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SHIPS EIGHTY TJ SNAKJ W. A. ("Snake") King veloped a Big Indi Reptiles Probably the largest "snake farm" in the world is operated at Brownsville, Texas, by \\\ A. King?"Snake" King, as he calls hiniselt. The title is not inappropriate. He has a partner in the business in his wye. The two have handled many thousands of venemous reptiles. Just now they are catching a great many, it being the breeding season. It is not unusual for a rattler to bring forth fifty to sixty in one litter. Not long ago one brought forth 1S3 in one litter. An infant snake is worth twenty-five cents, and it rapidly grows in value up to $5 to $10, depending upon its weight. Snakes are usually sold by the pound. King feeds his snakes field mice and rats brought in by Mexican boys. King says he has handled more than 500,000 snakes since he started in the business, about twenty years ago. He is now shipping annually about 20,000 snakes from his farm. The chaparral wilderness of South Texas and all of Northern Mexico is the natural habitat for rattlers and many other kinds of poisonous reptiles. Mrs. King Also an Expert. Mrs. King is an expert snake hunter. As a girl she learned to handle them with a minimum of danger. She found that there was a market for them, and for several years befn-nn mflotitKr V i n cr oho madp a hlisi IV1C CAi-t wiwv*v w- ? ness of hunting the reptiles in the brush around Brownsville. She still delights in snake hunting, and is usually accompanied by a sister, who is an assistant at the farm. The hunting of rattlesnakes gives employment to more than one thousand Mexicans in the spring of the year. Snakes from the King farm are shipped all. over the world. They are in demand by museums, side shows, zoological gardens and for other exhibition purposes. Many of these snakes are also used for scientific purposes?for study and dissecting. The Kings do quite a business in selling snake poison. It is used largly by chemists for experimental purposes and brings a good price. It is said to be valuable for medical purposts also. There is also much demand for rattlesnake oil, many believing that it is good for rheumatism and some other ills. >? King and his wife have been bitten many times by rattlesnakes. "The first time I was bitten by a rattlesnake was in 1897," he says: "I was sick at the stomach for some time, but 1 cut tlie wound and let the blood flow, using permanganate of potash, with a hypodermic injec tion of ammonia. Sometimes it is necessary to apply a tourniquet. As soon as the poison hits the flesh it seeps off, so the safest way is to cut a little cross?about half an inch? at the place bitten. Let the blood flow freely. If the solution is mixed properly and administered properly it is a sure cure, in my opinion. "Yes, I have heard of eating snake meat; old settlers have told me they have had to eat it. The meat is white and fine, tasting like veal. "If a snake is hit by a stick and wounded it will try to poison itself. Rattlesnakes coil in a flash, but they do not have to be coiled in order to bite. They have to coil in order to jump and they are very lively when they do move. If a rattler is moving it can swing around like a flash and strike, but if it has a chance to get away it will not trouble you. From a - ? " ^ ^ i U Arvir< AI i? Ar> + ti* A CUII C'CtU tlliuw LUCiHOCl * CO t \jthirds the length of their body, but by repeated jumps they can tire themselves out. Small Snakes Deadliest. "The young snakes have poison fangs almost as soon as they are born, ready to do the work. The smaller the rattlesnake the deadlier it is. The reason the copperhead is so poisonous is because it is so small. The poison remains in a small wound, which quickly heals over as there is no blood flowing. With a large snake the fangs are so big and the snake so heavy that if it strikes you it tears the lower jaw hooking up and its weight causing it to drop; such a wound bleeds. A little snake locks its jaws and hangs on." King lias several dogs trained for snake-hunting. They are of the Mexican hairless variety. Thcv quickly catch the scent of a snake and follow its trail until they reach its den or come upon it in the brush. The usual method of capturing a snake is to throw a lasso of a small, stout twine over its head, choking it, and then dropping it into a gunnysack. Often a hunter will bring in a dozen or more snakes in one sack. 10USAND SS EVERY YEAR. 4 and His Wife Have De- v ustry in Poisonous in Texas. J t t When the dogs trail a snake to a den it is necessary to dig the rep- j tile out, and not infrquently several j . other snakes are found in the same j hole. t "Last April," King said. "I had t1 ! dug out a snake when I discovered g another right behind me. a male. v The female \Vas in the den. Mr. Snake r reared up and I jumped into a prick- c ly pear patch?and none too quick. ^ In the end I got both snakes. Some- * times you find seventy-five or a hun- r dred in one little patch. 