The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-02-13
JONES' WONDERFUL WHALE

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tells us OF any more of his ideas for
inventions. The last thing was his
ingenius notion OF putting hinges on
the trunks OF fruit trees, so that in |
case OF high wind they could be turn
ed down.
"You never perfected that plan,
did you, Jackson?" AndJones turn
ed toward the young man with great
apparentinterest
1.-THE thing could be DONE" an
swered Peters, as if Jones had cast
doubt on its practicability. "And it
would be great boon to the fruit
growers in draughty parts OF the
country. Lately I've been wonder.
ling that more progress is not made
by inventors in the submarine war
boats"
POSSIBLY you could get some ma
rine hints from an account OF my ex.
perience with the Leviathan Towing
and Transportation line, which |
worked in the late $685." admitted
Jones. "You remember the line,
Robinson?'
Robinson answered "ies' without
a blush.
"One night after went to bed, y
continued Jones, sit occurred TO me
that, though hundreds Of land ami
mails are of use to man while living,
not one of the sea animals has ever
, been put to any practical use till
: dead. 1t seems probable that the
most useful purpose to which living
E land animals were put by man was a
draft animal, OF which we may take
the horse and the OK as examples
Why were not the animals of the sea
used for draft purposes? | became SC
excited that lay awake all night
thinking about it IAe- res4lt-waS
the Lpviathan Towing and Trans
= portation line,
/. During all my life to think ha'
d been to act therefore YOU need moi
a be surprised to know that within ,
month | left Liverpool on charter
ed whaling steamer, looking TO
d whales. had decided that the whal
c was the animal most suited to III,
{ purpose. OF the coast OF Labrado
= we sighted a large school of whales
re Fortunately it was n graded schoo
so to say, consisting oftrue whale,
IN Greenland whales, humbacked whale
= fnbacked whales, spermaceti whales
is and so forth.
is We had considerable trouble i
g driving them at first, but rugged u
a foghorn with a reed. SO it woul
~ say shoe. and they soon learne
a what it meant, ard we worked thel
IL along down the coast by easy stages
I'd A good many of the more skittis
ran back, and / thought ut ene tin
that might have to send Il IN
s. ahead with a herring on the end OF
ID stick to coax them; but we final
&c got them down to GARDENERS ba,
Long Island, and grounded them
. the shallow water.
. ..Of course, it has always been sci
evident that the whale would make
splendid driving animal if he couI
=. be controlled The most importal
~ and hardest thing was clearly
it keep him from diving. carei
he study showed me that the wha
H. could not dive without first putin
n. his head down; therefore, all tn;
he was needed was u bearing rein sui
nj GENTLY strong to restrain him in tn;
respect.
an selected fine whale about 70 fe
;h- long. which | had noticed wasa goC
lst traveller, and proceeded to harne
at. him. Iput bit about 1 inches
- diameter in his mouth, with ten-fo
all check reins on either side. From I'll
bit,I ran hawser along his baC
TO and round his tail, where the fluk
t are Joined to the body. ] then p
1t on a large collar, attached a M
lily barge by 4-inch wire cables, and tut
i'd ed him toward deep water for a tri
10 spin.
Naturally, of course, that VIII,
did not take readily to harness.
reared up, rolled over, charged ahea
y. struck out fiercely with his fuk
In. blew a stream of water like an ar
,ci- sian well, and otherwise misbehav
md himself. His efforts to dive W
;sn something startling, but the beari
of rein held, and he finally gave it up
al | had wire-cable reins connect