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A BIG SNAKE.
His First Meal in America Was Year.
ling Calf.

Down at Burns animal place in South
street, just north of where the Brooklyn
Bridge crosses that street there was large
gathering of people. The small office part
of the animal store, which is separated from
the rest by high and strong iron network
partition, was full of men whose interest
seemed to be concentrated upon long and
strong new box which was in the inner
room, close to the partition. Donald Burns
was inside the partition with a number Of
his lusty assistants, and he was giving
directions for making a hole in one end of
the box and connecting a stove with it to
keep the big snake warm.
81 hear you have been having trouble
with snake,' said the reporter.
''Hushn whispered Burns. 81 have
been keeping the thing quiet How did
you hear of it? You know l didn't want
it to get out that any animal, wild or tame,
ever got the better of me. l have been
handling animals and snakes ever since I
was boy-elephants, lions, tigers, Wild
cats, boas, rattlesnakes, copperheads-
nothing ever got the best of me before. 1t
was awful, l tell you, Look at thsr'
Mr.. Burns threw back the hasp which
held shut the lid of smaller box which
stood beside the big new one and opened
the cover. Then he loosened and raised an
inside lid of glass which covered the con-
tents of the box and, making quick move,
caught a big snake by the neck, just back
OF the head.
Catch hold of him, boys" he cried to
his assistants, and three of them grasped
different portions of the snake as Burns
drew it forth. They stretched it out until
its head and tail were probably ten feet
apart; but the snake did not seem to like
the operation, and kept good part Of its
length concealed by pulling itself up in
ringletted kinks. "Put him back" yelled
Burns.
The snake was perhaps six inches in
diameter at the thckest part of its body.
He's pretty good sized chap, isn't he?
asked Burns. Hes nearly twenty feet
Long, but he's not a marker to the other
one. You see could handle him.
Then Burns went over to the big box and
opened it cautiously. This box also had
an inside set of lids filled in with heavy
plate glass.
There" exclaimed Burns, sis snake
that is snake He is between thirty and
forty feet in length, weighs SOB pounds and
measures two feet around the biggest part
of his body. Talk about handling him.
He's the only brute that ever got away from
Donald Burns. Look at him nowr
Burns had opened the glass cover The
great python lay coiled at one end of the
box with his head resting comfortably upon
the upper coil Of his.body. He made alto
gether pile about as big around and as
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-09-26
WORKING OF THE INDIAN MIND.

In a contest of wits the North American
Indian is almost always at disadvantage
with the white man. His mind is not ac-
customed to the quick thinking which
centuries of civilization have developed.
An old resident of Spokane, Washington
Mr.. Cowley-has told to the Spokesman.
Review of that city many stories of the old
days. which illustrate the quality of the
Indians thinking when he comes into con-
tact with the white mans intelligence
Mr.. Cowley once carried on business as
a buyer of grain and Indian farmers
brought him their products. One day an
Indian told him that he should no longer
sell him his oats, because another white
man would give more for them.
Every well, " was the answer. 81 can
not afford to pay you more"
But after while the Indian farmer came
back and offered Mr.. Cowley load of oats
at the old price.
GLOW is this?" asked Mr.. Cowley.
doesn't the other man still pay you your
price.
Gle pay me more for bushel,' said the
Indian; "you pay me more for load"
This was as much as to say that the
other man had given him "a greater price
at the expense of the measurement OF the
grain; but the untutored mind OF the saw
age had taken in the fact only in the way
his reply indicated.
Another story told by Mr.. Cowley was of
the visit of Gen. Phillip Sheridan to the
Spokanes in an early day. Sheridan re-
lated to the Indians, through an interpre-
ter, the wonders of the railroad, and then
waited to see what effect the revelation
would have upon them.
"What do they say?" he asked the inter-
prefer.
"They say they don't believe it," was
the answer.
Sheridan then described the steamboat,
and the interpreter repeated this.
"What do they say to that?' the gen =
eral asked again, seeing the Indian faces
all impassive.
'They say they don't believe that,
either"
Then the general gave an account of the
telephone, and told how man at the end
OF long wire had talked to man at the
other end Of it. The interpreter remained
silent.
"Well,' said the general, "why don, t
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-09-26
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when you need medicine to purify your
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-09-26
THE WORLD OF LABOR
Echoes of the Busy Mill and the
Workshop.
INDUSTRIAL FOLKS GOSSIP

