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THE MONOTONY OF LIFE.
Why a Comment About It Made Oue
Man Lnafiii Out Loud.
‘‘Sometimes I think that the monoto- I
ny of life wears on us far more than j
the duties we have to discharge." sigh- j
ed a robust citizen the other evening
as the car reared on its hind legs and
begun to creep up the shaft. “The ev¬
erlasting rut or treadmill, o' whatever
you may choose to call it, guts on to
one’B nerves. Existence isn’t varied
for many of us; it's a perpetual grind."
His companion looked at him a mo¬
ment and showed a broad grin. "I like
that kind of talk.” he said. ‘‘It’s so
truthful. Do you know what you do
when anything out of the ordinary
happens to interfere with your cut and
dried plan and takes you a few steps
out of your beaten path? I do. You
throw three or four tits hand running
and look and behave as if there had
been a death in the family. If your
wife accepts an invitation or makes an
engagement for you or you’re cornered
so that you can’t escape the theater or
a concert, you’re the crossest and most
despondent creature on earth. And
you’ll invent excuses that wouldn’t
wash in a strong lye to dodge a visit
to your relatives or an excursion or a
Journey to another city. You want to
do the same things In the same old
way day after day, and if you can't
do them you sit down and cry. With
you it’s the morning paper, breakfast,
the barber, work, luncheon, more work,
home and the evening paper, and that
would be your routine if you had S100,
000 a year and were frqe to come and
go as you chose. Nine men out of ten
are exactly like you, aud when I hear
them complaining of monotony I have
to laugh out loud.”—I’rovldcnce Jour¬
nal. *
STEVENSON’S PRAYERS.
They Were a Hnawiltj' to the Lit®
ot the Afflicted Writer.
"With my husband prayer—the direct
appeal—was a necessity,” writes Mrs.
Robert Louis SteVenson. “When he
was happy he felt impelled to offer
thanks for that undeserved joy; when
iu sorrow or pain, to call for strength
to bear what must be borne.” Then in
every Samoan household the day clos¬
ed with prayer and the singing of
hymns. She says again: “As soon as
our household had fallen into a regular
routine and the bonds of Samoan fam¬
ily life begun to draw us more closely
together, Tusitala felt the necessity of
including our retainers Iu our evening
devotions.” To their usual evening
service they were summoned by the
“pu” or Samoan war conch. She does
not think it ever occurred to them that
there was any incongruity In this use
of it.
One of these plain, patriarchal serv¬
ices Stevenson himself on one occasion
brought to a suddeu check. “He had
just learned of the treacherous conduct
of oue In whom he had every reason to
trust. That evening the prayer seemed
unusually short and formal. As the
singing stopped be rose abruptly and
left the room. I hastened after him,
fearing some sudden Illness, ‘What Is
it?' I usked. ‘It is this,' was the reply.
•I am not yet fit to say, "Forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive those who
trespass against us.” ’ ”
“Plano-Orjrnn,”
“Piano-organ” seems to have got into
the language—unfortunately, since the
contrivance so designated is neither a
piano nor an organ. “Organ,” in mu¬
sical language, means au arrangement
of pipes or reeds, with bellows, key¬
board, pedals and draw stops. The
“piano-organ” has none of tiiese. "Pi
ario" la short for “pianoforte” and in¬
dicates a keyed wire instrument which
can be played both softly (piano) and
loudly (forte). Now, nobody ever heard
a “piano-organ" play "piano,” A pos¬
sible explanation is that the first user
of the bad word “piano-organ” was
trying to combine “pianoforte” and
barrel organ,” aud, of course, he
couldn’t call the thing a “barrelforte.”
—•London Chronicle.
The Beaver** Tooth.
No carpenter’s chisel can do more ef¬
fective work thau is turned out with
ease and neatness by the beaver’s
tooth. This is the principal too! with
which these patient, clever builders
construct their dams. The outer sur¬
face of the tooth Is a scale of very
hard enamel, while the body of it is of
softer dentine. As the softer sub¬
stance wears away in use the end of
the tooth takes a chisel-like bevel, leav¬
ing a thin, slightly projecting edge of
hard enamel as sharp as any carpen¬
ter’s tool fresh from the oilstone. The
thin scale of enamel gives keenness,
the softer dentine supplies strength,
and thus tbe combination forms a for
midable tool, which actually sharpens
Itself by use.
A Queer Festival.
