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The Washington times., 1903-07-12

these flies about five hundred times big
ger than they are. Then. oh, then I'd
wade into them and bust them to pieces.
I could beat them into marmalade with
satisfaction. but now they're so ridicu-
Iously small I can't do much more than
swear at EN-"
Sometimes an elephant gets to think
ing of the Jungle this weather, of the
deep. cool retreats in the heart Of the
forest. of the green. succulent branches
and bushes and Towering plants. OF
course, I have a valet, a man and I
really live a gentleman's life. but even
SO I'd rather be back in the jungle again.
am shown every consideration and my
house cost $4,000. which is a matter Of
pride. One thing would miss if I went
back to my old life. and that is the care
full manicuring and swabbing ! get. It's
a great relief to get good wash and
rub down, to literally have the hose
turned on you this hot weather"
Peculiarities of the Elephant.
+ What would stop Dunk if he wanted
TO get out and had broken his chain %
said the keeper in reply 10 a question.
Nothing except mountain or a can
yon. An elephants the strongest and
most intelligent animal in captivity. You
have no idea Of their strength and cum
ming until you've seen both in combina-
tion. big elephant thoroughly reused
is a terrible sight to see. l speak from
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and tell stories. They usually get me
TO tell 'em. cause they say I'm a fin
ished liar, I talk bout all the cold things
| can think OF. Bout the Maine woods.
the Canadian forests. bout Alaska and
places wehe it's cold enough to freeze
the fame OF a match, bout Arthur Pue
German. bout Russia. where the folks
don't have any sleigh bells cause their
teeth chatter and jingle so loud they
don't need any. That's the only sensible
way to look at the hot wave Do you
suppose it does Grizzly Pete in there
any good to be talking bout wanting
TO chase a farmer. There's no farmers
on this hill They're suburbanites, and
they don't wear boots with red trim
mings. but patent feathers. Besides. l
should think farmer like the one Pete
wants would be old and tough, sort OF
stringy and scrawny like an old
rooster"
The outline OF the hill which the ami
NAL house stands is bold and makes a
magnificent sweep round the building.
The lion and the "big cats" as Keeper
Blackburn calls them, have a superb
view from their open air cages over the
valley beneath them. across the creek.
up the hill. to where the road comes
curvirg down, and over to the suburban
cottages beyond The air is clear and
seems lighter than anywhere else in The
grounds. Here is the tiger. who has
picked out shady corner. dropped his
head on his paws and gone fast asleep.
He glances quickly up il your step be
heavy or simply squints IL 1t be light AS
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The Leopard Perches High.

