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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
SNAKES BROKE Up A DANCE.
Girls Fled, While Their Partners
Slaughtered 36 Reptiles.


From the New York World.
Port Jervis. N. Y.-The young folks in
the family of Peter Wolcroft. near Gree
ley. Pa, held a dance Thursday in the
barn. The wagons were run out, except
a platform vehicle used for the orchestra
The floor was old and fun of knot-holes.
but was soon crowded with six sets of the
young folks. The dancing over the loose
boards waxed fast and furious until there
was a scream of "snakesr' from a set on
the left. The dancing had annoyed a den
Of black snakes under the barn and theV
were popping their heads out through the
numerous knot holes, kissing in anger at
the disturbance.
Some Of the girls fed. several mounted
the framework OF the horse stalls and
others climbed the ladder to the floor
above The male members OF the party.
with hose. manure forks and clubs at
tackled the snakes, which were issuing
from every knot-hole in the old barn
floor, and killed thirty-six black snakes
some OF which measured over six feet IN
length
The women could not be induced 10 re-
enter the barn, and the rest of the even
ing was enjoyed as a lawn party. No one
was bitten by the snakes, but several or
the women tainted from fright
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
PHOTAGRAPHING THOUGHT.
DIR. BRraduc Announces His Success
and shows the Plates.
From the London Standard.

rum the LONDON standard.
1t may be rash to pronounce that any
thing is beyond the photographer art.
But the communication just made to the
Paris Academic de Medicine by Dr. Bar
aduc is so astonishing that if he had
made it before DR.. Rontgen had render
ed his discovery public, very few people
would have been inclined even 10 inquire
into the matter. Indeed. Dr. Baraduc af-
firms he mas succeeded in photOgraphtng
thought, and he has shown numerous pho
tographs in proof of his assertion.
His usual method of proceeding is sim
pie enough. The person whose thought is
to be photographed enters a dark room
places his hand on a Photographic plate
and thinks intenuy of the object the
image of which he wishes to see produce
ed. II IS stated by those who have ex-
amined Dr. Baraduc's photographs that
the most of them are very cloudy. but
that few are comparatively distinct
representing the features of persons and
the outlines Of things. DR. Baraduc goes
further, and declares that it is possible
to produce a Photographic image at a
great distance.
In his communication to the Academic
de Medicine he relates that DR. Istrate
when he was going to Campana. declared
he would appear on a PHOTOGRAPHIC plate
of his friend, NJ. Hasden at Bucharest
on the 4th of August. 1898, NJ Hasden at
Bucharest went to bed with a Dhoto-
graphic plate at his feet and another AT
his head. DR.. Istrate went to sleep at
Campana at a distance of about 900 Kill
ometres from Bucharest. but before clos
ing his eyes he willed with all his might
that his images would appear on the pho
tographic plate of his friend
According TO DIR. Baraduc that marvel
was accomplished. Journalists who have
examined the photograph in question state
that il consists in kind of luminous snot
on the Photographic plate in the midst Of
which can be traced the profile of a man
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
FAIR WEEK Ar Triton.
The Third Annual Midsummer show
Now in Progress.

Triton. Ca. July s-The third annual
midsummer fair opened this morning.
and Notwithstanding the delay caused by
the rain of yesterday and last night. this
morning found the hustling exhibitors
clamoring for space and place in the con
test for premiums.
The day has been one of hurly-burly.
and by night order has come out of chaos
Many handsome fruit and vegetable ex-
hibits are ready for inspection by the
multitude tomorrow.
The three-dfths of mile BIZ
cycle dash was won by Har-
ry Goodman. Among the many
attractions tomorrow is a glove contest
between William Heygood (colored) the
Peter Jackson of South Georgia and an
unknown. The weather Is fair and every
thing Is promising for a red letter day
for tomorrow. The town is fun of peo-
pie. and bed rooms are at a premium.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
INDOORS FOR 20 YEARS.
A Delaware Man Decided to Tread
Ground Again.
From the PHILADELPHIA Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Milton. Del July AFTER spending %
years without going outside of his house
at Harbeson, William Prettyman. Sr..
made a visit to friends in this town yes
terday. He came to see his daughter
Mrs. H. p. Burton. Mr.. Prettvman. dur-
ing all these years, had no desire to 20
away from home until recently.
A cyclone that visited the neighborhood
few weeks ago nearly demolished his
house, and this seems to have given him
the desire to tread upon the outside earth
again: To-day he is receiving the con-
CALCULATIONS OF friends upon his first ap-
pearance here since 1867.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

