Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27

was q medium sized rattler. He held
! the big stone between his knees and
remarked that he was going to see for
himself So with the toe Of his right
foot he tapped the rattler two or three
| times on the head. The snake took no
/ offense-did not even rattle-and
crawled off We let him go peacefully.
The Los Angeles side-Winder
The Southern Pacific Railroad runs
train on the Imperial Valley Branch
which everybody knows as the Los
Angeles Side Winder." 1t gets its
name from the number of curves in
| the line and its likeness to the side
winder. The sidewinder is a first
| cousin to the big rattler. He is about
foot long and has one faint sounding
rattle and a button. He coils himself
| in a horseback or any slight depres-
sion and allows the fine desert sand to
silt over him till he is all covered but
ahis head. 1t almost takes magnify
hng glass to find him. They are quite
as poisonous as their cousins.
An Obsolete Snake Bite Outfit.
When | first went into the Imperial
Valley and got to little desert town
called Dixiland which was then the
railhead of the San Diego and Eastern
Arizona Railroad | was strongly ad-
vised TO purchase a snake-bite outfit,
This | did 1t consisted of a fine hy-
podermic syringe and needle and two
small bottles of tablets. The directions
were clear and concise. when bitten
on the arms or legs cut cross over
the bite with a pocket knife. Take one
potassium permanganate tablet and
dissolve it in teaspoonful Of water and
inject this well under the skin in cir
Gle around the bite. If the heart
shows any signs of stopping administer
one of the strychnine tablets every
half hour. Administer whisky freely
and in large doses. Take patient TO
the nearest doctor at once!" l carried
this outfit strapped on to my canteen
and now ! look back with wonder at
the self control 1 exercised because the
freely and large doses" part of the
remedy, | carried it in my bed roll for
six months in California and another
in Idaho and Montana and finally gave
it 10 the assistant supervisor Of sur
veys in Boise as Christmas present.
Playful Hoop Snakes of Norway.
This one do not vOuch for. In Mon
tana | had a teamster named Jim. |
forget his other name, but Jim was
born and spent his youth in Norway
I've always thought the latitude Of
Norway just little high for snakes.
Anyway Jim swore that they had them
there and that the worst kind was the
hoop snake. He said that they are
long keen snakes with kind Of ivory
like spike on their tails. He takes his
tail spike in his mouth and forms hoop
with his body and rolls swiftly along the
road at a person and when within
striking distance lets go his tail and
bures the ivory-like spike into the
persons body. The tail spike is poi
sonous. There are really hoop snakes
in Africa, but Norway have my
doubts.
a Jungle Anaconda.
This one you can verify if you will
take the trouble. A party of explorers
from the Royal Geographical Society
of London, were exploring the far
reaches of the Magdalena river in the
United States of Colombia. The jun
giles there are infested with terrible
fevers, a pigmy race OF savages who
blow poisoned arrows at you from long
slim cane blow-gun and all kinds of
snakes, the largest of which is the an
aconda The friendly natives who live
on the edges Of the jungles say that
the anaconda sometimes has horns four
or five feet in length. The truth of
the matter is that the anaconda some
time swallows an OK, but when they
get TO the horns they can so no fur
ther so leave the horns protrudinS
| from the corners of their mouths till
the rest is digcsted. But to continue
about the explorers. They came out
into little clearing one day and de-
cided to stop there for lunch. Two Of
the men sat down on a log. The log
| suddenly came to life and after switch
ing his tail around and knocking down
half the party escaped into the jungle
slashing right and left and uprooting
and knocking over small trees as he
! went.