i6 . r
the worst is over now, no doubt, or the
General would not have left her."
"She is still very ill, I am afraid," taid
Miriam, her eyes filling with tears. 'Twas
asortol relief to her overcharged heart to
be able to shed them, irhile Sir James did
everything he could to omfort her.
"And the General? He is still at Kin
tore, of course?" presently inquired St.
James.
"2Jo," answered Jliriam. "He would not
stav. X wished him to stay to see you, hut
he bad not time he said, and be went."
'1 am so sorry I did not see him. So my
poor little girl lias .had nothing but trouble
since I've been away from her? And I
suppose the letter you have just posted was
to your mother about poor Joan?"
"Yes," falterct Miriam, with drooping
head.
"She'll not get it any earlier, you know,
dear, than if you had put it in the post-bag.
However, lam the gainer, when I've got
my dear little wife to walk home with me."
""You are very kind, James," said Mir
iam in a low tone.
He drew her arm closer to him.
"Mv darling," he half whispered. "And
did the mother see General Conray?" be
asked a moment later.
"Xo; I have not seen Lady MacKennon
since lunch; the General only stayed a short
time."
"Well, let ns talk of something else; but
if you are Tery anxious about Joan I can
telegraph, you know, Miriam."
"He said she was no worse," answered
Miriam, still tearfully, "but it upset me so
to know she had been so very ill. I am
sorry now, James, we did not go to her be
fore we came here."
"But we can go to-morrow, you know, if
you like. Just do whatever you wish,
Miriam, and I am ready to go with vou."
Again Miriam felt keen self-reproach in
her heart as she listened to these kindly
words. She thought of the letter she bad
just sent away, and her miserable anxiety
seemed to deepen as she did so. If Hugh
MIRIAM, I CAME TO
r
.
Fcrrars were yresedthis dark story of the
pat. and d wnlcYi sir Jam.es had never
75ard, would be brought fofivard again.
How would he bear it? And unconsciously
Miriam clasped her husband's arm closer,
as she thought and wondered if his love
would quite turn awav from her if be knew
all.
And as together arm-in-arm they reached
the bouse of Kintore, the cold eves of the
dowager were watching them Irom one of
the upper windows, and her mind was full
ot dislike and anger at the girl whom she
believed now had so basely deceived her
sen. Every word which had passed be
tween General Conray and 3Iiriam haden
graved itself as it were on Lady MacKen
non's heart
"A nice wife to bring home truly," she
said to herself, bitterly, as Bbe saw the
young pair approaching the house, and no
ticed the look of love and tenderness on Sir
James' face; "a girl with a disgraceiul past;
a girl whose lover was murdered by another
lover, and then to marry my James! But
he shall know; it is my duty to let him
know, and we shall see what he will say to
her then."
CHAPTER XX.
inc dowager's dtttz,
Before Miriam went down dressed for din
ner, Sir James rapped at her room door, and
brought her in a bunch of freshly-cut cream
colored roses.
"I've been to the conservatory to get you
a posie, dear," he said, in his kindly way:
"We've got a visitor to-day," he added
with a laugh; "the tunniest old chap, who
dines here every Thursday as long as I can
remember."
"Who is it?" answered Miriam, turning
round and looking at him with a smile.
"The Eev. David Xoung, the minister of
the parish," auswered Sir James. "He'll
make you laugh, my dear, and I want to see
you laugh."
"Very well," said Miriam, still imiling;
"I am ready now, James, and we can go
down together."
"Come along then, and I shall introduce
vou to the Eev. David," said Sir James,
drawing her hand through his arm, and
looking and feeling very proud of his hand
some young wife; and Ford, who had been
dressing her lady, looked after them both
with great admiration.
"Well, he is fond of her," she thought
to herself. "Miss Miriam's done a Tery
good thing for herself after all, but I hope
she'll take care."
Kord's sense of propriety, indeed, had re
ceived a slight shock during the- time when
she had been dressing Miriam, fornervously
and uneasily Miriam had asked her to re
ceive a letter again for her.
"A letter will come here lor me addressed
to vou, I expect, during the next two
days," she had said, with downcast eyes
and trembling lips. "I I don't want ih'cm
to know here that I receive it; will you
bring it to me quietly?"
"Ot course, my lady," replied Ford, but
she felt her lady was acting unwisely, and
she thought that she was very foolish to run
sucb a risk.
"fo man is worth it," reflected thelady's
maid, "and if it's that private lellow, well,
itisaoitv."
In the meanwhile Miriam wis going
down the broad oak staircase, leaning on
her husband's arm, and presently they
reached the drawing-room, where they found
a long lanky parson in rusty black, who rose
awkwardly as they entered.
"This is nfy wife, Mr. Young," said 8ir
James upon "which the lanky person made a
dismal bow.
He was an extraordinary looking crea
ture, with a parchment colored skin, lan
tern jaws, and sunken dark eyes. Yet ab
solutely he had at one time aspired to be
come the second husband ot the Dowager
Ladr MacKennon. How he had the cour
age to do this was a marvel, but it was nev
ertheless a tact He had certainly dined
with her each week on the Xhurfdayi lor
many years before he made any advanees at
all. Then he began trying to come twice a
week, but here Lady MacKennon snubbed
him.
"I'm expecting you on the Thursdays,
not the Tuesdays, Mr. Xoung," she said to
him when he ventured to appear too soon,
and he had the sense to take the hint But
one Thursday after a second glass of grog
his tongue was loosened.
"Life's a lang lonely journey for single
folks like you and me, don't ye thinfc,Lady
MacKennon?" said ?he minister, rolling his
sunken eyes at his hostess.
"Ay, but my eyes are fixed on the Best
beyond," replied Lady MacKennon.
"Nae doubt, nae doubt, but ye're not
ther.e yet, Lady MacKennon, and a fellow
traveler to euide yer steps wad nae doubt
be a help and comfort."
Mt steps do not falter," replied the
dowager, with a dignified satisfaction in
her own righteousness.
"Av, but we're poor weak creatures at
best, and it ye were to' stumble I wad like
to be nigh to'pick ye up."
"I have no fear, Mr. Young."
"Ye hae been a Ian; time a widow, Lady
MacKennon, and it's a lonesome state, '
said the minister, insinuatingly.
"And I'll be one when they carry me to
my long home. Don't talk any more, Mr.
Young; old folks like you and me should
know better; I don't mean to change my
state, so let that end it"
The minister was therefore silenced, but
this conversation did not prevent him ap
pearing on the following Thursday at din
ner time, and on every Thursday afterward
with unvarying regularity. The dowager
dined at seven, and at seven the Be v. David
arrived, and he would tell her in his slow
way all the little bits of gossip of the
neighboring hamlets.
