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ton and Miss Elizabeth, who has been
I i'll in North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Church and son
Robert, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
r. c. Church for week
Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick Minge have
returned to Alabama, after visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Dobbins for sew.
eral weeks.
Mrs T. F. Fleming and daughter
Mrs. Jas F. Burns and grand-daugh.
ter, Elizabeth Baird Burns arrived
from Elizabethtown, KY, Wednesday
Mrs A. B. Ewing, of Birmingham,
and Mrs. F. F. McGavock, who have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Mitch
ell, left Wednesday for Mrs. Nc
Gavock's home, Hendersonville, Tenn.
Mr.. Samuel H. Shipper, of Hick-
man County, is here on business.
Miss Elizabeth Padgett has as her
guest Miss Cloud, of Montgomery,
Ala.
Mrs. M. B. Parks, of Kedron, spent
the past week with her son, Mr.. ]. C.
Parks.
Messrs Eugene Pender and jeff
Haley and DR.. j. L. Maddox left today
for Primms'.
Mrs. William Moses and children, of
Louisville. KY, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. r. G. Cant.
Mr., Philip Mason, an old Columbia
boy, and family, of Savannah, Ga, are
here visiting relatives.
Messrs. William Evans and Edgar
Haynes are spending their vacation
at Dawson Springs, KY.
Mrs Lesey McLemore has returned
from Murfreesboro, where she has
been veting for several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Baker, who came
out from Nashville to attend the
Costen-Friel marriage, have returned.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Adkisson
and DR.. and Mrs. w. X. Sheddan have
returned from the Elks' convention
recently held in Philadelphia.
Rev. w. B. Capers has engaged Miss
Charlotte Henderson to travel in the
interest OF The Columbia Institute,
and Miss Henderson expects to leave
within a few days for Memphis and
West Tennessee.
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herding his fathers fine Buff Orping-
TONS
There is some complaint in Y. M. G.
A. circles Of the operation of labor
agents at the Y. M. G. A. home. 1t
is said that agents have managed to
secure some of the brightest members
and most persistent chair-warmers at
the Home and have taken them to
work in the phosphate mines. This
is strictly against the law in some
states and whether the Grand Jury
at the next term of court takes cog
nizance of this recent infraction Of the
law remains to be seen. There is
some degree of consolation to be found
however, in the report that some of
the Y. M. c. A. laborers taken from
the Home on Tuesday to railroad con-
struction work four miles out from
town, have since been seen in town,
and it is hoped that they may resume
their regular places on the Y M. C.
A. porch.
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AROUND TOWN.


