I iT THIS season of the year hardly a
I train leaves any of the railroad sta
tions of a great city but what it bears
half a dozen enthusiastic sportsmen
in search of the thrills to be found
only in the woods of the far north and
northwest. Thousands of dollars are
spent, for the purpose of securing a chance to
shoot an antleerd buck as lie roams over his na
tive heath. Preparations for these trips are made
long in advance. As an old friend said one time
about fox hunting, "Half the fun in the sport is
getting ready, hacking to the meet and the long
ride home with plenty of good tobacco.” So are
the days spent on the trail, getting into the big
game country, nearly always from 90 to 200 miles
f from the end of the railroad.
didn’t ross the divide be
fore the snow came, we
never would. Therefore
we planned to start the
following morning, but
when morning came we
found our tent entirely
covered with drifted snow,
the wind blowing a gale
and the air full of blind
ing. cutting snow.
It was a hard task to
catch 17 horses and po
nies and pack them in
the snow and rain, so it
was noon before we were
on the go, while the cold
A
WHAT’S IN A NAME, ANYWAY?
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Pompous Young Lawyer Is Set Down
by Unpolished Squire.
To a certain southern town, on le
gal business, came a most pompous
young lawyer, who, notwithstanding
his name was McNaught, had an ex
cellent opinion of himself. He found
it necessary to talk with Squire Gard
ner, an unpolished justice, who had
Thompson 05 M^/a/ led the train ^
Herd \
to Hit J
We followed them for three d&yo
Alter making camp in the open along the Yellowstone
river on one of these nights, supper being over, and
Thompson, our guide, starting one of his Indian tales with
OeD. Miles and himself as the heroes, two cow punchers
rode up with a pack horse and asked if we objected to
them making camp with us, saying several others were
coming later with some cattle. Several others did come
and with them 6,000 head of cattle, so we slept with the
herd surrounding us on all sides; some grazing, while
others would stand over one and look at the fire, while the
cowboys were continually riding around the herd to keep
tab on the stragglers.
By breakfast time all were gone and our party was
also in the saddle by six o'clock, making for the game
country.
After three more days of traveling we made camp near
the foot of saddle mountain, on Bannock lake and about
15 miles from the national park line, a line at.
times quite hard to discover, as it may run from
the top of one mountain to a bronze plate in a
or eignt miles away.
After resting a day in camp we started for
the hunting ground with Thompson and had
gone only a couple of miles when we came to
some fresh elk tracks, which we followed cau
tiously for some time, until we could see far
below us in a park (a small clearing with long
grass, on which elk are fond of feeding), a small
band of elk, three bulls and six cows. Getting
within range noiselessly was no easy matter, ow
ing to the dry conditiou of the forests, but after
an exciting crawl on hands and knees, we found
ourselves within about a hundred yards and un
seen by the elk. I picked my bull and took a
shot for the near shoulder, while my guide shot
the next largest; botlj bulls dropped, but mine
wag up an off again immediately, following in the
rear of the herd as best he could with a broken
shoulder mlt i I " M 'i bis lungs. He was going
slowly and easy to follow and another shot some
500 yards further on, in very dense timber, ended
his roving career. The remainder .of that day
was spent in skinning and cutting up the meat
and hanging it high above the ground, out of
reach of prowling animals at night. For dinner
t|jat evening we had elk's liver and steak and
quite a celebration over our early success. Pack
ing the meat, hides cjnd {leads hack to camp con
sumed tlie next day and £ept the three of us
busy.
* As my companions from tue east shot a fine
bull several days later on, we took a rest from
/hunting and devoted some time to fishing. Trout
rose well, so all were satisfied and on returning
to camp on one of these days I had a quick shot
from my pony at a coyote that was galloping
across the brow of the hill. It always seemed to
me to have been more good luck than good
marksmanship, for these little things are always
hard to hit, but his skin now lies over the back
of a chair before my fireplace.
After bunting without any luck for perhaps
a week, we finally came on some rather fresh
sheep tracks and decided immediately to go after
them. It was quite the hardest climbing and
hunting I ever did without any success, but we
followed them for three days and at times must
have been within a couple of hundred yards of
them, although we never had a shot.
