The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 August 1912 — Page 6

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse, - • Indiana - WAS GLAD TO ESCAPE ALIVE Exciting Experience of English Officer Who Intruded on Sue red Monkeys of India. In various parts of India monkeys are regarded as objects of worship. Dne of the principal monkey temples is at N'uddea. Such veneration is shown here to Hunlman, the monkey god, that visitors may not enter the court of the temple without removing their shoes. On one occasion an English officer, in foassing up the country near Nuddea, chanced to stroll into a bamboo jungle, rwhen his boat had “put to” for the Hight. He had not advanced far before (he heard a terrific uproar all about ihim, and was not a little alarmed to behold a whole army of the largest monkeys he had ever seen making (toward him from all quarters. Some jumped on the ground- before ihim, others swung by the bamboos over his head, and many closed up the ipath in his rear. Several females had young ones clinging to them, but (this fact did not seem to render them 'less agile than the others. i The Englishman knew not what to ido. He yelled at the top of his voice [for assistance. To his intense relief, leach time that ho yelled the monkeys (retreated a bit. This encouraged him Ito persevere in his shouting, but he (observed that when he himself began Ito retreat the monkeys would again ’begin to close in upon him. Then he stood still and gave one ‘tremendous shout, whereat the mon{keys went back again. This time the {man had gained fully 20 yards and 'was about to repeat the call when 'there appeared a new figure upon |the scene in the person of an aged, (decrepit woman hobbling through the midst of the animals. This aged person shook two or three {of the monkeys by the paws as she (passed. No sooner had she come hearing of tthe Britisher than ishe opened upon him the vials of her twrath for disturbing the sacred anlimals in their retirement. She bade the {intruder depart, and that quickly, an {order which he lost no time in executing. The monkeys all seemed implicitly to obey the old woman's bidding-, making away for the man’s rejtreat. The old woman, it appeared, was employed by the Brahmins to supply r the monkeys with their food each day. They were worshiped by all of people in the country round, who brought offerings of rice and sweetmeats to them continually.—Harper’s {Weekly. Cruelty to Parents. That whimsical philosopher, James Douglas, in London Opinion/ writes of the crying need of a new society, urging that it is high time to do away, with the society for the prevention of cruelty to children and substitute therefor one for the prevention of Cruelty to parents. He remarks that donations and subscriptions for euch a beneficent organization would pour in from those who know by sad experience how sorrowful is the lot of the father who finds himself abandoned to the ferocity of his children. “Too long,” he writes, “has the cry of the parents fallen upon deaf ears. Do you hear the parents crying, O my brothjers? The young lambs are playing in ithe but the old people are Sweeping bitterly. Many a fat city merchant conceals behind his waistcoat a heart that is lacerated by the savagery of his children. Many an aiderman dilutes his turtle soup with tears of anguish as he thinks of tha torments his children are preparing for him in the dark precincts of his (suburban home.” Collapsible Army Cart. A collapsible military cart has beet Invented by an officer of the armj service corps in London. The cart will be tested durng the grant! manoeuvres of the army next September. The cart is built entirely of tu bular steel and canvas, and is extreme ly light to haul, though it will carry up to a ton dead-weght. Several oi these can be carried in a motor*lorry of the type now in use in the army, and would be instantly available fol use in any desired direction. It is claimed by the Inventor that no country is too rough for the cart, and that It is practically indestructible. It costs very little to build thes« carts, since all the parts are inter changeable; a temporary breakdown would not be a very serious matter, «lnce spare parts could easily be car rled on the motor wagons. He Guessed Right. Bacon —I see a new book has a small looking-glass set In the title page. Egbert —That Is prevent the worn jn from turning over to read the last chapter the first thing, I suppose. A Long Session. “You’ll have to go, now, Mr. Huggins,” said the girl, with a yawn. “What! so early?” exclaimed the man. “Yes, you see, papa is a union man, and he’ll only allow eight hours foi courting.” / Keep Him Busy. *Whay are the principal activities 6i the official position our friend occupies?" “Those Involved in holding on to It," replied Senator Sorghum. Noisy Things. Bacon —I see some one has made the discovery in England of the lawnmowing procllvtles of the guinea-pig. Egbert —Wei, come to think of It, I guess they do make as much noise as a lawnmower.That’s Different. “That’s the slowest-moving man lever saw you’ve got there,” said one farmer to another. “Slow?” replied the other. “Well,, ■ay, you ought to see him when that rings!”

