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HEARTS OF GOLD;! ? OK, b fc The Heiress of Maole u Leaf Farm. n fj n BY C GENEVIEVE ULMER ? CHAPTEB m. W A 8TARTLW0 ACCCSATlOTt a "Bomething'b wrong!" Paul Dalton uttered the words mora d than once upon the day that preceded w the meeting of two precious rogues at si the Kidgeton tavern. The field hands repeated them as they f< cast askance glances at their master. a Farmer John was "out o' sorts," "In the dumps," with a temper "exceedingly o contrariwise," and a face that lowered ci like a rain-fringed cloud. All that day he barely spoke to Ruth: it he treated Dalton with gruff incivility; e: and woe betide the laborer whom he lc caught shirking his duty. "Wheat's gone down." u 44XT. Ka'B o hftH hnrfiA* ?i JUO o V/OUgliv UU V- VMM MV..V I trade." "Mebbe it's Dalton. He's getting i ai rather spoony on the girl, and you know | g Farmer John has 6et his heart on a c< match with Ralph Prescott." These and like gossipy explanations n floated on the air?ail very far from the ci true solution to the mystery of Farmer t] John's bad temper, however. n Meantime, with Ralph Prescott nurs- d ing and developing his spite, and Farmer John storing up wrath for a near explo- o sion, there were two happy, unconscious d bouIs that saw only gold in the dazzling n eunshine, and fancied the songs of the 6< birds the sweetest music, in harmony o: with hearts vibrating to new and delight- h fnl emotions. They loved, these two, Ruth and r< Paul; they had loved lODg and purely, t< Wit in nnornrpcRMi fprvor. NoW. With C the revelation of the white violets, their eyes spoke; a tell-tale flush, an ardent tl glance, a murmured term of endear- tl xnent brought them to the threshold of life's sweetest, holiest experience. If a memory of a false position and a w mysterious past shadowed the lover's tl heart momentarily he drove it away. h< If a thought of the 6tern will of the E erratio grHndsire.of her stubborn father, with eyes blinded to the deficiencies of d< Ralph Prescott. came to Ruth's mind she c< "blotted it out with a realization of the fa great bliss that had come into her life to ol overshadow it all. So these two golden hearts, with an- y< een barriers already placed between y< them, glided on to the bitter fate that man's subtlety ana tne -wordings ui u v\ stern, merciless degtiny were weaving ti for them. tr "I'll not speak," muttered Farmer John as he entered the house for supper, "I'll not make a mistake and accuse an * cl Innocent man. I'll wait once more. I in should miss a penny the way I have fixed things, and I'll watch again. The w next thief who visits pjy room gets b< caught." io He was silent and vtsocial all the evening meal. Had he been less jj' absorbed in his (,rim suspicious thoughts of those present, however, he would have noted the lurking figure of Ralph Pvescott as he stole into the fcouse and then stole out of it again. The meal over, with a quick glance at Euth, Paul Dalton left the room. The farmer supposed he bad gone to * his own apartment aud sat down to read the weekly newspaper. 1C At his task?for it was such that even- n Ing, with his mind torn with conflicting doubts?Farmer John moved restlessly, ** lay down the paper, took it up again, pondered, dozed and finally fell into B u nap. He was aroused about nine o'clock by j the entrance of Paul Daiton, apparently from up stairs. ?, * A minute later Ruth appeared, her heeks flushed, her eyes vaguely questioning the keen glance her father fast- , f. ened upon her. About to ask her if she had been to visit a jrirl friend on the noxt farm, John Elliott was interrupted by the entrance of two farm hands. . They had decided to leave his employ with the morning, and, according to . agreement had come for their pay. ,, "Better stay in a comfortable home for j ? the winter, boys," spoke Elliott, always ; considerate to his help. j _ 5 ? t?i- mu__ I El ISO, xue men were oouuraws. J.ue,y jj bad quite a little 6tore of savings, and their ambition was to try the attractions w ' ' In the way of money-making of the great, magnetic city. f}. "All right. What do I owe you?" queried the farmer. j. "He'll tell, he's got it all down In black and white," returned one of the men, with a nod to Paul, whose figures ai never made a mistake in their admiring a.J conviction. ' ! Paul got down the books and stated the amount. Farmer John took out his keys, and, lamp In hand, proceeded to 6t hi6 room up-staiis. vt Those below heaid a startled cry a , minute later. Then the angry tramp of a hurried man's feet, and John Elliott . re-entered the room. * His face was white with passion, his 05 eyes were terrible. Absorbed with some v overwhelming emotion, he seemed on *.j the verge of choking. j T a?