The Virginia enterprise. [volume], April 12, 1912, Image 10

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Milliners say that the size of wom­
en's hats will be smaller this spring.
But what about the bills?
The war between the hobble skirt
and the high car step goes on in many
cities with varying results.
The weather man should realize
that anticipation is nearly as bad as
realization and let up on it
The firecracker trust in China can
be trusted to make the republic's in­
dependence a day a noisy holiday.
An oculist tells us that alcohol
hurts the eyesight, and yet we have
known it to make men see double.
Burglars in Gary, Ind., stole a house
the other night. Next thing we know
they will kidnap the village lockup.
The woman who is dazzling east­
ern society by wearing diamonds on
her slippers Is certainly well heeled.
Hens can be taught to talk, accord­
ing to a Washington scientist, but
what we want is less talk and more
eggs.
Fighting a duel with wax bullets is
a noble sport, but why not use per­
fume sprays and make it all the rage
In Paris?
A New Jersey man has been sent
to Jail for stealing a loaf of bread, but
think of all the advertising he is get­
ting out of it
Football rules have been changed
again, but up to date no step has
been taken to equip the rooters with
Maxim silencers.
A doctor tells us that anger gen­
erates sugar In the blood, and yet we
have often met amiable men with
sweet dispositions.
A Missouri court has granted a
woman $2 for the loss of her hus­
band's affections. The husband prob­
ably feels flattered.
Every wedding is declared to be a
culmination of a romance. It is use­
less to try to change the pet phrases
of the newspaper man.
An Austrian archduke is to visit
New York during tobe coming summer.
More trouble for those on the outer
fringe of the Four Hundred.
The Japanese ambassador tells us
that the world la at peace. Aside
froru the fact that there are a few
wars in progress, he is right.
With the per capita money of the
country down to $34.61, a good many
people will have to be content with
their last year's automobiles.
A woman writer tells us that chew­
ing gum steadies the nerves, but it
is more than likely that she derive*
more money from chewing the rag.
A family of six has lived for three
months on $2 a week, says a Boston
paper. It is easier to guess what they
didn't have to eat than what the) did.
One of the most cheerful aspects of
the Chinese situation is the regularity
with which Wu Ting Fang lands a big
Job with each change of administra­
tion.
A Yale professor rises to remark
that $12.61 a week is enough. We pre­
sume that all he gets over and above
that amount is turned back Into the
Yale treasury.
Wearing jewels In the heel Is said
to be gaining popularity, but only
among high steppers.
The race on higher education Is ex­
pensive. Yale is building this year
a $700,000 stadium.
All musical instruments are de­
nounced as immoral by a New Jersey
minister. We would be pleased to
have him tell us what harm a bass
drum ever did.
Another prophet comes to the front
with the prediction that the world
will end in the year 4237. We here­
by indite a message of sympathy to
the citizens of 4237.
A New Jersey woman has been
brought into court for carrying a re­
volver. It won't do to permit the
women to take their leap year privi­
lege too seriously.
A Pennsylvania Enoch Arden od his
reappearance was promptly sent to
jail. This course followed, as a rule,
might tend largely to decrease these
poetic resurrections.
A set of fanatical Russian women
tried to crucify a man whom they had
adopted as their "savior." As he call­
ed the police we take it that he was
merely willing to live, not die the
part.
The New York surrogate has re­
fused to upset the will of a rich spin­
ster who believed that her cat was a
reasoning being and possessed a soul.
An old established belief of that sort!
dating back to the days of an­
cient Egypt, is surely entitled to some
respect.
A Kansas judge says it is a crime
to marry on $9 a week, but the crime
is mitigated when the girl's father Is
well to do.
The testimony that tips are decreas­
ing, given in court by a waiter, should
serve as an incentive to the public to
cease the demoralizing practice of
giving tips. A large proportion of the
people who give them do so because
it is the fashion. If it is not so much
the fashion as it was, the greater the
encouragement to this class of tippers
to desist
N- i-.
NEW
YORK.—Superior Court Jus­
tice Lehman said the other day
that a situation which confronted him
In the county court house was unique
in his experience, although there have
always been possibilities of it in con­
nection with Juries deliberating on Fri­
day night.
Judge Lehman and a jury had been
hearing for several days a suit of
George Rae against the Pioneer Fruit
company to recover $10,000 on a con­
tract for services. The case went
to the jury about four o'clock the jury
day afternoon. At six o'clock the jury
had not yet reached a verdict and Jus­
tice Lehman sent in word that they
might remain until about eight o'clock
and then sign a sealed verdict.
