THE PAST. Into the moonlight of the past, To sHence deep subsiding, 8 Present, with its nproar lond, Forevermors is gliding; There, baekwanl sirilting more and more, Its men and things grow dimmer, Till what was once as sunshine clear Fades to a twilight g'immer, Thus time that is to finie that was With noiseless lapse is changing, And we that live; to shadows turned, Will ghost.land soon be ranging; As ranged of yore the nhanto.as thin, The Mfeworn, spent and weary, The throngs unnumbered of the dead Through Homer's Hades dreary, The hours sre brief while overhead The sgn for us is shining; Then wherefors brood upon the Past, For dead and gone repining? Wo shall not fail its phantoms pale To juin at last forever — At last to know the lavguid flow Of Lethe's tabled river When we are gone the years will still Be coming nud be poing, The decades into conturies swell, No pause nor respite knowing, Kew ems tke the place of old, Old thiug« be whoily 1 Until our dwindling poate of time, Long lapsed shail be forgotten, ten, Its modes, belieis and arts be strange Ta those for future ages, As modes which History's sire records Upon its hoary piges, For on tuought's threshold still we stand, Brute instinets low obeying; But Mind and Reason pars will yet Same future grand be swaying, I SSS oy FOUND. fts 11 to * hear! crac full oi owy whiteness, the red brick ng Lickory logs and was ihe scene upon which the autumn sun glowered redly for an through the narrow window panes, ere it went down behind a bank of slate colored clonds in the west—and Miss Jemims Bazxford, glancing up at the olock on a little wooden five o'clock. ‘Bless me, how the time does go on!’ said Miss Jemima, as if 1 accomplished nothin’ what with runnin’ arter your everlastin’ whims, Ebeneeser!” sister’s senior by twenty good yeas, looked deprecatingly up from his cush- weak, feeble-kneed old man, with scanty gray hairs brushed wisp on the tcp of his head, watery blue eyes and a complexion like well- anred parchment, “1 know I'm a deal o' trouble, Je- mimy,” suid the old mau spologetical'y, “but I try not to make any more than | ean help.” your oid pipe and your smoke, smoke, smokin’, Lill we all smell own story. Buxford, you've just got to leave off that mis'able habit!” Ebenezer shrank instinotively at the hard, ernel tone “Buat-—Jeminy——"=" “I"m in earnest, Ebeneezar,” “But Ellen Deanison says “1 dow’t ewre two snaps 0’ my finger what Ellen Dennison says—a pert minx, wy own sister, make « fuss over you and induige you is to it} smokin’ going on, quit #1” “I might as well quit livin’, Jemimy, For forty seven year——" Miss Jemima, however, did not stay to bear the end ol the speech, but burst out of the room, muttering to herself sentences of which the import boded little good. “He'll be right down vexed, though,” thought the spinster, ‘when ho knows I've soid them there packets of Virginia tobacco he brought home on his last sea voyage, IVs odd a man ean keep voyagin’ fo furrin parts ail his life and not lay up no money, arter all, Bat Ebenegomsnever was savin’ like the rest o’ the Buxfords,” And Jemima went up stairs to rum- mage in an old red chest where she kept her treasures for a hank of mixed: yarn to finish a pair of socks she had on hand, Old Bheneger waited patiently by the kitohem fire the while, untit he heard a light footstep on the door-stone with: out; and kis face brightened as Ellen Dennison eame in, She was a tall, fresh complexioned I, with a face which, il not abso. utely pretty, was pleasing, and a light figure whose grace was patterned after the waviag rushes by the riverside and the tall ypang elms in the meadow below, * - “Well, uncle!” she said cheerily. “I've been waitin’ for yon, Ellen,” the old mau whispered, beckomng her fo come close to him. *She-—she won't bring me no more 'bacey, and I haven't had a whifll' since four o'clock.” Eilen bit her lip, “Vil bring you some at otice, Uncle Eben.” “There ain’t none left in the tin box!” went on the old man, detaining her with a grip of her neat calico dress, “Xon'll have ‘to go to the et o bine paper in the corner cup d up stairs—tho genume stuff 1 brought from old Virginia yesrs and years ago, when I warn’ the old wreek I am now! Get the top preckage, Neil—the top one, remember!” ‘You, uncle,” And away tri You've jus: got to “To got some tobacso for Unale Eb- there ain't none left,” there is, in the packet he. Sra brought from Norfolk in the Lively Sally,” “Bat [tell you there ain'l!” reiter- ated Miss Jemima, *“I sold it yester. day—to a peddier that came aiong, He gave me five dollars for it.” “Yon sold 11?” Miss Jemima nodded her head defi: antly, ‘*Yes, I sold it, and you need’nt stare at me as if