FROM IN INDIA.
By Ome on Medical Duty in that Far Bastern '
Country. Snake Stories that Brought Results.
A Busy Week With the Sick. Neither Furai-
tare mor Comforts. Curious Proceedings in the |
Getting One to the Hospital.
Sick Room.
Dear Home Folk:
Juansi, August llth.
Did I tell you about my experience last |
week? One is constantly told all the hor- |
rid snake stories that can be remember- |
ed and the other night I wakened up
with the feeling of weight and lid
across my neck; I jumped, clutching and |
throwing the object, at the same time
my heart had to be swallowed, then
I discovered that the horrid reptile was
only a braid of red hair. I satat the foot
of that bed, where I had landed when I
jumped, and laughed, although it was
two o'clock in the morning. One's im-
agination works over-time, even when
asleep.
My friend, the frog with the ivory
teeth, has departed and only the fat green
lizzards, falling like soft dough, disturbs
my serenity tonight. Some day one of
these dough-balls with legs will burst
when it falls and then I will see where
all those flies and moth-millers are kept.
Even my “punkah” is not needed for this
evening.
We had quite a pleasure the other day
when some fresh corn was brought to
the door. You would have turned from
the hard, yellow stuff with disgust, but
seeing no better, (and indeed this is the
first I have seen here) we had boiled
corn for breakfast. My jaws have been
tired ever since, so | am now devoting
myself to cucumbers and toast with milk
poured over it, until such a time as my
jaw muscles limber up a bit.
Last week the work here was not very
hard but this week has made up for it.
We have had from eighty-five to one
hundred and twenty-five each day in the
dispensary. besides twenty to thirty in
the hospital; several rather ill and two
or three out calls each day.
Last night was the first all-night-out-
seance I have had and as I had had a
hard day I was, I thought, fairly tired.
A man came to take me to see his wife
just after dinner, so I put on my old
clothes and went to the hospital to ask
one of the nurses to go with me. We
went down the main road to the city,
then we went on and on, past darkened
houses, down narrow, unpaved alleys,
(called streets here) around short jon
ners through the heart of the city, and
you must know that for lighting a native
Indian city is a very poor example, but | ciency
we rocked along. We had left the more
frequented part, where the streets are
fairly well kept, and were now bumping
over stones and pitching from side to
side as the tonga wheels went into the
ruts. We could see the natives with
their native lamps, (a shallow saucer of
oil on the top of a standard, in which
lays a wick and this burns with much
smoke) gambling; or perhaps a “dershe”
finishing some sewing, and we almost
drove over some cows resting in these
narrow streets; all as silent and quiet as
though only the dead inhabited them.
Fnally rounding a corner we saw a
crowd of men in front of a doorway, un-
der an oil lamp, and we knew we were |}
nearing our quest, for a sick person will
attract a crowd here as fast as a circus
at home. We stopped at the doorway,
and climbing up two dirt steps (no stones
or boards, just earth) we were taken into
a fairly good sized bare room, then into
the little open courtway, the women's
play-ground, and then into the sick room.
Would that I could describe that place
to you: A single, tiny candle burned in
a niche in the wall; no window, the roof
low—not over six feet and made of bam-
boo with tile on top, the bamboo smoked
until as black as tar, side-walls and floor
of mud washed with cow manure. In
one corner was a child’s play stove of
stones, for lighting a fire. Lyingona
little “charpoi,” (native bed) about a
foot from the floor, and merely a frame
with a rope-woven mat, lay my patient.
Remember, not a single bit of bedding
and no other furniture; the floor does |and
for seating not only one’s self, but every-
thing else. [I even hated to lean against
that black greasy wall.
They brought me a lantern oun, | oun,
went to work. After about an hour,
without any result, as the “dewai” (med-
icine) did not “work a charm” I oid | TALE
them I wanted her brought into the hos-
pital and they, after more talk than it
would take to elect Mr. Taft, finally
went out to hunt a “doolie” (a small bed
swung on a pole.) The waiting was en-
livened by the most curious proceedings;
first all the women, of which there were
at least a dozen, were called in and the
patient touched their feet, saying good
bye. Each woman as she came out gave
some one else some small pieces of mon-
ey, just what for I could not make out.
