Show A CHARM DROUGHT SNAKE DOWN Captain of Sailing Vessel Spins a Little Lit-tle Yarn This tale hnsto do with tho nils hips of tho sailInn vessel Indrasahma Capt W E Craven who says ho Is In nowlso related to MunchaiiBCii says tho New York Thugs The Indrasah ma got Into port yesterday from Singapore Singa-pore tho Philippines Japan and other oth-er far eastern points with a cargo of hemp oriental curios and tea Wo left Singapore about two months ago with our cargo and with a supply of snakes monkeys and other oth-er tropical beasts which we Intruded to dispose of to menageries In America Amer-ica said tho captain Among them were five big snakes weighing 250 pounds each and thirtynine monkeys When off Singapore the snakes waite up and got out of their cage Ono of them sneaked up tho foremast to the crows nest and stayed there for a week I put Abdul Vln Jnngln not Jaggln mind CUIIOn tho job and told him to watch Ho sat down In front of the mast and did a charm song or chant until the mesmerized snake camo to and sneaked down again With a flourish of tho tall ho gave his four companions tho high sign and led them back to tholr box again |