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-fv- &f f . "" jf"WiW ' rT ? q f l i n y-1 !! Iff JASPER NEWS A. F. PltAKE. Kditor . . . . MISSOUIU jAsrnu. If there If a baseball trust It It cer 'Uln that It Isn't In tho umpire. A man ''rarely knows when to din card an old tult of clothes Oooso eggs begin to bo a little los prominent, In tho standing of the base ball clubs. No littlo oratory Is now directed nt the umpire Tho bandwagon has lost Its monopoly A Itbodo Island legislator advocates a law to stop elopements, but love laughs at law smiths "Eating." sa)s n scientist, "Is a dy Ing art." It bchooNea somo kind mend to blow him to A meal FYoaklsb st)les of tho present set son need not bo erpeited to reduce tho number of mlsogjnlsts Tho "Jelly wobble" Is tho latest dnnco fad In Washington. And In pol Itlcs ' everybody's doln' It" Story tellers In Japin get 20 ccntH an hour, but fishermen In this country tall stories b the hour. gratis Tho Inventor of tho wireless tele graph has taken tils placo among tbo greatest of tho world's benefactors In theso nightmarish times of mov Ing and housecleanlng modern man envies his forbears who Iled In caves Strawberries and rubles look somo what alike, and nt this time ot tho year they close!) resemble each other In price A Philadelphia policeman has re tired from the force with a fortutio ol 2&0,000 Ot course, be saved It out of his wages An eccentric Massachusetts woman has bequeathed $100 000 to n horse all of which may bo considered a horse on bcr relatives A Chicago physician sajs street car strnps aro covered with every germ known to sclenco Doll jour hands after strap hanging A Massachusetts man cornea to the front with two oats that havo cork ccrow tails Now wo Know why Its called katzenjammer Tho University of Wisconsin nsscrts that verv fen of Its co-eds become old ialds There will now bo a rush to the higher education Tho latest fashlonnblo dnco In Washington Is announced as 'ho ' Joi ly wobble" Tho next one will prob ably bo tho "pklilo prunce" Anger causes cold feit, Bnyi a Chi cago professor. Evidently p'epnrlng to boom the overshoe trade In Chi cago during the convention. A California man has been lined for belting up his mother In law. but thcru aro those who bsllovo that he desorvos a Cnrneglo medal It has been discovered by n statisti cian that more divorces are granted In April than In any other month House cleaning tlmo and moving tlmo Now a woman lias flown ncros the, English channel ns n passenger In an aeroplane Another notice to John Hull that thoy cannot bo kept down I Scientists have perfected an ap paratus Tor broiling TOO steaks In six minutes, showing how some peoplo like to dally with matters ol pure theory. Capt Scott has decided to spend an other year In the Wclnlty of the South Pole. Tho women aro right Some men never do know when to come homo A joung weslernor tan his motor car Into another and wed tho fair oc cupnnt thereof It has always been our contention that motoring Is a dan Ceioua sport In Strnssburg, Germany, n cobblet has, niter working fifteen years upon It, llulshed a clock that Is mado ot straw This Impresses us as being about as Important as a straw voto One Turkish soldier was killed In a bombardment ol forts on tho Dar danelles by Italian warships That Is almost comparable with the report ot a preliminary In an obscure boxing show Women's clubs In Cincinnati want n curfew law lor men, requiring all to be at homo at nlno o'clock Now there will bo a hurried masculine pro test against the feminization ot the law It rmitnd the Anstrn Hnnr,,-!,,,, ambassador to tho United States to protest successfully against the extdr (Jon nf a New York automohlln H er, although this Is the land of free- oom i rum lyruuuj A section of the brain of at Infant baa been transplanted to the cranium o! a man If It should appear that the transplanted portion still retalna the Infantile Instincts there may come moments In the life of ltt adult pot aesror fraught with surprise and em barassment We Kind of Beasts? LI. big game hunters are divid ed In their opinions as to which Is tho most dangerous animal to hunt In Africa Homo select tho, Hon, 'others the bulfalo, others again the rhinoceros, while the greater majority natno the elephant, It Is purely n matter of which animal, In tho hunter's own experience, has been tho most dangerous