The Weekly Democrat from Abilene, Kansas • 6

vllle says one. of the ranprs was slighUyrwounded and Jbat'seVoVal In BUS WEEKLY PERSONAL AND LITEUAUl. James Clephane, aged ninety, who Bouttcd to Death. Cincinnati, October 20. Tho Time 'for Sleep.

Most Americans sleep too little; and almost all Americans fail to sleep to the best advantage. It is curious how re luctantlv we tako God's best gifts. The Gospel is not the only one which men put away from At night God puts the out and calls upon every thing and every one to go to sleep. Nature accepts the invitation; the flowers, the bees, the birds go to their sleep soon alter sunset, but we are all like children; and we tight against sleep till it overpowers us and carries us otf despite ourselves. "He givethllis bo-loved sleep;" but we do not know thai we are His beloved, nor that sleep is His gift; and we i rately appreciate it till dians were killed.

The Indians withdrew before daylight, taking off their dead and wounded, however, if any sdeh there were? The Court-house of Llano County, has been burned with all its records. It is Baid that the fire was the work of incen diaries, parties against whom indictments were ponding. The King of Greece, in his speech at the opening of the Chambers, said that the Government had already made extensive military and naval preparations for establishing and maintaining the new frontier determined upon by the Powers, and that there would be no relinquishment of its efforts until the new order of things was firmly established. The news of the defeat and death of Victorio and sixty of his followers, by the Mexican troops under Col. Terrases, is confirmed by an official communicatiori'from that officer to Gen.

Ord. There are still thirty of the band at large who were not present at the fight. The propellor Europe, which was thought to have been lost In the recent gales on the lakes, has come, into port at Chicago. An important arrest of counterfeiters has just been made by the United States Secret Service Department. William E.

Brockway, said to be the most accomplished forger in America, William II. Smythe, an expert engraver, and Jasper Owens, a print-1 er, were arrested in New York City, and James B. Doyle was captured in Chicago. The latter had in his possession $204,000 in forged United States bonds, besides a large amount of National bank note currency. His departure from New York was telegraphed to the officers in Chicago, who pounced upon him as he left the train.

Smythe. the engraver, is the man who made the'plates for the genuine, notes and bonds issued by the Government, and the counterfeits are said to be almost perfect fac similes of the genuine. Gunn Schmidt's livery stable at Quincy, 111., burned on the 23d, with forty-two horses, among them Corbin's stallion Amboy, valued at $10,000 The Land League held a great demonstration at Gahvay, Ireland, on Sunday, the 24th, at which addresses were made by Parnell and O'Connor Power. Theform-er condemned the dispatch of reinforcements of troops and police for Gahvay; de-. nounced Mr.

Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, as a hypocrite; declared the Government 1 solely responsible for assassinations, and maintained that the only remedy was the autonomy of Ireland. He appealed to the people to be resolute and to put an end -to English misrule. O'Connor Power asserted that the tenants were suffering more than the slaves of South Carolina had. Other meetings were held in various parts of the country. No disorder is reported.

Further arrests have been made of would-be settjers in the Indian Territory. A Gunnison special of the 2kh reports the Indians to be running off horses and says a conllict is regarded as inevitable. The citizens have requested Gov. Pitkin to send them additional arms and ammunition. The plan of mediation submitted by the United States hus been formally accept ed by the South American belligerents.

COKDEKSED TELEGRAMS. The burning of the Central Telegraph ofiicQ in Manchester, England, on the 25th, caused unusual excitement in London on account of rumors that the fire was of incen diary origin, the supposed object being to organize disturbances in England in aid of the Land League in Ireland. The Govern ment took the precaution to at once order two regiments of infantry to Manchester. Judge Lindley, of the St. Louis Cir cuit Court, on the 25th, rendered a decision the case of Richard Gray and other against Capt.

William F. Davidson, Presi dent of the Keokuk Northern Packet Line, and others, vacating the positions of the present officers of the company and appoint ing a receiver to take charge of its affairs. Mrs. Vassekman, of MC0 Stato Street, Chicago, drowned herself in the lake, together with her 18-months-oldbabe which she tied about her body with a vail. Do Diestic unhappiness was the supposed cause of the doublo murder.

