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- In tho town of Via llmir lived a
young uieiiuiiil named l\uti L>uiitrHCli
Aksyonof. lie had two shops
und a noube of liia own.
Aksyonof was u handsoine, fairhaired.
curly-headeu fellow, full of
fun. and \er\ lond of sing.ng. When
quite a young man ho had neon given
to drink, ana was riotous when
he had had too much; hut after he
married lu* gu\e up drinking, except
now anu then.
Oue snmmer Aksyonof was going
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good-bye to his family his wife said
* to him: "Ivan Dmitritch, <lo not
start today; 1 have had a bad dream
about you."
Aksjouof laughed, and said: "You
ure afraid when 1 get to the fair I
shall go on the spree."
His wife replied: "I do not know
what I am afraid of; all I know is
that 1 had a bad dream. 1 dreamt
you returned front the town, and
when you look off your cap 1 saw
thut your hair was quite gray."
Aksyonof laughed. "That's ?
lucky sign," said lie. "See if I don't
beh out all my goods and bring you
some presents from the fa r."
So lie said good-b\e to his family
and drove away.
When he had traveled half way
he met a merchant whom he knew
and they put up at the .-ante inn fot
the night. They hud some tea to
gether, and then went to bed in \djoining
rooms.
It was not Aksyonof's habit to
sleep late, and, wishing to travel
while it was still cool, he aroused
his driver before dawn, and told
him to put in the horres.
Then he made his way across, to
the landlord of the inn, who lhed
in a cottage at the back, paid hia
bill, and continued his journey.
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Ave miles, be-stopped for the horses
to be fed. Aksyonof rested awhile
in the passage of the inn, then lis
stepped out into the porch, and, ordering
a samovar to bo heated, got
out his guitar and began to play.
Suddenly a troyku drove up with
tinkling bells, and an oflicial alighted,
followed by two soldiers. He
came to Aksyonof and began to Question
him, asking him who he was
and whence he came. Aksyonof answered
him fully, and said: "Wont
you have some tea with me?" But
the ollicial went on cross-questioning
him and asking him: "Where did
you spend last night? Were you
alone, or with a fellow-merchant?
Did you see the other merchant this
morning? Why did you leave the
Inn before dawn?"
Aksyonof wondered why he was
asked all these questions, but he described
all that had happened, and
theu added, "Why do you crossQuestion
me as if I were a thief or
a robber? 1 am traveling 011 business
of my own, and there is no
need to question me."
Then tLie official, calling the soldiers,
said: "I am the police-officer
ot this district, and 1 question you
because the merchant with whom you
spent last night has been found with
his tlAoat cut. We must search
youTr things."
They entered the house. The sol\
dlers and the police-officer unstrap\
j>ed Aksyonof's luggage and searcht
ed it. Suddenly the officer drew a
\ knife out of a bag, crying: "Whose
\ knife is this?"
1 Aksyonof looked, and seeing a
i 1 blood-stained knife taken from his
| \bag, he was frightened.
I V "How is it there is blood on this
^ iknife?"
\ Akayonor tried to answer, but
sdtn C(%u|d hardly utter a word, and only
per Ct&tammered: "1?1 don't know?not
w"r ?Vni?w. <1
anion n Then the police officer said, "This
^morning the merchant was found in
^Kurejbed with his throat cut. You are the
tollow'on|y peraon who could have done it.
to The house was locked from inside,
and no one el6e was there. Here la
t-l1' this bloodstained knife in your bag,
{and your face and manner betray
you. Tell me how yon killed him,
and how much money you stole."
s!' Aksyonof swore ho had not dono
1 It: that he had not aeon the mer^
chant after they had had tea to
1 gether; that ha had no money except
eight thousand rouWee of his own,
and that the knife was not his. But
ibis voice was broken, his face pale,
and he trembled with fear as though
he werp guilty.
