The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-01

How a Sultan Makes Over $4,000 an
Acre-SociaI Singapore
Copyright, 1910. by Frank CT. ar
SINGAPORE.
This Malay peninsula offers some
live opportunities for Theodore
Roosevelt and his son Kermit. Its
iungles are infested with tigers and
The Singapore government is now Of
fering rewards of $50 each for every
full-grown tiger killed, and SIS apiece
for tiger cats. Just outside the city
are tracts of dense Vegetation III
which such beasts are sometimes shot.
They swim the old channel north Of
the island, coming out of the lahore
jungles. and now and then pick up a
Malay baby for breakfast. Just the
other day the young Sultan OF lahore
who is a great sportsman, killed "a
big tiger. 1t is the nineteenth he has
shot since reaching AS he
showed its claws, which he had cut
oft as a trophy, he was asked if he
expected to bag his twentieth. He
replied:
Il most certainly shall if he does
not bag me-
In a visit to lahore l saw the tracks
of 1t tiger in the mud not far from
this mans palace. 1t had proWied
through the CITY during the preceding
IlSnl, ana mao play Ell diohId d saw
mill. walking through the dust in
front Of the then quiet DuZZ-SaW.
The Tiger Island.
The word ''Singapore" comes from
two native terms meaning Lion City
1t should be called Tiger City, for
in the past the island upon which II
stands has been the lair of these
beasts. and il is said that As many as
:0G natives have been deVoured by
I-.- -, -, x-nur rFEn animals "a n a
here first at about the tune the colohS
Was founded. and some years ago one
was discovered choking to death III
the fishing nets off the shore facing
mainland. He had started to aWlm
the channel and got caught in the
nets.
As I sat in the Singapore Clnb the
other night one of the English officials
told me how Il man-catlng tiger re-
Gently slaughtered a MaiaNan, MS
wife and five children, leaving onlS
the sixth. a little boy. who related the
story. This family was living on the
edge of the jungle not far from the
channel in a hut covered with
thatch. The tiger sneaked up and
sprang upon the roof. He scratched
omen Il large hole and the MaIaNans
within as they looked up and saw him
were so frightened that they were I'M
able to move. They were huddled
together just under him and before
they recovered their senses ne Sprahs
down and struck the father with ms
right paw and Drained HIM. he
then proceeded TO kill the other mem
bers of the family with the exception
of the boy above referred to, who was
living in a bunk raised high above the
floor and thus escaped discovery. The
boy says the tiger first Killed his
father. mother and the four children.
leaving his little sister, a baby OF
three Years. After he had killed them
first he began playing with their
bodies. watching the little girl as d
cat does q nous il she attempted
to creep away he would wait until
she had moved just outside the length
Of his paw when he would reach oNtr
and drag her close to him. He would
then 80 on playing with the dead
bodies. sucking the blood and taking
Ii bite now and then until the child at
tempted to move. when the same pro
ceeGing was r~e-enacted. This lasted
until the little girl expired Of fright
and exhaustion. The tiger then BIT
her in the back Of the neck ana suck
Cd her EICnd After = long time lie