PYTHONS SOLD AT
SO MOCHA YARD
Takes Six Husky Men to Un
coil and Measure Big,
Spunky Snake.
New York.—There Is one market tn
Npw York which hHS n wider range be
tween longs and shorts than Wall :
street Itself. It Is the python market. |
You can get pythons, at the right time j
of year, anywhere from seven feet to !
twenty-five In length. Usually they :
are sold as ribbon Is sold; the more
you want, the more you have to pay.
Pythons form an industry, and New
York Is the center of it for America,
livery year men go from here to Af
rica, India. Sumatra and South Amer
lea, and early In the spring New York j
has a python population of 250 or so.
They are sold mostly to traveling
shows, which go on the road in the
spring.
Possibly because the show people al
ways expect bad business In a Presi
dential year, or perhaps because of the
backward weather, the early part of
1924 brought a slump. In general,
however, the python trade Is steady;
pythons and boas are two of the
world's commodities which have not
been greatly affected in price by the
war. Quotations and demand are now
about what they were ten years ago.
or twenty.
A seven-foot python can be had for
$20. A length of 25 feet—found in the
regal pythons from Sumatra—runs the
price up to $600 or $700. Boas come
smaller: 16 feet is the maximum at
an age of eight to ten years, according
to snake dealers, and this is also true
of rock pythons. In price the boas
start where the pythons do, and the
biggest of them fetches about $200.
Cheap Pet to Feed.
The upkeep, though, is astonishingly
small. The big snakes are as economi
cal a pet as one could have; one of
them can sometimes get along on an
expenditure not much larger than the
seed bill of a husky canary, and w hile
they usually live 13 years or so, occa
sionally they last 40 nr 50.
“Sometimes they do not eat for two
or three years." says Louis Rube, who
Imports 150 a year out of the 250 that
tre brought Into the country. “Then
you have to use forcible feeding. Two
quarts of milk, with half a dozen eggs
In it, administered through a hose
every two or three months, will keep
them alive.”
If the python Is cheerful It feeds
once a month on live animals. Tha*
Is the meal schedule in captivity; In
the wild it feeds when It can, more or
less. Wild porcupine is a titbit and
plain pig will often tempt a python,
though rabbits and guinea pigs are the
most frequent dish.
The porcupine’s quills have no ter
rors for the reptile; It knows which
end to swallow first so the quills will
He flat.
When a boa or python is In cap
tivity. however. It may become dis
gusted with life and look as if it were
too tired to eat. A few months of this
and a 25-fout snake that normally
weighs 206 pounds will drop 40 pounds.
Then is the time for the eggs and the
robber hose.
If a snake hasn’t eaten for several
months It looks lethargic; one that has
fed is not easy to handle. It takes
six men to measure a big python, ar
cording to Mr. Ruhe; to take It out of
the box and use the tape and put It
hack. The snake often shows fight,
and its way of fighting Is to coil. If
It gets a grip on something, then comes
a tug of war. .Tust lugging it out and
straightening It and dropping it back
In the box Is a half-hour’s work for
six strong men. and It leaves them ex
hausted.
Recovering a stray.
Sometimes one of the big fellow*
gets loose. That happened not so long
ago. Small boys looking up at a store
window saw 25 feet of snake hanging
out and looking around. They called
a policeman, and the policeman, after
some hours, succeeded In calling the
store attendants. They all got to
gether at the stem and heaved-bo un
til the snake was boxed again. It was
an arm-wrenching Job.
The men who do the hunting in the
wilds take chances, for they go out.
often hundreds of milps in the forests,
with only two or three attendants.
Often they are among natives who will
not touch a snake because of tabu.
There are narrow escapes, but the tight
boxes of pythons keep arriving in New
York in time for the circus and show
seasons, and not a snake of the lot is
under seven feet. India sends two
where Africa sends one.
Now and then It Is a case of ‘Tflgs
Is Pigs.’’ The trip from India takes 45
days. A snake that started alone may
be found at the end of It coiled around ;
two dozen eggs, and In another two
weeks the young are out.
America has a considerable domestic
snake business, with flourishing plants
in Texas. This deals with rattlesnakes
and such, which have their special at
tractions, but It Is the big snake that
draws the crowd when the barker be
gins his patter before the tent.
Favor Forget-Me-Not
Cordova, Alaska.—The Grand Igloo
of the Pioneers of Alaska In a resolu
tton has requested the territorial legis
lature to make the forget-me-not the
floral emblem of Alaska. The resolu
tion declares this flower grows "on
every hill and In every valley through
Alaska’s more than one-half million
square miles.”
LIBERIA HAS HUMAN
LEOPARD SOCIETY
New Y'ork, N. Y., July 11.—(By the
A—printed Negro Press.)—According
to Dr. Elwood Linsey Haines, head of
St. John’s Academy and Industrial
school, Cape Mount, Liberia, the Ku
Klux KJan of America has nothing
on an organisation among the 2,000,
000 natives of Liberia known as “The
Human Leopard Society”. This body
i* supposed to deal in magic and its
members upon joining take an oath,
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GAINS 7 MILLION
IN LAST 4 YEARS
Our Population Increased
by Low Death Rate and
Immigration.
