THE OMAHA SUNDAY KEE: FEBRUARY 10, 1903.
Big Game
(Copyright, 19W, by Frank O. Cinwnlnr.) ?
AIHOBI. (Special Correspond
ence or The Bce.)-nrltlsh Esst
Africa Is the land of big gnma
nil Nairobi Is the chief plaoa
where hunter outfit their par
ties for shooting the Hone, ele
phants, hippopotami, rhinoceroses, ante
lopes, gnus, giraffe and other wild animal
which Infest It. An I write this letter ser
eral large partlea are here preparing to g
out "on safari." an such hunts are called.
The Norfolk hotel la filled with them, and
behind It are cona of blnck half-naked
porters and tent boya. packing sporting
goods Into boxes, laying In provisions and
arranging thing! for the march. There ara
head men. rounding up the porters and gl--Ing
each hia load. There are gunbearsril
welng to the arms and ammunition, and
there are the. sportsmen themselves, soma
clad all In khaki, some wearing r'iing
breeches and legglns, and all In thick
helmet hats.
In tlie. big yard upon which my hotel
rooms look 1 can see piles of AiskB. heads,
horns and skins from hunting parties which
have Just returned, and In one corner is
the baby lion of which I have already
written. Among the sportsmen are several
eminent Englishmen, and In the hoteHtse'f
are both lords and ladles, some of the latter
having come out to try a shot at a lion or
so. During this last year two women have
shot lions here, and one of the biggest man
eatera ever killed In Kast Africa came
down through a bullet from a gun In the
hands of an American g.rl.
. murh irnnie here that almost
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any one who goes out cannot fall to bring gles or galloped over the plains. He may The sportsman will find antelopes almost
buck something. The bag for last year kill two elephants, two rhinoceroses, everywhere, and will not infrequently be
numbered over siooo head, and this was shot two hippopotami and two sobras, as well a in sight of an ostrich or so. These birds
bv snortsmun from England, Frane, Oer- six rare antelopes and gazelles. The are big game and are hunted largely on
many Austria, Italy, India, Australia, law allows him two monkeys of the Co- ponies. They are very speedy, and how
North America' and New Zealand. Many lobus species and two smaller monkeys, ever It may be elsewhere, they do not poke
excellent shots were made by Yankees, and He may shoot two male ostriches, two their heads down In the sand -and wait
e of the best by an expedition sent out marabous and two algrets, and various for the hunter to come. On the other hand,
"om.. s-ipifl Columbian Museum, con- antelopes and gazelles, of different species they spread out their wings and go off on
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sistlng of Mr. V. Bhaw l.enneoy,
V, v Atl and Mr. E. Heller. Tills
started out on the Athl plains, an
par y itDa oust of here, which Just
Mrs.
warms with zebras, antelopes, gnus and
h r wild animals and from there maae
other aouth. It secured , speel-
Its way non '
mens of almost every aoacnpi.u.. - -
museum, and shot, among om.
twelve lions. Including a Vhe "
black-maned brute, which was UWrnu
Molo river. Mr. Kennedy himself shot no
less than seven Hons, and of
were males and three females. He killed
also two elephants.
Among other successful parties was that
of Messrs. Thlpps and Havomeyer. who
together shot five Hons and killed a score
of other kind of big game.
Nobllttr ut Shooting?.
As to the English hunters, there name is
legion, and those who have recently been
here have Included many of the nobility.
Lord Hindlip. who is one of the largest
nf this colony, owning more than
1W0U0 acres, has made several flying ex-
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peditions irom mm
succeedoa in ooiaii"a
and a splendid buffalo,
. . r"ow.
The earl or cow-
t...u - , a i.nme from
ley. wno came u ' .
Ceylon, bagged several water bunaio a a
a rhinoceros, and Lord and Laoy
rora oive iu"cu . - Uh
v. .v, cram, in company wltn
inruuftii L o -
their bearers. Lady Waterford was
quarter of a m lie befor.
two men clad khakl go ' ow
the charge of
not tell whether her ubn rtoo or
By a miracle "her man lost n
They were both JWtereT.
being orr to uie ' .
ford shot an ' e,eP'ianl . '
cured a fine pair of tusks.
