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The Brussels Post, 1902-5-29, Page 21 CONi " .J .JOA. 1 R+14>R>Pt the (@eiQateee Or (NeliMy Nobility of SOUL. FFArwi . 2tx4•aialra 9a terS zi'K4.�i 3 l a F3:31ff9 alS�it t:1R79 UHAI'TEI1, XIV, A fete weeks Dorcas spent in the excitements of a Ant frieudship,and then b'«anlc Harcourt returned to London. Mr, Trelawney had got rid of the there in brie side, and Dorcas had lost her playfellow, and oneo moll the ofd life began again, and the trembler duel wont on as they had been used to do before Frank's revolutionary advent. leer a little while the child reeiained dull and quiet; her former games had lost their ;eat for her ; she pined for the companionship that had been hors for those brief weeks—for the pleas sures she had tasted, whose flavor had spoiled her for the food that had eatisflod hew before, Bet gradually the present came once more to absorb tite past, and by fine degrees Dorcas grew—not, probably, to forget Frank, but to cease to think of him every hour, suppose a child's Heart is really about as unimpressionable as wa- ter," Mr. Trelawney sometimes .thought to himself, as he watched her with speculating eyes, It would bo the same if he him- self were removed from her, he used to think : she would forget all about him in a few weeks, and be contented with the first substitute that fell in her way, He told hire- pelf ineself this with a sort of bitterness : but, nevertheless, even though, he suspected that his own fate in sim- ilar circumstances might be the same as Frank's, it gave him a sense, of very unquestionable satisfaction to see how rapidly, to all appearance, Frank was forgotten, and with what coolness the little damsel settled down again into her old content- ment. Perhaps she had really forgotten him ; perhaps she had merely locked up the recollection of him iu some secret chamber of her heart, of which she only opened the door when no one saw her, A child's ear tore is so strange a thing. She had been full of tailc about him all the time that he was with her, carrying his name so perpetually on her lips that ether people grew tired of hear- ing tt ; but from the first day after his departure she scarcely any longer talked of him at all even when she seemed to miss him most she held her peace about him. So time went on, and the waters seemed to have closed over Frank's name, and Dorcas—a happy but sedate 'little maiden—fell back into all the old ways that his visit had interrupted and broken up. Once more she became her father's com- panion, and the pride and gladness of her father's life. The months passed on after Frank's departure, and tine years passed on, and he neves came again. Sueh placid years 1 --en which winter and seed -time and summer and harvest succeeded one another in a quiet and contented round—hap- py, and busy, and uneventful. The hair began to silver as they passed on Ma. Trelawney's temples, and Lefty lost her youth and Dorcas slipped imperceptibly out of child- hood, and shot into a tall, slim girl, with a bright and pretty face, Quaker -like still in a certain quiet and demure expression, yet with light and laughter too behind the lashes of her sweet brown eyes. "She is very like my mother," Mr. Trelawney often said, and yet he said it always dubiously, for the girl was like her grandmother, but yet it was likeness with a difference : the delicate features came from Mrs: Trelawney, but the character of the face—a certain modest and yet frank and fearless brightness that it had—she had inherited from some other progenitor—not from Mrs: Trelawney, nor from her father, nor from Letty. With intense tenderness her fatherwould often look into her eyes—not really reading much in them perhaps (girls' eyes reveal so little), but with passionate love and faith believing that he read a• whole world of hidden things. was there anything a daughter could be to a father that Dorcas was not 7 Between them there seemed to be a natural sympathy. deep as their two lives. They spent their days together, and neither of them seem- ed to need any other companion- ship.. Ho taught her Latin and Greek, and On the whole she took to these languagea pretty kindly. She also, Piappily, became instructed in his- tory, and geography. and in various other excellent things, It soon grew to be not only her father's dally occupation, but his delight, to teach her. He put almost all other work aside that he might devote himself to this ; morning and evening she and her studies were his one most prominent thought. Perhaps the girl had a little more teaching than was quite good or wholesome for her, yet en the whole she throve upon it, .and alta enjoyed it too. Silo was quick in apprehending, and she grew gradually—to $oma •extent, at ttuy rate—to love these studies that Were so dear to bee father's heart for his saltie probably in the first place, yet also perhaps a little for themsolves. She could eelov Homer when he read ie to her In his must- cal voice,, and could even catch something from him of his own en- thusiasm. Gradually, as the years passed, she beeame more than a pupil to him She became a help in his work. Ho could trust the careful fingers to make correct extracts for him, and the careful eyes to search for many a reference and note. The work she did was possibly dull for her some- times, or at least it would have been if her love for him had not made it dear to ber ; but that love beautified it all. She was proud of being useful to him with a sacred pride ; she would not have let any ether hand take one iota of her labor from her, So these two lived in one another; and as for Letty-1 Well, Lott' had her own place, they thought -but that was not in the inner circle of the heart of either of them. The gentle, loving, feeble woman bad to live her life as she best could, doing 'the work that fell to hor to do, but closing her lips for the most part over all her futile regrets and futile longings. It was hard, per- haps at times ;, but then the world is full of hard things, Letty always patiently thought, and if she had her troubles she had also so much besides to make her glad. If, indeed, Mr. Trelawney and Dorcas could have loved her a little better -1 Bat Hien they were so different from her; they were gentlefolks, and she was only a poor woman, and so it would not have been natural, she supposed. She wasglad, with pure, unselfish love, that Dorcas was such a little lady ; she never for a moment wish- ed that it had been otherwise, or grudged her husband one grain of his delight and satisfaction in the child. And she would look,, with eyes made tender with love and thankful- ness, at the little maiden, whose delicate and dainty prettiness was so far removed from anything that the unkindest lips could have called vulgar or unrefined and (in spite of the sword in her own Heart) feel proud that it should be so. "Yes—she don't take after you, Letty, or any one of the lot of use" Mrs. Markham sometimes emphati- cally said. Mrs. Markham had long ago taken another situation as housekeeper in a distant county, and, though she was growing old, was still buxom and healthy. Every year or two she would come to see Lefty, and stay with her for two or three days, and during these visits Mr. Trelawney would treat her with great kindness, and Letty would always have much to sayto her that she could say to no one .else. The last time that Dorcas had seen Mrs. Markham was when she was about fourteen years old, and for nearly three years after this Mrs. Markham happened to pay no other visit to Shepton ; but when the girl was seventeen she at length came again, and the six or eight days that she stayed with Lefty then amply sufficed, I fear, for the shrewd, ob- servant eyes to find out a good deal to which poor Letty, in her tender cowardice, would gladly have kept them blind. Till now Dorcas bad lived on the whole a secluded life, but yet, though she had had few companions, there had always been certain houses in Shepton that had been open to her,. so that she had been by no means altogether without friends. They had, for instance, been kind to her at the vicarage ; Dr. and Mrs. Gib- son too had often asked her to visit them, and perhaps some half dozen other families amongst her father's old acquaintances bad taken some notice of her—partly from old friendship's sake, partly from kind- ness indness to herself. At the time of Mr. Trelawney's marriage tho whole of Shepton, as N. A. W. CHASES CATARRH SURE LIAR as sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blower. Heals the eleeis,clears the alt passages, slope dropping -s. In the throat and permanently cures Catarrh and May Fever. Blower tree: All dealers, or Dr. A.'W. Chase Medicine Co., Toronto and Buffalo, you know, had agreed that he had perpetrated a piece of egregious folly, and they kad punished him for It by declining to visit Letty, and so for a good while a number of houses