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swered him. He pushed the door open and went in, and the next minute Abner heard an awful yell and saw Dan come runnin' out of the house half wild and screamin' as loud as ever he could for help. Abner started for him, but before he had got to him he fell down faintin'. Abner never stopped at him but run straight into the house. He had just got inside when he heard a rattler singin', and the next thing he saw lyin' there on the floor was Dan's little woman, with her face turned up, her shiny eyes most out of her head, and on her breast was curled up one of the biggest diamond-backs that was ever seen in these parts.
"It didn't take Abner long to mutilate that snake and to lift the woman onto the bed; but she were dead, and on her swollen arm, half way up between the slender hand and her elbow, was the two red and purple marks where the rattler had struck his fangs into her.
"Well, they buried her out in the graveyard and Dan went to the funeral, but he never shed a tear, and never has since. He never was right after that and after a while took to peddlin'. The folks buys things of him now to kind of help him out and keep him from starvin', for he wont let them give him a cent, even if he is half crazy."
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ATHLETICS.
Missouri will have two eastern coaches for her foot-ball teams.
At last a long wished want is to be gratified. We meet an Eastern team.
Grave doubts are felt at Washburn over the fact that it requires eleven men to play foot ball.
Beeman, the athlete of Cooper Memorial College of Sterling, will enter the University sometime in October.
Manager Shepard and F. E. Ward have devised and made a tackling machine which is in present use on the field. This is just what the boys need, and they are being taught that mystic art of tackling.
Of an athletic game it is yearly being shown that foot ball is the most progressive. Each year new scientific methods have been adopted until, to-day, foot-ball stands preeminently over all other college sports. Eastern teams have for the past month been getting their men down to hard systematic training and 'twill be but a few short weeks before our newspapers will devote column after column to the foot-ball world.
But we, U. of K. students, have a team of our own, a team of whose record every Kansan is proud and in whom every student in K. U. is interested. While we expected and received great things from our team last year, this year we may expect more, for never has the team shown up in such shape as at the present time. The boys are practicing daily under the untiring coaching of Manager Shepard and Prof. Dain. Never before has such enthusiasm prevailed and the men who are so fortunate as to have gone to the training table are strong hearty fellows, against which Ann Arbor, Missouri, Nebraska and Dakota will battle in vain.
Of last year's men we have Coleman, Hamill, Matteson, Dum, Williamson, and Piatt with us. The new men have all been tried in the different positions, and while it is impossible to say where men will be placed, yet the following will give some idea as to what the men are trying for. For center rush there will be Coleman, Jantzen and Page. For the big guards there will be exceptionally good material to choose from. Hamill, of last year's team, is back, but from lack of interest or being positive of a position on the team is rarely seen on the practice field. If the first cause, it is surely deplorable; if the second even more so, as every man must work hard in order to secure a position on the team. Then there are Griffiths,