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a= Pscture to yourself '. Green shadows, -< " with wav. 'werld beautiful beyond: were it not for the co lence, mysterious and tes were it not also for the OP Bes 5 Sahn unknown evils that might } eee hind these shadows. ™ St great underworld of the rere writes 0 Mr. F. St. Mars, in- » cia eownd-'these 'a, i abiding terror of the place. ; silence is appalling. It seotas Was like a drawn wire. You feel it mit snap, but it never does,..? ¢ Such silence wauld Gfirs. hu} man being mad. The siléqce.of the great deserts is nothing ;to it, nor the stillness of the vast heights, nor'the.quiet on a ship in. mid- ocean. For here, of al] horrors, is a world full of hfe, teeming with creatures that can make-no gound --they are dumb. Here are all other thingie, colon run riot, "etrife, and love, but there is: no ncise, net so much as a whisper. The anemoues on the flook strike the eye first by reason of their col-. or. Pink, salmon, and coral su a3 brush never painted} salicdye © as a dream ; red, flaming, angry red ; purple of a horrible livid el that no upper thing of air-could as- sume--unless it be some strange, weird orchid; white of more than e@nowy virginity, and a dozen others. These things, these squat, fleshy, plant-like tubes live'. Look at their rows of tentacles, and see whether they live. Let a shrimp come paddling along » gn} touch one. In a flash there is @ convulsion within the thing. The tentacles writhe, and clutch, and writhe again, like the arms of a dozen blind men in agony. Per-f Laps they miss and the shrimp goes off like a thin thread of light. Per; haps they catch and then the thing folds suddenly inwards, and is still. Only after a long time does the horror open, and eject the empty shell of what Was once a shrimp. I have seen one--it may have been six inches high or more--catch and, what is more, hold a fish of half a pound in weight: One moment_it wag a notionless poacteble. meg, straining, pur-| pc rant thing--blind and objection- able. The fish was caught e- ways and lashing furward. One could see the beautiful silver sides heave and ripple under the con- vulsive struggle. But the exqui- site salmon-pink horror of an ane- mone kept on working the luckless ecaly one back, always back. The fish did not escape. j These vivid, weird things are the filters of the sea. It is their busi- ness to keep the sea oe To purify that green wor To re- move flesh in particles, in n atoms off microscopic floating minuteness,. To catch, and to hold, and to retain all superfluities that that world may not become unclean, foul, and eventually dead. That is their business; for that 'they hold the charter of life. 'They, even they, are a cog in the great wheel. So, too, are thé mussels. A bi- walve, differently built. Another scheme of complex life from the anemone, and refed only in ecum- mon purpose. e two buckets of sea-water, one with mussels in and one without. Both will re- semble green fog. Leave them for a night. In the morning you will be ed to find the abode of the mussels quite clear; whilst the bucket without them will be still like green fog--all clouded. ut, to return to the anemones, it may not be generally known that they move, are capable of locomp- tion. They do not go in for rac ing; speed could scarcely be called their forte. They just'move; and a snail is as an express train toa wheel-barrcw, compared to them. I have watched the progess. Fitst therstem of the anemone bends--its head drops to the ground. Yon think it is about to die. «Then it lifts one side of the dise-like base upon which it stands, draws it in, and lifts up the other side, which it stretches out. The proceeding is like a snail's method of perambulation. Bat it is of the essence of » 80) siow that you cannot see*the mo- tion. At least the 'individual T ing -hns head Then I went avant "ie ited on x ¢ heat, cold, life, death, Next moment it was.a arora s.| was exhausted, spert, 'tind on her as to be no place where S are a a 2 typieal scene. The still' f this silent world, a oe 'bottent of. sand, apd---n v Not a living, moving creature ia ight, which is absurd, forthe place bthey are invisible. There .are hundreds of plaice, flcunders, and dabs alone. To say nothing of sand eels, gobies, skates and a n others. All motion- " watching to kill or be killed. If-they move to kill something they give away 'the secret of their presence, and some other some- thing is as likely to kill them. Be- mg cand oe e aay vanish directly they are stil Suddenly a fish falls slowly, writhing and lashing from above. It has escaped bear enemy, ouly to ie of ite wou There are no avabalt You are quite sure there are no crabs? Yes! New -the fish touches the bottom, and dies--lock! In every direction as far as you"can see along the sandy floor are crabs. All moving Snwards from a wide radius, the centre of which circle is that dead fich. And gradually more crabs grow up out of the murky green haze, and yet more, till the whole floor of the sea is dotted with them--all mcving inwards. It would seem almost asif they had sprung up through the sand itself--since they were not "evoked" out of space. That is just what they did do. UThey, were there all the time--wait- ing--motionless; buried just be- neath the sand. Only their eyés, these extraordinary eyes pl on the ends of stalks, were uncov- ered, watching for--this. 