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\T THE THEATER,
V,in>trel* (<ave Tuo Excellent Per
fornia nee*
fi. min rol performance yesterday af
j., on and last night by Primrose &
.let’s Company, were the most en
and t h*4 most generally enjoy
, i milisi re 1 performances which have
1 n civen here in a long time. There
v.a: a very large audience at night, and
j: Vi) ; *t in good humor all during the
t-ntei tainment.
i h.- programme was well arranged, and
there was not a slow number in it. The
\n. ai • jtions in the first part were all
0 0 ,, but Larry Dooley’s “My Hanna
j\: was one of the funniest and best
•a!.. Will Redmond sang “There’s
Wii! t My Heart Is To-night” very sweet
v and Ai tauel Romain gave “We Came
i . m th- Same Old State” in an excellent
manner.
i.f-w Dockstader made the hit of tlie
s \ lie sang sevc?ral old songs better
than th y ever have been sung, and he
i som stunts in monologue work that
wa- inimitable. Ills allusion In a topical
t g This Beautiful Town of Ours,” to
ran politicians as being the Pooh
|.:hs of the town was a bigger hit than
I ks ai* r liad any idea of. When Dock
s' dvr stepped down from a billboard in
t . seer ery with the remark that he “had
b n p against It long enough,” the au
ti no could not give him enough ap-
I ! a use.
George Primrose is a graceful dancer,
and he pleased mightily with his “My
Louisiana Lize" and watermelon sqene.
Th> choir Boy’s Dream.” by Manuel Ro
niain wi;h a clever scenic and electrical
effet was very pretty indeed, and the
work of the Johnsons in feats of juggling
was ma velously clever.
There is one thing about the Primrose
& Do -kstader show which makes it stand
out from other minstrel shows, lit does
n ' carry a musical team.
The Chicago Chronicle of Jan. 8 had
t s ni say of “Oliver Goldsmith:’’
With a loving kindness, a delicacy of
s dirm-nt and a fineness of wit that Goid
> Hi Himself might have shown in writ
ing of a friend, Augustus Thomas has put
Olivtr Goldsmith into a play. Also Mr.
TANARUS: omas has put into the play an unex
ampled array of historical figures, each
drawn with the some loving touch that
his made his Goldsmith perfect. Stuart
Robson has staged the play in the same
rit in which Augustus Thomas wrote
• Hid tin result is one of those fine come
di - wh < h not only brightens an evening
a th* theater for us, but eradiates our
• ai -rward. The play is aglow’ witli
c- . wit throughout, and he who leaves
t play house at its end cannot help but
and • ■ in good humor with himself and wit!i
ai: iii world.
Vn Thomas has ventured much in ut
’ ‘ i ing to put Goldsmith on the stage.
The author of The Deserted Village,’ ‘The
V Mr of Wakefield’ and ‘She Stoops f o
C'‘ibiuor.' the finest poem, the finest book
a: 1 (he finest play of his day, is known
' * most of us only through his more dis
f ! mulshed writings, and is therefore somo
w iat idealized in the minds of most of
Mr. Thomas has ifi no wise disturbed
our ideals, nor has Mr. Robson, for we
have the actor as much as the playwright
• * thank for this sympathetic presenta
tion of kindly ‘Noli’ Goldsmith. Mr.
omas has made him in the play just
wtl:| i " was in life, a blundering fellow'
wih one of the biggest hearts in the
v* r , l. and a gentle w r it, of the true Irish
miseries that beset the actual
1 n. ii are but faintly suggested in the
• on.l that suggestion is rather in a
1 vn ' vein. Mr. Robson has made the
* ! ' through this character and
'' is one of the most loveable
'' O ' that has been seen on the stage
l i many days.
Whitman Sisters and Prince Ish
‘ ’ wi:| give their final entertainment
1 lab to-night. The entire house
i 1 cured for the colored people,
n very unusual concession on
11 ‘ °f the management. It is an
‘ " ■ however, that Hie boxes and as
‘V in the pit as are desired will
•■I for white people. The enter
unnounced os a benefit for th"
' which accompanied the ag
. i-s recent tour, and also for
" rs of the Nineteenth Century,
haritahle organlzat on among
: people. As this is the fir.-t
' diat the colored people have
-v', th. privilege of the pit, it is
1 U-.v will demonstrate their ap
, ‘ 1 the favor by a verf large
T
" rs of the Western Quartette,
jjj* id* and in largo letters to sing, say
• ’ going to do it. Four of the
1 Mio quintette, Bind say Davis
;,l, \ lb -d. managers, and Julian
r ;° "id Evans, were the ones
-a! eteps against the company
i<,. 1 sa ’ ;, ry on Its recent tour, and
' hf ' VVhftmans have billed then
! " r authority.
