The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, January 27, 1910, Image 6
Philosophy Oi
He Had to Die to Wii
And Which Was the
Do They Do in Stocki
Rate He Had Learned
Many of Patrick Francis Sheedy's
old friends called at Ifil West Thlrtv
fourth street to take a last look at the
dead man and say a word of comfort
to his widow.
There were gray haired students
of chance who like Pat had turned a
card in every civilized and some uncivilized
countries of the globe.
There were satl looking wrecks from
the underworld who at one time or
another liad felf P.-if irniinr.
oslty. There were substantial busl- ]
ness men who had learned to value
his word and to enjoy his sunny j
philosophy; there were curious folks I
who, having missed the opportunity
of knowing Shoedy livins;, were bound
to see him dead, and there were Sisters
of Mercy. All had a kind word
for the gambler.
(lis good deeds far outnumbered
his bad," was the comment of one of I
the sinters.
.iu ucikt man ever nvou. rat
was honest to th<.> core," was the reply
that came from the widow as the
visitors tried to say something consoling.
"The world called him a
gambler, but l'at and I didn't care
what the world suid." she added.
Sheedy wasn't, afraid to die. One
of the last things ho said was:
"I'll take my chanca with (ho others.
1 guess St. Peter won't bo hard
oil me."
oiioi'iiy mm neon expecting death
almost daily for six mouths, but
friends who visited him say that he
kept, to the ? ud the same cheerful
outlook (hat lie always had on tap
in days of health, whether facing the
wheel Hat. broke under the shadow of
the pyramids in Egypt or laying hi?
last dollar In lees romantic haunts in
this city.
"I'm not afraid. I know I'm uoine
to ^ot a square (leal. I'll have a better
chance there than I had here,
and 1 don't think I've done so worse.
The Maker plays no favorites," was
the way Pat commented on his approaching
end.
The gambler didn't know whether
the foci that he had confessed and
had received absolution would help
him much on his way or not.
'If it does, so much the better;
if it does not, then there will bo no J
harm done," was his way of looking i
at it.
Sheedy used lo argue that lie was
a very much better man than some
respectable New Yorkers who weren't
ciasseu as outlaws. He had been
through the college of experience and
had learned never to turn a deaf ear
to a man whose luck was down. That,
as Sheedy saw the world, was what
most people had not learned, and in
having mastered this lesson he injured
he was just so much better
than they wore.
I , "Circumstances make a man what
he is,'' Pat has said. "We are not
all pacers or trotters. Wo have our
own gait, and we go that gait, and
that, gait is fate. Why. ev<n tat is
fate. I've never eaten more than a
bird, and why am I dying of fat?
It's my fate."
Sheedy often told iiis friends that
in all hit? ups and downs of life lie
derived his greatest happiness from
making others happy. That was
what prompted Sheedy when lie was
flu::h to give a helping hand to such
notorious criminals as Adam Worth
and Ed Guerln.
Sheedy had no patience with tho
conventionalities thai made one form
of gambling a criminal offense and
tolerated another as respectable.
"What is the great speculator in
wheat but a gambler like myself?"
lie used to say. "He has owned
millions and millions of bushels, but
he never possessed one in his life.
Only the law protects liirn and ostracizes
me. I've got mv life insured for
th" benefit of my wife; the company
I'm insured in bets I won't die this
year. That's the toughest game I
ever struck, too, for I have to die to
beat it, but for my wife's sake I've
gone against it. If I wore to call
the president of the company a gam*
" bier 'bey would tar and feather me;
yet 1 can't get It through my head
i ha* he isn't iust as much of a gambler
as I am when I step up in front
of ih" whi-t'l."
Shoedy before ho became an "art
connoisseur" made no bones about
describing his business.
"I call myself a busings man because
gambling my business," he
aid. "I regard myself as a good
business man bec;ui<o 1 am a good
gambler. P'ow business m"n have
devoted themselvi pi >r un'iringlj
t. thoir work than I ha to mine.
