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imci, somehow, dome to bo a
custom that, they never asked Letty
to accompany them wixon they went
out walking. :Perhaps neither of them
know NYty title IlaVi)r wojit with
thent, but it wae annacterstood
thing --em arrangement that they all
accepted theitly.
And, in truth, that POOLheart Of
hers, if it ached a little for any neg-
lect that was shown her, at any rate
harbored no bitterness In it. The
' child seeMed to her Sl1WAyS to beloug
so much more to her husband. She
was like his mother, he often said, ;
she had such pretty, dainty, lady-
like ways ; she was not like Letty,
or Letty's folk.
"I sometimes feel almost as if X'
hadn't brought her into the world
at all," Letty would say wistfully to
Mrs. Markham, when occasionally
her aunt came to 1,1s1t her. "I sit
and took at her, antl feel as if she
wasn't miee at all. And she feels it
' too—that's the strange thing—and
she so young, She'll come to me for
any little thing that -I can do for
her, but, when she's ot It, it's her
father that she'll go and stop with.
She never stops with me."
And then the tears would come
to Letty's eyes, perhaps, and
made' her gentle lament.
She stood in the sunshine to -day;
she would wipe them away as she
watching Dorcas and hor father as
they went hand in hand along the
road. She had crossed the garden
with them, and then stood looking
after them, leaning on the garden
gate. Her hasband turned back
once and nodded her a good -by, but
the child was chatLing and did not
think of her.
"We'll go straight to tho river—
won't we ?" Dorcas had begun to
say. "We're going there first, and
then we'll go and be lions."
It was a pretty river, winding its
'bright band of silver through the
meadows—with thick woods corning e
down here and there to the water's
edge—with sedges and bulrushes t
growing freely on itts hanks. A c
good river for some kiwis of fish, N
so that anglers came often to it ;
there were some there to -clay, pa-
tiently plying their craft.
Mr. Trelsovney aria Dorcas sat e
down for a long time, and watched
the rippling of the water, and the
flashing of the sunbeams on it, and
talked together—of the birds that
flew past above their heads—of the
wild ducks skimming along the sur -
fate of the water—of the cows that
came slowly along tho meadow, end
down to the river's edge to drink.
Lazily they mune, and lazily stood
drinking for a little while, and then
one after the other they plunged
into the water, and swain to the op -
where, you had better come ilente
With me," Mr, Trelawnoy geld re-
luctantly, and with rather cold
politenese. "Tee inn is a raile away
my house is just there—behind the
trees. As wo have been the cause of
your mishap, we ought to do our
.best to remedy :
"Well, if yon will kindly give us
the US0 of a fire for half an hotir—"
the elder of the strangers said, a
little haughtily. He We a tall man,
and he bore himself as though he
thought that, in other matters be-
sides that of bodily }might, he tower-
ed Obey() the common CVSAtiares of
creation. Ui mune was 'Harcourt,
he told My. Trolawnoy ; and Mr,
Trolawney smiled to himself, for he
had heard. of them, Ilarcourts before,
who wore connections of the I\ ao-
Melton% and who prided themselves
on their blue blood.
When they reached the house, Mr.
Trelawney muttered an introduction
to his wife, and Harcourt began
rather loftily to apologiee for the
trouble they were giving her. De
was not a man whose manner set
timidpeople at their also, and
Letty, to her husband's annoyance,
blushed at his address, and became
almost tongue-tied. The grandeur of
her visitor awed her, end she let it
be seen that she was awed.
"Oh, pray don't say anything
I'm sure it is we who ought to b
sorry. rta so vexed the—the youn
gentleman has got himself wet," sh
could only murmur nervously, b
traying by her awkward shyness al
that at the inomeut Mr. Trelawne
felt he would have most wished t
hide.
"Well, we can apologize to on
another presently, Let our fire
business be to get the boy into a
pair of dry troupers," he said quick-
ly, with hurdly restrained impa-
tience, and began to lead the way
indoors.
He sent Letter upstairs to provide
the needed clothes, and himself stay -
(1 elow Wlth Mr. Harcourt. Poon
Letty was ill -calculated to entertain
his flne gentleman, and he was
onecious of her uolitness to do it
vith a rather sharp and irritated
consciousness.
