Norwalk weekly gazette, Friday, August 16, 1895 · page 8

 

 

 
 
 

 

HANDLING BO'A CONSTRICTORS.
The Trick by \Vhich the Serpents Are
Managed Without Danger.

Snake dealers in South America have
a fine contempt for their squirming and
venomous wares, though it is sometimes
difficult to induce ship captains to

carry them as freight.

The snake dealers handle the boa con-
strictor with great Adeftness. This ser-
pent bites, but its bite is not veno-
mous, so that the chief danger to the
handler is from the serpent’s enormous-
ly powerful muscles. The dealers have
learned that the boa, to be really dan-
gerous, must have a fulcrum in the
shape of something around which he
may coil his tail.

The boa is, in fact, a lever in which
the ordinary arrangement is power,
weight, _fulcrum. Knowing this, the
dealers drop a soft hat over his . head,
that he may neither see nor bite, and

then snatch him so suddenly from his. ‘-

resting-place that he has no opportunity
to brace himself by seizing a fixed ob-
ject with his tail. After that the essen-
tial thing is to see that he is not brought
within distance of any such object.

A snake dealer on board a Brazilian
steamer'the other day was occupied in
transferring his boas from one box to
another. He opened the box an instant,
dropped afihat over the head of one», of
the c‘reatuites, snatched it from its fel-
lows, and. rushing across the deck,
' dropped it into the other box. The
thing looked S0 eaSy that a deck hand,
waiting until the snake owner’s back
was turned, essayed to repeat the act.
He neglected to use the hat, and with a
yell yanked a great snake from the box
with its fangs fixed in his fingers. Not
daring to let go, yet fearing to hold on,
he began whirling the snake about his
head, meanwhile dancing wildly over
the deck.

The snakeman managed to capture
the reptile and box it in security. Then
somebody expressed concern for the
rash deck hand, to which the snake
owner answered:

“What, him?
think of my snake!
of that mug!”

He‘s all right! But
He‘s worth twenty

ALMOST BACK TO LIFE.

 

An Encouraging Test on the Day Follow-
. ing the Drowning of a Boy.

The Cleveland Leader says that at
Heifron’s undertaking rooms an efiort
was made recently to bring back to life
Louis Fisher, aged 9 years, who was
drowned in the lake on the previous af-
ternoon.

Dr. Whitney, a physician living on
Wilson avenue, claims that he himself
‘ was drowned at one period of his life,
and after being dead more than an hour
animation was. by a certain method, re-
. stored. Dr. Whitney has for some time
desired to put this process to another
test, but never availed himself of the
opportunity until yesterday. His theo-
ry is that a corpse can be resuscitated,
providing there are no internal injuries,
by placing the entire body. except the
eyes, nose and mouth,-in a bath of water
heated to a constant temperature Of 110
degrees Fahrenheit, and leavingit there
for at least five hours. .

An ordinary bathtub was used yester-
day. When the water had reached the
proper temperature, Dr. Whitney and
his assistants carefully deposited the
body in the tub..~

It was then almost eleven o’clock in
the morning, and from that time until
four o’clock, when the experiment was
given up, the condition of the corpse
was studiously watched by Dr. Whit-
ney.

Although the experiment was a fail-
ure, at times the blood was started aIto
_ circulate, and the face and lips assumed
their natural color. It is said that the
heart was felt to throb several times.
When the test was over Dr. Whitney
claimed it was not successful because
the boy’s body was rolled over a barrel
after the drowning, thus causing inter-
nal injuries.

 

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A Nose for News.

Just before reaching the North Caro-
lina line I came upon a squatter’s cabin,
with the squatter himself smoking his
pipe at the door. and.when I turned in to
ask him for a gourd of spring water he
cheerily called out: .

“Howdy, stranger; what's the news?”

“Well, it looks like war in Europe,” I
answered, as I sat down beside him.

“I don‘t keer nuthin’ ’bout Yurup—
what else?” he replied.

