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Clarence Kane sat in his sumptuously furnished library, lost in thought evidently unwelcome to him, for his handsome face was clouded and the stern lips firmly com pressed, as he gazed vacantly into the red coals in the grate. Though forty years had passed over him, neither form nor face indicated that age, for proudly erect and graceful, besides pos sessing dark flashing eyes, waving hair and regular features, he was a strikingly handsome man, appearing scarcely more than thirty. Reared in luxury, for his parents had left him a millionaire when but a college student, he had never known poverty through necessity, though a wandering life of many years in many lands had shown him that there existed more want and suf fering than happiness and comfort in the world, from lack of the mighty dollar, and his noble nature aided ever, where cir cumstances brought him in contact with his fellow beings in distress. Three months before that bleak Decem ber evening when he is seated in the li brary of his magnificent Baltimore home, Clarence Kane had returned from a wan dering tour abroad, which had lasted fo:: two years, and the circumstances that had brought him home again is the subject of his sketch. Sitting there iu silent meditation, he was awaiting the coming of one who was very dear to him ; though no wife or sis ter had ever brightened his doorway or made happy his bachelor home. Clarence Kane held the responsible position of guardian over a young girl of seventeen, and having received from the fair maiden a telegram that afternoon that she would be with him during the evenin g , having left her boarding-school for the Christmas holidays, he had remained away from the Club to greet her. "If she had only stated by what train, or at what hour, she would arrive, so that I could have met her," he murmured, in rather an ill-humored tone, and then, as the sound of carriage wheels on the pebbly drive broke on his ear, he started up sud denly and walked quickly to the door, which wss thrown wide open by the butler to usher in a bright face, almost hidden, as was the form, by warm wraps, for the night was bleak and cold. "Juanita. you are indeed welcome !" exclaimed Clarence Kane, checking him self as he was about to enfold in his arms the maiden, whom, in three years that had passed since he had last beheld her, had grown from childhood to womanhood. "Thank you, my dear guardian, I knew.: you would like a little sunshine this cold winter weather, hence I have conic," laughed a musical Voice from beneath the wraps, and as if divining the reason why he had not embraced her, the your).- b girl quickly raised her pouting, ripe lips for kiss. I will not assert that Clarence Kane had never, in his varied existence, kissed a lovely woman before, but be that as it may, he appeared a perfect novice on this occasion, and wa►s as awkward as a school bay. for his face flushed painfully, and then turned deathly pale. But recovering himself, he extended a warm welcome to the maiden, and then aided her in unbundling herself from wraps, furs and hat, and his surprise was evident as he beheld what a metamor phosed form his ward was. A form supple, graceful, and slightly above the medium height, yet perfect in mould ; a face radiant with a strangely fascinating beauty, for the eyes were mid night in blackness, liquid in expression, and filled with slumbering fire, while the hair rivaling them in hue, was worn in luxuriant folds around the proud bead, and confined by a massive silver comb. In undisguised admiration, Clarence Kane forgot his good breeding and stood and gazed. "What ! was this the girl of fourteen he had left. at a boarding-school a few years before ?" he thought, while the object of his gaze, flushed crimson, said half timidly: "Don't I please you, my dear guardian ?" With a long-drawn sigh, Clarence Kane shook off the beauty-struck spell upon him, and answered honestly : "Juanita, I believed only angels could possess your beauty." "Thanks; but your angelic ideas will have a fall, for I'll astonish you by proving what affinity earthly angels can possess, for, do you know, I am almost starved ?" "True ; I had forgotten the politeness of a host in my joy at your arrival, but I will now atone for it." And calling to a servant girl, he bade her conduct his ward to the room prepared for her, promising to meet her in a few minutes at dinner. The merry Christmas days sped rapidly away, and both Clarence Kane and his beautiful ward became toasts in the aris tocratic society of aristocratic Baltimore. The best parti of the