titin bad bean open to Milt ono bectete closed 49 .dip, Mid people wito would forrlerdy have greeted hint with a cordial shake ,of the hand, 11 they, had met hila and. Letty In the street, passed hien naw' with a bow. •- Se Letty did not trouble Sliepton soolety with her presence, and—so- ciety being greeeful to her --was, Per - baps, the more kindly treated by it en that account ; end its Ler Ade'. Trelawney and Dorcas, they mixed a little its it, in a verymoderate way, and Dorcas had her friends and favorites, end indeed, on tete whelps was, perhaps, Made a geed deal of— because liCople were so sorry for iter, they said, and because it was such a terrible disadvantage to a girl to halo a mother like Lefty. "01 course nobody would ever bo so cruel as to say a word to hor, but site is eure to hear the truth sooner or later, poor dear," they often said ; and in truth their 'tenderness over her brought tate storyof her father's marriage, at times so curiously near their lips that, if Dorcas did not guess it, it was almost more her fault than theirs. But yet, up to this time, she bad not guessed It, and, happy in her ignorance, and in her unconscious - noes that there was anything in her history that was kept a secret from her, she went her way without sus- picion, and took her place in the little world amidst which she avec}, frankly and fearlessly ; until, when she had a little while passed her seventeenth birthday, there came this visit of Mrs, Markham's, which sot hor pondering about .various things of which she had scarcely thought before. In truth, at this period of her life, the girl in her heart was a rabid little aristocrat, and whatever was unrefined or common, even though it might be so only in outward ap- pearance, found little favor or char- ity in her sight. To a large extent it was because he was so perfect a gentleman that she was so proud of her father, and if her mother had been as perfect a lady, she would have loved her better than she did, I am afraid, by a good deal. As it was, somehow she krtow instinctive- ly that Letty was not like her father. She know it—she seemed al- ways to have known it vaguely, es lar as any comprehension went of wherein lay the difference between them, but very certainly and clearly indeed as to the difference itself. But yet to her mother's shortront- ings Dorcas had been so long accus- tomed that site had come—as was only natural—to accept them simply as matters of course, without won- der or question, or only—when they were brought prominently before her—with a little occasional annoy- ance. They were not • aggressive faults (poor Letty's failings all her life had been so mucks more of the negative than the positive kind)': she might bo a little different from other people, but she was not startling, and—and vulgar, as surely Mrs. Markham was 7 She could not make up her .mind to like the latter, that was the lima - est truth of it. She was a dainty little lady, and she was ashamedto think that this rod -faced woman, who called her father "sir" and spoke- bad grammar, and could not be kept from making the bedsand mending everybody's stockings, was her mother's aunt. I am afraid that during thesedays the girl made Lefty's heart acbe many a time, and filled her with fears that she knew were' very cowardly: Row could she still hope now, when Dorcas was almost a wo- man, to keep it any longer hidden from her that she and her people had been so far beneath her father's class ? and yet she had not courage to tell the secret to her that she had tried so long to keep, "I ought to do it, perhaps," she said to Mts. Markham sadly one day -"I feel that many a time ; but when I think that, if she knew it, shod look down upon mo (for she's hard at times—oh, 1 think we're all of us hard when we're very young 1) I don't know how to do it. And yet I feel sho'il find it out some day, andmake it worse for me than if I told her now." "Well, Letty, my dear, if I was you, I would tell her, and have done with it," Mrs. Markham re- plied to this speech. "You've got nothing to be ashamed of; and, for my part, I think better of Dorcas than to believe she'd ever cast it up to you, or beer a drought on her heart against you for it. She couldn't do that, Letty, and you her own mother, though maybe she is a little bit stiff just now, and stuck-up with pride, as girls' often are at her age, But she's a good girl in spite of that, and she couldn't be good and not be tender over you." "Aunt Markham, mamma lived with you, didshe not, when she was a little girl ?" Dorcas said a day or two afterwards, abruptly, to Mrs. Markham herself and Drs. Markham—knowing how much in the dark the girl had been kept—took a moment or two hurriedly to arrange her thoughts, and then— "She lived with mo before she bstinat Cies of kchin: Eczema Leg and Foot a Mass ass of :bores that Doctors Could Not 'Heal ---A Thorough and Lasting Cure by Dr. Chase's Ointment. 