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Show AVNT)EliFUL MYSTERY The Strang Sight Witnsssec! by a Farm-tr'i Farm-tr'i Faitily oa Thtir Waj to Ti.ii City. 'was IT A KETS0SIO SS0WE-? It ReawmM.tcl a 8uow S:orm. But it Wsa't A Dserip'Ju of tie Eight John Sadler, a fanner living about four miles south of Sail Lake, bis wifo and grown daughter wens yesterday eye witnesses to on of tint most remar-kablo remar-kablo phenomenon ever chronicled io the history of the world. Mr. Sadler aud hi family were riding Into Salt Lake to do soumi trading anil when aUmt a mile from town were surprised to e drifting across their pathway about twenty rod ahead what appeared to lx a snow t-vrm. But perhaps the story of Mr. Sadler wlil lu st explain, so Ttis Timm reproduce It In his owu language. "Wo were coming to Salt Lake to buy our groceries." said he. "when suddenly sud-denly my daughter grasped m by the arm and exclaimed, why, father, look at the snow storm rrowdtig tho road, ahead of us.'. Without even looking to see, for I thought she must be Insane, I was about to a-k hr whether aim hail lost her mind w hen mother remarked, Well. I declar. thero ' a snow storm. Isn't there?' I thought to myself my family has ccrtaiuly gon Insane, whaa I happen"! to gUuce nhuad. "To say that I was scared dowm't ho-gin ho-gin to express my feeling. It waa apparently a snow storm and th flakes looked a big as my hand. They were sailing right down In a mirt ot shower from tho direction of Fort Douglas. ."Thick! well I should say-so, Why you com,, lit begin to ro throiijjo tho flk. There wr million aud million of them. Think I to my. self aro wo nil dreaming or what I tho matter. I mdn up my mind thl I would drive up and see what tb tuflf was but my horses were scared and would' Ut moru a step. , , , Then I knew that oruethlnf on-common on-common was going -ou - and giving th hue to ' mother I i.dd her to bold th loam "srhlU 1 wo alonf ahead and lovrnttlga"!. But lb blamed criltvrs wouldn't ha it and they started to turn aud rim awy. ' Just then tho torm shiftml and came right down on us, In lc than a minute tho wagon brd was half full of tho stutT and wo wem completely covered. "What was ItT Weil, you' g"t in, j It looked liko paper only It wasn't. It wasn't snow cither U waa dry and composed of pieces about two In' bn square, At Ursl I thought It wa roic flak' s, for It did look like) It, tot on closer examination I w that 1 waa mistaken. I didn't have much time to instigate insti-gate Jut a? that time for the bor were tusking ueh a fu. but after a time the shower rad aud they quiet cd down. "Thru I went to lovostigatlug. Say they were tho oddest things I srr laid eyes upon. As I dd l'for lb flake looked like mica. They wr transparent trans-parent almost and about a thin as puper. Where they cutiio from I mystery to mo. "How big a spacn of ground did they cover? Well, as m-ar as I can guw alKHit ten acre. You they floated down In a showr about half a uiil long and, oh say twenty or thirty roils wide. Tho storm, If that 1 what yon call it. caoio right down from th nioutitaiiH just a though It had urted somcwhT near Tio poaW aad Iweo blown right down In the valley. While f wts wxsiuitilng the tin a couple of men drove up In a baggy. They said that tey had a the storm a mile ay and that iln-y thought It a snow storm too. They looked at some of th flak-and flak-and one of m said that it was a part of a meteoric shower of some Wo fl ky matter, but I didn't believe that. Yon si I can't oi how nuunr lt mteor could g t split up ia surft a shape. Mayb" the fellow wis right thuaah. "Wife waa Sh ad It wa a w arniusr Unm on high. Nil I don't believe be-lieve in any such trash as thai.althougd it Is a i;ret mystery. "Did I av any of the itnff Well you Just bet I did? I have got torn of It light here. I am go'" to kP ' fat" a curiosity. Can yoa look at It' Of course, " and Mr. Sdir drew a pack? from his P'x k. t. opoed it, and exposed to hi questioner' t'.ow aomo of the flake. Tby were abool two Inch" wide by about three In leegtb, i and were terr uniform In six. The co!.,r of each wu almost pure white, there be! tig, however, a faint : trace of prismatic color whn turn4 toward the iu a certain way. The i materia! was. rery elastic aud the pic f could be beTit almost double with ae. i Ea-h would spring back to It original rxHitioe. They were vry toujb, too. ' it being an impcssTo.lity lo break one. j The reporter and immi other gentle j meo proposed to take one of the affaira to a chemist for analytatioo when one ccouauea en (hxwnd fai-l ' Continued from First page. of the spectators remarked: -Why, this has got some reading on it ." "And so has mine," said another. Then au investigation followed. Sure enough, they all bore a legend, and this is what it was. Keep Yoch Eve on : ; The Times. : i |