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The independent., 1907-04-04

LACHINE, Canada-"The wolves
Lake all winter" said Jules Golden,
an old trapper who has just come in
from the upper Gatineau country
They had bothered me badly on the
trapping lines up near the height OF
land in November when the snow was
only few inches deep on the level
Every round / made a big pack
would be ahead of me and everything
would be torn out of the traps. Where
had set for mink, so that when
pinched the creature would get into
the water and be drowned by the
weight OF the trap, the wolves would
pull on the chain, drag up the dead
thing and eat it clean out of the steel.
And l never saw the mink better and
larger than they are this year.
Il got a paw belonging to one little
wolf pup out of a fox trap. / brought
1t along, for that is about all / got in
two weeks, with more than three
hundred traps, besides mares and
deadfalls. 1t cost enough to be worth
as much as a jackrabbits foot, any
way
Yes, / guess the wolves took d good
hundred dollars worth of fur out of
my traps. Watch for them? Why,
man, | sat up in trees all night, I dug
holes in the snow and buried myself
for hours and hours, / most poisoned
myself with animal musk to kill the
human scent, and the nearest ] ever
got to one of those brutes was when
they would set up bowling two or three
hundred yards away from where I was
hiding for them.
'Oh, yes, come to think of 1t, one
day l saw nine of them, great big
brutes, seven feet long, chase a deer
the whole length of White Deer lake.
The poor thing was Looping along easily,
half stopping every half mile or SO to
look back and see il they were still
on her tracks.
Il ran down a ridge to the outlet,
where 1t had only frozen over the
night before, to see how she would
take off, whether by the old log road,
which ran round to near where | was
or into the scrub. She did a mighty
neat trick there.
Right on the edge of the glace ice
she turned sharp off, headed across the
lake and jumped into the bush, into
an old greatly used deer pad The
wolves came numbering along with
their heads well down, and first thing
The independent., 1907-04-04
Dogged By Cunning Wolves
A Pestered Trapper Back From the Far North

they knew were trying to stop and
wheel around on the new slippery ice.
Two OF them went sliding on clean
into the outlet and had quite q time
of it crawling out Of the current again.
All of them got ugly fall and lost time
getting their footing
Il was too far away to hurt them,
but l fired two or three shots to
frighten them and give the doe
chance. But they skunk off after her,
and | shouldn't wonder il they got her
some time that day or the next.
Ihey are perservering. are wolves,
when they get on fresh track. L
have known them to chase a COW
moose for five days giving her no rest
day or night till she was dog tired
and got pulled down at last.
1T was mighty poor business for me.
though, and the second week in De-
cember l up stakes and made south.
1t is pretty much Of contract to
take up three or four hundred traps
and snares when they are scattered
over fifteen or twenty miles Of country
and then portage them with chains and
springs all frozen thick with ice and
snow.
About New Years / got them all
down again, around the Bark lake
country, and had first rate luck. NY
camp was in an old lumber shanty.
and when the wolves howled every
night | was not sorry to have the
heavy logs between me and the
weather.
mo, they didn't bother the traps
very much about those parts. There
were so many rabbits they had no
need. All the old hunters say they
never saw SO many as there are this
year, and the way the wolves picked
them up was something cruel.
Il got one little wolf, the smallest
one / ever saw, in snare. The wiro
had been fastened to birch sapling.
bent down so that when the rabbit
kicked the tree would spring and hang
him UP out of the wav
when got there one morning no.
ticed the snow all around was padded
into Ice by wolves. They had been
trying to catch hold of the little
brother that had been caught by
jumping, and you could see where tho
cute things had been gnawing and
tearing the bark as they tried to bend
the sapling down again.
"The dead wolf seemed to have his
teeth well grown and must have been
dwarf But his scalp was worth SIS,
The independent., 1907-04-04
GROWING At THE PRESS.

