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IN MKHOllV OF JAMF.S TTOKNOU F1F.I.DH, Until wo moot again I That is tho meaning Of tho familiar words that men repeat At parting in tho Btroot. Ah, yos, till thou I but when death intervening Bomls nn asunder, with what ce!tneen pain Wo wait for tho Again I Tho friends who leave ns do not feel tho Borrow Of parting as wo feel it who mnet stay Lamenting day by day, Ami knowing, when wo wako upon tho morrow, Wo ahull not find in its accustomed placo Tho ono beloved face. It wero a double grief, if tho departed. Being released from earth, should Htill retain A neimo of earthly pain; It woro a donblo grief if tho trno-hoartod, Who lovod uh hero, should on tho further shoro llememler us no more. Believing, in tho midst of our afflictions, That death is a beginning, not an end. We cry to them, and send Farowellp, that bettor might bo called predic tions. Being foreshadowings of tho futuro, thrown Into tho vast Unknown. Faith overleaps tho confines of our reason, And if by faith, as in old times was said, Women received thoir dead Raised uj to lifo, then only for a season Our partings arc, nor shall we wait in vain Until wo moot again ! Atlantic Monthly. LOVE'S TALISMAN. ' I'm sorry, miss, but you've come to tho wrong place, entirely. The Dover you wanted to go to is in another State; yon should have taken another road." The clerk at the station glanced with a feeling of sympathy and admiration at the graceful figure before him ; a girl of nineteen, a brunette of the loveliest tyii whose jet-black hair was arranged with such exquisite taste that it made the broad, high forehead, expressive brown eyes, and graceful, full throat ap pear to the best advantage. Her dress and whole manner denoted that she was a foreigner, while it needed only a glance at the unconscious yet artistic grace of her simple mourning attire to iijdijte her French nationality. rt-mafl'rriMit the young traveler Eiooa in humiii perplexity, men, raising her face with a half wistful expression, asked: " What can I do ? IIow can I get to the place I was trying to reach ?" " You can scarcely do bettor, miss, than return to Jersey City," Baid the -clerk. "And if you wish to go back immediately a train that will take yon will be here in a half hour ; a night train, it is true, but pleasant and safe. Step in here and sit down," he said, opening the door of the waiting-room ; " and I'll call you when the train comes." Having entered the apartment, tho young stranger dropped wearily into a chair. For a moment or two she sat motionless ; then drawing a small golden locket from her bosom, attached to a chain round her neck, she held it in her hand, gazing upon it with mournful tenderness,-as if to dissipate by the memo ries it evoked the feeling of lonelinoss and desolation that oppressed her. Three weeks before Julie De Silver had stood beside the death-bed of her last surviving parent, her mother, who had placed the locket in her hand, saying: . ' Julie, my darling child, this is all I have to leave you; take it with my dying blessing, for you have been a good and devoted daughter. It was a talisman of love to me, and I wish that it might prove such to you. Farewell, my child, and may tho Lord bless you and bring you among frio. ds;" and with these parting words the weary head had settled more heavily back upon the pillow, while the sigh that fluttered over the pale lipa had told that tho eiirit was departing. Julie was now alone in the world, save for a distant relative, an aunt of her mother, living in America. She was not known to be in other than very moderate circumstances, but Celeste De Silver had hoped that she might receive and care for tho child for her sake, and she had written a brief note to her, just before her death, leaving it in Julie's care, to be delivered when she reached that far-off place. A week later, with all her worldly goods in a small hand-sachel, the pre cious locket suspended by its golden chain about her neck, and but a few dollars in her 'slender pocketbook be yond what would suflice to pay for a steerage passage to the new world, Julie De Silver took a. last tearful farewell of the land of her birth and early years, and embarked on the vessel that was to bring her to America. Arriving at the end of a short pas sage, and with but little knowledge of the languagt? 'he now heard around her on all sides, t a had asked at tho office to which she had been directed for a ticket to Dover. " Dover, Delaware ?' thejicket agent had inquired, in a quick, brusque tone, but bewildered and almost deafened by the babel of noises about her Julie had only heard the first word, and hav ing answered "yes," had found herself the next moment hurried along to a seat in the cars. It was evening and quite dark, when hearing the conductor call out "Dover 1" Julie supposed her destination was reached. But on stepping from the cars and asking the clerk at the station to direct her to her aunt's house, at the j-.i-ne time hhowiug hyu tho address oa tho address, she learned to her dismay mar, sue nau come to the wrong place. Weary with the fatigue and excite ment of her journey, with her heart full of pensive