Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1894, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Strest, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 5. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. New York Office, 49 Potter Building, ‘The Star is served to subscribers in the ity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents week, or 44c. per month. Copies at the counter cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—5O cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; With foreign postage s@dcd, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Wasbinzton, D. C., rond- mail suatter.) [7 All mafl subseriptions must be paid in advance, Rates of advertising made known on application. Part 3. Che pening Sta . Pages 17-20. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. IT GOES 70 EVERY HOME Washaelnias Who Bead Newspapers ‘ake The Sua. AN INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT STATEMENT ] Campari of The Star's Circulation With the Number of Houses, A In the month of April the smallest circulation of The Star on Bny one day was 35,6¥1. This was on April 19th, and below are given some interesting figures as to where those papers were cir- culated. An order was issued to the route agents reports giving: Ist—The number of subscribers on each street in the territory served by them. 2d—The number of houses, includ- ing all buildings. 34—The number of stores. 4th—The number of vacant houses. 5th—The number of colored subscribers, 6th— Zhe number of houses with colored occupants. These reports were handed in and carefully tabulated, the de- tailed statement below giving the exact figures. For the benefit of those whose interest may not warrant a Careful examination of so great a mass of figures a condensed statement may prove of value, and is given first: LOCAL FIELD COMPLETELY COVERED Connecticut ave. La Indiana ave. Kentucky ave. Louisiat to submit ee e825 B.y 205 EE 3 figapl ri oi bt Georgetown ie Soe Sis SM SS Totale...eeeeeeee S188 W050 472 24 Le Tat These figures, it will be noted, apply only to papers sold ‘within the city limits of Washington and Georgetown. The total number within these limits it will be seen was 31,335. The total number of houses within the same limits, exclusive of miscellan- eous alleys in Washington, was 40,560. Deducting the number of vacant houses (2,434) leaves 38,076. In other words, more than $21-2 per cent of the occupied houses in Georgetown, exclusive of the alleys alluded Stores or residences or occupied by white er colored people, re- ceived a copy of The Bvening Star. While the colored population of the District of Columbia js making rapid progress on educational and other lines and has al- ready reached a stage of development in advance of that of the colored population of any other city, this element naturally does not furnish anywhere near so large a percentage of newspaper readers as the whites. While they number over 30 per cent of the total population of the District, on April 19th only 1,691 Stars were served to colored subseribers, though that is assuredly a very creditable showing. In orger to ascertain the extent to which The Star circulates among the whites of the District. the number of colored subscribers and of houses with colored ©ccupants may be deducted from the total circulation and num- Ber of houses, leaving 30,629 houses occupied by whites, and used either as residences or stores, and 20,644 papers sold to white sub- Sscribers; A Star for over 96 2-3 per cent of these houses. Another deduction may justly be drawn from these figures. It does not need argument to demonstrate that few of the sub- scribers of The Star received their papers at their places of busi- ness, and that hence the stores, at least, can fairly be deducted from the number of buildings. In the cases when papers are received at stores they are certainly not taken at the subscrib- er’s residence also. Deducting then the number of stores, and not considering the buildings occupied, both as stores and resi- dences, there remained 25,857 houses occupied by white families. For these houses were sold 20,644 Stars—much more than a paper for each house. In the summary below it is shown that in addition to the cir- culation of 31,335 in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, there were circulated 1,640 copies outside the city limits, but within the District of Columbia, making a total in the District ef Columbia of 32,975. The total