rich with purple clusters and fragrant bloom - clear silvery streams glided over shining pebbled and glassy lakes reflected the sky and the trees on their tranquil bosoms. But wander which way he would, he found this beautiful world fenced about with tall gray cliffs, from whose cloudy summits bright streams dashed down with musical murmur, covering the rocks with mist, in which the sunbeams painted a thousand raiubows.

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Happy and contented he lay down at noon in the shade of a sycamore grove and slept; and all his subjects rested around him. But his sleep was broken by strange new melodies. opened his eyes near him were two maidens and all the birds and beasts were gathered around them, and they were singing gay, delicious airs, and teaching the birds to warble them. One of them was fair as the milk-white fawn, but her hair was dark and a strong light gleamed in her black eyes. This was Ki-ke-wee. She laughed and sung, and when the bird which perched upon her finger tried to follow her wild carol, she mocked his blunders, and warbled a yet wilder symphony to puzzle him the more.

The other was a darker maid, with large gentle eyes. This was Mnemonie - her voice was soft andl ow her song sweet and full of patience and love. The Wako half rose in wander and joy, and they came towards him, dancing to the measure of a rapturous roundelay, and threw their beautiful arms about him. He was very happy and Ki-ke wee was his best beloved. She was very lovely but full of strange and wicked passions.

As yet there had been in this little world nothing but the sounds of love. The great beasts and the poisonous reptiles knew not of the fierce nature which slept within them. But Ki-kee-we would stand before the grizzly bear, and pull his jaws and strike his eyeballs, till he growled with pain; and then she would mock him till he raved with rage and leaped upon the panther and the panther tasted blood and sprang to the battle fiercely. And then, as other animals joined in the bloody contest, she would clap her hands and laugh. But Mnemonie would break the strife by the enchantment of her song; and when it was quelled would go aside to weep.

Every day and every hour, this mocking elf stirred up new passions and new strife, till at last, even the song of Mnemonie lost its charm, and the bear sulked in deep thickets and shook them with his growls, and the panther moved from out the for est and wolves snapped their white teeth and howled, all the timid things fled away, and battle and blood and death were

rife, where peace and love had been. But Ki-kee we gloried in the mischief she wrought, and even mocked the death-moan of the milk-white fawn which the Wako slew at her tempting. This was too much! Ahi wee o cursed her and she fell. The Wako knelt beside her, and covering his face with his hands, wailed aloud. A voice above him wailed too! He looked up surprised a strange bird, with graceful form and sharp black eyes, was mocking him. He looked down. Ki-ke wee was gone. The strange bird hissed at him; and when, in an ecstasy of passion she spread her wings and fled away, he knew, by the white bars across them, that it was Ki kee we.

He sought the neglected Mnemonie, whom he found weeping in the forest. Together they scaled the cliffs and fled from the valley; but Ki kee we, the evil bird, followed them; and she follows their children yet, mocking alike at their joys and sorrows. They fear to slay her, for the wise men say, she is the child of the evil ones who poured the green fluid down the Wako's throat. They sent her to destroy the work of the good Ah i-wee-o, who had filled the earth with joy and love. At times, when the Indian hears her voice, he feels that fiery poison still burning in his blood, and then the war-whoop sounds sweeter in his ear than the song of Ah-i-wee-o.

GREAT QUESTIONS. A Short Review of Great Questions. 25 cents paper; 50; cloth. The Brandur Company, 220 Broadway, New York. Theories touching the reincarnation of souls, the evidences of the immortality of the soul, pre-existence, etc "No one can arise from the perusal of this book without enlarged mental and eternal vision," says the Albany Press. Man is his own savior and creator, and makes his own heaven and hell. Heaven and hell are real. These are here and always with us, and follow us through all experiences, says the author, "and we can accept either, scorn either," Paul to the contrary notwithstanding with his doctrine of foreordination and predestination.

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PHRENOLOGY. By Isaac P. Noyes. A paper published in a pamphlet, of ten pages, by the author because of his inability to otherwise reach the public. He is a firm believer in this demonstrated science, and the interested can address him at 409 Fourth St., S. E., Washington, D C., or address this office for a copy. This author has published many essays in various branches of knowledge and distributed them to libraries, the press, and his friends.

Joseph Henry Stickney was born in West Brookfield, Mass., August 6, 1811, and died at his residence in Baltimore, May 3, 1893. He began his mercantile career in Baltimore, where he afterwards continuou ly resided, in 1834, more than sixty years ago. He was seventh in descent from William Stickney, one of the earliest settlers who came from Lincolnshire, in England, to the Plymouth. colony. He was educated at Hopkins academy, Hadley, Mass., and when a youth served an apprenticeship to the hardware business in Boston. Owing to the preponderance of English manufacturers at that time there was much hesitancy on the part of hardware dealers about establishing the sale of American hardware as a distinct branch of business. Mr. Stickney formed a partnership in November, 1834, with N. E. Noyes to conduct an American hardware business in Baltimore. The manufacturers were scattered throughout the northern states and were difficult of access, as private conveyances were in general use. Baltimore being farther from the factories than many other cities, many agencies were required. Mr. Stickney's firm represented more than one hundred and thirty manufacturers, and made sales in two-thirds of the United States, largely developing the hardware trade.

About 1840, at the age of 29, Mr. Stickney turned his attention to the production aud sale of iron and Cumberland coal. He was agent for several companies, in which he was part owner. His firm held agencies for two thirds of the blast fur naces in Maryland and for many bar, plate and sheet iron mills in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. The firm also engaged in the importing of iron, and represented different steel and iron manufacturers in England and Scotland. In 1852 and 1853 Mr. Stickney went to Europe in the interest of his busiHe was president of the Avalon Nail company from its organization until he sold his interest, a short time before the

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