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Show J A SAVAGE COMBAT a ing photographs, from which outline reprov.uc,,"us were made. FIERCE BATTLE BETWEEN KANTo tackle a kaiig.oo at bay is n GAROO AND KANGAROO-DOJ- . easy task even for a ka.L.,-- o dog, and the fight was a fierce and savag one. The kangaroos great object in all Unique Pictures of the Fight Caught such combats as the one illustrated is by the Australian Who Chanced to annihilate its enemy with one terto Be on the Spot at rible downward rip of its hind foot. the Time. In this case, however, the dog succeeded in avoiding such a doom, and a kangaroo-dooften not Is that It one too many for its adverpic- - proved and kangaroo fight is recorded 5 FORW HAGENDECKti HOME-MAKINWILD ANIMAL'S AT 6TELL1NGEN was equally well favored with the kangaroo, but the latter had the advantage in the matter of weight. The photographer ran no little risk of receiving injury from the inof furiated animals, accidentally, course, since they were far too occupied in struggling with one another to trouble about him. Still, in spite of this di aw back, he has obtained very satisfactory pictures. The man in the low'er ill usti ation, a boundary rider on the station where the fight occurred, is holding in hit antis the Joey," as it is called in Australia, or little kangaroo, that was to found in the large ones pouch. Getting The victorious dog has gained greal aroo-dog Grips. ? ? torially, for, as a rule, the kangaroo gives the dog a long and tedious run at great speed before the pair come to blows, and the photographer, laden with the apparatus peculiar to his calling, is unable to come up with the combatants until the matter is settled in favor of either one or the other. In the present instance, the photographer was driving, having a kangaand his camera with him in roo-dog the trap. It is one of the characteristics of the kangaroo that it will always allow a vehicle or a man on horseback to approach nearer than a dog or a man on foot. As the trap came closer to the kangaroo the dog was allowed to jump out, when it Last Round The Kangaroo-DoVicimmediately made for its quarry. This torious. The Boundary Rider Is action took the kangaroo completely Holding the Joey, or Little Kanby surprise so that the dog was upon That Was Found in the Large garoo, her before she had time to jump away. Pouch. Ones Thus the battle was fought out under the eyes of the photographer, fame among the local residents, fame and he was able to take the interest not entirely undeserved. g GmiAL gardno. VZ&W or TlttC In the erection of zoological gardens nowadays there are signs that certain improvements are at last introduced. Small prison-likbeing dens are giving way to open inclosures, the animals surroundings are becoming more and more congenial, and the whole system is being conducted on a healthier and more practical scale. much-desire- The Cliff Climbers e . where with sea birds, chiefly Guillemot and Kittiwake, but with a mixture of Puffin and Razorbill, and prominent and mischievous jackdaws and carrion crow, while along the sandy Gather Birds Eggs from the Pre- slopes, which in places run down from cipitous Sides of the Cliffs the land above, scores of scampering in Order to Earn a rabbits can be met with. The Livelihood. are let down the face of these cliffs to gather the eggs The gathering of birds eggs from of the sea fowl, which they bring to nests built in the nooks and crevices the surface in great quantities, finding a ready market for them at twopence a time amongst the visitors, or selling them for eating purposes in places around. Occasionally they make a haul. of extraordinary eggs marked in queer forms,' and with unusual colors, and these fetch quite a little pile of shillings each from egg collectors. Wilkinson is the king of climbers, for although there are other gangs engaged in egg gathering, they reap only a modicum of the harvest that falls to him and his helpmates. The whole equipment consists of a stout web harness, which is tightly strapped round the body of the climber and passes around each thigh. To this a rope 400 feet in length is attached; there Is also another rope used which they call a guide. When the climber is duly harnessed, one of his mates seats himself on the ground, placing his feet in deep holes cut In the earth on the top of the cliff; this man is also harnessed with a leather belt some three inches in thickness, In which a groove is cut, and when all is ready he takes the main rope in one hand, passes it in the groove in the leather belt around his body, holding it again with the other hand. Another of the gang proceeds to drive a long iron stake into the ground and attach the hand-rop- e to it. The descent is begun, and the climber takes a Btake, on the head of which runs a pulley wheel, and drives it into the cliff at a convenient spot, and over this wheel the main rope is paid out as the climber goes further and further down, steadying himself and assisting his mates with his sturdy arms on the handrope. There is a system understood by the gang by which Wilkinson can signal his desires to those above, directing them to lower or pull him up, or to give him a greater length of hand-rop- e as required. A at Work. PERILOUS CALLING OF SOME ENGLISH COAST DWELLERS. feet in height, and looking for all the woild like miniature Alps. From this point some 600 animals and birds can be seen at one time without