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AN ELKfHANT. WONDERFUL GIFT BESTOWED BY MATURE UPON THE INTEREST-M 1NG SLAVE OF THE ANT. HE hnp vines hsv surmounted ct tribe. "Their physiology, their habit ih long pole planted to of life snd classification all present tort them, and stretching out Interestlna: tiroblema which fa find thir branches sidewise have light In endeavoring to solve. luct eai'n otner, terming nn nui to only one ciss ot muiiiuuin arrailaa.

bow era of fresh, green are they of aar economic value, and the leave, through which tb morning sun-, individuals are ants. Ante regard them ahiue, deprived of Ita too ardent heat ail 1 as cattle, care for. pasture and milk tbem glnrv, blterajd and stained by the eor- cat tie, and and protect them dore throngh- which it passes, a such. Anyone may for bimaelf the notice that with all tbla Tirieuce attention paid to theoe tittle rreatnre by ef healiby and viicoroiia growth there are nte. They follow after the apbidea, and oniiooua aiffiia of death nod deray.

The kfroke the- abdomen of the latter with leave on many of the vine appear aa if their antennae, causing them to exnda the they Ixid been touched by the froet. borne aweet aerretlon, of which the ant are ao tieiirevt tlie ground are- quite dead and food, from two tabular porej placed near shriveled up, while other higher op are the hinder part on the upper surface of bririuuiug to droop. the ba-k. Thla the anta greedily devour. on of the very young leave Mr.

Iarwin meutlona an obeervatioo of at tiy apex of a long and vigoroua shoot, hie owu which aeetna to show that the re-lre. is just beginning to uncoil, l'art lations between the anta and tbelr food tf tliAleaflet fnida like a Indies' fan: pull provider are of an intimate and re-It opeV and aee what the delicate fold riprrxal aort. Hating removed the at-i-oni-eal Here is curimi eight. The tendant aut from a little group consisting furrowsre eoropletely filled with a mm-, of about doien aphidee which, were Ing mnf tiny insects. Interspersed with domiciled upon a dock plant, Iarwin for other of a larger size.

The amsller. which severs I hour prevented any ant from spare of a delicate, litrht gray color, are the proaching them. offspring, the larger clud in green are the Keeling sure that by this time the parents. aphide would have aecreted an ample Kverv leaf on every plant almirarly store of the aweet, viscid sirup upon tenanted; there are millions upon millions which the ant feed, he watched them million of the little anhnala io the cluaely to ee if any emitted the aecretion; l.op field. The vine are past hope, past but did not succeed In detecting single remedy; They have the blight of the aphis in the act.

Darwin then tried to "plnnt of the aphis, upon them. imitate the action of the ant's antennae Ihe.nphii is a peaceful creature, soft- by delicately stroking- the abdomen of the bodied and succulent. It neither tings, aphides with a hair, but not a single aphia bite, give off offenaire odor nor responded. Aphides are not intelligent, snuies ugly and threatening attitude to but they know a hair from the feeler of frighten away foea and intruders. It is a friendly ant.

This wa conclusively as defenseless as newly born baby, with proved by the fact that when an ant waa no power of limb or of wing sufficient to admitted to the little herd of plant lice rscatM" threatened danger, or skill at dis- that Par win bad corralled on the dock gulsuig itself or of hiding from an en- leaf it hurried rejoicing from one to an-emy. Ita speedy extinction aa a race would other of them as if it waa well aware of eeem inevitable for hosts of formidable the goodly store of loscioua honey dew foes prey upon it generations except for thst awaited it. and begsn to stroke the one gift that nature haa bestowed upon different insect with feelers. The jtnnlr one; but it is enough. good animals rapidly gave forth the cov- Ilonnet.

a Frenchman, found out about eted food for the ant delectation. It. lie put a aingle aphis upon a plant Aphide will do this even when very where nothing could get at It. and young, a fact which tends to show the watched. Morning, rioon and night ha bad purely instinctive and hereditary nature of that aphis under observation, with the the act on the part of the Insect, while the whole plant to itself and nothing to dis- action of the ant is perhaps of no less an tnrb xy thrived, grew apace, molted, instinctive sort.

Instinctive or not, how-" and -csst ita akin no less than four times ever, it certainly seems very much like In eight days. On the eleventh day some- reason In anta to take charge of' the thing extraordinary happened; it brought aphides and care for tbem as they do. Into the world a living duplicate of itself. There is no other instance in the whole This waa the first of no less than IV animal kingdom, apart from man. In which offspring, which were all born within 21 one race takes charge of another of a davs of the first.

different species for the sake of some fn- A nil properly constituted Insects were ture benefit to be derived from the objects euoed. on attaining maturity, to take of their care. to ihemselvea mate and make more or Everywhere In the Middle and the less extensive preparations for egg-laying, states, small colonies of yellow thi unprecedented method of obtaining BnA hroWn aphides may be found gath-a fsmilv interested Honnet. wanted rPtj utmost gU ants' nests underground, to see bow far the thing could tie car- Thero the nta carefully look after them, ried. So he sepearated one of the sec- thm.

secure for them a comfortable ond generation from the othera. gave it where they can feed upon the sap plant to Itself, and pnt It under oh- of rota are remunerated by ervation. The same thing happened to The which the aphides exude the second as to the firt aphis; within their Bolicitatiori. RsVwrth" TeT lET vonn. Th.

ant. not only feed anil shelter the 2 tried but sre nurse and foster It a third, a fourth, a fifth and many mothers to their young. In the tu, time more, no less than 1 In all. and hen the eggs are d.Pd by-J" everv time the interesting little family hie- of. repeated ed by the ants and carried by underground At the end of these 10 generations, fnlly tunnels to their Bests.

There they are developed males and female were pro- careiuiiy storea up iu jroper psximm.t m. lew eggs were laid; thev hatched, and, the wonderful' warcneu-wiui tne cvci; cf generations Leg.n over again. Ths Pt Wlth.t.thir fin number of successive generations be- varnmh them with a peculiar lipuid. tween the advent of males and egg-laying becomes reqnisite to remove tbem ferns Ies can. Uiiurr nuiiauia ssuu a va.

arva a 1 in.l or mandibles of their foster-mother. On l'rof. Huxley says: -Assuming each sunny days they sre brought to the aphis to weigh the one thousandtli part th. wn to get cf a grain, and a man to weigh 2.000.0k) the air. but are always burned down mm the tenth brood of one aingle aphis warmer depths when the chill of the would weigh as mucn a otsj.ts.si.ts si 01 VJ men, or more than 1 of hina.

the wbol population the do with as much solicitude as they thoae it m.m ot their own race and tneir own motnera. Ulrreii. lur ruiniuiMudiai, ar-iir the aphis of the apple tree produces 1U0 ln tb spring when these eggs hatch the young ln a single generation, and thst are rewarded for the labor they have 'each one of these brings forth a brood bestowed upon them. A fresh supply of Jnst as numerous, so that by the tenth delicious hooey dew awaita them asoon generation, which takes place just before Jlv winter, the number of birth imounta to the ant roots that penetrate theia.com- onedecillion. a modest sum that requires wunal dwelling.

