San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-13

| comes. vi course IL Ism I so narQ Tor me,
because l have always been used to it,
the troubles happened before my time;
but | often think how you, dear mamma,
must suffer, who once had everything 80
very different. Why are there not be-
nevolent rich people who find out about
the cases of nice, deserving families
whose money was made away with by
iaithless trustees, and in some artful
way set them on their feet again? That
would be true charity. / am sure, in
their case, should like nothing better
than playing the good fairy in that way.
Well, we'll, this is a long way to come to
write you on matters we have discussed
thousand times at home. You viii
think your daughter-and sister-could
hardly have gone farther and Jared worse,
4 she is going to be impressed in this
way by the opulence of her hospitabls
Mexican hosts.
II asked Don Walter Arroyo-their
Don means only the same rs our Mr.,
though it always seems as if it ought 20
mean great deal more-if we are all
likely to be blown up some fine day,
living recklessly in the orator of vol
;ano," the writer continued.
81 hardly think So, he answered,
smiling at my idea. You see the rather
permanent look of things around us, and
believe Popocatepetl has had no erup-
ton for some thousands of years
so much the more reason why 1t
should happen now,' said, flippantly,
for there was slight irony in his tone,
though | declare it to you | have only
lately begun to get over breathing gin
| gerly on this account, and waking up of
nights to think about it.
You will not deny that such things
can happen and have happened| went
on, more seriously. 1 am sure before
Vesuvius broke out and swallowed up
Pompeii the ancients had looked upon it
as wholly extinct, and never thought of
it in any other way. | remember, too,
that Spartacus was besieged there by a
Roman army, on a plain that then exist
ed in the top Of it. The wonder to me
is that people ever get up confidence
enough to do anything in such insecure
| places
Don Walter Arroyo looked as if he
were little surprised at my reading
as, to tell the truth, was myself.
"These are some of the small risks
one takes in life, he said, appearing by
no means overcome with terror And
you do the poor earthquake and volcano
injustice, too They have many good
points about them'
"'Such as whi., should like to
know
They are II fOr surplus heat,
and they keep up the necessary ineQuali-
ties of the earth's surface, which would
otherwise soon be polished down by the
elements as smooth as a billiard ball
The earthquake ought to honor its
able defender, if possible, by special ex-
emptions, rejoined.
1T was long time since l had leased
anybody, and felt rather like it.
"He only bowed, in his smiling way,
however, and concluded with this, which
| thought quite stirling:
For my part, am not so much sur
prised at the instability of the earth as
its real sohdity. 1t is one vast network
Of cracks and active disturbances, and
the amusing thing is the way men and
their civilized. works keep on it, in spite of
all its efforts 20 shake them off We ride
it good deal as vaquero rides an OBJ
stinately bucking pony, and we but
rarely come to grief
To another person, one nearly Of her
own age, a certain Emily Winchester,
| tbiS |,
substantially the same account, dwell
ing little more fully on the young man
who had looked 50 particularly we'll on
horseback.
There is to be very little society here
it seems" she said; the places are so
far apart, and the people have had so
many feu1S and revolutions. He has
some kind of surveying to do for the gen
eral, SO | suppose he will come back
again, and is likely to be one of our few
visitors. He is really very handsome,
and you know your friend Amys pen
chant for good looks. Will you ever
forget our Stiffness over Montague? How
| many of us We're there who used to
adore his photograph and post ourselves
|
| Don Walter ArrOyo-I like the solid air
of the simple Walter added to the ro-
mantle suname-is half or even wholly
American. l don't understand all the
circumstances, but he was brought up
by relations, three old maiden ladies, in
the neighbOring town. They live on a
small income, and he looks after some
| of their nrnnertv He has had q scientific