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Show Til BY K F. M O. Ho fOKPISY. T. JAKKUM, JUunstr. 67, 'l..ll. I . III I - il il II. lo t cxpv. lilt 1 ! i 1 SEVIIM-.- JAM. to the left. LJ: :v wile on li.e.r wav down! life. ,Ie ii,e ild II e In had n er tin right nor liii. In pi t lie w ide stair, he raised on c.itl-ii w t liet'TI he nllld ill. have t si up What baron lie mills nt t lie aisle hen tel. thin, while hand above his lea a no his lever'.'' mg.-- i . lit an i hi- - w ild men at ai ins. i.is I, mu I n.)!, nil n the dark sleeve fell back and s!m the In miswvtcd !, tell!" "God can iii alone ami i ho at and ll.llll ; lent w.yis i rang (III II. ins lie'.'. the skinny, withered art- 1:; e Is bar'l XI 111., ii li il il Wife it J young fist sledge- all t l.e pancil ng physician piously. ' on was w itli im i he day previous to the elbow. a ' e: big a t In g.i i. iv rida lid U It il lie le 1.1 I stood frozen with terror to t h iohis illness and bade mega iy enough .'hort work they made of it! mg a Inji. I never saw ' I know not for how long when;, i ot a da his to a tello mad Slim I wedding. Herat he ine 'I lie ill ii In run s:Zd sphnter e II .is ii. ling si ill Ill !., t. i.. ' him looking wtter. lb was on. harsh sound smote upon my ear. It in: ii! In dr nli an inin- door, a tel w it h a wood and lit it at the altar ami then ' r i in out to' was followed by a shrill scream, ami In panels and t he l no and tie and rod tired ,iw .'I utr knew swiftly relict at uf sense last, that, n . j't 'it itn. Jll bis-dry wood wefi ad soon in a blare. St. Gilgen, lviniag up his sticd lornn old Klaus rushed from the rnoii. Oih lev sllli. mol's bud i til pi ill.t ill livt baron, as it picses-e'I lien tie ill Mir iijhuii d and belure me Tie by an instant, to throw money to an old and threw himself nt my feet. r.n ' n. It ill I. 1. ? "God hate mercy upon us." he i. e 'if in' Mood a w ii hii.'i.ed more like evil spirit, seized t lie bell rope and gypsy, wlio stood, lcr hand out-s- t persi,'.i n .ii. retelir 1. b thcroad. Alwayskind, al of triumph, shrieked, almost crazed with iriht, a liollvlieidit . or a in idsina a, of h rung out a loud the ghost bell? h a weil-- i Hill the abl ot walked up to him. added tin good doctor, "always noVon i to "in;; district, t lieu t in- servitor h. rr Uch a I le-- ' dressed in all his robes, and bolding ble! I have known hint thus as boy lilisiiineiit rdered est.i Again came the harsh sound la' O Mil. ilT Su i!i. von pi t he name cold eur-- e in And the him bell! man. bands and iron bis an smote of it ii earried I. .Inch's to Is1, usually I'iti lieM,1 clanging ' tip P.; n limn of science finished bis hand cruelly upon my shattered sen- -. a lamp i lus tiand and over it re- ol blessed trinity, and said: lib n; t ia ii tln !. i w ild. fitful, irregular I As tin evil one peals that bell across his eyes. t He l.ltlit i. I.t stated me Mispieimi'ly. and, God garded 1 t ook his other hand t in my own me! not as human hand I was, and desired him rim-- i now through your h mds. so shall lie to oul,i wiio l.t ii 'll. a:, ii. lo tiiis lie peal it w len he claims t he soul as it and pressed it warmly. Then went have rung it! dm t me to Ins master, m n !d Klaus 1 flew made no leplv. but shaking Ids ill- passes trom the body of you and of to the chamlsr below. n. niltHMh up the stairs Klausdos in ri .liai li of your son's sun, in crept after me. He seemed to cling hind me. and mi follow. me to motioned son, bead, your looking In it ft a lux f h' a in oil t Mi. t.l l.k to me for Hvni ui thy. I sat down by In a moment I was in the baron's We crossed thegreat hall and enter-- t s.eeula. sieculorum, Amen!" JjTiitt il. bis called the abbot the fire w it h a heavy heart.. I pon- chamber. The physician laid hiscoid "So n t where 'tin a imlier. ed smafleli, saying, l.llt my strung Ii.,1 l J, e llide delioslt ad ihe light and left llle monks and they weuttheir way down dered on the doctor's words. I found hand on mine I saw the truth Ml h "U tie rt"U4 "II id nil. 1. w il limit a w ord. to the Lake ol Aver. Hut tin; baron myself wondering why I had put the written in his face ii ''HI mi ri Ill sli.i The "A st range welcome." 