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HUNTING THE Li IN AFRICA. Thrilling Experience in the Open. Face to Face With a MONSTER MAN EATER—THE Lioness and Her Cubs— Interesting Story of the Journey of a Caravan. Field and Stream. It was during the early winter of 1S9 — that I had my first expe rience in hunting latge game in Africa. Although I had been a resident of South Africa for several years, try duties as mining engi neer in the employ of the Deßeers Mining Company had taken up all my time with the exception of a few “off” days, spent in the veldt country of the Transvaal, hunting African gazelle and their much larger cousins, oryx. While I had managed on one occasion to bring down two of the former diminut ve creatures (little larger than in American jack-rabbit). I was never able to get within rifle range of the wary oryx. For a number of years a feeling of discontent had been manifest among the foreign or “Uitlander” population of the Dutch republic, caused by the passage of obnoxious alien laws by the Boers. The feel ing finally resulted in a half-heart ed insurrection, during which Dr. Jameson of the British army made his since famous raid into the Transvaal, which resulted in the death of some fifty Boers and twice that number of English soldiers. Although I had. always had much sympathy for the original settlers of the Transvaal, mv surroundings at the time were such that I was forced to take part in the uprising, and as a result was incarcerated m the grim, one-story prison at Johan nesburg for several days, when through the inflnence of friends, I was liberated. I at first thought of returning to the United States, but as mining engineers were then scarce in South i Africa, the com pany at last induced me to remain agreeing to send me out of the Transvaal at once upon a prospect ing tour into the wilds of Central Afiica up a caravan or “kafila,” as it is called there, for the_ pur 7S“TTy'no IneanTa small undertak ing. First and foremost in impor tance is the selection of competent and faithful guides and attendants, I managed to get together a party of twenty, composed of two white men (myself and an Englishman by the name of Wilson, who was to take direct charge of the kafila), twelve Matabeles, five Kaffirs and an old Zulu, by name Gan Eiba (which I soon shortened into Gan), who was said to be remarkably ex pert in hunting large game. He was a striking fellow,several inches above six feet in height, straight as an arrow’, his chest, back and limbs covered with bunches of mus cles as hard as bone. He was a leopard hunter by profession, and for many years had made a bus iness of ridding the country of these troublesome pests. We left Johannesburg in the lat ter part of April, with instructions to proceed by rail to Port Lorenzo, where a small coasting steamer had been chartered to take us to the mouth of the Zambesi river, Mozambique. We were to follow this stream inland for about 3,000 miles, and then move north to Lake Bangweolo, latitude 10 de grees, and then east to th : coa: t, striking some of the many sma 1 trading posts between Cape De gado , and Zanzibar, whence we could embark for home. In addi tion to our arms, we had six cam els, twenty donkeys and twenty-six ponies, also 1,500 pounds of “gee,” 1,500 pounds of rice, a large as sortment of cooking pots, water casks and condensers and several hundred small trinkets for pres ents. In due time we were aboard the steamer, and after a very rough journey of nearlv a week’s dur: - tion, were landed “bag and bag gage” upon the barren shores 1 f /(OoifsX f WpILLSA Bouse r the tor | pid liver, and care biliousness, sick I headache, jaundice, nausea, tion, etc. They are in valuable to prevent a cold or break up a fever. Mild, gentle, certain, they are worthy your confidence. Purely vegetable, they can be taken by children or delicate women. Price, 2%;. at all medicine dealers or by mall C. L Hood and Cos„ Lowell, Mass. NO crop can grow with out Potash. Every blade of Grass, every' grain of Corn, all Fruits and Vegetables must have it. If enough is supplied you can count on a full crop— if too little, the growth will be “ scrubby. ’ Send for our book* telling all about composition and fertilisers best adapted for all crops. They cost you nothing. GKRMAN KALI WORKS. 93 Nassau St., New Yort Mozambique, a mile north of the Zambesi. This is indeed a most desolate country; the Zambesi and its flats —a broad ribbon of silver and green, bordered here* and there by black cliffs —split the desert from east to west. To the north and east as far as the eye can reach, stretches a waste of mesa-land; sand and cactus, sand, black rock, and more sanu —sand that dazzles the eye like snow, with here and there a cluster of palms and jungle grass, which indicate where peri odical springs rise out of the quiet sea, with its short reefs of gray ccrral. shining white in the eternal sunshine, and over all a dreary simoon sweeps the sand in whirl ing clouds from the north, burying all before it. Looking westward over the dreary waste of desert, one could hardly believe that but a few hundred miles away was a land second to none in point of fer tility. One evening in the latter part of May we encamped upon the outskirts of a wadi of unusual size, pitching our tents near a large spring, the water of which was as clear as crystal and very cool. As it was already dark when we had finished supper, I omitted my us ual evening stroll and prepared to retire at once, informing the men that we would remain over here for at least a day, the animals needing rest