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Show THE PROVO HERALD m Blood Curdling A Slogans . runj lighter than any . other. I acta s .... . 7 1 finder than OtllCTa amcl .' . - . CJFIIEE ; if more beautiful than -any other tFREB chf nVatxon A,heeailoh -- TO " than any otLer. J jrunjjex'-wbortakea- makes a more perfect than any otker, H :..titcn t ill UJL -K V- VE-- U ' derJ the river with a party of jnalivesr As I expected, the hippo's body was float- - absolutely worthless, ; thehattered collar-- bone.-"- I suppose Ing, but, unluckily for us, on the op-- : Speaking of carnivore and the other 4it:i afl posfte side bthe river; which ; was -fauna of Africa; let me aay' for the on top. of the fever, is too much;" He J teeming with crocodiles. I tried to benefit of the American writers, lee smiiea ana leu .back unconscious. persuaded some ofthe natives to go in turers and artiste wbo 7 wjsJo pre The natives who had fled returned, with a rope' and attach 4t so that we tend to a knowledge of African ani and we examined the five porters who could draw the .hippo overNo amount mal life that .there are no yaks, all) charge'- .- ITwowere of persuasion would induce them to V tire Geius of Hell got tbe' rhino's "r'"i" river. At tigers In Africa outside of a circus or badly IniurieA-- ' evSnpuOTierrerTn" u8ef"ur6ta"roeT - FREE SEWiNG MACHINE CO. ILLINOIS" CHICAG- O- u iifr ByCaptFritzDi last4xanateielsecl r nscTCTTOmwag-TBTTlCTeAnk The camp flies, listening to the dull, he kingdom monotonous droning of th& insects la could not have a more uncer- the trees, and seeing faces in the tain malicious and embers, .one7Tace especially, a kind, thin 7 face .crowned . with white balr jigly : brute than the I told her of Jappie, her T his weeping as rhinoceros, before" hunter" animal has. burled more hunters than " I dawn the to' struck earth. "turned all' other big game combined. It put some wood on the fire. Glaring Olafe Barton a.d(;Vll ual fof-ih- o.. ; cre-ate- d . . Provo . . Utah aonieaihTlehfii" Buy Busies not due to the fact that it seeks Its two green phosphorescent eyes-- 1 and rose. Like victim, but because its vfctim falls .seized my Luger pistol 5 SO., - it. caerikjjto BY THS I - fliiionger corrlgge ML Co. in Is an enemy about, it will try to get away without being seen. If, on the other handr it thinks thatjby keeping still it will be passed unnoticed, it , stays as silent and as motionless Gibraltar, Its little hog eyes watching the direction of the noise and its nose sniffing the" alrr Should "an enemy t Jifl. jshow jap .sudde.nly.Jn: rhino charges like a flash, nose down and horns leveled like swords for the thrust, its huge bulk crushing through' the brush like an express train. It is always a fight to the death, for a rhinoceros once in a flght wins or dies; and it mostly wins, If TtTis not onfroated - with an express -- rifle In little later the forest burst into thunderous roars,. Jt seemed could shoot. A to be full of Hons, which were attracted by the smell of the rhino's blood. De Villiers did not die. He came through it all. He now organizes hunting expeditions into East Africa ibeSeBdoI aoccjdtrdejiv-J- boots and all, and struck out for the hippo. 1 bad gone about a hundred strokes when a cry from tbe banVr caused me to look around, A col towarOiif Vthf bagb thOlue 1 water, 1 shiver of horror ran through me, for 20 yards behind, gliding silently could distinguish" the brown form of a crocodile. 1 ugb latter,-al-tho- - 9 $100,000. DIRECTORS: Seed Smoot ............... President V L. Holbrook, J. Wm. Knight, Roger Farrer, Geo. Taylor, Br, John R, Twelves. .kier. JOS. T. rARJLEJU C. E, Loose : . - General banking business transacted Safe deposit boxes for rent. . fan-"-tast- -- e -- waa-afral- d . - - -- buzzed noisily around our heads, and beautiful birds vying with one an other In brilliance of plumage sailed through, the airrJUUng tbe dismal for est jvlth their songa The 'constantly dripping sap spattered from leaf to leaf, soaking Into tb noxious earth. It was a scene, dread and fascinating, clamoring of life In t vttlng oue to .death. . Kagerajlver - iorinarwai'TOund" on a broken twig. After some hours we found the tree where the gorilla lived. We could tell It by the greasy appear- - ' ance of the bark, made so by the re -peated rubbing of Jbe gorilla's body."-W"cduIC TeTTby Tbe Tresh. mark s, with: sap still wet that the animal had recently ascended the tree. The scratch-.