Labor Strikes Illustrated

Sir'Jonh Biirrinifton, in his nruusing sketches of Irish lifr, pietrires two laborera strollins along the banks of a stroam in haying-time, with thcir preat scytbea Bwinging oarel'Wly over their shouidors. HuMtinly onn of thena npirn i magDifi fish jut N-fore them, with his Lead ro iïraped in the rank vesretation whioh brrderd the bank as to bo unconscious that the rest of his body wn pxjosed. '-F:iith, nu' I'U have thnt feller," s;iys PatHok, who. stealintr along to i convenient position - hi? compiitiion kerpingstpp just beiind - lifts his long scythe snath (still with tl:e st'%ol over his ghouMer) until. vhon ho hs8 tVen just tho th( most akill'nl itim in tho world, he brings itsuddeny down with a trrodigioua protl. It is a trike that is bad fir the fish. It prove o be worsr for the striker. His companon is chockrd, almost. into 8'idden fuintng, by seeing Pat's hoad tumble into the tream, accompanied by one of his own pars, - both neatly sliced off in the decendinp; blow of tho (forjrotton) Wade. We sometime8 thing of poor Pat's strikp, vhcn we read of thote of his compatriota ïere. Xo truc pain comes to the workm:in, while be incrcly ebaBget tlie pliee, and krop the pain. Ho muy pot twenty lor rent. ndvanco to his Wiges by a strike o-diiy. How does this advantape him, if ie have, in consequence, to-iuorrow to jay for house-renf , nnd provisión, and clothing, an advanco of porhaps even twenty-five per cent., which hns been cauRod by his action, and that of othors, combining to make houses with every ariele which enters into the daily neces sities of ordinary households, cost that