The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 06, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
THOUSANDS KILLED BY SNAKES.
Mortality Among Natives of India <
Reaches Great Figure.
Consul General James A. Smith
makes the following report from Cal- .
cutta: ,
In the 25 years from 1SST to 1911
the number of human beiugs killed
by snakes in India was 543,991, or j
on ovirocro nf ? 1 To annually. ae-1
cording to official reports. During ,
the same time snakes caused the
death of IS7,436 cattle. The mor(
tality among human beings is so appalling
that any steps taken to decrease
the figure must be welcome.
In Central India the poisonous
snakes usually found are comprised
in four varieties, the Cobra de Capella,
Russell's Viper, Karait, and the !
Small Viper. The King Cobra, a
huge reptile, is probably the most
formidable and aggressive snake in j
the world, as it is always ready not
only to attack, but to pursue. It attains
over 15 feet in length, and will
attack a human being unprovoked.
The Karait is a dark snake, whose
bite is the cause of many deaths. The
Russell's Viper is an aggressive snake '
striking with lightning-like rapidity, j
and its fangs are larger than those of
any other Indian viper. Tbe Small
' Viper is 10 to 20 inches long and is
a peppery little reptile when irritated '
throwing its body into folds and mak- ;
ing a loud purring noise.
The mortality ,from snake bites
among the poorer inhabitants of In- ,
dia is due in part to their habits and
mode of life. Many sleep on the
ground in their houses, the walls
: and flooring of which often give cover
t? snakes. Persons are sometimes
bitten by serpents v/hich crawl over
their bodies in the dark and are peru""?
i-fit-ato/i hv Rome unconscious *
iiapd lliuavvu
movement of the limbs during sleep.
In such cases the reptile is seldom
seen and there is a dreadful doubt
as to whether a rat, a mongoose, or
# a deadly snake has caused the wound.
During the great heat of the plains
in summer scanty clothing is worn
and many people go barefooted,
while those who do wear shoes seldom
wear hose, thus leaving the ankle
and instep exposed. Many fatal
cases of snake bite occur among natives
engaged in cutting grass when
the vegetation is dense and capable
of concealing even a panther. The
native squats down on his heels,
grasps a handful of grass and cuts
it off near the roots with a curved
hand scythe, and often touches and
irritates hidden reptiles.
The work of extracting venom
from snakes for the purpose of making
an antidote for the poison is being
carried on at Parel Laboratory,
Bombay. An interesting account of
the operation recently appeared in a
local paper:
t "A couple of Indian assistants
dragged forth a tin box, the lid was
lifted up, and an angry cobra disclosed.
It expanded its hood and swayed
is wicked little head from side to
side, hissing like a steam engine.
One of the Indians with a remarka-;
"" j :* ??*v-?'tt at thp I
ble dexterity, se?eu i?. unuv ~ j
back of the neck, at the same time
placing his foot on the end of his
tail to prevent the snake from coil- I
ing. The cobra, being thus harmless.
was carried forward, and a wine
glass with a piece of American cloth
. covering the top, was placed near its
head close to its darting tongue and
glittering eyes. At once it struck,
its two sharp upper fangs pierced
the cloth and the deadly poison dropped
into the glass. There was perhaps
half a teaspoonful iu the glass,
sufncient to kill half a dozen human i
beings. The cobra was then forcibly
fed with an egg flip through a tube
and put back in his box hissing ferociously
and then was left for 10
days to meditate on the indignity he
had suffered. The venom is extracted
only once in 10 d.iys.
"The venom is dried over lime and
sent to Kasauli, where it is dissolved
in a salt solution. It is then put 1
into a horse, only .a small dose being '
given at first. This is gradually increased
until at the end of two years
the animal can stand a dose 200
times the original one. since it acquires
immunity from the poison.
The substance which confers this im-|
munitv is in the blood, and when the j
corpuscles are separated from it the;
residue is the snake-bite antidote. I
"Each bite requires an antidote
made from the venom of the same
6ort of snake as that which inflicted
the bite. It is absolutely effective
if injected in time, and several lives
have been saved in Bombay by its
use. At the laboratory there is now
enough of the venom to supply all the
demands for the antidote that India
is likely to make, and it is now being
sent to Germany and America, cobra
venom being very useful in experiments
connected with the blood. A
similar venom is being made from
venom of the Russell's Viper, but at
present there is no antivenine made
from the venom of the Karait. or
from that of the Small Viper or Echis.
The latter snake causes many
deaths in the Bombay presidency,
and experiments are now being made
with a view to obtaining an antl- i
dote for its bite."
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A LAN1> OF SUPERSTITION.
Chinese Have Many Strange Ideas
Which to Them are Real.
It is not always safe to kill a snake
in China. It doesn't matter much
.vhether the sr.ake is ci the water species
or of the land variety for within
the reptile's body is supposed to
reside the spirit of what the yellow
men worship as the Dragon King.
Phis latter is believed by the average
superstitious "John" to have the pow
er of ruling over floods. This Drag-1
on King represents one symbol in the
ritual of worship of the Chinese religion
called Taoism.
China practically possessed three
different forms of religion until the
advent of the Christian missionaries.
