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VA;A By ELTON t.iiAi'riU; VII. (Continued.) "I umiu: you. monsieur, fur your of- I f :.::iit ;:id gently at k-neth. "but : 1 rr.;ic u line it. I am very .-wry if . joii r.,'i hurt, l.üt wIkii you leave here bo; ujti will mo:i U-izei it." "W'.ar. you r. fu- !" he exe..;in:d in -i'l!i....r,ly. "Vou will no: accept my warning? You will he r.iy enmy?" "1 I;ik' not. s-.ii.-ly. i:-u if you are ' my on :iy I s!ul! not 1m yours." alio i aiu.vt'.' (i s;;u!.Iy. baiking away, yet j k ( pii.;,' an eye upon the glass doors. i'or a moment tlie young run; stood p::i:i.x -it h'r with rune filling in his i face li:ab he i or.M have believed pes- ; iloili- lirtl? knew how pretty she Joohed. as she ihk! ther in her white j Sown, wish th sort da: k night as a, jaeHro'an.l. and the lights from the j drawing mora falling on her early,, rut::.-. I Ivad. nor the simple dignity of ; tin grey eyes that regarded him to j fem. -sly. All at o;:re his expression j cliaug'H. and grew biat-K and fierce, I distorted with evil thought. 'o you decline." he hissed in her ear. "You think you will marry that long-legged, curly-headed soldier! But disabuse your mind of that idea. You will marry me, Henri Dubois. I swear it! Whether you love me or not, I

will be your husband. Oh. you will i she took a book and sat at the wide soon be glad enough to escape from j open window in preference to returninadame ma mere, and you can do it j in? to the drawing room. She often by me only by me. Ah! how quiet did this now, for lately things had been you are! Do you hear?" J worse than ever. Henri more persist"Yes. and so will every one else," ! ent. At first Kate tossed about, rest-

Mollic replied, standing very erect, and j eyeing with haughty disdain his excited face. "I have listened to you patiently, but I decline to be threatened or coerced, it may answer with some people it never did with a L'Estrange. Let me pass." For. a moment Henri paused irresolute, glaring at hr; then he gave way a step . and she was through the drawing room and half way upstairs before he ould realize that he had been baffled and refused by this girl of 19. He had thought to reduce h'r to submis.-io:;. and at the first threat she. usually so gmtle. had turned upon him fearlessly; and he. a coward by nature, failed to recognize. what his mother dimly felt, that it was impossible to cower a spirit that rose higher whenever danger threatened. As for Mollie. she was angry and Indignant: pk once in her room, she could not help laughing. "So I am to marry Henri, who will devote his life to making me happy!" she murmured, as she brushed her hair. "It will not be a money-making profession for him. I have an idea that once he had jny wretched fortune he would turn his devotion to his own amusement." Hut from that night the life at Chalfont 'hi came almost unbearable. Madame openly espoused her son's :ause. saying it was strange Mollie could infuse one so handsome and deToted, for whom other girls were sighins in vain. Slowly and steadily she tri. (1 to fore her into the hated engagement, implying that it would be a great relief to her mind to have her married to so estimable a young man. the only one she could countenance for her; and well Mollii knew what this latter remark meant neither Mr. Anstruther nor any one else need expect her consent. As for Henri, he was worse than ever, following her everywhere, sullen or sentimental by turns, repeating his proposals whenever he had an opportunity; and the only friend she had in the house was ier little half-sister. Kate. For the strange child, ever since the Neuster ve when she had tlown to ' JJollif for protection, had attached herself to her with a quiet persistence that was both amusing and touching. Every night she found her rolled up in one corner of her bed asleep, or pretending to be. and the fear of losing this privilege made her try to check this Irritability that wa3 part of her temperament, and be more amenable to the sorely-tried governess. This much Mollie exacted, though I ahe would never have had the heart to enforce it, for the little one's nerves were in a terribly strained state, and Mollie's room seemed her haven of refuge. There she felt safe there, dark or light, nothing could touch her; there she never had horrible dreams Bad things could not come near Mollie, who was so sweet and Day by day she followed her About, at first with shy defiance, at last with unconcealed affection and a funny motherly solicitude, and ere the rows bepan to bloom th-re was no crime so great in her oyes as to hurt Mollie. "What is the matter?" asked Mollie one morning, when she found her prancing about the lawn in a fury, scolding like a young virago the gardener, who was marking out a tennis court. "Misses says she won't have no court here," said the man helplessly, touching his cap. "and the gentleman ordered me to mark one." "It is my lawn; I won't allow it! He has no right to meddle, and I shall tell Aunt Clare so;" she stormed. "But I would teach you to play." Mollie said quietly. he knew. Her father's will strictly enjoined that her wishes were to be indulged, and madame happened to be In a frightful temper that day. "Would you like It?" Kate, stopping abruptly. demanded : -I think It would be nice." "You can go on, John," she said 1mperlousry to the man. "Anything Miss IEstrange desires is to be done." It was the same in everything. Her little face would grow haggard with tnxltty when Mollie dore with road-

