Show FROM THE LIARS CLUB thre indigestible yarns told by ita moat veracious members in a virginia forest the other day says the new york recorder a very large tree was cut down near alie heart of which was found a lock of hair or rather two intertwined of darker and lighter meshes by carefully splitting the wood the initials 1I S and P P were discovered faintly legible in what must have been the bark several hundred years ago by carefully counting the rings winch covered the initials they were found to support the theory that the mystic letters stand for I o h n or john smith and poca-hontas powhatan whose locks of hair had been in some romantic mood in trusted to the keeping of the cleft bark not content with slaughtering wild ducks in the usual method henry jones of cCuurrrriittuucckk procured a gatling gun and loaded the cartridges with bird shot concealing himself he waited until a large flock approached him at great speed with a favoring wind when they had nearly reached him he opened fire the destruction was terrible but such was the impetus of the birds and the force of the wind that almost the entire flock which he had slaughtered flopped dying upon his hiding place and beneath their man-gled bodies jones perished miserably by retributive suffocation A lady in thomaston me has a cat fanny which had kittens as cats so named frequently do nearing her mistress remark that the kittens must all be drowned fanny removed them one day to a safe hiding place after a day or two she brought them back to the mistress with a air of triumph it was then seen that she had with teeth and claws torn to pieces an old canvas and cork life preserver and had fastened a piece of cork around each kittens neck moved to pity by the sight the mistress said fanny not one of conr kittens shall ever be hurt at this the intelligent mother took off the bits of cork and juul ty in perfect yra ti |