MT. JORDAN Puryeaf, BUSINESS Mail
ager of the Nashville Tennessean, is
in the city for a few days. He has
appointed Mr.. Leslie N. Slmms in
charge of the city circulation.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Johnson are
the proud parents of Master William
Pillow Johnson. He arrived Friday
night.
Senator Carmack has been invited
to deliver an address before the Bar
Association of New Mexico on the
21st day of August, but on account of
other engagements has declined.
Mrs. j. A. lavender received check
Monday from the Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias for $1,000, insur-
ance on the life of her husband, re-
Gently killed in a railroad accident.
The notice ofsthis death was filed only
three weeks ago; which shows how
prompt the Knights are in settlement
of their claims. X
Mr.. G. S. Alcorn Monday closed
trade with Mr.. d. A. Dortch whereby
he takes over all Of the White Ply
mouth Rocks and S. G. Brown Leg
horns that Mr.. Dortch has There
are about It's birds in the bunch. Mr.
Alcorn will place the birds on his poul-
try farm on the Nashville pike. This
makes about 400 birds he now has and
he proposes to put in several hundred
more.
Robert Letsinger has accepted al
position with f. G. Smith at Mt. Pleas
ant
The Columbia Tennis Club will 20
to Spring Hin tomorrow, where they
will meet Spring Hill and Franklin in
a tennis tournament.
DR.. H. G. Roskind, the opticIan, has
purchased the entire stock and good
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PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. T. N. Figuers have
returned from Primm's.
Mrs. SaIlie Wilson and Mrs. Sue
Boyd have returned from a ten days
visit to friends at Mt. Pleasant.
Misses Halle and Minnie Fry re
turned Friday from visit to Mr.. and
Mrs. M. E. Wheeler in Vermont.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frierson McLemore
and daughter, of Hillsboro, Texas, are
visiting Mrs. Rebecca McLemore.
Miss Addie Strother. of Goldsburg,
Texas, is the guest of Messrs. W. T.
and Hint Frierson and families at
Zion.
Miss Cynthia Frierson, OF Nashville,
has been the guest of Miss Cornelia
Brown at Zion for the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ Gray, Jr., and
daughters, of Nashville, have arrived
to spend the summer with Mr.. and
Mrs John M. Gray, ST., at SunnysIde
Farm.
Miss Bessie Bostick is visiting in
Nashville.
Mr. George S. Alcorn has returned
from Chattanooga.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lane have re-
turned from Mt Pleasant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Polk have gone
to Primm's for few days.
Carrick Fariss has returned from a
business trip to MurfreesborO.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McGaw, of Bir-
mingham, are visiting the home folks.
Mr.. Frank Williams has returned
from a business trip to Giles county.
Mrs. Richard Smith has gone to
Sewanee, where she will spend the
summer.
The camping party which has been
at Beaver Dam for several days, have
returned.
Mr.. Jno. M, Lee, who is travelling in
Louisiana, is spending his vacation
in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs Jno. A. Cakes and lit
tie daughter have returned from Cal
Iendar Station.
Misses Leila Cockrel and Bessie
Hooper, of Nashville, are visiting Mrs.
Chas. G. Sims, in West End.
Capt. w. N. Hughes, will return
Monday to Memphis, where he is at
present stationed. Capt Hughes is
not in love with Memphis, and longs
to get back to Gods country"
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Mr.. Thompson, of New Orleans, i
the guest of Mr.. ]. w. Howard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Barker and chill
dren left Sunday for EstiI Springs.
Mrs. John Mcclure has returned t
Nashville, after visiting relatives here
Mr.. Will Burnett has returned from
French Lick Springs, Indiana.
| Mr.. Dixie Blair, of Sheffield, Ala.
spent Sunday with relatives in the
city.
, Mrs. w. S. McFall and children are
visiting Mrs McFalls mother in Tus'
cumbia.
Mrs. Clark Jones has returned from
weeks visit to relatives at Cross
Bridges.
Mrs. W. S. McFall and children are
visiting Mrs. McFall's mother in Tus-
cumbia.
Mr.. Buford Patterson, after a visit
to relatives here, has returned to his
home in Nashville.
Miss Dudley Marable. OF Clarksville.
will arrive Wednesday to be the guest
of Miss Kate Sowell.
Mr.. Frank Scott has returned to
Nashville, after visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Scott.
Mrs. J. S. Rushton is visiting her
sister at Charlotte, N. G. She will
remain till September 1st.
Mrs. Wallace Ussery and children
left Saturday for White Bluff, Tenn,
to spend several weeks.
Messrs Ben and Trude Shelton,
Clark Jones, Oscar Glenn, Jake Har-
Ian and Love Webb have returned
from successful fishing trip to Law
renee county. They caught all the
fish they could eat.
Capt. w. N. Hughes, who has been
spending his vacation here, has re-
turned to Memphis.
DR.. W. w. Fowler, of Ballinger.
Texas, is visiting his mother and
friends at Culleoka.
Mrs. H. P. Figuers, Miss Mary Dale
Figuers and Miss Carolyne Williams
left Monday for Detroit.
Mrs. w. l.. Johnson, of Birming-
ham, is spending week or two with
her daughter Mrs. ]. w. Fleming.
Henry Moore and Eugene Fleming
went to Nashville Saturday night, re-
turning Sunday night in Eugene's au-
Mrs. w. j. Dale, Mrs. IZora Cecil
Mrs. Ernest Farrell and lit
lie daughter left Tuesday for Primm's.
'rimm's.
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Maj R. ]. Martin, who has beer
here for the past few days. left this
morning for kentucky in the interest
of the Military Academy.
Col. j. c. Hardy came in to spend
Sunday with home folks. He lefI
Tuesday to resume his work in North
Alabama. He reports that his trip
has been very successful.
DIR. T. H. Mangrum is at Primm's.
Mr.. E. H. Hatcher is at Tate
Springs.
Mr.. John Carpenter is in New York
on business.
Mrs. Robt. Mckinney spent Monday
in Nashville.
Miss Matte Crawford has returned
from Nashville.
Mrs. Joe Patterson, of GAINESVILLE, is
visiting in the city.
Trustee Elem Thomas will leave
this evening for Bon Aqua.
Mr.. R. S. McCarty and family are
now at Beersheba Springs.
Mr.. Meade Frierson has returned
from a business trip to Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Davis, of Nash
vile, are visiting relatives in the city.
Mrs. Walter Brooks and son, of
Franklin, spent Monday with Mr.. and
Mrs. H. F. Fariss.
Mrs. George Williamson and chill
dren, of Kentucky, are visiting Mr.. w.
j. Moore and family.
Rev. F. ]. Tyler, formerly pastor
of the Main Street Cumberland Pres
byterian Church, is in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Prowell and Miss
Louise, who are boarding on South
Main street, spent Sunday in Nash
vile. /
Mrs. w. t. Glasgow, of Nashville,
and grandson, Glasgow Thompson, of
New York, are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. M. Dedman
Mrs, Joe Digger, of Nashville, who
has been visiting Mrs. Tom Digger,
on South Main street, is now the guest
Of Mrs. Higgins, near Cross Bridges.
Edwin Guest, of GAINESVILLE, is in
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Digger are
visiting in Nashville.
ALT Fleming has returned from an
Southern trip.
Mr.. Thos. PEBBLES has been in Nash
lille for the last few days.
Mrs. w. P. Woodbridge returned
Tuesday evening from Sewanee
Mrs. w. P, Woodbridge will return
his afternoon from Sewanee.
Messrs. Roy Porter and A. J. Mich
lis left Tuesday for Vancouver Island.
Mrs. H. G. Cramton. of Marion, Ind, /
S visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
J. S. Porter 9
Mr.. Jno, W. Frerson went to Nash 9
lille Monday to meet Mrs. S. J. Caper- Il
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OVER THE COUNTY.

