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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12
PA, PI. PAL. POM.

Queer Antics of n child in Educated
India"
Travellers in India not only see
MANY wonderful and strange things,
but are entertained by the sight of
life so different from that of all other
nations that they may well belieVe
themselves in Enchanted lnola,
whose author tells some of his enter
tanning experiences: Close to shop
where I was bargaining for some old
bronzes. in an open booth and quite
alone among the jars and trays, sat a
boy of A. His only garment was
green silk jacket, bordered with blue
velvet stitched with silver thread.
There was nothing between the little
vest and his bright bronze skin. He
had a blue cap embroidered with goid'
and his eyes were darkened with khol.
He was drawing lines very neatly on
slate and writing beneath them the
pretty Hindu letters that look like ca
balistic signs, saying them as he went
on: PA, pa, pa, pi, pi, pi, pal, pal,
pai pom pom" At last seeing that
was looking at him and smiling, quite
fascinated by his pretty ways, he burst
out laughing. hearty, happy, baby
laugh, and gravely went on with his
business again. Then, under porti-
co in front of us. man began to un-
dress. He threw off his dhotee and his
sarong, keeping on his loincloth only
With outstretched arms he placed a
heavy copper pot full of water on the
ground, took it up between his teeth,
and without using his hands, tilted his
head back till the water poured all
over him in a shower, which splashed
up from the pavement, sprinkling the
spectators in the front row. Next ne
tied his dhotee round the jar, which ne
reflled and fastened the end to MS
long hair Then, simply by turning
his head, he spun the heavy pot round
him 1t looked as If it must pull mis-
head off, but he flung it faster ana
faster till he presently stopped.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12

of women. The Women's Hotel COM
pany has purchased for about 100000
the Home of Industry. 1t has a 'front.'
age in each street of seventy-five feet,
and the plot is 1876 feet deep. Though
the idea of building hotel exclusive
ly for women is not new, it has taken
definite shape in its present form only
in the last two years.
1t is proposed in the new hotel to
give self-supporting women a place
place where women visiting the city
alone may be received without the
suspicious scrutiny to which they are
now often subjected in other hotels.
The new building will be twelve sto-
ries high, and will contain all the
modern conveniences. 1t will be fire.
proof and will have ample parlors,
reading, music and sewing rooms,
restaurants and baths.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12
DOCTORS SHORT LIVED.
Men of Pills and Potions Seldom Reach
Extreme Age.

That medical practitioner who as
pires to reach the scriptural age of
three-score and ten will be discouraged
at the figures which have been COM
piled by Alfred Moeglich, one of those
Germans given to the habit of dis
agreeable statistics. According to Moe
glich the average time of death for a
doctor varies from so to Sc years, while
for the clergy it is ten years later. The
combination of pedagogy with medi-
cine appears to be particularly fatal.
for one set of figures in which the nor
NAL death rate is represented by 100
gives Ill as the factor for physicians
and 113.S for medical instructors. OF
the causes of death infectious diseases
rank highest, and among these typhoid
fever occupies SO prominent a place as
almost entities it to Characterization
as an occupation disease. Tuberculosis
comes next. the death rate from this
cause among physicians being almost
double that of the clergy. Altogether
it is rather a melancholy fact to re-
alize that the men whose life work
is to teach others how to keep their
health or to regain it If lost should
themselves be unable to profit by their
own knowledge and should be so COM
pletely at the mercy of the great bodily
and mental stress to which their call
ing subjects them.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12
Dwarfs OF Two Types,

A study has recently been made of
the dwarfs who live in the Congo for
est in the vicinity of the Semliki riv-
er. in the Uganda protectorate. These
dwarfs are of two types. Those of one
are black skinned, with considerable
stiff, black hair on their bodies; those
of the other have red or yellow skins,
with tendency to red hair on the
head and yellowish gray hair on their
bodies. They are quite intelligent and.
though extremely ugly, are described
as being usually of winning and
cheerful disposition"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12

hustle and hunched up drapery in the
back of the skirt are not duplicated,
but the dipped belt, the forward in
cline and the kangaroo walk" empha-
size the resemblance to the bend our
mothers affected. The walk really is
the chief feature. To acquire it girls
spend hours in the fashionable gymna-
Sums perfecting themselves in the
"chesty" attitude. With the abdomen
drawn in, the chest thrown out, hips
well in place and shoulder blades fiat
tened, the modish girl is ready to
swing forward with the ungraceful but
smart gait that brings out the curves
of the bend in bold relief.
Fashionable girls.says the New York
Press, seem to grow taller now than in
other days. and it is the tall girl that
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12

