EXTRAORDINARY LOVE AFFAIR.

Lake County Press, Issue 2117, 10 May 1906, Page 7

EXTRAORDINARY LOVE AFFAIR.

OKAM.'-OtTAM.' AMi L'liJ.M | 1' AN V.V.V.. IS.v \V. (). INCUS. I [ciT is I he simple liist my of I he loves of Dohong for Polly and how In- w mi her. 11 is ;i (rue si orv . as iiiiy ono may lonni for himself who will take thf i rouble i o \ isit their stool-barred hoini' in Bronx I'ark. i They live iii lll'.' | ni mat cs" house of! llio New York Zoological Society. : You ran sot' them any day from nine in the inorni!il: (ill near sunset. In those sortlitl limes of rampant. ■ commercialism and incessant seeking for dollars it is refreshing to find one love story that is not tainted ley greed. Dohong won I'oily because he loved her so. Mis passion laugh) him lo reason, to use his intelligence in wnys which the short-sighted sa.\ are possible to man alone Optimists will like the story 'I hey will point out that inasmuch sis hue tniighl Pohone to use his imagination and thus raised him higher in the s<al in- : tclligciicc than an.\ ot her of his kind. : .so love is lhe power that has raised | man from the brute to ins present stage of development and iiniv yet make him worl hj while. THE ADVENT OE LADY 'MhIA . i Dohotig lived heart -v. hole and fancyfree in his lofty cage until I hey brought I'oll.v from the west coast of equatorial \frica. She is a chimpanzee, very dark brown in t oloiir and with the telldoresl In-own eves y.ou ever saw. peally, there are at least a thousand girls in New York ', whose eves are Hot as sweet and gentie as Polly's. She is tall and slen- j rler. a wood nymph of exquisite grace . compared with the Caliban-like, bulky Dohong. Polly's cousin, Sultana, cam'' from \ Africa with her. Sultana is black, also she is as beautiful as Cleopatra, from a simian point of view, but, like many another bounty, she hasn't a bit of sense. She is fall, exquisite, full of airs and graces, verv proud. In the intervals of peauut-whood- ' ling and straw-searching Polly sometimes glanced for a moment at Dohong—level, honest, fearless glances that seemed lo ask : 'Are yon animal or mineral or vegetable?"— glances that shoo!', up his soul and disturbed him for many hours. lb: didn't know what to think of her. Her eyes haunted him. One da;. Dohong thought the girls' were do/iiiL: in their cages, lb practised a few soiuei sun I Is <o warm up his muscle:;, then went aloft on his trapeze and swung ever so far out, to and fro, hanging on by onl.v one hind foot. As he dropped to the straw, feeling much better for the exercise, he was greatly confused to hnd Polly wide awake ami watching ; him intently. i THE UREA KINO OF THE ICE. I ''You do the long swing beautifully," she said simply. "M.\ father was champion of all the West Coast, but I'm sure he couldn't do an.s thing like that." "Yes." said Dohong. "I invented that t rick. It "s great. I can stand on my head half an hour loo." This conversation broke the ice. Dohong was delighted to learn that Polly thought he was very strong, lie threw out. his funny brown chest and did his best to look grao fill. He felt stirring vagneh within him the primal, aboriginal instinct to array himself in* a gaudy waistcoat and bring the girl a bunch of the finest orchids in town. Dohong did not sleep very well that night. Polly,':; soft brown eyes haunted him. Three or four times he tiptoed .softly over the .straw and peered through the grated door of wire netting into her house to make sure that she was really there. He had an uneasy theory that she might | resolve herself into a brown-eyed i angel and float back to her home in J heaven. When Polly appeared in full view j next morning Dohong was delighted. ; Hi' gave a hearty, simian cheer, which j goers like this : Chce-ee-ee-ee, chec-ee- j ee-ee, chee-ee-ee-ee ! i Then he bounded up on I he I rape/.e j and swung out to a wonderful distance, hung dizzily by one linger at a