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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1914. J' ' ' I .. III 1- LI I ! .. ii. i HL-U HULLI l.L. II. 1 II" "-Vf ! I.J I..U ! 111 ,!",' I, "" LI UJI.11 ".. ' ... ' l I II - I 5T ' ' i. ii. - ... i rr-r-. .. .... . ,. i ! i JS4. Jlephant Hunting in India : By Garrett P. Serviss A Smart Parisian Fancy By Olivette Described So That You Can Copy It for Yourself J) Yl ' If V captured elephant bound with rhts Is the yetir of the "elephant battle" lm tho ereat forests ol Mysore, India. HErho hunting of these gigantic animals itf5 permitted In Indian only every fli:h Jfear. On the average from 200 to 26Q wild gfaphants are captured during the battue season, and these aro trained for ths Various purposes for. which the .Asiatic elephant la used. Everybody knows how conspicuous .a part tamed elephants play Mtho great public spectacles in India, andlan princes and officials sometimes IpSy thousands of dollars for exceptionally jttne and Intelligent elephants. After they nave ucvii property uaiucu mcj hid ,uc fnjilietl with trappings gleaming with fgold and splendid color. The howdah that iofi elephant trained for hunting carries ffpfl Its bade, and In which Jts master rideii, fine lis unvcr. pmces mmBeii just uain its head, frequently: weighs more thau pounds,' Hit tho huge animal regards no more than a horse- docs a riding saddle. HOn a good level road an elephant will Knarch at tho rata of five miles per hour, unci 11c is capauie lu running, lor niiuii Utstanccs, with a speed of twenty miles Bn hour. Ho can carry In regular ser vice, from 1.S0O to 1,600 pounds, and 'he mould not greatly ,mlnd a ton or more. With his enormous muscles, and his Head weight of five or six tons,' It Is evident that his' nulling and lifting power must be Immense. lie can pull down, or gjuuk up, ciunu uoce, bail uj iiuai fgs with his trunk' and carry or throw THE PROFESSOR'S .1U1'919 Ul' I'HECEDISG CHAP TERS. i-roiessor tTosnv. waning ai a nuour- 1. a itol nn fn .. fwil ai. ....TV n tU. HUT! toucnea on someming cioseiy personal i -in i km i hi nr. ii h v mimii (in inn liuiidi .'mint Tflpnvors rnncrinininpig. i n iihiih t 111 MID HI III B 1HCI liiwiuiiiiau v tha nn1 Maiis rrnnhW flnrla Ilia norKBIB Iiava bAmi mntieri. but recovers every - fhlncr Um Tu tmr flnrin nil MpT nrtlClCfl thav loavA liar . Hi i f thnv iniiut nn iMinir 31 n rot Iron ltfnrn ha falia t rw aljn h on. nu was asueu uy miss l auor to aresa ffiiTin nnwnaiiiirH. 'i nsn nn wa m anirmn n fa r inn v i hihm h mi vuir in nniiiu riair r lauor visas nuii ann lens mm no nRii of hla Dfist has anv rlaht to know a hnnt. but. orcts no satisfaction. Tabor tin 1 0 1 . a i rn.nv in inwH una Hmin uau ,h alitbv I , a 1 1 n rl Vin hail TM 1 M o flap te with Tabor. CHAPTER IV. ii Insalt in tho Morning. (Continued.) Public opinion, led by the bartender, was stralnst im to the DO Int. Of inrowing him out or sending for the police; anil his attempts at a defense were rendered unintelligible by volubility and by tho strangest mixture of languages r ever luard In my life. Imagine a slightly uklng broken Bngllsh with an Irish ICBSur, and you may nave some laini I . at M M a. ttl - . . ,1 J . l.lnaa Intonations was impossible to follow, I tried Irfm in Italian, becoming reby a person of authority and inter heavy cables around his hind legs makes them around like sticks, and since he is u very ti actable beast when woll tamed, he often docs farm work of which a team of horses would bo Incapable. He can icaku a fence, or place huge bloods of titoim In a wall. Ho Is of.cn employed to drag artillery wagons. One of the most Interesting employ monts of tho elephant Is in hunting tigers. From tho lofty back of hla ele phant, at a height which, Increased by tho howdah, may be twelvo or fourteen foet above tWe ground, tho hunter can tako aim at a tiger with a coolness that ho would not possess If facing the ani mal on terra firm a. If, as sometimes occurs, tho tiger makes a leap for the elephant, he seldom succeeds In attain ing the man In the howdah, although the driver, In his exposed position on the elephant's neck, Is In greatest danger. There seems to be a natural enmity between elephants and tigers, although an elephant will not attack a tiger un less cornered, or compelled to do so by tho tiger's own fault. But then a good fighting elephant will, If he can once get his tusks to bear on his enemy, gore him to doath, or literally crush, htm by kneel ing on him. It Is said that the mere presence of a dead tiger will drive some elephants to fury, In view