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quietly along the outside Of one of the
thickets when Abdullah suddenly clutched
me by the arm and pointed toward a tree
standing on the edge Of the bush yards
off, The tree was divided into two
toward the bottom, and the sun was
throwing the shadow Of bush on the
ground inside the hollow.
This was where Abdullah was pointing,
getting more excited, but I could make
out nothing at all. until a great yellow
beast moved suddenly out of the shadow
and slipped away on the far side. fired
from the hip. letting of both barrels
into the tree. We rushed around to the
other side Of the thicket just In time to
see a fine ioness come out. I could not
get a clear shot at once, and when /
did, after running some distance, l was
shaking so that ] could not get on her
at all, and missed. She kept 1obbing
along just ahead, every now and then
stopping to look around and show her
teeth at us. Each time she stopped
shot. but SO badly that I wasted seven
bullets at different ranges without touch
ing her. The first six did not seem to
annoy her at ALL but the last hit the
ground just under her teeth, and either
the bullet so close frightened her or q
stone hit her, for she sprang OFF with a
snarl and a flourish OF her tail and, put
ting on the pace. in q minute or two ran
clean away from US. I was terribly dis
appointed and annoyed with myself, and
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predominating n the proper conditions are
observed. Married life Is not hill OF
Olympus. wholly clear. without clouds:
under any conditions it Is not all roses
concealed beneath the rose leaves. and
some bitter ingredients will get mixed
up with the sweet ones In the cup OF It's
joy.
There are people who are no sooner
married than they begin to cast fond.
lingering looks behind upon the state OF
single blessedness they have abandoned,
or else upon some lost ideal they prefer
to the living reality Of which they nave
become possessed.
Divorces will be less numerous when
women are not In such tremendous haste
. to marry. Happiness In the married life
is possible only to- those who have de-
iiberately chosen each other, not in mo.
mentary passion. but for solid worth OF
The burden Of married life is heavy
enough even under the most favorable
conditions. Other things being equal there
Is more chance of happiness between per
sons whose habits and tastes and educa-
ton would put them somewhere near
upon a basis OF equality In social posi-
tiou.
That every man is the equal Of every
other man sounds well enough IN the
not true to the facts OF life and expert
ence. One man is not the equal OF every
other man any more than one horse Is
the equal Of every other horse.
I know coachmen. for instance, who In
point Of intelligence, moral and even So
cial worth. are the equals and even the
superiors Of the men who employ them
But when you find such man he won't
elope with his employers daughter.
Tears will never undo what you should
never have done at hrst. The tears may
bring a fathers forgiveness. but that
will never transform the stableman to
the drawing room man.
But what IL a man of integrity, re-
liability and solid worth. though a coach
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path from the village is choked with
long strings of beasts going off to their
feeding grounds. Hitting off a lion's 8
spoor, under these circumstances. is al
most impossible. and the dust raised by
the herds is very disagreeable.
Besides villages. any we'll in the neigh
horhood is good place to look for spoor.
If lion Is about there ought to be no
difficulty in picking up his spoor within
a day or two.
Rather curious condolences are some
times brought to light by spoor. Not very
long after the date of the story just re-
lated one of our party went to a place
where two lions had been killing regu-
larly and sat up two nights for them with
a donkey as bait. The lions must have
he was there. as there were no fresh
tracks to be found anywhere about The
day after he came back to camp / hap
pened to ride out in that direction. Soon
after we started we came on the spoor
of two lions, which led us along a path
till we came to the shooting Zereba The
night after he had left the lions had
walked over the very spot where his
donkey had been tied up in the middle
of the path.
