The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1895. A PUNCH-MADE «PULL” Mrs. Chadwick Mixed Drinks That Reached the Hearts of Big Men. THEY LIKED HER HUMBLE BAR. That Explains the Mystery In the Interesting Case of the School Janlitress. Mrs. Chadwick’s “pull” is out—that is, it’s not exactly ‘“‘out’ because it’s such a quiet, deep and unobtrusive “‘pull,” but it has been located, and like some other oc- cult things it has only been partly under- stood. Chadwick isthe La Honda Schoo! who makes such fine milk according to Director Scott who knows good things, and whose $20 a month job is so strongly fortified that two valiant but vain efforts to part it and her have nearly wrenched the School Department to pieces. The first effort was to get the job away from her to give to another deserving woman who had friends. It succeeded that time two years ago, but two weeks later the director who got her out quietly moved for a reconsideration. The present effort is to get her away from the job, and it was made by the Grand Jury. Up to date Mrs. Chadwick is baving a nip-and- tuck time, with the chances apparently in her favor. The secret of Mrs. Chadwick’s pull is discovered to be in those very milk punches and the fine old extract of corn and rye that she has dispensed at her little bar next door to the La Honda school. Never before hasa portly good-natured woman on an Almshouse road gained political power because she made good milk punches. Whatever be her fate her life sets forth a wise moral. What she has done she has done well. Itis conceded that she has been a good janitress. When school “‘called” it was the business of this poor woman to make milk punches at her humble roadside bar, and it is because she did it so well that when a Grand Jury gets | out and thunders at her her all-great| “pull” gets in and whispers to respectful | ears. There is a nice point in morals involved. May the janitress of a public school sell ice, big, lace-covered, nutmeg-sprinkled milk punches to School Directors and wick out on the Almshouse road and her much-talked-of “pull” downtown. SALE OF CLIFTON’S HORSES. Talbot Could Not Leave a Jolly Coach- ing Party to Attend It and It ‘Was Postponed. The sale of J. Talbot Clifton’s horses ad- vertised to take place yesterday morning did not come off, for Mr. Clifton did not put in an appearance and Killip & Co. had no instructions on which to go ahead. A large number of people had gathered at the saleyard at the corner of Van Ness avenue and Market street at 11 o’clock, the hour the sale was advertised for. Among tnem were a number of horsemen and quite a contingent of Burlingame people, but the owner did not put in an appear- ance. Finally the sale was begun with some of the coach horses, for which very small prices were realized. and still Mr. Ciitton was not on nana to give theauc- tioneers any instructions. Killip & Co. telephoned to Burlingame, and found that on Friday he had started off on a coaching trip to Halfmoon Bay. He was finally located by telegraph, and said that he ‘would be at the yard at5 o’clock; but Killip & Co. knew that no ordinary crowd of San Francisco horse- buyers would wait six hours, and so the sale was put off. 3 The horses to be sold are good animals, and include: Senator L, who holds the two-mile trotting record of the coast; The Senator, with a record of 2:29; Crown Prince, 2:17, and other harness horses, and several thoroughbreds, besides eight coach horses which were driven to the Meteor from the Palace to Burlingame early in the season. These horses all cost Mr. Clifton a great deal of money, but what is that to a coaching trip to Halfmoon Bay in such weather as this? T0 PAVEVAN NESS AVENUE, A Very Weighty Petition Behalf of the Big Thor- oughfare. in City Charged With Neglecting It for Years—Room on the Tax Levy Asked For. The old and vexed question of paving Van Ness avenue has been presented to the | Board of Supervisors in anew form. A number of property-owners have sub- mitted a petition charging the City with | having failed to perform its obligations to the great thoroughfare for several years, and asking that provision be made in the | next tax levy to pave it with bitumen | from Pacific street to Hayes. The petition other people that are wayfaring? Most of | the directors say “Yes,” but their moral | perceptions may be punch-worn. The | Grand Jury thinks not, and Mrs. Chad- | k’s friends say that some of the grand | ymen are prohibitionists. The Grand | v sent its vigorous letter to the Board | ucation on the report of Mr. Iredale of that body, who investigated everything | in the situation but the punches. Mrs. Chadwick, it transpires, has been r sixteen years gratifying thirsty people | little north of | e Almshou T , the park. She has lived with her family | in a little one-story house that has a bar in | a front room. or years she has pursued the business icy of mixing good drinks and keeping d he: bar the kind of stuff that Pacific Club men and that sort of people like to take a nip of when they are riding out that way and that they will take some trouble to get at. So it turns out Park Commissioners, City | oiflicials and some men who belong to the | Chamber of Commerce, etc., have come to know and like her goods and her homelike place, and some who came oftenest grew to like very much the round-faced, pleasant- mannered and good-hearted barkeeper. ots of them liked to get out of a buggy and, beaming with hearty good-humor, say, ‘“Good morning, Mrs. Chadwick, you're looking bright this fine morning.” And they liked the welcome when Mrs. Chadwick would cheer up, smooth down her hair, wipe her hands on her apron and say, “Why, Mr. Goodseller! The bless- ings of this morning to you. Why shouldn’t I look bright when my old friends remember me? Then pretty soon the; thing else nice, and Mrs. Chadwick would sometimes say: “Yes, that's what you liked before, and the other day, when it was most gone I put it down there behind.”’ Then the talk might grow sensible and they grew, too, to understand how life went with Mrs. Chadwick. They would take another and be interested in the little troubles and hopes of the honest-hearted hostess and give her all sorts of good ad- vice in a benevolent w So' some men whose names are ofte: the papers came to like and respect M Chadwick as well as her punches, and so Mrs. Chadwick’s punches, out by the highway, came, in years, to fix things so that when she got into struggles with school boards, men of influence would readily go around School Directors and qguietly say here, this talk about Mrs. Chadwick is all rot. I know her and she z good, respect- able, hard-working and deseryving woman and I'd like to see you do her justice,” That’s the kind of a pull that Mrs. Chadwick has turned loose on the school board, but the pull would decline to be in- terviewed. The Grand Jury says that her place is a resort for disreputable charac- ters. Director Clinton says that she is a respectable woman on the plane ofan Eng- lish barmaid. Mrs. Chadw smoothed her hair and at times nearly cried when she told about her trouble. “It’s somebody that wanted the place that started all this,” she said. “I know about where it all comes from, and it’s just like a woman. Talk about my place being disreputable! You ought to know the people that come here and bring their Wives too—people that stand just as_high as anybody. They wouldn't do it if my place was not respectable. “If I do sell a glass of beer and a milk unch, is that so awful, if I'm an honest, bard-working woman? I know there’s other janitors, and teachers, too, in the School’ Department that could have worse things said about them than anybody can say about me. There's five saloons on the school property at Fifth and Mission streets; and as to children being huri by going past a decent place like mine, look at what’s around other schools in the City and what the children have to go by. There are no vprivate rooms in my place; and when the Olympic Club boys come up here they sometimes want to sing a song, but that don’t corrupt anybody. “‘As to me, the whole neighborhood will tell you. There’s nobody knows what's | going on better than a policeman, is there? Well, when I was telling the officer that’s been on this beat so long what that woman was up to he said, ‘Well, now, Mrs. Chad- wick, if she walks as straight a path as you 'do, she'll be all right.’ ~Ask Adolph Butro about me. When he raised every- body’s rent around here four years ago, I told the agent that I just couldn’t pay it, and when he saw Mr. Sutro he said, ‘Why, yes, Mrs. Chadwick is a good woman any she can pay just the same as before.” I've got a boy anda girl in the public schools that I'm tryving to educate, and I've got a daughter that graduated from the Normai School here and has been teaching in the country four years. They said I didn’t need if, but if T didn't would I get in and vy would say some- reads: The undersigned owners of property on Van Ness avenue respectfully request that your honorable board appropriate a sufficient sum during the next fiscal vear to bituminize the roadway of Van Ness avenue onallof the ac- cepted blocks between Pacific avenue and Hayes street. In making this request the un- dersigned respectfully call attention of your honorable board to the following facts: First—That said avenue was graded and macadamized at a very heavy expense o the property-owners, owing to the unusual width of said avenue. Second—That the City agreed with the prop- | erty-owners that it would keep said roadway well macadamized and sprinkled daily during | the dry season at its expense; but with the exception of the past two months no sprinkling has been done for & number of years, and the roadway is in & most deplorable condition. Third—That Vai ess avenue is the widest residence street in the City, and with proper care on the part of the City there is little doubt but that it can be made & most popular boule- | vard, forming as it does a connection between Lombard street and Golden Gate avenue, the main driveways to the Presidio and Golden Gate Park. 1 Fourth—That it is the natural channel | through which all travel from the Western | Addition reaches Market street,land that a | Smooth roadway thereon is universally de- | manded, not only by property-owners alog the iine of said avenue, but by all residents in the Western Addition, especially