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THEANACONDA STANDARD: SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER U, 1890.
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THESNAKfc CHARMED THE MANAGER SC^THAT HE COULDN'T^MOVE-A STRANGE MONSTER OF HISTORY.
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IFEVER a man's hair stixxl on end^through fright tliat hair belong* to^James E. Irwin, assistant manager^of the electric light works of I'Uin-^fleld, N. J.
Hehad an ex|^crienco the other night^which he will recollect until his dying^day. Keeling tired he luy on the Iming-,.^in his ofllce and was just doling off iM^^a pleasnnt little sleep when heard/ a^rustle among the waste |Miper \nf the^hasket. /
Lookingat the basket Mr. lr^ in Iyf.,.,,,,^.^transtlxed. and the sight he beheld/started^the cold |^erspir^ttion from every/pore in^his skin.
Ahuge snake was slowly glinting otrer^the tap. When its tail reached the floor^it coiled its body and swayed/jta head, its^glisU-ning black eyes being 7, v.,| on Mr^Irwin.
Thatgentleman ^ n-h.-.f,,,M.:,r,.,| lo lose^all control over his armsA^p, aI11| lMM|y.^He could not rise from tl/0 lounge and he^shouted for help, but Abe noise of the^^iiiachinery in the bis| room adjoining^^Wowned his cries. TZp ^nake then im-^edtled itself, and, wiu, Hinu^iis motion,^started for the lountjj..
Thespell over mr, Irwin seemed to Ih^^broken, and seeing a big wrench on a^shelf the ircnt^man jiim|^od off the^lounge and ma-|e for it. The snake saw^the act, and tl,en ensued an awful battle.^Irwin aimed 0 blow with the wrench at^the snake's 'pt-ad and missed it, but hit^the reptile u,,, the hotly. Three successive^times did Air. Irwin try to deal the fatal^blow, but ((.aeli time failed.
Withit^ body crushed where the wrench^had rally,,, ^|le reptile writhed and twisti-d^in a vai.n endeavor to reach its enemy,^who wa.H now dodging around the room,^keepirfK c|enr.^1'le. ofllce is a small room with one^its ^1 if aK ^^d as the snake was lietween him^^^^^^^ AlMhe door. Irwin was a prisoner.
tichinghis chance, he suddenly rushed^rut-class famllvt^) ciOIH, quarters, ami by a well-directed
IHnop on Fir^lP^ow cr,l8liel1 t,le ^'^uke''' ^ei^' u1^' ^*'^1,^l
Mr.Irwin then called some of the men,
JA.H' and together they measured Hie dead^^reptile. It wus seven feet one inch long,
andthe body was as thick as a man's^arm. Those who saw it did not recognize^its species.
IJMf/MM 1 ^^^^
InMarch, 17^J4, a frightful creature,^which 1'ierre Despaire says was a mix^^ture of man, licar and wild boar, made its^appearance near Gevaudan in France,^says the St. Louis Hi-pxiblic. During the^summer several provinces were terrorized^by the awful deeds of the uncanny^creature, which, notwithstanding its many^depredations, managed to keep out of^sight until ubout the middle of the De^^cember following, when a peasant woman^claimed to have met n monstrosity of the^most frightful kind, having the IkmI.v of^an alligator, the tail of a lion, the claws of^a wolf and the horrid, mocking laugh of a^Umishing hyena. *
Iccordingto this woman's story, the^beast had the head of a man, with the^skin so tightly drawn drawn over it as to^give it the apoearan.ee of a death-head,^the eye* being BB deeply sunk in their^sockets as to be invisible although the^creature stood directly in front of her.^The women told her story in the village^but was disbelieved until the following^morning, when it was ascertained that^two little girls and a hoy, who had gone to^a pasture with some goats, were missing.^In the afternoon of the following day the^bead of the Ixiy was found ill a ravine.^No other trace of their wherealiouts was^ever discovered.
