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i .1 U â-  I WITH THE LIBHT BRIGADE. OKLT AMERICAN SURVIVOR 0? THE SIX HUNDRED. 4rr*aUk Ktub of rhlrac*, wu l« the rMB»B> <li«rt« lit BaUkUraâ€" Bo Clf't • Mirlird Of'terlpUaa •! lb* Fanivoa â- a:ilr. One of the "nobl« six bundred,"tba «nly AmeriraD survivor of the liand who "came throtU(li tlie jaws of deatli, Vack from the mouth of hell," lives In Chicago, and last week won a ver- di^'t of one thousand dollars froni. the City of Chioago for injuries du« to a drfectlve sidewallc. Jeremiah Ryan is the name of the â- urvlrop of the Light Brigade. While be hinuMslf in unknown, the exploits of the six hundrrH are familiar to every- (kne who has bren s scboollioy at any time during the last forty years. Mo.'it »f them recited Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade," and everybody has sertainly lieard it declaimed s dozen limes To print it would Iw ridiiulous, for nearly everyl>ody knoivs it by heart and can ttUl fao.v the gallant little I and n-as Ie<l to death through tbe( mistake of a leader who himself died while on his fool's errand. Four days l«fore Ia.<it Christmas Ryan celebrated his sixty-aecond birth- day. This would make him nineteen years of a^ at the time wlien with his comrades he charged the whole Rus- Ma.n army. A man most Iw twonty- cuie before he can enlist in the British army But when tl*6 war in the Cri- mea broke out Ryan, like other young Irishmen and Briti^liers, was aniioua to go to the front and do some fight- ing. A recruiting station w.i-s o[iened at Llnoerlok, for the Fourth Light Dra- goons, an English regiment, which, tike moet of the others, included a good many Iri.shmen in it^ ranks. Ryun was only nineteen, but he and some lother youtlis of hii age declared tliat they were twnnty-oine, and oo were al- lowed to enlist. RIGORS OF RUSSIAN WINTER When the regiment left for the Cri- mean iieninsula, all of the men thought that they would have an easy time of (t, and that tlie llua-iiaDH would, l>e easily Iwaten. But those in charge ut hom<' had made no proi>er provision for the Iwaltb and comfort oT the soldiers. Ttve hardships endured were frit.-htfiil. Cholera broke out, and thousands of men died from the dlnAttM. The men, unused to cold, were forced to aleep tn tnnts in the oi«n air durin;; a Ru.h- slan wint>'r. Often the wind would te"r the tents from their p'(gs and leave the soUliers without evrn that mu< b covering, and this in spite of the fact that the Intensity of the cold whs ho great that uo one might daret totnurh ajiy metal sul«tanc« In the o|ien air (without the jienalty ot leaviau his skin behind him. M:iny lAltles were fuught during that time Those that Here won i>y Ibo English were due to the pluck and cour- age of the men: The tattles were fought without any rmlljr definite plan Thoni in command merely let the saldierH fight puriiONeleasly when- ever they could, itnd tru.sted to the ef- fect of the single liattlo. The iMittle of Unlaklava, fooiBht Oct. 25, IH54, was one of thl.1 nature, and It »â- Â»Â« in this tliat the most flisustrous blunder ofall, ' ttie cluirge of tbeLit;bl Brigade," was made. "X(U:r the liittle of Alma," Hiilil Ryan, "we marched to llalaklava and occupied the loights with eu.se. I his was Houth of .Sebastojiol, and had a port that would enn'V us to keep a constant cximmuniintinn lietwivn our arrnins and flcetH. We had a long and hard march ov»>r the snow, which was ttilck on the ground, but as hard as a rock, and not much woriio on my borae'a feet than would )>e the asphalt pavements. Preparations were made for an attack on SeUistopol. The at- tempt lie«an on t)cl 17, liut It failed, although we fought bird, but the Khi;« could not get near enough to niaku their Kuns effective. BATTLE OK BALAKLAVA. "Th« bnttle of BalaJtIava w as brought «ft by the Ru""iiana on Oct. 2.5, wh<in thfly tried to drive us frnm the hidphts we occuiii^<l. It wua a gooti, hot fiKht, and the cavalry dlil m<Nt of the fight- inif on our I ide.. and as I wits in the cav- alry I gi>t my nhiii-n. I r.