Living Wild Animals Caught by the Camera
f ti.-Ain.-ng of "The Living Animals
I IJ I of the World" nre in all probabll
I 1 ty readers of the newspapers,
RSStJl ami it would, therefore, be af
' ' ' feetation on the part of the writer
of these lines to assume that they have
not heard more or less of the diseovety
which he was privileged to make of an
entirely new ruminant of largo size, duell
ing in the forests bordering the Scmliki
river, in eentral Africa, on the borderland
between the I'ganda protect orate an 1 the
Congo Free State. The history of this
discovery, stated briefly, is as follows: In
18S2-83 I was the guest of Mr. (now Sir
Henry) Stanley on the Itiver Congo, at
Stanley Tool. I was visiting the Congo
at that time ns an explorer In a very-
races of the northern Congo forests than
we had yet received. Stanley also was the
first to draw the attention of the world to
the dense and awful character of these
mighty woods and to hint at the mysteries
and wonders in natural history which they
possibly contained. The stress and trouble
of his expedition prevented him and bis
companions from bestowing much attention
on natural history; moreover, In these
forests it is extremely difficult for persons
who are passing hurriedly through the
tangle to come Into actual contact with the
beasts that Inhabit them. Sir Henry Slan
ley, discussing this subject with me since
my return from I'ganda, tells me that he
believes that the okapi is only one amongst
small several strange new boasts which will
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THE OKAPI OF THE CONOO FOREST.
way, and a naturalist. Mr. Stanley, con
versing with me on the possibility of Afri
can discoveries, told me then that he be
lieve! that all that was most wonderful In
tropical Africa would be found to be con
centrated In the region of the 'Blue moun
tains, south of the Albert Nyanza. This
feeling on Stanley's part doubtless was one
of the reasons which urged him to go to
the relief of Emin Pasha. His Journey
through the great Congo forest toward the
Blue mountains of the Alfiert Nyanza re
sulted In his discovery of the greatest snow
mountain range of Africa- Ruwenzori ami
the river Semliki, which is the upper Al
bertlne Nile; of Lake Albert Edward, from
which it flows round the flanks of Ruwen
zorl; and, amongst other things. In more
detailed Information regarding the dwarf
eventually be discovered in these remark
able forests. He describes having seen a
creature like a gigantic pig, six feet In
length, and certain antelopes unlike any
known type. In regard to the okapi, the
only hint of its existence which he ob
tained was the announcement that the
dwarfs knew of the existence of a creature
in their forests which greatly resembled an
ass In appearance and which they caught
in pits. This tiny sentence In an appendix
to his book, "In Darkest Africa," at
tracted my attention some time before I
went to I'ganda. It seemed to me so ex
traordinary that any creature like a horse
should inhabit a dense forest that I de
termined, if ever fate should lead me in
that direction I would make Inquiries.
Soon after reaching th" I'ganda pro
tectorate at the end of 1839 I came in con
tact with a large party of dwarfs who had
been kidnaped by a too enterprising Ger
man Impresario, who had decided to show
thrm nt the Paris exposition. As the Bel
gians objected to this procedure I rel ascd
the dwarfs from their kidnaper and re
ta nod them with me for some months In
I'ganda until I was able personally to escort
them back to their homes in the Congo
forest. I bad other reasons connected with
my government business for visiting the
northwestern part of the Congo Free State.
As soon as I could make the dwarfs under
stand me by means of an interpreter I
questioned them regarding the existence of
this horselike creature In their forests.
Thev at once understood what I meant and,
pointing to a zebra zkin and a I've mule,
they informed me that the creature in
question, which was call d okapi, was 1 i K ;
a mule with zebra stripes on it. When 1
reached Fort Mbenl, In the Congo Fre
State, on the west bank of the river Sem
liki, I put questions to the Belgian officers
stat oned there. They all knew the okapi,
at any rate, when dead. As a living animal
they had none of them seen it, but their
native soldiers wire in the habit cf hunt
ing the animal in the forest and killing It
with spears and then bringing In the vkln
and flesh for use In the fort. On searching
for this, however, it was discovered that
the greater part of It had been thrown
away, only the gaudier portions having been
cut into strips by the soldiers to be made
into bandoliers. These strips, together with
similar ones obtained from natives In th
forest, I sent to England to Dr. P. L.