“They think think the cholera may
reach us this year.”

“Dod rot the chalera! Ain’t there
nuthin’ more?" '

“Perhaps you have heard about the
great coal mine disaster in England?” I
asked. , '

“N o, and I don’t wanter.”

“But you asked for news.” ,

“Sartin I did, and I want news. I
wanter know if the price of terbacker
has riz. I wanter know what moon-
shine whisky is wuth down in Knox-
ville. I wanter know if you’n has met
up with anybody who has killed one o’
‘ [them dodrotted revenewfellers lately. I
Wanter know why in sin the owner of
this omery patch 0’ land don’t come
down yere and drive me OE and rouse
up my pestiferous ambition to get a
move on me! If you’ve got that sort 0’
news. stranger, spit ’er out and make
me happy. If you hain't, why, jog
along to Bill White‘s place, and leave
me suck this old pipe and keep on with
my thinkin’!”—-Detroit Free Press.

Sufficient Cause.
Bildad—What makes you hate Van
~ Sharp so?
Henpeck—He' was once engaged to
marry my wife, and didn‘t do it.—Town
Topics. ‘

 

Mrs. Cahill, of Arlington. Or., recent-
ly rode a big raft down the’ Columbia
river for a hundred miles or more.
steering it through the Priest and Uma-
tilla rapids, waters in which many a
raft managed by experienced. loggers

:has gone to pieces. She is the first
woman to take the perilous trip.
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~,jW'EE K L Y - NOR w A 1 K 1- o AZ‘E r1" E

SYRACUSE SELECTED.

New York Democratic Convention to- Be
Held There Sept. 24.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The Democratic
state committee today selected Syracuse as
the place for holding the state convention,
and Tuesday, Sept. 24, as the date.

It also extended an invitation to all fac-
tions of the party, particularly in Kings
and New York, to get in line and partici-
pate in the nominating conventions.

Ex-Mayor Gilroy of New York and Com-
mitteeman Patrick Henry McCarren in-
dorsed the invitations, which Were embod-
ied'in the form of a resolution.

There was little talk among the com-
mitteemen today about candidates on the
state ticket. '

The meeting attracted few Of the lead
ing Democratic politicians. Senator Hill
did not go to the Hoffman House. He is

staying at the Normandie and remained ,

there throughout the day. Several of the
state committeemen called upon him be-
fore the meeting. The senator, according
to one of the delegates, manifested Very
little interest in the deliberations of the
committee. He did not express any pref-
erence for the place of holding the con—
vention or the time and avoided all refer-
ence to the excise question. '
In spite of the senator’s apathy, how-
ever, the committeemen were extremely
friendly to him. The Murphy influence
was also dominant. The Tammany men
were noncommittal and- apparently a litr
tle chilly to the Hill element. .

All the Tammany committeemen, ex-

cept Bourke ’Cockran, ex-Mayor Grant

and County' Clerk pansy, were. present.
Purroy and Grant were represented by
proxies. 1A reporter asked ex-Mayor Gil—
roy if Mr. Cockran would be present.

“NO; 'he will not, ” he replied, “and we
are going to fill his place.”

The only matter of interest discussed,
aside from the place of holding the con
vention, was on the excise problem. The
up country members were conservative,

but the majority expressed a belief that .

the question should be settled one way or
another. The committeemen from the
cities favored the adoption of home rule.

A WOULD-BB SUICIDE.

Be Wrote His Farewell Letter and Then
Hesltated Nearly Three Years.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.——-John C. Gull-

man, 55 years Old, a laborer, who has been

out of employment for some months and

who has become despondent in conse-l

quence, attempted suicide by jumping
into the East river from the foot of Sev-
enth street today. To make his attempt

successful he first tied his legs together i

with a piece of toweling and then dived
from the dock.

Several persons near by threw a rope
around the man and hauled‘ him out of
the water. Gullman was unconscious and
w sent to Bellevue hospital in an am-
b ance. His name and address and his
motive for desiring death were learned
from a letter taken from his pocket.

