The morning times., 1896-10-04
EXH0RTs FROM HOUSE TOP
Queer Ideas Have Possession
of James Frisk.
MoUTHPIECEoFETERNITY
He Claims that Spirits Talk
Through Him-Police to In
quire AS to His Sanity.

Old man Jimmy Frisk is the mouth
piece NJ eternity. Jimmy makes tiiis
allegation himself. s~
jimmy declares positively in two-lung
tones That he is the mouthpiece of eternity.
aud there are very few people who know
us much about jimmy as he knows
OF himself. AT any rate. there are very
rev people who know any more about
eternity than jimmy does.
This old man, whose long fearI is
oleaehed by the frosts of sLxty-one winters
and lhnned by the thaws of Just as many
summers. has attracted the attention not
only OF people i'll his ueighborhood. but OF
people several squares from his Beigbbor-
mood. by eccentric sermons delivered fr ON
his house-top during the hours OF early
morning and night.
Frisk's rayorite time for preaching is
O'Clock i'll the morning Then it is that
he climbs out through the dormatory Will
dow onto the cornice of No. 924 E street
northwest. four stories above the street
There, safe from oulbursts of bricks and
tributes of eggs. he rants SO long aud loud
that the man in the moon draws a cloud
across his face that he may laugh unseen.
The voice of the old man breaks the
dreams OF slecrers and they who had
slept rush To the windows and encourage
5he speaker with remarks not designed to
flatter. Rats" shut up Police"
''Give US rest, "vag him, ~ Cheese it,"
Go to bed,''is what they say. Sometimes
L man whose English is more careless
han that OF his neightor's. will, instead OF
requesting him TO ''go to bed repeat the
verb and proposition, but will substitute
the more emphatic noun.
MAY ARREST THE OLD MAN.
Sometimes rota;o will whistle through
The air. But the old man talks On. For
he is the mouthpieoe OF eternity. Some
of the neighbOrs brought the matter TO the
attention of the police few nights ago,
anditis probable that Frsk Will be arrested
on the charge OF insanity.
A Times reporter started out last night
TO interview Mr.. Frisk. The first floor
IF No. 924is occupied by an Italian grocery
store and children. The store is Well
stocked with groceries, but abundantly
stocked with children. In fact, what II
lacks in groceriesi 5 made up for in children.
There is a full line OF children there and
in all sizes from the purseling up.
A flight of steps leads 10 the next story.
The second floor is an Italian tenement.
More children. The third floor was dark
but it is reasonably certain that light
would have revealed more children. The
fourth floor was dark.
Hello there, Frisk," shouted the re
porter. Several echoes rolled away among
he ccbwebs. There was Il Sound of boots
nurryirg over a bare board floor, and
somewhere i'll the dark I. door opened and
u voice cried Here"
After a light had tcen struck Mr.. Frisk
entered his garret room. IL was an uH-
furnished apartment. Mr.. Frisk begged
that the appearance Of the room he eN-
cused, as lie was very poor.
POSSESSED BY SPIRITS.
what terror can poverty have for a
nan who is the mouthpiece of eternity?
suggested the reporter.
Mir. Frisk winked his eyes, that burned
with q fright, wild fire, and said with
5gi,ation and speed that increased with
each sentence till he talked like mad
Yes, yes; that's so. am the mouth
niece uf eternity. Tie spirits have had
possession of ME, oh, so long
Ever since l was q hoy they have
raveled with me. It was only about twelve
years ago that could get them to talk
,, publicly as they do now. They used only
to take ME into their confidence, but now
they possess me so and feel so secure in
me that they talk to others through me.
When go out on the roof do not know
what l say"
Tie people 10 the street who have listened
10 Mr. Frisk suspected this, and were
sharers in his ignorance.
"Yes, indeed. they just take hold 1e me
and talk. talk, talk. l am engaged now
in apalyzing the Bible. The Bible is the
work of monks, monks. monks monks,
cried Frisk, at the top of his voice. This
ANALYSIS shows me that the American peo-
pie are descended from the Wollyhobs, who
come from the Bobbywollies, and who
in turn will merge into the Boliywil lies"
Frisk,s eyes burned hotter and hotter
and he discoursed ravingly on the crimes
of the wollybobs, the Bobbywollies and the
BollywibbicS His frame shook with emo
,iop. and his eyes rained water. as he
sorrowfuliy told how il was his duty to
inter at midnight, under Il mound of green
leaves, the murdered spirits of the poor
Wiccasiccubs who had heep driven out OF
the land of the Siccubwiccas by the hated
Cubasicwics
Mr.. Frisk was horribly ip earnest. lie
talked this wild, mad haraDgue till The
Times was about to go to press
II am going to analyzc creation next,
l am going TO point tile way to the North