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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
When Wigs We're PonuIar.

Writers transmit to rs some curious
facts in regard TO the demand and sup
ply of false hair when wigs were in
fashion. The trade in wigs, for France
supplied all the rest of Europe. became
immense, and was represented in Paris
by large number of wholesale mer-
chants, who employed cutters to operate
in the provinces, especially in Normandy,
Flanders and Holland, where the hair Of
the women was finer. The hair of warm
countries was not wanted, because too
coarse. English women and girls did
not care to part with their hair, and
were not SO poor as to be forced to the
sacrifice. Some villages in Normandy
furnished as much as ten pounds, aver
aging two feet in length.
The price was from four to FIVE francs
pound, and it was cut from the heads
of the living. from the heads of the
dead or sewed after combing, each kind
having its commercial name. The great
demand at last rendered the supply SO
scarce that horsehair had to be used in
stead or in part.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Reticent Red Men.

No one knows where an Indian is 60
ing. Travelling across the plain in a
stage or an army ambulance you will see
him afar off galloping as if he had been
sent for the doctor and was afraid he
wouldn't find him at home. Approach
ing you as the two paths cross he will
usually rein up, exchange salutations,
study your outfit closely, checking his
pony to the slowest of walks, and with
out asking question will know just
where you are going, what you are 60
ing to do and what food you will proba-
bly, give him if he calls upon you at your
evening fire. Then he is off again,
ranging easily in the saddle, and soon
disappearing from sight. The land
from which he came is as empty as that
into which he has vanished. There is
not sign of human habitation in either
direction. He has probably come twenty
miles since dawn, and will, unless he
concludes to camp with you, make an
other twenty before drawing rein.-Chi-
cago Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. p. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every sabbath
morning a,d evening; sabbath school 9 80 a m
young peoples society of Christian endeavOr, sun
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev.
Ezra Hngtley, pastor. Sabbath preaching, II
A. H.; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nngS; Sabbath school $50 pm. Strangers cor
daily invited TO all services.
UNITED PRESBTTERLANC CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m. !;
public worship, II a. M; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. H.; monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day Of each month, D. m; womanS missionary
society, last Saturday Of each month, p. m. dis
triet prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. M /;
young wOmen'S prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. n.
AFRICAN VI. E. .CHURCH-Rev Albert March
pastor. Sunday service, 49, a. M; p. m; Sab
bath school, 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Primer NIastication.

Proper mastication implies that the
food be thoroughly chewed and mixed
with the fluids of the mouth before be-
ing swallowed and that these functions
be performed without haste Most peo-
pie eat as though they were ignorant of
the fact that the stomach has no teeth
or means of ensalivating the food with
which they fill it. The stomach is a
most faithful servltor and makes a long
and earnest struggle to preserve its
owner from the inevitable consequences
of imposing upon it functions which ma
ture intended should be performed by
the teeth and the salivary glands; but,
like the indulgences of faithful mother
or any other self sacrificing friend, its
services are only recognized when it is
unable to respond to demands for them.
Most people as they approach middle
life lose many of their back teeth, which
are the principal implements of mastica-
ton, but they fail to bear in mind that
they should take more time at their meals
in order to properly prepare their food for
swallowing. They should remember
that nature makes no allowance for their
infrmities in this respect, but will hold
them to strict account for any neglect
to observe the rules of health.-Wash-
ington Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

THE laws of health are taught in our
schools; but not in way to be of much
practical benefit and are never illustrated
by living examples, which in many cases
could easily be done. If some scholar,
who had just contracted a cold was
brought before the school, so that all
could hear the dry loud cough, and know
its significance; see the thin white
coating on the tongue and later, as the
cold develops, see the profuse watery
expectOration and thin watery discharge
from the hose, not one of them would
ever forget what the first symptoms of
a cold were. The scholar should then
be given Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
freely, that all might see that even a
severe cold could be cured in one or two
days, or at least greatly mitigated, when
properly treated as soon as the first
symptoms appear. For sale by
1l-3-5t PATTERSON & Sons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Why Meat Costs More Than Vegetables

