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prince is more popular among his subjects.
and Vaduz would go half mad with delight
at seeing him once more.
Nadus is but village of about $50 IN
habitaT $. Its only public buildings pos
sesssin, any architectural pretensions are
the cn>,rch aforesaid and the Landesyer-
weserei, or administrative offices. At the
Verwescrer are the bureaux of the princely
administrator, who looks after the roads,
the markets and the general welfare, and
who Is, believe, president of the landtag;
ana those of the secretary of state, the
chief justice q think he is the only ma gis-
trate in the laud), the director of forests.
the government engineer and the director
of finance. These gentlemen constitute the
ministry: but Prince John has with him at
Vienna a princely chancery. or privy coun-
Gil. which serves, not only as a court of APP
peal in criminal as well as in civil cases,
but also as a Kind of upper house.
System of Government.
The electorate consists, so far as 1 can
ascertain, of the male population of TWEEN
ty-four years of age and upward; and the
landtag is composed of fifteen members of
whom three are nominated by his transpar-
ency. The house meets when the weather
is too bad for the members to prosecute
their ordinary work in the fields and vine
yards, or on the Rhine entertainments; and,
as rule. it experiences much difficulty in
finding business wherein to employ itself;
Tor regular parties are unknown, and there
II at the weightiest affairs demand but lit
tie time for settlement On those few oc-
cesions, however, when the members can
not quickly agree, and when the admins
traitor cannot reconcile them. each sends a
deputation TO the prince and his council at
Vienna, and the princes decision puts an
end to the dispute.
Outside of Vaduz, and overlooking it is
the partly ruined castle of Hohen-Liech-
tenstein. in the grounds of which is grown
an excellent wine. Some of the building is
exceedingly neutrality-suspicious. even Roman
in Origln-but most of it was entirely re-
built in the sixteenth century. 1t used to
be the seat of the prince, but 1t is now in
habited by farmer. There are elsewhere
the remains of other castles, notably at
Gutenberg. near Blazers. for in the old
days Liechtenstein saw plenty of very hard
fighting, and even as late as 1893 the Aus
TRANS, under Hotze, fought the French,
under Masona, on the now strongly forti-
fled Luzienstieg.
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TAUGHT TO BUILD NESTS.
One Feature of the Education of
Young Birds.

from the PnllaOelphle inquirer.
1t is a common error to believe that with
birds the knowledge Of building their nests
is innate 1t is a trade that is taught to
every bird by its parents and in just as
systematic a manner as men are trained
to be builders. Birds are born with the
instinct to carry little twigs and the ma
terials of which nests are made, but unless
they are instructed in the art of building
they will just drop them in a pile and new
er attempt to weave them into nests
1t is after the young birds have learned
to fly that the older ones regularly teach
them the process Of Interviewing and lin
ing that is necessary to construct nests.
This is most complicated and a trade pc
cuilariy their own: it cannot be initiated
even by men. To arrange the little twigs
SO that they will be symmetrical and
strong enough to hold the weight of the
mother bird and four or five little ones
TO IL branch of a tree requires good en-
cheering ability. The lining of the nest
IS usually of much softer material thar
that Of which the outside is made, and to
place this neatly is also taught by the
older birds. irmming birds Will often
follow cows for days to pick up their
sort hair with which to line their nests
and they weave it as compactly as a piece
OF 1lannel. Birds that have always been
IN cages can never make nests and are
pltiab.y clumsy even with cotton wool and
material that has been given to them
Ihat nest huiIdinE is taught is also true
OF those that squirrels and mice build.
as well as bees, wasns and ants
The SreCl- ant of Australia is very clever
IN the building OF its nest. 1t appears to
consider it an irksome duty that can be
hIred out, small spider is therefore
trained 10 do this work and acts y s a serv-
ant in all things. The green ants paw
the spiders for their labors in a coin that
they enjoy. 1t is by giving them to eat
portion of the innumerable little eggs
that they, the ants. lay. This Is a most
agreeable arrangement for all, man in
GUIDED as otherwise the green ants would
rival the rabbits in overrunning Australia
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The pack camel travels very slowly, and
until you are sufficiently reconciled to the
motion to be able 10 doze on its back, you
are constantly tempted to get off and walk.
If you want speed, you must buy a racing
camel. This seems to belong to a different
creation. 1t Is much teller, more alert and
more intelligent. 1t can accomplish $50
miles in sixteen hours without undue ef-
fort. and. in the matter of price. compares
with the pack camel as the thoroughbred
does with the cab horse.
The racing camel is very carefully bred,
and valuable prizes are offered by racing
society at Biskra for the fleetest racer. 1
have seen the start OF a race, and II re-
minded me, In q far-off sort of way, of
Newmarket. T e camels were all arranged
iE line. and they shifted the air in their
anxiety to be OF. A flag was waved and
they set off at a terrible pace. as IL they
were only racing for a short distance.
They kept together until they we're al
most out of sight Then they seemed to set
tie down to their habituai pace. and the
race proceeded with long intervals between
the competitors.
have also seen the finish of camel
race. and il reminded me of the first mo-
tor-car promenade between London and
Brighton. The camels were certainly net
50 broken down and bedraggled. but they
came in at intervals of several hours, and
great patience was necessary to watch them
arrive.
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when You Meet I'm Japan.

