Tillamook headlight., June 21, 1906, Image 4

Dsne. fighter., botjhey
ANIMAL HEROES.
best Dressed Mun in the World. the public press as to which system
was better: the American custom
The majority of men believe that which ordained the sack suit in busi­ The Thrilling Story of •‘Snap** the
the best and most fashionable in ness and a change ot raiment for
Bull Terrier.
men’s clothes comes from London; laborers after hours; or the English
Ernest Thompson Seton’s last book,
and that the best dressed man in the custom which set the frock coat up "Animal
heroes’, 1«. If poooible, more than
world Is the American turned out by as the emblem ot respectability among ever up to
the standard of bls In ten sly in­
teresting
wild-animal tales. To the animal
a London tailor.
tradesmen, a mark distinguishing
An American who spends a great them from the laboring classes and lover this new collection will be read with
attention. Mr. Seton has been
part of his time in London, ana is kept the latter in blouse and hob­ absorbing
subjected to considerable criticism by other
rather a stickler for the correct thing, nailed boots during his hours of rest. I naturalists, notably, John Burroughs, for
was recently balled on Broadway by In England they talk a lot of what endowing his animal characters with un­
usual intelligence and ¡Jowers, which. It Is
a friend with the remark, “So that’s seems awful rot to this side of the claimed,
not possessed by any dumb
what they're wearing in London, eh?’ water, and they take clothes very creatures. are Very
likely, as a class, but, as
The man addressed shook his head. seriously. Each class has its gar­ Mr. Seton himself admits in his preface to
"Animal Heroes", these histories, while in
“8uit made in Washington, overcoat ments and each garment its use.
each case founded on the actual life-doings
In New York,” he said. “Thought
In London the Tuxedo L still a of a real animal, are more or less composite.
you were togged out from Bond lounge
What novelist, Indeed, does not combine
coat,
something
to
be
slipped
8treet, sure,’* in a disappointed tone. on during the early evening and dis­ the most striking characteristics of several
Then the man who lives much in Lon­ carded for the formal "swallow tail” individuals to construct his human hero,
who shall appeal to the reader as an ex­
don made this radical announcement:
starting for any entertainment. ceptionally fine character? So has Mr. Se­
“They can’t make a sack suit in Eng­ before
ton
taken the record of a number of wood
But the American has forced it into or other
animals ami embodied their most
land. You ask a Bond Street tailor public
life,
has
ordained
a
black
tie
striking
"kills” or foilings of the pack Into
for an American business suit with and gold shirt studs with it, in place one sagacious,
brave and gigantic specimen.
an American flt, and he turns out a
Like all of his books, "Animal Heroes"
NEW FRENCH MOTOR RAILROAD TRUCK.
is delightfully illustrated by some two-hun­
dred drawings and sketch«*» from his own
and his wife's pencils. Interest is stimu­
lated by a constant succession of marginal
drawings, liberally interspersed with full
page paintings of thrilling incidents. The
story of good-hunting, of tierce pursuit, of
fatal closing in—sometimes to the pursued,
sometimes to the pursuer—is told by an
eye-witness wielding a master pen in de­
picting animal adventures, and at all
times runs through the story the love
which the -writer bears for all animals—of
the proud, indomitable, fearless beast
even though he be the scourge of the
country a killer of cattle or sheep or even
dogs, of which latter the author is pas­
sionately fond, be they good ones.