outside the District was 2,716, ™ost of which were circulated in the immediate vicinity of Washington, as Alexandria, Rockville, Hyattsville, etc. It is confidently stated that no newspaper in the world can make a showing equal to this, and that mo local 1 so completely covered as is the District of Columbia by The Evening Star. In addition it may be said that this circulation is believed to be much more than that of the other Washington dailies combin- ed, and at least five times that of The Star’s afternoon contem- porary. The Star is alone in Washington in giving its advertisers ex- act information as to circulation—the measure of the publicity they buy. City routes as per detailed state- Georgetown routes as per statement City Proper. Anacostia Columbia. Winthrop Heignts. Mail subscribers. Aleasndria, Va. Annapolis, Md. Rockville, Md. Hyattsville, Md. Frederick, Md..... Rives Station, Md. National Soldiers’ Home, Vé Laurel, Md.. Gaithersburg, Md. Leesburg, Va Fortress Monroe, Vi Falls Church, Winchester, Keusingtoo, Ma. Bravebville, Md. Herndon, Va., Sliver Springs, Md. Upper Marlboro’, Md. Mail and Express. TIGHT ROPE WALKING, How Those Who Are Expert Gain the Necessary Con’ from Longman's Magazine, An athlete must make himself deaf to all entreaties, all suggestions, and must act for himself, abiding by his own judgment. I had an opportunity of questioning a most Roted tight-rope expert on this subject. | He explained to me that on a large rope | half a foot from the ground the most timor- ous person might be taught to walk any | reasonable distance. “We learn in that he added, “and by raising the rope | step by step from the ground we acquire at fast such confidence that, when in good training, distance from the earth makes no | erence; we have learned to look into Newsboys and news stands Newsboys and news stands, George- University Heights and Mt. 7th street extended and vicinity. | Missou N thode i ¥ % 12th 1 iat “street 2d street 3d street 4th street 4% street Sth street 6th stzect Tth street ‘ashington and whether used as sesceceees 21,829 tailed 11% 202 Westuinster street 0. ‘de ea 187 254 oot eesessage is 2888 RSSsseysyexsrgsss Washington—_. iG ie Bee Hi ig How Canine Teams Were Secured ee i z°@ 382/ — for the Wellman Expedition, 43 2 6 4 8 iso 2 oo TB Fi y 9 DOG SHOPPING IN BELGIUM 16 i 0 z te ee # at 3 8 ¢ Substitutes for Horses in Cities of J 4 < e ie ae ee Western Europe. id Ww ° 0 P RS 2 7 20 i of mS % % )PRoM BELGIUM TO NORWAY aig ; aes ae ue 8 1 wo 1gv in 6 22/ (Copyright, 1804, by Walter Wellman, All rights B31 ir i Bz BERGEN, Norway, April 23. ci] 3 ‘2 T 18 A GENUINE * : leasure to be ahi oie 3 . I ee bina yet rs 806 50 7 Wellman north. polar fst 3 § expedition is moving 4 = 5 along in good order, Ba 1 I was about to say 17 “moving 4uietly SJ i 2 along,"but how could 3M i @ party composed of ie $ a quartet of live 3, BomoccoooamoNomacwowooonomes BokBoomocoBoortoNtecot SHooah-wcoence! ite wowauescconcosccoaccunccccoosecwotoS ce Sowennec necovenetabuapertabenk ul hsORaSes SERSCESS. ecu nen wePUEh Me EELE ec eH NOE ae MENNT wets aCESER SUS ER ES ES Bt] Zenecke ne Bent Penunt = woBmnomcoomccesed SUSreSheeANBRENESESE AH e co uvbe Rt ewEses, seegureheeenseey esse eee bs SELLS ASRS SEL Sere. MEPESE CEE SSIES E les. ne eR SSeS BOM MOS OH OM WO MMOMs CONSIMOMMOMMOCOKE DOM nate ceuscunneleeney § ! ° g 8! caupes theta SEEeSPatSHEher. Honk’ NUS cchBoubk- ceetntateatmnede es a BUENORSNS SBE SEU CLE SIN. oc BNUSEESEE EIEN S Bie ne SARSELES TEL He UPBUEE EE NHS ESHER eb ocherel Eyck tense rceeees| rt S| al é Sad 8 oSSan-Rnocccoo . Ro ep er ans aetBurssataks RRBs wks nkeat CRP OSH OOM HM ROM MOCO ENOOCONMOOES OSS OMOMacooooON MavcucdmarBoomBnwancosonoosco’ LY J - ey 3 wES Rr ab RE BEEBE a wFoaetinattooseasiaucommne 8 = ~ 88, eae WAC SH NBDNONSMSS FAMCCOCHOM HOS OMEN SOM OCCORCHD® SDace, to face space, confident that we have resources on which we can entirely trust if the rope is secure and we are left to our- selves. But it is essential that we should be left to ourselves; and the great success of walking on the high rope is that we are left to ourselves—ieft so that we hear none oi, the comments or advices of the crowd low. “That would not affect you?” I inquired. “I do not think it would, for I have got resence of mind under all states of the art practice; but if anything would that would, and nothing so much as the cry of fear of a child.” “Fear is catching?” I observed. “Nothing so catching as fear, and once it ig caught—well, you