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from their journey TO the IA wnshop, and
the usual audience OF interested listeners
was collected about him.
at may or may not have been a
humbug." he was saying. with n shrug
OF his shabby genteel shoulders. but II
was deyil!sh queer any way you take
It. | saw the man do 1t five times. too.
and he failed but once"
What do you call it-hypnotism?"
asked "A newcomer.
Il don't know; he simply says he sen
s!li2es the water and let's you call it
what YOU like. First he puts the tumbler
Of plain hydrant water into one room,
and h" ana the subject go into another.
He make "A few plss's-that is, where
the hypnotism comes in, ! suppose-ani
one" III" man is under his control III"
professor walks into the other room and
stands with his hands over hat tumbler
OF water for perhaps a minute, not ut
t"ring Il sound. Then he SENDS some
OF W. into the room with the sleeping
subject. and he stays with the rest OF
the witness When every tE!uS is
rcIly, he tells one of them to take his
ppukuife and thrust the blade carefully
into the water. ~" does So, and We
hear "A muhied scream from the other
room, as If the Eypuutizcl man had
felt the stab, This WAS repeated three
times, and every time the subject
screamed ard twisted about In his chair,
as If In agony while the knife remained
in the water. AS soon as II MAS re-
moved, the pain apparently ceased. and
h. rested quietly again. | was scepti-
cal. of course" concluded the tAlkutIyc
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MUMMY BROWN.
The Story of artist KmOaUltom's ODD Paint
AMI His Peculiar DentH.

they are entirely too dead for any
thing of that sort, you m be sure.
and II they are sensitive to feelings
they never show il. Observe how / am
using his tube, for instance; upon this
Frenchman's coat. Do you suppose any
well meaning Egyptian would like to
have himself clothing a foreigner in any
such manner II he knew IT."
mo. | suppos not. . The color
ing is rich, too" remark I'd Richardson,
thrusting his hands deep into his pock-
cts and surveying his friends work
with the eye of an uneducated critic,
though the same can't ne said OF the
models, judging from app arances And,
by the powers that be. Francis" he
added, suddenly. you've made hat tall
fellow Il very good likeness of you! Did
you know it?"
Knowlton shrugged his shoulders. II
had an idea his face was something like
mine" he answered, but. as that is
a common trick of ours ] ave not given
II u second thought. What / am striv-
ing for is a good picture, not portraits,
ard l must realize something from it.,
too. BY heavens. Richardson, II has
come TO be a case OF dire necessity. and
that's all there Ii to Ill"
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ROBBED YOUNG SCHOOLGIRLS
Henry Fricdbergcr Has II Pcnchnnt
for pcuciI Boxes.

Henry F~riedbcrger, twelve years old.
OF 81 Pitt street, was arrnigncd before
Justice Hogan. In the Essex Market
Court, to-day for robblng two young
girls named Esther Greenball. thirteen,
OF 2a3 IL stanton street, and Annie
Smith, twelve, of ~ Pitt street.
Both girls were on their way to Gram
mar school No. IS, at Lewis and Riv-
inston streets. this morning, when Fried
berger came from behind them and stole
their pencil-boxes. The girls gave chase.
Policeman Sheridan, Of the Union Mar
ket Station, heard the two schoolgirls
shouting stop Their and captured
the young fellow in the hallway of II
tenement.
The girls say that for some time Fried
berger has been seen around the school,
and that he has stolen the pencil-boNes
OF other girls. Friedbergcr says that he
goes to the Broome street grammar
school.
Justice Hogan held him for examina-
ton to give Agents Dietz and SChmitt' OF
the Gerry Society, an opportunity to In
vestigate his character.
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and to shake off the weird feeling that
had seized upon him, but gradually the
lids dropped and closed and to his dis
tended nostriis there came as he lost con-
sciousness IA faint, sweet odor which
even then he recognized-the smell Of
cedar. pitch M myrrh. How long the
terrible dream which followed lasted he
could not know, but at last he awoke to
life again. and. struggling TO his feet.
he staggered to the window, threw II
open and let the faint breath of air stir
ring in the courtyard far below sweep
up past him into the dark room behind.
Tho dusk was Just fallin" over the city,
ana far, far below him he could hear
the tencmcnt's inhabitants of the irst
and second floors preparing their even
ing meal, singing aud Cursing by turns
rs the preparation pleased or displauscd
them. The night air cooled his fcvcred
face and refreshed him, however, and
tn" great beads OF PRECIPITATION that had
gathered on hts forehead were gone as
lie turned back to the room again.
II am a fooI'" he exclaimed, inpatient
t., and hungry, / dI!" cay. No wonder
! imagine things"' ana catching up the
worn, soft hat that lay beside his tum-
bled bel he hurried out into the hail and
down the weary length Of stairs to the
street.
But az he closed the door a small,
heavy bladcd dirk, upJn a shelf directly
over the spot whore he had hastily
showed the unfinished picture ana it's
easel, jared by mis- haste, whirlcl slowly
around until 1t rested upon the very
clge Of the shelf, whore 1t balanced to
and fro and trcmb.ci In the little breeze
that stu putel In at the open window.
Morgan, Tie favorIte story teller OF the
Bohemian ldler's Club, was taking as
Richardson and the painter came in
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when he came tor" asked Richard

