The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 08, 1921, Page 6, Image 6
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
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irritated, or at the time of incubation,
when the males contend with one ananother
for the desired female. These
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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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
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seen.''?Pickens Sentinel. I
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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.
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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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iorK, Aug. 6i.?me uyiug request
of William Patton, a widely
known negro citizen of the East
View section, that his body be allowed
to stand upright in the grave
rather than rest in a recumbent position,
accounted for a strange burial
at Pineville church eight miles
west of York yesterday. His wish
was observed, which necessitated the
digging of an unusually deep grave,
and gave a weird atmosphere to "his j
loot- nlieonn ioc Tho nrlrl in fprmPnt I
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created a sensation among. the ne-j
groes and attracted a huge crowd to i
the burial. '
William Patton was an honest and;
straightforward negro, and enjoyed
the respect of both races. He was j
educated in the State college for;
Xegroes, Orangeburg, and taught
school for a number of years. He
was about 40 years old and his death
was due-to tuberculosis.
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