The Forrest City times., 1910-08-19

rows of glowing green eyes and great teeth with the flash of red tongue writhing between A zebra switched the reporter with hls tail and he turned onfy to jump almost of his skin as an elephant touched him on the other shoulder with his trunk He was hardly over his when, zip, leopard cached out after his coat tail
 In one way this lower deck section was a good place to visit; the joy and relief in being able to leave 1t furnished the biggest and most absorb ing sensations that this monotonous world has held for the reporter in the last few months at least.
 Bartes Co., are the largest dealers in wild beasts in this country
 "A large wild animal dealer" said our inform, ant, imports considerably more than hundred large wild animals each year. For instance our record for one year which happen to have at hand. shows that We imported In that period 20 elephants, 55 eamels, 20 tigers 5 lions 45 leopards. Zo pumas. IS partners and hundreds of birds and monkeys and small things. Cubs-hon and tiger and bear eubs-are in special demand by wealthy families. They reared and petted like kittens, but ln the end they outgrow their playfulness and the families who bought them from us are only too willing to pay Us 10 come and take them away when they attain any sort of growth, We have received many orders fer hippopotami. but the beasts are hard to capture and ninety nine times out of q hundred they do not live through the voyage. In fact. menageries throughout the coan- try have to depend Of late years upon the progeny of the hippepotami in Central Park. New York for specimens.
 Like all animal dealers maintain expert animal catchers in all parts of the world and is these men who fill the ships which arrive here
 The Hagenbeeks have two collecting stations one in Calcutta and the other in Aden Arabia From this point tue animal catchers go forth and spend months in the wiIds returning to the stations with their catch We ourselves send catchers direct from this eoantry-at present have men in South America the hot sands of Africa in the Himalayas and elsewherS, filling our orders One of them was recently in Arabia camel hunt two are now in the East Indies trapping tigers and so they are spread about in places where wild beasts abide
 Sometimes We receive an order for a large number of elephants. We telegraph this order to our eatchers in the elephant country who after organizing the natives into a hunting band pro eeed to collect the desired number \ huge in- closure is built in of the main elephant paths and at night when the big animals come to feed they driven into the inclosure or keddah by means of fires and shouts and the firing of guns Reaters on tame elephants then ride into the in- closure and rope the beasts and in a short time they become accustomed being led about Ele- plants are naturally mild, and were this not the case they never could be captured because of their great, hulking strength.
 The natives also captured elephants in pits. barbarously cruel method in which more than 90 per cent are killed by the fall The animal eatehers take tigers and lions in pits also They dig hole. cover fl with mating and place on this mating dead goat At night the lion or tiger steals from his lair. sees the goat and springs upon 1t. The matuns, of course. gives way and down into the pit goes the roaring beast Then the catehers run up and throw nets into the pit and the struggling animal soon becomes hopelessly en. tangled. Nooses are then lowered into the pit and the beast Is dragged ont to the cage Six out of every ten are killed in thls process Leopards and iagaars and the smaller animals are caught in