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 As he slowly stretched himself out of a long glass box a crowd of peculiar looking people rushed away in fright. Where am I,' he asked, but Gas is customary in all such stories) the echo answered Where
 Then Jones in true bewndered style be- gan to take in his surroundings. He did not rub his eyes to see if he was dream Ing. nor was he dumfounded.
 The first object on which his vision rested was another glass case similar to the one in which he was sitting In it was suspended the long body of a snake On the outside of the case was a card which Jones managed to read as follows
 ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY. An Animal Called Snake Which Existed
 Principally in the Fancies of Per
 sons Addicted to Drink in
 the 18th Century.
 This set Jones to thinking and the rub Der in his neck stretched perceptibly. All around the hall were different shaped cases, each one with a tag telling some ancient story. One of them told of a
 
 the difficulty of receiving it's news by telegraph, fast railroad trains, printed on $50 presses and other obsolete ideas Then there was a figure of a policeman who in ancient days had discharged his duty. The card failed to report any loss of life resulting from the discharge
 The poor fellow in the glass case was rapidly feeling the effects of a solar plexus-he was not enjoined, but knocfeu . out. A thought struck him. It had sui hcient force to revive him. He would look on his own glass case and see what strange tale it told. little more stretch of the strained neck rubber and he saw this in big black letters:
 TALKED TO DEATH This Specimen Succumbed to a Conversa-
 tion of a Beast Known as a Bar
 Der During the Reign of
 William Mckinley.
 Jones was floored, or rather boxed Strange thoughts began to chase each other around in what he had been taught was his mind. He had dim recolections or failing asleep during weather con vetsation with his barber He was in a museum. How long he had lain there he could not tell-the spectators had fled. The only thing left to help him was a figure of w. J. Bryan and it was marked .'eXhausted."
 Jones now decided to test his legs and slowly pulling himself out Of the box he stood erect in the middle of strange collection of freaks. In one corner he espied box labelled:
 COOKIES ONCE CONSIDERED FUNNY" Walking thither he espied a large and ti.aeworn collection of sayings by Dock stsi5e. fIinl: ose, Wilson, Al. Fields, Chauncey Depew and other mirth-pro- ducing celebrities. Among the jokes
 
 son and Stallings' race for governor of tho province of Alabama" "The Mont goirery Advertiser" The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Birmingham =, iiliam j. Bryan's Commoner," Won d. rfui feats of Teddy Roosevelt, the mountain lion slayer, also vice-presi ] dt..t." "rhe Birmingham Light Con |. ct" and the Birmingham Carnival printed description of the relics said l.. SC were great jokes in those days.
 he bewidered mans attention was tr' attracted to a figure in the other end oi .ho hall On closer inspection it proved to be the counterpart of physician whom Jones had known quite well. This bore the following label
 A PHYSICIAN.
 I1As Specimen of Man Once Claimed to
 Cure Disea ses With Medicine and
 Surgery Before the Advent of
 Christian Science.
 Poor Jones by this time believed him. selfS crazy. And he was. He decided to wasAe no more time puzzling his gray matter and walked toward the door. A man Sitting on the outside made break for the steps. In his fright he dropped peculiar looking white object which Jones' curiosity tempted him to pick up. 1t was newspaper about six inches wide and eight inches long. The columns were very narrow and under the caption was printed According to Alfred Harms worth The paper was dated Birming- ham, February 25 1886. With Rip Van Wrinkle stagger Jones fell in the chair and proceeded to read He soon found he had been under the influence of the barber's talk for nearly a century.
 Wonderful things he read. There were stories of political speeches of ten min utes duration; there were complete ser mons not over three columns long; there were meetings of the Board of Aldermen and Police Commission which did not last more than an hour; there were fires de- scribed without being called disastrous con1agrations," and social functions which were not distinctly notable;' there were a few specimens of good En- giish; there was not a man killed in Ala b. ma in one whole day; there were nc counts of accidents at railroad cross 1f+s.
 Jan this poor Jones marvelled.
 v .owly Fc>>tur4fca- the pages of the ip' until h. reached the af!xera. semen Il oe he ga W stranger things. TlTert~&Ft a picture cf . man who hired cooks \ | hoasckeepcr3 that would stay at leg \ ore month; there was a picture of the Hilman hospital completed; there was a picture of a ten-story office building in Birmingham. with rooms to rent; thre WE an "ad.' of a Christian Science doc The Oldest and Best.