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.Of course. get my seventeen pounds a
day just the same, for was yanked away
before l learned the Smelling stunt. And
then seventeen pounds of cod, boned,
too, mind you! Though I've left the
North, l still live on the fat of the land
Honk, honk," he laughed, hydracially,
casting a spray as gentle as a May day
rain
But l don't care" he said with a saucy
toss of his head; they've put me here
now let them make the best of it. Eight
dollars a days what / coSt-more than
the biggest elephant or anything else.
They say could stay at the best hotel in
town for that, but then the accommoda-
tons wouldn't be as good
Three hundred and fifty now is what
1 am, but when l get big I'm going to tip
to three thousand. Great thing TO have
a vacuum like that as long as you can get
it filed. Had an awful scare once. though,
when they got me outside the polar bears
cage, just as an attraction SOS he'd come
my way into another cage they wanted to
get him into. When he started TO come at
me / didn't see the bars between us-I
just saw the clam boy giving up his job
and hanging Grape on the Walrus Pen.
One night last winter | had an awful
nightmare; thought l saw Old Silver up at
the fence looking in at me, but in the
morning it was just bench covered with
snow"
And he'll tell You lets of other stories,
will Flip. if YOU just learn his accent and
strike him in a reminiscent mood.
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various kinds of material needed in this
department down TO the main floor where
they were kept and when they were meas
ured off to return with them TO his de-
partment. This department did a heavy
business in those days and Silver Golf
was kept busy, but always he carried
about with him the mysterious little black
book with his middle finger between the
leaves.
The boys were curious to know what
was in that book, but they never dared
ask. They had a code of signals when
Mr.. Golf came where they were. The
boy who saw him first would close one
eye, draw up the corners of his mouth
and jerk his head in the direction of Mr..
Golf. This signal would be taken up by
Others, until all the boys looked like
Humpty Dumpty about to announce a dis
covery.
Utterly oblivious of the interest he ex-
cited, Mr.. Golf would go up to the counter
where was the material for which he had
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honked that he did. A kind green tree
Mad moved into tie picture, dropping shade
layishy.
What a splendid place for an inter-
view" said !.
Interview! Thought 1 was going to
get weighed"
so you are, but I want to interview
you first"
Does it hurt!"
Not a bit; just go on and talk about
yourself; that's all"
That ought to be easy enough. Let
me see" Meditation drowsed in his beady
eyes as he snargled pensively. There was
a snort and we were off.
81 was just a few months old when l
came here, so that Ellsmere Land. as l
bring it back, isn't very vivid"
Sort of retrospective phantasma of
aurora -borealises, ice-packs and frigid
water?' ventured.
Quite so! Out, so! Hoggle Google !,
How I'd like TO be there now. The very
day l was pinched my uncle was swatted
into the Never Never Land by the Ice
People. Poor Nunky! A penchant for
clans was his undoing and conducted him
to his early finish. He'd been submarin-
ing for clans that day-you see, with our
vacuum-cleaper-nozzle arrangement We
shell 'em and suck 'em up without swal
lowing any water. They must have had
line on Nunky, for when he bodied above
the aqua marine they handed him some
pats to make it easier, and then hari-
karied for the clans.
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Should the patient all to vomit, re-
course must be had to an oesopha geaI
sound, which may be improvised from a
rubber tube. Fitting this with a funnel,
proceed 10 wash the stomach, and then,
lowering the funnel so as TO form a
siphon, allow the liquid to run out. Slim
ulants such as coffee and ether should
be given afterward.
The first effect of poisoning by mush.
rooms being to cause a healthy vomiting
or clearing of the intestines, nature
should be aided by whatever means are
at hand-lukewarm water with a large
quantity of salt, olive oil or sulphate of
copper, which may be obtained anywhere
and which should be used in doses of
ten centigrammes diluted in two or three
tablespoonful of water, repeated two or
three times.
When the stomach has been cleaned out
give the sufferer milk, water containing
gum, mucilage of althaa or linseed, the
white OF an egg beaten in glass of water,
or, as a precsution, a weak solution Of
potassium iodide, which is specific anti
dote to the poisons contained in certain
particularly dangerous mushrooms.
Though purgatives cannot have as good
an effect as emetics, yet it is always well
to add them to the treatment. Use So
dunn sulphate, magnesium sulphate or cas-
tor oil.