self when he came TOP asked Richard
son. who had Joined the group.
Very little, except that some one had
tried to stab him and n succeeded
three times in sticking a knife into his
back. he thought"
And did he know OF the tumbler OF
water and its bearing on his hallucina-
tion?
mo, he had been kept in still another
room when first brought to the house.
and had not seen or heard of the water"
THAT is rather peculiar" said Rich
arlson thoughtfully, Il shouli like to
have seen il myself" AS he spoke,
Nnowltou. who had been talking with a
fellow painter at the other side of the
smokc-hllcd room. started across 1t in
answer to a reckoning nod of Richard
sens. lie had taken only a few steps,
however. before he stopped suddenly and
clutchcd Conyu'sively at his breast, while
an inhuman shrek, shrill and piercingly
loud, burst from his lips. For a second
he swayed there in the silence that fol-
lowed for every man in the room had
heard the scream, above the talk and
laughter. and had turned 10 see what IL
m"unt-ani then his knees bent, and he
fell heavily upon the roughly carpeted
floor. an insens!hle mass. \ young
physician who had been chatting near
the fireplace hurled forward as Richard
son did the amc and kneeliHg at the
stricken mans feet he tore open the
shirt and put his hand over the heart.
lie is quite dead, gentlemen" he said
in a moment, in answer to the inquir!ng
looks Of those collected about them.
Then he got to his feet and brushed the
dust from his trousers. But as they
picked the ~lifelcss artist carefully up not
one among the number saw the queer,
white mark. just over the heart. that
came and went again like a very old
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MRS. BLANCH'S STATEMENT.
snys Incorrect Reports of Yam
Minis Hearing Were Printed.

Mrs. Blanch, wife of the owner OF
Blanch's Hotel. in Woodside, l.. l., which
was robbed on the night OF Dec. 10, Is
indignant over the printed reports OF
the trial OF Yammin, who Is suspected
OF being one of the masked quartet that
visited the hotel on the night in question.
Yammin is being tried in Long Island
City.
81 want to say said Mrs. Blanch,
that my husband was not in a state
OF intoxica ton while on the stand, and
that he did not go to sleep In the re-
porters' inclosure. Also deny, please.
that we are in collision with the police.
What interest would we have In swear
ing away an innocent mans life?
MY daughters did not contradict them:
selves on the stand. Florence identified
the burglar by his stiff thumb, and II
was shown that Yammin was so nf-
ficted. 1t was also stated that Yam
min was an e~x-convict."
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flames IN A PAWNSH0P.
Poor Peoples Pledged Clothing
Damaged $1,000 Worth.

