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By TORII STRANGE WINTER.
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SIM Watched him go down the village
etreet; with eyes full of prids. and love.
Whet 0 unan be \vas! With what a
awing he walked I With wbat carelesS,
eaSy, graceof carriage! A. man every
shot of him! She waS sorry to leave the
dean" little Cornish village, aad yet she
' :felt.. that the , pleasant Basque town
wohld be at 011CO a change and a relief
from the monotony of the life that they
Were then leading. She dreaded that
one day Alan would wake up to dull-
ness, for that. she well knew, would be
the beginning of the end of their love.
Yes, for both their sakes it were better
that they should go to Biarritz and be
gay She would be quite safe there.
Edward Conway, if he were really seek -
She watched him go down the village
street.
ing for her, would never look for her in
such a place as that. If he were on her
track, he would find her as well at St.
Agnes as be would find her at Biarritz.
There! That was the last! She shut
down the lid of her dress basket with an
air of satisfaction. Alan's portmantean.
she had finished half an hour before.
She would put her hat and gloves there.
on the dressing table, so that she would
only just have to run up stairs and
fetch them after breakfast She glanced
at her watch. Oh, be had had plenty of
time to get back from seeing the old
boatman, and she turned to the window
to look whether he were not coming.
She only gave one glance. The window
was at the end of the TOOTH and com-
manded a full view of the irregular
cobble paved street. And as11.1ary's eyes
were turned to look along it she saw
Alan Stacey and Edward Conway walk-
ing up the street.
CHAPTER XV.
TO TILE BITTER usu.
Mary.enly gave one horrified glance
along the village street, ere she cowered
beets behind the shelter of the white
dimity curtains.
Yes; it was het The man who in law
owned her; the man who had bought
ber with a price; the man who bad
treated her as a bond slave. He was not
very much changed. His hairand beard
were white, but his face was just as
weather beaten as of yore, and his gait
had the same pronounced sailor's roll
•He was apparently talking excitedly
and was gesticulating wildly with his
bands. Alan was listening, as he loung-
ed along with his bands in the pockets
of his jacket and his pipe between his
teeth.
The figures of the two men passed
under the window and out of her sight,
but Mary stood there like a woman who
was petrified. Stood there, holding for
support to the frail curtain, waiting for
the blow to fall. She waited as Marie
Antoinette may have waited under the
guillotine. In five minutes it will be all
over: in four; in three; in two; in
one. It was close at band—about to
fall. Yes( She tore herself away from
the support of the curtain as she heard
a footstep on the stair Then Alan en-
tered the room.
"Well, sweetheart, are you not near-
ly ready for breakfast?" he asked.
The sudden revulsion of feeling, the
overpowering sense of relief almost
broke her down. She caught hold of
the dressing table to steady herself, but
for a second or two could not speak. At
last she choked down the great knot in
her throat and asked him a question.
"Who was that you came up the
street with?'
He never looked at her as he answer-
ed, He was doing something to his pipe
"Oh, a claap who asked the way;
that was all"
"The way to where?"
"I directed him to Roathlyn. He is
half way there by this tinae. Come,let
us go down and get our breakfast.",
She felt that the risk was immense.
She wondered what Edward Conway
was doing in that part of Cornwall. She
had never heard him speak of having
been in Cornwall; she had never heard
of his having any connection with any
one in Cornwall or with Cornish people
and then she reminded herself, half bit-
terly, that she had known very little of
him at all. But what was he doing hero
An St. Agnes? It was no use shirking
the situation. She must dare and risk
all at this juncture. Nothing would be
gained by cowardice And, after all, he
ouald never force her to go back to him.
Be could only at the very worst expose
her, and in her case exposure would
Mean tine world's pity, never its scorn.
She drew her breath sharp between
her teeth, Wok her handkerchief off the
dressing table and turned arid went out
of the room and down the stairs, Alan
Stacey following. And hi the best par-
lor their hyeaktast Waa laid, and in 'two
,
no otiose the dediette fried fish and gold:
se. :resit eggs wure brought in
oi ow4s and haeon. sweet,.
