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The Washington herald., 1914-01-04

road train in which I was riding, and
thought every minute they would tie
themselves into bowknots and fall down.
$500 to s., 500. Indian elephants are nearly
as cheap as horses They are commonly
used as draft animals. One lumber COM
pany works 1900 of them every day.
Small zebras are selling for $50. The
large Grevy zebra of Abyssinia, which
gets its name from the former Presi-
dent of France, brings s. 300. This Is the
zebra with which our Agricultural De-
partment is experimenting in an attempt
to produce hybrid work animal
Lions can be bought for 500 Large
lions of good body and having long. full
names sell for as much as 81, 200. Tigers
vary in price from $500 to $500. The
Malay Peninsula tiger brings the former
price. 1t is small, but beautifully colored.
An Indian tiger. which is large and short
haired, and the Siberian tiger, which has
long hair as a protection against the cold.
are worth from sf,o00 to 81 200 apiece.
"A large, healthy polar bear can be
had for $500. Brown Alaskan bears are
quoted at from 500 to $500. We paid $50
for cub and freightage besides. 1t now
weighs 1.ls0 pounds. Black bears, Of
the Andes would bring a very large price
either in Europe or the United States.
1t is black and has white circles around
its eyes. There Is one in New York, but
know of no other in this country.
There are many kinds of antelopes. A
big show can be made Of them on a very
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little money. After the purchase Of the
high-prtced animals. a geological park
can be filled with monkers. foxes. wolves
and SO on. A long python. for example.
VIII cost $500. but rattlesnakes as thick
as ones wrist can be obtained In Flor
Ida for IS apiece. Copperheads are even
cheaper. King cobras are dear because
they have to be brought from India and
for the additional reason that their bite
Is fatal. The risks of handling increase
their price.
In the matter of BIRDS Mr.. Baker
continued, The public will be surprised.
no doubt, to learn that cranes are worth
anywhere from SIS to $50 each. A white.
or whooping crane, would bring almost
any price the owner might ask This
crane, once abundant, Is now practically
extinct. I don't know where one could
be bought even for $500.
"A man in Kansas wrote me a few
years ago that a white crane was living
on the river bank some distance from
his house. He wanted to know IL !
would like to add it to the bird colony
at the National Geological Park. / wrote
by the next mail that IL he caught the
bird alive to let me know. I never ex-
pected to hear from him again.
But he got the crane. He told me
that he crawled down to the river bank
and hid among some willows. When the
crane appeared he ran out and caught
II around the body. II is a wonder it
didn't dig his eyes out. After a good deal
of tussling. he got the crane to the house.
wrote him full shipping directions and
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Arthur B. Baker, Student Of Animals and One Of the Mos,
: Experienced biologists n the World, Believes that
They Are from the Same Parent Stem

his funeral. though they were supposed to
be the chief mournern.
So began the National Geological Park.
Mr.. Baker helped to build the first shed
He and Dunk have been comrades ever
since Now, after twenty-three years in
Washington. he 10 going to Boston,
where, as director of the Franklin Park
Zoo. though he Is the most modest OF
men. he hopes to gain new distinction In
his profession. He followed Col Roose-
welt into Africa and brought to Washing
ton five lions, a leopard. q zebra, and
number Of antelopes. The animals had
been captured by William N. Mcmillan,
OF ST. Louis. who owns a farm Of 1900
acres In the big game country. near
Nairobi. and who raises cattle, horses,
and ostriches and traps wild animals for
his private menagerie.
Some Animals Are Worth 100000.
How much money" I asked Mr..
Baker. is needed to stock modern
sociological gardeng'
Exclusive Of land and buiidines," he
answered. ''for which almost any sum
can be spent, about 100000 would be
required for the purchase Of a really
fine and complete collection of birds,
snakes, and animals. OF course, there
are animals which cannot be obtained
for either love or money-the bongo, for
instance. which is found in the forests
has never been caught alive. so far as
l know.
''The bongo is a beautiful antelope,
having brown hair, white stripes running
down its sides, and black spiral horns
tipped with white. Fine specimens of
this animal are on exhibition at the Ma
ttonal Museum. trophies of Col Roose-
gelt's celebrated hunt No price has ever
been put on a bongo, because none has
ever been offered for sale, but I suppose
New York. Berlin. or London would read
lily give $4,000 or more If one could be
obtained.
Another almost priceless animal is the
okapi, also found in Africa. 1t Is striped
like a zebra and built like a giraffe Sir
Harry Johnstons-discoyered the animal
in 1902 and 1t was named the okapia john
stoni in his honor. Its mixture of colors
include purplish brown. red, white, buff,
and black. Like the bongo 1t has de-
feated all efforts of man for its capture
should say that an okapi would also be
worth s1o,00e If a dozen or more, how
ever, should suddenly appear in the mar
ket the price would drop to a much lower
level.
THE pigmy hippopotamus, whose hab-
Africa, and which is about the size of a
fat barnyard hog, is selling for $500. The
so-called white rhinoceros. though its
color is really a dirty gray. is quoted at
$4,000 This beast weighs about four
tons.
WAY Giranes Are Hieh-priced.
so far" Mr.. Baker went on to say,
81 have been talking about the value of
It, A.
forests Giraffes, too, are valuable. Their
transportation, because Of the length of
their necks. is expensive and difficult.
They are worth in the neighborhood of
5000 delivered in New York. One was
bought recently, SO / have been told, for
$500 less. They are funny looking ami
NAL when they run, seeming to trot with
their front legs and to gallop behinc.
Eight of them followed an African rail
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For the Past Twentythree Years Has Mainly Dwe Amsas
Animals and He Sees Many Habits Similar to
Those Shown N Human Beings

