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BY W. CLARK F ae:1EL,
I recoiled, anti said. " Why am I afraid
of this body? 110anuot Min me, It is but
a dead man, and eo1nely ton. Why, as It lies
here, coast guard, he might, Lu termed of
ivory,, moulded by the fingers of the sea
ut.t of Its own fou», and cast 011 111118. And
yet," said 1, looking round, with a silly,
chilly 01,1000 running through me, "1 be.
Hove 11 would go near to epeet1(0g my wits
were 1 ,oleed to stand watuh by this body
all through the night here."
" 1 see lee got his rings on, ' said the
matter•of-fact coldtguard, stooping to bring
his eye, close to the lingers of the body.
" \\'hat is note to be Clone Y' said I,
1"
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replied.
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" I have n•nikah enough by tie sea -0 1:01)01
to•niglat.''
"Then," said the coastguard, "I'll ask
yen to report this here discovery to the
first bobby ye sheets with. 'Tell hint that
the body lies almost abreast of Downton Gap
and if you don't mind giving me a hand sir
to carry the corpse to the foot of the cliff,
where the bobby -tile tide, ye see-"
"No," said I ; "you dragged it single-
handed from the rock. 1.00 aro able to
dreg it single handed to the foot of the
oliff. 31 I touched the poor tiong- Well,
good -night, coast -guard," and I walked off,
leaving hint to handle the body single-hand-
ed, for 0111101) .11181)8 no better excuse to
make than that I Wa8 possessed at the time
by strong feelings of horror, and perhaps
fear, which the presence of the coast -guard
in no degree Mitigated. and which were in.
(Need, as 1 van 5011) believe, by the sudden-
ness and violence of the obtrusion of an
object of terror upon my undid at a moment
when it had been rendered in a peculiar
seuse unprepared for any such experience by
the enervating charm. the sweet relaxing
11O(11c of the sold and glorious night of
mounahiu0 and silence, and waters seething
with Ile stosltliy hiss of oltampagne.
1 stepped out briskly, and es I walked I
seemed to behold many White bodies of
drowned men flouting shoreward on
the sunnier feathering of the little
breakers. Whoa I arrived at the town 1
met a pelicrulne, to whom I communicated
the news, and 1 then returned to my twig -
1 pigs and sat in the open window smoking a
The little sitting -room, at whose open
window I 100.5 seated, was very hot. From
the lodging on either hand of 1110 there broke
into the quietude of the night a horrid,
distracting noise of jingling pianos, accom-
panied by a squeelieg of female 0111105, The
11807.10 was shout eleven. I filled my Pit
afresh, left the lenge, 51111 walked in the
direction of the beach,
The moon rode high. I hal never before
aeon the orb so small, and so brilliantly
piercing too. Silo diffused a taido haze of
greenish silver round about her in the
heavens, in the shirts of which a few eters
ou'of
eu it c.leA
1. 1.b
re ,
lOtne B W g
sl y
magnitude
P
• lasts Cha
• lath
the sphere of this steam
dike
sky trembled with brilliants, and went
hovering to the sea -line, rich with prisms
and crystals. In the heart of the silent
-ocean lay the fan -shaped wake of the moon,
and the splendor of its hither extremity, so
wide -reaching was it, seemed to Melt out
in the lines of summer surf which formed
and dissolved upon the wet darkened sand.
The sands were a broad firm platform, and
stretched before and behind me, whitened
into the complexion of ivory by the moon-
beams. The cliffs rose tall and dark on my
left, a silent range of iron terraces, with the
black sky -line of them showing out ag0iust
the stars, and with nothing to break their
continuity save here and there a gap, as of
.some ravine. The sumo:er•night hush was
exquisitely soothing. From afar came
the thin faint notes of a band of
music playing fn the town. past the
huge shoulder of cliff, but the distance was
too great to suffer the 81 rah,. to vex thenar.
Indeed, the silence was accentuated rather
than disturbed by that far off 11111810. The
creeping of the surf was like the voice of
innumerable fountains. There was not a
breath of air; the moon's reflections lay ire•
morless ; and in the liquid Puck on the west.
• ern edge of that Motionless path of light,
floated the phantom shape of a ship, her
hull as black 00 11111., Raul her sails 0111.10881y
poised over her in spaces, like ice in
shadow.