A queer festival is celebrated in Ma
lacca every ten or twelve years. The
opening of the festival is signalized by
a grand procession. In which huge piles
of eatables take a large share. At the
end of the third day the viands are
burned. On the last occasion the plies
of food were placed iu a specially con
structed boat which was towed out to
gea and there consumed by fire, togeth
er with all the contents. A large sum
of money, amounting to several thou
sands of dollars, was subscribed, large
)y in Singapore, for the proper observ
anee of the festival
Ttie Point of View.
“Henry, if I were a young man tike
you and expected to have to make my
own way in the world some day I
=»“:m
:“-==s
cago Tribune,
AN EQUINE MYSTERY.
What Became of the Ancient Horse*
of This Continent.
Though vastly more is known of the
ancient history of the horse than of our
own origin aud descent, there is one
mystery connected with equine annals
that bids fair never to be solved. It
lias to do with the cause of the total
disappearance of the quadruped from
America a few thousand years ago,
where previously it -had roamed in
countless numbers not only over the
whole of the United States, but all the
way from Patagonia to Alaska.
When Columbus lauded he found no
horses. The earliest Spanish conquer¬
ors when they came saw none. In fact,
the Indians regarded with affright the
horses which the Spaniards brought.
Not only had they never beheld such
brutes, but their traditions gave r.o ac¬
count of anything in the least resem¬
bling them. All of the horses in Amer¬
ica today have been bred from Euro¬
pean stock.
What became of the ancient Ameri¬
can horses whose bones are dug up in
great quantities in various parts of
tiio United States, especially in cen¬
tral Oregon and along the banks of the
Niobrara river in Nebraska? To what
cause did they owe their extinction?
Nobody can even offer a plausible
guess. They were too numerous aud
too swift to he exterminated by sav¬
age hunters. The glacial epoch could
hardly have frozen them out, for the
great Ice sheet extended only as far
south as Philadelphia and St. Louis,
Nevertheless they vanished utterly,
leaving behind them, however, a won¬
derfully complete record of their fam¬
ily history. In the Bad Lands of the
west, in the Niobrara rocks and else¬
where their skeletons, scattered through
strata representing successive epochs,
tell the story of the development of the
horse from an animal no bigger than
n cat to a creature much like the mod¬
ern equine quadruped. It is an object
lesson In evolution, singularly com¬
plete, the fossil remains thus far dis¬
covered illustrating no fewer thau
twelve stages in the life progress of
man’s four footed friend and helper.
The evidence thus obtained shows
that the horse had its beginning about
3,000,000 years ago, which implies, of
course, that it is a far more ancient
animal than uiau. About the size of a
eat, with teeth like a monkey’s, four
toes on each forefoot aud three on each
liiud foot, it dwelt in the dense forests
which covered all of this part of the
world in that epoch when the gulf of
Mexico stretched fur up the valley of
ihe Mississippi and the climate of North
America was moist and tropical.
Then, as its successor, came a horse
with three toe* on each foot, followed,
after a great lapse of time, by the one
toed horses, which iu the lee age were
contemporary with man. It is prob¬
able that these later horses, which were
much like the modern, were striped;
but, whether this be true or not, it is
certain that they spread over all parts
of the world except Australia. In Eu¬
rope, Asia and Africa they survived,
to become the ancestors of the horses
of today, but in America they disap¬
peared altogether. The reason why
will probably never be explained. It Is
a puzzle that is likely to remain un
solved to the end of time.—New York
Herald.
HUNGRY MILAN,
The City Alway* Noted For Clorweon*
and Heavy Banquet*.
