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Show ! TAMING WILD BEASTS ODD MARRIAC. Fat- r m ( Only Two IowmI by On of I50 pastor of one of the prominent A Wsddlaz ANIMAL TRAINER RECOUNTS SOME OF HIS EXPERIENCES. H4 a In Tho Month H Kings of the fores u Are Harl to Train sad Are ver to He liependetl V I'ptHL Bxtr hazardous" might well qualrisk" that would be plat ed ify the with the name of a (should he hate the hardihood to apply for au strident policy, but the Intrepid individual who puls his bead 111 the lion mouth and chaser irate beaata up and down narrow rate duty, not appajenl-l- y think 80 mutb about theae thinga as the man of sedentaty oct upation This aa.iS the New Yet k Telegraph was the opinion of a famous trainer, who has been following the perilous profession for twenty five years and who discussed the pros and tons of lion-um- his business with cheeiful candor The trainer who has only been out of the hospital a few days exhibited with nonrhalence a bandaged leg where a lioness had nipped through a few inehes above the ankle The same animal had bitten him in the same place a few yeats before in Manches- ter, England It was evidently a favorite bite with her- Tve been luckv for a year now," said the tamer "The last trouble I had of any importance was last summer. A friend of mine asked me to break three young lions for pel forming The result was that after a few lessons I hoved down foi repair &nd had thirty stitches taken in nyy back The lions remained as frlshyrias ever some lions, you know absolutely re fuse to be educated .The teeth of a lion exemplify the finest condition of development of die carnivorous type. The gloat, sh.yrp. canine teeth placed wide apart a the angles of the mouth ean hold .on better than an pincers I havener seen. The Jaws are short andtrong, and aie moved by power-fumus- c les." Is theie any peouliaiity about llon- tamers, national or otherwise?" quelled the reporter "1 can t say there Is. responded the T happen to be a Scotchman. trainer Si if you choose to call us such, came from the Bame place I did You might not believe it, but the excitable French are adept, although I believe the Germans are more successful In the handling of animals. During my residence in this country the last three years I have met a number of Americans who gave every evidence of handling animals as fearlessly as any men 1 have ever met; they are not so patient. perhaps, as the Germans, In trying to teach-the- m tricks, but they are very alert and daring How do you 'go about the business of training lions? "Well, the first trying Ir to get them to know you from work In front of the cage; go into the den every morning and Lead the papers my wife used to take her sewing and work an hour or so. This is the early stagq before you use a whip You can't train Hons to do much; you can urge them to run about the cage, jump the hurdle and leap through a hoop. Of course, putting your head in the lion's mouth Is always a risk and should not be '.attempted unless the animal is qul'fet. You stroke the beast's back as you would that of a cat This tort of soothes him and you may take advantage of this fact to quietly pry open his jaws and press your head so closely to the teeth as your courage permits. Of course, if the animal is disposed to close down on you at this time trepanning would be necessary If you ever Personally, I am more got out alive. afraid of a lion's paws than I am of bla Talk about upper cuts.' left Jaws. g kooks and that sort of A lion is wonderfully fancy shots! clever and he does It without gloves. A lions claws take bold like a fish hook. A tiger or leopard gives with the paws a side slash that cuts like a knife. "Lions are fed after they perform; that is part of their reward for the work; so that the Idea that they are dopy and overfed when we go into the 1 would rather cage is a mistake. work with lions any time than elephants. - They are such treacherous and powerful beasts I have had their tuska each side of me thrust through three Inches of board and I have had 'em goring the ground as I lay between the ivories thinking each moment would be my last. 0h, yes, lions are cantankerous and have their bad days. Some of them seem chronically bad The lioness that I am working now is not a good animal. The fact is she has killed and maimed five keepers, not to mention the horses she has killed when she baa beep on the rampage. You tnay remember,! ahe got out in New York four years ago and was gone two days. I finally canght her in a stable, where she had been dining a la carte oft the poor horses. A year ago in Kanaaa City she killed her last