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Show ' ZJ liij))arj at Quincy has meant of the every jxjfwible principle of neceaHity appliiation tnanacement in all the many brain hea involved. We feel that only by constant betterment of our etlaieney and the eoune-quer training of a projHT working force, are we assured of u prop-ehtalilihlinient of a siiuc-nfu- A Hunters Tab of the Lion ar ho Finds him - Dangprous and same hunters are dlvtdtheir opinion n la the n01 dangerous JT to bunt In Africa. select the Hon. other. the buffalo, other again the rhinoceros, whlls the greater majority case the elephant It Is purely matter of which own animal. In tb bunter1 moat the been has experience, dangerous Personally, aa the result of Ith many years' experience I chose the big game In Africa elephant aa the most dangerous Perhaps I have been unand duly fortunate In encounters with the lion, that alone makea him appear anything but the king of beasts" that he la ao popularly supposed mm I l TIIK nt - LL big ed In which animal Some i 1 i re-lil- Fbrcm W. Robert COPYPIOfiT w RLDCWW CO. and taken refuge un der the postoffice Any way, whatever th cause of Its arrival, the fact remains that It was very easily caught and adopted by the It postmaster grew Into a fine sized Hon before it took some silly, childish, llo and complaint went the way of all of us The game waiden of the country had two young lion cubs in his garden and used them as pets They were the two most playful young sters imaginable and spent their spare moments stalking any one who might be calling on the owner remember taking a little girl to see them on one occasion The two cubs immediately began to stalk her In most realistic manner, much to her embarrassment They died after a short time In captivity this way A party of us went out one Sunday after Hons and adopted the novel method of riding them down on pony back We had not been out long before we put up" a big tawnv fellow and immediately gave chase There weie four of us in the parly and we soon rounded the lion up In fine shape While one of us fired at him in the open plain with a revolver, wounding him badly, he came to bay. Hawing up the earth in huge patches with his claws and emitting terrifying ts 1 -- as tin repet pro-porly- m them, for they are harmless except when they are wounded and followed Into the long grass, or In the case of a lioness with cubs So great a contempt have the men In East Africa for them that they have now taken to bunting them on horseback, riding them down and shooting them with revolvers I shall endeavor to show why the hunters of Africa look so lightly upon these tawny beasts of the Jungle I must confess, unless I be misunderstood, that lions may be as dangerous and even more so than other animals of the plains or forests, under certain circumstances, but It has never ben my lot to experience any great danger from them. This Is primarily due to an Inborn caution begot as the result of seven years hunting In the wilderness of tropical Africa At times there are man eaters at large, but for the most part they are lions that have tasted blood or that are too old to hunt their natural prey, the zebras Man eaters are a rarity rather than otherwise In fact I know of In East Africa and I'ganda. only one case where a white man baB been eaten by a linn during the whole seven years of my residence In East Africa The story of this Is dreadful enough In Its pitiless detail, but there Is a touch of humor In the story, notwithstanding I was stationed at a smalt outlybig government post early In 1904, when a native came In one day and reported that a white man, who had been prospecting for land, bad dbappeared and left his caravan of porters almost starving some days 'march away from my iost. I hastened out to search for the man and to rellsre the porter from their predicament On my arrival at the ramp I found that the porters had no Idea what had beeotne of their master At first 1 suspected foul flay, but later came to the conclusion that the man had fallen I a victim to a prowling beast of tbe Jungles Instituted a close search' and eventually found the head and shoulder of the pohr fellow. He had been eaten by a Hon, of that there could be no mistake, judging by tbe remains The remnants of the body were In a bad state of decompoaltloon and I had them placed In a for burlaL On my way to the grave packing-casto perform the burial service was almost overcome with laughter, despite the ead occaalon, coffin rtie stenby observing on the packing-casciled words. "Keep In s rooj place," Stow away had been The packing-cas- e from the boilers to East Africa, hence used to ship cans the painted signs The natives occasionally fall victims to the depredations of lions, but the white man rarely does for some unknown reason. Even then the deaths are more often due to gangrene setting In where men have been mauled and rarely from actual direct killing I remember well my I'm meeting with a 4km 1 was coming home from a dinner party late at night In Nairobi, the capital of East Africa, and had decided to Inspect one of my military guard on the government railway buildlilga- - When I had approached near