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Show THE NATION'S uiinAnr. l.m.lkl.fi'Sle llTho.l Th.a-MM4t Th.a-MM4t ft tlm.lt. til v.rjr Kln.l. Our intloruil library li n )mgo trlplo MKjni In tho wwt fnintof thaCapllul bulMing, and lintils mure lluui COO.tWO vulilinrs In Its r-ipwluus slirlvi. Itnnglnu nil Imiucuw! chnuW, along each .ldo of which run law nlroM'a of Imnwnrk. Within tliee alcoic, which ore hrga rnousll to ronlftln twu mw hie, aru four wall, of lk. Atwte throe small clminbrrs am Iron gnlterir one ri-Ji.g above tho other until tho root U rrachnt And each uno Is load ed dua-u ultli UiousanJs Uiuu thousands thou-sands of volumes. IlrcryavallAblaspacoISMrtupIrd by dn.ty tollle t In this seeming ooiju slon there Is admirable ordrr. The Jai-alloiipt oioryliuoB. U Ke p(, ruul a vldtur willing fur a rertAlu niiuipr Is k t M idling wily few moments. Children iliidrr sixteen are not allowed al-lowed In the library, yet part ' It ' dovolM soldy tu rhlldien's Ulcratiire arul fairy tnlr. Many aia tho quaint and curious books pntKrrM on Uieso shell cs. One ii see tho Illblc. uf all nations the Ztiid-AlrstAanJ tho Kliornu .Ida by side with Uio Uit Uxikuf tho llunnons and the Scriptures of tho Clirlstlalia. Then Uiere aro volnmes In the quaint ol I I'ju.llslitjlie.txxiLa publWie.1 three or fiHir htindrrd years ngui "Pilgrim's I'rngrrss ' In Cbllieso, hugu dictionaries, an old lllhlo prlntnl 111 the Hllteentll century, an 1 the llnt iicwMIcr tliat ccr api-eanHl. The bin,it look In eilitcueu Is In this library, n liugo uhiiue nrly two vanishing and containing life stmeol-nml stmeol-nml lllutratloiis of IJtiUnf nil natluns. TlilliooklscalM"TlieAuilulioiillK,k on 1llrd,nand Is worth a fabulous stun. Auditboii, rememtjer, Is Uiu man for whom Is named thu sochly for thu prevention pre-vention ot crurly to birds. Its aim Is tu do away with the useless slaughter ot birds for millinery purjtoscs. Many aro the cranks lli.it lilt this great library. Boiud como day after day to s an h out sumo (sit hubby, and nsur weary of thrlr unless efforts. Ono old lady Is said to Itauut tho placo and seareli .ultimo after volttma to dls-coier dls-coier siiii thing alxiut herself whkli she Imagines to have U-en wrlttt n. Hhe declarvs her Intention of destroying tho l-age as snon as fouu 1, Another crank Is rending all the lllbles and from Hunt compiling ono of his own. Ho utll prolsddy rutl (u the lunatlo asylum or tho tMiorhousc. Hypnotism Is n suhjivt that tsmuih Investigated, and ikitmUtry enmre neit, Tlierolstiu stibjeit un which snmo Usik cmitnt.t be fuund. Science, art, medicine, law, literature, wctry, ro-Hglimru ro-Hglimru ry thing ktiuti n to Die human lulnd that luis Lccu written uikhi by tho bunion i-tii con heru boluul 'l'hll-tulilphlal'iiiies. |