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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-05
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08
Brutality Of Old Laws.
From the Philadelphia Ledger

The brutality and ferocity of legal en-
actments in olden times-and not so ex-
ceedingly remote at that-can scarcely be
land and Scotland bankrupts We're compelled
to wear a distinctive dress, says an ex-
change. This was a result Of enactments
passed at various time in Scotland from the
year 1606 to 1888. The Edinburgh court Of
session specified the dress to be of parti-
color, one-half yellow and the other brown,
something after the style of dress now
worn in English prisons by the worst class
of prisoners, those who have attempted to
escape or been guilty of murderous assaults
officers The enactment also provided
that the bankrupt should be exhibited pub
licly in the market place of his town for a
period of two hours, and then sent away.
condemned to wear the dress until such
times as he had paid his debt or some one
else had done 1t for him.
Although this was period of laws which
can only be described as ferocious. this law
was such an outrage on public sentiment
that in 1858 1t was SO far repealed that the
wearing Of the dress was only compulsory
In cases in which fraud had been proved, or,
curiousy enough, II the bankrupt had been
convicted of smuggling The same practice
was legal, but not generally in force, in Eng
land down to the year 1896. The idea was,
OF course, to warn persons who might have
given credit that the bankrupt was not able
to pay, but popular sentiment soon recog-
nized that It was wholly unfair to impose
might have become bankrupt through no
fault of his own, and usual, when the
law became contrary to public feeling, IL
ceased to be operative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

of tempting sportsmen, the southerners are
beginning to treat the wild things as II
they were gold Many hotel owners nave
acquired hunting rights over the country
surrounding their property, and they per-
init their guests to shoot and fish there.
One hotel man thus controls twenty-five
thousand acres in ideal game country.
AS a result the new south is fast becom-
ing a magnificent game country From
Tennessee east and from the Chesapeake
south it furnishes today every variety of
wing shooting from turkeys to snfpe, and
In big game it offers deer and black bear.
Quail are so plentiful this year that the
reports from all parts of the south are the
same-'the finest of quail shooting is prom
ised for this year"
Old Man Bear.
Old Man Bear still grumbles his surly
southern Appalachian mountains and the
forests and canebrakes Of Alabama, Missis
sippi, Georgia and Arkansas He is hunted
in many ways. Some men like to follow
him day after day. sleeping on his trail at
night, until the endurance of the wild beast
is conquered by the endurance of the man;
others hunt him with dogs that drive him
to stand at bay. Some of these sportsmen
carry their regard for the ethics of the
shotguns, but follow Old Man Bear simply
with a resolver so that when he finally
makes his stand the hunter must go in
boldly and make a distinctly personal mat
ter of it.
Canebrake bear hunting is the exciting
sport The yelping bear dogs are trained
to hang just close enough to a bear to
make him run and still to keep just far
enough away so that he cannot reach them
when he turns in his recurring attacks OF
rage After they have started him going
the hunters can hear the crashing of the
cane and the splitting and tearing of under
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FISHING FOR SPANISH cKEREL AT ST. PETERSBURG

sometimes for miles; savagely hurting them
selves at the bait; fighting from the first
touch of the hook until they are beached-
they provide unblemished sport.
Another noble game fish Is the barracuda
slim, wicked, a reincarnation of the old
pirates of the Spanish Main, he darts along
blue and silver. So swift Is his dash that
the eye cannot follow him even in the clear
est of water The writer had an illustration
in the Windward Passage of the incredible
swiftness of the barracuda. He was fish,
ing IN water so clear that little fish and
weeds fifty feet below were clearly visible.
He was watching his baited hook, when
barracuda took it. Yet, despite the fact
that everything that went on in the water
was as visible as If it were going on under
glass. the fish was so swift that before the
eye could perceive him the line was run
ming out and the fish leaping on the sur
face.
West Indians fear the barracuda more
than they do sharks. Bathing places are
fenced in on many island beaches to pre-
vent the savage fish from reaching bathers.
They have been known to dash at SWIM
mers and bite off their toes and fingers
clean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