Nothing Io* «lis<*uss«*s has ever been writ­
ten which Is better worth the reading, and
withal sadder In Its finale than Is the ac­
count in tliln volume of the little dog,
•'Snap.’’ This "Snap’’ is a bull-terrier,
which waRRvnt the author ns a sort of Hal­
lowe’en Joke—be was ao vicious and unap­
proachable. He kept Mr. Seton, on the top
of tin* table most of the night, where he
smoked cigars until his pocket-supply ran
out and then, shivered. However, he fin­
ally made friends with his little pup—a
youngster absolutely without fear. A year
later, the two found themselves near M«*u-
do/.a. North Dakota where the wolves had
been ¡»laying havoc with the live-stock,
evading poison and traps aud actually
scorning th«* attempts of th«» ranchers and
the wolvers to exterminate them. The fol­
lowing is a recital of the hunt in which
“Snap” figured most gloriously:
From a high point we caught sight of a
moving speck of gray. A moving white
speck stands for Antelope, a red speck for
Fox, a gray sp«*ck for either Gray-wolf or
Coyote, and each of these Is determined
by Its tall. It the glass shows the tall
down, It Is a Coyote; If up, it Is the
hated Gray-wolf.
We got a momentary view of the pur­
suit; a Gray-wolf it surely was, loping
away ahead of the Dogs.
Somehow I
so fast as they had after the Coyote. But
no one knew the finish of the hunt. The
Dogs came back to us one by one, and we
saw no more of that Wolf.
Sarcastic remarks and recrimination were
now freely indulged in by the hunters.
"Pah! scalrt. plumb scalrt," was the
father’s disgusted comment on the pack.
"They could catch up easy enough, hut
when he turned on them, they lighted
out for home—pah!"
"Where’s that thnr onsurpassable, fear­
less, seaire-o-uort Tarrier asked Hilton,
scornfully.
"I don’t know," said I.
"I am in­
clined to think ho never saw the wolf;
but If he ever does, I’ll bet he sails in
for death or glory."
That night several Cows were killed.
I lifted
him In
T Mm aad
‘ MJ
PERILS IN COLD
Danes ngnters, oui iu«;
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all
without the
crowning
of j ; my
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rrit, that none can supply so well aa it proved,
for h«» ..V.....
licked —
my
*(1, ivr
, hand as be Frozen Bacteria Actb
a Bull-terrier. On that (lay the Cattle­ did so, t then
b.en never marl®«!
snarled again.
to Make txpe
men learned how to manage the Woir
That was a sad ride home for me. There
question.
.
,
..
___ . was the skin of a monstrous Wolf, but
The Agricultural
Next day was Hallowe en, the annl- no other hint of triumph. We burled the
I versary of Snap's advent. The
fearless one on a butte back of the raueb- lowing up a line ot scientli/
was clear, bright, not too cold, and there house. Penroof, as he stood by, was tion ot the effect upon iwiX
was no snow on the ground. The uien heard to grumble; "By jingo, that was in cold storage tor an
usually celebrated the day with a hunt grit—cl’ar grit! Ye can’t raise Cattle and Dr. Wiley I,.
of some sort, and now, of course. Wolves without grit"
velop the fact tl,„i |,
* «S^M
were the one object. To the disappoint­
fixing the period f„r
ment of all, Snap was in bad shape with
I his wound. He slept, as usual, at my
TRE FIGHTING INSTINCT.
tides as meats and miik. **'
feet. and bloody stains now marked the
stored.
place. He was not In condition to fight,
but we were bound to have a Wolf-hunt, Story of a Desperate Hand to Hand
In one of the Philadelnhu M
so he was beguiled to an outhouse and
storage houses s; i has been
Encounter Against Heavy Odds.
locked up, while we went off, I, at
for the ex. *rim< nu and
least, with a sense of impending disaster.
Now and then among the brutali­ nient has been ma I«- in
I knew we should fall without my Dog,
ties
and
crimes
that
form
the
chief
but I d.d not realize how bad a failure
storing birds ami milk.
subjects of daily journalism in this
I It was to be.
The stored articles will be tak H
Afar among the buttes of Skull Creek country, there comes an item that
from time to time u.. i
we had roamed, wheu a white ball ap-
not
only
appeals
to
our
morbid
nature
peared bounding through the sage-brush,
certain whether or uot deter!uH
and in a minute more Snap came, growl­ but gets in close to the primal love has begun, and at what period■
ing ami stump-waggling, up to my Horse s ot fight which springs eternal in the
side. I could not send him back; he would human animal. Most of us have no point has been reached when th ■
take no such orders, not even from me.
tides can be no longer stored J?'®
Ills wound was looking bad. so I called feeling except of loathing in the case main good food.