'Ade letter from Tilsonburg, Ont., al an unsolicited testimonial to the extraordinary beating powers of Dr. Chase's Ointment, This is one more example of how this great ointment cures when all outer means have failed. There is something almost magical about the way the preparation heals and cures. People who hello not used it can scarcely understand how it ban be so effective, Mt, W. D. Johnson, Tilsonburg, Ont., writes :—"My father has been entirely cured of a long-standing and obstinate case of eczema by .the use of Dr. Chase's (flatulent. His log and foot were a mase of sores, and he eulfered something terrible from the stinging and itching. Though ho used a great many remediesand was treated by one of the best doctors here, he could get no permanent relief until he began the use of be., Chase's Oletmout. "This prepapration was gee -cooling and soothing that the very first application brought relief, and It was not long until the leg and foot were perfectly healed and cured. It is a pleasure for him to recommend this obitmont because' of the great benoft he derived from it, and he will gladly answer any questions from other etiffererie" Dr. Chase's Ointment ie useful in it score of ways. For every irritation or eruption of the 'nein it affords prompt relief, It heals and soothes weenie, seeds and burns, and has never been equalled es a cure for es-. zenw, Salt rheum, totter and staid hand. Sixty tents a box at all dealere ori Pedlnenecuie, betel 61 inn, vV5g teRTI 141) OLCANO I1i'AR04D11811 8T0R118 AtFEARTH HES. 4474`11 " ° 111 l4, rSHPfpyr" $ •6IDRt1 t'l tf1�'r1Area • s ; iM1 iCA: EARTNOUAKESee LIVES LAST 4Q.0001.Ives 1,0394'104V iiY ERUPTION OF N1141QU1 4OIaT PELEE forawCNI:T.p R'E' TROY! q UC Aocat VOLCANON GREATDUST STOR113»iNTLN$f IUEAT N0 LIVES LOST • .�........r. rifiC9o1A��' �• NNN 1ey1 B6gONfirTO ERUPTION-SEVERALelONIM80/ Lives RgPOR LorT K;„AQ�s.1 5015 aRID LIVESTOCK L"OSiaritiSlNE$S 9USPregegle C},IifgrKOl'., f 41 �- yr. Rare fb ' MOH ERUtnION QN nv/t+ ,Cir`tEIQADA ' St. VINCENT sr,�c ',BNL, 8EWagyirty4r,, 4 DOS . ,DU$' ATORHC POOH, EJuuPrION ON etVINCi:NTa f3ICESSIVE NEAT. 50 MAP OF VOLCANIC CENTRES IN THE WINDWARD ISLANDS. married your father, my deer,'.' she said. "She came and stopped with me after her own mother died.” "Oh 1 --and was that in London?" "Not here." The word slipped from Mrs. Markham's lips beforeshe perceived that it would have been wiser to have omitted' it. "Here in Shepton ?" in a tone of great surprise. Yes." Mrs. Markham gave her answer un- willingly,- but with Dorcas sitting before -her,, looking with her keen oyes .into iter face, how could she help giving it ? In Shepton 1 Then you dived here ?" cried Dorcas. "Yes, my dear, I lived here for a bit." "And . that was when papa fell in love with mamma 7" "Yes," "And mamma was married from your house ?" From—yes,yes—she was married while she was &tapping with me." "Papa and mamma alwaystalk so little about cid time. .It is odd that I never knew before that you lived in Shepton, What •house, did you live in, Aunt .Markham 7" asked Dorcas placidly. But this was too, much, for Mrs. Markham. She suddenly rose . from her seat, on the pretext that her sewing was finished. "Perhaps I'll show you some day, my dear," shesaid, with great out. ward self-possession, but inward un- easiness, and, taking up her work- basket, • she walked away, and left Dorcas alone, puzzled, but still far from guessing the truth. (To Bo Continued). HARD BBDSAND POOR FOOD THE ACCOMMODATIONS IN A CHINESE HOTEL. A Structure Which - Makes Sleeping Outdoors a• Desired Pri- vilege. China needs many things before her unique civilization can be west- ernized sufficiently to give her the place among the groat nations of earth to which her vast resources and population entitle her, and not the least 'ofethese is first -clads ho- tels, says a correspondent. Slow and tedious es travelling in Hwang Hsu's empireis, it could sel- dom be called uncomfortable were it not for the lack of decent sleeping and