blue blood and willing to call 1t fair deal
only if he shoots the reptile through the
eye. An alligator's eye Is not big. If the
bullet even so much as grazes the bony eye
socket, the chances are that it will glance
off and the alligator will plunge away, un-
harmed except for establishment and anger
at the unreasonableness of man.
True Sea Sports.
Everybody knows about Florida fishing.
But not everybody knows that the men
who go there to catch big fish really do not
taste the finer degree Of sport with rod and
line. Estimating the quality of sport by
the hundredweight has a full pleasure of
it's own. But in recent years many tarpon
anglers, having caught their ton or so of
the great Silver King, have turned with a
sigh of relief to the light split bamboo rod
and the thin line and find the true sport in
taking the smaller game fishes Of the coast,
with tackle so light that 1T is an absorbing
question as to which end Of the line will
win.
Such fishing as casting spoon or bait-and
sometimes the hy-for croakers, snappers
and Spanish mackerel is fishing that can
be eXcelled for real sport only by extra
good trout and black bass fishing When
the splendid, flashing, brave-hearted mack
erel strike in on Florida beach, the fish
ing is something to be remembered. Run
ming in undismayed schools that glitter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

is that alligators cannot we'll be hunted on
horseback. 1t is the only drawback to the
pursuit of this hard-shelled southern fowl.
Shooting hardly entered into hunting as
defined by the old-ttme southern sports
man. His hunting was the chase almost
exclusively. But now that he has become
a devotee of the shotgun his enthusiasm for
the sport Of wing shooting is as keen and
his regard for the finest points of the game
is as perfect as they ever were for hunting
on horseback. Consequently the game gets
a fair chance and will get better chance
still in years to come throughout the south.
Quail wintered so well last season and
succeeding excellent grass season gave them
such fine cover and food during Matching
time that many second broods were raised,
thus doubling last years quail supply in
many sections, notably throughout east
Tennessee.
Owing to the vast spread of the old plan
tations the wing shooting for quail is large
ly over open lands, making it clean, I'M
trammeled sport, with not as much need as
there Is in the north for forcing ones self
through woods and brambles to follow
frightened coveys.
Another shooting that is feeling the effect
of game laws Is the wild fowl shooting
along the sounds and inlets of the coast
from the Chesapeake capes to Florida. Es-
pecially is this the case in Albemarle and
Pamlico sounds, where the water birds are
protected by all sorts of laws. One law
actually prohibits men from sailing or row.
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WILD GAME HUNTING
How Americas Industrial
Spirit Has Improved 1t.
THE FIELD OF SPORT
EVEN THE OLD AND CROWDED
STATES ARE RICH AGAIN.
Preserving Beasts and Birds and Prop
agating Fish in Consid-
ed Business.

Written for The Evening Star by Julius W. Muller.
A strange, utterly unexpected effect of
the mighty industrial spirit Of the United
States is making itself felt beneficently In
the field of sport with rod and gun-the
very last province in which one could ex-
pect 1t. That the "commercialism'' of the
nation should work to improve and in
crease the hunters and anglers pleasure
seems paradoxical at first. But the reasons
for 1t are as simple as any other simple
business reasons.
What the efforts Of sportsmen, continued
through many years, had been able to &C.
complish only step by step in the way of
game protection and game propagation the
suddenly alert power of business promises
to fulfill almost at once.
The United States as a whole, and most
Of the states individually, have become firm
converts to the principle that wild game Is
one Of the great sources OF individual and
communal wealth. The passenger-carrying
railroads have plunged into the work of
improving sport and of protecting and prop
agating game in the country reached by
them. Many of the men who have been
made immensely wealthy by the opportuni-
ties of the past few years have helped by
either leasing or buying outright thousands
Of acres Of woodland and other unimproved
country. Other men, who have owned great
tracts OF poor, wild land for years without
deriving any benefit from it, have Joined in
because they have learned that this hither-
to useless property can be made a source
Of excellent income by being held as a
sanctuary for the animals and birds that
are sought by the sportsman.
Moose and elk have been reintroduced
into New York state. New Hampshire, by
protecting deer, moose and caribou the
whole year round. has so fostered the in
crease Of the deer that 1t is uncommon to
march a day through the woods in soma
parts without seeing at least one. Maine Is
gathering more income each year from the
big game hunters. New Jersey, under the
influence Of especially clear and especially
well-enforced game laws, is fast becoming
one great hunting preserve.
The New Sporting South.
And the new south" the south of in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08
ECCENTRIC RAILWAYS.
How Engineers Overcome Difficult
ties.