At Belton, on the 25th, Mat. A. McKnight shot James Derrick, the ball passing through his neck, and, fetriking John W. Kemp under the right eye, killed Kemp instantly. Derrick was mortally wounded.

McKnight escaped. A Berlin telegram says the editor of the Boersen-Courier has been sentenced to pay a tine of oOO marks or fifty days' imprisonment for libeling Bismarck. Eveline Grier, a young lady residing at Lockland, near Cincinnati, was burned to death by her clothes taking lire from a grate. The Balcom House at Denver burned on the 25th. Loss about $50, 000.

A livery-stable at Clyde, containing forty horses, burned on the 25111. All the stock burned belonged to neighboring fanners who were in town attending a Democratic meeting. Dr. Tanner is going to London to repeat his forty days' fast, under the auspices of Dr. B.

W. Richardson, who haa gained considerable reputation on account of the stand he has made against the use of alcohol as a medicine. A challenge will be made to the advocates of alcohol to select six men as near the age and physical condition of Dr. Tanner as possible and let them undergo the same test, be to kike only water an I they sueh spirituous liquors as tliey may desire during the fast. Mr.

Lewis Swift, the Rochester astronomer, says the new eoinct recently di-envcred by Iiim promises to be of the most remarkable ones which hau-recently been seen in this country. Jis -reat ni.e, its slow rate of motion, nn-1 he f.u-t its nf ni' iit i- nearly in a direct line toward the earth, all eoiiihiiie to piodilee this result. wi 1 be four negroes in the i lected Georgia Lcgi-Iatura. ives in Washington, rcatf proof with Sir Walter Scott on his novel Waver- ey." Fort his corned of Blaek-Eved Su which still holds the stage, Douglass Jerrold received just what Milton did for Paradise Lost" $25. Fanny Davenport pavs twenty-four hundred dollars to Anna Dickinson for her new play, and fifty dollars a night for every performance after it has run three weeks.

A poem on "Death," by the late Rev. Dr. Daggett, of Hartford, was being set up for printing in the October number of Bcribner's as the news came of his death. Bjounsterne Bjounson, the Nor wegian novelist, dramatic poet and pamphlet writer, recently arrived in JNew xorfe by the steamer bermanic, in company with Mrs. Ole Dull, the widow of the violinist.

Mk. Bret Hart is in luck in England, very scrap that he has written, includ ing a biographical preface and a portrait of the author, is to go into a live- volume edition of his works now in the hands of a London publisher. The maddest performance recorded in Mr. W. T.

Dobson's history of "Lit erary frivolities" is that of the man who discovered there were 33,535 ways of spelling the word scissors, and who accordingly sat down and wrote them out in a work containing three volumes of 300 pages each. John A. Cuthbert, a resident of Mobile, is the oldest living ex- Representative of Congress. He was born at Savannah. in 1788: was graduated from Princeton College in 1805, served in the war of 1812-13 and was a Representative from Alabama from 1819 to 1821, sixty-one years ago.

Mr. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the oet, lives a most secluded and retired ife; he rarely goes into societv, and even his brother does not venture to bring visitors to his studio. It is since the death of Mrs. Rossetti, a beautiful and sweet-natured woman, that this habit of reserve has grown upon the husband she left to regret her. When she died, Rossetti was so wretched that he felt his own intellectual life was at an end, and in her grave he buried all the sonnets he had written, a id which, by the way, were addressed her.

Hi3 friends, resolved that the poems should not be lost, opened the grave and rescued them; and after a time revealing to the poet that they in existence, persuaded him to print them. HUMOROUS. 'How musically his hoof-beats sound!" exclaimed an enthusiastic lover of the turf, as St. Juliet) speeded around the course at Brighton last week. "Yes," replied his matter-of- fact companion; "he is beating time." Boston Transcript.

Pedagogue: "What is the meaning of the Latin verb ignoscof Tall student (after all the others have failed to give the correct definition): "I don't know." Pedagogue: "Right: go up to tho head." "I wish I could settle this confounded coffee," said an impatient traveler at a railway restaurant. "Try a broomstick," said a moody man with a scratched nose, "that is what everything is settled with at our house." Boston Commercial Bulletin. "Who are you going to vote for?" somebody asked Gilhooly. "I am going to cast my vote solid for De Smith." "Do you think he is entitled to the confidence of the people? Do you know him?" "Never saw him in my life, but I saw the other fellow, and that settled it." Galveston News. Little Paul, clambering on his father's knee "Pa, what is Father "Why, what on earth do you want to know that for?" Paul "I heard you say it to ma a minute ago." Father "Yes, my son.

