The Saint Paul globe., 1902-12-04
Sacrifice Fame and Wealth.

There follow a few incidents of his
intercourse with the monkeys of the
Philadelphia Geological gardens. These
stories are vouched fer by John Lover,
OF the staff of keepers, and by other
officers of the Philadelphia zoo.
Prof. Garner, in the presence of wit
nesses, approached the cage of q. Phil
adelpnia money and said: srWhoo-w'
Good.
The monkey turned instantly to it's
1000 tray, which lay in corner empty.
ano IL carried this tray to- Mr.. Garner,
and extended it between the bars to
hlm' repeating again and again the
word for food, ."Whoo-ws''
Going to another cage Prof Garner
safd:r
T will telIothis monkeyrte 60 and
take drink" He then called shrtily.
"Ch-ew-y," whefeupon r the monkey
gave him an inquiring, look, ran to its
dish of water and drank.
Now I will make the sound that
means great peril Is at hand. The
monkeys, on hearing this sound. will
all show abject fright. Afterward 7
will calm theIn1 with the sound that
means all is we'll" f,s, ~
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Prof. Garner took, his stan5 before !.
cage containing fifty monkeys. The
monkeys slept or fed themselves Ian
gulaly, eferwandered here and there
with an Indifferent look. 1ofH.--
| :. l-ecgk! I-ecgk! I-ecgk.. cried
the Professor, with a sharp whistIing
note IN his voice. And instantly al
t1ae monkeys began to cry @1-ecgk,' in
| cnofus, and to look about them with
quieK, frightened glanees and to crowd
Mltoly together IN the cages further
est corners. The panic, for two or
I tnree minutes, was 1ndescribabIe. and
then, IN a rich, gay, bold voice. Prof.
| Garner called:
I 'Nwah! Nwah." (AH is we1I1
AND Immediately the monkeyg came
forth from the corners where they
had erouched and crowded and after
a little uneasy chattering and recon-
Aoitering' look up the calm and Ian
guld therad Of their lives again.
Prof. Garner explained In Philade1-
phla how he came to undertake the
study OF the monkeys, and how he
discovered the Basic words of fhetr
tongue. He said:
In Cincinnati s5me fifteen years on
| l stood one afternoon idly watching a
nuge mandrill that was in one of the
cages OF the Cincinnati zoo and host
| or little monkeys that were in the cage
/ adjoining. TIE little monkeys. It was
plain, feared the naandriII Only from
one corner was he visible to them. and
| two OF their number, stationed In this
corner, watched Him all the time: thew
| seemed, indeed. to have been delegated
| TO that duty. I noticed that whef, the
mandrlH was sleeping the little watch
men passed to their mates a sound
Wofo-thst seemed to reassure them
and when the mandrill awoke and
| Ieaped about the watchmen uttered an
other word, and at this there was
mueh CONFUSION and anxiety in the
cage.
This incident assured me that mon
keys had a language, end 1 appEed
myself to the study of their Language
from that day
Ihe= monograph has been a great
| help to me in my work. It was not
dfHcult to learn the monkeys' few
words. 1 soon found, for instance.
that when you gave an ape food he
said 'Whoo-w,' and while he was eat
Ing he said, eWhoo-w,' and when he
was hungry he said, 'Whoo-w.' Also,
found that when I said 'Whoo-w' to
a monkey he ran to his food. if he
had any, and If he had none he brought
| me his empty plate with q beseeching
look. All that made me pretty certain
that 'whoo-w' was the monkey word
for food"
Monkey words, as Prof Garner uses
them, have chattering, wi1istling
character. They are very difficult to
pronounce. Though Prof. Garner has
been studying them fer fourteen years,
his accent, he ladnlits himself, is still
a.focioas-