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Best Dressed Man in the World.
>The majority of men believe that
the best and most fashionable In
men's clothes comes from London;
and that the best dressed man "in the
world is the American turned out by
a London tailor.
An American who spends a great
part of his time in London, anu is
rather a stickler for the correct thing,
was recently hailed on Broadway by
a friend with the remark, "So that's
what they're wearing in London, eh?"
The man addressed shook his head.
"Suit made in Washington, overcoat
in New York," he said. "Thought
you were togged out from Bond
Street, sure," in a disappointed tone.
Then the man who lives much in Lon
don made this radical announcement:
"They can't make a sack suit in Eng
land. You ask a Bond Street tailor
for an American business suit with
an American fit, and he turns out a
NEW FRENCH MOTOR RAILROAD TRUCK.
coat that gives you a caved-in chest
when it's buttoned up and a decidedly
open front when it's unbuttoned."
Yet some West End tailoring estab
lishments in London depend for their
very existence on American trade, not
alone the trade of Americans travel
ing abroad, but a mail order business
■which entails making on measure
ments and forwarding by express,
likewise payment of duty. So impor
tant is this business that a cable code
has been arranged. With this code,
a complete catalog and full directions
for self measurement, a man may
cable his order to London, and feel
reasonably certain that the clothes he
wants will leave England by the next
westward bound steamer.
One traveler from a firm in London
making a specialty of cable orders re
cently visited New York and booked
orders to the amount of six thousand
pounds sterling. But this class ol
business is all in "semi-ready"
clothing, a system which has been
adopted from American tailors.
Yet the American "ready-made" has
been a subject of laughter on the
other side; and the New Yorker's
claim to be the, "best dressed man in
the world," has been received with
jeers. To the foreigner the idea of a
man who has literally "no time" to
devote to matters sartorial being well
dressed is absurd — and the New
Yorker has no time. He can't wait
for clothes to be made by a "custom"
tailor.
When he needs a suit he dashes into
one of those immense haberdasheries
that dot both sides of Broadway from
the Battery to the Bronx, where
thousands of "ready for service" suits
and overcoats are piled on long tables
in stacks that rise above a man's
head. Here are found prices and sizes
to fit every customer. Sack suits
from $3 to $50 advertised for cut and
smartness. They are smart, too, are
better cut and sewn than the English
cheap suit, but the latter is made of
better material. It is just this differ
ence that makes the American crowd
look smart and prosperous, while the
English crowd looks merely comfort
able,
■ The New Yorker must look prosper
ous. It is part or' his stock in trade.
His clothes must not appear old any
more than his face. This demand for
youth and freshness is what makes it
possible for some firms to w^U as high
as 7,000 suits in a day. Hats and
shoes get even more attention than
clothes. The ancient saw, "When
broke buy a new hat." is so thorough
ly appreciated Ijv ihe New Yorker
that he receives without even a grin
such advertisements as that which
puzzled Count Witto as he walked
down Broadway. "Pall Lids for
Faded Faces," it read. ■"Fall," mut
tered the Russian diplomat with a
look of weary amazement, "fall, that
means to tumble down, does it not?"
Some one explained that "fall" was
the American for the season which all
other nations know as autumn.
Last winter a hading London daily
gave a column every morning to the
discussion of "The Fetish of the
Black Coat." Every clerk and sales
man in London wears a frock, or
Prince Albert, during his work, and,
like the English artisan, he wears the
costume of his trade after hours. For
weeks members of Parliament and
celebrities in many lines argued in
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tho public press as to which system
was better: the American custom
which ordained the sack suit in busi
ness and a change of raiment for
laborers after hours; or the English
custom which set the frock coat up
as the emblem of respectability among
tradesmen, a mark distinguishing
them from the laboring classes and
kept the latter in blouse and hob
nailed boots during his hours of rest.
In England they talk a lot of what
seems awful rot to this side of the
water, and they take clothes very
seriously. Each class has its gar
ments and each garment its use.
In London the Tuxedo is still a
lounge coat, something to be slipped
on during the early evening and dis
carded for the formal "swallow tail"
before starting for any entertainment.
But the American has forced it into
public life, has ordained a black tie
and gold shirt studs with it, in place
of the white tie and pearl studs that
must be worn with the tailed coat.
