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A Bli'Bv DfllUISM I.:?; numniv By Miss An CHAPTER XII. .Latent Jealousies. .' Love! Well, on that point the less said the better, perhaps," remarks Aunt Hosie, dryly. "Jealousy, 'tis evident is a sentiment out of date. A pair ?f old-fashioned sweethearts will soon, I take it, be objects for a museum, and 'What was courtship?' a question for a competitive examination in archaeology." Three days have elapsed since the Sinner party on board the Liberta and, through the lozenged windows of the Misses Yansittarts' parlor the western sun shines upon the unwonted sight of a company-expectant household; shines upon Daphne, her fair arms bared to the elbow as she piles up dish after dish of strawberries and flowers; upon Aunt Hosie, somewhat Sashed in the face, and holding little paper parcels of the best, seldom-used 6ilver in her hands. "The queer thing is," she proceeds, pausing of a sudden in her work, and looking significantly across at her niece's face?"the queer thing is, that, having abandoned the old-fashioned Illusion of love, young women should retain so firm and eager a faith in the old-fashioned institution of marriage! But these contradictions are the mark Df the agev People sneer at their Rihlps and are firm believers in Plan ehette. Oblige me, Daphne, by arranging your flowers so as to bring Mr. Felix Broughton as little before my sight as possible. At fifty-six fears old"?whenever Aunt Hosie is it all out of temper who the rorld >r its goings on, she makes these kinds >f raids upon her own age?"at fiftysix years old one ought to know, to lave grown callous to every new derelopment of human folly. Unfortulately, I have not done so. An eyejlassed dandy, monosyllabically tolermt of the universe, myself included, Is what I cannot abide." For the iast time vhs principal actors Ln this smah drama have agreed to meet together. Sir John Severne, called away on settlement business by his lawyers, vill quit the island tomorrow morning. Felix Eroughton s tor start for Paris a few hours later. The Liberta, wind anc1. wave permitling, will leave for conger fishing off unaupie's toward noon, in anomer four-and-twenty ho,urs Dapitne Chester alone will be left?left to live out the &ld, blank, self-colored life of Fief-dela-Relne, to hear the motiveless fall Df the waves, watch the rose leaves lutter and die around the sun dial; eft to stagnate, as she used to do before Severne's coming had brought back human warmth and vitality into the sluggish currents of her existence. "An old womr.n's opinions signify nothing." pursues Aunt Hosie, as 6he distributes rouud the forks and spoons. "An old woman's opinions signify nothing?happily for Mr. Broughton? so long as young and pretty girls are ?ontent to listen to the words of wisloin that fall from his lips. Although, liow a person as cultivated as Miss Hardcastle, not to speak of yourself? rou are listening to me. Daphne??how roung women, destitut: neither of parts nor education, can hold out the encouragement they do to an emptyheaded creature like 'Cousin Felix' passes my comprehension." I should premise that during the past three days Felix Proughton and Miss Hardcastle have, through one seeming accident or another, lingered away the irrAQ+ni? nnrfinn r\f thoir timo of T?iof. J/V&ULVU Vfc IUV.1* 14U4V Ub Jk. iVi le-la-Reine. Aunt Hosie lias, in consequence, had ample opportunity for rerifying her judgments in the matter >f modern love-making and modern overs. The drift of her remarks will suffice to show in what direction these udgments tend. "Felix Broughton may not be a Sol)mon," says Mrs. Chester, "if he were, [ don't suppose he would care to talk :o me. As for his eye-glass, I cannot see that short sight is a proof of shalow brains. Besides, how good he is :o Paul! Always something in his K>cket$ for the child?always." "Don't take the unnecessary trouble )f accusing yourself by these excuses," nterrupts Aunt Hosie. coolly. "Daphne Chester is no more in love with Mr. Felix Broughton than Clementina Elardcastle is in love with Sir John Severne. It would be quite impossible for me to find stronger language in vbich to express myself." Daphne hides her face away behind lie shelter of a bowl she has been lavshly filling with roses, pinks and hon>VRIl<?klPS "Miss Hardcastle is to become Sir ohn Severne's wife some time in August?oh, there is no doubt about it, iune Hosie! The dresses are ordered, he color of the bridesmaids' bonnets lecided on. For aught we can tell, it nay not be the fashion for engaged jeople to pay open attention to each >ther." "Human nature is the fashion always," cries Aunt Hosie, suddenly tbandoning her tone of banter. "Do