lNDUS KlAL FULkS UUSSlF
News and Happenings of Special Interest
in the Various Fields Where
Mechanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.
Utah has 5000 miners
Florida has 216 barrooms.
France has 1916 post offices.
Berlin boasts $50, 600 ring.
Illinois employs 80, 600 miners.
Italy contains Sc, 400 teachers.
Teeth are pulled by electricity
Japan has one leather shoe mill.
Mexico has 100 ton locomotive.
Gas engines propel Dresden cars
America has seven negro colleges.
Chicago has 90 tramway companies.
Commerce employs 100000 Germans.
Chicago has an electric elevated road.
Empress Zagman has $50, 900 cloak.
Germany leads in glass-eye manufacture.
At Fall River, Mass, 45 mills are run
ming.
Berlin is the greatest manufacturing city
in Continental Europe.
Six cents pound is the price offered for
wool in Rio Grande County.
Holy Island, near Berwick on T eed, has
five licensed saloons for its 400 inhabitants.
1t requires on an average Of more than
800, 900 day to pay for the cotton brought
into Atlanta, Ga
Sundays and fixed holidays excepted,
500, 600 worth of fish are daily dragged
out of the sea by the fishermen of England.
Four cakes of manufactured ice, aver.
aging more than 5000 pounds each, were
taken from the watts of an Orange TEX.
company.
The new Shah of Persia is anxious to
open the country to international commerce
and favors the introduction of electricity
and steam.
Hargreaves invented spinning jenny in
1863 in England. His fellow workmen
seized it, broke it to pieces and drove hin,
from his native town.
Warrensburg, Mo-, has street car line
the rolling stock of which consists of one
car that makes trip once month, merely
to preserve the franchise.
Murdoch invented or discovered means
for producing illuminating gas. Sir Wal
ter Scott joked about sending light
through street pipes "and lighting Lon.
don by smoke" Subsequently Sir Walter.
house was lighted by it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-09-26

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13

Boyle, the republican nominee, was con-
sulting all night into his rooms at the
Capitol Hotel the leaders went with mys-
FERROUS rapidity.
It was not denied that Mr.. Boyle and his
friends determined to ignore the Illegal ex-
pulsfon Of Senators James and Walton by
the senate Wednesday, and that at the
proper time these senators were to rise In
their seats be recognized by the chairman
and cast their votes for Boyle, whether
the clerk Of the senate, who is chief clerk
of the joint assembly, recorded their votes
or not. OF course, he will refuse to call
their names or enter their votes as cast on
decided, is not necessary If Dunlap will
qualify and vote for the nominee.
Mr.. Boyle received another long telegram
from Senator John Sherman today, in
which he gave 1t as his opinion that sixty
nine votes constituted legal quorum since
Dunlap and the two illegally expelled sena-
tors voting with the other sixty-six men,
bers, would elect, and that in his opinion,
the Ser ate of the United States would SO
decide.
The ruling Of Lieutenant Governor
Worthington yesterday, that seventy votes
were required to make a legal quorum, did
not disturb the leaders. They believed
that the ruling would be changed. The
republicans calledA6n all the pairs. There
was to be no faith put in the vote of Popu-
list Poor for Boyle. although that unfor-
tiers and kilograms from his home county,
urging him to vote for the nominee. Both
James and Walton were in the house cham
Der shortly after that body met. DR..
James declares he will answer his name
II called. Walton says the same.
1t develops this morning that the demo-
cratic members are far from being united
on the policy to be pursued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13
Washington stock Exchange,

