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SOXS OP MALTA.
Grand Disclosures of the Ceremonies and
3fysleries of the Wonderful Order.
FUN AND MORE FUN GRAND SELL!
From the Zanesville Aurora.
In almost every town and city in this coun
try, there is a lodge of the Sons of Malta.
This mysterious order took its rise in New
Orleans some three or four years ago. There
arc two accounts given of its origin. It is
said, by one account, to have originated with
i tended
divert the minds of the
frightened
people, as well as to supply a fund for chari-
tfce array.pf JWaiker the ImUiLtrttv attfce
12 d ! lme lat woriny was preparing to take Cuba.
. , n2 i An other account says is originated during
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iuu ravanea ui mi; lever, auu iiu ju-
to
-20 00 ; table purposes such as burying the honie
35 00 ', less dead. c.
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C Uiall ,'1 LOVUll y oAvvr -
One of the brethern, who Las been turned
out of the important and secret cilice, the ini
tials of which arc (j.K. J. A., has taken
offence at the order, and communicated to us
the whole proceedings -pass-words, grips,
signs, &c.
When about to become a member of I. O.
S. M. (Independent Order Sons Malta,) the
candidate or candidates presents himself or
themselves in an outer room, where he meets
a committee of oGccrs of the lodgo who come
to him out of the ladgc-rooia, with drawen
.swords in their bauds, with a kind of
three-barred sheet-iron hats on, which hide
their faces ; these officers put test questions
to each candidate ; and any candidate who
hesitates or falters, is allowed to depart in
peace ; thos i who remain pay five dollars each,
aud the committee returns to the lodge-room
j to report on th" casos, and have them ballot
ed to:
The funs tbu? raised paj"8 the rent of the
rtom, and the ballaocc is expended ia chari
ties there are no other due?, for reasons
which will appear hereafter.
After thii caviidates are balloted for and
elected, the Grand Conductor goes out
to the ante-room and escorts the candi
dates to the in.side '.entrance door, where
be pounds oa the door with the hilt of his
sword three times the inside sentinel raises
a little slide in the door peeps out ; and the
chief officer from tl e iuside asks in a loud
voice :
cause of thehub-bnlf?'
The
sentinel answers : Strangers coming into
camp i" To which the chief replies: "Let
'em rip."
Here the door is unbarred with a great clan
king of chains and bolts, aui ihe candidates
aro admitted.
What a sight breaks upon their vision I
The room is nearly dark, as it. is .only light
ed by a lamp of alchobol which sits upon a
c -fuu in the middli of the room and throws
its blue, flickering light around upon the
scene. And such a scene! The members,
dressed as our citizens have seen them upon
the street, are ranged around the room thus:
one lies upon his back his knee bcoide him in
the attitude of a mourner All is still as a
tomb around the room, except in the centre,
whore the coffin lies upon the bier and the
pata lamp flickers upon the scene Beside
that coffin, which is covered with a pall or
Diacu ciotn, marcnes an old man who carries
a musket andbiyonet upon his shoulder an
old man whose white locks of hair hanjr in
weird and tangled masses about his neck
with his left hand he snathes unmeaningly at
bis hair, and then mutters to 'himself as he
turns upon his heel with military precision
and marches bacfc and iortb, passing and re
passing the black palled coffin and flickering
light. At either end of the .coffin stands
figure draped ia white from head to foot.
with upiif.ed hands aud upturned eyes, mut
tering tiom which no sounds issue, and noth
ing oi the laco visible out toe eyes and
mouth. At one of the room sits the Chief
blazing iu red and gold colors, bat motion
iess at the other end sits a skeleton with a
gilded crown upon his head; with one bony
hand pointing upward, while with the other
he cla?p3 to his fleshless ribs the figure of an
infant at either . side of the room sits the
Grand Chancellor and Recorder. Each and
all as motionless as the coffin or the skele
ton.
Around the coffin the candidates march in
an obloug ring, passing farthest from the
coffin and nearest to the members and offi
cers thus leaving the old man room to paoe
to aud tro, up and down the room. The
Grand Conductor marches with drawen sword
at the tail of the line of candidates for iaitia
tion. Three times round the line marches
twice in painful silence, through which noth
ing is heard but the clanking of sword scab
bards as they strike, at each step, the lege of
the Conductor and Sargent during the third
round an organ or inelodeon strikes up a low,
wailing, tremulous, wild, hollow tune, which
ii echoed .back by the members in a low
death song, while the old man marches more
rapidly and mutters louder and louder until
as the candidates finish the last rouud the G.'
