Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1913 — Demand for Hair Roue. [ARTICLE]

Demand for Hair Roue.

"There is one thing which we export from this country that few people, In fact, no no outside those in the trade, ever know anything about,” said S. C. Brown to a Milwaukee Sentinel reporter. “That is hair ropes. They are shipped mainly to India, though they go to any places where poisonous snakes are plentiful. Every cowboy and plainsman learned years ago that if he did not wish to wake up in the morning and find a rattler for a bed-mate when he had to sleep out on the prairie, he had to be careful before he laid down to see that his horse-hair lariat was coiled carefully about him so that there was no opening through which a snake might crawl.

“No snake will tackle a hair rope. It is the only sure* protection against them. Somehow this idea has permeated the minds of the East Indians and now they buy these ropes for protection against the poisonous snakes with which that country abounds. Large numbers of the»e rope« tr» shipped to India and adjoining countries each year. “Over there they are coiled on the floor around the bed at night and the occupant can He down in comfort, certain that no snake will ever attempt to pass over that hair rope. It is about the only way any one can be sure of a night’s sleep undisturbed by visits from snakes In that country."