SWEDEN’S WOMEN AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES 1J _ £ g . ..KtaQci "■ j“* Hi’ ZZ--ZZZZ—Z THIS photograph shows the parade of Sweden’s women athletes around the Stadium at the Olympic games in Stockholm. These women gave a magnificent exhibition of gymnastic skill.

CHIEF OF CRIMINALS

"Lupo the Wolf,” Closely Guarded in Federal Jail. Authorities at Penitentiary in Atlanta, Ga., Believe Prisoner Is Planning to Slay Sleuths Responsible for His Capture. Atlanta, Ga. — “Lupo the Wolf,” leader of the most daring band of criminals in America, is the most thoroughly guarded prisoner in eral penitentiary in Atlanta since the discovery of two attempts of confederates to communicate with him in his cell, planqing, it is said, the assassination of the detectives who ran him down. Warden Moyer has been warned that Lupo and his band of assassins are plotting to take revenge upon Detectives William J. Flynn, District Attorney Smith, United States Judge George Ray and half a dozen others Instrumental in sending him to prison. Lupo has yet thenty-three years of & twenty-five year term to serve. In another cell is his chief lieutenant, Giuseppe Morrello. The prison authorities know that determined and persistent efforts will be made by the hundred-odd members of the gang still at liberty to get them out. Dispatches from New York say that Lupo’s friends are bent upon revenging his conviction while awaiting an opportunity to secure - his release. Lupo on his way to Atlanta vowed that before he died he would “get” Flynn, who, with a score of subordinates, arrested him at a farmhouse at Highland, N. Y., where he was engaged in counterfeiting. When Morrello was nabbed a little

PET SNAKE CREATES PANIC Scare Green Monster Gave to Children at Bristol, Pa., Is Transferred to Adults. Bristol, Pa. —Bristol children do not. wander far from home these days Bince a green pine snake six feet long tried to join in their revels. Joseph Gardener of Otter street, while on a trip through Jersey caught the snake in the pines a few days. ago. He put it in a box and brought it to his home, where he made a house for it in his cellar. A day or two ago Gardener was absent from home and the snake took advantage of his freedom, escaped from the box and wound its w’ay into the street, where not a few children were playing. It did not take long for the youngsters to discover the reptile creeping toward them. Os course, they all took fright and screamed, and as they all have sound lungs it did not take long to bring their parents to their rescue. ' Excitement prevailed for a little While as the older folks came running with brooms, clothes props and so on to make battle with the monster. Finally one of the family and about a hundred of the residents cornered the snake with their weapons and drove it into the cellar of the Gardener home. Music to Drown Cries. South Norwalk, Conn.—Miss Sarah Davenport, stealthy resident of this city, has hired a man to play the phonograph on her front porch every night from ten to three to drown the cries of a neighbor’s baby.

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ii Elsie Wolstater, Seven, in Hospital in a Serious Condition—Her Story Doubted by Police. New York. —Elsie Wolstater, seven years old, was taken to the Reception hospital and later transferred to the Metropolitan hospital on. Blackwell’s Island, suffering from severe burns on the arms, legs and body. She declared that an unidentified boy had held a match to her dress in the g-ound floor hallway of her home at 244 East Seventy-seventh street. Before she was taken away ihe girl declared she had never seen the boy before and that he, ran from the yard pf the tenement to where she was carrying a chair from the Wolstater on the third flbor, to her parents, who were sitting on the stoop. She said he struck a match and deliberately held it under her dress until it caught fire. Detectives questioned children jp. the neighborhood. They

later, after a desperate battle in a New York den, he, too, vowed vengeance on Flynn and the secret service men who tore the gun and knives from his hands and dragged him Unconscious to the Tombs. More than all, Lupo wants revenge upon the spies who got into the councils of the Mafia band. The prison authorities have taken precautions that no one shall see Lupo in prison who might even inadvertently carry some communication to him from the outside world.. He is never allowed to speak to any one, especially Morrello, unless a guard is with him. His letters to and from the prison are carefully scanned. Every moment of his days and nights in prison he will be closely guarded and watched. Meanwhile, biding his time, somewhere in this country is a Sicilian who has sworn to have the Ife of Lupo the Wolf the moment the Mafia chief quits the Atlanta prison. Lupo killed this man’s brother in Sicily twelve years ago for refusing to join Lupo’s foreign vendetta, and then fled to this country. It is said that this Sicilian has told friends that he will come to Atlanta in the hope of finding an opportunity to slay Lupo in prison. v Gives Life to Save $65. Fishkill Landing, N. Y.—Mrs. Andrew Reilly, 35 years old, was burqed to death in her home near here. She was alone. When her house took fire she escaped. Remembering she had left $65 in it, she went back. The woman, with her husband, came here three weeks ago from New York. The husband was employed as a blacksmith on the New York Central railroad.