'at,art 't sant Stacey as the apple cheek.
ou maid lifted the covets of the tsvo
dishes
'tdeats end becen, thank you, Alan.
tith, to011t4
She had never in her life felt less like
eating, but it ,would not do to arouse
suspicion), by n'eiusing to try to do se.
She poured out the coffee and listened
with a smile that was not very real
while Alan told her of his farewell to
the old boatman.
At last he stretched out his hand to
her acsose the table
"Swevtheart," he &lid, "you are
quite Sad at going away. Would you
rather stay here?"
She answesecl him all in a hurry
"Oh, no, Alan; no, ne 1 ani all packed
and ready. Don't suggest such a thing
What should make yen give um such a
Lot's wife charecter as that? I launch
prefer to be going away, We have been
here quite long enough. It is a dear lit-
tle place, and you know I always want
to stay in a new plaee forever; it is one
of my characteristics, but I think I get
tired of them. I think I use them up.
don't believe I shall want to come to
St. Agnes again."
"Not even to have the cottage ?''
trying hard to repress a shud-
der; "no, not even to have the cottage,
Alan. After all, I think you are right.
There is no place like Loudon. We will
stay at home a few days before we go
on. What do you think?"
"Just as you please. I don't see why
we shouldn't.''
"Nor L'' said she, for the thought
had come to her that, if Edward Con-
way was hunting her down, there is no
place in the world where you can keep
yourself hidden so easily05in London
Nor would it be entsy to find her, for
she had not a single friend or acquaint-
ance who had known her at the time.
of Captain Conway's. supposed death.
At the time of her second marriage she
would have written to Mr. Lawson, to:
whom she bad only a few weeks before
repaid the last installment of the
at what pinching effort she alone knew,
but he had just died, and with the oth-
er officials of the Red River line she
bad no acquaintance. So long as she
did not walk abroad there was but very
little chance of her stumbling against
her gustier, Here, on the contrary, it
was almost impossible to keep out of
the way of' any one whom you did not
want to see Presently she would have
to drive three miles to the station, not,
mercifully, along the road to Roathlyn,
but in the opposite direction. Still, it
was possible that he might have
changed his mind, and in any case she
would not feel absolutely secure until
she -was out of the neighborhood, until
she was out of this desolation of woods
and fields and into the safe shelter of
the great city.
For one wild moment she wished
with all her heart she had told. Alan
when the news ef Edward Conway's
rescue first reached her. But now that
she had come face to face with the ter-
rible and awful tragedy which would
end, God alone knew bow, she did not
dare to speak. As she sat there, trying
to force the egg and the delicate strips
of bacon bit by bit down her throat,
she recalled the very first time that she
had ever seen him—how he had refused,
with absolute scorn to inquire into her
character, how he had told her that
honesty was the dominant note of her
life; that she bad many times given -
herself away by being too honest, by
not being able to tell, at the right mo-
ment, the harmless, necessary lie.
And if I tell the truth I must needs
confess that she was at this juncture
afraid to: tell him—afraid to own that
she had shared his life and love while
the barrier of a, great secret lay be-
tween them. She told herself that it
would have been so easy to carry the
news straight to him then that day
when her horrified eyes had first fallen
upon that announcement in the papers
which was headed. "Survivors of the
Arikhamh." It was not easy then;
now it was almost impossible. She felt
that she could not face the look of sur-
prise in his eyes; she felt that if every-
thing came out, and he should ask
her to stay with him, he could no
longer ask it as a favor. So more and
more she realized the need of keeping
it all a dead secret, of hiding from Ed-
ward Conway as long as she could and
of trusting to blind chance and Provi-
dence to free her—to free her this time
beyond all shadow of doubt.
