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The Wingham Times, 1914-08-06, Page 7r4k. AO; ra:gig Sea tA9 WINi;q 11.11ES, MTel ITS r eo Nil 1 FefaeveNeaareeelai eteesieleenseeseeeteese -Ube egc T ,reree;:troacqistaa.., . • ... • 'eelee • e .74 pee 'TURN By. Edgar kitaMidEL W6E0 Rice Burroughs "'?1•4yeeleSda' ,ria -Ye -he-found either SiThor or-Furnut ,croucbing in the dense foliage of the surrounding jungle awaiting an ante - 'There Were the Table, the Bed and the Little Crib Built by His Father. lope or a water buck for its meal. Here came Hotta, the boar, to water, and here came Tarzan of the Apes to • make a kill, for he was very empty. On a low brancb he squatted above the trail. For an hour he waited. It 'IC- was growing dark. A little to one side • of the ford In the densest thicket he , heard the faint sound of padded feet and the brushing of a huge body :against tall grasses and tangled creep- ers. None other than Tarzan might have heard it, but the ape -man heard and translated, It was Numa, the Hien, on the same errand as himself. "Tarzan smiled. CHAPTER XVI. In the Jungle. pRESENTLY Tarzan heard an animal approaching warily along the trail toward the drinking .place. A moment ,more and it catne in view. It was •Eforta, the boar. Here was delicious meat, and Tarzan's mouth watered. Tim grasses where Numa lay were very still now, ominously still. Hotta passed beneath Tarzan. A few more • steps and he would be within the radius of Numa's spring. Tarzan could Imagine bow old Numa's eyes , were shining, bow he was already . sucking in his breath for the awful roar which would freeze .his prey for the brief instant between the moment • of the spring and the sinking of terri- ble fangs into splintering bones. But as Nutlet gathered himself a slender rope flew through the air from the lqw branches of a nearby tree. A ,.noose settled about 13orta's neck. There was a frightened grunt, a equeal, and then Numa saw his quarry drag- ,:ged backward up the trail, and as he spreng Herta, the boar, soared upward lac beyond his clutches into the tree IPT--- above, and a mocking face looked , down and langbed into his own. Then indeed did Numa roar. Angry, threatening, hungry,' he paced back • and forth ,ebeneath the taunting ape- man. Now he stopped and, rising on this hind legs against the stem of the 'tree that held his enemy, sharpened .his huge chives upon the bark, tearing • out great pieces that lay bare the white wood beneath. And in the meantime Tarzan had • dragged. the struggling Horta to the limb beside him. Sinewy fingers com- pleted the work the choking noose bad ' horamenced. The apeenan had no •knifeaahlaut naegre had equipped him 'with tlie means of tearing his food 'from the quivering flank of his' prey, . and gleaming teeth sank into the sue. culent flesh while the raging lion look- . ed' on from below as another enjoyed the dinner that be had thought al- ready his. It was quite dark by the time Tar- zan had gorged himself. Ale but it had been deliciousi Never had he ,quite accustomed himself to the ruined flesh that civilized men had served hirti, and in the bottom of hiavage .heart there had constantly been the • craeing for the Warm meat of the fresh killed and the dela red blood. Ile Wiped his bloodbandit npon tt blinch of leteree, elting the remaine of hit kill. aer-oae.iguthavilec-touumunt 41ki ,.WISNISTac.ffig off througb the middle terrace fIj forest toward his cabin, and at the same instant Jane Porter and William ' Cecil Clayton arose from a sumptuous canner upon the Lady Alice, thousands of miles to the east in the Indian ocean, Beneath Tarzan walked Noma, the lion. and when the ape -man deigned to glance downward be caught occasional glimpses of the baleful green eyes fol- lowing through the darkness. Numa did not roar now. Instead he moved stealthily, like the shadow of a great cat, but yet he took no step that did not reach the sepsitive ears of the ape- man. Tarzan wondered if he would stalk him to his cabin door. He hoped not, for that would mean a night's sleep curled in the crotch of a tree, and he much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode. But he knew just the tree and the most comfortable crotch if necessity 'demanded that he sleep out. A hundred times in the past some great jungle cat had followed him hotne and compelled him to seek shel- ter in this same tree until another mood or the rising sun had sent his enemy away. But presently Numa gave up the chase and, with a series of bloodeur; filing moans and roars, turned angrily back in search of another and easier diuner. A few memento later Tarzan was curled up in the mildewed remnants of what had once been a bed of grasses. Thus easily did M. Jean C. Tarzan slough the thin skin of his artificial civilization and sink happy and con- tented into tbe deep sleep of the wild heast that has fed to repletion. Yet a woman's ayes" would have