The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1895, Page 16

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1895. 16 : -— A VERACIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE MAN WITH A FLYING STOMACK, At the noon hour Market street is crowded with pedestrians. It is at this time that policemen and shopkeepers are alert, for thieves and pickpockets may easily lose themselves in the throng. Thus it happened that when a mild-man- nered stranger entered the Roval Jewelry Emporium a few minutes after 12 o’clock the polite salesman on duty at the front end of the establishment eyed him nar- and was all the more watchfal when anger asked to be shown some un- mounted diamonds. The clerk was on the point of summoning an assistant from the rear of the store when the stranger pro- duced & handsome unmounted diamond and explained that he wished to ascertain its value, adding that he might not be averse to buying a mate for it if one could be found. Surely a man with so valuable a stone in his possession could not be a snatch thief! This impression was strengthened by the calm and polished li-possession of the stranger. Not once did he look uneasily about, not once ex- hibit the slightest nervousness or haste. For all that, and for all the clerk’s watch- fulness, he discovered as soon as the stran- ger had secured the desired informa- tion, and had decided not to make a pur- chase, that a fine gem of a value running into the thousands had been taken from the tray and a paste stone left in its stead; but by this time the stranger had mingled with the crowd on the street. A chase and an uproar ensued. The street was instantly thrown into a violent ebullition. Presently, from the center of a compact crowd of men emerged the bare-headed clerk, a po- liceman and a prisoner. These three, fol- lowed by a train of boys, proceeded to the police station. The demeanor of the stranger was singu- larly composed. At first he had been i dignant, and had rebelled under an ap- parent sense of outrage, but seeing that this served only to make his position more ancomfortable he had yielded with all pos- sible grace. He even assisted in the minute search of his person at the prison, and when he saw the disappointment and chagrin which followea a failure totind | the stolen gem he even tried to ease.the situation for those who had treated him with so great indignity. He denied that he had ever been in the Royal Jewelry Emporium, and gave a str account of himself. He said that he wasa | gentleman of means, which, though small, were sufficient for his needs; that he lived | at San Mateo, and being a devoted student | of botany gave his time to an investiga- | tion of the flora of that region. | While the police were hesitating between | the dread of doing a possible wrong to an innocent man and a doubt raised by the | clerk's positive identification, a bright, sharp young man pushed his way into the | office and whisvered to the captain in charge. This functionary nodded, as though the whispered suggestion con- veyed no new ides, and after a moment's thought turned to the stranger and sald: “You have the appearance of an inno- cent man. Still, this young man who so positively identifies you is known to me to be honest and intelligent. As you area stranger, this identification makes the case very embarrassing for me. There are numerous ways in which a thief may dis- | pose of an unset diamond. One is to pass it to a confederate, another is to throw it away and another is''—here the officer | tixed a steady gaze on the stranger, paused a long time, and then added—*to swal- low 1t.”” The man started, paled and held his breath. “If you are innocent,” pursued the offi- | cer, whose sharp sight nothing had es caped, “you will be the first to aid us in you will volunteer to remain | espionage for twenty-four The stranger was dumb. While strug- gling for speech the cross-purposes within him kept his tongue in bond. The cap- the singular contrast be- | tween this bewildered demeanor and the man’s recent ccol assurance, promptly ordered him into special custody, and | again bent his ear to the whisperings of | the intrusive young man who had pushed | his way into the office. Evidently the | young man was not a stranger thereabout. | In short, he was a recently graduated | young physician, and, fired by a desire to | emulate the achievements of Lombraso, | had made himself something of a nuisance | to the police through his acute interest in | the study of criminals. As he could be of | some use in this case he was permitted to serve as a special assistant to the officer charged with an unceasing watch upon the prisoner. The yourig physician’s name | was Hooper. The prisoner gave Monroe 1is name. At the end of two days Monroe was dis- charged with apologies from the police, for the missing diamond had not been found. A few days afterward the station agent at San Mateo was astonished to see a man leap from the fast south-bound