From Days Gone By Dec. 16, 1915.

December 16, 1915.

    The Savannah News states that judging from the number of moonshine cases in federal courts in Georgia and the number of stills found by "revenouers", prohibition isn't making much more of a success of prohibiting the making of whiskey than it is of prohibiting the selling of it.

    Also the Savannah News states there are a few policemen in nearly every city who are too ready with their pistols. There are frequent stories that some policeman or other has shot somebody, not intentionally, but because he merely wanted to scare a fugitive. In Atlanta a policeman sot a negro boy in the back, probably fatally wounding him. His only excuse was that when he went to arrest several boys, they ran and he fired to scare the boy he hit.

    Officers of the law, of all men, should be most careful to avoid making the streets dangerous. They should know when not to use their pistols, as well as when to use them. The best policeman is he who does not draw his pistol until it is absolutely necessary. There certainly was no necessity for that Atlanta policeman to shoot.

    An American won the long hair record who's tresses measured 8 1/2 feet long . The weight of this aboundance of hair does not seem to cause the possessor any inconvience, and the tresses are so thick that a certain manufacturer remarked that the hair could be woven into sufficient fabric to make a gown for the contestant.

    The record of this lady beats by 2 1/2 feet that of the lady who was supposed to posses the longest hair in this country. Instances of ladies' hair measuring 5 to 5 1/2 feet have often been recorded. But it might be mentioned that the longest hair in the world was that grown by Robert Latter of Tunbridge Wells, whose beard measured no less than 16 feet and necessitated his wearing it around his waist.

    Instances are known of business being disorganized through war conditions, but it remained for a former Oil City, Texas man to report that it has even interfered with the rattlesnake business. Peter Gruber, better known in print as "Rattlesnake Pete", writes the following to his nephew, Harry Gruber.

    "My snake crop has gone away down. I have only three rattlers left. The others have died off, and it is difficult to get any from Texas on account of the war with Mexico. The fellows are afrid of going into the hills for the snakes for fear of being ambushed by the 'greasers'. I have had an order in for 100 pounds for two months now and have not gotton a single one. They have told me they will ship just as soon as it is safe to venture into the hills to look for them".

    About one thousand years ago Sadi wrote: "A man had sore eyes. He went to a horse doctor, who applied to his eyes what he used for his horses. The man became blind. He took the case before the judge, who said: "No damages; if this fellow were not an ass he would not have gone to a farrier."