bound him to that other life forever and made the thought of this savageesistence repul. sive. Tarzan slept late into the following forenoon, for he bad been very tired from the labors and exertion of the long night and day upon the ocean and the jungle jaunt that had brought into play muscles that he had scarce used for nearly two years. When he awoke he ran to the brook first to think. Then he took a plunge into the sea, swimming about for, a quarter ot an hour. Afterward he returned to his cabin and breakfasted oft the flesh of Herta. This done, be buried the bal- ance of the carcass in the sett earth outside the cabin for his evening meal. Once more he took his rope and van- ished into the jungle. This time he hunted nobler quarry -man, although, had you asked -him his own opinion, he could have named a dozen other deni- zens of the jungle which be considered far the superiors in nobility of the men be hunted. Today Tarzan was in geest of weapons. fie wondered if the women and children had remained in Mbonga's village after the punitive ex- pedition from the French cruiser had massacred all the warriors In revenge for D'Arnot's supposed death. Be hoped that he should find warriors there, for be knew not how long a quest he should have to make were the village deserted. The ape -man traveled swiftly through the forest and about noon came to the site of the village, but to his disap- pointment found that the jungle had overgrown the plantain fields and that the thatched huts had fallen in decay. There was no sign of man. He clam- bered about among tbe ruins for half an hoar, hoping that be might discover some forgotten weapon. but his search was without fruit, and so he took up his quest once more. following up tbe stream, Whiall flowed from a south- easterly direction. Ile knew that near fresh water he would be most akely to find another settlement. Aihe traveled he hunted as be had hunted with his ape people in tbe past. as ala, his ape foster enother, had taught him to hunt, turning over root- ed logs to find some toothsome vermin.. running high into the trees to rob st, bird's nest or pouncing Upon a tiny rodent with the quickness of a eat. There were other things that he ate, too, but the less detailed the accifunt of an ape's diet the better -and Tetuan was again an ape, the same fierce, brutal anthropoid that Kala had taught him to be and that he had been for the first twenty years of his life. Occasionally be stniled as he recall- ed some friend who might even at the reOment be sitilng placid and immacu- late 'within the pretincts of his select Parisian club -jest as Tarzan had sat but a few months before -and then he Would stop, as though turned sudaen- IY he stone as the gentle breeze car, ried hi his trained nostrils the scent Ot tome new pre er or' a formidable enemy. That night he slept fat inland from his cabin, iiecurely Wedged int° the tract; a a giant tree, swayleig Chate. dred feet, itkevte the, grehead13eteheet eaten heartily again -this time from the flesh of Bars, the deer, who had fallen prey to his quick noose. Early the next mornine Le resumed bis journey, always following the eouree of the stream. For three days he le re- tinued his quest until he had come te part of the jungle in eh ch he neves: ee- fore had been Occaeionallyupoo tegre er ground the foreet was much taira,t r and in the for distance tine eeh Int, trees he e r ,oges of Hui moor, a`os, te wide plains in the ti.•r•' tt"..0 .1 .11e open were tiew ..1, e o.tb., antelope end vie• I e of ze:1 ta Terzn was ert einced uLi make n',Jag v.het th 3 r.s•,v \ A On th morning of the berth dly hit nostrite wkre euddenly elarprised l'y faint, new scent. It was the -cent oe man, but yet a long way elf. T .e ape- man thrilled with pleesure, Evie sence was on the alert, as with craft stealth he moved quicely throigh the trees, upwind, in the direction of his prey. Presently he came upon it -a lona werrior treedingssftly through the ju ngle. Taman- followed close above his quarry, walleng for a clearer space in which to hurl his rope. As he stalked the unconsclops man new thoughts presented themselves .to the ape -man - thoughts born of the refining influ- ences of civilization end ot Its mewl - ties. It eame to him that selchirn if ever did civilized man tell a tenow being without some pretext however englit. It was true that Tama u this, mates weapons met tenements, tint was it necessary to take his as 10 obtaln them? The longer he thonaht about it 1110 more tepogiesut become tile thought of taking bit 1111)0 life needlessly, min thus It happened that while Ile was trying, to deeide Just what to do they bee come to a little clearing, at the far side of which lay a pallseded vil- lage of beehive Mite. As the warrior emerged from the forest Tamen caught a fleeting glimpse of a tawny hide worming its way through the matted jungle gasses in his wake. It was Se bor, the