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reverential air he opened very large door,
way, and with whisper suggestive of a
peep into the harem of the Turkish Sultan,
he said: This is the boardroom of the di.
rectors of the Bank of England
81 looked within upon an apartment
much larger than Steinway Hall, New
York; room capable of seating several
thousand people. Its magniicently fres-
coed ceiling was wonderfully high. Upon
its walls hung paintings by old masters.
and swear some of them were 20 feet long
and feet high; the paintings, of course, I
mean and not the masters. At the far end
of this enormous apartment and almost hid
in gloom and distance were four white
haired gentlemen sitting around table.
o: the plum -colored one, I inquired In my
easy American way: who are the mokes
at the other end of the room?' ,=
"He looked at me horror stricken, and
then in tones full OF awe he answered:
why bless your soul, they're the directors
of the great Bank of England
is that SOP 1 calculated. and moved by
a sudden impulse sprang forward. 1 had
moved 40 feet before 1 heard tine funkey
calculate in a voice suggestive of cold
perspiration: Bless my soul! and this re-
echoed by my friend and his wife with
Bless my soulP Bless nv soul? but had
plum-colored friend to follow me.
INTO THE AUGUST PRESENCE.
"He would as soon have thought of
burglarizing his way into the kingdom of
heaven as daring to enter that sacred pres
ence without command. The four gray
haired gentlemen seemed very far away
when 1 found myself in the center of the
great hall, but my sombrero and my ulster
gave me confidence. aud l was determined
to show them that an American citizen,
even though he was not free
born one, was not to be awed by the
wealth of a bloated monarchy. l finally
reached the table where the four directors
sat, but cannot depict the amazement e1-
pressed upon their well-.ed countenances 1
hadn't the slightest idea what 1 intended
saving, put I was determined to increase
their establishment if possible, and so plac-
ing both my hands palms downward upon
the baize covered table and pushing my
sombrero to the back of my head, 1 smiled
upon them and pleasantly said: Gentle
men, have the honor to wish you good
morning.
'The old fellows were not to be outdone
In politeness, and while I saw written upon
their faces that they looked upon me as an
escaped lunatic, the quartet said in chorus:
Good morning, sir, and then the man at
the head of the table, who l afterward
learned was the Chairman, added, TO what
are we indebted for the honor of this visit?'
"'Well, gentlemen answered, L am
stranger in this city, and have been hav-
ing a rather good time with some of you
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rolled along the turf from the hand OF the
player. One ball is of porcelain; very small,
about twice the size of hens egg. This, at
the beginning of game, is rolled forward
by one of the players with the idea that it
shall stop somewhere near the other side of
the green. Once it comes to rest it becomes
the target for subsequent play.
LIGHTING NEAR THE JACK.
Then the player aims to roll his ball in
such way that it shall come to rest very
near the object ball, which in the parlance
of the game is known as the Jack" There
may be two or four players in game.
In the latter case, which is most ordinary,
the players are divided into partners. 1t
would seem simple thing to roll ball
across 70 to 100 feet of turf and cause it to
land within short distance of an object;
but, as can speak from experience, this is
no simple matter. In the first place, one
has to learn. the force to be used in placing
the ball, because the turf may be more or
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ering their ball take tue attitude depicted
in the illustration accompanying this ar
ticle.
The diagram represents the course of
ball PLAYED from the oilcloth toward the OBJ
iect ball, the aim in the illustrated shot be-
ing to bring the played ball within the
space between the ball B and the object ball
G. The dotted line shows the course
that the ball would pursue if directed
by a skillful player. 1t will follow
straight line from the point of delivery
for three or four rods, and then it will
curve sharply to the right or left ac-
cording as the perfect hemisphere of the ball
is held to the left or right in the hand that
plays it. This makes it possible not only to
knock an opponents ball out of a favorable
position, but to work ones own balls into a
better place by judging accurately in two
things: First, the force of play which is
necessary to send the ball across the green
the requisite distance, and, second, to judge
the curve which will be acquired by that
same force in the course of the balls run.
THE JACK IN THE DITCH.
