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THE TRAINED SEALS.
CAPTAIN WESTON TELLS ABOUT HIS
THREE PERFCRMERS.
How Ho and a Famous German Fishermaun
Captured Bobby, Bibby and Tommy.
some of Their Tricks—They Live Upon
Salt Water Fish.
Of all the different animals that go to
make up the animal kingdom a fish is
perhaps the strangest that should be
chosen for training, yet the acts done by
the three seals under Captain Weston’s
‘guidance show that even a fish can do
wonderful things. Those now pertorm
ing every day are the oldest seals in
captivity. Seals are extremely delicate,
and they rarely live away from their
native eea and rocks for more than a
year, and yet these seals, Bobby, Bibby
and Tommy, have been performing reg
ularly for six years. Their longevity 1s
andoubtedly due to the fact that they
receive great care.
The exact spot of the birthplace ot
these seals is not known, but when they
were youngsters they were found on one
of the islands off Coxshven in Germany.
The German government does all it can
to protect its fisheries, and as seals are
a constant menace to fish the govern
ment pays a reward of 5 marks for the
capture of each seal. There is a famous
geal fisherman in Germany namcd
Worthman, and when Captain Weston,
who had been on many sealing and
whaling expeditions in the North sea,
determined that he would give up the
life of a sailor and become a landlubber
it occurred to him that the training of
seals would be novel and profitable. He
went to Worthman, and together they
captured the three sleek little fellows.
There are many islands outside of Coxs
haven, and one of the smallest was
chosen. In describing the captnre Cap
tain Weston said:
We stretched the net on one side of one
of the smaller islands and then went to
the others and shot oft pistcls and made a
noise, driving many seals into the wa
ter and against the net. We bad to
work very quickly, because the seals
dived down and became entangled in the
pet, and a seal will drown if kept five
minutes under water. When we finally
pulled them up, we found that we had
about 20 seals, but when they found
themselves altogether they became en
raged and fought among themselves,
biting, scratching and tearing, even
killing one another, nntil there were
only three lgft, and these three are the
same three | have today.
| One has only a faint idea of the
amonnt 5? patiencg which it requires tc
Teach a fish, for such a seal really is.
It looks easy to see one of my seals play
the banjo or a harp, but it took me
three months of hard work every day
to teach them to do this even in an im
perfect manner, and the only reason
that I can give is that they have been
at it long enough to learn.
+ 1 have never before known a seal to
live in captivity over one year, and yet
I have had mine many times that. I
am often surprised at their intelligence.
Kspecially is this true of Bobby, the
clown. | belieye that that fish under
stands humor, because he does things at
times which actually make me laugh.
to say nothing about the audience. Hc
is the best seal | ever had, the best I
ever will bave, and | think that he has
an affection for me, and that he knows
almost everything that I say to him.
Yes, the care of seals is a great one.
| keep them in a tank, and above the
water is a shelf for them to lie on when
they feel so inclined. This water is
changed three times a day, and 20
pounds of salt are put into the water ai
each change, for a seal cannot live i
fresh water, you know. They are as
plump and fat today as they were lying
on their native rocks in the North
sea, and they know a great deal more
about the world than they otherwise
would bave known. It may surprise
some people, but it is nevertheless a
fact, that these three seals eat 500 pounds
of fish a week. They will only eat sea
fish, such as herring or flounder, and I
attribute their long life tothe fact that
1 am very careful with their food. The
fish are washel and cleaned and the
heads cut off just as carefully and just
as cleanly as though going on a hotel
table. The seal does not chew a fish,
pbut swallows it whole, and it would
surprise you to see how a great mass of
fish will disappear when three seals get
at it. All the accomplishments of these
geals are not shown. They have been
tanght water tricks. I can throw a 10
cent piece into a tank of water, and,
emall as the piece is and flat as it lies
on the bottom, at a word of comnmand
any one of my seals will dive for it and
get it. This | do not show in public,
pecanse the tank is an unwieldy thing
to keep about.
Have they ever bitten me? Yes, sev
eral times, and theseal’s bite is a nasty
one. The last time was when | placed
the tambourine in front of Bibby.
