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nerve, that requires an alert intelli-
gence and a quick eye to pass through
it and live. --...
Mr.. Cunninghame, who is organic
ing the Roosevelt expedition, is one
of the most experienced and clever of
African hunters. He will have COM
plete charge of everything from the
largest to the smallest detail. With
him at the head of things the presi-
dent can depend on having a success
full hunt. That is, If he is going for
sport and not merely as a scribe look
ing for local atmosphere for his book.
Many great African hunters have
killed all their game in the narrow
and dark confines of an ink bottle.
Africa is menagerie 11,500,00
miles in area, with the greatest COM
bination of lakes, rivers, mountains
and weld imaginable, veritable para
disc for wild animals. Notwithstand-
ing the destruction of big game, there
are still thousands of herds of every
thing Africa possesses for the hunter,
roaming over the weld only a few
days travel afoot from the coast.
There are hundreds of rivers that
have rarely been visited by the white
man. On the banks of these streams
hippopotami, rhinoceroses, elephants,
leopards, lions, gorillas and dozens OF
varieties of antelope, the names OF
which have never been heard by the
majority of Europeans or Americans,
gambol and fatten in gluttonous plen-
titude undisturbed by the crack of the
900 caliber express. It lis only in
reachable districts that the game is
killed to any great extent. The cost
and danger Of hunting in most Of the
country have protected 1t and will
protect it for many years to come.
FrightfuI Diseases Of the Jungle.
Where game is most abundant the
frightful diseases that nature seems
to have placed as. barrier against
the white mans invasion are also
abundant. In Africa's wild, beautiful,
mysterious forests, more to be feared
than all the lions and rhinos, lurk the
germs Of the deadly blackwater fever.
malaria. acknowledging sleeping sick
ness and the unknown reason for the
weld sores that drain ones life out
In 4 few months. These, with the
EAST African term for an expedition Of
Any kind. especially hunting expedition
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miasmal swamps, the noxious insects,
the Shiny, poisonous spears of the
natives, make hunting in Africa no
game for the chicken-hearted.
OF course, hunting as business IL
one thing and hunting for pleasure is
another. 1t is possible to kill African
game to . limited extent without the
slightest hardship. One can go on
safari accompanied by natives who do
all the woyk, even to carrying the
sportsman in a hammock up to the
game, selecting the correct rifle,
loading with the proper ammunition,
pointing out the place to shoot at
and handing the hunter the weapon.
The hunter merely pulls the trigger.
after seeing that there are number
of shikarees (native hunters) in
readiness to protect him should
he miss his mark and the game
charge. AS often as not he misses,
q shikaree shoots the game, and
his employer gets the credit It
is the dangerous side only of African
hunting that has any attractions for
tho man with any sporting instincts
in him, and it is only that side of
the hunt that is of interest to the
laity.
According to present intentions, Mr.
Cunninghame will take the Roosevelt
party over the route 1 have covered
twice, the last time very recently.
What 1 have passed through Roose-
velt must face. He will be lucky II
he comes out alive.
Like most Beers. 1 hare been hunt
ing, on and off, and associating with
hunters since l was ten years old.
Danger and hairbreadth escapes have
happened so frequently to, me that
most Of my hunting experiences ap-
pear almost too commonplace to
record. Yet some of them stand out
vividly from the rest, especially those
of recent occurrence. It would be
impossible to hunt any length Of time
in Africa without having some adven-
lures worth relating; adventures in
which steady eye. nerves of steel,
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is a sport, something to be played at;
hunting in Africa is a trade, almost a
profession. In America one merely
Africa, to hunt la mode, one takes
a battery of arms, usually three and
sometimes four, high power rifles of
different caliber, ranging from a six
and five-tenths millimeter to a 600
cordite express. The cartridges for
these rifles are charged with vari-
GUS bullets. solid nickel, steel, soft
nose long, soft nose short and split.
Each of these bullets was designed
by experts for special use, and on
the way they are used depends the
success of ones shot. Often the use
of the unsuitable bullet ends in the
hunters death. On small game the
light caliber arm, six five-tenths milli
meter, is used, and on large and dan
gerous game the nine millimeter Mau-
ser and 600 caliber cordite express
give the best results. The last-named
rife strikes the enormous blow of
$500 pounds, and has recoil of close
on hundred weight. That the man
whose hunting experiences has been
confined to bird shooting with shot
guns, or small game, with, say, a 32-
caliber rifle, may understand the
meaning of these figures, let me state
that the ordinary 32-caliber rife has
a recoil of perhaps ten to twelve
pounds. The double-barreled shot
gun, which to the ordinary hunter
seems to have all the kicking" ca
pacity any weapon needs. has a re-
soil of from 25 to 80 pounds.
The 900 caliber cordite express is
the most deadly hand arm made.
Notwithstanding the terrific force
of this 500 express bullet must be
placed in the correct part of an els-
phant's or rhinoceros' anatomy sto
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TAKES TOLL OF HUMAN LIVES
venturesome Explorers of Grand Can
yon of the Colorado in Con-
stant Danger.