Thepeople were now completely panic-^strk ken, and they would search for the |^creature only in Mpiadsof twelve or more,^fearing to separate lest the brute would^devour them. The legislature of Laugue-^doc offered :i,(X)U livres for the animal's^head, actually sending out a detachment^of mounted soldiers in search of it. In^January, l'lio, only about three weeks^after the boy and the two little girls were^killed by the thing, it attacked some chil^^dren who were herding sheep in the^mountains, but all escaped, |^crhaps by^the brute taking a feast of mutton instead.^The day but one following it appeared^again, this time carrying off one of the^children.
Itwas next heard of in the vicinity of^Mezel, where it carried oil' one woman^and several children, besides, an old ac^^count says, ^taking the heade cleane uv a^man.'' The Cazettt dr France published^a full account of these ravuges in Febru^^ary, 1705, and the king offered li.UXJ livres^t'^ the p rionor persons that would Mf*^ture it. Captain Diihamel of tin-dragoons^organised a general hunt, dressing his^men as women and having them attended^by children. The hunt wus a failure and^the desolator kept up his ravages during^the spring and summer of 17tH^, until Si-p-^temlier '3i of that year, when it was killed^by Sieur Bernhardt. No one was allowed^lo wi- the creature except Hi^ mounted^guards under the Duke of ^ Means.
Itis believed even to this day that it was^a creature unknown and unheard of, not^^withstanding two re|^orls, one of which^said it was a black lion, the other that it^was a Russian wolf, neither of which^seems likely when it is known that it^killed and carried off not less thun (if^men, women and children from Decem^^ber, 17iil, to September, 1 ^^*^.^^.
Killedlly Her IVIs.
Asingular character, by name Martha^Ann Tills,hi. and who was known as ^the^snake woman,^ died near here rii-ciitly,^says a Salem, Va., speciul to the l'itis-^burg l)i*i^ati lt. She lived in a little cabin^at the foot of Twelve O'clock Knob and^led a hermit's life, having no one to share I^her alxslc except snukes. Hy the few who^were ever allowed to sec the interior of^her cabin it is said to have literally j^swarmed with her strange companions, .^with which she ate and slept, and which I^were to lie seen lying in her bosom and 1^coiled about her Neck, Issly and limbs^whenever she was cuught sight of.
Herextraordinary predilection for these^unpleasant creatures is supposed to have I^arisen from a morbid feeling that she was,^like them, hated of men, for, naturally de^^formed, she rci'civcd m addition an in^^jury to the spine while an infant, and,^though |s^rfectly soim I m mind, was of so^sensitive a nature as to render her misi r-^nbleand uneasy in the presence ^^f any^but her imrents. She was td^*^rvp^l to^steal away every day with a can of^milk, ami on hcing followinl was found^to he caressing a dozen or so hideous rat^^tlesnakes, while they drank from the ves^^sel which she held hi her lap. Ilorrilled,^her |uirents tried to reason with her, then^lo iHiuisb, and dually to confine her in an^endeavor to break her of her fondness for
u^^ 'diey feared she would die if kept^^^M them.
'newas a little, fair woman of about^with sandy hair, very' abundant and^^7vng, which she wore in a number of tight^plaits, which, combined with her deform^^ity and the odd, miscellaneous style of^dressing, the result of her refusal to hold^communication with a fellow-beingserved^to make her most remarkable looking^object. She wus looked upon as a witch^by the negroes about, who declared her to^he posses ted of the evil eye, and hated^and feared her accordingly, though her^life was a most harmless one. Mie had^been dead some days when discovered,^and her Imily was literally covered by a^writhing muss of snakes, which had to Is.'^killed before it could Ih^ removed, for the^reptiles turned viciously on all approach^^ing the remains, t )n her heart was found^coiled a huge rattlesnake dead.
ATilrlIIIhi; h^perlenr^.^Jesse Jones, a fanner living near I'old^Springs, ten miles west of Lawreticeburg.^I ml., passed through a most thrilling ex^^perience the other evening while at work^binding wheat on his farm, says the Cin^^cinnati A'lK/uirrr
Hehad stooped to gather a sheaf of^wheat in his arms to bind it, and while^holding the bundle to his breast for that^pur|X)se a large black snake glided from^the sheaf of grain and encircled his neck.