Little can be expected from enemata,
their effect being likely to be insufficient.
Nevertheless, enemata with salt and oil
may be used to aid more rapid aud COM
plete excavations and at the same time
prepare for subsequent medical treatment.
In the event of pains or Inflammation
later, lavements with laudanum may be
resorted to. In case Of depression or stu
por, employ enemata with coffee, tea or
wine.
r To sum up, in an ordinary case of musb.
room poisoning begin by making the ma.
tient vomit, then administer a puryatiye
and at the same time give him q diluted
drink, milk or illuminated vsss
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see what the book was about. Alas! he
was too short 10 see over the readers
shoulder. \ little later it was my turn
to attempt to solve the mystery. I got a
good look at the book, but all could tell
the boys was that it looked like hog
Latin 10 me.
I'VE made up our minds that he was
studying to become q clergyman. The
part seemed to suit him so perfectly that
no other was possible. He was tall, lanky
and large boned, with q fine neck well
exposed by his turned down collar, hair
that looked all the more silvery BY con-
trast with a ford complexion, thin
beard, full underlip and an everlasting
smile from his eyes or his mouth, or both
l really think that it was this smile that
fixed him as candidate for the ministry
that and the book.
'Forty-eight' was the boy who finally
solved the problem. He found the book
of mystery lying with its pages wide
open in the lunch room and he came
waving his arms and laughing to tell the
rest of us that we had all guessed wrong.
Silver Golf was not 10 be minister; he
was studying TO be a lawyer. The little
black book was a law book"
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Illinois Proud of Its Interesting Group of Centenarans
Memories Recall a Long

illinois says it has the most interest.
ing group of centenarians in the Middle
West. One is the Oldest newsboy in
] the world and peddles papers at the Sc
date age of 105. Another is the sole sur
vivor of the Black Hawk War and is
ready ar any time to tell his "reminiscences
of the conflict with the red men. He is
also Jos. Illinois also has the distinction
of possessing the oldest king in the world,
and he is to be seen daily surrounded by
his loyal subjects, who gaze with awe upon
his patriarchal appearance. He celebrat-
ed his 109th birthday on July %.
Perhaps the Oldest singer in the world
may also be claimed by Illinois. This old
time vocalist spends most of his waking
hours singing gospel hymns. He, too, is
lO5. There is one woman in the group, and
she is quite youthful compared with the
men. She became 100 on October IS last.
Loyal Illinoisans give credit to the climate.
They insist that residence in the Sucker
State promotes longevity and all that is
necessary to increase the life expectation
is to remove, bag and baggage, into any
one of the 102 counties which make up the
State of Lincoln.
There are others than the FIVE men.
toned who have passed the century mark,
but their life histories have been more COM
monplace and do not bear the interesting
associations that will attract attention to
the group previously mentioned
Will Retire at los.
Probably the most remarkable character
of all is Orsamus Page, of Joliet, who is
famed as the worlds oldest newsboy. He
will be the guest of honor at the early
dedication of Joliet's new Union Station,
which is to cost 10000 and is now
nearing completion. Page has peedled
papers about the platform of the old depot
for the last twenty years, and is known to
thousands of travellers. He has been
growing somewhat feeble of late, and
realizes that 105 is a reasonable age at
which to retire from active labor.
He has announced that when the new
station is completed and thrown open to
the public he will leave the field to the
more youthful newsboys and spend his
remaining days in quiet He is a quaint
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!, Generation,

| He also relates experiences while com
muning with the angels, stating that they
sometimes bring with them his wife and
children, who have long since crossed to
the other shore. He firmly believes that
his visions are realities. Ingham was
born in Harrison county, Indiana, in
1SOS. His father and uncle fought the
British in 1912. He was three times
married. One son was a soldier of the
civil war, dying in battle. The govern
ment allows the centenarian S12 pension
each month on account of the death of this
son. 1t is said that Ingham is the Oldest
pensioner in Illinois, and perhaps in the
West. He is habitual smoker and finds
his pipe a great solace when he is not
sleeping or singing
The oldest king in all the world is
claimed by Illinois. He is James Moran
and is known through Central Illinois as
the king Of the Waupecan." He re-
sides upon the banks of the Waupecan
River in the southern part of Grundy
county. Moran will be 100 years old on
July % and is the oldest man in Illinois,
and perhaps in the Middle West of the
United States. His age is authentic, as
the date of his birth has been substan-
tiated by careful investigation.