limb was blown down, and over thu
bridge thus made eight Of the racoons
escaped. There are several hundred
acres Of woods surrounding the park.
The racoons had all the essentials and
conveniences, consequently, for resuminx
their former life, but every one Of them
returned In course Of time. We would
find them sinely and in pairs curIed I'D
outside the fence surrounding their old
home. Moreover. q sick captive beast is
given medical attention. Fed. housed.
protected, and doctored. the park or
menagerie animal has what most human
beings would call a soft snap"
In what ways are the people benefited
by geological collectionsr'
'sThe advantages, II seems to me, are
obvious" Mr. Baker answered. Near
iy 100000 persons visit the Bronx Zoo
in New York annually. The attendance
at the National Zoo in Washington Is
often 5000 q day. Evidently the people
believe that the parks and the animals
they contain are of value. 1t Is good FOG
any man to spend his spare time IN the
open air. Then city parks are democra-
tic institutions and are open alike and
visited alike by all classes Of people. Be-
fore a cage of lions may be seen the
rich and the poor. Children, on idle days.
ask their fathers to take them to see the
animals. Possibly some or the fathers
meant to 90 elsewhere
Parks keep families together. In Ger
many. notably in Berlin. people meet
their-friends In the animal garden, where
they can get anything they want to eat
at fine restaurant and where two
bands play throughout the evening. The
Geological Park in Washington is part
OF the educational plan followed by the
public schools. Whole rooms of children
accompanied by their teachers make
stated visits to the cages and yards,
afterward writing descriptions of what
they have seen
parks are always popularized by ami
mails And the interest in animals is
growing. Our recent laws. State and
national, bear out my statement We
are conserving wild life. and by and by
will turn 1t to profitable account 1t will
not be long before farms for the raising
of foxes, minks. martens. skunks.
racoons. and other fur-bearing animals
will be doing a steady business. There
Is money In the fur-producing industry.
Silver and black foxes, which are mere
ly color deviation from the red fox,
are worth $4,000 a pair for breeding pur-
poses A single skin has sold for s. 500
Our interesting friend, the wild animal,
has as bright a future. socially and finan.
cially, as any one know Of"
Copyright. 1914. By James B. Maro-)
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by JAMES n. MORROW.

