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Show This Is No Lie Oh No This is the truth the whole truth And nothing but the truth so help A Salt Lake girl, a rattle snake garter gar-ter and a basso piofundo llgure in a New York story of an accident which will bo of raie Interest to many hole at home. For obvious reasons the name of the young woman, who Is well known her", Is omitted, as is the name of the man, the company she Is with and other names which might serve to embarass her or piove a rare adveitlscmcnt for tills novice In tlie theatrical world. The story Is from the New York Pi ess. and shorn ol the Identifying names, i mis as follows: With Its leading figures a prima donna, a garter made fiom tlie skin of a deadly rattlesnake, and a basso piofundo pio-fundo who carried Indian snake root In his pocket for use in midnight emergencies, a tale was so thrilling In its varied aspects that a failure to print it would strike a blow at honest humor. Tlie prima donna's private piomotcr or publicity was tlie unfold cr. Shorn of names, thus ran the veracious chronicle: NOT A (1AUTK1! SNAKK. "Miss narrowly escaped escap-ed death last week from poisoning by a rattlesnake gaiter, which she wears; not a garter snake, but a rattlesnake. She is now convalescent and walking about the streets when obliged to with the assistance of a cane. The true story of her lameness and close connection with dcatli has Just leaked out. "She Is a native Of Salt Lake City, and last year spent her summer vacation vaca-tion witli a party of friends on an overland trip on horseback from that city down through tlie Rocky mountains moun-tains by trail into New Mexico. While passing through the Mora valley val-ley the party met one evening Jim Hayes, u nephew of tlie famous 'Wild Hill.' lla-es wasso charmed by the remarkable case with winch Miss handled her horse Dial he presented tier with two lattlesnakc skins as a souvenir of the meeting. "On returning to tills city, Miss bad the skins made into garters of the circular kind. The skins wcie lined with a soft quilted silk and shortened so that the head and rattles rat-tles met together in a gold clasp. KANIIS NOT IIKMOVK1). "Hut a fatal mistake was made by not lemovlng the fangs from tlie head of one snake! This snake, or rather garter, Miss wore on her right limb last Tuesday on her way to rehearsal. In gelt ing off a Hroadway car she fell to tlie ground she says, because be-cause the car started to -i"'u. 'Phis caused a tremendous shock, l.i alu'vel it all the prima donna felt a sharp! pain like Dial of a needle, enter her body below tlie knee. Investigation showed a tiny drop of blood oozing from the Injured spot. rv experience experi-ence In the West revealed Hie truth to her Immediately, and, unclasping the offending hose supporter, she found in tlie head of the ipcr the fatal fangs! atti:m:ii roitN danck. "i'oitunately, however, she was accompanied ac-companied hv , basso piofundo pio-fundo of the ' company, com-pany, who has spent some time in Florida and is one of the few men the Seminole Indians have allowed to see their sacred corn dance. From his familiarity with these aborigine lie became acquainted with their method of treating a snake bite, whether moccasin or rattle. He was carrying with him a portion of the snakeroot, which those Indians use to cure tills poison, as a sort of a souvenir of the many pleasant days he had spent In tlie Kvergladcs. "Coolly and calmly he applied that root according to the method of the Indians. Hut he first followed the precaution of making Miss remain absolutely quiet by putting her in a carriagcand having her driven slowly and cautiously to her home. That the result of all this has been beneficial and has saved her life In demonstrated by the fact that this beautiful woman Is now able to attend rehearsals of the '- ' company, with the assistance of a I cane. i j W'll.I. st'K (JO.MI'ANV. "She has Informed the street railroad rail-road company that she will bring .suit! for damages, and the question of the ' amount, considering the presence of the poison of thu snake in such a pe-collar pe-collar way, Is expected to raise a new point In tlie Juris-prudence of the New York code." |