Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-15
LIVELY TIMES IN oUAKERDoM
Variations in LIES Atmosphere
Noted I'm City of PbiIa-
deIphia.

Ever since the reform virus took In
Philadelphia and kidnapper tobogganed to
the penitentiary, life has been worth the
living in the old town. There is vim
and a go to things, happenings present
more local color" people are up and doing,
and awake the greater part Of each twenty
four hours.
Whenever an occasion arises to prove
that life may be as strenuous in Philadel-
phia as elsewhere a proud resident is sure
to be on hand to show the doubters. One
such occasion was pulled of in lively style
last week. A bull was being transferred
across the Delaware In ferryboat. Head,
horns and feet were tethered by stout
ropes whether the animal suffered from
the heat or disliked the prospect Of leaving
the green fields Of South Jersey for the hot
city is not known. At any rate the steer
with toss Of his powerful head snapped
the ropes that held him and started on the
rampage.
The bull charged across the deck and the
deckhands scattered. They hid behind
water barrels and mounds Of merchandise
on the deck.
The steer advanced toward them and the
deckhands jumped to their feet and beat II
to the engine room. They barely had time
to slam the door In the animals nose. One
Of the deckhands was unable to reach the
engine room. He started to run across the
deck. The bull saw him and followed.
The frightened deckhand saw the bull at
his heels so without hesltating he dived
over the side Of the vessel into the river
The bull kept right on after the man into
the river. Fortunately the deckhand was
a good swimmer and he started up the
river with the tide. The mad steer kept
going too. For half a mile the race con-
tinued, the bull gaining slightly, when a
row-boat sent in pursuit diverted the ami
NAL from his game and saved the deck
hand.
VIII a suit lie against a trading stamp
company for alternating the affections Of a
wife? A Philadelphia arrested for nom
support pleaded that his wife was victim
Of the trading stamp habit and refused to
buy her supplies at a store where he had
an account because stamps were not given
with purchases. The allowance he made
for her household expenses was squan-
dered on superluous groceries with which
she received stamps OF many colors, con-
vertible into parlor furniture, chromos and
tableware.
The defendant arrested for nonsupport
convinced the court that his home was
being filled with food in bags and cans
which could not be eaten and that, addl-
lions were being made to the congestion
every day. On the sideboard when he left
the house to answer to the heinous charge
were assembled: Thirteen pounds Of coffee,
six of tea, fourteen Of cocoa and ten ~
rice twelve packages of desiccated cocoa
Nf o1a 10
and five of baked beans, and a twenty-five
pound bag of sugar, not to speak of mis-
cellaneous things in bulk and by the gross
for which trading stamps were given After
reading the entire list the prisoner at the
bar said: IT have an account at a store
which doesn't give trading stamps, but my
wife passes II by for the places that hand
out the stamps" The magistrate was over
| come by the revelation. You're more
sinned against than SHINING" he said
gently; You have my deepest sympathy.
You are discharged"
Stricken with hiccoughs at the sight OF
boy being crushed to death beneath a
trolley car more than a year ago, Mary
Doshotesky, an 1s-year-old Polish girl,
after undergoing a most remarkable series
OF treatments has within the last few weeks
been cured.
In her home at s2S Federal street Miss
Doshotesky told Of the manner in which she
had balanced herself upon her head for an
hour at time, been filled with liquor, had
taken patent medicines and had been hypno-
tized, mesmerized and cauterized in the
years effort to cure the inward spasms that
were slowly sapping her strength.
She described the manner in which the
hiccoughs had come upon her one day in her
former home at S43 Christian street, when
she saw a Fourth street trolley run down
a small boy, and how she had struggled to
rid herself of them until she was so weak
that she could no longer leave her bed
room.
Nearly all the hospitals in the city were
visited by her, she said and all of them
gave her different treatments. Friends too
had various pet remedies. and tablets and
llniments came to her from such distant
points as Germany, Brazil and San Fran.
cisco.
Just what remedy deserves the credit fol
the cure Miss Doshotesky says she is un.
able to decide. 1t was neither hypnotisu
nor mesmerism; OF that she is sure. Fol
twenty-one days however. she received
treatment that included cauterizing OF IN,
upper part OF the body, and magnetic and
electric massage and at the end of thai
period she was pronounced cured.
Within the last few weeks the younl
woman has regained all her old vigor and
strength. The color has returned to hei
face and she is again the healthy and ami
! mated girl that she was before she wit
messed the sudden death Of the boy beneath
the wheels Of the trolley.
) William Wyatt a middle-aged negro. 4
the object OF more interest to Philadelphi;
surgeons than perhaps any other person
: IN that city.
Since July he has been living with
knife wound In his heart and now bids fai
to leave the Pennsylvania hospital in a few
days after an operation which has onl!
once before proved successful in the an
nails of local surgery.
On June 5 Wyatt was skylarlxing with an
other negro named William Smith. The tw
men were wrestling and as Wyatt brok
away Smith drew a penknise and hourishe
It In the air. Wyatt did not notice this an
turning around sprang al Smith with arm
p / wide omen a IRE sh hold