sales,regular call-12 O'Clock m.-U. s. Electric
Government Bonds.-U. s. As. registered, Jos bid,
l09 asked. U: $: 4s. coupon, 1885,. bid, 11os
asked u s IS, 1923, lieaa bid, ll7ii asked. U.
District of Columbia Bonds-aO-year fund IS. JOB
bid. So-year fund 6s gold, los bid. Water stock
currency, liz bid. 3cos. funding currency, Ioo
bid; ais. registered, 2-los, 100 bid.
LOG bid. Metropolitan Railroad Is. 1913.
bid Belt Railroad S. S. asked. lexington Rail-
III asked Washington Gas Company Is. series A.
los bid Washington Gas Company 6s. series u,
bid U. S. Electric Light conv 5s. l1a bid Ches-
apeake and Potomac Telephone 5s 80 bid. los
A. 100 Sd r Ann esnfi Security ni and Trust IS
and O.; loo bid WashingtGn Market Company LIST
@ bid id Male ess't .
100 bid. Masonic Hall Association IS IO5 bid
wsshinstE Light Infantry lsi s. 80 hid
900. bid. Bank of the Republic. 40 bid. Metro
politan, 29o bid Central -275 hid. Farmers and
l33 bid. Columbia lbs bid. Capital. 1l6 hid.
West End, l07 bud. ITO asked. Traders as bid.
1o2 asked. Lincoln, 80 bid. Ohio, s. bid, 100
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies.-National Safe
Loan and Trust, Il9,k bid 40 asked American
Security and Trust, 144 bid. Washington Safe De-
Railroad stocks.-capital Traction Company. II
bid 73 asked. Metropolitan. lo3 bid. no asked
Columbia. 50 bid Belt. 80 asked. lexington, u
bid. 30 asked Georgetown and Tennallyt town, 30
asked.
Gas and Electric Light Stocks-Wa slncton Gas,
II bid. ~ asked. Georgetown Gas. Al bid. L. s.
Electric Light. 1884, bid. l24 asked
Insurance Stocks-Firemens 30 bid. 40 asked
Franklin, IS Lid. Metropolitan. 40 bid Corcoran,
50 bid Potomac, GO bid Arlington. 1f2 bid
Germnn-American. les bid. National Union II
bid 13 asked. Columbia. IL bid. Riggs. az bid
Peoples. SIS bid. Lincoln, az. bid, ST. asked.
Commercial, AZ, bid. 81 asked.
Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate Title. los
lid 40 asked. Columbia Title. 81 bid, III asked
Washington Title. bid. District Title. bid.
Telephone Stocks.-Pennsylvania 80 bid Chesa-
peake and Potomac. 50 bid 53% asked. American
Graphophore. 4H bid. 81 asked Pneumatic Gun
Carriage. .21 bid, .23 asked.
Miscellaneous Stocks. = Mergenthaler Linotype
fnew). 10 bid, us asked. IAnston Monotype. ~
bid 81 asked. Washington Market. 49, bid.
Great Falls Ice, 10 bid, 100 asked. Lincoln Hall
90 asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13
HELP FOR THE NEEDY.
Distressing Cases Reported to the As
sOciRted Charities.

~A"sA ~S"AAAfe >""e" NSUorteu 10 the As.
sociated Charities.
The Associated Charities and it's agents
have had their hands full during the past
few days endeavorfng to provide for the
suffering ,poor, whose condition has been
rendered pitiful in a large number Of cases
by the stormy weather. A Star reporter
examli ed the reports turned into Secretary
Wilson this morning showing the record of
yesterday, and some of the cases cited
we're very touching. The majority Of cases
are those of sickness. and most of the re-
ports of such cases bore the Endorsement,
Refused because of lack Of funds ,roI...i
Another agent, after citing q case of DESC
lation, asked: "Can anything be done to
save these people from starving?" There
was an instance set forth of a woman liv-
ing in a small shanty on the bleak COM
mons. She is i'll, and has young baby,
ard is absolutely without means.
Secretary Wilson wishes 1t understood
that by the system employed it Is impos-
sible for deception or duplication to be
practiced, and therefore every cent con-
tributed is sure to be expended where it
will do the most good. The responses to
the call for aid are coming in steadily, and
1t Is now possible to assist in a slight de-
gree some of the extreme cases that are
brought to the attention of tine organiza-
ton, but more funds are needed at once
The contributions received through Mr.
John Joy Edison and The Evening Star, in
response to the appeal of the emergency
relief committee, up to this afternoon. are
a nj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13