FROM tne brooklyn Citizen
Nothing is more amusing than to watch
two acquaintance saluting i'm the streets
Of a Japanese town. AS they come in
sight of each other they sIacken their
pace. and approach with downcast eyes
and averted faces, as If neither was worthy
of beholding the other; then they bow low.
so as to bring the face on level with the
knees, on which the palms of the hands are
pressed.
A succession of kissing sounds is next
made by drawing In the breath between
the closed teeth, fnterspersed with a series
of complimentary phrases uttered with
great yolubility in q sort of UNDERSIGNED
falsetto, each trying to Guido his friend IN
rapidity and extravaganza of languaee
while the palms are diligently rubbed.
At last the climax is reached and each
endeavors to give the precedence to the
other. For some moments, perhaps for a
full minute, the polite contest continues:
then the ceremony abruptly ends. as IL the
difficulty were capable of none but q
brusque solution, and the two pass on hur-
riedly, with look Of extreme relief.
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COST OF ELEPHANTS.
Much Used in the Siamexe Malay
states rs beasts of Burden,
From the Geocraphice1 Journs1

From the Geographical Journal
1t is somewhat Interesting to compare
the weights carried by elephants in the
tin-producing districts of the Malay ne
ninsula with those used in the long iour
neys and mountainous country of the Lao
states. In the peninsula the distances are
seldom more than at most three or four
days march, and the elephant is expectad
TO carry as much as 900 or 1 900 hounds
besides his mahout and howda. The lat
ter is often mere brace of pannIers
siung together so es to rest one on each
side Of the backbone, and covered some-
times With light barrel roof of bark. A
gCod tuSker which will carry $50 pounds
VIII fetch about ESQ and a female which
can bear 500 pounds is worth about f45
In the Lao states, where journeys of zen
oeys or three weeks are frequent, the
average weight hardly exceeds SEQ pounds
or one-third of what is usual in the penin-
sula. The prices in various parts of the
country vary considerably. When We were
on the Me kawng and in Muang Nan IN
lssS, good tusker could be had for f32
and female for f24; at Chieng Mai where
good teak-hauling elephants are in great
demand. tusker may fetch f1J0. and a
female anything from $50 TO f100, accord
ing to her strength and ability.
In the Siamese Malay states there are
probably about 1000 domesticated ele-
plants. all told, and in the Lao country
probably over $500 animals are working
at the present moment. That these AMI.
mails breed in captivity in Siam is due 10
the fact that a large number of them
spend the greater part of their time holi-
day making in the jungle. When there
Is no work for his beast, the mahout takes
him out to a nice. cool. green bit of for
est and leaves him there to enjoy himself.
There Is no expense connected with his
upkeep. for he looks after himself He
has hobble of rattan round his feet to
dfssuade him from wandering too far and
wooden bell round his neck. by the tone
OF which the mahout or his little boy can
always find him, when they go out once
month to look him up and give him some
bananas.
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n Lay Oh II Laugh.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Here 1 am, perched my open easement
Enjoying the laugh of some unseen miss
That comes ripping up from some room In the
basement
Just below this
Morning, noon and night can hear her
Babbling awsy with her chatter and chaif,
And Ii seams as if all creation near her
Was just a-laugh.
Picture her Isn't her face Just made for it.
Crinkled and curved for the laughing fit2
Could she be solemn, dye think, If paid for it?
Divil bit!
L can fancy the dfnples her cheeks imprinting,
And see the mouth corners upward run.
I catch her eyes with the frolic giinting
Brimful of fun.
She must be pretty to laugh prettiIy-
Such laugh couldn't belong to d trump;
Humorous, too, to see things wittily-
Probably plump.
There, now, she's OFF again. Peal upon peal of II
Clear us clarillon, soft bell.
Why, It's Infectious! I'm catching the feel of 1t
Chuckling well
What! Was dreaming: That musical melody
Trips up the scale, arpeggio.
So like a voice that was hushed-ah welladay-
Long, long ago ~ ."
Heigh ho! To think Of what little straws tickle
Just a girls laugh-ani my laughing one lies
Silent, and well, now, this is ridiculous
Tears IN my eyes.
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OInens.

