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Show STIRRED THINGS UP SNAKE CAUSED ANIMATION IN SMOKING PARLOR. Melancholy and Bored Looking Youth Plays a Mean Trick on Patrons of a Boston Resort Dire Threats of Vengeance Made. A tall and melancholy-looking youth, dressed like a laborer, strolled into a smokine narlor nn Tremnnt street about 11 o'clock last night and, taking a seat, ordered a cup of coffee cof-fee and proceeded to look around in a bored sort of way, says the Boston Globe. There was the usual number of young women and male loafers sitting around the place, but everything every-thing was quiet, too quiet, apparently, to suit the melancholy youth. Some of the patrons of the place regarded him in a rather contemptuous contemptu-ous manner because he wasn't as well or as flashily dressed as the majority ma-jority of the habitues of the place, but the young man paid no attention either to the other people in the place or to their looking at him. He gazed in an absent minded sort of way at a peroxide beauty and an anemone style of female opposite him, and when the fat woman stuck up iier nose at him the young man smiled blandly, whereupon she looked away. As she did so, he reached into the capacious pocket on the starboard side of his sack coat and drew out a little snake, which he dropped gently to the floor. Then he resumed his study of the ceiling. The snake may have seen other things in the room aside from the fat woman opposite it, but it crawled rapidly and directly toward the peroxide per-oxide beauty's anemone friend, and the lady of the embonpoint saw it coming. Witn a screech that scared tho head waiter she leaped on the frail table in front of her, to the everlasting everlast-ing ruination of that piece of furniture, furni-ture, while the drug store blonde issued is-sued two whoops and, clutching her skirts with both hands, bolted for the door. The other women in the place also shrieked and shouted for the police, and everybody else they could think of, and then, with skirts held high they made a mad rush for the exits. They were pretty quick in getting there, too, but not as quick as the men who were hi the place, as they reached the door first and went down the stairs three steps at a time, shouting shout-ing for the police. There was such a crush at the door when the women reached it that there was a blockade, and the women clutched and clawed af4 each other until they finally got out. All but tno anemone lady, who was in a dead faint and heedless of the snake, which was working its way around the smoking parlor. When the excited crowd got out In the street they made such a racket that people came running from all directions di-rections under the Impression that there was a fire. Some policemen came too, and they went upstairs with clubs drawn, only to find that one of the waiters had regained his nerve and had killed the snake by stepping on it. The fat woman was revived and went away threatening to sue somebody some-body for damages. The melancholy youth who let loose the snake lost himself in the crowd and got away in safety, although al-though the vengeance of those who run the Turkish parlor was solemnlj sworn against him. |