I walked dreamily onward, smoking my
pipe and listening to the innumerable babble
of the waters upon the beach. 11t•ent per•
baps a mile, There was plenty of time ; no
burrs, to go to bed on such a night; trend there
would bo abundance of room for the walk
SWIM,
THE BRUSSELS POST.
to go to sea painted the water under them.
The soft wild brought sunny wholesome
odors of tat', of 80a•w'ee(l, of amen timber to
the nostrils, 11s 1 epproaohod that part of
the pier off which nest of the wherries be-
lolgulg to the town wore eongrog lied, (t
soon who 111110 leaning Willi 1113 111,03 10 m0
ovor a stone pest, easing in the direction of
the sande, turned Ilia head, and guessing at
my 1(1te1(1101, by observing it o towels 1
earned, stoop Greet with alacrity, mid call-
ed out "130at, sir? The worry merlin
for a swim, sir, A sheet calm, and the
1100de only now ageing to shake."
Though I had Tran time to time visited
the town, I roil never 0p8111» (1(0101.1(11.11 three
days at a time 1111t ; ami the boatinemthor8'
ford, were strangers to mo. I said to this
Mani
Yes, it is tho very morning for a swim.
What sort of a boat is yours?'
"Tho best boat iu the harbor, sir," he
answered. "Thera 6118 lies, sir -a real
Wherry
t
pointed
eagerly a n
mid he lot
benne ," alt 1 6 Y ,
Y
painted lino, with raised tbol0-pens, aftor.
the fashion of the boats of the Thames
watermen.
1 looked at her and said : "Yes, she will
do very well to take a header from. Bring
her alongside."
It was not until I was seated in the stern -
sheets of the boat that 1 partiellarly notic-
ed this waternlan, who, having flung his
oars over, was propelling his little craft
through the water with a velocity that ,vas
warrant of an extraordinary powerful arta.
My eyes then resting neon his face, I found
myself struck by his miconnlon appearance.
His skin was very dark, his hair jet•black,
and his eyes were of a glassy brilliance,
with pupils of jet. Coereo as his 11010 was,
it curled in ringlets, He wore a pair of im-
mensely thick whiskers, chary fibre of
which might have been plunked from
a 1101808 tail. His nose was heavy and
Mega, and the waive of the nostril
very deeply graven. In each ear WAS
0 thick gold hoop, and the covering of his
head uonsis1ed of a cap fashioned out of a
skin. Otherwise he wins 111111ited in the
familiar garb of the British benumb -in a
. blue jersey, lenge loose trousers, formed of
a yellow stuff celled '°feoreaught ;top -boots
muter the troasers, which were turned up to
reveal a portion of the leather. 't observed
that his gaze had an odd character of star-
. lug : it was fixed, stern, yet with a suggestion
of restlessness in it, as of tamper.
"Aro you a Jew?" said I.
" No fear," he answered.
1 "Do not suppose that I ask the question
out of any disrespect to you. The .lows are
home long after the title should have turn- I
ed.
I came abreast of 0 mass of black rook,
tablewhaped, and nearly awash ; that is to
say, the water stood almost at the level of it,
so that at Hood it would be subuterged and i
oat of sight. I spied what 1 thought to be a i
gleam of light restieg upon it ; but on look- 11
ing again 1 was sure that that strange shin.
ing could not be moonlight, for the lustre i
was local, and it tyae 1101. light either, but
white and its size was about that of a man's
body ; and, indeed, it looked so touch like a
naked man that I drew close to examine it.
There was dry sand to the rock ;but the Wa-
ter brimmed very nearly around it, and there
was water under where the white object lay.
On drawing near,I observed that what 1110
thought to bo a gleam of light wile the body 1
of a drowned man. I stood staring long
enough to satisfy mo that he was dead. It
was a dismal and dreadful object to light
upon. The very silence of the night, the
beauty of the stars, the high, peaceful, pier-
cing moon somehow increased the horror of
the thing. On a dark, stormy night Ido
not know that such a spectacle would have I
so ahoiked and unnerved me es this now did. 1
I peered to right and left, but not the
ebadow o mortal being stirred upon the
wide white sweep of the sands. Then, cast-
ing my eyes up at the cliff, I rouo11c*Letl that
a little distance further on there was a gully,
at the head of which steed a coastguard's
hut, and knowing that there would be a man
statfonc3 on the lookout up there, I forth.
with bent my steps in the dlr0etion of the
gully, and ascended it until I arrived at the
hut. Here I found a coastguard. Iie
eyed me fixedly as I approached him.
