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Oh, Andrew, tnat is That s too much. ; Having been within 200 miles of the Worth Pole, says the Bloomington Pan jtagraph, Lieut Peary Is able to bear (testimony Nthat-noBe of the weather JMMwh fmm that locality has not " k11 AwnraffMl ! There were 8,888 foreigners among the 44,942 students registered at Ger au universities last summer. The ferman students are again demanding 'an increase in matriculation and tui tion fees for foreigners who attend their universities. Tobacco pipes made from calabash have come into general use in South Africa. The calabash colors like meerschaum, and will take a high polish. It is said, to give a special softness of flavor that pipes of no ether material offer. In reply to a correspondent who asks: "How can I stop biting my fin ger nailsr the New York Herald says: "Wear a muzzle." That might do, adds the Chicago Record-Herald; but wouldn't it be simpler for him to have bis teeth pulled? Give a bore a stogie and he will never trouble you again. He may hate, but he will fear you. So even the) stogie has its uses. Everything, says the Quincy Daily Whig, has, in fact, sot barring the cigarette, which as an! automatic fool-killer has wonderful1 wtencies. "We In London," says London OphH ion, "have two music halls crowded, Brightly by the exhibition of shapely women clad in nothing but white paint and classical atmosphere." Is this an exaggeration, or is London really so touch more wicked than the worst saining camp in America? The duke of Abruzzi has visited London to thank the British govern ment and; the Royal Geographical so ciety for their assistance and the in terest they took in his expedition to Mount Ruwenzori, the famous "Moun tain of the Moon" of olden geograph ers. During the demolition of some old premises at Backing (Essex), England, a glass bottle, curiously shaped, was taken from the chimney stack, where It had been carefully bricked in, and when opened was found to contain a copy of the lease of the property, dated 1795. Fort McHenry is no longer neces sary for the defense of Baltimore, and Is to be abandoned, but it will always be remembered because over it waves the "Star Spangled Banner" of Key's vision and song. 'It is reported that Baltimore will maintain the fort as a public resort, as Fort Independence Ss maintained In Boston. Folk who live along the rural free delivery routes and have seen the car rier trudge over heavy roads through had weather will approve the recent gift of an automobile to a New Jer sey carrier. It will help the postman and at the same time speed the de livery of mail. Nevertheless, one can .not help asking whether a carrier's ssodest salary will pay the running expenses of a gasoline gig. The great English battleship Dread--nought, which was tested at sea tho other day. developed a speed, accord-, :lng to unoSciai announcement, of 'nearly 22 knots an hour, and main? talned for eight hours an average) speed of 21 knots. This makes it the fastest battleship afloat The ship Is equipped with turbine engines; J which now seem to have vindicated themselves beyond any doubt One of the Philadelphia papers has (given considerable space to correspond dence upon the problem of domestic economy and the cost of living. Writers whose resources vary widely have giv- 'en their experience and offered their advice. One woman whose husband gives her $5,000 a year for her family of four is unable to get along comfort ably on that sum. She wants a sampler .hill of fare for a week, and also infor mation as to where she can "get a hat for less than $15." Another woman' twith a family of three has less than 509 a year, yet says they "have the' tost of 'everything and plenty of It" . A young college graduate has been' learning something about "practical", politics. He attempted to wrest the control of a New York assembly dm-1 trict from Tammany. When the cunA paign was over he found that the men whom he had trusted to cooperate with him had taken his money and1 hired out to the other side. They toe his ballots, but did not vote them. The "detective" whom he hired to watch his rival turned out to be a lien-, tenant of that rival, and some of his professed followers stole his watch, chain and diamond scarfptn. Rtetori. the great Italian actress,. see remarked: I cannot portray vice, tat I can understand and realise erima" All the store powerful pas- werw within her range hatred. revenge but her. except in farce, was. as failure. 