House and Garden 
“She kept to the side of the hedge, 
raising her skirts a little, for the grass 
was long. A few yards farther on was 
the gate. The soft swish of her silken 
draperies as she stole along became a 
clearly recognizable sound against the 
background of intense silence. Mache- 
son had been leaning against a tree just 
inside. He opened the gate. She stepped 
almost into his arms. Her white face 
was suddenly illuminated by the soft 
blaze of summer lightning which poured 
from the sky. He had no time to move, 
to realize. He felt her hands upon his 
cheek, his face drawn downward, her 
lips, soft and burning, pressed against 
his for one long, exquisite second. And 
then — the darkness once more, and his 
arms were empty.” 
—From Oppenheim's great novel 
in the August Pearson’s. 
The Illustrations for The Missioner are by 
A. B. WEN ZELL 
In the August Pearson's we are also commencing a new series of short stories of 
romance and stirring narrative entitled 
TALES OF A . 
BL OCKADE-RUNNER 
Of all the periods of American progress none has held such charm for live readers of 
all ages as that of The Civil War. 
Of all the branches of The Civil War service none was so full of constant vigilance 
and exciting action as the blockade. 
The great majority of stories of the blockade have been written as from the deck of 
a gun-boat—from the Northern view point. 
Our new series by RAY WYNN is built from the opposite point of view—the 
Southern captain and the fugitive ship. 
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of all, piano-playing is regulated in 
Berlin. Before a certain hour in the 
day and after a certain hour in the night 
the piano must be silent in that musical 
city. Even during playing hours a fine 
is imposed for mere banging on the 
piano. In Paris it is only during the 
carnival and on fete days that the sound 
of the French horn is tolerated. At 
other seasons it is rigorously prohibited 
by the police. German intolerance of 
noise is not a recent thing. Wallen¬ 
stein, who demanded absolute quiet, 
had 130 houses torn down in Prague 
and sentries posted all round in the 
distance, to secure silence. There is a 
tradition that farther back in time a 
Bohemian shepherd, seeing the monk 
Adelbert asleep, blew on his pipe in 
mischief. The monk called down the 
curse of deafness on him. 
BOUNTY FOR TREE-GROWING 
A I A HERE is a law on the statute books 
A of Pennsylvania which ought to 
have a wide circulation. It is “An Act 
for the Encouragement of Forestry.” 
1 his law takes the best means possible to 
encourage owners of land to preserve and 
propagate timber-trees, for it allows a 
reduction of taxes to the owner of forest 
land which comes up to certain re¬ 
quirements of the act. The first man 
to take advantage of the new law is an 
Allegheny County farmer, Mr. Tenner 
of Leet township. As told by the 
“Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph,” Mr. 
Tenner has obtained from the County 
Commissioners a reduction of $22.50 on 
his taxes for complying with the pro¬ 
visions of the law. It is rather remark¬ 
able that the second county in the State 
in point of population should be the 
first to pay a bounty for forest preserva¬ 
tion under the new law, hut such is the 
case. The land-owner who preserves 
his woods not only gets this immediate 
reward, but the increasing value of the 
trees will make a further and larger 
profit for him eventually . — Buffalo Com¬ 
mercial. 
IRON PIERCED BY HAILSTONES 
/^\NE is justified in many cases in giv- 
ing only a tentative belief to many 
of the big hailstone tales over which 
some travellers delight to spread them¬ 
selves, says the “ St. James’s Budget. ” A 
correspondent in Dholi, Behar, however, 
sends the indubitable proof of photo¬ 
graphs to quite convince us and our 
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