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DRIVEN ALMOST CRAZY.
An Animal Party.
Rather a novel party was given re
cently by a mother with two little
children, aged seven and ten. Each
child was asked to come wearing an
article that would indicate some ani
mal. When all had arrived the chil
dren were to guess all the animals
represented. .It was an Interesting
menagerie, I assure you. It made a
Jolly half hour. Then there was an
animal "hunt." All over the lawn, the
porches and on the lower floor of the
large house animal crackers had been
k V , cunning mue At a Pre-Nuptlal Luncheon.
uomcm sura io eacn one to now mej Besides the usual love symbols of
!. uusKci ana cracaers io oe Kept j hearts true-lovers' knots, slippers.
HE return of Colonel
t Roosevelt and party
from Africa, with the
cargo of animal speci
mens which had been
killed during their in
vasion of the jungle,
caused a New York
I dealer in wild beasts
lo talk interestingly of the busi
ness in whieh his firm is engaged.
There are nearly a dozen firms
in New York city that carry on
an immense business in the trans
portation of animals fresh from
the jungle. And this number, of course, does not
include such immense foreign animal firms as the
Hagenbacks. It is a paying business, as Indeed,
are all businesses where the demand exceeds the
supply. The demand for wild beasts is far greater
than ihe supply, and as a consequence prices are
good, and the dealers men of wealth. The extent
of this demand may be appreciated when one con
siders that most of the great cities in the United
States have zoological parks or menageries, and
that the animals are constantly being purchased
by them. Then there are private collectors and
circuses and the like, that are ever ready to pay
the highest prices for desirable animals. The ani
mal dealer who could secureand bring to this
country three or four gorillas' would make a small
fortune. But no dealer has ever succeeded in do
ing this. The gorillas die in a few weeks in cap
tivity; they could not stand an ocean trip for a
day.
traps Just as mice are caught, and
monkeys are also trapped. Such great
beasts as the rhinoceros and the like
are not captured by the animal men,
but are secured from native poten
tates, who give them away as a mark
of special esteem or barter them for
brass and other trifling but showy
gewgaws.
"We take comparatively few lions
from the wilds now. It Is cheaper to
buy them in captivity. Polar, griz
zly and Russian bears also are mainly
bought and sold in captivity; but oth
er wild beasts are taken In their
lairs."
and besides there was a prize of those
cunning little animals to be found at
Japanese stores. A toy animal also
made a unique prize and a "Noah's
ark." Best of all the fun was mould
ing animals out of clay, each child
or four matches Before the man could
I go on bis return and some did not
succeed at all, The other .contest
was a needle race. As In the cigar
ette race four young men ran to the
four girls, each girl having a needle
in one hand and a thread In the other.
The man who first returned to the
starting place with a threaded needle
In his hand was the victor. It was
permitted the men to hold the girl's
wrist to steady It As she threaded the
needle.
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faring.
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saved from fatal Bright'a disease bjt
Doan's Kidney Pills and my health Im
proved wonderfully."
Remember the name Doaa's. For
ale by all dealers. 60 cents a box.
Foater-Mllburm Co., Buffalo. N. T.
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etc., at a luncheon given for a Sep
tember bride-elect, the hostess had a
Surprise In the ices, which when
brought on proved to be relative to
some personal occasion in the guest's
life. For instance, that for the bride
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rows of glowing green eyes and great teeth with
the flash of red tongue writhing between. A zebra
switched the reporter with his tall and he turned,
only to jump almost out of his skin as an elephant
touched him on the other shoulder with his trunk,
lie was hardlv over h ( u-hon ! imMni
ululation rises from below. 'The animals are get-reacned out after falg CQat
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In one way this lower deck section was a
good place to visit; the Joy and relief In being able
to leave It furnished the biggest and most absorb
ing sensations that this monotonous world has
held for the reporter in the last few months at
least
Bartels & Co.. are the largest dealers In wild
beasts In this country.
"A large wild anlmcl dealer," said our Inform
ant, "imports considerably more than a hundred
large wild animals each year. For instance, our
record for one year which I happen to have at
hand, shows that we Imported in that period 20
elephants, 35 camels, -JO tigers. 5 lions, 45 leopards.
