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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

shot when He Had q Gus and Ragged
Three Birds When He Had None.

STOCKTON, Me-, April 24.-Cy Partridge,
who lives over at the head of Sears's Island,
makes boats for a living and goes cunning for
fun, and between the two he thinks he gets all
the sport that a poor man can afford TO enjoy.
An open winter and an lot CT noisy
gunners down South drove the wild geese
North a month earlier than usual this year,
and as soon as Cy heard them honking among
the eel grass he took his cunning float and r.
bore gun and went after them.
At tho end OF two weeks no had secured two
lean geese and caught a cold that would last
until June. Two gunners came down from
Buoksport one day when he was out In his
white float among the white ice cakes, and,
wishing Ia. get some kind OF game, they shot
Cy, flling his back with double n shot. While
they we're helping him home they explained
that they had. mistaken him for a goose, an
explanation which he was forced 10 accept,
though no hopes to ind them in similar en-
viTonment next year, just 10 see how they will
relish the goose story.
Cy hung around the house and had no vo-
lent desire TO go after geeee for three weeks.
BY this time the Hooks had gone far north, 80
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
II UT FISHING.
somo Big Fishes and some BiG Catches
Reported Already This Season.

Edward Fourier Of Tacoma, Wash, caught
twenty pounds OF trout, ono of which weighed
four pounds eight ounces. Two days later he
got as many more, and four OF them weighed
eight pounds. They were all taken from
Chambers Greek. These are the largest messes
reported so far as having been taken this year
in the United States In a days fishing In wild
fish streams.
Fishing VIII not be very good in trout streams
about Watsrville, Me-, according TO w. w.
Edwards Of that place. II seems that the
drought last summer dried the small streams
completely, and so killed all the fish. Numer.
fered In the same way.
,. The hshing In Duchess county Is cOnsidera-
bly, Improved over that of the early season. CIV
ing better sport than was at trst expected, con
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
Eskimo Wolf Trapping.

Field aud Stream tells of a curious way by
which Eskimos catch wolves. They plant a
stake In the ice. with n sharp piece of flint on
the end. which is wrapped with seal or other
blubber. Along come the wolves and go to
licking the frozen blubber. After a while they
get down to the flint and cut their tongues on
tho warm blood they fall TO and chew the life
out of one another.
The familiar trick OF putting a bent piece OF
sharpcncd whalcbone into n ball of bluhbcr.
which is released by tho heat II tho animals
stomach and results In the death of the ami
NAL. Is much less effective than the flint stake
because nearly whole packs of wolves are
killed by the latter device.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
CUNNING OF THE FOX.
Tricks by Which Reynnrd Catches Rabbits
and Escapes the Hounds.

No other still hunter can travel so quietly
as a fox, and mighty few men are as crafty az
the four-legged hunter when It comes to a mat
ter of getting meat. Foxes have been seen
in England. slipping from bush to bush, crawl
ing and creeping after a feeding hare. for all
the world like a man stalking a deer. Tho
fox cannot catch n rabbit in a fair chase. but
its food is mostly rabbits, in spite OF their
tieetness. But at no time does 1t display its
skill so we'll as when running for life with a
pack OF hounds in its trail.
Lord Willoughby de Broke writes. to the
BddminfCn Magazine to tell how n tired fox
made straight for a flock Of sheer, in a pen.
ran through them. and in the end escaned.
Olnus Magnns. Archbishop of upsala, wrote a
book called Historic de Gentibus Scptentrio-
nalibus," OF which an English translation ex-
lists. This book tells of a fox that leaped from
back to back of n herd of goats. AS the dogs
could not follow. the fox escaped.
A curious trick OF English foxes Is to jump
as high as possible, grasping a tree branch with
their teeth, hold on till the hounds have gone
on, and then dropping to the ground, escape.
This is similar to the trick of the American
fox, which jumps into a tree and rests on a
branch; but American dogs are not such fools
as English dogs. They gather around the
tree and howl till the hunter comes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
A VAR ON CARP.
The New Jersey Fish Commission VIII
Try to Rid the FnssaIc of Their.