Juror Quits Work at Sunset Friday
Juror No. 11, who was John M.
Carver, told the court officer that un­
der no circumstances would he re­
main after six o'clock because he was
a Seventh Day Adventist, and as it
was sundown his Sabbath had begun.
Justice Lehman sent for Carver, had
him sworn and then sent him to the
witness chair.
"Why is it you refuse to continue
longer with this jury?" asked the court.
"Don't you know it is your duty to
remain until the court excuses you?"
"I cannot continue here any longer
because it is against my conscience,"
Here's the Champion of All Lazy Men
CHICAGO.—The
great West side lost
one of its most picturesque citi­
zens—temporarily—the other day.
Gustave Schillinger, who existed—it
would be rank hyperbole to use a
word implying so much activity as
"lived" in Gustave's connection—at
1466 North Paulina street, was sen­
tenced by Judge Goodnow to the
bridewell for six months.
Before sending him away Judge
Goodnow paid a tribute to Gustave
for his unexampled skill in loafing.
"You are the most monumental ex­
ample of lazy man It has ever been
my privilege to meet," said the court.
"You are one of those fellows who
were born tired and never got rested."
Persons ambitious to fill Schillin
ger's championship, now that he has
been condemned to toil, may well
pause as they consider his achieve­
ments as they were brought out in
court
Here are some of the records:
For nine years he has done abso­
lutely no work, except what he was
compelled to do at Hie bridewell.
During these nine years his wife
and eight children provided him with
food, clothes and spending money,
while his mother provided him with
a house, rent free.
It was his custom to wake up late
in the morning and send for his
breakfast If there was no money in
the house for food, he would send one
of his children to his mother with a
note asking for 25 or 50 cents.
If his mother happened to be out
of funds, he arose and got work for
the children, stringing beads. The
children could earn from 25 to 50
KANSAS
Wyant gave the first newts of the
robbery to Judge Porterfleii in the
juvenile court the other morning
when he was up for failinf to provide
shoes for his ten-year-old son, Jesse,
and to pay the boy's board.
Wyant is a laborer, a ditch digger
and garbage hauler, who made $23,
000 in cash, besides notes and real
estate, by squatting on valuable
said Mr. Carver. "Not only would it
be a violation of my religious Vowsto
sign any paper on the Sabbath, but
am not permitted even to deliberate
or to consider any matter outside Of
my religion."
"Then I shall have to excuse you,"
said the court.
Justice Lehman then asked EmU
Schultze and a member of John Ei.
Stanchfleld's law firm, who were coun­
sel in the case, what they wanted to
do, and they agreed to accept the ver­
dict of the other 11.
Word was then sent to the jury
room accordingly, but the court attend­
ant came hurrying back with the mes­
sage that two Hebrews on the jury
had notified him that their Sabbath
had begun at sundown and that they
couldn't sign any paper after siS
o'clock. The court then sent for the
Hebrews and questioned them with­
out swearing them. They told Jus­
tice Lehman that they were strictly
orthodox and couldn't violate the Sab­
bath.
"I am a Jew myself," Justice Leh­
man said, "but I have to lay aside my
religious beliefs for my public duties.
It is just as important for a Jew to do
his duty faithfully as a citizen as
to obey the laws of his church."
Hole in the Snow All That Was Left
CITY.—Twenty-three thou­
sand dollars had been stolen from
a hiding place on the river front near
the foot of Gillis street. There's no
doubt the big robbery was committed
The hole is there. You may see fr
yourself. The snow had been scraped
away and the dirt thrown to all sWes,
indicating that the robbers wo/ked
hurriedly when they looted $*rank
Wyant's cache near his home at the
foot of Gillis street.
Muzzle on a Goat Ends a Ticket Feast
MINNEAPOLIS-—Eating
his way
through trolley ropes and wires
into the affections of hundreds of
Minneapolis street railway employes,
"Near Stop Billy," goat mascot of the
street railway system, has lost his
prestige by an overt and underhanded
act which came near costing a score
of conductors their positions with the
street railway company. The con­
ductors were "Near Stop Billy's"
friends.
For two months conductors who
have hung their coats in the lounging
room at the shop have been missing
transfers. Whole books of transfers
have disappeared from pockets. The
men have been rebuked by the com­
pany heads. They have been unable
to explain.