of the vast strength possessed by full grown elephants, It seems at first sight almost ineredlblo that they can be captured in herds and quickly sub dued to the will of their masters. At the WELLS HASTINGS AtiP BRIAN HOOKER, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS by HANSON BOOTH v COPYRIGHT 1911 v THE UODBS-MERRIU COMPANY est. lie understood me readily enough, but his own spattering patois gave me a good deal of trouble. By what I could make out, ho was a sailor, formerly on ships owned by Sir. Tabor; and Mr. Tabor had discharged him and kidnaped his wife. This sounded, puzzling enough; but I could get nothing else out of him; and my further questions brought forth only angry reiterations and Indefinite vows to have Justice at any price. Finally I per suaded the bartender to give him ono more drink on condition that he went away immediately, and satisfied the crowd with some patched-up story of a hated employer whose resemblance to Mr. Tabor had caused an unfortunate mis take. CHAPTER V. Dcsldr the Summer Sen A n Inter lude, If I had been at my wits' end before, I was now beyond it, in such a chaos ot puzzled anger that I could not even thinx reasonably, much less come to sensible conclusions. The Italian sailor with his impossible charge against Mr. Tabor and Mr, Tabor's ' own im possible charge against me, were new elements which might or might not work into the situation; but at least I could not place them now; nor, for want of a motive that would bear dissection, was I ready to confess my own desire to stay on the ground until I had bccr the matter through, I would go away to the sanity of the seaside, and glvo the vexations ot tho last few days time to clear. The whole experience had been so strange that I must have more perspect Ive through which to view It clearly; and I could see nothing to gain by haste. Fot all that, I was perfectly clear that at length everything must come out right. Not that I could doftne to myself ex actly what "coming out right'' would mean, except making Mr. Tabor admit himself outrageously mistaken, and hlr daughter but it was better not to think about his daughter; unless I was ready to risk thinking too much about her. Thn very memory of her vivid face In the car window, of her quizzical Impertinen ces on the way, the sight of her lying motionless In the unnatural meadow, and most poignant of all. her distressed and shrouded beauty in the dim hall, lit up the last few hours as with the glamour of a dream, broken suddenly by a night mare monstrous and unconvincing. She must be put aside If possible with the test II i vain bat mighty efforts to escape. present time, in Mysore, the regular method of capturing wild elephants is for a large number of natives to go into tho Jungle, some mounted on tamed ele phants and many on foot, and to make a great nolso and hullabaloo, which re sults In driving herds of tho wild ele phants Into stockades, or often into ponds of water, which have previously been surrounded on all sides, except at the approaches, by Immcnsoly strons palisades. As soon as the herd Is cor nered tho passages that had been left open nre securely closed and then th,e trained elephants arc brought into play to cajole and subdue the perplexed pris oners. The tatter are frequently fastened like the ono seen In the photograph and kept thus chained until their natural' disposi tion to make friends with man and the example and Influence of their already tamed comrades, reduce them to tracts blllty. In India elephunts aro no longer cap tured, as they still arc In Africa, by moans of huge pitfalls in the ground. In these traps they are often seriously in jured or killed. Tho Indian elephant h somewhat smaller than the African and differs from It in other ways, as, for Instance, In tho facts that tusks are po Eeeeed only by males, while both sexes are provided with them in Africa. In gen eral, also, the tusks of African elephants are nearly twice as large as those of the Indian relatives, a single pair sometlmej weighing as much as 250 or S00 pounds. MYSTERY until I could see clearly. Bob Alnsllc und Mrs. Bob, boating, bathing, golf, and ! tennis, should be my devouring Interosts j for the next week. After that we should j bee. ! For a cuple of miles my car traveled j through open country; then with tho I sound on Its left, passed through small I wooded patches that gave way con tinually to open glades where lawns from ; little cottages and great ran down to tho water's edge. My destined hostelry, I re membered, flourished under the original name of "Bellevue," I did not