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J I v t 5 iV 1 J ti r V F J MF y x 4 dt f fi SV 3 VJ s t y S SY ky Y t iCi l R I 4 t 44 r of o k b. b t y G r y c ff 7 w I he statuesque mistress of the elephant herd is never happier than when she dons her white 1 i and gives the baby its bottle Little Littie Miracle is happy too but strange as it may seem eally prefers for the head animal man and husband of Zora to hold the milk at atI I rig g time U f. f ank Cruickshank revolutions anI are arc 1 not born without travail No NoI I making discovery invention in epoch making epoch or creation has I come easily or lightly The worlds world's most astounding products of mind and body have been ushered into our z tragedy and pain darkest hour of the he ne deepest 1 15 1916 It was black an and barns of the hibernating rP pungent gent odors of the wild filled winter quarters The Africa American Iamb lamb were lying with ith iron bars between their i 3 each wrapped in equal peace ts is r were were slumped l down upon their g regularly all all but one Prin Prin- id d erect in the gloom her tiny ith orth something that may have ying her huge body from side to Discovered covered the Baby B only only conscious thing in the huge hugo er Oscars ears were raised her trunk e trumpeted wildly A shatter shatter- l b back ck from the lions' lions cage The shrilly and huddled to to- far Wl end of their den The leo leo- scream eam rasped across yards about Princess Alice sir feet et adding their trumpet trumpet- dm The barn rocked with i tamers tamers came running Lights th cause of 01 this pandemonium a tiny flabby c J. J l baby elephant rolling around between the feet of Princess Alice The rarity of rarities had come Princess Alice two weeks before her time tim had made her sacrifice and had produced a marvel of science Science t 1 you ask Why there is nothing older in the world than childbirth nothing more natural more simple Quite true but you dont don't understand how wonderful is this baby laby elephant and his coming com corn ing not ing-not not yet It is a marvel an epoch in scientific wild animal breeding something really really real real- ly important important-if if you will but wait until the tho facts arc are told One who rode 1600 1500 miles into the depths of ofa a backwoods rural district just to see Bee this baby elephant and to get there the real scientific significance of its growth cannot be hurried into a vague and generalizing description of it it- Elephants Highly Nervous First of all you must know that elephants practically never have babies in captivity An elephant for all its awkward lumbering is a asby ashy ashy shy nervous highly strung creature peculiarly susceptible to harsh words and to mosquito bites It can be trained easily to work but if can never be made to feel at home It refuses to breed that breed that is all but two of them have Only three elephant babies have been born in America or even the western vestern hemisphere they say These three have come to Princess Alice and Snyder These two behemoths behemoths' have b been en sweethearts for years they were married long ago This baby that came to Princess Alice Alico in inthe inthe inthe the first of this story is expected to live its little brothers brothers' who came camp before both died So you you see sec this baby is quite important Papa Snyder r and Mamma Alice somehow were not f HUed Il led with il t tho thoY g ace j o- o ideas U of all the other captive elephants in this continent continent con conn and Fred their trainer noting this resolved to raise the impossible He wrote to Carl Hagenbeck the renowned menagerie- menagerie keeper of Hamburg to ask for advice Hagenbeck Hagenbeck Hagen Hagen- beck replied that all such efforts were useless that a baby elephant could not be bo produced or raised in captivity But was not dis dis- dis- dis two Twenty months later Princess Alice gave birth to Baby Hutch However Hagenbeck's Hagenbeck's Hagen Hagen- becks beck's prophecy based on his own knowledge knowledge- of previous failures worked true and Baby Hutch Butch died a victim of ignorance of how to feed him Princess Alice as had been expected refused to nurse him the outlawed natural strain in her holding true to captive animal lore Two years later she bore Prince a n pound baby whom sho she spurned in the tho same manner Veterinary surgeons and dietetic dietetic die die- tetie experts hastily summoned prescribed diets hoping against that the tho little fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low would woul pull thru Animal men all over America were excited for the Princes Prince's life liCe was significant of tho progress of animal breeding But in thirty thirty- two days he was dead When they cut his little carcass open they found he had been overfed crammed to his death sacrificed because because because be be- cause no man knew the mysteries of so BO big a athing athing athing thing as an elephants elephant's stomach No Amount of Expense Spared The t night of April 15 1916 in its deepest darkest hour then caw the third agony gony of Princess Alice saw her achieve a triple distinction distinction distinction dis dis- dis- dis over oyer any elephant in North or South America The reason for all