Hut the best of us fain ;ii tim ?, and
u>- i?in> uuiiKtf n?tvi> DI'IIK '11 JIM; DH
many times or more tirwv. tlian 1 have
lirulvi n t.hcin. Kvcrybody who 1<nowtim*
knows thai when I ?it down at tingame
and the ff.vi r rom?a over mo
J won't <|"i' until I'v ;;ot 'II the
bank's money or it has got mine. i
have none into a gambling house a
t'airlj rich man and come out penniless.
I have gone in poor ami come
out with .1 {nighty i>iwad. I've gone
for weeks without money enough to
buy me a square meal. I've had men
point at me and any, 'There's* Pat
.Sheedy, the lucky dog,' when I didn't
liavo the price of a sliavM in my
pocket. T always have mana^d to
keep up appearances hecau- when
the money was coming in, I bought
clothes against a dark day."
Hheedy never lost an opportunity
to declare fliftt gamblers as a lars
were moro honef than other men.
Home of ttheedy's friends- recalled the
prediction hi' had mad" short lj after
District Attornev lerorn had i ?irl
(Jnnfleld'a "art palace" in \Ws I'orty
fourth street. Jerome made the raid
on evidence supposed to have been
obtained by "Sleuth" Jacobs. Jacobs
Chni'K''d thai the f'antbdd .:im?' \va
Crooked, .leroine thn it< ied to cult
Hhourly to lib; oftU'f t<? .plain what
ho ku<-\\ about ;<aniblini in ill" cil.<,
anil Slu'od.v replied:
"l Mlippns" tho Distil.1! A';.'>;n?\vV
roronrk;< concernl; mo \v< re brought
forth by omolliin;; I -aid ibout hi.?
painbki' ho ha U; <1 ini'orn. !.
I imvo i) > '.ii' ?n: of Icii a in,; who I j.
' )'
Fat Siieedy. |
t the Life Insurance Co.'s Bet?
Gambler? Said He, and What
s. Cotton and Wheat ??At Any
to Help the Under Dog
| man is, but I never duck anything I
I hnvo !?<>! Tl ? r 1 iv.-i
? ,v iiioiviurv 1 rcpfui mm
I <lo not believe this informer over
set foot Inside of Canfleld's, nnd I
say again that Richard Canflold is the
greatest gambler In the world, bar
none, and that his name is as straight
as a Quaker meeting is solemn."
It wasn't many week3 after Sheedy
had said this that Mr. Jerome discovered
that Jacobs was faking and
that he never had been inside the
Canfield house.
Tat Sheedy was discreet. He declined
a challenge to got into an arirn
nu'nt with Mr. Jerome on the subject]
ol' gambling.
"It's a great thine:, my boy, to
know when you're well off," he said, i
"The chap who's always in hot. water
may think he's happy, but he I
wouldn't know happiness by slt*ht.
So long as 1 can make a living and
give a ton of coal now and then of a
hard winter to my mother-in-law and
con my wife into believing that
she might have gone further and
fared worse I'm satisfied to rest easy :
and not go around hunting for a eon-!
1 rfU'Olvf A K? \* * *" ' ' - ' " " " 1
iviwi v?in nice* mi j
argument, but it's a wise man that I
Kteers dear of it." I
Sbeedy's friends said that he probably
did not leave more than a few
thousand dollars, enough to keep his
widow for the rest of her days. He
did not make this money by gambling,
but from bis little art store in West
Thirty-fourth street, in fact. Shewdy,
iv ?a>s nuiu, t|uii Tin- namo n tew years
ago as poor as when he entered it,
although in the course of his career
ho hart won several small fortunes,
lie said that the public always had
a mistaken notion about the money
that gamblers make.
"Pnt this down," he said, "that the
Rambler has a harder lime of it than
any other business man. Once In a
while he gets what slow going, plodding
folks might call a great deal of
money, but it never lasts long. More
often lio is obliged to borrow bis living
pxpcnws from his l'rlonds, and.
Pat Shortly is no exception."
Sheody had a high regard for the
English as gamblers.
"Englishmen will pay their gambling
debts before they will their
tailors," he told his friends. "The
Germans, particularly German army
officers, are about as good. I wish
I could nay as much for my own
countrymen as 1 can for tho English,
j but when Americans gamble abroad
thnv anmsHnuu < v,... n i
I ???'.? ?>< ii i \ i i in' r? nu uuu. IIHTW IS
none of their money left in the hank
at home and they aro addicted to the
habit or arguing that money lost in
gambling can't bo collected."
