Arizona republican., 1897-09-10


 each man held on by main force to stout rope. In this way they led the tiger, or the tiger led them, as you please, from place to place on exhibl- tion.
 Well, in the course of their wan derings,'' continued the dealer, "they came to village near Bombay, where a photographer happened to be pass ing through, and he, hearing of the strange company, sent for them. Now, about the only performance that the tiger Ga particularly savage beasD had in his repertoire was killing animals, and it occurred to the artist that an instantaneous photograph of the great brute in the very act of striking down its victim would make an intGesting picture. So arrangements wex hde, A full grown buffalo was pre- nd taken out to the edge of He, where it was tethered wi ty- five feet of rope to a stalk
 'The photographsr took ta- tion on foot outside the he animals tether, and the as then brought up on the lde and shown its victim. At ix- ed its dreadful glaring eS he doomed creature. Its lips 4ck in a hideous snarl, and it to move stealthily toward the falo. The ropes were then ore by one Ap- ped off, and there, twenty yards ar ll1 stood the two beasts. But the buffalo gave no sign of fright or even con- sciousness of any danger.
 Tt simply stood staring in a heln- less sort of fascination at the advanc- ing brute. At first the tiger had crouched, but now it stood erect and with restless tail, and teeth all flash ing out of the red gums. stepped slowly forward across the intervening space. Foot by foot the interval be- tween the buffalo and death-crueI. relentless, inevitable-was diminished
 Yet the great horned beast never stir red. Its eyes were fixed on the tigers and it's breath came quick and hot from it's nostrils. Once and again. l and once more, the beast of prey paced on-and then stopped. It was within striking distance
 "The buffalo's sides were now heay- ing rapidly and it's terror was audible in it's panting. And then, quick as flash of lightning. the great striped
 body was launched through the air. | There was dull sound as it struck the buffalo, and, as if smitten by a thunderbolt, the huge animal, it's neck | broken by the blow of the tigers fore arm, fell. At this moment, this in- | definable point of time, the artist | touched the trigger of tSe spring shut ter, and in the fraction of a second the picture was on his plate-the tiger | in the act of striking. And none too l so0n, for before the hand could slip in another slide the buffalo's knees bent 1 beneath it, and the dead hulk fell. | The tragedy was complete
 And the photographer?
 ''He had some trying moments. h. | deed, there were times when it looked
 as if the tiger preferred the artist to l the beef; and, had the victim retreat 1 ed to the end of its tether, the beast of prey would have been as near the
 one as the other. But it was tame ! tiger, you know, and so the photog-
 rapher got the sun picture.
 i Neither alive nor dead was the huge victim seen at the exact moment l of time when it was sinking under the weight of it's dreadful murderer. Swifter than even death itself, the | sensitive plate seized the reflection
 of the collapsing buffalo before it had time to die, and though the end was,
 humaneiy speaking, instantaneous, | the one beat of the heart that inter
 vened between the awful blow of the tigers paw and it's victims actual sur
 render of existence sufficed for the ar
 tist to catch and fix with unerring
 fidelity the attitudes of the slayer and
 the slain.''-St. Louis Globe.
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