The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-22

was my sudden thought. 1 made n
frantic push at the cap, but the creature
must have been sitting on it. Iscream:
ed to Julia. but felt that my voice did
not penetrate the thick glass. oh, it
WAS horrible! Then i heard his low
roar sounding; tried the cap again.
and il lifted. In an instant / was upon
the floor, only to be seized by the mon
ster, who whirled me around the room
in u sort of mad waltz, until my
brain was dizzy and all the while he
chanted strange and dreadful melody,
which sounded somewhat like this:
1--WE wutog hobetill bordIg-
| We wulog hobetill bordlk-
! We wntog hobetiIl bordig
| Tillda ntedoth abbeer."
He danced about the room like a
human being very drunk indeed. L
whisky. Opening my parlor door
cautiously, L found my Irishwoman
close to the keyhole.
"Ann," said, task Mrs. White for a
bottle OF whisky. 1t is matter of life
and DEATH"
She got it. She put her arm within
the door, and nearly dropped the bottle
creature saw it he staggered toward
me most lovingly. / evaded him, and
| quickly placed the bottle at the bottom
of the jar. Then he made frantic efforts
to get into the jar, but his inebriation
| impeded his movements. At last, with
my boosting, he reached the top of the
box, and, unable to steady himself,
plunged in headlong. 1 heard vio-
| lent crack as his head struck the bot
| tom, and felt sure he must be dead.
| But hastily secured the cap, and,
cutting his air OFF very close, left him
for the night.
1 was now much exhausted; but i
| had settled another point:
ISi1th-The Gorilla is susceptible TO alco-
holIc Influences, and, like man, is capable OF
a spree.
1 lay awake much of that night. The
monster was dead-it must be so. No
constitution could stand a quart OF
alcohol strongly seasoned with corro-
sive sublimate, and such n crack in his
skull as he must have. He was dead
and before had fully settled the fact
of his identity with man. 1t was a
painful thought.
But in the morning 1 heard-I was
sure il was 1.-THE low, hollow roar in
the room below me. No, he was not
and satisfaction. could continue my
experiments. 1 dressed hastily, and
armed with bucket of straw
berries and IL small flask of whisky,
concealed in my pocket, pro-
ceeded TO open the Jar. Up came the
I
| Heaven for TINT But he seemed "rath-
er down in the mouth" as have heard
human animals describe their sensa-
tions after late night. he seemed in
deed quite patient, If not penttent; and
had the creature known how to write,
should have got him TO sign the
pledge on the spot,
L offered the straw berries. but he de-
clined, and see-sawing back and forth
in u curious way, looked at me inquir-
ingly.
1 Thought to myself, "The poison is
working in his Yitals." kept my eye
| on him, knowing his treachery, AS Du
Chaillu describes it. He see-sawed at
me, and kept his cruel eye upon me.
He did not smile, but gradually snuh-
ing the air, began to wrinkle his brow,
and then bounding upward struck the
ceiling with his head as before. No,
his skull was not broken by the plunge
| into the jar.
He caine down In front of me, and L
trembled for an instant, for bad no
hold upon the throwing-strap: He
smelled about me curlously, and then
| putting his arm around me, felt OF my
| pocket in which was the flask. All he
| had OWNED it; that was what he was
after that was the reason he had de-
clined the Strawberries
| L resisted his efforts to get the whisky
| flask from my pocket, ana 1reeo my
| self from his bacchanalian embrace.
| This reused him. Striking an attitude
such as Forrest takes as Coriolanus de-
| handing possession OF ancient Rome,
he frowned upon me; then beating his
broad breast with violence, he emitted
a roar which really frightened me. 1
quickly extended the flask, knowing
| well what every body knows, that pru-
dence is the better part of valor." He
| clutchet IL, and imbibed its contents. /
regretted the necessity, but 1 felt that
| this growing vice of intoxtcation might
be overcome If 1 could bring him under
the dominion OF civilization. True,
| there was no such instance In man. but
/ hoped better things of the unsophistt-
Gated nature of the Gorilla. He be-
came quiet, and went peaceably to the
/ ward, where / induced him to take a
few straw berries; but it was evident
| that the whisky had assuaged his gree
dy appetite. So far 1t was matter oil
/ economy.
i Finding the creature much impressed
| with his clothes, brushed of the dit
as well as could. thought now to
try another step. The habit of all ASH
attic and African peoples Is 10 squat on
their heels rather than to sit. had an
old settee on my piazza. This remov-
ed TO the yard, and proceeded to show
him how TO sit down. HequickIy learn
ed. Then lay down upon IT. that, too
he easily did. Finding him so tTacta-
BILE sat by him for awhile, trying some
a phonetic experiments: the great ques-
4 ton of Language Is vital, the superior
man being, as all know, ne aUho Gun tau
/ infinitely. L tried easy and expressive
words, somewhat resembling his ma
tive tongue, such as boo DOC, |" :" pooh
pooh !" he caught them at once and
4 more, he went ON saying, ." boo. boo,
pOoh.poOh," with rapfdIty and VIC
Ience rising to roar. could only ar
rest him by showing him the whisky.
flask, which he snatched and placed e
his lips. Finding, however, no whisky
in it, he handed it back, saying, Z" Pooh
pooh =! pooh. pooh"
was delightedi Such intelligence
"A new point OF resemblance to the low
er order Gilman:
SerenH-An empty whiskey bottle excite'
contempt.
At this time I wore in my cravat 8
large and snowy diamond pin, which
had-Well, got-while acting jas rail
road conductor some years before. II
caught his eye, and suddenly felt my
throat grasped i feared he was going
to strangle me. Not at all II was only
a sudden development OF passion ioE
ljeweIry. / did not regret the loss OF the
pin-nUt much-for it had cost me noun
ing, and IL now enabled me to note an
other point:
EToh0t-The Gorilla, like the man WI
snatch diamonds, II the opportunity oHeLs.
Inow approach the conclusion Of my
narrative. The effect of the oed-bug
poison-or of that and the Whiskey, and
the partial suffocation, and the SHARP