>a n/1 Vi a Vi/irA ^ V? a lnmn ] r> fVi a I xia uxic nauu, nc wvio uiv iuiu^j iu mo other, a roll of bank-notes. Placing the lamp on the table, trembling like a leaf, a pent-up volcano of rage, he counted aT vat several of the bills, and extended w them to the wondering Paul Dalton. 111 "There's your month's pay," ho said, w in a tone that grated on Kuth's alarmed ears until the shuddered. "Take it, pack your traps aud go!" "Mr. Elliott!" cried Dalton, in dumfounded bewilderment, "what does this ^ mean?" "Go!" snapped the farmer, savagely. Be wise, young man, don't tempt me to 8? ?peak! You know why. I've found you out. Go, while you may, before I forget that you were once honest, once a hoio to me. Gol" n "Father, are you mad?" cried Kutn, %dvanclng to Elliott's side. u: "This ain't your place to pp~ak," in- y, terrupted the farmer sternly, putting h her away with his hand. "Paul Walton, I have no time to waste on you. You've hi heard me?go!" tl "Not until I know what this extraordi ? ? w foonAnHoH A i nary accusation mt??uo, Walton firmly, and flushing with indig- w nation. "What does it mean!" fairly roared j fli Elliott, losing all control of himself. ni "You will have the truth, will you? You ' tt yon't leave matters as they *"" ? "What R does It mean? Dare you ask me, ingrate, hypocrite?" J( Ruth Elliott turned frightfully pale, but an indignant flush appeared on si either cheek. I "Father!" she cried reproachfully. 11 "Do not forgot that Mr. Walton is a j u gentleinnn." ' 11 *? A rmf PnrmAr I ^ .1 UCillUU. UIIIUVV* VV4U ? M.M.V Elliutt. "Ho, I call him ?a thief!" ? CHAPTER IV. C! DENOUNCED. p The soene that ensued to the wild declaration of Farmer John was a start- a ling tableau. - D boruewhore back In Paul Walton's t] Hie there had been a time when that roud-spirit of hi6 would have sprang to rms in a flash, at tho touch of the goad f injustice. His flashing eye6, hie quickening reath 6howed it now, as with clenched ande he strode forward, as if to lay the uthor of the daring accusation at his jet. Then, with superb control, and relembering that hie accuser was the ither of the woman he loved, tho young ian folded his arms calmly and said, in lear, steady tones: "Mr. Elliott, you will regret those un1st words. You are laboring under 3me honest mistake. I am no thief." John Elliott tried to crush the speaker 'ith a single look of utter incredulity nrl rtAn + amnf Then, firm in the conviction that auacious hypocrisy deserved its fate, rith merciless roughness he told his tory. He had missed various sums of money )r a month past, first a trifle, then quite large amount. Some one was in the habit of feloniusly entering his room and rifling the abinet in which he kept his money. At 6ix o'clock that evening he had vis,ed his room, assured himself of the xact contents of the cabinet, and had >cked it securely. Since then, no one had gone into the pper portion of the house except the ccused. At this statement, Dalton's lips moved s if to speak. Then with a start and a lance at Euth, he allowed it to go unDntradicted. When he went up stairs to obtain the loney for the men, Farmer John pereived to his amazement, as he opened ?Vimot +v.ot +Tr/-i of bank ic UiiiV Uj UUI?V w?? V ? - -, otes, representing nearly lour hundred ollars, were missing. He had entertained grave suspicions f his superintendent before. Impulse rove him to enter his room. A disarmged pillow on the bed directed b ?arch. Beneath it he had found?one f the packages, the one now in his and. More than that, on the floor of the 50m he had picked up a key. It fitted } the cabinet. Paul Dalton was an acomplished thief. "You entered my room to-night," was le unwavering accusation; "you stole le money." "He is innocent!" A wild, convincing cry, expanding ith the certainty of proof, sentient with le trustfulness of a loving woman's ?art, the words rang forth from Hutb lliott's lips. She knew! Oh! with happy, fervent ?light she realized the frail rock ol jrtainty upon which her prejudiced ***rirl o atunnnrlmift ffthrin .onci uau ucvwu w f suspicion. "Giri!" scowled Elliott angrily, "I told ?u once that this is no concern of jurs." "No, it is mine alone," interrupted ralton quickly.f "Ruth," he whispered imultuously, "silence! To reveal the uth, in his present mood, would invoke is deepest anger." With a moan Ruth Elliott sank to a lair, her face colorless, her heart flutter,g like an imprisoned bird. Paul Walton had spoken truly. He -- ? -v._ i !