Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-20
HOW THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY USES
ITS TOP AS A PApERWEIGHT.

side by side with horses The officers
told me that they had been broken 70
Ildlng. and that they We're easl1v tan,od
in another stable ! was shown the 20
suita or some crosses between tho Zebra.
ana the horse. one WAS a zebra ,n,iIe
u year old, whose mother was n bir
pay mare. This animal was larger
.nan the ordinary zebra, but It was
snapped IN just tho same way and il
mad every aspect of the zebra exoentinp
me white and black stripes. 1t was
striped In black over a BODY of light
brown. The stripes of the pure zebra
are OF the deadest black and the whitest
white When the Lord painted him He
uld II In such colors that he who runs
can read them.
Ihere are many zebras In the interior
OF German East Africa. and they arc
"',en snot and eaten by the hunters.
AS 10 hunting this country promises
20 De more popular than British East
AFRICA which is generally known as
the land of big game. German East
AIrlca is part of the same plateau.
az .i.. mere are regions in 1t which swarm
with antelores. zebras and other syarne
beasts. There are many lions and ieop-
afus, as wen as elephants, hippopota.
muses. and rhinoceruses. At r,resant 4,
costs $3.50 for the right TO shoot biz
game IN the British possessions. The
iSi nuns issue licenses TO shoot for 50 or
- each. but they require small royal
" 10 the government on each head of
game killed. The high rates are driving
me sportsmen out of the lands north OF
mere, and eventually the Germans VIII
nave the geater part of that travel.
THE PETS OF THE BLACK cONTr-
NSNT.
While on the subject OF anima1s
want to tell you about the queer pets I
ma In this part of Africa Think OF
holding baby leopard in vour Ian, or
OF littinR up a lion by the nape of the
neck This Is what have seen done in
,he past week The baby lion was at a
,iotei mere, He was tied by a clothes
me and / was able TO pet him without
oeing hurt | took hold Of the skin OF
ms neck and lifted him on the ground.
aIthough II strained my arm to do so.
ON Lake Victoria [ saw a pet hyena.
ana at one of the native villages found
several pet nntelopes Pet sheen and
goats are common among the Africans,
and there are certain tribes in which a
sheep win follow its master gbont ana
come TO him when called In Uganda
sheep are often petted They are fat
tailed animals, with hair as coarse as
that of tin-can-fed American goat.
they ara usually white in color, al
though some are as red as q blood bay
lttiSfs III lpul tS Edlaarn STOPPED
with a man who owned a pet leopard.
II was only a few weeks old and was
as tame as n cat.
The captain on one of the Lake Vic
toria steamers has several pet mon
keys, dog-faced baboon. and some
parrots The parrots have silver gray
feathers on their bodies and their wings
and tails are bright red. They talk in
the native language and whistle in es-
peranto.
About the queerest pet bird have
yet seen on this continent IS the whale
headed stork OF Uganda, one of which
has been sent to Khartoum and is kept
there in the gardens Of the Slrdar. The
bird is found all around Lake Victoria,
and especially at the source of the Nile.
II is as big as the largest turkey COB
bier. and It's head looks AS though II
had been chopped out of a telegraph
pole and then hung to its neck. This
stork has long legs, and 1t walks about
with great dignity. It looks sleepy, and
1t does not seem at all afraid. l took
n snapshot at the bird with my camera,
standing within a few feet of it at the
time, 1t did not bulge. but gazed a,
me out of its bleary eyes as though IL
thought me a fool.
FRANK 6. CARPENTER,