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~ GRERRFI IROL IGS Diamond Cut Diamond___-- a an] ae eecileebune whiok be Bad mal wi THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY. dared to suggest to him, and upon which hung so many ambitious dreams and h The d had been Gr gx r [aw broken--tha () hii ira tiently holdi vt "Yes, Mr. Dane 8 aunt's » pa y ng @ vistas "Pooh! What es I know about my | skein of white wool on his outstretch- "Fill up your glaes, day Yon | ew He has sat on a stool in my/ed hands, she slowly unfave don't t '47 port every day, you know, othe for my broth-|and wound up its many tangles. Long uch left now | er, a parson, and an improvident ma intment, and God knows how in. 'the old bin. Fill up y: Rete sear . -- as a me to give| much of private suffering and humil- can talk over this matter him «berth, I gave hima and a} iation, broken. dow: poor lady comfortably." lary. I kn othing al him --| until now but the faint sha- A low-swung sh lamp threw 8) what are his capacities for business?|dow of the radiant girl who had gone sub nee over a small ro How can I tell what he off" | forth fifteen years ago from her hap- table in the dining room of one of thé| He spoke with a certain angry impati-| py, if somewhat pen ome, to largest in Cromwel ©jence, a8 though the subject had been} unite her fate with the elderly mil- nters, of antique cut glass, out in bis d before. | lionaire who me a-wooing to the stood on the table, and some old china) «rr 7 might make so Boldag to Bay, overcrowded house dishes, filled with nuts and winter) Mr. Dane, Mr. Geoffrey not only bea Then she had been full of hope and fruits. glitter of silver, | your name, but he is a highly vomit make whilst a few rare hot-house orchids and eucharis- lilies aris a silver bowl, in the cen inh oe the snowy cloth, WS; ling young man, one be / either you glad, indeed, to own laughed shortly, with my good friendl itil hee as Mr. little oltenee. life and energy, determined to er b nd buppy, and to be a wits to him; soon, very soon, she learnt that she had no influence over his life, that ceeding fineness, "You, m only fashion in which she was unable completed the perteo t decorations of /Oh yes, 1 darees y! You have daugh-| to gratify his ambition and his wishes. the amall table. A hale, half push- ters, I believe ?" y ; oman can have bab- ed away at one side, denoted the re-| "Tyo Gehtins Mr. Dane, lovely | ies," sha would say to. herself in the cent departure of a | the ser-| girls, well brought up, well-educated, | bitterness of her soul here is hard- vants, too, had retited, with velvet Ceitanniared young women, with a poor woman rik the streets who footsteps, softly closing the double; , om. no one need ed to be| would not be mere precious to him doors behind them, and ME€D,/ connected." And Mr. Halliday set- than [ am, just that one thing of without a white coal-black, atraight-falling locks. Mat- thew ane was a man born to rule Ready of wit, aed EY 1 the storms and dangers o: depression of trade, and failing commercial impulse. Where others randfather. to Trichet," he no personality since those remote ages French branch, at Lyons, had joined hands with the Lon- don firm, thereby consolidating and} © it to an extraordinary degree. ne one clerk, representing an almost branch of the old tantly: had now no existence. As in d ware escape y bis ever-read pt | low, don't apologize. i tled his chin into his collar with a lit-| w tle conscious pride. Matthew Dane gave him a swift and eudden 'glan arp 18.8 eee io of those aeey hawk-like eyes. Noth d him, no shade of signiti- nce, Lewavae remote, was lost upo take the young couple into partnership ?" "I give you my word, sir--no such rs thpught--nothing so presympiuous--or transient idea did pass|i He ccenees a rough--"the trembling junior part- Sa hastened do cry, with confusion. Dane laughed. 