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T e !c es Veilnsi l'ICKI:NS. S. G. H L 1.SH I 1) E I Y T 'HU RUDAY. ia Yea'r Invariable in Advanc. IEn i'rerI at ' ickens, S. C. Postoflice as kh,'on Gla'Jst, Math Mdtte r GA WY f a T, I'hi lr aod Mgr. ,l : 9 - u- hor yt":there~d contaid er:. . . ).. Snake , i..: I .-,irous of seeing sev eral ': I, .rties whom 'we belheve caLn n'I ,- with more facts of inter. .In the mieartim.e we are prilt.. ii' the following irtere:-;ting! acamnstl. Laken frormloa' Hlit tory of U11p1et south Carolina: Iog aran'5 ; .t.oy of I p per S.u th Caroliina, in ;pea kig of the soakes of this a t emr, says: "lert.t;rrm 'ot. with a reptib which he call: I horn snaket io his tiraveis ins ( ana. orfl speaks of it l fol. lows '' Th1-' (' or bil-rsi1ike4 is very large ard ;no flenusive, with respect to mankind, iut dlevour.; squirrels, bird:;, r;bit and every ot.h:r crea ture it Ian take its food. They arc the larg t snake yet known in North A rnerica, except the rattle. anake, and perhaps exceeds him it length ; t 1uc:y are pied black' an white. They utter a terrible loud hissing noise, sounding very 1imow and like distant thunder, when irri. tated, or at the times of in'ubation when the males contend with one -another for the desired female These serpent~ are also called horn snakes, from their tail terminating with a hard, horny spur, which the. vibrate very quickly when disturbed but they never attempt. to strik, with it.. They have dens in th earth, whither they retreat precipi tately when apprehensive of danger '"Lawson, who traversed the sam region about seventy years earlie than the botanist d scribes anothe- under the name c the 'til; -snake serpent, of a totals diffenenft chairacter. 'Of the horn snake,' he says, '1 never s tw hut tw that I remeinber. They are like th rattlesnake in color, but. rathe fighter. They hiss exactly like goose when anything approacht them. They strike at their enem with their tail, and kill whatsoeve they wound with it, which is arme~ at the en. with a ho rnfy subhstant lik3a a cock's spur. TIhis is the weaplon. I have hea rd it cired itab: reported, by those who said thi were eye wi tnessaes, tha~t. a sm a Ii cust tree, abhouit the l.h ic kntes of man's arm, being struck by one I thes-ve sna~kes att tein o'clock inl LI mIIorningfl., then1Vt -m verdant and flo urisl ig, att foura i in ('h aftlerno [1(1w, dteadi, al the lealves red anid willhe ing. Donbi less, he it. how it wi thy are iii'v'ery venomou1) ts. I Lthinrk LI I mlianus do not preten (! .0 t cure' the~ woundII.' old1 sturvey or, inlIt rebition to the liocu tree, coub~ll searIce ly hatv(e ever con to t he knowledge of the good, hi plaini peopl- living on1 Corona~ka at WiIso n's c reeks ; yet there is still e: tatn t inl lthat re1gion ia tratdi-ti oni which it is relted t.hait. mainy yenu ago a mianI in the lower part of th dlistrict .or inl l'dgefield, being closi ly pu11rsuled by it horn snake(1, too refuge b'ehintd a tree, wvhen the er ratgedI se rpentI rolling swviftly afte him like it t rundledl hoop, pilunge its horny sting deep into its trunl. where it wits made fatst, and( so dlif :fused its venom11 into the circulattin; sap as to) ilestrop inl a few hours1. th vitality o ft.he to re. "'Bertram0, with all his actenes andl enthusiasm as a naturalist, ha certainly conifounided the naimes oi two distinct nattive serpents (of Cart lina. The bull snake, as he (describt it, was well known in the up~per cour 'try at the period of his visit and lon after; but the old peole had see and -talked much of the horn snakd as well, whose sting they dreade as the visitation of (denth. Hew: informs us that the horn snake wai found in Carolina and1 owedl its nanm not to a horny excresence growin Upon its head, its some have suppo, ed, but to the horn-like sting at thi extremity of its tatil, with whichi defended itself, striking it with grei force into every aggressor. It wa also dleemedi exceedingly venomous andl the lndlians when stung by did not resort to their usual anti dotes, but. instantly cut out th .woundedl part. as the only safe pre ventative of the (deadly poison be ing infused through -the system Mills, in his Statistics, enumerates among the indigenous reptiles o: Canmuna, bth th hn an b. have been exceedingly rare; for at a comparativcly early period it had alIeady become a creature of curi Gus tradition. Lawson, it has been ,birved, sw but two of them as 'early as 1718, notwithstanding no white man of his day <njoyed bet. tar opportunitie s for raking such dicoverie: in Carolina. Arncng thc Jnnuernrable facts that may be gath ered from natural history illustre tye of God's goodness, there are few more deserving of notice than this rareness of a rep'tih- !o fierce and deadly as the horn snake rust unquestionably have been. Had it been as abundant at: the other vene mo u:: snrecies the inehans:) cytcn, .sh i u-nht.,a ..:: - Cr potent antidotes, could hardly have inhab't-. ed thFeeIuni y. T'h irr.agination is taxef to c.