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Show of them every year. The poison when extracted is sold to chemists and pby slclans who find It highly useful in medicine, and he also sells many of the harmless snakes which are In much demand, also, so that he does a good business without advertising, and always has more orders than he can BERSAGLIERI AT PLAY a v h s&tf-- ' 'V-- ? - A ; f r i ' . I U U;l Vv ' ..x ti if, . ;' It,, $'j l'$w : r .,wpr f r Y VX 'f- - I i l ' s, ' Jr' Mi;&li i A J JU-- ti 1fwii 1 .V si . - I mH Tl4?''d 3, hakT r t S'? i. 1 ) 1 . && y 44 mw" 4 J. T S.Y ,v 4,JV '1 "ei:l' ;;; s, 4f, a, .. v I J "'or-- ' ' , - w ' m H H 2 u Th Bersaglieri are picked men of the Italian army, and are famoue for their marching powers and general smartness. They pride themeelvea upon their phyalcal fltnese, and when they are not ewinglng along the country roade with their characterletlc trot, at a good five milee an hour, they are either drilling or practicing gymnaatlca In the barrack-yard- . Sport are held frequently, and our llluetratlon ahowa a favorite amutement of the bicycle contingent, who climb up polee and ropee with their machines alung over their backs. M SUE boasts of one whose choice of occupaDENTIST tion Is perhaps the only one being followed at any place In the United States that of a snake dentist. For nearly 25 years F. B. Armstrong, of the country near Brownsville, Texas, HAZF. P. ARMSTRONG FOLLOWS has been In this business. He operates ARDOUS OCCUPATION. on a choice clientele of customers, for he only handles the business of his rattler. And majesty the diamond-bacMakea Good Living by Extracting he makes a handsome living out of his strange and grewsome occupation; In Fangs and Poison from Rattlers fact, he has grown well off In worldly Then 8old for Reptiles goods, and Is now able to retire com Fancy Prices. fortably from following his more or less hazardous calling. Mr. Armstrong actually does dental Weatherford, Tel. Men have adopted many strange and hazardous occu- work on the big snakes that he hanpations and callings by which to gain dles. He extracts their fangs and poison a livelihood, but the state of Texas sacs, and he does this to a thousand WITH HERMIT. PERISHES Faithful 5F-- zrm ecentl Armstrong's method of handling the snakes and extracting the poison from the little sacs which lie at the base of the fangs Is unique and original. From each rattler he extracts from one to two tablespoonfuls of the yoiron, which Is a green, syrup-llkliquid, and has a distinctly sweetish taste. The poi- lng son is comparatively harmless when taken Internally, though Armstrong would not advise anyone to make a habit of swallowing much of It crude For the purpose of extracting and saving the liquid poison the captor uses a specially constructed box which has a sliding glass top. This box Is so Constructed that Armstrong can hold the snake securely while operating on him, and at the same time keep an eye on the snakes movements In the box, The snake Is hauled out of the box In whlrh it had been placed vhen taken from the fattening pen, where It has been kept for weeks and nerhaps months, and Is then Induced to enter the operating bog which Armstrong facetiously calls his "dental chair. By their united efforts Armstrong end his Mexican helper then press the rattler's head backward over the sliding top, which forces the snakes mouth open. The lid is then pressed tightly against the protruding neck. By this time the snake has become furiously angry at his undignified treatment and Is ready to strike at anything and strike deep and hard. At the opportune moment Armstrong places the rim of a small glass in the snake's mouth, the Mexican helper releases the head of the reptile for an Instant and it Immediately clamps Its fangs on the rim of the glass. The terrible fangs dart forth (they are shaped exactly like the claws of a cat when they are unsheathed) and the poison is quickly emptied Into the glass. In its ferocious state the snake drains its glands of all the poison they contain, and for a long time It remains harmless, so far as danger from its poison is concerned. Mr. Armstrong then has little difficulty In removing the fangs with a pair of ordinary dentists forceps. From six to eight of these fangs are grown by the rattlesnake In the course of his lifetime, and they are from to a half Inch In length, are curved and as sharp as needles. The