PATERSON. April 25.-There Is a good chance
that very soon the Passaic River. which once
abounded in bass. pickerel. and perch will again
become an anglers paradise. The introduction
of German carp has almost caused the exter-
mination of other fish where they have been
placed. The decision of the national authori-
ties not to distribute any more carp caused the
Board of Fish and Game Commissioners Of New
Jersey. ut it's meeting last Tuesday. to resolve to
continue its apparently hopeless task of Kidding
New Jersey waters of the obnoxious fish.
The experiment Is to be begun in the Passaic
in Morris county, at the point where the river
begins to widen, and 1t will be continued down
to tho Passaic Falls, About $1,000 will be ex-
pended In purchasing nets for this purpose.
Seines, pound nets, traps, fyke nets, and other
the sum obtained from the sale OF the carp
caught VIII about, pay tho cost of the expert
ntent. The other fish caught will be returned to
In all probability by tho early part OF next
consignment Of the fish to be used In stocking
the liver will be sent to Paterson from tho
see, At la ,irss, !fIn Of three IRE oa Sans 9f fish hs1,i win ~ DO .
and perch. The other can will contain catfish.
Conslgnments of fish will continue to come up
middle Of May. Straw berry bass. the White
bass bass Of the great lakes, and other nsh will be
placed one OF its reservoirs at tho disposal OF
the Commission. All but bait fish viii be re-
mover rom thls reservoir by netting before the
new .hsh arc deposited. and viii probably be
kept IN the reservoir until next year. in order tn
give them II chance To breed. The idea OF the
Commission is 10 remove the greater part OF the
earn ny netting In the expectation that the new
nsh VIII doyorr the small CARP and prevent the
further increase OF that family.
An experiment with lnndlocked smells has
also been determined upon by the Commission.
Although the fish Is an tnhabitant of salt water.
II runs into fresh waters for the purpose OF
spawning. and II is now thought that smelt can
live ana breed In fresh water. In order to carry
out TINS idea, the smelt will be- placed in several
New Jersey ponds. They will be procured
from the state hatchery at Hackensack.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
TALES TOLD OF PoACHERs.
A KIAd or Law Breakin that Has an
resistIbie Charm for Some Men.

There is n charm in ~poaching on preserved
hunting or fishing grounds or out Of season
that appeals irresistihly to some men. There
is n class OF poachers in England not found TO
any great extent In the United States, save In
regions where much OF the land is leased by
clubs. These poachers are described by Alex.
Innes Shand IN Bddmfnton Magazine.
The typical poacher, who is a poacher BECAUSE
OF the fun and danger in II, develops from tho
ploughman's boy, who knows more about
birds nests than about books. II was these
poachers that won the battles at Cressy. Poi
tiers, and other fields where tho bowman's
silent weapon decided the day.
'Our stalwart yeomen never got their bone
and muscle from the scanty produce Of pre
carious forest crops, or from convent doles
they received in charity" the writer says.
They fattened on the venison and swine flesh.
on Melted wild fowl. and shared fsh"-not 10
mention hares and rabbits shot by the small
ooys under the very windows Of castles. When
the place got too hot they took u the woods
and became Robin Hoods that dared man, king,
or devil. The story told OF a poacher recently
dend Is curious.
duncan Mohr was a man OF r-'S who In his
old age put the best OF thsE xeratlon on
NE nSh and game which. O aim only the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

bly, muskallonge Appeared on tho scene. swim.
ming trantically about the wounded nsh until
ne quit struggling, when they disappeared as
sudden!y. MS they had come: and although /
perched In that treo for hours three days. In
suecesIion after that, never saw another
musknllonRe there. nor the sign of one.
Why the musknllunge In this lake are so
ayerse to the troll or lure Of any kind Is one
OF those piscntorial mvsteriea one comes In
contact with everywhere, and Which no ono
can solve. There are three or four other lakes
near Little .Reedy.. apparently the same rs II
rs to condition and nature 81 water, bottom,
and food resources. where the muskalonges
are fully as large, and they are free and fierce
bitcrs, especially at n hare spoon troll"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
Expert Women Shots.

