The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-02
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Singular lraitk of Nature.

A correspondent OF the Cincinnati Times
Star, writing from Lexington, Kentucky,
says: Yesterday your correspondent was
introduced 20 Isasc Arbnckle. member OF
the United States marsha's posse, who
have inst returned from n reid III search OF
noonsniua whisky manufacturers in the
mountains OF Eastern Kentucky. Arbuckle
was waiting tor a train to take him 70 his
homo ia Carter county, aud vixen iutSEro'
gated stated that the revenue raid was al
most barren OF results, but tact no had
made discovery while prowllns among
the mountains down below Batooufviiie
that no felt sure would be Of interest TO
newspaper readers. His story, IL ms own
words, WIS rs iollOwe:
"rwo days after leaving barbouryilie L
spent the night at the cabin OF a poor farm
er among the hills, and duiins social
family ersaiion. IN which L partiolpa-
ted, after supper, some one intellectually
spoke OF Hector Davis, the man without
conee.' 1 immediately asked what was
meant by the expression, when my host
explained that Hector Davis was one OF
their 'neighbors,' living some three miles
further on among the mountains, and the'
he actually had not u bone In his body. AS
/ expressed some skepticism, he volnn'
teered TO show me over TO Hector's the
next morning. We knocked at the door o.
the Davis cabin about o o'clock the next
tentiun upon entering was middle-nged
man sitting bolt upright aud supported ny
a rude aud peculiarly shaped frame work
"He wss introduced 10 Inc Ms Hector Dayi:
[ nj once entered into conversatioI with
him, and discovered him to BIO man OF fail
intelligence, and esger 10 tell all about
nirnself, In voice that was as strong az
my own. grosped MS honG upon htst
entering, but his fingers a'l rolled up like n
cabbage Leaf in Il mushY sort OF way tha'
m sde me clad TO let 20 Of them. Taking
hold of hi: limbs thew yielded 10 the pres
sure until they we're hittened OUT to twice
their proper width. Tne orly Indication
OF bone was in the skull, which, whls Pill
able elmos. rs shoe'leather, still onored b
kind OF protection 10 inc po.r fellows
brain. -,
"His neck WINS Timber as dish-cloih, and
when his head was released from its SUD
port, which was something IN the shape OF
a similar c,utrivance used In photograph
galleries, 1t rolled htloiessly about upon
his shoulders like football. HIS arms
drouped At his sice, snd with the uid oil the
forearm, although the hand curled over
limply and gave the whole sort Of zigzag
shane. He shuflled off nis slipper. and re-
ouested me TO step on his foot. ! did 30,
and it at once spread itself out until IL LOOK
ed ~ IL railroad train had passed over II.
1t slowly resumed It's natural shape, but /,
vas fully half hour before he was .b!e 10
get he loot in the slipper sgein.
"'Psrhaps you would ike 10 Tie 10Y Ieg III
q knoip he suggested:
II found no difficulty in performing this
feat, while my friends accom- plished me
same with the other leg, and alter We had
also tied knots in both his arms he present.
ed very knotty problem, indeed, and one
that would have set a professional oontor'
ZIONIST crazy.
when we had unraveled all the knots
and streightened his limbs again. he re-
auested us to lift him gently from bis
framew work and place him upon the loor.
This we found no easy task. for
his body slipped shout in our
arms like an eel, and 1t was only by secur-
ing firm grin upon his clothing that we
finally succeeded in strengthening him out
upon the floor, and then my friend, who
seemed TO thoroughly understand the bone.
less mAu's programme, seized barrel
standing near, and which 1 afterwards
learned contained turnips, ana swiftly up
ending IL, at once proceeded TO roll Z over
the PROSTATE Davis, from his toes up to his
chin and bsck again to MS. mis- t 10y e., b, ,,s
w.s when the barrel passed over his heart
and lungs, but Is left him In horrible
shape. can only describe 1t By comparing
h 10 that OF a man made OF mud and then
thrown ND and tiattened sgaiust q wall.
Int h ad no time 10 contemplate his nat
ne So. AZ he amos. Immediately called to us
in a rather weak voice to roll him up
This We proceeded 20 do by doubling his
head over his chest aud then continuing 10
no him up as you would q carpet until
We came TO his feet, and he formed per-
fec. cylinder aboui as large around es a
half. barrel. A voice ieebly piped from the
centre Of the cylinder for us 10 unroll him,
and we soon had him once more spread out
over the floor.
awhile his body was resnming its former
shape, learned from his old. specialized
mother, who had sat during all these pro-
ceediugs Knitting in her rocking chair, that
Hector WHO was forty years old. had AWAY.
epioyed excellent hesltn and proyidso III
Tor her until the beginning Of his peculiar
sfiliction two years sro. lie fret observed
4 softeninS OF the zones OF the toes
aHd this rapidly 10 all parts Of
his auntomy.. although, beyond max
ing him helpless, he never expe'
rienced any inconvenisnce from II. All
his vital organs performed their iuuctions
properly, and she believed he would live TO
then IN the field At work, who assisted hel
in handling him. and altogether they gol
along quite comfortably. She did not know
what the doctors might think Of Hector. Is
she had not seen doctor no in them thai
friend and had replaced tue homeless man
10 his framework. We babe HIM good-bys
and came away.