In this communication, which was
dated Dec. 4, 1892. and addressed, “To
whoever finds me dead, ” Gullman gave
his address as 619 Sixth street. "I want
to be taken to an undertaker’s, " he wrote,
“and buried in the clothes I have on. No
cutting or washing do I'want, and my fu-
neral I don’t wish to cost more than $65.
I don’t want my relatives or any one else
to look at me. To my fdur dear children
I leave each 8200, which is in the Bowery

Savings bank, under four separate ac--

counts. With the rest of my money and
everything else do what you please, ex-
cept with the gold chain I had from my
mother, which I give to my boy Arthur,
never to be sold or given in pawn. See to
my pension papers, so that you may re.
ceive the pension that was due to me.”

Gimm’s Wonderful Riding.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 16.-—-Louis Gimm or
this city, who started yesterday at noon
to beat the 24 hour bicycle record, is now
the champion long distance rider of the
world. At 8:42:17 O’clock this morning,
With over three hours to spare. Gimm had
equaled the world’s record of 407 miles

84 yards for 24 hours, held by Tyman. _

Glmm’s score at the finish was 454 miles,
and he was perfectly fresh.

Minister Newcombe's Mission 3 Failure.
OTTAWA, Aug. 16.—The mission of Dep-
uty Minister N ewcombe, who went to
England to adjust- the copyright difficulty,
has been a failure. He will return short-
ly without having accomplished anything,
partly because of the political turmoil that
prevailed in England during his visit and
partly because the home authorities are

hopelessly Opposed to the Canadian view.

Said to Be a Poisoner.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16.-—-Thomas R. How-
ard, a descendant of the American branch
of the English Howards, a brokerof many
years’ standing, is under arrest charged
with poisoning a negro woman named
Nancy Leathe, who died some days ago.
The body was exhumed and the contents
of the. stomach are being analyzed.

WHISKY TRUST PLAN.

Stockholders Attempt to Check the Be-
organlzntion Committee.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The stockholders
who object to the plans Of the reorganiza-
tion committee of tbejDistilllng and'Cat-
tle Feeding company, commonly known as

the Whisky trust, reDeWed the fight in the _

supreme court: today to prevent the com-
mittee from carrying out their scheme of
reorganization. -

Louis Marshall of counsel for the ob-
jecting stockholders made an application
to Justice O’Brien in supreme court cham-
bers today for a resettlement of the order
denying an injunction to restrain the re-
organization committee from bidding on
the 17 distillerles which were sold at Chi-
cago yesterday for 89, 800,000 by order of
the United States court.

Lawyer Marshall said that, while the re-
fusal of an injunction had permitted the
reorganization committee to bid at the

sale yesterday, yet there seemed to be troversy. You will take notice that I,

some question in the court’s mind as to
the legality of certain parts of the commit-
tee’s scheme of reorganization. He said
that the entire plan of the reorganization
committee was before the, court, and Law-
yer Marshall asked Justloe O’Brien to so
modify his previous order denying the in

junctionas to prevent the committee from I

carrying out the scheme by transferring
the'property purchased yesterday to a new
company ”about to . be organized with a
capital stock of $35, 000, 000.~

He said that a resettlement of the order
was asked for because the committee had
bought the distiller-ice and would carry
out its plans before' papers could be pre-
pared to- enjoin them in another action.

Decision was reserved. - a

Possible Broil: From the Trust.
PEORIA, Ills, Aug. 16.—A Peoria dis-
tiller, who attended the Distilling and
Cattle Feeding company sale at Chicago
yesterday, reports that two or three Peoria

'distillerles will start under a new corpo-

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. KOLA NUT TEST.
1t Enable-s 3 Sick Soldier to Beat 3 Well
Man in a 25 Mile Race.