"Will you Mime this way ?" he
said, and led his guest into the
tudy, and shut the door upon him
t tete.
"I wish I had something better
than these to give you, but you see
1 have nothing here except 11 r. Tree
lawney's clothes," Letty said to the
buy, in her 'eentle, apologetic way,
looking in his face as she tendered
him the garments that she had se-
lected for his use,
It was a. bright frank face, and
()teething in it, as she looked at it,
iado her smile. The boy did not
righten her as his father did.
"Oh, they'll do capitally. It
vouldn't he hall the fun if they wero
he right, size," he answered, with
is pleasant laugh.
,'11, w en, livo minutes alter -
01(111, he came, rehabilitated, down -
Lairs, though Letty met; him on tho
taire foot, and would have taken
he wetted gammas from Wm, he
neisted, with boyish eagerness, on
arrying them to the kitchen fire
ith his Own hands.
"Oh I 111 take them ; don't you
rouble yourself. That's the way to
ho kitchen, isn't it ? What a Jolly
itchen 1" 110 exclaimed ; and he
toad in tho doorway, and nodded
t Elizabeth, who was carrying a
eg of mutton in a saucepan, AS if
o had known her half his life.
They all went into the kitchen to-
gether—young Harcourt, Letty—
Dorcas, with a roused and eager
face,
"Whet a nice fire ; they'll dry here
like smoke 1" said the lad.
"Yes, only you mustn't put them
oo close," cried Letty, and, laugh.
g, drew back the clothes -horse
that he was pushing to within a foot
of the gate. "You should never try
to make things dry too fast."
"1 dichet know that. I thought
the faster the better ?"
"Oh no 1"
'They are well Boakea, aren't
they ?"
"Should you like to go to your
P11 110W ?" Letty said presently.
(M would you rather go into the
arden ?" she added, after a mo-
ent, a little timidly, for the boy
d oot appear to catch at her pro-
osal that he should join his father
cry readily. "There would be no
te to seo you out there -1 mean sec
w you're dressed, Mid Dorcas
ight show you about the piece."
"Yes, l'd like that," seed tire lad,
1 Dorcas would take me."
They looked rather an odd pair as
ley stopped into tho open air ; the
rl in her neat frock, with daitity
ttle booted and white-stoceinged
feet, tem boy elutenbling by her sid
ill the trotteere etid elippore of a
AWL 'Dermot 101,16(11(Al as ($11:0 410144
at bial, and then mitered •beeemee IMO
had laughed.
"Yoe're thinking 'that 1 aM a goy,
aren't YOtt 1 Well, you ere net fier
%meg," he eieclailued, replying good
htlinoredly to iter laughter ; "but I
Own mind, if you don't. l'a rether
be here then over there where you
found us, for we had been at 11for
43, 0011p10 At 11001e, and had not bad
PO Much as a bite. 1 tbink litibleg Is
dull work When 1/OU dou't catch any
fish," •
"I don't knoW whore you'd like to
go," elni paid,' breaking a little sia
once that, .had Melon betweee them.
"We've got some copes and hens,
but, I clone. know if you'd care to
see theta ; and we twee 41. COW—"
"Oh, we've bad cows enotigb for
to -day,. We've seen sevee cows, you
know, swine across a river," the lad
leterrupted, laughing. "No, I don't
care rauch about the woke and hens,
and thoee things, but I'll toll you
what I should like; I meet get 011 10
these shoes very well, but I should
like to sit down there under that
tree, and talk,"
"Would you ?" exclaimed Dorcas,
brightening. "Oh, I should like that
too,"
"Come along then, and lel tell
you a lot of things. You haven't
got any brothers, have you ?"
"No," said Dorcas,
"Well, I thougut you hadn't. I'll
tell you something about Eton,
wbore I go to school, if you like."
"Oh, will you ?" cried Dorcas
0 ceild lweghecl too I 'bet -hie W1149
rather a /ladder lieUgh than bore.
"011, it aide't glee ine A headache,
lilted sho tinewered, In all Aim,
plicity.
(Teelle Oentiziaccli)
gratefully.
"Yes, as much as ever you'd ogre
to hear,"
And then Mr, Frank Harcourt
leaned back against the tree at
whose base be had placed Walsall,
; and, happy in the possession of an
interested listener, began to tea.
