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tfSij JO if v>\(a hJn 2 -li ( —PUBLIflHEP WEE T - HAMILTON, GEOP.G English capitalists are interested in Mexican railings to the extent of #40,• 000 , 000 . The booming of new manufacturing towns in the South continues, announces the Chicago Sun. A New York scientist advocates drowning as the most humane form of capital punishment to which criminals can be subjected. GooinU'x Sun, states that the Southern furnaces make twenty tons of pig-iron out of every hundred made, und the Northern furnaces, eighty. _ There are more than eighty National Cemeteries in America containing in all 1515,555 graves. Of these 133,148 are the graves of unknown soldiers. It is reported that the Russian Govern¬ ment intends to buy all the Polish rail¬ ways and transform them into state rail¬ ways on account of their strategical im oortauce. _. n Boys the New York Observer: “It is at least a little strange that while so many thousands of hymns have been written in England and in America since the long metre doxtffogy was composed, nothing has ever taken its place.” It, is remarkable, observes the San Francisco Chronicle , that the production of pig iron goes on increasing in this country, although the demand for steel rails has fallen off enormously a3 com ns ared with such years as 1888 and European manufacturers are compar¬ ing notes upon the heavy taxation to which they are subject, on account of military and attendant expenditures. Several manufacturers estimate that their taxes amount to ten per cent of their net income. Within a short distance of the New York Postoffice there are 8,000,000 people. Brooklyn has over 800,000; Newark has 175,000; Paterson, 75,000. It is estimated that in 1802 there will be 3,500,000 people living within sight ol sack other. The discovery of oil in Michigan will extend the oil territory of this country in a new direction. An expert who has examined samples of this product pro liouuccs it to be of fine quality, and further expresses the opinion that natural gas will be found iu the same vicinity. The longest uninterrupted debate on record was recently brought to a close by the New Zealand House of Repre¬ sentatives. It had caused a continuous sitting of seventy-six hours, entirely given up lo*thc discussion of a representa¬ tion bill. Yet the debate was not fin¬ ished then. Except tradesmen or people who lure some live profession or employment, r.c one is made welcome iu Australia iron; other countries. Hi —- large section ol people known as 1 n . erks,” from people who can merely read, write aud cipher, up to experienced bookkeepers, are not wanted at all. MwMMMntnwwi i The White Lead Trust represents properties valued at $15,0Q0,CUi). Ail tlic trust managers have issued certificates covering $83,018,800, and a few years hence, predicts the New Orleans Tl o. Democrat, the wages of employes will be reduced because the combination is not making a fair interest on its cap¬ ital. The New York ii v declares that if it were not for the vast fields of bulk which are abundant !y irrigated, wheat grown in the United States would be worth a quarter more iu the markets of the world than it now is. India partially breads Great Britain and furnishes mor* than half of what is eaten on the Couti- ; neat. French physicians who are studying the matter are confident that hypnotism will in time succeed the use of chloroform in oainful surgical opera Maay most remarkable experi¬ ments in this direction have proved suc¬ cessful. Patients have been hypnotized, and while in that condition undergone operations of the most painful and deli¬ cate nature without evincing sensibility iu the slightest degree. . MIST. ^ ^ __ Beyond the mist are sunlit leagues of sea, And towering peaks by lingering sunshine kissed, Where heaven's lights doth shine eternally Beyond the mist. Could we but pierce the haze, could we but list To some far voices from the shore, would we Still in these dolorous waves of doubt per¬ sist? Can we not see the stars above that be? Is there not one to guide our bark, I wist? Lost mariners upon life's troubled sea, Beyond the mist. —Bennett Bellman. CINDERELLA. Whenever Effie thought of her lot, which appeared at present to Ire to do the housework for her step-mother and her two step-sisters, her mind naturally reverted to her favorite fairy tale, the one she liked to read oftenest in those child¬ ish clays not so far away, for she was not yet seventeen, before her father filled her dear dead mother’s place