Silater for his consideration. Furnished
by the Belgian officers with guides and tak
ing with me all the dwarfs whom I had
brought from I'ganda I entered the forest
and remained there for some days 8 arching
for the okapi. All this time I was con
vinced that I was on the track of a species
of hcrse, and therefore when the natives
showed the tracks of a cloven-footed ani
mal like the eland and told us these were
the footprints of the okapi I disbelieved
them and imagined that we were merely
following a forest eland. We never saw th
okapi, and, as the life In the forest made
the whole expedition extremely ill, and my
time was required for official work e'se
where, I was obliged to give up the search.
Meantime I had e'lolted from the natives,
whom I qii' sConed closely, that th" (kapl
was a crea'ure without horns or any means
of offense, the size of a larg antelope or
mule, which hihablied only the densest pa"t
of the forest and generally went about In
pairs, male ami female. It lived chiefly on
loaves. The Belgian officers, seeing that I
was disappointed at not obtaining a com
plete skin, offered to use their best efforts
to obtain one for me and Bend It on to Kiiuua johnstonl. The full discovery obliged
I'ganda after my departure. Prof. Hay I-nnkester to set aside any Idea
Hi.!. -- i... of i tin oknol helnir allied to the horse, but
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Mr. Karl Eriksson, a Swedish officer In the
Belgian service. Mr. Eriksson sent me a
complete skin and two skulls. The skin
and the bigger of the two skulls belonged
to a young male. This is the skin which
is now set up in the Natural History
Museum at South Kensington, and of which
a photographic illustration accompanies this
notice. I'pon receiving this skin I saw at
once what the okapi was namely, a close
relation of the giraffe. From the viry small
development of the horn-bosses, I believed
that It was nearer allied to the helludothor
luni than to the living giraffe. In forward
ing the specimens to Prof. Hay I-iinkestor
be was good enough to attach .Mr. M-iator s
specific name of Johnstonl to his newly
founded genus of Ocaola.
l'p to the time of writing this is all that
is known of this extraordinary survival !n
the Congo forest of the only living relation
of the giraffe. We know by palaeontological
discoveries in Europe and in Asia that there
existed a large family of ruminants which
In their development ami features were
neither of the ox group nor of the deer,
but ill some respects occupied a position
midway between these two branches of
cloven-hoofed, horned, ruminating ungu
lates. To this family the giraffe, the okapi,
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I therefore proposed that It should be called
hclladotlu rluin tlgrlnuni. Prof. Kay I.an
kester, having examined the specimens with
a greater knowledge than I possessed, de
cided that the animal was rather more
elosidy allied to the giraffe than to the
helladot herlum, but that it possessed suffi
cient peculiarities of its own to oblige him
to create for Its reception a new genus,
which he proposed to call Orapla.
Meantime, the original strips of the skin
(which apparently belonged to an older and
larger animal than the specimen mounted
at South Kensington) had been pronounced
by experts to whom they were submitted
to be the skin of an undiscovered species of
horse and this supposed new horse had
the helladotherium, the sainot herlum, the
slvatherluni and the brainatherlum belong.
In all probability bony projections arose
from the skulls of these creatures similar
In some measure to the prominent bony
cores of the horns of oxen. From the top.
however, of these bony cores there would
seem to have arisen anciently antlers, pos
sibly deciduous like those of the pinug
buck. In time creatures like the giraffe
lost any need for such weapons of offense
and ceased to grow antlers, but the bony
cores from which these antlers once pro
ceeded still remained, and in the case of
the giraffe remain to the present day. In
the. helladotherium and In the okapi these
bony cores have dwindled to mere
been tentatively named by nr. P. L. Sclater 'lumps.
Gleanings from the Story Tellers' Pack
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U ie risiib on nis necK ana reminuou
I I him of the good old times, re
ports the Baltimore Herald. Me
mentioned the old playmate and
spoke tenderly of those who were
dead.