Durlng a vUlt of his royal highness, th
duke of Connaught. now about two years
ago, he made some pretty shoot ng over
the Kapitl plains, but did not. stay long
enough to get a lion or an elerhant. Gn-
eral uaden-roweu was i.ci v
same time, and his brother. Frank Baden
Powell, then shot a freak rhinoceros, which
had but one horn, and that over twenty
seven Inches long. Lord and Lady Mont
gomery and William Mure killed five lions,
and Mr. Mure got an elephant with eighty
two pounds of Ivory ln Its tusks.
Continental Counts and Barons.
As to ordinary Britishers, they have
killed a large number of big game of all
kinds, and the same Is true of some of the
continental counts and barons of other na
tions. The Marquis Plzzardl, for Instance,
has shown himself one of the gamest
sportsmen who have ever come to British
Eawt Africa. At one place he killed two
bull elephants, and then nearly lost his
life, by shooting an elephant cow as. she
rushed upon him. The cow dropped dead
as the ball struck her, and Pizzardl fc)l
backward Just In time to avoid being
crushed. Among other continental sportj.
men who have bcon here recently were the
Counts C. and E. Hoyos, Podstatzky and
Marchettt. Count R. Hoyos bagged sixty
six head of big game, comprising twenty
one varieties, and among them two ele
phants, three lions and a giraffe. His
brother killed sixty-nine head. Including a
Hon and an elephant, and Count Podstat
zky did almost as well as to number, bag
ging one Hon and two rhinoceroses.
The hunting laws here are rigid. No one
can shoot without a license, and the man
who kills young elephants, cow elephants
or baby giraffes will pay a big fine and
spend a lung term In Jail. The right to
shoot big game is regulated by licenue and'
for this every sportsman must pay 60, or
250 a season. So many licenses have been
taken out this year that the revenue there
from has been IqO.OOO, and such receipts
The Kaiser's Upright Life
Public malignity has not spared the
private life of the kaiser especially his
exlra-coujugal life, writes Vance Thomp
son, ln Human Life. I know the names
of all those ambitious women Uerman
princesses and Italian countesses who
havtt boasted of Imperial favor. And I
am convinced that all of them, from Ursula
Cuunttms of Eppinghoven to the Carlo
viclna, lied. Anyone who knows the royal
borough of Potsdam and Its Intimate,
gossiping society can step on almost every
one of those boastful falsehoods. And
what is quite certain Is that none of these
foolish women has ever had any Influence
on the kaiser's life. He and the empress
are great friends; their Interest centers In
that big family of Hoheniollern boys. In
dued the kaluur sUU believes (rather fa
tuously) that his wife is graced with
beauty and elegance. The fact is that she
Is a good woman. Intellectually she has
nothing in common with her accomplished
husband. Site has no conversation. She
Is simple and good-hearted and (unlike the
Victoria who was her mother-in-law) has
no ambition and uo love for court Intrigue.
H'.ia Is very pious. What lima aha does
nut give to her family Is spent upon re
ligion and her multiple philanthropic
works.
The eldest son, the crown prince. Is not
at all like his father. Ha dislikes pomp for early Christian martyrs and saints,
and parade. Is fond of sports and the xha women wear folded white linen head
society of women and. at the age of it, dreases and red or blue skirts, surmot-nted
U remarkably boyUh. Bom day hia char- by the buato, or bodice of stiffly quilted
acter wtii l well worth studying. Uiieu, resembling somewhat an ordinary
Hunting
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are Increasing from year to year.
These licenses give the sportsman the gets a shot. One often sees a dozen dlf
rlght to kill several hundred of the gamcst ferent kinds of animals at the same time,
animals that have ever Infested the Jun-
in thA nitmhop nf tart IT.. n 1. 1 1 1 .