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Tramp Cared for by Clergyman for Three Years Robs His Benefactor —Is Now in Jail. Detroit. —Rev. C. L. Arnold, head of the Arnold home, a charitable institution, is seeking the imprisonment for a long term of Claude Camerspn. The clergytnan and his wife had befriended Cameroon and given him a chance to lead an honest life only to be subjected to robbery’ several times and finally assault when Cameroon tried to shoot them. “I first met the fellow three years ago,” said Mr. Arnold, “when he came to the Arnold home looking like a tramp after having beaten his way from Toledo. He asked for something to e£t and I gave him his dinner and a bath, afterward getting him a job. ■ “He stayed at the home and shortly after I got him the job he took the key to my bouse, which I kept at the home, went there and stole S6O. He then calmly went back to the home, put back the key and left. He returned later and I decided to forget the theft and give him another trial. “I got him another job as night watchman for the Pere Marquette railroad, and for awhile he behaved himself. After three months, however, he broke into my house again and stole $45. “About three months afterward he sat in the alley beside my house on® night while people were passing along the nearby avenue, and removed a pane of glass breaking It. All he got for his trouble was Mrs. Ar-

said they had seen no strange boy around and ventured the opinion that Elsie had been striking matches while coming down the stajrs and had set her own clothes afire. The halls of the house were not lighted at the time. COUNT SCRUBBED THE FLOORS Member of Nobility Declares In Divorce Trial He Selected Clothes for Wife. Los Angeles.—lt was Count Von Neindorff’s day in Judge Reictor’s court in the divorce suit of his wife. Mrs. Von Neindorff testified she had never told her husband, an untruth and appeared in the light of a model wife. Th® count had refused to buy her a sewing machine because of her ill health. She insisted she wanted one because she desired to make her own clothing. The count testified he was always

BARONET SELLS NEWSPAPERS Sir Henry Kellett of England, Reduced to Poverty, Enters Business at Melbourne, Australia. London.—Behind the counter of a little cigar and newspaper store in the High street district of Kow, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, stands throughout the day a suave, polite, courtly little man, greeting with bland smile and a grateful “much obliged, call again,” all who choose to buy newspapers, cigars or tobacco of him. Scarcely any of those who know him under the name he has assumed for more than fifteen years are aware of the fact that he is listed in the pages of Debrett as Sir Henry Kellett, baronet of the United Kingdom. To the reporter of a Melbourne newspaper, who dug out the story of his descent from a high social position to the status of a humble shopkeeper, Sir Henry thus explained his position: “I was left without a shilling and only the rudiments of an education; came out here to earn a living and have so far succeeded. I work from dawn to midnight. Don’t you think under these circumstances it was wise for me to forget my title? Rather incongruous for ‘Sir Henry and Lady Kellett’ to be selling newspapers from behind a shop counter.” Old Men Must Not Flirt. Chicago.—Judge Goodnow has decided to give Frank Hughes. 61 years old, another chance. In the court of domestic relations Mrs. Hughes testified her husband took girls out riding in his automobile, one named “Tootsie” being a frequent occupant of the car. While the judge remarked that “There is no fool like an old fool,” he did not feel like sending Hughes to the Bridewell and let him go, with an admonition to cease flirting.

nold’s watch and a dollar’s worth oi stamps. When on the night of his last visit I found the screen tampered witn I knew that Camerson was back again, and made up my mind to catch him.” ! Mr. Arnold notified the police of his suspicions and asked that his house be watched. That night the couple, who are well past middle life, looked over their house before going to bed, but somehow missed the spare bedroom. Cameron was there hiding He heard them check up some accounts of the Arnold home and speak of $75 that the minister had with him. After the couple had gone to bed Camerson entered their room, and Mrs. Arnold awoke to find «a revolver pointed at her. She screamed, and Mr. Arnold bounded out of bed and fought the intruder. The mlnistet forced up the revolver and held it up while Camerson fired two shots. Mrs. Arnold finally got hold of a goldheaded cane belonging to her husband, and with this beat all the fight out of the man. Neighbors had heard the shots, and they and the pollcs came after Camerson had been se cured. The fellow was taken to jail, and is awaiting trial on several accounts that would keep him in a cell for life if he should get the full penalties. Woman Refuses to Run. Pasadena, Cal.—Maintaining that her first duty was to her children Mrs. A L. Hamilton has refused to run forth« assembly on the Prohibition ticket

