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Show A SWISS "wedding. MANY VARIETIES SEEN BEYOND THE ALP8. Mr r rrif4 saeted i .,.,. Throahaal Iks TT1I Ueveraail Llltls BepaMIs The V.nn( Man W.t Take I-alas In H..... i&rrt22& HKUR Is nn other ,l7 &l Kuropen country Jf''srl ' '" wnlch """ ' yl- J! lu ni' es- ntrjfy J.III ntll variety o( vffft'fJic3 IHttU customs V$2. lnr U Inflwll- YWC 'I' ln "' """ try ran In thla respect re-spect be tt ill compared wlih Hwltser- - laid, escept vast China, tin uuinesi-tired uuinesi-tired and Immeasurable f niplre of Asls, Rwltserland ami Chins' What a eouple. In liirerne, Swltterlsnd. the aiar-flat aiar-flat customs arc ralhtr pretty May 'ay It a day ssrrrd to lovers, a day of ardent courtships. Upon ll dawn nd, Indeed, until Ita raldnlght--ths Icier who would ant only woo but win Hinat proclaim (Ik Intention of bla at-tsntlons at-tsntlons dlitlnctly and pay hit mistress mis-tress several prescribed courtesies. The moat Important o( these Is, perhaps, per-haps, (ha planting of thn courtship pint, or Msy tree At day h-plsnts before her father's door a wan pine tree heavy with fruit of tlnael and flowers of ribbon Tlila la cuneldered (ha moat marked attention n l.urerna lover ran offer to the maiden o( hla devotion. If hla ault la acceptable her parents Invariably reward him with lavish, entertainment And nothloi alia 10 prorea that a Swiss family la lifted Quite off lla feat and carried A DltlDE FHOM UNTIIUWALDEN. e helplessly down the (ream of mad motion aa when It plunges Into stint-leu stint-leu hoapltallty On the eve of a Lucerne marriage 1ke maiden friends of both bride and bridegroom gather together at hla kouie for a frank little featlval railed "the love-gurland lying" Kach maid an contrlbittea n basket or kerchief full of Kay flower, and each bind up ii nosegay or a coat bouquet, or both and, going home through the late moonlight or the gray ilawnbrrak, each girl hanga her flowera upou the doorknob of hw favorite yuuth'a dwelling, dwel-ling, or aa ofteu fllnga her fragrant ckallenge through the open window, Theae flowers the young man la sup-poied sup-poied to wear to the morrow'a wed' Hog. All Indian Rtitrtoik Holmes. The traveler Charlevoli, who dltd In 17C1, telle a atory of an Indian who rivaled "8herlock llolmee," One day a piece of meat wae alolen from hla wlgwnru, and he alerted In purault of the thief. Me had not proceeded far before he met wllh aome peraona, of whom ho Inquired whether they had aecn a Utile old white man with a abort gun, accompanied by n small dog with a abort tall, Aekrd how ho could thus minutely describe a man whom he had never acen, the Indian answered- "The thief I know la a little man by hit having made n pile of stones to aland upon In order to reach the venison; that he la an old man I know by hla Khort ateps, which I hae traced over the Iravea In the wood; and that be la a white man 1 know by his turning out his toea when be walka, which an Indian never does. Ilia gun I know to be ahort by the mark tho muizlo made In rubbing the bark off the tree on which It leaned, that hla dog la email I know by hla tracks, and that he baa a ahort (all I discovered by the mark It made In the duit where he was sitting sit-ting at the lime his master waa taking dawn the meat." Olil Meilal I'l.n.J Up. J Waterloo, Iowa, Jeweler has an In-terMtlng In-terMtlng relic. In the form of a medal cast In 1809 In commemoration of the uoriummatloii of a treaty nf peace between be-tween certain Indian tribes of the Ohio valley and the United Rutea, On one aide the medal bears a bas-relief portrait of Prealdent Madlaon and the words. "James Madison, presl-deat presl-deat of the United Stales, 1S09," On the obverse there are symbolical devices, de-vices, one being a pipe and tomahawk crossed, the pipe overlaying the weapon, weap-on, Indicative that peace la supremo aver war. A pair of claaped hands era ahown, the wrist of one band he-teg he-teg naked and the other showing the embroidered cuff of a soldier's coat sleeve. Thle particular medal wa plowed up In Nebraika, and wr,s about eight Inches underneath the surface of the ground Itjioftlhcr I |