Show effects of a several days ago chanced to meet colonel charles hanson in this city and observing him buffering intense pain in both eyes was inquisitive enough to ask of him what was the cause of tho trouble and what tho peculiar and frightful appearance pe arance about his eyes the colonel nia seen much of this world and is above the average in intelligence in fact lie Is very pleasant in conversation while ho is yet rather unpromising in personal appearance during the conversation ho became interested and aavo his history from childhood beginning with ida birth in winchester ciack county ky in after life ho immigrated to hardini county and settled about and a half miles from elizabeth town lie has been engaged for years in the stock business iio owns two farms in poncy county indiana and was en bouto there to look after his in he was in the mexican war under colonel clay and fought in many a hard fought battle some civo years ago lio was engaged in getting out saw logs in edmonson county near the mammoth cave after having loaded a log on to bis wagon ho knelt upon his knee and was in the act of reaching for ft chain when without warning a rattlesnake tle snake struck and bit him in ono of his eyes from tho effects of the bite lio was blind for hours It emedies acro applied but to no good until he visited an eminent physician in cincinnati and received comparative relief the colonel says the expense attending this unfortunate bite has amounted to more than 2000 he says that every year about tho time ho was bitten his head swells to an enormous size at times as largo as a water bucket and his cyca en 0 him great pain while hero in lie was suffering great pain his eyes were terribly inflamed and running yet ky |