the wheelmen and those who enjoy the use of equipages. Your petitioners most respectiully request your honorable board to give this matter your iost earnest and serious consideration, “and desire _permission to address either ~your | honorable board or the members of the Street Committee upon the subject. The petition is signed by the followiug well-known names: John F. Merrill, Charles Holbrook, S. Baldwin, Louis Sloss, Mnrfflrene F. Newhall (by George A. Newhall), D. N. Walter, J. H. Neu- stadter, Charles R. Crocker (by C. S. Green), Claus Spreckels gy John D. Spreckels), J. C. Johnson, H. L. Dodge, Samuel Blair, J. Kobn, Herman J. Sadler, W.J. Lowry, Leon Sloss, Lewis Gerstle (by Leon Sloss}, S.W. Levy, Estate of J. C. Moore (vy 8. J. Friedlander), F. Frauen- feld (executor of the estate of Emanuel L. Goldstein), W. Goldstein, Israel Cahn, A. Steinberger, *John§de W. Allen, R. R, Thompson, J. H. Seller (per A. Seller) Ho® bart state Company (by Charles S. Bridge, secretary). AFTER RELIABLE WIND. The Speed of Storms Will Hereafter Be Registered at the Far- 5 allones. Hereafter people may know exactly how hard the winds blow in this region, where they are not checked, scattered or mixed up by hills and mountains. As things have been the speed of the wind as recorded by all the anemometers of the weather ser- vice has not often been its speed out where it was free to blow. For instance when the wind blows at sixty miles an hour at Point Lobos it may be going at any rate from twenty to forty miles in the City and from many directions the wind at Point Lobos is checked by hills. Qut on the sea is where the winds show their natural speed. and hereafter the ‘Weather Bureau will know the winds at their best. Forecast Official Hammon has extended the service to the Farallones to the ex- tent of putting up a strong anemometer on the rocks out there and getting the lighthouse-keeper to look at it regularly. He will send in his reports every few days by the lighthouse-tender or with loads of fish or seagull eggs, and the northerly winds will be reliably measured. When the cable gets to the islands there will naturall e a regular weather station there. Point Reyes gives a singular illus- tration of how an interfering elevation may make the wind blow faster. S V{hen a mnorthwest wind strikes the promontory of Point Reyes and the inward sweep of shore northward the wind fills up the bend, and as the hills are sey- eral hundred feet high it is squeezed around the point, where it pours like water forced past a rock. The Point Reyes wind-gauge is right there, and when it gets up to ninety miles an hour the wind may be but, seventy-five a mile or two at sea. Day before yesterday the anemometer there registered the highest wind recorded on the coast. It got up to 120 miles an hour during a brief hurricane and it might have done still better if in condition, but it went to pieces and was strewn on the beach. GRACE CHURCH CHOIE. The Engagement of the Quartet to End This Month. Grace Church choir is to be reorganized. There are no hard feelings, scandals or in- do all that work for $20a month? There’s been no complaints about my place from any of the parents that [ know of, and children all like me and they say in the morning, ‘Oh, Mrs. Chadwick,can’t I dust?’ ana ‘Oh, Mrs. Chadwick, can’'t I bring a bucket of coa As to my ‘pull’ I've sim- ply got some friends that are nice ipeogle and they wouldn’t be my friends if what they say is true.” That’s the interesting case of Mrs, Chad- terior disturbances, but a simple desire to have more volume to the music. Each member of the present quartet has been notified of the proposed change. Their services will be dispensed with June 30, and the first Sunday in July a new choir, composed of ten or twelve men, will take care of the music. William H. Holt, the organist, is look- ing around for voices. He proposes to test many before selecting the singers. LIGHTS IN THE MISSION, What Those on Folsom Street Have Done for the District. MAY BE MADE PERMANENT. Music of the Choral Union—League of the Cross Cadets—Other Notes. The property-owners on Folsom street, between Nineteenth and Twenty-sixth, are signing a petition which will be presented to the Board of Supervisors on Monday next. It appears that just before the mass- meeting and bicyclists’ parade in favor of a boulevard from the water front out Fol- som street to the county line, a number of progressive citizens took up a subscription and entered into a contract for seven large electric lJamps to be maintained for one month, one lamp to be at each street crossing from Nineteenth to Twenty-sixth inclusive. So pleased are the residents with their new lights, and so beneficial has the change proved in a business way and by attracting to the street people from all parts of the City, that now it is desired to perpetuate the service of the lights at the expense of the City. The petition recites in addition to the facts already mentioned as to better light, greater convenience, etc., the one argu- ment which must have great weight with the Supervisors, namely, that these seven lights not only give better but also cheaper light than the forty gas lamps used on the seven