Show t y k bion Ig ReI I 1 Y I 1 r h hI Of Fearless Courage Wong I r r 4 So Nobly chivalrous I r I tJ That Animal Lovers V 1 1 M t r I A M 44 0 y b 4 Think He dr 5 I y Deserves Great v t t Z Za i a i f fo l r i o r Y M y a- a ay aM t y Deal More Fair S rs F x M f v vr vH r H tS tSy 4 h i hay Si t the f y r d r al Big o t A Hunters t elf 4 f i ic c f z s x 4 tS tSy y l lY Y y gg 9 P o s sv f J Se v R n r r S L 4 r l lL ti Ski t 7 9 VF l n i iti rk V f K 3 a t of p v ff s y x N i iV ra v F r P 4 k 4 R Re Natives bringing into camp two lions shat by Mr and Mrs James L Clark t t e w L A I k I II trl nr f x Pl Pla n t a w l 9 4 OR nobody knows how long the lion hon FOR F has been called the king of beasts ts Men Efen have hale seen in rn him the perfect symbol of all that is di coma coura- courageous coina strong and magnificent to look upon No greater compliment could the old poets find to pay a man of courage and nobility of character than to call hearted him hon hon hearted hearted as in iii the case e of the fear fear- fearless fearless fearless less Richard C Coeur Cur ur de Lion Many a fighting monarch like Richard has been proud indeed of the comparison And the more hunters and see of of oc the lion both bothin in captivity Ity and In his native native jungle the more they are convinced that he is actually the king of beasts In fact the latest show him even more orth worthy of admira admiration tion and emulation than e een even en his roost most enthusIastic friends friend have hale ever eser realized Not only has the Lon lion the peculiar dig dIg- dIgnity dignity dignity and indomitable courage for which he has always been given credit but heis he heis heis is isnow now actually declared to be a sports sports man of no mean sort sort-a sort a foe qUite worthy of being given fair fall play in bat bats battle battle tle tie a creature who understands the rules of chivalry and is willing to abide by them If it given the opportunity A A a young man who ho has hassent sent st-ent many years vears hunting and Ing ing observing the he lion in the jungles of South fi a has come conic to l believe from his own 0 n experience with the king of beasts that man should use fairer methods of at attack at- at attack attack tack in hunting hwn Arin t-J t m He thinks that so courageous and so Sll chivalrous a warrior warnor as he has found the lion hOIl to be deserve es esa a nobler death than to be shot in the back of the neck without warning from hIS foe toe as happens so often What a pity it is that so many pea peo- people pie and even hunters see sec no more in m a ahon ilion lion hon alion than a bloodthirsty beast of prey says Mr a beast of prey that must be destroyed no matter how and an even do not scruple to deliver him oser o courageous to the She tortures of strychnine 1 No I This courageous warrior warnor deserves deser s a nobler death because he exhibits a trait in his attacks which in man would be called chivalry i How many hunters bunters have noticed that the lion Iron never attacks without first ut- ut ut his warning When o on ii i quest he overpay era his prey without warning it is true and uses tricks o of f cunning but these are the tho gifts eon eon- con i confided tided to him by Mother Nature ug un ng-un t his lihas hhas footed fleet pre prey But if ever eser hI he h e I has to deal witha with a pursuer and adopt ado t t the role of warrior he exhibits all thos e qualities which among men we e mos t admire I The fact that he has to kill from a distance a fighter like the lion Iron is in rn Itself f enough to te give every esery e ery manly hunter and an d artrue true sportsman a feeling of regret one regret e had almost said shame Does not he who ho hides himself lik lika lia e a coward in a tree deserve our contempt pt Just gust as much as the assassin who ho stai stabs stab s his hie victim In the back Should not ot the th e lion hon the proud ruler of the animal work world d v oho ho to the very inmost fiber of his been g is one of natures nature's most perfect and sic no blest creatures appeal to that sense lense of chivalry which man claims so eagerly as ione one of his own virtues Whosoever calls himself a hunter hun ter r knows too that he docs does not hunt the t lion hon for profit but because of the cha which B l challenge to danger has had ha hi d 5 for man through all the a ages es esThe The lion hon attracts him just lust because he h e is so formidable a fighter but many hunters do not remember as honorably fighters against a sav- sav savage sav savage age opponent to abide abode by the rules the neglect of would could be con con related among his own o speCies man a disgrace Mi Mt P high opinion ot of othe the lion hon is confirmed by Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson the American travelers who oho recently spent two years ears studying stud wild gild life in m But But- l lish ish East Africa X They found him quite grate lacking m in the tacky tucky un un- un h trustworthy orthy and