CREEPING UP THE STAIRS, In the softly falling twilight Of a weary, weary day, With a quiet step 1 entered W here the children were at play; I was brooding o'er some Srounle Which had met me unawares, ittle voles came ringing, i +h wich melodies awakened, no wording can define, raed to see our da riing, | forgetful of my cares, [ saw the little creature ow!y creeping up the stairs. £ ¢ step she bravely clambered little hands and Knees, up a constant chattering, magpie in the trees ; t she reached the topmost er all her world’s atiairs ihe d stood a victor reeping up the stairs. heart, behold an image s brief and struggling life, «st prizes must ba captured noble, earnest strife; {, upward, reaching over, ling to the weight of cares, +. fearing, still expecting, ing up the StaiLrs, may be no carpet, ides may be no rail; knees may often pain us, rt may almost fail, here is the glory, y sinfulness impairs, st and joy forever, eping up the stairs, IN A FLASH. T first remember my Aunt Barbara. she was over forty years of age; | could never have been accounted a handsome woman. She was a very tall and a very angular, with | a long, remarkable | featur commandin she proportions. the kindest hearts in the | looks seemed a matter of trfliing moment to those | who had the privilege of knowing her | well. It was at my request that, some two or three years before her death, she wi ce out the following narrative of an actual occurrence in her early life. I put away the manuscript at the time, and did not come across it again till the lav. On looking 1t over ance ¢ ssemed to me not unworthy of nseribed for a wider circle of n that comprised by the wri- me of ul being reader ter's immediate friends and acquaint- ances Youa (begins u go back in to iy aunt) to what seems to me now like a period of remote antiquity, when I. Barbara Waldron, was twenty- four vears of age, and my sister Bessie five years younger, and endeavor to put down in writing the little story 1 told you by word of mouth a few days ago. You must know, then, that in those far-off days my sister and I were keep- ing house for our brother John, who at that time filled the position of steward and land-agent to Lord Dorri The house we lived in was a pleasant but somewhat lonely residence, about half a mile from the little country town l.eavensfield. The house suited us for several reasons. In the first place, was low; next, a large gar was attached Jessie and 1 sj and in the third place, th to Dorrington Par my brother yuld take a hall whenever he had bi with his lordship, his lords with him. Our | i was a small one, and besides our- selves comprised only Mary middie aged woman; and niece, a girl of mix John's horse and gig were looked after bya yo he pame of Reuben Gates, who did not, however, sleep on the premises, An important part of John's duties was to receive and pay into the Levensfield bank the rents due from farmers and other tenants of property held under Lord Dorrington. One such tenant | was a certain Mr. Shllito, a corn and seed merchant, who was noted for his eccentricities, It was only in keeping with Mr. Shillito’s aggravating way of doing business that he should never pay his rent at the time other people paid theirs: that he should always payitin gold and notes, instead of giving a| check for the amonnt, as he was quite in a position to have done, and that he should make a point of bringing it him- self. instead of naming the time whefi my brother might have called upon him; and finally, that he seldom arrived h the money till after bank- SK ne memory “ord ngion. | <r y ¥ i 2 the 1 he it, In y happy Gen man ays $ wii an # t entrance hrather ut to the i hip 10USe- ees or 1840 i8iness 1014 (rxibbs, a ir ~ ung man byt i ¥ Lee, ing Dours, We come now to a certain autumn evening. Kitty had just brought in the tea-tray. It was growing dusk, almost too dusk, to see clearly without | the lamp, but Bessie and I liked to economize the daylight as much as pos. sible, especially now that the long win- ter nights were so close upon us, John had come infor a cup of tea. This evening he was going to drive over to Nethercroft, some ten miles away, dine | there with some friends, and stay all night. After dinner there was to bea | dance; and I was not without my sus- picions as to the nature of the attrac. tion which was taking him so far from | home, although he laughingiy pooh- poohed the soft impeachment when I challenged him with it. John was in the act of putting down his cup and | saticer when he heard a noise of wheels outside, which presently came to a stand opposite the house. He crossed | the room and peered through the win- | dow. i “It's old Shillito, come to pay his | rent,” he remarked a moment later. | “Two hours after banking-time, as usual. What a nuisance he is!” He went down stairs, and about ten min- | utes later we heard Mr, Shillito’s trap | start off. Ninety pounds all in od | and notes,” he said. **I’ve had to lock | it up mw my desk till morning.’’ i 1 may here remark that iron safes for the custody of money and other valua- bles were by no means so common in those days, especially in out-of-the-way country places, as they appear to have since become, “But the money will be quite safe in your desk, won’t it, John?” asked . Bessie, **Safe enough without a doubt, seeing that no one but ourselves knows of its presence there, Only, as a matter of business, should prefer to have it in the coffers or the bank» Presently he added: “The old fellow was half seas | over, as he generally is; and I have no doubt. with so many houses of call by the way. that he will be soaked through and through before he reaches home. I wonder whether he goes to bed sober a night in nis life?" A few minutes later John kissed us and bade us good-night. Bessie and I went to the window to see him start but by this time it was nearly dark. He waved his whip at us as soon as he had settled himself in his seat, then he gave the reins a little shake. Black Beryl’s heels struck fire from the stones | as she sprang forward, the gravel secrunched beneath the wheels, and a | moment later the shadows of evening had swallowed up horse and gig and driver. My sister and I pulled down the blinds and drew the curtains and rang for Kitty to bring in the lamp. The evening passed after our usual quiet fashion. We worked a little and read a little and played some half—doz- | en duets, and chatted between times, | till the clock pointed to half-past 10, | at which hour we generally retired for | the night. My last duty every evening ! was to go the round of the house and i rel. When this duty had been duly to-night, the drawing tinguished, and then took our bed-candles and stairs, leaving darkness behind us. Mary Gibbs | and I up and solitude My sister’s room and mine adjoined | tion between, which generally stood partly open at night for the sake of The windows of both rooms looked into the garden, which ran in a wide strip along that side of the house, and was shut in by a wall | some seven or eight feet high, beyond which there were three or four mead- ows, and then the boundry wall of Dor- | rington Park. It was close on to 1 out afterward—when 1 awoke from a sound sleep. The in- stant I opened my eyes the room was flash of light ning. and it was in all probability a peal of thunder that bad broken my slumbers. Another flash followed after a brief interval, succeeded again by the deafenti accompaniment. My sleep | I arose, flung a shaw! over my shoulders, and cross- | ing to windows drew back the | blind and peered out. As long ago as I can remember, Lightning has always had a singular fascination for me. As a child I loved to gaze upon its vivid splendors, and in this respect at least years have left me nchanged. A board creaked as I crossed the floor. “Is that vou, Barbara?” asked sister from the other room. “Yes. dear. Iam going to look out for a few "minutes. Is not the ning beautiful?” “Very beautiful; only I wish it were anywhere rather than here,’ answered Bessie who at such times was just as nervous as I was the reverse. The flashes tollowed at intervals of about a minute. I had witnessed three or four, when suddenly I gave a start, and an exclamati involuntarily from ips, o'clock—as 1 ii i sil ng hy Lig my Tig t.3 IE lash had re- two men in : Tae garden my act of climbing over the wall W0S a to me; 44 tantaneous as was the revelatio recognize somewhat ace and a man named Dethel, whom my bro had employed temporarily during last week wo in the garden, oul regular man being laid up with rheu- matism at the time. There was some- thing in the looks of the man in ques- tion which had set me against him from he first: but if we were all to be judged by our looks alone, what would become of us? For aught I knew to the con. trary, Dethel might be an honest, hard working fellow, with a wife and child. ren dependent upon him; but for all that. on the days he was working for us, I carefully refrained from going into the garden. And now, here was s man, and another with him, effecting a surrepti- tious entry of the premises at 1 o'clock in the morning! Such a proceeding could have but one end in view, Two | questions} at once put themselves to me, | Firstly, were thess men aware that my brother was from home for the night, and that pnly three helpless women and a girl were left in the house? Secondly, had they by some means become cogni- zant of the fact that a few hours pre- viously Mr. Shillito had paid my brother a considerable sum of money, which must necessarily still bs somewhere on | the premises? In my mind there was little doubt that both these facts were fully known to the men. My brother's movements were as open as the day, o} the stranger z 4 Or § $5.4 Wil from Reuben, the groom, that his mas- | ular night; while as for Mr. Shillito, everybody knew how he talked in his | loud-voiced way about his most private | todrink | At the bar of | that evening, | t more than one tavern that Mr, Shillito had just paid John Waldron his half year's rent. These thoughts {flashed through my | mind almost as quickly as that flash | which revealed so much, DBreathlessly | I waited for the next flash, It came, the darkness for an instant, and then it, too, was swallowed up. The men were no longer visible. De- tween the two flashes they had time to where the thick clumps of evergreens which clothed that part of the grounds would effectually screen them from view. At that very moment they were doubtless making their way stealthily toward the house. What was to be done? Never had I realized so fully as that moment how helpless a creature a woman is, Drawing my shawl more closely around me and putting on a pair of list slippers which I wore about the house in cold weather, I crept noiseless. ly out of the room. At the top of the stairs I halted and listened; but all was silenes the most profound. The corn. dor out of which the bedroom opened was lighted at the opposite end by a high narrow window which looked into the garden. To this window I now made my way, and there, with one ear pressed to the cold glass I stood and listened. Presently 1 heard the faint sound of footsteps, and then the subdued voices Directly under the place where 1 was | standing was the back drawing-room, which opened on the garden by means | of a French window; and although this window was secured at night by shut- ters, I had an idea that the security in question was more fancied than real, and was of a kind that would be laugh- ed to scorn by any burglar who was acquainted with his business. If the into the house—and with what other | object could they be there?—the proba- | bility ,was that thoy would make the | attempt by the way of the French win- | Even while this thought was | 1 my mind the voices of | grating sound made itself | heard, Evidently they had already be- gun to force the fastenings of the win- dow. I crept back to my room, feeling utterly dazzed and helpless. ‘Is that you, Barbara?” Where have Going into her room, 1 sat down on the side of the bed and told her every- | thing in as few words as possible. bdhe was of a somewhat timid and nervous disposition, and my news visibly affeet- ed her. She sat up in bed, trembling “Perhaps,’’ she whisperad, *‘if we lock our bed-room doors and Keep very near us,’ “Why, you goose it is not us have come after, but Mr, ninety pounds,” I answered. “And there's poor mamma's silver | tea service down rtairs; 1 they won't find that.” said Dessie. I hoped so, too, but there was no judging how much Dethel had contri- ved to ascertain respecting us and our | affairs. 1 went to the corrider window and listened. The noise made by | the men was now plainly distinguisha- | [t seemed as if they were trying to file or cut their way through obstruction. After ening for i moments, I went back to my roo began almost mechanically to put wking hope ble § clothing, was not possible to do something-— what that something ht t be I knew no more than the max The nearest house was a (uar- ter of a mile away; and even if 1 could have stolen out unnoticed by way of the front door, before I could have reached burglars would have effected their pur- pose and decamped. Our pecuniary means at that time were very straiten- For some time back John hail been paying off some old family debts; and the of ninety pounds which as a matter of course, he would feel bound to make good—would be a great blow to him. If I could only have got at the money d have hidden it where burglars would likely to find it, I felt that I should have accomplished something. But the bag Was locked up i \ / John's strong mah any (des) ay any desk, an my reach as if | Of He Bank id convenientiy i thieves, wi loss the an the not be ; 1 yor » cou DArdiv 1 is (esx dead. All tha wy ow i we shiny ¥ iy 4 ing i #ivver wiaik as § welll 3 ¢ % » moments ail prec flo + ani Led s DUS O04) sess the mors I strov loop-h ile of 8 helpless: some wretchedness of a feeling! 11 to experience it again u gree as I experienced | The lightning if not quits it had been a little while previ still came in as frequent flashes, and by ita light my sister and I made a hurried toilet. Our house stood a little way back from the high-road, from which it was divided by a tiny lawn and a low screen of evergreens, Once or twice in the course of the night of the mounted constabulary would ride slow- ly past as he went his rounds; but I was without any knowledge as to the par- ticular time, when he might be expect the time at might be looked for at any specified point did vary from night to | night. Still, there was just a possibi ty that he might put in an appearance liscern ADE, the Ope never the same de- 1 a8 oue s il the window to keep a lookout for him, readiness to raise an alarm the moment she heard the tramp of his horse's hoofs, For once in a way the lighning was