-uiemU'r the charg« of tlie l.i*i-ht lliigade l)e«t, al- th<»ug4i it did 111)1 i-*i,'m much at the time. Tl.is Light Hrin.vle cornfli.sled of ftfl m«»v Tliey were inicked from l.ho vnriiiniH retiim^nits, all ycung and en- ert-'Plio men ajid good flghtt^rH. There were 118 men from the Fourth Light Dnienotvi, KM of the Ki^hth Husnars, IHO of the Tliirt<!»nith Light Dragoiins, aivl 14.5 of the Ser/enU'ciiLh Lancers. f wan amoinK i\u»i from tlie Fourth Mght Driigomnw. "la lili iKteim 'llennyson, with llie Ih^- •nPe of a ixiet, mnJctvi it npix-ar that tt« all knBW we were goint? to certain dnath. As a matter erf fact, we knew nothinir of the kind. We. did not have tlie ftlighte-st idea, what we were go- ing to do. We mi^rely olmyed orders, •uul liad no thoufrht that we were alxiut to chargQ the wlnvle of the Itus^iian army, lliere had \im>a a heavy fall of dejvie, damp snow, and the ground was bard. Under Capit^iin Nolan wecharg- tA. la t"o lineB at quick pace. We did iu>t know wliftne ive were going, •inid th4 enemy, ficiiig heliind a liliiff, were not in sigflit. We hoA not gone mono t.ha«i twelve hundred yards iiefore t£a whoUjA linis of the lliuvtlans oiiened I tk flood, of amoklo euoi flame uima us | from the mouthA of thirty cannon. 'I'beia we ooul<i WJt have fallen back If we wanted to. Men and borseii fell Uoder tlie fire. One-Uiird of us fell to tJie ground dead or dying. Another thirxl of the mtvn. were wounded. The l:'>rHe.'<, well tra4<ned. huddled together and. carried us onward toward the Rus- eiaiivs. Another battery oi ened fire upotn UA. and to the oblique fire by the cannon was joined a volley of muitket- ry from thb Rueaiata infantry. CUAftGE OF THE BRIGADE. "With sabers drawio we kept on to- ward the Ru.s,sia,n guns. We could not fight much, for we \\cre huddled close tu^ethier in a solid mass for our pro- tection^ The men in the middle of the ranks dared not draw their sabers, for they could not tell friend from foe. Ttiuw on the outside fought and out down the Russians in our way. Then the order was ifiven to return, and we notreate<l cut \»-nt we could. Some of the honies broke with their riders and carried them b«u-k to our lines. Slow- ly we fought our way back surrounded by Rusnian infantry and soldiers. "But wliite we were fi^'hting to re- gaia our own liniea Ujb Ku-i-iian gun- aers returned to their gun.s, and angry that we bad omly just ridden over them, and thinking of nothing but re- ventpe, Ujey fired at the ma^is of fight- in* soldiers, and this timi they killed more BunMan.9 than Knglishcoen, for there were more RufiKians than Eng- li«hoae« in front of tlie guns. Mean- while tlie Eighth HiLssars and the heavy brigade came to oi-r rescue and hialped us cover our retreat. "A wretched lot we were when we returned. They made heroes of the survivors, but the dead and dying were left where they fell. There were 607 of uB when we followed Captain Nolan in the charge. Of these 1S)8 came back. ajid HomA of these received wounds fron» wJiich they died ahortly after- wanl. I myself re<eived two cuts in the hawl and another jiwt above the on<l of my Mx-k. But tln'.-e were light wounds, and I esiaiied much better tha-n niQHt of the men. There were not ;uore than a dozen who came through that charge unscathed. HOW THK UEU FELT. 'â- We did not know what was going to happen when we went into the charge. But we were rather soreahout it when we returned, tliough thoee who got through were too hajipy that they had cscaied to make much fuss a'out it. It baa l«en v\ rilten of a» a great ex|iedition, and so 1 supix>.se it was. But we do net deeerve any great cred- it for bravery. Almost any man would have done the same. We were all dare- devil feilowa caring little for our lives and fond of the excitement of )>attle. Aad then, when the liand plays, and everybody cheers anJ yedla you are so carried away by the excitement that you tnink of nothing but the joy of fighting. It is great sport. Better than any other in the world. " AfU'rward we beard much about it. wiu'n the world sung our praises. Sonw J'n-ncliman said that our exploit wa-s ' niagnifii-ent, but ii was not war.' It seems that it had been the inten- tion of Lord Raglan, our general, that 1 be cavalry should aid in rvgainingthe h<>iKld8 surmounied by the re ioubts lak*.n liy the 'lurks, or in default of I hi.M to prevent the Rusniaua from car- rying off tlie gunn at tho^w inints. II<^ harl no intent ion of having this work <Ione by fiOO men. The Light Uriga le was to have been only a i art of the forces. Uut Cajitain Nolan, who car- ried the message. <tid n»t understand it, nor <lid the lieutenant general, Lord Jl,ucan. The Karl oif VaniiiitLn put the t>rd«r into execution anl f'ai.tain Nol- an hiin.s<>lf led us anl died with my ot her comrades for his own mistake, or that of o tilers. AFTER THE GREAT CHARGE. " We remained in the fiebl and fought other battles until the armis- tice of .Sei>teml>er, 18.')6. The cold was the worst foe with which we had to co(ntenle<l. The Ruvunns u.sed to say that their best generals were General •Tanuary and General February. Many a mati who bad lai I down to sleep on the cold ground never got up, and I had one of my !