keeper. .1 have not worked with her for three years until recently. I showed you the result of our first scrimmage after my return," and the man pointed significantly to his bandaged leg. s, v prize-fightin- A hurthe m Brooklyn whose son has a barge in this coital), had a strange experience about five year ago, which was never spoken of until recently, when unlooked for developments made it conswtent to relate the incident. The elderly clergyman waa at home one evening and about 9 oclock be heard a quiet knock at the door He went to the porch and admitted a refined apThe pearing young man and a girl latter suggested modesty, while the companion showed the result of debut he nevertheless gave bauchery, evidence of Intelligence The young fellow defined the purpose of their visit whlh was to be married. The couple weie refused emphatically by the clergyman at first, but finally they submitted to all the interrogations of the minicter, and there was no apparent ieaon why thev should not be wed After the ceremony the pastor was handed an envelope by the groom, after which they departed on their The minister enterecjriije honeymoon studv and taking the gift frpth hia The content conpocket, opened it sisted of two copper pennies The son, who was in college the time preparing for the myhfstrv, happened to be home spending a vacation, and was a witness ya all that occurred subse- He enjoyed quent to- - the wedding immensely the joke on his parent, and shouts between of laughter , KEPT TAVERN: Claariy sure enough. t33, the mother of nine children, he married Mr. Heury Watkins Sin elegant and accomplished Ku.. and gehlleman" of 23. for whom she after1 ward bore seven children. Mis Watkins waa full of aplrlt, as a story told by one of her grandwoua, Mr, T B Watkins, of Uxlngion, prove. He says that the day after the burial nioihei and tejita'hrr to Kentucky, of Fav John Clay, the British colonel, but as Tarleton made a raid into Virginia, ittnaje,) m Hu hmond Va depuiv in the leik s office and engagand his men devastated her place. Mr. ed in prose mu ins legal studies Clay reprimanded Tarleton ao severely j T be VAatkinae hurth look ihaige of thL he emptied a sack of coin on a the .uuly honteltv m I etssaHles, and table and told her to take that for. her tla'kms' 1aein beiame famous in losses As soon as Taileton left Mrs. the stinoiindiug munin They had a Clay set aped the money oft into her two moij stone Iioum built at the cor-napron and threw It Into the fire, saying of Main btfeu tini Com t square by that her hand "should not be polluted Hei tv Metcalfe ai that time a stonewith British gold " She seems to have mason and afterwaid gov el not of v been a noble woman, much reverenced Such plane weie a sort of by those who knew her well, and with .il headquai tei s ami a rendezvous striking Individuality and an Imperious for Hie diet melon of tlie hews of the will day at a lime when news traveled only About the year 1815 the Watkinae I he by 'tage coach Maiehulls, the gave up their tavern in Versailles and Its History. Nothing Is more interesting to the student of history than to trees the obtain tduses whiih have led to gr1 events Comparatively few people r ho living who know that the mother of Heiwv- Clay once "kept tavern Versailles Ky and fewer still hv ever had It occur to them, that, had this not been the caselay would mOat to Kentucky probably not haveT-omat all The Waykins family arrived In tht close of the eighteenth eequtiy, bringing with them quite a retinue of slaves I may say right here that there is little foundation for the boy- popular idea that Hemy Clay . -- Ken-tuik- po-li- ti' NEWSPAPERS Have Den t More SupprBB Crime Than Any Other Ageaey, New Orleans "I sea some fellow Is going to start a paper that wont print any reports of crime1 said an old detective. "He thinks such news Is Immoral and harmful to tha . public, and If he ws In my Un-- et business I dare ssy he would changa , e his mind. The professional crook! who went in for big game hav ceased almost entirely to operate, and , it it very seldom that one bears of a great bank robbery, a burglary on a large scale or a confidence game involving more than a few hundred dol- tara." In my opinion this 1 due err-' tlrely to the newspapera. When a big crime is committed It geta wide pubWTeVr- licity. culated ail over the country and me public generally la put on tha alert ' This greatly Increases tha chance of catching the criminal, and hat made such Job so dangerous that, aa 1 said before, they have been practically aban' doned." The newspapera have undoubt- edly broken up bunko and other dan- geroua confidence games that used to gather In thousands of victim every year. They did It by exposing theta' ao thoroughly that .at last it bectm next to impossible to find a 'sucker who wasnt posted In the scheme from top to bottom: Not long ago I waa talking to a ebsp who used to be ia the green goods business In New JerHe cursed the newspapers vary sey. bitterly and declared they had takett the bread out of bis mouth, to'say, nothing of the Perfects cigars and two bit whisky he formerly put Into It t am absolutely certain that that gentle man would cordially Indorse tha new journal without any criminal Items. 