‘Without warning be grabbed me by the
arm, and I certainly thought he would
‘take a big piece out of it before I could
make him let go, and | was obliged to
strike him very severely before | could
w bim o let loose. My seals to me
are great pets, and | think as much of
‘them as | would of a child, for their
?!l'“t. big, intelligent eyes look up into
‘mine with an expression which tells me
if they only knew how they would cer
2ainly talk to me.—New York Tribune.
| A Mountaineer’s Revenge.
~ One of the most striking characters that
ever lived in tiie character gathering com
| munity of Hot Springs, Ark., was old
Stenhen Rutherford. [ie kept a sort of
roadhouse, which he designated as Bear
' Park, and made his living by administer
ing to the thiist and catering to the amuse
ment of the wayfaring man. The amuse
ment consisted of a black bear—old, lazy
and flea bitten. This animal, advertised as
of most furious disposition, was kept
chained to a tree in the back lot, and at
evening when the accommodating dusk
threw a hiding shade over the bear’s most
striking faults—i, e., laziness and flea bites
—old Steve would announce to his gunests
that he was now about to engage in the
dangerous feat of wrestling with the fero
cious monster from the Mississippi swamps,
Those who knew the trick drank their beer
in unconcern, but thcse who did not paid
95 cents and passed into the back lot to seq
the desperate encounter. :
One afterncon, when old Steve was sit
ting on his veranda. a man from the moun
tains came along, Ariving a rea niuie auu a
white steer hitched to a shaky and creaky
wagon. In the wagon there were a few
small cabbages and a black bear.
“Say,” said the mountain man, stopping
his team, ‘‘don’t you want to buy the finest
b’ar you ever seen?”’
“No,” Steve replied. ‘‘Got all the b’ar ]
want.”’
“But you ain’t got no sech b’ar as this
here one.”
“No, and I don’t want no sech kitten of a
thing as that.”
“Now, look here, mister, that ain’'t no
way to do—insult a man’s b’ar. I have trav
eled 75 miles with this b’ar, and youair the
fust man that has offered him a insult.
That ain’t observin the common courtesies
that is due a b’ar that ain’t never done you
no harm. But puttin that all to one side,
let me ask you seriously if you want to buy
a b’ar?”
“I told you that I’ve got all the b’ar 1
want,” old Steve sharply replied.
The mountain mnan gathered up his hick
ory flail as if he would drive on, but then,
with the appearance of having changed his
mind, stretched his long neck toward old
Steve and said:
“When you say you've got all the b’ar
you want, I reckon you mean that mouse
gnawed and bug eat invalid out yander in
the back lot.”
Steve got up, and mastering his anger
and attempting te speak in a quiet way
said: *‘l have been livin here a good while
and ’arned how to be smooth in my man
ners, but when a man that I ain’t never
pestered in no way comes along here and
willfully insults a member of my family,
why, it’s time for e to act.”
“I don’t know nothin about yo’' family
and wouldn’t, ther’fo’, insult a member of
it,” the mountain man repliéd. ‘‘You said
that this here b’ar is a kitten of a thing,
and then I said that the b’ar over yander in
the lot is bug eat, and I am willin to
leave it to any jury that can be raked up in
this town that lam right. I know what it
is to be bug eat, and I don’t blame the b’ar,
for I don’t reckon he could help it. IThada
dog once that was bug eat—as kind hearted
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and gentlemanly a dog as you ever seen— ‘
and I didn’t hold him responsible. Say, |
now, without any mo’ foolishness, don’t
you want to buy a b’ar?”’ |
Steve placed his hand on a post to steady |
hiraself. He looked at the mountain man
with all the contempt he could throw into
his watery eyes, and then, still under so
strong a restraint that the baggy knees of |
his trousers quivered, thus delivered bim
self: |
“I am tryin to make an honest livin, and
I hope to join the church some day, but if
you don’t go away from here I’ll hurt you,
and I'll make it a p’int of burtin you
mighty bad. Do you hear?” |
““Oh, yes, 1 hear, and ruther than have
any diffikilty I’ll harken, but [ do hope
that befo’ you join the church and befo’
the day is over, for that matter, you may
change yo’ mind about this b’ar. Get ep,
boy!’ He swung his hickory and dealt the
mule a decisive blow. |
Business was dull, and Steve nodded and
dreamed as he sat on the veranda. He was
aroused by a noise, and looking up he saw |
that the mountain man had again stopped
at the gate.