The Minneapolis Gun Club has two women
among its members. Mrs. w. P. Shattuck and
Mrs. 5. S. Johnston. and they take active part
in the contests at the traps. Both have BIT aten
their husbands in contests at sixteen yards.
Mrs. Day of the Central Gun Club has done her
share toward beating other gun clubs in
matches. She is a young woman. and bears
herself in n way that shows she thoroughly en-
Joys the sport.
Hiss Marrella Francisco of Motley. Mimi.
surprises men who think they know q rifle from
a broOmstick. She handles n fish rod in a way
that Is death to fish.
II all the women living in New York city who
are experts with rod and gun would form n
sportswomRn's association or club, II would
take a right good team from any mans club to
beat them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
REGGIE M,soFrER,s SURPRISE.
DiseoneertinE Result or Inattention to Sur
roundinEs on AN Elevated station.


Reggie McSofter came down town the other
day in a new spring suit. IL was a wonderful
creation, which had exhausted the genius OF
half n dozen tailors. II was u sort of Invisible
mixture which gives u blue effect at a distance,
but shows Il greenish tinge at closer view. Reg
Hls Is a Ruardsman. and he carries himself with
az Rir. lie swung by the ticket hnx at the
rlRLty-nrst street elevated station with a mill
thfy carriage that made the ticket chopper turn
aud look after him. Reggie was buttoning his
ne" ,pehrl-grny gloves, aud for convenience he
carried his stick under hts left arm.
a ITa'n WAS lust rolling into the station, and
reggie walked down the platform with il, He
was so Interested In the gloves that no II not
hetlee now close he WAS 10 the train. Tho end
% DIS cane, sticking out back 81 him, under his
arm, was caught On n window ledge Of one Of
lhe cars The effect WAS very surprising. The
emu which had projected out in front OF Reggie.
swung up violently as the other end swung
soormon, Hshhuu caught Keggie a singing blow
rear ana straiEhtened up SIS II he thought some
one hAd struck him, Then he realized what had
happened, and bOlted into a car so swiftly that
no did hear the ticket chopper chortling.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

Isaac Edison OF OtseR, Mich, found u set OF
deer horns locked together in northern Penn
sylvania last fall. When found one of I've
bucks was dead and the other was struggling
feebly 10 escape. MI. Edison cut OF the heads
OF the animals, and ON reaching the clearings,
had photographs taken Of them, one OF which
he sent To Forest and stream. A great many
sets OF deer horns have been found locked to-
Gether, and so have "A few sets OF caribou horns.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
SPORTsMEN ON BICYCLES.
Kirk Greenwood's Squirrel Huntins
Guns for WheeImen.

A-wheel-G Guns for wheeImen.
Kirk Greenwood tells in GdmeIdnd how he
went squirrel hunting last fall on a bicycle,
with a 22-calibre rife. He carried the weapon
on his wheels upper bar, over the handle bars,
or carbine fashion OIL HIS back. He got gray
and black squirrels on Long Island. Staten ISL
and, and over In Nex Jersey. He also killed n
few rabbits and game birds. Tho rife was a
repeater, but some persons out for sport only
would much rather have a target pistol with a
barrel a foot long. Such a weapon Is much
easier to carry. 1t requires greater skill to use,
however.
a Toledo wheel company has originated a de-
vice for carrying a shotgun or rifle on a wheel,
which weighs a little over two pounds.
Guns. for the especial use Of wheelmen are
being thought of guns that shut up like jack
knives. There are men getting ready. IT Is
bicycle saddles. One Arm has a novel plate for
its wheel that shows n hunter In full costume.
with q dog alongside, on the way to tho bird
grounds on a bicycle.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
A Pigeon that Kills Chickens.

y. D.. EltIng tells n curious story about a
pigeon that has the instincts OF the butcher
bird. One OF his friends living in ~Ironton, o.,
owns a large male pigeon which takes delight
in killing chickens. The friend found chick
ems two or three weeks old dead on the ground
with their necks broken, but couldn't account
for 1t, till one day he saw the pigeon alight
near a chicken, and pouncing on break it's
neck. TIE pigeon flew away WITHOUT eating
Tor fun, Is not known.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
Game Shmd.

