Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 285, 13 September 1919 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

ANIMAL EDITION ANIMAL EDITION RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1919

Her Soldier Boys i

About eighty thirty Saturday cve-j "Oh. those animals all have false ning twenty-five army mirks lined I teeth, and when they go lu the big up by the Arlington hotel, where ! cae to be trained or to act, these the soldier ate supper. These gajd Rich. .soldiers are from tne regular: United States army and just ,o-1 mond man, after seeing the parade, eently returned from Fiance. They Now this man just said this in are going from coast to coast finl- j fim, but there are many people who ing the best path to establish a(lo mt bcUvyc tnat men and womon mail aerial post. A tew motorcycle;; 1 .... , . were carried on the trucks and onally Ret in cages and train anion. was a landing gear for an a. to- ; mals, which are still so wild, that plane. There also was a camp kit- j they would eat their trainer any

(hen and necessary articles all ready for camp. Mary, The Pet Around one truck there seemed to be ciuite a crowd. watching cnnirtiiinn. ,.hi,h t foiimi tn in a Chimpanzee, named Mary- A boy was feeding her grapes which she! gladly accepted. Mary is only ! seveii months old, but big for her size. She has coarse brown hair j

with a little gray mnrctl hi. SncIrcS but they showed ugly old scars,

was brought from Africa to France by some Algerians who gave her to the French and they gave her to the Americans. Mary was with the French army at Verdun and then' served three months in the American trenches. She has the honor of being with our boys in the fight at Chateau Thierry. After the war she was brought to America by the same boys and they say she is their "little mascot." She is used to men and doesn't like children and women and in fact Mary sometimes gets jealous. Fori instance, one of the soldiers picked j

up a little boy and said to Mary, I may Know tnat people who train "Look Mary, see what I've got! j wild animals, are interested in their Isn't he nice?" lie played with the j work enough to risk their life in boy as if had never seen anyone! it- Miss Ruth Cohn, who had the he liked so well. But was only j elephant for a playmate in one doing this to see what the mon- j act, was at the time suffering from key would do, and what do you: Pny bite in her shoulder. Whothink this jealous little creature ! ever thought ponies would bite! did? Why she gave a few little jThey look so tame and petable algrunts, scamper away and hid her- j ways, but they can bite, and can splf. Hut the soldier went to her;"ite hard. But these trainers have

and assured her it was all right, ! that he liked her best. Thus con-! vinced Mary, came from her hiding place and played about as if nothing had ever happened. Julia R. Burr. Madeline Rides Real Camel Out in Portland, Oregon, lives little Madeline Ricardo, who is only four years old and has no idea how far her pictures have traveled. It was while we were back in the tent that is the home of the women of the circus, during showdays, and while we wore talking of all kinds of interesting things, that we happened to notice inside of one lady's trunk (the lady was one who trained lions, pumas and leopards) several pictures of this happy little baby which is her daughter. One picture was taken of Madeline riding on a was six months old. They looked like a snowball that had been thrown at the camel, and just happeed to stick there between his humps. She looked very happy, and smiled as if to say, "Oh, this is fun! You see, it's feet are so nice and soft and padded, that you don't get bumped so hard that it spoils the ride. This is even more fun than riding ponies." Another picture was taken when Madeline was just a baby, seven months old, with a baby lion that was six month old. They looked as if they were very good playmates, and would not ever hurt (each other. Madeline's mother was watching close Dy, though, for she says that no one can ever tell what a wild animal that has been brought into captivity, will do. Wouldn't it be lots of fun to be like Madeline and have all the animals of the circus to play with? THE MONKEY The animal I like best Is the monkey, because he is so funny and does all kinds of tricks that you would hardly think they could do. It plays all kinds of tricks that make so many people laugh. Once I saw a monkey house with a family of monkeys. This house got on fire and they called the Fire Department. And here came two monkeys with a fire wagon and put the fire out. There were five little baby monkeys. It was funny for me but it wasn't very funny for them. Irene Wright. (Honorable mention in the Animal Story Contest.)

