The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1895 v SUMMERRAYES CITED Will Be Asked to Explain His “Joke” Before Judge Morrow. AFFIDAVIT OF FREEMAN. Recites the Palace Hotel Inter- view as Given in “The Call.” | THE HEARING SET FOR TO-DAY. District Attorney Foote Requested to Investigate the Matter by the Accused. G nd r Summerhayes’ little joke at the poor pay of grand jurors coun- | . i to the bortant and valuable issues that they e to consider in connection | with the Freeman-Westinghouse case has met with the same appreciation that cost Secretary H. I. McCoy $250 when he per- ittle hoomerang *‘josh” while the Durrant case was | in progres When Mr. Summerhayes: was inter- viewed late on Wedne night, after | £ttorney A. 8. Mackaye. being awakened from a deen fit of slumber, cnough money to handle ihe case pending be- fore the United States Grand Jurr. He snid: :*You must know, Freeman, that if the proper influence is’ brought to bear you can have done what you want.” 5 _Continuing he made a statement as to his knowledge of jury duty and the probable in- fluence he would liave with the present Grand Jury, and asked me what it would be worth to the’ Fort Wayne Liectric Corporation to have M5, Mackave and Warren 1. Freeman in- cted for intimidating witn Tie sai ¢ influence in > Patent Office, and will be worth a great deal 10 you if this is brought about.” As he continued his conversation he drifted w0 & boint where he made & comparison between the compersation received by the gentlemen Who ure members of the United States Grand Jury, and in this connection remarked: * We gnly get $2 a session, $4 a week, and you fel 1ows are fighting here for patents that are worth millions to whoever wins the suit, and are asking us to go into an in vestiration at the Tate of %4 a week and decide a_question that Would have great influence in ?m:c. Now, look here, Freemar air. The lawyers are getting big of this thing,” end 1 know that t! house Electric Company has got a v money available ¢ purposc of fi you here, so why don’t you resort to the same means? You know that you could fight the devil out of hell if proper influence was brought to bear.” Continuing in this strain_for some time, he continued and said: “I'll tell you my opinion is that it is not a fair division of the spoils.” I then inquired whether or not it was tice in California of fixing juries. He Was not an uncommon thing t had never accepted or had anything to do with ANy such affairs, because he was a wealthy man and was above such influences. At about this time Mr. Church returned to the billiard- room, and Summerhayes’ conversation drifted 1o & recital of personal experiencesand then st drifted back again to his_inumate acquaint- | ance with certain reputable gentiemen of San co,und he spoke of them in & manner that gave me the iden that his social stand- ing was of the best; that his integrity and in- fluence as foreman of grand juries hed never been questioned, and that thé jur £ he had been & member in ti decided cases 8s he suggested, and in this con- nection he said: “I have been n juror for three vears, with the exception of one week, and acting s such the \'l’imumyl courts case that was ever tried resulted ina conviction."” In this affi without going into all the details. He quoted certain conversations between members and jurors in the jary-room, and in ion said that thére had been a dis- cussion betsieen himself and other members of the United States Grand Jury respecting the small compensation that they ed, which was £1 a week for puzzling their heads over the affairs of myself and the Westinzhouse Electric Company, which involved millions of dollars. There are other fragments of sentences inter- spersed in the conversation referring to what ceeurred in the jury and comments made by the jurors, which it w. intelligently’ express without going into a lengthy statement of what wes said. As the reading proceeded the frown on Judge Morrow’s face gredually deepened, | and scarcely had the District Attorney ut- tered the last word when the order to issue 4 citation against Sumimerhayes was given in a tone that boded ill to the joker. The Marshal was instructed to serve the writat once and the hearing to permit Summer- hayes to show cause why nhe should not be punished for contempt of court was set for 11 a. M. to-da; The papers were served last evening on Mr. Summerhayes by Deputy Marshal Monckton, Referring to the insinuationsalleged to have been made by Summerhayes other members of the Grand Jury As ant District Attorney hlesinger yester- day said that his judgment no better : sat than the present Gr: % aspersion cast uvon them “would be un , unfair surd, os they have evinced the greatest desire to get at the facts of this remarkable and complicarted affair.” . With yesterday morning’s hearing the cross-examination of Wallace E. Freeman beiore Commissioner Heacock in the