There is no denying that the Ne
braska country press, about 50 per
cent of it, is in utter disgrace III GER
tain quarters That fact crops out
in every debate between the old and
the new in Nebraska politics. The
odium is deserved, too. The facts
are about these: According TO inn
memorial custom the county news
paper has been an organ of one party
or the other. If the editor was good,
and supported the ticket from top to
bottom with sufficient frenzy he was
rewarded in case his party won, with
the county printing, with fair
scattering of legal notices, and per-
chance. if he did the right thing
in national affairs, the local postoffice
was bestowed upon him. The danger
in this situation lay in the fact that
the editor became subservient not to
the party, but TO the men who con-
trolled the party, very different
thing. If he showed tendency to
oppose the interests of the party
organization even though he acted in
the real interest of the party, he was
punishable by the withdrawal of his
public patronage.
The country press of Pennsylvania
is a notable example of the way news
papers are held in line for domi-
nant machine by postoffice appoint
ments. The way the Iowa news
papers, or a large proportion of them,
went down with the old machine when
Cumnins won, illustrated the case
nearer home The Nebraska editors
We're of a different breed. When the
issue arose between the parties and
the machines, the editors with one
accord, the exceptions being SO few
as to emphasize the unanimity Of
the rest, elected to stand by the
parties. The machine has never Deen
able to get over it, and wherever a
machine man Is heard there is heard
a groWl at the newspapers. They
say the newspapers favor the direct
primary because that will mean gov
ernment by newspapers. The private
interest of the newspapers in the
direct primary lies altogether in the
facilities it gives them to serve their
subscribers without interference from
or punishment by political machines.
The independent., 1907-04-04
SANITY.

Professor GraSset of the French uni
vesity Of Montpelier has published a
book on the sane. the insane and the
half sane, whose dull pages at this
time glow with reflected light from the
ThaW trial. The professor adheres to the
oft expressed belief in the madness OF
most forms of genius. Intellectual
superiority is not a disease but the
touch that turns it into genius is
likely to have a pathological aspect.
There are all degrees of mental dis
order, he urges, and it is no small
dealing With its eccentrics and
criminals to determine to what extent
they should be held responsible as ra
tional beings and to what extent
treated as victims of disease. in case
of actions that require public atten-
ton. Since there is no way Of tell
ing except investigation on which side
of the line person stands, 1t would
seem that as preliminary to every
criminal trial the accused should be
put through an examination to deter
mine whether he should be tried or
comitted to a hospital. 1t is certainly
not economical to wait until after the
trial as in the Thaw case. 1t might
be even better not to wait for the
commission of an unlawful act, but to
require every man to pass periodical
examination before an official insanity
board as every well regulated man has
his teeth tested once a year OF
course it would be essential in this
case to have the insanity board it
self examined frequently
The independent., 1907-04-04

an American interested in or informed
npon the affairs of such of our terri
tories as Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. This Is unfortunate for
the territories. For example, Ameri-
can Indifference has made possible the
exploiting of the Philippines in behalf
of the American sugar and tobacco in
terests. And yet their affairs are
eminently interesting. Americans who
enjoyed as students studying the
growth of the colonies our forefathers
founded. their various stages in gov
ernment and their feeble first steps as
a nation can find an absorbing study
in changes now under way in the
Philippies. The Filipinos never had
vote or dreamed of one on even the
smallest local matter before the
United states entered the land They
have now had four or five years prac-
tice in voting for members of their
town councils This new electorate
ranges from the educated Filipino
capable of putting the brightest Ameri-
can on his mettle, through all degrees
of civilization down to the thinly dis
guised savage. What will follow when
this deeply stratified population begins
to express nationality at the ballot
box? 1t is worth any Americans time
to watch and see.
The independent., 1907-04-04
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

The biennial bill for a constitutional
amendment has met with consIuerab BILE
favor this winter SO much SO as to
result in holding back good meas
ures for amending the present con-
stitution. The supporters of the con-
vention idea seem to overlook the fact
that the principal argument in favor
of a general revision has been nulli-
fled completely by the supreme court
decision on straight party voting,
which permits the constitution to be
changed now whenever needed. The
success of the railroad commission
amendment last fall paves the way
for other amendments without waste
of time orr great expense. If an
amendment is offered at the election
of 1908 increasing the number and
pay of the supreme judges it will be
adopted without a doubt, for the me-
cessity for this change is admitted
on all sides.
II only one amendment Is submitted
by each legislature, the constitution
can be easily kept abreast Of the needs
of the state. The old document has
some defects due largely to its adop-
ton during a time of enforced econ
omy, but on the whole it remains
about as satisfactory as anything the
present generation would be likely
to produce In it's provisions for the
control of corporations, now the most
vital issue before the public, the con-
stitution of 1875 seems to have been
prophetic. All the power the legis-
Iature needs to keep the railroads IN
the place of the servant, and not mas
ter of the state is found there, granted
in unequiyocal terms. Until con-
ditions change radically the old con-
stitution, with perhaps a biennial
amendment, win serve every purpose.
The independent., 1907-04-04
PRESIDENTIAL POPULARITY.

