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Tea culture, it is said, is to be tried
by a rancher at Elko, Nev., who pro¬
poses employing Indian women and
children to gather the leaves.
At Tacoma, Washington Territory,
the new City Council took 295 ballots
for a clcr.v without electing one. They
stopped then for a recess.
(.ratlin^' was not sativfie l with invent
O
imr a gun to kill off 100 so diers a min
ute, says the Detroit Free Press, hut has
brought out one which will mow down
a brigade as the corn-stalks fall before a
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cyclone. ^^_
Georgia, according to the Athens
(Ga.) Banner Watchman, furnished
three regiments of soldiers to the fed¬
eral army during tho civil war. The
soldiers came lrom tho mountain coun¬
ties of the state.
After enduring eighteen years of ob¬
loquy Marshal Bazaine of France has been
vindicated. Count d Herisson shows in
a recently published history ot tho Metz
disaster that Biznino’s army before he
surrendered it to tho Germans was
starving and ravaged by disease, and
that the facts were suppressed by Gam
betta.
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A man in New York City, who called
on his dcctor received a severe bite
from a dog on tho premises. lie sued
for damage?, and tho judgo decided
that he could not recover because he
was unable to prove that the animal had
bitten somebody before. The theory of
the law is that one offense docs not
make a dog vicious.
An irr.m?nso iron pipe is being laid
connecting the oil fields of Pennsylva¬
nia with the city of Chicago. The pipe
will be eight inches in diameter and 210
miles long, and will require 64.000 bar¬
rels of oil to fid it. The largest pump
ever m ule lias ju*t been completed to
loice the oil through the pipn.
Canada complains of too many immi
grants according to the American Cul¬
tivator. Hundreds of them aro now
objects of charity at Toronto in a desti¬
tute and staiviug condition. They can*
not get employment, and charitable
people <ire helping them. Canada is not
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Says a correspondent: “An election
in New Mexico is peculiar, You do
not vote in English but in Spanish. You
do not vote the Republican ticket; you
vote the Boleta Republicans. You do
not vote the Democratic ticket, but the
Boleta Democratica. Your vote is re
corded in Spanish on the poll books not
for delegate to Congress but for “dele
gato al Congresso,” and the given name
of tho candidate is changed, if it be
American, into its Spanish equivalent.
No one in New Mexico at the last elec
tion voted for Mr. Antony Joseph, tho
present delegate to Congress; for in
this caso both names wero changed, and
w "*•“>i"*"" 1 "
An observant New York citizen makes
the following calculation, which is
given in tho Tribune for what it is
worth: “Out of every ten average
American men, one will take tho wrong
side of tho walk, two will stand in tho
door of a car if there is no seat, threo
will sport a toothpick in their mouths
in public, four will expectorate in pub¬
lic places, five wi.l cr.rry an umbrella
horizontally under their arm in tho
street, six will cross their legs in a car,
^vea will fail to remove their hat in a
down-town elevator when a lady enters,
eight will forget to shut a car door
when they go in or out, nine will risk
their lives to catch train when they
could just as well wiit for the next one,
and the whole ten will growl all their
lives at public nuisances, without do
iug anything to abate them.”
International expositions are tho order
of the day in Europe. A World’s Fair
is now in progress at Barcelona, Spain.
Asimilar exhibition was opened re¬
ccntly at Bologna, Italy. England and
Denmark have united in an exposition
at Kensington, and Denmark is to havo
one of her own at Copenhagen. But
the largest and most comprehensive of
all these world fairs is the one in Brus
sels. Glasgow and Antwerp are other
cities that propose to do something in
the way of fairs and expositions. “The
meetings of nations and peoples in
affairs like these,” asserts the New
York Observer, “must surely help to
promote tho cause of universal peace
and harmony. In spite of the prophets
we can d believe jope is
f The Sam^ Forercr.
rh© Cross stands firni; no blast of time,
No hurricane of earth’s rude clime,
j Can shake its heavenly steadfastness,
Or lessen its high power to bless.
j I look and live/
The tidings from that tree of love
Are still God’s message from above,
Telling, each hour, of cleansing blood,
And pointing to the upward road.
I hear and liveJ
still does the Christ His face reveal,
H.s well of living joy unseal,
Still telling of His love and light,
His meekness, majesty and might.
I come and livel
Still waves life's tree its glorious wealth,
And immortaiity still there.
I eat and live
Still from the rock the waters burst
To quench the weary spirit’s thirst;
Who drinketb once will drink again,
Who drinketh shall not drink in vain.
I drink and live!
—[Bonar.
THE CHANGED HEART.
“But how can I help being neglected
and miserable, Ned? You scarcely look
at mo when Miss Lovel is near, and sho
| j 3 y 0Ur preferred partner in all things
now. You walk with her, you sing
j w ith her, you drive with her, you dance
w ith her, and it makes me very
wretched!”