'My good fel- man nature, my dea Halliday, is the sume, all the eld over. as our dear she is your daughter--and my nephew i sphew--and blood is thicker than water--and all the rest of the twaddle, Halliday, eth good fel- ndon, so in Lyons, ne | low." And Mr. Dane slapped his hand as the head and mainspring of the| Upon his knee, and laughed cere ae whole busines: He was, in fac a|@ laugh in which satire and amuse- i-god, not only to the firm, but,|™ent, good nature and ae tg Care unfortunately, to himsel It | cunningly intermingle : seemed to him that he had but t Mr, Halliday sipped at his port with speak, and his word me law; only face of resignation, and looked in- to command, and servile obedience was tensely uncomfortable He never instantly rendered unto him was} quite knew whether the great man master of all that came into contact | Was jest or in Sago A with him, for the heads of other great Your nephew, Mr. * he be- Macthew Dane recommended such and such a course of action, were at once convinced of its is eerie A simp y be- oseph Halliday a rans r of his wife. yet, curiously chorah, it was in the Mrs. Dane that opposition had met that proud and domineering spirit in the most obstinate and ag- ravated form Mr. Dane, had married a wife, not as ordinary men marry, ordi- nury motives. He hud not fulleo in lov. wiih the lady as ordinury mortels art wont to do; neither had be sought her for her fortune, for she was portion lesf and he was wealthy; nor again chosen his bride con any worldly inducement, of hig intluential family, for she sali not boast of any aristocratic connections either mushroom e bac aim family, healthy, with a clear, wholesome skin obust and hearty uppetite d eaid Matthew Dane mar ried her, and Mrs. Dane fell into il! health asbortly after her marriag: and was childless. -- _ first two years of their mur ried | surrounded her with af- eetionate eolicitude ; for the third anu fourth the solicitude remain ined, whilst the affection paled; for the fifth anu sixth,an angry reproachfulness agains and obligations un eart he wish so that he might try his luck once more. the _ man, clean-shaved, hawk-eyed, young yot; bs as" of his seventy years, who gat -- in Cromwell Road, and pa d the tawny-colcured '47 port to his partner. ferent man to imsel Buch strong-featured, @alliday, his partner. ten y er than his superior, he was, nevertheless, much older in per- genal appeara his and whis- che An habitual deference of manner characterised h intercourse wi r. Dane, a s of aspect, a ready. acquiescence of word, that was yet not wholly free from a certain amount of cunning and shrewdness in the expression of pale blue eyes shaded by the peathouss of ling eye "Ful up your eee sien said old Dane, in ta hie Tal strong accents, "and tet me we. 6 are two old men. I am dl you are . is you is, what = e and Trichet? Are ponte 'hi is aplendi cca y set hag call gether for t of s Or geet we 'ake In in *Phillibue oa a third partner? Phillibu a hes Eat pear the great man pret sr a suddenly falling voice, end A odg he was very "silent a te his bow! wi tmond-shaped finger-nail. gan, tentatively, after . ot s.lence during which his superior cracked co tivel and sipped his port contempla- tively. "Ah! Never mind my ne oh w,, my fear friend, let us leave him alone. | * with a a chuckle, hough the prospect of thus destroy ing his brother's son had attractions for him. C'est bien gee n'est-ce pas, as partner Trichet she mythical "Tric as a somewhat familiar Dane's intimate conversation, anid was usually a token that the autocrat was in o g temper. Mr. Halliday, when he heard it, took nat of grace, and laughed the usu-i little "Ha, hal" which he considered due to the time-honored joke "What I want to hea + shone is you daughters, Halli tay," "onebiee ed Mr Jane. "What sort of girls are they you," reple tor, seriously--almost | pathetically. Mr. Dane wavec hand impati ntly. "Pooh! that's not what I mean \s a matter of course, they are good . women are good, till they ire tried," added the old Cynic, with it eneer. " t is not what I want t: now. they clever? they beautiful? Are they healthy in body ind clear in mind? What are thei: haracters, and bag are the distinc tions between them #4 any questions, 1 endeavour to satisfy them nd Me Halliday crossed one leg over ether, and folded his a to gether upon his knee. N 6 look- 'd at him keenly and shergiy. It was, perhaps, not an easy thing to do--thus to define the physical and mental pecularities of his children But Joseph Halliday held in his hand the key to the situation. fie was not 4 great mun was avery shrewd rie why Mr. Dane ---- to know about his girls, and their natures, oo as plainly as though he had he ard him say: "Which of the two is th: 80 ecoming my = I can still rule both him and -~ to answer him diplomatically and cautiously, for, af ter all, it was upon Geoffrey, and not upon his uncle, that the decision woula finally rest. "My two daughters are both, I tha God, in very good health, both are tall and comely-looking, they have brown wenty-two, is of a gentle and cie, although equally tractable, is, nev- er rtheless, r rather