Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-07-16

aAU 0lRQ sQnAy py y S1tQW AGOMy 59s
a German portsuan succeede in one
aof his hunts ID getting possession 81 /
very young panther, Of which he tried I
IA make = pet
But one day whom they had taken
him Into the To- he v1as long In re- /
turning TO his mast ana two serys
ants were sent 10 learn what had be-
come of him. The panther sprang ON
them, threw them both to the ground
and tore their bodle open
sg Subtle swift and sinister, the pan
Their has a fiendish fOndness for tor.
turing his victims beast 81 human
He Will play with a. half dead man
like d eat with d broken winged bird.
Having crushed down native, the
panther Will spring Into the bushes
and hide. The unfort unAte, thinking
his enemy gone, essays to rise or crawl
away, only to be sud denly struck to |
earth again, to be fought over by jack
ais, hyenas and vultures.
Jacques Arago, q scholar and
traveller Of European celebrity thus
draws the portrait Of the panther
III that q tiger, = lizard, q serpent
or 4 Hon which 10 dssoured space u !
1t flame whose movement flashes
with the rapidfty Of thought7 IT Is the
panther III quest OF his prey; IT Is the
Spimblest the most agile Of the quad
rupeds that the hunter pnrsues Your
ball must iiy swiftly to oyertake him:
The arrow is not so swift as he. And
Z how IS 1t possible to strike that elastic
body which stretches out, curves,
bends about shortenst
h ssHow seize on the moving being to
which all quiet is impossible, which iss]
refreshed by motion. eneryated BY
calm and sleep2
You aim at the earth. The panther
/ you thought TO strike with an infal Ill.
Bile missile draws your eyes above
your head to see him. He does not go
on feet; he files. "a
ut Is the panther rather than the
lion or the tiger who should be known
as the king Of beasts. Z
More sile--G than other dangerous
beasts, the panther SO contributes TO
the perplexities OF his pursuers. His
cry, infrequently heard, - harsh
noise. something between a grunt and
cough He emtts a short roar at
times when charging an assailant.@
While difficult for parties to circum-3
vent, panthers are less suspicious of
traps than lions, etc, and they are
often caught In baited cage traps.
A writer in the American Field de-
scribes thrilling panther hunt In Brit!
fish East Africa, northwest Of En-
stebbe, illustrating the brute's agility,
resourcefulness and tenacity to life,
Eve were following elephant tracks;
into a thicket Of wait a Bit brushes,
$50 named because Of the annoying
thorns) when d large leopard sprang5
Iii front Of US, he says.
Burns. who was III the lead, took a
shot at him, but scored a clean miss
on account Of his pony rearing to the
side. noticed the brute make for q
bush to the, right of us, SO We started
after him on foot, leaving George to
look after the ponies Suddenly up
jumped the leopard about twenty yards
from us. We both fired together, and
/ the brute made leap as IL hard hit.
Burns was about six yards to the right
OF me when he cried out:
Look out, kid
tsBut before l had time to look the
leopard sprang and foored me like a
tenpfn, knocking my rifle from my
hands. He sprang from the left side,
so my right arm was free. AS luck
would have 1t, my knife was on the
4 tcpI,f .,il 40 s,ox a
let the savage brute have Its point
clean in his snout just as ne was In
the act OF cIawing at my throat. Burns,
who had fixed his bayonet, came to
4 my assistance The brute thought It
best to clear out.
A "After creeping fifteen yards Burns
pointed to A bush, and there saw the
old fellow lying down, evidently In
great pain. He would keep getting up
and lying down, all the time licking
his side where the wounds were. This
time we decided to have good broad
side at him, SO scrept to the left, taking
care not to let the animal see us.
4 When we got between fifty and q hun
dred yards from him we had good
4 view and watched his antics. Then,
leveling our rifles. we fred together.
The leopard sprang up leaped about
Il twelve feet and rolled over on his side
i WIS about to make a run up TO him
Il when old Burns luckily dragged me
back, for just then up jumped the
leopard and cut some of the queerest
4 capers ever saw. Leaping suddenly
toward us III d last try for revenge,
4 he presented as fearful a sight as I
lever want to see.
4 Burns let him have another shot
q In his side, at which he made a leap
4 In the air and came down all OF a
i heap, dead.
& st IL seen that 1t took five well
Z aimed bullets from guns designed for
elephant and lion killing, In addition TO
my knife thrust, to lay low that brute Z