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THE EVEN LNG GAZETT a
some Hrs NAME.‘
STRANGE CASE OF A YOUNG MAN
WHOSE MEMORY LEFT HIM.
Wondered tram His Home in Kansas and
Found by Chance in Philadelphia. His
Memory Returning by Slow Degrees.
His Intelligence Bemained.
Is it possible for a man to forget
his identity, and yet in other ways be
rational? p 7 ‘
Such a calamity happened to Her'
bert 0. Spencer, the son of Selden P.
Spencer, of Lawrence, Kan. For four
monthshe was in a Philadelphia hos
pital, where he was known as
“George. Brandt)? He did not believe
' that this was his real name, and yet
he was unable to remember who he
was, where he had formerly lived, or
any single incident in his past life
His identity was a secret until Dr.
Ernest Robinson, who had known him
for years, and had sat by his side in
school, met him and recognized him.
When he went to the hospital the
young man, who was well dressed
and appeared intelligent, said that he
' did not know his name, nor did he
know where he came from. Two
pawn tickets from a New York estab
lishment were found in his pockets.
They were issued in the name of-
George, Brandt, and by that name the
young man was known.
He remained in the hospital contin-
uously. For a time the authorities
believed that he was shamming, but
as time wore on and he was carefully
watched this idea was abandoned.
The newspapers printed pictures of
the young man and told his queer
story, but he was unidentified, and it
seemed that he was doomed to go
through life without knowing his real
name or any further facts about his
youth.
Dr. Robinson went to the Philadel-
phia hospital for the purpose of tak-
ing a course. He met Brandt and at
once recognized him. He relates the
circumstances:
“I said, in much astonishment,
‘Hello, Ben. What are you doing here?‘
_ “As he looked at me in amazement,
I turned and asked what he was do-
ing there. They told me he was the
unknown man called George Brandt.‘
All this time Bert had not said a
word, but great astonishment and in-
terest was shown in his face. He at
last said: ‘ don’t know who you are.
I never saw you before, but your face
does somehow look familiar.’
“I then had him take off hisglasses,
and I recognized the slightest squint
he had in his left eye. I also recog-
nized his handwriting and his voice.
Fortunately I remembered I had a
picture of Bert, taken about two years
ago, in my trunk. This I got, and
every one immediately recognized it
as George’s picture. Dr. Hughes then
came in. He was intensely interested.
There could be no doubt of his iden-
tity. Dr. Hughes has been. so much
interested in this strangest of strange
cases that he reported the case be-
fore the Neurological Society some
weeks ago.”
Before the father reached Philadel-
phia young Spencer had regained
traces of his memory. He was able
to quote Latin, and said that he could
dimly remember having studied it at
some time and some place. He said‘
that Dr. Robinson’s face seemed fa-
miliar, but he could not remember
where he had seen it. He could re-
member nothing of his wanderings
after he left home last winter .until'
he appealed to) the Philadelphia police
in March. He had certainly been in
New York and pawned the watch and
revolver, and a mark on the necktie
he was wearing indicated-that he had
been in New Orleans.
Since he has been taken back to his
home in Lawrence the young man has
improved rapidly. Associations with
his own family and old friends have
had a beneficial effect on him, and al-
most every day flashes of memory
come back to him, and it is believed
that in time his memory. will be en-
tirely restored.
FIGHTING SNAPPING TURTLES.
They Are Long-wind ed Fighters and They
Hang on Like Bulldogs.
“Fight?” said an old fisherman,
speaking of snapping turtles, “well, I
should say they do; they fight like
bulldogs. Sometimes one big snap-
ping turtle will sneak up to another,-
as close as it can get, raise itself on,
all four, feet, and then snap at the)
other turtle, getting it wherever it
can, by the tail, or a leg, or by the
neck. The snapping turtle‘ has stout,
sharp claws, and it has a sharp beak,
bent over at the end, that looks some-
thing like the beak of an eagle. The
turtles struggle in a. clumsy sort of
way, and sometimes they lose their.
hold and bite for one another. It
might be that one turtle would. get
turned over in the fight, and that
you’d see the other one holding him
down, with his beak fastened in his
throat. ._
“I’ve seen two big snapping turtles
fighting in soft mud where a man
would Sink in up to his knees. The tur-
tles had fought and tumbled about
and rolled over in this soft mud until
they were plastered with it all over.
They’d get a grip on one another that
1 neither of ’em would let go, and they’d
: settle down into the mud, leaving only '
a part of their shells above, and they’d
been there in this way so long that
the mud on that part of their shells
had caked hard and dry in the sun.
“Sometimes one turtle gets-enough,
and turns and runs with the other one
after it. If the one following over‘
takes the other it snaps .at it, and if
it gets it, the other turns and they go
to fighting again. They tear and
wound each other desperately, but 1
never knew of one snapping turtle’s
killinganother. The snapping turtle
is tough and hard to kill.” ‘. .
-Engian5, and was employed by the J.
. done, and to prove his assertion began
. big eddy the wind rose almost to agale
earth, and the gloaming, oh, my darl~
for me to be prepared for emergencies."
