THE : OREGON . SUNDAY JOURNAtt PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1C07," mm 3 11 AM I 'By Tody Hamilton. '-'' ' 1 ianr BL. . HaaOtea.) A HOAX that W begun as a mere . aimniv tn . mak emu I tnantj anil that T W ' Over - lt ' ir nririntortf heads and : fright , , uiwi ..New 'York for days, was i the now famous, hoax of ths escaped Tha Job was pot up by and with tha editor of tha New York Recorder. Ion since defunct but tha a paper ready to dare and do anything for a sensation. Tha "Dlant" waa started by . having some ona telephone to tha papartnai i thera waa a llo loose la n,.UbW on Eighteenth street whafa tha cage witn th. w.t bad - baaa i MmrwrerUr ;ln- . ..Jam a tha foil and ha rot thr with considerable elao- rity o promptly, ,, . ; -rlvad befor tha Hon waa out of hi age. In tba meantime, however, thara waa a crowd of neighborhood paopla ort tha idewaih in rront 01 am n thla crowd anon filled . tha atraat ..... . in tha atahla door tha reporter got a glimpse of tha formidable looking oeaai roaming and that waa enough for a young man . .... i..i.Mii . ITa wrote for 'tba Wll'l iiinniuM.n - first edition a two-column ac&re head article,-- . ?''-'- '''- "'--'." ' All tba morning paper fell gloriously ' Into Una.- Tha Jlecorder printed bul letlns that held thousands . breathless, something Ilka these: ..-'s;,' ?. ,' Something Happens 1 EveYjr Minute. l:lS--Tba lion loose. in a stable! : ;: Stablemen ; fear attack upon fcorsee In tha atable! ; 9: IS Lion aeema to . be .. mad , witn 10:00 Animal deahlng Itself against Aoorl 1 ' ' ', l 2 10:11 Feara that ha may eacape lata the treat! :" ' : , . '' 10; to Lion appeara at window witn borae'a tall la lta moutht - ' r. Tha axclUment thronghout tha clfy at noon next day waa really extreme. Parent kept their children from achooL Tbouaanda crowded the etreeta of the neighborhood. ' It waa the acta toplo of convaraatlon. ' '. - ; , Tha day wore on and 86 one could te found to get the lion into hla cage. Meantime a dead horae had been smug gled into tha atable by men with true geniua for detail; tha carcaaa waa duly mutilated with an ax, and - the city presently thrilled to tha acoounta of lta death under tha "talona and teeth" of the "enraged lion." r - The board of health ordered tha dead horse to be removed; but the order waa left atanding." becauae no na waa found brave enough to undertake the Job. The cordon of police waa drawn then to prevent the people from paaaing through Eighteenth atreet at that point. Captain Wllllama of the police, fa moua In that car ae Clubber Wllllama, and then at the height of hla notoriety, "got In" on the atory by declaring that I If nobody waa found by next day to put that Hon back Into hla cage he'd do It himself. , But he didn't. The Recorder waa etlll at It,' the lion waa etUl looae, Huylera candy factory near by waa entirely paralyzed, the pub Jlc waa f rantlo and tha devil waa to pay generally. , At tms atage of the game a telegram waa aent to Bridgeport for George Conk Jlng and Harry McDonald, . two of the show's best animal men, to hurry on to New Tork and put a loose lion baok late his cage. . - " ' ' They came, bringing nets, ropes. Irons, etc. They and I climbed to the roof of the atable from the house next door, where several 'news gatherer had passed the entire night, and by meana of ladders we deacended to the floor of the stable Immediately above the Hon. . -, ..v -,. , -' 1," rn thla fIon were not laaa thai tO reporters. Our animal trainers lifted a trap and cautiously . descended. I re mained wlfh tha reporters . f Five minute passed ; amid '-Intense anxiety. V'-'-- Where the Child Worker (Contlaued From First Page of This Section.) , . the- fields almost day ta and day out ' . . and see Utti more of th wild flowors. ' the birds, th waterfalls, th charms of woodland, field and stream than th city boy who has barrels , Of time on tila bands, v . : -,'.,:." This, perhaps, Is a repreaentatlv pic ture of th kind of employment experi enced br a majority of those 1,061,71 children classed by the recent census -statisticians as ehlldlaborers ngaga la agricultural pursuits, -v r ; ? i gome farmer parents, to be sure, - ovine little humanity In the treatment of their children A small peroenUge of the child workers, too,- ar hired out to