Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-22

would forever show should I become
too weak to keep the apes jaws from
Off my face.
Now the fiferail was studded with
iron Delaying pins, placed there for
the purpose of Delaying the crossjack
braces. Cne of these, luckily, was
free. pat mp my left arm and with
it forced Jacko's head against tEe
wooden rsil; then seizing the iron be-
laying pA with my free hand, I raised
it aloft and brought it down upon
Jacko's brow with all the strength
could muster.
The second mate, wondering why
had not returned to report upon the
side lights, and thinking 1 had prob
ably eat down somewhere and gone to
sleep, came down the poop ladder
bringing with him one of the poop
buckets; these, by the way, were al
ways kept hung up at the fore part of
the poop, and in hot weather were kept
filed with water to prevent the wood
from becoming too dry. 1t was the
mates unkind intention to rouse me
in the time -honored fashion by drench-
ing me with its contents. Creeping
stealthily along the deck, he came to
the main fiferail, where he saw in the
moonlight sight which caused him
to change his intention.
He told me afterwards he could
never forget the sight even if he lived
to be hundred. Jacko was lying
stretched across the coil of the Gather
crossiack brace, my body being face
downward, stretched across Jacko's,
and pool of blood marring the
whiteness of the deck and making
CHASTITY the sight of our two apparent
ly inanimate forms.
Jacko recovered from the effects OF
the blow l gave him. He was pre-
sented, l believe, to the Palace menag-
erie at New Brighton, where, for all
I know to the contrary, he is to this
day. AS for me, l bear the marks of
his teeth upon me yet, and shall be
glad to show them to such Wide World
readers as care to call upon me be-
tween voyages at my home, near Man
chester. They are rather faint upon
my shoulders, but on my hand is a
scar three -fourths of an inch long and
one-fourth of an inch broad. Two of
the scars upon my left forearm each
measure half an inch in length, and
the distance between tnem is two and
quarter inches--a striking proof OF
the size of Jacko's jaws.
Thinking that Wide World readers
would like to know what became OF
Jacko, we instructed Mr.. Frederick
Bolton, the authors father, to make
inquiries about the ape at the Palace,
New Brighton. We append Mr.. Boil
tons report:
81 made my way there and found
the place closed during the daytime,
it being the off season, but hunted
up the caretaker. l explained to him
what l was after.
His reply was: 4 should think
do remember the brute. You see that
fnger?' he went on, showing me a
mutilated finger-the middle finger of
his right hand. I was going my
rounds one day and was trying the
gate of his cage when he sprang at me
like lightning and had my finger in
his ugly mouth like wise before l
knew what he was up to. You can
see for yourself, sir, the mess he made
of it. Another time, continued the
caretaker, 'the brute got out of his
cage. and it took all the fellows about
the place to cage him again. When
he first came they put him in with the
other monkeys, but he killed number
of them, SO he was placed in special
cage by himself. About II months
ago he got so full of rheumatism that
they drowned him..
GLOW high did he stand?' 1 asked.
" Well, SIR replied my informant,
you seldom saw him stretched full
length, but he was, l should say. from
three feet to three feet six inches.
Wide World Magazine.