1 King of the Rattlers. r WMrs. King and her sister, when c they caught the biggest rattlesnake * ' I ever saw had small boxes. The r two went out by themselves and were * carrying a gunny-sack with one or c two snakes they had caught i earlier in the day. Mrs. King lasso- 1 j ed the big snake and tethered him to c j a tree and then set the box over him. 1 ! This snake was 9 feet 6 1-2 inches I T j long and had nineteen rattles. He 1 was captured on the other side of the river below Matamoras. ? "It is all nonsense to say snakes c I hypnotize people. I never heard of a 1 an authentic case. c "\vnen a snaKe is locaiea uie iiexi ! process is to pick it up. But you I must not make a false move; it would be fatal. Circle it quietly. Here is where what they call snake charmj ing comes in. I don't believe there i is such a thing, although they say that certain men can move and make a snake follow them. Of course, j when a man moves around the snake it's head does follow. When you have the snake quiet, reach under the j body and pick it up. It remains in j its coil. You must know the exact portion of the body in order to lift it j up; otherwise there is danger. I put my left hand down, causing him to raise his head. The body then is in : the correct position for handling, i If . it is a 'mean' snake you should work long enough to get the strike out of it by tiring it. If you come on it suddenly it might go to rattling, ^ but the popular belief that before a snake bites it rattles is a mistake. I have approached hundreds and hundreds of snakes that did not rattle. The big fellows haul ' off and bite and rattle afterwards.' Also there is no foundation to the story that the rattlesnake gets a new rattle every year. When it sheds its : skin a new rattle comes. But I have l-nntt-n cnntos tn chpd thrpp and four times a year in damp years." F. B. Armstrong was the pioneer ? snake farmer in the Brownsville ~ i section. He made a business of ex- J tracting poison from rattlesnakes J and making them harmless by cut- ^ j ting out their fangs and poison sack. Extracting the Venom. ( Specially constructed box is used ! to hold the snake while the work of relieving it of its liquid poison and making it harmless is performed. On t top of the box is a sliding lid, and in 2 one end of the lid is a small aperture, s just large enough to fit over the neck ? of the snake. The head is drawn I out through the hole by means of a r ' lasso and the lid tightened against 2 the neck, rendering the snake power- I less from harm. A glass is placed in the open mounth of the reptile and it * instantly brings down its jaws, throwing out in its anger all the poison ' - - - . ... * s that the sack contains?usuany irum ^ one to two tablespoonfuls. The poison having been ejected, the operator i cuts out the fangs, which lie down ^ close to the jaws in the back part of the mouth resembling hypodermic needles. Having removed the fangs, * ? a slit is made in the poison sack, and i thereafter the snake can do no harm, j The poison is of a greenish yellow * | tinge. While the process is going ; on the snake rattles continuously. The business of capturing and mar| keting snakes is carried on exten- . j sively in some parts of Mexico also. j * s Returns Conscience Money. ^ Y Philadelphia, Pa., July 20.?De- e daring that his conscience would not ^ permit him to eat or sleep, Alexander v S. Woods, of East St. Louis, surrend- t erea to tne ponce nere iu-uay aua | g ; turned over ?4,000 which he said he s had stolen from the American Ex- r press Company in that city last Tues- ? day. x A police patrol was about to take c a prisoner to the station when Woods t requested the sergeant to take him \ i too. . c He said a man whose note he had \ endorsed failed to make good and i this had worried him so much that t he left East St. Louis with his pock- \ ets filled with the Express Company's t i monev. r i 1 THE VANISHING GIRL. Bl for ] l Plea to the Father for the Return |ars' of Miss Innocence. 