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fiagician, and the names seems to be con-
nected with our word tree. 1t was
against the rule of the Druids to write
things down. They were in the habit of
retiring to the deepest woods for medita-
ton and study, sometimes attended by
pupils.
That is probably the reason why the
Irish, among whom the Druids retained
their power the longest because Ire
land was the hardest to reach of all the
great islands t~hereabouts, and the last to
feel the changes taking place elsewhere in
Europe-chose this pretty system of
naming the letters of the Latin alphabet
when it became common. Instead of
calling A alpha, as the Latins usually
did, they said A, aim, the word which
stood in their language for palm tree and
came, in sound, nearest to alpha, and be-
gan with an "A" Instead of beta they
said BETH, the word for birch tree, al
most the same in sound as the Phoeni-
clan, but quite different in meaning.
And so with the other letters; Coll,
hazel; DUR, oak; eadha, aspen; f~earan,
alder; gort, ivy; huath, white thorn;
iogha, yew; luis, mountain ash; NUN,
vine; NUN, ash; Dir, broom; peith, dwarf
elder suil, willow; teine, furze; ur,
heath. They called this alphabet beth
l~uisnion, choosing out the letters B, L,
and N, instead of the letters A and B, to
form a name.-St. Nicholas.
, 1886-07-04
ALAND OF LIARS.
HOW THE PERsIANs HABlTUALLY
EvADE THE TRUTH.

A People Who Never Hurry-Faisehood
and Reconstruction AS Practiced In the
Oriental Lesson In Patience-An OPP
tim stio View.
After speaking of their parental and
filial affection. their respect for the aged
and their politeness and hospitality, a
writer on Persia winds up apropos of the
people of the country with tue following
phrase: "But as a race, they are Yery I'M
truthful and procrastinating." About
these two traits of the Persian character
I'd like to say a word. You've often
heard of the champion liar, and many peo-
pie In the United States even at This ,res-
ent day pretend to believe that the book
agent and lightning-rod nan and Eli Per-
kins are the three greatest liars of the
world. But these people don't know the
Persians. With our liars at home men,
dacity is nh acquired science, and has
taken years and years and much hard
study to develop, and even then they
often-at least ACKNOWLEDGMENT the
truth. With them artistic lying is an eff
fort. 1t takes thought and pains to pro-
duce 1t in its perfection. Not 40 with the
Persian. The modern Farsee is a natural
liar. 1t goes against his grain, against all
. nolus InoSJ sdcreu IN TINS queer world,
to speak the truth. 1t is born with him,
this inveterate love OF prevarication, and
it is bred in the BON for generations and
generations.
ASHAMED OF H TRUTH.
/ have noticed with the interest the
student of human nature is liable to
feel in such cases, how astonished
the Farsee Is when he has caught
himself telling the truth.
He is then out of his role. and
feels so ashamed of himself that he looks
sheepish and guilty; much rs an American
might after getting of an awful ib.
Even with such a people, however, when
the noble art of romancing l carried to
such perfection, moments will arise when
1t is desirable to know and hear the truth.
And for such occasions the stocks OF
Persian adjuration, oaths. curses ind -
peals seems almost inexhaustibie. ON
the funniest is Rishe mere KaffapK
, 1886-07-04

