Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-04-04
THE YOUNG TERROR.
"A. ouAD'S ADVICE TO THE DIME
NOVEL READER.

Ammunition-The Best Method OF Tack
ling Grizzly.
Come, my son, it is time you were get
ting ready for a campaign against the In
dians and grizzlies You have been read
ing "Daring Dan,n like, the Indian
Slayer" 'sGus, the Grizzly Killer" and
other exciting and truthful stories in
tended TO make boy dissatisfied with
humdrum life, and your mind is made up
to go west.
You must have I'm outfit. One reason
why so many boy hunters make failure
is because they economize too much in
the outfit Don't be stingy in buying guns.
It will be all the better il you have
Spencer carbine and a double barreled
shotgun to 90 with your Winchester.
Suppose you came suddenly upon a band
Of eighteen Apache warriors. You could
only kill sixteen of them with your Win
chester, and two would be left to ride of
and alarm the tribe. BY having some
extra guns along you are sure of the
whole crowd, and the tribe won't get on
to you.
And don't scrimp on bowie knives. 1t
would be an almost fatal mistake to start
out with only two. Buy four, at least.
They are for use at close quarters wiCh
grizzlies. OF course one bowie is enough
to kill one bear with, but you may be at
tackled by four bears at once, and four
knives would then be in demand. IL you
don't get but three bowies make up the
deficiency with a Spanish stiletto or a
Moorish dagger. 1t will come handy, not
only in q close fight, but to pick your
teeth with at the camp fire.
AND REGULAR MoccAsINs.
AS for dress, get the fringed bucksxin,
coonskin cap and regular moccasins.
Such things as shirts, collars, cuffs or
handkerchiefs would be only waste lug
gage. If you should appear in Miles City
with collar on it would give you away
at once. Nobody would suspect that you
were the young terror from the east who
was aching for chance 20 tie a knot in a
grizzly bears tail.
You should take at least 200 pounds of
ammunition. You may be corraled some
where in the Rocky mountains by 400
fierce and determined Indians, and you
don't want to lose your scalp for the want
Of few extra cartridges. All the pro-
visions needed is sack of jerked buffalo
meat. It doesn't make the least bit of
difference whether the buffalo was jerked
of his feet, over precipice, or head over
heels. If the meat is little fly blown 1t
viii add to your dignity as hunter. You
can chew plug tobacco or not, just as you
feel about it, but it would be wisest to do
so. All the champion terrors chew large
quantities, and the juice comes handy to
spit into a rattlesnakc's eyes.
Lwouldn't take horse if were You.
He would be o great deal of trouble to
take care Of, and most of your hunting
will be in a rough country. The true
terror has always gone afoot and always
will. Anybody on horseback can make
up faces at grizzly and gallop off out of
reach.
One great mistake which the average
boy makes Is planning to accomplish too
much the first season. Most of them fig
ure on wiping out about 1000 Indians and
twice that number of bears. Keep your
estimates down to a reasonable figure.
You feel ambitious and enthusiastic, of
course, but there is a limit to what boy
can do. Set your figures at about 400 kl-
dians and 800 grizzlies. This will be al
most two per day the year around, and
win keep you from spelling.
SCALP EVERY ONE.
should scalp every Indian shot. It
not only looks more business like to do SO,
but that's what you've got scalping
knife for, and If you can get about 200
scalp locks you can make the incest door
mat you ever saw. Itdoesn't hurt dead
Indian a bit to scalp him, and if you don't
take it, it viii 90 to waste. 1t would be
well to have six mule team follow you
at the distance of mile or so to pick up
and care for the rifles, knives, bows and
arrows and war clubs OF the slain Indians.
These can be run east by car lots and sold
at auction, and the profits viii buy all
your ammunition. Don't exterminate
any particular tribe Of red men, but kill
of about one-fourth of seven or eight diff
ferent tribes. This win extend your
reputation as a terror.
As to the best way of killing an Indian,
shall not pretend to advise Some boys
prefer TO shoot him, and others believe in
sticking him with knife. If You can
catch him In deep gorge you might drop
big bowlder down on his head Another
way is to catch him by the foot with
lasso, and drag him over the earth until
his spinal column is worn down to tooth
pick. In any event the fun viii be all on
your side.
It's a little different with the grizzly
bear. lie won't be quite so terror stricken
over your sudden appearance, being built
ON different plan. You expect some
show Of resistance, however, that you may
have opportunity TO show your pluck.
Some Of these pale faced, weak kneed
boys hold grizzly of at long range and
I'LL him up with bullets, but you will
never see their wood cuts in dime novel
The true Terror will wind his Mexican
serape around his left arm, hold it out
for the bear to chew ON, and, while the
bear is busy getting q meal, put the
bowie knife into him 10 the heart. You
VIII be Q trifie nervous with Jour first
bear, but after that it will be as easy as
climbing fence. The claws should be
separated from the skin and sold In diff
ferent LOT. The latest quotation on bears'
claws Il SIC per bushel, and II you can't
average more than two bushels per day
you VIII gfi1 make Q good thing Of it,