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The butler hesitated, yielded, showed me into the reception room off the entrance hall. I waited a few sec onds, then adventured the stairway to the left up which he had disappeared. I entered the small salon in which Langdon had received me on my other visit From the direction of an open door, I heard his voice he was say ing: "I am not at home. There's no message." And still I did not realize that it was I he .was avoiding! "It's no use now, Langdon." I called cheerfully. "Beg pardon for seeming to intrude. I misunderstood or didn't hear where the servant said I was to wait However, no harm done. So long! I'm off" But I made no move toward the door by which I had en tered; instead. I advanced a few feet nearer the door from which his voice had come. After a brief a very brief pause, there came in Langdon's voice laugh ing, not a trace of annoyance: "I might have known! Come in, Matt!" DC LANGDON AT HOME. I entered, with an amused glance at the butler, who was giving over his heavy countenance to a delightful ex hibition of disgust and discomfiture. It was Langdon's sitting room. He had had the carved antique oak in terior of a room in an old French pal ace torn out and transported to New York and set up for him. I had made a study of that sort of thing, and at Dawn Hill had done something toward realizing my own ideas of the splen did. But a glance showed me that I was far surpassed. What I had done seemed in comparison like the compo sition of a school boy beside an essay by Goldsmith or Hazlltt And in the midst of this quiet splen dor sat or rather lounged, Langdon, reading the newspapers. He was dressed in a dark blue velvet house suit with facings and cords of blue silk -a shade or so lighter than the suit I had always thought him hand some; he looked now like a god. He was smoking a cigarette in an orien tal holder nearly a foot' long; but the air of the room, so perfect was the ventilation, instead of being scented with tobacco, had the odor of some fresh, clean, slightly saline perfume. I think what was in my mind must have shown in my face, "must have subtly flattered him. for. when I looked at him. he was giving me a look of genuine friendly kindliness. "This is perfect Langdon," said L And I think I'm a judge." "Glad you like it" said he. trying to dissemble his satisfaction In so strong ly impressing ma "You must take me through your house sometime." I went on. "I'm go ing to build soon. No don't be afraid 111 imitate. I'm too vain for that But I want suggestions. I'm not ashamed to go to school to a master to any body, for that matter." "Why do you build?" said he. "A town house is a nuisance. If I could Induce my wife to take the children to the country to live, I'd dispose of this." "That's it the wife," said L "But you have no wife. At least " "No." I replied with a laugh. "Not yet But I'm going to have." Suddenly my mind reverted to my business. "How do you account for the steadiness of textile. Langdon?" I asked, returning to the carved sitting room and trying to put those sur roundings out of my mind. "I don't account for it" was his languid, uninterested reply. "Any of your people under the mar ket?" "It Isn't to my Interest to have it supported, is It?" he replied. "I know that" I admitted. "But why doesnt it drop?" "Those letters of yours may have overeducated the public In confi dence," suggested he. "Your follow ers have the habit of believing implic itly whatever you say." "Yes, but I haven't written a line about textile for nearly a month now," I pretended to object, my vanity fairly purring with pleasure. "That's the only reason I can give." said he. "You are sure none of your people is supporting the stock?" I asked, as a form and not for information; for I thought I knew they weren't I trnst- i ed him to have seen to that "I'd iaa to get my holdings back." said he. "I cant buy natU it's down. And I know none of my people would dare support it" "Well, then, the price mast break." said L "It wont be many days he fore the public begins to realise that there isn't anybody under textile." "No sharp break!" he said careless ly. "No panic! r Til see to that" replied I. with not a shadow of