A little later. again. I happened to be
at place where he had camped few
days before. A lion roared near my camp
several times in the night. and next morn
ing I heard he had taken a sheep from
a village close by. We picked up his
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much more interesting way of hunting
lions than either of these, and a very
successful one if the native shikaries en-
ployed are any good, is this process OF
tracking them. A lion lies up in some
cool. shady place for the day. unless.
the sky is overcast and the sun cannot
get out, when he will occasionally be
found hunting at any hour. If you can
strike his spoor of the night before
there is a very good chance of following
it up to where the lion lies, should the
ground be suitable. There is no form
Of hunting So exciting as this. When the
spoor Is found there is generally nothing
late in the lions wanderings, so that
it is quite chance whether
1t leads you for hours over all sorts of
country, or whether after half a mile
down on a sandy river bed or path, 1t
turns off into a. thick patch of reeds or
bush close by, where the lion is lying. 1t
is extraordinary how the excitement
grows as time goes on, and Still you
keep the track sometimes very slowly,
where only now and then part of foot
print can be seen on a soft place pc
tween the stones. at other times as fast
as you can walk over soil where the
track is visible many yards ahead. Ana
when the spoor is lost and minute after
minute goes by while you cast about
vainly in every direction. how Wretched
YOU are, and how quickly your spirits
rise again when low whistle or snap
ping Of the fingers announces that one
of the trackers has hit it off farther on.
At last certain signs show that you
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STRANGE CATCHES ON RODS.
Bats, Rats and Swallows Have Beer
Hooked by Anglers.

From the Westminster Gazette.
The hooking Of partridge on the wing
by a Frome angler while making a
cast recalls other similar occurrences
where tirds, and even rats. have been ac-
cdentally caught on rod and line. 1t is
by no means uncommon for trout anglers
to hook swallows and martins; indeed,
these birds sometimes hook themselves
through darung at the fly and mistaking
it for tie natural insect.
The writer has caught a swallow with
a May fy on the Kennel. and two more
swallows. these latter in one Afternoon,
while roach fishing. This happened on
the Lark, the pretty little Suffolk river.
ana ut TIE time many swallows and mar
tins were hawking over the stream.
Both the birds dashed at a bunch OF
yentles ard hooked themselves in the
Seak. one was saved and went off all
right, as did another swallow which was
resc:.cd after being knocked into the
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Dr. Madison c. Peters Answers Queson-"Why So Many Dorces

like the Jewish way OF pubiishing an
nouncements Of engagements IN tne
newspapers. 1t is challenge TO inquire.
But heroes OF escapades Svoid publicity
because their double-distilled extract or
yillainy cannot stand the limelight.
These escapades are to be deplored be-
cause they imply woman's descent from
a higher social plane to lower. A
man marrying woman below MIN In So
ciety may raise her up. She goes to his
level.
You may prevent domestic disquietude
by observing some simple rules.
Carry the love of the wooing days over
into the welded life. An Intellectual man
married a brilliant woman. Immediately
after they were married he said to her:
Madam. l love you. That is the begin
ming, middle and end of my experience.
shall never repeat it again. You have
my idea." After enduring her solitary lot
for six years she remarked to him: Il
am not a metaphysician, but have come
to the conclusion that there is differ
ence between ideas and feelings. You
can get rid of an idea by utterlng 1t, ana
1 want you to say that you love me often
enough to convince me that no change
has taken place in your inward expert
ence"
You may give your wife costly pres
ents, fine dresses and beautiful home.
but her heart hungers for something
more, even the daily affection of your
heart.
Many women make all their charms a
net for one haul, and when they have
made the haul they throw the net away.
Spend as much time after your marriage
making cages as you did spreading nets
before marriage and your bird will not
be so apt to fly away to some other
dearer charmer.
Have SOME knowledge of what Is going
on in the world. Read the daily papers
at least half an hour daily.
Be interesting.
Be companion to your husband. He
would rather talk with his wife than
with any one else If she has anything
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spoor in river bed near the camp. and
after following 1t for some distance came
to some wells The Ion had drunk twice.
and between the drinks had laid down
under the fence of a shooting Zereba,
which had been made TO watch the wa
ter. After drinking the second time he
had gone away.
Now and then when tracking you come
across places where lions have killed. and
IL 1t is on sand or bare soil you can tell
everything that has happened almost as
well as IL You had seen II. We were
camped once on the edge of river bed
and thick covert ran right down TO the
back OF the camp. One night there was
tremendous scuffiing in these bushes.
so in the morning l went out to see what
had been going on and found that two
lions had been chasing warthog. which
had just saved Its bacon by getting un-
derground. 1t must have been a very
near thing. as the lions had ploughed
great burrows in the sand at the mouth
of the hole. showing they had pulled up
pretty sharp. Warthogs generally go to
ground when pursued, and as there is no
second opening to the burrows, and pre-
sumably no chamber at the end where
they can turn, they always go In back
ward. This has actually been seen by
sportsmen who have been riding after
them with a spear. / should thing this
pig can hardly have had the time to do
this Perhaps he got jammed in head
first. as he refused to be smoked out
when We tried 1t.
