A LETTER. *ItWrW fifing coons between the trees, inviting to "Val Graham!" exclaimed the three, 4 am quite willing teftay,", he says, W Elevated Railways ot NeW-1for_^ drowsy repose. in startled chorus. with eager sarcasm and with the col* *W. Henderson, in New YorkJTrf A few yards away an unseen mountain "Who? Not Val Grahamr cried New York Letter. or flushing her,sweet face she leans sJf Only an old-time letter brook tumbles its ice-cold water A jkvttr County Confederate Ban a Story to Bess, with horror-filled eyes and palling There are 32 miles of double .track towardslwm with outstretched hands. But from each faded line f^l TeU-A Girl's Wki. into the rocky river, and the two sing cheek but, reading confirmation or 64 miles in all in the elevated railway I cannot tell yon anything more, except There breathes a tender passion?"*' ,r together in low monotone, tellina of in the faces before her, she drops Amefieus (6a.( Republican. system of NewYork. Everyday that, as they came iuto camp arm That once was only mine. fern-fringed pools and gliding trout. hastily the precious bug, dashes an I was aregular soldier in the Confederate in arm, with anew light in their faces, track-hands walk over it and another Only an old-time letter Through archways cut"in the glossy angry glance at the owner of that But from each yellow page Hal's boots received an especial benediction army over four years, enjoyed its set walk under it, craning their necke laurel thicket can be seen the paths name, and turning runs swiftly into There comes a woe of long ago Martha knocked over the coffee-pot triumphs took my part in its defeats as they look up any defect the line., The ghost of a sweeter age. that the feet of the strying campers the woods. in a fit of bewilberment Czar upset to heart as much as any one, starved, At 110th street the 9th avenue trackis have already worn to tne woodland "What have I done? Who is she?" Steenie in theexnberenceofhisjoy suffered, bled, froze and melted, in at points more than 60 feet high, Only an old-time letter. haunts beyond. he asks, with a perplexing look." f|$ while Tom, in an aside, asked "What winter and summer, under theglorious Dark with the stain oi years and the inspectors above have a dizzy But the glory of the camp is the "Why, it's our Bess, and she knows will Uncle Ralph say?" "Y'ft But oft that withered writing cross of the south, with a heart as walk, while those on the surface crook structure variously known as theyou hate girls, and won't want her Has bloomed beneath my tears, rt* full of devotion as a child could have their necks out of shape in gazrog ur$^ "house" "shanty" or "Laurel Lodge." }J here. How did you happen to come? But oh! that dream i* shattered for a mother, ar a devotee to his true v*J atthe trestle. The ricte over tMsd| "A Startling Prediction The fount of grief run dry Built against a little knoll,, its supports Thought you were sick!'' questioned "V" and beneficient God. When I first high section of the line makes many To-day the sad remembrance living trees, its roof of slabs the boys altogether. Two huudred years ago in China started out from the loveliest town in Wakes* but a passing sigh. nervous persons very timid, but thej? (wihch the busy little river obligingly "So I was, "but I am better only I there was just such a craze about natural an adjoining state a lovely daughter track is so securely guarded with strews a long its banks from lumber lost myself in this maze and nearly gas as we have in this country Ves, the pai?e is old and yellow of the city gave me a confederate flag, heavy guard timber that it would be i^ regions farther north), slopes tramped myself to deathif it hadn't And the moss is en thy grave, to-day. Gas wells were snnk with as made of silk, with the bars and starry-decorated almost impossible for a train tc? almost to the ground at the back, its *Vhere the pale moon nightly silvers been for her coffee," he continues, much vim and vigor as the celestials hv*(5's cross, shining and gleaming The shadows of wind-blown wave. leave the rails. In one or two sides are a thicklywoven mat of hemlock awkwardly. "How could I hate to were capable of, but owing to a gaa with gold and silver threads. I Where the long and silent river nci boughs, held in place by horizontal stances axles have broken, but have her here?" he adds so enthusiastically explosion that killed several millions Ends in the moaning sea, was a pretty thing and I carried it |LS boards. The facade of "the building train has ever left the track. If a' that Hal retires suddenly of people and tore up and destroyed a As thy sweet life is vanished Jf hid in an inside pocket, for it was not presents a portal of magnificent at5 complete derailment should occurr behind the house and remarks, "Well, large district of country, leaving a Into eternity. larger than a gentleman's handkerchief. proportions from which the portiere I'll be blest!" to his boots. 