Ashe felt its cold, clammy body tight^^ening its folds around Ins throat he^dropped the liunilleof wlie.itand excitedly^clutched the rapidly enfolding reptile^with Isith hands. He strove to tear it^from his neck. This increased the rage^of the snake and twice it bit him -once on^the arm and once on the hand, at the^same tune throwing a coil of its body^around the arm and with its strong folds^pinioning the limb and drawing it ( lose^to his neck, rendering it useless.^Jones, fully realizing the terrors of^his situation and unable to scream in^a loud voice, struggled with the^unrestrained arm to keep the furi^^ous snake from choking him to death by^gripping it near the head, holding the rep^^tile so as to prevent it from biting him^again and weakening its- powers of^squeezing the breath out of him. He^start to run in that condition to unother^part of the Held where his father and Mr.^Hossoiig wen- working. The men spied^the young fellow coming hurriedly tie^wards them, and, divining from his^strange actions that something was^wrong, hastened to meet Mm. Nor did^they reach him any Pmi soon, for with the^heat, excitement and struggle be was un^^dergoing, the poor fellow's strength was^fast falling him, and to have fallen or^loosened his hold ii|x^n the squirming^twisting snake would have enabled it to^have exerted its full strength and have^tightened its powerful coils alsmt his^neck, choking him to death. So (Irmly^had it entwined its Ixsly nlsmt the^young man's throat that the two men^could not easily uncoil its strong folds.^The father drew his jiocket knife and cut^the living necklace in twain. When re^^leased tlie unfortunate victim was so^weak that he could scarcely stand, and^had to be assisted to the house. His hand^ami arm were bitten and swelled to an^imiiKxlerate size, but as the bite of a black^snake is not poisonous no serious appre^^hension is felt on that account. With home^remedies freely applied the wounds un^^expected to cause no inconvenience after^a few days's soreness.
Thellercencss of the n-ptile and its^stubborn, aggressive light against tin^^man was considered unusual, but^several old farmers acquainted with^the ix-culiarities of this strange snake^say that hot weather, and thirst^make that species of n-ptile fiercely sav-^ugc, and that it is not infrequent for them^to attack man and Ix-ast. ^ Iften they will^coil themselves about the legs of u cow^and hold the animal in place until they^have extracted from her tulderull the milk^their appetite craves.
Afterseeing Jones to his home and^caring for him, the men returned to the^Held and measured the dead snake, and^found its length to Ik- li feet and 1 inch.
Jonesdeclares that no money could^ever induce him to undergo again tin-^tortun- he endured during twenty minutes^he was almost helpless in the embrace of^ins snakeship, and says that at tunes it^seemed us if his eyeballs would burst^from their sockets. ()nly by keeping his^presence ot mind was he able to n-sist the^dizzy feeling that preceded unconscious^^ness, which he knew would allow tin-^snake to unresistingly choke the life out^of bun.
ThoughtThey llsil Caught tlie Ilevll.
Theremay not lie any of the big sea^sens-tits that sailors tell alxmt but Cap^^tain Green, who commands the three-^masted schooner, Abby 11. Gti-i-ii, knows^there are small ones, for he has caught^and eaten two of them, says a Philadel^^phia special to the St. Louis llepulilu . He^Ill-ought in his vessel to-duy from George^^town with a cargo of luinlx-r and anchored^oil Kaign Point. When he came ashore^he told Ins story. Captain Green, to sub^^stantiate his statements, invites all who^are skeptical to come aboard and exam^^ine the skin anil heads of the serpents,^which ho has pit served. The greater^|k^rtiollof their Mesh was eaten by Captain^Gn-cn ami his en-w, and nil agree that it^uns tin sweetest meat they had ever^t isp-d.
Iwas just oil Cape Hattoras light on^June 21,^ the skipper said, ^when strange^monsters were seen pluying around the^vessel.