snakes from which the fangs have been extracted find ready sale at fancy prices. Armstrong keeps a large lot on hand all the time, how ever. In order to supply the demand for the poison. one-quart- Dog Refuses to Leave Master In Flame. S5 No. SJ-- For i lawj tCyr 11 " i (be, MP - mrt io:u . D rough here For Provo, Pl.Grove, Amor. lean Fork, Lehl, Merour, ccepte Balt Lake No. SO For Provo, Salt Lake and"" '1" -- jtorne Intermediate isbam No. 4 For Provo, Baltpoints Lake'and" lau. Intermediate points Palatial traina are now runnin"AaiiJ ween Salt Lake and the Paclflo Coaat J b' irney mod I UTAH COUNTY Is In dlreot touch ...v . " Durii greatH.oltlea. Best local train service J. BrKTNBB. District N. PST.E8SX. Depot Ticket Agent1' f tel No. 8Z d tvlng wlldlt lough Attorney-General P. V. Davidson of Texas has filed a suit In the district court on behalf of the state of Texas against 120 members of the Texas Millers association which is alleged to be a trust. Penalties of 56,250 are asked against each defendant, the total amount sued for being 56,750,000. LAWYERS AVOID DEAF CLIENTS. DOING AWAY WITH HAND WORK. the Device Sought by Which Poultry May Be Artificially Plucked. man in the Tombs for theft consulted three different lawyers, each of whom seemed unwilling to undertake his defense, says the New York Press. The fourth man Interviewed was also on the point of declining the case. Look here, the accused broke out angrily, what's the matter with you fellows anyhow? This isnt a difficult case. You ought to be able to get me off easily, and Im willing to pay. The trouble Is this, said the fourth man frankly. You are very deaf. No lawyer likes to defend a deaf man unless he Is hard pushed for clients or is going to receive a tremendously big fee. A deaf man is so vefy likely to queer his own case. If be would only trust Implicitly to the lawyer he would be all right, but that Is something he seldom does. He cannot hear what Is going on about him, so he flies into a panic and fancies his lawyer Is neglecting bis interests, and the first thing anybody knows he blurts out something that ruins the case. I really can't blame those other men for turning you down. I Bhall do the same thing unless you will promise upon your honor not to speak only when 1 tell you to. Six turkeys slain that morning revolved slowly on a kind of spit In a small room on the ground floor of a great poultry farm, and as they revolved they were miraculously plucked. Invisible hands stripped off their plumage; the air was gray with falling feathers. "Wind plucked turkeys It is an experiment, said the foreman. Those s birds are being plucked by of electrically driven air. But experiment Is not a commercial success. For many years we have tried to Invent a poultry-pluckinmachine. We have not succeeded well. Alrplucklng seems to he the idea that offers most promise, but It still wants a lot of working out Yet eventually, I have no doubt, these turkeys that now take a half hour and cost ten cents apiece to pluck by air will be air plucked In a few seconds, and at no more cost than ten cents a thousand. Are a Handicap to Their Efforts Courtroom. In A . cross-current- Vegetable Freak. In vegetable growth has been added to the collection In the museum of the zoological division of the Pennsylvania state department Of This freak was a radiBh agriculture. which grew In the garden of Martin Herzog, a Tyrone clgarmaker, and was sent to Harrisburg by Representative Thompson of Blair county. The radish A A freak - - iiwusuiju"u'u CANADAS ARCTIC DOMINIONS Arrival and departure of train from Pern No. T For Sprlngvllle.Provo.Salt Lake Zi S:10a No. tt For Sprlngville Provo.Salt Lake and all poinW east and west ( No. S For Eureka, Mammoth and silver City .. No. 8 For Eureka, Mammoth and Sii-- r ver City Connections mad In Ogden Union depot wit 11 trains of boulhern PaciOo and Oregon Shot Line. ' OFFERS CHOICE OF H FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY AND THREE DISTINCT SCENIC ROUnf Pulrnan Palace and ordinary Sleeping enn u Denver, Omaha, Kansas Uty, fet, Louli asi Chicago without change Free Reclining Chair Cars; Personally eond ducted Excursiona; a perfect Dining Car Serf vioe. For rates, folder, eto , Inquire of P. K . H aiiKiNa, Ticket Agent or wrlto L A. BENTON, G. A.P. D Snlt Lake City. a ROBERTSON STEBBIN; CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Plastering and Cement Work a