shaping themselves over the old pat
terms, with the outward flare above the
under sleeve gathered into the wrist.
The new century girl does not lose
the lines of the bend even when she
sits down and her back comes no near
er touching the back of the chair than
did the back of her of the Grecian bend
period.
The fashion plates of the early '70s
do not show figures so remotely differ
ent from our own as those of the first
years of the '90s, when the straight up
and down lines and broad shoulders
extended by voluminous sleeves were
in vogue.
We have about completed cycle,
and are waiting for the next mandate
Of Fashion to begin another.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12
Freeho,ds of Southern Negroes.

No less than 100000 homes are held
free of debt, by southern negroes. These
have been estimated at an aggregate
value of $14O,0OO,O 900. The holdings of
personality by the race are probably
worth more than the realty. Illiteracy
has decreased among them nearly so
per cent in 20 years
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12
Decentralization Machine


position was a
very curious exhi-
bit in the form OF
a clock which at
tracted much at
tention from visi-
tors. 1t was placed
in a glass case to
protect its delicate
working parts from
meddlers. 1t was
self-moving and it
ran two months
during the exposi-
tion without stop
ping and without
having been wound
up by any outside
force surreptitious-
ly. There was no
reason why 1t
should have stop
ped, says Electric
ity, for it was a
true form of per-
petual movement
within the limit,
however, of the
wearing out of its
mechanism.
Its inventor was
enabled to obtain
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12

Hotel Exclusively for Women.
New York will soon have its long
talked of hotel for the exCsLve use
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12

until there was no
waist line at all,
only an inward
We extending
downward from the
protruded chest.
The corsetmakers
seized upon this
tendency to get out
new figure cor
SETS" which help
out the similarity.
Even the sleeves
have helped out the
outlines of the fig ,
ure of 1870 by re-
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12

these results by very ingeniously COM
bining a system OF levers, or hinged
residual magnetic armatures, which
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12

Fashions and GUS
toms move in cy-
cles. Here We are
barking back to
the much ridiculed
"Grecian bend" of
80 years ago. Look
on this and then
on that, a faithful
representative of
the figure, pose and
costume fashion
able in 1870 and of
that of the smart
young woman of
today. The large
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12
CLOCK WITH PERPETUAL MOTION WHEEL

axis for the purpose of winding up n
spring, consequently the clock was
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
USES OF REDWOOD.
Timber for the Exploitation of which
Trust Has Been
Formed.

According to report received from
California few days days ago, com
pany has been formed on the Pacific
coast, with a capital of $15,000,000, for
the purpose of controlling the red
wood market. There are not many
lumber merchants in New York who
handle this product of the western
forests extensively, and they have lit
tie fear regarding the proposed trust,
says the New York Tribune.
Redwood is shipped from California
extensively to Japan, China, Hawaii
and England. In those countries it is
used for building purposes. Great
quantities of shingles are made from
the wood, and of these many come TO
the eastern part of the United States
and are sold in the rural districts. In
the United States the wood is used for
collins, door jambs, rails, wainscoting,
window sashes and similar house fit
tings.
"The wood should be more popular
than it is" said dealer, "becaus the
best quality is cheaper than the best
pine 1t would be more in demand il
the dealers in the far west paid more
attention to the eastern market, but
they prefer to sell to China and Ja-
pan"
A sample of the wood is now in a
storage warehouse in the upper part
of the city. The piece is II feet long,
six feet wide and twoinches thick. It
weighs more than 700 pounds, and was
cut with an ordinary hand saw. Hav-
ing no blemish, it is considered re-
markable specimen.
The commercial redwood is the prod
uct of giant trees, but not of the larg-
est class, and the fear that the new
corporation may become an additional
menace to the big trees of California
is said to be unfounded.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
GREAT PLAINS AT NIGHT.
Singing OF the Cowboys 10 Keep the
Cattle from Becomfng
Too Restless.

