Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-28
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"The. thing that makes me tired quicker
\ than Anything iii the world is the con-
tinual talk of .,tloughtless. people about
the 'carelessness or railway engineers, the
~cdrelessness of motormen, the Careless
ness of every Tom. Dick and Harry who
happens to- be placed IN q responsible posi-
tiorr'm Charge OF either moving Of stations
|, airy machinery" said Samuel d. Breeder
of Wheeling at the Riggs House this morn
ing. II was coming up town on a cable
car just now, when the gripman rang his
bell violently at a fellow. whose wits had
evidently gone woel-gatherlng and who
was driving a looking old horse
directly toward the track. while he was
looking the other way. Even the bell didn't
wake .lthe fellow up, and if the gripman
hadn't thrown all his strength into the
brake and brought his train-np to a short
stop there would have been a serious
sniasn0p saw~T1t a4f5i'and atssAired the
deEteSity of the eapa bla, grssmapd when a
man next to me bega1nto .talk about the
.gfipmsn,s earelss 81 esd sa., i was ioeomo-
and one night. Just outsAe M Martinsburg,
/ was coming aaong, through a right lively
| storm at about half ,my,fiegl5Aar speed, when
tree blew dSwn ,t airslt b fr9pt Of tn. the
from the cowcatcaier. df sSlfse there was
a smashup, and 1 had a leg and an arm
and o. couple Of .gihs bFSksn.s 1t was abso-
y
toi have prevented that accident, and yet
Several newspapers carre Uue and said that
| II twas probable thatsd. &ould. not be
made. to suffer for the catastrophe. as I had
sesasun's 81 snaeie SSr ,Ss
road Knew perfectly wen thai I way not to
blame, and said so9 ann then they. poor
Y fhsH~twere charged awithg epdeayoriHg to
fff4people. would only. think for. minute
7 before charging engineers, gripmen and
I fh6tcfr.en with cal elessiiess they would
plainly see the foeishness- of such an-idea.
In case of ans.accident to a, railroad, Cable
or. electric train the employees menuoned
Pare always sure to get the worst of 1t. Stll
these men, VINO realize their danger; sard
who love their own lives. just as much as
the passengers. love theirs are charged with
carelessness for. every unavoidable acct
ftfent that occurs when the fact is that
their instinct.of self-pressrvation is always
on the alert ito. prevent such things. and
when in ninety mine cases out of "a hun
dred, they ape doing their. best to avert the
impending catastrophe. The public ought
to think over this side of the question. and
/ give the poor devils who are yilnfied. SO
much at least their Dues, So. -
political power is frequently used in this
country L know. to maize life unpleasant
for those who oppose it, said Douglass Mann
| of Windsor. Canada, at the Ebbitt House,
yesterday, but we Canadians are pretty
well up in the same sort % things ourselves.
A case has just, occurred up near Windsor
that is very amusing. and worthy believe.
of recital. A man namei Edward Jones
'lived at a town near Windsor for a num-
Der Of years, and one day he met with an
accident which ca used him to suffer ampu-
tation of the leg. The operation was not
altogether successful 50 Jones had himself
taken to st. Mary's Hospital in Detroit. and
upon his recovery there, we6t to Ann A -bor
PmnlAVmPnf
in Detroit. he had ordered artificial leg
to be manufactured, and when it was finish
ed it was sent to him at Ann Arbor. That
was fye years ago. Jones came hack into
Canada shortly after getting his leg. wear
Ing the limb into the country. and was
never called upon by the custom house OFF,
GERS to pay duty On it. He grew to be ac-
tive. politically, however, and eventually
made himself very obnoxious to those who
had been managing. o. rather mismanaging.
municipal affairs in his town, and the other
day these parties took singular vengeance.
| An officer of Windso- went to Jones and de-
| manded the payment of s23 IL as customs
duties unpaid on his artificial leg. Jones
told him that he would much prefer giving
| up the leg. but the officer held out the
| threat of prosecution and 500 fine, so
Jones paid the money. and retained the
| limb. Now. If Noa can find anything in
fDr pscu Meea APP
will buy you BOTTLE Of soda pop."7
P.toss. 3r., IRE other seacQast brands of, she
tfeJtff msek2 btt When IL eoitf dtS good,
hard. steady bitins, IN BACK Rocky noun
tain mosquito AGAINST any other bird that
| wears the same rlumage in Pie whole wide
| w1rld.'' Frei 10. Liddls of Denver was in
| front 81 Wizards last night, and " as evf-
deadly Inspired to make bis observations by
the night bugs that wefs il}3ng around the
electric light IL 4
| 10 lbs Rocky mountain mosquito doesn'
| make much noise when tie. comes TO visit
you There is meme of the brass band an
| nouncenient about his approach. He just
| softly lifts up your tent ZAP, leaves his
| ovcrshoes and UNI brellaIpn fle outside, tips
| over to the couch whereby cd are peacefully
| slam berins. and then jabs AIS weapon into
| your hide just where all -thfsm sensitive
| nerves of the body are rsa tHered to hold a
| convention. When l chine deast again /
| think viii Try to bf3hg tsome of those
skeeters with me, just 10 let the people in
| TINS section of the CoRftryS know how il
| feels to be bitten by aIhf6 that devotes
| his whole time to steadSo action. and never
Sings an octave from dark to daylight"
| Il do not place much credence in the
assertions of the American bicyciist, Thos.
Stevens, that he has familarized himself
| with the secrets of the leight-of hand men
| in India, said Col. James Ruthven Biggar.
| retired English officer at Wormley's last
| niSat To me the young mans claims are
| very much like the occasional publications
,-' -r'-." .'-.r 100 ,rH'.f ...s.~. .r., f.,
| woman has become possessed of the secrets
| of Free Masonry by secreting herself in
NE IOuse rUoiu wnen d uearee w..s benz.
| conferred on a candidate with the result
| of compelling her own initiation in the or
der to prevent her disclosing those secrets.
The fakirs of India are as jealous in pre-
serving the means bx which they accom-
plish their remarkable fsats as the most
honorable Knight TemplIr is of keeping
lnviolable the sanctity of his oath. There
is much that is occult, and to the super
stitious great deal that smacks of the
miraculous in the performances of the
better class of East Indian jugglers, and
that many of them are familiar with and
are able to apply some wonderful unknown
power OF nature is believed by all intelli-
gent men who have lived in the country
'4'l believe that in many of their exhibit
tlons or the apparently impossible they
t4succSed in mesmerzing their auditors, be-
cause in almost every crowd which assem-
bies at their exhibitions there are persons
VINO declare that they have seen nothing at
all, showing, l think. that the influence
was Dot strong enough to exert itself In
their particular cases. You have doubtless
read of the remarkably rapid manner in
which news travels among the natives of
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