The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1918, Page 11

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918 ' TARZAN or THe APES By Edgar Rice Burroughs nating fiction-figure has ever beon created than thie white D © YOU know Tarzan—Tarzan of the Apes? No more fasol- boy of noble birth who among the wild things of the juny! wore Lord and Lady Groystoke, orow on the African coast. Boon wi grewe to manhood a wild thing Tarzan's father and mother marooned by @ mutinous ship's aftorward Lady Greyetoke’s baby borny and for a yoar thereaftor this little English family lived alone In tholr isolated jungle fastnoes, unable to escape and unable to find or summon succor, The etory of their life w recorded by Greystoke—up to the time hie wife died, And the next day, when hie vigilance relaxed in his grief, a troop of giant anthropoid apes attacked and killed him. A female of these jungle folk had that day n her own offspring dashed to death from a tree-top; and mother inetinot led her to snatoh up the year-old ohild and carry it off with her, Soon English lord and an English lady great ape.” Then he grew to monkey in mind, hunger closed the gap between them, and the eon of an nursed at the breast of Kala, tho manhood—half human and half The Jungle Man Matches Wits With His Old-Time Foes In a Desperate Game (Consrtaht by ‘The Btory-Press Corporation. All rights reserred.) HP black warriors labored in the humid heat of the jungle's stifling shade, With ware epoara they loosened the thi Viack loam and the deep laye: of rotting vegetation, With heavy-null od fingera they svooped away tho disintegratod earth from the centre of the age-old game tral, Often they edised their Invors to squat, rest.ng and. gose! with much laughter, at tho edge of the pit they were dig- sing. Against the boles of near-by trees leaned thelr long oval shields of thick falo hide, and the spears of thuse who were doing the scooping, Sweat gitatened upon thelr smooth ebon skins, beneath which rolled rounded muscles, supple in the perfection of nature's uncontaminated bealth, A reed-buck stepping warily along the trail toward water halted as @ burst of laughter broke upon bis startled ears, With up-pricked oars @ stood for @ moment, statuesuge but for his sensitively dilating nos- triis; then he wheeled and fled noise- lessiy from the terrifying presence of man. A hundred yards away, deep in the trable jungle, Numa od big massive head Numa had dined well until almost daybreak, and tt had required much nolse to awaken him Now he iifte: his muzsle and sniffed the air, caught the acrid acent-spoor of th yeed-buck and the heavy scent of man, Dut Numa was well filled, He rose and slunk away Brilliantly plumaged birda with Fanoous voices darted from tree to tree, Little monkeys, chattering and scolding, swung through the swaying limbs above the black warriors, Yet thoy were alone, for the teeming Jua- gle with all its myriad like the wwarming streets of a grail metropo- Ma, is one of the loneliest spots in God's great universe, But were they alone? Above them, lightly ! 4 upon & leafy tree-limb, a gray-eyed youth watched with eager Intentuesa thelr every move. The fire of hate, re strained, omoldered beneath che lad’s evident desire to know the purpose of the black men's labors, Such & oF fas these it was who had slain his be- loved Kala. For them there could b naught but enmity; yet he lied we to watch them, avid as he was for greater knowledge of the ways of man. He saw the pit grow In 4 a great hole yawned the wi tratl—a hole which was easily la enough to hold at one time all of ¢ six excavators, Tarzan could pot guess the purpose of so great bor. And when they cut long ® sharpene r upper pol Ret them intervals upright in vottom the pit, his wonderment but ine a; was it eat with the pla f the Wit soles over the pit, or ‘ rangement of lenves # : 1 from view the black men had perform F liwork ‘ { ran BUEY Even to h mained that t tampered ¥ Bo absorbed was ar ame trail had be speculation as © vit their y w which had 1 him t Pant and t pen, to the myriad cree wild, the ways of mor ‘They had much to learn of those black, hairless creatures that walked erect upon their hind pawe—and they were learning it alowly, and always to thetr sorrow. Shortly efter the blacks had de- parted Tarzan ewung easily to the trail, Sniffing euspiciously, he cir- cled the edge of the pit, Squatting 1pon his haunches, he scraped away @ little earth to expose one of the cross bare, He sniffed at this, touched it, cocked his head upon one side and contemplated it gravely for eev- eral minutes, Then he carefully re- covered it, arranging the earth aa neatly aa bad the blacks, This done, he swung himself back among the branches of the trees and moved off in s¢ h of his