Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-27
A BARRIERS FAIRY o
The Yarns JIs Tells 10 Distract the Atten-
,,o,, II Nervous Customers.

n Yarns u. Tells to Distract the Atten-
tiou If Nervous Customers.
oneof the artists in BILLY" Young's
tonsorial parlor on Deafssor2 street is
a nephew Of Ex-Governor itusk, 81
Wisconsin, now at the head Of the
new department in the cabinet, and,
though he bears the same name as the
Wisconsin man, there are those who
think he should be called Schehere-
zade, the tabled queen, who saved ler
life by telling the king, her husband,
such INDUSTRIOUS stories. Mr.. Rusk
may not be q worse barber than many
others, but for fear his razor may not
be in perfect shape, and to avoid any
possibility Of those whose temerity
leads them p iptrqst their lives " 9is
hands making any sort Of a kick, he
is wont to beguile them with stories Of
remarkable esterienc@ that Would
bu, Iron Munchausen 10 the blush.
0ne day recently he had a pa
tent in his chair whom he at once
recognized as beingextremely nervous,
and he at once proceeded TO soothe
him by relating how a man who has a
large stock farm down " tho soathara
m.r, u, nansas was continually mss
inc cattle from his herds, but Tor a
LONG time was unable TO discover what
became of them. Close Watching,
however, proved thatit was only wnen
the cattle went near a lake or en- m
mense slough for drink that the dis
appearances took place. Che affair
might have forever remained a mys>
terry had it not been for the oyerHSn-
fdence and perhaps extreme hunger
of the cattle thief. It had been noticed
that only the smaller cattle were
| missed. One day a watcher who
| Glanced to be near the lake saw a
great commotion in the water, as
though some terrible struggle was go
ing on beneath the surface. 1t lasted
only a short time, and then the whole
mystery was explained. Out of the
water came q most astonishing object.
II looked like the body of a gigantic
serpent writhing and twisting in a
horrible manner, its mammoth
laws opening and shutting with in
tense viciousness. About where the
neck should be two large horns were
seen protruding, and as the new ar
rival reached shallow water the hoofs
and part of the legs of a steer could be
seen slowly and laborious walking to
dry land.
The Zig was up" The serpent had
been before content to attack small
game that it could easily swallow, but
this time it found its master in the big
Texan. The steer had evidently been
swallowed at the first gulp, but had
struggled so fiercely that he had poked
his horns through above and kicked
holes through below with his feet and
had thus managed to reach the shore,
only, however, to die from suffocation
and exhaustion, buried in its loathsome
prison.
Another tale this imaginative bar
Der loves TO tell is that when he was
out west he one day fell into an old
abandoned mine. After going down
ever SO many hundred feet he landed
upon a bed composed of millions OF
black snakes. Finding himself unhurt
he at once began devising means Of
escape. A happy thought came tc
him. He seized one of the squirmine
reptiles and started it up the shaft; be
had a second one seize the first by the
! tail, and so on until the first was seen
disappearing at the opening. Keeping
fast hold Of the tail Of the last one, he
was drawn safely out to the open air.
With such yarns does Mr.. Rusk make
his patients forget the tortures they
may be undergoing. Chicago Herald.