Show TIM AZON pits baa has boon a season of groat great in snake tones storie sand anil as the closing month approaches all tile nevi newspapers shapers of the tile lind land are making a mighty effort to eclipse all former glories of imagination in snakes among tho the score of aspirants for chief prize of the waning season the MORN INO if has discovered among it ite I 1 contemporaries ies the tile following two drovers in southwestern missouri discovered a huge snake yellow and spotted coiled into a lump the size of a bushel basket its head was rai raised jed and a long forked tongue rapidly shot forth while its tail in air rapidly vibrated giving forth an ail ominous and hell well known racket from more than twenty rattles they began begin at a given signal to rain heavy blows a upon the snake which rolled up into I 1 tw ice its original bulk writhing and rattling under the stinging whacks from the two sturdy cati cattlemen lemen it was killed and found to be nearly ten feet in length along its it back was a liard sharp ridge bearing long hairs liko like a hoge hos bristle bristles strung at short intervals inter vale along the entire length of the snake charles E jackson of halifax fla ila has a pet snake that catches rats bonday he heard a racket in the cupboard under the stairs and opening the door ho be found foun d the snake had captured a rat and was trying to swallow it now nose first teerat the rat was alive and strenuously protested against going into such a liole hole using hie its feet to catch hold ot of alie I 1 lie floor or other surroundings roun dings dingi the Thes nako was wiser than the tile rat however and wo would uld raise him up a foot or two in the air and in that position continue the swallowing aug process dropping down again to the floor to rest occasional occasionally lv jasper bryan a fanner farmer near mar town iowa went in search of a little pig which ww was nii mis Ming liing lie ile found it in ina swamp where it had been swallowed by a hu hue e snake it had actually kicked kicked its feet throw lithe the belly of the snake and was walking wal kil about trying to find ite its way out of the woods with its head still in the lower part of the snakes body the snake was promptly killed and found to cantan sixteen rattles the pig was carried homo home and is doing well |