I said, "Good -night, coastguard."
" Good -night," he answered, attentively
surveying me by the light of the moon,
" I ala somewhat breathless," said I. " I
have walked fast and that gully 1s hard to
climb. There is 0 dead body on the beach."
" Whereabouts, sir ?" he exelannod, with
the instant promptitude of the seaman, and
he advanced to the edge of the cliff.
"It notion the rook there," said I, point-
ing.
" I see it, sir," sad he. " D'ye mind com-
ing along with me? My mate won't bo here
for a bit.'
Together sve proceeded to Oro sands, The
const -guard got upon the rode, and stood
viewing the body. Then catching hold of
it by tis arms( he dragged ft gently on to
the sand,
"Ay," said he, "I thought as much.
Thie'lb be the gent as was drowned whilst
'bathing out, of a boat yesterday. Poor fel-
low 1 he's left a wife and two children,
'Chords a reward of twenty pounds offered
for his body. 'That'll be vourn, sir.
"It will be yours," said L " I do not
stltud in need of money e00110d 111 this faith -
ion."
Tile body was that of a, Irian ofallnntthir-
ty. Ile had fair hair and a huge m0us11u.he,
and in Ilfc had doubtless been It handsome
young fellow.
"rant often as they 00me8 08110,0 NO
perfect," said the collet -gruel, '11187'1e
mostly all ate up so (s to be ubrecognv-
bale:
pipe, and as I lighted my pipe the cloaks fn
the town struelz the hour of inid-right,
-Sal sat smoking thus 1 surrendered my
Mind so wholly to cent mplation of the dead "I ain't no Jew, sir," said Ito.
white body 1 had sosuddenly fallen in with, '' l'eilo>ps 7011 01)01,1)1101.1000110(10 Romony
that 1 might well 11live supposed theitepees- elan 1"
cion which the eo1ou,(1, woolen leave must " What's that?" ho cried, gazing at me
,e lifelong, But next. day 1 returned to with his staring eyes.
Loudon, and within a week th0 memory of "A gypsy, isn't it?"
the little i"eident had as good as perished He grinned, and answered, " Well, I bo -
from my mind. For a month: I was very lievo 1 has some piltey blood in me."
busy. My employment was exceedingly"Whet do you mean by pikay?"
" Gypsy," sant he.
" That must be a local term," said 1,
't probably derived from the words tnreplke
me with hos peculiar gypsy share. "There
Witt a 1u0,11.11• 0f LwuuOy Inland offered for
that dieeovery, Wish 141 had the finding
of that poor fellow, 'Neely hound 1 Only
think, And 1b was all paid ever to 11 coast-
guard,"
That's right," said J. '' 1 11)811(0(1 up
that break in the elit1's yonder to the mew
guard's but there, land gnats notice. Who
was the &owned man, do you know?"
" 1 t tame out in the eronner's '(pest, bat
I forget the name."
"Ifow was he drowned?"
" Why, by a•Wading out of hie depth, I
111Lnv,''
The coast•guartl told mo lie was drowned
by Lathing from elegies"
"k1e didn't know nothen about it," ate
steered the boatman. "There never yet
was a 1111111 deownded by bathing out of a
boot in these parts. Didn't ye see the ac
count of the 'quest in the newspapers?"
I No.'
" Well," said the man, ,' It was supposed
how
as took with eraro1
'Plum's Loo
many
drarndingloleof b
AG Solt goingon
along
to somas, It den's do us watormal Oily
good. It creates a prejudice ngin the platers
where the accidents happen. What does a
man want to go out of his depth for if ho
ain't no swimmor?"
),Vo fell silent, and he continued to row
with great energy, whilst I lay back in the
stern -sheets enjoying the sweet cool fresh-
ness of the salt air breathing upon the face
of the waters, and greatly enjoying the
noble and brilliant spectacle of the sea
shining under the sun, and of the coast,
whose Many colors, and whose many feat•
111e8 of structure, of elbow, of cliff', of green
slope, of down on top, every stroke of the
oar tvaa now making more tender, more
delicate, more toy -like,
After rowing for about twenty minutes,
the gypsy faced boatman rested upon his
oars, end taking alook around, and theft
gazing over the side into tie water, he ex-
claimed, " This beret 1,o the spot, sir,"
1 at once undressed, stood up mile stern•
sheets, pct my hands together, and went
overboard into the cool green, gluss'elear
profemd. I ca070 to the melee°, and with
1.1 shake of the hand cleared my eyes, and
perceived the boatmmn very leisuimly rpull-
ing his worry still further ons to sen. this
0011.0, perhaps, as it should he. 110 might, in
indead,have headed his boat infer the land ;
but, in any case, he 10(88 right to keep her
ill 11100071 as tin inviet(108 to Ane to shim
aftor her. 1 swami with great enjoyment
the embrace of the hater penetrated to my
inmost being, and ovary pulse in ole beat
with a new vitality. 1 swans directly in
the wake of the boat, past the rim of whose
stern J could see the head of the boatman.
Ile held me in view, and he watched me in-
tently, though from time to time ho would
direct his gaze to that part of Ulla land
where the town was situated, and some-
time he would turn his head and look be-
hind him, that is to say, over the bows of
his boat, in the manner of one who cannot
satisfy himself that something is not tip.
preaching.
a very intelligent, interesting people. It
w•onld cause mo to wonder, however, to find
a Jew a boatman,"
arduous, and often obliged me to wont late
into the night. 'Then at the expiration of
the 'meth, fooling uncommonly fagged, I
resolved to spend a work at the sane sea- I as correcting rho gypsies with the road.
side town where 1 had discovered the body lie strained at his oars 111 silence ; but
on thereat. I my questions appaarmil to MING excited some
Tho name of this town 1 w111 not give. I curiosity in him as to myself, for 1 observed
do not wish to excite the anger of its boat- that ho ran his eyes over me, dwelling with
mien. " Ho !" they will say 51(01113 I name attention up'on every part of my apparel,
their town. " Ho 1" they will cry when snore espeanlly, as it strnrk Ino, upon the
they have arrived at the end of my story, rings upon my flingers, and upon my watch
" whit a lsy 1 This here piece is put into chain.
the don't wish
a srwell,allal and hes spite.
this I I stood up to look around. We wore oleic
hero blooming yarn W scare folies from ctn.l
erho harbor ;and the Hoe scene of the
ploying of ms, x0'8 agoing t0 start a cliffs, the hooses on top, with their Hashing
pleasure sada for talon o' people out at u widows, the lustrous line of sands lay
stretched befoorei-o el my sight. We worts rho
shilling a lead, and dont mean that us pore
watermen shall get 0 living," Thus would
you deal111111, 0 ye sons of the leash ; and
that you may in no wise suffer from any
statements of mine, I withhold the name
of your 100011, so that the reader ,nay take
his ah0:,10 of any port or harbor on the
coast of the United Kingdon, Nevertheless,
what I ars about to relate is no " ley," hub
the truth itself -absolute, remarkable, liv-
ing.
iv-
in1I was again at the sea -side, It was now the
month oft August, and the hottest August
that 1 can remember. Af er the intolerable
heat of London, and the fatigue of my work
there, nothing, of course, could P-00,1,10!oveof shiinmerlu white satin.
beneficial, so bracing, iu all senses g
storing, lessea•bathing. But for the bath.1 " What might bethe corroet time, sir?"
ing•machhle sot -beth I had rho strongest asked the boatman,
aversion. First, there 1008 no depth for 1 " I drew out my watch, a handsome gold
swimming. The neeet8ary depth for tree repeater, and gave him the hour. He thank -
enjoyment was to be gained only when the od mo, and
psaid, "I suppose you're a good
blithe were wollnigh exlmeeted by the labor swimmer sir?"
of etrilziug out for u. Then I disliked to "1 ear la very good swimmer," I answer -
lathe int company. Again 1 0bjeeted to ed,
1118 erode who mewl w,ttUling the bathers "'L'hen the :)Doper the water, the better
from the piers need sands, ht feet, for an you'll lie pleased, 811•. I've been told that
expert milliner seteb as I, there is but ane toiler slit Indent of water every feeder radon:
method of lathing in deletes: he 111051-talc0 snakes a man fund so much more buoyant
m boat, row •,u1. 0 mile or two where the that it'e like strapping a fresh bladder on to
brine eperklos foamless, where it is clear of idol
the contamination of the set of the hit hero „No doubt," said I : "what depths hate
tido, whore the bine or green of it is darkly I you bora?"
pure with depth. "Oh, hero," oriod he, eo,temptuonely
011 to morning fallowing 1110 day of my glanoing over the side, "why, 1h0ro ain't
arrival, somewhere about the hour of seven
only small boat upon the surface of the sea ;
but 1100• the pier were a number of bathu,g.
machines, and several dark knots of lea(is
lil(0 coeo(anuts bobbed in the snolrbright
linea of the surf. The horizon was broken
by the outlines of a vessel, and one large
steamer gliding stately and lesplemdenb,
flashes of white fire, like exploding grans,
breaking from the double lino of her glared
portholes as her movements brought those
windows to the sun, .gleams of middy flame
leaping from the polished brass furniture
Ghent icor bridge, and a long line of Water
glancing astern of her, as though she towed
from her storn•post some league -long length
Presently I thought I would catch hold of
the boat by the gunwale, to rest myself,attd
I called to him to stop rowing, 0101 I might
cone up with hint but he did not stop row-
ing. When I oalled he turned his face from
me, and continued to ply bis oars. I called
to him again, but ho paid no attention to
:ne. There was the sullen air of murder in
his 'averted face, and in his 01.1010018111)81)01
determination not to hear ole. My heart
beat furiously, and I felt faint, for 1*00,
with the velocity of thought, 1 wins lfnkiuh
tho fate of the man whose dead body I had
lighted upon with the gypsy ruffian ahead
of ole in the bout; and I said 10 myself, he
might have been drowned, and perhaps by
that very demon there, as Ian to be drown-
ed ; loft as I stn to be left, to swim until he
sank from exhans1ion, as I 001 to sink, that
the boatman might possess himsolt of his
-watch and chain and money, as any watch
and ehafn and money are the objeots for
which 1 an to be obliged to struggle here
until I perish 1
TO BO Ommitt100100.
FOUND AT LAST.
The Celebrated Meyer's Cave Said to bo
Located,
1111(1 0114.11. 111111 11,1 if 11 0'1I5 5)1,5e -0111•e5'
Stoloolllo5 Molting From 1,hp Iboof.
A Nevem correspondent writes the Os1 see
Vindetbtur, that h•o,n time to time for 1}fty
years past, when goLhet'ed around the camp
fires at night one of the talo alambernton and
hooterwere towhee: oF relatingL
inb woad the
atory of ;p(wers' cave, said to contain millions
worths of silver, The 01800 Wats said to 80131
1>aat' Marble Lake, in rush -ribbed Barrio,
but the wise oiled smiled knowingly and said
it existed only in the imagination of 1110 men
whowere never tried of apeoulating as to its
whereabouts and the richee is contained.
One old than named Van 'faesel 81)0111 many
years doing little else then hunting for the
loot olive. Many plats slid he melte for the
s which 'onid be his
n the omni ion w w >
disposal f le
p
r iPuresi1+
silver would
ntlto0ute od t,
the 11101110
be found in it in abundance. He had seen
Indians wearing ornaments beaten out of
metal, said to hong from the coiling like
stalactites. So went the story. Afew der
ago a n1in01), employed in the 11111108 being
opened on John Perry`s farm in the town-
ship of Barrie, found a small opening in the
ground rocks, almost chocked np with de-
bris end tangled berry buehes. He cleaned
away the rubbish and entered a narrow pas-
sage which led him Into a cave of consider-
able Wee, but at present of an unknown ex.
tent. Ho found it to cout,in a shoot of
water situated 200 feet from the entrance,
which barred Ilia 10 ether progress, Examina-
tion at once eel idled him that he lied dis-
covered the big lost cove, for quite visible
on the walls he mond carved the name C. Q.
