The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-19
Fa6fng Animal Horns.

Fak1ng Animal Horns.
1t is not strange that the desire for
the horns and heads of great game ami
mails should at times be catered TO by
the American fakir. whom. like the
poor OF holy writ, we have with us al
ways. But fortunately for honest peo-
PIE, the faklng" of horns is in most
cases impossible. 1t is decidedly risky
10 the party of the first part, and al
most certain to be found out Two
young taxidermists of my acquaintance
| once came to grief by a clumsy and
Ioolsn attempt at grating one pair of
elk an1IerS upon another to secure great
length Of beam. Faxed stdeath-lock''
antlers are becoming so common that
no collector need be without a pair.
Whenever a pair is offered you for in
spection, note whether or not the OPP
posing antlerS have rubbed each other
at their points of contact. II they have
not, then the antlers were interlocied
by the interposition of hot water and
wooden wedges.
1t is becoming rather common for
| Owls poll horns from Tibet to be mount
| ed by using 'scalps" of the white sheep
| of Alaska This is so cheap a fraud it
is a, wonder that any man will, through
! 1t, deliberately throw away his reputa-
occurred in Chicago, and quite recently
another broke out in Colorado.
| The drollest of all faxed horns, how
ever, appeared in a New York maya
i ZlIC dOOuI 1OUE Years ago. An enter
| prising assisting subeditor, having more
! ink than experience, decided he would
| make up an article about big Game
Hunting with a Camera" So he OBJ
tanned nom de plume, lot of animal
| photographs taken in the New York
and Washington Geological Parks, some
ink, pens and paper, mixed them thor
oughly, and made an article. It was an
unqualified thriller, and the climax
came to his adventures borne on the
| Y1<,s r1f 10 411l
| related that after several daily pettings
| of the fawn Of the aforesaid doe-while
| she was gadding about making calls
she suddenly returned to her fiat,
| caught him unawares, charged him re-
| peatedly, smashed his Imaginary cam
era. and in her final charge missed him
! and buried her horns in a tree!-FroFn
| Heads and Horns" by w. T. Horna-
| day, in the September Scribner's.
How He Became s'Sheriff."
| A H. Mutt, collector for the chamber
of commerce, is a tall and official look
| ing man, and one with an air of author
| ity. Perhaps this is the reason for his
success as collector, for he never has to
follow in the trail of delinquent long,
and one interview is generally sufficient
| to make his man pay up He is fire.
quently taken for somebody else, but
the most amusing mistake was made
by a downtown restaurant keeper the
other day.
Mr.. Mutt called on the man, who is
a German, during the slack hours OF
Tnid-afternoon, suppoSing that the best
time to talk to the man, who he imag-
\ ined knew the object of his visit, but
| was amazed to hear him break out in
a torrent of complaint at not being left
| alone, and at being bothered SO much
He tried to calm the angry restaurateur
and briefly stated the OBJECT of his
/ visit.
'.Aind you a deputy sheriff. exclaim-
ed the German. Il fought you vas a
deputy sheriff. und dot you wanted me
to serf on der chury again. Mein Gott
said he, ct hat serted on der chury tree
time, und I see you came in Wit a book
in your hant und ting I hat been see
lected TO serf again. und it make me
mad 1 tell YOU Mr.. Mutt told the
story when he returned to the office
and his friends were so tickled with II
that they christened him Sheriff" or
the spot The title fits him so wei
that it is apt to stick.-Los Angeles
Express.
Olives and Champagne.
George Won L. Meyer, the Ameri-
can ambassador to Russia, was grad
uated from Harvard in 1879, and
'79 man said of him at Narraganset
recently: ,.s...
meyer at college was humorist
His humor was always taking an ode
turn. One day. when he was. on
walking trip, two farm hands be
/. friended hiIl-he had lost his wallet
or something of that sort, ana the,
. loaned him the money for lunch-ant
in return for this kindness Meyer IN
vited the, young farm nahos TO oiii'
with him in Boston.
sHe gave them, for joke, tn
most foreign and outlandish dishes M
could think of. There were coos