work for others., and in these in- stancea it may i bo assumed that the treatment and solicitude for education and proper rest ar not so pronounced, Considerably ameliorated, also, is ths child-labor altuaUon by th inrormauon applying to th ages of -the different classes of laborers, as orougnt out or these census flgnrea. . .'';: . Technically, for census purposes, any one of either sex between the age of , 10 and IS years employed at a gainrui aeeapatioa to classed as cnua-iaoor-r. Commenting on this. Dr. Joseph A. . Rill, who mode th nu analysis, ' y calls-4 atuntlon to th ; fact that th translUon from childhood to adolescence ' occurs between those years, and npr- mally ach year" Included In that period v marks Important changes in th child's - growth and development;-bene In any ' question relating to the education and v welfare of th child a - dlfferonoe ,of " only one year IS -significant" '-1 ' - Pursuing this same course of reason - ' lng, Mr, H1U said: "Jt is evident that, as , regards the problems of child labor, a child of 19 ' to 11 does not belong to th same class , as a child of It or 15. Recognising the irnportanc of a more detailed age clas sification for -this group of bread- winners, i the census offloe made Its ' ' count and' analysts , of the children en gaged' In joocupatlons .by . year and age. , although the classification of the Older bread-wtnner was by periods only."" j , And the figure show that of the total j ' number of child workers of all elaaaee. l. per cent wer 15 years of age, u.j , per cent were 14. 15.J were , 12.1 were at, .l wer 11 and .l were 10. 1 aa that more than on half of them were over It; the number tinder 14 was T90.1I, representing about it pef cent of the total. - - r-ri. ."'wfi. In this connection it may bo observed that In some states, as Pennsylvania, . where child labor law have been paaaed. It is legitimate to hire children over 14 years of kg upon affidavit of their par ent and school teachers declaring that a certain amount of school work has Wn aatlnfactnrlly completed. ' .' i , j fays iw. Hill: ' "The extent of the ; evlia of child labor depends partly upon tie S et he child aad partly, uvus h.m ,i.nt afinf ,m haard-auB deeded by hustling and acratch Inge and more platel shota.. sihl- . Afta kraathlaaa MtMIIM tba tlTtn door waa raised autloualy aad McDon aid called out to me to send hire dowa a bottle of whiskey and aome clgara Even then not a?, single reporter dropped to the game. . . - " Th whiskey and cigar were ooiamea in th neighborhood, where t aaxloua thousands, held back by tha polloe, ax citedly waited. Th articles were passed down. ' ' Then cam more pistol aheU aad aome yella. Send Down Another Bottle. A aflanr-a an Innm m1tWMaAA that It was whispered about that th trainer bad been kiiiea ny in iion. An inquiry was aet on foot The trap was Ufted anil In rmnnnu a nail ram a from tha heroes below for more whiskey aad more cigar.. 'j . -i. - Not a man of th SO brirht renows there around me "tumbled", and J mar veled greatly. , After ' another long, breathles watt th trainer gave a about and annoaaoed that old WaUac (a lt-year-old beaat that could be led- by the fore top Ilk a horae) was again aaf In hla cage, . The ID reporter rushed away f t their respective offices to wiita up the sensational drama,.;" vf There was only one evening paper la New Tork City not fooled by thla press axent'a little gam. Thla wag tha Even ing Bun, ' - r. ry An animal episode that resulted la overdoing the . notoriety business, at leaat in the opinion of showmen, was tha affair of Pilot in Madison Equar Oar den. . Those who are familiar with ele phanta know that at certain periods of T th eharaotr of tho occupation la wMoh'iHrto pOrson mployd la ootton tnllla, the child Is ' employed. - . "There 1 on broad das of occupa tions ta which child labor Is not open to moat of th , objection ordinarily urged against It These ar th occupa tions connected with agriculture. The work of the child on th farm la usually not injurious to health or morals, and does not necessarily Interfere with th opportunities for schooling." So, at the outset, there are thro very important considerations which make th child-labor ' figures seem far less portentous than they are on their face, These considerations are: ; v