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Show Moods of Wild Animals in Captivity ;S The characteristic moods of wild animals ani-mals in captivity form an Interesting study, especially to persons who have much to do with zoological collections. Mr. Patterson, who looks after the welfare wel-fare of the Barnum ,t Bailey menagerie, has had a wide experience with denizens of the forest and Jungle. "Th(! tiger." Mr. Patterson says. "Is a suspicious fellow and always looking out of the corner of his oye, as if ho thinks some one Is trying to Impose upon him. When he has no family cares, and Is fed regularly, he Is a fairly decent fellow. That is, he doos not make much of a racket, or scrap with his "fellows, buL squats amiably In a corner of Ills den. He has got a bad streak In him, though, like some miserably born people, and you cannot bank on him long. His head Is a big box. but It does nofsoom to have much In it to give him Judgment. "If ho wore to cut his foot on a. piece of broken glass, ho would fly into a rage as If a Javelin had pierced his haunches, and llko as not would try to take a piece out of a brass Image If It stood within reach. "To try to win him over by a soft word and good treatment would only give him a chance for doing greater mischief some time. Like poople of low natures who have nothing- useful above their coat collars, the only way to keep him JIB1 In line of g$id behavior Is to punish him W!f well when it Is necessary and make him tcB physically afraid. !? "Strange, too, that this animal, with Wj such wonderful beauty of fur and grace WMW of movement, should have a spirit so Mwr mean. The elephant is a big hunch of Mm affection, and In this respect. I think, has (Mr the horse and do.g outclassed. jtflf "Tho elephant Is as obedient, sis a child IgBW and fairly feeds on small, kindly at ten- tMuw tlons. Ug will cry out when punished by WM some ono he loves, and the cry is of tho $MW kind thai produces big. round tears. lie jjfll has something of a woman's nature in IJjjBf' taking sudden likes and dislikes to pco- VsM pie. anil by ihls same token is passion- ffimr atoly fond of children. A child can walk llfflj all around and among a herd of clephantij, WM t without receiving the slightest hurl. " iyB "This instinctive fondness for child- 15B life makes tho elephant the lenderest of tSB beasts with their young. In tho Bnrniuu ilflf it Bailey herd there are forty animals, JfiH and fwery ono of theni Is really foolish, Jflll as they say, over Boston. This pudgy uHf II I lie elephant Is swelled up because of mMW theso attentions, and gives me a lot of IHl trouble to keep the kid from growing up Jflp careless or uscloss." iH' The animal department will provo an IB I interesting feature of the circus cxhibi- Iflt tluns to be given here Monday next. jHi |