There were still some trivial arrange-
ments for Alan to make when they had
finished breakfast, gratuities to be giv-
en, one or two little bills to be paid
and the landlord's account to be settled
in full. She could hear him in the little
room across the Passage explaining to
mine host that he had no doubt as to
the honesty of the bill—it was no use
his going over the items; that he had
not the least idea how many whiskies
and sodas he had had, and that if he
had no objection he would prefer to set-
tle the account without any further ar-
grunents. Then she heard the landlord
pretest that he wanted them to come
back again, and therefore he was par-
ticularly anxious that Mr. Stacey should
go thoroughly into the bill, so that if
there was anything to which he object-
ed be might meet him at once.
"My friend," said Alan, "yea' will
never make your fortune. Here you
have entertained ne to the best of your
ability' You have satisfied both my
wife and mYself, and we aro extremely
obliged to you fox :III the trouble and
pains that you 110n been at to give us
a good time. I am quite satiefied that
the bill is all right and that there isnot
0 single item in it to which any: reason-
. .
able man could raise any objection. '
Then she heatcl the chink of money
and, from. the silence that followed,
guested that the landlord was employed
in the seriOua bnisiness of receipting, the
bill She wondered how many morello -
tel bill a would be Made out paid and
re.ceipted for their sojourn together,
r
WOO(4)rod 11 Edwinrc Conn: av tho d
I:Mr, WO she decided to stay With Alan
---ir Alaa did out wish her to go' 0way
She wondered What .peOple. in London
syounld 81Y1.40W they Weold take it
She- stitpposed that in that CWit' Edward
Can way w011ia undte it the buSiness of
his life to mit* thenn round and ex,
!plain to every °De tile ON/t(4 position in
whmhthey were pieced. Wohld it 08
better' to tell eVerybody ? ,Would the
story get into the papers? Would it be
bluzonecl from one end of the .world to
the other that Alan Stacey's wife had°4
.story as romantic as any of tho thrill-
ing pages which had,eorene frem his pen?
She .bethonght her, in her distress
An4 anXietY, of 0 silly gem° called
"consequences," a game in which the
last clause. is, "Andthe world said,"
What would the world say to them—to
bee? She did not know; she did not
dare to think; Only She felt resolved
that So long as she could'keep the secret
she would do sei.
."And you will come back again,
sir?" she heard the boniface sett
"Yes, I expect We shall tome back
again the next time I have, got a spell
of hard week on and went .to get out of
London, It is difficult to work. in Lon-
don," she heard. Alan answer; "it is
difficult to keep. free of ..intesruptions
and so on. We 'have enjoyed ourselves
very nruch, I can assure you
Then she hearda. leavy footfall en-
tering the house. Her anxious, strained
ears told her whose 'steps they were.
They passed her door to the 'Sanded bar,
and then she heard Edward Conway's
Voice saying "Yonhave a lady here
that is passing tinder. the name of Sta-
cey. Which is her rboth?"
Then there was a WuSh across the
passage, and Alan Stacey burst into the
room and caught her in his arms.
"My poor child," he said, "I have
been dreading this fort Weeks and weeks.
The blow has fallen at last "
And by some instiuct Mary knew not
only that he had known the truth all
along, but that he had been the first of
the two to hear it.
CHAPTER' XVI.
LET NO MAN PUT ASUNDER.
There was only time for a hurried
whisper between them
"You won't desert me—you won't
give me ever to him?" she gasped.
"Never," he •° answered; "never
while I live l''
Then the door was pushed hurriedly
open, and Edward Conway's blunt fea-
tures and burly figure appeared before
them.
It was apparent to the meanest ob-
servation that the man was beside him-
self with passion. He stood just within
the doorway, his bands thrust deep
down into his trousers pockets, eying
first one and then the other with hii
flinty eyes, and upon his lips was a ter-
rible sneer.
"Well, Mrs. Conway," he began al
last, "have you no sort of welcome fon
me, your long lost husband, given up
for lost years since, your little more
than bridegroom? Still silent? Have
you nothing to say?"
Her lips moved, but no sound came
from between them.
"Still silent? No fond word of greet-
ing? Too much astonished, eh? You
made sure I was dead and gone, didn't
you? But Edward Conway is not got
rid of so easily as that! Don't you think
itl Edward Conway has been under fox
a good long time, and Edward Conway
has got up again, and he has come back
again to his happy home and his loving
little wife that he left behind him."
