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'1907. WALKS and TALKS. BY JULIUS CHAMBERS. distinguished Chicago alienist now in town. drawn hither by the prospective meeting of the Peace Congress next week, yesterday.

It told me a remarkable story efdealt with an almost miraculous cure fected by him of a man far past middle age who appeared to be in a hopelessly condition. It is best told in his nervous own language: "Among my patients was a typical representative of the. end of last century millionaires." he began. "This man had been a successful merchant, but 50 years of hard work hadn't enabled him to cumulate more than half a million. One day, accidentally, he blundered into real estate investment that made him a millionaire.

Would you believe it? The fact that in less than three months he had more than doubled the accumulations of half a century, shattered his nervous system! When 1 was called in, never contemplated a more serious case. My patient was afflicted with several forms of simultaneously. He would nervousness, from his seat, although the act of spring would cause him to cry out from rising the rheumatic pains that had for years afflicted him. The usual sedatives had no effect upon him. He grew worse, day by day, and I was losing hope, when a curious incident happened.

We were sitting together in his library. He had only a few minutes before recovered from a violent spasmodic attack, and I was in a condition of anxiety, fearing recur rence. The weather was mild and he insisted upon having a window open. "Watching him intently, as 1 did, I was Aware that a change was coming over him. Whether for better or worse, couldn't tell.

Then, I became conscious that there was a dreadful noise and clatter outside, caused by the passing of a large truck, loaded with angle steel. The long strips of steel jangled in tune and out. They made such an utterly discordant clangor that I was about to close the window when a decided change for the better was observable in the man at my side. He lost his facial twitchings, and talked without any symptoms of aphasia. This continued as long as the jangling dray was within hearing! I stepped into another room, where the man's valet was waiting, and, giving him two dollars, told him to rush after the driver of the dray.

He was to give to the man the money, it he would pass and re- pass the house. This he did, and my joy was beyond description when I saw that the noise wholly emancipated my patient from thoughts of his distemper, It is only fair to say that evidences of nervous distemper recurred when the noise ceased, but they were not so spasmodic, or so appalling to witness. 'You must get ready to take the LimIted Express to New York in two said and without waiting for a protest, 1 gave orders to the valet to pack a Gladstone bag for his master. Also, a grip for himself and to order a carriage for the Lake Shore station. I drove home, threw a few things into a bag and went back to make sure that my patient started.

He appeared to think his casa had reached a critical stage and that I was taking him to New York to a specialist. But my idea was greater than that. had made a tremendous discovery in the treatment of nervous' diseases! caught the train all right," continued the physician, with an enthusiasm that was infectious. had reserved a stateroom for my patient and two berths outside for the valet and myself. When we pulled out for New York; the aged traveler was snugly ensconced in his quarters.

An armload of magazines and books and a lot of flowers had converted his state room into a boudoir. The crash and swish caused by bouncing over the switches and crossings of South Chicago dispelled every trace of my patient's nervousness. He was another man, before we had been under way an hour. "Leaving him to himself, I kept a close watch upon him, nevertheless. At dinner time, I accompanied him to the dining car and he ate with excellent appetite.

Then we went into the smoking car and had cigars. He drank a glass of brandy without ill effects. He had been ordered to quit smoking and drinking; but I gave him rein. Something kept his mind interested every minute! The incessant rush of the cars through space supplied the same sedative as had the noise of the loaded dray upon the Chicago street! "What a discoverey had I made! I saw myself recognized as one of the famous men of the world in the treatment of neuresthenia. imagined whole trains of hospital cars, traveling incessantly over all roads, everywhere, anywhere; but always going, going! The idea grew upon me as I lay in my berth.

I passed a restless night; but my patient slept until 9 o'clock. In the morning, he was in better shape than was I. "When we landed in New York, I hired the first automobile in sight and whispered into the ear of the chauffeur: 'Anywhere, but fast; at $10 per We went to Clermont, stopped long enough to order luncheon at 1 o'clock, then up the Lafayette boulevard, by way of Tenth avenue, and back to the mid-day meal. 1 kept my companion's mind occupied with the food, the boats upon the river and every other object in sight. A few pretty girls came in with their escorts; and, strictly in the interest of science, I didn't hesitate to draw my aged patient's attention to them.

He was more interested when gave to them great and distinguished -his time in the interest of philanthropy. "The valet had been instructed to move all belongings to the foot of -third street, because our return passage had been engaged upon another trunk line. He had a bundle of evening newspapers and had bought a music box. We crossed on the ferry boat. got into our train and started on the return trip.

