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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
TRAILING A deer.
HOW THE LITTLE HOOP PRINTS
WERE FOLLOWED.
The observant Naturalist Finds His
Reward in q Charming Woodland
Scene Of Which Doe and Fawn
Are the Center.

For few minutes after starting on
the trail of the white-tailed deer, I
was able to go in straight line. for
it was some hundreds Of yards away
chat her white flag had disappeared.
But from this point must follow her
trail. for there was no sign Of her in
any direction, and even the sound OF
cracking twigs had died away. At
first the work was easy enough. APP
parently she was the only deer which
had been that way for some time. and
!, at every jump she had disturbed the
dry carpet of the forest enough to en-
able one to follow her freely. But
presently the trail had led me into
hardwood forest, where the ground
was soft and damp, and by the DISPOSE
ton Of her footprints, 1t was easy to
see that the doe had stopped. no
doubt to look around back to see If
she were being followed. Perceiving.
no doubt, that I was on her trail. she
had dashed away again. evidently at
great speed, as indicated by the length
of her jumps and tho deep marks OF
the dew claws in the earth. Then she
had dropped into a walk, and shortly
afterwards had left the woodland en-
tirely, passing out on an open grassy
hillside. Here. the following Of the
trail was a much more difficult mat
ter, especially as many deer had passed
over this open ground, often in diff
ferent directions. However, assumed
that the deer I had just seen was the
last to pass that way and that con-
sequently, the freshest trail was hers.
Nor was 1t always easy to tell just
which one was the freshest, except in
one way. When deer treads upon
grass, its hoof depresses the blades
with such force that they are apt to
remain depressed for a time. springing
back gradually, or with little jerks, to
its original upright position. By
watching carefully could see grass
blades rising thus from certain foot
prints, and l knew that these were the
ones I wished to follow. And l fol-
lowed them, but very slowly, on my
hands and knees, and often looking
ahead and round about to see II the
doe had stopped to browse. The trail
led me straight to clump of spruces
which were growing in the open, and
at the foot of this clump found de-
preston in the grass, evidently made
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
JUST READY FOR A FLIGHT.

qualities. 1t appears to b just as
natural for Beachey to "aerialize" as for
q brook trout to swim against the cur
rent or for squirrel to climb tree.
Give Beachey big gas bag with frag-
lie teamwork underneath, to which are
attached little engine, a big rudder
and some propeller blades, and the boy
Is quite in his element. He takes to the
air like gosling to the horse pond. The
enthusiasm of Santos Dumont and other
adult airship exporimenters is as cold
air beside the enthusiasm of this boy
from California, who declares that his
appetite is fully as good as that Of any
boy of his age, but that he would rather
"airship than eat" No matter whether
you believe In airsl.ips or not, you will
believe in Beachey, If you stand by him
In the aerodrome at the Lewis and Clark
exposition, alongside the huge gas bag
OF his airship, and hear him talk aEouI
his ambitions. The boy does not boast
at all; he simply says he believes in the
possibilities of aerial navigation, and
intends to demonstrate that air craft
~sA w uoAC ~ oCIlShOlc. ouL uulcsS
you lead him on he will say nothing fur
Their as to his hopes. for his enthusiasm,
lies rather in action than in words.
Beachey lives in San Francisco, where
he attended the public schools until he
was IL years old. Then he entered the
employ of an airship enthusiast, was
bitten by the bug of aerial navigation,
and has done nothing since except to
work around airship shops.
Beachey has already made flights in
his airship, the third venture being very
picturesque. With a whizzing, whir-
ring sound the propeller operated beau
tifullty, taking the ship for some dis
lance full against the wind at a ten
hour clip and about 1000 feet up in the
air. But the force Of the wind increased
and Beachy was driven slowly but surely
to the south and east. For some reason
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
DARING b0YAER0NAUT
ls.YEAn-oIp EuTHunIA1r WHo
FLIES BIG AI1SHIP.
Directs Flights Of the BALDWIN Craft
at the Portland Tair-Dolieves
Secret Of Air-Navigation
Will BE Solved.