hairy fellows, the great apes of the tribe of Kerohak, Once he crossed the trail of Numa the on, pausing for a moment to hurl a soft fruit at the snarling face of his enemy and to taunt and insult him, cailing him eater of carrion and brother of Dango the hyena. Numa, his yellow-green eyes round and burning with concentrated bate, flared up at the dancing figure above m. w growle vibrated his hoavy Jaws, and his great rage transmitted to his sinuous tall @ sharp, whip-like motion; but realizing from past ox perience the futility of long-distance argument with the @pe-man he turned presently and etruck off into the tangled vegetation whioh hid him from the view of his tormentor. With @ fina! seream of Jungle tnvestive and an apellke grimace at his departing foe, Tarzan continued along his way. Another mile and @ ehifting wind brow, ‘0 his keon nostriig @ fami! lar, pungent odor close at hand, and ® moment later there loomed beneath him a huge, gray-black bulk forging steadily along the Jungle trail, Tar- an seized and broke @ small tree- limb, and at the sudden cracking sound the ponderous figure halted Great ears were thrown forwant and long, supple trunk rose quickly to wave to and fro tn search of the scent of an enemy, while two weak little eyes peered susptctously and futilely about in quest of the author of the noiso which had disturbed bis peace- ful way, Tarzan Imughed alond and came closer above the head of the pachy- derm, “Tantor! Tantor!” he criea. "Bara the deer ts less fearful than you—you, ntor the yhant, greatest of the Junglo-folk, with the strength of ae any Numas os I have toes upon my and fingers upon my hand, Tan- tor, who can uproot great trees, treme bles at the sound A rumbling nots fa dvroken twig.” which might have mm either a sign of contempt or a gh of relief, was Tantor’s only re y as the uplifte trunk and rs me down and the beast’s tall tropped to normal; but hi eyes still ved about in search of Tarzan. Ho a9 not kept long spense, how- er, as to the whereabouts of the pe-man, for a second later the ith dropped Mhtly to the broad end of his old friend, T stretch ing ulmself to full length, he Jrummed with hia bare toes upon the k hide, and as his fingers tohed the more tender surfaces th the great S, he talked to of the gonsip of the jungle ugh the great beast understuod word that he said, fuch there was which Tarzan make Tantor understand, and mini! tatk of the wild 9 beyona at gray dread he stood with vat 1 diinking tn eve . ith keenest appreciatl nN r of fact, It was th ndly volce and caress ehind his ears which he . 1 the close proximity of whom he had often © upon 1 ince Tarsan, as a Itt! fearlessly approached great bull, assuming upon the irt of the pachyderm the same t 4 whieh filled wn In the years of their association Tarzan had discovered that he pos- sed an inexplicable power to gov- ern and direct his mighty friand. At his bidding Tantor would come from a great distance—as for ne his keen ears could detect the shrill and piercing summons of the ape-man, and when Tarzan wae squatted upon his head Tantor would lumber through the Jungle in any direction which his ridor bade him go. It was the power of the man-mind over that of the brute, and it was just as effective as though both fully understood its origin, though neither did. For half an hour Tarzan sprawled there upon Tantor’s back. Time had no meaning for elther of them. Life, ax they saw it, consisted principally in keeping their stomachs filled. To Tar- zan this was a less arduous labor than to Tantor, for Tarzan'’s stomach was amatier, and being omnivorous, foo: was less difficult to obtain. If one sort aid not come readily to hand there were always many others to xatixty his hunger. He was less partioular as to his diet than Tantor, who would cat only the bark of certain trees, and the wood of others, while a third appealed to him only through its leaves, and these, perhaps, just at certain seasons of the year. Tantor must needs pend the better part of his life In Milling his immense stomach against the needs of his mighty thews. It is thus with all the lower orders—their Ives are so occu pied either with searching for food or with the processes of digestion tht they have little time for other constider- ations, Doubtless It is this handicap which has kept them from advancing as rapidly as man, who has more time to give to thought upon other matters, However, these questions troubled Tarzan but little and Tantor not at nll. What the former knew was that he Was happy in the companionsh!p of the elephant. He did not know why. Ho did not Know that because he was « THE ELEPHANT SWUNG TARZAN TO HIS BROAD HEAD, human being--a normal, healthy hu- man being--he craved some living thing upon which to lavish hip affeo- tion. His childhood playmates among the apes of Kercink were now great, gullon brutes, They felt and inspired but little affection. The younger apes ‘Tarvan still played with occasionally, In his say way he loved them, but they were fur from satisfying or restful companions, Tantor was a great moun: fain of calm, of poise, of stability, It was restful and isfying to sprawi upon his rough pate and pour one's vagu hop nd aspiretions into the great ears which flapped ponderously to and fro in arent lerstanding Of all the Jungle-fol Tantor com- manded Tarzan's grvatest love since Kala had beeo at him. Borns- times Tarzan wot 4 if Tantor re- ciprocated his affection. 