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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11
INTERESTING ODDS AND ENDS.

! DR., Milburn, the blind chaplain Of the
| United States Senate. who has resigned,
| being now in his s0th year. once said to
senator Never ALLOW y sesS hean 70 }ir pf
offered. If you do my boys will be sure
to get into trouble The same senator
recalls that on the day ~ Of the human n,
to attend and the session was opened
without prayer The venerable chaplain
believes that the trouble resulted from
that omission.
Secretary Hitchcock's recent order
that Indians must support themselves
has driven a number of dignif1ed savages
to the desperate issue OF going to y work 2;,ls
of Nebrask and South Dakota have
accepted positions" involving manual
| labor on Che railroad tracks in that sec
his celebrated fathers name, has gone,
to work as coal HEAVIER on the Ere,
mont Elkhorn and Missouri Valley road.
He handles his shovel with stoicism
the residents Of that country. most. OF
whom are familiar with his family his:
tory.
There are now three ex-secretaries Of
War in the United States senate-Mr.
Proctor, Of Vermont, who served IRON
March. 1889. to November 1891: Mr.;
Mr.. Proctor and served till the close Of
the Harrison Administration, and Gene
raj Alger. of Michigan. General Alger
lis modest In his movements about the
Senate Most of the time he Keeps at
his desk. He dresses in dark clothes
and looks as trig and neat as new boy
In school. He seems to find 1t more
pleasant listening to the proceedings
than in Joining the cloak-room groups in
front of the glowing crates.
Representative Brown. Of Wisconsin,.
recently received in his mall human
hand, carefully rolled up In cotton and
neatly packed. It was some tning olsa
shock when. upon opening the package
present, the gruesome relic was aus
closed A letter accompanying the pack
age threw light on what promised to be
a mystery An old soldier in Mr. Browns
district was wounded during the war
between the States, and few years
ago the amputa ton OF his hand became
necessary. He had carefully preserved
it In alcohol,s and now has sent 1t to his
congressman in Washington to be used
as EVIDENCE. In pension case.
The recent advance in the price Of
wheat has caused bakers In the City of
loaves Of bread. while still charging the
the poorer classes. The Mexican govern
menf has determined that the wheat
AMI. which has been monopol liking the
rralr shall be dealt n severe blow For
fhIa purpose the recent decree taking of
IT'D duties on wheat was Issued. and the
raifroeda have reduced rates from the
lr1ak The eitZ 800 e1us. yeeooee4see:j
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11
TOTAL PAYMENTS TO POlICY HOLDERS
SINCE. ORGANIZATION

De Harvarda student he ttnka me punk:
He Gala me bad.
He mak-a me mad,
He treata me like hand-organa monk!
Gle sinks on the bank. IN Wild despafr)
Racine: Look. See! Get onto! Goethe
and Cornetlle approach! What Is 1t that
4 1t is that they cuss at?
(Enter Goethe and Corneille, who also
come from Sever. They ara in a frenzy
of anger.1
Goethe:
"a, NIT rage I'm going to burst
EDonnerwetter! Leberwurst!
Mine classic fame ist up der spout
Observation-Disclosures
Corneille:
Out. monseer.
Same chose here.
# cThey all weep in one another,s arms).
Shakespeare: Well stand no more.
have an idea. Let us fly to earth and
haunt a Harvard man. He win be terri.
fled: he win tell his comrades OF his
dreadful experiences. and they will re-
spect W forever after. Come on! To
earth!
fThey all hasten to earth with yells
OF Joy. and enter the room Of sProtaSoras
Vsllum, the grind. He awakes In terror.
Shakespeare: Tr-r-r-r-r-remble!
Schiller: Professionalism!
81 Can sclank chains and howl dfsmalIy.)
8 Protagoras: Gentlemen. why do you
treat nae thus7 It'ss O mistake. You ars
my idols. You are my grinding stars Z
have never got less than A In any Of
you. Stop ciankinx that chain. schilferf
Il got Al IN you last year. Quit bowling,
John Goethe. 4 love you. every one Of
you.
shakespeare: Beloved young ffeIiowl
Racine: Enfant adorable!
CognolIle: .MonSletlYs trea saualahIo
SaNnNHaA$A
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11