Warthogs are fairly common in Somali-
land. especially in the hill country. ] re-
member the first I got gave us lot OF
trouble. One of the men came I'm one
morning to say he had seen a fine boar
feeding close to camp. ! snatched up a
rife and two or three cartridges and ran
to the place with Abdullah When first
saw the pig he was cantering away
through the hush. / fired and broke one
of his legs. but he was out of sight before
I could get another shot. We tracked
him for some distance by the blood and
caught sight of him some way Off. but
could not get a clear view OF him. and
missed with both barrels.
We then discovered we had no more
cartridges. but went on tracking, hoping
that my other shikari. who had stopped
behind to get some, would come up. We
soon saw the pig again, and when he
started off with a leg swinging we deter
mined to try to run him down. For
long way we could only just keep the
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are getting near the end, the trackers
take off their sandals and tuck up their
lion-cloths under their belts. lest a cor
ner Tapping in the wind should scare
the lion. For the first time you take
your rifle from the native who has had
charge Of II, and, with your head shi-
kari carrying a second rifle, steal for
ward until the lion is sighted or ringed
all is over, and the skin Is being taken
off, how pleasant 1t is to sit in the shade
listening to the excited talk of the ma
tives and letting your nerves quiet down
again after the hopes and fears OF the
morning You ride home to camp with
the lion skin behind your saddle while
one Of your men after another gives his
version OF the mornings proceedings In
a hunting song. On the other hand.
when you get q shot, and miss after a
any number OF lions killed In the future
will never make UP for the loss of this
one, which is always the biggest lion.
carrying the finest name you have ever
silent one, as no lion means no sheep for
the men. and they are correspondingly
downhearted.
The first thing to be done In track
ing is to find fresh spoor. Natives
will often bring news OF spoor. but un-
luckily the average villagers idea of a
fresh track is rather hazy. 1 have sew
eral times gone a long way to find at
the end track several days old. On
one occasion two natives arrived. saying
there were fresh lion tracks in a river
bed, luckily not more than half lie
from camp, but when we got there the
fresh lion tracks turned out to be the
spoor of two hyenas, at least a week
old.
The spoor of the large spotted hyena
is not unlike that Of lioness on certain
ground But the difference can easily be
told, because a hyena has claws like a
dog, whereas the retroactive claws Of a
lion are always sheathed and leave no
mark. The best way to find spoor is TO
look for 1t yourself with good trackers.
Should there be any villages near camp
which lions have been in the habit OF
raiding it is very necessary to get there
as early as possible in the morning. If
once the large flocks Of sheep and goats
and herds of camels which have been
shut up in the villages all night are let
out, the ground all about is a mass OF
indistinguishabl footprints, and every
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l thought. of course. that everything was
over for the day after all this shooting
but Abdullah, who was almost weeping.
hardly gave me time to get my wind a
little before he rushed me back again.
As we ran round the place where we
had first seen the lioness, a fine lion ap-
peared walking slowly out of another
thicket toward us. AS / shot, he turned
and plunged through an opening in the
bushes to our right. We ran round an
outstanding bush to head him if he
broke out. and met lion facing us. Just
as | fired I heard a moan to the right,
so I was sure 1t was not the same lion.
This one staggered away at the shot and
fell stone dead close by
Abdullah called up jana and the pony
boy, and they soon had the hide OFF and
tied on the pony. / thought all the time
that Abdullah knew all about the other
one, but as he seemed to be going right
home. I asked him IL we had not better
go and look for 1t. and he replied that
1t was the same Hon all the time, and
that 1 had missed 1t the first shot. |
did not feel quite sure about it myself,
but the moan in the bushes could only
have come from a wounded beast, SO
told him we had better go and look, any
way. He evidently thought it was waste
of time, but when we got back to where
the lion had been hit we soon found
some blood. and, going quietly down a
little path between the 'irgin' bushes,
we came round corner almost on top
Of the lion. He was stone dead. / was
very pleased at scoring off Abdullah, as
he had shown such evident disgust at
my shooting.