If the history of the United States
has proved anything 1t has proved the
partiality of party managers, con-
gressmen, and special interests for
presidents who have the homely pri-
yate virtues so popular with the
American people, are good tempered,
good intentioned, and lack irf great
personal force Their ability to serve
their preference can be judged from
the lists of presidents. The min in
stinctively leaps from jackson to Lin
coin. and from Lincoln to Roosevelt,
three in seventy five years. The rea-
son is not far to seek The ties of
party and the pressure of personal in
terest that bind president of the
United States are Sc tight and so in
tricate that only man Of tremendous
force and personality can free himself
That means ordinarily president
under the thumb of congress and the
managers of his party, and q govern
ment run in their interest. The con-
duet of President Roosevelt which has
endeared him to the American people
has been distastefui to most of those
who have been in the habit of 4tGet,-
ing strings on the presidents. SO
Mr.. Roosevelt is not really popular
with congress nor with the managers
of his party, except that they ap-
preciate his value as a vote getter,
The politicians OF both political
parties prefer the colorless candidate.
II they have their way next year the
democratic candidate will be misty
gray. the republican candidate a de-
licate drlb
The independent., 1907-04-04

'lt Is early for the gipsies said a
constable. We don't usually find them
hereabouts till the spring Is we'll ad
vanced. | saw "a gypsy band the other
day. though. and what ~ more. I saw a
gypsy funeral.
"rhe odd thing about this funeral was
the burning that accompanied 1.-THE
burning Of the dead mans effects. They
burned everything. his wagon, his harness
his clothes. his bedding. his cooking
utensils and his fiddle 40 doubt they'd
have burned his horse. but they sold that
to pay the funeral expenses.
II understand that gypsy funeral burn
ngs are ot great antiquity. The idea
underlying them II that there shall be no
ailarrellng among relations and friends
over the effects OF the dead
III 40 resorted 20 bufninga - this kind
tests. ehs"
The independent., 1907-04-04
sELF-GOvERNMENT.

President Roosevelt has issued the
order for an election in the Philip
pines In July each 100000 OF the
population of the islands will elect an
assemblyman and the eighty~five or
thereabout so elected then form the
lower house of a Philippine Legislature
The Philippine commission viii be the
upper house. 1t is rare thing to find
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29
Three KILLED
During vermon''s Brief
Hunting Season.
Another Man Loses Leg as Re-
suit Of Shooting Accident.
Sporismen More Successful Than
In Preceding Seasons.

Burlington, VT, oct. ZS-During Yer
Eront's short deer hunting season Of
six days, which has just closed, three
pcrSUnS lost their lives and another lost
Il leg as the result of accidental shoot
ingS. The SpurtSnrrn WCr" more success
fuI than during any season, about 125
deer having already been reported kill
ed while later returns are expected to
brin;; the total t. u higher mark
The number reported al present is
record for Nermont's six-day season
The animals have been mostly Of good
size ami but few illegal killings were
reported.
The hunters during the past season
wer, largely native SportSmen. the con-
dition oI the financial situation keeping
away Elany Sportslnen from other
states.
Tv'" of til" accidental "huotings. one
of which resulted in death. were self
committed, Arm Porter of Turnbrdge
DYING FROM his wounds and Alexander
Spirrr of StraHOrd VIII lose u leg. Tie
mistaking # Rnlin r. Forbes Of North
field for Il bear ~ t:cth McCaEen was
Responsible. for tho formers death and
the arrest If thn lItt"r charged with
his, coupani"n':l death. The third fatal
ity. that nf .ir@oph Y. EmmonS of Nor
web. ct. "ftni" as il result "f blood
poisoning caused by Il gunShut wound
accident inflicted by his son.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29
EXPERTS WILL MEET.
Arranging Three Cushion Billiard
Tourney at St. Louis.

st. Louis. Mo, Oct. 2S-Promotnrs
h"r" are "ndravorinE to secure the en-
tries Of Emilio Marva nf Paris and
huE"n" Sanchez, :Spain's billiard
Champion. for an international three
cushion tournament to be held in the
city next month IF none Of the for
'lSn"rS can be induced to compete the
tournament will he a rational affair.
Lloyd Icvnc. who is considered the
coV"rcSt cushion PLAYER in this co,,n-
Try; Alfredo De Orc, former rooI
champion; John Horgan and Thomas
H""&t"n. the latter being the present
po"' champion and the former having
heid IN" It'll" twice. are among tin.
thff"-c "-cu%hion players now appearjpc
~ acdd'nN games in ST Louis In adj
ditl"n 7" their entries the promot ers
expect I" get Jerome keogh, the fo-
mer pool champion. who il, now PLAYING
hrr"-cuShlrn games at Buffalo: Joe
'hpr"n and Rilly Cation. Marva has
consented I" cross the Atlantic if the
winners end is enough f" make il
worth his while.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29