««« frozen." Byan came to New York from Eng- land In lH'tA. anl for eighteen years w a.s with the Adams Express Company in that city. Then he moved to Chi- cir^o, wh<>re he has since lived. He was injured .lanuary 4, IHO?, by a fall caus- ed- by a defective aidewialk at ( akley and Austin avenue.s, and wa.H oon'ined for several nionllis in the county I i>s- fiital with a brokein kneecap. As a re- sult of his in.iurit'.s he has lieen unable to pursue his business, which baa lately lieen Ibat of a i>edlar. A FAIR COAIPLEXION. A smooth, delicate complexion, Is the gpe«t<'«t of all charms of iwrsonal ap- jwarance, and it should le the ambition of every wonvan to preserve a lovely skin if .sins has it, and if not to culti- vate the art of getting It. First of 'all never wash in hard water when a little liorux will soften liard water, and make{ j,lie skin soft and delicate. Avoid hard water as a liestilence, hh it lliiiken-s the skin and mokes it aallo.v. An (dd ami much u.sod rc'liie by iiersons with exiiuisite complexions i.s as follows: Powdered 1-orax, one-()Uiirt<'r ounce; glycerine, one-half ounce,; elder-flower water, eight ounces; len/.fdn, one (lunrter ounce; vaseline, one quartur ounce .-Vp- ply after wa.shlag, and it will make the skin soft audi fine. For chopiwd hands u.s*" equal parts of leuion juic« and glycerine, a I small quAntity of l«rax, and sweet- en the whole* with triple extract of violets. An old lady seventy-five years old, who still retains her pink cheeks and soft Imby complexion, anyw that^ she kept up her, habit of puttingia little powdered liorax In the face water since she was a girl. .She said it WHS as much to lienefit the eyes and f.lrengthen them as for the comple.vion, butshe liclievai that it helped the lat- ter, and she requires her grand- daughters to U3e it. RESOURCES JF COADA. RICH INWAIER POWER, MINERALS * AND AORICULTURB. Tke Doulalea Seeu Tliiuach CaclUh Bye* â€" Secaal Lrller of Mr. Ernrtt E. Wll- liamtt Ihr Londoa Mall Correnpondeal. The following is the second letter on Canada, written by Ernest E. Williams for the London Mail: Canada's arrested development is showing unmistakable signs of renew- ed vitality in every branch of indus- try. I*erhai<B "renewed vitality" Is scarcely tlie right term. The position is not that Canada baa had a cycle of progreaa, succeeded by a iieriod of stagnation, but rather that her life has not yet really begim; The years of her history are as the first minutes in a neiw born infant's life, when animation is almost in sus- iwnse. Canada's birth-throes have been long, and faint hearts may have wondered whether she would ever live at' all to take her place among the nations. While the United States was growing with abnormal rapidity; while newer pro- vinces of Britain's Empire were shoot- ing ahead, ttie Dominion lay dormant. Her vast mineral wealth was not only not exploited; no one too'* the trouble even to attempt to measure it. Her water powerâ€" the greatest of any coun- try'sâ€" still spends itself in lonely rivers, silent, save for the roar of the falU. Here and there, the hum of a mill hard by tells that science and industry are tappln.,', in a puny fashion, the illimitable store of electric power which lies behind the mist veil spread over tlie rushing waters; Imt tlie instances of advantage lieing taken of this; pow- er, though a high compliment to the enterprise of the few Canadians con- cerned, are merely microscopic when acaled to the dimensions of THE POWER AVAILABLE I had heard much of late concerning the industrial possibilities of Canada'.s water power, liut I did ooti grasp the thing till I came out here, and liegan actually to look on the cataracts rush- ing away to waste, and listened to their roar, which seemed as the angry voice of this wonderful, neglected country And yet I have set-n so little of it. I have shot the Lachine Rapids, as is the custom of visitors to Montreal; I have looked at tlie Chaudiere Falls In Ottawa; I have lieen rowed to the foot of thirteen waterfalls, all within three- and-a-half-mlles of each other, and alout an hour's train journey from the caidtal, and all containing in tbcir rapids an immeniie electrical powers The great Lachine Ruidds light Mont- real, and provide the motive force for its street cars; the Chauliore waters do tlie same for Ottivwa, lesides 8ui>- |)lying saw