110th street, and a train should fal^ large inland sea, known on the mans J1? I carried it wherever I went, of gorgeous quilt (early English) is How can, the days that follow be upon the rocks below, tew passenger* as Lake Foo Chang, the boring of any for I had promised to plant it on the looped aside, disclosing a floor of slabs, LAUKEL CAMP. described? ^Golden, sunshiny days, would survive the accident. The 32 more gas wells was then aud there prohibited Washington Monument if I ever got the knapsacks and stores and odorous filled with simple pleasures. But, as miles of elevated roads on Manhattan by law. It seems, according there. region beyond. The dining a reliable chronicler, I am very sorry Island is divided into four lines. A* to the Chinese history, that many From the rfomerville Journal. room is a leafy roof under which a table that I cannot say MUs Fleming's temper all roads were said to lead to Rome, sc large and heavy-pressure gas wells While Lee's army was encamped is made with the smooth side of "Oh, boys, how I wish I were going was ail serene. Towards the unoffending all roads in NewYork lead to South were sunk quite near to each other. near Chambersburg, Pa.,one June afternoon the ubiquitous slab uppermost, the Valentine she bore an enmity with you!" and dainty Bess Fleming Ferry, at the southern end of the island Gas was lighted as soon as struck, as I strolled out with Felix C, thesupportheight. being trees sawed off at the that neither time nor familiarity perched herself disconsolately on is done in this country. It is stated and about four miles from camp found needed Along the bides of the seem to soften. Occasionally she that one well with its, unusual pressure, -arm of the lounge in what her brothers a cozy retreat in a cottage inhabited There area confusing number oJ table seats are arranged, and occupying would unbend so far as to allow that by induction or back draught, by an elderly lady and a beautiful cross lines and branches which seem called their "boudoir," and gazed these seats just at present are the gentleman to assist in her investigations pulled down into the earth the burning girl of about eighteen years. We got campers, finishing the noonday meal to head almost anywhere, but plat* into the flora of the region of with big, wistful gray eyes on the animated gas of a smaller well, resulting in a a good dinner and heard the ladies deplore and discussine with absorbing interest form men with strong lungs and patience the country in which they were. scene before her. dreadful explosion of a large district, plans for securing a great store of logs the war, for they had relatives that knows no wearing out Can you guess what a revelation destroying the inhabitants thereof. The festive preparations are indeed and planks which Steenie had discovered south with whom they spent the summer stand at every junction and tel* this sweet, tantalizing girl was to a Lake Fee Chang rests on this distiict. almost enough to make one wish one in a bend of the river wedged in every year until the war broke young man who had never known a people where to go. The sys The same catastrophe is imminent in among the rocks. To raft them down out. Now this pleasure was debarred. million1 had been born a boy. Floor, chairs woman's love? Day after day to watch tern carries daily half a this country unless the laws restrict and bring them in to add to the large While they were talking I went to a her merry petting of those big brother?, passengers. To do this 3,500 trains^ and table are covered with a choice further developements in boring so pile already drying a few feet from the cool shade and soon fell asleep, and and then to recall his lonely childhood are run, 4,500 employes kept busy/ but vaied collection of hunting boots, many wells. Should a similar explosion fire (protected by sloping slabs) then Felix, forgetting my presence, and youth. Is not the fate of 870 cars and 255 locomotives used. occur there will be such an upheaval fishing tacklp, entomologist's paraphernalia against the proverbial rainy day, left me. About two hours after I was this poor Val easily surmised? 