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The herald., 1896-06-28
SANTA CATALINA'S GRAY WHALE

AVALON, June 23.-One of the great
est events of the season so far in fishing
circles has been the towing of the Califor
mia gray whale Chat was killed by
sword fish), weighing any where from
so to 100 tons, from San Nicholas island
to Santa Catalina. The whale is worth
from $1,000 to $500. The fishermen will
probably reap a harvest by rowing peo-
pie around to it. Then will come the
oil, perhaps twenty or thirty barrels,
then the whale bone, which will sell to
curiosity hunters, and finally the skel-
eton, which if preserved and cleaned
ought to bring $400 or $500 from some mu-
scum, in default of which it will be cut
UP into yellOWtail gigs. So dead whale
has its value after all. Towing whale
in a seaway is no fun, and when under
way the animal looked like big tor
pedo boat all awaSh, the seas making
a clear breach over 1t. The sea was par
ticularly heavy at night, and when sur
rounded by vivid phosphorescence the
huge creature looked like some fantas
tic animal Of the imagination rolling
in fire. Every roller sent the big beast
carreening down on the boat and the
fishermen crossed themselves more than
once as they saw the monster coming
down on them-but it was finally towed
into Silver canyon bay In safety and is
now the center of attraction of the Ava
lonites, who go around in boats and
and launches to view its marvellous di-
mensions, the biggest animal on top of
the earth, while many more make the
trip over the beautiful trails and have
the novel experience of visiting a whale
on horseback. A whale is always a
genuine curiosity. not alone because it
is the largest of all animals living or
dead. but for many reasons, among
which is the fact that it is the animal
that swallowed Jonah, though 1t is fair
to assume that it was not this kind Of
a whale, as it's throat is but two or three
inches across. The whale is the great
natural whale-bone and oil manufactory,
an animal that now swims but that
at one time had four legs. Its the
most wonderful animal on earth," said
a man who knew all about it. "Think
of $50 tons of solid flesh, as that is what
a big one weighs, with a coating of fat
or blubber sometimes four feet
thick, accumulated not for revenue only,
for the candlestick maker but to keep
the big beast warm when he wanders
into the deep sea, where the water is
almost freezing cold. Where the whale
came FROM" continued the speaker, mo
one knows, but there is reason to be-
lieve that millions Of years ago his an
cestors lived in shallow water and crawl
ed about with four flippers and a long
TAIL We know this. as should this whale
be cut open we would find the remains
of the hind legs. Most people think
whale is a fish, but he is in reality
water, milk-giving animal, and every
fish-lil1e thing about him is the general
shape of the animal and the fish-like
TAIL which, however, is attached hori-
zontally instead of vertically. The tail
is the locomotive organ. the fins or flip
pers being merely balancers. The
stranded animal is o California gray
whale, known to the whalers as the
devil fish, on account of its temper. 1t
is the whale commonly seen in the
Santa Catalina channel. the one that
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A GENUINE "MOWGLI" FOUND IN INDIA

rem to live as they do. If the little fell
low Is strong enough to fight his way
| through and secure the nourishment
| necessary to exist, he lives. 1t would
seem that they frequently die of starva-
| ton or as the result of bites inflicted
| by other members of the family.
There is one of these man-wolves now
in the Secundra orphanage, near Agra
India. correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun recently visited the orphanage, saw
the curiosity, and learned much of the
| history of the remarkable being. The
| facts have been alluded to by travellers
| before, but no authentic story of the
| case has been published previously.
| The correspondent secured the infoma-
| ton from DR.. c. S. Valentine, the prin-
| cipal Of the Agra Medical Missionary
| Training institute, who vouched for the
| truthfulness of the history.
| 1t was in the spring of 1867 that the
man-wolf was first seen. A party Of ma
| tives were hunting game in the jungles
of Bulandshahr In Northwestern India.
| These jungleS are extensive and unfre-
| quented and TEEN with wild beasts. 1t
| is in such places that the scene of Kip
| ling's Jungle Book Is laid, and in them
| the wild animals are seldom molested,
adm they are a law unto themselves.
| Native hunters prowl around the edges
and rarely enter the dense jungles any
| distance.