especially Pine for it, with Its green-llned matting, white enameled furniture and chattering piazzas; but It had the unquestionable ad vantage of being only a couple of hun dred yards from the Alnslles" cottago. Thcro I hurried into my flahhels and set forth in search of Bob, whom I found playing the gentio game of croquet with nimseir, the pinK ball against tho green. When he saw me, he gave a Viking whoop that brought Mrs, Ainslle from her chair upon tho veranda, while he ex ecuted a solemn war dance around me. "Where, O where are tho Hebrew chil dren?" he chantid, "i?sfe now In the promised land Where's your bag?" "Vhy, how do you do, Mr. Crosby?" said Mrs. Ainslle, "Bob, what on earth will tho neighbors think of you? And Mr. Crosby will hardly like being called a Hebrew-not that I have anything against the Hebrews. They are really a very fine people, but" "But, my dear, you are talking non sense. Iaurle, where is that bag? Or heaven grant it be a trunk." "It's a bag," I said, "and I left it In my room at the Bellevue, and a very good room It Is." "Bclloflddlestlcks," Bob snorted. "You go back to that whlted caravansary and wrest away your belongings and come over here. We aro going to house party in a couplo of days, and we need you In our business. Your room is now southeast corner second floor, beautiful view of the sound or within sound of the view which ever you please." "You are an Idiot, but I love you," said I. "Nevertheless, I'm going to stay where I am. Can't be bothered with house par tlos. I came down here for some exer cise." r think you look, tired." Mrs. Ainslle put in thoughtfully. 1T0 Be Cont.nuea Tomorrow ) We huow you today two TIqwb of a decidedly novel and smart product of the Parisian dressmaker's fancy. It Ib a capelike coat of taffeta that is not too elaborate for daytime wear and Is pretty enough, when worn flaring open for the ovenlng. The upper part of tho garment is of black taffeta, while tho lower Is of billiard green cloth In the railino weave. The upper part is cut on bolero lines und la gathered at the shoulder and caught below tho bust into a high fitted girdle that Little Bobbie's Pa By ."WILLIAM F. KIRK. I was reeding in the palper ware Mister! Rockefeller cuddont go to church the! other Sunday beekaus he was snowed In. sed Ma is that so? sed Pa. I suppose he sent his dime down by sum hired man, Jest the satm. The story dldent say, scd Ma, but I think the peepul of that llttcl churoh must have felt sad to think that tharc gratest & best member was snowbound on his vast estate, unabel to he among them with his cheery smile & geyul presence. Did the story say that, that he had a cheery smile & a genyul presence? sed. Pa. Humthlng like that, sed Ma. Well, sed Pa, thst Is only another proof that we shuddent beleevo everything we read In the newspaipers, 1 newer had the pleshure of personally meeting John D, Rockefeller, sed Pa, but I have often seen fotygrafts of him, wlch showed hlrn with a smile on, & it looked about ns Cheery as tho smtlo of a man wlch has jest had four tens beaten by yure four kings. Thare always seemed to sumthlng wrinkly and wintry about the smile to me, sed Pa, but maybe I am so used to the cheery smiles of my gang that I ex pect too much from a elderly man. I wuddent be surprised, scd Ma. I have seen sum of yure frends cum to the house, she toald Pa, that dldont have much left In the way ot expression eveep thars cheery smile. Thare conversashun aumtlmes led me to beleave, sed Ms, that thare Is only a thin line between sum cheery smUes and beery smiles. How ever, you know I promised the first of the yeer that if you wud work for woman sufrsge I wud newer ssy another un kind word about any of yure trends or to them, so I won't go on. But I wonder how Mister Rockefeller put In that long dreory Sunday without attending services, l suppose he cud have sum kind of services ut his hoam, sed Pa. He oud hum sum of the hymns tltay ring at his church. & bo adding up sum flggers at the salm time. It wuddent Interfere with his work, sed Pa' I knew a lawyer onst that oml be drawing up foreclosure talpers to toust sum peepul off thare farm, & at the same, time he cud be humming hymns, It Is a exploded theery that a man can't do two things at onst, sed Pa. Then I rote a llttel erse & showed it to Ms. H was about the blizzard wloh kr Mister Rockefeller at hoam. It sed: The snow It Is a cruel snow ft falls alike on foes and frende. It kep n lot of peepul from The church wlch Rockefeller attends. Ho must have felt jd ft nnnamd 1 Not for to hear thp ure-arhrr speak. He knows he