Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-23

weight rather thun face old IIerchak In one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.
 The other males scattered in an di rections. but not before the infurlated brute had felt the vertebrae of one snap between his foaming jaws.
 Then he spied KAla. who. returning from a search for food with her young babe. was Ignorant of the state of the mighty males temper until the shrill warnings of her fellows caused her to scamper madly for safety
 But Herchak was close upon her, so close thnt he had almost grasped her ankle had she not made furious leap far into space from one tree to another n perilous chance which apes seldom take unless so closely pursued by dan ger that there Is no other alternative.
 She made the leap successfully. but as she grasped the limb of the further tree the sudden jar loosened the hold of the tiny babe where it clung franti cally to her neck. aud she saw the little thing hurled. turning and twisting. to the ground thirty feet below.
 With low cry of dismay Kala rush. ed headong to its side. thoughtless now of the danger from Kerchak. but when she gathered the wee mangled form to her bosom life had left 1t.
 With low means she sat cuddling the body to her. nor did Kerchall attempt to moest her With the death of the babe his ft of demoniacal rage passed as suddenly as it had seized him.
 Kerchak was a huge king ape, weigh. ing perhaps $50 pounds. His forehead was extremely low and receding. his eyes bloodshot. small and close set to his coarse, dat nose; his ears large and thin, but smaller than most of his | kind.
 His awful temper and his mighty strength made him supreme among the | little tribe into which he had been born some twenty years before.
 Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule. nor did the | other and larger animals molest him.
 Old Tantor. the elephant alone of all the wild. savage life. feared him not and him alone did Kerchak fear. When Tantor trumpeted the great ape scur- rled with his fellows high among the trees of the second terrace
 The tribe of anthropoids. over which kerchak ruled with an iron hand and barred fangs. numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his wives and children-some sixty or seventy apes, all told.
 kala was the youngest wife of male called Tublat, meaning Broken Nose" and the child she had seen dash ed to death was her first. for she was but nine or ten years old.
 Notwithstanding her youth. she was large and powerful-a splendid. clean limbed animal. with q round. high fore head. which denoted more intelligence than most of her kind possessed. So also she had a greater capacity for mother love and mother sorrow
 But she was still an ape. a huge. fierce. terrible beast of a species close ly allied to the gorilla, yet with more intelligence. which, with the strength of their cousins. made her kind the most fearsome of those awe inspiring progenitors of man.
 When the tribe saw that Kerchaks rage had ceased they came slowly down from their arboreal retreats and pursued again the various occupations which he had interrupted. The young played and frolicked about among the trees and bushes.
 They had passed an hour or so thus when Kerchak -cal'si them together