'Directly a crab sees another crab tise up literally out of the ground, and move off into the haze, it does likewise. For vision is limited in the green-fog-like sea, so each crab watches his neighbor. Thus the ig of food in any spot becomes ily own for a great dis- telegraphed: along the-fiogr-of this strange underworld. osk sea creatures are beauti- fully, though ot necessarily bLiightly, colored. The lobster both. In his war paint he is a liv- ing marvel. Blue armor he wears, of such a color as we are accustom- el to associate with certain gems. He too, is a scavénger, a cleaner of the uceans Like the crab he is, also, an insatiable fighter. ' They will quarrel over that dead fish, crab and crab, crab and lob- ster, or lobster and lobster. The mere proximity of one will cause a fight. They like fighting, I think, seem unhappy without it, yet if possible they would appear to be inclined to exclusiveness, solitari- ness. Fate, however, has made them caters of carrion, and they must congregate. This largely, {though not solely, causes the up- set. The lubster is masterful, intoler- ant, impossible. The spirit of the castle is born 'in him. e seizes & hole or cranuy and holds it, can, in solitary grandeur. Yet will he follow an enemy a great distance day after day, night after night, {-r perhaps a week. This I have known. Nor need the enemy be a lobster. Anything will do, an oc- tepus or two big crabs. Limbs are lost in these fights, more frequent- ly the big pinchers or fighting wea- p-ns. These--so large that they cften almost weigh down the ow ner --are naturally the first to be seiz- ed--perhaps because of their weight the first to snap off. The lobster grows, but his shell dcts not grow; he casts his shell. Ps othings| stands 'pri Imost as if the news was x 'That is a dangerous time for the lobster. The new shell is soft and, useless; exposuré is required to| harden it. The creature itself is, weak,. seemingly from the effort. | Then is the crabs' chance to get | their own --~ The crab never! misses a chan | be The lobeler peek i holes im the rocks. Even here is not safety. The conger may come, and the con- Pger ig the terror of all lobsters. 1 hate: known a female lobster | cast her shell in-the open. : 'back, ant the crabs, seeing this, | began to gather, to glide sideways: from the shadows, like vultures. an anemone mg himsel if situ ina in: food; he shifts to a belter. Apperently it takes starvation to shift them, but perhaps love--or what arg for such--makes them roam.: If one of thees ¢ res finds reatu C -gomething that movex, toiwhich it. ean hang on, it is delighted. There is one kind which has a hankering After whelk shells in which hermit crabs reside. How. it it gets eines PA : ghifapreared ated | ad. Perhaps. te had fought mals was at ha = backwards -- shooting the 'water like a releatied spring. . He, ast, never waver- mate. stat it thal: be to a hole among bv Bags ted a8 raed apes 2a, the rocks, avd q puch} ect i ef gravity on the blood streams of| | the ae i Prof. Leonagd Hill, yn conducted~ _experiments, plains that when"a healthy ie t the blood pressure i: the vessels in the neck equal to'a column of 120 millimet- b| is teeming really, but because the |¢rs of mercury: The pressure. "in y|,creatures are quite motionless} the vessels of sie jawes leg. is much higher, about. 1 , on account of the' ection of gravity on the vertical column of blood. Theoretical therefore fall to about 120 milli- meters, since gravity is no longer acting, while, the arm 'and_ neck pressure should rise to somewhere atout 190 millimeters. In the case a the inverted student it was found hat although the leg blood pres- sure im tely dropped to alent £0, there was no cdrrespendi ef pressure in the neck and_ vessels. is. abont a if a man is.turned}_~ upside down the leg pressure should aie € In other words, the health heart has power to adopt itself to-any posture we may assume_and y keep the blood pressure in the. im portant parts of the ly, parti- cularly in the heart and head ves- sels, at the normal. irto which the blood from the limbs can be poured so as never to over- charge the heart itself or the ves-| sels of the head and neck. All depends, of course, on whe- ther the heart is in a healthy con- dition, for experiments on rabbits