ANIMAL TRAGEDIES A horse lavea in a creek thirteen xa without food last autumn while a maine man was wandering in tho woods ho came upon the scene of a peculiar tragedy he saw a cow apparently alive standing beside a tree he watched her at intervals for an hour or more and wondered that she remained motionless so long something peculiar in her position aroused his curiosity and ho went near the cow was dead her head and neck wedged into the crotch of a low appletree the poor creature had probably been reaching through the limbs for apples and somehow got fast in the crotch the hair and even the skin were worn from her neck showing bow she had struggled for freedom and escape from slow starvation the appletree apple tree was in an isolated position and the poor cow had not been discovered in time to save her life A valuable horse of troup county georgia was lost a short time ago diligent search was made in vain and his owne rhad about concluded that the horse had been stolen thirteen days after he was first missed boy found the horse in tho bed of a creek the animal was standing in the water unable to escape because of the high banks of the stream and the falls in the stream above and below him the negro boy spoke to the horse and was answered by a glad whinny the lad at once reported his discovery to the owner who summoned several of his neighbors and went to the horson relief the bank of the creek had to be dug down and while the men worked the animal gave whinnies of delight from time to time by viray of evincing his satisfaction is that help was at hand when the incline was completed the horse rushed up to the top and then staggered and fell to the ground but he soon recovered and proceeded to his stable HA had been in the creek thirteen days without food except the little that ho had picked from the almost naked bank the hair on his legs all dropped off from tho long exposure otherwise he was soon as sound as over