pA Se wisp ve PAGE ELEVEN. Ee MYSTERY OFE3"SILVER": GOFF Cash Boy's Reminiscences of the Supreme Court » Justice When He Was in Dry Goods. order & , See what the t Interviews 3 Flip, the Gamest |@heney, i Trotting Horse HEN Cheeny, a little mare from with Eminent. Animals Baby Walrus. (We ont ae ie by ook was about. Alas! he too short over the reader's {the wire at. Readville, Mass, a few days; ago the winner of the $10,000 America . , ia 4 N the 70's Supreme Court Justice where women's suits were made to This department is upstair IT Was was to see remaining days in qui Qi A% By Anthony H. Euwer. ¥ Editor's Note.--If you don't believe an animal can talk--in his own way--you'd better not read this interview, which is for true believers only. 6" honked that he did. |Lnd moved into the picture, dropping shade favishly "What a splendid place for an inter view," said L ously. i "Interview! "Him? You epuld puy bim in t weighed." a cradle with the baby? Couldn't! 0 you ate, you, Flip, old boy?" The person you first." . = addressed had been galumping up| "Does it hurt he . . % "Not a bit; just go on and talk about the hil} from his specially salted puddle. {ee surself ; that's sll." When he first saw us there was a pacon| A kind green tree; 8 he dapgerous?' I asked timor-| Thought I was guing to but 1 want to interview "That ought to be easy encugh, let ~of hok-hank-honks, followed by a spray {me see." Meditation drowsed in his beady of whifies and a snargle, which is a ©Ye* as he snargled pensively., There was good deal like a snore with burs nlong ita} sport and we were off. "I was just a few months old when I back. When he reached the 'gate of the | ame here, so that Ellsmere Land, as 1 enclosure he kerflopped himself down bring it back, isn't very vivid." - "Sort of a retrospective plhantasma of with satisfaction, ice-packs and frigid Want to take weighed?" said the Keeper. honk and a souffle of sneezes do, if you promise not to lose me." Before talking to Flip'you should first|ito the Never Never Land by the lee : L {People. Poor Nusky! A penchant for study the call of the automobile, or better | | . : hoa LR a ai i jelams was his umdoing and conducted © till a baby runabout, the throatings be-{,, nis carly fini He'd been submarin ing vastly similar, althoygh the speed ling for clams that day--you see, with onr limits of the Walroarius and the Automo- | vacuum-cleaner-nozzle - armungement we bilicus may differ slightly. Ms we started shell 'em and suck 'em up without swal out Flip flung on his high g@t and opened | lowing any water. They must have had a| the signal valves. At the end of every{line om Nunky, for when he bobbed above third houk be would tumble over himself | the aqua marine they handed him some like the Michelien twins, | pits to make it easier, and thén barie "Want to rest?' sail the keeper. Flip karied for the clams. "ialk and get aurom borealises, water?' | ventured There was 8 "Quite so! Qui's so! Hogg Gaggle'| "Yes, I Mow 1d like to be there now. The very! {day 1 was pinched my uncle was Swatted a i I Illinois 1s Proud of Its Interesting Group of Centenarians a {and hanging crape on the Walrus Pen { One {Derty she won for herself the reputation of being the gamest horse on the Grard { Circuit. ' She had been lame for weeks, so lame tbat "Big John" Flemming who drives her, feared she would have to go to the {hospital, but she beat the crack horses jof the country in America's greatest race | without gnee showing the sign of a limp, land as her driver led ber into her stall {she rubbed her nose against his shoulder [and looked as pleased as if she were buman and realized what she had accom- { plished. { "She knows more than some men," | Flemming said after the race, "and I be- {lieve that she went ont and won the Derby tinst becanse she knew that it was my {ambition to send her under the wire |first. Cheeny and I talk the races over 'always, and I am willing to bet her weighs lin silver that she Knows every word I say to ber. She is the most sensitive horse 1 ever say. She never viciously resents any abuse, but the look on ber face, if any ove ia unkind to her, 0 a person with horse sense Is mor: of a rebuke thap a kick." Cheeny is perhaps the smallest racing horse on the Grand Circuit. She weighs Jess than 900 pounds--about the weight of a pony--and ber limbs