more :han exceptional merit are de-
barred from their profession by reason
OF their increasing aVoidupois. and the
s"l"hS Of tn" Jockey Club sit hv idly
ana take No means to furnish relief
The tendency Of late wears: is to seek
out h"ys of light frame and weighing
not more than % pounds. under the
theory that 4 horse will run better with
deal weight IN him than he would
Nuh live rider If animation making
the full weight without the assistance
of lead pads
this theory was only adopted within
the past 10 years. Previous to that if
Was always considered a most foolish
move to ever allow horse to carry
more than 10 pounds of dead weight
f'N'G such Il conservative trainer as
john Rogers has fallen into the habit.
ana at the recent Belmont Park meet
ing rod" little Eddie DuCan on the
Whitney mare. Brookdale Nvmph. car
rElng I|3 pounds. As Dugan can ride ar
ahcut - pounds. this meant that tho
mare had to tot" about 81 hounds nf
leac. or dead weight. and it was no sur
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29
WORLDS GREATEST SWIMMER.
Champion Daniels Has Many Swim
ming Records to His Credit.

Charles NJ. Daniels. the speedy swim
mcr cf the New York Athletic Club.
has addoG another pae to the list ol
swimming records this year. The mcr-
curry fo"t athlete has proved by his per
fOrmanCcS in the water that he is un-
doubteIly the greatest swimmer in the
world
Hardly Il recognized distance escaped
the onslaught and some of the former
marks have taken o high tumble Two
seconds off the furlong. 10 off the quar-
tcr-miln. ST off the hilf-mile and one
minute and 81 seconds off the mile are
some Of the chanes that will have to
bn Elade.
The name # c. N. Daniels. appended
to almost every new mark. may give
the impression that he is our only good
swimmer. but it must not>bc lost sight
ofthat his work surpassed. in every
irlStanca. that of the worlds specialists.
and that but for his terrific speed such
men as Goodwin. Lawrence. Schwarz
and Handy would probably have APP
prared lmCng the record breakers.
Daniels three great performances
abroad 100 yards in s. % seconds. 120
yards in Iii As and 1"n yards in 1.@3
viii not find place anon the Ameri-
can records because not made in this
country. bu: they are added here.
IT is hard 20 tell which of Daniel's
performances should b" hailed as most
wonderful. His century in - % sec
ondS and his mile in 23.40 both rank IS
tie seasons hest. but. taking his vari-
GUS records int" consideration. one j.
bound to admit that he is the greatest
all-round swimmer the world has ever
produced.
Following is the list Of tho new rec
nrdS made ny Daniels that will he sub
mitted to tho A A. g.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29

years. yet at the finish of tho Journey
on siaiv;der" he was inst abb. f, cli,c
on y stronger rider would have won
easily on Salyidcre
Ah"th"r brilliant rider who's, days in
~" saddle are numbered il Walter
Nil"r' within the past two years Mil
~ hdS taken on considerable weight
'h'i' now ~" finds il Impossible to ride
i'Eh'cr man 1"2 pounds. a year or 50
aS" n" could do 90 pounds Jack Mar
'i'. WI" - "H good a horseman in the
"Ad"'e as on" can find throughout the
country. because of his weight-about
u" poundS--onw only gets a mount nor
maps ono" "r twice a week. scarcely
enough to keep him in good practice
pave Nic"l is another OF our good rider;
whose riding career. is very limited ana
the same may i'c said Of Radtke and
Knapp.
Race players have cIamored for year;
Tor = hi2her seal. Of weights, AS thry
rcahHe mat Jockeys who have some
HtrfhGih n can certainly get better results
from 'irinE hcrscS than the weaklinra
"t riders "" have now. but the Jockey
iuh Is deit t" their entrcatic&. and the
puoi' VIII have to put up with the
conditions until such time as the turf
h"C'1iS get 4 change of heart or until
some young and freshcr and more prac-
tlcal men take charge of affairs The
scale i"r riders should be pitched about
ten pounds higher than at present. and
then The Jockeys would not be Of the
variety to spring up in sea
son and fade Just as fast
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29
IN POURING RAIN.
Msn Come Out to Try For Gross
Country Squad to Meet Tufts.