Meyers. Several mining; tools were found
and, most wonderful of all, he also found
silver etelaoLites, although not so long or so
wid0 as the old story of the cavo described
them. He broke off some samples of ore,
and from these he huts since beaten out sev-
oral tlliugs, among others orcaments, with
but littlo difficulty. The ore in sight is
certainly very v11001,le, but ahoahur the
cave will pan out the health expected by
Van Tassel has yet to be proven.
The cave is situated 15 miles Prem
Mayne and five miles from Cloyne.
This discovery is wort liy of more than usual
amount of interest about Oshawa since it
was through Oshawa men that the cave was
(liseoverea,
The eistory of this wonderfaI place would -
fill volumes aid furnish 010tcrlal for a work
of faction founded on fact Chet would put
Allan 1'inkertetes hest detective story far
in 11e shade. Meyers and agang of counter-
feiters along knew of its whereabouts and
their pledge of secrecy was as itiviolete as
the obligations of masonry. 'Pim govern-
ment was able toopprehendamd 001,vact the
counterfeiters which broke tip the gang but
thewhere&bouts of the placethat yielded the
:notalinric1est gmontitics was prof0nnd
secret.
Old gray headed men iu Hastings and
Fronlenae counties to -day remember Meyers
and mon of his gang but most of then: have
passed away, in fact all so far as they are
known, hove passed over. The last survivor
died near Oohawa not many years ago.
When ho realized that he was o1 his trying
bed he sent for a young man in Wen, Mr.
W. G, Ituttan for whorl lie had formed a
liking and to him he committed the maps
anti plans by means of which the fanned
mine could be found.
Mr. Ratan did not think seriously of his
informa1io' until in the 51111111er of 1889.
At that time ,Wer. Geo, merlin, Belleville,
who Inas become known throughout Ontario
as the Champion of the veterans of 181'2
made an excursion in the noethern regions
prospecting. He had what was claimed to
be a chart of he country about the clave
which also gave measurements and points
by width the spot could bo found, On his
return home L0 wrote to the Belleville On.
tario giving an recount of his trip tn11 slat-
ing that ho had located the cave. A letter
fre.m Oshawa was soon after received by the
editor of the 011 rade questioning tie veraof ty
of Mr. Merrill's statements.
It was then that Mr. Rattan became alive
to his interests, Ho took Mr. Thos. Salter
into his confidence and together they went
to 1+ronton:to twenty prospecting. The re-
sult of the trip was to find indications of
silver which led to the formation of the
Peterborough mining company and the pur-
chase of the mining right of '4110 acres of 1101r11
in Barrie township. See p;1) s of the ere
have yielded 95 per cent 01,11 there is al inn -
chum of it. Ur. Retinal made the discovery
and states that the manes of several of the
parties who hequolted the plum, years ago
nee now fon11d en the walls. A rusty sledge
a crow bar and 01111,01 were also found. The
cave is 100 feet long nod is connected with
other underground passages lvhi01.1 allow rich
deposits of diver and black tin. Most of
the stockholders of the company are Peter.
bore men, and it is to the eit.erpriae of
Messrs. Brooks, Taylor, 81evensoa and
Young shalt the work of disco%(my has been
earned on.
twelve foot of winter baro. We're right on
mid walked down to it part of the harbor top of it bank, Yell need to lob me pull
ou about whore 1 knew I should rind a boatman. ammdingx ah111weut for ad ct (8iir5ilf lt lass ewilut to et i."
l+veil 1d. 1:1139 early hour the elito of tho nal ,. W011," o 1'1 1, "sham i8 nl Leary. Vet
w ns ns 11010,0 as 11100g11 no stood at ]ifs 111011i. know all al out these venters, of 0ours1, 137.
diem The(lmosphcrc waa5 o1 n Minim" the way, when I was hero a 1le,1111 ago, I
blue, '1'berc was 0 little air of whin that fnnn,l a drowned body on tine 001(30 ago,
hili •Italy rippled the sat, I beheld not a there.,,
Oh, was you the gout, 1.hm1, 00 fell in
with that body ?"said the male, regarding
Poisoned American Apples.