The eggs of aphideir- 84 figures to express and of which it is ing outside irpon plant are also collected implv impossible to form any definite U1 cared for. Idea. Kven the sixth generation providedv Nor does the care for the aphidea end thst all the insects born survive, must itere. for the snts guard and protect the weigh more than many helpless, soft-bodied creatures, attacking Thi or power- of and driving off Intruding, predaceon in- pmpagation on th part of-on sex alone, sects and strsnger anta that venture near the agent that tbe aphis nses to protect their pastures. Sometimes, to protect Its rsc from rspid and complete anni- their charges more effectually, ants build Dilation, la a most effective mean of ao.

a shed of mud over a group of aphide complishing the purpose. However rapid feeding outdoors. and ruthlesa the destruction of individuals When the leaf or stalk upon which the of groups or of whole communities, the sphides have been placed has been drained rste of Increase, spreading like a growing ot its Juices by the plant lice, and begins conflagration in every direction, equals and to shrivel and dry up. th ants pick up surpssse the progress of any and all da- the aphides and carry them off bodily and vastating agencies. Th advsntag of be- deposit them on fresh, green leavea, stalk Ing able to multiply to infinity in a short or brsnches where they can obtain new time ia overwhelming.

and more succulent pasturage. The ants To the, naturalist apbididsa are among- are well aware of the food that their cat- tba most worthy of inTe ligation of the in- tie prefer. Sea Squirt's Sad Distort NOW ONLY 1 A SHAPELESS LUMP. WHEN IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A FINELY DEVELOPED TADPOLE A WARNING. 1 LOKIOJT arxxTTATon.

a MONO marine animals are a rery gwamming powers, a spinal cord, a month. large number of creatures so lit- a head, ef course, a brain, with an eye and tl interesting when grown up an ear in posse inside it, and gill. Yet, that they might very welfc pas inetesd of developing into a ere to re which afa ana for smooth, lumpy cactuses, in tb process of evolution might have vied They have no eye, or ears or with the activities of a frog, or hav been limbs, bnt look like litle fleshy sacks tied quit in tbe tipper circle of moilnsks at tip tightly at the top. and fixed to a rock least, it turns gradually into a creature or the mud at the bottom. They are called little better than a fixed and stationary tunicate, or jacketed animal, and many football with a stomach inside it.

And th of tbem ascidians, or aackiik animal, for csuse? Th cause waa want of mobility, th sam reason. More closely examined. Nature bad. provided it with on organ, or they do not become greatly more interest- set -of orgajks, which acted as iu evil log. There is an orifice at tha top into renin and perverted and desolated all tbo hich sea water comes, and another at bright promise of it golden youth.

Below th side from which it flows ont; and Its mouth it bad a kind of sucker which whan ont mien they are found to be built enabled it to catch bold and to bold on. only of a aouuio lacaet, inaiae ot wmcn toooict oetweea its gooa another sack, rather elaborately mad genius ta ita tail and ita evil genius ia to pas currant of water from part to its sncker wss imperfectly aided by its not part, and so to aerat xa creature mosu, aunu. uonujjeu unui joo tsu and with an apparatus which passes oa as yet to know and balance tendencies, it art Idas of food to a gullet aad a stomach, allowed sloth to give battl to mobility, i as netriy little capable of thought or and failed to Intervene when the latter action as it is possibl for a Uvlcg animal was losing. The genius of sloth ln tb ad- to be. It baa no eyea or now or hearing besive organ soon took entir possession of apparatus, no band or tentacle or feet- it.

Ita tail wriggled freely up in the water, era, and no power of movenaent tor tocomo while ita -bead waa kept downward. Then lion, ltut It can open iu month and close its tail began to dwiodla from want ef use it, and sboct a let of water from iu Tbia till it vanished si together, and with it ail being iu only obvious action, it baa been power of mobility. Its brain shrank up fortunate In obtaining a popular nam and practically vaniehed. and with it all from th fact. Tb ascidians are called oaibilitie of seeing and bearing.

Ita in- equlru. tesimes na stomacn increased enormously, "t'neicl ft bna earn i. and finally it became th melancholy object Iting though the ascWIan Js when wkira BOW iu mature age.4 to year of discretion. It 4s full I or err when it history is considered from the day of its tenderet youth. It story exhibit one of tbe most dresdfnl and striking morals ever inferred by the uncrriDf logic of the biologist and tho cmdent of human nature.

It not what awaa iwiuiv. a 1 aa av SO IT WAS. IKouston Obroalrla 1 Critic Thought yoa said you were go- .1 1 at v. v. rl arhat inx io proaure a rreot Lannaon anceeaa.

be might have been, tiat fnrninb food for aettln ready to put on redaction, and a warning and example. to men and mollask. The little ascidiaa be- -Manager Well, that wjt 1 a great Lon- a an lif full lk promise. Judging by oon cce along snout 1MM analogy, there wa--almost nothing wltliin the ranfre of its possihiiities which it might not have aspired to. It was bora as a not very inferior tAdpole, with every chance of lending and crediublo life in that Stage, and ct pacing on Giffle PLEASAST KtOSPECT.

This war exnerr aa-ira tliaa toor honorable end distinsoished status ria will meet with alcnost coasunt ia- later. It was ao like a frog iaclicK tost rt tent for two rears. almost needed a microscope ten tne cii-'wnia. It had a wriggling taU, nolimiied Snlnks And after that? Uile SUc'il be used to iJ. It THE ENQUIltEB, C1KCINXATI, SATUltDAY.

JUKEillS, 1004. 1 M- mm jVIiraclc of tbeHpbts; wmm IK 'ONLY THft TWELFTH' FART OF THB WXTH OENERATIOH OF A IN-OLE APH1H AJJ COLLKCTED INTO ONE ANIMAL IT WOULD OUTWXIGH J- 111 T- 1 Stories of Good Xuch. VERACIOUS ANECDOTES OF INSTANCES WHERE FORTUNE SMILED JUST WHEN IT WAS NEEDED MOST. A CHANGE la la torttn Henry Tarrick, a faraaer Lawver County. Miaa case, according to a story from Imear.

is a very peculiar way. Tarrwk had had tr. a lack, which. apeveared. ealaaiaated a few waeks ago ia the loes of his fsrsa by foreebwaro ssie.

Bat ho had besfht aboot 30 yoara ago a bona ha ad led lather brash at aa aortjon in Chicago. 1 ber-ame too ns wera to work well, and ha gave it to hia yooogt child to play with. The youngster en sere wed the end ef the handle and disclosed the fact that it was hollow. Tarrick examined too interior and found a diamond wrapped up ia a piece of silk. took the stone to Leaueur, and with the proceeds of the sale ho bought back his farm.

It ia thought that the diamond had bees concealed la the handle by amaggler yeara ago and by them forgotten or lost. The stories of the discovery of money betweea the leaves of old Bibles axe many. An English newspaper tells the story of a disappointed legate who had inherited front a deceased rich relative only aa old teapot. rhe waa using this pot ia entertaining her friends whea she discovered that ao tea would ran from it into the caps- Bhe mad aa examination and found that the spout was wedged with closely rolled bank cotes. An old safe, according to the same authority was sold at suction a few years ago, aad the dealer who bought it soon again disposed of it.

Before delivering it ba thought that ba wonld search through it various drawers and compartments. Ho fonnd a will dealing with property worth about and scrip to the value of Captain W. ft. Tough, who died last week in Kansas City, waa known throughout the West for his remarkable luck in the discovery of the trotting stallion Smuggler. Captain Tough waa at a county fair in Eastern Kansaa when an old farmer, living near Olathe, drove into the grounds with hia plow team hitched to a spring wagon.