Portland. ore.-Beachey, the Boy
Aeronaut. That sounds something
like the title of an old-fashioned dime
novel. doesn't it? But there is no iic-
ton about the story Of Lincoln Beachey,
is years old; the boy aeronaut, who has
made half dozen daring flights in the
big Baldwin airship at Portland, and
who declares that he will keep on going
up in this craft Or some other until he
proves to the world that 1t is possible
and practicable for man-even for a boy
Ito navigate the air.
Lincoln Beachey is blue-eyed lad
Of retiring disposition, so far as contact
with the general public goes; but he Is
by no means retiring when it comes to
going up in the air mile or SO and ca
vorting around in the empyrean like a
yearling calf with the freedom Of the
ten-acre lot In that sort of thing young
Bcachey 10 slayer, and has proved his
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questionable riding than this boy. He
has always been top-notch rider, and
his honesty has never been questioned.
Odom rode his last races on July 4 at
Sheepshead Bay and was not success
ful. He never rode much in the west.
In 1901 he piloted His Eminence in tho
American derby for Clarence Mackay,
but he got nothing. Probably the most
sensational race he ever rode or the one
for which he was strongly censured was
when he pfloted Nice hesney in the Mont
gonery handicap two years ago at Mem
phis. The big son of MacDuff-Manola
Mason was a great favorite and enough
money had been wagered on him in Chi
cago to sink battleship. The fact that
big Mac was never anywhere in the race
showed no speed at the start or at the
finish and was finally pulled up in the
extreme rear caused no end of gossip.
NO one, however, dared question Odom's
vide. Subsequent defeats proved that
MacChesney had gone back and was no
longer the bulldog of the west. He was
never able to run lick" on the sandy
uphill track at Montgomery park. Fur
thermore. Odom was told to take good
hold OF the horse and nurse him along
with kind words. Instead Odom lost
his temper and whipped McChesney
without a let-up the first quarter of a
mile. Sam Hildreth, who had trained
him, has always contended that Odom
broke McChesney's heart by using the
whip on him SO numerically that day.
and the big horse never got over it. Hill.
dreth to this day will say that Nc
Chesney is broken-hearted, all because
of the undeserved beating. Odom, how
ever, was protecting himself. He knew
he was on a red-hot favorite and there
was much talk over the way the money
was being wagered on his mount. He
had never ridden the big horse before,
and did not know that he was notori-
ously slow beginner, and at once went
to the whip. After that McChesney gave
1t up. and Hildreth says he has never
been the same horse since There has
never been a whisper against Odom'.s
honesty. and he retires from the saddle
respected by Whitney, Belmont, Dur
yea, Madden, Thomas, Smathers, Far
rel and all the leading turfmen of the
east, horsemen say.
Although II. Chandler Egan again
won the national amateur golf cham
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

by some animal which had been lying
down. Here also. the grass blades
were rising slowly, and when put
out my hand the spot was warm. 1t
was too small to have been made by a
1ull-grown deer; it was about the
right size and shape for fawn. and a
fawn had probably made 1t, as l dis
covered moment later.
Peering cautiously about, saw, be-
tween the lower branches of spruce.
a big doe. grazing in the open. Doubt
less it was the deer had been follow
ing. The wind was in my favor, and
/ had come SO slowly and quietly over
the latter part of my journey, that she
was quite unaware of my presence.
But as l watched her. l noticed cur
ious movement of her hindquarters,
and suddenly her hind feet were for
q moment, lifted clean of the ground.
An instant later she turned half
round, and l saw the cause of these
curious movements; it was a fawn
taking his milk, and every now and
then butting her so vigorously as to
almost carry her off her feet. He was
a beautiful little fellow, reddish-brown,
spotted with white. and he shook his
white-bordered tail vigorously as
though he was enjoying himself.
Every now and then his mother would
turn her head as though to see that
he was all right, and then fall to graz
ing again. But in few minutes he
had had all the milk he wanted for
that time. and as his mother walked
along, he stopped to try little graz
ing for himself. For a moment my
eyes followed the doe as she walked
slowly along, nibbling weed here and
a tuft of grass there, occasionally
stopping to scratch her nose or he-
ear with her hind foot. Then l looked
back to see what the fawn was doing,
but he had disappeared. l could hard
ly believe that he would deliberately
run of and leave his mother, so
looked again and very carefully, but
not a glimpse of him could get.
Then l noticed something small and
white move very rapidly from above
the tops of the grass, and on looking
hard in that direction, made out the
form of the fawn. whose tail was
switching rapidly from side to side.
1t happened that he was standing
where he was surrounded on all sides
with ox-eye daisies, pearly everlasting
and other small white flowers. and
that his own white spots caused him
20 look simply like part of the land
scape.
Then. as 1t was time for me to re.
turn, I arose to my feet. The Doe
started in alarm, and her fawn ran
bleating to join her. Then she snorted
like small explosion, and sprang
away toward the woodland, followed
by her spotted baby, their white tails
waving their adeius.
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNEs.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
"ERAvo. AMER1cANov'