(' c of an object more rI ,ulse tr Lyi9 :icrrble. It pos .t:wed :e, -' a .i:gle redeeming f'.a'.ur-: t : w"as nothir.g of the abniral- craf t of the eye-nothing of the beautif ul changing of colors ('r (Ihar;,ct-er-t.ic magnanimity of the vt'nat-b~.ut wi:h dull eye;, in inisate skin and vengef al spite, ready to dhirt its dreadful sting into (very a.np' oachinag intruder, it lay a hor r bh& comnpourid of all the hated qual t.e. of its race-the incarnation of t' ath. '0 "On an afternoon, nearly forty ye:ars ago, a party of gentl'enen were riding f rom Abbeville village to wards the Calhoun settlement, and when approaching the place now known as the Cabins they passed a dwelling near the wayside, just at the moment when a little girl, whom I they had seen to cross the road some distance before them, gave a pierc ing shriek, and ran back into the hou.'^ in an agony of pain and fright. Perceiving that something serious had occurred they has&tily alighted to ascertain the matter; and entering the room found the child stretched upon a bed and already a corpse. She had lived long enough, however, to whisper to her mother e that a snake had struck her while she was in the act of gathering firewood . on the roadside. The party instant ,' ly sought the spot and there disyer e ed a large specimen '! he iorn snake r which they dispatched. The skin of this serpen. was st.uffed and preserv. >f b by an intellig nt gentleman of the y - neighborhood; arid it was long an ob 1. ject of great curiosity at his resi 0 deuce, and afterwards at. Old Cam e bridge, where it. was last seen." a IGNORANCE OF NATURAL. H:tS y TORY. .' d The State. e TIhe' Picke ns Sen(tinel tells anif as tunishing story of the killing in y Rocky IBottomi, in Pickens county, of Sa hor1'ned snake ton feet long. That the snake was ten feet long and~ had a a hor isI not ini th. least ,astonish 0' inrg buiit thait aiIi( ratur so3 0 usfL was (killed i'2 3)ne of the few things in 3- credlitable that~ hia' (ome (out of Pick C is supeCtil-. ef ai h gh idegre'e of IC haivi aroundiI~ a ((iu< stored dhale he it tw~een I the miounrtabi where indilus IC try soie(timeuA offeni from the pm.. it .jiidicedi o9perait (li of the ha*w. The dI hw Ined sniak lnot ea-ily discerni ~- ile under(' thn htIreS'is and the tall II grass and it eiOnn make the cir'cuit o (f half a mile onmc in half an hour. e WhI eever it decr( ieCs dan ger ap -jproach inFg it blows its horn and the k eitizens!1 opera tinrg th( "little fac - tory"' take warnlinrg, escaping with r such of their h quidl assets a15 they dI may. ,To slay a horned snake is a sinl like -that of shooinrg anI albatross with a Kt (rOSS bow. c In the doing to deoath of this serI lpent in Pickens one suspects that s there, has been foul play. It is not 5 at all improbable that the Anti-Sa f loon League of Ney York had a hand I- ini it. 5 It should be further said (that the I- horned snakes of Pickens after a g little training are able to discrimi n nate between a harmless s.seker and e a dlangerous one. There are mo d nments when travelers 'or sojourners it in Pickens hear with a thrill of de s light the mellifluous toot of a horn a ed snakie and they follow its gliding g guidance with a trusting confidence i- to the center of refreshment and e they are never disappointed. t The Greenville Piedmont has comn .t mlenteid upon the news of the Pickens a Sentinel with a singular want of ; perspicacity. Thait a newspaper of t its pretenses to nature knowledge -casts al dIoubt upon the existence of o the horned snakes of Pickens is an - exhibition of ignorance for which - The State was not preparedl. The .Piedmont and the people of Greon ville have much to learn about Pick r ens county and if they had possessed I rudimentary informatio'n about horn-, establishment on Pari:s M untain within a few hundred yard. if the Sumrner Palace wuul(d have been avoi(ded. E'e fore d fnis inhg the sub.Iect we re,. T 1'icdnont. that th. i note Of :h ('bn of the Pickkens count. a .