something to be thanked for: each flash ligntning up the high- sides of the house. When this was done, It seemed as if | everything possible had been done; and yet it was next to nothing. With both | ing as I seemed never to have thought pefore. Then it was that--as sudden, awift and startling as one of those | flashes which were momently illumina. | ting the outer world—an idea shot | through my brain which, for an instant or two, seemed to cause my heart to And yet, at the first blush | thing so preposterous, so ludicrous, jmminent. I should have discarded it at once as little better than the inspira- | tion of a mad woman. But, preposte- | rons as the idea might seem, for the | life of me I could think of no other, | and every minute now was invaluable, There was no time for hesitation. I must discard it or adopt it, and that without a moment's delay. **I will try it; it can but fail,” 1 said to myself, with an inward groan. On the toilet-table was a jar of white tooth-powder, which had been replen- ished the previous day. I shook out a quantity of this powder, shut my eyes, and proceeded to rub it thickly over my face, arm and hands. That done, 1 drew the white coverlet off the bed, and draped myself with 1t loosely from head to foot; then I unbound my hair, which in those days was ebon black and recchied below my waist, and shook it round my face and over my shoulders in “most admired disorder.” 1 was now ready for the role 1 ha¢ made my mind to enact. Bessie has told me since that she | thought I had taken leave of my senses, | Just at the moment my tollet was com- pleted, and as I turned and advanced toward her, another long, quivering | flash lighted up the room. A low | burst involuntarily frors my | sister’s lips, and she shrank away from | me as though I was something alto- gether uncanny. *() Barbara, dear, what is the mat- | ter?” she cried. “Why do you frighten | me so?" “It is not you I want to frighten, but | the men down stairs,” Ireplied. Then | plan, She would have tried to dissuade me; | but there was no time to listen, Leav- mg her there watching by the window, ready to raise an alarm in case the mounted constable should pass on his round, I stole swiftly and noiselessly down the carpeted staircase, and only | when I reached the corrider [ could hear a subdued mur- voices, and a moment later | by the of falling glass, The burglars had succeeded in effecting an They and I} were separated only by the drawing- | room door, which, although locked, | was an obstacle that very few n vould overcome With an indrawing of my breath I sped quickly past the door along the length of the corridor until I reached the oppos end. where there were two more doors, one of them being that of my brother's ce. which also was locked, and from lock of which I now withdrew the I have omitted to state that the window of John’s office was secured bj two stout bars, which was probably one reason why the thieves had chosen to effect an entrance ata point more readi- ly adapted for their purpose. The se- cond door at the end of the corridor wssage leading to the This door I succeeded in open- I had decided t ttle way on the inner side of and there await the course of events. By this time men were busily at work forcing the lock of the drawing-room door. A thin thread of light which sho that althougt frequent as before sufficient for their purpose, Seuarcely breathing, 1 waited. too excited, too wrought up, the t xireme 14 A " below, mur of was startled noise entrance, nutes suffice to 0] ie f fii the kitchen. ing without noise, 0 § it ivy the i to all was all terri- biv real, yet*with a strange vague sense of unreality underlying I felt as if 1 sheuld not have | woke up and found the solve itself into a dream, while yet f assured in my mind that it was nothing of the kind. Suddenly the at the door ceased: the lock had been forced. The thread of light disappeared; for few moments all was silence, most profound. Then ax creaking, which at any would have bee: i ie noise An arose » other 4d! paudible, that told that the drawing-room d¢ WR opened and at the crucial m had come, heart, and fo i overpowering get back to my 1 wit n Or ment s a few brief most But it yy AW 4 myseis n. the men were in this time I knew it, although em “Where’ {1 Om 4 hea: that 9"? * Lai there i Was no there was, Where's t the li the bull's darkness and fl ing the blinding intensity of its glare. Then [ saw the men and the men saw me, but the darkness had hidden us from each other again before they had time to make sure that their eyes had not deceived them. One of them gave a gasp and whis- pered to his master: “What was that tall white thing at the end of ihe pas, sage? Seemed to me like a ghost,” “(Ghost be dashed? There ain't ne such things-~here's the glim, We soon see what it 18,” As he spoke, the light of his bull’s eye was turned full upon me, { advanced a eouple of paces, and the men fell back in speechless