a notion of the subtlety hehind his warning- I hope it will break soon." he then said, adding in his MeadUest voice with what I now know was msHcsist treachery: Tan owe it to me to bring Kdewn." That meant that he wished me to increase my already far tea dangerous line of shorts. Just them voice a woman's voice .A ,,r,ltttlttlt?ttl fcvsvfijrt-v;. from the salon. "May I co: In? Do I interrupt?" it said, and its tone struck me as having in it some thing of plaintive appeal "Excuse. me a minute Blacklock," said he, rising with what was for him haste. But he was too late. The-'woman entered, searching the room with a piercing, suspicious gaze. At once I saw. behind that look, a Jealousy that pounced on every, subject that came into its view, and studied it with a hope that feared and a fearthathoped. When her eyes had toured the room, they paused upon him. seemed to be saying: "You've baffled me again, but I'm not discouraged. I shall catch you yet" "Well, my dear?4' said Langdon. whom she seemed faintly to amuse. "It's only Mr. Blacklock. Mr. Black lock, my wife." I bowed; she looked coldly at me, and her slight nod was more than a hint that she wished to be left alone with her husband. I said to him: "Well, I'll be off. Thank you for " "One moment" he interrupted. Then to his wife: "Anything special?" She flushed. "No nothing special. I just came to see you.' But if I am disturbing you as usual " "Not at all," said he. "When Black-lock- and I have finished, I'll come to you. It won't be longer than an hour or so." When we were seated again, Lang don. after a few reflective puffs at his VHEJJB&Xvtxref-TEFCUSZV r? "AND IN THE MIDST OF THIS QUIET SPLENDOR SAT, OR RATHER, LOUNGED. LANGDON." cigarette, said: "So you're about to marry?" "I hope so." said I. "But as I haven't asked her yet I cant be sura" For obvious reasons I wasn't so enam ored of the idea of matrimony as I had been a few moments before. "I trust you're making a sensible marriage." said ha "If the part that may be glamour should by chance rub clean away, there ought to be some thing to make one feel he wasn't wholly an ass." "Very sensible." I replied with em phasis. "I want the woman. I aaed her." He inspected the coal of his cigar ette, lifting his eyebrows at it Pres ently he said: "And she?" "I don't know how she feels about it as I told you." I replied curtly. In spite of myself, my eyes shifted and my skin began to burn. "By the way. Langdon. what's the name of your architect?" "Wilder and Marcy ," said he. "They're fairly satisfactory, if you tell 'em exactly what you want and watch 'em all the time. They're perfectly conventional and so cant distinguish between originality that's artistic and originality that's only bizarre. They're .like most people they keep to the beaten track aad fight tooth and Ball against being drawn out of it aad against those who do s out of it" Til have a talk with Marcy this very day." said L "Oh. you're In a harry!" He laughed. "Aad yon haven't asked her. You re ef that Greek philosopher In love with Lam. They asked him: .'But does she love your And he said: 'One does not inquire of the fish one likes whether it likes I lashed. "TonHpardem doa." said I. "but I doat like that It teat my attitude at all toward the right sort of "V - . - .J, 1f1Tf...,ir.r.-r , -ram - -- -.,.- r Hi'looke-bjdf-Quissical,halfapele-getfe. "An, to he sure." said he.-;"I you weren't a married so;I'4eft him. with a hJa eyes that came bnekltd me afterward when I realised .the.,ull messing et that apparently alssost eommonplace interview, vvc -' the same day I begaaTto plunge on textile, watching the market, closely; that Inilght'gD more slowly should there TMsftasrofia dangerous breaker tor no more than Lanjrdoa did I want a sudden paniekyvsiump."v The price held steady, however, hut I. fool, that I , was; 'certain 'the fail must, eome, plnngedonf digging the pit for my own destruction deeper and deeper. . -"" 4. TWO "PILLAR OF SOCIETY." I was" neither seeing nor hearing from the EUerslys. father or son, but as I knew why; I was not disquieted. I had nude' them temporarily" easy In their finances just before that, dinner, and they, being fatuous, incurable op timists, were probably imagining they would neyerneed me again. I did not disturb them until Monson and I had got my education so well under way that even I. always severe