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wild pigs, ten wildcats, ten Jackals,
two
cneetahs and two aard wolves. As to
lions, leopards and crocodiles no license Is
required to shoot them, and altogether the
iiumuCT nlo m nirui ub io inrow
a" the "Teddy bears" of the United States
Into the shmle '
Flentr of W114 Ostriches,
In Ung out here the variety of ani-
chaglny ,w nor
Picturesque Groups
S.OME, Jan. 30. The painters'
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models in Rome are an lnstltu-
tion .and the Piazza di Spagna
has been their headquarters
from time immemorial.
Bite tne VIa Con(iottl rlse tne towers
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iu uimn m up jjo sieps. pi
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witn considerable skill so as to mask tho
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the chief feature of the square below.
Several landings and dividing walls break
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IZ wnu:n once uorneu
tne eardens of Sail tint rrnwnn thA iinnr
ln "ont the church. Throughout
the day the staircase Is flooded In sun-
.hine in which, stretched at length or gath-
er,d ln picturesque groups, mode,, or every
age and both sexes bask when they are
free from employment ln the studios of the
near by Via Margutta.
The models are all Ciociarl, that Is na-
tives of the Ciocerla, that region between
NaDlea Rnd Rnm Bn . m
(fQot coverlnK)( wnlch are 8quare plece8 of
MhMa of horgehlda ln wnlch hole8 are
p,erced nd whch by of rtr(
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all the models wear. No stockings are
needed with the cloce, as the leg Is swathed
ln coarse linen bound round many times
with string and thread.
Although both foot coveVlng and linen
are dirty and ragged, probablv from the
effects of the long Journey on foot from
the native village te Rome, still the models
always picturesque. The men wear
blue Jackets and goatskin breeches, a con.
leal hat with a feather or flower stuck
Jauntily on one side, bright colored waist
coats and long blue capes
All sorts of types are to be found among
them the old man with silver hair and
flowing beard who poses as the third per
son of the Trinity ln sacred pictures, the
ferocious looking man with dark pointed
beard who furnishes tho model for Caesar
Borgia, a bandit and an armour-covered
knight of the middle ages, others clean
shaven who represent cardinals and monks,
and others of aucetlc annearunce who servii
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REQUIRED TO SHOOT LTOX3.
about over the plains for days before one
and can change his sport from day to day.
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mo w.v, , ,,,,,,, un, min, uver mo
ground. They can run faster than a horse,
but they run In large circles and the
hunters catch them by cutting across the
arcs of the circles or running around in
smaner circles lnsiue. n is a great thing
here to shoot a cock ostrich In order that
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you may give your sweetheart or wife the
beautiful white feathers which are found
on the wings of the male bird.
Zebras Easy to Kill.
And then there Is the zebra! That ant-
corset," but having the consistency of a
breast plate, which surrounds the bosom
yet stands out loose and serves as a pocket,
Inside of It Is worn a white blouse which
sets off to perfection the dark complexion
wumeii.
Some of them are singularly beautiful
, " nave cnaracteristic races. Long
Strings of larira rnrnls n.f In cnM an inmr
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earrings In arold fillirreo wnrk r.mi
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".c-.. .uiu.quo costumes.
The little girls and boys who accompany
tlielr families to Rome are dressed like
lue,r eiuurs. wnen a foreigner comes
alo"K lne "ttio ones are taught to run up.
thriiHtintr nnr rhoU hanria i.n -
they are so pretty with their bright black
eyes and quaint dresses that the newcomer
alWftV8 flnd. Mmethlnf ln hl. for
them.
Tne models are very ,ndU8trlou8. Th9
chndren either beg money from foreigners
or BeU matches to the natives. The young
B)ri8 sen flowers, the old women knit and
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mal, whose black anj white stripes shine
out so plainly in this African sun, Is to
be seen by the thousands on the Athl
plains, and he is found not far from the
railroad all the way from Vol to Uganda
distance greater than from- New Tork
to Pittsburg. Had It not been against the
law I could have picked off some with my
revolver as I rode through on the cars.