CaptainGn-en got some very heavy coil^lilies, baited the hooks and went llshing.^No sooner were the hues over the vessel's^stern than one of the |^cculiar tish began^to gnaw ut the bait. It was in less tune^than it would take to tell the tale that the^fish was caught and hauled on Ixtunl the^shin by the combined efforts of the whole^Hffi When the catch wus landed on^deck it jiuii|m-d from one side to the other.^It wus iKmsesscd of wonderful strength.^Captain Green chop|^ed its head off and^even then for several minutes it kit ked up^a great disturbance. After this one was^dressed Captain Green tried his luck^again. The sea wus quite smooth and^not a breath of air was to he hud, and tin-^water was clear. Soon u monster took^tin- bait and give u j,-rk that nearly^pulled Captain Green over the taffruil.^He sang out for help and several^of the i-iTW came to help him^haul in the fish. The fish fought^lik^ a tarp^x^n, sometimes jumping out^of the water and then diving down under^^neath the Vessel's Isitlolll. For fully
tlurtyminutes Captain Green and crew^struggh-d to ^ver|xiwer this strange ani^^mal of the sea. but at I 1st tlie line parti d^and it e*ca|Msl.
-s,.,,nafu-r lie caught another llsh like^the first and ate it Captain Green de-^scrilx-d the serpent as firing eight fii t^long ami weighing about ISO p^Hiuds. its^body in parte closely resembled that of u^j fish, on a much larger scale, but it
hadan enormous bead. The eyes were^like those of a human being, end some of^the sailors believed they had hacked the^head of the devil till convinced such could^not he the case. Captain Green says the^voyage just completed was a remarkable^one. He harpooned quantities of large^dolphins and brought them on board.
Thosewho know Captain Gn-en place^every confidence in bis story, and while^many disbelieve in the existence of the^sea ser|h-nt, they think it extremely pn^h-^able that he has discovered a new species^of flsh.
Knakr*a^ I ^^...!.
OnSnake creek, a few miles alxive its^mouth, an old man of the uame of dial-^ker lives all alone who is so familiar with^the snakes that by common consent he is^^ alle^l Snake Chalker, writes a Montmse,^N. Y., correspondent of the New York^Sun. His large farm lies along the cn-ck,^extending up on cither side to the very-^top of the hills. On one occasion, while^passing that way, the writer hitched his^horse at the gate and went in to sis- him.^Hanging up till around the old-fashioned^lln-place I observed what up|x-an-d to lx-^dressed eels, pn-puring for the table,^i bey were exceptionally large of their^kind, and 1 asked where In- cuught such^large eels.
KelsV^said he. ^Those art- my rattle^^snakes.''
Andwhat an- you going to do with^them'.'
Eatthem. They an- much liner than^cel.^ fussing towanl bis back door, he^said:
Comeout ami see w hat I have in the^yanl.
Inthe yanl were snakes by 'he scon-;all^kinds, but blncksnakes ami rattlesnakes^in gn at mimls-rs. How he caught them,^bow he put them when- they wen-, he ex^^plained us follows:
^1oil see tiles,, tubs, as I call them, ill^which I keep them. These an- hollow logs^sawed off alxiut ten feet long, burned out^and made smooth inside, so the snakes^can't get out. I place one cud i f the log,^or tub, about live feet ill the ground. 1^then put the snakes down about twenty^or thirty in each tub, and keep them,^feeding them every duy until 1 want to^use them. Snakes, you know, come out^of their dens on warm, pleasant days and^lie on the nx-ks to sun themselves. I cut a^small stick with u crotch at one end. I ap^^proach tli- in quietly, and placing the^i-mil h on tin- snake's ueek, hold it (irmly^down until I put a stout pin through his^lips. Then, twisting it about so he can't^oix-n his mouth or bite, I 1111 my pockets^or a basket and take them home and re^^plenish my tubs. When I want a snake^to eat or sell I slip a tloose over his head^and bring him up.
INTHE MORNING.
Whenl mi nun' nuiriiUrsfer to light the kitchen
Ire,
An'watca the bias* go creeoia' up tin- ehlMM|^higher an' higher,
Asnappin' an' h-it:ii klin' ^ ith i-vhih latin' mar,
\senile ew tin- wmmmm eWi eereei the
MMffceoileer.^An' 1 kneeldowe loteefl m^ ririM en' rah iu
hornybauds.^An' us- tin- sparks u-tliishin^ hack from ranlhei'
liin\pans.
