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What 6,' sight!. It is a procession of i along on a pair ,of erutehes. Glaegow
cripples. One that Zola would have gazed 'surgeene baVO teld hini that treatment
on with wonder, There is a dragging of la no, good. "Your were born so," they
toieless limbs; the tap of ironshod ellY' 'endife" ra will re"R" lkil 'the vest
of ,'
erutehee, the foul smell of lint; V AIN . Jyour lohnson went to Rae, 'whe examinea
in capitate on a hundred. /One; empty him earefully, and erwe him hope of euh-
'Cromer-lege; empty sleeves; hunch- sapient recovery, ale boy ha been sent
to the cobtege four them. At the last
backs, spine victim% and a long sting- visit Rae discovered the eetret of the
gib% slowly -moving line of footballs trouble, end brought both hip bones into
of disease, hobbling, shuffing, and creep- their proper position.
in along, drawn by the magnetism of "New your sou is cured,' said the ma -
peeler' to the lad's father. "it only tie -
ignorance 0.114 fear, penile upon nature to do the rat"
, Yit thie is not Lourdes. It is Blau— And to -day young Johnson'swithered
tyre, a, village on the Glasgow Central legs aro neginning to "live,' and he is
Railway. It promisee to become as fain- the happiest youth in Blantyre,
as any of the world's miracle spots, A Girl's Delight.
Why? A yeainepwoman with o utsloeated, ,hip
Follow the procession. Slowly it winds went in, ante had, no use hi her leg'and
its sickly way along to the little cot- Wee wearing 8011143 petent springs. Soon
tage of William Rae, the miraculous, afterwards she rushed out with the
bloodless surgeon, . whose farm iR now springs in her hands, one in tiler delight
running hot foot from John ite Groat
'13 and excitement jumped over the garden
to Land's End. Rae's street is a eriP- ienee and rejoined ater Mende.
plea' parade grounds He is the sergeant- "He hits suffered crael, has my lade"
instructor. His curriculum consists of said a mother. "For two whole years he
one eubject onle—health. He este,b- was lying on ide back, quite helpless. A
lishes it where it never reigned before. carved apnea and a humped back are Ida
Howl That is his secret. He has treated troubles. Front the time he was six and
260 cripples in four days, and he earns a hall pears old he Juts been through
£100 every twenty-four Lora. .And he many hospitals, and lots of surgeons
need to be a collier. have trial an vain to put him straight.
The Despair of Doctors, e, But half an hour with Dr. Rae has
made iihn n otainged lad, and the (looter
Once within the village, his name is, sap he'll be all right in a month ,or
as it were, written on the very walls, two."
The little placerie full of pilgrims, most- Another woman with tem in her eyes
ty from Lancashire and Yorkshire, bring- tells how Rae "bee conjured any Jaime's
ing with them almost every docription hump away," awl another and another
of deformity eases that have baffled the and another—all have some Miracle -to
doctors for years. In their simple -heart- pour sgte sympgaietie end wondering
ed faith these lasses and lads crowd ears,
round the "doctor's" door, patiently wait- Rae is a typieal Scot, square and rug -
ling their turn. ged of countenance, with ,a shaven upper
Excursiens from all partsbring pa- lip iron' ehaggy full beard. _Ile scarcely
Ciente. No sooner is one batch of ex- looks his sixty-three yews. For thirty
eursiouists polished off than another IS yeas% he worked as a cornea. in Lark-
crowdieg round the house. Each comer hall .pits. A et:tootle got injured, and in
is treated with scrupulous fairness, his attending- to him 1Vir. Res suedenly dis-
name is entered, and he is given a little coverecl his wonderful healing Alit as a
numbered ticket. Excursionists from bone -setter. Laboriously but atrenu-
Afar are given preference, and mast of Gusty he set himself to study antomy;
them manage to see the doctor before the result Is now apparent in some anys-
their return tickets expire.terious fashion.
The cures are extraordinary. Rae's lem's Philoophy.
midden fame rose in this way: A little „
Do you then guaraneee to effect, e.
tirne back a, gentleman fromBlackburn,
ore in every ease?" askee. an inters
whose -own doctor proved unavailing,
was recommended to go to REte. He re- viewer,
7.o, salt everrease. Those aw can du
plied that it soended very much like a noening sor am move alone, but otaist
uncle medicine advertisement, but ney-
(1 time somethisig can be done."
ertheless he went. "Doctors. Yes, it's always (lectors,
Rae diagnosed his symptoms in a min-
Vira, sat du y nthese tbings,
'lite, and his long muscular fingers were tbekow about
were working at him feverishly in the ecn? What du they know? Tell me,
Notatin% Listen to these boys and °ens
next. Before long the patient walked
(tome in. What du their
out of of tboomodest little cottage eured as theY
there tell me e-ehip disease, bone sliseaee,
and happy. .
The
Doctor" was offered £100 pshate I That's the doctors fur ye. Did "Bons
ye ever see a diseased one in a living
for his treatment. "Pll tale naething
man? I never did. Ye can see It when
but My ain sine! fee," replied Rae, and
hes dead. 1 ono ea that right, na..
no amount of persuasive eloquence: would
0 get hirrt to take more. But the Black- ne. Ye canna pit together a leg that's
been cut off, but,ye can tak' the thing
operatives
burn gentleman had his revenge. He
went home and* preacbed the marvelsoin the beginninge'
"How, then, do you explain all these
of Rae among the cotton f ..
