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(PAUL VANE'S WIFE]
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Ithe 1'.1.n:i 1 orlev ;nal lir mother
were resuscitating the fainting girl, Ili.
Stiller drove ap „rh his pony, Doe, 111
his luutdsome mew sleigh. tiering the
door aide open, he entered without
knocking, and started back ill surprise
at the stere before lune; and while he
gave his assistance to suttees Vivian, Col-
oeel Fe lie tersely explainei the
exigencies of the ease, telling the as-
tonished listeners the truth of Vivian's
identity—that she tins the missing wife
of Paul Vane, the handsome ex -rector
of Forest Church at Lisle, forty miles
away, and supposed to have been
drowned more than a year ago. When
he added that her husband 0011 to mar-
ry another woman at 1 o'clock to -day,
Mrs. Moloy and the young physician
were speechless from surprise and eon.
stornatipn; but Emma, romantic Emma,
cried out;
"My'!' that sounds like a story 1 ani
reading in 'The Fireside Companion!',,
"It may sound like a novel, but it is
the cruel truth; and if it is possible to
move Mrs. Vane, I Must take her at
once to Lisle to stop this mad marri-
age," Colonel Fairlie answered, gravely,
looking anxiously at Dr. Miller for his
opinicn.
'Vivian had began to revive, and the
young physician said at once taint the
journey could do no harts to theati-
ent, but would be of great benefit to
her in the peculiar condition of her
mind,
"1 have always believed," ere added,
"that her condition A'ns brought about
. by a great shock of some kind, and that
something in the nature of a shock
alone could restore her season." Then
lie drew Eugene Fitriie aside and whis-
pored to hien of some suspfdduns he had
had 011 first finding Vivian, tend'a groan
of •pity and grief commingled attested
the listener's sorrow
"Lost!" he said, 'adds.; and then it
dawned on !aim that the journey to
Lisle must be begun if he word. reach
there in time.
Vivian was sitting up now, only halt
realizing her own identity and his. She
yielded quietly as a little child to be
wrapped up in a warns fflr circular,
Cha ley's Christmas gift to his sweet-
heart, the hood drawn over her !read,
and 0 thick black veil placed over her
face. But on going to the 0iadoa, he
found that the sleighing party, weary of
waiting, had returned to the stallion.
"Take mine," said Dr. Charley; and in
another moment Fairlie and his preei-
ons charge were dashing over the two
and a halt nibs that lay between them
and the railway statism .011 the Rich-
mond 11 Allegheny Bnilrond, What was
his .consternation and despair to find
that he had missed has tram by twenty
minutes.
"\V'e pre last!" he exclaimed. But,
nn—a brilliant thought: "I 1111 tele-
graph Paul Vane!"
He sprung out of the sleigh and ran
to the little frame shanty used for a
station house. He tried the door it
was locked, The station agent had lock-
,esil up and gone.
"If only I can get inside, I know en-
otugh of telegraphy myself;" he mutter-
ed, 00 he threw himself Nylon -sly
against the oaken ,door,
Bot It resisted all his frantic efforts,
remaining as firm as bolt and bar
'mild hold it
"01, what shall I do?"
He '000 an axe. • With a cry of ,joy his
fingers close over it, sad as the quick,
slump blows fall on the oaken panel it
gives way. Be rushes inside and grasps
the key to send the telegraphic message
to Lisle, There was no response to the
pressures The instrument diel not a.n-
sw'er to his touch, In the wild storm
of yesterday the wires had 01 been
Bonen to earth and the connection be-
stroyed,
The half -crazed man drew out his
watch. Eight -thirty. What was to be
done?" t
Only four and n half lours before the
wedding, and forty miles stretched out
its white, grim pathway between them
nlnl lisle.
There ons but one way note to reach
the longed -for goal,
"I must sleigh it! I will reach there
or die!" and, setting Ids white teeth
tightly, he ,jumped back into the sleight
by the side of Vivian, who had been
waiting for him witiu a blind, placid
wonder. He caught the reins again,
rind lashed the astonished poe into a
dead run; 'Ile meant to, sleig 1 the forty
B
miles to Lisle.
