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world or lays, ewes, salamdhueIe' sylphs. gnomes, and water sprites.
 Of these is c. W. Leadbeater who claims to have Knowledge of the deeds and looks and habitat of fairy folk, says The Chicago Tribune.
 Mir Leadbeater says the nature spir- its of the land may be regarded in a sense as the original inhabitants of the country, driven away from some parts of 1t by the invasion of man, much as the wild animals have been. Just like wild animals, the nature spirits avoid altogether the great cities and all places where men most do congre- gate, so that in those their effect IS a negligible quantity. But in all quiet country places, among the woods and fields. upon the mountains, or out at sea-" he says, mature spirits are constantly present. and though they rarely show themselves, their infiu- ence is powerful and all-pervadtng,
 just as the scent of violets fills the air, though they are hidden modestly among the leaves"
 They are far more numerous than
 man, crowding the earth far more
 thickly and at the same time populat- ing the enormous plains of the sea and the fields of the air.
 The fairies are invisible because | their bodies are made of matter sub | tier than the alr. Some of them inhabit the interior of the earth, liv- ing actually within the solid rock | or the crust of the earth.
 Among the fairies there are an enor- | nous number of subdivisions or races, | the individuals of each race also va rying in intelligence and disposition precisely as men do.
 Appear in Many COIors. Among the vineyards of Sicily ara Vivacious rolltcking purple and orange | or scarlet and gold manikins Among | the oaks and furse-covered heaths of Brittany move more sedately almost | wistful gray and green creatures" In England the emerald green varieties ] are the commonest. These, however, 1 MT. Leadbeater has also seen in the | woods of France, Belgium, Saxony,
 Massachusetts, and on the banks of | Niagara River.
 In India are many different kinds, | delicate rose and pale green and pale blue and primrose in the hill country, I and on the plains a rich medley of | gloriously gleaming colors almost bar
 barrie in their intensity and profusion.
 In some parts of India there are black
 ard gold fairies and gleaming crimson. | A curious variety, as though cast out lsof bronze and furnished, is found thus | far only in the immediate neighbour ood lof volcanic disturbances on the slopes VI NOSufAub ana EtHdt the OdHQWlCn 1 Islands the Yellowstone Park, and a
 certain part of New Zealand. T well remember" says MT. Lead
 beater. when climbing one of the tra- 1 dttionally sacred hills of Ireland, notic- | ing the definite lines of demarcatio
 between the different types. The low l CT slopes, like the surrounding plains.
 were alive with the intensely active 1 mtschievous little red and black race which al d west of Ireland. After half an hours climbing, however. not one of these
 red and black gentry was to be seen, but instead the hillside was populous with gentIer blue and brown type" Fairies Are Not Born.
 Some of the nature spirits live much longer than human beings. others not so long. They have no birth or
 growth. A fairy appears full-slzed in
 his world Just as an insect does. Birth and death are much simpler l for the fairy than for genus homo, and death Is quite free from all thought
 of sorrow. His whole life seems sim
 pler-a joyous. irresponsible kind of l existence; much such as a party of happy children might lead among ex-
 ceptionally favorable surroundings. There is no sex among fairies. There | Is no disease; there is no struggle for
 existence; so that they are exempt from the most fertile causes of human suffering.
 They have keen affections are are
 capable of forming close and lasting | friendships. from which they derive
 profound and never failing joy.
 Jealousy and anger are possible to
 them, but seem quickly to fade away before the overwhelming delight in
 all the operations of nature which Is tlSir most prominent characteristic" | says Leadbeater.
 Gets Along Without Eating. An inestimable advantage that the
 fairy enjoys over human beings is
 that 1t does not need to eat.
 When a human being chances to
 catch a glimpse of such a group he
 usually imparts into his account of
 1t presumptions derived from his own conditions, and takes the leader for fairy king or queen, according to the form which the leader for the moment l may happen to prefer. In reality the realms of nature spirits need no kind of government except the general su- pervision which Is exercised over 1t.
 The great majority of faries dislike and avoid mankind. MT. Leadb eater does not wonder at 1t. To the fal-
 ries man appears IS a ravaging demon, destroying and spelling wherever he goes.
 Sometimes although extremely rare | they show retaliation. and even malice. | toward human intruders. But their
 more usual meth cd of repelling annoy ance is by playing childish tricks on the unwelcome man. They take an
 impish delight in misleading or de- | celving him, in causing him to lose | his way across moor, in keeping him
 walking round and round In a circle | all night when he believes he Is going straight on, or in making him think
 that he sees palaces and castles where | no such structures really exist. Many a story illustrative of this
 curious characteristic of the fairies
 may be found among the village gos- l sip of the peasantry In almost any | lonely mountainous district. Some of
 the village gossip. however. deals l with the friendly services of some na- l ture spirit that made friends with in
 dividual human beings and offered
 them such assistance as lay in their | power, as in the well-known stories
 told of Scotch brownies or of the fire
 lighting fairies of spiritualistic liter | rature.
 It is on record that on rare occa-
 sions certain favored men have been
 admitted to witness fairy reveIs and l share for time the fairy life. It Is | said that wild animals will approach | with confidence some Indian Yo- l gis, or holy men, recognizing them as 1 friends to all living creatures. Simi-
 larly these elves gather round one who l has entered upon the path of holiness, l finding his emanations less stormy and
 more agreeable than those of the man
 whose mind is still fixed upon worldly
 matters.
 They Like Little Children. hFlw Pgsa t.-g-.