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A New Year‘s Message. nu UlIlICL a, ; nuuxuu Avav wvvu\t u u, . “When I was 15 I told my parents I want ed to be a doctor. \Vomen physicians were little heard of in those days. My family scorned the idea and threatened to send me to bed for an indefinite period if ever I men- tioned the subject again. So I nursed the thought and intent in secret. It grew stronger and stronger. One day I read in a. newspaper of a woman who had commenced a. medical practice in a western town. She wee the first female physician of whom I had ever heard. It gave a renewed strength to my (latermination. .‘,.v 11 ,:,,,,LL_ My name is Margaret Lathum. My more intimate friends used to Sportiver call me “ Doc," for reasons which will shortly ap- ear. For the last ten years 1 have resided m a. far-away South American city, among a. people whose customs are very different from my own. . p ,- At the age of 16 I commenced keeping the books of a Village merchant on the meager salary graciously allowed a girl for perform- ing a man’s work. I worked for him five years and saved $1,000. \Vith this I went to Boston, applied at a certain noted college, and stated my desire to the principal of en- tering on a. course of medical study. He told me that I could manage to “ pull through” on $1,000, but that it would be hard work, involving much deprivation and relative hardship. 0n $1,500 he said I could et through properly, and advised me strong y against making further effort un- less I had that sum. â€"- y . - K New year here 15 also a season of festiv- ity. But it is all very different from the Canadian new year of my childhood. As} this season draws near I feel an irresistible ‘ yearning to send to my own countrymen something which may possibly remind cer» tain friends I left of my existence. I thought ; I had shut them from me forever ; I find I i cannot. Year nfter year in this strange land, as the season dmws near, have I felt [ the same impulse. It is as if then I would migrate to my northern home like a bird of ‘ passage. The feeling has with me grown stronger and stronger. As I cannot come I 1, send my thoughtsâ€"my storyâ€"which I hope i and pray mey meet some old friends’ eye. l I was Born and bred in the hard, narrow, rigid life of a family “in straightened cir- cumstances in a," Canadian village. I had, when a girl, two dominant desires. One was to get away from my people, the other to be- come a. physician. The love of hemling was inbred in meâ€"I mean to heal as I think only a woman can healâ€"and to heal principally women. I doli't say this as a man-haterâ€"quite the reverse. I state it only us my peculiar i11- clination. One of my besetting sins, and which inâ€" jured my prospects in life was an irresist- ible tendency to “ cut up.” and generally at the very time and in the very place where, of all others, I should have acted decox'ously. I went from the college and cried for half an hour. I terminated my cry with a, laugh, went back to my native village, kept the merchant’s books for two years and a. half longer, returned to Boston with the ne~ cessai'y $1,500, and commenced my medical studies. The years that I spent in the earning of money to pay for my education and those occupied in attainin that education were years of close, hard !living. I deprived my- self of many things my nature craved, I dressed very plainly, and fed myself meager ly. I was obliged to deny myself amuse- ment and recreation. Iloved dressâ€"rich and expensive dress. I appreciated and craved food much above the quality of 20- cent meals. I was passionately fond of the drama. I enjoyed all the elegancies and luxuries of life. Wanting all these, my life was a continual stalvation. I tried to com- fort myself by the belief that in all this ne- cessary denial and pressing forward toward the one aimâ€"my educationâ€"I was doing the right thing. --- v 1-r ,1 u, I went to Boston very full indeed of good intent and resolution to abandon my madcap pranks. I made in Boston one very dear fe- male acquaintanceâ€"the loveliest nature I ever met. She seemed to accept my odd make u , though, possibly, she did not un- derstan it ; but, for that matter, neither did I then, 1101‘ do I 110w. - .