The oo officer ordered the soldiers
to^ind Aksyonof and to put
him in the cart. As they tied
his feet together and flung him
Into the cart, Aksyonof crossed
him? ?lf and wept. His money
ar * goods were taken from him.
lid he Vfas sent to the nearest town
and ImpHsoned there. Inquiries as
to his character were made In Vladimir.
The merchants and other Inhabitants
of that town said that lq
former dayi he used to drink and
waste his time, but that he was a
good man. Then the trial came on;
lie was chut god with murdering a
merchant from Ryazan ami robbing
him of twenty thousand roubles.
His wife was in despair, and did
not know what to believe. Her children
were all quite small; one was a
baby at 1h*i breast Ta^ln tin i>'
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where her husband was in gaol. At
lirst she was not allowed to ec hi in;
but after much begging she obta and
permission t'roui the olllcials and was
laaeu to in.it When site miw her
tin >band in prison dress and in
chains, shut up with thieves and
criminals, she tell down and did
not come to tier senses for a long
time. Then she drew hei children
to her and sat down near liini. dht*
told tiiin of things ut home, and ask
od ahout what had happened to hint.
He told her all, and she asked*
"What can we do now?"
"We must petition the Czar not
to let an innocent man perish."
Ills wife told him that she had
sent a petition to the Czar but that
it had not been accepted.
Aksyonof did not reply, but onl>
looked downcast.
Then his wife said; "It was not
for nothing I dreamed your hair ha !
turned gray. You remember? You
should not have started that day
And passing her lingers through his
hair, she said: "Yauya dearest, te'i
your wife the truth; it was n? you
who did it?"
"So you. too, suspect me!" said
Aksyonof, and, hiding his face Hi
his hands, ho began to weep. Then
a soldier came to say that tne wi!
and children must go away; and Aks
yonof said good-bye to his family for
the last time.
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recalled what had been said, and
when lie remembered that his wll*
had also suspected him, he aid tc
himself: "it seems that only God
can know the truth; it is to Him
alone wo must appeal, and from llim
alone expect mercy."
And Aksyonof wrote no more petitions;
gave up all hope, and only
prayed to God.
Aksyonof was condemned to be
hogged and sent to the mines. So
he was Hogged with a knout, and
when tho wounds made by the know,
were healed, he was driven to Sioer
la with other convicts.
^ For twenty-six years Aksyono!
livod as a convict in Siberia. H.t
hair turned white as snow, ud h>
beard grew long, thin and gray At?
the mirth went; he stooped, ne wula
ed solwly, spoke little, and nevelaughed,
but he cfteu prayed.
in prison Aksyonof learned to
make boots, and earned a little mo
ney, with which he bought "The
Lives of the Saints." He read tin*
book when there was light enough
in the prison, and on Sundays in the
prison-church 'he read the lessons
and sang in the choir; for his voic.
was still good. The prison a union
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vitro uncu aasjuuul lux 11 id uiccn
ne?s and his fellow prisoners respect
ed him, they called him "Grand
father," and "The Saint." When
they wanted to petition the prison
authorities about anything, they al
ways made Aksyonof their spokes
man,' and when there were quarrels
among the prisoners they came to
him to put things right and to judge
the matter.
No news reached Aksyonof from
his home, and he did not even know
if his wife and children were stll!
alive.
One day a gang of uew convicts
came to the prison. In ilie ennu,
the old prisoners collected around
the new ones and asked them whu.
towns or villages they came from and
what they were sentenced for. A non*
the rest Aksyonof sat down near tin
newcomers and listened with a down
cast air to what was said.
One of the new convicts, a tall
strong man of sixty, with a closely
cropped gray beard, was telling tbr
others what he had been arrested
for.