Myli-ehn s gut-s to wurhliii' like a lilnchinl mi a^^Dire
Wlli'llI gi t HBO' lllnruills'fat In light thi'kiti'llell^the.
An'then tin- room gels gixsl all' n nil, the kettle
startshi bin-^All' iniitlu r |mtiers dewn the staus mi Man'san'
yawnsawhile.^An' sc.- ^Now, nap, ymi go an' roust- tIn-Ill
sleepyIsiys a ynurs,^Knr it's kiiiis In an' lucre s hits In ihi lu-stiles the
inniinn' ^horee.
Allthen sin- hreshes up the hearth with that^0m thikv ^ ing
Aa'stoops an pulls her eloekie'l un ami Uel
'catwith a string.^An'TowKcr yawns iiii'^stielehi-s out mi acts u^ht It ihyer,
WhenI ge up u niiuniii i fcr to light the^klti In n lire.
An'when tin hejn BMM tronipin in an' neruiigi-
ainiin'an' spat.^An kn-k tin ilug so pike the lire an v t ilou ii
miiht- cat.
Thecolli c |mt's hilcil n\er an' the In*'nil 's^sti-ainiu' Imt.
Tinsassnigi-^ just brown meegh,thehraeklhol
t.lhle'sMil,
An'mother sez, -'Ketch up tlie cheers.^ ami
poursthe entice nut^My cup runs over with p Joj the rest don't know
UlHHIt;
KOfthe hii'ssin's of th^ l.oid to inc's a dally
drawin'mgher^When 1 git up o inornin's rer to light the kitchen
tire.
K'dicfn^'. Il^i,l.im, in Jint(/i^MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
MissIh-atrieeCaniertili has returned and^will again be ., memlx.^r of tin1 Richard^Mansfield company.
liichanlMaiislleld continues to do a re^^markably line summer business ,,l the^Mudison Square theater.
J.W. Herlx-rt, the well-known come^^dian, has lx-cn engaged to cn-atc the role^of Christopher Columbus in Hice's^^World's Fair.
KatePtirsell is under contract to^Corbyn and next season will prix-ure a^new play in her equestrian drama,^^Oueeii of the Plains.
AnnieWant Tiffany is at her cottage at^llu/zanl's Hay, Mass., preparing for her^t.nir in ^The Stepdaughter,^ which o|k-iib^the middle of September.
ChristopherColumbus, jr.. Kishbaek.tin-^colored olllee seeker in lloyt's new play,^^A Texas Steer,^ is said lo be a character^full of keen satire on the |xdltii ^ of to^duy.
TheCrystal Slip|M-r,^ which is now^doing a large business at the ( Im ago^tipcru house, Ix-gins its mad se is.,n .it St.^Louis Septemlx-r 7, after which u gix-s^straight across the continent to San Fran-^cisco.
KgMMAbb-.tt is coming back this full^to paralyze the public with a new l.iffel^tower note which she has contracted ill^Paris, and u carload of new dress, ^ by^Worth. She has been studying with Mine.^Viunlot.
Schurwelika,the distinguished musi^^cian, is a|x-uditig purt of the summer on^the Hudson with American friends. He^sails for Kunqie on the ^1Hh to complete^arrangements for his Amcricun tour to^Ix-gtti in Jamiar}'.
Thedesign for the pni|s^^c^l monument^to Mozurt at Vienna w ill lx- the subject of^a prize coiii|H-titloll. The successful ih-^siguer will receive -,'^^' florins, ami the^-i ggai and thinl 1,0UU florins und flor^^ins ri specttvely.
ManagerDavid Peyser has just i hmed a^contract for an engagement of sn weeks^for Mr. I'.dwin Anh-n in ^liuglan's Way^^ut a London tbeatn- o|m-ning in Juiu . I*'l.^He will Is- supported by un Amei u an i mu-^l^any.
MissAdelc Ails der Ohe will return^fnim Furo|ie in September. She will^again lx- under tin- management of Wolf-^solin. who is now arranging for her south^^ern and western mule, which may possi^^bly extend to California.