Humbug is when your ma pretcnas she loves me and there are no buttons on the neck of my shirt." Siivlv ho bent o'er the dainty head And, "won't you; wou't you?" ile softly saiii, Hecprinir lrom the saucy miss Just for the 1 uttt of one sweet kiss. Tho maiden tossed her pretty head And, "No. I won't you," She Hiiueily said. "How foolish he is," thought the little miss; "Ile should not ask for, but steal the kiss." GKHSTEitgotan average of $10Jfor each time sho sang in this country. At this rate it is estimated that she has already sung 81,000,000 worth to her new baby.

And the youngster doesn't seem to appreciate it any more than it would the wild and tortuous strains from a seventy-five cent accordion. Noriis-town Herald. The Central New York Farmers' Club recent1' sent out invitations to its animal picnic. with its initials heading the card of the ivitation. N.

Y. Y. C. indignantly read an old granger, "ef that ain't the blamedest way to spell knife! This conies of yer new-fangled spellin' icform!" And he immediately sat down and wrote a wrathful letter to Professor North about it. Burlington Hawkey.

Boast not thyself, 0 denizen of the city, tlnjt thy summer has been inexpensively passed at the home of thy country relative, for even now that relative hath said unto hivife and his sou's wife and unto h's daughters and his daughters' husbands and unto his cousins even unto the third and fourth generations: "Lo! the winter npproacheth, and William will be pleased to see U3 in his city home, where theaters, lectures and such like vanities do beguile the time. Let us Ike urdohiiu, every one." And they will come.ns sure as Christmas. Verily, 'they will have their revenge. Bodon Transcriji. 4W.

T. HOFFMAN1 ABILENE, TOPICS OF THE. 'DAY; "ews from EYerywkere. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Rhode Island Greenbackers have nominated a full Slate and Electoral ticket.

Chief-Justice Ryan, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, is dead. i 1 Mas. Lydia Maria, Child, the well known authoress, died at Wayland, on the 20th, aged 83 years. Lee Shryock, Cashier of the Louisville Turf Exchange, is missing. Ilis accounts are short from $30,000 to $40,000.

It is believed he has drowned himself. The Republican plurality on Governor in Indiana is unofficially stated to be 7,141. In Ohio the Republican plurality on Secretary of State is 18,099 and on Supreme Court Judge 23,041. The Democratic plurality in West Virginia is between 10,000 and 15,000. Major Thomas L.

Butler, who assisted at the capture of Pensacola and was aide-de-camp to General Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, died at Louisville, on the 21st, aged 91. A. G. Hodges, Grand Treasurer of the Kentucky Masonic Lodge, is a defaulter to the amount of $7,000. He has held the office for many years.

The National Democratic Committee have issued an address to the Democrats of Virginia officially recognizing the "Funder" ticket and urging all members of the party to give if their cordial support. It is under- stood that Gen. Mahone, leader of the Readjustee, refused to enter into any arrangement for a joint electoral ticket. A BiSPATCH from Rome, Italy, says the distinguished German authoress, Eliza Lenhardt, committed suicide at Civita Vecchia by throwing herself into the sea. Col.

Wm. Adair, Assistant Chief of the Cherokee "Nation, is dead. He commanded a brigade of Indians in the Confederate service during the War. St. Louis will give President Hayes a reception upon his return Iromthe Pacific coast.

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. It is officially, announced that the At iison, Uppeka and Santa Fe Railroad will be completed and connected with the South ern Pacific about January 1, 1881, thus open ing up a new through route between the East and the Pacific Coast. The great Western passenger railway war terminated on the 22d by an agreement between the rival lines as to the future di vision of traffic, and former rates wero im mediately restored. It is understood that all the roads interested are to share pro rata the expenses of the right, and tickets sold at the cut rate by either road will be re ceived in exchange for tickets by any other road, subject to redemption by the company issuing the same. The Vandalia and Illinois Central, being dissatisfied with the terms of the agree ment made between the Wabash, Chicago and Alton and other roads interested, by which passenger rales were restored, announce that they will sell tickets between St.

