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Show LITTLE MOTHER'S FRIGHTFUL TRIAL Snakes Threatened Baby, and She Was Unable to Kelp, LOCKED UP IN SMOKEHOUSE. Luckily Llttla Chap Crawled to Safety, and She Was Released In Time to Save Her From Becoming Insane by a Neighbor Passing By. TUB Ingenious torturers of bygone by-gone dn.ra ucver thought out anything like such n horror us befell young Airs, I'liomus 1 Kcjly, wife of n roierous farmer In 1 the Slnnemnhqiilng region of I'ennsyl' 1 u vanla. That she did not Jose tier rcn- W son is little short of a miracle. I Hhe had a little son. ten months old. I too young to walk, hut an indefatigable 1 crawler. The Kcllys hnvo on tholr 1 place, eays the Philadelphia Itecord. n f I strongly made but small building out 1 nenr tho siuing. which they use us u I Bniokchousc. I Self Locking Prison. I There Is no knob or catch whatever I on the Inside of thedoor, and onco in ' 1 doors in Uie stuffy little apartment. 1 with tho heavy door sprung Bhut. I mcanti imprisonment. And that is ox- I actly what befell MrB. KHly. though Mr-mv ncr becoming u prisoner was accom panied by clrcumstnucert very much out of tho ordinary. Mrs. Kelly had just finished her weekly churning and was on her way to tho springhousc to deposit the butter but-ter roll, carrying her baby on her arm. Nenr the door of the ttpriughouHo nhe was ntnrtl,ed by the unnilstnUnblc wound of n rattlesnake's alarm and at another glance saw the serpent colling in a yellow ring in tho very path in which Blie was traveling. She first turned to run into the house. P.ut Hhe 1 was nlone on the prcmisea that uftcr- I noon, her husband having gone to n I neighboring farmer to help got in hay. 1 Daby Left With Serpents. I She finally determined to put the 1 serpent out of the way. 1'uttlng her X-- babydown upon the deep grass fully 'J'f'W'arom where tho snake lay. she bethought herself of a heavy I pitchfork which she knew was In tho smokehouse. In order to get this weapon she was compelled to make a detour through the grass pus.! where the Bttnlce lay. uml In doing mi she almost al-most stepped on another one. This J- tAld 7 IF , - ' THE HN A KB DEPVIKO MBS. KI'.I.T.Y TO TASS. I got her bo excited that sho Jerlsfd the door of tne smokehouse open, stepped inside to grab tho pitchfork, let go the heavy door, and In another Instant It had slammed shut nnd lutein!. She was a prisoner inside, white her baby boy was out there within n few yards j of two deadly serpents. Mrs. Kelly tried her beat to force m open the door, but It wouldn't budge. , Then she began shouting and shriek lug. but she might as well have shouted shout-ed in n cave as In that pen. for ,pp ! voice did not penetrate the lusivy board B walls. She fancied sho heard one of tho rattlers "Hlnslng.M the orru that lay j nearest tho door. The thought that : one or both of the reptile might at-, tack the baby or that he might crawl to where the snakes lay inado Mrs. Kellv wild with fenr She called and called to the child, hoping mat tier alarm might send him toward tin- porch vt tho house and away from the danger. dan-ger. Mrs. Kelly ilnally tried a new i scheme of alarm. She iKnindetl with J the handle of the heavy pitchfork upon tho sides of the smokehouse, the I whacks making a succession of sounds that could be heard 40ti yard away And tbey were buafd too. A boy driving nlong the road from tho blaH. smith shop heard tho poundings ai b end of perhaps half nti Hour after if a a m,- ;gaaW.!iaMll, .uts ivCny naa become a prisoner. H stopped to investigate, found tho baby alone and crying at tho porch steps and then called to Mrs. Kelly. For reply ho heard n succession of poundings pound-ings that unmistakably came from the Insldo of the smokehoue The boy opened the door and found Mrs. Kelly In n condition of collapse, hut when she had been assured that tier baby wn snfe she soon recovered. The boy killed both snnkes with the pitchfork which the woman had oris-unlly oris-unlly planned to use. |