Personally, as the result of many years' experience Ith big game In Africa, I chose tho clcihnnt as tho most danger ous Perhaps I hac been un duly fortunnte In encounters with tho lion, nnd that alone makes him appear an) thing but tho ' king of beasts" that he Is so popularly bupposcd to Ikj I l.avc Invariably experienced the greatest din ger In hunting where ilepbantB were concerned With lions I have never had nnv serious trouble In fact I have rather a rneaUlnn contempt for them, for thoy nro harmless exeept when thej are wounded and followed Into tho long grass, or In tho case of a lioness with cubs So great a contempt have tho men In Knst Africa for thom that the) havo now taken to hunting thom on horseback, riding them down and shooting thom with revolvers I shall endeavor to show wh) the hunters of Afrlcn look so lightly upon these tawny beasts of the Jungle I must confess, unless I bo mis understood, tint lions mav be ns dangerous nnd even more so than other animals of the plains or forests under certain circumstances but It has never ben my lot to experience on) great dnn ger from them This Is prlmirtl) due to an In born cnutlon begot ns the result of Feven years' hunting In the wilderness of tropical Africa At times there nro man enters at large, but for the most port the) aro lions that hnve tasted blood or Hint are too old to hunt their natural pre) the zebras Man eaters are n rarlt) rather than otherwise In Past Africa and Uganda In fact I know of onl) one ense where a white man Ins been eat en by n Hon during tho whole seven )enrs ot my residence In Hast Africa Tho story ot this Is dreadful enough In its pitiless detail but there Is n touch of humor In the stor), notwithstand ing I was stationed at n small null Ing government rost enrl) In 1901, when a native came In ono day nnd reported that a white mm who had been prospecting for land had disappeared and left his earnvan of porters almost starving somo days 'march aw a) from my post I hastened out to search for the mm and to relievo tho porters from their predicament On my arrival at the camp I found that the porters had no Idea what had become of their master At first I suspected foul pla), but later camo to tl o conclusion that the man had fallen a victim to n prowling benst of the Jungles I Instituted a close search nnd eventually found tho head nnd bhoulders of the poor fellow He had been eaten b) n linn of tint there could be no mistake, Judging by the remains The remnants of the bod) were In a bid stato of decomposition and I had them placed In n pacMngcaso for burial On m) way to tho gravo to perform tho burial service I was almost over come with laughter . despite tho sad occasion, by observing on the packing capo codln the Bten riled words, 'Keep In ft cool place" "Slow away from the boilers ' The piicUngcnse had been used to ship cans of butter to Vast Africa, henco tbo painted signs The native's occasionally fall victims to the depredations of lions, but tho vvhlto mm rarely doss for some unknown reason liven then tho deaths nre more often due to gangrene" setting In whero men have been mauled nnd rarel) from actual direct killing I remember well mj first meeting with n lion I was coming homo from a dinner pirt) lato at night In Nairobi, tho cnpllal of PJnst Africa, nnd had decided to Inspect one of my mllltir) guards on the government railway buildings When I had approached near enough to the sentry to hear what was going on I was surprised to hear lilm bnnglng the corrugated Iron wall of the building with tho butt end of his Martini Henri rifle Ho wns shouting "Shoo! shoo!" nt the top of his voice I ran toward him to discover what was the matter "Why are you making this noise, you fool?' 1 cried "I lion sir, very near, eating a zebra," he re plied I ran forward and there sum enough was n hlg black mined lion In tho bright moonlight, eating n zebra within fifty yards of tho sentry. Ho had evidently chased the zebra Into tho township, killed It nnd was now happt!) taking his supper Ho paid not the slightest attention to the sentry's liolse, but kept on tearing groat masse of flesh from tho zebra's carcass, purring loudly all the tlmo llko a huge cat My sympathy was with the sentry, for be dare not leave his post nnd he dare not lire at the lloon, for he was uncertain as to tho accuracy of his old woapon, which had been