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HARRIS AAA a me. and she had no peace until she met her on the steps; while one morning, when Mdlie awoke, she heard her murmuring away to herself, and a furtive pvp "revealed the Mittle maid sitting up hi her frilled nightgown, nursing her knees, her flaxen curls falling thickly round her shouiders. bhe:s so pretty; look at her long. curling lushes!" she was whispering in a tone of ;ai!sia tion. "Hut I should love her anyhow, for she is my sister; she is my own Mollie, ray very own Mo'lie!" ".My own Mollie!" Just what her mother had always called her. Mollie knew better than to move or disturb the child, but from that moment she was never "my half-sister Kate" again, hut tli little sister her mother had left to her, to be guarded and shielded by every means in her power, to be loved and taught all that Mollie, humble in her strength, could teach her, that together they might struggle along that narrow path which leads to eternal life. CHAPTER VIII. It was a hot August evening, and after Mollie had heard Kate's hymns and prayers for which purpose she always went upstairs after dinner bss with the heat, but at length her regular breathing showed that she slept; and Mollie's book dropped unheeded, as she sat watching the harvest lightning Hashing across the darkening sky She was thinking of Reggie, who had been obliged to rejoin his regiment in Ireland months ago. without saying good-by to her, though he had brought. Joyce up to Chalfont to call for that purpose. Madame had never mentioned this.' She only heard it from Joyce later, when.it seemed too late to be angry, though she was very sorry. She Had missed him dreadfully. Revcrton wan not the same place somehow when there was no chance during their walks and drives of seeing his tall, upright' figure swinging along, but he used to send a 1 sorts of messages through Joyce. I would come back, and, meantime, sh devoted herself to Kate, wno daily rrew happier and more childlike. V 's. Anstruther and Joyce did th ur best for her: but madame cut . r o:f from every one, and lately they had been away, which was a great matter of regret, for it was something to feel their friendly presence near, hovsh she was free to ! wander in the woods and fields with i Kate in tuix abne. , The scent el a cigar, chairs being dragged alon-i the pantiles voices, made her le;;n furth the window. Madame and Henri were evidently fitting There: How clearly their voices v.cie borne upwards in the still air little they guessed how plainly! Mollie would have moved away, feeling that she ought not to listen had she not caught a few words; then she leaned forward with all her might. "Kate's money cannot be touched. I have got all I can every farthing. 1 literally do not know where to turn for a penny." And madame's voice sounded harsh and weary. "You must I marry the girl; her fortune will last you for a time. I can do nothing more yet." "Bah! Marry the girl!" He mimickerl her angrily- "It is easy to say, but she will not have me. Truly, me mere, I have a respect for her more than I have felt for any woman before. When I look into those beautiful eyes of hers, so young, so frank. I want her as I have wanted no one else. Were she my wife I could trust her absolutely; I would even try to be a good husband." "You love her!" madame said jealously. "There, now, you will upbraid me I for that!" he sneered. "But she will i never have me, she adores that Anetruther; they love in English fashion. You may give up all hopes of bending la belle Mol-lee to our will unless you can get her away from Reverton. Come to Paris." "I cannot. You know by your uncle's will I am obliged to live at Chalfont with Kate. Oh. If I could only get away from the place get away!" And her voice rose with strange trembling intensity that was almost a wail. "There, do not begin that!" he muttered, with callous impatience. "To continue from where we started, I must have money! You have large sums for both girls." "You have had most of it." she retorted. "As also that large sum through your uncle's check." "Hush! we need not speak of that. You have been ever the best of mothers, as also the handsomest." "Ah, Henri, my son, you are my all!" she said, in a softened voice. "All I ; want is your love, and now you would ! care more for this girl. Now, listen, j you must marry her, for in that way did anything happen to the child she would have all. Kate is very delicate. Any one can see that. And It would surprise no one If, after your marriage. she did not live long." There was a moment's silence. The listener above started and clenched her hands. A match was struck. Henri was evidently lighting a fresh cigar. Then his high voice said lightly: "Ah, ma belle mere, you are clever! That Is certainly to be considered. I had thought ei It also!"