Training Real Wild Animals Is

lime they got a chance. But this is the way it really was with the animals which came in the animal circus, Friday, septemoer 0. For .during the day. reporters of the Palladium talked with several of (he animal trainers, and were told many stories of animals biting and almost killing their trainers. These people did not only tell these storwhere the animals had bitten them. Mrs. Ricardo, the mother of Madeline, about whom we have told you elsewhere in the Junior, showed scars on her arm where mountain lions had bitten her several years ago. Miss Florine who did the wonderful act with the ten big lions alone in thelron cage, was bitten by two leopards last year, so mu?H that the doctors who sewed her up, had to use one hundred and sixtysix stitches before they made her whole again. Now we arc not telling this just because it's such a grewsome story, but so that you a good deal of pluck, and Miss Cohn acted all afternoon, as if she did Going to the Mill Come, Jack, from out the clover; Lift your silver mane! The fence I'm reaching over Ready with bridle and rein! I want; yes, want you to take me Down the dusty way With never a trick to make me Shy of your coat of gray! We'll go with the world beneath us, Light as the western breeze; While apple blossoms wreathe us, Pink on the wayside trees! We'll pass the low red school house There in the narrow lane, You with a coat like a field-mouse; I with a sack of grain! I'll leave you here by the mill, Jack; Tied and see you behave! I'll know right well when I come back Whether you're donkey or knave! It's good to pause in the valley Close by the river's sheen; o rest from your drive and dally Under the branches green! Our Dumb Animals. THE BABOON MASCOT A Cape Town, South Africa, paper tells of a baboon mascot which had been wounded in the trenches, and which appeared among the returning troops dressed in khaki coat and hat, with a lance corporal stripe, wound stripe and good conduct ribbon. His left bind leg had been left in France. The friend who sends us the clipping wonders what is to become of this unfortunate creature. There is a fear that some traveling show will buy him for exhibition. This would be a sad reward for the experiences through which he has come. Our Dumb Animals.

not thave a shoulder that was aching abominably every minute. When training -animal3 these people begin by going in the cage and sitting down beside them for about a half hour, every day for a few days. After that work becomes a little harder and lasts for a little longer, every day, until they have learned how to do the lessons that their teachers want them to learn. A whip and a stick is all that is used when training animals. It seems cruel to us that whips are used, but they must be used if wild animals are trained to live with and near many human brings without eating them up. Perhaps some da we will think of a better way of studying and watching animals from all corners of the earth, without putting them in cages, and making the free life of the jungle which is what they want and what is their right, only a dream, that can never again come true. Trainers use a big stick all the time, never hitting the animal with it, but sticking it out toward the animal, when the animal gets tired of working and rushes at its train

The Babies of Circus Are Playful

A baby lion is every bit as cute and playful as a collie pup. At least, the one that was in the Al. G. Barnes circus was. It was about the size of a collie pup two or three months old, and wasn't snappish at all. A great pet with the circus folk, was this little lion, and during the day that the circus was here, we could see it in the arms or over the shoulders of many of the circus people. It liked best to stay near Mabel Stark, who was the woman who trained the lions, among which was this little lion's mother. Not liking a cage very well, it spent most of it3 time in the special tent belonging to Miss Stark. Contented and happy, thin little lion seems to have decided to take up the circus life as his work. There were several babies in the

circus, except real small ones, and 'nine months it has lived in this they did not come inside the big j fine old world of ours, and has evitent at all. Some of these that tlently not found it very interestdid not make their appearance ing, as yet. Bessie was its name, were the baby monkey, which wan and it was named after one of the very, very small, and the baby: women in the circus, Bessie hippopotamus, which has been! Harvey.

bought by the circus, but does not really travel with it yet, for the simple reason that it has just arrived in this country from Africa. It is six moots old, and has not been named yet, but it is waiting eagerly for them in Cincinnati, with its mother and father. This is a valuable family, for the circus man that buys animals, paid $4,500 for the three of them. Barney and Vance were the elephant youngsters, and mischievous ones they are, too, their keeper, "Cheerful" Gardener, said. (We guess they call him "Cheerful" because it takes a cheerful person to keep such a big family as he has, fed and in good disposition for he has chargo of all the animals.) They looked very pretty if one can really call an elephant pretty in their suits of purple velvet. You have to treat them friendly, though, and stand rather at a dis tance, because they know they are rather aristocratic, being worth $6,000 apiece. If you do not treat them right, they may, all of a sudden, give you a very hard slap with their trunk. Best of all, perhaps, they like their daily bath, which is lots of fun. For then Mr. Cheerful,

Dangerous Sport

ee, SO that the animal takes that stick in its mouth instead of the trainer, which seems to satisfy the lion just as much, and pleases the trainer even more. Berry, one of the best trainers of the Barnes circus, uses a kitchen chair usually instead of a stick, for then, he says the animal finds four sticks to bite on, which is much better than one, when an animal is hungry, or at least wants to bite something. Monkeys, say these trainers, are about the easiest animal to train that they have. Ponies and sealions are also quick to learn. Bears are usually grouchy and rather slow about learning tricks. Leopards, lions, and tigers are rather quick to learn and as a rule trainers like to teach them more than any of the other animals. These last animals are quick in their actions and full of spirit, and are dangerous to work with. People as a rule like to do something hard, that takes courage, in life, rather than something that is easy. Perhaps that i3 the reason that the best trainers prefer these proud beauties of the jungle. as we will call him, turns the big hose on them. They are some of the few animals that can have a bath every day, for most of the others only have one, once a week. "Toots," the baby bear, is very friendly at a distance. But, don't j ever go too close to them, for they can snap very quickly, especially "Toots." He is six months old, and likes best of all to play with his little friends, Heinie and Jack, two other bear cubs, five months old. From South America comes Juban, the mountain lion, or puma, that is seven months old. Mr. Cheerful said, Juban was very good for a puma. Then there was the baby camel, that was so funny looking, with its long legs, and the serious expression on its very homely face. For It's a 'are not up, for wonder if all these babies "spoiled" when they grow everyone pets them so much. The Elephant The animal I like best is the elephant. I like the elephant the best because if the show wagon gets in a muddy place the elephant can help to get the wagon out. The elephant is a great performer. When the men go to catch the elephants they rid.: other elephants and spear them until they give up. In many places they use the elephant for work in timber. In one instance I saw a picture where elephants were rolling logs and also carrying them with their trunks. A long time ago, in India, elephants were used to travel from one place to the other Russel Coalter. 1 1 tonnrnhln nionlinn in lhf Ammii.1 Story Contest.) An eminent physicist has estimated that the power developed by a million Niagaras in a million of years would not equal the energy expended by the earth in a single second as it circles around the sun.

Keepers Lose Heads, We Might, Tot A swift rush of many people be longing to the circus, over a see tion of empty seats immediately' aroused the big audience, that was watching the performance, Friday afternoon. For a few minutes people wondered what the excitemend was about, then they saw! For a Bengal tiger ran through the big tent. Frightened, the people did not know whether it was best to stay there or run away. "Sit down! Stay where you are! It's the safest place!" called out the men of the circus and the people, still frightened sat down. Again the tiger appeared at another corner of the tent, but it seemed not to realize that it was really free, for it did not act fierce at all. After a while the director of the circus as he preferred to call himself (instead of Ringleader) anv nounced that the tigers were cap-

lured and that everything was all right again. After the show was over, we heard how it happened. It was really dangerous, very dangerous, and had happened because the keeper had not kept his eyes always on the tigers and had not seen that they were put safely and quickly into their cage as they came away from the big iron cage in the big tent where they had just finished doing their act. Three tigers were loose, the three beautiful Bengal tigers, that were handsome, and that had lived at one time in the private zoo of the governor of India (called the Rajah) in Calcutta, India. They are very handsome, but they are fierce, too, the fiercest aniamls of the circus, when their anger is once aroused . A side of a canvas tent made a wall they could not pass and then the trainers with their whips and stick3 urged them into their cages agaia At another time during the after noon, another keeper Bent the wrong lion into the big performing cage, where a girl and a horse were waiting for the lion to do their act. Immediately the girl notice that it waa not "Mummy," the lion which knew the act. Standing between the Hon and the horse she kept the lion "looking the other way," so to speak, until the men had taken the lion back to its cage. Do you know why the tariner did not want the lion to see the horse? It's because lions usually attack horses and kill them, and Mummy was the only lion in this show that could be in the same cage with a horse. So you see that people not only have to keep their heads on their shoulders, but they have to use. their heads especially animal keepers. Dog Saves Life of Cattle Puncher Dragged by his collie dog for seventeen miles through a snowcovered region of the desert and mountains, Clint Crawford, a cattle puncher, known among his associates as "Doc," is alive, according to an account in the Tribune of Goldfield, Nevada. Thrown by his horse Crawford's shoulder was shattered. He was delirious and remembers only intervals of the struggle against death as he staggered along through the snow. Being exhausted, he would have frozen to death in a few hours, but was aroused by his dog. Time after time Crawford sank down in his delirium and was giving up the fight. Each time the collie roused him with scratches from his paws and by biting him, and then led the way across the unmarked snow toward help. After eleven hours the dog took Crawford to the Rose Mine, where medical aid was received. A FIGURE-a-TIVE STORY. 1 fSeful day a Scout went 4th to a lderful th8ter which ho reached 2 18. Then he decided 2 specul8 his money in 6 chocol8 sodas. He 4thwith in4mally ran to SexlO's founlO. There he was 4ced 2 spend more than be could a4d, 4 he met 4 friends and each one did not even prelOd 2 pay 4 their sodas, which the waiter said in 4ceful tones 2 the lad of lOder years amounted to of 1 dollar. There4, in 3fold rage the boy went home disconsol8. I.ne Scout Harry Patton