Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1912 — Mississippi Dog a Good Lion Hunter [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Mississippi Dog a Good Lion Hunter

NEW YORK.—To hear Paul J. Rainey tell about it, running down a fullgrown lion with a pack of plain Mississippi dogs isn’t half as dangerous as chasing a scared little red fox with a pack of fnllblooded foxhounds—particularly if said fox takes it into his head to ran over the property of an irate Long island farmer, armed with a shotgun full of rock salt. “When yon run a lion down with dogs you carry a gun along, and all you’ve got to do is to use it after the dogs drive the lion into range,” he says. “But when your are chasing Reynard the only one 'Who has a gun Is the irate farmer. So, me for the lions!” The young American sportsman who stands sponsor for these sentiments has just returned from a year’s hunting expedition in Africa. When be (est here early in 1911 with his friend and companion on his famous Arctic

trip, Dr. M. E. Johnson of Lexington, Ky., taking only a few guns and a pack of ordinary Mississippi hounds to go lion hunting his friends laughed at him. - s ’~ Now that Mr. Rainey has the pelts of seventy-four full grown lions to wave in their faces they are eating so much humble pie that an epidemic of mental Indigestion is threatened. “The only difficulty was to train thej dogs to take up. the lion’s scent,” ho| said to a little group of apologetic ones who called at his offices at 527! Fifth avenue to apologize for their lib timed mirth of a year ago. “I really don’t blame you for having laughed at me last year. But I knew: that the pups would back me up. X had been bear hunting with them hoi this country, and I felt pretty confident that dogs that would go to the mat with a savage bear wouldn’t tuck their tails and run from a Hon. “They didn’t take kindly to the scent at first I didn’t blame them much, for a lion doesn’t feed on clover or vanilla beans. But they got«4ed to Iti after a while—and .at the end of six weeks all you bad to do was to show! them the spoor of a 11 pn and they would locate for you in half-an hour.” (>