I'd committed a State-prison offense, miss. I'd do the same thing over again. I mean to break up Ene- nezer's miserable 1iick of smokin’, An old man that's der undent on his relatives for his daily broad hain’t no business with luxuries like tobacco—and he'll get no more in this house,” Elen D:nuison answered nothing, but she turaed and went quietly down i stairs, with her oheeks flushed an in- | dignant scarlet, Miss Jemima followed | her. “Uncle,” said the girl calmly, as the eyes toward her, | there,” “I've sold itl' quoth Miss Jemima, putting her arms skimbo, “You've—sold—my tobacco! My blue Virginian brand?” ‘Yes, I have; and where's the harm, {I'd lke to know? I wasn't goin’ to | have it eluiterin’ up my cupboard no longer! 1'v4 sold it tor five dollars.” “Then,” said Ebenezr, with a sort { of stony calmpess, ‘you've just got five pipe bowl, and four huadead dollars in {| money, that was ina tin box in | lowest pound pares] but two, That's where I'd stored away my little savin’s. I thought they'd be safe there—-but | they wasn't it seems, You've had your own way, Jemuna, and I hope you feel better!” Miss Jemima's lower jaw dropnad. ‘Bakes anive! why didn’t ye { on it, Evenez sr Baxforg?” ‘*Because I didn't choose,” suid old man bitterly, “I'm sorry on Ei- { lens account. 1 meant she should have money of her own, but as for you, Je | mimy, I'm free to say that I believe it serves you right!” Miss Jemima sank, rather than ssi | down on a low chair by the table, let- | ing her head fall into her hands, To the griping, avariclons old woman, to | whom a dollar seemed a bright idol to { be worshipped and bowed down before, | this logs was most disastrous, and none ell me the | through her own secret, spiteful offi ciousness, The tears, hard salt, and bitter as the waters of the Diad Sua, oozed one by one dowa her red eye- lids, and fell on the table; a low chok- the money into wy hands, for he always intended it to be mine, Georgsl” “And L" said Goorge SBtap!ston, *be- gin to believe in the old saying that truth is stranger than fiesion;’ beret hati Hethiohem. A traveler in the Holy Land says: Bethlehem, containing about 6,000 1n habitants, 18 located on the brow of a hill, and may be cinssed as a rather imposing piace for Palestine, Bome gushy tourists, who think it their duty to bestow enthusiastic praise upon everything that is found in the Holy Lud, have broken forth into rapture at the mention of the name, Tue inhab'tants are mostly *“Chris- tians,” the Jew Moslems who live here having been detmled in 1875 to guard the Chureh of the Nativity, and maiu- tain peace, if possible, between the Latins, Greeks and Armenians, The town is a tolerably lively place—os- pecislly when tourists are on hand ready to be scalped by the gentle The streets are lined with bracelets, erucifixes, photographs, lowe: Deal bea asphaltnm, Most of curios are manulsetured in Bethe bem on quite a large scale, but in primitive way, uot many travelers visiting the Land on account of the cholera seare of tin or a buandred pilgrims strikes the town, as frequently happens during ordinary prey, bork: from her lips, But, alas! her repeutance had come too late, i The sutamn wore itself on, aud when | the first snow flikes dnzzied through | the dull, gray air, they buried old Eb enezer Duxford uader the leafless wil- lows 1n the country graveyard, Aunt Jemima piwked ap her belong- ings and weat with her niece to a dis- tant State, whers they could buy a litde 1100 and tey to earn their living by means of a market garden; and so they dweit for two or three years, Jemima Daxford had laid her plans | to keep her niece with her always, | | Ellen was so bright sod helpfal and | { fall of odd, ever ready resources, but | | Love sprauy into the scale epposite old | | Jemima, and Love outweighed her. | | Ellen promised to marry Gaorge Blaple- | ton, who had the largest farm and the most substantial farm house in all the neighborhood, | ‘So you are from Millowfield? Queer | | old place, that,” said George one eve wing as he sat on Miss Jemima's door- step, meditatively chewing a straw, *'i Years Ago, | when I drove a peddler’s cart,” “You!” echoed E.len—'u peddier's cart?” “Yeu; that's the way I laid the foun- dation of my fortunes, sach as they are, | {I didn’t always own a farm of four Lunndred asres. And the oddest thin | happened tome there, Aaot Jemima put oa her spectacles | and stared hardst Mr, Stapleton, while Flieu asked: “What was it?” “Well, I stoppod at a strange little out-of-the-way house uuder a hill to! get a drink of water one morning, and a little o'd woman with her face tied up with the toothache, and] a sunbonnet : tipped down over her nose, lite