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The Brussels Post, 1902-6-5, Page 2CONFUSION 2 Or Gentill0 OF• CASTE. .vs' Nobility of Soul. 9 tiffitriingoirilielisleiVefeeariviir,.#0.1,114‘.94.4k-VM'AVI,,,,q444-1094..4a421 011.A.PTIZR XV. that ago the humbling of our pride 194 often, try so hard and long to ROMs 0001) bitter thing. Was I t /cop 041, hisses, eansusg, possible -81)0 went idolise cre1111; barricades around them, tolling , ov herself—could it be possible that her seting Ilea to guard them, setting a father had done this dreadful thing watch at the door behind which thou She had hoped to get, unseen, into the house, but pour Lotty ao sho 00)00 up the gardou path, was stand- ing at. the open dour looking for her. "Oh, my darling, how Wet you aro I she cried innooently, and sho hurried forward to meet Dorcas with hands already stretched out to ten fasten her dripping cloak ; but the girl, with an involuntary spits= of anger, shrank back es she would have touched her " "1 can take it off ; you will only get yourself wet too. 1 will chimp all my things; you need nut crime upstairs with me," she said gelekly and imperatively ; 111111 without a word of kindness threw down her hat and mantle in the pore!), and ran up to her own room. She was hard, 1.110 8110W, but yet it seemed to her that she would not help being hard ; had not her mother deceived and cheated her ail her life ? The sight of tho gentle little. woman had roused no ten loness itt1 Dorcas' heart ; Instead erf that it bed ' stand concealed; and then suddenly ignite accident on which we have never reckoned, some chanes 130 Un- likely that we had never feared it, Makee, perhape, i one moment, all our efforts vain. For seventeen years poor Letty had 'kept her secret, hidden from her daughter, and it happened all at once at the olid of that time that a stranger told it to her in a dozen careless words, Tho revelation was made ono day soon after Urn. Markham's visit ended. It chanced that day that Dot, eas, coming along the village street, Was caught in a sudden summer shower ; she had come out In the sunshine, not expecting rain, and, beginning to run to find some shel- ter, a woman standing at on oPen door asked her to canto into her cottage. "it's goinp to bo a, regular down- ISour, miss, " she said : 'you'd best 00111 0 111 and stop till it's gone past.' She was an old woman—a Mrs. Cameron, whom Dorcas knew but slightly, but. the ram was heavy, only seemed t. quicken her to o heen- So she was glad to accept her In- er 8.0.o fiercer sense of the wrung vitatiom She went into the cottage done to herself. She had no pity in and sat down, and presently the these first hours—not one grain of old woman sat down too, and begau pity—for the poor mother wbo had to talk to her—about hor rheuma- suffered much more than she would Mom, and how the rain had been ever do. coming through the roof, and how times were so bad that she had a fie"' of trouble to make both ends inee . came to the door a couple of hours' ,,.nd rye got my daughter hero after her daterhter had returned to too, because she's bean sickly," she the house, and gently opened it and went on, attar a time ; "she'a hem looked in, with her anxious, tvonder- with hor baby ; and her husband— ing face, it was not pity at all. but he's half his time out of work, awl an unreasonable flame of anger that its a had look -out for them. I was sprang np in the girls heart. "My dear, 7 thought yen must be ' 1 lying down, You have hetet such a long time here—and so quiet," Lotty said. And then Dorcas gave an annoyed e and hasty answer to her. "I have just been sitting clown—:0' ears, She said this quite quietly, and resting. What is the use of loo' , the words passed into Dorcas after me ? You need not fear Orai! tiling her mind with only a kind 1 have not taken MT all my wet ' of vague confusion. As she heard! things ; there they all arc," nhe them fleet, they did not even '30 oaid niuch as startle her ; she merely thought, a little puzzled that sure'y The clothes she had changer: were the o,d woman had expressed her- still lying on the chair where she Felt oddly, or that she herself WEIS had flung them, and Letty. without stupid not to be able to understand speaking again (only perhaps dis- her. turbed and wondering a littlei, came 'Ae was fellow -servant with her forward and began to ley them at Mr. Trelawney's before she