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II ADD ABOUT THE METROPOLIS Sleeping in the Parks Rather Hard on These Piaces—Not Exactly the Be ginning of Socialism. NEW YORK—The metropolis is fairly along in its outdoor period of the year, and whether any considerable proportion of 4,000,000 people live outdoors or in is a matter of great pictorial significance. The aspect of the city changes won derfully. Also the outdoor period brings with it many problems. The department of health sits up night over new questions—they are always new, old as they are. Those having a care for street encumbrances are hard pressed. Officials assigned to prevent the crowding of fire-escapes with things that fire-escapes were not built to hold are on their rounds of inspection. Possibly more laws are broken in summer than in winter, and more officials are out of town or are tired in sum mer man at outer times. New Yoi-k police justices continue in an increasing degree to temper the wind to the shorn lamb. Hucksters, peddlers and beggars are leniently dealt with. Just now the police are much puzzled by the new ruling of Magistrate Crane and others. The other day a man was arrested for sleeping in the park and for being definitely disrespectful to the grass and bushes. The magis trate discharged hint. "The parks belong to the people,” he said. This scene has been repeated. Last summer in the height of the worst hot .spell New York ever had the rules as to public places were temporarily suspended. Possibly they will never again be as rigid as they were. The thousands of people who took up their beds and went to sleep in Central park found It a pleasant experience, though it was said by the commissioner to he rough on the park. This year those who may choose to sleep in the park, or in minor squares, are not likely to be severely puuished for doing so, nor is there likely to be a very severe discrimination between those who leave a room to try the park grass and those who are simply tramps and have no other place. If it comes to the pinch the new socialistic spirit may give the tramp particular benefit of the doubt. A TELEPHONE SYSTEM THAT WILL HAVE NO “LEAKS.” i ne ngnt over tne teiepnone question, one that is costing both the holders of the present system and the advocates of the new one a great deal of money by way of advertising, is still on and seems a good way from settlement. It is the same contest that has been taken up in many parts of the country. After all New York is very conservative—to put the case mildly. A new thing is not certain of having its first chance in the metropolis. Most of its experiments are with "sure things." Speaking of telephone reminds me of the new switchboard which is likely to be revolutionary, since it will accomplish no less a feat than shut ting the telephone out of the conversation. In the new switchboard wires and plugs are so arranged that wnen the operator has connected the subscriber with the number he wants the conversation is to be heard by the two parties in inter est and by them only, if the telephone girl sought to listen she raus* break the connection. The value of this secret telephone system in the case of big institutions in Wall street and out of Wall street, which have their own “Central,” will be apparent. Neither the central office nor the local switchboard central is taken into any secrets. Thus a message may be inviolate in its secrecy be yond either the present telephone system or the telegraph system, both of which are notoriously subject to “leaks." THE GAS TRUST WITH TEARS IN ITS EYES Just at this moment the public is more excited over the gas fight than over the telephone fight. The situation might look to an inhabitant of Mars, for instance, as funny as a comic opera—though whether a comic opera in Mars is really funny neither H. E. Wells nor Prof. Lowell has yet told us. Here is the legislature fixing 80 cents a thou sand feet as the price of New York gas. Here is the gas trust protesting that .his is confiscation, unconstitutional, ruinous and other things. Here is the gas trust in court with tears in its eyes after the privilege of collecting the full dollar and holding the 20 cents safely in cold storage for the consumer in case the final appeal shall show that the legislature really had the r;ght to fix the price of gas at 80 cents. Then here are two of the uuewug uj uata up nuu wouy cuuub^i auyuilt* WHO Snail reillSe to pay more than SO cents, or who shall be ill-treated by the removal of a meter. There is another trouble; There are thousands of quarter-in-the-s!ot meters in New York. You put in a quarter and the light wavers and leaves you when a quarters worth is gone. Now, the meters have been figured foi dollar gas. How is the gas company to