an old | witch" “Hamph!” mima, “Came out,” pursnod the unconscious | George, “and wanted me to buy a lot i of tobacco, Well, tobacco wasn't ex. | actly in my line, but the old woman was vory anxious to be rid of it, so I! closed the bargain at five dollars; | cheap enough, but at the samo time as i much as I could afford to pay. And I | never opened the packet until a month | afterward, when | was goiag up into the lnmbor districts, where 1 expected | to find a good market for that sort of | thing. And here comes in the queer | part of my story. When I was making up my pound packages of tobacoo into | small parcels, suitable to my trade, I | found in one of them, tied and papered | Itke the rest, a tin box with——-"" “Four hundred dollars in bills in 11!" fairly screamed Aunt Jomioma, “Yes, I know, 1 sold you that ar’ tobaosol And when you found you'd got what was never intended for yon why didn't you bring it back?” “Gently, gently’ Miss Baxord,” said Grorge Stapleton. “I did bring ir back the very next week, for although the temptation to keep it was very strong, yet it somehow lay heavy on my conscience. And when I got back the old house was shut up, and not a soul in the neighborhood conld tell me where the family had moved tol” “And that's true!” assented Aunt Jemima, who had never lived on the best of g : interjected Aunt Je- | these shops, together with the itinerant peddiers aud the common street beggars, seem to be almost crazed by the rare opportuni'y for selling relics and crav- way, the shop hangers-on fairly draggivg victims wto their ¢ hahwents, and the venders of portable stock following people to the very doors of the church, 48) Hauging Uver the Soa. A stormy sea on every side, nothing to stand on but a ledge of shppery rock, barely six inches wide, the tide rising higher every moment, night coming on, no help within reach, and uot a living soul iv sight, This is just one of those ventures which are a good deal pleasantcr to read about a ter din- ner, in a spug arm chair by te fire, than to meet coxsoll ; and 16 ws just in this agreeable position that | found mysell ou a gloowy March eve. ng in one of the loneliest parts of the [i orth- ern seas, In the short lived brightness of Bam- | mer, when two whole months sre one long day, during which the sun pever sets, even the treeless islands of (he far North make a chsrming ploture. With | the grass green in the valleys, and the #ky bine overhead, and the sea spark- lug in dancing ripples, so fur as the eye eau reach—Orkuey, Baetland, Faroe, | aud old Iseland itself, are w mateh for suythiog in Bwitzoerlaud or the Crimea. Jat in Winter or early Spring, when everything is bleik aud gloomy and desolate, and when roaring gales and turn about with the fro-ts that seem abie to split a sohd rock, it i# u very difierent mutter, as | now begiuning to learn to my How I had got into the scrape 1a easily told, Oae of those deceitfuil spel'a of OF fine weather, which in these high, traveler to to thinking | ® had Bol Rach a IL was as himself to in experienced belore, be Crusoe was pot fo IO8T, as Robinson y torrent sible bogs, I bad seen nothing | with brooding musts, swollen of it beyond the two huge gray ridges that shut in the little hat of big stones wm ysell oid fisherman with Waea the south wind blows, the people say be heat, and phatically it cometh to pass,- did in Carist’s aay, The tious wm Bethiehem is, of ““Caurch ol the Nativity ” 8 vast rambling poriion of tue town, is the join: pos. session of the Latins, Greeks and Ar. menians, Certain backsbeeshes expected by cerimin fanctionaries Just as at chile! attrac comrse, the This charch, ia My first start on this voyage of dis- covery, however, was not a success, | had ventared over the slippery, wood. g {oue “stacks” BEON which seemed to of those isolated #0 C01 some convulsions ages ago, Ouace there, suddenly found that my pevinsalas had in ove part of the structure is quite au imposing dining-room, in which, for a small consideration, pilgrims way eat their iunch, EE ———————— Lire. The Huemo very awkward “*Ax.” Had the sea been calw, I could have swam ashore in hail & dozeu strokes; but Captain Webb himself wonld have mede the very ciiff tremble with as the ledge on which [ swocd The sirongest man on earth could Dot have lemped across tie gulf toat! v Lome, sit on, how wide-spread his fume, if he falls in the ¢x rose of those virtues that most adorn private life, if be is faithless to those 08 most faithinl, if he is false to the est and most tender relations. then fails in the essential things if he is not the world as generons and philanthropie, while st home they sot the part of miserly, potty tyrants. They are gen