-V_ _V , I clutched it as the starving man might l clutch at some choice viand given him which he feared the others, starving, might snatch from him. I took it as one starved may take any gift, thinking it was the last ever to be received. I became covetous. I hoarded away these gifts. While I would not beg for more directly I did so indirectly. Thou h | having then money enough to supply t e ' needs of the hour more in accordance with my tastes and desires, I did not so ratify them, I continued still to dress plairfi ) live poorl . I sent half my soul in a bank 1 vault an left it there amid a package of J soiled bank billsâ€"mine ! mine l mine lâ€"â€"of e which I would not touch one to make my life and surroundings more pleasant. I yandi We; I Y I answer, as now I see life and its necessities. No ! As now I see my case, I longed for ten years to dress as I saw other women dress. I longed for choicer food, cozy apartments, and the gratification of many tastes. I look back with loathing On my hard, narrow, pinched, and relatively s uslid life. I made certain friends, some 0 them wealthy. As my situation became known to them their sympathies were enlist- ed in my behalf. Offers of money followed. I took it ; more ; I took it almost greedily. I found when I hid sufficient means that I had not the courage to spend them for what I had so earnestly wanted. The saving, calculating, cost-to-a-penny habit of years clung to me.‘ ‘ 11 1,,, ,: “fiAAWA. VH1, V Anything beyond my old plane of expense frightened me. I was cursed with a mania. for cheapness. If I purchased a. good article of any sort and paid for it a. good price I would be pained for days at the thought of 3min? with so much money. Had a. million een p aced in my possession I should have felt the same. Lvnv u“, Isabel and I planned a trip to England together. I wished for a course of study at one of the great London hospitals. We ar- ranged the trip and set a time for our de- parture. 1- ;, L‘,:41_LL~ “NJ; ....... But when I came to think the matter over by myself it presented itself in a. very differ-- ent light. «- I felt that for this girl to ac- company me would be for both of us a mis- fortune ; that I should be ever leading her into trouble through my whims and hu» mors and that her gentle and sensitive nature was not able to endure the strain that would be put upon it through my possible acts. I went to England alone and without giving her any explanation whatever. And this: There is no ultimate gain in starvation, starved and repressed appetite, or starved and repressed taste, no matter what be the end attained through such starâ€" vation ; it is only another robbing of Peter to pay l’aul, only (lemming up injuriously what’s in human nature, to roll over the bar- rierat last and sweep all before it; only a starving of body, mind, and spirit, Whose result is to make one see through starved ‘ eyes and by a starved judgment. 5 Close the old year and open the new with ‘ the good cheer that comes from generous ' giving. Remember that all you can carry into the life hereafter will be what you have given, not what you have saved. ‘ _ breakfast 3’ Poor Rocks. Dog stories beingallthe mgejust now how will this one, told by a. Rock Island loco- motive engineer, do for Monday morning, I “ Some years ago,” said the en- 3 l '1 i r } s a ' gineer, “I was running along near Joliet, 1. 2 He had evidently tried to jump over the ' He did this two or three times until my fire- : ‘ man and I felt sure that he wasrmnd. ‘ i. when I saw a. fine big black dog fast under an old farm gate by the side of the track. gate, and, the hinges being broken, it had d fallen on him. He could not get out and l V was howling so pitifully that I stopped try J ‘1 engine and went to his assistance. He was so grateful t lat he licked my hand and 1 wanted to follow me into the cab. I Want- 3 ed to take him with me, but didn’t dare. 3‘ After that the dog, whom I and my fire-‘5 man named Rocks, used to sit beside the - track and wag his tail when we went by. He got so he could tell mv engine as far as he could see it or hear my whistle. A few months later we were running along there, behind time, and going very fast. It was I just at daybreak, and I was a. little surprised l to see Rocks on the track ahead of us. He ' was acting strangely. He barked furiously and howled and reared upon his hind feet. . \Vhen We came up a little closer to him he started and ran a ways on the track, and y then turned and set up and howled again. 3 “Pflb‘fi Hammodrnam cmn-a I studied in a great London hospital for a. yearâ€"rather a hard experience for a woman as a, woman in such a situation is regarded by the English medical student. All A ..‘...'l:4:n,1 “vaa: The present cost of operating the railways of America. by steam is $502,000,000, but to transport the same tonnage, using men and horses, would cost $11,306,500,000. That is to say a return to old methods i would render commerce practically impos- sible. w- m_v...