1-Nfs
Coniston is a mailman as he rushes into
the other mans place, and leans trem-
blingly over her chair. She is quiet,
silent.
at is l." he whispers, brokenly.
Il know" she replies, softly.
"Oh, child" cries he, you must listen
to me; l am a good-for-nothing sort of q
fellow; | have had no religion, no any
thing, until / have known you, and now
you are my shrine. II seems to me at
your feet | should lay rare spices, per-
fumes. flowers, jewels-and all dare
lay there tonight is a human heart-a
human life, Polly" he says, lowly. stoop-
ing his blonde head to hers. "Wnl you
have mel
He sees her face as she upturns it in
the flare of the last lantern; it is as he
has never seen it-pale, stricken, awful,
calm.
"Welll' she says, at last, with that
clear, bright voice of hers, a trifle hard,
a trifle matter f-fact.
-Oh, | love you, my soul! my queenl |
love you and need YOU" cries he, over
come by the sight Of her pallor.
IL know" she answers, quietly, Il
appreciate, value your love; l would no
have it otherwise; / should have been
disappointed alwaysif you had not loved
ne. Ali" burying her white face in
her hands, Il revel in i'll"
And he had once thought this woman
cold. superficial, unlikable.
my darling - Coniston says, reaching
out his hands for hers.
But. whispers the girl, drawing away
into her silken wrap, "I-I-am engaged
to be married to Eugene Bradford. /
have been for two years !"
Sir Campbell Frazer had arrived from
the west. The Arizona sailed on Tues
day, and both he and the earl of Coniston
were booked on her passenger list.
1t was Monday night-"midsummer
come again" people said, lounging the
piazzas Of the big hotel-warm, sultry,
with great banks of blue-black clouds
towering above the golden rim of the
west.
Bradford was up in town, detained by
business, us Coniston had discovered,
Miss Grey was sitting at the corner Of
the piazza. He went up to her for the
first time since the night OF the ball.
MAY l sit DOWN."
She looks up a~ssentingly.
Il am going tomorrow in the Ari
zona.-
Il know" she answers, whitening.
He wonders why, and, heaven helI
himl he gets up and goes away, when he
would rather far have taken the frail,
vivacious, alert little woman to hi,
heart.
Presently he saunters back. ,
Would you take a ride with me to
night? You know we shall never OF
earth see each other again. Would your
Her eyes flash, her lips CULVER; sh,
turns the ring on her finger back and
forth.
yes" she says, quietly, II will set or
my habit and be down presently"
They ride off-of into the green and
silent country lanes where the dew
damps the mir, and where the scent o.
the homestead fower-gardens mingles
with the breath of the sea as 1t comes to
them.
They do not talk very much, nor yet
ride fast. The twilight Is gathering and
the horses have their way.
Suddenly it grows dark-thc blue-black
clouds have crept over all the brightness
, 1886-07-04

of the heavens and hidden the harvest
moon from sight.
A fash-an instantaneous report, and
Polly sees her lover stagger in his seat
his left arm falls powerless, struck for
ever useless at his side.
She has her horse beside him in an in
slant; she comes close to his side, while
the great raindrops fall FLASHING down
upon them. She takes up the stricken
arm in her soft hands, and presses her
young lips upon it.
"Polly.7 cries Coniston wildly. DO
you love Bradford"
"Oh, no." she says.
Will you marry me:'
-Yes," she whispers. -
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS very hour?|
-Yes, this very hour. if you wish it:
OH" cries the girl, wildly, Jack, I'll be
good to you. | must be, don't you see?
This-this?" She touches his arm as he
tries to guide his horse and hold her to
him. both. ale doesn't need me like
that! and you do; and it is my fault
ought not to have come out tonight
with your
THANK God you did.'
And" she says, slowly, AS they turn
their horses heads, besides. IL love
you: is it not stranger
VERY. And you will not regret own
ing a fellow as-as helpless as 1 am,
Polly"
NO" she answers, thoughtfully, and
looking at her by the lightning's frequent
flash, he sees the strength, and warmth,
and tenderness, and love, that he has
need of.
Polly" Coniston says, through the
pelting rain, as they ride back to
Brighton, lit seems to me as if my whole
life had been an interrogation point,
and as if you were the blessed answer to
it,
And so it fell out that the reverend
pastor of st. Mary's was called upon to
marry two drenched people that Novem-
Der night. and that the earl of Coniston
put off his sailing date another month.
Fanny Aymar Mathews in Frank
Ieslie's.
, 1886-07-04

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known to cleanse the system; to act on
the liver, kidneys and bowels gently yet
thoroughly; to dispcl headaches. colds and
fevers; to cure constipation, indigestion
and kindred ills.
, 1886-07-04

and what the small sum of twenty five
cents will do it properly invested. Ask
any person the question, what is the dear.
est and most precious thing to you, and
the answer is most universally the same
life and health. Where, then, is twenty
five cents or any other sum more powerful
or valuable to YOU. than in saving life.
That is the precise cost Of a bottle Of
Chamherlsin's Collie. Cholera and Diar
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made for bowel complaints and nothing
else. and is pleasant to take aud certain to
cure. Sold by W. N. Hunt.
, 1886-07-04