““Look here,” Steve yelled, now under
very little restraint, “thought I told you to
go on away from here.”
“You did tell me, and I did go away, but
that didn’t keepme from comin back again.
I have been to nearly every place in this
town, and nobody don’t seem to want a
b’ar, and the fact has begun to crawl into
my mind that the b’ar market down here is
pretty dull. Down yander jest now the
thought struck me that arter all you mout
want a real b’ar, and as I am willin to help
you out with yo’ wants I will let you have
this here one for $10.”
Steve went out to the gate. He put his
elbows on a wheel of the wagon, and look
ing hard at the mountain said:
*“I bave been very kind to you.”
“] haven’t made that diskivery, but if you
have been kind to me I’'m much obleeged.”
*I have been kind to you, and now I want
to tell you what I’m goin todo. I’m goin
to maul you.”
And bedid maul him. He snatched the
mountain man out of the wagon and wal
lowed him_ ip the road. And during the
performance the bear sat in the wagon and
looked on with an indifference complete in
every detail. The mountain man climbed
back to his seat as soon as Steve granted
him that privilege, and gathering up his
hickory said: **After all, I reckon you know
yo’ own mind best. Don’t reckon you real
ty do want to buy a b'ar. Good day, sah!”
Evening came. and strangers who bad
heard that a 4 desperdle DIl Woulil Wreso
‘'with a ferocicus bear gathered at the place
of encounter,
“Now, gentiemen,” said Steve, ‘‘the time
has come for me to show you what a white
man can do. All my tolks were Bar fizht
ers, and so far as beard from not oue of
them was ever whinped. Some hunters
have just brought in amonstrous b'ar from
down in the bottoms, and all that want to
see me fight him just pay 25 centsand come
ahead.”
A number of men paid their money and
followed him into the back lot. Steve con
ducted the spectators to the tree where the
bear was chained. The brown of evening,
making a mystery of the huge black mass
of animal life and hiding the patcheson his
coat, proclaimed him a savage monster.
“Gentlemer,” said Steve, ‘‘befo’ I gointe
this here fight I want to teil you that I
don’t deserve no sympathy, for I have
brought it on myself. Here goes.”
He made a lunge at the bear. The mon
ster threw himself in an upright position
against the tree and caught Steve in his
arms. For a moment there was silence,
and then a loud yell split the stillness of
the deepening twilight. The bear bomed
Steve, he hugged him time and time again
and then appeared to be biting him.
“Take him away! He’s killing me!” the
gladiator cried. Two men seized Steve's
legs and drew him beyond the bear’s reach.
and the monster—and indeed he was on¢
now—stretched his chain in the effort to re
new the engagement. Steve was taken int
the house. IHe was covered with blood, and
it .was evident that a number of his rib:
were broken,
“Have you anything to say?’ some one
asked. ‘lt may be probable that you can’t
talk after awhile.
“All Ive got to say is this,” Steve groan
ed—*‘l wish I hadn’t got so intermate with
that blamed b’ar.”
Several men went out with a lantern to
look at the victor. They found nothing but
a chain under the tree, but down farther, in
a fence corner, they found a worn and flea
bitten bear asleep. Had they continued
their search, however, they might have
found, down the road, a mountain man
helping his bear into a wagon, and they
might possibly have learned that the moun
tain man, for purposes peculiarly his own,
had liberated the lazy bruin and had tem:
porarily chained his own bear to the tree.
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“Thief powder”’ has been invented by a
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suffering from mysterious robberies. This
powder is sprinkled over safes and cash
drawers and clings to the hands of any one
who attempts to open such receptacles.
Having laid his trap, the merchant next
morning found that a large sum had disap
peared from his drawer, as usual, so he
called up his clerks for inspection. One
man’s hands looked rather blue, and the
merchant bade him wash before him.
When the hands were in the water, they
turned deep blue, the effects of the thief
powder, thus bringing home the crime to
sevigte. ..
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