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BOMBAY A CITY OF WOE.
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MX Hll*Tlo> HI A A STB Wm*M
or R£ri3T or I'iiinK.
IlnmtM* AtHMcU While lltrga •■*!
KrMla Wfra led —Tlir ntr \\ mm
Still Frevalfil hut raanr I• the
• rr* t |eirn%rr %w—!>■ tlir
I'aMlar tirlrkru ouMtry Ihairlrla
h* People l'lurkr| fo Howkay,
U hftf rißdlni \elther fowl >or
kbclltv TkfF lord IB Ihr iimit.
H e lief NtHMnrHi Inadeqnair
llauda of Kniara, PUI) fttrwag.
In(ra| (Kir Tkurniltilarr*.
N*w York. leo 1 -The fo oartrg is *n
riui<*i from ai private letter from at.
dUstn<*tn travel'll* r. HomU)
l nutter* t*.a mlwry, lodftcrlbiMi fJ*h
are ofi art tthlaa, wheravar >ou go No
dtie who has rot traveled la tha Orient
ar. ave any ii-ot , h * i:j ai fV*ro
i’.f " r- \;r re* *• gg suf
€eruog. patience, like t* >- patlfiict of
Mh* dead * larpty * *i ♦ 1 oowtraa a
*vf great .• •'•}• WMI.X. The pi****
• • tU;i up> th* i * *ugbi It i* greatly
id atd ditr g Upon t e
Vkx>r pers in tr.\ny Quarter* on aeri oc
ctiioM.iF tnr miriou or* **d flrurta of
the peMiKet. e. fresh mark**! It a 1* tt
■rarvatioo that i so TANARUS" *
§ urea I send lore taken in tr# first .
day# of my aaedtiiftfi about the city
i- * • •
•.{* ir, mu h that haa come before my #>•*;
GROUP or BOMBAY BDGGATI&
c-iX .■• to focus a camera on sued
wretchedness.
fumaoi Is th* ft>rt epidrmi;
row To ti) fto-e- stricken fw>,- ulattor
of the erty ars uUol lbs r*f -£•-git *m
country dlatricia, rt!t ranks il>plftl
tv the loos of those Who have fa.len out
and died by tl w tvakle I never before
imagined that bumju; creatures could be
so fttatU) thir.. They look like gridiron*
re. ieaa They sleet* tr the streets, and
whin* at you fte fond as you pass At
ntt; the streets -oak as if mar ad hot
rear l and the ahead let: on the fle.d
Thoae that don't et up m rhe morning
are attended to by the burial corps is
Iso t ilaifi easy to tell which are the ,
lire ones Last week I |M*sed near s ene
SOT! of a priest stv* .tad been fcneollrg
for a ice.g time on the sidewalk with his
forehead araanst the wall After me-in
fsjitx of lorwidti—came two r.a'.lve
■wen. who spoke to the priest and leu -sed
I He ■ ■tlsisej in a heap 1 dnti*!
know -w locitr he had barer, dead, but It j
must have beg quite a Son* time. It
was aurrstod.
are everywhere There are ai- i
waye plenty of beggar* in Bombay. they j
tell rr-. but these- f-; owe are t*-mbly in ;
eernes: beg* of thaan the profortonais
1 supjsoee. look plump enough. but there s
a vary eonvlnom* show of rllas on the
majority. I have sawn bands of So or so 1
of tbarer beggars. mostly bora and ohli- ■
dren. all clamor.ng w:h their hands out
•trotefced The will take any thine In tbs
way of food that 1* off ere.: But the peo
ple who lie in the matters and irat.