6,000 stops made each day by th as will dwarf the most terrible would be an afternoon's work for the of waxen-headed pins, awakened by the youug girl and some Tramping alone by the river side, trains, and 180 different stations earthquake ever known. The country boys. Careful Martha, pail in hand, one talking, and found that a wounded Val at last discovers and acknowledges chloroform bottles and butterfly nets, passed. Each train, which consist along the gas belt from Toledo through has started for the blackberry patch to himsell the cause of the federal officer was her companion. four or five coaches and looks as long* favoiite authors, hammocks, and Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will be a few rods away. vague wretchedness of thepast weeks They did not know of my presence, and large as a passenger train on other evidences of a "right royal good ripped up to the depths of 1,200 to Left to her own sweet company Miss acknowledges with-a sickening realization and when they ran upon me I was surface railroad, will rate on the aver 1,600 feet and flopped over like a pancake, Fleming proceeded to enjoy herself in time." The masculine occupants of that his happiness for life pretty much alive but as the officers age 250 persons, but during the busj leaving a charm through which her own way. With an armful of is in the hands of a girl who has remarked: "He was not in service on the room were all so very deeply engrossed hours in the morning and evening they the waters of Lake Erie will come books within reach, she ensconced only an unreasoning hatred, or at account of a wound received that their envious sister's are crowded to suffocation, and a howling down, filling the Ohio ana! herbelf in her own pareicular hammock, best a supreme indifference, to give at Cedar Run, and we could train with 500 passengers aboard is nc plaintive wish fell on almost unheeding Mississippi valleys, and blotting them with Czar (who was evidently him and he grinds his boot-heel into exchange civilities." We had a pretty T*i rarity. Your New York business mac ears. overburdened with a sense of his rethe out forever.Cincinnati Commercial soft turf as hegoes slowly to ward good talk and milk and bread where is not a gallant when ladies come sponsibility in this usual state of affairs), Gazette. the camp. we were. During the talk I exposed Hal muttered: "W-wish you theaboard a crowded car, and it rarely oo very wide awake, lying on the A sudden turn around a camp of the flag, which was snatched by could'" Tom gazed at her through currs that a man arises and gives hisi ground at her side. fringe-hung birches, and Mr. Graham girl, who exclaimed exultingly, "I The Old "Hook-Up" Behind'." the microscope glass he was polishing, seat to a woman. Dipping here and there, now into beholds a spectacle which drives away have captured a rebel flag and intend The trains run at an average speed one book, then into another, and ownFrom the San Francisco Examiner. with an eye enormously enlarged from him all thoughts of his to keep it." I begged for it, but she of twelve miles an hour. Two express varying the mononohy by occasionally A local writer on fashion prsdicts a troubles. thereby, and smiled in conscious wilHully shook her head. I told her trains that stop at few stations' rur slipping out to replenish return in women's dresses to the Upon a gnarly old tree, leaning far it was a present from a dear frieud masculine superiority and only goodnatured the fire, she finally became down from Harlem to South Ferry ir out over the river, sits Miss Bess, fachion of hooking behind. This innocent named Mattie, and that she should Steeple paused in his struggles enamored of "Hiawatha" and the morning over the 9 th avenue line* plainly disconsolate. In the pool below is tranquilly unaware that hei not have it. Then 3he said: "Well, with his knapsack (which seemingly read steadily to the end. Folding her the road on the westerly side of th her hat is slowly sailing around prophecy implies the profoundest rebel, sir! my name is Mattie a good idle little hands under ner fanciful little like a gondola of new design. At teespecial thecity and two similar trains run up at and religious changesnothing declined to accommodate his Union girl. I have my hands on head, she was soon lost in a waking sound of footsteps she raises her head, night. short, in truth, of stupendous moral blanket, a work onatonomy, a gossamer emblem of treason, a traitor'sflag,and dream, in a repose that was almost but as her eyes meet his the welcoming and intellectual retrogression. The A Coffin Story From Boston. I'll keep it or die!" and her eyes flashed coat, and a dismembered gun) sleep. The lofty trees were the gleam of hope in them gives way to present fashion of fastening ladies' with fire. "1 wih I were a man," A year ago last April a firm ot man. sufficiently long to say with genuine torest primeval, the "lodge" a wigwam, a flash of ire, and she says petulantiy. dresses is inseperably bound up with she said, "that I, too, might fight." ufacturing undertakers in this vicinity and she herself