GOOSE FOUR-le-HAND.
Eow [tWent am the Falls or the om. '
. ‘ in a. Tub. .
Jack Harper was an odd man. He
came to the Ohio Falls from Newcastle,
M. & I. Railroad Company in its shops,
which were at that time located in this
gity; a good mechanic and fond at
an. '
It was in the summer of 1870, and
there Was to be a grand Fourth of July
celebration at ,old Camp Jo Holt, in
which not only the Shop men but hun-
dreds of others were to take part. The
managers of the affair were very anx-
ious to make it a. grand success. and
for'that purpose racked their brains for
novelties, but when Jack Harper pro-
posed to tame a team of geese and at-
tach them to a washtub in which he
proposed to sail down over the rapids ‘oi
the Ohio and land just below the picnic
grounds they were paralyzed, especially
when he insisted that it could easily be
forthwith to train his proposed team oi
four geese. '
Many of the persons who took inter-
est one way or another in the celebra-
tion are still alive, and some of them re
side in Indianapolis. These'will remem-
ber that Harper began to train his odd
team on the quiet waters of the Ohio
above the falls. '
He put queer, three cornered yoke;
upon the necks of the bird, and by these
means attached them to his frail crai t.
He guided them by means of reins at-
tached to their bills and a long straight
switch. It took him nearly three months
and much patience before he had his
birds in trim, but the goose shewed
themselves much more intelligent and
teachable than they generally get
credit for, and the peeple of J eiferson-
ville had the satisfaction of knowing
that in their city was the only four-
goose team in the world.
Long before the Fourth of July the
queer outfit was the talk of the three
falls cities, and when the great day ar-
rived there was a concourse of thou-
sands at the picnic grounds waiting to
see the novel Lohengrin descend the ri-
ver. It was near noon when he launch-
ad his little bark from the Indiana shore
at the Government dam, and began his
descent, the geese swimming proudly
ahead and drawing the teethery vessel
in which Harper was seen balancing
himself. -.
The falls of the Ohio are not sate for 'a
good well-manned boat unless the crew
understand the currents and know the
rocks, so it can be better imagined than
told whata risk Harper ran in his wash-
tnb. But he bravely went ,ahead, keep-
ing his gee‘so who swerved occasionally
from the channel, in the way. they
should go by means of the switch. 'He
managed his team admirably in spite of
his uncomfortable and delicate position
in the tub, and we crowds Cheered’him
as he safely passrd one danger point af-
ter the other, but as he came around the
bend to the deep and swift waters of the
and water began to splash over him and
into his tub, and to make matters worse
the geese became unruly and would not
obey his guidance.
He must have ber -. a cool-headed man
not to have lost his head, but he didn’t,
and with a great effort and much coax.
ing and whipping he managed to turn
his refractory team in shore and reach
3d land safely amid the hurrahs of the
crowd. He was completely drenched
and worn out. Since then no one ,has
attempted to descend the falls of the.
Ohio in a tub drawn by a team of
geese—Indianapolis Sentinel.
THE LOVER’S PREPARATIONS.
When He Expected to Meet his Proposed
Father-in-Law.
It was eight O’CIOK'k in the magnificent
:apital of the greatest Republic on
ing, had gone glimmering among the
the things that w're two hours pre-
viously, says the Washington Star.
A gas light burned golden yellow on
the corner of one of the beautiful streets
leading into Dupont circle and an elec-
tric light burned silvery white two
blocks down the street, when an ambu-
lance from the emergency hospital
stopped in front of a. palatial residence
in that aristocratic neighborhood and
backed up to the curb. .
One minute, or perhaps loss, after the
ambulance had stopped a handsomely
dressed young man jumped over the
tailboard and started towards the steps
of the house.
As he did so, a policemanfstrolling
leisurely around the corner beyond, ob
served the ambulance and immediately
sprinted for it. ‘
"Say,” exclaimed the oflicer in the
usual chaste and elegant, not to say,
Chesterfieidian, manner of an excited
guardian of the peace, “what’s the
row?”
“There isn’t any—yet,” replied th
young fellow. with a word of suggests
possibility in the way he closed his an-
snswer with the word “yet.”
“What’s the ambulance for?” insisted
the policeman.
"For future reference,” said the cane, '
Y :3
man, evasively.
"That’s not what they are usually
for,” argued the officer, trying to get at
the true inwardness of the situation.
"Ne,” and the young man drew closer
and spoke very confidentially; “no, but
it’sdiiferent in this case. You see, I’m
going to ask a young lady’s father for
her hand, and as the old man isn’t stuck
on me I thought it might come handy
The policeman gave vent to his ad-
miration in a low whistle and waited
until a servant came out and told the
ambulance driver to go back to the
stable, __ _“
Aimee (aged four)——Ma, where did]
some from? -
Ma—An angel brought you to me,
dear.
Aimee (after a moment’s hesitation)
-—Ma? '
Ma—Yes, dear. . ._ ,
Aimee—Why didn’t you keep the an-
gel, tool—Washington Times. , ‘
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