Every year the river and the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado take their toll
in human life," recently said Freder-
ick s. Dellenbaugh, the artist-scholar.
who has painted pictures and written
books about that wonderful river that
rushes for hundreds of miles through
gorges hundreds of feet deep.
when l was with Major Powell on
his exploring expedition through the
Grand canyon 40 years ago we lost
several men, and the few other expe-
ditions that have followed ours since
then all have had to pay the river the
price in the same way" he continued.
"Powell's party was the first journey
white men ever made down through
that perilous portion of the Colorado
river, and almost every day Of the
many months it took us was full Of
danger. Every year some lives are
lost there. Two years ago a skeleton
Of a man was discovered in Marble
canyon lying on rocky shelf little
above the whirling waters of the
river. A newspaper dated in 1900 was
in the pocket of his coat, SO that 1t
was likely the man perished eight
years ago at least Whether he was
killed while trying to scale the insur.
mountable walls or whether he died
of starvation no one knows.
THAT part of the Colorado river
never gives up its dead. Those who
fall into the waters clutches literally
are dashed to pieces, and no trace Of
them ever is found.
"The Whirlpool rapids of the Nj.
agara river below the falls are terri
BILE to contemplate, but 1t can be said
without exaggeration that the Mag.
ara rapids are peaceful waters com.
pared to some Of the long stretches
of foam on the Colorado. The whirl.
pools of the Colorado are of the true
type-the water swirls round and
round and there is a broad, hollow,
funnel-shaped hole in the center of
them through which one might peer
down a good many feet IL he could
hover over it.
mot all the canyons toll, however,
is collected by the river. No one
knows what immeasurable mineral
wealth is hidden in the canyon walls,
and every year venturesome prospect
ors go into those gloomy depths seek.
ing the treasures that they guard.
These men. through some sudden rise
of water or. for some other reason,
frequently lose their lives in trying
to escape from the canyon. Most Of
them, fancy. go mad with hunger
and die In trying to scale the preci-
pices. II is the most awsome place
In the world-down there where the
river hows, where 1t never is fully
daylight except for . few brief min
utes at midday.
:
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and brain as quick as lightning are
life-saving essentials to a big game
hunter.
Most game drops at the first shot
from the rifle of an experienced hunt
er. "The game that makes the story
is the game that's missed" as the
Swahili least coast natives) say, and
there is nothing truer than that say
ing, as far as my experiences go, for
a bad shot nearly ended my trek a
little while ago in the Lake country.
l was treking between Lake Albert
Edward NYanza and Lake Kivu, the
greatest stretch of hunting ground in
the world, with caravan of a hun
dred men. We had marched steadily
through the early part of the day and,
now that the merciless white-sot sun
was directly overhead, l called a halt.
Each member of the caravan threw
himself down in the shade excepting
my shikaree Nick, a boy" from the
other side of the continent, native
Of Senegal. He never rested, and as
he got a percentage of the ivory We
secured, he never let the soles of his
feet grow soft for want of exercise.
About an hour passed before Nick
same swinging into camp with his
white teeth cleaning like new swords.
/ knew by his smile that there was
something afoot. He walked straight
to my elephant guns and beckoned
me. I knew he had struck fresh
spoor (traiD. Seizing my arms, I
,signaled my gun bearer and struck
out, Nick leading.
II there are any elephants about at
midday, the hunter is pretty sure to
make good bag, for at that time
they rest out of the direct rays of
the sun, dozing the hot hours away,
and are easily approached.
A Terrible Battle with Elephants.
After half an hours walk through
grass that was at least 20 feet high,
we came across herd Of about
twenty elephants. among which there
were some fine bull tuskers. AS ex-
pected, they were all resting out Of
the sun. They were difhcult to get at
on account of the thickness of the
undergrowth. 1t meant a long, pa
-tient crawl to good shooting posi-
tion, for to shoot at anything but
close quarters in such country meant
that the bullet would be detected by
v
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Taking No Risks.

