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. their surprise,
EGGED ON THE DOCTOR.
A Napoleon of Finance Meets His Water-
loo in New Hampshire.
An itinerant doctor took'possession
of the public square in Charleston, N.
H., a few evenings since, and proceed-
cd to transact a business which was
of land office dimensions while it last-
ed. But, says the Boston Globe, he
closed up early.
Eggs were flying at him from all di-
rections, and he was a sorry looking
sight when he reached the friendly
shelter of the hotel.
He had imposed upon the confidence
of the unsophisticated, and the shower
of eggs was their way of expressing
their righteous indignation.
The doctor’s modus operandi was
something like this: —He had a salve
that was unequalled and unapproach-
able in its virtues; he wished to adver-
tise it, and would for ten cents give a
sample of the salve and a check, on
the presentation of which later he
would give a present.
The present end of it caught many
who were old enough to know better,
and several children, but great was
when on presenting
their checks they were handed fifteen
cents as a present. -
This ‘was making money very “met.
Each purchasér had realized fifty per
cent on his investment. The doctor
had article No. 2 to advertise, and
would also give a present to every
purchaser who would pay twenty-five
cents for a sample.
Those who had bought one package
of No. 1 took two and three of article
No. 2, and Were given checks as in the
previous instance. Of course, they
thought this man who gave them fif-
teen cents for ten would certainly give
them at least thirty-five for twenty-
five.
But he didn’t.
He probably thought he had gone
the limit, and when the speculators
presented their checks they were given
a bit of taffy candy by the smiling
doctor, who said: “I told you I would
give you a present, and I have done
so,” and while he continued to give
them the laugh they began to see the
joke.
Several of those on the outside of
the crowd got their heads together,
and then went to a nearby provision
store and invested all the money they
had in eggs, and the less modern they
were the more desirable for their pur-
pose.
When they returned the voluble doc~
tor was telling his audience not to feel
bad over the matter. He had, he said,
traveled a great deal, and had got it
in the neck himself, and never com-
plained.
Well, just then he got it in the neck
and in the back and on the head and
in several other places. There was a
perfect shower of eggs.
The doctor’s smile vanished, and he
did not stand upon the orderr'of going,
but got quickly. He made $5 or $6,
but he will need a new suit of clothes.
OLDEST SWITCHMAN IN AMERICA.
Patrick Moloney, 97, Has Tended an Erie
g Switch Over Fifty Years.
By the vside of a tiny switch Ished
near the New York and Lake Erie
Railroad freight 'depot sits every day
Patrick Moloney, the oldest railroad
switch tender in the world. For more
than half a century he has moved in
and out of that box setting and shift-
ing the switches for the thousand en-
gines that pass and repass him every
day.
In 1899 Patrick Moloney will be 100
years old. He was born with the cen-
tury, he is now ninety seven and “able
to turn a switch with the best of
them,” as he proudly says. In the bent
figure of this old fellow standing sta-
tionary and immovable, amid the
changes of life one may see epitomized
the history of fifty-six years. In that
time he has seen the New York and
Lake Erie road develop from a little
double-track road, to the great system\
it now is; he has seen presidents, sec-
retaries and boards come and go and
live their day and die. and be forgotten
—but he has remained; he has seen
Jersey City grow from a little hamlet
with six houses to the bustling, thriv-
ing city of to-day.
“You wonder why it is that I haven’t
lost my brains and that I can turn a
switch, old as I am,” he says. “The
surest cut to old age that I know of is
to take life as one finds it, and don’t
be ambitious, don’t be always trying
to get ahead in the race. If I had cared
to be anything else than a switchman
I wouldn’t be alive and hearty to-day
and likely to see a hundred years be-
fore I die. I began as a switchman.
I was content to be the best switchman
on the road—that’s what they used to
call me—and let others do the striv-'
ing and pushing and crowding—New
York Journal.
‘Vomen as Detectives.
“Women do not make good detec-
tives,” recently remarked the superin-
tendent of one of the largest detective
agencies in this country. “Women
who are T:Tlling to embark in our line
of work are unreliable, sentimental,
emotional, and as dangerous to us as
they are to others. I once paid a girl
several hundred dollars for shadowing
a notorious criminal whom we wanted
to land. She followed him like his
shadow for three months, and I pre-
sume she is doing ityet, for at the end
of that time they got married and
skipped over to England.”
Mrs. Filmore’s Kindness.
Mrs. Fillmore probably did what no
other retiring first lady has ever done.
Mrs. Pierce, who ucceeded her, was
heartbroken over t e death of a child,
and Mrs. Fillmore remained to give
her welcome and smooth her way.
Then the Fillmores went to Willard‘s
Hotel, and Mrs. Fillmore died before
the month closed. . ‘
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Merxco’s NEW WOMAN. ' d"
She Equals a Man in Her Capabilities as
Station Agent.