erous where they think their gifts are likely to return measure for through popaiar favors, bat niggardly where they find it safe to be so without detriment to their purses. Others are intercourse through the day, but carry snd peevish {sait-findiag to chase away in which men act out their true nas where to a great extest men exhibit canse to be hidden or controlled else. It is also within the of the home virtues and graoss that ennoble human character are found in thar freest cxer- cise, ‘Lhe really good or great man contributes to the home life the best things there are in his nature, bis deepest sympathy, his tenderest regard, his most loyal and enduring affection. Iu its osre and protection his manhood asserts itself more strongly, and for 1ts peace and happiness he holds nothing too dear for ascrifice, me ac The Law of Filading. cept the owner. The proprietor of a no right to demand the property or Premises, Such proprietors may make regulations in regard {o lost property, which may bind their employes, but of finding was declared by the King's bench 100 years ago, iu a case in which the facts were these: A person found a wallet containing a sum of money on a shop floor. He hand ed the wallet and contents to the shop- keeper to be returned to the owner, After three years, during which the owner did not call for the property, the fiuder demanded the wallet and the money from the shop-kesper. The lat. ter refused to deliver them upon the ground that they were found upon his premises, The former then sued the shop keeper, and it. was held as above set forth, that, nst all the world but the owner, the title of the finder 1s per- fect, And the finder has been to stand in the place of the owner, so that he was permitted to prevall in an setion against un person who found an article which the plaintiff had had the cat could on the even a ng lsap been not Have Erim precipick possible, found fooli eyoL dad. To escape seewed impossible; to stay whare 1 was unt the rising waves tid be a slower bat an equally certain douth, What was to be done? Suddenly a thonght struck me. 1 that the cliffs of the northern islands, constantly sawed awaydy lash. often beetle over so as to a fourth of what It is lower I determined to climb higher, jutting out toward each other opposing precipices, made 2 It was not ploas- aut to look from that fearful height ito the roaring ses, and think what would happen if I fell short or failed OTRgS, But I knew that the longer I thought together, 1 shot out into the | The next moment I found myself (I hardly knew how) safe oa the i | Safe—but what next? Esxcopt that 1 | was now beyond the reach of the tide I | seemed 10 ba not a whit better off than before, Although I was at least a hun. above the sea, the mg asy overhead, ganot and bare as Mount Sinai itself, without an inch of foot- bold. Worse still, I conld see hy the | redness of the settiny sun and’ mass of leaden cloud | whish was gathering to windward, that | would | me off that narrow shelf like a | traw, | Just then I was startled by a ham § for the shriek of the northern raven, | Aad there it came, the hnge, biack, me, with its gloomy wings outspread like the shadow of death, and its flery ready marking me for its prey. Shaken as my nerves were by fatigue | and exhaustion, I could not restrain a! passing shudder at the sight of this | norrible creature, which (as the north. orn islanders firmly believe), is drawn | by an unerring instinct to the lost and : heipless man who is about to become i its victim. I shouted, to scare iv away | bat it ouly drew off a litile, and then | continued to hover over me a8 bo fore. But just then my eye enught a cleft, or, rather, seam, that ran ap the face of tho precipice a little to my right, the edges of whieh, gaped and splintersd by years of storm, seemed to promise some foothold, 1 sidled along the ledge till I reached it, and, buttoning my gout Hghily, to ve the wind as little hotd as possible, I began the ascent, Such a olimb I never had before or since, Twice did the stones to which _— was still to come, Scarcely had 1 made good my footing when I eaught sight of # man who, seated close to the edge of the precipice, appeared 10 be taking a sketch of the surrounding seevery, So intent wes he upon his work that even the grating of my feet upon ths rock, a8 1 scrambled to the highess led ze, did looked up to take a fresh view of the landscape, and there I stood in front of him, a ghastly figure. My coat was torn to rags, my face and hauds were coverad with Llood from conntiess gushes, my whole fignre was dripping with salt water, and black asa sweep through the gathering dimpess of eve- ning against the red glare of