And alter sir James naa introduced
Miriam to him he fixed his lack-luster eyes
on her fair face, wondering dimly at its
beauty. But his thoughts were interrupted
by the entrance of the dowager, who came
into the room looking very stern and severe,
and during the dinner that followed she
LEAKS' THE TBtJTH.
never once addressed a word to her son's
young wile.
Miriam did not notice this, "but Sir James
did. and it made him uncomfortable He
had hoped that the mother would in her re
served way become attached to her new
daughter-in-law, bat be was afraid It did
not look very like it at present It was in
Jact an extremely dull evening, and Sir
James was glad when it was over. But just
as he was leaving the room for the night
after the minister had taken his departure,
and Miriam had gone upstairs, his mother
rose and laid a cold, trembling hand upon
his arm.
"James, I have something to tell yon,"
she said, not flinching in her hard purpose,
yet sorry, perhaps, to inflict pain on her
son, though she believed it to be her duty
to do so.
"Well, what is It, mother?" be answered
pleasantly, "if othing serious, I hope?"
"It's a'sad and terrible thing, James; I
have doubted her from the first; but the
wife you have brought into this house is
unworthy ot her place here."
"Mother! "What do you mean?" ex
claimed Sir James, with a sudden change
of conntcnance and manner.
"It's a sore and bitter thing to tell yon,
but my duty lies plain before me, and I
must not shirk it James, I was in the
front drawing room to-day when General
Conray cam a to see the woman you have
brought here, and I overheard him speak
such words to her that they will bring my
grey hair with sorrow to the grave."
"Mother, are yon mad" cried Sir James,
who had now grown pale to the very lips.
"General Conray?"
"No, my son, I am not mad, but I heard
this General Conrav tell the woman you
call your wife all about her past life, and
the terrible sin and shame ot it I heard
her say she had been out with some lover
the night he was murdered, and General
Conrav said another lover of hers had done
1 the accursed deed he said "
'Mother, I won't believe a word of it!"
now cried Sir James, intcrrunting her. "I
won't believe a word against Miriam; I
believe she is good and pure as an angel;
you're dreaming; you're lancying things;
you must not insult my wife, I won't stand
:t, I won't bear it, and I hope you will
have come to your senses by the morning."
Lady MacKennon's only reply was a
groan, but James did not wait to hear any
more. He hastily left the drawing room
J and went to the smoking room, and began
to smoke, telling himselt once more that
his mother had undoubtedly taken leave of
her senses. He told himself this again and
again, yet her words left a stinc. As a rule
he knew she was a rigidly truthful wonfen,
but prejudiced and narrow-minded. She had
taken a dislike to poor Miriam then, and
wanted to turn him against her, he began to
think, and she might have heard General
Conray talking ot things that she did not
understand, and that could hove had no
connection with Miriam whatever. "Out
i with a lover the night he was murdered!
How absurd!" laughed Sir James, and yet
the laugh had an uncertain and dreary ring
in it He had known nothing of her past
life he presently remembered; nothing till
he met her at a ball at Halstone, and had
fallen in love with her and wooed her.
Then he remembered also that she had been
very cold aDd coy about fixing their wed
ding; that she had put it off.
"Good heavens! cried Sir James, start
ing to his leet, "all sorts ot horrible things
are coming to my mind am I growing as
mad as mother? I am ashamed of myself;
ashamed ot myself tors moment to let Such
thoughts creep into my brain. They are con
temptible about Miriam, about my pure
sweet love I will think of them no
more."
And he tried not He went upstairs pres
ently, and found Miriam asleep,. and he
stood looking at her, and these horrid
donbts again stole into his mind. It is won
derful the harm that evil words can do.
Their poison lingers against our wills, turn
ing bitter too often the sweetness of our
lhes. Sir James had had perfect trust and
confidence in Miriam; it had never dawned
upon his mind to have any other leeliugs
toward her until bis mother had done what
she called her duty!
"She was agitated about General Conray's
THE
visit when I met ber to-day certainly," be
now began thinking, looking-at his sleep
ing wife, "and why did she go out to post
a letter tt Strathloe, instead of putting it in
the letter bag here? But what folly ! She
was agitated, of course, about her sister'a
illness, and thdught poor darling a letter,
would retch her mother more quickly if
she posted it herself at the village. I won't
think about it anv more; I think we had
better go from here" till all this folly Wows
over."
And he actually proposed to Miriam on
the following morning that they should
leave Kintore.
"Would vou like to go to see your sister,
dear?" Ire said.
"I think we had better wait a day or two,
until I hear from mother," answered
Miriam.
"Well, just as you like. By-the-bye,
Miriam, did you ever stav with Mrs. Conray
at their house? What "is it called? Oh,
yes Tyeford."
"Yes, answered Miriam, and Sir James
conld not but notice that she grew, little
pale, and that ber lips quivered as she
made this brief answer.
"Not since I have known you?" he said.
"No, before two years ago. How fine it
is to-day, James! I wonder if it is too cold
to row on the loch?"
So she changed the conversation, and the
two went out to row and then to drive, and
Sir James would have forgotten all his
mother had said if it had not been for her
stern, unbending manner to. Miriam. She
scarcely spoke to her, and Miriam began to
perceive there was something very much
amiss with her mother-in-law. She asked
her husband, and he answered with affected
carelessness.
"She takes odd ideas into ber head some
times Oh, she'll be all right presentlv.
As for Lady MacKennon she made no
further attempt to renew the conversation
with her son about his wife. She was satis
fied that she had done right to warn him,
and she was satisfied alio that some day
things would become plainer in bis eyes.
And a little incident which occurred the
second day after General Conray's visit to
Kintore made her more certain "of this still.
It was at breakfast tme. and when the
locked letter-bag was brought in by the but
ler Lady MacKennon's keen eyes happened
to be fixed on Miriam's iace, and she saw at
once the strange look of anxiety there as
Sir James proceeded leisurely to unlock and
open the bag.
"Here is one for you, dear," he said,
banding a letter to Miriam, who held it un
opened for a moment in her hand with her
gaze still fixed on the letter-hag. Then she
opened her letter, but still her eyes were on
the different letters that Sir James was
drawing carelessly out
"It is from mother," she said a moment
later; "Joan is a little better " and then
she suddenly stopped, and her breath came
short
For Sir James was looking attentively
and smilingly at the direction of a letter he
held in his hand. All the letters for the
household at Kintore and they were not nu
merous came in the family letter-bag, and
Sir James used to lay those aside that were
not for himself, his mother or his wife, and
tbey were carried downstairs by the butler.
