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SNAKE CHARMERS OF INDIA.
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Os nil persons in the world there Is now with a railing more weird titan
that of the snake cliunuor of India. Our picture to-day shows two of these
Hindus sitting by the roadside, while their peculiar pets, the snakes, sport
before them for the amusement of the passers-by. The serpents shown in
the picture are tin; terrible cobra di-ca-pollos, or hooded snakes, of the
East. In their native state they are deadly creatures, but the jugglers,
before handling them, first extract their fangs. Then they teach them to
dance and keep time to music. In some of the Hindu temples the cobra Is
an object of worship, being carefully fed with milk and sugar by the
priests. The natives have many superstitions about this snake, and even
believe (hut the Holly sometimes assumes that form. When kindly treated
the cobra becomes quite tame. Music lias a special attraction for the cob
ra, and lie will often come from ills hiding place when a flageolet or liutc
is played in Ids henring. When a house becomes infested with the ser
pents the snake eharmer comes Into use. lie plays his tiageoiet and the
serpents come forth and are killed.
NtW CLOCK FACE.
A SI in* Win* Object* ito flic Tlihcplfmi
Now in 4i ft in* ml
Objecting to the features of the
clock face which we have been con
sulting for centuries, a New England
man is attempting to living about a
change hy the Introduction of a new
system which lie thinks more suitable
for twentieth century people. This
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fltW CLOCK VACK IN A CHt’BCII STEEPLE
man Is Samuel P. Thrasher, who has
developed a clock niecliiiuism radical
ly different from that in use at prea
■nt.
Mr. Thrasher makes several objec
tions to the present type of timepiece,
principal of which Is the fact that
there Is nn embarrassment of figures
which are never necessary at one
time for hour Indication, and further,
A NEW CLOCK FACK.
some of these fig tin s are right side up
and others are upside down, while
nomo repose on their sides, and others
are placed at various angle' Mr.
Thrasher's artistic sense ■.> vert much
disturbed at this and he watt s to
change it and s«‘!l clocks of Its <i\\ u
design, one of the greatest recom
mendations for his proposal ,i;no\s
tJon is that there are never ;.i \ utt
mss-ssary figures displayed. Tin re
are never more than tour tinder any
circumstances. These always indi
cate the time and there U uo p. ssl
bUity of mistake, which he says often
arises from perse us taking a hasty
glance at a round dial aud thinking
it is nineteen minutes past the hour
when it is really twenty-four minutes
after. The second hand travels across
'a half circle divided into sixty parts,
so that the necessity of placing any
figures upside down is also avoided
here, as in Ihe case of the hour and
minute indication.
The ItlM* of an Imgllsli Preacher.
Joint McNeill, the noted Presbyterian
preacher of London, began life for
himself as a gateboy at a railway
crossing After a while he applied for
a better place, and on • day an official
put his head out of tlie train and
shouted, ‘ ivre you the y<> mg man who
considers himself too good for liis sit
uation?” John said he was, and was
promoted to tile hooking office at
tirecnock. Afterward lie went through
a university. Christian Advocate.
ll«*r l<l<*al.
“lie looks like a king!” said the fair
girl m tones of intense admiration.
"Why, he impresses me as rather
nervous and timid," commented the
other young woman.
"Well,” was the rejoinder, after some
reflection, "Hint is easily accounted for.
You know kings In Europe are nearly
always having something thrown at
them uownwadys.”—Washington Star.
Coiffure Model Clianift***
Fashion's autocrats are confidently
predicting that with the advent of
warmer weather and the donning of
wash gowns twhich tills summer are
to be most stylish, made after old
fashioned models) there is to be a radi-
JANICE MKBEDITU I'l’BLS THIS HI’MMKB.
cal change in milady's coiffure. The
style made familiar by the well-known
miniature of Janice Meredith, with
softly waved pompadour in front, a
knot quite low at the back of the head,
and a curl falling down on to the loft
shoulder, is prophesied as the coming
mode. The effect is shown in the il
lustration.
When It Is becoming the lower on
the head tills knot is placed the bet
ter.
Truln Into tl*ft S«*m.
Wlille a freight train was descend
ing the branch line to Kirkcaldy har
bor. Scotland, recently, leading to the
mam line of the North British Kail
wav, the brat - tailed to work and
the engine and three cars laden with
paper and g in dashed over the east
pier and plan ml iuto the sea. The
engineer leape 1 from his engine and
escaped.
The Potomac ltiver is only 500 mill s
i-tig. aud in it., lower course is rather
au estuary than a stream.