have shown that the organ loses its ebility to regulate automatically the blood pressure when the muscu- lar tissues are lax through want of exercise. a. eo KISS SAVED BOY. Memory of Mother's Tenderness Prevented Flight. Some years ago a Glasgow lad, sn only son, fell into evil ways. Late hours, foolish companionships were succeeded 'by pearing. and theft from his emplizex: '9. The unhappy: yo sible alternative. watchful he lay in bed on what ha intended to be the last night in Lis boyhood home. A gentle tap rned him of his widowed mo- ufer s Spproach, and full of shame feigned sleep, as, li ht, she bent-over and kissed , ilst the soft whisper, '"God k mv laddie now and always," fell like a gentle reproach on the cul- prit's ears. Next morning a tale full of sad confession was tremblingly poured ovt amidst dusty ledgers and folios. 'When mother kissed me I couldn't| © run away, and, oh, will you forgive |}. me for her sake, sir?' The employ- er, a kindly man with boys of ms own, listened--and forgave. youth had one more chance and he | Be used it well. To-day he is the trusted, busy servant in the same firm, yet not too busy to pay a visit sometimes} tu the churchyard grave, where in- scribed on a simple stone are the werds--"Sacred to the memory of a boy's best friend--my mother." a ei TO THE CANNIBAL ISLES. ---- e Sca Captain is Going for a Cargo most of Hardwood. Staking his life against a big fortune, Captain W. J. McDonnell is soon to leave Se- attle at the head of a big expedition with the Old Glory of the Seas, an old-time sailing vessel, for the sav-| ; age islands of the South Seas. Here lie virgin stretches of hardwood timber to be had for the cutting 'and the payment of small amounts} mp in trade stuffs to the tribal chiefs. Muney is unknown, and the privi- Is ge of cutting the handeast will ue purchased by beads, paint, cloth 'avd trifling peed wood can sold in both Europe and the United States. _ Captain McDoniell traded in the South Seas for a decade, for five! Ga, he! Sears living among the natives he | without a white companion, and | while the islands are still populat-| : ol oe ignorant blacks, to whom "a religion, Captain Mep. nnell bes little-fear of his ex- ' pedition failing. -He will -take*250 men get his timber,-concession It was on Malekula Isl Island The abdomin-}¢ al cavity with its great network of large vessels is used as.a reservoir | ij to asd pe with shaded} ® with cannibals} & he noted financier | be The « nerv ua whe first years of $ imagined: her- i involved grie . Sears manifes- b Pf charts A THE. LEPERS SAT MOLOKAI. Impossible. greater 'Ti wilacoseGption of any publies institution: prevails than the idea of the a general settlement' on the Island of Molo- Instead "ris bémg 'used for such pu Tpose settlement. comprises only eight square miles of a total area of 261 sqvare miles. It occupies a tongue of land on the northern side of Molokai. The |tiny spot are washed b aci- fic, while om the south nite rise pre- cipitous cliffs of from 1,800 to 4,000 teet, which make the isolation seem even more hopeléss than the beau- tiful deep blue waters "of the sea fever could. The most difficult. and ae zg trail, constantly manned the Government guards, foils , if it were ever contemplat- » the har of being iso- tsettlement caused the cuves to- thwart segregation. '| Generally, it was-done by secreting their afflicted, yet there are in- a | stances of lepers using violence to resist arrest. The necessity of sev- ering ties of ie ----s affection of the deepest de- scription,' es many are the cases of abnegatiwn where the clean have ad accompanied the afflicted to the settlement to die there with them. Then, too, by degrees there grew up the belief among the natives that terrible mistakes of diagnosis y the physicians were consigning} innocent and a gia people to the living sepyl And as each : ge failed to eradicate the disease s had been represented, but still daimed its toll, the belief became itself in her. do the most ¢ dyed her children's thes making them andsher own, over and over "Bite~ on most minute raebatitice of necessi- ties, and doled out the servants' "cP | shares, going at last to the garb- enishment. age for repl No amount of persuasion by her husbandor father could remove the was, on the verg le: To his banks 'and, Sg thousand-dollar pull, showed the money to his daugbter.as ah object-lesson that poverty did. not .confront them. She only,-looked at them vacantly. At last, in the hope of curing her, she was taken to France. There she--died, A -MAXIA FOR SPEED. Partiéularly -sad i reaper, who became Président of qo Harvester Trust and acquired one of the biggest fortunes in Am- he danger whic children of million- busine athet. aad took a prom- melancholia. After a few pers! rapid: was rd/ brain once the stréin hed Jae that his' Pcie faves it impossible to the| the sailors frenr the French schoon- er Qualite were last year eaten by} haga and it is not long since. mg.