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THE “IMMORTAL J. N u
UNIQUE STREET RAILWAY.
ONLI WOMAN SHIP KEEPER.
AUTOMOBILE SKATING.
Skate» Run by Storage Battery
In Which the Horse and the Passen
Strapped to Man'» Waist.
gers Ride Together—Owned by a Sackets Harbor Navy Yard in
Most Picturesque of Characters
Recent cable descriptions of auto
Goes to Asylum.
Woman.
charge of Woman.
mobile skating in Paris uave been
If the spirit» of the poor, departed
As a Hoy He Could Speak Thirteen car horses are allowed to return to the Some nember of Present Keeper’s erifled. Alphonse Constantini, an
talian who lives in Paris, has been
Languages—Mind Unhinged by a land of tho living, they must chuckle
Family Has Been Stationed Here
iking many successful experiments
Great Criminal Trial — Has Been (if car horse spirits do such an un-
Since Navy Yard Was Established with his new form of automobile
when
they
witness
one
seemly
thing)
skates which he Invented.
Insane Fifty Years.
Hany Years Ago.
of their kind standing on the back
The apparatus consists of two four-
street
car,
meditatively
platform
of
a
Women
are
steadily
encroaching
up
wheeled skates each operated by an
Jacob Newman Free, "tho immortal
chewing a straw and “viewing the
J. N.," has reached tho end of his landscape o’er” as the car merrily on the occupations of men, and now aircooled motor of 11/2 horse power
travels. He was finally adjudged in glides on its way into the town, But another position heretofore filled by •apaclty.
A small tank containing gasoline,
sane, and will spend the remaindc r of that is a spectacle that presents itself a man has gone to one of the fairer sufficient for a 46 mile run is strapped
his days in the Stale Hospital of To many times a day just outside the sex. The charge and care of a govern
city of Denver, Colorado.
ment naval establishment, almost for
ledo. He Is now seventy-eight years great
A short line of street railroads
old.
called the Cherrelyn Line, leads from gotten, has been turned over .to her,
Thus passes a character known in one of the city terminals to the little and for the first time in the history
every sizable town in every State In town of Cherrelyn. It ascends gradu of the American navy a woman has
the West For more than half a cen ally from the city, and Its motive the rank of “ship keeper.”
power, an ancient and decrepit speci
tury he lived as the birds llv< . No town men of the genus “car horse” creeps
The woman is Mrs. Albert H. Met-
or State could claim him as Its own. In slowly up the hill, stopping frequently calfe. She has been placed In charge
each he was at home and among for breath. Once at the top however, of the navy yard at Sacketts Harbor,
friends. It is his claim, and it is not his labors are over for the time be N. Y., on Lake Ontario not far from
ing. He Is unhitched from the car,
disputed, that he knows more peo climbs aboard the rear platform, and | the St. Lawrence, and will receive a
ple personally than any other living proceeds to make himself comfortable, i salary of $365 a year.
man.
When the hour of departure Is reached I Albert II. Metcalfe, keeper of the
For fifty years he lias travelled up the driver gives the car a gentle shove I yard since r : 8, died recently, and his
and down and across the country, rid and tho whole outfit goes spinning po ition wa» | lv»B to his widow. The
ing free on nearly every railroad, and down the hill to Its starting point.
Sacketts Harbor Navy Yard is not
living without expense in the best ho
The Cherrelyn Line 1 b owned nnd j a big establishment. It consists of an
tels, the towns he visited, afforded.
controlled by Mrs. George H. Bogue, | acre and a half of ground, on which
of Denver, who claims that it is the there are half a dozen small buildings
D. H. on Every Railroad.
only all-gravity system in the world. I and a few guns used in the W’ar of
Still in his possession are n hundred There was a similar lino operating in | 1812.
slips reading “Good for J. N. ’’ His southern California a few years ago,'
Once Prominent Place.
most treasured possession is a slip of so the claim to that distinction may be j
it
used
to be a prominent place,
paper signed by the leading officials disputed. Be that as it may, how
of many of the biggest railroads In ever, it is one of tho sights of Denver and shortly after the close of |he war
the country. It reads: “Tho immortal —a street car on which both horse a shlp-of-the-line, then the biggest
type of war craft built, equivalent of
J. N.; pass him forever. Good on all and passengers ride.
the first-class battle-ships of modern
roads from now until doomsday."
Tho rolling stock of this road— rep times,
was planned, and the building
Hotel men in the townB he vlBlted resented by the single car—is not
did as much. He was never known to exactly up to date in style or finish. begun at Sacketts Harbor. The vessel
have more than a few cents at a time, It is shabby and worn, and the rear was to have been the New Orleans.