polite to his young wife. He said Mrs. Von Neindorff never expressed a wish that he did not gratify. Although he is a German count, he swallowed pride of birth, got down on his knees and scrubbed the floors, polished the grand paino and swept the various rooms. Although his wife charged him with never having permitted her to buy clothing he did not deny that he had often selected the goods. He believes he has admirable taste. The case was continued. Cuts New Teeth at Age of 89. New York.—Jonathan H. Cor© o South Plainfield, N. J., celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday with unusual glee because, he Informed his friends, he is cutting new teeth. Twenty years ago he procured a set of false teeth and had no trouble until three weeks ago, when he suffered severe pains. A dentist removed the false teeth and began treatment, but three days ago discovered that the pain was due to the cutting of full sets of lower and upper teeth.

STAFF’SNEW FLAMS Seek an Entire Reorganization of Uncle Sam’s Army -> Report Probably Will Not Be Presented to Congress at This Session as Committees Desire Ample Tl me to Consider Provisions. Washington.—The general staff of the United States army has conpleted Hb plans for an entire reorganization and Increase of this country's military establishment, a work upon which it has been busy over since it was formed some years ago. Although the report containing these plans is now in type it probably will not be presented to congress at this session, owing to the fact that members of the senate and house committees on military affairs desire ample time in which to consider all the provisions recommended by the general staff. Among those, most active in the conferences on these plans are Senator Root of New York, formerly secretary of war. »nd Senator DuPont of Delaware, chairman of the senate committee on military affairs. The plan for the reorganization of the army as drawn up by the general staff is declared by experts to be the most important and comprehensive piece of constructive work along these lines ever performed in this country. It is also regarded as marking the first schematic military policy ytet drawn up for the land forces oi the United States. While some of its details have been embodied In congressional bills or letters of the secretary of war, the report has never been made public in its entirety. The great object sought to be gained is the organization of the army on a footing of constant readiness for war, with a permanent expeditionary force always ready for instant service. In order to ensure this result it is recommended that the forces liable for duty anywhere be Acreased about seven times. In the regular army the highest proposed unit of organization is raised and the mobile branches, which include all arms except the coast artillery, are divided into two parts, the foreign and the domestice. The domestic service is to be kept permanently in continental United States, while the foreign service is to be sent to American territory elsewhere, to remain, as an organization, outside of this country for good. In addition to a proposal making for the federalization, within constitutional limits of the present national state juard, the general staff also asks for the creation of two new types of American soldier; namely, the federal reservist and the federal volunteer, the latter to be recruited in time of peace for wnr service and, held responsible only to the centra! government. The general staff also recommends that the present regular army be relieved of police duties in Alaska, and suggests that peace bp preserved n that district by a federal constabulary to be legislated into existence by congress. If this suggestion becomes la-w, the United States will have, for the first time in its history, a police force owing its authority directly to the federal government. In outlining the importance of this reorganization the general staff points out that the land forces of the United States are now in no condition to face the armies of a first-class pow:er, and maintains that the necessity for this tountry so to prepare itself is imtne Hate and imperative. ‘“Whatever our military institution's may be,” says the report, “we must recognize the fundamental fact that rictory is reward of superior force, that modern wars are short and derisive and that trained armies alone ran defeat trained armies." NEGRO HAS HOUSE FLOOR PRIVI LEGE. An elderly negro recently presented himself at the door of the hall of the house of representatives at Washington and proceeded to walk past the ioorkeeper. That august person immediately grabbed the negro by the irm and. whirling him around, asked him what he wanted. The negro calmly told the doorkeeper that he had the door privilege by virtue of being a former member of the “greatest deliberative body in the world.” This statement the doorkeeper hailad with what nearly approached derision, but as the man did not appear much frightened or show signs of abandoning his intention to enter the house chamber, the doorkeeper dispatched a messenger to the speaker’s rostrum. The messenger also conveyed to the speaker the card of colored man, which bore the name of lofan R. Lynch, with a further line to the effect that Mr. Lynch was engaged In the practice of law in the commonwealth of Mississippi. Speaker Clark for a moment was at t loss as to the proper course of proredure. First he called upon the dean >f the Mississippi delegation in the lower house, who informed the speaker that John R. Lynch was fully entitled to the floor privilege. He had served 1 number of terms in congress from Mississippi. Lynch was admitted. Strange as it may seem, this very John R. Lynch, who experienced such iifficulty in being admitted to the floor pf the house, a privilege to which the customs of the house entitled him, was twenty-eight years ago the temporary chairman of the Republican national convention at Chicago, a posiTho Result. “It is queer how successful Jack Jaggs is in borrowing money. But then everybody like him because he has such a breezy way with him.” "I suppose that is why ne is able to raise the wind.” In Washington Society. “I wonder hoyr Miss Gabber man*ged to sprain her wrist?” “She was conversing with a distinguished Russian diplomat yesterday and tried to take the words out of his jaoutb <”■—Puck.