American surgeons and army officers
have for some time been experimenting
with the holy. nut with a view lf intro-
ducing it into the commissary depart-
ment of the army, to be used in lieu'of
other food in forced marches where
there is little or nothing for the soldier
to eat.

Dr. Charles E. Woodruff and Lieut.
Harris, of the United States army, sta-
tioned at Fort Sheridan. have made ex-
periments which have shown that in
forced marches the kola nut gives far
better satisfaction for nutritious pur-
poses than crdinary food. Both Dr.
Woodruif and Lieut. ‘Harris found that
they were less fatigued from the long
walks they took when they ate nothing
but the kola than when they ate full ra-
tions of ordinary food.

An experiment with the kola nut was
made in St. Louis and the result was
identical with that of the Fort Sheridan
Officers. A number of the army Officers
of Fort Snelling were anxious to 'see the
result of an experiment, and so the test
was arranged.

 

0. Olson. both of Company F, started
‘ from the Ryan Hotel at 8:40 to walk to
the West Hotel at,,Minneapolis,and re-
turn to the Ryan at once. .
son was not allowed to eat any break-
5 fast, but he was given five little reddish
nuts about the size and shape of a good
sized hickory nut, which he was told to
eat slowly on the way.

Further than this he was not allowed
to eat any food while making the trip.
Corporal Wyatt was allowed to eat a
good hearty breakfast and told he could
eat and drink what he wished on the
way. He was requested to regulate his
diet according to the soldier’s bill of
fare when the larder in the commis-

‘ sary’s tent is well stocked.

At 3:50 the two men arrived at the
Ryan Hotel from their journey to Min-
neapolis. In giving their accounts of
the trip, which comprised a walk of 25
miles in the hot sun, they plainly show-
ed that the kola nut had proved the
more satisfactory diet.

é Corporal Wyatt had eaten and drank
freely as he felt inclined to during the
I day, and came in almost overcome by

the heat. and thoroughly tired and stiff
Private Olson,

I

’from the long walk.

. who but recently arose from a bed Of'

[ sickness and has not fully regained his

‘ strength, was much the iresher of the
two, and had suffered little from heat.

2 He said he ate two of the nuts on the
way to Minneapolis and 'two on the way
back, and that he had sat and rested
while his companion ate and drank.

He said he never felt better than when
he returned frOm the long tramp, and
that he thought that the walk had done

, him good. lie had not felt the need of
more food. ' ,

‘ ”ONLY ‘rwo OF us LEFT.”

, Patti Says She and Nilsson Are the Last

I of the Old School.

La Diva Patti, who at two score and
ten'has again taken London by storm, is
! interviewed sympathetically in London

Lady regarding her recent triumphant
season at Covent Garden. The proof of

l the pudding is in the eating thereof, and
La Diva is certainly entitled to speak of

i the singing voice with authority. Here

i is what she says:

“Yes,” she began, “my reception was
most gratifying the other night. I
thought the people never would stop
cheering. I assure you it brought tears
to my eyes. and my heart had to be

pushed well down my throat before I
could find my voice.

1 “My voice? Yes. I know. It has al-
ways astonished me myself,» but. then,

3 God gave it to me, and I pray and be-

: lieve that it will be many a long year

i before He takes it from me. Like ‘Vio—

. letta,’ I would sing my highest, sweet-

' est note, even with my last breath.

’ “DO I feel more fatigued now than I
used to?” continued Patti. “NO. But.
remember. I take the very, very best

I care of myself, and of every detail of

- my health. My diet, my wines, my

, hours of sleep, of practice. of recreation,
are all most thoughtfully arranged, and

i under absolute regulation, and I never

3 transgress.

} - “And again, cher Monsieur, I think
that ihe‘school of operatic training to

'which I belong no longer exists. As I

' told Christine NilsSon the other

' when we met in Paris, ‘Only you and I

“are left. my dear,’ and she agreed with
me. Singers were not turned .Out in

' half dozens. like—like—well, to use an

, Americanism, like oysters on the half

- shell. .