Louis and Chicago for $5 until all unlimited tickets sold during the struggle are redeemed. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Peter Garrett and Emma Prittle, both colored, living at Cuero, were poisoned through taking strychnine administered by mistake for quinine. Both died. An express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad jumped the track while rounding a curve near Conematigh, on the 21st.

The express and baggage-cars were badly smashed and one of them Charles MeCloskey, express messenger, was crushed to death by an iron safe. Two passengers were injured. George Mosser, while tiring a salute at a political celebration at Madison, had both his arms blown off and his eyes blown out by a premature discharge of the cannon. lie can not recover. Fritz Wolfkin, while bear-hunting witli two companions, near Spearlish 1).

a few days ago, was attacked by i large cinnamon bear. His head was nearly torn away from his shoulders, both arms were broken, and the lower jaw, nose and one eye completely torn away before the an imal was killed. Death occurred hi a few hours. Henry Williams, alias Charles Pierson, colored, was hanged at Raleigh, N. on the 22d, for the murder of another negro in August last.

The railway train from Dortmund, Westphalia, to Berlin, on the 22d, was precipitated down an embankment. Two persons killed and twenty-six injured. The house of Mr. Bridges at San Fernando, was burned during the absence of Mr. and Mrs.

Bridge at a political meeting, and their four children, the eldest aged 11, were burned to death. A Santa Fe dispatch says two road agents were recently killed near there by Mexicans. MISCELLANEOUS. A skirmish is reported to have taken place between a company of volunteer rang ers from Ieatlville, commanded by a noted Indian fighter named Jack Harrhon, and the Utes, near Jack's Cabin, Just outside the Reservation. Harrison's company, numbering thirty-five men, was organized at the time of Jackfon's capture by the Lilians, the avowed purpose of ai-t ing the Sheriff to cawture Berry and iatt s.

The encounter took place in the night ami fuppot-fd to have been brought on by accident. The man who brought the news to Lead- A fiR resulting1 in he loss of five lives oo-burred about eleven 'o'olock-to-day in the shoddy-factory of Benjamin Hay, corner of Second and Broadway. Tho Are caught lrom greased tagi falling-upou the bales, and before tho engines could be' brought td the spot the whole building, 6winr" fo tho inflammable character of its contents, was In names. Twenty girls and women, under the super-vision ol Mary the forewoman of. the sorting department, were at work id the sorting ana storage rooms on the third lloor.

These women knew nothing of tho presence of the tiro until one of them saw smoue coming through the cracks tho lloors. Khu at called "Fire!" and started for the staircase in tho storago-rooin. Most of tho women at this time were in the storage-room, only eight theu being in the Borthig-roqm. Tho forewoman ran to tho door betweou the two rooms and told them the building was on tiro, and to hurry out. Two of tho eight immediately followed her, but the other six, anxious to save their clothing, stopped totako oil' their working dresses and put on' those they wore going to and from work.

The consequence was when they leiurnod to go down the si air-case in "the storago-roonj they found the flames had cut them" oil in direction. Then turning toward the drying-room, all was found to be in flames. Their only chance was the windows. Only two of the six reached that point adve. Two, afterward idontilled aj Mrs.

Rachel Dog-(tett and Mrs. Catherine Jackson, were suffocated by the smoke, and full almost at the threshold of the door through widch they had in vain endeavored to escape. Two otliers, Miss Margaret Welsh and Miss (Jurran, full not more than ten leet from tho wiuJow which Mrs. Eliza Uarrtiuk and Mrs. Mary Lyon reached, alive.

No sooiwr were faces seen at the window than a cry of horror went up from the thousands attracted to the vicinity by the fire. A number of citizens hastily rolled under the window a number of bales ol' rugs, and called upon the women to jump. Mrs. isarraeli, af tor turning her head and looking back at iho Haines rap--idly increasing in volume, stepped upon the window-sill and leaped down tue forty or fifty feet, lighting on tho bales, and in striking broke her left ankle. Sho was immediately picked up and carried to a neighboring store, whence she was sunt to tho hospital, Mrs.