1t was dtffi- t to know It was the call of the stomach—the eo 1 heletent call th ® + t took Tarzan finally back to the trees and varch of food while Tantor ovn- tinued his interru; urney in the opposite direction For en hour the ape-man foraged. a Jofty nest yielded its fresh, warm nar. vest. Fruita, berries and tender plan- tains found @ place upon his menu tn the t he hag } upon them, tor hed foods Mont, avat, 1 It wos always meat that ‘ snteds but some. the fangle his r mind 1 itself mot . jecus. He baa Geen « often the eeanté (nt days and hou: " it with Ta tated elo blacks and th overed pit the 1 tet tr n, He wons tions and arrived at Judgments, reach- ing conclusions—not always correct ones, it Is true; but at Jeast he used his brain for the purpose God Intended It—which was the loss difficult be- causo he was not handicapped by the second-hand, and usually erroneous, Judgments of others, As ho pursled over the covered pit there loomed suddenly before his men- tal vision a huge, gray-black bulk whioh lumbered ponderously along « Jungle trail. Instantly Tarzan tensed to the shock of a midden fear. Dect- sion and action usually occurred sitm- ultaneously in the life of the ape-man, and now he was away through the leafy branches ere the realization of the pit's purpose had scarce formed in his mind. Swinging from swaying limb to swaying limb, he raced through the middle terrace, where the trees grow close together. Again he dropped to the ground and sped, silently and light of foot, over the carpet of decaying vegetation, only to teap again into the trees where the tangled undergrowth precluded rapid advance upon the #ur- face. In his anxlety he east discretion to the winds. The caution of the beast was lost in the loyalty of the man, and so it came that he entered a large clearing denuded of trees, without a thought of what might Me there or upon the further edge to dispute the way with him, Hoe was halfway across when di, rectly in hiv path and but a few yarda away there rose from a clump of tall grasses a half-doren chattering birds, Instantly Tarsan turned quickly aside for be knew well enough what manner of creature the presence of these little sentinels proclalmed. Simultaneously Buto the rhinoceros scrambled to hia short legs and charged furtousiy. Hap- hazard obarges Buto With his weuk eyes he sees but poorly, even a ort distances, and whethe his erratic rushes are due to the panic of fear as he att rhinoceros, npts to excape, or to the trascible temper with which he 14 generally credited, it is difficult to de termine, Nor ta the matter of grea moment to one whom Buto chai for If he bo caught and tossed tho chances are that naug interest n thereafter ‘o-day tt chanced that Buto bere down straight up the few yards of kne separated them, Ac 1" in the dir jon of the ape-man, and then his weak eyes discerned the en emy, and with @ series of snorts charged atraight for him. 7 rhino-birds fluttered and cir A alk their glant ward, Among the bra of the trees ut the edge of a score or more monkeys ohuttored and scolded as the loud sof t angry beast sent seurrying af frightedly to t « zon alone appeared indi wud oerene Directly In the path of the ohares stood. There hae been no tt safety in the trees at ing; nor had Taran y Ato his journey because of Bute, Hy had met th pid beast before in fine contempt. And now Uuto was upon Lim, the massive 1 lowered a heayy horn inclined for the frie work for wl nature 4 it; but #9 o str weapon ru ang Haitly alot M ‘ hora to th Foi ft Ar and he was on the «round brute and racing lke @ d treow, . appearance of his prey, harged frantically in an which chanced of Tarzan'’s ff oman came in safety to the trees and continued on bis «wit way through th wheeled and other direction, and #0 the ap ad of him Tantor — moved steadily elephant trail, and ahead 6f Tantor @ black warrtor tently in the middle of the path, Pres ently he heard the sound for which he hod been hoping 1 effort to throw him. cracking, snap- which heralded ouch of an elephant. To his rlcht and left in other parts other warrlone were A low signal, passed from one to