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¦ > The sixth picture, which will be published next • Sunday, is "Tommy. Atkins." Of course you all think you can guess whom "Tommy Atkins" will be, but— can youP Now this is not as easy as it seems, for this character has been impersonated more than one© in the past, and each time by an exceptionally pretty girl. Guess again, or — wait and see. - The first of this altogether original and strikingly, attractive series was Miss Adalafde Murphy as .the "Water Sprite." The sec ond was Mrs. Thomas Magee Jr. as "Sunrise." The third was Miss |SLSr. Swift as "The Duchess of Gainsborough," **& the fourth was Mrs. J. A. Clover as "Folly." The others in the series will be "Em \ press Josephine,'' "Twelfth Century Court Beauty," "A French Prin cess" and "Columbia," all of then posed by women of more than passing beauty. You are not the only on© who is mystified and curious over their identity. c=jp» 0-DAY you have the fifth in the beautiful series of fancy cos 11 tume poses by prominent San Francisco society women. Sh© is 1* M4ss A'. Loaiza^ daughter of a wealthy old Castilian family, and her costume, "The Hungarian Pztacess," is not. only correct In ©very detail-but fabulously rich in rare fabrics and costly gems. Who is Tonnmy Atkins? The most noiableMnstar.ee of thfs fact that I have ever had to deal with was Parnell. Ah, he was a game lion, but after he became a murderer his courage Bcemed to desert him. There was a sluft" in his sand after he killed Thienann at the California Fair and another fall-off !n his grit when he assassinated the hired man at my California farm by jerking l:m through the bars when he wasn't '.ookir.R and tearing him to pieces. As I said before, forest-bred lions are the easiest to deal with. Parneil was tho only exception I have known. I caught him myself in Algeria when I was trav eling with the European United Shows. He had been a particularly dangerous jungle beast for years when I first heard of him. and such wondrous stories were toid of his size and prowess that I de termined to have him. With my assist ants to help mo I set a trap for him— a beil-shjiped snare, large at the bottom «ud small at the top— covered It over with J;rush and put a kid on it. This trap The reason for this is plain even to one v.ho has had only a passing acquaintance with animals. The spectacular beast is frankly and openly and consistently hos tile. He makes no secret of his overmas tering desire to devour the trainer at a siugie meal. He has never known «=ub rjission 19 anything or anybody. He docs not want to be tamed and he is not going to be if he can possibly avoid it. He is always bristling for a tight, and will kill v< the first opportunity. This i:. as it should b*>. "Forewarned is forearm t.l." Trie trailer therefore is ric-vt-r oli his guard, but meets brute force with brute force. On the other hand, the animal that has been "tarried" is in reality the tartar. His very docility is the badge of his treachery. He has only concealed his blunt savagery under a low cunning the better to striko with greater certainty of killing when the trainer has been beguiled into careiess- Ets-s by an unwonted show of amiability. This is particulariy true of the lion, all stories of his nobleness to the contrary notwithstanding. Take the lion— Wallace at the Chutes, for Instance (though he is the only ex ception to this hard and fast rule that I have ever brought to submission), the "good shower" is the safest. By "good shower" I mean the animal that goes bounding about the cage, snarling aha roaring in a perfect frenzy when the trainer enters, which, though it looks awe-inspiring and terrifying, is really less dangerous than the beast that fav/ns at tiie feet of the trainer or rubs against him affectionately. THE first and most important thing to learn about training wild ani mals .for the zoo is that they are never what they seem. Those that appear to be the most docile are in reality the most dangerous. This is es pecially true of the beast born in captiv ity, as contrasted with the forest-bred animal. I slipped , Into another coat and stepping out on the stage, reassured them that everything was all right. A doctor was summoned at once and in- insr smell of ; powder, | the ; same ; heavy whip, 'the 'same- audacious/ hustling, and the same sudden escape that had bewil dered him "the"' day- before.— He- - could form is "to spur it en to Its own natural mode of attack end then when properly trained to arm it with a pair of boxicg gloves. scarcely believe j his senses that such an outrage on his" dignity could be perpe trated, and' : the -offender escape without even a scratehr ---.-• ~. ':--/ v •was well laid in the usual path of the beasts to a lagoon, and when Par nell came along he leaped at the kid and down he went. A cage had been put at tbe bottom of the pit, and as soon as Parnell entered it he was drawn up. And there he was In captivity. 