THE BOY FOUND IN A CAVE.
| While looking for game the natives
| discovered a stray wolf. They followed
her to her den on top of small hillock
| Near the den was large rock, and on
| top of this was curious. dark-looking
| object AIS the hunters approached, 1t
| rose and the startled natives saw that
| it was half-grown boy. The uncouth
youngster ran away on all fours and
entered the cave with the wolf which
| he'd been pursued.
| alarmed that they returned to the village
OF Bulandshahr and reported what they
had seen to the magistrate, who advised
| them to return and try to capture the
| child. A party was formed and the
| hunters led the way to the hillock. A
| fire was built at the mouth of the cave,
| so that the smoke would enter the orr
| fice After waiting for some time the
wolf ran out and was killed. Almost
simultaneously the child dashed out, and
| after some difficulty was captured.
| The boy fought desperately He bit
and scratched, and before he was over
powered and securely bound several Of
the natives had been bitten and two or
three of them had received ugly wounds.
| The wild thing had enormous strength
and was as fierce as any wolf Even
after he was tied the little fellow snarled
! and snapped at anyone that approached,
| and it was with much difficulty that he
was carried to the village.
| FRIGHTFUL APPEARANCE.
The boy seemed to be about seven or
eight years old, but had three times the
| strength of the usual boy of that age
His head was covered with mat of
| hair, which fell down over his face His
body was indescribably unclean. He
moved on all fours and could not be in
| duced to stand erect. There was quite
| growth of hair on the body, which
was covered with scars. The head was
| small and the brow low and receding.
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The eyes were greyish and constantly

The eyes were greyish and constantly
in motion. They constantly squinted,
which gave the boy a mean look. The
face was small, thin and wrinkled, and
two cicatrices on the cheeks told Of deep
bites that had at some time been infiict-
ed Evidently the poor creature had
been roughly used and had been COM
PEELED to fight many times for food and
life
Some days after the boy was captured
the magistrate sent him to the Secun-
dra orphanage. AS he entered that in
stitution on Saturday he was named
Sanichar, and by that name he Is still
known. For long time after he was
placed in the orphanage he refused to
act like human being He persisted in
eating his food from the ground, picking
up vegetables with his lips and gnaw-
ing raw meat from the bones with his
teeth. He ate like carnivorous animal,
and when supplied with clothes tore
them into shreds and refused to wear
them.
DEAF AND DUMB AND REMAINED
so.
When captured, it was soon learned
that Sanichar was deaf and dumb. This
rendered the teaching of the boy more
difficult. AS no teacher was available
who had had experience with deaf
mutes, little was attempted in teaching
him. He was left alone to grow as he
pleased. He gradually dropped some Of
his old habits and became partially CIV
ilized, bue he remained mute and NOR
ose.
He has consented to wear clothes, and
will eat off a. plate. But he refuses to
use knife or fork, preferring to convey
the food from his plate with his fingers.
He has learned to walk erect, but he
occasionally drops on all fours, in which
position he can move with remarkable
speed. When standing erect, he is five
feet two inches high. When walking
he lifts his feet high. like string
halted horse. or as though he were
wading through wet grass.
When awake he is. always moving,
and his eyes have a restless appearance,
as though he were expecting an attack
from an unseen enemy. When he walks
all the muscles Of his body jerk, and he
swings his arms as though they materi-
ally assisted him. His head Is con-
stantly turning from one side to the
other, and when he looks straight at
an object, his head Is turned to one side.
is ABLE TO EXPRESS SOME WANTS
Although he makes no effort to talk.
Sanichar is able to express some of his
wants. When hungry he utters few
scarcely audible sounds and pounds his
belly. Then he understands some mo-
tionS which the attendants make to
him, and when thus signaled will walk,
sit down or run.
If he had been properly taught by a
person who understood the manage
ment of deaf mutes, it is probable that
something could have been done with
him. He was certainly more promis-
ing subject than Laura Bridgman, who
was deaf, dumb and blind, and yet was
educated.
Sanichar is now about thirty-six years
old, and the conditions Of his early life
must always remain mystery He is
docile enough now, but his eyes always
have a hungry look, and he is suspicious
of every one.
DR.. Valentine has studied Sanichar a
great deal, but is unable to makesmuch
of him. What he knows, however al
most makes q person believe in the
legend Of Romulus and Remus, and the
poor, haR-savage creature Sauichar II
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paddles up and down the coast especially
in summer, and which takes to the la
goons of Lower California in early
spring to produce its young. Only those
who make the passage day after day on
the Hermosa have any idea Of the num-
ber of whales which pass Los Angeles
county every week. The California
grays are now going north and the cap
tain Of the steamer rarely sees less than
three or four. so it will be seen that the
channel is a favorite feeding ground for
the monsters.
The truth is Southern California is on
the line of whale migration, the big
fellows going north in the summer, re-
turning down the coast again in early
fall, which accounts for the numbers
seen.
