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Show CONTROVERSY IN SCHOOL SETTLED East Orange. N. J Feb. 14 Thee dore Roosevelt has settled a contr. versy In the Franklin public schot as to whether tigers "grow" in Air, ca. Principal Charles I Webster tolt his boys that tigers did not grow Li Africa, but the students would not be Here him They asked If they migh1 put the question to Mr Roosevelt ,i arbiter The colonel was pleased t qualify as an authority on the faun of Africa "There is not and baa never been : single wild tiger In all Africa." h wrote, "but the leopard is found therr in abundance and is often mlstakenl. called tiger The lion is found ir abundance in both Asia and Africi though It is getting very rare in Asia As late as the time of Xerxes It was still found in Southeastern Europe "The tiger is found through much of Asia, from Manr huna down to the Malay peninsula, thence Into India, and iu places around the Caspian sea, up to the Caucasian mountains ." |