PrunsWick Me. oct. 22.-(SpeciaD. The
trials for places on the Bowdoin squad
to run in the crosS-Couniry race with
Tufts next Saturday We're run here in
a pouring rain ard with the mud so deep
;Indl slippery in places that tho lnen had
Il hard time to get along. About 2 doz n
rnen started. The course was from the
Theta Delta Chi house. by the Bet" Theta
ri house. down the wood road. across
the railroad track. and up to the stand
pipe. then through the golf links. down
tn" railroad track, and by the wood road
hack to the Beta Theta ri house.
Goliath 10 came in first with Slncun
10 II close second Robert MorsS 10 third
Simmons % fourth and Nathan Weston
'9N ana Arthur Robinson '0S tied for fifth.
Robinson II, who had good prospects of
making the squad. was dehlrred. The
squad which will run with Tufts will bu
composed of the first four mon in and
one Of the two tied for fifth place.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29
THIS WEEKS BOUTS.

Tu"s''"N-tnk Russell vs.. Larry Connnr-
" at Wirni%immct A. G., Chelsea: Abe
Att"ll V. Fi"fdi" Weeks at Los Angeles
MAtty Baldwin V. Kid Sullivan Ht RaIti-
NOR. Jerry GnincS ". Tom Sawyer at
I"rtlan1. Me: Young John l. Sullivan vs.
Jim DriScoll at Peoria
Wednesday Young Klnlv vs. Willie
cornell at Gloucester; Indian Joe Gregg,
vi -nun% John j.. Sullivan at lntIianap-
"ilS El!l fnrko vs.. Cy Flynn at Brazil.
Ind; Fddi" Kelly vs. Kid Roehe at Roch-
ester y. Y: Young Pavne vs. Hughey
MctHnn nt Wayne A. c.. Philadelphia ::
bouts ut the Broadway y. C.. PhiladcI-
phiH.
tid;:N-lIoncy Melody w Frank Man
ten at paNton. o; Mix" Twin sullivan
vs. Frank Fi"lds at Goldtirld. Ncv.: Harry
LOWS vs.. Mike Donovrn at Industrial
t;nNing Club Philadelphia: Black Fitz-
Sm'nnns vs.. Jerry Gaines at Wat"rviIle.
~ Iohnnv Summers vs.. Bert I[evns al
New Haven: it'ldi" Tancr ~ Kid Brock
y Springfield m; .gohnnv Cnnlon Is.
N"nnC Fitzgerald at Miwnukec Youne-
i"nhhu" vs.. Harry SCrog&ss 1T Lawrence
Sh'nrdav-Jnck Johnson vs. lin Flrnn
II o""Hn View. cal: bouts AZ the Nation
Il! A. G., Philadelphia
Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-10-29
Present Scale of Weights Has
Put Many Jockeys Out of Game.

PR" t" "b""rNah' h"rseInon tn SEQ 1,or
beaten.
During tho past decade, America bas
l-st som" Of her most brilliant io,ly.,..
thr"u@l tho tact that the wci,-ht sal.
here would not allow them ia have
NOR" than IN occasional mount ana
NJ ''i.ie1it h'" has horn that the rid
orS were forced tr seek th,ir ,cc,,,.
u"iiS ana FORTUNES III foreign clines.
Among the number arc Danny Maher.
tht GeateSt rider England has known
sir"" Fred Archer's day; Fred Tara,
tte!ry Spencer. the irenan.'. Nat
Turner. Harry Lewis. Tony Hamilton
now dead; Tommy Ruur.. Winnie.
o't"nnor. aud . host Of other brilliant
knights of the pig.kin.
II WIS not that th"s, boys had out
EcNah their usefulness hy anv means
FOR they went right over to England
ana europe. and Ill mad. successes
nc fauit J" mainly with the trainers
themselves. They have lost confidence
III riders that are increasing in weight
ana nave souch the remedy in lighter
'"SS. The result is that. Will. some
S"td riders have been tieyeloned under
TINS regime. there arr. comoaratiy.Iv
fe" lads of light weight that are able
I" properly hold a horse together over
lnu; 1ey of ground
\" more Signifcant evidence of this
i'ct need he mentioned than the hani-
ing OF Salvidere by Eddie Dugan in th,e
Brighton Cup recently at two miles
III" quarter Dugan is. perhaps.
he greatest ittl7 rider that we have
seen in this country in the past rwcntv