If it so happens that the Jack" by mis-
play is knocked into the ditch, then all sub
sequent plays are measured according to the
position which the jack occupies in the
ditch, but no ball which is carelessly bowled
into the ditch counts in measurement
thereof
Every Scotchman plays this game, and
the skill acquired bv some of the best
players is simply marvellous. Judgment of
curves is wonderfully accurate. played it
one time for a game of 21 points. which
took two hours to accomplish, both sides
being very evenly matched. There seemed
to be no especial difficult exercise in play
ing, yet the next morning my right arm,
with which 1 had bowled, and my whole
right side were lame and sore from the e1-
ertion.
1t seems to me that with all the open
lands available in America for the prac-
tice of athletic sports this game should
find ready admirers in all States, and mas
much as there is no exact weight or
size of the halls renuired in the n1av IL
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A-Play ball at the start.
B B-Played balls.
C-The jack.
D-The position made by A after following
the course indicated by the line AID.
would appear to be an easy thing to adopt
the game in any locality.
In Scotland every player ha. his own set
of four balls turned according to the shape
he most desires and according to the weight
which is most favorable for his style On
tine public greens there is a uniform
weight and style which naturally conflicts
with the best individual play. But il any
hardwood is used and ball turned from it
which is about FIVE inches in diameter, the
player must suit himself as to the other re-
quirements, only bearing in mind that q
very slight depression of one surface is neces-
sary to enable the ball to make the curve de-
manded in the most skillful delivery.
FREDERICK r.. BURTON
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he said to me: NY dear Colonel, 1 will take
you to-day to view the Tower of London
"'You will do nothing Of the kind 1
answered.
Then through the Houses of Parlia-
ment.'
Not much, replied.
"Ah, then!" he exclaimed, "I will give
you rare treat. For more than IS months
the vaults of the Bank of England, the
greatest financial institution In the world.
have been closed to everyone except those
VINO bear orders from a certain number of
well-known people. I can give you a card
which will gain you admission; in fact, nv
self and nv wife will go there with you and
see that you are given every facility for in
spection."
81 had to confess that this invitation met
with my approval. Incredible as it may
seem, although 1t does not account for my
presence in this country, 1 was once bank
cashier, having charge of the Belfast branch
of the Ulster Bank, financial institution
of ireland, which has SO branches and
which excells in the magnitude of its opera
tions any banking concern in this country.
IN THE FAMOUS BANK.
"I said 1 would be glad to visit the old
lady of Threadneedle street. We were met
at the door by a number of funkeys who
wore plum-colored coats covered with lots of
silver buttons, and one OF them having
taken our cards within, we were soon
greeted by gentlemanlv attired clerk, who
bade us welcome and designated one of the
plum-colored servitors to act as our guide
and instructed him to show us everywhere
through the great institution. We looked
upon the machines printing Bank of En-
gland notes, upon the machines which
sorted them, upon the girls who inspected
them, upon their final disposition and L all
the time wondering why thev issued such
himsv stuff when we set them such better
example with our msgnifcently engraved
Treasury chromos.
''Then we were taken into the lower
vaults where there are enormous trucks
such as we have in railway stations, each
one loaded heavily with large bricks of
gold, none of which weighed less than IA
pounds, as 1 afterward learned. There was
a truck marked tRothschild, another brand
ed Bank of Liverpool. and scores of them
labelled Bank of England The gentle
manly attired clerk appearing upon the
scene at this moment, said to me in super
cilious manner. which made my American
blood boil: 4 don't suppose, Colonel Knox,
that you ever saw anything like that in
America
II smiled upon him condescendingly and
said: why, my dear sir, in the sub-treas-
ury in New York City we have gold bricks
ten times as large as those piled up on the
sidewalks and then having slightly frac-
tured the truth. I split it wide open by add
ing: And in the Treasury building in
Washington, they have them piled from
basement to roofin order to prevent that
latter part of the structure from falling in
THE DIRECTORS ROOM.
don't know whether that clerk believed
me or not. but be turned away without say
ing word and LETT me with my two COM
panions. Ny plum-colored friend next es-
corted us along a corridor and then with a
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played on ice, and as there is in America
an international league of curriers' it must be
we'll understood in spite of the mild winter
that has prevailed in centers where the game
otherwise would have had many exhibi-
tions. The Sco:chman's love of curling,
his winter game, is so great that he has in
vented another game that takes its place
even in The hot season. and In winters like
this it is played the year round.
