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Show 4 I dotn1 what I had to do. Out I said, As long as Unln It Im la it, an its the law thats to blame, ao not Michael Well says he, ItTl be hard findtn Murphy.1 With steeling me heart with another tenant for the old place, but I such thoughts as that I got along well bad to make an example of some one.' enough until old man Lougbran tia I eould find ye A tenant, Maybe the process against him, an I was sent tell me the rent ye exif I, says yed in to put him and his daughter Kitty the road; an he an old comrade ol me pect, thlnkln quick. MICHAELS ROMANCE. einYKa bit, lady. I'll - j stop the cur tor ye. There, Ive given lU him the bell; he'll top bow, beyswtt the road. Now, Oh, be the lady taikln c- - smack! 1 forgot the And, so exclaiming. the great, ebll-der- Irish ?" con- lumbering, ductor stepped to ,0)3, ground, went for- -, ward, and taking's child in earltjirm tenderly carried (hem to the sidewalk nd deposited them beside their moth- er. Did she thank him Not a word of! thanks did she titter. It la doubtful If she thought of doing tuh a thing. Koine persons might have felt the want of politeness, but not so that conductor; for, with a -- There, gut along with ye how" to hts motorman, he Bwung himself under the hood at the rear of the car and began humming "Katblefo Mavourneen" at the car sped along toward the end of the line, Ills bit of a brogue, hi actions and manner Indicated very dearly that h had left Ireland hut a short time ago. and yet he appeared to be thoroughly familiar with bla duties ns conductor. Tbo reporter began to talk with the mass of Irish good nature. Getting acquainted was easy enough. A few words about the speed at which the ear wa running and the danger it occasioned, nd they were ss well acquainted as though they bad been through a campaign together. Ita a fine bit of level country ye have here, hut it hasnt the green, the conductor said!''" , ''The green what green ?'l be was -asked; d "Why. ninn, the green of homethe emerald fields that would good-nature- d J - "T1 father that fought with him - In the Cri- mea. 'Twas the hardest Job I ever did, but, praise God, it was the best one, 4 too hen f v.ent to put out the few Ire-lan- traps of things that they had, an tryln not to care a rap, his bit of a girl, Kitty, threw? herseif before me an told oe for the sake of me fathers memory (God rent him) to leave them alone. Would you have me break me oathT says 1, "Vojir oatb, says she, an me la vour way? 5 iShure, youre but a sweet little crumb. says I, that a fly could carry off an he glnd of it, too. An with that I pitkel her up an put hey outside the thatch, with her great eyes streamin' tears. 'Then In for the old man, who was moanin and weepliv In the corner, I went. Leave me alone, says he. Take the bits of things out, an when theyre gone 1 11 go.too; Its little trouble they'll ever give ye, an ye the 6on of the man I saved from the Kooblans, now forty years gone. Take them all; it'a well the old woman's gone, or her heart would be broke; an me, with letd In me shoulder that I got at Malakoff. too shllllns. poor to pay twlnty-tw- o Twas little trouble T had to get the things out, save for me heart that was frettln' me soul, but what could I do? The process was on them an I bad to do It. Every time I passed over the sill I saw the lass cryin an raisin her big, swollen, eyes to roe, an' before I was through I was like to put them all back an throw up me Job. "As I went back for the last few bits, little- - Theres land, an Its not worth much, an tenants are scarce, so if ye can get me 5 a year for It It will do. says he. It might be long before ye get a tenant, says I. True, says he. 'An If I can get ye one at once, would 4 do? J; ' ' "He thought for a momentan then says- - Yes, If Its a good tenant! Then says I; Ive a friend that wants me to get him a place, an If yell rej)t It to me for him, Ill take it at 4 an hold tt till he come, 'Will ye be surety for the rent, say he. Aye. says I,, 'make It in me name, an before I left I had the old place rented, an the papers signed anTh me pocket, an so, he could not object I paid him down' the money I had in me pocket before 1 left. "I went, back an found Kitty an the old man sitttn on their traps, an everyone cursing me an the agent an the lord that owned the place. It was some time before I could make them understand that I had rented the place, and wheq I drew the nails from the door, an asked them to help me carry the things In again, they let out a shout that the agent could hear, an with the things in they went. "When everything was In, I went to Kitty, an