MATHEW KEARNEY'S 'STUDY' Had Mathew Kearney but read the second sheet of his correspondent's letter, it is more than likely that Dick had not taken such a gloomy view of his condition.

Mr.McKeown's epistle continued in this fashion: 'That ought to do for him, Mathew, or my name ain't Tom McKeown.

It is not that he is any worse or better than other young fellows of his own stamp, but he has the greatest scamp in Christendom for his daily associate.

Atlee is deep in all the mischief that goes on in the National press.

I believe he is a head-centre of the Fenians, and I know he has a correspondence with the French socialists, and that Rights-of-labour-knot of vagabonds who meet at Geneva.