Why Meat Costs More Than Vegetables
Meat is manufactured product for
which a large amount of raw material is
required. The manufacture of meat is
a process of transforming the vegetable
protein. fats and carbohydrates of grass
and grain into the animal protein and
fat of beef, pork and mutton. The same
principle applies in the production of
milk, eggs and other animal foods. In
the most economical feeding of animals
it takes number of pounds of hay or
corn to make pound of beef OF pork.
In other words, let the farmer make ami
NAL protein and fat from vegetable ma
terials in the best way he can and still
he must consume large quantity of
soil product to produce small amount
of animal food. Hence animal foods are
costlier than vegetable.
This is the simple explanation of the
fact that in most parts of the world
meat is the food of only the well to do,
while the poor live almost entirely ON
vegetable food. Thus ordinary people
in Europe eat little meat, and in India
and China they have none at all. 1t is
hard enough for them to get the nutri-
ment they need in vegetable forms.
Meats they cannot afford.-Professor At
water in Century.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

The dictionaries are not reason enough
for any ones making himself utterly
singular among his fellows. On the
same principle we in America continue
to say ''skedule" instead of making peo-
pie open their eyes by saying schedule. :"
When we are in England we may say
''tong" instead Of ''tung" for ''tongue,"
but the wise American will go with all his
countrymen in such a matter when he is
at home. Very few people, either English
or American, ever say 'dyuty," ICON
stityution," and so on, and yet that is
undoubtedly the way we ought to pro-
nounce them-if we are going strictly
by the authorities. 1t is better to be
idiomatic, either in writing or speaking,
than to be just right by the book.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
An Extensive Salt Mine.

The most extensive salt mine in the
world is in Wieliezka, near Cracow,
Austro-Hungary. For 600 years it has
been constantly worked, and from it
5000 tons of salt are annually taken.
The mass of salt in it is estimated to be
500 miles long, 90 miles broad and 1,20C
feet in depth. Its collective galleries
are fully 80 miles in length, and its
lower levels contain streets and houses.
making it Il complete underground vii
lage.-Yankee Blade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Was This Parrot a Bad Friend.

A friend cf mine once had gorgeous
African parrot, bird so handsome and
go accomplished that everybody petted
him, but so sure as we held out lump
of sugar, bit of fruit or candy with
Here, Pollyl Pretty Polly? want some
sweetest" he would dart his head aside
and savagely nip not the lump Of sugar
but the fingers that held it. 1t seemed
to rouse all his worst temper to feel that
he was obliged to receive the gift from
one who had the power to withhold it.
have often fancied that if reincarna-
ton is a possibility, that parrot had
been one of the jealous and venal souls
some poor innocent had taken for
friend, and from whom a wound had
been received not in the fingers, but in
the heart.-Mrs. Frank Leslie.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Mnmen Doctors in England.

Sin Great Britain" said DR.. Elizabeth
Blackwell, ''our seyenty-three registered
women doctors are few compared with
Che three thousand in the United States.
Yet with the nine students in our Lon
don school and the addition of the Edin-
burgh classes and the fact that the Glas-
gov Medical college has lately opened
its doors to women, clearly indicate that
the movement has taken sturdy growth
in our country, and when our English
work has been carried on for forty years
there is every probability that our Brit
ish woman doctors will equal numerically
our kinsfolk across the water"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Too Much for Belief.

Old Diclley s., very wealthy but very
illiterate East India merchant in Lon
don, took pair of compasses and set
about examining large map of India,
the margin of which was illustrated with
dra wings of the wild and domestic ami
mails of the country. Suddenly Dickey
dropped the compass in amazement. sit
can't be! 1t amt in the horder of nature
that it should be. Impossible! Ridicu-
lousr' why, Dickey, what's the mat
teri" "Wot's the matter? Wy, this
Bengal tiger is ninety miles longi"
Dickey had measured the tiger by the
scale of the map.-New York Advertiser.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
The Growth of CRYSTALS.