LAYINC A CHOST.
Architect Relate! Hi! E«periencs in Lo
cat'ng _ Mysterious Noi*e.
"There is certainly nothing more dis
tracting than a slight monotonous
noise," said a young architect of this city.
"I mean a noi-c of the drumming or tap
ping variety, repeated with mechanical
regularity. One can become accustomed
to the worst kind of a promiscuous hub
bub and learn to enjoy tranquility next
door to a barber shop, but the tap-tap
tap of a loose shingle or rickety window
! frame will bore its way into the nerve
! centers like dropping water eating into a
| stone. What reminded nte of the sub
| ject was a peculiar cxperienece I had
' last week. A friend of mine who works
in one of the railroad offices, sent for me
in considerable distre-s and begged me
1 to come home with him and locate a noise
| that he said was driving his wife almost
j frantic. The couple live in a suite of
rooms over a store in an old and heavily
| constructed brick building.
"I found the noise that was bothering
them was audible only in the right-hand
front apartment, which lltey used as a
parlor, and as soon as I heard it I appre
hended tl-.eir desire to be rid of it. It
| was a curious sound—a sort of faint me
tallic rapping, whicli came apparently
from nowhere in particular and was
about as loud in one place as another.
Such a solid bidding was not likely to be
subject to vibrations, and I confess I
was considerably puzzled. I listened at
tentively at all the walls, shifted every
article of furniture in the room, and went
over the entire building above and be
j low, without finding a clew to the nui
sance. The cnly place the noise could he
heard was in that one room and there
seemed to be absolutely nothing to ac
count for it. My friend's wife is nat
urally a nervous woman, and she had
worked herself into such a condition that
she declared she wouldn’t remain an
other day on the premises.
"At last, just before retreating de
feated, I threw open one of the windows
and noticed an oid drain pipe running
down by the casement. 'Hello!’ I paid
to myself, 'let’s see where that thing
goes to.' I went downstairs and found
it led into an areaway and from thence
across the back yard to the rear of an
other building, where a cistern was evi
dently once located. Six inches front its
open end was a 'beet of tin. covering
a hole of some kind in the wall, and as
soon as T drew near the secret was out.
There was a steam engine for an electric
light plant in the building, and the loose
nn vibrated steadily whenever it was in
m 'tion. which was practically day and
night. The drain pipe simply acted as a
speaking tube, and, returning to the room,
I found the upper end broken off in
line with a big crack in the window
casing. I jerked down the pipe and the
ghost was laid. Architects and builders
are quite frequently called in, by the way,
to locate and suppress annoying sounds.
The nuisance i< much more common than
anybody would suppose who has never
suffered from it. Not long ago a heavy
partition in a building here was torn open
simply to get out a loose lath that was
worrying the tenants on both sides.”—
AV«> Orleans Times-Democrat.
HER PIECE I)E RESISTANCE.
Mr. Fraidovcr—l don’t dare bring any
of the fellows home unexpected)’, be
cause I never know what my wife may
have for dinner.
Mr. Bravitout —Oh, 1 alw;r ; know
what my wife will have, because in a case
of that sort she invariably has the same
thing.
Mr. Fraidovcr (interestedly)—And
what is that?
Mr. Bravitout—A fit.— l.cslie's Weekly.
PocketSook of Murderer's Skin.
A pocket-book made front the skin of
a murderer i< in possession of the New
Jersey Historical society A man named
Antonio I.c Blanc, in 1883. killed a man.
his wife and a servant, and tried to kill
a daughter of the sain- man in order to
get a gold watch which belonged to the
daughter. Le Rlanc wished to present
the watch to his sweetheart. Le Blanc
was hanged in Morristown, where a pub
lic park is now located. Ilis body was
turned over to a physician for dissection.
The pocket-book was for years the prop
erty of Sheriff Ludow. who hanged him.
The Steam Loromiidtr lloomril.
It is claimed thnt within a few years the
electric motor will completely supplant the
steam locomotive, and trains will then rnali
along at a speed of 100 miles an hour. To
i.-avelers this will prove a great blessing, hut
m> more so than liostetter's Stomach JlitL-re
has proved a blessing to those who wish to
regain their health quickly. The Bitters cure
dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness, malar : a.
fever and ague, also improves tuo appetite
and purities the blood.
In a state of nature tea trees grow to a
height of forty feet; in cultivation they are
dwarfed hy pruning to not more than
three.
Doctors, Law)rri, Vlerclia ills.
