THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OOTOBEIt 18, 1000.
USES ALLI6AT0RAS DIRIGIBLE
Bicyclist Pumps Air Into 8aurlan,
Ties It to Wheel and Sails
Away Merrily.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Even an alligator
may servo a useful purpose In the
field of aviation. Richard Notts, a
baker In Lefferts avenue, Hoffman
Park," between Jamaica and Richmond
Hill, has demonstrated that fact. Ho
Is the newest and tho most dangerous
rival of Count Zeppolln and the hero
of that section of Queens Borough.
Notts needed a horse and wagon yes
terday morning. Ho mounted his
wheel and started toward the home of
Peter Horr, a farmer who lives In
Lotts lane. Near the home of Horr
ho passed a pond owned by Mrs. P.
M. Pette of Brooklyn, and saw In his
path a militant alligator four and one
half feet long. The reptile was itch
lnp for a flght and reared Itself for
an encounter. Notts left his wheel so
hastily several of his friends assert
he fell off. Anyway, ho dismounted
and began looking for a weapon with
which to fight the alligator. Finally
his eye lighted on a large foot pump
with which he pumps air Into the
tires of his bicycle. Seizing it, he
Jammed the business end of the pump
Into the mouth of the reptile and its
teeth closed on it with a vicious snap.
Notts tried to get the pump from
between the reptile's Jaws, and was
unable to do so. Then a happy thought
Btruck him. He began to pump away,
and soon had the satisfaction of see
ing the alligator swell to abnormal
proportions. The alligator waB In
furiated to such a degree that Its
tompor heated tho air as It passed Into
Its body. Notts pumped away as hard
as he could, and In a few minutes the
alligator, filled almost to bursting
with hot air, floated clear of the
ground and It was as much as Notts
could do to prevent it sailing oft with
his air pump. Fortunately he had a
coll of rope with him.
Holding the Inflated and angry alli
gator with one hand, he cut the rope
into four lengths. To each of the four
legs of the reptile ho tied one piece
of rope securely. Then he tied the
four loose ends to his wheel, two to
tho handle bars and two to the
frame beneath the saddle, and pump
ed more hot air Into the alligator.
Horr looked on, and explained tho
reptile had been In the pond two
months and that It had feasted on
fifty of his chickens and frightened
his ducks and pigs so they would not
go near the water. Notts listened
Impatiently to all that and to a fur
ther suggestion that an enemy of Horr
had put the alligator In the pond.
Then he seated himself on the wheel,
released the anchor rope and soiled
off for home, using the tall of the alli
gator for a rudder.
When he landed In Hoffman Park
with his alligator dirigible he created
a sensation, which was increased
when the alligator gave an expiring
breath which blew leaves off a tree
thirty feet away and sent the air
pump and four alligator teeth through
a window across the street The fact
that the alligator had died In the in
terest of science was a keen disap
pointment to Notts. He Just had
been figuring on establishing an alli
gator air line for the quick delivery
of bread when the reptile's released
soul started for the Florida Everglades.
KILLED SNAKE, LANDED FISH.
Indiana Angler Had Bass on Line and
Blue Racer on Leg.
Fort Wayne, Ind. Charles Paul of
the Paul Manufacturing Company,
was fishing In a small lake near An
gola and stood on the bank, because
there was no boat available. Hook
ing a bass he found it necessary to
play for advantage in shallow water
to his right.
His eyes were glued to his line, and
he did not see a big bluo racer in his
path until the reptile whirled Itself
around his legs and lifted its head
above his belt. Grasping the reptile
by the throat with his left hand Mr,
Paul braced his fish rod under his
right arm, while with difficulty he
reached for his knife In his pocket,
Opening tho blade with his teeth he
cut the snake's throat, disengaged
the folds of the dying reptile, and re
sumed his play of the bass. He drew
the fish to shallow water and landed
It. Tho fish weighed five pounds, and
the snake measured 7 feet 2 inches,
Companions saw both.
BRING A MAN, GET A PRIZE.
Pastor Uses Candy Bait to Enlist
Girls' Aid.
