Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1917 — pigeon Charms Serpents. [ARTICLE]

pigeon Charms Serpents.

Remember the story of the serpent charming the pigeon? Well, Annette Delano, riding song bird of the Gentry Brothers’ circus, has a pigeon that charms the 29 foot, 4 inch, East Indian python in Doctor Palmer’s annex to the big show. Any day the pigeon may be seen hopping about the pit where the huge reptile is exhibited. As the bird moves contentedly about, the great kite shaped head of the snake describes slow arcs on the canvas floor. Its eyes are fixed on the pigeon. Suddenly, the bird will halt and turn its gaze upon the python. Beady little eyes bore into beady little eyes. But it is the giant constrictor that weakens.. Its eyes grow dim. It falls into a sort of trance and seems to doze. Can it be that there is a closer relationship between the bird and the snake than the scientific chaps concede? Annette Delano and her troupe of young lady riders, her remarkable carrier pigeons and 'the scores of renowned Gentry animal actors, human circus stars and unusual novelty features will be seen when the Gentrys come to Rensselaer next Tuesday. Sept. 4th, to exhibit afternoon and night at the ball park, and to parade the principal streets that morning with a mile of- pageantly—an« open air review of great beauty and colorful attractiveness, including open and closed cages, camel tandem teams, mounted bands,. 200 ponies, beautiful horses, elephants, dromedaries, clowns, tableau wagons and Mother Goose floats filled with the most beautiful and most intelligent performing dogs in the world.