"Well, friends," he said, "1 onl\
took a horse that was tied to
sledge, and 1 was arrested and accused
of stealing, i said I had onh
taken It to get home quicker, aim
had then let it go; hosides, toe driv
er was a personal friend of mine. So
I said, 'It's all right.' 'No.' said thev
'yoa stole it.' But how or where .
stole it they could not say. I onc<
really did something wrong, an'
ought by rights to have come tierlong
ago, but that time 1 was no'
found out. Now I have been sen:
here for nothing at all?Ah, but U'<>
lies I'm telltna vou: I've heen tn
Siberia before, but I did not *t?>
long."
"Where are you fromT" asked
someone.
"From Vladimir. My family art
of that town. My name is Makar,
and they also call me Semyonlteh.'
Aksyonof raised his head aad
said; "Tell me, Semyonlteh, do yoi.
know anvthinsr of th? morphontt
Aksyonof, of Vladimir? Are ther
still alive?"
"Know them? Of course I do
The Aksyonofs are rich, though
their father la in Siberia; a sinner
like ourselves, it seems! As for you
Qran'dad, how did you come here?"
Aksyonof did not like to speak of
hie misfortune. He only sighed and
said: "1 have been In prison these
twenty-six years for my sins.""
"What sins?" asked Maker Serayonftch.
But Aksyonof onty said, "Well,
well?I must have deserved Itl" He
would have said no more, but ble
companions told the new-comer how
Aksyonof came to be In Siberia; how
someone had killed a merchant, and
ahd put a knife among Aksyoaoff
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things, and Aksyobof had been unjustly
Condeinued.
WIhii Makar Semyonltch heard
thi. . he looked at Aksyouof. slap' ed
hid own knee, and exclaimed: "Well,
this is wonderful! Ileal ly wonderiul!
But how old you've grown.
! ndad!" I
I'lu others asked him why h was
o surprised, and where he had seen
\kuyonof boforo; hut Makar Setnvonltch
did not reply, lie only said:
it's wondetlul that we should meet
lore, lads!"
These words made Ak-yonof won- |
lor whether this man knew who had
.UHed the merchant; so he said
"lerhaps, Somyouitch, you have
heard 01 that aitair, or maybe you've }
si oh me he. ore/"
"How could I help hearing? The t
world's full o! rumors. But it s !
long ago, and I've torgotten what I
heard.'
Perhaps you heard who killed the
men haul?" asked Aksyonof.
Makar Semyouiteh laughed and re
plied: "It must have been he in
wiioue bag the knile was fo?ud! if
someone else hid the knite there.
He's not a thief t.ll he's caught, as
me saying is. Mow could anyone | it
a knilo into your bag while it was
under your head? It would surely
nave woke you up?"
When Aksyouof heard these words
he lelt sure thia was the man who
nud killed the m?rehn?t M<> nnw
aii<1 went away. All that night Akai
I'liol lay awako. H? t?'lt terribly
uJiiUtppy and all sorts of images arose
i ills mi ml. There was the lit, V
o. his wiie as she was when he purv
eti from her to go to the fair, lie
saw her as If she were present; her
face and her eyes rose In lore him;
he heard her speak and laugh. Then
tie saw his children, quite little, as
they were at that time, one with a !
utile cloak on, another at hia mothel's
breast. And then he remembered
himself as he used to bo?young
and merry, lie remembered how lie
sat playing the guitar on the porch
of the inn where he was arrested,
and how iree from ear? he had been
lie was, in ids mind, the place where
ho was flogged, the executioner, and
i ho people standing around; the
chains, the convicts, all the twentysix
years of iiis prison life, and his
piemature old age. The thought ot it
all made him so wretched that he
was ready to kill himself.
"And it's all that villain': doing!"
thought Aksyonot. Ami his anger
was so great against Magar Semyonitcb
that he longed for vengeance
oven If he himself should perish for
it. He kept repeating prayers alt
night, but could not get no peace.
During the day ho did not go near
Makar Semyonitch, nor oven look at
him.
A fortnight passed in this way.