1 muttered. and hisl dllowers t luew thcti.si lvesup- question to him. and then i recalled "It is all over,- l.e said, "lie si tin uiwi nihr 'tnii ,. nut li ml iliv. h. dead! a In idgmom tohis best man." on tin holy men and tore their frocks word for woid his answer. ill M. ":roin n n full o in li A sudden thought shot through iiinl then looked about me. troia their backs and threw their t llIH The then baron the lake. which atone hooks into in .rain. stood The room my in in a. In n.ihiii. in He had spoken of an old gypsy who was elegantly and most comlortal.lv sized tin monastery lands and held "ills. Qld Crocketts Ghost. There were eases filled them, too, for might was right in stood, with outstretched hand by the Tluoni;ii iii. tliru.idi lliesium "i 't rut- luriiisaed. wns a merry party of young It II si ears with books running along the walls those days, and In built the present roadside. lull e mi Milll until ii i' snnl - t iniwii who were laughing and chatfolks of I cu-- i inon-the ruins t scene me. castle hard the before rose Another racks Hie them above all and by is holding In si. in: nt ini tile, l.iiii, A lad with his firm palm ting on old Farmer Hrowns wide inns min! rious weapons, many guns, spears, astery, hst the abbot and his retaiu-- ! Nell Oll.ans Inniune. Ilnnie I.mie in and limit ing gear. An escritoire ot ers should rally and seek to regain held frankly out a w ithered, old face veranda, out soutliof Atlanta. Gay exquisite workmanship stood near their old possessions. Hut they bent over it and I seemed to hear the exchanges of wit and many a good lire did not. for the abbot was not quavering voiccnmtt. ringthe prophthe tin place, hut no story went the rounds. Tin: liHOST DI.AM'iIIL While the merriment was at it in the country, and the ecy hulf-Young Herr, take heed to your glowed on tin health, a buni"d logs lay e,dd on the iron baron was to powerful to be lightly wedding day! The way to God's height, away across the shadowfields near a dense skirt of woods aje T IS now many dogs, uni again the strange feeling 'meddled with, so the monks built altar liesthrough Gods acre! when pea ret a strange, tit fill light, ft I asked sharply, of gloom and nervousness settled themselves a new monastery, where "Klaus, the church of St. Wolfgang now was your master to have been mar- moved oler the tops of the dark years sim-upon me. st amis. some of other ried?'' for Friederich had mentioned trees, disappearing and returning was quartered Suddenly I looked and soon it had the attenYc will talk Time passed on, ami t lie baron no day in his letter cheer- from the up pivseiiee, ! v rogi-with if that abbot over everything when you come, he tion of the entire party. less hearth. An old serving man had forgotten v liieiit m lenna. I don't suppose, said oid man doorway. Honing re or monk had ever dwelt within the wrote. A m oug'- -t walls. blackened old Hiu Herr! Brown, lie Mien entered room and the you folks have ever seen Ach, monastery spectfully, One cold winter's night the baron I seemed to turn cold all over. To the stone" near whar you see that a cqimitiLiiiiceH solved tin. mystery of my strange think of other things I questioned light, that marks the spot wl.ar which I formed reception. On the very day his mas- sat with his retainers in the great laid written me, ho was prostat-edwit- hall drinking and revelling, as was Klaus concerning the Iloscchen, Croekett was murdered in 48? ter t li e re was a Well, it's mighty nigh covered up a serious illness and he their wont. Tho wind howled in whose cup of happiness w as soon to I learned in the leaves now, but its thar just now in the eighth day, struggling gusts fitfully, and in the pauses u bo dashed from Iter lips. y o ling nobleman who was with the delirium ot lever. The doc- loud knocking was heard at the oaken that she was lovely and amiable and ns it was the day we set it up nttci-henwas killed. You all dont beliew deeply enamored of her handsome in tin Imperial tors ot St. Gilgen cieehiredthecnseto door, the very door at whichyoti ex citing, Herr Hauptmann. Lie hopeless. Out were in almost contered tiiis illness had been kept from in ghosts either, do you? Well, Ft e His lover. GuiU'd. the Huron Von Sle'.iigrall, stant attendance. One had just left The Thurlmter when he opened the Iter as long as possible, and though seen that so much" said lie (pointlb; was the sole descendant of an an- the young baron and had said lie door saw no oue, though the moon she knew her marriage must lie post- ing to the flickering light), till Fm cient Styriiin family that had lived would return, as the crisis would oc- was at that momPiitshiningthrough poned, she dreamed, as yet, ol no used to it, though it does kinter he a make my lmir rise to hear it. old lelt t hat very lint of clouds: iift the a cur change. night. for ei at uries iiuieastleiienr Salzburg. Alas! said Klaus, .should my Crocket was a good friend of mine in need not say how thisintelligence cold blast sweep across his face. So fellow could not be A a fleeted me. I determined, of course, ho shut the door again and thought lord not recover, I tear it will go the long days gone, before you fa found in his imperial majesty's do- to await the issue and asked to be it must have been the storm that hard with the sweet young lady, young folks were thought, of, and oi ti for she loves him better than life. manys the time lie sot ou the Sana minions, nor a better soldier in his shown to Friedrich's chamber. In a laid deceived him. to ft The next moment those in the Who knows that there may he two porch and talked with me as you arc stood by the bedside Ei army, than Friedrich. Frank and of w moments friend talkin. 1 went down tlmr to follow and looked down ball saw a monk in it black habit, burials rather than one bridal! dearest t gav as a companion, he was a favor-i- on my ho The way to God's altar lies that light one dark night, and tin shattered being, with with his cowl drawn over his head, a e with his own sex, and a good fu- flushedpoor, a cii pale shiverin' thing would come toface, burning lip nmlgluzod enter and walk up without a word through God's acre! nt Would the words ever cease ring- ward me a bit and stand still ture, to say nothing of a good prop- eye, tossing and raving, whose hand to where the baron was sitting. fm a 1 would and tremble; then it shook myself dodge erty, madehim not unacceptable with wits unconscious of my loving pres- Then the monk drew bark his hood, ing in my ears? t iently. A coincidence a sad coin- hack and away up it would go and from my and tin old withered lace, ghastly olJ mammas and young daughters-Friedrich- sure, whose ear turned I but stern and fierce, gazed un- cidence that was all! And my grief dance among the tops of the big oak words of affection. 1 sat beside him fri however, seemed to lie no for hours. From time to time I pale lie t I witli in I on trees. baron. daunted hud surely unsettled my mind. my sight, out kept it shouted picked up a hook from one of tho mind made up to see what it was, inn rrying man though lie had nothing could distinguish words, through his Tnusend snkernient! j misogy uistic in his nat lire. When our mutterings, which told how the be- the baron, starting in a rage; dog shelves and tried to read. The words conte what might. So, after crossin opt me. here? of an and recrossin what the took with it wrestled horrible swam upon the page. Not a sound abbot, brings you road, friendship had grow n into close in- wildered spirit Witli appalling incongru- Trundle out the shneling, and set was to he heard save the ticking of down to the stone we set up for my I him on phantoms. to banter happened timacy the great clock in the hall. 1 laid murdered friend, and settling on the ity lie mingled the scenes of the the hounds upon him.his th.' subject of matrimony, but Fried- bridal The abbot raised chamber anil the charnel skinny arm, down the book and sighed. Just then top of it blazed and burned till the rich assured me gravely that he had vault, now calling on his bride to and said in a hollow and solemn the dock tolled the midnight hour. woods around were as light as day. lies about her, voice: This night 20 years you and The deep bell struck 12 times loud and suddenly a shriek ran through resolved uever to marry. wrap her grave-clo- t J the sexton pledge him a I met. I r.m on my wuy to the ab- and clear, and mechanically I count- tho woods and 1 stood alone in Not, said he. that I have any now bidding f rkness. me. Tow all wine. this as Terrible ed every stroke. skull of bey, disinclination to the matrimonial was lo hear and Now watch it, its headin' for