Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-11-19

wants to utterly forget that experience.
God save me from a dream of that:
! from such night mare!" ne says
Now VIII is a comparatively young
man; courageous and nervy, but such
an experience as that is utterly insult
ferable. 1t seems that both snakes fas-
tened on Will their charming gaze,
steady. malignant. unwinkling and I'M
| waVering.
My mother had such an experience,
and she told me what Will Lewis re-
! fuses to recall. In the snakes eyes
was such a quality OF human intelli-
iagence as caused the victim to idealize
I the flat ugly heads as of human shape.
| Thus one confronts a soul that can
| connect a hundred or more incarna-
I lions all deteriorating steadily from
the human biped down. through beast
! ly quadruped TO finally the crawling
/ reptiles-the incarnation OF hellish
hate. Imagine yourself confronting an
/ embodied intelligence. that can not
miss any incarnation: that through the
\ ages past, has realized it's undying
| identity. The victim feels himself con-
| fronting an incarnation OF an undying
unresting soul of hell. The victim first
realizes perfect paralysis of the mus
cular system. and next of a benumbins
Of brain cerebration. Only one phase
! OF intellectual being, is alert, and that
| IS intent on reading the cerebrations of
the reptile brain: OF being utterly i'm
| potent while the reptile slowly but
steadily approaches him. This charm
ing causes the victim to feel the rep
tile penetrating TO the bottom Of his
soul With such a hot blistering and
| burning penetration. as that of red
hot iron being forced down the thoat.
! The victim feels that he is being
charged with force not his own. like
| that Of electric quality and erelong
his soul is TO explode its atoms TO be
scattered and consumed TO never more
realize identity again. In a word. he
feels hell and its consuming. seizulg on.
and envelOping him. as flames seizes
on a package of dry powder. All no..
one ought to deliberately court such an
experience. 1t may craze for the bal
asce Of his life. Don't let an enraged
or alert snake catch your eye at all.
There is superhuman something in the
eye OF the charming snake. There is an
truth human intelligence and such as
is or has been a phase OF hell. Put
that in your intellectual pipe and
smoke tit will not harm you.
Probably John caught telepathic
suggestion of the terrible predicament
of his brother. He took notice Of the
fact that he could with one shot be-
head both snakes, and not hit his
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writhing OF the giant serpents. and
the rotten vegetable OdOr from them,
a namely something filled them with
horror. Will instantly recovered him.
self. but felt sick and faint. Two or
three seconds had spun out into as
many minutes of indescribible mental
agony. The snakes measured to
point of decapitation five feet ten
inches, or were fully six feet long each.
Years ago James Burris, serion. Wit
messed a fight at Granite Spring be-
tween two monstrous Tom lions. In
those times, Burris lay on moonlight
nights in wait for deer; and large as
was his family. he was seldom out of
venison. That night the two lions
came from opposite directions on the
opposite side OF the big boulder against
which he was crouching. They were
so busy shifting the human scent, that
they did not become aware of each
other until they met nose to nose. First
each. and both uttered a loud and en-
ragged roar We'll go on and describe
it," said / when Burris stopped there.
Lord All the language Of earth,
have not terms adequately descriptive
of that fight" said Burris. Imagine a
Tom cat fight magnified a hundred
diameters." There was little else to
realize than the agility OF the cat
evading a clawing swipe. was equal TO
that of the other welding a great
paw that had behind il, unimaginable
force. II one could have buried his
claws in the bowels Of the other, the
fight would have ended there. In the
moonlight Eurris saw two huge shapes
writing in air, and on the ground.
And the medley of cat calls and sounds
Tom lions like Tom cats have large
variety of expression. However Bur-
ris summed it up thus: 1T was hell
materialized. in fighting giant cats;
| and lest one or both see me. / just
crawled away. To risk a shot at them
was sheer insanity. Perhaps twenty
rods away, I Strengthened up. and then
! the noise OF the fight ceased. The
] beasts became exhausted at the same
instant. Again l heard them at-it, and
heard it with Gains between until l
| had got a mile between me and them.
/ The next morning l went back to see
what might be left of them if anything
more than the tips OF their tails. But
there was plenty of hair there. and no
blood spots. Lions don't often fight.
II involves too much exercise. When
an old lion comes on a big young one,
the former don't sass the latter any.
That was the only Tom ION fight /
ever witnessed. though l have heard
them oefen. 1t is a spectacle 10 i'm
agine: it amt safe to see it,
Cave Creek, Nov. Is. L. +. Nc.