tiger. Ere, too, was stalking tbe black man. With the instant that Tarzan realized the native's danger bis attitude toward his erstwhile prey altered completely. • Now he was a fellow man threatened by a common enemy. Sabor was about 'to charge. There was little time In whieb to compare various methods or weigb the proba- ble result of any. And then a number of things happened almoat simultane- ously, The tiger sprang from his am- bush toward the retreating black; Tar- zan (lied oat in warning, and the black turned just In time to see Sabor halted itt mid flight by a slender strand of grase rope, the noose end of which had fallen (leanly about his neck. The apeman bad acted so quickly that he had been unable to prepare himself to withstand the strain and shock of Sa hoes great weight upon the rope, and so it was that though the rope stopped the beast before Ms mighty talons could fasten themselves in the flesh of the black, the strain overbalaneed Tarzan, who came tum- bling to the ground not stx paces from tbe infuriated anemia Like lightning Sabor turned upon this new enemy and defenseless as he was, Tarzan of the Apes was nearer to death that instant than he ever before bad II•een. It was the black who saved him. The war- rior realized in an instant that be owed his life to this strange white man, and be also saw that only a mir- acle voile) save his preserver from those tierce yellow fangs that had been so near to bis own flesh. With the quickness of thought his spear arrn flew back, and then shot for- ward with all the force of the sinewy muscles that rolled beneath the shim- mering ebon hide. True to ,its mark tbe %roll shod weapon flew, transfix- ing Sabor's sleek carcass from the rigbt groin to beneath the left shoul- der. With a hideous scream of rage and pain the brute turned again upon the black. A dozen paces he bad gone when Tarzan's rope brought him to a stand once more. Then he wheeled again upon the ape -man, only to feel the painful prick of a barbed arrow as It sank bait its length in his quiver- ing flesh. Again he stopped, and by this time Tarzan bad run twice around tbe stem of 5 great tree with his rope and made the end fast The black saw the trick and grinned, but Tarzan knew that Sabor must be quickly finished before those mighty teeth had found and parted the slender cord that held him. It was a matter of but an instant to reach the black's side and drag his long knife from its scabbard: Then he signed the warrior to continue to sheet arrows into the great beast while he attempted to close • in upon him with the knife, so as one tantalized upon one side the other sneaked cautiously in upon the other. Saber was furious. Be raised his voice in a perfect frenzy of shrieks, grovels and hideous mottles, the While he rear- ed upon his hind legs in futile attempt to reach first One and then the other of his tormentors. But at length the agile ape -man saw his chance and rushed in upOn the beast's 'left Bide behind the Mighty Shoulder. A giant arm encircled the white throat and a long blade, sank Once, true as a die, into the fierce heart. Then Tatman inns° and the black man and the white lOoked into each other'a eyes across the body Of their kill, and the black made the sign of peace and friendship, and Tatman of the Apes an- swered it in kin& The noise of their battle With Sabot had &Mwui an excited horde Of sav- ages frOM the nearby village, and * moment after the tigeert death the tiro Men Were ,,serronnded by lithe, ebon Warrior* gefstleolating and jab. ber1ng-.4 thousand Ocitioses thiC PROSPERITY Advertisements Are the Guideposts Showing Way Sy HOLLAND. WOULD you travel the road that leads to Pros- perity? • Then read the ad- vertisements. They are the guideposts pointing the way. Disregard the advertisements and you are likely to go wrong, and even if you final- ly reach your destination you do so only after needless de- lays and unnecessary travel- ing. The traveler who would disregard guideposts, who would not examine them at every, opportunity, would be called foolish. Ile would get little sympathy when he com- plained of time lost going the wrong direction. The man who neglects to read the advertisements is disregarding guideposts and is taking unnecessary chances and Is delaying his own wog. ress. ADVERTISEMENTS OFFER WAYS TO SAVE DOLLARS. If you fail to read and prat by the advertisements you are giving your neighbor who does read them an advantage. h And then the women eame and the children -eager, curious, and at sight of Tarzan more questioning tban ever. The apteinan's new Mend finally suc- ceeded in making illuiself heard, and When he hael done talking the men and women et the village vied with one another in doing honor to the strange ('reattire who hall saved their fellow end battled siugle handed with fierce Sa bor. At last they led him back to their village, where they brought him gifts of fowl and