MarcusH. Mayer and Itcnjauiin Stern^an-to Is-the managers of the new Pau^^line Hall opera co np.iny for a term of^two years. Miss Hall will open her sea^^son at the Walnut street ibcati r. Phlla-^delwbia. Sepu-iulier L^J, producing ^Am-^orits.
THATSARATOCA TIGER
HowThey Gamble at America's lost^FamoDs and Fashionable Spa.
TheyWant a Remlnlecenco of Mo^^naco, and So They Tacklo the^Whoel In Preference to the^Native Came of Faro.
Pi5
'AIKof ghosts havctermrized the^n-sidents in the ueighborhiXMl of^Yaiidcventer and Kvans avenues^former a week, says the St. Loiiih (Uubc^gsMseeitg4,
Fiomall that can lx- gleaned on the^subject the apparitions an- those of a^bride und groom in full dn-ss. The ludy^is tall and has handsome, though some^^what attenuated featun-s. The gnxim is^rather under medium height, with very^bmad shoulders, a id is heudless.
Punctuallyat Ko'chx-k every evening^tln-se who liup|h'ii to Is- lookingtow.ini^tin- southeast corner of Vaiuh-venler and^Kvans avenues an- startled by the sudden^ap|x^araiice of the bride. Without sound^of fo.it or rustic of garment she is there,^and faces the north. She stands in this^position until ii ;^l o'chx-k without making^a motion. While thus nxtted to the gntuml^a buggy has polled over her und stones^have bgggj hurled straight at her ami have^passed through the shadowy composition^unimpeded in their (light.
Cries,lights, missiles and the pniximity^of human beings un- alike |s^werless to^stir her. At tunes, however, when the^whim seems to (sissess her nhaii'.om mind,^she will fade away on the sight like moist-^un- fi. un u window pane. Then,in another^second, she will lx- then- again, looking^toward the north.
AtIhill the companion wraith comes Ag^tin scene fnun tlie direction of Pruine^avenue. He trudges down Cvatis ,,venue^ill the middle of the road, sw inging his^arms vigomuxly. Once in u while a^sound like the rolling of a pebble seems^to come from Iveneath his well-slnsl fis-t,^but as to this his watchers an- not cer^^tain. When he reaches a point opposite^the ludy be wheels around, ami approach^^ing within a couple of feet, seems^to engage ill conversation with her.^How he manages to talk without a^head it is dillicult to say, but his actions^clearly show that he does, ami by his^companion's animated gestures the^subject upiK-urs one of no sin;,|| iiiqxirt^to her.
Afterconversing for eight or ten min^^utes the woman seems to nluee her denial^il|siu the question discussed bv shaking^her head ami bringing her hands together.^Her palms make no BOOM on tin- night^air. I'lien. apparently their tete-u-tetg is^at an end, for suddenly the groom disap^^pears. Whether he llouts off in the upper^air, is swallowed hy Mother I'.arth.or gis s^OUI like ti candle (lame, no one can say.^The bride ghost hesitates a second as if^^^deckled us lo her mode of exit, and^then glides down the mud toward Prairie^avenue, and is lost sight of when opposite^the rear end of the Citizens' railroad car^sheds. What strange mystery surrounds^this couple the trance mediums alone will^lx- able to n-vcal.
Thetestimony of eye witnesses . inter^^esting and seemingly conclusive. Mrs.^Janu s Young is a quiet, matronly lady of^|x-rhaps 4o years of age, the mother of a^healthy faintly of boys and girls, and W% i-^deutly far above the siveruge in intelli^^gence. She is the last person one would^license of misrepresentation of facts or of^flighty imagination. She lives with her^husband and unmarried children ut I ^ .1 A^Vaiideveiiter avenue and her bouse ,. al^^most opposite the corner where the mys^^terious spirits meet.