better set out" and so we went out of
the palace while the kings retainers
were filing him with ice water. Well,
they got the cayenne pepper out of him.
because we saw him at the bull fight in
the afternoon, but for awhile he had
the hottest box there ever was outside
of freight train, and If he lives to
be as old as Mr.. Methuselah, he will
always remember his interview with
little Hennery.
The bull-fght amt much. Bulls come
in the ring mad as wet hens. cause they
stick daggers in them, and they bel
low around, and the Spaniards dodge
and shake red rags at them, and after
bull has ripped mess of bowels out
of few horses, then man with a sabre
stabs the bull between the shoulders,
and he drops dead, and the crowd cheers
the assassin of the bull, and they brin.
in another bull.
Well, Sir, dad came mighty near his
finish at the bull-fght. When the
second bull came in, and ripped the
stomach out of blind horse, and the
bull was just charging man who was
to stab it, dad couldn't stand it any
longer, and he climbed right over into
the ring. and he said: Look ahere, you
heather, l protest, in the name OF the
American Humane Society, against this
cruelty to animals, and unless this bust.
ness stops right here. l will have this
place pulled, and"
Well, sir, you would of thought that
bull would have had sense enough to
see that dad was his friend, but he
probably couldn't understand what dad
was driving at, for he made rush for
dad, and dad started to run for the
fence, and the bull caught dad just like
dad was sitting in a rocking chair, and
tossed him over the fence, and dads
pants stayed on the bulls horns, and
dad landed in amongst a lot of male
and female grandees, and everybody
yelled: Bravo, Americana" and the
police wrapped blanket around dads
legs and were going to take him to the
emergency hospital, but claimed dad
and took him to the hotel. Yours,
HENNERY.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

his propellers stopped and he descended
to within GO feet of the ground, right
in the heart of the city, intending to
land; but just as his drag rope began to
touch the earth the propellers" got a
move on" in the language of Beachey's
first assistant, who stays on the surface,
and the boy aeronaut scorned the earth,
and shot up again thousand feet into
the air, far above the towering heights
to the south of the city. Finding the
wind too strong for effective work, he
drifted of across the Willamette river
and made very graceful landing. 1t
was his intention when starting out to
encircle the exposition grounds and re-
turn to the Aaernautic concourse for his
landing, and he declares that his expert
ence while afoat gave him assurance
that he will yet be able to perform this
feat
Capt. Baldwin has just built . smaller
airship, patterned largely upon the
Angelus, but with certain improve
ments. 1t is called the Nina. after one
of the ships of the feet of Columbus.
The Nina is fitted with 24-foot car and
holds 5000 cubic feet of gas. Beachey
will try trip in the Nina shortly. and
he believes that in the smaller vessel he
may be able to make much better head
way.
Another interesting airship 1T the ex-
position is the Gelatin. invented BY
Charles B. Knox, . wealthy manufac-
turer of Syracuse NJ v Ceorsra T.
Tomlinson, a well-known aerialist, is in
command of the Gelatin. which Il en-
tered in the aeroncutic contests AMI
will race against the boy aeronaut's
craft in q few days.
These airship maneuvers attract much
attention. It Is said that the last time
Beachey went on q trip hundreds of
people got cricks in their necks which
lasted over night. Beachey stayed up
more than tEo hours, and his machine
was visible at all times from any part
OF Portland.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