State, Mr. Kane was haunted by mothers who had mar riagable daughters, (lined by bashful papas, and, on account of his great popularity, wined at the clubs by his numerous friends, while the beautiful Juanita arose like a star above the horizon of the social circle, and became at once a reigning belle. But, amid all the admiration of the outer world bestowed upon them, both Clarance Kane and Juanita were better content to enjoy the quiet of the old home stead, and were the happiest when left to themselves. And yet, neither of them knew the other's feelings in this matter, but be lieved the regard existing between them was such as was right between guardian and ward. The merry days were soon over, and once again Juanita returned to her school duties, but not for long; as in the com mencement of summer, she was to gradu ate and appear before the world's foot lights as a young lady; and with joy she looked forward to the day when again she would be back at the homestead, which Clarence found to be strangely dark and dismal without her fair presence. But the months rolled away at last, and once again Juanita gladdened the mansion with her sunny smile and silvery voice, to the joy of her guardian and the delight of the servants, for one and all of them loved her dearly. PAMPHLETS A mouth after her return she was seat ed one moonlit evening enjoying from the open window the scene of lawn, lake and forest spread before her, when suddenly a quick step was heard, and Clarence Kane entered the room, and approaching her, said : "Juanita, lam glad I find you alone, for I have something to tell you." Even in the moonlight the beautiful face was seen to flush quickly ; and the Bite ,fiorg-Zeller. HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1875. dark eyes were raised toward her guardian. Pointing to a seat beside her, Juanita made no reply; and sitting down, Clarence Kane said quietly : "Juanita, to-day is the first time the thought of losing you ever came forcibly upon rne—" "What mean you? Speak, I implore you ?" cried the impassioned girl, startled at his words. "Do not be alarmed, little girl ; I mere ly meant to say that Caspar Hasting and Colonel Hughes have both asked me to day to allow them to lay themselves, their hearts and fortunes at your pretty feet;" and Clarence spoke playfully. "I love neither of them and never shall. Hence I will not marry the one or the other, but what did you say ?" said I would speak to you upon the subject." "You are willing to give me up, then ?" "Never !—no, I mean ; but some day you will love some man, and he will take you from me." "No, no, no. I will nut go away from you. I will not love any one ; I wish to be always with you." Clarence Kane sprang to his feet and rapidly crossed the floor, and returning, said quickly : "Juanita, would to Heaven I could keep you ever with me; but first, ere I know my doom, let me tell you of yourself; let me tell you of your past life. "Listen ! You have believed yourself left in my keeping by your parents, who I told you died in a foreign land; but to your life hangs a story which now you must know, for no longer are you a child. "You know my life has been one of ad venture, of wandering, and thus I will be gin by telling you that sixteen years ago I was roaming in Spain, and one night put up at an inu by the roadside, where were stationed a number of Spanish officers. "While enjoying my supper in quiet, a conversation occurrad at a table near me, between several Spanish officers, that was most insulting to my own land, and every vile epithet was heaped upon America and Americans, until, unable to stand it longer, I arose to my feet, and crossing over to the table, threw a glass of wine into the face of a young man, attired in captain's uniform, and who had been particularly insulting in all he had said. "Instantly there was a commotion, and making known my nationality, the young captain demanded that I should meet him in a duel,and nothing loath, I accepted the challenge, and promised to meet him the next day but one, in a spot designated in the mountains, and some twelve wiles dis tant, the captain promising to have .a. friend present who would act as my second, for I was a stranger in a strange land, and knew not whom to call upon ; but do not be im patient, Juanita, for all this bears upon your life. "To be in time, I procured a guide the next afternoon, and thoroughly armed and well mounted, we started for the rendez vous; but a terrific storm set in, we lost our way, darkness came on, and after wan dering for hours, a friendly light caught our eyes, and eagerly we sought it, and