Joseph English says in the Manchester IN.
H. Mirror that shad are game fish, and that
they will rise TO a small bright fly as gamely
almost as a brook trout, and that Il is the reg
ular thing for anglers 10 haul In hickory shad.
They are said 10 give a bull mlnnoW VS. nibbls
and q cathsh's bite"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26
Hand.paIutod Eggs,

A. H.. Verrill of New Haven, who was re-
Gently reported to have stolen $4,000 worth
81 specimens from Yale's museum. was accused
by the NidoIo0ist in 1893 of being n swindler Of
egg collectors. The method that he Is alleged
to have adopted was entirely new 10 the oolo-
gists. and n good many were taken in.
Vcrrill, 1t Is alleged, pa!nted seven turtles
eggs and sold them to collector ; as the rare
eggs OF the Carolina paroquets. receiving $40
apiece for the frauds. Hand painted eggs were
a fraud that surprised the biologists when they
learned Of tlpm
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21

is expressed at every gathering of citizens
where public questions are discussed, that the
people are dissatisfied with the present co adj
ton of public affairs, and am in sympathy
with every movement not revolutionary in
character, which seeks to take burdens from
the shoulders of the masses and to restore
prosperity and peace to all the people.
When the Republican Legislature adjourned
in May. 1895, 1t lett a record behind it which
everv Democrat aud independent voter in the
State believed would be at issue before the
people this fall, No question purely National
should be permitted to divert onr people in
tnis State election from pronouneing by a
change of administration verd let against
this record. The people have de-
stroyed all vestige of political boss in the
Democratic party and 1 believe they will
annihilate bossism in the Republican party.
II is not important that l, or any other par
ticular individual, should be elected Cover
nor. 1t important that the power of one
man should not be perpetuated by two years
more OF Republican executive control. Yours,
JOHN BOYD THACHER.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
FALL OF
DONGOLA
English Forces Capture the
DerVish Stronghold by
Strategy.
NO WARRIORS OPPOSE
THEIR ENTRY.
Gunboats Advance Upon the
Town While It's Defenders
Are Absent.
DESPERATE BATTLE FOUGHT
AT Ell HAFIR.
The Invading Party Gains a Signal
Victory After a Stubborn
Resistance.
DESPERATE BATTLE FOUGHT
AT Ell HAFIR.
The Invading Party Gains Signal
Victory After Stubborn
Resistance

CAIRO, EGyPr Sept. 2o-A dispatch
from the Angie Egyptian expedition states
that Dongola, the objective point of the
expeoition, has been taken without meet
ing with any resistance from the oer-
wishes, the place being unoccupied.
The dispatch adds that the town of Ell
Hafir, north of Dongola, to which place
the dervishes retreated yesterday. was
captured after a hot engagement. After
the place had fallen into the hands of the
expedition, the Egyptains captured
twenty-seven grain-laden boats, the loss
of which will prove a severe blow to the
dervishes. The latter made desperate at
tempts to recapture the boats. but heavy
fire was poured into them by the troops
and the gunboats, and they were finally
compelled to abandon their attempts to
regain possession of the boats and their
cargoes.
After their defeat the entire dervish
force retreated southwark upon Dongola.
At the same time the expeditions steam
ers started for the same place, and being
the quicker reached there before the
dervishes. The city was found to be de-
serted by warriors. and the steamers at
once landed force OF Infantry to hold it
until the arrival OF the main body of the
expedition.
At the time the dispatch was sent the
dervishes were approaching Dongola over
land, and scouts reported that they were
carrying many of their wounded with
them. Included among the wounded are
some of the most noted chiefs.
1t is expected that, as the dervishes are
without food or other stores, they will
make most desperate attempt to again
get possession of Dongola.
Ell Hafir was not taken by the troops
until after most stubborn resistance on
the part of the dervlshes had been over
come. The rihemen of the latter fought
behind well-made mud forts and in
trenches that were strewn with mats.
These defenses, however, were soon
wrecked by the heavy fire Of the Egyptian
artillery and the Maxim battery that was
manned by the Connaught Rangers. The
dervishes stood the fire bravely, but were
finally compelled to withdraw from the
place. Their cavalry took no part in the
engagement, remaining some distance off
In the desert and watching the result of
the battle. When the British and Egyp.
tians landed the entire force retreated
southwark.
The capture of the place was hailed
with delight by the natives, who have
long been harried by the dervishes. They
shouted, danced and sang in a frenzied
manner and hailed the expedition as their
deliyerers.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
STANDING Of
THE PARTIES.
Grosvenor's Figures Give
278 Electoral Votes TO
Mckinley.
REASONABLY SURE OF
THIS NUMBER.
Thirty-Five More Are Counted
Upon aud Sixty-Four Are
Doubtful.
BRYAN'S MANAGERS SUBMIT
ESTIMATES.
Claim the Solid West and South and
a Majority of the Central
States.
BRYAN'S MANAGERS SUBMIT
ESTIMATES.
Claim the Solid West and South and
Majority of the Central
States.