badly after their long pull through the sand. The cam els had been driven in and made to lie down in a circle, when they W’ere secured by the tying up of a fore leg. Around the fire my native men, a*neigliH boring village, sat cheerfully eat ing their dates and rice. The star light shone dimly on the long necks and misshapen backs of the cam els, and showed faintly the solitary, white-clad figure of the sentry as he stood at the outskirts of the camp.crooning to himself a mourn ful Matabele song. Soon the men had finished eating and were stretched at full length about the fire, while the silence of the jungle crept overaal a silence broken frequently by the cry of a jackal or the weird howl of a hyena. As I lay in my tent I could look through the opening and imagine that at times I saw the dusky out lines of huge forms in the jungle, while frequent growls and muffled roars and snorts told me that it was not all imagination, I was rapidly passing into dream land when, following a period of intense silence, came a far away, deep, moaning sound. While it was by no means loud or start ling, it brought me wide awake and sitting upright in an instant, my nerves tingling with excite ment. Although I had never heard the sound before instinct, or a kin dred sense, told me that it was the roar of a lion. A sound of excited voices from the camp showed that ray men also had heard it, and were wide awake in consequence; in a moment I could hear them piling dry brushwood on the slum bering coals. The deep, rambling roar was repeated at intervals, apparently’ growing nearer, and dying away in the same moaning note. Then an apparently interm liable time elapsed—a creepy silence,in which the men huddled around the blaz ing campfire; suddenly theie was a sound of a brute’s heavy gallop over the sand between the jungle and our camp, then a mighty roar, followed by a thud, as a donkey was felled, while his bray rang out piteously on the night air. A slight noise of struggle,a few more stifled brays, and then silence, bro ken a moment kter by the sound of a heavy body being dragged across the sand. After the first shock of excite ment I grasped my rifle and ran toward the men. When the lion began to drag the carcass of the donkey into the bush I moved in stinctiyely towaid the sound, at J which the Zulu cried quickly: “Khabdar! sahib! hara khabi! • panwar” (have care, sir, a very dangerous animal). When I turn ed to upbraid them all for their cowardice, the natives explained that the natives who had recently joined us had told them that this wa-d was inhabited by a pair of dreaded man-eating lions, which had killed some fifty natives in the past. As there is nothing in the world that a native dreads so much as a man-eating lion or leopard (the latter are scarce, but really do exist), I curbed my anger, and, resolving to square accounts with the marauder on the morrow, if he could be found, returned to my tent, where I soon fell asleep again. My cook awakened me at day light the following morning, and, after rubbing my eyes sleepily, I found the darkness and the lion had faded away together, while the wadi was alive with the notes of bird and wild fow’l. After a hasty breakfast I at once filled my jackets with cartridges, and. ac companied by Gan, the Zulu, start ed out upon the spoor of the lion. When we had proceeded about a mile we came upon the half-eaten carcass of the donkey, lying in a small thicket. After some careful reconnoitering we ascertained that the lion was not there, and so con tinued on his spoor through the thin growth of grass. As it had rained lightly during the early morning, this was very difficult, and, after following for a half a mile, we lost it altogether. There was nothing to do but return to camp, which we did reluctantly, trusting that fate would throw’ the game in our w'ay before we left the wadi. With the cool of the evening came the usual feeling of restless ness, and, calling to Gan, who was sitting apart from the rest, clean ing his eight-bore, we again took up the spoor of the lion, following it leisurely until we reached the carcass of the donkey. When we reached the spot we were delight ed to discover that the lion had been there shortly before our ar rival, his great tracks showing plainly in the tell-tale sand. We followed these in hot haste, and soon an expected exclamation from the Zulu told me that the game was close at hand. The spoor now led toward a dense thicket of wait a-bit thorns, about two hundred yards in diameter, which we ap proached with extreme caution. “Lion there, sure, sahib!” whis pered Gan, in Zulu, adding that I should approach from the front while he went around to the rear to intercept him in case he tried ianune7of niy gun drawn, I could at first see nothing. I was about to call Gan, when I suddenly made out the bjeks of two large yellow animal in the grass, and a moment later discovered that there were two cubs with them. They were evi dently disturbed, but were gazing in the.direction taken by Gan. ap parently not having noticed me. A moment later a fine lion sprang out into the open and seeing me less than fifty paces away, gave a low growl and disappeared into the thick brush. The other, a lioness, stood looking about, evi dently reluctant to leave her cubs, She w’as eyeing me closely, and it required a great deal of effort to enable me to scrape up enough courage to approach nearer. As I did so, she turned and ran about ten feet to a thick clump of grass, MMgEHßglgjggnßnVMt Hans An dttrseli ► Is^' . ? n °" can blow you away with a can you do to me?” But the