with the over¬ whelming presence of the Widow Hum pherics, whose twin girls had quite thrown Effie into the shade from the time that they entered the house. “I should have been christened Cinder¬ ella,” she used to say; “only I certainly have no fairy god-mother, and no one will ever change the rats, that frighten me so when I go down the kitchen stairs in the dark, into horses, or one of the big pumpkins 1 am forever stewing for pies into a carriage; and certainly, cer¬ tainly, certainly the young prince will never fall in love with me or one of my shoes. ” And then Effie would give the stout, serviceable boots, which her step-mother always bought a size too large for her, a contemptuous look, which would have withered their soles, had they been any¬ thing more sensitive than leather and prunella. Effie never said all this to any one but herself, certainly not to her step-mother, who, now that she was a widow once more—for Effie’s father had not lived long after his secoud marriage—was completely mistress of the house. Every¬ thing had been left to her and she had her own ideas of justice. She neither abused norjllussd Effie, but she had a soft way of coercing her that was just as bad. Melissa and Amanda, her two girls, were older than Effie, and of this fact the mother made good use. Effie was “just a child,’’and she could wear calico dresses and serviceable boots, while Melissa and Amanda must have trained dresses and dainty coverings for their feet. Effie was so young that she could “run of errands,” yet Effie, being a mere girl, needed sleep at nights and must retire early; aud as tire young ladies sat up later she must rise earlier than they and help get breakfast. A woman was kept to wash, and cook, and scrub, and Effie only had “nice things, that a child should learn to do,” to attend to, said step mamma; but the little hands were always busy and the little feet tired, and, like Cinderella, when there was nothing else to do she had her sister’s handsome di esses to work upon. It provoking, vvith . notamg _ f° was r herself but her every day calicoes and step-mamma s old brown silk, made short and scanty, for Sunday's church going. It was only lately since it had seemed so hard, though—only since Leslie Good wood had come home from college, aud she had seen, as plainly as young eyes do see these things, that he admired her, even in the brown silk and Melissa ’3 last year’s hat, which was, in step-mam¬ ma's estimation “quite good enough for a mere child.” Since then she had called herself Cin¬ derella often; than before, and when at last the Got - I wood* gave an evening _ parvv, ano E onlv rs, Mervin and he r daughters < : invited, but also 3Iiss Effie Mr tin, in r; little note addressed to herself, sh fai y rebell l as he step r n her ex ressed it to be her c m p that might take Amanda and Meli r but. “Effie could not i c*a i i Q^O. “Why not, I should like to know, when I’ve an invitation?” asked Effie. “You’re not in society yet. dear,” sai Mrs. Mervin, blandly; “and it isn't goo for young girls to go out in the evening. In a few years--” “In a few years the Goodwoods’ party will be over,” said Effie; “aud I want to go so much. Oh, do let me!” “My dear!” cried Mrs. Mervin, “there are onlv three davs to get ready in, and i you ' have no parti dress.” “I ought to have." said Effie. “It's a shame.'' “Dear me!” said Mrs. Mervin. “ - I didn’t know better what you ongl to * have than you.’’ “She might alter mv blue grenandine ' to fit herself,''said Am; .ida. And Effie of''the gave a start, for the second daughter step-mother iu Cinder ells being more good-natured than her sister, cried: “Give hcr one of my old dresses!” when the famous ball was iu question. did But though Mrs. Mervin not cry out frank)v, as did the step-mother of the fa; v tale: “3Iy dear, the King's son will be' there." she thought much the same thing. She remembered Leslie Goodwood—such a good match for any one who was happy to catch him; and she remembered also that Effie was much prettier than her Melissa. “No, my dears; no. ” she sffid with a smile that she could always command at will, and that gave her such a reputa tiou • ns an anna * i-vl ole it. woman. i,v “.No, -v call- Ji dreu -I know what is beat for young per- sons. Effie will be a woman soon enough, and wish her childish days back again.” With which words she left the room to dress herself for a shopping expedition, for lace and flowers and ribbons and dainty shoes, were needed for her girls, even though they had handsome