■
him, held down the quirt, and jumped of the secret assassination of six Ital­
It already has been demonic ■
him to my saddle.
ians
in
Minneapolis,
because
their
Dr. Wiley says, that the bacterivSB
• There," I thought, "I’ll keep yon safe
till we get home." Yes, I thought; but modes ot fight are Latin in a country occasion decay remain in the a ■
I reckoned not with Snap. The voice of Anglo-Saxon prejudices. But just while frozen, and that they actwSB
of Hilton, "Hu, hu," announced that he a week before, the press dispatches
carry on their work, although tuI
had sighted a Wolf. Dander and Riley, I
his rival, both sprang to the point of from Bristol, Tennessee, told of the greatly reduced rate.
observation, with the result that they sudden demise of seven Italians who
In one of the cold storage pi&nt|u ■
collided and fell together, sprawling. In with others had conspired to murder
Cleveland some meat wag recenj I
the sage. But Snap, gazing hard, had
their
section
foreman,
because
he
was
found which had been mislaid andU I
sighted the Wolf, not so very far off,
and before I knew It, he leaped from a “Bard boss.” Doubtless he was! gotten for a period of eleven yean I I
the saddle and bounded zigzig, high, low, Nevertheless, the old fighting blood was sent to the department and awl
in and under the sage, straight for the tingles at the bare account of the bat­
tion thawed out and examined.
1
enemy, leading the whole pack for a few
minutes. Not far, of course. The great tle that the foreman, Haverly, whose
Decay had gone on to such an ext« I
Greyhounds sighted the moving speck, and name suggests his nationality, waged that the meat was entirely ur
I
the usual procession strung out on the plain. single-handed against the body of la­
use. The greater portion of It m I
It promised to be a fine hunt, for the Wolf
had less than half a mile start and all borers that "rushed” him. Had he again placed in storage and the ofe* I
the Dogs were fully interested.
been armed with a revolver, he would
‘‘They’ve turned up Grizzly Gully," cried have no sympathy, but he depended on vatlon will be continued. The fact that 1
the meat, having been frozen for eleven 1
Garvin. "This way, and we can >ead
the first weapon at hand—a crowbar. years, was In a condition of decay a I
them off."
We galloped to the top of Cedar Ridge Backed against an embankment, he held to conclusively prove that tb I
and were about to ride down, when Hilton withstood the combined attack of the bacteria can work in the meat while 1
shouted, "By George, here he is! We’re entire gang of laborers, all bent on his
frozen. The object of the investigatloa
right onto him.
"A great Gray-wolf
came lumbering across an open plain to­ murder, and armed, against him, with is to ascertain at what point the decay I
ward us. His head was low, his tall picks, axes, and spades, in addition has progressed to such an extent uta
out level, and fifty yards behind him was to their knives. Repugnant as the idea
injure the food value of the article
Dander, sailing like a Hawk over the
ground, going twice as fast as the Wolf. of killing may be, one can scarcely stored.
In a minute the Hound was alongside help a thrill at the thought of the fore­
There Is at present no law prohibit
and snapped, but bounded back, as the man, Haverly, at bay like a knight of
ing the storage of any article for any
Wolf turned on him. In a few seconds
former
days,
fighting
for
his
life,
and
length of time. The only law upon the
the next Greyhound arrived, then the
rest in order of swiftness. Each came so sturdily and valiantly laying about subject is one that requires fowls to be
up full of fight and fury, determined to him, weapon for weapon, steel against drawn before they are placed In itor
go right in and tear the Gray-Wolf to steel, until he stretched seven of his
age.
