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with his smoking of the strong cigars
he loved-and his staff detested-but that
is a small matter in his eyes. compared
with the fact that he is able to stride
out on his daily walks once again, and
even to mount on horseback, a thing his
stiff knee prevented him from doing for
many years.
King Leopold is proud of the life he
leads. When l spoke of this wonderful
energy which makes the efforts of young
men seem futile he explained that ne
owes his vigor to his simple life. Il am
very old he says liking Leopold is sew
enty three years of ageo. but | am
a regular life. get up early. / take
a great deal of exercise out of doors
and don't get drunk.
The king laughed as he said these last
words; but if anything. he understated
the truth. for King Leopold is now
water drnker in a land where. from in
fancy men uuench their thirst in beer.
Early rising is an old custom OF MS.
He is up every morning at O'Clock. BY
he is dressed. has drunk his morning
pint of cold water, and is ready to set
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Snapshot Of the King.

out for his morning walk. This walk
he takes alone. reading whatever the post
has brought him overnight. At he is
back in his study. has disposed OF the
papers he had in his hands. and is ready
to receive the chief post Of the day. The
kings post bag is always heavy. and the
assistance of his private secretary ana
his aid-de-camp is necessary to deal with
its contents. When the post is disposed
of the king has earned his breakfast.
Is a Hard Worker.
This is a light meal. such as is GUS
tomary on the continent. but the king
drinks tea at 1t. instead of the Gus
tomary coffee. While he is breakfasting
his orders relating to the dispatches he
has received are carried to the offices
of his secretaries. Each order is writ
ten by the king on a small square piece
of notepaper. Orderlies mounted on
horseback or on bicycles carry these or
ders to Brussels when the king is at
Laeken, and, when important matters are
on foot many as a dozen of these
leaves will be shoWered in on the kings
secretary in the course of half an hour.
After breakfast the king, accompanied
by his aid-de-camp, sets out for an
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other walk Recently. in all the delight
Of his perfect cure. he purchased four
new saddle horses. and while he remained
at Ciergnon, in the Ardennes, he took
his morning exercise on horseback alone.
At Ostend the king walks on the long
terrace which he has built from ms
chalet to the race course, above the
public walk on the digue.
At Laeken King Leopold's walks on the
public road are taken toward some spot
where work is being carried out by his
direction, or to some place he plans to
improve. At Ostend the king is the chill
drens friend. He Is the friend OF the
working class at Laeken All the work
men he meets he speaks to, and he de-
lights them all by what they call his
simple manner King Leopold detests
socialism. however. and has no sympathy
for trades unionism.
About II o'clock the king returns to
his study. drinks another pint of water
and resumes his correspondence. He
lunches at midday, and dimes early When-
ever he Is alone with his household; al
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worn SO extensively by persons who are
quite sane and normal in other respects.
When a bunch of leaders get together
for a few earnest words to cheer and
uplift the picture reminds you wildly
of a group Of root and herb doctors at
tending an ailing cow.
There's also been strange unac-
silence on the part of the patriot
who's able to devote good deal OF time
to politics, owing to his wife having all
the plain sewing she can do. He used
to come into every gathering and an
nounce that after careful study Of the
conditions he felt so confident that he'd
bet half a million dollars on the general
results just as quick as he'd bet five And
he would, too. probably, because he had
lust as good a chance Of getting half a
million as he ever had Of getting five.
Here four or five weeks ago it did
look as II there'd be a few feverish flut-
tiers. Mr.. William r. Hearst unfurled
some spicy letters when had an added
interest aside from their contents by be-
ing the only things Of value that ever
got away from the Standard OIL Company.
lima was induced thereby to tunnel his
way back to the surface and utter few
posthumous remarks over the top Of the
footstone; and then he went back to his
present location and found the premises
crowded by Senator Foraker and Gov.
Haskell, who'd moved in during his alb
sence That the President felt called
upon to write few brief remarks from
time to time. thus causing His Own Can
didate great JOY. And after that Nicho-
las Longworth gave vent to certain SEN
timents tending to show that man can
be bald-headed inside and outside at the
same time. But they went out and threw
a minnow net over Nick and since then
there's been nothing to excite, disturb
or harass.