We met one Of our party on our way
back to camp and told him he might run
across the lioness If he followed our
track back to the place we had come
from. An hour after we got back to
camp he came galloping up, having seen
two lions, curiously enough, both males,
and had shot one with a better name
than either of mine.
I have at another time described two
different methods of hunting lions. One
Of them could hardly be called a method
at all, as 1t depended on news brought
in by natives as to where a lion had
actually been seen. The second plan
consisted of tying up a donkey for a bait
and sitting up TO watch at night.
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Hunting Ahead of Roosevelt in East Africa
LION SHOOTING IN SOMALnAND
LION SHOOTING

come back. Nothing further happened,
however. At daybreak we sailed out to
see II by any chance we had managed to
hit lion, but we only found two or
three dead hyenas. One of these brutes
had been partly eaten; We thought at the
dark to make out tracks. We came to
the conclusion we had made idiots Of our
serves, and had been shooting all night
at hyenas. and we did not feel any the
better when our friends came back from
their night at the village and told us
we had probably frightened every lion
out OF the country by our bombardment.
Aodullah still insisted that there had
been lions round the camp, and a little
later we found the spoor Of one big lion
by the body OF the half-eaten hyena. The
ground was very stony and there were no
other tracks to be seen, but one lion
could hardly have dragged the donkey
ana heavy barrel away SO quickly SO
there were probably more. The other
hunters had got hold Of a man at the
village who said he knew where the lions
always lay so they went with him. Soon
after they left, Abdullah, who had been
hunting about, came and told me that
he had picked up the track Of one lion
on soft ground little way from camp.
e.AN SioI WC OASuL 10 IOIlOW IL. Al Indt
time none Of us knew much about track
Ing. and we had had such bad luck after
the elephants that we did not think much
OF our shikaries. and l did not think it
was much good. Abduilah persuaded me
and went. After we had followed the
track for some distance quite caught his
enthusiasm, and when the single track
was Joined by three others, I was divided
between delight at the prospect of hav-
Ing four lions all to myself and the
fhnnOhf rho 7 bod
hands than I could manage alone.
After a track OF about an hour we
came In sight of two or three big thick
cts Of 'irgin'' bushes surrounded by
open mimosa scrub and intersected by
narrow paths My second shikari at
that time was q very tall fellow, called
jana, with enormous feet Several times
during the track Abdullah had turned
round to pitch into him for making such
a noise, and now he confded to me that
"Jama walk all same cow and that
we had better leave him behind here with
the pony and boy, as the lions were sure
to be In the place In front OF us. Know.
ing nothing about it, agreed and went
on with Abdullah. We were walking
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to talk about besides her petty annoy
ances Man Is apt to be self-centered.
and If you can talk interestingly about
his hobby he will likely have his club
at home.
Your husband has a right to some ex-
preston OF appreciation of his unselfish
devotion to you.
Remember, man, 1t Is OF little avail
to bring flowers to your wife's coffin
when you failed to strew them on her
path while weary feet were painfully
walking over 1t. "A rose for the living
is more than wreaths for the dead"
Make home SO pleasant that whenever
the husband steps outside in search of
happiness he comes back again disap-
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Such a marriage would lack the ro-
mantle element Of a midnight flight; it
would require force of character to carry
1t out to. its triumphant end. but once
consummated we doubt II it would ever
Some Of the happiest homes in the
world, set up under the red hot anathema
OF parents, have turned out edens but
almost invariably clandestine escapades
end In unspeakabIe sorrow or divorce.
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By Lord Delamere.

Foremost among the great hunting authorities
Of the English-speaking world is Lord Delamere.
He is credited with being the heaviest killer In
the party which bagged the record number of
African lions some few years ago. In East Cen
trail Africa his prowess is familiar to every ma
tive. Not long ago locality beset with lions
sent delegation four hundred miles to call on
Lord Delamere to ask him to come and wipe out
the destroyers Of their cattle. In this article
he vividly contrasts the theory and practice of
lion hunting in the region which ex-President
Roosevelt will invade.