Hheedy had no uso for the French
as gamblers.
"Don't speak of them," ho used to
say. "Anything yon can got out of a
Frenchman you ought to take home
and have framed. And the Italians
aro worse than the French."
Many stories were told by Sheedy's
old cronies of the hard timey ho had
in miuiim ii \;:.i ce hi my tl!S money I
after ho got his reputation as a "bank j
breaker."
"At Hot Rprirgs, Ark.," said one,
"they barred Pat because he had lost.
He bought. $f>00 worth of chips and
dropped the entire lot. The next da>
he returned to the clubhouse, asked
for $f)00 more and the proprietor
said: 'Mr. Sheedy, I'm an old man
and I have to sleep nights; I'd rather
you wouldn't play in my house.' lie
tried it in two other gambling houses
at the Springs, and in each place after
he had lost his tirst. pile they barred
Jlitr* Tllr.n )>., l..l> ,\rl?nnonu i,, -1 i
gust."
Another of T'at's friends 'old of
an exporienco ho had had in Charleston,
S. C. Ho had bought a good
stack of faro ohips and was ahont
$300 to the good. when the proprietor
of the place hoard somebody call him
Sheedy.
"Ain't your name I'at Slice j "
ho dealer asked.
ii is ;iiui i ni proud 01 n, ::ii'i i
(ho winner.
"Well. I'm sorry; but \\v can't lot
von nlav anv more," s: I the dcalei
I
"We hav n't any bank roll;? handy t"
meet your hiuh rolling."
Horn of Sheedy's friends used
circulate reports when I'a! hit a
strantfe ? it> t hat ho wanted to wreck
;i gambling house just for 11?? si orr.
suicide of u;
Why Scorpion or Vpnc
Sting1 Rsel
Th? vonomH <if KfM'pftr . fi?h?v.
scoi'i i >ns. i out iportcK. . pi Ut . hoe
elf . \v< II rts the blood of t!i" i i-l
owe I in ir vi ru letico to the p. 1 no of 1
toxin: Intihif io those which :i ii
reted by I ictoila. In both . the
toxins are specific product; > f 11;< ,n
tivit> of !i\ Ifitc cells. Thi \ are very
i oi: onons, non-i rystnUI/.nbl' colloids,
of unknown chemical ?oust It ut iOfn.
I iii venom toxins are very : > nsuivo
to tlie notion of heal and light. am
easily dostroved by digestive ferments
and consequently are innocuous when
swallowed. There is a groat variety
of tjiofce toxins. Snake poison alono
contains half a dozen distinct toxins,
eaoii of wljicli exerts a specific notion
on tin n? rvous system, the rod or the '
white blood corpuscles, etc.
It I o 11.!< to produce in any an: j
mal an artificial condition fit immunity
to the effects of any animal j
v VI, . I.r./l I,if ilw. I
repeal' '! injection of lho venom in
do e . !ich of which is too small to
fnusc deal l. \fter a la pro r fir smaller
nnmlier of injo'lions the animal
arquin ; the pow. r to ro-h't the nation
many time ho riuanlitv of venom
that would mflioe tof-an - death if It
\v < i t i ii i' ' ? ? . . < ? 11?* \ ' in:-. ? ji ? ii' j " inii
ill?; /.? (1 . 1. Til' l'1'infl ol I!
iDiinnni/i'd > ml now contains :i
now pul>st!i i . an nntito\lu \vhl( i
lias tho ]?r -. t - r i y of ihmiI : dl/lnt; :: <>
Inxln of 11 \ noin, nml hi hh "1
(or i rillier wm.tj . nr scrum)
lu it v bo I'm ploy (l to combat tlio to:, i ?
', *vv' ' " '
of it, and they would Bit back ?nd
watch every gambling housq proprietor
worry for fear that Pat would
select his "Joint."
One man Bald that there wasn't a
good sporting man In tho country
who would have refused to stake Pat
Slieedy at any game and without ee*
curlty at that. Ho recalled an incilimit
I, ?t I - ID *
uvuv VUUV I - . ' T 7 , ; T , m DUSIUU.