with kardiy enough etrrsvsrtn fa hold out
thafr hands, are* the hetrdeet to pairs by
There is no trtrkcry hers It Is ttfe an
ml. with them, generally death. Va
have mnsvey to one old woman mo was
too wessk U> craw! a< roes the street and
boy food with It bait she handed the
money to a boy and e* it him for the food
1 only hat- - • cause back. • • •
The authorities > tbetr hsat but It must I
make (item feel hopeles* to see the scores
tf star vine paopt* pouring into the city -
from the gauntry d!rr-.-ts. every day
The worst of It Is that there Is food
here to feed ’ v*sar le if they would only
use It 1 could (u out to-daj with a shot
gun and box SaD terror ■ in the s* reels
of the dty Why don't I do It? Hecauoe 1
don't want to be torr to bus by a mob
Tha pbps otis are sacred bird* and are ten
derly fed on *rain that mlht be caving
human live*. It s the asm* way wtth the
sacra*! gusts and hulls, they own the
strswts in the native quarter. No native
would think t>f k:lUn* !hpm for food or
a raw helplnk btmaeif to their fodder He
Would ratba-r die What a olty It to! • •
One day. down on the river front. 1 ran
serose a processor, of widows. There
were about twenty of them and they were
going to aaon tsttip# to mavurn for their
bushanda who bad all died within the
week, so 1 was told. Whathee they had
starved or died of she pis rue 1 don't
Itr*ow. both, very llkaiy The women
wore lon* Mack head coverings that
shrouded their faces, and they walked
bent fsr over, and Si* sound of their cry
ing was a thing 1 shan't forges. Mr L*
took a picture of them; on# of whk%i 1
er.-loM. 1 want away up a aide street.
I didr. t Ilka the sound That same day
I wandered Into a part of the native
quarter where tha plague had fallen
heavily, dons of the door poets had ten
or twelve circles on them, with the date
of each case neatly Inscribed. The na
v.>es seemed apathetic stem; It. They
l: it a visitation of the laird and let It
go as that. We found a crowd of children
pad iiing In an open sewer that had ap-
I <t*< ' Infected the whole street, for the
r .ad numbers were thick, ml there had
bean case* on tbs previous day; but no
body interfered with the children There
ssi probably no other pis. e for them to
g where the danger of Infection wouldn't
base been as great
The fafr.:n* fund from America has fall*
off greatly I suppose you have the
**aoa disaster now to take up your
Larttgbl* thoughts. But It Is hard to
•evevs that anywhere else In the world
ac. -ey wise.y used, cou.d be used to such
■■act for Ufa-saving as In this city.
B*ih, warm, baaithy blood la given by
its*,el s karaaparUia and thus roughs.
** and pneumonia are prevented. 1 aka
h scar —tA, s
Ako( T IMLU.
\ Inlet Tye# Are Biyeaalre aad !Hf*
k<*#l| to Hake.
Tn# wng*. of r 4 > word doll is curious
OBtum ago wnen M.nu name* were
m* ft in vogue for eiufcirew. Bt Daro
I hr A w aa the Bc#4 popular. and her iwm.
tha beet awl luAi'et that vuki be given
to a i. te g.rh The ii arene an Dei),
or Doil. and from giving table* the molt*
tenr, l was an euy gtep to pm>* I*. on to
the Unit images of which the tatb;ce were
no food.
Te word dot! is not found tr r.
u#e in >i*r language unt** the middle of
t v eighteenth neiiury and a* far as ran
le di* owred. first
ir.an * for Septumher. 2751. in the
foifcm rig •ever*! doN with different
Ue**ee. made l* S- James afreet fca\e
been sent lo the <'t*rtoa. to show the
manner of dreir\f a: present in taahbon
among Engt.ch lath*#
Prearlou* to !■>.- the word used to de
actlhe the favorite plaything of a I girl#
in ail oountrif* and in all ages was
baby. enivh t to be found together
wi*h poppet,” or ‘'puppet '■ in ’hit sens*
In the works of most of the earlier
writer*.
Tie u and ch ta doll originated In
iha middle of the seventeenth century.
There a ere no *adi*a' fashion pujer> are
now and in order to show w .hat was le
irar w*rr on the continent doll* mere
twLH|fuly &:1 exyer.*t\ t n . ***v| and
*ot to the various ■ rt
ahd from ! e models orders e . k n
Hie dkttlg to show off their costly garb
must be made of more prectotr* *• wff
than wood, so aaa aid t nira and vw
ivory ot.tw were made.
la Puppet lewd.
