The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-02-14

Kansas City whose name was Kan.
This Ran had lived nine years on the
banks of the Amazon river and told
Baron DeVore how the ammonia OF |
that region produced forests Of great |
trees that were two or three thousand .
feet high and big around In proportion.
He says It took him eleven days and |
six houys and thirty-nine minutes to
walk around one OF them. Ran says
the ammonia dwarfed him. Il enlarg
ed his head and heightened his feet
but shrunk up his shanks and neck
He wore a No. 10 hat and No. Z collar.
lbs feet were IS inches long and fiat
tened like a ducks bill and his legs
about the size OF a hoe handle His
feet grew long on purpose, for the
soil was so soft an ordinary foot would
have sunk down In It. Everybody
knows him In Kansas City and u Is
dangerous to doubt or dispute his sto
rles Ran says that some of those trees
are awfully crooked, and one day he
came across one that had fallen down
from old age. It was hollow from the
butt to the top and was 300 feet long
and one Of It's big limbs had stuck in
the ground, and he noticed that mil
! lions Of bees were going in and com
/ ing out of the hole in 1t. So he got
help and cut into 1t to get the honey
and suddenly the limb broke and the
crooked tree commenced rolling and
the honey commenced pouring out.
The tree was so crooked it could not
stop rolling and It got faster and faster
with its own momentum and crushed
down the forest for so miles and rolled
over towns and villages and crushed
the people, and the honey marked its
way in a stream big enough to turn
saw mill. and the tree finally got to
che sea and rolled in. Then he tells
about sitting on log one day to rest
and after a while the log began to
tremble and rise up in the middle
and suddenly bowed up in spasmodic
motion like one of these measuring
worms or like the loop that Schley
made at Santiago and threw him fifty
feet in the air, and he found out /
was a snake, and the snake opened it,
mouth wide for him to fall into /
when he came down, and he did fal
in, all but his right arm, and with tina
he opened his big knife with his teetl
and cut the snakes head OF an
10 crawled out.
Well, it is strange that we like t
+ read these lies and how we becom
fascinated with them and read on t
see how he got out Of the sorape tina
he got into. But still the world is flu
y of lies and if we have got to rea
them, it is best to read these whopper
v that Baron Munchausen and Baron d.
{ Wore tell us. This dwarf Ran has
L surname Of Isoalm, which letters, tn
> baron says, stand for I'm somewhS
5 Of liar myself That is the tit
| of the little red book, and at first
/ took 1t as a reflection on my Charactt
u that the book was sent to me. 1t We
= an insinuation and so / have given
to a friend who has more reputatiC
II in that line than l have and is prot
II of it. All this, of course, is for Il
'e children and maybe will keep the
rs from sitting on an old rusty log
re the woods. There is no harm in a |
Is that is told as lie. Until Baron D
m Wore came forth Edgar Poe was Il
I most refined and plausible liar tn
'e century ever produced. His "Goldbuj
. and his murder in the Rue MorgI
IS have never been equaled,-Bill Al
e. in Atlanta Constitution.