Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1876, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN OVEMBER 19, 1876—SIXTE PAGES. 3 FEARFUL EXPERIENCE. Two Englishmen Caught -in the Ice on Lake Manitoba. A Long Struggle with Hunger and Insanity---Dreaming of Gor- geous Banquets. - Saved by Chewing Buckskin Trousers «ssThe Selfishness of Suffering. Toronto Globe. Tn the month of October, 1871, the writer left Afanitoba House, a small post of the Hud- son Bay Company, on Lake Manitoba, British North Amerlca, for the purpose of visiting an {slsnd some ten miles distant. His companion, st whose invitation the journcywas undertaken, was a Mr. Macdonald, the clerk in charge of the st The object of the visit was to inspect the work of a fishery located npon the island. The “conveyance nsed was an old and frafl skiff, sl the better craft at the fisheries being absent. Westarted ratherlate in the afternoon of & cold, dreary day, cxpeeting to easily reach our destination before night. g NO FOOD WAS TAKEN, ¢ an abundance could be obtained upon the jsland; but a somewhat careful selection of sobes and blankets was made, in the full assur- ‘unce {hat no provision for night Jodgers existed smong the fishermen. The immediate shores of the lake for some Jaye previous to our departure were hordered with & narrow rim of brittle, white ice, such as gsuglly forms before the freezing of any ‘body of water, and upon its surface floated a thin film of slush, or partially congealed particles, geparated into patches of greater or less thick- pess by the action of the’ waves. While this wonld impede our prozress in some degree, we gtill spprebended no difficulty in reaching the jsland before the final closing' of the lake, in- tending to_remain there until the formation of the ice. _When, however, under; the. regular strokes of two pairs of oars, the skifl had passed s linge promontory sheltering.ihe land-locked bay about ihe post, and encountered the cur- “rents sweeping beyond it, we found THE CONGEALMENT MORE PERFECT, and the stush of theimmediate shore superseded by thio and comparatively vrittle shects of ice, ‘baving sharp, cutting edges. The entire surface of the lake, as far 3s the eye could reach, was avered with these opaque masses; which inter- fered seriously with our progress. The regalar dipof the oars was El’e"ent’ed by the strokes glanding off the sm¢ surfaces, while the cut- ting edges of the circliug floes threattned af {imes to penetrate the frail skiff, in the power of resistance of which but little dependence counld be placed. Without thought of retracing our path, speed was simply lessened by the loss of cn:;nir of oars, now wiclded at the bow to fend off the ice cakes and open a passage forthe boat. In the position we were now in we were con- cealed from the view of the inmates of the post the high promontory mentioned, and from e fishermen upon the island by the fact of their eamp being located upon the other side of the island, and hidden by .a dense growth of cottonwood trees. . It was very improbable, too, thst at that season of the year an iuhabitant of either placé would wander so far from his re- splecnl.!\'e locality as to be enabled to see us. - the course of an hour the gkiff was FIRMLY FROZEX IN, 2nd partooks of the”elight undulations of the ioe 2 - Without going . into details" concerning the state of the weather from day to day, it is deemed sufficient to ask the readerto imagine— w“?]&g h;umnml_v mrnm his ownmexp&réence —a y veryin; ture, which did not materially affect the th!xsfnr:ss of the ice for five consecutive days, but which was of so delusive anature a8 to_give constant promise of in- creasing cold, and so render our release pos- sivle. ‘As the second ‘d@ay wore on, the cravings. of bunger grew more intense, 5o that the suf’[xtcst. motion or change of pusition materinlly in- créased our sufferings. Mentally we grew more apathetic, and_averse to exertion of any kind. All conversation ceased, and we -only spoke When uttering a complaiut. Thirst incr in a marked degree, which, when satisfied, pro- duced only 8 momentary cessation of -pain. ‘It becanse impossible also to concentrate thoughts upon any subject foreisn to that of persoual euffering This constant contemplation of pain produced a corresponding depression and despalr ot recovery, while it sllayed all desire to ex- endse the bodily functions neceseary to_escape. Toward the middle of the afternoun Mr. Mac- donald, who had previously annonnced himself a5 suffering intensely, suddenly suggested that we should try the Indian custom of Y USING PRESSURE TO RELIEVE HUNGER. Accordingly we each folded a pair of mittens inas compact a shape as possible, and placing them over the stomach, bound our belts tightly abont them.. We experienced to our great de- Yitbt, a very decided,_ scnse of - relief; and by use of s contrivance were enabled " to obtain a Tight sleep during the early part of the niglit. By midnight, however, the pressure. ceased to exerdse is salutary effect, the paugs of hunger, returning with decper_intensity, Lecoming now. almost unbearable. The slizghtest motion was Ex;ovlnmye of extreme pain. To this was added, ¥ morning, a sense of weakness-and siuking, asif falling through thé bottom of tlie boat, to De caught suddenly when almost lost to sight, and brought back.” An insatiable thirst super- vened, 8o that it seemed an impossibility to sat- 1sIy the craving. At the ‘same time_ the apa- ibetic condition of the physical being began to change; we became resiless aud uncasy, con- m. 1 more, and repeatedly shifted our posi- When we st up in the morning, after sixty- &ix honrs of sbstinence from food, the personal appearance of each of us had CNDERGONE A CONSIDERABLE ALTERATION. T rccollect that the: expression of Mr. Mac- donald’s face struck me for the_first time as be- ingso decidedly changed that I calied lis at- tention to {t. countenance, generaily florid, Was exceedingly pale, pinched, and sharp in.out- line; the eyes rather wild, and with '8 peculfar elistening coating over them; the muscles and nerves of the mouth and lower face tremulous and twitching at times. He replied by telling me that my own sppcaratics was similar to his, the conditions, anythivg, being deepened. We were both weak, and afilicted with 2 slight tremor, which showed itself npon any attempt to move. I rxecall, also, -a uliar of uncertaluty in attempt! % to lay hold upon auy object, as to whether 1 ‘would be able to seize it at once upon extending the hand toward it. This feeling was intermit~ tent, howerer, being quickly succceded by the usual certainty of the limbs following the direc- tion of the will. In my own case, the gnawing of hunger were now beginning in some easare to pass away, but the insatiable thirst etill continued. With Mr. Macdonald, howeyer, gle pangs of Imnger were apparently at their After trying the jce, as usual, and realizing the utter Ropelessness of an escape fl:on it, and our utter inability now to_break s chaunel, we turned our attention to. the l‘llfiiflf of a signal, Which might by some faint possibility attract at- tention from the shore. With little exertion, ‘e succeeded in rafsing an oar In the bow of the skiff, upon which we hung 8 blanket. This ac- complished, we sy down again. Hunger pressed 50 hard upon Mr. Macdouald, however, as to SUGGEST AN_ARTICLE OF FOOD, the use of which undoubtedly saved our lives. In pulling on our woolen mittens his attention Was attracted to the tanned dog-skin leather of the palms. Ho at once cut it from Mfihfllwm&)flfiugme one- of the pleces. It a5 unpalatable enough, but by vigorous chew- in could be reduced to pulp, aud so swallowed. With the first mouthful my hunger, which was owly pessing off, retwrned with ‘redoubled f:;:fi but was in & measure appeased by the er. After finishing the lining of the mittons, Mr. Macdonald began cumn;"s!ips for further con- sumption from the buckskin tronsers which he Wore. This Jeather, being of Indian tan, was as devoid, apparently, of all fleshy substauceas sawdust, and was reduced to pulp with much difficulty. Still,” we chewed away vizorously upon it through the afternoon, and, with fre- quent draughts of water, mitigated the severe eravings of the. stomach. Under the influence of this Tood the condition of. physical restiess- Dess passed_away, being succeeded by