*. rr? as lLlLlUCtJXJ L; tun HUOII lU, iic nau uu> sen near his room that evening. A iving tryst at the moonlit glade had lied in those two precious hours, and er lips were scaled, because ne had ide her be silent. But he was innocent. Oh, the joy of ! Standing there, accused, mute for er sake, her heart went out to him in lengthened love. "You can give up the other package of loney or not, as you choose," spoke armer John. "I 6hall not have you rrested on account of your past serves, but you must leave this house to? ight; you mu6t go at once." "Innocent or guilty?" murmured Wal? in. ? "Innocent? Does the key show it? 066 hidden plunder show it?" "I never saw key or money before, ome one placed them in my room, some aemy " "Bah!" scornfully Interrupted Elliott, fou have heard my decision?go!" "He shall not go." Trembling all over, yet with resolute toe, Ruth stole to the side of her accused >ver. She caught his hand in her own. Love, nmistakable, unhidden from all the orld, spoke in her words, manner, and btitude. "Are you crazy?" exclaimed her father, marine vaeuelv at her glowing face. 3irl!" in a terrible tone" of suspicion, ivhat does this mean?" "It mean6 that I know him to be inocent?that, in one word, I can prove it e did not steal your money because he as not in the house to-night?he wm as not in the house to-night " "Ruth?Ruth, 6ilence! Do yon not see tat this will anger him " "I will speak! He was not in the hour.e, ?cause he met me at the stile. He met e there because our troth is plighted, id I love him against all the world, gainst all your cruol unjuBt accusaons." She flung herself into his arms as she ?oke, and then, woman-like, her rength, resolution, and deflauce unshed, and she burst into tears. Into the amazed face of John Elliott lazed a furious rage. "With a cry more like a roar than any T)?4k Illlg ClDt:, UC lUiC -LVULA1 UUUi UUO WttD^ : her lover. Roaring like a madman, he confronted aul Dalton, menacing him, anathemating him, ready to crush him with up:ted hands. "Thief! Miscreant! Hypocrite!" ho irly choked out. "Oh! I could forgive thief of money, but this?you 6erpent, ith your smooth, wily ways, to steal y girl's heart?go, 1 warn you, or 1 ill do you harm!" The two astounded laborers, well lowing Farmer John's ungovernable :mper, pressed Dalton toward the door. "With a last look at the crushed and eepimj Ruth, the accused turned upon it father. "John Elliott," he spoke firmly, almost idly, "some day you will regret your ujust accusation?the truth concerning lat will come to light soon. AS to uth, a heart of stone could not help >ving her. You drive me from your door, lined in reputation and happiness. I ill never darkefc its threshold again otil I can stand before all men, by our own words proven innocent of the ideous charge you bring against me." "That will never bo. Don't be in a urry, Mr. Paul Dalton. I have souieung to say to you." The impressive tableau was rudely iatiirKn/l Kir V* r\ inri??inr? K?? rifftfir r? lOi/u* yw UJ JCUIU^ uuiibViiU^ ords. The door had opened, and, his face ushed with drink and excitement, his lalevolent eyes glowing with the ccrlinty of a mean and crushing revenge, alph Prescott entered the room. "What's this?" thundered Farmer :>hn, his trows knit frowningly. "I've heard your talk from the outde," explained Frescott, glibly. "I've eard tills nighly indignant gentlelan's high-flown talk, too. He's inocent, is he? Then he's changed from :hat ho once was. Time to iiud him ut, Mr. Elliott?time to get him out of -? 1 wUaka Un'o InrL-or] n hvnn lO I1UUOU VtilUlO XIV o AL4AAVU, v* rite, a serpent, so long." "What do you mean?" demanded arrner John, dubiously. "I mer.n," replied Prescott, hie face flame with concentrated delight and lalignity, "that Paul Dalton is vforae nan a thief!" "Worse than a thief!" repeated Elliott, excitedly. "Yes, I charge him?and I dare him to deny it?with being an ex-convict!" ;to be continued. | CURIOUS FACTS. Dnrable shoes for men are now made of pig-skin. The World's Fair has two miles of lunch counters. In 1892 5,500,000 persons in this country had life insurance policies. A fraa library, to cost a million dol" lars, is to be established in Philadelphia. Eighteen hundred young -women graduated at the Boston cooking schools last year. The roofs of Egyptian temples are composed of huge blocks of stone laid from column to column. The Chinese, Japanese, Malays, Siamese, New Zealanders and North American Indians are beardless. A ship recently cleared at Liverpool which was built in 1836, but which Lloyds declared to be nerfectly sound. Fill a glass to the brim with water, and you may add to it spirit of wino without causing the water to overflow, as the spirit will enter into the pores ~r ?a ui LIIU watci. Most of the transportation in Hayana, Cuba, is furnished by little horses hitched to a victoria. There are 3000 of those rigs in that city, and but one horse car line. During the recent cyclone an old barn on the plantation of Mr. Johnson* near Quitman, Ala., was blown apart, but several hundred bushels of field peas that were upon the