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«; ______ ___ all without the crowning of j ; my ail WIKWUl IUC VSWWM.-U ---------- mtie. - « »r-weil rorumoH nN « - ,,on B1inn moral |v so force WP|| nB head. arms, He snaneu a «.*.»»«, - ---------- ---- 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 ____ ___ 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