- m mum. u, my M. m” El returned to the tétates a qualified physi- cian. I had gained my end and had paid dearly for it. The strain had been too much. I was at the start splendidly equip ped as to physical vigor but my health broke down. I was ready to commence life, but now life’s corner-stone and founda- tion to build upon»â€"health-â€"was wanting. The few friends I had in Boston may re- member how suddenly I disappeared ; how I left them without a word or line of thanks of remembrance. That they should deem me ungrateful I do not wonder. But I lcft them in the way I did because I dared not reveal myself to them. I could not do as I have done here. Nor could I thank them for their kindness in any assumed mechanic- al fashion. I felt that I had played a part for a sordid motive. I loathed myself for so doing. So between the two I went off in silence. press upon its readers is that sordidness never results in good. Giving, not hoardâ€" ing, brings back a. rich return. Think of this as the new year opens. Be generous to others and to yourselfl tolEe-HVI 1221171 Sfl‘er. \V-hat I )sz'nt isnto im- Finally Rocks lingered too long on the track and was struck by the pilot and drawn under the wheels. I heard him howl so agonizineg as he went under that I imme‘ die-tel} shut ofl" steam and stopped the train. My fireman went back to see what had beâ€" come of Rocks, but he had been all smashed to pieces. My fireman and I were about ready to cry as we started up again, but imagine our amazement when on turning a curve a little ways ahead, we saw an ob- struction on the track, so placed that it would surely have derailed our train had we struck it at full speed. As it was, we were hardly in motion, and easily stopped before reaching the danger. All that could be learned about the obstruction was that pro» bably some farmer or other person having spite against the road placed it there. No- body wes arrested for it,but I believe that if old Rocks had lived he could have bark- ed his fiercest at the criminal.” A few evenings ago a. fine-looking, wellâ€" dressed negro, as black as black can be, entered a. drug store and inquired semi- confidentially of the clerk : “ Do you keep lampblack ‘2” n n , ".A‘lA A “ I can give you some,” was the reply ; “ how much do you want ?” “ Well, you see, sehHuhâ€"is it very nice? I would like a. little, sell, in a pretty boxâ€" like these,” pointing at boxes containing toilet articles in the showcases. Seeking Frec Advice. “ Dockder,” he said casually to a physi- cian Whom he met on the street, “ I’ve god a. bad cold in my bed. ‘Whad would you ud- vidse me to do ‘2” And the doctor, who doesn’t give some» thing for nothing when he can help it, re- WEVWéfiâ€"j’rgafiia clerk, dubiously, “ I dunno ; what (10 you Evan}: it for ‘3” n:- I “ Fo'r de toilei, sah ; powdahs, sah !” plilel lucu . “ I would 'advise you to buy a dozen poc- ket-htmdkerchiefs and then consult a. phy- sician. ” “ See here, my friend,” said the bartender to a. man who for several minutes had been very much engrossed at the free lunch table, “ ain’t you oing to buy any beer?” n \T» "h. ’ “mum: Hum knuv man u T .M - J -r ?’._,_O . 7‘ N0, Slr, repliietiflghe “busy man. ” I was reqding last: night that beer tends to take away the ibpetite." Col. Gilder and his companion, Lieut. Griffiths, who are seeking to reach the North Pole, are wintering among the Esqnimaux, near York Factory, Hudson’s Bay, With a View to learning the language and habits of the people. The arrangcnhents for the protection of the President are so complete that, accordâ€" ing to a. correspondent, in case of danger a thousand armed and well-disciplined men could be massed in defence of the White House within an hour. At the President’s semi-weekly receptions a. dozen detectives are always present. Thisfi is my holiday messageâ€"«the one “n . :7 LA :__ The Eternal Fitness of Things. An Unhealthy Beverage. for my wifeâ€"she In the French Village of Thenelles there is a young lady who has enjoyed an uninter- how rupted sleep since the lst of June, 1883. ,CO_ 3 Her name is Margaret Borgenval, and she is ling i said to be exceedingly beautiful ; though, em ‘ as was only to be expected, her three years’ net, ;_ trance has made her rather thin. During )der the whole period she has never been ill, and wk. -v she appears no older than she did when she the ‘_ first “ went off.” Every now and then a. had 3 dose of peptone is administered to keep the and vital spark alight ; but otherwise she re» “1v i quires no