Arizona republican., 1900-11-11
TASTED, YET STILL LIVED.
The More This Negro Stopped Eating
the Taller he b5came.

At the last term of counrt held at
Pear tse. Kansas, Abner Enyard, an
aged negro ar1 deacon of the church
frequented by his race. was convicted
of having stolen chickens from a
neighboring farmer, sonle of the evil
dence against him being a well prov
en- fact in the form of an undue in
crease in the size of the f6atherceds
and pillows used by the Enyard house
hold.
81 can't explain. Marsa,'' the prisoner
pleaded. lust how those pillows swoie
up but 1 reckon it's de efficacy of
prayer"
This defense had no weight with the
judge, and Enyard was sentenced to
six months in Jail.
I'll never eat again until I'm free,
the old man groaned as he was taken
away and lodged in one of the ordinary
five by eight cells.
He kept his word, but the jailor.
Buck Reed, who vainly served his
charge chicken and watermelon, MOTTO
ed that in the course of two weeks En-
yard seemed TO have inccea-ed in length
as he diminished in breadth.
why" said Reed, earnestly, in the
barroom of the city hotel. ''he is
stretching out SO that last night 1 had
to knock out a couple of bars of the
cell door SO that he could put his feet
out when he laid down. If he don't be-
gin to eat pretty soon the county will
have to buy tunnel to keep him in
The prisoner continued to fast and 10
lengthen faster Reed knocked out a
few granite blocks at the head of En-
yards cot, his feet having reached
across the corridor and up against the
cell doors of the prisoners awaiting eH-
ecution, and who, in the circumstances,
discharged their attorneys, withdrew
all appeals for clemency substituting
petitions for immediate execution. En-
yard was one of the signers. though
Qualifying his act by stating he d2;cst-
ed all enemies of expansion. Finally
Enyard 'renigged," as whist players
say, and began TO eat. He said that an
inspiration came to him, but the JAN
physicians insisted that it was just
plain case of hunger, and the more
food the prisoner consumed the sooner
his shrinNage in length became no.
ticeable All fish, flesh and fowl looked
alike to the prisoner, and great activi-
ty on the part of Reed and his assist
ants was visible.
Got any putty%' the jailor demand
ed of the keeper of the general store,
one evening, breathlessly; 1.-The darkey
is still eating. and before | could get
the bars and stones replaced he Shrunk
up so that the key hole would be big to
him. Hal Ha, Let us be merry. I'm
a whole block of Boxers. and we'll all
play tag. I'm it and don't care who Lii
Hung with which eloquent but IN
coherent valedict3ly the eminent Off
Ger resigned his position in favor of a
minor one in the Leavenworth asylum
for the insane, whose duties consist
only of taking his prescribed medicine
and no steps whatever when strapped
to his cot"
'"Tis a. bit funny to outsiders" ad-
mitted Jake Kabler. chairman of the
county commissioners, after corrooora-
ting these statements to a reporter for
the Press, but I've found out how it
all came about Enyard used to work
for a broker in Wall street, New York,
and as his employer was a bear he
always went long on famine and
short on prOsperity.-New York Press.