The women who were to go with us
proceeded, while talking to the other
women and men, to change their “sauri”,
the only piece of clothing they had on,
and strange as it may seem, one was
standing directly in front of me and she
exposed absolutely not one small part of
her person; truly the neatest thing [ have
ever seen done. We were then ready to
start, and the patient coaxed and helped
into her carriage, with six men to carry
it. We reached the hospital without
further trouble; she is much better to-
day and I hope to be able to save her
| life.
“tonga.”
It was midnight when I reached home
and I got ready for bed, thinking I de-
served it, not having had any sleep dur-
— ing the day, when a “tonga” arrived to
take me to another patient. This was
| almost a repetition of that before, except
the getting her back to the hospital. You
would have been greatly entertained to
have heard my fine flow of language
| when I told them to get her in at once
| and the husband calmly said, “I am so
sorry to have caused you so much trouble
but we will bring her in in the morning.”
I told him we would take her with us,
: the rest could do as they wished. So call-
| ing the women who were there we sim-
| ply picked up “derrey’s
"--woman and all,
| carried her out and lifted her into our
She was a large woman and
the tongas are small, but I had Mrs. Jop- ' and
eson, the medical helper, sit in the back
and hold her feet and legs and I crawled
up on the dash-board and held her head,
the “tonga-walla” leading the horse. I
could not help grinning and as there was
no one to see I kept it up—I, sitting on
my feet Indian style, almost on the tail
of the horse, Mrs. J. in the back sitting
on an incline plane, as that is what those
“tongas” become unless well balanced
five men with lanterns and what-not,
beside us, and the night a “pitchy black”
one. We arrived, and getting the night
nurses to work got her on the operating
table and proceeded to work. I got back
to bed some time after three o'clock in
the morning.
I have become so lazy out here I can't |
even carry my own books or umbrella
and never go out to see a patient alone. } enact
In truth these natives don’t have much
respect for anyone who “totes” their own
paraphernalia, so m
to be drudges, but they like it and I am
not worrying.
(Continued next week.)
Constitutional Amcendm: nts
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amendment to artic
fous of the Consonuton. of the |
Dondaty the amount of fy millions of dollars | be’
rovement of highwa
ARR Ly 's
. Be it fesolved by by te Senate
ves of
f i in General met, That |
the following amendment. (6 >the Constitution
Common of Pennayivania be be, and
Earn
Lo four of article nine, which reads as
Ey a IE
of the e, 0
Sieucies of revenue, }: invasion. suppress in-
in war, or to pay ex-
ting deb. an and the debt created to suppl
ag.
never in
ao ay any one time, one million of dollars,
0% to read as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created by or on
MMO
Grpe U. NCE
E28 XVI OF Tit
CON
Number One.
2 JOINT RESOLUTION
el he Org dt shall be ly casual
tiencies o] revenys, feel in , suppress in-
end the in war, or to pay ex-
isting debt; and the debt created to
ciencies in revenue shall never in
and rebuild.
av
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sare of OBERT MCAFEE.
Number Two.
A JOINT i
Proposing amendment to section arti-
cle ra of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. $0
| Section Beit by En a
of ae of Kaprmea Asmemply met,
article
a LIN ns, whale three
a. The General Assembly shall not
pass any local or ial law authorizing the crea:
thela g g
or ma! roads, Ways, streets .
‘ Refatin jo jeivicant Figes. o Incorporating
erry or e erection
of bridges crossing streams form bound. |
veyards, or public | Collected
grounds not of t ore
po wad 28 Si adoption or legitimation of |
“Locating or changing county-seats, erecting
ne Counties, of chan ging county
ch So, (Ts. OF Vue, or
or fini or chaning 1 the place of young:
shi; roughs.
i iy oa
SEE
poor nurses have!