"You shall never come back to Mel 1
would never have Lived with you again!
Yon knew it l''
"Oh, you're thinking still of a bit of
a tiff! What's that between husband
and wife? Have you never tiffed
this Johnny that you took up with as
soon as I was gone?''
"This lady is my wife, sir, put in
Alan Stacey, with dignity.
"Your what?'
"My wife, sir! Your turning rip ,
again most inoppostunely may annul;
our marriage, but no slur will rest upon
this lady. There is nobody who knows
here that will pot pity her, and pity
her doubly, first, for having been mar-
ried to you at all; secondly, for having
been the victim of a terrible chain of
circumstances. This lady did not take'
up with me • She marriedme with all'
due forruality and blessing of the church.
Until you have legal proof that our ,
marriage be no marriage she is my
wife."
"She is coming back with me," said
Edward Conway, shutting his teeth
hard and snapping the words out as if
his lips were rattraps.
"She is never going with you, She
will never have anything to do with you
again—never. She would never have
lived with you again under any cir-
cumstances. You took advantage of
her, You bought her with a price. Yon
ill used her .1 am ashamed to -say it,
but you struck her—your little more
than bride And you can ask her when
she has tasted the sweets of a real mar-
riage, when she has known what it is to
live with a man who would thrust his
hand into the fire rather than raise it
against a NVOIEtt/I—yau can eels her to go
back to the slavery and degradation of
life with you? Think, my good sir, is it
likely ?"
don't know whether it's likely,'
said Edward Conway "I know what
tine law is, and 1 meat) to have it.
"I will never go hack to him, never!'
Mary flashed out
[mo DE CONTINUED.]
H EA VY' SOlLi
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Fitt
CONCERNING SPRAYING,
Close,
Is olil Saver/wee tt close reader?"
"I should say he is a close reader.
Why, lat's i)(4.9.) nradifig bis street .car
transfer roe a peper for over a year."—
Chicago News.
Aeeennted For.,
"There goes a follow wbo says there
is no place like Brooklyn io live in."
"Must be sometbiog queer About hlin,"
"There is. 110 is a Brooklyn main ee
The Newer Th gni or 'Filings We
linow Better Than Formerly.
Tlnc impoi Mime of spraying is now
very generally admitted, though occa-
sionally a MUD, having received little
benefit, from it eue season, may ques-
tion its necessity. Tlic ouc IN 1 o bc
lieVes in precautious is likely to prac-
tice speayieg, for it is knowa that it
kills 'listens and checks fuugus, and
the incursions of these trouhles are ei-
ther really increasing ov receiving the
greater attention due to such deStrI1C-
IiVe agencies. A few of the latest
Points in thisbranch of farm practice
ale picsented 111 anticipatiou of the
corning season by grollesser L. H. 13ai-
• ,
1"Vhat is new in spraying? be asks
and answers the question thus: "Per-
haps nothing which experimenters are
ready to recommend, but we Lwow
some things better than we did last
year. One of those is that the old ker-
osene and soap emulsion, the vilest of
eoncoctions, seems to be doomed. The
kerosene and water emulsion, is to take
its place. The insecticidal properties
ef this mixture have long been known,
but it has needed a practicable me-
chanical device to mix them. There
are two great difficulties in this me-
chanical problem — the difficulty of
making it mathematically correct mix-
ture of the water and oil and the diffi-
culty Of securing power enough to mix
the liquids and to throw the spray the
required distance.,
"It is scarcely to be 'expected that
the automatic kerosene and water mix-
ing pump can ever throw a spray so
far as one which expends all its ener-
gies in throwing the spray. These au-
tomatic pumps are not yet perfect, but
some of them are perfect enough to be
useful and reliable, and they indicate
that we may expect better things. I
dO not say that the kerosene and soap
emulsion is already out of date, only
that the indications are that it will be-
come less and less important.