1 gathered from wbat he said that ha regarded such news aa highly damaging to commercial Interests." Tlmee-Democr- THE WATKINS TAVERN AT VERSA 1LLES. of Crittenden, the Black burns, the Clays, poverty, obscurity and absolute want the Watkinaea and other prominent of the men, no doubt, planned campaigns at The mother of ' Mill Boy Watkins' Tavern," and here Gen. Slashes," Elizabeth Hudson, was a member of a wealthy Virginia family, Lafayette waa entertained in 1826. waa very attracMr. and in wedding the Rev. John Clay While-aa beauty, she was (after whose death she married Henry tive. of comely, with dark hair and eyes and Watkins), she married into a family ' equal prominence with her own. The rosy cheeks." Her manners were very Clay and Hudsons probably lived in engaging, and ahe waa a most enterShe had a the rather gorgeous style of the Vir- taining converaatlonallst. and shapely figure, and ginia gentry, and if the Rev. John r of mind and Clay waa poor. It waa no doubt due to possessed grmt-Ttt&Her drat revoluhusband, Rev, John the body. devastation the wrought by tionary war. It is extremely unlikely Clay, evidently realised fully bla wifes AN EMPEROR'S ROMANCE. that hie poverty could have been so charms, fir. In making hia will, he once gives directions in In the study of Kaiser Franz Josef great as the story books would have more than case F beloved Wife should Interof Austria, who, by the way, entered us believe. Henry Clay did not accompany hia marry betwixt this and then.L .And his 70th year recently, hangs a framed but withered bunch of flowers, to which a romantic little riory is attached. A few weeks before the announcement of UNDER his engagement Kaiser Franz Josef itd his fiancee were walking between Isehl and Lauffen, when she saw a meadow bright w ith gayly colored wild flowers Walt, I will pick you a posy, ahe exclaimed, and a few minutes afterward handed her betrothed a little bouquet. hood was spent in the atmospheie Clay-Watkl- ot well-round- I EEM SERVED The future Em pi ess Elizabeth took the black velvet riband which bound her magnificent hair and tied it round the flowers, offering them with a playful courtesy to the kaiser, who kissed them before placing them In the outer pocket of his military tunic. Suddenly as they neared Ischl, the kaiser discovered that the precious posy was gone. settled upon a farm, which they owned, three mile south Of town. Here Mrs, Watkins died In 1829, at the age of $0 year. Her remains were buried in a country graveyard close by, and rested there until 1851, when they were removed to Lexington by her son Heury. The "Henry Watkins farm," which I still a point of great interest, fs' naw the home of Mrs. Robert McConnell. The last vestige of the Watkin residence has given piece to more modern improvement. DANIEL M. BOWMAN. There ia no policy like politeness, since a good manner often succeeds where the beat tongue has failed. Magoon, - - . - He was among those saved from the wreck, and when the Spanish sailors were sent home he remained behind. At first he whiled awoy' his time about New York city, acting tha 'petted hero" role for' some ihonths. Then becoming Ured of that, he tried to enlist in the navy of the United States. But aa he was a Spaniard and could speak but very little of the English language, the authorities of th Brooklyn navy yard could not find a way of shipping him, Oriza haunted th navy ard tot some time, trying the various ship and meeting always with the same result. Finally he waa taken In as an apprentice and a few daya ago arrived at the apprentice training station at Newport to be made Into a good AmerL ing. j ftu Some days after, when the Incident had been forgotten, the valet was astonished to find that the lost posy had been hidden deep down In the tunic po Ket all the while, and waa, as a natural consequence, so withered that he did not like to show It to the kat ser. As it was equally Impossible to throw away flowers picked by the future kaiserin, he hit upon the happy idea of pressing them, with a view to presenting