mar- straiaht. self, making an instinctive but vein it will need to he washed," 0110 said. etTort to take the meaning of the "Oh, dear, just look how wet it is atemen t in. I can't think why you came till "Yes—that is many years ago „ through the rain, my dear ? I made miss, and times is changed site° then," the old woman went on "I did shelter," the girl said wearily. "Dfartha. didn't stop after shortly. "1 went to Mrs. Camel, your mother was married—she gave on's." warning to Mrs. Markham the veva "Mrs. Cameron's ?" Lotty paused day she heard about the wedding; in her occupation for a monieut, and but they all pared good enough —to Dorcas' imagination. at least— friends—and I think it wouldn't be an uneasy look passed over her face. more than my daughter might look "What—the old woman , living near for if Mrs. Trelawney was to giN0 a the little bridge ? I didn't, think you little help to her now—tor Martha know her, Dorcas ?" never grudged her her good luck. "Oh, yes—I have often spoken to I'm sure—and there's many in her her." place would have done it, and have And then Letty made no answer, ruade mischief—there's not a bit crf and in silence went on folding up the doubt about that. But Martha—she clothes, wasn't that sort, miss," "I stayed in her cottage till I was Was the old woman in her senses ? tired," Dorcas said, after a minute. Doreas roso from her seat trembling, And then she added hastily—"She with the color going and corning in told nie to tell you 'that her ditugh- her face. ter was here. and that she wants you "I—I think I had better go home. to do something for her." It is not raining so very much. I "What—Martha ?" Letty asked will tail mamma about your daugh- quickly, and now the color really Lei," Dorcas said hurriedly, sin a rose to her cheek, strange, nervous voice. She was "Did you see her ?" she said, at. trembling as she spoke ; she felt ter a moment's pause. • as if she could hear her position no "No—she was out. But Mrs. Cam - longer ; there were a hundred ques- exon told me to tell you that she' tions on her lips. but they wstari was very poor." have choked her If she had tried to "011. I'll see and do something for ask them of this woman. her." Letty said this quickly too, 1Vitbout, paying any regard to and then gave a haety, uneasy Mrs. Cameron's efforts to detain hor glance e.t the girl's face. What did she bade her good morning and she know ? What had been told to went out, into tho street again, and her ? Sho folded up tho remaining ran homewards through the rain that clothes in silence ; with a poor, tim- was still failing fast. Sho hurried id effort to win a touch of kindness through the village, and only pees- from her daughter before she went ed to take breath when the last (sway, she put her hand upon her house was left behind her. Wet 11.1 shoulder, it was, she struck into e. path across "Are you coming downstairs, Dor- the fields, where it was least likely eas," she said. "Don't sit up hero that, in such weather, sho should so long alone. Your head is not meet any passer-by, for a miserable aching, is it, my- dear 7" instinct of shrinking from the sight "You know 7 never have head - of any face she know had already aches, Dorcas answered testily, and taken possession of hor. made a movement almost as if she Her mind was ell 10 confusion as would ehake off tho caressing hoods yet : she had made no connected And then poor Lotty went away, story so far out of the facts that and the girl, as she closed the door, had been told her; gaunt and separ- knew that she husl been very hard ate, they only stood up liko isolated and cruel, and yet she was too spectres before her, filling her with angry and bitter to repent. terror and shame. For this girl, 190(1 not her another done wrong ? you see, was but seventeen, and at Would her father ever have married Doreas had 383 pity for her mother as site sat br milleg 0,100 this thing that she hail heard. Letty tellieg her yesterday that your moth- er might be willing to do something for her, and, if ,you'cl mention it, miss, you'd bo doing a kindness. If you'd just tell her it was Martha. 415 was fellow -servant with her at Trelawney's before sho married," her, or thought, of Marrying her, Somehow the fault at first had n boon herS't She had begun painfully to II the few Mete that had been giv her together, and to Make 801110U11like n. connected story (Mt of thel Her snother and Martha Como had been follow-sorvants 11000 togot er wee net that what tire, Came ..