The morning call., 1894-09-16

powder before the felt. and when loading with
be used.
Il cannot find much difference If any when
card and two piuk-edgr wadS are USED over
the powder instead or the felt. use Nos. o,
and shot and find that No. (2O9 pellets TO the
ounce gives HE best ana most regular pattern
L. II. Walsh, probably better known to SPORTS
men as "StOnehage," and GreeDer both ADVISE
drains of black powder or AZ grains OF nitro
powder aud rs ounces OF shot Tor ordinary
shooting, and ga drains and Is ounces Tor
hard shooting. Others advise 31s and 3A
drains OF powder and l ounce OF shot, but
far as 1 have experienced this latter LOAD
causes the shot To scatter and there ~ no GER
Iainly OF regular pattern ano IN many eases a
duck would escape. with good powder $40
drains and / Is ounces OF shot VIII drop any
ouck up 10 90 yards. and can saieiy say that
over that distance duck. shooting Is all chance
work
LAS to 1O-bOre guns there seems to be much
difference in opinion as to the proper LOAD.
6reener advises 10 414 drains Oh Dest powder
ana IL ounces shot, or II the shoi Is smaller
man NO. q, IA ounces; and LOT nara snoollng
Az drains and ia TO 13s ounces shot, aud
wads and shells about the same as above d.
scribed for 12-bOre. Bogardus IN bis book
says 4H2 TO drains powder and 0nly ounce
shot for duck-ShoouDg, and uses drains with
TWO tlnk-edge wads and l12 ounces shot Tor
trdp-shooling; and il remember tightly Klein
man used this same load, and both these men
were considered the best duck shooters In the
world. All the parties agree. however, that
cartridges, DO matter what bore Is used. should
be well crmped. l have tried about all The
above loads. and when IaiteIn Is taken lnIO &C
count. as we'll as The penetration, L ind that
Az drains powder and ia or even 1Ss ounces
shot suits my gun best, which Is 1O-pOunc 80
inch English make. have tried the Az drains
and ounce shot, but the pattern seems 10 be
very open and patchy.
"Greener In his works claims that with this
load Tie quantity of powder Is altogether out
OF proportion 10 that OF the shot, and that
there Is an idea prevalent that by dimiulsh-
ing the charge OF powder below the STANDARD
charge and keeping tile standard charge OF
shot, the clOseUeSS of the pattern Will be in
creased. he says this Is erroneous, so far as
IL applies 10 choKe-bOre guns and the use OF
Dlack gunpOWders, and in any case 1t Is pro-
auctlVe OF Irregular shooting and patchy pal-
terms; and overlooking the gun with powder
ana shot or with powder only causes the same
thing"
Talking OF dogs, the following very good story
is from the pen of Nellie Bly,, and rec ntly APP
peared IN the New York World. Men who are
not strictly temperance should. by ali means
lead about MuldoOn's reformed maStltf anu
men shed q tear OF hone that some day men
VIII emulate the dog IN some respects. Now,
then, for Nele's story:
You and know that you can't teach peopIe
the FOLLY OF their ways" Mr.. MuldOOn was say
ing. why, dumb bIuteS have more sense
about taking care OF themselves than men.
lake horsr, for instance. If he eats anything
| That makes him sick you can't compel hin ever
10 touch IL again. But a man will smoke or
| drink himself III. and just as soon as he's well
| nell DO IL right over. You can't make brute
DO that.
There was that big mastif OF mine. You
| remember him? When he was a pup was
bringing him from California, and L stopped
over IN 81. Louis was staying at the South
! eTn, and they had there a little room in The
! back OF the de>k where men could go and sit
| down and drink.
IL was walking past there when some one
called to me, and l went in and found John
| mccullough, the actor. a weli-knowu news
| paler man, and theatrical man. john Norton
| Ihey were all having glass OF wine. aud when
went H. 10 answer to their call, The mastif
followed me. He sat down on the floor and
| looked at them. He looked very good tured
and funny.
John Mccullough took fancy to him and
| of red him drink The dog drank a glass Of
| wine and seemed 10 like II 50 John ordered a
special bottle and breaking up some crackers
| poured the wine over them.
The mastltf ale every particle or it and for
| he rest OF the night lie was frighuuliy drunk.
ell dog. He went staggering aud falling over
/ everything. The next morning he was lust as
| frgh fully sick. We'll, do YOU think he ever for
| got that experience or was fool like a man and
wanted TO repeat IL? No; 10 The day OF his death
| when he heard the cork drawn from bottle he
| would get up ana putting his tail between his
| legs, would get out Of the room as fast as lie
| could, and II any one offered HIM a glass OF
| wine il made him so mad that lie would try TO
/ bite. But then men aren't like brutes" he
| concluded musingly. 81 know that, and do love
| bTuteS.' [ said.
| AT meeting held last week in New York.
| says Forest and Stream, 1t was definitely de-
! termned That the projected sportSmrr's xpo-
| siJion should be held in MadisOn-square Gar
/ deus in May, 1895.
At this SEASON of the year spOrlsmen sbOuId
| not forget that where tile drought prevails there
| is real and serious danger of field ana woods
| fire. and that a SmoIdering gun wad, cigar
stump or pipe ashes, or camp FIRE caTelessIy
abandoned or unprOtec ed, may kindle the de-
! stTuctiOn. Indeed there are districts where not
gun should be n:ed, where the danger of fire
is so imminent that hunting would be almost
criminal,