Show lancho lan an Who ag ri em feck C alive ive aia tto 3 1 01 aa ai 4 11 t X 01 Z aile V frabj ith mung gar la i stamped A aey are of V uniformity 4 eve tibne AIL imi actions the sai in 0 much it cr my ashim in the holding uTer CiS B ELMO SCOTT WATSON F a few years ago a cortan ans pled that mother down doun in texas had collis pro been more successful in per at the forming the ceremony of lay scars a ing on of hands a ceremony iler and Is an familiar to innumerable moth ers of lerable ne rable active venturesome little boys then i appropriate thousands of visitor to cor id tain zoological parks ic in ous parts of tho the united state states would never have had the thrill of looking upon the only authentic anthen tic man eating ti lr ever brought to this country the biggest king cobra ever captured alive two of the exceedingly rare indian F AV rhinoceroses and the tiniest baby elephant just two feet and ten inches at the shoulder ever it always brought across the seas A scott a but let that statement appear to be too para pnra let it be explained at once that she vas mas nt colds the tile mother of frank 11 II duel buel is who ho as a c I 1 h young lector of live ere animals rep replies lles and birds Is pleasant beld N J without a peer in the world today she had dis covered her young son busily engaged in the capture of a big angry buzzing rattleR rattlesnake nale near via 04 count the buck duck home lome on the outskirts of dallas texa and the laying on of hands ceremony was ob served forthwith to convince him ant there were less dangerous way for a it lad ad of haq h years to earn money he was collecting because an old doctor in shinn who manufactured a maglo snake oil was in the market for the tle reptiles frank back buck will tell you that the ceremony wag was performed in a thoroughgoing fashion general pat but it failed of its purpose for from his earil earll he ancestors est childhood wild animals and birds fascinated ins ure still him and tie the desire to possess them was his ns although mastering passion so the mother who tried s have to shape the destiny of the forenzo t exponent aced them of t the art of bringing lem cm back alive was due was in the to be foiled from the ber beginning innIng when the buck duck family moved to chicago the boy no longer able to capture email small wild ani ant and birds as he had done on his native its forests toll boll haunted the lincoln park zoo and the pet ardful plant tores stores in the big bl city feas feasting drig his eyes on of trees strange new animals and birds birda from far off corners of the earth what money he was able to tare he invented in owning some of these birds paying for one pair incidentally a price ten n sometimes times as great as he be himself could charge when brellis br ellas year years later he became a collector when he grew older frank backs hobby bobby took him to td south america tn in search of rare birds this was followed by a second trip to the south cm em continent and w when an he scid bla collection enty of live birds he found the deal so profitable that he resolved to go in for wholesale bird and isimal collecting and that was the beginning of a unique career today frank buck can go into almost any koo too in the united states or walk through the menagerie tent of any circus and looking through the bars of the cages greet the inhabitant thereof as an old friend for it was he who brought that inhabitant from bis his nathe haunts to this place so that the thousand thou gindi of aserleans Amer leans cans who ibo have before only heard of the exist of some strange animal can see the andrial it IL the flesh cytlou 11 a man with such a record has had bad raire thra his share ebare of thrills and narrow es capes from death obviously too an account of them could not be told within the space of this article any more than a full account of them could be told in the book bring em back alive written by frank buck with edward anthony and published by simon and schuster but there was space in that book to tell of the time frank buck duck found himself sliding into a pit with a mane man eating aft lift which he and his helpers were trying to get out of the pit into a cage of the time one of ils its leopards escaped aboard ship slap and how her be went vent into a cabin bitted to chere tho leopard was at bay and roped him and of the time when a king cobra escaped nd women from its cage and cornered him in a hut but in his Cald weIrs compound at singapore ased up is those are enly only three of the times when stem needs frank buck duck stared death straight in the eyes there were many others perhaps the strong strang delicious of all of them was vms the time a tapir erdl L constant harily the meekest meeke t of nil all animals tried to crush on of the rea those him to death with its six Il hundred undred pounds of el then there was em miser weight and all but from the the time when an orang utan the giant jungli t lead to man of malaya was just realy to draw him nd guard into a death embrace with his powerful arms k as you and then tear him to pieces his tee teeth th there was just one chance to esabe alive and pepsin Is franl frant buck took it hes lies not got a professional aaion you boxer but when the oran orang came at hirr with s are sold outspread arm armi buck duck slyly simply walked in gave the jungle man an uppercut on the point of the jaw that was as an effect le e k 0 as was C er demonstrated in the prize ring 14 v ism w BS ig R L uk at 15 most X civilized Civil ned A fvank lapir 4 1111 Z fran 1 buck and baby boo yes I 1 have hare had bad more than ay a share ot of thrills frank buck hilll ft tell you but I 1 am frank to say that these close calls do not rep resent a love lore of looking death in the eye I 1 am not that kind of adventurer I 1 take no essary alks when a man operates on as big a scale as I 1 do he t hare to look for trouble no matter bow how careful one Is something Is bound to go wrong when be lie animals and reptiles are handled wholesale it Is then that experience counts and he be might add that experience counts in other tines times than when something goes wrong and an adventure r such as he be Is looks death in the eye A big game hunter has to think of saving only one life bis bils own bat but a man who collects wild animal