dresses enough already for the Good woods’ party. So Effie was not to go. She was to remain at home and sit up for the others, And her little face was as long as it well could be as she took her seat beside the grate fire, and put her feet upon the fender. “Cinderella! Cinderella!” she cried aloud. “If ever there was a Cinderella on earth, it is I. I wish—” “What do you wish, my dear?” said a voice behind her; and Effie turned her head toward the door with a little scream, and there stood a tiny little old lady, not exactly in a red cloak, but certainly in a red shawl, which nearly covered her. “What is it you wish so much, Effie?” asked the old woman. “Oh, I was wishing I could go to the Goodwoods’ party,” said Effie, bursting into a little laugh. “Do come in, Mrs. Percy. I really thought you were my fairy god-nlother at first. Did you come down the chimney?” “You what?” asked Mrs. Percy, “I didn't scare you, did I? I found Dinah at the kitchen door, and I ran in that way. But what a shame it was for the Goodwoods not to ask you to their party. I know Mrs. Mervin and the other girls are there. I saw them go m.” “Oh, they asked me,” said Effie. “They sent me such a nice little note. And I wanted to go, but my step-mother said I mustn't. She always thinks me too young for any amusement. I'm only old enough © to work.” “That’s a shame,” said Mrs. Percy. “But why didn’t you say you would go? If it was your own mother, that would be different; but we’ve all noticed how you are kept down, and we're all pro¬ voked about it. Why shouldn't you have a little fun? You're just the right age for it.” “I think so myself. - ’ said Effie. “But I hadn’t any dress, and I never have any money. Papa left me nothing, you know.” “Your pa? Well, your poor pa is dead,” said Mrs. Percy. “But see here, Effie, you shall go to the party if you like.” “It is my fairy god-mother,” said Effie. “What are you talking about, child?” cried the old lady. “But just wait a moment. My niece is at our house with her daughter, and she has a great trunk full of the prettiest things. Do your hair, and I'll bring you all you want to wear.” “But I shan’t dare to go,” said Effie. “I’ll take you,” said Mrs. Percy, dauntlessly. Away she went; and Effie, trembling at her own temerity, brushed her hair into the loveliest curls ever seen, and in the shortest possible space of time. Back came Mrs. Percy with a pretty dress of pale blue silk, white gloves and slippers, and just the prettiest bunch of blush rosebuds. Mrs. Percy made a deft tiring-woman, and iu a few moments Effie stood before the parlor mirror admiring herself in her now attire ^bich fitted as though made f or ] ier ihc slippe.s are^a li.de t. o lai^i, SSTSi ' Av are'Ldv „ _nit hoieft „,,,i to come !orI sM1 be * °V' ;-Ton dear angel 1 ox a god-mother! ‘“Dear me, I wish I had been, but wasn't you know.” said Mrs. Percy. **N\hat ^ . .. • .0 von meam: -That I'm Cinderella in actual fact,” cried Effie. “You’ve made a. coach cut pumpkin, too! 1 ’ a “Cinderella? Oh, that’s a fairy tale, hm re* icraber something of it. But she :r slippers,” said 31 rs. Percy. “Dear, dear! and a step-mother, too. 5 begin to understand.'' Then she hurried Effie into the little pony carriage, and away they drove. “You must go and speak to Mrs. i Goodwood first,” said 3Irs. Percy; “aim that’s all. I've no doubt you’ll be taken , , „ “dbc,” S.U Effie, rueful!-, hi “I wonder what my step-n say. lady who , , looxs . - “Who is that young 50 Hite Effie?” whispered Mrs. -Mervin to Amanda. should think _ it Effie.’ sa:u ., “I was ; Amanda. “Only there :s notamg mine i house anything like what sne has on. “ Adi1 s y e ‘ s P r( * t5e T lh;, “ E J“ e ’ saui 31 : Mervin. “But now nice. • ; '-^ r - Goodwood is going to dance with her,” said Amanda. Indeed, Leslie Goodwood was at the ^ moment leading Eme to her place in a qu Mii’.c. i “That's another proof it can't be she," ; said Mrs. Mervin. “Effie doesn’t dance. i But Effie had had lessons in those schooldays of which hcr step-mother ! knew nothing. And she had a sense of time and a grace of motion that made ......------ c.\ 1 i .l. She he*' step-mot " and ^ sisters: s-w aer and saw thev did not recognize her. And she envied the fun of the position greatly. She was altogether happy; and so, also, seemed Leslie Goodwood, vln I paid !