time, thundered up against the ceiling i ill you'd think the house was coming tlown, ran ten times around th" walls of his 'age without once touching the floor—in short, behaved like the gallant young gentleman he is. Polly gazed at him with her candid brown eves opened wider than ever. she.said gently, "that; iicai great .Tim J of-; fries," i "In a punch," Dohong replied, "if : J only had you for my second." I'OL.L.Y IN A YTELDINO MOOD. I "Oh, you presumptuous thing !" .she exclaimed, ami hung her head ; yet when he reached round the corner of the cage and .seized her hand she did not draw it. away—that is, not j immediately. "It's a lovely day," said she, ! and" i "I must com'; in and call on you," ©aid he. "I want to ask you some- ; thing." I "I wonder mused Sultana, afar off, as she fanned herself languidly with si handful of straw ; "I woiwler what he sees in that plain little thing V .She hasn't a bit of looks or style." Rut Dohong wasn't wasting any wonder on Sultana. His head and lis heart were full of Tolly. He felt il ! important to display his knowledge j of machines made by man. He bounded uu on the trapeze, unscrewed a nut. on the end of the bar and threw it away. He was so luijppy he msivlit hod to flnaoah something ■

Tho.n he tried to do a few more fine trapeze fonts lo impress Polly, hut the liar slipped out and dropped him to I tie lloor. Willi it smothered yell oi' fin-,'- Dohong leaped up, hung hy the chnin, u'M i lie ends Hi the Par in his mouth i o nuikt l it st irk. :iml iamined it Park in place. Next time he swung, nl' course, it fell out again and threw him on the floor. He put the liar in plaee once more, and this t hue Pent ii ni ihe .'llll so t hat il jammed snug and light. It lias not fallen out since. And the Irape/e tricks lie has done tu win and hid.l the heart of l\d!.\ would make the tort iJ if any circus star I >a\ aft it ila.v the big ora ng i i ied in lind some knob or catcli li.v which In- could open the door in the pari i I ion of solid wood and get ill lo talk with Tolls., out of the hearing of inipiisitive Sultana. Hut there was no knoll in sight , II would have made a stoic smile to see the hours of patient search Dohollg gave to the problem of t lie missing knob. II" knew there must In- something ~f ihe sort ihal ■.vnuld open !he door liel ss ecu him and happiness, lie hud noticed how the I- per mil in and out li,\ the Pack door of his cane. Rut. though he tried for whole days together, lie could not lind any knoh or discover the secret by which the keeper could do what he could not. He pondered lone an i| earnest Iv, his head Pent in thought, he examined the hinges, and cverv crack, searrlnuy for the seerrt, spring lie fell sue must exist And always he kept one longing eye on (lie coy and fascinating I'olly, so near and \et so imai lainaPle I'olly watched his search with amused interest. Il was so firms to see the Pig fellow striving for s-otne-l hing. she couldn't guess ss hat Of course, she couldn't guess—t he wit ch. One day Dohong had an inspiration -at t lie vers t hough! the life of ! riUMipb hunted in bis eyes. He ascended to the trapeze and swung ii sidewise until he could grab Hie bar on the wall. Then he climbed oil the trapeze and on to the bar, but slill beld on to the trapww The chains fell slack. Unbone; I tied four wa.s .'. In-fore he placed til-' (rape/e-har iv hei e he could best use it as a lever. Then he gave a mighty heave of t be ; hoiiblers. and one plank of t I',.' par: i! ion against whj ith tbe end of the I >-;ip< :"• ss :r resting .lacked tor a distance oi six inches. Anoi her ben vr\ and the plank broke I'olly s-hiv ered and ci i"d in i roglodv lisb ': "What in Ihe world are \ ou doing ?" •Til be t here in a minute," I lohoug muttered, as lie braced li'nu«Hi lor auot her heave on ..he trapeze level Phi' plank cracked further, broke clear through. With Ins scraggy lingers Dohong ripped ;iwa.