They had moved into the Crwlngroom, and Mollie, white with wrath and dismay, crept quietly to the bed. and stood looking at the sleeping child. Poor little girl! Her whole life she had been made the center for

I the evil passions of others, and now a ! fresh danger threatened her. "Touch j Kate!" thought Mollie, with beating i heart, as she gently brushed the fair I curls from the small thin face. I Touch her little sister! Not while she, Mollie. could proret her. And she j would rouse all Keverton; she would ! tight them by every means in her powj er, before this nervous, excitable child ! should suffer further. Then she re- , membeied that she herself was Kate's j great safeguard, so long as she did not I marry Henri. And she would die ratner; tor the child was madame's largest source of income, and would be cared for accordingly. But as she sat in the garden the following afternoon she felt sick at heart. How could these people be so wicked. Lying back in an American chair. ! looking up into the great trees, she re flected sadly upon the terrible abuse of money. People would do anything for itscheme, lie, and cheat; and what did it come to in the end? for "They brought j nothing into the world, neither can ! they carry anything out." I She and Kate were very fond of this J part of the garden. They spent all the j hot afternoons there, and madams j and Henri were out today, so it was ! very peaceful. Suddenly a bird in the bushes sang a few notes, then a very clear whistle followed; but it came from no bird's throat it was a tune she knew well, but never expected to hear in the garden at Chalfont, and she sat up eagerly and looked round. There was Reggie, who ought to have been a hundred miles away, standing a few yards off, clad in riding clothes, whip in hand, and a smile -on his good-looking young face. "Well, what are you doing here?" she cried in amazement, with a decided access of color. "Why, your people are away ! " "Oh, yes; but I have just run down about the horses, you see.'.' returned he glibly, coming quite close. "No; bother the horses. That is not it at all. So you remember the old tune, Mollie?" "It would be funny if I did not. You never whistle anything else." "But I never sang the words for you, did I? They go like this" and in a clear mellow voice, Mr. Anstruther softly trolled them oat: '"Won't you tell me, Mcllie darling. That you lc e noi e else but me? For 1 love you. Mollie darling You are all the world to me.' I'm) be . ;. tinned.) DrmiH-rAcy of the Trent. The nev-spapt r r:ess Is the most democratic institutljn on earth, says a New York writer. Wituin the pages of a daily jourial ill classes come together on the same level. Payne Moorf an I Mfs. Astor are mentioned in the same column. William C. Whitney and Ttrown, the expressman, havr their portraits published side by Sid'. To ) 1 Sloane the iock-ev nnrt J. Pi i v Morgan, the financier, diI'f space. The convict in 'ary is exhibited alongh Christian minister of the ihe bic odthirsty Boxer and able peasant of Piedmont vid; w c he reside . :' Gcspf I. the peav

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ame style of and a Texas lynching are equally displayed. The newspapers play no favorites. All knowledge i.; theit forte, all news their capital stock. The icd hat of the cardinal is no redder to th m than the red gore that is spilled in the roped arena. The bluest blood of the revolution is treated with no more respect than the blue nost of a Cape Cod fisherman. The Parasite of Klrphantiasls. By Reuter telegram it is learned that the second malarial expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has wired home from Bombay, in Nigeria, the important discovery that the parasite that causes epephantiasis has been found, like that which causes malaria, in the proboscis of the mosquito. It has long been known that the small worm which produced this disease of hideous deformity by taking up its abode in the lymphatic vessels of the human subject can also live in the mosquito, but its discovery in the proboscis of the insect shows that the bites of these pests are responsible for the human affliction. The disease is very prevalent among the natives of tropical countries and sometimes attacks the European residents. It is an interesting fact that this discovery has been announced almost simultaneously with .hat from Bombay by Dr. Low in England, who found the parasite In mosquitoes brought from Australia, and by Capt. James as a result of his Investigations in Inda. Warning1 to Americana. Referring to the marriages with foreigners, the Law Journal sounds a note of warning. It seems almost iraItossible to make American women understand that it is not safe to marry even distinguished foreigners without making proper inquiries and taking legal advice, and that the danger is greatest with Frenchmen. The result of the Invincible ignorance of the American is that far too many of our women find themselves in the equivocal position of being wives in their own country, but not in that of their husbands. American Knterprlnn In China. ' An American merchant In Hongkong spppiles the China coast with masts, spars and other timber. Ills name and property appear In the English records, but he and his business nevertheless are American. At least ten houses- In Hawaii do a remunerative business with China, both exporting and importing. Thn American Trading company, which usually la regarded as a Japanese house, has its agencies in China and does a larg business with that land. Los Angelea Times. Madame Jane Hading Is to do Ths Second Mrs. Tanqueray" In French.