a muttered old Dan pee Not at all--not at all: " replied Mr. nc a spas fr my nettled by the mark. "Angel is no means de- folent in ay ana 'character = A mean easily carried away -- her fouling see ogre in the name of fortune, + my good fellow, here broke in old Dan 'Dulcie,' who ever héard of so.mu uc-| Seraphic sweetness one ily! 1f Miss re a little fiend, and see these a , even gitar: fifty, years ou Wall = ge I wh and ee she realize ion with bim, the love had perished, and only the sane and the to frightened of hi scenes of violence and angry reproach- undermined mer ong and ruined her eak creature, feeble mind, yet singing: with a piteous Sega to those kind to , that was what Mra. Matthew Dane an now, after fifteen years of married life. She was fond of Geoffrey, for he was always genile and tender two her, yet she had reason to believe that bee hustind regarded her friendship with him with suspicion and displeasure. pees ¢ sound of the gen- tlemen's. voices the staircase, she ot | him. her armebtie further away from " Don't be talking to me, Geoff," she said nervously; "he will think we have been plotting memathing! "My r aunt, surely that must be tieey." "Oh, you don't know him as I do. He must be master aTOEY NEAT, even over people's thought opened. Geof close to it on a low chiir behind a tall Japanese screen that sheltered the entrance to the roo As the door opened he peere Mr. Halliday ayia: eat Faulkner, eget to France." Faulk- door | ner being the name of one of the head clerks. Then Mr. Dane answered quickly: "No, no, I don't ag enough about him, we don't want a repetition of the Ne Brefour sovndal-tngedy business; with hag By big once lo ey had no re-; ¥. The name of De Brefour ck upon his ears with a strange intensity. Bwiftiy there flashed before his mental vision, tbe long, low room, warm-curtained an -lined, the -- lamp, the flickering Pralen'. the "Lady Hamilton" of his pi who had granted him that one interview, now mor an six weeks 'po--beautiful Rose De setae | y what stron chan had her nme, held wanted within rn innermost ssas of his rr) enh dire im ent he was ee = himself for his folly. Tt was, of_cour: hut a mere coincidence of similarity f nome--it cou be nothing more. And yet the ooincidence was a singu lar one. To Be Continued. AN IRISH GIBRALTAR. ortifying Bereharen as a Great Naval Base. Importance +t Rrmtry Bay. The work of constructing the for- midable Gibraltar fortifications at terehaven--the mouth of Bantry Bay --which is tobe made a fortified naval vase, has commenced. The necessary land bas been acquired on the eastern side of Bere Island and the contractors' engineers and navvies have begun thei work. ~Ten years, it is supposed, will ve allowed for the completion of the fortifications. re range of stately hills are conspicuous, ind give such protection to warships lying in Berehaven harbour that they 'ould not d by an enemy's leet pernanae the latter came within easy range of guns which might be placed aon those hills It is proposed to use those hills for -- fort:fications. "---- Harbour has two en- und Bere Island--by the western, whith is rather narrow, bat- leships enter, an casionally cruisers de y thi route ow cio to block it, even against merchant vessels; ind the intended fortifications will make the eustern side impregnable. the United States, is very § great and it has, more- over, one of the finest natural har- bours of the three Kingdoms giving safe anchorage to all c 8 of ships. in Channel Squadron utilized it this ummer r for torpedo practic: BOUND TO WIN. 6 late Lord moe d wan toe of wating the following st here, poor (A Gaver a. man Labor wmbrre in ae of Hope. takes you into par- Labouchere than went to H' intimated his wish "for this s ove, aad Hope his turn demurred, "eput if t me Bari daughter?" eaid Loo bere. = wc you marry ring's daugh- ter--"_ "= FARM. Sasi seen he ron of are rs the farmer meets with some ditficaltios in any system of rotation that he may adopt. The section of | Jeo lied | COUntry in which the farmer has his farm, the climate and the crops grown most advisable for him to follow. In be a part of the rotation. With these a sen and eyen fourth crop may come farmer desires. If clover, sulbey, and corn are used, a three-year rotation must be followed, allowing one year toeach crop, This is propably as short « rotation as-can be successfully used. If Timothy is sown with the lover to ocoupy the land at the same time, the clover and Timothy may be allowed to ocoupy the land two years, but we doubt very much whether the stock farmer will find Timothy a sat- isfactory feed for his growing stock. growing stock. Where oats can be o- | Successfully grown the rotation can be .