The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-20
FOLLOWERS OF ANANIAs.
A Club Whose Members Vie with
Each other in Manifest FaIsehOod.


One Of the latest products of the rest
less Tenderloin district is an Ananlas
Club. The club meets at one of the larger
uptown hotels whenever the usual CLIQUE
gets together AS may be judged from
the name. the organization is one pledged
to the D splay OF manifest untruths.
The club is comparatively a new organ
ization, but the stories that have been
told at some of it's sessions show plainly
that many of the members were eligible
for admission to such an organization
long before the club was formed. To
join the club a man must be an ingenious
liar. Tales Of travel, scientific discover
les and stories of historical research pre-
dominate. Woe to the man who springs
story that does not smack of originality.
Lately the meetings have assumed a sort
Of progressive euchre appearance. The
club had leather medal struck off which
was presented to the champion liar. The
medal bore on it's face stamped repro
auction OF Ananias' features. While ii
may not have been a good likeness, the
ndelity to feature was vouched for by a
member of the organization, who bland
ly professed to have profile of Ananias,
done in petrihed salt and handed down
TO MIN through history by succeeding
generations.
Some of the stories, told are worth re-
peating. At a recent session held in
the cafe of the Hotel Brunswick there
was full attendance. The man who
wore the medal was at one time a judge
of the United States federal court and a
noted traveller. He was telling a story
as follows:
Some time ago 1 was travelling in
South America. / stopped at a hotel in
one of the inland cities, and as / wanted
to rise early / asked the landlord to
have me awakened at 6 o'clock in the
morning. l asked him if he had an
alarm clock. He. startled me by saying
that he did not, but that he had a lot of
rattlesnakes trained to wake people. All
you had to do was to lie down and at
the designated hour the snake would
let loose his rattle and keep it up until
you awakened. 1t struck me as an odd
arrangement, but said that If it was all
right ] would stand it. Accordingly, he
put a snake in my room, and after the
newness of the thing wore off / fell
asleep. / was Weakened about O'clock
by a great racket in the room. Through
the dim light I could make out a strug-
gle that was taking place in the room,
but could only discern one man. When
I made the situation out clearly l found
The snake had Immediately coiled itself
around his throat, and was slowly
stranglng. him, while it violently rang
its rattle for the police"
A dead silence settled over the little
group. None but a brave man would
have ventured TO open his mouth after
that. There was one, however, that did
dare and his narrative was as follows:
Two years ago, when l visited my
home on the farm in Vermont / dropped
my gold watch and chain on the grass.
Before l had time to pick ii up a calf
playing in the yard licked it up and swal-
| lowed it, Last week l was home again,
and the calf, now grown to a COW, was TO
be killed. 1 had grudge against it FOR
the loss of my handsome gold watch and
went out to see the execution. In cutting
up the COW. after the killing, the watch
was found. Imagine my surprise when I
found it was perfectly intact, running
all right and correct within a few sec
that in swallowing the chain the amman
had allowed ii to become fastened be-
tween its lungs. 1t was so fixed that each
time the animal breathed, the watch being
a stem-winder, the knob got a twitch and
this kept 1t continually wound up while
the natural grease from the animal kept
it well oiled and preserved"