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"S trok e o f Genius.”
it is an encyclopedia la
a d a c ie volum e.
I It Is so e e p te d b y th e
C ou rts, S ch o o ls en d
P rees ae the one »aprem e au
thority.
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
They Were Mere Paper, but They Sub
deed the Artist Turner.
His Original Was Dr. Bell, a Master sf
Inductive Reasoning.
Turner, the gnjat landscape
Dr. Joseph Bell, th « distin
painter, was & carious mixture o f guished Scottish surgeon, was the
parsimony and generosity, deter«'' original of Sir A. Conan Doyle's
mined money grubbing and unreck Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Bell, who
oned devotion
rt . He
onea
aevouou to his
ms a
an
n o would
eeuiu^ was born in 1837, came o f a family
drive a hard bargain one day and which ft r three generations
aerations had
the next refuse to sell at any pnce, been distinguished In surgery. For
Intending purchasers were some a quarter o f a century he was sur-
times excluded from his gallery, and
on a
at the Royal infirmary, Edin-
the refusal o f admission was com
h, and Sir Arthur Conan
municated in anything but a polite
then a young man, was one
manner.
o f his e, students. He was greatly im-
Mr. Gillott, the wealthy pen man
d by his professor’s display of
ufacturer o f Birmingham, once
ductive reasoning, and he has told
proved himself equal to the task of many stories in illustration o f them.
storming the castle in the teeth of
Many stories are told o f Dr.
the gruff artist and his doorkeeper Bell’s wonderful powers o f observa
and achieving a bargain. A book on tion and analytical reasoning. For
Turner gives the story.
instance, he coaid tell from the mad
Mr. Gillott was met at the door on a patient’s boots the part o f the
o f Turner’s house by an old woman, city or surrounding country he had
who opened the door and asked the come from. When giving gratuitous
gentleman’s business.
advice to outdoor patients at the
“ Can't let ’e in !’* she snapped out Edinburgh Royal infirmary he
when he told her and tried to slam fond o f mystifying them by giving
the door.
them little intimate tidbits regard
But Mr. Gillott had put his foot ing their occupation or past lives.
inside the door and without waiting “ I see,” he wonld observe slyly to a
for permission pushed past the en patient, “ you are suffering from
raged janitress and hurried upstair* drink. Y on even carry a ns
on
to the gallery. Turner met him the inside breast pocket
poc
o f your
like a spider whose web has been i
Throw it away.”
vaded. The intruder mt:
o another he wonld noncha
himself and said that he had come lantly remark, “ Cobbler, I see,”
to buy.
having quickly observed the mark
“ Don’ t want to sell,” was the an where the lapetone had worn the
swer.
man’s trousers. T o an anxious
“ Have you seen our Birmingham mother he would quietly observe,
pictures, Mr. Turner?” inquired the “Y ou r first child, my
iv gc
good woman,”
visitor as calmly as if he had been the mystified, , simple
simple soul wonder-
received as a gentleman should be. ingly replying, as he had foreseen,
“ Never heard of em,” said Tur- in the affirmative. She wonld go
ner.
away still marveling at the intuition
Mr. Gillott took from his pocket of the great surgeon, haring no idea
some Birmingham banknotes.
that there could be any significance
“ Mere paper,” remarked Turner, in the brilliant tartan cape she had
who evidently enjoyed the joke.
bought witfli such pardonable ex
“ T o be bartered for mere can travagance for her firstborn.
vas,” said the visitor, waving his
Then a bricklayer would appear
hand to indicate the paintings on in the consulting room suffering
the wall. His tone— perhaps also from spinal complaint, and the doc
the sight o f the “ mere paper” —-con tor’s kindly sympathy was instant
quered Turner, and when the vis and comprehensive. “ It achee, does
itor departed he had bargained fo r it? I have no doubt it does, and
several valuable pictures.
carrying a hod o f bricks won’t im
prove it, will it ? ” he would observe
Undoubtedly Qonulno.
in his brisk fashion. The afflicted
T h e mistress observed one morn- "bricklayer, being a reticent Scot,
ing that her dusky butler was wear kept his surprise to himself till the
ing a ring with a setting almost end of the interview, when he
large enough fo r a beacon light if asked somewhat csnnily, “ I am no
it had possessed the proper bril saying you’re wrang, but wha’ telt
liancy. Later in the day she chanced ye I was a bricklayer to trade ?”
to hear a conversation between the
Dr. Bell was well «ware o f the
butler and the maid.
part he had played in creating the
“ Am dat a genuine dimont yo* is great detective o f fiction and was
sportin,’ Jake?” the maid asked, proud o f the fact. One winter even
suspicion and hope about equally ing some ladies were sitting round
balanced in her tone.
the fire reading and discussing
“ Am dis a dim ont?” reproach Conan Doyle’s hero when there en
fully. “ Does yo’ a’pose I ’d buy any tered the great surgeon. He asked
thing else fo’ a ’gagement ring? what they were reading, and they
H nh! Dis am a dimont, an’ hit am told him that it was the “ Adven
gold what hit sets in.”
tures o f Sherlock Holme«.” “ I
“ E f yo' mean yo' bought hit fo ’ know the man,” observed the doc
me yo’ will have to tell the price 'f o ’ tor quietly. Returning shortly from
I ’ll believe hit’s a dim ont I w
seeing his patient, he came hack to
fooled once wid a brass ring, an’ I announce with aa much modesty as
don’t mean to be caught again.”
might be, “ I am Sherlock Holmes.”
“ Cose hit’s a dimont, Lucy. Hit — London Chronicle.
cost $2.50.”
“ Well, gimme here. Long as hit
Tennyson as a Star Qatar.
am a genuine dimont I’ll ’ cept hit
Star gazing had a tonic effect
fo’ a ’gagement ring.” — Housekeep upon Tennyson. In some reminis
er.
cence« o f the poet Sir Norman
Lockyer remarks that Tennyson
Wanted Him Anyway.
was a frequent visitor to Fairfax
A dramatic club gave a series of road, West Hampstead, where Sir
matinee performances o f an old Norman had erected his Cooke
Greek drama— the “ Antigone” of Equatorial in the garden. “ One
Sophocles. At the fall o f the cur night when the moon’s terminator
tain there were clamorous applause swept across the broken ground
and some calls fo r the author.
aronnd Tycho he said, ‘ What a
The performers came forward splendid hell that would make 1’
and bowed.
Again, after being shown the clus
“ Author, author!” yelled the ters in Hercules and Perseus he re
“ gods.”
marked musingly, *1 cannot think
The leading actor advanced to much o f the county families after
the footlights and informed the au
th a t’ ”
dience in reproachful tones that
"the author has been dead over
A Spirit to Ba Deplored.
2,000 years.”
Just where honorable industry
Quick as thought the answer ends and avaricious piling np of
flashed back from the gallery, treasure begins no one can take it
“ Then trot os out his mummy!” — upon himself to say. The spirit,
London Tatler.
however, that impels a young man
to sacrifice all the nobler aima of
Clever Idea.
life in order to tarn a liberal com
At the service« one Sunday morn petence into wealth too great to be
ing in a chnrch for the colored spent (and the giving away o f
folks o f a Mississippi town there which, unless carefully regulated,
was observed one dnsky youngster is a doubtful source o f good) is cer
accompanying his grandparents and tainly to be deplored.— Elliot Greg
sitting as wise aa a young owl ory.
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throughout the long aermon.
Want«4 to Pay.
At the close o f the service some
Very much indebted customer en
body congratulated the grandfather
upon the excellence o f the child’s ters a butcher’s shop, remarking,
“ I’ll take a leg o f mutton, and I
behavior.
The grandfather smiled signifi want to pay for it.”
“ All right,” replies the butcher,
cantly. “ Dat boy is always well
threatened befo* he goes in de handing forth the meat, which cus
tomer takes and start« to go. “ Look
church.” — J udge.
here,” cries the butcher, “ I thought
His Bsbristy.
you said yon wanted to pay for it? ”
A gentleman who had grave
“ So I do,” was the reply, “ hut I
doubts as to a servant’s sobriety ca n 't” — London Telegrap 1
one dav accused him o f intemper
A Phenomenon.
ance and as a test chalked a line
across the floor and commanded
“ What'a this word, pa?” asked
him to walk along it.
Willie, pointing it out in his book.
“ Phenomenon,” replied ps.
The fellow looked at the line for
H
th e n
aT l l i s A m n ln M A .
m J
then at
hi« employer, a and
“ Well, what is that?”
said: ‘No jokes, now, sir. Which . “ That, my son, is exactly what
line do yon want me to walk on ?” you would be if you never disturbed
— London Telegraph,
vour father with questions,”
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