Free- he assumed to treat the matter as some- | thing aifecting his pe terests alone, and to be tanly withdrawing from a further hearing | of the pending criminal cuarges against H. | S. Mackaye, Warren P. and Wallace G. | Freeman, would close the “‘funny”. in- | cident. A night’s restless slumber disturbed by unpleasant reflections of the “josh” he had | perpetrat Attorney Church evidently caused Juror Summerbayes to see his| action in a new licht, for e proceeded to | the office of the United States District | Attorney early vesterday morning and | asked that whole matter be at once in- vestigat He found District Attorney | Y accomnodating mood. K. Freeman, who was attending cross-examination of Wallace E. Free- 1 the chambers of Commissioner Hea- immoned and instructed to im-} prepare an affidavit embodying | against Summerhayes and file same in the otnce of the District At- nality and in- | d document was prepared under ction of Attorney John L. Boone, not ready to file until 5 o’clock. | So greatly, however, were Judge Morrow, District Attorney Foote and Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Schlesinger interested in i~ Summerhayes *‘joke’’ that they waited 2 beyond their usual time in order to zive every facility possible to the “funny” | man of the Federal Grand Jury to explain the humorous features of his interview with Walter K. Freeman and Attorney J. B. Church in the billiard-room of the Pal- ace Hotel As soon as the statement was duly sworn to by Mr. Freeman, word was sent to Judge Morrow in his chambers, and he took his seat on the bench. District At- torney Foote then appeared and announced that "he desired to read an affidavit which he considered showed contempt of court and a violation of duty on the part of one oi the members of the Federal Grand Jury. He then read the document. Alfter reciting the manner in which the Freeman-Westinghouse patent interfer- ence case came to be on hearing in this City, the affidavit reviews the cum- stances that led to the placing of the matter before the Grand Jury. Itthen relates the conduct and proceedings of Summerhayes as follows: On the evenin of tne 5th day of November, a8 we wete leaving the grill-room of the Palace . Holel, through the billinrd-room, where we were stopping, while I was in company with Mr. Church, the latter was accosted by 8 gentle- man whom I had seen in the Grand Jury room, and whom 1 supposed t0_be one of the mem- bers of the United States Grand Jury. I heard him request Mr. Church to introduce him to his client, Waiter K. Freeman, referring to myseli. He mentioned his name, which I did not fully gather, and thereupon we went to the opposite side of the billiard-room and sat down, and he explained then that he was the only ‘man on the jury that knew anything about elecrrical matters and he would like to get some points. % 3 is point an Interview began which ck until_midnight, which time he disoussed very freely his id as durin e he d . experiences as a jnror in criminal case: & grand juror in the county and F courts. He, of his own volition, introduced the subject of the matters which I Lad brought 1o the notice of the United States District At- and which were being cousidered by the United tes Grand Jury, and he stated among other things that he had listened to the testi- mony given in the Grand Jury room by War- | ren P. Freéman and discussed his testimony, and remarked that he would not believe him under oath, because he said that during the time that Warren P.Freeman was before the Grand Jury he acted and told hisstory in a suspieious way; that he seemed more inter- ested in Jooking at his boots than in giving an | intelligent story of his connection with the affairs which led up to charges being preferred against him before the Grand Jury. Continuing he referred to the_ testimony iven by Marvin T. Freeman before the Grand §ury. discussed it, and said that he did not think Marvin was telling the whole truth; that he believed he was holding something beck, and asked if Iknew what itwas. The reason he gave for not having contidence in Marvin L. Freeman’s testimony was because Marvin seemea to hesitaie, and tbink and acted as though he was endeavoring to tell a | fixed story, and in this connection he re- mmeJ'mu he thought thata man who was telling the truth would speak up promptly and would tell the same story forty-seven different times inhu many different ways and still tell the truth. During our conversation Mr. Church excused himself for & few moments, and durlnfihis ab- sence that person, whose name I later learned was H.J. Summerhayes, began questioning me very closely regardisig the financial status of the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation, which he seemed to understand was the owner of the inventions in controversy, and he proceeded to inquire whether or not I could secure man-Westinghouse patent case was con- cluded. Theonly striking bit of testimony was that Warrea P. Freeman, a brother of s n"y .\\ i’ o\ eve that volun- | the plaintiff, had admitted to witness that | ! ITUAR\ b he was being pai1 $100 a week by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company for his services against the in. terests of his brother. It was intended to continue the hearing | during the afternoon, but Attorney Mack- aye failed to appeax and Attorney Horace Platt, who is associated with him in tioe case, explained that he was contined to his room by an attack of neuralgia and by the mental fatizue occasioned by the severe strain he has been under during the past Alexander H. Freeman, who has been prostrated by the exciting incidents with which this case has been surrounded dur- ing tne past two weeks, is now so far re- covered as to be about, and will probably be cne of the witnesses before the Federa! Grand Jury to-day, when the ch perjury, subcrnation of perjury, and_criminal conspiracy against Attorney H. Mackaye, Warren P. Freeman and Waliace E. Freeman will be resumed. SERENADED A BILLYGOAT. Rahway Musicians Del red Their 854 ‘Worth of Music. The eighteen members of the Rahway | (N. J.) cornet band were all conghing and | sneezing last night and a few of them were squirming with rheumatism. But they had got even with the Union County Roadsters, and they didn’t mind their pains and aches. The band, which is the pride of the town, had contracted to play at the race- track in the afternoon ‘du sters’ competition. and their names were to be in big leiters on the posters. The races were preceded by a grand parade through the town, headed by the band, whose members were to wear their best uniforms and blow trom- bones and whang drums without any let-up. Every musician agreed in writing to do his level best for the money he got. When the hour grew near for the great musical and bicycle treat the race grounds, owing to the rain, resembled a lake. The committee decided to postpone the affair, and a sub-committee was sent to negotiate ith the band, and make the best compro- mise they could. Not much!™ exclaimed H. H. Voorhis, manager of the band. ‘‘Three years ago you hired a tramp band from Hoboken when you could have hired us. Now we purpose to get even. We're going to parade anyhow, and then play at the race grounds whether there is any one there to hear us or not, and we'll make you pay us our $54.” George A. Crane, secretary of the Road- sters, remonstrated with Mr. Voorhis. So did Roadsters C. R. Melich, J. Henry Flake and William J. Drumpleman, the committee who hired the band. Butit was no use. The blood of Mr. Voorhis was up. He harangued his imusicians, got them in line and started out on a parade of his own. The men of music marched through the principal streets in the pouring rain. Their wind instruments. were soon con- verted into water cisterns, and the drum got_soaked and went out of action; but their blood being up that didn’t matter. They marched to the clubhouse on Mamn street, in accordance with the contract, and played a serenade. From that point they trudged through the mud to the race field. They were wet through. A billygoat was grazing in the field and they began to play to him. A few members of the club who wanted to have a good laugh came up and listened to the music from a sheltered spot. There is no roof to the bandstand. The band played “Sweet Marie” and “There’s Only One Girl in the World for Me’’ to the biily- goat, who soon fled. Then the trombone man and the drum- mer began to cough, and they quit work. They were joined by two other musicians. Mr. Voorhis made all sorts of offers to them, but they said they didn’t want to die of pneumonia and started for home. After a half hour’s debate with the other members Mr. Voorhis ordered the organi- zation to headquarters. He says he will sue the Roadsters for the $54. They say that he can do so, but he won’t get it. Musicians and wheelmen were on the verge of coming to blows sev- eral times over the matter.—New York ‘World. do, but tnat he 1 uld be impossible to | ng the Road- | They were to get $54 | | NO TIME TO POSE AGAIN Miss Marion Nolan, the Venus, Too Busy Preparing for the) Stage. | | i | i ART-LOVERS ARE IN SUSPENSE. | It is Now Over a Year Since Sculptor Schmid Took the Famous Statue to Italy. % The uncertainty that surrounds the pres- ent whereabouts of the Venus of Califor- | nia has startled the art-lovers of San | | Francisco. Every one but the sculptor | fears that she has gone astray, that she may, even now, be held for ransom by some ruthless Italian brigand. Mr. Schmid, however, is hopeful of the ontcome, and, although he stands alone in his continued faith in the young lady he is as stout as ever in maintaining faith | | in her under most adverse circumstances. | He admits that he has been looking for her arrival any during the last four | months, but that apparently trivial lapse of time does not disturb him. Every one | ily behind time. He himsell was born two centuries later than he desired. It is now over a year since he (]g]lal‘tcd] | Secretary of feeling and intuition but not marked in- telligente, i “No sculptor has ever given us a type whose physical, intellectual and spiritual nature was fully rounded out and perfect, I thought there was need for this kind of woman to-day, and in America, where she en a chattel, I naturally looked ble model. That was the mo- naugurating the Venus con- And while I regret the publicity test. given the supposed loss of the statue, I may il admit it now.” 1 is himself somewhat piqued | over the affair and does not care to enter into details. He says that Venus is either | on the way to San Francisco oris still over at the Carrara quarry in Italy. “Iam expecting it daily,”’ said he. *It will arrive all right.”’ UNCLE SAM INVOKED. Secretary Thompson Will Call In the Federal Power, Secretary Thompson of the State Hu- mane Society is on the warpath after the promoters of the bull-fight, advertised to m% place at Cripple Creek on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The secretary has taken a new tack. He telegraphed the griculture at Washington yesterday, ing as to whether a special permit had been taken out to bring the bulis into this State. It has been found that such importa- | tion cannot be made without orders from the Department of Agriculture, Veter- inary Surgeon Greswell has been appealed nd he has promised that he will en- any law that comes within the power of his ofiice. % When Governor McIntire returns from his ranch at La Jjara this morning, he will : be shown the flaming handbills issued for | the event. “Why,” said the secretary yesterday, \l \ Wi ~ MISS MARION NOLAN, THE VENUS OF CALIFORNIA, [From the latest photograph by Thors.] | from San Francisco, taking the Venus | with him. When he left he was under contract with the syndicate to deliver an | Italian marble copy of the young lady | within six months from bis departure, | | That time was up ast May, bat across the waters from lhis [talian retreat came a | letter from the sculptor requ gan ex- | tension of timz in which to finish his labors. His request was™ readily granted | by the syndicate. Two monts later, in | July last, Mr. Schmid returned to San | Francisco. But he came alone. The mar- | ble Venus did not accompany him. The | sculptor on his arrival was besieged with | questions. Was it a success? Did the | plaster model arrive in Italy safe and un- | harmed? | Was the same symmetry and intelli- | gence expressed in the cold, unfeeling | marble as in the plastic plaster? ‘ | | | Mr. Schmidassured every one thatevery- | thing was far above his most sanguine ex- pectations. They might expect her on any train following hi Two months of anticipation and ex pectancy followed. Then some mild i quiries were begun, and as the other four | months have continued to roll slowly along, and the express company kept daily failing to bring across the continent | a long, heavy oblong box, the coterie of | art-lovers have gradually lost all hope. Every onc agrees that Venus is some- where on the earth or under the waters | that cover it. Itisnot than;hL that any one would wantonly do her violence. But | | just where she is is the disturbing question. To add to the quandary of the art-lovers, should the Venus never bs found, is the possible fact that California will indefi- nitely be deprived of Miss Marion Nolan. The young lady is soon to make her debut | on the stage with an Bastern company, and she has not the time or the inclina- tion to pose again. She leaves for the | East on Noyvember 26, and she may never | again appear before an artist as a study. | The originator of the Venustournament. which resulted in the unanimous selection of Miss Nolan, has about given up in de- spair over the continued absence of the statue. ‘*Where is the statue?”’ said she in re- sponse to that question, “Well, that is what I would like to know, too. All I know is that it has not been delivered to the syndicate yet, and what is more, we | have about given up ever expecting to see | it again. Mr. Schmid’s last extension of time that we granted him in which to pro- duce the statue, was up on the 3d of this | month. Both he and his attorney, Mr. ! Choynski, when we gave them their last ex- | tension, agreed to surely have the figure here by November 3. The time is now up and still it is not here. It was on that date in 1894, just a year | ago, that we gave the Venusto Mr. Schmd | 0 take to Italy with him. He was under contract to proceed to Carrara, near Rome, where is situated the most famous marble | works in the world, and to chisel a marble | statue from the plasterone. “When Mr. Schmid arrived here, in July last, he did not bring the statue with him. | | He said that a few finishing touches about | | her head were necessury before it would | be completed, but that it would follow him | in a few days. 3 “1f harm shall be proven to have be- fallen her it will be a distinet loss to Cali- | fornian art. My idea in starting the Venus contest was toarouse a new interest in it and to establish a new type of beauty. | We bave had a reign of technique with- | out inspiration, of manner without sub- | stance, and it seemed to me that we need- ed an outlet for the spiritual. ‘“4n giving usa Venus de Milo the Grecks embodied all that comprised their ideal of womanhood. She was neither spiritual nor intellectaal, the artis¥ simply aiming at hysical perfection. There is an entire ack of the softer. gentler qualities of woman’s nature. In the Venus di Medici we have the refined, sensuous type, with | s X M *‘when Wolfe was up here he told the Gov- ernor that it wasn’t to be much of a fight | after all, that there would be no cruelty and all that sort of thing. “Just look at this handbill, will you?” said the sccretary, as be exhibited a poster of red, green and white, the Mexican colors. “Listen to this,” and the secretary pro- ceeded to read as follows: “The bull-fight willcommence at 1 p. M. each afternoon. The bull-ficht will be given in every detail, full and from start to finish, the same as in Havana, Cuba, Madnid, Spain and the City of Mexico.” ‘ ‘While the inhabitants of the south, east and west are suffering from the thermal climate, the happy residents of the great gold mining district of Cripple Creek enjoy the sunshine and view the class of manly sport that is denied ih all other parts of the United States.’ ” Other sentences are of an equally reas- suring nature to those who are fizuring on a redhot, old-fashioned bull-fight, as de- scribed in Spanish annals. The secretary didn’t wait to personally ay the poster-before the Governor. His | Excellency was promptly telegraphed the substance of the secretary’s discovery. ‘Word was received from the secretary of he Jocal humane society at Cripple Creek that Sheriff Bowers had been seen. That official had declared that he hoped the tight would be stopped by legal injunction. He was going to have ‘‘one salaried deputy” on the spot, and would try to stop pro- ceedings 1f any cruelty was practiced. *Nice thing,” remarked Secretary Thomp- son. “One ‘salaried deputy’ will do lots of 200d stopping a fight.” it is considered by the officers of the humane society that Sheriff Bowers is not losing any great amount of sleep devising ways and means to stop the fight. The resuit of the interview between the secretary and the Governor, who has been given to understand that the affairisto be very tame, is awaited with interest. Secretary Thompson will be on hand as soon as the Governor reaches his office this morning. Attorney-General Carr found an act of which he construes as giving the Gov- ernor power to prevent the exhibition through aid of the State National Guard. The act reads: “They (the National Guard) may be ordered into active service by tbe Governor toaid the civil authorities to prevent or suppress riot,” etc. There is nothing said in the clause about a request from the Sheriff of the county. The At- torney-General thinks it would be a good thing for the Adjutant-General to send two or three companies of the Na- tional Guard to camp at Cripple Creek, and if there is an attempted infraction of the law the arm of the State could promptly stop the violation.—Denver News, —————— A Novel Salutation. Monsignor Capel visited the ‘When | United States some years ago a Washing- ton woman who was entertaining him at dinner asked her distinguished guest what had impressed him most in this | country, *‘The extraordinary precocity of your children, madam,” wasthe reply, and upon being asked the reason Monsignor told the following experience : “When in Baltimore a few days since I went with the Archbishop to call upon Mrs. W. During our visit her beautiful little | boy of 4 years ran into the drawing-room, and after presenting him to me Mrs. W. aid : ‘** Carroll, go and_say good morning to the Archbishop.’ Fancy my amazement when the child turned, and with an in- describable air of bonhomie said with.a friendly nod: ‘How are you, Arch?’ Truly American children are remarkable.”— Washington Times. =) e Lady Randolph Churchill, according to gossip, is tattooed with a snakearound one arm. The operation took place during her visit to India. A SALVATION HOME, Offiicers Say There Never Was So Much Poverty as Now. WOMEN SUFFER MOST. Most of the Needy Applicants Are Too Self-Respecting to Beg. THE TREASURY IS VERY LOW, In Spite of Lack of Funds an Appeal | Will Be Made for an Emergency Home. In view of the great destitution among the most helpless members of the poor, namely the women and childrer, the Sal- vation Army intends to put forth every effort to open a home for women on the lines of the Lifeboat, where men can ob. tain food and shelter for an almost nomi- | nal sum. Destitute women would be taken | in free of charge, or the charitable-minded could supply them with tickets as the so- | journers of the Lifeboat are supplied. It is intended to have a creche attachment to the woman’s home, in order that the mothers may have their little ones in care- ful keeping while they go out and look for work. Theplace is intended more as an | emergency refuge than as a permanent } home, because past experience has taught | couple of young children and are without the army that in the care of destitute | women it is temporary rather than per- | manent help that is needed. | The idea of the home only exists in the | brains of the Salvation officers at present, | but thatis not a bad plan for intangible | things to materialize. Money they have | none, but they are rich in determination | and energy, and they declare that the daily contact with the existing poverty is stimulating all their activity. "Within the next few weeks the army will have | formulated its plan of appeal to the San Francisco public for helpin alleviating the poverty of so many of the city’s women and children. It was stated yesterday at Salvation Army headquarters that rarely ever had | there begn so much destitution’ as at pres- | ent among the poor, who are too self-re- | specting to beg. | The women and children are feeling the | pinch of poverty most, and the army is at | 1ts wits’ end to find means to relieve them. | The charity fund is in debt, the supply of | winter clothing for distribution has almost | given out and the gaunt, thinly clad | women and children, pale from privation, | who apply for help are daily increasing in numbers. “We are deluged with applications,” | said Captain McFee yesterday. “Some of | them are from old ladies, who come fonaly ! hoping to find work. They mignt be able | to earn enough to pay for their board and | lodging, but they are shabby, poverty- | strickén, and no one wants such forlorn | creatures. Most of them are friendless and without means, but if we had a tem- porary shelter like our men’s home we | might take them in, feed them into better | condition and clothe them decently while | we found out what they were worth. As | things are now, 1t is not in our power to I do more than give a little temporary relief to these old ladies. e “The people who deluge us most with | applications are not the beggars. They belong to the class that would be ashamed | 0 go to charitable institutions. They | come here quietly and tell us of their des- titution, as” they would tell it to friends, and we help them as best we can. Some- times we are able to give them clothes and they clean the things and make them over till" they look quite respectable. Most of these people would do anything to hide their poverty. This morning a little girl called in here on herway to school. ‘Look how nice my mamma has made the frack,’ she said. It was an old thing we had given her, but the mother had made itover till the child looked really well in it. “Such little instances as that show us it is the deserving poor and not the wolves and vultures who are deluging us with appiications this winter. One has to be right in the work to realize the extent of this destitution, though.” On the captain’s desk there was a slip | of paper containing a long list of names, attached to which were explanatory notes, “Yes, it is one day's fresh applications,” he said. *‘They began before hali-past 7 this morning.” Here is a destitute man recently disclmrged from the City and County Hospitai who wants work. We | sent him with a leiter to the Labor Com- | missioner. Next comesa woman with a letter from the Mayor’s office. Her hus- band isan engineer who has been out of steady work for two years; they have a means. The next visitor isan old lady from the hospital who is without shoes— that is to say there are uppers but no soles, so her feet are on the ground.” ‘‘Captain,'may I come in?" asks a bright | young ensign, with a bundle of War Cries | under her arm. “It’sa case I want to re- ort,” the girl says eagerly, when she has een ziven permission to enter. “We have investigated it. A woman on Natoma street, clean, but oh, so poor! She is old and helpless. May I give hera pair of shoes 2" The ensign was given the key the wardrobe-room, the contents of which are rapidly diminishing, owing to the numer- | $ ous calls upon it. The captain, taking up the list again, read irom it the pitiful roll- call of destitution for one day; and the saddest part of it was that the majority of names on the list were those of women, too | old to be of any use as workers or else women hampered by helpless, dependent children, A man can get along on 15 cents a day, and he is a poor man if he cannot scratch up that,” said the captain. “But it is the women and the children we want to do something for. The way in whi are bpeginning to desert thelr wi and children is something appalling. They don’t seem able tostand poverty as brave as the women can, and when there is actual destitution they sneak out quietly, leaving the wives and children to struggle on or starve. “‘What we want isa home where these | destitute women and children can be taken {in and cared ‘or till the deserted woman | ean get on her feet again. When she ha | no good clothes, no rmaoney and nowhere | to turn it is a practical impossibility for | her to get work with her helpless children dragging at her skirts, but if she could go into a temporary home for a week or two and have her children cared for the poor creature might get a fresh start for life.” Origin of Billiards. | In a letter dated 1750, which has been presented to the Bibliotheque Nationale, in Pars, a highly ingenious account is given of the origin of billiards. The writer declares that billiards were invented in | England about the middie of the sixteenth century by a pawnbroker named Bill Kew. This man, it is alleged, used in his leisure moments to play on his counter with the three brass balls which he hung up as a sign. Foracue he had a yard measure, whence the term Bill-yard, or Bill's yard, corrupted into billiards. This etymology will hardly satisfy Mr. Skeat, but it is at least curious as showing to what length the speculative etymologists are apt to go. The most astonishing thing about it, how- ever, is the fact that it isthe work of a | Frenchman, who might have seen at a glance that billiards is merely a corrup- | composition of & word intended | ing very pretty and ‘ion of his own word “billiard,” from ‘bille,” a ball, the termination *‘ard” being perfectly regular and natural in the to desig- nate the table upon which the balls are used.—London Telegraph A TRUE TALE. About Three Boys Who Were Fond of Icecream. From the Chicago Record. Three small boys who live on the North Side have a father who was once a small boy himself—at least that is what he says, and he ought to know. The three small boys are abnormally fond of icecream, a trait which they pos- sess in common with others of their kind. A few evenings ago the family bad ice- cream for dinner, and the boys petitioned before the meal began for two dishes each. I know how much you like icecream,” id their father, benevolently. “I was once a small boy myself.” The three boys had sometimes been skeptical on this point, but they didn’t say anything. “When I was young,” continued the father, “my mother used to tell me that I could have a dish of icecream for every three slices of bread Iate. Now I'll teil you what I'll do. The boy that will eat the most bread can help himself to the ice- cream and eat all he wants.’ It was an unusual opportunity, and the three boys were filled with joy. In a few minutes after dinner began the bread plate was cleared and the boys, watching one another out of the corners | of their eyes, swaliowed slice after slice. ‘When the meal closed the eldest boy, hav- «ing the greatest capacity, was declared the winner and his face beamed with triumph. | The idea of having all the icecream he wanted for once in his life was a sensation bordering on the inefiable. ‘Ihe icecream was served in three brim- heir chairs, and finally laid down their sheepishly. They were so full of t they couldn’t eat even one dish- ful apiece. ———— Fair Play Toward Microbes. A fact is a dangerously heavy load for him who knows not how to carry it. Man: truths of science and philosophy are val- uabie seed thoughts to one, while they are mountains of obstruction to many. It is only reserved to the few to fit a truth in its proper place and so find life in it. How many thousands of persons have been made miserable by a little one-sided knowledge of the ‘“germ theory” of dis- ease? Itis a fair question whether the microbes. have not worried more persons to 8eath through a limited knowledge of them than they have killed through a want of knowledge how to kill them. And now it is said that the microbe of old age has stepped under the microscope of recog- nition. Old persons will begin to quake lest this pestiferous little germ has found them out. > ““My husband has recovered from his attack,” said adistressed wife to a physi- cian; ‘“‘but isn’t there a danger of the dis- ease returning some time and carrying bim off?’ “‘Perhaps so,” replied the doctor; *but, if I were you, I should rather have him { live longer, and die of that, than die sooner of something else.” “What,” said another worried woman, ‘‘are we to do, doctor, about the microbes in the communion cup?”’ “Oh,” replied the wise physician, “if it had not been for microbes we should all have been dead long ago.” We Lad better be willing to live longer, and die of the bacillus of old age or of the bacteria of the.communion cup, than to tie sooner of worry over the microbes that uight kill. 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