“From early times Milan has enjoyed
a reputation for the gorgeousuess aud
heaviness of its banquets," writes Ra¬
pine! Mackenzie. “Goldoni attributed
to the Milanese au inordinate iove of
the good things of the table In the fol
lowing words, which have i seu handed
down to us: ‘They (the Milanese) can
neither take a walk, a drive or amuse,
themselves in any way without con¬
versing on the all engrossing theme of
eating. At the play, iu the heart of
their families, even at the spiritual
conference, they cannot resist Indulg¬
ing in their favorite topic.' Even In
modern times Milan retains her old
reputation. At Christmas time oue can
see that she eats well. A walk through
her streets will reveal shops laileu with
all gooil things necessary for the fes¬
tal season. The beef is prime—none
better in all Italy—the turkeys and
Chickens fattened to a uieety and the
vegetables like one vast garden. Per¬
haps there is a touch of the barbaric
hi this display. It is trqe that iu that
thriving city of northern Italy they
work well and long, giving the lie to
those who prate of Latin laziness, but
It is truer still that they eat much. A
glance back at oarjler days reveals the
.fact that Raretti, hi the sixteenth tteit
tury. draws a comparison between the
English and the Lombards, likening
them to wojves, not on account of their
roughness of manner, for they were
ever cordial and hospitable, but be¬
cause of their rapacity in eating aud
qjB number and length of their repasts,
j n fact, a family now could live for
three days ou the ample supply which
was then deemed necessary for one
person. Until Milan felt tbe Influence
of France the Milanese cooking was of
a primeval nature. Their banquets
were prodigious in length and quality,
but lacking In delicacy,
“With the passing of time the fame
of these good people increased. The
markets of Milan became world fa
mons. The Ver/ierc was a market for
produce of all kinds, There were to
be found meat and vegetables In and
out of season. Its fame spread through¬
out tbe plains of Lombardy, and all
neighboring cities knew of its glory,
There was at this time in Milan a cer
tain nobleman named Cane della Sca
bad figure. Galeazzo Visconti, bearing
THE MURRAY NEWS, FRIDAY, JULY «, 190fl
of bis guest's practical joke, sent word
to the bead of the Verzlere market rec¬
ommending him to look well to its rep¬
utation.
‘‘The latter obeyed orders wel!.
Three times the servants of the Vero¬
nese nobleman stripped the market
pluee of its choicest stock, when, lo,
It was replenished after every assault.
What was more wonderful still, that
same day a banquet more lavish than
usual was given by Visconti in honor
of his guest, much to the amazement
of the latter. The host, with a great
laugh, begged him to partake of what
was left after his triple sacking of the
market.”—Ch lea go N ews.
A VENERABLE FICTION.
Til® Ceremony of Carrying the Par*®
In (he Unn*e of Lords.
When the lord chancellor outers the
house of lords to preside over its de¬
liberations he is accompanied by his
“purse bearer.” This functionary, how¬
ever, does not carry the purse of the
lord chancellor, which would be a
weighty responsibility, as his lordship
draws a salary of £10,000 a year. The
purse the "purse bearer” solemnly car¬
ries as, arrayed in court dress, he pre¬
cedes the lord chancellor to aud from
the house of lords is a gorgeous satchel
embroidered with the royal arms and
other heraldic devices in white aud
gold and lined with the richest silk.
It is supposed to contain the great seal.
As a matter of fact, that emblem of n
mighty sovereignty is never in the
satchel, if it were, the responsibility
of the “purse bearer” would be great
much greater indeed than if he had to
bear a purse that carried a salary of
£10,000 a year.
The ceremony of 'currying the purse
in the house of lords is but one of the
many venerable notions which play a
picturesque part in the parliamentary
procedure. The purse is placed on the
woolsack. It indicates that the lord
chaucellor is iu possession of the great
seal and therefore entitled to perforu
bis duties as speaker of the house ol
lords.—Loudon Globe.
THREE WAYS TO SUBDUE.
A Story o! lluilillin ami the Trainer
of Klej>liH»t».
From Hindoo tales that have come
through the Chinese, who give us most
of our Indian records—the risills were
dreamers and not recorders—we have
this story of Buddha:
The lord demanded one day of an
elephant trainer wlmt were the means
he employed to subdue his beasts.
“Three,” said the mahout. “One ap¬
plies to tlie mouth a hook of iron,
which be attaches to breast clasp, and
the elephant cannot lift his neck. Then
one gives less and less food till thin
and weak and finally boats,”
“And wlmt does one accomplish by
these menus?” asked he-of-tlie-yoliow
llght.
"The crochet de for serves to over¬
come the resiskiueo of the head; the
deprivation of food unci drink, the vio¬
lence of the body; the stick subdues the
spirit. After tills, nil Is easy.”
The nlmbused-bronze-one said:
“I also have three ways to subdue.
First, by perfect sincerity 1 control
what goes forth from the mouth; by
affection and charity I harmonize the
irregularities of the body; by inward
vibration of thought I calm the spirit.
Did you ever think of trying these on
the elephant?”—Everybody’s Magazine.
Th® Plkeman and HI* Weapon.
The plkemuu was covered with de¬
fensive armor, an iron headpiece, iron
“back and breast” and “Lassos,” a kind
of Iron apron protecting him from
waist to knee. He carried n pike six
teen feet long, with an aslien shaft, an
Iron bead and a blunt iron spike at the
butt end, whereby to fix it in the
ground, aud, besides the pike, a rapier.
The pike, from its great length was
8 weapon which required deft han¬
dling In order to be of effective use
and, as may be Imagined, was exces¬
sively showy on parade. The modern
lance exercise is a pretty sight enough,
but the old pike exercise, perfectly ex¬
ecuted by a large body of men, must
have been superb. We are not sur
prised, therefore, to find that the pos
tures or instructions for this exercise
are extravagantly minute.
To give one example, at the close of
the instruction, on the word “Ordei
your pikes," we find after a mass of
complicated details the following con¬
clusion: “You place (he butt eud of
your pike by the outside of your right
foot, your right hand holding it even
with your eye and your thumb right
up; then, your (eft arm being set akim¬
bo by your side, you shall stand with a
full body in a comely posture.”—Mac¬
millan’s Magazine,
f%« Ideal In Everyday Lite,
The inward enthusiasm which glad¬
dens us, sustains ns, lifts us again
when we fall, is more necessary than
our dally bread- Man lives on the
Ideal. All of us have need of its sub¬
lime grandeur, which, while defying
•11 comparison, yet associates itself
with the smallest actions, Do not
scorn any lowly labor. The secret of
the true life consists in understanding
the close relationship existing between
that which is so wonderfully beautiful,
so highly spiritual and the tilings seem
ingly so small, destitute of beauty and
spirituality. recall the
The words “everyday life"
days of the week, the commonplace
days, without variety or brightness.
Da vs are not all one like the other.
We have Sundays aud holidays, which
have an altogether different aspect
from other days. There is a mental
condition for holidays, and; having so
and the flowers, more beautiful on Sun
day than on other days.—Harper’s Ba
tar.
DALTON HAPPY
OVER BUILDING
Will Entertain Clay, Bacon and
Lee, Who Helped Get
Appropriation.
The people of Dalton are elated
over the announcement coming
from Washington that an appro¬
priation of ,$50,000 has been made
for a public building in that city.
Flans are already being discussed
by the citizens of the town to
give a reception in the near fut¬
ure to Senators Olay and Bacon
ami Congressman Gordon Lee,
who were instrumental in the
passage of the bill. The people
of the entire county will be in¬
vited to participate in the event,
which will be made a “red let¬
ter” day for Dalton. A commit¬
tee of ladies will invite the wives
of these distinguished gentlemen
and will entertain them while in
the city.
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MOURNING CUSTOMS.
Crlgin ot t lie Widow'* Can and Black
Sleeve Bund*.
The customs of mourning as prac¬
ticed in various parts of the world
seem at first sight to have little rela¬
tion with each other or with the in¬
ward grief which they are supposed
to typify. Yet by the exercise of a lit¬
tle patience many resorubhin os may
he discovered among them. The wid¬
ow's cap, for example, dates back to
the days of ancient Egypt. Egyptian
men shaved the beard and head as a
token of mourning. The women, in¬
stead of cutting off the hair, concealed
it by a close cap. The Homans, who
were as a race elean shaven, shaved
the head In mourning aud wore u wig
The black baud on the sleeve as a
sign of mourning comes to us from the
days of chivalry. The lady tied a scarf
or napkin, as the handkerchief was
called, about the arm of her knight.
If lie was killed iu battle she wore the
baud in memory of him.
Black has so long been the color of
grief in Anglo-Saxon countries that it
seems a part of the upside down civ¬
ilization of the east that Japan and
China wear white. But no longer ago
than the time of Elizabeth the unfor¬
tunate Mary of Scotland wore white
on the death of Durulcy. Even now
the hearse used for children Is white,
and In England the mourners at fu¬
nerals of young unmarried persouif
wear hatbands and sashes of white.
A queer English custom Is that of
decorating the black hearse horses with
long false black tails. They attract no
more notice ou a street In Liverpool
than do the black nets used In this
country to cover the horses.
A great many sensible people protest
that wearing tokens of mourning is a
barbaric custom that should be abol¬
ished or greatly modified, but. when
loss ami grief actually come Into the
Individual life one discovers that (here
is a strange, subtle titucss In gloomy
garments and that they answer to the
need of the soul for silence and sepa¬
ration.
ODD DERIVATIONS.