Miss Brownie Tomlinson. OF Cul
leoka. is at Bon Aqua.
Miss Brownie Giddens has returned
from Knoxville. where she has beer
teaching for the last eight months.
Miss Mary Dale Craig. Mrs. E. L
Gregory and Misses Eleanor and Edna
Gregory. of Mt. Pleasant, are at
Primm's.
STRAYED-Dark bay 2-year-old
mule, unroached. bob-tailed Last
seen at forks of Sowell Mill pike. Re-
ward for information leading to re-
covery.-K. P. LoFTIN, Citizens
Phone. 1-2t&wtf
The meeting at Goodwin chapel be-
gins the third Sunday in August.
Mr.. Milt Aliens family, of Roberts
Bend, go to Primm's Wednesday.
Mrs. A. P. Roberts, of Zion, visited
Rev. w o. Roberts family in Rob-
cts Bend last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Harris. of Nash
vile, visited Mr.. Frank Hull and
daughter at Goodwin last Saturday and
Sunday.
erts' Bend, has returned to her home
in GAINESVILLE.
Misses Kate Bradley, who has been
visiting Miss Lucille Roberts, of Rob
Miss Addie Strother, of Groesbeck,
Texas, is the guest of Mrs. Hint Frier
son near Cross Bridges.
Chapple Hill base ball team crossed
bats with Leftwich team Saturday. |
Leftwich beat them one tally.
There will be an ice cream supper
Thursday night at Glendale Academy
for the benefit of the school.
There will be an lee cream supper
on Knob Creek Friday night, given by
Mr.. Pete Hendley. Everybody is in
vited.
Misses Emma and Floy Harrison, of
Nashville, who were visiting at Left
wich, were called home by sudden ill
ness of their mother.
Ernest Jones, of Leftwich, left Sun
day for Nashville, where he has &C.
cepted a position offered him by Mont
Mfg. Co.
FOR SALE-Duroc Red Jersey pigs.
25-6t&w J. n. CANT. SIR.
Mr.. O. C. Armstrong, of Memphis,
Is the guest of Misses Armstrong,
lear Zion.
Mrs. Sanford May, of Savannah, I
fla, is visiting her mother, Mrs. jamie
Harlan. near Cross Bridges. 8
A ten pound boy arrived at the
lone of Mr.. and Mrs. Mayes Hume
n Spring Hill, on the night of the
10Th of this month. Mayes, Jr., is
rowing rapidly and it will be only
natter of short time when he will be
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-26
8oGATzKY & BAuMAN's SALE.