floor remained undisturbed, Forney Melhorn, of Smithfield township, Jefferson County, Ohio, sixty-five years old, has finished plowing thirty acres of land, using a team of horses, each of which is thirty years old. Man and horses finished fresh. Guttapercha was first introduced into Europe from Malaga in 1842. The annual constimption now amounts to 4,000,000 pounds, and the East Indian trees which supply the demand are diminishing at an alarming rate. A farmer who lives near Angle, JT. /"I Vioon mnrriorl fr?r npnrlv t.wpnt.V I VA, J J five years and has a wife and eight children. He claims that there has never been a death in his family nor the need of a physician for any member of his family. The Lnchsberg is a singnlar freak of nature in the shape of a disintegrated and phosphorescent mountain, near Alexandersbad, Germany. Its glowing appearance is due to the peculiar composition of rocks of which it is formed and the effect of sunlight on them. John Morgan, a farmer of Parkeville, Edgefield County, S. C., has greatly interested his neighbors by alternating rows of cotton with rows of speckled peas. He expects to have a crop of each, and to improve his land with the pea hulls, which are rich in ammonia, makinc a srood manure. An ingot of gold weighing 2} ounces and worth about ?50 is made by the gold beaters into sheets so fine that it would take 48,000 to measure an inch in height. By the labor of beating the gold acquires a value of $400, making over 26,000 sheets of gold foil or gold leaf, as it is usually called. A piece of genuine Japanese lacquer costs the native artist almost a lifetime to perfect, and is produced by hundreds of thin coats of lacquer laid on at considerable intervals of time, the value consisting rather in the labor bestowed than in the quality of the material used. First-class lacquer work can scarcely be scratched by a needle. People ot Ancient Yucatan. Although the language and history of the ancient people of Yucatan hava been lost to the world, they have left behind them monuments by which it is not difficult to determine the fact that in many respects they were of a wonderful as well as a warlike race previous to the discovery of the country in 1506. That they were warlike the early European adventurers found to their cost, but apart from that all along the lew-lying coast of Yucatan and extending inland are found small watch-towers of stone, standing on terraced mounds, so arranged that tidings of forays of enemies could easily be conveyed from one to the other. In addition, mural paintings of warriors in battle array have been numerously found. The wonderful character of the people is amply demonstrated by the ruins of their cities. All of these are declared by the Philadelphia Ledger to display remarkable architectural ability. Massive in structure, intricate, rich and grotesque in carving, many of these buildings stand to-day almost in their entirety, though nearly or quite 500 years have passed away since their erection. And all this rich carving and general stone cutting wae done by chisels of nephrite and mallets of wood. On immense terraces the temples of the people stood, while macadamized roads, raised two or more feet above the general level and surfaced with hard, smooth cement, led from terrace to terrace and from one community to another. A Distinctively American Plant. The partridge berry is a distinctively American plant and is an important element in American forest scenery. It is an inhabitant of almost every portion of the United States east of the Mississippi River, extending from its extreme northern to its southern limit, and it is rare that any intelligent writer gives details of the attractive vegetation of any part which interests him without including the Mitcliella repens in the list of species found there. It is remarkable that a plant so attractive in so many ways should not have become more attached to the public mind or receive more attention from polite writers, but Thomas Meehan says that he can recall 110 instance in American poetry or general literature in which the partridge berry | plays a conspicuous part. ?ne uiscovery of the white-berried form <vas first ma:le by Miss Kate Fisher Kurtz, of York, Penu.. and proved a source of great delight when communicated to Professor Asa Gr.'