Thuringia to th* land where moat dolls
are bora—puppet land, aa It 1s called on
I this account About taro hundred years
, ago not! of tk* dolls were made in Flan
ders and they were caked, not dolls,
j hot Flanders' bable* There ue**l to be
j r. old Eng Ugh couplet. which rah thus
The children of Holland taka pleasure *n
making
What the children of England take peaa
ure In breaking.
At one Fluropean doll factory of the
present dby KP.dP dolls are produced an.
noaMv some Re mitt, woman and chd
. dren *- L £ employed To make one talk
ing duo require* the joint labor of *>
men. I tolls' eyes are made In undei
gTound rooms Into which the surds it
rarely peep*, and vx-iet orbs are the most
difficult to color. There 1* on* toevn in
fie grossly where three-fourths of all ths
dolls' a** in the world are made. Only
; tr. the ■-**' of the most expensive dolls
is real human hair used.
In a dirt, fa-lory an* woodrarvera. head
maker* leg <w arm-makers, eye-makers.
[ portrait artists, hair-dressers, doel sew*-
'
.guLci gf
COTE OF THE SACRED PIOKONB.
era and doll stuffrr*. also ft small irmv
of faeblntia ole dressmaker* an*) milli
ner*.
Tlw HJndu child I* probably th* only
.kil-*ew child in th* unbrr**. The llt'b*
Egyptians have thrlr woodtvi 'TSIXI ’
-Hid anm* tn atylo ss W year* ago
These ware sometime* ma<l** of porcelain
When child died lit dolls were hurt I
with R, in the expectation that thrlr r,-lr
It f*wrn would rtar and do serve •
another world.
The paradise of dolls I* Japan w
they art* most elaborately an*l tore o
attired affair*; ao are thr doll* of Ki
—"genroku," a a thny r called. Th*
arr often valuable wood carving*. enam
eled In color*, or statuette* of treat ar
twtlo merit.
One of the most Interesting collections
of doll* In thla pountry la that belonging
to the Bureau of Ethnology, Washing
ton. They are doltc of the ZunJ Indian*
of Artxona. and are made from the root*
or anbterr*near, branch** of th* cotton*
wood tree, bet nr whittled our with krtv**;
they are decorated bright red. yellow,
green and represent th* god# of th# tribe
—the god of the enow; the god that *:*
up the rain cloud. Ibe Are god; the sun
god and the corn goddeae. The 7.tint chil
dren play with these dull* aa other ohll-
THE MORKING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 22. 1000.
drew do. Any car who go** irto a Zowl
h bit at ior is certain to see row of thee#
doits suspended front the ceding—®Ot he*
irtg to use they are hut g u*> until fit*l
la Infer. :< la I* a A e# -a hs?ory.
It Is mad# of clay and Is cunei larrd h*
Its oomar a Me** an a!> -and tv hceg*
of ocher people, to be a worker of tairg
clew sol <]uantiUe of g 4 is are
cons tartly being offered to w .% room
in the houae of Its owr-.er I* h-i aside f r
Its #t■*!ustve use. here II n lines In a
canopied bed of sold sliver, ft ha* fer-vst;
ful dreese# and rich Jewelry, raie-t a
thousand* of h>i Am* t f *ts lair*t
gifts is a magrdfl.'ent |ssr.* which Is
played upon by thos* who ytatt the ,So!
as a |Kirt of ths serv , if a*l * at. n ia*l
.
i MiiiflPitji im mmm \y
U>rratea fltaeaaaee the Ind of (he
teatary |aea(la With a 1 ona
Shade
ftoceate* Weil. Mercury, who crossed
the sty* with Charon to- uy*
M#r ury The usual set. tfters are no
new characters in this age of t-he world.