be forced to change these meters which call for no gas bills and leave all figuring out of the matter, except the figuring of the wheels inside? This is a burning question. -This,” said a sad New Yorker yesterday, “is the real beginning of social ism.” The sad New Yorker forgot that the rate of car fare is fixed by law. that many commodities are priced by the legislature; that hours of labor, age oi laborers, hours of sleep, the treatment of children, the day of worship and i vast number of other things are determined by statute. So that If this is jocialism it isn't quite the beginning of it. THE ATHLETIC EVIL AND EXERCISE FOR THE WORKING GIRL. nmie I\ew noru: nas neen whooping it up for Martin Sheridan, the mighty cop who hurled the discus to victory at the Olympic games, and for some of his fellow members of the American team —a large number of them Irish, by the way—some of the a'hletic incidents at Vasaar and other girls’ colleges have been provoking discussion here, espe cially in view.of the remarks on athletics for girls made by Mayor Van Dyck, principal of the Wood ward high school, Cincinnati, O. Vassar has never regarded bloomers as improper, in fact it i*ad begun to appear that no one remained would condemn the “gym” costume so often commented upon as an ideal costume for women, leaving ath letics out of the question. The pretest comes from Mount Holyoke, from Smith, from Wellesley, that < ntuxjicic iiut a uau ntuuciu, ii_tn. ouiiie ui me cieveres* athletic girls are some of the cleverest students. Naturally the girl students themselves are ready to protest. Martha Gardiner, of Vassar, for example, insists that her healthy interest in athletics heiped rather than hindered her with her studies, that she broke the hurdle record without losing flesh or “points.” The same is true if Dorothy Clarke who broke the record in the running high jump. Only a few girls, as only a few men, have the opportunity for specializ ing in athletics, but all alike are interested in a kind of life very different from that led by the average wage-earning girl in the metropolis. Who will suggest a really practicable remedy? THE PARKHTTRST CHTJRCH, OLD—NEW. Anouier isew York landmark is to go and wjfl begin going in a few days. It will be a’little harder to recognize Madison Square without the old Madison Square Presbyterian church, bettei known to New Yorkers and to sightseers as Parkhurst’s church. The valuable corner occu pied by the edihce in which so many pungent words have been spoken by the American" Isaiah was wanted by the Metropolitan Life Insurance company whose stately building occupies all the remainder of the block. By an arrangement with the church society the company built a new church on the opposite corner, facing the square as does the old church. This new church, now complete, is a remark able example of the modern tendency in churct au.uuci.iaic. xc in a. wmjpiuuj return to tne Greet* temple stylo, without spire, turret or tower. A beautiful series of column' occupy the Fourth avenue front. Dr. Parkhurst himself has sailed for Europe and his pulpit is now occu pied by his assistant. Rev. Dr. Montgomery. Dr. Parkhurst, after a briei sojourn in Wales, will go to his summer home in Switzerland. He is accom panied by Mrs. Parkhurst. The 'doctor's departure coincides with the announcement of a new vici crusade for this city. There was a time when this energetic preacher was is the forefront of any such movement that was really to accomplish something OWEN LANGDON. HORSE AND HORSELESS. -—— The Animal and the Auto Each Bo the Other an Occasional Good Turn. A farmer in Cadiz. Ind., recently jacked up his automobile to serve in lieu of a broken engine in the shelling of corn and cutting of fodder for his live stock and horses. The latter par took of their share of the feed with out showing any hard feeling toward their deadly rival, the auto. One man who has been touring the ,:ounrty says that the horses have ac cepted the automobile more gracefully than the farmers have. He tells the story of an automobil ist who met an elderly couple driving a skittish horse which decidely object ed to passing the unknown vehicle The driver of the car stopped to offer his aid, but the man declined it with the remark: “If you'll lead my old woman by, I guess the hoss and I can make it all fight.” Another horse and horseles yarn :omes from a man in Oregon. He ;ays: “When I bought my car, I marveled that the company could sell it for {1,550. Now I marvel that they could ;ell it at any price. Marveling is the cheapest part of the proposition, I Ind. "My particular marvel out In my jarn reminds me of the man who built so much stone fence in one day that AUSTRIAN’S DISCOVERY. Vienna Physician Learns a Way to Watch Movements