This game is bowling" very different
affair from the game known in our country
by the same name. Bowling" is, as nearly
as possible, transfer of curling to smooth
turf.
In every town of Scotland Of any size
whatever there is a public green set apart
for bowling. In Edinburgh there are three
that know of, and this takes no account of
the green's maintained and used by private
clubs. I have in mind one green at the
northern end of the city not far from
Holyrood Palace where a half acre or so has
been set aside by the City Government for
bowling. 1 wandered in last fall as the
gate was open and sat on turf bench for
several minutes watching the play. Five
games were in progress at the time on the
same turf, and presently, fourth hand
being required to start new game, I was
invited to join.
A PENNY AN HOUR.
For this paid the enormous sum of one
penny, which privileged me to play for
one hour. After that time was forced
by municipal law to resign my hand
in order that others might come in.
There is nothing corresponding to this in
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American cities unless the teams grounds
reserved in Central Park at New York be
excepted; but in Scotland not only are the
grounds reserved and kept by the city, but
the implements of play are also furnished.
These are simply balls and a piece of oil
cloth about three feet square which is placed
on the turf to save the grass at the point
where the players deliver their shots.
A bowling green may be of any size.
Usually it is about 100x150 feet. On such
surface four or five games may be in progress
at once. Private clubs arrange their
grounds in the same way, but private play
ers in that case keep their own balls which
have been turned to suit their respective
tastes.
The game is not difficult to understand,
implements consist of wooden balls to be
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gheny.
Troubled with catarrh over two years. Usual
head and stomach symptoms, pain over eyes,
ringing in ears. stoppage of nostrils hawking
and spitting especially in morning, with
excessive secretion of offensive mucus. This
mucus dropping into the stomach caused con-
siderable dyspeptic symptoms, pain and dis
tress after eating, bad taste in the mouth,
tongue coated, loss of appetite and consequent
arrested growth. All these symptoms were re-
Heved after first treatment and persistent
treatment has caused an entire disappearance
of the same. Master Richey now feeling well
and growing rapidly.
RESULTS OF HOME TREATMENT.
A lady patient from Howard, O., writing for
her second months treatment, says: II am
feeling much better, my head has not panied
me for over two weeks. and the terrible pain
had IN my back is gone"
TREATMENT SIS A MONTH.
DR.. Byers continues to treat catarrh and all
chronic diseases for IS per month. medicine in
cluded. That the public appreciates good,
honest treatment at low rates is evidenced By
the fact that he is kept busy from morning till
night One day he treated "a people for ca
tarrn alone. DR. BYERS
Successor to Drs. Logan & Byers, 42l Penn ave.
ap5sSu
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along the streets of London wearing his
superlatively trimmed sombrero, his plaid
suit and his gigantic ulster, and felt not the
slightest tremor of embarrassment when
crowds followed at his heels. His experience
can best be told in his own words:
81 received much kind attention from a
very prominent banker and broker to whom
I had been strongly recommended. One day
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Higdon & Higdon, Patent Lawyers, 127
Fourth avenue. Pittsburg, and opposite
Patent Office. Washington. D: c., report
the following patents granted this week:
Allegheny-R. o. Bellies, spiral stairway
VIM. H. Bradley, gas burning and heating
apparatus; VIM. D. Cummings, filter.
Pittsburgh. C. Conroy, cutoff and relief
apparatus for gas mains; Geo. Koenig and
S. H. Stupakof, interlocking apparatus for
operating signals; NJ. V. Smlt, steam
boiler furnace; same, burning fuel and
utilizing heat and gases; VIM. b. Sterrltt,
apparatus FOR forming sand molds.
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BLACK SILKs-An excellent bargain in
faille Franchise and gros grain at 81; regu-
lar price 81 25 yard.
TTsSu HUGUs & HACKE,
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A Remedy for Indication.

For ladies and children whose taste cannot
be offended with impunity, Hamburg Figs
form a remedy for constipation. indigestion
piles and liver complaints which is as pleasant
to take as as 1t is effective in use. 25 cents
Dose one fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y. TTSu
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No one has ever tired of portrait made
by Dabbs, and the reason is his pictures are
the closest possible to what is really most
natural.