New York.—The population of the
United States totaled 112,826,000 on
January 1, 1024, according to estimates I
announced by the national bureau of
economic research.
This compares with 110,883.000 on j
January 1, 1923, and the census count
of 105,711,000 on January 1, 1920.
The most remarkable gain was re
corded In the last half of 1923. the net
Increase being 1,162,000, a greater
growth than In any other half year
during the last two decades, and prob
ably greater than any six months’
period In thp nation's history. The
gain for the entire year was 1,943.000.
Figures by Half Years.
The bureau estimates the popula
tion of the continental United States
for each half year since January 1,
1920, to have been approximately as
follows:
Jan 1 1920.105,711.000
July 1, 1920.105.422,000
Jan. 1, 1921 . 107 575,000
July 1 1921.10S.53S.000
Jan 1 1922.109,298,000 1
July 1, 1922.109,898.000 !
Jan. 1. 1923.1 10 883,000
Jul V 1. 1923.1 11,504,000
Jan 1. 1924.112 825.000
All the figures after January 1, 1922, j
are necessarily tentative, for the bu
reau of the census has not as yet pub- ,
lished complete monthly data for
births and deaths, covering the periods |
since 1921.
Improved methods of estimating the ;
nation’s population for the years fol- |
lowing the census count In 1920 were
developed by the bureau of economic I
reseurch in continuance of its studies
of income in the United States, and 1
the relation of Income to population.
The process evolved by the bureau
Is based on the "registration area”
theory and takes Into consideration
all elements of error disclosed In pre
vious work and the results attained by
It are believed to approximate very
closely actual figures.
In announcing the figures Dr. Will
ford I. King, under whose supervision
they were gathered, said:
“The fHCt that the rate of Increase
In population during the decade 1910
to 1920 was considerably less than the
corresponding rate during the previ
ous ten years led many persons to an
ticipate that in the future we might
look forward to a rate of population
expansion considerably lower than
that experienced during the last cen
tury.
Phenomenal Growth in 1923.
“Such expectations hnve been rude
ly shattered by the events of the last
four years, and especially by what oc
curred during the latter half of 1923,
In which period the rate of population
growth appears to have heen greater
than In any other half year during the
last two decades, and probably greater
than In any six months within the his
tory of the nation.
“This unusual Increase was due to
two facts: First, a very heavy re
corded excess of immigration over
emigration, which Increased our popu
lation hy 505,000; and, second, by the
fact that the denth rate was as low
as has ever been recorded.
“According to the estimates of the
bureau, there were about 1,238.1X10
hlrtha, against some 621,000 deaths,
giving a net natural Increase o< about
617.000.
“This number, added to the 505.000
gain from Immigration, totals 1,122,
0OO. the estimated Increase in popula
tion indicated by the government re
ports for the last half of 1923, as com
pared with a similar estimate of total
growth for the entire year amounting
to 1,863,000.
“This yearly total may. In turn, b«
compared with a similarly calculated
figure for 1920 of 1,784.000, for 1921
of 1,643,000, and for 1922 of 1,505,000.
“Since the government reports ap
parently underestimate either births,
immigration or both, hy an average of
80.000 a year, It Is necessary to add
320.000 to the sum of these four items
In order to arrive at the final estimate
of the gain for the four years, namely,
7.115.000.
“It appears, then, that the average
gain during the last four years was
1,778.750 a year, as compared with an
average Increase of 1,418,100 during
the decade 1910 to 1920."
Kreisler Detects Genius
by Thrills Along Spine
New York.—The spine Is the indi
cator of genius, Fritz Kreisler, com
poser and violin virtuoso, firmly be
lieves.
He gave this as part of hls c-red*
when he and Mrs. Kreisler boarded a
liner, hound for Europe to resume a
concert tour and holiday interrupted
by the death of Mrs. Kreisler's father,
George T. Lies. They first sailed April
17, but were aboard only forty-elghl
hours when called back.
“I have made a study of genius,"
the virtuoso said, "a study of all sorts
of geniuses, and I have found thal
when I listen to a musical genius play,
or read what has been written by a
writer who Is a genius, I get a tlfrlll
op and down my spine. I have mack
Inquiries and I find that other people
get the same sensation.”
As for genius Itself, Mr. Kreislei
believes It Is largely the persplratloi
of a talented individual.
“It is a gift,” he said, "hut the sup
ceso Is due to a great extent to the
adaptation of the gift. Hard wort
Is needed.”
called the blood oath, to slay a blood
relative. When this relative is slain
the heart is cut out and combined with
other ingredients to make a magic
charm to be used by the powerful
men of the tribe. When the members
go out on their death missions they
wear the skin of a leopard. It is
claimed that Garvey could make nc
headway among them.
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