as frank back buck doe has to think of saving saying his own life and the atil animals mals too for the biggest ung ling cobra a giant oran orang utan an indian rhinoceros or a man eating tiger Is utterly valueless valc dess to a zoo or a circus it if it Is dead experience count counts too in keeping the animal alive after it has been captured it may seem strange to call frank buck back a dietitian but that a exactly what be he Is and he is an expert in matters of diet to the most finicky epicures in the world ile can t guess how to accustom a wild animal to the change from the food which it eats in its wild state over to civilized fare he ife has to know knowl the capture of some rare wild animal may represent a great outlay of money and tine time plus the ever present clement of danger to the collector but if after the beast 19 1 captured its captor know how to keep it healthy both physically and mentally the whole investment of time and money aad the potential talus vt of the animal when it Is delivered to the zoo or circus may be an entire loss typical of some of the dietetic problems which frank buck has had bad to solve was the case of baby boo the two foot ten inch elephant aich he brought back on one of his trips so far as Is kno knots knon n there ha h never written any book on the care and feeding of infant elephants so when frank buck duck bought csc one from a party of batiks in sumatra and it was delivered to him in a half starved starred weak and wobbling condition there were to precedents for him to go by in to determining what to do to keep from having a dead baby elephant on his hands here Is what happened hap pend as he tells it ily problem had bad just begun I 1 had to get some food into that elephants belly and with out much loss of time I 1 sent all his native ft assistant out to scout around for a milk pat he ile brought one orie back and hurriedly milked it IL I 1 tried to pour some milk u awn the stubborn pachyderms throat but I 1 get her jaws open once or wee hice I 1 managed to pet get them partly open but before I 1 could pour the milk down she closed clod them again 11 1 I considered five or six different plans tor for feeding that animal dismissing them as lin as 3 fast as 13 licy they popped into my head then I 1 got an iba that I 1 thou thought glit was worth trying the first aup was to send all to a nearby flump to cut cat me a length of bamboo As Is commonly known a stick of bamboo Is made IP tp of a series of joints the wood being hollow between joint all brought back exact ly what hat I 1 had sent him fora piece of bamboo about two inches in diameter I 1 cut off a piece about nine inches long iong leaving leivin the joint to form the bottom this gave ma me a device which I 1 planned to use as a feeding tube I 1 sharpened the opening till it came to a point and satis suds fied fled that I 1 was on the right track I 1 proceeded with the next text step I 1 before this could be carried cut out we ive had to get our elephant we practically carried her to the shack where we had arranged to spend the night I 1 instructed all to boll some rice in ater when the rice was cooked I 1 mixed some goats milk with it the result being a thin but nutritious gruel then I 1 proceeded to fill oil my bamboo with this substance this done all got his shoulder right un der the elephants forequarters till she was al at moat mo standing on her back legs then I 1 forced the point of the bamboo tube between her tight ly closed jaws gradually working it in until I 1 could tip it up and dump the contents down her throat stubborn to the last she tried to beep keep from swallowing giving in after a few seconds of gurgling A second was prepared and the operation was repeated this time the task proving less difficult in all I 1 fed her three tubes of gruel that session an hour hoar later I 1 put the obstinate little girl to bed covering her up with come old gunny sacks the following morning there was a deft nite improvement in her condition some of the wobbliness having baying d disappeared appeared is ie we gave her her breal tast repeating the performance with the tube this time it was to prop her up A little later in the morning we put her on a bullock cart and took her back to damji from where she vas was transported along with my oth er specimens to singapore 1 e had no trouble feeding tier her en route the bamboo feeding tube working perfectly one otter other item which a wild animal collector needs to have in his psychological equipment for following ills his prof pro fetton eelon la Is diplomacy tha that frank buck has that Is shown by the fact that some of his rarest specimens have hare been ob talked because of his friendship with oriental potentates and his skill in handling the native peoples of the jungles where he has had to go to find hig his animals among chece people frank buck Is a great I 1 tuan chief and he be Is that to coolies in the malay peninsula and to indian rajahs rajahn if it he been he would never have hare been permitted to penetrate the forbidden jun jan agles of apal which Is closed to white men and bring back with him those two indian rhinos which EOW now have their homes in the new york and mos if he be been it is doubtful if he would have been able to make the remarkable moving pictures billich resulted from his last trip to the orient for it was a faithful coolie who came speeding to tell his tuan that a python was alyin near a trail used by a tiger and that re resulted suited in an epochal film record of a R python tiger feigt the like of which few white men base ever seen and none has ever before photographed for to cap his career of bringing lem em back alive frank buck has lately brought back a movie record of life in the jungi emch Is as unique is es the record of his career as a it col lector of 0 wild animals he ile also has brought back the memory of one of his narrowest es capes from deith do uh the memory of being stalked b by y a tiger ot of tripping and falling backward when the biff big cat hurled burled luelf at him and of looking up and seeing the striped belly of the animal passing over him leq 1 it tins a it rather close call said frank buck duck in telling me of this incident but well you see me here don t you youl I 1 C by stern union tinion na 1 tasia k 4 1 1 V 0 i ih |