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THE MAGIC LANTERN.

Pictures of Childhood Days.

TURKISH WAY WITH BRIGANDS.

OUR PARADISES.

The Empire's Beauty Spots. We were removing, and among A Vali of Smyron (says & writer

The British Empire contains other possessions of long standing in Blackwood) had the happy in within its limits the loveliest the magic lantern and its slides spiration of enrolling a large band climates that can be found in the had been doomed to fall vndar of uncatchable brigands in the world.

ITA

of raftin.

من الله نا دوم

driving

TEABLS OF

over

the auctioneer's hammer. It was ranks of the gendarmerie. on the People who spend their whols said that we were no longer principle of getting a thief toflives in our rain-swept Northern children and the slides were catch a thief. For a short time isles can form co`ides of the cumbersome to keep; but though the plan worked admirably: the many paradisal regions I demurred to the first, assertion now gendarmes were up to all which ties the British flag, writen it was not a point one cared to the tricks of the trade, and gave J. Saxon Milis in the Daily press. It might be true that "lease-chase to their former confraresnice. It would be a delight-

akings are but wasted sad with zeal and success. But ful experience to make a sort of essevertheless I resolved before long the inevitable relapse elimstic tour of the Empire, hat this parting should not lack from graca occurred, the eon-touching at its most salubrious ritual of farswell, and verts reverted to robbery, black and beautiful parte, whether Accordingly retired to the attic, mail, and other improprieties, tropical or temperate.

Starting westward, we should nearthed the slides and, holding fand the Vali had to acknowl-der ach one up to the light, 'passed his experiment to by a dismalleertainly stop first at the hem in rest for the last time, failure. Instead, however, of Bermudas, the Funny sub- Even seen so, in miniature, they prosoribing the backsliders and tropical lands where the sur recalled something of the magic so

them into open-hea's are tempered by the f a white sheet in a darkened deñance of the Government, the was breezes, where no winter secin and the gamourous odour wily functionary induced them jewars, ad where the sea by fair messages to pay him a ¦-apphire is paven with white "The Tiger and Tub deal: visit in Smyrns, where, he saljeord So wonderful is the water masterfully-in six scenes with he had the Sultan's instructions that people so out in glass bottom. h tary of A picnic into distribute rewants to them ; fed hats, through which they can Bengal of a breathless chase and when the bait, susretine | see the parsis and anemones and around a tub, of the turning of the nothing, marched into the courts | Roles of the "gardens of the sex."

ubupon the tiger, with the happy sand of the Kanak (government

THE CARIBBEAN, intervention of the bung-hole and house) they were at one sha: Then we should drop down he knot that two men tied in the down by a company of soldiers to the West Indies, which are a iger's til Our other pivec do who awaited them.

perfect debauch of beauty and the Robinson

elight. Many of these islands, Crusoe series, which was wont to amid spores From an audience though in the tropics are baited with mixed feelings. seeking realism. Entor, from left. voluptuously healthy. There is We liked to watch him sleeping a mouse...but here I draw a veone rather inaccessible group, n his very green tree, and we The dramatic manipulation of the Cayman, some 170 miles hrilled to the sight of him pieces of glass that worked the west of Jamaica, where the feeding the beacon fire on mouse and the sleeper's jaw de sozial and climatic conditions

he headland to attract the at-pended upon the inszination of seria to be quite ideal. tention of the passing ship-this the tienie, and we wete never Thea through the Paosma igure, with the conical hasatished.till he had exetesad i cant into the Pacific Ocean, ilhouetted against the sky; but to the full. On reviewing this watch is like a blue hearen there were some of us who slide in the attic I was forced to

stalled with island coastella- petitioned the Presiding Genis confess that the passing of theļkore

Fij is celebrated for its f. the Magic Lantern to giv-years had affected my loyaltyheith and besuty, As for Tonga varning of the appearance of one and brought me some unde or the Friendly Islands, the de- ide, that we might hide auratanding of the hitherto incoroscribers deal only in superlatives. faces till it bad passed. In this prehensible attitude of the Gemeere are truly Islands of the picture Crusoe 13 shown, wife.

slest"a lovely climate, no torch in hand, exploring the In the good days no winter public debt, little taxation, no cave from whose dark recesses was suffered to pasa without crime uopoverir. The Klagdom the goal is springing, its horas magic-lantern sbow. We d of Tonga, it is said, "contains and gleaming eyes giving in anor tire of these old friends, and the happiest, most contented and terrifying aspect in the torch-custorn could not state the annual law-abiding people от this |light. For my own part, this jokes that time had elevated into planet."

slide used to trouble me less than the recognised libretto of the

SOUTHWARDS AND WESTWARDS, Did soother which frightened me by entertainment.