*3 had said 1D', Markham mu have got her brought hero , oho 11111 get her brought here, and the sontehow, they mast have glade hl promise to marry her. lied Mart Cameron had anything to do wi it, she wondered 9—oe was it Afr Markham who had ntanaged it al Per it must have been manag somehow—it must 1 the girl Paeate ately reiterated ; tett to himself h hither Would never have lowered hint - self to do 11115 thing. lionise' cheek was burning as she sot thinking and weaving her cruel story, 0h, how hard It was l—lics hard foe her I If only It could have been kept from everybody's know- ledge !—If, atter his nierriage, he had gone to live in stone new Mime !— but to think that, of all the people elle had lived amongst all her life, there wits not. one who did not know this thing that she had never koown —that they 111)10*. have talked it ova a thousand times—that there was no one 01)1' ever spoke to who did not 10w 10wbm at her other hart been .Poor little Dorcas, 'oho had held her head 11 1 1 11030 so high 1 This trouble of hers was a very unsubstantial trouble, Perhaps. et, coming as it did, it seemed to ho to be very hero to betas She suffered in silin'' ence for th days, and then, at the end of Bin'. time, the truth C01110 out. "Are you not web, Dorcas 9" he father had said to her inore 1,11011 once ; end Letty had watched he fume after hour—not innoceetly am! in the dark, as to the cause of the change in her, and as Mr. Pro 08111'.,?was, but with timid and Mese:mine fear and pain—with fear that made her shy and constrained in the gee's presence, and almost checked all ex, preseion of anxiety or tenderuise "fella is angry with me, and elle will not tell we any she to angry," poor Letty said, sadly, olit• hus- band. "I think elle 1101, hoes .1 amen thing in the village, and that Out s 80101 has vexed 11110," "What should she hear 111 the 'Plage 9" he replied quickly, not un - el -standing her moaning for a 01,1 13.. ,1, and then she 01,1.1 11111 how Dorcas had been at lies. Painerou'e, nd how sho had teem ' stionse ' to o tever since. "atrs. Cameron is an old misehief- maker if she hes been toaing lior inothilig," be said, after a little silents) , but 11 she hes %to had better find it out, I will speak to Doreas. That is all 1 can do. Per- haps she was ewe to hear the stony sooner or later. INe cannot help it. Letty. You must not fret about it. And he drew her to his side and took her hand. "It will make no real illerence, he said hopefully. "She oyes 1.18 bah too well to mind such thing—except for the moment. She as too much good souse. Believe le, dear, she will not mind it." It seas Into In tho evening—after sunset. De had finished his work for toe day, and thrown himself back in his easy chair, as 10 to rest ; aria it wits then, in the dusk, that he called her to him, She had been sitting in the window seat, reading, for a good while. She got up when he told hes to come to him, and went to his side unsuspio- tously. De merely meant to talk for a little, she supposed, before he lighted his lamp. But when she sat down near him he took her hand, and then the first grave words that he spoke startled her, "Dorcas, you have let something come between us during these lest days," he said. "What is it ? want you to tell me. Perham) your mother and I both guess what it may be, but wo cannot be sere until you toll us that we have guessed right. think you have heard some- thing this week that has vexed you. Is this not so ?" Der hand almost unconsciously, as he began to speak, bad made a spasmodic efTort to escape from his, but he held it tight, and after a moment it lay impassive again in his clasp. Ina when he asked his question she hung hor head, and made nu answer to it, and ho had if only for moment or taro, after ot that he said, very quietly— "She told you something about rit your mother before her marriage ? en Was that 10?" ng "Yes," 390108,0 said for the third, n‘ time and then he 43010 1(01' bond on quiver, and heard hor begin to h. sob. r- No doubt it WOO hard for him too. et, Perhaps In past years, he had suffer- ed at times pretty ObAllllY on 0.0- o count of hie marriage, but no xioubt the keenest sulfuring he had ha ewes kno eel W49 what he maitre(' th tam, 48 lie eat here with Ms (laugh. 