Tho work progressed slowly, how
but in the fifty years of his wanderings platform, not originally designed ns
ever. and was finally abandoned, but
few landlords have been bold enough a stable, droops disconsolately.
the hull of the big vessel remained up about the skater’s waist. Attached to
on the stocks. Away back, probably the tank are the ignition battery, the
along In the '40’s or ’50’s, a man throttle Jever and the spark control.
A speed of 31 miles an hour can l>e
named Metcalfe was appointed ship
keeper. In 1868 he died, and his son, attained and diminished by means of
Albert H„ succeeded him in the posl- the throttle lever which the skater
tion. Some years ago all that was holds In his left hand. It is claimed
left of what was to have been the New that almost any hill can be climbed.
Orleans was torn down; but the posi-
tion and title of the keeper remained. HELPS BVRGLAR TO ROB
Keeper for Thirty-eight Years.
Albert H. Metcalfe watched the gov
ernment belongings around Sacketts
Harbor for thirty years, and then
died. During all tho years the Bu
reau of Yards and Docks of tho Navy
Department has regularly submitted
an estimate of $365. to Congress for
the annual salary of the “ship keep
er” at Sacketts Harbor, and that is
probably the only place where the
name “ship keeper” appears in an
official way on the records.
WAS A REAL MAGICIAN.
THE HORSE IS A PASSENGER ON THIS.CAR.^
A Bostonian was praising the o her
day the astronomical and literary work
of I’erclval Lowell.
"Before (lie Inst eclipse,” he sakl,
“Mr. I.owell observed to an old col ire.l
man whom he liked:
"George, if you will watch the chick
ens out at your place to-morrow
morning at 11 o’clock you will see
them nil go to roost.”
"‘Ill, hi.’ George laughed. ‘Bat's a
good Joke!’ ”
“He thought, you see, that Mr.
Lowell was fooling him. But, sure
enough, when 11 o’clock rame tho
next morning the sun darkened and
the chickens did go to roost, George
was amazed, He sought Mr. Lowell
out nml said:
“’Wot you done tole me wuz true,
sail. Mali chickens went to roost, sail,
jlst bilk you said iley would.’
“ ‘Yes, George, I suppose they did,’
the astronomer returned.
“ 'How long, Rah. did you know
’bout ills?' asked George.
“ ‘Oh, a long time George.’
WEALTHY WIFE.
Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousne* after
"I liad no trouble gettln’ into the1 POSTMASTERS OF OLDEN riTQ
I I I
first day’s uh « of Dr. Klines Great Nerve Re
storer. Ben i for FREE. $2.00 trial boitlean<l treatise.
house,” said the reformed burglar in I
1> h . EL H. K link , Ltd., Ml Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
TIME.
a reminiscent mood. “It was one of
the old fashioned kind which had not Ninety Years Ago Incomes Arg'
umented by Acting as Agents.
been modernized, and a 4-year-old
The PURITAN MAID
could have opened the windows. The
The postmaster of today may think !
is the latest and pret
fumule party that owned the house he has troubles of his own, but there|
tiest creation.in silk
had the reputation of bein’ mighty was a time about the year 1817, when
patch work.f All the
colors of the rainbow
rich and sunthin’ of a miser, so 1 I queer tilings were expected of post
beautifully ■* blended.
thought there might be gool pickin s masters. An old pamphlet dated
An ornament to any
for me in the way of old silver and
home. No cozy corner
complete without one.
the like. She had married a young April Dili, 1317, states that a "new
daily
and
thrice
a
week
paper
”
was
to
Outfit consists of one
man about, a year before my visit
complete block, silk
who was known to be sunthiu’ of a be printed “at the seat of government.”
for . q other blocks,
After the virtues of the proposed publi and diagram and inatructions for making. Com
high roller.
outfit as above, postpaid, 35 cents. Pillow
"The first room I struck that seem- cation were set forth the editor-to-be plete
lop containing 49 blocks all pieced together and
ed promisin’ was the dinin’ room says:
ready for ruffle and back Ji.oo. Sample block
filled up with massive mahogany fur “Postmasters are hereby authorized ami particulars 4 cents.
niture like they don’t build nowa to receive subscriptions for the Gaz
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days. I had no trouble in openin’ tho ette, and for all moneys collected and
Washington, D. C.
sideboard, where 1 found a few real transmitted to the editor, at the city Box 215
silver spoons and a blamed lot o' plat of Washington, a discount of 10 per
ed trash that wasn’t worth carryin’ cent, will be allowed. Distant sub
away. I was Just about to leave the scribers will have their papers care
room when out flashed an electric fully packe-1 and punctually forwarded
light and I found myself starin’ at to order. It is to be presumed that a
the barrel of a pistol. A young tel copy of this pamphlet was sent to i
ler in pajamas held the gun, and hi3 each postmaster in the United States.
