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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. -JL ? ? . ^ . ^ ? m w-- 7 A CAMPAIGN MEETING OF A DIFFERENT KIND, BUT ALMOST AS LIVELY AS IN SOUTH CAEOLIM. Exciting Battle Between Tivo Big Boas in Brazil-Old Dollar-a-Foot Tolls the Story. The Chicago Times. "Brazil is the homo of the most gigantic boa constrictors in the world," said Henry Closer, of Ne cropolis, Ohio, the professional snake hunter and dealer, known to circus and museum managers throughout the country as "Big Doc" and "Old Dollar a Foot," that being his market price for or dinary snakes. 'On my last trip to Brazil after snakes I didn't meet with thu suc cess I expected to, but I brought back one of the best snake stories that ever came from the land of serpents. ' I was out taking a business look around after some rare specimens of monkeys. I had chased a choice long-tailed fellow up a tree and was trying my wiles on him, when I was startled by a loud hissing sound that came from another part of the forest, like a gust of wind escaping from some .narrow space. I looked in the direction jf the sound, and to my surprise saw two enormous boas on the ground, lock ed together and writhing and twist ing in such a desperate struggle that big bunches of leaves were sent flying about in the air as if they had been disturbed and lifted by a whirlwind. Then it was that I groaned aloud and metaphorically kicked myself because I had not gone forth loaded for snake, for I would have corraled both of those ?? gigantic-AUipuiils b^rV4<TgyS<TTgw*' it. "The fierce struggle on the ground lasted five minutes, and then the , boas suddenly separated. One ser pent glided to a large tree near by, and went up its trunk like a spiral of lightning. Thc other snake flashed in the same way up another tree fifteen feet distant from the first one. I feared that the fight had come to an end, because one of the snakes seemed to be afraid and the other one daren't. "But I soon saw that I was mis taken. The snakes had hardly set tled themselves among the branches of their respective trees when the foliage of both trees began to quiver as if a viud were passing through and agitating them. Sud denly ead; boa coiling its ta i around a branch high up in its tree, dropped like a plummet to ward the ground and hung at full length, its head raised but a few inches above the ground. For a moment their great bodies swayed to and fro like slowly moving pen dilums. Their eyes glittered like fire. Then each serpent drew itself quickly half its length above the ground. Like an arrow earl; head shot forward, and instantly the two enormous reptiles were locked in each o'.her's coils like immense cables twisted together. "Up and d?wn, to and fro, the writhing mass moved in quick un dulation, each serpent struggling for an opening that, would place the other at a disadvantage. Their forked tongues darted in and out of their mouths like jets of flame, and their hissing was incessant. The troops of chattering monkey spectators had been joined by hun dreds of harsh-voiced but bril liantly-plumed birds, which flew frantically about and added their excited cries to the deafening mon key chorus. "The desperate midair struggle between the boas continued for several minutes, when they sepa rated again as suddenly as they had rushed together, and each drew itself back among the branches of its tree. For two or three minutes the snakes lay quiet ly, o-ach glaring at the other. "Suddenly in one of the trees a hiss like escaping steam wa? heard, and the Loa in that tree shot his great length toward the ground again. The challenging hiss was answered by one still louder from the other boa, and it flashed down to its former posit ion and confront ed its foe. The boas did not rush together at once. One would strike at the other with the rapidity of lightning. With equal quickness that one would avoid the rush by dodging to one side or the other, and instantly make a counter at tack. This interesting sparring match laste?1 for at least five'min utes, when ono of the snakes drew itself two or three feetabore the other and made a quick downward feint. Its antagonist ducked its head lower to avoid the stroke, and that movement was fatal. The up per boa darted on down, and so quickly was its deadly intention carried out that I was not aware it had been done until I saw the up per snake with three of its coils around the lower one. "There was a dreadful crunching, and in the twinkling of au eye the victorious snake had drawn the vanquished one three folds further within its fearful embrace. There was more crunching, and by de grees the tail of the defeated ser pent uncoiled from its hold on the branch of the tree, and at last the great reptile dropped heavily to the ground a crushed and lifeless mass. For a moment the victor held the vanquished in its coils and then released it. The victorious serpent glided from its tree, moved rapidly several times around the crushed body of its lifeless foe with loud and angry hisses, shoot ing its red tongue in and out like a weaver's shuttle. Then it moved a few feet and stopp?d. "I straightened the d^ad boa on the ground and measured him. From hie nose t? the tip of his tail he covered thirty-four and a half feet." SNAKES THAT DIFFERED. One ol' Them Did Not Know as MiiCfc as tlie Other. The Detroit l"rec Pre?. The drummer had just finished a rather remarkable snake story as he sat in the country store after he had sold a bill of goods, and a countryman, with some young pul lets to