goats and cooked food. When be pointed to their weapons the warriors hastened to fetch spear, shield, arrows and a bow. His friend of the encounter presented him with the knife with whicb he had killed Sabor. There was nothing in all the village he could not have had for the *siting. Tarzan's first night with the savages was devoted to a wild orgy in his hon- or. There was feasting, for the bun- , ters had brought in an antelope and a zebra as trophies of their skill, and gallons of the weak native beer were consumed. As the warriors danced in the flrelight Tarzan was again im- pressed by the symmetry of their age ures and the regularity of their fea-' tures-the Bat noses and thick lips of the typical West Coast savage were entirely missing. In repose tbe faces of the men were intelligent and digni- fied, those of the women ()Mimes pre - Possessing. CHAPTER XVII. From Ape to Savage. T was during this dance that the ape -man first notieed that some of the men and many of the wo- men wore ornaments of gold, principally anklets and armlets of great weight, apparently beaten out of the solid metal. When he expressed a , wish to examine one of these the own- er removed it from her person and in- etelectethreeghe peee medium of aimee Had a Bad Attack of Diarrhoea and Vomiting Had the Doctor Eleven Times DDT DR. FOWLER'S =TRACY OF WILD STRAWBERRY FINALLY CURED ; Mrs. Wesley Pringle, Roblin„Ont., writs:-" It is with great pleasure that •t can recommend Dr. Powler's Extract of 'Wild Strawberry. When our little boy was three years old, he had the worst attack of diarrhoea and vomiting • i ever saw. We called in our doctor, and he came eleven times from Tuesday morning until Saturday night, but still no change. We expected each moment to be the last of his suffering, as the doctor said he could do nothing more. Mr. Pringle was going up town on Satur- day night, and was advised to try your great and wonderful medicine. He got t a bottle and about 9 o'clock the first dose was given, and was kept tip, as 0 directed, and when the doctor came on , Sunday, he said, 'What a wonderful " change; why/ your little boy is going ° to get better.' Then I told him what we had been giving him, and he said, 'ICeep right an, he is doing well.' often think as Ilook itt tny boy, growing to be a man, what great thanks I owe to Dr. Fowler's Thitts.et of Wild Straw- berry." "Dr. Fowler's" has been on the market for close on to seventy years, and has been known from one end of Canada to the other as it cerpin cure for all bowel complaints. When you ask for "Dr. Vovvler'S" be sure you get it, as any substitute is liable to be dangerous tb your health. The getinine preparation is manuftic,. tured by The T. Milburn CO., United, Toronto, Oat, Priet. 35 milts. traf TarratrageFfit Wars, gfC-Tii, dose scrutiny of the banble convinced! tbe ape -man that the arflele war 011 virgin gold. and he was surprised, for 11 was 114. f 1. iMP ttInt be had ever ; . n1s among the Kw - mete, e• e tow the tritilhg lemma- ),• "ip.t IMO 1.14, '; 6•INN4t.o 1%111.01.4•w tried to 1,101 ‘N metal 11 loe. 1 ee coma ire them nom rstami leeellolee the so vageeoffer of a Gut, • TatZtto slept (hot Inght. as %WHO, la a 01444. The lullowing day he NeVOM- Panied /) party ot warriors to rhe near - plates on a great bent, Mal so dez- terous did they find this white nian with their own crude weapons that another bend of respect and admire- ' don was thereby wrouglit. ! For weeks Tarzan lived with his savege friend, hunting buffalo, ante - tope and zebra for meat and elephant for ivory. Quickly he learned their simple speech, their savage customs and the ethics of their wild, primitive, tribal life. Ile found that they were not cannlbals-that they looked with teething and contempt upon men who ate men. Bustin, the warrior whom he had stalked to the village, told him mans, of the tribal legends -how many years before his people had come many long marches from the north, how once they had been a great and powerful tribe and bow the slave raiders bad wrought such havoc among them with their death dealing guns that they had been reduced to a mere remnant of their former numbers and power. "They hunted us down as one hunts a tierce beast," said Busull. "There was no mercy in them. When it was not slaves they sought it was ivory, but usually it was both. Our men were killed and our women driven away like sheep. We fought against them for many years, but our arrows and spears could not prevail against the sticks whicla spit fire and lead and death to many times the distance that our mightiest warrior could place an arrow. At last, when my fatherwas a young man, the Arabs came again, but our warriors saw them from a long way off, and Chowambi, who was chief then, told his people to gather up their belongengs and come away with him - that be would /ead them tar to the south until they found a spot to which the Arab raiders