< TAKES LOC WALK PARADES STREET. BIC CROWD FOLLOWS HER Narrowly Escapes Being Run Over by an Automeobile—Policeman Fi- nally Wakens Her and She Ts Taken Home. —— Buffalo, N Y —A few minutes before 12 clock the other hight a strange apparition appeared in Main street It came from West Hke a ghat. Only it was a very vivid ghost. It was a young woman in her night woolen bedroom slippers in which she trod. Her balr was log=e and floating down her back, she was carrying » pink silk =lawl! vader one arm. and two little fox terriers preceded Le: As ‘he walked, at quite a brisk galt her eyes were bent upoa the sidewalk and secrmed closed. She looked neither to the righ{ nor left, and the pedestr ans whom she me: stepped aside 6 avoid colliding with her She badn't gone a block down the west sidewalk of Main street before 50 men were following, looking at he: euriously. Half a block farther, the crowd had grown to over 100 and ft kept on increasing rapidly. Though there was more or less talk and laughter In the group of follow ers, and though some of the more In quisitive ones walked at her side und gazed into her face, she seemed neith er to hear nor io see. She kept walk ing along briskly as if on a shopping tour A policeman stationed near Mohawk street hurried across the stree! to head her off and stop her, but some men ostentatiously advised him it was not well to do so “She's asleep. Don't wake her sud denly or you may kill her. She'll wake up herself after awhile” they sald: The policeman scrutinized her Ber eyes were Indeed closed dropped back arf said “That's no case for me. lat her alone. It's a fine night for a walk” On she hurried, heedless of dvery thing, seeming unconscious. An auto saw then SHE SEEMED NEITHER TO HEAR NOR SEE mobile was speeding along Eagle street near Malo as she started across the street. The auto blew its horn. The woman changed neither her demeano: Bor her speed. She narrowly escaped being run down. Then a patrolman stationed en Malp street below Eagle street saw her and Burried to ber, arriving at her side just as two women who had got off a car hurried to her ald, seeing her a soll tary woman apparently pursued by 300 men. ” re are you going. lady?’ asked the polffeman, laying a band on her arm and bringing her to a mit The woman didn't even look up “She's asleep,” chorused the crowd ‘ The patrolman tilted up her chin and looked at her face. The eyes were still closed *or half closed. He rubbed her forehead and spoke to her again. She opened her eyes, gave a slight scream, and swooned. The officer caught her as she was falling He and the women carried her Into » cigar store, and placed her in a side room. They then telephoned for med fecal ald. The somnambulist, after two or three fainting spells, seemed to regain con sciousness sufliclently to tell thé po Heeman that she was Miss Mabel Bur petit. She sald she Is a trained purse, her home Is in ‘Wisconsin, and that she came here about four months ago. she said, she had had a similar spell and bad walked out of her house ia her night clothes After a little while she began to talk fn a hazy, incoherent way. When the Yorker Who Emulstes the Ex- ample of the California ' Wizard, New apese vegeialle In my country place sald the prosgervis commuter, 8 ord- ing Ww the New York Herald, “snc (ex lo tempt fastidious American pati Nar am [I alone in this belief, for ihe seeds of the udo plant were presented to me by scientific agriculturists wbe bave noted ils popularity in Japan and its many good qualities. | have reason to believe that Luther Burbank the | California wizard, is on the same trail “The result so far obtained in my cul tivation of the moyashi udo Is already tenipting me to think of exploiting it us { & large scale as 800n as | can And a guod | descriptive name for (it 1h! €Xpiuita 0 Investigate jt | merits “Moyashi udo Is now grown in mans | conservatories as an ornaments! plan: and. many bons vivants may be surprised | to know that in it they have an oriental | vegetable that surpasses asparagus celery or lettuce as a table delicacy. ap In fact it seems to be a succe bination of all threes “The udo salad has the crispness of celery. a flavor pineapple and lettuce, and the appear ance of asparagus. When served it is absolutely without fiber, whifo as snow and with an appearance like to lossy silk. So tasty is it that | have to stand guard over my ulo patch in order to prevent my wife from devastating it in otder to garnish the table “However, I'm sure that its popular ity could rest on the sole fact that it matures ino winter time, although even at this season my moyashi udo is very palatable “1 wonder {f we're going to feel the ‘eller peril’ in the vegetable line? I'm unpatriotic enough to hope 50." ful con. cejightiul Just as a Hunte- After Game Coes There is a rat eatcher who visits Balthore periodically rid AmoaE other places, of the pests Am hotels Kh regular « and his always the the chase ia News Tats Pau Tals hunic his came front of a rat hole and rodents forth with the trains on a tin flute Instead, he carries a smai! alr rifle, and It does the work He makes straight for the basement. kitchen, baggage room and open plumbing, where rat holes will be found If they are anywhere. Having dicated his rat hole, which he seems to accomplish almost by instinct he lis tens al the opening until his keen ear detects a scratching or a squeak. He unerringly locates his quarry Ly (h's sound, Inserts his rifle at just the right angle, and fires If he mine but what's the he doesn’t. Ho bits bis wan eve ry tim Ther, wit 8 lear hooked wire he protes in‘o th hole and draws his victi a ot Nov and then he siribes a rest Ton In stch cases it §: us sally an e23 matter to hook the n snd zl an drag the pests from thelr ralatia’ res dence His is a peculiar calling. bot bas its uses And it's bet'er than killing rats with polson and havin? them dle within the walls to hote s, rod: rn’ IW - advent is ag the “Era Ms i siaall way, says t rat cailcher jis not He has no nisth but goes after ths He wl of «h tin j°e rring 4° any w.ol 5 id 2 al wn I th» in big dues not si’ tide aNEC use of PURIFIED BY ELECTRICITY. Nolsome Waters of the Schuylkill River Cleansed by the Use of Ozone, Philadelphia's notoriously bad water is now washed and made clean by ozone, Water from the Schuylkill river con- talps as much as 2,500,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter; but after a prelimi- pary straining this noisome populace js reduced to 700,000, and after the ozone treatment to from 5 to 55, and these fow survivors are sald to Le innocents, The water is also deodorized and freed from color. It is all done in this wise A motor generator, producing a current of 100 alternations, is operated by a cur- rent taken from the city supply. The current from the generator is raised by transformers and condensers to a voltage of 10,000, Voltaic arcs are pré- vented and sparks are limited by means of resistance colls and condensers, and the current io form of a pencil of blue light passes from each of some millions of metallic discharge points across a short air gap to nickel geceivers. By means of a pump alr is drawn across this gap, and In its passage is partially con. verted Into ozone; it is then [forced | through: a stand pipe In whieh it meets | a current of water lowing in an opposite | direeMon. The bacteria contained inthe water are jostantly destroyed by the ozone and the water is purified | Irish Bull | There are several interesting bulls in | the following serious paragraph from | the Western News, of Galway Ireland, doctors who came with an ambulance! of July 15: “To rob a man of his purse, A few minutes later talked to her they | and then maitreat him for not having apes some doubt about her men | it, would pass muster amongst pitiless Jal condition and then led her out tc | brutal crimes. but to kill and slay a murder bim for not dying qulck encugh fs one point better in the catalogue of g- | human Infamy. It is enough to ‘Make “I'm thinking seriously of going inte thelr teeth’ and tall i Irishmen set Business for myself.” sald Loafalong " “Good idea!” mused Snapup, “you've | sliently hn ups Deen In other people's business long od again, sod they bad to carry her. ——————__ The Cause. Mrs. Blox—Miss Black says she al- ways uses lemon juice on ber face; it's | good for the complexion. —] wondered what gave look.— Detroit Free Press. i POR THE of | L OF FINE Clothing & Furnishin EVER UNDERTAKEN IN SAYRE MURPHY & BLISE AMERICAN CLOTHIERS AND Next Door to Postoffice. * HABERDASHERS ayre, Pa.
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