flakes kept falling, fal ling, until the buffalo was almost buried, and the hunter slipped along the snow crust and made him an easy prey. There’s another hunter who hunts to kill, who makes many a man his victim because of a folly like that of the buffalo in Andersen’s fable. It’s a little thing to have that uneasy feeling in the stom ach after eating. Sour risings and belch ing are also reckoned little things. Yet these little things are among the minor marks of a disordered condition of the stomach and organs of nutrition and digestion. Of themselves they may not kill, but if despised they may -open a pathway to some deadly disease. Don’t neglect the first symptoms of indigestion or “ stomach trouble.” The timely use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medi cal Discovery may avert a more serious danger. It will surely cure any disease of the stomach and organs of digestion and nutntionPexcepting cancet. Mr Ned Nelson, the celebrated Irish comedian and mimic, of 577 Royden Street. Camden. N. J., writes : "We fulfilled an engagement of twelve weeks and the constant traveling gave me a bad touch of that dreaded disease nailed dyspepsia I had tried everything possible to cure it till last week, while playing at B F Keith s Bijou Theatef. Philadelphia, uj the Nelson Trio a professional friend of mine advised me to try Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I tried it. and, thank God. with pood results.” Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are ■ specific for biliousness. in which she crouched so low I could only see her head. A lion’s yellow eyes are singular ly impressive, especially if you happen to be w’atching them some thirty yards distant, with nothing but the open,level ground between. They incline one to a great deal of discretion, and it was with extreme caution that I slowly approached her, her eyes following my every movement and watching intently on my part for the first sign of a coming charge. When I had reach ed a point about fifteen yards from her I concluded that I had better open hostilities, and taking a very careful aim at her head, between the eye and the ear, I pressed the trigger. With a furious roar she sprang into the air and seemed to y back through the lair. I quick ly threw' in another cartridge and fired just as she disappeared into the bushes, and an instant later I heard the roar of Gan’s elephant gun, followed by the snarling of a lion. I quickly ran toward the thicket, and arrived in sight of him just as he was in the act of discharging his second barrel into the very mouth of the lion, which w T as charging straight for him. As he fired he quickly jumped to one side, while the lion turned a com plete somersault, but regained its feet in an instant and stood waver ing, evidently too sick to attempt another charge, but growling hor ribly. I was about to fire at him when he fell over on his side, and as we approached nearer we could see that lie was in his last gasps, and beyond the possibility of do ing harm. A few convulsive strug gles, a last attempt to gain his feet, and he w r as dead. After making sure that the lion was done for, we retraced our steps to the other side of the thicket, cautiously approaching the place where I had seen the lioness dis appear. We had not proceeded far when we came upon her, stretch ed under a thicket and breathing her life out, so nearly done for that she was unable to rise at our ap proach. I gave her a shot in the head, and she settled back with a shiver and lay still. For a moment I stood, lost in admiration of her graceful proportions, with the mighty muscles beneath her glossy skin, when my attention was at tracted to Gan, who was trying to capture the cubs. Although they were very young, not much larger than kittens in fact, there was much infantile growling and biting and scratching before he was able to make them prisoners. When he had finally bundled one under CaCH 3XIII We mnucu iui v-v it was fast getting dark. We met several of my men on the road whom I sent on to skin the lions. When the Thermometer Mounts- Philadelphia Record. Hard weather on tempers. Don’t be too hard on those in your employ. Don’t try to accomplish too much during record-breaking weather. Drivers of tired horses should remember that there’s a promise to him who is merciful to his beast. The really necessary part of one’s get-up is the fan. “With the greatest pleasure, if I shall not haye melted by then,” is the way cautious ones accept invi tations. Salespeople in departments where ready-made thin dresses are to be had are warranted in thinking hard things of people who have put off buying until these days and then swoop down en masse —not to men tion bad tempers and perspiration. Stories of polar expeditions are seasonable reading, though a book called ‘’Sunbeams” sells better —on the principle that like cures like, no doubt. A certain grande dame, with a family tree of tremendous splendor, received a visitor yesterday morn ing in an immaculate white shirt waist and petticoat, down in her darkened Reception room. Why will sopie persons choose such weather to have a piano tuned? As if one’s nerves weren’t ready to snap, any way! Fine dav. wasn’t it. to oatronize • ' i a trolley that howled along in the wake of a street sweeper with its cloud of dust! Monument to Semmes Mobile, Ala., June 27 —A bronze life-sized statue of kaphael Sem mes, late admiral in the Confedi r ate navy, was unveiled this after noon in Duncan place, at the inter section of Royal street The stat ue shows the admiral in naval cos tume,standing with marine glass in his right hand,and his left hand rest ing upon his sword. The monument, which was erected by the Ann T. Hunter auxiliaiy of Semmes Camp, Confederate veterans, was unveildd by Mrs. Electra Semmes Colston daughter of the admiral. The reception address was made by William J. Sanford, democratic nominee for governor of the state. He paid a fine tribute to the gall antry of the admiral and to the wo- 1 men whose labors had achieved this memorial. 