The aobra Is a different animal when
found far from the railroad, but on the
whole he Is easy to kill. He seems to have
discovered that he will not be shot on the
great game reservations, which extend for
one mile on each side of the Uganda
track. Away from them he will run like
a deer, and as zebras usually go in droves
the excitement of following them over the
plain Is Intense. Zebra skins tanned with
the hair on are fine trophies, and I am
told that zebra steak Is excellent eating.
The flesh tastes like beef, with a flavor
of game. The animals are so beautiful,
however, and so much like a horse that
only a brute would kill them for sport.
In hunting elephants many a sportsman
of Artist's Models
tidy ud studios for a consideration, the
men ruri errands, carry messages or do
odd Jobs besides posing.
Not that they have much time to spare
whell they are regularly employed by an
artist, as thev nose for elirht nr ten houri
every day with only five minutes rest every
hour and a couple of hours In the middle
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i is utly Ior dinner, i uey earn auuui
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iivo Lruucs a uay, wuiun mey generally
Bave to take home and live on during the
summer, as their expenses for food and
lodging amount to very little while In
Rome.
They sleep generally In barns or stables,
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twn rr trircA ram u tr.u-T hr anil thpir
only food Is dry bread and a soup or po-
lenta. which they cook themselves In the
before they sIeep. Wnen out of
work they are all to be found In the Piazza
dt gpagna. -
Sometimes a group of artists passing by
will stop and steadily examine one of these
models, turn him about, pose him, point
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ELETIIANT8 FALL TO QOOD
makes enough to pay a good share of his
African expenses. He can shoot only
two elephant bulls, but If he gets good
ones their tusks taken together may sell
for $1',S00 to $2,000. The African elephants
have the largest tusks of their kind. I
have seen some which weighed 150 pounds
each, and tusks have been taken which
weigh op to 200 pounds. African Ivory Is
the best and It brings the highest prices.
It Is difficult to get the tusks out. The
porters may be half a day chopping away
the meat, and it will take about four men
to carry a tusk of. the size I have men-
tinned. There are men here who hunt
elephants for their Ivory, but the most of
the licenses are taken out by sportsmen,
who care more for the honor of having
made a good shot than anything else.
How to Shoot Elephants.
One of the best places to shoot an ele
phant Is through the eye or half way be
tween the ear and the eye. Another good
shot Is just back of the flap of the ear
and a third Is In a place on one aide of
out hla defects as well as his irnod milnts
give him a copper and pass on. In fact the
Piazza dl Spagna might well be termed the
models' exchange.
There Is a special class of models who
are nnr to h. mm ln th. i
Spagna. who have discarded the native cos-
tume of Ciocera and who live In furnished
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rooms, inese are me lew lUCKy ones, tne
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luriunau, ineir numoio colleagues can
them. ,
Originally they were common Cloclarl
l'.ke the rest, but owing to their good looks
or bodily perfections they were selected by
some celebrated painter or sculptor to pose
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xnr some .Treat worx R Tin I nun mnnn tnpir
reputations. They are greatly sought after
and receive higher wages; hence they grow
ambltlous.
One of them, named Llna Cavalierl. gave
apposing, afterward became a music hall
singer and i. now a famous prima donna,
singing ln New York this season. Many of
her old friends and companions are still
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the tail, so tli at the ball will run along
the spine and enter the lungs. Large bul
lets and heavy guns are used. It Is ex
ceedingly dangerous to shoot when the
animal Is close and not kill him. The ele
phant when Injured Is very revengeful. He
will throw his trunk Into the air, scream,
hiss and snort and rush after the hunter,
knocking hlin down with a blow of his
trunk and charge upon him. with his great
tusks. If the man falls the great beast
Is liable to kneel upon him and mash him
to a Jelly.
One of the difficulties of elephant hunt
ing is that It Is not easy to distinguish
the animals In the woods, as they are of
much the same color as the trees. A
traveler here tells men that he once al
most walked Into a big elephant while go
ing through the forest. He was stooping
down and looking straight before him
when he saw the elephant's legs and took
them for tree trunks. The average ele
phants of this region can easily make six
miles an hour while on the march. They
usually travel In herda, the young and
in Rome
envying her fortunate rise on the steps of
the Piazza dl Spagna.