A Mexican woman station agent is
one of the curiosities of travel on the
road from Puebla to Oaxaca. Her
name is Concha Blanca. . Her post of
duty is at Etla, the place to which the
Indians flock from the mountains for
a hundred milesaround for their an-
nual feasts, and also the shipping
point for the big haciendas in~the fer-
tile valleys among these same moun-
tains. When the train'stops at Etla
in the dark, a young woman in white,
for Senorita Concha‘dresses to match
her surname, stands in the door of the
express car, lantern in hand, checking
the packages on the big receipt book.
When the freight trains stop, she flits
in and out of the long line of cars tell-
ing the brakeman what to take and
what to leave. She is from one end of
the train to the other, seeing that no
mistakes are made.
This bareheaded girl in a white dress
is full of business. She wastes no
time on empty words. The trainmen
respect her. She does everything
about the station but handle the bag-
gage. There are plenty of stout Mexi-
cans of the other sex hanging around
for that work. Concha Blanca is so
well esteemed by the management of
the road that she has been twice pro-
moted, until now she has one of the
most important stations under her
care. She does-all of the telegraphing,
besides attending to the ticket selling,
and to the receiving and shipping of
freight. .
It was her knowledge of telegraph—
ing that got the young woman her first
recognition. Her father and two
brothers were operators. She learned
to use the key. A station was given
to her where there was not much to
do besides the telegraphinv. Her apti-
tude for railroad work attracted the at-
tention of General Manager Morcom,
and the promOtions followed. Concha
Blanca lives at the station. Her
mother keeps the house for her, and a
younger sister sits at the telegraph ta-
ble learning the vocation of the new
woman in Mexico. The conductors
have got in the way of pointing out
to travellers Senorita Concha along
with the ruins of the ancient city on
the mountain top, the site where the
battle 'of Tehuacan was fought, the
hieroglyphics on the cliff at the en-
trance. to Rio Salado Canyon, and
Other objects of interest. And the
Mexican woman agent with her hon-
cst brown eyes and mass of wavy hair
carelessly knotted, moving up and
down the side of the train with quick,
determined step, loses nothing in in-
terest by comparison with the other
strange things.
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DYSPEPSIA PROOF. ,
the Eskimo’s Stomach is Never Troubled
\Vith Indigestion. '
Much is said about American dyspep-
sia, but there is one native race of
America that is certainly not greatly
troubled by the modernicurse. The
sturdy little Eskimos defy all the laws
of hygiene and thrive.
like the ordinary dweller of America,
oats until he is satisfied, but there is
the difference that he never is satisfied
. while a shred of the feast remains u-n-
('OllSl med. His capacity is limited by
the supply, and by that only.
He cannot make an mistake about
the manner of cooking his food—for,
as a rule, he does not cook it—nor, so
as the blubber or fat of the Arctic
animal is concerned. about his method
of eating it, for he simply does not eat
it. He cuts it into long strips an inch
thick, and then lowers the strips down
his throat as one might lOwer a rope
into the wells ‘
And after all that he does not sufier
from indigestion. He can make a good
meal of the flesh and skin of the wal-
rus, provision so hard and gritty that
in cutting up the animal the knife
must be continually sharpened.
The teeth of the little Eskimo child
will meet in a bit of walrus skin as
the teeth of an American child would
meet in the flesh of an apple. And
that when the hide of the walrus is
from half an inch to an inch in thick-
ness, and bears considerable resem-
blance to the skin of an elephant. The
Eskimo child will bite it and digest it
too, and never know what dyspepsia
means.
A CHINESE DENTIST.
The Poor Celestial’s Distrust of‘American
Dentistry. B
Into Chinatown, to wit, Mott street
and vicinity, there has just come the
first Chinese dentist known in New
York. Chinamen have toothache and
the other miseries of bad teeth quite
as frequently as other people, but they
have a nameless dread of American
dentists, and for that reason, and be-
cause they distrust their ability to tell
in English just what is their particular
dental trouble, they have, until the re-
cent advent of their professional coun-
tryman, borne their woes without ef-
fort to relieve them.
This long-felt want in New York
Chinese circles was known to Chown
King How, who lived in San Francisco,
so he came here to supply it and is
doing a fine tooth-pulling business.
His'ofiice is in Doyers street. It is
a dingy little shop, divided across the
middle by a curtain of cheap red cloth,
but the yells and groans of misery
which come from behind it when the
almond-eyed dentist is at work are just
as genuine'and hearty as any to be
heard in the most luxurious “dental
parlors” uptown. Chown charges the
conventional rate of fifty cents each
for pulling teeth and has made so
much money that he has been able to
buy a set of American instruments, of
which he is very proud—New York
Journal.
“So you went 'wheeling yesterday.
Did you break the record 2'”
“No; but I broke nearly everything
:lse.”-—Dctroit Free Press. ~
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Disease is. like a
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coming an d gomg
and keeps on stead-
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track. You can at-
, ' most always tell how
‘ ' a disease starts, and
where it Will prob-
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I go out of its way
' . to oblige you any
more than a locomo-
tive will. _ Disease
usually begins when
- the ap etite gives
‘ out—t at’s the first
warning whistle.
