tiie blessings of modern education. So miles down the coast. Tn shore the a school was organized and the prlmal heights were swuthed in SAVED BY ANIMALS. dry andl de.ivcreo. a oTfndk- of WORLD'S FORTIFICATIONS. pagodas. charui of Tennant's vanished already fog. huge away. and the furious breakers forbade unv Hnen, with the remark: '/.here. ol* The most magnificent workofarchi- Thus. one summer, the The of a British N. \t toGibraltar. is tlie white and lantling. Ett-p a mighty effort he put pet dog scout, by a man! I'n'stan' you' kiilin" mish'- Laalta strong- tecture is the Taj Mahal. in Agra. 11 in- red _._______. a est fortress in the _eho_-__ea_BBB.ee- A sTim behind hiin the to s-ettle for- tlaiely bark. prevented. patrol from HUriea. OU' ri\ Com.- 'rotmd' mv world. dustan. lt is octagouu* in form. of man, with a iinpulse foung beautiful training. ever the claims of his rival, there ln entering jt Boer amboscade, and so houshe. My niu/r.er-law use' t>e uaish' Tbe only fortre*s of conseqm nce in attm white marblc. inlaid with saved a dozen ineu every arrived from the citv to take eharge, the lonely the from in__t___in_nt nary.".Ba lt imore A m< rican. Deumark is the capital. t-up. sort of precious stone. la recrults sea.|>erhaps white) death. I ii< father and generally to beautiful face of the girl stayed his Nanking wus originally the seat of St**0sTa*f**O( fortress in Europ. aa is an immense city, with the The shrill a is < BoBShej modify opinion of Tennant's that hand. screaming of pet parrot, government of he Ming dvnasty in Ku.-.-ia ioii-tadt. lt is the Ba land and sea to t he best. oue winter's shipping qoal teaching and teachers were the direct a morning. awakened a fam¬ China. howe\er. MVal depot of the Kaltic -. a. lt has commerce Ranging alongside without word, in I.mperor Yungloh, large and trade and agents of the devil. he tossed his oars into the other boat ily Holland la the nick of time to made Peking the eapital in 1411, The earliest kuown s\stem of forti- interest.s. .are them from manufacturing Itsbuildinga The fishing fleet had come home and then stepped in himself. spurn- the threatening flood, and it has retained that position ever iicution was the stockatle. It has be. n are -,iid to be tbe tirest in and earlier whieh was India, than usual that seasots; by the ing his own away with' a sbove <>t sweeping down their street sinee. 'ihe population is estimated at employed, at one time or mother, by much wealth is centered there. end of all from a dam whieh had burst July the schooner, were his foot. The saine instant a sudden in the 2,000,000 persons. The northeast gate all nations, but is still in use in Turkey. Iu the window of an old ;it anchor with town above them. of curio-ity l.ving boarded rigging lorch threw him heavily across the I'eking commanda the eity. and it OfTa's dike was a defensi\e wall bui't shop not far from. the Mritish nitiseum, and sides A French wa* waa weathered to a silver gray, forward- seat with his arm gentleman in peril ol by this gate that the allied by the Itomans against the YYeish. It in London be seen au their right hia life at th* troops may elaborately SATUKD .V* AUG 25. IMOO flat-bot tomed doriea moore. in doubled' under him. He sprang up hands of a surpriswd and entered I'eking in 1560. was an earthen fortification, 113 miles carved ivory toothpick. with the fol¬ long rows behind them. a desperate when the In *- ._ The skids ignoring fierce pain his wrist, and burglar, burly London recently very long, and entirely cut off WaJea from lowing intimation uttached: "Tooth¬ were of a high prices spread with flshv cleanedi and Bhouting. "Now! fer life!' body pet bear intervened between were given for some of Nan¬ the CROSS LOTS. pull yer the pieces England. pick foraierly property of Oliver split. ch-ying under the hot sun, and headed the boat for Tennaufs. householder and his would-be a«- king Chinese pottery. the purchasers The only fortres* in the United States Cromwell; to have been the in the sailant, and him an supposed the vipland pasture zon. pleasant northern twilight the "Look tharl" he cried again. "An spared encounter being probably moved to unusual Is Fortress Monroe, in It is one he his teeth with before he fishermen out of which he muat Virginia. picked "With fringc of spirtng pines, foregathered to smoke and pulll** have come second prodigality by a suspicion that