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Show I How Man Eating Tigers Develop. There is a man eating tiger abroad now in the central provinces, India, which bad the temerity to attack the chief commissioner's com-missioner's advance camp and carry off a cook. This animal is still killing at the rate of about two persons a week, and reward of 200 rupees is on its head. Mot far off a man eating tigress has just been shot over a human "kill," at the foot of the Satpura hills, in the Balaghat district. Both these animals are believed to have been converted into man eaters by bullet wounds from the native matchlockfresh match-lockfresh instances of the mischief that Is done by the present system of rewards. A reward of fifty rupees is enough to Induce any villager. to try his luck at a pot shot, with the frequent result of converting con-verting a comparatively harmless animal Into a scourge of the country side. Where-is Where-is if the reward were removed the shooting shoot-ing would be left to the professional hunters, Who would still find abundant Inducement in the value of the skins and the fees they would get from the villagers villa-gers in cases where a tiger had become troublesome by his attacks upon cattle. Allahabad Pioneer. |