UNIQUE STREET RAILWAY, THE "IMMORTAL J. N.” Most Picturesque of Characters Goes to Asylum. In Which the Horse and the Passen~ gers Ride Together Owned by a | Woman, If the spirits of the poor, departed car horses are allowed to return to the As a Boy He Could Speak Thirteen Languages Mind Unhinged by a (Great Criminal Trial — Has Been! (if car horse spirits do such an un- Insane Fifty Years. [of their kind standing on the back |Piatiorm of a street car, meditatively oh | chewing a straw and “view J. N.” has reached the end his| S1eW/RE 8 Straw and “viewing the travel . {landscape o'er” as the car merrily travels. He was finally adjudged In- | glides on Its way into the town. But sanc, and will spend the remainder of | that is a spectacle that presents {tself — Jacab Newman Free, “the immortal of his days In the State Hospital of To-/many times a day just outside the] great city of Denver, Colorado, A short line of street rallroads called the Cherrelyn Line, leads from one of the city terminals to the little Thus passes a character known in | in| town of Cherrelyn, It ascends gradu- {ally from the city, and its motive every sizable town in every State the West. For more than half a cen-| : | power, an ancient and decrepit speci men of the genus “car horse’ creeps tury he lived as the birds live. No town | or State could claim him as its own. In slowly up the hill, stopping frequently each he was at home and among | for breath. Once at the top however, friends. It is his claim, and it is not | M8 labors are over for the time be- } (Ing. He is unhitched from the car, disputed, that he knows more POO“ | olimbs aboard the rear platform, and ple personally than any other ving! proceeds to make himself comfortable, man { When the hour of departure is reached For fifty years he has travelled up| the driver gives the car a gentle shove and down and across the country, rid-| and the whole outfit goes spinning ing free on nearly every railroad, and | down the hill to its starting point living without expense in the best ho- | The Cherrelyn Line is tels, the towns he visited, afforded. controlled by Mrs. George of Denver, who iims that is the only allegravity em in world There was a similar line operating in southern California a few vears ago, 0 the claim to that distinction may be disputed. Be t} as it ay, how- ever, it is one of ights of Denver a street car on which both horse and passengers ride ledo. He Is now sgeventy-eight years | old owned H it and Bogue, D. H. on Every Railroad. s Stil in his possession are a hundred slips reading “Good for J. N. ” His | most treasured possession is a slip of paper signed by the leading officials of many of the biggest railroads in the country. It reads: “The immortal J. N.; pass him forever. Good on all roads from now until doomsday.” The rolling stock of this Hotel men in the towns he visited | resented by single lid as much. He was never known to exactly up to date in have more than a few cents at a time, | It is shabby and worn. ane in the fifty years of his wanderings | platform 1ot riginall de few landlords have been bold enough | a stable the Ph at ia i the rep- car not | or finish, | the rear vd a road the : style 1 ut OTiIEIna | keeper THE HORSE 18 A PASSENGE} THIS CAR 'o 3 present him with a bill. It re- | sides orded that a hotelkeeper once offered | are dec to throw of half the bill when he! writ earned his guest's identity. “The im-| mortal J. N. ” glared at the landlord Always seen in public places them, declaring he would allow no one Mrs. Bogue is not exactly a million to outdo him in generosity, and said! aire as the result of operating her own he would throw off the other balf. | railroad and drawing all the salaries | He seldom stopped in cities of more| and dividends, and she appreciates | Ahn i Sapiatipn. alltag-dhet the wduficiencde of rolling stock and in cities his personality | roadbed. Put she takes keen de-| would be lost. There are few news! light in the management of the road | paper offices in the country outside of and finds it a paying Investment the largest cities where he is not well | known. Seme years ago he travelled ! all over the country ransacking the files of newspapers for his own obit IATY He has been reported more than ence He is an apostle of re.” and keeper of the efl For forty years promising te “lift the ! preasure.’ Wherever he & migrations was that that he was reassure on” Thi me mysteri he believed, mt of existence nent No one has ever neane. He himself boasted is an Insanity that ed only friendship and sympathy behind his Insanity and his fifty ears of almless wandering over the country Is a tragic story Mind Unhinged by ['low. In his youth he was an infant phe nomenon At four vears of age he read almost all of the Bible, and dur ing his teens he acquired a reading and speaking knowledge of no less than thirteen languages. During the gold craze In ‘4% he went West and started tage line. Within two years he had accumulated a fortune of $50,000 A partner robbed him, and then “J. N moved bac) Ohio began the study of law. Within a few years he stood at the top of the bar of Cinein nati One day he was defending a mur rer in whose Innocence he strongly helleved. As a result of his eloquence the man was acquitted. The same day his cellent confessed that he was guilt) “J. N" rushed back to the courtroom is of the rated : gs of tourist fool Whose names Hk wit} are e their faces, INDIANS RAID THE TREAS- URY. band of Osago Indians has looted United Treasury of £33» » Joot was permitted by the author for the Red Men had tl aw their the money ! the the dead \ : sates nresae 141 ret of the Te he 1 oe been or has and put de wine yen] g the roeorTs LTH tonned pped n their ’ i ¥ » : mer ana? nd f w! fron life mm prev nt all the the : ! uttering The by and left mrtient withont f 5 n name mark were MOlo Rind mols castle iy . signed yell worth the follows hah-wal-| Pr Neke-wah-tian-ka Nun-tsa-wah-hu: Arthur ind E “Tall-Chief pedi ated mon “ or J rym} tod that he of it. But np ROW Ih Fas wa wie "re as I to Baca. oh-hah Deerheart it \ ir q Bonu Rn Le and ) land of the living, they must chuckle | Family Has Been Stationed Here | { seemly thing) when they witness one | | calfe ONLY WOMAN SHIP KEEPER. charge of Woman, Some [Member of Present Keeper's Since Navy Yard Was Established | Many Years Ago. | Women are steadily encroaching up- | on the occupations of men, heretofore and now filled by a man has gone to one of the fairer sex. The charge and care of a govern- ment naval establishment, almost for gotten, has been turned over to her, and for the first time In the history | of the American navy a woman has the rank of “ship keeper.” | The woman is Mrs. Albert H, Met: She has been placed in charge another position of the navy yard at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y, on Lake Ontario not far from the St. Lawrence, and will receive a salary of $260 a year Albert H. Metcalfe, keeper of the yard since 1868, died recently, and his position was given to his widow, The Sacketts Harbor Navy Yard Is not a big establishment. It consists of an acre and a half of ground, on which there are half a dozen small buildings and a few guns used in the war of 1812 Once Prominent Place. 1 wl } It use to be a prominent place, and shortly after the close of the war, a shipof-theline, then the biggest | type of war craft built, equivalent of | the first-class battleships of modern Navy Yard in| | AUTOMOBILE SKATING. |Skates Run by Storage Bat Strapped to Man’s Waist. | Recent | mobile | verified | Italian making | with | skates tery cable descriptions skating in Paris uave Alphonse Constantini, an who lives in Paris, has been many successful experiments his new form of which he invented, The apparatus consists of two four wheeled skates each operated by an | air-cooled motor of 1 capacity, A small tank containing sufficient for a 46 mile run is strapped been 1 i times, was planned, and the building! begun at Sacketts Harbor, The vessel! was to been the New Orleans The work slowly, how ever, and was abandoned, the hull of the sel remained up on the y back, probably along ‘50's, a man named appointed ship d, and his son, posi. WAS have 2 Albert tion that aft f wi ine Keeper for Thirty-eight Years. WAS A REAL MAGICIAN. Bostonian 1 raising the other Ary ork Attached to battery, the park control 3 an hour can be means of skater ialmed Hmbed about waist tank lgnition throttle lever and the A speed of 31 i attained and { throttle is in re are the n I diminis lever oft | by } holds h ha } HELPS BURGLAR WEALTHY ) T0 WIFE. ROB man who hig! 1% | od Bef “Mr. 1.0 man wa id served to an red Ol kal f “wt i t “George vou will wateh the chick ens ont your morning at 11 them all go to roost.” “HL LL Gearge Isnaghed good joke! “He thought, rou Lowell fooling enough, when 11 next morning the the chickens did go to roost He to-morrow will place : oclock you Bid | ‘Dats a i that Mr, | 2 yy wat, woe him 0 ork sun darkened wns on was amazed sought M: and said Wat vou Mah vou smid ont done tole chickens + X les Yeu George astronomer ry How Ong and started to explain, but the strain RAID ON DO RATS HAVE SOULS? In the course of a lecture before the Paychotherapeutic Society, Dr. Ward announesd that Prof. Elmer Gates, of STANDARD