fbund a small fountain farm house, from the inmates of which we received a warm welcome. liked not the appearance of the place, and neither did my guide, for we felt as sured that there had been sonic half dozen men in the house when we called at the gate, for distinctly had we heard loud voices, and yet, only an old man and wo man had greeted us. "But a good supper was given us. My guide looked after the horses and was as• signed a place in the barn to sleep, while I was shown to a small room possessing but a single door and window, besides the trap through which I had entered the chamber. "Dressed as I was, I threw myself upon the low bed, but not to sleep; fur strange thoughts came over me, and soon I heard the hung of voices, and through a crack in the floor discovered iu the room below a half-dozen fierce-looking men in earnest conversation. "At once I knew all—l was in the house of a band of robbers, and well I knew my fate. "While I looked, the men started forth, and I distinctly heard the words : 'We'll first finish the guide in the stable.' "Rising to my feet, I softly felt around the room until I found the door I had ob served, and after a few efforts it opened, and I discovered that it led down a narrow passage-way, which following some dis tance, I came upon a window opening out upon atshed, which slanted off towards the ground at the back of the house "Here was a chance to escape, but un willing to leave my guide in danger with out some effort to save hint, I lit a match and glanced around me, and to the right discovered a door, which I judged led in to a room commanding a view of the sta ble-yard. "The latch raised easily and I entered, and lighting another match, what was my horror to discover the forms of three men lying upon the floor ; but believing them asleep I was about to withdraw, when a voice said quickly : " 'Great Heaven ! you here ?' "Instantly I turned the blaze upon the speaker, and with amazement discovered one of the young officers I had met in the inn, bound hand and foot, while by his side lay two others, the one I was to meet the next morning in deadly com bat, and he that was to have been my sec ond. "But no need had I to dread that mor row's meeting, for both my enemy and the one that was to have acted as my friend was dead." "Dead ?" "Yes, Juanita, they had been cruelly put to death by the very band that was soon to seek my life ; for, like my guide and myself, the other party had become lost in the storm and had happened upon the same house. "This was quickly told me by the young officer, whose life the bandits had spared, to torture from him upon the morrow a confession as to when a richly-laden commissary train was to cross the moun tains. 'lnstantly I severed th young officer, and rising to feet Low; the pistol I offered him, an )gether we were consulting as to ou uturc move ment to save the poor guide, . 1 1en, from the stable•yard, came a low - r mercy, a few shots and a g •v, and poor Pope, we knew, II et 'ally murdered. "'Let us away from qur fate will be such as his; see, th, ' , zen of them,' cried the Spaniard.' "And leading the way, I dasher fa the window opening upon the „Led, just as a cry arose among the bandits to seek me. "Out upon the roof, off upon the ground, we hastily scrambled, and at full speed rushed on in the darkness, mile after mile until my poor companion was broken down and could go no further ; but then daylight broke, and I discovered a small cot near by, and arousing the inmates, we asked for shelter, which was cheerfully given, al though death there met our gaze; for upon a snow-white bed lay a young and beautiful woman, who had been thrown from her horse the evening before and killed. One glance and my companion recog nized her. She was the wife of the young officer with whom I was to engage in a duel. "Her story had been told to the inmates of the cottage ere she died, which was that her husband had gone to fight a duel, and she was hastening after him to pre vent it, accompanied only by a guide, when her horse had fallen and crushed her be neath his weight. "Juanita, never did I suffer as then, and to atone fbr my having been the cause of all this misery, I had the body of the beau tiful woman borne back to her home, and from there buried in state, beside the grave of her beloved husband, for the fol lowity, day the young officer had taken with him a number of soldiers and gone to the house of the bandits, and though he had found the place deserted, except by the dead, he had brought back with him the corpses of his friends and my unfortu nate guide. "And, Juanita, to atone yet the