Lyon, after seeing tho accident which had befallen Mrs. Barrack, Btood still in the window-sill, and, iu response to a cryJTrom Olllcer Burke to "Jump, for God's sako," was heard to say something which sounded like no; I cannot." Then, turning, she rushed back into the Haines, and was seen no more until her dead and charred body "was found lying near those of her companions." The gcueral opinion is that tho unfortunate Victims are to blame for the terriblo tragedy, the statements of the forewomen, many firemen and the girl, Annie Madden (who first gave the alarm on this floor), being to the oil'eet that they had ample time to escape after the alarm was given. Reunion of Two Ajril TRrothrr. John and Daniul Mili.ku, twins, were bora In Adams County, Va in 1K1U. When ihov were four years old their mother was left a widow.

Being destitute and in ill-health, she was iitble to support an 1 children. Slie sent Daniel 1 1 livo with frionds bi County. John found a home in West-more'nnd County. Daniel grew uptiu.l became a miller. John leai ne 1 thij tilacksniitii's trade.

They never or heard of one another after leaving their and each supposed the other was dead. Over lilty years ago John Miller abandoned his trade and became a toll-gate-keeper on the Butler turnpiko, in Allegheny County, lie holds the position ttill. uue day ruccntly hu went out of his house, to collect tull of an old gentleman V'iib driving: tttrmlgu the gate. A neighbor the toll-gate-keeper stood by. lie made thy remark that the traveler and tho keeper looked enough alike to be twins.

This brought about iimuiries on tho part of tho two o.d men. The traveler proved to be Uaulol MilU John's twin brother, lie had lived for years Briidiord, but a few miles away lVom tne toll-uuie, in anothercoiinty. This was the iir-t meeting of the brothers since the.f were four years oid sixty yours iuju. Aflcetinx Tut: Chicago Times of tbefilst publishes the following among many other affecting incidents growing out of the' loss on bake Michigan of the steamer Alpena: "A most pitiable sight is the grief of an aged Englishman named John Osboru, who, with anguish depleted in every lineament of a wrinkled lace, bin several times within the past two days appeared lit the desk of Secretary Wright. Tho invariable question, expressed In a plaintive tone such us would touch the Finn lest heart, is: 'Anything Last evening, before the response was given, ho turned away, sobbing out: 'Gone, gone! All Down with the Alpena went his only son, daugnter and two grandchildren.

The downwind course of his life is dark with clouds of sorrow, (mid of the atllieted is Mr. William Vnmhenr. Willi anxious faeo he walked into the ollice of tho Goodrich Company on yesieiday morning-, and broke our witu the uu ilavo you heard l'roni the Alpena, To the silent shake of the b'ad of theelcrk to whom thciiuestion was put, heonly sai file's gone, and, laying a paper on h's dest, walked away. The slip rend: 'My wife, short, stoutly-built, Kev-ei'iil rings on her hands. mo telephone if found.

Win. Hev, Karrell dart and wife, of White l'igeon. are of. tho lost. They were on their way to a homo in this city, and a peculiar interest attaehes to their death from the fact 'that they had ju-t beeu wedded, and were enjoying a bridal trip." A lromle it Modirr Kpt.

Charlie Owen, express messenger tho train thnt was wrecked last Friday evening, was struck between tho shoulders by box, temp irarily paralyzing hf arms, hut when offered a glttss of whisky by tho physician he refused, and when the doctor urged him ho again refused. Insisting, the me lie man and several others standing near told huu he must take it to savo his life. sir'." mud tho young man, firmly refusing. "When 1 went toriilroadlng I proinUod my mother that I would never touch whisky, and I'll die hero in my tracks, gentl-nii'Mi, I'll touch it." Tho young ma i nin ittoii" 1 tvoMier of the agent at Kooxville. He is but nineteen years of iije.

noil nas been fn tho employ of tho Soutlie-ii Kxpru Compiiny tor a tew nion'hs Ho has been tried on Heveral roads, iind on account i ids inttvi iy. intelligence and close ppl nri to dm been rapid pieinoti-d i his route urcnt to 1h position of lir't messenger. He left I.vik with a he.ty "run" of freight and valuable. Ti entbe tneii left the trick ncir i.ix Lick, mid the express ear mid eo Vtre eruslied nn-l to to iqilimeis. Cti-Tli" digged from under the wreck eruslied Mid I rj.se.l, uid wit! evidently greatly, hit Ilrst wo ts were to cull for his -11 1 and two xes of silver.