5 ter at bis side, 1(1108013114 that the 1,, thing wth idhad been told her had el come like 4 (mord between them, end n• shaken the faith and trust in him or that she had had all through hor life, To be Oontineed. riol," she repeated slowly to her- "Your poor frock is so draggled ; sure you would shelter somewhere." OnIVINZIMMINERIIMMIMIRINVIIMAIM '10 Piles To were to yoesseet Do obee'e Ointments cortei• and alasoluto mire for ear' and every form of itchin: bleedingand protruding piP no m• anufacturers have guaranteed it, See to *0011811 15 the daily cm1, and oak your nein ,ons what they think colt. Yen can 000 8, au 2010000 money bade it not cured. Ono a hog, n 1.11 dealere er NDI4 A MSOMBATE18 & CO.,Toroutt Dr, Chase's OinteW to repeat it before, in a low voice, she said the one word—"Yea." "Whero did you hear it 7 Was It in tho village—at Mrs. Cameron's ?" And then she said "Yes" again, almost below her breath, with her heart bootleg in great throbs. There was a punso after this, but rite. A MediOine that Invigorates tho Kidneys and Liver, Takes Away the Pains and Aches, and Kegil. fetes the Action of the Bodily Organs—Strong Recommendation for Or. Chase's KIdney-tiVer PHIS. The experience of Mr. Brown as stetted in his letter below, is similar to that of scores of men and wo- met who Sera old age creeping in upon them. Tho kidneys grow weak and inactive, the back aches, there are deposits in tho urine, and pain and smarting in passim; water. The legs swell, and them come pains and aches not unlike rheumatism. Under such eiroumetanees old people turn to Dr. Ohase'sKidney-Liver P1118 for relief and euro, and are not disappointed. They knave learned by repeated trial that. they can depend 013 Dr. Chiwe's Kidney -laver Pills every time, and consequently they hove become known as the old people's favorite medicine. • Mr. Joins Brosvn, (36 Nelson street, Ottawa, Ont., states ;—"I ant getting up in yenre, and having been a hard woreo all my life, I am, beginning to fail. For some tirno past I have thought there was something wrong with's:ay 'kidneys. I seemed to bloat up, was Very short of breath., and feared heart disoase, although I was told there was nothing wrong with my heart, I got so bad that. I had to do something. "Hearing of Dr. Chassee Kidney -Liver Pills, I began using them, and by the time I had used up the flret box I felt coesiderahly improved, I continued using this, medicine, and to-cley feel ten ;years younger. am strong and hearty, and do not suffer frota my former ailment. 9 eonsidor Dr. Chaso'a Kidney -Liver Pills an excelloot medicine for old people," There aro people in nearly every town, village, and country side rand Who have proven the molts of Dr, Ohose's Kidney -Liver Pills. Ask your friends or neighbors about them, One pill a dose ;116 emits a bole. At ell Stealers, or Eldmanson, Bates and Co., Toronto. PLANNED EIS OWN COFFIN. Old Richard Light Wishes to Mame It Comfortable. Richard 33. Light, of Dunkirk, N. Y„ who will be BS years old noxt J uly, has for boveral months boon planning and building his coftle, elot boeweer, on account of any preannti- 1 meut of approaching death but nerely because he has taken a fancy 1,0 !MVO it exactly as he wished, mid to hate it made by his givis hands, cortin is an oblong box made of white pine of a very tine quality. Ialio sides are an inch and a quarter tines. 'rhe bottom board is of an- other kind of pine not being easily penetrated by water. A false bot- tom of matched pine boards is plac- ed inside so as to leave a space of an inch and a half between it and the real bottom. The sides aro lined with thin pine boards a quarter of an tech thick in a manner that loaves the inside opening for the body, shaped like the old-fashioned ditunond form of calm At the head is a wooden frame which will support a sling of strong cloth for a head rest. This sling and a little bladk cloth to cover the wooden part of the head rot will be Leo only pieces of cloth used, as tho owner and builder of this structure, destined t'o be his last house, does not intend to have any draping of silk or satin, or any other sort of cloth inside or outside of it. The inside is painted a soft shade of drab, The outside is stained to all - pear like blaok walnut. The cover is a single thick hoard and will have no opening in it for glass or any other purpose. There aro six handles of bronze. To show what an exact lit he has secured Mr. Light mounted a cheir which stood beside the coffin the