First, that two thirds of tho total number of child broad-winners ar em ployed on the farm; second, that most of these are member -of tho farmers' families, and third, that more than on half of th number are ever M year Of ag."' lv' i'--;"V'v r-. i-i'A Dr. Hill ! authority for th statement that at th age of 14 or II tho evils of child labor are not generally, regarded ae serious, save in a few occupations of an exceptionally Injurious or. ebeo tionable character, the range of whloh is somewhat larger for female children than for male. ;. . .1 L- . Ho much for ameliorating olronm- atnaa. .: But th flgurea show, at least that th. war at th last census 1SI.151 Children between 10 and1 It years of ag employed at other than farm work in other. words, there er that many .mninTnl ataxes when they ought to be free, andfin occupaUons of obJecUonablo nature. And Pr. Hill says thSt there has probably been an Increase hTthe number, so fittat 200.000, or more, would be a ionseative figure for the tho chi-laboProMem fat a. It mav DO moaau-rou mj - " . S for tho most part rostricUd to this group, . ' At , ,h. irat tima information on this .ifJT .- available, for at no other census war enumeratora. Instructed to nanOUO WI quoi.un ' Briefly, th. occupau?n- . some measur objwiwi- - numbf or worxers - ngaod in A them ar! . vBoolrteeper. ..la-fA-. atanoaTapners, etc., vw. ah?7sho makera and repairers. IIS; dEfymen, y backmen, "- tjto; gussworkers, 1.481; laborers (not specified), .-, 4M26; J laundresses.. U6; messengers and orraad office boys and girl. ,m; mental workers, 8.468; min ers and Quarrymeni M00; packers and porters, Ul; painters, glaziers and varaiahera, S43: printers, lithographers and preaamen, : salesboy and sales girls: t.644; servaaU and waiters or waitresses, 4t,4l; textile i mill ; pper atlvea, JS.T44; textile . workers, i 0.700; tobacco and cigar operatives, 1,621; woodworkers, 1?,J28. vi . TextUe jnili operatives axe subdivided! their existence they ar Uabl te sud denly beoome 'Daa- wnn na wm arrives about th beat thing to do la ta kill them and put th tost down to profit and lose, , They bar become dan geroua to their keepers and for .the kriu te 1a atmnlT a auestlon of hav ing humaa or. olaphant Wood oa Ms head, v . V, ,- v.vv."J '--i Elephant Beatek to Death. Pilot had exhibited th first symptoms at going "bad" by knocking dowa his keeper with bis trunk; but for th time 1 vaanua e other attendants th man would hare been killed. That Bight, to subdue th elephant, n was muhoij "thraahd"wbloh la in case 01 as -naana that the animal la attacked furloualy by th mea ad that there la a great battle, auring wnico ne ru IS beaten with sticks and . clubs and prodded and pounded with cold iron. Th object waa not cruelty or revenge. It was to mak th recalcitrant beast "squeal" the showman's term for trum peting, Which Often sounds Ilk a squeaL If th elephant aqueala it 1 a sign that ho gives la; after that a child can man age Mm, and for a Urn Ms oxecutlon may be postponed. ' v. . FUo fought back la stupidly sublime silence and refused all he gentle over tures for th propoosed amicable settle ment of tho difficulty. Chained and strapped to ! helpleaaness he with stood tho onslaught and still re- ' t. , nib, .'" a aonnd. He u annaal.- Tha fllrht BiaStd and th men wr at Mm la relays and th foolish SOttl Of tn Dig pig remain- vn moved. And thA he fell down and died; dubbed to death, but undefeated. Th a P. CL A. waa very , much alive about that time and Measrs Barnura V Bailey wr Habl to bp hauled tip at Is Employed hosiery and knitting inlUa, silk mills. woolen Bills, eto. The textile worker embrace resmakra, mUUasrs, seara stressee, shirt, eollsr end euff makers, tailor and UUomssos, ete.