The age-herald., 1901-08-05
prom the PhiIadelphla Record.

country to about $eO,O00 a year. The
 United States snakes that are marketed are copperheads, rattlers, black snakes and pipe snakes. Copperheads fetch $5. ratters s6, black snakes S and pine snakes sS.50. The foreign snakes are the Brazilian boa, the Indian anacondas and the African pipers. These are big fel- lows. and sell by the foot, $25o a foot sometimes sS.OO, sometimes as high as q or sS. for the longer the snake the more per foot Is charged for 1t. | While giving this information, H. w. Vahle, local dealer, talked in a loud voice, for hundreds of parrots suuawked harshly around him in his shop-Mexican and Cuban birds, worth, by the way, about $S in the first instance and about | $15 in the second
 Our United States snakes" the dealer said, "are caught in the spring, when they first begin to come out March, April and May are the months. Most of my snakes come from Florida That State Is called the home of snakes, and they flourish there The men I buy from make good living at snake catching. Maybe in two or three days a man will earn $40 or $50. That Is good months wages for Florida.
 Plenty of Snakes from Jersey. But l buy good many snakes from Jersey. too. Pine snakes are plentiful there. They live in the pine woods and look danserous-they grow so long and fat-but,as a matter of fact, they are non-poisonous, and as harmless as kit tens To show you how thick they are in Jersey. I'll tell you about an expert ence had one year. A Jerseyman came here to see me and asked, Do you buy snakes told him did How many
 will you buy? he inquired. He was typical Jerseyman from the interior wilds. All you've got, I said He drawled that he would send me some soon and slouched out
 At the end of May box of fifty-two pine snakes came here. There was no name on the box and no letter came from
 the shipper, but guess 1t was the Jersey
 man who had sent the snakes Another
 oox or sixty-seven snakes arrived in the first week of June. In the second week
 seventy-four snakes came. In the third
 week l got ninety-six more I was re-
 oeiving snakes all this time from Florida.
 too, and the result was l was getting
 overstocked. I wrote to the agent of the
 Jersey station whence all these snakes
 had come. and told him to ship me no more from anybody, because I positively
 would not receive them The Jerseyman
 slouched in again about September. He
 wanted to know if I had got what he'd
 sent. He was a careless, unbusinesslike
 soul, but good snake catcher.
 Non-Polsonous Reptiles for Charms
 The non-poisonous snakes are bought
 mainly by the show people-the charmers
 They buy boas, ,pipers and anacondas and
 to i'll up with they also take some black
 snakes and some pine snakes One day
 woman came in with her manager. Got
 any bos?' she said. They call a boa a
 'bo,' these show people, I showed her
 what I had. She and the man fiddled
 around. They wanted big boa, a 80 or
 a $l00 one. for the price of a nine or ten
 foot fellow. Your snakes don't look very
 bright the woman said. They were she'd | ding their skins. You don't know any
 thing about snakes. told her, or you | wouldn't say that. These are shedding
 now. You are ignorant That is how you
 have to treat such people. They are apt,
 you know, to be kind of brazen She took boa up I like this fellow she said. He was a little sleeker than the
 rest. because he had just got a new skin. Don't handle him that way!' I shouted. Whats the matter with you? I know how to handle him. said the woman. Maybe <-><<<<<<->->-<<><<<<~~~>~<<<<- TRIGGs AND THE CONSTITUTION. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 | Professor Oscar Lowell Triggs of the University of Chicago continually re- | minds reflective observers of Artemus | Wards kangaroo. To the sciolistic skill 1 which can distinguish and divide hair | twixt north and northwest side," he | adds an itch for the notoriety always | achievable by the habitual dealer in paradox. Whenever Triggs opens his | mouth he proves ''an amoosin' little cuss," however scant the solid respect his utterance may gain.
 | Professor Triggs latest discovery is l that our national constitution was made on a false basis and must be rad ically changed, because we are an in OubtTIdi ndt1Ons WHhe OuT of6dhic iaW l is political" He declares there are no Lincolns in politics today because men | may wield greater influence in industry" and adds that today Pierpont Morgan l is a graeter man than William McKin- ley"
 | As to our constitution, Professor l Triggs' whole argument rests upon a false assumption, the product of that vicious "pigeon-holing' habit to which half-educated men everywhere fall vic tims. There are no 'industrial'' as dis | tlnguished from other kinds of nations. An organization of men may be indus trial. or military, or political. But a na- | ton is an organism. and if 1t deserves It's title all prenxes thereto are false and misleading. It Is just a nation.
 | Neither do the governmental problems of today differ at all in nature, whatever their differences in form, from those which have confronted mankind In all ages. All such problems are but chang l ing aspects of the fundamental one-the | greatest good to the greatest number. When the Triggses talk about the prob lems of former times as political they seek for difference that does not ex- | ist.
 Our constitution was an attempt to solve the fundamental problem of all hu- man society That 1t has imperfections