Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-19

Trying to Capture the Runaway-An Old
Arab Expert Undertakes the Job-His
Novel and Successful Methods of oper-
alton.
During a recent railway accident in a
pass of the Sierra Morena,a valuable mon
key escaped from the cars of Brentano's
circus, and ia spite Of immediate pursuit
managed To vanish in the cliffs of the
rocky mountain slope. Ii was trained
bsboon, valued at 60 pesos, and, as the
wreck of the engine involved delay Of
I several hours, half hundred persons led
/ by the circus men and the employees of the
Spanish railroad. iulued IN the search but
only made matters worse, for the first
! attempt to capture the fugitive resulted
: In hreak-neCk chase, in which the ma
/ tive of the Abyssinian highlands easily dis
/ tanced the swiftest purSuerS. They had
caught a sight of him IN pile of loose
! bowlders. searching Tor insects with the
gravity of a professional naturalist and
managed to approach HIM within fife en-
steps when he thought it was time to beat
retreat, but al so lelsurely n gait that n
young mOuntalneer conceived the fatuous
idea Of trying to run him down.
Seeing that his pursuer was III earnest.
the fourhander, too. mended his pace-sO
much so, indeed. that his would be cap
tors found ii impossible To keep even in
sight OF him, and returned after having
stampeded him nearly mile down the
steep mountain side. The BrentanO folks
had already given him up for lost, when
an old Arab, the trainer of the camel
team, demanded an interview with the
managers, and induced them to intrust
him with one of the baby monkeys of the
circus menagerie. After ChuCking the
yOungster into a sack and filling his pock-
cts with dried fruit, he started down hill
without explaining his plan of procedure
but with the promise that he would be
back an hour after dark. Messengers had
been dispatched TO the next telegraph
station, and the travellers were grouped
around camp-tires and cabOOse stoves
when a series of cheers at one of the out
door bivUuacs announced a welcome arri-
val with such emphasis that some of the
passengers made rush for their sachels.
HIS MopUs OPERANDL
1t was the Arab, leading the old bah
OOn, who in his turn had charged himself
with the care Of the yOungster. every now
and then snatching HIM up in his arms or
helping him o er the obstacles of the path.
The three night-walkers at once became
the center of the biyOuac circle, and the
biped proceeded to explain his modus op-
erandL With his leather strap he had
tied the yOungster to a thorn bush Of
the lower mountain slope, near point
where the footprints OF the young noun
talneer indicated the terminus of the re
cent steeple-chase Then, bidding him
goodbye, he commenced the ascent of the
cliff rs If he inteded to leave him To his
fate. As nc expected, the young monkey,
after desperate attempt to tear his fet-
ters and follow him, began TO screech out
his signal of distress. He was a native Of
eastern Hindostan. but monkeys Use a
cosmopolitan language, and in less than
fifteen minutes the distant relative of the
chained babOOn babe in the woods peeped
around the cliff, and, seeing the coast
Gear, at once made up TO the screeChing
brat and hugged him as if he was trying
to silence him by process of suffocatlon.
All that while the Arab was hiding be-
hind a tree, blding his time till twilight
had pretty wei advanced, when ne
quickly approached the thorn bush and,
without the least opposition on the part
of the senior foTrThander, removed the
strap from the neck of the yOungster and
transferred it to that Of his companion,
who seemed not only ready, but anxious,
TO return TO the shelter Of his boarding
house on wheels. Monkeys, explained
the Arab, are the most gregariOus Great |
ures on earth, and the prospect of having /
10 pass the night in solitary bush-camp |
had reconciled the runaway To the re
straints of social life in circus cage
DR.. Felix L. Oswald.