1 never saw a lion who hated the degra dation more, but this very spirit made him an excellent "show" animal. In thres days I was performing with him, much to hit> surprise. Contrary to the usual "methods followed by animal trainers, I always ' begin the task cf subjugation at the very rtrst meet ing. I learned the value of this at my debut as a lion tamer. Jt v.-as in f C6, at the Norvell House, where I was laying over after the war. There was a show in town and one n'ght a fellow came along, a huge, villainous lookinK chap, who turned out to be the lion tamer of the show, famous for his dash and dare-devil courage. Well, we •were talking there and drinking:, and I asked the fellow who and what he was. He told me he was a lion tamer, and asked me who I was. "Why, I manage wild beasts myself," said I. J '•Wr.at's your 'show?" said he. "Davis" show," said I. The fellow didn't catch on. and I went on. "Bob Lee's been managing the show." Ami still he did not comprehend, but he looked at me hard, as if he doubted that I could tame beasts. I'd been', in com mand of the Louisiana Tigers after Bob Wheat's death during the Civil War, and that was what I was referring to when I spoke of handling wild beasts. Then jurt for the devilment of the thing I offered to bet the fellow a couple of baskets cf champagne that I'd enter the cage where his wild beasts were kept and do anything that he'd do. To my ut ter- consternation he took the bet and there I started out as a lion tamer. . \ I remember the next morning when I started out to the shows. I looked up or the hill and saw the tents standing still and white, reminding me for all the world of tombs. However, I watched the fellow close and when he came out I went in with a pistol in one hand, a whip In the other and a lump in my throat big and hard as a hickory nut. I never whipped lions and tigers with so much vigor in my life. There I was with my teeth set, a ter rific scowl on my face', Jumping round like mad, shooting the beasts in the face-. with a pepper box pistol loaded with heavy wads of paper and laying about me with my whip for all I was worth. Wonderful to relate everybody thought I had the most complete control over the beasts because I even made them jump, and the fun of It all was that every movement I was expecting to be gobbled up whole. The result; in a fortnight I got a flattering offer to be lion tamer for a big show and I took It. With my right hand free I fired a vol ley- full into his eyes. The powder burn ed and blinded him and he let go, but only for an instant, when he sprang at me again, his jaws closing with a snap ever my elbow a second time. Again I fired a volley of blank cartridges into hi3 .his eyes and again he let go, only to spring at me a third time with greater ferocity. This time his heavy jaws near ly severed my left arm at the elbow, but though the pain was something awful the sense of my -langer and the certain knowledge that a lion only attacks three times and if it fails then will abandon the fight for good kept me from fainting. Once again I fired a volley at him and my assistants arriving opportunely we beat him back Into a corner and I slipped Jout from the eagre soaked in blood amidst terrific excitement. Then to allay the nars of the audience and prevent a panic ferocity made a tremendous hit. He was a "good shower" in every sense of the terra and I feared his savagery far less than the servile cunning of the animals born and trained In captivity. -'But by the close of the first week he had got accustomed to the whip and even the Dlstol and in the midst of the per formance he suddenly turned. I knew what was coming the moment I saw him drop from thft top of the cage where be had been clinging to the. bars in a very fierzy of rage, and crouch for a spring. There was absolutely no chance of es cape and instinctively I threw up my left arir. to ward him off. His Jaws closed ov&i: my elbow with such crunching force f'nat \he bone was shattered into slivers. Luckily I was standing with my back to the bars and though the impact of his body against mine was terrific I was pre vented from falling by the wall of the ct.-re. In contrast to the cannibalistic animals, the bear i3 much more docile, though far less intelligent than the Hon. I've always maintained that the grizzly Is the king of beasts. I've hunted animals In all parts of the world, but I've never seen anything that can equal a grizzly for pugnacity and courage. There isn't any more flinch In an American grizzly than there is In a steel rip saw. But he is not a fighter by nature, as the lion and tiger are, though he can easily whip either of them. All that the bear requires Is to be well fed, and then with patience he can be taught anything— the small black and brown bears especially. First teach him to know you by leading him at the end of a chain, then to climb upon a pedestal, stand on his hind legs, roll a barrel and so on until his education Is complete. It must all be in the nature of pure