Tough observed that one horse could trot faster than the other could gallop. He waa a likely looking animal aad Tough bought him out of the harness at a plow horse price. Within a year the horse was breaking records and Captain Tough sold him for Walter Jones, a boy who had been put to work very unwillingly by his mother in tba family garden in Humphrey County, struck some metallic substance with bis thoe. Digging around it he unearthed an iron pot containing $2J00 in gold. The place bad belonged to miser named Black Toland.

who bad been dead severs! years, and the gold is supposed to be some of his buried wealth. Captain Hardlike, of the sloop Bessie W. Drone, while dredging for oysters off Kent Island, in Chesapeake Bay, brought up an iron fiot. The Captain cleared the mud from and investigating be fonnd an old cross of antique design, elaborately carved: two linger rings of old English design: several bains, 17 gold coins, supposed to be Spanish doubloons; 38 silver coins, gold clasps of an old Bible and a number of small gold and silver trinkets. For generations people living on Kent Island have said that the pirates of old had buried treasures along the shores of the isle, and from time to time coins of ancient date and gold and silver articles have been found.

The supposition is that the skipper's rind wss some forgotten treasure of early buccaneers. While palling down an old bouse in Richmond. a few days ago, workmen discovered several loose gold pieces and beside tbem a steel jar filled with gold. This was undoubtedly some of the treasure that was buried in different parts of Richmond jnst before the evacuation of the city by the Confederatea. In many cases the owners were unable to find their treasure, and some died without telling where it had been concealed.

Toe story of a young physician'a good fortune comes from England. The young man soon after he had begun practice attended an eccentric old gentleman who apent nearly all of his time in the garden of hia residence in one of the suburbs of Loudon. After the old fellow's death the doctor secured his late residence as being well suited for a medical practitioner. Recalling the old gentleman's longing that he might not be forgotten, the doctor planted with his own hands a sapling in a corner of the garden where the lata owner had often sat. While excavating a place for the roota the doctor unearthed an iron box contain ing SOrt sovereign.

blatbe ia wrrrlBvg by the deed man "To th finder. ttcenrd tint was mad ia tearing is Jd rsti-road platform at Alton. IX Th oid platform waa of pUnks with half loch spar between them. Th gang of men tearing It up weot at th task siowty. paojemv Kw to Knw tfc snot 'Tevi haste, and th ptanks wera ripped with greater speed than any siavuar work h4 ever before be a done.

The forvroen were soxpriaed. and la-eesugatiag. mad a discovery which pat them to work with the men. Th first laborer to tr up a plank had emu upoa four stiver coin, aad this was the east of th harry. -4 Everybody waa looking tar th money which during the many years of th old platform's nsefaloes had rolled between the rek and got kM.

The men were all yreil rewarded. Some ef th luckier ones made as much as a week's wages, and at least half them made wore than their wages in picking up the lost money. Another gang of lucky workmen were those who unearthed 200.000 coins in th bed of the River Dove ia Staffordshire, England. Thee men were engaged in removing a mud baak which had formed to the center of th river when on of them was amsxed to find on raising hia spado that it glistened with silver coins. At rat-ted by the digger's exclamation of astonishment and delight bis fellow workmen hurried up.

In a moment hslf a dosen men were serambling for the treses tire, feverishly filling their pockets snd bsts and beer cans with the silver coins, which were worth more than their weight la gold, for they were of the time of the first two Edwards and bad lain in the river for 500 years. Th bulk of the treasure trove waa ultimately claimed by th Duchy of Lancaster, but its finders had already appropriated thousand of the precioua pieces. A story comes from Russia of a student, who, failing to obtain a Government appointment, retired in disgust to a small holding on the west coast of the Caspian Sea, resolved to quit the world, and, by cultivating fruits and' vegetables. live on bis land. lie planted his crops and then proceeded to sink a well in his small ornamental back garden.

While digging this lucky Individnal was knocked down by a fountain of petroleum that burst up from the ground. Within a week be had sold his property to a syndicate for a substantial sum. When last heard of this erstwhile recluse was riding in his own carriage in Paris with a poodle dog following in another equipage. A London Police Inspector thought that he had fallen into a piece of rare good luck the other day and was just about to retire from the force to a home on the Thames. He waa looking over Westminster Bridge st low tide when he saw some shining objects on the concrete foundations' of th pillars.

These proved to be ingots of silver. Seventeen ingots were found, weighing in all about 500 ounces. They were, no doubt, melted down from stolen silver articles and contained a iitle gold, probably from fused gold watch cases. The theory was that they had been deposited there by thieves who bad not calculated that at low tide the things would be uncovered by water. The Coroner sat upon the case.

and. Ii-' stead of turning them over to the Inspector, seized them for the treasury. John Whitaker. of 02 Chesterfield road. Montpelier, Bristol, England, is thanking bis lucky stars for the recovery of a sum of money that be had buried in South Africa.

Whitaker. when In Grahamstown. bad about the remains of a legacy from an aunt. He was not disposed to lend the money nor to deposit it in a bank, so he buried it in Huntley street of that place. He intended to leave it there -until he left town, but when be went to get it again be could not find the exact spot.

He returned to England, and being In-hard straits he wrote to the Mayor of Grahamstown. asking him to have a search made for the money. "A gang of municipal laborers. says South Africa, "went with the rough plan which Mr. Whitaker bad inclosed in bis letter, and the money was found about three inches below the surface, close to the ditch, between the footbridge near the police quarters and th small clump of bushes.

The parcel in which the money was wrapped had rotted away and the money had dropped to the bottom of the bole. The exact amount recovered was 63 0s Id. This sum, less expenses, has been forwarded to Mr. Whitaker by the Mayor." a'laV4rSr-aV- petrified Men Hboimded INCORPORATED COMPANY TO EXPLOIT A STONE CORPSE. FOUND OTHER CEMENT GENTLEMEN IN THE FIELD.

iiFSVlLLa C-) COS. BAlITJfOKX HERALOu IN THE back room of an undertaker's hop in thi city lie the nude figure of a man. It has lain there for nearly a year without embalming. No one claim it and the undertaker doe not know whether he ought to bury It or "break it up for paving atone, because he doesn't know whether it is the petrified body of a human being or a cement fraud. Its ostensible present owners say it is a fraud.

Its discoverer claims he doe not know whether it is or not, and thereby hangs a tale that ha puzzled two grand juries of Buncombe County. The body ia perfectly formed to the most minute detail of human anatomy. The head and feature are those of a man about 30 year old. and would ndicate a high order -of intelligence in a living person. In the left breast just over the heart is a small round bole penetrating deep into the body, and mutely telling the story of a tragic death.

It is as if nature, outraged by a great crime, had made eternal the evidence against ita perpetrator. Aa one gazes, at the stony face it seems possible to trace lines of tho death agony in the immobile countenance, and the lips seem to move accusingly aa if hearkening down through tho centurie they would yet proclaim the murderer and bring him to justice. Two grand juries of this county have pnxxled over the problems growing out of this strange figure. Th first fonnd a bill of indictment in tb case two weeks ago, but it waa quashed on a technicality. Th second bad th sam evidence before it and returned "not a bill." thus for the time being all criminal proceedings In regard to th figure aro ended.

