The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, August 18, 1921, Image 4
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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
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