The homeward journey was a thing of joy. Improvement in the Chicago man's health was continuous. From New York, I had engaged a stateroom on one train or the other each alternate day for one month; the same precaution. had been taken for the westward journel. Briefly, I only made two round trips with my millionaire friend, but he took 'the express cure' for nervousness exactly thirty days was absolutely relieved.

That was one year ago, and my then patient hasn't had the slightest recurrence of the nervousness with which he was afflicted. It is a complete and miraculous cure. I shall lay the case before the next Medical Congress of the world." What do you think of the doctor and his discovery? It assuredly belongs to the ponderable, rather than the--imponderable. But, "science" is wonderfully developed. PASTMASTER DONOGH DEAD.

William H. Donogh, past master of St. Cecile Lodge, F. and A. past grand chaplain of the 0.

E. S. and for many years in the mechanical department of the New York Herald, died Tuesday at his home, 450 Throop avenue. HARVARD DOES NOT LIKE OXFORD DUAL MEET IDEA. (Special to the Eagle.) Boston, April believe that a track meeting in this country the coming summer between the pick of the Oxford and Cambridge athletes and a team similarly selected comprising the best men at Yale and Harvard, would be far preferable to the present proposition emanating from England, that the Oxford athletes who have just won in their games with Cambridge should come across to meet the winner of the Harvardgames," declared William Minot, captain of Harvard's track team, to an Eagle corme respondent that a meet this such morning.

I "It as suggest more of an international character than one confined merely to the winners of the two sets of deal It is evident from the tenor of Captain Minot's remarks that little thought has been given on this side either by Harvard or by Yale men to the suggestion from Oxford that the winner of the Harvard-Yale dual games extend an Invitation to Oxford, overlooking Cambridge entirely, to come across. Fled William H. Donogh. INFORMAL RECEPTION. The Lorelei Club gave an Informal reception last night at Parshall Hall, Third avenue and Fifty- third street.

After a musical programme had been rendered dancing was enjoyed. 0 MRS. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU. nunn 00090 There in a quiet little woman in Wash- Treasury ever becomes eloquent on.

Ington who has had a large share in mak- home body, Mrs. Cortelyou has avoided ing a New York man's success. Her name extensive entertaining since, her hunis Mrs. George B. Cortelyou and she is band's accession to the Cabinet, but her the only subject the Secretary of the hospitality (Copyriglit, never 1207, has been stinted.

Association.) Capital Preps OSTRICH FARMING A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY. Ostrich farming in the United States, while still in its infancy, says a writer in the National Geographic Magazine, is becoming a profitable industry in Arizona and California, and it is believed that in a few years we shall not be obliged to import ostrich feathers from abroad. I Watson Pickrell, in the last yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, gives an exceedingly interesting account of the growth of this industry, from which the facts in this article are derived. More than half the ostriches now in the United States are the progeny of a single pair owned in Arizona in 1891. Great progress has been made in the last years, and there are now 2,500 ostriches on farms in the United States.

Of these, 1,740 are in Arizona, and the remainder in California, Florida and Arkansas. Where good alfalfa pasture has been available, the birds bred in America have grown larger than those first imported. A full grown fat ostrich will weigh from 375 to 450 pounds. He will stand 8 feet high, but can easily reach to a height of 10 or 11 feet. Ostriches thrive best in a warm, dry climate, but can be grown in any part the Southern states and territories of this country.

moist climate they should have protection from cold and rain. Ostriches come to maturity when about What Doctors Advise. Dr. George Carpenter, addressing the London Institute of Hygiene on the rearwas respousivie LUI tHe Davi UL wertold numbers of infant children, while the health and physique of innumerable other children were seriously undermined not only by dirt in milk, but by the wholesale supply of tuberculous milk in London. In order to bring up children properly, not only wholesome food, but plenty of fresh air, was necessary.

Dr. Carpenter entered into details regarding the position, size, ventilation and construction of nursertes, and emphasized the points that no gas stoves should be employed in such apartments, and that the windows should be sufficiently large to admit plenty of sunlight. The question of clothing was dealt with at some length, and it was stated that the day nursery should be kept at a temperature between 60 and 65 degrees and the night nursery at about 55 degrees F. Dr. Carpenter insisted upon the necessity of children taking exercise and of walking daily out of doors, whatever the weather might be.

