The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-06-17

at any old intrusion the queer man may
wish TO infict.
1t is only then that the trainer ven.
lures inside the cage armed with the
yellow wand ana Il blacksnake whip.
In these latter days of progress an H..
cenious woman tiger trainer. with
more regard for twentieth century lux.
ury than the history of her profession.
used what is known as an ammonia
gun in teaching the tiger Il lesson,
The gun was simply rubber bail
supplied with a nozzle out OF which a
solution of diluted ammonia could be
squirted by pressing the bail.
1t is the blacksnake whip. however,
upon which the real tiger trainer de.
p2nds, rather than solution Of am.
monia TO ger into the eyes and nose
Of the splendid animal As he enters
the cage for the first time to fight the
attack which is certain to he made the
man carries with him a peculiar
weapon considering the nature of the
expected oncounter-a wooden chair of
the kind first used in introducing the
tiger to the elements OF civilization
Surprised beyond action hv the in
trusion Of the man tie tiger ut first
scouts listlcssly TO corner of the cage
to await what lie thinks is going to he
IN attack. For all of five minutes he
may be before he takes the initiative,
the trainer watching sharply ana eX
nccting every moment the terrific on.
slaught which will mean life or death,
Every thing in that climax OF the tigers
education depends upon the trainers
pluck and swiftucss. Ii he wins the
brute is conquered once and for all
practically: il lie fails. ii remains for
assistants outside the cage to help him
in his fight with pitchcorl;s and to get
him out OF the clutches of the mad.
dencd animal rs best they can.
1t is when the tiger crouches. ready
for the spring which invariably pre-.
cedes his attack. that the trainer is
on the edge as 10 the outcome. Watch.
ing closely without directly facing the
animal the man stands. The next in
stGnt there is 4 giant yellow body
shooting through the air. Before il
can land the man has jumped aside,
thrown his chair full 1T the head of
the wild beast and brings down his
b,ackSrake whip with cut that would
draw blood from the hide of an OK.
Then it IS ti'Cp to beat Il retreat and
to give the tiger time to eat the chair
ard to consider. as before.
Not until the day following, when the
lesson has been digested. does the same
continue For Il week or ten days it
may he necessary almost daily to re.
peat the dangerous experiment with
the chair and the blacksnake whip.
At the end OF that time the tiger mas
learned among o5hc? things. two: i'll
the first place. unless he begins the
attack the man will not hurt him, and
in the second. do what he may. the
intruder is his superior in cunning and
defense, for he can cut like Il knife
and see. as no enemy of tigers can,
from the back OF his head. Under the
circumstances it is necessary 10 be.
gin truce.
In time the man and the chair may
enter the den with impuhity, though
there il still another fight cue when
the man attempts to sit in The chair,
Familiarity which no tiger will allow
unroscnted in his presence unless he is
taught that he has to.
The battle between the punv man
and the blacksnGka whip on the one
side and the tiger on the other has
taken UP to this point about three
weeks Mt least, but now it is practically
finished. Finished. ut least, rs much
as it ever can be in the case of
tiger.
OF all tigers none IS probably less
diiliuclt TO train than the big. fine,
Siberian chap. the most gorScously
marked oe all the tiger family, and on
the whole the most powerful. With
it's enormous size there seems 10 be
combined the slightest trace of good
nature. common in most big things,
and this comes to the aid of the
trainer in ciyllizing the king OF cold
est Russia.
or the real Indian man-catin% type
OF tiger there is but one trained speci-
men in eXistence-that IN Ceylon, In
dia. One OF the tamest of the man
eating tigers is TO he found right in
this city at the Central Park menag-
erie Only Keeper billy" Snyder has
ever ventured in the cage of the big
Indian. and then only when the brute
had been first hound and made help
less, but from the outside Of the cage
the big cat delights in being petted
and rubbed and scratched by the keep
ers as they pass and repass daily in
front of its cage, Yet, daily. the ma
ture of the great animal crops out. For
two hours after it has been fed OH
the usual meal of raw meat all desire
for human companionship vanishes
out of the great. yellow one. and to
attempt to put hand in the cage at
this time would mean an attack.-New
York Comm ercial Advertiser
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