Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — An Inopportune Serpent. Fifty Dollars to Sit Down. [ARTICLE]

An Inopportune Serpent.

Fifty Dollars to Sit Down.

Frank Saunders, a Whittier mas, stood still In the face of impending death from the caving-ln of a bank, unable to move oh. account of the spell which a huge rattlesnake had thrown around him, and he is now under the care of a physician at Anaheim, having been perhaps fatally injured by falling earth. The accident happened in Santiago Canyon, where Saunders and S. J. Adams, also of Whittier, had gone to inspect an outcropping of coal. As they were uncovering a ledge the earth above them began to split, and an immense cave-in was impending. Adams called to Saunders to leap, and himself quickly scrambled down the mountain. He supposed Saunders was following, but on looking back saw him gazing intently at the everwidening crevice above. Adams was quick to detect the object of his companion’s gaze—a big rattler—which held its head steadily directed toward Saunders. The next moment several tons of earth fell, burying the hypnotized man from sight. When Saunders was exhumed he was found to be badly injured. He stated that he was all the time aware of his danger, but could not free his gaze from that of the snake and was powerless to move while the spell lasted. Adams killed the reptile after he had dug Saunders from under the fallen earth. —San Bernardino Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Carmel, Ind., Dec. 15. —Mr. Joseph L. Duffey relates an experience that has aroused considerable interest In this locality. if is beet given in his own words: “When I was working in the fields,” says Mr. Duffey, “I would be ready to quit, but I could not get to the house I was so weak. It was worth fifty dollars to get to sit down. “I had no strength and a person without strength Is not much use. “But bless the Lord I took four boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills and they gave me health, strength and appetite. “I might say I am cured, but I will keep on taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Yes, I’ll get them if It takes the last thing on the farm.’’ Dodd’s Kidney Pills have effected quite a number of other cures hes? and it seems safe to say they are an effective and permanent cure for all diseases arising from the Kidneys.