.y. There is no daily paper needed in the average small town. The Ladies' Sewing Society takes its place. I WILD BEASTS. j < HOW THEY ARE MADE TO PER- 1 FORM AT THE FAIR. I 1 A Day Spent With a Man Whose Life J Has Been Devoted to the Educa- ^ tion of Savage Animals?His ^ Methods Described. //OME here, Prince, old boy; I / come here !" V j The great, tawny mass Rlowly, majestically strode nearev, and when close to the man that had called him he rubbed his enormous head against the hand that was stretched out in greeting. The long, muscular hand of the man buried itself in the mane of the kineof animals and playfully stroked it, to the evident satisfaction of the great beast. The manner of the latter was a curious mixture of feline grace and canine affection, and the great pupils of his eyes dilated and contracted with the pleasure of being fondled.' , The man who thus treated a lion, a full-grown, able-bodied one, with a complete set of enormous grinders, and claws that would cleave a one-inch board, a roar that would knock down a World's Fair hotel and a stomach that would conceal a month's provisions for a small family, was Carl Hagenback, whose performances with i trained wild beasts, saya the Chicago i Herald, are among the chief attractions i of Midway Plaisance, at the Fair. A ] man who is on terms of the closest in- 1 timacy with lions, tigers, bears, snakes, i panthers, and other ferocious horrors of the desert and forest is a rarity in itself. But when that man has spent his whole life among such brutes, and has taught thousands of them during that time how to obey, perform and play, when he has had a score of hairbreadth escapes from the awful fate that has overtaken nearly every preceding trainer of wild beasts and when that same man is chockful of interesting, often blood-curdling, anecdotes and incidents of a biographical nature, he becomes an acquaintance doubly worth having. In the course of a day spent with this gentleman, who i6 by all odds the most successful trainer of savage beasts that the past or present knows of, a whole string of popular fallacies were reduced to deserved absurdity. First, as to the comparative intelligence, docility and reliability of the principal wild animals. Who would believe ] that the lion and tiger are, once < .1J brought under subjection, the most reliable and harmless pets? Yet such 1 is the case, if forty years' experience 1 enables Mr. Eagenback to be a ! good judge. Of course, he says, < no wild beasts are ever thoroughly i trained if brought under human influ- ] ence at too late a period in their lives. ] SufVi beasts. f.ven if taucht all that can 11 be taught them, are liable at any time to have their innate savage, instincts 1 break out and overcome in a moment 1 all the fruits of a tedious and painful 1 training. But when caught young? 1 in the days of babyhood?the lion and < the tiger are easiest to deal with. They i both learn their lessons well, and their < memory is tenacious and retentive. j They both appreciate kindness and feel l a steady affection for those whom they i have come to look upon as their friends. < While in course of training they must < be handled with great care, and pun- 1 ishment must be meted out to them j only when absolutely required for the j safety of the trainer or of the other t animals. But even then this punish- 1 ment must be made up for by redoubled f kindness soon after, so as to impress ] strongly on the minds of these animals i that it was punishment for the offense { committed, not cruelty, that caused 1 ^Vin4- llinif Vi O Vfl Tinf c III fill LU SUilCi, LfcUU bUUb vuwjr uw t v/ mvv j forfeited the good will of their friend because of it. The elephant is much more intelligent and cunningthan both lion and tiger, and he easily learns all sorts of tricks and stage business which require judgment, tact and the exercise of reasoning power. He, too, is very grateful for kindness shown and has a very affectionate disposition, but he is revengeful, crafty and never wholly reliable, but liable to sudden outbursts of fury, spite or willfulness. The bear is likewise very intellgent and mny be taught as many things useful or ornamental as the elephant. HAPPlf FAMILY j /~i\ N0" I ^ FIGHTING I joPlffl i ^ : Tnr MONKEYS AT.E TJTE Z'OTJCF, FORCE. | There :trc, however, ? great many vn- ^ j riciicK of tiu- bear family, ami these j I iliflVr hu'geiy among themselves in in- , a telkvtmU an:l moral qualities. The ' r least intelligent amonir thorn anrt the ! a leas? tractable is the polar bear, unci it c required years to teach the specimen j now performing at the Hagcnback v arena what little lm knows. The Araer- c ican bears, even the grizzly, are more f easily-managed and acquire certain uc- j eomplishments without much trouble, t The black Russian bear, too. is amen- c able to civilizing influences, and so is d the Alpine brown bear. Cut the cun- t niu^c.si and most comical as well as the t roost graceful bears are those from t Thibet and from the East Indies, es- t pecially from the Mulay Islanda. Those e ire musically inclined, and actually earn to step in fact with the grains if a waltz. All the bears, though, are lever wholly to be trusted, awi they ire of a combative