-;-i Under the head of Uborere Would come, no doubt, many ehlldrn who with more careful . olasslfloatlon should be movd Into on of th other usis. mis without qgostloa aeoount for the num ba of "laborer" between . II : and It years being given as t,41, whloh Is by far th most numerous of all the occu pations except s arrant and waitresses, Who aumoer es.ts. t . " -Tnat what nrooortlon of these ar doing work which 1 very Injurious to them M Is, of eourse. Impossible to say, ainea undoubtedly a large number work fan farms or amid the healthful environ. ments of small townsr while owers, such as young nursegins, may no n rared In eanaanlal work, with the sin gle objection remaining that they are being deprive of schooling. , - Coming r down to tho occupation Which 1 are wniversally admitted to bo obnoxious both as to ago and occupa tion, tho lead Is aslly taken by textll mitt operatives, who number I7.TT4. ; sr f Ht one get Into the very heart of th ubjct By no manner of means eould th satisfied farm boy "wage- earner," rolling from his norse'S dixk to take a ewlm tn the -rook.; be -compared with the sad-eyed, pale, sunken cheeked Uttle girls standing at looms pr spools In dark,' gloomy, poorly ven tilated -rooms, literally spinning their life tissue Into the warp and woof of the cloth which soon becomes an at tlcle of commerce, v - -.-r--:;vv;.-.-.o-' ; There are many bona-f lde ' Instances of children so small that they have to stand on boxes to reach their work. In most of the northern states there are child-labor laws placing tho ' mini mum working aje limit at 14, 11 or II year, and the . movement ha , been gradually spreading in th south. Not so very long ago it was widely charged that children ' hardly out of armschildren anywhere from ' to 18 years of j ago wer employed by ;: th tens, of thousands hi these mills. Two years after the census had been taken, ES. G..Mprphy, chairman of the Alabama committee on child labor, was of, th opinion that th (4.000 children estamated as having been employed In th otton' mills of the southern states in 1900 had Increased to 80,000. At that time a conservative estimate was believed to be that 82.000 children under 14 won employed In those mills. 12,009 under 12 years and 6,000 -under 10 yea'rs;'.-'-v.:V;-.'-"'',ri'-"'.--,''-,-, -4; '.',' v" :- To some Oxtent. restrictions placed upon child labor in New England caused many manufacturers to move , their mills to the south. This Is the weapon with Which they- fight child-labor leg lelation. But many states have obvi ously taken the ground that an indus try which depend for It perpetuity! MMna- t rl an account ' that 'wnuM nrnva a illaaaraeable advertis ,.n, i h hla ahnw. Wi were In deep consultation almost an entire day over the matter. Meanwhile ther was tne dead elephant , with a hundred proofs upon his .carcass. - ).jy'y-..:':;-f s""; 'j ... - - . Elephant oil Their Hands. , - What could we do with him. Tou ffr'f anaalr a daad 1Dhant OUt 01 th back door and around th eornryry easily without publio Inauiry. i ruiy haf an felenhant on our hands." ' The evening papers added to the con- atarnatlon b "scare-heed" announee- ..n,a nt tha "Daath of Pilot." of "One af tha bis- herd at the garden," ta. "The cause of the deata was eviaentiy no. guspected. ...V...r"''." rtnally th Idea was svoivea oy ena In tor Dr. Leotard, th celebrated vet a-inarian. who aut the animal op. The nraaa aaant f oand that Pilot had de veloped symptoms of "musth," and had haan hnmanelv shot. tO -death. ' It Was nMnKnait that It, f jntird waa about to dissect the animal la the Interests of Mi.iirt. a Mil mat na wnmu kit u, uib cover the cause of tho disease known as , Ttoa.rarjorters were Invited to bo pres ent at the novel operation. o cap m climax, an Invitation waa sent to Mr. Bergh, and th papers wer full of th avn naxt dav. alvina tho Circus , an amount of advertising more than quai i- iniiM. tn th cnat of th elmhant. u n.,.ti mrm nhapmait with the' flOUr tesy of th showmen, who hugged them selves to find sucn a promaoi vnu of escape from a serious dllema. tr thara la a strong flavor of ele phant about circus literature It 1 be cause that grand Dealt na always formed th leading leaturO of Jtho show i..i.in.,i ant kananaa mora "bras work" has been founded apon th ele phant than upoa au outer animai put togethr.v,. .; ; . Vte telephtnt Controoerty. Thla rant davalonad a ehm Which was to lnvlv showmen la th expendl tur of hundreds of thousands of dol lars and tho newspapers la a contro versy which lasted for year. It wag th Importation of a whit elephant t n naviord. an old time circus agent was commissioned by Mr. Ballsy to Interview King . Tneeoaw ana - try ana, Th are considered sa cred In Slam and India generally, and- th King of Biam, was Known to pos sess several. Gay lord got two very fin nut mflr ha haA than, aboard PJIIWUIVU ww. - - ship they dld mysurlously probably at thr hands of natives whoso fanati cism led them to resent tho sacrilege, r Gavlord cabled tn facts to wr. uanay and sailed for hom. Mr. Ballsy left; New Tork for Ban FTanclseo, met Bis m - . am a 1 iiiil tnlit rlav lord to return immedlatefy and gat an- other elephant ' - In vain tho agent pleaded for a visit hom to gea wile ana children, ".