tlon to which ijtie greatest politicians in the country aspired not long since, And, stranger still, the man whos« motion placed Lynch in that position was Theodore Roosevelt, then a delegate from New York. HEAD OF NOTED GARDEN DIES. William R. Smith, for nearly slxtj years director of the National Botanic i Garden, died the other night in the lit I tie brick cottage within the gardens I which he had occupied since its coni struction before the days of the Civil I war. In the period of Mr. Smith’s tetn- | ure the national garden has developed I from a tiny flower garden to the largI est horticultural collection, public of j private, in America. Mr. {Smith was a native of Scotland, I born at Athlestone Falls, East Lothian, lin 1828, He acquired his earliest ’ knowledge of practical floriculture as ( a gardener’s helper on the estate oi ' Lord Abercrombie, near Sterling GasI tie. At sixteen he was attached to ths estate of the Duke of Athole at Dunkel in Berthshire. He came to the United States in 1853. After spending a months in Philadelphia he journeyed to Washington, where he was offered the post of chief gardener of the then new botanic gardens. He has occupied that position ever since. The Smith collection of the works ci Rpbert Burns and the historical, bio graphical and critical literature bear ing upon that Scotch poet is said to hf the most extensive in the world. Mr. Smith began his collection many yean? ago. It embraced nearly 1,000 volume and completely filled the walls of twe rooms in the cottage. Mr. Smith k» survived by his aged wife, who is M invalid. PROTECTION FOR THE SPONGB In view of the attention which hae * been given to the protection of seals | in the northern waters, it may be of \ interest to note action that congress is taking to protect a product of the tropic seas—the ordinary sponge of commerce. It might be a matter of as much economic distress —if not more —ta have the sponge of universal use exterminated as would be the case it the seals were eliminated. Anyway congress has taken alarm and the senate committee on fisheries has reported out a bill already jp&ssecr by tha house, to prevent illegal fishing In Florida and gulf waters and at the same time extend the open season for the catching of sponges. Probably not more than one person in a thousand has known there was such a ; thing as an open or closed season foi sponges, but such is the fact. Although permitting a larger catch of sponges than has been possible in the past protection is to be afforded for the young sponges, the taking of them to be prohibited until they are at least five inches in diameter. “ARTICLES” OF WAR REVISED. A general revision of “The Articlee as War,” under which the conduct oi the army has been governed for more than a century, has just been completed by Judge-Advocate CrcAvder after a year’s hard work. Secretary Stimson approves the work, and is anxious to see the new “articles” put into oper» tion by act of congress. Although service ’conditions hava changed greatly, there never has beea a comprehensive revision of the “articles.” General Crowder has retained the provisions of the old code which have withstood the test of experience, correcting the notoriously unsyste matic and unscientific features. One of the most important changet is the proposed creation of an interme diate court to deal with that large proportion of cases midway between tht grade of offenses calling for dismissal dishonorable discharge or detention tc be disposed of by general court-mar tial, and the minor offenses calling foevery light punishment now’ dealt wi?i by summary courts. U. S. WOMEN WELL DRESSED Mme. Vassilieff, wife of the naval attache of the Russian embassy in Washington, and one of the most beautifully gowned women in the diplomatic set, says that in no country has she seen so many well-dressed women as in America. She does not mean American women are extravagant and wasteful, but that Americas women have the knack of dressing neatly and attractively, of making a gown of comparatively cheap material look graceful. She does not agrea with several members in the dipla matic set that Frenchwomen are tha best dressed in the world. LITTLE AT A TIME. A man in Kittery, Me., has just for warded a $2 bill to President Taft foi deposit in the conscience fund. Ha has been at this for more than a yea: and sends $2 a month. I SHe writes: “1 am sorry to keep troubling you in thia matter, but I am anxious that all money reach its proper destination.’ He is evidently a laborer, but it li not known in what way he has cheated the United States treasury. Not the Same Thing. “My wife, dear doctor, thinks sh« must go to the Riviera for fter health. Isn’t there some other remedy for hei illness?” “Yes, I can cure the illness, but 1 can’t cure your wife.”—Fliegenda ISlaetter. Really Quite Painful. “Is Grabbit stingy?” “Well, I’d hate to say he’s stingy but parting with a dollar is a terribla strain on his nervous system.” Labor-Saving Suggestion. Mrs. Bacon —I see that to an Illinoit vroman has been granted a patent on a screw hook, made of a single pleca | of wire, so shaped that it selves ai a shade-roller bracket and curtain pole-holder at the same time.” Mr. Bacon —Too bad the lad, didn’t go a step farther and make II to button a woman’s dress up tIM back. When a millionaire dies it generally develops that he w T as worth about SIOO,OOO, and that he had been paying taxes on a valuation of S2O,O(XX