"A man opens his paper Of a morning
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survey. to whom 1 am indebted for my
Information concerning Alaskan game
The goat keeps watch only over the
country below him. SO 1t is necessary to
approach him from above, which gener-
ally means climb to the ultimate
heights. But the scenery OF the noun
tains on the Alaskan coast Is among the
finest in the world. and one who has
good lungs and strong legs has little cause
TO regret that the goat leads him among
crags and peaks" said Mr.. OsgoOd
Under the new law a nonresident hunter
receives. with his regular license. coupons
emitting him to bring home the carcasses
or trophies, of two of the small northern
mountain sheep. three goats and three
brown bears. But the hunter must first
make affidavit that he did not buy and
will not sell these trophies of his glorious
hunt.
Bison Preserve at Last.
At last a permanent bison preserve is
provided by another new federal game
law of this year. and $4,000 has been
for it. While the govern
ment furnishes the big pen. public con-
tributions received through the American
Bison Society, of which Theodore Roose-
welt is honorary president. will purchase
the bison Had Congress voted the
money a little sooner the society could
have bought the Pablo-Allard herd of $40
bison, lately sold by its owners. Michael
Pablo and Charles Allard of Montana. to
the Canadian government, which has paid
S157, 600 for the animals and which Will
keep them in a great bison preserve OF
125 900 acres in the province of Alberta.
This was the largest collection OF bison
in existence and it was stroke OF very
bad luck that our government did not get
them. But an even greater herd can yet
be assembled by the American Bison
Society, whose founder and present secre-
tary is Ernest H. Baynes of Cornish Fiat
N. H.. and whose president and active
head is William H. Hornaday. the director
of the great New York Geological Park.
All that is necessary is money. and every
patriotic American is being appealed 10
to save from extinction this most pic
turesque mammal.
The new preserve will occupy the very
region where the Pablo-Allard herd in
creased in thirty years from 30 to more
than 100 head. This land Is on the Fiat
head Indian reservation. which the gov
eminent will open next year for settle
ment Since the phenomenal success OF
the Pablo-Allard herd proved beyond
doubt that this region is an ideal one for
bison 1880 acres are to be bought at
Mon. In that part of the reserva-
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tion where the Pend d'Oreille and Jocko
rivers meet. Thirty thousand dollars is
to be paid for the ground and ten thou-
sand for a strong fence and sheds. Mr..
Hornaday and his society. backed by
President Roosevelt. got this needed legis-
lation through Congress in the summer,
but the public has been so engroSsed over
politics meanwhile that it has not even
heard of the enterprise.
Buffalo Pen of Twenty Square Miles
This big buffalo pen will contain twenty
square miles. In 1t will eventually be
placed the few remaining remnants of the
American bison. Canada bought her herd
at the rate of $245 per animal. but the
bison society will probably have to pay
more on account of the necessity of deal
ing with many individuals with small
holdings. Our neglect of the bison is the
blacklist smudge upon the nations rec
ord. It's vast herds. that roamed the
plains and prairies between the Missis-
sippi and the Rockies. were inoffensive.
running from man rather than fighting
him. First the Indians drove whole herds
of them over precipices or otherwise slew
them by thousands, to get their flesh and
hides. Then the white man with his
rifle picked off whole herds, taking away
only their hides and tongues and leaving
their flesh to the wolves and coyotes. In
single winter. along in the SOS, 1890
in Montana. This was but one case of
vandalism. and at about this time almost
every farmer in the land could afford a
buffalo robe.
How Fast They Will Multiply.
Then the nation suddenly awoke to the
fact that this noblest of its game ami
mails, which had furnished food clothing
and shelter for thousands of Indians dur
ing thousands of years, had been reduced
to the merest remnant. while an inactive
government looked on. The $500 bison
slain on that one Montana ranch in one
winter would be worth million dollars
today. and If placed In our new preserve
would multiply to 100000 in the next
twenty years for the Pablo-Allard herd
multiplied about twenty-five fold in that
time. Therefore. If you give one buffalo
to the bison society today. you may see
twenty-five buffaloes in its place a score
of years hence.
Another game preserve of this summer
is an area to the south of the Grand Canon
preserve. This the President has added
to the nearly equal area already reserved
to the north OF the canon. This will pro-
tect many more deer, antelope, grouse
and probably wild turkeys. The game of
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c2szE7- THE F1OTFL CT EKK-

vou.' the first speaker would respond, as
he took a flying leap out of the second
chair and reached for one OF those large
tronstone china cuspidors And having
thus opened the subject they would take
,Ip the vital questions one by one and
debate them until the cops came. That
was the campaign when man who want
ed to take an active part In politics
needed to be there with a good arm and
an ear which adhered firmly to its natural
moorings.
You may have noticed how different it
is now, Larry. Some people say It's lack
of money for the campaigning. and some
say it's lack of campaigning for money.
although I'm sure from what l can hear
that both Mr. Rdder and Mr.. Sheldon
nave done all they could and tried to do
a lot more who wouldn't come across.
But be the reason what it will. there's
something wrong. Once upon time. this
late in the month. the transparencies
would be Transporting and the roorbacks
would be roorbacking and every man who
really had the interests of his country at
heart would deem it his sacred duty to go
out and take part in at least one torch
light procession and come home the next
morning only a short lap ahead Of the
milkman. smelling of kerosene except
where he smelled of beer. And there'd
be monster final rallies by both parties.
only the democrats usually held theirs
the night before the election, thus leav-
ing the republicans free to hold theirs
the night after, when the returns We're
all in.
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also has the distinction of being the
largest member of the whole worlds deer
family 1t is similar to the elk of the
old world, but exceeds it in size. It's
antlers reach magnificent proportions
almost riyaIing indeed, those of the ex-
tinct Irish elk Their average spread
from tip to tip is between five and six
feet while. in many pairs. 1t has been
more than six feet For the accompany
ing picture of this biggest of the big
game animals 1 am indebted to the bio
logical survey, for which it has just
been made.
New Preserve in Alaska.
On the Kenai peninsula. where the
giant moose abounds, the natives have
been indulging in it's unregulated slaugh-
ter for food, rather than for the attrac
tive trophies which it supplies. So the
Kenai peninsula this year becomes
big game preserve. where the hunt
ing of caribou is forbidden until
1912, and where no hunter can shoot
unless accompanied by a special guide.
A new license system is also provided
for the whole of Alaska. and this will
supply revenue for the payment OF war
dens to guard the game of the territory.
Ii is the first measure of the kind ever
passed by the federal government
Americans who come up from the states
to hunt in Alaska must hereafter pay
$40 for a One-year license before they
can draw trigger at any big game save
deer and goats.
Canadians or other foreigners who go
into Alaska to shoot must pay double this
amount or 500. And OF particular inter-
est is a special moose license" of $3.50
additional, required of any hunter taking
a moose out of any part of Alaska south
of the sixty-second meridian. the northern
limit of the giant moose, which alone this
special license is designed to protect. For
each giant moose there must be a separate
license. but not more than two can be
taken by one hunter. Thus for an Ameri-
can hunter from the states to take one or
two big moose costs 5000 or $3.50: an alien
hunter. $3.50 for one. $500 for two.
Protects the Biggest Carnivore.
The worlds largest carnivorous animal
is the giant brown fish-eating bear OF
Alaska, which. too, the new law protects.
Being related to the old world rather than
the new world bears, and having rela-
tives now living in Kamchatka, It is prob
able that it's ancestors came across Bering
straits on the ice. 1t is confined almost
exclusively to the coast region: ranges
from Bering sea to British Columbia, and
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fconrr,rh,. 1908, by John Elfre,h watkins.I
~TST as fall hunting season opens
here is some news for Nimrod VINO
would a-shooting go, as we'll as lot
the retired sportsman or amman
lover interested in the protection OF
o,,~ ui,d fauna from the pot hunter ana
the game hog:
Since last the trusty shooting-irons were
taken down for the autumnal hunt Sixty
naw game laws OF interest TO the Amer
;csn hunter have been added to the stat
ute hooks To keep out of durance VIE
and the clutches of the law $ mlHlohs
Nim-od must needs note these new
changes The federal Congress has peeh
at work. hammer and tongs, devisins new
means for protecting biz game, ana
tho President has been setting aside new
nreseryes within which no hunter may
hereafter pull trigger Every state leSis-
lature sitting this year has considered
new game laws. and two-thirds OF the
Canadian provinces have passed new ones.
New License Laws.
This years addition of New York. Mas
sachusetts and Louisiana to the list Oh
states requiring dollar licenses of resident
hunters brings that coterie UP TO one
l
also adopts resident license for the first
time. but Massa chusetts will not com
mence to enforce 1t until next January.
These license laws are being pressed on
all states by the National Association or
Audubon Societies. which is demonstrating
to the legislators how the hunter may
inns he made TO pay for efficient game
protection Last year 10000 hunters III
illinois paid 81 apiece for licenses, and
three-oIarters of this amount. or SlD,ooo
was diverted TO paying for the warden
system In California 100000 was raised
i'm the same way for game protection
Hunters going out OF their own states 10
shoot must take warning that Alaska, the
United States greatest game paradise,
has new nonresident license OF 300.
and that New York. Louisiana and BRUSH
Columbia have just increased their non
resident licenses. Non-residents cannot
now shoot without license in any state
except Georgia, Oklahoma, New Mexico
anil Nevada.
Condition of Game.
Last seasons observations Of the United
states biological survey. the nations
clearing house for game data: showed
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Safe.

TONER DAVENPORT, the cartoonist.
was talking at his Morris Plains
stock farm. about Arabian horses. OF
which he makes a speciality.
They must be treated kindly" he said
Never a blow of the whip. That would
drive them mad with rage and humilia-
ton.
Animals. like children. must be kindly
treated. A blow spoils ALL.
But. as regards children. you know"
the reporter objected. didn't Solomon
say. Spare the rod and spoil the child?"
"1Ah. yes said Mr.. Davenport. but he
didn't say 1t till after he had grown un~
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At Z AM. in His Study.

gets through more work in one day than
an average man could do In three, and he
does his work himself. He is not con-
tent to sit and direct while others LABOR.
From morning to night he works with
hardly a break, and secretaries and aids
de-camp have TO strain their wits and
stretch their legs to keep pace with him
and dispatch the orders he heaps on them.
A Mighty Pedestrian.
King Leopold was all his life mighty
pedestrian. Latterly a growing stiff
ness in his right leg made it difficult for
him to walk, and it was the fear of a
cripple's life which led him to place him.
self in the doctors hands. They have
cured the king completely. All disquiet-
ing symptoms have disappeared. His
health is robust. and the stiffness has
gone from his leg. He has flung off
years from his age, and is full of the
joy of life. The doctors have interfered
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w tie, sao: eles asked " ths Hoa 1ss
Detective of the St
Reckless. scornfully.
Great for all persons favorlns d duie'
and peaceful life. free from NOISE VI
element" said the Hotel Clerk 1 ooi'
think il could have been quieter sun
dueder ciyiIer-spoken campaign II IL haa
been personally conducted by EDWARD ~.
Rok. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler Lu'her
Burbank and Mrs. Rohrer.
.Jf had any near and dear relatives
tbot u,ere suffering from nervous prostra-
4ion this fall, I'd never think of shipping
tber, off to some expensive sanitarium
No sir. I'd save money and at the same
time insure the right sort of treatment
for those afflicted kinfolk by send EN-
to the national headquarters of one of
the great parties-it wouldn't matter
greatly which one-where naught us
turbed the brooding calm except the low
poignant groans of the national treasurer
every time he passed the office safe ana
the fretful exclamation of the natlonal
secretary, going over the morning man IN
the hope that some malefactor of great
wealth had written in disguised hand.
inclosing check.
TT didn't used to he this way, Larry
There have been mellow Octobers when
the mere mention of the simple word
'Tarin' had the same effect upon the
average citizen that Niagara Falls would
have on a hydrophoba patient Then
there was Ninety-siX, when by simply
coupling the figure Is with it's least COM
mon divisor In the presence of a bank
president you could make him froth at
the mouth like soda fountain. Men in
Colorado went home and beat their wives
because they had golden filings in their
teeth You remember Ninety-six. l take
II? That was the year when every true
American stood ready and willing to lay
aside whatever he had in hand. unless
1t happened to be a scantling. or set
of brass knucks or something that would
be equally handy. and engage in an in
telligent argument of the issues of the
day with any man that he thought he
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ways rapidly, and always with a good
appetite.
His Afternoon Program.
After luncheon King Leopold grants
audiences. visits exhibitions, attends pop
ular sports, or, If he has the good for
tune to be free. sets off again on one of
his interminable promenades. He cares
little for music or the theater, and In
the. evening when he has dined he turns
quietly to read the newspapers, home and
foreign.
King Leopold loves his army and en-
phaszes it's Importance. lie seems most
himself in the undress uniform of gen.
eral-made comfortable by long wear
which is his ordinary dress in Brussels
and at Laeken. 1t was his influence which
led the Belgian parliament recently to
vote a huge sum for the Strengthening
and extension of the fortificat1ons ana
defenses of Antwerp 1.-The loaded pistol
pointed at England, and 1t was he VINO
forced the government to perfect the
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and all the world can see that his is the
well regulated life of tranquil citizen.
The king disdains to live in private Al
this moment his is the central ngure
of the crowded pageant of Ostend Sub
iect and foreigner alike may cape from
Tho die,,e at the Chalet Royal and see the
King seated on it's veranda, surrounded
TX his household, calmly examining dis
matches and discharging the business or
the state.
So,b,nr can be more grotesauely false
than most of the stories told OF klns
Ieono,d. His life is neither simple nor
fiat. nevertheless. it is the life OF an ao-
stemious and Woodworking man. Every
Relgian works hard, but all admit the
king is the hardest worker IN Belgium.
Quick in thought and act King Leopold
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that deer were Increasing practica lily
everywhere, moose were showing an in
crease. elk were holding their own, a few
caribou were in upper Minnesota, and
that mountain sheep were increasing in
Wyoming and the Yellowstone. but that
antelope had probably decreased Quail
and Dobwhites were on the road to re-
covery. wild turkey We're increasing. as
were waterfowl, markedly, and Woodcock
showed gain, but prairie chickens
showed slight. and ruffed grouse d con
siderable decrease The biological survey
will not attempt to forecast the condi-
tons for this season. as too much depends
upon local conditions.
For example, Wyoming had a severe
March last year. which greatly decreased
its antelope, while the ruffed grouse re-
gionS had Il very warm March, followed
by an exceedingly cold and wet spring
unfavora BILE for the breeding of that now
scarce game herd. Two exceedingly cold
winters in succession also greatly de-
creased the quail a few seasons back.
Thn domestic quail of the east have in re-
cent years been reduced by an epidemic
similar to the grouse disease which Gre
ated great havoc in the grouse preserves
of England a century ago This is being
investigated by Tie United States bureau
of animal industry, which finds ii to be
due TO microbe that causes congestion
Of the lungs, necrosis of the liver and ul-
ccration of the intcStines. 1t has never
been known to attack wild quail. In the
Carolinas deer have lately been reduced
by an epidemic of black tongue, or
anthrax, well known malady affecting
stock
Protects Largest Game Mammal.
The largest surviving game mammal
also the largest carnivorous animal, and
many other valuable species Of big game
are protected in an important act of the
last session of Congress. This new law,
although practically unpoticed hitherto. is
of great interest to TIE sportsman and
naturalist, for it protects the game of the
hunters greatest paradse-Alaska. This
big knob the northwest corner of the
continent offers to the hunter what the
great unsettled west offered TO the pio-
neers. only more. Perhaps If there had been
enthusiastic hunters at the helm of state
in generations past vandals would not
have been allowed to well nigh exterm-
nate the big game of the states proper,
At any event. there IS now a hunter al
the helm and he has interested himself
in saving the big game of Alaska.
The new law protects the giant moose
of southern Alaska. This noble creature
is that largest land mammal referred
to in the preceding paragraph. II
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SpeciaI Correspondence OF The Star.

BRUSSELS, October Is. 1908.
ING LEOPOLD has got a new
lease of life from his doctors,
and he is determined to do all
that man can do to retain II.
He has set his house in order.