washington, D. C., who has been ex perimenting with light rays, had found There is the making of a most val: |About five octaves above violet a form sable servant of the trusts in South of wave similiar to x-rays, but differ. Lent in some respects, Ghaugs 3b.the’ Sates of - Sg BOY tinder these rays living olijeets earold | throw a shadow which exists as long Having he nd Wild ven yeanan as there in life in the animate object, bin public soool. whom he knocked A live rat was placed in a hermetionlly senseless with a snowball, a small Sealed tube and held in the path of boy, who escaped before Nis identity the rays in front of a sensitized screen. | could be ascortained, hired & negro So long as the rat was alive It threw hay for § cents to assume all blame | A shadow, When it was killed it be tor the tragedy. The girl was more came wulliahy SGA after a cor. 3 tain Jeng time frightened than hurt. i “Hore” sad the lecturer, “there Mr. Bryan's daughter has taken to was a strange phenomenon. At the writing plays, Senator Tiiman Is writ: very instant the mt heeame trans Ine a hook, and Congressman Long parent. a shadow of exactly the same worth Is accused of writing topleal shape was noticed to pass as it wore songs. BY next November we may ont of and beyond the glass tubs aod have very little left to be thankful vanish as It passed upward on the for. senuitized wereen and exolterment had been too much for 1 him He was stricken with apoplexy Within a shert time he recovered his physical health, but never his mental poise HAS STUDIED O11, : the heave and the chopchop of ocean HE TREASURY “Did you know roost 0 year ago? “Nes, fully an year ago.’ “Well, dat beats all’ sald George, in an awed ‘Dem chickens | wuzn't hatehed a year ago.’ "—Ratur. day Evening Post. dey would go to : voloe CURE FOR SRASICKNESS. Electric Current Used to Quiet Nerves of the Sufferers, Those who have been prostrated by vessels will le glad to learn that a sure cure for seasickness is promised. [The ship physician of the Hamburg. American liner Patrica has found by experiments conducted on the last voyage of the ship that a simple elec trie vibration chair doeg the work, and | dave { sideboard { FOOm | kept him short of funds and he took so snocessfully did he demonstrate thiy to the satisfaction of the ship's officers an Mier niture lke the I had no tre aliogany | build nowa in openin’ I found a few real silver spoons and a blamed lot o' plat od trash that wasn't worth ecarryin away. [| was just about to leave the when out flashed an electric light and | found myself starin’ at the barrel of a pistol. A young tes bow sige ae where | 9 pajamas held the gun, and his *ach postmaster in the United States. | hand didnt shake a bit He had a business look in his eve, so when he { told me to throw up my hands | done #0 without no argument How much of a haw! made? ™ he asked pleasantly. 1 told him only a few spoons, and that it was a own trick to pinch a man who hadn't got enough to pay for his tronbie “He acknowledged there was a hoss m me, and then hed if I was a amatoor, or yuld blow up a safe without .ousin neighbor : If yom } the materials with a ‘why spoils have you wn me e | the ive fo io ora he an’ m : Ar } no's prepared | hardware line, and then, with Pp ted, he backed me out of to one adjoinin safe in \ go to work and sat do» in a chair with his pistol turned way Well, sir, to make the story short I opened that safe with this pelican superintendin’ the job. There was wads o long green in a tin box that would choke a cow, likewise diamonds and other shiners The boss the business sorts ‘em over careful, and when the box was clean empty he hands me over some old breastping and napkin rings and a baby's silver mug and told me that that was my share, while he pockels the rest as calm as ye please Now, then, about kick, for this gun is likely to go off,’ | gays he, and heads me back to the window through which I'd entered, Git through there, and be quick about it on, he says, and then, as if add insult to Inj'ry, gives me a push that sent me flyin' Inter the back | yard ready to choke with rage” | The reformed burglar here uttered some very unreformed profanity as the pleture of that night rose to mem ory ‘When I'd got on me feet I heard a pistol go off in the house an’ a yell | for help and knowed who done |t There was nothing for me to do but Hght out, It seems that young man was the old party's husband, She'd | 1 3 had come the Fun room Was A told me to 4 ing {0 oper anvt n his W the where Then there the he : n tho ny oO face and don't | to this chance to make good. 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