The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-01
ROGUES THAT ARE FOUND
 IN GEOLOGICAL GARDENS
tcontInued from Thirteenth Paes)

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 -~c~-~~-----~------------- --------------------- v ed to take his place at the head of the l herd.
 Antonio's wound was a dreadful one. | With the full impact of his ton weight, Black Beauty had battered against the breast of his antagonist burying his ] frightful horn to the butt at the same time roofing upward with the full strength of his wonderful neck. Torn and ragged was the wound, ten inches | long, four inches wide, ana clear into a | lung. Every time the poor creature | breatehed the air wheezed out of the awful gore, and within twelve hours he was dead-a rogue killed and another evolved; for today Black Beauty is as vicious as Antonio was at his worst.
 A Mighty Rogue.
 One of the most mighty and most for midable zoo rogues is that rare captive, the rhinoceros. Among numerous dis tinet species of this animal some. like the Javanese rhinoceros, become so do- cile that natives saddle and ride them much as we ride horses. But some of these hldeous- headed ponderous and wonderfully agile beasts are among the most ferocious in captivity. The Central park menagerie in New York has one of this sort, Smiles" the black "rhino" COW from Africa, a sad instance showing how a wild animal may be made ire parably ugly by neglect and abuse.
 For ten years this unfortunate was cooped in q cage too small to turn around in, travelling 5000 miles a season with a circus, and when finally turned loose in a spacious elephant stall in the park she proved one of the most vicious beasts in the menagerie. Unable to see well ahead in a straight line lowing to the position of the eyes), and guided mainly by most acute scent and hearing, at first the least suspicious noise excited the COW to a frenzy, and she would rush like mad bull driving her fourteen inch horn through the two-inch sheath ing of her stall, and knocking the blanks into splinters In time after her stall was lined with sheet iron. she calmed down; but even today, after the 'rhino" has spent seventeen years in her new home, it would be worth his life for keeper to enter the stall without first roping and tying the beast. And, at that she once managed to break loose and came within an ace of getting her man.
 Early one morning Smiles keeper was alone in the big elephant house, forking straw in a corner of her stall. ropes crealxing, the "rhino' working and strain ing furiously against the letters around her neck and head, when, with a crack, one of the ropes parted. Startled. the man tried to make a rush for the door, but with a mighty twist of the ugly head and neck, the animal broke the re- maining rope, and at a glance the keeper saw he was not only headed off but cor- nered. The beast rushed with lowered head and horn tilted forward to run it's keeper through With a yell for help, the man bounded toward the wall. About eight feet from the floor was a horizontal ioist and with a superhuman effort he jumped for this, reached it. and drew himself up in the very nick of time. The ''rhino" struck him head first, roofing upward with her horn. The murderous thing struck in the opening of the trous- CTS leg, ripped overalls. uniform brooches and drawers from ankle to hip. but not as much as scratched the skin. The noise and rumpus of the attack brought assistance. and with pitchforks and iron bars the bad COW was driven off, and the keeper rescued from his perch.
 Numerous as the menagerie rogues and their diverse and perilous attacks may appear, the greatest rogue and murderer of them all remains to be described. This Is the rogue or must elephant. In hls frightful paroxysms of rage, the enor- nous animal recognizes neither friend nor foe. To sweep like lightning with the huge pythoon trunk, grasp a keeper and hurl him from on high or under frightful feet to impale him on polished, four-foot tusks or kneeling, crush him to an unrecognizable mass, this becomes the aim of the erstwhile gentle, willing friend With the supernatural strength of madness rogue will snap massive leg chains as if they were of bog grass splinter his stall with his tusks, and smash six-nch square timbers to fin ders.