Lute the other day Conductor Welch
hung his coat on a hook in the loung­
ing room and hid behind the door.
"Near Stop Billy" entered the room,
sniffed at the coat, looked around the
room, stuck his nose in the coat pock­
et. extracted a transfer book, ate it,
and walked sedately out
Later Then "Near Stop Billy" walk-
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jag
The two jurors then told the court
that if he would remain with them for
several hours in order that they might
agree, if possible, and obviate the ne­
cessity of signing a sealed verdict,
they would go back to the Jury room.
The court consented.
Shortly after eight o'clock the jur­
ors reported a verdict for the de­
fendant.
cents a day at this work. Schillinger
never strung any beads himself. He
got a comfortable chair and bossed
the Job.
The clapboards of the house were
falling off. When he was asked why
he didn't nail them up he coined an
epigram as follows:
"In the winter it's too cold when
it's warm there's no necessity."
The plumbing at Schillinger's iiouse
is frozen. A few weeks ago it was
pointed out to him that unless pre­
ventive measures involving a slight
amount of labor were taken the pipes
would burst.
"Who am I?" asked Schillinger, "to
interfere with nature? Let her take
her course."
Judge Goodnow heard ill this with
growing indignation. When the testi­
mony was all in he turned to the de­
fendant and asked:
"Have you anything to say?"
"No, I guess not," replied Schillin­
ger, languadly.
"Very well," said the judge, "now
I'm going to teach you the work
habit. Six months."
"O, judge," exclaimed Schillinger,
suddenly waking up. "It's too much.
I haven't done anything."
"That's just the trouble," comment­
ed the court."
switching property in the East Bot­
toms. As a squatter Wyant obtained
a title to ti-4 land and sold it. Later
he bought shares in a gold mine at
a cent share and sold out for 80
cents a .uhare. He has been in court
three femes for neglecting to provide
for kV little son since the first of the
3*a and found it necessary to bring
foi.vard a stronger excuse for his
W reliction.
"It's gone. All gone, judge," Wy
yiit whispered. "I had It hidden in a
hole—took it out of the bank and put
it there. You can see the hole down
there now, judge, where they stole
it from."
Judge Porterfield said he did not
believe the story, and his position was
substantiated by a probation officer
who said Wyant's neighbors had seen
him dig the hole on the river bank
and then walk away from It. They
did not know why he had dug the
hole and left it open. Wyant. was
given 24 hoars to buy clothing for the
boy and pay up a month's board bill.
He was in jail ten days several years
ago for the same offense. Wyant ad­
mitted he had $1,500 in loans and that
it was bringing him 30 per cent in­
terest
ed into the car shops expecting his
usual tribute of rope and wire he was
seized by the men he had counted his
friends. Despite his struggles he wes
thrown to the floor, and there, while
he bleated for mercy, he was forced
to undergo the only real humiliation a
goat knows. He was muzzled.
Then, as additional punishment,
Billy was thrown ins»de a ro] of tar
felt paper, the kind he had besn serv­
ed for dessert on holidays in the old
days. Billy couldn't eat the paper, he
couldn't even lick the tar. When he
was finally released he lowered his
head and made straight for the door.
The door was closed. Billy went
through. He is still going, or was. ac­
cording to the, latest bulletin which
Conductor Welch posted in the shoo*
FAMED AS A SOCIAL WORKER
When Katherine Bement Daris is
at home at Bedford, JM. Y., she super­
intends the State Reformatory for
Women, where bad girls are made
over into good ones. The making over
is a long, hard and difficult process
and some two years ago Miss Davis
felt that she must have a rest. So
she applied for a leave of absence and
sailed for Italy, sure that long days
of idleness in that sunny clime would
bring her the relaxation she so sore­
ly needed.
While she was In Syracuse, there
came the horror of the Messina
earthquake. A few hours later, refu­
gees from Messina began to arrive in
Syracuse. Wounded frightened al­
most to a state of insanity covered
at best with one or two scant gar­
ments homeless destitute and hun­
gry, men, women and children poured
into the city. Many travelers quietly
packed their grips and departed.
Within a few days four thousand
refugees had arrived, one thousand of whom were wounded. Every hospital
in the town was full to overflowing the barracks, halls and every available
building received their share of the injured. It was not Miss Davis' affair
she is an American. Besides, she was traveling for rest and pleasure. But
she did not pack her grip. Instead she sorted out its contents and, appro­
priating everything that might answer as bandages, set out for the hospitals.