On, on, on, dashed the light sleigh
over the frozen snow! How the mile -
1 osts flashed past as the man urged the
t red beast forward, eve' forward,
"00021 Gee! Brno- D1(! I'ou are do-
ing y'1111 ditty we11u,
nausea Fairlie looked at his watch;
!t was almost eleven 1('e bele, 01111 many
miles lay betwen them and Lisle,
On, on! But the faithful horse stttnt-
bles And almost falls, recovers, and
dashes forward again, bathed in sweat,
blond-strenknd loam dripping from its
moth, his thinking
nostrils dilated as
the cold air, dashes into them, Brave
Doc! henceforth your nane will be add-
ed to the list ofbrute heroes excelling
them all in dumb patience. Exhausted
nature succumbs just Its a farm house
looms up in the near distance like a ben -
coin of tope. As they reach the gate the
,panting animal. falls—dead!
Fairlie sprung out and turned. eyes of
pity on the fnithfnl dead brute; then,
looking at a signs post by the road, he
sew that it was fifteen miles still. 'lust
he give ftp now? Not
into the farm yard springs the excited
man. He reps 11t the house door. There
is no response. The family had all gone
to Forest (1101(1) to the wedding, He
runs to the barn, and to his joy finds
a horse, Ilmrriedly he 1e900000 the har-
ness from the 000d animal and places it
on the living one, A moment more and
the fresh animal is between the shafts
and lie is speeding on lip hill and down
dale, At last, 0t last, the tall spire of
Forest Church looms up in the distant
clear, bine air! Will he be in time?
What is that 111' away sound? Church
belle! Wedding Ohs!
The sound sh'11 es 0 01011 to his heart.
Is this wild journey' all for nought?
It is still wantint a -few minutes• of
the dins', but the sleigh eau go '111 fur-'
tltet', for at that moment he draws rein
on the brink of the river, and the bridge
floor is gone!
A great at wave of despair rolls over Col,
Fairlie's heart. The end which seemed
•
00 (x111' is far away'1
ile beerst be clock strike ono, the
Lou' appointed, ilia glance lights on
the wooden beams of the floorlessdhridge.
A new hope date)) his tt'obuled mind.
In a numlent he has jumped out and
fastened the bridle to a tree, telling his
dazed companion to remain where she is
till he retems.
"Do not fear, Afns. Vane! i shall re-
toitt in n few moments," be said, cheer-
fully; and carefully drawing the, warns
buffalo robe closer around the dainty
little figure, he turned away with. a
player in his heart, intent on his desper-
ate purpose of crossing the icy rafter's
of the old bridge which was yesterday'
denuded of its worn-out flooring to be re-
placed with n now one.
Slovly, carefully be crawls from slips
perr beam to beans. Ills head swims
as the tenter rushes along beneath him.
Afore than once he slips, but regains his
hold in time to save himself, And the
moments fly. ' -
It' is passed. He has crossed. He is
climbing the- steep hi1181411 to Lisle. On-
ward he dashes: No ran Seel his heart
thump against his side. Oh, out At
lost he is at the dor of the church, He
enters, sees the bridal eoilple, hears the
words of the solemn service ring through
the church. He tries to speak, but ex-
hausted nature giv00 way, and he falls.
senseles0 to the floor,
C'IiAITEtt 311.
The bride of wealth and place, •
Society crowns you quon;'
With your Brussels lace and your angel
face,'
A fairer never has been?
-Mrs. Alex, McVeigh'Dliller.
People held their breaths with Souhe-
thing like awe when Loraine Lisle, the
beautiful, haughty heiress, came up the
aisle. of Forest Church to meet ilei' hand.
some, happy lover at the chancel rail,
where he waited with the love -light 1(t
his grave, sweet eyes, , Such diamonds as
blazed on Iter throat and arms hadllevcr
been seen in Lisle before, and the fron-
frou of her long white satin robe sent
a thrill of envy to every feminine heart.
