Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-07
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IN Il w O1tL1AEN QOWH INV
more financial disaster to John Bar
/ leycorn. For "Walla Walla Joe,"
/ charmer of venomous serpents, is out
of a job, although 1t cannot be said
he is out Of work. Warden Archie
Rennyson of the Parish Prison Is
| finding something for him to do
, while he is guest at the city bastile
paying the penalty for over-indul-
gence in the vintage that comes up
from the sea in ships.
"Walla Walla Joe" was doing con-
/ siderable business as the feature at
| traction of a small carnival company
near the outskirts of the city by ap-
pearing in a canvas pit wherein were
domiciled numerous and sundry rat
, tlesnakes, cottonmouths, moccasins
and others of the family whose elo-
quence appealed so strongly to
| Mother Eve. Among the rattlers
were several of a pugnacious nature
| that frequently struck viciously at
| Joes right leg and nary vince dis
| torted the charmer's features when
| the fangs hit the mark. -
| Now everyone in Louisiana hap
pens to be perfectly well aware of
| the dangers attendant upon an en-
counter with a rattler or cotton
mouth. But there you were. The
| rattlesnake had struck the perform
| er's right trousers leg until it looked
| like it had done arduous duty as a
| pin cushion.
| Captain Rennyson happened to
hear of 'Walla Walla Joes' marvel
| Gus powers and he too witnessed
| the performance without being able
I to solve the mystery. Two days
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face looked strangely familiar ar
rived from police court. AS he was
going ND the iron staircase to one of
the cell blocks his foot slipped.
There was a crash and curse
and when the fallen man was picked
up a large splinter was sticking
through the lower part of his right
trousers leg. Then the mystery was
explained.
The prisoner was Joe and his right
leg was woodenl
Another historic tree has fallen
before the woodgman's remorseless
ak. Even though 1t was of papier-
mache construction it was fully as
we'll known as Suicide oak" and
"the duelling oaks and other fav-
orites of the souvenir postcard fans
who visit New Orleans.
In years past o. Henry often stood
beneath its well-painted branches
and had on several occasions re-
marked that some time he was going
to weave that tree into one of his inn
mortal stories. The tree in question
had grown to all appearances right
through the floor of a well-known st.
: Charles street cafe.
Some 10 feet from the floor in a
fork of the branches. was table,
arranged for any prospective diners
who might care to have their meals
served at that lofty height, reached
; by means of a staircase. For years
the table has been neatly spread
with linen and graced with the best
silver in the place, but it has been
many moons since the perch has
lured a single diner. 1t was not that
way in the pre-Volstead days.
: Gathered about a table at one OF
New Orleans famous French res
taurants the other day were former
! Governor John x. Tener of Penn
sylvania, Mayor Fred Harper OF
Lynchburg, Va; Colonel John p
Sullivan, leader of the dominant
Democratic faction in louisiana
Bruce Campbell of East st. Louis
. ILL.,, president of the State Bar Asso-
citation, who is being importuned to
fling his hat into the ring for gov
ernor of Illinois, and several others
r Governor Tener had just described
thrilling scene enacted on the
battlefield of Gettysburg ten years
' ago during his term as governor
when a number of the survivors OF
General Piokett's gray-clad hos
: charged again over the same grount
D on which they had won immortality
a half century before.
The incident recalled to Mayor
Harper, a son-in-law of former Sen
ator Daniels of Virginia, who dis
tinguished himself at Gettysburg, ar
t incident that occurred when he ant
the senator visited the historic spo
a number of years ago.
t Press photographers were insist
S ing that the senator pose for pic
ture during his trip over the battle
field. Turning to his son-in-law. th'
: senator, who was then getting wei
e along In years, said
Fred, guess Wen have to please
the boys. Get me horse that look
e like he has got lot of hell in hin
and hasn't got a bit.'
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