C. (as the chief is called) says m a deep voice,
"Peace, venerable father 7 Life is made up
of sorrow, and the world is ripening for
greater sorrow than thine!" peace! Peace !
Be still thou wounded heart To which all
the members respond: "Peace ! Peace I
Be still V then the musio stops and the old
man resumes his quiet march.
. The candidates are now arranged around
the G. It., who questions them as to their in
tensions. If the answers are satisfactory (as
they always are) the candidates are conduc
ted to the skeleton's chair, where a person
hidden behind the grim figure, administers an
obligation to eaoh which binds him from the f
cradle (represented by an infant!) never to
divulge what he may there see or hear. . Af
ter assuming the obligations the candidates
are conducted back to the G. C, through thej
game scene of silence and sorrow, who givw
them some advice, after which they are corf -
ducted to the ante-room. And this ends tire-' towards tue bottom; anumbrella without any
first scene. . -. tsoverings is then hoisted and given to him in
scene second. "Lis left Jbandt while in his right hand is pla-
ke. ., j.j . " ". 1 . ,1 ' ' cela cow Veil he is told to hold up the urn
After the candidates go out and the door. , . & P
closed the memoers m an tnstant spring o; . b f , J
their feet light up the room throw off the.
gowns, put away the coffin ., and ?prep ffr'om ni he bebolds u f
for fun. In the meantime the candidates ar, , , , P . "t .
being blindfolded bo that they cannot see'; io au"Jed by font fifty persons, m their
this condition they are conducted to the. door .'SrJ: 11 la"?,LlDS.at hlm . ' .
again by the same parties as before ; the door C?2&!9 a r ? T ? ton!shed: tthfn
ts team
In rapped up, and this time G. C.
says in a loud voice ;
'What is it makes the alarm ?'
To which the Sentinel replies:
Friends! who will do us no harm!'
To which G C auswers:
Bid them, Beware! Beware!
And welcome to enter here!'
To which all the members respond,
como to eiiter here"
The candidates are then led in, in
Wel-
singie
file, each holding to the coat-tail of the other
In total darkness they are thus marched about
tho. room several times while the room is
lighted brilliantly. All is now silence and
grins except on the part of the candidates,
who are sternly commanded to indulge in 'No
Levity.' They are brought to the chair of
the Grand Commander, where they are asked
all manner of questions, touching their fitness
to bear arms, to swim, to march, a to the
condition of their health, their teeth, &c,
fcc, as to their moral character whether
they are or have been intemperate whether
they have overstepped the bounds of chastity
and so on. In order to get this information
one of the previously initiated heads the line
and stammers out answers to the -questions,
gradually and painfully making himself out a
mighty bad fellow. The others, who are
blinded and cannot se. of course bold them
selves in honor bound to ppeak the whole
truth in such a solemn place as they imagine
this still to be as they cannot see how the
scene has changed. At each answer the G .
C. says "let it be recorded," and the recor
der sings out in a low, hollow tone, as he
writes it down in a great book: 'It has been
so recorded!' Note. The records in that
book must be interesting!
During these questions the candidates are
tried, to test their ability to swim, to sing, to
play the drum vr 'instruments and it must
be amusing to see staid, sober citizens lying
lown face foremost uptra the floor aud t'stri-
king out as if swimming for dear hfe from
Florida to Cuba, as well as going through
other tests of a similar riciculous character
But then, each man thinks, we suppose,
that he must do as ail good f 'Sons of Malta"
have done before bim and therefore goes the
whole figure.
After enough of the above questions are
asked and answered, the candidates take an
other solemn obligation having reference to
the conquest of Cuba, which is administered
ib. ; b:. t,:i u i
Z:r:r:.:::. . . u Viaces
his hand upon a big book, which is
always
carried in procession, and which contains
nothing but the pictures of two Jackasses,
one in the prime of life and the other in a
rapid decline.
, After this the candidates aro told that they
must retire for a moment and prepare to go
through a trying ordeal, which will severely
test their nerves aud manhood.
-They retire, and so ends scene second.
- scene . THIRD.
