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Show CHANCE KOR TIQER HUNTERS. So Many Man Eater In South China That Natives Want Them Killed. Never have there been more deaths caused by tigers than during the last lx months. In one village alone In Holpu region not far from No Ma, which can bo reached by tho steamship steam-ship Nanking ecry two or three days from Macao, there Is a small vlllago which hog lost ten persons on account of tigers, while In the Bamo region some twenty more persons have paid tho penalty of their lives on account at these ferocious animals. Why cannot some of tho Nlmrods of Hongkong Inaugurate a great hunt and thus clear out these monsters which have become a menace to the Chinese? Innocent women and laughing laugh-ing children would bo forever thank-' ful to any ono who would deliver them from this curse, which the; dread so much. The Chinese seem to hao no skill In exterminating or catching these wily beasts, or perhaps they fear to molest them, lest tho tiger spirits may Injure their persons In tho future. fu-ture. Be that as It may, It Is n great Bhame that not moro than one hundred hun-dred to one hundred Rnd twenty miles from Hongkong within easy reach, theso wild beasts ore permitted to carry on their depredations. Let those who delight to shoot the Innocent Inno-cent and harmless birds emen try a good sized tiger for a target ahd the Chinese will rise up ar.d call them blessed and lmmortu.hu their name and deed In verse. Hongkong Tele-''aph. |