sell, had beeu listening. ,??be drummer's story was about a snake of his acquaintance which had'a habit of stealing eggs. He would\go out and load up on them, swallowing them whole, and then climb a tree, fall off and break the shells, and his digestion would do the rest. The countryman looked at the drummer with some degree of doubt when the story was fin ished, but he never questioned its veracity. "Some snakes is different to that, Mister," he said very earn estly, #'-One ctn my place was. He was a snake like the one you spoke of, only he didn't have half the sense. Snakes is a good deal like men in that way. Well, this feller hadn't the habit uv stealin' aigs, but he run acrost a nest one day, and without askin' any questions he ups aud swallers six whole aigs, and he went back to his den under the barn without ever once think?h' about breakin' the ?hell like your snake done. That's where your'n had the bulge on him. "Well, he couldn't digest them aigs to save his life, and they staid right with him. Snakes kin go a long time without eatin', an' about three weeks after this snake I'm tel lin7 about bad swallered them aigs' I happened to ketch him lay in' out in the sun by the barn, and the fust thing he knowed I had cut him in two with a hoe, about six inches from his shoulder-blades. I slung the head patt into the hog pen and picked up the tail end to do the same thing with it, when half a dozen ??st hatched chickens come tumblin' out. Well, it skeert me at fust, but I braced up in a minute, and knowin' somethiir about snakes. I made up my mind that them chickens was the result uv undigested aigs. Mother told me about missin' them six aigs. Them's the very pullets out thar in the coop now, and cf you don't believe me, you kin come out and count 'em yourself." 'TH give you the price of your pullets if you'll swear to that story before a notary public," said the drummer, and went out before giv ing the man a chance to earn the money. An Old Doctor's Favorite. Dr. L.M. Gillam, who practiced medicine over forty years, origi nated, used, claimed that Botanic Blood Balm, which has no".' been in use about fifty-five years, was the best tonic and biood purifier ever given to the world. It never fails to cure the most malignant ulcers, sores, rheumatism, catarrh and all skin and blood diseases. Price per large bottle, .$1.00. For Bale by druggists. MORD-BACK RATTLERS. THERE ARE LOTS OF TU EM IX FRIO COUNTY, TEXAS. LIE ABOUT EVEBYWEEE, Night and Day, and You Must Be Careful Not to Step on Them -Adventures With the Reptiles. Pilley (Tex.) Letter to The Philadelphia Times. I have read stories by hunters, prospectors, and others of the ven omous nature of the 6even-foot diamond-back rattlesnake found in Arizona. Whether or not there aro any seven-foot rattlesnakes in Texas I am not prepared to say positively, as I have never seen one, but we have the genuine dia mond-back, which is, no doubt, fully as venomous as those of Arizona, and when it comes to numbers Southwest Texas will compare with any portion of the country. Walk where you will, day or night, you are liable at any mo ment to treacl upon or step in dan gerous proximity to one of these venomous creatures, curled up in your path, or gliding noiselessly across it. If it should be imme diately after one of the cool night rains, the snake may be enjoying a siesta, in the morning sun after its cool bath. In this case the danger is doubly great, for the fatal step may*be taken too late to retreat after the warning rattle is given. The writer has spent two months in this neighborhood. His host's house stands three-fourths of a mile west of the station, which consists of a post-office, store, sta tion, and two or three dwelling houses. A few days ago, after a cool norther the previous night, an eightoen-inch diamond-back was discovered curled up asleep near the woodpile. The conversation of two persons in ordinary voices failed to wake the sleeping reptile for several minutes, though the creature lay almost at our feet. On another occasion a two-foot dia mond-back was founu asleep with in a short distance of the front gate, almost directly in the path way. This snake, together with the patch of earth on which it lay, was picked up on the blade of a large cotton hoe and carried sev eral steps before the slightest evi dence of animation was mani fested. There can be no gamer snake, large or small, than the Texas dia mond-back rattlesnake. Prod it with a hoe or rake, or even impale it with a pitchfork, inflicting a dangerous wound, release it, and the diamond-back will still mak? surprising jumps in its efforts to strike any object presented. One day last April, when the air was still chilly at times, an itin erant Mexican was^ employed to clean out the smokehouse, a small frame structure 12 by 14 feet, which stands within ten feet of the south door of the house. During this process six diamond-backs, ranging in length from eighteen inches to two feet, were found in the smoke house. When a snake was discov ered, the Mexican would impale it on his hay fork and throw it into the yard, whpre, after a fair test of its courage, which in no instance was found wanting, the reptile was killed. One of these snakes, somewhat darker in color than the others, and next to the smalleut in size, after a prong of the fork had passed through its body, made a consider able jump, striking the heavy sole of my outing shoe, which was pre sented. Another in its rage and frantic efforts to strike the invert ed blade of a cotton hoe, actually hung itself by the