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THE popularity of Hendricks B Co.,
photographers, is daily increasing. Their
excellent work and low prices please the
people. Good cabinets 81 a dozen. No. 6s
Federal st., Allegheny.
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CABINET photos 81 per dozen, prompt de-
livery. Crayons. etc., at low prices.
LIES GALLERY,
TTsu 10 and IL Sixth ST.
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LACE CURTAINs-New designs opened
this week in prices from % to $40 per pair. A
special value in Irish points at 81 so and SO.
TTSSu HUGUS & HACKE.
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BLACK GooDs-A very complete assort-
ment OF all the newest plain and novelty
lightweight fabrics for spring and summer
wear. HUGUs & HACKK
TTSSu
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DRAPERY NETs-Very effective new
stripe and figure combinations from 75c to S4
per yard. HUGUs & HACKE
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THE BOWLING GREEN.
A Game That is Supported by City
Governments in Scotland
BECOMING POPULAR In AMERICA.
1t Differs From Curling in Being Played on
Turf Instead of Ice.
HOW PLAYERS MAKE CURVE SHOTS
WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPArcH,1

HERE are sew
eral games to
which the Scotch
give considera-
BILE attention, but
none is more
characteristic of
the people than
curling. 1t is
we'll known in
A m erica that
curling is a game
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man of business. He parts his hair In the
middle. and allows it to grow long beneath
the shade of a black sombrero, whose rim
casts that of Buffalo Bills in the shade. He
displays long, struggling side-whiskers OF the
Dundreary brand, wears q light plaid suit
of Sing Sing pattern, and envelops his
125 pounds OF avoirdupois In an ulster in
which John L. Sullivan might successfully
hide from a Mississippi Sheriff.
He has the appearance OF being combi-
nation of the cowboy and dude, but the
man who measures him as a fat will be lett
at the tail of the procession. Although an
Irishman by birth, he has the cuteness OF
the Yankee and the good-fellowship of the
thorough American.
A METEoRIC JOURNALIST.
An experience as a sewing machine agent
in Texas and Louisiana prepared him for
the trials OF journalism on the Rio Grande.
Less than nine years ago he bought a
weekly paper in Austin. Tex, paying for it
$780, which expenditure left him a cash sur
plus of $500. This publication had exactly
800 subscribers. One week later. on MAY
13, 1881, it appeared as the first number of
the now celebrated TeIdS Siftings. Novel
business methods which Knox invented have
had much to do with its success. In far
away London big omnibuses rattle along the
streets bearing in mammoth letters the in
junction to read his paper. Kno1's facial
e1psnse has received even the lndorse-
ment of that eminent past mater in the art
of cheek, Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree.
The humorist sent the red-headed e1-Con-
gresham and ex-Texan ticket for lecture
which he was about to deliver in New York
for a publicly beneficial purpose, and en-
closed with it a request that the ranger from
the Rio Grande would make whatever cash
return his generosity dictated. The fol-
lowing reply was returned:
My Dear Kuox:s
Bill Nye once told me that if he had my cheek
he would have it stuffed. He said that il pre-
dominated above anything he had ever seen.
Possibly he had never met you When you
next come 70 Texas would like to meet you on
some broad, expansive prairie and compare
cheeks. Not that l expect to compete with
you, but have morbid curiosity to know how
you keep out of jail. Yours truly,
THOMAS P. OCHILTREK.
P. 81 return your ticket.
THE COLONEL IN LONDON.
Colonel Knox's experience in London,
which he unblushingly relates, more than
warrants the accusation which is suggested
by Colonel Ochiltree's letter. He walked
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less tnlck ana there may be slight depres-
sions or elevations in the surface OF it.
Second, the balls rolled by players are not
absolutely round. They are fattened very
after the ball has been bowled it pursues a
straight course for three or four rods and
then begins to turn inward along the direc-
tion indicated by the fattened side.
