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3 Selina was sweeter than usual, but un- , usually nervous. Still, in a tende* voice T s!ie said to her lover: "Frank, you've been a real good friend to me, and I want to tell you something I am'-rad she blushed— "l am going °t o be i married! I thought I " Z, "Wait!" cried Frank, hoarsely "Ere . you say another word, hear me! I must 1 S . ay i, jt ? thou S h I "avo no right now, but I t shall have less right later, and I want you to bow it. I love you! I adore you! 1 have loved you since we were- children to> > gether. Ido not see how I can exist to ■ see you the bride- of another. But, at ! least you will know that I have loved you all these years, and when you hear tho wind [ sigh over my distant grave— of course, you , pan fc hear it all that way off — but tvhen you tnow lamin my distant grave " "Don't agitate yourself so, Frank," she quietly said. "What nonsense about your distant grave ! lam going to marry you !" Then the strong man fainted. And as she bent over him, and just before he came to again, . she whispered to herself : "I had to do something to bring him to it."

— The French Consul at Bafcavia) lay, stress on the importance of bamboo as "'a material for constructing builders' scaffolding, and he stat«s that in Java even a lighthouse has been built with its help The power of resistance of a bamboc cane measuring Bin to lOin in diameter, even with a length of 65ft, is enormous. Moreover-, bamboo is said not to rot either -^h-ea in the ground or in wate*, while th« 'er and older it grows tho firmer it brco