the The abbot retired its lie came, no painful to see. I deMidnight! A sudden thought the state, but Fate, cruel and inexorable termined to watch through thenight, one daring to hinder or burnt the crisis! rock; listen close did you hear tlmt?" and the faithiul old butler begged to holy man. Then my poor Frederick might, and as the old man ceased speaking has forbidden mo to enter it. reniaitt also, Indeed, 1 felt: so nerLum henker! to the hangman even now he passing the portal ot a faint echo came across the orchI stared at him in silent surprise ard and ficldsand the light went out. vous and distressed that I was glad witli hint. cried the baron, choking eternity! After a moment lie told me how, ot Atlanta (On.) Journal. I was about to speak to Klaus when bis company. The doctor was to with rage, and springing after him. when a child, he had met a return at midnight. Whep it wanted That moment the old bell peeled out I discovered that lie slept exhausted C or gipsy woman, from hut two hours oft hat time, Friedrich with a wild clang front the tower, on the hearth. Only A Question of Coal. God forbid, I cried aloud in my as he crossed a wood nenr who had gradually censed hisraving, the baron in bis baste tripped over felt a stool and fell to the ground. AYhen fear. I am pleased to see an improw-men- t thoSchloss. She had stopped him fell into a lethargic stupor. bedside and went to sit by the they lifted hint up lie was dead the in the transcontinental service,' l'oor, faithful soul! thought I. looked into his hand and said fire. Old Klaus threw on a fresh log Twns said lie died of a fit. Maybe llest there a while you may awake said a gentleman who was a passen"Young llerr when you go to and filled a glass with Hungarian so. Hut that very night one of the to deepest grief! For 1 realized that Boi on the Centennial train front Nen now holzknochts returning to the vil- he, like mys?lf like Iloeschen must ger marry a ife. take heed. Tho way wine trom a finsk on the table. Syr and to God's altar lies through Gods ticed that the old fellow's hand lage from the Iliesen upon the lose, witli Fredcrich, that which he Y'ork to San Francisco to a repeesent-tativtrembled and his eyes were full of hills where lie has been work- best loved on earth. of the New York World. T!i acre! gen few I comwords of So I rose noiselessly, and passed YYorlds spoke a ing, declared that as he passed the .Liv that tears. lie "Well!" cried I, laughing, corespondent says that tin J sobbed uloud: tower lie heard the old bell pealing, sadly and alone into the great stone tern was a safe prophecy. A man cannot fort at) in reciever Francisco merchants San Alas! Herr Hauptmann, my and saw a procession of monks fol- hall.' well get to the church door unless ho ada mailed in New on letters and I Tuesday a me A mind of cold tear, bier, air breath lowing dissappearing misgives sadly! every swept my walks through the church yard. cons The within Yorlc next whirl, the ruins. on moment ot that shall hear the dismal end the came from the cheek. morning It Thursday night, Tlmt Friedrich shook his head. only ! tidings cairn tlmt the old abbot had hall down there, toward the outer brings the Facificand Atlantic const said he, but ringing of the ghost was not her meaning, dtice I shivered. List died lieforeatSt. t the I title At wns and Wolfgangs doors. through shall uncanny whom day she pierced rathe! that I, or one day nearer. But Undo Sniv cepti Hut wlmt may that be? 1 asked but where or when he was buried no- through with itschill touch, t'ertain-- I wish to make my bride must dieontlie must hustle it lie intends to beat tb its a . vor knew. he v , the outer doors must body open. bridal day. Therefore, dear Iriend I anxiously. effeci Old F laus ceased and sat looking Could Klaus, in lilts anxiety, have for- record. Tlielighteningtrain in 1ST'', Ach! What an old tool I am. I You me think may slmllnevertnarry. hea.lt in the tire. sometimes but forgive it! gotten to dose them after the doc- started from descry City at 1:0. a unperstitiious and a tool, nit there forget Klaus, its n do A said "what I the I, st range wild tale! I said light- tor's entrance? nt. Thursday, June 1, and the rui. "Hut, peered through have been stranger things known to men.: arches