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Show Ud. and sword impended from the saddle. To make a long story short, the visitors speedily recognized the knight. Ha was s poor, distrsught gentleman of the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, who beliered himself a knight, snd used this method of immersing himself in the ussges of and life of the days gone by. Whst his precise plans were have not he not been tsken csr. of by his friends snd conveyed to sn institute foci the men-telly men-telly Infirm he would hsrs stsrted out ss s second Don Quixote to redress the grievances griev-ances of the countryside. Sew -York World. A NEW DON QUIXOTE. The esitle of Hohentalntein, on one of the tributaries -of the Rhine, hue enjoyed the reputation of harboring a ghost for more then 300 years. - The' villagers lately were horrified to notice no-tice a light shining from one of the window win-dow holes. They could make nothing of it, and aa night after night passed and the lighted window was visible, and alwaya at the same time, an unspeakable terror seised them. They decided to do nothing until the priest returned from a visit he was paying to Cobleni. The priest arrived and was told about the mysterious light in the window. There waa do doubt about -it. He aaw it himself and at once determined on action. Being prudent, he thought he would get assistance. In a neighboring village there was Lutheran pastor, whose aid ha requested. re-quested. The two clergymen enlisted three or four stout youths, and together they planned a visit to the castle, the priest armed with holy water and a crucifix, the pastor with a Bible. Without noise, but with beating hearts, they reached the castle, snd the priett, being be-ing the bravest of the party scrambled up to the window snd looked in. A lamp burned en the wall, snd on a chair in the middle of the ruinous apace sat a inan in full chain armor poring over a book. Beside him was a horse fully panoplied pan-oplied in the style of the middle ages, with |