other day, stopped into it with the agility of a boy and lay down in t' e position in which hq expects to l'e in his last sleep. Looking up smilingly, he asked : "Tsn't that all right ?" Then he added : "You see I cannot be easily shaken out of place in this." Mr. Light, who has lived in Dun- kirk since 18514, was born in Eng- land. He was once armorer on the Pietist) warship Cornwallis. He hos invented ninny useful tools for which he has secured patents. Nis motel faculties aro good and his disposition is aheerful. FL,AVIA. PROCK. A most attractive design for small girls. Tho skirt is double; that is to say, the ono finished around the edge with squares, drops over the lower ono which is supposed to have a lining. Suppose the under skirt and the blouse waist are of light blue popltn and the upper skirt and the bolero aro, of brown mohair. Dere you have a school dress that is still dressy and good for all OCCO: 40119. Then again it may be de- veloped in cotton goods, nr in silk or chafe for a "best" dress. Quantities of Material Required: Tho size for six years will require two yards each of blue and brown cloth forty-four inches wide if 0 con- trast is desired. The size for eight years will re- quire two and one-fourth yards for- ty-four inches wide, of contrasting fairies. The size for ton years will require two and one-half yards emelt of coh- trasting fabrics forty -tour inches wide, The Young Dian (who has just kiss- ed the elder sister in the presence of the younger)—"You won't tell mam- ma, about it, will yott Paste?" Elsie— "I should think that Millie ie more likely to break tho good news her - sell." The living Species of animals now tabulated number 886,000 distinet species; but hundreds of fresh snecies —espeeially of insects—are being ad- ded yearly to this list. Although the first gold -find at Klondike was not 11111.110 public until 1880, tho Ituesiens knew of gold In Alaska as early as 1708, ONTHEFARMJ NOZ2M66619t99:6 vAL0193 OATs. Oats aro a valuable food for most (arm animals, The relatively largo amount of fibre they contain in pro- PortiOn t0 kernel, as compered With most other grains, makes them a safer feed with but little danger of over -feeding, when put in the handa of Caveleus Workmen, They contain a higher proportion of digestible pro- tein than corn or wheat, and are lower in carbohydrate materiais. consecniontly tho nutritive MU() of the grain is sueli that it contains in itself a quite wellebelanced ration for working animate, They 0113 a very convenient, and highly prized grain for feeding horses. They usually are and should be fed unground to hor- ses', unless the animal is unable to masticate hie food properly. Expes Hence shows that oats give a horse "mettle," or stimulate lihn as no other of our grains do, They are consequently held without (1 poor by horsemen as feed for driving horses, and may be made almost exclusively their diet. But experiments ehow that other grains can be often profitably sub- stituted for oats at present prices in rations for horses without detriment to the animal and a financial saving to tho owner. TO omits TIlla CROP in its best condition and retain. Its bright green color and palatability, it should be dried in a bright sun for a few hours, with liberal uso of the hay tedder when there is a heavy growth; then raked together and the curing completed hi the windrow or cock, with as little exposure to moisture as poseible. Oats will make a very fair quality of silage when properly put in the silo, but the plant from the nature of its structure is not well adapted to tho process of ensiling. The stalks being hollow carry, when not crushed or broken, a, large amount of air into the mass which prolongs fermentation to the detriment of the quality of the silage. It therefore Is necessary to run such materials through the silage cutter to obtain the hest results. Although the plant is not an ideal one for the purpose, it is often desirable to put a field of oats into the silo oh account of the presence of noxious weeds, rust. bad weather for drying at timo of har- vesting, or for other reasons. Oats and peas grown together and hervested -when the oats are 121 the early milk stago make a forage crop very much superior to oats alone for either hay, soiling or all - ago. As peas are a leguminous plant, they increase the protein of the fodder, end also imnrove the soil by leaving behind in their