are so fine that one wonders where she gets the remark- able strength that is in thet. She is called upon to do more than the ordinary racing horse, too, because her driver, Flemming, is six feet in height and weighs 200 pounds. She loves Flemming, though, and he loves her, and believes that she wonid rather have 'him and all his aveirdupais in the sulky behind her than a ninety pound boy. When she won first by half a length in the Derby she showed no gyidence of fatigue and her body was as dry ns it the had been simply having a little work- She is a mass of "Of course, 1 get my seventeen pounds a out over'the track {day just the same, for I was yanked away nervous emergy when in action, but al- before I. Jearned the shelling stunt. And ways has an ear a little to one side, so seventeen pounds of cod, boned, that she can hear the words of encourage- mind you! Though I've left thé ment and advice that Flemming uses in- North, 1 still live op the fat of the tand! stead of a whip. Honk, honk!" he laughed hydeacially,| The day of the Derby she was limping casting a spray as gentle as a May day | about the track five minutes before the rain, | start, but once turned for the line the "But I don't care," he said with a sapey Tameness disappeared. Back in the stable toss of his head: "they've puf me here--!and the race over, the limp came back now Jet them make the best of it. Eight and Cheeny seemed to suffer considerable, dollars a Gay's what I cost--more than/pain while the affected leg was being the biggest elephant or anything else, bathed and wrapped in bandages. They say I could stay at the best hotel in! "Big John" Flemming bas never been town for that, but then the accommoda- | able to indwee her Texas owner to sell her, tions wouldn't be as good. | Flemming bas her under lease for the "Theee hundred and fifty now is what Grand Circuit meetings, and when the I am, but when I. get big I'm going to tip, feason is over he will have to take her then too, to three thousand. Great thing to nave back to Waxahachie. a vacuum like that as long as you can get| Cheeny is five years old and was bred {it filled. Had an awful scare once, though, [bY I W. Green & Son; of Indianola, IL when they got me outside the polar bear's She comes of a long line of blooded an- cage. #68 "as an attraction so's he'd come | COBIOTS, and when she was two years old great things were prophesied for her. She into another cage they wanted to) was raced last year through thé West get him into. Whefi bi started to come at! we | didn't see the bars between us--~I jnst saw the clam boy giving up his job my wa) made a recobd of 2:09. This year she has heen raced eight times in Grand Cir- cenit meetings, and at Fort Erie lowered her record to 2:07Y,. She was opposed by faster horses in 'he Derby, bot it was a handicap event and rone of the cracks | had a chance against her from the start. iH tell you lcs of other stories,| Her best race before the Derby was at Detroit, where she was second to Chatty i Direct in 2:07% and 2:07%. last winter I bad ar awfal nightmare ; thought ['saw Old Silver up at fencé lookinz in at me, but in the morning it was just a bench covered with snow." And 1 will Flip, if vou just learn his accent and strike him in a reminiscent mood. night the Their Hoary Memories Recall a Long Gone Generation. . LLINOIR says it has the most interest- | his beep a handicap to him since. The ing group of ceptenarians in the Middle old man was born near Buffalo February | West. One is the oldest newsboy in!1l; 1808, and spent his early years in the world and peddighipapérs at the se [teaming over the Alleghany Mouniaihs. | date age of 1080, Anbther is the sole sar {He came to Illinois a half century agol vivor of the Black Hawk War oY is land took contracts for grading the right ready at any time to tell his reminiscences 'of way for several railroads, among them! of the conflict with the red meng He Is {boing the cago and Alton. +» 1 also WE: Iiinois alto has the distinction | He amassed considerable property. but of pwssissing thie oldest king dn the worlds |unfosfunate 'investments robbed him of and he is to be seen dally surrounded byfall His interfered with accident also his loyal sobjects, who gaze with awe upon | his earning capacities, and 'be was ually aimed by MHlinois. his patriarchal appearance. He celebral:| reduced to the occupation of new shay. | ed his 100th birthday on July 23. He bas supported himself and wife com- Perhaps the oldest singer In the World| fortabily, and has saved enough fo: thel may also be claimed by 1ilinois. 