fun. however. The jaguar, the leopard and the hyena, though the latter is always considered, so dangerous, are all really as tractable as the domestic cat. Feed them well and pet them, and as soon as they realize that you are friendly they can be led about like pet dogs. " r Much surprise is often expressed that a kangaroo can be taught anything at ail, particularly boxing. This In reality is very simple. The attitude of the fighter is absolutely natural to the animal, and all that Is necessary to teach it to per- Rajah, the tiger, on the other hand re quired more time. I had to- prod him about a great deal and keep him thor oughly stirred up for a whole week be fore he finally learned that I am boss. Now that he has discovered that fact for himself he can be taught all th© tricks that a lion executes, though he Is never free from treachery. at once and obedient to my every, wish. In this way he can be made- to stand up against the bars, lie down and roll over, tack up or run. just as I desire. COLONEL DANIEL E. BO0NT3, soldier of fortune j lion tamer and circus manager, fresh from his Mexican experiences -with Parnell, the famed murderous lion that was gored to death by a Toltec bull after fighting a sanguinary draw with' the Wombwell grizzly, and still more recently from an adventure in New York with a newly captured jungle lion, is come to take charge of the animals in the zoo at the new Chutes. That means that he must get personally acquainted with all of them, and teach them collectively and individually ho\7 and why he is master of the whole jungle colony. He has accomplished that task in less than two weeks, and the manner of his conquest, as he tells it in the following article, is absolutely unique. Colonel Boone has been training animals for thirtyrsix years. There is not a beast of any sort known to modern zoology which he has not trained in one way or another, and with the exception of Australia, he has performed in every country of the globe. This contribution there fore is one of the most valuable and interesting animal stories ever published in a newspaper. % Now the forest-bred lion Is bold and audacious, the most daring of the whole animal kingdom, but It will never kill unless It Is hungry, as the tiger does for pure love of killing, nor „ stealthily in the sneaking manner peculiar to the tiger and all otter members of the cat family. The lion cannot be controlled by mere persuasive power. He must be conquered boldly, fearlessly, quickly, and so it was 'hat when I opened my engagement with Bartell'a lion his dash and spirit and sisted that I would have to have my arm amputated. I protested. "I'll have to cut oft th© 'funny bone' anyway," he said. "There's nothing funny about that," I replied, "though I won't b© ticklish here after." In the evening, with my arm bound In splints, I performed with him as usual. Though he seemed more savage than ever, he had learned that I was master. Wallace at the Chutes learned the same lesson In Just three days, too. Now I have only to make a motion toward my pistol pocket, when he is up on his feat >THE STJiniA^f GA|]i This method of subjugating the man-eat ing animal tribes I have found to be the test ever since my startling debut, though it nearly cost me my life about a month ago in Xevv York. As it is I shall never again have the use of my left *>ia, which was so badly maxisled that I feared; for a time that it would have to be ampu tated. " . JV^-- •'- It was at Bartell's, the' big Importer of animals, that I first saw this one— a for est-bred lion of immense proportions which had just been brought, from Africa. It fascinated me at iirst glance. . "Kartell," I said," "I'd like to borrow that lion." / . "What for?" he asked. "To open at one. of the theaters next week," I replied.. ' "Why, that lion hasn't been in captivity more than a month," he exclaimed," in surprise. '.,.. "So much the better," I said, and pro ceeded at once to get acquainted with his royal highness. .,..- ; : . •. • The introduction' was just the same as my first meeting with Wallace at the Chutes here. When I thrust my left hand through the bars of the cage he sprang at me with a deafening roar. Instantly L fired two shots full In his face. He re coiled in blank amazement, . and before he could recover from his astonishment I had stepped into the cage' with a heavy whip and a big revolver and was hustling him about in a way that he had never been hustled before. 'And then, before he. Lad recovered from the second surprise J [had stepped out ] of the cage again . a/ juickly as I had entered. ... . " ¦W. Ah, how hungrily he licked his cboag when the iron gate slammed ; cruelly ar» shut In his face as he sprang after me. ¦ He didn't profit' much by that first ex perience, however, and when I. visited -Am the next day,h© was Just as keen-to uurder me.-. There was the same tempt ng hand through the bars, the same sud len flash "of the pistol, the same conftfs- 7 HOW TO TRAIN ANIMALS FOR THE ZOO