attention. Alsace-Lorraine innst be a true paradise for sportsmen. Last year there were shot in the forests, of the Reiehslande 37 wolves, 1,199 wild boars, 15?. wild cats, and 2,680 foxes, with, of course, an abundance of or- " dinary game. Lorraine has long been en- . deavoring to rid herself of predatory ani- i mals, but so far to little purpose, for French I lnmtsmen are not; so zealous in exterminat- Z’ ing the wolfas they might be. including the opera house, during the past twelve months has reached the sum of two and a half million marks. The Emperor’s yearly contribution out of his privy purse ‘ is 450,000 marks ; butin addition to this he also pays the deficit, which is very consider- able. The non-remunerative portions of the royal theatre system are the op- . era ballet. The legitimate stage always ; yields a handsome surplus. All the mem- ‘ bers of the royal family have their boxes, for which they regularly pay the due an- nual rent, although some of them do not enter the theatres during the season. For every special imperial performance the Em- . peror invariably pays the Whole cost. These 1 performances take place at the visits of for zeign princes to Berlin, great parades, and A.» -w » public celebrations. The failure of the op- era to pay its way is due in great part to the tremendous Wages of singing folk. Herr Niemann, the tenor, has to appear for for- . ty-eight evenings during six months, and for each evening he has an honorarium of 750 marks. This equals 36,000 marks a 3 year. A singular event occurred a few days ago at a. church at \Villenhall, Staffordshire. A couple presented themselves to be married, and upon the clergyman putting the ques~ tiou, “ \Vilt thou have this woman for thy wedded wife,” the bridegroom answered with an emphatic “No,” and left the church His explanation was that a. year ago when he wanted to be married his intended bride refused, and he thought the present occa- sion afforded him the opportunity of “ re- turning the compliment.” A London lady died last week, leaving £10,000 to the Dog’s Home at Battersen, while to her executor, a poor parson with a. largo family, was left £100 as a. legacy. The King of Cambodia, according to the correspondent ofa Paris journal, has 300 \vxves, chosen from the handsomcst‘ women The Kolnische Zeitung says it is charac- teristic of the condition of the Russian press that in 1883, out of 272 editors of St. l’cters~ burg and Moscow, one half I ere officers in the employ of the government, 36 being Generals, Privy and State Councillors, 65 officers of the staff or employees of corres- ponding rank in Civil Service, and 37 lower officers and employees. Chinamen who favor the introduction of railways into their country, says a Shang‘ hai paper, will be encouraged by learning that though the Tokioâ€"Yokohama railway cost 4,000,000 yen, being the first line built in Japan, and constructed entirely by for» eigners, it has already paid for itself out of the annual profits up to the end of last year. Subsequent railways in Japan have been much more cheaply constructed, and with the experience of railway building in the east that has been gained in lndia, Burmah and Japan, China should now be able to provide herself with the iron way at a. com- paratively modern cost. \VAVUD, buunuu “v.” mm Au“. Wu H. in the Whole country. The entire popu- lation and territory belong to the King. All the Cambodians are the King‘s “cannon” or slaves, and pay him rents. The King himself belongs to the French Resident-Gen» eral. The Railroad Company Thought Ile Wns Modest, but lle “’asn‘l. “ The Union Pacific folks were awful glad when a certain man died in Omaha. the other day,” said one of the agents of that line. “ His name was Bowers, About a. dozen years ago he saved a train from run- ning into a. washout near his farm, and the Union Facific folks felt grateful to him. Mr. Clark, who was then Superintendent, hut who is now with the Milwaukee and St. Paul Road, sent for Bowers and offered him $500. Bowers modestly declined the money, but when Mr. Clark proposed to make him out a. pass good for the end of his life he said he didn’t object. When Clark was engaged making out, the pass Bowers said: ‘ Would you mind making out the pass good for a friend? I might want to go to Salt Lake City some day and take a. friend of mine down to see my uncle.’ ‘ to amass a snug fortune. “ Of course, Mr. Clark felt'so grateful he ‘didn’t mind’ making it out good for a friend ; in fact, he was willing to do most anything at that time. The pass was sent up to headquarters where it received the signatures of the President and General Passenger Agent and was returned to Bow- ers. “ Well, now, what do you think '1 For twelve years he has been riding from Oma- ha to Salt Lake City, from Salt Lake City to Ogden, and other points on the line, and never alone. He always had a ‘friend’ With him. The friend was usually some commercial traveller. In short, Bowers had made it his business for the past twelve years. He made arrangements with various Wholesale and jobbing houses to car- ry their men, and booked his engagements months ahead sometimes. \Vhen these fail- ed he picked up stray passengers here and there. After paying his sleeping-ear and other expenses he had from $6 to $8 a day clear profit. Out of this profit he managed He tried to use his pass on the limited express, but the company would not have it. When he did attempt it he was liable to be ejected be- tween stations, even if the train was going up grade. In fact, the company wanted to refuse to carry him at all. but its lawyer concluded the trial for damages would be too expensive. The travelling men are sorry Bowers has madehis exit.” The costrof the royal theqtrgs inl‘Berlin, BOIVERS USED THE PASS. FOREIGN NEWS. l The extent to which really fine {owls are i being bred, and the prices which they bring, i are things quite wonderful ; and the farmer who clings to the old common barnyard ; fowl is away behind the times. For a, few l years past the laced Wyandottes have taken the fancicr’s attention, and now comes l the white VVyandotte and white Plymouth ,’ Rocks. The boom is to rest on these varie- f- ties for a year or two, particularly the ’ former. If I were to live my life over again I would plant on my home grounds some chestnuts and shellbark Walnuts of the bet- ter'varieties, not only for amusement but for profit. Sons and daughters are the most val nimble products of the farm. Treat them ac- cordingly, or at least as well as colts and calves. Overfeediug swme is waste of food and of hog, and possibly of human life, for it pro- duces disease and unwholesome pork. It has been proven over and over again that a little land well tilled is more profit- able than an extended urea. neglected and improperly cared for. Much of the labor saved in farming tools is not to be found in any financial equiva- lent, it exists in the greater ease of farm life, and other comforts of living. Four times as much nutriment can be secured by converting the waste products of the earth into milk as can be gained by put- ting them into beef, mutton or pork. From one end of Scotland to the other during the last year or two there has been every material decrease in the use of arti- ficial memu'es. There is no way in which fertilization can be so promoted as by dairy farming. But- ter takes nothing from the soil that; affects its fertilization the way that Wheat and other crops do. The New York agricultural society ruled out of its annual fair all exhibits not strict- ly agricultural, thus excluding a lot of mer- chants’ advertising (lisplztys. Is this a. pre cedent Worth the notice of other fair mam agers ? . IIIA It is Worthy of remark that in many places the highway is being cleared of brush and briers, some being the growth of years. The removal of these obstructions is a (le- cided improvement, and it would be well if others would follow the example. The young of wild species of birds are fed by their parents chiefly on animal food even when they are seed eaters when mature. They are thus forced that the period of their helplessness may be shortened. Poul- try men can take a. leaf out of nature’s bo'ok. A local paper says :â€"“ The farmer should take an in‘erest in the establishment of all kinds of xew industries at points close to him, both to give him a higher value for his land, it higher price for his products and at the same time give him profit in holding shares in all these industrial enterprises.” If we had a piece of ground upon which we proposed to plant strawberries next spring, we should give it a heavy sowing of salt as soon as possible, for the purpose of destroying the grubs which so often ruin these plants. Sown now, it could be ap- plied in quantities sufficient to destroy al- most all these pests. If left until spring, a. heavy sowing sometimes kills the plants as well as the grubs. NOTES. Profitable poultry raising can never run itself, neither can any other kind ofburzi- ness. Large, coarse hows are no longer favorites. Dealers prefer purl; weighing from two to three hundred pounds. A ton of bran foal with two tons of hay is worth as much