surprise and terror. I have often tried since to picture to myself the appearance I must have presented when seen at such a moment and by what uncertain light, with my ghastly death-like face, my dilated eves, my black, snake-like locks, my tall figure all in white, and with one extended arm and finger pointed direct at the men, 1 caunot wonder at their fright. was quicker than smiting the srrider with add eve, the ¢« Tt id and a terrible peal of thunder startied the air and shook the house. At the very mstant, impelled thereto by some- thing within me that 1 was powerless to control, I burst into a wild peal of ma niacal, blood-curdling laughter. One step nearer [ advanced; but that was enough. the men turned and fled by the way they had come, I heard a crash of gonses to find Dessie supporting my my nose. and it is hardly necessary to add that Dethel, the ex-gardener, was never seen in those parts again, I A King's Cradle. Near the scepter and purple robes was the cradle of the King of Rome, welghing one quarter of a ton. The ma- torial was sald to be silver-gilt, At the head hovered the figure of an angel holding aloft a metal wreath, from which depended the rich silk draperies that could be made to completely en- velop the cradle, or be drawn aside and looped back behind the angel figure, 1 suppose the imperial babies developed as much fretfulness in this satin-lined cradle as do the neglected infants of modern Palestine in their hard stone | mangers, The Mystery of Flowers, The name of the Peony is derived | which was supposed to be a moonstruck Tho peony was thought to | The floral kingdom furnishes plants | and associated some with the qualities The cyclamen opens in Southern Eu- cated to this romantic recluse, who | abandoned a noble career for 4 Monas- because he witnessed his father | kill a kinsman in a duel. The rose bay | willow herb the French called St, An- | thony’s fires, because of its brilliant red | hue, and its having appeared first In wh ease wi ot ch its patron, Anthony, | was believed to possess, The early Christians, attracted some flowers by their peculiar beauty, gathered a number of tl futo a her- barium and dedicated them to the Vir- gin Mary. Ameung these are the snow- drop, the lily of the valley, white daffo- dil. white rose, white hyacinth and white clematis, lady’s-finger, lady’s siip- per, lady’s glove, marigold, lady’s man- tle ete., to all of which superstition at- | taches qualities of purity and goodness, and conferred these upon the wearer of | any of these symbolical flowers, The | common hollyhock a corruption holy oak, and is reverence of rural England, where tri colates through cent because cru saders brought n the Holy Land Ap ilk The despite i to 1886 i ge in of f acl] ries, modest, the wite qualities, plant of war in the superstitious belief the same people, is dedicated to BL. George, their patron saint, jy the French the white variety of his plant is, in curious contrast, asso- ated with the peaceful character of and is called la veld ps. The familiar line, 1 Gilead!’ is the name of a piant nearest summer relation is our In the earliest was celebr Pliny, Strabo, Tacitus and Jus ! for 1 qualities, 4 el LU, i Jie eli ha 1 Balm f wh wi acacia, ages it ated by in, t on rivs no t i 14afie grit > 3 ¥ % 2 vr ex vs ine lofty spirit and dignity its meani ‘increase, The it to King Sol 1 one spec ved fre rian ripeneaq SU PpOse 0 Sheba brought ini Cleopatra pla Matara. which 3 celebrated $ 1 §) & Or oi by travelers { wird. The Eastern Christians believ ed the plant would grow only under the care of a Christian gardener, and the bark incised | nt metal the flow of be corrupt. 'nder their fostering grew as large as a §i the shat that Were WW any instru- ment o balsam would 1 i respect that it spread TOR Th § alm ol Christianity courts the n i ' P i tha i all La a1 ie of {evn ¢ 3 . ” > ¥ of the water and res How 10 make a Ghost. ymena of optical illusions have been made use of to a considerable extent upon stage within few years, the most exhibitions this sort is known TS 3) Se ii NIECE the One of of Curious % from Mr, Pepper, an English physicist, whom the origin tributed. The ghost in question 18 no “materialized” spirit, but, although one sees it walk upon the stage and act its part, is of so inwaterial a con- stitution that the individual whom it comes to haunt cleaves it with hissword as if it were so much empty air, and actually walks through the spectre. When this marvel was first exhibited in London the public flocked to see it and great was the wonder thereat, The mystery is, however, easily explained. Every one has observed that a pane of window glass, though transparent, reflect the rays of light to a certain extent. so that while admitting light from the street it returns also a faint image of objects in the room. Ifitis dark outside the reflection is more dis- | tinct. When this is understood the explanation of the trick is very