Yet there wis one old fellow mourning
that he hudn t sen the *entusy out. as
he express* ! It. for he would hive lr*ti
Just one hundred year# old if he had
lived rhrough the last day of the prea
ent year
8 A fiteokmi reason
M Ye*, but then another |Wj*.#engef
said the Nurtreoib Century ioeed in f
and w* were la the Twentieth al
r.wd>
8 What ti t th*t controversy settlwl
yet** Bring tl.- new- otnrrs to me. arsi
ca*>ghoWil> figures whom he Jrtrodvs'ea)
8 Wk(HB to tb# of fth*4**.
bm allow me. my founitr frigid, to m*k
you a few quetkm* about the wuril
you have left
Young 8 hud** <>rtainly. Br'rates.
8 From what point of time *lo yi
numUr the yer* of your <7hrl**ian era?
let me queti n the old man oppoeiftit.
iMtn*ury jroe* out ami rvtim with
Y H From the birth of Ohrj*i,
8 Then, why <V*a not the y ear begin
I‘er. IS?
Y. 8. I don't know, hut I •r<'vf>t the
fart that our year N-glna a week later
8 When <ll.l tha firm year of the first
ctntury ••>4'’
Y. 8 When Chrirt wa* one year oM
8 What it that year called In his
tory*
Y 8. The year 1.
8 What begun tha next day?
Y 8 The year i
8 How kw>* did that hurt?
Y 8 Till Thrift see fully two years
okl; J. e., through Dar. SI. for we have
•greed to move- his birthday on a week
8. Then, did the year S of your era
olncide with the third \*\*r of Christ's
ar*. and did both come to their comple
tion at midnight. Dec. 11?
Y ft They dhl
8 Then l th* year lof your era the
I*l h year of Christ * age?
V. S Tee Bocratrs
8 If he had lived to the eeth year of
your era. would that*hava bren the 3;h
o( bte kite?
Y A Ye*. givrtlM.
8 What would the n*xt year hare
been*
Y 8 The year SO.
8 If he bad lived |o th* 98!h year of
t>r era. would that have been the Mth
hie age?
Y 8 TVs, ftocrates.
8 At the very end of that year .how
id would he have been?
Y 8 S® years complete. I
8 What would the next year have
been*
Y 8 The vear 10ft.
8 Wha. do you aay of hie age and of
th# era at th# cloee of that year?
T 8 You confute me. Socrates; lot
have time to think.
Old Shad*. Let me reply for th* young
•ter. Cbrlat would have been a full hun
dred r**ra old. and the century would
have been complete. Go ou with your
questions, Socrates
FOYE & MSTEIN
ON MONDAY
GREAT
SLAUGHTER
SALE
Of all HOLIDAY GOODS.
NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED.
The Grand New Store. Broughton and Barnard Streets.
FOYE & ECKSTEIN.
8 Then what?
O. 8 At nntf. rht the second century
would beg n. and tha >af would b 8 201
8 wnat ts the r; imherirdf of the first
vear of the ftnat century?
O. 8 1-
8 A r.d of tha firs: year of the second
century?
O 8 101
8 And of tha th!.-d eeoturyt
O. 8 Sll
.8 Arvd of the eighteenth?
O 8 !?01
8 And of the nineteenth?
O. 8. l%\
8 And of tha twentieth?
o. 8 im,
8 Are th* hundred* of any year al
ways one |< w# than the number of the
entury, as in thta case, for ejmmßie*
George Washington wa* born tn ITU,
whi r> free in t • *;ghteentn entury
O. 8 They always are till the very
*• yur, e g . m the flr-t cetMury ihe
hundreds were one less than the number
of the century TANARUS: .*t i* 1 was tha number
of the century; subtract 1 and there re
mains 0. s*> ne year* are 1. 2. X etc with
no hundred*, through SC B*. W but the
year which completed the first century
was 100 ar>d this had ita century number.
Tha ml* holds through all tha •enturlea
8. What remark of your Emerson*
*{>*>:.e* to those who fancy tha: th# year
i'll
% y
a^w—a—■— mmmmm — ■■■ and
- OF FAMINE WIDOWS
!!*•' , th* first of th* iwentieth cen
tury?
O. It Perhaps you have this In mind,
go>iate* "our eye* are -olden that we
cannot se* things mat wtare us In the
foe, until the time arrives w hen the min i
is ripened, then we orhold them, and the
I,me sluti we saw them not is i.ke <
dream "
Y. 8, Socrates, thou reasonest wed.
and when I nave thought over your line
Of argument a while perhaps I shall find
nr,} self of my fel.ow traveler's opinion.
Maria L Owens.
iu> mi hi liens.
They Are lllrds That Kill A enomona
Snakes In n Most Innenlona War.
It wa* In New Mexico, on th* river
tra.l between Socorro and Meatlla. Wltk
Jim llaekell driving the buckboard teatn,
that 1 Oral saw a ruad-runner. The bird
had alarted from the rooilaide into the
troll and was running with surprising
spcoi in advance of our team—* saucy
looking fellow, somewhat larger than a
SO pc. with a strlight bin. lon* tall feath
ers. short wings, of which he mala no
apparent use. and long, muscular legs
"There’* a bird that ought to bo encour
aged by all right minded men, for ha
kills rattleanake* •• Haskell remarked af
ter telling me what It wa*. "If It were
■ad for shls trait and th* fact that a
i>air of these birds came to my help once
when I was in a bad way. my bones
would be whitening in Hand ('anon to
day.
"It began with my being driven Into th*
brush on* night by Indians In the Mag
dalena tn- urtwins, where 1 ww* prospect
ing for sliver. In *l." Haskell continued
"I got away from ihctn wlih only the
clothes 1 stood in. and I wa* pretty well
but out before I came at noon next
day to where I could see the Rio Urande
Valley ahead. 1 was then In on>- of th vs*
■tf -1-walled little rwnons that you find In
sarvdsb.vtt* forma ten*—a hot. narrow pisa*
ag*. wtth fine sand underfoot that I shuf
fled and slipped In as 1 walked. I could
see the cannon's mouth When I came fo
a place where the bottom dropped down
sheer for about ten feet, and In trying to
make the jump I slipped, landing any j
way that happened on the sand below,
and whan I had got some brsath back
Into my body and l tried to rise to my
fe*t I found that my right ankle had
bees* thrown out of Joins
"This wa# pfUr.g worse hick on had,
but I did not loa* heart, for through
th* rift ahead I could set*. acro*a th* j
*ands. green holds and tree*, adobe houges |
aud lbs bits* sparkls of Lb* river. J used
*4 ad my eourag* Just than, besrg
faint throtigb pain an*l hunker, an I
isirctia*! with thin* R-wr *>ly h*l I :ar'-
*-l on hand* and knase. to crawl out of
th* canon whan I wtw *-im<-:hlnk thal
caused tr.c to pa-ua* and 1 xk about m- a*
If I war* hunting for w loa! Jumotil.
Along th* bottom of th* canon in th*
loos* wand aw* a mark such aa might
h* mad* by a dragging rop*. an I It I
from th* place wher* I had fallen tow <rd
th* opening ahead. It was th* trail of
a anak*. a big on*, and in New Mexico
a rr.ak* *hat could mak* a track like
this was almost sure to be a rattier Tii-r*
was m> danger tn eight, and kerp.r.g a
sharp lookout. I went on.
"Two immerse rock column*, their faces
cut and hollowed Into queer shape* by th*
frewks of Mowing sand mad- a natural
gateway to th* cwnor. and ,igi;i ■ th-ir
latsea th* sand wets dr.'ld. leaving a nar
row opening aeu.g th* center. I ha 1
worked along tht- opening until I wa*
midway betw**n the columns, when i
snake somewhere near me sprung h rat
tle sharply If you ever have h-ard the
swish of an angry nattier* tail In a
<*oae ptor* such a* th* canon X wa- in.
you know how th* sound mu!tlp .* n ;f
seeming to c-m* from every ouart-r a:
onre. Eor full ten minute* I linenad. wl'.h
th* wrhol* air about me alive with th*
buxztng. before I could locate th* sound
as coming from directly ahead of me.