hen bmti'jtvt to lam lieexten led his bruised IkmIv ovcrthotn nil I watched his valuable "run" through the long hours of the uight. KnurriLc TrUmne. some overmastering anxiety drives the nursling sleep from' our home; and then we bemoan her exile and try to charm her back again. In the morninjr God's sud. tries to awaken us, as a mother her by the gentlest of kisses for what kiss is so gentle as that of the snn- beamr and the liowers, and bees and birds awaken to beauty and song; but we shut the tender mother out, and refuse the gift of resurrection life which the morning brings, and cling at sunrise to the sleep which we so stoutly repelled in the early darkness.

Twice every day God says to us, "Rest and life are my gifts;" and twice every day we push them from us till we can no longer resist them. The two sweetest and most delicious hours of the day' ought to be the hour of falling asleep and the hour of awakening; and we make them both hours of discomfort, even from our childhood. For there are two things that nearly all people are reluctant to do go to bed at night, and get up in the morning. i No one person can lay down rules for another's sleep any more than he can for another's eating; for every nature is a law unto itself but there are some general principles of almost universal application. We put them here tersely for easier recollection: Night is the time for sleep; daylight is the time for activity.

A healthy person is his own best alarm clock. Do not waken your children. If they sleep too late in the morning it is because they do not go to bed early enough at night. The early night hours are the best sleeping hours; the early morning hours are the best working hours. The best remedy for sleeplessness is a tired bodv (not too tired) and a trust ful mind.

Sleepless children are rare; for their bodies are ceaselessly at work and their minds do not worry. Different natures need different measures of sleep; Humboldt is said to have lived on four hours of sleep. But eight hours is a fair average; and he who borrows from his sleep lor his work bor rows at a frightful rate of interest, and of a usurer who will prove to be a verit able bhylock. (Jliristian union. The Teeth ot tho Ancient Greeks.

One of the most remarkable features of the discovery of the band of Thebans who fell at Chaironea is tliat, according to the report, all the teeth ot each member of the Sacred Baud are sound and complete. Either these gallant patriots were exceptionally lucky, or the condition of teeth in old Greece was enviably different from that of later and more degenerate days. The Romans were well acquainted with the evils that attend ou the possession of teeth, iinu bad some considerable knowledge of the use of rod in counteracting tue-se evils, it we remember rightly, an exception to the rule of not bun ing. precious objects with departed Romans was made in favor of the gold that had been used for stopping teelh. We moderns may compare lavorably with tho Romans in the skill ot our dentists, but we cannot pretend to rival the defenders of Thebes in their superiority to the necessity for these gentlemen.

Hare indeed are the Jiappy mortals of to-day who can truly boast 1hat their teeth are in the perfect condition that nature intended, and that the cratt ot the dentist has never been employed upon them. It would be a diilicult task to select from our army, or any modern army, three hun. dred men with teeth as sound as those of the Thcban warriors are reported to be. London Acivs. Adre's Prophetic Poem.

DrniNG tho jears 1779 and 1780 Andre was on duty in New York and took a leading part in the social life of that city. Ho accompanied Sir Henry (JJinton at the capture ot Stony Point, Juno 1, 1771), and wrote as aid-de-camp upon the glacis of iort Lafayette the terms of capitulation conceded to the garrison. He kept a careful diary an frequently wrote squibs in prose and verse lor the loyalist papers, and August, 17ri0, composed at Elizabeth town a burlesque poem entitled "The (Jow Chase, in three cantos, amount ing to seventy quatrains. The subject was the attack made by General Wayne tit on a block-bouse near Mull ferry two or three miles below Fort Lee, in order to drive in some cattle from 15er jren Neck. My a singular coincidence the 1 ust canto of this poem was printed in Rivington's Gazette, September 23, 170, the day of the poet's capture-at Tarry town.

Tho last stanza is as follows- And now I've rlosed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior drover, Wayne, Should ever catch tho poet. It happened, singularly enough, that General Wayne was the commander of the post at Tappau at the time of Andre's execution. The original of the Cow Chase," iu Andre's autograph, is still preserved, and underneath tho above quoted lines an American pen has added the coarse commentary: When the epio strain was ung, The poet oy tho neck was hung..