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Show i V. . 5 ix k . . - . . , .'i i ''" ' ".VOL I. Hour;,' WASATCii' ' i t ; 44 J , r . ; Coi-Niy- , , ;r. m, 1 ' . t - 4 ond class mail matter: .. , . 4a, f .year, 50 cents for half, a year ' .. . . . : t 4 v' ! - : .by - "" " TPaul Keister, a local musician, played Saturday evening at a dance at a farm house back of Yulupa mountain. Next morning he started for home. At one point the path winds around a sharp and narrow spur of the moun- j AV Keister had reached tain- - s this point vvhen his attention was attracted by the warning clatter of a rattlesnake. He saw a formidable rattler in his path and took "to his heels. A few feet further along still another rattler rose up before him. There wals not sufficient room to pass the snakes without running, the risk of being bitten, and the frightened musician backed up' against the ledge and eyed the advancing reptiles. It suddenly occurred to him that in India' magicians charm ' snakes with t music, aud" pulling oiit his Sliolin he be' gan desperately to ' playi The snakes ' y U $jp 1 j : , . charrmed rattlers MUSIC . S' gradually uncoiled and glided, slowly toward the player. This was anything, but pleasant to Keister, who kept sawing away at his fiddle, trying to devise meanwhile a scheme for escaping. Closer and closer came the snakes, and faster flew the bow over the strings as .Keisters nerves quivered and shook. At last the., snakes reached a point within two feet of the terrified fiddler, and winding themselves up they lifted their heads closely together and fixed their shining eyes on the musican. , V . 7T , cents for 215 ixr) -- months, if you want of sits tribe call at this office and see us. and ; Utah, Monday, November viSq&- - No. 23, .... ' , SUBSCRIPTION PRICES. A ; . - - VJ1 r per . t HEBER HERALD. THE ATIatdrJr, - Editor and Manager. X Entered. at Ilcber Postoffice,1 as secA . : t J 4 x.vjr xxs - , ' - - 4 - VI ' " ' ;i',. TiN TSSFISS 1 oI r ' - J J r. i . Keisters nerves. were now utterly , un- controllable. With a yell he grabbed his fiddle by the neck and, brought it down with crushing force on the heads of the rep tiles, and Keister kept hammering untill they were dead. He broke his beloved vc in. into splinters, but he saved his life. , The snakes measured six and seven feet respectively. One carried ten rattles and the other seven. Kansas City Star. o '?sm A SECOND JACK THE GIANT lULLEIi. There was once a small boy, but his name was not Jack, A.ndjie hadnt a'bean stalk at all; Yet he .hitched his hatchet with sturdy : , hack, - Which helped him to climb a high wall |