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The Dewey arch is gone. It was demolished last week under the direction of the department of streets and highways, and Madison Square, New York, 13 bereft of this noble reminder of American victory in Manila bay. Crowds gathered about the wreckers and all kinds of citizens were turned at once into relic hunters. The staff coating of the woodwork came away rapidly in response: to the blows of the workmen. Spectators fought goodnaturedly for bits of the sculptured figured of victory and of other ornamental parts of the columns. In a trice the skeleton of the monument was exposed. This was now hurriedly disjointed hacked and torn, and the material was piled upon the sidewalk. In a few minutes the beautiful work of art was reduced to an ugly mass of plaster and a few loads of kindling wood. Then the traffic in Madison Square hummed as before.

Uhe Loco VOecd. Advantages accruing from a recent heavy rainfall in western Texas have been largely offset by the fact that the unusual supply of moisture has greatly increased the growth of tho loco weed. Many horses and cattle have died from eating this insidiously poisonous weed. Exactly what the element of poison in this weed is has never been fully determined. The rush of immigrants is greater Just now than at any time since 1892, over 450,000 having been registered already this year in New York. Tho present increase comes from southern Europe, especially Italy. A railroad official says the immigrant traffic on western lines' is double what it was a year ago. There is less tendency to herd in the large cities. Attempts will soon be made by California merchants to put fresh asparagus on the market In London and other places in Great Britain. The California navel oranges are growing In favor in England and are being much appreciated. It is expected that California asparagus will compete with French asparagus, which is sent to England in large quantities. In Australia a novel idea has been Introduced for weeding out the "man who doesn't dance." Each lady has a 6lip of paper perforated in squares, cne square for each dance on the program; she gives one of these coupons to her partner at the end of each dance, and any man who cannot produce a fair percentage of coupons is refused admission to the supper room. Immense Urade "Balance. In a second reference to the subject within a week, "Holland," the New York economic writer, tells us that the British and continental customers of our manufacturers, who desire so much to have their American purchases kept secret, will find little consolation in the annual report of our export trade. He predicts l)iat the official exhibit to be made public on Jan. 1, 1901, will show that the exports of the United States for 1900 will exceed those of 1S99 by about $200,000.000, and that the total value of our exports for the present year will be not less than $1.500,000,000. Furthermore, he adds, experts now figure for 1900 an apparent trade balance of about $G.r0,000,000 In our favor. Governor Pingree of Michigan is not much averse to celebrity, but looks with marked indignation on the fact that a cigarette has been named after him. Cigarettes are his pet averIon anyhow, and the stormy wolverine executive would not greatly surprise his friends if he took legal steps to end the disagreeable notoriety which has been thrust upon him. Gas aline Ma-tar Some officials of the Illinois Central railroad have discovered a new and unique method of conveyance, In wWch they can combine bualnees with

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Chopped Dot&n Manch est er - The Duke of Manchester and Miss Helena Zimmerman were married the other afternoon in the parish church of Marylebone, London, by the Very Rev. Canon Baker. Miss Zimmerman is the daughter of Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati, and, owing to the opposition to the marriage by the relatives of both bride and groom, the ceremony was so quiet as to have been almost secret. The duke and duchess at once left for Tendcragee Castle, the groom's 1 . i Hat Leads 1o Ttsco)cry. The action of a rat led N. U. Ingoldsby to the discovery of a rich gold mine in Arizona. Mr. Ingoldsby, who was on a hunting trip near the San Pedro river, was for a long time puzzled to explain the disappearance of small articles from his camp. . Investigation showed that the thief was a rot. One morning a piece of gold quartz was found after the rodent's visit, and, tracing his visitor to its hole, Mr. Ingoldsby found a rich gold deposit. Kogoro Tokahlra, the new Japanese minister at Washington, belongs to the progressive school of his countrymen. He sieaks fluently the languages of Austria, Italy and Holland. The steam whaler Grampus arrived recently at San Francisco from Unalaska. She brought 27,000 pounds of whalebone and oil from thirteen whales. Cars the Latest pleasure. In traveling between their offices and their homes in Kenwood. Hyde Park.Woodlawn and other southern suburbs of Chicago, they bar