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camp had to stop where 1t was Till they
could be moved. After a time one OF
them was able to walk about with his
arm in a sling, and the other was getting
on well, so one night decided to leave
the big camp next day and go with two
or three camels to some villages only a
days march away. Early the next
morning Mahomed Moor, the headman.
started with the camels. stopped be-
hind to get some breakfast. Just as we
were going to follow, a camelman, who
had gone up the river bed close by to
get some water, came running back to
say that a lion had been down to drink
at one OF the shallow sand wells in the
night. I started at once with Abdullah
and two other trackers, telling my pony
boy to follow on as 500 mas he could
get the pony saddled. When tracking I
have always found 1t. the best plan to
have the pony led some distance behind.
The boy ought to have no difficulty in
following the tracks OF two or three men
and q lion, and II the pony Is kept close
up 1t is sure to stamp. or blow its nose at
the critical moment.
\
When we got to the we'll there was
the spoor plain enough in the sand, but
rather blurred by some rain which had
fallen at daybreak. This made the track
Ing little difficult after we left the river
bed, but when we had followed 1t slowly
Cor some distance we came to place
where the lion had lain down under a
thick bush. evidently TO shelter from the
rain, as the spoor after this was quite
distinct on the top OF the damp ground.
This made Us think We were In for a
short track. for 1t must have been light
when the lion went on again from here,
and lions generally lie up shortly after
the sun rises. but this day proved an
exception, because 1t was cloudy and
cool till late in the forenoon.
The spoor now led us along q sandy
path, where we could follow 1t as fast
as we could walk. When II turned off
into the bush we quite expected to see the
lion at any moment; but not a bit OF it
he wandered about through endless
clumps Of mimosa and 'irgin" bushes. as
If he did not mean to lie up at all.
The track at last led Us down little
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ployer's daughter? Let them not make
clandestine escapade. but, avowing
their purpose before all the world. dare
the scorn OF society. Then let the rich
mans daughter 60 to such homo as
her husband can furnish her and let her
adorn his life with her womanly accom-
pIishments and he hers with irreproacn-
able manliness. and all sensible men and
angels will say, Amen"
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HE best piece Of
lion tracking I ever
saw lasted five full
hours and is so
memorable IN sew
eral respects that 1
purpose to use it as
an introduction to
that general meth
Cd of lion hunting.
Two Of my men
got badly ,mauled
by a lion, so our
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pig in sight. or rather Abdullah could only
just keep the pig in sight. and it took me all
my time not to lose Abdullah. as had lately
started up-country after the sea voyage,
and was frightfully out of condition. Just
as / was seriously thinking of giving it
up, Abdullah stopped and began beckon-
where he was found the boar had pulled
us. AS we ran up he made bit of
rush. but we each of us bolted for a tree
and he retreated again to his bush. Here
we were with nothing but a hunting knife
and an empty rifle between us. We
found that the boar was very weak from
loss of blood, and never came more than
a few yards in his rush, so we got some
big stones, and coming up behind bushes
we pelted him, aiming for his head. At
last Abdullah made a splendid shot with
an enormous stone and bowled him over,
and l ran in and drove my knife up to the
hilt between his ribs. That finished him.
poor beast but of course Abdullah would
have nothing to do with a pig. 50 we had
to leave the body untouched. and sent out
a Midgan from camp TO bring in the head.
BY permission OF Longmans. Green & Co., \.
Copyright. 1909, by BENZ. B. Hampton)
On the Spoor Of the King of Beasts,
By this same intrepid hunter will be the
of this interesting series. In his second article
Lord Delamere vividly recounis the dangers and
hair breadth escapes that ex President Roosevelt
will experience I'm hunting the king Of beasts
through the trackless jungles OF East Africa.
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there is
one divorce to
every twelve mar
riages in the United
States, and al
though our num-
ber of divorces In
the United States
with a population
OF IS. 600, 900 Is more
than double that
that of all Europe.
with $50. 900. 900 OF