“I cannot help thinking that the rea-

son that so fewvoices lost among the

present day singers is because so much

'. Of their tuition was forced. There was

‘too much anxiety for a quickly-made

6 voice. and so, like a burst of fireworks,
there is glory for a little while, and
then—puff—out!”

 

Neither Denial or Affirmation.
“You're a wicked. lazy tramp,”
‘ shouted the red-faced woman.
“Madam," rejoined the tourist calm-
. 1y, “I decline to be drawn into any con-

do not claim to be a June bride.”—De-
' troit Tribune. "

 

Papa’s Joy-
1 “Ma,” inquired Bobby, “hasn’t pa a
queer idea of heaven?”
' “Well, I think not, Bobby. Why?"
; "I heard him say that the week you
i spent at the seashore seemed like heaven
, to him.”—Pottsville Review.

i A recent advertisement in London
Times reads as follows.

I "Would the gentleman speak yet

. again, who said in London, 1865, that he

i loved me, and then that he was tnrown
Over? All remembered. Parents are

, dead. —E. D. C. '

| _________‘.

l Recent cur-s rs show that one-sixth of

 

ithe State . "regon. something over
, 10,000,00- ‘is covered with dense
; forests '

 

'But there was no joy

' To be sure the parks were open to the humblo

Corporal R. P. Wyatt and Private M. .

Private 01-.

a the rat and put it down. only to see it

day .

 

NO JOY lN GOTHAB "ESTE. DAY.

 

The sun was shining yesterday c.. .. okeri‘e
far shore ’

And the band played sweet “Ben Bolt“ and
“Annie Laurie” o‘er and o’er.

in Gotham. for the
springs of mirth were dry,

And the growler ceased from rushing for it
was no use to try. ~

There was Gins-ling's on the corner and GO-
easy’s in the block.

But the side door never yielded to a dry and
thirsty knock;

And tight shut was Always Open, for quite
early in the day

The proprietor and family went sailing down
the Bay. _,

and the proud,

And they swarmed from early morning with
a hot and famished crowd;

But the water in the fountains was a cheer-
less substitute

For the cool and frothy lager and the juices
of the fruit.

Oh, the sun was shining yesterday on Coney
Island‘s strand, ‘

And the beer flowed fresh and foamy to the

- music of the band;

But there was no joy in Gotham for a parch-
ed and thirsty soul—

There was dry dust in the growler and a
famine in the bowl!

—New Ycrk Sun.

The Terrier and the Indestructible Rat.

A rat, a terrier and a small boy caused
thousands of people to congregate on
West Madison street about 9 o‘clock one
evening,_lal§t week, and it was not a real
'rat, either;

The rat, _ which was a most natural
looking rubber affair. was connected
with along thin pipeand a bulb. Every
time the boy squeezed the bulb the rat
would leap forward in a most lifelike
manner and the ladies on the street
would shriek with terror and gather up
their skirts. This delighted the crowd,
which surged down on the boy an :1 the
rat from every direction. -

The fun. was kept up for an hour or
more. even the policeman on the beat
stopping now and then fora good laugh.
Suddenly, however. a sleek looking rat
terrier ran into the crowd and made for
his mortal enemy. Down he pounced.
The boy gave the bulb a jab and the rat
leaped about six feet. Again the dog
made a spring. This time he caught the
rat in his teeth and the pressure caused
it to give out a most life like squeak,
which delighted the dog and audience
alike.

By this time the street was packed.
Time after time the dog would shake

leap again, to the wild delight of the
crowd. For the first half hour it was
mere play to the plucky little terrier,
but after a while things began to grow
mono'tonous.