20 pumas, 18 panthers and hundreds of birds and
monkeys and small things. Cubs lion and tiger
and bear cubs are in special demand by wealthy
families. They are reared and petted like kittens,
but in the end they outgrow their playfulness and
the families who bought them from us are only
too willing to pay us to come and take them away
when they attain any sort of growth. We have
received many orders for hippopotami, but the
beasts are hard to capture and ninety-nine times
out of a hundred they do not live through the
voyage. In fact, menageries throughout the coun
try have to depend of late years upon the progeny
of the hippopotami in Central Park, New York,
for specimens.
"Like all animal dealers, we maintain expert
animal catchers in all parts of the world, and it is
these men who fill the ships which arrive here.
The Hagenbecks have two collecting stations,
one In Calcutta and the other In Aden, Arabia. From
thispoint the animal catchers go forth and spend
months in the wilds, returning to the stations with
their catch. We ourselves send catchers direct
from this country at present we have men in
South America, on the hot sands of Africa, in the
Himalayas, and elsewhere, filling our orders. One
of them was .recently in Arabia on a camel hunt,
two are now in the Ea3t Indies trapping tigers,
and so they are spread about in places where wild
beasts abide.
"Sometimes we receive an order for a large
number of elephants. We telegraph this order to
our catchers in the elephant country, who. after
organizing the natives Into a hunting band, pro
ceed to collect the desired number. A huge in
closure is built in one of the main elephant paths,
and at night when the big animals come to feed
they are driven into the Inclosure or keddah by
means of fires and shouts and the firing of guns.
Beaters on tame elephants then ride Into the in
closure and rope the beasts, and in a short time
they become accustomed to being led about. Ele
phants arc naturally mild, and were this not the
case they never could be captured, because of
their great, hulking strength.
"The natives also captured elephants in pits,
a barbarously cruel method in which more than
50 per cent are killed by the fall. The animal
catchers take tigers and lions in pits also. They
dig a hole, cover It with matting and place on this
matting a dead goat At night the Hon or tiger
steals from his lair, sees the goat and springs
npon It. The matting, of course, gives way and
down into the pit goes the roaring beast Then the
catchers run up and throw nets into the pit and
the struggling animal soon becomes hopelessly en
tangled. Nooses are .hen lowered into the pit and
the beast is dragged out to the cage. Six' out of
every ten are killed in this process. Leopards and
jaguars and the smaller animals are caught in
A niEty old German liner lumbers noisily Into
Quarantine, and then lies motionless on the tide.
An officer, with broad, red, bewhiskered face,
stands at the head of the companion ladder, and
he smiles a peculiar smile, as a husky screaming
ting hungry," he explains; "you know we have
several hundred Of them on the 'tween decks.
Want to see them? All right" In another minute
probably the most competent animal man In the
world is at our side. He is not a trainer, or even
a tamer; he Is more. He is a sort of animal cook,
and his special business is the personal manage
ment of wild animal tours. He receives them
lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, everything else
at Hamburg, where they have been brought
fresh from their native wilds, and not only super
intends their shipment aboard a vessel bound for
New York, but he sails with them to make sure
that they arrive safely and In good health. And
be sure that if the tiger gets off on his diet and
needs a nice fresh live rabbit to tone up his sys
tem, this man will be aware of the fact almost
bofore the tiger is and, ergo, a nice big jumping
bunny is sacrificed In accordance with the pre
cepts of wild beast materia medlca. Then, too,
one can never tell Just when the big boa Is go
ing to rouse from his last gorge; when he does
he wants a toothsome young goat, and he wants
it quick. It is a part of the animal man's duties
to anticipate the boa's appetite with all possible
expedition.
He is a quiet, unassuming man, with stoop
shoulders and bushy whiskers, and he leads the
way to the 'tween decks without a word. Per
haps the uninitiated may believe that a tour
through the animal section of a freight-carrying
vessel is an unimpressive experience. Well, let
them try it and see! This can be said at the out
set It is somewhat different from a menagerie.
It means something to come into close proximity
to a hundred and odd wild animals that have been
ruthlessly snatched from their lairs in Africa or
Asia, or elsewhere, and clapped into little barred
boxes, not as large as dry goods cases; slammed
in and out of dark holes in the vessels of several
seas on the way to Hamburg; then finally placed
in the stygian 'tween decks of a German hooker.
The swinging cross seas of the North Atlantic
have not improved their tempers, or their nerv
ous systems, and the visitor at Quarantine Is
quickly impressed with that fact The howls and
whines and the barks cease abruptly as the stran
gers enter. For they bring the smell of land, and
the great beasts sniff inquiringly, and hungrily,
too.