enough to the sentry to hear what was going on. 1 waa surprised to hear him hanging the corrugated Iron wall of the building with the butt end of his Martinl-Henr- i rifle He was shouting "Shoo! shoo!" at the top of his voice 1 ran toward him to discover what was tbe - h -- s it mi) For Minn past we hue iiehavored to keep careful at i ount of work done and the time a nt lliereiijion in every ih partment, and the use of this mforiijation lot- - given us a definite idea of tlnyetlk lency of our working force, and has allowed tin in in turn to make higher earnings, year- - -- with corn spondinglv gnalir suinifuitinn to ns botX Spvialiation of the work to whuh tins posits the way, elimination and the nue ity for j1roer aids to eflii leney are of u n net arv prise-M- ', three of the i a rd mtLgynm ipb s of cniitdi nmiMgement vvhiih we have iiioreiTnTr'moTe eveivday m tlie development of this and are -- -- shipyard. We have not adopted the Tayldr -- ystem as such, ns our work is so complex a variety tlmt we uinnojKcuiplov am sui li gt neral si heme in all our departments. We are, linwevi r, us rs iwrvone i tse at present, constantly striving to m n e idte i Ilk n m v of the labor employed, and, with a-- e win re a study of the quesvery few exception-- , in iXr tion has permitted thiynitioilm mu of pnmiuni nr contract work lessened costuhave im nnt glater etiunnj- - to the workers w ho brought thim about, and this inthuo injurmu- to lliem. f X I ic-ti- believe that fal-- e teeth nre one of the in modern times which contribute t i sborleli life. '1 hat m on of my pet hobbit's, and al-- t am often laughed ut for holding hough null an opinion, I believe it is correct and I will tel! nu whv. A mun rarely neisls of false teeth until he is nearing fifty at the earliest, and he usually manages to get along for perhaps eight or ten years Indore that on a few natural teeth. He is getting old in the meantime, and finding himself hampered by inadequate teeth. He must jmrforoe forego many articles of food which other people can cat without any difficulty. Now, after ten years, perhaps, of abstinence from heavy foods, difficult to masticate, and getting older every day, he puri liases a set of false teeth. Immediately he feels rejuvenated and starts to cut mg anything and everything with the avidity of a sclioollmy. Hut Ins stomach rebels, although in the man feels no ill effects at the time. iminy ea-sBut after a while he gets indigestion, dyspepsia and a thousand other complaints, and all because of his false teeth. If he had let them alone lie would have continued eating easily digestible fissl and his stomach, to say nothing of years to his lifetime, would have been saved. No, sir, I don't wear false teeth, and 1 never shall. I ileimnts 1 act Ule -- 1 1 er jwse the same fluency and command of Herman and Fnglish, but possibly I can use (lie Fnglish just a trifle more readily as I converse in it oftener than the other, whuh is my native tongue. W'lien shaking with my father and mother I invariably speak Herman. good many years ago 1 had a very fair mastery of Italian and Spanish, but I have utterly lost the abilthrough in either. Proiuffi I read converse to ity with ease. hut seldom essay to talk it 1 matter ' "Why are you miking this noise, you fool cried "I lion sk very near eating a nebra." he replied I ran forward and there, sure enough, was a lion In the bright moonlight. black maned big had of pronunciation. eating a xebra within fifty yard of the sentry to After all, a man nowadays iietds He had eildently chased the nebra Into the j huow but three tongues laiglish, Herman and French. The lluysian township, killed It and was now happily taking matters little, for one can go all over the car's dominions on one or two his supper He paid not the slightest attention to the sentry's noiseTTmt kept on tearing great of the piedomimint languages. masses of flesh from the xebra carcase. purrlng The Fnglish juH keep at the head of the procession, for many more loudly all the time like a huge eat My sympathy w?s with the sentry, for he dare millions employ it than any other one tongue. While a great language, not leave his post and he dare not fire at th$ v the Herman. inferior to in it is sonny respects cry Hn for he was uncertain aa to the accuracy of ny One can express his thoughts more clearly, think, Imd convey ' his his old weapon whWTmd been condemned years by rha,ggvernment and waa now exae meaning more accurately in ilerninn. By reason of this the Ger-- n unfit for use totally literature is preferable to the Fnglish. Telling the sentry to take advantage of the safety offered him at the top of a nearby lampIn many of the sensational divorce post, I hastened to my house to get my sportln within rifle In order totdo this 1 bad to cast's reported in the newspapers a one hundred yards of the lion, who paid no attenis named, with dates and places. tion to me at all I hurried back to tbC spot The ju Ige hears the case and a decree is with my trusty rifle and fired at the Hon. badly, grounding 1L He dashed off Into the plalne be- given. Hut is the corespondent to a divorce hind the town, emitting angry foara aa he weutf suit not a