says I; I carried ye out the first thing, an now Ill carry ye In the last thing, that scripture may be fulfilled as Father Gllhooley used to say. She was for gettln away from me, but the women wouldn'tlet her, so I picke-her up in me arms, while they all and shouted, as 1 ah laughed passed over the sill again with I her me head to stooped get In 'he door, an it was then I whispered, Can the fly come baclt lor the cruinb again? If he dont wait till the law sends him, Bays she, openin her great eyes, an as she looked at me I knew Id have to get out of the constabulary, the precious burthen that she l was. I got a letter last winter from Con Ryan, thats in New York, tellin me all about the strike on the cars In Brooklyn, an I says, Mike Murphy, nows your chance. Go to America; ye can get work at once, an then ye send for Kitty an the old man. I thought it over for a day, and then, says I, If they wont accept me resignation, Ill accept It meself. So I called meself Into executive session, presented the resignation, accepted it unanimously, an that night, bein a free man, I cut From there I went to for Dublin. Southampton, shipped as a stoker and Reached New York while the strike was on. I came ove to Brooklyn, was put on a calr, an there, thank God, Ive been ever since, and sendln money to Kitty to pay the rent. bOlVX THE CAXYONS. THROUCH THE CORCES OF THE COLORADO. Made b I lergyumn txrlitaf and S.ddle Perform th FlPel h freak. and la ' Whit III. gun tha KapUta tVrsou to ts HE - Rev David Utter, of Salt Lak City, accompanied bU , by old won, last month trie accomplished remarkable feat of floating down en-of the most dangerous parts of the Colorado Canyon on a raft. It Is the first time that such a trip v.as ever made. Few white men, In fact, have ever dared to biave the rapids, shoals and eddies of the treacherous Colorado even when provided with stanch boats and all possible conveniences. Major Powell, when making a United States survej of the canyon In 18f,9, went down through the canyons from Green River to Grand Wash. He was accompanied d men, and by several other furnished with boats built especially lor the purpose. Although the from the canyon eventually In safety, they several times narrowly escaped destruction by being d ished to pieces on the rocks or overwhelmed In the rapids. The Rev. Mr. Utter began his trip at a point some distance below that at which the Powell expedition abandoned the canyons. He came out at n place called the Needles, two hundred and fifty miles further south, on the border between Arizona and California. The Colorado River is formed by the Junction of the Grand and the Green rivers, in the southwestern part of Utah. The Green River is larger thnn and- - Is the upper continua- -' tlon of the Colorado. Including' this river the whole length of the stream Is about two thousand miles. The region drained by the Colorado and its tributaries is about eight hundred miles In length, and varies from three hundred to five hundred niiles In width, making au area of about three hundred thousand square miles, which is larger than all the New England and Middle States, with Maryland and Virginia added. The river enters Arizona at a border about point on its northern twenty miles east of the middle. Nearly all of the remainder of the course lies through the remarkable canyons which have made the Colorado a very wide and a very swift river. It Is extended outward until it suddenly came to an end. There was no opposite shore, the river simply ended by fall- Tng over the verge of a tremendous abyss. Towards this abyss the cur- iv , enter the tcanyor. Yeats ago there was a great and wise chief who mourned the death of his wife, aod would not be comforted until ' Ta-woats, oue or the Indian gods, came to him and told him she was in a happier land, and offered to take him there if upon his return he would cease to mourn The .great chief promised. Then made a trail through the t mountains that intervene between that beautiful land, the balmy, flowery. g region of the West (California), and this, the desert home of the poor Indian tArizonai This,.Uaal. c,f course-- , war the cany on gdrge of the Colorado. Through it he led him, and when they returned the deity exacted from the chief a promise that he would tell no one ofjhe joyaol that JamT, lest, through d,seontent with the circumstances of this world, they should desire to go to heaven. Then he rolled a river into the gorge a mad, raglngjitream that should engulf any who might attempt to enter thereby. This atoi y is valuable to history as containing the first mention of a passage of the Colorado canycns. There were other stories told among the whites, of parties entering the gorge in boats and being carried dow n with fearful velocity Into whirlpools, where all were overwhelmed in this abyss of to J able-bodie- parly-emerge- sweet-smellin- d BURIAL OF A TRAPPIST. 