The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-01-20
&5. c. q. u. COLUMN.
coSpucrrp Br MRS NJ. L. Hosss-



Ins.srssesi ~ snakes.
Into the little village grove. . spot
naturally tor safety aud sweet odors,
poe night there crept hundred snakes
milk snakes. hoop snakes. blow snakes
md r.,,,p.nsks.. Then day and night.
men And bows ventured near. even
y aded into the grass, feeling certain
,hey could fool round snskes without
bite. az Quit when they GOT enough
Every dsy scorer went, got bites, went
.wav, biosied, and died, . snrrow an"
hardship 10 their families. Yet. year IN
and wear out, the snakes belI'ed thron2h
their half acre, while we did nothing
but cit still aud count the fn"ersis'
That 10 free whi-k, lnger-oiis Mis-
.iseipi of whisky, with the banks OF the
liver loaf sugar and every bush Tea
spoon.
Well. after YOU aud tad had gener-
alton of friends snaked into un''ne's
srayes We csysn 10 think sbout clearing
Jut that half acre, siopping the funera'
business. So we drew on our cavalry
noots and went over 10 interview the
snakse We fount them grown fat on
mr. I, ing frienhs bold aud insolent.
Yet. TO their Kissing tongues We re'"''-
"A only with prayers aud supplics'lo".
10 please tax ont their teeth; even he'"
a praver meeting near the e"ge o' t"e
,,,vs Pretty soon one little etn"er me
l,iy tellows already had starved INT" M
njlity. came wrixglinv his tai o"'
f.et she'd . crocodile tear over MS pas
li;f. and said he was going to s'ep ou'
from among the wicked aud be COCO
.o.Le, Then we were delighted. W.
,onk him 10 our bosom. walked home
nd ssnv a pssim OF victory. That !
moral sussion, aud the extent 70 "n'c'
lit will cure snake-h'ie.
\ We nnrsed this kind ~ triumph fev
esrs only TO fud the grove no longer
mark. but the grace killed out. the bra
md the bees fed. the spot rank wm' VI
lner fuh. friends s,ili dying OIL an
line town running down. so, NOS
,l.noipy more heroic effort. we dres
Ion our sheet.iron boots aud gusntiet
~, : hog .hssd. rolled II iosoithe, grov'
.:.uxht the hundred snakes and dumpe
Fern in. : cssk of sqnirming heafs q"
'llsils Then We had 'em sure. nut oe'n
Christian people we remembered
he ,uercifui, and 90 voted thAt ever
make should have his little hole, tner'
: ,uon boring into the cask one Lundre
,vtle,s That il low licanse-A bole "
) syerv snake that wants one.
But next day the snakes we're All o.
:. .laispensing poison; wr'gglnR 'hro"s
l.ne hundred holes hadn't drawn oi
I, .,.glc fang. So We said. we que
:. There must he too many holes: lets
- vide The hoIea by Two. aud double o.
.ecurit, ~ Then again We rcped
Mss.augA 4 Co, plugged up MY hnIs
.,l.,yea the rest, and vent on smiI'n
!" - ,h;nk how neatly we had restraint
= l,ns f.ny tooth brood. That ia high
!. c.nse-biq holeA tor big snakes, and
call for little holes.
be Next morning We looked ont 10 q
= hoo restraint had cnrsailed danger. a
60 I,,ehold, The restrsiner was emp
IL -IDasa,v addera sunnad themselves 81 9
", 80 fence corner. and thA cOw-psth v
% .ousy wi,b the fs'si worms Oo1 =
MI stood up. and we told ourselves. pr,
eel, : this old thing don't work; s'nce !"
TO Inolss let Ali the venom SLIDE ou'. '"ey
-, b.t,er'n the hundred. But bless
,islbeinv progressive people. We kn'
u.Ihov ve can get rid of our venom'
,se ,.,,iles. We can tote EN- over the III
ofl 60 !. can. into our reighhors' town
couotx So once moro ~ ecOoped
,ls The ,ljmv serpehtss plugged the MOI
IN. allied our little hell IN hoops into
m. next county, or town. drew the pl'
air nd ran That IL local op'ion--m
"a. nox on the back, and the breast 'h''
n, woo't work round under the arms.
ar Then. for little time. we sal All
on r.ns in the shade ~ nur own apple
,i., with no scrpent his''ng nixn.
ing cret,y soon. our bovs. contonn'
Os course they hadnt the curios"v
their ,nothsrs: hut, like their 's'h
,hev we're great investigators and
~ see how the bsnisned helly-wais
go, an So, over the line they frot
yot ! new bite, AMI got kicked out
the -. srgrv oeiyhbors we'd snske-do'
by A. lsst ve began to think that peril
the .love thy neighhor - thyseli va
'eir vood thing for thvself TOO. 50 ~
not "a convention Of al the neighbor'
oh ia state AND there fading that we
dog h.,sd snskes-no nee passing EN- ro
Eer: we Get another dsv ana osd -
3 a. suake-hunt throughout the S'Ns. G.
, 81 hing 10 dessh the whole viper tribe
3 47oota wrigyie wss sseu nor =
x II lha.,d bevood the sunset ~ that ~
2 So rhs, IA pohibitinn death 10 the
z 40 snske and no resurrection.
a Ga Which IA the "wi ice aud wel'.dirs
4 a eYort for the promotion of tempersn
p ia JAMES CLEMENT AxBRo'
A. On Ec.c.snu