The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-01

ment all day Saturday. Shortly after
noon the keeper on watch hurried to DR..
Beams office and reported that Settler
had just got rid of some foreign sub
stance through the blow hole Dr. Bean
found the foreign substance floating on
the face of the water. He saw at once
that 1t was a piece of eel.
Now" said the doctor to the keeper"
81 know what's the matter with him. He's
been eating more cells than his stomach
could digest. He's like many young
things. His eyes were bigger than his
stomach. The undigested cells made him
ill-nauseated him. He tried to throw
them off. In doing so piece got stuck in
the blowhole. All this wheeling that we
have heard was caused by the attempts
the poor fellow has been making to get
rid of that piece of eel. Now he'll be all
right"
lust as DR.. Bean finished speaking the
whale came to the surface again, and he
seemed to wheeze louder than ever DR..
Bean watched him, and watched him when
he came up again. This time the doctor
exclaimed:
"Jehosaphat! A whole eel must have
lodged in the blow hole. There's still
piece hanging from it. Draw off the wa
ter as quickly as possible and Wen try to
help the poor boy"
"If we do that, doctor. he's liable to
scratch himself to death on the thing at
the bottom of the tank" remarked one OF
the keepers.
Wen have to take that chance" re-
Dlied DR. Bean. 1--WE must do something
and DO 1t in a hurry, or he'll be dead"
As soon as possible they began to let the
water out of the tank. This was a slow
process and the afternoon had worn away
and evening had come and yet the water
in the tank was not low enough for any
one to reach a helping hand to Seltzer. All
any one could do was to stand by and
watch the exasperating slow fall of the
water. Every time the whale came to
the surface the keepers would shout to
him word of encouragement and hope.
"Cheer up, old boy! Hang on a little
longer and Wen bear you a hand!' the
men cried DIR. Bean insisted yesterday
afternoon that Settler understood all that
the men said to him.
why" said the doctor. 1.-The poor fell
low would look up every time any one
called to him, and he seemed to try to
wheeze a little louder, just to show that
he understood"
The clock In Trinity tower chimed s.
There was stlll two or three feet Of water
in the tank IL seemed to be running off
bit faster however, and the keepers re-
doubled their efforts to encourage the
whale In his life and death struggle.
About $50 one of the keepers remarked
that either the mammal had got rid OF
some more of the eel or else he had be-
come exhausted, as his wheeling was not
nearly so loud. The other men listened
when Settler came up again and they no
ticed that the wheeling had diminished.
Some of the men pulled out their watches.
There was only few inches Of water
covering the whales back, and II he could
hold out a little longer he would get the
help he needed With more and more dif-
hculty the whale got his far enough out
OF the water to blow. The men realized
that. unless there was an interposltion OF
providence. and that soon, their friend
would be beyond the reach OF their aid.
Al exactly S:45 there was a slight upward
movement OF the body. a feeble blow. and
the body Of SETTER sank to the bottom OF
the tank. His spirits had wandered of
TO the happy swimming grounds.
SETTER never told his age TO any one and,
therefore. no one here can do more than
guess how old he was. IL Is known, how
ever. that he was a young whale He was
horn near the mouth Of the Ouelle river.
a tributary TO the st. Lawrence, about
800 miles northeast OF Quebec. He and his
companion. possibly his mother were cap
turcd near the mouth OF the Ouelle last
juno by Canadian fishermen and both
whales were shipped 10 New York TheS
arrived NJ the aquarium on June s. MIX
as settlers companion was called. lived