Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-09

bamboo crates, SO small that, despite
tnelr weakness they hold the might
lest beast, because it does not get a
cnance to exert its wonderful
strength. Trundled in bullock carts
or on the backs OF unmoyed elephants
or swung on long bamboos that rest
on the shoulders of dozen coolies
they come into the ports.
When the wild gods or the Jungle
come In, there come in also victims
to make sacrifice for them-ponies,
sheep, zebu and other small cattle.
Many herds of the gentle things die
each week in the jungle gates to feed
Inc Wild prisoners. Then comes the
bargaining over their cakes. as the
animal buyer negotiates with the
catcher. These are men who know
the points of tiger and rhinoceros
as racing men know tn. points of the
horses. The trade that they make
Is as sharp as any ever driven by a
new England deacon over a 'hoss."
After the real troubles or animal
and buyer begin, and, strangely
enough, the mans are greater than
| those OF the beast. Though it seems
against all reason, the great cats
and, in fact, most wild animals, do
not suffer seriously from confinement
IN little cages. A lion or a tiger will
arrive in America in first-closs con-
dltion after a two months voyage in
wooden crate barely large enough
Ior MIN to turn, in dark ill-smelling
unventilated hold. His hide will be
as glossy and gorgeous as it ever
was in the jungle. His claws and
teeth will be as bright as If he had
sharpened them every day on prey
and tree. And generally his temper
vii De as unbroken though subdued.
| But the buyer has his money, often
his whole fortune, staked on the ship
that carries his consignment, and he
and his men are playing a lone
hand most emphatically. Few
thlngs are for them and most are
against them. In the first place.
they can't insure. The premium on
wild animal insurance insurance is
prohibitlve. Even companies that
take risks on plate glass windows
and blasting outfits refuse to take
risks on rhinoceros. monkey or any,
thing else that goes under the gener-
al headin of wild animal"
That means that II the weather is
Dad. So that the ship is delayed long
long enough for the beasts to eat up
all the food; or If something han.
pens to engines or screw; or if the
| snip strikes bad storm that floods
| ner hold. or she hits the North Allan
Tic when a midwinter gale freezes
the tropic-blooded brutes; or she hap.
pens to give an extra mean roll or
two that broke fastenings and SMASH
| ed cages-it may be. "Goodby, Jungle
people," overnight, or even In an
| hour, with never a cent to come back
for shipowners will not guarantee an
animal cargo, any more than insur-
ance companies will.
Feeding the beasts and cleaning
their cages is a merry job, too. with
the ship rolling at midsea and the
hold stuffed as full as it will go Of
cages, with everything in them.
from loving marmoset monkey to a
sieeplessly watching black leopard.
whose 1.-THE, hook-beset foreleg can
| shoot forth to an amazing distance
beyond the bars. A lurch of the
ship may throw the man against a
crate containing jaguar or a pan.
Their that will have him before ne
Knows that ne has slipped. While he
is poking in lions cage with a
broom in his back may be getting I'M
comfortably close to the box that
holds a nasty. undulsting heap of
cobras.
The elephants are almost sure TO
/, develop few cases of collie before
the voyage is done, collie being pet
disease of the big double-ended pigs.
The boa constructors will be almost
equally sure to develop sore mouths
and must be taken from their cages
~iAu nSio Wy tudlH strength while
antiseptics are administered. rhe
nyhlgau, too, loves to get a sore
mouth. The tiger gets cankered feet
These are not shipboard diseases.
but are complaints that animals Get
almost anywhere. But on shipboard
they are dismayingly difficult to treat
The sailors won't often help, for
sailors don't like animal cargoes, and
the officers fearing possible compIf-
ations OF marine law. take no
chances of being made responsible
for possible damages through order
ing their crews to help the animal
men.
So. full OF troubles the modern
Noah takes his ark across the Indian
| and western oceans-kicked by the
CRATES, that aim as surely as foot
bali players with hoofs that cut Ike
knife. bieten by the hypocritical
snake-faced camels; spat at by the
still NOR hypocririeal lamas trodden
on by the elephants; gored by the
gentle busk antelope; presented with
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