Fire did 81 900 damage to pledged CLOTH
ing In the basement of Aaron ~Schlang's
pawnshop at 277 Ninth avenue at /
o'clock this morning.
Sohlang lives on the second floor, with
his wife and three children. The W
upper floors Of the house are taken up
by the packages OF unredeemed goods.
Recently. on account Of the hard times,
large quantities of clothing have been
pledged by the people Of the %peighbor-
hood, n Schlang was compelled to put
the clothing In his basement. which was
soon filled to its capacity.
Just after l o'clock this morning, Pa
trolman Gillespie, whose post Is In Ninth
venue. saw a man running bareheaded
through the street. 1t was Schlang. and
he excitedly told the policeman that his
Gillespie turned In an alarm and
rushed into the burning house. Mrs.
Schlang and two Of her children were
standing in the street. The woman was
child.
The husband rushed upstairs through
the binding smoke, and returned with
there. Then the two remembered that
the child had gone to a neighbours house
to spend the night.
hole In the floor and flooded the base
ment, Then they carried out the bundles
Of clothing into the back yard, fearing
hat the fire was still smouldering. At
the end of two hours all the clothing
had been removed to the yard, the bum
dies opened. and the garments left in the
rain.
The firemen regard the origin of the
fire as peculiar. and the Fire Marshal
will investigate. The police give the ori-
gin as spontaneous combustion. Schlang
Is Insured.
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J' H. Mecahe' a cigar dealer OF 6t2
Columbus avenue, sent the following
lri,.r T., ,b, SANITARY r,r,on ~ ,b,
- ' ~ "
il'al'h department inns morning.
| wish 10 enter q protest against the urncccs-
slry noises, which almost every might desiroy NV
sleep aud are slowly undermining my health. as
lrhrtisrl at 81! columbus avenue. on the ground
u'vr' enc ' ll'mphll mas u tallor th'p a..
,",, u'"'' u'n'u, 'Wu " nuiuiN, NY p.''r w
AIM" 1"n" TI,.m Is o"'| s'P''"''" '"e''''o" " "
II Won Mi Iipsly son, nm insrcc,or , viii e,.
plain ain Ia him nficry. there ia dancing and
PLAYING OF m4.Ir,l insttuncnts going ON nearly
every night. an n]rcordion forming a conspirIous
part, white u number " young women, who APP
pear To make MI h.mrhils place a headquarters,
tut pigeon Wines AMI execute hrrak'doNna 20 the
utter routing "i my Nl'rr, l have repeatedly re,
nn,t,iI i"I, y, ""'''"'' oe s'oPpc"' "u' win "o
Ar' NleCape was seen by an Evening
World' reporter this morning. He was
once a familiar figure in and about WASH
,,u,aa ,,..,,., -. - =. -"
''E'"h Marhe'' "here ne was III puS'hess
many years. lie Is one of the few living
reprrsrrtntiyes Of tho merchants dniny
,.. ~ n..n
pusiless III 'ha' vicinity forty ana MY
years ago.
81 WAS stricko, with n oroIvsis sovero,
..t5
years ago, SAID me- ana not being able
to continue my old business, opened a
.
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Richardson picked up the soft little
cylinder and looked at 1t agin.
What did you call it"" he asked.
Mummy brown" replied Knowlton, talk
Ing a brush from between his lips to
speak. and touching the anvas before
him with it.
Brown 1t undoubtedly is remarked
his friend. but where does the mummy
come IMP"
IN the tube. my boy" returned the
painter, half closing his eyes and put
ting his head on one side, to observe the
effect of his last stroke. Because 1t is
made OF pulverised Egyptian mummies,
and it Is one of the best colors we
have"
Richardson put the tube back upon the
much-littered studio table. and whistied
softly.
We'll, said he, you may coGnt me
out If ever ! become II painter, when 1t
comes TO using dead mems bodies to
make pictures with, ia be afraid they
would come back again.
Nonsense" said knowlton. laughing:
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Coming Events.

Review Of the Second Battalion. seventy-nrst
Regiment, at the armory. one Hundred and Sew
enth street and Lexington avenue. this evening by
Col. +. A. McAlpin.
In aid OF the kind Word" Mrs. Sherwood
reads at Mrs. T.. NJ. Townsend's, 10 East Twenty
second street, this afternoon. on The Philosophy
Of Fashion"
Ninth anniversary Of the Y. NJ. c. As Young
Mems Institute, this evening. at 222 Bowery.
Public installation and ball OF Farragut Post, rs.
q. A. H., this evening. at Richmond Hall. One
Hundred and Sixteenth street, near Eighth avenue.
Free concert by Columbia College Glee. Mandolin
and Banjo Clubs, this evening. at 81 Rivlngton
street.
Annual ball OF Liberty Lodge. No. PSI, x. Of p,
this evening, at Central Opera House Assembly
Rooms. Sixty-seventh street, near Third avenue.
Eighth annual ball OF the jefferson Club, Of the
Sixth Assembly District, tomorrow evening at
Lexington Avenue O~pera-Housc, fifty-eishth
street, near Lexington avenue.
Or. Lewis G. James, President OF the BROOKLYN
Ethical Association, lectures o-norrow evening
before the School OF Social Economics, Union
Square. on 'Beginnings OF American Politics"
Annual reception Of the Algonquin Club. Of the
Twenty-fourth Assembly District, Tomorrow even
Ing, at Central Opera-lIouse.
Entertainment and reception OF the Liars club
OF the Twcnty-Hrst Ward. at Lyceum Opera House,
Thirty-fourth street. near Third avenue. tomorrow
evening.
Annual entertainment and reception OF st. Veron-
ica,s Lyceum. tomorrow evening. at Tammany
Hall.
Ninth annual reception Of the John J. Reynolds
Association Tomorrow evening, at Arlington Hall.
1928 st. Marks place.
Annual ball OF the employees OF W. q. Horn &
Bro, Thursday evening. u Webster Hall, East
Eleventh street.
Twentieth annual ball OF the Nonparcil Rowing
Club, Thursday evening. at Central Opera House.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Krauskopf, OF Philadelphia. will
lecture to the Young Mems Association OF the Con
g%regation Ahawath Chesed. Thursday evening, on
'Only a Jew
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viii carry Corbett t. victory. They ad-
nit that Mitchell Is the harder hitter,
and Davies Jays II the Englishman gets
IN a chance blow to disable Corbett the
Jackson says Mitchell is not. the
champion of England. He (Jackson)
claims to have won the title by defeat
ing Jem Smith and Slavin."
The following comes from Jacksonville:
The fight last night between the negro
pugilists, Harris and Watkins, was ended
In the first round by Harris jumping over
the ropes n refusing to fight. after re-
s eeiiSS' tSSa Z b hard m below w III tn the , ja%; It ,d is
day.. the cases being used as Il test OF
the legality OF the Corbett-Mitchell con-
my White, of Chicago, and AL Jansen.
OF Providence, at Chicago last night,
at the end OF the eighth round. White
l%atter,,s foul tactics would have finished
him In three rounds. The local man
secured three knockdowns In the first
round and continued the hot pace
throughout.
Dutch" Neal, of st. Louis, will box
ten rounds in Chicago tonight,
Receiver Freedman says that only ice
Is needed to make Manhattan Field the
finest ~skating-ring in the world.
Eugene ]. Dolan.-He does not. The
bet would be a draw.
A Reader They never met in the
Garden.
e. A. C.-Twenty-three.
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NEW MAIL DELIVERY ROUTES,
IL Adopted There VIII De More
Carriers and Sub-Stations