deliberately vi- vi J 4 c slow clous IOU S s qualities b found in m tigers fk leopards and so l many other car- car tM w orous y x When the lion hon N attacks to kill Itis itis it is only to satisfy t v 4 hunger or to pro- pro proW protect W tact the lives of Ny- Ny 1 himself himself and his family family If he has his 8 had he all the ilia food e he needs he will pass through through whole herds berds of ofa a v a animals animal's like the zebra r gnu and various vanous species of antelope without offering offer- offer ing to molest them Nor Nordo Nordo Nordo t do these thew animals fear the tho lion lIon under such stances circum-stances circum- circum circumstances circumstances stances for they well know that when hen henhe he is not hungry they are safe Under similar circumstances human beings are equally safe from the lions lion's attack It is not true that he is inhere inherently regardless catty vicious and kills on sight regard regard- less of whether hether he needs food or his 0 own n l ife is in danger On the plains of Brit Brit- I lilt I East Jast oat Africa where there is an abundance abundance dance of smaller animals on which the lion hon can satisfy his appetite he is not held in any terror by the natives es esThe The lion hon loses none of his kingly qualities ties when he is made captive and sentenced to pass the rest of his days in a n x cal park or a circus menagerie Whether in m the jungle or be- be behind hind the steel bars ofa of a o his cage sturdy self-confidence self calm serenity and maJesty ty Ey of demeanor never desert him Dr William Wilham T Hornada Hornaday director of the New York Zoological a Park says sas the I king of beasts shows as every long Ini hould should show shoo a high heh order of Judgment He lie is to sanguine of temperament ful tul and very ery reliable Ills lack of juni jumpy nerves makes him the best beat of all the car car- animals to teach to perform on the stage or in the rho circus ring The South African hunter and end student of wild life A A is so bO toile Elastic Sla tlc over the ilia lions liona many admirable 1 qualities and so cd grieved atthe lack ot of fairness with Ith which men often treat him hi that he has written a book Adventures Ad of ofa a Lion Family in m winch Much he pictures the daily dally life ofa of a lion hon and his mate and a their three throe cubs cube and the pathetic trag- trag edy tragedy that finally finall 0 el them as a rn- rn suit sult of mans man's lack of fair play play- This absorbing work worl is not fiction but the tho t I t tr r W fl V Vi i f t r v Iv 1 0 1 0 y Mi v 4 11 o Ii y y 03 J J MM r J r v V sa rf Young hons tons if f r r i f are frequent- frequent L theL w Iy made pets b by y t the thes h e s A t it natives and here the tha hov n wife ire ife ofa of a powerful African ruler is s y t ty rah shown giving one of them its breakfast from an up-to-date up nursing bottle bouk r f y s r b 1 9 N m- m mm tf y ge we iZ A pair aka Of twin cubs born in t yA r a captivity and A Aa r lust two months old I s di a piG r ti a l ka yi 17 Y r r Ay 0 b A Ai i rw ar risu y s 44 xz D l a ay r j 4 y h r b r p r rd d s dl i baRS y x v F d y 4 dry 4 Remarkable photograph of the King of in the heart of the wild kingdom ove which he rules faithful record of the authors author's close ob- ob observation o t of lion hon life lIte The head of the family is called Maan Malin Maa haar magnificently strong lIOn Iio whose hose shaggy mane almost s sweeps seeps the tl gl ground In the closing pages of M III Mr r remarkable booke book wo we see him hi and the anxious mother lion hon and t the playful purring cubs approaching In their precarious search for food just the tho tl fate the author thinks the lions lion's chivi chivalry t so little the deserves deserves the unexpected al at- at attack tack tac of hunters hi hidden aden in m the underbrush h The hungry hon lions are arc creeping care care- carefully fully toward the body boily ofa of n a dead rhinoceros which Illch has been left there thel c to toI I lyre e them out of it heir hiding place and into range of the ambushed hunters They sniff the air continually and pause every few steps to strain their the fI ees eyes andears and ears for hints of danger Even the usually playful cubs cube cub seem serm to be pressed in-pressed Im- Im Impressed impressed pressed with Ith the seriousness of this ad- ad adventure adventure venture and stand as still and silent as s their watchful parents At last the ciders seem to conclude eIther that no danger is imminent or that the th food lood which lies so ao near Mar them IS ISell ell cell worth the risk The cubs begin to pun Uri their mother glides ly un un- un unde de the acacia bushes and old balks alks boldly out into the moonlight Just Justas justas U as BS the hunters have planned that he ha should rho lie He lifts his head and lets loose his mIghty voice Those hoarse roaring notes reverberating 1 so bloodthirstily through the night seem to say Woe W to the man who ho