And people in all conditions of life, who have
used Grab Orchard V\ ator, continue to use it
and recommend it. No testimonial has the
same effect as personal experience.
Skeletons 4000 years old have been found
near the village of Flombom, in Germany.
The bodies were of enormous size.
M. L. Thompson A Go., Druggist*. Bonders
peri. Pa., sav Hall's Catarrh Core is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold
Druggists sell it, 75c.
Money u!k«. but a little scare causes 1
to shut up tighti
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervons
nass after first day's use of l>r. Kline's Great
Nerve Hestorer. *2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr It. H. Klimk, Ltd.. 931 ArchSt„ Phila., Pa.
The tender b nanas grow and do fairly
well in sheltered portions of Southern CV*
ifornia •
Mr*. IV m*low's Soothing Syrup Tor children
teething. »often the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25cai>ottls
Virginia had the largest population of
anv of the States at the first census in
im
1 am sure Pino's Cura for Consumption saved
my life throe years ago. —Mbs. Teona* Uob
nura. Maple St.. Norwich, 5.1., Feb. 17, 19fk).
Before the discovery of sugar, urinkf
were sweetened with honor
That Pale Woman
Yen 111—[ r o vwtiere fu nlue cases out t *n Is
ent iled to r> sv , ln -k» md a strong constltil
tlon. liar i.woins -ire ** is ly curable. lh
il lit remedy Is In -k-y's Female lonic «. d
Regulator. It liivlg- 11 <•- all the deltcaie or.
gantsiu ot woman, and banishes every lorui ot
inuilv weakness.
Hollander* hud it cheaper to import
liav from 1-a Plata than to raise it on tneir
| own meadow*
I
STAMPS FOP OUR MAIL.
Bllllont of Thpm Printed Every Year to
Supply tlie Demand.
In the matter of postage stamps it
is estimated that on an average every
man, woman and child in the United
States will use fifty-three postage
stamps during the year 1901, forty of
them being of the popular two-cent
denomination. The total number con
sumed will lie over 4,000,000,000, and
nearly 1,000,000,000 of these will he of
the one-ccnt variety. One person out
of every ten will send a special deliv
ery letter in the course of the present
year
Tiie first process in ihe manufacture
of stamps at the money mill is to
count the sheets of blank paper, which
are purchased by contract. Tills work
is done by women, who, indeed, per
form most of the labor in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, simply lie
cause they have proved themselves
more capable than men for business
of tliis description.
Each sheet is the proper size and
shape to make 100 printed stamps, j
with a small margin. After they have
been counted the sheets are moistened |
by laying wet rags between them at j
intervals of twenty, and next morning,
when the rags are removed, the sheets j
are ready for printing.
These plates, always horizontal, |
travel around the four sides of the
square at a moderate rate of speed, j
passing in turn beneath an ink roller.
Each of them is engraved with the j
faces of 400 stamps and after being :
inked by the roller goes under a me- j
clianical rubber, which removes most
of the ink.
Then the plate is cleansed of all the
rest of the ink save what is in the j
graven lines by a man who rubs it
with clotli and his bare hands, and
finally it goes under a dry. cloth-cov
ered roller, which, a sheet of white |
paper being interposed, does the print- |
ing. All of these processes are ac- [
complished four times inside of half
a minute.
A girl supplies the fresh white
sheets as the plates come around to
her in quick succession, and another |
girl takes them out, fresh printed, as
they appear on the outside of the
cloth-covered roller, piling them neat
ly as she does so.
Then the sheets, so new and beauti- !
ful with their bright-colored impres- J
sionsi are carried to another room to
be counted, after which they are laid
on racks in wire cages on wheels and i
hauled into steam-drying rooms to
stay over night.
On the following morning they are !
taken into the examining room, where ]
each of them is carefully inspected for j
defects. Torn or otherwise imperfect j
ones are rejected, but all fragments
are carefully stuck together, so that
each sheet may be accounted for. Each
person in this department of tlie mon
ey mill is expected to examine 12,500
sheets in a day's work. —Washington
Times.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Being forced to walk, and forced to j
do your best, will breed in you tem- j
perance and self control, diligence and
strength of will, cheerfulness and con
tent, and a hundred virtues which the j
idle will never know
It may not he ours to utter convinc
ing arguments, but it may be ours to
live lfoly lives. It may not be ours ;
to he subtle and learned and logical. j
but it may be ours to he noble and j
sweet and pure.
There are few mortals so insensible |
that their affections cannot be gained j
by mildness, their confidence by sin- j
cerity, their hatred by scorn or ne- i
gleet.