- M r as *'c muen miiph artc^uon attention flS fl auua lio^t might pay to one lady, who waited on her to supper, and who was again dancing with her when the cloek which hung iD the hall struck twelve. “Is it really twelve o'clock?” said Ef fie. “Then I must go. Some one is to come to drive me home just at twelve.” “I am so sorry. But you must let me see you to the carriage,” said Leslie, And then Effie got her wraps, and Leslie went down stairs with her, and there was the pony carriage, and kind, independent Mrs. Percy, and Leslie handed her in; but as she sprang into the carriage the oddest thing happened, Her slipper, which was, as we have said, a little too large for her, slipped from her foot and fell upon the pavement, “Oh, my shoe!” cried Effie, is a whisper, But no one heard her. Leslie had clasped her hand and said, “Good-bye, " and Mrs. Percy had driven off. “I’ve lost your kind neice’s slipper,” said Effie, in despair. “What shall I do?” “Oh, she has a hundred slippers,” said Mrs Percy, “and I'll get her another pair. Don’t fret.” “And this makes it more like Cinder¬ ella!” cried Effiie. “I’m getting fright¬ ened at myself.” And, to carry the story out, she was in bed, with her calico dress hanging over a chair back, and all the finery—odd slip¬ per and all—gone home with Mrs. Percy, when her step-mother peeped into the room on her way to bed. “There was a girl just like you, Effie, at Mrs, Goodwood’s last night,” said Amanda. “But handsomer and older,” said Mrs. Mervin. . “Oh, I’m sure she was hamdsomer and older!” cried Effie. And, under her breath she whisrered: “Cinderella again!” Late in the afternoon, some one in¬ quired for Miss Effie Mervin, and sent in a card with : guslis Goodwood. : upon it. The others were taking naps up stairs, and Effie went into the parlor in her childish calico dress. Leslie was there. He had a little folded parcel in his hand; and after he had spoken a few words, he said : “I think you lost a slipper last niglit, Miss Effie. I have brought it home. I found it just as you drove away.” Effie crimsoned. She scarcely knew why. She was utterly confused, and her presence of mind quite deserted her. “It is exactly like Cinderella,” she said aloud; and then, horribly ashamed of the dreadful speech, bit her lips, and felt a strong wish that the floor would open and swallow her. But Leslie, coming closer to her, said, gravely: “I hope it is. The young Prince, when he found Cinderella’s shoe, vowed he would marry no one but its owner. I have made the same vow. Will you help me to keep it?” It doesn’t matter in the least what Ef¬ fie said. But afterward she always called herself Cinderella iu her own mind; sc that you understand, of course, that she married Leslie, as Cinderella married the young Prince, and was “happy ever af¬ terward.”— The Ledger. A Central American Despot. ^ t - ue s t uc ] ea t 0 f metaphysics the an engima, from its many strange con and mc.v,,liable moo* . Ho s sfi’SSirtfS* breath. as- & On hot and cold with the same one dav he was a Caligula hl his ferocity, while the next found him practicing the Cm-istian virtues of lorbearance and *or mveness. To-day lie would lau^’h, 1 JNero l^e . * of P blood while , -y to-mor¬ m an orgy row he might break the shackles and se*. at liberty his most inveterate foes. Strange, wayward, and many-sided, he was withal a man with a crude idea of justice, and certainly aimed at the material advanee ment of his country. But a summary of his life, taking into consideration all of its lights and shadows, will lead to the inevitable conviction that he was a very bad man who was domineered by his grosser instincts. His unpublished 600 his¬ tory is written in the blood of vic tints among his own peonle, who have suffered deih to satisfy hi.eupiciou, rmd caprices. An attempt to Drmg out the true facts of liis life by a young lawyer of this city was suppressed by the govern ment as entailing a scandal upon the nation. He allowed no man or set of men to stan( j p a the way of his ambition, and u?on bare rumor often ordered a citizen to be shot without a moment's warning or shadow of trial. Not lc-ss than two hundred citizens of Guatemala now lie - n death’s embrace, by his order, who never knew even the charges preferred against them. At one time a rebellion was brewing in one of the northern dis tricts, and. without knowing who were the ringleaders, but to spread terror iu the department and quell the uprising, eight men were sciec*ed, more or less at random, and shot. YTe encountered the indubitable au thority of this heiuous order of ;in a saw men who had read it .—Chicajc V. ->rQ 15 • * ■ r ® The lima-bean crop of Ventura County. 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