The cages lined both sides of the gloomy space,
with a little passageway between the boxes. Per
haps this passageway was three feet wide, not
more. The cages were piled two and sometimes
three deep. In the bottom cage, for instance,
would be a tiger; in the next above a smaller ani
mal, ay, a leopard or a lynx, and above that a
parrot, or a bunch of neerkats. Think of it! A
three-foot passageway, with ferocious animals,
stretching along for 100 feet on all sides. Talk
about nightmares! The reporter's hair stiffened
out like so many pieces of wire, and he wished
most fervently that he had not come. It was more
agreeable, he felt to see these animals In .a me
nagerie where the cages are ample and the bars
an inch thick.
"Better keep In th middle of the aisle," says
one of the animal men; "these fellows sometimes
reach out for you."
Words such as these, of course, hardly tended
to reassure.
It realb was tco dark to see much. One
caught a view of the cages stretching away in
gloomy perspective umil lost In the darkness, of
"For many years," said a man who
came back from a European tour the
other day. according to an exchange.
"I have been In the habit of getting
into an argument with friends after
my return about the prices of food In
the best restaurants In New York and
London. I have been contending that
New York restaurants were putting
up their prices all the time and some of my friends
have tried to convince me that you could get a
meal cheaper at the higher priced restaurants In
New York than in London.
"I determined this time to collect some real
data for comparison and as a result I have kept
the bills of many meals I had In London. It Is
my intention to duplicate the meals I bad over
there at some of the restaurants here, item for
item. I did this with one of them the other day
and demonstrated that for such a meal London is
a lot cheaper than New York.
"Here is the bill for a luncheon I had at one
of the most expensive hotels in London:
s. d.
Hors d'oeuvres varies 0 9
Pilaffe of sweetbreads 2 0
Asparagus 2 0
Cheese (Neufchatel) 0 6
Coffee 0 C
Beer 1 0
1 OltllS "
"Now. six shillings ninepence at S4.SS5 to the
pound is $l.Go. As for the dishes themselves they
could not have been surpassed anywhere. For the
hors d'oeuvres I bad a dozen different dishes to
seltt from.
"Did you e-er find hors d'oeuvres varies on the
bill of fare of a New York restaurant? Try it Of
course you may get them at a table d'hote, but
I mean on the carte du jour of a restaurant where
you pay separately for each thing you eat.
"In Paris there Is a restaurant In the Avenue
de 1'Opera, where you can have about twenty dif
ferent varieties of little fish and cold salads and
appetizers for about 15 or 16 cents. It took me a
long time to find this in a first-class house here,
anil tbeu when I did so It was in a restaurant
which is not usually considered among the most
expensive in the city. Here hors d'oeuvres varies
masqueraded under the title of 'buffet russe.' They
charged me 50 cents for it. as against the IS
charged in the London restaurant.
"My pilaffe of sweetbreads tasted exactly liko
that I bad in London and cost exactly the same. 50
cents. I ordered some asparagus. On the bill of
fare they had asparagus with Hollandaise sauco
for 40 cents, but I wanted it cold, with French
dressing. They did not tell me it would be any
more, but for it they charged me 70 cents. For
the Neufchatel cheese they charged 20 cents and
for the coffee 15. The robbery came on the beer.
"In London if you want a little pitcher of beer
thy serve you an excellent brew of Pilsener or
Wurzburger in a little sealed vessel holding a
pint for a shilling. I asked the waiter to bring me
a small pitcher or beer on draught, knowing they
did not serve the beer as in London. He brought
me a pitcher and charged me 70 cents for it.
"Now my bill came to $2.03. or exactly l more
than the same food and drink had cost me in Lon
don. I gave the New York waiter a quarter and
he scarcely nodded. I gave the London waiter six
pence and he thanked me so that I could hear him."
waist After that a good elder sister
told animal stories, while the refresh
ments were being made ready. There
was creamed chicken, wee sand
wiches. Ice cream with animal-shaped
cookies. Then they had a game
played just like Stage coach, only they
all bad the names of animals and
turned around when their names were
called. When it came time to go
home the mother came out and said:
"Now you are all changed into little
mice and must run away quickly to
find your houses before the old cat
gets out," and such a merry scamper
ing as there was. with "Good byes"
and "lovely times" from each little
guest
a huge solitaire diamond made from
lemon Ice. A young girl known to be
much Interested in a soldier received
a perfect little miniature officer with
a sword. Another maiden whom It
was suspected had turned down a
prominent society chap had a cold
white heart of lemon ice. Every one
taught the significance and there was
1 merry time.