rou think, if Miss Hardcastle loved Sir Fohu Severne, she would tolerate his ukewarm attentions for a day? Do "ou think she would not show jealosy?yes, I dare use the word?honest, natural, commendable jealousy, of valks by sunrise, walks between 3 tnd 4 o'clock on a June morning, with i woman as young and well looking ts yourself?" At this sharp home thrust the color lies on Daphne's cheeks. "JLUUL \vui& was aii u<_ciutrm, e>ut mswers, very low. "Could I help Jean larie forgetting at which pier he was o meet me? Could I help Sir John Severne's happening to leave the yacht phen I did? Surely, you would not :ave had me walk hom -, past the fort nd harbor works, at such an hour nescorted?" "I would hare had you do what your onscience told you was right." says Lune Hosle, firmly. "To walk alone ast the fort at 3 o'clock in the mornmight be unconventional?" - stocking] GE | REALITY. nie Edwards" "Aunt Hosie! When I have heard you say a hundred times that the only thing , you dread on earth is a tipsy soldier!" "To trifle, or seem to trifle, with affections of an engaged man is a crime." "A crime!" echoes Daphne Chester, her lips a-quiver. "It is not like you, Aunt Hosie, to be so wanting in charity." "It would be less like me, I hope. Daphne, to be wanting in a sense of common honesty. 'The Loan of a Lover' mny be a pretty subject for comedy on the stage. In real life, such manners, such levity, are tolerably sure to have a tragic ending. Have the kindness to s ^t the dishes straight, child, if you please. Your d-awing lessons"?this with emphasis?"do not seem to have improved your eye for symmetry." The members of the yachting party have received an invitation, collectively, to partake of high tea at Fiefde-la-Reine; a moonlight sand-eeling expedition to constitute the amusement of the evening. When the appointed time comes, however, only three of the expected guests put in an appearance?Sir John Severne, Felix Broughton and Miss Hardcastle. Lady Lydia, it is vaguely believed, may be somewhere on the Channel be tween this and Normandy. Kaces are going on at St. Malo; and Lady Lydia. with Mrs. de Mauley and Max, was last seen on the pier near upon the hour when an excursion steamer was advertised to depart for France. Miss Rivers, knapsack on shoulder, is taking a solitary walk round the island. The Arab has been lost since yesterday. Of Mr. Jorningham I need scarcely add, no one for a moment speaks or thinks. "And so, unless any of my lawful guardians come to life, I must ask the Misses Vansittart to be my chaperons.'* says Clementina, as she is taking off her hat in Daphne's little white, country-looking bedroom. "That is, if chaperons, the crowning mistakes of civilization, could by any possibility be needed at Fief-de-la-Reine! Oh, Mrs. Chester, how good it must be to inhabit a house like this," she continues. "Not an inkstand, not a book to be seen?our bedrooms at home are lined with books, 'in case any of us should feel sleepless in the night,' Mrs. Hardcastle says. A sea of whose chemical constituents you know notnmg, arounu a sky you have never been forced to survey through telescopes overhead? ah, and what delicious real roses!" And balancing herself on the broad granite casement ledge, Miss Hardcastle leans forth her town-comdexioned face amidst the labyrinth of odorous, bloom-laden branches that droop around. "The roses one buys in London never seem quite real, against country ones," she goes on, presently. "Besides, when I was young, I was so tortured with botany, classifying, after Linnaeus or Jussieu, every flower that blows, that I almost grew to hate the smell of them. And to think you have never had a governess, Mrs. Chester, never been to a lecture, or assisted at a conversazione! What have I done to deserve such cruel reverses at the hands of fate?" "Reverses!" echoes Daphne Chester, somewhat hastily. "Yes, it comes lightly enough to you, no doubt, to use that word. You. Miss Hardcastlc, who cannot yet have tasted one actual trouble, who have everything lo make the present sweet?" "Oh, I know, I know," interrupts Clementina, with a jarring little laugh. "When people are engaged it is thought the correct thing always to address them in that kind of jubilant strain. As if marriage was such a panacea for human ills that the mere road thereto were a matter for insane rejoicing! But perhaps you are not aware"?she says all this in a short, iriinnor OS clio snpflks tpnrint? cruel wounds in the petals of whatever rose has the uick to come beneath her fingers?"Perhaps Sir John Severne has not told you it is a set, tied thing that I ain to be his wife?" * "I knew of your engagement before I first saw you at Quprnec," answers