"This is for that swell voung woman of
yours, Miriam," he said, still smiling,
'"Miss Ford, care of Lady MacKennon, arid
her correspondent writes very well; it's
like a'gentleuian's handwriting."
Tnen the dowager again fixed her eyes on
Miriam's face, and saw it had absolutely
grown white and clammy, and the expres
sion of her eyes was full ot tear.
"Give it "to me, James," said Miriam,
huskily, "and I will give it to Ford."
And the dowager watched her as she
took the letter in her trembling hand, as
she put it beneath her own letter, as she
tried to speak indifferently, but could not
She noticed, too, that she 'ate no breakfast,
and that her hands shook as she raised her
tea-cup to her pale lips.
"She is hiding something," thought Lady
MacKennon, sternly; "the letter to her
maid nrobably contains a letter to herselt;
it is sbaineluL"
"You are not eating anything, dear,"
said Sir James, kindly, now'also loking at
his young wife.
"Your letters seem to have upset you,"
remarked the downger, grimly.
Then Miriam tried to pull herself to
gether. "No, my sister is a little better," she
said, "but it naturally makes one feel ner
vous getting letters when anvone is very
ilL"
"Of course it does," said Sir James. "I
am so glad, dear, that Mrs. Conray is bet
ter." Miriam tried to smile gratefully at her
husband, but it was a very painful effort
Then Sir James began to read little pieces
ot news trom the papers, and at last the
breakfast was over and Miriam was free to
go upstairs with her two letters, and she
went She almost ran up the staircase and
hurried to her room and found two house
maids there arranging it
"You can go; you can return afterwards,"
she said, and a few moments later she was
alone. Then she tore open the letter ad
dressed to Ford, and read it with bated
breath and parted lips. It rtad:
I scircely know how to thank you, and
xour warning has como In time. I nave ob
tained a week's furlough, and leave few-brough-on-the-Sea,
as I am posting this,
never to jeturn. I am going away out of
England; but before I no I wish to see you
once more. Do not refuse my last request,
dear Miriam, for the sake of the old love
which In my heart ac least will never grow
cold. I shall go, therefore, to Scotland, to
the neighborhood of Kintore, and will write
to you when I arrive theie, addressing my
letter as usual to your maid Ford. Arrange
to meet me wherever and at any hour you
please, and I shall be there. But do not re
fuse to see me lor the last, last time.
H. F.
This letter was at once a relief and a ter
ror to Miriam. At all events, he was going
away: going to leave England, and-Joan's
secret would be safe. But bow could she
meet him? She was afraid, and yet could
she refuse? Poor Hugh, whose life had
been wrecked, all through his fond, pas
sionate love lor her. Yes, she would see
him, at last she decided; see him to bid him
larewell; to bid him Godspeed to the land
where be must begin bis new life, and she
would always afterward try to do her duty
and make her husband happy. She did not
think ot meeting Hugh Ferrars now with
the same thoughts and feelings as she had
done at Nettbrough-on-the-Sea. She was
a wife now, bound to James MacKennon,
and she meant to keep-true to these bonds,
but still she wished to bid ber old friend
goodby. The difficultv .was, how to do it
without endangering his safety. But he had
obtained a week's lurlough, and no one
would know where he was. So she must
wait, Miriam told herself: wait until she
heard from him, and then for a few mo
mentsonly for a lew moments they
would meet
She hid away his letter and placed 200
ready in an envelope to 'give him. And
then, having made these preparations, she
went down to the breaklast room beside
her husband. She thought he looked a
little strange when 'she entered the room,
and there was a flush on bis brown cheeks
which was not usually there. The truth
was, the dowager haf once more been doing
her best to make him miserable, for Miriam
had scarcely lelt her room with the two
Utters when Ladv MacKennon bad re
marked in a sepulchral voice:
"James, did you'remark anything extra
ordinary, in the-manner with which your
wife received that letter addressed to her
maid?"
"No, I did not," answered Sir James,
testily.enough. .
"I did, then; she was agitated; she was
uneasy; it is your duty as her husband to
make her show you the contents of that
letter."
"Show me the contents of her maid'i
letter!" said Sir James, scornfully; "really,
mother, your ideas aremostextraordinary."
( To be. Continued Next Sunday. )
Not Senseless Klcht Away.
It Is said by scientists to be a fact that all
our senses do not slumber simultaneously,
but that they fall into a happy state of in
sensibility one after another.' The eyelids
take the lead and obscure sight; the senses
of taste is the next to lose Hi snsoeptibil
Uy; tben follow smelling, bearing and
touch, the last named being the lightest
sleeper and moat Mail around.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
AN OUTING IN CANADA
Delightful Spots Where the Pitts
bnrger'Calls for Fire.
STEAMY OP CUSTOMS OFFICERS.
Indian Papooses Banging on the Fences an
" Iverydaj Sight.
PEOPLE WHO ARE IJf THE KOBTH
CcOnBESrOKDEWOl or TBI DISr-ATOlM
Orillia, Ont., July 28.
T was evening when
our little party left
Chautauqua. It com
prised two ladies, two
little girls, their two
favorite dogs and a
colored maid.
We were glad to es
cape the fierce beat,
suffered since morn
ing, for it had been 90
in th shade all day.
Our Pullman had con
verted itself into a perfect oven as it rushed
through the blazing sua, so we felt glad as it
drew up at the end of Lake Chautauqua. Its
coolness gently entered our windows.
But, then, we were rushing northward.
North! .What delightful ideas the word
suggested rto our sweltering imagination!
Pine groves, glorious lakes, everything
ONE OF THE
pleasant, and no dark side to the picture of
cool rest awaiting us. The rich lands and
fine country through which we were passing
offered no inducements to open our weary
eyes; that woo all over when we ceased to
lift our throbbing heads from the cushions.
In such sad plight, what did it matter
whether the country was a desert or an
Eden?
Into the Land of the Kannoks.
Buffalo how glad we were to hear that
stopping place called! How thankful when
our train got through those grimy suburbs,
ill-lighted, ill-smelling, for, judging from
our feelings that evening, there must
have been at least 20 miles of wind
ings around founderies, factories, furnaces
and public institutions of all sorts. We
were too tired to go furtherwithout resting,
so we ordered supper. Of course, we took
brighter views of things after that. And
we were a much brighter party as we left
next morning lor Niagara.
I need not dcscribe'it (Niagara).- That
has been done by others, and sometimes too
well. I wish some ot the aforesaid deserip
tionists could have seen the bitter disap
pointment exhibited by our little girls who
had been reading tbe very poetic picture of
Niagara by Antony Trollope.
"And is that all?" Angela remarked
blankly. "Why, Aunt Goldy, this is not
worth coming to see!"