What cries do the elephant trainers
use? Well, different men take fancy
to different sounds and calls. Some ele-
plants, too, won't be moved until you
find out just what yell they have respect
for. George Forepaugh was a frst-rate
trainer, and l remember him calling out
to Romeo, one of his big elephants. when
he wanted the brute to hurry on: Mile
up. Romeo; mile up-I tell you. Queer
yell. don't you think?
I've heard. though I've never seen it
tried. that bread will stop a mad ele-
plant when he's running amuck. Train
ers have headed an elephant off and
scattered loaves of bread in front OF him.
They say no elephant can pass loaf Of
bread without stopping to eat it. no mat
ter how wild he is. The bread seems to
soothe them, too. It seems to calm them
right Off Queer. but then everything
about an elephant is queer. I've found
even down 70 the goad. The elephant
mahouts of India used prods of this
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shape hundreds of years ago. They call
the elephant goad an 'ankus' and
have seen some beautifully made and
jeweled. Where did get my elephant
stories? Oh. you Just sit around a cir
Gus campfire and you will hear mora
than will fill a book"
MI. Grizzly Loses His Temper.
The bear seemed a little grumpy
under the heat. THE warm weather rubs
our temper the wrong way said the big
grizzly, "and who wouldn't feel warm
and peevish. I'd like to know. with his
rnidwinter underwear on at this time
of the year. It's all right when It's
good and cold. but wish this bear skin
Ind buttons en- it so as l could at least
throw it open. 1 was glad enough TO
have this coat on when ] was in the
Rockies. II keeps out the cold air. and
let me tell you it often keeps out the
bullet
IT'S fairly cool. though, in the den
under the hill. The 'overhang' puts the
den almost at the heart OF the hill.
Most Of us fellows sleep the greater part
of the day. We're not lazy, mind you.
but we haven't anything else TO do.
'T'd like fine to get over the hill there
and stretch my legs on the roads A
four-mile jog after farmer. Yos, a
four-mile taunt after a farmer, a
farmer with boots on, boots with red
facings on the tops. run like that
with the farmer for lunch at the end
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would do me 4 world of good 1 woutdn't
mind getting shot now and then along
the route It would add dash Of ad-
venture and romance. and all that sort
Of thing to the chase. I can feel my
claws sinking into that farmers gray
back shirt, now
Evidently the grizzly was right about
his temper being none of the best He
would be an ugly fellow to meet alone
and unarmed.
The Cinnamons Grow Facetious.
The cinnamon bears in the next cage
were much better company. They came
slouching down to the bars. every mus
Gle slack, and wanted 10 shake hands
I'VE don't mind the heat said George,
a little, round dumpy fellow, fat as a
butter ball. 1.-THE great thing in hot
weather is not to think about the heat,
not to worry about being hot. If fell
low lets the idea, work on him he's go
ing 10 get into blue funk very shortly
Eve cinnamons get back in the del
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one, take it. The eterna- .samssess OF
the view here makes life very rrcsome-
Sometimes my wife grows hot and fret
ty and then living becomes more and
more unbearable OF course. we get the
best Of food and attention. and 1 am glad
to have made the acquaintance of Keeper
Blackburn. but then, you know as well
as that nothing can take the place OF
freedom. Good day. sir; I am pleased
to have met you"
The Philosophical Buffalo.
Wal" said buffalo from the West
ern plains. I allow II is rayther warm.
stranger. but then you see we kinder git
used to it. There's great deal in that,
you know I've oftin heard my gran
father tell how hot it used to be out on
the prairie. Tibet was many years ago.
and many's the buffaler tibet died in
those days for want O. water. The tel
egraphed poles were fine places to
scratch and the buffaler would come for
miles to rub thesselves agin them poles.
Wal. they got to weakenin' them poles
so the railroad company put spikes on
EN-. That made it wo-sc, cause the
critters used to fall over one another
trying to scratch thesselves. A scratch
on a spike was sunthin' wuth havin'
The dead buffaier was piled around
them poles two and three deep.
do I objec ter havin. my picture
took? Not a bit of it. Fire away
stranger. Keep still? Cert. o. X?
o. K. Good-by, stranger. come agin."
Caters"
A little colored boy with his tiny
sister was standing near the aIligator's
tank Dem CATERS. Lavinia." he ex-
planned. Down suth they feed on little
culled boys and gurls- Qish yer fell
ler's got a mouth dat opens way back
in his hade and ii looks laak a balm
door. Dey amt hot dis weather laak
you n me. cause dey sleeps under de
water wild nothin' but his snoot out.
How wud yer laak me ter drap you
liner his mouth. LaYinia? Look yer.
chile. stop dat snifin', stop it, heah me
talkiu'?
"Ho, You think de CATER looks laak
me. does yer. Well now. Jockey heah.
Lavinia. l reckon youse seen enuf o. de
circus an we uns IL 90 home. Cater
looks laak me, huh? I tell you what
I'm gwine ter do, I'm gwine ter tell 70
pap. dat's what I'll do. I'll tell 20 pap"
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clipper we are. Young man, have you
ever been in Arizona? No. and you don't
want to? You wait until you've been
there as longs 1 was. and you won't
mind little warm spell like this
Their dusty. 1.-THE bodies writhed and
twisted about the dead trunk. and the
ineessant fitting of their fangs about
their mouths looked unpleasant Their
scales were dull, like some intricate
pattern in bead work. They seemed TO
really enjoy the heat.
The Polar Bears Burdensome Overcoat
"Ummmm,' said the polar bear. ITS
warm. But then you see this house is
built of stone, and it has a high roof
so that it's cooler than one would think.
have a very convenient pool here. too
and can easily tub myself. whenever ]
feel Inclined
wouldn't it be cooler with my over.
coat off? Undoubtedly. Besides, It'll
shocking bad form to wear an overcoat
in summer time. Still. I'm in the po-
sition of the young chap who went t.
the ball in yellow shoes. Bob. said
his friend, do my eyes deceive me? Tar
quarters and a dress suit? That's
horribly out of place
Well said Bob. "a dress suit and
stocking feet is worse You see. II
were to take of my overcoat I'd b.
trimmed down to my skin. and that's
even worse form than an overcoat fl
summer time. II you've got any pull
with Blackburn. ask him to put som,
big Jumps of ice in this pool. so as
would feel more at home"
Monkeys Want to Play GGss..f.
Here he comes, bows" chorused the
monkeys. Bet you he'll ask US if we
think it's hot. Quit yer showing there
Eugene. / had this place before you
| You're not on the Bowery now.
Talk to him, Mike. You've been here
! Ionger'n any Of US" No" said Mike
rubbing his chin whiskers tboughtfully
/ Il can't say that this is the warmest
summer I've ever known at the Zoo
the summer of 1900 was about the hot.
test can recall.
! THE swings and trapeze are good
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Monkey. Mike" Declares His Happy Family
Don't Mind the Heat Bit, Bot Is Going to
Petition Keeper Blackburn for Golf Links and
Tennis Court--The Cinnamon Bears Joke

