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1 filing Experience of k II• iter in ;i Georgia Swamp {.’old. A pale, haggard looking man sat in a seetioji of a sleeping ear ye*-.- '■‘idav the train pui.T'l. out from Atlanta (or tho North, lioside him sat a .-ircing, Henriled individu al who watched his slightest move ni-ui, and every few minutes ;d --: inisiered some medicine lrora a Lottie, which lie kept ready on the m! in front of him. The move ments of the invalid (for such ho v. ientiy was) soon attracted the aitcntionot every one, and as the prospect of making a lonjr journey wig) :> maniac in tiie car does not recommend itself to the average •. zvvlcr, questions began to be ask vd and an explanation of the man’s conduct was demanded. He refused to answer any ques lions for fear of exciting his pa ? lent, but he referred all questions o the conductor who. he said, was acquainted with the facts, and v rule! set rest any fear as to his charge’s sa uty. The conduct or was evidenlly a man with a keen eye for dramatic >ilualionp, and was willing to make tiie bestofhis opportunities. When lit* had gathered most of the men ti the smoking end of the car, lie told them the Tory of their fellow passenger. •‘That gentleman there,” he said, •■is Mr. Rul'us Gale of New York He is a man who has always been devoted to hunting, and he is luc ky enough to have the time and money to gratify his tastes. He lias been down in Hie everglades of Florida all winter indulging in his favorite pastime. About a month ago lie started north, but hearing there was good sport to be bad ;n Liberty county, Georgia, he determindd to have one more hunt before he closed the season. He went over to Dorchester, and had his hunt; since that day he has been :ti his present condition. lie told i lie story what happened to him once, and the telling of it af fected him so badly that he has nev r been allowed to repeat it though it > evidently on his mind all the time. When Mr. Gale had been iu Dorchester several days, a ne gro reported having seen two doer on riie borders of the Midway fcwa nap. He determined to have a shot at the in in spite of all tho ad vice to t. ■ contrary. The gentle man with whom he was stopping told him that the Midway swamp was a dangerous place, ten miles broad cal 150 miles long, infested with snakes; he told him how, be fore the war, slaves had run away •and hidden i; it, and would come out and give themselves up rather than stay ihe.,". he told him to be in the swamp after dark was al most sudden death to a white man, But all this Ini no effect on Mr, Gale; lie was determined to go thete and hunt those deer. Early ihe next morning he started with his two dogs tor the place where they had been seen. He found that j' was impossible to get through i-io underbrush on horseback, so he :ied his horse to a tree and fol lowed his dogs on foot. Before long the dogs Bt-nicl: the trail and their baying echoed and re-echoed among the great trees. The trail evidently ran into the swamp, but. the ba\ ingof the dogs was so ex cited that he felt sure that they were close to th 3 animal they wore in pursuit of, and followed the sounds without thinking of where lie was being led. Suddenly the bay slopped, and then as he hurried forward lie heard the sounds of a desperate conflict. As lu ; :w nearer he heard the dogs :,.•• ing savagely, giving occasional veils of pain. Thinking no deer could cause such a commotion, he began, to ad- vance more cautiously; soon all the noise of f.be fight stopped entirely, and he knew that something had happened. Finally, as lie looked out from, behind a tree,he realized what had taken place. Stretched on tiie ground was Hie body of his favorite dog, and on top of it, rend ing and fearing its tlesh was a big panther lashing his side with his long tail/ a little way off lay tW other dog completely disembowel ed in the last agonies of death; two bullets from Mr. Gale’s rille settled the panther, and then he advanced into the little open space where the fight had taken place. After bury ing his dogs and skinning the pan ther, lie looked about to see what direction he should fake to get back to his horse. While lie was bus} 7 with the panther heavyr clouds had rolled up, and now the sun was hidden so that he felt some doubt as to the direction he should take/ lie thought, however, that he knew the way he came, so he struck out bravely 7 enough for home Before he had gone very tar he found the ground getting softer and became convinced that he was go ing in the wrong direction. Sever al times he changed his course, but all bis efforts seemed only to lead him deeper into the swamp. Soon it grew dark and the distant mutterings of approaching thunder filled the air. The deep shallows of the trees added to the darkness and he began falling into mud holes and striking against trees which he was unable to see. Sud denly with a great roar the storm broke. ‘‘Tiie skies and the earth seemed joined by a sheet ef