~There is an understandable sense OF
Etrangeness about the great plains
ut night" said a visitor from Texas,
chatting in the lobby of his hotel, az
sording to the New Orleans Times
Democrat. when a man rides over
them alone. the very vastness of the
landscape will awe him to the heart.
and his nerves viii gradually get on
such tension, without his knowing it,
that the yelp of coyote or the howl
of wolf q mile away will make him
jump nearly out of his saddle. That
Is especially true of nights when
there is just slice of moon in the
sky-not enough TO render things
distinct. but enough to fill the whole
plain with vague, mysterious shapes
that you seem TO distinguish at one
moment and lose the next. j shall
never forget an experience ] had
under such conditions when / first
went into the cattle country. / was
visiting a ranch in middle Texas, and
one day went out with some of the
cowboys to a remote side camp. The
night proved so beautiful, although
decided to take a fresh horse and
ride back. AS might have been ex-
pected, lost my bearings, and after
wandering around for several hours
came TO a standstill near a line of
low, rolling foothills i couldn't re-
member ever having seen before.
The weird half light gave every
thing an air of mystery, the prairie
was alive with strange, shifting
shadows, and 1 was staring into
space, falling more and more under
the spell of the place and hour, when
/ was almost startled out of my wits
by the sound of familiar hymn:
Nearer, my God, to Thee!-
Ne-e-arer to Thee
"The words were perfectly distinct,
sung in a deep, powerful baritone,
but / could not for the life of me
tell from where they came, and be-
fore / recovered from my first shock
the chorus was taken up in what
seemed to be every point of the COM
pass:
NEARER, my God, to Theei
Ne-e-arer to Thee!"
at sounds foolish to tell, but my
hair bristled on my head, and the
wonder is i didn't fall off my horse.
Luckily, at that moment, cowboy
came riding around the shoulder of
the nearest hill, and in moment the
unearthly chorus was made plain.
He and his companions had big
bunch of cattle in a sort of natural
corral at the other side of the rise.
and were simply singing TO keep the
restless steers quiet. 1t is an old
trick on the range, and have heard
it done a thousand times since, but
never amid such impressive surround
ings. The cowboys put me on the
right trail, and i was soon at the
ranch house, but my nerves were
shaken for week. 1t is strange
that singing will quiet cattle, but
it does it almost every time. They
tell me it Is one of the mainstays of
the stockboats, where, without 1T,
the poor brutes would get in panic
at the first roll"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
Cures Blood Troubles, Blood Poison Cancer
Eczema, Etc. Costs Nothing to Try,

Old, obstinate, deep-seated cases per.
manently cured by taking Botanic Blood
Balm B. b. b. Ifyour blood is tainted,
producing offensive eruptions, aching
bones and joints, ulcers, falling hair, mu-
cous patches, sore mouth and throat
scabs or scales, persistent pimples, eating
sores, swellings. sore lip, dry sore, dull,
aching. lancing shooting pains, then you
have blood poison or the beginning of
deadly cancer. Don't experiment but
take Botanic Blood Balm b. b. b.
made especially to cure all malignant
blood troubles, like those named above,
and itching, scabby eczema, carbuncles.
scrofula, rheumatism, cancer, blood hu-
mors, etc. Heals every sore and stops
all aches and pains. Try it. Costs but
81 at druggists Treatment sent free by
writing to DR.. Gillian. 200 Mitchell ST.,
Atlanta, Ga Describe trouble and free
medical advice given. Medicine and
free medical advice sent at once pre-
paid. b. b. b. originated by DIR.
Gillian over 80 years ago. Thousands
have been cured-many after doctors
and patent medicines had utterly failed.
Botanic Blood Balm B. b. b gives
life, vigor and strength TO the blood
making it pure and Iich. TAO Iy.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
RESULT OF ADVERTISING.
The Experiment OF an American Gen
tIeman In the French
Capital.