detecting a cage or an iron bar. Naturally, the animals seen to the very rear of this spectacle are rather But intersecting paths alindistinct. low one to approach quite close to them, and by following these paths one learns, through the explanation of the proprietor, the method that has been adopted in lajing out these wonderful gardens. In a word the animals are confined to their respective Jnclosures by means of deep ditches and other cunningly devised arrangements which the public cannot detect. The lions quarters are a case in point. First of a comes the public footpath. Immediately in front of this is a narrow strip of garden full of l shrubs and plants. Looking over these you get an uninterrupted view of lions and tigers only 30 feet away. But the animals cannot get loose, a deep ditch, half full of water, being concealed between the narrow garden-striand their den. Visitors ask so many questions about this ditch, which is hidden from their 1 semi-tropica- p s Cliff-Climb- of the steep cliffs of England's ragged shore line is an occupation which is unknown in this country. It is a business in which the perils are great, even if the rewards are not One of the most daring of all the of England who earn a livelihood by this means, and who are just now in the very rush of their busy season, is William Wilkinson. From Filey, in Yorkshire, with its glorious stretch of sands, the coast line quickly rises until for a stretch of nine miles right up to and around Flamborough Head there is neither beach nor sands; nothing but the sheer white faced cliffs rising abruptly froir. a few small rocks which the sea never ceases to wash and which break up the restless waves until they skirt the frowning cliffs like a frill of fine white lace. The whole face of the chalky walls a wonderful sight, studded every- - Mammoth Transformer Installed. An 80,01)0 volt electrical transformer was recently installed at Butte, Mont., for the local lighting and power company, the distance over which the current is transmitted being 60 miles. During the insulation tests of the transformer the voltage was run up to 160,000, and at this pressure an arc was formed between the ends of the cables and the transformer tank, over a distance of five or six feet. But India rubber disks fixed on the cable terminals prevented the formation of the arc. When 80,000 volts are used there Is no brush discharge, and the disks are not needed. The Tug of War. Little Willie Say, pa, what is the meaning of the term when Greek meets Greek?" Pa It is synonymous with the meeting of our cook and the Janitor, my son. Chicago Daily News. 230 (Copyright.) " i sary. It will be seen that as far as size and reach were concerned, the kang- First Round of the Battle By HUGH JOHNSON G g I THE OLD COLONEL In the colonels office the blinds were drawn save one, the wood fire was half white embers, and the room was stuffy and dark. In the gloomiest corner of all, where the great polished desk was dimly outlined in the shadows, sat the leonine old man himself, his weakening gray eyes strained out across the drill ground where a squadron of his cavalry was maneuvering in the white glare of a Texas The sun on naked Texas limestone. motives and the song of the rapidly shifting picture was youth, triumphant and resistless. The horses were wild, eyes bloodshot, nostrils red, but the men who rode them still loosened rein, stood In their stirrups and yelled like the Their demoniac horsemen of Attila. cheeks were flushed with the adolescence of 20; and as the gait gre furious, boot to boot and shoulder to shoulder, they, too, became crazed with the primal fervor of swift, irreThe flapping pensistible motion. nants of the guidons and the flying manes blew in their faces, and through the dust clouds from their horses feet their sabers flashed glints of the sun to the colonels eyes and his own blood quickened with theirs; but as they wheeled into column and broke to right and left at the end of the course, he drooped back in his chair, his eyes gazing dumbly at the rows of photographs above the bronze mortars of Chapultepec. There were they the men who had been young with him in all their quaint bravery, baldric, tunic and dolman, and out on the plain were the men who were young when he was old so old. It was they they and their youth who were slowly forcing him from the service that he loved; and he almost hated them and their youth. They were always respectful even admiring; but between him and them there was no one thing in common. Even his majors were young majors, and in a garrison of a thousand souls he was pitifully alone. He remembered the hill and the general on his immortal white horse and every face that looked down on him from the wall. The youngsters might laugh, but it was all very real to the colonel; and he was sure that he hated them and their youth. He arose and crossed over to the mess as they came in all aglow from drill. The boisterous excitement of the charge was still with them, their spurs dragged with the bravado that s young know', their sabers clanked with every movement, and they talked of I troops error or C troop's mistake in loud, boyish voices; but as the colonel passed into the bil Hard room every voice quieted, hats came off, and chairs rasped across the floor as their occupants got to their feet, all laughing ceased. He was not of them and they could not have said so in plainer words; his very presr ence was