Show the national cloth of ireland As far bach is the history of ireland can bo traced in writings mention is i corinie woolen cloth woven by the people of the country and known to them as frieze the name is said to be drawn from the ancient ansa in the netherlands whence possibly the art of making the fabric was derived so remote however is the period when frieze was art made in erin that no one can tell when or where or by whom it was originally spun century after century so ions that the mind of man net to tue contrary it has been the national cloth of ireland tha distinctive dress of p ihnot peasant and peer and since th seventeenth century an outward bade of the peoples aspirations fo nationality Dono hoes magazine Thron gli alia tunnel A railway mail clerk who has a cartt himself left it fora moment to anu for ward and speak to the engineer as the train stopped for water at a station in the allegheny mountains just west ol 01 the great tunnel when the boiler was filled and the train started he sprang foi his car the entrance to the car was on the side and a solitary handle offered itself to the grasp of the passenger As th clerk seized this hurriedly and pulled himself up he discovered to bis horror that the door had jarred shut and could not be opened from the outside at that moment the train shot into the tinnel ti the man shrieked for help but the noise of the train drowned his cries and with both hands grasping the handle his feet on the iron step and his body glued to the sida of the car lest he should be dashed against the jagged wall he was carried into the darkness AS the tunnel is a mile long and tha atmosphere almost stifling the hapless mans predicament can be better imagined than described when the train came out into daylight again the en gincer looked buck as usual to gee it the b ain was following and discovered the mail clerk in his perilous position abo train waa stopped aa quickly a possible and the engineer and conductor hastened to the mans rescue he wai all but demented and on being assister assi to the ground fell unconscious for six months afterward he waa nn de a physicians care and when he had recovered from the shock he said the tunnel seemed at least ten miles ong and my head 1 thought was hoi ow with the smoke rushing in at my mouth and nostrils and pouring out again through my ers whenever think of it my braan reels and I 1 feel myself crouching as I 1 crouched against the outside of that car while being dragged through that horrible darkness washington star |