Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-06

Baptist Church while NJ. B. Foster
was giving his lecture. He was a gen.
uine surprise. Instead of the lecture
being worth only fifteen cents 1t had
all of q dollars worth of interest. The
audience was highly entertained and
instructed. Did you ever know that a
snake hears through its tongue? That
the ears are internal and that the tongue
darts out to catch the sound waves and
carry them to the ears? So says MIR.
Foster and he talks as though he knew
a lot about snakes. No snake ever
stings with its tongue and no snake eats
it's W young or another't, unless 1t is
the king snake. He eats rattlers, poi
son and all. A snake never was known
to chase a human being for they do not
like an animal that kills. Snakes kill
only for food and In self defence.
There was genuine %uprosrious laugh
ter and applause when Mr.. Foster asked
several boys to come on the stage and
help him. Opening a bag containing a
live snake be asked the boys to take it
out. One look in the bag was enough
for them and they politely declined.
Them up came a little fellow only sever
years old, Robert, s)n of Bank Cashier
Lafierty. He looked inside the bag,
studied the situation for O moment and
then gingerly reached In and pulled out
a great long blacksnake. Just think of
the nerve that boy had Then he put
the ~wriggling snake back in the bag.
Once the reptile laid it's beautiful black
head on his neck just as thought 1t loved
the boy. There was great applause.
Master Lafierty took another live
snake out of a bag amid the plaudits of
the audience.
Mr.. Foster was quite witty and said
many apt things in answer to questions.
He says snakes love each other and man
should not kill them. They do lots of
good by Kidding the premises of rats, YER
min and the like. Among the many
things he said were:
Glass snake is so called because its
tail is brittle, but when broken off it
will grow again.
Nc such thing as hoop snake.
Ill different kinds OF snakes in the
United States.
28 kinds Of garter snakes, all harm
less.
Snakes have six rows of teeth all
slanting back ward to help swallow
food.
Non constructing snakes swallow
their food alive and constructing snakes
first crush the life out.
The pine snake lays eggs and the
rattlesnake bears young.
Poisonous snakes like r%attlers, Mecca
sins and Copperheads have fangs. Per-
manganate of Potash is a sure cure for
a rattler's bite.
Snake can strike two thirds of its
length.
Rattlers are never blind but sight Is
sometimes INSTRUCTED when skin is
being shed. Shed skin two and three
times a year.
Feed once a week or once in two
weeks. Those born in September do
not eat for six months.
Snake is not Shiny fundamentally
clean and will soon die in filth.
Puff Adder harmless but a great
buffer. Will sham death.
Green snake 100 per cent good around
farm fo oot uaruIn
Snake never MIXED a COW.
Will swallow IN object many times
the size of its head.
There Is no way to tell the age.
Rattless grow every time the skin is
shed.
Mr.. Foster showed q live RATHER and
opened Its mouth with a stick to show
it's fangs. Z He held it carefully by the
neck.
A collection of skins was on exhibit
tion.-Vineland Journal, February %,
1914.
The Mr.. Foster above referred to is
Milford B. Foster, formerly Of Elmer,
now located in the mountains near
Harrisburg, Pa, on an estate used by
the Boy Scouts in the summer. Sew
ersl years ago he spent a summer in
Wildwood as a boy working as a prin-
ter in the JOURNAL Office. He is gain-
ing a reputation as a lecturer and re-
ceives $25 q night. Last winter he was
In the south collecting specimens Of
reptiles.