On this tour I should spend & the expression of horror on forget that the chief attraction: Crusoe's face as he stared down of the windmill lag in the small good time in the southern island of New Zealand, which has all at the footprint in the sand.

object in the sky-in reality 恐

the virtues and none of the vices Naturally the moving slides law in the glass which per were s particular delight. Asistentis revolved with the sails of our English climate. And flying guose appears on the When it came to the tura of the hence I should cross to lovely mysterious "click" animal pictures we never failed Tasmania, where Captain Cook is beard, and with a swift to hold an argument as to which found the finer climate in the

wcrli." ness beyond the powers of was the camel and which the

Then for another sort of delight any kinema star Mother Goose dromedary: every year the girafe serself appesa sested the called forth the joke anest the we should take shipping for that back of her name-bird. For the six feet of sore throat, and the little group of 90 islands in the the Indian Ocean most part these moving pictures hippopotamus among the reeds of

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we, ever

оп the Equator, have the

upon wrong-doing. They in the burushes! We ved are almost aught that belpless eaglets may the stag, with his background of are trekoned to have watchful parents, and show-hill and lake under the moon, bureathiest climate to be found in the whole tropical zone. General d the inadvisability of thrusting there was one slide which had noon, who went on a military barrel rival. This was the wild horare, started a theory redhot poker into a marked "Gunpowder" on which f

whin of ne's playfellow chanced to bGenie placed the animals earlier seated. In fact, we cherished in

entertainment Wed them for their very crudity. insisted upon the wild horse four vers are there, and the being throwo on the screen again.

GROTESQUE SLIDES.

the

the

the

that the islands were the orginal Garden of Eden. The

Of these grotesque slidea one of at the close, as our only extra. the most notable represented aHe was shown in the art of

great double coconut Free Was obviously the Tree of Life! "Gordon's Eden" these islands are sometimes called.

I should finish off where all the attrictions of climats and to find their highest expression-the Few' n-

of Good

*ocery

woman's bead in profile. It was leaping across a stream, while not a charming face in the 6t the smoke of a pralne fire clouded place, and as one watched it went the horizon, and I remember from bad to worse, for the nose approaching the sheet in awe to grew slowly longer and redder-stroke his arched neck. After all and longer and redder till it the grotesque must needs yield suls of the Cape closely resembled a red-hot poker, to the beautiful in our affections. and after it had to all appearance The lady of the whimsical nose topped-lo. to ona's great de-might be hailed with delight, but light it would creep on for an- the wild horse way regretted other land six inches or so! [ after he had vanished.

A man is lying in B

the wife of the Presiding Genie Sitting in the attic, with this did not share our respect for this slide in my band. I knew that gifted lady, she harboured a posi-here was no question of a broken tive dislike to the slide that con-allegiance, and I resolved to give vered a warning against the habit him sanctuary-among the beir of sleeping with one's mouth open. looms, if need were, alongside four-my great-great-grandfather's poster. one band clutching the snuffbox. Yes, the prairie-fire of checked counterpane in token change might rage among our of uneasy slumbers-later to be possessions, but the wild horse explained. His chin is aggres-had found the stream of remem

sad bis sively unshorn

ap-brance in my heart and had leapt pearance wholly unprepossessing.into security From time to time be yaV15— Katharine Holehouse in the then his mouth remains open, Manchester Guardian,

Tag has a Cold.

CON. BUNT Emmas

Larks for the vita mutite - Vi

"always muded.

GEE WHIZZ

AUNT EMMA CANT READ

THAT KIND

OF WRSTIN' --

CAN

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ki

Hope. Neither Madeira nor the

Azure Coast can show loveliar

ues of earth and sea and sky.

And let no one think ons bes to pay for these delights by injury to health and vital spirits.

This is long tour to make in half a column of a newspaper. The object is to give some idea of

and salubrious climate to be the inexhaustible variety of suave found under the British flag.

USES COFFIN AS SAFE. Eleven years ago W. J. Moon. of Cornwall, thought he was | going to die. He bought scoffin. But he recovered and used it as a safe. Now Moon has died and will be buried in the caskel.

BY

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