Lancashire, and henee the recent rush disemes?”
of feeble folk to the little cottage at "Bluid; mon, the bluid. 'Where tiliat's
Jilantyre. wrong a' the rest's wrong. An' then,
apairt frae laud, ye lute careless leathers
Rae's methods tleHe hare simple, homely tend
emgen. as no drugs, no oint lettin' their children fall, ye bee old
silents end no surgical rnacbiuery. He etandin' injuries that hae Weer been
is hie. own dispensary. At broken bones, lookt to. A've hed eases here that lete
twisted rheumatic fingers and toes, and beeniwrang lertharty veers, an' then
-all muscular ailments he is little that; have done something fur them,9
of a magician. ° . ' A Visit to the Doctor.
Efere is one instance among many of
his cures. A young lady of good par-
entage had lain ill for many weary
;months with a painful spinal disorder.
All' the best doctors in Glasgow had
-tried their . powers upon ber, but she
.grew no better, As a last hope she wog
to 'Ree's little cottaee. He laid her flat
•unon his home-made...operating table, and
-with lingers and thumb worked bard
akin her spine.
"Get UD and Walk." ...
Whatever sceptical men in America,
basing their opinione on the cabled re-
ports, may think of 'William Rae, the
Scottish booesettme whose exploits are
the talk of the fJnited Kingdom, no one
eau visit the little village of Blantyre, in
which he has temporarily established his
surgery, without obtaininglebundant evi-
dence that the man is really possessed
of a wandeeful gift. I found the little
place full of pilgrims, mostly from Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, afflicted with
:When lie had finished he turned to her every variety of deformity,. many of
and. sttici quietly, "Now get up and walk." which have baffled the doctors for years.
She looked up at his rugged face with No need was there to ask where Rao
eorowful incredulity. "I caul," she re- lived. I shnply followed the throng un -
plied sadly. "Get up, iny lass, and waSk tit . 1 came to Mien) a crowd stood
out," repeated the "Born Doctor," where- around the gate of an humble cottage
at she obeyed him, and to her own infin- which has - already become famous
ite astonislonent walked out of the cot- througbout Englaed as the Scottish
.tage completely cured, - Lourdes. Some of the pilgrims limped
A white-faced Ind from Oldham is on Painfully on crutches. Others wore
ebbe couch biting his lips. Rae is work- club -soled boots and irons. Gray -
!big at his leg. The boy's hip is out of headea men and women and little child -
Joint. Presently there is a sharp click. Yen in arms were among them. Milo
says Rae, paws_ I stood there, taking in the seene, a
"Dia ye feel anything?"
young svoman, with tears of gladness
ling from his toil.
' "X heard a snap," replied the lad, with trickling down her ehoeks, ettme out of 1
the house, and in response to eager in- .
a grin, ratted her experience. For, ,
"Then ye can go," says Rae, and the guides,
years she had been sufiering from bip
boy walks out blinking and astonished
disease, one leg being shorter than the I
into the breezy street, with never a
other. Doctors she had tried without ,
limp in the evhole carcase of him.
relief, and ott last her friends advised ,
And so it goes on hour after. hour un -
I
til the sun climbe lazily to bed over the her to go to Blantyre.
"It didn't hurt me a bit," she said, t
.distant hills, and the evening mists come "not one bit. He just got bola of my ;
eup and the ehill of a Jame evetting in leg, gave it a pull, then pushed it right I
; Scotland, creeps into your bones. back and it was all over. Of cotirse, 1 ,
.0ne mother brought her two infants walk just a bit lame still, as you see, 1
I both helpless little mites, swathed al-
t but it feels, ohl so mueli.easier. I am i
most from head to foot with bandages, to bathe the joint every morning with'
and surgical appliances. They were suf- cold water and walk as emelt as I can. I
fering from Jim end spine disease. As Eh, but he's a clever man, he is."
she carefully made her way ainong the Passing in by the open door, I found
crowd, other tvomen turned aside in the tiny passage linea with patients
pity, and then waited enxioutily while waiting their turn. The front parlor .
;elle sought the "doctor."' was full of them; they stood in two ;
In half en liver ehe calm) out radiant, rows on the narrow stairease, and as 1 !
'the bandageseill gone, declaring that the entered the waiting -room, two little
little ones had been ored. boys were tying up theiv crutches in a
Another ease was that of a. young WO, bundle so as to carry tbon away the
i
man, who readily related to Inc her ex- ' e
perieueee upstairs. She came from "Ilas he cured you?" I asked. 1
' 13ackup, she said. For years she had "Sure, I'm cured, mega," piped one
been suffering from' hip disease, one log Of them, "11.111, but he's a wonder, zees -
being Monier that the other. Doctors ter; just look at what he's done for me,"
she bad tried, without relief, and at last chimed in the. other, as he walked proud -
her friends =Wised. her to go to Van- ly mews the roonesevith his crutches un- •
tyre. der his ann, f
"Tt. didn't hurt me a bit; tot one bit. Slippit.tg into the little bedroom .tvhich ,
aTe just got ma of my kg, gave it a serves him as a surgery, I found the (loc..:
pun, then pudica it right back, and it tor • Anted hi an arinehata sinoking a ,
Was ail °Ver. Of (mimeo, 1 steak just e .P?Po and enjoying e brief respite from
hit lame still, int yen see, but it feels, ine hard Work, Tall, strong-frained and
oh I 'se much etteion 1 mu to bathe rugged of feature, he is nt appearance
tile joiet every morniog with told Witt. L11110,11 f',j)t) 51."110 .t.t0 th°‘1.1!°:nas of other '
lies it elever man, lie is." Intelligent in his homely fecal,
ler and walk art much 08 possible. Eh, pew: .i.et tn!we is poinetning strikingly
A Hunchback That Was.