In self criticism and now merciless, was com pelleld to admit to myself a distinct change for the better. When my ' education seemed far enough advanced. I sent for Sam. He, after his footless fashion, didn't bother to acknowledge my note. His margin account with me was at the moment-straight; I turned to his father. I had my cashier send him a formal, type-written letter signed Blacklock ft Co., informing him that his account was overdrawn and that we "would be obliged if he would give the matter his immediate attention." The note must have reached him the following morning, but he did not come until, after waiting, three days, "we" sent him a sharp demand for a check for the balance due us. A pleasing, aristocratic-looking fig ure he made as he entered my office, with his air of the man whose hands have never known the stains of toil, with his manner of having always re ceive deferential treatment There was no pretense in my curt greeting, my tone of "despatch your business, sir, and be gone;" for I was both busy and much irritated against him. "I guess you want to see our cashier; said I. after giving him a hasty, absent-minded hand-shaka "My boy out there will take you to him." The old do-nothing's face lost its confident condescending expression. His lip quivered, aad I think there were tears in his bad, dim gray-green htosrJBvl 4f0mtVK Alas! For Good Intentions Minister Meant Well, but He Made Bad Impression on Lunatic A certain minister made a visit to an Insane asylum. He got In conver sation with one of the patients, and not to ruffle him, agreed with all he said. The following conversation re sulted: "Don't you think it dreadful," said the patient "that Senator Cameron should have been so murderously 'sandbagged by that insane division worker just as he was about to Tote on election day?" "Yes," replied the clergyman; 'It was indeed regrettable." "And ex-President Cleveland, have they found the crazy anarchist who stabbed him at the chamber of com merce banquet the other night?" T beUeve they have," replied the now somewhat startled minister. "And Steel King Schwab, has he re covered from the injuries he sustained from being thrown from the top of Mont Blanc by that demented guide?" At last accounts I believe he was progressing favorably toward recov ery," answered the divine meekly. The lunatic stopped and eyed the min ister. "You're a minister, aren't your he asked. "I am." aaswnrnd tto minister. -.iviNw . . , , "rf .rt fL Ji-i '!". u i"-' ,. T --vAV-T i-ni. 6S?-Ei2ESaei5 1 F: no iswbt he t the are ,nmny whl would r take hJsrriew-As If thofaet was burn with ail possible didnot-make him and his alight ISo,. my Ideer Blacklock." said ha crtaginp.now as easily as he had v condescend 'are taught at the school, the one he had gone to all ate life. "It- is you I want to talk with.. And, first I owe you my apologies. I know you'll make allowances' for who was never trained to methods I've always been like a child in those matters." v "You 'frighten me," said . I. "Th last 'gentleman' who came throwing me off my guard with that plea 'was shrewd enough to get away 'with 'a very large sum of my , hard-earned money Besides" and I was laugh ing, though not too good-naturedly- Tve noticed that you 'gentlemen' be come vague about business only when the balance is against you. When it's in your favor, you manage to get your mipds on business long enough to col lect to the last fraction .of a cent" . He heartily echoed my laugh. "I only wish I were clever." said ha "However, I've come to ask your In dulgence. I'd have been here before. but those who owe me have been put ting me off. And they're of the sort of people whom it's impossible to press." "I'd like to accommodate you fur ther," said I, shedding that last little hint as a cliff sheds rain, "but your account has been in an unsatisfactory state for nearly a month now." "I'm sure you'll give me a few days longer," was his easy reply, as if we were discussing a trifle. "By the way, you haven't been to see us yet Only this morning my wife was wondering when you'd come. You quite capti vated her. Blacklock. Can't you dine with us to-morrow night no. Sunday at eight? We're having In a few people I think you'd like to meet" "Glad to come." said I. wishing to be rid of him. now that my point was gained. "We'll let the account stand open for the