roots and stubble, a part of the nitrogen which they take front the air. By growing the mixture then, both the fodder and the soil aro improved. EFFECTS OF CROSSING. Crossing the breeds has never given good results, although a great many try it, and will continuo to do so. In nearly all casts when the attempt is made to blend the best qualities of two diNerent breeds the otaspring is not equal Lo either parent, hence in the course of a few years there will be no uniformity, and the stock reverts to the scrub. Too much mixing is no 'better than keeping scrubs, It is right and pro- ses to grade up a common flock with pure broods, but to cross two pure breeSs is a mistake. When crossing is practised hugely, as with poultry, the result is nearly always a failure, there being no uniformity of color, sive or laying qualities. Pure breeds aro really the results of judicious crossings and seleitions, and cannot be improved upon except after seals of care and FOlection of the beet individuals. Tho best possible security, short of the actual test, that any bird or animal will pro- duce its characteristics ir its off- spring is that these characteristics aro known to have belonged to a long line of ancestors. Individual merit and adaptation to our needs should bo the first and most im- portant points of se'ection, The characters of the ancestors should be considered. It is not necessary to endeavor to determine the char- acter of any ono of the ancestors, for when pure breeds aro used 0710 gets at once the results of selection for years by those who worked in the past. Crossing destroys the work that others have done before. CLEANING DAIRY UTRaysms. The ordinary cleaning that is given to pails, cans, strainore, ote„ takes out only a portion of bacteria. Just to the extent that carelessness prevails in this part of the cletry work, just to that extent will these utensils contain a larger number of orgatisrus. Tho kind of utensils has considerable to do with tho oath with 80111011 they are cleaned. Wood- en pails aro to bo avoided, Tinware is now so generally used that but little need be said as to other kinds of vessels, but, much of the 'tinware now on the market is so imparreetly constructed as to shelter germ life The sharp re-entering angles to lie noted in pails, and the open steams in the eidas, are harbore of refuge to wary bacillus in his fight for ex- istence, ' What the cans aro used for will also to some extent determine the kind of organism found in the same. If one uses the seine ma of cans to carry home tho by-products of the factory -11111(1S known to bo rich in beacons and generally in an advanced state of fomentatton—then it is not surprising that tainted milk will often be the rele„ Too often tho cans are imperfotly clean- od at home, and tho inevitable re,, suit Is nn "off" milk the next day. An experiment of storing bnlllc un- der the seine conditions in sterile and unsterile 011115 Will teeth any ono the vale° of this point. Suck milks kopt In cans as ordinarily cleaned but not sterilized will sour • number of hours seoner than ono kept covered in A steamed pail. D1811/ASE iN ImooKs, No matter now good A bird may be, or how perfect it may appear 11) any respoet, if it has the plighteet oign of disease it must not be kept with tho °there. it would not be ne- eeeeary to destroy a bird that had • cold, because this can be ured hilt a bird that shows any signs of disease of tho lungs, liver or any vital organs, or If the blood is im- pure, then it is much bettor to kin it at once. Almost all diseases are dee to overfeeding, rich feeding, bad quarters, damp, cold, or ill -ventilat- ed housee, leek el exereiso, combined with an improper eystom of feeding, Or Close inbreeding, wiled results in the enfeeblement of the system. If good, healthy stook -birds aro used, if tho houses are well built, dry and properly ventilated, if the feeding is ouitable, and if the fowls ai'o well and carefully looked after, then dis- ease among poultry will be very exceptional. Disease is very often brought into a poultry yard by the introduction of fresh stodk, 913 should be a strict rule with poultry- men that whenever a fresh bird is brought into the poultry yard it should be kept by itself for at least a week or ton days, during which time it should bo well dusted enteral times with disinfecting powder ; and it should also be carefully observed at this time to see