Bogatzky & Bauman's sale, which
began last Saturday, has attracted
many buyers to town, who are we'll
pleased with the bargains the firm is
offering. A big ad on page Of this
issue gives some additional prices
while on page some strong reasons
are advanced as to why YOU should
take advantage of this sale
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HOOSIER

Wheat Drills are reliable, do the work
satisfactory and wear life time,
Improved Come and see 1t.
q. A. satterfield & Co.
24wed&fri-w2t
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@, ). Caster to Miss Charlotte K.
Friel
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A duck, who had faithfully stuck to
business during the summer and laid
several dozen fawn-colored eggs, COM
planned that she was not appreciated.
See that hen over there?" said the
duck; she has not laid as many eggs
as / have, nor SO big, but she has
books written in her honor, while no
body says a word about me-" THE
trouble with you is" said wise buff,
you lay an egg and waddle off "''-'
out saying a word, while that sister
of mine never lays without letting
everybody in the neighborhood know
of it."
Moral-if you want to be apprecia-
ted, cackle about it-advertise.-Bi
News.
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FACTS ABOUT EGGS.

A good egg will sink in water.
Stale eggs are CLASSY and smooth OF
she'll
4, fresh egg has a lime-liks surface
to its shell.
The boiled eggs which adhere to the
she'll are freshly laid.
Eggs packed in bran for long time
smell and taste nasty.
Thin shells are caused by a lack of
gravel, ETC., among the hens laying
eggs.
After an egg has been laid day or
more the shell comes of easily when
boiled.
II an egg is clean and golden in ap-
pesrance when held to the light it is
good; IL too dark or spotted. it is bad.
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their visit 70 the city, they are gor-
geous 70 behold and once having seen
them the observer can no longer think
lightly OF the egg he consumes at
breakfast or Of the fried chicken
whose toothsomeness helps to miti-
gate LIES asperities.
II is right that the hen should come
10 town now and then to be looked at
1t is her due that the public for which
she does so much should come and
admire her. She and her tribe add
vastly to the wealth and prosperity
OF the state and IL is only fair that
the debt to her should be recognized.
When her week at the show is over
she will go home and settle down to
the steady business of producing more
eggs and more prosperity, for in these
modern days she has nothing else to
do.-Indianapolis Star.
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AMONG THE POULTRY.