nature, enjoying ights among themselvss as well as with ither animals. More deaths, too, are lue to bearish outbursts of anger than ;he public has any idea of. Alone at the zoological garden at Brussels three KINO CHARLES t ittendants were killed by bears within i short time, and there is no large menigerie, no zoological garden and no performing circus of any magnitude that has not had fatal accidents due to ;he irrepressible ferocity of the bear. J.t will De a surprise 10 many vo earn that there is a good deal of intelligence and a good deal of affection stowed away tinder the hide of a snake. Trainers know how to avail themselves >f this fact and in that way get results jut these reptiles that could not otherwise be obtained. But snakes, too, ire never thoroughly brought under subjection to the human will and their foracity and their ugly temper have seen the cause of many a tragedy that ;he press never heard of. When amjly fed, however, and treated with uniform kindness a snake may be taught nany things which one would hardly luspect. It is similar witljf alligators, vith panthers, leopards, pumas, aguars, the cinnamon and grizzly jears, and with many other animals ;hat are hardly suspectad of a fair imount of brains. Even the ostrich, though prorokingly stupid and intractable, may be educated into something vastly different DINNER TIME IN TBJB HAPPY FAMELV. from the wild bird of the desert. Once a consignment' of twenty-six ostriches that had been caught for Mr. Hagenbeck in northern Africa, during one of his long expeditions in that continent for the purpose of collecting large numbers of wild beasts for his huge Hamburg menagerie, escaped in Suez, just before being' loaded on board of a steamer that was to convey hhfim to TrieBte. The whole herd of buge birds escaped- direct into the Nubian desert and it looked as if they were a dead loss. The big collection 3f wild beasts of which these twentyux ostriches had fojmed part had been slowly gathered and then driven by dative servants a distance of 600 miles. During that time these aninals had become acquainted with ?ach other and made friends to some ;xtent. There were camels and antelopes and lions, elephants and Abyssinian goats in the collection, and Mr. Hagenbeck relied on the friendihip and on the gregariousness of :hose escaped ostriches in his little icheme to recapture them. And he lad correctly sized tliem up. He had i band of Nubian servants drive the joats and antelopes some distance into ;he desert, all in a heap, and sure rnough, one by one, the fleet ostriches o+ni'Tiad +/-> +h.-> fntrl. Avprv onfl of V V VAX AAV. V* VV ?MW ? hem. Panthers and leopards are the mo6t treacherous and the most difficult to aandle, they and the hyenas. Their hostility and natural antipathy to the Jogs are never overcome, and they will seize every opportunity to attack dogs, ;ven when sure to get the worst of it n a fight and knowing full well that ,hey will be whipped by the trainer jesides. They are always treacherous ind much more dangerous to handle ;han their larger and more powerful elations, the lions, Bengal tigers or aguars. They are cowardly and greatly Iread the whip, but that does not prerent them from scratching oi biting ;he hand that will lay the sco, irge on ;hem the next instant. However, with all these differences md with the further great diversity md individual disposition and characieristics, it is kindness and patience in ;he man that accomplishes the wonder'ul results in training that the public ;ee ocularly demonstrated in the Hagenjeck arena every day. All these brutes, vhether quite tamed or only partially " * ' i *- A I io, are amenauie 10 kiiiuub??, uuu iTfttitntle forms the principal lever by vhich they are moved to do as required. Another element necessary for the suc:essful trainer of wild animals is ableuoe of fear, an equable temperament Lnd instinctive liking for him on tbe >arl of the animal. For these beasts iftve their likes and dislikes, their oves and their hatreds as well. Mr. fuge.nbeek attributes his success with j ill sorts of saving! beasts and deadly cptiles largely to the fact that he loves ' ill creatures and in many eases feeln u renuine affection for his wards and mpils. Some attendants can never vin the confidence and pood will of ertain wild beasts, and whenever that art baa become appareut it is inuriuuK to the business to retain heir services. One particular lion'ss, for instance, could not be hanlled by anybody in the Hagenbeck esablishmont. She proved wholly invactable, and it had been already inended to sell the animal at a low price o a circus in Germany when Mr. Hagnbeck himself took her in hand. Then ' she readily and instantly yielded 'to c the Bympathetic influence her master c exercised over her. A yonng lion that c had proved quite unmanageable, and s that for four weeks had not learned a c thng, was recently in the sole charge of Philadelphia, one of Mr. Hagen- c beck's best trainers, Philadelphia i went into the lion's cage, and when the 1 lion disobeyed him, he went for him 1 single handed with a pitchfork, reduc- t ing him into complete subjection in- ( side of five minutes. Tha lion since ] fears, respects and loves his trainer 1 who, on his part, has not been forced ' to resort to punishment once since 1 that time. < T+ wrfltr onnnrl "if. ia nAi'PT- ^ *" > "? -- ?