Aksyonof could not sleep at nights
and was so miserable that he did not
know what to do.
vviitr mglll its lit) VMlH WHIKlDg n DO II
the prison lie noticed some earth
that came rolling out from under
one of the shelves on which the
prisoners slept. He stopped to see
what it was. Suddenly Makar Semyouitch
crept out from under the
shelf and looked up at Aksyonof with
frightened face. Aksyonof tried to
pass without looking at him, hut
Makar seized his hand and told him
that he had dug a hole under the
wall, getting rid of the earth by putting
it into his high-boots, and emptying
it out every day on the road
when the prisoners were driven to
their work.
"Just you keep quiet, old man. and
you shall get out too. If you llaj
they'll Hog the life out of me, but
I'll kill you first."
Aksyonof trembled with auger as
he looked at his enemy. He drew
his hand away, saying; "1 nave no
wish to escape, and you have 1.0
need to kill me; you killed me long
ago! As to telling of you?1 may
do so or not, as God shall direct."
Next day, when the convicts were
led out to work, the convoy soldiers
noticed that one or other of the
prisoners emptied some earth out of
his boots. The prison was searched
and the tunnel found. The Governor
came and questioned all the
prisoners to find out who had dug
the hole. They all denlfed any knowledge
of it. Those who knew ould
not betray Makar Semyonitch, know
lug he would be flogged almost to
death. At last the Governor turned
to Aksyonof, whom he knew to be
a just man, and said:
"Yaw are a truthful old man: t#?ll
me, before God, whe due the hole?"
Maker Semyonitch stood as if he
were quite unconcerned, looking at
the Governor and not so much as
glancing at Aksyonof. Aksyeaef's Hi*
and hands trembled, and fer a long
time be could net utter a werd.
thought: "Why should I soreeo him
who ruined m/ life? Lot him pey for
what I have suffered, feit If I tell
tbey will probably flog the Ufa out
of him, and 1 may have suspected
him wrongly. And, after all, wnaf
good would It be to mo?"
"Well, old man," repeated 4.h?
Governor, "tell us the truth: who
has been digging under the wall?"
Aksyonof glanced at Maker Sotv
yonitch, and said: "1 cannot say,
your honor. It Is not God's will that
I should tell! Do what you ltko with
mo; 1 am In your hands."
That night, when Aksyonof was
lying on his bed and Just beginning
to doze, someone came anietly and
sat down on his hod. Re peered
through the darkness and recognized
Maker.
"What more do you want of me?"
asked Aksyonof. "Why have youfl
come here?" fl
Makar gomyonltch was silent 8o|
1 a V
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Aksvonof sat up rind ?aItl "What dt
you want? vio away, or I will eal
the guard !'*
Makar Seinyonitch bout close ovei
Aksyonot and whispered: "Dai
Dmitritch, forgive me!"
"What for?" asked Aksyonof.
"It was I who 1:111 )<) the m-Toh'itit
aim hio the kul.o anion#; your ih n?.1
meant to kill you, too. hut I heard
a noise outside; so I hid the knl.'c
in your bag and escaped out oi tli*?
w indow."
Aksyonof was silent, and did not
know what to say. Makar Seinyonitch
slid otY the bed-shell and knelt
upon the ground. "Ivan Dniltrttch,
said be "I'orgDe me! For the love
ot God, forgive me! I will confess
that it was I who killed the merchant,
and you will he released and
can go io your homo."
"It Is easy lor you to talk," said
Aksyonof, "but 1 have suffered foi
you these twenty-six years. Whers
could I go to now?- My wife is dead
and my children have lorgotten ine
I have nowhere to go?"
Makar Scmyonitch <lid not rise
liut beat his head on the tlooi "Dan
Dmitritch. forgive ine!" he cried.
"When they Hogged me with t lie
knout it was not so hard to bear a*it
is '.o see you now ?yet you had
pity on ine and did not tell. Foi
ClwIcCo i*. 1 .1.-1
vui o ?Tti r\c l l 111 w i nun I IIII \
! am!" Ami be begun to sob.