Most of the models continue to ply their
trade until old age, when they are still
paid well, for old figures both In profane
and sacred pictures are always In demand.
Their town life does not change their coun
try habits, cemove their native prejudices
and superstitions or enlighten their Ignor
ance. A well known model who had his
portrai. painted ln several pictures was
asked by his wife ln the country to send
her a photograph of the painting ln which
he posed as a Roman emperor.
The painter to whom the model referred
the request procured him the required pho
tograph, which he accordingly sent to his
wife. A few days later she acknowledged
Its receipt, but Indignantly remonstrated
with him for sending her a picture of half
a man as she characterized a half length,
and requested him to have his legs in the
next portrait. The model Is still bothering
the painter for a portrait of his legs to
complete the half man which his wife has.
It Is Interesting. to note that Roman mod
els are singularly free from that Intense
self-consciousness which Is the root of
shyness, awkwardness and affectation.
They always forget themselves in posing
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and they are as little sensitive of their de
fects as vain of their charms.
The models who go to studios and who
have been selected for their beauty, des
pite the silent flattery incident to their
profession and the lavish praise they con
stantly hear expressed, aro always simple,
natural and unaffected. If told they are
beautiful they shake their heads In a depre
catory way, as they prefer to have their
clothes Instead of their faces admired. They
often won-r what It Is that artists admire
In them and think worthy nf seuictuaiiiig
la color and marble.
old moving along together. Tho anlmnls
can swim, notwithstanding their ennrmo i
weight, and they can easily cross the nry.
est rivers.
I understand thnt the most of the i I.
plia'its which lifted to Infest these plum
have been driven aay. They have r,
to be hunted fur In the woods; but th - .
are plenty In the forests between here a i
Uganda, and about th. Mmws of Mi n t.
Kcnla and Mount Kilimanjaro. There an
also many In the south near the Zamli.
and west of Lake Tanganyika. In the l.ir
ests along the Konno. At present about
65,000 African elephants nre beliic kill ,1
every year, and there Is a ilstiivr hiat
thry will eventually become as aree us
buffaloes are In the United States.
Illpponotntnl nml Hblnorrmse.
As to hippos and rhinos, there nie ., ty
of them still left along tho Btrenii-- , . i
about the groat lakes of the troiilini
of the continent. There are rhinoc : . . m
almost 'everj'whero In tho woods beiv ,
Nairobi and Uganda. I havo seen a r..e-..
ber of hippos, and were I a hunter. i :,
I am not. I could, I venture, bug rn .ni; ;
Of their hides to make riding whips
all the hunt clubs of Virginia. The ,
tiers tell me tho animals come In in I
root up their gardens, and that It Is aluio
Impossible to fence against them.
Both rhinos and hippos are hard to kill.
Kach has a skin about half an Inch thick,
and there are only a few places upon them
where a ball will go through. Hippos can
be hunted ln boats on the lakes, but they
swim rapidly and dive deep, remaining
tinder the surface a long time. They
move along through the water, showing
only their enrs and nose. They are wary,
and It Is difficult to get a shot at Just the
right place. One of the best points at
which to aim Is under tho eye, or back of
the head between tho ears. Theso ani
mals are sometimes harpooned, but such
hunting Is dangerous, as they are liablo
to crush one's boat.
The rhinos have also to bo approached
very cnrefully. They havo keen senses
of hearing and smell, although they can
not see to any great distance. They arn
usually hunted on foot, and one must be
careful to get on the windward side of
them. They do not hesitate to charge
their enemies, and the great horn which
each has on Its nose Is a terrible weapon,
enabling It to kill a horse at a blow. The
most of these beasts are black, but now
and then a whlto one la found. I met
a man the other dny who claimed to have
killed a white . rhinoceros.
What It Costs to ITant.
