Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16

umphed, they triumphed Mr.. Seaton
Thompsons king LobO." One evening hunter
CARNATIONS of the relieved pOpulace, and Mon
tanas reign of terror over
Soon this wolf in all the righteousness of his
ferocious personality, will be behind glass
in the national museum, causing nervous chills to
wander up and down the spines of little boys and
girls. For so Hfe-like the figures produced by
the new taxdermy that visitors to the museum
never fail to cast a few awed gIances at some of
the specimens. The other day little girl grabbed
her mothers hand as they stood gazing at the
group of Roosevelt lions. She knew they weren't
real, she said but she was glad the glass
there.
The young taxidermist who is making this wolf
first made clay model of one he observed in the
national zoo. But it did not suit him 1t showed
the wolf with his head pointed in mild inquir-
ing attitude not at all in keeping with his Mon
tana history. So the taxidernis5 made another
model, which shows him prowling along with his
head lowered and his teeth barred in snarl The
teeth effect will be procured by using the actual
skull, and bit of Montana scenery will be repro
duced his background.
In ignominious proximity to the skin of this
erstwhile terrible character on the rack in the
Smithsonian taxidermy studio is a pigskin, which
is the next in order to be mounted. "The pig will
be much easier to mount than the wolf" said the
taxidermist, 'for 1 have his bones" And he held
vertebrae yard long, which the
pigs back, and few miscellaneous bones which
doubtless once performed the duty of legs. "AI
shall have to do" he continued IS to put this
skeleton together it with a plaster cast and
glue the skin on
When asked what the new taxidermy did when
it wanted eyes for animals. he went to a chest of
drawers in corner of the studio and pulled out
several small drawers. They full of little
compartments containing glass eyes. Occasionally,
d manufactured eye would not do and it neces-
sary to paint eye and then cover it with glass,
he said. Then he held up a box of black-headed
pins of the type popular with ladies who search
for notion-counter bargains For rats and mice"
he said In of the compartments few
glass eyes with long narrow pupils. These were
for deer
The foliage. shrubbery and soil that make the
background of many groups in the museum
props" sent in from the Of the hunt,
else they are made in and painted by woman
expert who is employed by the Smithsonian for
that purpose. The latter work is done cleverly
that the visitor rarely suspects the of wax. In
the museum, for example, there is group Of moose
chiefly the young succulent branches Of such
trees, of the group is shown with a branch
clinched firmly between set of large white teeth.
The whole thing is marveously executed that
you can almost the branch moving
One of the most interesting groups in the
scum is that of the East African water buffalo, pro-
cured the Roosevelt expedition to Africa. There
are several buffalo in the group of which
stand six-feet high amid tropical underbrush with
srow-white cow-herOns perched on their backs.
This sight is so unusual that everyone always stops
to read the card to side of the 1t explains
that the cow-herons have accompanied the bufaloes
through the bushes in order to harvest the grass
hoppers and insects aroused by the passage OF the
beasts through the underground. .