may consider {t all over. No man in peril ever, by his own wise efforts, rises out of fear. I am quite sure this is the fact in all things where presence of mind is on trial, but never more than in athletic competi- tions. Presence of mind means courage. That is true. But in athleticism it means more than courage; it means precision, decision, and, in the very storm of action, ree It needs neither praise nor blame while it is ae pressure, and a man bogs not Naturally very courageous ie rep- resentative of it in a marked. degree. io man or woman can claim athletic skill to whom it does not belong. Life in Washington. From Puck, Senator's wife—“Where is your grandpa?” Her grandson—"Grandps has gone out.” Senator's wife—“Merciful heavens! And without @ chaperon!”’ SHRENSSSERACETTESH SESSA 2 14 6 1 15, a 8 a Bs 23 ty 23 i ri 15 13 + Boy a three Belgian dogs do 8 Pd 13 1 A anything quietly? Our s is 3 dogs nave been a nine-days’ wonder over is 2 1/;| 12, Europe—we and the dogs together. We 13 2 142 | have been the innocent cause of so much as- 39 6 tonishment among the natives intwo or = HE three countries and have attracted so much 8 T 7y| attention en route that we scarcely know ~ 34| Whether we are running a polar expedition & ry 0] or @ circus. Nor could the old fashioned A : §| country circus, flitting from town to town 3t ? 41| between midnight and morn, experience Fy 5 §3| more hustling to the square inch than we . ts %% $3] have had since leaving London. We went nd 4 41} straight to Liege, Belgium, being led thith- 2 2 . 45] 9F by the kindly interest in the dog part of 22 2 ly] our project which had been taken by Col. # $ $3] Nicholas Smith, American consul. 29 4 ay Dogs in America. a . $2| We had had correspondence with the con- 4 $ js] sul concerning the use of Belgian draft’ % . 4] dogs in the arctics, and his opinion, given | ra ry Q| after a year of close observation of the ant- 2 o | mals, confirmed the conclusion which the . $ 8| writer had reached ds a result of his own 6 ° 17] investigations in Europe last summer. Col. g 14 85 Smith had made an official report on the 2 48 Bss| use of draft dogs in Belgium which at- a 5 $4) tracted attention all over the world, es- 1 88] pecially in the United States, in which he a2 H ~ showed beyond question the enormous in- 3 tg 301 | dustrial value of these faithful animals, In i ? % - the United States he pointed out that there ©? @ @ —-176| Fe about 7,000,000 dogs Iiving in idleness 2 $3 116 more or less luxurious. These millions of 7 7 $21 animals contribute nothing whatever to a 10 17] the wealth of the country. They toll not; 2 = #| metther do they spin. Estimating the nh 37 @ | Strength of a dog at 500 pounds, a low esti- ¥ r+ | mate, Colonel Smith figured out that in pT 5 412| these 7,000,000 dogs America has an idle * 142| force of 3,500,000,000 pounds, or & power 1v which, like faith, if once exercised, could (ied a] move mountains. = ~ 35} eCqh Smith's argumentein favor of the use 2 be draft dogs on the streets of our American Cod iB rweroouostcRococusBsctsaemewcce: SRERonaaracotlsHR Bie Sonmnc ano | they saw a little beast trudging briskly 8| along with a cart containing half a long ton 116 7\of coal and pulling in his collar as if he $ 19) loved his work.. Early in the morning the ° 3} streets looked like a dog show. ‘The buteh- rt ers, the bakers, the coal dealers, the m = * i 1} | peddlers, the grocers, every conceivable sort 38, 2| of light delivery wagon was drawn by dogs. _ | Most of them were attended by bareheaded 108 2) Women. Some of the conta, ad ones dog, others two or three dogs. arket women 4 18) came in from the suburbs with thelr earis 331 G| heavily laden. Laundresses used dogs to de: 3 8 liver thelr bulky packages. In Belgium an. EY ©) Holland the dog is above all things the yj | friend of the woman. In fact, {t is an axiom 1, 465 73 Gal DOGS FOR THE POLE Americans and fifty- cities was convincing enough, but we were interested in the draft hound as an arctic and not as an industrial beast of burden. In reply to our inquiries Consul Smith wrote as follows: “I have no doubt these Belgium dogs will suit you to a nicety. They easily draw a thousand pounds over the rough block pave- ments which prevail here. They are quick in their movements, very tractable, as easily guided as one’s own nose and are rot subject to fits. Their feet, never tender, toughen with usage, and they can easily en- dure such cold as you expect to encounter ‘avorite. in the arctic