The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-12-17
ONE OF THE MOST MARVELLOUS OF
FEATs IN FINANCIERING.
The Way Langley Made $500, 600 on
Borrowed $1OO-He 'sPyra-
midedv His Winnings ON the Mar
rowest of Margins-When He
. Piled Up 100000 He stopped
That Way of Working and Went
In for "Straddles.''

Z s. f. 80 ! ~. u, - . Z
4. Hes got good, broad cap. strong
face, nice full breast. I'll warrant him, -
said the dealer, the creature whose points
are thus summed up is not a pony, nor a
poodle. but an English skylark. one Of
those veritable little '.scorners Of the
ground" whose direct ancestor long ago
excited Shelley's raptures, and has since
ELECTED volumes of eloquent though un-
published protest from the schoolboys and
girls who have sat down on sunny after
noon to memorize that lark's perform
ance.
Phiiosophic little 3roadcap: AS his
tiny little cage is turned about on the
dealers thumb the better to show him to
advantage, he betrays small interest in
the proceedings. Experiences too many
and too startling have been his portion
since his entrance into the business world,
his capture, Incarceration, and journeys
by land and sea, for him to falter now
at merely being looked at and sized up
Even when taken out Of his pegged wood
en- cage and turned heels uppermost that
his claws may be inspected CLAWS are an
important index to skylark's health,
ne gives no sign, says the New York Sun
ana when the deal that means so much
out sound or flutter to be clapped uncon-
cernedly into a common brown paper bag
and have the bags mouth edges grabbed
together unceremoniously-for all the
world as though he were measure Of
gumdrops or an apple tart-and be dan
gied lndinerently in his new owners fin
gers while that Individual puffs at his
pipe and looks over the other living wares
that the shop contains.
Where Is he goingY' you ask, solicit
ously, as the k-browed purchaser, a
man with q nose nearly as big and un-
gainly as Cyrano's and an air ominously
indlnerent walks off with his Queer bur
den.
ITO Rivington street restaurant" Is
the answer; "but he'll be we'll taken care
OF. That fellow, rough as he looks, under
stands birds and loves them, F[e can
Keep lark healthy and in singing trim
when others lose them. I've sold him a
haif-dozen since began importing them,
ana ne buys every new sort Of bird I
pace IKE the singers as we'll as he does.
ana some evenings they have regular bird
trades there. I know them well''
IN the next quarter of an hour two
other skylarks are sold from the little
shop, one carried off in the customary
p: Fer bag by stout boy who says that
his father Is bedrfdden and wants a lark
state IN his own trim wooden cage, held
carefully In the gentle grasp of a thin
put muscular old man from Brooklyn.
The last lark I had got away" this
customer says. my wife and daughter
were hanging out the clothes and in some
way they rubbed against the cage door
END unlocked 1t. That lark has now all
Brook yn for cage If the cats didn't get
I'M You ought to see my birds now"
he adds animatedly to the bird dealer,
Ihose starlings I got are as chirpy and
fappy as you'd wish to see and the
weaver f1nches are very Industrious. I've
missed my lark, though. and as soon as
time to get over
The thin man from Brooklyn wears a
shabby suit and his overcoat is decidedly
threadbare, with the lining flying in
places, but he cheerfully pays down S1.J
for his lark and gets four ounces of ant
eggs and 100 meal worms as starter to
feed the bird on and make him feel at
home. ~, :, -. -
II sell my larks principally to people
the old country. Anywhere in Great
Britain or Europe says the dealer
Some years ago we got some and sent
them to place in the West for breeding
They all died. The American climate
does not suit them. but they do very well
In captivity. and every year get out sew
eral hundred and sell them off rapidly
BY next Sunday night wager there
won't be fifty larks left of the lot and ]
,nly got them in yesterday All Sun
day my place will be crowded not only
with lark buyers, but with people inter.
ested IN birds and just now getting in
t cir winter singers. From Jesey, Long
Island, all out-of-town places the people
come who haven't time to get here on any
/ q INa hull ~ - Al,,S
and lovers in New York, too, are working
people, and they live too Tar away to get
here in the evenings They all want to
talk with me personally as to the birds,
and Sunday is the best time.''
The proprietor of the wholesale head.
whOlescme, hearty-lookmg man who halls
FROM Alfeld, in the Harz mountains. the
little town noted for bird trainers and
the number Of its home people engaged
in the bird business. He employs regu-
lar bird tenders to come over with his
singers on the German liners, feed and
water them. and see that they are not
exposed. These men make three or four
trips a season in winter. In summer they
work at trade In the home country.
Each caretaker on the ship has i've pack
ages or hampers Of birds to take care
OF, the small cages being threaded seven
on a stick in q regular succession Of lay
.ers. or stories. the whole encased In a
light weight wooden cover with rtoNt,
homemade rope handles to hold by, and,
although bulky Of such proportions that
one man may easily carry the whole
package Of seven or eight dozen birds on
his back. In this primitive fashion birds
are brought into the main shipping sta
tons in the bird provinces of North .Ser-
many, the hamper borne alonS the noun