Half an hour ago that boy, surrendered
lihneelf iuto the bonesetter a hands. A
hunchback. Now look at him.and lis-
ten to hie experiences :
"He made me take off my things, end
With hie linger end thumb began, as it
seemed to rae, to oath hold one at a
time every bone in my spine. Some -
timer+ they tracked, and a rib moved.
"Suddenly he pitteed Ids hand over the
hump* and pulled ine sharp on to his
breast, T felt something give way, and
1 Wilfi etraight." '
One of Rae'is mot Meriting, eueeceetee
mity be found It the eitee of a seventeen-
year-ola boy named Mingo, the son of
0; turner of Ianv Mantyre. Ile has- been
a eripple all Ids life, evith 'wilherea, heip.
less leon. Se drags himself nainfullY
"Dere an' be ina bead," be mitt with a
touch of pride, "flee the power the Lord
hat given me•—e, natural gift for under -
Standing what% wrang an' rooting it
richt."
"Do you guarantee l ore in every :
eatioi"
"Na, ea," he =merest, shaking his
head, "not in every ease. Those aw
eau au nothing for aW leave alone, but
000. I Wotild give you. 410 befere start -
Rae was not at houes when the .offer
came, for worn out by hie labors of the
1) ea month, and learfut of u breakdown
m health, be- quietly left Blantyre Oir
:endear eveuing for n rest in, one or the
Lanarkshire lioliday resorts.
Ilia son, however, wrote to the man
whe had offered the 410,000 fee tbet
maist times something eau be 40340 if lpiaistiefnatt.ber had made it a rule not to
they're no, too old."
guarantee a cure until lie had eon the
(N. Y. Herald.)
A Colliery Lad. That the education of more than five
Rae was born at Larklal, then . a
sparsely populated village some fifteen
MAKE SWIM
W.,ace,orxr
CLOVER SOD.
, hundred thousand. school children in New
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whi.„, a. ....h. .
handled with it leng '
th
with a strap shout the
The instraotnr mato
SAVERS the tank, holding let inn $
charge. One fault with hive is ti44 they
_ ... , a forget the stout.
When they get, into deep water feit, *s.
that time there is A tendency to Stafte
out it0 fad AS they can move tks
and kirk their lege. A loaf *bat pf
the sante point, don't they?' Yes, they dot fierce exorable eehgeste tee pup 44 boo
When these fish are frighteued aid you le lowly to Wok.
ever Bee line of them turn and go the A boy le inetrueted to nee both
. York should include inatruetion in SWIM- other way? Not SO. alley all swim in the lege elle emu, at the Aeme omm
boy
colliery, He roe to he pithead. fore- pea with a swimming poi, and that
the swimming instruction should be coms
that each School, thould he equip- same direction and away from danger.
on the Slocum had been drilled when in will find his head going under
"Suppose, for instance, the young folk
miles from GlesgeW, and when a lad, be- By Prot 0. 4. 2avItz. emphasize this point the instreetor 1.411,
gan to earn his living by working in a
Clover is one of Oatarlo'e motet val- nting hie pupil to me only his isgs. The
man at Lerida, but before be was old liable tam crop% et in genterally pulsory, is the °Pinion of swiniming ex- danger of that kind to jump into the wiss weter beta/lay. if he wee only bis,
of MC teens, yielding, uti he Rays, to recognized roy onterio farutera LA be perts anti the bode of departme»ts in ter and swim from the peril that men- urine his legs will oink and he CaratO
Me*" lie began to practice bonesetting,
"something that told me iew hail it in 4/` /I" 17 ,Y4/1(1" ot inqft which inr" I printery education. It es a rather nowt
Welted a tut go niuount of valuable 1 idea, aced them. The moment they struck, keep himself' afloat. This xn4y sennaj, _
-melees, but it is a point einnhasireel,
fowl co LI u t Iles be»eflolal ef- . the suggestion Diet cbildren shall like P, Sein101 of fish, they evoula have
but as experience rendertel him more ex- Nom
loatS 111:01S.1 tbrett)4.1,
to be tie eleaVI,v
,i_wev„r ,,_ ,,,,,I be taken, from tine): studieff or vonmelled put out for the shore, and not turned very amply oe the swimming wee" -
at the Young MOM Christian MOP*
giving Itia services gratuitously at first,
pert, so numerous beeame hill patiente, geiontists who nave made a careful 1 en
urder;0"0"a'',, -1 to devote time Apart from them to meet MI Mint ill asdozen different directions,
that he found he would either have to etudy of tho haluence instructor in swimming and. 'undergo each to bother and worry the other, and •
relinquish his teen: at the colliery or the eon, tell us that atter large creme
or eioger•
on S. rig,orous course of instruction, 33ut it become panic
is not so long ego that the idea that cal- to the bottom those 04 might have
strieken un"inallY 4r4g Most boys will take about six lessook,'
tion gemnasiums.
Some of them leant to fiwiin in three
gery. He decided to stick to the let- egg is actually via" in. nitrogeu 1 Ot the sleety echool routine evoked ridie
exercises should form a part been savea.
Lesson From Horses. , end four. Tliere are stubborn UMW
, where a evheie season has been /Tent ,
abanaoli the preetice of bloodless or- lat,ve beim eemoved from the Med the I iqbenie
niter growlag chileirmi ettending .sclima '
ter end in st, rough weer, by means of viewer than It was be- 1 "Ie• •s-rn-linY
such books rut be count get hold of, he Here ia another pertinent question on ft boy before be bas. been Wight he
fore, owing to the large amount al aro taught to develop.their hodiee in pro-
entained front the air. As a rule farm.
nitrogen wieel) the clever roots have ' pertion to the exercise they must give that I ELM plug to ask. Has any oue sevim properly. In swimnsing, as *
perlence he leis gained nearly all his their niental faculties. seen a drove of liorses stampeded while every other exercise, application to the.
studied anatomy, but in the Reboot of ex -
twining. For (lectors generally, be has ore grow clover reed timothy to- I Nearly every country ,
bay can swim. 1. et
, they were in the weter? On shore these exercise increases. the endurance. Boys '
a great contempt, sehiels •is not linnet- gother, and are, therefore unanle to in Me city, with its milea of w t • horses may beeome frightened and da.sh are taught to swine more guickly in salt '
ural, seeing how Teeny come to him for aucertain the con -Marlette.° Influence front, the majority of boys eaunot. Where ,
n -e' away to the many poufs Of the coin- water because the nattier the water the
of leaoll of theee Orefi'S On the SOH* I Simply' because they get no chanee to '''eael "RR R e we el le 1 es ese
but i th t • 0 1 • r tl more buoyant the body becomes.
doctors have failed to benefit and pro- porlinents at the Agriculturn1 Col- man ettilerenwater , . mie direction. I ain trying to tell in my fully outstretthed, on his back in ther
all head in Any one can float if he will only lie
relief, and. often obtein it, too, whom We bays conducted a senses of ex- learn. In no city in the world do BO Aunties are calm, and they
eisge• Gneildi, on three d.rferent co- ' and limier Foot conditions they are 1 -
, eireele way that when people become water, the head well back, so that the
nounced incurable. y go on emulsions
Contempt for Doctors. pante stricken end are forced to leave water eovers the ears, lim arme onte
melons, In order to ascertain the lielplese canaidates for death in case of
"Doctors!" he exclaimed scronfully, orge"od tor crop produet,on, We
, any accident or panic, the refuge of n boat they shoule adopt etre-Wiest out above his head, and his
eotunstrattVe value of clover and
"what, du they know about these firet grew clovers n,nd i When the General Slocum took fire and the tactice of animals awl fishes, become lungs filled with air, In fact, a woman,
come to me have had doctors ow fool- crape, after +which the land was were forced to jump from the burning picture of mules swimming the. -quietly on her back in the water. It
ordinarily cannot aink if she Ilea ,
things? Moist of the pith people that separate plote and removed the •
gra"es nimn WEIS degroyed, bemire& of young folk ereige
cool, alert and follow the leader.
ing with 'ten an' na mild they have ploughed nod other crops evere own. deeka to the waters of Long Island Agno River, evhich I ant told Gen. Bell you are a woman' remember tide next
done 'em. They juist tak their money The molts, therefore, show the in- Sound, A majority of them met death compelled during one of leis marches upon time you fall overboard. It may UV,
an' Libel their trouble with wiling flueace of the mote remaining in the beerinee they knew tier how to keep their the stronghold of G'en. Miseardo, at Maro your life.
names an' maybe, after a lot of experi- soil upon the productivepees of heade above water' until help arrived. gatarin, in the Philippines, illustrates
exactly the idea I ani trying to advance.
needed 801110 bones being set straight to after each of four varieties of clove Yorle to -day, only a small percentage suppose taught them to keep that pefs ,-
Manhaetan ano. ealooklyn enay booragaria-
The Indoor Baths.
Pve bail lots o' mich eases that juist ,grseosea- In 1002. harleY wne flown ' Of the thousanes of children in New swam straight as could, be What do you The indoor bathe recently °petted in,
mentin ,..." tell 'mu they can't be cured.. crape following the clovers and the I Very few were burned to death. These mules swam- a half inila and they . - e.. .
When he bad finished his pipe' he In four different places In our ex- know how to employ their muscles to
keep themselves afloat in tbe water. AM- feet alignment in the •svater? Nature, ei - • '
anal instruction in swimming. It was
ed as a, step toward the ultimete
male all richt. There's dodoes for ver ors itt,nd three varieties of grasses
no • th . ' I t • " porlinental grounds. The average re, ' lions of persons are traneported yearly eel that human beings e,hould employ e
-- - 4. "Cli el Well, I) guess dat was 'bout
, a lively opening deer.
said: "Aer Mild begirt wark af,Yairt, you may say. len w y
TI h is it not nat
g. f r 7/ • : sults of the four tests its pounds of upon the watersvays of New York. Plea- de welled evert'
"Say, now, don't chit take de oak.,
yes?" ,
These ana hundreds of similar eulo-
gies testified to the high appreciation
With which New York's first municipat.
indoor baths, just opened at Seward.
Park, were received by those for who
they were intended. The bath house On
accommodate about a hundred and fifty
persons every hour, and from now on it'
will be kept open for sixteen beare a
day. The new batli is the first to be
completed of several which are in course
of preparation in various parts of the
city.
Park Committioner John a. Pallas '
utilized for the bath just 'put ititis co
' mission the handsome building erect '
by the Low administration when the -
park was opened. The bathing. equip-
ment, which has been installed 111 the'
lower floor, cot $83,000, and is of" -
tient, as one of the ottendante remark-
ed, to induce the most obdurately dirty
person to try the experiment of a
shower. The location of the new both,
at Hester end Jefferson streets, and
East Broadway, makes it easily &mead- ,
ble to a large number of the residents
of. the lower east side.
In the new bath house there are thirty
shoWers for men and twenty-one for wo-
men. By an automatic device the hot and
cold water is mingled in the douche .so
that there is no danger that perseus ig-
norant of the use of shower abths will'
burn themselves by turning en the boil-
ing water or chill themselves with the
cold stream. Every bather is furnished i
with a towel, and the bathrooms are
cleaned after each bath, so that they
may be always fresh and clean,
Perfect, Appointments.
common seuse when they are in danger?
"...here is one thing I am a crank
upon, but I guess people will consider
that I am rational when they come to
think it over. I have been irt the South
Sea, Islanils, where wee mites have swum
a. nine out to our vessel and. remained
in the water at the side of the ateaniship
for hours diving for the shining nickles
which the passengers threw over the
sides of the vessel.
"You may say that they were brought
, •
he acceded to my requessi to be ahibarleY 'per acre were as followe; sure seekers by the million utilize the
Bed olev' er, 1,5 ' 16 • lucerne, 1,450; :4. hundred odd craft in these waters for
to remain and see how he operated, The sike clover, 1,427; nue.mmoth their outinge. It certainly seems' that
first case was a little elm with a six- Rod clover 1,4(8 ; meadow fescue these people should know how to swim.
inch patten fixed on to one boot. His ,
thither brought him in and told the old ; grass, 1,0e$ ; orchard grass, 1,015; i In the Slocum disaster a small boy
and timothy, 04.0. It will therefore wasstrapping a life preserver to his
story that the doctor must have heard‘ be seen that the red clover sod gave body. He looked about and saw his mo -
hundreds of times before, He hardly ; an inoraaes over the timothy sod of tiler in hysterics at his side. 'Under her
seemed to listen to it, though his face 570 pounds, or nearly 12 bueliels per arm was the boy's tiny sister.
lighted up, for the case was a good acre.
one. In another experiment, which was . I "Here, mother, strapethis eround you.
I
"I was saying juist noo," he .observed completed in 1900 in which win- ' - • • »
See, I'll fix it. Take sister And jump. I
e9.3iNies lasi1fl't was aid in -the spirit of ela-
te me after having carefully examined ter wheat sva,s shown on both clover , t T1 t ."t exactly Then
p o swim. la .
Shretednees, ood humor and Iciodliness ;
shine from the grey eyes beneath the
bushy brows silvered with the passtf.ge
of years, for he is now well over 60.
The Jinn mouth and chin, the latter pare
tinily hidden in a short beard, indieeete
O thatacter of forceful doggedness luta
clear purpose.
No Setret.
"What is the secret of your treat -
wilt?" aideed hint after greetings had
been exehringed.
"Secret?" he exclaimed, scornfully,
"there's no secret itboot it; it's juist
poetize/ the bones back in the places
where they belong."
Rising to his full height — mem-
tires gooa six feet, though somewhat
etoopshouldered Ite ettetched forth
his sinewy arms, supple wrists and
atrostf bands, .
. ton. The boy jumped overboard and why cannot we bring up our children
•
swam to shore. He is the only member to swim? No one knows what moment
of that family alive. - his child may be called upon to exercise
The cost of enstaIling swimming pools this athletic accomplighment.
"There is a. tradition that the Norwe-
in connection with the schools of NSW
ans and the Swedes who fished for a
'York would cost a great deal of nione3r.
ivTaliseteedurtion is, Would the money be livelihood teak their children far out to
sea in their boats and cast them over -
Mayor's Opinion. board. The children were made to swim
or sink. I do not believe in such drastic
Mayor George B. McClellan was averse measures but that is better than not
to committing bimself when approached teeeldee ehild to swim at all.
on the subject. He listened gravely to ""°' " -
the suggestion, and measured his words Value of Swimming Pools,
es he spoke: "Now, I am goixig to give you my
"I agree with the idea that every .ehila idea and give it to you as concisely as
should know how to swim. There is no I can New York is a rich city. Don't
time in 4i BMWS life when Ile ie certain you think it can afford swimming pools
he will not be called upon to strike out in tbe various school buildings? It
through the chilly waters in an effort to would serve two purposes. It woull
save his life. So far as equipping the teach ebildren to love cleanliness. That,
schools with swimming pools is con- in itself, is God's blessing. In this pool
eerned I cannot commit myself broadly. I would have a small, flat-bottomed
The idea is a grand one. It would take craft. I would. have three or four dill -
a great deal of moneu to undertake this dren at a time, fully dressed, capsize
task. It is not beyond the bounds of this boat. After it had been capsized.
possibility, Personally I should like to would. have them right it, bale it Out,
see within the means of every child of and repeat the trick until you would be
New Yink the opportunity to learn te sure they would be able to do it dur-
ing a gale on. the 33ay or Sound.
elvIinmi
siriuction in swimming is not new in "Another matter which the instructors
the summer schools. Several yearago should require of their pupils is to un -
the pupils of these schools 'were given an dress in the water. This is a simple
opportunity to learn to navigate in the matter, I assure you, when it is prb-
water. Superintendent of Schools Wmperly explained,
H. Maxwell does not take n pessimistio "It is hard. to believe that a person
view of the 'matter. He understands what can keep himself afloat and divest him -
it would cost to
equip and
imaintain self of shoes, stockings, coat and trou-
swimming pools n connection with sera. It can be done easily. A five.
public schools. As he expressed it: year-old boy can do it within two
"Ws a glorious idea, to be sure, but weeks after he has been taught to
I cannot say that there is a posibility swine There should be a compulsory
of its being done. At the many public law requiring every child to learn to
baths courses he swimming are given. swim. Once taught the child will never
During the period, that this art was forget it.
taught in the summer sebools thousands "Why, T met an old man of sixty years
MR. WILLIAM RAE, THE BLOODLESS SUWON OF BLANTYRE.
the youngster's thigh, "that the doc-
tors know nothing ahoot these things.
Hereei an instance. They ca' this hip
disease an' do nothing to cure it. It's
juist a dislocated hip; that's what le
is. Juist watch what I'll do with it."
His Way,
Suddenly seizing the limb he gave it
a jerk, there was a shale) crack, a
sharper "Owl" from the boy, and the
doctor seated himself in his chair again
and relit his pipe.
"Ye may poet hint in level boots noo,"
he said to the mother, and before she
realized what was happening her laddie
the
a
leaving in
Nl:g the patten -weighted boot walking about the room delightedly
An old man next entered the room.
One leg leas fairly straight, but the
other bent inward, so that he rolled
rather than walked. He had been that
wav for "nigh on 50 years," he said.
The former miner passed his hand
carefully over the leg that was ell awry,
only to confirm the judgment he had in-
dicated to me by significant glance
when the man entered the room that his
ease was a hopeless one.
"Yeare been ower long, num," he said,
returning to his clear. "Ye shoeld
heed this seen to when ye were a
bairn," The tbseppointed sufferer slowly
pulled on his socks mut boots and then
as slowly put Jus hand in his pocket.
'!Na, nal 'mid Rae, with a wave of
his hand, "ye Can pot that back an'
gang awa 1141211(1,1317mon,"
A. youth tif about sixteen, whose ap-
pearance plainly proclaimed curvature of
the spine, was the next patient.
"Look at that, noo," exelaimed Rae,
angrily, after the fad had pulled' op his
ehirt and exposed his heels, "he would no
have a Inimpit back if his folio had
brought Min to me -when lie was a bairn.
No nuot in the world need La' a liumpit
back if It's taken in hand early enoo."
So great have been the demands on
his skill that the railway anIS rim special
excursion trains to accommodate *age
who sought relief from -him single
day he his treated as Many as 200. The
ttairt 1.)), which 1 i•eturited to GlIstegow
Waft filled with people -who were loudly
predefining their admiration of him,
One Scotsman, after pitching the
crutches that he no longer needed .ont of
the Window, declared his eonviction that
Rao was a greater matt than
'Bobbie Burns.
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OrkEitS JE:ropoo OR MEE,
.---------
.P.Ixtraordirtary Tender Made to an Eng-
lish Surgeon.
There arrived at the house of William
Ilae, the Blantyre collier mimeo, On
Saturday 'morning a letter bearing tt
London post mark. It tontained, nye
the London Ea:press, an extraordinary
offer. The letter ran as follows;
"Halving heard of your wonderful
powere, X heft to Ask if you ran treat
I me. I would like my left leg straighten-
' el If you mut do title neeessfully 1 am
nrenarea to rXII YOU the sum of
and grass sods, it .was found that and thousands of young people were
an average o ,1 8,104 ;pounds of ' taught to swim. We devoted a great
wheat per acre was obtained from deal of time to the idea. I believe in it.
the clover sod, and only 2,300 pounds But the cost of nistintaining these
train the grass tied.
In 48 19 a mixture+ of oats and bar- I would be required to equip them, evould
i pools, to say nothing of the money that
ley was sown on clover sod and also be enormous. But it is an excellent idea
on ,grass sod, The reeults were eery and I should personally feel gratified to
marked, as an average of 2,250
was 'obtained from the clover sod, see the work accomplished?'
pounds of nixed grains per =ire Lenin's Feats in the Water.
and only 1,08 pounds of mixed, One of the most expert swimmers in
grains por acre from the grass sod, the waters of New York is John M.
By averaging the results of these ! refill, svho in his day has saved scores
three grains* we find that the crop of lives. He is a veritable water dog.
geown on the clover sod
gave an ; Sixty years of age, an athlete of the
Increase over the crop grown on the old sebool, boxer, oarsman, fencer, run -
grass sod by fully 50 per cent. I ner and long-distance swimmer, in the
The results of these experiments
clover. Et also indicates the suit- mellow days of his life he devotes his
help us to appreciate the beneficial
Ability of a properly cultivated 1 summor months along. the beaches of
th
influence on e soil from growing
clover sod as a Xtreparation tor _Fire Island. and in waiter seeks the
war,,iner b cliinate of Florida.
. ay
winter wheat or for 'spring grains+. ..,, Man" o
Wherever there is water. Prof. Laflin
efound. He was the "Model
f Vienna, taking a. prize in world
G. C. Creelmetn, President.
" competition for pbersical conformation.
He taught Mrs. Drexel Biddle, of Philo:
BABY'S DANGER. delphia, and other society women to
for babies, and an anxious time for record of his feats in the water. .as a
The summer months are a bad time
--,---
mothers, Fermentation and decompo- boxer, he sparred tsvice with John L.
sition in the stomach and bowels are Sullivan, and outpointed the redoubtable
"Joe" Coburn in a four -round set-to at
pleints of babies and young children.
the ettuse of the many summer coin. Prof, Lenin advances some pointed
Madison Square Garden in 1875.
months are more fatal to litt/e ones ideas concerning methods to be used in
saving people from drowning. One of
This is the reason why the hot weather
than any other semen. Baby's Own Tab. obtathing, a release from the clutches of
lets should always be found in every his most striking remarks relatihg to
home, where there are young children, "Sink with ltint and he will relax his
and their prompt use during hot weather a drowning person:
tablets cure coastipation, diarrhoo and hold," he said in commenting upga
water.
struggles he himself has had in the
trio sa.ve a preeious little life, The
stomach troubles, and are guaranteed to i Laflin once swam nearly half a mile
,i,evonatitnefin ximonoirisia,tseisoarmilisa,rninfurildgazgv,. 1.1. srs.: , with an 'Imam:ions young 13101110,11 in
1 his arms. She hrul got beyona her depth
iseatyss liny"lileitf our: oililsein ego ondahaYIn's10801Wenon'trinaub: i taitierire Island, alai when he reached her
ously with stmnaelt troubles, I youeg woman had sunk for the third
truthfully say 1 never Lad any medicine
een t time and was in the grasp of a. reced-
ed so promptly and give mull sittisfac- ing tide.
Teach the Children.
tion As the tablets. I do not think you "Urlien I read of those little children
make nny claim for them which their being swept over the el& of the General
use will not substantiate." The tablets Slocum," said be, "I Was Oita that during
on be had from any medieine dealer,.or : my summer at Fire /*Akita 1 luta given
by mail front the Dr. Williams Medieme gratitously such instruction to the youug
Co., Brockville, Ont. Price '25 rents a! people in the at of swimming As 1 was
able. I have taught hundreds to swim. I
box.
swim, Laflin has scores of medals a
Als,ffogill,...* UAW* al.m.,*1•1.1•44
A Scale of Charges,
Toronto News.)
The following note was addressed by
the head of a business firm in Toronto
to me of his eifflordinatee: I waited
eight mintitee for you in the — bar
while you were gosaiping with the loaf-
ers Mending about. Tide will eost you
ton dollars, with the privilege 'of leav-
ing if yen Wish. 'Me next One yon
enter a oleo or bar -room during bust.
nese hours it will eost you twenty
dollars, with the privilege of leaving,
and the third time it Will cog you the
Orivilette of leaving,
wish I could bring the people of lsieW
York to feel that every chilt should be
taught to swim.
"No one Innen; 'what moment that
Oild may be callea Imo to employ hie
knowledge tif swimming to save hie life.
I tell you that there 1( not tt 111013).0111
Ori any of our teeters tliat one is abso-
lutely tife. Does not this awful eates-
tvopho empbtodze worde? nave stud -
led meg tbinge that swim---/ have spent
hours watelting the fishes at the Aquar-
ium glide through the waters in their
Wonderful tart and buoyaney.
"View is something More then swint-
inieg iteeessaty to tare a life 000051031.-
aly. Did you ever wrath school of
fish? Did you ever see elle of them di-
vert the course taken by the sehool?
hey all swim in the same line and for
at Fire Island. Tag season. He 10 1(1 me
that he had not been in the water for
forty years, and, that he had forgotten
how to =vim. I tol(1 him it was all
nonsense. I bet hisn a box of cigars that
he could go out and swim. He took me
up. The old chap swallowed a quart or
geestede districts.. There has been agita.-.
two of salt water, but before he knew
non tor peimanent bathing houses in the
it he was striking out with all the ex -
tenement districts for a long time, and
uberance of' youth, lib* to the new establishments are expected to
A few.
. swim? Why, that is impossible."
tBilsaltichsb.itths were prove large factors in promoting health
wIenektsheagPouttleicp
thrown open. From the moment the and comfort in the more crowded dig -
doors were unlocked a multitude of triets, both during the winter and sum -
urchins swanned into the pavilion, took mer months. ,
two seconds in which to undress and. pil- indoor baths similar to the one just
ed from the platforms into the teeter. So opened are also in course Of preparation
successfully were the free swimming at Thomas Jeffetson Park, De Witt
pools conducted last year that the num- (lintel! Paris, Sr. Gabriel's Park and
ber has been largely increased. Where Hamilton Fish Park. At the last
ten years ago a boy who did not have named park some public laths Were
the money to go to Coney Island dodged installed in 1893, under the Van W'yek
the policeman at the wharf and tumbled administration, but they were • so
into the water, to tisk his life as well as faulty that they were not used, except
arrest, there are facilities --though even last year by stone children from a nearby
now too abundant --for free bathing to- social settlement. The baths in Thomas
day. Jefferson Park will probably be ready
There are instructors at all of the pub- for use in a couple of months, and the
lie bathing houses—men whom the city rest next year. In this park there will
employs to teach those to swim who can- be twelve 'baths for men and eleven- foe
not swine Three days every week are women. At Clinton Park there be
given over to the weaker sex. Girls are twenty-one for mot and an equal num
being taught to support themselves upon ber for women; at St. Gabriel's, twelve
the water. 111311 reds of women were for each sex, and at Hamilton Fisk Perk
taught to swim last year, and ten times about twenty each.
that number will be encouraged tbis year The arrangement of the bathing psevii-
to learn one of the first lessons of self- ion recently opeen, upon which the
3 others will be modelled, is such aa to
New York where the members of wealthy recreation space and band stand, while
preservation.
There ere several private schools in permit the use of the upper story as a
families are sent to be instructed in this the baths and toilet appliances are alt
art. In a majority of eases the art of in the lower story. New York alreada
swimming after a few lessons comes by , ranks the secoud city in the world in
intuition. A boy may be sprawled out outdoor recreation facilities for its chin
on e. box and taught to move his arms ' dren, and by the eompletion of its pros -
Alia kick his legs iri the exercise that sent programme of improvements it wilt
should keep bile afloat 'when he is in the aanl ening the foremost *Mee in free
water, but in nine eases out of ten when bathing equipment, while its small park
he gets into the water lie will forget tell and recreation space system will be
about his instoction. He will peddle ; unsurpassed. •
around in the 'water by hitegelf And ex- I The total SIM Witidll Will be expeddeit
pertinent by himself, and the first thing ; ht free baths in the city by the present
he knows he ie ranking out like a good programme is approximately $305,000.
fellow. The next time he gets into the , The expense will be distributed its
it-
wOti'r hie elunne will hear a yell: ; lows: At Sewall Pails, $83,600; at Jef-
"Itcy, fellows, I eau swim!'" And so he torso, $89,702; nt Clinton Park, $55, -
tate I Mg; and at St. Gabriel's Park, 378400.
The first instruction given to aiflipIlj "It is my ennbitiou to give New Yotk
by the inetrurtore at the Yellen' Men's oue of the 'best free bathing system+, in
Christian Aisoeintion erten:mien' in Now ; the world," geld Commisslonet
York onsistit of motions with the legs reeently, "mid ronetruction work on ali
awl arms. The pupil is placed imott a ; the houses at present ender Wila 01.
box end told to move his arms to, a planned will be pushea. X need not state
e
ount. i the old saw about cleanliness being nett
Shoot out in la lino with his 'nose, °Three," pretty well proved that uncleanlitiess
"One." His 114131(18 Are et hie twortet. to godliness to prove the need for pro.
"Two," end they tome together and per enteliing facilities, for it lies been
is
and they make a sweephat motion and next to digests° epidemits of all kWh"
return to the originel poaltion. The same
A Trifling $flault.
exercise regard (0 (1)0 motion of the
legs is taught. "Itiel: like a frog" isin. RAttor all, thews only one knit thai
tslhbglblo tO MOst boys, end if not, it is I ltave to find With the sensational
inftlicf 50. The youtit 15 "onetwo, three" new,
us in the mevenient itt which. the Anne ewhors thor
ere exervised.
Troding Water. the headlines and the news never Sete
"Oh, it's Mere trifIre of enure*, iyut
no next lesson esmsistel of the Hitt to eorresnonif
All of the appointments and fixtures
in connection with the baths are of the ,
best. The partitions throughout are of
marble and the floors are of slate and
granolithic tiling. The bathrooros are 3 ,
feet 6 inches wide by 7 feet long, and are '
divided down the middle into two com-
partments by a slab of marble. The out-
er room contains a seat for the bather
and hooks for his clothes, and the inner
compartment is fitted with the shower
apparatus, Mr. Pallas estimates that the
baths have a capacity of 2,500 persons
daily -1,450 men and 1,008 women.
.Although the city has plenty of out-
door bathing houses moored to piers in
the North and East Rivers,• the new
houses are expected to fill a decided need,
which will become greater with the closing
of the outdoor houses in the fall. The
location of the outdoor houses also pre-
vents their use even in the summer by
inany of the residents of the more coin