The American speaks of his Tuxedo
suit and his dress suit. The English
man talks of his evening clothes, and
would as soon think of changing his
trousers to match his smoking jacket,
as of changing his studs and tie to
accord with his Tuxedo.
While the vast majority of men buy
their clothes "ready" or "semi-ready"
made, most men regard with envy the
one who has time and money to have
his clothes made and fitted. The En
glishman of means considers it his
duty to have his clothes made by the
very best tailors and to wear them as
badly as possible. As he can rarely
remain long at a time within his own
country, London custom tailors have
stored in their safes measurements of
hundreds of wandering Britons who
usually cable from various parts of
the world when they need new
clothes. These measurements are a
valuable asset and insurance on them
frequently amounts to several thou
sand pounds sterling.
As a matter of fact, the best dressed
man in the world is neither the New
Yorker nor the Londoner, but the man
who gets his frock coat, cutaway and
evening clothes from the Bond Street
tailors, who have made these styles
of masculine dress for centuries, and
his sack suits and overcoats from
Fifth Avenue, where one might say
they were invented.
Kcw Clothes fur Easier.
Tho flowers with which many church
es are ornamented on Easter Day are
j most probably emblems of the Resur
: rection. There are people today who
j think that unless something new is
worn on Easter Day no good fortune
will come to them during the year
The Dorsetshire poet, Barnes, gives us
this quaint little verse in regard to
this custom:
"Laste Easter I put on my blue frock
coat, the vust time, very new;
Wi' yaller buttons aal o' brass
ThaV glittered in the-zun like glass;
Bekaize 'twer Easter Zunday.
Kldcrly Spinster: You ;now. Doctor,
I'm always thinking lai man is fol
lowing me. Do yon think I r.uffer
from hallucinations?
Doctor: Absolutely certain you do,
.Ma'am. — From Sketch.
ANIMAL HEROES.
The Thrilling Story of "Snap" the
Bull Terrier.
Ernest Thompson Seton's last book,
"Animal heroes", is, if possible, more than
ever up to the standard of his inteusly in
teresting wild-animal tales. To the animal
lover this new collection will be read with
absorbing attention. Mr. Seton has been
subjected to considerable criticism by other
naturalists, notably, John Burroughs, for
endowing his animal characters with un
usual intelligence and powers, which, it is
claimed, are uot possessed by any dumb
creatures. Very likely, as a class, but, as
Mr. Seton himself admits in his preface to
"Animal Heroes", these histories, while iv
each case founded on the actual life-doings
of a real animal, are more or less composite.
What novelist. Indeed, does not combine
the most striking characteristics of several
individuals to construct his human hero,
who shall appeal to the reader as au ex
ceptionally five character? So has Mr. Se
ton taken the record of a number of wood
or other animals and embodied their most
striking "kills" or foilings of the pack into
oue sagacious, brave and gigantic specimen
Like all of his books, "Animal Heroes"
is delightfully illustrated by some two-hun
dred drawings aud sketches 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 fierce pursuit, ot
fatal closing in— sometimes to the pursued
sometimes to the pursuer— is told by an
ey. -witness wielding a master pen in de
picting animal adventures, and at all
times rims through the story the love
which the writer bears for all animals— of
the pt-utid, 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 be discusses has ever been -writ
ten which is better worth the reading, and
withal sadder in its finale than Is the ac
count in this volume of the little dog,
"Snap." This "Snap" is a bull-terrier,
Which was sent the author as a sort of Hal
lowe'en joke — he was so vicious and unap
proachable. He kept Mr. Seton. on the top
of tlie table most of the night, where he
smoked cigars until his pocket-supply ran
out aud 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 Men
doza, North Dakota where the wolves had
been play lug havoc with the live-stcck,
evading poison aud traps and actually
scorning the attempts of the 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 speck for either Gray-wolf or
Coyote, and each of these is determined
by its tall. If the glass shows the tail
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 1
so fast as they had after the Coyote. But
no one knew the fiuish of the hunt. The
Dogs came back to us one by oue, and we
saw no more of that Wolf.
Sarcastic remarks and recrimination were
now freely indulged in by the hunters.
"Pah! scairr, plumb scairt," was the
father's disgusted comment on the pack.
"They could catch up easy enough, but
when he turned on them, they lighted
out for horne — pah!"
"Where's that thar onsurpassable, fear
less, scaire-o-nort Tarrier asked Hilton,
scornfully.
