The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-06-13
Stories Folks Tell About Snakes.

Walter Grubb tells the story Of a
tame snake that was 30 Intelligent that
one night, while it was roaming about
the house Of its owner, it caught
burglar in the dining-room. The snake
eoiled itself around the legs Of the
burglar and with its tail reached bell
on the dining room table and, ringing
it vigorously, alarmed the household,
resulting in the capture of the burglar.
Can the Oil City Blizzard beat this2-
Bradford Star.
John Bartlett and Wesley Rising, Of
Lake George, hold the record as the
champion rattlesnake hunters of this
region. They went into the mountains
back of the lake and killed 1872 full
grown rattlers. The smallest was four
feet long. The hunters harvest was
profitable, as the county pays bounty
of . cents for the killing Of each rat
tlesnake having a rattle or button
Saratoga Dispatch.
Neal Mcfarland, agent of the United
States Express Co, here, thought he
had snakes this morning. Everywhere
he looked he saw big rattlers and he
had 'em 40 bad he could even hear them
rattle. He rushed to the telephone
and called for assistance, when it was
found that box Of snakes for a street
fair snake charmer had been broken
open and his Office was full Of the rep
tiles. The charIner captured her pets
and Neal swore off.-Parkersburg Dis
patch to Wheeling Register.
Thursday Of this week, while Guy
and Arthur Davis, sons Of r. +. Davis,
were digging a water well on Mr.
Davis's farm at Sunderlinville, large
stone was encountered at a depth of
nine feet. In removing the stone II
was broken In two and near the center
there was a large cavity, the size OF q
large bowl, which contained snake
Is inches long, the color of the rock.
1t started 70 crawl rapidly away, but
was killed by its diseoverers, and upon
examination it was learned that the
reptile was without eyes 1t was in
deed a strange find and puzzles the best
of them to know how it came there
and how it survived in its air-tight
home. But when once considered that
frogs are often found 20 feet deep in
the earth, in apparently air-tight
quarters, and that fish will live many
weeks in frozen ice, the possibility for
snake to live in rock is not so great.
Mr.. Davis and his sons are willing to
take oath as to the genuineness Oftheir
fnd.-G&leton Dispatch.
Miss Caroline Morse is looked upon
with awe by her fellow freshmen of
Wellesley college because she loves
snakes and makes pets of them. She is
the daughter Of Prof. Morse, of Am.
herest College, and is 10 years old.
Miss Morse dates her remarkable fad
back to the age Of ten, when she
caught and tanned her first blacksnake.
A fearless lover of nature, she felt no
repulsion for it because she knew that
the species was not poisonous. 1t de-
lighted her to see it drink the milk that
she would place for it in a saucer.
Her love of snakes overmastered her
one day when she was out bicycling
soon after her admission to Wellesley
last fall. Espying large garter snake,
she dismOunted and caught 1t by the
tail. RemountiBg and steering the
wheel with one hand, she rode for her
boarding place. This was the begin
/ ming Of her college menagerie. Soon
| afterward she caught fine garter
snake, which so perfectly matched the
first that she called them the Big
! Twins.
The next addition to the family wa'
a little green snake, which she captur
ed one day while roaming the wood:
with a pack Of children at her heels
The youngsters fed in panic and Mis-
Morse has not since been harrassed by
small admirers while hunting snakes
New York World.