Carton* HUtory of the Word “Vote.*
Hen “It® tie ole” dot It* XM*y,
“Vote” is a word with a curious his¬
tory. ‘To Ihe Homan ft “votuni” was a
solemn promise made to ft deity. From
the solemn promise Itself the meaning
pf “votutn" gradually became the
prayer or Intense wish that accompa¬
nied the promise aud then any intense
wish whatever. Ho far the develop¬
ment proceeded Iu Latin, aud “vote”
passed into English with the same
sense. When Ben Jonson wrote of
“public votes” to heaven he meant not
mass meeting resolutions, but prayers.
Finally ’Tote” acquired Its present
meaning, the forum 1 uud emphatic ex
pression of a wlMt. while live old sense
remains with It.-flloulile "vow."
That ojienwork lxig for shopping
culled a reticule, gels Its yame dh’wtly
from the ijitin “reticulum.” "little
net.” Popularly, however, the word is
supposed to owe its existence to the
fuct that when au Englishwoman visit¬
ed the first Paris exhibition with her
little bag in her hand tip' Parisians
cried “Ridicule!" ThO Englishwoman,
misunderstanding the exchimotion. Is
said to have thought it the correct
translation Of '’little bag" and return
ad to England celling it a “retuntie."
Philologists claim lha.t the phrase te
"sleep like a top" comes from fh
French “qonulr com mo uuo taupe." t
sleep like n iiiu’e, It is sa d. tot. tliu.
Cinderella s slippers were net mane of
glass, but of "valr,” the old French
word for ermine, which In time became
corrupted into "verre,” glass.—Chicago
News.
A Saco (Me.) florist lias been raising
pond lilies for the market. His pond
Is 300 by 60 feet and yields thousands
; 0 f blooms in a season. Duriug the
Leijgbt of the season the dally yield
went above 500 blossoms. The usual
j price was $-1 per hundred.
j ^ evil - still,y whole life fill*?
0 ur
D°es woe betide, , „
j Your thoughts abide on suicide?
j y 0(I n p e( ] a pill!
Now for prose and facts—De
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bold by b. II. Kelly.
CURSED TO TUNE
OF “HAPPY DAY”
Man Placards Hat With Mottoes
and Then Curses out Whole
Neighborhood.
With the new famous motto,
“Get Right With God,” blazing
in letters of red from his hat
band, Bob Jackson, a negro em¬
ploye in the department of pub¬
lic works, Atlanta, invaded the
neighborhood of Exchange place
and Edgewood avenue with such
fervor of profanity last Friday
afternoon that the police had to
be summoned and take the whis¬
ky-inspired evangelist in charge.
Jackson’s merry-making began
on the lower part of Decatur
street. One of his pockets was
filled with Torrey watchwords
and the other bulged with a bot¬
tle of liquor. Every time the
darkey took a drink he would
stick another motto in his hat
band and begin a sermon in
which quotations from the script¬
ure blended with swear words
rolling like thunder from a sum¬
mer cloud. When JacRson reach¬
ed Exchange place his hat had
disappeared under the stack of
“Get Right With God” and both
his pockets were empty. Officers
Hollingsworth and Whatley took
him in hand just as he was be¬
ginning to sing an outburst of
“damns” to the tune of “Happy
Day.”
Jackson was fined $15.75.
It is always well to have a box
of salve in the house. Sunburn,
cuts, bruises, piles and boils yield
to DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve.
Should keep a box on hand at all
times to provide for emergencies.
For years the standard, but fol¬
lowed by many imitators. Be
sure you get the genuine De
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Sold
by S. H. Kelly.
PLUCKY LAD SETS HIS
BROKEN LEG UNAIDED
Charles Foster, Though in Agony, Twists
Fractured Bone into Place.
For a clean exhibition of puse
nerve that shown by Charlie Fos¬
ter. a 14-year-oUl boy at Pied¬
mont Park, in Atlanta, Friday
afternoon takes the palm. Young
Foster, in company with several
other boys, was doing some bicy¬
cling on the Oollisemn race track.
In some unexplainable manner
bis wheel slipped and he fell,
breaking his right leg just above
the ankle,
The bone bad snapped entirely
ill two and was pushing the flesh
and skin aut in a lump when the
lad coolly took his leg in hands
and pushed the bone in place.
A moment later one of his com¬
panions, who had seen the acci¬
dent, rode up to Foster and
expressed a doubt that the leg
had really been broken.
Without a word the injured
boy grabbed bold of bis leg and
twisted the bone again out of
place, remarking as he did so, “I
guess you are satisfied now.”