The Servant Question.-se lin an
intelligence ofhce)-How many in family 7?
Husband-Three.
Servant-What do you pay?
Husband-Five Dollars.
Servant-Where do you live?
Husband-Oh don't bother about tbo+.
wen move anywhere you wish.-Harlem
Life -i
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

Don't you get awfully tired doing
nothing all the timer" asked the young
man who thought himself interested IN
sociology. Mister" answered Pearv
Fatteuc' 1 slt so tlIeu aosn nothin' that
qurer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

What are you doing here?" said the
woman TO the tramp. who had got over
dog. Madam he said, with dignity ~
did intend TO request something TO eat
but all ask now is that, in the interest Is
of humanity, you'll feed that dog."-Tid
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

Winston, n. c.. July s.--The republican
congressional convention of the Eighth
district held at Wilkesboro to-day. Con-
by reclamation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

A little company OF prominent silver
democrats were talking in a quiet, leis-
urely way in the rooms of the bimetaliic
committee at the Sherman house, SAYS the
New York Tribunes correspondence.
They were Senator Jones of Arkansas;
ex-Congressman TOwles, Gov. Stone of
Missouri and a few others. They were
evidently exchanging yarns about old
times by way OF relief from the pressure
of politics, and were in the midst of a
hearty laugh when a stranger entered.
He was a large, portly man. with a wide
mouth heavy jaws and slanting forehead.
"Ha, we have them this time" was his
greeting. wen down the goldbugs this
time one way or another, eh?" NO doubt
of IT," said Senator Jones, suddenly pull
ing himself up to his full length and re-
suming his customary icy exterior. 'It's
a unique campaign. The democratic par
" never knew the like of it before It
has revolutioniZed a political orgauiza-
ton that is as old as the nation" Eyes.
said one or two, "Ah, Il is a grand con
test between the masses and the classes
That's Il in nutshell" said Gov. Stone
Now ics my opinion" resumed the az
fable stranger, that we must have for a
candidate a man who can crystalline
about him all the silver forces of the
country" You are right" said Gov.
Stone, answering again for the rest of
the party, which was now listening with
a little more regard for what the stranger
had TO say. And l tell you there is no
man in the country like Senator Teller al
Colorado He Is one OF the greatest finan-
-hnanciers-financiers 1 was going
TO say genuemeni he is one Of But
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

CastOrfaissow wei adapted to children tha
Irecommend it Is superior 70 any prescription
Known 70 me" H A. ARcHER, " D.,
II So. oxford St, Brooklyn y. Y.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
for Infants and Children.

CastOrla cures Colo, Constipation, w.
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Erlctation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes q.
getion,
without injurious medication.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14

tism. Malaria Old Chronic Ulcers that have re-
sisted all tire tment, Catarrh. SKIN Diseases. Ec-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14
CHEAP RATES
Via Plant System.

On account of Annual Conven-
ton Church of Christ, will sell
tickets to EustIs on Jan ID, Is
and 10. good untii Jan. 20, for
S2.35 for the round trip.
On account of Convention Of
Grand Lodge of Free Masons, will
sell tickets to Jacksonville on Jan.
20 and Fl, good untl an. "a, at
one and one fourth fare for the
round trip.
For tickets and further informa-
ton call on
c. F FARES. city ticket agent.
The OcaIa; +. J. Huber, ticket
agent. passenger depot.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14
OCala House Barber Shop