The dog lay down for a rest and the
rat jumped over him. This was too
much for canine flesh and blood to
stand; he leaped up again and now the
contest kept up until the dog fell to the
pavement from sheer exhaustion. Pant-
ing and with eyes protruding, he made a
few more ineffectual snaps at the rubber
rat, then turned over on his side and
laid his head on the pavement. ,

His owner worked his way through
the crowd, picked up his pet in his arms,
uttered a few remarks, and offered to
lick the man that killed his dog. The
crowd jeered and dispersed, while the
small boy strolled down the street in
search of another ambitious rat catcher.
—Chicago Daily News.

The Bicycle as an Educating Agent.

The bicycle is, in fact, the agent of
health and of a wider civilization. It
will give stronger bodies to the rising
generation than their fathers have had,
and it will bring the city and the coun-
try into closer relations than have ex-
isted since the days of the stage-coach.
\Vhat the summer boarder has been do-
ing for the abandoned farms and deserted
villages Of New England the wheelman
is doing for the regions surrounding our
great cities. He is distributing through
them modern ideas and modern ways of
living. and is fructifying them with
gentle . distillations of city wealth.
Above all, he is teaching their people
thata sure way to pro.» rity lies before
them in the beautifying of the country
in which they live, and in the preserva—
tion, of all its attractive natural feat-
mes—Century.

Rebuked by Hannibal Hamlin.

Mr. Hamlin was a true gentleman.
Punctilious himself in the observance
of all the requirements of gentlemanly
intercourse, he was equally exacting of
every courtesy due him from others.
He permitted no man to be rude to him,
or to assume theattitude of a superior.
On one Occasion one of the able men
and leaders of the Senate, distinguished
fora self-conscious, lordly air in his dc-
portment, in the change of seats which
occurs once in two years in the Senate.
chamber had gained a seat by the side
of Mr. Hamlin, and began at once to
practice upon him those little exactions
and annoyances which he had been ac-
customed to impose upon others. After
a few days of yielding to these encroach-
ments. Mr. Hamlin turned, andina tone
that did not require repetition said:

"Sir, If you expect to be treated like
a gentleman you must prove yourself
one.”

There was never occasion afterward
to repeat the admonition—Century.

‘ A Bets-action.

An excited military-looking gentle-
man entered the editorial sanctum one
afternoon, exclaiming:

"That notice of my death is false, sir.
I will horsewhip you within an inch of
your life, sir, if you don’t apologize in
your next issue.” '

The editor inserted the following next
day:
" e extremely regret to announce
that the paragraph which stated that
Major Blazer was dead is without foun-
dation.”—Tit-Bits.

Victoria Photographed.
., Mr. Downey,-the royal photographer,
when asked how Queen Victoria sat for
her latest photograph, replied:
—“Like other-folks. When I had set-
tled her I said: "Would your Majesty
put on a mere favorable countenance.’

 

Sue said: 'Certainly,’ and put it on.”

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1.3

BISHOP IN THE SLUMS
HE SPENDS HIS-ZA-CATON AMONG
THE IxcL‘N YORK.

i’y-iu

 

The head of the Metropolitan Diocese of
the Episcopal Church, LeaVes His Man-
539;. to Live for a Month in the Most

Crowded Tenement Hunse Districts.

If it is true that people leave their
homes during vacation time and live in
smaller places, with which they are
less familiar and where they have less
comfort than in their own homes, not
because they prefer them to their native
places but because they want an abso-
lute change. then Bishop Potter made
a good selection when he exchanged his
Washington Square mansion for NO. 130
Stanton street. N. Y. It would be hard
to imagine a completc-r change in fact.
The Bishop might have found places in
Europe nearly like the one which he se-
lected for his summer vacation; in truth,
the densely pOpulated part of the city
where the Cathedral Mission stands re-
sembles in many respects the J uden-
stadt of Prague and the old part of
Odessa.

The mission is in a part of the city of
which but few Of the better class of peo-
ple know little or nothing. It is tra-
versed by public conveyances which

feW of...th,.e upper, residents of..t.he. city.

have ever seen, and the“ streets' are less
familiar to them than many an avenue
that lies on the other side of the ocean.
Its signs are written in characters un-
known to them. It has its circulating
libraries which contain only books writ-
ten with Hebrew characters to express
phonetically bad German. It has six
daily papers printed in Hebrew charac-
ters, and a large Russian population. In
addition to the Russians, there are also
many Italians. In addition to these two
classes. there is a small sprinkling of
Germans.