thought and recollection, Julio sat in tho littlo waiting-room, turning the locket over and over in her hand, until her tears began to drop slowly down upon it. With tho de pressed feelings her mistake had occa sioned, the future lookod more than over dark and uncertain to her. She had no certainty of finding her aunt at all, for it was several years since she had been heard from, and if she did not, what would become of her, alone, homeless, friendless, almost penniless, a stranger in a strange land? "Oh mother! mother!" she mur mured, as in a paroxysm of grief and distress she pressed the little locket to her lips. " This will soon be all I have in tho world. Oh, that your prayer might bo answered, and that it might indeed prove love's talisman to me ! If I fail to find my aunt after all, I shall wish I had died in my own dear France, rather than breathe my last sigh in a strange land !" As Julie sat there absorbed in her sad thoughts the door opened and a tall, handsome man, about forty-five years of age, entered the waiting-room. Julia did not look up, nor in fact notice his entrance, for she had at that moment opened tho locket and was gazing upon tho finely executed miniature it con tained. The new-comer, however, seemed struck by the silent eloquence of the lovely young face, and after watching her for a moment from where ho stood, passed quietly forward and took a seat a littlo distance from her, where ho could obtain a" view of her profile. As ho was about seating himself, how ever, his eyes still fastened upon her. caught an imperfect glimpse of the min iaturo likeness. For a moment ho seemed strangely affected, then bent for a closer look, and finally conquer ing his irresolution, stepped up to her side, and, removing his traveling cap, said, in a grave, courteous tone : " Fardonnez moi, mademoiselle, mais vous etes Francaise je crois ?" At the sound of the dear familiar tongue the beautiful girl raised her hqad with involuntary eagerness, while a deep flush dyed her pale cheek. '! Oui, monsieur !" she replied, as she bent an earnest look into his face. " Will you permit me to examine that locket for a moment ?" continued the gentleman, still speaking in the same language. With an instinctive confidence, which she had no time to analyze, Julie de tached the locket from the chain and placed it in his hand. On one side was engraven tho national fleur-de lis, and on the other an inscription, "Jose phine to Celeste Dupont, 1812. Gage d'amour." " May I ask you where you got this ? " said the gentleman, as, after examining the outride of the trinket attentively he opened'it, and gazed earnestly at the pictured face within. "It was my mother's dying gift," re plied Julie, while tho tears started to her eyes. "And,' pardon my curiosity, from whom did she receive it ?" " From her royal mistress, the Em press Josephine. My mother was her favorite dame d'honneur," said the young foreigner, beginning to tremble with a strange feeling of agitation. "Can it be possible," exclaimed the gentleman ; then added eagerly: "Listen to me, young lady. My mother was a Dupont and had a sister Celeste, many years younger than herself, who, for some act of faithfulness to her royal mistress, received just such a locket as this. Moreover, I have a portrait of the unhappy empress at home in my library, which is tho exact counterpart of this miniature. And now tell me who you are." With a heart beating fast, Julie re lated her simple story, telling how her father and brother had been killed in buttle, and that her mother having died of a broken heart, had committed her to tho care of the only relative she be lieved to be living, in Dover, Delaware, and how she had taken the wrong train and was now waiting to return to Jersey City. " IIow strange I" exclaimed the gen tleman, whose emotions would scarcely permit him to wait until her brief and touching story was finished. "Your mother did not know that the son of her only sister, Hortense, who was supposed to have died in prison in those troublous days, had succeeded in making his escape, and had flei to this happy land, where he is and has been for years a prosperous merchant. Your face would tell mo you were the child of Celeste Dupont, even if your words had not confirmed it. Julie, my "dear littlo cousin, look up ! your wanderings are over ! This gift of your dying mother has indeed been love's talisman, for it has brought you to your own, who will cherish you as long as you live ! It was providence, not fate, that led you to the wrong train, and that delayed me from returning to my home this morn ing as I had intended to do. I am Julian Armand, your own cousin and nearest relative. You are among stran gers no longer !" For a moment Julie could only look at the gentleman before her in silent bewilderment. Before he spoke to her she had been utterly alone, and here were friends, protection and home raised up for her as by the touch of a magi cian's wand. While she sat, unable to speak from the excess of her conflicting emotions, the gentleman drew out his wateh, and opening tho buck, disclosed .to her. a luiuiuturo bet in tho case, vLiih she at once recognized from its resem blance to her