Young Foster was placad upon
a street ear and sent to his home,
315 1-2 Peters street, but later
was sent to Grady hospital.
TYNER’S DYSPEPSIA REMEDY
A Guaranteed Cure. Many Have Dyspep¬
sia and Don’t Know It.
The purchase price (50c) of
Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy will
he returned if it fails to cure or
relievo dyspepsia or indigestion
in any form. Take as directed
on label. Many people have flut¬
tering of the heart, risings or
pimples on the skin, dizzy feel¬
ings, aches and pains in the side
•>r back, weak kidneys, constipa¬
tion, belching of wind, blurred
eyesight, tainted bad breath,
hawking and spitting, headaches,
acid stomach, pale skin and don’t
know it’s dyspepsia. If you have
any or all of these symptoms take
Tyner’s certain, Dyspepsia Remedy and a
cure is sure and lasting.
Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy
strengthens weak stomachs,helps
digest your food, stops acheB and
pains, (stops colic immediately).
It tastes good and warms your
stomach from the first dose,
Cures where all else fails. Try
it. Druggists, 50c a bottle. Cir¬
cular and medical advice free by
writing Tyner’s Dyspepsia Rem¬
edy Co., Augusta, Ga.
Cabbage Worm, Worse Than
Mad Dog, Is on Rampage.
Though faced with 90 chances
of death the* other morning, J.B.
Moody, o? West End, Atlanta, is
still alive with the source of his
danger, 8 green cabbage snakes,
securely corked in alcohol.
To those familiar with the ways
of the cabbage snake Mr. Moody’s
escape from all eight of them is
looked upon as miraculous, for,
it is said, a single one of these
pigmy reptiles holds enough pois¬
on to curdle the blood of 12 hale¬
bodied men.
Mr. Moody happened upon the
death-dealing nest while he was
assisting his wife prepare vegeta¬
bles for the days dinner. Seated
on the back steps he was paring
away at the green leaves of a
young cabbage when a sudden he
spied a long lemon-colored some¬
thing coiled near the root of the
stem. Immediately he realized
the situation, but he did not lose
presence of mind. Even when a
second and a third of the wrig¬
gling, hair-like creatures began
crawling he retained his compos
use. The moment was neverthe¬
less a critical one. For all Mr.
Moody knew 20 or 50 cabbage
snakes might that very second
be hidden among the foliage,and
be making their fatal way unseen
toward liis hand.
Instead, however, of hurling
the vegetable far into the air and
thus letting the venemous worms
escape to bite someone else, Mr,
Moody, as quietly aB possible,
wrapped the entire mass in a
large towel. This done, he
plunged the towel into hot water
and in this way preserved the
worms intact for the instruction !
of all who desire to look upon
them.
That the cabbage-eating public
is in more danger at this season
of the year from snakes than
from mad dogs is the testimony
of all expert gardeners and cooks.
The dangerous, little crawler is
hatched just about the time Sis
ius comes into the ascendant and
haunts the leaves of vegetables
for some weeks to come. In ad¬
dition to his poison bag the cab¬
bage snake is possessed of
a subtle, treacherous nature. He
hides, it is said, in the tiniest
cranny he can find, being careful
to adapt his complexion to the
color of the leaf where he awaits
his prey.
Twenty Year Battle.
“I was loser in a twenty-year
battle with chronic piles ami
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Died With Broken Neck
After Forty-Six Years.
New York, June 30.—George
Knox broke his neck and fract¬
ured his skull 4(5 years ago. To¬
day it was announced that he
died Thursday at his home here
in his 91st year. A heavy cor¬
nice fell on Knox one day in the
summer of 1800 while lie was
passing a building in course of
erection at Ninth avenue and
Twenty-sixth street. His neck
was broken and his skull was
fractured. Doctors declared he
could not live more than twenty
four hours. They were astound¬
ed when they found a week later
that Knox was not only living;
but gaining strength. None of
them could explain how it was
possible for Knox to live with a
broken neck, and they were even
more surprised to find that no
part of his body paralyzed. After
being at St. Luke’s hospital for
two years, ! Mr. Knox was able to
return to his business, although
the vertabrae of his neck had not
joined together.
While in St. Louis be met with
an accident which resulted m the
forming of a cataract in his left
eye. On account of his neck the
physicians did not dare to oper¬
ate, and he lost the sight in that
eye. Mr. Knox, until 1885,when,
he retired, was in the wholesale
wrapping paper business,