"Oh!" said our little Luln, "I thought it
was miles and miles bigger! Indeed I did!"
No doubt Mr. Trollope had thrown a
cloud over many bright expectations before.
But I believe very young persons are de
liehtful tarveling companions, for through
their enthusiasm at seeing strange sights,
one lives their own youthtul enjoyment all
over again. The impatience ot youth de
mands that they shall see things in rapid
succession, and our young ladies urged
"we go on to the, cool Northern lakes," and
on we went Not lar, however, for the
officers of "Her British Majesty's Customs
soon brought us to a halt"
In the Hands or the Customs Officers.
I shall never forget poor chaperon stand
ing amid a pile of baggage trying to find the
proper key for each trunk, while she
trembled at the loud tone of "Imperial
authority" shouting, "What? what?
what?" as they dug to the bottom of our
innocent portmanteaus. Some new shoes
and a black lawn dress pattern caused a new
query, and though chaperon assured the
gentlemen these trifles were for personal
use only, both shoes and lawn went into the
office and paid duty per valuation.
At this point of our journey, tickets for
the dogs were demanded, they being rated
at one-fonrth the price paid for a passenger
fare. Under this arrangement we flattered
ourselves that the dogs were now entitled
to certain considerations, as paying pas
sengers. Tbe cars given us at the Canadian line
were dreadful old "rattletraps," "misera
ble greasy" things all the American
passengers were complaining loudly. We
could not understand why the charges were
so much more than in the United States.
However, tbey gave plenty ot ventilation,
and, bad it not been for the dust filtering
all over us, we would have been quite
happy, as the cool, bracing air was already
delightful in our worn-out state. We bad
no intention of remaining in Toronto until
wc found our dogs left behind, and then
considered it best to wait, and keep tele
graphing, "just to wake them up," as chap
eron remarked.
At the Queen's, by the way, we
saw a gentleman throw down bis
big satchel and railway tag, and
order a slim yonng housemaid to "take those
traps upstairs," and afterwards saw the
same young creature black his boots.
Asking lor Stoves In Jaly.
At Barrie we went to one of the best
hotels,and as it was only 47 degrees Fahren
heit, asked for fires in our rooms, "Ladies,"
said the host, bowing low, "we are very
sorry to disoblige you; but all our stoves
were takerroutat housccleaning time, and
there is no way of beating a room in the
building."
Of course it ended in our going to another
hotel, but, also, it was the same story there,
"stoves all down." Nothing remained
now, but to make the best of circumstances.
After a very cool night, and ditto break
fast next morning, we bought warm jack
ets, shawls, underwear, and fleeced stock
ings, Liddy, the.colored maid, saying with
a shiver that, "This trip was done goin to
be the de'th of ns, and this 'Kenedy, was not
fit for us Christians to live in."
We wondered what these people called
"cool weather," and "40 below rero" was
the smiling response to our inquiry. Blow
ever, we wrapped ourselves up and took
long walks In sunny places, rapturously
breathing the bracing and fragrant air, or
praising the wondrous Italian skies.' The
clonds, the sunsets, the sunrises are simply
indescribable. Our Middle States can show
nothing like it Of course, on tbe Ameri
can shore of Lake Superior one ean lee it
as peri eot, but nowhere else. 0
It was so chilly all our stay in Barne,
and once I proposed to ehaperone that I
take the piano cover m m xtrihwl
SUNDAY, JULY 81.
generously suggesting she wear the table
cover. Chaperone rebelled.
The English View of Women Travelers.
The landlord informed us, on our arrival,
that if he had known we were only a party
of ladies he would not have kept rooms lor
us, and that be bad turned away gentlemen,
who were much less trouble. Under these
humiliating conditions we were compelled
to be on our very best behavior, and lost no
time in finding a furnished house. This is
our first experience of theJEnglish view of
women straying around without the pro
tecting care" ot gentlemen. And yet by
some strange contradiction these people
allow all women owning property the right
to vote in the municipal elections!
There are several bands of Indians near
Borrie, one at Roma ot 250, they are gener
ously provided for by the English Govern-,
ment, who keeps an agent and a doctor to
look after them, and pays a sum every three
months, per capita. We saw a statement in
a, Toronto paper lately that Indian maidens
never kiss. Of course we cannot vouch for
this, being only a girl. Yesterday morning,
on the main street, and near the postofBce,
we were vastly surprised to see several In
dian baskets hung on a picket fence, and in
one of them a sleeping papoose. The fence
was warm and sheltered, and the mother
was away, making her little purchases.
Chaperone declared "She gavj up trying to
measure the calm confidence of the mother
who could hang her infant on a fence rail
and then go shopping." A friend told us
it was quite a common thin? to find a row of
these baskets with'Indian babies in them,
hung on the fences, near the lake shore, the
squaws having rowed over in their canoes
from the "reservation" to do their purchas
ing. A Canadian Thunder Storm.
Last Sunday we had one of these metero
logical treats common to the forty-fifth
parallel. In the morning a soft gray fog
surrounded everything. The trees looking
INDIAN CAMPS.
like ghosts in green across the street, and
every blade of grass laden down with pearls,
we were enjoying it all as another uniquo
exhibition of nature in this climate, whun,
lo! loud penis of thunder burst overhead in
the soft gray log. There was no lightning
visible but toi rents of warm lain fell, dis
solving the wonderful fog, and continuing
at Intervals all day.
We met some boys on the street this morn
Injr carrying a magnificent specimen of the
great Northern diver, or loon, as It is com
monly called. They said it came up with a
fishing net near Midland. It seeuisttiese
loons often dive to help themselves to a flsh
from some net, and this splendid specimen
got caught in the meshes himself. Thev aie
extremely handsome birds, black and white,
with peacock tints. We have often heard
them on the copper haibor shore ot Lake
Superior, calling in the say, mocklnz tones
of some schoolboy who has hidden himself
and taunts bis companions to find
him: or, again, uttering wild, elfiisli
laughter "Hal ha! Ho. he o. Noo-ooo" very
alarming to one who does not know the call.
On the water the loon will come up qnlte
close to your boat, as if to get a Rood look at
you, and then diving will emerge half a
mile away, w hUe yon are' watching most in
tontty to see him come up just wnoia ho
went down. Then the bonutllul bird rises
gracefully in the air and flies ashore, utter
ing weird, mocking cries as If laughing at
your ignorance.
Orlllla Is a Flscs to Kent
I conclude this letter by declaring Orlllla
the most charming of all the summer towns
In Ontario. It Is built on a gentle slope and
looks on the two lakes, Simcoe and
Couchlcklng. It has wide, grass-covered
streets, densely shaded, and pretty little
Bridegroom YeUoiihcad.
dwelling half hidden by maples. Grass
grown streets indicate n very small amonnt
o( business, but with that summer visitors
have nothing to do. They come for i est,
and surely quiet is vest. The people here
seem to live slowly.
Dr. H. T. Watson, of Pittsburg, with wife
and baby, spent the last two weeks of June
very pleasantly in this pretty summer town.
Ho will spend the remainder of July at
Almie Harbor. H. S. Christy, Eq., and
mother were Uier a few days and then left
lor the more fashionable resorts on the
lovelv Lake Eosseau. Dr. Kiurllns and two
sons," of Philadelphia, are visiting Dr.
Benton, Superintendent of the Ontario
Asylum for Idiots.
S. K. Hnuson. of Pittsbnrg, is at the Queens
Hotel, Toronto, and Mrs. McQnarrle, of
Pittsburg, Is at the St. Jnme Hote'. T. O.
Hearn is also at the St James Hotel.
At the Albion, Toronto, are H. Tonne and
wife, Evan City, Pa.: at the Walker House,
S. J. Irvlnft, Evans Citv, Pa.; at the Queens
Hotel, G. A. Spindle and wlie, Pittsburg; C.
C. Craft and Miss A. M. Cratt. Cratton, and
C. C. Wren, J. M. Wren, Miss C. J. Wien and
MlssE. O. Wien, of Boverstown, Pa, Scat
tered among the other Toronto hotels are 63
Americans from different parts of the
country. A P. Webster, General Steamship
Agent at Toronto, reports atnone his lit the
following Americans sailing this week for
Europo: Alex. McFadden, I. H. Clark and
Mrs. M. H. Clark, of Toungstown, O.: E. W.
Mclntyre, or Dayton, O., and H. K. Daniels,
of Pennsylvania.
Here Is a society note I olio from to-day's
paper: "At St. James Episcopal Choron,
Orlllla, by the Bev. Canon Greene, Charles
Tellowhead, son of Chief Tellowhead. Eama
Seserve. Rama, to Miss Big Canoe, daughter
of Chief Ulg Canoe, ot the same tribr."
Miss Goldex Bon.
Totat Abstinence Motes.
Tnr Union can furnish at very low rates
appropriate and neat frames for the school
children's pledge cards.
Thb monthly meeting of the Pnlon at
Mansfield last Sunday was a decided success.
A ladles' society will be organized.
The annual meeting of the C. T. A. TJ. of
America will be held at Indianapolis Tues
day. The session will last until Friday.
Thi MIses Douaherty, Callahan, McDon
ald, Neumout and McGarrell. of the Father
Mathew, find Messrs. Grifnn, Kecd and
others will leave tftts week for the summer
school at N ew London, Conn. '
The Pioneer Tourist Club or Pittsburg,
composed of total abstainers, will siart for
Indianapolis to-nIg)it over the P. and L. E.
They will touch at Cleveland, Pnt-In-Kay
and other points of Interest
Mrss Situs A Moore, a prominent total
abstinence worker, or Philadelphia, and edi
tor of the Catholic Home Journal, is visitln?
Miss Mary Dougherty of Noaley avenue.
MUs Moore Is on -route to tbe Indianapolis
convention.
Jlzv. M. A LAjrarao, President of the Pltts
IKrg Union; Bev. M. It. Sheedy. Vice Presl
aldent of the National Union: and Jlossrs.
i. A Weldon, P. W. Joyce and M. Hynman,
delegates-at-Urge to Indianapolis, willlcTe
Honda night lor the convention.
1892.
BETTING ON HORSES.
Famous Tnrf Followers Advise the
Fellows Who Will be Foolish.'
HAKD STDDT A FIRST REQUISITE.
If Ton Must Hazard Your Money Do Rot
Have Whims and Systems.
PITTSBURG PHIL'S IDEAy0P SUCCESS
.rconnrsposni'vcx or thi dispatcti.i
BoSTOjr, July 29. Betting or gambling
and any form of betting is gambling is al
most as old as humanity itself. In all ages
there have been men and women who have
staked money and other considerations of
value upon the cast of dice, the tum of a
card, or the speed and staying qualities of a
horse, and there will continue to be such
down to the very end of time. At the pres
ent day the practice of wagering money
upon such pastimes is perhaps more univer
sally prevalent than at any other period of
the world's history, and nowhere more so
than in our own country.
The very great increase in horse racing,
both running and trotting, which we have
seen within the past few years, and which
seems to steadily continue, has been the
means of initiating into the practice of bet
ting an immense number of people of all
ages, both sexes, and every condition and
walk of life. In view of this fact I recently
solicited an expression of their views from
several of the great bettors now most promi
nently identified with the American turf on
the question of how to win money on tbe
flyers:
"Pittsburg Phil," whose real name is
George B. Smith, enjoys greater newspaper
notoriety than any other turfman of our
time, fully equaling in that respect that
famous plunger of years ago, T. F. Walton.
All sorts of stories are in circulation about
Phil's early life. The newspapers have
assigned him to almost every known trade
from cork cutting to scissors grinding.
Certain it is he was once an employe at
Armstrong's cork factory in Allegheny.
How Plttabnrs Phil Got II U Mart.
His first bet was laid in a Smoky City
pool room. Fred Mignery was a Pittsburg
printer and he and Smith becume intimate.
Mignery often tried his luck on the flyers,
and bought his tickets sometimes under the
name of "Big Sam," sometimes under that
of "June." He steered Smith into the pool
rooms and between them they struck it rich
right along. Smith won lots of money in
the West; tben he went East and became a
follower of the Dwycr Brothers' stable,
which was then a very powerful one, and
was steadily winning every race in which
it had an entry.
Two stories are told as to his picturesque
nickname. One is that when he first be
came a familiar character at the great race
course nobody knew his name, but some
one said he came from Pittsburg, and then
someone else gave him the soubriquet of
"Pittsburg Phil," which has clung to him
ever since. The other story is that when
Fred Mignery was buying tickets in the
name of "Big Sam" and "June" he bought
a few for his friend Smith under the name
of "Phil." This "Phil" was lucky, and
his fame soon spread to other cities, where
he became known as "Pittsburg Phil." He
tells me that from that time to the present
he has rarely failed to quit winner at the
end of the season, frequently winning to
the extent of 250,000 in a single campaign.
He is a smooth-faced, slender, bright-looking
man of middle age.
Krvrr Own Any Bace Horses.
"If you want to win money on the turf by
betting heavily," he said, in reply to my
que'stion, "never own any race horses your
self. If you do it will certainly influence
tout Judgment Tou may go to tbe track
-on7inced that some horse will beat the one
you have entered, but as soon ac you see
your horse you will begin to wish that he
may "win, and from wishing you will soon
progress to believing. Then you will wager
all the money you can raise on an animal
which you had previously decided, in your
sober senses, had no chance of winning.
"You will donbtless say that this is very
strange, foolish talk lroni" one who has made
two such great wins as I have with my colt
'King Cadmus,' but in suite of my two
coups on that nag, I still believe that the
principle 1 have just laid down is the cor
rect one. Even in the case of 'King Cad
mus I think I overestimated his ability.
On the 3d of last September, when I staked
$9,000 on him at such heavy odds that I won
$85,000, I expected him to win with the
greatest ease, but he won only by a neck
after one ot the most desperate finishes that
Taral, his jockey, ever rode. Again, when
I won about 535,000 on him on "the 2nd of
last June, up to the time he was within
three jumps of the wire, it looked asthongh
he could not finish better than third.
It was only by the wonderfnl rally of his
rider, 'Snapper' Garrison, that he managed
to finish first by barely three inches, jet "be
fore the start I was confident that he could
win easily.
No Use for Superstitions or Sjstemv
"If you want to win money by turf bet
ting have no superstitions, no systems, no
set rules or ideas. Shun professional 'touts'
and the 'tips' they offer to sell you as you
would the plague. Try to form an intelli
gent judgment as to the respective merits of
the horses and of their jockeys, on that par
ticular day and track, and tihen don't be
afraid to back it t
"One peculiar thing about betting is that
the strain on one's nervous system is greater
I when you win than when you lose. It is
invariably so witli me, ana other Dig Deiters
tell me their experience is similar. After
losing heavily I go to the theatoror some
other amusement resort and soon forget my
losses. Then I go home to bed and sleep
sonndly. But after making a big win I
am very apt to pass a sleepless night"
Mr. John Goodwin, one of the Goodwin
brothers who compile the ''Official Turf
Guide," the standard authority of American
horse racing, said, when I put my conun
drum to him, that to win money ou the
turf one should have a certain limit in bet
ting and neveft go beyond it. He should
not'stake on a single race more than one
fourth of his available betting capital.
Then, in the event ot losing, he would have
three-fourths 'with which to win it back.
When it is possible to hedge a bet to ad
vantage it should always be done.
"If you believe that "a horse that is ever
o 'short' in the betting can win," he con
tinued, "and jrour belief is based upon a
carefully and accurately formed, intelligent
judgment, do not hesitate to back that horse
with just as much confidence as yu would
it he were a favorite. It you u in on one
race do not invest all your winnings on the
next. I do not believe there is any 'system'
ot betting that can be recommended. Tne
only way to win is to study the horses, the
jockeys and the tract"
Phil Dwycr Hakes It a Study.
Phil Dwyer, one of the famous Dwyer
brothers, is "one of the tew men who have
made a great lortune on the turf. He be
gan lile as a butcher, and being, like nil
butchers, intensely fondot horses, ne finally
came, together with his brother Mike, to
devote himself to the business ot racing
them. He is a very quiet, pleasant gentle
man, with a Irani;, Kindly expression oi
face, notwithstanding a cast in one ot his
eyes which gives him a rather mischievous,
'roguish look. When I asked him for his
views on how to win money ou the turf he
smiled pleasantly and said:
"If 1 should attempt to lay down any
general rules tor the guidance of bettors,
the first would be, never bet ignorantly,
simply upon the chance and with the mere
hope that you may win. I mean by that,
never bet on a ho'se unless you have
Studied hint and all the other horses pitted
sgainst him to the best oi your ability and
hare thoroughly satisfied yourself from the
bait possible data obtainable that he is the
best horse in the race and that in all human
possibility will win. This is what the
shrewd professional bettor always does.
"I have said that vou must study your
horse and the others pitted, against him. I
mean by that that you must study their
pedigree, their conformation,and especially
their condition on the day of the race. A
horse may go put and easily defeat a large
field of horses to-day, while to-morrow or
next week he may finish last of all in that
very same field, even though the same
jockey has ridden him on both occasions
and has tried equally hard to win both
times. A horse is the most uncertain
thing in the world. He is more liable to
changes of temper and condition than even
the most delicate and sensitive lady.
Therefore his performances in the past are
often of small value as an indication of
what he can do in the present The ques
tion is not what he did do or could do day
before yesterday or last week, but what can
he do to-day.
Whims Will Bnin Any SprcaUtor.
"Besides studying the conditions of the
horses on tbe day of the race, the condition
ot the track is also an important considera
tion. Certain horses only go well on cer
tain kinds of tracks. Some require a firm,
bard track; others go best on a soft, yield
ing one. On a muddy track a race mar be
won easily by a horse that would have Seen
utterly worthless among the same competi
tors on a dry one. If yon want to bet in
telligently and to win you must bet in no
other way you must be familiar with all
such peculiarites of the horses you bet on
and against
"There is a great deal in studying jockeys
as well as horses. Some jockeys ride much
better than others, and will get a great deal
more speed out ot their mounts. Some are
more likely to ride honestly than others.
All of these things must be most carefully
considered in order to win money on the
turf. There is no one who can more illy
afiord to indulge any pet theories, whims
or prejudices than the would-be successful
turf speculator. On the contrary, he must
be like the skilled mariner prepared to
trim his bark at a moment's notice, and al
ter her course in accordance with any
change in the winds and tides. To win
money on the tnrf, one must not be too
timid nor too bold; too pessimistic nor too
optimistic; too trnthful nor too incredu
lous. He must try to steer a medium course
between all these qualities."
Feank Feb:.
OUTING OF THE SPOOKS.
What the Spiritualist, at Lily Dale, Ars
Dolnc Story oi Lcclnrer Colvllle A
Qanrrel Aboat Indian Spirits A Fad
for Portry A PlttFDurj: Party.
LiltDalu, July 30. ISpecia'. That widely
advertised bih priest of spiritualism
known as W. J. Colvllle was the first lee
turer to appear before a Lily Dale audience
the present season.
Mr. Colvllle U the ablest and most often
quoted exponent of modern spiritualism in
the world to-day. He is the son of an En
glish armyfBcer and a French actiess, who
died when he was a babe in arms. He was
born nt sea in 1862, and during bis childhood
years he claims to have been conscious of
the presence of his mother, bnt was not
aware that his experience was exceptional
until, to his surprise, he discovered that no
one Irat himself could see tho "beautiful
lady" who appeared to him dilly, soothed
his baby griefs, smoothed away bis childish
cares, and each evening glided softly Into
bis chamber and gavo himagood-nishtlclis.
When a lad of 12 years he accidentally
stumbled upon a spiritualistic seance. "If
it is true that a solrlt can influence a natural
bndv, why don't they control that boyt"
disgustedly inquired a skeptical spinster in
corkscrew cnrls and spectacles. Almost in
stantly the lad arose and with dignity re
plied: "If the lady will snggest a subject
we will improvise a poem." The woman,
awe struck by the sndden acceptance other
challenge and by the astonishing trans
formation in the personality of the bov, was
dumb, but some one remarked: "Give us
some verses on cremation. That's the
latest wrinkle, yon know." At once
tho boy assumed the air of a pro
fessional orator and recited 20 verses
ot fair rytlim and correct measure
upon the subject suggested. He then cloaod
by turning to the bewildered and somewhat
frightened woman witli a prolonnd bow,
saying, "We thik yon, madam, for tbe op
portunity you have afforded ns for spcafc
fna throueli the Instrument before yon. We
shall be heard, in tho I ntnre, tipon many oc
casions and in many lands." From that
time forth he conld pass into this entranced
condition at will and tbe prophecy of his
fnture has been fulfilled.
The tiansrormatlon which takes place
when he steps npon tbe platform is amazing.
He then seems to straighten up and grow
tall, his slonchins gr.it becomes stately, his
bnihfulness vanishes in self-possession, his
mild, blue eyes flash with tbe fires of intel
ligence, his thin voice becomes resonant and
his hesitating tongne becomes eloquent.
When in this so-called entranced state he
answers at ease questions neon the most
dense metaphysical speculation, solves the
most obtnse astronomical problem, or
throws lisht npon the perplexing exigencies
of society and the various and diverse anoin
Alias of existence
Abont four times a week there is a general
conference or experience meeting held in
the auditorium, which is a perfect "picnic"
foe unbelievers. Anyone and every one is
allowed a ten-minute speoch upon a topic of
his own choosing, and the result maybe
easily imagined. One mornln;; this week
the subject of "Indian controls" was brought
up for discu-sion. Its absurdities and the
Irrationalisms were facetiously dwelt unon
by an astrologer of some note, and his views,
which he exemplified by means peculiar to
his proiesslon, were strongly supported by
an extreme mental scientist.
This roused the Ire of the various mediums
in the congregation, and there was a hasty
scramble for the platiorm in delense of their
red skinned "gnides" for whom they nrofess
thu greatest affection and respeet An un
dignified exhibition of temper ensued, and
durlus the next hour the battle waged hot
and furious.
"ly you mediums want to be controlled by
dirty Indians, you are welcome to be," sar
castically observed the apostle of mental
science, to which there vs.- an audible and
Ironical "thank yon."
One highly excited indlviauil, who, with
vocilerous voice and wild gesticulation, took
up the cudgel for the noble red men, was
cheered In bis efforts by a ringing war
whoop, which electrified the audience and
was supposed to express the approbation of
one of the gratified "controls."
In roply to a sneering allusion to the
remedies prescribed by the big medicine
man, It was urged that thero wns no lesa
spirituality In drinking a cup of catnip tea,
than in dining on dandelion or rhubarb.
There seems to be a perlect craze among
tho spiritualist lecturers at tills camp to
shine as impromptu makers of verse. With
all the dignity, solemnity and wisdom of an
owl they announce, at the beginning and
end of eaclfdiscourse, their readines to tin
piovbe a "poem" upon any subject sug
gested by the audience, who uro expected to
b overwhelmed by this diso'ay of their ro
markablo gift. Sumo of these attempts at
inspirational rhyme remind one of the ef
lorts of one Sal Slick, who iu an unguarded
moment boasted or his talent in this direc
tion, and hen pushed to the test stammered
out: "The wind blew down our old well
sweep. Dad and I put it np again Sheop."
It by notn"ans requires a fortune to sum
mer nt Lily Dale. Hotel latcs aro but from
$1 to $1 50 per day, lodging can be obtained
lor 25 cents and meals ut tho same low ra'e.
The only compulsory tax which Is placod
upon the guest is tho entrance to the gates,
which Is 15 cont. Ten cents a day is
charged each person within, and If a season
ticket is purchased there U a stilt further
ludiiction.
S-r.ingur visitors will find tho names of all
mediums or "sensitives." as they prefer to
call themselves, legistered in Library Hall,
together with their address and different
phases of psychical phenomenon orphysical
inuniiestat.tur.s- There me healers enough
present to cure all tho invalids In mo"
United State..
Captain Itouse, or Titusville, the host of
this looiny summer house, who was called
to Homestead in charge or Comptny K,
Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, lias re
turned on a furlough, which will extend
through the month of August The Captain
isanuidciit. but conservative, spiritualist.
The speukeis thus lar this season have
been W. J. Colvllle, Lyman C. Howe, Mr. F.
A. Hyzer and Mrs. H. S. Lake, and Hudson
mid Kiuruii Hood Tuttlo. Sunday the name
or U'tll.ird J. Hull will be added to the list.
A few investigators, who held a dark
seauce u lew nights ago on their own ac
count, no medinm belni present, and it no
were almost persuaded to become spiritu
alists "by having seen tho ghost walk, ere
deeply cua.'iined tbe next morning to learn
tunc tho "lonely apparition" was it thinly
chid woman of their acquaintance who had
stolen quietly through tue room for a glass
oi water.
Kooins have been engaged for a pleasure
pai ty from l'ittsburg next weeek who will
uke in" tbe camp, and who facetlomdy ob
served in their tetter, that they quite ex
pected in turn to be "taken in."
Orncx furniture repaired.
Bacob & Sua ax, st Water street
WOMEN ENDURE PAIN
Better fhan Men Becanse They're
Less Sensitive to Its Effects.
HOW PB0F. L0HBR0S0 PE0YES IT.
1 Model for tie World's Fair That Will
how the Ocean Current.
EPEATIKG APfLES TYITII PAEIS GREET
rWraTTTCT TOB TUB DISPATCIt.1
Not lone ago Trofesser Lombroso-raised
a hue and "cry throughout many lands by
the assertion that women can bear pain
better than men simply becanse they are
less sensitive to its effects. Many of the
leading physicians of 2f ew York were ap
pealed to for their experience on the spb
ject, and they one and all gallantly pro
tested that woman deserved all the credit
given her for her fortitude under pain, and
declared thai the idea that her ability to
withstand the effects of suffering was cansed
by comparative insensibility was untenable.
There is. however, a little instrument
called the esthesiometer, which tells a dif
ferent story, and bears out fully the now
widely known opinions of Professor Lom
broso. The faculty of pain bearing in wo
man has generally been attributed to a
superior quality of mental control, whereby
the female system could be "keyed up" to
a certain required condition until the un
usual strain had passed by, when the col
lapse that was sure to follow could expend
itself in profuse weeping and those other
feminine weaknesses which go so far to
compensate the sex for pain, sorrow or
anxiety.