No atteeopta was made to discover the murderer, if there one. or tf there ever was one. Th only question investigated waa whether or not A. VT. 8iddon, a wealthy farmer of Transylvania County, was guilty of false pretenses in aelling the figure to th Pristine Petrified Phenomenon Company a a petrified man.

He claims he dog it up on his plantation, and if it is a fraud he knowa nothing about it. The qpmpany which bought it of him claims that it la a frand and that Siddon haa guilty knowledge. The whole thing ia auch a ridicuiou piece of business that it almost Ineonceivabl it could hav occurred in thla ago and in an enlightened community. TVe company story Is about as follows: Abont a year ago Siddon brought th body from Transylvania County and exhibited it in a tent on tbe public square, claimed that some negroes, whil ditching on bis farm, bad unearthed it. Ho had one of th negroes with him to Touch for th story, and had certificate from alleged acientific men pronouncing it to be a genuine human form petrified.

Crowd flocked to aee it and beard th supposed history of tho life of tho deceased recounted by a professional tout. Th tout told of a young colonist who cam ovr with Oglethorpe and wa enamored of a beautiful Indian maiden. He tried to coax her to leave her mountain borne and put on crinoline skirts. The maiden protested against such eumber som clothe, but offered to change her toilet to suit him. So ah washed off th bin paint and pot on aoao yellow.

Still her admirer instated that aha should go hack with him to civilization, but her tern parent, who was chief of his tribe, would not hav it ao, and finally, after wearing at th colonist ita a Strang tongn and seeing that it had no effect, hot bins through th heart. Tho maiden pined away and died, and died just like whit folk under like circumstances, and they buried ber up a big poplar, over th whit man's grave. Her bead and trinkets were found up th tree aod were exhibited with th body of bar lover. Such waa th aad htatory told by th tout, and It always bad a telling effect. Women furtively wiped tears from their eyes and strong men swallowed down their emotions as they heard this melancholy atory told in a subdued, thrilling voice, and went away declaring they had rot their 10 cents worth, and determined to be cremated after death to avoid th chance of aa horrible a fatav For a while the petrified phenomenon waa a wonder, but soon the women stopped bringing white lilies to lay on the breast of the deceased and the men spent their 10 cents for corn liquor as usual.

The near presence of tbe petrified man seemed to drive men to drink, and it is related that while the 'phenomenon reposed in tony. silence on the square th people of Buncombe tried to blur the vision of eternity in the best known way. When the receipts fell off Siddon prepared to seek new territory. To do this he wanted money and he confided to one or two persons his inability to properly finance the exhibit and tried to get them to take aa interest (financial) in the phenomenon. Failing in thia, he offered to ell outright to any one who would promise that there should be no desecration of the dead.

After coming down in hia price from $7,000 to $3,500. he found a purchaser in the Pristine Petrified Phenomenon Company, which had been specially incorporated to exploit the phenomenon. Th new owners withdrew the figure from exhibition pending their preparations for a starring tour through the South. Tbe red clay of Transylvania County was scraped from betweea the toe, the bullet hole was shaved out and bored deeper ao that one could tickle hi "inwards' with a straw, the finger prints of tho curious were washed off and tho whole phenomenon was thoroughly renovated. The company's stock sold above par and the stockholders gave themselves a banquet tbe night before the beginning of tho tour, at which many nice things were said of th phenomenon and hia prospect.

The opening exhibition was to be iu New Orleans during the Confederate Vet-eran'a reunion last summer. When th advance agent reached that city thought at first thst some one had taken hia Job. for the whole city was placarded with posters advertising an exhibition of a petrified man. Father inquiry showed that there were five different exhibitor la aa many different part of the city. None bad exhibited, however, and ho set about finding a war out of the matter in earnest.

He sought th repre sen tive of the other pertified man and found them. They were all a much in earnest aa he was. He pointed out the folly of trying to exhibit aix different petrified men at the sam time in different places, and showed them plainly that it would lead to auch ruinous competition that even tb petrified men would starve oa the gate receipt, while by combining th whole aix in on petrified family the price of admission could be rfised. Ho contended tha the public would rather pay a quarter to- see a whole quarry of petrified men than a nickel to see a single atone. Ha was a wise advance agent and.

knew human nature, having previously been tb manager of a health resort hotel in tbia, section. So it waa agreed and tho aix manager set aboot devising new posters, planning relationships betweea the phenomena and concocting a new family history, ia which, it waa agreed that the vhol aix bad com to their last unhappy state through overindulgence in moonshine whisky, which embalmed the bodies until petxificatjoa could set in. This wa to get pulpit notice. In order to fix the relationship betweea the exhibit and to be abla to classify them one aa father and th other a eons or nnelea it was necessary to produce photo graph a ef all of the descendants. Thia ended the scheme, for the phe-graphs were all alike and might easily have been taken all from tb same body.

Human credulity might bar stood for a petrified family ef six. but it was prepo-terous to think of trying to naiia off six petrified bodie ao much alike and rail them brother and any other relationship wa out of th question. IncidenUTly the man iter of tbo Pristine Petrified Phenomenon Company learned from th ether that theia bodies had been obtained of a firm in Missouri at a mock chesper price than hia company had paid. Without waiting longer he wired the company here a follow "Ds not ahia nhenomenoc Tb family eesae ffr aroenvl th own i rroB tn waa erer heard thst state. near Siddoa'a farm John Loag Journey made m.

mm irmk breath and finished with Ing sharply upward. place. hers But' written tten where sre Hsv SB VkM retarsed aad laid hi story about th other roaat panisi mmH had met. th rruux Ompaay tamed tta SBa rer to aa aiadertaker. repwdiated th traaacvkai a a trad aad set a twit and ieg i ids agaiaat $ddo.

Aad tbia ia what It dams kav fownd: Aievt lg yr ago a saaj runted Xante? blew bat th vKiait ml (Spartan bare. C. aad kxmxkt a worthies tract of ianrf for a oser II pmt half a i nerrnss diarm asaaaig th rocks nJLcl aimed ta few niwcerttsg. MI nobody er kaww far what, finally, on day th negroes asearrhed a petrified mil and th prospecting eed. Sawney becara a showman, and daring th next few yeara w-k a.

I 1 he said, "show exclaimed the clerk. me to me "you hv ernment buQdings. and more of which Mr. Taylor now intend to us. e.TtT(.

STREET SIG55. nwTorkta.I may be nothing ta a name. aid a maa who reads ma walk, but whea I saw thia saga I. Pick. Undertaker.

X. Black, Whltwahr. "And this reminds see of a alga which. I saw ia Cincinnati, to wit: Walker afc Strutter, Auto and Bicycles. SKnd played Odd pranks.