Postmaster Charles A. Dayton, who re-
turned Sunday from a conference with
Postmaster-Gcneral Bi.sell at Washing
ton, c~ontemplates another visit Friday.
Mr.. Dayton says his plans for redls-
tricting the city into new delivery routes
met with the hearty approval OF Mr.. Bis
sell, who will try to secure an %appropria-
ton from Congress for the purpose. The
SIM required for the first year Is esti-
mated at Sl25, 900.
The plans contemplate a considerable
increase In the number of carriers and
collectors and the establishment OF a
number of new sub-stations.
Attached to Mr.. Dayton's plans was a
tabulated census, taken by mail-carrlers
In September. 1t shows thrat the number
Of habitable buildings in the city Is
$4,000, and the number of PERSONS living
and employed In the same and who re-
Ceive mail to be 2,437,0j7.
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"Rent not PAID" asked his friend.
That's too bad-l've been there myself,
n then II is a very uncomfortable
thing to have hanging over ne. AS long
as one can climb up and down the
water pipe, n thus avoid meeting the
landlady on the stairs, life is made en-
durable. bu. with you, I suppose
There ism t a water pipe within TWEEN
ty feet of my window. No, ! must sell.
or get out, so-the mummy brown
again, II You please!"
Richardson handed the paint to him
once more, somewhat gingerly. II can't
help feeling I'm dealing with a piece of
a dead body" he said; coloring at Knowl-
toms plying look, and | should think
you would do the same, believing, as you
say you do. In transmigration and rein
%carnation, and allthat sort of stuff. Sup
pose, for instance. that you were painting
this picture with a piece Of your own
fathers body, when he was an Egyptian,
1900 years ago.
"Or, better still" returned Knowlton,
squeezing a fresh supply Of the paint ont
upon his palette, my W old time
body, say!" As he spoke he touched the
paint with the tip OF one finger, and Il
SILVER at the same time passed over
him, leaving him strangely pale and
shaken.
Eyes, but-holio, what's wrong?" ex.
claimed Richardson, noticing the change
In his friends face.
Nothing II don't know "a touch of
vertigo, that's all,' returned the painter,
confusedly. "I-what were you saying"
only that II your supposit.2n were so
the contact of the two b~olies-the new
ms the old-would make itself felt in
the new"
"Yes?" said Knowlton. smiling again
and returning TO his work. But l do not
believe in TRANSPORTATION TO that extent.
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scar. fL
The next morning after hurried ar
rangcments had been made for the fu-
neral by Knowlton's Bohemian friends.
Richardson had occasion to return to the
studio. The door was locked. but with Q
key of his own he let himself In without
disturbing the awe-stricken Mrs. No.
Gwiginn. The body lay upon the bed.
beneath n sheet, and the early morning
light drifted through the broken blinds
II fell across 1t with an uncanny eff
feet. The visitor went quickly to the bed.
and turning the sheet back from the face
looked down into the still features of his
dead friend. Then he covered them
again and moved away. AS he passed
the easel, which still stood where Knowi-
ton had last moved II in his haste. no
turned deathly pale and caught at the
mantel for support.
MY God" he cried recoiling from the
painting as II it were alive. and staring
down at it with horror filled eyes. Then
he hurried past 1t and threw open the
shutters, letting n flood OF light into the
room 4 stray bit of early sunshine
fought its way through the Crime cov-
cred window n crept along the ioor to
where the easel stood. and doing so II
lighted upon a bright bit of metal that
caught and reflected the light into Rich
ardson's face.
Beneath the easel. as II hiding like q
common murderer from justice, was the
heavy dirk, driven into the uncarpeteds
floor an inch. Som night wind. mars
boisterous than the rest. had shaken II
from the shelf and plunging downward
to the floor 1t had passed directly
through the painting, not a eighth OF an
inch from the heart OF the largest fgurss
on the canvas-the man In the brown
coat.-Everard Jack Appleton IN san
Francisco Argonaut.
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William Foreman. a colored man. twenty
three years old. OF $50 West Twenty-eighth
street., was stabbed In the right breast by an
unknown colored man at LES O'Clock this morn
ing at the corner OF Twenty-ninth street and
Seventh avenue. The wound was inflicted with
a %penknife. and the assailant escaped. The wound
Is not serious.
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my lear fellow. There Is a line. you
draw, and I rather imagine 1t is some
where near that point in this case. But,
to change the subject. viii you be at the
1dler tonight as usual? If Mrs. Nc
Gwiginn should happen to take 1t into her
good old head to ask me TO pay or skip
out, I'll have to realize on some OF my
personal property. and as | don't know
the best places in town / want you to
steer me around. Won't object. will
your"
Not in the least. My services ire al
ways at your disposal. and I'll he at the
Club at half after 7 or S. And now |
must tear myself away: so, until them
and the end OF the sentence was lost In
the slight slam of the door as he went
out. The artist listened until the echo o.
his friends retreating footsteps had dice
into the murmurous silence of the great
tenement In which he lived, and then. go
ing softly to the door himself, he turned
the key in It. Coming back to the table,
he drew his chair close up to 1t and cast
"A furtive glance about the unhomelikc
room, and into the deep shadows that
lurked in the cObwebby corners. Then,
with compressed lips and trembling
hands ne drew the palette to him and
gently pressed "A finger into the little
daub Of mummy brown still upon II.
A cold thrill shot up his arm, shaking
the very nerve-centres OF his body as IL
did so. and making him shudder again
and again, even as he sank back into the
chair half unconscious. In another mo-
ment u sudden dusk filed the room,
through which the familiar pieces of fur
niture and %draperies seemed to lose their
familiarity and to take new shapes and
colors unto themselves.
With staring eyes he strove to pierce
the mist that half obscured his vision.
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A MONTHS TREATMENT FREE.