They sat together for nearly an
e- ITtur ; the boy pouring forth, the
1 g asking questions. At the hour's
, end a all came for them from the
house.
"That lad seems to think he is
goiag to spend the rest of the day
here," Mr. Harcourt was saying, as
he stood at the hall door, with a
scornful laugh. "Ile is taking his
ease, I think." And he watched the
two children for a few minutes be-
fore he milled to Frank.
"How long do you think it takes
to dry a pair of trousers, my boy ?"
he asked as the lad mune up. "1
have been waiting for you for this
last half hour."
"I didn't know you were wailving
for nue sir. 1 .won't keep you a
moment," Frank said.
Be ran upstairs und dressed him-
self. He met Letty in the ball as he
came down again, and thanked her
for the clothes she had lent him with
the boyish ease and grace that seem-
ed eo come to liira 'so naturally.
Then they all stood together talking
for a few moments before they bado
one another good -by.
The unexpected visit bad been but
a small incident—the accident of an
hour—a, thing that 111 an active life
?meld have becn forgotten almost as
soon as it was past ; but in this
quiet existence of the Trelawneys
incidents happened rarely, and when
their guests were gone, somehow
each one, in his or eer degree, felt
that it was difficult to go hack at
ince to the occupations that had
been interrupted ; in Mr. Velem-
ney's mind there was a certain con-
sciousness of irritation ; and 111 tho
minds of Letty and Dorcas a eens
of excitement ;41 Dorcas' 01021e per-
haps a vague feeling of expectancy.
Had net this afternoon's companien-
ship been something new and de-
lightful to her ?—a pleasute hitherto
untested ?—a thing she longed to
taste again ?
"Are we going to try once more
now to get our walk, Dorty 5" her
father said to her, and she answered
"Yes," readily, and they went out
again together ; but. though elle
held his hand and trotted by his
sule, she asked him none of tbe ques-
tions that she was so fond of ask-
ing usually ; she appealed to him for
no fairy story ; the litele mind had
get filled with novel tied absorbing
thoughts, and as they rambled: be-
neath the trees, it was only of
posite bank ; and Dorcas broke
into a shout of delighted childish I
laughter. A clear, ringing conta-
gious laugh. The pair of .anglers, h
who were not far eta hoard it and 1
laughed too. They were a, inan and le,
a boy, father and sou, perha-ps ;
strangers they seemed to be. I s
-
the wind began presently rather sud-
denly to rise. Dorcas' light straw le
hat blow oft her head, and in a mo -
molt whirled it out of reach—a score -
of feet away.
"Oh I" cried Dorcas at this catas-
trophe ; and then she began to run, ,
but the hat ran faster then she did, e'
and—as though for pure mischief and 7,
delight in baffling her—not only ran,
but suddenly, with a wild leap h
the air, tossed itself into the river,
and went bounding away on the wa-
ter like a. boat.
Dorcas gave another cry of dis-
tress, but her cry was checked tho
next moment by a pleaeant boyish
voice.
"Don't be afraid. I% get it back
for you," the friendly voice called t
out, and the younger of the two in
anglers plunged into the river, and
in two or three moments more the
runaway bat was arrested, and
brought to land.
"I am, afraid you have given your-
self wetting," Mr. Trelawney said,
reaching the scene of action just as
the capture had been made, end look-
ing—not perhaps with specially
pleased eyes—ut, the pair of legs be- pa
fore 111m that, were drippleg dean "
water o41 the grass. "Neither you g
nor your trousers will bo the better in
for this sort of bath, any young di
friend."
"Ohl my trousers will dry again," v
the lad answered, with a laugh one oi
a blush ; but 1115 companion, coining ho
• up too at this moment, glanced at ei
'bine and shook his head.
"You will have to mune away with "1
zneeezny lad, and sect if they can give
you a fire at the ban to dry yoer- ti
self." t gi
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Frank Harcourt that sho talked, and
of tho things that Frank had told
her.
I am afraid the repetition of all
the wonders she had heard pleased
herself more than it pleased her
father.
"Your new friend seeins to bo an
amnzing chatterbox, Dorty," ho maid
once. "I don't know how he can
have contrived to tell you so much
in so short a. time ; it would give me
a headache, I am afraid, to listen to
Mem"
Ile laughed as be spoke, and the
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011ALLEY WAIST.