Pat bad spent somo time in Saratoga
and luck was against him. Ho
camo down to Boston, and the first
night ho was in town ho went against
a faro game that broko him. Pat
walked into a certain bank whoso
president had the reputation of being
a good fellow. He was ushered into
the preeldont's office and said:
"I came to borrow $1000 from your
bank."
"What is your security?" was tho
first question.
"Simply my Word," replied Pat.
"That won't do in the banking
Diisinoss. wno arc your" asked the
president.
"Pat Sheedy, the gambler," was
the reply.
"After a short talk," said one of
Pat's friends, "tho banker handed
over $1000 from his personal account.
Two days later Pat entered
the bank and repaid It."
It whs a loan of $2000 that Adam
Worth made to Pat in John Condon's
gambling house in Chicago that led
to the recovery of tho famous Gainsborough
painting. Pat was broke,
when a stranger who had been winning
heavily pushed a roll of bills
! into his hand. Shoedv dontnrrod tint
t he ntranger insisted. Shoody asked
| for the stranger's name, but ho
| laughed and said: "You'll see me
again."
It was sixteen years after this that
I lie two met in Constantinople,
Sheedy as the proprietor of a gambling
house in that city and the
lender of tho money, Adam Worth,
as an escaped prisoner. Sheedy furnished
the money with which Worth
got out. of Turkey and Worth gave
him the Information which led to the
recovery of the vRlnahlo n.iintimr ?
New York Sun.
BftWORTK KMOWlNGMi
Five tons of human hair are annually
imported by London merchants.
Corn is our greatest crop, that of
1908 being valued at $1,010,000,000.
The Austrian Government will erect
five wireless stations along its coast.
At List count thorn wore 1 .318.000
persons in India dependent on State
aid.
The per capita circulation of the
United States is exceeded by only one
other country of Importance?France.
Leaf and twig diseases, difficult to
combat, are gradually lessening India's
annual production of coffee.
On the shores of Cape Cod there
were, during a period of twenty years
following ISM, as many as 1000
wrecks of vessels carrying precious
eargoi-s of human beings and of
freight.
Thi- first matriculation of women
fudents at the universities in Prussia
lias resulted in the admission of 602
students, including forty-three from
the United Kingdom.
The cultivation of apples in Japan
lias markedly developed of late, the
annual production now reaching .a
value of $l,r>0ft,000. The principal
centres of apple production are the
Hokkaido and the northeastern prov
faorinun East Africa has been raising
liisai hemp since ISOli from plants
imported from Florida.
There is a union of hatmakers at
Le Mans, Franco, in which the offices
of president, vice-president, secretary
and treasurer are held by one man.
A record of 1f>1 miles by motorimat
traveling at the rate of 27.o
miles an hour tliroiiKhontthe distance
has been accoinplisliecl by the Mrer
Knx II., which left Cincinnati recently
to make the Ions distance speed test
inn to New Orleans.
[ttlesnakes.
imous Animal Can Not
l to Death.
art ion of the venom in a non-immunized
animal.
The ichneumon, the hedgehog and
ome other animals which devour venomous
serpents exhibit an extraordinary
resistanc<- t<> the effect, of their
bites. This natural Immunity is explained
by the presence of antitoxins
in the blood of these animals. Serpents
ar" also little affected by their
own venom. In general it is almost
impossible to kill a venomous animal
by Inoculating it with the venom of Its
own species, of which it can support
very law dose with impunity.
These facts demonstrate tho absnr
(!iry of thts stories of rattlesnakes and
s< orplons committing suicide hy
moans of their own venom. It Is as?
i t? d that a scorpion or a rattlesnako.
imprisoned in a circle r?f rod hot coals
v. ill sting or Id to ItHolf to death, Thit
a physiological impt?s*.-;il>llity.??The
< ismos.
Tlie Pleasure of I'overty.
It is a disgrace to dio rich. Andrew
('ai noglo.
it, i? v.'""J 10 i>p i" ii poor. Sir
ThoniHH Lipton.
It. is glorious to have lo tniggle. -
John I). Rockefeller.
