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Georgia tracker,
Official Oreran City of Gainesville
Gainesville Ga„ August lO, 1901
THE BOSS SNAKE.
The Holder of the Champion Li
ar’s Medal Spins a Serpentine
Yarn which is Confirmed
Positively by the M«n-
from-Plorida.
The little daughters of the
Landlord of the Erwin house were
out in the front yard the other ev
ening watering the flowed, when
the youngest one scared <up;a lit
garden snake and, 'dropping. her
watering pot, shrieked -stridently
and made a rash for the 'house,
nearly tumbling over the Irish
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Pedler who was
rocking chair.
fast asl-eepm a
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“Faith, is ifc murfcber?” the de
manded as the child collided with
him, and he started to his feet
rubbing his eyes.
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“No, it’s a snake ! *’ whimpered
the child, as she looked fearfully
'behind h«iy while the Man-from-
the-Tarh eel-State picked up & big
‘dub and lookedj valiant, * In the
mean time the other little* •girl | road horseback when he came to
killed the Serpent with a switch,
and held up the still writhing
body for the benefit of the onlooik-
•ers.
Florida snake and I’m going to
adhere strictly to the facts as they
were related to me by a friend of
mine, an elder in the Presbyterian
church and a man of unimpeacha
ble character, who was present
when the monster was killed. The
scene of the story is laid in Ba
ker county, on the edge of
Okeefeenokeeewamp. Along some
time in the early eighties there
was a great influx of northern
pebble to that •section of the coun
try and among the immigrants
was this friend of mine. He
bought a tract <©f land, started a
truck farm and soon became a man
v of importance m the comhaunitv.
One day he was ridding along the
ope of the little streams that flow
into the big swamp. His horse
stopped to drink and as it was
tail
warm weather switched its
about considerably to keep off the
That started the members of si files. An pld dead tree lay partly
Mendacity Club and for the next| across the stream and the horse’s
hour the air fairly writhed ^wifch j tail caught in a crevice in one of
serpentine yarns of all characters, j(the projecting limbB and jerked
kinds and discretions! There
were stories about big snakes and
venomous snakes
ted horse hair, which he had plan
ted there. Of course the thing ex
cited his wonder not a little and
he got off his horse and gathered
up clods of earth and brush and
surrounded the little pool with a
dam, so it would make it impossi
ble for the serpent to escape. He
often passed along that road and
every time he reached the creek he
would take a look at his snake.
It grew amazingly as everything
does in Florida, and finafly got so
big that my friend transferred it
to«, deep ‘sloo’ or lagoon that
opened out of the branch and
built a dam across its mouth to
keep the critter in bounds. Occas
ion ally he would go down and in
spect his snake, but he never said
anything to any body about it and
8e<ven or eight years passed away.
One day the Presbyterian church
had a picnic, and my friend atten
ded. There was a big crowd and
after the dinner the men folks got
out under the trees and began
spinning snake yarns. There were
some pretty stiff ones told, but my
friend had nothing to say until the
subject was pretty well exhausted.
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■out several hairs. My friend sat
ey eing them and there came to his
little snakes, venomous snakes j mind that old story which he hac
and harmless snakes, intelligent I often heard in his boyhood days
snakes and Bfcupid snakes, snakes about a hair from a horse’s tai
that were pretty to look at and J gradually transforming itself into
snakes that were as ugly as blue
mud. Some of the yarns were | long enough
pretty tough, but through it all
holder* of the Champion Liar’s
. Medal sat bolt upright in his
chair with a look of ineffable
scorn on his face.- r The Man-frdm-
Florida was busy reading a maga
zine and apparently paid no atten-
a snake if one kept it in water
He laughed at what
his maturer judgement thought
only a silly myth, but reached out
pulled one of the hairs put of the
crevice and bending down in the
saddle sunk it in a quiet little
pool, which was protected from the
swift current by the trun^ of the
tion to the story tellers. Finally fallen tree. Then be drove on and
the Man-from-the-Tarheel-State forgot all about it. About a con-
told of a serpent twenty-six 'feet | pie of weeks thereafter while rid-
five inches long and as big around
as a man’s body which escaped
from a show in Durham, North
Carolina in the spring of 1898anc
for several months terrorized the
citizens of that flourishing mu
nicipality, living meanwhile on
such dainties as muscovey ducks,
yearling goslins, puppy dogs and
pussy cats. In graphic language
he decribed the battle royal which
took place when the serpent was
finally cornered and despatched.
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was one of the largest
snakes i. ever saw,” he said in con
clusion,” and I’ve seen
serpent8 in my time.
a few
In-”
big
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“Were you ever in Florida?”
demanded the Champion, bending
forward and fixing his piercing
syes on the man who had just held
che floor. The Tarheeler shook
iis head negatively and the
Champion straightened himself
uid prepared to orate while the
vfan-from-the-Land-of-F lowers
aid down his magazine and leaned
orwardin an attitude of listening
nterest.
***
“Well,” began the Champion,
i ^eing that he had, secured every-
•ody’s attention, “the story that
Cm going to tell you is about a
ing. along, his horse stopped at the
the same little stream to drink as
before,apd again the crevice in th»
projecting limb of the fallen free
pulled some of the hairs out of-its
tail. That caused my friend to
think of the foolish thing he had
doqe on his previous visit, and not
without a flush of shame, he bent
over in the saddle and gazed down
into the little pool where he had
anchored the horse hair. To his
great suprise there was something
alive there, squirming about, with
a long thread-like body and tiny
pinpoints of eyes and he immedi
ately identified it as the incarna-
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with protruding piles brought on by constipa
tion with which I was afflicted for twenty
years. I ran across your CASCARETS in the
town of Newell, la., and never found anything
to equal them. To-day I am entirely frea from
piles and feel like a new man. ”
O. H. Knixz, 1411 Jones St. f Sioux City, la.
“Tve been listening to your
stories, gentlemen,’ he said, finally
‘and the snakes you’ve described
are some of them of a pretty con
siderable size, Now I don’t pro
pose to tell about a snake but I’ve
got one corralled within a short
distance of here—in that deep'
“sloo” this side of the creek—and
if you’ll mount your nags and
ride down there with me, I’ll show
you what I call a sizeable serpent.’
* *
*
“‘They ail agreed to this and
scattered in -every direction to un
hitch their horses and mules.
My friend went to look for. hie
nag—the identical horse, by the
way, a hair from whose tail had
started! the snake, so to speak | he
found the animal missing. His
tracks in the sandy soil pointed
toward the creek and he judged
that the nag Lad wandered down
to the stream for a drink of water
and a bait of the sweet grass that
grew along the creek bank. Ac
cordingly when the others moun
ted their nags, he made known
his loss and they proceeded slowly
towards the creek, my friend bn
foot. When they reached the Bloc
and had dismounted and gathered
around my friend,;who stood close
to the bank, he poiuted towards
the* other side of the lagoon and
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“Well, it would take me from
now until morning to repeat the
exclamations of wonder—aston
ishment—admiration, that fell
from the lips of those good Pres
byterians. Finally one of the
party suggested that they kill the
serpent, and accordingly every
man who had a pistol pulled it out
and opened fire at the creature’s
lead. There followed such
thrashing about, such a churning
of water into blood-foam that one
would have imagiued it was a
whale in its death agonies. Fi
nally, however, the struggles grew
fainter and fainter and with a last
convulsive wriggle of its tail, the
big snake gave up the ghost.
Slopes were fastened to its body and
it took a half dozen stout horses
to pull it out on dry land.
Then one fellow who had a foot
rule started to measure it but be
fore he got more than a quarter of
the way down, another fellow
yelled out that the monster
there was something moving r*
around and struggling about in
the middle of . the serpent’s body
and a bold fellow whipped out- his
barlow and cut a big slit in the
serpent’s belly, while the others
stood abound with clubs ready to
kill the young snakes as they wrig
gled out. To everybody’s sunrise
there followed a tremendous heav
ing inside the snake and when the
slit was made longer there rolled
out my friend’8 missing horse—the
identical animal from whose tail
had come the hair that laid the
foundation of the monster ser
pent, so to speak—saddled and
bridled as he had left him, and in
no wise injured by his enforced
sojurn in the snake’s belly. Now,
that—’ ’
Mr, Jesse Thompson want
modify in a measure the iten
our last issue about his manei
scrub’ butter producer. I:
dares that ifc is two cows
of one that produce U potu&j
butter a day, although only
half the milk of one cow is
As to the cows being only
good as their mothers, he
that the maternity of Beit
the. kme is known to him, W
believes they were good
Auy way, he knows that to
are hard to beat.
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of
“Gentlemen,” broke in the
Man-from-Flordia. “I am here
to bear testimony to the solemn
truth of what we have just heard.
I was present when that snake
was killed and saw the horse when
it rolled out of its belly. In fact,
not to put myself forward as a
hero, I’m the man who used the
barlow knife on that momentous
occasion.”
V*
A gasp of surprise went round the
circle and a dead silence followed,
which was broken by the Cham
pion, who arose, with a great show
of solemnity, unclasped the medal
from off his mendacious bosom and
handing it to the Man-from-
Florida, said:
A NEW MAIN.
was “Sir, I am
full of young snakes. Sure enough pion.”
no longer Cham-
A water main is being
College avenue. This street v ^
building up and nothings^
more desirable to the ®
thereon than to be a o .
convenience of a water bos' 1
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was
church Sunday mg
preaching hour. A
was rendered. There
businessmeeting Sau&tf
at 5 o’clock.