toward ing time of the train was S3 hour Heshivered and turned you mean? our fn mil v! ly, unwilling to confess myself moved vista of the n Klaus boat toward me, his old face by the story. Has that ghost bell the entrance anil moved a few steps 47 minutes, and IS seconds, cornu pale, but just as I would have ques"Tito bell that ever been heard since that time? in that direction. As I did so, I was ing the passage of the ferry steam, 8: tioned him, belaid his hand on my drawn with fear. Old Klaus shuddered, Ay, sir, he sure I heard a muffled knocking at across the bay of San Francisco Iron and j And now, rings out the life of every Yon shoulder and added, said he, with suppressed answered gloomily, I listened intently Oakland to the Golden Gate. whenever the the portal. gists, Hauptmann, let us never speak of emotion. We arrived at the Palace hold soul passes from the body of it Yon and after a moment the sound this again!" may I an I both startled Steingraff, but I ant not willing to was repeated and followed almost time for breakfast on Sunday, A year passed by and I was far suppose looked cure mid the old servant, believe that the evil one dare claim immediately by the slippingofubolt. carried to the San Francisco new wishe, away in the north of Germany, when and interested, Still I saw no one, and I concluded papers full files of the New York p, I got a letter from Yon tsteingrafT. glad of sympathy and attention, the tspirit of my dear, young, mastersi any in -one voice. a hushed continued Mayso good and noble as he! the sounds must come front some pers of Thursday. In those days it announced his coming mnrriago CALL and again the old servant, fell to other part of the Scldoss. I was took the entire week to make tf with a younglady ol liisown country. hap you observed the monaster what it near the castle, sir. as you came up weeping. about to turn and desist from journey from the Atlantic, to ti My destiny. ho wrote, LOUIS drive?' when I again felt that Pacific, so that our train reduced t! Hush, Klaus, jest you disturb may he, I must work out. 1 could the 1 said Now the California: not resist my passion for my little hastily, although n icy blast sweep my face and throat. time Ay. Klaus, and a tine, old ruin it him, still standing! lloeselieit. So come to me as soon is. with its Thoroughly startled, I strained my are rejoicing at reciovimr theirletli , glance at my poor Frederi. h A ruin now, sir, but it was once a assured me that few sounds eyes to see more dearly before me, inside of 12S hours. To my mi: you can, and who knows but your! happier interpretation of the gipsys grand and holy dace witli its lord would disturb him more. Then 1 they became gradually accustomed there is no difficulty in reducing pa and I perceived senger and mail travel to 120 hour abbot, and monks, and broad, rich paced the room and tint, into the hall to the prophecy may be the true one'. I laughed heartily as closed the lands. Well, sir, a long time ago I and down the stairs, for I heard the the massive doors swing inward on It is only a question of coal, and letter. The old story! Woman's do not know how many a hundred sound of horses nt the gates and I their great iron hinges, to admit a hope to see railroads rise to tb I let tall, dark figure in cloak and hood. opportunity and show their progrr tongue had over come man's resolve years the Ha roil SteingralT of that knew the physician had route. A priest? 1 thought instnntly; by carrying passengers 3.300 mil' tt pretty lioesclieii had whipped the day who lived then in the Scldoss him go up alone, while I sat for few moments in the chamber I had then the thought was succeeded by in 100 hours, which theyenndowii withered gipsy from t lie field! And higher up in the hills nhove the Friederich is not a Cathol- out risk at much increased had a quarrel with thoahbot, been s,iown to on my arrival. I another. so saving, 1 parked for my journey centennial trip was a Hernand the morrow found tne en route. The haron was a tierce and haughty could not take my mind from the ic! Who has summoned him? The Ami then again: dons one, and few ordinary (raven At tin close of a lovely nuuimn day man that cared lit tic for clam h and story ot the ghost bell. Iain not doctor perhaps! Who has admitted him? I, myself, will care to take it, but therontiii' ' CASTE I drove along the road between priest, and the abbotwasasharghty naturally credulous, but the shock had received after the weariness ot had seen this dark figure pass can easily be tarversed inside of t Small Pi and St. Gilgen when it skirts in his way, so the tiled grew deadlier the picturesque little lake ol Mond-seevery day. At last the abbot swore my journey ot several days, had, I through doors bolted and barred! days nnd nights, and the time on t Iu holy relics of St. Wol gang suppose, told upon my mrves. I I heard his muffled so snugly embosomed in precipiknocking! rapidly approaching when it will 3vt I saw him, now, ho'ore me and vet uu ordinary event, tous hillsclotlied withpiiieand larch. that he would excommunicate t hebar-on- . stub up, once more, totiiesick-room- . 'P And a ron swore by the cross Tim physician sat nt the foot of tho of a certainty I knew that none h.d Not far from this stood tin srldoss of ill v friend, built close to the ruins on his sword hilt that lit would tear bed. Frt dericli seemed to he sleep- bade him enter nor had any hand A penny famine is now of a suppressed monastery and slielt- - t In trerk of! the abbot's hack and ing quietly. 1 hoped this might he a unclosed the gates to give him ered by the dark forest on whose tree drive him and his monks out of good sign, but, to my inquiry, the tho large cities ol the threatens The abbot was old physician shook l.is head sadly: Smitten with a nameless fear I tops theevening sun glinted warmiy. tin monastery, The people 1 'Tis the sleep that will wake only stood, or leaned, against one o the and Southwest. Thither I worked my wax hut slow v as good as h s word, and so, SF.1ITI use the An stone pillars for support. The dark learned to the i.Iessed in dent h, he answered sadly. for tin approach was steep and on the feast cf Acton tliPi, circuitous and by the time I reached St. Wolfgang, he and his monks hour will decide, but be prepared for figure now moved toward me down cent coin, and the needs of cin cure bil.oui 1 an malaria can give you but little the hall. Nearer nenreritcame and tion have increased far beyond the entrance and stood the heavy walkcdin procession through thegreat the worst We are .. I saw that I was right it wns the arches of the doorway, the sun had church up to the high altar and the hope. machir of the aapeclallv . government power d ery am ail hook was opened and the anathemas setand thegreat, stonemassol hu Impelled by I knew not whut,I figure o'apriest. As he passed close to supply them. The Philad.l Jze per and then the hell was tolled and denlv asked: beside me, his cowl fell back and re- mint is two months behind with A panel lying in gloom. This gave me u strange, unpleasant feeling, the lighted candlesextinguislied, and "Doctor, what could have caused vealed an old. wrinkled, ashy face in oiders for these pieces, in spit1' Xbove pictuZc receipt of which increased ns stood knocking thus the harott wasexcoinmnnicated. this sudden illness? My friend has which were set two gleaming eyes An. II feat keeping at work night and day bell Well! all The his was most health He had the nt lookisi not to iue them out. the heavy open for many minutes J. F. SM black nnd evil. perfect tolling and ,!l tt W.i- - 1. THE HOME SENTINEL rrnu w it A li.l sen-- il t il 111 ie.--ls hi-- n'-- i T. V I - I I , 1 1 I g-- ;i-- V. sl . II I -1 v j The steward of a New York clubtias Invented a new sandwich. It is feared that it is an infringement on the Good- HI I i I i i ! I . M '1 !. a v ' Vi i t i k ! ,1 M Is nearlvallthe European countries the government has either an entire monopoly of the tobacco business or else raise large sums by way of excess and customs duties. . 1 d , I Mil . 1. 1 j ! ! i , t j V The influence of it good caricature, whether for good or evil, h only fully appreciated by those who have been its xielims. They only are familiar with V ! i I I t 51, i I i lor-giv- HI t W its -- i Ui 1 : -' . i l.ra.