The first of these religions was in the
form of a philosophy. This still exists
to some extent, and is known as
Confucianism. The second form has
been recognized as Budhism, which
still exists throughout China as symbolized
in the worship of idols. As
you travel through the country, here
and there you will frequently run
across idols of Budha located oil the
hillsides or other quiet and sequestered
spots conducive to reverential
reflection. Plenty of worshipers yet
pay their homage to these Budhist
idols, and you can see them conscien;iously
observing the formal ceremonies
of their worship. But this form
of religion is steadily dying a natural
death since the advent of Christianity
The third variety of religious observance
among the Celestials is that
of Taoism. This was started by an
old patriarch named Lao-tgu, who
had surrounding him a group of
"eight immortals" as his disciples.
One of these latter was given the 'responsibility
of representing the god
of barbers. The Taoist worshipers
have temples erected in each native
town. In those temples are pictures
portraying the horrors of the future
life. When the souls of the dead are
ferried across the river Styz, the artist
has painted a grewsome thought.
Men and women are depicted as
climbing towering mountains of ice
only to fall back into a gaping abyss
as they nearly reach the top. As
they fall their bodies are revealed as
caught upon spears and tossed backward
and forward by deft executioners.
These grewsome pictures show
how the sufferers are finally ground
up between millstones. Some of
them show sharp swords slashing to
pieces of the bodies which have escaped
the millstone process, and little
dogs are pictured running after the
sufferers lapping up the blood. On
certain occasions after a death the
family will proceed in a body to these
temples and will hold a public wail.
On the drum tower of the Taoist
temple at Tientsin it has been common
to see richly dressed native merchants
kneeling to an iron pot containing
incense burned in honor of
his excellency the rat. Other similar
disgusting procedures could be observed.
It is hard to conceive that
human beings can be so superstitious
as to deliberately endure such empty
practices of hallowed mockery. Yet
this is one phase of China, the China
of today. The few modernized Mongolians
surely have their hands full
in effectively combatting this awful
element or ignorance emu U15UICU ouperst'Coa
and in holding their newly
organi/f d republic to the main highway
of progress.?Philadelphia North
American.
DOGS RAX DOWN NEGROES.
Arrester! on a Charge of Robbing
Store in Colleton County.
Columbia, Aug. 1.?J. C. Robbins'
bloodhounds from the State penitentiary
ran down five negroes who were
being sought for breaking into and
robbing the store of the Colleton Mercantile
Co., at Green Pond, in Colleton
county. It was estimated that
the thieves carried away goods valued
-* -""-/.vimntnli. cnmo nf whir-h
at ap^i uAuiiuiti; v-vv, ww?.v
were found at the home of each negro.
Yesterday morning the penitentiary
was notified of the robbery
which occured Monday night, the recpiest
being made that the bloodhounds
be sent. Guard Robbins and
his manhunters left at 11:5 o yesterday
morning in an automobile driven
by Ed. Hough. The car with men and
dogs arrived at Green Pond yesterday
afternoon at 6:20 o'clock. The
bloodhounds were placed on the trail
and the negroes were run to cover
one after another, the fifth one being
taken at 2 o'clock this morning.
He was discovered hiding under a
pepper bush in the garden of a neighbor.
The negroes were trailed from
three to five miles and were taken
without resistance.
finard Robbins. Mr. Houeh and
the dogs reached the city hall corner
at noon today. Mr. Hough said that
when they left Green Pond the prisoners
were incarc erated in a meat j
house in charge of a magistrate wait-1
ing to be transferred to the county
jail.
The blushing bride has been known
to develop into virago with lightning
speed.
DIES FROM BLOW OX HEAD.
White Man of Landrum Struck \\' th
Baseball Bat.
Landrum. July 27.?Manning Fo-rester.
a white man of this place, was
hit on the head with a baseball bat
early Sunday morning in a negro
restaurant here, from the result of
which wound he died Sunday afternoon.
Coroner Turner empannelled
a jury that afternoon and held an inquest.
None of the eye-witnesses
could. or would, tell definitely who
struck the blow, so the jury bound
over the following persons: Paul
Mills, Will Mills, Molly Mills, Joe
Jackson and Jim Nesmith, all negroes.
Sheriff White took the prisoners
to Spartanburg in an automobile,
where they were placed an jail
to await the action of the grand jury.
The deceased is survived by a wife
and three children.
DEPRESSED SPIRITS
Everyone Has it Within
His Power to be Happy
A celebrated French physician has
said that "a man's liver is the barometer
of his disposition."
Every man and every woman
knows that the cheerful smile is a
big factor in one's success.
Everyone should know that the disordered
liver is cause of ninety per
cent of human ills. Lazy overworked
livers are the prime causes of
headaches, indigestion, constipation
and dozens of other ills.
But the inactive liver always warns
by coated tongue, sour stomach, dull
eye and even laziness. Heed your
warning and you insure happiness
to yourself and reflect it upon your
associates. Calomel used to do. Modern
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LETTERS IHSMISSORY.
On Saturday, August Sth, I will
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Harmon. Judge of Probate for Bamberg
county, as administrator of estate
of .Mrs. W. H. Priester, deceased,
and will, thereupon ask for letters
dismissory as such administrator.
W. H. PRIESTER.
Administrator.
Bamberg, S. C., July 22nd, 1914.
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