present I rather think your stocks are going up. Give my re gards to the ladies, please, especially to Miss Anita." He winced, but thanked me grac iously; gave me his soft fine hand to shake and departed, as eager to be off as I to be rid of him. "Sunday next at eight" were his last words. "Don't fail us" that in the tone of a king ad dressing some obscure person whom he had commanded to court It may be that old Ellersly was wholly uncon scious of his superciliousness, fancied he was treating me as if I were al most an equal; but I suspect he rather accentuated his natural manner, with the idea of impressing upon me that in our deal he was giving at least an much as I. My petty and Inevitable success with that helpless creature added amazingly, ludicrously, to that dan gerous elation which, as I can now see, had ' been growing in me ever since the day Roebuck yielded so read ily to my demands as to National coal. The whole trouble with me was that up to that time I had won all my vic tories by the plainest kind of straight away hard work. I was imagining my self victor in contests of wit against wit when, in fact no one with any especial eqipment of brans had ever opposed me; all the really strong men had been helping me because they found me useful. But for my self hypnotism in the case of Roebuck, I find no excuse whatever for myself. He sent for me and told me what share in National coal they had de cided to give me for my Manasquale mines. "Langdon and Melville," said he, "think me too liberal; far too lib eral, my boy. But I Insisted in your case I felt we could afford to be gen erous as well as just" All this with an air that was a combination of the pastor and the parent I can't even offer the excuse of not having seen that he was a hypocrite. I felt his hypocrisy at once, aad my first impulse was to jump for my breastworks. But instantly my vanity got behind me, held me in the open, pushed me on toward him. If you will notice, almost all "confidence" games rely for success chiefly upon enlisting n man's vanity to play the traitor to his judgment So. Instead of reading his liberality as plain proof of Intend ed treachery. I read It as plain proof of my own greatness, and of the fear It had inspired in old Roebuck. Laugh with me If you like, but before you laugh at me, think carefully those of you who have ever put yourselves to the test on the field of action think carefully whether you have never found that your head decoration which you thought a crown was in reality the peaked and belled cap of the fooL (To be Continued.) "And know the Bible through aad through?" The minister nodded. "Well," said the lunatic with a gria. "all I've got to say is. that you've got Ananias beat 100 times. You're about the worst Uar in this country." Buffalo Times. Faults ef Modern Dinners. A medical journal complains that the modern dinner has become an ex tremely depressing affair, and that so far from being a feast of reason and a flow, of soul the conversation is a mere Interchange of symptoms, de tails of operations or the advantages of this or that cure. Such topics, evi dently, are not provocative of remarks that set the table in a roar, nor do they tend to promote the good diges tion which should wait on appetite. Indeed, there is little appetite for di gestion to wait upon. The daintiest of menus is disregarded when the diners are under a regime, and courses pass untouched while pow ders are openly stirred' into wiaa glasses. Wisdom. "That is so wise ho can tear by the hour." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "But he Isn't wise enough to stttl five urinates." WnhlagteB Star. cvi .x.$j2-- r?! . e M &a&fc&3SiSl '?Cl FORPLAirr CHARACTER. ANO.1 HANTS OP - HOUtEHOLO ORftAMsUfTaV.' . Vary Ctaatty hi Ewb eVEfiVVuBBNEyEwaBFBuvVB daaw EwaWJB ef da not think K is have plants in their Bvm ins the winter, white others f the wisdom of it ha happy unless they had aad flowering slants in one or rooms of their homes. To sea the pains housewives take to have plants In their homes, often under the moat adverse circumstances, leads one to believe that the love of nature and of the beautiful la deeply planted with in, the character of most' womea. If yon are going to have plants,' flowering and otherwise, in your home, it is of the utmost Importance to know the character and habits of each plaat if you