The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

|; this? Are you quite sure it is love, mo-
pity you feel for me?" lara ven
tured tremuously.
; 81 shall never be sorry-I love you!
Pity would not cause me to ask you tt
be my wife! All want to make me al
perfectly happy as one can be in thi
world is your love. Can you-will you
learn to love me, Zara?"
I do love you!'
The sunset glow faded; the star
cleaned out; great yellow moon ros
over the eastern hills, and flooded tn,
valley with brilliant light.
When Mr.. Jossyln returned home hi
was considerably surprised. There wa,
no supper ready; the fire in the '.bes
room" was not lit, as it was wont to b.
these cool fall evenings; the front door
stood wide open, and Zara-usually pru
dent Zara-was sitting on the steps bare
ded, utterly regardless of the night
air, talking very earenestly to William
Storey!
Only one short year, yet whata change
it had made in Zara's young life! No
longer, when she looked from her win
dow, did she see desolate, bleak, sage:
grown plains, belted by snow-crowned
mountains. A most lovely flower gar.
den, framed in by Glands. yell
low with golden rod, through h which ran
blue, wooded hills in the distance, met
her delighted eye.
! How very happy she wasl
| Almost year had she been William
Storey's wife, almost a year since The
quiet little wedding at Bozeman had ia
ken place, and she had left the great
territory-the wild new far Vest
forever. She was in Laurel now, in hel
old home, bought for her by her hus'
band shortly after their arrival East.
She had been welcomed cordially by
William Storey's people, and had spent
many pleasant weeks with them in the
quaint graystone homestead on the Hu j.
son.
But in Laurel she was the happiest
She did not care to leave it even for q
day. For hours she would lie in the
hammock simply gazing up at the naples
and elms above her, SO thankful to see
trees once mOrel
William Storey was lnexpress!bly
touched by her childish Joy over things
during his entire lifetime. Through
her he learned to notice much that
WAS beautiful which had hitherto been
| unheeded.
Soon Zara's father was coming to her;
that was another pleasure in store for
her: The sheep-Qnite a numerous
flock nowhere to be LETT with
q competent herder, Mr.. Josslyn hav-
ing everything arranged to his satis-
| faction.
The fortune predicted by lara in her
| girlish enthusiasm had not quite been
realized as yet, but Mr.. Josslyn was by
no means a poor man any longer, and
was heard often to assert triumphantly,
that "a sheep ranch is certainly paying
| investment if we'll managedv-[The
Continent.
| Miscellany.
The wood pavement is to be given up
in London. 1t has not only failed to
! realize the promised advantages, but
| has led, according to Professor Tyn-
! dall's report, to serious affections OF the
| ewes and lungs. BY continual watering
! the wood became saturated with the
| nastiness Of the London streets. and
| then under the influence of the hot sun;
gave forth q species Of dust which was
| ,ernicious. The old macadam system is
| to be restored.
1t is estimated that the salmon fisher
les of the Columbia river give en-
ployment to $4,000 people, about 4, 900
Of whom are Cinnamon. The capital in
| vested is 81 100000 and the sales for
1881 and 1882 netted B,O00,00o. On an
average 1900, 900 fishes are caught year
lv and no fish is acce pied which does
not weigh at least Is pounds. The sea-
son begins April /. and lasts until Aug.
| l. The nets used have meshes with
| knots l-2 inches apart, making total
length Of 1-2 inches to each mesh, SO
the small fishes, which have no COM
| mercial value, escape. The salmon of
| commerce found in this river is called
the chinvok, word of Indian deriva-
ton.
Beer and song seem to 90 we'll to-
gether if we are to judge by the sale of
the beverage during the recent saenger-
fest at Buffalo. This musical festival
! lasted one week, during which the con-
sumption of lager exceeded that for the
corresponding week of last year by e.
$50 barrels. This is equivalent to an ex-
cess of st, ,03O gallons, or 1,056, ,4S0 glasses
over the ordinary consumption. The
| expenditure for beer was $52,824 more
! than usual. Besides this an immense
quantity of wine, alcoholic liquors and
| mineral waters WAS disposed of. 1t is
| estimated that Buffalo pro6ted by the
festival to the extent of $300,O0O.
Great excitement prevails among the
attorneys employed in suit for $40, 900
now pending between the Parsons es
tate and the Erie Dime Bank, at Erie,
Pa, owing to the discovery that page
is missing from the Orphans Court re-
| cords. A leaf corresponding to the one
torn away has been pasted in, and with
| imposturs be detected. The abstracted
leaf has an important bearing on the
case, but to what extent the final issue
will be affected is now matter Of con-
lecture.
The baobab, or monkey bread tree,
grows to the height Of forty feet, but its
girth is entirely out of proportion to its
height, some trees being thirty feet in
diameter. An old baobab in Africa is
then more like forest than single
tree. Their age is incaluable. Humboldt
considers them as ''the oldest living or.
ganic monuments OF our planet Some
trees are believed to be 5000 years old.
You can cut good-sized room into a
baobab, with comfortable accommoda-
tions for thirty men, and the tree lives on
and fourishes. It produces fruit about Ia
| foot lon. which is edible. AS an exam
ple of slow growth in England, 4 baobab
| in Kew, though more than eighty years
| old, has only attained the height of four
and a half feet A kindred species to
| the African baobab grows in Australia.
They have been measured, being thirty
feet high, with girth of eighty five
feet.
A correspondent writing from Leba.
non Springs, N. Y, says: "The glory of
former days has departed. Other heal
ing waters and places of pleasure and
| resort have opened and are opening
every year in all parts of our country
and along our seashore, so that this
once famous place is almost forgotten,
and can never again command the num-
bers and popular influence ofthe former
days. The great hotel, with it's spacious
parlors, it's piazzas commanding super b
views, and its comfortable and elegant
old-style rooms, and long upper and
lower pazzas, stands now empty and
and unoccupied. It has fallen under
financial embarrassment and been sold
to a gentleman in Philadelphia, who
has not opened it this season for Wis.,
itors."
Why He Was Decorated.
The queen lately decorated private
Robert Cav First Battalion Scots Guards,