After the fifth one they were as long lost
brothers, and so he ventured it. "Sam," h?
said, "lend me $TiO till tomorrow. I'm a
good friend of vours."
"You are," the other murmured with en
thusiasm. "You are the playmate of in
fancy, the friend of youth and the inspira
tion of manhood's happy houra, but," and .
strange sadness crept into his voice so thai
it vibrated like the tones of some rich in
strument, "I can't lend you 150, Bill. You're
'Cf good a friend to lose."
A short time after Secretary John Hay,
hen a newspaper worker In New York, had
ublished anonymou-ly "The Breadwln
i ers," a former associate of his on the
Tribunp published another novel called
The Money-Makers," In which he cari
catured Reid, Hay, Bayard Taylor. Shanks
and o'lii rs of his old comrades. Hay w
walking with the late John Swlnton one
day whe-n the author of the obnoxious novel
was seen approaching. Swinton suggested
a truce and handshaking.
"I could not think of speaking to him
ince his sad bereavement," said Hay.
Bereavement?" queried Swlnton, and
Hay replied: "I don't know the particular.
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but I noticed the last time I saw him that
his hands were In half mourning at the
finger nails."
Secretary Shaw of the Treasury depart
ment Is achieving a reputation as the
humorist of the cabinet anrt seems never to
grow weary of telling stories. Every day
at noon he takes luncheon with the three
assistant secretaries of the treasury and
always ends the gossip about department
matters by spinning a yarn. This is on
told by the secretary:
"I was passing the collection box in a
church at home once upon a time. In the
audience was seated the town's most popu
lar barber. He was a very sporty chap and.
thinking that he would not care to con
tribute, I passed him by. As I did so ho
rapped on his seat with his hand and at
tracted my attention.
" "What Is the matter?' he said. 'Are you
going to let me out?'
"I told him that I did not think he
wanted to give anything, so I had passed
on.
" 'Say, governor,' he said, 'I want to tell
you I never fail to go Into a game where
the limit is as small as this."
"Then he dropped a nickel Into the
basket."
A distinguished naval officer was telling
Ibis story on himself the other evening to
a gathering of his friends, reports the
Washington Star. At the time of his
marriage he had been through the civil
war and had had many harrowing exper
iences aboard ship, through all of which
he kept his courage and remained as calm
as a brave man should. As the time for the
ceremony came on, however, his calmness
gradually gave way. At the altar, amid
the blaze of brass buttons and gold lace
marking the full naval wedding, the officer
was all but stampeded, and what went on
there seemed very much mixed to him.
Fearing the excitement of the moment
would temporarily take, him off his feet,
the officer had learned the marriage cere
mony letter perfect, as he thought, and he
remembered repeating the words after the
minister in a mechanical sort of way.
After the ceremony was over and all was
Ferene again, including the officer's state
of mind, the kindly clergyman came up to
him ami touched him on the shoulder.
"lAiok hire, old man." he said, "yoa
didn't endow your wife with any worldly
goods."
"What's that?" a?ked the bridegroom,
with something of astonishment in bis
voice.
"Why, I repeated the sentence, 'With all
my worldly goods I thee endow' several
times, and despite my efforts you would
not say It after me."
The bridegroom seemed perturbed for a
moment, and then a beaming light came
into his face.
"Never mind, sir," he said, "she didn't
lose a blessed thing by my failure."
A story was often told by the late
Charles L. Tiffany of an importunate Irish
man who for many years had been
employed as a window washer, relates
the New York Times. His pay had
been raised quite as often as was con
sistent with the dignity of his position,
hue he seemed always hungry (or possibly
thirsiy) for more. At length the firm de
cided that the limit was reached. Not B)
Pat. Going one morning to the Inner
sanctuary, he sought audience with Mr.
Tiffany.
"(! od mornin', Mr. Tiffany," he com
menced, artfully, seeking to preface his
errand by d slnterested conver.-atlnn.
"Good morning, Patr'ck," was the
answer.
