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Democrat atc,
Bellefonte, Pa., July 21, 1911.
A DETECTIVE'S QUICK WORK.
The Police Officer Was Not Only
Rapid \imseelf, but Compelled an
Unsuspecting Bystander to Join In
the Mad Flight and Capture.
“ “Phrow a leg, governor!
lose him we lose him forever!
“We tore up Conduit street. I don't
know what the passersby thought. I
had no time to think of them. When
we reached Regent street our quarry
dived into the traffic like a frog into
a mill race. We went in after him.
How 1 missed being knocked down I
don't know. The milkman took the
same risks. We were across almost
as soon as the man and sped after
him. 1 don’t know what streets we
doubled down. | know that at this
period it flashed across my mind that
1 was making a conspicuous ass of
myself. Here 1 was racing down the
slums of Soho at the bidding of a
strange milkman, who never stopped
in his exhortations to me.
“ ‘Keep it up and we'll get him!
“Our quarry doubled and tacked, but
we stuck to him till just as we were
pacing down the very worst looking
street of the lot he suddenly slipped
into a low house, of which the door
was open. My milkman never lost a
second. He whispered hoarsely in my
ear:
* ‘Stop here. governor. and grab the
first person as comes out of that
house, no matter who he is! 1 know
the way behind.’
“In a flush he was gone. He had
nipped down an alleyway and disap-
peared. 1 felt a real fool. and the
whole folly of my action rushed in
upon me. | had left my wife strand-
ed in a shop in Bond street. 1 had
lost my hat and my stick, and here I
was In an almost deserted street,
standing outside a door waiting with
orders from a strange man to grab
the first person that came out of it.
In two seconds more I would have
left the place and gone to the nearest
hatter, a wiser and chastened man.
But just at that moment a boy of
about fifteen came out of the door.
‘My milkman must have left his spell
upon me, for I immediately threw my
arms around him.
“ ‘Lemme go, governor! he shouted.
‘I ain't done nuffin’ to you!
! “He struggled bard, and the more he |
istruggled the more 1 felt impelled to
hold him. And then suddenly, as if
‘by magic, two policemen appeared on
‘ts ; scene and seized my boy for me.
i milkman, wreathed in smiles, ap-
peared in the doorway from which the
boy had just come, saying blithely and
quite respectfully:
“You've done that very well, sir.
‘We've got the other two inside. He
‘then added, ‘i'll just put my hands
over this young feller.’
i “He took off the boy’s battered hat,
jand out of the lining came a roll of
‘£80 in Bank of England notes. He
{then went through the boy's clothes '
land produced out of his socks a pair of
ruby and diamond earrings which, to
my astonishment, 1 saw were the very
Igewgaws that my wife had taken with
(her to have reset. The detective, for
‘my milkman was nothing less, then
{pinched the boy's ear and said:
J “‘Where's the lady's bag?
“In the yard, sir.’ he answered sulk-
ily enough.
“The milkman retrieved it, and, sure
enough, it was my wife's bag.
“ ‘But,’ I said to the detective, ‘how
did you know that I was connected
‘with the lady who owns this bag?
“It's our business to know a few
things,’ he said. ‘But i{f you hadn't
been game to run we should have lost
the lot. We were only just in time.’
“We left the boy and the two men
in the house in the custody of con-
stables and took a cab back to Bond
Legislation.
' Mozart Composed For Them and
| Gluck Played Upon Them. |
INVENTED BY AN IRISHMAN.
!
| Richard Pockrich, the Versatile Genius
Who Originated Them, Once Ussd
Their Melody to Charm Away the
Bailiffs Who Had Arrested Him.
Richard Pockrich, an irishman who
lived in the eighteenth century, was
a true genius, a dreamer and an in-'
ventor. He proposed metal ships, pre-
dicted flying machines, advocated bog
drainage and vine planting in the Em-
erald Isle. invented an instrument for
transfusing blood and was for some
years a brewer in Dublin.
It was in the domain of art that he
achieved his one real triumph, the one
by which he is known in contemporary
musical history. by which he became
known to general European civilization
during his lifetime and by which his
name will long survive. He invented
the musical glasses. These can be
heard today in vaudeville houses all
over the world and will probably sur-
vive as long as the musical art itself.
Most of our readers have heard them.
They are simply a set of tumbler or
goblet like glasses selected for tonal
quality to curry out a musical scale.
Pockrich seems to have been the first
man to be struck by the musical tone
in glass, and so he thought the thing
out and produced a scale on which he
could play any melody.
He exhibited his discovery in Dublin
' and finally took it to England about
the year 1750, where it became the sen-
sation of the hour. Nothing was talk-
' ed of but the marvelous. simple, new
musical instrument. [It seemed to the
ears of the jaded Londoners that the
heavenly art in all its elemental beauty
had returned to earth. Far from sneer-
ing at so very simple an idea for mak-
ing melody. the cognoscenti of London
went into raptures over the musical
glasses. Gluck, the great composer,
who was in London, did not disdain
to play his immortgl airs upon them.