- . "Tou must return on th next steam- ar," said tho determined snowman. And he did. He succeeded in getting fair specimen of the. "sacred white iar.h-.ni" tt waa nroutrht to LondOB ...a v-.m nlanarl In tha an A on exhibi tion. TM WOO tor tne aouoia purpo.a of establishing its genuineness and get- tin- imnt avnlnltailnn In tha Ruronaan press. bef ore producing tho animal her at the opening at tuaaiaon equarw war den two months later. Scores of Eng lish of fleers of the army, and navy had seen the white elephants of tho court of Slam. Thus if s genuineness was un equivocally established, sad tho London newspapers gav th beast wtd and ex travagant publicity. -: "v. ;'. Nine Kind of Whit Elephant. It was called hlt";lphant as w call a cream ooiorea nors wane, simply beoauss of th absenc of certain iA.., aa In tha anldarmla. - "LiBtA ,UUI1I'B .... - - a . of th Sacred White Elephant" la a title held by Siamese Kings, dui win are pther potenute of India who claim th upon the blood - of helples children ought to be driven out r . A southern millowner recently at tempted to Justify the hiring of girl 11 year old from In, the morning to I at night by. declaring It Impossible to run a cotton mill without children) that there te a kind of work which only children can do or, rather, which 1 only worth the child's wage of 10 cents a day, . But the statement has been made that the wages of children la some of the cotton mills run as Jow as 10 ent a day. v.;-1- .; : u. : In th census report the 18,744 child textile operatives between the ages of 10 and IS are olassed ae 11.847 male and 11.237 female.. That girl pre, dominate In such places Is taken by some persons as an especial stricture on the system, for ths reason that at 10 to 14 years of gge a girt te almost cer tain to suffer deterioration In health from such -employment, while ! bo mlahC fare batter.' . "-" .- ,.- And the census take no not at all ot th workers, believed by some torun Into the thousands, who are undey the age of 19 years.- :,. When an InvesUxatlon waa Wade tn Pennsylvania four years ago when the minimum age limit tor worxers was t it was estimated by reputable author, ltiea that 8ft per cent of , the ehUdren suted to be under IT who' wer work Ing in faotorle at night were really under 18. Rheumatism, pleurisy, bron chitis, pneumonia and va consump tion are common amottg those pitiable vittie night workers. , railing sight was one of - the mosteommoa auments 'For? the most pH. these mill exist in the hard eoai region or toe state, where th ranks of the workers ar made up from families Of foreigners who have worked bard In tbelr native land and expect their ehlldren her to do as they had to da -..-.... A-j. . So It Is bat natural that In the same region another form of child labor of perhaps a more dreadful sore ' tnnvea This Is the occupation : of little ooal mine 'Workers. r:-; :," .::.'-; "2 The census tells that 1,009 , children between the ages of 10 and II were em ployed in 1900 In mines and quarries, and that II of them were glrle. It is doubted that any of these girls worked In the coal mines, however. ..- That child labor; has not been eared la ths anthracite region by the latest legislation has been shown by ojulte re oent investigation. . Boys who are man ifestly much under the age at whloh the law declares they may work are found at many of the eotllris. The breaker boss , will tell you that the company ha o responsibility In the matter, slnoo the ages are misrepre sented wronr ages actually sworn to before magistrates by the parents. He will also ten you tnat -tno utile oevus seem : to like- It; , you .couldn't drive them away.". . " .AV-" " " Which Is Undoubtedly true. For be tween" school and . work ; many a boy promptly chooses the ' latter. ' Only when, after he should be In tho prime of life, he sees his mistake, - . . . -r. ; The breaker boVs work is tosit all day ne trough throngh