ouplit to wiuare hlsself At leest orw time a week. Bobble, that Is vt-ry true. l,ed Pa. Al ways aim for the truth wen you rite a poem. That how I made such a success In the lltery feeld. It is vary wrong for Bobble to rite j such a dlsrespeckf ul peece about a nkv old gentleman, sed Ma. Tear It up rite away, Bphble, & newer rite Anything Ilka that aggen, So I toar It. hut I am gplng to rite it oaver & show it to my teeeher. Advice to Lovelorn Ily HEATH ICR FAIRFAX. The Time to Be True, Hear Miss Fairfax; I am 19, and have been engaged to a young man who I love wry much, for six months. He lost his position and has been out ot employment fastens with throe stitched-tabs In front, fastened by three monster buttons of Jet. A wide ribbon of taffeta pnpscs around the waist and tlo In : bow in front. Tho sleeves start well off the annholo and are caught Into deep itltchod cuffs of tho taffota. Tho rolling collar and tho capo pendant from It in the back are of tho green rnlllne. When tho capo Ib worn looso and flaring -back it Is seen to bo lined with Havnnn brown Bntln. Whor. tho Mpe fastens In front it is held by a great jot button and looks like a tunic of green over the alroady tunlc-boarlng skirt of the railine. OMVKTTE. The Orepe ny BBATHICK FAIRFAX. A young man writes that he .Is- about to be married; his motitcr, who hay met with a recent bereavement, wishing to wear her mourning garb at the . wedding. He wants to know if such attire Is proper. By all that Is merry, no! If there is one occasion lit life when every intrusion If grief, every'mark of woe. every tear" every sigh, every frown, every semblance of unhspplnoss or troubled prediction should ba forbidden, it la on the wedding day. Though one may, like the lu gubrious Pleasant Rlderhood in "Our Mutual Friend," see In a wedding only two people taking out a license to quur rel and fight; though one may, through personal experience, deem slngto llfo friore bleated; or, being slngla. envy thQfe at tho altar; dr, though one may. have suffered a recent bereavemen), ono should not, under any or all circumstances'; show by took or garb anything but fe licitous condition at a wedding. It lr the most important dsy 'in thn lives of nt least two people. Whatever their troubles, sorrows and disappoint ments In the past, they stand at the threshold of a new opportunity for Joy. They aro beginning llfo all over again, for the sst two months. This young man loves me dearly, Home of my friends are trying to Influence ln, to break my sngagement. He has prospects of getting In the government service, as ho is on the postofflce clerks' list. A BROKKX HEART. 1 t You lovo him. you say? Prove it by being (rue to lilm In his misfortune. He needs all the encouragement he can get, and his friends are not friends It they would go bak on him now, Don't, my dear, confuse "misfortune" with "fault." Nuisance and under tho happiest of all conditions, for love presides. If thore have been (sorrows, everyone present should forget them. If tho mar rlago means loneliness and a narrowed circle In two homes, that fact should be resolutely put out of mind. Only one sentiment should prevail, and that sen timent should bo expressed In smiles and good wishes and happy thoughts. For two are sturtlng on a strange and long Journey nil alone, and it means much to them to start off wjth their happiness unmarrtd by a last gllmp'se of tear stained eyes, garments of somber at tire or faces distorted with grief. If mourning should be worn at all, is a question that never has (been settled Against every argument that the trap pings of won are depressing and there fore unhcalthfi'il, and mean nothing to tho dead, there arises a protest from thoso In black that to wear anything rise is a mark of disrespect to those who aro gone. H is more Important to show retpett for the living by refusing to impose marks of bereavement on the public; but tho advocates of this custom refuse to pay hed to thu good' of those who sur lvc. Kushion demands crepe, so they swathe themselves in ths most expen sive attire at a time when sickness and death have already made such exhaus tive demands , on the purse that simple consideration for "the living should for bid further inroads. It one wears mourning or not Is one a privilege, hut it .Is -never ono's privilege to wear such matks of woe at a wedding- If one Is top selfish to lay aside sueh trappings for the sake of others, then one should stay at home. If grief is to be nursed,' home is the place tq nurse it. t'nder no conditions should H be trotted out and exhibited at a wcj. ding. V,.