Whistling Jack

Jack McCarthy is familiarly known wherever he goes as "Whistling Jack. The prefix to Jack is tacked on him 1 minutes af ter he lands atany city, and h has been in every town of over 10,000 in habitants in the United States. Jack ca hardly be called a boy now. He is 23 o 24 yearsold. He. made his first appear anee in Pittsburg about 10 years ago, thin, nervous little chap, who stuttem so distressingly that the charitably in clined willingly gave hini the price of paper rather than hear his pitiful attempts to cry his wares. Somebod told him one day that if he would whistle wlieu he caine to a word that he f ound unprououuceable he would soon cure himself of his painful stutter. Jack tried it, and in less than six months the whistle was as fixed a habit as the stuttering. At the end of a year he could no more speak a dozen words without 11 whistles than he could fly, and this was the way he got the sobriquet of