of Diges tive Organs. Science, which is fast unveiling all mysteries, has now succeeded in de termining by actual observation the movements and qualities of the diges tive organs a subject hitherto limited to chemical experiments and the test tube. This latest discovery of the Austrian doctors, which is really a peep into the stomach, is the result of long and patient experiment in the Rontgen laboratory of the Vienna gen eral hospital. The method adopted is quite simple, writes a Vienna corre spondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. After a moderate meal the patient swallows a tiny capsule made of gold beaters’ skin and filled with bismuth powder. He is then exposed to the X rays, and the photograph obtained shows in the abdominal cavity a sharp ly defined intensely black cruciform speck. This is the bismuth capsule, which is neither soluble nor petrable by the X rays. A second exposure takes place six or seven hours later, and in the mean time the stomach has exerted its digestive powers upon the bismuth capsule. If the same speck appears in the second picture it shows that the stomach has not been able to digest the capsule, but if it is no longer visible it indicates that diges tion has already taken place, as the capsule must have been dissolved by HEAD OF RUSSIAN UPPER HOUSE. The council of the Russian empire, or upper house of the imperial douma elected Count Saisky president. t took him two days to walk bark to where he began. My car will take me —sometimes—so far from home in two tours that it takes the rest of the day for me to drive home with a provi dentially hired horse. his mother’s Teaching. Didn't Believe in Capital Punishment for a Good and Sufficient Reason. A southern judge tells of the disquali fication of a juryman who came before him. The case was a capital one, and the lanky backwoodsman declared de termined opposition to capital punish ment. Looleing at him sternly and in somewhat suggestive of wrath, the judge asked the fellow if he did not think there were conditions so extra ardinary as to warrant the hanging of the offender. He said he did not be lieve anything could make him assent to such a verdict. “But will your honor let me ex plain?" said the disqualified citizen. “I’d like to give the court my rea sons." “I don’t wish to hear any explana tion from you. Go and sit down.” “Excuse me, judge, but you must near my reason." “Well, then, give it. and go along with you.” "The reason I am opposed to capital punishment, your honor, is that my old mammy taught me it were a'sin to kill anything that wasn’t fltten to eat.” Big Bag. Eva—Catharine used to be quite a nimrod. Edna—Ah, indeed! Did she ever bag any big game? “I should say so. Her husband weighs 318 pounds.”—Chicago Daily News. the gastric juicps before the bismuth could be distributed in the stomach. The doctors declare that the length of time required for the dissolving of the ■ capsule gives clear and valuable evi dence not only as to the time required for the dissolving of the capsule gives clear and valuable evidence not only as to tile quickness of the patient's di gestion, but also as regards the quali ties of the gastric juices. It is be lieved that these experiments will ba very valuable for determining the ef fect of various medicaments and thera peutic methods upon the digestive or gans. Talent in the Rough. Frith, the English painter, tells this story of a fellow artist: “Huskison | was an extraordinarily clever fellow, : who died quite young. He used to | paint imaginative pictures, fairies and that sort of thing. He was entirely uneducated. At a big dinner party at Cneltenham I heard Lord Northwick ask him all down the length of the table who bought his last picture. Was it a dealer? ‘No, my lord,,' said Huskison, 'it were a gent.’ ” “Scotch” in "Commons.” There is always a bountiful supply j of Scotch whiskey provided for the British house of commons. There are | S70 members and the huge vat which I holds their whiskey contains 80o gai I ions, specially distilled for them. The contents of the vat are never permit | ted to fall below a certain level. It is j refilled two or three times during I every parliamentary session. No Possibility of Mistake. Gladys—How did Flossie Skimmer horn’s linen shower turn out? j May belle—it was a complete failure. I a nasty little drizzle kept nearly ! everybody from going.