mother. " That was my mother's likeness," said Mr. Armand. "You might almost have sat for the portrait yourself, it is so wonderfully Jjke you. I have a por trait also of my Aunt Celeste, but he was fair." Then closing the back of tho watch and looking at tho dial, he continued : " Tho train I take will bo hero in a few minutes. Shall I pur chase a ticket for you and take you to my home in Pittsburg? I have no daughter only ono adopted son and my wife will welcome you aa if you were her own." The sight of that, miniature had dis sipated the last doubt or misgiving that Julio might have felt, and holding out her hand, while the grateful tears gath ered fast in her eyes, she exclaimed : " Yes, I will go with you, and I thank heaven that I have found a friend !" Twenty minutes later the orphan girl, her face radiant with hopo and happiness, was seated beside her newly found relative, in tho cars that were speeding them onward toward the home henceforth to be hers. It was a long ride, and the first flush of sunrise was turning the morning sky from gray to crimson when they reached the depot where they wero to alight. But a tele gram had apprised Mr. Armand's family of his coming; and as he assisted his young charge from the cars, the first object her eyes fell upon was a tall, handsome young man of about three and twenty, who advanced eagerly along the platform to meet them. " Here is the friend I mentioned i my telegram," said Mr. Armand, aa tho young man bent an inquiring yet re spectful gaze upon his fair companion. " But she will be more than a friend to us all, for she is tho only surviving child of my mother's only Bister, now dead. And this, Julie," he added, " is my Bon, Victor." The lovely dark eyes wero lifted for a moment to tho face of the young man, and the little rose-leaf hand placed with a charming commingling of timid ity and confidence in his, outstretched so impetuously to clasp it. Then again offering her his arm Mr. Armand led her to where a pair of prancing bays were harnessed to a commodious car riage. Six months had passed since Julie De Silver was brought to tho home where she had met and continued to find so loving a welcome. Mr. Armand had made inquiries concerning the aunt to whom her mother's letter had been ad dressed, and learned that she had died about the timo Julio had set sail for America, leaving barely enough to pay the expenses of her sickness and burial. It was a lovely summer afternooD, and the young orphan was seated upon the broad porch which ran around one side of the house, with a book lying idly 'upon her lap. A quick step sound ed near her, causing her to glance up. while her cheek took a deeper tinge as she saw Victor approaching her. "Julie," he said, taking a seat beside her and lifting in his hand tho little locket which she always wore about her neck, whilo his voice, always rich, and of late so wonderfully sweet to the ear of tho orphan girl, now held a deeper and more earnest cadence than ever be--fore, "this little locket which your mother prayed might be love's talisman to you, has wrought its mission well, for it has led you to tho friends who were glad to welcome and receive you. But its mission were, aftei all, but half performed if it must end there. Julie, my darling, tell me shall this little trinket be love's talisman to us ? Shall its mission be consummated and crowned by bringing your heart to mine; to find there its real and perman ent home V" Julie did not answer for a moment, but her lips quivered and her bosom heaved. Then taking the locket he had relinquished, she placed it gently in his hand, saying, in a voice full of sweet, tremulous emotion : "Let its mission bo fulfilled and crowned, Victor, my own !" and tho next moment her head was resting upon his shoulder, while her lips met his in a betrothal kiss. The engagement was soon made known to Mr. and Mrs. Armand, whose con gratulations were profuse and sincere. Mr. Armand himself appointed the wed ding day, and orders were sent out for the bridal trousseau, which was to be made in Paris, in honor of his lovely young relative. One year from tho time Julie De Sil ver left her native land, a homeless and almost penniless steerage passenger in an American ship, she stood, clad in her shimmering bridal robes, by the side of Victor Armand giving undeceiving the vows which secured to her his love and protection as long as they both should live. But aii.ong all tbe'elegant and costly adornments with which the fond affec tion of her relatives had arrayed her, the dearest and most highly prized was the little locket, suspended from its golden chain, which had been to her in so signal a manner a talisman of love, joy and peace. His Assets. Here is a man who smiled at his pov erty and wrote a list of his assets in jocular vein as follows: I, A. B., solemnly declare I have but little money to spare. I have 1 little house, 1 little wife, 2 little boys, 2 littlo trutle, 2 little laud, and 2 little money to command. Always willing to give his noteThe miti-io teacher. ODDITIES. The bee-beetle can draw forty timea its own weight. At Blinah, Algeria, may be seen euca lypti, only five years old, sixty feet high. In tho State