The years experimenting seems tc
warrant the conclusion that the dry
feeding method is as good as and nc
better than the wet mash when the
latter is properly handled.
Dry feeding with limited amount
of meat scrap will likely give better
results in the hands of inexperienced
or overworked poultrymen than the
regular method
There is no special advantage in the
dry mash in feeding apartment or
yarded flocks.
With colony hocks dry feeding can
be arranged to save labor and prom
ises to make the colony method more
profitable than any other for COM
poultrymen.
The dry feeding method as applied
to the feeding of young chicks is
very different matter and will be dis
cussed International Stockman and
Farmer.
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SHORT SHRIFT,
LONG RESULTS

We have had our experience with
the overturn of formal law that swift
justice may be done in a crisis, and
we have found that short shrift may
have long consequences. In the early
sos of the last century San Francisco
was held by thieves and thugs. Prop
erty was unsafe and life uncertain.
The law of California, trying to make
adjustment between an old Spanish
code and a new Anglo-Saxon one, was
far too slow. Respectable citizens,
men of the best blood of New Eng
land and the South, formed the Wig
ilance committee, made a cross-cut to
justice and cleaned up the city. They
gave the accused due trial, and history
records that every man they hanged
deserved all that he got But the
new law of the vigilantes did not stop
there. Civilization in the far West
spread not from the East, but from
the new communities in
Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and Oregon
borrowed laws and customs from the
American colony by the Golden Gate
Golfers Weekly.
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utility poultry and utility poultry is
pure bred poultry.
Carey, o.
FEEDING FOR SIZE.

Some may be interested in know.
ing how we feed for size, says an old
breeder We induce exercise, but
feed plentifully and make the diet as
varied as possible. Milk, meat, grain
and green food form the main basis
of our feeding. Skinned milk at
cents per gallon is a cheap food, and
We also use quantities of thick milk.
Practically no corn is fed our young
stock until six months old. Bran and
middlings are daily portion of the
diet and are kept before the chicks
at all times in dry state, but some
times we moisten this mixture for
change. Have found whole oats
soaked in skim milk a great growth
producer, but they should not be fed
until chicks reach the age of six
weeks. Charcoal, grit and cool water
are not forgotten.
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PLEA FOR MERCY
MET BY BULLET
AGED PHYSICIAN REMoNsTRAT-
ING WITH POLICEMAN, rs IA
TALLY SHOT BY LATTER.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 3e-The
condition OF DR.. j. II. Gum. surgeon
for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
at Calera, is still critical tonight He
is at St. vincent's Hospital here, IA
tally wounded by Policeman Willis
Pilgreen, who shot him when he asked
the officer to stop beating a negro
prisoner at Calera yesterday evening.
DR.. Gum is one of the best known
physicians in the State and is so years
old. Feeling against Pilgreen, who is
in Jail at Montevallo, is very strong.
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WHY THE QUIET BOY WAITED.

An old gentleman, rather portly and
clad in a somewhat youthful suit of
light gray flannel, sat ON a bench in
the park enjoying the spring day.
What's the matter, sonny?" he ask
ed small urchin who lay on the grass
just across the walk and stared intent.
~ Why don't YOU go and play?"
Don't wanter,' the boy replied.
But it is not natural" the old gen.
tleman insisted. for a boy to be so
quiet. Why don't YOU run about?"
Oh, I'm just waitin," the little fel
low answered I'm just waitin' till
you get up. A man painted that bench
about fifteen minutes ago"-Woman's
Home Companion. i
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after = cali. you win Be astonished C
ind how few they are.
+ And after YOU have made this count
then ask yourself how you are effect
ing your friends.
/ What do you talk when you meet
+ them? Your ailments? Your mis-
fortunes2 Your Establishments with
life? Do you leave a question mark
after the words happiness. loyalty.
truth. goodness, and even God? Do
you leave your friends with less faith
in humanity and Divine love. after
you go out. and with less courage to
go on with the. battle OF life?
II so, keep away from people until
you get control Of your better self.
Helpers. who will come to your rescue
IL you stop talking OF your unbeliefs
long enough to give them a chance to
make you believe. They are devine,
yet they are not omnipotent. They
need your help to reach you. Space
is full OF these Great Invisible Help
ers. They have passed through the
Earth Plane wise with experiences in
other realms. Instead of proceeding
on to enjoy the selfish pleasures of
heaven, they have chosen to be first
aids" TO suffering humanity for a
cycle.
They will give you Strength, Light.
Wisdom and Power If you turn to
them. They will help you to waken
the Divine Self. They will give
you a sense of exultation and exalta-
ton in coping with the sorrows of
earth, and they will make you vibra-
tions from the Great Center and make
you a kind of human radium, which
shall give forth healing rays of happi-
ness, strength and love to every living
creature, animal or man.
There is no greater sin than robbing
your humanity with aspirations
Everywhere you go, wherever you
,all, whatever you say in conversation,
,ven the most casual, you are leaving
In influence for good or i'll, for hope
,r despair, for faith or skepticism.
Which is it?-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 4
n American-Journal Examiner.
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THE BUSY IGOAOClGST
IN NEW YORK

