Show OVERRUN BY LE LEECHES ECHE S A tenement invaded by hundreds of the creatures Croat uros ures forma whore me are tl for Com pur poem kow flow they are rod pod cuhl and people in the T Y estem have bave slept soundly for yar fc in ir ignorance morance of the fact that at any moment a plague worse than the locusts of egypt might come crawling into open windows and under loosely hung bung doors a plague of fierce blood hungry leeches there is an extensive oilen sive leech farm on bush street where ten thousand of the repulsive monsters are arc confined awaiting purchasers the farm is one of in the united states the other being in new york and there at times fifty thousand leeches squirm ceaselessly about over und and through swamp muck constantly searching for some hapless animal that chance might have mired down to furnish f a feast for forthe the insatiate annelid the leeches at the san pan F francisco ran cisco farm broke avy away the other night 0 says say a the san francisco examiner wid and overspread the nei neighboring liboria tenement in a c m very short iiii tuna 0 alun deeds of them crawled up the walls walk and tried every window and crevi crevice 1 oe but a minority found their way into the sleeping i not more than a thousand b but ut even that number of green ish blacci creepy worms sufficed to terrify tho occupants almost into fits when they felt the eager suction of the leeches and awoke to find them themselves elves festooned festoon ed with the ugly products of the swampy ooze of bordeaux tile the first to awaken was ayoutt kuly and she war wae not long r in anu onnel ig her distress and her ber follow fellow pants of the house only to find that each of them had for room companions from a score to hundred bundro dk of tho brooms wert savagely plied in every corner bod coad under every of if furni ture Rede lothing was wab t auca tand and closely examined leech bith were dref A with soothing applice applications adious and after several hours of ar activity a tivit Y the household again settled down to rest next morningan examina examination tiou of the premises and adjacent was made and when the leech farm was discovered the secret was vas out as well as the leeches the worms are arc brought brou glit froni from france where about bordeaux there are wide areas af of pf black light ooze in which leeches leeche WW s oi of thala fcc si sort multiply 11 nn u stinted alien ooze fa fairly 1 irly heaves with their things at the season of the year 1 they are most active and then one of the coelest C Aie leit sights possible may M ay bo be f xen men f r old horses w worn orn out in an fn r fa faithful I 1 service are ae driven into the marshes and are boon bori covered with the hungry leeches which fasten to lips eyelids eyell dH nose or an any y other tender part and hanon until uny glutted w M etli the life blood of their ichim or until the wretched hor borso weakens under the drain and falls to suffocate u cate in the slime bahne of the morass vlen leeches are adeph cd to send rend to NOW york or an francisco men arc hired whose poverty compels thema them to accept any chance tile men walk barc into the borders of the leech t babp amps 5 and are immediately covered by the repulsive arav crawlers lers but before they can more inore than pierce piaree alio man hn of the men inen with N ith their gemi lunar teeth teela they aie swept off into pouches pouch cu from which they aro are counted out into beds of wet moss and of their nl native ooze embedded in which they are arc transported traub ported sported safely any dib distance tance the large lare leeches such as those of japan NN which reach two dept in leng length are arc not in common fsr nor are certain poi poisonous bonous sorts such as aa the small niall black leeches lee clies of australia the thick fat fierce worms of hungary sicily and franco france are preferred by practitioners who use leeches tind and it is f from rom those countries that the reta ret A of the world w in supplied the san francisco leech farm is formed by placing quantities of f the ooze of the bordeaux swamps swa nips cb pee lally imported for the purpose in large boxes with tight covers tie the bore about theroun r ii the muck until wanted for sale when they are arc counted out washed and disposed of ready to bite any livin living thin thing gand and liang han on until they are swollen to eight or ten times their ordinary size then they drop off and lie dormant until assimilation simi lation ahall have been finished and hunger again arouses them |