you pass he ticks his whiskers and goes
back to sleep His dull, tan hide and
black stripes rise and fall as he breathes
deep and slowly.
The Tigers Dream of Home.
ITS too warm to discuss the wealth
err" said he. IT'S a burning question.
admit, but talking about it does no good
in the world. You've interrupted me in
a delightful dream of the old days in
the Far East. / am an Indian tiger, I'd
have you know, and led gay life in my
time I lived just outside the limits OF
tiny village IN India. In the hills.
There were splendid pickings around and
about that village for the energetic prac-
titioner. Ny whiskersl had the people
terrified for a while. and l could come
down and get baby any night I wanted
without being disturbed The old men
would oil UP their Jezails and march
through the street, but they'd every
man turn tail when 1 showed on the
skyline. was dreaming of those days
when you came along and woke me up
with your silly, commonplace query
about is it hot enough for you?' Grrrrrl
Pass on. friend. and thank the smith
who wrought these bars"
The leopard was lying full length on
the bough of his tree. his long tail
switching quickly now and then under
Meath He stared at the reporter with
unwinking eye and an occasional ner-
vous tvitehing of the upper lip above his
fangs. The keeper said that the heat did
not trouble him greatly and that his
temper was uniformly amiable All the
big cats were taking the weather Just
as it came"
"Just Think, Sir" Said the Lion.
The lion and his mate were stretched
out on the cool earth in their open-air
cage. His majesty raised his great,
shaggy head and looked calmly, fearless
| ly out. There is an air of waiting. OF
longing. about the huge brute that
makes his captivity all the more pa
thetie
1T is during the summer days that
confinement begins to tell on my temper
and spirits he said, with great dignity,
4 find myself longing for breath OF
free air. Just think, sir, of a play
| ground thousand miles in extent being
narrowed to forty feet square. Oblige
me by thinking of that for a moment
Such a pTivation would be hard on any
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Walk in. ladies and gents, and see the Royal
Bengal tiger. measurin' fifteen feet from the zip
of his nose 10 the tip Of his tail, and fifteen
feet back again-naking in all thirty feet
Walk in and don't mind if he looks sleepy,
ladies and gents; he's sleepy. as you and
i. but he won't melt, ladies and gents; he
won't melt.
The Circus Barker.
IIH READFULLY hot weather,
this. Mr. Reporter" remark
ed the Sea Lien at the Zoo.
TO Times man, who understands ami
NAL talk. 81 can't remember a summer
when i've suffered as much. And. dear,
dear. Just think here's only July. and
there's two long months to come yet"
He barked sharply as he spoke, FAX
ak akkkkkk. Yes. it's a decided adj
vantage to have a nice tank of water in
your cage. Though sometimes the pool
grows warm. and then I might as we'll
slide into cup of tea. What annoys me
as much as the heat is the young man
who gets off wretched puns at my ex-
pense. These savage attempts at Wi
give me the 'fantods.' The other day a
young chap was passing my cage when
a fellow in his party sang out: Hey,
Bill. did yer see the sea lion?' Nav.
said Bill. "how could see der sea lynn
I'd have to hear it lynn wouldn't II
whereupon," said the sea lion. Il dove
to the bottom of my tank. and stayed
there until my eyes were fairly popping
out of my head didn't want to see
them rend him limb from limb"
Like a Brass Band Leader.
so, long" said the sea lion as the
reporter started off. He waved his flip
per. and foundered into the pool with a
''ploppppIashhh!" He came to the top
in moment. his brown head showing
above the churning water. With his
dropping mustache. and round. bullet
head bald of hair. he looked like the
leader OF the little German band around
the corner. who plays the bass horn. and
starts his men of with a Elm, swell
drei. softer. imf, undt led her co.
The Snakes Enjoy 1t.
do We mind the heat?" said the big
RATHER in the snake cage We'll we
should say not Why, we thrive under
heat Get Keeper Blackburn to put you
in here with US. Wen show you now
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The Bengal Tigers Dream of Home.