It iniiii lie grand to ho able 1o
<lespls>' money.- (ill ira^o RooonU
I lorahl.
No ('>nt iiinely attends poverty. -
I'nbllu' s i
I doii . think.-?Lot of other I-IVp
ws.
F /^"t Stubs Omitted, liut l'ltt*r
. Imi'x'h Kl'Ch KeclusG Orenm'tcd;
i^^Qttsburg, Pa.?The body of Miss
White, the rich and aged re- i
* jlose, was cremated, as she instructed i
iij her will. The body was not |
Mauueu luruubii me neart tnree times
a.4 ordered. Her nearest relative.
D.\ Robert White, objected to this
sa strenuously that C. S. Gray, president
of the Fidelity Title and Trust
I Company, her executor, granted the
request not to mutilate the body, but
Insisted on cremation, and this compromise
was agreed on.
THE NOBLES' SCHOOLS.
New Institution in China With 96
Very Exalted Pupils.
The number of young Chinese who
1 ?
uiiy? Been sent abroad to be edueat!
ed since 1900 may be reckoned in
: thousands. At one time there were
I over 15,000 in Japan alone, but the
| doctrines they Imbibed there were
: regarded as dangerously advanced,
| and th<? tendency now is to scud
them in preference to America or to
Europe.
I "Amoac the oftlclals whom I mot,"
writes t. correspondent of the American
Aslutio Association's Journal,
"several were having their Bonn ed- i
ucateri in iiiitilli- ? 1
UV.UUWI o in i^iigiiiuu |
or America. No more striking illustration
of the revolution that baa |
taken place In the attitude of t'ho
governing class toward this question
j cau be found than tho opening In
] Pekin Itself of a public school under
the highest auspices for tho
j sons of oltlclals of the highest grades
in the Chinese bureaucracy.
"Tho Noblca' School, as it is call1
ed, is attended at present by ninetysix
pupils, and new 'premises aro
being built which will enable tho
number to be doubled. The boys aro
all boardrM'H nnH ~
w, .. > v? uttvn uuy iii\n (V
| neat, Hiry cubicle, which servos also
JU his private study. The class.
rooms ure large and well ventilated,
J and in e&oh one there are collections
ready to hand for the teacher's
j use iu illustrating his lectures.
| "The teaching, which Is conducted
1 entirely by Chinese professors, la
; doubtless somewhat elementary, but
! it embrawH nraotinniiv oii
K uuu- I
j Jocts whtdb form the curriculum of i
the modern ?ldo in an English gram- j
: mar school. Hesides of course Chi* !
1 iieso, one foreign language lb taught,
j usually Japanese or English. Of
greater Importance perhaps than the
i teaching are the "healthy discipline j
and the physical training which tho j
! boys receive, the Jiabfts of obedience, i
punctuality, cleanliness and aelf-rell- 1
anco whidh they learn.
"The director who conducted mo
over the school was a Chinese naval |
j oftloer trained In Engl ?.d, and he j
, told me frankly that his chief object
was to train them to be men of char1
ncter and patriotism. Though the
boys are educated chiefly for civil |
employment, they go through a daily >
i course of military drill, and as their
masters arc drawn ontlrplv from tlx.
military, and naval colleges? the whole
atmosphere tends to counteract tho
old bureaucratic traditions of conI
tempt for the mere soldier. Last
' year the whole scihool attended the
army manoeuvres as a cadet corps,
I marching some ten or twelve miles
a day and bivouacking in the open.
1 "Certainly the boys I saw did
? xiii iu in*, ii iiitiiuiit;?muruy, inert
and cheerful, and woll set up in their
j neat kiiaki uniforms. Adjoining tho |
Nobles' School, but within the same j
compound, is a separate building of !
' even greater significance. It consists I
| of two large lecture rooms, in which
| lectures are delivered every after- j
| noon, on the one hand to thirty-two !
j young scions or the princely Manchu I
I Iiouhcs, and on the other to sixteen i
| youthful members of the Imperial j
1 house of China. The Prince Regent
himself from time to time attends I
1 these lectures, and tho influence
| which such exalted patronage must
exert can scarcely ho exaggerated."