simple. | The actors on the stage are seen through a large plate of transparent glass, placed in an inclined position and jeaning toward the audience al an an- | gle of forty-five degrees. The transpa- rency of the glass prevents the specta- 1 tors in the dim light from perceiving it. | Beneath the stage, out of sight, and | facing a large mirror Inclined parallel ! % t I's with the plate of glass above, is the | Upon this figure, | the vivid glare of an oxy-hydrogen in the mirror, and from the mirror a bright image of the object is cast upon the glass plate facing the audience. To the audience, however, this image does not appear as if thrown on the lass, but as if standing some distance ck on the stage, just as the reflection of objects seen in a windowpane seems projected out into the street. Thus the reflection of a sheet-clpd figure be- Jow the stage may be made to walk the boards a very realistic spectre, Sparrows, The English sparrows was made the subject of a committee Foport at a meet. ing of the Ornithologists nion in New York recently, and recommendations looking to the extermination of the ag« A Modern MIghWwayman, The railroads are the great highways The mighwayman, who has long loft the slower thorough- As you pass the ticket gate standing engineless, waiting for passen~ gers, you will notice the porter waiting tos the words: “Chicago sleeper, sir?” These words are varied according fo If you #000, He never says ‘sleeping car.” are tired and want to get to bed “I wish you would make up my berth as soon as possible.’ “Which is your berth, sir?’’ “Tower three on the Venezuela,” “Very sorry, gir; but three ladies, a f young men are ahead of you, sir.” As you turn away he says: “1°11 see what 1 can do for 1711 do my best sir.”’ Later he comes {0 you you, fidential manner- ve managed so as t s up second, sir, ou said, sir, always li¥e ge an old patron of the road iis latter phrase is a d Hewants v recognizes you When the train for the porter, and he tened quarters very es OAL £2334 z 1 he as an old hand, is a busy Lime in rather ftly. Peo- DAITOW Varies, berths tart it Aris 1% er WOrKsSs foal ral de pie pass § n hae ATi Sass in in aisle, but hi ] A dozen are at him to get y, and with great tact His method of He places t evitable valise under the seat and « making a bed « he lets down th ut the end lace, fasten- y that by no tenant push never their he satis- work : made uj fies them all, EW 3 vith attentic Fiil ALL 3 ya. seats over it, Tt Lie en 4 1 £ ARE t 4 bs ony mts waem 11 y Pp qf je is the only occupant of the sec It would never do } ach He tak it over the vo 5] aCe 1 ¥ The space d he, with a peculiar and lands : He then t 8 4 x » pe | § in akind of GOW: OORS ¢ the overiet , pulls ye bs } lings the b the brass rod at ’ 3 $.. and then ckness with whic 5 nade up b ‘ enticated case has ever come to ligh nt bravery that not possessed ay. The lh a sword or a requires an amou ( he average American f boast as he mn of is yf, let him 1 igh- | wayman’s weapon is not pistol, but a little apparently innocuous broom—a clothes broom. He calls you up to the captain’s office to settle in the following manner: “Brush you off, sir?’ “Thank you, I brashed mysell ofl moment ago.” “There's a lot of dust on the back of your coat yet, sir.” If you still demur he takes your hat and gives it a most vigorousdusting off, gradually leading you off into the dread ante-chamber. Then be lays on Mac- duff. He dusts you off with energy and | precision. He puffs and pants over it and exerts himself very visibly. Ther a across lus heated brow as if he rarely encountered so rough a job, It's | dom that a man is so hardened as to pass that stage without his hand aulo- matically seeking the quarter that lies dormant in his pants pocket, but grant for the sake of argument that there is a man who could calmly say, “Thank you,” and take his crimson’seatl in the car again. The next stage is after this Se]. air 4 iN. “Did I brush you off, sir?” “Youdid.” “Ahem. hope you are satisfied, sir.’ “perfectly satisfied.’ A pause, “I'm glad you're satisfied, sir.” Another pause, during which you feel antly conspicuous. “Were your boots blacked to suit you, gir?" “They were well blackened.” “You see, some likes one kind of blacking and some another. 1 generally give satisfaction, sir; I never see no “gontlemen’’ complain.” If you make no move at this, ths final catastrophe occurs. The highwayman drops all politeness as thrown away such a boor, thrusts his hand before vou while he holds the whisk under his lef arm, and demand: : “Porter, please, Then he gets his quarter, A E————— Hritish Empire. The British empire's area is 8,500, 000 square miles, but there is in indi- rect domination over enough more to make the total 10,000,000--one-fifth of the land surface of the globe, Of the gressive little bird were adopted, total lation only one-seventh are Onristhns.
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