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HORNEI) SNAKES. Pickens Sentinel Gathers Information About Reptiles. The Sentinel has gathered considerable information about horn snakes, but is desirous of seeing several other parties whom we believe can furnish us with more facts of interest. In the meantime we are printing the following interesting accounts taken from Logan's History of Upper South Carolina: "Logan's History of Upper South Carolina, in speaking of the snakes of this section, says: "Bertram met with a reptile which he calls the horn snake in his travels in Carolina and speaks of it as follows: * " 'The pine or bull-snake is very large and inoffensive, with respect to mankind, but devours squirrels, birds, rabbits, and every other creature it can take as food. They are the largest snake yet known in North America, except the rattlesnake, and perhaps exceeds him in length; they are pied black and white. They utter a terri? ble loud, hissing noise, sounding very bniinw and like distant thunder, when .. irritated, or at the time of incubation, when the males contend with one ananother for the desired female. These Sab ' * serpents are also called horn-snakes from their tail terminating with a hard, horn spur, which they vibrate very q,uicklv when disturbed, but they never attempt to strike with it. They have dens in the earth, whither they retreat precipitately when apprehensive of danger.' "Lawson, who traversed the same region about seventy years earner than the botanist (Betram), describes another under the name of hornsnake serpent, of a totally, different character. 'Of the horn-snake,' he says, 'I never saw but two that I re05 ? -V .' J member. They are like the rattlesnake in color, but rather lighter. They hiss exactly like a goose when anything approaches them. They strike at their enemy with their tail, and kill whatsoever they wound with it, which is armed at the end with a horny substance liKe a cock s spur. .' This is their weapon. T have heard it creditably reported, by those who said they were eye-witnesses, that a small locust tree, about the thickness if* of a man's arm, being struck by one in the mornin?, then verdant and! flourishing, at four in the afternoon! was dead, and the leaves red- and; withering. Doubtless, be it how it j will, they are very venomous. I think j the Indians do not pretend to; x?--. , w cure meir wuuuus. "This singular statement of the old | "surveyor, in relation to the locust J tree, could scarceh* have ever come to I the knowledge of the good but plain j people living in Coronaka and Wil-j son's creeks, yet there is still extant j in that region a tradition in which it ! is related that many years ago a man j in the lower part of the district or in i Edgefield, being closely pursued by a; horn snake, took refuge behind a tree,! with the enraged serpent, rolling j swiftly after him like a trundled' hoop, plunged its horny sting deep into its trunk, -where it was made fast, and so diffused its venom into the circulating sap as to destroy in a few p.. hours the vitality of the tree. "Beatram, with all his acuteness and enthusiasm as a naturalist, has certainly confounded the name of two distinct native serpents of Carolina. The bull snake, as he describes it, was well known in the upper country at the period of his visit and long after; but the old people had seen and talked much of the horn snake as well, whose sting they dreaded as the visitation of death. Hewit informs us that the horn snake was found in ^ 1 * ? ? ? * J f rt O Carolina ana uweu us uamc uut iu ? horny excresence supposed, but to the horn-like sting at the extremity of its tail, with which it defended itself striking with great force into every agressor. It was dlso deemed exceeding veenomous; and the Indi. , ans when stung by it did not resort to their usual antidotes, but instantly cut out the wounded part as the only . safe preventative of the deadly poison being infused through the system. Mills, in his statistics, enumerates, among the indigenous reptiles of . Carolina, both the horn and bull snake. The former, However, must have been exceedingly rare; for at a comparatively early period it had already become a creature of curious tradition. Lawson, it has been observed, saw but two of them as early as 1781, notwithstanding no white man of his day enjoyed better opportunities for making such discoveries in Carolina. Among the innumerable facts that may be gathered from nat ural history illustrative or uoa s goodness, there are few more deserving of notice than this rareness of a rep.tile so fierce and clearly as the horn snake must unquestionably have been. Had it been as abundant as the other venomous species the Indians even though furnished with their potent antidotes, could hardly have inhabited the country. The imagination is taxed to conceive of an object more repulsive or truly terrible. It possessed scarcely a single redeeming fea NO CHECK TO SUCCESS. Man Makes Oood Despite the Loss of Both Arms. Thirty years ago Hugh L. Dickson, of Los Angeles, Cal., fell in front of a fast locomotive and lost both his hands. Today he is assistant United States district attorney there and still on his way to bigger things. And all because: "A fellow's never through until thev are walking slow behind him." After six months in the hospital following his accident, Dickson found himself with a mother to support and no hands to work with. Many men would have bemoaned their "luck" on a street corner with a cup and pencils. But Dickson went into the brokerage business. An assistant went along to write down the orders. The same kind of energy put him through the University of Mississippi, where he studied law. Since then he has been district attorney for two counties. He became nationally known as counsel for railroad firemen when he appeared before congress to urge the need of more safetv appliances. His present job, where many men would be content to stop, he regards as another stepping stone to higher responsibilities. There's only about one thing that Dickson can't accomplish. He can't tie his necktie. .But tnen ne aoe.sn t nave to, because for the past seventeen years there has been a Mrs. Dickson to do it for him, and now there are three daughters. He can roll a cigarette, shave himself, write with pencil or typewriter and recently painted his automobile, which he drives himself. Malaria, Its Cause, the Remedy. Malaria is a dreadful disease and has caused more deaths and decreased the population of our country and state than hard labor. There are hundreds and possibly thousands of the population of our beloved ^country suffering with this