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The Virginia enterprise., 1909-06-25
A Frank Opinion.

Once youth thought it his solemn
duty to learn something about Henry
James. So, to the great admiration
OF his frivolous friends, he picked up
"The Wings Of the Dove" and disap-
peared into its pages.
Two weeks later he was thinner, but
still at it, when one of the afore-men-
toned frivolous friends came into the
room, and, for the first time showed
interest.
"Say," he observed, "is The Wings
of the Dove collection of short
stories or one long story?"
The deliver into James glanced Up
from the pages.
Zone darned long story" he replied,
throwing his whole soul into the
words.
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HE PLUNGED OFF WITH An ANGRY sNARL

side, and it was evident that some
thing was attacking our donkeys It
was pitch dark, and we fired several
shots in the direction of the sound
before We discovered that the attack
ing beasts were hyenas. We did not
mind having a donkey killed instan-
taneously by lion, but we had not
bargained for the poor beasts getting
mauled by hyenas, so taking a lamp
We went out to see what had hap
pened. My donkey had got off with
nasty bite in the hollow of the hind
leg above the hook, and we had him
taken into the camp at once. The
other was completely disembowelled
and must have been killed instantly.
We could not find any dead hyenas,
but We were pretty sure that.,on. or
two must have been hit. Seeing that
If the lions did come to the dead DON
key there would not oe much chance
of hitting them on so dark night,
we pulled the carcass right under the
skerm or fence round the camn. and.
to prevent hyenas dragging it away,
tied rope to one of its legs, and
passing it over the fence, fastened it
to a heavy water barrel inside the
camp. We sat up for a bit aad got
few shots at hyenas, and then we
went to bed, telling the sentry to keep
sharp lookout and to let us know if
lions came to the carcass.
Some time after I awoke to find
Abdullah bending over me, with my
rifle in his hand. He was frightfully
excited, and all could get out of him
was 'Libah, sahib, Hbah!" ("Lion, sir.
lion!") Jumping up l rushed out lust
as my companion fred two shots into
the darkness. The first thing saw
when got to where he stood was that
a great piece of the skerm round the
camp had disappeared, leaving a
broad gap. I could not for a moment
think what had happened, and then it
struck me that when the carcase had
been dragged away the water barrel
must have got hitched against tho
inside Of the interlaced mimosa
boughs and the whole lot had gone to-
gether. 1t was frightfully dark out
side, and we stood peering out for
some time without being able to dis
tinguish anything; but after a few
minutes we could hear something
tearing at \ the flesh quite close by.
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sits bolt upright, turns its dreadful.
looking face on its tormentor and
shoots out of the top of each horn a
waving scarlet, sting-like thread. .':,v
As rule the enemy retreats in great ;,
fright, believing it is about to be
pounced upon, bitten and stung to
death. Yet, in sober truth, the artful
caterpillar is practicing blum. Its ter
rible face is a, false ALARM" tor it can
not bite or strike hard enough to In.
fltct a wound, and the two sttng.like
scarlet threads wave about in. the air
without ejecting any poison. :
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RASH ALL OVER BOYS BODY.
Awful, crusted, Weeping Eczema on
Little SusfererA Score Of Treat.
ments Prove Dismal Failures.
Cure Achieved by Cuticura.

