Show 1 THE B sg platt I 1 DEALERS SHOP laone place which very THERE few if any of you have visited and that is the tere of a man who deepa wild animals birds and reptiles in stock to cell to menageries that need them in my part of abe coon try there are a ew such establishments Ini America A visit to one of them especially it th e dealer Is kind and polite Is something to remember always an animal deal TRAINED ZEBRAS ers sales booma are alko a menagerie except that they are larger and contain n greater variety ot livestock live stock than any one animal show that travels through the country perhaps some person that ta starting ft snake show will order halt a car load c serpents at once pythons cabras cobras rattlesnakes and other ophidians ns the dealer who has not a supply of snakes must send all over the world or them it may take him six months to III the entire order one of these supply agents had for awhile a great run on snakes and so imported so great a number ot them that a consignment brought to him upon one ship weighed alve tons dounda ot snake n an animal dealer has always some interesting te specimens at his establishment that you would hardly find in the ordinary menagerie perhaps you have heard or read that the zebra s a creature so wild that it cannot be tamed well that statement Is now out of date within the last dozen years a few have been tamed sufficiently to make them work in harness one animal dealer a mr cross domesticated a bebra team that he valued more highly than any pair of horses he could have owned he used to drive them to a light wagon while people stared wonderingly the pair of zebras became so tractable that he sometimes hitched them to the wagon with a pair of pretty shetland ponies la the lead thus making a miniature tour ln hand the same dealer had in his collection a black lion one of the finest ever captured A photographer desired to maks a picture of this noblet lion animals with intelligence have much curiosity and the more intelligent tell igent they are the more curiosity they possess the noble black llan caw the photographer before the cage getting up a camera preparatory to getting ahe photograph the lion wanted to see what it was all about so came calmly to the front of the cage and looked out between the bars he gazed etea dlly at the man and the camera without moving that was just what the photographer most wanted snap went the spring that instant fixing the grand face and mane upon the film The result was one of the most remarkable photographs ever take dabble o rebie Re eie an to anch lanch L by KATE E JAMIESON copyright 1903 by KATE E t air dick began to aresa uresa at ten i got a note from cousin joe which amr was tots of time but then 0 asking him to lunch at one ft 9 he v was such a slow sinner young dickie thought it awful fun deac reached joes house too late for dinner a lion thlu black groaned lion was valued at 1250 the animal dealers trade gives rise to another one that of the men who earn their living capturing specimens for the man who sells them there are men who spend nearly their whole lives in this work in our own country are professional rattlesnake catchers one of these in an eastern state has become widely known as pete in florida are alligator catchers often BLACK MAED LION they get baby alligators and fine mako pets ot theao grotesque creatures for awhile i men of all raja whit black brown yellow and to capture the wild belong to their countries iria falca black men folios asell Ti aUeda pair of parent liana to yet their young if lion cubs are wanted they watch their 1 t tt chance and kill first one then the other of the parents then they snatch up the cubs and hasten to the seacoast as fast as they can travel it la a dangerous business even more dangerous than lion cub hunting however Is obtaining young polar bears the bear cubs follow their mother she la very fierce and very sagacious the hunters must dress themselves in light gray furs and steal over the snow to leeward of the bear leat she scent them when they come near enough they shoot at her and K they are lucky enough to kill her they get the cubs if not they are lucky to get off with thear own lives the game of sketches rainy days will come and the children have to stay indoors it they gather up a and some paper with which to play the following game they will forget all about the bad weather outside and will be glad to stay in the house every player draws at the top of his paper a little sketch to illustrate some historical event and then passes the paper on to his left hand neighbor who writes at the bottom a brief account of what he imagines athe scene to represent lie then fold a hla writing over BO that it cannot be aaen by the next player and passes it on to the one oo 00 his left every player in turn examines the kech and writes beneath it hla or her version when the papers have gon 0 tha round of the table they are collected an dead aloud and much entertainment la provided by means ot some at the amusing mistakes of thy younk ija so aceb cut you old man has she Wellcome and try one ot my dears and youn son forget her and noth naf could havo been more successful S f HOW ALEC DID HIS SUMS alee went into a grocery store the other day with a paper in his hand the clerk thought it was hla mothers order for groceries and alee read out six pounds of augar at B cents a pound please thirty cents answered the man and eleven pounds ot rice at 6 centa a pound went on the boy sixty six cents said the man again and alee went on four pounds ot tea at 60 cents a pound two pound 0 coffee at as cents a pound three cana 0 soup at 10 cents each and so on fsr quite a long list and each alm the roan told him at once what it would cost at last alee said that was all man told him the amount and askell as kedl his mother had sent the money or U she wished it to be charged neither thank you said alee mother send me at all and she want the things it wa ny teacher gave me all bilings todo or a sum and I 1 thought it would be much easier it you did them or me like that good morning where have all the babies 0 o the world cradled in the lafae or a 13 wk 5 SIX TIMES NINE I 1 studied my tables over and over and backward and forward too but I 1 remember six times atac and I 1 know what to do till slater told me to play with ran doll and pot to bother fay head if cal her fifty four for awhile learn it by heart she said so I 1 took my favorite mary ann though I 1 thought it a dreadful ahama to give such a perfectly lovely child such a perfectly horrid name and I 1 called her my dear little alft Fl ft tour amundred times till I 1 knew the answer of six nine as aeo As tha answer of two times two next day elizabeth wigglesworth who always acts so proud said six umea nine is eltty two g and I 1 nearly laughed aloud but I 1 wish I 1 for said i now dorothy tell it you can I 1 thought 0 my doll and hakea I 1 answered mary ann y Ii caves the walking leaves of java ar perhaps the anost wonderful ot inflect imitators counterfeiting green leaves so remarkably that the eye la deceived even when one scrutinizes them ona ot th strangest things about them la that their coloring matter has been proved by analysis to be practically the same substance as the chlorophyll which elves the green hue to real leaves in java the natives believe that chwe insects arc actually transformed leaves havone originated as buda on the trebe there la a so called leaf butterfly which looks ll 11 sy mothr butterfly when flying when it alights upon a branch it holds its wins in such a fashion that they exactly like even showing tha thereof cool new the koreans have holy horror at any of their nationality adopting for thus when a native who hal benta japan returned home wear gnp his hair cut short and a foreign 1 hat he was soundly thrashed and told to return whence be came until ho was alt to appear in polite korean society tha native boys have any amount of chebli ch eeli ona went up to an officer on board an american vessel pulled his mustache to see what it was like and a toothpick out of his hand crew too anat tommy when told that h wa fast answered aw too fast I 1 think they water much why I 1 have to take a bath every morn lne |