Evening journal., 1902-04-29
STORIES FROM
HERE AND THERE

A Philadelphia druggist has made the
following collection of amusing mis-
sives that have been sent to him from
time to time
Il have a cute pain in my baby's
stummick Please give bearer some
thing to cure it."
my little girl has eat up a lot of
buttons. Please send a nemetic by the
enclosed boy"
Dear doctor a dog bit my child on
the leg please send some cork plaster
and cutter eyes"
pleas send by bearer one postal
card. Also kindly give bearer, my son,
some licorice root"
Deer doctor wot is good for tirefoy
fever send some quick I got it."
Let my johnny have a glass of sody
waiter / wud come myself but I am
washing. p. S. the five cents is for the
sody waiter"
IF you can fill the enclosed prescrip-
tion for 25 cents do so. If not return
by bearer"
Occasionally the patent insides"
play some curious pranks on the coun-
try publishers. On the patent side of
a Central Kansas paper last week it
was stated that during the past ten
days there were four deaths from heat
in Kansas City. Kan, and two on the
Missouri side"
The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady
tells a story of little boy he knew on
the frontier. who belonged to a family
who had trained him to believe in the
deep water form of baptism. and was
experimenting with the household cat
> and bucket OF water.
The animal evidently did not believe
in immersion. for she resisted, bit and
scratched. until finally the little boy,
with his hands covered with scratches
and with tears in his eyes. gave up
the effort to effect the regeneration of
+ the cat.
Dog gone you." he cried "go and
o. be a. Episcopal cat If you want to-"
p Acting Detective Arthur BrittOn, oil
. the Gates avenue police station, re-
20 Gently made a record for Sherlock
/. Holmes ingenuity, that has made hin
= the envy of a whole lot Of Brooklyn
r sleuths. BrittOn started out to fgh
the world at very early age and hi.
r ated to sharpen his intellect. He hai
!. been on the police force quite a mum
d Der of years, but his detective recor,
d is comparatively short. A clever negr,
of whom the police coupld obtain n,
description, but whose name the,
knew to be John Sweats, recently mad
off with a quantity of diamonds iron
an establishment in Captain Blu
p chanans precinct
yl Find Sweats," the captain told Brit
n ton, "and your reputation is made
le Don't ask me anything about him 70
,rl l don't know. The only clues TO wOr'
d on are that he is a negro and that hi
y name is John Sweats."
Il Britton promptly went into commu
y nion with his detective instincts. Les
than an hour later he stood scratchin
! his head In front Of a Bowery lodgin
. house patnonized by blacks.
He bounded IN the stairs leading [
d the establishments reading room
2 and confronted a regiment of negroC
u sitting about in their shirt sleeve
)y smoking pipes and looking over pi,
e. ture papers. To a man who looked lil
al the proprietor Britton observed. lou
al enough TO be heard all over the room
)f I'm an inspector from the Board
IS Health. and this place has been repor
r. ed as being in an unsanitary cond
az ton"
Of "Who made that complaint" Il
IL seeming proprietor asked indignant
ie John Sweats," Britton shouted, pr
s. tending to read the name from h
"A note book
~ ~ ITS a lie" a coal-black party fro
the centre of the room interjected.
- never made such a complaint"
~ In one jump Britton cleared Il
, space between himself and the sci
OF identified negro (and frasped his ms
ed by the collar. In less than two hcu
o. lafter Britton had been placed on q
IS. case. Sweats was behind the bars
the Gates avenue station house.