The English language is Coniston's
native tongue, but it fails him now; lie
feels the warm blood %suffusing his face
as his mind runs after an elusive
woman.
"Ah, l see; there are some things so
much better implied than expressed.
But | am so matter-of-fact that 1 must
translate your mute eloquence. Lord
Coniston--.r AT this instant Coniston
is lost in calculating how many minutes
he can stand this present temperature of
his head and face-"into words, or a
word-curiosity, Ell? Come. he twice
franks it not so ~
You may christen it curiosity. and
call it SO, pro tenn, if You choose. Miss
Grey, but
The earl again falters.
"Oh." cries the girl, with a little i'm
patient wave of her hand, and throwing
back her pretty blonde head; ~how l
abhor Englishmen! They are so in terror
Of even their minor emotions. A French
man, a German, an Italian, any other
nationality in the world is ready, eager
to put his flirtatious ~propensitics into the
most delicious language; but an English
man.r-she shudders--he stops to won
der what he is about to feel, and 10! the
emotion vanishes! ha. ha. hal
Miss Gray laughs a long, musical, ring
ing laugh.
Coniston looks at her, and he wonders
if he has ever really seen her until this
morning. She looks like the brightest
part of the sunshine as she sits there in
it, mocking him.
perhaps we do avoid putting what
you call our 'firtatious p%ropensities' into
words; but if you will permit me to say
30, an Englishman is only too ready to
speak out that which he feels!"
do they ever feel anything outside
the hunting-ield and the house Of com
monsf" she asks, ~provokingly.
He smiles as he looks at her.
Il will tell you some day"
Not long after Coniston rides with
Miss Grey-a long afternoon ride on the
road by the bay, and through the woods
and past the farms busy with the autumn
fruit-gathering.
They chat Of commonplace things
the flowers, the birds. the clouds, the blue
of sea and sky, and they come home
soberly enough, too soberly, he thinks.
There is a ball that night, the last OF
"the season." Coniston is not a dancing
man, so he has the satisfaction of watch;
ing Miss Grey floating about 43T7}
, 1886-07-04
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, 1886-07-04

"H
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which then DISCHARGE this fluid into the
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, 1886-07-04

Alaska is a great island region. One of
Its arc9ipelagoes is 800 miles from north
to southland about eighty miles wide. 1t
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islands, and the aggregate area of these
islands Is more than 1900 square miles.
Six hundred miles further west there is
another group which contains over 5000
squar miles, and the total area of the
islands Of Alaska is larger than the state
OF Maine.-Exchange.
, 1886-07-04

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, 1886-07-04

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soothes the child, soitens the gums. al.
lays the pain, cures wind collie. hnd is the
best remedy for diarrhna. Twenty five
cents a bottle.
, 1886-07-04

To the taste, more acceptable to the stom-
ach, and moro truly beneficial in its %acfion.
the famous California liquid fruit remedy.
Syrup Of Figs, is rapidly superseding all
Others. Try it. large bottles for sale by
w. N. Hunt, 1919 Eddy street.
, 1886-07-04

Tree toads rave several fingers on their
forelegs, in the n of which are sucto-
rial disks That enable them to climb the
sides of trees with the same ease and a
similar method to that by which the fly
walks on the ceiling. Boston Budget.
, 1886-07-04
A Great Victory
A Terrible Case Of Scrofula
Cured by
Hoods ~SarsapariIIa

"In the winter Of 1879 l was attacked with
scrofula in one of the most aggravating forms.
At one time l had no less than thirteen large
assesses over and around my neck and throat,
continually exuding an offensive mass OF
bloody matter disgusting to behold, and
almost intolerable to endure. 1t is impossible
to fully describe my sufferings, as the case
was complicatelwith Chronic Catarrh. After
three years of misery. having been treated by
three physicians, / was worse than ever.
Finally, on the recommendation Of W. j.
Huntley, druggist, OF Lockport, I was induced
to try Hoods S%arsaparilla. And now, after
having taken twelve bottles, within the last
twelve months, the scrofulous eruptions have
entirely ceased and the assesses have all
disappeared, except the unsightly scars, which
are daily becoming smaller by degrees, and
beautifully less / do not know what 1t may
have done for others, but l do know that In
my case, Hoods Sarsaparilla has proved an
effective, specific indeed. As an evidence OF
my. gratitude L send these facts unsolicited,
and / am ready TO verify the authenticity OF
this cure. by personal correspondence with
any one who doubts it," ARL A. Rob-
ERTs, East Wilson, N. Y. -.
This statement is confirmed by W. j. Hunt
ley, druggist, of Lockport, N. Y, who calls the
cure a great rfctory for Hoods S%arsaparilla.
Id for book giving statements ofmany cures.
Hoods ~SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for s.. Made
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100 Doses One Dollar.
, 1886-07-04
C~ONISTON'S COURTSHIP.