Great fwafc Hcrfat Globe LIFTED A TRAIN ON ANOTHER TRACK AND BACKED IT OUT OP THE STATE SOME WELL CLEANING A waawrsssToar TJ MAN wtrts a bulgy. V4ak-glaad railroad th swmtt TV wa baa- ray-ea fcurk alar th ewrta. can aad ail thee eloth. atrap-eacirewt ba she a. leaded ears wvw a th track oatbrer.

lp a' ta rtral raiiraad 1 yard ta knobby, frexUed bi aad ward, J' a tf tay had aer Weea rwa- Aiaia, sandy, aaahara vUage. mm' fl any Mber Ira. mrt th heft xaiaT as throw boat caroua a sua riuretam west ia xm Ribtriac bis Thea. wha rwri- ueatsw ii a4. what sav us bmhi ta had swhnded withdrew hia s- aM-tiag psprr-ac- ssrver tvp- warkia' waii th uaisj rol anal auwnmg saor 7 of th twtfied man la Q0UJ sl from th Writ.

rivsi ufc tb eagina wet -Bijrht eaaain Bttio sephyrs, aain't ttarn wss ga' th evtdeoe. ta supplied they remarked, ironic I. r. to a soaa Kaa CWy, a oa wect on by aa oid Confederate drwmmer who saed staadiag a tie dietaoce away froea him. to beat a drain la front of Naoney'a teot aaoJc aa iacb-aad-a-half clay pip.

to oraw a crw4 and ate ay a Th wind get a hall lot naaaav roaad rapoer Bsmeq aa un inn. pir- Ber. casionaiiV. aummer evenia repiied tar of th petrified man when It waa g- th soaa with th inch and a-haif rlay pipe. wnderTheied o-VeV't: t-Ttd' This fart eomea frota maa wiik th sttnrv rn Wm.t Neighbor, lea on ask yoa somethia': want ass yoa sometnin t.

ilrttf meraVhU K'ttnd you sur call aecfc I-i Xana dfeA la breese. a. the yere. serh track of 1 th aprtng of Piddon decided to hmv iemocratic leaaer in inaiaua, tore rxuea eacn omer ana pout oi yard apart run- my brother "I don't know how many snakes I have 1 rtckt oa nuUts. ngst twera ta track ta tMi raUraad.

w'ew that aaaerv elckly r-4 eaddewly waope4 and tMaaxd if it tidal pwaa that traia hw'h 72 mile Vree th Nebraska harder, pit si ta steam the eguer cwaX ca ta to sask a ii'tte hadny sglxr ta wind, er even hoid hia groaad. "M.l seeta trtratiie. tat sraJBt th sly gree ckrad d. Tavr w'st sir that the eagiae aad and 4i sheeB-ioaded car coald gut back 4 aheen-k I where they fceloaged frvaa fa the rirat. paraieiiia' railroad, and tl i na raiwow in npr ri a car HVh t'l fto4jm'' claims, wa.

the second resurrection 2l: J.V muxi planned by N.nney and 8ldoa. In proof cTeTuW 7 a of thla further tbey claim that th ditch maV with th- th rival ratrroad that wea at th he bad cot ia order to get to hia man ran. brero lkii i i Jr cUk1 and cabooa aad all taB car up th. sdde ef a hill, snd that it could I to nay th consign, of them i ear-never have been intended for water to rIft fLT kanL. 'd.

aieen thrtr woU Th -heep flow In. n. was delivered ia Kaasas City all right. This second resurrecTion was widely but there wa a't no more wool a arj a heralded by Siddon. and thus when be 'lt or, brought his petrified man to Ashevill a nt.nr ind bad jee' ker-whooped through theot yesr go it had priceded it.

and out. th'n open-work care and blew the w.l off thai it came 4To the of th. rT a de.a a. ir I'rtsrine Petrrfled Phenomenon Company lhV ba hT'4 brw day. under th for 3JiOO ch througn the Interstices of the ounce hide hy bar bar Siddoa fas.

th I3J0O. John Long ha Th rVlood that did all thta diasppeared snd-the grand Jury ha. re- "1Z toot fie.hth. of a fused to find a bill for false pretense .7, j7. "Z- nJ mmn a bill for false preten against the resurrection of th petrified man.

SOME NEW ONES. New Tor World "There are." said Thomas Tagrart. tb tne townwner lire, any graung in way corners Ksnss supply ty- outskirta. But. iea t' show vou bow now.

pnoon wiv ta oouth seas I rttuiaon erful the wind wss oa tb outskirts, my ,0 vepaat. brother-in-law. Jabea Smuikins, wss rleaa- -hay. strsuger, lemme tell yon somethin in out hia well Jsbei -s well is 13 foot thst hsppened at 3:16 o'clock on th' deen from the sni-fae the water en MONSTER STEEL1 BALL SEVEN HUNDRED FEET HIGH V01U ERECTED IN CHICACa an rnoon juit ritn. last tir nrfit bmp v.

t- cwicaoo rsrrst ocsax. HE FREAK fever baa broken person. again, tbia tun io th LHrectly ia tb center ef the a'L e-r for of aa eating deur to giv tor and raaaiag frcro ir m. 1 Lirim untltUBt to taa IB irwm tup ju it 'J plac. t.l the lat Umeoted Far- rapacity c-f ea- I rt wheel, it on time pramiaed shaft is designed arx1-lui Ic cetain lined aabway.

ana tewer an wwi fewer ids woumi s.ujtv inn my town. alonr naat the welL other to traglA i.1 it. PctUUIIll Binga wat wia wumr beauuful lung a that dreaaua ar tacreaauig I here two" rlral railrnarta r.l.IMn -Tk. A i a a A ture. ur iun nrm imtiu auva puiitikiH, mw -in-law out n' that well hia r.

1- l.kkl, of Sana ftonH rnwiae m-w or oeporrment wnicn snouia guiav nm tnrougn my town. At clock that waa 13 foot deep am a If he'd Park on of th great tl compaa and i the aftrnoon of July the 6th. Ut been a tadpole in a tubTof a suction- "nieotor bav Ucurd aa opUoa or Un from up b'J' "First Never take a dnnk. for fear of year a freight train, conaistin' of 48 open- cistern and a hired maa workin' the pump "nr liocki of Und np-o which, if th 'r- i promoting intemperance. vrork ears, engine and caboose, and all handle.

J.bes dida mind it none, though, drear comes U. wlU be erected to feecond Never refuse a drink, for fear them open-work cars loaded with aheep on for. besides pallia' him oat the well the no" th circo bill a ponderon. aw- Above th 4 of their way to Kansa City fr shearin' wind puijl the lost buckets and snagniheent, aod uaeqoaied glob will be a -Third Never worry about what hap- and slaughterin'. ws on the track of the grapphn' iron, and muck out o' th well.

i.rVajIfcb. cwliaeum. 31 feet pens unless it happena to yon. railroad to th east of my town while the snd cleaned it out better Jabes could ba" -w i. fee thia -P engine was takin' on wster.

The trsm done the Job by workin month. i. rJ Kp J'' 1 4,: Tha Tnill. ood on a level stretch track 'bont half -ye, tiree. ibera ear was a right toTa.

lob fw" circumference. There) sre not many hotels in Louisville, Chicago Inventor, who ba spent the great- around this tivkfZ it Sh they found a Knights of Colnmbu convention, with most of the choice room pre-empted. Tba hotel clerk did the best In many caaea delegate had to and biz in a room. At iu Tuesday night an excited man cam down to tb desk in the to the clerk: -Yon Mniii sod git ont o' the cloud pat! Tin; what d'ye s'pos happened "Tb wind out o- that sJckly oer-handled cloud, ies' nicked un there cm the fourth floor with a farmer from Kaasellvill who refuse to open tb window. Now.