|
bread at cost to the poor. the policy Of
the government Is to break up all mono
poles that raise the price Of living to the
masses -
A Bret Harte story comes from Chi
| cago, and concerns Sam Davis, a
Nevada editor and ranchman. He was
| q contemporary Of Bret Harte and Mark
Twain on the Pacific coast, and soon
| after Harte,s success made the remark
at dinner that any modern author
could be successfully initiated. Wood
ford Owens took him up and bet an
oyster and wine supper that Davis could
not initiate tate Brst Harte. Inside Of 9
a poem called s..BinIey. and '46." which
| was said to have been found in an old
trunk which Bret Iiarte had LETT behind
him on departing from San Francisco.
Inc poem was copied all over the coun-
try, and its authenticity was not ques-
toned. one New York paper going SO far
as to reproduce It with Illustrations
When that happened Owens paid his bet
There is such thing as being too
thoroughly up to date, says the Chicago
Chronicle. This fact was demonstrated
last Thursday, when several hundred
people We're thrown into panic by the
Iallure OF the electric lights in down
town skyscrapsr. The architect who
designed the building evidently consid-
ered gas lighting to be obsolete, and the
electricity for illumination A dynamo
broke down. and, save for few matches
that ina were In the pockets of people, there
trouble lasted half an hour during
which jewellers were In state of alarm
and safe deposit people bolted their GUS
toners into vaults, while visitors to the
building CROPPED their way to the street
In terror Of tumbles and Of gpickpockets.
me inc1dent seems to demonstrate that,
until electrical machinery shall have
ton. it win be wisdom: upon the 'nart
of builders to make provision for at ,eas
an occasional gas let as q safepnar,,
against conditions like those which, have
of skyscrapers should lay in +, a Supply
OF oid.. reliable talloW candles for emer-
In Boeota every man &c c,,,ad 49,.
who Is not "a l,ed
e e,-, a. % ; Tue w ASH
1a 8 eon ot iI II washington every man
who is not a judge is colonel. Every
sandals and blanket with. a hole cut
in the middle Is addressed as senior rhe
would:be genteel Bogotan never dresses
raj, he is in full evening dress 0natha
streets his head is adorned with . h,acE
plug hat. and on his hands he weara
gloves. You; can never separate a Bos
street in fair weather. nor" from i his
umbrella In wet For the street and
church the dies dress in black and for
nalls and pa wbst II the latest Paris
become mothers at II and IL and eT a,lg,s
mothers at 20 and 80 Boys are men 5e nat al
there are no intermediate COUNTY MY
for the girls and no tops and hoops i for
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11

establish municipal bakeries and sell
bread at cost to the poor. The policy Of
the government IS to break up all mono
poles that raise the price OF living to the
ma SSeS.S -
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11
RELIGIoUs oRsERvANCEs.

According to Hennings Statutes at
Large the Virginia General Assembly IN
the eleventh year Of the reign of George
III. passed IAN act for the more effective
suppressing Of disappearing, swearing,
cursing. drunkenness. and Sabbath break
Ing Under this act. political disability
end tncapacity to hold public office was
visited upon any one who denied the ex-
!stence of God or asserted there were
more gods than one. Or denied the Chris
tan religion TO be true. or that the Scrip
lures were of divine origin and
authority. for the first offence. and Tor
the second offence disability TO sue. dis
qualification to be a guardian CT eN-
ecutor, or to take any gift or legacy,
and moreover to suffer three years i'm
pIisonment-"
Another act provided that If any per-
son of the age of q years or more doe
peelect or refuse to resort to their par
t3gh church Or chappell for the purpose
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11