of New York setting fire to an apple tree is known as arson in tho fourth degree. Over sixty steamers plying in West ern and Southern waters have adopted the electric light, thereby greatly les sening tho liability to accident from fire. Iron was so scarce in England during the reign of Edward III. that tho pots, spits and frying-pans in the royal kitchen were classed among the king's jewels. Six months ago a party of hunters tried to smoke out a fox that had taken refuge in a hole ten miles west of Som erset, Ky. In so doing they set fire to a bed of coal, which has been burning ever since. The sea-cucumber, one of the curious jelly bodies that inhabit the ocean, can practically efface himself when in danger by squeezing the water Out of his body and .forcing himself into a narrow crack so narrow as not to be visible to the naked eye. He can throw out nearly the whole of his inside and yet live and grow it again. The octopus has a gland which se cretes an inky fluid, and this he squirts out, making a thick, dark cloud behind him which bailies his pursuer at the same time that it helps itself to dart away. Mr. Darwin asserts that the oc topus often takes deliberate aim at an enemy when it squirts out this unpleas ant fountain. Archaising in the Revised New Testa ment. Professor Fisher, of Yale, contributes a scholarly and thorough review of " The lievised New Testament " to Scribner, enumerating all the important changes and on the whole commencing the conscientious and careful work of the revisers, although he takes exception in some few minor instances. After giving several examples of the changes made by the committee, he writes as follows : The authors of the New Revision, had they undertaken to exclude all ar chaisms, would have been obliged to go farther in modifying the tone of the re ceived version than was necessary or desirable. They have wisely decided to retain such as are perfectly intelligible and cannot bo dropped without dispell ing in some degree, the atmosphere that invests tho ancient translation. There is no objection to saying that Jo seph " minded to put her away privily" (Matt. i. 19). Every "ones sees the meaning of "minded" at a glance, with out reflection. In some instances, how ever, archaic forms have been retained, which are less agreeable, and which might have been spared without the least harm. Why was it necessary to re tain the word "bewrayeth" " Thy speech bewrayeth thee" (Matt. xxvi. 73)? The difference between this word and " betray eth," if there be any difference, readers will not discern. In the Lord's Prayer, why do we still read, " which art in heaven," for "who artinheavenV" It appears that the retention of "which" is due to the English branch of the board of revisers. It is a remarkable fact that the English company, with the uprightness which belongs to the char actei of truo scholars, and with a genu ine English boldness in a matter where truth is at stake, do not hesitate to alter the form of the Lord's Prayer, by sub stituting " as we have forgiven" for " as we forgive " and "deliver us from the evil ono," in the room of "deliver us from evil," it is i emarkable, we say, that the same scholars should cling to the old " which" for the modern and more grammatical "who." Fearless in revising the Greek text to make it accord with the demands of truth, they are excessively cau tious about modifying the English phrases which represent it. Owing to the same mood of feeling they hold on to "whiles" "whiles thou art in the way with him" -(Matt. v. 25) as if " while " ia the room of it were not harmless, and a better word for the modern ear. If it be asked why "which" is kept in the Lord's Prayer and " whiles " In tho Sermon on the Mount, the solution must be found in that tena cious conservatism in minor things which belong, in unison with a cour ageous spirit of progress, to the Eng lish mind, and is discerned in many phenomena of English life. Why do the boys in the great school at Win chester still eat their supper off wooden plates ? Why do the lawyers and judges still load their heads with ponderous wigs? When such questions are an swered the reason w ill perhaps be found why the giving up of dear old " which " and "whiles" is a thing not to be thought of. Ostriches, when the full number of eggs has been laid, invariably place one or two outside the nest the nest con sisting naturally of a hollow scooped out of the land by tho action of tho wings and legs of the birds. It has been found that these eggs are reserved as food for the chicks, whioh are often reared in a natural stall miles away from a blade of grass or other food. Old Cornmodoro Ericsnon in New York ;s still busily engaged on his solur engine, which is to drive a locomotive across tho desert of Sahara by means of heat from the sun's ruys focused on mirrors and directed upon a boiler. WHAT IS NICKEL? The Material Out at WMch Our Five-Cent t)in In iMmle. Since tho convenient five-cent coin which, in common talk, is called " a nickel," has come into general eireula tiion, the question above is asked either mentally or morally hundreds of times every day, and but few get an intelligent answer. In China and India a white