“The opera flourishes more than in
any recent year.” wrote Horace Wal-
pole to a friend. “The composer is
Gluck, a German. He is to have a
benefit, at which he is to play a set
of drinking glasses which he modu-
lates with water. [ think I have heard
you speak of some such thing.”
Not only did Gluck perform upon
Pockrich's new instrument, but Bee-
thoven, Mozart and other great mu-
sicians in later years actually com-
posed music for it. Goldsmith refers
to it in “The Vicar of Wakefield.” Not
long after the inventor visited London,
and Benjamin Franklin speaks of him
in a letter to a friend thus:
“You have doubtless heard the sweet
tone that is drawn from a drinking
glass by passing a wet finger round its |
brim. One Mr. Pockrich, a gentleman
from Ireland. was the first who thought |
of playing tunes formed of such tones. |
He collected a number of glasses of
different sizes, fixed them near each
other on a table and tuned them by
putting into them waier, more or less |
as each note required. The tones were
brought out by passing his fingers
round the brim.” i
There is a story of Pockrich, who !
was making occasional tours to Eng-
land after the invention of the musical |
glasses, that illustrates the surprising |
effect of his own performance on them.
It is told by his friend Brockhill New-
burgh, a gentleman of wealth and po-
sition, who lived in Dublin at the time:
“Mr. Pockrich in his brewery near
Islandbridge, happening to be one day
seized by bailiffs, thus addressed them:
“ ‘Gentlemen, I am your prisoner, but
before I do myself the bonor to attend
you give me leave os an humble per-
former in masi% t» entertain you with
a tune.’
“Sir, exclaimed one of the bailiffs,
' ‘we came here to execute our warrant,
not to “hear tunes.” ’ i
“ ‘Gentlemen,’ says the captain, ‘1
submit to your authority, but in the
interim while you are only taking a
dram-—bere, Jack (calling to his serv-
ant), bring a bottle of the Rosa Solis I
lately distilled—1 say, gentlemen, be-
. fore you take a dram T shall dispatch
my tune.’
' “In the meanwhile he flourishes a
| prelude on the glasses and afterward
displays his skill through all the pleas-
ing turns and variations of ‘The Black
Joke.’ The monsters, charmed with
the magic of his sounds, for some time
stand and gaze. At length, recovering
from their trance, they thus accost the
captain.
“ ‘Sir, upon your parole of honor to
keep the secret we give you your lib-
erty. 'Tis well playing upon glasses
: is not more cojtmon; if it were I be-
lieve our trade would find little em-
{ ploymen "rm
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He had dreamed of harmony even in
i the drum. He planned an orchestra of
: only. There were to be twenty
, varying in size and tone from
est trebles to the basses, to
ed by one person standing with
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musical glasses were the direct
: of Pockrich’s death. It was
| while he was upon one of his musical
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MUSICALGLASSES _ mesos
Mrs. Knicker—Did you hold a short | tours in England in the year 1759 that
session with your husband? Mrs. | the hotel in London in which he was
Bocker—Yes. 1 merely had him pass | sleeping caught fire and he was born-
an appropriation bill. — New York ed to death.—Joseph Lewis #rench in
Than Their Number.
Among the players we do not use the
word “signal.” With us it is a “sign.”
There are not as many “signs” used on
a ball club as the public would believe.
Of course the catcher must “sign” the
pitcher for every ball that he throws.
That is to prevent confusion or, as we
say, to keep from “crossing each
other.” The catcher has a sign for a
curve ball, a fast ball and a slow one.
To ball players all curve balls, such .
as the drop and the outcurve, are call-
ed “a curve.” The catcher gives the
same sign for any one of them. We
do not call a ball that jumps “in” a
curve. Ball pluyers do not recognize
the incurve. That is called a fast ball. |
| Any bell thrown by a right handed
pitcher with sufficient speed will jump
inward to a slight degree. The out-
curve and drop are unnatural curves,
and the ball must be spun in an un-
patural manner to get that peculiar
“break.” i
The only other “sign” of importance |
is the one the batter gives to the
ner when he intends to hit the
he wants the runner to
swings (the hit and run play)
him a certain sign. There
number of signs used for
Sometimes the batter gives
bing his hand over the small
the bat. Again, be may give {
knocking the dust from his shoes
the big end of the hat.—John J.
Graw in Metropolitan Magazine.
EAST INDIAN RUNNERS.
Kahars Who Can Regularly Make a
Hundre® Miles a Day.
Ordinary Marathon races seem rath-
er insignificant compared with the
regular performances of a certain east
Indian caste. These Kahars, also
known as Jhinwarb, live in the Pun-
jab, where for centuries they have
acted as runners, fishermen and water
fowl catchers.
The men are trained runners and are
said to be able to go a hundred miles a
day without resting. According to
Baily's Magazine, there is a well au-
thenticated instance that Tika Ram,
the son of Lalu Ram, carried dis-
patches 300 miles in three days—from
Tgah
folie
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