wafer tnrough which ihe forked lightning darted like great serpents of fire. Blinded and dazed by the force of the storm 110 still staggered forward. The weight ot his drenched clothes seem ed t > hold him back, and the fear of the falling frees drove him on. Every instant lie was in danger of being struck down and crushed. The branches of trees whirled past him and big pieces of bark struck him in the face as the force ot the wii.d drove them along. “Suddenly something sirnefe him on the head, tie felt himself borne down by an irresistible weight and lost cent sciousness. When he came to himself the storm was over; be could hear the distant mutterings of the thunder, but over his head the stars were shining. Beside him lay the bough of a tree which mast have struck him as he fell. The deluge of rain had filled the swamp with water, and he found he was lyiEg in a pond. Painfully be and again b-gau to stagger about ifl search of a resting place. At hot the ground under his feet grrv? firmer, lie had reached a little rise in the swamp and tell exhausted. As Lis body touched the ground, however, E telt something crawl from nnd°r him. He put out his hand and felt the cold ho ly or a snake sdp from under Li . fingtrs. Again be sprang up and went a little further, only to sink again. Then on all sides or him be h*ard a rushing and hissing, and realized th.w the waur having driveu all thesn-T.ei bom thtir helps, they Lad sought she] ter on this high gmun 1. via wai afraid tc move, almoA afraid ro breathe, for tear that he might be bit. ien. He felt the slimy thipgs craw! over h m and twine about bis legs, and yet he had the nerve to kpes per fectly still. One serpeLt even drew its folds about bis neck and nestled its head under bis float. Hour after hour bo lay there till the day dawned, and with the light the snakes began to leayehim. When at last ho felt him self tree he sprang to his feet with a wild yell and rushed back into the swamp. Insane with fear he ran on, fortunately in the right direction, for he was found lying in the road in a tit by some gentlemen from Boichester who had gone in search of him. Since that Uay he has had seysral fits, and h s been suffering tmm nervous pros t atiou. He ie perfectly harmless, bur. i‘ he is left alone for a moment the seen* at the snakes come back to him aid he suffers terribly, lie is going to Philadelphia to try the rest oure and I take it, gentlemen, that anybody else who had gona through what ho has would need some kind of cure.”—[L. M. W. in Constitution. Bared His Arm. SedalD, Mo., June 2” —The tele graph yesterday contained the particu lars of a man front Arkansas who off erod to be bitten by a mad deg belong i..ig to Dr, Smalls ot this place, for five hundred dollars, but the doctor backed out. But the Arkansas naan was not to be put off in this manner. Having been knocked out of the coveted five hundred dollars he determined, never theless, to prove his faith in madstooes. Seeking Dr. White for a witness he proceeded to Dr. Small’s residence. Thete he gained access to the rabid an imal. The dog was writhing horribly, foaming freely and snapping viciously. It was in tho midst of a terrible con vulsion and evidently in the last stage ot rabies. The rash man boldly bared his arm, deliberately stepped up to the furious animal and received a bite. The animal buried its venominous fangs in tbe flesh of the man’s arm, bit out a chunk ot flesh, leaving a gap ing, ghastly wound. The dog died in convulsions fifteen minutes later. Tb< man repaired to Dr. White’s office and applied the doctor’s mad stone. It adhered several times. The man had his wound bound up, and expressed himself as satisfied that ho would re cover speedily and safely. • Though the dog was dead this was not the end of Dr. Small’s propositions. Acceptances began to pour in, not only by mail, but by telegraph, up to date he has had to pay several dollars in receiving telegrams. Amorg those who telegraphed was a woman in Kansas City who wanted to be bit ten. She asked if women came under the rules of the proposition and want ed to come on the next train if so. J. W. Dickbon of Kansas city, the own er of a madstone, wrote by mail and wanted to be bitten. He wanted tiie dog taken to Kansas City, and offered to put up a forfeit of one thousand to bind him to be bitten. In case D . Small would not or could not take th dog to Kansas City be signified his willingness to come to the dog affi f ring his madstone with hioi. Mr Dickson claims to have cured 1,320 people bitten by mad doga with l e single nradstone in twenty years. His stone was brought by his father Irom Ireland, and can be traced back, he says, to the year 1719. He further wrote to Dr. Small and returned tho challenge. Tho naan who was bitten is well and hearty new, but fea.rs are enter tained for hie future. Dr. Small thinks his mind is a r fected. —[Athens Banner. Few Millinery Si ass James T. 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