apathy, as before. We were, undoubtedly, slowly grow- ing weaker, but the pains incident to total ab-~ stinence from food had ccased. We were con- teat to lic : QUIBTLY CHEWING BUCESELN, ‘With an increasing antipathy toexertion. As the evening came on 1 began to experience aclight dizziness upon any attempt to move, and the feeling of pncertain volition rather in- creased, Toward midnight I fell uslecp,—that is, into a condition in which, unc of the scuses being awake, with some of the weutal faculties, Idreamed, and was conscions of the illusory nature of 'the aream. The sensc of sight was ALl awake, as I recall having still scen, during the period of sleep, the robe and side of the boat. During the first part of the night my. mindhad dwelt almost continually upon the desire. for food. I was unable, I remember,.to thoughts upon uuy other sub- King freéquent cfforté to 'do so; ? cd us though the same subject, modi- fied and often richly émbellished, in” barmony with, the mental constitution, w. mfrulouged during Elees. ‘The Jast sound I he: was the expressed desire of Mr. Macdonald “for one of his wife's good dinners, and when sleep follow- ed it was mnde up of SCENES TIE MOST LOVELY. I.seemed to be partaking of a feast in which all the Iuxurics of carth were Javishly profuse, and Tiearing music from celestial choirs. . I pssed ifrom dainty to daiuty, and, wandering among ambrosial bowers, slaked my thirst at many a crystal fount, and quafled decp of rarest vin- zes. These visions became often repeated and embellished with many. besutiful accesso- ries, retaining throughouf however, as their principal characteristics, profuse supplics of food. And during the period of their continu- ance I was thoronghly conscions of . their illu- sory nature, althovgh unwilling to dissipate the pleasures they represented. ¢ Later on,all the senses fell asléep, while some of the mental organs wereé still awake, and then the dreams. coutinued and scemecd realities. ‘The feasts and music, the murmur of fountains, and wanderings tbrough -vales enriched with living green, all proceeded with the order of a dn_v-d{rnam.h Tlhesc ]cuvlvl;tel: continuea till morning, when I awoke, my tongue Hha skin dry and cold, head shghils dizsy, i an intense eraving for food, with Y oncidgeatle 5 ionald befng awake, we sat up, and, after drinking freely of water, resumed _ the cuewing of buckskin, In fact, we Bad chewed it every moment of our waking hours since it Lad been seized upon a5’ food. We hndi;gn( Our ‘very careful, however, to masticate it thoro; 1y, being icarI%Ihg!i its results in any cases appearauce on morning—supposioe’ my Awn | to{ve identical with that of Mr. laudonn.ldv—\\'us ‘ AN INTENSIFIED TYPE * of that of the previous day; that fs, an increased wildness and glistening of the eyes, and indlina- tion to stare; cadaverous couutennuce, very verceptible- cmaciation, tremor of ‘the limbs, aud dryness of the skin, To this may be added . & growing chilliness of the entire body—a feel~ ing that the cuticle: was_frozen, aud” the, con- gealment increasing in depth. 'This sensation was, I suppose, occasioned by the loss of vital heat. The dizziness had also become greater, ‘together with & more perceptible uncertainty of volition. Trccall- being ureable to helieve, in _attempting to step over a seat, that my foot Would not fall short of its mark, and upon the sedt. It required a strong concentration of the will to effect the performance of a single action. ‘The mental facultics were not obscured, how- ever,. except when we gave way to the inertia caused by weakness; -aud we were, morcover, perfectly’ aware that a period was rapidly ap- proaching when the exhaustion of the pysical orguuism must inevitably derange the intellect. pfin trying the icc aain we thought its thickness slightly, increased. Iam unable to say Whether it reaily was, or whether its power of resistance only séemed greater to ns. At ali events, it raised our hofias of escaps, and served to dissipate much of the depression which c¢n- veloped us like 2 funeral pall. We lay down sgain, and, while chewing buckskin, "carnestly discussed. 1 A PLAN OF ESCAPE. Mr. Macdonald argued that by crawling over the ice in such a manner as to spread our weight over a considerable surface, and avoid centering it upon any one spot, its strength would be suf- ficient to bear us. ‘By grasping an oar in our bands, and pushing with the "knecs. this object would in 2 great mepsure be obtained. If by this method the ice proved of suflicient strength, release then depended solely upon onr- physie: capacity to accomplish the journey. To rémain was certain deathi by starvation; to attempt to gscape might be death by exhaustion; but we decided to “try it. And as Manitoba House lay at a distance of {ive miles, as nearly as we could judge, and presented the only occupied habita- tion within a radius of 100 ‘miles, saving the tents of the fishermen, we resolved to malke it our ‘lying close- torether. The' weather had turned wurmer, and I was suffering from thirst; but, being unable to exercise. sulicfent volition to rise and break the ice, 1 soon relapsed into stupor again. g g +It was broad day when T became dimly con- scious of secing. Mr. Maedonald abont ~ three yards distant, and crawling, off upon the ice., His face was turned over his shoulder, his eyes regardine me with a glistening stare, giving me Ahe impression of au attempt on his purt to - 2o SLII' AWAY UNPERCEIVED. ¥ T do not know_that such was the object, but it ummediately filled me with the most, fntense . I atonce arose, grasy the e- ¢hapleally, and followed. srned il Frow this time-forward are animal instiuct regulated my movements. I retain no recollec- tion of anytiring that ensued, saving the one all- ‘pervading desire of “keeping close to my com- panion. The wighto edcave merzed into mere dread of being Jeft. Had Mr. Macdonald dls- continued his efforts at any. time, I entertain no doubt that I should have doue the same. For- tunatcly, he proved nosessed of the more vigor- ous yitality .of the two, aud kept on. To'the fact of his having done so. I doubtless owe my ) life. i There yet remained aboutone atda halt miles of the distance to be traversed when we Teft the spot where the night had been passed, ‘Ivrgelt ;?;02 o‘céo('.k i‘n U-}I‘E afternoon when we vered in the kitchen of tl deling at Vanitoba House Io s appears that we aporoached the house from. the rear. . Thekitchen being o separatebuilding, connected with the main structure by a nurrow, covered’ passage, and nearest the Inke as we came, we had entered there. It was unoccupied | atthe time of our ¢uirance, and, it is supposed, continued so_for .a. short period afterward. When-Mrs. Micdonald, in the dischargé of b.r _ordinary domestic duties, had occasion -to visit the apartment, she found her -husbana cronch- ing upon the floor Leside the open doors of @ cupboard in which was kept the das’s supply of provisions, i = LE JIELD IN HIS HANDS A LOAF-CAKE, a small portion of which he hal eaten. Being unable to sit erect, he had-sunk into o shapcless hieap, the loaf resting upon bhis knees, whicn were drawn up under Lim, and bis head fallen tpon the loaf. At the-distance of two or three fect Llay stretched upon the floor, unable to rise, but gazing with pathetic longing upon the louf in'{le hands of my companion. The eyes were widely open, butT recall no exercise” of their functivons. Shakspéare deseribes thelr con- dition in the fearful instance of Lady Mabeth: Doctor—You sec her eyes are open. Gentlewoman—Ay, ‘but thicir scnse is shut. ‘We made no answer when addressed, nor gave any indications of a consciousness of the pres- ence of others. Mr. Macdonald made a fecble resistance when the loaf was taken from him, but & moment, later seemed to have found it aain, and continued an imayinary consurmption of it until stupor supervened. hen returning to consciousness, after a season of careful nurs- ing, I recall no feeling of surprise at finding my- self safe and in bed. 1t appeared perfectlynatu- ral baat 1t should be so, and os I T had antiel- Rg.tcd just such a termination of our sufferings. cvertheless, three weeks -elansed before I was able to toiter feebly from my couch, and months before perfect health returned. FIRES. CHICAGO. § The alarm from Box 512 &t 1:55 last night was caused by the burning of Fisher's