It was pointed out that healthy games were of great value to children for developing the chest. "improving the wind," and making the muscles hard and elastic. Lastly, he commented upon the effect of bathing, clothing and education upon the health of children, and said that many of life'3 failures were not so much due to heredity as to environment and the neglect of parents and others to do their duty by them when young. On the other hand, many of lite's successes were fashioned in the nursery. The importance of early training, therefore, could hardly be overestimated.

years of age. The female matures from 6 montus to a year before the male. but she will seldom lay a fertile egg until she is years old. The nest is a round hole in the ground, which the male scoops out with his feet. At first the female may not take the nest.

but may lay her first eggs on the ground; whereupon, the male will roll them into the nest. Generally, after the male has put three or four eggs in the nest. the female lay there. In about thirty days she will lay twelve to sixteen eggs, and will be ready to commence incubation. Incubation takes forty-two days.

Any good. well regulated incubator can be successfully used, provided it is constructed on a other. An ostrich is caught and a hood placed. over its head. The hooded bird is easily handled.

It is placed in the plucking box, with its head next to the closed door. The plucker stands behind the bird while removing the feathers. This is necessary, because the ostrich can kick or strike very hard, but it always strikes out in front, and never behind, SO that the plucker is perfectly safe if he stands in the rear. in sorting, the feathers of the male, being more valuable are kept separate from those of the female. The United States is one of the largest consumers of ostrich feathers in the world.

During the fiscal year 1903-4 there was imported into this country Ostriches Broken to Harness at Los Angeles, California. large enough scale to accommodate ostrich eggs, which are 5 inches in diameter and 7 inches long. The ostrich. is plucked the first time when 6 months old, and should be plucked about every eight months thereafter during its lifetime. The only feathers removed are those of the wing and tail.

The process of plucking consists in cutting the tail feathers and one row of the largest quill feathers in the wing with pruning shears, and drawing by the hand those of the remaining two or three rows in the wing. Two months later the quills of the cut feathers may be removed. At plucking time the 0g- triches are driven in from the pasture and placed in a small pen surrounded by a'tight board fence 5 or 6 feet high. The plucking box is about 4 feet high, 20 inches wide and feet long, open at one end and closed with a door at the 292,515 worth of "raw" or "unmanufactured" feathers. The feathers produced in America are fully as good as those coming from Africa, and it is claimed that they are broader and finer looking though some of the manufacturers contend that they are not as strong and tough as the wild feathers.

There seems to be no reason why ostrich farming may not be developed sufficiently in Arizona and California alone to supply all the feathers consumed in America, Young ostriches are usually kept in troops of 25 to 50. When they are one year old the males should be separated from the females. When they are years old the birds should be paired off, each pair being placed in a separate inclosure, which, in case the birds are to graze on alfalfa or other green food, should be large enough to furnish them sufficient food. DESCENDANT OF DRAKE. nunne nun 0 Jacob Bonnet, a descendant of the famous English Admiral Drake, and also of the French Huguenots who settled in Westchester County in the seventeenth century, was buried to-day, he having died lyn, where he was born in December, 1816, and where he was for many years a moved there some years ago from a BrookMonday at his home in New Rochelle.

He prominent builder. He was the last surviving member of his family. LINCOLN CLUB STAG. The fifth annual stag and beefsteak dinner of the Lincoln Club was held last night in the club house at 65 Putnam avenue. The affair was in charge of the social committee of the club, the chairman of which is Arthur S.

Somers, and was the last social event of the season. There were about one hundred and twenty-five guests, and nearly every one gave a story, song or joke, and a thoroughly good time was enjoyed by all. An excellent. entertainment of professional talent was produced under the direction of Frank Fogarty, including John Lloyd Wilson, bass soloist; J. Warren Keane, magician; Charles Webber, monologue artist; Tom Moore, the celebrated minstrel, and Mr, Mozarto, musical specialties.

TO SPRAY THE SUBWAYS 00000000 A Londoner, Max Rittenberg believes he has found the cure for the subway atmosphere. He holds that the fault -lies in the dryness of the air, and the Central London Railway Company proposes to spray the tunnels every night. The suggestion was that the "humidty" of the air should be brought the normal considered comfortable in our climate. It artificial rain. could be supplied in the tunnels the humidity would be raised, and at the same time the dust and other elements inevitably present in tube air would be brought to the ground.

The chief reform suggested was that special car with a fine water -spraying apparatus should be sent slowly through the tunnels every night. This is to be tried. The photograph shows the Ingenious arrangement which will be used for spraying water evenly in all directions in the tunnel. The engine was originally used for the purpose of the tube. ORMOND PLAYERS HAVE SIGNED Tossers in Florida Winter Nine Are Ready for Summer Season.

With possibly one exception all the baseball players who put in the winter on the Ormond (Fla.) nine have already Joined minor or major league teams. John Butler of Brooklyn, who WAn farmed out last year to Jersey City, has fully recovered from him recent severe Illness and is back with the Superbas, Jimmy Murray, who played left field for Ormond, will again cover right field for Buffalo. He was one of the beach guards at Ormond and took a conspicuous part in the recent water sporta there. Louis Repp is to play first base for the Baltimores, He was with Montreal last year. Fred Applegate to pitch for Toronto.

He was with the port team last year, but has been stated. "Mickey" Corcoran will once more be at third base for Buffalo. James Monahan to have trial second base with the same Rube De Groft returns to field for Troy. Elmer Flick, last year's right feld of the Clevelanda, is back with that organization. Whether he got an advance on the $3,000 originally offered him is not known.

EAGLE QUILLS. BY WILLIS BROOKS. I was sitting in J. A. R.

Studwell's fice the other day, telling him how to run his there's anything on earth that I like to do more than' anything else, it is to other fellow how to manage his affairs--I suppose I picked that up in my long association with newspapers which everybody but the editors knew how to run. Let's see, what was I talking abouOh, yes, Studwell. Well, you know, J. A. R.

has taken command of the Brighton Beach Theater, so I was telling him what to do and what not to do down there next summer, when Charles A. Parker, editor of The Third Rail, came in. "Please, Mr. Studwell," I was just saying, "if the Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains have to blow their whistles just outside the open windows of the Brighton Beach Theater every four minutes, during performance-p-1-e-a-s-e, Studwell, won't you kindly request the vaudeville artists who happen to be on your stage at those times to refrain from making jokes about it? Sir, the poor, depressed past heard, over and over public seeking, entertainment there in again, in, every joke that ever was or ever will be cracked about it; and, besides, sir, it is no joking matter; and, moreover-- Parker butted in and told this story: "Up in St. Paul, one summer--I think it was 1890-the New York Lyceum Company played an engagement in the old Market Had, which had been done over into a theater for use while the Opera House was undergoing architectural ment was devoted to C.

DeMille's transformation. One: this play, "'The Wife." Every night at just 10 o'clock Georgia Cayvan spoke a line that went somewhat like this: 'Listen! I will tell you the story of my "And precisely at the instant. that she ended this line, the great clock in the tower just overhead began, with grim deliberation, to strike ten awful whacks on the big bell, the reverberations of which rang through the theater in a way that drowned out every 'sound of Miss Cayvan's voice. The result was that the audiences which attended this theater that week never did find out what the story of her life was." And while I was making a note of this yarn, with a view to writing it for the Eagle, I plumb forgot that I had come there for the, purpose of pinning Mr. Studwell down to a promise that either the B.

R. T. whistling shall be discontinued next summer or the actors be prohibited from joking about it. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE ext Harrison Grey Fiske has purchased from Percy Mackaye the stage rights of his play, "Sappho and Phaon," for Bertha Kalish, who will appear in it as Sappho next season. The play is a poetic tragedy and preserves in its technique the ancient unities.

The subject matter deals with legendary and historical persons of the time 600 B. and the plot is based on a passionate love story. The, piece is set in a single scene--the exterior of a Greek temple overlooking the Egean Sea. Mr. Fiske has completed arrangements to produce "Sappho and Phaon" next October at the Lyric Theater.

00000000 Katie Barry, the diminutive English comedienne, who will be at Hyde Behman's next week, is to make a vaudeville tour of the world. She will be remem- Katie Barry. bered for her comedy work in "The Chi- nese Honeymoon," "Fantana" and "Mam-, selle Sallie." In her globe trotting trip she will visit Britain, the capitals of the continent, South Africa and the Antipodes. She has some new songs and will give her droll character portrayals. 00000000 From Duluth, the city of copper kings, and a hive of modern traffic, to the classical opera boards of La Scala, in Milan, Italy, the home of Italian grand opera, is a bound requiring something like the good old fairy seven league boots to make.

Yet Rena Vivienne, one of Mr. Savage's prima donnas in the "Madam Butterfly" company, who is to sing the role at the Montauk Theater, accomplished it. This young American singer, having completed "her vocal education under the famous Victor Maurel, at Paris, learning that the composer Puccini was in Milan on business with his publisher, Senor Ricordi, made a hasty trip to the Italian city and was fortunate in securing an interview. The musician, impressed with her voice and personal charm, gave to her the score Rena Vivienne. of his grand opera, "Madam to study, and made an appointment to try her in its title role.

He informed her that Henry W. Savage was to produce the opera in the English tongue in the United States, and if, on trial, she proved competent, he would use his best endeavors to secure her a contract. She immediately went to work on the score, and by the date of the appointment with the composer, had mastered the title role. With consternation she learned that her trial was to take place on the stage of La Scala. There, with full orchestral accompaniment, before the smallest and most critical audience ever seen in Milan, consisting of Puccini and his friend and publisher, Tito Ricordi, who staged his opera at Milan and London, the American girl sang the part in a way that impressed the composer.

A report was sent to Mr. Savage, who engaged the young singer by cable. Mme. Marietta di Dio, whose song "Le Train de Plaisir" Pleasure was hissed by Oscar Hammerstein at Koster and Bial's Music Hall, of which he was then a silent partner, is now a member of Eddie Foy's company presenting "The Orchid," at Lew Field's Herald Square Theatre. Mme.

di Dio, during the time of the above occurrence, in 1894, was in receipt of a weekly salary of $1,250, but she now gets the trifling wage of $18 per week. In "The Orchid," Mme. di Dio has not a single line to speak, but she appears on programme as one of the maskers in the last act. Mme. di Dio was brought from Vienna in 1894 under a contract by Mr.

Bial. On the night that Mr. Hammerstein took exception to one of her songs, George Kessler sat in adjacent box. Being a friend of the singer he resented the hissing and jumped over the railings dividing the boxes and proceeded to pummel Mr. -Hammerstein with his fists.

The affair created great excitement- in the theater, and the two belligerents wore arrested. This affair resulted in the breaking up of the firm of Hammerstein, Koster Bial. During Mme. de Dio's engagement at the music hall she met S. S.

Thorne. After her marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thorne went to Paris to live, returning to this country in 1902. 00000000 There will be a suggestion of pathos about the little booth at the Actors' Fund Fair in the Metropolitan Opera House next month wliere the veteran players housed at the Actors' Home, will personally dispose of their own handiwork.

The first contribution comes in the form of a dozen pen drawings, made by Charles Gonzales, an actor and singer for over ball a century, who played with Edwin Booth in 1853, and sang in opera with Parepa Rosa, Campbell, Castle and Caroline Richings. Bondi, the tenor, has autographed two hundred edition de luxe copies of the story of his life, to be sold at the fair. David Warfleld has autographed five hundred his photographs in "The Music Master." There will be autographs at the Century Theater Booth. of every celebrity, living and dead, connected with the American stage for the past half century. 00000000 Owen Hall, the English dramatist, whose real name was James Davis, and who died in London yesterday, was a brother of a Brooklynite, Harrie Davis.

He was a barrister for twelve years before he took up journalism and literature. He was the author of "Florodora," "'The Geisha." "A Greek Slave," Silver Teller's Broadway Theatre is a young Brooklynite, Edmund Mortimer Olson. was a member of Company Twentythird Regiment, and of the Second Naval Battalion. He has a fine voice and has been identified with Brooklyn church choirs and musical circles since boyhood. Three years ago he adopted the stage as a profession, and has made rapid strides, having played several important roles in Slipper" and "The Girl from Kays." 00000000 In "The Vanderbilt Cup" Company at TO Edmund Mortimer Olson.

Jacob Bonnet. well known companies. He now has the role of the hotel clerk in "The Vanderbilt Cup," being billed as Edmund Mortimer. He is the son of the late Captain Edmund Mortimer Olson, U. S.

one of the heroes in naval history. The family is prominent socially in Brooklyn and Washington. 00006600 Two genuine St. Bernard dogs are used in 1 "The Volunteer Organist," the pastoral play now in its seventh season, which will come to the Folly Theater next week. These dogs are said to have seen actual service in the Alps in the hospices of the monks.

They are used in the snowstorm a scene in which a lost child is rescued by the animals. "Monarch" is unusually large even for a specimen of his kind. A Promising Singer. An interesting feature of the minstrel show of the Third Assembly District Democratic Club at Prospect Hall, tomorrow night, will be the local debut of Frank S. Marino, an operatic baritone singer of 116 Second place.

Marino Frank S. Marino. studied music under Cantelli, in Palermo, Italy and some time ago scored quite a success in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. MarIno is 22 years of age and possesses voice of much depth and power. There will be 75 people in the minstrel show tomorrow -night..