another apprized the most dis- tant that the quarry was afoot converged toward tho ¢ ascribe, Warrto 4 eluded therm. In the pit-covertng ta have accommodated an elephant prey had put one boon swallowed by the earth; and th later, at night, their dead bodies had ward among the warriors nearest him villugn street and enariing, the beast-man ieacd from the point at which Tantor mus: Silently they waited, and presently were rewarded by the sight carrying an amount of ivory in his long tusks that not their greedy hearts to palpttating. No sooner had he passed their post: warriors clambered from their perches. No longer were they silent, but instead they clapped and shouted as they reached the ground. For an instant Tantor the elephant ial (hat thera con be no dout You will do white giant Some of them thin forest god bet back tn terror, awed by ¢ paused with upraised trunk and tail, with great ears yp-prick ewung on along the trail at a rapid, shuffling pace—straight covered pit with ttm sharpened stakes upstanding In the ground. fear of tha black put others were only of the capture lagers enw enrs, and he whee! Tarzan out. terr Behind him came the yelling war- There was n riors, urging hin fight whioh would not permit a onre- ful examination of the ground before him, Tantor tha elepha have turned and scat versartes with a sl ‘ke @ frightened de pideous, torturing death turned about, rataed bis trunk and plerced him the bane of the nature of bis injury rave voles In failing back had restored qutet and order the vole aida of one of the fled toward a quick ta Alscoy quick to bind 1 lees before hi Rehind them all came Tarzan of the Apos, racing through the jungle forest with the speed and agility of a squir- rel, for he had heard the shouts of riuarded against the coming of the tiem; Gofreatls with the hairy troe \rough the Jung's; but Tantor, in panto of terror, either fa!! or hearing, dared not pause to Now the giant pachyderm was hut 4 fow yards from the hidden death in hie path; and the sin of sucee in bin wake, war spears and celebrating in advance 6 acquinition of the sp! arried by thelr prey and t apo-man's 6 naclousnees nd to @ cone’ eira this night himself and bis So Intent were the eratulations led to note the an-beast above thetr t Trantor, etther, seo or ugh Tarzan calied bh A tow more steps rean fairly flew thre elng animal and At the pit'e vers pped to the gr Tantor was 1 to recognize his old tr Stop!" eried Tarzan, a eof the brush w antly Tantar saw coming bet! and now he w fore him yawned the p © primeval ju With @ nau SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918 : , EVERY STORY COMPLETE ANOTUER OF THESE FASCINATING TALES WILL BE PUBLISHED NEXT SATURDAY, ONE WELK FROM TO-DAY. FOLLOW TARZAN IN WIS ADVENTURES THROUGH THE WILDS. A NEW STORY EACH WEEK and tneredulity. For months shouts from the assembled villagers. hind lived in perpetual terror of ‘To the atake they led him, and as \ weird white demon whom but few they pushed him against it in order sed and lived to de- to bind him there securely for tire had disappeared dance of death that would presenti: yom (he paths almoat within sight of encirele him Tarsan tensed his michty Vulaa®, and from the midet of thewa and with « single powerfu! their companions, o mystertously wrench parted the loosened thonas ind completely ae though they bad which had sacured hia hands. Like ught, for quickness, he leaped for- len as from the heavens inte the A blow sent one to earth as, growtt fearsome ereature had ap- Upon the breast of another, His fans by night in the huts of the Were buried instantly in the jasular vee, Killed and disappeared, leav- of his adversary—and then @ balf- tug behind him tn the bute of the hundred black men teaped upon him lead, strange and terrifying evidences and bore him to earth, of an Uncanny sense of humor. Striking, clawing and anapping. the Hut now ho was in thelr power! ape-man fought—fought as hia foster No longer could he terrorize them. people had taught him to fieht—foneht Slowly the realisation of this dawned Uke a wild beast cornered. Fits on them, A wom 1, soreaming, etroneth, hie agility, hin couraee agd ran forward and struck the aps-man his tntelligence rendered him enti a acroam the face. Another and another matoh for half a doren black menfiga followed her examy of the Apes was surrounded by a until Tarsan hand-to-hand atrugele, but not ‘Tarzan could hone stecesstully to cone ehting, clawing, yelling mob of with half a hundred vatives Slowly they were overpowering hin f, came, thowrh a score of them bled from welt laying bia spear heavily across Ant then Mbonga, the wounds and two lay very still beneath the shoulders of his people, he drove the trampling feet and the rolling vem from their prey. bodies of the