Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — GOT PHOTOGRAPH OF PANTHER [ARTICLE]

GOT PHOTOGRAPH OF PANTHER

Exciting Experience Which Few Members of the Party Care to Go Through Again. A panther is not easily killed, and will often reyive with Vet*y unpleasant results, as on a certain Occasion in the Dcccan. He appeared to be quite dead, and one of the spectators rushed up with a camera on a stand to obtain a picture, of the supreme moment. He got his photograph, and, strange to say, it survived What followed; but no sooner had he taken it than the panthere revived, tore himself loose, and went for the photographer. Somehow the man escaped, but the camera was sent flying, and, disconcerted by his encounter with it, the panther turned and made for the nearest tree, up which he went as quickly as a monkey. Now, the tree was crowded with interested spectators, and for three or four strenuous seconds (until the panther was shot) we enjoyed a spectacle of natives dropping to earth with loud thuds like ripe plums from a jungle tree as the panther approached them.—Wide World Magazine.