summer. They are tougher than either donkeys or mules. You know a foxhound will in a day run two or three horses down, and their cousins here are of equal bottom in harness. They are nomin- ally fed on horsefiesh and black bread, though the meat ts often left out of their bill of fare. A half pound of bread, the cost of which ts a cent, saturated in broth of any kind, is regarded by the dogs as a sop fit for Cerberus. A ration costing 5 cents and weighing one-half pound would be a Hberal allowance per day.” It was therefore to Liege that we went from London to have there the friendly as- sistance of this able champion of the draft dog. It was well that we did so, for we could not have been in better hands, The consul and his son—the latter a bright\lad of sixteen, whose name is simply that of his maternal grandfather, Horace Greeley, not Horace Greeley Smith, but with the last name dropped—were at our service, und in a large city containing only half a dozen English speaking persons, and several thousands of dog owners, dog dealers, com- missionaires and other vampires who think every American a rich, fat pigeon to be nicely plucked, this was a tremendous ad- vantage. There was no lack of dogs. The streets. were full of them. More dogs than horses Were seen in use upon the thoroughfares. Fully two-thirds of the light traffic of this city, as of all the Béiglan, Dutch, west German and Swiss cities, are carried on with dogs as motive power. Those members of our party who had never seen the draft dog in use were simply amazed at his strength. They could scarcely believe their eyes when there that dogs, horses and women are the beasts of burden, and it is only by standing on the streets of one of these cities early in the morning that one Is able to realize how much help the little beasts are to the over- worked mothers and daughters of the lower classes. The Draft Dog. The draft dog 1s a tremendous factor in the social economy of western Europe. In all light work he is equal to a horse and costs but one-fifteenth as much for the original outlay and only one-sixth the cost of keeping a horse will suffice for a dog. In fact, the cost of keeping a draft dog is almost nothing. He lives on the scraps and waste from his master’s table, poor as those usually are. If he misses a meal, he only wags his tail and patiently awaits the next. Grocers and other dealers who found themselves approaching bank- ing delivery wagons drawn by horses! man or woman who had been tempted by ehanged to dog power and grew rapidly rich. The carts used for dogs cost much Jess than wagons suitable for horses. The harness for the smaller animal is a mere trifle. A dog needs neither shoes nor sta- ble. He requires no care. And he will take his load of a thousand pounds and trudge along with it at a smart gait all the day long. After we get through with this north pole business, if we ever do, we think of taking a shipload of draft dogs to America and thus teach our countrymen the use of a@ new motive power. So far as that is con- cerned, the millions of idle dogs in America should be set to work, A little training would donvert the great majority of them into useful draft animals. It is high time aur lazy old dogs were taught a few new tricks. To Breed for a Purpose. ‘These Belgian draft dogs are of no special breed. They are conglomerates. If thete is any type among them, it is the long- eared foxhound, though a pure pedigree is almost unknown. Their value consists not of blood or of breeding, but of the uses to which they are put, though it must be true that the employment of generation after generation for draft is gradually develop- ing not only mental aptitude for work, so to speak, but physical adaptability to pull- ing heavy loads. If the thousands of men who devote their energies to the breeding of dogs for beauty, ugliness, for the chase or for pets were to turn their attention for a few decades to the production of a breed for draft, they might evolve a dog that could pull 2,000 pounds, or as much as an ordinary horse, and in so doing they woul’ give the world a new power that would possess ulmost as great an importance in- dustrially as electricity. Already the mere circumstance of use has in western Europe produced a dog with extraordinarily tough feet, heavily muscled legs, sinewy shoul- ders—a dog which gets himself down to- ward the ground and pulls like a mule, If this is the result of the chance of mere use, what could not be done with the de- sign of skillful