blocks. As a matter of fact, by snuf- fing out the gas and using electric lamps the City will save 95 cents a night, or $28 60 a month. Among the names signed to the petition are those of A. B. Maguire, Frank Went- worth, Mrs. Charlotta Hahn, George and H. Mangels, George L. Center, W. H. Weister, P. J. Tormey, H. T. Kellom, F. N. Bent, E. 8. Gilmore, Captain Raabe, Charles T. Spader, H. F. Wynne, E. Wil- berg, A. H. Lieb, W. F. Tillman, H. C. Somers. T. F. Sullivan, Mr. Roylance and manv others. vaptain Raabe has lived for forty years in the Mission district, and is a leading spirit in all that wili benefit that section. He is president of the Folsom Improve- | ment Club No. 1, and says that there has never been so unanimous a movemeunt in | | and drive over the level street and enjoy the fine light from the lamps. 1 am earnestly in favor of keeping up these lights,, It is the very best economy every way. he concert of the Mission Choral Union | at Mission Parlor Hall was attended by over 1000 people. Sixty voices equally di- vided, composed the chorus, which sang in splendid harmony and time under Di- rector J. J. Morris. It rendered Handel's | ‘“Hallelujah Chorus,” Parker’s “Who Knows What the Bells Say?” Hatton’s “Softly Fall the Shades of Evening,”’ Gold- | beck’s “Spring is Comine,” Pinsuti’s “An Autumn Song,” Caldicott’s “The Boy and the Bee,” Parker’s “The Sea Hath Its Pearls” and Mendelssohn’s ‘“Hunting Song.” Miss Millie Flinn, the soprano soloist, was warmly veceived and the audience showed their appreciation by repeated en- cores. ‘‘In Seville's Groves’” was the first number, and the second was Rossini’s “In- flammatus,” in which she was assisted by the chorus. =The Knickerbocker quartet, composed of D. Lawrence, first tenor; Evans, second tenor; D. B, Crane, first bass; L. A. Larsen, second bass, sang Macy’s ‘“Rose- bud Fair’ and for an encore “Simple Simon.” They appeared next in Emer- son’s “In Silent Mead,” and were com- pelled to respond to two encores. The Mascagni Mandolin Club, under the direction of Professor F. D. Piccirillo, ren- dered Santisieban’s “Canto @ Amor” and Savioni’s “Sous de Balcon.” It was fre- ntly encored. Rehearsals are held every Monday even- ing in the lecture-room of Trinity Presby- terian Church, Twenty-third and Capp streets. The officers are: J. J. Morris, con- ductor; Sam Booth, president; Benning ‘Wentworth, vice-president; J.W. Maguire, secretary: Fred Crossett, treasurer; Sam ‘Weeks, librarian. Forty members of Company L, League of the Cross Cadets, were mustered into the regiment at Mission Dolores Church Friday night. Officers were elected as fol- lows: William C. Clark, captain; Joseph T. Fogarty, first lieutenant ; Joseph O'Neill, second lieutenant. Lieutenant-Colonel M. P. O’'Dea administered the regimental affirmation. Others present were Major D. J. McGloin, Adjutant Daniel C. Deasy and Captain Frank Warren, N. G. C., who has directed the organization of the com- pany. George Keeling and George Tucker, two compositors of the Mission Journal, will assume charge of the Halfmoon Bay Ad- vocate this week. This morning about 100 children will re- ceive first communion at St. James Church, Twenty-third and Guerrero streets. The CaLL takes the following from the Mission Journal : On Monday last a committee from the Grand Jury vitited the Mission to inspect _the pavin of San Carlos avenue, between Eighteenth an Nineteenth streets, and Bartlett_street from Twenty-second to Twenty-sixth. In both cases they found the pavement full of holes and in & bad condition. San Carlos avenue was ac- cepted by the City November 7, 1892, and Bartlett street, from Twenty-fourth to Twenty- sixth, was accepted September 26 of the same year. The committee also visited South San Fran- cisco, and found that the same kind of work has been going on over there. The property- owners have hopes at last of seeing some of the bad streets in the Mission repaired. On Wednesday, June 5, the four highest grades of the Horace Mann School will have a competitive drill. Members of the Board of ;':%ucntion and General Warfield will act as udges. Another amateur paper has entered the field and is on the road to suecess. This one is the Pearl, edited by Miss Ethel Neal and Miss Laura Lohmeyer, two bright young ladies of the Mission. New cement, instead of old boards and rising nails, now give walkers pleasure on Nineteenth and Valencia and Eighteenth and Mission streets. Stevenson street is still in the contractors’ hands, and Santa Clara avenue ought to be. The latter has more holes than surface in the stretch between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. ‘Eighteenth street, between Guerrero and Do- lores, is in a bad condition. A few loads of macadam would make a big improvement on the street. A delightful Aurglflu party was tendered to George Knipe at the residence of his parents on Sonoma street. A happy time was en- joyed by the young people. ¥ n June4 a reception will be given to the delegates who went to the Y. P. 8. C. E. of Beth- any as delegates to Sacramento. 'he 9th of June will be observed as Chil. dren’s Sunday in all the Conaregational Sun- day-schools of the United States. The children expect an enjoyable time on that day. WANT SLATE ROOES. The Manufacturers’ Association Asks the Harbor Commissioners to Change Specifications. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation is looking out for every channel whereby the home industries may be pro- moted, and is watching all State and mu- nicipal work which is being done or is con- templated. The ferry depot work is one of the par- ticular matters now being considered. Yesterday the following letter was sent to the Board of Harbor Commission : SAN Francisco, June 1, 1895. Board of Harbor Commissioners, San Francisco— GENTLEMEN: We have been informed that the applications for the roofing of the new ferry depfnt in this City call fora galvanized iron T00f. You, perhaps, are aware of the fact that there are large deposits of slate in this State and there are several companies engaged in manu- facturing this slate into roofing. This associa- tion hasamong 1ts members & manufacturer of slate roofing who owns one of these quaries. They manuiacturg a very fine quality of slate roofing, much superior, so we are iniormed, to any Eastern slate for roofing. It will outlast galvanized iron, and is a California product, whereas galvanized iron is an Eastern product. We are further informed that the cost of slate roofing will not exceed that of galvanized iron by more than a third. We herewith enclose you some of the litera- ture issued by this association, which sets forth the objects of the association, and we desire to urge upon you the importance and necessity of, at this time, patronizing California industries wherever possible. We trust that you will have specifieations for this ro{ol lsn »nlterted as to give the Cn.li(on;ifl manufacturing of slate-roofing an opportunit to bid on the same, Joi 2 Awaiting en early, and, we trust, a favorable reply, I am, for the association, \'usurs truly, L. R. MEAD, Secretary. By F. J. DINGLE, Assistant Secretary. A similar communication was mailed to the Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County. The courthouse roof is to be made of tin, but slate may be substituted. SEVERE ON THE BLOOMER, A Protest Alleged to Come From the Y. M. C. A. Secretary. But Mr. McCoy is Out of Town and His Secretary Says It Is a Hoax. Robert 8. Boynes, cashier of the Young Men’s Christian Association, spoiled a story yesterday which would no doubt have created a rattling sensation among riders of the swift and silent bicycle, espe- cially lady riders. There was filed with the clerk of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday the following communication type- written on a sheet of yellow paper: To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San e e, T dersigned, citizens of the City and County, pray to the honorable Board of Supervisors to enact and enforce that it is unlawful for ladies to wear bloomers, knickerbockers or any attire unbecoming the fair sex. We consider the above wearing apparel, and we believe that all good Christians will uphold us in _our theory, as a perpetual menace of the good morals of our City. We have consulted eminent physicians, and they all agree that it is unhealthy for la: dies to ride bicycles. Furthermore, we have great compession for the fair sex. Hoping our prayer will be received and special attention e given by your honorable body, your obedi- ent servants. Y. M. C. A. H. J. McCoy, General Secretary. The wording of the communication in which Mr. McCoy declares his compassion favor of proper pavement and good light- ing as at present. “We want to have the electriclights | mamtamned,” said he, “and we have 1n- stalled them merely to show how vastly | superior they are to the old-fashioned gas | lamps. Now, as they give much better light than the lamps, are an attraction to our neighborhood and can be maintained at less cost than the gaslamps, I believe that the City should substitute the elec- tric Jamps permanently for the gas.” H.F. {‘\'ynne, the druggist and a leading spirit in the California Cycling Club, is another advocate of good electric street- | iights and the abandonment of the old gas lamps. ‘A year ago,” he remarked, ‘‘this was the most backward street in the Mission, but now, with our fine new pave- ment and electric lamps, it has become the attraction of this end of town. People come here from all over the City to nde | | for young ladies and the fact that it did not carrya Y. M. C. A. letter-head created some suspicion among the newspaper men as to its genuineness, and an inquiry was made by telephone at the Y. %{. C. A. rooms regarding it, and the answer came back that Mr. McCoy was out of town and the letter certainly did not emanate from him. A few minutes later Mr. Boynes put in a rather excited appearance at the City Hall and begged to be shown the paper. Then he wrote the following, | which practically kills what threatened | to be a formidable crusade against the bioomer: SAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 1895. The Honorable Board of Supervisors: Having received word that & communication had been sent to the Board of Supervisors from H.J. McCoy, the general secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, protestin, against the wearing