a dusky maiden brotherly good will: that vast concatenation of thoueht I tried to snatch the flag, but she was were given the most extraordinary awaiting the return of the stately redskin "And you should go in a minute, aud feeling which Protestants call the "Oh, I hoped you were Steenie." too quick, and the officer said pretty commission which they had ever received. warriors from the chase. Popityit would be worth ten seasons Reformation and Catholics something "I'm sorry," he says gently, "ru loudly, "Here, Sergeant, bring your They were told to make twe to youif it were not tor Val She was roused from her reverie by else. Among the chief results of that Steenie would not help you more gladly men quick!" and it seemed as if I were mahogany caskets of a particular de Graham." a low growl from the watchful Czar than I would were it in my power." memorable movement was the liberty surrounded by four or five men insign, to be above the usual size, and "Val Graham! Who is he? Let in the one moment she heard the Aftar a pause, during which the of woman to fashion her dress as she blue uniforms before I could turn in many parts fully six inches in thick him stay at home, then. To make crackling of twigs, and the next saw, girl's tears puzzled him, he continu pleased. Luther, with the intrepidity around. The girl said, "Well, Lieutenant, quietly1: ness. They were cautioned not tc coffee in a dear little kettle swung on with startled eyes, a masculine fignre which characterized his every you can keep your prisoner say a word to any one about what three sticks, to sleep in a hammock emerge from one of the side paths and thought and act, centended that so in the cellar until you and your men "Let us go home to the boys and they were doing. The caskets werf and be outdoors all summer' cries heard a surprised, "I-beg your pardon, long as woman required somebody to our camp-fire. It is getting late. have tea," and ledup the way. Soon alone in a made as ordered. It required $70C Miss Fleming enthusiastically. "Oh, I madam, but I have been wandering help her hook her dress she was not You will take cold there and you I was locked there was noworth wnere of mahogany to complete them will go! What's the matter with Mr. this inferthis beastily laurel free, and could not hope to attain to have lost your hat too.'' cellar the girl laughed security, and When they were ready to be shipped Graham? Is he one of your fossilized thicket the greater part of the day. the highest and ripest development oi "Not at all," returns Bess. "I am as she waved the flag at "me. from the factory a photograph was professors who would petrify a simple Can you direct me to the" her mind and heart, Calvinfiercelyassailed only leaving it there till I come down. I knew that I had to get out before taken, and an inkling of the affait maiden? I don't care what'he is, you By this time Bess, fully awakened, this doctrine, holding that I am waiting for the sunset, but you supper was over, aud as I pondered got out in this way. They were taken need not imagine I would find time to had decided with womanly intuition dresses fastened before were forbidden need not wait too." over my position a fear began to from the factory in two two horst look at him. I (magnimously) won't that the intruder was a gentleman in in the word of God, apainst public "But I should like to." creep over me that I was to suffer a wagons, each one making a heavji' mind him a bit."' the fullest sense of the word, and noting morals. Melnethon, who was ~npt a A long pause ensues. Miss Fleming long confinement in a Yankee prison. load for a pair of horses to draw "But, b-b-bless you, my child," the weariness in the quiet words man of extremes, favored a middle apparehtly gives rapt attention to After an hour o* two an inner door Outside cases of the same material ejaculated Hal, energetically, "it's and the steady brown eyes she rose coursejust what it was cannot easily some soft, fluffy little clouds flushed opened anc^ Miss Mattie, who hadwere also provided. The owner of tht not a question of whether yon would quickly with hospitable purpose intent, be made outand was denounced to a rose-pink by the setting. Mr. stolen my flag, stood before me, candle caskets had them taken to his estate mind Val. The boot is on the other but with her thoughts still tinged by one party as a coward, by the Graham as intently gives his whole in hand, saying: "I guess, Mr. and placed in a building which he had leg. It's Val would mind you. with "Hiawatha," she said, whimsically: other as a heretic. It is only in our mind, aided by his good right arm, to Rebel, that you and I can come to erected on purpose. In that building There[s some romantic story about own day