The Polar Bear Is Sorry That He Can't Doa His
Overooat, and "Dmlz," ths Big Elephant
Owns Up That He Feels Like Swearing Wber
the Temperature Rises Above One Hundred
The Washington times., 1903-07-12

Walk in. ladies and gents, and see the Royal
Bengal tiger measurin' fifteen feet from the zip
of his nose TO the tip Of his tail, and fifteen
feet back again-naking in all thirty feet
Walk in and don't mind If he looks sleepy.
ladies and gents: he's sleepy, same you and
], but he won't melt, ladies and gents; he
won't melt.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-13
BOOKS AND BooK-BUYERs.
The Esta blishment Of Convene ces
Never Before Enjoyed in Honolulu.

Was it Balzac or Stevenson who said:
THE book-lover and the book-worm
rule the same kingdom; the former
through affection, the latter through
Appetite" or perhaps it was Words
worth or Southey for really L have
forgotten @ but almost any of the
many book-lovers of Honolulu will be
able to place the quotation. But I
am certain it was Wordsworth who
wrote the exquisite verses about books
being a real world, where our pas
time and happiness may grow. The
lines were recalled by the conveniences
lately offered book-lovers and book
readers in Hawaii, by the enterprise
of a local firm who have recently es-
tablished a modern book-shop in Ho-
nolulu, that hitherto has existed no
nearer than San Francisco, Chicago Or
New York.
Previously books in fine bindings
have not been offered for sale in the
Islands, except by occasional travelling
agents; and it is an agreeable sur
prise after many years residence to
find on the shelves of the new book
shop most of the old favorites of ear
lier book collecting days in metro
politan cities. Here are whole rows
of the English and American classics.
while in the next case may be seen
the volumes of a Century of French
Romance. side by side with a superb
edition of the Universal Anthology,
near which follows the Worlds Great
Classics. Then come Voltaire in blue
leather, and forty-two volumes, to-
gether with those rarer works-Bal-
FAC, Rabelais, Boccaccio, Masuccio, La
Fontaine, with the Heptameron of
Margaret of Navarro and the Face
tious Nights of Straparola.
But best of all to the reader of to-
day, there are whole shelves of the
modern authors, both in fine and in
plain bindings, such as glad the heart
of book-buyers @ Stevenson, Barrie,
Kipling, Stockton, Hopkinson Smith
and score of others, with all the
old stand-bys. like Dickens, Thackeray,
Dumas, Carlyle, Scott and all the
noted writer's of the last century.
There are also old favorites. bound in
limp leather, and maryelously cheap
in comparison with charges in the
past: these dainty books are a
feature in the new store-volumes
that can be carried in the pocket. or
placed under the pillow after reading
at night.
Besides the field of letters, there are
works in all departments of science,
law, and medicine-many in fine bind
ings.- supplemented by encyclopedias
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-13
BUSINESS LOCALS.

w. B. Allen, A King street, will sell
you as good a razor as you ever used
for $780,
guns or ammunition, Aliens closing
out sale, A King street.
Removal sale-Mrs. E. M. Taylor's
removal sale of plants, ferns, palms,
crotons, caladiums and rose bushes
next Thursday, Sept. II.
Special bargains in ladies' skirts at
Sachs all of this week. See announce
ment in their advertisement. New
wells and yelling also just received.
Ladies' fast black stockings at 25c
per pair, knit underwear at excep-
tional low price for this week only. See
Jordan's advertisement for particulars
A ladies' hand bag containing keys
and papers was lost last Thursday
somewhere between Kapiolani Park
and town. Finder will be literally re-
warded if same is returned to this Of
flee.
Nothing could be more cool, fresh ana
dainty than one of those new charming
hats received by the last Alameda
Miss Power at Hawley Milliney Par.
lors will be pleased to show them t.
you at any time.
No one is more careful in fttine
glasses for the young folks than H. F
Wichman. His idea is to fit them sc
that their eyes will be so improved in 6
year or two that they can leave of
wearing glasses entirely.
L. B. Kerr & Co., Ltd, besides hav.
ing full line of Sorosis shoes for WON.
en- and Walkovers in all makes fol
mems wear, give some very low quota.
tons for dress goods and house fur.
nishing goods in their new advertise
ment today.
Important stockholders meetings OF
Haiku and Paia plantations will bs
held on Thursday, Sept. oath, at 10 anG
II a. m. respectively, at the offices OF
Alexander & Baldwin, Stangenwa16
building. See advertisements on page
today for full particulars.
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in few or many volumes, and magnifi-
cent dictionaries in one volume or in
ten. And there are gift books in
burnt-leather bindings, SO dainty that
the visitor grows covetous, and turns
again to the volumes of drier history
and triter eloquence with a feeling
of regret. The new firm will sell on
installments with easy payments, or
for cash with a discount; but they
make a point of selling in all cases
at publishers prices. or sometimes
even below list prices.
The VIM. c. Lyon Co., Ltd, are en-
abled to do this owing to their ex-
tensiye connections at the Coast and
in the East. controlling as they do all
the publications of the Scribners, the
Appletons and the Colonial Press of
New York, the Lawyers Cooperative
Publishing Company and the Tandy
Wheeler company of San Francisco.
The fact that the firm is prepared to
speedily secure rare and out-of-print
books of any date and from any part
of the world, is another feature new to
Honolulu. Polite attendance and
book-information can be secured at
any time by calling at the store, where
an examination of the stock will prove
to visitors that the finest library at
the present in Hawaii is actually on
sale at New York prices at the corner
of Fort and Hotel streets.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-13
REFORM SCHOOL
EXTENDING WORK

