Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05

tramp. the Bucrania, fresh from India,
proved his faith by his works. He gave the
nasty devil a wide berth.
The nasty devil replied to his reproaches
by frantlcally trying to break the iron bars.
Failing that, he lay his side and ripped
at the wooden back of his cage.
And all the time he screamed and roared
like a congress of rioters.
"Pooty fine tiger. dat!" said the Swiss
animal man. He had just clambered aboard
to look over the cargo Of beasts consigned
to his 'old man"
"Pooty fine tiger yesl Nice boy. nice
boy. 10000! How you like dat, hey?'
And with the words he stopped and thrust
his arm into the dark cage
The little second mate jumped forward
with yell of warning.
But he stopped short in amazement so
profound that he suffered over his swear
ing.
The Swiss animal man was rubbing the
tigers furry white belly, and the tiger was
lying on his back. with his legs up in the
air. claws sheathed tail waving, and deep
purrs of delight rumblng from his vast
terror.
Il say, you know. But look ere, 1 say,
you know" demonstrated the mate ad-
dressing himself and the universe gener-
ally. Il say, you know. That there hani-
NAL as been and bit four sailors, you
know. as, and mistake, you
know. There amt one of us been able to
go nearer than fathom-length of is cage,
you know. Then ere comes bloomin
stranger, you know, and rubs i'm as if e
you know
And shaking his head he departed down
the Dassageway. leaving a plaintive II say,
You know" echoing behind him.
hey! said the Swiss animal man, turn
Ing around Il guess he's afraid of dose
animals, hey? OATS no wonder den dat
dey die on de way. When de ship she hits
&c logs on de banks dem sailors are too
much afraid to take dem animals down in
de hold. and so dey freeze and de old man
gets stuck. Hey?
Now this tiger was a jungle-caught
beast, and he had been shipped straight
from the coast to America And from the
day on which the woven basket cage OF
bamboo surrounded him until the day of
the smps arrival at her New York pier
no human being had approached him with
out paying for it.
The Swiss Explains.
Consequently, when the animals were Off
the ship, the Swiss animal man was led to
corner in a sailors tavern near the pier
and cross-eXam.ned.
Well" he said, Il don't know what YOU
want to know. Animals is like anything
else. You got to know EN-, and when you
know EN- den dey don't bodder you no
more"
Yes, but how did you know that YOU
could pet that strange tiger that you had
never seen before and that had never been
touched before?'
How l know dat you amt going to bite
me or hit me, hey? L know dat, don't L?
ana L amt never seen you before, neider
heyE been IN de animal business twenty
two years, and L amt never seen a beast
YET DAT man couldn't handle if he know
ed how-eXcept once. And dat beat me-"
Ana the Swiss animal man launched into
the story of the mad elephant of New
Jersey.
In the beginning the mad eIanbo,. -r,o,,.
MAD at ALL He was living quietly on the
animal farm in New Jersey where the Swiss
animal mans old man. keeps his peculiar
merchandise till it is called for. He was
a big elephant and worth much money, so
the orders were that extra good care must
be taken of him.
Every day he was led out and fastened
by great chain to a tree on the farm.
The chain was long enough to give him
considerable scope.
Now; one evening there was a great
shindlg IN the village near the wild ami
nal farm, and the employees of the beast
storage place were in a hurry to get their
work done and attend.
An unhappy result of this was that the
Dig elephant was forgotten Elm
thought that "BilI' had led him back tn his
warm quarters, and bill" thought that
some one else had attended to it,
Ihat night two circumstances were in
conjunction. -
The 'shindig'' was flooded with red LIQUOR
ana the New Jersey sky opened and let
The snow fell so fast that there vera two
1eet OF II on the level before dawn. There
was something else. too, before dawn.
Strangers who did not know that a wild
animal farm was part of the scenery uo,,id
have been excusable had they sl1pnosad -
10 De locomotive on the point of explod-
ing: me eonseience-stricken animal men
az the "shindg' sobered and made a rush
Ior the farm. They knew that the sounde
ulu not betoken the end of the world b1,t
might betoken the end of a good 81 900 ele-
plant. O0' GIG
Maddened by the Snow.
The elephant was raging in blind wrott,
He had trampled the snow into o,ror,1a.
path cleaner than snow plough could have
cut It Now and then he threw as rnucb &c
he could get into his trunk high I'D into the
air He trumpeted and squealed incessant
ly Every time he finished a crazy rush
around the circle he turned at the tree and
drove mis- head against it with all his tons
Now he was down on his knees burv,rs
ms tusks around Its roots, and striving TO
haul 1t out of the ground. Again he rose
on ms hind legs and laid his whole weight
against the chain.
II the animal men had expected to lead
nm 10 his quarters one look at the mad
peast was enough to change their minds
His eyes were fiery red suffused with blood
he charged headlong at the men when thew
came in view. They saw that he had dug a
great trench around the tree. Every man
Hlttuc d uSH lot weapons and chains.
II was almost noon when the men one
ana all. acknowledged themselves beaten
The mad elephant was still tearing around
and around his endless circle now trodden
INTO a rut many feet deep The tree was
giving way slowly, for it was deeply rooted
ptt surely, Not a man had managed to
pass chain around him
A telephone message brought the owner
from New York in the early afternoon
After looking one moment at the frantic
mountain he telephoned to New York to one
or the famous elephant experts of the coun-
try. The elephant expert demanded full
list of symptoms and then answered hur-
rfedly that he was too busy.
The old man" hustled to New York in
person. There near the Madison Square
Garden. In a bar room patronized by a
queer lot OF customers. there are lion train
ers. elephant men, and all sorts OF experts
In the wild animal line
1t required some hours and more drinks
10 induce any of them TO wander out to
widest New Jersey TO subdue mad ele-
phant, but at last three Of them went
Attacking the Monster.
They got there none too soon. All hands