Mill, a four- story and basement marblefront building at Nos. 20 and 22 Desplaines strect. The structure has been _thrice burned since the Great Fire, and onmce torn down for defections in its crection. Since then it has been rebuilt, and hias been an ornament in that portion of the city, From the mauner of its construction, it has, however, alwars becn con- siaered dangeronsin the event of a fire, and such it proved -to Dbe last night. - The the objective point in our efforts to escape. We remained in the boat until about 10 o'clock; eating buckskin preparatory to the Jjourney. Lest any accident might occur neces- sitatinz 2 sojourn Il\g:mu the jce, we each folded blanket, and, placing it upon “our backs, se- cured it there by means.of the sashes we wore. Mr. Macdonald left the boat first, and, by grasp- ing an oar, und extending himsclf almost flat flmfl the ice, found it would sustain his weight, though CRACKING AND BENDING OMINOUSLY bencath himi. Tbis oceurred more particularly in the thin ice connecting the cakes; the cakes themselves being often of sufficient solidity’ to permit of being "stood upun. Progress was taade by resting the hands and the weight of the uper portion ot - the body upon the GAr ex- tended at right angles to it, and pushing or hitching along with the legs and fect. This distribated the weight of the body over a cou- siderable surfice, but was very fatigning. ‘Whenegver it was possible to rise or crawl upon the hands and knces, of course we did so; but such opportunities ocourred ' infrequently, and but for ten or fiftcen feet .consecutively. We were obliged, also, to travel at some distance apart, and cold consequently have rendered no assistance to cach other in case of accident. Progress in this.manner was neeessarlly very slo, especially g5 the exhausted state we were in necessitated frequent stoppazes. But, buoyed up by hope of ultimate: deliverance, we turned agaiu and aguin to, the task, compassing during the day what secms to me now an almost in- credible distance. Bodily, I was very weak and trembling; and during “the afternoon the sensation of sinkiy, frequently returned, and could only be dispelle by sitting erect, and 'gaining possession of the mental facultles by a strong exertion of the will. The sense of hearing, too, was_painfaily, acute, the sliding of the oar over the ice pro- ducing a continuous roar. The fecling of !‘;nr. erienced at first in crossing the connecting | expi bands of .ice, dx;s;sxpcured entirely in a short time, being succeeded b g A TOTAL INDIFFERENCE - upon the sybject. Still, there were no attempts mide to walk in dangerous places, or thougit of forsaking the method of prozress adopted. Twice during the day we halted for the purpose of ‘obtaining water and eating buckskin,” Al- though we eat side by side, we were so exhausted as to render conversation difficult, and so spoke no word. We were, in fact, praduslly losing ht of each other in the selfishness of indi- ual desire of escape. . T am free to say just here that up to this time there had been in all our sufferings an abnega- tion of sclf. We sympathized with and cared for each other as best we could, and ncither en- tertained a thought of deliverance umaccompa- nied by the other. From 4 o’clock in the after- noon, however, the time of our last meeting. until night closed in, we undoubtedly drifted apart in the selfshness of suffering. We ceased $0 speak, each crawling along ss he chose, re- gardless of the haltiugs of Lis fellow. I think we regarded cach otber from this time on with feelings akin to suspicion and jealousy, lest by any means cither might effelt an escape, leav- ing the other to perish. Toward the close of the afternoon the periods of unconsciousness or stupor into which I lapsed from time to time began to be peopled. by the e s WEIRD IMAGININGS OF DELIRIOM. . ° 1 canght glimpses of beautiful visions—of fairy forms beckoning me to green flelds and spark- ling fountains: of feasts rivaling in profusion and luxury the banquets of Lucullus; of lighted apartments aglow .with genial warmth, fragrant with perfumes, and filled with the harmonies of angelic harps. These visfous seemed so real that it was with diflicaity 1 restrained myself from’ following the course of the beckoning hands, snd can well understand how the starv- ing mariner walks deliberately overboard iu the expeetant fruition of these vivid mirages of the brain. I found myself, too, when regaining possession of the inteflectual facultics, sutter- ine in & desultory way, and dimly realized that only a violent and cantingous effort of the will would prevent me from becoming insane. To this end I concentrated my thoughts iwith all the intensity I could-command upon the work before me—an intensity augmented l})‘ the dom- inant desire to escape and sccure food, which ‘had been the controiling, balancing centre of the ‘brain throughout the day. Iwas unable, how- ever, to ward of the recurrence of periods of rmental abberration, which rather increased in frequency and brilliancy of coloring. But they. in po wise, 1 tnink, retarded progress; that continned to be performed fas - . PURELY MECHANICAL MANNER. Shortly before dark I overtook Mr. Macdonald sitting upon the_ice, and removing the blanket from his back. He appeared utterly exhausted, and, after spreading the blanket u&mn the ice, Iay down apon it without s word, and began eat- ing buckskin. 1 extended my hend for a supply, \which e gave me, and theu took my place be- side him. The rechming posture, however, pro- ducing an immeaiate return of the sinking sen- sotion, I sat up fora time; but, soon conscious ¢ falling into 2 stupor, and_fecling cold, man- aged by a great cffort: to Joosen my blanket, and, spreading it _over us, lay down again. My body was cold and . dry. and _felt frozen in over its entirc sarface to the'depth of half an inch, although during the day this condition had dis- appeared under the perspiration_induced b Weakness and violent excrcise. The lethargic state into which T now fell was broaght about Dy the - direct abstraction - of caloric from the cerebrum, cqually with the rest of the Lody, and may e said to have resembled the insensi- bility of an snimal sleeping after the inbalation of _choloroform. How . tontr this insensibility continued I am unable to state. I oply know that it was unaccompanied by dreams, and that the living function returned during the ;ght, probably from the increase of beat produced by s Vi flancs spread with slarming rapidity, and with- in a nalf hour the entirc building was in flamcs, with prospects that the whole block northof the ‘mill,—a row of low frame structures that with- stood firc and water from the days of early Chi- cagro,—will go up in the fiery chariot along with the milL.! - y The owner of the bnilding, A. Fisher, esti- mates his loss at $30,000, providing the entire building was destroyed. Only a small portion of this is said to be covered by insurance. At the hour of going to_press. the. prospects were that the entire bioci would be destroyed. The north and end walls of the building were curling up under the intense heat, and even the firemen were warned to staud from under. . Should these walls fall, the low siructuresmorth | of the mill will be squashed out of existence. ‘The origin of the fire is, of course, a mystery. AT EAST SAGINAW, MICH. Spectal Dispaich to The Tridune, EAsT SAGISAW, Mich., Nov.18.