which icoal Is slid to the chutes, and to laboriously pick the slate from th coal . In win ter, as a rule, the breaker la not heated,. m 'v: A;: d&'crySw mmMfll :: f ' 1 ama tltla which creates a certain local aaman tar white" aleDhanta. As a mattsr or root any eiepnani aiy ferlng from the ordinary is thus made "sacred" and called "white' There are no lass than nine varieties of "wMU" elephants in India, according to H. H. Croas, an artist, who spent nine year In India and painted a ploture of the whit elephant of th King of Slam. Bald cros to tn writer! -it an an- ' By Mrs. .ohn A, Legtn. ' ; (Oepyrlght IOOT, by Aaierleen-Jooraal-Siamlner) THtfftB Is no denying that the high wages of skillsd workmen and of effioient men who receive high salaries from corporations and r- ; manager of private enterprises have had the effect of changing the ambitions of a majority of their fami lies. Many of them have acquired ex travagant habit and ar no longer sat isfied with th style of living to which they had been accustomed In ths day of conservatism, t v v ;'','r '. They have an especial abhorrence of all kinds of domestic duties andInsist upon having servant jty thslr families; they put up with all hinds of stupidity and wastef ulnasa on th part of th llly-tralned domestlo they are able, to seoure, when If thoy paid attention to their pecuniary interests arid gav their personal supervision -to Atom detail of their household affairs doing part of th work themselves, making all the purchases Of supplies. Of all kinds es pecially thos used in the culinary de-partment-vthey would sav at least half th .expenses;' and if they saw to It that all food wer properly pre pared and economically usd they would beyond question. Odd materially to their comfort and consume much less of their husbands' salaries. ;...;.., : A.'A- In matters of dress they are equally reckless, and as a rule are dissatisfied with the style of wearing apparel which Is really more appropriate . for them., and tho Uttle workers suffer consider ably, -' Besides this, the constant breath ing of coal dust is Injurious ' to : the i The statement In the oensus report that 1.438 glass ' workers 98 of them girlswere between the ages of 19 and II draws attention to a series of cru sade that hays .beetLjn ad within the last few years against the employment of children in glass factories of New Jersey, ...s,'i- .V--; xi .-f,x tX?:'--.i'? That a rab of dwarfs -was S oelng raised as a result of tho condition was scarcely considered ' an exaggeration. Boys In such occupation become " so stunted in mind that they can hardly remember their own names. For the body-destroying labor which they per form these children receive from 67 to II cents a day. ... There was- held In on- of the large astern cities last winter a child-labor exhibit which startled observers. ? Pho tographs taken by i representatives; of the Pennsylvania child labor committee show little ones of both sexes working In sweat shops. In. homes where- piece work is done, going to the factory, de livering telegraph messages, doing scav enger work, selling flowers, doing cart horse Work, tending newststands, mak ing cigars and mining. 1 Perhaps, ' contrasted wlto the lot or the little farm laborers who are in the great majority the condition of many of these could properly be termed 'child slavery v ( III,' J - jl 1 : tm U ' !;"''- Vc-v--'""';-, f . ' 'iSr-J' . ' :' ? HigfeiSarielaKe till phant has a flesh mark or th forehead It 1 considered tho work 6f Buddha and becomes in the eyes , of the natlvea a sacred beast" ' . . ow the elephant we had on probation at the London soo was a genuine "sav ored white elephant' , with Buddha's mark on different parte of Its trunk, on the forehead and on about two feet of Its trunk, end wae otherwise a perfect specimen of elephant They wish to Imitate their acquaint ances who may be wealthy , and able to afford xpenslv wardrobes. t ' In many of these families there are children who never do anything but go to school. If they are boys they must have all the requirements for athletics of every description. ' They must pay their dues In tbelr clubs and-be fur nished with money for car fare to and from the fields where they practice and play their game, and ' never ' think of taking exercise by trying to earn a dol lar by - securing chance employment They seem to think that It is their par ents' duty to : support them until they ar tt, i.'