As. ere the storm q silence fills the warId
No blade Is turned, banner is unfurled,
In conscious leaf or wood:
SO. all the morning, hushed and tranced with fear,
l seemed TO see messenger draw near
Whose errand not good
turned, and, 10, beside the open door,
The friend deemed beset with perils sore,
Close by me, smiling, stood.
know not why-I said that summer night
The heart in should be wondrous light,
SO calm each passing breath.
Assurance kind greets me in every star;
The allgathering breeze, that hasteneth from afsr
How glad thing 1t saith
That was the night my friend beyond the seas,
Beneath his tent, under the olive trees,
Turned his blue eyes on de8th
EDITH NJ. THOMAS
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Famous Tree Almost Gone.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat

"0I-1 t1c 11OuIs
The famous oak tree under which VIII
liam Penn, the great Quaker. made his
treaty with the Indians over two centuries
ago. was literally ruined by the relic-hunt-
ers and vandals.' said j. F. Mcbride of
Philadelphia, who was attending the pat
tern makers convention at the LindeII.
All that remains of the treaty oak now
Is SCARED stump few feet high, and 1t
IL Enclosed In a strong iron picket fence to
Keep the vandals away. This stump as To-
cateo IA rem Fafk Relic hunters for
years Clipped off the bark of the tree. and
even cut into the trunk and carried away
pieces of the wood, and even whole limbs
were carried away. Finally. the brave oak
could not Withstand these ignoble attacks.
and 1t died. At last the authorities came
to their senses. when 1t was too late and
ordered strong fence put around the
stump of the tree"
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RANDOM VERSE.
Repose.

Repose.
m the Nebraska State Journal.
Better for me modest plot
OF cultivated soil;
A forty-acre prairie lot
Where can sweat and toll
Than in the field Of politics
To take an active part
And practice all the schemes and tricks
That sanctify The art.
No, let me have a rural roost
Beside a ripping creek,
Where I can give the weeds a boost
And hear Dame Nature speak:
Where. high above the waving corn, "a
On stately boughs of pine
The cherry birds at early morn
Can wake this heart of mine; T.;
Where solemn notes of fife and drum
May be forever missed
And politicians seldom come
To wiring my horest fist;
There let me measure. by the peck.
Potatoes from the patch
And milk the spotted COW called Speck
And watch the chickens hatch.
While others do 8, deal of harm
With honors. dearly won,
I'll live in peace upon the farm,
And toll from sun TO sun.
To lay aside for future need
las some are not too prone).
When I'm too crippled-up to feed
The black boar pig own.
He gains, by far, the most in life
Who keeps the most alone,
Away from party feud and strife,
.'Unhonored and unknown
Who lives life serene and true.
transformations, wise,
And counts upon favored few
To '.blubber" when he dies.
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God Help the Boy.

God help the boy who never sees
The butterflies. the birds, the bees,
Nor hears the nihsie of the breeze
When zephyls soft are blowing.
Who cannot in sweet comfort lie
Where clover blooms are thick and high,
And hear the gentle murmur nigh
or brooklets softly flowing.
God help the boy who does not know
Where all the Woodland berries grow,
Who never sees the forests glow
When leaves are red and yellow.
Whose childish feet can never stray.
For such 4 hap.ess boy / say
When nature does her charms display
God help the little fellow.
NIXON WATERMAN
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From London Sketch.