—The planing- mill and sash and door factory, known as the East Soginaw Manufacturing Works, was set - on fire by incendiarics. this morning and totally destroyed. Loss, $7,000; insurance, $2,000. AT COLUMBUS, O. . CoLuMBUS, Nov. 18,—A. fire this morning de- stroyed the works of the Columbus Paving | Company. The loss.is sbout §2,500; the ins _ance is unknown. ! e ———— 5 - LATE LOCAL'ITEMS. . The West Madison street po lice had consider able amusement last night in swooping down at , midnight upon several of the lowest of the low dives in that portion of the city; Several score . of the prostitutes and miscrable vagrants were taken in,’and were booked upon variouscharges. James O’Malley, the cosl-heaver who 50 vio- Iently assanlted James McFadden some daysago with a ghovel, so seriously injuring him that his Tife was despaired of, was yesterday discharged from "custody, McFadden Trefusing to appear against him, Coroner Dietzsch yesterday held an inquest upon Michael Griffin, Who died suddenly- Friday afternoon under the medical carc of Dr. J. H. but the jury were unable to arrive at a conclusion, and the inguest was. -therefore, postponed until to-day, when a post-mortem examination will be held, and the actual cause of death determined. In the mesntime Dr. Greer was held in $500 bail. et THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, A deep, dark nook, where woodland boughs Do interlace and rpread their green, Where zephyra, Tollicking. carosc, ‘There blooms 1 lovely Hiower, unseen: -Ita tiny bell of silver-ishite Peep out from 'neath the tender shade Of sturdy leaves, that hide from sight The sweetest fiower of the glade. A dréar; lone vale, where unked bougha Toss wildly in the wintry air; A faded fower that secks to rouse, And faints away in its desralr: A withered spray of lily-bells, Half-buried 'neath a knowy crast, A rad, pathetic story tella Of fragrant beauty turned to dust. . CoRNELIA M. ——— An Oregon Yarn. 5 Portland (Oregon) Bre. Rumors are rifc on the street concerning a most remarkable discovery of silver in “Wasco County. The stories floating about tell of noth- ing less than acres of boiling springs which, in- stead of water, flow streams of chloride of silver. Ship-loads of preclons metal are repre- sented to be in sight, in the shape of a soap gray substance somewhat resembling quicksil- ver. 'The molten masses bubble and_ boil with ;escaping gases. - The substance s so heavy that ‘a stone will not siuk in it. but a stick or crow- bar may be forced down futo the pools of wealth several fect, when the immense gravity of the mass will throw it back into the air lke an ar- row shot from an Ingian’s = bow. At least 160 . nmcres . s covered - with these springs, ranging from a few feet to a hun- dred yards across. - Each onc'is “surrounded with & rim of crystallized silver. The depth has not yet been imagined, but the vast wealth in sight s enough to make cvery man in Oregon a bonanza king. _All you have to do is to:back a cart up totht edge of your spring and load it \ith money. Some people may think we are drawing on our own ‘imaginstion for these statements. But such is not the case. - We merely tell what we hear. Some of the silver amaléam said to be “from’ these fabulous sorings lias positively been assayed by s zentle- man in_this city, and pronounced to be pre- cipitated chlorlde of silver worth $9,000 er ton: this should be true, the omstock lode would not be worth work- Nevada would -be _deserted, and WiLLARD. ing, a the silver _ springs of Oregon be- come the wonder of the world. “The original discoverers are said to have been in the city pur- chasing supplies, and to have departed by the Dalles boat this morning, while a_rival boat has been fitted out by others, who claim to know _the whereabouts of the ¢ find,” who go by pony express by the way of Albany and the Minto Pass, to get in shead of the others and make themselves wealthier than Jones, Sharon, and the Lick estate combined. ‘While the blackbird shooting was going on'at the 8an Antonio (Texas) Fair the.other dey, 8 lady deprecated very much the cruelty of shoot- ing the birds on the wing. Ssid she: Wby dont they shoot little birds oo the ground, €0 they won't fall and hurt themselves." COOK COUNTY. Impression that Certain Precincts Will Be Thrown Out. Private Conference of Several State Officers and Local Politicians. The Canvassing Board was expected by many yesterday to decide what action it would take in reference to the precincts which had been passed in the official count on account of in- formalitiesin the returns, and, as a consequence, at 10 o’clock, when the Board was to have con- vened, there were quite a number of persons prescnt. -Among them Were many of the judges Who had been remiss in their duties, who were anxious to correct their returns, and also a num-~ berof candidates who felt a dircct interest in theresult. The Board did not convene, how- ever, or, at least, did no bustness, except to con- sent ‘to the judges turns in such ~ matters a5 clerical errors, ete., which they did, such as “were | present, with the understanding that the re- turns- and the legality of the .amendments thereto would bereafter be passed upon. The Board adjourned until 2 o'clock to-morrow. * In the afternoon the Board held A PRIVATE MEETING . - for consultation, but just what conclusion was reached about the aniission or rejection of any ar il of the precinets objected to is not knowri. After the conlerence, Gen. Lieb was not inclin- ¢d to talk, but ‘what could be drawn from him was to- the effect that he would stand by the conclusion ‘announced the day before, in Which he presumed to speak for his associates, and in which he sald he would cling to the law and . Jose no opportunity to take advantaze of tech- uicalitiea: . This was geuerally accepted. to mean that he was inclined to throw out all pre- cinets where the returns were not accompanfed Dy a tally-sheet. Whether in this he spoke for the rest of the B(_lard'flt‘_sttrdu or not remains to be seen, but his individual inclinations in the another meeting of the Board would be held to- day whena further consultation would be had and the decisfon, whatever it might be, would be reduced to writing to be presented at the meeting to-morrow. 5 AN INFORMAL SMEETING of most of the candidates on the-State Repub- lican ticket, and other prominent fmrty men, was beld at the Grand Pacific Hotel yesterday. aftcrnoon. . They had been called " together by Col. Babcock, but just what for no ‘one outside of those-invited positively knew. There tere preseat S..AL Cullom. Col. Lippin- cotf, Adjt.-Gen. Hilliard, A, Shuman, Jeadge Dunlevy, G. M. Bogue, J. P. Root, Gov. Bever- idge, Edward Rutz, Senator Logan, Cal. Bab- cock, ‘Gen. Chetlain, and others. 1t is believed that the question they considered was the con- dition of affairs in this county owing to the pos- sibility of the Canvassing Board throwing out a ! certain portion of the returns, which would re- duee the majority somewhat on the State ticket, and . probably have something to do with the complexion of the mest General Assembly. What they @id or sald in the matter, however, could not be learncd, but their presence was understood to indicate that they would not sit passively by and see the Canvassing Board of this county rob the party of any part of its vie- tory.. Several of those from a distunce left’ for home last evening, and Mr. Cullom gocs to- morTow- TITE RESULT. None of the precincts whose returns were yes- terday corrected are among those which are apt to be thrown out—those where the tally-sheets are wanting. A close examination of the figures confirms the statement made yesterday in THE. TRIBUNE that but few changes in the result will e oceastoned by the rejectiou of these precincts. The important change, and the one for the sake of . which these precinets are probably to be thrown out, Is in the Legislature, That body is 50 close that the ousting of Roche in the Fifth District, and the substitution of a Democrat, might tle the Lezisisture or give the Democrats amajority on_joint ballot. The House, how- ever, is the judge of the l}’nnliflmfinns of its own members, and will probably not. lose much time in unseating the Democrut and substituting the Republican who is entitled to the place. 'he county officers who will be thrown ont— Messrs. Grass and Brockawar—will have a harder time of it, for it will take them several months of litigation to cstablish_their rights, ‘and in the meantime their rivals will perbaps be cnjoying the profits of office. In the Fourth District, after throwing out all the precincts, where there are no tally-sheets, Riddle, for Senator, is left with a majority of 200 over Scan- an. S0 far as the Gubernatorial vote is concerned, the throwing out of these precinets would take from Mr. Cullom 8,353 votes, and from. Mr. Steward 7,366 votes. This would not change the rmsull in the State];. ” jome_persons have expressed surprise that Justice ngims. who was a candidate for State Senator ot the recent eclection, should consent to sit ag canvasser in a case-where he was di- rectly interested, and should be in favor of throwing out _precincts all of which give enor- mous majorities for his competitor. TECHNICALITIES. To the Edltor of The Tridune. CmicAGO, Nov. 18.