|tbe authorities impression from her mind' that she | ay still under her delusion. pa -| almost universal that a larger pro- pustion of those committed were of the lepers, and "Daise appropriations for the uinbrndsce and care of these wards are most/s generous, and exceed $125,000 an- nually. --_ a GROWTH OF BIG CITIES. New York and London are the Two In an interesting - study of the Rrewth of the world's great cities, . de Foville notes: that ip 1801 there were in Europe only twenty- two, which had more than 100,000 inhabitants. These were London acd Dublin, Paris, Marscilles, and| to Lyons, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Vienna, Naples, Rome, Milan, Venice, and Naples, Rome, erid and Barcelona, Lisbon, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Cop- n." Constantinople. Two erly of these cities had more thap G00. panier and Vienna fourth with "To-day there are in Europe 160 cit- ies havi.g more than 100,000 inha- bitants, of which fifty-five have more than 250,000. re are twenty-five cities with more than h half a million people, and seven with more than a million. These are: London, 4,750,000; Paris, 3,- 76C,000 ; Berlin, 2,000,000 ; Vienna, | 2,000,000 ; Petersburg, 1,430,- once 1,360,090 ; Constanti- sy 1,100,000. n the same clas¥with these he p aces the following cities of other parts of the werld; New York 4.- Pe oa bh analy any ain Lage 11,000; Chicago, 2, 049, 000 ; Philadel- Bins i isl in . phis, 1,440,000 ; Singan, in China, leat Tote i manifest wag| 1:200,000 Strangely enough, he inters with periods of pe makes no mention of Tokio, with ol the 1 "218, 'ets : fanton, and Peking, population of which i is .estimat- od at 1,600,000 _Caleutta, with "1,026, 987 ; Beunos saibres, with been fs on co: rat- ing an. elderly ster on her love- less. state, weet a8 to talk volubly: ab ut aged ligsband's heal Mi Fone, a suffere he ittaen yesh," che remarked. 9 said the spinster, stil] smarting un- der the mar man' sa "sym tet ye see; it te just. years since you mar- ried him, is it nott" |was uninveresting, says the Lon- * oot a Express. of Thee if Eacape Fon the Settlement - northeast and. west vie of this|, nd|in kindergarten methods and their} #? Her mother,, the Teck, wrote of patos when a baby, Be igs pei yeet and a-child eyes imagin able, quantities of fair hair, «tiny resebud of a mouth, a lovely com plexion (pink and ite) and a most perfect figure | In a word a modelo of a baby!" Queen Mary was the first child of the marriage of the popular Prin- cess Mary of Cambridge with the} Duke of Teck, and was born at Kensington Palace May 27, 186%, in the room which had once been tho nursery of Queen Victoria. It seemed, indeed, that she should 'have had the was, also, one of her godmothers. PRINCESS AND SICK LAD..- Though christened Victoria Mary, the Princess was from her infaucy called May, and as Princess May |i rhe first won the hearts of the peo- ple. Her mother was full of\ sym- pathy and abounding good-nature, & royal woman, in the highest |, sense of the term. She was parti- cularly kind to the poor, and the young Princess grew up to hase the greatest sympathy with struggling and unfortunate. Many are the stories told of her kindness of heart when a young gir! to the people about White Lodge, Rich- mond Park. A poot lad dying of consumption in one.of the cottages found Princess, May a daily visi- tor. her self-imposed, quently sat- by 'the bed 'of the sick Sunday morning « she stopped and ssed an mingled he rs w.ch those .. the farmly round:the bed. A SOCIAL REFORMER. All measures of social reform ap- peal to Queen Mary which have for, their object the bettering of the: Sosslikions of the lives of the. pes ple; destruction a rook dren -in conges sympathizer. She has a clear and thoughtful mind and an intellec-| them tual grasp of the primary necessity of arias the people good environ- men DEVOTED 10 THE HOME. Queen Mary i is a wife and mother in whom her. thusband and sons} find a high i of womanhood,' and her only -- a bright ex- ample. e and | rince suf erintend the education of their ed.on.thoroughly modern lines. Up' to five years of age they are taught}: powers of observation are.