4 rate of Solemn (eretuoiifatr Our of the Order. Rev. Father Medard of the Trappist order at Oka died on Yeluea lay last! and was buried yesterday, iAya a Mon- famtana dispatch. Father ily name was Plactde Moitin, and he was a native cf the p r.h of St. Alexis, He studied in County of Montcam. the JoHette eo'Dgc-- , and after his classical course emeied the novitiate of the Oblates at Lachir.e. Having left, that institution, he entered ihe.,Trapiet , todnastry In lkftt and pronoun. eJ hts rows In March li&3. The burial of a Trappist is a peculiar and solemn cere:noty. imrnejljatcJy aflera tr.onkiiiLad the body , dressed in the monastic robtv-i- s stretched on a simple board, the head covered with the cowl, and then taken to the monastery chapel. There the body rerun. ns until the day of interment, four Yellow wax candles burning all the time, and all the monks in turn reciting tne prayers of the liturgy, night an day. On the day of burial the pray rs for the dead and a requiem mass are chanted, after which all the monks form in procession to follow th-.- r brother to his last resting place. During the funeral procession psalms are chanted In the mournful tone p'culinr to the Trappist order. When the ceme-tei- y Is reached more prayers an recited, and then the body is lowered into the grave, not in a coffin, but simply dressed in the monastic robe worn during life. A monk then goes down Into the grave to cover Ills dead brothers face with the cowl, after which the officiating priest slowly throws a shovelful of earth over the body. Two other monks do the same, and then the grave Is filled up In the ordinary way. After the burial the procession returns to the chapel in the same order. The Trappist cemetery is always placed In the interior yard of the monastery so that the dead may always be in view of the living, and as soon as one monk is buried another gravenexm-tthe one Just filled is partially dug up, that each may see the place where he may possibly be before long. 1 CRINDING CREDITORS. They Were Mean amt 1erverte l.nonah to Spoil the Honest Ian"We cant go to Europe this year, - said the progressive busings man, decidedly. But, John "Its no use to argue, he interrupted. "You wanted to go and I did my best, but my scoundrelly creditors wont let me. Theyre the most, unaccommodating lot I ever had dealings with. "They they wont have you arrested, will they? she asked, anxiously. "Well 1 Arrested! should say not. But theyre mean and petty. Why, Marla, when I failed I figured that I could pay them 20 cents on Wl . hf, ' C I'Vs V.v V DIFFCULT TASK, llow Steel Ring Weighing Uaajr Toot Wm Mede The steel ring for generator No. S at the Niagara Power companys new plant Is now at the shop of the company, and Is attracting a great deal of attention from steel men, as well as from electricians. It is regarded as one of the very finest pieces of work ever turned out. It was si West-Inghou- were blind. There nothing like it In this country, they Test yer " eyealf ye say." "Have you been In this country long? "Who? I? Cnn't you see I'm a Yankee?" with a chuckle. "But, faith, 1 guess Its not hard to tell where 1 came from. Cornin' the middle of Au- gust I'll be her eeven months, and cornin' the first. of the year, an the Job holds out. there'll be more of me here . than there la now. More of you; how can that be? "True for ye, but, big as I am, the biggest half of me Is at home, and aho a only a wee bit of a woman at tells, thp. But Its her heart-tha- t an K's as big as an ox. It's tor her that Ira here, although, God knows, it' little I cared for me Job at home whett 1 had ft There now, be alsy, please, till 1 atop U.e ear. I'll have no one hurt If I cm help Ik lie rang the helLal-lowr- d the last passenger hut the re-pur r to step oft. rang to go ahead eon- ago In, nud the conversation w . tinned. "What part of Ireland did- you come - , from? "BalUnamnck, an me name Is Murphy Michael Murphy, by the grace of Father Gllhooley an the water." - " vYere you not doing wellholy at home? "Aye. In pounds, shilling nu pence. Then why did you come here?' "lYir the little woman. "Gut you left her behind you? !'Ae. man. but tow could I help tt? Tim meself that .only knew I was cornin' when I came. Te ee. It was ths way: I was In the constabulary, an' with the evictions an what not I was always gettln some poor devtt in raise ructrouble, for they'd fight-ations, an