how Engineers overcome D1mcul-
ties.
From the London Globe.
AS the iron track is bound to force it's
way into most corners of the world, 1t is
not surprising that some lines of railway
exist which are striking evidence of a sin
gularly bold conception carried out in the
face Of obstacles which seemed almost in
surmountable. Sometimes the route Of the
future line lies across a desert; then the
great law Of the compensation Of ma
ture seems to make itself felt, for to bal
ance the saving Of time and money, due to
the fact that long tunnels will not have to
be cut through hills or mountains, the en-
glneers are confronted by the total absence
of three essential elements OF construction,
namely, wood, iron and water, which have
to be transported along the newly laid line
as it stretches it's low length across the
desert.
Russias Transcaspan railway, now
known as the Central Asian railway, was
built under these conditions; thousands Of
logs of timber were needed and the region
traVersed cannot boast Of single tree for
more than 700 miles. This timber was re-
quired for building the long bridge. two
miles in length, over the river Amu-Darya.
This bridge was always the weak point in
that highly important railway, and 1t has
been replaced recently by a stone bridge.
Between Merv and Charjul the line had to
be carried over shifting sands sixtyfour
feet deep. When the work Is being carried
out in such regions the trains become
little town on wheels. They are composed
or tWo-storied wagons, which contain sleep
ing accommodation, butchers stalls, can
teens, grocery stores and FORCES. AS the
Transsiberian railway grew in length it was
resolved by the authorities that the work
men should have their own church car"
4 wagon was fitted up accordingly as a
church, with little peal of bells in the
alcove above the entrance
The romance of mountain railways by no
means ends with their construction, and
travelling upon railways at very high alti-
tude is not thing to be desired. The Pc
ruvian line running from Callao to Oroya
has tWofold claim to distinction. 1t is
built at probably the greatest altitude Of
any existing railway, namely 15.90S feet
above the sea level, and Ii affords travellers
certainly the most unpleasant experience
de voyage that can be Imagined AS the
result Of travelling at such an altitude, the
passengers begin by feeling great oppres-
saon, accompanied by pains In the head and
limbs; these are quickly followed by bleed
momentary blindness. It is gratifying to
know that there is certain variety in the
effects produced upon passengers at this
point. Thus, while some persons are seized
with gtddlness, others entertain strange hal
lucinations and others faint away; the last
class becomes so weak that any undue ex-
ertion on their part often proves fatal. But
this Is not all that one has to undergo on
the Callao and Oroya line. In due course
the skin becomes irritated and sores break
out, while the lips swell and then crack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

to find the night quite uncomfortable our
lockess door was burst violently open and
the tall head man entered, candle in hand,
and with many gestures succeeded in let
ting us know that 1t was 3 o'clock and that
we must arise. l tried to impress 1t upon
him that If he wished to come in he must
knock first. and then deliberately, arranged a
chair under the door knob, which l did not
realize was simply hanging by a hair" SO
to speak, and we began our very simple
toilets. Three times did the head man
force his way in, to my rage at first and
finally to my amusement, and at last, after
the glasses of hot tea, which one can al
most always get In Russia, we were led
by Leon, elegantly assisted into the rickety
old coach by the conductor, and with shouts
and screams to the horses and farewells to
the gentlemen on the porch we went forth
once more and left them to the light OF
their one small candle and the company Of
the other and smaller inhabitants of the
station. MARGARET STERLING.
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cause of the screams and shouts we were
told that our driver was only asking the
others to get out of the way and that
they were replying that they would do SO
as fast as they could. Sometimes we would
see the flicker of a light in the distance
and then as we flashed by would catch
glimpse of a campfire with four or five
huge mountaineerS in fur caps seated about
it, their wagons drawn up at the side OF
the road and their oxen turned out to
Craze.
He SignaIed by Song.
Once not long before reaching the station
we heard in the far distance the high clear
voice of a young lad singing out joyously
in the darkness, the song growing louder
and louder as he came nearer until he
suddenly became aware of our existence
and stopped in the middle Of his song.
There was silence for moment, then the
usual shouts from our old driver, which
were answered with vigor, and soon after
by the light of a wax match we saw the
singer. a good-looking young boy in rags,
who clattered by in silence, sitting side
ways on his huge horse. little later
the joyous song rang out again, and grad
ually grew fainter and fainter until it died
away in the distance.
At $40 we reached Tsilkane, the second
station, rafting in at the usual gallop,
with a few notes from the bugle to give
warning of our approach.
The station is OF stone, with a Vlne-cOV-
cred veranda and trees in front, and in the
indistinct light of one Pickering candle held
by the head man, who stood in the door
way waiting for us, 1t looked very attract
i've. We waited in the diligence while Leon
and the conductor discussed the matter of
horses and were soon told that, as there
were many private diligences going over
the mountains at that time, they had only
six horses left, which must be saved for
the post, of course; that others would ar
rive at 3 o'clock
The only thing then to do was to remain
and try to get little sleep before 3, which
we were very willing to do, as this was
rors that awaited us. So We went into
the chilly, damp house and were taken TO
a large room, which they said was al
ways reserved for women. 1t Smelled, as
the door was opened, as If 1t had been
sealed up for years, a horrible combination
of smells. into the meaning of which we
dared not inquire We flew to the case
ment windows and dragged them open, left
the door ajar a bit to create a draught,
but found that other still more objection
able smells entered, so we resigned our
selves to what was inevitable. and, leav-
ing both windows wide open and drawing
our hard sofas, which we had sprinkled
freely with flea powder, close to them, we
wrapped our rugs about and lay down.
Dozens of bandits might climb in the win
dows for all we cared; open they should be.
Dressing Under Difficulties.
For four hours we were distinctly aware
that the fieas were not bothered by the flea
powder. and we were lazily aware of gen.
eral rustling about and shouting and fash
ing of the one candle, as the poste dashed
in, changed horses and dashed out again
into the darkness. Then, when we began
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IN FLORIDA.