The candidates are now brought in one ot a
time, still blindfolded. Each . candidate is
brought in, rapidly marched around the room
double quicklime between two guards, and
is then made to run up a steeply inclined' lad
der composed of rollers, which are set toge
ther, and vhich turn under his feet at every
step, and make his legs fly past each other
like sDokes of a ruaawav bnnrrv whnn ha.
gets to the top of this ladder he lands upon a
platform, where stands two more guards, wbo
turn him about and tell him to set down ; he
Cnj
sits down, and they give mm a shove down
the ladder, over the rollers Without any
sled, he rides .this way to the bottom of the
ladder, where he strike a springing board,
just as it is jerked up by two stout men,
which sends him with a bound up towards
the ceiling of tho room as he comes down,
he b caught upon the board in a sittin pos-
turc one of his legs is then polled about so
that be is astride of the board ; and ir this
condition he is carried around the room ic a
procession of the members, while drams and
gongs are being beaten in a most furious man-La
uer.
By this time the candidate, blind as he is
begins to see through the matter, and gets
scared or riled according to the state of his
feelings, but it is too" lata to stoo."
After taking him around f on the room on
ihe board, the G. C. says, "let the cavern
be opened,' and that moment the board is
lowered at one end and hoisted at the other
and the candidate slides down to the mouth
of a large sheet-iron cylinder something
similar to the Emole-stack of a steamboat
and as he slides down, a rough voice whis
pers m.his ear "crawl for your life" fo'low
ing this advice he crawls through the thino-
while all hands are pounding on the outside
of it with sticks just as he comes out. he is
taken again up the -steep ladder of rollers to
the platform at the top. He is now told tn I
stand up strairht, and divest himself of all
rapt -AT -II I
matter that will spoil by coming in contact
with vrater. While he is being thus nrenar-
ed for the water, the members haye got rea
dy a large canvas sheet with rope all around
it; this is placed behind him, and held out
stretched by as many ts can get hold of the
ropes; as soon as all is ready, the candidate
is throwu from the platform back upon (his
sheet, and away he goas up and down no
"sooner 'down than Nip again like -Sancho
LPfoza tossed in a blanket until the mem
bers get tired tossing him, at which time he
U let down upon a mattress; from which he is
lifted back upon the platform, where he is
- jj6et"ririori the top roller with his feet directed
uu f-Tl J' J, S I . ,
Venerable Order.
He is then instructed how he is to get in to
the lodga. lie 13 instructed to come to the
outside door sneeze twice, and 'rap once, at
this, the sentinel raises the slide or wicket in
the door and the candidate says, 'Squi,'' to
which the sentinel says, 'Bob,' then both say
'Squibob, and the member enters. He then
advances to the inside door, where he sneeze?
once and blows his nose, and "raps, at which
the slide is lifted and the candidate says 'La
ger, to which the sentinel responds "Beer.
and then both say 'Swci Glass' and the can
didate enters proceeds to the centre of the
room where he flaps his two opec bands at the
top of his head, after the manner of a Jackass
capping his ears, and takes his seat. These
signs will give admission into any lodge o
Sons in the world if they are properly giv
en.
There are more of these ceremonies, but
these are the ccief 01 them
Of course w; do not vouch for the truth o
all this, bnt is probably true. We tell the
tale as it was told to us.
Storming of the Bastion.
In one of our concluding chapters of Char
Y- i ..vara -w -
les neaae 3 great story, "unite JLaes occurs
the following description of an attack of the
r rencu upon the Bastion fct. Andre, durin
the wars of Napoleon. The picture of the
event has no superior in the language for
graphic description and fearful interest:
"This won't do comrade; must go. I shal
attack your position. So I shall go that line
and bring men up. Meantime pick up my
detatenment. uive me a good piece of vet
erans I shall get one word with you before
we go out. God bless you.
"God bless vou, Itaynal!"
The moment Raynal was gone, Cammille
beckonail. a.Hcu.tenant to- him and -oroe red-
half the brigade to form a loog column on
both sides of Death's Alley.
His eyes fell upon the private Dard.
"Come here," said he.
Dard came aud saluted.
"Have you any one at. Beaurepaire who
would be sorrv if you were, killed?"
"Yes, Colonel Jacinth that used to make
your broth."
"Take this line to Col. Baynal. You will
find him with the 12th Brigade."
