The sun., 1903-12-06

| ever See, t1dt WOt u is, SIT, dIu q VI ltdi
your and to pieces in a minute sir"
The second mate OF the rusty high bowed.
iron tramp 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 trying frantioally to break the iron bars.
Failing, he lay on his side and ripped at
| the wooden back of his cage And all the
time he screamed and roared
"Pooty fine tiger, dat said the Swiss
animal man. He had just clambered
aboard to look over the cargo of beasts
tiger, yes Nice boy, nice boy. So-o-o-o
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 a yell Of warning. But he stopped
short in amazement SO profound that he
suffered over his swearing.
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 rumbling from his vast interior.
Now, this tiger, was a .iungle-caughl
beast, and he had been shipped straight
from the trap to the coast, and straight from
the coast to America. And from the day
on which the woven baske, cage OF BAN
boo surrounded him until the day of the
ships arrival at her New York pier no
human being had approached him without
paying for il.
Consequently, when the animals were,
of the ship, the Swiss animal man was led
to a corner IN a sailors tavern near the
| pier and cross-eXamned.
| Well, he gao, -, d,rt hnow what you
want to know. Animals is like anything
else. You got to know en-. and when you
! Ia,, ,tx,, tclfinr
more"
"Yes, but how did you know that you
could PIT ,bnt strange tiger that you had
never seen heiale, and that had never been
| touched bafore?"
| aHow l>nov, dat you amt going to bite
mo or hit ne. h"y? I knov.. dat. don't /!
| And I amt revcr secn you before nelder,
hey? I been N dc animal busr,e aa ;wenty-
! two years. and amt ne ver se.n beast
yet dat a ruan couldn't handle il he knoowed
| how kept once. And dat 'eat me.
| And the Swiss arirnhl men launched into
the story Of the mad Il phant OF New
jersey.
In the 'ng;nning the mao elephant wasn't
anintl farm in New Jersey where the
Swiss aumrl nan's g" man" keeps his
pee, liar merchandise I'll 1t Is csll.d for.
He was n big elephan. and wort. mncl,
money, 50 the orders %ers ere, that extra gooo
Every day he was led out and fastened
by a great chain TO tree on the farm.
The chain was long enough 70 give hiIn
considerable scope.
Now. one evening there vas a party III
the village near the wild animal farm,
! and the employees Of the bei Ct storage
place went to it in such hurry that they
| forgot TO lead the elephant indoors. That
night it showed. and when the employed
! got back they found that the elephant ha q
! gore sr.'d.
The elephant had trampled he snow into
a circular path about the tree Every time
he finished a crazy rush around the circle
| he turned at the tree and drove his head
against it.
| ing his t,lsks around its roots and striving
haul It ont $ Of the grS9p1nddi q hgs Again boe he
| weight against the chain
/ The animal men tried every scheme they
! could think of to calm him. 1t was almost
noon the next day when the men acknowl-
, edged themselves beaten.
The mad elephant was still tearing around
| and around his endless circle. The tree
was giving way slowly, but surely Not a
man had managed to pass chain around
! him.
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
country. The elephant expcr, demanded
! full list of symptoms, and then answered
| lrurriecily that he was too busy
! The old man" hustled to New York in
! person. There, near the Madison Square
| Garden, is harroom patronized by queer
lot of customers. They are lion trainers.
! elephant men and all sorts of experts in the
| wild animal line.
; 1t required some hours to induce any of
| them TO wander out to widest New Jersey
| to subdue mad elephant, but at last three
OF them went.
They got there none too soon. All hands
at the farm were preparing TO hunt cover.
The tree was almost out of the ground.
| Without wasting time in parley, the
three elephant men armed themselves.
| One took an elephant goad Another
selected sapling. The third grabbed
two-tned ptchfork
| ground on one side Bang went the sapling
/ straight down on the big, bulging forehead.
The elephant shook his head and charged,
| Dig! went the goad deep into his flank,
| driven with force that made the wlelder
Of the weapon grunt; The elephant turned
quick as flash and rushed the length of
| his chain.
But he recoiled with scream The
pitchfork man had begun. Jabl jab!
| lab! straight into the sensitive trunk went
the two tines
squealng, shreking, screaming, trumpet
| ing, the elephant stood still for moment
but only for moment. Then he coiled
his trunk between his tusks to protect it
|
the man with the goad. Only a binding
! blow from the sapling saved his foe
Dusk came and black night came, and
still the men fought the beast They knew
that now it meant probable loss Of human
life and certain destruction of va liable
property if they gave the brute a chance
to tear at the weakened tree for even n
/, moment
So, steadily, continually. they ham
mered stabbed and clubbed the mon
ster. Other employees took a hand. and
for three hours a steady rain Of blows fell
on the elephant the poor, mad, brave old
beast who sobbed at last, but still would
| not yield
At last long after midnight, a new and
| mighty man took turn at the saplng,
and with terrific blow he brought the
beast to his knees. In another moment
| he was up again as pmcky as ever. But
| in that moment chain was passed around
! his hind leg. and its other end was fastened
| to stake driven deep in the earth beyond
! his reach.
/ TRY as they would. the beast was not
! to he caught mapping again and no more
| chains could he secured about him SO
! until dawn tine watchers c'rcled arouhd
/ and Ground. eauiug in a0d delivering
! blow or cu, whenever the elephant began
| IN lear anew al the