A pretty design for a slender .0g -
are. The body of the waist may be
!nude of either etemine or chain° or
any soft fabric, while the yoke may
be of either seriped gill:, grenadine
or .Lotilsine silk. Whatever the ma-
teriel used, it may be tucked or
accordion plaited. At the seam of
the yoke and body of the waist there
comes the butterfly fold in both the
front and back. The silk material
used in the draped fold is again
produced in the eibow puff of the
sleeve. The . soft and thin material
used in the sleeve has tucks running.
around the arra in the upper part,
and lengthwise in the lower arm,
Quantities of materiel required.—
Thirty-two and thirty-four bost mea-
sure will require two and one-half
yards of tucked sill: twenty inches
wide for the' yoke and sleeves, and
one and one-half yards of plain silk
for the lower portion of the waist,
puffs and fold. Thirty-six bust
mensure will require two and three -
fourth yards of fancy silk, and one
mid three-fourths yards of plain
silk. Thirty-eight and forty bust
measure will require three' yards of
tueked silk .and two yards of plain
fabric.
THE FILTHTS OP JAVA,
The Durian is the Strangest of All
the Varietees.
The fruits ol Java aro many and
strange. The most common is the
strangest of all. It is called the
durian and grows like a huge excre-
Bence from the trunk of a tree some-
what similar to our pear tree. The
fruit, which is pear shaped, grows to
a great size, often several feet in
length, and has a yellow skin, rough
like a pine -apple. The most remark-
able thing about the durian, how-
ever, is its odor. To say you can
smell it a blook oll is putting it
mildly. A combination of aged eggs
and the ripest cheese would not be
compaeed with it. When you break
open the hull to find what, can be the
cause of all this disturbauco to your
olfactory nerves, you eind a great
Cluster of snow white kernels which
taste liko strangely delicious custard,
your amazement is greater still. An-
other strange fruit is the serpent
fruit, so called from the fact. that iis
skin is the exact counterpart of a
snake. There is the pomoloe, like a
great orange; the potato fruit, which
resetubles that vegetable In all but
its tine flavor; the custard apple,
with a yellow custard like pulp,
having a rather decided taste of tur-
pentine; the poppet:, like a melon
growing on a tree; the great jack
fruit of rather it coarse flavor; a
small yellow 'fruit with an unpro-
nounceable native name, encased in a
great burr like a chestnut, and a
hundred other varieties, some good,
some intlifTerent, and some entirely
unpalatanie to any but a native. The
orange is rather a scaree fruit, but
the pineapple mut banana aro abun-
dant atid delicious. There are more
than twenty varieties of bananas na-
tive to Java.
The most delicious of all the fruits
however, is the mangosteen. For
years tin enormous reward has
Remelted the man who would bring a
basket to the Queen of Holland, lott.
unfortunately the fruit is too perish -
a1310 and to taste it you must, go to
the country where it grows. Encas-
ed in a hard purple shall, tined with
an excjillsite gauze, aro a nuneber of
snow-white suctions something like
those of tin orange, only each one
growing smaller as they round the
core. Each section contains one
seed encased in a substance like the
pulp of the tempo. To descelbe the
flavor would be impossible, but if
you caa imagine a polecat blendieg
of the flavors of the grape, orange,
pineapple and banana you may .110,V0
O faint notion of the delicious flavor
of the mangasteen,
AN ADROIT ANSWER.
The celebrated physician l•einuner-
num attended Frederick the Groat in
his last illness. One day, as tho
story is recorded in "Salad for the
Social," the king said to Moo
"You have, I presume, helped many
a man into another world."
This wait rather an onexpected
thrust for the doctor, but the dose
he gave the king in return wns a in -
(Helens mixture of truth told fluttery:
"Not so many as your majesty,
. Mee, lefteele—"My husband says that
I nia deo woman In a thotteand,"
Mrs, Doyle—"Aren't you jealetis 04
the Mee hundred and ninety-nine?"