For a few days she worked there, cleansing and dressing wounds, trying to
see that patients received food and doing anything that seemed likely to r^
duce the prevailing confusion and misery. Then help arrived. The German
Red Cross of Berlin and the Italian of Breccia came to Syracuse and took
over the hospitals. Within a day they had worked such a transformation thai
Miss Davis felt that she might effect more good elsewhere.
She went out into the streets, where she continued her relief work.
America and Italy have both shown approval of Miss Davis' method ot
"butting in." One year later. President Taft, on behalf of the American Ked
Cross, presented Miss Davis with a medal especially engraved. The Italian
Red Cross, through the Italian ambassador, also presented Miss Davis with a
medal. Finally the city of Syracuse presented her with an engrossed parch­
ment diploma.
Mr. Whitney carried with him a
motion-picture apparatus with which
he expects to get photographs of
scenes connected with seal hunting.
As far as known no one has ever un­
dertaken this feat. Captain Bartlett,
who commanded the Roosevelt, has
managed many successful sealing
trips to the north.
TO PHOTOGRAPH SEAL HUNTING
Harry Whitney, the sportsman who /p.
wintered with the most northern Es­
quimaux that he might go ahunting
into the musk-ox country and then re­
turned on board the steamer Roose­
velt when Commodore Peary came
back from his successful trip in quest
of the pole, sailed from here the other
day on a sealing trip with Capt. Rob­
ert A. Bartlett.
Mr. Whitney said of his plans on
the present trip: "That all depends of
course on our luck. The Neptune will
accommodate a cargo of 35,000 seals,
but whether we will be lucky enough
to bring back as many as that of
sourse we can't say, but I am prepared for almost anything that may
happen.
"We expect to run into very bad weather and in many ways Lam pre­
pared for one of the roughest trips I have ever taken into this part of the
country. We will head for the Straits of Belle Island and the coast of Lab­
rador and it is in that region that we hope to get the seals.
"Captain Bartlett, who is making this trip for a sealing company, is car­
rying with him a large crew, 304 men, and he hopes to get a good number of
young seals. These are valuable not only for the skins, which bring a good
price, but for the fat as well.
"With this motion picture apparatus I hope to get some good views. Not
only do I hope to be able to get pictures of the actual scenes attendant upon
the sealing, but pictures of the ship in the ice and many things of interest
incidental to the trip. I have with me 20,000 feet of Aim and I hope I will not
spoil it all."
WOMAN WHO AIDS RUSS GIRLS
Anna Maria Krapidlnski, special
agent of the Russian government
from Warsaw, Russian Poland, left
Chicago the other day after gathering
statistics through the medium of the
Immigrants' Protective league and
the Juvenile Protective association.
She was detailed to investigate the
conditions under which immlg**at
girls are cared for by the Uulted
States authorities after their arrival
at Ellis Island.
She has a clear conception of the
necessities of the situation. A yearly
average of 1,800 immigrant girls rout­
ed out of New York for western
points, most of them traveling via
Chicago, are lost en route.
Mme. Krapidlnski said in an inter­
view with a reporter:
"Conditions are so serious despite
the great generosity of public spir­
ited men and women in the United.
States that it is evident the problem
is one not to be adequately handled
by private effort. It will require a vast amount of work.
"There must be government co-operation and control of a situation that
results in figures so ghastly as those shown in the toll of missing girls that
start from New York for Chicago and never reach here.
"It is evident that these disappearances are not accidental. It is plain
that the girls do not fall off the trains and lose themselves. It would be far
better if they did. The neglect that has permitted white slavers to secure
so firm a grip on the immigrant traffic of this country is not alone a blot on
the fair name of the United States. It is as well a blot on the name of gov­
ernment in Russia.
"There is earnest effort in this country now in the direction of securing
a national federation of Immigrant leagues. If that could be realized we
shoul&.have made a considerable advance. It strikes me that the matter is
one for do-operative action of the two governments."
QUEEN MARY STARTS A CULT
Owing to the incentive of Queen
Mary, who is a devotee of the needle,
the cult of stitchery prevails in so­
ciety to an amazing extent. Every
other woman one meets is talking of
needlework and the craft of the
needle it is a sort of obsession. The
mysteries of satin stitch, padded and
otherwise, of crewel work, braid
work, couching, herringbone, button­
hole and French knots are discussed
by everybody. When Queen Mary
came back from India and the Dur­
bar she found society as keen on
needlework as it used to be on bridge.
