Show REAL TARZAN CARED FOR BY BABOON MOTHER lad by ant animals mals still shows symptoms of wild state london tarzan has come true and killings Kip Rip lings alow if who was reared by the wolves Is not io so far fetched as readers may suppose according to the report which has just readied reached here from johannesburg sout africa of the discovery of a baboon bo according to the story a south african native hiby baby was from liis his kraal by baboons babions ba boons was cared for by a baboon roster foster mother for years and spent a large period of his boyhood roaming the wilds with the troop about 25 years ago two troopers of the old cape pollee police were making their way through wild country in southeast cape province when they came on a troop of ba boons they tired fired at them and the troop scampered away but one monkey who tailed off at the rear seemed to be wounded the troopers galloped up to the laggard and to their astonishment found instead of a baboon a well grown native boy hopping along on all fours after his departed associates bit captors when they came to cloe clo e quarters with the boy lie scratched and bit them fiercely und put up a considerable fight before he was overpowered ills naked state made it exceedingly cee difficult dl for the troopers to get a firm grip grin on him all efforts to trace the captives parentage proved futile ne he was therefore handed over to the authorities of a mental hospital in a neighboring town where he was kept tor for a year and given the name ot of lucas the 11 was cared for by a baboon foster mother boy was unable to talk and showed a great dislike for orthodox human food raw ilaw and prickly pears proved to be ills his favorite diet and his appetite appeLl te was en ormom though mis ch chleo leous ua lie he turned out not to be vi c cious I 1 ous and was soon won to those about him by hind kindness ness but it was found difficult to make him walk attempts were made to place the boy with some one who would undertake to train him finally 0 if smith the owner of 0 a large farm in ID the bathurst district of the hie cape province heard of lucas and so some 21 24 2 1 years ago the baboon boy came under the care of his present employer becomes docile boy sir 1117 smith at first was worried about the task lie had undertaken but lucas had by tills this time lost his orl original dislike of human beings and wa ans s a comparatively docile native bo boy Y still possessing odd mannerisms lucas can only speak english eng as ills his duties bring him blar into contact mostly with only his master and mistress ile he Is very fond of children and ills his special delight Is to take care of his employers little ones today mr air smith would not exchange his onetime doubtful bargain for any other two native workers lucas does not mind talking about what lie he remembers of ills his boyhood the baboons babions ba boons ue he tells how one big baboon used to take him in its arms on cold nights and put him warmly to sleep la in the undergrowth of the bush and of how bow edible crickets were collected from the ground to appease the pangs of ever present hunger on request lucas will even go down on all fours and give in an exhibition hibi tion of how flow he marched with the baboon herd |