that the Lutheran doctrine the recovery of the truant hat, which teims. You have no arms and 1 can two of the best wood carvers tc his being brought up by an uncle who "If the pale-faced stranger tarry by eludes his impromptu fishing-pole in this matter has won general assent, trust you. I'll keep your flag, and be obtained have worked on, the caskets had been cruelly treated bysomelo\ely this camp-fires until the warriors return, with an agility which seems to prove and the women (whom God ever bless) for my love of friends in the South flirt. Youthful affections trampled steadily for the past 14 months they will guide him through the it endowed with the spirit of its owner. have all taken to wearing gowns like you shall go free. Cousin Robert and on, and all that kind of thing. Takes add they have nowhere near fimshedthe forest to the wigwam he seeks." "I wish you would come down now," old Grime's coat"all buttoned be- his men are eating." to the life of a hermit and educates first one. They were carving intc "I think I will not trouble you" he breaks forth, landing as he speaks fore." The effect upon public morais I went through the house, found the ingenious Valentine to regard with the mahogany the most wonderful began the other, uneasily but thehis dripping and somewhat dilapidated I am unable to determine. their arms, and taking off the caps, horroi the whole female sex. Val and intricate designs which you could 5S brave daughter of the forest, made as prize. "You don't look comfortable wet the tubes thoroughly, stole .a pistol would sooner face a 'wenomous wiper, imagine, all from sketches furnished usual more determined by opposition, up there." that belonged to the officer, and than a women, and I am confident by eminent artigts, TJiere is a spidei said firmly: An Incident That Happened io "Well, I'm not," she replied, with afcartec} for the door, while the vouug that it he suspected we meditated such in tne centre of *a web, so cteHcfti. "But the child of the bald-headed a Member of the Fighting Fourteenth. unlooked-for energy and a hysterical lady was entertaiging the soilders treason as the introduction of the that one's breath would almost seenT eagle will be obeyed," and seconded mingling of tears and laughter. "Tl I ran thirty or forfiy* steps before S dreaded element, he would flee to the to move it skulls, from which life-lik by Czar, who was plainly divided between "He was the bravest soldier in the branch that helped me up here brol they disco\'ered my absence, uttermost parts of the earth rather serpants are crawling owls, hour the conflicting desire to swear off, and then floated clown the rn er. Fourteenth regimentl" exclaimed an when, with a yell, they broke tor than go with us and he the prime glasses and a hundred other things eternal friendship to the newcomer or Every time I have tried to get down I old veteran when asked bv a reporter their arms* You can bet there was suggester of the camping scheme, too! with symbolic meanings. At the rate to spring upon him with fell intent, have nearly pitched into the water, so if he knew "Shanty" McGuire. "Know no shooting, and I sped onward as Lastly and finally, how could such a the carvers are progressing it will take she motioned him to the hammock I have sat here for hours like a graven him! I rather guess so. But I bhall fast as possible. During my race toward luxurious little lady rough it with a several years to finish their work. she had ]ust left. image, and my two feet fast asleep. never forgec the time when 'Shanty' camp two Dutch guards halted lot of boys among the jungles of New should think $10,000 would be a low Bess watched him with puzzled eyes I'd have jumped in long aao befoi me, but, as they were some distance thought he was wounded. We were York State? It is impossible." figure for both caskets. The insides as he flung himself upon her cushions. you found me sittiug here like an off, I replied, I don't understand," running side by side and the bullets "Oh. you can say impossible but I conclude8? vehementlv, Seeing the pallor about the firm will contain silken hammocks, in idiot," she andkept running.