as four tons of hay fed alone to either horses, cattle or sheep. One toad on a farm destroys more in- sects than his price in lime, worrying and Paris green. One toad is as good as a hoe. Do everything just as well as you know how. Be on the lookout for the best way. Waste nothing. Subscribe for your local papers, and read them. If your seed is not pure, get some that is, and keep it 50. Keep everything tight. Repair, but never patch. Do not wait till noon to repaira. break, do it at once. Avoid the immoral, profane and vicious laborers by all means. They are dangerous to have on the premiSes, and your children may be ruined by contractng their vices. The hired men and boys can not be kept apart in fields and house, so it becomes very necessary to have great care in regard to the morals of those we hire. The most serious obstacle to the business is the curse of dogs, but if more farmers were engaged in raising sheep, ashort, sharp and decisive crusade against these pests would doubtless reduce them to a mini- mum. The sheep farmer is always justified in killing at sight any strange dog seen on his place, unaccompanied by his owner. TIMELY SUGGESTIONS. One of the best, well tried, and always successful preventives of disease among swine is to keep a. trough to which they can always have access filled with a. mixture composed of sixty parts of wood ashes, twenty parts of salt, twelve parts sulphur, and eight parts copperas. The pigs will re- gulate their doses. Prof. Turner, of J ack- sonville, 111., has been successful with this preventive, as originally composed by him. ,,,,11 ‘,A_L L _ u . A . , . t 1“ 97h; foc‘a thev wellfkept horses of Adams Express company always put a hand- ful or so of out hay with oats, otherwise a large paft of the oat} is not digested. (‘14,, T._J.‘A_L__ L.‘ K “fritcr in the Live Stock Indicator be- lieves it to be a. fact that the Holstein is winning its way rapidly in the regard of our people as the grandest “ combination cow” known. The cow in the hands of our farm- ers that will give the most milk and then be easily turned into a good beef carcass seems to be the Holstein. Timber screens may afford enough pro- tection to cultivate lands to repay their cost in a single year with like benefits to be re- eived through successive seasons the trees at last worth for mechanical uses more than every cost of planting and care, including in- terest on the expenditure. Horses hard at work need blanketing while at rest at this season nearly or quite as much as they do in winter, when colder weather prevents much sweating. VVhenâ€" ever a horse is moist with sweat he is liable to a serious illness if chilled by exposure to winds. Always put ahorse in his stable to eat even if he has very short time for that purpose. FARM. “The medium was Mrs. Miller, lately from the east, and nowaresident of Los Angeles. She has been in this city about three weeks, and has been giving spiritualis- tie manifestations that were spoken of as re- markable. I went to see what she could do. There were eleven persons in the circle. The cabinet was of the usual description, being constructed of a. light framework hung over with blankets and set up againstV folding doors. The circle was formed in‘ horseshoe shape, fronting the cabinet. The“ medium, Mrs. Miller, who lSiL woman of middle age, medium size, dark hair and eyes, after being examined by one of the ladies present, went into the cabinet, attir- ed in adark dress, with a shan thrown over her shoulders. Dr. Kelly was the master of ceremonies. He is the librarian of the Washington hull society of Spiritual- ists. He requested all present to sing, and they joined together in a song. Shortly after came out of the cabinet, went up to Dr. Kelly, and indicated to him that one of the company was to approach. As each one of the group went up to the spirit and touched his hand, he or she was walked up and down in front of the cabinet by Dr. Kelly, in order, he said, to get more power. This was done, however, I suppose, to keep each party’s attention distracted from the spirit. After a. while Dr. Kelly would say to the one holding the spirit’s hand, which, by the way, could only beheld lightly by the finâ€" gers: "Turn your car around. The spirit wants to speak with you.” When a member of the circle did so, the spirit would put its lips up to his or her ear, murmur something unintelligible, and, having thus drawn at- tention away from the hand, would sudden- ly jerk it away and sink behind the curtains of the cabinet. This was the dematerializa. tion. The medium claimed, and