fangs on the blade, where it remained suspend ed for several seconds, finally dis engaging itself by its violent con tortions. When laboring under excitement the bodies of all these snakes would flatten out and ap pear to enlarge to almost twice their true dimensions, while their bead-like eyes would follow my every movement, as if seeking some vulnerable point of attack and the opportunity to make it. Decapitation does not imme diately deprive the rattlesnake of its power. The fangs will frequent ly strike any object inserted in the mouth several times in rapid sui cession, even three minutes aft< the head has been severed from tr. body. None of these six snake had more than five rattles or fang exceeding a quarter of an inch i length. On May 9th a three-foot tw< inch diamond back was discovere within six feet of the east door ? the house, where it was dispatch*; by a shot from a 45-calibre Colt revolver, fired by my host's soi This snake had but seven rattle and no button, but the broken an ragged edges of the last rattl showed that some were missing The fangs, which were extracte and are now ii} my possession, ar quite half an inch in length. In addition to the diamond-bad there is also the Aground" rattle snake, somewhat different in ar. pearance, smaller and shorter i proportion to its size than the dis mond-back, and possessing fewe rattlers, but equally as venomoui I am told, though not so plentifu. A "ground" rattler was killed a the station. J. A. Roberts report killing a monster diamond-back short distance east of Dilley. The killing of rattlesnakes ii this part of Texas is of Mich com mon occurrence that mention of 1 is rarely made by those who kil them, unless questioned on th subject, or an unusually large on is dispatched. I have interrogate* numbers of respectabla farmer and ranchmen residing in thi neighborhood on the subject o snakes, and the reply is : "Oh, yPE wc kill them almost daily." Deputy Hide Inspector W. H Smith states that eighteen dia mond-backs have been killed ii and about his house during tb oast few weeks, some of them ap proaching four feet in length, an( one of the reptiles being found un der a bed in a sleeping apartment The same story is told by every ar rival, magnified in some cases t< an incredible extent. We hav< several rattles presented by resi dents pf .the country where thi snake had measured very nearly five feet in length, while six-foo rattlers, we are informed. hav< been killed. So numerous are th< snakes, and so prevalent the fea: of them, that walking after night fall, unless over a beaten path o: well-defined roadway, is never at tempted, some mode of convey ance being always employed, ever for the most trifling distances. The presence of so many rattle snakes, the small number of per sons bitten, and the rare instance! of fatal consequences to the victin struck meat first as being singular These facts, however, are explained by two causes : First, the rattta snake is usually in the "open" ir warm weather, where it may be seen and avoided, and where, if nol seen, the warning rattle proclaims its presence, unless the snake ii asleep or blind, as in August; sec ond, the bite of the rattlesnake though dangerous in the extreme, is cot always necessarily fatal, the result to a large extent depending on the location of the wound. Ii the fangs should reach a large vein or artery, recovery is always doubt ful, but if no vein or artery is pen trated the effect of the poison k generally overcome by large dosee of whiskey when available. I am told of two or three instances, though, where neglect or inability to obtain counteractors had result ed in frightful deaths among the Mexicans, where the fangs had en tered a thumb, a finger, a fleshy part of thc hand. The simple method of extracting the poison by sucking tim wound whbn prac ticable, though known and prac ticed in some cases, is not popular, owing to 1 he existence to some ex tent of an incipient stage of scurvy. A curious anomaly is the presence of scurvy among a people whose chief pursuits are cattle raising and agriculture. Wounded Soldier's Dread Com panion. Forent and Stream. A perfectly truthful man once told me that he knew the following to have oc?urretl : An officer had his arm shot off at the battle of Gettysburg, and when he regained consciousness after a fainting spell a very large rattlesnake was sleep ing upon his bosom. He simply swooned off again, and after a while when they began to collect the wounded, another officer found the two sleeping there, and killed the snake with a skilliul sword cut, and the wounded man recovered, with the loss of his arm, but with as much saud in his craw as he ever had. RATTLESNAKES' PARADISE. HALF AN ACRE Ol THE BEAUTIES IN MOTION. EVERYBODY WEARS BOOTS There is a Spot in Delaware County Which No Rational Man Dares Enter Unless He Be Snake-Proof. The Port Jervis Gazette. The creek comes rushing down through a ravine, at the head of which was built a dam for the ?toruge of water to furnish power ;for a sawmill, situated, on a small bluff on the river bank, which manufactured into lumber the original forest nearly a century ago. The land about the mill, per haps a half acre, was then thor oughly cleaned of stumps and roots for the storage of logs and "manufactured lumber, and now produces a luxuriant growth of na tive grass. This cleared spot reaches back to a perpendicular cliff, fully 200 feet in height, of shale rock, divided into layers ly ing at au angle of about forty-five degrees. These layers of rock are separated by