The filmy lace of the bridal veil soft-
ened the starry 111x110 of her Oriental
eyes and the richt bloom of her ,cal
cheeks. Little Anna "Seasholtz, sitting
demurely in' the amen corner, attracted
muck attention by announcing in a stage
whisper that tine veil was real Brussels
Ince, and had been imported from Bel-
gium expressly for the 00easiot.
She was preceded to the altar by Josie
Thornton, 130'yl Meadows and 'Freda
\nrdyz---Che three graces—in pink 011 -
rah, carrying baskets of Ainericut Beau-
ty roses; and Beryl's x00 -blue eyes grew
bright still pleasure ns she saw beside
Paul Vane, beneath the fragrant white
nuntinge bell, her handsome, dark: eyed
lover, Willie isomers, the .st'o0m's hest
man. As she met the fond glance of the
laughing dark oyes, Beryl flushed with
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shy hsppin'.50 at the thought that some
day she would be his bride,
'tote vans—hot' soon wgttld'the sleigh
frith its precious burden comes?
wedding match tett
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For
e„ilin; through the cline:e n, and
eyr11 non Paul Pane.;ads-aimed to
draw Lor tine's Hand through bis arm
and stnud with her before the "gowned
bishop 01111, waited to snake theta .one.
Did Ursine Lisle give one though to her
hapless rival in that supreme moment of
her triumph? Not she lived in her hap-
piness alone. "Whom the gods would
destroy they first melte 1114,", 010 was
mad with love for noble Paul Vane, A
strong and passionate love for Min had
blossomed in iter heart as the edelweiss
blooms on the bore suniinits of the Alps
n flower full of promise born aurid
11 waste.
Slowly, solemnly the, voice of the
bishop broke the stillness, 011d a sad echo
ran„ through the church, Wilt RairIie
not cone ill' time?
Hasten, brave heart! hasten and stop
this bad, bitter act!
Alredy the ring is on her finger, when
a mat rushes into the church, will and
breathless, his feu ghastly with e10-
tiou, gv.stieulating frantically, while
from his foam -flecked lip issues hoarsely
a sudden shivering m,y, which ends in a
bleak, sibilant whisper ns be falls sense-
less midway the aisle,
There 0 hardy 'time for the sexton
to summon aid to remove the unconscious
Inst 10 10 open ;dr, when the bridal
cortege comes down the aisle, radiant
with happiness, Only Jost! 'Thornton
hoarse err of a raven, as it flapped its
dart wings close to ids ear, starred shy
puny, and it dashed forward in mad
haste, ch'agging the broken reins lanest.12
its feet t s w 110
lal 1 Itt
Orel- road, which it followed fat smite
distance, hogging the light sleigh 011,-r
it Should it swerve 10 the left a1 r help-
less oceupint would be thrown irtu the
wake
21.1ming stre:nm twenty lett behold,
lint no, It goes on Cads am et 01 telt
with pitying eyes over 11111(111 tate. A
little further on, the horse, at the fort of
of the toad, runs into a deep t tw kink,
overturning the sleigh slid throwing Vire
ion to one side of the toad. In yelling
she stroelt her head against some sharp
1 substance, making a crimson wound is
the whit. temple..
Alas! poor Vivian, as she Int' lifeless
and pale, with her sweet face upturned to
the blue sky, had heti pure soul climbed
the ragged pathway to the stars?
:low long Vivian lay there 1t the snow
was never known. Billy Lester, 1 young
country chap 011 his way to Lisle, carne
upon her, and, bending clown with n cry
of fear, gazed into her deathly white
face.
Rubbing \'ivian's face and hands with
snow, he was rewarded by finding that
she moaned feebly.
"She lives! 1 will place her inside the
school -house and run for Dr. Beard!„
exclaimed the frightened country rustic.