FORBIDDEN.
mTcHcRAFT
the sabbath

Tho suggestion OF rblue laws having
been raised In connection with the pro-
-osed suppression of horse-ra cling on Sun.
laws at the speedway, and of their ap-
,ihratfun 10 the subject. the question has
teen raised as to whether Virginia has.
ar has ever had. any blue laws on her
statute books.
number Of lawyers were interviewed
yesterday In relation to the matter and
-1l3;le some were OF the opinion that yir-
gina had never had any statutes of
This description. others were of the opin-
.on that She had passed such laws in
colonial times.
The opinion seemed to be that the or
icin of these laws being of puritanical
nature, Virginia. the majority Of whose
neopIe leaned to the royal!sts and the
established church In early colonial days.
rouid naturally not enact laws Of this
character.
One of The original Connecticut blue
laws" according to Peters. who reported
lhese laws for instance. was that every
male shall have his hair cut round.
according to a cap" which. of course,
would suit only the roundheads. and
would scarcely be passed by the Virginia
cavaliers
Sabbath Day. or walk in the garden
or elsewhere, except reverently to and
from meeting" mo woman shall kiss
her child on the Sabbath or fasting
days" NO one shall read common
prayer. keep Christmas. make mince
pies. dance. play. etc.
POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS.
II will be seen that these were partly
POLITICAL as well as religious. and the
fact that Virginia did have blue laws
In her colonial days was suggested by
me Of the lawyers interviewed as being
ire to the political more than the re-
,ie7ous spirit
For instance as an Offset. doubtless. to
Connecticuts act. outlawing the Com
mon Prayer. the Virginians early enacted
law Imposing a penalty on dissenters
for falling TO attend the services Of the
established church.
Another reason peculiarly suggested
nv one of the lawyers for the passage OF
sblue laws III this colony, was the PEN
allies alta ched to the offenses. These,
he said. went to the established church
nnd TO support the Dardens and other
parsons of that class.
A reference to Henning's Statutes at
Large unmistakably show that the Vir-
stnia Gloomy had it's blue laws" too
Like Massachusetts,, she had laws against
ritchcraft but unlike the latter colony.
she did not proceed to the extremity OF
burning them.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11

of heareing divine service, he or she shall
forftt and pay for every such offence the
sumo of five shillings or fifty pounds Of
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11
"A Isl t e the
Beauty Shops


There are more Beauty Empor1ums
at the national capital Z. 50 says the
manager OF one Of the largest OF them.
y han 9 in any city OF It's size in the
Union, and the reason Is obvious: The;
climate Of Washington and the dust.
from the asphaltum pavements are par
hcularly Injurious both, to the hair and
complexion. Then the strain Of the life;
during the official season tells terribly;
on the appearance, and one must resort.
1 to every means in order to counterfeit
Its effect. we treat q society woman.
here, after nights dissipation, as dne
horse Is treated after several hours on:
the race track.
There is no greater beautifler that
the altogether massage and 7 usually
sent girls to the homes Of my patrons
for that. In the parlors, however. Il give:
facial steam baths. followed by friction.
and gravitation causing the skin to sag
5I8use the upward movement OF course,
l have my own cream for building up the
tissues, and my lotion for cleansing and
stimulating the pores Of the skin.
Yes,"gwitf a doubtful accent, zone
may do something for ones self at home.
The daily bath where the health will
admit Of it, and semi-daily friction are
good. Careful diet, plenty of outdoor ex-
ercise, and frequent and copious draughts
OF pure water too, are helpful; but when
lines have once gotten into the face. It
takes q professional to get them out
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18
"By George" he said, che isn't

"By George" he said, 'he isn't
here!"
''No," said the other scout, ''but this
thing is a ditch. Maybe he has got
on his feet and is running along the
ditch trying to get out"
The detectives decided to follow the
ditch until they should catch sight of
Tanker. So they ran down the road,
now and then peering over into the
ditch. There was just a faint moon
light, and by it they suddenly saw
Tanker's white fedora bobbing briskly
along.
there's Tanker" said one of the
scouts. suddenly. "He seems to be all
right"
"say nothing" counseled the other;
"just follow along"
So the two kept on along the road
while Tanker's white hat bobbed ahead
in the trench. They had gone almost
a mile when suddenly they saw Tanker
rise up out of thefditch. Immediate
" a big dog rushed from house that
was not more than 80 feet from the
end of the trench. The dog turned.
Tanker caught hold of the animals
tail, and the dog trotted up to the
house, where Tanker opened the door
and went inside.
The paralyzed scouts sat down on
the ditch and gasped with amazement.
The secret was solved. The ditch that
Tanker had travelled was an old one
that had been built three or four years
before and never completed. It was
about four or five feet deep, and all
that Tanker had to do to find his
house after the brakeman dropped
him was just to keep going, for the
other end Of the ditch was only 80 feet
from his own door. i
"Gee." said one of the scouts, 'but
that Tanker is genius"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18
SNAKES AND SNAKEPo1sON.
Secretion of the venom, How It Il
Elected and Its Peculiar
ERects.

