The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-24

skin as a trophy, but he gambied it
away within a fortnight, and so il came
1t last into the traders hands. It's
beauty. The tiger was a fun grown one,
and not too old 10 have the finest sort OF
skin.
Every stranger who stays long at Nladi-
stock hears plenty of tiger stories Here
Is another one that the traveller who owns
this hotel told me. 1t was of an old Eel
low, man who lived somewhere in the
Amoor district, and his house stood by
itself N the forest some distance from a
settlement. lie had no gun of his own,
but one day a party of hunters who were
trying to track down man-eating tiger
stopped at his house TO rest on their return
to the settlement. and one Of their num-
Der, finding his rife heavy TO carry, Iett
il with the old man untI ne should re-
turn that way next day. That night a
tiger came snuffing around the house and
tried 70 break in. lie reared against the
door and struck is with his paw but II
was too strongly bui.t and strongly barred
for him to succeed in breaking il open.
But he smashed in the shutter of the one
small window-it mad no g.ass-and tried
TO force his way into the house through
IT, Ii was small for the tiger, but he
worked his head throuGh and then his
shoulders and one foreleg.
IAN this time the old man was tremb
for the tiger seemed certain to get into
the room at last. Then ne thought of the
hunters rife leaning in the corner. He
was not accustomed to firearms, but he
knew enough TO cock it, and he thrust the
muzzie INTO the tigers mouth and when
the brute grabbed it With his teeth he
pulled the trigger. That ended the tigers
days in hurry. When the hunters came
to the old mans hut in the morning they
ten hean
after hanging dead over the window sill,
half inside and half outside the house,
with his head shattered. The old man got
The reward of 30 rubles that the govern
ment offered for the destruction of the
tiger
But I think the most terrible story the
traveller told me was that Of the convict
PetroYoski who escaped from the Island
of Saghalien. where the Russians have
penal colony. He was a vicious and des-
perate character, who had had a long ca
Teer of crime before he was brought to
justice. He succeeded in escaping from
the island to the mainland, and in making
his way to the AMOR river, COO miles to
the southwest. Every human being whom
he met that might betray him he murder
ed, and III his long journey he subssted
partly upon human flesh In the AMOR
valley he came upon pack peddler whom
he murdered and robbed. The officers fol-
lowing him found the peddler's body and
rifed pack. Recognizing in this the work
of Petrovoski, they hurried on to the riv-
err, fearing that the convict had enough
the start of them to have succeeded in
crossing into Manchuria beyond Russian
jurisdiction. At the rivers brink was the
boat he had secured, and in it the bundle
of valuables that he had taken from the
peddler's pack. The footprints of the
convict were in the soft mud, but mingled
with them were the tracks of an enormous
tiger, which had sprung upon him just as
he was about to shove the boat from the
shore and carried him off.
The officers secured native crackers and
followed the tigers trail until they came
to the partly eaten body of Petrovoski,
still recognizable, and in his clothes were
the few rubles that he had gained by muir
dering the peddler"