mans heaven.
Tens OF thousands of acres have been
placed under rigid protection; some by the
owners themselves who lease out shooting
privileges, others by rich sportsmen, who
FORM themselves into clubs, and either buy
she property or obtain hunting rights for
financial considerations, such as paying the
taxes.
All this posting and preserving naturally
reacts favorably on the unposted and I'M
preserved lands where hunting and fishing
are free to ali, for the game cannot abso-
iutely be penned in the preserves.
Exceptionally quick to see the advantage
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a bush to man, that stands In the way Of
his escape from those dogs.
The bear lives in cover too thick to per-
nit hunting on horseback. But for that
the chase of this fierce old game would
have been one of the standard field sports
Of the southerners long ago. They try to
hunt nearly all other kinds of southern
game and beasts on horseback
Everything A-Horseback.
southerner rides ON horseback to shoot
quail. He courses wild turkey on horse
back. He hunts deer and wild pigs, foxes
and rabbits on horseback His one sorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

The wise business man places
his inducements to customers
In the widely circulated news
paper. like The Evening Star,
because he knows It pays him
to make public announcements
rather than to waste his time In
attempting to do business by the
circulation of pamphlets, book
lets and the like through the
mail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08
British as Chosen People"


The creed of the earnest lingo" is a
simple translation into modern English of
the fanatical belief Of the ancient Israelites
I'VE are the chosen people of the Lord, and
In His name should set ourselves to possess
the earth" The curious phenomenon of a
survival of such a belief into the twentieth
century-a belief not merely held by a few
vistonaries, but deeply tingeing the national
policy of England-almost tempts one to
uphold the theory that the alleged Lost
Tribes of Judea" peopled the British isles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08
Envious Nell.

From the Chicago News.
Neil-'fSo you are engaged to Cholly. chr
Bess-"Yes, I've met my match at last"
Mellon, don't know. I imagine poor
Cholly will find himself outclassed."
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ing over the waters of Currituck sound on
Sunday for the purpose of locating wild
fowl for shooting on any future day. There
are laws covering shooting from batteries,
shooting with any sort of big gun or other
frearm except gun held at the shoulder,
laws prohibiting killing of birds before dawn
and after dark, laws covering shooting from
moving boats not anchored, laws providing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

brush as the big black chap pounds his
way through. When bear, thus set to
running, comes down headlong on a man in
the canebrake 1t means quick shooting and
good shooting. Old Man Bear is red hot,
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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-05-29

world. In France infdelity is
rampant; yet it is very frequent
occurrence for infdels when they
realize that their ends are near to
endeavor to make their peace with
God. The writer has this on the
authority of one who has resided
in France The great atheist Vol
taire did this. Gibbon the great
infdel historian professed, on his
death bed intense fear of the fut-
ure. In conversation of a con-
demned criminal not long ago he
stated while being carried to the
gallows that he felt exactly as he
felt when he was about to begin a
long journey.
All of this proves that actions
speak louder than words.
RADIUS VICTOR.
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DUTY OF CITIZENS.

The forces of evil only find lodg-
ment in political power by reason
of the lethargy and indifference of
so-called good citizens. The citi-
zen who neglects to vote or whose
voting is swayed by other than a
desire for the common good is a
moral criminal. The Importance
of voting cannot be over estimat-
ed. It is at once the privilege of
the freeman and the duty of the
patriot. Whoever neglects it sinks
to the level of a slave and becomes
an accomplish of every wrong per-
petrated by those that ascend to
power through his Indifference to
his own rights and the obligations
of Observation-Disclosures News.