Daphne, with as steady a voice as she . can command. "And you think, of course, that both nf us are to be congratulated?" "I think your prospects of happiness , are better than most people's; Sir John Scverne is brave, high principled " "Young, clever, rich; everything a man should be," e^.clai; ; Sir John's betrothed, quickly. "And the rescuer of my Faul's life," adds Daphne Chester. Miss HardcaiUe looked at her critically for a few seconds. "I am not insensible to any one of Sir John's virtues," she remarks, in a graver tone, "and I hope in time to come up to the like standard of perfection. Meanwhile, not even my unexampled good fortune prevents the taste of life being occasionally sour to me. I may have a couple of your roses for my hair? Ah, not the damask ones?thanks. Only people of your complexion can afford to wear a pink like that!" Does the tcne in which this last remark is Knr>k-r>n snvnr nf hittornpss? ; "Human nature is the fashion always," said Aunt Hosie, with her blunt, straightforward integrity, nave learning, philosophy, science, left so > much of common human nature in Clementina Hardcastle that she is jealous?wounded as any simple, uneducated girl might be by her sweetheart's friendship, no matter how Platonic, for another woman? The suspicion (and perhaps a conscience not altogether void of offense) causes Daphne to shrink, as she has never shrank yet, from Sir John Sererne. She feels that her eyes sink beneath his glance; that her cheeks redden guiltily at liis voice; and with i forced spirits, with ' levity" of man% ner, once more to quote Aunt Hosie, very unlike her ordinary self, she takes refuge in the pointed, tlie growing intentions of My. Felix Broughton. Even Miss Theodora, brimming over : with aristocratic reminiscences for ! Clementina's benefit, as she presides I in a girlish muslin and modish mob cap i over the tea table?even Theodora, I j say, is sensible of the change that has | come over Daphne, and rejoices. In spite of poor Henrietta's prejudices on the score of brains, who shall deny that Felix Broughtou is an elegant, highly-conceited creature? Who shal: tell that orange blossoms, silks, satins, Honiton (every higher aspiration of Theodora's ?oul finds its culminating point in Honiton), may not be imminent? CHAPTER XIII. Sand Eeling?Fart I. The tide is in a fitting condition for j the fishing expedition to siart soon : after 9 o'clock; and, by some kind ! of process of natural selection, the little party from Fief-de-la-Reir.e at once breaks up into pairs. Jean Marie and Margot, barefoot and armed with a short kind of reaping hook, the regulation sand-eeling weapon, start ou i ahead. Aunt Hosie, similarly equipped. ! follows next, with Pere Audre. Theu j come the legitimate lovers, experienc* ; ing, if the depression of their manner j speak truth, more difficulty than coin- J mon in finding pegs whereon to hang j the ' sweet banalaties of sentiment. Daphne and Mr. Broughton, slowly sauntering, gayly chatting, secure in ' the knowledge that they at least are " not legitimate lovers, follow last. It is one of the lowest tides of the year, and scattered all across the " broad, white sands of Quernec Bay are " groups of sand-eelers; the women provided with lanterns, and keeping, while yet they may, to terra firma, the men and lads waist deep across the currents, in their eagerness to reach the 1 sand-eel banks of best renown before their fellows. The night is perfect, balmy as noon, " a faint breeze stirring from the east, * and illumined by the most glorious Milky Way, a road of very silver, spanning the whole arch of purple . heaven. By and by rises the moon, j just behind the isolated tower of Ga- j brielles, and then?who shall say how j these things happen? Daphne discov- i j ers that Sir John Severne has become | } her companion, while the figures of j ^ Cousip. Felix and Miss Hardcastle be- | ^ come at each moment more indistinct I ( in thn fnr flictnnpp I , Severne for laer companion, and for ^ the last time?to-night, for very certain, the ending of their friendship! Well, j for a space they keep to commonplace small talk, like two indifferent ac- j quaintances looking forward to se? ( each other to-morrow, and every sue- j ceeding morrow throughout the year j Daphne Chester knows, as well as though the experience of a dozen Lon , don seasons had taught her, that for j people placed as they are placed, si- ^ lence must be fraught with danger ] She knows this; she foresees, fills in every pause dexteriously. Sir .''ohn " shall make no avowal, shall utter no regrets to which Clementina Hardcastle might not listen unpained. So far hoi resolutions are of adamant. Unfortu nately, Severne