The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-30
A Rattlesnake Eater.

cus in rocky field, where rattle
snakes are most plentiful Nose,
makes living by capturing snake.
and selling them. Whenever he can
not sell them he eats them. This is
the truth, as strange as it may seem,
says the Savannah News. Last week
be killed large one with eleven rat
:les on it. This was fat snake and
Moses ate it. The other day he
brought very large snake to the city,
trying to sell it's hide. There were
twenty-three rattles on it. The snake
was very poor, and Moses said il
would not do to eat, and he stuffed its
hide and sold it for a good price
Every year Moses makes o good deal
Of money selling snake oil. He says
right down the vertebrn Of rattle
snake is fatty streak Of flesh that
makes an oil, when fried, that will
cure any case Of rheumatism. It is
strange to how many people he sells
this rheumatic snake oil. lie has a
long list Of certificates from people he
has cured. Some Of them are from
intellig' at whites. who declare that
the oil las cured when all other rem
cdies have failed. He sells phial Of
the oil for 81 and guarantees lasting
cure.
Moses says his father was an Afri-
can hoodoo doctor and taught him how
to cure all aches and pains with snake
oil. The negroes Of Sumter County
venerate and fear him as my sterious
doctor who can cure when all else
fails, and look upon his snake oil as
something inchanted.
AS an appropriate climax to series
Of experiments in educating monkey,
Mr.. j. l.. Buck, now in Boston, will
try to make the monkey talk. The
animal is one Of the greatest curios.
tiles in the simian line ever seen. The
point to which his education has been
carried is wonderful. He rejoices in
the name of Sambo, and is q Bornean
OF the orang-outang species.
Sambo eats at table with as much
complacenty as a Christian, and be-
haves better at his meals than some
Christians. La describing his meth cd
Of teaching Sambo how to use spoon.
Mr.. Buck explained that he placed
the food in very deep cup. Sambo's
natural intelligence at once showed
him the use Of spoon, but he at first
made the mistake Of bringing his
provender from the depth Of the cup
by means Of che spoon and then laying
it down on the table to be grabbed in
his fingers.
Mr.. Buck cured Sambo Of this habit
by placing hungry monkey at the
table beside him. When Sambo would
lay the food down the hungry one
would snatch it away. After awhile
Ssmbo saw the point, and foiled the
thief by carrying the food directly
from the cup to his mouth by means
OF the spoon. The accomplishment
once acquired there was no more trou-
BILE.
Sambo was taught the value Of
clothing By being left for time in
a cold place and afterward taken in
and warmly clothed. In this way the
advantage Of wearing clothes soon be-
came apparent to his monkey mind.
What caused Mr.. Buck most per-
plexity was how to get Sambo to wear
{ cap, for he seemed to have rooted
antipashy to any kind of headgear.
The trainer was slmost on the point
Of giving IL up, when one warm day he
noticed that the Aies were annoying
the monkey very much. When they
were particularly persistent around
his head Sambo would pull up his
coat to protect his poll. Inspiration
came to MIR. Buck. Daubing o little
molasses on Sambo's head, he left him
to be tormented by the flies for time,
and then placed q cap over his head to
chow him the use Of the covering.
Sambo realized the utility Of cap at
once and has worn it without protest
ever since.
By these methods, and without the
use OF the whip that is considered 30
indispensable by most trainers of ami
mails, Sambo's education was carried
on.
He can dress himself without assis-
tsnce, putting on his shoes and stock
ings as carefully as an orderly boy, at
meal times carrying his chair to the
table and sitting up like regularly
recognized member of the family, eat
ing his meals decorously aad daintily,
with his napkin tucked under his
chin, and behaving, in short, with the
best of table manners.