Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-20

According to their habits in procuring
their food, tigers are divided, by the
people Of India, into three classes. The
least harmful is the game killer" who
| lives in the hills and dense forests where
game IS abundant and leads the life of a
bold, honest hunter. He feeds chiefly
upon deer and wild hogs, retreats readily
from man, and so long as he remains a
game killer, he is real blessing to the
ryots who have hard work to protect
their crops from the droves of deer and
wild hogs.
The cattle litter" is b g. fat. lazy
thief, too indolent to pull down fleet
footed wild animals, who prowls around
the villages after nightfall, or the edge
of the jungles where the cattle are
herded. and kills bullock about every
four or five days. TIE annual loss to the
cattle owners, whose herds are thus
preyed upon by cattle-lifters is very
great, since each tiger destroys, in a
year, cattle worth about four hundred
dollars
But even the most industrious cattle
litter sinks into insigniticance in the
presence of the fierce .'man-eater, = the
scourge and the terror Of the timid and
defenseless natives. Until tiger has
once had his fangs in human flesh, he
has an instructive fear of man, and UNI
less brought to bay will nearly always
retreat from his presence. But with his
first taste of human blood that fear
vanishes forever. His nature changes,
and he becomes a man-eatcr.
Tigers who prey upon human beings
are usually old cattle filters, who, from
long acquaintance with man, have
ceased to fear him, and find him the
easiest prey to overcome and carry off.
large proportion of the man-eaters are
NANCY, superanuatcd old tigers or
tigresses whose teeth and claws have be-
come blunt from long usage, and who
find it too great an exertion to kill and
drag of bullocks.
! Thanksto our English sportsmen. and
improved firearms man eating tigers are
now rare compared with what their
numbers once were. 1t is not possible
now for o single tigress to cause the
descrtion Of thirteen villages and throw
out of cultivation tract of country if
teen miles square, as once occurred
nor for another TO kill one hundred and
Itwenty-seven persons before being laid
low. Yet, in spite of jealous English
sportsmen and breech-loading rifles. the
man caters still devour over eight
hundred human beings in India every
year,
It is but natural that in the tiger coun
try one should hear many very interest
L ing tiger stories. It once. happened
that at the close of a glorious days's BIZ
son shooting on the Animallai Hills with
my old friend, Theobald, we sat before
cheerful camp fire in the jungle over
our chocolate and sweet-meats. with orr
native followers all about us, discussing
the events of the day.
Did YOU ever kill man-eater, Theo.
Oalds" I asked presently.
Yes
"Tell me ell about, won't you'll" said /.
with hungry interest. HAD he MANY
people to account fort"
Thirteen, If / remember rightly.
All, he was famous brute in his dav
They called him the 'Man-eater Of Dor
Aypore. That was several years ago.
md | was quite goungster then, y he
added, with q smile. as be stroked his
iong jet-black beard. DO you really
want TO hear all about iE9n
Yes, everything you can remem-
well, the Doraypore man-eater was
the terror Of little village Of that name
Ind several other villages. too. for that
matter, right down below here. not far
rom the foot Of this very range. we
lad small timber dep0t there once. and