Z! sat down on front seat and watched
dad. Dad had read in the papers that the
boy king wanted to marry an American
girl. who was the possessor of a lot of
money, SO dad began to tell the king of
girls in America that were more beau
tiful than any in the world, and had
hundreds of millions Of cold dollars,
and an appetite for raw kings, and
that he could arrange match for the
king that woula make him richer than
any king on any throne.
The boy king was becoming inter-
ested, and guess dad would have had
him married of all right, II the king
had not seen me take out bag of
candy and begin to eat, when he said
to me: Come up here, Bub, and give
me some of that" Gosh, but l trem-
bleS like . Leaf. but went right up
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

AND HIS ENGINEER.
the contrary, the Den is lean and grace
full in her lines.
The boat is on the go from the first
start, and the most skillful navigation
is required to get her in and out Of the
harbor' without damage. Onloollers
have watched with apprehension sever
al close calls for the designer and his
one man crew, and recent capsizing of
the Den was not altogether in the ma
ture of q surprise.
Believing that the tiller ropes had
been strained by previous turnings of
corners at high speed, boatmen say that
sudden swerve when on the break
water caused the break. The escape
from a more serious happening than the
wetting was extremely gratifying to his
friends.
While workmen have been engaged
in mending the shattered stem and 9TH
ers have created new aluminium stack.
oval in shape, to fit over the exhaust
pipe from the engines, not the slightest
repairs or changes have been made to
the motive power of the Den. No time
recorder ever kept up the pace estab-
lished by the wonderful engine that
makes of the Den the fastest craft afloat.
Looking down into the bottom of the
craft amidships, and beneath the alum
mum hood that acts both as cover and
wind break for the engine driver, the
curious can see an engine that can cas-
lily be hidden under dry goods box
three feet in each dimension. 1t does
not resemble other types of high power
engines Of the explosive type, and al
though there are two cylinders they are
SO covered that they are not noticed and
the engine appears on the exterior as a
one-cylinder machine.
There is nothing to show that in the
compact mass Of bronze and steel there
are four explosive chambers-despite
It is two-cylindered engine-except
that there are four exhaust pipes rum
ming to the pipe that serves as single
stack on the outside Of the metal hood
For over a month the Den has as
founded the naval world by her wonder
ful performances in Long Island sound,
and now, the dispatches from Bridge
port, Conn, say, there is constant
stream of curious but interested naval
men to the boathouse to view the YES
sci which will, doubtless revolutionize
warfare. With the fastest boat ever
built travelling maximum speed of less
than rs miles an hour and the Den at
tanning speed of IS miles an hour, it
can be easily seen that the powers of the
world possess primitive methods with
their slow vessels. The engine used in
the boat is 100-horsepower, and the Den
does not vibrate in the least from the
powerful strain. Heresshoff has no
doubt marked an era in fast naval craft
and his friends declare that he has ap-
preached nearer the construction of a
flying machine than the great numbers
who are experimenting in aerostatics.
RUSSELL WOODARD.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

ing with a knife in his hand and he
ran into the kitchen where his wife
was at work. The woman ran into
the yard. screaming for help. The
crazy husband caught her. and was
standing over her with appraised
knife. when a negro policeman came
around the corner about 20 feet away
He could not reach the man In time
to save the woman, for the knife was
in the act of descending, and to shoot
might result in injury to the woman.
".God Almighty tells me to kill you,
the crazed man said.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
Peace-Time Armies.

OF all great nations the United States
OF America has in its peace-time
standing army the smallest number Of
soldiers in proportion to extent of
population, namely, one soldier to
every 1000 citizens. The opposite ex-
IRENE, curiously enough, is reached by
another republic-France-w has
one soldier to every u Of its popula-
ton. Italy has one soldier to every
100 subjects; Germany, one to 1O7;
Austro-Hungary, one to 1875, and
Great Britain one soldier to every 225
subjects. Belgium, having a popula-
ton Of not more than 100000, has one
soldier to every 100 Inhabitants. Rus
STA has one soldier to every 140 of its
subjects; Japan, one to $50.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
Milk Cans Become Lifebuoys.