THE CON- |
TO E CIT. |
0. Cod |
Constitutional Amendments v Hardware. i Pharmacy.
tow, of ridges crossing. sereams except for the erec- erec- | |
Jing foads, 3 tu plats, streets or alleys: . |
ey utd St Wu | Quality Counts : |
cokthorlsng the adoption. or lestmation of | Rheumatic Remedy
ce Locating or Changing changing county-seats, erecting |
) — ororatice ck cites. changing county. & Vas. af 551 THE MARVELOUS CURE FOR
ET fotngie | Our Line : REEUMATIEN
as townships Borough limits or school dis | $5.00 the bottle at your drug-
Dockash Ranges :
a Giesing office. or prescbing he powers and | i gists, or sent Parcels post on re-
officers in | counties, cities. boroughs. Atlas Portland Cement ceipt of price. Money refunded
EL oO Crown Wall Plaster : if it fails to cure YOU.
proceeding or Eke ee before AN 7 jodiclal Galvanized Roofing i
Ll dior. macers | ivpo- Hid
arbitrators. in chancery or Hippo- Hide Rubber Roofing J |
Ea Dpoviline or Erna Extension Ladders WM. H. FIELDING,
JRefulating the fees. o fees, or extending the powers | Buckeye Fencings Sole Agent. Druggist,
tates or Constables: ~~" g Builder's Hardware B20. LYNBROOK, N.Y.
man of public schools
the building or of school houses and |
the raising of money for such purposes: | — EE ————————————————————————————
Affecting the estates of minors or s | Fine * Jon Printing.
under ity, Seep after, due notice tr gil | a
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures, or!
relShS Ag umes legally paid into the treasury:
taxation:
Resulating ae mining or manufactur-
ing; but re may te and fix the |
Wages OF the hours Ek or labor,
and m for the p
and sa persons employed by the e
or by county. y , town,
school district, village, of ber vil” division of
the State or by contractor or sub-contract
work, or service for the State, |
or for county, borough, town, township, |
RD nn: |
hereof:
Creati ferporations, amending, renewi :
oy Charters thereof: ap sd
Granting to any corporation, association or
mt, oF Soro socio, oF
mmunity, or , or |
individual the ght
H
such powe:
| od or be By lee" nor where the courts |
i have ETE
relie
"a f asked og 50 ot Joint Resolution No. 2.
| ROBERT MCAFEE,
i Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
Proposing amendment to section th
article eight of the Constitution of Penney:
AND || Section 1 }: Sele resolved by the H
E | sivas (1 the a
2
‘
concur), the fol-
as an amendment to the Con-
N' | stuon of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania,
rdance with the provisions of the eigh-
thereof: —
2. Amend three of article
| eight, which reads as follows: “All judges
| elected by the electors of the State at large may
, beel at either a general or municipal elec:
Som. for judges of the courts for the
udicial districts, and for county, city,
| Sorsagh, and township Sfficers: 3
shall be held m
| election day: aa next follow: |
hilt
al
id ing the iret Monday of November in each odd- |
Assembly
year, but the ral may |
By law fixa different day. two-thirds of all | the |
mi of each House consent 0: |
Provided, That such elections ai always be |
| held in an odd-numbered vear” soasto read: |
Section 3. All judges sessed the electors |
joes La at either #|
| of the State at
gene , as circumstances |
lection
but i
Feral Assembly ma may x a different |
Be BURL RL ld
Ros year: |
rovided
icial dist ing office
da OT
the next succeedin year.
Resolution No. 3. i
ROBERT Mc
Stcrituty of EE. |
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
bor, | Proposing an amendment to section off”
one
article nine of the Constitution Pennay!
vania, to taxation. ot ¥
Ee a. oy ener aw, crept
Due oro
Plaes of bu
| corporate rial no asd or held for rivae,
a 4
0
| Tip oly place nthe counry wher hat exer You 2 natin by blag, poor. ti
SPRAY EARGEST AND Patio: pak
| can be secured. Also International Stock Food Se on
se— wavs have
| All kinds of Glaia bought at the office Flour = DRESSED POULTRY =
i 14 Bush House Block, 57-1 Pm fg THES
under-
\ No.5.
com BORER NATE
etme
Our line is complete.