Some crystals. it is believed, have had
their growth suspended during millions
of years, after which enormous lapse of
time the growth has been renewed. Such
a process would be impossible to animals
and plants, although some imaginative
story writers have treated their readers
to wonderful accounts of suspended ami
nation in man.
In one respect crystals possess great
advantage over living beings like our
selves-they are able to renew their
youth This is not because they have
discovered counterpart of the marvel
Gus fountain that Ponce de Leon SO vain
ly searched for, but because the forces
of crystallization are able to renew their
action even after the greater part of a
crystal has been destroyed through age
or accident.-Youth's Companion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Two Sorts of Bows.

First City Boy-I hope we won't take
a country house again. hate it.
Second City Boy-What! Hate the
country?
No, the country is good enough, but
there's always garden; and ma and pa
go bout crazy over it, plantin things in
the spring, and then, when the hot
weather comes, they get tired and stop
botherin bout it, and then the weeds
come up, and then they always want me
to weed garden, cause it's good, health
full outdoor exercise for boys of my age.
l hate it"
well, you're chump. We have a
garden every summer, too, but l don't
do any wedding; not much don't
Have you a gardener"
"No."
"Then how do you get out of it."
well, you see. never can learn the
difference between weeds and other
things, and by the time I've dug up
lot of flowers an vegetables mother comes
runnin out and says I amt big enough
to weed garden. Then l go fishin. y
Good News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

An Arkansas man is seeking the pas
sage of a law which shall punish what
he calls irrelevant theft" more severe
ly than other species of larceny. The
stealing of a valuable copy of Shake
speare by teamster first moved him to
advocate such statute. Among other
things he says:
81 would say nothing if blacksmith
were to steal bellows, or if plumber
were to purloin a roll of lead pipe, but
do cry out in just denunciation when a
carter, who couldn't read his name even
if it were thrown with calcium light on
the bosom of Lake Michigan, steals n
rare volume of Shakespeare. New
York Recorder. -
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Value of Mnsk.

Besides flowers, several other articles
are called into use by the perfulner
Musk is the most important. 1t comes
out of the musk deer of the mountains
of India, China and Thibet 1t is ex-
tremely difficult to obtain unadulterated,
and when obtained in that condition
costs twice its weight in gold. So great
is the tenuity of the odor, that in an area
Of five feet it gives out 81, $3.50, ,606 par
ticlss without undergoing an appreciable
diminution of ght.-New York Even
ing Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

GOODNESS comes from within-from
thoughts, feelings and desires, resulting
in life and actions. Greatness is the
consequence of bold actions, great energy,
ambition, enterprise and perseverance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
EITPEPSY-

This is what you ought to have, in fact
You must have it, to fully enjoy life
Thousands are searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find it not; thous-
ands upon thousands of dollars are spent
annually by our people in the hope that
they may attain this boon; and yet it may
be had by ALL We guarantee that Electric
Bitters, if used according to directions
and the use persisted in, will bring you
good digestion and GUST the demon dys-
pepsia and install instead eupepsy. We
recommend Electric Bitters for dyspepsia
and all diseases of liver, stomach and kid
neys. Sold at SOC and 81 per bottle by
Patterson & Sons, druggists. 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
MOONLIGHT ON THE LAKE.

In the autumnsl cleaning, sad and chill.
The mOorland mere in silent sIum5er lay;
Unruffied were is waters, darkly gray.
And all its sentinel reels stood still and still;
The peewit's last good night fell clear and
shriu.
The west was dusky brown with dying day.
When came across the heather far away.
The Clearn of moonrise Ter the distant hill.
Like fame that flashes through the cannon
smoke
A full moon climbed above the swaying frs
The rushes felt that herald breeze of hers;
They whispered 10 the water that awoke,
Athwart its face a golden ripple broke,
And the queen kissed her nightly worshi2srs.
j. G. f. Nicholson in Chambers Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
LOOK OIIT EOR THEM

my kidneys are all right; 1 have no
pain in my back" Mistaken mani Peo-
pie die from kidney disease of so bad a
character that the organs are nearly de-
stroyed, and yet they have never had a
pain or an ache. Why? Brcause the dis
ease began in the interior of the kidneys
where they are few nerves of feeling to
convey the sensation of pain. DIR. Kill
mer's Swamp Root is the great specific
for Bright's disease urinary troubles
troubles and kidney difficulties. Sold by
druggists. 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