-tw- i . f l . VI dairyman for many years gives it as his conclusion that a well-fecow that docs not earn her entire value in a single year is not worth keeping in the dairy. A V e ; I i its corroding bitterness. L II U til- I ii 111 I - i d i j i v i , l I 1 I 1 I Tukkk has been so much smuggling into New York of late by vessels coming through llell Gate and along the sound that Unde Sam is going to patrol tr,e sound with two revenue cutters, llell Gate has long needed a patrol. j I i i fair-haire- d I eir-erfu- j diseovered an extension ot a lake, a range of mountains, an a!- most impe.net raldo forest, numerous tribes of hostile Africans, and tons of elejibant tusks in the heart of the dark continentThe tusks are valuable. hor-.t-fiac- I 1 m .N a year patents. Sr.u:v . i j l l ' iris probable that all other causes Jitit together are not so prolific of divorce among the class in which it commonly takes plaeo, as the fact that its women aro brought up on novels of a low grade us their habitual and almost only reading. over-love- d - 1 1 eon.-eioi- is well-nig- . h j ti e Ir would seem impossible for any candid miml to discover in a servico oC live years in our army, sullieient cause for tho discontent that would account for the numerous desertions constantly taking place, and, in truth, it docs not lie with tho army, but rather with tho men. FourusK hunting is not coiiiineil to tho undo branch of humanity. It is equally a failure with the genller sex. And it must ho confessed, if tho observer of tho drift of society is to record tho truth, that women carry fortune and title limiting to a greater o.xtremo than their brethren. Klsma, although in many respects a nation, is making steady progross la civilization. The unnouneo-liieis made that tho infliction of corporal punishment on peasants is to bo It abolished in tho Ifultie provinces. has boeti tho custom to employ the lash for petty offenses or as a means of extracting rent or taxes. serui-burbaro- nt Ir is undeniable that, outside of a certain limited class of scholarly anil thoughtful people, tho great majority of all who read anything except tho newspapers, read books of this description. The statistics of popular and circulating libraries show that seventy-fiv- e per cent, of all tho books taken out are novels uf recent production. 1 finer-hearte- d I 1 XU im-p- H , 1 la-d- a V Ziegeu-nerin- n, 1 ? The popular but highly erroneous notion that nut trees are very difficult to transplant has been tho bugboar that has kept b ick many from planting nuts. Nut trees may bo transplanted as safely and as readily as anyxothor tree with ordinary earo but it is better to grow your own trees in tho nursery than to transplant wild trees from the woods. 1 1 dead-hell- The Chinamen ill Now York ura threatening to depart utterly out of tne groat Eabol and to form a new community just on tho outskirts, because their landlords in Mott street are raising their rents. They are quite capaolo of carrying out their threat and establishing a town of several heathen Gltineo thousand persons, iu everything. 1 1 dimly-lighte- d Sfein-graf- f, i: i Amekhwns are far behind tho Europeans in tho matter of selection, planting and earing for street trees in our large cities ami rural districts. Greater interest has been taken in this fork, howevor, during the past few years, and there is evory hopeful sign that our roadsides will in timn be as beautiful as some of the famous streets and avenues of tho older countries o Eurojio. The time was wh n every cultivate ,1 man needed to havo tho gift of learning. Tho Egyptian of the hieroglyphic era who could not trues on papyrus or tho walls of a tomb, the picture 1 story of his raeo was as clearly illiterate ns cannot read. is tho mnn who Yet this art, as a matter of daily use. Is ns clearly among funs lost, ns is tliatof swathing mummies ami them for all times. y pro-servi- There lias been a great deal of mystery thrown around the culture of the filbert mid ouo has been led to believe that much skill and knovvledged is required in tho matter of training and pruning tho bush to attain any degree of fruitfulness. It is true that tho successful cultivation of this nut does largely depend upon its pruning and training but it is certainly not beyond the skill of any ordinary gardener or indeed of anyone who has intelligence enough to properly prune and train grape vioa j one-lml- f. ' well-nig- h bell-tow- semi-darknes- J 1 , ! ' , Kro-teiise- e r . 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