Under the system that then existed [
hand didn't shake a bit. He had a
business look in his eye, so when he this method was entirely proper and
told me to throw up my hands I done it is claimed that postmasters derived
so without no argument,
considerable income from such sour
“ ‘How much of a haul have you ces.
made?’ ” he asked pleasantly. I told
The “prospectus” further states that A Wonderful Preparation Which
him only a few spoons, and that it “a competent reporter will be employed
Turns Back the Hand of
was a low-down trick to pinch a man to furnish the proceedings of Congress
Time—Makes the
Old
who hadn’t got enough to pay for his for the Gazette,” and that all “inter
Young and the Young
trouble.
esting articles of intelligence will be
Beautiful.
“He acknowledged there was a boss carefully selected and published.”
on me, and then asked me if I was
The Editor-to-be, in writing of him
a amatoor, or could I blow up a self says:
safe without rousin’ the neighbor
“As the humble guardian of the pub Free Samples of the Greatest Hair
hood. ‘If you have the materials with lic -weal, he will occasionally use the
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in expressing his temperate disappro
“I acknowledged that I had come bation of such measures of the coun
ROOM
doubt .
LEFT
prepared to open anything in the try. If those opinions should some
hardware line, and then, with his gun times be erroneous, he wishes them to
p’inted, he backed me out of the room
to one adjoinin’ where there was a be ascribed to the common fallblllty
safe in the wall. Then he told me to of human judgment, which cannot be
go to work and sat down in a chair always in the right. As far as it may
be possible, he will labor to be im
with bls pistol turned my way.
"Well, sir, to make the story short, partial, but that there will be a bias,
I opened that safe with this pelican and that that bias will be in favor of
superintendin’ the job. There was the present dominant party, he has too
wads o’ long green in a tin box that much candor to deny and too much
would choke a cow, likewise diamonds honesty to conceal. What he can do
and other shiners. The boss o’ the within his humble sphere, shall be done
business sorts ’em over careful, and for the good of the country, and if
when the box was clean empty he he fails he will console himself with
hands me over so-ne old breastpins the reflection that he had discharged
and napkin rings and a Imby's silver his duty to the utmost of his ability
mug and told me that that was my and power.”
share, while he pockets the rest as
calm as ye please.
It Is announced that the fad of tak
" ‘Now. then, about face and don't ing snuff Is again coming Into vogue
kick, for this gun is likely to go off,’ In France.
says he, and heads me back to the
window through which I’d entered.
‘Git through there, and be quick about
Cotton fabrics of fine quality are
it. son,’ he says, and then, as if to found in Pern In tombs that date back
add insult to inj’ry, gives me a push to the time of the Incas.
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that sent me flyin’ inter the back
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The reformed burglar here uttered
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some very unreformed profanity as much coffee as Java.
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“When I’d got on me feet I heard
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There was nothing for me to do but Francisco.
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light out. It seems that young man
feel justified by results.
.
was the old party’s husband. She’d
It makes not the slightest difference to to how
kept him short of funds and he took
long vim have had vonr trouble. We will X°
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«
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Taught by Hail
A HANDSOME PILLOW
to present him with a bill. It is re sides of tho car7botli*fnside and out,
corded that a hotelkeeper once offered are decorated with tho carvings and
to throw off half tho bill when he writings of tourist fools—,
learned hiB guest'» Identity. "The Im
Whose names are like their faces.
mortal J. N. ” glared at tho landlord
Always seen in public places.
then, declaring he would allow no one
Mrs. Bogue Is not exactly a million
to outdo him In generosity, and said aire as the result of operating her own
he would throw off the other half.
railroad nnd drawing all the salaries
He seldom stopped in cities of more and dividends, and she appreciates
than 10,000 population, believing that tho deficiencies of rolling stock and
In the largo cities his personality road-bed.' But she takes keen de
would be lost. There are few news light Imlthe ^management of the road
paper offices In the country outside of and finds jf a paying investment.
the largest cities where he Is not well
known. Some years ago ho travelled
all over tho country ransacking the INDIAtNSTRAin TIIE TREAS-
files of newspapers for his own obit
'I vry :
uary. Ho has been reported .dead
A bntid’of Osago Indians has looted
more than once.
States Treasury of $53*.
He Is an apostle of “truth," "press- the I'nlted
loot was permitted by the author
ure,” and keeper of tho "Bccret of tho Tho
ities, for the Roil Men had the law
veil.” For forty years he has boon on
their side, Hie money being the
promising to "lift the veil" nnd put “on expenses they wore allowed by the
the pressure.”