Prof. Lombroso holds, with many physi
ologists, that "feminine self-abandonment
in moments of painful emotion is due prob
ably to two causes. First, the fact that the
female brain is known to have less control
than the male brain over reflex and semi
reflex actions: and, secondly, the peculiar
nature of woman's early training."
Prof. Lombroso quotes Carle, tbe famous
surgeon, as having Informed him that In his
experience the majority of women allow
themselves to be operated upon with aston
ishing insensibility, almost as though the
body beneath the surgeon's knife was that
of another and not their own, and a case is
recorded during the last year in which a
woman who had to snbtnit to a series of op
erations took actual pleasure In being
placed under the knife. Giordano is quoted
as saving that, even In the midst ol the
throes or childbirth, despite theirapprehen
siony, women suffer much less than is gener
ally supposed.
Dr. Martini, a famous Italian dentist, has
been surmised to observe that women
undergo every varietv of dentafoperatton
with much more courage and facility than
men. and Dr. Mela adds that men under the
dentist's hands swoon mnch more frequently
than do women.
The esthesiometer, by the aid of which
Professor Lombroso has been able tothror
so much light on this interesting subject la
made on tho model or a pair of calipers,
with the points somewhat ronnded or knob
Ilke. It is used to test the tactile sensi
bility ora person,!, e.. to ascertain how near
together these points maybe brought be
fore they feel ns one point and the dual im
pression that they should make is lost.
Attached to tho instrument is a graduated
scale which measures the tactile insensi
bility in millimeters.
In measuring the power of sensitiveness
to pain nt the tip nf the forefinger In over a
hundred women, Lombroso found that, ex
cept in the case or very young girls, whose
tactile sensitiveness Is exceedingly de
veloped, woman's sense of touch is, in
general, nearly twice as obtuse as that of
man.
After testing touch, taste and smell, the
learned professor directed his experiments,
by means of the electric algometer, to the
field of general sensibility. By these ex-
Seriments it was clearly shown that woman
i inferior to man in her sensibility to pain,
and, as a consequence, is by that much
better able to bear pain with fortitude.
Among no less than 50 women orthe lower
class the general sensibility was represented
by an average of 90 mm., and sensibility to
pain by 53 mm.: while among men of the
same class the figures were 94 mm. and 6i
mm. respectively. In very yoang men he
found general sensibility to be represented
hy 95 mm., and that or pain by 78 ram., while
the measurements for young girls were 91
and 70 mm.
A Philanthropic Merchant.
Anyone who has happened to be in tbe
neighborhood of a factory or mercantile
establishment where large numbers cf girls
are employed about the time the employes
are leaving work for the day could hardly
have failed to remark the large proportion
of narrow chests andround shoulders, otten
to the vere of derormltv, that are ex
hibited. That steps are seldom taken by
employers to mitigate this brings oat in all
the brighter contrast the commendable ex
ample of a Boston merchant.who has opened
a gymnasium for his female employes. The
classes are free to all, and dailv Instruction
is given between the hours or 5 and 6 in the
afternoon. Already 603 girls have Joined
the class, and many more are awaiting the
verdict of their sisters on the new depart
ure. Those who have tried the exercise are
enthnsiasticas to its benefits, and say that
the tired feeling caused by close confine
ment in the stoie soon gives place to one of
elasticity and freshness. This Boston phi
lanthropist looks forward to the time when a
gymnasium will be attached to every large
business establishment where women are
employed.
The Sra in Ullnlatnre.
A model or ocean currents is to be exhib
ited at the World's Fair which will posses
great practical valne. This model, which Is
a huge scientific tank. Is made to represent
the surface of the earth spread out on. an
area of abont SO leet square, tbe ocean and
seas being shown by actual water. Small
streams of water are ejected through pipes
under the mod el so that the whole body of
water moves exactly as the ocean currents
rrove. Tho direction or tho currents ia
shown distinctly by a white powder on the
surface of the wator. Hear the model will
be placed a lawe map giving the fullest de
tails of the lorce. volume and direction of
the various ocean currents.
They Like Oar Apple.
The attempt made some time ago to pre
judice tho minds of English consumers
against the American apple, on tho ground
of its being tatnrated with arsenic, has
utterly failed, and our best varieties are as
popular ns ever. It wis stated in English
papers that the "delicate, unnatural bloom
ot the American apples s dne to arsenic, a
drug that is largely used by people, especi
ally the fair sex, in America, to make the
complexion beautiful." This and other
statements equally absurd were traced to
speculators who bad an interest in Injuring
the sale or American apples In the English,
markyet. In order that the matter should be
thoroughly tested a department ot the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, at Am
nerst, undertook a serios or experiments.
To determine the amount of copper and
arsenic adhering to the surface of apples (lor
it could not have been absorbed into the sub
stance of the fruit) which had been sprayed
three times with Bordeaux mixture and
parts green for tho purpose or protecting
them from Insects XOaoples, measuring one
peck, were subjected to analysis. Tho
amonnt of copper oxide found on the apples
was twenty-two thousandths ot one grain.
This equals about five ten thousandths of
ono ounce to the barrel, or, in other words,
it would require 2,000 barrels to yield ono
ounce of copper oxide. The specimens se
lected for this analysis were those with tho
roughest surface, to 'which would adhere
more of the copper solution of paris green
than to the average apple. Not a trace of
arsenlo could be detected In this analysis.
When the fact is borne in mind tnat prob
ably not one Iruit giower in a hundred
throuinout the conntry used parts gresn at
all, and that not one barrel in thousands
cams from sprayed trees, the absnrdity ol
the "scare" becomes still more apparent.
A New Cricket Bat.
Anevidenco of the large number of En
glishmen who have elected to settle down
under the Stars and Stripes is afforded la
the wide and rapid extension of the English
national game ot cricket In this country. Is
can. ut the same time, be Hardly other than
flattering to the American vanity to know
that the best cricket In tbe United States Is
played by an eleven that Is almost entirely
composed ut Americans. That the game I
destined to become popular here is certain.
One of the most annoying things that can
happen to a batsman who has "got his eye
in" and leols good for a big score is the
snapping oi the handle of his bat. Forsucli
a contingency as this a now remedy has been
provided in an "Interchangeable" bat, the
handle of which screw nrmly Into the
blade. Each bladels provided with duplicate
bandies of exactly the sauio size, so that in
case one handle Is broken tbe stump can be
immediately unscrewod and a new handle
inserted. This arrangement, besides being
serviceable, Is decidedly economical.
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