“Now, Mollie, if you’re going to bo
jealous!’
“I’m not jealous, Ned. If I thought
you didn’t care most for me; if I fancied
y 0ll cared at all for any one else, I
don’t think I’d remonstrate with you at
a il. I would just take off this,” touch
in g “ tho diamond on her hand, v “and
hanc j it Lack t0 you I’m not jealous,
but you are not very kind to me, Ned.”
“My little pet, you do not see things
as I see them. One owes something to
80 cietv, especially when one is at the
seaside. If you would only remember
that I love you too well to find fault
w ith anything you can do, and if you
would become a little more of a society
character yourself, I should be perfectly
happy. Why, you scarcely take the
i ea ,t attention from any one but me,
and so many arc willing to offer atten
tions to you. Now, dear, ki-s me once;
^1 t e o
didn’t find Moilie Anncs shrinking un¬
der her mother’s wing as had been her
custom. A number of old friends had
arrived whilo they wore at dinner, and
they "were about her, and "while
gave him (Ned) a smilo from the dis¬
tance ho found it quite difficult to
near her. Then a slight tap on his arm
informed him that Miss Lovel was ask¬
ing him why he was so preoccupied,
and, as Mollie and Stone went circling
by, joining the waltzers, he followed
with Miss Lovel.
“A rather pronounced flirtation,”
Lee laughed, later, when he and
stood on the hotel terrace, watching
moonlight on tho sea and strand, and
one solitary couple pacing slowly along
beside the waters. Both knew who
they were, for a few minutes before
they had seen Ned Tremaine place that
pale pink scarf about the shoulders of
Miss Laura Lovel as ho led her across
the terrace, too much engrossed in his
task, it wou'd seem, to notice Mollie or
her companion.
“Oh, everybody flirts more or less at
a seaside hotel; one has nothing else to
do, you know,’’ Mollie answered Leo
with a little ripple of laughter, and ho
looked on tho pretty face to which tho
moonlight was so tender, his voice sink¬
ing almost to a whisper as he spoko to
her.
It is a cowardly pastime fora man,”
he said softly, “and for a woman it is a
cruel one.”
A<"ain P> she laughed, " while arranging
the bracelet on her arm; a touch of
mockery was in the rippling voice.
“And you—is it pleasant to know
that you are cruel and cowardly?’’ she
questionod. “One is tempted to be
come personal when such remarks come
from one who is said to count his con¬
quests with cruel pride, and to whom
the world gives no higher aim than to
O
fascinate—and remain careless. Am I
too plain? Forgive me.”
i * I forgive you freely—as I would
forgive you all thiugs, Miss Anucss: but
neither you nor the world fully under¬
stands me. I may seem a trifle r; but
were the woman I love to love me in
return no smile would be to so sweet as
hers, no presence half so dear.”
Mollie had been watching the couple
on the sands going slowly back and
fqj —n 1 i
a note from too asking her to go for *
drive with him by moonlight; tho other
was a few angry lines from Ned, asking
if she remembered that she was be¬
trothed to him whilo she allowed every
gossip at tho hotel to chatter of her
flirtation with Lee Stone.
“I have been patient, waiting an op¬
portunity of speaking to you,” ho wrote,
“but you will not give mo one, so I
write to ask you if you wish our en¬
gagement broken; to all it would seem
so.”
She trembled a little as she read, and
her sweet face changed color; but she
went to her desk, drew from it every
letter ho had ever soat her, formed
them and his ring in a package, and
wrote him tho following note:
It was I who first taught patience while
my existence was forgotten for one who was
what you bade me become—“a society char¬
acter.” Why should I fancy that you wish
an interview with me of late? It is not so
long since you could not spare a moment for
me from Miss Lovel. Do I wish our engage¬
ment broken? Perhaps we both wish it.
Ned; at least let us break it, since I so
displease you. I send you your letters and
ring.
Then, although a choking sensation
was in her throat, she penned a brief
note to Lee:
“I shall be pleased to go with you,”
that was all; and in tho starlight—tho
moon rose late—she went jth him out
over the beach and far i m
try.
Was it strange that 1 nofcicec *ht
no longer wore Ned’s ? Viz 5 . \
strange that ho told her of Ids love, » t -
that she listened silently, b euc vi i v
with a strange flutter at h r l
it strange that when the ov
lingering besido tho 8< hi nor
another ring should deck r n rer ar d
another bond should lie sr life?
Well, two others walked upon the
strand, two whom the gossips called
lovers; and yet when it was told that
Mollie Annea was to place her happi¬
ness in the keeping of the “flirt ol the
beach,” one man who heard it turned
as white as death and shrank from the
smht of tho beautiful woman beside
him, although men called her fair, and
many said she had won him from his
faith; yet Mollie was too happy to re¬
gret, although she somutiu^oi remem¬
bers.—[Toledo Blade. k