¢ vated and their minds allowed free! play. The Princess's own gouvernante and companion, Madame Bricha, had charge of the 'elder children when they were tiny, and the tu- tors to the young princes are Mr. Hus and Mr. Hansell, under whose charge they have been n to see. many of the historic and show plac-|° es 0 ndon. They have paid their first visits to the Tower o London and to the Zoological Gar-| dens with the fresh natural enthu- siasm of a country cousin. They| ¢, are dressed plainly, live plainly, and have good serviceable toys which are not easily destroyed. No pleasanter picture of an Eng- lish mother amongst her bairns could 'be seen than that afforded ty the.Princess of Wales. when liv- ing quietly at York Cottage. All the clildren, even to the youngest, come to their mother's room for tea, and when there was a baby it was brought down and laid on 'the couch so that the circle might be complete. WIDELY TRAVELED. of happy Sugury a ; (ot Se areas, and other/in Palestine. See opener dea het = Lente exampled ou claldren, and have. them instruct-| 5S | ed narrowly as the church, bat is sower, Jésus. --" about every- thing; but in res, several things," 'such: as "he enemy's going |away, the servants of the house- at| holder, the hindiag of the ---- are left uninterpreted. 80, is, not condemned; sleep is ns- tural after hard toil (compare the ay. | slambering of the ten virgins). It suggest&, at any rate the subtle apc unseen ways in which Sataa makes the most of every opportu- nity presented by human nature, His <a This is the con- Ney nt teaching, sistent Testame from, thetBurth, chapter of Matthew _ the twentieth of Revelation. Never if there any tendency to minimizé the-force of evil, as di- re by"a cunning personal pow- The scattering of the tares is meld the work ofan unfavoring wind hut is the carefully executed act of a malicious agent. \w Tares--More = accuratel~ the bearded darnel, a weed which in its early stages so wheat, in the midst of which commonly grows, that it is well- nigh | impossible to distinguish them. 'it breeds a poisonous fungus which produces dizziness, convul- She gave time and re to Fmisns.. and sometimes death. re-' "Went . 'away--After the seeds " peison fiave been-sown in the hea titey. will sl sap 'with little os i, When 'tie blade sprang up-- Beterting: ta the entire grassy crop 'field, - inel ding stares and "Brought forth" frait--Reletring to eriod of the heading 'of the kernel. It was then, and not till - then, on oe ae resemblance to oe thet a ru ene > h a ° outrage. 'Wilt thou. .. that we..: gather -- them up--Jesus offers .no interpre. tation of this zeal of the servants. ia there are always those who are like the apostles who would call down fire from _heaven, to bring forth drastic measures to suppress real or imagined wrongs. 29. Nay--Weeding out wheat must take place either before the period of the formation of the kernel or after the kernel has fully matured. It is not a question here of pulling up wheat*by mistake, use the tiiof the field has reached thai Which the tares can be dis- ed, .The danger is that the wheat, whoie roots are intertwined FG ith . those of the tares, should be distirbed while it is in the forma- ee state... From the point of view of the practical farmer, therefore, the question of the servants was one of folly. The lives of good and bad are so often closely bound up together that the violent removal -- is sure to cause harm to r. 39. Let both grow together -- The hastiness of | human judgments is |eondemned by the patience of the Hivine- Whether the bad may be- e good is not hinted at. But, that. the rooting up of any is pro- hibi Jjs-a merciful provision in- cicating that God i is willing to wait th I will say to the reapers--In the ge A gra (verse 39) we discover 7 the i that these are oie rent from the servants, tares would be separated ". fro! je 'wheat either by weeding, ur by "carefully picking out the~ stalks of darnel one by ove from 'eut grain.' 38. The ficld--There*kas been con- fact that the field cannot be interpret- » world. The sons,of the kingdom -- Those whe treasure ap in their hearts~ i , ; He Cone og ny es ---- _ There are thirty-nine cities j ae the 4.5 : Princes of Wale ban ce fi oo scsadenine is ia, of which haaes have | decd, almost created the position;| sie more. than a million. These twen- for never before had the wife of at INSANITY. tyfour that remain 'sre in order ;| th heir fo. the thro Giseharged) = $00, than followed the Ovaika,~" % de Janeir O, Hamburg, * raga ti the reian i rg Pano -whemes of | Bombay, Waren Glasgow, Buda-| duties longing ai, atemerh of: the pest, Li » ta ger Bang- Queen ry - incess~, Kok, Boston, St. Wales has taken Jess public-pram-: Louis, Cairo e, Naples, Amsterdam, |inence at home. she has performed 5, Madrid, Munich, Barcelona, Bir lien wy Ren hing arp sa vik / 'nore, Laing ae Meets, unique record for s' prigtéss otter {pr ; he i> a OE Royal house. She an un-| had| " & Bharp-tongued pane mine woman, | Tivalled knowledge of the in- vt ' whe had ions over 'wi her 'hue is new called upon to "t 2 ee eae having the better of it, 4 description of the awful d |the gminifest in their life the word of e world of nen, which Jeasua » ain rightfully his kingdom or - e word : All things tit egesy-man' s chance is exhaust« .--- ed. 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