This gives room for an infinite amount OF
skillful play on the part of the bowlers
The ball is so held that the side of it, which
is perfect hemisphere, lies outward in the
hand and the play is never directed exactly
at the object ball. The player prefers to so
throw the ball that it shall start apparently
toward a very different part of the field from
that in which the Jack" lies, but that,
obeying the influence OF the laws of physics,
it shall eventually curve toward the 'jack,"
and at last rest as nearly as possible against
it. If it were not for this fattened surface
of the playing bail. the game would be
largely devoid of skilled interest.
CARE OF THE GROUNDS.
AS L have said above, the player stands
upon piece of oilcloth when he projects
his ball toward the opposite side of the
green. In connection with this it may be
greater than that bestowed by Scotchmen
tendent, or gamekeeper, or whatever he
may be called, is employed at a regular
wage to keep the ground in order, see that
it is well rolled and that the grass grows
smoothly over the whole surface; and the
oilcloth prevents any wearing away of the
grass at that point where the players will
most likely press it down in delivering
their balls for game.
Points are reckoned exactly as in curling.
The ball which is left nearest the ''jack"
counts point for the person who bowled it,
and if he or his partner leaves a bail or balls
within the nearest ball bowled by their op-
ponents. each ball so left counts point by
itself. The game may be OF any limit pre-
scribed in advance, but the regulation
Scotch game consists of 81 points scored in
the way described. At each end of the
bowling green there is a slight depression in
the surface called the "ditch." If q ball is
bowled so hard that it rolls into this ''ditch"
it counts as ''out" of the game, or, in other
words, is reckoned as an unplayed ball, al
though the unfortunate bowler who played
it cannot substitute for it any other ball in
its turn.
FINE POINT OF THE GAME.
The fine point in the game lies in this
very ditch. If your opponent has so bowled
the ball that it lies near the '.jack" and yet
within a short distance of the ditch, you may
strike his ball with your own and knock it
into the ditch, thereby spelling your oppo-
nent's play.
There is no recognized uniform for play
ing this game and no recognized times for
it. It is generally played after business
hours or during the working part of
the day by those people who are
fortunate enough to have time at their dis
posal. As rule, the best players in deliv-
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NEW YORK, April 8.
he checklist man in
America, and one of
the most interesting and
sought for characters in
New YORK, has just re-
turned to the metropo-
lis after his third visit
to London, and he
brings with him q mar
ration of his experience
which certainly more
than justifes his repu-
tation as an exponent of
American unconven-
tionality. The individ-
ual is J. Annoy Knox,
manager of Tezas SJt-
ings, and q frequent
writer for THE DIS
PATCH. He is a very
remarkable character.
He dresses in the most
eccentric manner, but is
as keen as a Sheffield
blade. Harum-scarum
is a mild term to char
acterize his appearance,
and yet he is a shrewd
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CATARRH IN CHILDREN.
ocAB-MWFsu

THEY ARE AS SUBJECT TO 1T AS ADULTS,
AND MUCH OF THE TROUBLE REFERRED TO
OTHER DISEASES, SUCH AS HABITUAL HEAD
ACHE, COUGHS. WORMS. COLIC, ETC, IS
CAUSED BY THIS DISEASE.
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Fine Trouserings.
The largest stock of stylish suitings and
at Pitcairn's, 434 Wood st.
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TOOK THEIR BREATH AWAY.

''They didn't get their breath for several
moments. The Chairman was the first to
speak. or rather gasp. why, my dear sir,
in all my experience he said, in banking
business nave never heard of such an as
founding proposition and then he added,
Il beg your pardon, but are you an Ameri-
can?' assured him that was a citizen of
the great republic which is untrammelled
by conventionalIty. Your astonish-
ment,' added, shocks my sensitive nature;
you surely do not mean to hint that would
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COL,KNOX IN LONDON
The Famous HumOrist Strikes
the Bank of England
FOR A TRIFLE OF A LOAN.
Four Well-Fed Directors Overcome
With Astonishment
ONE GOOD ENOUGH FOR AMERICA.
FOR A TRIFLE OF A LOAN.
ONE GOOD ENOUGH FOR AMERICA.

CORRESPONDENCE OF THR D1sPArcz.I
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Beautiful Cloth Capes
At extraordinary low prices just opened at
Rosen baum & Co.'s.