cs I was the biggest man on the force I'd to take every one to - prison. "It was a hard life, an me that hearted that I couldn't bear to be - -- -- -- - . tender-- an' was turnin me head away, that I wouldnt see Kitty, abe aaya: Michael Murphy, that' the meanest day'a work ye ever did, an may ye never forget it till the day of yer death. There not another In the County of Longford that would do what ye have done this day. "Then she got up an followed ms under the thatch, took her old father by the hand, au said: 'Come, father, the son of yer old comrade has turned ye out In the world. Ask no more of him; Ill find bed for V with someone. An they walked ou, while I gathered up what was leftaad placed theta on the pile of old trap outside. "By the time I was through the neighbors had learned of the eviction, an began to gather as I was nailin' the rickety old door that wouldn't keep out a cat I didnt get many blessings for me days work, an only me slxe an reputation for flghtin qqalitlee saved me from a beatln.' "I went back to report to the agent, an me heart smote nie. As I was passln the barracks I thought of the small sum they were evicted for, and said to meself: Mlke, It's a dirty trick ye (Sid the day, to put old Lsughran and Kilty out In the world, an now that jer duty's done, yed better put them under the thatch again, annot hava yer fathers curse on ye. An with that I went to me room an got The price-o- f the rent to take to the agent. "When I walked In be says: Well. Murphy, did y put them out? T did that," says I. an 1 never did a worse Job In mg life Hows that? says he. Never mind, says I; an With that he laughed, an aaya In a knowln way: Kittys a fine bit of a girt a aweet-hoa- rt, maybe? Not a bit, sir, says I, for the members of the constabulary cant marry, do ye mind, an I never thought of Kitty tor a sweetheart, but I did then, an her big eyes, an rosy cheeks, an sweet voice came between me an the agent, an I couldn't see him forged at Bethlehem. PaTh ring Is considerably the largest of the kind ever cask It Is 11 feet 7H Inches In diameter, about 5 feet high and weighs 27,000 pounds. lt cost over S,600.The making of the ring was an exceedingly difficult task. A nickel steel Ingot 4 feet In diameter at the bottom and 6t4 feet long was cast. A hole was then bored through It lengthwise. A block of the proper weight was then cut from the Ingot, and the cylinder thus obtained was heated and, under a hydraulic pressure of 14,000 tons, was expanded to the present size. It would be Just like cutting from a lead pencil a section half an Inch long, boring the lead out of It and then expanding the wood to a ring an Inch in diameter. The ring had to be forged to a perfect circle, and in such a way as to prevent the possibility of weakness In any part, for, when the tremendous pressure of Niagara is brought to bear on the turbine, which will turn the ring. It will revolve around the armature at the rate of 230 revolutions per minute. The electrical energy thus obtained will be 5,000 horse power. i; m SHOOTING rests of the river moved, and they flowed more swiftly as they retreated from the shore. It was believed that any one who should venture so far from the land as to lose control of hts boat and be thrown pn the mercy of one of these currents would surely bo carried on, faster and faster, to tho edge of the precipice and meet a miserable death by being dashed down through Interminable depths. It Is perhaps needless to say that the perfect credulity with which this story was received by the untutored ancients caused them to be very cautious mariners. They. seK dom went out of wight of land, and then only by accident. The simple Indian, tribes that dwelt Alukil C aatou. along the walls .(one cannot of the Colorado River, had a A fact remarkable to our civilized women is the on that the Alaska somewhat similar superstition regardaquawe make their ages public. They ing the vast gorges and canyons wear a piece of wood or bone In the through which the river winds its way. lower Up, the size of the ornament In- To them this extraordinaryjwork of nadicating the age of the owner. When ture was entirely too marvelous to ada girl marries her lower Up Is pierced mit of a natural explanation. And so. and a pea is user ted. As she grows In accordance with a line of reasoning older this is Increased In size until It which Is generally observed hll the Is almost as wide as her chin and world over by savage minds, they Imof an Inch high. The result is mediately set 4n work to account for the canyons on supernatural grounds. naturally most unsightly. There Is Interesting family at Fort Wrang'i, Among