interbreeding of hounds, mastiffs and bulldogs? Advantages ot the Belgium Dog. , ‘The special advantages which these dogs Possess for our use in the arctics consists of their strength, which is greater than that of the Eskimo or Siberian dog; of their tractability, which is such that one team will follow another even without a driver; of their immunity from the epidemics which carry off so many of the packs heretofore used in the arctics and of their ability to get along with so little food. We have been asked about a million times if these dogs can withstand the cold of the aretics and about a half million times we have replied that the summer of the arctics has no severe cold, and we have further ex- plained that the two most adaptable an- imals of the world are the two which we are taking with us—men and dogs. These are the creatures that are able to pass in a single season from equatorial heat to aretéc cold without suffering ill effects from the violent transition. Whatever a man can endure a dog can withstand, and not much depends upon the breed in either case. Payer had with him on his sledge journeys in Franz-Josef Land four or five swarthy Italians, and they endured forty degrees below zero without a murmur. Nor are we the first to take European dogs to the arctica. Payer had with him in Franz- Josef Land a number of dogs from Vienna, and he testified that they were of more ser- vice to him, eyen in extreme cold, than the }Siberian animals which he had with him. The only trouble with his European dogs, he explained, was that they had not been trained to draft. In this respect our pack is ideal. A Dog Shopping Expedition. We had great sport buying our dogs in Liege. Besides we gave the lazy Liegois such a shock of astonishment as they had never before experienced. We arrived there on a Monday mofning. To avoid bulling a market in which we were the only buy- ers we caused the report to be spread that we wanted a dozen dogs, though to our friends we confessed that we wanted half @ hundred. Moreover, we wanted them quickly. A few dog experts were called into consultation. “Yes, you can get fifty dogs here,” they said, “but it will take you three weeks to do it.” This would not do for our expedition, that is to make its dash toward the pole in the space of a single summer,and we gently suggested thet three days and not three weeks would be more in our line. “Impossible, monsieur!” But we thought we would try it. That American confidence in the power of gold and hustle combined has not yet been beaten out of us. We organized our forces for a dog cam- paign that was to be short, sharp and de- cisive. Consul Smith gave us good advice and told Kentucky stories which made even the dogs laugh and coax their masters for the privilege of staying with us. Young Horace Greeley developed energy and shrewdness worthy the great name which he bears, Mr. Dodge, with Mr. Winship, a young English engineer living in Liege, and who is now a member of our polar party, opened headquarters at a stable. A milk- man was hired to go out and run in dogs. Half a dozen commissionaires, dog dealers and other agents were hired for the same purpose. Advertisements were put in the daily papers, which over here are written one day, the type set the second and the forms put to press on the third, so that our advertisements appeared about the time we were ready to leave town. Dogs by the Score. There were plenty of dogs to sell. Streams of dogs ran down all the thoroughfares leading to our mart. Men, women and chil- dren were the conductors. They came sin- gly, in-pairs, triplets and quartets. It seem- ed that every mother’s son and father’s daughter in Liege had heard we were Ameri- cans who wanted to buy dogs, and being Americans were, of course, full of shekels and softness. At any rate the price of dogs took @ sudden and appalling upward bound. Dirty brindle pups that ordinarily were worth 20 francs were put to us for a hun- dred. Really good dogs were priced at hun- dreds of francs, and crestfalien were the countenances of the owners when a 200- franc tender was met with a counter pro- posal of thirty. Fond expectations of get- ting out of the Americans as the price of one dog enough of money to maintain a whole family for a twelvemonth were rude- ly and quickly shattered, though not with- out an almost endless gabble and clatter in French and Walioons, the voices of the dis- consolate and suspicious dogs swelling the din. As soon as these notions about fancy