BARRIERS Supplies tor Sale
Cosmetics, BrllIIantlne, Cologne S,
Bay Rum, Combs, Tones, Razors
and Fixtures will be sold cheap
for cash.
Hair Cutting, Shaving, Sham
poo,ng, and ID eng, all done with
neatness and dispatch, and in the
prevailing fashions.
G. V. Mccoy, Prop.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14

degree OF perfection and ability in the diagnosis
and treatment of this class of affections which
enables him to locate diseases of the most OBJ
score, difficult and obstinate character and de
dede whether durable not. in almost every in
stance.
NEW METHODS OF TREATMENT
discovered by him, through original investigation
extensive reSear. h. and careful experiment have
placed in his hands almost Invaluable remedies,
for the cure of many of our most dangerous
chronic diseases. DR.. Nin~ent has on file proba-
bly, longer list of testimonials of cures than any
other specialist the State. He is particularly
we'll known throughout the United States and
Canada as the originator of
THE IMPERIAL RUPTURE CURE.
This grand treatment is safe, speedy, painles s
and permanent, 10 operation. cutting, no de-
tention from business. no cure, paw.
Sufferers requested to refer to Jacksonville
papers T testimonials of cures.
DR.. Vincent has decided to visit OCala every
fourteen days du'Ing the year. Consult him at
the Ocaa House from m to S p m,
Monday, January 10, 1895.
Rooms Strictly Private All durable cases of
Catarrh, Nose, Throat, and lung Diseases. Eye
and Ear, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys. Gravel,
Rheumatism. Paralysis y euralgia, Nervous md
Heart Diseases Blood and Skin Diseases; Con
and Female Organs. Sexual Weakness and Phi
vate diseases skillfully treated. We undertake
no incurrble cases, but cure thousands given uE
to die.
Consultation free and Confidential.
Headquarters 3I7 Main ST., Jacksonville, Fla
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14
c. V. Mccoy, Prop.
WASHINGTON HOUSE.

Furnished rooms and lodging for
ladies and gentlemen on Exposi-
ton street, TWO blocks west of
court house
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14
LOCAL TIME CARD, +. G. & P.
SOUTH BOUND.

SOUTH BOUND.
Train leaving Ocala 2:I3 pm.
Arrive Tampa GOO pm, Orlan-
do Jas am.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14
a Noted Specials t
Prepared by Education, Developed
by Experience and Rewarded
by Success.
Will Visit OCala Regularly.

Dr. W. T. :. Vim
cent. founder of the
Medical Institutes
u hiCh bear his name,
originator of the best
known and most ad-
YanCed system Of
tire tment for Chronic
Disc ses. is d medical
specialist of acknowl-
edged success. who has
attained a well earned
! reputation because of
! years of experience
and a large and con-
slant s. ecial practice:
associated with every
form of chronic dis
ease. he has thusrea ched
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14

r x. Hice of Beaver. Pa, is
among the northern visitors atThe
Ocala
Judge w A. Hooker left yes
day for Brooksville to attend
court
Allen Gibson, the young mer-
chant of Grahamville, was in town
yesterday.
Miss Nancy Cartrell of Ashe-
vile. n c., is a guest of The
Ocala.
TIE different candidates for city
offices are all expectancy for to-
night.
L. Mohr of Savannah, travel
ing man, is registered at The
Ocala.
This is the Social" as we'll as
"Poliiical' evening of the season.
Paul Harrison now has charge
of the news stand at The Ocala.
Mrs Bert Reddipg and children
returned today from Brooksville.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-01-14
NORTH BOUND.

NORTH BOUND.
Train leaving Ocala II:o4 am.
arrives at jacksonville $40 pm.
Leaving Ocala 2:I2 am. arrives
at Jacksonville us am.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-17
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

Cows need both shade and sunshine,
but a wooded pasture is not as good as
one largely opeu.
Sweet corn makes one of the very best
feeds to cut off and feed green. when
pasturage begins to fail.
Have you stopped selling butter Mt
the country store? You must, if you are
TO make success of the dairy.
German eXperimenters claim that
cows calving in December give over 25
per cent. more milk than those freshen-
ing in May or June.
A farmer friend says that in using
his Jersey hull on a small tread power
for running his cream separator is not
only cheap and easy way to secure oil
the cream. but results in more vigorous
calves.
Care for the COW at calving time, or
she will be profitless the rest of the
season; also, put little oil meal or oat-
meal in the milk for the calves, to keep
them plump, and see thut they do not
gorge themselves; and remember that
the calf makes the COW.
The COW requires ration to grow
bone and muscle as well as fat. Do not
expect corn 10 supply all that il requires
in the way of grain. 1t is the food rich
in heterogeneous elements which will sup
ply that which is most wanted, such us
oats, bran, peas, linseed cakes with
clover hay.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-17
VICTORIA MAKES FEW MISTAKES
Venerable Queen Careful In the Exercise
OF Her Prerogative.