1 __ GROV This is a stralght-from the shoul- derfui er talk to the fathers of young girls, the d? \*e hope mothers will read it also. >ut we want them to pass it on to |b heir husbands without fail. The American father needs a jolt. And ji his is a jolt handed from one father r> nrifitlipr. We are not given to deploring the assing of "the good old days." We I :elieve that many decayed and useess customs have been cast aside, and hat to-day carries much to admire ind rejoice over. But we have made i mistake in letting our girls grow ;p too fast. There is neither meekless nor shadow in the eyes of Miss Sixteen today. Neither is she exactly vhat you would call "sweet." she is 'smart" and amusing, but she does lot bring a tremulous smile to the |? ips of old age nor fill the hearts of If y.-js, nen, young and old, with the fine p >ld desire to protect and screen her rom all that might hurt or contamilate. Her eyes invite and challenge, der bearing announces an indepenlence that is too assertive. There l s nothing reluctant about her feet. g| father they press eagerly toward the Iress, manners, customs and pleas- __ ires designed for those who have ducked ripe fruit from the Tree of ||5 knowledge. 3* We men are proud of this new girl's fl! ;pirit, of her achievements in the lass-room, of her resourcefulness ?j? :nd adaptability when economic con- ?| litions force her into our factories, tores and offices. We smile at her :ood-humoredly and say, "Go to it, ?? ;irlie," when she elbows her way into 1| he crowded lunch-room or trolley. iut we miss the shadow in her eyes, he lily in her hand, and we do not ike to think of her as a wife for || >ur son. If we stop to analyze her || >osition in the general scheme of fgl ife, we think vaguely that she be- ig ongs in a class of her own; the class ge hat must hold its own in the stern gag vorkaday world. Perhaps in pre- g| taring their daughters for the grindng, pitilesss contact with those who gg oil, parents have taught girls at once i g oo much and too little?too much of 9 | iow to protect themselves from the ga tvil of others, too little of how to gj g lee the evil in itself. And so, flaunt- a | ng her preparedness, this type ;hrows off the mysterious veil of fig naidenhood, melting into woman- ?1 We are sorry for this girl, sorry km or her parents, and we say smugly g&| o ourselves that we are glad our laughters are not as this poor, world- m rorn little creature, mat is uei-ause ve really do not know our own ||| laughters. We have not time tc |s| ollow our girls into what we fond- gig v believe to be a sheltered, refined ^ ife. Suppose some of your fathers )ut market prices into the back;round and for a few hours walk the i iheltered path w^ich you imagine our hard earned dollars provide for j our daughter.?Pictorial Review. TO BUILD PELLAGRA HOSPITAL. .^ongressnnan Johnson Introduces Measure for Spartanburg. Washington, July IS.?Representaive Jos T. Johnson intruduced to-day i bill authorizing the public health eiwice to acquire a site at or near Ipartanburg and build thereon a hos)ital for the investigation and treatnent of diseases, especially pellagra, md appropriating $300,000 for the >urpose. "ailing Tree Kills Family's Support.. Springfield. July 19.?Bassie Mixon, of this place, came to hs death ? ast night from a wound received a | ew hours earlier from a falling limb rom a tree he was assisting in cuting in the Edisto swamps. Yo ng Mr. Mixson had been emiloyed by a firm of lumber and logging people, and while engaged in elling a large hardwood tree, it ap)ears that the tree lodged against ;ome other tree, thereby dislodging >r breaking off a large limb, which rom the impact was caused to refund. The swamp being so dense, t was impossible for Mr. Mixson to ee the limb that caused his death. | mmediately after the accident Mr. R dixson was removed to the home of H lis aged mother where he received R svery possible attention until his 1 leath early in the night. His em- 9 iloyers had made every arrangement I o remove him to one of the hospitals B it Columbia, out uie aueuumg pnj- ^ icians would not consent to a remov- . il as they realized his certain and |||| speedy death. The death of this g-g 'oung man, who wr.3 about 25 years >ld. is peculiarly sad from the fact ^ hat his father died while he was ery young, and left a large family ||| >f small children and an invalid ^ vife. At the age of 10 or 12 years |1| 3assie Mixson became the head of gag he family, and by hard honest work ind succeeded in raising the family ||| o man and womanhood, and also sup- g? >ort his aged and afflicted mother. J mosquito | Malaria or Chills & Fever I at Hunter s Hardware Store. 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