The King" obtained his title years
ago. When in his prime he was highly
proficient in the use of the scythe. This
was long before the day of the lawn
mower and moving machines, and the
farmers cut their hay with scythes. 1t
was homely diversion among the early
settlers to engage in moving contests,
and Moran, who was a man of great phys
ical strength and endurance, easily van
quished all competitors. His prowess and
remarkable exhibition of muscle and en-
durance won the admiration of the spec
tators. One of these contests attracted
more than usual attention and took place
upon the banks of the Waupecan, a pic
turesque stream of Central Illinois.
His admirers, enthused over the fine
showing of Moran and in the excess of
their enthusiasm, acclaimed him king
of the Waupecan." A native of Ireland,
Moran was born in county Mayo July %,
1903, and came to this country when
youth. While a hard working man. he
was never able to earn more than a fair
living, and his sole possession at the pres.
ent time is four acre tract which was
given to him more than sixty years ago
by his brother Michael.
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Cheney. Gsmesf
TrOsfin6 Horse

-
AN gHEN rh..nv ,..,. MAO. Srom
lWn :.
w Ao'e y. so"" y.
! "aAanacnie, Iexas' trotted unoe
the wire at Readyille, Mass, few days
ago the winner of the $4,000 American
Darby s,o ro, 90, h.,s.,f The -enr,,+;o,
l.
s' A's w
Circuif.
She had been lame for weeks, 90 lame
that big John" Flemming, who drives
her. feared she would have to 60 to the
hospital, but she beat the crack horses
of the country in Americas greatest race
without once showing the sign Of limp,
and as her driver led her into her stall
she rubbed her nose against his shoulder
and looked as pleased as If she were
human and realized what she had accom-
plished.
"She knows more than some men,"
Flemming said after the race, land be-
lieve that she went out and won the Derby
Just because she knew that it was my
ambition to send her under the wire
first. Cheeny and / talk the races over
always, and am willing to bet her weight
in silver that she knows every word
say to her. She is the most sensitive
horse I ever saw. She never viciously
resents any abuse, but the look on her
face. if any one is unkind to her, 20 Il
person with horse sense Is NOR, OF a
rebuke than a kick"
Cheeny is perhaps the smallest racing
horse on the Grand Circuit. She weighs
less than 900 pounds-about the weight
of a pony-and her limbs are SO fine that
one wonders where she gets the remark
able strength that is in them. She is
called upon to do more than the ordinary
racing horse, too, because her driver,
Flemming. is six feet in height and weighs
900 pounds.
She loves Flemming, though, and he
loves her. and believes that she would
rather have him and all his avoirdnpnis
in the sulky behind her than q ninety
pound boy.
When she won first by half a length in
the Derby she showed no evidence OF
fatigue and her body was as dry as II
she had been simply having little work
out over the track. She is mass OF
nervous energy when in action, but al
ways has an ear a little to one side, so
that she can hear the words of encourage
ment and advice that Flemmins uses IN
stead of a whip.
The day of the Derby she was limpins
about the track Eve minutes before the
start, but once turned for the line the
lameness disappeared. Back in the stable
and the race over, the limp came back
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To me he looks no older now than he did

To me he looks no older now than he did
then.
In his right hand he carried a mys-
terious looking book, about the size Of a
pocket prayerbook, and not very different
from it in appearance, his middle finger
buried deep in its pages 50 that he could
open it at the desired place at a seconds
notice.
He was a picturesque figure as he
trotted about among the conventional
shoppers, reminding one as he stepped
carefully over the women's trains of
country dancers in the Virginia reel. He
had an expression both self-conscious and
and l doubt whether he
saw the people as he lodged about among
them.
There were plenty of interesting people
who used to come into Stewards Dy
Goods Palace in those days. I have seen
Horace Greeley there, with his fair face
and fringe of long gray hair, wearing a
long linen buster and carrying a carpet
bag. I used to see Wombold, too, of
minstrel fame, and Mrs. Wombold, Henry
Ward Beecher and Mrs. Beecher, Mary
Anderson and her mother and others who
were celebrities of the time. Mr.. Golf
was too intent upon his own affairs to
bestow any notice upon others.