* The Dutchmen were whizzing thick around us. Suddenly could go, and you would take me, month that told of physical suffering, which the bodies will lie. The gentle "only it looks so deep down there."" hitjoined tne pursuers, but a detachment 'Shanty' exclaimed, 'I'm it were not for that odious creature' an inspiration, born of her expeiience man who is having the caskets made As she finishes he has found a firm of Lomax's cavalry approached, and the blood is running down my leg How I hate him'" cried Bess, storin- as the sister of three brothers, came has purchaced an entire knoll in one footing among the roots of her tree, and they ran the other way. I have into the shoe.' I caught him by the to the rescuse, and with hopeful face of the most beautiful of our cemeteries, and with a gravity which causes Bess no desire for the return of that flag arm as^e appeared to be in danger of "A letter for you Mr. Stephen," she said. "Watch him, Czar," and and, it is said, will spend $125,- to regard him with suspicion says in a now for it has been south several falling, but he said that he guessed he and the dignified butler steps solemnly moved quickly away. 000 on the tomb. He is a gentleman business-like way: times since the war, and will come was able to get along and limped to a over the deoris, and looks with In a few minutes the fragrant oder of connected with themedicaiprofession again and again. "If you will lean forward a trifle I stern disapproval at the disordered clump of bushes by the road side. coffee was wafted to the straggler with having an office in Boston. His wife,' will place you on terra firma and we'Let's room. see how bad I'm hurt.' '|M|5|4 such reviving effect that he opened who takes, if possible, more interest will go." said he, loosening his clothing. A "From Val himself, is it not, The Limit of Life. widely his nearly closed eyes ar tcs in the caskets then himself, is said But Miss Fleming has resumed her examination of his body failed to reveal Steenie?" asked Tom. gazed with deep interest on the busy From the Cosmopolitan. be the grand-daughter of a baron. -h coutempiation of the sky, without the wound, when suddenly we discovered "Yes. Too bad, he can't go, after figure at the fire before him. Aside It would appear in fact as though glancing at him says wilfully: Boston Herald. JM allattack of malarial feverknows that his canteen had been from her occupation, so tileasing to five score years were the natural or "I told you before that I intended you will have a jolly time. 'Almost pierced by a bulletv and the water i- ^"m the manly contemplation, "the figure normal limit of human life and that to stay here to see the sunset. You 4 desperate when I think of your starting which it contained had trickled down itself was well worthy of study. The are evidently haste you may go. when men die many years before that Facts About Silver. ^-T+Cl without me," reads Steenie, disjointedly. his leg. The water was so warm that slim, lithe young form was clothed in But be sure and tell Steenie I want age is attained, the fault, apart from The richest silver mine in the world is ?H he had mistaken it for blood. Thoroughly a dark green flannel, without furbelows him." malignant disease or accident, has "Now, I am going!" and Bess starts disgusted he rearranged his Potosi. t^MlyuM or snarles of any kind to perplex Valentine's arms fall, his face whitens, lain with themselves. Underlying the up impetuously. clothing, and with the admonition the eye. The rebellion dark harr hune Total''product ol silver in Nevada, and his voice riDgs with passionate old proverb, "every man is a fool or "How can you?" not to'make him the laughing stock of in a heavy braid behind, and escaped anger: a physician at forty," there is the important $352,000,000. "You'll see. I'll take Martha to 3Tour the company by telling the story, he in wavy locks on the smooth forehead. "So I may not even touch trdth that it is in evbry take care of me. I'll be ready in an The Annual silver product of North seized his gun and started on again. Th fire had flushed the sweet face hand, and I would give my life for man's power, if he is wise, to recognize hour, Martha and her budaets includ- America, $85,000,000. 00 He was in many a battle after that, that was brooding with such absorbed you! You have nothing bnt undeserved early in life (like Cornaro) the requirements ed," and Bess vanished like a small The yearly product of the mines ol but escaped with a whole skin and returned expression over the coffee pot. contempt for me, and 1I love oi his ownvjonstifaution, and whirlwiud, leaving the trio too much Africa is estimated to be $5,000. to Brooklyn. In a second more the coffee pot was you." the means by which all such stores of astonished to do aught but stare at Silver, as regards its mines, is represented steaming on a hot stone by the fire, He folds his arms upon the tree and vitality as it may possess may be each other in silence. in every portion of our planet. and Miss Flemming disappeared in This Is a Great Country. r,- drops his head upon them as if the 5 utilized. An able physician said to Did she accomplish it? Of course Asia (including Australia, New.Zealand the direction of the murmuring river, end of all things had indeed come. me a short time ago: In all my exand