Menacing clouds had been, gathering for some
days, with litie snow flurries, and Thompson said
a good deal about getting back to the ranch,
which was a two days’ trip, and as he said if we
made the train hard to manage and keep in line:
one pony especially tried to buck the elk head off
that was packed on him. He did manage to get
it twisted around so the prongs of the antlers
stuck him in the side, and such capers as he cut
then I have never seen, besides delaying the out
fit for nearly an hour. The divide had to be
crossed by daylight, but on reaching it a dense
fog settled over the whole country, which, added
to the snow, made it impossible to see more than
3 0 feet in front of one. Thompson, as usual, led
the train, and after going on the narrow ridge
that formed the divide, stopped to call and see if
all w'ere following, when there was a great scram
bling and crashing of branches and one of the
horses disappeared over the precipice, which was
anywhere flora dQO to a thousand feet deep on
either side find only about 30 feet on top. After
counting noses we found he was an unruly fellow
that we had not been able to pack, but was fol
lowing the others all right until he started to do
a little reconnoitering on his own account. Un
doubtedly he was dead long before he reached
the bottom of the precipice, so we felt our way
along very cautiously and anxiously until sud
denly the cloud we were in lifted, when the go
ing was moderately fair until we made camp for
the night, all very thankful that we had not
encountered more serious disaster.
Later, several short excursions were made
from the ranchhouse, on one of which I shot
a good blacktail deer, and another time a young
bull elk. with only spikes. The blacktail was
standing in the snow with three does, sheltered
behind a clump of scrub pines, and he had evi
dently seen me first, lor I was then attracted by
the does running off. I took a quick shot and the
buck made a tremendous leap of at least 30 feet,
but it was his last, as my first soft-nosed bullet
had mushroomed considerably on going through
the shoulder and completely torn his lungs away.
The spike elk was much harder to kill, or our
marksmanship was i>oor, owing to our having
to run across a valley and up the side of a moun
tain to head him off At any rate it took four
of my guide’s 45-70’s and three of my 30-30 bul
lets to bring him dov.-n. Every ball had hit him,
but none in a vital spot until the last.
Sage hen shooting and coursing jack rabbits
with a greyhound aid a collie dog offer gcod
sport for the hunter in this country.
ro good opinion of anything, and especially
of anyone who had a good opinion of him
self. The squire had never heard of his
visitor till he called and he was a poor
hand at remembering names, but he was an
expert in human measurements. The
young lawyer proceeded promptly to say
wii3ii lie nau 10 stiy, uie squire naicumg, uui waiuu*
ing. Presently he thought it was time for him to
say something.
“Hold on, Mr. MeCipher,” he began.
“My name is McNaught,” the lawyer stiffly cor
rected him.
“Excuse me, excuse me,” apologized the squire
and finished his remarks.
It was not long until the squire again felt called
upon to speak.
“Well, now, Mr. MeZero,” he started in.
“I said my name was McNaught,” the lawyer in
terrupted sharply.
Again the squire apologized, apologized pro
fusely, and the lawyer concluded his consultation.
He was not feeling very kindly toward the squire,
but he thought it wise not to manifest his feel
ings and said goodby with a fair degree of po
liteness.
“Goodby, Mr. McNothing,” said the squire as in
nocent as a lamb, and as the visitor walked pom
pously out of the office the squire chuckled.
PINEAPPLE AS A CURATIVE.
It has long been known that the pineapple is
one of the healthiest of fruits, but its real medici
nal qualities probably have never been realised. In
Hawaii experiments have been made to determine
something of these properties. It has been found
that the fruit of the pineapple contains a digestive
principle closely resembling pepsin in its action,
and to this is probably due the beneficial results
of the use of the fruit in certain forms of dyspep
sia. On the casein of milk pineapple juice acts
as a digestive in almost the same manner as ren
net, and the action is also well illustrated by plac
ing a thin piece of uncooked beef between two
slices of fresh pineapple, where in the course of a
few hours its character Is completely changed.
In diphtheritic sore throat and croup pineapple
juice has come to be very largely relied upon la
countries where the fruit is common. The false
membranes which cause the closing of the throat
seem to be dissolved by the fruit acids and relief
is almost immediate.
Concrete Buildings in China.
The construction of houses and walls of con
crete in China was instituted several centuries
ago, and is peculiarly common and extensive in
Swatow. where it originated in the building of a
chapel by a French priest. The absence of any
brick structures or walls gives ample proof of the
stability of the concrete.