—In your issue of this morning containing the proceedings of the Can- vassing Board of the vote of Cook County, Mr. Licb isreported as announcing the judicial jpowers of the Board to be to determine “ywhether the forms of law have been fol- lowed,” and goes on to statc his opinion as to the formality of en’ admissible “return.” He says: A return must contain all the requisites laid down in the Jaw. That is, a Iist of voters, which \js the poll-hook. a certified return in the rear of t, and a tally-shect with tally-marks as proacribed by Jaw. Thesc three papers, or these three requirc- “ments, must be followed in toto. While we bail with pleasure Mr. Liel’s awak- ened conscience, and the holy horror of a viola~ tion of law which scemns to pervade some of our Democratic friends (which, by the way, seems to us more like “Moody reform” than “Tilden xeforiu), vet. we fail to sce any propricty in disfranchising the citizens of Cook County in the vain attempt to adhere toa preseribed mode which is simply impossible to cxecute. Let us see what is demanded of the officers of an clection by Mr. Licb's “in toto.” We, will take our own precinet for an Nustration—Eleventh Ward, Third Precinct. We, polled 850 votes. It required about one hour to connt the ballots and verify the agrec- ment in number with the number of votes cast. Then, assuming that we had {)rou:edcd imme- diately, in complying with the letter of the Jaw, to “read ” each balfot and have the clerks * tal- Iy-mark?’ each vote, allowing the reading to have procecded at the rapid rate of fifty baliots cach hour (cach ballot contained forty names aud designated the office for which cach name was 2 candidate), . it would have required seventeen hours’ and thirty- six _minutes to have completed the tally. Add to this the time of counting the tallics and TMling out the certitcates, say two hours, and it would have required about tiventy-two hours'of incessant labor to have arrived at the same facts that we did in eight hours. Some of our ueigh- boring precincts polled about 1,400 ballots. and would have required thirty-five _consecntive hours of coustant toil. Would Mr. Licb be thus techmical if he was judge of election 2nd the Democratic party Lad nothing to gain by his quibbling? Respectfully, — A. M. FERRIER. COUNTY CANVASSCRS. To the Editor of The Tridune. . CHicAGo, Nov. 18.—It scems that Messrs. Lich Haines, and Hammil, or at least the first-named official, has not yet found out that “five,” or ¢ nine," or any other number can be used on a * tally-sheet,” unless the number is made with straight marks. 1f he will consult Webster he will find that Lallics were originally made with notches on sticks of wood. It therefore scems that if paper is used in making a * tally-sheet ™ it should be done by cufting notches in the cdge of the paper, and that they onght to_re- fuse to canvass thereturns because the jndses of clection neglected to cut or. tally necessary notehes the tally-sheet. But, to be serious, when these ~canvassers, say, “No tally-slieet kept,” they cither show them- selves men of veracity or—. There is in nearly every fnstance a paper before their marked “tally-shects,” contaling the names of the persons and offcesvoted for, and figures indicating the votes received by each, footed or added up which tallies or counts agree with the return. This isinmost cases sizned and certified by the judges and clerks of clection. These canvassers pretend such a pa- per_isno_‘tally-sheet,” because the count is made up by figures instead of straight lines. They nced'to be' informed that five is five, whether made by five straight marksor the | fizure, or whethier spefled out as 2 word. They dom’t seem to comprehend that ninety is the same whether written * 907 or ninety, or with 90 straight lines or 90 dots. Such _profound wisdom is too great for this age, and, for ane, I do not beliove that Justices Haines and Himmil, or cither of them, can be induced tosaythata ¢ tally-shect,” or & * connt- shieet™ ‘to b%hvalld must be made of straight lines only. e law does not define s tally- sheet,” but common sense does: It i3 a- paper on which calculations snd footings are made up and found to agree or tally ” with something correcting their re-: premises are beyond doubt. Heannounced that | €. Clark clse. . These_tally-sheets, now in posscssion of the County Clerk, do agree and tally with the returns. A. S THE EXPOSITION. Annual Meeting of the Stockholders—Finan- cial Exhibit—Review of This Year’s Show— Prospects fer 1877 “The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition was held yesterday afternoon. About thirty were pres- ent. Edwin Lee Brown called them to order. The Secretary, John P. Reynolds, read his re- port as follows: Mr. George C. Clarke,from the Committee ap- pointed to examine and verify the financial statement of the institution, reported that they had examined the vouchers and found them to be correct, and the statement of the financial con~ dition to be true. THE TREASURER,, J. Irving Pearce, reported as follows: RECELTTS. Cash In hand 88 per last annual statement.$ - 080 Proceeds uf ticket sales........ oneen 864 Admissions to Lookout Mountain, gross Cloak rooma. . Sales of art cntalogues . Recelved of the Saperintendent. TReceived from rental of building durinis the year. ... iiiiiissiine TIEE8 Recelved. from réinibursements on._ a count of moucy advanced t0 A. J. Cres wold acconut of orgsu 1,801 Bills payable....... 2,100 $114,140 o . DISBURSEMENTS. - Pald warrantsdrawn by the Seeretary coun- tersigned by the AGIOF. ... euesveesans 105,535 BAINCE. oo unntreresens sreenenecneesnnn $ 8,004 The Chairman stated that while the balance, was on hand there was alisbility not acerued Wwhich would absorb it. The report was accepted. THE SECRETARY, John P. Revnolds, submittéd his report, of which the following is an abstract: - The disborsements were as follows: Labor, $28, - 416.84; constrnction and repairs, 38,2099 pe sonal property, $3,170.58: printing nnd ‘advertis- ing, $10,985.11; music, $1,982; organ, as rental, L. as advanced, but_refundes,’ S1,000;— $213003 gas, $6,200; coal, §1,300;_rental of cie- vator, $611.75; rental of Lookout Mountain, 350, 38,827 froights, o payable, S19, terest, 1, 607.79; temporary loans, of remaina nripald, $200.—$850; total, $105.5 Tho outstanding Nabilitics, stock, are: Bill payable, dae Nov. 26, 1876, 000: interest on same, $250; Dill payable, S total, $11,200; deduct: winount duc from an e: hibitor, $300; net balance, S11, 000. Included in the disbursements were itcms aggregating $57,867.50, which amount repre- eented approximately what might be termed extraordinary cxpenditures, ' mecessary and pro%cr a8 they occurred, but which in larze part Iight be avoided in the future. Deducting this amount, the remainder, $47,667.77 represented, also approximately, what might be termed the ordinary expenses of the organization for the past year, i The net earnings to th Jn-csent time (three and o half years) applied to the payment for meerty and fixtures of a perma- nent - charicter had '\been by a - fair estimate §180,000—a sum equal to 21 per_cent per annum of the whole capital stock,.or' 30 per cent on the paid-up capital stock; this exclusive of all running expenses, repairs, insurance, in- terest, ete. - . s FISE ARTS. The statement of the Chairman of the Com- mittee on the Fine Art Depattment shows the total exfensesmhnve been $7,458.57,nnd the net receipts 31,686.44, the net: expenscs being $5,767.13, a net difference of $11,680.43 in fayor of the senson of 1876, a result doubtless' due to the sources whence.the collection was derived. At present the Art-Hails are rented for cight~ een days at $25 a day, and a small portion of the Agricaltural Implement Hall for $500 2 month. The number of shares of fully paid capital stock is 1,709. A ratable distribution of the unsubseribed and forfefted stock had been made at the rate of 46 per cent per share among the owners of full-paid stock. “This made the total cabital stock 2,500 shares. THE EXHIBITION OF 1876 commenced Scpt. 6 and closed Oct. 9,—in all twenty-nine days, excluding _Sundays,—one more day than ig 1875, The whole number of exhibftors was , of whom 99 were contrib- utors to the Art Department. The whole num- ber of paying admissions was 217,189, not in- cluding cxhibitors or their employes, who pur- chased season