In the midst of this district, where
tenement houses rise high in the air,
where many blocks shelter from 2,000
to 2,400 people each, where the gospel of,
cleanliness has not yet been accepted,
where men and women look premature-
ly old, where hard work and a crust are
all there is of life, where childhood is

without pleasure,where manhood is end-‘

less toil and old age a burden—there is
the Cathedral Mission, in which the Bis~
hop makes his home.

The house is part of the great Cathe-
dral scheme, and is the center of a num-
ber of charities to which the clergyman
in charge devotes his time and atten-
tion.

“The Rev. Francis R. Bateman is
away on his vacation and some one must
attend to to his duties, so I have come
here, and I simply do for Mr. Bateman
what he. would do for me if it were in
his power.”

These were the words of Bishop Pot-

ter when he spoke of becoming a resir

dent of Stanton street. “There is noth-
ing in it,” he says, "and it should cause
no discussion or comment.” - ,

The Bishop’s apartments are small
and plain, but comfortable, much more
so than those of an army ofiicer in camp.
He sleeps in a small room near his
study, has his breakfast at '7 a. m. and
at 8‘o’clock is ready to receive his visi-
tors, who begin to arrive long before
that time. These consist of profession-
al mendicants, worthy poor, heads of
charity organizations, friends who come
to congratulate the Bishop on his good
work and curious East Siders who want
to see how 8. Bishop looks.

After 10 a. m. the Bishop makes calls
in the neighborhood, possibly investi-
gates some of the charity cases, calls on
the sick and does such work—to use his
own words—“as a priest of a parish
should do.”

Lat-er in the day he goes to the See
House, for Bishop Potter, of course, is
Bishop still, and attends to his duties as
such. although he lives in Stanton street.
At 7:30 p. in. he is back in his little
study receiving visitors and directing
the work of the mission. He comes and
goes by horsecar, and the boys about the
mission and on the streets near by know
him and stop in their play and some-
times swallow a bad word when he pass.
es and salute him respectfully.

Freckle Cures.

Do the early summer freckles prove
stubborn? There is usually a clamor for
"freckle cures” about this time of the
year, and the very best thing that proves
reliable year after year is simply com-
mon buttermilk. Secure it as fresh as
possible; it will be found that nothing
can equal this fresh buttermilk for re-
moving tan, freckles, sunburn or moth
spots.

It has the great advantage that it
does not injure the skin, but makes it
soft and white. Take a soft sponge and
bathe the face, neck and arms before re—
tiring for the night; then wipe ofi the
drops lightly. In the morning wash it
Off thoroughly and wipe dry with a
crash towel. Two or three such baths
each week during the summer months
will take OE and keep OR the tan and
freckles and keep the skin smooth and
soft.

The Handicap of Life in Kansas.

“Why are not men more beautiful?”
asks Frances E. Willard. They are.
Frances, but it -is a hard strain to be
both beautiful and good Out in this
country. After a man reaches 51 the
wear and tear is terrific; that is why so
many men cannot be both beautiful and
good. An epitaph in the Abilene ceme-
tery, where lies buried many a sweet.
good man who died with his bootson,
about tells the story:

He're lies the body of Joseph Rank,

Who iived and died a hardened crank,

For his first twenty-one years he never fell.,

Which. in this country is mighty well.
-Clay Center Times.

' Nothing so Aristocrntlc.

“My daughter is too democratic in
her ideas.” sighed Mrs. Hawkins. “I
wish there was some way to make her
an aristocrat.”

“Sen: her to a cooking school,” said
Mrs. Barlow. “There is nothing more
haughty than a goof. cock."—Harper’s
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