Then the stomach
and nutritive organs
fail to supply good
blood. The Circula-
tion grows poor, thin
and tainted. Instead of carryingnounshment
to the difi'erent parts of the body it camel
poison, which settles at some pomt and eats
away the tissues. According to where. it set-
tles it is called liver or kidney or skin dis-
ease—scrofula, erysipelas, eczema, or 'con-
sumption if it settles on the lungs. It is all
one trouble: tainted blood; clear out this
taint and build up the tissues With rich
blood and the disease is stopped; Side-
tracked ; it can’t go any further. . No matter
what the name of a disease 15 if it’s a blood
disease, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis-
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of the circulation and creating a new sup-
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vive and nourish the wasted tissues. It
puts the digestion in order, invigorates the
blood -makmg organs and builds firm,
healthy flesh. Consumption 15 -a blood-:
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It is cured every day by Dr. Pierce’s Golden
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MAUD ADAMS IS NOW CONSIDERED
OUR LEADING ACTRESS.
Next Season She Will Star Under the Man-
agement of Mr. Charl'es Frohman—fler
success Won by Her Modest and Un-
tiring Efl‘ort. .
While the new season in New York
has thus far brought to view no play
of great originality, and very few of
any other quality likely to quite satisfy
the folks who always take the stage
seriously, there are signs of greater
prosperity in the theatrical world than
the most sanguine observers expected
before the season opened. Many of the
theatres are crowded every night, by
people who pay he price of admision,
and it is not only pretty frivolity that
draws, either, because “Rosemary”-
and “An Enemy to the King” are as
profitable as “The Geisha” and the
wilson Operetta. , Scenic melodrama,
- of a good sort, like “Under the Polar
Star,” holds its own, too, in the contest
for popular favor with musical farce.
And now comes the announcement
that Maude Adams is to star next seal-l
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MAUD ADAMS.
son under management of Charles
Frohman. Miss Adams is a great fa-
vorite. She is far and above every
other American actress on the stage
to-day, and yet so simple and unassum-
ing in her methods as to obtain no no-
toriety save that which is commanded
by merit. . ‘ ‘
Five years ago, after the first per-
formance of “The Masked Ball,” Miss
Maude Adams awoke to find herself
famous. At one bound she has
achieved histrionic distinction; she
- had established her right to be con-
sidered among the leading actresses
of the American stage. Her work in
the support of Mr. John Drew’s first
stellar efforts was found to be bril-
liant in its conception and dainty and
artistic in its execution; refinement and
intelligence marked her performance
of a role that might have been ruined
by a less cultured and less graceful
actress. The charming personality of
the young actress contributor] no less
to her success than her undoubted
dramatic talents. ' ' '
Since that time Miss Adams" ad-
vancement in her profession has been
rapid. Each new role she has added
to her repertoire in these years has
been marked by the evidences of ‘care—
ful and intelligent study, the ability
to profit by disinterested criticism and
likewise by the effort to cOnscientious-
ly overcome the individual tricks of
manner that might perhaps mar the ar-
tistic finish of her performances. In
all the plays in which John Drew has
been seen during his career as a star
Miss Adams has always fairly divided
the honors with him, and her artistic
development has always kept pace
with and occasionally outstripped his.
, In the most recent of these produc-
tions, “Rosemary,” while opinion may
differ as to the merits of Mr. Drew’s
performance of Sir Jasper Thorndyke,
there is no dissenting voice in the gen-
eral meed of praise accorded the Dor-‘
othy Cruikshank of Maude Adams.
. Had the actress attempted to impart
but the slightest touch of coquetry to
her impersonation of this simple little
maiden of the early Victorian days it
would have been fatal to the very
spirit of the role, and so it is that Miss
Adams’ delightful assumption of
Witching ingenuousness is the secret
of her latest and best success. The
limitations of Maude Adams’ art have
not yet been reached, and the ability
she has displayed in “Rosemary” to
sound the true note of a character so
diflicult in its :very simplicity is an
earnest of yet greater things to come.
Miss Adams is greatly the gainer in
the estimation of the critics and in the
afiections of the great body of the
theatre-going public by the consum-
mate finish and the exquisite natural-
ness of her portrayal of Dorothy
Cruikslntztk’s love story.
It is perhaps rank heresy to so popu-
lar a sxar :3 Mr. John Drew, but it is
a fact nevertheless that Miss Adams
dominates the Empire stage whenever
.the action of “Rosemary” places her in
view' of the audience. Miss Adams’
Dorothy is beyond a doubt the .hit of
the season. Rosa FANCHON.
‘aw No Inconsistency.
Mrs. W'lwcler (alone on her big-“e
at 10 p. u:.)— Yell. I certainly and
having a delightful time this evening!
These lonely dark roads have a fas-
cination “11' one. Let me see—I have
twenty z...;-s to go yet. Oh! I’ll be
home built-re midnight.
Mrs. “lower (the next evening)—-
What! (‘azz‘t go to the theatre with
me? (20 by myself? James Wheeler,
do you wish to insult me! Do you
think I have no more self-respect than
to go to a pllbllr: place of amusement
without an escort? Your instincts are
perfectly brutalE—Puck.
She—You looked like a tool when you
proposed to me.
He—That was on purpose. I wanted
to be accepted. ,.
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