When AUsyonof beard blm sobbing
' be, too. began to weep.
"God will forgive you!" said be.
I "Maybe I am a hundred times worse
than you." And at these wordt his
heart grew light, and the longing
for home left him. Ho no longer
had any desire to leave the prison
but only hoped for hit last hour to
come.
In spite of what Aksyonof said,
Makar Seuiyonitch confessed liltt
guilt. Hut when the order for Ills
release came Aksyonof was already
dead.
TilK ELNOTHIC FAN.
They Are All Bight When l'rojn-rlj
Handled.
"Don't let the strong brecwe from
an electric fan come broadside
against your person." said Dr. .1. G.
Montgomery, of Buffalo, N. Y. "If
L' o people are prudent they can get
comfort with safety out of these (moling
agencies, but don't let the direct
air currents come in contact with
your body, especially when heated,
unies you want to develop rheumatic
pains, influenza or double pneumonia.
The danger of resulting aches
or worse is the loo sudden evaporation
of the moisture of the body,
which thereby chills the whole frame.
If a fan is running anywhere in a
[room it will create an atmosphere
l (lif t urbance that will produce a happy
effect on days when not a leaf i?
I Stirring in the trees niwl t ho tliKi'ine.
meter is pressing the century mark
A fan I luit is not apt to do in noli
harm is one of the oscillating kind
III-. evokes only a quarter i f a
link* and' that can lie used on a
ill '<> or as a bracket fan."
IMCOWN IHOATS SMITH.
Georgia Changed ller Governor
on Lust Thursday.
An Atlanta Dispatch says oflicial
returns from 136 counties and ofllial
counts from the remaining twenty
of the votes cast in Friday's Democratic
primary, gave Jos. M. Drown,
for Governor, a majority of 13.00J
over Holce Smith Of the I 10 counties
in the Slate Drown carried 00.
I'or railroad commissioner, Judge
George Hillyer and F\ C. Callway
were the successful candidates. Tho
race for prison commissioner is still
in doubt. All of the present Congressmen
wore returned with the
exception of E. R. Lewis, in the 3d
district, who was defeated fcy Dudley
M. Hughes. *
Hard on Itlind Tiger*.
Last week Judge A Id rich sent two
white men to the Aiken county ch?in
gang to serve six months for violating
the dispensary law. They were
not. allowed to pay fines. A mini
ber or negroes were also sent up for
the same offense.. If all our judges
would deal this way with blind tigers
there would soon lie none.
Hui'plns Labor Causing Trouble.
A number of young men overturned
a wagon loaded with Japanese
laborers at El Centre, Cai., on Thursday,
and a party of Japanese was
stoned at the railroad station. Several
arrests have been made. At
Brawley a number of Japanese? were
taken from a wagon and threatened.
The fronhhln t? Hup tr? Mia unrnlita r?f
labors seeking work in the cantaloupe
field.
Taft's Labor injunction record is
bothering him ^considerablyi^and
will probably compel the u k ?<
can managers to declare in the platform
against government by injunction,
but that will hardly fool the
wage earners.
Private Dalzell is ferocious in hit
criticism of Taft's Memorial Da>
attack on the character of Grant
"It was a bad break," says he. "Ir
all my reading, I do not recall t parallel
to this astounding depar? |
ture from the proprieties of a great ,
occasion."
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There is no loyalty without Ibve |
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MONKHYS WHICH ACT IJKK MKN
Die <>f Broken lli-arts. Commit Kui
clile. <irt Drunk anil An- Arrested.
Why do men act like monkeys, ami
why <lo monkeys sometimes act lik^
men ?
'i hat question, in ull seriouHn.'SF
s receiving earnest consideration
from Prof. B. <; Wilder, B. 8., M D..
olOKlst of Cornell t'nlversity, ati I
;)liior scientists wno are endeavoring
>o tract I'll- associate iiioioh \Nliich
prompt .uonkcys to die of hrok n
marts. to commit suicide, to borona
ii toxica' ed ami disorderly, and to
r;oi arrested and sent to Jal just liae
-.onto h uiuan beings.