the stormy sunset, 1 have no donbt that I locked never ent a throat, Oue glance wus guile enough for the dismayed artist Down went pene and drawiog block, and away he flew, with such amez ug speed that I eould bardly see which way he went, What he took ne for, or what account he af. terward gave of the adventare, I have find ont; but if he ever though of taking a portrait of me as I fires appeared to him, it must cer tauuly bave the most striking snoteh in Lis whole collection. Whence or who he was, remains proicund a mystery to me as whither wont been the aris came, i“ } pid A ——— Bancrolt, the fistorian, Bancroft, the historian, is one of the most noticeable figures in Washington somety, The relusrkabie preservation Ol GIs vigor ai the of Bi i¥ what makes him the most iu- teresting. His not the most charm ag couversationalist 1a the world, He fairly roars as he talks. Hs appears always as if he were adliressiog some one a doz: yards away. He shouts several sentenses a friend ia igh Key and then without waiting or listening to anyone else he moves to ad- dress som? one else. He oalls as muaeh #4 the most active society young rus, He darts in and out the leading aivanced age YOArse, al this of in ite exuberaut aguity. ‘LT'nis veteran stil erect figure. His legs are There is no weakness there, Hes holds make a good military set-up, He especially agide in the presence of la dies, aud under the inspiring glance ofl a lovely soclety bud, the veteran ourvels, sines and skips with the ig sume grace of some of the thorough breds he has been so fond of the past, is bi 1 ile the other day: He sat in a low, casy pony phasion drawl Ly a stout black horse, wearing a plain, unornamented harness, Jast back in rumbl» sat bis favorite colored groom, ¢ ‘ ol iim ieit shoulder, The old WOT dark-bine sntrimmed PP ussian officer's Rp puil-d wall down upon his gleam ing eyes, look ng out through a huge TY 6 Rn A snowy-white, silky mustache and beard brought out his fresh color, and stood out in strong contrast with the dnil bleck of his heavy pilot-cloth over- coat, while sbout his legs was an afghan of red, black, and yellow woreleds, His horse gat, while the veleran roared a s lilo- quy at bis servant about his calling places, The man leaned foresrd de ferentially and saperiotended the oa 'l- ing list. When bo said stop the vet- era skip up the steps, seeming to restrain himsel! by an effort from turning hand springs on his way, Mr. Bancroft ieads a very regular lite, { out-door exerciss, if is not hard to acovunt for his long life. Tle has never burdened humsel! with work, He lias © that could have been written in years with moderate Juvor, Oaze page of manuscript a day of 250 words he work. words a day as all any man can be ex. tricted work. Think of thus, ob! wer ciless editors, who erack the whip over newspaper repoiteral AI I nse His Bg Friend. » A crowd gathered on a wharf in San pportauity 10 see a dog rescue another dog from drowning, and go about his work as intelligently as if he bad been the trained officer of a humane society, A small terner dog fell from the stringer of the wharf into the bay. He swam around for some time in a circle, and many plans were suggested for his resonie, Link none of them proved prac. tical. The little oreature seemed doomed to a walcry grave, for he was fast becoming exhausted, The female portion of the sudience was much ex- ercised, and gave many expressions of Just at the moment that ail hopes of saving the terrier ware given np, the bark of a dog in the crowd attracted attention, and there appeared upon the stringer in front of the wharf, a large Newfoundland, He saw the little fellow in the water, and with a low wail he ran to and tro along the wharf! for a moment or two, and then, to the surprise of everyone present, he sprang into the water and A Story of the Kurt, —————————— About 11 P, M., on 15th, Pateolman Engene Olisby was retarniug fre the western best to the station wien kis watchinl eye detected a vessei”s Might through the miss iu close proxmiy to the eas ern end of Miscomet Rp, He | hastened to set off » warning Lignt, but | after one or two sttempis, failing to ignite 15, and seeing he was losmg valu. able time, be hastened to the house and oalled afl hands, hurrying out aguin and setting off his light, but it was too late, as the unfortunate oraft was then pearly upon the besgh, The men quickly gathered, and ascertaining what of their apparstus would be neces sary hastened to the station and hauled the hundeart rapidly to the spot, The | surl was raging wich terrifi: fary, com- | pletely enveloping the vessel st times | und the men 10 the durkness were eom- | pelied to keep high on the