has formed resolutions also of adamant, and tending in a, somewhat opposite direction to hoi own. "You will be quite sure to write to me, Mrs. Chester?" Severne waits for no opportune break, chooses no safely negative phrase with which to lead up to the question. He puts it abruptly; just after Daphne has ren arked that the cousins are wandering from the way j wherein they should go, and as a mat- I ter of duty must be foilowed und set straignt. "Broughton and Miss Hardcastle on a -wrong track? Oh, they will find their way back to a right one, depend upon it. without our assistance. Yes you will write to me, I know. You have given me your word already thai you will do so. Still, it is pleasant to j hear good promises repeated twice' over." "You would not want the letter re- j peated twice over! Why, Aunt Theo j dora says I don't talk English by gram- ] mar rules, and as to writing " "And you think I would ; avie your j letters, sentence by sentence, a die- j tionary and Lindley Murray at my 1 j side?" To be continued. j < Tabloid Milk. ! ] Milk that has been watered, milk j ^ that contains microbes, milk that has lost every trace of any cream it may j originally have contained?such milk is , to be a thing of the past if a London j inventor's scheme works. ; . A process of solidifying milk has 1 ^ been invented, which, It is affirmed, J ^ will, besides banishing all the dangers ^ associated with the dairy, in the coursc j of time do away with the dairy itseit, ! says the Philadelphia North American, | ? / this method the liquid milk is j :j \ disked around burnished cylinders j k.'ot at a lierce temperature by steam until, after a few seconds, it comes off in the form of a continuous creamywhite sheet. This is then reduced to ! powder, and may be compressed into j cakes. But, in spite of this severe treatment, j ihe product still remains pure milk. ; , and the addition of seven parts of | ] water is all that is requisite to restore J | it to the form of new milk. Cream rises j < upon it naturally, and butter and ( cheese can be readily manufactured. | Helping Out the T-hw'h Allowance. j They do say that this actually hap- , p?ned in this county not a great while ! , ago. | i It wr.s a part of the incidentals at a ! wedding of some note. The minister } had just finished the ceremony when j be was accosted by the groom: "Say, how much do you charge?" ] asked the new Benedict. "Oh," said the minister, "I make no , specific charges for services of this \ kind, usually being satisfied with what- j ever sum the eenerosity of the happy groom may prompt him to give. The ^ law, however, allows me a fee of , $2.50.'* j ; "All right.'' said the groom, handing | j the minister a piece of silver. "There's i another dollar. That makes ?3.50. Will ; that do you?" v And the astonished minister bad to sav "Yes.' - Winchester S?nrir*l. I i \'. :y h.i w_* . ... 7 /: The O11I7' 5 * ri? Woman Admiral S of W an ? ofl vil HE .remarkable contingency ^ ^ *bat a woman Admiral wj 3 r I^ o niay command the fleets of in; I K Russia before tbe ending Sa of tbe war with Japan has frj presented itself to tbe minds of tbose in tfho, are intimately acquainted with to he personal affairs of the rulers of the bii 31d World. Should all other Admirals an )f the Russian Navy perish, it would jr ie within tbe power and right of it; Jueen Olga of Greece to claim com- mi nand of the ships that remain to that th Sfavy. Not ouly does, she rank as full isl Admiral of the naval forces of Russia, th jut she is a good sailor and as thor- nr )Ugh a naval expert as are many of at .lie Captains who are her subordinate kn n rank. io< The possiDiiuy or a noauicea 01 iue or ;ea coming to the succor of the beaten T1 forces of the powerful Empire of the bo Korth, already has been the subject of be more or less amused comment in the ist GROUP OF LAI Sultaus (left to right), top row: Sulta linbulong, Datto Asume. Bottom row: Datto Marnhtil, Mandae, Sultan Demasanky. Fnest Rajah Muda J Damasanky served as a menial. Courts of Europe, and it is certaiu, ivithin a short time, to be a topic of iniversal discussion, if not of serious ]a relief, throughout Japan. There is no /> > juestion that the possibility of Queen jit 3,'ga's command of the Russian Navy El tvill receive more credence in Japan Wj :han in any other portion of the world; m, for it is well-known that already many iJC Japanese women have attempted to i10 ;o in disguise to the front; and a course te which is natural with them will not j Co seem unnatural in a sovereign who, Ve by formal appointment, holds a high tic ind definite rank as a part of the Sgbting forces of the Czar. Queen Oiga enjoys the unique distinction of being the only woman Admiral in the world. This high rank tvas bestowed upon her by the late Czar of Russia. Sometimes royal titles ire distributed promiscuously and without rotrard to the fitness of things; but in tliis Instance the honor is appropriate and merited. The present Queen of Greece appreciates and unlerstands the title. She loves the sea: she lakes a practical interest in the welfare of sailors, and on a recent naval inspection made such a thorough examination of one of the battleships is to win the admiration of some of r.ue naviu e.