Ex-President Diaz, of Mexico, is now living in Switzerland. He is reported to be in good health, clear of mind, and "as erect as a West Point cadet, despite his eighty-four years." Ho maintains that he could have held his position in Mexico by force, but that he desired only Mexico's good, and. felt that it was wiser to withdraw. 'Hint sounds patriotic, but hardly explains why Diaz lost his grip on things.
A new hcmp-lreaking machine promises to bring renewed prosperity to certain districts of tho South (says Iho New York
"Outlook"). In slavery days hemp-Tais-ing was a great industry, Kentucky, for instance, devoted 30,000 or '10,000 acres to the crop, while latterly scarcely a terSii of this acreage has been employed in this way, for breaking hemp by manual labour is extremely hard work, and the labourers grow scarce. Now the machine is said to havo produced excellent results, and a large extension of hemp-raising is looked fov<
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1633, 27 December 1912, Page 4
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160Untitled Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1633, 27 December 1912, Page 4
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