eating accommodation by the way. Like everything else, Chinese inns are part of •a system to which one must 'submit or 'else give up the idea of ever seeing any of China than the treaty ports. In order to avoid line the traveller from the outside world often longs for the privilege of sleeping out of doors, or of rolling up in his sheep- skins on the; floor of his car; but this he cannot do without danger of being arrested as, a ,vsgrant. A big gateway , on the street opens into a huge courtyard, surrounded on three. sides by a one-story.. building.' It is usually built of mud, with a tiled roof. The courtyard is filled with the carts and luggage of patrons. For those who have stopped for only one meal, the animals are not un- hitched from n-hitched:from the carte, and one has to be very • circumspect in moving about among them iu order to avoid a hick from a mule disturbed in eat - PLEASANT fodder. PLEASANT FOB. REPOSE. Animals Whose owners will spend the night in the inn aro kept in a low shed adjoining the sleeping 'apart - :tents. Many innkeepers keep pigs -- thin "razorbacks"—which have the liberty of everything on the prem- ises, The Chineseprejudice against the foreigner is not shared by the pige. They have a.•way of making his acquaintance by poking into his. luggage and rubbing up against his legs that ought •to. strengthen the fault of the optimists brat "China 15 longing for western light." Chinese inns aro without register or clerks. On riding through the gateway ,peer bridle rein ie seized by a dirty .bob^' who helps you to - die - =Mint, Sheeting fondly for the mei- priolbr, " wito, presently 100ms up through the wilderness of carts and mules, Proprietor and boy then hold a parley as to what rooms are eligible, and then a door is pushed open and the traveller le shown to ltis'apartntent, It is usually about twelve feet sgttare, The wails and !icor are herd mud and 00 aro the beds, which extend entirely across the side of the room, with only specie enough between them for small ta- ble and a chair. Tho room is lighted by ono window, in which paper takes tate place of glass. The first duty of the proprietor in making a patron comfortable is to atop up.the holes in tho paper win- dow pane. He never tears the paper off entirely and replaces it with a new one, because the sheet of paper is worth about one-tenth of a cent and the int -keeper is not wasteful. Instead,. he pastes little slips of pee per over the holes until all the light that filters through it is of a motlod hue. At one end of the mule shed is the kitchen of the inn. It is here that the meals: for all the patrons aro pre- pared, to be eaten in the rooms. The menu' is not elaborate. It consists only of bowls of- rice or tea. Should the traveller desire a greater variety of food, he can buy it •himself in the market and his own servant can cook it in the kitchen of ,the inn. To sleep on the bed of a Chinese inn would, for a foreigner, be an impos- sibility, were it not that he is al- ways so exhaustedat the end of each day's journey that ho finds it diffi- cult to remain awake ten tniputes.af- ter alighting from his pony. He lies down on the mat that covers tho hard heap of mud and surprises him- self at the soundness of his slumber. QUALITY OP CHEAPNESS. The one redeeming thing about the inn is its cheapness. Just as the traveller is about to depart in .the morning the proprietor tells him the amountof his bill. •Everything is charged on tho "European plan." Every cup of tea,every rushlight candle, the paper window pane, are all itemized in the long list which the proprietor reels off in sing -song, but the total is surprisingly low. The cost of food and lodging for one night for a traveller and two serv- ants, with stabling and fodder for his ponies and cart mules, is about fifty cents, Besides an inn for the genera! pub. lie, every large town possesses a "Hung Kuan," or building -set aside for the use of officials or travellers provided with government passports, The Hung Huan is not a private in stitution,. but is the property of the municipality, and its care and main- tenance are one of the manifold re- sponsibilities of the district man- darin. When no "ono eligible for a Hung Kuan is passing through the town it is kept closed, but as soon as the mandarin is notified of the coming of a traveller officially con- ducted he sends a "banchaiti" to open it, sweep the floors. engage servants and make it ready for occu- pancy. The "banchaiti" is a ntoniber of the mandarin's official household. Ile is a sort of major-domo, who is sup- posed to know what is best calculat- ed to . make a travelling Chinaman comfortable and happy. The Yung Kuan usually consists of several brick.., buildings surrounding a stone -paved courtyard. On hie ar- rival the traveller finds the "ban- chaiti" waiting at the door of the main building to receive him. He hands him the mandarin's card, and in exchange takes ono of the travel- ler's. - ThIs serves as a sort of a ceipt,indicating that the guest has arrived and is now under the protec- tion roteation of the municipality. Kung Rums arousually far cleaner than most Chinese houses, although from a long period of disuse they are of- ten stuffy f -ten -stuffy and close, / KEEP TO THE LEFT. They aro arranged and furnished with an especial care to the preser- vation of official dignity.- Unless' the traveller wishes to humiliate him- self in the eyes of every .one in the Kong Kuan he must take great care never to sit anywhere than at tho left of a table or to sleep in any robin but the one on the left of the entrance. To ever take the fight side in China, is a lowering of one's self-respect to a degree that cannot be forgiven. For all practical purposes, the "banchaiti" is the proprietor of the Kung Yuan. It is he who issues the orders to the servants and superin tonds,tho preparation of the meals. in some cases they aro furnished by the "banchaiti," but moraoften the traveller must purchase his own food, which is only cooked by the attend- ants of the Kung Kuan. Theoretically, the occupancy of a Kung Kuan is honorary and without pay to any one, but actually quite the reverse is true. 13y way of say- ing good-bye to the traveller the "banchaiti" makes a low "kow- tow" and asks for a tip, or "cum- shawl" By long usage this has been reduced to a fixed sum, proportion- ate to the number of the traveller's party and the length of the time spent in the Kung Kuan. The result is that it costs far more to be a guest of a Chinese town than a pa- tron of a public inn. ROYALTY ON HOBSEBAOK, Few of the Sovereigns of Europe are good horsemen. Tho German Emperor has not what can becalled a good seat. The Emperor Nicholas is far from being a master of the art of equitation, while the Kings of Sweden, Greece, and. Denmark de- test riding. 'The King of Portugal labors ander the disadvantage os. stoutness. Prince Ferdinand of Bul- garia cannot ride for an hour at a time, and King Aiexaedor of Servia Is afraid of horses. The British royal princes are, however, all ex- pert horsemen, but Continental Eu- rope can only boast of two Sove- reigns who are really at hone in the saddle—the Emperor of Austria and the King of the Belgians. The latest entertainer in Paris is M. Gaston Bordeverry. Taking sew ere repeating carbines, and stand- ing ten yards from a piano, he "plays," or, to speak strictly, he shoots, in very beellfant styli, a complicated selection from Caval- leria Rusticana. The piano is "ar- moured" for its novel experience, ' CQar OFLAVAAND A5&5 'r. ••WN/CA ACTS, 45 A STD.PPER .40/0P reVeNr3GRgAT/DNS UNDER ORonveisYPRe•Istmc ) WATER L/Nf WATER L/NF OCEAN 1 50'. DIAGRAM SHOWING HOW VOLCANIC EXPLOSION IS CAUSED A study of the above picture will show how the molter#:' mase in the mountaln's interior met .the Water, and brow the steam generated thereby, following the line of least resistance, blew off the top of the volcano, LONDON STRth T NOES, AV QI TS `.TA DO.. AWAY WITH CAUAiTDZSS P1it 'IITIOITS,, Macy Duplications of Names 04 Streets in the World's Mete ep olis Few of the many people who halve. been diseussing the naming of the, new theeougbiares from: HOOWQ % to. the Strand ars aware hole Complex a tiring the st'r'eet naming of London ie, Taney a mother with 28,142 children faced studdenly Avltlt tate pro- lilem of christening twine i Yet this is really What brae ea be doito in re- gard to the steed and woscen% about to he made, for there is an excellent rule in London that the name of 0 now road must #tot"be a, duplicate of one alz'oade/ existing, Under the Louden building act the county counsel has alisolnte control of the names of streets, and may change then at its pleasure. But the council is really only a sorb of godmother, pronouncing at the font a name selected by another. The postefifce ,authorities are the real Tercets, for they are always con- sulted, and aro allowed a veto on any name which will cause