Wllkes-Barre, Pa. Prizes are to be
given to young women who bring
young men to the Sunday School at
Christ German Lutheran Church at
Hazleton, near here.
The prizes are offered by the mia
lster, the Rev. J. O. Schlenker, in an
vOffort to win back the adult attend
awe at the Sunday school classes
which has fallen off greatly. Pastor
Schlenker promises to give eacb
young woman who brings two
young men to Sunday School next
Sunday a large box of candy. He does
not say whether bo will glvo prizes
every Sunday.
Raises Peach a Foot Around.
Montclalr, N. J. In sorting a bushel
of peaches, taken from one tree in his
garden, W. A. Hodges, of No. 132
Claremont avenue, found that not one
of them was below nine and one-half
Inches iu circumference. Most of
them measured ten and one-half
Inches, and one was twelve Inches.
There are now fifty-four play.
grounds for children at the schools
of Boston and twonty-elght in the
MOTHER STILLGODDLES DOLL
Clothed In Fresh, Clean Dress Each
Sunday, with a New Ribbon
In Its Hair.
St. LouIb. Although Mrs. Catherine
Adams, who looks as if she were sev
enteen, is the mother of a pretty baby
boy, she still cares for the first real
big blue eyed doll her mother gave
her when she was a little girl.
For the ten years she has owned
the doll she has never neglected Its
toilet. Each Sunday finds It with a
clean and bright dress, a new ribbon
in its golden hair and a neat little
bow about its neck.
The little girls of the neighborhood
know about the big doll and often go
to see It. Tehy have never handled
It, though, because it is becoming
more valuable each year as an heir
loom.
Little John Quincy Adams, not yet
a year old, is not neglected, however,
because of the mother's fondness for
the doll.
The doll Is about two feet high and
has a wax face and natural hair. It
is generally dressed In white.
"I think a great deal of the doll,"
Mrs. Adams said; "but of course I
think a million times more of little
John Quincy. It's a different kind of
love I have for hlra."
Aeroplane Hat the Thing Now.
Chicago. The National Association
' Retail Milliners, assembled at Fine
of
Arts Building, launched the aeroplane
as the new style of headgear, put a
ban on tho Doach-baskot hat and de
creed the three-cornered hat of tho
Louis XVI. days as the stunning bon
net for the coming winter months.
The new creation in millinery art
resembles an airship in shape, having
two long feathers on either end and
a curved rim. Its dimensions are 20
by 18 inches, and, because of Its light
trimmings, it weighs considerably
less than a pound.
MARRIES MAN OF HER CHOICE.
Girl Sends Distasteful Suitor After
License While Wedding Goes On.
Cincinnati. While Philip Fisher
was securing a license to marry Alice
Carney, a wealthy young woman of
this city, the clerk remarked that a
license had been issued to Winifred
Carney of the same address a few
minutes before and asked if tho two
were sisters.
Fisher dashed out of the court
house to, the home of Miss Carney,
where she was being married to Thos.
Kilgour, and attempted to make his
way to the room where the ceremony
was in progress. Friends of tho cou
ple kept him on the street until after
the knot had been tied, but he made
a scene and finally left the bouse in
high dudgeon.
Mrs. Kilgour to-night gave out the
following statement before leaving for
her honeymoon:
'I have been engaged to Mr. Kil
gour for some time past and I have
known Fisher but a few months. He
was persistent in his suit, and Anally
In a Joking way I told him to go ahead
and get the license, but my friends
and acquaintances well know that I
was engaged to Tommy. I suppose
Fisher took me at my word, and that
is how the mixup occurred. But I am
happy, and that Is all I have to say."
A NEW UNWRITTEN LAW.
Man Acquitted of Murdering Man Who
Paraded Naked Before Family.
Grand Rapids. Mich. That William
Shultz was Justified In killing Ray Ed
wards for parading naked before
Shultz's wife and children was the
verdict of the Coroner's Jury and
Shultz was released.
Public sympathy was strongly with
Shultz. William Widdicomb, a mem
ber of the board of works and owner
of one of the city's biggest furniture
factories, offered to be one to give
any amount needful to defend Shultz
ana tie was joinea in me oner Dy
Henry J. Heystek, C. S. Udell, Ralph
Tietsort and others. Tietsort took
Shultz to court In his automobile.
Shultz is a laborer and has eight
children.
LIGHTNING TANS BULL ALIVE.
Black Hide Untouched, but All White
Hair Burned Off.
Ogdensburg, N. Y. A Holsteln bull
at pasture on Thomas Winthrop's
farm near here was almost tanned
alive by lightning. The beast was
struck by a bolt between the horns
and the current passed down the broad
white blaze at Its nose, tho white
stripes on the neck, fore-shoulders
and forelegs into the ground.
The black hide was untouched, but
the white hide and the skin of the
bull's nose were burned hairless and
tanned to the appearance of leather.
The bull was stunned, but will live,
Leaves Thirty-Eight Children.
Indiana, Pa. Thirty-eight children
mourn the death of their father, John
W. Miller, aged slventy-six years, who
died at the country home here, where
he had been an inmate for several
years. Mr. Miller was married four
times. One wife survives mm.
As Observed.
"Golf Is a good deal like the piano,"
observes the grouchy old sportsman,
"It's generally played by people that
don't know much about It"
Comment
Of Interest to Women Readers
MRS. LEASE HAS TONED DOWN.
Noted Western Woman Agitator Is
now Lecturing.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease of Kansas,
who for many years spoke of popu
lism, spiritualism and other "Isms,"
and who has been characterized as
"the political carrier pigeon of the
Sunflower State," Is appearing In a
brand-new role. Once high priestess
of the populist party, Mrs. Lease is
now appearing under the direction of
the lecture bureau.
One of her lectures Is entitled
"America and the Americans." In
giving it recently her talk was of a
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease,
patriotic nature, and 'n her speech
there was little to identtfy her as the
samo woman who turned the politics
of Kansas upside down, who made
and unmade Senators and Representa
tives, who caused the Supreme Court
of her State to reverse ts decision on
the mortgage tax law.
That the United States is facing
new problems and is in the midst of
an era when the question as to wheth
er this nation will continue as a re
public or follow In the footsteps of
so many ancient governments, that
labor-saving machines have proved a
menace and that the bread line is a
disgrace to modern civilization were
some of the things discussed by Mrs.
Lease. She talked of '.he Star Span
gled Banner, of "the aoundless prai
ries of the West." of the "nation's
great undeveloped wealth."
"Oh, I've toned down In my old
age," she told a reporter after the lec
ture, "but I feel as strongly on reform
Issues as I did years ago. This, how
ever, is a conservative age, and I find
that it Is not best to be too radical.
Then, too, It would not be proper to
discuss such things in a school room."
Secret of Empress's Beauty.
The German Empress is said by art
ists to possess the finest shoulders of
any woman In Europe. She gives the
credit to a soap manufactured exclu
sively for her. This soap has a dell-
clously refreshing odor, and the Em
press believes it is beneficial to the
muscles while acting as a tonic to the
cuticle of the face and neck. The
Empress uses peppermint as a dentrl-
fice. New-mown hay is her favorite
handkerchief perfume, and once a
day her rooms are sprayed with
cologne. The Empress rowders her
hair freely, as she naturally Is not
pleased by the promise of being pre
maturely gray. The chances are she
would submit her hair to the peroxide
bath, but the Emperor will not permit
it. Dyed hair Is one of his pet aver
sions, although curiously enough he
does not object to powder.
Helen Keller Writing of Nature.
Helen Keller has settled In a new
summer home near Brunswick, Me.,
and has taken up the work of writing
a book on nature study. Miss Keller
has been Interested In nature studies
for many years, and she is sure her
book will hold interest for others than
the blind. Although she cannot see
a flower or hear the rustle of the
wind In the trees, she has gained the
knowledge of what they mean to
those gifted with all tho senses. The
truth is she enters into nature in 'all
Kb moods with more sympathy and
understanding than ninety-nine In one
hundred of those to whom darkness
comes only at night. She has settled
on a farm which she calls Linden
Grove. Her mother Is with her, and
also her lifelong friends, John Macey
and his wife.
Figures on Women's Work.
Hero are a few facts showing tho
varied activity of women: One out
of every twenty greenhouses in the
country is managed by a woman. Un
cle Sam employs 7,670 women as post
mistresses, and many of them re
ceive salaries of $2,000 a year. Six
towns and cities in Colorado have
elected women as treasurers. In tho
eamo State a woman operates a cop
per mine. In this city women oro
rapidly replacing men as ushers in
theatres. Two women have applied
in Chicago for licenses to run taxi
cabs. A woman has staked out a
claim in a newly discovered silver re
gion in Canada, and twonty women
have accepted free grants of land In
Manitoba, with the object of setting
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Paul a Prisoner Boforo Felix. Acts
xxlv.
Golden Text Herein di I exercise
myself, to have always a conscience
void of offence toward God and to
ward mon. Acts xxlv: 16.
Verses 1-9 When a high priest, or
a distinguished preacher, has fallen
away and espouses a bad cause, bow
should ho be estimated?
This man Tertullus was much in the
position of a modern lawyer, can you
conceive It probable or possible, that
he could be a consistent Christian and
yet hold a brief against Paul?
If a rich unscrupulous man has a law
suit against a well-known good man,
why should a Christian lawyer not
accept the case for the prosecution?
Will an honest lawyer, or an advo
cate of any cause, use false evidence
to gain or advance his cause?
What accusations did they bring
against Paul, and what part of the evi
dence, presented to Follx by Tertullus,
was true and what part untrue?
Apart from th morality of lying.
what good, or evil, does a He accom
plish for tho liar or his cause?
Verses 10-21 Does a good cause
ever need false evidence to strengthen
its position, and If cot, why not?
Read Paul's defence critically, and
see If you can find any false statements
and if so, say what they are.
Contrast the compliments paid to
the governor by Tertullus and Paul,
and state wherein Paul excels, both in
truth and In skill.
What points did Paul urge in his
defense to the accusations against
him?
What so called heresy did Paul ad
mit of?
What is to-day "heresy" and what Is
orthodoxy?"
What Is implied in "having a con
science void of offence toward God
and toward men" and how can such a
condition bo brought about?
How does Paul show in his defence
that the heresy they accuse him of, is
tho Jewish doctrine which they have
forsaken?
Verses 22-23 Who was Lysias, the
chief captain that Felix wanted to
examine, and what part had he taken
In this, matter?
verses Z4-zs wny dm eux aesa
for Paul?
Is it probable that Felix was sin
cerely Investigating the Christian re
ligion? Apart from the person of Christ,
what are the chief things which Chris
tlanlty stands for? (This question
must be answered In writing by mem'
bers of the club.)
What Is Christ himself the embodl
ment of in his personal character?
What made Felix tremble when Paul
urged upon him righteousness and tho
judgment to come?
Would Felix likely have become a
Christian if ho could have kept on In
his sin?
Verses 26-27 What part does money
generally play in preventing success'
ful adults from becoming Christians?
When a man trembles on account of
his sins, does that necessarily add any
thing to his credit?
What was a besetting sin of Felix
and how would you size up the char
actor of any man that wants to be
bribed to do right?
Lesson for Sunday, Oct. 24th, 1909.
Paul a Prisoner Before Festus and
Agrippa. Acts xxv:G-12: Chap, xxvl.
GOT HALF l-OUND OF FLESH.
California Laborer Thus Collected a
Debt of "Two Bits" from Fellow.
Los Angeles, Cal. Because Ramon
Santa Ana, a laborer, could not pay a
debt of 25 cents to Frank Sanchoz, a
follow laborer at Latin, the latter
took at least half a pound of flesh from
htm. Santa Ana came to the receiv
ing hospital for treatment of his left
arm, from which muscle had been
taken.
"I could not pay tho two bits when
be came for it yesterday," said Santa
Ana, "and Frank pulled a big knlfo
from bis boot leg and got me. 'PR
have a pound of flesh, then,' he said
and he got a big piece I don't think
it is a pound, though. I tried to get
away from him, but ha was too Quick
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