more fur my sin, I took to my heart the baby child—a little girl of one year—of the dead parents, and bringing her to America, reared her as my ward—" "And lam she that was that little orphan girl ?" asked Juanita, in a low whisper. "Yes, Juanita ; and each year you have grown to womanhood, the tendrils of my heart have clung more closely around you, until now my future without your love must be a dreary blank ; but yet I fear it must be so, for now that you know the story of your life, I feel that you will—" "Love you ten-fold more, my dear, noble guardian, and never, never leave you I" And with the passionate vehemence of her nature Juanita sprang forward and clung closely around the neck of the man who had so well endeavored to atone for the past. "You will be my wife, then, Juanita ?" asked Clarence Kane, after n pause. 'Yes. Never have I known other love than that I felt for you ; and mingled with it, has been that I would hold for mother, father, brother, all. "My poor. por parents, sleeping in far away Spain, I know, I leel that. you would not blame your daughter, and I pray that from Heaven you look down in kindness and give us your blessing. as I hope God will bless us too." "Amen !" said the stern and fervent voice of Clarence Kane. And one short month afterwards all Baltimore heard with surprise that the handsome guardian and beautiful ward had been quietly married, and sped away to spend their honeymoon in the romantic valleys of Spain. U2l fog The Musical Mule. There is a good deal of' humanity in a mule after all. Or perhaps it is better to say that there is a good deal of mule in humanity. A writer in the At/antic gives a very racy study of the mule, and he speaks as one who knows the animal long and well. He says : "The depraved mule rejoices in his heart if he can make some one miserable. It is a trait for which in the West they have a specific term. They call it "pure cussedness." When a mule devotes his whole l to illustrating this idea he finds a thousand opportunities and achieves a remarkable success." Who cannot recall paople of their ac. quaintance who have this trait promi nently developed ? Again : "Sometimes the wanderer takes it into his head that he can sing. So long as he keeps this idea to himself' nobody can complain. But a mule who has such a conceit is sure to publish it. One who has never heard a music solo can form no idea of the rare cacophony it involves.— No musical gamut can describe it. It is one of the grossest outrages on the public peace ever devised. Happy for the hearer if the bray be confined to one mule ; but when two or three hundred happen to meet together, and some base prompter among them says : "Brethren let us bray," the antiphonal response, which is never refused, is perfectly overwhelming. I re member one poor mule who lost his life because be would persistently exercise this gift in au Indian country, and so be. tray the command to the enemy. lie was shot as a traitor and a nuisanca." Alas ! that we cannot dispose of some human mules, who have this same hallu cination about their musical powers, in the same summary fashion. About Weddings. A wedding must not be uncheerful ; but it must certainly be solemn to all who realize what it is. On the one side it is renouncing the old ties, promising to be gin with faith, and hope, and love, a new and wholly untried existence. On the other, it is the acceptance of a sacred trust, the covenant to order life anew in such ways as shall make the happiness of two instead of one. Can such an occasion be fitting for revelry ? Is it not wiser, more delicate, to bid only the nearest friends to the ceremony, and leave the feasting and frolic for another time ? We are sure there are few girls who, if they reflect on the seriousness of the step they are about to take, will not choose to mike their loving vow merely within the loving limits of their home circle. All our best instincts point to the absolute simplicity and privacy of wedding services ; only a perversion of delicacy could contemplate the asking of crowds of half sympathetic or wholly curious people to attend the most solemn of contracts. Let there be as much party making, rejoicing and pleasure taking afterwards as hearts desire ; but let the solemn vows he made in the presence only of those nearest and dearest. A MAN went into a drug store, and, says he : "I wish you would give me some Nancy Soda." "Don't you mean Sal So da ?" says the clerk. "Wall, now, I don't now but you're right; I knew 'twas a g►."s name," said the searcher for Sal. "LUNATIC FRINGE," is the name for the barbarious fashion of cropping the hair and letting the bristles hang down over the forehead. Very appropriate, as it makes a female look like a demented monkey. Changes in Words. These exist and entrances of words mast be constantly going on. Those wh o have lived through a generation or two must have noted how many 'nave been intro duced or have changed their ground in their own time. Allusions to their intro ductions and changes meet us constantly in our reading. Thus Banter, Mob, But ly, Bubble, Sham, Shuffling and Palming. were new words in the TatlPr's day, who writes, "I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of Mobb and Banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers and betrayed by those who promised to assist me." Roronnoitrr• and other French terms of war are ridi culed as innovations in the Spec:ittor.— Skate was a new word in Swift's day.— "To skate, if you know what that.means," he writes to Stella. "There is a new word coined within a few months," says Fuller, ‘.ealledfanatics." Locke was ac cused of affectation in using idea instead of notion. "We have been obliged," says the World, "to adopt the word police from the French." Where we read in another number, "I assisted at the birth of that' most significant word jb'etatioa. which dropped from the most beautiful mouth ! in the world, and which has since received the sanction of our most accurate Laureate in one of his comedies." Ignore was once sacred to ,rand juries ••In the inters, of" has been quoted in our time as a slang phrase just coming into meaning. Bore has wormed itself into use within the memory of man. Wrinkle is quietly going, into use in its secondary slang sense. Mai we have read from the pen of a grave lady, writing on a grave subject, to express her serious scorn. Most of these words are received as necessities in the language. Some like "humbug." are still struggling into respectability. In the middle of the last century, it was denounced as ••the un couth dialect of the 'lune, the jabber of the Hottentots." Another writer puts it into the mouth of a party of giggling girls, who pronounce some one—whom he sus• pests to be himself—an el , lifins. detestable, shocking HUMBUG. ••This last sew coined expression," he observes, "sounds absurd and disagreeable whenever it is pronounced ; but from the mouth of a lady it is shocking, detestable, horrible and odious." Yet so pointedly does it hit a blot in hutn•:nity, so necessary has it be come to the vituperative element in our nature, that neither mankind nor woman kind can do without it. The fastidious De Quincy is eloquent in its praise : "Yet neither is it any safe ground of absolute ex-communication from the sanctities of literature, that a phrase is entirely the growth of the street. The word hunz/mg, for instance, rests upon a rich and c - prehensiv e basis; it cannot be rendered adequately either by German or Greek, the two richest of human languages ; and without this expressive word we should all be disarmed fin. one great case, contin ually recurrent, of social enormity. A vast mass of villainy that cannot otherwise be reached by legal penalties. or brought within the rhetoric of scorn, would go at large with absolute impunity were it net through the Rhadamanthean aiol of this virtuous and inexorable word." The fashion of language toward Acenery —especially Alpine scenery—has entirely changed. Once it was surveyed with the eye simply of the traveler, to whom it might well seem -rugged," -horrid," ••in hospitable," now, when difficulties of tran sit are overcome, or hailed for the difficul ties cake, description expatiates in the whole gamut of rapture from tender and lovely to sublime. In every pint we aim more at the emotional ; at reaching the heart of things. Our authoresses find great and strange wonderful mediums fir awakening these emotions. In our ordi nary conversation we admit words 'now which were once thought above the tone of common talk ; and we may at any day hear in a party collected for purposes of mere relaxation, words whi,th De.Quineey would forbid for such occasions as inap propriate, and so far indecorous. "Equally with bosom," he says, "are prescribed the words affliction, guilt, penitence, remorse, from the ordinary current of conversation among were acquaintance, because they touch chords too impassioned and profound for harmonizing with the key in which the mere social civilities of life are ex changed." strength is the general aim we do not say effect—in the talk n" the present day. Our slang and epithets all show this. The youth of every period has had, no doubt, a list of epithet+ as short as unmeaning, for visaing judgments on persons and thing., but not neecasarily inspired by the same intention. It strikes us that now whatever inclination there ex ists toward variety lies on the side of vi tuperation. Loathing is more eloquent than liking. It was not always so.