I can't sleep with the window closed snd he claims can't sleep with it open. Whst shall we do?" "That's easy enough." the clerk replied. The thing to ia to compromise. Yon open your half of the window and let him keep his half closed." -tim urunii- nin I at wa init'ii iu aewr ihbwx- a ide upon th.t freight tr.in before th en- Th mn with th. clay 1 "Amr M.t nr alt.

lift Ift tl fCIUll 1 Of eOO ft tv, il I V' a i I tuai va cvcaTsa cviuc a green din- too. besides bein iMairr Mr. nede claias to have fonnd a place width, with a rac tr ar Whereopon the man with the atrap-eodr- on tb South Kid big to build in a trem end and tore Gal? Hnna nd id n1 614 yards through tbe air cled ar.mhrero looked aggrieved, and picked wonder. He may bv to tear re ot me cWed tin fnd Jas slick a ell um-up his black glazed bag and clomped into ttw flat building, and cans th SJ branch, whigtle on tbe track the rival tbe station. varata ft street, but that Hnts Like Snake JVIcat.

A tn.n wearing a Kilbonro button IF LIVING SNAKES ARE CLOSED UP WITH A DEAD ONE came into the Southern Hotel in Columbus about 12 o'clock on the night before th LITTLE INSECTS WILL DEVOUR THEM ALL Democratic State Convention. "Ha-ave yex anny rooms?" he aaked the i cierk. The clerk looked his room rack over. "Yen," he said finally, "I have one small one." "At phwat pricef -Two dollars." The man with the KiTbonrne button meditated. Finally be said: "I'll st-ay wid yes.

Lave me have nt. Tbe clerk pushed out tb register. -Please said. "Plas "Register. AYrJte your name." -For Dhwat?" "Oh.

you have t) 9,0 that when yon stay at a hoteL" a ouiei. A WABHiKOToit roar. midaie. oca on Mr city to shaft targe enough t-i 'i- u. dvn't largest circua perf nriuapi e.

i i worry him. Ha wants to giv Chicago an 1'ndrr the coliseum seaui ti. all year round circa a. a restaurant in th, door leading them, I 1 cluuda, a blppodrotn bov the fly liive. apac feet la cuintnlT.

'4 a danc hall higher than th woMSitort feet wide. whi-h will t-i ui can soar, and an obaarvatioa gallery up in tion of raged annual-frA. fogdom. mal. This will -be at a Lee; Tha aerial elob will coat l.fW)0.0nO and feet from the ground.

aiogeti.r 1. will accommodat trotn iXi.issi to persons easily at on time, haviog a capacity six times that of the Eiffel tower and THE tn imN tbt of lb Karri wheel. Tbe most elastic imagination, say th enthusiastic inventor, cannot begin to realix th gigantic proportions and mag- niftidA Iki. nA.al .1 r-t urm Meantime the man with Kilbourne horn call him Judge, while to others he i "Some ladies happened into Shindler's Ing th first large floor space, called th city, button had (lowly counted odt $2 in in tera. He shoved the money to ths clerk, clerk sratw twice and said: in cierk nanaea mm qusr- Lav me have th1 a monster aerial circua Tb seat and mliaeua will reaened iron railed walk.

rdii tr ktvnvn aa Matne Ita ia entirleH tn iwfh room, and to show that there waa no dan- ani ananended rnnf aardena. at a dia- Aronnd tb urner Dorti' streak. a charge, of course, to ascend to this able sightseers to enjoy a v. 1 lar iron platform boil; tr shaft feet alie t.e n. i Th next upward trip by if staircase will reach to very -4 The extreme height of the glob will the giob itaeit.

at a neigm Tf ur remind and ill ibott th XT'Hind. here til I LITTLE old man with gry hair a comatose condition and it becomes bard surmounted with a steel flagstaff Tu feet Urge music the invent-r s'-ji ana nmon woue snaggy ourn- to rally nim. higher. Th baa will cover an area lpai aesa-nntng it a tii greaiet in side strolled through the lobby "Th markings of this particular elapae feet in circumference. Ihi baa wili'act tieau ring l.lss) feet in in of the National Hotel a few were somewhat different, and I asked, in as a giant pedestal, which will ria to a feet in diameter, and feet tr evenings ago.

He atopped and sending it to the Hmithsonian. that it be k.ih ft direaMiv uixm toceilina. The extreme IO feet 'n 1 talked a minute with the clerk examined carefully to determine whether which will built the globe, hich will edge of tb floor epae ill be tu .1 1 and then, opening a handbag and thrust- it were really an elaps or a new specie. measure 350 feet in diameter, or about tbe same principle aa the movie ing hi band within, pulled forth a long "Shindler. who had been a great ad- 1.0O0 feet in circumference.

About th but will euuipped witb ti anake. which.be held up to view. Several mirer of snakes up to that time and bad giob will be located tbe observation tow- chairs aod counter, here there h. persons in the lobby of th hotel gathered many pet harmless ones la his room, didn't era which will about lisj feet high, another rstne to spend mooej Tta a 4 about the old man, but at a reapectful believe it wss an elapse. He began to making tb entir structure a total of ceiled th movable cafe.

si distance. handle it carelessly. Superintendent Ho- about 00 ball will be inclosed with p.a! 1 1. lie waa Jamea Bell. Fostmaster rt ran maintained that it was aa elapse, and The pedestal will be formed of eight gi- through whih viiurs will ens --T it rt Osineaville.

Fla. Rome of hia friends at admonished care in tbe handling of ft. aantie Un aliehtlr inclined unward. hold- exrerietic oi a panuramic fr Gainesville, ia. nisi oi nia inenus at tu iiw uiduliui ui il- gantic leg.

iigatiy mcimei upwarti. 1- annellationa. for ha has served as Judge ger ho drew his hand acroe the snake' tanc of llo feet above the ground. vator shaft in tb hall will be et of the Court of his county nd he w-aa a face. The snake caught him on one of This roof garden, octagonal in shape, grand aatomatic pipe organ.

r- Maior in the Civil mr. hsving been a nia nngers ty a rang, niiae otlier rxi- will be divided into four space two for oy services may i nan rre or tne pen. Me member different times of the irst sonous snaxes, tne elapse, instead or restaurants and two for theater, one Just above the miloic hail graaned it firmly and jabbed It into the and th Thirtr-seventh New York llegi- stnaing. hangs oa like a bulldog. Shin- restaurant will aerv American and th palm garden.

444 feet above ink. Then. ltn many eviaence or oia- ments. He is a native of Brooklyn. X.

oieg nan to cnone it irom ni nnger. other t.erman menus, jrt od theater it l.a teet in cirromiwnrs. rr other i menus, irabne theater tress he wrote, slowly and heavily. 1 neavily. John.

tj.m 1 1 n-j 1. tuna told him to sea a doctor, nut inndd in renmdncaiT- triad maaical cf wttich ria th gngacue sieei r. 1 That wa fairly straight. He took a long thtn other man in a civilized country Pbindler laughed and declared tbe bit xtravagana. fh othV wUt be used feet high to th top the M.

WsV uauuou, siop- .1 -be What he knowa about reD- uanujeaa. its minutes later lor light TSudenil or concert penormer ing uirouga u.ee imn to 1 i -C- coriced sharp pains In his arm. II ex- on th. continuous show plan. There will be Inclined aerial a hi- itmlt a minei closely and round a red trt luelf Then he went to Or.

Tavlor. of the tnsti- tat awrer the reatanranta or and exhilarating ezrrienr. l1 re- winer onnan were raiieaj in. anything else. 1 nia entire apace win araiics as mey ptea iwinr no residence.