"I don't know," said I. "I am In
clined to think he 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
— ' ~- —HI
" "TOE DESPERADO IN THE MIDDLE PACED THIS WAY AND THAT."
close to the ranch. :iud wo were spurred
on to nuother hunt.
It openod much like the last. Late in
the afternoon we sighted a gray fellow
with tuil tip, not half a mile off. As we
rose to the upland mid sighted the chase
half a mile off, Dander, the greyhound
came up with tlie Wolf and snapped at
his haunch. The Gray wolf turned round
to light, and we had a tine view. The
Dogs came up by Iwu and threes, barking
at him in a rinj:, till last, Snap, the
little white (me rushed up. He wasted
no time barking, Imt rushed straight at
the Wolfs throat und missed It, yet
seemed to get him by the nose: thei the
ten big Dogs closed in, and In two mi. utes
the wolf was dead. Suap had llveu up
to my promises for him.
Now It was my turn to crow, and I did
not lose the chauce. Snap had shown
them how, and at last the Meudoza
pack had killed a Gray-wolf without help
from the men.
There were two things to mar the
victory somewhat; first, it was a young
Wolf, a mere Cob; second. Snap was
wounded— the Wolf had given him a bad
cot in the shoulder.
As we rode in proud procession home,
I saw he limped a little. "Here," I
cried, " come up, Snap." He tried once
or twice to jump to the saddle, but could
not. "Here, Hilton, lift him up to me."
"Thanks; I'll let you handle your own
rattlesnakes," was the reply, for all knew
now that it was not safe to meddle with
his person. 'Here, Suap, take hold," I
said, and held my quirt to him. He
seized It, and by that I lifted him to the
front of my saddle and so carried him
home. He had shown those Cattle-men
how to fill the weak place in their pack;
the Foxhounds may be good and the
Greyhounds swift and the Russians and
Danes fighters, but they are no use at
all without the crowning moral force of
grit,' that none can supply go well as
a Bull-terrier. Ou that day the Cattle
men learned how to manage the Wolf
question.
Next day was Hallowe'en, th? anni
versary of Snap's advent. The weather
was clear, bright, not too cold, ami there
was no enow ou the ground. The men
usually celebrated the day wiMi a hunt
of some sort, and now, of course, Wolves
were the one object. To tho disappoint
ment of all, Snap was in bad shape with
l.is wound. He slept, as usual, at my
feet, and bloody Kiaius now marked the
place. He was not in condition to tight,
but we were bound to have a Wolf-hunt,
so he was beguiled to an outhouse aud
locked up, while we went off, I, at
least, with a sense of Impending disaster.
I knew we should fall without mv Dog.
but I did not realize how bad a failure
it was to be.
Afar among the huttes of Skull Creek
we had roamed, when a white ball ap
peared bounding through the sage-brush,
and in a minute more Snap came, growl
iug and stump-wangling, cp to my Horse's
side. I could not send him back; he would
take no such orders, not even from me.
ills wound was looking bad, so I called
him, held down the quirt, and jumped
him to luy saddle.
"There," I thought, "I'll keep you safe
till we get home." Yes, I thousht; but
I reckoned not with Snap. The voice
of Hilton, "Hu, hu," announced that he
had sighted a Wolf. Dander and Hiley,
his rival, both sprang to the point of
otiservation, with the result that they
collided aud fell together, sprawling, in
the sage. B':t Snap, gazing hard, had
sighted the Wolf, not so very far off,
and before I knew it, he leaped from
the saddle aud bounded zigzis, high, low,
in aud under the sase, straight for the
enemy, leading tlie whole pack for a few
minutes. Not far, of course. Th? great
Greyhounds sighted the moving speck, and
thensnal procession strong out on the plain.
It promised to be :i line hunt, for the Wolf
had less than half a mile start and ajl
the Dogs were fully interested.
"They've turned up Grizzly Gully," cried
Garvin. "This way, and we can Lead
them off."