— "Heavenly," "pretty," "fine." "sweet." were once as lavishly misapplied as the terrors of our present custom. Formerly. when a speaker wanted to convey his meaning by mere brute strength, a famil iar objurgation too readily presented it self, leaving fancy some range when he set himself to seek secular terms of dis paragement. Happily swearing is out of fashion (as far as we are concerned); but it is impossible not to feel how certain words—a certain word—come into general use, which once would have been inad missible, supplies a need, fills an irksome void left by its profane predecessor.— "Beastly," which we hesitttc to write, is not wrong ; but it is rude, awl imparts to the speaker some of the blind satisfaction of an oath—without the sin.—/Thebroofts Magazine. _ _ _ A Sunny Temper. What a blessing to a household is a merry, cheerful woman—one whose spirits are not affected by wet days, or liar dis appointments, or whose milk of human kindness does not sour in the sunshine of prosperity. Such a woman in the darkest hour brightens the house like a little piece of sunshiny weather. The magnetism of her smiles, the electrical brightness of her looks and movements, infects every one.— The children go to school with a sense or something great to be achieved ; her hus band goes into the world in a conqueror's spirit. No matter how people annoy and worry hint all day, far off her presence shines, and he whispers to himself : "At home I shall find rest." So day by day she literally renews his strength and ener gy, and if you know a man with a beaming face, a kind heart, and a prosperous busi ness, in nine cases out of ten you will find he has a wife of this kind. IF a railroad train that is run intoanoth er is telescoped, a man who is run into by a wild young ox must be stare-scoped. THE man who said there was nothing slower than a boy on an errand, never rode down town in a horse ear. The Highest Mountain in the World. For many years pot Mount Everele_ in that portion of the grent Himalaya ranee which occupies the western part of the strange kingdom of Nepaul, iternediately north of India. has been rexar.le-1 10 the highest to metal nin the world. It is known to the Nepanleste ass Gtorixanker. hot the Enzlish name is Everest. in honor of a dis tinguished (Ai -et of the British Indian to pographical survey. Its snow eapped sate • mit is 29.00'2. cr nearly ive miles and a half, ab-ei-e the level of the sea. We...error no one has ever aAcended it to this lie.izbe. but its altitude. Lke that of the other lefty peaks of the Himalaya. was ascertained lay trianguiat . ini : And until the present tiese it has n it been siippesed that any higher land existed on the earth. If the new 4 be true. however. which bee lately coinc to as from the more distaste east. titer! is a loftier peak than *mit Everest in the goat island of l'iont New Gaines. This vast region, extensive enough to firm six states as 6r7vt air Ness York. is as ye: almost wholly enesplered. except along its eremite. Lyinz elate hp the equator. where the Indian ocean led the Pacific meet. it is the *notes* of the mew wary an-I the bird of paradise. a enesetry grand in its scenery. rich in its vermin,. and Abounding in enriotts and liesmitifel thrum of animal h re—the TaritsWe wwweimr land of the globe. An attempt to explore the unka.iwn interi,r of the island was made fr en T.srres Strait. which reparatee it from ustrilii, by raptian .J.. 1 Lawson in the yea: I -71 : and if we may believe hr. publishe 1 narrative of the jonney. which has just appzared in Loudon. be advanced several haniirci mixes inland. awl about midway between the north and swath meat discovered 3 inonntian 31.7 , 43 feet high. which he rr.rned Monet Hen-ales. The height of this monstais—over Us miles—;4 not the only remarkable thief about it. its apparent elevation is !unlit tle less thin it-4 elevation ; stea,l of rising from 2 lofty table Wed like the plateau of central it seas& is a eompnratirely low plain only Aloes INOD feet above the ocean. and till/give.* clear rise of more than 30.900 feet Ants the ster- round; ng c9nnt ry. Th. tr2v4er...tawrieg at its bale. Coo Id look op and see its, Angry peak towerin% :WNW t%et skyward kens where he soot Fader +rich eirraamtarpres the aliende of a neonntain is appreciated. Captain Lawson tells as that he ewier took the aseent. formidable as it aproreil. lie dial not reach the top. bet we believe the achievement which he relates it en paralleiel in the recnris of ownewhosie erintr. .