express, which passed daily through the town without stopping. It wasa perilous feat, but the man accomplished it neatly and did not fall. The agent recognized him as | a recluse named Monroe, who lived alone in a cabin in the outskirts of town and spent his days hunting wild flowers. He had lived there only a few weeks, was shy and reserved and had no acquaintances. The agent’s astonishment at seeing the man swing unhurt from the flying train had hardly subsided, and he had found time only to warn Monroe of the risk which he bad run and advised him to take thereafter one of the numerous trains which stopped at the town, when he was startled by a strange and unexpected thing. Seeing that Monroe was paying no attention to his warning and advice, but was gazing after the train with a curious look of pain and anxiety, he ventured to ask: “You are not fecling well, are you?"’ “How can I,”” responded the stranger, “when my stomach is gone?"” “Your what?” asked the agent, aghast. “My stomach. You see,”” pursued the man, turning to the agent with a con- fidential sir, “my stomach had acquired the momentum of the train, so that when 1 jumped off it kept going.” “Your stomach?” Yy, The agent stood speechless. A moment later Monroe started, clutched his body and exclaimed: “I've got it! It has come back!” Then he burst into laughter. “How foolish to have been alarmed!” he exclaimed. His face was turned full toward the agent, who discovered that, while one side of Monroe's face was illumined with glee- ful laughter, the other side was pro- doundly solemn. To the agent this looked grotesque and. horrible. Had he been better informed his sensations likely would have been of a very different order. That afternoon he saw Monroe, appa- rently in a normal state, board a north- bound train for San Francisco. The next morning he repeated exactly the perform- ance of the day before—swung safely from the flying train, repeated the assurance that his stomach had gone on, and laughed with one side of his face and looked sol- emn with the other when his flying stom- ach had come back. The station agent reported the matter to the town marshal. That officer called upon the hermit and found him ili and in great pain. “It is my stomach,” explained the suf- ferer. “For two days I have been jump- ing off the fast train at this station, and on both occasions my stomach kept on. In that way it seems to have acquired the habit of leaving my body at will. At this moment it is absent, and accordingly I have an appalling sensation of emptiness within me. There! Oh! I have it again. Did you see it come in? But when it does come back it is so much bigger than before that it seems likzly to burst me.” His face for a moment was distracted with pain, and in the next instant he was laughing immoderately. The marshal then saw what the station agent had seen —the man could laugh with only one side of his face. To the marshal’s untrained discernment the case appearad to be one either ‘of in- sanity or the delirinm of fever. “You ought to have a doctor,” he sug- gested. “What for?”’ “To fix your stomach in tight, so that it can't get away.” “That’s so; that’s so. Now I know a doctor. Fis name is Hooper, and heisa very bright, sharp young man. If you telegraph for him in care of the Chief of Police of San Francisco the message will reach him and he will come. Will you?”’ The marshal cheerfully agreed, and Dr. Hooper arrived at the sufferer’s bedside that night. After a reasonable length of time the stranger died and Dr. Hooper’s certificate assigned peritonitis as the cause of death. He took so much interest in the case that he held an autopsy, but did not invite any other physician to assist him. In an article on appendicitis written by him and published some time afterward in & medical paper these passages occurred: “The opening into the appendix veri- formis varies in size in different indi- viduals. In some cases an object fully a half-inch in diameter may enter the ap- vendix and set up the fatal inflammation. It is even possible to imagine that the favorite plan among thieves of swallowing precious stones which they have stolen may result 1 appendicitis by the acci- dental entry of the stone into the ap- pendix. Asappendicitis is apt to develop quickly into peritoni it would be easy to ascribe death to the latter cause. “Peculiar and unexpected symptoms may accompany peritonitis. It may hap- pen, for instance, that delusions and even delirium may ensue from the febrile dis- turbance accompanying the ailment, and that as thealimentary canal suffers directiy the delusion will be turned in that direc- tion. Thus, a man in the incipiency of febrile derangement may imagine that his | stomach has flown away and that when it returns it is distressingly large. “‘Again, local paralysis of various kinds may supervene, . A peculiar case was that .of a man who, while suffering from ap- pendicitis which had not yet reached its most acute stage, but who nevertheless had hallucinations, was paralyzed in one side of his face, so that this side remained | perfectly composed whilé the other was normaily distorted with merriment. “To remove and examine the foreign object which has produced appendicitis is a matter of more interest than impor- tance.” The article contained many other things equatly instructive, but they need not he reproduced here. It may be said, how- ever, that Dr. Hooper suddenly quit his practice of going among the police and that he turned his attention to fashionable society. At very privateand select gather- ing he wears a wonderful diamond in his shirt front—a gem whose yalue runs into the thousands. On these occasions the splendid stone is regarded as evidence of the brisk young physician’s prosperity in his profession “GIVE THANKS? AND FOR WHAT?” It was the night of Thanksgiving day. | A man sat alone in a dingy, scantily for- nished room. With grudging hands he | placed a few small pieces of coal upon a | smoldering ,fire; then cowered over the grate, holding both hands above the fee- ble flame, as if anxious to prevent any heat from escaping up the chimney. I said that the man sat alone in the room, but suddenly he was not alone. A tall fair woman stood beside him and laid her hand upon his arm. He turned his sullen gaze from the fire and said curtly: “Well, what is it you want?” “This is Thanksgiving day,” said the fair woman. “I have been waiting to re- ceive your thanks.” “Thanks? I have much to be thankful for. Who are you that you expect to be thanked ?” “I am Life,” said the woman, mildly. “You are Life, are you?'’cried the man. “You are Life, and expect thanks from me. Pray, what have you ever given me but hunger and weariness, sickness and sor- row? Are they things to be thankful for 2" “Have I brought you ne good thing at all?” asked Life, sadly. “Not one, I swear. A dreary and love- less childhood; an eager, ~unsatisied youth; a sordid and hopeless manhood. Bhall I thank you for these?” “But you have genius,” said Life. “The genius and aspirations of the artist. .Have 1?” queried the man, bitterly. “Well, perhaps I have. I used to think so. But you, Life, are killing them out of me by inches. You have made ‘me a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. My genius must be allowed to die while I do ".ghe bidding of men who have none. ‘Why, I shall be more 2t my ease when my aspirations are altogether dead, for they trouble me now; they are a burden, and yet I may not bury them."” Then ~Life spoke very softly. “At least,” she said, *‘at least I have given you a great love.” The man turned on her fiercely. “Love? Do you count that a blessing? I tell you itisa curse. Yes, even though the woman I love has given her love to me. For what can the end be? Shall I ask her to share my poverty? Shall I bring her beauty into this dingy room, and watch it fade and wither for want of joy, as a flower fades and withers for lack of sunshine? I tell you, such hopeless loye as mine 18 not a biessing, buta curse.” This burst of anger over the man’s head drl‘:x’}ped' Again he glowered at the fire. €'s voice was very sad as she said: “Since I have brought you only such mis- ery, I will leave you. Ihad not meant to deal unkindly with you. Now I will send my brother, Death. " It may be that he will bring you happiness.” The man turned_to take a last look at the fair woman, Life, but lo! she was already gone, and in her place stood a masculine figure, stern of visage. And the figure said, I am Death.” “Thou art very welcome, Death,” said the man, and held out his hand. And Death laid an icy hand in the hand of the man, and the two looked in each others’ eyes. Theman shivered; he felt afraid. “Perhaps, perhaps Life, after all,” he said, and dried to withdraw his hand. But Death held him firmly and laid an- other hand upon the forebead of the man, so that the iciness of it seemed to freeze his brain, and he lay back in his chair, Lifeless, Then it was with the man as once when he was ill of a fever. He seemed to him- self to have come out of his body; and he was very small. He grew smaller and smaller, until he felt himself a tiny speck; and the room was a vast space, the mere immensity of which weighed upon him and terrified him. He knew that his body sat there in the chair, but he crouched in a cornerof the room. And oh, he was smaller than the smallest atom of 'dust beside him, yet he was alive; his soul was throbbing with life. So many emotions he had; strange, new emotions, and old omes that he bad felt years ago and forgotten. Now they returned to him and tortured him because he could 1ot give them utterance or expression. This, then, was death. He had looked forward to it as a great change that must be for the better; and after all, it was only dumb life. How he longed for a tongue, that he might speak; for a hand to move; foreven an eye, that he might somehow express the slightest part of what he felt. The great world around him thrilled with life; his soul thrilled with the same life; and no means of expression. L ‘There was his body 1n the chair, lifeless, inert. If he could but r(-%am possession of it! He had despised that body; had affronted gracious Life herself. * And now he had found Hell. Not in some subter- ranean depth, filled with flame and phys- ical torment; but there, in the coruer of the room, where he must lie, perhaps for- ever, incapable of motion, incapable even of thought; only conscious of intense feeling. * * * > * s s A sudden rush of confusion, as if earth and heaven and hell had been swept from their foundations and mingled in chaos. Once more the man sat in front of the fireplace, holding his hands above a little heap of burned-out cinders. He looked around him. He rose and stretched his limbs. He opened his lips; for a moment no sound came. Then his voice rang out, clear and strong: ‘I thank thee, O Life, that thou hast not altogether departed from me. And though thou shouldst forever withhold from me all good gifts except this wonder- ful human body, yet will I bless thee.” GERALDINE MEYRICK. Santa Cruz, Cal ON A SCALPED TICKET, Test Case Made by the South- ern Pacific Railrcad Company. Ards; by J.CREEVER GOUDWIMY and sweet-ly strange The ro - sy drea strange-ly sweet bliss dwells in a kiss a = lone! Per-fect bliss, . <ent from ¢ - & my foolish (an-cy range my heart with strange desires. A comoam wocecxc i comngw sodyred | i b — ERE==s=—> ing awith de - Lights kin to pain, Thrills all my be PERE = Richard H. Collier, Insurance Solicitor, Arrested for Falsely Personating Another. The Southern Pacific Company has ap- parently decided to criminally prosecute all passengers found traveling on tickets purchased from scalpers. The first case of the kind was called in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday morning, but was con- tinued till Wednesday next. The defendant is Richard H. Collier, a | solidltor for the New York Life Insurance Company in this City. He was arrested on Friday and was released on giving $250 cash bail. The charge against him is falsely personating another. The complaining witness is H. C. Hub- tard, a conductor of the Southern Pacific, whose particular business it is to capture “scalpea” tickets used on the company’s lines. He alleges in his complaint, which is an elaborate document containing photographic portions of the ticket used by oiii iier, tnat on July 9 last Collier pre- sented a tounist passenger ticket 1ssued by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad to Wilttam H. McPhee, to George W. Li man, a ticket agent of the Southern Pacitic, and represented himself as McPhee, sign- ing McPhee’s name to the ticket. The articular journey Collier- was to take was rom San Francisco to Reno, Nev. Collier rode with the ticket as far as Port Costa, when Hubbard seized it, as the signature did not agree with the one previously signed on tke ticket. Coliier thereupon purchased a full-fare ticket to Reno and proceeded on his journey. When Hubbard forwarded the ticket and his report of the facts to headquarters the railroad officials decided to prosecute Col- lier, and the case was turned over to the law department. When everything was ready a warrant was sworn out for Col- lier’s arrest, but he could not be found. It was learnqd that he had gone East, and the company decided to keep the matter quiet till his return. Hubbard ascertamed on Friday that he had returned, and he was arrested at the insurance company’s office. As this is a test case the railroad com- pany is determined, if necessary, to take it to the highest court, and the result will be watched with interest by all the local rail- road men and traveling public. MRS. WIELAND'S WILL. She Wants Her Body to Be Cremated. Her Estate Goes to Her Two Sons. The will of Mrs. Lucile H. Wieland, who died a few days ago, was filed for probate yesterday. It is written in Ber own hand- writing and was executed June12. Itisas follows: In the name of God, amen. I, Lucile Helen Wieland, being of sound mind and memory and over 21 years of age, do make, publish ana declare this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all other wills by me made, First—I desire after my death to have my body cremated. Secondly—I give and bequeath my love and affection to my husband, he being already pos- sessed of sufficient means. Ileave nothing but Iy Third—I give and bequeath all of my real and rsonal property, wherever situated, lying or i:ing, o ms sons, John Robert Wieland and Hfi;mnu Edward Wieland, share and share alike, Lastly:- lpIolm my husband, Robert Paul Wieland, and Alexander Heynemann executors of this, my last will, without bonds. The estate is valued at $10,000. Daniel Foley’s Property. The case of Mrs. Mary Foley against Daniel T. Foley for alimony came up yesterday in De- partment 4 of the Superior Court. Mrs. Foley is looking for some of Foley’s property. Secre- tary Adams of the Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany was present to tell of tne box which Foléy had rented from that company. The box was ordered to be opened, but as Mr. Adams was reluctant to doso he was allowed until to-morrow morning to consult with his attorneys. Representatives from the German Savings Bank were also present to testify that Foleg had an account of $20,000 at the bank, but he closed it out since the beginning of the litigation between his wife and him, St T s e The Portia Law Club. The fifth public seance of the Portia Law Club of California will be held in Beethoven Hall of the Hotel Savoy on the evening of next Weanesday. On that occasion the club will be addressed by Carroll Cook, who will l,Delk on ‘““American Citizens, Male and Female." ‘hat long has hidden lain, The future paints fn colors bright T T in the Kkiss ... eree Of the one —— = = = = ¢ i . > .8 AN = |4 o AR e grief fow trangely eveot.: ==ty per - ished! ... onin-tng, . __ How strangely sweet. ARE YOU A QUIET MAN? ) If So, Read the Philosopher’s Utter- ances Below. “A quiet man, eh?”’ mused the west side philosopher, to whom 1 was describing a business man he had asked about. “Do you mean by that a man of taciturn temperament, one mentally timid or an intetlectually lazy man? There are three kinds of quiet men. Which is he?”” 'Well.” said the New York Herald man, ‘‘he is bold in all his business schemes and is so prolific and active in them that I should hardly call him lazy, intellectually or otherwise.” “Then he must be constitutionally quiet,” said the philosopher; ‘‘but tell me, have you never made a study of these ‘quiet’ men? Few persons do, being con- tent to sum up the wnole brood under the adjective ‘quiet.” But they are an inter- esting study, 1 assure you, and few of them deserve the adjective with the under- current 1dea of shrewdness which it generally carries with it. , “Some men naturally and by constitu- tion talk little, and, if they be not stupid intellectually, are apt to be men of con- siderable force and accomplishment. Many of our deepest thinkers, our ablest inven- tors, our most daring and successful opera- tors in business and professional lines do little talking. They are the kind who ‘say nothing but saw wood,’ as the phrase goes, or, as another Phrue puts it, ‘say nothing but think a lot.” ¥ “The vast majority of so-called ‘quiet’ men, however, are of quite adifferent type, though often they acquire reputations by reason of their silence which they do not at all deserye. “There i3 one class of these who are quiet because they are timid of their own ideas — non-assertive self-conscious men, intellectual cowards. You will find such a one under the guise of many a man who is regarded by his friends as—and maybe would be if he bad backbone—very much of a man ‘in his quiet way,’ as they put it. *“Women are naturally ‘vivacious, and it follows that inost ‘quiet’ women are of this type; that is, they areinteliectual cowards. “The vast majority of quiet men, how- ever, are so because they are intellectually lazy. It is.really too much trouble for them to struggle with the expression of the ideas that crowd their brains, and e: c?t upon occasions which call forth extra effort they are content to get along with the expression of only such ideas as can be readily put into limited phraseology, with the use of limited everyday vm{nlu-ieg. “T have friends with mental capabilities above the average, men who think much and well and whose judgment when asked for is almost profound upon a wide variety of subjects, who nevertheless of themselves never speak except of everyday and alto- gether commonplace matters. 1tisahabit that begins with boybood and is apt to in- crease with 1yem-s. and for that reason parents should endeavor to provoke their children to talk rather than to silence them in their elders’ presence, as our grand- &are_nfis used to think necessary to good mily discipline. ‘It does not follow that 8 man lazy in- tellectually is also physically lazy. It is often quite the contrary, as in the cases of persons devoted to atbleticand such ¢ports as bicyele-riding, hunting, horsemanship and the like, many of whom are very lame talkers. It is a theory of,mine that a well- made, well-rounded man, who has ac- | quired a habit of intellectual laziness, often runs into physical excesses as a vent to his innate activit, ————— By chance it has been discovered that even the most aelicate tracery of the petals of flowers can be reproduced in metal. During the trial of a new fuse the other day a small leaf fell between a dynamite cartridee and an iron block on which the cartridge was fired. . As a re- sult a perfect imprint of the leaf was left on the iron. LT A man of Bath is the discoverer of a pro- cess whereby clinkers, engine ashes and other waste material can be converted into aste and then formed, without burning, an bricks for building purposes. Tremendous Reductions. Crockery and Chinaware, . 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