So matter what the disease or nilm mt
ynu may have. II YOU amply In person al
the offices OF Doctors Mccoy and snow
on and after This date you will receive
consult atom, advice. a thorough diHg-
nosis of your case and one months
ircatmrnf. Including nil necessary medic
ciHes, free of all charges.
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"a. P. A." RECORDS STOLEN.
Lodge Room of the Tonawahda
Branch Broken Into.
(By Associated Press.)

TONAWANDA. N. Y. Jan. 16.-The
lodge-room OF the local branch of the
American Protective Association has
been broken into. and all Its records and
documents stolen. The local branch has
about $50 members, but their names are
not supposed to be known to my out
slider.
The lodge-room was located over a
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DOCTORS MCCOY AND SNOW,

Offices, corner Add street and Madison
n opposite the Grand Central De-
pot. and corner of l4th street and Broad
way. Domestic Sewing Machine Building,
New York. If you live at n distance write
for n symptom blank. Address oil letters
to the Madison avenue office.
OFFICE HOURS, "a. M. 1902 N DkILK.
Sundays, 10 o'clock AN. TO 3 O'Clock p NJ.
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DAYS AND NIGHTS OF TORTURE.
The Awful Experience of Cap
tain Thomson of Brooklyn.

In shipping circles Captain Thomson, Of Num.
her - Fourth place, brooklyn, is well known.
Iicro is a story from his lips that reads like 70
nance, hut, ns he says, II Is he truth. lie says;
To-day | am y strong, healthy man. | weigh
10 pounds. SiN months ago ! was II miserable,
suffering, wasted creature and only weighed llj
pounds. This may seem nu Incredible assertion
to make, but make It I do, for 1t is only the sini-
pie truth.