In a moment the slight, drooping fig-
ure was carried in his arms to the
schoolhouse and deposited of one of the
wooden benches,
"She may wander away. I will lock
thought of poor dent' Grandntero Lisle, the door." He did so, slipped the km; in
who was text i11 from nervous' excitement
to attend the marriage; so that the hest
mep, Willie Bonnets, 11214 to give the
bride away, thiitlking sadly as he did
so of. the little -grave behind the church
mad of the beautiful girl who rested
there "safe in the amts of Jesus.”
What wits Paul Vane's surpr100 to find
in the unconscious 1111111 outside, whore
the sexton was vainly trying to restore
to consciousness, bis old friend Colonel
Fairlie.. He whispered to his bride that
he should like to have hinr placed in
one of,tle ea rldoges and taken to Arcady.
Loraine looked down 0t he' foo with
n steely glitter of hate in lte'r eyes, Why
11:01 he come, she, wondered, after his
refusal. But she could not refuse this
first request of her new -made husband,
her heart's idol. As she consented, site
thought darkly: "f will' have hint ill my
power, He will not escape 1ne this time!"
CHAPTER XLI,
Among the guests assembled in Forest
Church to wiliness the marriage of Paul
Voile and Loraine lisle was Gordy Hall,
1110 cold, crafty heart filled. with the
deepest hate as he watched from his
seeledod seat the triunlphf of Paul Vane,
his hated rival.
For of e r`a year Gordy hall had hidden
himself au10ng the alluring scenes of In
belle Thuds and one night, while seated
at Ole green (.loth in one of tle gaming
hells of that 'gay efty, by 0 1i oky turn
of fickle liortuno s wheel he found him-
self .h oath nunut then confront both his foes with the
His thoughts turned to.',tineriea—to fa 00 0011th,
the lovely', cruel • woman who had won 1, ; a c:1r;1 tvickt(1 sche:u^ iRr
his he l t, ;and for 011010 Ile heti cve: - t
since been in exile. "
It had beetf the one redeeuting trait of
Gord;n's IInil's life, this love 1ot I oraine
Lisle:
1f she had not played with, tate. man's
heart as with a childish toy', find then
east 1t aside, bruised and bleeding, who
his pocket, and sped on
to Lisle,
w +. n n u. a
(Gordy Hall stilted with, dilated eyes at
Vivian, who had half tisel from the
101011 and 11'11S wildly a11001 her,
The shoed. had done its work. 1'hr.
clouds had lifted from the shadowed
Main, and, touched by the sweet mercy
of ottr Uatlul's Inutd, she last before abut
Sane and. seeing!
"Has the grave given up its dcnd!°
he cried—and well he might say so, '1'11,2
lovely golden head was clotted wroth
blood, the delicate cheeks were pale and
ghastly. Coady ,pressed hist saturnine
face agai0st the. pane, and his ryes
gleamed. with 'savage joy as it slowly
dawned on his mind that Vivian 0,111
alive.
\What at wenpou was this to hold over
the heads of Paul and Loraine! A s1cord
Of Daineelisi snsjientled by a single hair,'
that, it broken, would bend proud Lor-
11hl0 to the dust with shame She was
not the rector's wife. Yere before him
lay the first wife, alive! Today's mar-
riage was a shams At last the fate;
were kind to Gordy Ball, Revenge was
lel his 110110.
Gloatingly he ran over the situation
2121—a brnliuit thought: "1 011if Iteie-
It would spoil the game if Vivian re-
t into l 1(t 01111' (0 Lisle, as she mast have
been on the point of doing, else why her
mysterious presence beret.,. (-Ie would
keep nut sochuted for at few days until
Lur,lines' reputation 0011111 be lost and
hw.aine w'i0 to blame when sh' suited
•
the seeds of hate that world reap for
hews() dreadful a harvest,
"1 hold the trump card!" he cried,
wickedly, 0214 ran round to the school-
room door. It opened to his touch, The
lock had not fastened 'when Billy Les-
isnows but what Gordon Hall's life, story ler turned the key. How be got he
might not have rend differently?