tickets. The average attendance was over 7,500 o day. Except in"certain lines of operating machinery the seyeral departments were equal or superior to those of any of the three. preceding years. Every part of the building was fully occupied. In f4rm machinery and implements, in processes of manufacture, in the leading lines of domes- tic manufacture, in textile fabrics, in the con- gervatory, and very notably in fine arts, naturul history, and education, the display was decid- cdly in advance of any stan ‘previcusly reached. Of the 591 paintings in the loan collection in Art Hall scarcely onc was below mediocrity, while many were among the best examplesof native and foreign art. Until this experiment, few i any were aware of the cxistence of so many and so valuable art treasures in the pri- vate galleries of the West, and it was gratifying to know that the supply of fine paintings was far from being exhausted by this first effort. The Departinent of Natural Science, while in some deeree Icss imposing to the superficial ob- server, was really better than in 1875, Natural | History was now taught in all the higher insti- tutions of learning. The taste for its stud: needed but easy actess to cabinets of large col- lections to render it_well nigh universal. The effect of such public exhibitions, their educa- tional value. and especially their influence in opularizing these intercsting studies, could Ennilv be overestimated or too generally appre~ ciated and acknowledged. In the floral department, the increased num- ber of plants was plainly apparent. So great was the pressure for space that it became neces- | sary to restrict every exhibitor to the narrowest practicable limits. A proposition will be made at an early day by eminent’ florists with a view to establishing a permauent exhibition of flow- ers and plants in the conservatory. LENGTH OF TIME OF OPENING. There wos a growing opinion that the term usually occupicd by the annual exhibition might Do considerably lengthened with advantase to all concerned. Those favoring a short.term urged that it was practicable to condense the attendance into a period of three or four weeks, thius saving the running cxpeuses for the addi- tional time. Those favoridg a longer term sald that it was probably not practicable thus to con- dense the attendance; that the current receipts have never failed to exceed the current running expenses for a single day since the firs opening in 1873; that the longer the time the larger the attendance and receipts from admis- sions: and that, as a rule, exhibitors, Liaving cs- tablished their exhiibits, preferto remain so long as public interest continues. The present Ticalthy financial condition would, fortunately, warrant the experiment of & longer term if it should be so determined. It had been suggested that the time was not far distant when a permancnt exhibitfon of science, industry, and art should be established, and to some extent take the place of the annual exhibitions; and that, to this end,a closer al- Tiance could and should be made with Tocal ae- sociations, such as the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Design, Mechanics’ Institute, and others having kindred aims. No plan had been resented or matured so far as he was advised. ‘he matter was inentioned merely as a subject upon which the stockholders might in the future be called upon to act. PROSPECT FOR 1877, The advantages of the anaual exibitions to wmanutacturers and their representatives, whose products sought the Western market, were now well understood. The results in this respect were never more satisfactory, nor more plainly apparent, than in the prescit year, The inter- est manifested by exhibitors Was niever betore 80 earnest, nor 3o-well snstained throughout. Quite a number of applications for space in 1377 Bad already been made, and many others in- formally. “Therc had been ayvast amountof material on exhibition at the: Centennial which there was good reason to Eclieve would flnd its way to this point next. Insome iustances ar- rangements had already been' made to thatef- fect, so that, in the .whole, it mizht be safely regarded that the cxhibition of 1877 would be i\buudnut and of unusual varicty and excel- ence. The report of F. I. Pearce, Superintendent of the Machinery Department, was also preseated. He detailed the principal changes and linprove- ments wmade in that department, and made some suggestions in regard to vendlating the basement of the building, with a view to pre- vent'the rapid decay of-the floor and supporting timoers. i Mr. Drake stated that the corporation would have been out of debt if certain permanent im- provementa had not been made; AN ELECTION' POR DIRECTORS then took place, with_the following result: Potter Palmer, Joan B. Drake, John P. Rey- nolds, Franklin MacVeach, Edwin Lee Brown, Sonroe Heath, George i, Bullmen, George H. Laftin, C. Stadebaker, J. A. Mason, Joseph - dill;- N.'S. Bouton, -J. Irving Pearce; Marshall Tield, Samuel Johnstar, Charles: Fargo, Geo C.. Furst, Jacob_Rosenberg, C. F. G. ‘Asay, H. G Pulling, Charics T. P. ‘faliman, L. G. Klinvk Gunther, Gussaze, DEIRDRE. A New Poem that Is Exciting i Much Talk. i Skitch of its Story, and Specimens of Its Beanty. < Few Fork Erening Fost. The new poem * Deirdre®” has been deprived of the assistance which anonymous publieation ‘might have given it by the premature revelation of its author's name; but the poem is abun- dantly good enough to dispense with factitious ald of this sort. It is not necessary now, even if it were easy, to fix precisely therank which the work is to hold - among Edglish poems.. The reader easily dgiscovers thatit isapoemof very rare quality, & great poem we masy 88y Without misusing the adjective; but precisely how great It is, precisely how it compares with other works of alikekind, It is not easy to determine while the glamour of s first read- ing isupon us. Its exact place in literature wilt be settled only after it has been maturely con- sidered;, carcfully scrutinized, and compared with poems which have a permanent place in English literature. For the present, it is cuough that we shall read it and enjoy it, recognizing its richness irr all that ‘makes poetry good, and learning to know its spirit and its significance. Speaking generally, we may say of its quali- ties that it is pitched upon a high, herofe key; that its imagery is singularly rich and varied; that its diction 18, for the most part, simple and direct; and that it fully auswers Milton’s re- quirement that poetry shall be ‘“simple, sen- suous, passionate.” The story told is nsed merely as a cord upon which to string poetic pearls; but the story is. 2 good one of its kind, considered merely as a ' story. Let us follow its incidents briefly, remembering, however, that the accompani- ment, which cannot be given ina_brief telling of_the tale, is better than the air itself, The poem begins in the palace of Eman. the ‘home of King Connor of Ulster. The Kine’s story-teller, Feilimid; finding himself sad, gives a feist in bis house to the King and his’ cour- tiers, While the feast is holding, a daughter, Deirdre, is_born to Feilimid, and the babe is brought to be shown to the company. 01d Caf- fa, the sage, casts her horoscope, forttelling that she soall grow up to. bea. ‘“besutiful bright fircbrand of the gods.”” H ‘Kings shall fall Hefore thee. Each thread of thy yellow bair For come creat liero's heart shall De a snare Of love's enchiantment: blue shail be thine eyes As the deep sapphire depth of April skies: \\'hit!dpenrh tliy teeth, thy lips and bright cheeks re As berries in the bosky wildwood bred *Newl’ summer sung, and fair and smaoth thy [ As he soft satin rose-leaves white and thin Of the King's garden in the prime of Jane!