pieces; but each In turn swerved aside,
and leaped and barked around at a safe assailants dead before him and routed
distance. After a minute or so the Russians the rest. Haverly may be a brute and
appeared—fine big —
DOffS tlw.v were. Their
The Oregon’s Big Pennant.
distant intention no doubt was to dash a bully; he may have deserved what
at the old Wolf; but his fearless front, the laborers, rising like desperate
When the Oregon left Hongkong »
his sinewy frame and death-dealing Jaws, slaves against a tyrant, had in store cently, after her long period of servlet
awed them long before _ they
___w were
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near for him. Yet, somehow, that is hard to on the Asiatic station, she was flying a
him, and they also Joined the ring, while
the desperado In the middle faced this believe because the innate love for homeward-bound pennant over 500 feet
combat in our nature challenges ad­ in length. It was necessary to support I
way ami that, ready for any or all.
Now the Danes came up, huge-limbed miration for a man who displays des­ this long streav-er by two small bal­
creatures, any one of them as heavy as
the Wolf. I heard their heavy breathing perate courage and physical prowess. loons tied to the end to keep it out of
tighten into a threatening sound as they
the water. The pennant was made ot
plunged ahead, eager to tear the foe to
silk thread and attracted much atten­
Little Cannibals.
pieces; but when they saw him there,
tion in the Asiatic port.
grim, fearless, mighty of jaw, tireless of
Every
once
in
a
while
we
hear
of
In the old days it was the custom to
limb, ready to die if need be, but sure
of this, he would not die alone—well, breeders complaining of the cannibal­ have a foot of pennant for every dayot
those great Danes—all three of them— istic habits among growing fowls, espe­ the cruise. That of the Oregon is prob­
were stricken, as the rest had been, with
a sudden hashfulness: yes, thev would go cially among those still in the days of ably one of the longest displayed from
right In presently—not now. but as soon their early babyhood. This pernicious the mast of a home coming ship, iL
as they had got their breath; the i*y ” were
-
habit, when once the young birds be­ though it is on record that the old
not afraid of a Wolf, oh, no. I i could
. „
come thoroughly addicted to it, is rath­ Brooklyn, on one occasion upon her ar­
reml their courage In their voices. They
T1
knew perfectly well that the first Dog ; to er difficult to control and suppress. rival in New York, displayed a pennant
coat that gives you a caved in chest of the white tie and pearl studs that
when it’s buttoned up and a decidedly must be worn with the tailed coat.
The American speaks of his Tuxedo
open front when it's unbuttoned.”
Yet some West End tailoring estab­ suit and his dress suit The English­
lishments in London depend for their man talks of his evening clothes, and
very existence on American trade, not would as soon think of changing his
alone the trade of Americans travel­ trousers to match his smoking jacket,
ing abroad, but a mail order business as of changing his studs and tie to
which entails making on measure­ accord with his Tuxedo.
While the vast majority of men buy
ments and forwarding by express,
likewise payment ot duty. So impor­ their clothes "ready" or "semi-ready”
tant is this business that a cable code made, most men regard with envy the
has been arranged. With this code, one who has time and money to have
a complete catalog and full directions his clothes made and fitted. The En­
for self measurement, a man may glishman of means considers it his
cable his order to London, and feel duty to have his clothes made by the
reasonably certain l hat the clothes he very best tailors and to wear them as
wants will leave England by the next badly as possible. As he can rarely
remain long at a time within his own
westward bound steamer.
One traveler from a firm in London country, London custom tailors have
making a specialty of cable orders re­ stored in their safes measurements of
cently visited New York and booked hundreds of wandering Britons who
orders to the amount of six thousand usually cable from various parts of
pounds sterling. But this class ot the world when they need new
business is all In "semi-ready” clothes. These measurements aro a
clothing, a system which has been valuable asset and Insurance on them
frequently amounts to several thou­
adopted from American tailors.
Yet tho American "ready-made” has sand pounds sterling.
As a matter of fact, the best dressed
been a subject of laughter on the
other side; and the New Yorker's man in the world is neither the New
claim to be the, "best dressed man in Yorker nor the Londoner, but the man
the world,” has been received with who gets hfs frock coat, cutaway and
jeers. To the foreigner the idea of a evening clothes from the Bond Street
man who has literally "no time” to tailors, who have made these styles
devote to matters sartorial being well of masculine dress for centuries, and
dressed is absurd—and the New his sack suits and overcoats from
Yorker has no U1M, lie can't wait Fifth Avenue, where one might say
for clothes to be made by a "custom” they were invented.
tailor.
When he needs a suit he dashes Into
ATew Clothes for Easter,
one of those immense haberdasheries
Tin» flowers with which many chlirch-
that dot both sides ot Broadway from
the Battery to the Bronx, where ( es are ornamented on Easter Day are
thousands of "ready for service” suits most probably emblems of the Resur­
aud overcoats are piled on long tables rection. There are people today who
in stacks that rise above a man's think that unless something new is
head. Here are found prices and sizes worn on Easter Day no good fortune
to fit every customer. Sack suits will come to them during the year
from *3 to 150 advertised for cut and The Dorsetshire poet. Barnes, gives us
smartness. They are smart, too, are this quaint little verse in regard to
better cut and sewn than the English this custom:
I put on my blue frock
cheap suit, but tho latter ts made of “Las
better material. It is just this differ­ coat, the vust time, very new;
“THE DESPERADO IN TIIE MIDDLE FACED THIS WAY AND THAT.”
ence that makes the American crowd Wi* yaller buttons aal o’ brass
look smart and prosperous, while the That glittered in the zun like glass; close to the ranch, and we were spurred
go In was going to got hurt, but never
English crowd looks merely comfort­ Bekaize ’twer Easter Zunday.
on to another hunt.
mind that -presently; they would bark a
It opened much like the last. Late in little more to get up enthusiasm.
able.
the afternoon we sighted a gray fellow
The New Yorker must look prosper
And as the ten Idg Dogs were leaping
With tail up. n<>t half a mile off. As we round
the silent Wolf at bay, there was
oub . It I* part of his stock In trade.
rose lo the upland and sighted the chase a rustling In the sago at the far side of
half a mile off. Dander, the greyhound, the place; then a snow-white rubber ball,
Ills clothes must not appear old any
came up with the Wolf and snapped at it seemeil, came bounding, but grew In­
more than his face. This demand for
his haunch. The Gray wolf turned round to a little Bull-terrier, and Snap, slowest
youth and freshness Is what makes it
to fight, and we had a fine view. The
pack, and last, came panting hard,
possible for some firms to sell as high
Dogs earn«» up by two ami threes, barking of the
hard, he seemed gasping. Over the
at him In a ring, till last, Snap, the so
as 7,000 suits in a day. Hats and
level
open
he made, straight to the chang­
little w’blte one rushed up. He wasted
shoes get even more attention than
ring around the Cattle-killer whom
no time barking, but rushed straight at ing
dared face. Did he hesitate? Not
clothes.
The ancient saw, "When
th«* Wolf's throat and inisse<l it, y<»t none
for an instant; through the ring of the
broke buy a new hat," is so thorough­
seemed to get him by the nose; then the yelping
straight for the old despot
ten big Dogs closed In, ami In two minutes of the pack,
Yorker
ly appreciated by the New “
range, right for his throat, he
the wolf was dead. Snap had lived up sprang; and
the Gray-wolf struck with his
that he receives without even a grin
to my promises for him.
twenty schultars. But the little one, if
such advertisements as that which
Now It was my turn to crow, and I did foiled
at all, sprang again, ami then what
not lose the chance. Snap had showu came
puzzled Count Witte as he walked
I hardly knew. There was a whirl­
thMB how. and at last the M<*ndoza ing mass
down Broadway.