ATHENS, ONO, Sept. 2O.-General
Grosvenor tonight gave out table of es-
Inmates of the probable result of the
Presidential election at the request of GER
tain mem bers of the press in the East
He said:
1 have been urged for several weeks to au-
thorize the publication of table of estimates
OF the Presidential election and have hesi-
tated 10 do so because there was more or less
uncertainty in regard to the result. Not that
there has ever been any uncertainty or doubt
in the intelligent mind as TO who would be
elected, but following the St Louis conven-
ton and the nomination of Bryan and Sewan
by one faction OF the Democratic party and
the substantial absorption Of the Populist
party which succeeded that event there was
some uncertainty as 10 how number OF the
States would finally go, and this condition of
uncertainty has not yet entirely disappeared,
but the general drift of political events has
reached point where think 1 need not hesi-
tate to point out substantially how the several
States will go.
The six New England States, with thirty-nine
electoral votes, viii go to Mckinney, so head
my table as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
DERHIsHES OUrWIrrBD.
Permitted the G,snboGts to SIt7, By an
Reach DongoIa.

Permitted the GMnboGts to slip By and
Reach D0n0oIa.
LONDON, ENG, Sept. 2L-The corre-
spondent of the Daily News who is with
the Soudan expedition teIegraphs that in
the attack on Ei HAIR the dervishes were
outwitted. They all advanced on land to
meet the troops, thus permitting the gun
boats to slip past the town, sink one OF
their steamers and hurry on to Dongola.
When the dervishes saw this move they
turned and tried to overtake the gunboats
aud save Dongola, but the land forces of
the expedition headed them off.
The Staffordshire regiment will follow
the gunboats to Dongola and thus the
dervishes will be placed between two fires.
Wad Bishara. the leader of the der
wishes, was wounded at Ell Hafr. He was
carried outside the range of the guns. A
prisoner states that when he saw that he
was defeaIed he exclaimed, "Allsh is
against me-"
Notwithstanding the assertion OF the
Government that Dongola was the OBJ
iective point of the Anglo-Egyptian ex-
pedition, the London newspapers concur
in the opinion that, now Dongola has
been taken, the expedition will proceed to
the reconquest of the entire Soudan.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
TOR TURED BY WHHECAPS
Brutal Treatment of an Ohio
Farmer Suspected of
Dishonesty.
Alternately Strung Up by the Heels
or Buried Until Near to
Death.

TOLEDO. ONO, Sept. 20.-It was learned
to-day that brutal whitecapping outrage
occurred within few miles of Toledo ten
davs ago, but the region is so terror
stricken that no one dared 10 carry word
to the authorities until to-day. A farmer
named Huntsman, living near Holland, in
this county, was the victim. His two
children were returning from Holland on
Septem Der 8, when two men overlook
them and accused them of finding and
secreting a pocketbook containing $50
This was denied and the children were
searched.
The same men went to Huntsman's
house that night and insisted that the
pocketbook was in the possession of the
family.
They finally went away threatening
vengeance. The following night a band
of dozen or more men took Huntsman
from his bed and beat him on. rageously.
That done, he was strung up for few
moments to tree. He was then lowered
again, beaten and partially buried. Given
a chance to make statement, he claimed
to be innocent and was hanged by the
heels and again buried. He WAS then
notified to leave the county within twelve
hours or die.
The mans jaw was broken and he was
frightfully bruised. but his fear was so
great that he and his family remained in
the woods without food or medical atten-
tion for the following two days.