Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-05
THE SNAKE CHARMER.

THE SNAKE CHARMER.
''An old, white bearded IIindoo, well
Known in South London as 4 street ven
der Of pieces Of scented wood, wicker
baskets and other Oriental tyifies, had
been knocked down and run over by a
butchers cart, in the shafts Of which. as
| is the butcherly custom, swift trotting
pony was driven by q reckless, bare
healed youngster. The old mans wrist
Only was broken, but the shock TO his
| system seemed likely TO prove fatal at his
advanced age, which rumOr fixed ut con-
| siderably over 100 years.
From the moment that the old fellow
Tns put to bed, Mascarenhas, HindoO
attendant, was unremitting in his atten-
| tion TO him. He could converse with him
in his own language; he spent hour after
hour by his bedside and exhausted the re-
sources OF the hospital in making him rs
comfortable as might be. One disciple of
Esculapius ventured to ask him in the
| chatting style current at st. Dots, if he
had found his long lost great-grandfather
The fire that blazed from the young
iarkey's eyes at this was enough to warn
his questiOner that there was danger in
pressing the point. and he dropped the
subject like hot potato
The old heather had only one visitor
during his four days lingering in the
ward-a young Hindoo cadger, who had
roamed the streets in his company, beat
ing u tom-tom aud chanting some sort of
gipberish to melancholy tune. He
claimed to he distantly related to him,
but the patient received him with such
after = second call NOT IN rana,, bis ,S;.;,s
which seemed To a1;,ats ,bs ola r,ao o.
cessiyelv
..On IN. mornino of tba four,b Joy tho
old Hindoo cav. I'm tbe ybos, ,,ora sror,
old oge than anything and The c,,s,o,,arr
wbire screen w,,. nIaced sronnd b;s ha.j
wbiI,. the prrsas nrsnaraJ his MI, g. o.,
,h. y;s;, ~ ,ha ,i.rirh ,,,tas.,r.a'
hurrie,I inoussr b.d hser boIJ ~ ~rhioh
the old nan,s ho5v tI,,,-ad ~ o., ~
h,,rcb snbmittsi tc tba hJ;na do,on
Of sbopkaenars who did Int as a..
The cnronar's orlar b.d hao, 49, ~,
for burial ,nd 7 bad f,;-I,, -, III
nbont the case xb,.n n no,s from, was.ar.
enhas delivered nj INV Io5o;rgs brough,
me dnwn IN the bosn;t.l ;r aa9,sr .,,r;ss.
itv
..Jt u,as m,d,;ght wbsr 7 -sacba5 ,,.
bouse snrpeonrs room ar 8, Do,,s 70 fnd
Nasearenbas In "A stats of wild axcita-
ment surrounded hv n knot ~ nbvs;c;ars
and students whose faces wora an ai- ~
curiosity 'mixed with incradnIirv Tba
Eurasian was talking voInhlv as IT on
,araJ Tn his b.nd ba hsIJ wh., an
reared TO he "A dead snake m son,s non
yanemops snac;as fanoI.0s ard bcx,5I.ss
bn, mort al oIong ,ba hocL ,,.;,h s.,Ias .,
a necuIiar green Inster which o,Iittersi r.,
the oasIig6, as he ,nrnad n .hon, WITH
eayer ges,jcuIations Aro,g tho me, bo
w,s addressing wara come ~ tho rnost
le.rnad and earnest of The tac,I,v ~,
tacbed ,o the bosni, nj man onan ~. CO.
yiotion but mo, likely 70 he victirns Of ds.
..,t;on .van n !, b,d baa,, h;s - -
deceive them.
~ tell Won. rentlemeo he said In the
pecuIlar scraechinp tone he ALWAYS usad
when highly excit.sl Il tell that ron ure
about to witness a yindicatiou 6f thar
eastern science for whose reality have
so often contended. The old man who
lies in the operating theatre wonder is a
Brahmin of the highest caste. as Won NAV
see by the sacred cord he wears from
which, once assumed. his compeers never
part in life and death. He has been
.
'ne MUSTER h aiighty secrets, serpent
charmer OF the most advanced order, and
IN nus time hign priest Oh Mariateie. All
not a;tempt 10 tep Won. lest / should con-
vert Yonr disbelief into rIdicule. Bnt 7
declare that he has proyed tn me his
knowledge of the dread mysteries of life
and death. of the power attributed in
fancy to the tabled Frapkenstein. have
promised you that within an hour you
snail see the dead brought back to life.
And Tor TINS boon, conferred upon him by
my weak hands, ne has sworn by his
us partners in his knowledge. Is this
mighty secret worth an hours experiment
or non
VIII you kindly explain the treat
ment You Intend to adODtp asked DE-