to night comes within my reach rench Menn Meanwhile hIle with Ith menacing ng growls and anthe the vigorous use of her forepaws forepaws the lIoness tries in m vain to restrain her el e- cited cubs and keep them for a lIttle longer from the rhinoceros He who ho has hasan hasan an eat cai ea for the Mr says would notice in that gruff voice loic olce n a suppliant undertone ss huh In a touching way w ay expresses her motherly love and care caro cai touching touching b bee because e c a nus u e eg g gentleness e n tie 11 0 8 S is the mote mOle remarkable when allIed to so much savagery Early that after after- afternoon afternoon noon at an hour when every lion hon was as a asleep leep the dead rhinoceros had been dragged boxen by oxen close up to the bush and before sun sun- sundown sundown down the hunters had qUietly taken up their position Quite invisible ble themselves in the tho e shadows of the black foliage they could ob- ob serse sene every ery mo ement of the lions hons in iii the moonlight No ono one kno knows knos s better the two men there in III the 3 dar dark bush anxiously anxious awaiting that moment when hen the lioness honess should turn her body sIde sIde- sIdeWISe WISe uric Just when hen they the could make certaIn of the first shot shot So far all goe goes well although the th mother does not yet feel quite at ease and for a good while hIlo lies hes growling gro be- be beland behind land hind the rhino without eating and at the least flutter of the the leaves or gl grass ass she i Jumps up suddenly erect angrily grum grum- grumbling blIng At last as nothing occurs and the cubs with characteristic Inquisitive Inquisitive- Inquisitiveness ness are sniffing unhindered near the tho th bush her fear diminishes and she beIt be be- be It gins to cat eat 1 Meanwhile the roaring otI of ot A Agins I watching over oser the safety oflas of las his family gl gives gees es her ber courage Fighting and playing over each bitI bitof bit bitof bitof I of flesh the cubs roll over ovel and over l right up to the bush buh and the mother mothel lion continues to watch atch anxiously The first frightened of one of the cubs I is la enough to bung her gro to her feet to se seek k the cause But the ther r ObJects of her care continue their games I 1 with Implicit faith in her who ho has never ne left them in the luich ch and quite unconscious of the danger lurking osei O them Ah If she had but discovered Cred the dark secret of that little littfe bush Then as the cubs cub their hung i salis- salis fi fiAd d gambol and roll over oser 0 er each other ather almost almos within reach of the tile hunters and old 1 stands guard and roars s occasIOnally m in his anxiety foi fOl his family J the lioness honess leaves leases her shelter shelter behind the I body of the rhinoceros to seek seeka a biter spot at which to feed As she turns in III ina f a narl narrow ow space the white moonlight falls I upon her ter right flank With terrific suddenness the double Ie leeport lee le- pal port t of the hunters guns breaks time the the stillness still still- ness of the night followed follo immediately by a terrifying mg cry of agony expressing not only lien hei own pain but fear for the safety of her cubs With almighty a mighty bound she plunges to the ground and lies moan moaning moan moan- ing while the three cubs stand around her quite stupid with fear r G r G-r-r-r I r G-r-r-r old Maan- Maan haar uttering hoarse half smothered roars comes raging along With s shag shag- shaggy ag- ag aggy gy mane maDe stiffly on end and eyes like flaming coals cOllIs he lie halts before the rhinoceros and gazes wildly l about him Not an enemy to be seen The enraged I old lion hon is beside himself J Oh to get hold of the enemy and to tear him to tatters Quickly he comes with long gliding steps nearer the bush smells at but It-but it but too tao late Two T jets of flame buist Guist again agam from Prom the leaves leases and old Man lillian haar king of beasts his neck and head penetrated by two deadly bullets falls t backward back Gurgling sounds issue from his throat through the r suffocating blood he lies hes there still for evermore Poor old Trusty old leader I lIe He wished to avenge his mate and cone com rade even at the price of his own life No 1 thought was last ast moment there thele of flight in thai that So go near to his foes toes that the powder ponder had Aad sInged his face and mane yet vet et the old warrior had to succumb cumb suc suc- without giving vent to the last loar roar or even evell the lament of or a dying lion honk And his poor little motherless ned fled flee into the brush orphaned to begin cubs te tern tern- tI their ou Iou ous jungle wanderings wandering through th the e pe perl I Such is the w which It IC h Mi Mr It I tragedy of Jung jungle 1 wiSh e tf 1 life Ifo he pictures and which hopes may help induce h tI I tt hunters un t ers to t he Ie l chivalrous h lion hon give more fair p play 1 w when h they en go out to hunt him trim ay I J 1 |