condemned for many jonrs by the government and was now totally unfit for use Telling tho sentry to tako advantage of tho Bafety offered him nt the top of a nearby lamp post, I hastened to my house to get m sporting rifio In order to do this I had to pass within one hundred yards of the Hon who paid no atten tion to mo nt all I hurried back to the spot with my trust) rifle nnd fired at the Hon, badly wounding It He dashed off Into the plains be hind tho town, emitting angry roars as ho went 1 decided to follow him for a time at least, but after a tiring chase ho outdistanced mo and I xvas forced to return to bed Next morning I rodo out Into tbo plains and aokrebed for him 1 soon picked up his spoor and In two hours had killed my first Hon within a few miles of Nairobi township Ho was a very fino sioclmen and well worthy of my Initial ef fort In Hon hunting 1 was Justly proud of my achievement, but had to submit to a consider able amount of good natured chaff from my brother officials for being so keen as to hunt my first Hon by moonlight In tho streets of tbc town On another occasion a young Hon cub was found by a party of us under the raised floor of the corrugated Iron postomce building In the main street of Nairobi It had apparently come Into town with Its mother to view It by night and bad probably been frightened by something Jl Uuntpr's Talp of 1 T the Lion ay zip rinas him -Dangprous and ContpmpWlp . fy W. Robert rbmi COPYPIOHT 7$f R1DGXY CO. and taken refuge un der tho postolllce. Any way. whatever th eause of Its arrlvnl, tho fact remains that It was very easily caught nnd ndopted b) tho postmaster It grew Into a llno-slzcd Hon before It took somo sill), childish, Hun complaint and went tho way of all of us Tho gime warden of tbo country had two young Hon cubs In his gardon and used them as pets They wero tho two most playful joung sters Imaginable and spent their spire mo ments stalking any ono who might be cull ing on tho owner I remember taking a lit tie girl to see tbem on ono occasion Tho two cubs Immediately be gan to stalk her In a most realistic manner much to her emb.ir rassmont They died after a short time In captivity this way It often happens A rart) of us went out ono Sunday after lions nnd adopted tho novel method of riding them down on pony back We had not been out long before we 'put up" a big tawny fellow and Imme dlately gave chase There wero four of us In tho party and wo soon rounded the lion up In fino shape Whllo ono of us fired nt him In the open plain with a revolver, wounding him bndl) ho came to bay, clawing up tho earth In huge patches with his claws and emitting terrifying roars Wo closed In upon him from nil Bides, having much ado In getting our ponies to face the un usual situation Ono man rodo in close nnd tired nt him with a revolver Tho lion was wounded mortally for the second time, but sprang snv agel) nt him and seized him by the leg We were horrified to Bie tho lion drag him off his pony to tho ground rnd rodo forward to the res cue Wo killed tbo Hon over his body and so saved his life, but unfortunately our efforts wero unavailing for after living through an ngor.) of torture for a week or more, ho died from gnn greno poisoning That It tho first and only case whero tho hunt era have suffered from this new and Invlgnritlng form of sport It bcatB pig sticking as an exclt Ing form of sport and Is Infinitely more enervat ing than shooting lions by approved methods of hunting There Is something In tho wild ride nnd tho attendant risk which Is altogether fascl natlng and Irresistible for most men who have once tried this method of Hon hunting Quito a number of lions havo fallen victims In tho field ns tho result of this new plan of at tack In fact, the game warden has no less than four lions to his credit from this method of kill ing alone, to Bay nothing of tho numbers which have fallen to his rifle by tho accepted form of slaying I was In tho Sotlk country one day trailing out to Inspect a detachment of m) force who were on outpost duty I wns alone about an hour's march ahead of my porters and escort nnd It being very hot, I decided to sit nnd rest until my caravan camo up with me I saw a large and shady bush a short distance from my trail and decided that this would be a very suitable spot to rest I went over to It and threw myself un der Its welcome Bhado