As it, was, the one iu)pulse for good
in his life was lost: Changed into a
fiend by his disappointment, he flung
himself recklessly into the whirlpool o
life, seeking only to forget the fair, false
coquette. In the words of the poet:
"And then I \rendered for away
'1b quell my spir'it's wild unrest,
From place to place, a lonely one,Ot the stili in the middle -flay' skies—
And rocked on ocean's heavin breast that one with it spell that is tender
Oite day at the Cafe Anglaise, while
reading the "Galignani Messenger," he
saw in the American Gossip col-
umn an announcement of Paul's
Vane's expeetcd marriage with the
heiress of 'Arcady;s and n strong
magnetic force drew hits to the scene
of action. Ween Coldiet Eugene Fairlie
hal fallen in that 1eatltlilte swoon b' -
away to a place of concealment, what
arguments he used, what promises to
take her to her Inlsbnnd, are useless to
repents but ere an hour hail gone le
3'ivlblo Pane was' in the toils of the spi-
der's web. The spider had caged 1.111,
pretty singing bird.
C'1LSPTE11 XLII,
That one, with a smile like the splendor
hat mm with n dream in her eyes,
Cometh close in her rate Southern
boa:ay,
Her 'languor, her indolent grace;
And my soul turns its karat to its duty,.
To lire in the light of her face.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
"I have triumphed," Loraine told her -
sell, with 0 radiant smile, `ale loves me
-i1Sn he could utter atrvord to arrest the novo as madly 11:4
marriage Gordy Htk11: poked at bite with 1 1 love lye,;==; have on
"' rc f `` ", ,sing hint to be, him by the em,' of my 01 t passion.
a bitter into pp Loge ha.s become to him, ad':to me, the
like himself, a yict l•' i hcautiful Lir-
mainsming o' existence.
minds treachery, fI (0 000er,eurled ! t xi. tunco. 'I 011 net bo.
y .,; lieve that he ewe' felt as much for Ile -
his lips, and els la sgw; Isl raise 00001110 Ian as he docs for me°
in, down the aisle, '-her dark ey00 as
bright as her diamonds 09 slut leaned ort
her husband's arta, this, man's heart gave
0 great, strangling throb of pain and
rage, and, seising Ids list, he rushed ale
ruptiy front the 0111011 into the bright
winter sunshine,
"Anywhere, anywhere, out of sight of
her teiumphl" he thought.
'Unconsciously his feet strayed into the
little path behind Forest Cluu'ch lending
into the woods, and in his despair at
losing fmpelious Loraine, he waodeed
heedlessly on and on along the frozen
path, crosser the narrow loot -bridge over
the river; they at last tired out and
breathless, sat down 10 (11111 on the
woodenr bench beneath the window of
1110 little red school -house.
Suddenly the moody man W110 5101'1led
by a low,deep groan, so near at hand
that he sprang up 1(t consternation,
Again tate groan broke. the Christmas
stillness, and he looked wildly shout to
locate the sound,
"It comes frau within the little rid
school-hotse', he muttered, peering
through the window.
A moment lie gazed, then a low, gurgling
01')' of surprise -that was almost ItOvior
escape him. As he continued to stare
into the 000111, his face blanched to an
unearthly hue, he saw—
When Vivian Vane --poo', blind, un -
111p' girl! --was I( -it alone in the sleigh,
t mesad oblivion comae over the half -
awakened brain. The long ride through
the freezing air had chilled her delicate
frame, until now a strange numbness
ovorpon'5Fed her, and she slipped down
itlueitg the beaky' buffalo Alms, ' Tito
She gave a low Rad happy laugh at the
though 1, for she was thrilled, int001001-
ed,'at1110 thought of l'ts'1 A'toe's adoa-
tioll. 1110(1(1 the spell of her beauty and
her lore, wrapped in the delirium of her
0/041010 caresses, the (11111 had indeed
forgotten everything but her love,He
Was nuully happy; Loraine' had indeed
east upon him the spell of the siren,
"A reoithless woman! Mere cold clay,
As all false things ,ire! Bart so fair
She tales the breath of men 0way
\\'Ito gaze upon her unaware."