- . es were short and deep, showing that it bad lifted itself up and not slid "have-mad- e a" long, dowivhteh-wqui- d " shallow scratch, ".,. We spread a strong net around the " treetn"aclrcle" sloping upward on the" outer side," Around the top of the net there were drawn ropes from four held by half a dozen n atj ves hidden in the . bush, these were to e -- the inex- ' " ElectricCo. fieie-iTh- e- -- plicable barren patches that are scattered like freckles over theHace of Jthe tropical iXoresls. I bung our rifles on the limbs of the . trees which supported my sick comrade's hammock. "The porters Were collecting drywood for the night fires as" I watched a monster crocodile in tdgetfaer-nnd"bflag the the water making a futile effort to thus bag otir game. ' ' , ; wgtlow a fftend nearly as big as After waiting some hours tbe leaves A party of natives from a hear-- above rustled and then opened, as a by village was skinning a beast we male gorilla descended In another group bad shot and entered the trap. 1 my "boys" were opening the bundles THE FACE OF DE VILLIERS LOOKED OVER THE HAMMOCK. YELLOW signaled, the four ropes were pulled of camping necessities. A loud grunt, at once, and we bad our animal for followed by a Somali's cry, came and in all probability he will be one the water up on the sllppeFj carcass. the Boers, and so is the cheetah, Just a momentHe roared lh tury, twist-"from the Jungle side of the camp, and of the Roosevelt The exertion made my head swim. In as a panther is called a tiger in some party. and biting the ropes Intoinstant the; screeching- - Sominutes i; was myself again. - 1 parts ol . the United - States. The ing, Jumping, aIew" Rhino Treed The a natives Party. by Birthday plCes. wenrpolled about mali, followedlbyahugeThrnoceros which is zoologically like The next our apologized In silence to the black gen- striped animar dolls as he tried tojreach first one, continued burst through the undergrowth. The and tlemen on the river bank for doubting known as a tiger (tlgrls regalia) and then another' The Somali ran for a tree. He tripped march. We had not gone far when their courage. I had none left. I took which is the animal referred to in a Jtfmped about in excitement, professor news in of a native brought over an ammunition box the rhino " trying does hot my knife and cut a foothold on the number of recent stores, a, camera Infuriated passed him in Its blind fury : and rhino "spoor. I at once set' out In carcassTTaner then-- rockWiFrso"lbattniakeT'Itr habltatMn Africa,:- - as'the charged down on the"clump of por: "search dnfie" game. We were" not it would drift to the shore. Tbe writers seem to think. So When a T At last the mighty arms ofho-sr-ft ters, scattering them like , chaff be-- ten minutes" on the hunt when I me told a that a bole throughihe net and Hlbroke fore- One was tmshed t smelled ihe pecnliarT3(?r oObe rhino: from trains hit the crocodile ihthe head. tigers seizing passengers he tore the rest from him :ar thougb dowm Another-wh't had stumbled which sometimes s very" atrongf: I he lr generally rwrttlng: at long "range rose to run "the maddenedibeast was down' the wind that Is, the wind ThrEnormous Cost Of Hunting. with a misinformed Imagination In it were a rotten ragrMostof the na- ' charged and thrusnts born through' was blowing toward me from the TTThe cost of bunting big game In stead of facts. He makes a double ftlves fled In dismay. The nrofessor bis back, battered him against a tree, rhino so I " i sure of getting, a Africa lSnenormous.- One. must spend mlHtakgi If ha speaks of "tigers and dropped, bis camera and tried to. es-- ... in a moment the gorilla grasped pretty good shot.- A few minutes a fortune before firing tbe first shotand then purled htm in rlheralrT7; jn referring to African fauna. cape; I saw'.a long horn sticking The various European colonies pro as in Africa same ani blm in Its terrible bands.:, J ,., mean the Close Call for a Brave Hunter. later they through the high grass. It was mo- tect" XhelF game by -- charging 50 mal. I bare never beard an English- -- I seized my rifle and fired in the TChe : animal waa- -r waiting was reaching" for va Jrifle when tionless.' pounds Btejling ($250) a year for a - man or a poer when Bpeaking English air to frighten the tolmahfiln my po the rhino caught sight of me It was foF-- us io 8s- -I took a chance at m--f - I sltJnrr I ctnUd-nBBgoT at llmHiHtnftuT" - tlger;---:- -. , ,:toKr1ater- -i tnTnedd Taniovrar(rthetand"1lreu"."oTiffgto bit a vital spot 1 two each. j)f the pachydermata and call a lepard-abittinghmy-frlendFor a moment the goriUa.jitoodaUlL. now river, - A dive wduld r save - me. 1 My calculation was bad and the rhino from two to ten of the various species ann vuusciuus man 71 one attempt as mougn ne.were a not protect thought of tbe crocodiles. I felt the scampered off at a gallop. I stood of antelopes. ..; harmless alive. mal Many, animals, baby, tbe brute's Hps drawn back from puff of the. rhino's T?oul -- breath. My there cursing my luck when a grunt the game, but It tills the local treaunde- r- ordinary-tcircuhis glistening teeth. I thrust another heart sank. ,1 had one chance to behind toe nearly scared me out of suriesAdded, 4o4bIs is tbe prlee for and my wits. I took no chances, but porters, shikarees, headmen, etc., who cartridge In my rifle. " As t did so Jump aside andr let the rhino pass.