> , theless, a fact, that flattery, encour- ] agem^nt and commendation are among J the most effective educational methods employed at the Hagenbeck establish- I ment. A lion that has learned hie lesson ^ is immediately rewarded by a bit of < juicy steak, and the bear gets such f dainties as fruit, 6ugar, candy and 1 bread for a recompense. They are ap- ' provingly stroked or slapped on the { back?just as humans would be under ' the same circumstances?and the big ' felines, lions and tigers have enough of ' the cat nature in them to be fond of 1 being scratched on the head and neck. After the animal has been thoroughly trained?for which purpose it needs not only the services of an expert trainer, but also the almost constant attendance of some particular assistant ?it is punished with a rattan or with a tough rawhide whip only when the offense has been a flagrant one. The punishment is, in such cases, quickly and immediately administered, and soon after the same animal will be shown that it is forgiven by receiving ! Vvi4- s\f doinftr Ar o /toroea > DUUi^ L/XV UX UUXUUJ iv/uu Ui. u VWAVUWI One of the greatest difficulties in the laborious process of training is to wean the wild beasts of their inherited antipathies for other animaln, especially those belonging to a radically different species. As in the whole business of training it is patience, lots of patience, that is needed to overcome these feelings of aversion. For the recipe for training wild beasts is nine parts of patience and but one part of all the rest. The same thing, no matter how simple, must be impressed hundreds and hundreds of times on the brains of ? the animal in order to be thoroughly learned Once acquired, however, it is hardly ever forgotten again. But to get them first to live together ! and to perform side by side in the same arena, to dwell peaceably in the same cage, is a great difficulty. But ' since it ie an indispensable prerequisite ( 1 , 1 for everything that if? to follow the animals must be taught harmony and neighborly relations. Of course it is 1 only possible to teach young animals ! to forego their inherited hatreds? i adults are past redemption. Young < beasts?the younger the better?are i chained and placed in the same cage : (of course-out of harm's way one from ' the other) with other young animals of i different kinds. Thus they accustom < themselves to the sight, the odor and the peculiarities of each other and i begin to apprehend the fact that they < belong together and must, therefore, 1 get along with each other somehow, j By and by the tamer animals are al- i lowed to circulate freely among the 1 chained and half tamed ones, and at i last the point is reached when they < may be left to themselves, living peace- < ably together. During their hours of play and recreation this system of forming happy, though incogruous family groups, is seen at its greatest * triumph. To watch a lion playing tag with a polar bear, and to see an elephant and a tiger gamboling like merry boys at school makes one dream that the millennium cannot be far distant. Perhans the most distinctively motley ~~ X" " V v group that Mr. Hagenbeck ever gathered under the roof of one cage is the one that may now be seen, composed of six Javanese and Sumatrese bears, diminutive but very comical fellows, one striped hyena (one of the most intractable beasts), three codomonthys, one pig, one African hunting dog and several monkeys. And curiously enough, it is the monkeys that are the police force?the guardians of peace and order?in this motley throng. Like that superior animal, man, these beasts are also subject to all 6orts of disease. In fact, the mortality among them is much higher than it is among the human race. For this fact, of course, the inclemencies of climate are t largely responsible. The influenza f ^iplpl I JOLLYING tT A USER. d r rages among them to the same extant y that it did in the ranks of the human e biped*. Pneumonia, consumption, s dysentery, fevers-, stomach complaint, | u etc., are a frequent scourge among 'I them, and Mr. Hagenheck feels still t very sore over the fact that he has lost fi a large number of his most valuable q animals?and