ot bloomers by ladies, an having examined said communication, I hereby pronounce said communication a fraud. Mr. M ¥ is now in the East and has been for and the signature to the commu- forgery. Rogerr S. BoyNEs, Cashier Y. M. C. A. It is evident that the type-written com- munication is the work of a practical joker. A MURDEROUS RECORD. Johnson, the Counterfeiter, a Notorious and Bloodthirsty Fiend. Andrew Johnson, who was arrested in Bloomfield, Sonoma County, Friday, and brought to this City yesterday in the cus- tody of a United States Marshal to answer the charge of passing counterfeit money, was tried in Santa Rosa eight years ago for the most fiendish murder ever com- mitted in that county. The case was also very sensational from the fact that Con- gressman Thomas J. Geary figured as the | principal attorney for the defense and that the charge of jury-bribing was openly made on the streets after the yerdict was announced. One man held out for ac- quittal twenty-four hours and finally com- promised on manslaughter. Johnson’s victim was William Boyd. They, with two or three others, had been | drinking all night at a tavern near Bodega | Bay kept by a man named Cunningham. During the course of their bacchanalia an altercation arose between Boyd and John- son, and the former, who was magnani- mous, forbore doing bodily harm to John- son when he had the opportunity. But Johnson did not appreciate the generous treatment he had received at the hands of his dnnkinF companion, and before day- light he walked to his home, a_mile or so away, and Eot his rifle. Going back to the inn, he took up his position behind an old chicken-house overrooking the barnyard, where Boyd would have to take his horses for water in the early morning. This chicken-house was about thirty yards from the corral, and Johnson waited with a deliberate and fiendish patience until his imagined enemy should appear. As Boyd neared the watering-trough he saw Johnson with the rifle leveled on him, and cried “My God, Andy, don’t shoot!" The cx;y was unheeded. Boyd fell to the ground with the first shot, and the fiend, {from behind his shelter, put four more bul- lets into the body of his victim. The landlord’s son, 17 years of age, was an eye-witness of the b%ood—thirsty deed, and the testimony of the murderer’s father, who saw him when he went into the house for the rifle, was conclusive and corroborative. But the juryman saved Johnson’s neck. — A Queer Delusion. There is a very promiment gentleman at present in a large hotel who is the victim of a singular delusion. He was thrown from a trolley car while about to get off, and not only injured a leg, but struck his head. Since then he imagines the leg is off. On every other point he is rational. He recognizes his friends and remembers everything and can transact business, but he never fails to tap his left leg with his finger and say, “Isn’t it too that it was cut off?” He seems to be utterly he‘lipless, and has to be lifted in and out of bed, and has to be wheeled around, whereas no bones were broken and there was really nothing but a sprain. The shock and injury to his brain have led to hallucination that his leg was taken off by the car. The doctors feel sanguine that he will be cured.—Phiiadelphia es. - DR, HENLEY’S NEW TO-DAY. DR. HENLEY’S CELERY BEEK AND [RON IR, HENLEY'S THE GREATEST ~ THE GREATEST THE GREATEST NERVE STRENGTHENER IN THE WORLD, IF YOU SUFFER FROM BEWARE OF IT HAY DO YOU HARM RATHER THAN G0OD. SYSTEM BUILDER IN THE WORLD, DYSPEPSIA INDIGESTION HEADACHE INSOMAIA IMPURE BLOOD GENERAL DEBILITY THAT “TIRED FEELING” NERVOUS TROUBLEN LACK OF APPETITE. BLOOD PURIFIER IN THE WORLD. ACASE WILLHELPYOU THE DRUGGIST'S ~ SUBSTITUTE, IT CAN'T BE AS GOOD AN THE OMLY GENUINE, DEMAND THE ONLY GENUINE DR. HENLEY'S NO OTHER. CATCHES TROUT BY HAND. A Fisherman’s Neat Trick of Filling His Empty Basket. Some Big Storles Told of a Massa- chusetts Disciple of Walton. This is the true story of the man who catches trout with his hands. To open the season and as a guarantee of good faith in dealing with our customers in the months to come we prseent this extraordinary value in the fish line. We will call the man John Smith, for various reasons, prin- cipally because his name is John Smith, John B. Smith it is, the agent of Clark, | Ward & Co., in this city. One of the first things you will notice about Mr. Smith is his hands. He has remarkable hands—in- sinuating, restless, facile; thin and narrow hands, with long fingers, which he uses often in gesture. By training them he has become in later years an imvresario of the far-sounding telegraph, but they af- forded him more amusement in his youth whem employed in catching trout. The ordinary man who walks twenty-five miles once a year to bring back from the woods a half ton of muck and macadam | on his person and four badly decomposed five-inch trout has been accustomed to regard the trout as coy and difficult of approach. He will scoff at this tale. On the contrary, trout are perfectly easy to handle, if properly treated. They lie, of course, under a bank, when you attempt to et them. You must reach carefully un- derneath and bring your hand up to them slowly, the fingers