criminal if the trial judge finds 1 decided to follow him for a time at least, but the allegations true? Is not the one who after a tiring chase he outdistanced me and I was forced to return to bed has broken up a home, robbed another of Next morning I rode out Into the plain and that which is most precious and sacred, a searched for him I goon picked op hie enoor worse robber than a burglar? Then why end In two hours had killed nay first Hon within few miles of Nairobi township. He was a very are the guilty ones not prosecuted after a Initial effine specimen ,atd well worthy of being found offenders in a divorce suit ? fort In lion hunting I was justly proud of my Stolen articles can be replaced, but home achievements but had to submit to' a considerable amount of good natured chaff from my ""ties wnd peace of mind never. ' brother officials for being so keen as to bunt my Could not the legislature amend the present law and grant the trial first lion by moonlight in the atreete of the town On another occasion a young Hon cub was judge or jury hearing a divorce case the power at the same time of senfound by a party of us under the raised floor of tencing the corespondent if guilty to the penitentiary for from one to ttte corrugated Iron postoffice building In-- , the five years, at the same time making other statutory grounda punishable main street of Nairobi. It bad apparently come B by night by penitentiary sentence? - This would soon core .the divorce evil, save Into town with Its mother to vtw something d had probably been' frigBtene' the children. the home tics and I di-u- se -e ' I open-mouthe- d t protect Pa I r. d iv-- it J A long grass on the opposite bank moved apart and grateful young lioness stepped out Into tbe "open! I was considerably taken aback, for had no means of offense or defense; moreover, she was less than a stone's throw away from me I looked at her and she looked at me Then as quietly as she had come, she departed. My dog had run toward me meanwhile and caught a glimpse of the lioness disappearing In the long grass He dashed after her, and I had much ado to recall him The lioness crashed off at a gallop Into the plains and that was tbe last 1 saw of her It was certainly a little upsetting and Needless to quite spoiled my afternoon's stroll say 1 returned to my camp and next time I took a stroll I carried, my gun with me. It Is strange that tbe lioness should have been In tbM pwrta. for neer before had one been seen In that neighborhood However, a few days later I left Muhoronl to run Into Klaumu forty miles away. I traveled The trolley on the railway by a passenger train from the coast to the lake had preceded me by a bare fifteen minutes. Less than three miles out of Muhoronl station, as we were descending a dip In the railway, I noticed something on the track. We were approaching It at a high rate of speed and I could not at first make out what It was Suddenly, when only about sixty yards away, two young lionesses got up slowly from the track, where and they were lazily stretching themselves, climbed the hank beside the track! I had only a shotgun and did not dare fire at with me and them, for I had only amall bird-shonly two shells In all. I shouted to my native trolley boys to make the machine travel at Its highest speed and they stuck to their work like heroes. We dashed past the two lionesses and began our ascent of the rise. Luckily the two cats did not attempt to follow or attack us As far as I know, these are the only two occasions on which lions have been seen In this section of the country But all my many encounters have not been so easy as these. On some occasions they have shown fight In a most determined manner. One In particular gave me some very anxious moI was out hunting meat and picked up ments the fresh trail of a lion. I decided to follow and In due course came up with him He was a fine, unmaned specimen and a full grown one cast envious eyes upon his hide and decided, come what might, to add him to my trophies. Then began a hard stalk. The lion would dash off at a great speed and then disappear-l- n the long grass f would follow as fast as I could, and on reaching tbe spot where I had last seen him. would advance with great caution. Then he would spring out ahd dash off again This was repeated several times and It tired me and so I lost patience esayed a long shot and hit him., He disappeared In the long grass with a roar of pain and anger J advanced carefully, keeping a watchful eye for possible developments I could see and hear where he was. but could not get him to come out Into the open I knew that It was supreme foUy to follow him Into the long grass in fact It was I decided to burn him courting certain death out My porters and myself set fire to the long grass and then I stood ready, to kill as the big beast dashed for safety Suddenly with a mighty roar he came bounding In huge leaps toward me. I fired straight at his chest and raked him through the entire length of his body I fired a second shot and still he came on. although he was mortally wounded. My gun bearer banded me my rond gun and I 'fired again quickly, this tlmv killing him HI huge body fell with a crash !mct at my fet and I was able to breathe again fj.vly ft f,a(1 been a very exciting few minutes and ax one time It looked as if the llori might win. The skin was ruined as far as being a good specimen was for concerned, my shots had seriously damaged It. However, he made a bully trophy and I was quite pleased with the result of my shoot If I had followed him into the long grfc8 I should most certainly have been badly mapled so that I must have diell either from shock or from ganNearlv every man who has grene poisoning died at tbe hands of a lion has (nne so as h result of following a wounded Hon Inio - ' fooliahly a 1 We closed in upon him from all sides, having much ado In getting our ponies to face the unusual situation One man rode In close and fired at him with a revolver. The lion was wounded mortally for the second time, but sprang savagely at him and seized him by the leg. We were horrified to see the lion drag him off his pony to the ground and rode forward to the rescue We killed the Hon over his body and so saved his life, but unfortunately our efforts were unavailing, for, after living through an agony of torture for a week or more, he died from gangrene poisoning That It the first and only case where the hunters have suffered from this new and Invigorating form of sport It beat. pig sticking as an exciting form of sport and is infinitely more enervating than shooting Hons by approved methods of There Is something In the wild ride hunting and the attendant risk which Is altogether fascinating and Irresistible for most men who have once tried this method of Quite a number of lions have fallen Tlctims In the field as the result of this new plan of attack In fact, the game warden has no less than four Hons to his credit from this method of killing alone, to say nothing of the numbers which have fallen to his rifle by the accepted form of slaying I was In the Sotik eounrry one dav, trailing out to Inspect a detachment of mv force, who I was alone, about an were on outpost duty hours march ahead of my porters and escort and. It being very hot. I decided to sit and rest until my caravan came up with me I saw a large and shadv bush a short distance from my trail and decided that this would he a very suitable spot to rest I went over to It and threw myself under Its welcome shade. Then I took a satisfying drink from my water bottle and filled my pipe. I must have sat there for over an hour, smoking and thinking of what I should do when I reached lmdon for my six month' holiday, which was within measurable distance I thought of no danger and smoked and built castles in the air In due course my porters hove In sight and as they approached they began to sing lustily Suddenly from behind me someThere was an Instants awlsh-Inmoved blg thing of the grass and( the cracking of twigs and lion boundthen, io and behold, a big ed away from the other aide of the bush! I was too astonished to fire and could only stare after with astonishment It. 1 do not know to this day what had really happened, but I suspect that the lion had been asleep In the shade on the other side of the bush. as unaware of my presence as I wss of his It was certainly a remarkable experience and a laughable one. although1. In all conscience. It IffT native might have ended very differently porter and servants were firmlv convinced that I had the evil eye and therefore the lion would not attack me Nothing could shake their faith In my power over the king of beasts" If I had known of the proximity of this wonderfully fine specimen, I should certainly not have sat down and smoked so unconcernedly beside the thorn-busAt Muhoronl station In the Nyando valley, near Lake Victoria, In the latter part of 904 I was taking a stroll out from the camp when the sun had cooled off In the evening e knew that no lions were ever seen In this vicinity and so did not bother to take a gun with me My sportMicky Doolan." kept me ing little company . 1 turned my footsteps toward a small stream about a mile and a half from the camp On ar-- . rival at the banka of the almost dried up river, I stood for a while watching a young reed buck gamboling with fts mother Micky Doolan chased Imaginary rats with deep content Suddenly the black-mane- i core-spnnd- k g fee-ma- A v roars e s by Coirfprnptwlp. future. S lent fie management, to my mind, is the appluation of certain principles to the directing and guiding anil the assisting of labor along proper business and eeonotnic line- - These priiie'ples are universally recognised m the business world tod.i, ami are neiessarily tasonnng more evident in every Ann man shop as the completion grows keener and blie i nisessity for the utmost protii n in y orrespond ingly great r. mum dilTen nt Hades are This in csjiei tally true in a plant when-sto be. Onlv bv nt of constant attention to detul.s involved as in a ahipvarl I have Invariably experienced the greateat danger In hunting where elephants V concerned. and careful Isioking of ris i!n for fu lire omnarison (an Ilk lent With Ilona have never had any serious trouble. be armed at. The d il.u!i of obtaining in h roil Its is griattr ill In fact I have rather a sneaking contempt for T T V |