the different tribes different which Illustrates perfectly this peculiar traditions prevail, but they are all custom. It includes four generation. agreed in ono respect that any one whatever-fo- r btS A young girl may. be seen sitting at who had any concern be aeting'wlsely xoe side of- - the would square mortal welfare frame house, while her mother, grand- to stay away from the Colorado River. mother and are Tho poor Indian who should venture squatted jpa ihe, earthen floor near ths down that awful precipice, 1,000, 2,000 door, offering mats and baskets to the and often 3,000 feet in height, and emrhipa passengers who come on shore. bark on the fierce, gurgling torrent, There Is no disfiguring ornament on a hose roar could bo heard even at the girls chin, but there is a big one those great depths, would better first on the Bp of her make his peace with the Great Father. His friends would never see him again. larmw f Usa-- t In Pari, The river never ran backward, and Dr. Paul Garnler, chief medlcat ofonce down in that narrow crevice, ficer of the Parisian Prefecture of Posheer,, smooth walls half a mile lice. say lunacy has Increased 30 per was no possibility of es-- i there high, cent In Paris during the last sixteen cpe5 years. t And it wss disobedience to the gods 1 one-four- en t 1 THE DANGEROUS RAPIDS. waters; of underground passages for the great river. Into which boats had passed never to be seen again. It was currently believed that the river was lost under the rocks for several hundred miles. There were other accounts of great falls whose roaring music could be heard on the distant mountain summits, and of parties wandering on the brink of the canyon, vainly endeavoring to reach the water below, and perishing with thirst at last In sight of the rhe. which was roaring its mockery Into dying ears. the dollar, and then wed take a trip around the world, but theyre so small they wouldn't accept It. Then I offered em 30 cents and arranged for a trip to Europe, but they wouldnt take that. Then what can we do, John? "Well, I've made up my mind to offer them 50 cents and if they take that well try Narragancctt Pier or Bar Harbor for a month,!' Do you think they will it? I dont know. When men get so mean and small that theyll hold a poor unfortunate man for more than 2d cents on the dollar when he has all his plans made for a tour of the world, you LOST FOR AGES. cant tell what they ll do. These felDiscovery ot a Darted lily In Tarkestan lows are so grinding mean that I dont believe theyd care If they made me pay by a Party of Fraulans 100 cents on the dollar and Lett me out In Turkestan, on the right bank of of There are my vacation entirely-- . of the Amou Dlara, In a chain rocky seme awfully annoying and perverse hills, near the Bokharan town of Karki, men in this world. are a number of large cave3 which, upon examination, were found to lead SHREDS AND PATCHES. to an underground city, built .apparently long before the Christian era. Few ihlngs are more ludicrous than According to effigies, inscriptions and bogus dignity. designs upon the gold and silver A8we grow, webpfoi.e mote foolfrom among the ruins the ish and more ojd wise. existence of the town dates back- - to - Petticoat rule has come to be a some two centuries before the birth of nowadays. Nexw 'York Christa The -- underground " Bokharan Evening Sun. city Is about two versts long and la -- The devil loves the man who takes enorinous labyrinth of better care of his mule than he does of composed of corridors, streets and squares, sur- his Wife. Ram's Horn. rounded by houses and other buildings j If it hadn't been for the hot winds two or three stories high. The edifices Iow a might have had corn to burn this contain alt kinds of domestic utensils, fall; Philadelphia Record. pots, urns, vases and so forth. In some It Is to be noticed that the foreign of the streets falls of earth and rock policy ha net unrolled Its pants by have obstructed the passages, but gen- reason of the accession of Otney. Deerally the visitor can walk about freely troit Tribune. without lowering hia head. The high Thelatest trust unearthed Is the degree of civilization attained by the trust which the President the inhabitants of the city is shown by the people to place In him. cp.cu New York fact that they built In several atorles, Mail and Express. by the symmetry of the streets and - A Wisconsin couple have been dt- -' square, and by he beauty of the clay vorced on a train of car. This Is getand metal ntecsila and of the ornating to be a rapid world, my masters. ments and coins. , Boston TranaciiDt a'-te- money-unearthe- Rooh-foucaul- d. se |