"Wanted-A young French woman 20
give lessons TO an American gentleman.
Apply Hotel --, ten o'clock Friday"
The foregoing advertisement, print
ed in Paris paper, almost caused a
riot at the hotel at the hour named,
says the Paris Messenger. The Amer
lean gentleman was Webster Jones,
of San Francisco. Mr.. Jones left or
ders that he would receive applicants
in room at the hotel, and they
might be admitted to the corridor
pending his arrival When he got
there he found a line that reached out
into the street and extended all the
way to the Place Vendome. Five hum
dred dashing Partisan ladies were
clamoring for n sight of the "Ameri-
can gentleman" They were unani-
mously resolved to give him lessons.
Jones was paralyzed at the sight
and fed, leaving the hotel people to
get out of the scrape the best they
might. The managers and clerks ar
gued in vain. The ladies would not
be pacified. They clamored for a
sight of the evasive American. The
police were called. The women were
put out, but more women kept COM
ing all day. The hotel was under
police protection for "a hours. Jones
fed to another hotel, wiser, and,
perhaps a better man. He is now
convinced that people read advertise
ments, but he has retired from the
business.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
A VEGETABLE PHENOMENON.
Cherry skins That Are Devoid of Pits,
But Are, Filled with
Worms.

One of the strangest phenomena
ever noted is that discovered by Charles
L. Ackley, who has cut eight cherry
trees from his home premises, each
tree being loaded with cherry skins de-
voidof pits, but containing myriads of
bright red.worms. There are millions
of the squ1rming things, but until the
cherries are opened no worms are in
sight, says the Waterloo Qll.) Re-
porter.
The trees blossomed and passed TO
the pod stage as usual. Then the pods
began TO swell, and upon investigation
the discovery was made that there
were no pits in the cherry skins, but
rather the inside was filled with
worms. The discovery was of such an
alarming nature that Mr.. Aclkley RACED
the trees and burned them, worms and
all. He sent us just small sack filled
with the swollen pods, and there were
worms enough TO keep a mathemati-
clan busy counting and discoursing for
a week.
II is presumed that some insect
stung the blossom, and the eggs
Matched after the cherry pit had
formed, the worms feeding on the soft
pit until there was nothing left but the
skin. Through this they would have ul-
timately have eaten without a doubt.
The attention Of natur. SITS is called
to this new discovery.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
SNAKES SOLD BY THE POUND.
Quite n business In the Reptiles now
Being Carried ON I'm an oregon
Town.

"I'll take two pounds of snake.
please" That is what one may hear
at certain stores in klamath Falls,
Ore. where there is quite an extensive
industry in snakes, says Denver ex-
change.
Children gather their aprons full OF
snakes as they would of wild flowers
and little boys gather them in their
pockets for pets.
The snake industry OF Klamath Falls
came about in this fashion:
Postmaster Castli some time ago re-
ceiped a letter from concern in Min
nesota asking the price of reptiles and
inquirisg if they could be shipped 10
Minnesota. Thinking ii a joke, the
postmaster replied that he would fur
nish all the snakes desired at 25 cents
a pound. Imagine his surprise when,
by return mail, an order was received
for 400 pounds of snake. The Mime
sofa firm then informed him that next
season they would place an order for
500 pounds.
That set the people of Klamath Falls
to thinking, and the present snake in
dustry of the town is the result OF
their cogitations.
The species of water snake so plen-
tiful at Klamath Falls is of dark
color and when full grown about three
feet long.
So great is the supply that tons of
the reptiles could be shipped annual
iy if there were orders for them. The
snakes are used for medicinal pur-
poses, as a superior quality of oil can
be manufactured from the variety
found at Klamath Falls.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
SPECIAL EXCURSIONS
To Pan-American Exposition During Au-
gust And September Via Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad.

Excursion tickets will be sold 10 Buff
falo via Royal Blue Line, Philadelphia
and Reading Railway, at the low rate
of SIo.o 90 from Washington, Baltimore,
Newark and Wilmington, Del and in
termediate points. on August s, IA, 20
and 49, and September 4, 10, Io and IS,
1901, for train leaving Washington at
7.o5 a. m Baltimore Camden Station)
at 755 a. m, mt. Royal Station) at s
a. M, Newark. Del at 9 20 a. m. and
Wilmington. 9 50 a. m, arriving at But
falo g. IS p. m.
From points between Washington and
Philadelphia, other than those named.
passengers must take local trains to irst
point en.route at which above trains will
stop. Tickets will also be sold at above
rate from Frederick, Md, Hagerstown,
Md Martinsburg, w. Va, Winchester.
Va. and intermediate points, for any train
to Washington or Baltimore on day pre-
vious TO above dates, in order that pas
sengers may make connection with train
named. Through Pullman parlor cars.
A delightful daylight ride through the
famous Lehigh and Wyoming Valleys
All tickets limited for return passage
seven ~ days, including date OF sale.
on all trains except "Black Diamond
Express" and "Royal Limited. Call
on agents oil the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road tor tickets, Pullman car space and
full information. ri.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
Importation of Precious stones.