\ the plere.e of I lie plank Ile at tacked tbe iu-m 11 began to give. Dohone, sang now as he worked, a low . booming son- such as one rnroh hears a was from the nal is e v. oods of lbe ora ngs Soon hj- would be with Polls . I.ifi would be one -rand, swei-l Sony . and I lien • Well, jusl t lien Conuolls tin- keeper. ripened Hie little door at the bark of the cage. "Ilev . \ ,ol| !" 11. CI |e,|. "Dowil oil that wall !" '(.'nr-rr-rr-n hi' Dohong snarl'-d IPS lleliaixe. i Connolly knew Ii" must assert his iinlnui i v now or n<-\ it < >nre I■ -1 I•< > long become masiei , and i here v Id ii- no lis nm ss il hj him, And lies er irl'ore bad Dohong fell such an im,i,lse [o rebel. IP-re was I his i b.ih.-s rearing, white-faced man interfering ii-l ween him and his l'oll.\ - On" ■much of the tierce bm sine-im le.-lh n the man's while throiit. and he .voubl nes it interfei <• are in I lohong . )a , fd his teeth, croui In-d for lhe ipri.ie ■•( >f|' i In- wall, I tell v ou. t o|molls •ominande.l. and at the .vane time lit Dohong with a small and piiaiH ship. The Plow nil lite or.uie. lo he soul It s-.a - not I la- si me of he lash Ihal hurt . Put t In- huuuPa ion of b.-ine vs hipped 1., fore I'••.11 >et the (irsl stroke -Aoi ~•!.- In- - Ollg habil of obedlei ,e \ : :l I igain the lash fi-l! mi U.e o-amj - ,-gs and Pods . 11.- dropped ; ,l| ~,| . o i p.- lloor. I hen iii In up iii. ban-Is o Conuolls . imploi in- mere.-. . The whipping stopped. "See I bat sou keep ass a s from that sail." lie j.eep.-r ordi'iril pointim; o the Pat .er.fl | lauhin- The orang Kidded IP- undersiood IP- oheved. 'nimolls svent ass a;. . Tin- orang Aba! was the iim- :• Ile ss as ronpieicd. Loves golden dream was last. The tyrant man bad ruined lis fa ires! prospect s he mig lit a . •veil uhat ssas ' hat •' " Dohong : ' the s oiee of Pollv was I lulling—t he s nice of Polls . s .-r. ;weet and s ery low. The big fellow i an to the lit tic part it ion door of . yreit ; and net i ing and looked in, lie •ould see nothing of her ; so she : nust lie at Ihe front, of ihe cag--, [ ml of his sigiil , of course, b, bind ' .la- solid pa ii i I ion . The orang ran to the front of the [ •age. Nes. there ssas the long, slim mud of Polls t hrusi out. searching or Pirn Dohong sei/.ed it, rais.-d n ■ o his I ips and had hard ss oil. to I •hoke Puck a sob. Ho wasn't van- : [uislu-d alter all. j "Vim see, I couldn't hep. sou as oiig ii;-; yon had a good fighting •hance, Put. now it's all different," 'oily explained. Dohong didn I see. To. didn't understand. All he knew ! vas that lie held Dolly's band and lie ssas his, and he ssas vers hupps,. Mr llornadav, the Superiutendani if the garden, became deeply iu-erest'-ll when he heard lie- ' ..,-;. |e ~!c i-rs ''l liolion- and Polly foi ;o vera I -hiss before he rearlieil a d<-■i-iioll Then he rr-lented n! man a | Inn parent, has In-fore lorn. "I really believe," he said at last. | •i luii i hey'll get sick, perhaps die. | f I keep I hem apart u n.\ longer I'll; •isk it." |.'or it. is a well-known fact I bat i ,be Pig simians when suddenly hrown together are very apt to i ighl, to the death. Dohong and Dolls ss err put in one I if the big rages. The pen besitates o write what followed, set il is the simple truth ami may as ssdl be. .old. Dohong walked up and look I'olly | >y the hand and led her lo a big j •hair. <>n this they both jumped up j Itld seated themselves. And then, j loubtb-ss profiting lis ihe example of I mans- Holding Companies he has seen ii ihe park, Dohong put his arm iround folly's waist. She let her i land fall on his shoulder and sighed j t loin.', happy sigh. And for the benefit of the scoffer;;. et me add that Mr. Hornaday ha-, al.en photographs of these doiiu;s, nal he who doubts the simple (.ruth uas' go up and swe for himself Ihe .i-n I lrape/.e b;ir and tie- new plank - lie; in the place of that which Do- ; long ripped out.—">.'. V. World."