MADAME MERRL
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In the Desert.
Rare Is a glimpse of the horrors of
a western desert, taken, from the Gold-
field (Nev.) News: "Another desert
victim Is reported, and Archie Camp
hell, manager of the Last Chanca
mining property near Death valley,
came to Goldfield yesterday to an
deavor to establish the Identity of the
unfortunate.
"Mr. Campbell encountered the un
known man on the desert in a fright
ful condition. He was In the last
stages of desert exhaustion, devoid
of clothing, sunburned, blistered and
crazed, with his tongue swollen enor
mously, a pitiable object, and unable
to speak.
"He was tenderly conveyed to camp
and everything possible done for him.
but kind aid came too lato, for an
hour after he had absorbed the first
cup of water he expired."
Amusing Contests.
This very funny contest took place
on ship board, where all sorts of non
sensical stunts are planned to beguile
the time away. It is just as funny on
land as on sea. Perhaps some may
object to the cigarette race, but thi3
may be overcome by using cubeb ones.
Out on the lawn or on a breezy cor
ner of the porch place four girls in
a row, each having a well-filled match
box; at a distance of, say, 20 feet
place four young men with cigarettes
unlit in their mouths. When the sig
nal "Go" is given the men run to the
girls, get the cigarettes lighted and
the man who first gets back to the
starting point is the winner, as well
as the girl who lights the cigarette
for him. A prize may be awarded to
each. The match boxes may be used
as shields to keep the match from
blowing out, but the girls must do it
with no aid from the men. In the ex
citement some girls had to light three
Immense hat pins are still used.
Pink linen is extremely fashionable.
Fans are so huge that they are most
awkward.
All the new nertkwear shows the
effect of the frill.
The girdle is a pronounced feature
of the best gowns.
The kimono to or below the elbow
leads all others in sleeves.
The blue and green combinations
of metallic effect are popular.
All the blues are popular up to the
faintest Marie Antoinette tint
Plain colored satin ribbons made
into rosettes are a fad of the moment
The most favored fans are of satin
and lace with extremely long handles.
Light old rose tints are genuinely
girlish colors for millinery purposes.
The new summer stockings are em
broidered In vivid colors on Instep
and ankle.
Foulard veiled with chiffon makes
up simple little afternoon or visit
ing gowns.
Morning Frock
Doll House Library
A search for a child's short story.
The Griffin and the Minor Canon,"
fn a volume all by Itself revealed to a
persistent city shopper the thought
and money that are expended on the
furnishing of dolls' houses. Book
stores bad not the story In a single
Tolume, but In a department store
me young woman interviewed had re
cently been transferred from the toy
department and was able to contribute
a helpful hint
"I think," she said, "you can find It
In one of the dolls' bouses dowir
stairs."
Curiosity had by that time become
a sauce to literature, so the shopper
hurried downstairs to Inspect the doll
houses. Three of the most expensive
houses contained libraries consisting
of a score of diminutive books and
each book contained a child's story
complete. One of them was "The
riffln and the Minor Canoe."
CONDITION PRECEDENT.
"The religion -of some people is too lenient."
said Bishop Heslin in a recent address In Nan
tucket. "Some people suggest to me. In their view or
religion, a little girl whose teacher said to her:
"'Mary. v;hat must we do first before we can
expect forgiveness for our sins?'
"'We must sin first,' the little girl answered.
Nashville Banner.
UNFASHIONABLE EVENT.
Among other events, we shall have a sack race
for Indies. Professionals barred.
"What do you mean by professionals T
'Those who have been wearing tube gowns."
Answers.
Keepinf It Dry.
An old woman of a wealthy New
ersey family was goiag visiting. The
coachman, who had not been la this
country long, had Just beea equipped
with a aew uniform aad a new silk
hat Before they had gone far It be
gan to sprinkle, and the old woman
told the coachman to fasten dowa the
side curtains of the wageaette.
He drove up to a hitchlag post be
side the road aad, dismounting, auag
his new bat on the post, aad begun to
fastea the curtains.
The old woman noticed his bar
head and asked him where his hat
was.
"Ol took It off me head, mum, so as
Is wouldn't get wet." the coachmaa
replied.
