THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1000.
KILLS BLAGKSNAKE
HATE
Sonstrom Not Only Gets Back
Hia Two Quarters, but $4.42
for Short Time Loan
THE YEAR'S CHAMPION YARN
Man Found Inslds Snake His Own
Quarters and One Half Dollar, Nine
Other Quarters, Nine Dimes, Fifteen
Nickels and Two Cents.
Montclnlr, N. J. Edward Sonstrom,
a truthful, sober and industrial per
son, killed a blacksnako five feet long,
near the bridge over Toney'a Brook at
Bay street. Tbo location is fixed with
particularity because it is still there,
an enduring proof of the remarkable
facta that follow. s
The Sonstroms live near the bridge.
Mrs. Sonstrom Bent her two little
girls to a delicatessen store to buy
things for tho Sunday dinner. The
children had Just returned from Sun
day school. Mary Is seven years old,
Alice, five. Her mamma gave Mary
two silver quarters.
The children wore crossing the
brook when they came upon the black
snake, colled as if to spring at them.
To their terrified eyes It looked as big
as an anaconda. Mary, in her fright,
dropped the quarters and with Alice
fled, screaming.
Mary dared to look over her shoul
der to see if the snake was chasing
them. To her amazement, she saw
the snake swallow the coins, then
coil up in the sun as if to digest them
at leisure.
The girls went homo and told their
papa and mamma. Sonstrom, seizing
a club, ran to the bridge. The snake
was still there and showed fight, but
Sonstrom killed it. He took the rep
tile home with the hope of recover
ing the two quarters. He did so with
interest In fact, before he got
through with the snake he felt like
a usurer, a mine discovered or a bank
robber.
In the provident and thrifty snake's
midst were one half dollar, eleven
quarters, nine dimes, fifteen nickels
and two cents.
More remarkable still, the coins
wore stacked so as to be accommo
dated to the diminishing calibre of
the snake's purse. That is, the hau'
dollar was nearest to the mouth of
the purse, then the quarters and so
on, the dimes last, although a dlmj
is nearly as large in circumference as
a cent.
Mr. Sonstrom has tho snake, $4.92
in change and the bridge remains In
its place.
MANY ALBINO WILD ANIMALS.
Game Warden Fears This Means
Game Is Disappearing.
South Norwalk, Conn. Wild birds
and animals are being hunted so
closely in this State that they are
turning white from the constant fear
under which they labor. White deer,
white foxes, white squirrels, white
robins and even white Jays have been
shot this season. Most of them also
had pink eyes and wero weak. Wilbur
F. Smith, a game warden, who is an
authority on animals and birds, says
ho never received so many authenti
cated reports of the killing of albino
animals as he has received this soa
son. "I think it is a sign of the decad
ence of wild animals and birds in
Connecticut," Smith said. "The in
roads of civilization on their haunts
and the continual harassing by tho
hunters shortly will bring about ex
termination unless the game laws be
made more stringent. Of course, it is
not unusual to hear of Albino birds
and animals. They have been report
ed from all the States. I never have
known, however, so many such freaks
of nature as we have here now."
Albino squirrels have been shot by
John Shaughnessy of Weston and
Frederick Jones of Reading. Other
hunters report that they not only have
killed albinos, but that they also have
seen many more than they succeeded
in killing.
ATHLETIC8 THE LOVE CURE.
Makes Girls Level-Headed About
Men, Miss May Sutton Observes.
Los Angeles, Cal. "Athletics are
tho best antidote for love," was May
Sutton's reply to an Inquiry on her
vlows of matrimony. Miss Sutton,
who is the woman tennis champion,
has Just' returned from a long Eastern
trip.
"I still think that no girl should
marry before she is twenty-five. I
said twenty-five because I Judge en
tirely by the nearly universal happi
ness of the English wives, and they
don't marry young. Do you hear much
of divorce in England? No; and hero
it Is growing to be a distinct feature
of thlB country. I have often thought
that perhaps the English girls' tend,
oncy to sports has something to' do
with her levelheadedness concerning
men. Athletics aren't especially con
ducive to sentiment.
"Any athletic girl, American or
English, Is not as apt to marry as
young as the typical society girl. The
society girl lives in the atmosphere
of dancing, of music, of soft lights,
and of flattery. I don't say that socie
ty Isn't necessary to a girl's develop
ment, but I do moan-that athletics are
tho best antidote for the poison of
premature love affairs."
MONEY
SCHOOL FOR WAITERS
' Te::t Ess!: Csntclna n Thouscnd Cite
I of Initruotlon for the 40 Who
I 8ervo 700 Men,
Chicago, III. A school for waiters;
Is the latest Innovation at tho Univer
sity of Chicago. Hero aro some of
tho inotructiona from its text book:
Avoid appenrlng to slam thlugu
down on tho tablo.
Most customers desire some part of
their meal first.
Do not scuffle, talk or drop trays.
Always place a drink to the right
I of a customer.
i A waiter should never leave env
customer after serving till ho knows
he has the necessary silverware to
eat with.
A cereal in the morning should be
served right away, whether the rest
of the order be ready or not.
An egg with a broken yolk should
not be served at all.
Qood scholarship will not make up
for a deficiency in service.
To be a good waiter it is essential
that you should be quick, but also
that you should not appear to hurry.
Walters should remove used dishes
as soon as the customer Is through,
but be sure that he Is through, and
avoid giving an impression that you
are in a hurry for him to finish.
There are a thousand and one other
gentle reminders for the forty student
waiters who serve their 700 fellows
at the men's commons. They were
compiled in a pamphlet of eleven
pages by Thomas L. Barrell, manager
of the restaurant. He says there has
been a vast improvement In the ser
vice since the orders were Issued.
REVIVALISTS HYNOTISTS.
People Are Converted by Suggestions,
Says Chicago Professor.
Chicago. Religious "revivals" were
classed with hypnotic seances and
scored for their "unnatural and
weird" results by Prof. Edward Sc:'lb
ner Ames, of the University of Chica
go, in a lecture on "The Development
of the Personal Religious Experience"
at the university. Prof. Ames declar
ed that revival converts were likely
to be undesirable additions to the
church.
"In no respect is there grer ter
agreement among the psychologists
of religion than that the methods of
revivals are essentially methods of
hypnotism," said the speaker. "The
fixing of attention, the manipulation
of the subjects through a series of
sugestions, the final mandatory ex
hortation to surrender and to Indicate
it by a simple motor response all
these are the well known methods of
hypnotism.
LITTLE WATER VAPOR ON MARS.
Professor Campbell Unable to Detect
It Atmosphere of Planet.
San Jose, Cal. People on the
planet Mars, If any live there, breathe
an atmosphere which Is almost desti
tute of moisture. This is the con
clusion of W. W. Campbell, director
of the Lick Observatory, who return
ed recently from making observations
from the summit of Mount Whitney,
the highest point in the United States.
"Water vapor on Mars does not ex
ist in sufficient quantities to be de
tected by the spcctorscoplc method,"
says Professor Campbell. '"This does
not prove that life does not or cannot
exist on Mars. The question of life
under these conditions is a biologist's
problem rather than an astronomer's."
Professor Campbell added that his
observations disproved the theories
that the canals of Mars were made by
man.
HOW MUTES GIVE PASSWORD.
Secrecy Preserved Through Astute
ness of Doorkeeper at Convention.
Louisville, Ky. The national con
vention of the deaf mutes at their ses
sion here was unusual in many ways,
but the most novel feature was the
password.
The sign language Is a difficult one
in which to keep secrets, and when It
came to a password the doorkeeper of
the silent brotherhood was perplexed.
To solve the difficulty he had a small
box with one side knocked out
The newcomer thrust his hand Into
the box while the doorkeeper peered
into it to see if he performed proper
ly the digital movements that mark
him as one of the elect. If the ap
plicant wiggled his Angers properly
he got in, but if he didn't he was
barred.
"SCISSORS" BAKER IS DEAD.
Once a Reporter and of Good Family
Worked with Mark Twain.
Boston. Clinton Humphrey Baker,
known as "Scissors" Baker, a knife
and scissors grinder who frequented
the downtown office district, was
found dead from heart disease at a
Washington street lodging house.
Baker, who was a lovable old man,
was once a reporter, having worked
with Mark Twain on "The Virginia
City (Nov.) Enterprise." His great
grandfather was one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence, and
his father was with Fremont's expedi
tion. Dog Swam All Day In Well.
Barnesville, Minn Nearly famished
and in a state of exhaustion, Grover, a
little water spaniel belonging to Bar
ney Howletts of this city, was taken
from an Inclosed well, containing sev
en feet of water, after swimming for
eighteen hours without rest. How
lett was crossing the field in which
the well is located, and the dog was
not missed until late that night Next
day, while looking for him, bp heard
his muffled barks and whining and
freed htm from his predicament
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS
On the Sunday School Lesson by
Rev. Dr. Llnscott for the In
ternational Newspaper Bible
Study Club.
(Coprrifht 1908 by Rtr. T. a Llnicoii, D.D.)
Dec. 5th, 1909.
(Copyright, 1909, by Rev. T. S. Llnscott, D.D.)
raw on tne urace or Giving. II. Cor.
vlll:l-15.
Golden Text Remember the words
Di'tfce Lord Jesus, how" fae BaidTU'ls
more blessed to give than to receive,
Acts xx:85.
Are these words In the Golden Text
quoted from Jesus, hyperbolical, that
Is, a rhetorical over-statement, or Is It
literally true, that It Is more blessed to
give than to receive, and If so, why?
(This question must be answered In
writing by members of the club.)
Verses 1-6 Is It according to ani
mal nature, or to average human na
ture, to give to others outside of kith
and kin?
Is giving liberally, Intelligently and
systematically, to religion and charity,
always a "grace," that is, an inclina
tion Divinely imparted?.
What Is the relation between giving
and loving?
If we are in need or "affliction" our
selves, will the grace of giving still
operate in us, if our hearts are right?
May "deep poverty," great "Joy" and
rich "liberality" be in the same life,
and is such a combination natural or
supernatural?
There was great poverty and suf
fering among the Christians at Jeru
salem, and the liberality of the poor
churches at Macedonia to relieve
their need is what Paul here refers
to; contrast the evil at Jerusalem,
with the resultant good grace of giv
ing developed at Macedonia, and say
which is the greater; that is did the
result do or much good, or exceed the
evil done by the cause?
Titus it would appear was appointed
to present to the Corinthians tho need
of the Jerusalem Christians, to take
up a collection, and to develop In them
the grace of giving; why is there no
work more noble, or duty more im
perative, than for ministers and teach
ers to teach the people the duty and
Joy of giving?
Verses 7-8 Paul apparently as
sumes that a person may abound "In
faith and utterance, and knowledge,
and In love," and not
abound In the grace of giving; but Is
he right, for how can such a thing
be possible?
Paul states that he did not urge the
grace of giving by "commandment";
Is it therefore any less the duty, and
privilege of every Christian, rich and
poor, to abound in this grace?
Verse 9 What should be the su
preme motive, and what Is the greatest
Inducement to give liberally?
What Is tho chief grace In the re
splendent character of Jesus?
Did the giving of Jesus of himself,
and all he had for us, imply lierman
ent poverty for him, or was it the sur
est way to all that great wealth is sup
posed to stand for?
Why does giving of all kinds finally
result In getting more of that which
we give, than would be possible if we
kept it? (Think of money, love, knowl
edge, experience, encouragement, etc.)
Verses 30-11 What is the differ
ence in promising a subscription to re
ligion or benevolence and not paying
it, and not paying your grocer or
baker?
Verses 12-14 What is the propor
tion of our income which the Bible
demands of us, as a minimum?
What are some of the many advant
ages of the tithing system?
Vers.e 15 What reason Is there to
believe that if we give systematically
to God's cause that we ourselves shall
never lack?
Lesson for Sunday, Dec. 12th, 1909.
Paul's Last Words. II. Tim. iv: 1-18.
DOCTOR MADE A NEW THUMB.
Whittled It from Patient's Leg Bone
and Covered It with 8kln.
Dr. K. Koesske has described in a
German medical publication some re
markable results In plastic surgery.
"In one of his cases, which, as far
as he is aware, is unique in surgical
literature," says the International
Journal of Surgery, "he replaced a
thumb which had been entirely lost
in an accident by a section of the
tibia (leg bone) with its attached
periosteum and by skin taken from
the chest The transplanted parts
united without undergoing subsequent
contraction and degeneration.
"The case is of special interest be
cause hitherto transplanted bone has
always been interposed between
healthy sections of bone, -whtle in this
Instance the piece of tibia was direct
ly Implanted Into a funnel-shaped ex
cavation in the head of the first me
tacarpal. "An excellent substitute for a nor
mal thumb, in spite of the absence of
the terminal and proximal phalanges,
was obtained in this way, the patient,
n boy of 13 years, being able to bring
it in contact with the other fingers, as
in "writing. There has also been a
gradual establishment of the sense of
touch. Later, the author intends to
transplant the nail, with matrix and
surrounding soft parts, from one of
the toes to the new member.
Mere Humani.
A Wllkesbarre magistrate has de
cided that a cow has precedence over
an atomoblle and does not have to
wear a red lantern on her tall when
standing in .the road o' nights medita
tively chewing her cud. Human be
ings apparently must take their
chances.
PLUTOCRATIC PIONEERS.
Men Who Go West Now to Make
Money Must Take Some Along.
Of the 924,695 aliens admitted to
the United States In 1908, 71 per cent,
went to New York, Pennsylvania, Illi
nois, Massachusetts and New Jersey,
and more than 95 per cent, of these
sought the larger cities ot the States
named, Fifteen per cent ot the re
mainder went to other suburban cen
tres as laborers and the bare 14 per
cent, were distributed in the West
and South.
The West to-day and the South
want specialists, says the Van Norden
Magazine. With opportunities as
boundless almost as they were when
the first schooners crossed the prai
ries or the first pioneer went south
along the Atlantic coast, still there is
no room fot the class described as
"Ignorant oi a trade, lacking in re
sources, of criminal tendencies and
with an aversion to country Hie."
The modern ploneet goes west with
money and he makes money. There
Is to-day county after county in the
middle West in which there is not a
single mortgage on farm property re
corded, In these districts the average
bank deposit is greater than that in
rural France, held up for long as the
model ot the world. It is not the
country to which nn immigrant bring
ing an average ot eighteen dollars
could go and succeed. The competi
tion Is a littlt too strong and he
knows it.
Nansen's Carrier-pigeon.
One day a carrier-pigeon tapped at
the window ol Mrs Nansen's home in
Christiana. Instantly the window
was opened, and the wife oi the fa
mout Arctic explorer an another mo
menl covereo & little messenger with
kisses and caresses.
The carrier-pigeon had been away
from the cottage thirty long monthsr
but had not forgotten the way home.
It brought a note from Nansen, stat
ing that all was going well with his
expedition in the polar regions.
Nansen had fastened a message to
the bird, and turned It loose.
The fral) carrlet darted out Into the
bllzzardly air. flew like an arrow over
perhaps a thousand miles ot frozen
waste, and then ovei another thou
sand miles ot ocean and plains and
iorests to enter the window ot its
waiting mistress and deliver the mes
sage which she had been awaiting no
anxiously.
We boast of human pluck, sagacity,
ana endurance; but this loving car-rler-plgeon
after an absence ot thirty
months, accomplished a feat so won
derful that we can only give ourselves
up to amazement and admiration.
Nansen's Arctic Explorations.
Undeveloped Brazil.
It Is very sao to note that at tho
time when Spruce visited the Amazon
with the exception ol a very few
spots nt long distances apart the
mighty river with Its vast network of
tributaries, was practically deserted.
The traveller speaks ot the Rio Negro
ns "the dead river. The Immense
area contained only scattered groups
or Indians with here and there a few
halt-breeds Some progress, with the
Introduction ot steam navigation, has
been made since the period with which
these volumes deal, but still the far
larger part of the Amazonian regions
is. to all intents and purposes, unin
habited To any one who has studied
the history of exploration and settle
ment in the basin of the Amazon from
the. days of Orellaha, Teixelra and
Samuel Frit? to those of La Condam
Ine Humboldt and Schomburgh, the
salient fact that stands out Is the
fallurt alike ol Portuguese and Spani
ard tt utilize the splendid waterways
and rich territory which they had had
the good fortune to acquire. All the
eai llest records show the banks thick
ly populated by native tribes.
About Heat Lightning.
All sorts or popular fallacies spring
up, and grow and spread until they
become matters of common belief:
Here Is that one about so-called "heat
lightning," for example, the broad
gleams that often appear Just above
the western horizon on a warm even
ing. We see flash after flash, but
there Is no accompanying thunder,
and the absence of the latter has glv
en rise tc the notion that It Is "heat
lightning," for If It were ordinary
lightning there would be thunder, of
course!
As a mattei of fact, there is no heat
llg'.itnlng. as that term is generally
used. The display referred to always
takes place when the weather is
warm, but that is only because warm
weather produces thunder storms. The
so-called heat lightning is merely the
lightning ol a distant storm. We do
not hear the thunder because the
storm Is toe far away for the sound
to reach us. Thlt term of heat light
ning is merely a corruption ot the
legitimate term sheet lightning.
Keeping Ahead of Nipper.
"Yes, Nipper's a good one," said
Mason, trying to speak coolly of the
bull-terrier at hie heel. "My wife and
1 are awfully fond of him, but we don't
make fools oi ourselves over him as
some folks do over dogs that are not
o patch on Nipper."
"He looks all right," said Rand,
with as much warmth as could be ex
pected from o man whose Interest is
in tumblers and pointers.
"He is all right," corrected Mason,
with dignity. "Why, that fellow knows
everything you say to him, in German
nnd French as well as English. We've
proved it again and again, and only
last night my wife said that If we
wanted to keep anything from him
we'd have to learn a new language.
"I thnk," concluded Mason, grave
ly, "that vr shall take up Esperanto
when eraauun net lonjter."
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