report received at the treasury
department from George w. Nlindil,
the government expert at the New
York custom house on precious
stones, shows that during the fiscal
year ended June 30 last the aggregate
value of precious stones and pearls
passed through his Office was S21 3d.
O53. This amount largely exceeds the
total of any other year in the history
of the country and exceeds by over
100000 the entire importations of
the four years ended in March, 1896.
Mr. Mindil states that the placing of
precious stones in their rough or ma
tive state upon the free list has es-
tablished a new mechanical industry
in America, and now nearly one-half
of the precious stones sold in this
country are cut and polished here.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
Thousands Sent Into Exile.

Every year large number of poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and rack
ed with coughs are urged to go to anoth-
er climate. But this is costly and not
always sure. Don't be an exile when
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton viii cure you at home. It's the most
infalible medicine tor Coughs, Colds,
and all Throat and Lung diseases. on
earth. The first dose brings relief. AS
founding cures result from persistent
use. Trial bottles tree at Feldmeyer
Bros. City Drug Store. Price 50 cents
and $500. Every bottle guaranteed. t
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
Announcement.

To accommodate those who are partia
to the use of atomizers in applying liquids
into the nasal passages for catarrhal trou-
bles. the proprietors prepare Cream Balm
in liquid form. which will be known as
Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price includ-
ing the spraying tube is IS cts. Druggists
or by mail. The liquid form embodies
the medicinal properties of the solid pre-
paration. Cream Balm is quickly abb
sorbed by the membrane and does not
dry up the secretions but changes them
to a natural and healthy character. Ely
Brothers, So Warren ST.. N. Y.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
All Tint In NeedfuI.

"Yes, sir" remarked the impecuni-
Gus man, ''if it were not for one thing
1 could square up with everybody and
start real nice bank account"
whats the one thing?"
81 can't stop living long enough. Any
minute can figure what's due me and
what owe and see a tidy balance to
my credit, and if could only stop liy-
ing while made the collections | would
be in position shortly to start out on
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
Butterl Butter !

That good butter is appreciated by all
is demonstrated by the popularity of A.
& P. Elgin Creamery, the very highest
grade of butter. No expense spared to
secure it, and the price. popular one,
25c. per ID. Those who have any fault
to find with the butter they are using
might try A. & P. Elgin Creamery TO
their advantage in both quality and
price. A. & p. Elgin Creamery Butter
without trace of garlic at The Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. "a
Main Street.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16

Low Rate Excursions via Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Pan Aserican Exposition. Special ex-
cursions to Buffalo July %, 81. August
6. Is, Fl. II. September ), II, II and
20. Tickets good going only on o.4s a.
m. train from Annapolis; s 50 a. m.
from Baltimore. limited TO return within
seven days Round trip rate from An
napolis. SLIGO and from Baltimore sIo.-
90.
Seashore. Atlantic City, Cape May,
Ocean City and Sea Isle City. N. J..
Tickets on sale for all trains Fridays and
Saturdays. good to return until following
Tuesday, Round trip rate from An
nnapolis, 50 Is.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16
Food Changed to Poison.

Purifying food IN the in,estines prot
duces effects like those of arsenic, bu
DIR. Kings New Life Pills expel the poi
sons from clogged bowels, gently, easily
but surely. curing Constipation, Bilious
ness. Sick Headache. Fevsrs. all Liver,
Kidney and Bowel troubles. Only p
cents at Feldmeter Bros. City Drug
Store
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16

A citizen to exercise the right of
suffrage in New Jersey must be a
male resident 21 years of age. and
the Legislature has the power to pass
laws depriving persons of the right
of suffrage on conviction of bribery,
but not for other cause.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16

10 Engage in Internati0naI Riae Mach.

The detachment of IS members of the
United States Marine Corps. which. has
been at Fort Madison for the past month
practicing for the 6oo-yaids rife range,
will finish their practice on Monday. The
detachment viii represent the Marine
Corps in the international rife match
which will shortly take place at Sea Grit.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-08-16

Most of the kicking is made TO the
wrong person. When a man has a
kick he usually talks to every per-
son except the right one. If you must
kick, hunt up the right parson to kick
at-Atchison Globe.