H. Clay Evans Says They VIII BE
the Republican MntchNHOrdn.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. March BIN an
interview with an American reporter, H.
Clay Evans. probable nominee by the re-
publicans for governor of Tennessee, and
prominently spoken Of as nominee for
the vice presidency. said. relative to the
national campaign:
Reciprocity and protection will be the
watchwords Of the national republican
campaign in 1885, do not think the finan-
cial question will cut a great figure in the
campaign I favor the use of both gold and
silver. but I am for the single standard of
valuation. Or, in other words, 1 am in
favor of all money which is issued by the
government. whether gold, silver or paper
money. being worth 100 cents in value and
each as good as the other"
MIR. Evans also said If he was nominated
Tor governor he thought he would be easily
elected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13
The Pasteur Monument Committee.


Dr. D. E. Salmon, the chief Of the d.
vision of animal industries in the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has just received a
letter from NJ. Duclaux, the director of the
Pasteur Institute in Paris, informing him
that he has been named as the chairman Of
the Washington subcommittee which is
to work in conjunction with the commit
tee on international subscription for the
erection at Paris of a monument to M. Pas
teur Accompanying the letter is circular
setting forth the plans CT the committee
and inviting subscriptions for the purpose.
It is signed by the president Of France, as
honorary president OF the committee, by
the entire French ministry. and by ITS
other prominent Frenchmen eminent in
science literature and politics. 1t Is intend
ed to erect statue or monument in one
Of the public squares of Paris as q me-
mortal to the great savant. In organizing
the Washington committee each Of the
various scientific societies will be request
ed to select one of its members as a MEM
Der of the committee. The surgeons general
Of the army, the navy and marine hospital
service, Secretary Langley of the Smith
sonian Institute, DR.. G. Brown Goode, Mr..
C. S. Noyes, Mr.. Beriah Wilkins and Mr.
C. G. Conn have also been requested to
serve on the committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13
Another Fruitless Ballot Taken at
Frankfort, Ky,
DUNLAP REFUSED TO Be SWORN IN
Trouble Was Looked for and Did
Not Occur.
SEN ATORS WERE EXCITED

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
FRANKFORT, KY, March 13.-The situ-
alton this morning seemed really more seri-
Gus than at any time sir ce the joint SEES
SONS hav.. been held While everything
was quiet UP to the hour of 10 o'clock. when
both houses assembled, there was apparent
a spirit among the leaders on both sides to
carry out their most extreme measures. 1t
was the purpose yesterday of the republi-
cans to elect a Senator, but seeing that
they would be overpowered by the extra
force of police sworn in to assist Jack
Chinn and associates, they submitted and
broke the quorum.
Today they changed their plans. The
sheriff of Franklin county having been ap-
pealed to- promises to see that no outsider
remained on the floor OF the house during
the joint session, and also that those haV-
ing a right to the floor should not be
molested. This promise of Sheriff Arm
strong was made to Gov. Bradley this
morning on condition tina. the governor
would not call out the militia.
Sheriff Armstrong and twelve deputies
were given charge of the Hobbies and corri-
dorS of the Capitol. There was also a
sprinkling of bluecoats in the crowd.
Yesterday both the deposed senators.
James and Walton, entered the house side,
where the joint session is held, long before
the hour of taking the ballot. but today DR..
Walton remained outside, intending to enter
with the other senators for the joint session.
1t was decided that If an attempt were made
to stop him the presiding officer and the
doorkeeper should inform the sheriff that
Senator Walton had right on the floor
Then, if the sheriff refused to admit him,
the militia would be called out.
There were few who knew the plans of
the republicans. 1t was felt that if they
were carried out there would be a clash of
arms between the militia on one side, the
police, sheriff's posse and thugs on the
other.
Excitement was intense and many timid
members were afraid to attend the sessions
oil the house.
Just before the senate adjourned for the
joint session. Mr.. Bronston offered reso-
luton censuring the governor for ordering
the sheriff to clea- the cloak rooms The
resolution was lost ty 10 to Is, the sound
money democrats voting with the republi-
cans.
DE-. Walton was allowed to pass into the
joint assembly unmolested.
Dunlap refused again to qualify this
NOR ing, and the republicans will make
no attempt to force an election, as they
cannot command a quorum without Dun
laps vote.
The republicans refused to vote and the
quorum was broken. The forty-ninth bal
lot resulted: Blackburn, 80; Carlisle, 10;
BuckEer, l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13