TAILOR DIES HERO OF WDEiTir Hunchback Who Had Learned All That Sermon on Mount Had to Teach. LIVED LIKE A HERMIT Crippled George Kramer qf New York a Voluntary Exile for 17 Years That Fellow Man Might Behefit—Called It Duty. New York. —George Kramer was found, dead the other day in a dark room at 317 Furman street. Brooklyn. He was a mute hero of the “white death.” Kramer, handicapped in life by a twisted, puny body, was a tailor in past years. He worked at his trade, doubled up on a bench in -a dimly lighted loft, until 17 years ago two red spots grew on his cheeks and his deformed spine began to be racked with a merciless cough. For a time the little tailor kept a stout heart and toiled at his bench, but meanwhile read in the books of the “white death” and he became convinced of his duty. “I will stop work,” he told his employer/ “and I will shut myself up. It is dangerous for others that I should be abroad; that they; (should work at the same bench with me. Goodby.” So George Kramer, the hunchback who had learned all that the Sermon on ■ the Mount had to teach, went to live alone —that others might not. be infected with the virute of the white death. He had saved some money, He carefully computed how long, with infinite care, that money might pro vide the bare necessities of life, and ha set the order of his life by the hard tally of dollars and cents. , He had one room on the second floor of the Furman street house. Tc that room he kept by day, never showing himself to the other tenants in, the house. Most of the people there only knew that the “coughing man” lived in that little room, whose blinds were always closed. But. at night—late at night, when no one was on the street but the police- ’ r r r r -.wM 9 rr r rrr<■l r f r r /•idlfli .1 'i- ‘ill'A A liolßsrln ' lill '‘i si i i j j. I ! i ! ®lil I 'I ■ ii Walked Through Back Streets. men—George Kramer used to down from his retreat and take walks through the back streets —alone. All others, he reasoned, were in bed. and safe from the peril that was always with him. So George Kramer used to walk at night, with the white death ever at his elbow. • The years • went by, and then Mrs. Caroline Walsh moved into the Furman street house. Mrs. Walsh is a mother; she has a great mother love, which means love for all. She got. to know the “coughing man” by conversations through the panels of his door. She saw his face rarely. But she heartened him —this mother, who was the only one in the house to think, except with loathing, of the “coughing man.” Mrs. Walsh used to step to the door almost every morning and ask if" there was anything she or her children could do for Kramer —any little errands. -Usually they would go to the grocery store for him and leave the food outside the closed door, because Kramer insisted that they should not come near him. A few days ago Mrs. Walsh and the children went out of town. When they returned, and before she opened her pwn door Mrs. Walsh knocked at the door of the “coughing man.” No answer. More knocks, and still no answer. Then the janitor broke down the locked door. The man who had walked alone with • the white death for 17 years had consented to go to a far country with his grim companion. The only possession of value he left behind him was $4. By just $4 had the “coughing man” overcomputed that margin of necessity which had been the measure and the, iron bound of his life of sickness. Only Half Body Perspires. Central Village, Conn.—An employee of one of the factories here, amed Van Nessa, has furnished a puzzling problem for the doctors. The man perspires on only one side of his body, the other side being dry as a bone. Asked what fie thought was the reason for this peculiar condition Van Ness said:. “Well, my father was French and my mother German, and possibly the German dried up thei French part of me.” Wants Law to Compel Operations. Philadelphia.—Dr. E. A. Spltzka, the eminent brain specialist, defends compulsory operations upon crippled, and defective children, and vigorously' protests the decision of Judg> Sul»berger that the parents' decision, should govern. He asserts that sucly operations should be made compuli eory by legislative enactment.