DR.. George E. Lamb, in the Glas.
gov Medical Journal, outlines verbal
" the mechanism with which poison
Gus serpcnts do their work. Originally
their fangs look like other teeth, but
by degrees vertical furrow on the
front becomes inclosed like tube by
the adjacent ridges. While the mouth
is shut and when no attempt is made
to bite, the fangs fold inward and lie
along the roof of the mouth. The
poison glands are located like saliv.
airy glands in the throat. They are
SO inclosed in muscle that when the
serpent brings his jaws together
forcibly they press on the gland and
squeeze out the juice. Simultaneously
the fangs arc brought to an erect po-
sition by q rather complicated ac-
ton.
The amount Of poison produced by
q cobra, the most dreaded of all Indian
snakes, is equivalent to between a
three-thousandtha and af1ve-thousandth
of their own weight. The maximum
quantity, about 200 milligrammes, is
enough to kill 5000 rats. The horse
is particularly susceptible to the poi
son, but the author has been unable
to corroborate the statement of Cal
mette that the fatal dose, weight for
weight, increases as the animals in
crease in size. Fresh liquid poison is
straw colored. Cobra venom is clear.
That Of the daboia, another Indian
serpent. has usually a small quantity
of undissolved suspended matter. The
percentage of water is about ~. All
snake venoms are almost pure solu-
tions of proteids, and contain little
else except trace of organic salts, a
small quantity of organic acid and
coloring matter.
The method by which snake venom
acts upon the system of either man
or beast is also discussed by DR..
Lamb. Corba poison acts directly on
the central nervous system-there is
no preliminary stage of excitement
and one sees the stricken animal COM
pletely paralyzed, the breathing still
going on, the saliva trickling. Final
~, the respiratory centers become in
volved, slight general convulsive move
ments, due to the accumulation OF
carbon dioxide in the system, take
place, and death ensues. The heart
continues to beat for from 20 minutes
to half an hour after the breathing
has stopped. Daboia poison acts
mainly, if not entirely, on the circula-
tory apparatus.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18

over him, and carefully locking the
door and returning the key to his
trowsers pocket he began to curse
me violently, declaring that at last
he had me in his power and that ]
should never leave the room alive.
For a moment / was too dazed to
understand what he meant and then
noticing the wildness of his eyes the
awful realization of my position
rushed upon me, and I knew that I
was alene and uparmed with a mad
man "a much more powerfully built
man than myself) in room where I
was cut off from all chance of help.
expected that the mailman would
spring upon me at once and braced
myself to meet the shock, determined
to meet it as best could. But no;
a gentleman and the murder of
defenceless man was not what he con.
templated. Noticing my attitude he
smiled scornfully and switching on
the electric light stepped to the
wall and tore from the fastening q
couple of duelling rapiers, one OF
which he threw CONTEMPORARY to
me, telling me to defend myself with
it to the best of my ability.
The instant my hand grasped the
familiar hilt felt that was master
Of the situation. Scarcely had
reached this hurried conclusion when
our swords crossed and the attack
began.
I knew from the very instant that
our blades touched that he was no mean
swordsman and that would need all
my skill to bring the affair to sue
cessful termination. Ny adversary was
now as cool as and except for the wild
glitter in his eyes, showed no traces OF
insanity. He fenced with devilish cum
ming. l knew from his very first pass
that he meant to kill me. Feinting,
doubling and disengaging, his point
menacing me in all the different lines,
he forced the attack from the start,
and in spite of all that could do COM
PEELED me to give ground. Slowly but |
surely he drove me back and although |
several times saw openings for fa-
tai thrust could not bring myself to |
give it, but sought in vain to disarm or |
disable. Time after time tried to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18