MY little boy had an awful rash all
over his body and the doctor said it
was eczema. 1t was terrible, and used
to water awfully. Any place the water
went 1t would form another sore and it
would become crusted. A score or
more physicians failed utterly and dis
mally in their efforts to remove the
trouble. Then was told to use the
Cuticura Remedies. I got a cake Of
Cuticura Soap, box of Cuticura Oint-
ment and bottle of Cuticura Re-
solvent, and before We had used half
he Resolvent could see a change in
dm. In about two months he was en-
ire1y well. George F. Lambert, 139
Vest Centre st., Mahanoy City, Pa.
Sept. 26 and Nov. 4, 1907"
Potter Drug Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
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We had a shot or two at the sound,
and the beasts, whatever they were,
went away. AS at that time we knew
nothing about lions, we were not
quite sure that they were not hyenas
after all; but Abdullah stuck to, it
they were lions, so we got our beds
and lay down one on each side of the
opening, just behind the fence to
watch, hoping that the brutes would
come back. Nothing further happened,
however. At daybreak we sailed out
to see If by any chance we had man
aged to hit a lion, but We only found
two or three dead hyenas. One of
these brutes had been partly eaten:
We thought at the time by other hy-
enas, as it was still too dark to make
out tracks. We came to the conclu-
sion we had made idiots of ourselves,
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.
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two different methods of hunting lions.
One of them could hardly be called
a method at all, as it depended on
news brought in by natives as to
where lion had actually been seen.
The second plan consisted of tying
up donkey for bait, and sitting up
to watch at night. A much more in
teresting way of hunting lions than
either of these and a very success
full one II 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 oc-
casionally 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 hunt
ing so exciting as this. When the
spoor is found there is generally
nothing to show If you have struck
1t early or late in the lions wander
ings, so that it is quite chance
whether it leads you for hours over all
sorts of country, or whether, after half
a mile down on a sandy river bed or
path, it turns of into a thick patch
of reeds or bush close by, where the
lion is lying. It is extraordinary how
the excitement grows as time goes on,
and still you keep the track some
times very slowly, where only now
and then part of footprint can be
seen on a soft place between the
stones, at other times as fast as YOU
can walk over soil where the track
is visible many yards ahead. And
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 a low
whistle or swapping of the fingers an
nounces that one of the trackers has
hit it of further on!
At last certain signs show that YOU
are getting near the end; the trackers
take off their sandals and tuck IN
their loin-cloths under their belts. lest
a corner Tapping in the wind should
scare the lion. For the first time YOU
take your rifle from the native who
has had charge of it, and, with your
head shikan carrying a second rifle,
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shot, but SO badly that wasted
avon- hn11ofo A3Rowo~&

I shot. but SO badly that I wasted
seven bullets at different ranges
! without touching her. The first six
did not seem 10 annoy her at all, but
the last hit the ground just under her
teeth, and either the bullet SO close,
frightened her Or a stone hit her, for
she sprang OF with a snarl and q
flourish Of her tail and, putting on the
pace, in a. minute Of. two ran clean
away from us. was terribly disap-
pointed and annoyed with myself, and
l thought of course. that everything
was over for the day after all this
shooting; but Abdullah, who vas al
most weeping, hardly gave me time
to get my wind little before he
rushed me back again. AS we ran
round the place where we had first
seen the lioness, fine lion appeared
walking slowly out of another thicket
towards us. AS shot, he turned
and plunged thorugh an opening in the
bushes to our right. We ran round an
outstanding bush to head him If he
broke out, and met a lion facing us. Just
as / fired heard a moan to the right,
so l was sure it was not the same lion.
This one staggered away at the shot
and fell stone dead close by.
Death Of the Jungle Lord.
Abdullah called up jana and the
pony boy, and they soon had the hide
of and tied on the pony. I thought
oil tho %iro +ho+ Ahdr11oh l1rou, OIL
about the other one, but as he seemed
to be going right home, asked him If
we had not better go and look for it,
and he replied tnat it was the same
lion all the time, and that I had
missed it 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 little path between the
"irgin" bushes we came round cor
ner almost on top of the lion. He was
stone dead. l 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 better name than either of
mine.
I have at another time described
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The thousand-leg is another defense.
less creature that relies on bluff. In
this case all the bluff is in it's ugly
legs. Considered as legs, they are
weak, ungaiply limbs, easily. broken
and frequently in the creature S way
wnen 1t tries to crawl through crev-
ices.
,..s ::
But all the world:is afraid OF those
iees: Girls and boys run away from
them, and every inject thinks that it
must be an uncommonly ferocious and
terrible q bug to have such frightfa:
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leads life of incessant bluff. While
very tiny, it looks just like an ant.
- Later on in life. when it is too big
to pretend to be an ant any longer, it
takes to sitting on leaves with it's hid
eous brown head and its bulging tail
stuck upright over its back and it's
front legs projected forward in such
an attitude Of menace that spiders and
ichneumons dare not venture near.
That must be dragon" they would
say II they could speak. III 60 near
It 1t will surely tear me to pieces" Yet,
II they had the sense to look q little
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THEY. WORK A BLUFF

of the insect world are just as smart
and effective at bluff as men.
Take caterpillars. Now, a caterpil.
lar is one of the most defenceless
creatures in creation. As a general
rule-for there are few exceptions
it cannot bite, or kick, or strike, or
sting. But its enemies are SO numerous
that it is compelled to resort to some
trick Of selfdefense, and as it has NO
weapons, it practices, bluff. ''r
The caterpillar Of the lobster moth
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/ n
Shooting
in
SOnnaliland
Bv Lord DeIQmere

