Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1924 — Page 8

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TARZAN 1 of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN HERE TODAY John Clarion. Lord Greystoke. Is amxvnled to a po<=t in British West Africa. In May. 1868. he am’. Liidy Alice Rutherford, his wife sail from Dover. At Freetown, they charter the Fnwaida. a small sailimr vessel, for the last let: of their journey. During: mutiny all officers are killed and the Claytons are landed on tronical shores. Clayton keeps a record of their strange life. Lady Alice is attacked by a nuge ape and the shock leaves her mentally unbalanced. That night a little son is born. A year later Lady Alice passes quietly navay. While off guard. Clavton Is killed loan infuriated ape. Kala a mother ape. whose babe has died seizes the little son of Lord and Lady Clayton and drops her own dead nab- in the cradle. KaSa nurses the white child as her own and at ten years of ago Tarcan (meaning white skint climbs and jumps as well as the apes. GO ON WITH THE STORY In the higher land which his tribe frequented was a little lake, and it was here that Tarzan first saw his face In the clear, still waters of its bosom. It was on a sultry day* of the dry season that he and one of his cousins had gone down to the bank to drink. As they leaned over, both little faces were mirrored on the placid pool; the fierce and terrible features of the ape beside those of the aristocratic scion of an old English house. Tarzan was appalled. It had been bad enough to be hairless, blit to own such a countenance! He wondered that the other apes could look at him at all. That tiny slit of a mouth and those puny white teeth! How they looked beside the mighty lips and powerful fangs of his more fortunate brothers! t And the little pinched nose of him; so thin was It that it looked half starved. He turned red as he compared it with the beautiful broad nostrils of his _ companion. Such a generous nose! Why, it spread half across his face! It certainly must be fine to be so handsome, thought poor little Tarzan. But when he saw his own eyes; ah. that was the final blow—a brown spot, a gray circle and then blank whiteness! Frightful! not even the 6nakes had such hideous eyes as he. So intent was he upon, this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a greatbody pushed Itself stealthily through the Jungle; nor did his companion, the ape, hear either, for he was drinking and the noise of his suck ing lips and gurgles of satisfaction drowned the quiet approach of the j Intruder. Not thirty paces behind the two : she crouched —Sabor, the huge lioness—lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward. 1 noiselessly placing it before she lifted i the next. Thus she advanced: her belly low, almost touching the sur- ] face of the ground—a great cat pre- j paring to spring upon its prey. Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows—carefully she drew her hir.d feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin. So low she wa3 crouching now that she seemed flattened to the earth, except for the upward bend of the glossy back as it gathered for the spring. No longer the tail lashed—quie* and straight behind her It lay. An instant she paused thus as ‘hough turned to stone, and then, with a nawful scream, she sprang Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek. But Sabor knew well the wondrous quickness of the Jungle folk and their almost unbelievable powers of hearing. To them the sudden scraping of one blade of grass across another was as effectual a warning as hre loudlest cry. and Sabor knew that she could not make that mighty leap without a little noise. Her wild scream was not a -warning. It was voiced to freeze her poor victims In a paralysis of terror for the tiny fraction of an Instant which would suffice for her mighty claws to sink into their soft flesh and hold them beyond peradventure of escape. In so far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling Just an Instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing. Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-con-fidence, and his higher Intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes. So the scream of Sabor, the lioness. galvanized the brain and muscles of little Tarzan Into Instant action. Before him lay the deep waters of the little lake, behind him certain death; a cruel death beneath tearing claws and rending sanes.

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Tarzan had always hated water except as a medium for quenching his thirst. He hated It because he connected it with the chill and discomfort of the torrential rains, and he feared it for the thunder and lightning and wind which accompanied them. The deep waters of the lake he had been taught by his wild mother to avoid, and further, had he not seen little Neeta sink beneath its quiet surface only a few short weeks before never to return to the tribe? But of the two evils his quick mind chose the lesser ere the first note of Sabor’s scream had scarce broken the quiet of the jungle, and before the great beast had covered half her leap Tarzan felt the chill | waters close above his head. He could not swim, and the water : was very deep: but still he lost no j .article of that self-confidence and resourcefulness which were the badges of his superior being. Rapidly he moved his hands and feet In an attempt to scramble upward. and, possibly more by chance than design, he fell Into the stroke that a dog uses when swimming, so j that within a few seconds his nose was above water and he found that | he could keep it there by continuing liis strokes, and also make progress through the water. He was much surprised and pleased with this new acquirement which had been so suddenly thrust upon him, but he had no time for thinking much upon It. He was now swimming parallel to the bank and there he saw the cruel beast that would have seized him crouching upon the still form of his little playmate. The lioness was intently watching Tarzan. evidently expecting him to return to shore, but this the boy had no intention of doing. Instead he raised his voice in the cal; of distress common to his tribe, adding to it the warning which would prevent would-be rescuers from running into the clutches of Sabor. Almost immediately there came en answer from the distance, and presently forty or fifty great apes swung rapidly and majestically through the trees toward the scene of tragedy. In the van was Kala. for she had recognized the tones of her best beloved, and with her was the mother of the little ape who lay dead beneath cruel Sabor. , Though more powerful and letter equipped f.r fighting than the apes, the lioness had no desire to meet these enraged adults, and with a snarl of hatred she sprang quickly Into the brush and disappeared. Tarzan now swarm to shore and clambered quickly upon dry land, "’he feeling of freshness and ni l.ilaration which the cool waters had imparted *o him, filled his little being with grateful surprise, and ever after he lost no opportunity to take a dally plunge in lake or stream or ocean when It was possible to do so. For a long time Kala could not ar | custom herself to the sight; for though her peep]* could swim when forced to It. they did not like to en ter water, and never did so voluntarily. The adventure with the lioness gave Tarzan food for pleasurable memories, for It was such afit !rs which broke the monotony of his daily life—otherwise but a dull round ■f searching for food, eating, ami sleeping. The Tribe to which he belonged roamed a tract extending, roughly, twenty-five miles along the sea coast and some fifty miles Inland. This they traversed almost continually, | occasionally remaining for months in [one locality; but as they moved through the trees wdth great speed they often covered the territory In a very few days.