\pi.*i is ui m-i u?u wm This gifted woman, besides her other iceompllshments, Is a diplomat of a liigh order. Her voice always is for ;>eace, and in the recent disturbance between Greece and Turkey lier advice was potent at the council board and at the conference that finally healed up the differences caused by the war. Queen Olga is the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, who was a brother of the late Emperor Alexander II. She was married to King George of Greece in 1SG7, svhen she was only sixteen years old.? N'ew York Tribune. " The in*oduction of electric traction n the Tranvia Rural, city of Buenos lyres, is contemplated. wSSSmSSSSSS^S^^ Olga, Queen of Greece ai tid Russian Admiral. [OROS IN AMERICA tVith Sultans of high and low deee, accompanied by their harems, th Mohamedan high priests and the ;id rules of this fanatical religion, d -with political plot and counter)t revealing all the subtle qualities an Oriental race, no spot nt the orld's Fair holds more of the strange d interesting atmosphere of a far corner of the world than the Moro llage, Philippine Exposition. Here e dignfied and polite Datto Facundo, 10 visited the President in Washjton, stands at the head of forty mal Moros, the ever-steadfast iends'of Uncle Sam, while housed another end of' the same village are be found the hostile Lanao Moros, tter enemies of their Samal cousins, d a race which has' never been subgated by either Spaniard or Amerm. 'It has taken the utmost diploacy on the part of Frederick Lewis, e manager of the villages, to admln:er the affairs of the two races, so at the spears of the Samal Moros e not hurled over the bamboo fence noiVhlinrs. nr the wicked bolo luv-" ? lives of the Lanaos (lo not finrl a 3ging place in the patriotic breasts the Samal Moros or Sea Gypsies, le village of the latter, built on bnmo poles over the waters of Arrowad Lake, offers the most character:ically striking village at the Fair. NAO MOROS. n Sungud, Sultan Pitulcan, Sultau bright Moro interpreter. the lost i Luinbayangui, in whoso household j Queer Xhiiim For Children. Tn some parts of the Continent ol te years the practice has increased giving children fantastic names. A tie girl, for instance, born in the fTcl Tower, in Paris, not long since is christened "Eiffeline," and a Swiss j other chose "May 1st" for a child irn on that day. The authorities, wever, refused to sanction the latr. and now the Swiss Government is j . nsidering proposed laws for the pre-1 < ntion of such christening eccentric!- j :s.?New York News. t 1 t_; MOAN SCLDIB.i IN THI! AMERICAN SERVICE. ?By courtesy o? The independent .*_v : * . * ; ' a :* ' y; V ' i ? - . f.."*. v NO RUSSIAN-BRITISH WAR > ' The North Sea Incident to Be Left to Arbitration. AGREEMENT IS FINALLY MAD? Tlie Portion of the Baltic Fleet Immediately Concerned In the Firing Upon the Trawlers to Be Detained Pending Investigation?Families of Victim* to Be Amply Paid and Inquiries Mad*. London, Eng.?Danger of war between Russia and Great Britain is believed to have been averted. The settlement of the only points in dispute regarding the attack by the Russian Baltic squadron on British trawlers has been referred to an international commission under The Hague Convention. Premier Balfour, speaking to an Immense gathering under the auspices of the National Union of Conservative Clubs in Artillery Hall, Southampton, broke that long silence which had brought the people of the United Kingdom to a condition of almost desperate irritation, and had given rise to misconceptions which Mr. Balfour In his speech himself exposed. "The Russian Ambassador," said Mr. Balfour, who began to speak at 8 p. m., after receiving a great ovation, "has authorized a statement to the following effect: The Russian Government, on hearing of the North Sea incident, at once expressed its profound regret and also promised most liberal compensation. The Russian Government has ordered the detention at Yigo of that part of the fleet which was concerned in the incident in order that the naval authorities may ascertain what officers were responsible for it Those officers and any material witnesses will not proceed