"c wruie lcw "u u I
He wrote a few lines in pencil, folded them
and Dard went off with them, little dreaming
that the Col, of his brigade was taking the
trouble to save his life because he "came from
Beaurepaire.
Col Dujardin then went back to his tent
and closed the aparture, and took the ' good
Book the priest ha'd given him,. and prayed
humbly, and forgave all the world.
.Then he sat down, his head in his hands
and thsnhi-ef hiaebild, and how hard it was
to die and never see him.
" One sad sob at this only one.
Then he lighted a candle, sealed up his or
ders of valor-and wrote a line begging that
they might be sent to his sister. Ho also
sealed up his purse and left -a memorial that
the contents might be given to disabled sol
diers of his brigade upon their being inva
lided. Then he took out Josephine's letter.
".Poor coward, said he, "let mc not be
unkind. See. I burn your letter, lest it should
be found, and disturb the peace you prize so
highly. I too. shall soon be at peace, thank
God!" He lighted and dropped it on the
ground; it burned slowly away; ho eyed itdes
pairingly. "Ay, you perish, last record of
unhappy lore; and as you pass away, so I Am
going my soul to my creator, mv body to
dust aye, poor letter! even, so passes away
.my life,' wasted by Generals not fit to com-
maud a Oorporal'i guard my hopes of glory
and my dreams of love it all ends to-day, at
nine-and-twenty." '
He puts his white handkerchief to his eyes
Josenhine had eiven it to him: He weDt
little, not at dying, but at seeing his life
thrown away,
When he'bad ceased weeping, he put the
handkerchief m his bosom, and the whole
man was, transformed beyond the power of
language to express. Powder does not change
more when it catches fire. He rose that mo
ment and went like a flash of lightning out of
the tent. The next hecame down likw a fal
con between the lines of the strong columns
to Death's Alley.
"Attection. cried the sergeants, "the Col
onel."
- There was a dead silence, for the bare
sight of that erect and inspired figure made
th mpn's h.woma thrill with the certaintv of
irr.t .Wda tn nm: , the liht of tha battle"
was in hia eye." No longer the moody Colon-
1. but a thuader bolt of war. red hot. and
riiA tn h Ian n Vied
- .
"Officers, 'seargents, and soldiers, a word
with you." '
"La Croix "Attention!"
"Do you know what has passed here five
minutes ago.'
. "The attack of the bastion was t settled,"
cried a captain.-
"It was; and who was to lead the tssault
I do you know?"
No."
"A Colonel from Egypt!"
A groan from the men.
'With detachments from other brigades."
Ah, an angry roar.
Colonel Dujardon walked quickly down be
tween the two lines, looking with his fiery
eyes into the men's eyes on the right. Then
he came back on the other side and as he went
he lighted those men's eyes with his own.
It was a torch passing along a line of ready
gas lights.
"The work to us," he cried in a voice "like
a clarion, (it fired the hearts as his eye had
fired the eyes,) "the triumph to strangers!
Our fatigues and our losses have not gained
the brigade the honor of going out at those
fellows, that have killed so many of our coin
rades. . . . -
A fierce groan from the men.
"What! shall the colors of another brigade
and not ours, fly from that bastion this after
noon?" "No! no!" in a roar of thunder.
"Ah! you are of my mind. - Attention!
The attack is fixed at five ' o'clock. Suppose
you and I were to carry the bastion ten min
utes before that Colonel from Egypt can bring
bis men upon the ground:
A fierce roar of joy and laughter the
strange laugh of the veterans and born icvin
cibles. "That was a question I put to your hearts
your answer.'
The answer was a yell of exulting assent,
but was half drowned by another lesponse,
and thunder 0 the imperial drums, and the
rattle of fixing hayonets.
The Colonel told off a part to the batte-
"Level the gun3 at the top ties. Fire at
my signal, and keep firing over our heads till
you see our colours on the place."
He then darted to the head of the column,
which instantly formed behind him in the ctn
tre of Death Alley.
"The colors! No hand but mine shall hold
them to-day "
They were instantly brought to him; his
left hand shook them free to the afternoon
breeze.
A deep murnier of joy from the old hands
at the unwonted sight. Out flashed the sword
like steel lightning. He waved it toward the
batterv.
Bang! bang! bang! bang! went the cannon,
and the smoke rolled over the trenches. At
the same moment up went the colors waiving
and the Colon I s clarion voice pealed above
all.