beach. The | tall masts gould be discerned, wring- | ng und Swisting, threatening to go over | tue side at any moment, At that terme it was found that the crew bad all taken in the lee-mizz mn rigging and Ca tain Veeder then snot aline over the lib stay, throwing it thas far forward to avoid hitting eny person oa board. But none of the poor fellows im the rigring dared to leave to secure the lithe, F.oally Patrolman Willisms, seleeting # smooth time, rashbed down with a | band line and saccecding in leading it | 8alely upou the bow, The sailors were | then made to understand this fuel, and | when the ses was calm for a few seo { ouds carefully made their way forward | and fine, hauling # 1s and | making it fast. Bat they, Leing at work | with but the feeble light of their side lanterns, could not that a tall ck was fast to the line, and it again | required much sheiling to make them continue han ing. When the bLileck ame in sight thelr quick ssiler eyes | apparently brightened and they kaew at suee what should be done, Ming it to the capstan, the word was | shouted to those on shore, and it was but Lhe work of & very few moman's to iwhip off a hawsar and srrauge the breeches buoy fw landing ibe cager aman, The seas rolled the vessel so thet the hawser could not be kept taut, sid a8 she would larch shoroward it would sag, touching the sand, sod then with her reverse mobion snap back taut; eonsequenliy it required two men to support the ornishes which eid up | the sh wre end of the hawser, Uader bese diffizultics, and in almoss total durkness, the work of bringios the m+n to shore prooreded, Som of 8 em who came over the line whon tue seas threw in the mos! fiercely were st times submerged in th: water and thes jerk d a ot by the sudden tightening of the f iawser; and one, mor fom tunate { than is companions, become entangied {in the breeches buy aud was earmried ap fect first, and then fell, bus was i canght by the re ad y hands of the surf. escaping By mid the crew were ail sshora, The proved to be the three -masted vover Warren Sawyer, wilh a crow | of seven men, | refuge 117 tha BGR TL d EIT BEG fast ad a unharmed. unb Higal Vessel i & a ———— Line Cessnels. That woman under favorable condi | tious muy become the perfect equal of | mar has been demousirated, aud the following is only a new iustanee in {proof of the abr ve ststement. The Live Cossacks of the Teorek, a river falling Into the Caspian Bea, are the de- scendants of immigrants who camo | the Cancasus doriog the reign of isan | the Tarrible. Aft roards, mn eonDED- queno: of the religione persecutions in | Fb wein this number war greatly aag- | mented by the Vid Ceremonials, or UM Believers, who found here & sale reine | from religious intolerance. These nme | migranls were transformed inte Qos- inacks, 4 ce, became hall farmers and | hall warfiors, The wen, being ir con. stagt war with the Caucasians momn- { tmmmerrs, were obliged to leave dhe | cultivation of their sardens and fields to thelr wives and daughiers. AHN able-bodied Cossacks are enlisted 1m dhe | irregular ‘cay; iry, and spend nearly hell their lives in military daty, Is resem times this has been very much modified, and they have more lsisure; shill a cousiderable part of ineir host yess | #apent away from home, The women | do all the work, and the conseionsucss | that the welfare and prosperity of the ensire household is acquired and main tained solely by their exerisons makes them very influential. Consteud mas culine labor and business trasssefions have given to the Cossack woman an independent, self-reiying eharaoier, and have developed in a remaskelile degree her common-sense, energy snd general ability. The women for th most part are much stronger snd hapd- somer than the men, Inteltectaally and morally they stavd also mueh higher than the Cossacks, and among them the percentage of illitersis persons is muek lower, The Line Cossacks of the | Terek are of Great Russian origin, and though 1n ccoustant intereousse with the Ciucasian mountaineer tribes, hey have conserved in great purty thoir lsnguage «nd religion, Bat freqaont inlermarriages have greatly meaified the original type, and a remashable feature of the beautiful Cossask girls is the combination of the dark comptex- ion and grace of their anoestond fraits with the bomerful body of the wera women, The viliages, naan. aged by women, are surrounded by viteyards, gardens, and cornfields, with large herds of estsle tn the pastures, Prosperity and even epu- lence are seen everywhere; wo bottor piace conld be chosen to show what common, t Ssamen even if only “partial released — 3h ignoble foiters reo
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