MISCELLANEOUS

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3101, 22 September 1899, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS

A SURVIVOR. 1 Bailed the mr-'n," snid tho stranger ttxt '. '-. Said the housewife : "Say no more, . But ait you down and rest withal,' - . For -.our feet are bruised and ew*. Jnst eat your fill of the festlfa mlnfii, ' Like mother used to make, 7* And then yeu shall tell of your travail aiaom ': ' You felt the good ship quake." M I sailed the main, * said the man a'*ttd__. , -' Said the housewife : "Nay, no more; We will talk anon of the gallant __«_ '•'' '■• Who were lost on that hostile .ha.c, : •-. Bnt meanwhile nibble this turkey lo_r . Pill up on the angel food, And later on you will talk, I l»ef, When you feel in a yarning mood.'* "I sailed the main," said the wanderer ■etled. Said the housewife: "Tell tne, then, Where were you when the waters boiled : : And swallowed three hundred, ment .-. „, How 'soaped you all of that seething foans Which 'gulfed the good ship Maine? Ah, tell me where is your happy home Which you long to reach again r" •1 sailed the main," eaid the stranger then, "And I should have remarked before That I sailed upon Lake Michigan On the schooner Arthur Orr." Then the housewife spake her never _ word, But reached for her rolling pin, ■ <■• And the low, duP. thud whioh tha neighbors heard Told the chance be had to win. —Frank K. Ftanegan in Nw York Truth.

' Tht? Increasing- probability of the tJi» ; meaaberment of Turkey Is: being tJIs-j ouseed extensively by both secular and j-elisriouß papers in the United States - The "Transcript" suggests that .-.Gon.■tantinople be placed in care of Italy aa a, trust. The "Independent" thinks that. Russia cannot gain more territory - in, Europe, but may bake possession of -Per-, .ia and Armenia even as far as the Qui? pf AJexandretta. The "North-western Christian Advocate" thinks Uhat the--"Turk may prove to be the Herod ot & newer gospel di*pensatlon, and; points, to these possibilities :— " The student ot? a good atlas has not failed to note the materials for a new empire that lie , r south of Austria— Hungary, Bulgaria, Roumanla, B«rvia, Roumelia, Greece, and some lesser States constitute a region of which the world knows toll ttle. All these have felt the iron, hand of Turkey, and love that tosoiferit and cruel Power very mildly indeed. ■ It ie -not impossible that the English' : threat to dismember Turkey In Europe may have results that will be felt al) over the world. It has been suggested In England, and we have said tliis be- , tore, that some kind of an ergarwaation of these smaller States may be made, Ihrto whose hands the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, with Constantinople; may be placed by European, international tone-eat."

"Twas the Night Before Car *_-____" Mr. Clarence Cook contributes to The Century aa article on "The Author of , •A Visit From St. Nicholas' "—Clement C. Moore. Mr. Cook says of the origin of the familiar poem: Mr. William S. Pellotrean, in the interesting account of Dr. Moore* life which he has just published, telle ns that the "Visit From St. Nicholas" waa written in 1822 as a Christmas present for his children, and that a young lady visiting the family copied it into her album aud sent it, unknown to Dr. Moore, to the editor of the Troy Sentinel, who printed it without the author's name in _\. ihe issue of that journal for December 23, 1828. From the newspaper it found its way to the school readers and speedily became a great favorite with children all over the country. Mr. Pelletreau tells us that Dr. Moore was at first annoyed by the appe_ra_*t*_ of the poem in print, as he had not intended it for the publio and thought i. a mere tr,ifle with but slight literary merit. No doubt it was with some misgivings that, 20 yeara later, he gave it a place in the volume of his collected poems. With the proverbial blindness of writers he probably thought fchis playful sally, written to please his youngsters at their Christmas merrymaking, far inferior to its all forgotten companions, of which he says in bis preface, "Some of them have coat me much time and thought, and I have composed them all as carefully end oerreotly as I could. "