From London Sketch.
Oh dainty garden-close.
Hedged with box and rose,
White with lilies tall and queenly fart
Heap thy best for her,
Mignonette and n;yrrh,
Roses red TO bind around her hairt
Blue forget-me-not
To be her bosom knot;
Eyes OF pansies yeafning to her eyesB
Tender eglantine,
Poppy red az wine
Which of all shall claim to win the prisei
Rose. nay. bow your headi
Pale, you poppy redi
Fairest rose is she that decks your bowerst
Proud as poppy bright,
Sweet as lily white
Ny Lady still Is Queen Of all the Fiowersi
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KeepeA-Goln'.

gtl I. III
II ycn strike a. thorn, or rose,
Keep a-goin'!
II 1t balls, or IL 1t SHOWS,
Keep a-goinl
'Taint no use to- sitian' wbipe
When the fish ain,t On your linei
Bait your hook an keep a-tryin'-
KeeP0a-gst
When the weather kills your crop,
Keepza- g0in.!
When you tumble 1frDm the top.
Keep a.gofn'!
S'pose you're out so,i every dime,
Gittin' broke atn't any crime;
Tell the world you're feelin' fine
Keep 11a-gofn'I
When 1t looks Hike Ill is up,
Keepaagofn'
Drain the sweetness. from the cup,
Keep "a -gein'i
See the wild birds on the wing.
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like sighin' sing
Keep a-goin'
FRANK L. STANTON
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been ADMITTED thirtv-fvs patients. OF which
twenty-one Were males and fourteen fe-
males. There have been six deaths. All
the lapers who come voluntarily to the
home are guaranteed that their real names
Will never be divulged nor their family con-
nections exposed. There are legal means to
enforce the sending of lepers to the home,
but not a few are concealed by their
friends. The medical treatment mitigates
the disease, but no lepers are ever cured.
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Song.

When l am dead, my dearest,
Sling no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the greea gtess above me
With showers and dewdrops wety
And IL thou wilt. remember,
And if thou V lit. forget.
I shall not see the shsdows,
shall not feel the rain;
/ shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as If in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
HAPPY ] may member,
And haply may forget.
CHRISTINA RoSSETTI
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Birth of the Rose.

Rose ,, Maynard David in the San Francisco News
A perfect thought went lowering In the air
Seeking expression visible and found
chaste young shoot of green from virgin
ground
All budded: and he gladly entered there. =
He filled her soul with beauty; and at morn
Drew warmth of love from the bright sun-God s
ray,
She sighed-the petals bBrst-a Rose WAS born!
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Another point in which Liechtenstein diff
fers form other countries Is the habituaI
sbsenteeism Of her sovereign. The me-
tropoils IS Vaduz, where the Iandtag. or
parliament, meets; but Prince John III lives
and has his court in Vienna, and, it is said.
has not been inside his principality more
than once since 1865; though local gossip
mas II that, in addition, he has twice been
within sight of its borders while trayeling
on the Swiss railway between Sargans and
Feidktreh. There is no doubt that for some
reason he avoids his country. On the other
hand. he cannot be charged with neglectfng
1t The pretty Gothic church In Vaduz was
buut BY him at a reputed cost of fI5 600
he also built the much smaller church at
the village of Schaan; founded the excel
lent girls school at Balzers, and the mid
dle-class school at Vaduz; and for years
has contributed handsomely to the most
pressing and expensive OF the national pub
ttc ~orks-the embankment OF the Rhine.
Upon the whole, he probably spends more
In the country than he makes out of it.
Fortunately, he is rich man; and as he
Is bachelor, with scientific tastes and a
hatred for display, he has money to spare.
stil. II seems pity that he does not more
often visit liechtenstein- His portrait Is In
nearly every Aechtensteiner's house; no
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-06-09

Britain. France and Spain which guar
anteed Cuba to Spain. Webster had
formerly declared that the United
States would never recognize any such
treaty. Marcy now supplemented this
decision by the clear inference or by
the positive statement that once
Spain's sovereignty became nominal
in Cuba, or she refused to sell Cuba
for fair price. we were in duty bound
to wrest the island from Spain If we
possessed the power upon the same
principle that would justify one indi-
vidual IN tearing down the burning
house Of his neighbor If there were no
other way of preventing the flames
from destroying his own home"
Suddenly, however, both Marcy and
the President changed their position
on the whole Cuban question. This
was on May 81. 1854. The people were
exasperated but powerless to give eff
feet to their deep convictions. Con-
gress debated the question during the
dog days Of June, and adjourned with
out taking any definite action on the
subject. Thus Spain escaped at that
time, and the magnificent opportunity
furnished by the Crimean war, in
which Great Britain. France and Rus
sia were engaged In the following
year, found this country divided ON
the Cuban question. The Southern
states were indisposed to exhaust those
forces in an attack on Spain which
later on they desired to marshall in the
defense of slavery. The North was al.
so equally reluctant to admit or az.
quire territory that might easilv
strengthen the slave-holding interest
in the South.
But though local jealousies thus pre.
vented the liberation of Cuba, in 1854.
the policy of Marcy was we'll worthy
of country, and it was one which Ma
poleon's Ministers, with all their in
grained acumen and natural sympathy
for Spain, were unable to withstand.
The sectional divisions spared Spain
a humiliation then, but made it neces-
sary for Cleveland in 1895 to re-assert
the Monroe Doctrine in the case of
England in Venezuela and in Nicara-
qua. A stiff policy is the cure for
Europe every time.
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Laughter and Insanity.