and otiier mills, Init lioth are only called uix>n to give a tiny part of tlieir energy; while the waters which roll to waste at tlw Chats Rap- ids are not at. present cailedi upon for any human service. And ttie.se speci- mens of Canada's water ix>wer are re- p«Mited over an enormous area in On- tario and yiU!l«c. .Supixising Canada to be ten times as thickly [lopulated as It is, and presuming also! the satis- factory accomplUnhment of the e.xperi- ments towards lran.smitting electric power long distances without too great loss of energy, every town could l« lit, and all its stnwt cars, run, every mill and factory set humming, every house lit and lieated, nay, every rail- way train could be run, by the force which lies in the rapid currents of Canada's waterways. That, at any rate is tlie delilerate OPINION OF ELECTRICIANS who have traveled In the Dominion. From this cau.se alone Canada's fu- ture greatness should lie a.s8ured. For jUst a.s the industrial greatness of the nineteenth century has largely laid with the nations which had the great- .'st stores of coal in tlicir countries, "•«, with the pa.ssing from steam to electricity, there Heems little rea.Hon to loubt that the gr4vitne.ss of thetweu- lielh century will lie, caeteris peribus, w ithin the roach of those communities, which poa.se.ss the most almndant wat- er iKxwor. And no country in the world is HO richly endwved with torrents as is Canada. With Canada, also, the other neces- sary Ingredients of industrial great- ness, so far as Nature's (irovislon is ccncerned, are fully e<iual. The men and the money are to seek; but the rest are present. A French King oma de- acrllied Canada a.s "a few acres of snow." A more nilly liliel could scane lie uttered. The "few acres" applied to a country as big as all Kuro|w is haril- ly even funny in its foblishne.ss. The reference to snow had the viciously lilv elous character of the halt-truth. Can- ada is covered with snow for halfâ€" or, rather, leas than halfâ€" the year; lut not only is the snowi an aid, in- stead of a hindrance, to locomotion, but it is also an aid to tlie productivity of the soil. Partlcniorly is this so In the case of cultivated fields which have lieen manured in the autumn. As the frost loo.s«vns its grip on| the land In the spring, and the snciw melts, the moisture soaks the manure, and car- ries it doiwn into the retMsptlve soil, so fertilizing it much more efficient- ly than if the land had, remained bare during the winter. Hut the winter comes so early, and the spring arrives so late, is the olv jectlom sometimes uttered in the old country. The objection is true enough In a measare. judging the timei^ and the aeasons by Britlab standards, and particularly when the comparison is ap- plied to the lands In the Dominion which lie northerly and remote from the sealxard. But the OBJECTION LOSE.S ANY FORCE it may otherwise luive had, in face of the fact tluit in Canada vegetation grows and riiiens so rapidly in the s[iring and summer t^at the leeway is more than overtaken Here is an op- I.>o»ite illustrart-ion related to me the otiier day. A fanner in Scotland sowed his corn in tlie spring, then left to visit his brot.'ier in Canada, hel|wd him in his sawing, stayed! with him during the summer, helped him to harvest, and then returned to Scotland in time to iiarveet his own grain. on Canada's adaptibility to agriculture on Canada's adaptability to agricul- ture. Contempt has given way to re- sjiectfttl wonder. The quality of Mani- toI>a wheat holds the world's record, and its "No. 1 hard," is a l^-word of admiration Indeed, when the vast rich plains of that province shall he- come completely settled, the position of other wheat exporting countries will become little short of criti-ai. With such quality and qu.intity ar- rayed against them, all ttie land and currency reforms which tlie brains of busy politicians can devise will fail to minister Yankee farmers to the sweet sleep they owned in the days when Manitoie was the roving home of In- dians. As to tlie quantity of grain at present produced, the 1897 figures are not yet obtainable, but every newspaper reader knows how Canada's prolific wheat crops this year have gone far to pull up the shortage In the world's crop, and mitigate thedan- ger of a bread famine. In 1893 tliere were in Manitole alone 1,140,276 acres of w*eat, yielding 31,- 775,038 bushels. In 1896 tlie progress of the previous year was smartly ar- rested, the total produce lieing only 14,371,806 bushels, lut this alarming fall is