"Fall Lids for
of Dogs. I thought I saw the
pack had killed a Gray-wolf without help little White
one clinched on the Gray­
Faded Faces.” it read. "Fall," mut­
from th«» men.
wolf’s nose. The pack was all around; we
tered the Russian diplomat with a
Then» were two things to mar the could
not
help
them now. But they did
victory somewhat; first. It was a young not need ns; they
look of weary amazement, "fall, that
had a leader of daunt­
Wolf, a mere Cub; second. Snap was less mettle, anti when
means to tumble down, does it not?"
in a little while
wounded—the Wolf had given him a bad the final scene was done,
there on the
Some one explained that "fall" was
cut In tho shonhler.
ground
lay
the
Gray-wolf,
giant of his
As we rode In proud procession home, kind, ami clinched on his a nose
the American for the season which all
was the
I
saw
he
ihnp«'d
a
little.
"Her«*,
”
I
other nations know as autumn.
little white Dog.
cried, " come up, Snap." He tried once! We were standing around within fifteen
Last winter a leading London daily
or twice to jump to the saddle, but could feet,
ready to help, but had no chance
gave a column every morning to the
not. "Here, Hilton, lift him up to me.”
we were not needed.
"Thanks; I’ll let you handle your own till
discussion of "The Fetish of the
The
was dead, and I hallooed to
rattlvsnak«*s,” was th«* reply, for all knew Snap, Wolf
Black Coat." Every clerk and sales
but he did not move. I bent over
now that it was not safe to meddle with him. "Snap
—
Snap. It's all over: you’ve
man in London wears a frock, or
Elderly Spinster: You .now. Doctor. bis person. "Here, Snap, take bold," I killed him." But
the Dog was very still,
Pi inc® Albert, during his work. and. I'm always thinking in* man is fol­ said, and held my quirt to him. He and
now
I
saw
deep wounds in his
like the English artisan, he wears the lowing me. Do you think I infer seized It, anil by that I lifted him to the body. I tried to two
lift him. "let go, old
front
of
my
saddle
and
so
carrie«!
him
costume of his trade after hours. For from hallucinations?
fellow;
It's
all
over."
He growled feebly,
home. He had shown those Cattle-men
at last let go of the Wolf. The
weeks members of Parliament and
Doctor: Absolutely certain you do. bow to fill the w« «k place in their pack; and
rough
cattle-men
were
kneeling around
th«* Foxhounds may bo good and the
celebrities In many lines argued in Ma'am.—From Sketch.
him now; old Penroof's voice was trem­
I
Usually it finds its chief expression in 700 feet long.
flocks confined to close quarters, where
the ground is bare and the feed is
wanting in animal matter. Bird life
under natural conditions finds oppor­
tunity for work and play In the hunt­
ing of insects for food and in the care­
ful selection of such vegetable mat­
ter as its system may demand. Young
chicks, when confined, are obviously
deprived ot these opportunities for a
healthful exercise; the result is that Any Lady Can Do It at Home — Costs
they become idle, which engenders
vicious habits and a craving for some­
thing to do as well as for animal food.
When in this condition if a member
of the little flock shows a wound or
effects of blood, the chances are that
one or two will at once commence to
peck at it, which leads the others on,
and soon the whole flock will be rend­
ing the little one into shreds, devour­
ing it before one has opportunity to re­
lieve its misery or to isolate it from
the flock. The remedy, of course, is
obvious, namely, afford the young
chicks a wider range and be more care­
ful in your feeding by making it a
point to keep them busy by throwing
the food into litter or suspending a
head of lettuce or cabbage where they
can peck at It; also supply in one form
or another animal food. A good way
to do this is to take the underground
scratching chick feeds, which of them­
selves are a balanced ration, and scat­
ter the same in a litter of chopped
straw or hay, about one and one-half
or two inches deep. In fact, anything
that will make a litter may be consid­
ered available.
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“A person may take a walk one
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mer suit, and still feel quite warm.
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