Specially. Mantle and Firn Places Ennuhcd end Set Spanish Fork, Vtab, DR. N. C. SPALDING VETERINARY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office at Palace Drug Store, Both Phi n Provo, :. Vial Makea regular call to Spanish Fork every Thursday. . Office at World Drug htore. HORSE INFIRMARY 1 At the old Orta Lewie comer, oa Spring will road, Spanish Fork, Utah. X Splmti Bone Spavin and Pipe oi Feitala removi or no pay. Crippled and lame horict All a limale examined irtt specialty. charge. Look well to your hones teeth, from them come many diteaiet. Live i live" is my motto, j A-- BROYN X X lt well-know- Vhats the , matter fi) I IDAHO Thousands of acres of land hr beeu reclaimed to cultivation b' white dune, motile irrigation In that State the past 10 years. Thousand! part, i more will he reclaimed witnn as bet the next 10 year. Thisuwjn She an oponiug for many thousand tlee t of homes. and In lo eni Have You Investigated IDAHO? It has been truthfully termed mlkln II sat a Land of Opportunities A Land of Homes HUDS Q The Oregon Short Line Railroad will be pruned to aendtieseriptive N BA returning from his recent trip to the Arctic circle In the Canadian government steamer Arctic, Captain Ilernlcr announced nH laid claim to 600 000 square miles of land, and that lrea which ?D the present had been more or less Indefinitely definedthat maSs and and charts could now be distinctly a nart ef . SSn2 ,8iauu at which Jbe a,ccr,;nny,ng planted the English flag. Z .23 il,!, tC q Mr. Latta, stenographer to the president, hss served In the executive office of the Whit House for several years and Is thoroughly versed In hla Ha usually accompanies the president on hie duties. trips and relieves him Black Hide Worn In Form of a Belt le of a considerable portion of hi voluminous mail. Panacea. GERMANS PREFER tinued to beat after the first application of the voltage. A second appliDistinguished Criminologist Declare cation was therefore made. prof. Electrocution Undesirable. Freudenthal also finds that the length of the torture suffered by the conBerlin. Prof. Freudenthal, the dis- demned makes the adoption of tinguished German crlmtnologlat who undesirable In Germany. went to New York to study the uae of electricity In carrying out death senGaudy Pews for Church. tences. advise against Ita substituAllentown, Pa. Joseph Held, John tion for the system of hanging and of Galt and Clarence Hobart have atari decapitation now In vogue In Germany. ed suit for ICS wages against Carls Prof. Freudenthal witnessed an ex- A Belly, contractors, who painted the ecution by electilclty at Auburn Interior of Jordan Reformed church at prison, New York. He says that the Wilbert's last summer. -- The defendchair Is preferable to the gallowa or ants claim that the consistory had the block from the standpoint of the withheld part of their money "because spectators, because the human agency the pews were painted yellow, green whereby death Is caused Is not so ap- and chestnut, altogether too gaudy for parent. Ho Insists, however, that this a church." More money was held back, they exadvantage docs not compensate for the torture the spectators suffer In the plained at the hearing before the aluncertainty as to just what moment derman, because they hadn't been able death occurred, or If It Lad occurred to finish a memorial window for lack of proper material. The Reading at all. On the occasion when Prof. firm, which had contracted to supply waa present the spectators this, Lad sent colored glass designed had a distinct impression that the for a barroom window inztead of an heart of the condemned man con ecclesiastical scene. HANGING. eleo-trlclt- Freu-donth- y e nni ter regarding Idahos to D. K. Burley, li I. - or D A. U. V. A Salt City. llh- B. H. BROWN, text-books- Mistaken Impression, said the analytical "Of course, questioner, "there Is a great deal to be said on both sides of the question. "Yes, answered Senator Sorghum. "Too many of ua are getting the Idea thqt all a public question la fit for nowadays Is to serve as the topic for ' . a good talk." is six Inches long and so closely resembles the human form that at a glance It would be taken for a newly, born babe, it u marked so as to the eyes, nose, mouth, neck breast waistline, abdomen, thighs and f human elng. In a letter hlch accompanied the radish Mr that ,n ,0kln over L ,?u,ay record In which were 8.ir,I,1IUBtratlona of Peeullarltles la growth ho found among the Illustration, or descrii tlons that equaled this one. Livery hM by alm.le 2,0,nJ,rn.foundaUon of econ-tun- e. It m Innocent Childhood. Brute. Little William My I shall never siteak to you agnln," chargo of over 20 men. declared , Mrs. Jawback, reduced to Little Jimmy Huh tears at the end of the argumenL hu "Just like a woman," scoffed Mr. III,!"" Jawback, brutally. If you cant get Little William Well, your way In at other way, you resort make, more money ,hnn yoi'r to bribery." He doe.nl own the shop.