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try the method for himself. He made use
of two particularly noxious varieties, yet
felt no evil effects
From these facts it is evident that a
good initial boiling is the best safeguard
against accidents from the eating of
mushrooms. 1t must not he thought that
this treatment will reduce the vegetable
to soup or will deprive it of its flavor
or succulence. The mushroom undergoes
this boiling without the least damage 1t
loses none of its sapidity and its odor is
not lessened in any way. Moreover, its
diSesibility is greatly improved. The
general conclusion may be drawn that the
use of mushrooms as a food should al
ways be preceded by boiling, even when
1t is question of the most wholesome
kinds, such as the "oronge"
While it will always be wisest to use
only those kinds of mushrooms which are
known to be harmless, the precaution of
first cooking them in sailed water, which
is thrown away, will prevent the accidents
which the eating of doubtful kinds might
cause.
II.
1t is well, however, to know what
should be done in the event of this method
by any chance proving TO be ineficacious
and of the appearance In the persons who
have partaken of mushrooms of such
symptoms of poisoning as a heaviness of
the stomach or other epigastric trouble, a
feeling ofrapidiy increasing nausea, fol-
lowed by vomiting, frequently of violent
character; by colo and repeated and pain
full evacuations, swelling of the abdomen
and great sensibility of the stomach, ac-
by a rapid but small pulse and
GOODNESS of the extremities.
The first thing to be done is to relieve
the digestive organs OF the poisonous
products by an emetic composed of $50
centigrammes of powdered ipecacuanha.
to which is added five centigrammes of
antimony and potassium tartrate mixed
with four glasses of lukewarm water, to
be taken in from two to four doses.
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figure as he hobbies about the platforms
and solicits the patronage of passen-
gers in the trains that stop at Joliet. He
lost one leg at the knee in an accident
forty years ago, while engaged as a rail-
road conductor, and the wooden stump
has been a handicap TO him since. The
old man was born near Buffalo, February
II, 1905, and spent his early years in
teaming over the Allegheny Mountains.
He came to Illinois a half century ago
and took contracts for grading the right
of way for several railroads, among them
being the Chicago and Alton.
He amassed considerable property, but
unfortunate investments robbed him of
all. His accident also interfered with
his earning capacities, and he was finally
reduced to the occupation of newsboy.
He has supported himself and wife COM
fortably, and has saved enough for the
proverbial rainy day."
He never uses into1icants, but has been
a lifelong smoker and takes a vast
amount of comfort out of his evening pipe
Page takes an optimistic view of life,
and believes that the world is growing
better. His career has been marked BY
hard work, but he takes a philosophical
satisfaction in the thought that he has
been granted far more than the allotted
three score and ten" and has been privi-
legged to see the development of the aero
plane and other wonders of the last fifty
years.
Aged 105 and calmly awaiting the end
Of earthly things is Harrison Ingham, the
quaint singer of Hoopesto.l. Seated in
his favorite armchair at the home of his
son-in-law, Wiley Ingham, the old man
chants Amazing Grace" Children of the
Heavenly King" The Tie That Binds"
and an endless number of other familiar
selections, many of them of the long ago
and forgotten or unknown to the present
generation. ..-r
Fought the British.
Despite his remarkable age, the old man,
possesses strong voice, not as clear
as it used to be, yet still carrying the tune
in good time, although his auditors detect
q quaver that was not present in his
younger days. Of late years he entertains
the idea that the angels visit him while he
sings and that in return they sing to him
the songs of the other world, which
he soon expects to reach.
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come, fall lightly upon revolving stool,
give his order to the salesman, and then,
while waiting would swing around, with
his side to the counter, and begin to read
from the mysterious book, bending far
over as he read. When the salesman had
cut of the material, written the check
and put it away in the folds, he would
hand 1t to Mr God, who would turn
about. raise his eyebrows and then close
his eyes, as If to lock up what he had
been reading, shut the book, always mark
ing his place with the middle finger, lay
the goods over his left arm and remount
the stairway to his department.
"One day one Of the boys, as previously
agreed, sneaked up behind the bent figure
) as he sat on stool waiting for goods
and tried to look over his shoulder and
The Washington herald., 1912-09-22
OF "SILVER" GOFF
Cash Boys "reminiscences of the Supreme Court
Justice When He Vas in Dry Goods.