Prof Wilder is confining ills in
\ estimation particularly to retro
But'ou/u, a remarkably iutclligeii
PKTRO (JOES TO J A Hi.
Ill in pan/.<?<>, \ liich was arrested after
a prof rat ted spree at Sa yervi lie,
N.J, itii<! sentenced to the Middlesex
''ouH.lv Jail at New Rrunswlck, N.
,!., for thirty days. He wrote It rat
to Warden Charles Rogers of the
Middlesex Jail, to get a history o!
he monkey's crimes, its pedigree
lid all tiie facts ohtaluahle. He polioses
to follow this up hy a personal
tudy of the monkey and hy tin examination
oi the animal's brain, in
. use I'etro should die.
l'etr.i, i? Ik said, inherited a pasIon
for alcoholic, liquors from its
t!;er and has indulged whenever the
pporlunity presented Itself. In its
ipH the chimpanzee was the soul
humor and mischief, which found
? nt in the uprooting of heels of
>uvr: playing "Peeping Tom" at
end story windows, Irom the tops
1 telegraph p'oes, dropping pebbles
od sticks on | assersb.\ and acting
11 raily l.iie one possessed of con!erat>le
hri.in and ingenuity, if not
. S?.
it is siismim that aonio of Potto's
'i!i); ; 1 a< juftlittuiices, knowing the
nlinai a weakness, mad it possible
01 i lie chimpanzee to imbibe n:oi'e
r'erix than was good for it. In conoquenee,
it is said, Petro, previous
: his arrest few days ago, lias . jen
>h a protracted spree, during which
l nad made life burdensome to sevral
of the i. ore timid residents of
e town of Sayersvllle. Finally at
i? request ( f a person whose flower
reds had ecu destroyed, shrubs and
.all >ushes pulled up by the roots,
ugles torn off the burn and vines
nil down, a policeman took little
ro into custody and after the command
had aited his grloMinee in
> it the monkey was sent to the
nty jail at New Hrunswlck, that
ing < onsifh red the best place for
... i nimal for the time being.
The sentence Imposed was thirty
s, but after three or four days'
nreer-tlon Petro's owner put up
nd undertaking to make the
on key keep the peace ami Potto
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POLLY AT THE TYPEWRITER.
ik released under a sits- <ns!ou of ,
'Utetlee. At laat report U *as still
chaving itself. pro hub #elng aware
at It whh under sr<er.mHc inveatiga- |
on. i
But Petro if- n : the only inonket
.at has re-< ly >ieen acting like ]
ime hunu n o-b.g? do.
Los' # # k the death of Captain ,
0 T most intelligent inonkevs
? 1
u York Zoological Park |
.".pounced. Unlike Hajnh, Cap ,
(1<1 not ride a bicycle, nor llk< ,
!y. ronM It operate a typewrite. |
I unlike Nllml, Its affinity, Captat;
^ not very good at counting. Cap
n was, In act, Just a well-1 ehave.
)>-ang-o;itang, displaying at times t
<reat deal of Intelligence and lavish |
ng at all times all Its affection on It* ,
sweetheart Mlral. I
"If Captain goes down In the his \
bory of monkey dom," said Dr. W ,
Reed Blair, the physician In chats*
I Jk! 1 ?: iDiii
#
of the Zoo nnlrnnln, "It should ba
purely a thful lover. Mo wa?
not quite so right as some of the
other monk'. s, hut his devotion to
Mhul was remarkable.
"Several weeks ago Captain waa
oiov(mI fiirfhor down the corridor of
the primate house. Formerly he
had been right op;"- !'.i Miml. Now
he could not even see in r, though he
would try to force Ills head out between
the bars to look down the corridor.