crevices, appearing, at a safe distance, to be about ten inches in width, with a table a foot r?ide extending in front pf each crevice, making the mountain-side aperies of steps twenty or twenty five feet apart. .'These crevices, the depth and area of which no man knows, are the hornes of the "rattlers"; the ruins of the mill (known in the legendary lore of that section as thV "01d Blue Mill") and the dam and thegrasB are their playgrounds. Meeting a native who had stopped in at the signal tower, I made in quiry -of the cause of the great gvriwih of-gra-^-and why the ow-oer did not gather the hay. He first asked me where I hailed from, be cause of my seeming ignorance of the snakes, and then said : "Say, mister, do you know there ain't no man on the river who'd cut that grass if you'd give him this railroad? Why, man, that grass hain't been cut in mine and my father's day, and it just grows up and falls down year after year, and the ground has a right to be rich. I wear boots," (he had on boots with the tops reaching to the knee,) but I wouldn't walk through that grass for the best farm in this count}', for there's snakes there with fifty buttons on their tail, I don't doubt, and every button means a year, and them big fellers could strike way above your boot topB." "Do all the men hereabout wear boots?" I asked. "I should remark they did," he said. "No women ever come about here unless they walk on the rail road, and they shuffle by here pretty rapid. "Do you see them boots? They're daisies I" pointing to the station telegraph operator, whose nether limbs, I then discovered, were in cased in snuggly-fitting cavalry boots. "Everybody wears boots but them Eyetalyuns that works on the track, and a rattler thinks too much of hisself to bother with such critters. "Say! Do you waut to hear the snakes sing?" Not waiting for an answer, he ran down from the tower to the railroad tank and threw a good-sized stone over into the thick growth of brush bordering the shore of the creek, and in stantly an alarm was sounded and from the old mill and the dam and the grass the war cry of defiance and warning was rattled, and the snakes in the dens in the cliff took up the "refrain," and for fully ten minutes the air was filled with the noise as of a million sev enteen-year locusts singing their native song. "They're there, you see," he smilingly remarked, as he turned to walk away up the railroad track, "and you'd better not fool with them." I did not need any further "ad vice" than the snakes had already given me, and I then made in quiries of the operator, wno, by the way, is a nal ive of that region. He said that he and his partner had a dead cinch on that job; that when the tower was first erected perators were sent out from the Port Jervis office; that the lonesomeness nearly killed them, for the tower is about midway of a three-mile curve, with the railroad bounded by the mountain and river, but when the season opened and the great rattlers began climb ing the tower steps they "had snakes" all the time, and simply would not stay there, and, in con sequence, young natives who were more familiar with snakes learned telegraphy, and hold their posi tions free from jealousy on the part of their brother operators. He said it was a poor day when one or more rattlers did not at tempt to climb the steps, and sev eral times the feat had been ac complished and the snakes were killed in the station. Many snakes in the course of the season are run over by the cars, and many are killed by the trackmen. Headless Snakes. The Monroe (N. C.) Enquirer. A correspondent writing from Euto, New Salem Township, in forms us that a few days ago Mr. B. L. Tarleton was plowing, when he found a nest of reptiles resemb ing snakes without heads. There were about seventy-five of the rep tiles. Mr. Tarleton says that the reptiles, when coming to an ob stacle, divide and go around it, and then come together again, and when struck with a stick fly to pieces and afteward gather the fragments together and go on their way in peace. An Animated Fishhole. 1 The Rangoon (Burmah) Times. A Barberton man, who goes to church regularly, was one day walking along the banks* of Con cession Creek eating a sandwich, and on account of the usual dis parity between meat and bread, he threw the redundant piece into the water. Immediately a swarm of yellow fish bubbled round it, ?fight ing for the mouthful. The man searched his pockets for fishing tackle, but all in vain, and he was just beginning to despair when his .eyes lighted on a blacksnake. At that moment ho remembered how his father used to tell him that blacksnakes were yery expert in catching fish. He, therefore, grab bed the reptile by the tail, carried it to the river, and held it over the struggling fish. The snake proved itself a born angler, and in the course of an hour the man had captured fortv fine fish. A few days later, as he was walk ing in the same place, he felt something rub againsthis leg, and. looking down, he saw his friend, the blacksnake, eager for more sport. Managers and Clerks of the Dem ocratic Primary, Aug. 28. Bacon Club-M DeLoach, S M Smith, N L Broadwater, T G Smith, Clerk. Big Creek-J W Mack, J L Sam ple, R M Blease, M M Payne, Cl'k. Bouknight-Mark Long, L D Riley, J W Herbert, F B Sample, Clerk. Cooper No. 1-S M Cooper, J H Coleman, Frank Ellenburg, D S Haltiwanger, Clerk. Cooper No. 2-C P Smith, J O Smith, Johnson Burnett, J T Webb, Clerk. Centennial-Dr J J Kirksey, J H McClellan, C F Rudd, W O Carsou, Clerk. 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