what other result was possible to so Oceanica) produces $1,950,- From tho New York Telegram. to reappear with some bright little Bessie's eyes are-looking far away, perience I have never known but one much energy and spiut? By the time 000 a year. John H. Craig, who passed north tin pails dripping with cool water. and withintbema new, sweet light of man who really died a natural death the others had finished their remarkable ^The annnual product of the silver through Albany recently on a single From ene of these some trout were self-revelatian grows and ieepens. masculine packing, Bess bubbling and he went on to explain that a mines ol South America is estimated railroad, ticket, bound ,for Waterbury, gayly spluttering over the cool fire The little clouds are growing gray over with merry anticipations, was $26,000,000. man can only be said to die a natural then from a mysterious chest Vt., is reported to weigh eight The cool twilight ssems to creep closer soothing the dazed Martha, who was death when he dies all at once, when The exports of silverfrom the Uuited appeared fresh bread, and from hundred and fourteen pounds and with its soft, cool languor and its vibrating between a feeling of gypsyish the-organs 6n which circulation* respiration, States since 1848 nas amounted to other pails eolden bfitter, cream claims to be the fattest- man in blurring shadows. The wind sighs delight at what seemed to her a mad. and nutrition depend, all $451,746,771*. and blackberries, and our traveller the world. That is seventy-fice thtough the trees in low,sad whispers, escapade -and gloomy presentiments tail at about the same time whereas Silver mines of Europe yield annually Eiambertmore was soon partaking of a most appetizing the murmur of the river sounds clear ounds than the famous Daniel of inevitable rheumatism. one man dies because circulation fails, $13,000,000, and their total product little repast, under which reviving and loud. A saucy bird, very near, weighed, who was tfte fattest haaamountedto $3,628,000,000. another because the respiratory organs influence he forgot the embarrassment suddenly gives a shrill, startling cry, Englishman that ever lived. Lambert The scene shifts to the wilds of the The highest silver deposit in the gave out, and yet another because that had nearly consumed and Bess stirs uneasily, and with her died seventy-eight years* ago. His Empire State and a camp established world is on King^Solomon's mountain, stomach, liver, kidneys, or him. Soon a responsive chord'was eyes dropped "to the helpless little coffin was six feet four inches long, in their depths. Thi3*is no mere in Colorado, 14,000 feet above the bowels become unequal to their work-i boots, says, narvously,"* with an argu- struck by two nature-loving hearts, 5 four "feet four inches wide and two fashionable tabernacle in the wilderness, Pacific ocean. In fine, the secret of iongevityiies in the' mentative air.* and they were"chatting like old friends. feet four inches deep,' and was made but a real camp, with amateur The, largest nugget of silver yet obtained attainment of a natriral life to .be Bess produced a curious bust that "This out-of-door life isvery healthful, square on account of j?he size of his cooks, with spicy hemlock bed, and was dug up Arizona and _, brought to an end by a natural dea^h puzzled her natural history, and the don't you think?" legs. Part of the wall of the roonj in with a smoke blackened kettle hanging weighed 48,200 ounces, valued at,th and nearly very man, did he bnt give brown hair and the dark bent over At this apparently irrelevent remark which he died was taken down to admit over a snapping fire, the smoke of same number of dollars. his'vital powers fair chances, would it. At this thrilling moment the Valentin raises his head and looks at it. I twas interred in.Sjt. Martin's which curls lazily upwards, making Thfr-silver inines of Mexico were find that, like raftsmen, each with an armful of churchyardain digg*ng Stamfordplane-into inclined the her in great amazement. Lincolnshire, misty the delicate tracery of the waving wrought," Iottjj before Cortez revealed planks, arrived on the The wonderful one-noes snay, flR% The scene. **I havei. grown so very stout and trees against the soft summer sky, i. _i.i to the eyes -fEurope' in 1513.- Th He was built in,nucha logical way biologists turni^^f and hammocks swinging like huge co- heavy, she continues, bravely, "that grave and wheeling it down upon two [A to ran] a hundred yearn to a day, product per year at the) present, time "Boys this gentleman," began Bess. And then, of a sudden [to pass away^JI 4s estimated to be $32,000^000. Idonotthinkyoucouldliftmedown.* axletrees. ""&- iJ?*rt ft3*- Ml ate i$&&