The Santa Catalina channel is partic-
ularly rich in whale food, jellies and
other minute animals. This can be ap-
preciated at Avalon bay, where, by look
ing down into the water where the sun
strikes it, it will be seen to be full
of animals. The whale at Silver canyon
has hanging from his upper jaw num-
ber of plates, calling to mind Venetian
blind tipped up on end. In the back part
of the mouth they are two feet in length
and near the muzZle very short. These
plates are fringed, and, as one of the
boatmen who rows people to the whale
and expounds upon it's mysteries, says:
"It has whiskerS in it's mouth fit to give
1t the toothache." But these are not
whiskers, nor are they gills, as some
think, but simply food catchers," the
whalebone of commerce. The throat of
this SO-ton whale is but two inches
across, so that whatever goes in must
be in the nature of mush, and Jellyfishes
and other microscopic animals bill the
bill. In feeding the whale opens his
mouth and swims along, the swarms of
animals passing in with the water. The
latter runs out through the fringes, but
the animals are held in the net. When
the mouth is full it is closed; up comes
the tongue that will fill a cart and the an
inrals are twister into jelly and pass
down the throat. The whale drinks
hundreds of gallons of this nectar daily
and is obliged to, as nearly all the Jellies
are but ninety-five per cent solid mat
ter. This Is the animal that Is supposed
to drink in water and send 1t spinning
out Of it's nose in playful mood so pro-
ducing the spouting Almost every pat
ron of Catalina has seen the act and be-
lieves it. The spout of q seventy-foot
whale at a distance of a mile looks like
phantom ship. and when near at hand
the water can be distinctly seen falling.
The evidence is all there, but it is mis-
leading. The so-called spout is not
water taken in at the mouth. If we
examine the whale we shall see spout
hole at the top of the head-the nostrils
placed here instead of at the end of the
head, so that the whale can breathe with
out rising high above the water. The
whale can hold its breath for over an
hour, but the gray generally breathes
once in ten minutes, when it rises, ex-
pels the air from it's lungs, where it has
been in close proximity to blood with a
temperature of 104 degrees When the
breath strikes the cold air it condenses
rain, with mucous and whatever water
has been over the blowhole and forced
into the air. A whale can no more take
The herald., 1896-06-28
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Grant Allen, it is said by those who
know him WELL invariably looks as if he
were just recovering from a severe ILL
ness.
Aubrey Beardsley is said to be in the
last stages OF consumption. He is only
"a year younger than Keats was when
ne succumbed to the same insidious dis
ease.
At the time of it's great popularity
Brick PomeroyS Democrat earned its
proprietor as much as $1,000 day. The
Democrats letter mail was the everit OF
the day at the La Crosse postoff1ce.
Minister Matt Ransom says American
capital is building up Mexican pros
perity. OF President Diaz he says: "A
wiser and better chief magistrate never
guided the destinies of a nation"
Baron Rothschild includes in his Per-
sonal characteristics the reply Of the
Marquis de Bievre to Louis XIV. II hear
that you make jokes on every subject.
well, make one on me-" "Your majesty
is not a subject"
Princess Henry of Battenberg shares
the musical tastes of her family, and has
good deal of skill in composition. She is
now writing an oratorio, which she be-
gan at CimieZ, at the suggestion, it is
said, of the queen.
1t is now stated that the painter Franz
Won Lenbach, formally renounccd II.
Catholic faith, not from any religious
scrupleS, but on account of suit for
divorce instituted by him. He is mar
ried to a Countess Moltke.
Rev. Thomas Hill, who is said to be
the oldest Nonconformist minister in
England in active sirvice, has retired,
after a ministry of f1fty-seven years.
the last thirty-two of which were spent
as pastor of the Congregational church
of North Finchley.
ctorxy ic fold on Py1cooII Co era - +to
effect that a lady went to him few
days ago with a subscription book and
asked his assistance for worthy char
ity. Mr.. Sage took the book, ran quick
ly through the list of names and saw
that Mrs. Russell Sage was down for
$25, so he promptly took his pen In hand
and put "Mr. and" before Mrs. Russell
Sage. n.
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living proof that Rudyard Kipling's
Mowgli has existed in fact as well as in
Injured by His Friends

It has remained for the Chronicle of
San Francisco to place William McKin-
ley before the people of the country as
hypocrite and imposter. 1t is not to
be presumed that our contemporary,
whose proprietor is to be made a men,
Der Of McKtnley's official family in the
event of tue Ohio mans success, did
this Intentionally, but it has done it
nevertheless, and that very effectually.