NARROW HIGHWAYS OF CHINA
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Many of the Roads in Empire Have
No Wider Gauge Than a Wheel
barrow Track.
The most ancient and honorable
meanS of travel is by the highway,
and writers on China extol the splen
did roads built by earlier dynasties.
€io far as I can learn, however, there
is not, outside the neighborhood of the
targe cities, a single main road which
could pass the inspection of so past
t
ly convinced an expert as say a county
commissioner in Pennsylvania, In tho
860-miles stretch from Pekin to Han
kow; the railway does not cross a. sin
gle wagon road equal to the trails of
southern Texas. Chinese farmers have
a way of enlarging their fields by dig
ging into the sides of any roads th^|
may be made; and most of the high
ways that you see are gullied ty§cka<
sometimes winding across tilled fields
in a new course each year. There are
many small stone bridges and a lew
ol considerable span.
Wheeled traffic in many parts of
China knows no wider gage than a
wheelbarrow (rack. North and Cen
tral China hata the two-wheeled cart
of a strength and solidity which pan
Stand the jolting, and transfer it to
; and a few four-wheeled
in dry weather. Un
China abounds fh beasts
of burden. The commonest carriage
in the south is the pack animal. The
camel in north China is still locomo
tive, baggage wagon and trolley car;
out of Pekin every morning move
many hundreds of these big, fat, two
humped beasts, looking down with the
contempt of their country on the for
elgn devil. The traveler who pene
trntes into that China which has not
yet known Europe, must use these
primitive roads and means of trans
portation; the move casual visltoi
chooses quicker methods.—From a
Hankow (China) Letter to the Boetoi
Transcript
FARMER BESTS LAWYER ON THE DIAMOND
FRED T. CLARKE.
Fred T. Clarke, manager of the
Pittsburg team, is a native of Kansas,
where he was born 38 years ago. He
was reared on a farm. He first played
ball with the Mascottes of Des Moines,
la., back in 1892. His showing then
was so good that he was the next
year engaged by the Memphis club of
the Southern league, from which he
was secured by the late William
Barnie, who was then manager of the
Louisville club. He made good in
fast company from the start, and
soon became the star and chief at
traction of the Louisville team, with
which team he remained exclusively
until transferred by President Drey
fuss to Pittsburg, where in 1900 he
was entrusted with the team’s suc
cess as manager-captain. He not only
in this trying position kept up his fine
personal work, but produced the great
est possible results, coming in second
in 1900 and landing the pennant three
successive seasons—thus achieving
the triple distinction of giving Pitts
burg her first pennant, giving the west
her first pennant since 1887, and giv
ing the league the first champion play
ing-manager since 1886. Aside from
his fine executive ability, Clarke is a
grand ball player, excelling as ground
coverer, fielder, batman and base run
ner. He is five feet ten inches high,
weighs 165 pounds and is wonderfully
fast on his feet. In 190-1 he became
disabled in midseason, which was a
large factor in the team’s failure to
win a fourth consecutive pennant.
Since 1905, under Clarke’s manage
ment, the Pittsburg team has always
been a great factor in the National
league races; last season the team
was a pennant possibility the last
week of the season, finishing tied with
New York for second place; and this
season the team has been a compara
tively easy pennant-winner. Manager
Clarke now has the distinction of be
ing the only manager in active service
who has won four National league
championships. He is reputed to be
worth $150,000 and there is talk that
he will not play next season.
HUGH JENNINGS.