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Frcjh ylir in Ciitcs. That portion of civilized humanity which lives in large cities is awaiting the coming of a bonefactor to whom it will ortet statu and sin? paeans of prr.i?e. This -benefactor will be tho man who shall devise a cheap and effective method of vtntilating Hats and ofliee building. No sui h method has yet been devis-j 1. Th?re is no ventilation of the da-.; of buildinc- named. The unhappy tcr. r.it may hoose between sulTocatioii and pneumonia. Ho can either kc ?p Lis windows down and stille or he can raLe. them and create a draft which shall ho his Tindoing. He occupies a stcara-hcat.-d box in whk'h. no provision has been made for fre-h air. He hr. itius over and over ag;i!n an atmo.sp::. re charged with- carbonic acid gas. lb may pay ?5 per month or he may pay $500, but he will get no ventilation.

Inferior Cities and Scapcr1s. In a recent address by Lyman K. Cooley before th? engineering cl.ss in the University of Michigan he .-aid: "Eventually the interior eiti s of the country will be sapped of th ir trada unless the sa can be brought to their doors." This is a confus d siatement and unexpected as coming from on.; of the most distinguished experts in the exact scienr-e of engineering. The interior cities cannot be "sapped of their trade." They are near the sources of production in every article of commerce and consumption. They are the centers at which are colb.-et'd for shipment by rail or water the products of the farms, the factories, tho forests and the mines. They are the half-way houses of commerce between all the sources of production and the seaports. The widow of Supreme Justice Stephen J. Field has presented to the United States circuit court of appeals in San Francisco a finely executed oil portrait of the jurist. Sir William Lyne has offeied a prize of $2,500 for the best ode in commemoration of the new commonwealth of Australia. Jimniermcin. Irish estate. The marriage was by special license, no banns being published, for that would have- 'betrayed the secret. Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati is vice-president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad. His wealth is estimated at from $S.000,000 to $15.000.000. which the young duchess, the only child, will inherit if she placates him. and she is the apple of his eye. Moody's Successor. A Loudon dispatch states that the Rev. G. Campbell Morgan has resigned his pastorate there "to tako up tho real work of the late Dwight L. Moody." The words quoted imply that Mr. Morgan is expected to be Moody's successor that he can do over again what Mr. Moody did. Without the least desire to question Mr. Morgan's abilities, it must be pointed out that this is impossible. Neither he nor any other man can fit his shoulders to Moody's mantle. Though a keen partisan in her own way and thoroughly alive to the political interests of her strenuous husband. Mrs. Roosevelt is ever careful to avoid even the appearance of taking a personal part in public affairs. For this reason she declined to become president of the national society of the Daughters of the Revolution. notWithstanding that it would bo difficult to find a more- eligible person. found the coaches of their own road too commonplace for their ideas. Automobiles they discovered where too slow, and so, having the freedom of their tracks, they have adopted a combination of the "auto" and the regular track railway velocipede. This new device is. known as the "gasoline motor car," and carries from one to four passengers. For some time past the residents along the Illinois Central tracks and the patrons of its suburban service have noticed these little vehicles speeding along the right of way without any apparent effort on the part of their passengers, and they have wandered what the motive power could be, and whether the machines were being used for business or for pleasure. Tho truth is the cars were first used by the heads of the various out-door departments as a matter of business, pun. and simple. The Idea of using them for pleasure and in going to and from their offices grew out of this, until now they are becoming so popular that afoout fifteen of them are in use in Chicago, and more are being constantly added to the list

; MISLI-AD NEW-RICH. j KiAua I'ullrnaii ar ForuUhlaf Jm j Of'fii oplt-.i. "There is a man scmewhera In G ; 23ploy cf the Pullmaa Palac Car company who has much to answer for," writes l-:dw;:rd Eok la the October Ladles' Homv journal. "He iL cfiicial who s k ts or decides tho furi nishings and h:: icings of the oos- . pany'a cars. Probably no single man la this country has the opportunity for bo direct and helpful an iniluence in ti extension of good taate in furnishing, Instead, he perpetuates upon tie public furnishing suL-mtrs which ma rival those which we see ia the hone of the most uninteiliecut of the n vrrlch. The chief injury which the f urnishinss of the luuuern pHn-aa cr works is the wrong standard which la et for tho.;e who are not conversant with what is artistic. Tho new-rich come into tiurre cars and acctpt the hideous effect ns the standard of people of tat,te. I "have bien told by furnishing firms that they are orten asked by those who have iucidouly come into the possession of money that certain effect which they have sea !a Pullman drawing room cars sh.i.4 be duplicated in thcsir -home?. Tinsa peopl. knowing no bettc-r. accept what they in the cars which are supposed to be patronized by people of means.as reflective of a pr:vajiiug standard. Color combinations about as inharmonious as it is possible fur the mind of man to concoct, have thu.i been transferred to the homes of the people, and her the Injury is done."