II is pleasant to note z n-,-o-,
tear down the quaint but old.fsshfo-
Arsenal Building in Central Pa,g
has stood there since 1871 ana
eept that il is a charming pictures
and mellowed relic Of the earlier -.
Of what use is It? II is To bs -
a quiet-toned and sedate e1smnl. :,
the times when builders did No, 49,.
OF the. magnificent possibilities :,
steel and concrete; but what 2 s,l.s
did site it would furnish for z 81.
eous. glaring, thirty-story home !.
municipal ofices. built in the prey.n
ing Neutrality-suspicious. style,
1t is true that its russell WALL =,
its great airy halls are reminiscent ;,
a time when Central Park did -.
possess the honorable ueighborbooa
Of Millionaires' Row; when the g,e.,
Lenox farm stretched away dow,
Yorkville way. on the eastern sloos
and when there was duck.shoot,s
in the creeks that ran lazily into vb.,
is now the One Hundred and Tenn
street lagoon; when the glories of ths
great apartment with their vacuum
dust sweepers and their precipitor,
white brick walls were undreamed =,
and when 1t was a long drive from
the last of the town streets to the 6rs
willow of the park-but what Of thai
when our learned Park Commissions,
and his erudite engineer can construc
in its place some beautiful examns
Of the modern monstrosity in arcbt
lecture?
And for the matter of that, what i
the use of any of these old.timers?
Look at old Trinity and ST Pauls
stupid, antique brown things occuuy
ng all that splendid property on lower
Think of the obstacle to improve
nent that the Jumel Munsion pres
,nts.
Consider what an excellent, whole
ale, sky-scraping loft might be erect
ID on the grounds now occupied BY
oolish. out-of-date st. Marks Church
With its absurd Peter Stuyvesant sen,
Possibly there are few other prec
ous examples of the long ago that
ave escaped the good, honest hands
t the despoiler, but it is rather hard
. think of them, especially when the
leather is so hot.-New York Ameri
an.
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EMBRACED BY
A PYTHON

Embraced by a relative of an ole
friend at the pier yesterday afternoon
Raymond Ditmars. assistant curator
and expert on snakeology of the Bronx
Zoo, shook off the clinging folds and
said he was glad to see one of the
biggest pythons ever imported and
safely housed.
Ditmars had essayed to feed the inn
migrant when the twenty-eight footer
began to wind around him, apparently
installing the scientist for a new va
riety of appetizer preparatory to real
meal. With a movement too quick for
others and the python to see, Ditmars
caught the python somewhere back OF
the spread jaws. Then the dark and
little curator pressed a thumb on the
spine and the monster was quite salts.
fled with a guinea pig and a couple
Of screaming rabbits after that.
Dltmars always is at the pier when
shipments of animals arrive from
abroad and he was greatly pleased at
two fond and enormous py.
hons who might crush rock. but
couldn't construct on him.-New York
Press