—Chicago Trib j une. HAYMAKING UNDER EYE OF LAW. An assessor of tithes must value every crop in Macedonia before it is taken from the fleld, and often the crops are allowed to rot as they stand before the official comes round, and the peasant thus loses the result of his year’s labors. Occasionally the tithe collectors take a soldier to protect them, and to »ee that none of the crop is secretly sold or hidden before it has been val ued Wii'iston's Heart Trouble BY S. E. XISER. Wiliston was a busy man and ha had all the life insurance he was able to carry. For such a man it is exas perating to be bothered day after day by insurance solicitors. There was one man in particular who made it hard for Wiliston to be patient. This man had once stopped a runaway horse and thus perhaps saved Wilis ton’s wife’s aunt from being killed. He had not risked his life by leaping in front of the horse and grasping the bit, the truth being that he had stood in the street and waved an umbrella at the runaway steed, thus causing the animal to turn and break its neck by colliding with a tree. Wiliston’s wife’s uncle had been compelled to pay $60 to the liveryman from whom the horse had been hired, but the Wilistons felt that the insurance man had perhaps saved their aunt's life, and it was, of course, impossible for Wiliston to be curt with the hero when he came around to solicit busi ness. Wiliston explained frankly that lie had all the insurance he wanted, but, as everyone who has ever had to deal with an insurance solicitor knows, that kind of an explanation is use less. It merely gives the solicitor a chance to continue the argument by asking for permission to convince you that you cannot understand how much insurance you want and that you don’t know how much you can afford to carry. Well, Wiliston had been pestered by this Mr. Hossford until he felt like offering a premium to anyone who could suggest a plan whereby he might get rid of the nuisance with out seeming to be rude or ungrateful. It was at about this time that the Wilistons were invited to dinner at the home of one of their neighbors. When Wiliston had taken his place at the table he saw his plate begin to rise and fall in an uncanny man ner. At first he • bought the earth must be quaking, but, steadying him self, he found that only the plate was heaving and rocking, so the earth quake theory had to be abandoned. Before he had called the attention of anybody else to the queer actions of the plate he happened to look at hi3 host, and then he knew that some kind of a joke was being played on him. Later he found that a flexible bulb attached to a slender rubber tube and operated by the playful gentle man at the head of the table had caused the bobbing of the plate. It was then that Wiliston had an in spiration. He borrowed the rubber contrivance from his friend and took it to his office. In the course of two or three days Mr. Hossford, the in surance man. called again to explain the admirable provisions of -. new policy that his company had just be gun to issue. After listening patient ly for awhile, Wiliston said: “Yes, I can see that this is a grand, good policy and I'd like to have it. but the fact is that I couldn't ge‘ it if I wanted it. I’ve been concealing something from you that I suppose I ought to have told you long ago Your company wouldn’t accept me as a risk.’’ Hossford would not be convinced. He wanted to know whether either ol Wiliston’s parents had died of con sumption and when he was told that neither of them had he declared that there would he no trouble about se curing a policy. “You have been accepted by several other companies,” he said; “j-ou have a fine physique and with such a fam ily history as yours there is no rea son in the world why any company should turn yon down.” "Weil, you bring your doctor around here.” Wiliston replied, “and if he says I’m all right I’ll take out one of these new $.">,000 policies.” The doctor and Hossford came around late in the afternoon and Wil iston at once signified his willingness to undergo an examination. “I don’t think." he said, addressing the physician, “that it will be neces sary for me to take off my clothes My trouble is of such a nature that you will easily be able to detect it Just put your oar against my left side doctor, and tell me what you think ol my case." -An, neu, mill win uo to o? gin with if you wish it so,” the doctor answered, as he turned back the flap of Wiliston’s coat and bent to place his ear against the subject's chest. Half a second later he straightened I up suddenly, with a troubled look upon his countenance. “Ah! H'm!" he said; “this is ex traordinary; jus*, let me listen to that again.” He didn't listen long. When he straightened up the second time he shook his head dubiously and gave Wiliston a look of pity. “Tell me the worst, doctor.” the afflicted man said. “I will try to bear it. Do you think there is anything the matter with my heart?” “I am sorry to say that there is,” the doctor admitted. “To be candkl with you. Mr. Wilifson. it’s very se rious. I would advise you to have all your business affairs so arranged that your family would be as