| lengthened one year by following corn with oats, following oats with wheat and eowing the clover in the spring after the wheat is sown. This four- year rotation requires the plowing 0! the land twice, while the three-year rotation only requires the land to be turned ince with the breaking plow. othy is used in the rotation, it is surface feeder, as it were, a robber plant that may not refurn to _ the stock farmer a j I have much to do with the rotations ema. doors there would cessful, and these two should always Clover hay is much the better for all} can It should be rememberted that if Tim-| wort ig sting ns arg = d strike them and cut Mt Rad scar its mae: t pays li ¢) re ds @ ere not #0 many illy and dangerous stable be less i of it, but the number of r rs is still are erie and e word of caution now and may do a deal of g THE FARMER'S. WOOD PILE. Many farmers do not seem to rea- lize the economy of having their fire in readiness for the busy season: Where wood is used, it is not only a conven- ience, but an actual necessity to have a year's supply of stovewood prepared each winter, when the work on the farm is less pressing. Drags may be drawn f. the Two men, or lengths, which when split and thrown into a pile, or what is still better, be corded away under shelter, will give you plenty. of excellent, well-seasoned tirewood ; a good er spent for your ine in preparing it t is a pretty sure indication that LA ta a "wide-aw ake, energetic farm- er when y him hustling around in the winter to get hissupply of fire- wood ready for the more busy times. t is an extravagance, a waste of valu- able time, whores the eee and yess urr; , to pec eg of getting firewood. Parhape he teams for you to o. ba or maybe after a long, har work, you must finish up Aid a Aria ns When the farmer hes thin land that he wishes to improve rye ca instead of wheat with dest atarting the clover in the rye, and "hogging the rye," instead of harvesting it. The next year the volunteer rye and clov- er will give a wonderful amount of feed... This way the growth of two seasons is returned to the land. 'The stock farmer following any regular ro- tation, will find it very much to his advantage to have a permanent pas- ture equalling In area at least one- fourth of his cultivated land. If his culitvated land is rich, and gives profitable as permanent pasture. Pas- tures properly managed give great re- -- for the labor expended and be- this, with a sufficient area of permanent pasture the stock need not island is about seven miles . 4 UP-| thereby acre durability ured on grain-growing or cul- . This will prevent the oe is that the per- farmer = "4 part of the tim i: tor The stock farmer is Getatiiniog a rotation The stock farmer in determining a ro- t should grow such crops as he can best is stock. If corn i fed no better hay can be ¢ to balance the corn ra- they do not yield a profitable crop at market prices d they are an uncertain crop ways in any rotation that may be used aim to giye each crop the best -- instance, in th best - cheaply produced after the corn. chances for best results would be less ened to grow two crops of corn after clover and for the clover to occupy the land two years after the so be a prs a past tal when each crop has had i pene gg do not rsa it <i vteclt, WHEN TO CUT TREHS FOR LUM- ~~ BER. 'With proper after treatment of the wood, the time of felling does not seem to affect its durability, Winter fell- g is generally preferable to summer felling because both fungi and insects be handled more at leisure, both in the woods and during shipment and con- uite an exten o these put through the dry kiln before pr fungi ane beetles 4 . chance to the produc etmmer felling is +: * good as tbat of any win- ter felled timbe - here loggin done in a small way the cueing, of timber in summer usually involves loss and commonly leads to inferior product.