prices and flowing American gold had been dispelled the negotiation reached a common- #ense level. Almost with tears in thelr eyes owners dropped from a hundred francs by easy stages to half a hundred and then on down to forty, or even lower, accompa- nied by grimaces and contortions resembling the great American process of pulling teeth. The average price paid was a little under forty francs, ‘Testing « Dog in a Cart. One dog mart was a picture. A court yard surrounded by stables; plenty of loaf- ers; dogs in leash howling; all hands, hu- man and canine, trying to talk together and succeeding almost all the time; an occasional show of paper money at the conclusion of a transaction in pups, bring- ing a dense and unsavory crowd round the central figures; now and then a dog fight or a series of wordy combats between cwn- ers, and in the midst of all the din Mr, Dodge, calm and critical, watching every- body and everything and occasionally giv- ing vent to his feelings by telling some one or other to go to the hot place, a per- fectly safe bit of advice when given In the English tongue. The dog sellers soon per- ceived that Mr. Dodge could not be fooled. He carefully examined the feet of the ani- mal offered him, took up each individual leg and searched it for fractures and hurts, looked in every mouth and had every dog hitched to a cart and tested as to his ruptcy on account of the cost of maintain- strength and tractability. More than one needed money to dispose of the household pet and cart companion bade good-bye to Leon or Blanpied or Bowpier or Melord, or whatever the beast’s name was by means of an affectionate though moist farewell kiss upon the nose of the sacri- ficed canine. Question of Transportation. At the end of the third day fifty-three dogs, satisfactory in size and other partic- ulars, were tied up in our stables. How many of them were stolen from their right- ful owners: we never will know. We had at least the satisfaction of. showing the Bel- sians what American hustle can do when it sets to work in earnest. Next came the question of transportation, We wanted to put those dogs on board a steamer which Was to sall from Rotterdam for Bergen Thursday evening. But how? There is no such thing as an express company as we know it in America this side of the At- lantic. The “fast freight” would run to Rot- under government control, a special train could not be’ arrang, for without about a week's correspondence with the authori- tes. But there was one way out of the difficulty, and this was suggested by a railway official merely as an illus- tration of their methods of doing busi- ness, and without the faintest idea that we should adopt it. Great was his surprise and the amazement of the people when we caught at his suggestion, made passengers of our 4 bought a third-class ticket for each and every one of them, put a dozen men at work making boxes and bottling up our beasts and rode in triumph and four special cars from Liege to Rotterdam Thursday afternoon. / Our dogs filled the deck of the Ingerid And on the voyage through the North sea a fog came on, with extraordinary results. Captain Lever blew his fog whistle, and first one dog and then another took tt up and echoed its long, plaintive note until the whole pack were filling the misty air with their contributions. When the dogs first took up the chorus, Captain Lever thought other steamers were answering his warn- ings, and when a dozen canine foghorns blew he said to himself, with a true sailor's cuss word, that never before in all his ex- perience had he known so many steamers to be gathered near together in the North sea and rang the bell to have the Ingerid’s “ed this teh mi is is how we bought our pack of draft hounds in Belgium and brought them on to Norway. WALTER WELLMAN. —_— ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. How the Little One May Be Made Happy. In my experience I have found invaluable help in books, writes Eleanor B. Amerman on a discussion on “Children and the Sab- bath” in the May Ladies’ Home Journal. Almost every child likes to be read to. I have tried to choose books which would widen the children’s field of scriptural knowledge, and they have listened to so much about the land of Palestine, its hills and valleys and grand old mountains, its plains and rivers and seas, and its principal cities and villages that they think of it now as @ real place, where people Ii and where the flowers grow, and the binds sing, and where little children