that it is, so far as can bo ascertained, in perfect health. LANCIERIIAN TUOICED BLOUSE. This charming blouse will develop in any of the soft spring materials. In cashmere or etarnine or challie or crepon it will be beautiful. and in any of the light shades from the de- licate fawn and biscuit color to a dark and more reliable shade. Tho cloth in the blouse must he tucked in cord-liko tucks before cutting. Perslan'panno velvet or silk is shown in the belt, and the touch of color is most attractive. The large disks on the front of the waist are of brown velvet. Quantities of Material Required: 32 and 34 bust measure will require two and one-half yards of goods for- ty-four inches wide, seven -eighths of et yard of fancy silk and ono -half yard of white silk for collar and tucked chomisette. 36, 38 and 40 bust measure will require three yards of goodsightfoorrty; four inches wide, seven -e hs yard of falicy silk, and one-half yard of silk for collar and chetnisette. MORE SCIENTIFIC TECEORIES. Prof. Heilprin on the Recent Pelee Explosion. Prof. Angelo Heilprin is going to the Windward Islands' to study the seienthic phenomena ontne eruptions hi the group. "lit my opiuion the volcano erup- tions are not the only things to be feared," Ito eeelareci. "It is alto- gethor likely that the volcanic dis- turbances now going or inay result 111 the cellulose of the islands whueu peaks spring into activity. The con - &tent eruption of rock, lava and ashes, you must know means that a hole, aa It W61 0, is being made in the bosom of the ealth. Ithon this holo reaches great size that which Is ribose will be without support and then subsidence must follows "he sudden eischarge m the pre- sent. Instance would appoar to indi- cate that it was duo to an ohnost instantaneous generation uf steam. This was probably brought about by the infiltration of water. 'The volcanoes of MarLinlque and St'. Vincent and, of the neightmeing, islands cif tho Caribbeen are situated in a' region of Mare= weakness of too earth's crust which has its par allel in the Mediterranean basin, on thesopposiin side of tho Atlantic. 'Ibis American region of weakness extends westward from the Lesser Antilles across the Gulf of Mexico into Mexico proper, where aro locat- ed some of the loftiest volcanoes of the globe, Popoeatapotl and Orizaba both now tri somnolent conditien, and including the more westerly vol- cano of Colima, width has been al- most continuously in eruption for ten years. "The assertion has been mule that there has been a decrease in the po- tentiality of those volcanoes, but ilo geologist is in a poeitiou to assert that this le actually the efts& and it elt011id be no surprise to any student to have some of thou burst out, with tho same vigor end intensity as Mout Pelee or the Soufriere. "Whether or not tho lost 80150110 disturbances which were hoticed in southern Mexico In January and in Guatemala in April have any rela- tion with the outburst in the eastern Antilles remains to bo determined, but for the present they demonstrate tho condition of great weakness in that region, Which had Its lirst be- ginning ages ago in the breaking down of the Andean mountain sys- tom and tho formation of the Carib. bean mat Gulf bastils." Mrs. Tom Thumb is still nlive 00 the lose of sixty She Was born at Multhel sn meth, Maseuell moats, and htr tunitlen name was Miss Bump ICING =WARP'S XMTTERP, What Vestaian's Daily Delivery at Palace is Ulm, Though tho Xing's chWy move - ore fully ehroniclod in tho newspapers and tho "Oourt Mr," there aro many things hie does of which the public hade little knowledge. "State bustnem,"0 euvpeorny Pwihoircrilling,t1hoeversthag ntreteldaer of urgent matters, from the writing an autograph letter to n neighboring sovereign to the selection of a eor. °nation design ; and there are, of '30`e01170100,1•101C111141110b00" tlite°f;olcylaalf dige.ga.PAnattcuhrr, says tho London Express, it Is not generally known, la/W- aver, that his Majaety preeerree a careful supervision over the answere which are sent to tlio hundreds of correspondents daily writing to the King. On an average, the King's daily letter bag contains 600 letters, and about half as many nowepo,pors, bootie, circulars, etc. Needless to saY, this gigantic denvery needs the assistance of a body of private Clerks, over whom Sir Francis Knollys, the Ring's private seers tary, exercisecontrol, ALL LETTERS AND