The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-01

of sparks, when accommodating, fat,
wholesome, old, corn-fed, comedy horses
caper anything but nimbly under lean
and lissome bareback artists. You
have seen Japs in Flowery Kingdom
costumes and with calves altogether
disproportionate to their stature, re-
clining upon their backs on padded
pedestals and tossing other and smaller
Japs to fabulous heights, like shuttle
cocks, says the New York World, but
who knows how the menagerie sleeps?
Wait till the crowd is all gone, till
the garden of lights has become
desert of darkness, and the great
amphitheatre is still All day long the
animals at Barnums are tame animals,
nominally at least. But at night, when
there are no longer crowds to bother
and caiole and prod and talk baby
talk, the circus animals put aside their
company manners. They forget cap
tivity in rest, and, for the hours that
| intervene before the dawn, are the
same as their fathers have been.
| In the long corridors, where the red
and gold cages, so dear to juvenile
| hearts, are ranged, there is no light to
speak of after the circus has gone to
sleep; Just a CLEAN here and there,
enough to light the watchers on their
silent rounds of the prison houses, ana
| to prove to the tyro who has MADE
| bold to pass the night there that he
is honestly in Madison Square Garden
and not in the midnight midst OF
tropic forest.
Get a permit from Tody Hamilton,
and go down and watch the big tabby
cats after night has come. Study the
old lion or that striped tiger there,
dreaming-you may see 1t plainly
enough-of old battles in the jungle;
of the silent nights under the oroao,
refulgent shield of a tropic moon, Wnen
they watched the clear reflections in
still pools whittier their prey had gone
in the shadows to drink-and TO die.
Yes, they dreamed. DR.. Gibier has
told us, in the past few days, that
dogs have souls, like human beings,
! that they suffer, and that they dream
Scott, with his hounds about him at
Abbotsford, told that truth long before
Gibier was heard of. But people took
cats dream, too, and what dreams
NAV come" or what may not come,
To those vast. lithe-limbed, crouching
! beasts living there in the darkness!
stroll softly up and down in the stlli-
ness, and listen to the deep breathlngs
and hear the signs and the snarls that
are all part of the dream. There IS
. soIennitv about it that makes you
afraid, no matter whether the dreams
are born of civilized indigestion or the
memories of bygone day =.
The most brazen of camera hends
would halt in a sort of awe there be-
| fore trying to snapshot that magnih-
cent old lion in his nightmare:
| The taWny hero lies on his left slde,
as most of the sleeping animals do, by
| the way. How i'll that would accord
with the modern notions of health ana
| hygiene! He has his legs drawn up
under him much in the fashion OF the
| old cat. Now and then, as his dream
| progresses. you will hear low groWl
| from him, and by and by there VIII De
| the outfashing of paw, with "a hgnt,
| fell a bullock. Weakened, maybe, oy
| the shock. the lion stares at you Tor
| q minnie then scornfully turns ana
goes back to his dreams IN a darker
! corner. despite the noises OF the nlght-
hawks of the place, who seem py solile
/ strange intuition to know wnen the
! king is awake. WIZ
hose that have been night-hawks since
before the time when man first began
tn war against them-the bears ana uhe
hI,enes and COYOTES and wolves ana
iackals. Old Bruin spends most OF the
time which ought to AFFORD MIN ms >
beauty sleep in pacing restlessly up ana
down the scant reaches of his cell. HIS
drea ms of looted corn cribs and in
lvaded pigsties and of big trees full OF
honey are all waking ones. He is quiet,
Ithoueh. He seems ever to be nursing
a sneaking notion that somehow ne
IshaH get out, and it is only When the
beer wagons and milk wagons begln 10
rattle over the. payementtSs tnad ne re-
Icognizes the signal of the morn ana
cI,TIs IN in the corner of his cage to go
The hvena. though, is the worst all
/ nighter of the lot. He turns night into
day entirely. When the nice matinee
Ichildren come to visit him and see
what he looks like he has no face for
Them. good or bad. He has the ill-taste
and worst showmanship to wind ms
iungainly limbs around himself and
snore. 1t is strange, but the tiger, noe
turnal beast though he be, is IN dlrect
contrast to the hyena. The tiger proWl-
ing habit seems to be corrected by cap
Itivity When tiger gets a steady JOB
lin a circus, he arranges his hours to
suit his business and is pretty much on
exhibition during show hours.
The iaguarS, pantherS, leOpardS and
1.-THE rest of their social set repose in
much the same fashion. They are
dreamers, all Of them, crying In the
might, and with no language but cry. y
And like all dreamers, beast and hu-
Imam, they sleep lightly. Sometimes
mere football on the floor will arouse
them, and then, with their snarls fol
a KEYNOTE the whole menagerle viii
break into a chorus that makes the
rafters tremble and wakes the sleeping
citizens in the houses about the neigh
!, borhood.
The hyena is the worst alarm clock in
the show, and he does it with malice
Iprepense He hates to have anybody
else sleep. When stiffness comes he
ilabors to break it with his strideni
J laugh" which echoes weirdly through
the dark distances, until the elephants
trumpet back a thunderouS "On, Shul
upr' and the Gland bleats amen, ano
1.-The monkeys chatter about the great
jolly row that is about to take place
| When, at last, he yields to reason, OF
WEAKNESS, and goes to sleep, the hyens
SHORES loudly enough to keep hlmse4I II
evidence, and the cinnamon bear, iy1ns
: fiat on his back, bears stiff anc
sterterous burden
The wolves, too, haunted no doubt By
1.-THE original sin of their great progeni
tor who betrayed and devoured Little
. Red Riding Hood, dream and groan II
their dreaming They toss and struggle
and whine as if the foul fiend or al
after theatre lobster had them in tor
: ment.
And how do these animals all lie dowr
when they turn in for the night? Why
the wolves, hyenas, elephants, lions anC
, the cats, buffaloes, canels and rhinocer
sink down on their hind quarters first
, The antelopes and most of the othe
bovines, of which the Barnum collection
is unpreeedentedly large, go on thei
knees and presumably rehearse thei
prayers before they close their eyes.
In Sleep the antelope is as pretty as
piece of statuary and as still. He lie
with his slender limbs curled up unde