"Shall white arsenic be used as a ,
substitute for parts green? This is not
a new question. The arsenic is com-
bined with lime to form arsenite of .
lime. There is no question as to the
efficacy of the mixture or its safety on
foliage. Our tests show that it is less
caustic than Paris green to foliage,"
says Professor Bailey and adds that
be does not recommend it publicly, be-
cause it is a dangerous thing to have
white arsenic bought, mixed and boiled
in an ordinary, careless manner. To
careful farmers who have much spray-
ing to do the white arsenic can be rec-
enimencled confidently, but he belies -es
that most 'people should buy their poi-
sons ready prepared, even if the cost
is somewhat greater.
"The San Jose scale is still with us.
It will stay. There is no hope of erad-
icating it. Then every man should be
prepared to meet it. For three seasons
now we have experimented with the
Iserosene`and water emulsion, as others
have clone, and have fond that it is a
specific for the scale. In the propor-
tion of. one part of' oil to five of water
in summer and one to four in winter it
will kill the scale.
"Can a man. hope to annihilate the
scale, then, by spraying? No. On
plants which he can spray thoroughly
and frequently Inc can hope to erad-
icate it, but I should not expect him to
eradicate it from a large and badly in-
fested plantation any more than he can
eradicate the apple scab or the bark
louse. But I should expect him to keep.
it in check. Spraying for San Jose
scale must come to be an accepted
practice, as- spraying for potato blight
is."
The Possibilities of the Catalpa.
The possibilities of the catalpa are,
attracting attention in connection with,
the interest now taken in timber cul-
ture. The hardy catalpa is easy to.
propagate, easy to transplant, grows.
rapidly and: suffers but little from the
onslaughts of insects and diseases. It
is therefore well adapted for thnber
plantations in localities where it doe3
not winter kill. A good guide in the
matter of climate is said to be the
peach. Where this tree will grow It is
safe to plant the catalpa. The wood Is
soft, weighs 20 pounds per cubic foot,
is brown in color and makes good fence
posts, being very durable. It is re-
ported not a long lived tree, and the
trunk in old age is liable to be decayed
at the center. The catalpa grows best
In a rich, moist bottom land.
Am Ohio Mam's Ideal COW Stabil*.
want my stable above ground. No
cellar for me, as I do not believe cows
relish being confined in a dungeon any
more than a man does. Give them all
the sunlight possible. I never saw a
stable with too many windows to suit
me. If you are building, by all means
look well to your water supply. If
possible to do so, build where you can
have the advantage of running water
In your stables. If you cannot do this,
be sure you get a supply of well water
at all times in the year at a reasonable
depth. After you have fitted up your
stable with modern devices for water -
Ing those Cows go one step further and
arrange to heat that water Op to a tem-
perature of 70 degrees.
glghting Fire 314 Cranberry Marmite",
A WiSCODSII3 cranberry grower sug-
gests that fire in cranberry marshes
and on prairies might be fought on the
sapid principle which is utilized in the
miner's safety lamp. He would head
off and smother the advance tongue of
fire, which usually acts as a leader to
the main body Of flames, by the use of
unpainted wire screen, such as is used
for windows and through which flaw,
wul not pass.
/MechaniCal Condition Improved by
Proper Manuring, Cropping, Etc,
otliing is olOre aggravating, :lad
often unprofitable,•too, than to have a
heavy muck or. clay, soil retain the
moisture and frost so late in the spring
that early.plowing is out ,of the ques-
tion. When other soils are in ondl-
tion for plowing and cultivating, the
heavy soil is muddy and sticky, so that
it is impossible to do much with it. Of
course the advice of some would be to
give up such soil, but wbcnwo consid-
er that the heavy innek.soilis.often the
richest this would hardly do. What we
need is some intelligent plan to im-
prove the mechanical conditions of
such heavy soils so they will be less
likely to give trouble. Thechief fault
to be found with heavy soils is diet
there is not sufficient porosity in it to.
permit water to percolate theouith It.
In other words, the natural drainage
of thc soil is poor, and artificial drain-
age or some kind must be resorted to.
There are several ways to accomplish
this. The most sensible is to add such
coarse material to it that there will be
0 breaking up of the sticky mass. This,
will sometimes effect such a, cure that
drains will notb B t thc
supply of coarse material mug be kept
up continuously and not, abandoned
after one year. This wouldbe rather
expensive and unsatisfactory if it were
not at the same time fertilizing and.
improving the soiL It is by utilizing:
the right kind of crops tbat.we canine -
prove a thick, mucky or clay soil: First
of all, however, it may be necessary to,
dress the land with lime in order to.
sweeten the soil for the.proposed,crops.
The land has indigestion, as i0 were,
and fermentation has made it sour s0.
that some crops could not thrive on it.
Thirty or 40 bushels of water slacked:
lime to each acre may first be needed
to sweeten the soil so that ordinary
crops will grow.
'There is no better crop, to, raise the
first year than Indian corm which can,
be planted quite late in, the season,
when the soil has dried up, The corm
roots are coarse feeders and' will, brea,k
up the soil to 0 large extent, and. the
fall corn should be cut early, and, a,
crop of buckwheat or winter grain of
some kind should be sowed, to be turu-
ed under with the plow the: following
spring. 13' adding rough plant food to
the soil in the shape of manure,the soil
will be further improved: In, plowing
the subsoil should he broken up, as
much as possible. By cultivating each
year crops that have deep roots and
are coarse feedta's we keep breaking
up the soil so that it has less chance
to get together into thick, compact
masses. There is nothing better for
this than coarse manure and green
crops turned under every year, plowing
them down as deep as possible Into the
subsoil, saYs an American. Cultivates
writer. k
Canker, Dead Spot,.Blaelr Spot, Ete.
Apple tree anthracnose is thOnftme
which Professor Cordley of Oregon Lass
selected as appropriate for a trouble
that is locally known as "canker,"
"dead spot" or "black spot" in the ap-
ple orchards of. the Pacific northwest,
where it, has beenQuite serious the
past year. It vvas.at first thought that
it was identical with, the apple canker
of eastern orchards, but 11r. Cerdley
APPLE TREE ANTHRACNOSE.
believes that they are entirely distinct
and the antbracnose a new disease.
Apple tree anthracnose is caused by a
fungus which attacks the bark, usually
on, the smaller branches, appearing
first after autumn rains. It roughens,
disfigures and- weakens the branches.
It generally occurs as it spot froth
which the bark sloughs off, but occa-
sionally girdles a branch and thus kills
a portion of it.
Thorough spraying with lbordeaux
nnixture or with the ammoulacal solu-
tion of copper carbonate, once soon aft-
er the fall rains begin and again as
soon after the leaves fall as possible, is
recommended as remedial, and this
may be supplemented in orchards but
little diseased by cutting out anthrac-
nosed spots and painting the cuts with
strong bordeaux.
.11.1inga That Are Told.
The cranberry is one of the crops
whieh the census bureau will investi-
gate by means of special.schedules dis-
tributed only in the localities in which
the crop referred to is grown., The in-
quirieS endeavor to distinguish be-
tween the area of natueal and of plant-
ed vines and to byline; out indications of
the future of the industry.
Connecticut tobaceo growers will
make hay while the still Of good prices
shines by planting a large acreage the
coming Season.
It is expeeted that it school of applied
agricnIture and horticulture will soon,
Pc established on a 200 acre farm about
83 miles from New York city. Both
men .and women will be received as
students, and the tuition fee will be
small, The course Is to include both
special and elementary scientific in-
struction, practical work in the field
and in the planting and care of 01. -
chards, small fruits, market garden
vegetables, greenhouse culture, dairy
work and poultry raising.
THE SUDANESE FEVER.
ts 11,k, '11.' 1,11:1s4.:::Iliis..ty. See
1 : v.1.0 add
Itiedlt
MtLeit aLtemion has been called to
the Humber of leen in the army serv-
ing the United States in the Philip-
pines who have gone insane. Thee
go \ eminent has sent a special com-
mission out there to investigate the
matter, and there has been talk of a
mysterielle disease called the ''Sunare.
aseisfeiNs'er'he"lieved by some that this
disease is peculiar to East Indian and
Ifrican tropics; that it was this
wet- hmter—„„...ed—d
MALAY RUNNING AMUCK.
which caused Dr. Peters to get into
trouble for killing Africans, and mad&
the French officers in the interior ofil
Africa recently slay other officer&
sent to their relief, is one theory,
Everybody has heard of the Malay
who runs amuck, and, frenzied, kills
right and left until he himself is kill-
ed. The word "amuck'- is a corrup-
tion. of the Javanese word "amoak,"
to kill. There seems to be no doubt
that the Malay occasionally goes
crazy through an overindulgence in
opium of hasheesh, and, springing
from his "shack," runs naked through
the streets of his village, killing all
whom he may meet.
When in a Malay village the cry
"amuck" is raised, it is like the cry
of "mad dog!" in this country, and
the populace turn out with long bam-
boo spears to kill the man as soon
as they can. .But the "Sudanese fey, -
or," if it exists, is another thing ap-
parently. It may be that the disease
which has afflicted white men in the .
Philippines and in equatorial Africa .
is only a variation of apoplexy,
brought on by indulgence in heating :
and stimulating foods.
The London Lancet recently had .
something about the alleged' disease.
People who had been a.filicE.ed with it
and had recovered said that they had 4
a, sudden sensation of it desire to
kill, and that they "saw red." A
sudden en -11x of blood to the head'
and the bursting of a blood vessel
would produce insanity or coma. In
the northern climes it more usually
results in coma; tn the tropics it
seems 'to result in insanity.
All the soldiers of the ITaited'Staten..
army in the Philippines who have
been sent back as insane have been
violent. This "seeing red" seems
to be a peculiarity of the Asiati,
ip
when he Is excited violently. Tie ,
Sikhs and the Gourkhas, the bes
fighters in the native Indian .armyd,'''
describe their feeling when in, the
charge in the frenzy of battle. as.
"seeing red." It is probably due 10.
an afflux of blood to the head, which.
congests the small veins of • the eye-
ball.
TRICK X RAY MACHINE,
A Yankee Trick That Aroueed the Ir. of)
a British Editor.
The ordinarily dignified British
Journal is horrified over the fact that.
In Boston there Is being manufacture
ed and sold, an "X-ray camera"
which is nothing but a. fraud. The,
camera, withe pneumatic ball, is plac-
ed in position" before it sitter, 10.
front of whose body, is. placed a,
sheet, apparently ofwhite paper,
without a mark upon.lt. Behind the.
body is placed a lamp. The expos-
ure is made by pressing the ball.
Gradually the paper loses its white-
ness, the various organs of the body
„quickly depict theuiselvee, first im
faint color, then almost immediately
in brilliant reds for the lungs, a
duller red for the heart, green for
the stomach and, intestines, and blue
TRICK X RAY MACHINE.
fo'r the veins; other parts in black.
This result, however, says the Jour-
nal, Is only it trick. The white
piece of panes has previously been
painted over with strong and diluted
sulphocyanide solution, ferricyanide
solution, weak and strong, and final-
ly with tannin, the details being
supplied by an anatomical drawing
over which thin paper is, place while
the organs are being painted by the
various solutions nained. The "[queer,.
ing of the bulb does not, as imagined,
Open the lens—it simply ejects an
inviSible spray .of solution of ferri�
chloride from a concealed source upon
the paper, the vvell-known reaction
of this salt with the chemipals named •
producing the various colors. So
long as it is understood ' to be I%
trick the idea Is ingenious and arnue-
ing, "
Paris sawara 141,vms•
A vigorous protest is being raised
against the ,neW sewage fame near
Parisi. The sewage seems ,to escape
between fissures in the soil into sub-
terranean sources. of supply to the,
wells, with the result that local
wells are infected and thae exists an
epidemic of intestinal troubles.