among them some of his o best trained and rarest ones, such as a e couple of highly educated black pan- t thers, some gorillas and maulrils, tl several chimpanzees, half a dozen b lions, tigers, etc.?since he expatriated g his big quadruped colony from Ham- a bu?g. All told, some 120 of ijis e trained beasts have succumbed to various diseases since he began training for the World's Fair. Monkeys in this d =====-'-j limate are- especially liable to lung [iseaees, and consumption is carrying iff a number ?f them at present, but ome of them, too, were killed by his . ?wn panthers and leopards. | Such mishaps, besides, are of frequent ' < >ccurrence in the life of a large dealer n and trainer of wild beasts like Mr.: lagenbeck. It may be interesting to mow that this man has, up to a year tgo, alone carried out of Africa 250 ;lephante, 375 giraffes, 200 antelopes, L80 panthers, 78 lions and 94 ostriches, 5esides 1856 snakes and crocodiles.' rhat of this large number, now and ^"1 :hen, there were some fugitives may jasily be believed. Thus, twelve ilephants that he brought with him Tom Africa as part of a large consign- .t I nent escaped, -while in transit, in J Vienna. Mr. Hagenbeck. however,! jot them all back- and by using the m following simple but original strata- ' 8 jem : He recaptured the youngest and jfl smallest elephant of the herd, and B then he pinched the ears of his baby ;lephant so persistently and vigorously n is to make the animal yell and roar 1 ind trumpet with pain, thus inducing * vll the tfther fugitives to return to the ' >. spot, driven back by curiosity and sympathy. STEPPING TO THE STRAIN'S OF A WAT/TZ. , Another time, just ou the point *?? loading his wild animals on board a steamer in Snez, Mr. Hagenbeck was leading a giraffe, having a rope slung A tightly around his right wrist. Sud- . i ienly the animal took fright and ran off with that harte and speed for which, ^ giraffes are so famous. More frooAkflB necessity than from choice Mr. Bagen^^^H beck, unable to disengage himself from^^HH the rope, was obliged to share theH^fl flight of his giraffe. More dead than^RH| Via TOOO finollr rocmiuA anmA tance from town, after having beer dragged along for several miles by thf panicky animal at a six-mile-per-hom H H jait. Another time an enraged and entirely nntamed elephant made Hmf thrust at him with his two immense- HH busks. As luck would have it they HH were so far apart as to just take his body in between them, his sides beingbut slightly grazed. Holystoning by Steam. Hj There are not as many real sailor* to-day as there were twenty years ago. [n these days steam spreads canvas on sailing vessels, squares yards, handles cargo, steers and does away with brawn ?nd muscle in a number of ways, and * now some genius has contrived a derice calculated to send some more of poor Jack's occupation on the trail of Othello's. A sailor learns to manipulate a holystone almost before he knows the difference between the main sheet and the spanker brail. There is only one plan of operations that will give & ship's deck a proper appearance, and that consists of dragging and shoving . /wonifa Vtlnolr arid fnrtH i ? "CO IJ ? end on and beam wise over a sprinkling af wet sand. One man usually shoves. j^f ' * * : STEAM HOLYSTONE OX WHEELS. he stone one way with a stout staff itted into a little hollow in the block phile another hauls it in tli3 opposite lirection with a rope or iron handle. Another follows them up with a hose >r water bucket, washing the sand ifter them, and two more are kept busy rith broom and rubber-tipped squilje ;ettin? rid of the water and extracting he last drop of moisture from the t-ood. When the operation is prop- I rly performed the deck is as/3ry as a 1 >oiie and white and clean enougn to R at from. J "Holy" etone is the word, because H lolyetoning is a Sunday morning job, J oore likely to be ordered than prayers j ir plum duff. ' ? I The? steam yacht Oneiilawas the first ? essel to put the device into practice, | nd that was less than eight months I go, but a working model has already I cached Chicago. The steam holystone i rill do the work of the entire ship's 1 rew in loss than half the time. In- I tead of one stone there are four, 9 lounted on three rubber-tired wheels. . J 'he motion of the stones is rotary, and V wo little tanks on the bed of the cart M eed them sand and water in the reuisite proportions. A diminutive il-burning engine, also on the cart, it her generates sufficient steam to ro ite the stones in its own interior raws a supply through a small rubbe^H^^B ose connecting with tho donkey on-^^BB ine, or the galley, if it be applied sailing craft, or with the boilers if teamer.?San Francisco Chronicle. Coal was first used as fuel iu uring the Twelfth Century.