Hugh Jennings was born April 1,
1870, at Pittston, Pa., and first played
professionally during the latter part
of the season of 1890, when he caught
for the Allentown team of the Eastern
league and had an excellent record,
both in fielding and batting. Jen
nings commenced the next season as
catcher of the Lehighton (Pa.) club,
and while with this team he distin
guished himself to the extent that
Manager Jack Chapman signed him
for the Louisville club, then of the
American association. He started as
Louisville’s first baseman and made a
good impression. When Harry Taylor
returned to the team Jennings was
shifted to short field and here, too, he
made good. In 1893 Jennings was
tradc-d, along with Taylor, by Louis
ville’s new manager, Billy Barnie, to
the Baltimore club, which had just
come under Hanlon's control. Jen
nings fitted in well with the hustling,
ambitious team Hanlon had gathered
and he, McGraw, Kelley and Keeler
formed the famous quartet which was
the backbone of the champion Balti
more team for three seasons. During
the years 1894-95-96 Jennings played
wonderful ball and was rated in point
of dash, speed, brains, strong batting
and base running the greatest short
stop the game has yet produced. In
1899 he was transferred to Brooklyn
when the Baltimore and Broklyn clubs
were consolidated. He injured his arm
to such an extent that he had to give
up short field and play first base. In
1901-02 he played with the Philadel
phia team as first baseman and cap
tain and manager. In 1903 he retired
from the National league and went
back to his first love, Baltimore,
whose Eastern league teams he ms,n
aged in 1903-04-05-06. In between
times he studied law and three years
ago was admitted to the" Maryland
bar. He had intended retiring to de
vote himself to the practice of law,
but the Detroit club made him so
tempting an offer that he couIqI not re
fuse. Jennings has saved a large part
of his earnings.
LEADER OF MICHIGAN TEAM
Capt. Allerdice of the Wolverines
has been playing a star game this sea
son. He showed up especially strong
in the battle against Ohio university.
He brought about nine of the 33
points scored by kicking field goals
and made possible two of the touch
downs by making two runs of 45 yards
each.
This Is Butchery, Not Sport.
They have a queer idea of sports
manship in France, if reports from
that country are to be credited. Over
there they entice pheasants to get ac
customed to coming out along certain
trails to eat the corn which is put
there for the purpose of having these
poor, innocent birds repeat when roy
alty or prominence come along with a
shotgun. In other words they in
veigle these birds into a trap where
they are ruthlessly slaughtered by the
hundreds and perhaps thousands by
men who call themselves sportsmen.
; “BABE” ADAMS TELLS HOW
HE BEAT THETiGERS
Pittsburg Pitcher Who Won Three
Championship Games Says Slow
Ball Did It.
Charles (Babe) Adams, explaining
how be defeated Detroit three times
in the world’s series, said:
“My success in pitching can be at
tributed to the slow drop ball. I dis
covered in the first game that Detrttt
could not hit this kind of ball to any
extent. When they would connect it
would be a short hit to the infield,
and Pittsburg has an infield which
can take care of such hits.
“The slow drop I alternated, first
out and then in. It went to the out
side of the plate, beyond the reach of
the batter, but, if the batsman was
within hitting distance the ball was
low and its slowness caused a false
estimate of the strength required
from the batter. In such a quick feat
as batting a false estimate is a dan
gerous thing for the batting side. The
ball which went inside the plate and
dropped at the same time was the
most effective I used. Detroit could
do nothing with that at all.
“But I did not overwork the drop
ball. To do that would have been to
lack control. Gibson sized up the bat
ters and we knew when it was safe
to put them straight over the plate.
Detroit has a good batting aggrega
tion and it was necessary to take
every precaution with them. The
Tigers’ rallies in several games dem
onstrated this. To lose control during
one of these rallies would have meant
the loss of the game. The most try
ing times while I was pitching was
when Detroit showed one of those fa
mous spurts of strength at bat. I
worked harder than ever and was for
tunate enough to hold control. The
balls that went straight over the plate
were generally hit by Detroit. Occa
sionally one was walloped to good ef
fect, but in the main we knew when
there was to be a hit and the infield
and outfield acted accordingly.”
Tries to Score with Broken Leg.
Joe Green, a' player of the Leland
Giants, gave a display of gameness
seldom equaled on the diamond in
one of the post-season games with the
Chicago Cubs. His leg was broken as
he slid into third base. Moran, the
Cub catcher, threw the ball to left
field in trtying to catch him and
Green attempted to score by hopping
on one foot. He was within three
feet of the plate when put out.
Danville Gets Decatur Team.
The One Hundred Thousand club
of Danville purchased the franchise of
the Decatur team in the Three 1
league and Cedar Rapids was dropped
because it fell below the minimum at
tendance figures.
I
Very Much So.
“Did you have a fine time on yoar
country automobillng trip?”
"You be we did. We struck a rural
district where the constables were all
along the route, and their was noth
ing doing hut fines.”
' The Result.
Miss Pedigree—My family can claim
a very high descent
Mias Downrite—Yes, it certainly
looks like it bad a tumble down from
somewhere.