One of the cleverest needleworkers
is Lady Glenconner (sister-in-law of
Mrs. Asquith), who makes her own
designs and has original ideas for
decoration. She is fond of big, bold
patterns in vivid colors and has
worked many bedspreads and cover­
lets in William Morris patterns.
There is a splendid specimen of her
work at Wilsford Manor, Salisbury, on
a slender mahGgany.. bed of a very old. type. She likes best to copy old d»
signs, and says she considers if women of today plied the needle more. Ir»
quently they would be less r^tles# In this feverish, hunying age.
WASHINGTON.—Keepersarethe
Keepers Put Ban on Dances in Zoo
at Na­
tional Zoological park horror
stricken. Monkeys there are doing
the "turkey trost" and the "grizzly
bear." The little animals do the
dances in the most unapproved style.
Where the monkeys discovered the
dance is the mystery that Is puzzling
the keepers. Some believe that it
must have been danced in the house
by some enthusiast Others contend
that it is the result of the monkeys'
"artistic temperament."
A discussion of the way and man­
ner they were enabled to become fa­
miliar with the famous pastime is not
BO
important as the fact that they
Were actually caught in the act. Steps
were at once taken by the keepers to
Immediately put an end to the per­
formance, as the antics of the young­
er monkeys met with violent disap­
proval on the part of the older ani­
mals, thereby causing a noisy demon­
stration.
That the monkeys were indulging
in the disfavored dance was discover­
The car had turned into Fifteenth
street by this time.
The little chief justice was just
lighting his second cigar, entirely dis­
interested in the plea of his learned
colleague.
A
CHARGE of assault, which had
been pending against William
Hart, a foreman in the employ of the
Washington Gasoline company, was
dismissed by Judge Pugh in police
court the other day. The charge
against Hart had a peculiar origin.
He was foreman of a gang of men
who were working in the gas mains in
.Takoma Park this winter. December
7 12 of the men were overcome by
gas and several of them had narrow
escapes from death. Hart, with the
assistance of Dr. Archibald L. Miller
and several citizens of Takoma, got
the men out of the trench and revived
all of them but one.
The man was in such a serious con­
dition from the effects of the gas that
he failed to respond to the methods
used, and Hart adopted strenuous
ed yesterday when a passing keeper
happened to see Julius Caesar, the
dean of the monkey house, and Cleo­
patra, the fascinating, heart-breaking
first lady of monkeyland going
through the intricate steps of the
dance.
He stopped, he looked, and he listen­
ed. The face of Julius, according to
the keeper, was lighted up with a grin
which seemed to denote a happiness
and a selftsatisfaction that has been
strangely missing from the guests of
the rustic mansion overlooking beau­
tiful Rock creek ever since the keep­
ers found it advisable to give them
cold-storage eggs in lieu of the fresh
laid kind.
The keeper who discovered the
monkey's dancing said that in a few
minutes the entire population of the
monkeys' cage was swaying to the
steps of the dance. He said that it
seemed so lifelike that he was almost
convinced that he heard Julius say to
Cleo, "Everybody's Doing It" and
"Roll Your Eyes, My Honey."
The two monkeys that have set the
fashion, according to the keeper, do
not seem to approve of the younger
monkeys indulging in it, and stopped
dancing in a vain endeavor to have
them desist. This the youngsters re­
fused to do, and the whole affair end­
ed like a "Bowery ball."
Chief Justice Fuller Was Courteous
JUSTICE
HARLAN and Chief Jus­
tice Fuller were riding home one
evening on the back platform of a
car, preferring that to a seat in order
to smoke. The door of the car was
open, and at intervals smoke from
their cigars drifted in. Noticing this,
the conductor informed them that
smoking was prohibited.
"But," objected Justice Harlan, "the
wind carries the smoke to the south
and^we are traveling north."
"That's all right, mister but them's
my orders," insisted the knight of the
bell rope.
During the conversation Justice
Fuller had stepped down on the car
step and hidden himself behind the
mammoth physique of his argumenta­
tive friend. He was enjoying his cigar
to the fullest extent.