lingering and dreadful disease. The cause of this dreadful disease, the doctors say, is from the bite of the mosquito. And they say, that the mosquito not only hites to obtain a sip of our precious blood, but inoculates our bodies with the poisonous malaria gdrm. We fear the mosquito from another standpoint. We do not enjoy its stinging sensational bite, so much so that many of us have screened our homes as a protection against this dreadful little pest. The Quickest Remedy.?Our country is thronged with small lakes, ponds and marshes. These produce more moso.uitoes than can be counted by all of our country authorities if thev were lined up and called "Attention Battalion," by their commandant. The remedy is a country wide drainfge. There should be a country - - - - .it -11 i.i I wide drainage campaign wnn an me big and little farmers, both town and country authorities cooperating. I shall call a meeting to this effect at our court house in the near future. Respectfully, E. D. Jenkins, Local Agent. Valuable By-Product. Editor?Have you cut outa lot of the phrases as I suggested? Author?Yes, and found a good market for them. Editor?What do you mem? Author?I tied the discarded phrases up into dozen lots and sold them as vers libre.?^Boston Transcript. ture; there was nothing of the admir able craft of the eye?notmng or rne beautiful changing of- colors or characteristic magnanimity of the rattlesnake?but with dull eye, insensate skin and vengeful spite, ready to dart its dreadful sting into every approaching intruder, it lay a horrible compound of all hate qualities of its race?the incarnation of death. "On an afternoon nearly forty 3rears ago, a party of gentlemen was riding from Abbeville village towards the Calhoun settlement, and when approaching the place known as the Cabins they passed a dwelling near the wayside, just at the moment when a little girl, whom they had seen to cross the road some distance before them, gave a piercing shriek, and ran back into the house in an agony of pain and fright. Perceiving that flrtmothinf sprimic had occurred thev hastily alighted to ascertain the matter; aiid entering the room found the child stretched upon a bed and al-( ready a corpse. She had lived long enough however, to whisper to her mother that a snake had struck her while she was in the act of gathering! firewood by the roadside. The party instanly sought the spot and there discovered a large specimen of the horn snake, which they dispatched. The skin of this serpent was stuffed and preserved by an intelligent gentleman of the neighborhood: and it was long an object of great curiosity at his residence, and afterwards at Old Cambridge, where it was last1 l seen.''?Pickens Sentinel. I l 4 TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN. Negro Bound Over.?Spite Against a! Train Crew Cause. Spencer Oliver, a negro, was placed ill jail Friday afternoon following a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Blackmon, charged with attempting to place a crosstie on the Atlantic Coast Line tracks near the coal chute just across the Edisto river Thursday night with the intention of wrecking one of the Atlantic Coast Line trains, presumably, railroad detectives say, passenger train Xo. 38 from Augusta to Florence, which passes Orangeburg about 5:30 o'clock a. m. Officials express the belief that this arrest clears the mystery of three or four former attempts to wreck a train carrvina: a certain crew, all of which attempts, it is alleged, were made within two! hundred yards of the point where Oliver is charged with attempting to place the crosstie Thursday night. On one of these occasions. it is reported, the train ran into the crosstie but a wreck was prevented because the train was slowing up for the coal chute. The arrest of Oliver follows several weeks of tedious watching by railroad dectectives. Becoming perturbed at the attempts to wreck trains, the railroad authorities three weeks ago put Detectives S. O. Sims and C. R. Hewitt on the job to ferret out the case and these detecti^s placed themselves in bushes in the vicinity of the coal chute and commenced watchful waiting, which culminated in the arrest ef Oliver who, the detectives state, they saw carrying the crosstie on his shoulder. This was about 11:45 o'clock Thursday nizhf. thev state. Thev state that Oliver, the man with the crosstie, ran when they hailed him. They gave chase and captured him and turned him over to the county authorities. They reported the arrest to Chief Detective J. A. Dorsey, of this division, of Sumter, at 1:45 a. m. and the latter was here within a few hours. The detectives appeared at the preliminary trial and told tfhe story here related. Oliver said that he is innocent of the charge. He stated that he is from Barnwell and that he was walking to that town when taken by the detectives. Railroad officials are of he opinion that Oliver was a former employee of the Atlantic Coast Line at Sumter. His appearance, it was stated, indicated his former employment with the company, it was stated. He was bound over to the higher court by Magistrate Blackmon. T7* ~ . - i- Z ? -5 4- U a a. ? rvrvAQ varl f Vi Q + r or sume irxnc it uas a^^cai tu iuut someone was trying to "get" a certain railroad man or crew, according to reports of repeated attempts to wreck A. C. L. trains in this section and this incident is considered by railroad officials as almost conclusive evidence of such an idea as circumstances appear to indicate. It was said that the attempt to place, the crosstie on the tracks Thursday night was made shortly after passenger train No. 37, from Florence to Augusta had passed that point and the !- 4-Viof tVia i/1ao ?'<ia tr? "?pt" UC11C1 lb mat m.'o 1UV.U .. I**, . passenger train Xo. 38, from Augusta) to Florence, which passes that point about 5 o'clock in the morning. Further reason for the belief that someone desired to "get" an employee of the crew of Xo. 38, it is stated, is that this train carried the identical crew which manned the trains against which the former three or four attempts to wreck were made. It will be recalled that some weeks ago train Xo. 38 was wrecked near the river in the vicinity of Augusta and Engineer Joe Temple, one of the best known engineers on the A. C. L., rro c Lr il 1 orl n ao ain^u. The penalty for conviction for attempt to wreck a train is one to 30 vears. Should a death occur as the result of such a wreck, the guilty party or parties are subject to indictment for murder.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. NEGRO BURIED UPRIGHT. Dying Request of William Patton is Granted. 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