Then I took a satisfy Ing drink from my water bottle and filled my plpo I must have sat there for over an hour smoking and thinking of what I should do when I reached London for my six months holiday which was within measurable distance I thought of no danger and smoked and built castles In the air In duo course my porters hovo In sight and as they approached they began to sing lustily Suddenly from behind mo some thing big moved There was an Instant's swish ing of the grass and tho cracking of twigs nnd then, lo and behold a big black maned Hon bound od nway from tho other side of tho busht I was too nstonished to fire nnd could only stare after It, open mouthed with astonishment I do not know to this dny what had really happened, but I suspect tliat the Hon had been nateep In the shade on tbo other side of tho bush, as unaware of my presence as I was of his It was certainly a remarkable expertenco and a laughable one, although. In all conscience It might havo ended very differently My native porters and servants wero firmly convinced that I had tho, ovll eye and therefore the lion would not attack me. Nothing could shako their faith In my power over the "king of beasts" If I had known of the proximity of this wonderfully fine sped men. I should certainly not hnve sat down and smoked so unconcernedly besldo the thorn bush At Muhoronl station In tho Nyando valley near Lake Victoria, In tho latter part of 1904 I was taking a stroll out from tho camp when the sun had cooled off In the evening I knew that no lions were ever seen In this vicinity nnd so did not bother to take a gun with me My sport ing littlo fox terrier, "Micky Doolan." kept mo company . I turned my footsteps toward a small stream about a mllo and a half from the camp On ar rival at the banks ot the almost dried up river, I stood for a while watching a young reed buck gamboling with Its mother. Micky Doolan chased Imaginary rata with deep content Suddenly tbo 7 7"1 - long grass on tho opposlto bank moved i.parl and n graceful )oung lioness stepped out Into tbo open' I was considerably taken aback, for 1 had no moans of offense or defense moreover, sho wns less than a stones throw away frost me I looked at her and she looked nt me Then ns nuletl) au 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 Tho lioness crashed off at n gal lop Into tho plilns nnd that was the last I saw of her It was certalnl) a little upsetting and quite i oiled my nfternoon's stroll Needless to 8B) I returned to m) camp and next time I took a stroll I carried my gun with me It Is strnngo tint the lioness should havo been In these parts, for never before had ono been seen In that neigh borhood However, n few da)s later I left Muhoronl to run Into Klsumu forty miles nway I traveled by a hand propelled trolley on the rallwa) Tho trl weekl) passenger train from the coast to tho lake hnd pieceded mo by a bare fifteen minutes I.OS8 than threo miles out of Muhoronl station, as we were descending n dip In the railway, I tintlcid something on the track We were np proachtng It at n high rato of spee'd and I could not at first make out what It was Suddmly when onl) nbout sixty )ards avva) two )oung lionesses got up slowly from the track whero they were lazily stretching themselves and climbed the bank beside the track' I had only n shotgun and did not diro fire nt them for I hid onl) small bird shot with me and only two shells In all I shouted to my native trolle) boys to make the machine travol at Its highest speed and the) stuck to their work llko heroes We dashed past the two lionesses nnd began our ascent of tho rlBe Luckll) tho two cats did not nttempt to follow or attack us As far as I know these aro tho only two occa sions on which lions have be-en seen In this sec tion of tho country Hut nil my many encounters have not been so easy ns these On some occasions they bavo shown light In a most determined manner Ono in particular gave mo some very anxious mo ments I was out hunting meat nnd picked up the ficsh trail of a lion I decided to follow and In duo course came up with him He was a fino unmaned specimen nnd a full grown one I cast envious eyes upon his hide rend decided, come what might to add him to my trophies Then began a hard stalk The Hon would dash off at a great speed and then disappear In tho long grass I would follow as fast as I could nnd on reaching