wound him in the arm or leg, only to
have my attacks turned harmlessly
aside. What the outcome would have
been had we not been interrupted /
do not know. Affairs were rapidly APP
preaching a'crisis when footsteps were
heard running down the stairs and a
moment later the doctors voice
reached me and heavy weight was
thrown against the locked door.
Seeing that he was likely to be baked
Of his prey the maniac threw caution to
the winds and attacked me recklessly,
screaming curses on my head while q
bloody foam frothed from his lips.
Suddenly the door gave way and DR..
Churchill and two attendants sprang
into the room. For q moment the mad
mans eyes left mine and in that second
recalling an old Italian trick, sprang
forward, struck up his blade and seiz-
ing his sword with my left hand tore
it from his grasp.
The attendants dragged the maniac
away and that night the doctor told
me his sad story. He had killed his
best friend in duel through misun-
derstanding, and the shock when he
found that his friend was innocent had
unsettled his reason. He was at times
almost sane but the sight Of a sword or
an a1lusion to sword play was apt to
bring on an attack of madness. Il was
the knowledge of this that caused DR..
Churchill to glance SO sharply at him
in the morning when he had overheard
our conversation and he had intended
to speak to the keepers about it but
had forgotten to do so. After lunch
the doctor had performed an operation
on one of his patients, and in changing
into hospital garb he had left the key
to the fencing room in his other
clothes. NJ. de Laval must have stolen
the key, which he could easily have
done as he was at that time enjoying
comparative liberty, being in one of his
saner moods.
DIR. Churchill had not missed the key
and it was only when he learned that
I had returned and could not be found
and that one of his patients was also
that he became alarmed and
sought me in the underground cham
Der and found me fighting for my life
with the mad duellist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18
Locatfnx Oree.

It is claimed by the Draft-Williams
method of locating ores by the de-
Election Of electrical currents that not
only can deposits be located. but
that the extent and depth of the lode
can be determined with an accuracy
that is quite Impossible with any exc
listing system Of prospecting.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18
WHEN BIRDS MAKE MISTAKES.
Dangers of Contact with Civilization
and the Demand Of Unnatural
Conditions.

Probably in a state of wild nature
birds never make mistakes, but where
they come in contact with our civiliza
ton and are confronted by new condi
tions they very naturally make mis-
takes, writes John Burroughs, in ''The
Ways of Nature" in Century. For
instance, their cunning in nest-build-
ing sometimes deserts them. The art
of the bird is to conceal its nest both
as to position and as to material, but
now and then it is betrayed into weav.
ing into its structure snowy and BIZ
zarre bits of this or that, which give
its secret away, and which seem to
violate all the traditions of its kind.
I have the picture of a robins nest
before me, upon the outside of which
are stuck a small muslin flower, leaf
from small calendar and a photo
graph OF local celebrity. A more in
congruous use of material in bird
architecture it would be hard to find.
I have been told Of another robins
nest upon the outside Of which the
bird had fastened wooden label
from a nearby flower bed, marked
wake Robin" Still another nest
have seen built upon large, snowy
foundation of the paper-like flowers
Of Antennaria, or everlasting. The
wood thrush frequently weaves a. frag-
ment of newspaper OF white rag
into the foundation Of its nest. Evil
communications corrupt good man
ners." The newspaper and the rag
bag unsettle the wits of the birds.
The phoebe bird is capable of this
kind Of mistake or indiscretion. All
the past generations of her tribe have
built upon natural and, therefore, neu-
trail sites, usually under shelving and
overhanging rocks; and the art Of
adapting the nest to its surroundings,
blending it with them, has been high
~ developed. But phoebe now FREE
quently builds under our sheds and
porches, where, so far as conceal
ment is concerned. change Of ma
terial, say from moss to dry grass
or shreds of bark, would be an advan-
tage to her. But she departs not
bit from the family traditions; she
uses the same woodsy MOSES, which
in some cases. especially when the
nest is placed upon unevenly sawed
timber, makes her secret IN open one
to all eyes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18
Taxes IN LonAon.

Practically only the buildings are
taxed in England. and this tax the
occupant pays. There is now q
strong movement in favor Of taxa
ton Of ground rents" and "site val
ues,n and the introduction Of the
plan Of laying assessments on prop
erty for local improvements, as in
this country. It is vigorously OPP
posed by the wealthy class, especially
by the dukes, who own the ground
upon which London = built-N. T.
World.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18
Projectiles I'm Navy.

Four classes Of projcctiles arc
used in the Uniteu States navy
armor-piercing projectiles, for use
against armor; common shell, for
use against unarmored, or very thin
ly-armored parts; shrapnel, for serv-
Joe against exposed detachments Of
men a considerable distance away,
and canister. which is employed
against detachments of men lacking
protection within close range.