Venerable Queen Careful In the ENerctse
OF Her Prerogative.
Just think of the blunders all living
monarchs have made, even Francis JOS
eph of Austria, whom men now account
Nestor, and all the premiers of our
time, and then reflect on this reign, in
which there has never been n blunder
great enough to be perceptible to the
million eyes which always watch a
court. 1t seems to us that wholly apart
from the difficult question of the prop
er limits of loyalty TO an individual,
there is enough in the known facts to
Justify all the reverence with which the
queen is regarded, and which extends
far beyond the limit of her scepter,
wide as that limit has now become.
Foreigners occupy in many respects
the position of posterity and among
foreigners capable of judging the rever-
ence for the queen is at least as great
as in England, her opinion when
known to foreign courts weighing at
least as heavily as it does with her own
ministers. This is due, say several of
our contemporaries this week, to the
intermarriages which have made her
majesty the common ancestress in so
many courts, in every court, indeed,
not strictly Catholic, and no doubt the
strange position of the queen in that
respect is one reason for the special
honor in which she is held abroad; but
it is not the principal one. Relatives
can hate one another very hard, and
the queen is as greatly respected in
Washington or New York as in Berlin
or ST. Petersburg.
Her majesty is great because her
reign has been great-great in its en-
terprises, great in its successes, great,
above all, in that compatibility which,
owing mainly to the character of the
sovereign, it has shown to be possible
between a more than republican free
dom and monarchical institutions.
The British empire is the greatest OBJ
ject lesson ever given 10 the world to
show that state can enlarge its
borders without living under tyranny
and without universal military service.
London Spectator.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-17
BEES AND FLOWERS.
The Agency OF Insects in the FertilIEs-
tlon of Plants.

The Agency OF Insects in the Ferti1iES-
tIon of Plants.
A writer in Meehan's Monthly in dis
eussing the agency of insects in the fer
tilization of flowers says that there are
few florists who have not been inter
ested in the particular speculations adj
vanced by writers with a limited knowl-
edge Of plants in regard to the agency of
insects in the fertilization of flowers.
According to these speculations color
and fragrance have been made the attri-
butes of flowers, solely that insects may
be attracted, and thereby insure cross
fertilization. The insect is supposed to
carry pollen from the flowers of one
plant to the flowers of another, and it
is further supposed that the progeny of
these crosses have a greater power in
what is called 1.-The struggle for life"
than plants which originate from self
fertilization.N Those, however, who
look closely into the nature. of flowers
lind very much that cannot be explained
by these speculatiOns. For instance, the
willow is n plant that bears male and
female fiowers on separate plants. Fe-
ludlC nOhIES nave hO AIuSiahCCs anu
yet they are visited by bees, probably
just as freely as if the flowers were
ever so sweet. The male flowers, on the
other hand. have delightful fragrance
bees visit them also with freedom.
As a general rule bees that collect from
the male flowers seem to collect from
these male plants only. Usually indi-
vidual bees seem TO work wholly on the
female flowers; and, as bees visit the
sweet flowers and the seentless flowers
indiscriminately, what connection can
the odor Of the male have to do with
questions of CONGRATULATIONS This
seems equally true Of color. A large
number of sweetest flowers are ex-
tremely insignificant ais regards color,
while numbers of the most snowy
flowers have scarcely anything that
would invite nectar-loving insects. 1t
may be granted that color and fra
GRANGE may have some little influence
in attracting insects, but these eharac-
ters certainly can have no great place in
building up speculation as to the great
changes in plants involved in theories,Of
,cross-fertilizatiOn.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-17
TRAYS FOR APPLES.