play, just as they do in other countries. And we have found with, these different plases, both isthe Og ferent and New Testaments. I have read to the children from the lives of great missionaries, of their labors among the heathen, for Christ, and as they hear these stories—these thrilling stories, which are all true—of noble self-sacrifice, dauntiess courage and patient perseverance in the Master's service, do you not think, with me, that they will be filled with a desire to be Iie these men, a! over a few things?” a hear of {& of queer people, 7 then customs wrought in these people by the working of the Holy Spirit their hearts. It is best that you should not do all the reading yourself. Let there be Some maga- zine, paper or book suitable for the day, which the children may have to read them- selves and let these be reserved for Sunday. ses MADE HIM SKEPTICAL, A Story About the Witty Retort Man Credited to Mr. Cleveland. From the Cinctnuati Commercial. “A curious thing about political oratory and wit is the side light I Zot upon one as- pect of it years ago in Buffalo.” Thus Mr. Cleveland is quoted by a listener: “One morning a quaint-looking old chap came into my office and said that he had read in the newspapers that I was to speak at a mass meeting the following night, and wanted to know if it was true. When I told him that it was 80 he revealed to me @ new method of gaining oratorical dis- tinction, He volunteered to interrupt my Speech at stated intervals with a remark that should be agreed upon between us. To this interjection 1 was to retort wittily, and thus, as the old fellow pointed out, I would acquire a reputation as a witty speaker. My first impression Was that he was amusing himself at my expense, but he repeated to me several things 1 could reply to wittily, and wanted me to pay him roundly for helping me to @ reputation. But I told him I was indifferent to that kind of fame, and he went away disappointed. Not very long after that I was seated on a stage listening to a speaker, when who should arise in the audience but my quaint visitor and bawi out one of the very things he wanted me to pay him for interrupting me with. The ora- tor answered him with the same retort that I was offered the privilege of making, and the audience exploded into laughter, and 1 heartily joined ‘in, but —- amusement had not the same foundation, I fancy, as that of the rest of the laughers. And during the rest of the evening the old fellow made an occasional interruption from different parts of the house, and the retorts were of the same manufactured sort. I am a trifie skeptical now on the subject of witty re- torts.” ——_ —+e+-—____ Written for The Evening Star. Oriole Song. 1 ‘Ub, why do you delay? “Tis merry May, And all birds sing, And butterflies are on the wing, And bees bum “mid the bowers, All the livelong day, An sunlit hours. Now flowers nod guy and grass wares green, ‘Po bail my queen, And it will soon Be leaty June, Bright ortole, dear oriole, Why, oriole, delay? a. Bright oriole, sweet oriole, Ub, why do you delay? Hie, bird, to me, While through the grove ‘The rivulets lisp lays of love, And zephyts "mong the leaves Whisper wooingly, And nothing grieves, For you 1 wait, for you 1 long. And ifft my song. Lo} it will sooa Be genial June. Bright oriole, dear oriole, Love pines while you delay. mL. Bright oriole, sweet oriole, ‘ Ob, why do you delay? A banging nest . ‘Together we Wit! butld on yonder maple tree, ‘Nor shall a bridal pair Ever be more blest, More free from care, While songs of future birdlings dear We seem to hear. Haste!—tt will soon Be fruitful June. ' Bright oriole, dear oriole, No more, no more delay. —W. L. SHOEMAKER. ——-__— “Parker left the Scaddieberry reception in a huff.” “Did he? What was the matter?” “His hat check was numbered 502. Par- ker is one of the 400.”