-i9; fiw v th Wli trial is wl ed In Bpaalsk Perky those broad tourt Mh in li upon of th any Institution,- - We tnnnt ha t caplt Dealers la Urn, ,o ror.M.7ub.V" liable to be grounded In habits of economy that you wont , pona- enjoy lng the money." I found for- - doelnt flg'T'floidy? buTy Xapol Inin a. the h of r A Rlek, nres man have probn dlans Stable. No. Iiuliut e Hack Meets all Trains THOSE coadn every Mis fiom rl.-- a among the professions. There are more teachers and possibly more lawyers than there are persons who make their living wholly or In the main part by writing; and possibly there are as But If you could many physicians. count the reporters and correspondents, the special writers for the news, the papers, the makers of writers for magazines, the novelists, the playwrights, the writers of government and other public documents ,and all the rest who make their living wholly or In main part by writing, you would be astonished to see how large a company they are. Walter H. Page, in Atlantic Monthly. A C A- On CAT CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. , No. For Paynon, Bantaquln ard Los Auitelrs . For Pay sob, Bantaquln and Nepbl Payson, Nephi"iujj'Manti NORTH-BOUN- Wit-ma- Nashville. Tenn. "The hide of a black cat dried in an autumn sun and worn around the waist In the form of a belt will keep rheumatism away, said Mark Duvall, of Alexandria, La., at the Hotel Duncan. "Now, dont laugh, and wait until after you've heard the etory. For three yenre 1 had symptoms of rheumatism very painful symptoms. I lay awake nights and suffered a thousand deaths mentally and physically. One day an old negro working on an adjoining plantation told me of the blnrk cat hide remedy. Of couree, I didn't believe In It, but, like a drowning man grabbing at a straw, thought t would give It a trial, as I knew the old time southern darky to be a real good doctor. I had a bluck rat killed In October and let the hide slay out for about 15 days to dry,. 1 then rut It up and made a belt about oue Inch whle out of It. I put on the belt and wore It for eight weeks. Believe mo when I Bay that my rheumatic pains bad entirely disappeared the third week. 1 have never had a pain slnco, and I still Lave my Muck cat be." 1 - fcJ Rehersburg, Pa. Frederick C. character aged 75, a In western Berks county, met with a horrible death by burning in hla hermit home In Tulpehocken. George Yeakley, who' lives some distance away, heard cries coming from the old man's stone home, and when he reached there he found it all ablaze. He tried to get Inside, but the lone occupant of the place had each night secured the doors and windows with strong wrought iron bars. Through a rift at one of the windows Yeakley and his mother beheld a horrible sight. Seated on his old wood cbesL where he had lounged so much all hts life, they saw the figure of the aged man. He was In flames from head to foot, and hla clothing and hair had all been burned off. The arms were partly raised and his features terribly distorted. Indicating that ho had died In fearful agony. Witmau's old shepherd dog, that had guarded his master tor many years, was pacing up and down In front of the wood chest when Yeakley finally cut away the door frame and The uog, st gained admittance. though badly burned, could hnve been saved, but he snarled and bit when an effort was made to take him out. Finally ho dragged himself over to the chest and died at the feet of bli master. No. ' Statistics of Writers. And the writers craft Is now become a very large craft. In numbers It ranks perhaps second or third THE PRESIDENTS STENOGRAPHER Omali SOUTH-BOUN- e t '1 s', nil. TRUSTS BRINGS SUIT AGAINST ALLEGED . General that Merchandisoi Flour, Grain and Produco. Itaaufaotnrtr of Harness, '6'" 0 Boots tad Shoes. JOHN JONF.S. Spanish Fork - - SupL - tlb popu whit with! there Afrlc high he a light he R lulinl wale the of th timo |