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The Union Church Literary and Social Guild re-opened their session at Tiantain recently with ay tecture by the Rev. C. E-Darwent. Mr. Darwent is always guarantee | for a full house, and there was 'n' large attendance of members 'to' hear the lecturer in his own finimitable way speak of the beau- ties of the Black Forest. Mr. Darwent illustrated his remarka with a number of lantern slides giving particularly pleasing vistas of the famous district

Caesar said that no one had ever come to the end of the great forest af Germany, the Hercynian,] for Silen Nigru, even if he had journeyed sixty days, travelling quickly. The remains of that forest primeval " are called the Black Forest The maps ex- hibited bad been so clear that no one present would have the slight- est difficulty in getting there.

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Roughly, the forest occupied wanted him to marry and vowed 1,200 square miles of the country that he never would tie himself inside a great isosceles triangle to any woman born. One day be in the Grand Duchy of Baden followed a remarkably beautiful

The creature kept: and the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, white doe.

with Heidelberg as its apex, and just ahead of him, and he was Constance at its Eastern foot and drawn on to the Felson Meer, Basel at its Western. It was 100 where a wonderful vision of a miles long and forty to twenty maid with golden hair appeared miles broad. It was easily reach-and rebuked him for hunting the

ed from England via Strasburg, doa, at the same time most ugly Protect your voice

or the Rhine route. In the goblins pointed at him. Imme of mountainous and forest region course, was absolutely carried heid in the arms of the great away by her beauty. It was a Rine there was, he made bold total collapse of all his resolu. to say, as much that was purely tions. He came again and again. beautiful, without being over-and got thinner and thinner, but powering, as in any similar ares the lady never appeared again it the world: There were pass-and he became a monk and died. able mountains, there were the Poor Imma! Baden-Baden had deepest, sweetest valleys, with other stories.

the slopes dressed in the richest STORY WITH A MORAL- green: there were ravishing forest Castle Staufenberg bad the paths, where the foçt trod on soft story of Peterman and the Lady" mosses and brown pine-needles, of the Wood, the moral of and the eye wandered through which was "off with the old vistas of stately pine trunks, as love before getting on with the through the columned aisles of a new." The wonderful Hollenthal, cathedral.

the valley of hell, was a paradise

There were good roads, eng-of beauty: its name came from ineered with great skill winding the barons, who once made it a

through forest glades of such purgatory for travellers, but they eatrancing greenery, that the had now been cleared out. There biggest fool of a scorching motor- was a legend that when his food ial would be compelled by the widow had a recumbent effigy of sheer force of the beauty of the her lord made for the village secnes to go dead slow, or get church, the stone figure of the out and walk. The charm of the deceased much respected "High- Black Forest was not in giaatness" sat right up, bolt upright in peaks: did they want to break his tomb, so uneasy was his cors- their necks is high climbing let cience. What a good thing it them cross over the Rhine to was that recumbent figures had Switzerland. "It was rather in gone out of fashion, and so we the valleys that the great charm could not be given away.

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of the Black Forest was to be One of the most famnus dis- sought. Ic their romantic tricts was the Hohgau, between seclusion. in their wild and lone- Donaueschings and Constance ly grandeur. in their pastural and Schaffhausen. In May it richness, the trout stream was a joy. Let them imagine a watered valleys

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the small plain, covered with cherry Black Forest presented as and plum trees in blossom, lining! beautiful and varied gems. of all roads in the thrifty German į nature as the world could show. fashion; west, rose the dark green It would be appreciated by those heights of the forest; east, lay for whom the swelling contour of the silver sheen of the Lake of wooded bills and dales had an Constance: south was the mighty undying charm: by whose to line of the snows and glaciers of whom the untrodden forest meant the Alps rose-pink and white in a world of undiscovered wonders." the blue dome of sky while out of the plains rose mighty masses of hasalt. 2,000 feet high, on the crest of each of which was per- Foot travel was the best. Such ched, like an eagle's nest, on the alluring peeps, such fairy vistas, topmost crag. the shattered re- such mossy nooks opened up on mains of the stronghold of some every side, that only foot travel-robber baron of old. The io-lated lers could visit. Let them start beizhts, now with their sides from Rastadt in the north, or clothed in great forest trees, were Baden-Baden, or Freiburg on its steeped in romance, Hohenkra- weird western border, and cut into the ben, Hohentwiel. had forest anywhere they liked, they stories about them. The district would find the great forest as was so beautiful that when the different from a wood, in the sense lecturer sat under a trellised vine of infinity that it conveyed, as the and saw the great Alps over the cean is from a pond. They would sea of spring blossom around find quaint towns, Bauernhoefe, or him, he had to break his pledge: the chalet-like peasant house; he drank sherbet mixed with the they would find Kurs or red vine of the district. Poppel. spas, with music and society a tricky spirit, haunted this dis they would sec peaks with trict: he tripped up farmers' mossy ruins crowning them, wives on the way to market with about all of which weird and eggs, took shoes off horses, but beautiful legends were told: there it was pure teasing, för he al were trout streams, lakes and way: repaired any damage he waterfalls, what was there not did.

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BOXING.

BIG FIGHT AT SINGAPORE. (Our Own Correspondeat.)

Singapore, Feb. 25.

A thrilling fight, was witnessed in the new stadium at Singapore in which Young Pelky, of Manila, defeated Silvino Jamito, the Light-|

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on points, the decision of three' judges. There was much dis- agreement after the fight among! the public, bat undoubtedly Pelky The was the chief aggressor. fight went the full distance of twelve three-minute rounds. It from a gruelling business start to finish-the finest &ght ever seen here. A big parse and a special Stadium Belt were pre- sented to the winner.

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