We galloped to the top of Cedar Ridge
and were about to ride down, when Hilton
shouted, "By George, here he is! We're
rijrht onto him. "A great Gray-wolf
came lumbering across an open plain to
ward us. His head was low, his tall
out level, and fifty yards behind him was
Dander, sailing like a Hawk over the
ground, going twice as fast as the Wolf
In a minute the Hound was alongside
and snapped, but bounded back, as the
Wolf turned on him. In a few seconds
the next Greyhound arrived, then the
rest in order of swiftness. Each came
up full of tight and fury, determined to
Ko right In and tear the Gray-Wolf to
pieces; hut each in turn swerved aside,
and leaped and barked around at a safe
distance. After a minute or so the Russians
appeared — Hue big Dogs they were. Their
distant Intention no doubt was to dash
at the old Wolf; but his fearless front,
his sinewy frame and death-dealing jaws,
awed them long before they were near
him, and they also joined the ting, while
the desperado iv tlie middle faced this
way aud that, ready for any or all.
Now the L)anes came up, huge-limbed
creatures, any one of them as heavy as
the Wolf. I heard their heavy breathing 1
tighten into a threatening souud us they
plunged ahead, eager to tear the foe to
pieces; but when they saw him there
grim, fearless, mighty of jaw, tireless of
limb, ready to die if need be, but sure
of this, he would not die alone-well
those great Danes— all three of them—
were stricken, as tlie rest had been with
a sudden bashfulness: yes, they would go
right in presently — not now. but as soon
as they had got their breath; they were
not afraid of a Wolf, oh, no. I conld
read their courage iv their voices. They
knew perfectly well that the h'rst Dog to
;.'o in was hmuix t<> £«'t Uurt, but never
mind that— presently; thin would Imrk a
little more to get up enthusiasm.
And as the ten big Dogs were leaping
round the silent Wolf :it hay, there was
a rustling in the «ige at the far side of
the place; then a snow-white rublier hall,
it seeinerl, fame bounding, hut grew In
to a little Bull-terrier, and Snap, slowest
of the pack, and last, came panting hard.
sn hard, he seemed Rasping. Over the
level open he made, straight to the chang
ing ring nrouml the Cattle-killer whniii
none dared face. Dili he hesitate' Not
for an instant: through the rim; of the
yelping pack, straight for the old despot
of the range, rijrlit for his throat, he
sprang; and the Gray-wolf struck with his
twenty scimitars. But the little one, If
foiled at nil, sprang again, and then what
came I hardly knew. There was a whirl
ing mass of Dogs. I thought I saw the
little White one clinched on the Gray
wolf's nose. The pack was all around; we
could not 1 ■'!> them now. But they did
not ueed us; ihey had a leader of daunt
less mettle, and when in a little while
the final scene v.:v.' done, there on the
ground 'ay the Gray-wolf, a giant of his
kind, and clinched ou his nose was the
little white Dog.
We were standing around within fifteen
feet, ready to help, but had no chance
till we were 1 ot needed.
The Wolf was dead, and I hallooed to
Snap, but he lid not move. I heut over
him. "Suap— Snap, it's all over; you've
killed him." But the Dog was very still,
and now I saw two deep wounds in his
body. I tried to lift him. "let go, old
fellow; It's all over." He growled feebly,
and at last let go of the Wolf. .The
rough cattle-mei were kneeling around
him now; old Penroof's voice was trem
bling as he muuered. "I wouldn't had him
hurt for twenty steers." I lifted him in
my arms, called to him and stroked his
head. He snarled a little, a (atewell ns
it proved, for he licked my hand as he
did so, then never snarled again.
That was a sad ride home for me.
was the skin of a monstrous Wolf, but
no other hint of triumph. We buried the
fearlesi one on a butte back of the ranch
house. Penroof, as he stood by, was
heard to grumble; "By jinso, that was
grit — el'ar grit! Ye can t raia* Cattle
without grit."
THE FIGHTING INSTINCT.
Story of a Desperate Hand to Hand
Encounter Against Heavy Odds.
Now and then among the brutali
ties and crimes that form the chief
subjects of daily journalism in this
country, there comes an item tnat
not only appeals to our morbid nature
Dut gets in ciose to the primal love
of liglu wnicn sprmgs eternal in the
human animal. iViost of us have no
feeling except of loathing in the case
of the secret assassination of six Ital
ians in Minneapolis, because their
modes of light are Latin in a country
of Augio-Saxon prejudices. But just
a ween before, the press dispatches
irom Bristol, Tennessee, told of the
sudden demise of seven Italians who
with others had conspired to murder
their section foreman, because he was
a "hard boss." Doubtless he was!