the hubbub and confusion described above was that the baby had bad come before his time fully two weeks earl early carll No amount of expense expense had been spared to sm smooth Uie b a firs days k kJ J rN r nu nuS S 0 lr q x y fK e. e h vo 1 R K x y X rA f w. w C H r liam T. T Hornaday director of the New York Zoological Park and l leading ading authority upon wild animals in captivity had been called in consultation long before to help Fred the circus animal tamer plan a diet that would obviate the mistakes made upon Baby Hutch and Prince The great difficulty lay in the fact that there ther was absolutely no precedent for the new baby's diet The keepers knew know that they must ex experiment experiment and that they could not afford to experiment Consequently the excitement te ent and hurly-burly hurly when the precious youngster put in his appear appear- ap y Y hing ing lS m s. s u y aS ii Y i K J i Waited for Their Chief The first keeper to rush in was Dutch a atall atall atall tall iron shouldered iron shouldered tamer who knows no such thing as fear He found Princess Alice rolling the baby about the floor with Tier her er feet feet and nd trunk sliding it and tossing it until the showman's showman's showman's show show- mans man's heart stood in his mouth He lIe made as asif asif asif if to rusl rush in and rescue the infant from those gigantic flat feet that stamped aroun around it Princess Alice motioned him off with her ler trunk glaring malevolently His Ilis helpers dashed up but dared not interrupt although the baby seemed surely destined to be trampled to death They merely waited for their chief Before you can appreciate what did you must hear the story they tell down in the side side- tents at night if you dont don't as ask too many 3 questions and will wait wait the the story of the time timo I Big Mary th the blanket blank hussy kneeled on him J 3 Big Mary Recognizes Her Master I In Ip the capricious temperamental tal way of ofa a lady lady elephants she suddenly fell feU on him in a 1 practice l. l act in the shows show's winter quarters at atI I Denver and bore him down fought with one fr free e arm Zora his big blonde beau- beau Il f j t r i. 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T When she was 72 hours old Little Miracle was led out and introduced introduced introduced intro intro- to Pat a Denver dog who insisted upon a game of tag thinking the tiny elephant to be merely a new dog with its nose fast in a rubber hose wife wiCe who is mistress of countless countless' ti tigers rs lions and elephants flew at the fiendish brute with her elephant hook striking beating tearIng tearing tear tear- ing lug into the tough hide Down under the tho mouthing screaming animal grew whiter and bloodier and Zora see seeing Dg everything she lov loved d going whirled her barbed goad into the elephants elephant's mouth and cast east her own body upon its trunk Tho ripping tear in jn Big Marys Mary's mouth and the new human form in her grasp turned the creatures creature's attention for a moment and a frightened frightened frightened fright fright- ened helper who had come running dragged v to safety safely Ith six eix ribs rib and an D arm an b broken y Tj a and reeling ing lS J v t When Big Mary reached for the vanishing victim Zora Zorn sprang back to safety also Pitchforks in the hands of the attendants ringed the elephant round bent and shattered set his teeth selected a sharp strong elephant hook and swayed back into the ring He must win Fifteen years of mastery over o wild brute spurred him on His is professional pride was at stake His hand sho shook but his eye was bright and tho the towering behemoth saw it ft and trem bled blet She knew her lord and screamed in fear It was a terrible beating this mangled wreck of a man gave the giant a sight to thrill a calloused helper a ma magnificent spectacle Now to return to io the the baby about whom all aU this excitement is went in to Princess Princess Prin Prin- cess Alice Alico and took away her infant Carried it out in his arms cowing the angry mother with his eye As he laid it down in the straw J he said Well youre you're the little miracle all allright right In his studies of elephant lore discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered that a wild t elephant expecting the stork ate ato great quantities of dirt so Princess Alice was fed loam for several months previous to the arr arrival arral al of Little Miracle Furthermore it was expected that she would refuse to suckle her baby so BO the circus scientists scientists scientists conferring with Hornaday concluded that rice rico gruel should be bo fed it since the native mother er in the j jungle cats eats much rice during tho the nursing seasons The Tho milk too was radically changed from the original compositions given Little Miracles Mira Mira- dos cles two little brothers that died She received received re- re a a. quart of mixed condensed milk fresh patent cream cream patent baby food and water The Tho composition com corn position of elephant milk is the sweetest known anti and impossible to duplicate in exactness Tb diet as planned furnishes furnished RS at nearly nearIE that that- earns p ingredients eji 1 as Po possible ble t j r |