Che first time that 1 saw the beings,^^said Mrs. Young, ^was un Sunday even^^ing. It week ago. My daughter AIIllo- und^my sou A11 m it wen' with me ut the sec-^oud-story window. It was ubout - o'chx-k^and just dark. The electric light on Fus^^ion aveinu- sin ii its ruys to this corner^und half u block Ix-yolid us to the south.^1 In-aril a buggy rattling down toward us^from Fusion avenue, and looking 1 saw^that two men wen-in it. both dressed in^black. The horse thul pulled the vehicle^wus while. As they neanil the corner
theyreined so as to puss east of the lamp^post ami thus esca|h- the torn up street.^As you can see, the teamsters have worn^a mad for themselves through the lot.^The horse was going ut u pn-lty gixxl^puce. Suddenly one of the men gave a^loud, shrill whistle, as i( to warn some one^to get out of the wuy. Throwing^my glance in the direction of the^lamp |Mist on the corner I uiv-n lull^lady dressed in while standing then-,right^in the path of the wagon. I shivered, in^spite of myself, lest she W'ollhl he run^over. The mull in the buggy g.-V^iuuothcr^whistle und piilh-d back mi ins lines with^all his might. It was too lute. The buggy^wheel struck the lady squarely, but to my^amazement seemed to meet no resistance^there. After the wheel had gone through^hershestiHsl exactly us Ix-fon-, with her^large eyes gazing ut the north. The man^who had whistled juui|s i|out of the wagon^and hurried back to pick up the supposed^injun-d woman. His attitude of astonish^^ment when he found her seemingly safe^and whole was ludicrous in the extn-me.^After apologizing for his mistake the man^MUnped into the rig and drove oft^. Hut^he kept looking buck ut every few turns^of the wheels to get unother View of the^phenomenon.
We ^^ re all dillllfiillluleil ut the ix-cur-^n-uce. My children Isith usscrlcd that^the win-el hud driven right through her^white Ixsly, and I saw it as surely as I^stand lu re now ' Hut that spirit, or what^^ever she is, stI there as unconcerned us
ifbeing cut tip by whet Is and the like wus^an every-day all .nr.
WeBlood at that window and watched^that thing for a gmxl space over an hour.^Along about IWo'clock the man cone^down Fvulis cveiiue und ^to|i|s-d by the^lamp post. Then they seemed to talk,^Intl. would you believe it, he did not have^a sign of a licad ! It was just as if a big^knife had Is eli used and had lopped his^neck oil close to the shoulders. Hut no^bio si seemed to Is- there. When- the^head had lx-cn it seemed, in the uncertain^light, to Is- com red by bis shirt. His^swallow-tail coat seemed to tit him like a^glove, und displayed a bmad white und^polished shut bosom.
Theytalked there a few minutes and^then he went nut like .1 candle, or, uny-^how, went into nothing right Ix-fon- our^eyi - The bride tln-u slowlv moved to^^wanl Prairie avenue and at i -ngth faded^out of sight w hen ulsiut *) teet from the^corner.
W'chave watched for thul couple's^coming every night now, and wen- only^disappoint)*! mice. That was on Kriduy,^when it ruined. The children don't seem^to be afraid of the ghosts, and sit up them^III the windows to watch llietn as if their^ix-rformauce wus something like FMirth^of July fireworks. I i my own put I^don't know what to think. I'm no spirit^^ualist and have never U lieveil ill spirits re^^turning to the earth. Hut these are not^mortals, that is certain. What they are^and when- they come fnun is a question 1^should like to have solvtsl for me.
ReliableRiding!
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*AND THEit-
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Trainsrun every jo minutes mornino; and evening, and every^halt hour from S:2o A. M. to 5:30 P. M.
FAREONLY TEN CENTS.
Fiftytickets for 54.50 at the office of the Electric Railway in
theStandard buildiag,
Employedat the Lower Works can purchase books of 50 tickets
for$4.do at the Lower Works office.
CARSRUN STRICTLY ON TIME.
focdbn - |The Northern Pacific K. R.^Miltary Academy,
OgdenCity, Utah.^0
AFIRST-CLASS SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
C.L. HOWARD, Supt.
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Buggies,Harness
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LIYERYAND FEED STABLES
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9Elegant Through Trains 0^[adaily. U
MakiUKit^- fastest time to ail points^Kasl aud West,
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ElegantFirst aid Second-class Coacb.es.
rvrrjrthrough train.
First-ClassTurnouts and Mod^^erate Charges.
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