When he first arrived at tho (
Zoo he was strong, and companiona- ^
hie. but. when he was moved away
from his sweetheart he soon began
to lose Interest In the bystanders
whom previously he had amused by
the hour.
"Soko, Captain's room mate, must
have been aware of what was ailing
him, for ho would take up little
pieces of straw and stick them Into
poor Captain's ribs but without avail.
Captain moped and moped and the
keepers knew that the orang- >utang
was wearing Its heart out for Ml ml,
while she. with a show of Indifference
to Captain's sufferings, would spend
whole hours as she does now, pick
1 itg tip HtraWH about two Inches long
and balancing them horizontal^ on
her none."
"How many would she put on ior
nose nl one tlnie, doctor?"
"I'Hually about fourteen," rep led
Dr. Blair, "and then she would brush
thorn off and begin al^ over a-,ain.
WOmen certainly are heartless.
"Captain soon began to lose his uppotlto.
In fact, nothing could tjinpt
him to ent. I gave him hot-house
grapes, choice liquors, rare plums
and malt, but he refused to bo coaxed
to eat, and it Is a rather serious case
when an orang-outang won't eaf.-'
"Darwin says animals have lovecharms
and love-calls. Is that true?"
"Yes, and the monkeys when In
love arc coy, Jealous and show Individual
preferences and admiration
for beauty."
Curator K. L. Dltmar, of the Zoo,
said that the monkeys always showed
great grief when separated from
their monkey friends.
"Why if August and Baldy, the
two new chimpanzees, were separated
they would die," declared Keeper
Heilly. Come with me anil see how
they act when separated."
The keeper went behind the cage
and opened the sliding door. He
then took Baldy out and .^hut the
door, leaving August uloue in the
cage. Baldy a eyes 111 led aud then
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RAJAII ON A BICYCLE,
both monkeys began screeching and
nigging at t lie little door to open it
again. When the door was opened
Baldy darted inside and the two
monkeys embraced each other like
human beings, chattering meanwhile
like two reunited friends who had
not met In years.
"Several other instances arc on record
in which monkeys have died of
a broken heart. One of these was
Jakey, of the New York Central Park
menagerie. 'Phis little monkey lived
for twenty-four years in the Zoo and
was one of he happiest and liveliest
Inmates of the monkey-house. In
June, I 90 4, Jakey and his mate, Meliss,
were separateed, and from that
tinie Jakey's health began to fail
The animal grew sullen and moroso
and within a week was deatl. The
keepers said Jakey had lied of a
broken heart.
Dude, a member of the troupe of
trick monkeys which appeard at Glen
Island in 1U03, died of a broken
heart because after a surgical operation
which involved shaving tho
Simian's face, the other members of
tho troupe shunned him.
Several months ago Robert Darwin
a four-year-old monkey, a member
of the Zoo company at Overton Park,
Mcmiililo *
...iciiu., uuuiuntiea suicide
by deliberately lying down on tho
track in front of an approaching
street car. Darwin had been suffering
from a contagious disease and
had been put in a cage remote from
his companions. The monkey became
melancholy and finally escaped
from its cage. It hid for several
Hays in the wooded district of the
park and then made Its way to the
park approach and flung Itself on the
track in front o? an approaching
ear.
Jennie McGregor, a small pet monkey
belonging to Thomas McMasters,
who keeps a saloon on Central Avenue,
Jersey City, got Into the barroom
in the middle of the night and
necame bo Intoxicated that she almost
died. Before succumbing to
&n injudicious mixture of whiskey,
>e*r, gin, brandy and bitters, she did
considerable damage to thf 7 "iloon,
specially the glassware. \
The exploits of a fugitive monkey
which wrecked a flat In the Rue
Blanche, Paris, a few weeks ago. In!
k fit of violent passion, recall the'
ferocious orang-outang In Bdgar Alan
Poe t story of "The Murders la
ihe Rue Morgue." '