Since I have been In Africa I have re
ceived a number of letters from American
sportsmen asking the cost of shooting big
game In this part of the world. The ques
tion Is hard to answer. It is dependent on
the man and to some extent on the bar
gains he makes. TVere aro business firms
here and ln Mombasa who make a specialty
of outfitting hunting parties, and who
will fix all arrangements as to guides, food
and porters somewhat after the same plan
as Cook does for travelers. The prices, In
such cases, depend upon the length and
character of the tour and the size of the
party. There Is a young American here
now, whose mother calls him "Ido," who
paid $Bii0 for a three days' hunt after Hons;
and this did not necessitate a license, as
Hons are on the free list. The young man
tramped about with his porters through the
tall grass, and was given a shot or so at
two Hons, both of which he missed. Had he
tried for big game It would have cost him
$250 more.
On a long hunt the expenses of all kinds
can be considerably reduced, and I should
think that $10 a day for each sportsman
In the party would be a fair estimate. I
am told that a man can be fitted out with
porters, gun bearers and personal servants
for S2B0 a month. One can get a good cook
for from $5 to $8 a month, a. gunbearer for
about $10. The license for big game in all
cases costs $360. The traveling expenses
from New York to British East Africa
direct are about $300. j
Food When on Safari.
As to provisions for the trip, this de
pends upon the tastes of the Individual
sportsman. There are native villages al
most everywhere at which, some fresh food
can be bought at cheap rates. Chickens
are plentiful at 8 cents a pound and meats
cost the same. In the streams and lakes
there are fish; the guns of the party
ought to supply plenty of game, and one
need never suffer for the want of antelope
or zebra steak.
As to the other food It should be packed
up ln boxes of sixty pounds each; and In
case the outfit Is prepared here, each box
wlil have sufficient for one man's require
ments for one week.. The most of the stuff
Is ln tins, and It usually Includes plenty of '
Chicago canned beef, Canadian bacon and
Ixmdon biscuits, Jams ami marmalades.
Such boxes are labeled with numbers. No.
1 containing the first week's supply. No. 2
the second week's, and so on. Each box
weighs Just slxy pounds, as no more than
that can be carried on the head of one
porter.
I would advise the American sportsman
who Intends coming out here to shoot to
stop off on the way ln England and get
much of his supplies there. There are
London firms who make a specialty of out
fiting for African travel and for hunting
expeditions. One should have double-roofed
tents, and the square tents are the better.
It will be well to bring a mackintosh or
rubber blanket, ono foot wider all around
than the floor of the tent; for many of the
camps may be soggy and marshy. One
should also have a folding bedstead, a cork
bed and warm blankets, and a folding chair
and table will not tie amiss.
FRANK U. CARPENTHR.
The Vice President's Cigar
Vice-President Fairbanks, who, while
not rally a senator, is entitled to admis
sion to senatorial class, Is another mem
ber of that august body who does not
smoke or use tobacco ln any form. Jin
dues not care for It, and relates n boy
hood experience as his reason for dislik
ing tobacco.
"At the time," he tolls his frlonds,
"when there were a lot of Utile chaps at
tending a country school, of whom i wan
one, the most common way of using to
bacco was ln a pipe or to chew It. A,
clBttr was a sign of affluence infrequently
affected by the inhabitants of that com
munity, at least. To have a cigar was a
sign of so much prosperity that the weed
In that form always attracted attention.
"One day a young man came to sea our
teacher, who was a young woman, and
he wore In his face a long black cigar,
that meant he had much money In his
imcket; was president of a bank or some
thing equally inipoi tunt. When he came
in he left that clKr on the outside, care
fully put away on a window ledge. Home
spirit of deviltry :r pt-rversenesa Induced
ine to filch that cln.ii and I divided it up
In pieces among my companions. Each of
us took a bite, and In fatxiut five minutes
all of us were wildly groping alwut for
something to hold on to is we would not
full off the earth. That's the way we
felt, and that experlcnes made nie so
sick I have iitvtr been tempt4 to repeat
it."
