The New York herald., 1921-05-15
Natures One Day Prs,.r,r,m,,. m

= .ssAdent writes, as corre-
= ll.oo'As,scnts frequently do at this time
OF the year, that "the papers do not
print stories like they used to-" He
may be so absorbed In German rep
arations, the GrecoTurkish war, Mr..
ErNsTE1N's theories or Mr.. EpIsoN's
QUESTIONABLE that he overlooks other
interesting features Of the news. The
old world goes on much as in the
past; there are the same actors, ordi-
nary man and all his animal friends
The bills of the performances are
merely changed, for Mother Nature,
being the Snowman, produces a brand
new programme every day without
one old or stale act.
Arkansas. once the most dependable
Of all States for snake stories, fur
nishes no more. The Gazette OF Lit
tie Rock Is doing everything possible
to destroy mans faith in the deadli-
ness of the rattler's bite; a big snake
cannot rattle its tail in play without
that paper sending a man up to Yell
vile to Investigate. Recently it got
and published the statement Of pro-
fessor at the State University to the
effect that rattler's bite was almost
harmless-at least never fatal. But
West Virginia comes forward with a
fine batch of stories. A copperhead
was about to bite an unsuspecting
hunter when an enormous blacksnake
grasped the venomous reptile and
swallowed It at one gulp-and remark
able as 1t may seem the hunter did not
kill his blacksnake rescuer. A rattlcr
bit a prize bulldog; 'fn two minutes
by the watch the dog was dead" Men
trailed the bitter to its den and found
seventy-slx snakes Of ordinary length,
from six to ten feet, and the grand
father of all rattlers, too long to men
ton, but with fifty rattles. The
monster raised It's head to strike and
one Of the spectators dropped dead
from fright These facts are called
to the attention Of that Gazette news
paper.
Men are still taking the romantic
road to riches. An old California
prospector with a mysterious Span
ish document as key to the treas
ure has gone into the desert to find
twenty-seven mule loads of gold lost
when band OF fugitives were at
tackled by Indians seventy years ago
Kansans are searching In Rice county
for a pot Of gold buried by return.
Ing Forty-niner and Missourian is
digging In the Big Horn valley, Mon.
tana, for $4,000 hidden by a road
agent forty-three years ngo. Uncle
BILL HOPKINS, a South Carolina negro
died the ~ther day leaving an estate
worth $4,000. Hc had made every
cent of II by wood choppiug-not so
much as the value of the treasure
sought, but Uncle Bill had II.
A vagabond ram walked Into Cal
leo ROCK, ATkaIlshs, sOuie lliHe hse
and established It's residence by driv
ing the boys off the street, licking al
the dogs and the town marshal. The
other day 1t went into Mr.. TALBor's s
store and began eating a bolt OF ging
ham. Couldn't do nothing with It.
said the proprietor. "if I angered II
1t would smash my store cases." The
Mayor asks the Governor what hs
can do with the dam ram" TUcKEr
GIBSON, champion big game hunter Of
Tensas Parish, Louisiana, claims the
only pig which can be used as a bird
dog. He explains by saying that
the pig was adopted by pointer
dog with>a litter Of pups and that
the pig continued to associate with
its foster brothefs and sisters" A
Kentuckian hear : this wrote to a