good, sen- sible men who have been to her seances said it was so, that the spirit had dematcrialized and FADEI) AWAY FROM THE MORTAL HAND holding it. But the hand that was placed in mine was a. good, solid, fleshy hand, even thou h I did not get a substantial hold on it be orc it was jerked awn-y, as I have told you. “ \Vhen the white form disappeared, another form, with a beard on and dressed in dark clothes emrged a little from the cabinet after an interval, and after some- body had been called up and some rigmarole performed it went back behind the curtains. Afterward the white form came out again, and I was beckoned to come up. I Went to the cabinet, and by some accident, stopped between it and the spirit. That time I ot a firm clasp of the Spirit’s hand, and held it tightly. The spirit seemed uncomfortable and tried to get away. It took its other hand:and tried to loosen my grasp, and so I used my left hand in order to prevent this from being done and to retain my hold. The spirit said softly to me ‘ Let go, let go,’ in a. very appealin voice, but I held on. Dr. Kelly then gra bed me with both hands around my throat, and said in a. very hard tone, ‘ For God‘s sake, let go ! You will kill the medium.’ I told him that I did not intend to hurt the medium, but was wait- ing for the spirit to dematerialize. Kelly tightened his grasp on my throat, and ih.‘ sisted on my letting go. I told him that ‘ I was resolved to hold on, and that he might CHOKE ME TO DEATH before I would loosen my grasp. There was, as you may suppose, considerable con- fusion in the room by this time. I called on the others, who were in attendance to turn up the lights. There was a single lamp dimly burning in one part of the room, and one gentleman turned it up, but Mr. Miller, the husband of the medium, turned it down and put out the light. We were then in darkness. I called out for some- body to light the gas, and at last the others succeeded in getting some matches and find- ing a. gas-jet. The gas was then lighted. By this time Mr. Miller came to his wife’s rescue and tried to pull my hand away. All the while Kelly was choking me and the medium trying to wt away. When the gas was li hted it was seen that I held the hand of t e medium, who was dressed from head to foot in white, and who was trying to hide her face behind the blankets of the cabinet, with thehusband and Kelly still eudeavorin to free her from my hold. I held on unti every person in the room had a. chance to come up and see that the form in white was the medium and no spirit at all. When all had satisfied them- selves of the fraud, I told Kelly I wanted my money back. Each of us had paid $1 to o in. He returned this amount to all of us. Kelly, the medium, and the husband were much agitated over the exposure. We search- ed for the beard, but it had been secreted somewhere. The medium “There was a. Seance one night recently at a house in San Francisco,” said a gentle- man to a. Call reporter. Extraordinary lbcvelopmcnts at n Seance. KEPT ONE HAND TIGHTLY CLINCHED and we could not open it without using more force than was considered proper. She evidently held some apparatus in that hand. Dr. A. Morton, whose office is in the Phelan building, was one of those present, and he said that he saw the beard, and knows that it is false. This Mrs. Miller was here about a year ago, and the most wonderful stories were related then of her spiritualistic power. “ Was your purpose in oing to the seance to expose her Y” was aske . ..-- ‘wv ‘ .v “1- ‘ “No,” said Mr. W'adsworth. “I merely went to witness the manifestations which were deemed so very remarkable. I ama, spiritualist myself. being the acting chair- man of the Golden Gate Religious and Phil- osophical society, which meets at metro- politan temple, and I am interested in know- ing the truth of these things. I have been present at seances where actual dematerial- ization, if such it might be called, occnred. The hand of the spiritual form on those oc- casions could not be grasped, being like fog. There was nothing solid about them which could be held on to. You could see them, but not feel them. I did not do any grabbing at Mrs. Miller’s seance. I took her hand when invited to and held on to it, waiting for the dematerialization. The violence used was on the part of those who tried to choke and pull me away.” Didn’t Care for Sweets. She (looking over bill of fare)~Am I to have carte blanfiig, Charley ?’j r Charleyâ€"â€"â€"“ Why, yes ;' take some carte blanche if you want, but I prefer something solid.” A SUBSTANTIAL GHOST. A FORM IN \VHITE