moving gently to and fro. In this way, partly because it is dark under there and partly, no doubt, because the trout is not zoologist enough to con- struct the dread whole from the part which it sees, it is possible to handle the fish with ease. Indeed, when they are just too far away to grasp, you can work them gently back into reach. They are accustomed to ]j(ostle against each other in the dark water and Euy no attention to being touched. Then inally, when you have gotten them into the right position you slowly close down on them. Two hands are best, one behind the ills and one upon the tail to keep the fish rom wriggling away. In this way Mr. Smith has tickled the bellies of thousands of trout, who immediately after, in a spirit of reasonable reciprocity, performed the same functions for himself and friends. Mr. Smith was raised in a place where there were trout (Masonville, Delaware County, N. Y.), and spent most of the spare time of a happy boyhood pawing over the brooks of the vicinity after them. His father used to say in jest over the fam- ily trout that he’'d bet there wasn’t a log or stone_in the brooks between Bennetts- ville and East Masonville Pond, a distance of seven miles, that didn’t have its under side periodically scratched by John. He had felt over the bottom of every stream in that, country till ite topography was as familiar to him as that of his own bed- room, says the Springfield Republican., Mr. Smith remembers one time particu- larly. It was in midsummer, when the brooks were very low. He was going through a swamp thicket with his little brother when he looked over into a deep hole in the brook and saw a whole school of big trout sunning themselves near the surface. They saw him at the same time and darted back under the bank at the side. Reaching underneath he found he could not touch them at all, and so he started immediately digging a hole in the bog some three feet from the edge. After considerable work with sticks and his figers he made a hole and put his hand carefully down through it right in the midst of them. They all lay together in a bunch, wavering slightly back and fort, and paid no attention to him at all until one by one he had taken them all out. There were about twenty of them in all,[nnd they nearly filled a ten-quart milk ail. R Another sensational episode was the cap- ture of the big trout in the brook. Mr. Smith was on his way to school one morn- ing with his younger brother and another boi, and was crossing a log over the brook when he saw beneath him a trout with the genial proportions of a man-eating shark. Immediately the two other boys were sta- tioned above and below the spotto pre- vent his escape, and young Smith started in to find him. Hecame across him at once under a bank and began to work on him. He had not been accustomed to han- dle such big fish, however, and when he closed down on his gills the big trout wrenched away. Then he could not find him anywhere, and aftera thorough search he thought he had escaped. Under the cir- cumstances the duty of every boy would be plain. His younger brother had let the fish escape and must be ‘“licked.” The small boy immediately felt the chastening hand of his elder brother on his nose; the ! concussion throwing him violently back- ward into the stream, wetting the seat of his trousers clear up around his neck. ‘When he had at length disal[l)peflred in search of other garments at home, after attempting for some time to give a correct imitation of the David-Goliah episode from afar off, brother John waded in and dis- covered the trout where it had been right along—under a big log. The fish broke away from him again and went out into the ripple in the center of the stream. Smith followed him there, and, after work- ing awhile, got him out at last and on the bank. It was the first and only time he ever got a trout out in the open like that, and he can only account for the circum- stance by thinking that the trout was old and rather blind. But he got him anyway, and lugged him to the virlage on a willow stringer. When he got him there A% C. Bourne, the village storekeeper, scared him by offering him $5 for the fish if he would ke? it alive. It appeared afterward that a Binghampton hotel had a tank of bi trout, and offered $25 for a bigger one, ani the storekeeper wanted to get the fish as an investment. It was no use, however, the fish had been out of water too long and the boy had to be satisfied with $1, which he finally sold it for. That trout was 19 inches long and weighed 2 pounds and 2 ounces, and when it was dressed a horned | dace 6 inches long was found in its stomach. Fishing in this way has a peculiar charm of uncertainty about it which is its own. There is always a feeling of mild wonder in eeling around under a muddy bank as to what 1s coming next. Itis a sort of natural grab-bag arrangement. You may get a trout, an eel or a sucker, or possigly a mud turtle. A water-snake may get you. Of course there is a good deal in knowin, what you have gul. and a good deal of technique in handlingit. A sucker is slow and patient and as easy to catch as a sub- merged tomato-can, a trout is nervous and resistive and an eel is slimy and