The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-17
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 But you didn't play 'em, suppose" :" queried her listener, dropping hls voice.
 Sure I did!" retorted the other in staccato. Sure I did! Surest thing you ever knew. I dreamed James F. Heating would win and I bet $lOo on him-that 12 to 1 race" Sure sure I remember" whispered the fat man. He was getting interested and his scepticism was falling from him in rags.
 Twelve to 1, mind you," she of the frowzy hair went on confidentlally, and I carried $1,200 home to Philadel- phia that night. Then l dreamed that Toddy would win the Brighton Handl- cap I had put the $1,200 in the panK and I hated to draw it down, so only bet $1O on Toddy, but I got l5 to ana went back to the sleep factory $l5o to the good. By that time my husband had got interested and we waited TOT the next dream. I always read over the entries the night before so as to give the dream a chance to Worh, anu when I got up one morning ana tola my husband that I had dreamed or I.ocket we scraped together all the cash in the house and l took the nrst train for New York. We'll" she con- cluded, with an expressive wave or her racing chart, "Locket Won.
 twenty to l." murmured the fat man. opening his eyes anew
 "Just a little thousand bones of the boolSies did I take back to good oId Philadelphia that night said the pun ger grandiloquently.
 "Well?" said the fat man, appreheh- sive that that was all
 Last night I had another dream | dreamed that Eethics had won.'
 The fat fumbled for his programme.
 "Ethics Ethics" he murmured, run ming over the pages, why he's m two races to-day
 'No matter" said the woman con fidently, 'I dreamed he won both races I've got two hundred simoleons here III my greengoods bag to pet OH Ethics. and I don't care which race ne starts in. Down it goes, and can lose .
 The fat man was biting his nails Ill dubitation. Hes got a chance, ne admitted.
 Got a chance!" shouted the dream tipster. Got a. chance! l shoulu say he had Wh, you can bet your shlrt on him. He can't lose unless he drops dead. Got a chance!" And she stamp ed her foot in vexation.
 well. here we are" said the fat man. as the car rolled by the track.
 "Right you are. Here we are,' re- torted the lady from the dream city And if you don't carry away wad you could choke COW Wlth' Why' don't blame me.
 The fat man grinned by way of re- turning thanks, and made for the bet ting ring Ethics won the second race at Brighton that day by four lengths New York Tribune.
 THE TAMER OF WILD BEASTS.
 The wild beast tanner as generally pictured is a mysterious person, who stalks about sternly in high boots and possesses a remarkable power of the eve that makes lions and tigers quail at his look and shrink away. He rules py fear and the crack of his whip is sup posed to bring memories of torturing points and red hot irons. Such is the story book lion tanner, and may as well say at once that outside of story books he has small existence. There is scarcely any truth in this theory of hate for hate and conquest by fear. It is no more fear than makes a lion walk on a ball than it is fear that makes a horse pull a wagon. It is habit. The lion is perfectly willing to walk on the ball. and he has reached that mind, not bv cruel treatment, but by force of his trainers patience and kindness and su- perior intelligence.
 Of course, q wild beast tanner should have a quick eye and delicate sense of hearing, so that he may be warned of sudden spring at him or rush from be- hind; and it is important that he be sober man, for alcohol breaks the nerve or gives a false courage worse than folly: but the quality on which he must chiefly rely and which alone can make him a great tamer-not a second rate bungler-is a genuine fondness for his animals. This does not mean that the animals will necessarily be fond of the tanner: some will be fond of him, some will be indifferent to him, some will fear and hate him. Nor will the train CTS fondness protect him from fang and claw. We shall see that there IS danger always, accident often, but without the fondness there would be greater danger and more frequent acci- dent. A fondness for lions and tigers gives sympathy for them, sympathy gives understanding of them, and un- derstanding gives mastery of them, or as much mastery as possible. What but this fondness would keep tanner constantly with his animals, not only in the public show (the easiest part) but in the dens, in the treacherous run away, in the strange night hours, in the early morning romp, when no one is looking, when there is no reason for being with them except the tanners own joy in it?
 I do not propose now to present in detail the methods of tanning wild beasts rather what happens after they are tanned; but l may say that lion tanner always begins by spending weeks or months in gaining new anil mars confidence. Day after day he will stand for long time outside the cage, merely looking at the lion, talking to him, impressing upon the beast a gen eraI familiarity with his voice and per-