Much depended upon food supply, climatic conditions, and the preva lence of animals of the more danger ous species; though Kerehak often led them on long marches for no other reason than that he had tired of remaining In the same place. At night they slept where dark ness overtook them, lying upon the ground, and sometimes covering their heads, and more seldom their bodies, with the great leaves of the elephant’s ear. Two or three might He cuddled In each other's arms for additional warmth if the night were chill, and thus Tarzan had slept In Ivala’s arms nightly for all these years. That the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race Is beyond question, and he, too. gave to the great, hairy b*ast all the affection >hat would have belonged to his fair young mother had she lived. When he. was dicobedlent she cufTed him. It Is true, but she was never cruel to him, and was more often caressing than chastising him. Tublat, her husband, always hated Tarzan. and on several occasions j had come near ending his youthful career. Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother’s arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he dld^so. His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to Invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tuhlat’s life. Early In his boyhood he had i learned to form topes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these h was forever tripping j Tublat or attempting to hang him : from some overhanging branch. By constant playing and experl mentlng with these he learned to tie | rude knots and make sliding nooses, and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do. also, but he alone originated and became proficient. One day while playing thus Tarzan had thrown his rope at one of his fleeing companions, retaining the other end In his grasp By accident the noose fell squarely about the running ape’s neck, bringing him to a sudden and surprising halt. Ah, here was anew game a fine game, thought Tarzan, and immedi-

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ately he attempted to repeat the trick. And thus, by painstaking and continued practice, lie learned the art of roping. Now, Indeed, was the life of Tublat a living nightmare. In sleep, upon ihe march, night or day, he never knew when that quiet noose would slip about his neck and nearly choke the life out of him. Kaia punished, Tublat swore dire vengeance, and old Kerehak took notice and warned and threatened; but all to no avail. Tarzan defied them all, and the thin, strong noose continued to settle about Tuhlat’s neck whenever he least expected It. * Tho other apes derived unlimited amusement from Tublat’s discomfiture, for Broken Nose was a disigreeable old fellow, whom no one liked, anyway. In Tarzan’s clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness? It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subcon scious mind until it resulted in mag nifloent achievement. But that came in later years. Copyright, A. O. McClurg Cos., 191 1 (Continued in Next Issue) Then the Fun Began An Englishman writing to hi' wife from Rome ended his letter in this manner; ’’l have visited the Forum and the coliseum. Ah, if you only knew, my dear, how I thought of you as I gazed at the old ruins!”—Whiz Bang.

Meetings Here Tuesday Writers Club. Meeting, 7:45. Lincoln. Ladies Whist Club, 1:30 P. M. Severin. Pittman Moore Cos. Convention. Severin. Heinz & Cos. Convention. Severin. Van Camp Hardware Convention. Severin. Standard Oil Cos. Meeting, 7 P. M. Severin. Rotary Club. Luncheon, 12:15 P. M. Claypool. Gyro Club. Luncheon, 12:15 P. M. Lincoln.

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN —By STANLEY

TODAYS CROSS-WORD

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

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Natural Conclusion "Pop, how long does a person generally live?” “Three score and ten. my son. Is the accepted number of years.” "My, my! Then you will live 140 years, won’t you?” "Hardly, my boy; why do you think so?” "Because the maid told mamma last night that you were leading a Rouble life.” —Whi* Bang.

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

MIDMIGHT IS ZERO HOUR (Iroenwich Decides to Conform With Civil Method. LONDON. Dee. 25. —Many an old hoary-headed astronomer In this part of the world Is muttering to himself these days about the way the Royal Astronomical Society is meddling with his clock. Greenwich has at last decided to recognize midnight,

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MONDAY, DEC. 29, 1924

Instead of noon, as th® “zero hour.” Even the coldest of the professional star-gazers cannot recall a time when the twenty-four-hour day did not begin, astronomically at any rate, at noon. But now the society lias decreed that on and after the first of next January. Greenwich mean time will be reckoned from midnight to midnight, to conform with the civil method M calculating.