The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-03

with one OF the monkeys and indigna-
ton with the keeper. According to her
account. the keeper had no sense at all.
He allowed one of the monkeys to get
all the o while the other one was
undoubtedly slowly starving. She fin
ally persuaded the keeper to give a pea
nut directly to the under monkey. so
TO speak. and the latter was 20
that IL devoure the peanut. shell and
all.
The president sent the letter down
to Mr.. Smith requesting a report on IL.
IL was such an intelligent and we'll
written communication that Mr.. Smith
almost welcomed IL and mad out quite
a long report. which the president in his
turn forwarded to the gentleman whose
sympathies had been touched by his
wife's story. The gentleman. by the
way, wrote a letter in reply. acknowl-
edging that his complaint had been
made without a real knowledge of the
facts.
"As a matter OF fact said Mr..
Smith, in telling about II. monkeys
want to be eating all the time. when
they have slowed away all their stom-
achs will hold. they fll the food
pouches which they rave at each side
OF the jaw. People often go into the
monkey house and think n monkeys
must be having a terrible tim with
their teeth because they see their
cheeks all pulled out.
Down there in the monkey house we
have two monkeys. a male and a fe-
male I'm a age together. He Is so sell
fish he won let her take anything that
is handed into the cage. He Will fill
his food pouches and then his hands,
then hold all he can between his feet
on the floor II food still keeps coming
he will take IL over In the corner and
pile IL up there. III he can help II. she
doesn't get one single nut. Now IL you
stood there five or ten minutes and
watched that performance you would
say: What a shame! Why. hat other
monkey will starve to death. Why
doesn't the keeper see about it%
But II you stay there longer you'll
see that the monkey that has taken
all the nuts begins after a while to give
them to the other one. He wants to
grab all that comes into the cage but
In his own good time he gives the other
monkey her share. Now I defy any
body to do any better with the mon
keys than we do. Every day at s
o'clock I'm the morning they get tapioca
and sugar.; at 3 o'clock they get a pan
of milk: at IL o'clock a baked potato;
at ] O'Clock a pan of water, at 9 o'clock.
carrots and apples, and at 4 o'clock
every monkey gets a banana. And be-
tween times the considerable small child
is at hand with peanuts. Everything
Is the best to be had. too.
II nave stopped giving them bread.
because all the scientific men who have
written about such matters for the last
ten a have said hat bread was
poison to the monkeys: that the yeast
n injured their digestion.
1 defy anybody to do any better by the
monkeys than we do. People complain
to me about the lions, too.
What they say do you feed the
only once a day.
Yes l tell them; at . in the af-
ternoon.'
why. IL ! fed the lions what they
would eat II they were out of their
they say "A live dog is bet
teri than a dead lion. so when the
were dead we might bury them
and turn the cages into kennels. That's
ALL"
These are a few of the troubles
which Mr.. Smith regards as peculiar
ly his own. The troubles Of his ami
mails are the ones he takes the hard
est. When II comes to the lettehs he al
has the of the waste
basket. One of these letters. however,
has preserved as unique. 1t was
from a IN in Ireland asking Mr..
to hunt up her cousin. The
cousin, a young woman. was minutely
described and NJ. Smith has
ized the Items. He doesn't know
the young expected to
inter the menagerie herself. or whether
he Ireland cousin thought the author
ties would seize her relative as an adj
iition to the o At any rate, Mr..
smith means to find her IL she ever
gets to the m~enagerie. but he is still
ooking.-New York Sun.