Having lived with animals.t wild ones
and tame ones, from his boyhood up Ar
thur B. Baker nks that they can ree-
son among themselves and communicate
with one another, and that men and apes
are distantiy related by blood.
Mr.. Baker il one of the most expert
enced biologists in the world and mas
studied birds, reptiles and mammals IN
Africa, Canada and the United States'
He has dug them out OF the earth hun
dreds of years after their death ana
has scrutinized them as they SUNK or
crashed through the forests and as tney
paced back and forth in their cages
and dens.
MAN and the ape" he said, "sprans
from the same parent stem. There 10
no doubt of 1t. Anthropologists, gen
orally, so believe. Men and apes wefe
brothers at enc stage Of the earths evo-
luton. They came, one might say, to
q fork in the road The ape went one
way; man went the other way.
TT is often difficult to tell when an
Gent skulls and bones are found In ex-
cayations whether they belonged to
high order of apes or a low order OF men
There are apes and apes nowadays, as
there are men and men. Savages are
men. Cannibals are men.
IAN ape in New York eats at table
Il
mouth with a napkin. Men and monkeys
perform in about the same way when
thew are angry. Nor has man lost his
ancient and ape-like propensity to snow
on Other analogies might be men,
toned"
Though he goes home at night, OF
course, Mr.. Baker for the past twenty
three years has mainly dwelt among
animals. Back in his youth he caught
butterflies and stuffed squirrels, rabbits
and owls In manhood he became con-
nected with the Smithsonian Institution.
The National Geological Park. which con-
tains one of the largest collections Of ami
mails in existence, is, in a measure, his
own creation. He, Dunk and Golddust
were its earliest Inhabitants.
Started with Two Elephants.
Dunk and Golddust were elephants.
They became personally acquainted after
the fashion of elephants with practically
every tourist who came to Washington.
Children in all parts of the United States
remember them more wildly, perhaps,
than they do the White House or the pill
Jared Treasury. They were owned in their
travelling days by Cooper, the Snowman.
Dunk, who is still living, is a very large
elephant. He and another elephant, their
interests or ambitions clashing, fought at
every opportunity, breaking up consider
able of Cooper's property and giving the
circus parade each morning a tang of
danger and uncertainty.
So Cooper wrote that he would give
Dunk to the nation. Millions ofNpersons
had seen him and still loved him, and
he was. Cooper might add, something of
a national institution. A shed was quick
Iy constructed in Rock Greek Park. A
few weeks later Dunk arrived with the
circus and became a permanent resident
Of Washington.
Mr.. Cooper also presented Golddust to
the American people, saying he feared
that Dunk would be lonely without a
sympathetic companion. Golddust. now
happily no more, was little, mean, and
7isreputable. Mr. Baker and Dunk
showed no special grief when attending
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who, forseeing that their supply Of as
pen would be consumed In two years,
undertook the opening OF new territory.
They dug a canal from the stream on
dam. flooded the land nearby. and thus
developed a means Of Transporting an ad-
ditional stock Of aspen growing con-
siderable distance from their habitation.
They looked into the future. and that Is
the point Of Mr.. Mills story, and safe
guarded themselves against starvation"
DO animals communicate with one an
other?'
Surely. Every boy in the country
knows that a hen has a vocal method
Of warning her chicks to hide in the
grass and leaves or find refuge under
her wings. When a rooster comes
upon . rare tid-bit he notifies his
harem. II he sees danger, he sounds
an alarm. In the first instance the
hens run to him to share in his dis
covery. In the second, they seek
means Of escaping from q hawk or
some other enemy.
A Jack that Turned Rebel,
Nearly all birds and many animals
make love with their voices The call
ing moose and bugling elk thereby get
into difficulties. Hunters hear them.
and their counting is often stopped by
a bullet. Twenty quails will arise
from the stubble of a wheat field ST.
multaneously. A sign. with the veloci-
ty of electricity. has gone through the
convey.
wild stations guard over and COM
mand their wives. The most sagacious
leader of herd of wild horses I ever
knew about was a jack, which, escap-
ing from his owner and civilization,
became a rebel against man and a
great equine general. though an ass.
He had learned much in the stable
and the field about human nature, and
applied his knowledge In establishing
and then in maintaining his own do
minion."
Isn't 1t unfair to wild animals to
lock them up in dens and cages? /
asked.
There are but two main parts in
the life of a wild creature" Mr.. Baker
replied. He is concerned equally in
getting something to eat and in pro-
tecting himself against his enemies
Whatever else comes within his ex-
perience is secondary. He spends his
days and nights in looking for food
and in escaping from danger. Caught
and confined by man, his principal wor-
ries are over. Man feeds him and
provides him with a sanctuary.
"one sees a grizzly bear or a Bengal
tiger marching to and fro across his
iron bars and is sorry. believing that the
animal is longing for the mountains or
the jungle. When a wild beast PAGES
its cage the spectator may console him
self with the thought that the beast is
healthy and active. The seemingly con-
tented beast asleep in the corner may
be Ill or gorged into stupidity by his
dinner.
"A mule deer jumped fence and van
ished in the woods. We sent men out at
once. but their quest was unsuccessful.
In two days the deer was found at the
gate of its Enclosure. II had tasted free
dom and found it bitter. No doubt some
dogs had chased II. Anyway, IL was
weary of the world and was home again.
Our racoons live in a large tree, which
Ia shut in by a wire fence. One night a
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BE RICH AND THE WORLD L.
WITH YOU.

By MISS MoRRIE BoDLEY NORRIS.
II you've plenty O. money. Hiram.
You may weep in a weeping thrung.
Fer yer friends al cluster bout ye
And sorrov when aught goes rrUus
II you've plenty o money. Hmm.
You nay laugh. and the echoes ring
With = chorus o. friendly ha-ha'a;
There's loads who'll sing when you sing.
But you want to weep in solitude,
To be al alone when you sign.
To laugh without the chorus
Just you lose your mnnsg. Hi
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SUGGESTIONS FOR TRANSFERRING THESE
PATTERNS.

