Show YOUTH SPENDS DAY I II I IN CAR FUll OF RATTLESNAKES Hissing Den of Reptiles His Only Company Without Food or Drink OMAHA July 22 With With nothing to soften the pangs of hunger nor quench the burning thirst born of the terrific heat of his prison and his only company company company com com- pany a den of Texas rattlers it is small smaIl wonder that Allen Wolters Columbian college student and son of an eastern railroad director was mighty glad to be released from that box car He lIe had been locked in the oven m like e place with its crate of hissing hissing hiss hiss- in ing buzzing snakes snaRes for twenty-four twenty hours h The rattlers six in number had evidently evidently evi evi- dently dently been shipped to s some me carnival from a a. Texas reptile farm and the shipment had become mislaid It was waa the most natural thing in the t-e world for a brakeman to slip sup the box into an empty car in which some vagrant would be sure to land Wolters was the amateur hobo who became the victim of the brakeman's practical Joke Faints as Rescued ed Though of splendid physique showIng showing showing show show- ing years of athletic training Wolters crumpled up as a. he fell into the arms of ot the switchman who opened the car door in the south side yards lIe He re revived revived revived re- re under the administration of small quantities of ice water and would have gone on his way at once but for the arrival of Officers Danbaum and Jackman Jack- Jack man The memory of his late jail sentence sentence sen sea tence with the snakes and heat hat caused him to give the officers his story in inthe Inthe inthe the hope that he might avoid acquaintance tance with the city jail on a charge of I defrauding the railroad company Between much relished bits of sandwiches sandwiches sandwiches sand sand- given him by the kind hearted engine crew Wolters related his story and then produced documents to show that he was telling the entire truth On College Bet He lie Is the son of a wealthy rail road director and Wall Vall street man and his home homo is in the Bronx New York You see said the young fellow I Iam Iam Iam am not a regular hobo It all happened happened happened hap hap- because of one of those bets that college cubs are always making And now that the bet is on Im I'm going through with it At a class banquet in June one of the the- fellows made the statement that we had too m much culture and that none of us would be any good for tor roughing it I was nut enough to bet him a a. banquet for the class that I could bum my way to San Francisco I would not pay any car fare tarE and I would glean all m my viands from the tenderhearted He accepted and I am hard at work to keep from furnishing furnishing furnish furnish- 1 ing the turkey and trimmings when the class meets mEts in September I II I have havo been getting on pretty well I got kicked off ocr a train tram in New lew Jersey My dad is a a. director of the road too But th then I think that brakeman would have kicked the tho old man off if he lie had caught him traveling ad lib so EO I did not feel so badly about it But believe be believe be be- lieve me I never want to look 1001 at a snake again even In the zoo I feel pretty much refreshed now and if you chaps will let me go Ill I'll stop off ort on my way hack back from Frisco and buy you a couple of new uni uni- forms This Is not a bribe understand it Is a prayer There is nothing like extremes ernes When I come back bade I think Ill I'll hire a private car Jackman and Danbaum felt a tug somewhere inside and the young fellow tellow fel tel low was given a glad hand on his way Some Somo small mall change even Oven camo came his way WElY to help him with the eats I along the tough spots |