The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-09
HE KEEPS UP THE STOCK.
While His Wife Travels With Do"
Show, He Does Training at Home.

Speaking of queer ways Of making a
living" said a popular character actor
who was in this city last week, 'I nm re-
minded of a quaint little experience of
my own d few days bdfore our company
see a friend, who runs a vaudeville agency
the other side OF Madison Square he con-
tinued 'anl not finding him on the
premises 1 sat down in his private Office
to wait. Presently a broad-Shouldered,
swarthy man suuntered in, leading three
tine-looking dogs by a chain and also took
a chair in the back office. Naturally we
fell into conversation and he told me thut
he was q professional dog-trainer for
vaudeville entertainments. MY wife and
brother-in-law does the exhibiting he
said, mentioning a tenn that 1 reme,n-
bered having seen on variety bills, and
I does the educating. When they are
on the road I always have at least two
new dogs in hnnd so if anything happens
to the old ones we wouldn't run short
Of stocks That struck me as being
a very curious vocation and I asked the
trainer a good many questions. In re-
ply he gave me a lot Of interesting details
df the busness-how the dogs of the same
species will differ widely in intelligence:
how tricks are impressed on their memory
DE 81 series OIL cues. 1lIli no" lIe pest OI
them viii sometimes forget their entire
repertoire for an evening at a time and
cover the Snowman with shame. I re-
marked incidentally that 1 would imagine
the animals would be most apt to obey
the man who trained them. and asked
whether itIwouldn't be an advantage for
him to take them on the road himself.
My wife understands EN- all right
enough ne said, and I want to stay at
home and keep up the stock. I was in
the profession once he added gloomily,
and I got enough OF it. This racing up
and down over the country don't suit me-
Just then my friend came in, and as
the trainer turned TO greet him I got a
good look at his face for the first time.
He had been sitting with his bnck to the
light, and I only knew in a general way
that he was very swarthy. but l now saw,
to my surprise, that his cheeks and fore
head and even his nose wer heavily pit
ted with black spots, like those made by
a powder explosion. Who is that MANI
J. asked after he had secured some mail
and departed. Why, TINT s., said
my friend the greatest trick dog-trainer
in the business. He picked it UP himself
a few years ago, and now he's getting
rich He seems to have met with some
accident said l. Whit is the matter
with his face?' ooh, that's tattooingr re-
piled my friend laughing. He used to
be a tattooed man in a museum, and WIS
fool enough to have the stuff put all over
his face. Since he's set uo as a train
er he has tried every way in the world
to get it out, but has only succeeded in
spreading the marks This struck me
as being by long odds the most aston
ishing combination Of occupations I ever
heard OF. Tattooed man and proprietor
elf trick-dogs-two excellent ways of liv-
ing without work. I'm going to cultivate
that gentleman when l return said the
actor thoughtfully. ''He must be a re-
markable character. New Orleans Times
Democrat.