"What'a wreck, pop?" "A wreck
iner son, ie (1150(41 er on (Ile water,"
"Not oliveys, pop; there's old lied-
-11050; beet a 'tercel:, but Water had
nothing to do with ite"
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THE GUERNSEY COW,
01101'00V, the feecend in size 01 tho
Channel lelande, Oolongs to elegland,
and is siteeted In the Engliele Obaa-
nol, abeet 70 leilee from the lengiish
coast, The Guernsey typo of cattle
was gradually developed until les
merits bectorte progileient, wbee, 111
1879, a law was paeeed forbidding
the bringing of any more eattle to
the Island under Penalty of A I'leevY
fine, the slaughter of the cattle, and
the forfeiture of the boat and tackle
briugIng them, Since this date
Guernsey cattle here been kept pure.
Tho climate is mild and moist with
It moderato range o1 temperatere.
Tito farrns two small, averaging seven
or eight acres, aro highly cultivated
gaortndortaltioionOsuebteemsnoyearocdatrtolor byliawvoo40
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and children.
Through the fong summer the cat-
tle are tethered wit!' short ropes and
from birth are frequently uot turned
out of doors until their first calves
are born. The tethering of the cows
begins in February, and this with
the slight range of temperature has
developed a cow with strong coned,
tution and perfeet health. -
A CASE OF TliBERQULOSIS
has never been known on tiae
and has never been found in a GUM,:
say at, tile time of importation, The
small size of the farms has made in-
tensive farming necessary, so that
for generations only cows giving
good yields could be kept and bred,
and as butter was the product sold,
rich .nillkers were selected. The pet-
ting and kindness of the caretakers
served to make the disposition of
the cows still kinder and centuries of
.such care and selection have intense.
fled this characteristic of the Guern-
sey,
Tho Guernsey cow is strictly a
dairy animal, has the true wedge-
like dairy form, but well developed
through the heart, and with well
sprung ribs, lowing plenty of room
for vigorous vital organs. The true
Guernsey color is orange or lemon,
fawn and white; with heads long and
wiLh large nostrils and broad
expanse between the eyes, which are
large and bright with a quiet, and
gentle expression. The borne aro
small, neatly turned and have a rich
amber tint, especially strong near
the base. The neck is long and
slender, withers thin, fora -quarters
noat and not too long.
'ODE 1301)37 is DEEP.
with roomy paunches, wide hips and,
great length between hip bone (1.11d
base of tail. Tho udder is largo, ex-
tending well forward and is brought
up well behind with largo .tents
placed well apart and fod by 101,e
large and tortuous milk veins. 'PIM
skin is thin, deeply colored and is
thickly covered with soft, fine hair,
Tho rich golden eolor is ono of the
strong characteristics of the Guorn-
seys. It shows itself on the horns,
hoofs, skin. and 'whole body. 14.
gloves on the udder in thn sunlight,
is deep and rich inside tho ears, on
the end of tail, but is strongest in
the color of the milk, cream and
butter. Mature cows average about
1,000 lbs. In weight, with ranges
froze 800 to 1,800 lbs. each. The
Guernsey is quiet. is disposition, and
not easily disturbed, is healthy, long
lived, and a good millcor at an ad-
vanced age. COWS met With in
Guernsey gave good yields a 14 to
20 years old. Guernsey- breeders
have persistently opposed 1.110 £1071(11
clays' test as being of little value in
indicating a cow's ability for a year's
Work and also because of the tenden-
cy to injure the cow in feetlittg for
such tests,
A CLEAN FARM. -
31 is a noticeable fact that but few
farmers seem to care about the ap-
pearance of the farms farther than is
absolutely necessary to make the
crops. With :501110, 110 CITOrt is put
forth to destroy ,a weed unless it is
in the track of the plow. Nor is a
fence or a gate kept ia repair any
farther than .may 13e necessary to re-
strain 'the stoeic, A clean farm is
not only 000 that has a cleared -op
appearance, but one where there is 11
destruction of all weeds that take
life and strength from the grasses
and cultivated crops, writes an ex-
perienced fanner:
Weeds will, in time, restore life
and strength to woro out Maids, but
there is no living profit meantime;
they are too slow. Grasses cold
clovers will do the woril with much
more speed and profit, and a neat
inviter° adds much to the appearance
of the farm. Some men consider
full-grown ragweed a benefit to the
soil, and a protection to the grass
and clover in N7101:CV. Dons 11 110701'
occur to them that regweecl, either
dead 131. green, cannot add to the a-
tmetiveness of the farm? While I
find it almost impossible to keep
down all weeds, 31 do not let them
grow because 1 attach aner. •ialue to
them above what I could get Irene
elle growth of plents that are Madill
kir
FORAGE AND FOOD.