on the voyage to the Far East, and an inquiry will be instituted dnto the facts by an international commission, as provided by The Hague Convention." That, Mr. Balfour interpolated, had nothing to do with arbitration. It was the constitution of an international commission in order to find out the facts, and any person found guilty would be tried and punished adequately. He added that the Russian Government undertook that precautions would be taken to guard against a recurrence of such incidents. Special instructions on this subject would be Issued. Preliminary to this court, said Mr. Balfour, there would be the Coroner's inquest at Hull ov?r the dead fishermen, a Board of Trade inquiry, and an inquiry by Russian officials at Vigo. The Board of Trade inquiry would be specially constituted by the British Government, and those conducting it would include representative men. The Russian Embassy had been asked to send a representative and to give assistance. Apology and compensation having already been offered, said the Premier, nothing now remained but to determine which account was correct, Ro jestvensky's or the trawlers'. DYNAMITE BOMB IN HOTEL. Michigan's Democratic Candidate For Governer There at Time. Cadillac, Mich. ? Great excitement prevailed in this city over an alleged attempt to blow up with dynamite the McKinnon Hotel here, while W. N. Ferris, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and Ills party were guests of the hotel. The porter of fh'e hotel found in a waste basket what is said to be a dynamite bomb about lour inches long and one inch in diameter, containing dynamite and guncotton. It is said that the hotel proprietor has enemies in the town, who, some believe, intended to destroy the building out of spite. i I FISHER VICTIMS BURIED. Great Demonstration in the English Port. Hull, Eng.?The funeral of two of the victims of the North Sea tragedy was made the occasion of a great public demonstration. The civic officials attended the ceremony, and hundreds of wreaths, including one from King Edward, were placed on or about the coffins. Business was practically suspended, and flags were half-masted on the ships in the harbor. Thousands of people lined the route to the cemetery. NURSED HER CHILD; STRICKEN. Chicago Society Woman Gets Smallpox in Pestbouse. Chicago, HI.?While brarmg the terrors of a pesthouse as a nurse, Mrs. Edwin Burritt Smith, one of the bestknown women in Chicago society, was stricken with smallpox. Mrs. Smith had been at the pestlionse a week, caring personally for her little daughter, who was a smallpox patient. The mother was said to have been vaccinated. The child is now recovering from the attack of smallpox. Danish Ship Fired On. A special cable dispatch from Berlin, Germany, states that a Danish steamship was fired upon by the Russian feet, and it is reported that a Danish torpedo boat and a Swedish steamship were also fired upon. Subway a Success. The New York City subway was tied up during the evening rush hours of its first open day four times by breakdowns. Nevertheless the road enrried 350,000 passengers, making it - finanplfil cnpnPKK frnm tho stnrf Electric Locomotive's Speed. With Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., at the controller, the clectrlc locomotive to be used by the Central in the tunnel in New York City easily developed sixty miles an hour. Stones Were Fakes. New York dealers in precious stones learned that emeralds imported from France were merely colored quartz, the discovery being made by a lapidary. Killed in Fire. One life was lost in the fire at the Bush terminal pier, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and the damago amounted to less than $300,000. New Hall For Dartmouth. The Earl of Dartmouth laid the cor- | nerstone of the new Dartmouth Hall at Hfcuover. N H. I , / .; " 7T - -- -J AWFUL MINE EXPLOSION ' ? * ' Between Thirty and Sixty Miner* Are Killed m Colorado.' One of the Mine* of the Rockjr Hotmtala Fuel and Iron Company Near 'Trinidad Is Destroyed, Canting Death* ???? . , . '" Vi Trinidad, Col.?From thirty to sixty men lost their lives In a terrific explosion which occurred at Mine No. 3 of the Rocky Mountain Fuel and Iron Company at Tercio, forty miles west of Trinidad. The exact number of dead may never be known, as the mine commenced burning, and in all likelihood the bodies were consumed. F. J. Foreman, a Government stock inspector, was at Tercio when the explosion occurred and gave the following account of the affair: "I was standing not more than three hundred yards from the mouth of the tunnel when the explosion occurred. It was preceded by a low rumbling sound,, resembling-an earthquake, which made the earth