copper, called pack tong, has long been known, and has been extensively used both there and in Europe for counter feiting silver coin. About the year 1700 a peculiar ore was discovered in the cop per mines of Saxony, which had tho appearance of being very rich, but in smelting it yielded no copper, and the miners called it knpfer-nickel, or false cojTer. In 1754 Constadt announced the discovery of a new metal in kupfer-nickel, to which he gave the name of nickel. It was in combination with arsenic, from which ho could relievo it only in parts. The allov of nickel and arsenic' which he obtained was white, brittle and very hard, and had a melting point as nearly as high as cast-iron. It was not until 1823 that pure nickel was obtained by analysis of German silver, which had for a number of years been produced at Suhl, in Saxony. Its composition was ascertained to be copper ten parts, zinc five and nickel four. If more nickel be used the alloy is as white aa silver and susceptible of a very high polish, but becomes too brittle and hard to be ham mered or rolled, and can be worked only by casting. Pure nickel is a white metal winch tarnishes readuy in the air, Unlike silver, it is not acted ' on by the vapor of sulphur, and even tho strong mineral acids at tract it but slightly. Nickel has the hardness of iron, and, like it, has strong magnetic properties, but cannot be welded and is soldered with difficulty. Pure nickel has heretofore been used chiefly for plating, for which purpose its hardness and power to resist atmospherio influences admirably adapt it. ithin the last year the French have succeeded in rolling the metal into plates, from which spoons and dther table furniture may be pressed. Nickel bronze, which consists of equal parts of copper and nickel, with a little tin, may be cast into very delicate forms, and is supceptible of a high polish. Mines of nickel are worked at Chatham, Conn, and Lan caster, Penn., and it is said to be found at Mine La Motte, Mo., and at several points in Colorado and New Mexico, where but littlo atten tion is paid to it. It is extensively mined in Saxony and in Sweden, but the discovery of a new ore, (a silicate of nickel) in New Caledonia, will probably suspend the use of the arsenical ores, and yet bring nickel into common use. Switzerland, in the year 1832, made a coin of German silver, which is identi cal in composition with our nickel coin. The United States made nickel cents in 185G, and eight years later coined the five-cent pieces. Belgium adopted nickel coinage in 18G0 and Germany in 1873. England has lately coined pennies for J amaica, but at home sho and France adhere to the clumsy copper small change. A United States Boundary Line. The northern boundary of this coun try is marked by stone cairns, iron pil lars, wood pillars, earth mounds and timber posts. A btono cairn is seven and a half feet by eight feet, an earth mound seven feet by fourteen feet, an iron pillar eight feet high, eight inches square at the bottom and lour inches at the top, timber posts five feet high and eight inches square. There are 382 of these marks between the Lake of tho Woods and the base of the Rocky mountains. That portion of the bound ary which lies east and west of the lied river valley is marked by cast-iron pil lars at even mile intervals. The British place one every two miles and the Uni ted States one between each British post. Our pillars or markers were made at Detroit, Mich. They are hol low iron castings, three-eighths of an inch in thickness, in the form of a trun cated pyramid, eight feet high, eight inches square at the bottom and four inches at the top, as before stated. They have at the top a solid pyramidal cap, and at the bottom an octagonal flange one inch in thickness. Upon the opposite faces are cust in letters two inches high the inscriptions, " Conven vention of London " and " October 20, 1818." The inscriptions begin about four feet six inches above the base, and read upward. The interiors of tho hollow posts are filled with 'well-seasoned cedar posts, sawed to tit, and se curely spiked through spike holes cast in tho pillars for tho purpose. The average weight of each pillar is eighty fivo pounds. The pillars are all set four feet in the ground, with their in scription facing to the north and south, and the earth is well settled and stamped about them. For the wooden posts well-seasoned logs are selected, and the portion above tho ground painted red, to prevent swelling and shrinking. Those posts do very well, but the Indians cut them down for fuel, and nothing but iron will last very long. Where the line crosses lakes, mountains of stone have been built, the bases being in some places eighteen feet under water and tho. tops projecting eight foet above tho lake's surface at high-water mark. In forests the lino is marked by felling the timber a rod w ido and clearing away the underbrush. The work of cutting through the tim bered swamps was very great, but it has been well done and tho boundary distinctly marked by tho commissioner tho whole distance from Michigan to Alaska. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. The buzzing and humming noise of certain insects is not vocal, but is pro duced by very rapid flapping of the wings against the air or the body. Bj an ingenious mechanical device it has; been found that the wings of a gnat flap at the rate of 15,000 times in a second. Tho entire surface of the globe oc cupies about 200,000,000 of square . miles, nearly three quarters of which is covered by water, that is, the extent of the water is nearly three iimes as great as that of the land. The surface of tho sea in the Southern Hemisphere is to that in the Northern in about the ratio of thirteen to nite. Tho absorptive power of fine char coal is about half as much as that oC box-wood. The charcoal made from cork-wood, which is very porous, is not absorbent, neither ia graphite. Tlati num, in the finely divided form known as platinum sponge, is said to absorb 250 times its volume of oxygon gas. Many other porous substances, such as meerschaum, gypsum and silk, are highly absorbent. Numerous examples may be cited of the extreme divisibility of matter. The tenth part of a grain of musk will con tinue for years to fill a room with its odoriferous particles, and at tho end of that time will scarcely bo diminishel in weight. Blood is composed of red, flattened globules floating in a colorless liquid called serum. In man tho diam eter of one of these gloubles is less than the 3500th part of an inch, and tho drop of blood which might be suspended from iho point of a needle would con tain about a million of globules. A paper on electricity and tho an nouncement of fire lately read by M. Bartelons before tho scientific section of the Syndical Union of Belgium, stated, on statistical evidence, that with the most perfected systems serious fires were reduced tc four per cent.; with systems of telegraph lines, but without alarms, they still reached seventeen per cent.,!while without telegraphic assist ance they reached twenty-seven per cent. A system of lighting railroad cars with gas has been tried on tho Baltio railway. The gas is made on the care by the action of sulphuric acid on zinc, the resulting hydrogen being carbureted by being passed through naptha vapor. It is said that this gas has very littlo odor, and its flame is bright, white and constant, and that it is cheaper and gives better results than stoarine can dles. ' Condition of the White House. The sickness of Mrs. Garfield has led to an investigation of the condition of the executive mansion, and it will not be surprising if tho result is a rebuild ing of that antiquated and rat-infested structure. It was visited by members of the Senate committee on public build ings and grounds, accompanied by Colonel Casey, late commissioner of publio buildings, and others, and a thorough examination was made from top to bottom. It was found that the lower , l&sement story, which is under ground, ( was cold and damp, moldy and rat- ; infested. Upstairs tho accolnmoda- Hons are far from being sufficient. ' Most people will bo struck with won- '; der when they hear that, although the J: Garfield children sleep two in a room, and the whole family is rather crowded, ; there remains only one spare chamber . which could be devoted to a guest if the President wero to have ono to-night. The President and Mrs. Garfield bpve only one room each. There is a great lack of modem conveniences, which did not exist when the White House was built in 1816, and which can't be intro duced properly on the upper floors of tho presont structure. Then the whole interior is shaky and some of the floors have sagged four or five inches. To meet this state pf things a 'very sensible plan is proposed by Senator Morrill, of Vermont. It is to duplicate the present building in a new structure to be placed south of the present one. Let tho two buildings be connected by a broad and spacious corridor, and lot the new building be devoted entirely to the purposes of a residence, while the old building is remodeled in part and devoted wholly to exec' nd public use. This pkan wac 0 d by Sena tor Morrill some years ago, and im pressed the members of the eommittet and the President himself very favora bly. Such an arrangement would an swer every purpose and tho expenst would not bo great. General Gran would n.t commend it because hi wanted to go to Long Branch to spom his summers. If President Gartioli tries he can bring it about. JJwUa Herald. A Dead City. W. II. nowells, in one of his book of travel, speaking of tho dilapidate walls and towers of an ancient city, ui scribes them as "mere phoiiogmpbi consonants dumbly representing tb ast, out of which nil vocal glory In departed." The rapid changes of hub tation in parts of our own country loa silent examples to justify that strikii figure quite as well. Out in tho White Pino district, N vada, stands the city of Hamilton. '. 1815U there were 40,(MIO iuhubitar there. Now there are less thun 2( Great brick and stone bloiks sta: tenantless, aud rows of wooden buij ings are vacant. j Every family has a whole block) itself, or can have it if it wants to. i I Detroiter and ins Ineni roue on n. back through tho deserted city, a the inhabitants turned out to bi 'ht of a live btruugcr.
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