The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22

Springs upon Ills prey Inc SldAES give
way before his weight and he falls into
the pit. For hours he will strive to Jump
out Of the pit. but, of course he cannot.
When he has dashed himself into an i'm
potant rage and lay weak and helpless in
the bottom of the pit, push down a small
cage, Just enough to cover him, of tough
bamboo sticks, with only three sides COW
cred. Thenthe fourth can be easily built
under him by digging into the ground and
weaving sticks of different grades of
thickness from side to SIDE. When this
Is done the cage can be lifted up and
brought to the nearest station, where the
Tiger can be transferred to an iron cage
and then shipped away.
The greatest care must be taken in con-
structing this sort Of trap. Every ounce
of dirt must be carried away in bags, for
If the tiger smelt the fresh earth he would
not come near the trap or snap at the live
bait even if he were famished. Neither
would he walk into it if the ground did
not look perfectly natural
But to get back to my tiger. l had 80
Gated" Jupiter and prepared at least ten
different traps for him, the best l ever
saw made, but he was the "hyest" tiger
l ever saw or heard of, and tantalizingly
refused to walk into any Of them. He
would walk around each of them care
fully, sniff the air suspiciously, glare at
the bleating lamb, and then trot of, even
though he must have been hungry many
time. We could have killed him often,
but that was not our game. We had
hunted him for three weeks, and were
well-nigh discouraged. We had, too,
drawn our lines about him and shut him
on from all sort of prey, yet he would not
ntbble at our bait.
One night, to our surprise, he turned
the tables and hunted US. We were all
completely tagged out by our exertions
and dOyRH after within fhn pireIp
OF fire which we had built to keep out
savage beasts and drive away the equally
savage insects with which the country is
infested. A dozen natives and one of my
! white men were on guard. Suddenly
! there was rushing sound like that of a
whrlwind, and in dashed Jupiter over
the fire ine-SOmething | never knew
the widest kind of wild animals to do
beforehand quickerthan you could say
| Jack Robinson he had one of my natives
| in his teeth and bore him off into the
| deepest receSSes of the jungle. The
trick was done so suddenly that none OF
us had chance to pull a trigger if we
| wanted to. However, we hunted him for
! falr IN turn now. This time we had luck.
! but not until a further calamity occurred.
! We beat every bush for miles around as
| big as tigers body, and by daybreak
| had forced Jupiter to change his base a
| dozen times. Finally we drove him along
| a pathway in which was one of our in
Vulnerable traps. BY good or bad luck
| several of my natives happened to be in
| that path when Jupiter came tearing
| along. They broke in different directions
! but two, whose abject fear caused them
! to forget the lay of the land, ran right
! ahead toward the trap. They reached it
| at exactly the same moment that Jupiter
| did, and all three went down together.
! When we arrived and looked into the pit
/ had ,1,,r 4
| fortunate men and was still tearing away
| fiercely at their fragments.
Now, here is the oldest part Of the
| story We Gagged Jupiter after an awful
lot of trouble and bore him away in
triumph to Ajax. When we tried to
drive him from the bamboo cage to a
solid iron one, for shipment to America,
he fought with all the courage and dis
! pair that might be expected from a hu-
man hero, He had the intelligence al
most of human being, and am certain
| he realized that he was to be taken away
! forever from the land of the Jungle. 1t
was in vain that we prodded him with red
hot rods of iron, hut into the iron
cage he would not go. Suddenly,
as if acting on inspiration Jupiter,
| with head erect, rushed right up against
Tom Walton's red-hot rod and then sank
with a sort of sob to the floor When we
pulled him out into the iron cage, five
minutes later, Jupiter was dead, The
heated iron weut through his eye and
pierced his brain. AS l live, beleave it
was as clear case of suicide as ever
human being committed. Jupiter pre-
ferred to die king of the Jungle than live
captive.
For the first time since was boy
sat down and cried. All the company,
too, felt as bad as l did. AS for Barnum-
well, he felt pretty blue, too. He wanted
that tiger in the worst way.
Jupiter was the biggest tiger I ever saw
or heard of. They vary in size from Is to
IS feet-head to tail tip-and in weight
from $50 to $50 pounds Jupiter measured
20 feet inches, from tip to tip, and
weighed 430 pounds He had the richest
of tawny hides, magnifcently striped
with dark bands. 1 gave the skin to
Capt Helyas, who converted it into a rich
rug, which he sent to Albert Edward,
Prince of Wales. The prince still has
that rug. 1t graces has library at MARI
borough House.