The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-16

loaded with poison. while the cofstrie-t
tors seldom if ever, strike, preferring
tie squeeze their enemies to death.
.s"Coachwhips are remarkable sin this
country for their tremendous length and
their surprising speed. The FORM OF
this reptile is elegantly slender his COL
loring Is the most delicate beauty, and
his constructing powers are scarcely
even surpassed by the boa. anaconda OF
python. He is cream Or clay colored,
very much like the hard baked prairie
lover which he glides, is veryl long IN
proportion toThis diameter. and his
scales are arranged in such manner
that they closely resemble the 5piaited'
Heather of &C whip. The movements OF
the coachwMp are like chain lightning
MOT endowed with poison, he has ire
mendous power Of locomotion and ter
rible strength in his long, slender coils,
which he WRAPS about. the limbs. bind
ing them to sthe1 body and rendering his
victim perfectly helpless. He forms his
coils into arriving ldsso. and they are
capable Of crushing such beasts, as
sheep. dogs aad coyotes within the
deadly rings. -
/. when I was In Lower California in
1890 I saw several of the largest coach
whip snakes that ever came within my
,observation.r was told by a Mexican
peon there that he had a ten-year -old.
boy squeezedpto death by coach
whip a fey years before. Thes man
said that on another occasion his wife
had been attacked by a coaehwhip,
which threw it's coils about her quicker
than she could see. She was too
frightened to do more than scream
and fall Imply to the ground, when her
daughter came running out from the,
family domicile and quickly released
the woman from the encircling. serpent
by merely. unWrapping it's caudal ap-
pendage. Strange as this may seem,
it is a very easy way to release VIC
tim In the coachwhip snakes grasp,
for while the reptiles constructing
powers are abnormal yet child may.
by means Of the snakes tail, unwran
the coils.
Rattiesnake Pilots.
"Rattlesnake pilots are a sure indf-
cation that the true RATHER is some-
where in the vicinity. They seem to
desire the company Of their dangerous
kinsmen, and by some people pilots
are often mistaken for the true breed.
They are in reality ground rattle
snakes, with the same diamond back
markings, are slightly, poisonous, have
ia short, thick chunky body, but have
no signs of rattles about them. There
is another snake in Texas and Arizona
known as the pilot. He is also slightly
poisonous, has large yellow stripes
along his body, and is covered with
beautiful yellow, zig-zag lines on both
sides. AS q rqle poisonous and nom
poisonous snakes are eternal enemies.
The most deadly serpent we have In
America is thee rattiesnake. The, most
harmless of ophidians are the bull
black, and king snakes, and, strange
as 1t may seemi all of these will tackle
and kill rattlesnake without the least
hesitation. There is no more deadly.
serpent in the world, not excepting
the cobra Of, Asia. the hage of Africa
or the fen-de1lance of Martinique
than the terrible bloated rattlesnalze
of the alkalis deserts.
do you tfbeaaeye that snakes have
the power to charm animals?'
I, Snakes 2cR4rm Their Victims, ).
"Oh. how many times have been
asked that's aDes, there is certain
marvellous power to fascinate in a
snakes eyes and movements. Like