Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-14
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARsHALLTOWN, IOWA IA. 1915

plo there existed . species OF friendly
alliance. due, no doubt, TO the similari.
ty OF their form and structure.
In that long gone ago when the
world was young and its broad bosom
teemed with countless thousands Of
carnivorous beasts and reptiles and
other myElads blackened the bosoms Of
it, inland seas and oiled its warm.
moist air with the flutter Of their
mighty batlike wings mans battle for
survival stretched from sun to sun
there WAS no respite.
His semiarboreal habits took him
often into the domains Of the great and
lesser apes, and from this contact had
risen what might best be termed an
armed truce. for they alone of all the
other inhabitants Of the earth had
spoken languag GEES. both meager. 1t Is
true, yet sufficient to their primitive
wants, and a. both languages had been
born Of the same needs to deal with
Identical conditions there were many
words and phrases identical to both.
Thus the tr0glodyte and the primer.
dial ape could converse when necessity
demanded, and az M traversed their
country he understood their grumbling
and chattering merely as warnings to
him against the performance of any
overt act Had danger lurked In his
path the hairy ones would have warn
ed him Of that too. for of such was
their service to man. who. In return,
hunted the more remorseless Of their
enemies. driving them from the land
Of the anthropoids.
On and on went M, occasionally
questioning the hairy ones he encoun-
tered for word Of 90. and always the
replies confirmed him in his belief that
he should come upon the man eater
before the sun crawled into its dark
cave for the night
And SO he did.
He had passed out of the heavier
vegetation and was ascending gentle
rise that terminated in low volcanic
cliffs when there came down upon the
breeze to his alert nostrils the strong
scent Of 90. There was little or no
cover now, other than the rank jungle
grass that evergreen the slope and an
occasional lofty fern, rearing its tuft-
ed pinnacle hundred feet above the
ground, but M was in no way desir-
GUS Of cover. Cover that would pro-
tect him from the view OF 90 would
hide 90 from him.
He was not afraid that the saber
toothed tiger would run away from
him-that was not Oos way, but ne
did not wish to come unexpectedly
upon the animal in the thick grass.
He had approached to within hun
dred yards of the cliffs now. and the
scent Of 90 had become as a stencil
in the sensitive nostrils of the cave
man. Just ahead he could see the
openings to several caves in the face
OF the rocky barrier. and in one Of
these he knew must lie the lair OF his
quarry.
Fifty yards from the cliff the grasses
ceased except for scattered tufts that
had found foothold among the broken
rocks that strewed the ground. and as
Nu SmeEk0U lulu lilly C1cs0 6puCS uo
breathed a sigh of relief, for during
the past fifty yards considerable por-
ton Of the way had been through a
matted jungle that rose above his
head To have met 90 there would
have meant almost certain death.
Now, as he bent his eyes toward the
nearby cave mouths he discovered
one before which was strewn such an
array Of gigantic bones that he need
ed no other evidence as to the identity
Of it's occupant Here indeed Haired
no lesser creature than the awesome
90, the gigantic, saber toothed tiger Of
antiquity.
Even as M looked there came low
and 0mnous growl from the dark
mouth Of the foul cavern, and then In
the blackness beyond the entrance M
saw two flaming blotches Of yellow
glaring out upon him.
ITO Be Continued)