Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1925 — Page 8

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TARZAN A o/THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN- HERB John Clayton. Lord Greystofce. is appointed to a British Dost in Africa. May. 1888. he and Lady Alice Rutherford his wife, sail from Dover. Durint mutiny all officers on the Fuw&ida are killed and the Claytons are landed with their belongings on isolated jungle 'shorea. Clayton records th'jir strange life. A year after their son Is born Lady Alice dies. Clayton is killed by Kerchak. an infuriated aoe. Kala, a mother ape. steals the Clayton child and drops her own dead babe in the cradle. Kerchak Sens from the Clayton nut when a Sn dischargee, and the door springs ut behind him. Kala nurses the whits babe, and at ten years. Tarzan (meaning white skin) climbs as well as the apes. Tarzan unlocks the door of the Clayton hut and from the pictures in a child's primer learns that he is a man, a different tribe than the apes, that the little apes are monkeys. Sabor a lioness. Histah a snake. Tantor an elephants and so he learns to read. Tarzan is wounded bv Bolrani. a gorilla, which he kills with a knife found in the hut. GO ON WITH THE STORY Tarzan held a peculiar position In the tribe. They seemed to consider him one of them and yet in some way different. The older males either ignored him entirely or else hated him so vindictively that but for his wondrous agility and speed and the fierce protection of the huge Kala he would have been dispatched at an early age. Tublat was his most consistent enemy, but it was through Tublat that, when he was about 13, the persecution of his enemies suddenly ceased and he was left severely alone, except on the occasions when one of them ran amuck in the throes of one of those strange, .wild fits of Insane rage whijh attacks the males of many of the fiercer animals of the Jungle. Then none was safe. On the day that Tarzan established his right to respect, the tribe was gathered about a small natural amphitheater which the junglo had left free from its entangling vines and creepers In a hollow amongst som low hills, The open space was almost circular In shape. Upon every hand rose the mighty giants of the untouched forest, with matted undergrowth banked so closely between the huge trunks that the only opening into the little, level arena was through the upper branches of the trees. f| Here, safe from interruption, the tribe often gathered. In the center of the amhpitbeater was one of those strange earthen drums which the anthropoids build for the queer rites, the sounds of which men have heard in the fastnesses of the jungle, but which none has ever witnessed. Many travelers have seen the drums of the great apes, and some have heard the sounds of their beating and the noise of * the wild, weird revelry of these first lords of the jungle, but Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, is, doubtless, the only human being who ever joined in the fierce, mad, intoxicating revel of the Dum-Dum. Prom this primitive function has arisen, unquestionably, all the forms and ceremonials of modern church and state, for through all the countless/agfee, back beyond the last, uttermost ramparts of a dawning our fierce, hairy forebears ' d£®?ed out the rites of the DmnDißi to the sound of their earthern

