The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-15


such delights. He writes:
His fare is simple. but if ne chooses il
is good enough Many ranches are pro-
vided with nothing but salt pork, canned
goods and bread; indeed. it Is curious
fact that in travelling through the COW
country It is often impossible TO get any
milk CT butter bur that is only because
the owners or managers are too lazy TO
| take enough trouble to insure their own
| comfort We ourselves always keep Up
two or three cows
We also keep hens, which, in spite Of
the damaging inroads OF hawks. bobcats
and foxes, supply US with eggs. and in
time OF need. when our rifles have failed
TO keep Us in game, with stewed. roast or
fried chicken also. From our garden we
get potatoes. unless drouth. frost or the
grasshoppers interfere (Which they do
about every second year. other vegetables
as we'll For fresh meat we depend chiefly
upon our prowss as hunters.
During much of the time we are away
on the different roundups that wheeled
house the great four-horse wagon. is
then our home. but at the ranch our rou-
tine of life is always much the same. save
during the excessively bitter weather Of
midwinter. when there is little to do ex-
cept TO hunt. if the days are fine enough
We breakfast early-before the dawn
when the nights have grown long. and
rarely later than sunrise. even in mid
summer. Perhaps before this meal Ger
tainly the instant it is over the man
whose duty it is rides off 10 hunt up and
drive in the saddle band. Each Of Us has
his own string OF horses. eight or ten in
number Onc saddled. the men
ride of on their different tasks. for al
most everything is done in the saddle. eX-
cept that in winter we cut our firewoOd
and quarry our coal-both OF the ranch
and in midsummer attend TO the garden
and put up what wild hay is required"
Take his own description OF a bear hunt
in the Rockies
If there is a good hiding place handy.
it is better to lie in wait at the carcass.
One day. on the headwaters Of the Madi-
son. l found that a bear was coming 10 an
elk I had shot some days before, and 1
at once determined to ambush the beast
when he came back that evening. The
carcass lay in the middle of a valley
quarter of a mile broad. The bottom of
this valley was covered by an open forest
Bl ld4l pines d llAlNN JtAA-6AE VI cAAAcAANA
ergreens marked where the mountains
rose on either side. There were a number
of larger rocks scattered here and there.
one of very convenient shape being only
some seventy or eighty rods from the car
cass. Up this clambered. 1t hid me
perfectly. and on its top was carpet Of
soft pine needles, on which l could lie at
my ease
Hour after hour passed by. A little
black wocdpecker with a yellow crest ran
nimbly up and down the tree trunks for
some time. and then fitted away with
party of chickadees and nuthatches- Oc-
casionally a Clarke's crow scared about
overhead or chung in any position % the
swaying end of a branch. chattering and
screaming FIocks of cross-bills. with
wavy fight and plaintive calls, flew to
small mineral lick near by. where they
scraped the clay with Their queer little
beaks.
'.As the weakening sun sank out Of sight
beyond the mountains these sounds OF
bird life gradually died away. Under the |
great pines the evening was still with the I
silence OF primeval desolaticn. The sense |
Of sadness and lonliness. the melancholy |
of the wilderness, came over me like /
spell. Every slight noise made my pulse |
throb as I lay motionless on the rock, !
gazing intently into the gathering gloom. |
1 began to fear 1t would grow too dar kto /
shoot before the grizzly came.
Suddenly and without warning the /
great bear walked out of the bushes and /
trod across the pine needles with such /
swift and noiseless footstep that its bulk
seemed unreal 1t was very cautious.
continually hating to peer around, and /
once il stood upon its hind legs and
looked long down the valley toward the |
red west As il reached the carcass / /
put a bullet between its shoulders. II
rolled over. while the woods resounded
with its savage roaring Immediately IL
struggled TO its feet and staggered of,
and fell again to the shot, squalling and
yelling. Twice this was repeated; the
brute being one Of those bears which greet
every wound with a great outcry, and
seem to lose their feet when hit-although
they. will occasionally fight as savagely as
their more silent brethren. In this case
the wounds were MORTAL and the bear
died before reaching the edge Of The
thicket"
To the new president matrimony has
been no dull commonplace. his vie no
mere supervisor Of home or tender az
children. There is hardly one among the
American statesmen OF today whose life
has been so charming a love story. whose
domestic relations have been more pure
Iy ideal
AS for Mrs. Roosevelt, n 1t were con
reivable that she could be persuaded 90 |
talk to the public abG-lt the romance Of
her life. she would probably admit that |
Theodore Roosevelt hiss been It's single
Inspiration. the idoi OF her sirlncod. her
'ne incompatible hero from then TIL
now
Probably nothing better can he said of
Theodore Roosevelt than that 70 is even
more ~ hero 20 home than he 81
abroad. and. above al. hero 70 so wise
81 critical n woman as his wife Is
Il has never been suggested that Theo-
lore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carov
eere botrothed in their early yorth. az ]
he time when the Rooseveits ard the 5
arrows we're two NJ che foremost fani-
les in New York and on terms % str3lg Z
intimacy with each other
Fsith Karow. a lovely ard brilliant giTi. {
ras q constant guest AZ the Roosereifs
Ter father was Charles caraa-- her grand ( q
stsar Isaac Car1R. q wealthy srirr.rE q
merchant. and her mother Miss G-rfrnde
-vler. q daughter ~ General Tyler 70 q
Norwich. The girl vas born at Abe old a
arrow mansion. 81 F0grteeuth Etre-t and 2
MON Square. IN the spot Whe1e thf
Domestic building new stands Later tfs g
q nly moved % Murray Hll- ard Eaith q
,arov. when a yolug girl ~s Fa r
( Kiss Ccustocks school 90 West fer- 3