Plans for the additional buildings at
the Reform school, Waialae, are now
in the hands of a. T. Atkinson, super
intendent of Public instruction. The
buildings are a dormitory and cot
tage for the superintendent of the
school. Externally the dormitory is a
duplicate of the one already occupied,
but internally slight changes are made
which the use of the first one sug-
gested.
The Board of Education is going
to buy its first cow, for the purpose Of
starting dairy work at the Reform
school. An increase in the number
of pigs kept is also to be made.
E. w. Estep, formerly a valued
teacher in Hamakua, has been APP
pointed assistant to superintendent T.
H Gibson.
Superintendent Atkinson is confident
that, when the Reform school has been
fully established, the institution will
be equally a credit and a benefit to
the Territory. He has worked on the
scheme, ever since the Legislature rat
flied the change from the old and de-
Perforated reformatory in town to an
agricultural and manual training
school in the country, with a convic-
ton that it was one of the most i'm
portant steps taken for years in the
educational progress of the Hawaiian
Islands. OF cognate Importance is
the transformation of the old reform
atory for boys into an industrial school
for girls.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-13
NEW SISAL co.
HAS BEEN FORMED

The Hawaiian Sisal Company, Linn
tied, has filed articles of association in
the Treasurer Office. It's purposes in
clude agricultural operations generally
besides the raising and manufacture CT
raw sisal fiber. The capital is 100000,
in $40 shares, with the privilege of in
creasing it to a million. First officers
are: August Dreier, president, holding
100 shares; w. H. Hogs, vice-presi-
dent, % shares; w. H. Pain, treasurer,
364S shares; H. w. s. Edmunds. sec
rotary, 3647 shares: A. w. T. Bottom
ley, auditor, 5 shares; these officers
being the board of directors. Among
the stock subscribers are w. T. Lucas,
James Wakefield and Robert Cation
for % shares each. 1t is said that 1856
shares are applied for in California,
with a total of 5000 expected from that
quarter. The company will operate on
Koolau lands and have it's principal Of
flee in Honolulu.
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LOCAL BREvIrIES.

The Hawaiian Hotel will inaugurate
the European plan next week.
The Republican County Convention
viii assemble in the hall of the Kiloha-
ma Art League, Progress block, at 7:30
O'Clock tomorrow evening.
The funeral of Walter Adamthwaite
will take place today at p. m. from
Harmony Hall. 1t will be under the
auspices of the Excelsior Lodge, 1. o.
o. F.
st. Clements Woman's Guild will
meet at the parish house on Tuesday at
3 D. m. Plans for the annual sale will
be discussed. All members are urged
to attend.
Der 18th and all sportsmen should lay
in a supply of Walsrode powder and
smokeless cartridges such as are sold
only by the Pacific Hardware Co.
Oahu College grounds and Pauahi
hall have been rendered by the trustees
| to the Symphony Club for any time de-
sired, to give a concert similar to the
one given on James B. Castles grounds
at Waikiki recently.
Delegate Kalanianaole, in conference
with directors of the Builders and
Traders Exchange, returned thanks
| for the memorial of that body setting
forth needs of the Territory which it
deemed advisable should be laid before
Congress.
Cornelius O'Brien, Familiarity known
by many as Connie died in st. Vim
cent Hospital at Portland, Oregon. on
| August q, from blood poisoning caused
by an accident. Connie" had Travelled
considerably, having spent the last two
winters in Honolulu, where he made
many friends by his kind and cour-
teous manner. During his visit here lie
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. P Nc
| Grath.