A farmers wife, who had been to
Llandipsil. Cardiganshire, to sell milk.
had a singular escape from drowning
while returning to Carmarthen. A
small boat in which she was crossing
a river was upset and she was thrown
into the water. Fortunately she had
with her two milk cans, now empty
and securely closed, and these acted
as life-buoys. Clinging to the cans.
the woman foated along for some dis
lance until passersby saw her plight
and rescued her.-London Express.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

pionship at the
recent tournament
at Wheaton. ILL.,,
the lay during the
play during the en-
Il r e tou r n e Y
'howed the fallacy
If the easterners'
contention t h a t
there was but one
golfer in the west,
and that was Egan.
The finals saw two
G b | C a go m e n,
"Ned" Sawyer and
-A-f,,S--
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
Indeed! What business are you
Ready to Do His Part.

faded Looking Customer-Have you
anything that will put some ginger in
to a man that's feeling rocky and all
out of sorts?
Druggist-We can sell you the gin.
ger, and then it's up to you whether
you put It in or not Want the Jamai.
ca kind?-Chicago Tribune.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
LIFE SAVED BY QUICK WIT.
Policeman 1mpersonated God to Keep
Q Crazy Man from Killing
His Wife.

"Quick wit is of more value to an
'oflcer than being good shot" said q
policeman in Kansas City, Kan, re-
Gently, reports the Kansas City Star.
Il know negro policeman who saved
10 woman's life by knowing what to
say at the right minute. It was this
way: A man became crazy one morn.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS
Increasing weight has caused George
odom. one of the veterans Of the sad

die to return his
Jockeys badge, and
he will hereafter
devote his entire
time to training q
stable which. he
and his father will
c o l ect. Prob
ably there IL no
rider on the Amer
lean turf today
who has ridden as
many races on as
many tracks in this
country and re-
ceived less censure
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

Yardstick Of Summer Time.
Mrs. Knicker-How long will you bs
away this summer?
Mrs. Booker don't know. shall
stay $1,000 at tho seaside and $500 at the
mountaius.-N. 7. Sun.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

"'stop!' cried the negro policeman.
I'm God, and command you to stop!'
"The knife fell from the hand Of
the insane man, as he turned his eyes
to the sky from whence he supposed
the voice had come. Before he
learned how he had been tricked. tho
policeman had handouts on him"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14

SAsSS ea0 UNIONS Vfounle the Bad
Boy and His Dad-ssLittle Hen
nsry" Treats the King Of Spain to
April Fool Candy-Dad Tries to
Stop = Bull-Fight.
By HON. GEoRGE.w. PECK.
(Ex-Governor Of Wisconsin. Former Editor
of "Peck's Sum- Author of '.Peck's
Bad Boy" Etc.)
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Madrid, Spain.-My dear Uncle: You
probably think that we are taking our
lives in our hands by coming to Spain,
SO soon after the Cuban war, in which
President Roosevelt charged up San
Juan hill, in the face of over 80 blood
thirsty Spaniards, and captured the
blockhouse on the summit of the hill,
which was about as big as a switch
mans shanty, and wouldn't hold two
platoons of infantry, of IL men to the
platoon, without crowding, and which
closed the war, after the navy had ever
lastingly paralyzed the Spanish vessels,
and sunk them in wet water, and picked
up the crews and run them through
clothes wringers to dry them out; but
we are as safe here as we would be on
South Clark street, in Chicago.
Do you know, when I read Of that
charge OF our troops up San Juan hill,
headed by our peerless bear hunter,
thought it was like the battle of Gettys-
burg. where hundreds of thousands of
men fought on each side, and classed
Roosevelt with Grant. Sheridan, Sher-
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
World Not Bad.

The world is by No means as bad
- the pessimists would like TO have
US think. There are plenty of things
that gold will not buy, and among
them are love and loyalty.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
pisreputable Club.

There is little club in London called
the Froth Blowers club. The organiza-
ton meets in public houses" and every
member is bound to swear and curse at
every meeting or be fined Is cents.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
Fear Will Vanish.

II the treasury will hand out the $40
bills to all corners, fear that their artist
qualities will not come up to expecta-
tions will vanish quickly. Such plan
vill popularize them instantly.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-14
No Haircuts.

what a grand thing it would be
II every man on earth was poet!"
remarked the young man with the
bard of Avon features.
IF that ever happens" replied the
stranger in the smoking car, Il will
starve."
Indeed? What business are you
in?"
"I'm Q barber."-Chicazo Daily
News.