.,;--'-;;.A.--"" -i- ."--: .:--iP :,; Girls ar even more dependent, and require greater expenditure of money to supply tbelr demands for dress and Indulgence in all sorts of things that only ths rich are Justified In spending. In many cases the president of the cor poration and his family are simpler in their taste and their expenses than his high salaried employe and bis family. One is very glad to see oapable and faithful men rewarded by compensation commensurate with their services, but regrets that they do not emulate the sxample.of economy of their employer more -frequentljr-and'- savs--np for ad versity, which is sure to come to most persona r' :'h j.,-w ' -'," it:',-. Vy-i The' doubling of prices of everything one must have to live even comfortably has not Seemed to make any changea In th manner of living or disposition on KILLED FOR FASHION , mmi"' .'r, i 'i Mole Are Required for Woman's i Coat. ; The htimanltarians have given up as hopeless the modern , woman, who sac rifices the lives of millions of animals annually for her adornment. " The. following shows the number Of animals required to provide seme sec tions of a modern woman's costume; : : Moleskin coat: 200 molea ' Moleskin toque, trimmed with bird of paradise plumes: SO moles and I birds of paradise, - Silver fox stole and muff: 10 heads, 10 tails' and '14 whole fox sklna ' , Evening head-dreas, 1 aigrette and I plumes: , S birds. r - V Evening sable coat: .100 sables.,,, "It seems almost Incredible that the tenderest-hearted women, whose eyes fill with tear If they see a dog run ovmr., will countenance the most horri ble tortures of birds and beasts," said a well-known physician, who has ranged himself on the side or ' Humanitarians. 'T can only attribute it to the wonder ful ease with which the majority of women banish a ; disturbing, thought from their mlnda Y- '. - : "The sable has . become almost ex tinct and the mink is followipg its ox amnle. ThS ermine is also becoming scarce, owing to the unbridled demand for costly furs." ' "waw. . -a. - -an nr.- L -s M J t .' V-fltfK K ,: . 1 When Adam Forepaugh of Philadel phia discovered his great rival had ob- , talned such an attraction he wa much, perturbed In spirit. , He said: l will Mso have a white elephant" Samuel Waiinn. than in the confidential emnlor of old Adam, was sent to Liverpool to get a email elephant from Croaj.iOT: ( animal dealer, to make it wnue te and to. j fore our , hip -it at. once to New fork before elephant oouia gee were. Painted the Clj Uetst ,VVh!t. v ' U was an Mea worthy of tfce shrewd old showman. Watson got the elephant easily enough, treated It with chemicals and sent it to New Tork.. The entire city press was at the pier upon lta ar rival. 8a was I. And though I knew it to be fraud, and that no such elephant ever existed la nature, . I eould : not prove It. .. " j ' 1 J" ;. The next day to our Intense chagrin th pres teemed with laborat notices of th new arrival. It was described by all the paper as a "genuine aored whl' elephant." It killed out real n tTr1se completely. ... 4 " Kuwever, our elephant arrived, was also exploited la the papers and duly placed oa, exhibition at our opening In Madleoa 8iuar Gerden, We surrounded the animal with Hindu attendants, on a raised platform, with expensive rugs, eta, befitting hi sacred character. I secured th attendance of scientists. phyelotans, naturalists, .travelers and many persons of distinction; jtsaUhe oer- Uiimw n auL.11 moa mm pif", a former consul at Slam; Frank Vlncb.TTJfv5 1 tha anthA- anI nt Mhara tnolunln, Dai vld B. Ker, Siamese correspondent of. th Time all of whom pronounced the elephant a genatne speclment of the "sa- ' ered white" . species. But It dlda't go.--White elephants were a drug In the mar ket Anybody eould have one. Then X proved It Some years before I had, aa publisher of the Hairdresser, beoome acquainted with a Mr. Mar- ehand, manufacturer of peroxide of hy drogen. This was for bleaching human hair. I sought hint and Inquired whether ho oould produce an article that would bleach an elephant white. He said that hO OOUId. ; ,''" -.;,.: :'- :.;"f".V, How the Fraud Wat Exposed. , - -I laid the scheme before Mr. Bailey. who loaned ma a small elephant for my -experiment. With th use of th perox- Id and ammonia W .produced an ele phant a whit as this paper. The pro cess consumed 19 days. Then' I wrote slrn, a follows, - . , ; . ,..,..,...,. 