Show PERIL tile chariker nearly by a ifune python philadelphia irem press A thrilling incident happened in in circus yesterday afternoon while nala Dama jante the hindmo bilake charmer was going through her tier performance of handling bandling half a dodi dozen sq squirming pythons it was all in the twi twinkling of an eye 1 and scarcely a dozen persona persons per in t alie 1 ie audic were aware that Dama jante had bad for ft a moment been in deadly peril she P had fin finished ched the wonderful act of walking about the raised platform platform with six snakes coiled like rike a living headdress head liend dress over her tier forehead and anti had taken the huge python whose weight is 90 00 pounds and length 12 feet from ita its box and threw it across her shoulder As the she had done lone with the other snakes Dama jante grasped the powerful creature a few inches back of the head although the air was damp the python appeared possessed of more than usual activity it unwound its sinuous length from da mall tes body and quickly coiled about bollt the upper part of her ter chest and throat to fo those nearest the performer the muscles of the snake could b be c distinctly seen working beneath the spotted skin suddenly Sudden lythe the reptile g gave avea a hiss and darted forth its quivering tongue and almost at the same moment the coil about the womans comans throat was tightened agent who was standing near the entrance to the elephant house appeared to know that there was a possibility of something of the kind taking place and was keeping a keen eye on the performance he lie started forward quickly but quietly so as not to alarm the audience and got half way v ay down the race track when Dama jante who had already realized lier tier great danger succeeded in untwisting the tail of the snake from lier her body the middle and most powerful part of the python was still about her throat and the pressure was increasing I 1 she was very pale but thoroughly calm the head of the tile python hissing horribly was still grasped in her right hand dam abante with remarkable nerve managed to free her left arm arni and in another instant had with all the astren strength th she possessed in both h bands andt the writhing necklace from her throat she E laced her pet back in its ox bowed and retired speaking of her strange avocation a few moments later dama dania jante said that it was only during very warm weather when the snakes were viciously active that she feared their strength b the they y are very susceptible to cold said the snake charmer after ehe she had recovered her tier composure and have to be kept in boxes arranged with hot water pans to keep the temperature up to at least belides that they are wrape up in blankets did 1 ever have anything like that happen lipen before oil oli yes once in in verlin berlin about two years ago my largest snake nearly crushed me to death it took the united strength of two men to remove him another time in riga the large python got his tail around a pillar and threw ine on ray my back in III madrid my arm arin was almost twisted out of its socket sometimes the they y bite me look and extending her ter lianda Dama jante showed them to be covered with small i gears sears the tile juite bite is not poisonous but ilia it is rather painful I 1 dont mind my hands so much bulam on oil the watch to keep them from j I 1 ing ing at my eyes you know the peculiar cur tar way in in which the pythons teeth are set curving backward in repose and standing erect when angry augry well it would be an easy matter to lose an eye some bearg ago in vienna a snake charmer had bad his eyo plucked out socket in an tin instant I 1 think the snakes know me I 1 have possessed it strange power over them that I 1 cant account for myself since girlhood are they hardy well s sir r I 1 give them as much attention as a mother does her child regularly regular y every katurd saturday night they are washed in ill lukewarm lu warin water and wrapped up jn in blankets during warm weather r I 1 f feed eed them every eight days tho th 0 smaller aller ones cues eat live rab rabbits its and ahat that big fellow is satisfied with alive a live duck or two I 1 have another pet who is shedding his coat come and ill show him to you hea iles only a baby and leading the way t to the menagerie tent Damo Dama jante approached a red box which she unlocked from beneath the folds of a double blanket blit bhe she drew with como some difficulty one of tho the moist monstrous pythons ever sc seen erl in ill captivity it measured eighteen feet from head to tail stud nd weighed certainly not less than pounds its scaly coat was peeling off iu ill patches and anti ita ey eyes e 8 were sightless lit less thia this blindness tb the snake charmer aid paid waa always present when the reptile was going through the annual process of shedding its gaudy hued coat this fellow ow continued dama jante is very strong and I 1 have to use liso the greatest care in handing him he ile is almost through i now and I 1 may exhibit him in philadelphia before the circus moves the make charmer docs not peak speak english ith and nod carried en on tho conversation partly iu french F ki fahm c her agent who speaks the strange language lang ungo of her mother coun country try helped to interpret when sho stumbled bleil across a too difficult sen tence telice |