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Show (PASSENGERS ON A STREET CAR WEEP. iYE8 FILL WITH TEARS, YET THEY ARE NOT SAD. ABUSING LITTLE COMEDY Women Try to Hide Their Emotion While Leaking Bottle of Formaldehyde, Formalde-hyde, from Under 8eat Continue! Con-tinue! to Do tta Duty. Omaha. A health department attache, at-tache, a bottlo of formaldehyde, four Jiousowives, a hospital nurse and a conductor got out of the rut the other norning In a Sherman avenue street car and sustained tho action of an lamuslng little comedy. B. C. Damon, of the city health department, de-partment, wns returning on the car with his fumigating tools and, Inadvertently, Inad-vertently, loosened the stopper of a bottlo of formaldehyde, which he placed Insldo tho cor while he enjoyed tho scenery from tho rear platform. Four women Inside the car soon began be-gan to think thero was something wrong with their lachrymal glands, as tho escnplng formaldehyde addressed both tholr olfactory and optical nerves. Four women wero drying their oyes with their handkerchiefs and tho conductor con-ductor was In such a state of n;lnd and vision he could not direct his, punch to Tinylntolllglblo place on tho' transfers trans-fers requested. OutBldo, Damon was smoking his pipe and enjoying, the scenery. The bottlo of formaldehyde was In a straw hamper and tho odor escaped through that receptacle When tho car reached the Wise Memorial Me-morial hospital on Sherman avenuo a nurse from that Institution boarded tho car. She quickly detected tho nature na-ture of tho odor and was amused at tho effects It had caused on her fellow fel-low passengers. Her first Impulse was to think that the conductor was fumigating some tainted money he had received, so for tho mlnuto she dismissed tho matter from her mind. At 8oventeenth and Clark Btrects a stout woman got on tho car and with some effort made her way to a scat. She looked around tho car with amaze-' meat, and presently her perspective was blurred. Buildings familiar to her since childhood no longer presented their former aspect Sho thought she was becoming faint She asked that the car bo stopped, as sho wanted to walk, anyway. The conductor tried to reach for the bell cord, but ho grabbed the cash faro register reg-ister and registered up 16 fares before the fat woman left tho car. In a few minutes the nurse began to think the conductor was either fumigating fumi-gating a national bank or that some of the passengers had broken a bottle of Their Eye Filled with Tears. formaldehyde in a pocket Sho looked around for some clew to tho mystery- On tho rear platform sho recognized Damon as a man sho had seen at a house that was fumigated. She saw tho straw ha'mpcr In tho car and looked up her book of rules. Tho answer an-swer was quickly forthcoming. , Damon was profuse- In his apologies and promised never, never again to allow al-low such a thing to happen. "It is enough to mako a lady cry," remarked one of tho four aforementioned, aforemen-tioned, as sho left the car at Cuming street |