tremble and. startled the whole camp. "Out of the mouth of the tunnel and two air shafts came a great volume of smoke and dust, which continued for nearly a minute. Out of the two air shafts, each of which Is seven feet In diameter, timbers that were fully two or three feet in diameter were shot In to the air and broken into splinters." The explosion, which resembled a 1 volcanic eruption, caused the wildest excitement Men, women and children, rushed to the mouth of the tunnel, and women whose husbands were in the mine had to be brought away by the miners to prevent their being killed 1 by the deadly fumes coming from the mouth of the tunnel. | Hundreds of men endeavored to enter the Aaine. The fumes overcame the rescuers frequently, but their places immediately were taken bj; others ready to risk their lives. Only one body has been recovered* that of T. Duran, a driver, who was i just entering the tunnel when the explosion occurred. He was . torn and burned almost beyond recognition. . 1 53 LUNATIC LEAPED INTO AUTO. ! Frightened Two Women Driving in. Washington Capitol Grounds. Washington, D. C.?The practice of taking the patients at St. Elizabeth's, the Government hospital, for the insane, out riding through the avenues and streets of Washington, resulted in an unpleasant experience for two women who were riding in an automobile through the Capitol grounds. The ambulance Carrying a dozen insane soldiers was slowly ascending the hill as the automobile came coasting down. One of the men suddenly Jumped out and SDrang into the auto mobile. Grabbing the steering bar, be tried to guide the machine. The -women were nearly paralyzed with fright, but one of them, a young girl, waa in control, and succeeded in stopping the vehicle. The lunatic still clung to the steering bar and offered no violence to* the occupants of the machine. When a near-by policeman, the hospital attendant, and two laborers in the grounds came to tbe.rescue, it re-, quired the strength of all four to chokethe man and make him let go. He quieted down ijx the ambulance and went back to the hospital without any further trouble. TO PROBE THE CALCHAS AFFAIR . .. Russia Promises Investigation For Mail Seizure?Apology Expected. Washington, D. C.-'The State, Department expects an answer from Russia in a few days in regard to the vio- lation of the international treaty of the Postal Union by the seizure of the United States mails on the steamer Calchas. There has been no reply on the merits of the affair, but notice has been received that an investigation will be made into the case. jlux9 jLuiruuo iuai tuc Auis^iau uvrciument must direct officers at Vladivostok to Inquire into the facts and make a report to St. Petersburg, when in due time a reply will be forthcoming to Washington. In the flurry over the North Sea affair the Calchas incident I has been forgotten, but it is expected that in a sufficient lapse of time dueapologies will be made for seizure of our malls. YOUNG CLERGYMAN DROWNED. Doubt as to Whether His Death Was * an Accident or Suicide. Baltimore, Md. ? The Rev. George* Frederick Kettell was drowned here off Sparrows Point, the Maryland Steel Company's works, in a mysterious J? manner. It is not clear whether It was an accident or a deliberate suicide. Kettell was formerly assistant rector of Christ Episcopal Church, this city. He was barred from a rcctorship at Palmyra, N. J., by Bishop Scarborough, / because he married the divorced wife of the Rev. Clarence Frankel, formerly of St. Louis. DUTCH KILL 19G ACHINESE. !" Capture Batoebatoe and Twenty Guns ^ After Sham Fiehtinsr. Amsterdam, Holland.?A dispatch from Batavia received here reports that the Dutch troops have captured Batoebatoe, in Achin, afte:* a sharp J fight. The Achlnese, the dispatch says,. lost 196 killed and the Dutch captured 9 twenty guns, and had three killed and eleven wounded. I Trolley Plunges in River. |g Boropnl nncsontrors nn fin plpotrif Pflr EW near El Paso, Texas, were hurt by the ear plunging into the Rio Grande 9 River. H New Boston University President. Dr. Wra. E. Huntingdon was installed as President of Boston University. I New Submarine Laun< led. * The submarine boat Simon Lake, No. 10, was launched at Newport New Ya^ College Notes. The musical department of Yale University has been reorganized. In connection with the Yale Mission ^ College a hospital will be established. Dean Thomas F. llolgate has been made acting President of Northwestern University. ) The thirty windows in the Thompson Memorial Chapel, at Williams College, are to be placed in position. it is announced that $13,000 has been left lo Trinity College by the late Miss Mary A. Terry, of Hartford, Conn. ? * I