reluctant. Mr. Smith has caught oneé or two eels by sticking a knife into them asthey were slipping out of his hands, and Priest used to occasionally get them by using sand- paper. A bullhead is uniriendly and ob- stinate and requires very careful {mndling. Never in after life has Mr. Smith passed | such unhappy hours as he did when watch- ing his friend corner a thoroughbred short- horned bullhead and attempt to bring him to the surface without getting his forearm filled with virus. But in addition to these there were the turtles and water snakes and muskrats which were always likely to be in the line of attack. Priest had an exciting misun- derstanding at one time with a muskrat, which, after a spirited contest, resul fatally for the latter. Though the boy was somewhat wounded, he was running his hand under a bank, where there was an rat, which was sitting there, waiting for something to come along, promptly grabbed a finger. Priest, who had a hole throught the bank, could laok down and see the catastrophe which had come to the member, but could not give it aid or disen- gage it without getting it more or less torn. Fortunately he had with him a ‘“snatch hook”—a cheerful-looking instru- ment of destruction' dear tu the heart of open space above the water, and the musk- | all-round boys, consisting of a stick with & ‘barbed affair on the end, which, when\ speared at a fish, closes around it and catches there. Jabbing this down through the hole he caught the rat around the neck and soon_ after an understanding was reached. Priest also got into a similar ac- cident with a mud turtle at one time, but fortunately the turtle let go before it real- ized the importance of the catch. NOT A QUARRELSOME MAN, Bound Over Twenty-three Keep the Peace. The proposed reform of putting prisoners upon their oath and letting them speak for themselves recommends itself in many ways to common-sense, but has, neverthe- less, some serious advantages. A reporter on the Midlard Circuit has preserved for us a choice example of oratory of this kind. The case was that of a man charged with at- tempt to murder, before Lord Wensleydale (one of the gravest judges), who had per- mitted him, after the prosecution closed, to address the jury. “My Lord and gentlemen of the jury, you see as how I'm what is called a peaceable man, and was taking my drink quietly, as a man should do, when up comes this here prosecutor, and says he: ‘I'll have a sup of your beer.’ ‘No,’ says I, ‘you shan’t! " ‘I will.” says he. ‘“Then,’ says I, ‘if you touch this ’ere mug of beer, i smash it on your blessed head!” This here and he gota Times to man did take hold of my beer, knock on the head, but it were his own fault, as, gentleman, why should he ha’ provoked a man quietly a-drinkin’ his beer? Now, my lord’ (turning to the Judge), “I’m sure you likes a drop of good beer, don’t yer, my lord? Well, then, my lord, if your lordship had a pot o' beer afore you at this moment, and that ’ere chap as is a-sittin’ by the side of yeor'* (turning to the High Sheriff) ““should say, says ne, ‘I'll take a sup of your beer,’ and you said to him, says you, “If you do touch this here beer I'll pur.ch your blessed ribs!" in course you would, my lord.” (Roars of laughter). “Now, my lord, I've been called a quarrelsome man; that's a downri[ght falsity, for look here, it ain’t likel; can be a quarrelsome man when I've been bound over twenty-three times to keep the blessed peace!’—Illustrated London News. ————— A Viscount as Showman. Of course it is Viscount Hinton. Tired of organ-grinding, this illustrious scion of a noble house is to be found_daily at pres- ent in the salubrious neighborhood of Leather lane, Holborn, where he is acting as showman to a kinetoscope entertain- ment which has been organized by Mr., H. W. Paul, the electrician of Hatton Garden, ‘Whoever yearns, therefore, for the honor of a chat with this distinguished member of his order can gratify his desires—on braving the rather formidable odors of the delectable thoroughfare above named—for the trifling sum of 1 penny. There is nothing haughty about Vis- count Hinton. It is an affable and conde- scending Viscount who shakes you by the hand as you enter the establishment anq shows you how to put your penny in the slot. Of course the thing is taking im- mensely in Leather lane. There are com- Earatwely few viscounts about this neigh- orhood, and the newcomer is regarded with proportionate respect. And it cer- tainly cannot be imputed to him that he shirks his duties. Every customer that enters receives a cordial welcome at_his hands, while the ducation of his labors certainly exceeds the limits of an eight~ hour day, says the Westminster Gazette, But for all that it i Sl SO hem much better than 5 e sayvs, the labor of which, he explai crippléd his right aem, ks DeTmanently As to the story when it bec:tlx):}; b{ignngs gt cl gue]would cash up to ransom hien:ftlh:; rl;: elc’tnrels, a fairy tale; thought it is f\:rnee‘:it? true, he says,’ that before he rned 0 Music as a means of livelihood 2 ad made no little of a name for him- self on the stege in the capacity of clown, Ble ::&t of which he refers you proudly to that he was once ca, only released phire