Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — [?] Hunding of Rattlesnakes. [ARTICLE]

[?] Hunding of Rattlesnakes.

“It has b' or »r.’ .? *\nt, ‘every man la • ward in the dark,' but I know on .win who was unable to comprehe.i (That soar Is,” said David E. bang'His name la John Junken, and w sore schoolmates in Indiana thtrn fears ago—at a time when rattlesn ;k> p painters' and other noxious ‘v» r mhi' plentiful. One of John's imusementß when a boy was to provots * rattlesnake to strike; then, before ) •ould recoil, seize him by the tat' an aslng him like a whiplash, snap b head off. He could Jerk a rattler s t-.\ Tom bis body every time. He vrouisllmb to the top of a tall hickory . a ing and, with the assistance of hi xwpanlons, bend it to the groan ill would then let go but John, wr vould enjoy the rebound. When bi *•' years of age he odjtdlc Israel Pm aam’s famous exrollt by orawling inu 1 holiow log, dragging a panther oir by the tall, and killing it with a hatehe He entered the army ftt the outbreak o •he war, and, while his gallant oondu< wae frequently commended It wh loomed unwise to confer "a commissi. 1 n a man entirely destitute of prudem nd who fairly reveled In reckless e.-> vioivs."—St. Lotds Globe-Democrat.