"Twenty-fourth demi-brigade. forward
They went so swiftly out of the trenches
that tbrTWere not seen through 'their 'own
smoke until they had run some sixty
yards. No sooner were seen coming on like
devils, than two thousand muskets were lev-
iled at them from all the Prussian line. It
was not a rattle of small arms it was a crash
and the men fell fast; but in a moment they
were seen to spread out like a fan, and when
the fan' closed again, it half encircled the bas
tion. It was a i rench attack. Part swarm
ed at it like bees part swept round the glacis
and flanked it. They were seen to fall in,
numbers, shot down from the embrasures
But the living took the place of the dead, and
the fight raged evenly there. Where are the
colors? Towards the rear. There the Col.
and a hundred men are fighting hand to hand
with the Prussians, who have charged out
at the back door of the 'bastion. Success
there, and the bastion must fall both sides
knew this.
All in a moment the colors disappeared.
There was a groan from the French line. No
there they were again, and close under the
bastion.
And now in front the attack was so hot
that often the Prussian gunners were seen to
jump down, driven from their posts; and the
next moment a fierce hurrah from the rear
told that the French had won some great ad
vantage there. The fire slacking told a sim
ilar tale, and presently down came the Prus
sian flag-staff. That might be accident. A
few moments of thirsty expectation, and up
went the colors of the twenty-fourth brigade
upon the Bastion of St. Andre.
ihe whole rreuch army raised a shout that
rent the sky, and their cannon began to play
on the Prussian lines and between the bas-
tain and the nearest fort, to prevent a cap
ture Then shot from the earth about a cubic
acte of fire where last the bastion was seen to
stand; it carried up a heavy mountain of red
and black smoke that looked aolid as marble.
here was a heavy, sullen, tremulous explo
sion; that snuned out toe cannon s roar, and
paralized the French and Prussian ganner'a
hands, and checked the very beating of their
hearts. Thirty thousand pounds of gunpjw
der.were in that dreadful explosion.
u ar itseu ncaia its Dream, ana ootn armies
like peaceful spectators, gazed, wonder-struck
Great hell seemed to have burnt through the
earth's crust and to be crushing at Heaven
Huge stones; cannon, corpses and limbs of
soldiers were seen driven or falling through
the smoke. Some of these latter came quite
clear of the ruins, aye. into the French and
Prussian lines, that even the veterans put
their hands to their eyes. Baynal felt some
thing spatter from the clouds. It was blood,
acomrad's perhaps Oh, war! war!
The smoke cleared. Wrhere a moment be
fore stood the frowning bastion nothing re
mained but a blackened and bloody pile of
stones and timbers, with a dismounted cancn
sticking up here and there.
And rent and crushed to atoms beneath
the smoking mass, lay the relics of the gal
lant brigade and victorious colors
Skating Fever. Five hundred person, of
both sexes, were conveyed by" railroad, last
Saturday, from Worcestor. Mass , toWasbac
cum Pond, on a skaticg excursion. An equal
number from Fitchburg, Jtc , met them.
There wero a thousand skating on the pond
at one time.
Report Relative to Rifcd Canou. The
War Department bes received the report of
the board of ordinance aud artillery f fficers
convened recently at Fort Monroe for the pur
pose of trying difTerent prrj.ei:'rs for ri2ed
canon. After making thorough trials of
some dozen or more different projectiles offer
ed, they have come la the conclusion that the
plans proposed by Mr. Dimo?k of St. Liuis,
Mr. Reed of Alabama, aod Captain Dyer, cf
the army, possess sufficiciil merrit to wsrr-st
more extensive trials to deUroe which of
them possesses tho gTeatcit advsrtr.es .1r a
military weapon. They rtccmmei.1 ih-i z
pomtment of a pcra.amcnt board, O vbuiu
all matters.relaUng.to rifled cancn aLill.Jio
referred. .
SpiiTtjeons' Tvbsrnacle. TL Rev. Mr.
Spurgeon's new tabernacle, in London, is de
signed to seat, on the ground floor. 1,572;
first gallery, 791; upper gallery, C74 totil
3,037. - Standing room. 2.SG0. Altogether
5,897 persons. The estituatad cost us 73,
000. ..