-1 tured. The antelope there was, a buzz in the air, and an Juropedjjand the roaring animal wiped turned and ran. I hadn't gone 20 have to accompany the hunter. The will put up. a fierce fight, when. once arrow, shot by a native, cheek: on me .as I yards when I bumped on something average expedition Is made up of from its . pierced the' over its first fright; the ostrich will did. I doubled on my tracks, the In the grass and down I went II 30 to 35 natives . for . each -- white gorilla's side,-- - A roar burst from his blows Its g;demoniac brute frothing In fury- - after grabbed myxrlfle - and and Jjyck;a;nrifpieces,3alning n. " tJ "1 Ut a TIQCIh hcnA ytmylft me. As I passed, under the bamTaScT nearesrTreea. lew yards away, When malntalnlne an exDeditlon - Is from wbere....mi comrade, lay .between life I could, get my.breath,.! auryeyedLthei 4oe to $600-- a mouth-fo-r eactr'whlte called. cowardly: :. tow andileathr thereaaTlvd-flash,'-- a hunter accordrng" to the".d!stric Brffifd Tan 4be- ww!4, .the gorilla's heart. ' deafening-row-fillinto tnifloaJTnr bunted in One n44 assagai concern baby fell. The rhinoceros rolled ' over, thing I fell over was a lth ftWqliartpra at Nairobi, tbat able horns of all the African antelope With a groan the brute fell dead. - Us on been fhlho have .or and Esamlning-th- emust botrblood srofe8sorr I found a it stream, and ex- to see tbaLthey ar built to fight wlth7 squirtingmake a business as Iron and as sharp as a lance, that hls right" arm" was broken and In looked neck. I I shot its mother me from a wound at pedition managing, equips and main- Btrong It is the habit of the pachydermata tains an expedition o the: field for I have seen an antelope attack - a that some of his ribs were crushed up, dazed and breathless. I didn't alive.". I or dead whether of Africa to collect around a female $600 a month; supplying everything leopard and evena Hon,- when Its Into US liings. We gave up the effort know I.wjrs young . is threatened. The gemsbok, to get a Uv" gorilla and, placing the . felt th huger throbbing carcass be- that is about to give birth to young. exceptingarms and liquor. or horns, injured mn In a hammock, carried oryx, with its two sword-likweak to "The me. is This side ; yellow protect in "No Africa. ; has Tigers enedispatched many a Hon. It is hot him back toward the East coast. He bollow-eyeface f De Villiers looked ling against the attacks of Its " Of course when Mr. Roosevelt uncommon to find a gemsbok and a died on the road, Out'on the veld be--, and asked, "Are mies and that a the sort of christenover the hammoc nnntrfor 1tonldea4c.hesIJo . . . to aldetai hatl ve vlilage-- a loBely litt r bated Into. ' I bmits,rbiajHpedltionx:wiii; I Interrupt hurt?" ing fan, ye& "I think not, I answered.' "What the birthday party, but I couldn't let everything bis licenses will allow him evidence ot aierrific encounten Tli slab; marked ''Carl Bloch" sticks up . sentiment Interfere- - with business so to shoot If wilt; be amateur: sport;' most "dangef Ous'anlmal "of" all to cap above the grass. It is the professor's happened?". I opened Pre on tbe nearest rhino. He not conducted from a financial point ture Is Itbe. gorilla as; 'muchlbnlais grave.' lluntlng is not all exciting adDe Villiers sank answer. no I got will count of tbe country Jt inhabits as pa venture and laughing victory. It has Its got it right through the heart and of view; there his equipment back "with" a"groan.rT sprang to the - account of its enormous ' a more profesthan costjy second strength, as tears, like other thing. tbat a hammock..""