to keep the fruit from evaporating any
of its own juices, and capable of being
held at low temperature-just above
the chilling points an almost ideal
place for the storing of apples. But the
location is not all. Large quantities
should not be heaped together, nor
should apples be kept in barrels, bins
or boxes where the air cannot circulate
freely through them. Any tendency
toward decay is sure to be augmented
under such circumstances. The ac-
companying illustration is presented
as affording an economical and exceed
ingly practical method of storing fruit.
Trays with Stat bottoms, each three
feet square, are supported, one above
another, upon brackets that are nailed
TO pieces of upright studding. A sue
cession of this studding with brackets
can extend along the whole side of the
cellar, or upon two sides, if desired.
The trays can be made as deep as de-
sired, and the fruit can be heaped up
little. In this way but n small quantity
of fruit is kept in mass, and the aircau
circulate about each and every apple.
Each tray can be removed to table If
Il is desired to look the fruit over for
the detection of incipient decay, or when
getting ready to pack for market. Snch
trays will last for a score of years, and
can easily he made in the home work
shop on rainy days.-N, Y. Tribune.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-17
The Only KNOWN vepomou. nIra.

New Guinea is the home Of the
most wonderful feathered creature
known to the students of ornithology.-
the awful rpir n'doob, or bird Of
death" The venom of this bird is more
deadly than that of any serpent except
the cobra. In fact, no antidote foI
the bite of the creature is known. \
wound from it's beak causes eXcruciat.
ing pains in every part of the body, loss
of sight, speech and hearing, convu'.
sions, locljaw and certain death.--St.
Louis Republic.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-17
PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON.
oue Iateay DISCOVERED u ATTRIBUTED ~
Gubert stuart.


A portrait of Gen. Washington, said
to have been painted by Gilbert Stuart
and stolen nearly a century ago. has
been found ON the Isle of Man by VIII
liam A. Shaw, of Philadelphia. The
portrait is a replica in oil of the Lans
lowne portrait, full-length painting
now owned by Lord Rosebery, ana Is
said TO be in fine state of preserya'
ton. There is a singular story told
Of this long-lost portrait. 1t appears
that it was painted for Gardner Baker
of New York, an active member of the
Society of Tammany, which, at his sug'
gestion, established a museum which,
in 1895, was made over to Baker, who
added, among other attractions, the
full-length portrait of the great gen.
eral.
Three years later; it appears, Baker
went to Boston to exhibit the picture
and died there of yellow fever. a Mr.
Laing secured the picture in settlement
of a claim. Some time aftcrward q
committee, charged with furnishing the
presidents house ut Washington
bought the picture and intrusted il
| to PAINTER named Winstanley to pack
and deliver. Winstanley, however, il
is stated, copied the Stuart in his OWL
style, delivered the copy and fled &c
England with the original.
Afterward the picture came into the
possession of William Burrows, pic
ture dealer at Douglas, Isle of Man
| L.. r.s1 Ia inn Mt 2
sale Of the household effects at Mount
Vernon. The Lansdowne portrait was
the second portrait of Washington
painted from life by William Stuart
The first portrait Stuart destroyed ant
the third portrait is owned by the Bos
ton athenaeum and is on exhibition II
the Boston museum of fine arts. Stuart
replicaS are very frequently to be me-
with and the athenaeum portrait il
the one Stuart seemed to find the mos
profit in copying. Lord Rosebery &c
quired the Lansdowne portrait in 1885,
for 1000 guineas. 1t was painted il
1895 for Lord Shelburne, afterward mar
quis of Lansdowne, and after his death
in 1905. it was sold for G $40. 1t wa!
afterward rafiied off, when it was woI
by Delaware Lewis, member of parlia
ment for Davenport, and at his dealt
Lord Rosebery bought it. The identit,
Of the painter, Winstanley, who is sale
to have stolen the replica and fled will
it to England, seems to be wrapped il
mystery. sIt could not have been tn,
celebrated portrait painter Hamle
Winstanley, for he died five years afte
Gilbert Stuart was born, and he is tn
only Winstauley who has achieved thu
eminence to be given a place in a bio
graphical dictionary.-N. Y. Times.