1T is curious fact" said a physis
clan recently, who was a specialist in
nervous diseases, that, taken as a
general rule. all lunatics laugh about
twice as much as sane people.
Laughter after a surgical operation
is symptom dreaded by doctors and
nurses.
THAT queer impulse to laugh which
some people experience in the first mo-
ment Of sudden calamity is In reality
one of the sharpest warnings Of insan-
ity that any one could receive.
Some people fall into a habit of
laughing at their own thought when
alone; this should be always strictly
checked, as it is an unhealthy sign
and may lead to brain trouble later
on"
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The merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is literally written in blood.
1t is traced in the vital fluid
Of millions of the human race.
Its positive medicinal merit
And curative power is written
Upon the hearts, and craven upon
The minds of thousands
Of people whom it has cured
And given good health
When there seemed nothing before
Them but darkness and despair.
1t cures all diseases arising
From or promoted by impure
Blood by its intrinsic merit as
The One True Blood Purifier.
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SHERIFFS SALE,
Yost, Atty.
626-tS.

BY virtue OF writ of alias venditioni exponas
issued out OF the Court of Common Pleas OF
Columbia County, Penna., and to me directe
there will be exposed to sale at the Court
House in Bloomsbury on
SATURDAY, JUNE IS, 1893,
| at o'clock In the afternoon. all that certain
messuage, tenement and tract of land situate
| in the township Of Catawissa. County and state
| aforesaid, and more particularly described as
follows to wit valuable farm situate in
Catawissa township about one-half mile from
the borough of Catawissa, adjoining lands OF
the Catawissa Fibre Co., william Berninger,
Zachariah Kreischer, j. B. Knittle, Emanuel
Helwig, Simon Raup and Others, containing
EIGHTY ACRES
more or less. 1t is known as the .'Tice Gingles
farm" Whereon is erected good two-story
FRAME DWELLING HOUSE!
Bank Barn, Spring House and all necessary out
buildings. The buildings are all In excellent
repair. Two small never-failing spring runs
flow through the farm, there is an abundant
supply OF spring water at the barn and a fine
well and spring at the house. There is fine
young apple orchard of choice fruit, peach
orchard, and an abundance Of pears, plums and
other fruit. There is also
QUARRY OF BUILDING STONE
OF superior quality partly opened. Fifty acres
OF the land is In high state of cultivation, the
balance being in timber. The farm is most
desirable one, being close to market, schools,
churches, stores, mills, etc., and not over mile
from the Catawissa stations on the Penna.'
Phil. & r. and d. L. & w. Railroads.
The land above described being portion OF
the same tract of land which VIM. McKelvy by
indenture dated the 7th OF December, 1872 con-
veyed to Charles W. McKelvy, and which said
portion was conveyed to 1. w. McKelvy by John
w. Holman Sheriff OF said county and reeerv-
ing the right and privilege TO enter the land
passing on and along the northeast side of the
pond erected to gather water for the paper
mill, and the right TO keep and maintain ditch
for the purpose OF carrying OF the surface
water that might flow into the aforesaid pond
through the lower end OF the garden at the
dwelling house, then carry the same through
the culvert under the Catawissa Railroad.
Seized, taken in execution at the suit of Lloyd
T. Rider against Matthias Gingles and to be sold
as the property Of Matthias Ginrles deceased In
the hands OF his executor, PIN. Sidler.
FREEzE, ". w. BLA K. Sheriff.
HARMAN, June ,s, 1898.
BARKLBY, Attys
5-26-4t