-thought fired pfobably.be and fell. I be at side of tbe av the than rbetter y warreloafHiton alsowent dowttWbllel wasdVal. ii: Do It Now '"" fblrbairoHbff .. camp at on one of these -; For four days we camped yln thin well-know- n pitching passIon-laden- hotbed of disease. Beaters went out In all directions searching for the gorilla. At last some deep, wide scratches were found on a cluster of vines. On close examination the unmlstak- ,Boer Tjunter, had fever and was" to die at any moment He had 4een carried 300 miles from the interior in a hammock. If de Villiers had not been ill I would not be alive . i . , We were un- - the.,-- otr' the. Jiands of. cool goodhoL- - It was the express. In the hands f a cool shot that saved me in the encounter related here. We had been out nearly a year and were returning to civilization, such aa it Ja oa tb&.Ea9t.Arricaa. xoast with a good stock of ivory. My partner, Jappie de Villiers, a i Beautifully designed ferns grew great tree trunks.: Flowers of noceros has but one. CroeidileB and beauty, weird shapeyand al as' I pu aHtgflror3 qltfer g'fgatiy. lnappeiF most maniacal expression' grew up every bltof energy Into m y stroke; cancer and the latter do not live in Af- and bung down frony the smooth, The crocodile must have been near rica. The Asiatic elephant is also black, smoke-likvlnesrexhaling from " dtSrereatlln appearance fromllla-At- their heartg a hundred Intoxicating odors which mixed with the sickening fired from the bank commenced tot rican relative. . Now about tigers whch have been effluvia of decay. zip, zip, around my head. I to look back, expecting? every moment treated so freely as African game in flowers and Innects.resembllng to be seized and dragged to the bot- recent American- - articles, It all de- leaves! crawled over everything,' twig " tom. pends on one's nationality whether or apparently walking up the trees and At last I reached the dead hippo not there are tigers In Africa. The leaves apparently splitting and flying and managed to drag myself out of leopard is called a tllger Utger) b: In all directions. - Beetles with big --eyes - andTUronze backs hypnotic , Provo City, Utah " Howa lungte Looks. V tha-ungle.- SAVINGS aJ. forest screeching like wild fiends and swinging from tree to tree, for such." distances that they seemed to fly. , -- -- fronlBaXe.ercbsJinonge...to 1 and the simus or rhlnor The almost as black as its rela tive, is, called the white Rhinoceros on ae.coant of a blue slaty tinge In Its skin.' To be exact, there la BO such thing as a white rhinoceros, joth have "two horns. "The Asiatic rhiprehensiie-llpped- square-mouthe- d , Shottr-rcrteor-Sho- Built in Pro- vo at 115 W. plac'e where! tbe animal' made It home. It was an Ideal retreat, rank with rotting vegetation, the accumulations of centuries, reaching up to our knees. Snakes glided, hissing, oat of the way,: and lizards, green; rbltfe and every color of the spectrum, bolted in fearjto Jbejtree topa and blinked at He put his left hand over and felt up-w- - isthe bertof all com lioe in one. L- 7 ' m ia easier "to operate , . g tnan any otLer. . , Sot ilia Hunt commissioned by a German iiaturalist society to capture one of each "species "of African Quadrumana. A German professor accompanied me DBmvexDedUten; which set f prta la a direct line west fun Dar es Balaam. We succeeded In getting some of each species, with, the Exception of the gorilla. For weeks' we wandered about the country. II .war in the rainy sea--' Son, and the veld, which under ordi- Jnary clrcuffiBtances afforded excellent traveungoecame a swamps witn our lbngTThe of haUverterse literally waded our way over the country for weeks.:. the hlackw: oox jt aluab f orking into our . bonee and the clay j under with blood. ,1" opened hia eblrt : and Ing toy express the rest took "fHght' erage sportsmaa sea In Africa. For foot gripping like glue. saw: bis right collar bone broken and and scampered, off; instance, he wiH arr y-- a taxtderaisffr In Sueb. was the predicament we were v i the BDlrlt of revolt and desertion ' came I and cure and preserve outfit . nesh. the protruding .through Narrow Escape "from Crocodiles. had sefxedjthe caravan, I .called tha ; forced some brandy down bis throat - The summer before last I was hunt-inand he revived. 'What happened?" 1 on the Kagera. We had eaten asked again. . ; , for some time and the camp there-wa- s antelope doubtibout capturing a You had one ehanee for; llfeand was anxtonVfor a change. ;bo I shot a and treated wtb - s laxlderralc pi repa gorilla.:A jo smile Of satisfaction swept was the death of the rhino. that, for food, ltwas an easy thing ration of alum. Then to protect it over the natives' faces, and at sunrise had one chance in a thousand of sav- hippo .1 waited till It Bhowed Ita head, from beetles, ft must be boaked in we started for a three months' tramp to do. ing you and killing tbe rhino. I took and, bang! A. spurt of blood and it turpentine and put in charge of-- a nato the west of the JTanganylka.- " It. and gave the rhino both barrels-o- f it io the near was all over. - As the water waadeep,' tive Arriving at' a Delglan army post,' the express. Your face is singed a but not I knew .that in the est ppsvfor preservation. 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