did not come. "And they did as he bid, carrying all their belongings, including many tusks of ivory. For months they wandered, suffering untold hardships and priva- tions, for much of the way was through dense jungle and across mighty mountains, but finally they came to this spot, and, although they sent parties farther on to search for an even better location, none has ever been found." "Ina the raiders have never found you here?" asked Tarzan. "About a year ago a small party of Arabs and Manynema stumbled upon us, but eve drove them off, killing many. For days we followed them, stalking them for the wild beasts they are, picking them oft one by one until but a handful remained, but these es- caped us." As Busuli talked be fingered a heave' gold armlet that encircled the glossy hide of his left arm. Tarzan's eyes had been upon the ornament, but his thoughts were elsewhere. Presently he recalled the question he .had tried to ask when he first came to the tribe - the question he could not at that time make them understand. For weeks be bad forgotten so trivial a thing as gold, for he had been for the time a truly primeval man, with no thought beyond today. But of a sudden the sight of gold awakened the sleeping civilization that was in him, and with it camethe lust for wealth. That lesson Tarzan bad learned well in his brief experi- ence of the Nays of civilized man. He knew that gold meant power and pleasure. He pointed to the bauble. "From whence came the yellow met- al, Busull," he asked. The black pointed toward the south- east. "A moon's march away - maybe more," he replied. "Have you been there?" asked Tar- zan. "No, but some of' our people were there years ago, when my father was yet a young man. One of the parties that searched farther for a location for tbe tribe when first they settled here came upon a strange people who wore many ornaments of yellow metal. Their spears were tipped with it, as were their arrows, and they cooked in vessels made all of solid metal like my armlet. "They lived in a great village In huts that were built of stone, arid surround- ed by a great wall. The were very fieree, rushing out and falling upon our warriors before ever they learned that their errand was it peaceful one. Our men were few In number, but they held their OWn at the top of a little (inky hill, until the fierce people went back at sunset into their wicked eity. Then our warriors came down from heir hill, and after taking many orna- ments of yellow metal from the bedies f those they had slain they marched ack out of the valley, nor have auy us ever returned. "They are wieked people, neither, vhite like you or black like me but mvered with hair as is Bolgani, the orilla. Waziri, our chief, was there," replied Busult "fle Wita a very young man then." So that night Tarzan asked WazIri about it, and Waziri, who was now an 011 man, said that It was a long march, but that the way was not difficult to follow, He remembered it Well, "For ten days we followed this river which runs beside our village. 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After twenty days ot marching from the time we bad cross- ed the mountains and passed out of our own country we came again to an- other range of mountains. Up their Side we followed the great river that had now dwindled to a tiny rivulet nn. til we came to a little' cave near the s mountain top. In this cave was the _eoreettfle mother of the river. "I remember that we camped there that night and that it was very cold, for the ramintains were high. The next day we decided to ascend to the top of the mountains. From a flat mountain top we saw, not far beneath us, a shallow valley, very narrow, and upon the far side of it was a great village of stone, much of which had fallen and crumbled into decay." "I should like to go there and see this strange city," said Taman, "and get some of their yellow metal from its fierce inhabitants." "It Is a long march," replied Waziri, "and I am an old man, but if you will wait until the rainy season is over and the rivers have gone down I will take some of my warriors and go with you." And Tanen bad to be contented with that arrangement, though he would have lilted it well enough to have set off the next morning. He was as im- patient as a child, Really Tarzan of the Apes was but a child, or a primeval man, which is the seine thing in a way. The next day but one a small party of hunters returned to the vi/lagefromi the south to report a large herd of Wee phant some miles away. By climbing trees they had had a fairly good view, of the herd, which they described as numbering several large tusiters, a great many cows and calves and full grown bulls, whose ivory would be worth having. Immediately the hunters started to- ward the elephants. Tarzan stalked after lais own fashion along the leafy way of the middle terrace. 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