Show USE SNAKES TO KILL SNAKES south america has discovered descove ed an excellent way to cope with the universal pest in south america where the snake pest is a very serious proposition they are now using snakes to catch snakes even in the most civilized parts of brazil over 1000 persons are killed filed annually nu llly by snake bite 1 the mongoose which proved s so 0 effective in jamaica and elge elsewhere where I 1 is of little use here necessity la is the mother ther of invention and nature and ma science together have at last discovered something which it is hoped may eventually exterminate the dreadful pest the discovery is nothing else than a snake which Is harmless to roan man and which kills and eats the poisonous species the as it is called is a thick muscular ocular snake about four feet long it is possessed of an insatiable appetite tor for poisonous vipers and it can tell of the approach ot of one in the same way that a pointer will scent game when tackling its prey which is frequently considerably bigger than itself the good snake assumes a lethargic air as it if it glutted with food and could soi nol fight seeing this the bad snake immediately attacks this is just what the other wants tor for being rendered by nature completely immune im une from the P poison itson it seizes its enemy before it liar 4 had haa time to recover from rom the cha e and gives a fatal bite bile at the base of the brain i |