tho spot whero I hnd last seen him would advance with great caution Then ho would spring out and dash off again This was repented several times nnd It tired me and so I lost patience I esa)ed a long shot and hit him, He disappeared In the long grass with n roar of pnln nnd anger I advanced carefully, keeping a watchful eye for roHslble dovolopmentB I could see and hear where he was, but could not get him to como out Into tho oren 1 Know that It was supremo folly to follow him Into the long grass In fact It was courting certain death I decided to burn him out My porters and myself set flro to the long grass and then I stood ready to kill as the big beast dnshed for safety Suddenly with a mighty roar he came bound ing In huge lonps toward me I fired straight at his chest and raked hlrn through the entlro length of his bed) I fired a second shot and still ho came on, although ho wns mortally wounded M) gun bearer handed me my second gun nnd I fired again quickly, this time killing him His huge body fell with a crnsh almost at my feet and I was nble to broathe again freely it had been a very exciting few minutes and at one time It looked as If the Hon might win The skin was ruined as far as being a good specimen was concerned, for my shots had seriously damaged It However, he made a bully trophy and I was quite pleased with the results of my shoot If I had followed him Into the long grass I should most certainly have been badly mauled so that I must have died either from shock or from gan- SI'T .P?i"1,DB, Noarljr ever7 m3 "" has died at the bands of a Hon has done so at the result of following a wounded Hon Into cover foolishly A MARVELOU8 RECOVERY. Mrs. Itay Trusner, 30 W, 3rd St., New Albnny, Ind , says: "Kidney dis ease had rendered mo n chronic In valid. I lay In bed unablo to movo hand or loot. My right limb was swol len to twice normal size. I looked tho plcturo of doath nnd lny enso puzzled the doctors. Kidney se cretions wero hlfhly rnlnrpcl nnil ervilrind terrlbl) Marked Improvement follow ed tho use of Uoan's Kidney Pills nnd In six weeks I was a well woman. My friends nnd relatives marvel nt my recovery." "When Your Hack Is Lame, Hemem ber the Name DOAN'S " COc all stores Fostu-Mllburn Co, Buffalo, N Y It's an easy matter to forget an In Jur), provided you don't keep forget ting you h.txo forgotten It tr Whislow's Poothln? Syrup for CMI Irra trrthlnjr, nortenstlir irunm. miners Inflauitiin tlou, allays ialn,cur wind tollc, sui n Uituo. Somo people uro such sticklers for form that they expect Dame Kortun to remember tholr "nt home dayB Rsrflelil Tea Is nnpqtVlol clihrr bs an oujulomil or it dally luxittUt Tho mnn who steala our thunder is nnturallv under a cloud WHAT YOU NEED N. When the appetite is poor When tho stomach Is weak When the bowels arc clogged When you arc run-down- is a short course of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS IT TONES STRENGTHENS INVIGORATES Try a bottle today and be con vinced. All Druggists. Romance of Life. An entombed miner In an Arlzoni nimp waB rescued from his living g.nvo after having been burled for many hours He was only a solltnry workman but thousands of iwrsons Interosttd themselves In his rescue Ills story became the topic of many newspapers during his long and per ilous wait for the light to steal through from tho good warm sun Tho natural death of many Important citi zens In tho snmo length of time in any one locality would not hivo at tracted so much attention Such in stances glvo tho lmaglmtlon an op portunity to play upon tho common fate of all humanity Tho tragedy of death Ib inextricably Interwoven with tho romance of llfo and nn Individual or nn nrm In per" makes a wide np penl In which every unit of society will ever partliipite It Is only now and then that n few master builders become so world wear) through Iqnif practice In dentin, with generalities that tho Individual experience loses tho charm of emphasis It Is thus that theologians sometimes account for tho appirent Indifference ot Jesus to tho personal fato of John the Bap tist A QUARTER CENTURY v narirsr?r -rue rsum ir A utrunL iiil, -sua.is Over FUo Million Free Samples Given Away Each Vcar. 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JMraiArUtrtt smmSmW wiTTLt P5kis.W UIVEK mk ipi"-"- V Jafcak.' hi V EYE WATER TL.ftj.WfrX JOHN a. moaU-aOM 0 AGO. Trur. It. .