The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-07

IN the Worlds Work for December
-. - - Sehillings tells in the story of
Gun and Camera in African WiIds .
some thrilling adventures of photo
graphing big game in its native haunts.
ne Following describes his encounter
with a rhinoceros:
IN the course of a year saw more
Ihan six hundred rhinoceroses and the
tracks OF thousands. The sight of
these gigantic beasts standing in the
Haoonsnlne on the snow-White steppes
Is stllI vivid in my memory. I have
never encountered more than four at
one tnne5 though I have seen as many
as eight together. Their appearance
When IN sitting posture is very like
the stump of a tree. While resting
!. the rhlnoceros often resigns himself TO
ms 1eathered friends, who alight upon
his body and serve the double purpose
OF freeing his skin from parasites and
giving warning of danger. 1t is a case
OF partnership between an animal with
keen sense of smell and birds with
keen eyes. The horns of the African
fRInocerOs sometimes attain a length
of nearly five feet, and when he lifts
up his voice the whole world seems to
tremble- The sound is so tremendous
that the effect is startling in the ex-
treme.
Never shall I forget my first en-
counter-the uncouth animal mass
Illuminated by the setting sun, its
mighty horns pointing upward and its
gigantic form outlined against the red
OF the evening sky. At a hundred
PAGES / discharged my elephant gun
and he came snorting toward me; at
my second shot, when he was almost
upon me, he turned in fight, and the
apparent use1eSsness of my weapon
was 50 crushing that all previous inn
pressions Of the rhinoceros We're
changed.
My greatest risks. however, We're in
connection with efforts to photograph
the rhinOceros. The beast is most ac-
tive when the Sky is cloudy, and it is
dlflcult to get within range when the
light is favorable. Besides, it is trying
on the nerves (already unsteadied by
mafaria) to hold a camera still How
ever, was successful, and it was a
genuine delight to watch the negatives
develop.
President Jor6an's Views on Football.
Il have liked many things about foot
ball, but the game has been improved
(saye the mark out of all semblance
of sport. 1t is an abnormalIy specials
lied machine, and all spontaneity has
been carefully eliminated by the gentle
men who rule its destinies Even the
bleachers must be organized after the
machine pattern, with yell leaders who
operate the so-called cheering after the
fashion of the automatic fog-signals ia
San Francisco harbor. As a disgruntled
Sometimes I feel like yelling at a
game, and sometimes don't. And whea
I don't feel like it, I've got to open my
mouth and bark because a man waves
his arms a me, or be accused of having
no college spirit
Football has bred many fine andman-
Is young men. and it has developed
wholesome and sturdy qualities of man
hood in its day I do not want to see
it killed by its alleged friends, and I
don't see how an open game Will make
it less dangerous to play. But there is
no doubt that the game Will kill itself
If Ieft alone. It is doomed unless it can
be simplified and diversified. cannot
class it as a college sport today. And
because of its arduous compleXity. and
the extraordinary demands upon the
minds and bodies of the players, the
professional coach holds a position of
abnormal and demoralizing Importance
in campus life. His influence is often
bad and vicious upon the student
morale because his gospel of thought
and action is anything to Win Prom
an interview published in the School
and College World in The Outing Mag
pzirp fpr, December.