them to his imperial master on the latter's wedding day. long-forgott- thligw la sweet-willia- i vi-d- But In the whirl attendant on such an important event he forgot his plan and it was not until the Kaiser Fran Josef and his consort celebrated their silver wedding in 1879 that the old valet reminded his master of that day, as be produced the withered bunch of flowers. The kaiser and kaiserin were much touched and a command was given that the relic should be placed under glass and framed, so that it might be hung where the kaiser could always aee It. - vllk the The fluctuations and history of th taate for flower gardenlrg in England are more closely connected with the changes In national character than most of the decoiative and creative rtSf say the Spec tator. There la clear evidence that when in the daya of Elisabeth and James I. every on waa hHilding fine houses and "all England was a stone-cutter- 's yard flowers wera sought for beauty a sake flowers which, as Gerarde quaintly- aaya of tba "though not good fop the belly, were meet to deck the breaat of beauty." The building of the mor purely renaissance houses In the daya of Tharles I. and C'harlei Il gave ua much that was beet In the Italian gardens terraiea and balustiadea of perfect propoi tione, good statues, exqui-Bi- te gates, fine old lead work. This is a great inheritance, and the work still remains, and if tome complahi of them as of the architecture of St. Peters, that It Is "too rational, far too earthly," others will never cease to enjoy the Intellectual pleasure of acting these fine forms, the terraces, the tripods and the sundials, and the winged koine and triton by the lakes, which we borrowed from Italiaa brains. Hut the Italian garden Is not a flower garden: The" only" thing ' which we borrowed from them on and under which flowere grow la the per Their gardens meant shada. gola. level walks In a country which was all hills, water and marble work, adorned with statues. Even the Spanish gar dens of the Alcazar, though full of orange and citron, have few flower. We now add to this the brilliant cars pet bedding in the formal parts, and the modern 'wllderne8, with the intermediate herbaceous garden. Tha latter has not In Ihe leaat killed the" admiration for the outdoor architectural aria. At the present moment wrought iron gates, railings, statuea of bronze, vaeea of lead and marble, ur being imported from the ancient chateaus of France and the villa of Italy into England to be aold to owners of gardens, old and new. at Versailles, Tlie Old Watkins Inn CuimM National Character, he informed his father of the troufolble to sure was which low such absurd an indiscretion it was at once presumed to be an elopement and doubts were brought as to the accuracy of the girl's age. The father felt somewhat annoyed, but he was confident that he had held strictly to all the laws regarding the performance of the ceiemony For five years notlnng was heard of the couple, and but a few weeks ago the minister found that he had not got Into any About the same time In the evening he heard a knock at the door, and he recognized it at once A strange feature of the occui rence waa that the son was at home again visiting for a few days The senior clergyman harried to the door and his ear was not deceived, the caller was the man he had married five yeaig before. The young fellow, in an unassuming man-ne- i, reuiaiked thal he always felt that the minister deserved an explanation, and he announred the purpose of his t second He said that he waa walking along the streets of Brooklyn when he met the girl he married about a half hour before he visited the parHe continued, stating that sonage. he figured that she would not be worth more than two cents to him, and that the feeling regulated his fee to the minister. .Concluding, be declared that she bd provetj to be of inestimable value to him, and he quietly arose and banded the clergyman another envelope, which contained a check tor $50, payable at tha Chemical bank. Troy Press. Light HoasakB-pla- g. "You advertised for a girl for light housekeeping affd J "Well, this la the lightest house in Hit R.low fh. It may be bigger than "You and young Chubbleigh dont the vicinity. apeak to each other any more, Ethel. some of the others, but it's a frame house, while they're ail stone or What is the matter V "Nothing, only he told me one day brick." when we were nt the park that I hat a awanlike neck, and I told him he had Wages mt Uriot Bill Peeteve. T London billposter struck for $$.25 a awanlike walk. hours to constiper week, fifty-thre- e Foo4 la Baasla. tute a week's work. In some parts of