a discomfort to them, and he scowled from under his hat brim and gutturaled unintelligibly. He walked angrily into the stewards room and the door crashed behind him; he stalked along the gravel path to headquarters and sank again into the big leather chair beneath the rows of photographs on the wall, glooming. Once he raised his eyes to the jarave faces; his own drooped forward on his hands and rested there long. Perhaps he drowsed a little. This was why the adjutant, who sat in the colonels outer office and acted as a buffer between h i and his regiment, shook his head to subalterns, and even to a youngish major who stood ready to tap the colonels door. Better cuidado, he warned. The old man's all liver and the subalterns and the youngish major tiptoed away thankfully, having intimate knowledge of the bitter tongue of the choloric old man. Lord pity that new youngster from the Point if he joins two days over his leave, breathed the youngish major, safe in the mess window seat; and O Lord! echoed the subalterns. "He's coming all right, volunteered the quartermaster, whose business It is to know everything in a garrison. Here's his telegram from Perdido station. The Daughertys been gone to meet him for over two hours. Poor kid! patronized the subalterns from the prestige of their two years service. The Daugherty clanked Into Fort Perdido in the late afternoon, the four mules, the boot, everything, white with alkali dust. It drew up with a creaking of brakes before the adjutants quarter and a very straight, very slender, brown-eyeboy climbed out of its depths as the teamster tumbled a long military trunk from the boot and threw a chamois-coveresaber on the walk. The boy, whose cheeks glowed through their coating of dust like the bloom of a dead ripe peach through its fuzz, stood by his suit case and gazed about him in bewilderment; then, as the subalterns flocked out to greet him who was to be one of them, he stiffened cadet-wisto attention and saluted very ceremoniously like an officer of the day at guard mount, all of which was woefully incongruous from a military viewpoint. The youngish major watched It all from the club window. Like that, he sighed. "And two days overdue. Poor, poor kid! The subalterns took the slender boy under tutelage at once. They hurried him to the bachelor quarters; and, spur-wearer- The Garden of the Giraffe House. Soon It is to be hoped that the "zoo will be a thing of the past. No man is a better authority on zoological gardens than Mr. Carl Hagenbeck of Hamburg. At his animal park at Stellingen, a pretty little suburb of the German shipping port, you can now Inspect a zoo unlike anything else of Its kind in the world. Zoological experts who have visited it declare that the zoos of the future will be erected on this plan. Already the enterprising Japanese are building one after Mr. Ilagenbecks design. It was the writers privilege to ind zoo recentspect this 36 acres some The occupy ly. gardens of ground, and in size, therefore, are slightly larger than those at Regent's park, London. Moreover, so popular has the zoo become that arrangements are now being made to add an additional 26 acres to the park. But the garden is unique for the daring manner in which wild animals are presented to public view. Entering the zoo by the main gates an elaborate with structural device ornamented bronze figures of men and animals one passes down a shaded walk. Just as you begin to wonder where the animals are housed, there bursts upon you a spectacle of animal life the like of which cau be seen nowhere els6 in much-discusse- the world. view by the plants and shrubs, that the proprietor has now erected a turnstile, and for a small fee one can pass right to its edge at one corner of the deu. The inclosure is a very spacious one, measuring 60 feet long by 45 feet broad. As one gazes at the big cats one can almost imagine it is an Indian jungle scene, so natural are the surroundings. Above the Mr. Hagenbeck is now placing a number of the larger birds, such as vultures, eagles and owls. They have each little rock shelters in which they can retire, and are kept in captivity by long, thin steel chains attached to their legs. Slightly to the left of the inclosure for hoofed animals and lions are the quarters of a number of Arctic animals. In a large basin are seals, penguins, gulls, etc. Just above them are some fine polar bears. They appear to spend their time in clambering over pieces of ice. The bears are separated from the seals by a broad and deep ditch which the public cannot detect. To the bears Immediate left may be seen reindeer and other animals from the Arctic regions. The whole structure is so designed that it can be ascended on one side by means of a winding stairway and descended on the other by a tobogganing side. From the summit one gets a magnificent view of the gardens and the distant port of Hamburg. It is in this portion of the grounds that we find the refreshment-rooms- , admittedly the finest ever erected in any public zoological gardens. The two main dining-roomcan seat at one time 700 persons, and the walls are decorated with a collection of horns, heads, and antlers valued at over 10,000. There are also a number of private dining-roosuites for parties, many of them very elaborately furnished. The restaurant faces the anilion-hous- e sea-lion- s, Immediately In front of you is a spacious lake on which water-fow- l congregate. Behind them, on slightly raised ground, are scores of hoofed as zebras, camels, animals, such dromedaries, wild horses, wild asses, yaks, alpacas, etc. At the extreme ends of their Inclosures are artistically conceived cave-likshelters, into which the animals can retire in bad weather, or out of the heat of the sun. Behind these again, at a slightly higher elevation, come the quarters for the big cats, while immediately behind mals. these rises a ridge of mountains' on All this section of the park was laid which you observe ibex, mountain out and erected In the record time of sheep, and goats. There are nine dis- three yewr! tinct peaks towering from 60 to 160 HAROLD J. SIIEPSTONE. s e to-da- to-da- d e white their brown muchachos drew his bath and laid out his linen and fitted the bronze buttons into his painfully new khaki, they warned and coached him and commiserated with him. When he was arrayed as to uniform and girded and spurred, they walked with him to the headquarters veranda and watched him enter the low, dark doorway, while their hearts beat sympathy with him; he was such a i- clean-cut- , wholesome boy. One -' of them went as far with him as the adjutant's desk, unconsciously tiptoeing in dread of the painful shriek of his The subalcompanion's new boots. terns' faces were framed white in the window, and the adjutant and the men outside held their breath as the new boots creaked in the strained silence straight up to the dreaded, door. A dropping pin would have sounded clearly, and the boys firm tap, tap, tap shattered the stillness and echoed in the bare room. The silence closed In again for five anxious seconds, a bass growl rumbled from the shadows, and the boy w'as in the presence. Perhaps the colonel drowsed a Btt.e. He often did in these latter days beneath the kindly faces on the wall that smiled and grew dim as seen through something in his eyes. Perhaps he did, for surely this was the Nashville pike that thrummed like a tocsin beneath his horses feet; and surely this was his own troop that clattered along behind him in route order; this was his own dark hair that drooped below his ears and framed his bronzed young face. Then that last dance with the little girl with brown ejes came up in his dream. But with the incongruity of dreams the colonel was far away from the Franklin pike, though journeying thereward on a trip that he had long promised himself after Appomattox. No troop clanged behind him now, and only the rise and fall of a glossy bay shoulder met his eye as he rested on his pommel and dreamed his dream. Again he drew rein at a house near Nashville, for his destination wa3 miles beyond; and though the spires of the city showed in the twilight distance, the night was rolling in from the valleys and the road was strange. Sooii he was asking a cheery young man for a nights hospitality and superintendingthe stabling of his horse. This portion of the colonels dream was apt to be Intermittent, with no ordered sequence of events worth mentioning, for now he stood with his back to an open fire and his hostess wras on the stairs. There was a rustle of skirts in the hall and he had advanced a step toward the door and now stood with hand half raised, staring dumbly into the pained face of a woman with brown eyes; and in that surge of emotion, forgetting the blanch of his own face or the wonder blue-tinge- d of his host's. The bountiful supper was a torture, and the endless winter evening, with the host rattling brainlessly of fields and stock and events, satisfied with abstract monosyllabic answers, was unbearable. A hundred times that sleepless, miserable night he checked an impulse to steal down the stairs and ride away with his misery, He walked down in the first wan light of morning, but the man was there to meet him, goading his mind to frenzy with banalities. To go without breakfast was unheard of in the south? Would he thus injure the of his willing host? He must sit quietly while everything was done to speed him on his way: The host himself would must see to the saddling of his horse, and he was almost forced into a chair. If only he had been spared that moment before the last, and yet, if he had missed it! when he stood facing well-intende- d self-prid- e that accusation that had been repeated with her heart throbs and that at last took words and fell upon him blameless, with a quaver more bitter than sobs, a bitterness that had remained with him until now, leavening his life and changing every attribute of youth. Why didnt you come? Oh, why didnt you come? said the woman, whose lot it was to wait for his coming always. And the man, her husband, stood aghast as his guest rode on his frantic mission straight away from Nashville, with never a glance In that direction or a word of farewell. For the guest heard only the tread of his horse's feet on the road that intoned a question on his anguish-numbemind, over and over again, and it grew loud and receded and grew loud and became a tapping on his office door; and he raised his head and looked straight into those brown eyes and that face, and heard a fresh young voice saying: Lieut. reports for dutjN aid he was on his feet, quickly grasping the lad by the arm. What is your name, boy, your frost-hardene- d uame? And the bitterness was gone forever. away Tobacco Used by British Tars. Three hundred tons of tobacco are distributed annually among the sailors of the British navy. It is sold to them at cost. |
