ISON.

BY RICHARD LOVELACE.

When Love with unconfined wings
Hovers within my gates,
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at my grates;
When I lie tangled in her hair
And fettered to her eye,
The birds that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty.

When flowing cups run swiftly round
With no allaying Thames,
Our careless heads with roses bound,
Our hearts with loyal flames;
When thirsty grief in wine we steep.
When healths and draughts go free--
Fishes, that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.

When like committed linnets I
With shriller throat shall sing
The sweetness, mercy, majesty,
And glories of my king;
When I shall voice aloud how good
He is, how great should be,
Enlarged winds, that curl the flood,
Know no such liberty.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free;
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

Speech on Duluth.

BY JAMES PROCTOR KNOTT.

James Proctor Knott was born in Kentucky on August 29, 1830.
He went to Missouri in 1850 and there began the practise of
law. In 1858 he was elected to the Missouri Legislature and
subsequently he became attorney-general. He returned to
Kentucky in 1862 and was elected to Congress from that State
in 1866. It was while in Congress that Mr. Knott attained
national fame as a humorist. As a satirist he had no equal
among his fellow members, and he was responsible for several
bills being "laughed out of the House."

Mr. Knott's most famous speech was delivered in the House of
Representatives, January 27, 1871, on the joint resolution
extending the time to construct a railroad from the St.
Croix River to the west end of Lake Superior. At that time
Duluth was a small and almost unknown village. Knott's
grandiloquent forecast of its future, intended as a satire,
has since been in great part verified by the city's
wonderful development. It now has a population of more than
fifty-five thousand persons, and as one of the principal
shipping points of the great Northwestern grain-fields it is
world-famous.

Of this speech, which has long been regarded as a model of
its