— Algs, for thee, that ere the woful noon Of thy yonng day—that day of great distraught— Full many a decil of datkness shall be wrought | For thou, all beautiful, shall wake the fire OF jealous anger and insane deaire In many a hero's heart; and war's red field Shall zleam with leveled lance and brazen ehield “And thirsty sword, where hostile danners rise Of kings renowned, to win thy smiles and sighs: Alag ! for in thy day, and ail for thee, Great Usna's eonsshall dic by treschery And the King's wrath; and from that deed of shame Fair Eman's halls thall fced the ravening flame Of war and carnage, kindled by the Iight Of thy destroying glancos, till the night Of woe enrap the land accarst of men. One of the King's warriors, a_stern and_hard old man, after bint{ng his meaning in an atlego- 17, pleads for-the destruction of the babe whose lifeisto bring so much of woe to the land. The King, however, checks the purpose, saying: Besure the fates no trenchcr{ intend, Be sure the mighty Gods conld never send A thiny on earth so beautiful ag thiz To make onr rorrow and to mar our bliss. Then let us rather thank the Glorious Ones Who rule in heaven. and roll the stars and suns, That they have thought us worthy here below On our dull livesa treasure to bestow Of beauty like thris babe heyond all price; . Thencense your foars and lot ny words suffice, No harm shall come to Eman in her day, For I will build a palace fair and zay, Where ehe shall biossom like the fairest rose That in the loveliest bower of Eman blows, And In the tide of time in Eman’s hall Shall be my bride, the best belov'd of all! Tn her palace the babe grovs into beautifal, all questioning childhood. This passage, al- though it has 0 necessary part to play in our brief following of the story, must be given as aspecimen of the better part of the' poct’s work. The curious child asks Lavarcam, her attendant: Lavarcam! Come, tell me!—Oh come, tell me what Tam! Did 1 come here just like the summer fly To sparkle in the sun and then to die? Tve asked the flies full oft, but murmurinsly They suid they were too filied of present glee To give me answer, and they passed away; And once unto the streamlct I did say “What am 17 —for in grove or garden walk 1 oft feel lonely and'perforce must talk To all things round that creep, or walk, or fly. And well I know their specch.” And. *What am It" T asked the stream; and it wue churlish, too, And wonld not speak; Lot from _its weeds npthrew A great brown frog puffed up with too much pride. And *Cely! Tgly! Ualy! hoarse hecned: And then from off the streamlet’s erassy brim He made great mouths at me, and I at Kim, Tntil I gréw afraid of him and me. And ran and ran by bank and rnstling tree Tp to'the fonnt to seemy woldfish glance, And with them in the sud like this to dancel"— Then aa & swallow that from o'cr the fosm. Returns at last to her dear native home, And fillcd with joy beneath the branches cool In airy circles skims her favorite pool, S0 round the fountain with light foot and free The lttle elfish mald danced gracefully, - Sow here, now there, in her wild gumbolings O'er the smooth grass, as if she, 100, had wings! ‘The first hint of the sorrows to come is_given in the young irl’s artless telling to the King of a glimpse she bas caught of the fair world out- side of-her palace garden walls. «+] saw it a once, and I will tell thee how, One day as I sat 'neatl the beechen baugh, Tsaw a little squirrel climb the tree,. Sit on'a branch and eve me roguishiy. These were my glad times, and the squirrel gay Amid the branches green did seem to say, . With wild bright eyes, and bnshy tail upcurled, “Come up! come up! come up and see the world!® And up 1 clomb the ereen tree after him, : Higher and highier till, from limb to limb, Till from the topmost boughs at lenzth I zazed Over the garden wall. and then balf-dazed With wonder saw I the zreat world spread out That Lavarcam tells all the tales obout! And first upon upon x gentle slopinz hill T saw o sight, and seem to see it stiil— With all its moats and lowers. & pulaco great, And a strong band of herdes from -itx gate Jening apon the broad white pléaming road That from the palace leads by this abode. 4 Now broader streamed their banner's silken fold, ‘And briehter finshed their harnesees of gold, As neurer by cway they did come, With loud Urass clashing and great roar of dram. Aud on thefr front cane riging side by side “Three youthful Lniehts in all their martial pride, With red cloaks finttering in the summer breeze And gny gems flashing on their harnesses, nd on e helm that guarded each prond head, ‘And on cach shield where shone the Branch of Red. ‘And. as they passed; thie cldest of the three With great bluck wistful eyes looked up atme: Yor he ald mark this yetlow head of mine Amid the green treo's branches glint and shine; “And oh! the look—the fond bright look be gavel” ‘When the girl bad growu to womanhood she still cherished the vision she had hadof the gal- _lant Naisi, the oldest of the three sons of Usna, and her love for him was manifest. He, too, remembered the falr head which lie had scen in the beech tree, and loved Deirdre with a roman- tle passion. Throughthe interventionof Lavar- cam, the_two lovers met and plichted their troth. The plighting was seen by an enemy of Naia, who by innuendoes _excited: the King’s jealousy, and set the followers of Usna’s 5008 in ostility to the other followers of the King. The hostility grew np.l:‘ee— itk And gize met gaze, and wrong succeeded wrong. A e middle of a windy might From the Kings palace Usna took its flight, The high-souled, noble, loud-war-thundering clan, Hanner and tent, horse, chariot, mafd and man ‘And with them Deirdre went. Tiowe'er 'twas done, 3Within the palace none conld teil snve one, 01d Lavarcan, and she with eyes upturned Clapped lcm}L her withering bands, and wildly mourped, . With secuing grief and artfol-feigned distress, The lovers™ wicked fignt. yet none thelesa From huli and banquct. room she kept awag, And shunaed the moody King formany & day! The Usnanians made an attempt to reach Al- ban, sending a hurald to' the Fomorian pirates .tb erave a passage-for the clan across the sea. ‘The Fowmorlans beheaded the berald for answer, and, after many wanderiizs and severe battles, the clan of Usna foundarefuge in the peaceful Dun of Keth. And'there npon a glad September morn Within the Dun young Deirdre's tabe was borm. & lovely man child, and they called him Gaeir. ‘And from the yosthfal mother. blooming fair Ao young roso-tree that in sarden bowers Puts forth. uw:r}xy dune its tender flowers, All grief departed. that the sweet content, : The'blias maternal by the good Gods sent, O'erdlled Ler heart, as ket admiring eyes Icheld her hope, her glory, and her prize Ter pearl of il the earth, her little boy, Laugh on her lap in his awakening joy | The enmity of King Comnor was enduriog, and marsbalh’nznll blagdm he advanced upon the palace of Keth. Naisi and his broth ers lantly refused to bring war upon the hosplm%‘;l; land, and with thefr followers marched away. Next morn with friendly partinzs many a Ther left tho stronghold, and the Hetngann Looked with kindly eye on thelr array, As far they wound upon their westward way. And with no craven bosoms aid they go, Seeking deliverance, weeping {rom their woe, But with high hearts of youtfal hope and pride, They kaew not fest, and danger's frown desed, Onward they marched in thelr best bravery, Till on the ifth fair eve the far-off sea Appeared between two hills to heaven ontrolled, Tesplendent 'neath the sunset’s burning gold. Here they found their old enemies, the Fo- morian pirates, upon whom they made war, destroying them and capturing their ships after a desperate struggle, which is finely desribed in ll:e l1I>oem. the pirates’ galleys the clans ailed across the sea to Alban. ~ They ateered into a lovely, land-locked bay, Where on their Jeft the mountains rose fall high From the blue water to the bluer sky, Robed in red heath and mosses golden brown. Far on their front a mighty stream flung down Its waters throngh the great gorte it had made To the calm bay, in many a bright cascade, Now lostin groves of pine, now shadowed By some stecp crag that reared its hoary hesd, Hail-hammered by the storms of centarjes, 1ligh o'er the forest. On their right, the breeze Curled the light wavelets to the sloping strand That Iay ‘tween water and the grassy land— Green, 8y land whereon the autumn fowers Glittered o'er glade and lawn, as gleam the showers Of falling stars on some far boreal sea; ‘There o'er the sward the lovely rowan tree Drooped with its clusters all vermilion red Of berries bright, and high its tapering head ‘The Jaich nplifted, and the silver bolis Of birches glimmered from their ferny knolls; And the great oak tree and the giant pine, Girt with green vy or the woodlaud vine, Grew here'and thére in all their majesty; §d the dark holly shone, and gracefally