wish to cultivate aad have them flower successfully. Some should be placed where they get the direct rays of the sun at mid day, while others, .like salamanders, will stead any amount of heat and do best at a south window. Few plants win grow and bloom without sun shine, but there are a few which make a lovely show even in the north window. All kinds .of ferns love just such a situation; sweet violets will grow among the ferns and bloom freely, filling the room with their sweet odor. The varieties of begon ias which depend for their beauty on failage rather than flowers do weU without sun. We have even seen be gonias covered with bloom and per fect masses of foliage which had reached that state of perfection with out a ray of sunshine. For south windows geraniums, fuch sias, sweet alyssum. heliotropes, car nations and oxtails will give perfect satisfaction and a mass of bloom. They can also be grown in an east or we3t window, but geraniums particularly will not do so well any place as in a south window. Begonias, callas. fuch sias, feverfew, mignonette, all do well where they get sun but part of the day. Any of the following plants are to be relied on either for bloom or foli age, as stated. They are particularly suited to the furnace-heated, dust ladened air or our dwellings, and do not need much attention: The India rubber tree (flcus elas tics) stands at the head of decorative house plants which will stand a hot dry atmosphere. A large, well grown specimen will have leaves four or five inches wide and nearly a foot long. It does not drop its leaves easily, some remaining on several years. The leaves should be dusted frequently. The plsnt requires plenty of light and water, and makes a better growth if supplied with plant food once a week. Dracoena termlnalls is snother very ornamental. long-leaved plant Like the ficus. It will stand a dry atmos phere. Its leaves are a dark crimson, marked lengthwise with a lighter pink. The plant needs repotting spring and fall. During the winter the leaves must be wiped off with a damp sponge as often .as thedust ao cumulates on them. It requires some sunshine and considerable water. Another plant which will thrive in the same situation Is the scre-rr pine (pandamus javanacus). P. variesatus Is particularly desirable. It has long, narrow, drooping leaves, variegated with lighter green, almost white. It win do well with but little sunshine, but needs plenty of light. It requires but a moderate quantity of water. Most of the palm family are suited for not culture, and do well when given a place where they are secure from freezing. They will do with little Ught and for this reason are de sirable ornaments for the hall or the stairway landing. They do not how vrer. object to sunshine, and are a handsome addition to any collection of plants. They should be kept in a rather small pot They require a peaty soil, mixed with sand, and plenty of water. Livistona chlnensls is one of the most elegant varieties, but tetania bourbonlca and the dwarf pal metto (sabal adamsonii) are also very good. Other annuals, well worthy of pot culture are sweet alyssum. mignonette end morning glories. Ihe Istter are fine for hanging baskets and for pota When grown In a pot on a trellis a foot high, they will show a perfect mass of flowers. In the house the flowers remain out all day and are about half the usual size. Preserved Grapes. Grapes are too seedy, as well as rich in juices, to be preserved, excepting In the form of jam. either plain or spiced. To prepare the grapes for these forms of preserving, pick from the stems, wash and press the pulp out of the skins. Put skins in one preserving kettle and the pulp In an other together with any juice that has run from the grapes. Let them cook 15 or 20 minutes, stirring often; strain the pulp through a puree sieve to re move the seeds. Add the cooked skins to the strained pulp, then measure. To every pint of the fruit allow a pound of sugar. Cook until quite thick, stirring often. Turn into small jars, or glasses, and seal. Peanut Drop Cakes. Roast a cupful of peanuts and while they are hot rub between your hands to get all the skins that wril come away. Blow these off and crush the nuts with a rolling pin. Cream half a cupful of butter with a heaping cup ful of sugar, add three yolks, beaten smooth, and tee crushed peanuts. Lastly; stir