.-If his old Tricfcr Willis. rcad:ns that a
young lady of Ec'geCeld, having r large cr
cleatioo (of crinoline) went to a foccy ball as
"The Evening News," her dress bei2g emir 3
ly made of newspapers, s&jt, ' 've sh juld Iika
to subscribe to her."
Epidemic in a Prison. The Cleveland
papers srates that two hai.dred ccn?ict9 aro
now tick in the Ohio Penitentiary, with what
is denominated corn-bread diarrhoea. TLo
disease has assumed an epidemic form, and
appearances at present are alarniiog.
EiLord John Rusell had received an
earnest memorial from leading London mer
chants, entreating him to exert his influence
towards settling tho difficuiaca with China
without resort to arms.
"Gtntletuen," said a tavern keeper
to hia guests, at midnight, "I don't kqow
whether you have talked enough or not.
but for niyself I am going to shut vp "
C7 "Peter," said a teacher to one of his
pupils, "you are such a bad boy, that you
are not fit to sit in the company of go-id toys
on the bench. Come here and eit betide uie
sir I"
S5" "I do not thiuk madam ihat any
ma of the least sense would apprjve your
conduct," said an icdigcant husband.
"Sir," retorted his Utter half, "hew caa
you judge what any man of . the leait sees-?
would do V ,
S&" Wisconsin, is one of the Western States
and its chief productions are pretty girls, rail
road bonds, mink and other skins, seed wheat.
Sons of Malta, tax titles, corner lts and
white fish.
A Western paper ia describing tha ef
fect of a severe thunder shower ssvs. "A cow
was etruck by lightning and instantly killed
belonging to the village physician who had a
beautiful calf four years old."
J- An advertisement reads aj follows :
:'StoIen. a watch worth ten guineas. If t!ij
thief will return it he shall be informed where
he may steal cce worth two of it. and 2.c
questions asked."
u " "upiiMi .'iiesionarr. new a to-
1.' i-t - -
m&tm, wrote home that he "had the melan
choly satisfaction of exaajininr tb? ovca
in which his predecessor was cacLed !
C3- Two men, Joseph Sr arks acd Orar
Flint, were assailed in the sulurN of Balti
more, a tew men's go, by a gang of shoul
der-hitters. 1 Jitt was knocked down, tut
his companion rscsped by flight. Whea the
scoudrels hit Flint, Sparks jlctc.
To Cure Sore Throcd Take the whites of
two eggs and beat them with two ypoossful
of white sugar ; giae ia a little tutors, &nd
then add a pint of lukt warm watt r : r w!l
and di ink often. Repeat the presc-i-ticn if
necessary, and it will cure the mot clstiasto
case of hoarsen ?ss 10 a short lime. Sc
an exths.ngd.
0 S3V3
dhness. Carlyle says, Nine-ttnths of tie
miseries and vices of manhood proceed frcm
idleness; with men cf quick mind, to wlcza
it is especially peroicuus. this babit is coC.
monly the fruit of many di-appiictrntnL, atd
schemes often bafiled; and men fil ia teir
schemes, not fo much for want of string th.
as the ill direction of it. The weakest livir; "
creauturs by cfipe ntrsting IU powers en
single object, can accomplish something; the
strongest, by dispersing his over rnarij. itsv
fail to accomplish anything. The drop h'v
continued falling, bores its passage thrcagb
the hardest rock the hasty torrent rnih
over it with hiduons uproar and leaves to ori
fice behind.
03- "Oh, Jacob." said a master to Lis ap
prentice boy. "it is wonderful to see wbi:
a quantity you cau eat," "Yes, mas
ter. "I ve been practicing since I
a child."
Wi.i
7 It is undoubted lv a dutv to
acquire
riches, not for the condition which thev made
m -
Dat lor tee power they conier. The wisdor .
however, properly la employ them demands
even more earnest stuJy and hooet endeav
or. . . :
tiff" Lord Bacon beautifully said. If
man be gracious to strangers, it shows he is a
citizen of the world, and that his heart is to
island
- " WH. US UCKI fa IS .'J
cut off from the other lands, but a cca
that joins them."
t;ntnt
m 3?" Fearis a prodigious magnifier, ene-
cially where it has beeo excite i by toy unu
sual object. No traveller tret taw a tnie -1
tiger, no landsman ever xpfibctd a rr -a?a
was not a tornado.
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