Indian Commissioner In making the
Wherever ho stopped In tho course trip to Washington from their reserva
of his migrations his fir.t announce tion. Each Osage was allowed $60
ment was that men called him crazy, by the Commissioner. They tiled Into
and that he was about “to put tho the Treasury Building, u few weeks
pressure on.” This "pressure" was ngo, silent ns oysters nnd presented
some mysterious force which ho alone, their order. They got their money and
he believed, prevented from crushing
the department without uttering
out of existence all the life of this con a left word
—only a few grunts. The
tinent
names they slgnisl or indicated b,>
No one hns ever doubted that ho was mark were well worth the money nml
insane. Ho himself boasted of it. But were ns follows:
his Is an Insanity that tip to now in O lo-linli-wnl-la; P. Decrlioart: Bacon
spired only friendship nnd sympathy. Rind:
Ne-ke-wnh-tlan-ka; O-loh-bnh
Hut behind his insanity nnd Ills fifty mole; Nun-tsa-wnh-hu:
Arthur Benni-
years of aimless wandering over the castle, nml Eve's-Tall-Chlef.
country is a tragic story.
Mind Unhinged by I low.
In his youth he was nn Infant phe
nomenon. At four years of age he
rend almost nil of the Bible, nnd dur
ing his teens he acquired n rending and
speaking knowledge of no less than
thirteen languages. During the gold
craze in '-lit he went West mid started
a stage line. Within two years he had
accumulated n fortune of $56.000. A
partner robbed him. and then “J. N."
moved back to Ohio nml began the
study of law. Within a few years he
stood at the top of the bar of Clncin
tint I
Ono clay he was defending a mur
derer In whoso Innocence lie strongly
believed. As a result of his eloquenc
the man was acquitted, The same day
his client confessed thnt he was guilty,
"J. N." rushed back to the courtroom
and started to exnlnfn, hut the strain
mid excitement b • b, i’U too much for
I HE RAID ON THE TREASURY.
him. He was stricken with apoplexy,
“ ‘Did you know dey would go to
DO RATS HAVE SOl’LS?
Within a short time he re overed his
physical health, but never his mental
roost a year ago?’
In
tin»
course
of
a
lecture
before
the
poise.
“ ‘Yes. fully a year ago.’
I’sychotlier.ipeutic Society. I>r. Want
announced that i’rof. Elmer Gates, of
" ‘Well, dat bents all,’ sold George,
HAS ST':-
I
STANDARD Washington, D. C„ who lias been ex
in an awed voice, 'Dem chickens
perimenting with light rays, had found
OI.,
There is tin i .iking of a most val about live octaves above violet a form wuzn’t hatched a year ago.’"—Satur
uable servant of the trusts in South of wave slmlllar to x-rays, but differ day Evening I’ost.
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VERY BAD BREATH.
Under these rays living objects
whose name does not a| tear. Be
CURE FOR SEASICKNESS.
lieving he had killed seven-year-old throw n shadow which exists as long
Senator Clay, of Georgia, told the N. Y. Bridge Correspondence School,Inc.
5 East 42d St., New York City
ixiretta Smith, a pupil of the Colum as there Is life In the animate object.
following
story to a number of his
bia public sehi 11. whom ho knocked A live rat was placed In a hermetically Electric Current Used to Quiet Nerves colleagues in the Senate cloak room
senseless with a »now-bull, a small sealed tube anil held In the path of
of the Sufferers.
a few days ago:
boy, who e»ca|H-<! before his Identity the rays in front of a sensitized screen
“Sam Jones, the evangelist, was
Those who have been prostrated by holding
could be ascertained, hired a negro So Ione as the rat was alive It threw
meetings tn my home town
A SISHH
boy for 5 cents to assume i 11 blame a shadow. When It was killed It be the heave and the chop-chop of ocean last summer in the open air. His
for tho tragedy, Tho girl was more came siv’dcnlv transparent after a cer vessels will be glad to learn that a I subject for the particular evening of T
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who «end? m thè um and addmnes of
frightened than hurt.
tain length of time.
or iemale, who are cr were aerante
! which I speak was ’Death.’ He had tnrte persons, « rmle
ith 20cento tor nmti« and r». t"
"Here." said the lecturer, “there sure-cure for seasickness is promised. been preaching some fifteen or twenty orcanvatsert.
of thesebeautiful ( m »H Mr»n
' .h5eh-
,
Mr. Bryan's daughter has taken to was n strange phenomenon. At the The ship physician of the Hamburg-
.nd enenved wjth any initial
minutes when he reached the climax *nP<*
hnter. Tiri« h thegriaS vah£
writing plays. Senator Tillman Is writ very Instant the r-it liecaaae trans- American liner Patrica
found by of his theme with 'My Friends, think
ing a book, and Congressman tong- 1’irent, a shadow of -»xnetly the same experiments conducted has
li r..«-, f„r , «IO.
worth Is accused of writing topical "h me was noticed m pass ns It were voyage of the ship that on the last of it Think of it, I say. And you not
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soul
drops
dead."
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a
small
bov
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sit I sod »creen.”
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