PARCELS with the exception of those which. are quiakly reeognired as being "jeer- sonal to his Majesty" -1.0„ which contain a distinctive private mark, mutually prearranged, on the en- ta.lope or cover—are opened by the secretaries, and distributed in boxes, separately labeled, according to their nature and contents. These boxes are then carefully examinee and checked by Sir Francis ICnollos, and those letters of an urgent char, actor requiring tho consideration of his Majesty aro retained by the Pri- vate secretary and are laid berme, the Kings who irldleat(tS IR LI 1 ew wordiss Isnusrpprliesairg_remenoneerning tlieni, It tonished 011018 111 recedha ipsof orfetepinioas-9- how rapidly an answer is dispatched from the royal residence. Ninny a time has a correspondent whose tot- ter has ,been received by Sir Inroads Knollys by the first morning delivery obtained a reply the same night, in- timating that the first missive hah been "laid before the Ring." Many letters—those emanating from cranks faddists and notorious beggars. those making impossible requests (such as a seat in tho Abbey next Juno), rind those of a 1 urely commercial char- acter—are never submitted to his Majesty, but aro either ignored or stereotyped replies are sent, accord- ing to tho subject of the letter. This much can be truthfully said : The greatest courtesy and delicacy have always characterized his Ma- jesty's public correspondenceand many instances could be quoted where his secretary 1105 gone out of Ills way to EXPLAIN AT LENC4TH the King's objection to some appli- cation, or his Majeety's reluctance at being unable to uomply with sonie request. Since the new reign began tho type writer has been introduced. in the palace, and many replies, for- mal and otherwise, are now typed in violet ink, in tho late reign the pri- vate secretaries wore supposed to, and actually did, write every letter with their own pens, but when Ed- ward Vl1, ascended the throne a modern change was quickly introdues ed, saving a large amount of time and labor. All sorts and conchtions of people write to the Ring. Many of tho en- velopes bear no stamps, as if Buck- ingham Palace were a Coverninent office, and soma aro boldly addressed in a pencil scrawl. The East End postmark is a pro - dominant feature; there are 1001)1- P001' people, who, alas! fondly be- lieve the Ring can redress their griev- ances and mitigate their woes by a wave of his hand. It is no secret, however, that 111 several instanres, after discreet inquiries have boon made, suffering has been relieved in poor districts as the result of a let- ter to the King or Queen. Usually the ehantiel of relief is one of the philanthropic societies, of which His Majesty is „either a patron or inter- ested in, to whose mike the deserv- ing letter is privately forwarded.. BEST PARTED. A lady, talking of the servant problem, relates the following inci- dent: After giving a trial to many servants—ranging from bad to very bad—the lady at lo,st secured wha0 she described as "a treasure." For six short weeks mistress and .eervont were perfectly satisfied wl'It each other. Then, early one morning. Mary mot her mistress with the dreaded: 'Very sorry', ma'am, but I'll have to give you a month's notice." "Indeed!" exclatmed the mistress. "Dow is this, Mary? It was only yesterday that you told 1110 you lik- ed 1110 place!" "So I does, ma'am," returned Mary. "I likes the plane sIt right, an' I likes youl" "Then why leave me?" "Well, you see, ma'am, your dog doesn't like young 121011, an' iny young man doesn't like your clog, They can't agree nohow, ao they're best parted!" HE CHANGED TIM SUBJECT. One of tho Most clifilettlf, things to do gracefully is to elnuigo the current of an unpleasant conversation. But the emelt boy can do it if circum- stances mako it 110005501T. "Thomas, will you please tell mo why you took those apples frolIt any special troo? How many tinite have 1 told you to keep away from tho garden?" Thomas grow rod in tho faee. and his grandfather went on to depict that retribution was sure to befall (11 050 whO were d isob rid len 1. Meanwhile Thomas had pulled him- self together,' and tie Lite harangue was concluded, he Hai& with 11. S1111 10, referring to an event of the pre- vimie week: "Pity our old hen died, wtton't lt, grandfalboes" 144,,1(331 sInglish children muter 3,1 years of age ore wage-mtheee, Out of the 5,601 go WhO attend SCI1OC:i.