1 NO REMEDY EQUALS PERUNA, SO THE WOKEN ALL SAT r.ilg* Busan Wyrnar. Miss Susan W'vmar, teacher in the Richmond school, Chicago, 111_ writes tho-following letter to Dr. Hartman re garding Pe-ru-na. She says: “Only those who have suffered a r I have, ran know what a blessing it is to be able to find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been my experience. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and every bottle of Pe-ru na I ever bought proved a good friend to me.” —Susan Wyrnar. Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1214 North Superior SI., Racine City, Wis., writes: u I feel so well and good and happy now that pen cannot describe it. Pe-rn-na is everything to me. I have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na for female complaint. I am in the change of life and it does me good.” Pe-ru-na has no equal in all of the irregularities and emergencies pe culiar to women caused by pelvio catarrh. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, 0., for a free book-for women only. Wise and Otherwise. It is far better to be alone than In bad company. Even a weak woman can put up a pretty strong talk. Understanding is the path that leads to forgiveness. Only a very small man ever at tempts to belittle others. Help others and it will help you to forget your own troubles. Some husbands practice econ omy only when buying things for their wives. Women are always trving to find out things they would rather not know. Every time you avoid doing wrong you increase your inclina tion to do right. Wise is the man who selects the obedient daughter of a good mother for his wife. Medicine and advices are the two things it is always more pleasant to give than to receive. Their is probably nothing purer tl* **•*• cf a man who lend tt money to another when he never expects to get it back. Origin of the Fan- The following Chinese legend accounts for the invention of the fan in a rather ingenious fashion. The beautiful Lan Si, daughter of a powerful mandarin, was assisting at the feast of lanterns, when she became overpowered by the heat, and was compelled to take off her mask. As it was against all rule and custom to expose her face, she held her mask before it, and gently fluttered it to cool herself. The court ladies present noticed the movement, and in an instant ioo of them were waving their masks. From this ineideut, it is said, came the birth of the fan, and to day It takes the place of the mask in that country. WHY DR. HATHAWAY CURES. Reasons for His Marvelous Success— His New, Free Book. ~1 Dr. Hathaway's method of treatment is no experi ment. It is the result of ■ twenty years of exped ite tCJ A ence in the most exten- jJr sive practice of any QCjAj* 1 J specialist in his line in * the world. He was grad ’ uated from one of the best medical colleges in the country and perfect ed llis me <hcal and surgi- cal education by exten- — * | sive hospital practice. Early in his professional career he made discov eries which placed him at the head of his profes sion as a specialist in treating what are generally known as private diseases of men and women. This system of treatment he has more and more perfected each year until today his cures are so Invariable as to be the marvel of the medical profession. Enjoying the largest practice of any specialist in the world he still maintains a system of nomi nal fees which makes it possible for all to obtain his services. Dr. Hathaway treats and cures Loss of Vitality, Varicocele, Stricture, Blood Poisoning in its dif ferent stages, Rheumatism, Weak Back, Nerv ousness, all manner of Urinary Complaints, Ulcers, Sores and Bkin Diseases, Brights Disease and all forms of Kidney Troubles. His treatment for undertoned men restores lost vitality and makes the patient a strong, well, vigorous man. Dr. Hathaway's success in the treatment of Varicocele and Stricture without the aid of knife or cautery is phenomenal. The patient is treated by this method at his own home without pain or loss of time from business. This is positively the only treatment widch cures without an operation. Dr. Hathaway calls the particular attention of sufferers from Varicocele and Stricture to pages 27, 28, 26, 30 and 31 of his new book, entitled, •‘Manliness, Vigor. Health," a oopy of which wiH he sent free on application. Write today for free book and symptom blaak, mentioning your complaint. * J. NEWTON HATHA WAY, M. D. Dr. Hathaway A Cos., South Broad Street. Atlanta, Ga. MENTION THIS FAFKB WHEN WBITING. Dociors J, G. $ fl, B. Gf 8Bp 4 g PHYSICIANS i SURGEONS Office West Market Street ’ Cartersvilie, - . . . , ° eor l*la Office Phone No. a); Residence H No. 43. Dr, A, B. Greene can }>* . iolle at the oftice at night. oe FARM LOANS NEGOTIATED MILNER Sc MILNER Attorneys at I. a vv CARTERSYILLE, GA. Commercial and Corporation and Collections. Offices with Judge T. W. Milner Bank of Cartersviile. r °' e? DR. WILLIAM L. CASON DENTIST. Office .over Young Bros. Drugstore. CARTERSVILLE. CA. DR. GEO. COESTER, Yeterinary Surgeon Office at (las Wrkn. Telephone 52. 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