ALLOW me to add my tribute to the
efficacy of Ely's Cream Balm. l was
suffering from severe attack of iu-
fuenza and catarrh and was induced to
try your remedy. The result was mar
velous. could hardly articulate, and
in less than twenty-four hours the ca
tarrhal symptoms and my hoarseness dis
appeared and l was able to sing heavy
role in Grand Opera with voice unim-
paired. l strongly recon mmend it to all
gers.-Wm. H. Hamilton, Leading
Basso of the C. D. Hess Grand Opera
Company. II 3-5t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
As with One Voice.

"And now, children" remarked the
Sunday school superintendent, as he
brought his review of the lesson to a
close, ''if the boy who honors his father
and his mother is to dwell long in the
land, what may we conclude as to the
boy who does not?"
HE isn't in It," responded the chill
dreu, with one voice.-Chicag Tribune
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
THE FIRST STEP.

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat
can't sleep, can't think, can't do anything
to your satisfaction, and you wonder
what ails you. You should heed the
warning, you are taking the first step in
to Nervous Prostration. You need a
Nerve Tonic, and in Electric Ritters you
will find the exact remedy for restoring
your nervous system to its norma, healthy
condition. Surprising results follow the
use of this great Nerve tonic and Alter
ative. Your appetite returns, good di-
gestion is restored, and the Liver and
Kidneys resume healthy action. Try
bottle. Price soc. at Patterson & Sons,
Drug Store. 6
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
London's Yearly Fruit supply.

In one year the quantity of fruit IN
loaded at London bridge was no less than
17,716,000 bushels, the value Of which
was estimated at $2S.94O, 900. This
chiefly consisted of apples, oranges,
lemons, onions and potatoes, the two
latter, though not strictly coming under
the appellation of fruit" being reck-
oned in with the rest.-Exchange
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

EHllIlan See ping Cars are run on Nos.
and S3S bstween Pittsburgh aad Cleveland
VIA Yellow Creek and Alliance has. 3Se and
80 connect at Roche ter with trains on Erie
intermediate stations and with fr-jns on
Pltisbur h, youngstown & AshtabuIa Div
for youngstown, Nil S, Warren, Ashtabula
and intermediate stations
Nos.3JJ.337, 3 10 and so connect at Bayard
TO and from Canal Dover New PhiIadelphIa,
and stations on Tuscarawas Branch
JOSEPH wOOI, E.A. FORD.
ss1ersi Manager G,n1rzl Passenger lgszt
fiSG-H PiT-sBCRGH, PESN'A.
For time cards rates offare, through tiekefs
ba"g2ge checks, and further Information rs.
gardlng the running Of trains apply To any
Agent Of the Pennsylvania Lines.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. I6, f. & 4. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
j. Is. MEYER, Sec'y +. ID. BAILEY, W. NJ.
ST CLA1RSFILLE CHAPTER, No. n, ROgdl
Irch MdsOHs.-Stated eOi. ToCations irst Friday of
each month.
j. B. MEYER, Rec. F. d. BAILEY, II. H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. q s. NJ
Meets second Tuesday OF each month.
j. b. MEYER, Secy. J. b. RYAN, T. /. NJ.
HOPE COMMANDER, No 26, f. T-Stated
eonclaves first Tuesday OF each month.
j. B. MEYER SecY j. B. RYAN, II. C.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

The sewing machine has opened wide
field for the employment of more women
by making sewing so cheap that the
poorest shop girl may have dozen trcks
in her skirt if she wish them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

ALEXANDER's army knew no defeat.
The same is true of Dr. Fenner's Golden
Relief; it is warranted to relieve tooth
ache, headache, neuralgia, or any other
pain in 2 to 8 minutes; also bruises, burns,
wounds, wire-cuts, swellings, bites, sum-
mer complaints, collie, (also in horses)
diarrh9a, dysentery and fiux.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

For fourteen years "Son of the
Marshes" in Scotland has been trying to
get sight of wild animal in the act of
guarding its young in time of danger.
He has tramped day after day for the
purpose, but without success.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

THERE is this difference between hap
piness and wisdom; he that thinks him
self the happiest man really is SO; he
that thinks himself the wisest is gener
ally the greatest fool.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
Humidity About.

