Show HELPLESS SNAKE BITTEN INDIA I Every Ever year about this time there ap appears pears a small paragraph In the tho dally papers announcing tho deaths of oC M 1001 o persons moro more or less from Tho figures refer reter to time tho Indian empire and Iho they represent tho mortality for tor the tho I 12 months Think or of It Il An average of oC something like 1 0 people slain weekly by ono one of at the tho most ot of deaths An isolated catastrophe which involved only on one so stupendous n holocaust would 1 set tho world agog agol limit but b because this horror is n regular thinS thing going on an dall dally reported annually no notice what e er comparatively speaking Is taken It SL rime rhe Indian government har hardly ly makes nowadays any In ot of grappling with time tho problem ot of prevention Nearly to IL I I II century of oC allure hiss hns taken laken the heart out ot of It i Years r ago It spent n o of thou thousands I sands 1 of t pounds u in distributing I n pana cn Invented b by A high functionary among amonI th the vIllA villages The Tho remedY 11 in Question was II a preparation of oC liquid om am The Tho used ammonia for cleans elean lug purposes Instead of oC soap and took tOk their chance 1 ns regards the snakes Ether was wnM then Issued and the tho headmen or of the villages were Instructed In II its proper use sole lIole result was that increased limn finding that time the J government pro other was quito all as potent nn an In I ItOi tOi as bhang W and f far cheaper i I Next limn I natives were e e encouraged c to exterminate the a re cc reward ward being paid for eAch gross Kroll destroy destroyed eel ed They had to brinK bring tho tally tall a as evl dence tied up In n neat nent little bundles Ilk tikI ra radishes nut But this plan r also HO failed partly be bc because cause caulo It was I found to encourage limo Iho i propagation ot of the tho very reptiles It was designed to partly also aillo because th the or of quite hArm harmless less Iss snakes were sub substituted for tor of oC the tho venomous varieties y |