GOOD SAMARITANS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 10, 11 July 1914, Page 10

GOOD SAMARITANS

HQW THEY WERE REWARDED. For giving up their only bed to a sick and apparently penniless beggar, Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, a poor working couple residing a> Sunbury, Pennsylvania, have been rewarded with a legacy of £1600. The beggar, a man named John Fell, who was about 80 years of age, arrived at the Smiths' homo at the beginning of May last, and asked for shelter, saying he was friendless and ill. The man looked so old and infirm that, although the Smiths had only one bed, they give it up to him, and themselves slept on the floor. . They told Fell that he was welcome to share their food, but that they had no money with which to buy medical comfdrts.t The next day the beggar produced a dirty cheque book, and drew a, cheque on a Northumberland (Pennsylvania) bank for £10. The couple thought he was crazy, but, to their surprise, the cheque was duly honoured, though even then they imagined that the money was probably all, or nearly all, of the old man's savings. Fell grew worse and died, but before the end came "he drew up a will leaving all that he was possessed, of to Mr. and Mrs.. Smith for their "kindj ness and 1 self-sacrifice." The Good Samaritans have found that the old beggar had nearly £1600 deposited in several banks. FIVE HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR, Mr. Esson, a partner in the firm of Rodway and Eeson, Ltd., of Birmingham, who is resident in* Capetown, has designed a train equipped with propellers and an aeroplane device, and driven by electricity. He claims that the train' is capable of attaining a speed of 500 miles an" hour with ease and safety, and he will shortly give demonstrations with a working model. It is understood that, under Mr. Esson's system, a single rail is laid on the ground and a cable carried overhead. The train is connected with the cable at either extremity by rods terminating in flanged wheels, these rods serving to convey current from the cable to motors fore and aft. The inventor says that the -train is so designed that when it has 'attained a sufficient velocity' it will lift itself from buffer springs and j'ttiyTrVrho .result, he claims, is a huge 'savingMn^maintenance charges. Tho Union Government is said to he interest, ing itself in the invention. JUST FOLLOWS THE DIRECTIONS. "My son gets so bad with croup he cannot get his breath," writes Mrs. N. P. Lewis, Mile End, Adelaide, South Australia. "I |ust follow the directions with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and he is soon completely ciu'ed. I never go to bed without a. bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the hous« for \ don't know when Sydney will be attacked Lwith Croup. 'WAdjtt "