Then 1 crept on slowly, holding myself
ready to crawfish bsckwuyd on short no
tice. With all my carefulness I was ii
close to the snak* when 1 discovered him
that 1 was startled all over. He was s
I yefiow rattle snake, the Utggvwt and most
i vicious poison snake of the Southwest
; and his color was so nearly that of the
sand he lay on that If hi* rattle had not
warned me l might hot have Seel) him
then. He had dined not lung before, aa
the lump In hi* body showed, ant row.
comfortably colled In the sand, be was In
no mind to be disturbed. >ll* t el m •
lifted, and the rattle, rising from the cen
ter of his colls, sung viciously. 'No thor
oughfare.' to me aa I stopped to study
the sttuatlon.
"1 was too far away from th* snake
for htm to strike me. and I stayed, war
dering how 1 was to get past him A
queer feeling came over me. everyihlng .
else faded from my view, and 1 saw only
hi* shining eyes, which seemed to spread
■ 111 they filled the space around. It was
the pain of a sharp wrench of my In- ;
lured ankle that broke the . barm that
was overcoming me. and made me aware {
that 1 had gfaftad forward directly to- j
want the snake I shut my eyes, turned
anil went back from the sight of the rep
tile a* f' *• 1 co)i:.i
"But 1 wis far from being out of my
troubles from th# snake. The track In
the sand showed that he h#.l come from
under the ‘jufctp-ofT In the canon bottom
where 1 had fallen, and if he took It Into
hie head to return It was certain that
be would m ike objection to my prefer.. *
Being gorged and sleepy, he was not like
ly to move soon unieas he was disturbed,
but It. might be another thirty when the
night came on and the air *r.d ground got
cool outside Then the warmth of the
canon, holding through the night the sun *
hca: eg the day. wou and be apt to tempt
him b*. k There wa* no way out for
tn excepe along the narrow rift between
the wand heap* and the canon er trance
and it was at th# widening of this rift,
beyond the sandstone columns, mat t.ie
sn.ike wax lying To try to rreep round
him. against the face of the sand heap,
was too risky to be undertaken with my
crippled Veg. and It wa* plain that ao Song
as the snake stood guard at the passage
there was nothing for me to do but stay
where l was
"In my schoolboy days I read about
the old fellow th* Greek* used to tell
about, called TaiMslua—you know who !
I mean I think t entered very fully
Into hit feelings that afternoon as i
looked from that stifling oven of a canon,
across the grim sentinel barring me from
the water and green shade that l could
see In ih* distance- And the worst of to*
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and hosts of other things exactly adapted for gifts.
You save big money, and buving su.:h goods at our
present prices is like purchasing gold dollars at a dis
count.
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Iron Founders, Machinists, eljf
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TELEPHONE NO. 123.
bi;*trve- ii. X ouii figure no way out of
fy trout'.*.
"The that any human heln*
would come to T-at.-i <'anon wa* too re*
mote to be * red. and there w .is
r.othlng at and that I could ue a- a
tn* iiuheHMt a
not a atlck. wa* to b* foutkl only i **
x*itidst<N>e walls above end the firve fanil
beneath tn* Worn out with fatigue, I
fill a*e*p, ar,d when Ia w ok* ti> .<un was
shlnir.g f: r4.gr. t ln:o the canon, l*y w h.. *h
1 knew ;ui it was in the west, an hour
o* so above the mountains.