-- Peeling atanaing timber ane allowing it to sea- son on the stump is often recommen nd- ed, but has never found favor in this country. Girdling timber to parti- ally season it 2 'oe ch a a but with indif: To cut rees and ce "them. to leaf out before outing into logs is often re- commended, and it is claimed that poe will lead to a complete removal of sa and stored reserve food, starch, ond It is not practiced in this countr, LARGE STABLE DOORS BEST. Have the stable doors extra high and i Horses dislike to bow the head when going in at a door too low for them, and there is great danger of skittish horses striking the upper door facing with their heads. This makes them shy of low doors ever after. We have seen more than one horse with a skinned head or back, in consequence having to go im and out at a low door. The door should not be less than 61-2 Pig stable is ere to get very full ' door, -- itself, the it oe wma In fact, it is better to have it six-inches or 'so shorter than the hole, in order to give ventilation and plenty of fresh air in summer. Se ee cee the Mable dove important, too. Narrow doors are dati- gerous to the safety of a young or shy horse. Hips have been disloc'~ a few armfuls of firewoo pa SS WRECKED = STARVING. Seven --n Live for ee Soeumide ee Day tree Fish ond Sen We Captain George C. Benner, "ot the wrecked schooner, Jennie F. Willey, from Jacksonville to Martiniyue, and his crew of six men who were landed at Quarantine, New York, on Sunday, by the steamer Saratoga suffered greatly from hunger before rescued. Their vessel ran into a hurricane on September $0: It was not long before she was a wreck. Her masts went overboard and her deck load was drift- ing in ali directions. When the storm subsided it was found that the vessel wus completely water-logged and there was no apparent chance of. rescue. The water casks had been washed away and there was nothing to eat. The pangs of hunger soon struck them. They took the pins out of their cloth- ing and made hooks of them. They sec- cured a line by ravelling a piece of suil cloth, and after two days' fishing they managed to hook a smail fish. This the Captain ordered cut up into equal parts and each man received an equal share. fish was devoured at once. or eleven days, the Cap- tuin declares they were without food of tang kind or a drop of water tc dria! "ashe ge that we suffered," he one can ever know un- sim-|/e8s he has em, ae d on my lysed from "eopia are then inactive and the timber may}¢@d on a version, and if worked ok at once onary t 'bh ad a similar experience. for eleven hours I sat in a drizzling rain with my rubber coat spread out lap trying to collect, water enough to satisfy the awful thirst that seemed to con.ume me, i oats cracked and purched, vod was running from the cracksand trickling down my chin. thought t my arms and legs would be para- ng them in one posi- tion so long, and yet I waited for the rain to fill the receptacle in my 'lap. r the rain I had collected but two tablespoonfuls. win, more disheartened as the diys wore on. Two small sharks were washed on board and eagerly 'devoured, and that gee he supply gone, e men wero uced to enting seaweed. And then at last the vessel was wash- reef and a Spanish fishing schooner took off the half gerahed crew. -The.oook- was mad-then.and-the others were nearly dead from starva- on. WINTER HEALTH HINTS. How to Keep Well During the Indoor Season, Open Fires.--Before houses were kept so warm people were much healthier. We are great sinners in this respect. if you must have a raging fire as soon as the temperature falls a trifle, have it in an open grate. The constant cur- rent up the chimney carries off im- pure oni which is replaced by air from witho Diphtheria, --There is no renson why diphtheria should be worse in cold wea- 'her than in warm. Good ventilation will usually keep it' away. Tonsilitis md sore throat, should be carefully looked after, as either may develop in to diphtheria. When a child has sore throat, it should be examined fre- quently. [f there ia a yellow sub- stance on the lining close to the ton- sils adoctor should be called at once. as this is a diphtheritio symptom, Malaria.--Malaria may com- mon in any region where there is much tearing up of the streets. Plenty of sunlight and perfect drainage are the st eat pia: in city or country. Ma- laria and yellow fever are pretty near- ly akin, the ay men being, of course, a much milder type Deadly Dust not only ordinary, ith iv animal vit ter, but the germs o! cece ie tke consumption, diphtheria a Drawn Towle a rorls should always be " drawn' they: are for sale. peal ice of leav- ing the intestines in chickens and tur- son, bist to make them en - poe 'sons the meat. 5 oleae oat Teeth.--A noted physician sug- its that there should be free dent- ati institutes for the and all zoldiers' teath are trea' free of . des, , -- . ic| PETER THE GRE WILL OF ' PETER THE GREAT, INTERESTING DOCUMENT. Cael The Course the Great @zar Wished Bis Successors to Take tn Order to apie miversal Dominion enn the Will is Disputed. The copy of the will of Peter the sal Great is taken from "The Mercantile Guardian," of London, England, who received it from a London publisher. o-| We have not before met with it in print, but we print it here that it may be read with particular interest in con- | Bection with the present Czar's sug- gestion for universal disarmament. It is only fair, however, to point out, as is shown in the footnote, that the genuineness of the will is disputed. WILL OF PETER THE GREAT. (In which he prescribes to his succes- sors the course which they ought to follow in order to acquire uni- versal dominion.) "In the name of the most holy and indivisible Trinity, Peter the "The All-Powerful, from me we hold our life and our throne, after having revealed unto us his wishes and intentions, and after being our sup- port, permit us to look upon Russia as called upon~to establish her rule over all Europe. This idea is based upon the fact that all the nations of this portion of the globe are fast ap- proaching a estate of utter decrepi- tude. From this it results that they our invasion of the West and the East a6 & decree of Divine Providence which man Empire by an invasion of bar- barians. "The emigration of men from 'the North is like the inundation of the Nile, which at certain seasons enriches with its waters the arid plains of Egypt. We found Russia a small rivulet, we leave it an river. Our successors will make of it an ocean, whole of Europe, if they knew how to guide its waves. We leave them, then, the following instructions, which we earnestly recommend to their con- stant meditation:-- 1. To keep the Russian nation in con- stant warfare, in order always to have good soldiers. Peace must only be permitted to remit the finances. To recruit the army, choose the moment favourable-for attack. Thus peace will advance your projects of war, and war those of peace, for obtainiar the enlargement and prosp rity «: ia. 2..Draw unto you, by all possible | & means from the civilized nations of ur ee dur oe war, and learned men during ace--so that Russia mi ge benefit re the advantages of other na fake ee to mix in the affairs of r neaxest nation ju, deserv: our chief attention *e T Divide Poland, by raising up con Hecke rake rs and jealousies within 'S wilh gold; tafidence sod corrupt the diet, in order to have a voice in the election ES 5 e obstacle by pope up dis. cord Ld a their countrie you can act Sweden . and, to effect this, taolate her from Denmark and vice versa. Be careful lo rites their jealous 6. Marry Russian princes with Ger. multiply these ans these interests; and. b: the increase of Bea coil influence attaph sera to our 7. Seek the slilaases with England, on account of our commerce, as being th: country the most usefu! for the devel- merchants and sailors, so that ours may acquire experience in commerce and naviga n. 8 Constantly extend yourselves along the shores ne the Baltic and borders of the your Posen to ayparceck arte Constantinople and India that he w yards in the Blac obtain tha command of t sea, as well as of the Baltic. This is neces sary for the entire success of our pro ject Hasten the fall of Persia, Ses 'or yourself a zone towards the sian Gu ablish as cick possible, by means ree Syria, the ancient commerce of the Levant, and thus ad- ance towards India. Once there, you will not require English gold. Nosh liaise will second ber in her projects for Ho: minion over Germany, and secretly stir up the jealousy of other princes against her, and manage that each be disposed to claim the assistance of Rifs- exercise over ench a sort o protection which will lead the way to future dominion over them 11. Make Austria drive the Turks out of Europe, and neutralise her Mair gta by offering to her a portion of yo conquests, which you will further ta take back. 12. Above all, recall around you the schismatic Greeks Hungary ane Poland; become their centre and 4 port--as universal do- Far fp over then, bya kind of sacer- al rule, autocratio sacerdotale; by bes ve many frien a your e ies. Sweden dimnambarea, Persia 18. 'con- quered, Poland subjugated, Turk beaten, our armies united, the Black ienna, to share the empire of the uni- verse with Russia sly eg i flat- be her ambition and am war. ul; Russia will of the whole of ay East, bef @ great por' 14. If, wh is BoE probable: -- should the offer of od ee between -- and one 'which them bot! n-Russiz, ting by this "dectaivs moment, will troo wo fleets Sea, will advance Spee pew has already once regenerated the Ro-| sense came destined to fertilise the pe ks, who are spread over | rece: i ment, rangi. shores of th Balite," ete. The existence of the will, dex: the Osars, was first an~ nounced by Lesur in his Russe," published at Paris in 1812. In 1865 tkholz, Riga, ted that the will was a forgery, oseee! nie by Napoleon I Mr. J. Thoms, the antiquary, sc and others, contended for the pope oe of the will as recently as TOLD BY THE CIRCUS MAN. What Happened When | Finally The Gieat- est Of All Gients Died. " T pever told you the exact height of the great giant--what's the use?' not believe {t if I did; as I've said be- for it would only make yoy disbelieve what I do tell you about him, and what's the use? But you can form some sort of an idea about it if from these things that I've told you and from what I'm guing to tell you now about his death and burial because in the course of time he died. "We were under canvas then, show- ing three times a day, and moving our- selves, and we were tolerable. busy, and we really hadn't time to give such attention as we ought to the burying of what had been, after the great giraffe, our very greatest attraction. The digging of a:grave for him would have been Jike digging the foundation several houses in a row and would have taken lots of time, and the mere cost of the land would be considerable. "Well, as usual, the old man's horse to the rescue. In looking around for foruge when we struck the to discovered the bed of an cbenroned canal,that they'd stoqqed us- This man's farm there, and t use to any didn't pay plough it because it wasn't worth the time and trouble it would take to get of jit, enough fora cemetery lot for the giant, for next to nothing : there we were, with eg 'land bought enou urse to n the mound you could see this ridge for quite a Plece "Of course the old man put headstone, and it was gest headstone I ever saw, eterna arose any I eve built of brick. The old mon hired all the men that could work on it, an they 'put in a ha peg and built the havdstone in bl a t was some- hing ike the sile rail of 1 brick hr ees and quite saw--it was that level country great jstone at one end of it louk-d like ed it was, the grave of a mighty giant "And #0 we left vat secure in mm- d hare it Iny simply 1 scattering pile of srick. But tha moun! amen ell, «it still dans; I saw it there only + year Saha Jp ceed thr seb that e un- . But wi h nothing tt) ma'k ities ct wledge of it grnduvlly faded, and pie tradition hid gre a ind's at and the greit mound hud ¢ me fina to 'be known me eenely as he giant's hill. -- DELICIOUS RED TAPE. -- Wonderful Circumilocation tm Getting Dew attr. At_ Gleiwitz, in Upper Sile-ia, a youngsters kite got caughi in the el- ectric wire of a fire alarm. A _ police- min noticed the accident, and in or- dey to get th: kite removed made a written report, which, after, having been perused by the " Polizeikommis- sar,' was forwarded in succession to hee MoHaeL te spekior," ane rate nd the * Feuerl idiestou! * Lhe last-named nuthority en- gaged on engineer to remove the of- ending kite, and recommended (he ma- sistrate to reward the zealous police- min with a premium of 25 pfennigs. the engineer banded in a written re- port to the effect that the kite had been removed. The municipal treasury paid the policeman the sum of 25 pfen- nigs and received in return a duly signed acknowledgment. The master vf the school which the unlucky kite 'lyer attended, fourteen days had been spent in tracing him, reczived. instruc- "the ' Feuerloschgeratkommis- sion" determined that should not rest there ool ins ools were according- A meretes with wri(ten teagan the way in which ¢ a be euivered, 'Olculate were distributed among the juvenile population. d school inspector was inforn of the steps that had n taken. He info t hool- board and the school hoard' the bur- Finally the written doo- uments relating to the affair were col- lected, and, after formida' ble id to men ie an oxticl. 1 piadoaliole: Four x loss of the er to we fin 1 » bsidence of doou- ments and reports concerning it. pS tite it = AN EDITOR'S TRIAL, Maximilian Hurden, editor of Die Zukunft in Be..in, is t be tried on five charges of 1' e majeste for the publication of artick casting ridicule on the Emperor. He is alisvat ure to be comvisted, and may be puuishod by fro. six wont said the old circus man. You would -- upa- much the hig- magis- one + cla eae edie