A Bernhardt Trick.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt." who la sup
posed to be something of an artist as
well as an actress, was recently call
ed upon in one of her marvelous crea
tions to enact the role of a sculptor,
and" to model a certain bust in view of
the audience. This fairly electrified
the critics, but when going Into rhap
sodies over the technical skill in han
dling the clay which Mme. Bernhardt
exhibited they showed that they knew
little of the artistic tricks of actors
and actresses; as a matter of fact, she
does nothing of the kind. The bu3t
is modeled and baked, and over it is
placed damp clay of the same color.
This the talented actress merely pulls
off, exposing the beautifully modeled
head underneath.
exer-
Opinions Aired.
"Were the commencement
clses interesting?"
"Very. The time was divided be
tween advice from public men on the
selection of a career and suggestions
from graduates on how to ran the
government"
The gown shown in the illustration is of natural color linen, with white
crocheted buttons and loans of cotton cord.
Game.
The Creditor Will you pay this bill
now. or never?
The Debtor Mighty nice of you to
give me my choice, old scout I choose
never.
RAISE DUCKS WITHOUT WATER
Hats On or Off in Church
Public Advised to Exercise Patience
Until the Day of Cartwheel
Headgear is No More.
Press and pulpit are still harping
on the one string In the fruitless ef
fort to diminish the size of women's
hats, in other words, to regulate the
fashions in women's headgear. Male
correspondents are also having their
innings In the endeavor to solve the
knotty problem of persuading the fair
sex not to follow style, but to follow
man's idea of what the women of the
country ought to wear. These com
bined efforts, however, will have as
much effect upon womankind as Mrs
Partington's endeavor to keep back
the ocean with a broom. Fashion rules
supreme, her votaries are legion, and
will follow her distates. whether It be
large hats or small hats, switches,
coronets, puffs, "rats" or curls. The
masculine gender might as well hold
its peace. It will do the world no
good to roil about women's hats; wo
men will have their own way in this
matter, let public and press scold as
it will. One clergyman was foolish
enough to state for publication that
"big hats were a hindrance to the sal
vation of souls." Let him bar bis
pews to the fashions of the day in wo
men's gear end he will have very few
souls to bis credit The only sensible
remark made by a clergyman on the
subject Is attributed to a New York
divine who said women may wear
hats as largo as they desire in hi.i
church, "if necessary a woman may
have a whole pew to herself." Exer
cise a little patience, friends, the
styles will shortly change, when small
hats and big sleeves will return to
bother us. Millinery Trade Review.
The Test
"Doctor, my wife bas lost her voice.
What can I do about It?"
'Try getting home late some
night
Much Success May Be Had With Them
Where Stream or Pond Is Un
known Common Error.
(By CIIA8. f WKNT.l.KIt)
One of the greatest fallacies in
eoultry raising, is that ducks must be
near water to be raised successfully.
Even poultrymen. who happen to be
more familiar with chickens than they
are with ducks and geese, frequently
stumble Into this error.
A poultry writer told me not long
ago that ducks are best raised near
a stream but that he "had known of
them being quite successfully raised
without a stream."
Surprised at a remark that ap
pealed to me as being so absurd. I
asked with assumed innocence:
"What do they need a stream or a
pond for?"
He couldn't answer me and in that
he had made the same mistake of sup
posing that because they are supplied
by nature with web-feet that they
dreds of duck farms and thousands of
ducks to which a stream or a pond is
unknown. Ducks when well fed on
land will not go near water unless it
is very convenient to them. Ducks
live on fish and water insects and this
is their reason for spending a share
of their time on the water. In fact
wild ducks get the bulk of their meat
food in the water. It is true that they
ar specially adapted by nature for
th water but it is only so that they
car. hunt for certain kinds of food.
They are one of the bipeds which have '
held on to certain amphibious habits
which date back for millions of years,
to a time, perhaps, when the whale
spent part of bis time on land in
search of food.
Tulle Roses.
A charming trimming on a pink silk
evening dress seen recently consisted
of a cluster of five roses, formed of
pink tulle, with green tulle stems
twisted over thin wire, sewed to the
left side of the low neck. The effect
was exceedingly attractive, and
showed again the value of the little
must have a fcooy of water to live in. j touches to raise a gown from the coa-
As a matter of fact there are hun-1 rannplace.
Convenient
For Any Heal
Post
Toasties
Are always ready to
serve right from the box
with the addition of
cream or milk.
Especially pleasing
with berries or fresh
fruit.
Delicious, wholesome,
economical food which
saves a lot of cooking in
hot weather.
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