In an editorial published in it's issue Of
last Friday occurred the following pas
sage:
'The friends of silver cannot be ignor-
rant of the fact that Mr.. Mckinley is
not owned by Wall street, and they
may be assured that the white metal
will be kindly treated by him. He has
always been friendly to silver. He vot
ed for the Bland-Allison bill, and mani
tested disposition to go even beyond
it's provisions, and no word against sill
yer was ever uttered by him in con-
gress. Like Lincoln, he is in close SYM
pathy with the people. AS their SER
want, not as their dictator, will he enter
the White House, and their behests
will be needed wherever the general
judgment is made manifest"
The Republican nominees wabbly
record on the monetary question may be
left out of consideration entirely in
commenting upon this very peculiar
paragraph. Whatever his record, he has
been nominated by the Republicans on
a straightforward gold platform, and
Is bound by every consideration of hon
or to carry out its provisions. While
we look upon Mckinley as a weakling,
and a man of small mental caliber, we
must hesitate to believe that he would
prove so recreant to party principles as
to go back on his pledge in the manner
indicated in the Chronicle paragraph,
and that paper owes him an apology.
Should Mr.. Hanna's man be elected
there is no doubt in our mind that his
management of the country's finances
will be in accord with the views of Wall
street. He will not treat silver kindly"
because he is pledged not to do so, and to
say that he will is to accuse him of
double dealing, than which there Is no
more despicable offense.
If this is a specimen of Mr.. De Young's
management, we very much fear Mark
Hanna made q mistake in giving him
charge of McKinley's campaign on this
coast. The silver men are already
alienated, and the Chronicles stupid
course is liable to ALLEVIATE the gold vote
also. What confidence, indeed. can
either side have in the man when he Is
represented as favoring both the gold
standard and the bimetallic Standard
Stockton Mail.
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I'm glad to see that one thing has
been brought to the attention Of con-
gress," said the man who is perpetually
indignant.
What do you mean?"
''The necessity for universal stand
ard of weights and measures. What we
want right away Is some scheme that'll
make fifty pounds of ice weigh just as
much in July as it does in April.
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The Only Son lay down again and dreamed
that he dreamed dream.
The last ash dropped from the dying nre
with the click of a falling spark,
And the Only Son woke up again and called
"Now. was / born Of womankind and laid
Tor I have dreamed Of a shaggy hide
whereon went to rest:
And was born of womankind and laid on
For Z have dreamed of long white teeth
that guarded me from harm.
Oh. was born of womankind. and did
For I have dreamed Of playmates twain
that bit me to the bone.
And did break the barley bread and steep
For have " dreamed Of a youngling kid new
An hour sit it lacks and an hour it lacks to the
rising of the moon.
But can see the black roor-peams as plain
,ris q laague ana a league to the Lena
Fails, where the trooping sambhur go.
,ris q league and a league to the Lena
Fails, where the crop and the upland
But can smell the warm, wet wind that
whispers tlfrougA the wheat.
to White M m men. I by Rudyard Kipling. in
McClure's Magazine.
Mowrli, in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle
Book, Il. not entirely imaginary. 1t Is
not q particularly unusual thing for
wolves to steal babies in India. and after
taking the infants home to raise them
with their own whelps.
That was the story of Mowgli. He
grew up with the wolves as foster pa
rents, learned all about the other AMI
mails and their habits. and became ia
niliar with the bandar-log folk. the
monkeys. The analysis Of the bandar-
log characteristics in the Jungle Book
suit many people as accurately as does
any character in fiction. Mowgli was
an inouisitive child, and as he was al
ways asking questions and was fortu-
nate in securing and remembering the
answers. he learned a vast deal about
all the wild inhabitants of the jungle.
In this respect Mowgli differed from
the wolf-men of fact. A few of them
have been captured in India. None of
them has been intelligent. and most of
them have apparently been idiotic. They
were absolutely lacking in intelligence,
and efforts to teach them have been fu-
tile. Mr.. Kipling departed from strict
accuracy when he made Mowgli as
bright and as inquisitive as boy raised
at home, but in the essential features of
the story the character Of the wolf-boy
is reality.
Children are frequently stolen by
wolves In India, but few Of them are
raised, and none of them ever had such
surprising and interesting adventures
as fell to the lot of Mowgli.
STOLEN CHILDREN USUALLY DE-
VOURED
AS a rule the children that fall VIC
tins to the thieving propensities of the
wolves are devoured, and that is the
end Of them. But occasionally the whim
apparently seizes the wolf-mother to
turn the boy loose with her other child
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The scarlet fuchsia is symbolic of good
tast.- There is nothing prettier than a bel
hue being admirably 1 set Off by the m rreen 1as,p
of their foliage.
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Thomas Slater has message for
every man on page 2S. Don't fail to
read 1t.
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