The roads constructed as thoroughfares of travel and commerce will modify the industries of the country through which they pass. Mining and stock raising, already extensive, will be increased. Farming and farms, such as we have in the States, will be common, and, as the resources of the country become better known, many enterprising men will be attracted to the Mexican plateaux; society will improve, the reign of superstition will cease, and a free government for an intelligent Christian people, though for a time struggling against chronic tendencies to revolution, will become established, and strong as it is liberal. Mexico encourages immigration, but, naturally enough, prefers those of the Latin race, as more like the native population. Still, having friendly relations with the United States, and greatly improved opportunities for intercourse, prejudices will be overcome, barriers that have hindered immigration taken down, and perfect liberty of conscience proclaimed through all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof. TWO SEAS. BY ADA IDDINGS GALE. Are not those wild steeds champing on the beach, Rearing and splashing on the lonesome shore, The main land seeking frantic’ly to reach, Their white manes gleaming like the frost wreaths hoar? Steeds of the sea are they that tireless ever Beat with their sounding hoofs the hard sea sand, Lashed onward by the blast, with fierce endeavor They vainly seek the quiet of the land. Type of that wild unrest that fills the soul: The waves of longing, mad desire, and strife, Whose undertone of sorrowfullest dole Is the sad voicing of the sea called Life. A type and yet unlike—there is a shore Where the wild sea forgets the tempest’s breath, And rests in lullful silence evermore Upon the wide, white, shining strand of death. O perfect peace! O blessed mystery! Where waves of longing cease their gainless quest, And on the still sands of eternity Do melt away in an eternal rest. NEW ORLEANS WORLD’S EXPOSITION. BY BISHOP W. F. MALLALIEU, D.D. London and Paris, Vienna, Philadelphia and New Orleans share the honor of having been selected as sites for the grandest displays of which modern civilization is capable. This far-away city of the Southeast was selected in view of the fact that it is the great metropolis of a vast and rapidly developing portion of the Union, and to emphasize the fact that the time has come when the past, with its mistakes and antagonisms should be left behind, and also to encourage the rising industries of the entire South. The general government did well when it extended most generous financial aid to the enterprise. And should further need of such assistance be developed, it is to be hoped that enough will be supplied to make the Exposition a complete success.