—Harper's Bazar. TO ADVERTISERS. ‘Advertisers are urgently re quested to hand in advertisements ‘the Gay prior to publication, in ©rder that invertion may be ss Sured. Want advertisements will be received up to noon of the day ©f publication, precedence being Given to those first received. A LION TAMER’S TALE: H & & itis sausage” of him at any minute. Mr. D'Osta does not appear during the shows, be is the animals, having trained them and i fF them “up in the way they should go. wife, who is known as “Pauline Goes ali the honors on the stage, does all the “breaking in.” This plucky young Englishman detailed account of his eventful life his methods of training all beasts, but especially of education of his he claims, is entirely Hy g é from their native courtries entirely matured, apd I healthy and that their faculties developed. Toy With a Dummy Man. “My first taming, or, rather, deceiving, process is to put them in large cages, in sroups, just as they are to work through- out their careers, for a strange lion any kind of submission. “This dummy cage every day 2 for several weeks, eral months, until the beasts are understood. One day we dance it around, dodging every attack of the animals, noticing every characteristic of their move- ments; another time we apparently walk the thing around, and see if it is closely” pursued, or whether the beasts can easily overtake it while going around the cage. Still another time the figure is made to pounce upon the beasts, ride them, and cut up all sorts of ‘shines’ in the » Setting them used, day by day, to this ment, which they finally see can’t be ed. Thus the brutes become more careless of this treatment, and then teresting part of the training begins.” “Interesting?” said a ** who standing on the stage, taking in the inter- rt “By George! I always thought my @ tough one, but yours beats the ‘lion tamer,” however, smiled, though his past had been all golden, PJ future was predestined to be one of glory, and as though he carried a million-dollar insurance policy in his inside pocket, and as he went on with his talk, puffing at a cigar, he occasionally emphasized his re- warks by giving “Brutus” a gentle bolt with a long le, or ot! melody from “Vie” or “Spit.” Vigilance is the Price. “When a man first enters a cage filled with strange lions,” he continued, “he must be on the lookout, of course, as this is the most precarious period. The beasts by no means take him for another dummy, as they can smell the very blood circulat ing in his body. Several men are station- ed at the doors of the cage, which is held either open or shut with strong ropes, others are put at almost every opening be- tween the bars, with rails, with which they can partition off the man from the beasts, in case of great trouble. “At Grst the actions of the brutes must be studied again,but they are, almost .with- out exception, the same as they were in the first place, with the dummy. Thus, from day to day, I have hecome thoroughly acquainted with many of the wildest Hons, until at last, after hard = — pleaty of patience, I have made them jump over bars, set on their bind legs, and perform all sorts of tricks, i ° those which you have scen these yws do.” : Mr. D'Osta sai@ he had been raised among wild animals, having inherited the love for them from his father and his grandfathe>, who have all been in the business, but none of whom have ever been so intimately associated with them as had he. At the age of three, he says, he was first put into a cage of cub lions, and ever since that time he had not been satis- fied unless he has been handling them ntinually. “fie also described the methods used by most show compentes, who have cages, the floors of which are metal, connected with an electric battery, keeping the beasts be- numbed and scared as soon as the current is turned on, although they were ferocious and making hideous noises before the so- called “tamer” enters the cage, and starte the machinery going. In many instances, he said, ether is used to put the beasts to sleep, and they aze made to perform just after they had awakened, before they have recovered the power of their limba In most cases in these “fake” shows, he said, old, worn-out lions are found, which are so badly used up and crippled that the slightest touch of @ whip bring them into submission. n E f Animals Are Lively. it is apparent that his beasts are sound, for their leaping up into the air and tumbling over one another in their play seemed to threaten the destruction of their cage at any minute. The two lion- esses, “Spitfire,” who ts a Kaffarian, end “Victoria,” a Senegal, their trainer said, are the most vicious of the three, as fe- males in the lion kingdom genevally are, the former having recently torn one of their keepers limb from limb while he was cleaning out their cage. “Brutus,” who js the is a genuine black-maned only four years old, and is quite in that he generally gives good > he kills ayy one, which js strictly moral trait. | “Str. D'Osta was a member of the Greely | expedition, banging from the north many j fine specimens of polar bears, which he sold to the Royal Agricultural Hall, Lom | doa.