A Matter of Business.
"I saw that fellow over there the
other day in a room full of ladies, and
he just puffed away without a word.*
"Wasn't he rude?”
"Can’t say that; you see, he's a hair
dresser.”
Proof of It.
"Sailors ought to be an aristocrat*
ic profession.”
“Why so?"
- “Because on board ship there is al
ways expectation of a sailor’s berth.”
‘PEGGOTTY” HUT A SkD RUIN
Yarmouth Scenes Which Dickens De
scribed in His Story of “David
Copperfield.”
London.—A Yarmouth hundred of
aerring really counts 132, and in many
ways the inhabitants of the old town
ire credited with an open-handed gen
erosity. Peggotty told David Copper
field, you remember, that it was the
finest place in the universe, to w'hich
the boy replied that “a mound or twrt>
might have improved it, and also
!hat if the land had been a little more
separated from the sea and the town
and the tide had not been quite so
much mixed up, like toast and wmter,
it would have been much nicer.” But
All that Is Left of Peggotty’s Hut.
presently, when he got into the streets
and “smelt the fish and pitch, and
oakum, and tallow, and saw the sail
ors walking about and the carts jing
ling up and down over the stones,”
Young Copperfleld admitted that he
had done Yarmouth an injustice.
The remains of Peggotty’s hut may
still be seen, sad and forlorn, alas!
but suggestive nevertheless of the
quaint home where David was so
happy, of Peggotty’s jokes, of little
Emily's pretty ways and of the dole
fulness of Mrs. Gummidge. There are
many ancient buildings that have
stood the test of time better than the
queer boat-home of Peggotty. For
merly Yarmouth was one of the prin
cipal ports of England, and its mer
chant adventurers enjoyed the pat
ronage of Queen Elizabeth. Its Tol
house claims to be the oldest munici
pal building in the kingdom.
WILSON WILL GO TO MEXICO
Minister to Belgium to Succeed Am
bassador Thompson in Neigh
boring Republic.
Washington.—Henry Lane Wilson.
American minister to Belgium, will
soon be officially named to succeed
David E. Thompson as ambassador to
Mexico. Mr. Wilson has been notified
of his appointment by the state de
partment and is clearing up-his busi
ness at the legation in Brussels pend
ing his departure for his new post.
Mr. Wilson, who is a native of Craw
iordsville, Ind., has been in the diplo
matic service since 1897, when he
was appointed minister to Chile. He
Henry Lane Wilson.
became minister to Belgium in 1905.
Before eutering the diplomatic service
Mr. Wilson was successively editor,
lawyer and banker. He is a graduate
of Wabash college.
Deadheads Must Be Coaxed.
Concert givers in Germany find it
more and more difficult to get an au
dience. Free tickets by no means in
sures one. A Berlin journal tells how
audiences at recitals (Berlin often has
more than 50 of them in one week)
are apt to be made up.
Miss N., who plays or sings, sends
out about 200 tickets, some of them
to prominent persons. One of these is
the wife of Prof. X. She kindly ac
cepts the ticket, hut has no intention
of attending the concert, so she gives
them to her dressmaker, who in turn
bestows them upon her assistants,
who probably may go to the concert.
In one case it was found that of 200
free tickets only 47 were used.—Mu
sical America.
Wasted Abuse.
When the Czar came to England
a few weeks ago on a brief visit there
were many public expressions of dis
c.steem in London by street-corner or
ators. Of this G. K. Chesterton says
in the Illustrated London News, re
plying to a fiery questioner.: “What
would he think of six Zulus who reck
lessly defied the power of the emperor
of China? And what would he think
of one Zulu who was slightly indiffer
ent to the Chinese question and in
clined to concentrate on the Zulu
question? How much would he ad
mire a group of Esquimaux who, with
wild courage, refused to obey the king
of Siam? To what degree would his
blood kindle when he heard of some
tribe In central Australia saying what
it liked about the Lama of Tibet?”
In other words, abuse of objects far
away is without harm to the abused,
as it is without danger to the abuser.
Many Unknown Regions.
On any map of the entire world It
la impossible to indicate all the un*
known regions, since many of them
are comparatively small. A map
showing every section of the earth’s
surface as yet unmapped would be
dotted with thousands of such areas.