct height at any part. and coped as agreed upon. These gentlemen i and myself are witnesses that the horse fairly lumped too wall. and that trap and all landed on the off side. ' So there can be no question bnt that Captain Hall has won his bet. "He never said he d do it with my horse, roared Giles, furiously.'4 "And, my dear fellow, 1 m very sure 1 never said I'd do it with mine,", lisped the imperturbable Dolly. , The MoCarthy contingent looked very crestfallen, ' but accepted the- Major's invitation up to lunoh at the barracks, though, Giles stalked wrath fully away without a word to anyone. At lunch they were . told how Dolly had planned out the whole thing; bat somehow their mirth was ox a very strained character. The . chestnut was soon : none the1 worse for bis jump, and is a prime pet of Rose Hall's still. Outing. . SELECT SIFTISGS. In Japan the flute is played only by men of rank. The big bridge at Montreal, Canada, is nearly two miles long. ; Artificial bleaching of celery is said to spoil its taste and orispness. ' Paris connoisseurs affirm that old horses for food, are more tender than young ones. - " Japan is a corruption of the Chi' nese word Shi-pen-kue, which means root of day," or, "sunrise kingdom," because Japan is directly east of China,' A New York woman is charted With training her twenty-months-old baby to toddle into the rooms of a large boarding house and steal money and jewelry. : , . . '. -. : 'The first surgeon to use the antisep tic treatment for wounds was Sir Jos? eph Lister, the famous English oper ator. - He is now about to retire from his profession on account of old age. Although Italians are very much addicted to quoting, they have' never had a dictionary of quotations. Suoh work, tracing 1570 ; quotations to their original sources, has Just been published in Milan. v , ' i V Mpund City, Mo., has a thirteen year -old boy who weighs 242 pounds ; and Casco, Me., a twelve-year-old girl who . weighs 22ft pounds. This may serve to introduce them one to the other, and who kaowj what may hap pen later? ; i ; A model baa recently . been made to illustrate the currents of the Atlantic, The water is blown out of various noz zles representing ". the mean direction of the permanent winds. The move ment of the water is made .percepti ble by adust sprinkled over its sur face. ' . - Oats sometimes escape from cultiva tion and grow from year to year, so persistently as to seem wild. They have been found thus in ' regions as widely separated as Algeria and Japan, the .Pyrenees and North China, the Hebrides and the Desert of Mount Sinai. ; " ."' , ' On the skeleton of a lady who died at romped were found two golden braoelats six. of . silver, four srolden anklets, four eirrings, t thirty Mlngr rings, a golden coll-, a golden helt and a golden band-ca her head, while by her hand lay purse" containing 97 silver coins. . .. r A singular feature of the decorations of the city of Leeds, England, on the recent visit of the Duke and Duches of York was a triple archway forme entirely of loaves of bread and en-'1 closed ia a light frame of wood and iron. Nearly six tons of breM were used in its construction, and the r.r it day it wm all distributed among tL.s poor. AGED AMERICANS. ,1'HB NEW WORLD'S CAPACm FOB PRODUCING OLD PEOPLE, Climatic Encouragement to long I4fe Less Than Three Idves to . the Pilgrim Fathers Remarfc. able Cases of Longevity, HIS Western Hemisphere hag many sorts oi climates, but, writes Charjes Dudley War. ner in Harper's , Months luejr nu iinve ui common wis en couragement, in exceptional cases it is true, to great age. It has been supposed that i the exceed ingly variable and violent climate of ii n i ., , - 'some regions of our country is hostile to long me. tint if we study the mat ter in view of multitudes of instances, we see that it is not climate, or even hardship, that shortens life in the United States, for instance, but that it is worry and care, : or, in other words, the furious pace at which we try to live, No attempt is made to defend the climate ol . New England, and yet the number of people who have attained a great age in it is posi tive proof that the climate is not alto gether in fault for mortality. It is probable that the record wonld be very different if we had paid as muck unworried attention to growing old as we have to fighting Indians, subduing forests, : making money and getting ahead of our neighbors. We are still as a Nation very young, some physical conditions have been against us, and there has not yet been time enough to spare to ihoxt what the country can do for us in the way of longevity. In New England there are less than three lives from the landing of the Pilgrims. Among the Pilgrim records at Plymouth is a letter from Peregrine White, who was born on the Mayflower when it lay; in -Province-town the first white child born in New England. .Following that is a letter from an estimable Pilgrim dea con, who lived to be 06 years old, and who testifies that he knew Peregrine White. Following that is a letter from a lady still living, at the age of ninety-two, who says that she remem' bers the aged deacon ox lUo years. Thus less than three lives takes as back to the Landing and to the Bock, which is almost as mysterious as the serolite. or black stone, in the Eaaba at Mecca, since it is like no other piece of granite' on the Massachusetts coast It may be mortifying to see that we have no greater antiquity than this, but the efforts of three, persons to cover it is enoouraging. But it is in other regions of the con tinent that we must at . present look for the extraordinary capacity of the New World for produoing old people. Well-authenticated are oaseB of mis sion Indians in southern California who reached the ages of 120, 130 and 140. In that equable region all the crreat f unotions of nature go on with regularity, so. as to induce a long ran- ninar of the machine."- But besides this, these old inen were- probably free from care, from religious doubts and scepticism and politioal worry and ambition, and it is testified tnai they were simples in their habits, temDerate. and even abstemious, drinking only water, and eating little but corn, which they fitted for diges tion by the vigorous action Of their own grinders, lieutenant uiddom found in a village in Peru one hun dred persons over the age of one hun dred, and either he or another credi ble explorer there repprta another man aced 140. ' He was a very temperate man, ate his food cold, and never ate meat except in the middle of tne nay. In the hierhlands of South America the habit of old age ia a long-established j one.. : In . Ecuador centenarians, are common. The census of lSI found in the town of Pilaguin, 11,000; feet above sea - Jevel, about 2000 in-j habitants, among whom were one hun-j dred pver seventy years of age, thirty about eiffhtv, eleven over ninety, flvoi over i00, and one who was.115. No' many - years ' ago died - in Ambato ( woman named . Uucalou, wno w 114. and one Don Jose Soto, aged 120.. In the year 1840, in the town of Banoa,, died old Morales, avtaorons carpenKi to the end of his lite, who was well on in years and the steward of theJesa j its wheh they were expelled from their. property in 1767. In 1838 a witness, in a judicial trial was proved to wj 140 years old, having been Dorn i th ntefct of the creat earthqoiw. which destroyed the old town of A"j batoin' leOS. How much longer man liied, who was cradled by -', earthquake, is not yet reported. Mes; ice. notwithstanding its revoiuwu' is equally favorable to longevity, h the State of Tera Cruz there died 1 man in 1693 who was 137 years oW That he was carried' off premature, we have reason to suppose, for at I; Inn. h.5ra the retrister is officii. and carefully kept," there dieionlj few years ago a man aged 192. -" In Germany .the JBpndesrath, t.; Upper Chamber, consists of fiftr-e'S , members, appointed by the Gove:., mcnts of the individual States for session of the Parliament I sl .Ji-minl for j.j i i i .4.,-...- . her rn.itentittrv couvicts. CO nvict 4 fcor Lavicg been aooiithed. J t"