From where I lay I could kk through
th* <-.nor. entrance, and my eyes rested
ujffxi the valley b**\ottd. and my ufljr
Jailor, faithful to poet, cotleai asleep
in the sun. But somethin* eihe that !
saw, tt struck me as strange t.iat I had
not observed before; five or si* long
of dry cactus on the s,*nd n*.r
the snake that e*em<*.| *o have been care
lessly Hun* down in auch a way as n
- to surround h*m I was t.g> m.s
erahle and list*ees to wonder much it
anythin*, but my sirusfieti fect>!y
over th* problem of how the cactus cam*
to be there, until, with n ;att*r of quick
(t*t and the rush* of somethin* dram* 1
soft> over the Hand, a bird cam* into
my v!*-w, beyond the canon k’* w->-
roadrunner. dragging abeur a cactui limb
* loj> ts my arm H* cast a aharp
glance into the cacon aa he approach***!,
but aeelnc iK>th!nu to aarm him in tho
morion less fiaure lying half nurted In
wind, wet.r on and l.i.d the cactus dc%vn
r ‘^* r ;>ng •*- *ke. A minute mor
nd a second bird oppenred carrying a
cactus limb, end the two then set briskly
to work pulling all the pie es of < . tu*
snout until they hewl ma lea complex
Hna around th* snake This done they i
both aMt ofr airaln to fetch more cactus!
*ml th*y cm* r,l w* n , unl „ h „,
m4* a ring of ca . tlls i lm!a , thr^,,„.J
.Up.’ 1 " WIU,OUt • roji ‘ n hlm
they had cactus enough for their port—.
.1 .<1 i| of fftchltur mor*. thev be
s.n o ro.. the outride pletw.
t ic ring over upon the Inside. The circle
r a-rowed fast, end the cactus fence g--w
htkheri a. It drew . leer .!( , h *
‘ l * rr, c*d# was half a foot nigh around
him * hen the snake maidenly lifted his
1 hl * rattle At this the
nnd <* run
around th* arcade. flapping their
wings, sc naming ond making f,in,s of
attacking tho snake, b ut taking eool
car. to keep well klt of his reach. He
would hats gone through fir# rather than
try to crawl over dry cu tus. but iev
era! time* h* struck at the birds, his
K iuml h* <<l brlnflnf up v**ry ()m*>
C-..U SI lb* thorny harric.td. Angered hv
his failure to reach them and prl ke.l and
tern by thorns, the snak. wlth , w ,
•iroke became more enraged. until, eager
10 strike at something which he could
reach, ho turned back hts head after a
particularly vicious lunge and si ruck his
fangs Into his own body.
This self-inflicted wound look the light
quickly out of the snake H:s head drop
ped upon Ms coll, ard |n a few minuted
he lay motionless while the bird* hopped
rojnd th# barricade ocreamotg and try
[“• to provoke him :o strike. For a rvh'le
lb# snake would lift bis head and sound
Si ”e'md W nT
aln mLT —*" * mk * • boeml
fi*Ue cessed at las t •
to move, and then, aa If sattsfled that
th'ir work fw<l b**e thoroughly dor.
thw birds start'd off together ar-d I is tv
th*m no nvvr*.
The sun bsd gone behind h roo-jr
talnw ard r.lglu wa* failing. I crawl- 1
down past th>* .lead snik* in hia prison,
wt"l shar'-ng my rours* for th* n*arew:
Hitbt In th* valley, I kept mi r*ting ar. I
• nr ping by turns, until af:*f about three
hour* I <wm* to a traveled trail Toens
(lar.-is, ctwnlng late from th* mountain!
w,fh bis ox.-'am. brlrslng a lowd of
w.wsi. foun.l me. arwl took me to hla hou*e
!' tn* river. Her* he and hi* famil-'
rnw-l* me a comfortabl* aa they could
;, ' r lh* nlKhi. and th* next day he car
n. •! me ro So orro where I got prop* r
*t:rcical rare for my wnkl* and th* mewr <
for anew outfit when I was readv ac - v
to take the trail." Oareetca Puller.
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failure and appendicitis by regulating ths
Uver, Siomarii. Rowels and Kidneys.
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•Aired me of Indlgewtloa. I had suffered
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N. D. Coiem.i n.
Beuiah. 8. C.
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No. UIS Jefferson arrest. Iroulsvllle ivy
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