well taken care of as possible in case of your sudden death, and don't under any cir cumstances run to catch cars or wa’k upstairs or do anything requiring the least exertion. I tell you this because you have asked me to speak plainly.” As Hossford and the physician were leaving, the solicitor turned to Wilis ton and, putting out a hand, said: “I’m mighty sorry, not that I care anything specially about losing the chance to write you a policy, but as a friend. Be careful not to do th; things the doctor has warned you against." “Thanks, old man. Good-by, and if we never meet again, remember that I have thoroughly appreciated your kindness.” When he was alone again Wiliston pulled out of his shirt sleeve a slen der rubber tube tnat had a flexible bulb at each esd, and then sighed a long, long sigh of glad relief.—Chicago Record-Herald. Whistle for Digestion. ‘‘Whistling for half an hour aftei meals.” says a well-known womaj whistler, “is the best possible aid to dfc gestion.” BEAR ESCAPES FROM PARK ZOO AND LUNCHES ON GIRL’S GOWN Young Bruin Causes a Panic Among the Crowds— Delicate Feminine Lingerie to His Liking—Re captured After Thrilling Chase. Chicago.—Billy, the lord of the Ma lay bear family at Lincoln park, broke from his cage one Sunday afternoon recently and after causing a panic among the hundreds of men, women and children that crowded the animal houses fed on the skirt worn by Miss Emma Boyer, daughter of an Evans ton justice of the peace. Billy possessed an appetite that was little short of marvelous. He wasn’t content when he had finished the low er ruffle nor was he satisfied when he had devoured the first flounce. But he kept on and on until it seemed Miss Boyer would be lucky if she escaped wTith a waist. And Billy proved he could eat while an a dead run. It mustn't be imag ined that Miss Boyer wras standing there inviting the bear to feed on her garments. Neither was she strok ing the fur of his back. But she was running as rapidly as she could and Billy was compelled to trot at a lively rate to keep up. Miss Lillian Cobsy, cousin of Miss Boyer, was more fortunate. When she saw the animal she threw up her hands, yelled and fainted. And the bear, thinking her an inanimate ob ject, sniffed and chased Miss Boyer some more. There were exciting scenes in the park during the afternoon. Billy never would take a red ribbon for amiability. He is shrewd for a bear, ,as was proved by the manner of his escape. Louis Sclxlenker, assistant animal keeper, fed the beasts at noon. The feeding of the bears is quite an event in the animal house and the throng of men, women and children surround ed the cage when the Malays received their food. And that gave Billy the opportunity of proving that bears be long in the class with the sellers of green goods. He slunk to the left of the door as the animal keeper came up. Schlenker tossed the food to the right and as his hand entered the cage the bear leaped upon it. He dug his claws into the keeper's wrist and followed with his teeth. Schlen ker hastily withdrew his arm and as he did so the bear leaped from the cage. Pandemonium reigned. Women caught their children in their arms and ran to the door. But he was a courageous little beast and he growled a few times and the people fell apart in their endeavor to give him room for passage. Then the bear caught sight of Miss ' Boyer and her new spring gown. Miss Boyer is willing to admit that she doesn't possess as much curiosity as she did. for it was her eagerness that led her into trouble. When she saw the men and women falling over one another in their efforts to secure running room she rushed to the en trance of the animal house. “Help!” shrieked Miss Boyer, and turned to run. “Assistance!” shrieked Miss Cosby, and fainted. By this time Miss Boyer was run ning. Her course led her through sev eral bushes of shrubbery, but she didn’t mind if she could but shake WORKMAN MADE MANIAC ~! BY AWFUL EXPERIENCE Trapped in Underground Tunnel, He Faces Death for Three Hours_ F.aves When Rescued. Milwaukee. Wis— Imprisoned in the third compartment of the city water company’s Knapp street tunnel, under the Milwaukee river, with water slowly pouring in through a gap above his head and filling the lock in which he stood. John Slater, a laborer, faced death for nearly three hours the other I TUB WATER ROSE ALMOST TO HIS SHOULDERS. morning until rescued by tlii heroic work of Capts. Peter Lancaster and Harris G. Giddings, of the Milwaukee fire department. With six companions Slater was caught while working in the tunnel at 11 o'clock in the morning, when a sandpocket above the tunnel gave way, leaving a gaping hole through which water poured upon them. All but Slater escaped. In turning he fell on the slimy bottom of the tunnel. Rushing water closed the heavy iron door of the diaphragm and he wa3 locked within before he could arise. When assistance was first called the fire department wa3 summoned. As soon as he reached the scene Capt. Lancaster descended to the bottom of the shaft, where he was soon joined by Capt. Giddings and Assistant Chief Lawrence Hanlon. After repeated at tempts the two captains succeeded in forcing open the door and shortly after 1:15 o’clock Slater was dragged out more dead than alive. During the terrible ordeal Slater | the bear. But she couldn’t. For the ; first flounce had convinced Billy that garment was made of the material he wanted. He reached for a flounce. Men fleet of foot and with stout hearts were willing to come to her assistance, but when they arrived she was several yards ahead and increas ing the distance. Some people may have an impression that a bear is a cumbersome animal and unwieldy. Miss Boyer, however, has no such im pression of a bear. She admits she isn’t qualified to speak as to his grace fulness, but she is positive he is a most agile beast, and she is just as certain she wouldn't have had enough of that dress to serve as a souvenir if the assistant trainer had not be thought himself of a trick he learned while a cowboy in the west. In those days Schlenker was looked upon as the best wdelder of a lasso in Montana. He secured a rope, made BILLY WAS MAKING A MEAL OP HER DRESS. a noose and started in pursuit. Billy had devoured four flounces and as many ruffles and had two of each within sight when Schlenker thrdw the rope. It became taut and Billy's idea of freedom was dashed to. the earth. His return was ignominious. He was still angry enough to fight, so the keeper and willing men by the score dragged him across the park. They pushed him into the cage and he was compelled to receive the contemptuous glances of his mate. Miss Boyer’s condition was not greatly improved, however, for her escort had been left behind in the chase and he carried the car fare. Miss Cosby was just recovering from her unconscious condition and the Evanston young lady thought her plight a sad one. And she was exceed ingly happy when the young man ar rived and she and her friend could board a car for Evanston. The bears did not suffer from the attention they received during the re mainder of the afternoon. lost his mind, raving like a maniac. When he was brought to the surface, he was blue and numbed from expo sure to the cold water, which had risen nearly to his shoulders during the three hours’ battle. Staring wild ly and muttering unintelligibly, he was hurried to the emergency hospi tal, where it is believed that he will recover without serious results. FIRST OF THE CHAUFFEURS Were Men Who in Fantastic Garb Terrorized the Buralites of France. cnauneurs existed long before there were automobiles. History tells us that along about the year 1795 there sprang up in France, principally in the eastern and central regions, fantastically dressed men with their faces blackened with soot and their eyes carefully concealed, who gained admittance to farmhouses and other isolated dwellings at night and committed all kinds of depredations and outrages. They had an outrageous habit espe cially, from which they obtained the name that posterity has preserved for them. They first garoted their vic tims, and dragged them in front of a great fire, where they burned the soles of their feet. Then they demanded of them where their money and jewels were concealed. Such interrogatories could scarcely be resisted. It is from this that is derived the appellation of chauffeur, which once so terrified old ladies, but which at present evokes in us only cheerful and pleasing thoughts of automobiiism and of voyages and excursions at 25 and 30 miles an hour, in which there is noth ing but the roads and paved streets that are scorched. Iowa Baby Is a Chameleon. Des Moines, la.—A baby who changes color three times every 24 hours is a curiosity in Des Moines, The strange child is Eli Rami, the 14 months-old son of Count Natho. who married an American girl in Quincy. 111., three years ago. When the little fellow awakens at sunrise he is a pretty, pink, fair-complexioned boy; at noon he changes color, and within an hour he is of the dark ginger color of his princely ancestor. At night he becomes an alabaster white. The mix ture of blood is said to be accountable for the strange phenomenon. Electric Generators. In two decades the capacity of elec tric generators has increased more than a hundredfold, while they pro duce power with four times the former efficiency. The largest generator of 20 years ago was the 100 kilowat dyna mo, belted to a 150-horsepower en gine, but dynamos now being built have a maximum capacity of 12,000 kilowats.