Silver COT, as We boys used to call
him. was employed in the, department
where women's suits were made to order.
This department was upstairs, and it was
Mr.. COTS duty to take the order for the
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1 n the 70's Supreme Court Justice
Gof, Of New York, was clerk in A. T.
Stewards dry goods store. A man who
was employed there as cash boy at that
time has some interesting memories of the
Justice, who was regarded as an eccentric
person by his fellow employees. They did
not understand him in the least and stood
much in awe Of him. -..
The first time ever saw Mr.. Gof, v
said the whilom cash boy, ''he was COM
ing down the broad stairway in the store.
He wore a close fitting frock coat with a
rim of white cuff showing, dark trousers
and large, highly polished black shoes.
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Still Does the Chores.

His housekeeper is his unmarried daugh-
ter, Anna, who has lived with him since
his physical weakness made it necessary
for some one to look after him. Despite
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Sole Survivor of the Black Hawk
War.

Of the 1,500 volunteers who RESPONDED
to the call for troops in the Black Hawk
War, but one survives, in the person Of
Avery Dalton, of Elmwood. He is now
100 years of age and is one of the most
interesting and distinguished of Illinois
select group Of centenarians. Numbered
in the little army was a tall, rawboned
young captain with a company from
Southern Illinois who afterward became
President This was Abraham Lincoln.
Avery Dalton knew Lincoln Intimately
and they fought almost side by side.
The Black Hawk War was brief. as il
did not take long to drive the red men out
of the State and check their depredations.
The principal feature of the conflict with
the Indians was a cowardly rout of a small
detachment of the volunteers which
pressed ahead to exterminate the Indians
on their own account. Avery Dalton, how.
ever, was not in this company. The de-
tachment, defeated, cowardly shot several
Indians who approached the lines with a
white flag, Black Hawk wishing to dis
cuss a treaty. The chief was determined
upon revenge when apprised of this shoot
ing and gave chase to the soldiers. They
fed in terror, and the wild panic was de
risively known as the Battle of Still
mans Run"
Avery Dalton has spent his entire life
in Central Illinois and is one of her best
known citizens. For eighty-ive- years he
has made his home in Elmwood. He is
famed as fisherman, philosopher, guide
and friend. His memory is clear and he
IS fond Of recalling the days of the pioneer.
1t is an extraordinary fact that of that
little band of citizen soldiery pursuing the
,rafty savages eighty years ago one of
he volunteers should still live.
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By Anthony n. Euwer.

Editors Note.-If you don't
believe an animal can talk-in
his own way-you'd better not
read this interview, which is for
true believers only.
III he dangerous?" I asked timor'
Him? You could put him in
4 cradle with the baby! Couldn't
you, Flip, old boyT" The person
addressed had been galumping up
the hill from his specially sailed puddle.
When he first saw US there was a paeon
of observation-disclosures, followed by a spray
of whites and a snargle, which is q
good deal like a snore with burs along its
back. When he reached the gate of the
enclosure he kerfopped himself down
with satisfaction.
Want to take walk and get
weighed?' said the keeper. There was a
honk and a shuttle of sneezes. Yes,
do. if you promise not to lose me-"
Before talking to Flip you should first
study the call of the automobile, or better
still baby runabout, the throatinss be-
ing vastly similar, although the speed
limits of the Walroarius and the Automo-
bilious may differ slightly. As we started
out Flip flung on his high gear and opened
the signal valves. At the end of every
third honk he would tumble over himself
like the Michelien twins.
Want TO rest?" said the keeper. Flip
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his extraordinary age, King" Moran is
able to do some of the light chores about
the place, bringing in coal and kindling
and helping his daughter.
Totally deaf, almost blind, his skin the
color and texture of parchment. and with
gaunt features, he shows the effect of 100
years. Under his hollow appearing eye
sockets the flesh hangs Imply, and those
who have seen the old man do not ques-
ton his extreme age
Now in hoary age. with many years
beyond the common allotment, the King"
is patiently awaiting the summons.
Paraphrasing Dryden, Fate seemed to
wind him up for fourscore years, yet
freshly ran he on for twenty-five more,
till, like a clock worn out with eating
time. the wheels of life almost stand
still"