The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-02-13

seems seems mat he fell in with a dwarf in
Kansas City, whose name was Ran
rms Ran had lived nine years on tbo
banks OF the Amazon river and lola
Baron DeVore how the amnon,o ~
tnat region produced forests of great
trees that were two or three Thousand
Ieet nigh and big around in proportlon
ne says 1t took him eleven DAVIS snd
SIX houSs and thirtynine minutes 70
walk around one of them. Ran saws
the ammonia dwarfed him. II enlarp.
ed his head and heightened his feet
put shrunk up his shanks and neck,
he wore No. 10 hat and No. 7 collar,
las feet were Is inches long and fat
tened like a ducks bill and mis- legs
ABOUT the size of hoe handle. His
leet grew long on purpose, for the
soil was so soft an ordinary foot would
nave sunk down in It. EVERYDAY
knows him in Kansas City and II 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 1t was hollow from the
butt to the top and was $500 feet long
and one Of its big limbs had stuck in
the ground, and he noticed that mil
lions Of bees were going in and COM
ms out of the hole In 1t. So he got
help and cut into it 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 1t could not
stop rolling and 1t 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
a saw mill, and the tree finally got to
The sea and rolled in. Then he tells
about sitting on log one day to rest,
aud after a while the log began to
tremble and rise up in the middle,
and suddenly bowed up in a 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 ii
was snake, and the snake opened its
mouth wide for him to fall into II
when he came down, and he did fall
in, all but his right arm, and with that
he opened his big Knife with his teeth
and cut the snakes head off and
crawled out.
Well, it is strange that we like to
read these lies and how we become
fascinated with them and read on to
see how he got out of the scrape that
he got into, But still the world is full
Of lies and If we have got to read
them, it Is best to read these whoppers
that Baron Munchausen and Baron De-
Wore tell us. This dwarf Ran has
surname of Isoalln, which letters, the
baron says, stand for I'm somewhat
Of a liar myself That is the title
Of the little red book, and at first l
took 1t as a reflection on my character
that the book was sent to me, 1t was
an insinuation and so l have given it
to friend who has more reputation
in that line than have and is proud
of it. All this, of course, is for the
children and maybe will keep them
from sitting on an old rusty log in
the woods. There is no harm In lie
that is told as lie. Until Baron De-
Wore came forth Edgar Poe was the
most refined and plausible liar this
century ever produced, His "Goldbug"
and his murder in the Rue Morgue
have never been equaled,-Bill ARP,
in Atlanta Constitution.
LABOR WORLD