An English correspondent writes : -A
sensation of considerable magnitude prevails
in feuit circles 01.0)' poisoned Antet'ioon ap-
ples. Tho Horticultural 2'imes started the
ball rolling by saying that the poison is ab-
sorbed into the fruit, and even a thin coma
ing of it is left on the skin, for American
aP1lles are syringed with n poisonous solution
to keep insects away, and they thus become
very 30ngerott8 to those who eat them. The
paper goes on to demand that the attention
of the 13o0rd of 'Prada and the Peesi*ant of
the Agricultural Department be given to the
consideration of the evil, and in the moan•
time everybody in the fruit -growing trade
is dismissing the matter and the public goes
on eating its American apples with comple-
coney and undiminished relish, oppareetly
willing to take its chance of c1e0th or of sick-
ness.
Five trotting stallions will stand the sea-
son of 1802 at (11,000 per mato-Axtell,
Allerton, Nutwood, Guy Wilkes and Stam•
bowl. These live ells are 110w regarded at
the "Four Hundred of the equine world.
It will be ann810g to compare notes upon
the performance of theft' progeny in the
next five years."
o`rinelr, 1 throw sense travels over my mean
howl in the sky; m0, not 80 ❑111011 ns ashred
of vapor of the 8110 of m 11an'1 hand. In the
harbor tho rod canvas of 0(1100118 preparing
A Woman's Figure,
The outline of a woman's figure should be
like that of 11 classic jar, slim at the neck
and at the ankles and tapering slightly at
the waist, The reason that all women tio
not leoe just this way to hocauso they will
wear pettiooats, and petticoats atm destruc-
tive to the 5ytntne1ry of the jar. Petticoats
have fletme0s upon them, and flounces melte
the dress set ant around the feet, and so o
woman, ineteed of looking slencloe at her
mettles, loolts vol'y broach indeed and big
around, so that her figure morn often resore
Mee 1.t bee dive or apyramid than that of a
clttssicol jar, If a woman is large in the bust
011d large 111 the hips she should not allow her
waist to tepee to any great extent, because
then she destroys her classical ent1line and
mattes herself loop lilac en hour glees or et
wasp. To quolo from an artist wire has
Imola it apse City of wnmen'a figures: "'.P110
principle which should be 011optel is that of
balancing the expansion of one part of the
oatlino by such ecnstrietion of another part
ms isfelt to bo in duo proportion."
Farmers' Institutes,
A bulletin fssned by the Ontario Depart -
merit of Agriculture shows that there hue
been rapid growth in the number and at.
tendanee of Partnere' Institutes for rho year.
For the year ending .1 tine 3001, 18110, the
number of inet1t11110 reported to this bureau
was (1t, with a total membership of 4,680 or
an evovtge of 73 to comb inettute, For the
year ending Jour 110111, 18411, thou aro on
tile hooks 78 Metathesis, with it total. mem.
1orehip of 7,300 or an .average of 07 to tmob
institute. The lowest 10'mi,arship in any
ma111nt0 for the year Was 80 and tip high
est 207 (Carlton).
JAN. 29, 1892
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YUCATAN'S DEADLY SPIDER,
111e Largest liver Seen, and Oren1ty Venni
l,y 1.118 0e,110110'P11ere.
A sailor on 0coasting vessel which plies
between Geleeston and ports on the gulf,
has some very intereseing specimens which
ho secured while on the const of Yucatan.
Among thein is a large jar filled with enor-
mous spillers, which he says are looped upon
With (1(01(1081 fear by the Lldians of the
central portion of that country, and which
aro undoubtedly the largest ever seen. The
body of the spider is fully five inches in di-
0utet1r, and the logs are short and thick,
being especially adapted to running and
climbing. They are about two laches long,
and ate as big around 118 an artillery Med-
pencil. The animal is of a greyish -brown
color, but is most peculiarly narked by deep
red hands which cross its body, extending
Meat, around diagonally from shoulder to
hip, crnseieg emelt other at the middle of the
1'110l( and the center of the belly. The head
is so Horse that the (details can readily be
seen, nod even the dead onus had such a
ferocious aspect that they moused a feeling
of leer. The coloring is peculiarly adapted
to the country, for the body is 111(0 the
earth, while the roll betide are lilte many of
the oeori lig 011105 which abound Imnm,g the
rocks of the interior. 'I'he30rceuess of the
lumen and the marking on the back have in-
duced the Indians to tame it the " devil"
soldier," and they Ray itis unrlonbtodly the
horst foo to man in that whole country,
malting it almost impossible or any 000 to
go into the interior for it abounds in such
members that to place is free from it, and
its biro is certain death. Only one instance
is known to Indians whore a man has been
bitten end did net die, and this man was
wildly indole ever afterward. The spider
makes its hone among the rocks, and when
anything approaches it rashes boldly out
and nukes an attack so fiercely that it is al-
most impossible to escape it. It runs with
groat rapidity and eliin1s sticko and trees
as C0'113' as if It were on the ground.