I I
I HAD A OH WOE TO 3AVE MONEY. ;
"That man made a .million dollars
While he was in Jail!" said n New
! York financier.
"Yes, but his rasp was ono of the
kind 'hat does not require the ex'
pensc of alienist testimony."?Wash- ;
j ln>jtoii Star
' Eriends are very few, it is true,
out ono lutrt nerd of only a few.
Others we know, nioro actiualntancos
in liTe k parado, wo would not stop
to iic-k liiein aid.
AN'OTMHli ARCTIC HORROR. j
"ll;?ve K kimos ovor
Append.- itlH?"
"No, l>wt ^uindropg may glv.- thorn
1'i'iii ytoii I tla."
Chicago Tribuno.
rxsoM n i ,\
to MiidnoHg, if Not l{emr(1lc<1 fn
Time.
"lSxperlments satisfied me, somn 5
years ;iko," writes a Topeka woman,
, "that coffe? wbk the direct cnnse of
(lie Insomnia from which I BUffer?<l
terribly, as well as tho extremo nervousness
and acute dyspepsia which
made llf<> a most painful thin# for me.
"I had been a coff<*? drinker since
childhood, and did not like to think
I that till) lipvornon rryrk oil
........ ...u ?...
this harm. Rut it wrh, and th* time
came wlion T had to faro the fact, and
protect myself. I therefore Rave up
! coffeo abruptly and absolutely, and
adopted Posttim for iny hot drink at
I meals.
"I be^nn to note improvement In
my condition very noon after I took
! on Postuni The change proceeded
gradually, but surely, and It wan a
matter of only a few weeks before I
found myself entirely relieved?tho j
nervousness passed away, my dlges!
five apimrntus was restored to normal i
; ofHdonry. and I hogan to sloop reatfully
and pracofully.
| "Tlifso hnppy conditions liavo con- ;
j tin nod during all of tho r> yoara, and
i I am snf<* Id saying thnt I owo thom
fnllfflv fn I'rifttiim f(ir wViph I >\/?(/on
to drink It I eensod to nao niodlclneg."
Road tho littJe 1 if>r>k, "Tho ltorul to
Wollvlllo," in pkKS. "Thorn's ti Kea[
Bon."
JSvor read the nltovo letter? A new
j one appears from time to time. , Thejr
I nro Keniihio, true, and full of human
V'ltoresf.
PROOFS OF ANCIENT SURGERY I
Skulls Were Trepltin:d to Allow
thi ".Demom" to Escape."
Dr. Herman Pomcranz, of New
York City, In the courso of an article
on "The Infancy of tho Practice of
Medicine and Surgery," In the New
York Medical Journal, says tho curativo
instinct aboriginally bestowed
upon man is nothing else than the
eternal, the universal instinct of selfpreservation.
It is highly probable
that primeval giants maimed in encounters
with mastodons or marauding
warriors, retired to rest and to
linol 1? ^ S .. K 1 - *
men uiuMii lunus ni me soil'
tude of their caves or beneath the
shade of high mountain trees. Also
instinctively and of necessity they
must have abstained from food, thus
assisting in a "cure."
In describing some curiosities of
medical and surgical practice. Dr.
Pomeranz says:
"About thirty-four years ago Dr.
Prunieres made some curious discoveries
in the Baumnes-Chaudes caves
?immense prehistoric burial grounds
?situated in the valley of the Torn,'
part of the district of Lozere. France.
Ho found a few hundred skeletons
which revealed, upon examination,'
healed fractures, trephined skulls and
111 some instances the weapon which
caused the wound and the death of
the individual. Dr. Prunieres a ye^r
later, in an admirable report to the
French Anthropological Society, in
session then at Lyons, described his
findings in detail. He presented from
his collection one of the parietal
bones of a human skull with a trepanned
area, into which a disk of
bone, thicker and darker than the
parietal itself, had been fashioned.
?
U.suna n n ivem SIJUI1 111 a 11Q
in Copiapo, Chile, and in Madisonville,
Ohio. Up to 1SSS over 200 of those
perforated crania or portions thereof
were collected by Prunieres, Broca,
M. do Have and others.
"The trephiniug in most cases was
evidently performed post mortem, but
in others the ante mortem operation
did not appear to havo had any fatal
effect. The edges of the trepanned
area showed ovidences of having
healed during the life of the indi- j
vidual. Trepanning was probably
performed by boring a number of |
holes circularly, and then chiseling .
ore... um uuues uy means oi snarp
pointed flint instruments. Every part
of the skull, even the frontal hone,
has been found trepanned.
