Show AN electrical SNAKE A tall story that left a trail of glue mark a farmer living near the town of alexander ind relates a most wonderful phenomenon which occurred at his place lie just after dark night beloro last I 1 had occasion to go out to the barn to look after the horses A public highway passes within yards of my house and the lam is built about 20 rods from the bouse duo south and somewhat nearer the toad I 1 started arora alie houpo in the direction of the barn and bad gone perhaps half the distance when I 1 noticed something playing along the ground that looked like a tremendous fiery lake the object crossed my path and as it did eo I 1 felt the air grow much colder and a peculiar moaning sound arose like the of the wind through the trees only it was loud enough to drown a mans voice when he would shout then I 1 felt thing come over me like electricity and I 1 became motionless as hough I 1 had grown fast to the ground 1 I was terribly scared but I 1 never lost the use of my hands or legs through fear though there was something peculiar in the air that simply paralyzed me when the thing had got perhaps 50 feet from me going west it turned and came ock bock b and as it did so the moaning sound changed to a whistle something like a locomotive would mak and when it got just in front of me it took a course directly away from me and toward the barn it traveled very rapidly and looked like a large ragged streak of perhaps 30 feet long and 18 inches in diameter the thing reached the bam and in almost an instant ran directly up in front of the building and onto thereof I 1 expected every moment to see the barn burst into names but it did not the great fiery snake ran with great rapidity all over the building in almost every direction up and down crosswise and every way I 1 suppose a thousand times it then camo to the front of the building and elevated itself and it stood et raight on its tall fully 80 feet in the air 1 I was perfectly conscious nil the time but try I 1 would I 1 could not move from the pot after alie thing had in presume or four minutes there was a sudden explosion like the discharge of a cannon and abo thing disappeared entirely with the disappearance of the strange phenomenon I 1 felt a shock like tho first one had felt and at the same time I 1 gained control of my limbs I 1 hastened to the house told my wife what I 1 had seen and she thought I 1 was crazy but upon my insisting she consented to accompany me to the matter you can imagine our surprise upon reaching the barn to fand it covered with a resembling large ropes of ice they appeared to pass around the building in exactly the way the fiery monster had pasted it was not ice however but seemed to be more of a crystal tor it would not melt even when we held a flame to it and when struck with a hatchet it pimply gave a dullish sound and did not break upon entering the barn we were amazed as two good horses stood in their stalls immovable they were alive but neither could move a muscle they seemed to be paralyzed and stood there more like statues than anything else they were wana and breathed all right but aside from thi you could not tell they were alive I 1 applied the whip and they never flinched A dog that sleeps in the barn was dead and appeared completely petrified he was lying on the ground with his head on his paws just like he WAS sleeping when I 1 left home this afternoon everything was just as I 1 have described it to you cor chicago mail f |