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drums, beneath the bright light of a tropical moon in the depth of a mighty jungle which stands unchanged today as it stood on that long forgotten night in the dim, unthinkable vistas of the long dead past when our first shaggy ancestor swung from a swaying bough and dropped lightly upon the soft turf of the first meeting place. On the day that Tarzan won his emancipation from the persecution that had followed him remorselessly for twelve of his thirteen years of life, the tribe, now a full hundred strong, trooped silently through the lower terrace of the jungle trees and dropped noiselessly upon the floor of the amphitheater. The rites of the Dum-Dum marked important events in the life of tfie tribe—a victory, the capture of a prisoner, the killing of some large fierce denizen of the jungle, the death or accession of a king, and were conducted with set ceremonialism. Today it was the killing of a giant ape, a member of another tribe, and as the people of Kerchak entered the arena two mighty bulls might have been seen bearing the body of the vanquished between them. They laid their burden before-the earthen drum and then squatted there beside it as guards, while the other members of the commui.ity curled themselves in grassy nooks to sleep until the rising moon should give the signal for the commencement of their savage orgy. For hours absolute quiet reigned In the little clearing, except as It was broken by the discordant notes of brilliantly feathered parrots, or the screeching and twittering of the thousand jungle birds flitting ceaselessly amongst the vivid orchids and flamboyant blossoms which festooned the myriad, moss covered branches of the forest kins. At length as darkness settled upon the Jungle the apes commenced to bestir themselves, and soon they formed a great circle about the earthen drum. The females and young squatted In a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males." Before the drum sat three old females, each armed with a knotted branch fifteen or eighteen inches in length. Slowly and softly they began tapping upon the resounding surface of the drum as the first faint rays of the ascending moon silvered the encircling tree tops. As the light in the amphitheater increased the females augmented the frequency and force of their blows until pi-esently a wild, rhythmic din pervaded the great jungle for miles in every direction. Huge, fierce brutes stopped In their hunting, with up-pricked ears and raised heads, to listen to the dull booming that betokened the Dum-Dum of the apes. - Occasionally one would raise his shrill scream or thunderous roar in answering challenge to the savage din of the anthropoids, but none came near to investigate or attack, for the great apes, assembled In all of the power of their numbers, filled the breasts of their jungle neighbors with deep respect. As the din of the drum rose to almost deafening volume Kerchak sprang into the open space between the squatting males and the drummers. Standing erect he thew his head far back and looking full into the eye of the rising moon he beat upon his breast with his great hairy paws and emitted his fearful roaring shriek. Once—twice—thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming solitude of that unspeakably quick, yet unthinkably dead, world. Then, crouching, Kerchak slunk noiselessly around the open circle, veering far away from the dead body lying before the altar-drum, but, as he passed, keeping his little, fierce, wicked, red eyes upon the corpse. Another male then sprang into the .arena, and, repeating the horrid cries of his king, followed stealthily In his wake. Another and another followed in quick succession until the jungle reverberated with the now almost ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty x creams. It was the challenge and the hunt. When all the adult males had joined* in the thin line of circling dancers the atack commenced. Kerchak, seizing a huge club from the pile which lay at hand for the purpose, rushed furiously upon the dead ape, dealing the corpse a terrific blow, at the same time emitting the growls and snarls of combat. The din of the drum was now in- | creased, as well as the frequency of the blows, and the warr‘ , “as each approached the victim of the hunt and delivered his bludgeon blow, joined in the mad whirl of the death dance. Tarzan was one of the wild, leaping horde. His brown, sweatstreaked, muscular body, glistening in the moonlight, shone supple and graceful among the uncouth, awkward, t airy brutes about him. None more craftily stealthy in the mimic hunt, none more ferocious than he in the wild ferocity of the attack, nor none who leaped 30 righ into the air in the Dance of Death. As the noise and rapidity of the drum beats Increased the dancers apparently became intoxicated with wild rhythm and the savage yells. Their leaps and bounds increased, their bared fangs dripped saliva and their lips and breasts were flecked with foam. For half an hour the weird dance went on, until, at a sign from Kerchak, the noise of the drums ceased, the female drummers scampering hurriedly through the line of dancers toward the outer rim of squatting spectators. Then, as one man, the males rushed headlong upon the thing which their terrific blows had reduced to a mass of hairy pulp. Flesh seldom came to their jaws in satisfying quantities, so a fit finale to, their wild revel was a taste of fresh killed meat, and it was to the purpose of devouring their** late enemy that they now turned their attention. Great fangs sunk Into the carcass, tearing away huge ohunlk the mightiest of the apes obtaining the choices* tnorffete. while the tpWutw*

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circled the outer edge of the fighting, snarling pack, awaiting their chance to dodge in and snatch a dropped titbit or filch a remaining bone before all was gone. Tarzan, more than the apes, craved and needed flesh. Descended from a race of meat eaten., never In his life, he thought, had he once satisfied his appetite for animal food, and so now his agile little body wormed its way far into the mass of struggling, rending apes in an endeavor to obtain a share which his strength would have been unequal to the task of winning for him. At his side hung the hunting knife of his unknown father in a sheath self-fashioned in copy of one he had seen among the pictures of, his treasure books. Copyright. A. C. McClurg A Cos., 1914. (Continued in Next Issue) WORLD COURT BOOSTED Hamilton Holt to Speak Jan. 12 at Cadle Tabernacle. Thomas C. Day will preside at a meeting in Cadle Tabernacle the night of Jan. 12 when Hamilton Holt, New York ,City, will speak in interest of the world oourt. Music will be furnished by Indianapolis Oratorio Society. I F. M. Rust, secretary of World Court Advocacy, with offices 1200 City Trust Bldg., is arranging the | lecture. FARMERS GET NOTICE Important Conference at Purdue University, State Board of Agriculture today sent Indiana farmers notices of the annual Purdue Agriculture Conference to be at Lafayette, Ind.. Jan. 12-16. Farmers from all over the State will gather to hear problems discussed by specialists. Several demonstrations will be staged. Rate Agreement Reached Richmond city officials and officials of the Richmond Water Company today submitted a water schedule to the public service commission which was approved by the commissioners. The company had filed rates which the city opposed. Today they announced they had reached an agreement on the rates and the commission is expected to issue an order confirming Its ap-

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