THE CATTLE GROWING SITUATION. The approach of winter Cnd3 a most encouraging situation, among the stock growers of Nebraska. Never ha tiert been a more liberal supply of fall pasture than exists at this lime, or a better condition of flesh and health among the grazing animals of the Socks smd herdß. The cattle stock of the state it In fine condition to stand the cold ajad freezing weather which must be endured for at least ninety daya In average Nebraska winters. The open ränge plan of Tir.ter: etock has given way to e::er care ani more prepared feed. In the ouffaJo grass districts, where t'z" '- r:res la the ground durin? the fall norths, the winter care of cattle ar.'i horses is eai-y problem to solve, a.- ".::: or zq prepared feed is reqiiri rvi-ra.e weather and when the gr.- uot covered with sno--. The large area of W.3.-:--- -: u N-bri?:-:2. called the "sand hr.Is" : supplied with the sand grasses that c.ire on the a j-:n !-ntly vari-ty of make good winter grazing for sto:'.t. In those localities the expt:.e wintering animals is very light in comparison with the prepared feed districts. Nebraska has a good crop of all kinds of rough feed for wintering cattle, and the farmers ia the grain growing districts, as well as in the western grazing districts, have teen stocklcj up with the cheap stock cattle eommr into the markets from the less favored localities. World-Herald, Nov. 16, 1S00. Great Hritain Loalnjr Trade. The time Is come when It may b asked whether we, as a manufacturing nation, have lost all sense of the Initiative that formerly distinguished ua beyond the other nations of the world? A broad survey of the existing industrial field reveals a prospect not very flattering to the pride of an Englishman. We, tho sea power, now look to Germany for records of sea speeds. From the birthplace of mechanical locomotion we must go to France and the United States for examples of railway speeds and efficiency. In electricity we are mere humble imitators, since scarcely any important modern development in this all-pervading industry bears an English name. We are, it is true, making 6omo feeble efforts to keep up with our neighbors ia the great coming manufacturing industry electro-chemics but he who seeks for guidance in this practically unexplored field must go to Nuremberg or Pittsburg to find it. We are still predominant in the cotton industry, but it is simply a question of tine when this industry will forsake U3 for its natural seat the Southern states of America and tho Indian cotton nelda. Are we, then, in danger of degenerating into a nation of brokers, depending for our commercial existence on the capital left us by the exertions of our forefathers? London Express. Boston A Albany Leaseri by w York Central The Boston & Albany railroad having been leased to the New York Central, the mileage of the Albany road Trill now be added to that of the Now York Central, and hereafter a thousand mile ticket of the New York Central & Hudson ltiver railroad will be good on the lioston & Albany railroad. This will prove of great convenience to the traveling public who desire to reach points in Massachusetts on or reached via the Boston & Albany, including, of course, Boston. The holder of a New York Central thousand mile ticket will now nav the privilege of riding over lines aggregating more than 6,000 miles of railroad on a ticket costing only two cents per mile, good for the persoa presenting It and good until used. Historic Cottage In Zrndm. In the quaint town of Zaarr.dam, in Holland. PetRr tie Great came in 153T to learn the trade of shipbuilding. He worked like any ordinary workman under the name of Peter MichaelhofL He lived by himself, doing his own washing and cooking his own meals ia his hut of two rooms. The cottage, which now leans in all directions, still contains the rude furniture which the (Teat Peter used a bedstead, table and two chairs. It is Incased la a building erected for the purpose, and over the mantel Is a tablet erected by Alexander Of Russia In 1814. Battle with Black Bear. John Olson, a farmer, had a flerca struggle with a black bear, near Cumbertarvd Wis. The animal gnawed hit right arm, and so mangled hi band that It had to be amputated. Olion's brother came to the rescue ia time to shoot the bear and save the man's 111.