Show A SHAKE As the shenandoah fast express entered the mile cut immediately north of town on tuesday last tho engineer was horror stricken to seo what he supposed to be tho end of the nil just ahead of his locomotive sliding rapidly aft ay aiom him his faist thought was a broken rail caught by the pilot and ho expected an instantaneous shock wonderment the place of beai when i second bevelled levelled level led a fie foot snake of the species known as runner gliding vapidly aiono froeb him on ho top of the lail in tho excitement of the moment ins hand sought tho throttle lip threw it ido oien and tho train bounded fogard the impulse but the snake maintained ita lead al the lain was lunam at fular fifty miles per hour and when the end of the rut was reached and in opportunity to P cape it left the uil ran into an open pit coiled itsell up threw its head into an attitude of defiance and died there an examination ali it the intense heat ot the rail had burned it to death |