confusion, "KING EDWARD STREET" has been suggested"', but there aro already . Hing Edward streets in Isliugton, Lambeth, Mile -end and Wapping, and one leas only recently been abolished in the city. No more duplicates aro needed ; on the con teary, the authorities have for years been engaged in the herculean task of abollehing.them. "Victoria," and "Albert" were very common names for streets in ISe middle of the century. There are 78 streets, roads,, courts, crescents, graves, "mansions," mews, places or ter- races still named "Albert," and 42k halve been abolished already. Vic- toria, has 94 streets, and 85 have been abolished ; while 60 John streets, 50 Charles streets, 54 Cross streets, 48 George streets and large numbers of equally common 'stamen have been renamed by the council at the suggestion of the general post office. A few years. ago there wore two Duke streets close together in Oxford ,street. Hundreds of small streets, places, and terraces have also boon abolish- ed to malice up the few great thor- oughfares radiating from Central London through the suburbs, which form such a useful aid to the strang- er in finding his way about. What would a visitor do nowadays if he found eighty little ett'eeta instead of the OLd Kent road, seventy-three in place of Holloway road and sixty- seven in place of Fulham road 7 Yet such was the condition of things forty years ago, and the pedestrian who can now be directed alongea big thoroughfare extending for a mile or two would then find a new name EVERY FEW YAIIDS. In the city street names of - real historical interest are .tbtukly clus- tered. "Billingsgate" carries us baric to Celtic times, and it is said that certain -distinctive pbduliarities of speech still lying around.tho lo- lcality. "Watling street" is Saxon,. and, as every one'knows, the cluster of ecelosiastioally named.Otreets near St. ' Paul's carry us back to pro - Reformation Times. The ancient city wall and its surroundings . aro recalled by such names as Barbican, Artillery Ground, Bishopsgate, Dow - gate and Lwdgato. Holborn (for- merly "Cldbornefe), Westbourne, and Kilburn tell of streams which ran near the city. Clorkenwell, Brides - }yell, Holywell, Lambs Conduit and Shoreditch, indicate our ancient me- ter e-for supply. Charing, Brompton. Dalston, Islington wore villages near London ; and Spitalfields,. Tl'oorilelds, Codbath Fields, Spa. Fields, Rosemary Lane and Not- ting (Nutting) Hill wore among the rural surroundings of the city, 1'a - lands in the Thames were Battersea,. Chelsea, Bermondsey and Putney ; and Austin Friars, ,Crotched Friars,. Minories and Savoy recall monastic, establishments. Special districts, markets and trades are shown bit such names as Tooley street, Old Jewry, Lombard, 'Ct(oapsido, Buck lersbury, Vintry and Poultry. Wynch street, which is disappearing with the ,Strand improvement, is called after the Danish community which formerly dwelt on the city border. These and thousands of others have n real historical value and should not he lightly sacrificed. 4 OCCUPATIONS THAT MILL. Some curious and suggestive facts concerning the occupations and call- ings most hazardous to human . life are broughtout in a recent numbotr of the Mutual Underwriter, an ensue • ince journal, It appears that noth- ing yet has been discovered or de- vised by the medical fraternity to lesson the perils attending curtain of the building trades and the mortality rate among plumbers, painters and glaziers remain, as over, very high, the chief cause of disease being lead poisoning. Plumbers suffer specially from, cancor,phthisis and rheumatics fever, Glass-blowing is another trade inviting too early death, chiefly from the effects of breathing an eft- nicspltoro laden with tiny particles of glass. These enter the. lungs and cause hemorrhage and other serious troubles. Glass workers are also apt to grow duutb through a peculiar complaint induced by he.poling the glass, and which attacks tete jaws and Cods in paralysis. The longest period any man has been Prime Minister of England dur- ing this century was 178 months, betwoon 1812-1827. Lord Liverpool was Premier. SOftloigh: "Is Miss Uppton in?" Maid, No, sir. But she told tno to say if you called that 11, Was very kind of you," Softloigh: `defy, kind of mel- Now, I. weeder what she meant by that?" Maid: '!9. don't know, sir;' but..1- think site meant it was hind cif you to call when she was tette' 1108,000 'Welsh pco,o, g ?.peak We1sl{ only.