WICHITA, Kan, March 13.-The prohi-
bition police administration of Wichita
came to an end yesterday, when Oscar
Smith. who was recently made secretary
of the police board by Governor Morrill,
when s. d. Lieurance was ousted, took the
oath of office. Smith Immediately reduced
Chief of Police Charles Burrows to the
ranks and dismissed Police Judge Tucker
and five patrolmen. who. it is claimed, had
acted as spoilers for Assistant Attorney
General Campbell in his prosecution Of
saloon keepers Thomas Wilson, chairman
of the republican county committee, was
made police Judge to succeed Tucker, and
Frank Burt was appointed chief of police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13

torian Prince under the name of Mattewan;
to amend section ABB of the Revised Stat
utes, so as to require that all officers of
vessels having American register shall be
citizens of the United States. The latter
bill is to go into effect January 1, 1897.
Mr.. Payne On. W. chairman of merchant
marine and fisheries, explained that since
1893, when the steamers New York and
Paris were given American register. the
Treasury Department construed the act of
1854 to permit the employment of aliens
as officers, and that the engineers and as
siStants on both those vessels were aliens
As these and other vessels could be used
by the government in case of war as cru1S-
ers of the naval reserve 1T was important
that all of their officers should owe al
legiance TO the United States. The bill also
extended the time of engineer licenses to
five years.
Tonnage Duties.
Another bill called up by Mr.. Payne oc-
casioned some debate. but was finally
passed 1t provided for the repeal of exist
ing laws exempting from tonnage duties
vessels from countries which extended like
exemptions to our vessels, and also provided
for the reduction of tonnage for vessels ply
ing between the Americas or the outlying
islands and the United States from three to
two cents per ton. The law for reciprocal
exemption. Mr.. Payne said, was passed in
the hope that all maritime nations would
join in the repeal of such duties. But only
Germany and the Netherlands joined the
arrangement AS result of the arrange
ment since 1883 German vessel owners had
been saved S5S0.G00 in tonnage tax and the
Netherland owners s1O0,OO, while American
owners had saved but few. thousand.
The consideration of the election case was
then resumed.
For the COntestee.
Mr. Dinsmore tArk) closed for the con-
members to dive5t themselves of partisan
feeling and to vote as their convictions die
tated The whole case of the majority. he
said, rested in the assumption that all the
negroes in the south were republicans-a
proposition he most emphatically denied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13
, GROSSLY EXAGGERATED.
The Report of the DISCRETION of ar
Italian COrpOraPs Guard.

VIENNA. March 13-An investigation in
to the report circulated by news agency
in the United States that "the entire Ital-
ian garrison at Verona has deserted with
it's arms and baggage, and crossed the
Austrian border into Tyrol," discloses the
following facts:
The Neue Freie Presse this morning an
hcunced that the guard on duty at Fort
Ceraino, consisting of about eight men, led
by corporal, Zamberln, recently deserted
through fear of being ordered to Abyssinia
the departure of the Italian reinforcement. IS
for Africa.
AS Verona has population of about TO-
ooo inhabitants, is strongly fortified, stands
near one of the gorges of the Tyrol and has
accommodation for a garrison of 10000
men, it will be seen that a more inexcus-
ably sensational and misleading report
could not have been sent out