Be careful of your days for every i
day is a little life, and we know not j
when it may end and every life is j
but a day repeated.
Do not let want of success depress
you, but struggle on. I.abor hard con
tinuously, and you will win in the end.
Modesty and humility are tlie so
briety of the mind; temperance and
chastity arc the sobriety of the body.
Moderation is the silken string run
ning through the pearl chain of all ,
virtues.
Silence is the understanding of fools, |
and one of ihe virtues of tlie wise.
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do well.
In the human breast two master
passions cannot eo-exls;.
A gentleman is a rarer dung than ,
some of us think for.
It Is always safe to iearu even from 1
our enemies.
Hoyt Corpses Travel at >»■*.
In touching oil this gruesome subject
of tlie disposition and transportation
of bodies, we wonder how many of
our readers who may chance to see a
great box hoisted into the hold of a ,
transatlantic Steamer, labeled "speci
men of natural history." arc aware
that it contains a human body. Vet
such is the fact—and in such manner
docs the entry appear on the ship’s
manifest. Sailors have long aban
doned the superstition against sailing
with such an “Item" among the cargo,
but passengers are always l.atlu d In
gloom at such reminder that man .s
mortal. Hence the delicate euphe
mism.—l-omlon Chronicle
\ YYi» ninitn Tragedy.
A piercing scream rang out on the
vening air. A wild shriek it w..>. b -
ginning as one snuggling for breath,
and growing louder as it grew older
until after a last supreme effort it sub
sided with a mocking baffled gurgle.
A score of startled villagers started
a surprise te> their feet and hurried to
the rescue. But no blood had been
drawn. 1; was only the saw at the
mill plowing through its first log.— .
Wilmot (Wis.) Agitator.
All manner of extravagant expressions are possible when
a woman’s nerves are overwrought.
The spasm at the top of the wind pipe or bronchial tubes,
“ball rising in the throat,” violent beating of the heart,
laughing and crying by turns, muscular spasms (throwing
the arms about), frightened by the most insignificant occur
rences —are all symptoms of a hysterical condition and se
rious derangement of the female organs.
Any female complaint may produce hysterics, which
must be regarded as a symptom only. The cause, however,
yields quickly to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, which acts at once upon the organ afflicted and the
nerve centers, dispelling effectually all those distressing
symptoms.
fllrs. Lewis Says: •* I Feel Like a New Person,
Physically and flentaHy.”
“ Doar Mrs. Pinkiiau : —I wish to speak a good word for Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. For years I had ovarian trouble
and suffered everything from nervousness, severe headache, and pain in
back and abdomen. I had consulted different physicians, but decided to
try your medicine, and I soon found it was giving me much relief. I con
tinued its use and now am feeling like a new person, physically and mentally,
and am glad to add one more testimonial to tlie value of your remedy.”—
Mrs. M. H. Lewis, 2108 Valentine Ave., Tremont. Now York, N. Y.
Writing to Mrs. Pinkham is the quickest and surest wav
to get the right advice about all female troubles. Her ad
dress is Lynn, Mass. She advises women free. Following
is an instance :
Mrs. Haven’s First Letter to Mrs. Pinkham.
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham :—I would like your advice in regard to my
troubles. I suffer every month at time of menstruation, and flow so much
and for so long that I become very weak, also get very dizzy. lam troubled
with a discharge before and after menses, have pains in ovaries so bad some
times that 1 can hardly get around have sore feeling in lower part of bowels,
pain in back, bearing-down feeling, a desire to pass urir.e frequently, with,
pains in pas-ing it; have leucorrhoea, headache, fainting spells, ana some
j timo3 have hysteria. My blood is not in good condition. Hoping to hear
; from you. I am,” Mrs. Emma Haven, 2508 South Ave., Council Bluffs, lowa.
(June 3, 1899.) f
Mrs. Haven’s Second Letter.