"Von must live tot me 1110110, my dar-
ling," the new wife said to hint only a
few days after thou' marriage, windn'g
her white urns around her neck, and
laying ber cheek on his breast that she
might look nue at him with these glor-
ious dark eyes swimming in tenderness.
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11e will go ,tbruad as soon as (1111101.
utbr 1 0le'is better. We will lead a life
of pleasure among the glorious scenes of
the old world. Do you not like that
plan, dean":"
"But 1(1y church, sweet Loraine! Von
know they expect my to take charge of
it again now"
A pretty, mutinous light carne into
the dark, upraised eyes, and 1-1nine
look 'her Tread,
1Vn'en,c1Paull _ Von did not trails
expect to go back lath the C'huelt aft:?'
we were. married? Do you not know
that I ant eery, very rich, and that I
Mee the world and ,all its pleasures?
R'itlt our wealth 00 can enjoy .001 lite
.hettto than by staying on here at this
stupid Lisle, Tell -them you cannot go
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Marriage in Northern Nigeria.
Among all polygamy is the rule, the
reason given by the natives being• that
it is it»postsihle fur one woman to do
all the work `of the house, look after
the children, prepare nest cook the foot,
fetch the daily supply of water (often
en arduous` .job), cultivate the planta -
Cum and go to market. And the 'reason
is that the African is an exceedingly
hungry person, It is their elstaa to eat
several titttes.0 (111y (ihen at hone, 1111(1
Lhe men splitd most: of tater time sitting
in the palaver house, or market place,
while the women bring the food all day
long. One wife could not. possibly do
l;esides, the African lady encour-
ages it, for she s0}'s: "The more wives
the less twork." Aeroug the Mimes,
(Michas, 'f)huwus and the lower el-tss ut
pagan tribes in the interior there is very
little form of marriage. As soon nsa
man has the (1500as he pays the parents
of which there may be only a'luuulfuls
aga11111 50,000 of the 43,000 gold per
tIficates, It should he remembered tbat'
any rational bank note of the 45,000 and
010;000 denominations that may be pat
the
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11(111111111 turn 1("e and the notes
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$I 1,00 not. largest of the netinna
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1•e1.rxatea and of the "coin" to'1if!cites
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of the 41,000 bills. 01 that gess' these
41,1)00 were distributed 24,04,1 in United
sin—ie.; notes, 432 in treasury `(0r .coin)
entife'ate notes, 24 of national bunk is-
ut 57,441 in gold certificates, and 108
1(t salver certificates,
The sono bill runs through all these
ifecations save that- of the "coin"
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bills in the other lists are Ole tens,
fives, twos 2021 ones with which most of
its 2tre resanllll)`.)' familiar, 011 occasions
at least.
the 0(0 Luted States note, with the
bison romping .((1,x11 its face, is the
commonest of the 410 bills, next to
width among the tens is the national
sulk note, with the 410 'silver costal -
(site third in number. l'he national
bool:s are strong on the twenties, too,
while hating only a comparative hand-
ful of ones and tacos,
As to the gold coinage the current list
includes only the 420 piece, the '410, the
wfr, the 42.250 piece and the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition gold dollar minted
in 1002. Beware of invitations!
4-11
ORIGIN OF TI -IE SWASTIKA.
Curious Symbol Used by Indians on
Their Moccasins.