Foremost among the great hunt
ang authorities Of the English speak,
ing wor1d IS Lord Delamere. He Is
credited with being the heaviest kill
er IN the party which bagged the
record number of 4 African lions some
feaU gears ago. IN East Central Af-
r'co his prowess Is familiar to every
mative. Not long ago q locality beset
with lions sent a delegation four
hundred miles to call ON Lord Dela-
mere to ash 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 Er-President
Roosevelt wiU inrade.
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Agitation regarding the pay Of
French military officers has had some
effect, for the minister of war has
asked for an extraordinary credit Of
100000 to supplement the pay Of the
officers, which has not been increased
since 1870. In that time nearly every
grade of state official has had his sti-
pend raised, but the sub-lieutenant has
had to make: both ends meet as best
he could with six francs a day and
the lieutenant with eight.
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Two of my men got badly mauled by
lion, SO our camp had to stop where
it was till they could be moved. After
a time one of them was able to walk
about with his arm in sling, and the
other was getting on well, SO one night
l decided to leave the big camp next
day and go with two or three camels
to some villages only days march
away. Early the next morning Ma
homed Moor, the headman, started
with the camels. stopped behind 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. l started at once with Abdul
lah and two other trackers, telling my
pony.boy to follow on as soon as he
could get the pony saddled. When
tracking. l have always found it 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
lion, and if the pony is kept close
up, it is sure to stamp or blow it's
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 tracking little difficult after we
left the riyer-bed, but when we had
followed it slowly for some distance,
we came to place where the lion had
lain down under thick bush, evil
IDENTIFY to shelter from the rain, as the
spoor after this was quiet distinct on
the top of the damp ground. This
made us think We were in for short
track, for it must have been light
when the lion went on again from
here, and lions generally lie up short
ly after the sun rises; but this day
proved an exception, because it was
cloudy and cool through the forenoon.
Trailing the King of Beasts.
The spoor now led us along sandy
path, where We could follow it as fast
as we could walk. When it turned off
into the bush we quite expected to see
the lion at any moment; but not bit
of it-he wandered about through
endless clumps Of mimosa a-d 'irgin"
bushes, as if he did not mean to lie
up at all.
The track at last led us down a
little sandy watercourse, which it fol-
lowed for some distance. Up to this
time we had had no real difficulty
in making it out, but now came our
first serious check. The nullah turned
of along the side of a stony ridge,
and, instead of going along it, the
lion had turned up the hill. We had
got the general direction tn" the lion
had been going in, but this was no
good to us, as on casting forward in
the same line to the bottom of the
other side of the ridge whore there
was some sandy ground, we could find
no sign of his having passed in that
direction. We spent some time hunt
ing about, growing less hopeful as
time went on. A man following a
trail by sight certainly has an enor-
nous advantage over a hound hunting
it by nose, because time is of no
particular object to him, and every
direction can be tried in turn. After
making out cast forward we went
back to the little water-course, and
followed that down for some distance,
hoping that the lion had turned down
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A penniless man, who struts about
in fine clothes, making people think he
is man of money and position, Is
practicing the art of bluff. Bluff, to be
explicit, is the art Of making much out
of little, of causing people to think
your brains or your position much
greater than they really are.
One would have thought that an art
like this belonged to human beings, be-
cause it requires some intelligence to
1lutf successfully. Yet many members
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Reading the Lion Tracks.

Abdullah still insisted that there
had been lions round the camp, and
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 and heavy
barrel away so quickly, so there were
probably more. The other hunters
had got hold of man at the village
who said he knew where the lions
always lay, SO they went with nim.
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 lit
tie way from camp, and that we ought
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AoepitabIe,

6oSPItab1c.
she-And did you enjoy your AT.
rican trip. major? How do you like
the. savages?
He-Oh, they were extremely kind.
hearted!: They wanted to keep mo
there for dinner.
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EASE E.,

Drather Sitdown-Dat's a mighty
short stub yer smokin', Dusty.
Dusty Dodgework-Yep! knows it,
dat's de way I alters like 'em; you
don't hev ter pull de smoke so fur!
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HE best piece of
lion tracking l ever
saw lasted five full
hours and is so
memorable in sew
eral respects that l
purpose to use it as
an Introduction to
that general method
of lion hunting.
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SaltinQ a Diamond Mine

Howard Dubois. the noted mining
engineer, told good story to the
Tech men recently, illustrating the
art" of sailing a diamond mine. The
story was told of a man in South
Africa who, while walking one day
over his property, suggested that they
assay some Of the soil.
In The search that ensued eight
rough diamonds were found and offers
began to fly through the air at a rapid
rate for the land, when the hosts wife
called out to her husband: "Why.
John, where are the other two?" The
sequel of the story was left to the
Observation-Disclosures Record.
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PeriIs of the Man Eater.