Canadian Apples in England,
Tho et -moose of the Canadian apple in Eng-
land has boon pretty well demonstrated 1111s
season. The total shipmeut to slate have Mr. Sanders Spencer, an English authority
been 530,604 barrels, es against 168,008 last on pig raising, said in the course of a lecture
year. On the London 11101'11.01 Canadian to fanners : ' The great secret is to brood
apples lay° been the foremost brand, (1113 only from those pigs whose sires and clans
commend special prices. Of the dilThrune aro from prolific strains and from those sows
vedettes the Baldwin has been a strong that are bred to milk well. The chief cense
favorite. The kings bring higher figures, of so much dissatisfaction in the past with
and any good apple finds a ready sale, A so malty of the so-called pedigreed pigs,
writer from Gran] Pre, in the eolobr&Wd has been in want of attention to the pro11-
valley of the Annapolis, Novo Sootia, says fleecy and roaring properties of the boars
that tho looalily has been a large sharer in and solus bred from, The great idea has
the beneftte resulting from the entrees of the been to 1>5oeluee a pig short an the Head,
Canadian apple. An acre of orchard in fall heavy in the jowl, 1hielt in the shoulder,
beating is said to be worth $1,000. Tho and wide of the top, and thou melte it so
average prioe'for the shipment of 1891 is beastly fat that it could neither oat grass,
figured at about $'.a per barrel, Ontario hie walk about, or reprothi(luca its speciesd; nor
118 (10111)1 also participated laegoly in the leas it fit for tiny
int 1.0 reuo fnLO
success of Catadiesi fruit, but the possibill- lard. This is 0xaotly the most unprofitable
ties of proltebie apple -raising in this pro- kind of 11 pig i1 fs po8siblo to produce. 'Tie
video aro realized by few, i folly, like airy other silly Taney, smites a lot
I of killing, but although it dice hard, its
damn% knell is weeded, and nothing has
Severe keels and freezing blasts must beoaglttabott this stoat satisfactory change
come, then come frost bites, with swelling more thou has the discussion in 010 press
itching, burning, for which St. Jacobs Oil is and at the farmers' clubs on the qursbion of
the best remedy. the best pig for the 11110011 suers' purpose.
11 I inherit some tendency to Dys-
pepsia from my mother. I suffered
two years in this way ; consulted a
number of doctors. They did me
no good. I then used
Relieved In your August Plower
and it was just two
days when I felt great relief. I soon
got so that I could sleep and eat, and
I felt that I was well. That was
three years ago, and I am still first-
class. I am never
Two Days. without a bottle, and
if I feel constipated
the least particle a dose or two of
August glower does the work. The
beauty of the medicine is, that you
can stop the use of it without any bad
effects on the system.
Constipation While I was sick I
felt everything it
seemed to me a man could feel. I
was of all men most miserable. I can
say, in conclusion, that I believe
August Flower will cure anyone of
indigestion, if taken
Life of Mlserywith j udgment. 0 A.
M. Weed, 229 Belle-
fontaine 8t. Indianapolis. Ind." A
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A Suggestion on Pig Breeding.
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'HIRTY Y +" R l 'i l
7/ " yf�ltOn, N. 13., March ix, 1138g.
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"I Hole 'troubled for thirty years with
pains bo sty side, which increased and
111.t 4�i 'SAGO M^Cul'' 11.` became tray bad. I used
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and it completely cured, '11 give it all praise."
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