Nevertheless, the old fighting blood
tingles at the bare account of the bat
tle that the foreman, Haverly, whose
name suggests his nationality, waged
single-handed against the body of la
borers that "rushed" him. Had he
been armed with a revolver, he would
have no sympathy, but he depended on
the first weapon at hand — a crowbar.
Backed against an embankment, he
withstood the combined attack of the
entire gang of laborers, all bent on his
murder, and armed, against him, with
picks, axes, and spades, in addition
to their knives. Repugnant as the idea
of killing may be, one can scarcely
help a thrill at the thought of the fore
man, Haverly, at bay like a knight of
former days, fighting for his life, and
so sturdily and valiantly laying about
him> weapon for weapon, steel against
steel, until he stretched seven of his
assailants dead before him and routed
the rest. Haverly may be a brute and
a bully: he may have deserved what
the laborers, rising like desperate
slaves against a tyrant, had in store
for him. Yet, somehow, that is hard to
believe because the innate love for
combat in our nature challenges ad
miration for a man who displays des
perate courage and physical prowess.
Little Cannibals.
Every once in a while we hear of
breeders complaining of the cannibal
istic habits among growing fowls, espe
cially among those still in the days of
their early babyhood. This pernicious
habit, when once the young birds be
come thoroughly addicted to it, is rath
er difficult to control and suppress.
Usually it finds its chief expression in
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 of these opportunities for a
healthful exercise; the result is that
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 tl-e 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.
-1 Sadden Change.
Two commercial travelers, one from
London md one from New York, were
discussing the weather in their respec
tive countries.
The Englishman said that English
weather had one great fault — its sud
den changes.
"A person may take a walk one
day," he said, "attired in a light sum
mer suit, and still feel quite warm.
Next day he needs an overcoat."
"That's nothing," said the American.
".My two friends, Johnson and Jones,
were once having an argument. There
were- eight or nine inches of snow on
the ground. The argument got heated,
and Johnson picked up a snowball and
threw it at Jones from a distance of
not more than five yards. During the
transit of that snowball, sir, believe
me or not, as you like, the weather
suddenly changed and became hot and
summer-like, and Jones, instead of be
ing hit with a snowball, was — cr —
scalded with hot water!"
PERILS IN COLD STORAGE.
y-^n Bacteria Active—Government
to Make Experiments.
The Agricultural Department Is fol
lowing up a line of scientific investiga
tion of the effect upon perishable goods
in cold storage for an unlimited time,
and Dr. Wiley believes that he will de
velop the fact that legislation is needed
fixing the period for which such ar
ticles as meats and milks may be
stored.
In one of the Philadelphia cold
storage houses space has been set aside
for the cv -riments and a like arrange
ment has been made in Washington for
storing birds and milk.
The stored articles wHI be taken out
from time to time and examined to as
certain whether or not deterioration
has begun, and at what period the
point has been reached when the ar
ticles can be no longer stored and re
main good food.
It already has been demonstrated,
Dr. Wiley says, that the bacteria that
occasion decay remain in the meat
while frozen, and that they actually
carry on their work, although at a
greatly reduced rate.
In one of the cold storage plants in
Cleveland some meat was recently
found which had been mislaid and for
gotten for a period of eleven years. It
was sent to the department and a por
tion thawed out and examined.
Decay had gone on to such an extent
that the meat was entirely ur for
use. The greater portion of it was
again placed in storage and the obser
vation will be continued. The fact that
the meat, having been frozen for eleven
years, was in a condition of decay is
held to conclusively prove that the
bacteria can work in the meat while
frczen. The object of the investigation
is to ascertain at what point the decay
has progressed to such an extent as to
injure the food value of the article
stored.
There is at present no law prohibit
ing the storage of any article for any
length of time. The only law upon the
subject is one that requires fowls to be
drawn before they are placed ie stor
age.
The Oregon's Big Pennant.
When the Oregon left Hongkong re
cently, after her long period of service
on the Asiatic station, she was flying a
homeward-bound pennant over 500 feet
in length. It was necessary to support
this long strea"">r by two small bal
loons tied to the end to keep it out of
the water. The pennant was made of
silk thread and attracted much atten
tion in the Asiatic port.
In the old days it was the custom to
have a foot of pennant for every day of
the cruise. That of the Oregon is prob
ably one of the longest displayed from
the mast of a home-coming ship, al
though it is on record that the old
Brooklyn, on one occasion upon her ar
rival in New York, displayed a pennant
700 feet long.
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