John Gordon Annesley, Earl of Conis
ton, sat in the cabin Of the Brighton
boat, reading his evening paper. He had
just folded and put in his pocket a long
letter from his friend and partner, Sii
Campbell Frazer, in which that gentle
man announced that affairs at the ranch
of San Rosalie were going on perfectly.
but that he must beg his dear old Jack
TO put off his sailing date just a fortnight,
as he now found that he could not be In
New York possibly before the close OF the
month (October) or later.
Coniston was Ill the midst of a frown
over this piece of intelligence as he
glanced over the paper. He hated
American and the Americans; he longed
to put the sea between himself and this
displeasing nation; he yearned for h
ing" and the Highlands; he scorned the
gayeties Of all the American watering
places, and stopped at the Pavilion
solely, as he openly avowed, because
Brighton was an English name for a
place, and for the ether reason that here
he was within an hour of Pier 3s, North
river. and could step on board a Guion
boat at almost q moments warning.
Coniston, therefore, chafed under h in
Fiction Of an additional fortnight in the
land of his loathing. Albeit the ranch
of San Rosalie was adding a considerable
number of thousands to his income, he
still-just at that particular moment
wished it at the bottom Of the Red sea.
However this may be, Coniston's va
cant eye at this juncture took in a very
neat little figure as it advanced in the
cabin; it was followed by another-a
plump, ~middle-aged lady's figure, much
burdened with shawls and wraps,
and evidently in deadly peril of q
draught, for before seating itself, both
the neat little figure and the plump du'
emma examined carefully the fastening
Of all adjacent windows.
This one seems tightly closed, Aunl
Dorinda,n the girl said in her clear, ligh'
voice.
Horrible American tone, calculated 10
lacerate a fog.r mentally commented hi,
lordship.
mo, Polly, no; I am sure"
Polly! we gods!" s~oliloquized the earl
Suggestive solely Of comic opera, milk
maids and parrots. And she has short
hair-he never could abide a short
haired woman. And she was small.
Small women had always. from youth
up. constituted his pet aversionl Dressed
in brown; brown as a color was dir
ing-in fact, it was m
Coniston had all
favor of brin 283
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49,
The entire domestic economy of Berlin
has during the last few days been revo-
lutionized. Up to the present month the
markets of Berlin have been held in
squares and open spaces. There has
been no covered hall. Now, however,
all the markets have been swept away
and this week a series of market halls,
built on a colossal and imposing scale in
various quarters Of the city. have been
opened for public use. At least two of
the abolished markets date from early in
last century, and all have their peculiar
historical associations. If the house
wives of Berlin were pollcd on the sub
ject the new market halls would be sem
fenced to demolition but the authorities
of the city are doing all they can by pub
lie expositions of the matter and other
means to remove the popular prejudice
against the innovation.
1t is an almost incredible fact that an
~inhabitant of Londen consumes in q year
thirty-two times as much fish as an in
habitant OF Berlin, and that though the
stores Of the North sea are open to the
German metropolis, Paris with her :, 220,
900 inhabitants consumes more fish than
the whole of Germany with a population
of $1,000, 900. This scanty consumption
of fish is one Of the things in which the
new market halls are expected to effect
IN improvement. Berlin requires yearly
1925. 600. 900 pounds of food, including
100, 900, 900 pounds Of fresh meat, 3.00O,-
900 pounds of birds of all sorts. z. 800. 0OC
pounds of game, n, 900, 900 litres of milk,
30, 900, 900 pounds of butter. 5000. 00o OF
pounds of cheese, 10. 1000. 900 pounds OF
eggs, 81, 200, 900 pounds of fruit, 5000, 600
pounds of oranges, 81, 200, 900 pounds OF
fresh fish. 1000, 900 pounds of smoked
fish and 5000, 900 pounds of picked fish.
, 1886-07-04

The territory of the United States has
some 450 different climatic districts, cor
responding to all possible regions Of Eu-
rope and western .asia. New Orleans,
for instance, corresponds to Lisbon, San
Francisco to Naples, St. Louis to Odessa,
Chicago to Dorpat and Riga, Kansas City
to Berlin, Los Angeles to Smyrna, Seattle,
Washington territory, to Dublin, Nash
vile to Milan, Louisville to Vienna, Gin
cinnati to Breslau. Santa Fe to Adriano-
pie, Richmond, Va, to Geneva.-Dr. Fee
lx L. Oswald.
, 1886-07-04

PecuilarIties of the Irish Alphabet
Our alphabet came directly to us from
the Irish missionaries and professors of
religion and wisdom, who taught ChriStiu
anity to the heather Angles, 81
Jutes, Cloths, Germans, Dapa
, 1886-07-04

Ex-President Fish. Of the New York Ma
rine bank, is now an assistant TO the Au-
burn prison chaplain.
, 1886-07-04

E1hs' soda water manufactured under
the latest process, with all improved and
, 1886-07-04

Neat assortment of visiting cards at the
Leader office.
, 1886-07-04

0ne at once.
~!hfase of theirs is
PAhing, by my eyes, I'll do
lat means an hour, next day.
, 1886-07-04

V. S. Glatcke, the florist, telephone
No. 6S. Artistic floral work a specially.
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