Guest (at restaurant in moist weather)
Waiter. can't get any salt out of this
salt cellar.
Waiter-You've forgotten to unscfsw
the top, .ir.-Nsw York Weekly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

AN owl flew down one of the Circuit
Courtroom chmneys at Palmyra, Mo-,
recently, perched himself in the unused
pipe-hole and listened as if he had been
admitted to the bar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

The creature having the greatest num-
Der Of distinct eyes is the Chiffon, spe-
cies of mollusk, in the shell of which has
been found as many as 1000 separate
mobile eyes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
DELMoNT COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge John B. briggs.
Probate Judge-,Iames +. Tallman.
Clerk of COurts-Henry NJ. Davies
Sheriff-MadiSOn NJ. Scott.
AuditOr-JOSeph A. Henderson.
TreasureT-Frank B. Archer.
Prosecuting Attorney-Jesse W. HolIingworth
RecOrder-JOhn NJ. Beckett.
Surveyor Challley Dawson.
COroner-A VI. +. Boyd.
CommiSSiOners-AIile X. Hart, John c. Israel,
W. s. A1echem.
ln1irmary Directors-Wiliam Lodge, president; !;
John A. Clark, clerk; b. NJ. Loper, suditor.
Superintendent lnfirmary john SidebOttom,
East Richland
BarneSville.
School Examners-James Duncan, Bridgeport;
S. c. Murphy, Belmont T. z. Harris SOmertOn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

The largest farm in Georgia is owned
by Colonel J. NJ. Smith, who has 10000
acres in Oglethorpe and Madison coun-
ties. His annual profits amount to
S31. 600.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

THERE is nothing so delightful as the
hearing or the speaking of the truth.
For this reason there is no conversation
SO agreeable as that of the man of in
tegrity, who hears without any intention
to betray, and speaks without any inten-
tion to deceive.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

A GREAT many persons, who have
found no relief from other treatment,
have been cured of rheumatism by
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Do not give
up until you have tried it. 1t is only SO
cents per bottle. For sale by
123-5t PATTERSON & Sons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

Cleveland-with fast trains for East and West:
Lorain-with the Nickel Pate;;" Elyria-with the
l. & NJ R'y; GraftOn-with the CCC&I Ry;
Sterling-with the p & o R'y; Warwick-wifh
the C A & c Ry: MasillOn-with W & l. R'y and
z Ft W & G Ry; Justus-with the C & c R'y; Canal
DOver-with & NJ R'y; Uhriehsville-with the
lare-with B & Ry.
j. F. TOWNSEND, Gen. Trdf. Aor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

ELI TERRY founded the manufacture
of clocks in America in 1898, and the
centennial is to be celebrated in less
than eighteen months in Terryville,
Connecticut.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

personal" item from the Talmud:
"Moses died on the seventh day of Adar,
the same day of the same month on
which he was born, his age being ex-
actly 120 years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

New YORK has man with three
tongues, four chins, three cheeks and an
elephants ear. The question is, how
did he get away from Chicago?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

THE rules of etiquette say that it is
not permissible to pass the plate a
second time. The church people will
please take note of this.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

Photographer-If you'll hold your chin
little higher, sir. can take a better
picture.
Mr.. Henpeck-Hold my chin higherG
Why, man alive, I've been married
twenty years!-Texes Siftir~a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

AN Arizona farmer has tame rattle
suake to guard his premises instead off
dog. The report does not say whether
the snake sleeps in the farmers boots