‘eentopanied by one senses& he set out fro-n the foot at four Welneit in the mornihz They passel throes-et dense forests in the srit two thonsind Awl of perpen lieniar progress. Fiend the lim s of tree growth at eleven thousand firs. and by nin2 o'clnek had reached a point tier. teen thon , angi fe , t above tae 44.3 1,74 alm•l4t, 3.4 bi,h as the' towel. MltierhoTT, thowand feet higher was the I ill,. ant they began visa:Tn. Prim the odd. the . ? passed on drowsiness beTan in *Ter conic them. -Nothing wan to be sen hest snow of th.• f bin IT whiten.-u' Ks. cry peak anal crag was enverel wit's it. and it hong over the edges of the dills in long fle!ey nea.ssau. - Their eyes were sf fectei by the giar and they felt themselves growing , more and more letherzie. -At length hl.ovi began to f few& onr nos .4 aml elm" tar• spelt, lemene. and nay hr-x 1 :ached an a 41141 . 3etti11.: now ner. I saw shit our only chance of pew wa4 to retreat without delay ; for we were in a Oarsl plight. our lips and glints and the Akin of Oar hand. and faces w..re cracked and bleeding. an-I ear eyes 0r.0.! bloodshot awl *won', to so alarrni,...; extent. The thermometer b. Annk t I twenty-two degrees below the freezinz point. and the air was so rarefied that we were ra.7insc rather than hvoseh , . Our staves fen from oor Trio". oriel we could not pick them up nain, heursisb etl wen: our arms and hinds. It was now one. o'e;ock. and the greateis etc.-slim we had attained was 25,314 tert.— They then turned back. descended to the limit or the snow in three hours. awl sr rive.l nt thcir clasp at the b ths moos tain ab.tut half past ser*n in tSe events* Thus. in fifteen hour. and a half. they hall nseenfiefi an absolute height nr 2.1.6100 roe. to an elevation which we believe is ;riveter than any ever b^rwe rtaine4 br an, era the surrace of the earth. althoairh 641.).• ists have occastonallyz.ne hither. These are womie,iful soil Ow re tier lirly desire to know whether ar.• t; together trtrtt in their anthe.ntirity ir curacy. The fresh. spirited. 3 rtfl interest is% narrative in which Tut have rowed thews is publishe4 by one of the irwrit respcc - ...thie firms in London. and it pot forth as 2 genuine book of trave'.s The antbor . ... ro3nt of the 9 trn, thf! Fattna. and tbe habitants of New Guinea. e inta•-ii that is :ntrvelira.. that certainly to-,. hitherto broln unknown soil an.a.pecte.l. S out: of the statements, also. are difficult to reconcile with our previorktly *Nair"l knowledge concerning the islarpl. risky these eireamstarr-e.. hi. ntrintive iik,fy to be repril,rl much ars we shool I view tie testimony of a single. strange witness le a startling fact ; we do sot believe it. bet we shmild like to hear mom • co.r..borative evidence. This will prrbably 4ml-A by subriequent explorations. An Awful Liar. Flt di~in . t look like a list. Ile had. is fact. is George Washinztool ar Lee. and his enunciation was hancl:y honest an.i decidAiy nasal Ile Ase misting his aster nate sides in front of a red hwt saloon stove. amid a party of bormwrs wile) were trying to out he each other. -Talkie' about light.nin . . - !raid he. ••1 reckon none n' von lazazirrani wns ever struck. wis yon' No : Well, I vat TOO see I was out sbootin prairie chickens§ is F:e I i noy . last .1 ngthst .artil there e.spe the awfulest thisocier storm I ever me in the whole course of nay lire. It raised cats and dog's. and the tlinnikr roiled awl the forked lit:htuin•dart,A a:: over the shy like fiery tonzue.s. I g,t behind a hayseaet that sort o' leaned over tothesooth.andthe fi!st thing I knowed the lights's' eruct that and set it afire. Then I alloyed to a walnut tree that stood near. and a doable j'inted bolt ripped that into sisters. moved to another tree and the lizhtmo struck it. Then ! bewail to think it astrint me. and so I jest walked out. bumped Noy self up, and took three or roar of the d—deat claps I ever heard. It shah me up right peart ; but beyond rippin* the coat offen my back and Thula' one of NOV boots from top to too. it didn't do me no, particular damage. But you didn't Ihull rid Jim armors' huntin' a row o' that kiimisikn - The discomfited banswr4 l'soksi curi ously into each other's fares a sanwiese, and then, one by one, 'silently rose mod sneaked not, leaving Truthful James nuns ter of the field. ladaseful Mem 111,q4s .111.0.riogn imediedis Perserp No. 4 mob. IC tow pi:: fait wirek. 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