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Show SOUGHT AND FOUND THEM NOT. Few, Indeed, There Seem to Be Who Really Love Nature. Ono came from another world. He went down Fleet street nnd saw the weary, witless men who wrote dally of Nature and hei beauties. He went to1 a theater and henrd thoso who sang of her charm. Ho went Into tho country, coun-try, and heard peasants grumb'lng of their lot nnd sighing for the town. Ho watched "sportsmen," who rent the , magnificent silences with the hnrsli crack of rllles, and destrocd wantonly wanton-ly tho blithest birds and beastB. Then .ho met a philosopher. "I have seen those who live with Nature, thoBe who ravish her splendors, splen-dors, thoso who write and sing of her. Now, where nro thoso who lovo her?" And, llko all men with n rcputntlon. tho philosopher was silent. Westmln stor Gazette. |