HE Window pane method 10 perhaps the simplest
and Z particularly successful when the material
e thin such - batiste, lawn, OF handkerchief
nen the best plan pin the sheet Of paper and the
material together apd hold them up against the window
pane and With sharp pencil trace the dealsa on the
tabre OF else lay the material the pattern top Of
table O. other hard surface, and carefully tsce the
design With we'll pointed pendl, the design may alse
30 transferred to heavy material by using piece Of
transfer or carbon pape to Be placed between the pat
clean Hue,
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MO. 7e5 is q design for embroid-
~ ering a Blouse Front. Collar
and Sleeves in Punch Work
and Solid Embroidery. The ribbon
design can be worked solidly Or out
lined, the leaves and dots solidly or as
eyelets. The stems are to be outlined.
When making the Punch Work for
the back ground which is stamped
in rows Of small dots use an en-
broidery frame or hoop, and three
sided needle with q large eye.
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nRAnE. HI AcuCamJcz cAr1uRL Q JEkNAN

lay in peace undisturbed A busy spider Lad
woven \ trap across the handle to the quaint
lock. The box was still badly stained from
its immersion in the salt water. At a Ger
tain time it was quietly withdrawn from
its hiding place. It was stealthily opened.
hand reached in and when it withdrew \
packet Of papers was also Withdrawn. The
box was again locked and lowered; and pres
emily the spider returned to find that his
cunning trap had been totally destroyed. With
tie infinite patience Of his kind he began the
weaving Of another trap Perhaps this would
be more successful than tn predecessor.
Later Henri Servan received = telephone
call. He was informed that his purpose in
America would be realized by his presence
at such and such q box that night at the
opera. Further information could not be
given over the telephone. Servan seemed well
satisfied He dressed carefully that evening,
called mp tie offce clerA - inquired If his
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box tickets for the opera had arrived. He
was informed that they had. Instantly the
spy, who had dared to linger about the hotel,
overhearing this conversation, determined to
notify Braine at once. And at the same
time, Norton. in disguise, determined not to
lose sight of this man whom he had set
himself to watch. q
The spy left by one entrance and Jim by
another. Jim had learned what he desired:
that the Russian agent would be followed to
the opera and that it was going to be diff
cult to hand the documents to him. The
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pose," laughed Jim. "well. I must be ON
my way to make that flyer"
The two shook hands and Jim hurried of.
Tie butler watched him till he disappeared
down the subway.
Hes a good lad" he murmurej, "and
brave lad; and money is only incident
in human affairs after all. III be a good
angel and let the two be happy, since they
love each other and have proved it in a thou
sand ways"
For a long time the leather box across
which was inscribed Stanley Hargreave I"
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BE careful And come to the apartments
just az soon rs you can"
.I'na BE- careful" Braine declared, sasilly.
You can watch the play if You wish"
When Servan entered the limousine he was
quietly but forcibly seized by two men who
had been lying in wait for him, due to the
apparent treachery Of the chauffeur. Servan
fought valiantly, for all that he knew what
the end Of this exploit was going to be. One
of the men succeeded in getting the docu-
ments from Servants pocket.
Done, my boy!" cried the victor. Give
him crack on the COCO and wen beat 1t"
Just minute, gentlemen !" said q voice
from tie seat at the side Of the chauffeur.
III take those papers" And the owner
Of the voice, backed by cold, sinister looking
automatic, reached in and confscated the
spoils of war; And /, shouldn't make any
attempt to slip out BY the side door,"
Thanks my friend" said Servaa, shaking
himself free from his captors.
Don't mention it." said Norton aimiably.
We thought something like this would hap
pen. Keep perfectly quiet, you chaps Drive
ON. chauffeur: drive ont"
Yes, my lord! To what particular polics
station shall. l head this omnihus?"
The nearest, Jones; the very nearest you
can think Of Some day, when I'm rich, IN
hire you for my chauffeur. But for the pres
emit shall expect at least box Of Partegas
out of that hundred"
Jones chuckled. I'll buy You a box out
of my own pocket. That hundred goes to
charity"
Here we are! Out with you," said jim
to his prisoners. He shouldered them into
tie police station. to the captains desk
What's this?" demanded the captain.
Holdup men," said Jim. :. Entered this
mans car and tried to rob him"
Uh-huh! An who're you?"
Jim showed his badge and card.
Ohio! Hey, there: mean you'll" sai1
the captain, levelinx finger at Otto. " Lift
up that hat; lift it up. Sure, its Tountaia
Pen Otto! Well well; an we've been lookin'
for you for ten months ON the last forgery
case. Mr.. Norton, my thanks. Take 'em b.
low, sergeant. You'll be here to make ths
complaint in tn mornin., sir." be added -
Servan.
If It Is necessary.
1t may be against Otto's pal don't
know him."
Very WELL
And Jones and Norton and Servan troops1
out Of the stat3oa.
At last Jones and the reporter entered
cheap lunchroom and ordered coffee and toast.
You're wonderful man, Jones, even II
you are an Ensiishnan," said Jim % ~
called for the check
: English? What makes you think a.