Russia the only food for the people eonalata at present of It Is not necessary to hang np a code scorn, leaves and the soft bark of of home laws In (fie house' where love fireea. Is dwelling. B-- H. CLAYS MOTHER THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN fifiilof , k&jr Naturally, hia arrival there created quite a little interest, and he became a marked boy from the minute hi presence was known. He waa assigned to one of the cottages which house division of the apprentices at the staSchooltion, and became a pupil of Hi master. Fox in cottage No. 6. hi of or th language knowledge adopted country grows more extensive Is able to mak day by day. and be in understood pretty fair style. himself H1 undoubtHe Ih an apt pupil. and hia fellow as as rapidly learn edly old-tim- drittos Kaiser Fleaaed with Mays TsBsetty. The German kaiser had the other day a curious adventure with on of hi numerous godchildren. Every seventh boy in the same family, if tha parent are In bumble circumstances, is named after and educated at the expense ol the kaiser. On the kaiser's arrival at Remscbeid, one of theae godchildren was deputed to offer, him a bouquet. The small boy. however, at the tail minute atterly refused to part with tha flower. The kaiser,, however,, ouljl laughed and patted him on the head, and said, Yea, when a German one lays his hands on anything be does no readily give it up, and ordered fifty, marks to be given to the obstinatl youngster. the apprentices who have and tages of birth in thisre country, La t,more pec other in lack he what than offset, in the mind of the average ha ha V hoy at least, by the experience life. hia of young s years few AwiBrica Caei-the in had The Driving Tsaehea J At present he ia studying along genGeorge J. Fuller, the trotting hors at the of boy ADOPTED BY tNCLE SAM. 1 eral line with the rest expert, who zailed for Rutsla a short b will time ago, wiU have the pleasant Itaalg After tome little difficulty, Pedro Orisa, an of the Spanish navy, en- - the station, but he the probably bugle squad, of teaching the czar how to managg assigned eventually to ter our Training School to become a good American sailor boy. shown a decided preference the trotting horse. He has been ea dutlea, Pedro waa also aa he has Pedro Orisa left Spain, bl native bla cabin-bo- y of work. Ilia progreaa pecially engaged by the Russian got kind for that country, aa cabin boy of the Spanish aomethng of a bugler on board the wlU be watched with a great deal of ernment to Instruct the army and thfi sent Vizcaya np to the time when the ship cruiser Vizcaya, which th power In ter eat at the station and throughout royal family. Mr. Fuller is a veteran with Admiral Cervera to defend Cuba was disabled by a few American' shells of tha civil war, and la well over $d at Santiago one memorable July morn the navy. against the American force. Beside years old. He said to a sportsman beI know nearly every fore leaving: Hta UtMl XseaM. the the country, and 1 In horse solve to unsuccessful Bile trotting .attempts Fig. Qasar Johnny, wbat la th Mother "Why, blind the me." know all Into fits think box The A 4 , novel problem. closely they Chicago Inter Ocean; Hav yoil , at partition, and all efforts to discover matter with your facet ; Johnny-No- m, nig, which bi said to be operated been fighting agalnt" room have bee She Kbbw Whet That MeX No. 4438 Cottage Grove avenue, i tha the person In th '5- resr on o I gueaa -I aint been fightla. futile, dont wan Little Helen Boo-hoaource of much trouble Co the Hyd 1 them klssin bug must bar Mt me." to take that nasty, bitter stuff. Hey a to are who trying Park police, IbsIbwsMm. A Me New York Journal. Mamma But how do yon know It1 all Illegal liquor traffic In that News: Tom Miss From th Chicago in th that and bitter? Yon havent tasted district. The, officer say nasty Wa ChMI WnbwIs Middleton has very pretty teeth, hasnt man The Helen You said It would bd la bo. little a It revolving yoom aha? Maud Yea; It la really, aarpri-in- g Handout Harry "If yer mly bed . for me. Stray Storie. good who want a drink places his money raddar wot would hoar skillful soma dentist are. Ur work, Teddy, Teddy-A- w, In th box, which ewlngs around and wtW da dov, Tlepaaa Ob I a preaenta a bottle of beer to the patron, & boddertn yer head about foal HM la How SkBletaa. K Whale th change, any Of a thousand and Jour-- a persona only on! datr-N- ew York Iika The skeleton alone of an average questions J that contrivance la operated poizie tha aches th eg of 100 years. r , a). pallce, and they have mad anmerooi whale we!gha 23 ton. ' tU advan- had er ' o! aup-erea- 7r . - - |