My first experience in tracking lions
was early in 1892, and the night be-
fore was rather an exciting one. After
hunting elephants unsuccessfully for
about a month, we were on our way
south, when we arrived one day at
some villages where the natives had
been very much bothered by five lions
which were said to be still in the
neighborhood. A girl had been killed
two days before, and an enormous
amount of damage had teen done
among the sheep and cattle. The first
day we camped there two of our party
had shooting zerebas made at the vii
Qage to which the lions generally
came, and just before sunset they
went off there.
tied up our two donkeys just out
side the camp, on the chance that the
lions might come and look us up. Just
after dark we we're having dinner in
the tent when there was a scuf11e out
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quite unable to move. All the life in
him seemed concentrated in his eyes,
which glared at us furiously. Another
shot put him out of his misery. The
first shot, a very bad one, had grazed
the spine just in front of the withers:
another quarter of an inch higher and
it would have missed altogether.
This lion was quite maneless, ex-
cept for few long hairs on each side
of the neck, and his teeth were worn
down quite short, so he was evidently
very old. He was in very good condi-
tion, Notwithstanding, but his stomach
was quite empty, which accounted for
his going so far before lying up. We
had to stop at the main camp for the
night when we got there, and did not
follow up our camels till the next day.
l have described this track rather at
length because it is good example of
many similar days.
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Future Ideal Town.

IN the ideal town Of the future, a.
pictured by Sir Oliver Lodge. tho
houses will have gas for heating by
open fires and for cooking, and cleo
tricfty for lighting. The gas, pro-
duced from the coal at the mine, will
be sent long distances through pipes.
as water is now distributed. It is
hoped that the experiment will be tried
soon, the burning Of crude coal in town
being absolutely forbidden, and at least
two English towns are already consid-
er1ng the plan. The publication of
the air is one of the greatest needs in
the Improvement of the conditions Of
city life.
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Driving the Lion to Bay.

The shape ma3s it n easy place to
drive, for little way out from the
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Battling Ways of the Jungle Folk.

AOAAS3
story just related. one of our party
went to place where two lions had
been killing regularly, and sat up two
nights for them with donkey as bait.
The lions must have left the district
for a day or two while he was there,
as there were no fresh tracks to be
found anywhere about. The day after
he came back to camp l happened 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, happened to
be at a place where he had camped
few days before. A lion roared near
my camp several times in the night,
and next morning l heard he had
taken a sheep from village close by.
We picked up his spoor in a river
bed near the camp, and after follow
ing it for some distance came to some
wells. The. lion had drunk twice, and
between the drinks had laid down
under the fence of shooting zereba,
which had been made to watch the
water. After drinking the second
time he had gone away.
Now and then when tracking Won
come across places where lions have
killed, and If it is on sand or bare
soil, you can tell everything that has
happened almost as we'll as if you
had seen it. We were camped once
on the edge of a river-bed and thick
covert ran right down to the back of
the camp. One night there was a
tremendous scuffling in these bushes,
so In the morning I went out to see
what had been going on, and found
that two lions had been chasing a
warthog, which had just saved it's
bacon by getting underground. 1t
must have been a very near thing,
as the lions had ploughed great fur
rows in the sand at the mouth of the
hole, showing they had pulled up pref
ty sharp. Warthogs generally go to
ground when pursued, and as there is
no second opening to the burrows, and
presumably no chamber at the end
where they can turn, they always go
in backwards. This has actually been
seen by sportsmen who have been
riding after them with a spear.
should think this pig can hardly have
had the time to do this Perhaps he
got jammed in head first, as he re-
fused to be smoked out when we tried
it.
BY permission Of Lengmans. Green &
Co., New York.
Copyright, 1909, by Benz. B. Hampton.)