"You don't play football, suppose"
said the landlord of row OF row OF
cottages to a prospective tenant.
mo"
"Ard you don't referee. I hope!"
"No. Why do you ask"
"Well, I'm taking no risks. Ye see.
the last fellow that took this house
refereed regularly at football matches.
One day he was thumped in the back
with the ball and he swallowed the
whistle. After that he couldn't draw a
long breath without shrieking like a
freight engine, and he kept the neigh
bors awake at nights, SO had to give
him notice to quit"
Poor chap! Rather bad for him.
wasn't it,"
"Oh, don't know. He's got . good
fob now on a lighthouse. Ye see. ON
foggy nights he's only to shove MS
head out of the window and breathe
hard, and he'd scare feet OF war
slips of the rocks"
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uo 10 Him.

Up to Him. na
Timsl wish could break ny Wfe
Of correcting my English In public.
Sims-You can.
Tfms-How?
sims-Learn 70 sNee0 eeereenyN
Detroit Free Press
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He experience Presi-
dent Roosevelt has
gained h u n t | n 6
game on the North
American continent
will be of little use
to him on his expe-
dition into the wilds
of East Africa.
Hunting in America
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To keep running meant that I
would soon be overtaken. Insrlncrlve-
ly I threw myself on the ground and
Nick fired. With thud that made
the earth trembts the elephant
dropped. The huge trunk twisted like
a wounded snake for moment, and
then the gigantic body relaxed in
death. 1t all took about two minutes
to happen and was a pretty close
shave, but it was worth the trouble,
for the tusks we got were big, weigh
ing close to hundred pounds.
The Killing of Nick, Hunter Boy.
A few months after this occurrence,
on the same trip, l lost Nick, my
Senegal boy" under terrible cireum-
stances. This brave man who had
hunted everything in Africa from the
Cape to Cairo, and from Zanzibar to
Banana, boasted many time that he
would never be killed by anything but
old age. But he was too sure. Long
association with danger had made
him careless, and this cost him his
life
We were treking south toward Lake
Tanganyika along native path run,
ming parallel with the Rusizi river. 1t
was frightfully hot, so hot that the
gun barrels burned our hands. The
porters staggered under their heavy
loads in a long string. mumbling
songs, each in his native tongue, to
keep up his tagged spirits. and the
sun rays danced in misty vibrations
from the parched earth. Suddenly the
jungle ceased and we broke into the
open weld. Four hundred yards away,
coming in the opposite direction, was
. herd Of at least twenty elephants.
They had evidently made long jour
ney and were suffering from the in
tense heat. Some Of them were occu-
pied In thrusting their trunks into
their mouths and drawing water from
their stomachs With this water they
were sprinkling their sunburned
backs. This is a habit that elephants
always practice when they are over
heated and cannot ind the shade of Q
friendly forest.
To me the sight Of the approaching
herd was welcome saw ivory which
meant thousands Of dollars to us II
we could get in q few good shots. /
ordered my caravan back into the un-
dergrowth. and. bringing uD the shik-
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RAISED HAMLET
~ Notes End Queries

From Notes md queries
This is an expression which have never
herd except from the members Of families bred
and born in Derbysnire hen thlnss nave
1,,1. wrong in household affairs, the mistress
GRASSES Hamlet on them" tthe offending per
sons); and when she tells her particular neigh
them" That the expression comes from the
ghost in Hamlet there need be no doubt It
would be interesting to know now the gnost
came to be part OF a folk-expression. have
also heard men say in fits of temper. I'll raise
hell ard Hamlet" The first expression is OF the
womenkind
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Professor J. G. Frasers book concerning the
influence of superstition on the growth Of in
stitutions is TO be published Immediately under
the title of "Psyches Task" 1t is IAN attempt
to sort out the seeds of good from the heap Of
evil which we call superstition, just as Psyche
was given the task of sorting out the different
kinds of seeds" The subjects dealt with are
government" Private Property" Marriage
and Respect for Human Life"
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BIOGRAPHY.

THE. SISTERS OF NAPOLEON. ELISA PAULINE
AND CAROLINE BONAPARTE. After the Test-
rnony Of Their Contemporaries ~ Joseph Turquan.
Translated and edited by W r. n. TrOWbrtdge l.
Illustrated. XVI, 800 Imported by Charles
Scribncl's SoDs)
HISTORY OF THE SAGE AND SLOCUN FAMILIES OF
ENGLAND AND AMERICA Hon. Russell Sage and
Margaret Olivia tSlocuml sage. BY Henry White
more 4to pp. 81. published tho awhorD
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The collected Papers" of Lord Lister fill
volume which the oxford University Press IS
about TO publish It is book which will doubt
less have many readers
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THE REORGANIZATION OF OUR COLLEGES b.
Clarence F Birdseye svo pp. *. 40 The Baker
Taylor Company
\ criticism OF administration Of some Of our
larger universities.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

PARsIMoNY IN NUTRITION. BY Sir James Crichton-
browne I2mo, rp. ri. i'll Dunk s Wasnaus Co)
Criticising some recently exploited theories OF
WHAT Is PRAGMATIsM: BY James Bissett Pratt. Phi
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THE f,IPLING BIRTHDAY BOOK Complied by 10
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MI William Stone Booth IS the author Of a
book which the Houghton Mifflin Company
announces as a remarkable literary discovery,
The title selected by Mr.. Booth runs thus:
Some Acrostic Signatures Of Francis Bacon.
Baron Veruam Of Verulam, Viscount St Alban;
together with some others, ell Of which are now
for the first time deciphered and published"
The description OF the work, presented by the
publishers, includes these details:
This book discoses about two hundred acrostic
signatures Of Francis Bacon, 10 be found in works
which with few exceptions appeared under the
names other men. with no names at all The
the realm OF suruise the question Of the author
ship the writings now attributed to the actor q
Stratford and to show that Bacon himself.
sometimes collaborating with his brother Anthony.
mt forth or COMPOSED several important works
ascrihed in his time. and since, 10 his Fellow poets
Spenser and Marlowe, and TO Puttenham, Boden-
ham and Shakespeare. Ben JOnsOn, Bishop Hall
John Milton, also, represented by some re-
rnarkqble acrostIcs hitherto unknown.
The volume IS richly documented, and, with but
three exceptions. every acrOstiC is accompanied by
n facsimile Of the earliest known text in which 1t
occurs. The facsimiles number 1872, and contain
about zoe aCrOStic signatures The reader Is thus
enabled to test for himself the validity OF every
statement in the book. - ,. -
Cfnhers and their Users, on AnCnymns and Pseudo
rvTls on Method and q full chapter with Speci-
mems OF aCrOStic signatures, from CyneWuf to Poe
II IS not much 70 say that the discovery or
Is the most astounding event In the
history Of critical literature
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DRAMA.
EDUCATIONAL.

swANWHITE. a Fairy Drama BY August strtadheIg
Translated by Francis J. Zegler- l2Tno. Up w. 100
philadelphia Brown Brothers.
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Some Pages from the life of Turkish women
at home will be found in the forthcoming book
BY Denetra Vaka CMrs. Kenneth Brown the
author is a Greek who was born in Constanti-
nople and who spent some years Of her youth In
this country When she returned to Turkey
she found many of her girl friends married ana
living in the marital harem and while visiting
them she made the observations recorded In
this book-which by the way she calls "Haren-
Xix" The Houghton Miffiin Company VIII
issue it.
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HISTORY.

