The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
How Wild Animals Are
BROUGHT Under Mans Power

the punishment as a Chinaman does In
battle, with no apparent expectation
| of anything different. The animal, dis
guSted. leaves the stick and launches
himself at the trainer. The trainer,
small and delicate woman as she is.
meets the charge with GOODNESS and
that quiet reserve force which STANDS
all trainers in such good stead. The
broom stick is not her only Weapon.
She has another--an iron prong, heavy,
thick, and with a point dull enough to
leave whatever skin it touches un-
ilacerated, but sharp enough to remind
any animal that he is in poor business
in an attack on it, when held in the
hands of a determined trainer. The
prong is attached to the end or SUCK
much larger and longer than the hrst
| stick, and against that combination the
animal throws himself. He comes our
of the encounter with a cewed air, and
an added respect for the small woman
| who held it, He sinks again into his
corner, but allows himself to be finally
coaxed out and stroked with the very
stick which had resisted his first spring
| in such decided manner.
FINALLY, the stick is laid on the fteor,
and after much persuasion the amman
| is induced to walk over it, which ne
does, Kissing and snarling. He is led
| over it again and again, and fails to
/ notice that each time the stick is raised
a little from the floor. until finally he
| finds, somewhat to his surprise and
discontinue that when he walks over
the stick he has to make quite spring
! in order to get over it at all. Before
| this stick incident is finished, he jumps
over a stick raised as high as chair"
An Eye Out for Treachery.
That these cat-like creatures have
more latent power in their claws than
| the ordinary tabby, is related IN THIS
| incident:
"There are, of course, cases where the
females act swiftly and suddenly Watn-
out treacherous motives. and this
makes them even more dangerous, foe-
cause one never can tell when this. may
| happen. At Philadelphia, some years
ago, we had an illustration of this, and
of what a terrible and lightning like
n7 ;aouar Gazl~ei = 'i':5 ii,@ffa*.
magnificent female, had been rehears-
ing some fancy leap from shelf to shelf,
and as a finale was to jump from q pro-
lection from the side of a cage, about
seven feet high, to wooden ball some
| 10 feet distant, and maintain herself
| upon the ball until a given signal from
the trainer-a most difficult feat.
"The graceful creature measured the
distance carefully for few moments,
keeping her eyes fixed on the ball. and
stretched her slender neck forward to-
| ward the goal before essaying the leap,
| Then she launched herself. That leap
was study in beauty of form and
grace of motion, but there was slight
miscalculation. The jaguar landed on
the ball, but after clinging desperat teiy
for q moment to the oscillating sphere,
fell to the ground. landing in crouch
fhn
could follow, there was motion of the
paw, and the wooden ball weighing
nearly 100 pounds, sailed across the
stage and hit the bars with an impact
| that shook the entire structure as an
earthquake would have done. frighten-
J ing the pair of lions and the leopard
who shared the cage almost to a
| frenzy. It is the possibility that at
any moment a blow of that caiber
/ may land on him which effectua1Iy pre-
vents the trainer from experiencing
any feelings of ennui when in the cage
| with wild animals" ~ -.ss
Capturing Lion in Sewer 49,
Of exciting escapades with wild ami
mails the book Is spiced between the
readable pages telling the scientific
| facts about their characteristics. One
story relates the escape and capture of
a fierce lion, who ran through the
! streets of Birmingham, Eng, when 200,-
600 people were in the city for a fair.
| Bostoek, by a clever ruse, prevented a
| panic AS the lion took refuge in a
sewer, he sent wagon to the outlet Of
the sewer, with a cencealing tarpaulin
over it. After much turmoil in the
sewer, the doors of the wagon were
suddenly opened and shut and the tar
paulin was removed. Inside was a
monstrous lion, which fact a1layed the
terror of the city. The lion had beenin
the wagon all the time. At midnight
200 police, gang of sewer workers. an
intrepid boar hound and the fearless
trainer fought the lion through the
sewer into a moose.
"As we went Slowly and cautiously
along, l suddenly saw two cleaning
eyes of greenish red just beyond he
writes of the experience, ''and knew
we were face to face with the lion at
last. 1 at once sent one man back to
| about the location of the runaway to
the others and then, dropping on all
fours. blowing horns, firing off blank
cartridges and letting off Roman can
dles-which spat and fixed in a most
| uncanny manner in the tunnel-we
went cautiously forward. hoping to
drive the lion to his cage, only two
/ blocks away. But at this juneture
terrific fight took place between the
I
less to say that the danger to all par
| ties under these circumstances in that
| narrow, dark sewer was extremely
| great.
1t was not until the boar hound had
| been severely slashed and torn by the
! lion on his shoulders and hind quarters
1 and his head badly bitten in several
/ places, that he left his savage iantag-
| onist and came to me with whiinpef
for protection. He had held on until
! he was at his last gasp, and had let
go only just in time TO save his life.
4 sent him back to the men to be taken
care of, and then went on with the fight
4 myself. Taking off my big iack-beots,
/ put them on nay hands and arms, and
! going UP close to the lion, was fortu-
/ nately able to hit him a stfnging blow
| on the nose with one of them. Fear
| ing that he would split my head open
! with a blow from one of his huge paws.
told one of my men to place over my
head large iron kettle which we had
used to carry cartridges and other
things to the sewer. While he was try
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