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Show I THE SOCIETY Of I THE BULL MOOSE H Making Tremendous Strides in Membership Hair Breadth Escapes m From African Jungles Reproduced With Scenic Effects Hij ' Imitation Lions Fool Newspaper Reporters Who Ht Scurry to Safe Places. bK ' ' f J The society of. the Bull Moose met Bh 4 again last night and initiated a class BBBB of 20 in the presence of three nows- '' paper reporters who were told In ad-, H j. vanco that they could publish all they K heard and saw. They agreed to tell Hk the story some day, but not for Bi awhile yet It was unanimously or- K ' dered that, the first public ceremony BM be In the presence of the women Hfo 1 guests of the membors. Lost night Hfi tiic following from "African Game H Trails," by Theodora Roosevelt, pub- Hi iished in the Kansas City Star, were H ' reproduced In the Moose hall with H' startling effect. H- I A Strange Tragedy. H One, night we camped at the very BBBB i spot where, a score' of years before, H a strange tragedy had happened. It H, was in the early days of the opening BBBB of the country, 'and. an 'expedition was H going toward Uganda; one of the of- H' ficials in charge was sleeping In a BBBB 1 tent with the flap open., There was an askari on duty; yet ''a Hon crept A I aP. entered the tent and seized and i; dragged forth the man. He struggled BBH' I and made outcry; there was a rush ' o people, and the Hon dropped his Pr&7 and bounded off. W I The man's wounds were dressed, ' and he was put back to bed in his BBBH own tent; but an hour or two after BBBB the camp again grew stil!, the Hon H ' returned, bent on the victim of whom Hu n had been robbed' '..q re-entered, the H 1 tent, seized the unfortunate wounded 1 f man with his great fangs, and this BBBB timo made off with him into the sur- BBBI rounding darkness, killed and ate him. Stabbing a Lion to Death. ' While a magistrate in the Trans - B : ' vaal. Pease (Sir Alfred, whose guest 'P Colonel Roosevelt was during his Hon K; i hunting on Kapiti Plains) had under BByBK him as samo officer a Boer hunter, a BBBBf 1 l . fine fellow, who underwent an extraordinary extra-ordinary experience. He had been off some distance with his Kaffir boys to hunt a Hon On his way home the hunter was hunted. It was after nightfall. He had reached a region whero lions had not been seen for a long timo, and whero an attack by them was unknown. un-known. He was riding along a trail in the darkness, his big boarhound trotting ahead, his native "boys" some distance behind. He heard a rustle In the bushes alongside the path, but paid no heed, thinking it was a reed buck. Immediately afterward two lions came out In the path behind and raced after him. One sprang on him, tore him out of the saddle and trotted off holding him in its mouth, while the other continued after the frightened fright-ened horse. The Hon had him by tho right shoulder, and yet with his left hand he wrenched his bowlo knife out of his belt and twice stabbed it. The second sec-ond Btab went to the heart and the beast let go of him, stood a moment and fell dead. So real were the presentations of the tragedies that the reporters mounted a platform In one corner of the hall when tho great "bowie knife" found its way to the heart of the stage lion and the blood spurted from the wound, one of the reporters wanted to know If there was a Ihc animal under un-der the Hon skin. A class of 100 will bo put through the ceremony Tuesday ovening. This Bull Moose society has nothing noth-ing to do with the Progressive party, but is a "get off" In the name of tho Bull Moose. Application for membership may be made to Frank Hcndorshot, Moose secretary, or .Vm. Qlasmann, the Fighting Moose. No coward3 need apply, becauso they might frighten and collapso In tho halr-brcadth es-capos. es-capos. Many mimic tragedies of the bis forests whoro the nativo moose is at home are to be 3tagcd. It will be remembered re-membered that somo lirao ago tho local lodge of Moose joined the Fraternal Fra-ternal Order of Eagles and surrendered surren-dered their charter. In a fow days tho Order of Eagles will be called to an accounting for robbing tho Moose tribe of a whole herd. There suro will be a bloody conflict if tho Eagles do not take flight. |