The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-11
A SNAKE BITE CURE.
The Old Settler Tells of It's Won
derful Effects.

"Great spooksn' exclaimed the squire,
looking a,p from the paper he was read
ing and keeping his finger on the
place. Twenty thousand, Wat do
We think o. that, ma jor? Twenty thou
SAN folks dyin' from snakes in one
year.
wat do / think on it?'' said the Old
Settler. ''Wull, think them folks must
"a took their applejack poorly durn new,
b'gosh, an leetle too often"
.'Applejack!' said the squire, glar-
ing at the Old Settler. ''Applejack hain't
got nuthin' to do with it. These folks
was Bit
Bit, was they?" responded the Old
Settler. ''Wull, tina hain't nuthin' that
kin bite wuss thin new applejack,
squire. I've know'd it to be sharper'n
a sarpent's tooth. But who were tellin
We bout all them folks dyin' from snake
bites? That's good many folks,
squire. Ye orter be leetle keerful of
yer figgers when We set out to peddle
facts
''Why. consarn it,'' exclaimed the
squire, here it is right here in the pa
per! The paper says that last year tina
was twenty thousan' folks died in Injy
from snake bites!''
''In Injy, hay?" said the Old Settler.
'Why. | didn't hev no kind an idee that
the sarpent had got ez much of foot
hold on Injy's coral strand ez all that,
Humph, | must tell M'riar bout that,
an tha'n be a special meetin of the
Clothers o. Them that's Naked an Feed
ers o. Them that Hungers called to
look inter it. This here won't never
do! M'riar must call meetin of the
Ciothers an Feeders, and the sistern
must line the mex cargo o. red flannel
shirts an secon han pants with leather.
l been spectin' they was little too
thin to perfect them heathens on Injy's
coral strand. An wat is the news
from Green lan's icy mountains, squire?
How many folks is nissin', long o
snakes, up there? An does Afric's sum
ny fountains send in any returns?
Gosht'lmighty! This'll make trouble
fer my yaller-leg chickens ag'in. w en-
this news gifts around, fer the Clothers
and Feeders alluz stays TO supper.
Watts the returns from Africs sunny
fountains, squire?'
The squire folded up his paper. put it
in his pocket and gave the Old Settler
whitening look, but said nothing.
This was plainly disappointing to the
Old Settler, but after awhile he resumed
the subject.
Twenty thousand. hay?" said he. II
wisht l know'd the directions o some
leadin' heather over there an I'd send
him letter tellin' him bout the never
failin Sugar Swamp cure for snake
p'ison, an tina wouldn't be no use o
snakes bitin' anybody in that pleasin'
kentry any more, fer they'd only waste
their p'ison. If anything ever were
cortion to snakes that Sugar Swamp
pison cure We're, Gosht'lmighty. how
il could draw. An that were list the
trouble with it II had so much heft
to its DRAWN powers that the danger
Were that if it got its hooks onter
Teller that had snake p'ison in him it
We're liable to kill him while it were
curin' him. PeYvidin'. o course. that
ye want keerful in usin' on it. The in
iOJAhtS " hAiGt A'b@ iF'N ctAat oAsthC
p ison cure is secret eZ nobody kin
ever hev outside o. our family. The
prescription were thunk up by an an
eistor o mine who kim inter Sugar
Swamp Wen things was skeeHce
Ev'rything but bar an snakes fha
want but two bar'l o apple juice IN
the hull settlement wen this ANCESTOR
o mine sot down there. an folks was
comm in ee'ry day all biz up by snakes, (
and consistently hsvin To be flied up
with that juice IN q way that were
alarTnin', that bein' the only snake
p ison cure ez We're reco nlzed nongSt !
the 'arly settlers o Sugar swamp 30
this ANCESTOR o mine he got al worked
up over il. seein' the way things was
goin' the future were goin - be very +,
short. ez FUR ez life bein' pleasant had I
anything to do with it. snakes bein 50 i
plenty. folks bein so willin' 10 be biz .
an apple juice bein' 50 skeerce. So he 4
up an SAYS;
Us durn shame, says he, 10 he a
wastin' good apples, jist cause folks .
won't git outen the wayo' snakes This
here's got 10 - stopped. A Teller cant
hev no show at a toothfnl 81 that apple
no more. less he goes an gits bit oy
snake. Them two bar. won. last
more'n month. an ;hen wat wa
goin,er do? I'll think up a snake
p'ison cure, hgosa. and save the ken
Try.
An 30 my ANCESTOR went of an
thuuk up snake p'ison cure. an rs