| Show TREE DEVOURS WOMEN Remarkable Story of a Carnivorous Specimen n in India ParIs New Ne York Press Pre Writing from Marseilles a correspondent correspondent correspondent dent of the Weekly Nos Nez sends to his journal joural the fop owIng amazing story or otis a a carnivorous tree In the tha depths of the th Indian jungle which he states was related to him by Mile Mar Marguerite Marguerite Lecomte This Is lady has Just reached France Fance after a a lengthy jour journey journey journey ney through India and other Asiatic countries and if her other adventures adventure are on a a par pr with this one Nos I probably is Js correct in describing her as one of the most remarkable heroines that exist exist It I is stated by the way that a previous reference to the toe car carnivorous carnIvorous carnivorous tree described by Mile Le Lecomte Lecomte Lecomte comte was made recently by b an Eng ment lish major In a report to his govern government I I I According to her story Mile le Le Lecomte L Lecomte comte who was traveling tr with wih her cousin a war correspondent was asleep one night in a tent on the outskirts of ofa ofa ofa a a forest They had lit Jt huge fires In a round the camp to keep off or wild wid aL L beasts and two natives were set to keep watch and to give the tile alarm 01 ann If Ii anything untoward happened j In spite of these precautions How However l however ow ever whether for want of proper watching watching or on account of complicity en cn the part of the natives Mile Ie Le Lecomte Lecomte Lecomte comte awoke in the middle of the night to find on her face a wet mask which L stifled her cries and caused her to faint When she came to herself she sheI I found herself In the midst of a troop of fanatic Indians who were yelling and brandishing brandIshing their arms anns about her She was stretched on her back her hei limbs bound with wih cords and she dis near her another white girl gir I similarly bound and tin l nc The dawn broke The n Indians ns ranged range I I range themselves in a group seized the two girls and carried them chanting the while a monotonous sort of funeral funera I chant to the foot of a giant tree with out leaves and whose forbidding aspect aspeel wih struck truck terror Into the heart of aspet Mile Mlle Lecomte Lecome It had only two branches branche like outstretched arms and Its sum surn mit was finished in the form of Js a large bowl from which dripped a white like Mile milk mik sap sar Lecomte says that she saw sais s w them seize her companion and plunge her Into this bowl up to her neck and ant suddenly just as the first rays of the th sun sn fell feU on the tree a horrible happened thing den The life Jfe tree The seemed edges endowed of the bowl with wih drew sud together strangling the girl whose face fae S reflected the agonies of a a frightful death There were some terrible crack irack ing noises nolies the whole body seemed I pounded up u under the effort efort of the sides side S of side the tree and a pinkish liquid made mad S of blood the carnivorous and sap tree began egan to glide down ri Then with maniacal cries i the Indians S approached and anti catching this horri horn ble liquid in wooden cups drank it their eyes ees shining with wih ecstacy I which Mile MJe Lecomte perceiving the fate fat e awaited her thought she would woul LI go mad every moment Fortunately the th arrival e of her cousin and a troop of 0 f Englishmen well wel arm dispersed criminal an the th e the fanatics Many were killed on oi a spot the tree was cut down and it i t threw up a spout of ot pinkish water wate I r with the force of a water spout sJ The Th S wretched victim had lost all aU human humai 1 form torm This horrible adventure decided decide I Mile Lecomte to leave lenaie lee and aj a 9 ll ad has Just arrived at s says saya sS she will wi merry marry mr the Cun f a I saved her life ute l saYe |