"And hnw are ye this mornlu', Mr.
Tiffany?"
"Quite well, thank you. Pa' rick."
"And how are yur wife and family?"
"Quite well, thank you, Patrick. But
what can I do for you this morning?"
"Oi've been thlnkln', Mr. Tiffany, th'it
Oi've served ye long and faithful these
twenty-foive years, and thot Ol shud have
a raise in me pay."
"You should be thankful. Patrick, that
you have been permitted to serve so dls
tlngu shed a house as that of Tiffany &
Co. for twinty-five years. Th-it, with whit
we have already done for you, should b
sufficient. Good morning, Patrb k."
"Good mornin", Mr. Tiffany."
Realizing the futility of further words,
he left the room. Reaching the outer
office, he was hailed by a chorus from
the "boys." to whom his periodical pil
grimages had become a standing Joke.
"What did you get, Pat?"
"Fa'th," was the ready answer. "Ol got
permission to kape me Job. and Ol tuk It!"
"Yes," said the policeman quoted by the
Brooklyn Cltzen, "a patrolman meets with
many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth
escapes and I had my share tf them wlill
on the force. I think the one that made
my hair curl hardest happened one night
on Fulton street. I was sauntering along
and wondering If the horse I had backed
for the next day's races would come In
first, when I saw a package on the side
walk a few feet away. It struck me In
moment that the package contained money
and my heart was In my mouth as I sprang
forward and picked It up. It was scarcely
In my hnnd when the roundsman turned the
corner and stood before me and Bald:
" 'Dick, I'm sure that package Is made up
ef greenbacks.'
" 'So am I, sir, I said.
" 'Hand It over to me,' says he.
" 'For why?' says I.
" 'Berause I'm your superior officer ami
looking for $:.0,000 to buy and furnish me a
country residence.'
" 'I'll divide,' says I.
" "That's agin discipline and tempting an
honest man. Hand It right over.'
"I handed It over," sighed the ex, "and
the roundsman bought him a beautiful
country Beat and lived the life of a nabob
to his death. When he left the force I
asked him If he would not hire me to cut
his grass and wash his carriages, but he
shakes his head and says:
" 'Couldn't do It, Dick. Nab ibs and pa
trolmen never get along well together.
You go right on and find another package
and keep It for your honesty."
Here Is a story of the late Eugene Field
which, the New York Tribune claims, has
never before been printed. With Mr. Field
on Hie Chicago Record up to the time of
the latter's death was William E. Curtis,
known the world over as a wonderfully
versatile newspaper correspondent. Being
In Chicago on a visit once, he met Mr. Field,
who had been "meeting up" with some
friends, and was consequently financially
short. It was but the work of a moment
for Mr. Curtis to "stake" his old friend and
the two parted with the understanding that
the fifty was to be returned the next day.
But Mr. Field did not turn up and Mr.
Curtis was forced to leave Chicago without
seeing him.
It chanced that Mr. Curtis did not visit
Chicago araln for a year or more and when
he called at the Record office he found i
Field busily engaged, but with the same old
cordial welcome. In the course of the
etnversatinn It developed that Field had
not yet repaid the loan and he was over- j
win lined with shame to think that he had.
neglected It.
' I tell you, Bill," said Field, "I j
am so ashamed of the affair that I '
haven't the nerve to look you in the face, i
To think that I should neglect an old friend
In that way! Dear, dear! What must you
think of me to behave like that?"
"Oh, that's all right, 'Gene," said Curlis.
"You can hand It to mo before 1 go away
again. Don't lot a little thing like that
worry you."
And the two parted with the understand
ing that Curtis should call at the Record
office the next day. Mr. Field was at the
lime running a column of wit and wisdom
called "Sharps and Flats." The next morn
ing, when Mr. Curtis opened his Record at
breakfast, he looked over the "Sharps and
Flats" and there he read this paragraph:
"Mr. William K. Curtis, the talented and
versatile correspondent of the Record In
Washington, Is in Chicago looking after bis
permanent IiivchI incuts." Thero was noth
ing doing In collection that day.
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