3 This old | proverbial "miny day." time vocalist spends most of hiw=waking hours singing gospel hymns. He, too, is! 1035. There is one woman in the group, and | 'she is quite youthful compared With } He never uses utoxicants, but has been a lifelong and takes a vas amount of comfort out of his vening pipe. ; Page takes an optimistic view of life, men. She became 100 on October $8 dust. 4) pelieves that the world is row Loyal Hlinoisans give credit to the climatect, 0 His career has been marked by! They insist that residence in the Sagker work, but he takes a philusop! foal State promotes longevity and all that I] satisfaction in the thought that he bas necessary to increase the. lie egpectation bw nted far more than the allutied is to remave, bag and baggage, inte 485 fo iiree score aud ten" and has been privi-| one of the 102 counties which make up the' leged to see the development of the gesn-! State of Lincoln, : {plane and other Wonders of the fast Sify! There are others than the five wn J 3 tioned who have passed the centyry mark," yoy 105 and calmly awaiting the edd' but their life histories have been more com-| earthly things is Harrison ugham, the' 'monplace and do not fear the interesting |. int singer of Hoopeston." Seated jn, associations that will attract attention top. gyorite armebairiat the home of Bish the gronp previously gentioned. son-in-law, Wiley Ingham, the old man! Will Retire at 105. [chants "Amaging Grace," "Children of the Probably the most remarkable chnracter pag venly King," "The Tie That Binds"! of aliKis Orsamus Page, of Joliet, who is ud an endless number of other familine| famed as the world's oldest sewsboy. He selections, many of them of the long ago will be the guest of honor at the eatly i dedication of Joliet's new Vuion Station)! which is to cost $200000 and is now nearing completion® Page has- peddied papers about the platen of the old depot "for the last twenty yours, und is Known to, POsSesses 4 strong voice, not -as clead thousands of travellers. He has bebn ® it used 10 be, yet still carrying the tune growing somewhat Tefble of late, and)' S00d-dime, although his auditors realtime that 5 is a _reapovable age att quaver that was not present in bis whith fo retire from wefivs Wber. s |Yonugendays. Of late yéarsiie entértaing He bss atnoviced that when the new] De Wea thal the angels visit him while be sition is completed 30d thrown bpen to) U5" And that in return they sing to him the he will ihe thie Neld to theta JonEs of the. other: world, . whieh mare youthful véwshoys ahd sped his Suds wtpacts 10 rusch; oo He is a quaint relates gxperiences while, com | Bgure 4s te hobbles about the plattormie] Sanh wo ATEN AGA that thes at soliéits' the pAtundam of sometimes bring iy: wife and! gers In the trains thatsrep at Joliet. He hikdren, who have long since crossed to! J pe x 1 other shore, rly elie Vin kt oie leg at the an wocident | Held Hn go, While Sse as a rail smoker generation. ! : the British.' | + {Bis visions are y was born in Harrison connty, na, io at His county July 28nd is the oldes: and perhaps in the Middle West of the! was a homely diversion among the early Despite his remarkable age, the old man 07. the Waupeein" A native of Ireland, Sliven to bil more than sixty years age ather aod uncle fought the] and beiping his daughter, Totally. deaf, almost blind, his skin the color and texture of parchment, and with gaunt features, he shows the effect of 100 years. sockets the flesh hangs limply, and those who have seen the old man do mot ques: tion his extreme age, New in a boary age, with many years {beyond the common allotment, the King" tis patiently awaitisg the in all the world is Paraphrasing Dryden, "Fate seemed to He is James Moran wind him up for fourscore years, yet and is known through Central lilinois as freshly ran be on for twenty-five more. the "King of thé Waudecan." He re- till, like a clock worn out with eating sides upon the banks the Waupecan time, the wheels of life almost stand River in. the southern part of Grondy| gil" ' Moran Will be 109 years oid on : . wan in llinois, Sole Survivor of the Black Hawk ar. Of the 1,500 volanieers whe responded 18512. He was three times married. One son was a soldier of the civil war, dying in battle The govern- ows the centenarian $12 pension nth on account of the death of this It is said that Ingham is the oldest peosioner in Illinois, and perhaps in the | West. He is a habitual smoker and finds His pipe a great "solace when he is not ng or singing. oldest king British in ment a ene ¥ son ? of United States. His age is authentic, as Libe date of his birth nas been substan:i 0 the call for troops in the Black Hawk heard a report of even the siightest case War, but ove survives, in the person of Avery Dalion, of Bimwood. He is now 105 years of age and is one of the most interesting and distinguished of lilinois select group of centenarians. Numbered in the little army was a tall, rawbened Young enptain with a company. from Southern lllinois whe afterward became a agin. vie contests, | | Tesisent. This was Abraham Liscoln. . 'Avery Dalton knew Lincoln i and Moran, who was a man of great phys : Sitimatly {hod they fought almost side by side, ical strength and endurance, easily van- x guished all competitors. His prowess and The Black Hawk War was brief, as ic remarkable exhibition of muscle. and eng durance won the admiration of the specs; tators. Une of (hese contests attrgoved' more than usual attention and took place upon the banks of the Waupecsn, # pic- | turesque stream of Central INisois, t tinted Ly carefitl investigation. The: "King" obtained Wis title years| ago. When in his prime he was highly proficient in the use of the scythe. This was long. before the day of the mower and mowing machines, and farmers cut their hay with ecythes. the It to The principal feature of the conflict with the Indiays was p cowardly rout of a small detachment of the wolunteers which pressed ahead to exterminate the ludians ever, was uot in this company. The de tachment, defested, vowardiy shot severnl ladians Whe approached the lines wii a white 'lag. Bek Hawk wishing. w dis: cuss a treaty. The chief was determined u revenge when apprised of vhis stots showing of Moran and in the excess of their enthusiasm, acclaimed Wm "King Moran wis bers in county Mayo July 23, 1508, asd came to this country when = While a bard working man, he w ' 3 » uS eves able to eam more than a Bfin.y &, ereor. gid the wild panic was de. living, and his sole possession ut the fein A } ent time is a four acre tract which wan oar 5 AROND as Ue "Battie of Bol i Avery Daiton has spent Bis sutire fife fin Central dlinsis sod is one of her known citizens. For eighty-five years he by his brother Michael, Still Does the Chores. His boumekeepe ter, Ann, who bas lived with bim sivce famed as a Sebevman, philosopber, gui bis physical weakness made it necessary and friend. His Wemory is clear rr for some oue to look after him. Deapite is fond of peenlling the days of the pisaeer. hin extraordinary age, "King" Moran is| It is an extesordinasy fact that of that able to do dome of the light chates about] litle baud of citizen wadiery pursuing 1 the piace, bringing in coal aud kindling crafty savages eighty Ago she of bebe volunteers. shonki will live. wi 5 1 » and Southwest, and at Dallas, Texas, | Under his hollow appearing eye' saminonus. ! idid mot take jong to drive the red men out PW: the "agaric aunnuiaire," which ivory known to be harmless, of the State and check their depredations, | Abundant at the foot of the nMiberry first cooking then inssalted water, laest. washings carrying off all the bartulal prin- companied by a pid but small : ' Pf hin unimarcied daugh- By made his Home in Elmwood. He is { go. of New York, was a clerk in A. T Stewart's dry goods store. A man whe was employed there as a cash boy at that time has some interesting memories of the department down Justice, who was regarded as-an eccentric) iperson by his fellow employes. They did not understand bim in the least and stood much in awe of him. . "The first time 1 ever saw Mr. Goff," 'said the whilom cash boy, "he was com Jdng down the broad stairway in the store He wore a close fitting frock coat with a rim of white cuff showing, dark trousers and large. highly polished black shoes To me be looks no older now than he did Mr. various kinds of i needed in for the i nih NY then, "In his right hand he terious looking book, about the size of a pocket prayerbook, and not very different from it in appearance, his middie finger buried deep in its pages so that be conld open it at the desired place at a second's notice, "He was a picturesque figure as he (trotted about among the "vonventional shoppers, reminding one as le stepped carefully over the women's trains of country dancers in the Virginia reel. He {had an expression both self-conscious and concentrated, and I doubt whether he saw the people as he dodged about among them } © i "There were plenty of interesting people ask. They to come into Stewart's 'Dey Mr. Goff I have seen boy who eye, draw carried a mys they were kept and when they were meas ured QF to return with them to his de did a heavy Goff partment, This department business in those days Silver' was kept busy, about th him the myste and but he always wi ous little W leaves, » hoys were onus to know what that ont was in but they never had a code of where y signals were, Th 1d ¢ iwho used Goods Palace' in those days | Horace Greeley there, with his fair face {and fringe of long gray hair, wearing a long linen duster and carrying a carpet bag. I used to see Wombold, of minstrel fame, and Mrs. Wombold, Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Beecher, Mary Anderson and her mother and others who were celebrities of the time. Mr. Goff was too intent upon his own affairs te bestow any notice upon others, "Nilver' Goll, as we boys used to call him, was employed in the departwent him me his mouth tion of Mr ken and jerk h Goff, Th others, wun Hump covery. "Utterly oblivi cited, Mr. Goff + where ip by too, " ty Dumpty a t to announce a dis * interest he ex to for which he had revolving stool, and then i swing around, with { was the come, fall X Win 'What the Doctors Say About Mushreo Poison and Its Antidotes. He » ! Mr. Francis M. I. Fabre, the venerable] try the method ' eties, yet in thej of wo particu felt no ¢ and illustrious entomologist, has tenth volume of his "Souvenirs" revealed { From the i tis « ut that = a method by which ordinarily poisonousi i . initial be t safeguard t CREAT of that 1 } 1 harmless against ac mushrooms may be reuderes During the thirty which lived at Sérignan (Hérxu!t) be has never) 1H tfgatmicnt: wi 0 a soup or w years he has] mush wmms. It mn or sucdpience. The in the re; mus of poisoning fram this cause - i» recover, it damage his bothag without loses none of ind ids odor M improved. irawn that the gion, although mushrooms are eaten there in large quantities, especially iu the au not lessened . jligestib it 2 general chnelusion may b in lis hs: use of tam. At the same tine be states that in the viewity wars be Duskets of is a vartwely kinds, such ay the * among niu as a food should al 5 ing inost wholesome walks throagh the fores pre a he has often seen lu the gathevers the "bolet pourpre, of mushrovw which is classified the most dangerius suc. the, bide; ry {oudy those kinds of mushroom Lhe it A guesiion ronge." While it will. slw a¥s be wisest to use % which are the precaution of which ie accidents kinds maght | trees, aud is, consequent}, very frequent {1s throw naway, will prevent tl Is employed; the "boiet Satas, thei which the eating of doubtin { sunwoth headed "mmanile" and many other! case, !varietigy considered extremely dangerous, IL know what and forgotten or unknown to the preseiit! His sdmirers, enthused wver the fine *" WOIT OND coun Avery Dalton, Bow-| Which, he found, aré eaten indiscriiiy It is well, however, to {should be done in the erent of this method mately. ihe reason preach immunity says Me by any chavee proving to Le inefficacious Fabre, ds that In toe district it Is tus and of the appessance in the Perseus who winary to beach ali mushrooms that is, have pariaken of mustirooms of eh 10 bell them first in slightiy saited water of mploms of poisoning ax a heaviness of fand then WASH Liem several times with the stomach of ofher spigasivic trouble, o ing «ied gave chase to the soldings. They cold water. They are then ready for prep feeling of rgdidly increasing nenses, foi-| their effect be m whatever Jorm lowed by vomiting frequently of a vieleat whatever might character; by voli and ripeated snd tin 'aration for the table Tmay be preferred. | Thos, fiinve been danparous at the beginning dg ful evacuations, swelling of the abdomen Pete evacattioon and at the same ! vomdered inmocuous, the boiling and the and great sensibility of the stomach, ae pulse aud ciples. . ioolduess of the extremities Mr. Fabeeadds that kis own experience The first Thing to be vious is to relieve | proves the eficacy of the method fuliowed the digestive ofan of the - poisenons in whe district, Very often he sad bis products lo an emetic composed of 150 family have eaten the "agatic aunuiaire," | coniigr ies "of powdered ipecarnanhs, which is considered very poisonous, One tp which ix added Sve esutigramues of of his friends. a physician, tv whom he antimony ned potzssion . aries wived aad expressed his Meas upon the teent-| with four glasses of Bukewirn -_ter, 10 vient of mushoomas by boiling, desired tof be' taken in Troms (wo to four doses: carried . studying book with his middie finger between the dared when one looked like he counter ie use; rEoes! A little later it was my turn side 10 the counter, and begin to read m the mysterious book, beadiag far a= be read. * When the suiesman bad ut off the material, written the check and put it away in the folds, he wonid hand it to My Goff; whe wounid tam about, raise his éyebrows amd they close bis evem as if to lock up what he bad {been reading, shut the beok, always mark- ing his place with the middle finger, lay the goods over his left arm and remount the stairway te his department. | "One day one of the boys, as previously agreed, snefiked up behind the bent fgure as he sation a stool waiting for goods {and (ried to look over his shoulder and shoulder A Ean "A, to attempt to welve the mystery. To u good look at the book, but all 1 could tell the boys was that it looked like 'hog Latin' to me. "We made up our minds that he was to become a clergyman. The r part seemed to suit him se perfectly that uo olher was possible. He was tall, lanky nd boned, with a fine peck well exp his turned down coliar, hale t the more Silvery con florid complexion, \rge sed by ked all by a + a underlip snd apreveriasting smile from his eyes or his mouth, or both I really think that it was this smile that fixed bhim-ss a candidate for the ministry -- hat k trast with thin 1 full and the book F: was the boy who finally solved the problem. He found the book f mystery Irving with its pages wide open in the. lunch room and he enme waving his arms snd laughing to tell the rest of us that we had ali guessed wrong, Silver' Goff was not te be a minister; ba The little that rty-eight' was studying to be a lawyer. black book was a law hook." m Should the ust fail fo an Patient to vomit, pre had oesophagesl which may improvised from a Fitting this with a funnel, proceed to wash the stomach, and then, lowering 0 as 0 form » siphon, allow the liquid fo ren out, Stim {ulants such as coffee and ether shogld be given afterward The first sffect of poisoning by magh- roots being to cause 3 healthy vomiting cicaring of the fourse be sound, be rubber tube the funnel or a intestines, natures gid b Whatever means sre il and-lokewarm water with large of salt, olive oil or sulphate of Per, which may be obtained any where and be in doses of ton centigrammes diluted in two or three tablespoosiuis of witer, repeated two or three times, / Wien the stomach bas been cleaned put give the sullerer wilk, water eontrining gum, mucilage of aithes or linseed, the White of an egg bemtin in a glass of walker, (9% #5 a precaution, a weak selution of {potassium iodide, which is a speoific anti- idote to the poisons contained in ceTeRia particularly desgeroas mushrooms, Bh purgatives cannot have ss geod an eect as emotion, yet it is always well to hem to the treniment. Use woe (danl sulpbate, magnesium. sulphate of i tor oli. Little ean be. expected from cuemaia, sug fkely 10 be iosufficlest, { Nevertheless, encmata With salt sod olf 'may be uned 10 aki more rapid and eee e thne prepare for sabuequent medical tees tang, Fu the event of pains or nSammdtion later, javements with badsaum may be resorted to, lo ase of depression or #tg- per, employ euematia with collee, ios or wine » To sum up, in an ovfinary cane of mpeh- room poisohing begin, by making the po fluent vomit, then milminisier a purgative, sud ut the awww thee give bm a SHES {dvink, Wik or slbuurioaied water, . aided by quantity which should used 4 } i {