You must writ handed tUiey would surely count way They worked fnlly 3 hour over him easily accommodat from 8.O0O to 10.OK1 mad ruah for ti.a alar. i or a. you live." Ia the thousand, he said, in answer to before he was restored to consciousness. Now, her, me bucko." shouted tbe question. I entered the army in 1oX "A peculiar feature of Shindler's pol- 11 wtb tho Kilbourno button, "yes I bd been sickly and my folks thought Mning by an elapse wss that every year; ww I for yer y.

ur.ua vuV on in anniverssry ot tn usv he was ht month. But by camping and marching bitten, that finger would swell up. be- becJn fbnt andJ dont com ulcerated, and tbe nail com off. I00 ''K rn' oW be outer cuticle of th hand. "TP.

Caiaa A Democratic club at 1 Lebt. outdoor." cTmorer JUVK IWl OwUrU. is to have a meeting. One of the mem- tent and went to ZlFJtJT? Tc.PyrTTr tt'n A I was oS rUr" SOL TO hhit "I beganTo cUecrrds egg. and fitt carried "it IN STATES WHERE PRISONERS ARE SO EXECUTED APPLICANTS 1 a snakes, and I opened some Indian mounds, borne in his pocket and told hia wife hsr Persons from the North heard of my be bad something pretty to show her.

He The club held a meeting oeiore tne -t v. auu won a eecheaV" Brvan's picture objected Smithsonian Institution was particularly opened his band it fell into ber Up. Sh an aa waa Cleveland's. Then there Interested in getting snakes for physwHana screamed and ran for dear life. anateche.

aula i waa a fierce row. and when it waa over bo ere engaged th only picture remaining on the wall wa that of Andrew Jackson. Nobody had any objection to that. 1 THE OLFACTORY CURE. Cur.

Nfw Tort "World a-a a a. eWS I at afcTa. in- scientific expert- ller husband assured ber thst tha I sent thousands there and mmy snake waa harmless and tn demnxteata I collected went to Toronto for the Hi- tbe truth of bis assertion be snapped torical Society; while others were sent to it head with his finger. The elspse Berlin, Paris and London. Most of these caught him.

Th man still maintained went througn the Mnithsonian Jnstttu- there was no danger. After dinner he tion. 1 continue! tne collection 01 snase said on of snake said OUpemsing Arcniiect. lljior, i ua- fnr Hia T-and Office in Florida. nd called aa id ba did 1 agent for tbe Land Office in Florida, and called said be died of FOR LEGAL KILLER'S JOB ARE PLENTIFUL snrw otaxxav rtCAVCXa.

XECTJTIONEKS in thia. th twn- morbid, bloodthtrstv itnrjifc ta tieta eentury, wnen tn enect money tber wa to be gained of civilization, such as education Home of th hangmen, and environment, hav softened Rennyson hsd hi and nefined mans nature to th urged their skill in alwsr. br- extennVthat the dark and horrid vietim'a neck and extenfifthat the dark and horrid victim's neck and he was aleeolv and ha 1 until aKnnr a ikiton ms-n m- hen I he. wonld talra. thing, th accessories of a iUdK-lal death.

Other set forth their rears rf elt-iT-i ganlo be known as the 'snake Not to awaken him she found him in a tupr ProT abhorrent to them, are not very de- at the business, while wbers alrr.i' "(1. '5' being ambiUous for the tiile I stopped it. from which she could not rally him. He umbi aeonamuoces; in fact, tbey are a they didn't know much abo-it "For a down years or so I'wa a special diedTThat evening. Tbe doctors that were to avoided, but for all the con- men.

but were ready and apoplexy They "tional prejudices. Captain Archie Ren- On executioner a jeiiow Treasury Department, has discovered an tni. gaTe mt opportunity of would now call it heart failure!" I sun- th Governor of th Pariah Prison, a record of Id hangimrs in Occidental use for Oriental sunk pots. farthering my knowledge of snakes. In- Dwse.

where at present, among other culprit, ether neighboring state aMii.Kin. n. a' m- a- wher at DrMest. amotxa other enlnrite. nfh r-i r.

rr or a combination that anwers the not teresting experience? Well, I should say "1B another family near Gainesville a flT mB condemned cell, await- with bins a model of to-g." it has been proved, is pnrpose. and which, an eueCtUai prOirtlWU IU vrv.caaajaaiafc buildings against the most dangeroua kind "Xt nt an arrack. Tn aiscoverr was on to Dio tn While I have handled thousands of est caught an elans and n. ing gloomily the dark Friday when they a small counterpart of tie ens i rattlesnakes. I never came acns more bouse.

Th woman erahlved -nn kaM sre to be sum mooed to th scaffold, nam- made of cigar box wood, scd f'-i than two in my wandering through lor-, to drive it out. The cat. with the anake "zn IDOnf be OO Am Vnn Inaa I namallv hur them fn.m' Innnawl on Um. wIT 1 thsB SIX Public hHHnen. I mrtrnmnt blow 2 7 -7' -mrra me ua 11 waa VeVal feniid at tB wno.

1 be woman struck the ct with j1" 7 mane xneir uving aupptjin supplying jKver, a tew oa nu The latter-day "Jack so les any amount of cords an-i t-- cfz- trat how the worked. I Ketcher, the Thi hangman presented Jp'in me with the broom, and the animal jumped down law'a hired Strang lev, and breakers a with hi modei; rather, V'Ti The bnrgisr, endentty times, but thos'two occasions were tha saw that something was th matter with the Capuin aeekiag, however; they oor's oflk-e. thinking. 2fLiw l00rKn. didnni 7te onlv times I encountered sey.

th child. Sh sent for a doctor, who forced thetnseJve on him, aa persistent Prfectis would som -fTl nT firt was in 1S76. The state wanted diagnod th esse some complaint or appiicaata for employtnent in tieir par- a the CapUin. m-nd and if AVtsnil mt to Wlth flor tber. There waa a red spot on one of the ticular line of bnato.

they haunted hi maker tbe task of hanging 'tie lsT vT Ki. rrrt eentennial. I remember I was look- child' leg, but th doctor said that th ome at different hours ef th day and denned. Mr. TayK one or ni rta to nf for a kmi cr wood.

My hand bite waa not responsible. The family sent nifht: tbey expatiated upon their clever- Th mini ru re gllow Vt rT. T. f. kUV was.resUng against a big tree, whil 1 for me.

I saw at a glance that it was a making noose and of giving mat- Captain Rennyon' ofcee fi i -VrWhle nnTent -s looking above into the brancbes. snake bite, and that th- bite was poison- efactore a speedy exit from thi world on it. cv driven away by th bornoie. pungent. "A I turned my eyea downward I saw ens.