"Various theories have been advanced
to account for the practice.
Tho suggestion has been made that it
was performed in honor of soma deity
as a religious rite. Broca gives it as
his supposition that in most cases tho
operation was performed on epileptics.
thn insano ami i\mar. ?>.. - ?
, ...... I.IUOC SUIIWIIIIK
from chronic headaches. A hole was
scraped in the patient's skull lo permit
the supposed aetiological demon
to escape. The disk of bono excised
was used as an amulet.
' Self-mutilation in mourning for j
relatives is carried to a great extreme !
in the New Hebrides. If a child is !
sick the parents cut off the last phalanx
as an offering to the gods. For
this reason, says Wood, there is hardly
a person in Tonga who has not
lost a considerable portion of the
little finger of one or both hands.
The operation is crudely performed.
The linger is placed upon a Hat block
of wood or stone and the edges of a |
knife or axe placed on it. A terrific
blow with a mallet is given. The
bleeding stump is held over a lire,
the Intense heat of which acts as a
haemostatic. The Tongans, strange
as it may seem, do not dread the operation.
In severe cases of illness, instead
of the amputation of a little
finger, a child is strangled as an
offering to the gods."
Here are some of the "sure cures"
of superstition:
"Jaundice becomes Incurable if a
yellow-legged hen Hies over the patient,
but. is cured by looking into
black cart grease.
"Hreak a loaf of bread over the
head of children who learn to speak
with difficulty.
' Let. a mother go three Sundays
successively out of the church in
silence and blow each time into th?;
mouth of her child, and it will get its
teeth easy.
"Blue cornflowers gathered on
Corpus Christi Sunday stop the bleeding
of the nose if thev are held in the
hand till they aro warm.
"A woman can cure her earache by
binding a man's stocking around her
head.
"lie who has the hiccup let him
plunge a naked Unite into a can of
be<and take a good draught of It at
one breath; ho will then be cured.
"If a child fall off in ith health,
bind a thread of red silk around its
neck; then catch a mouse, draw a
thread of the same ;;ilk through its
^kin across its back-bone and let it
on ivwi>. i iii* iii<his(* wastes uway
tho child will improve
Wiclwrslmni Wrolc 11.
Attorney-General VVickersham Is
winning a reputation for good nature.
A few days ago Robert J. Tracewell,
the Comptroller of the Treasury, an
officer who is the final arbiter of all
questions involving the payment of
money out of the Treasury, marched
into tho Attorney-General's office, at
Washington, I>. ,
"Mr. YVIckcrshain," Bald Mr. Tracewell,
"I have called to say that some
damn fool in the Department of Justice
has given an opinion bore that
is all wrong and for which there Is
no precedent."
\lr. YVickerfdiiini tunk Mw.
written copy of the opinion in Ills
hands, and as he perused it his face
took on a grini smile.
"Oh, I sec," lie remarked slowly.
I am the damn fool who wrote It."
And (lie story goes that the Attorney-Genera
I was so much impressed
v ih the Comptroller's views that, lie
modiflcd tli.i opinion. New York
Kun.
Steel Plants llusy.
At I his lime last year tin- steel car
Imilflors had orders for 00,000 cars.
This year, according to tho Railway
and Engineering Roviow, orders have
amounted to 100,000, and work already
contracted for will keep tho
plants busy until next Juno.
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What Robbie Wonted to Know.
He naked eo many questions thnt
day that he finally woro out hi3 mother"p
patience.
"Robert," alio cried, "If you ask me
another question 1 shall put you to
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Robert promptly asked another
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mother repented. After all, asking
questions was the only way ho could
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kn?*lt beside Robert's bed, and
told him she was 6orry.
"Now, dear," she said. "If you want !
Ko to Bleep, *Hk It now and I will
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Robert thought for a moment, then
Bald, "Mother, how far can a cat
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