in lightly the frothed whites of the eggs alternately with three scant cupfuls of sifted flouts. Drop the dough by the spoonful upon a floured paa, pat into shape with the fingers and bake quickly. They are very good. Take a tumblerful of mayonralse and add. when chopped fine, a little parsley, chervil, and tarragon, and mix wen with the mayonnaise; also a maaU taWespoouful of mustard the same of DIMfMit SaediMM wlae te hat would 9 " - ------- -- - 'm. waaMBfWH 'I Tim rAPamssi am, uswmiwiww,. . r?2aiAmAW ttiWV -. -. r i iHftx?R 1 " rjL?JLr "Lm-, m lLMt. Tto atecea with Maw tto fencers of oa the wuepmlty that prevails Is thine uwBreeeaaated hi tie majority ef the tlt.99t ahaatt Maalteaa Saskatchewan aadAnwrta,toveioaeontothefarm, aad have betaken themselves to tto teak of not ealy feedteg aad clothm themselves, hat of raising food far ethers leas happily circumstanced. Tto crap of 199C. although not ab aormaL la aa eye opener to many who previously had given little thought to tee subject Ninety minion bushels ef wheat at 79 cents par bushel-ttMtt.-999; 7C.999.999 bushels of oats at St cents par bushel 11.999,999; 17.999, 999 bushels of barley at 49 cents far Bushel 9M99.999; makes a total off $92,999,999. This is altogether eutsMo tto root products; dairy produce, aad tto returns from tto cattle trade: tfc beet sugar industry sad tto various other by-products of mixed farming. Whoa such returns are eatalnabl from the son K is not to be woadore I at that away are leaving tto ed districts of the eayst to take themselves tto lite of tto prairie aad tto labor of the With the railroads bow av al enterprise i proved opportunities are csTered to tto settler who understands prairie farm tec, and is wffltetr to do his part la eaOdtec aa tto aew ooaatiy. This is the themo that Mr. J. J. aha veteran railroad haflder la Wast, has laid before tto people fa a aeries of addressee which to too given at various aetata during tto few mouths, aad. having hoaa teas; Meatlfled with tto deve4- it of tto West, there are few hotter aasniM than to to ea aa opintea upon It Take ears of tto country, says he. aad the cttiea win take care of themselves. Tto farmers of tto Western States before. whoa it cornea to msaourlss; ap salts, tto Caaadtea appears to somewhat tto hotter of R. Hla Is cheaper la fact, tto gover continues to give free homesteads 9s settlers, aad the returns per acre are heavier when tto crop la harvested. Farming land in tto Western States runs from $99 to $159 aa aero and aa. whereas equally good son may he par chased la Canada for $t to $15 par acre, within easy reach of a shlpplna point and much of this Is available for free homesteadtng. Tto quality of the Canadian No. 1 hard wheat can not bo beatea. and the returns to tto acre are several bushels hotter thaa oa this side of the line; the soil and climate of .that country being peculiar ly adapted to wheat growing. The fact Is evidently appreciated by tto largo number of Americaa farmers who have la tto past two ot three years settled fa tto Canadian Wast Tto agente of tto Canadian Government, whoso address win ho foaad elsewhere, advise aa that for tto fiscal year 1994-6. tto records show that 4&S43 Americans settled hi Canada.and la 1995 tto number reached 67.79. From an of which, it appears that at preseat there ar a goad thins la farming: la Westera Canada, and that tto American farm er is not slow to avail htmertf of it A BRIDGE OF MAHOGANY. Valuable W Aa mahogany Is imnar the costly woods la tto world. R amy ha inferred that this tropical material Is aot very extensively employed fa the coasti BtUoa of bulldiags. etc. A bridge constructed of solid mahogany la certainly a rarity, a cariosity. There fa oae. claimed to ho the oaly one hi tto world, built ef that mate rial. This sU at tare la located ia tto department of Pnleaaae. state ef Chi apas, republic of Mexico. Tata d!e trict Hen In tto extreme southwestern part of Mexico. Bear tto of Guatemala. The mahogany bridge la ed entirely of that valuable except some troa braces aad naila thai are accessary. Tto bridge spans tto Rio Mlchol aad Its total length, tar eluding approaches, oxeeeda 159 foot, while the width la IS feet It la used by both teams aad priirshlaas aaa though somewhat rude and priasKlva in constructioa. It la very substantial. 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