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are far more complicated than the ordi-
nary plans and articles of the hunter
who hunts to kill.
1t was George Shiras. the picture
man. who thought out the plan of MAX
ing the creatures of the wild take pic
lures of themselves. Impossible? Not
at all. 1t does sound strange to talk Of
an antelope or peccary fooling around
a camera and taking it's own picture;
but when arranged as Shiras, 1.-The pic
ture man." arranged it the scheme is
wonderful only in its simplicity.
Flashlights in Forest.
One night while camping near a buffalo
lick. one of those hollows built cup-shape
by nature. in which salt is to be found
Shiras was struck by the charm and
beauty of the scene. Animals he knew
must pass that lick during the evening
animals Of all kinds-for lick is the SAL
walton of the brute world. as the cut
glass salt celler is still unknown to the
creature or the wild.
TO stand near the lick, sufficiently near
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criminal, whose misdeeds have been the
scandal of Europe.
Fortunately the situation was not com.
plicated by the injection of any European
nation into the problem. There was no
chance to play one power against another.
and through the jealousy of them all TO
escape his duty.
This was d purely national affair, with.
out a shade of outside interest.
Abdul had to decide for himself
First he drew into his confidence all
those yiZiers who have been his fellow
conspirato in Matching the many crimes
against the people that have marked his
entire reign.
These advised a refusal or. at least,
delay. The sultan did try to temporize.
hoping that something in the situation
might develop to his advantage Mean
time the sultan's men tried the temper of
the army TO see what its attitude would
be i'm the final show down. All the re-
ports showed one thing impressively-the
military was fiat against the sultan and
absolute for the people.
Demanded Their Heads.
Seeing the situation. Niazier demanded
the heads of two of the sultans most
cruel advisers and when these were not
coming the garrison at Salonica boldly
proclaimed a constitution. and for the
first time In the history of the kingdom
the name of the sultan was absolutely ig-
nored in the religious services in every
mosque in Macedonia.
This proved to Abdul that not only the
army but the church had Joined in the
rebellion
Just when his incinations to weaken
were beginning to affect his will the i'm
placable but cool Niazer followed up the
advantage with another warning to the
effect that unless the sultan Immediately
signed the constitution the army would
move on his capital and that no mention
of his name would be permitted I'm any
church in Stamboul
Then the terrified sultan capitulated.
and announced the establishing OF a pro-
gram of liberal government, in which
parliament elected by the people should
have the burden of the government.
But the younger party recognizes that
the work has only begun. Despite its re-
sources the country is impoverished. The
extravaganza of the sultan and his court
has necessitated the imposition OF heavy
taxes so that the mass of the people can
hardly obtain bare food and shelter.
A new system of finance must be inau-
gurated first, with the sultan's autocratic
control taken from him forever Then
must follow host of other reforms. with
the idea of giving Turkey place in the
powers of the world. and of giving the
people chance at happiness
II is big task, but the skill with which
the amazing revolution was accomplished
without bloodshed is a good augury that
those who have the work in hand VIII
know how to do 1t.
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speak his belief without fear. and so.
when it happened that George Shiras was
elected to the House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania, the head of the ma
ton looked him up and the two became
from that time the closest of friends.
President Roosevelt is disposed to
laugh, 1t is said, at the taste OF man
who will carry a little box with him on
an elaborate hunting expedition, but he
knows George Shiras III is a man who is
intrepid, cool and well able to meet any
danger that may arise to confront him
when the party of which he is to COM
prise one is lost to the safety of civiliza-
ton and envelOped in the wildness of the
African woods.
Therefore he asked Mr.. Shiras to make
one of the party which is to explore the
recesses of the African forests.
While Mr.. Shiras was in Washington
during his term in Congress from 1903-0J
President Roosevelt epitomized his opn-
ion of him in one short sentence that
serves better than anything that was ever
said to describe the man. 1t is this:
He'd make a good hunter with a gun,
If he used a gun. or with q camera, if he
used a camera. or with q club il he used
a club; because he's got grit
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operation the fence-like Rooseveltiall
teeth.
Mr. Shiras acknowledged himself
charmed and the conversation fell to
general topics. During a lull the Presi-
dent-to-be turned to the bloodless hunter
and remarked:
$50 l understand you hunt exclusively
with a camera. Is it because you are OF
the opinion that rife hunting is cruel?"
Il find the hunt with the camera more
exciting. as 1t enhances the chances OF
the pursued and increases the difficulties
of the pursuer," replied Mr.. Shiras
quietly.
Really" commented the President OF
future date. skeptically.
There was another lull in the converse
ton.
You have probably read my books c.
hunting" remarked Mr.. Roosevelt; do
you consider them brutal in their views
on the pleasure of killing
Not brutal replied Mr.. Shiras. "but
lacking in the knowledge of hunting in
more fashions than one. l have hunted
with the gun and with the camera, and
prefer the camera
Mr.. Roosevelt loves a man who will
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loyalty to the sultan was the ingrained
superstition which makes the men in the
ranks regard the sultan as the direct
representative on earth of Mahomet. and
that to disobey him is to earn the dam
nation which comes to those who defy
the will of the prophet of the faith This
was met by the patriots with recital of
the many wrongs committed by Abdul,
crimes that found no excuse in the teach
ings of the Koran. Then the soldiers
agreed to exert pressure on the sultan II
need be, but not to take him from MS
throne, until he had ample opportunity
to give the people the constitution they
demanded.
When the struggle had been silently
advanced to this point Maj. Niazier. In
command of the revolutionists. was In
position to enforce his demands.
This action came sooner than was eX-
pected because of conditions which forced
it. The garrison at Monastir. stirred by
the arguments of the revolutionists, mu-
tinted. A general in high favor with the
sultan perpetrated some wrongs that TWO
years ago would have been suffered with
out even a word of complaint. But ac-
tuated by the new ideas. the soldiers
promptly killed the general as hint TO
the sultan of what their future conduct
would be when wrongly dealt with
They also confiscated their arms and
ammunition and all the cash at headquar-
tiers and made for the mountains.
When Abdul heard of the incident he
d
the regiments of Salonica and Smyrna 10
go after the mutineers and wipe out every
member, taking no prisoners and sparing
none.
The New Order.
Once this order would have been unhesi-
tatingly obeyed, even though in the exc
cution of it men had stricken down their
own brothers.
But the new bond of devotion to the
ideal of younger and better Turkey had
aroused a brotherhood never before
known among these men. They declined
to move. The enraged sultan sent pick
ed officials from his palace force to go to
the scene of the trouble and find out by
what authority they had dared ignore
the imperial command
For answer the rebels promptly shot
down these officers.
All this had not been part of the plan
of the revolutionists, but Maj. Mailer.
to hold off might lead to the punishment
of the soldiers and thereby cost the conf
dence of the others, and thus lose all that
had been gained.
Therefore he got i'm motion. To the sui
tan he sent this bold message:
Proclaim a constitution at once, or l
will march on ConStantinOple with three
hundred thousand men,.
that would avail with the crafty old
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bloody and willy Abdul Hand.
proclaimed constitution and
brought Turkey into the COM
pany of liberal monarchies
In the whole range of the worlds gov
ernments none seemed further removed
from the possibility of Difference to the
will of the people.
Empowered by the doctrines Of the
Mohammedan religion. with supreme pow
err over the people, further secured by
their ignorance and able by skillful mas
terry of diplomacy to play one European
nation against another so that no mat
ter what the excess of his brutality there
never was a chance of Intervention, the
sultan had during his entire reign laughed
at the progress of modern thought, and
held viciously to every atom Of power.
Yet in one day this wonderful edifce of
reckless might. built on superstition and
centuries of custom, crumbled and fell.
1t was unable to stand the first open
show of force on the part of the young
Turkish party, that company of the pa
triotism and progress of the country.
The campaign that ended in this blood
less revolution. whose success was SO
complete that it has astounded the world.
had laid the preliminary steps for their
campaign with most painstaking craft.
First they set out to get an organiZa-
ton with trusty men in every part of
the kingdom.
This accomplished. they set out to win
over the army, for 1t was recognized
from the first that this alone enabled
Abdul Hamid to pursue his rapacious way
unchecked.
To the navy they paid no attention
whatever for this branch of the military
service of the sultan means nothing.
There are some hundred admirals includ-
ed on the imperial pay roll. but many of
these had never been af1oat. and the pro-
pellers of the three battIeships that make
up the fleet are kept locked up at Yildiz.
The navy meant nothing. Only the army
needed to be won over to leave the sui
tan powerless.
The task was done with the most COM
plete system. Able men were picked out
in every regiment. These presentd the
call of young Turkey. They detailed the
many wrongs perpetrated by the autocrat
and 1t was not hard to make an impress
sion, for Abdul has never been gener-
Gus or kindly master, even to his soldiers,
and many of these had suffered directly or
through their families from his many I'M
just eXactiOns.
Mohammedan Superstition.
The most difficult argument with which
the young orators were confronted in the
efforts to draw the soldiers from their
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and sweet potato pies are favorites.'
Are there any new styles in pies which
have become POPULAR"
mo. The public remains faithful to
the old styles. Several years ago the
orange pie had vogue. but 1t did not
last, and there was chocolate pie which
had brief popularity; but these fancies
were transient. The public has also been
educated to restrain its demand for GER
tain kinds of pies to the season in which
the ingredients for those pies are to be
had fresh. There is little call now for
berry pies out of season or for any of
the fruit pies out of season except the
apple. For portion of the year canned
apples are used for pies and are better
than the fresh apples to be had at that
time
Pie Bakers Agree on Figures.
The foregoing remarks applied to the
entire city, and they were corroborated
by several pie dealers familiar with the
trade in different sections. One baker
said that next to apple pie. lemon
meringue was the best seller. while in
wintertime the mince and peach were
leaders, and the cherry and pumpkin
were leaders in their respective seasons.
This baker sells two-thirds of his pies to
lunchrooms. He believes that not more
than One-third of the pies that are used
at home are baked at home. but that
more pies are bought for family use in
the summertime than i'm the winter.
There are only two bakeries i'm the city
which are used exclusively to make pies.
and one of them is said to be the third
largest pie bakery in the United States.
It's output of pies is much larger than
any of its competitors in the pie business.
All of it's work is done by machinery.
Pies are made. however, by several bak-
ers who bake bread and cakes also. a
pie may be made in Georgetown and de-
livered in the most eastern part of the
city the same morning. Likewise it may
be made in East Washington and deliv-
cred in Georgetown. There is no ground
for the belief that persons who live near
to a nie bakery can get freSher pies than
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custard pies sWeet-pOtato pies, berry
pies, cherry pies. huckleberry pies goose
berry pies and ether pies appropriate to
the dessert portion of a meal. When an
American poet compOseS an ode to pie
or an American orator compares it's
giorles with those of other equally we'll
established institutions of the country,
such as the Constitution and Fourth OF
July. he does not have in mind the ''pye''
of old English literature, which was a
more substantial but less seductive article
OF diet, meat pie, which Chaucer re-
1erred to when apOstrOphizing in the Can
terbury Tales:
For many pasty thou hast let blood.
The popular pies according to a cook
book published i'm 1882 were Battalia pye
containing chicken, squads and rabbits !:
olio pie, in which veal and oysters were
important ingredients, and Lombard pie,
containing veal. beef suet and herbs as
we'll as currants. spices, eggs. citron. can
seeming incongruities. which may have
been responsible for that classic saying,
God sends us meats, the devil sends us
cooks"
The American Pie.
1t is not pies of this strange and fear
full fashion that Washington devours to
the number of $1,000 day. but pies of
good and simple construction and of
standard varieties that appeal to a taste
for sweets Efforts to introduce new
tangled species of pies are not en-
couraged either by the young husband
whose criterion in pies is the kind his
mother used to make. or the hungry
horde of auick-lunch fiends whose mid
day meal is a ham sandwich, a cup of
coffee and piece Of pie. The vocabulary
of pie Is as difficult to amend as the Con-
stitution, and there is not a street urchin
who is not as familiar with it as the
pastry chef Of big hotel.
When 1t Is said that 5000 pies are
eaten daily in Washington. the asser-
ton refers to an average day in the pie
season, which begins about the middle of
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september, continues until January, 1ags
little in January and February, and
picks up again in March, continuing good
until the first of July. That there is a
PIE season may appear strange to those
who eat pie 800 days in ordinary years
and will have 1865 days for pe-eating this
year. Nevertheless those who are in the
pie business know that the summer is a
dull season for pies, notwithstanding the
fact that ome families who have their
pies baked at home in the winter time
get their pies from bakeries in the sum-
mer. This summer has been regarded
as particularly dull season for pies. one
res.. on advanced being the exceedingly
large number Of people away from home
on account of the prolonged hot weather,
and another the plentiful supply of fruit.
Berry pies have, however, had a good
run this summer.
The Daily Consumption.
OF the $4,000 pies used daily between
1900 and IA, 600 are small fve-cent pies or
button pies. between 1900 and 1900 me-
dunn sized pies and between 5000 and 1900
large pies. The monthly estimate is
400 OO6 small or button pies. 100000 me-
dunn sized pies and $4,000 large pies; all
of which cost the consumers at least
$4,000 month.
The small pies which the bakers find
very popular with the trade are about
six and five-eighths inches in diameter.
ne meoluln-S1Ze0 pies are eleht inches IN
diameter and the large pies nine and five
eighths inches in diameter In thickness
pies range from One-half inch to a little
more than an inch. 1t is therefore easy
to compute that a pie big enough to
contain all the materials used in the
10000 pies of various sizes eaten i'm
Washington in a month would be one that
would make close fit i'm the rotunda of
the Capitol. one that would be ninety
seven feet in diameter and little more
than two and quarter feet deep
or the 10000 pies eaten in Washington
in the course of month, probably less
than one-eighth are baked at home, but
ic nhoh hot ho
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to attempt to get picture. would be i'm
possible and the additional difficulty of
capturing a photograph at night with the
aid of flashlight arrangement made the
task appear absurd.
George Shiras was not to be daunted
by ordinary difficulties. Carefully ar
ranging his f1ashIight camera before
dusk, he arranged the string attached to
the steel weight that set off the cap so
that it ran directly through the lick.
Then he removed the cap from his cam
era arranged plate so that it would be
exposed to the darkness of summer
night, and waited. The camera was
trained directly on the string that was
attached to the fiashight.
Shiras then drew away some distance
and awaited developments. For a time
the sylvan quiet remained undisturbed.
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terrified animals. remark in tones OF
unctuous satisfaction:
Yes. l took them myself
And yet the great fascination of play
ing fair with the pursued. of matching
your wits against his wits and your skill
against his skill and your strength
against his strength, has taken such a
hold upon the fair-minded American pop
ulace that where George Shiras was by
himself a decade ago he now numbers his
followers in the sport by the thousands.
1t was while Mr.. Shiras was a lawyer
in Pittsburg that he first met the man
whom he is soon to have as a companion
in the unknown dangers of Africa.
President Roosevelt had written of
western life and he had lived the western
life and he knew of the joys Of the
hunter. While he was in New York
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\ PPLE Pie, Strawberry
"A Pie, Mince Pie, Peach
Pie and the Thousands of
Other Kinds of Pies That
Are Consumed by Wash
ingtonians in a Month
Would Form One Massive
Pie e71z Feet in Diameter
and 2 Feet 3 Inches Thick
Yes! a Big One-It Would
Cover the Floor of the Ro-
tunda of the Capitol and
Form an Exact Fit for 1t
The Pie Months and the
Seasonable Pies-All Pies
Are Good, But Some Pies
Are Fetter Pies.
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some one told him of the strange mar
who sought only to take pictures of his
game and did not desire their death.
President Roosevelt, then governor, ex-
pressed a desire to meet this man.
Accordingly it was arranged that Mr..
Roosevelt should meet Mr. Shiras, and
after the manner OF such arrangements
the two met in large hotel. Those who
were present declare that never did the
opposite natures of the two men stand
more at variance than on the memora BILE
night Of their initial meeting.
When the Hunters Met.
Shiras, multi-millionaire, writer, scholar
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, was calm, I'M
demonstrative and self-contained. Roose-
welt. writer, soldier. hunter of big game
and premier politician of the country.
was full of life and spirits, energy and
vivace.
Glad to know you, Mr. Shiras. glad to
know you. Delighted" said the future
President, cordially shaking the camera
hunters hand and displaying during the
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huge pie. and the floor of the rotunda of
th., Capitol an immense pie-pan. 1t
w.,uld be covered with pie to the thick
mes OF two feet and three inches. the ro-
tulda being 81 90 feet in diameter This
does not take into consideration pot pies,
chicken pies. beef pies or any other kinds
of meat pies, which have no more to do
with this pie medley than has Irish stew
or Hungarian goulash.
IN speaking of pies the American mind
naturally reverts to apple pies, pumpkin
piss, mince pies, peach pies, lemon pies,
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When the Hunters Met.

4 MIGHTY citadel of autocracy fell
"a when the Sultan of Turkey. the
bloody and willy Abdul Hamid.
proclaimed a constitution and
hroupbt T',,rLey into the COM
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%~D EHEN President Roosevelt
leaves this country for his
AA1 hunting trip to Africa he will
" be accompanied, it is planned.
by man whose views on
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TWENTY-FIVE thousand pies
day-'6, $40 cubic feet of pie a
month! Imagine all the ingre-
dents of Washington month
LIZ mia c,,nnl,r r,nixol into ma
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The most difficult argument with which
the young orators were confronted in the
efforts to draw the soldiers from their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26

man. He has far outlived his generation. He is out of touch with the world. His dear ones have gone before-the play early manhood, the companions of mid dle age all gone. And in the very na- ture of things he cannot make new friends like the old ones. Youth must consort with youth, age with age. And, lacking the stimulus of normal and nat ural associations, his spirit droops. It must be so.
 And again:
 The aged man has lost the fine flush to enthusiasm and the fine edge to en- deavor that go with his early years. His spirit is dulled.
 The aged man is disillusioned. Once he built beautiful castles in Spain. He has seen them toppled to earth. Once the mirages of life enticed him, but he has seen them rise and dissipate them- selves. The rivers of early hopes and aspirations have lost their runnels in the sands of lifes desert places. His spirit is disappointed.
 Tired, lonely, dulled, disillusioned-that is why men die when they die of old age.
 Their souls no less than their bodies are worn and weary.
 It Is well for one to live as long as he can-usefully and happily. But bet ter, infinitely better, than a mere stretch of years is the life that worthly spends it's threescore and ten and when the shadows lengthen lies down to pleasant dreams