"Orders are orders, I know," con­
tinued Justice Harlan, determined to
convince the conductor by logic of the
folly of blind obedience "but there
arg cases where a law coercive at
one time may at another be void. Al­
low me to cite a certain case in our
common law statute book—"
"I take my orders from the supe,
and I don't care about no law!" per­
sisted the conductor stubbornly.
"Now just listen to the logic of
what 1 am saying," continued Justice
Harlan, thoroughly warmed up to the
subject, the more so because his cigar
was out and he saw no chance of re­
lighting it. "A wind moving in a
southerly direction cannot possibly
carry smoke north, can it?"
To all of which the harassed and
puzzled conductor tried to turn a deaf
ear. He sought refuge in a superior
sort of silence, since the justice was
too large a man to make a personal
encounter entirely safe.
Roughness in Reviving Is Not Assault
Scorns to Work on Cobbler's Bench
THERE
is a limited diet in store for
Marcellus Wilson, an inmate of the
Home for the Aged and Infirm, and
possibly expulsion from the institu­
tion, if Wilson and Superintendent
William J. Fay do not adjust their dif­
ficulties shortly.
Exasperated by alleged repeated re­
fusals by Wilson to work, Superintend­
ent Fay has brought the matter to the
attention of the commissioners of the
district, suggesting a limited diet and
confinement in a room as a means
of enforcing obedience. The commis­
sioners have decided to inform Mr.
Fay of their support in the infliction of
proper discipline, and if Wilson does
not conform to the rules and regula­
tions he will be ordered to leave the
institution.
The case is such an unusual one
that Superintendent Fay was in doubt
as to his authority to inflict discipline.
In his letter to the district heads
he states that Wilson is in rugged
Toasts Worth Recording.
A rustic English saying runs:
"Here's to the poqr man. May his
beef and beer keep on increasing year
by year. May his dear little wife be
the joy of his life and never kick up
a racket May she do all she can to
please her old man and mend up his
old ragged jacket." Better still is this
version: "Here's to the loaf that
never crumbles here's to the wife
that never .grumbles here's to the,
horse that never stumbles." To which
one might be.tempted toadd: "Heae's
bop*" ,.
As the car reached their destina­
tion, just above street on Four­
teenth, both men alighted. Chief Jus­
tice Fuller stepped down from the
car and gravely offered Justice Har­
lan the stump of his cigar as a light­
er. It was his third! To his credit?
though, he did not smile nor make
any reference to that fact. Nor did
he pass any opinion on the case that
had just been tried before him. Which
goes to show what a truly courteous
gentleman the late chief justice of the
United States really was.
means of bringing him around. He
rolled the man on the ground, kicked
the soles of his feet, thumped him
roughly on the back and chest and
otherwise mistreated him, it is said,
with the result of restoring conscious­
ness and saving life.
Bystanders, including Dr. Miller,
who is a dentist at Takoma Park, ob­
jected to Hart's manner of resuscitat­
ing men overcome by gas, and the
assault charge was filed. Hart entered
a plea of not guilty anf demanded a
jury trial.
After considerable delay the case
was called up, when Hart withdrew
his plea and demand for a jjury trial,
and asked Judge Pugh to dispose of
the case at once. Hart explained that
the method he used was one he bad
usedt successfully in many other cases,
and that it has always been successful.
The court held that if men who help
resuscitate persons overcome by
gas or almost drowned are to be pros­
ecuted for the necessarily rough treat­
ment that must be administered a feel­
ing of timidity will obtain, which may
result in the death of many who oth­
erwise might be revived.
health, although both legs are off at
the knee. He is 51 years old and Is
said to be an expert cobbler, but, ac­
cording to the head of the institution
in which he 4s given a home by the
district, the suggestion that he give
bis time and attention to the mend­
ing of shoes is received only with
scorn. The decision of the commis­
sioners to enforce obedience on the
part of Wilson with the rules of the
house was reached following a report
by George S. Wilson, secretary of the
board of charities, who says that bis
"namesake has been a disturbing ele­
ment in the institution for some time."
breached While He Slept.
Very curious was the case of Sim-«
eon Watson, a hard-working, Indus
trious Englishman, aged about 39, of
athletic habits and "active tempera
ment, who, about 1826, began preach
ing in his sleep. His trance or sleep
tog At invariably lasted as long aa the
ordinary nonconformist service, which.
he was in the habit of attending. Th«'
attacks became more frequent as time
went on, and he would go tj^otfgTth*
Paying, reading the bible and pr—ol'
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