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Y. -THE OTSEGO JOURNAL OFFICE Has great facilities for job, WORK. ~$ 7,50 | 18,00 | 18,00 |. wer | flmffw YOUTH3 DREAMS How bright the untried future seemed, When 'yearsago we sat and dreamed, In thought's sweet morning hours! © With nota of weary pain, Which riper years bring in their train; To blight hope's fairest flowers. *With eager eyes, yet half afraid, Wae scanned the time, then just ahead; ° When happy girlhood c'er, - ' Sehjool-dftys all passed; books'throwin aside,- Our little barque should stem life's tide, The unknown shores explore. Those years rolled on; we have attained To womanhood; the heights are gained, « Which once seemed far away; Do hopes in full fruition lie? 'No, they were only born to die- «Frail blossoms of & day! On! we have learned that human life, Is -one of care, and pain, aud strife; ~~ -* That only now and then | ' A sunbeam o'er our path will stray, To,c}'1eer awhile our darkened way, Then quickly fade again. And though tho dazzling visions grand, That floated through youth's fairy. land Have vanished long ago; If Christian faith and hope unite, They'll bring to view a fairer sight, 111421th of all snakes with which I am - | thé TOWOI of concentration of the poi- | son, either of the bee or snake, but to \ Whfle many of' our domestic animals . | pengs, our cattle seem to be exempt\ | heard of one being injured by the bite Than aught on.earth below. . ... ©1200 y marin Snake Charming. f By A. N. Henderson, M. D. HE recent science of Geology, in revealing the wonders of the rep- tile races of the antediluvian world, has added a great and increasing in- terest to the study of the habits and [instincts of the living specimens. Compamtne anatomists, in establish- ing a connection between the extinct races and those which 'at present exist, have done much to create an interest for this branch of National History, |of which so little is' known, and a- round which a supperstition as old as the world still lingers. An irtercest to know more of the natural history of the snake has heen awakened by an article recently published in your mag- izene,* and I propose to add some facts and speculations regarding the subject, so that from a multitude of witnesses the truth may he reached. As a general thing. most snakes we meet with in America are harmless, and I believe such to be the case every- where. With i _yery few exceptions, | they all swim well in water, and are as much at home in the element as the musk-rat and other amphibious ani- We offer a fine “00k of visiting earth -AT- Inoo~,flm DFFY COHP} FITIO\ imal“ All that numerous variety of water-snake classed under the frencnl i denomination of \Water Mo-casin,\ seek concealment in the water when atens. sond are * JJ. i 31mg, r inre [thats at this time unuqually ir- commence, the eye assumes a milky rating, or has separated from the new 'I have no doubt that tho reptile GTLBLRTSVILLE OTbEGO CO N Y WEDNESDAY JUNE 21 1076 rao eus drowned. ’lhoy may be called. semi- amphibious, if such an expression is allowsble.' The constrictors possess “this attribute in common with the vate twnakcs, and, indeed, such is the Fall the poisonous snakes found Nwen Carolina, anid I believe our country, there is but once, 'the rattlosnake-the bite of which is fatal. - That death may ensue after the bite of other poisonous sor- penis is probable, for I know that the sting of a bee or a wasp is sometimes {mm but this fatality is not due to some peculiar organization of the person bitten, or. to some pledlspos- mggcanse qufi’u from the bite of p01conous ser- from this cause. carful inquiry, After repeated and I - have - never of flsb snake lqulf‘rellb iléopulwl belief that snakes AMY}; in the yonth of august, and ritable, they are ~consequently> more dangerous. Suakes shed their $kins| annimlly, and in confinment I have known them to do this throe times during the continuance of the warm months. When this process to appearance; the cornea is then sepa- one beneath it, rendcung the snake] blind un&# the process is completed. is more irritable while shedding its skin, and more malignant than at other times, and, being blind, it will strike whenever a sound approaches. The common black and king snakes, both belonging to the constrictor tribe, pos- sess a strength truly astonishing. Either of these snakes, with a half or two-thirds of its body in a hole, lead- ing into. the hollow of a log sufficient- ly to allow the snake to throw # por- tion of its body within the log, at right augles with that part without, 1 will defy the strength of an athletic iman to remove it from its position. 1 have actually pulled snakes assunder in my ce 'fforts to accomplish this feat. Itis extremely doubtful. as a cenoral ruic. whether any snake takes its prey by first killing it by Funas 1s INHSHI}. < & f are fi'iKC'I‘: to these \ply rt as a mens e l“? It is remarkable that| . T 52. iy of their wing provided for 1 of it would, therefore be congrury to the very law that gives it as a means of defonse, The spreading adder is not.a constrictor, nor is it a venomous snake, and is nearly, if not quite as sluggish ag -the 1m csnake., - This snake pursues and captures its prey without the aid of poison. Why,then, should the rattlesnake be compelled to poison? for we shall presently endear or to show that it has, in common with othol ' snakes, the powzr of pur- _ suing its prey. - The theory of a spec- ial od’m as applied to the snake, I have known ascribed to the alligator; but it appears to infringe somewhat upon the supposed Fower of facina- tion, which is generally thought to be sufficient of itself to attract the prey within reach of the fatal blow. cssary to most smukes when about to seize their prey, is certain, and I- think it is equally certain that it is not indispensable to the rattlesnake, my opintan being founded upon per- sonal obqumuon - The coil is com- mon to all snakes, and is their natur- al attitude of offense and defense., Out of the coil, however, with a half or two-thirds M their body in curves, - they are quite as dangerous, and can strike with equal violcrkce'.’ ~The rat- tlesnuke, therefore, can'scize pray as other suakes do, and there is nothing in its organization, so far ds I have perceived, to prevent it pursuing and capturing its prey. The snake is a hibernating animal, and does rot take food during the winter months, and it is only in the warm weather that it cats at all, and That the coil is not an attitude nee... ._ then only ai long intervals. The ser- pent tribe universally, and the rattle- snake in particular, have a wonderful capability of resisting hunger: one or two meals are quite sufficient for a rattlesnake during thé summer months; and I think,and hazard noth- ing in asserting, that a snake of this species would not starve if deprived of food during the whole of that period. Providence has given up the power of resisting the inroads of hunger in a greater or loss degree to the carniver- ous animals, in order to protect their lives in cases of accident depriving them of the means of persuit. An ca- sle or a buzzard would die.if deprived feathers, unless thus We find the rattle- nake in situations where it must have comsc to sock for prov. and where the a geal would be impossible : the wor's A i0 DBITOWs oi of
