The morning call., 1894-08-26

hands and their heads; it despatched
their once snowy flannels and the footwear
Of some of them was incrusted with it
from contact with the bleeding bodies Of
those doves which, shot to pieces, did not
: have strength enough to get out of bounds.
A dozen of these suffering little creatures
crawled up to the scorers table as if to
appeal to the referee for protection against
the inhumanity OF man; but, as each one
came under the eye of some one Of the
eighteen the cruel heel Invariably went
down, and the life was crushed out Of the
victim.
In no instance of this kind did any one
of the members have the decency even to
= wiring the birds neck, slight courtesy
: that is even granted to cold blooded muir
derers. No, not even that, the life was
just stamped out.
Some Of the society bellies. who ap-
:plauded the shooting, can get an idea what
a. wounded dove experienced in this sort
of treatment. Just take a pet poodle,
place him on the ground, put your foot
firmly on one of his sides and then bear
down till life is extinct.
No, it will pot hurt you, that is if you
are as unfeeling as you acted to-day
not a bit. But it really is trifle hard on
the bird, you know. Makes him unfit to
eat too; no one with any taste at all likes
dove with sand and a flavor of old shoe in
#. don't you know
And say, girls, did you ever hear what
became of the mem bers of the first Coun-
try Club who shot doves? No? Well,
ask DOwney Harvey about it. He'll tell
you. He told one of his old cronies about
1t at the club last night.
He said that was the reason be shot SO
poorly, and every time he glinted along
the gun-baIrel he thought Of the fate OF
the members of the first Country Club.
and he couldn't see slime. he didn't
know when a like fate would overtake
him and his hand Urembled. he tells the
story somewhat like this:
1.-The first Country Club was made VI
Of lot of Amalekites, sort of Goldfish
aristOcracy, who had their bungalow
within a stones throw of where Noah
was building the ark. The old man wen
on calking the seams in the ark. while the
boys put shingles on the roof, and the
Amalekites sat around and scoffed
Finally, when Noah finished tarring the
roof, he sent the Country Club word that
If they would only resolve to do better be
would take them in. They snubbed him
cold, and one OF the most daredevil of the
lot took pot shot at his messenger.
1T began to rain at last, and as the pat
Ter was heard on the shingles Noah
looked out sorrowfully on the peryerslty
Of the Amalekites. There they sat on the
front porch of their bungalow, drank
brandy and soda, smoked Egyptian cigar
cites and said, Dash such beastIy weather.
Down came the rain, pouring a steady
stream, and it was but short time until
the Amalekites were wading around in
fishing boots. swearing more deeply at thu
weather and getting fuller and fuller on
brandy; and Noah sat at his window and
looked out.
"'Veriy.' he said. these Amaiekites are
pig-headed lot, even worse than Grover
Cleveland. They have not sense. Upon
my long gray beard, they know not when
to come in out of the wet
"And the waters rose. and as the ark
f1oated gently about. the members of the
first Country Club moved UP to the second.
story porch of the bungalow. drinking and
swearing at Noah between the puffs Of
cigarette smoke. They cared not that he
was cruising close in order 10 lake them
in would they only repent. They grew
more perverse as they became maudlin
and realized their danger. Some Of the