The slender ash in spots stood all alone, Like a coy virgin. Onward, thicker grown, Spread nut-woods, merging in a forest vast ‘Where red deer ranged and wild boars crunched the mast, And the gray wolf and savage bear abode. Here the Usnanians built their fortress, axd here they lived. Within her chamber sat the mother fair, Her loved ones by hor, as the stilly sir Of that caln day was darkening into night: And ne'er on looks more gladsome fell the light Of lamp. or rnddy fire of hearth, than theirs. And well forgotten now seemed all their carea— So well. that in the warm and sociai gleam Of the bright fire the embers 'zan to scom "o each glad ey srranged in castles gay, And Janducapes of delight where lite's young May Was all calm sunshine aud fair blossoming, TUntouched by past or fature”s bitter sting! And yet 'mongstall the brightness, still there Iay A shidow upon Deirdre's soul, whose sway Shiowed its fell presence, thongh infrequently, In this wlse: once her child npon her knec She took from Aoife’s arms, and placed her hand On his young noble head, and curions scanned His eyes, as though she songht to find therein Some impress of the Doom of death and sin Ry Catfa prophesied; and finding nought Bt life and laughter, inward tnrned her thought, As if communing with the gods awhile; * Then Tovked aain and met the infant’s smile, fin:} bent her: dna;-% and l‘f'm him silently, nd murmared to herself, ** "Twixt Thes Tplace thee, Oy babel™ | - i And now she took Her husband's hand, and with s joyfal look id, ** Here, perchance, our days may all be gind! In the world's life are mixed the Good, the Bud, For man'sown choosing, and who chooset welt Wins happiness. O love, what tongue can tell The danger thon hast conquered to attam This haven of our rest from fear and pain? " Going in quest of food the brothers met and conquered the forces of the Alban King, and through their gallantry and hospitality they won the heart of a captive chieftain, who upon his release commended them to bis young King. They were invited to the Court. - Legving one- fourth of_his band toguard the ships and the fortress, Naisi set out on his journey. *_ Then Deirdre said: 4+By some fair-seeming fortune we arc led, 0 Naisi, throngh this land; but take thou heed Wikere want of foresicht or mishap may lead. This wild King hath no wife: ome day perchance 3y lackless face may meet his ardent 2lance, And danger follow, O fond lave, to thee, ‘nd parting from thine arms and death to me! Then rcach his town beneath the night's dari shade, And 'neath the darkness be our campmient made, And in the tente conceal us women all, Eré thou goest up unto the great King's ball.™ And s 'twas done. For tlic space of a year the Usnanlans did bat- tle for the King and were his favorite clam. Then the evil fute which pursued Deirdre inter- posed again. It chanced npon a morn of early spring, When flowers began to bloom and birds'to sing, That Starn. the royul steward, passing by The Camp of Usna, cast hix prying eve On Deirdre, 03 vhe sut beneath 3 tree ‘Qutside her tent door. Long and curiously Heeyed:her trom the grove whercln he stood, Then walked away in Silent giudsome mood, Like one wlho by a Iucky chance hath found Some trensure rure long hidden uuder ground. Yet snlu he nouyht ot the Kini camé hume From hostile shores wasbed by the Norih Sea's fonur, Where he and his and Urna's host imbrued Their spears in blood, and many u tribe subdued, ++Now by thy head] And by my father's hand; O King!” he sald! | “Th¢ gem of gems I've found thee. I have scen In Usna's camp bright Beauty's peerless Queen, ‘The wife of Nulxi. autiful beyond All youth's imaginings or du; dreams fond— Yea! yea! so beautiful that I—even I— Stood Tor & moment in wild ccatasy : And blessed the Gods that made her! Take her then Tnto thy thronc, ond slay these stranger men In open ball, or bid me privately Toslay them!" Bot the King sald, ** Far from me, O Starn! be that fell day when Friendship's band And Honor's law I break with mine own hand. ‘Then tempt me not.™ = ut Starn eafd ¢ Thongh the blood Within thy heart from childhood {rozen stood, "Tsvould meit, O King, before her face divine, . And run throngh all thy veins Iike bofling wine! But g0 thyself. Watch from the grove and sce, ‘Then try and mesasure what thy love shall be!™ And the King. oht the grove himself, and saw; ‘And Friendehip'svacred tle and Honor's law, | And fear and shame, ond sease of wrong and Fled from his maddencd bosom at the sight. And iu their stead there burned 2 raging flame Of blindfold love no power on carth conld tawe. =+ Starn; ™ he said, ** g0 seek her privily, And promise all a queen should have from me!™” Deirdre was quick'to take the alarm, and the TUsnanians withdrew to their ghips. A sea fight foliowed, in which Naisi came off conquerer, and the wanderers safled awsy to an island - which they took for their own. Within the wild bright Tsland of the seas ‘The Usnanian heroes Jived full happily As moon by moon and year by year went by In peacefniness. Fair wag their dwelling-place. Amid a lovely wild-wood, whose green face *Sloped to the sun with all its whispering bowers, 1t lay half-hidden by the climbing flowers ‘The ever-chanziny seasons had ygiven birth Round wall und fosse. No sounds save love and mirt! Greeted the listeper's ears round that sweet spot: The cool rili murmaring through the ferny grot, The ringdove's voice the spiry pinew among, The whisper of the wind-fanned leaves, the song . Of small birds from the grove, the langhter light Of children dancing on the greenaward —bright With pearls of bloom from Summer's golden hand. The love of home and country was still strong: in Naisi’s breast, and the King, shrewdly divia- ing this; finally lured the exilea back undera pledge of saflety. By treacherous arts he !pre— vented the grueuce of the knizhtly giver of tho pledge, and, gettihe’ the Usnanfans into his power, fell upon them and.smote them. Then rose the lamentable cry, the wail, Of inarticalate wac that comes when fail All.words the soul's drend anguish to express, And the heart weli-nigh buryte with grief's excess. TAnd, as it rose, the flerce King's startled ear Tleard mid the wail but Defrdre’s voice of fear, Plercing his bosom like a poisoned knife, As thoazh with each »hrill cry her fainting life *Sped forth to follow the brave sonls of these Who now no more could soothe her agonies | Again distracted ran she to and fro, Thea by her husband's body lay full low, Embracinz, tIl] the'blood sorked here and there The brizht gold of ez dishereled balr. At Jénzth a low, soft Volce fell on ber ear, With gentle soothing sound none else could hear, And ylow she raised her sad face, and behold! Out through the ranks she *aw the burnished gold CGlitter upon the Spearman’s harmess sheen, Where by tho far-ofl baliiam of the Green, He held Galer's hand, who all onknown #tood Of her great misery and that deed of blood. She saw the rond-cheeked Trumpeter, ond hior Who with light-buskined fect the flelds did sidim, Nimble sud swift, with bis gay tabbard on. ‘And him whose silver qaiver dazzling shone _And mighty bow, the Archer, standing there, And thought, +*Ab, now the Sea-god bears my rayer, And e weil take my son unto his home Where green-hilled Mana smiles o'er ocean's foam, Far, far away, —ah! far away from me ‘And certain death and all this misery!™ Shie tarned, and ns she looked again, her son, S an, and Trumpeter, and all, were-gone! Towly upon her husband’s breast ahie Iald Hor brisht nead, and great moana of That soon grew still. Then forward stepped the King, Saying, ‘‘Make ready mnow the swect barp' % iring. vet ready pipe and flnte, and open wide ;fii l;llni:ep doors for ‘my recovered bride. A rhobe 1 aball teach Lo curse the name of those That I have slain, my long-exalting focs! 1lovw pale she Tooks, biit it will pned fuil soon, Like 5 Tight silver cloud that dulls the movn, And fades uway.in one short muent's spag, And light retarns to ‘her hnortai face; So she will wake and biess my longing zazer . Gentls he knelt blm down, and strove o raise Tier fair head 02 hix arm, ot with 8 pang \, Of fear and horror to his fect he sprang, \ ‘3 limp and cold from oat his strong arm's rest Dropt Deirire on ber husband's zory breaat, And Iay there, never more to rise agnin, ‘And live for love, and tzght with grief and palat