-: (a-ily recognized, as i; bears (. 5'. r. s( mnblance to that (' t' K''.:ar-2an horn as well as to them t .c" tih ins of Elflandi. THE BOLL WEEVIL IN THE PIEDMONT SECTION. 7he Mexican cotton boll weevi ha-. practically covered the entire Ps dmont section, specimen' having hc'n sent in by farm' rs from centra Yorkcounty arsd from points abov !iekeia and Walhalla' Due to the vciy mild winter of 1920-21, thi: P1.t becam111e m1ore numerous than w< c:-:pected. The (luestion is asked t:n ut we do right now again, h s M>?" A: this tame of th< yecar We advise nothing d:rct> against thx instt., such as weivi picking or siuare picking, becaus it would not be profitable. The bes course for any i arrnr to pursue a thiy ti-me to g:ve his cotton th best atte nticn he knows how, and no to spend any time fighting th( weevil. The other question is, "What car we do for our next year's crop?' The most serious thing for farrner: to consider, at this time so far as the weevil is concernedl is to take step to reduce his chances for passing the winter successfully. It is possible that the next winter may be a severe one, and which may give the weeviJ a severe backset, but we have n< guarantee of this, and furthermore such a backset would only be tem porary. We have the weevil in the Piedmont scetion and the pest wil stay with us as long as cotton is pro duced, and for years to come will b a serous limiting factor in cotton production. After the first killing frost of the fall the weevil will seek winter quarters and for this he chooses waste a ;d unkept places or the farm, inehu- : fields on whic stubble are left during the winter unkept and dirty ditch banks, fence rows, terraces, :i uglected orchards underbrush, et.c. Wherever thes< conditions are allowed to remain or the farm the weevil finds first class acc(ormodations to spend the winter and from which to emerge to attac the cotton crop of 1 922. The weevil in seeking his winter quarters finds places that are not too vet nor too dry. Such conditions he finds in places above mentioned. He does not find these conditions in a cover crop. because due to the evap oration of moisture the conditions on fields where green crops are growing in the winter are against this past. The winter cover crop is nothing niew in agriculture, but the value of it. has been known even by farmers of ancient times. Not only does ii keep, the land from washing, the~ fer tility from l'ach ing, and not onlt lmo i,i:itan -ojl ((ond~itions et vinter. buit It aictx ii a clearsing ro! tha prevents thei exintece ter for bell w(evil and( t he var' Thosea- ille 'per i enf ced w ith Ii v VC Jropsi sho uld( i make it ai ntte heir county age'nt as soon * flos. sible to obitaini the niecessairy fin r. mnation. This is the most. importanit stegA for every farmer in cotton bol weavil territor'y in the fall. Othei methods will be described in anothei article. CAUSE OF APPENDICITIS. When the bowels are constipated the lower bowels or large intestinet become packed with refuse matter that is made up largely of germs These germs enter the vermiform ap pendlix and set up inflammation which is commonly known as appen. dlicitis. Take Chamberlain's Tabletu when needed and keep your boweib regulat- and you have little to feai from appendicitis. TO ENCOURAGE THRIFT. School children who wish to save money they earn during vacatior may .secure thrift banks without charge from the Savings Division of the Treasury Department. Requestt for the banks should be mailed to the G;overnment Savings Organization, B~ox 1.798, Richmond, Va. HOT WEATHER DISEASES. Dis rders of the bowels are ex tremely dangerous, particularly dur ing the hot weather of the summer months, and in order to protect your self and family against a sudden at tack, get a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. It can be depended upon. Many have testi Y TO BE OR NOT TO BE Eyeglasses or spectacles ? That is the question. Let rs decide for you by examining your eyes and prescribing eyeglasses or spectacles, w$ iyhever is preferable.. , W,p i recomrnend Shelltex Sh ur-On Mountings because they look as though made for you alone when we imake the selection and do the fitting. Ujyalay 4eyonJ jrae,t, , far .,. 4.. f4ii/'/ J . Kodak Films Developed by Experts ODOM-SCHADE OPTICAL CC. 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