The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-04-22


could be kept within due bounds.
1t appears that since the japanese
occupation of Korea natives have been
forbidden to carry firearms, and as a
consequence tigers nave multiplied to
an extraordinary extent. 1t is not
safe to go out shopping after dusk in
some of the inland villages, and as
many as thirty or forty luckless ma
tives have been devoured in certain
districts within week. The author
tiles will not raise the embargo upon
firearms, how then is the number of
these dreaded beasts to be reduced?
The tiger is possessed at times of
an almost supernatural cunning, a
wonderful sense of smell, and a fine
instinct with regard to traps and the
like, which make him as difficult an
animal to take alive as any existing
Sometimes he can be shared, but not
often. On one occasion the writer's
Indian servant ran in in a great state
of excitement to say tiger was
trapped in the jungle half mile
away, and the entire camp of course
dI OUCG llOChSu oNOl " 0CV CllS "a iS-
oner.
The trap was exactly on the prin-
ciple of a humble mousetrap with a
falling door, and built of strong tim
bers laced together with rattans. The
imprisoned tiger was a full grown
male, and it would be difficult to i'm
agine anything wilder than his rage
as he roared and stormed and hurled
himself in futile fury on each part of
the structure in turn. There he was
to stay until hunger had rendered
him manageable, the incident show
ing that the tiger can be trapped, al
though not often. 1t is to be feared
the Koreans will have to recover their
muskets or put up with the sight of
hungry tigers wandering about their
village streets.-London Globe.
THE PUMA AND ITS PREY.
The puma is so fond of horsefesh
that in Patagonia it is difficult to
breed horses, as the colts are killed
by this American lion. A native told
the author of ''The Naturalist in La
Plata" that on one occasion, while
driving his horses home through a
thicket a puma sprang out of the
bushes to the back of a colt following
behind the troop.
The puma alighted directly on the
colts back, with one forefoot grasp
ing its shoulders, while with the other
it seized the head, and giving it vio-
lent wrench, dislocated the neck. The
colt fell to the earth as if shot. :
Next to horsefesh the puma prefers
He does not like veal, al
though he will kill calf upon occa-
sion. A cunning puma, which on
cloudy nights raided a sheep ranch,
used as a place of concealment the
pen where a dozen calves were kept,
while it was waiting to attack the
sheep. But it did not injure calf.
Pigs, when in large herds, defy the
puma by massing themselves together
and presenting a serried line of tusks.
The ass also resists successfully the
attack. When assaulted it
thrusts its head between its forelegs
and kicks violently until the puma is
driven or thrown off,
One day an Indian, while riding,
saw a young cow watching his ap-
proach. Her manner showed that it
was in a state of dangerous excite
ment, and the Indian conjectured
that some beast of prey had killed its
calf. He began searching for the
calf's body While thus engaged the
cow repeatedly charged him. Pres
emily he discovered the calf lying
dead among the long grass, and by
it's side a dead puma with a large
wound just behind the shoulder.
The calf had been killed by the
puma, for it's throat showed the
wounds of large teeth. The cow had
driven one of it's long, sharp horns
INTO the puma's side while it was
sucking the calf's blood.