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham I wish to express my gratitude for what your 8
medicine has done for me. I suffered for four years with womb trouble, a
Every morun I flowed very badly. I got so bad that I could hardly do my |
work. Was obliged to sit or lie down the most of the time. I doctored for I
a long time, but obtained no relief I began using your remedies—Lydia 8
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier, Sanative Wash I
and Liver Pills—and now feel like a new woman —Mrs. Emma Haven,
3508 South Ave., Council Bluffs, lowa. (Feb. 1, 1900.)
EfVt. a'?SA j? ,'V Owiny to the fact that some skeptical
BT BMK mjj EC « Jga fra §9 F eo P’ e have from time to time questioned
ityK w Is P P albara |fw the genuineness cf the testimonial letters
SSnA bm ’•s .( £2 we are constantly publishing, we have
£3 Mj g* deposited with the National City Bank, of Lynn, Mass., $5,000,
fig y W Kfl which will be paid to any person who will show that the above
iHJU ffiJS testimonials are not genuine, or were published before obtaining the
wSP' writers’ special permission.—Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. H
■ -j i Ann> l)rop nra J, 1 itctilrawcr. Oak t ablri t, iO-jfir #o»r;int**d Bardirk ■
P Sewing Sachin, by freight C. O. D., SUBJECT TO EXAMINATION. Vo®
V>* > - can examine it at your freight depot, and if found perfectly sati*-
firi-A JT'2bri£aa factory, exactly represented, ascend a machine as you ran buy elsewhere
|mp*r'aaSSjnßTgßßßparaK 1 attso.voto «4u.oe. III* host wondkru l baruiin kirk ukird or,
'»i VJicAaS Sav-S pay th.frelßhtwnt our SPECIAL OFFER PRICE *12.05 and fr,l«tht
<■ - _-3 /S E?M ,'S charges. I si; Till! machpik thrfr mums is TOi it ows ill)** and we will
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Ln;a the new 1901 model burdick h the best fcatar*s of ttO.OO aai
X v r // ft 960. 00 Biarhlnex, with the d.-fret* «>f none. For years we have staked our repute
rnl* H t,on on our BURDICK SEWING MACHINE; we now Offer it for the flrat time for
» only $12.35. The Burdick H 1* built on honor from very' best mate rials.
Jj, flhi* Has positive fourmotion feed, self threading vi
• j Mh W brating shuttle, automatic bobbin winder, adjust- J
3 * w able beftrin:;s. patent tension liberator, improved _ iff
B loose wheel and shuttle carrier, ad justable P re *
foot, patentdres« guard, benutlful nickel trimmings, newest
» s*> le handsome!v carved beautifully flnlahed solid oak five- T fm
= v t drnwcvdrop bead cabinet. VERYUtHT KtN N1 >«. nearly noiseless. JSVJ Wrilo
-Si 1 T CIO OK we furniah the BURDICK N complete with 1 cloth guide, 1 Hal »>e« y—ina
A I vltiCU nuilter.2 screwdrivers. 6 bobbins, 1 package of needles, oil J&S i» r j,in.
*-■£3 can and Instruction Hock which makes everything eo plain tnat even a child tatalo*as.
Q can oi erate the nusch'ne. Far 7i rents extra, or IlS.CO.wc furniah in addition *£” ,
to above a complete ret of H!CHEST GRADE FOOT ATTACHMENTS in metal
box. including 1 ruflVr.l shin ing plate. I tucker. 1 under in aider, 1 binder. 1 short _ r.-- .-■■.■-t tom
foot and set of hemmers, different widths up to %of an inch. la ordering, aay iu,^iiiastratioa aives yon an Idea
If you want these extra toot attachments■ at 1 *“* M t *? n a*. _ 'oftko appesraneesf this high ffrad-
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any other concern no matter how attractive the offer may seem, until you get ;
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ttral worllt tof* W. Doitiila* utul
shoes Im S 4 to My *4
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If 7p’.' ’V 1-ather that makes a first T**
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Take no siilistltuie. h • *t »n lmvitig W. 1.. Itouglaa •h«*e# with name
and price stamped on bottom. Vonr dealer slmuld keep them, if he does not, jagfeE P\
! r cal a.- \-x * . ustm •> --ato • rd-r by tnad.
\\ . 1.. It O I «g|,AN, Itroekton, Man.
Malsby & Company,
30 S. llroMtl >t.. .Atlianta. Q>*.
Engines and Boilers
kteain Water Hntfer*. Stonn I’timp- ;*n«•
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«iThompson'* Eye Water
: Mitchell's EyeSalvejj
X - ::
-t- You may use with per- -►
X feet safety Mitchell's "
X Eye Salve. That's not H>
X irue of pungent drugs. ‘-Mitch- "
ell's" is a standard and popular - ■
X article. It actually does what it -►
X claims to do. Price. 25 cents. -► ■
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By mail, 25c; Hail & Rucltel, New York City. * ”
SOZODONT for the TEETH 25c
Mention this Taper ; SST
I*3UUrtES WHERE All bLit FAiL 6. Q
R«*c « oogb sjr.iD. Tastes Good. Cae
in tirre. gos-l by drugging. Mfl
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