The child died, of course. It hd of chance into th Und of shadows, and th Captain, tiring of seeir.g -nd fhe hi I was afraid kicked up-lt. leg. when tbctt dragged eren related, for hi. grew- pol.ci Tn- rearer a.n-H tion of exploding mIi'e1 to move for fear that it would strike me.

the snake over and was bitten. some little incident connected with their br" be gallows home a1 fireproofing MU! we 1 in lilT standing over the snake. -All poisonous snakea are known by a careers. curioty among hi otter P'te-. wILS25-5 Htd ha, Ka 11 raised IU bead, aa I supposed to get diamond or beart-ahaped head.

wbUe Last year when Georee Thorn nan- tb- thm morgue and in the S1F. lowin the eH t0 trike but iMte(l il tnrnd nd rmisa snake havelSg: ZV-lrall bnt bi wouWnt be.r to W'P bevea that Immediately gUded away. thick necks, almost as large around as th bully to executed tk. P.i aenniritlou to the mnaenm, fllttlYvmXX. 'dt 'PPf b'd" po.

ooJa an, hi. co4n irin. Xnne? fa, drove! tntS ln Cetwer.nr. grf wa. d- f.

cT? ln, tk. Hon for 1 was unnerved, aa I knew well try are the rattler, or diamond-back, th a figurativ teraL besieged fWtei- RaS Captain Renny-on haa and the the bite. After I waa gone moccasin, both cotton-mouth and bShland nysoK and sinwere anfoe tns bo are longing fvr WlFb-thi iid of a forked ick-I caught it and witW ratti" at ZUr lty VftbVu a Uvih ban! by the back of the neck and carried tt The elanee and ground rattier are found Howerer theneTJ nd one of the printer, home in my band. only in the Southern State. Th water atiirfJd lfce window, and in low 'fj -Th wcond instance I wa.

going from fnak has th sam markings and color- fnXe CntjiJV b. other cufpnt. gathered hi Tampa to old Tampa Bay and had to lags as th moccasin, but lacks the pecu- tSZrkf bear him. pleaded pass through a piece of thick palmetto bar snap of th bead. Tbe water rnadhJ of aa exenit.Eer scrub.

I waa following a cow path, and nake is serioualv believed by many to be beaten ont of thTf ilI1men ebjnce that pre-ented itee.f. my guide was Just ahead of me. Aa the moccasin. People resort to remedies XowthVt alm Vbi. negro said that he dim turned my eyes toward the guide I aaw when bitten by a water snak and flatter rhTrllv bow to build a graiiws.

that be waa just stepping over a big rat- themselves cured of poison. The truth FnT and kMTd rue-ed If th Ceptain woul-i hij tier all coiled nn. is tbe bit. of the water anake ia Km-hard l.rnn, a.nd Moae Lewis, who thing erected he knot tie f.p vitsr nutt it lMoiatM. i inuir erecren ne roam si ter, ana pointea ue rattier.

il. "tim, unie a use in sniio or aar sprang back. and. catching op a pine knot, proper remedies at band, is almost certain will abl slammed It on the snake before I could death. 0 prevent him doing it.

Of course, he ruined on a wagon, to-day. tt struck as a bein: th snak for my purpose. very uggtiv. it waa almost aa eng. -I waited until be passed the snak harmleaa.

I know whereof I. apeak. I fT. vt- i. if lntt- taa.

11 do th swinging part "Do tier. tier. you see that scar on my wrist -Wber a snake die i. cantivirr witl. leeii euoat aaaouoteoiy otaers.

the only way to preaerv the rest is taa ratifreal. earrh in tba. iw I ta Peraoa frota aaTioiii uud mwmw ta. aa .1 i. Last IrUlbtr.

WOlle IB) Tamna umr -1. a-nni na mea w-ill -1 i ie me cage in water aa Tbe ibumb'i the and then yelled to He stopped and bare made a study of the queation for and al arTh.Lr J. turned around to see wnat was tn mat- years, a. person bitten oy a rattier or a rsuieniuH u. nea tn liovernor tne vvm Diuri uauu.

mar. I i. ar.i.iTM" executions. Captain t'-r'. BB i.

tSa 'mmoiii. t.aptain i -F aeiaaim aauexy, pgWea a that tempting lure. Captain Kenny eon expect, h.V. I i r. A SI, that expecta -Mtora Wk clear -f the anmla.

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1 ren iBsiatence, and mora to tas hangmen and will have trociii ia w4. gMrr aa thia sign, which I sawin Boston: one the skin will slough off mine gjve mea rattler. It wa -Why. Paria. back in tb dare RIRRPR I IfcTF sUMMEH.

ind th ants will eat it alive. Any anake nly IIMd it Red Terw" when "am BARBERS LIKE SUMaWtn. wounded this way ibound to die! Anta hn wt my miattJtt, ua, ao auTTl tS aLX fight them a great deaL If a healthy l-" ffZlV' 1 aritocrats saeese ia tie aackl' anak ia contact with a dead snak. ft1 f. urging of me.

aTuoxTne Te th odor 1 sure to be. retained and the lt.al tar veers, penoa. van a ark. i in live Da "ow" ant will attack th healthy snak and eat 7 g.Uanta. 7.

xrmju. ulBT ZIUSBIS. Tar vim a- "ttention for reaaona might have tk block, could h-rHW "V.V w.srrowlmg about aarmg tnirni nave block. nnU wa it- 1 hav seea manv such him. oce.

wnat ouid-erwas in th line of nrod-. IZIi -eil. ter in the line of prodncin, smeTtSn set ta it FTen than. aa K. rans porta iaoi- a ajwaya pack snake.

lAat a soaa aa hot weauser u. era ua-m sur remu mmt. jtav De oeieaiea. A i 7 year exDeriemrL Ants are neraiatent. and th, 1 fJZ rarely, nd there is absolutely no daDger.

-Whenever Zr-' aeaa snake meat amount to a msni eveateea years ago. or theraabouts. Fhindler. the celebrated artist of the Smithsonian Institution, had aa exciting expeneme with a snake I sent. He wa a great nainter ef Ithaa and animal I X1T UTAH.

bad a calico, or thunder snake, aa it is awt called ia Florida, but tbo true rx-iectific Irinb01 J1-- Bam Ot which tk elans. Tt la Kril- Train snake? It i. impossibte. osaibie. re ex wwei order of kingdom aad bar few of or he grew fVIl e- hi.

e- nd hia mr Irr. aaoa --lci ra-ai. nMnU s. nJ- 'I'lTr tbe nmdTu-inv a.D. a-; Viyioi busy aeaaon aconeu ilTHnr- .1.

-w .1. -I ahoJ w-i nwn, yocr bu rZ. the wouid fail off." That's where jo being need fi. 1 wd off." Thst's where l-j .1.. K.rher.

barber c-uiuie a.nata sua, ooiua 1 liantlv ealored and m-lA. eroata even. Va tm war? Hanging ta a ohm a a la anavea every Ies a is shared every lucky woman. Mr, neaeoa Gnd -Why ao? as aa only cluld, aad now she a aa only eight hours. lao Tbey scaffold ont Ke lL.

the animal be 00. mist, ken." remarked the v.nne bunch of no mttam of aar regular enrtoroer too hitch op a srsAnr. Chios. Trlhraa.1 Oculist Tea, ron have a bad case ot perint nf WT brought up by th elapse ever lived more tha a six to ing th workmen on a skyscraper and try- that wearir ali rial. sea that that yellow man, but th black ia.

-Vl JT Ja get every as v. rt" oiaca men ar gen- lnida mA amtil the real ht we-" -w" most a eta in. Then he begins to frel d-S day. aeta in. Then be begins a.w-.

1 any sua fasttr ia lat-a-rm in teagrn. It rings are o. air. Ita eT recent earewr- ra mutnr, Captain Rennraon i. that in' ce4.

h. v. T- day. tae Its bite is similar to that of ing to look at aa automobile accident ia job of kU.mg a fe.Iow-eres.tar ao-e-I "aT enstomers Th vicum fails into th creel below at th sua time. "-r aor mti.

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