A pasturo may bo enhanced in
beauty by irrogular outline and un-
dulating surface, but a field cultiva-
tion 15 more attractive with level
surface and pro•allel fences, It does
'not add to the beauty of a farm to
allow, the fences to be overgeown
with vines and bushes, Xt 15 a good
thing for a young farmer to culti-
vate the habit of keeping things hi
shape about his Ileitis and Imildings,
and it is a, habit that develops to
his advantage. If there Eve stonee
on the eurface Of the land, lagy
fillould be gatheetel with wagone or
sleds; 'what are left May be it into
fenEtil piles over fields, or in the
freers corners, to be removed some
other time. Stencil aro brought. up
'With each plowing; but if the lemma,
forms tho heliii: of nicking them up
as he passes over. his fields the 1151111
sticks to him 3iice a bur. When the
&Ozer takehie termer seat to cut a
heavy pleee of meadow, there is groat
Satisfention in /westing that there is
not a, stiek or stone in the whole
field to ghee* his work. Ono of thei
hardest liortlere to .littep in order is
the place Where rehtse /umber and
broken rails aro kept. Those pieces
accumulate very rapidly, specielly
wbere rail folios aro going otrt of
use. Ohl boards aro often kept awl
moved about until they are Worn out
with travel and weather, It Is much
bettor to gladden tho heart of your
wife by turning all this stuff into
stovewood while it is solid. Tho
clearing out adds ntucli to tho 11811-
11058 of the promises.
HIGH PRICED FARM LANDS
OQSTLXIIISTf 41311 X TIIE
CANARY ISLANDS,
'rho Demand for the Lands is Par
Greater Than the S'apply.
Over 2,000 steamships annually
visit the Cenery islands which he in
the Atlentie west of tho Sahara Des. -
ort. In fact most stoutness travel-
ling between leuvopean poets end
Smith Anierice and Africa touch at
the islands of Grand Canary or Ten-
eriffo to recoad. The captain -of an
Hrigli,sh steamship recently said that
ho know of no place where coaling
might be done more expeditiously
than at Santo, Cruz, the port of Tee-
eriffe,
Thus the Canary Islands ,are 01
considerable importancein the .
world's commerce ThOY ArA also 01
much. use to Europe because they'
grow fruits or vegetables wbich Eur-
ope minuet produce or which mature.
in the islands before they are Plante
ed in more northern countriee. The
Canary Islands, in fact, have much
the same relation to some European
countries that Bermuda with its ear-
ly potatoes and onions has to our
market '
There is compaTatively little rain-
fall in the island% The result let
that all farm lands which are favor-
ably situated for irrigation bring an
enormous price, In fact the prices
asked for tillable land would be re-
garded almost everywhere else AS
eery exorbitant. For example all
the best lands in the environs of the
city of Las Palmas aro planted ln
bananas. A well watered hectare of
banana plants yields a clear profit of
8500 a year, or about 8200 an acre.
The result is „that not a hectare of
the best lands situated on the littor-
al and at an altitude of less than
700 feet can bo bought for less than
85;000 A. HECTARE.
IN iniaur OLD NB
NEWS Br NAIL ABOUT aOSN
XrefIeL AND HIS PHOPTvg,
OecturreneeS in, the Land That
Beigns z$10urpoTtattowiynxit4h,e Qom -
The Birmingham toWn counell MIS
deoided to spend 45,000 on the 001".,
10;nue'billteWslufbet:ettilYpittileet. 12
0 be rat"d
141/
A bed for a Patient suffering from
cancer is to be endowed at the NoW
IDalmital for Women, Huston read, "
in memory of the late Plamoror and
Empress Frac/01'1(dt.
The Marquis pf Aborgavenny, Lord
Lieutenant of Susses, suggests a likul
of bonfires throughout tho Sussex
hills as a pleasing way of celebrating
the coronation.
An ex -officer ot the Guards, why
wishes to remain incene„ bas given
2500 towaeds the mtponses conaeet-
ed with the erection of the new Sol.
Were' Homo in London,
Per delaying eleven electric tram.
ears 20 minutee by driving his van ,
at a walking lance in front of them a
carman Was lined at the West 'Lon-
don police court receietly.,
During the past week twelve steam-
ers landed at Liverpool from Allende
camancl Canadian ports 8,977 cattle,
8,890 sheep, 50,8e1 eheep carcase%
and 19,780 quarters of beef,
A well-dressed man was walking
over London bridge when las hat
blew off, and in his attempt to save ".
ea, he .fellateeer tho edge, .striking tho
lffitteiess before reaching the avitter.
-HallIpstead ,Borough Council decid-
ed to pkicemetablet in the Town Hall e
bearing ,tho 11002305 of all the Hemp-
Ettead men ,,who have nerved In the
War. Some 450 napes will be in-
scribed. '
Thirty pounds was paid in London
last week for a presentation copy of
"David Copperflold" bound in red
morocco and bearing the signature of
Charles Dickens oat the dedication
leafO
Crotation' robes have been order-
ed for the Baroness Clifton of Leigh-
ton Branswold, who is only i.476 and
a half years old. Her dress will be
potelertehseseistgulation linos prescribed for
When the new electric cargo cranes
are in full operation at both Dover
and Calais, it is atepected thet some
twenty minutes less time will be oc-
cupied in the journey from London to
Faris.
Color-Sergt. W.3. Mears, of the
Oxfordshire, fell out whilst on
maid° at Cowley Barracks, Oxford.
Soon after hp blew out his brains
with Ids rifle. A month ago he lost
iis little son.
Tho volunteer officers' decoration
las been granted by tae King to the
Dean of Westminster on the comple-
tion of his twenty years' service as
lieplain to the Queen's Westmlneter
Vol tinted's.
The curtain fell tbe other night for
he last time 1 a London playhouse
vhich has enjoyed a number of suc-
esses and almost AR many failures.
'he Globe theatre has had a "life"
over forty years.
The office of Lord Great Chamber-
ain is likely to be merged in some
tiler or given to someone whom the
<in selects. Lord Ancestor bt said
o,have spent nearly 210,000 in ad -
'Deicing his claim against others.
Sir leclwat'd Bradford has invited
°listeners wim linve left the Metro-
olitan Polico since 1890 to serve for •
period of 14 days certain, or one
°nth, to assist in preserving order
the streets at tho coronation.
'Memorial tablets, have been placed
St. Andrew's church, Kentish
'own, to Pte. V. L. Davenport, Hoy-
t Fusiliers, and Pte. W. B. Angel,
ussex Regiment, two emeraliers of
he congregation who have died ht
myth Africa.
An inmate of the Lambeth casual
ards threw her baby out of the
.indow. It fell u. distance of 15 feet
n to some stone siftings, but escaP-
cl without irdury, a, silent wvapped
ound its body breaking the force of
he fall.
An unloolced for incident occurred
tiring a. matinee performance of
Ulysses," at Iler efajesty's theatre.
ne workman employed in the flies
issed his footing, and lell with a
hud on tho stage. Tbough badly
ruised he escaped' further injury.
The coronation niettal hae been fa-
tted. Tho obverse Ware the pore
aits of the King and Queen, and
le reverse a. seated egure of Bra-
ille regarding the towers of West-
inster Abbey. The tutalal is isetied
nggonlidtx, feriolgesla310511 10
0teolisize at prime
An old widow et Chorley recently
queathed VW to a. local grocer,
he 1111.(1 SAVO 111021S Of tho mone,v
mo out -relief given by the (Morley
tiardiane. legetoe has itow
ended over 2.21. to the porish au-
torities, after dietributing the re-
aincier of the bequest among, the
el womatee relatives:
VIVO 11011(110d of the married women
A 1 det sho t en) have subscribed
wards a, Life Governorship' of tho
Idershot hoepital, and presented it
Lady Audecy Duller, as a mark of
eir appreciation ar all that she has
3110 ('11 their behalf during the time
their hitsbentle' absence in ,Sotith
4
lt. is doubtful if lame DAT many 1
areas of cultivated lands the world
over that are hold at so high a
price. The reason is that the extent
of these lands hi the Canary Islands
is small, the demand being far great- c
er than the supply.
European countries generally ap-
preciate tha banconts they receive t
from the Canary islunds. The flea
is sent principally to London. One c
of the sterunship lines which des- o
patches a vessel every week 110111 ,La
Luz, the pore of Las Palmas. carries
from 10,000 to 20,000 bunches.
There are other important scouves of o
bananas in. other islands and all the I.
steamers in the island trade are spe-
daily fitted for fruit transportation.
Another export which has had large
development is toffitetoes. They aro p
shipped while still unripe, each to- p
mato carefully wrapped in paper and a
packed in littio cases containing only
50 to 1n0. Potatoes pf tho very h
best quality are also becoming an
important shipment, and the tobacco h
industry, which has developed con- re
siderably in recent years is another
of the agricultural resources that ie s
swelling the exports of the Comary t
Islands.
The people need all the land they
min irrigate because there is so large „.
a demand for their products. 'rlau
aro therefore paying partieular at- o
tention to irrigation. Every etre= e
that can add to the water supplioa e
fer their farms is being carefully hus- t
banded. 4101,31 company has for
Ypeonarct lu)enTl'erpclaocniLgibutlt110o:tarnenanitisellaitnigd
the water they carry to the fields at 0
so good 0 profit- that for several
years past they have annually aug- t
moiled their business and capital
frons 10 to 20 per cent. This com-
pany is now nearly completine; the ;
largest irrigating enterprise yet un- le
dertaken, It began the work in ti
(fay, 1898, and it, will he finished
thls summer; ta
TIlle I,ITTLlt CiTe' Ole AltieCAS IreL
with 12,000 inhabitants Is ott the ee
north side of the island of Cleand
Canary. Around It are ninny plan- eo
lations of bananas mut tomatoes, ,s
making it the most import:tut agra
miltoral region of the islands, There Is (4
opportunity for much larger develop- h
molt of the furm lends if sufficient ti
water is provided. It is expected al
that tho largo works now in progress oi
will supply thie med.
In the country some (nehmen from or
the town is a range of It 11 Is down to
whose northern slope a greet, deal of A
vvater pours during the w in ter to
monies. A wall is building in the til
form of a half circle, both PlItlh of fh
which abut upon those 11111s. The or
wall and the Ides will therefore term ivr
a complete enclosure. The wall' ie
Shout 100 feat in height, 75 .loot
wide et its base and 18 ,frot at the
top. With s0 f01.1111(1111/10 11. Si.TUCture
it is not likely thee the impounded
Ifloods Will 01•01' break 11 down, The
capacity of tho enclosure will be
800,000 cubic Melees and the seam,
sand and lime used in building it
have all been derived from the im-
mediate neighborhood. More than
200 NV01.1(111VII linve been coestently
onepioyed on the works for the past
three yeers, It is =nested with the
aid of tale reecturce to acid litinclreffit
of hectares to the cultivoted lands
111 the north part nr orand Canary.
The young man who 'has his oven
ings to himself generally gout, and
gives them lo 501110011 "lee,
ery rani little wool." said
a facetious gentleman, ne he platted
his hand eareselogly upon the \pad
of en Whoa menthol. the Net:01y he
WAS visiting.
PROGENY 01' DIIIJNICARDS,
A French doctor publishes as tho
reside or liftmen ethers: sttuly in hos-
pitels and prisons We conclusion that
25 pee cont.:or tite patt41
1 n It eri t ed vi Lim ed constitutions from
alcoholic pelmets, and tacit 011 per
Cont. of thy eriminals reeeived the
germ of their criminal instinct berme ,
birth, etc ale°. gays that no beide-
oal drunkard can hove souncl children
and that out or se royal I ousand
firtuticards' childree examined nol ono
exception wan foenti,
NecoTonSoer?rt.11.1,311(ItInU fYoil.".4.(11;06104npuloT'2
1
11,
i'ce (,(111.1
core, is the 111111081 police station 4)1
helTe‘.v--°"1‘11111you tell your father that
I would kill myself if X couldn't, have
ei;entio?"ft7,7,S, 8135.- TTa 1.1110-Iti"glairittatla.id
tied 111. You revicte; \4A./4, inch't