Show ANANIAS YOURE YOU'RE A 1 MCF NUM R Texas Mans Man's SnaKe Story Has All the Rest of Them Groggy How He Lost His Fortune DENVER VER Sept 5 5 William William V. V Argyle Argyle Ar Ar- I Igle gyle gle Into lato o of Roswell N. N M. M spent tho the day in Denver while touring Colorado in an nn effort chart to find a suitable spot to locate what whitt he facetiously terms a DT D T. T farm To be moro more explicit Mr rc Ar Argyle jle cultivates snakes for the tho amu amuse amusement c mont ment world supplying tho the I beauty w with th hull bull snakes as monsters of or orthe the tho South African jun I and tho the so so- I called caned snake caters eaters and wild girls with th poisonous non lira rattlers rattlers' anti and adders I which the they can fondle or masticate with impunity Ho lie sa says s the industry is a J. J paying pain on one and AmI that hi farm in New Mexico exico was Wl a. a moneymaking money tion lion where it would ha have been mos most profitable to remain had it not been that a piece of hard hu luck had disgusted him so thoroughly that he be desired to find another location Whether Mr Argyle is attempting to out out-Ananias n Munchausen or call all upon his head bead the opprobrium of both the tho Irrepressible Teddy and unel Dr Lon Long for nature turo faking cannot be ascertained ascer ascer- tamed but his hill hard luck story if true puts o oven on n that of Lazarus in the shade of the tho proverbial pro lemon tree Having been thrown with those in tho the amusement world BO so frequently ho naturally naturally nat nat- bc began nn to have ha some seine aspirations to shine in that realm himself and to that end began be an to look about for some suitable feature that might startle tho the most blase blaso and mako make all other thrillers fade fado into mere mero insignificance inai One morning mornin while whilo walking over o his snake nako farm he ho chanced upon two young youn boo hoop hoor snakes that were just learning to rol roland and it flashed across his mind that t il if ho he could teach these reptiles to race ho lie would have ha a fortune easily within his grasp Immediately bo ho began to work with tho the little fellows but as they are very hard to instruct it was five tl months before before be fore ho bo felt in the least repaid for his labor and then they thoy possessed the fault of refusing to stop when the end of the course was reached Several times time thor they dashed them themselves es el a against trees or stones not satisfied with having haying com corn tho the race but evidently wishing to continue continuo further This ambition came camo near being tho the death of them sev several several eral times so Mr r. r Argyle ordered a netting net netting tin ting to be placed at tho the end of the course so EO that they would have to stop The following day and before the netting netting net net- ting arrived d. d the tho regular daily practice was bein being held when the fastest of the two reptiles which b by the way he designated des i as Nan Patterson ran into a tree and the tho shock was so great that its tail was imbedded in in the tho trunk to such sucha a depth that to extract extra t it the snake had hac to be killed The Tho other snake on beholding its opponents opponents opponent's opponents opponent's op op- death died with fright anc and andI what Mr Jr Argyle terms tho the marvel el oJ of I the tho age ac 1 was a n thing of the past |