FINE JOB PRINTING
o——A SPECIALTY——o0
Olewine’s
Hardware.
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE
Money to Loan.
BOOK WORK,
eamm— fhat we can not do in most satis.
NEY TO LOAN on Ely od cai wih the i clase of work: Sra.
spas ining wey.
Sly Et, |v ——
. em Restaurant.
Flour and Feed,
= ESTAURANT.
. A ‘ Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
CURTIS Y. WAGNER, | | Seu
Meals are Served at All Hours
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
faranh "oh Pn ed
Roller Flour Pops,
SODAS,
Feed SAR EL Ton SYPHONS, ETC
| .
Corn Meal | rico, tits and the public ge
and Grain the purest syrups and carbonated.
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
| a Sanafagiuies 3 has Co Lad at a1 times the | sey. High St.. Bellefonte, Pa.
WHITE AR oF —- © Meat Market.
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT | Get the Best Meats.
OFFICE and STORE—~BISHOP STREET.
BELLEFONTE. PA.
MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
343¢-ly. Bellefonte. Pa.
47-19
'SECHLER & COMPANY.
New Mackerel
First Catch of the Season.
10 pound pails, 20 fish, at - - $1.40 {
10 pound pails, 16 fish, at - - $1.60 :
10 pound pails, i2 fish, at - - - $175
These goods are open for your inspection.
Come and see them.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
. LIME AND LIMESTONE.
LIME. LIME.
Lime and Limestone for all purposes.
H-O Lime put up in 201b. paper bags
for use with drills or spreader, is the econom-
ical form most careful farmers are using.
High Calcium Central Pennsylvania Lime
AMERICAN LIME & STONE COMPANY.,
68-28-6m General Office: TYRONE, PA.
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= 5 East High st
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At forneys-at-1.aw.
Eps
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B. SPANGLER -Attornev-at-
ial the Coup. Consultation in Enalian
A Comultation
¥ Cerin. Office wCaider's Eviinge,
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and
Law, Office in T
fonte, Pa. All kinds
tended to promotly.
I wo a Exchange, second
a
Bellefonte,
Sounselloe at
Belle
vs
ETTIG, BO & ZERBY—Attorneys-at-
Law Eagle Bellefonte, Pa.
ther a Swe or German. ractice mal
M. KEIC -— 3 4
JE a
Office south of court
All professional busines wil recems prompt at
RENNPDY OHNSTON—Attorney-at-la
J a. Prompt attention ven al
Real. Dataets aitratied to his cals.
acon in Engle and Law. Sein Ot
Lo
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R. J. E. WARD. Ay lg i hog
Ess
and
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When have dn
i) Jou ve dtwiiod steam bivea. leaky
IE
poisoned and invalidism is sure to come.
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It's the onl
ought to have. We don't trust th en
a nape gre
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire
ment. I nkle in our tage
nest material, our
Prices are lower
worl Sad he owe Se uu. Ret. Susakary
ARCHIBALD ALLISON,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
56-14-1v.
I |
EARLE C. TUTEN
(Successor to D. W. Woodring.)
Fire,
Life
and
Automobile Insurance
None but Reliable Companies Represented.
Surety Bonds of All Descriptions.
Both Telephones 36-27.y BELLEFONTE, PA
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
Sia. Aenzy ODAC She iu Fire
—— NO ASSESSMENTS —
oo not folio give as we S30 Deore Sha LAL
large lines at any time.
Office in Crider's Stone Building,
BELLEFONTE.
43-18-1y. PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
Tsu
Joss of one foot,
gEiEE
25 per, wee jotal disability,
Wper wis) Sassia) dnabithy
PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR,
pavable quarterly i Zasired.
ety
=
Fire Insurance
EET
ed by any agency Cen
H. E. FENLON,
Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa.
ERE -—
50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa.