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him?' are question for me- But Mrs.
Macdonald answered by no reply.
She give me hui broom with bandage
around him SO l could murder this Fly
when seen. So | searched keenly through
dining ROOM par,or and kitchen apart
ment for this Hon. Fly; but nothing to
see of him till II 30 am. when he OBJ
served washing his front hands on the
portrait of Hon. Macdonald. dead gentle
man who are deceased. With immediate
auickness / throwed broomstick to Hon.
donald, which We're too bad. But Hon.
Fly eloped away and We're next observed
at 4:3O pm. attempting to creep up a
fireplace with sly expression.
At sharply l quit this light, pleasant
labor.
Did you make a successful kill to all
FIies?' erupt this sueet-hearted lady.
donating 81 10 to me.
All not to do Mrs Madam | OK
claimed. ITO kill Fly are cruel act.
Cruel acts leads to crueler If ! killed
many Flies l might become so hard
would kill horses.
But Flies is a nuisance, reject Mrs
Macdonald
Are it a. Christian act to slay every
nuisance We see i require. ''Ah, no,
Many persons by my acquaintance is
such. Uncle Nichi are a nuisance yet /
should disgust to kill him
Z =
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I'll are dead. | am very joyful to hear
this news, thank you. because l do not
love Flies ! shall help with heart and
feet 10 destroy this Bugs. Very seldomly
do Hon. Scientists tind dangerous quail
ties in such disagreeable subjecks Most
things they finds bad for all Human
Races arc something delicious TO enjoy,
Ike salad or beerdrunk or comical opera
or ice cream. But when they decry xiii
all flies" ] am willing to assist till all
are dead, including Hornets and Bees
which are less disease than Flies. but
more angry with their tails.
All newspaper prints is now chuckly-
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the open weld at least 5000 natives 1ro.'i
different villages collected by appoint
ment Men who had recently been nSlil
ing each other and eating each o'her
relations greeted one another WIN ap-
parent friendship. Instructions Were
given by the chiefs and the natives loill-
ed in parties of from five to nine: then
without more ado their glistenlng naked
forms vanished into the grass. whlcn was
from ten to twelve feet IN helgn'. ds
cended a tree on the top OF Whlch lhere
was a platform built for lookout bv
the native hunters.
AS far As l could see there were signs
of native watch towers but not an Gle
plant in sight. although the dull appear
ance of the high grass was broken mere
and there by nulticolored herds of ante
lope and quasgos. All day l waited, even
eating my food up III the tree. but not a
sign of the quarry. went to my ham
mock that night somewhat disappointed
and to add to my annoyance | could hear
the dull monotone of the native women
witch doctors praying Tor success1ul
hunt to hideous fetish that was set up
not far from my hut.
At sunrise my boy woke me and after
a hearty meal of biltong dried meat /
made my way to the lookout platform at
the edge of the forest.
An extraordinary sight greeted my
vision. As far as my eye could reach
the huge forms of elephants, which look
ed really stately in their SURF ound .ngs.
could be seen, stro'ling carelessly through
the high brown withered grass. Through
my glasses l could see them Tapping their
huge ears and swinging their trunks to
keep away the numberless insects that
attack every living thing in that region.
Not sign could l detect OF the native
hunters
The sun had passed the zenith and was
sliding down the heavens to tne west
when at a rough estimate, ! could see
with the aid of my glasses at least from
500 to 600 elephants before me on the
weld. yet no sign Of the native hunters
The day was three-quarters gone when
a slight breeze sprung up and rocked the
golden grass tops to and fro. Far away
in every direction, curling toward the blue
sky. a circle of silver smoke assembled.
This was the first sign of the attack. The
fires described circle of perhaps five
miles in diameter. In a half-hour the
smoke on the horizon increased to clouds
and l could plainly see the fire eating
its way through the dry inflammable
grass.
the eIepRdnl nearest the HeTy ciTcuIl-
ference commenced to show signs of
alarm and with increased pace moved to-
ward the center of the slowly narrowing
circle.
Through the smoky atmosphere l could
see the sun like a gigantic ball OF burn
shed copper sink behind the gray blue
mountains beyond the forest. The short
tropical twilight fingered over the land and
then all of a sudden darkness, with q
startling contrast. enveloped weld and
forest.
Far off, north, south. east and west
glared and danced the red spear-ponted
flames above the advancing fire ranks
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blamed for all diseases. Fly hatcheries
breeds Tifold Fever, Collara and Pull
manary Troubles. If this pest are not
killed people must. In Korea alone last
year 1,620,0OO persons expired dead by
asthma caused by fly bites
oh Banzai!' l holla This will be
great help to Japan in civilizing Korea. :
Flies does no good to nobody" are
snib for her.
.'Ah, yes do are jounce from me
did you ever hear the storey of Hon.
VIM Tell. Scotch Pirate, what was saved
by F'lies?"
Never she had.
Thus is story I report. In goneby
date of yore Hon. VIM. Tell were escap-
ing away from Police SO he should not
serve on a jury. Hon. Tell elope OH
BICYCLE to high mountain and got pretty
him. SO this great Scotch crawled into
Squirrel hole for slight sleep, but no
sooner he laid down and closed his eye
broWs than hui black Fly determined t.,
straodle up on nose of this Hon. Hero
and rub his front hands like catcher
in a BASEBALL .. Hon. VIM. Tell 500 off
this Fly with angry thumbs Fly buzz
up with reproachful looz; but when Hon.
Tell closed eyebrows again Hon. Fly
romped back on nose OF this great Patriot
where he done two-step waltz with six
legs. Hon, Tell jump up and make an
angry SWooSh at this inseN with battle
AK, but Hon. Fly rcciprocate by btin-
him to left ear"
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By Captain Fritz Duquesne

first galloping this way and then that at
the caprice of the whipping winds.
Slowly advanced the fire and smaller
and more brilliant grew the terrible. livid
circle. Outside the inner ring of fire.
which grew smaller every minute, there
was another travelling in the opposite di-
rection and growing larger, for the fire
was burning through the high grass
toward a center and away from it
About midnight. when the smoke had
become suffocating, animals Of every de-
scription. FASTENED by fear. boited past
the tree in which I was perched. Here
and there rhinoceros, gruntng in its
eNertions and showing its young ahead;
then crowds of woodhoss, Glands, quaS-
COS, wildebeest kudn, gemsbok. every
thing, went laundering by like wild cav
airy charge, which lasted we'll toward
morning.
Lions and leopards skulked past their
eyes flaming with the reflected light
from the fire, which had made a lake
of red In the sonbeT sky. The sight fas-
cnated me; it was terrible, brutal. I
felt like fiend watching destruction in
some long past epoch, and then my heart
swelled and a sadness almost fearful
filled my being when / thought of the
horrific brutality of it all.
] was deep in contemplation of the
scene, almost forgetting it in the chaos
of the thoughts it excited. when a hand
touched me on the shoulder. | started,
and turning saw the red eyes and CLEAN
ing teeth of my faithful boy" 1.-THE chief
says you must come away from here. as
this tree may be torn down by the charge
of the elephants, which are making this
way. No." / answered, 4 will risk
it and stay here; I want to see" "fll
stay. too said the boy, who would have
been willing to be burned alive with me,
should 1t have been my fate. The circle
was now very small. The loud cracking
of the burning grass and the roar Of tae
flames was deafening. Above the fires
frightful monotone. like discordant
band, coming from the distance, l heard
the tramp of the trumping elephants.
1t was now early morning. The cold
chill of the night had passed and the
solar heat that crept through the choli-
ing smoke called my blood to life. The
east grew gray. violet and red in quick
succession and the sun rose out Of the
hills east of Lake kivn and lit the world
What a sight met my eyes, a sight l
never shall forget, for it is pressed in
delibly on the film of my memory.
To the north of my watching place
forming a rough circle OF at least three
quarters of a mile in diameter. stood an
irresoute mob of elephants. each family
forming its own cluster. the fighters on
the outer edge. The hundreds Of backs
shining like polished leather, looked like
the roofs of some weird city. Tusks
CLEANED and flared in the sun, and the
mother elephants. solicitous of the wei
fare of the young, kept them near
possible to them and even admired them
for playing pranks each other which
they did on every opportunity, for they
did not realize the strange danger that
threatened them. They seemed no less
human than human beings. Here. stand
ing in the cruel, slowly moving circle
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came president of the entire Great North
ern system and the Great Northern Sc
cLrities Company.
II would take a section hand of some
temerity to try TO deceive president sam,
uel McCrea of the Pennsylvania railroad
as to the way a piece of work should
be done
Mr. McCrea started his connection
with the road in that very position The
man who is now the supreme power In
what Is generally admitted to be the best
handled railroad in the world was a rod
man He has held every position, he
went gradually through all the executive
berths and various vice presidencies till at
The death OF 4. J CaSSdtt he was eieyat-
ed to the topmost place, and by those who
are competent to speak OF the WORKINGS
OF this rema rkahle system it Is generally
admitted that it was never better man
died
MI McCrea is practical and business
like He bothers nothing about politics.
He is interested only in the proper con-
duct of the road and he has improved its
working details in a manner truly aston
ishng. Merely. he says, because he
knows all the steps.
Marvin Hughitt, president of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railway, knows
all the steps too. He began as tele
graph operator. line of work that brings
it's votaries into close touch with railroad
ing. From this lie was promoted 10 the
post uf tTainmaSter. Gradually nc made
Lis way steadily. irreSistiaiy. Many ri
walls with better social connections per-
haps aud certainly more wealth coveted
the post of chief official OF the read, hut
none of them had the practical equip
ment which the post SO completely die
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'tOf finally this famous Scotch rore With
voice. How could any patriot sleep ~
such a cave,' So he put on his armc..
and got on his bicycle and rode away
into the jaggly mountains And If -
didn't have rode. off when he done, Hon.
Police would have found him and hs
would have got lynched. So Hon. Tel
were saved by Fly which were too dis
agreeable"
This are a very nice TclI-tale.' revoke
Mrs. Lusy Macdonald But | should
more rather go Jail and be lynched than
die from Tifoid Fever made by fly bites
So ! part away, making note IF this
phenomenal
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\ man what murdered Fly in them
days done so for love of Sport. A man
what do SO today do it for love of HUI
mainly. Thusly life are becoming more
important but slightly duller as Science
advances.
From Health Board Report which ar
rived this am. in all newspapers I read
following Statistics about Flies:
"HOLsEkEEPERS, BEWARE:
ITO all persons wishing to avoid sick
ness and all other diseases:
Here arc some Infornlations for you
to know:
Whenever you see a Bug with lace
wings and six legs walking dstractedly
around the milk pitcher and gazing into
the depths below like Poet.
Watch him and catch him before he
jumps.
Because he is NOR bid house Fly de-
termined to commit suicide in the food
Flies are irresponsible characters Of
hobo disposition. They should be killed,
but they should not be permitted to kill
themselves because they are careless
about where.
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Can House-Flies Be Shooed
Off From Civilization?
BY HASHIMURA TOGO
(Wallace Irwin).

Copyright. 1893, by p. F. Collier Son.
To Editor Sunday Star, who think similar
10 me about Art & Literature and must
therefore agree with me about Flies,
Dear Sir:
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Of fire. each waited for leader to take
them out OF danger. they stood. majestic
and noble. They might have been the eie-
plant cavalry Of Hanniba!'s mighty
army.
The fire swept on, the smoke gathered
thicker about them The mothers COM
merced to trump in fear and the huge
trunks moved restlessly to and fro over
each other. writing like wounded SER
penis over a lake of pitch.
Below me, with cruel leer on his tat
tooed face. and his sharpened teeth show
Ing below his heavy lips. crept the bla ok
form of native canniba1. He was hold
ing pair of heavy assesaes in his pow
erful hands. Others soon Joined him, and
| knew that the slaughter was about to
commence.
These little, cruel, cunning natives.
crawling like snakes in the grass. filled
me with revulsion l hated them and al
most wished l was an elephant. SO that
| could fall on them and crush them
The fire crept in and the elephants on
the outer edge screeched in pain as 1t
burnt them. A shot rang out and then a
volley from the laundering f1ntlocks. As
segaes and buzZing arrows filled the air
and fell like rain from the sky With
frightful screeclles of pain. the elephants,
in chaotic CONSERVATION. rushed to the
edge of the advancing fire and then, in
their fear. retreated. One after anoth-
er fell under the terrible onslaught. their
huge bodies quvering as they bled to
death from the frightful wounds Of the
aSsegaes.
The cries of the natives were. If any
thing, worse than the screeches of the
elephants. Here and there among the
wounded and dead mammoths lay the
PROSTATE form of a cannibal who had
received an arrow that was meant for an
elephant
Everywhere l could see the cannibals
rushing in among the Infatuated elephants
and stabbins right and left like fiends
rcvelirg In carnival Of death. One after
crushed to death by the charging ele
plants. The bloody spirit of war had
seized them. and they rushed into de-
struction to kill or be killed with the
lightness of heart of children playing tag.
As the fire crept on the smell of burn
ing flesh added to the horrible reality. An
old bull elephant. driven mad by fear
and trumping in anguish. charged over
tie fire and came rushing down toward
my tree. As of one accord the living
elephants turned and followed him.
trampjng the fire out as they charged.
One after another bumped my tree and
the platform sWayed back and forth dan
gerously. | shot at some OF the elephants,
hoping that some of them would fall near
my tree and protect it with their bodies
but none of them stopped. On they swept
and the tree shook violently. Suddenly
the platform. shaken from its position,
fell ard | grabbed limb overhead, as
did my boy" who had stood and watch
ed the whole scene of danger. The limb
cracked and bent down out of reach of
any others. almost on the backs of the
galloping elephants. Another minute and
il was bound to snap. My Cod l cried
and nv boy without a moments hest
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y looking around
for T Ut Il them
Hon Scientists has
discovered s o m e.
thing about Flies.
They has discov-
cred that Flies are
full Of dangerous
m i X ero b e S and
must therefore be
ASA ssinated until
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ME-. EDITOR: | am willing IL believe
that Flies are blamed for anything
YOU wish. But viii Flies be externinated
away for sins they make? [ should like
to believe this also. hut can't do, thanks
Because people know that fly bites IS
danger to public health is no reason why
they will get rid Of Flies People know
that lots of Election Districts i'm y /,
Chicago & Pittshurg is danger to public
health. But nobody have noticed any
political fiH-paper hanging around Tam
many Hall, has they?
The trouble about keeping the eartn
pure is that some people does not mind
Flies as much as others. And the people
that like Flies can breed enough To sup
ply germs for all. Yours truly,
HASIIlMURA TOGO.
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THE LETTERS OF A JAPANESE SCHOOLBOY

full OF slanderous reports about this
Hon. Fly who have, of recently. grown
from a private nuisance to a public prob
lem. But he amt proud of this What
ever faults Flies has, they amt proud
If they was more proud, they would wipe
their feet and take off their overshoes
the butter.
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SECTION hand in
spects a piece of
railroad track pro-
ceeds 10 its repair.
His work 10 k 10
he lowly, and while
important TO safe
" Of riders on the
lightning ( a 5 I
trains that Will
over il, new
ertheless, a Ia Dor
that anybody else
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Mrs Lusy Macdonald 2S6 lbs. complete
beauty, she telephoned me this morning
TO arrive. please. at her house, where
she oftenlv employ me to comb her lawn
with rakes. price 81. 10 daily payment, so
/ do SO thank you.
But when | am there she say: Togo.
! wish you for to come in the house &
AIDE me to shoot Flies which is too many.
! seen one or more this early am"
How should | know him If | meet
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Senate was equally beneficial If a Fly
and Family should arouse him up by
playing Alpclimb on his chin, he might
enjoy slight irritation for this. He might
arouse up and mash Hon. Fly with angry
rage. But this act were not noticed by
the Board Of Health.
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had ever hoped to see. Although
commenced by joining the hunt. ] really
became a spectator after short time
The hunt. unlike most elephant hunts.
was not conducted for ivory. 1t was for
moro useful purpose. according to Al
r!can opinion, for ii Was for food. OF
course the ivory had its value, and
! was on the spot I hoped 10 make
nice sum by purchasing it.
Elephants have a habit Of migrating
from one part of the country To an
other in herds of from five TO loo. 1t
is indeed strange. that. though by
arrangement. all the elephants in the
north start on long march south. or
vice versa, very often with no appar-
eut reason. | have been passed by
twenty herds in week all moving south
The way they march is peculiarly In
telligent: the young and weak elephants,
even if they are weakened through age.
are crowded in the center, and the rest
Of the herd that are at the height of
their vigor and have all their fighting
powers. march on the outside. Some Will
even scout out a considerable distance
ahead of the herd and on the slightest
sign OF danger. give the unmistakable
signal of alarm. which is short sharp
1rumping snort
The hunt in question took place In the
middle of the dry season. which COM
rnences in May, in that district, and is at
rs height about the end of June. Look
out towers were built in the open coun-
try and native watchers occupied them
night and day. For at night the eie-
Dnants can be heard
After some DAYS natives from the north
c-n villages who were not then at war
with the men of the Senga country, who
are notorious cannihals. and much feared.
came in with the news that a number OF
large herds were on the way south.
There was much rejoicing the part
Of the natives. for there had been many
wars during the last year and human
flesh was cheap and was considered no
,onger a luxury by the fastdious natives
who really like a variety in their food. A
change at least once a year is considered
necessary.
One morning my boy called me from
my hammock and informed me with a
great show of glee that the elephants were
coming. I jumped for my arms and Joined
the throngs of excited natives who were
collected in clusters and getting orders
from their chiefs
Spears with razor edges were glisten-
ing in the sun and rifles and arrows were
made and earthenware Jars were filled
with burning charcoal and carried by
each native. These were to burn the
grass.
At the edge of the forest that skirted
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Then he emerged thoroughly equipped.
He was ready TO tackle the job of esta b.
fishing great railroad systems lie be-
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tates and when the vacancy came and a
new president had to be chosen it Was
the former telegraph operator who went
into the place.
The president OF the New York Central
has known what it was TO come from the
ranks.
People down in the comparatively small
town of Shreveport. La. proba bly, never
expected to see Bill Newman president of
a great railway. for down there in 1s.Hi
he was Only q station agent. But that
process of civil service which seems to
operate autonatically. in the railroad
business brought him steadily up from
obScurity. He served i'll various capaci-
ties, until nov as William II. Newman
he is one of the foremost railroad men in
the country and president of the wealthy
New York Central.
Eben Briggs Thomas was if anything a
little lower down in the employment scale
than any of those mentioned. lie was
only a coal weigher But knowledge of
coal and coal problems vas pretty good
preparation for man who was destined
to become president or great coal NOV
ing railroad In fact. Mr.. Thomas. after
his full training had been completed,
didn't stop at being the chief executive
of one railroad. for he has been the ruler
of a number Since 1902 he has held the
place of supreme power over the Lehigll
Valley.
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Frederick n. Underwood. now president
of the Erie railroad, began to get himself
ready for the job by making himself a
brakeman on the Chicago. Milwaukee ailc
St. Paul railroad. But he couldn't long
be kept at that kind of work. He knew
too much, and now he makes as much IN
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Ne, OF the greatest
elephant hunts |
ever witnessed |
participated in in
the northeast GEN.
trail region of the
kongo Free State,
between Senga, Il
Belgian travelling
port, and Lake
kivn. For ruthless
destruction I h i 8
hunt beat anything
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

turned to his pastorate at winston Salem. N c.
 Mrs Anderson will arrive in Mont gomery on March 8, to make g, months visit to Mrs. ]. Walter Black. on Court Street.
 CONGRESSMAN AND MRS.
 DENT LEAVE TO-DAY.
 Congressman Hugh Dent will leave today for Washington City to attend the inauguration of President Taft. While absent they will be the guests of pr. and Mrs. A. L. Stanley.
 ELEY-MERRELL
 Mir. and Mrs. William E. Hey an- nounce the engagement of their daugb- ter, Mary Edwina, to Mir. Lee Christian MerreIl, the marriage to occur on Wednesday afternoon. March 24. 1909. at the home of the brides parents. Ill Martha Street, at o'clock.
 BROwN-TUCKER.
 MT. and Mrs. S. Brown, of Hurts boro. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Alma Katherine, to MT. Edgar Jeptha Tucker. the wedding to take place in the early spring. !.
 MIR. AND MRS. SAM
 sABEL CELEBRATE SIL- YER WEDDING. Mir. and Mrs. Sam Sabel celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of their marriage at family banquet last night at their handsome Perry Street home.
 The color scheme of the decorations was pink and silver, and the elaborate dinner was served at two circular ta- bles joined together with double hearts made of pink carnations and silver rib- bon. Covers were laid for thirty guests. composed of the brothers and sisters and first cousins of Mir and Mrs Sabel The place cards were hapdpainted, with orange blossoms, and the centerpiece on each table was wedding cake surmounted by @ min iature bride. MT. Sabels gift to his bride of twen- ty-five years ago was handsome dfa-