! V!) ' >*<H ATED I>!<ILL.
h ' M of a Scries Held by the
Hussnrs Last YIrIiL
v. Hussars, under command
Honry McAlpln. held a mounted
J‘ le Park Extension last night. De
, '* weather there were many of
53 our, showing that they are
the drills. It i 8 Capt. McAl
ntiotl to J‘old two such drills n
of the drill was the bolting
7 , of 0,10 of the men. who had
adjust his saddle, which
1 BiYii'ihd 16 , anlmal ra n around the
i mn?no i a * ndthen back toward the
• fS Into Corpl. Freeman’s horse
'■■■■■} ;y be leg, though not
‘ i. balb tbe troopers
■'wh^'T ,he cou or the
,i[ , ~ ,K nian was made to sail*
'uf't hl " ow i horse. On the re
. , l(r T ' v r l oo P ea<: ' h had to lake the
, ,| „y :ls 18 instruction that is vai-
Pon hlch Capt. McAlpln In-
I!• m j ( , . l>etter for the men to
"Piipm, n'l Vs for tlu 'lr own animals and
IJ I* to leave it all to hostlers.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
Screven. ” Chan ° y ° f SoreV( ' n is at ‘he
.he S. fever. K ' 3m ‘ r ° f Chartes ‘ on *• a ‘
.he r Sc^v^n P, ‘ n ° f AUanla " ,he ° f
Mhe ru^skf nD ° f K ‘ Sia 19 th 9 SllPßt
of M the J pu.askl l,on ° f B ' arney 19 ,he RU6Bt
at M the G^i r aski P - M ™ n ° f BUtna V ' Ma ls
Screven' 0 " ° f A "' ,n,a te ,he
Mr ; la - E - Gammage of Seville is the
guest of the Pulaski.
Mr. R. T. Humber of Lumpkin is the
guesf of the Pulaski.
Mr. \\. yi. Poy of Statesboro is regis
tered at the Screven.
Mr. A T. Simons of Charleston is the
guest of the Pulaski.
Mi. M. H. W hite of Crescent City is the
guest S( the Pulaski.
Mr R. c. Nvelv of Waynesboro is the
guest of the De Soto.
Ml. Joseph Hull left for Atlanta last
night via the Central.
Mi. H. r. Holt of Seville registered at
Ihe Pulaski yesterday.
Mi. L. H. Hilton of Sylvania registered
ai the Pulaski y< -i. rd ,y.
-Mr. Byrd B. Lovett, Jr., of Sylvania is
registered at the Pulaski.
Mi. i>. \ an Name of Atlanta registered
at the Screven yesierday.
Mi. W. E. Vinson of Tennilie registered
at the Screven yesterday.
Mi. J. W. Callahan of Bainbridge, Ga.,
is registered ot the Screven.
Mr. E. G. Donald sailed for New York
yesterday on the Nacoo.'hee.
Mr. H. K. Robertson of Tennillc regis
tered at the Screven yesterday.
Mr. C. M. Hammond of Armstrong, Fla.,
register, and at the Pulaski yesterday.
Mr. J. E. Melton of Baxley was nmong
the arrivals at the De Soto yesterday.
Mr. A. J. Twiggs of Augusta was among
the arrivals at the Puiaski yesterday.
Mr. W. D. Brown of Hilton was in the
city yesterday and stayed at the Screven.
Mr. J. S. Baxter of Garnett was in the
city yesterday, and stayed at the Pulaski.
Mr. John A. McKay of Dunn. N. £*, was
among the arrivals at the Screven yester
day.
Mr. C. S. Campbell of Waycross was
among yesterday’s arrivals at the Pu
laski.
Mr. H. T. Sherman of Lumpkin was in
the city yesterday and stayed at the Pu
laski.
Mr. W. J. Pierpont of Crescent City was
among the arrivals at the Pulaski yes
terday.
Mr, N. A. Thaggood of Claxton was
among the arrivals at the Screven yes
terday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Eichberg, and Mr.
J. T. Eichberg of Atlanta, are the guests
of £he Pulaski.
Mayer Myers, who lias been out of the
city several days, is expected from New
York to-morrow.
Miss Bessie Krauss will leave to-day for
Jacksonville, where she will spend several
weeks, the guest of Mrs. M. Sabel.
Capt. J. R. F. Tattnall is reported by the
friends who visit him as greatly improv
ed. They hope and believe he will be out
before many days have passed. He has
been suffering from a prolonged attack
that began with laryngitis.
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of
last Thursday has the following to say
of the visit of two well-known young Sa
vannahians to that city: W. P. Ott and
Robert G. Fleming of Savannah, Ga., were
introduced on ’Change yesterday by Ben
jamin Prltz. They have just formed a
partnership under the name of Ott &
Fleming, for the purpose of engaging in
a general brokerage and merchandise
ytgency business in Savannah. They are
now making a tour of the Northern and
Eastern cities, establishing connections.
They will handle a general line of goods,
including hay and grain and manufactur
ed articles. They closed deals with sev
eral Cincinnati houses yesterday. Both
gentlemen were officers in the Second
Georgia Infantry during the Spanish-
American war.”
CITY BREVITIES.
The ladies of the Froebel Circle of King's
Daughters thank their friends for their
liberal contributions towards the poor chil
dren’s Christmas tree.
The Savannah Cadets and the Irish Jas
per Greens are both preparing for prize
drills they are to give during February.
The officers of both companies put the
men through Instruction at the meetings
last night.
Alex Jones, colored, was arrested early
yesterday morning by Detective J. Stark
on a charge of larceny, preferred by an
other colored man, J. H. Smith, of No.
22S Randolph street, whose house Jones
had entered, and, dressing himself in
Smith’s best Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes,
made his escape.
A church sociable will be given by the
First Baptist Church Friday night at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. I. Cooper.
No. JOS Waldburg street, cast. There will
be an interesting programme of songs,
liana seleetions and recitations. A hot
sup or will he served when the pro
gramme is finished. No admission fee will
be charged.
At the barracks yesterday Clifford Hard
wick. colored, was sent in by officer Har
per for fast and reckless driving, and
Henry Dunbar, also colored, by Officer
King for stealing o pitcher from the
Ocean steamship wharf. O. J. Meisner,
a white man, was arrested by Detective
Martin Scnliv. and is held at the barracks
subject to the demand of Sheriff T. K.
Spencer of Tampa, where Meisner is want
ed on a charge of seduction.
The teachers of the Temple Mickva Is
rael Sundav School will hold a tea this
afte noon between the hours of 4 and 7
•o'clock at the home of Rev. and Mrs. t.
j, Mendrs for the purpose of increasing
the ’fund to ho used for the library and
other Sundav School purposes. There will
1).. no admission f<e charged, and the putt
-11, Is Invited to attend. The additions to
the Sunday School fund will be raised by
the sale of refreshments.
The ( use Was Settled.
A case of assault and battery agalrst
Mi. 11. H. Cohen was oltled In the City
c-tttri yesterday. In November Mr. Co
hen had a spirited altercation with Mr.
Henrv R. AUlck, which found Its llnalc In
vr Yltlck being knocked down. The case
was settled upon payment by the defend
ant of the costs of court.
Perfect Health.
Keep the system in perfect or
der by the occasional use _of
Tutt’s Liver Pills. They reg
ulate the bowels and produce
A Vigorous Body.
For sick headache, malaria, bil
iousness, constipation and kin
dred diseases, an absolute cure
TUTT’S Liver PILLS
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JANUARY ,30. 1000.
Blanket? White, Red and Silver
at. Grey Blankets; also
Comforts alGlos-
F BROUCjHTON & BUU STS
ing ont Prices.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday:
Georgia and Western Florida: Fair and
warmer Tuesday: variable winds; probably
fair Wednesday.
Eastern Florida: Fair with slowly ris
ing temperature Tuesday and Wednesday;
variable winds.
South Carolina: Fair and warmer Tues
day; probably fair Wednesday; westerly
w'inds, becoming variable.
Yesterday’s Weather at Savannah —
Maximum temperature 3:30 p. m. 41 degrees
Minimum temperature. 8 p. m. .35 degrees
Mean temperature 3S degrees
Normal temperature .’>3 degrees
Deficiency of tomi>erature 15 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 8 degrees
Rainfall O' inch
Normal 11 inch
Excess since Jan. 1 22 inch
River Reixrrt—The hight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta, at 8 a. m. (75th me
ridian time) yesterday, was 7.2 feet, n fall
of 0.8 foot during the preceding twenty
four hours.
Observations taken Jan. 28, 1900. 8 p. m.
(75th meridian timet at the same moment
of time at all stations, for the Morning
News:
Name of Station. |-j-T. *\ Rain
Boston, clear j 22 ] 24 j .Ot
New York city, clear ....| 18 | 32 j .00
Philadelphia, clear j 18 | 10 j .00
Washington city, clear ..j Ifi j L | .00
Norfolk, clear | 2fi j 6 | T
Hatteras. clear j 30 | 24 j .08
Wilmington, clear | 30 | 6 | T
Charlotte, clear i 24 | L | T
Raleigh, clear | 24 | L | .04
Charleston, clear j 3fi j 10 T
Atlanta, clear j 24 j fi .00
Augusta, clear | 30 [ 6 .00
Savannah, clear | 34 | 1
Jacksonville, clear | 38 | 6 .00
Jupiter, clear | 52 j L { .00
Key West, partly cloudy.| 60 | 22 j
Tampa, clear 1 44 , I, | .00
Mobile, clear | 38 j L, | .00
Montgomery, clear j 32 1* | .00
Vicksburg, clear S 32 j L ] .00
New Orleans, clear I 40 j L | .00
Galveston, clear j- 40 | 8 i .00
Corpus Christi, clear ....] 42 | 18 | .00
Palestine, clear j 38 | 6 | .00
Memphis, clear ! 30 j 8 | .00
Cincinnati, clear | 14 j 12 | .00
Pittsburg, clear ] 2 | L .00
Buffalo, snowing j 12 | 20 .04
Detroit, cloudy j 14 j 20 .00
Chicago, clear | 20 | 34 T
Marquette, snowing | 8 | 10 .02
St. Paul, clear | 2 | 26 .01
Davenport, clear 28 | 8 .00
St. Louis, clear | 28 | 14 | .00
Kansas City, clear | 40 j 8 j .00
Oklahoma, clear r-...] 34 | 12 ; .00
North Platte, cloudy ....j 30 | 18 | .00
Dodge City missing.
- -T, temperature; •V, velocity of wind.
H. B. Boyer,
Local Forecast Official.
SPED OFT HABEAS CORPUS.
Five Norwegian Sailor* Claim They
Are Unjustly Detained.
A writ of habeas corpus has been sworn
out by Bruno Kogler, Peter Hansen, B.
Shorin. Betel Sorenson and Robert Mer
sey. five seamen of (ho Norwegian bark
Olmbria, against Sheriff T. J. Sweeny. The
case will be called in the Court of Ordi
nary, before Judge Ferrill, this mulling.
The men were arrtwted two or three days
ago under a warrant sworn out by Magnus
Jonsson, the master of the Cimbrli.
charging the men with being deserters
from that vessel. Since their arrest they
have l*eon confined in jadl. The men
that they are deserters in any sense of
the term and charge that their arrest is
illegal and unjust. They are represented
by Mr. Robert J. Travis.
THE PROFESSION OF SPY.
Hazardous nut Lucrative—Lord
Wolneley’n Directions.
From the London Mail.
The word ‘‘spy" has an ugly sound, ow
ing to its many unpleasant associations,
yet in war time spies afford an army aid
which is as valuable as it is highly re
munerated.
One of the maxims for commanding of
ficers, In a book for their guidance writ
ten by 1/ord Wolseley, is that a success-'
ful spy must he petted and made much of.
The management of spies is very difficult.
Out of every ten emplo>*fi by the officer
commanding a war district he is fortunate
if one gives him truthful Information. It
is a most Important thing that spies should
not be known to each other. Great care
is generally taken by officers that each
spy shall imagine that he is the only one
who is employed.
It is very necessary that all bona fide
spit s should have about their persons some
means of proving themselves really to be
wh.u they represent themselves. For this
purpose a coin of a certain date, a Bible
of a certain edition, a Testament with the
seventh or fifteenth leaf torn out, are gen
erally employed.
By these r. arts a spy who was employed
by an officer in a neutral stale, making
his v\ay to the headquarters of the army
in the Ilf Id, could thus at once make him
self known to the intelligence department |
there. In some instances It is considered
that a password or sign should be em
ployed, as It is less compromising. The
putting up of tile right hand to the ear
and then to the left ear, or some such ges
ture. i.- generally employed.
The more extensive the ramifications of
th? system llie tetter are the chances of
escaping detection. It is very necessary
Hint officers of (he intelligence department
should be provided with specially prepared
patter, upon which letters can be written
hi ink that does not become visible until
it has been subjected to some chemical
process. It is also necessary that a letter
In ordinary ink should invariably be writ
ten on the same paper containing the
formation that it is required to keep se
cret.
Although a spy runs the great risk of
Immediate death llj- Is delected, yet the
service is not without glory at times, and
it is certainly extremely lucrative.
Favorable to lloerlna.
Washington. Jan. 29—House Elections
Committee No. 2 to-day, in the White—
Boerlng contested election case of Ken
tucky. agreed upon a report favorable to
Mr. Boerlng, Republican, the sluing mem
ber.
1 Virginia Postmaster.
Washington, Jan. 29 -The President hits
nominated Wiiiiam H. Mosby to be post
master at Bedford, Va.
HEALING POWER OF LIGHT.
TESTS IN BROOKLYN OF THE FIN
SEX PHOTOTHERAPY SYSTEM.
The Actinic Hn>* of h Very I’ourrfu!
Light I'aeil io Trent €* of I nn
per—Rcmnrknble Obtained.
Apparent (lire of Case ile^nrded
n.i Incurable.
From the Now York Sun
Somo time ago the Sun described an in
vention of Finsen, the Danish scientist,
for destroying germs and thereby curing
certain diseases by means of light rays.
Th’s process is called phototherapy. Since
the publication of the article a photothe
rapy apparatus has been constructed and
used by a Brooklyn physician. Dr. George
G. Hopkins. It is the first ever used in
this country and has attracted wide at
tention fr.m the medical profession, par
ticulary among doctors who are interest
ed in the treatment of cancer. A number
of cancer specialists from other cities
have been present at treatments by this
apparatus and to one of them the Sun
is indebted for a description of the cases
that he saw.
The Finsen invention has already been
described: the apparatus in Brooklyn is
the same as the original wit the excep
tion of some unimportant details. Its
main feature is a tube constructed like
a telercope, which directs a very power
ful ray of light upon the patient. The
| light, which is electric, is of about 22,000
candle power. By means of quartz lenses
the light ls decomposed, the heat rays be
ing eliminated and the actinic rays, blue,
violet and ultra-violet being passed on
along the tube. These are the rays which,
directed upon the diseased part, act as
germicides. They have no effect upon
sound flesh. The tube is suspended from
an overhead frame and can be turned at
any angle.
The physician who is the Sun’s inform
ant has had opportunity to follow three of
the cases closely and was familiar with
one of them before the phototherapy treat
ment was tried. This is the case of a
Boston woman who has had lupus vul
garis, the common cancer of the face, for
fourteen years. This is a disease* general
ly regarded oy medical men as Incurable,
and all that treatment has been able to
do is to check its progress.
“This woman was treated for about a
month,” I believe, says the physician.
“The treatment was dally and was the
same every day. Dr. Hopkins simply se
lected the spot on which to work and di
rected the tube upon it, holding it there
for an hour. The rays covered a spol
about the size of a nickel; perhaps a lit
tle larger, and one treatment was all tha
any one spot got. The cancer was a had
one. The woman’s nose was very much
swollen and her face, was cancerated on
(he left cheek end up around both eyes.
The ulcerated {>oints were extremely sen
sitive and all the effected part was a
harsh red color. At first the light seemed
to have no effect; but within a day or two
(he >iwt operated upon lost its sensitive
ness. glazed and dried up. and presently
ihe cancerous appearance began to disap
pear and the fjesh to assume a healthy as
pect. Within about a week that spot was
good, sou ml flesh. I saw several treat
ments of this woman and finally saw her
just before she was discharged as cured
and examined her face carefully. Her
nose was reduced to its normal size, the
ulcerated points had been eradicated, and
instead of the angry red of ihe cancer the
flesh of the part affected was white; In
fact, a little whiter than the ret of the
face. The strong light had bleached It.
I suppose. To all appearances it was a
complete cure of a disease w’hich w r e have
always regarded as susceptible only to the
knife. I asked the woman Is she felt
apy sensation under the rays and she said
that there was no feeling at all.
•‘The next case I saw was that of a Miss
B. The lupus was on the back, a rare
manifestation of the disease, and it was
a very malignant and offensive case. The
noticeable feature in her case was that
the discharge was checked almost instant
ly upon treatment. Unfortunately, the
ease was not completed, as the patient
w hile still under treatment was taken with
a disorder of the stomach, of which she
died. Another case upon which I saw the
rays used several times whs that of a man
over 80 years old. He is still under treat
ment. I believe, but in a few exposures
to the light that he had undergone when
1 saw him the progress of the cancer • id
been checked, the nodules were breaking
down and disappearing and patches of
healthy flesh were taking the place of the
malignant growth. A curious thing in all
these cases was that the eradication of
the cancerous growth was entirely without
pain or soreness; the bad flesh seemed to
be absorbed and the good to take its place.
‘M found in watching the operation that
1 v.as forced to wear very dark glass gog
gles over my eyes, as the eye is unable
to endure a light of such power and the
rays of (he light that escape from the
frame before going through the decompos
ing pro ess ill painful y dazzling, even
when one is turned away from them. Dr.
Hopkins lias to wear goggles also, and
the patient, too. Nor were the glasses
alone sufficient protection to the doctor.
Where the light eseaned from the frame
it fell upon the top of his head and took
the skin off like a bad ease of sunburn.
That was, of course, the undecomposed
light. The operating rays do not burn,
and, Indeed, seem to have no effect what
ever. as far as I cou and judge, where they
touch sound flesh. One veiling as I came
out of the house while Dr. Hopkins was
using the rays I found crowd watching
with wonderment the brilliant flashes that
could bo seen through the window shade,
and debating whether to turn in a fire
alarm. Seen in the .lark night, those
flashes were an astonishing and aomewhat
alarming spectacle.
“Finsen says that small-pox, scarlet
fever and other germ disease* can bo
cured my phototherapy. Dr. Hopkins has
tried hi* apparatus only on lupus vulgaris
thus far. but I believe he Intend* to ex
periment on other diseases later. Only
external cancer can bo treated successfully
with the rays, as the light does not pene
trate far.”
lncomprehensible Woman.—Frederick—
Flavilla, you pledged yourself to be faith
ful for ever; and yet you say you have not
grieved over our broken engagement.
Fla villa— Of course not; my heart is as
true as steel—but when I set my mind to It
I can he Just as shallow and fickle as any
body.—Life.
—How to Distinguish Them.—“ What is
the difference between r***try and versifi
cation?” asked the Ignorant one. “Poetry,'*
replied the wise one. “is what a man writes
himself; ver.-attention ' (be rhyming 'done
by others.”—Chicago Evening Foul.
HE SAW II ED RATS.
The Peculiar Poult lon In Which Sncli
h Mg In May Place a Man.
From the New Orleans Ttmes-I>emocrat.
"it wak a most peculiar dilemma.” said
the young man who told the story, “one
of those situations in which a follow can’t
explain himself for fear of being misun
derstood.
"A couple of weeks ago I rented a suite
ot three rooms in an old building not far
Horn the Hotel Royal, one of those ram
shackle barracks that were once hand
some mansions, ami precisely adapted to
the picturesque semi-Bohemian snuggery
1 had been longing for several years to
establish on that side of town. Well, 1
moved in, and everything went ad right
until the afternoon of the second day,
when I was smoking a corncob pipe in the
rear room, which overlooks a very quaint
bricked courtyard, and happened to notice
a red iat on top of the cisn rp ’*
“A red rat!” exclaimed his listeners in
astonished chorus. “Did you say rod rat
or dead rut'.’”
“I said red rat and meant red rat,*' re
plied the narrator. “The rat I saw was
abnormally large In size and bright ver
milion in color. Naturally I was some
what startled. In fact. I got such a ami
den move on me that 1 fell over back
ward. and when 1 picked myself up the
rat was gone. I tried to argue that the
thing was an illusion, probably
some scrap of red paper which the wind
had carried to the cistern top and blown,
off again, but it was no go. 1 remember
(he beast too distinctly.
“I wont to bed trying to solve the enig
ma," continued the young map, “ami.got
up still thinking about red rats. Of course
it was absurd, vet the incident s > pr. v< q
on my mind and disturbed my train ol
thought that 1 found myself unable to do
some writing which I had mapped out
and was particularly anxious to complete.”
“But. why didn't you question the neigh
bors?” interrupted one of the party, who
were now deeply interested.
“That occurred to me, but they were
all strange, foreign-looking folk, who
never spoke English, and I was satisfied
I couldn’t mak. them understand. Besides,
it is on awkward Job to approach a total
stranger with inqu Ties about red rots.
He is apt to conclude that you are either
crazy or guying him, anil In either case
will probably punch your head before you
can explain. So I said nothing, but kept
a close eye on the old court-, and niter
three or four days had elapsed l was be
ginning to think it was all a dream, when
I again saw (he red rat—this time with a
companion equally large and equally red.
The two creatures were sunning them
selves at the end of my own back gal
lery, and I saw them through a window
not twenty feet away. There was no
earthly chance for u mistake, they were
large, liv’e rats, the exact shade of old
fashioned red flannel. I glared H t them
perhaps a minute, and then a door slam
med somewhere and they both suddenly
vanished down a drain pipe. That visi
tation determined me to solve the mys
tery or perish in the attempt, and I rush
ed bareheaded down to n little store on
the same block. ‘Excuse me,’ I said io
the proprietor, ‘but did you ever see any
red rats around here?’ I must have look
ed pretty wild; anyhow, he burst out
laughing. ‘Only once,’ he said. ‘They
wore little tin caps and carried blue par
asols.’ ‘Oh J but seriously!* I insisted,
‘You’ll fine it serious,’ saul he. ‘unless you
quit drinking.'
“That discouraged me. I had intended
going through the whole block systemat
ically and questioning everybody, but I
raw it was bound to land me in the Jim
jam ward if 1 persisted, so I went quick
ly back to my room and tried to view tin*
situation philosophically. 'There are some
red rats about the premises.' 1 said to
my.*!f. ‘1 don’t know where they came
froifi or how they acquired that peculiar
color, and what is more I don’t care. I
will dismiss them from my mind.’ But
that was easier said than done. I hate
a mystery, and was haunted by the horri
ble fear that I was the victim of a hallu
cination. Do what I would, those infernal
ied rats galloped through my brain morn
ing. noon and night. I went into a store
to get a cigar and paralyzed the clerk
by asking him for an Imported red rat
not too dry, and a correspondent wired to
know what the dickens I meant by writ
ing him that red rats were certain to drop
five |K)ints before tlie close of Monday’s
, trading.
“Finally 1 couldn’t stand it any longer,
and although I had seen nothing more of
the rats I decid'd to quit the rooms. That
was last Thursday, and when I told the
•landlord 1 wanted to go lie was astonish
ed and pressed me hard for a reason.
‘Well, to tell you the truth.* I said at last,
‘I don’t like the color of the rats in that
house They don’t match the furniture.*
‘Oh! the red rats!’ he said, laughing; ‘are
there still some of them left?' ‘Yes,’ I
fairly yelled, 'and for goodness sake tell
me quick what you know about ’em.’
‘Why, there w'ore two German feather
dyers on the third floor last spring,’ he
said, ‘and Just for fun they caught a lot
of rats and dyed them red. It killed most
of the lot. but three or four seemed to
get fat on it. and I’ve seen ’em running
around lots of times. Surely they haven’t
soared you out. have they?’ Then I lied
abjectly and told him no; that it was
something else, and let him talk me into
staying.
“The red rats don’t bother me now'. In
fact 1 find them rather decorative. Gome
down and take a look at them some
time.”
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