contestants. ‘We will save bim until night,” he Overpower him they mieht, but coald aid. they keep him overpowered while they bound him? A half-hour of des ATt out In the fungle Tantor the Perate endeavor convinced them that clephant, his first panto al- they eould not, and ao Mbonea, who layed, atood with up-pricked '!k@ all good rulers, had circled in cara and undulating trunk, the safety of the background, called What was passing through the con- t one to work his way tn and spear volutions of hia savage brain? € he be searching for Taran uid the vietim. Gradually the warctor * Could 8PPronched through the mi Hand measure the services the Dfttiing men the object of his an man had performed for him? Of — He stood with poised spear above But did DIS head, waiting for the instant that fesl gratitude? Would he have ®euld expose a vulnerable part of the tisked his own Ife to save Tar- #Pe-man's body and still not endan- zun could he have known of the Fr ono of the blacks, Closer and Janger which confronted bis friend? Closer he edged about, following the bt it, Any one at all Movements of the twisting, scuftilite niliar with elephants will doubt it, Combatants, The growls of the ane hilwimen who have hunted much 20 #ent cold ohtie up the warrtoba ephanta in India will telt you “PINS. causing him to mo carefully Net they have never heard of an tn- ° Minn at the first cast and lay ntm- ‘once In which one of these animals lf open to an attack from thane an gone to tha ald of @ man in erelleas teeth and mighty hands. | heer, even though the man bad At last be found an opening. Himher sans tended it. ‘Therefore it ta to 2® Mleed hin epear, tensing his mus. » doubted that Tantor would have 1% Polling beneath his gHatenine ompted to overcome hia instinctive COP Bide, and then from the tuneic nin an effort to Just beyond the paltsade enme a thun or Tarzan. derous crashing. The spear-hand ‘The screams of the infuriated wil. Paused: the black cast a quick «lance » faintly to his nenaitive '9 the direction of the disturbance, os 1 an though in ‘i the others of the blacks who were ontemplating fight; tet ae occupied with the subjugation of mething stayed him, and again bes yy Hadacet dba tite toad eave huge bulk topping the barrier. They naw the palisade belly and sway in ward. ‘They saw it burst as thoweh bullt of straws, and an instant inter Tantor the elephant thundered down a shrill ery Then ho atood listening In the distant village where Mbonga of Tantor was scarcely a nero te AW oe thane: biaciea; but to the keen ears of Tarzan : To reht and } ss of the Apes it bore its message, ‘o risht and left the Blacks fied screamt: or. So hor His captors were leading him to « ming in terror. Some who hov but where he might be confned and ered upon the verme of the atrife with Tarzan heant and made good their wturnal orgy that would mark hia *%°@pe. but @ halt dozen there were Ho halted as ha #2 8baorbed In tha blood-madneas of Te and, Déttle that they fatted to note the ar Inden death cord the notes of Tantor’a ¢ \ining Nis howd, gave vent to n terri. “ronch of the giant tusker nk scream that sent cold chills Sie * antor charmed, trum peting furl: stopped, hi among the ily, Above them he senattive trunk waving n, and there, at the bot tom, he found Tarzan, bloody but at}ii battling, hroueh the superstitions blacks and 1 the warriors who munrded b up back, even though their prte vera arma were securely bound be ind him 7 rior turned his eves upward With rained spenra they encireted melee. Above him tor s for a moment longer he stood si 2 ; pie ng. Paintly from the distance “ Rinne Ba St SH. Baers uy. eset shes Sacaaes vs eyes flashing with the m turned to pursue his” ‘ ‘ ; toward the hut where he was to he wareior riaoned secre 4 fas he screamed the afternoon wore on. From the MUS RPE SGRLESIS| Tike, TEER oundine villuge theapesman heard "™ hice above the ground and hurled him far aftor the f" tle of preparation for the feast is crowd Anothe an Another Tantor the doorway of the hut he ; 6 women Inying the cooking Tarzan and filling th earthen caul n t and to lef na with water, but abave it all his ay oither moaning same slowly 4 were bent aorosa the fungle tn » coming of Tar r iistening for At a distance Mbonea railed Os os had noted f the bull, The ved, he urged | heart which lay init + me ttack with thetr nk bods t anears, but as they ‘ zan to hie ne, lumbertd inwrie Lie nto » through the great ven Tartan bat halt delle teome, He knew 'T te lead him out to he 4 ! you that an 1 ~Paraar \ t w not ha fone thi» 5 they ; t t to Tantor Tarzan was uta w up. routs of his foemen And so It Was that Tantor the ele to tt ne—pa 1 warrlora, even more bideous t etween them since Tarren brown boy rode upon ‘Teh- back th awh t noomit ue equatoria { «