1. i, ...... - ; '.",- '. M'f ;. 1 . t An Exaot CounUrpart of Forepaugh : t ,: , Fraudulent White Elephant,' " j i ; : t ' -'.-: i.t t t But a Getter Job by Getter Artist a ; ................... ,( Thl elephant waa exhibited ; to the New Tork publio on the last day at the Garden, then taken to Philadelphia and - placed at the ' end of the street parade of the - Forepaugh show, with banners bearing the abov inscription. Tet th Philadelphia papers, with a single ex- ceptlon Indorsed the Forepaugh exhibit 1 as genuine. Professor Leedy, of . the university of Pennsylvania wrote a let ter certifying to Its genuine character, c Later a professor of the University of Michigan Indorsed It over his signature. Notwithstanding tbo faot that I pub . llshed a two-column affidavit In all pa pers In every ttown where -Forepaugh was to appear, which affidavit was a confession of 4he fraud by tho man who ' perpetrated It, the university professors followed eaoh other in certifying that it was not a fraud. .. ; . ' w . Finally, during tho 'progress of this war, Forepaugh reaehod Chios go. Here was his Waterloo. Forepaugh withdraw his whits elephant amid a etorra of publio protest playing to beggarly busi ness. Both shows had spent hundreds -of thousand of dollars in this war of the whits elephant. Our own, th genu ine animal, waa lost In th Bridgeport fire In 1881. , . , .-, th part of these wives and mother to practice self-denial and strict economy, or, to be ' more active In tho care of their ( reeouroesiv They : ; only Inveigh against trusts, : corporations and every . supposed cans of the Increase of prices and wages, '.i ,f;" h-'I yS'':i-f vi?:? ; If ther took V different course, while they , could not cure all the evils of present .condition, they could minimise tho Inconveniences 4 and difficulties -whloh beset them.- - a ; The wive ar not wholly to blame, Th men. falin aura nf thali .nmfnH. able salaries, indulgs themselves in ex- '.. Somebody once o.ected sutl sties taftA prwra mai saianeo msn rareivservtia . -. I any money, that the aurtyfir their stated Incomes mads them Improvident In their provision for the day when they -might be unfit for dutyf that knowing's at the end of a month; quarter, half year or year they will receive their sal- " arie or wages make them reckless and extravagant i and It ' was found there were but few who did not spend more than they. were to receive at a stated?;, time, -'v : ? '. -Ji : , . ;-; V,;:;s' j Fixed sftlart upon Which 4ndlvlduale can rely mak coward of 411 men, sine th old adage, a bird In the hand is worth two in tho bush," so well known, deters far too many from making : a - i dash for something uncertain, however' promising, when they have a certainty 9 -of even, less return for their labors. ' A large wholesale , furrier admitted that It took 100 skins of th smaller animals, such, as ermine, moleskin. ot mink, to make a fur coat VAt one time there t - we a limited number of akin used In our business, such : as ermine, ; sable. beaver, chin chilla, mink, sealskin and- astrachan. In Ume fox white, liver, amok and red waa added." Girl Lands Big Fist? .j- From the San Francisco Chronicle.' Without th aid of a rod. hook or line Miss Ada M. Garlick Saturday captured , a 160 pound tuna in the eurf, . Mis . Oarlick was taking an arly ' morning dip in th ocean and on going into th water at the foot of Elm ave nue discovered a huge fish floundering -and thrashing about in the shallow water. She Secured a Short heavy ' " board on the beach and wading out be- yond th tuna, stuck tn plank under it . and rolled It ashore. Her hands were badly cut -in the ef- -fort but ahe plucklly rapped Jt on the head until the tuna gave up the fight -and died Her, atruggl with the fish attracted early strollers to the beach, who hurried to Miss Garllck's aid, but were too late to help. .. , . . - The. tuna Is decleared to be the larg est one ever seen around the , wharf. ' Old fishermen think the fish was after SA? smaller prey and followed them Into ' shallow water, , ' r