aftef surrounded a moat filled with water signed the death warrant of Charle*I."" rrom atlle to tt ile dune and talk. besU by by stone, They. were within 50 yards of tbe the present Chinese troubles shall from eight to fifteen feet deep, and Belgium has been visited The well-worn foot-patb winds. Sometimea the ahore The exodus of a by huge young schoolmaster and driving nearer on the lift colony of rata from a have been settled such pottery will be from 75 to 100 feet wide. swarms of large wimged inseets, rari- and dwellers on the windy waste, smoked and talked with of wave. eertain in dock led an more than ever them, in pur- every Even as they looked ship observant.' difficult of proeure The two prineipal German fortresses ously deacribed as dragon flies and lo- To low lands wending down, suance of a wise the other captain to hare hia vessel ment. Three Will take for or pedagogical poliey. boat, whieh had drifted in overhauled, vasea, each ten inche on the Baltic sea are at and custa. In Brussels in the streeta case, eager haste, Far more more when it waa discovered that Konigsiberg people Tha by-path way to town. frequently, however, he rapidly, rolled. over and melted the ahip's high, brought $1,155. and a pair of Danzig; on the French frootier, Metz had to cover their facea, and many fled went to a on bottom had auatained an in large house -hieh stood away the roaks. jury, which long-necked bottles sold ior $1,0.0. and and on the fron- indoors at the of the 80 passed the early settlers through apart from the The muat hare resulted in her Strasburg, Belgian sight invading- Tha season's bloom, or village. And thereby s-kiff, Lighter than thte foundering A late issue of London Punch con- tier, and Coblenz. swarms. In aeveral the anow, workaday aea Cologne squares, etory When hII th»- land was wild and hangs this tale. flatw *>f the at had not the aceident been indi- tained a cartoon with a new, fiahermen, sheared fast sting of truthv The difference between a fort and a goea, there waa a veritable fight for A hundred years ago. Tt was because of the through the water. But the rectly averted by the aetion of the in it that will be feit in and girl.the sky grer* alarmed Europe fortress lies in the fact that the former possession between the insects and the Across the knolls of leachlng sand, brown-eyedi doughter of old John always darker, and when they had rodenta. appreeiated in Japan. The powers, is to co"tain human inhabitants. Shea. Her natural covered In New desig-ned solely the garri¬ Through valleys green lt leads. cleverness attract- half the return a flurry ol York, about two years agn, perplexed. are huddled in a corner son and their munitions, while the lat¬ A Bulgarian journalist named San- And reaches ef fair pasture land. ed him, as her snow came over the little what just simplicity _and the water. three-year-old daughter of .. wondering ought to be done ter is often a a goff wrote an article in a Sotia Beslde a pool with rc.ds. this* merchant was city containing large recently straightforwardness were consider- By time Paul's right wris«t wa*. left by her nurse mar against the colossal dragon of China number of noncombatants. paper ou the of the relation of over It hls crown . more an subject And rorky ably than all the world to the ¦nearly useless* He open window three stories appearing over the brow of a hill. the nose The mountain llfts beyond. pulled bitterly high. France has. on the German frontier, to eharaeter. After discussing young fisherman. Paul Fralic. but was bis on the oai Through tbis window she and They to little for Whose shiiKpy tBBBBB vnittned down losing grip crept, appeal Japan help. three first-clasa fortresses . Belfort. *he various shapes he came to the con- Paul Fralic was a handsome man handle. Still he on in would have fallen on to tiie to Llt's in the Ulied pond. struggled. s-f>it« pavement Japan replies: "Delighted join you, Verdun and Hriancon; on the clusion that persons. with long noses and a strong, with the ol of that. increased to below but for the intervention of a de- but me to remark Be.giar of ward feet have roughness pain agony. and gentlemen. permit frontier, Lille. Dunkirk. Arras am! are often bad characters. The Whatthrongs way passed his kind, but with much of its now were.how voted dog, who eeized her drew. in his that some of hadn't- publio- These barren fields acrose.