explained in part by the reduc- tion in sowing to 999,598 acres conse- quent on a glut in the> market, but chiefly by the unfavorable character of the season, the yield leing ONLY 1433 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE as against 27.86 bushels in 1895.. Tliere were also big droits in tliel production of outs and liarley; but these set-lmcks to Canada's agricultural progress, as the 1897 harvest shows, are Ijut a tem- porary ebb, without significance, in a tide which is Imund to flow for many years. But it is not only in wheat that Can- ada threatens tlie rest of the world In live stock, and dead meat, and ham, anil liacon, in dairy prcxluce and in fruit, slie is steadily forging to ttie front, and with her unnveasurable resources in each of these deiart- nients, she is obviously destined to take a leading part in the world'a produc- tions. Considering that Canada has only just legun her development in any of tliese directions, stati.stics of '.er achievements are woefully misleading unless read with a full recollection of the fact that work hitherto accom- plished is little letter than the experi- mental efforts of pioneers: Imt, with this fact in view, a few figures will not, iierhaps, be without value and in- U'rest. Tlie bacon exported from Canada tn 1898 was valued at »,802,n,"i dols.;liams. at Ti7!),833 dols., and other sorts of m. it at 990,222 dohs. The butter, sent away rearhed a total value of 1,(152,089 dols., an increase of 354.613 dols., on the previous year. Aiiples were ex- ported to the value of 1,484,445 dols., and pears accounted for 1,299,491 dols. These are but samples, and do not in- clude the chief exjiort of allâ€" cheese. The value of tlie Canadian cheese ex- tort In 189(1 was no less than 13,956,571 dols The growth ot this industry In Canada is a truly marvelous instance of what energy and a steady deter- mination to produce an article ot uni- form excellence can achieve. Canadian CIveddar is not equal to the lest Ched- dar, but it has liecome the equal ot all l>ut the liest, and tlie sujierior of much of the cheese made In England. And withal IT IS CHEAPER. The clieese factory industry in Can- ada dates back to 1863. Two years later there were ten factori'^s at work In the following year there were seventy-two In 1890 there were 1,58.5. The dairy industries, like all others in this country, have lieen greatly alli- ed by the Provincial and Dominion Gov- ernments. The theories of the Man- chester school of political economists find little favor here;, and tliel states- man who advanced tlie doctrine that the whole duty of the State was to efface itself in industrial matters would promptly. In American parlance, le tiurled so deep that you would never find him. No party would dare to bring forward tlie principle of Govern- mental inaction which is still the es- tablished faith of the mother country. No one would ever want to bring for- ward such a principle. The idea is foreign to the initial conception ot na- tional organization held by all Cana- dians irresiiective of party. No State ajvilstance is ever regarded as Imiiert- inent or misapplied; no State money grants are ever attacked as wasteful or harmful, when the object is the furtherance of Canada's industrial de- j velopment. And the result ot theState-| aid policy is seen In tlie steady pro- gress everywhere oliservable, despite the meagre flow of capital into the country. There is danger, of course, in put- ting Into the hands of politicians in office the iKxwer ot paying out public funds tor the aid ot private enterprise; hut the iKiwer has not been applied either to Itaaa ot to foolish uses. Even tlie imrilaus policy ot granting export lx)unties to encourage infant indus- tries has lieen safely carried out, and has succeeded in its aim without landing the country in the economlo liog, wherein, for example, European lieet-sugar countries now find them- selves. The thing is kept well in hand in Canada, and when, as in the case of cheese, the liounty has served Us pur- pose it is wathdrawtt. PALERMO YLim SECRET. PRINCESS CARINI FOOR TEARS PBi- SONER IN HER OWN HOME. IMKI Vp Ih a « lout witk Iter Kliii<l Dauakl- •r bjr Her !ltrwanl'l.aver »n* starved â€" Slcillaa laKmalty Applied U Vertaua Manflns â€" Carlaas LIkM an Math Italian Lire. Palermo, the moat wideawake and im- portant cLty in Sicily, baa just beem aturtltiJ by the discovery that it wai possible for two weil-kaiown woauen ot noble fimily to be kepit close prisouera for four years ia iiuaat own [lalaoe on one of tbe principal streets of the town without any one knowing it. A re^ putable lawyer recently ijitonned tbe police antboritiee that tiie Priincess Car- Ici, a member of the highest aristocr- acy of Sioiily, was kept prisoner witli lier bLiod 20-year-oId daughter io her villa In the Via della Li>>erta by her steward, Giuvaiini Cannella. A large force ot police and carbineers was sent to the vUIa to make sure that no one tBcaped; at the door the porter told tliem that the Primoess was travelling abroad. They passed hiim ojmI were stopped by Cannella's mother, who told them they could not enter the bouse io the Princess's absence. Tiiey arrested tier, broke in the doors, and after a long search found the two women In a dark clioset. nearly naked, half frozen and starving. Cannella, his family and all tbe aervaats were arrested, the ra- merkable story of the Prinuxss was ver- ified, and the police are now hiintinf for tbe accomplices In the crime. Maria La Grua, Priiui,As^ Carini has had plenty of excitement during th« course of Iwr life. In her youth she was a NOTED SOCIETY BEAUTY, and at 18 married tbe Marcheae Artal* di Bollato e Sant' Ouofrio. (After some years of married Life her husband surprised her with a lover, setiured a judicial separation with the custody of bis cbUdreoi. but left to her the young- est cbiild, a little girl born bliod, ot whom be denied that he was the father. Th!j was about twenty years ago. TIm Princess led a fast life after that, tak- ing one lover after another, losing bar money at Iklonte Carlo and estranging all her relatiives by opeu scandal; even Pal<;nmo society bad to give her up. When the cholera epideimic broke out in Sicily in 1885, however, th*; Princess Carimi volunteered as a nurse and spent months in the hospitals of Pal- ermo tending tbe sick. In 1892 her mother diec*. leaving her on estate that yualda an income of 910>* 001) a year. The PrunoL«8, by that tiiiia a middk'-aged woman fell in love with Cannella, then a clerk earning 92 a week, and a married man, tliougb she did not know it. She made him her steward at a high salary and i»et op a&trangesort of a bousehold.HUch as are not uncoiumoo, however. In southern Europe. The Princess, with her daugh- ter, occupied rooma on the ground floor of one wing of the palace, the steward with bia family, rooms in tlie opposite wing, and they took thwr mvels togeth- er. CaiuuCla then prepared his plan to obtain potuM-ssion of the whole of the Priucess's fortune. Little by little ha resnoved all ot tbe old servants and put in their plaoee creatures o>f his own. He luallreated the Princess and her daughter, forbade their appeariing at tbe windows or on tbe balconies, and spread tbe story that they had gone abroad. 'When he found tha statement ac<'ei>ted by whatever [lersous in<iuir- ed for the Princess, his usage of tbe women grew harsher, he deprived them ot clothes, of fuel, and of food, so 'that they were forced to beg for bread from the gardener and mwh servants as they saw from time to time. His intention was apparevntly to di ive them mad or to KILL THEM SLOWLY. Tbe unXortunate women were ' com- pletely ifn bis jKiwer. The PruKess, half out of her mind, signed every jtaper that be directed her to sign. Cannella meanwhile lived in fine style, kept a carriage, but showed bduuself to be a careful administrator of the property which he intended should be his. So mutters w^ent on for four ytars. At last Canualla drow up a will for the I*rince6s to sign by wilurth everything was bequ^-atbe-d to him. That roused the Princess; through all her adven- tures ahe tuad shown a passionate fond- ness ft>r her helpless daughter, and when the will was signed, if they wera not both Buppreaseid her child would be left at Cannella's mercy. She refused to do bis bidding, and, working on the gardener's f^elinga induced him to take a letter to tbe lawyer, who called in the police. As this affair occurred in Sicily, the Italian newspapers attribute it to tl» workings of the Mafia. This secmia very unlikely. Cannella's ac<ompli<'es arrested so far are members of his own family and de.p<'rndents of his; those Bought for are the iieraons to whom he intrusted his stealings. The scheme. Machiavellian in its simplicity, was car- ried out with the strict attention to business that marks the Italian lower cdaases, and could have been foiled at any time had the Princess Carini rous- ed herself to aotion as she did at tha emd. ACTIVE VOLCANOES. Over on the other continent thara are seven volcanoesi in oper«ti.va. \. \ •^