FRANCE SINCE WATERLOO By ". Grinton Berry.
$50 Charles Scribner's SonsD
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Tall of Things Present
and to Come.

"a Lutte of Jade is the appropriate title Oh
g study of the Golden Age of Chinese poetry
which is TO be added to the Wisdom OF the East
Series" The author is Mr.. L. c. Byng-
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JUVENILE

YOUNG NEMESIS BY Frank T Bunen, F. r G 5.
Illustrated 12ruc. 3T2 IL r Button & Cob
tale Of adventure the seas
THIRTEEN GOOD ANIMALS Drawings by Henry G.
Keller. Rhymes by Elizabeth Kellogg 40. 80.
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
ART.

Fl oPEHTIHE SCULPTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE
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A history Of the development OF Florentine seu!Pt-
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illustrations well reproduced IN PhotograNure ana
Ia
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THE TESTS OF LIFE A Study Of the First Epists OK
Being the Kerr Lectures for 1903. By ths
Rev. Robert Law 3 D Svo. pp All. I'm
ported by Charles Scribners Sons1
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- 60. - by RuayaEa E,IDlLasl -.

seph Finn. authorized by Rudyard Kiplng( i2r1c
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WHY We LOVE LINCOLN. BY James Creeuau. Illus
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THE. A 2 G. OF TAXATION With Boston Object Les
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Addresses. BY c. b FiIebrown- l2rno TX. -
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PICCADuL.Y 80 PAIL MALL Manners. Morals ard
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THROUGH FINLAND BY A Maccanurh scott Mus
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POETRY.
RELIGIOUS

LINCOLN CENTENARY ODE. BY Hamilton Schuyler
Svo pP- s privately printed
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FICTION.

HOUSES OF GLASS. Stories of Paris By Helen Mac
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There are some amusing glimpses OF the IA
nous Whately in a book just brought out IN
England Swinging on a slenderly fashioned
chair in a lady's drawing-room, "a crack was
heard. leg gave way. he tossed it to the sofa
without interrupting his talk" He was sloven-
". Spying a hole in his black silk archiepisco-
pal stocking, he would fix on his leg beneath a
piece of sticking plaster to conceal it"
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There is solid good sense in paper on teach
ing in our schools. printed in The DIAL OF
Chicago. Apropos of the English course the
writer says that the rational ideal gives the
teacher a rowing commission to explore the
minds of his individual students. to use his own
means Of lighting up the dark places, and to
experiment by selecting from the whole range
of literature, until he discovers what will prove
most richly nutritive in each given instance
He adds:
We do not hesitate TO say that very large part
OF the instruction IN English now given IN our
schools sheer of time and energy II fails
10 create ar intelligent comprehension Of literary
art or a feeling for its beauty and emotional sig
nifcance The facts of uterature-its history and
its mechanics be drilled into the mind by or
binary methods Of teaching. but the spirit that
gives them life is be transmitted only BY some
subtler process. not capable Of formulation by any
sort Of pedagogy. As long the teaching OF lit
erature IS carried in accordance with the rules
OF the system. by Of imposed texts and class
exercises and periodical examinations. II Is certain
to fail OF its real purpose. Better no instruction
al all than instruction OF the systematic kind which
may accomplish admirable results in science, but
which Is than useless IN aesthetics and ethics
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Mr.. " f. Norris. who brings out in these
days fewer books than Of yore. has finished
new novel and it is to be published soon. He
calls It The Perjurer."