Possibly you hese noticed or your
nemeasins, es upon many decorated littl-
ish, robes, ecrtam eros' -lines done in
beads or quill work. These lines ia,)'4
tuetut different things, bu1 in properrelu-
tion to other lines, says the Outing
Magazine,they seem to mean among
very many tribes, the nano thing; that
is to say, paths or trails, usually paths
04 the buffalo. The bulalo symbol was
the sy111101 of abundance, of pl 1(t}', and
the buffalo comes into the life and the
art; of, the Anieric: n 1„dr,tu ti n t--t..t!'y,
`The, figure denoting the foot' winds, 0.
nom' cardinal point.' usually taking the
form of a cross, with limbs of equal
length, is not confined to 'any one tribe,
At times this crisss tikes the form of
the swastika. 'lam, cisme, as weft as
the figure of tae cross, (11(00 0 on near -
l' every continent of the. globe: and
among nearly 01.01'y 1101 lam
sties hove fallen into estnsjes at stung
the sign of the cross gunong song,
hakes whit'11 !Tart nota fact Glut t :.'y
They go too far in their own tab lit t',
The cross 1, the simplest, ;a00angenteut
of two straight lines, Theswastil.,t is
easily made by -attaching a short line
at the end of each am of the cross -'Phis
((igmre almost seems to be spodnnaoila,
and nut 1,0 have been Mimed by litter-
conunnniention. The simple cross is
widely ttsed in tate decoration of all the
tribes, but the figure has 0 very wida
and divergent significance. Sometimes
it means "Morning Star"; sometimes
any star, and sometimes very many 0110
er things; but the signification of the
star 000010 to be the moo widely accept -
i °d One,
TALISMANS IN MALTA,
9dd Shaped Stones to Ward Off Ef.
fects of Snake Pq{'son.
'I'ltei'e are still to be foiled in lhhita a
number of small stones shaped; and col-
ored like the ryes, tongues, and other
parts of setl.enls,
Tuve ')t401stitlo"s among the Slntte';t
t.0uneet these with the tradition that
St. Paul when shipwrecked was cast on
their island, and (hot it Dns there that
vv',Iile lighting 0 bundle of sticks for a
titre a viper fastened on the :Apostle's.
hand, St Paul calmly x1110(0 the reptrlo.
off into the flames and no harm follow-
ed. The nat1'es wear those stones as
talisnaus, in wh1011 character they sup-
pose them servieonble in warding off:
d1nge's front snake bites and p0Lsons ,
They at found in St. Paul's Cd pnm-
it )led in clay, and are set in i '•;'y
=out
bracelets, and when found tQtt ate
01101)1,of a tongue 01' liverd ( t = e
hung around the neck.
taken intet'Ially, digyol;,.)
which method is attend
some people, by more ants `elp t tf Its.
LonPpn SO -indent. .O,, ' ;
what. they want in the shape of goats,l
tout1.,',befds, money, and takes the girl.
There is no eeremon0 at all, 'l'he more
wives he los indbutesa 1ieherman and
that he will be better looked after. If of
course they can mining(' to seize a wo
Pro
"]'es," said Mf
is doing first rayl
1 0 ono " 1110711'
mean from the neighboring tribe while ere, tta'dle 51)
she is fetching tenter or working on her ti st-chars
farm so much the cheaper, With this hoed of It
method in vogue for centuries no wonder ler 1/1ters
that it is as much ns a native's life itint- n' the
worth to go out of his own villa e and N a,hin tdg�
that, the country is so backward—Geo"W'ho'.
graphical Journal. i „
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the , r
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Ever See a $10,000 Sill?
:Axl: yourself is hat is the hill of org
est 21ennn0ation issued ,for car wlaAr?'
in the United States? (;arefu4A'
you don't overdo Ito
The largest hall is f
Mud there are only LW
that are. 'Ai butrg
note and the gold
this, but prtbabl
eyed two or ♦why
ed States,j
guess Hare
the goT
tient
be Wit, n 11,' nr':s
11 it unilett(l i, .nut
rima dim, so I've t-111
eeia1 in1 cl(le11 t0
«aid the l,ro11,1 1110-
!Ic.
Fro:'n Cabby.
oral u7zn=l1e
ter v4b�inl
Cates
5,000 131
ub to hire it cab in
c thmmn if he could
,,u square. 'I'hc mile
cant and I wouldn't if I
d., and ase next time you want to
Onions isle 'eni! \L a. 1'.
'Hut pilgrim is base who speaks 111' of'%
120 staff. --Spanish: