The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1911, Page 10

| @ i ! f } | i i PRI Nw i tee one ms wwJDITIES IN THE NEWS Strange and Curious Happenings in the Chronicles of To-Day. Hypnotizes a Hen to Make Her Lay Eggs. Ante eumgertion te making hens lay for O. 1, Oliver at Bremerton, Wash. Two hours each day, one In the forenoon and one in the afternoon. Mr. Oliver ehuts himself in @ dark room on his ranch. ‘Then he concentrates his thought on his hens, mentally willing that they be imbued with the desire to lay. ‘The earne oa of euggestion is marked by pictures of nests full of eggs, hung aboug the hen coop. Piles of china eggs are in the corners and the ceilings of the coops are shaped like half an egg-shet!. In the hen yard there te « phonograph that every fifteen minutes through the day gives an exact tmitation of a hen cackling, and recalls ¢o the hens their falty duty. ‘Three hymne are reproduced by the phonograph at nightfatl as @ soothing fm@eence on the minds of the chickens, and at 10 o'clock at night they ere arewed from their elumbers while an exe euspended from the ceiling is wwang about ina epot light. Mr, Otver says his innovations save doubled his Se output. Up-to-Date “Blind Tiger” in an Auto. Keeping pace with the times, the “@lind tiger’ on wheels has appeared in Ner@h Carolina. ‘There have been bdootleggers, who carty their stock of bottled goods in thelr boots; men who handle “booze” in sult cases; thoro who masquerade as druggists; eome who sold tt in ogee, and many who dtsposed of stronger in- toxtoants as ‘cider.’ But John Ludwig, lately an alderman of Baliabury, {9 alleged to have started trely new when he took wheeled drink em- ) near Mooresville. it whirled y the two men in tie macu baking himself after a ducking. ‘The chauffeur put on |, Dut was captured, On the way seventy-two hotties of Mavor were thrown out. Ludwig denied it wae his wniskey. ‘The iquor had been packed neatly in a box In the rear of the machine, and arranged according to price. There has been a drought in a wide section of country since the capture. Table d’Hote Eating Contest. wan mhedding pint Thomas F. Curley Ernest Torrey of MonteMo have been matched at catchweights for the New England championship eating contest, to be held in @ few days at Brockton. Torrey claims the championship title on the strength of having eaten eight “dolled dinners” in @ucceaston. Curley ate at one sitting sixty botled ges, and another time consumed thir- teen lobsters twelve dosen raw ‘ovat t a meal. ‘The prise ts to be @ yeare meal ticket, che loser to pay for the food consumed in the Marathon, ‘The cules make the contest one of eating table d'hote dinners, from clams to coffee. As soon as one dinner is t » begun, Unless the winner eats at least one opponent stops it will be called @ draw, ‘The score will be kept as follows: Clams, ten points; soup, five points; fish, fifteen points; entree, fifteen points; roast, twenty pol exch vegetable, five points; dessert, ten points; coffee, five points with dar total of points wins, Liquid epiiied on the clothing will cost one point for each drop. Parrot Talks Over the ’Phone. Mra. W. IH. Wall's parrot at Atlanta, Ga., te the onty bind in America that can use the telephone, Mra, Wal) ts very fond of her pet, and when @he went to Cineinnat! re- cently she sald ehe knew ashe would get homesick if she didn't eet to hear Polly's voice. She stood it several days and then called up over the jong distance ‘phone and got her residence in Atlant Polly was brought in and the Placed near ita head. “Hollo, Polly,” his mistreas ania in Cincinnat!. “Hello,” replied Polly in Atianta, as Mt eocked its head ard looked at the telephone tn perplextiy “How's Polly?" “Oh, pretty well,” After a litle m had cont its mistre: Co-Eds Rustle for Cash. Any sort of odd job is good enough for co-eds at Swarthmore College to raise before June 7 $80,000 to complete a $500,000 endowment. They have already raised $30,000, In their are time the co-eds act as nurse girls, darn socks, make beds and do other sorts of hou rk from 25 cents an hour up.» Socks are mended at five cents a hole. Sulcide by Alarm Clock. To be certain not to disarrange his plans for committing suicide, Otto Strubit, forty-three years old, set his alarm clock for 4 A. t MoKeesport, Pa ‘When it rang he arose, dressed, went to Port Vue in his motor-boat, bought sixteen feet of rope and hanged himself | te @ sycamore tree on a hill. The whole Job was finished before 6 A. M. This “Jeffries” Came Back. After a disastrous fight, Howard W Stolts’s black cat, Jeffries, at Bloom- receiver repiled the bird, with tte beak im the tranemitter, pparvereasion Polly sald “Goodby,” and the conversation Noticed that the dog was fretful . tributed it to the new hemiises: ba After an hour's walk Mra. Smith re- turned home with her collie and opened 4 front window, She had scarcely turned leap and wai ut, ng on the walk All-Silk Satin Foular wide; big assor signs ingnavy, | wistaria, king! regular price 6 |] special, per yard. . ent of new wn, Copenhagen, He, ete; Ee tike children 08 dead. | A sale of manufacturer's Samy ‘The next morning Jeffries proved he} could come back by appearing at the| Kitohen door and howling for admit- tamee. Mr. Stoltz says Jeffries shall be “aillea” no more. Finds Self Through News Item, Albert Hl. G W, a druggist, of Sumerville, Mass, fot on a train March 2 to make a bus! trip to Boston Phe next he knew was yesterday, | when he discovered himself in Col Seeing a comment on pesarnce in a medical journal, he re- ine his identity and notified the po- | ey $500 Collie a Suicide, Mrs. Antoinette Smith, whose home ts om @he fourth Moor of the apartment || Wind aay houwe at No. 245 West One Hundred and | athaate hint Br Fourth street, became the possessor on | Pr reba Saturday last of a collie dog valued = Har, in white, full line of and Tuesday at Men's “Otis” Cotton Lisle Ur Feather Dusters, long han- dles for ceilings, ete.; special at Fels Naptha Soap, special Garbage Pails, with deep rin and lap- er special at..... L. M. BLUMSTEIN, 125th $0, She purchased it from a kennel tn Boston and yesterday morning took $8 @Wb to Introduce i, to New Yor! abe of Brockton and | away when the dog gave a bark and alunable to speak, Bargains in Summer Silks Monday and Tuesday 23 inches field, N. J., was chloroformed and burts4 | Boys’ $2.00 to $3.50 repp, Galatea cloth, linen, ete.; Russian and blouse styl values from $2.00 to $3.50; exceptional bargain Men’s Summer Underwear and gusseted drawers; white or blue ci special at 29C P ‘TEBE BVENING WORLD, 1 AD'S WEDONG HELDINPARLOROF ~ MISTRESS HOME Second Time Mrs. Allen's House | Is Used for Marriage of | * Faithful Servant. OHTCAGO, May 16—Mre Andrew | Allen has progressive ideas of how to | make home pleasant for a good maid servant. Thia particular one, Anna An- | | derson, has been in Mrs. Allen’e employ jt years, Anna's beau, C. A. Ander- on, & motorman, was investigated by Mrs, Allen, She discovered that his hadita were good and that he could) eupport a wife. Then for nine months, twice a we eo turned her iferary | over to the Joving pair, When the ques- tion was eettled Mrs. Allen took oharge | of the wedding plana, ‘The cardinal tenet of her domestic | | tatth is that if @ servant treats a mis- | trees well in the matter of faithfulness, | service, &o., it a the duty of that mis- trem to look out for the intereste of the | servant. ‘The marriage occurred Gaturdey night | |in the parlor of the Allen home Anna | and the bridegroom had been told to invite fifty of their friends, end they were all present. The two other women servants in the house were bridesmaida, | land Mra. C. P. Wik, @ friend of the bride, and a quartet conaisting of friends of the bridegroom aang Swedish | ballads, for which the accompaniment waa played on the Allen piano. | ‘Mra, Alien kissed the bride as ehe wes jeaving for a flat awaiting her. “Oh, thie isn't the first wedding of | thie kind I have had at my nouse," said | Mra, Allen, ‘The housekeeper whom | Anna euccesded was married here. Bhe | had been with me siz years. I don't | consider that I am doing these servants & favor in throwing open my house to them on an occasion of sudh importance in their lives, I really owe it ¢o them.” pe tlh hla CLAMP LID ON SOMERVILLE. a Steres Are! Ev Shines Barred, N. J. which presented | ala appearance Sunday, Mag 7, with its refreshment places wide open, inviting | by Gay and bdeilliantly tiuminated by night, had the id clamped on yesterday | by onfer of Mayor Charles ©, Kenyon. | Every store and foe eream ealoon was oloaed with the exception of the drug wtoren, which were allowed to eel! medi- cines only, and the news stands, which were permitted to distribute Sunday newspapers, Bootblacka were compelled to cease thelr labors at 11 o'clock tn the fore noon and close their stands for the re mainder of the day. May 7 hundreds of autos were lined up along the streets in front of the @otia water stores while the tourtste washed the dust from thefr throats. Tourists who had heretofore quenched their thirate at the soda fountains found the ol as Gry as an alkell desert yeati delow. Mrs. Smith ran dows stairs, and with the Lepper sped <ney. tad carried the dying animal to a gtore near by, where it was chloroformed. Big Mess of Snakes, John Connell went to Monticele to conduct a boarding-house without any Gesire to rid Sullivan County of snakes, But on turning ver a flat stone, he discovered hundreds of garter snakes from six inches to three feet long. With a rake he killed them until exhausted, and has 118 snakes to prove it, “a Counterfeit Baseball Rooter. David Shafer, fifty, of No. 3 Boule- vard, Bayonne, has retired an official rooter of the town, While watching a game at Bayonne City Pr batted ball struck him and broke his nose, necessitating bis leaving before the contest was over, Lightning Strips Her of Clothing. 8ST. JOSEPH, Mo., May 15.—Struck by Ughtning following a heavy storm which swept over the town, Mra. Cora Kack- ney was knocked down, her clothing stripped from her body and she was rendered unconscious Whe! he had been revived it was found th: he was and to-day ts still is unhurt. dumb; oth Satin Finish Shantung Pongee, 26 inches all silk; in rose, ,] catawba, navy, peacock, emerald, gray, two shades of tan and blac egularly $1.00 and 59c Wash Suits 81.25 yd.; special, per yard.. ple Wash Suits for boy: é vith or without plain colors and stripes; sizes 214 to $739 uderwear; short sleeve shirts i best 50¢ quality; special at 37c May Sale of Housefurnishings 10c 7 for 25¢ Toilet Tissue, regular price Se roll; special, OFOT 29C 75e Roll-Top Bread Box, white or oak finish; specialat, O9C ” Nox ’ Furniture Polish, for and all woodwork; special at, . 15c ing Wax; special. 12 for 9c 1-Pt, Bottle Denatured Alcohol, special at-......- 25¢ Street, Between 7th and 8th Av. Lord & Taylor. Important Sale of Men’s Furnishings Hostery and Underwear Commencing Tuesday, May 16th Negligee Shirts—Mercerieed cloth; alsw with silk stripes, French ouffs. Values $2.00 and $2.50 i ele ee COG ew) 1000 Pajamas—ot fine mercerized cloth. $1 values #2.00 and e¢.50f 4-35 peg is AS wre => am $2.75 f $1.35 COGENT ss.ssochent C8 gos: r ; Silk Bath or Dressing Goons “ ei, $5.00 eta TE OTE an) 885:78 Terry Cloth Bath Robes $3.5 value $5.00 3.50 Silk Suspenders............. value $1.00} 50¢ Silk Knitted Scarfe — (imported and) domestic), crochet and accordion weave. $1 .00 Values $1.50 and $2,004 Men's HeavyT: i “ao ang MASE raat $2.05 Canes to Match Value $1.50} $7.00 Exceptional Values in Men's Half Hose plain and silk Hale, in « large variety of colors plain or fancy 35¢ per pair; 3 pairs for $7.00 Imported Spun Silk Half Hose Black, tans, Grays, greenb, < elarete; eiatonute ence 35¢ per pair; 3 pairs for $7.00 Men's Silk Half Hose Colored or black 65c per pair Summer Underwear White Na:nsook Knee Drawers with patent adjustable garters. Sleeveless Shirts to match ........... value 50c, each Imported White Lisle Thread Underwear Value $1.00 Athletic Underwear Sleeveless shirts and knee drawers. \ 4§¢ Value $1.00 each) Silk Stripe Athletic Underwear Sleeveless shirts and knee drawers. 85c Value $1.50 each Men’s Ratncoats, $8.75 Values $12.00 to $15.00—Plain or plaid backs Cowhide Suit Cases, $4.50 Value %6.00—brown and russet, steel frame, canvas lined, with shirt flap, 24 and 26 inches. Cowhide Bags, $5.75 Value $8.00—brown and russet—heavy handle, sewed frame and corners, leather lined, with pockets 17 and 18 inches Totlet Goods ° Special Items for Men Reveille Razors - Regular $1.45 for 88¢ Williams Shaving Sticks 4 18c ‘ 10c is “Powder ig 18e “ 10c a Taleum af Os l5e “ 10c Mennen’s “ be a léc “ 10c Eleto Bay Rum - 50c “ 2c “Lavender Water as 45c “ l5c “Witch Hazel - M, 25e “ l5e Shaving Brushes - $1.00 “ 50c “ “ “ 50c “ Qe Shaving Mirrors, Hair Brushes, Nail Brushes Tooth Brushes, Soaps, etc. About One-Third Less than Regular Prices Broadway & 20th St.; 5th Ave., 19th St. 18, 1011,' Sixth Ave., ONEILL* 20th-22nd St. Cottage, Porch and Lawn Furniture Read: Floors. Wherever you see a crowd, and each one buying goods that exactly satisfies their wants and pocketbooks, it is a sure sign that the merchandise is right, the stock is complete and the prices hat is just what you will see here in New York's most popular furnle he following illustrations will give you some idea what you can save in pur at Great Reductions. O'Neill Mata @tore—Feurth and Fifth lower than in other places. ture department. chasing here the furniture you may need for your cottage, your porch or your lawn. Just at the time when other houses are asking top-notch prices for seasonable goods we come forward offering you juat the kind of furniture that will fill your summer wants and at prices that are much below the regular, with a stock to select from that is probably larger and more diversified $2.50 Porch Rocker, $1.75 (Like titustration.) than can be seen anywhere in Greater New York. $15 Enamel Dresser, $11.50 $13.75 Enamel Chit*-nier, (Lake Sttustration. ) Two large and $10.50 This is a large, two small (Like | high back rock- drawers. Two Illustration.) he wer pin top drawers Four | and bred sets ated swell. The top two fuitl esevets | ae ite nag fo 88 x ef Swell top 8¢ x £0 ad. reven beg 20x24 inches. Two top | braces in the ain po | drawers ewell; 16 x | base. Broad truc- 20 inch bevelled | arms. Double first French plate mir- eer gare tie fod fa. ror, Thoroughly maple wood, best. white constructed and el. Has trim. | finished in the best white enamel, Brass trimmed. $5 Willow Chairs, $3.50 (Like illus ural green. $3.60 Andrew Jackson Rockers at $2.85 ation.) T & genu- . ine Bar Harbor Willo wehair and is not to be classed with similar design- (Like illustra- tion.) This historical prices and call- ed Bar Harbor heirs, The grade of willow Tt is an exact used in this | olla of chair is ee | ¢ original G heavier and much stronger. ere | (Jug? Ife illustratt rocker which Andrew Jackson used to | is more willow used in the construc- | ,,Made ofall teal scare ta sit in through the long Summer days. tion, the chair is larger and the | beda ‘The neigne of the quality better than similar chairs | and the height of the foot ts 8 fe $3.25 Reed Tables, $2.50 used for advertising purposes in other square cron ode, O and pass yt ’ stores, filling rode. Made tn (Like illustration.) Great Sale of 1,000 Porch mounts, finished in Rockers, 75¢ (Just like cut) Green and | natural finish, | heavy posts, broad elat back, double woven cane seat, comfort- able nd strong. Makes ® very nice sewing or nur- sery rocker. Cr e— Sn Made with a fine reed top and under shelf. Fancy turned legs and spindles; @4-inches high, finch round top. Finished in natural or a rich dark green O'NEILL Saye: Thie fe the Home Store. EF four corners of the earth, hae in_it, makere require and demand. wit! lives to a useful age. uniformly right prices. jout thie serviceabili Finished in nat- and in | It is thoroughly constructed | and finished in the best manner. good looking chair in every way, and one of the best values in a porch rocker we have ever offered. $16 Enamel! Bed, $12.00 with closely new idea in the constructi $3.25 Reed Rocker, $2.25 item of Merchandise, gathered here from the wimarily, the serviceability that home no merchandise , We aim to aell only dependable merchandise at Summer Mattings and Rugs O'Neill Homefurnishing Stere—Second Fleor. American Grass Mattings and Rugs, finest quality Crex. The ideal summer floor covering, all colors, 86 inches wide, at 36c yd. Crex Rugs, all sizes, at the following low prices: 8x6 feet, at 91.15. 6x9 feet, at $3.78. 4x7 lo feet, at $2.95. 8x10 feet, at 95.50. ings, 86 Inches wide; sanitary, 8x6 feet, at $1.50. 4x7 feet, at $3.00. 6x0 feet, at 96.75. Fiber clean and durable; in the most up-to-date patterns an colors, at 35¢, 39c, 45c and 50c yard, Showing of Lace and Muslin Bed Sets ONeill Hemefurnishing Store—First An acceptable F beautiful designs, all mounted on extra quality net with bolster roll covers to match, also extra full valance. - Regular Price... ‘ 85.00 $7.50 $10.00 $12.00 $15.00 le Price....... eeerenese . + .$2.75 $5.00 $7.50 Muslin Bed Sets with colored applique strips Curtains with bolster roll covers to match; also extra full, valance curtains to match. Regular Price, $3.00 per eet. O'NEILL Says: Sale price, 91.75. | Sale price, Our grocery business is growing at such a rapid pace that month by month ces are prominent by contrast. The larger our business, the more rapid our sales, and the result is such as to cause the lover of fresh foods to sit up and take notice—for the counters our purchasing power increases so that low pri and shelves are free from staleness. It cannot breed here. The Biggest Stationery & Engraving Sale Fiber Rugs, for summer furnishings: 8144x1014 feet, at 910. 9x12 feet, at $11.25. ; Full assortments of Japanese, Chinese and Cocoa Mattings and all kinds of porch ruge. resent for June brides: Renaissance Lace Bed Sets, in an assortment of Regular Price, $1.25 per pair 75c per pair Ever Held in New York Finest Grades of Writing Paper by the Linen Cloth, 10c a Package O'Neil] Main Store—Firat Floor. Persian and Kensington Lawn 1 Wp These are fine fabric-finished writing papers, known to thousands of our pat- P eons as of excellent quality, with fine : f | Writing surface, in the most popular y of the package paper with any of Made especially for us by one of the best. mills ry—a paper we peciatne Ore ee eeabiy. the, best writing paper eopertnniy ot I tskion: Care i ataby Aas to mat e; put up 50 sheets with 50 envel- ap inte iy letter and note size or all cone size, as desired; a feature here at the little price of 25¢. We will stamp a dress die at an additional cost of 6¢ a quire. Initial Correspondence Cabinet Contains 24 correspondence cards, 315x534, stamped in gold from new initial dies, with envelopes to match, at 50c per cabinet, the unusual price of ing cards, Additionel Sete, $8.00 e hundred, We Give and Redcem Surety Stumpsn— Car Load Viceroy Initial Writing Paper Put up in tandem box with a square sheet, stamped upper left corner in Hbbon style initist and oblong euve h, at $0c per box. Extraordinary Engraving Prices Name Platcengraved, script type, copper late and 50 best quality visit- Regularly 95c, at. Name Plate engraved in Old English and 50 best quality visiting cards, Regularly $3.50, at 100 Cards printed from own plate, n 100 Wedding Invitations, $5.50 the above initial dies or from your own monogram or ad-| We will engrave in the latest script t: tions, up to ten lines, in fashionable 100 invitations, on strictly high grade paper, t! stock, with inside and outside envelopes, at Regularly 7. apron front, heavy posts and cross braces, woven cane seat. $8.00 $10.00 Wedding Inve script, furnis! he bad 590 $1.50 490 $5.50