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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10

thinks I, eff l can get over the
gate, I'm safe, fer he dassent shoot
me in the road. And l gained on i'm
Il swear gained on i'm; but just as
/ clumb the gate, Cy lambasted me
with that stick of wood"
Sam took his hat off and showed me
the place. There was welt on his
head as big as an apple, that glowed
red and sullen under his black hair.
II would a got off with that" he
went on, ref1ectively strokins that
lump, "but when | went to slide down
on the other side of the gate, my old
vest caught on the top spike, and
while ! was hangin' thar Mr.. Bilks
shot me with his bean-gun. 1t hurt
some worse than the stick of wood,
and yelled SO loud my vest split up
the back, and that's how I'm here a
tellin' you about II"
! asked him il he was going to give
Sadie up, and he said no. He said 1t
was no use trying to force the old
man, so he was going to use strategy
| Strategy" observed Sam, as he
moved toward the door, feeling OF
those bumps on his face with tender
and reminiscent touch-"strategy's a
humaner way than force to tackle q
decrepit old embicile that's goin' to
be your father-in-law; an l reckon
allowin' fer his disposition, it's heaI
safer"
The next week, on Wednesday
morning, Sam came into the post
office and told me everything was al
right. He and Sadie were going te
elope that very afternoon and 60 ovel
IN Mi1lhnro onH GOT rriod
He told me how the thing was 60
ing to work out. That afternoon. al
three o'clock, when Mr.. Bilks woult
be at work out in the corn-field. Sadie
was to slip out of the house and rur
through the back pasture to the line
fence.
i Sam was to meet her there. and
they would sneak through his fields t
the road, where rig would be wait
ing. He had borrowed his Uncle
Lens mare, Molly. and his big. high
seated road wagon, SO that II Cy saw
1t there he wouldn't be suspicious.
II tho old man should give chase
rough going. and Sadie could craw
ing. Sam promised to come aroun,
, worked.
It was almost dark when Sam cam
back, and had closed the post-offic'
! and had gone over to my house
which 10 next door, and was sittinl
out on the front porch. When San
/ drove UP I noticed that he was in hi
own busy; and as he was by him
/ self: concluded that the elopemen
had gone wrong.
, But he laughed as no came upol
the porch. and slapped me 0n tn
tback. Then he sat down en- tn
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10

ion, plucking big tuft, waving it nonchal-
antly about in his trunk, and finally tucking
it into his mouth; pausing to rub his side
against tree, or to sway to and fro as he
stood; and continually waving his tail and
half cooking his ears.
At noon on January S, 1910, we reached
Butiaba, sandpit and marsh on the shores
OF Lake Albert Nyanza. We had marched
about 100 miles from Lake Victoria. We
camped on the sandy beach by the edge of
the beautiful lake, looking across its waters
to the mountains that walled in the opposite
shore. At midday the whole landscape
trembled in the white, glaring heat; as the
afternoon waned wind blew off the lake,
and the west kindled in ruddy splendor as
the SUN went down.
An Extraordinary Adventure.
At Batiaba we took boats to 60 down the
Nile to the Lado country. The head of the
water transportation service in Uganda,
Captain Hutchinson, R. N. R., met US, hav-
ing most kindly decided to take charge of
our flotilla himself. Captain Hutchinson
was mighty hunter, and had met with one
most extraordinary experience while ele-
plant hunting; in Uganda the number Of
hunters who have been killed or injured by
elephants and buffaloes is large.
He wounded big bull in the head, and
followed it for three days. The wound was
serious and on the fourth day he overlook
the elephant. 1t charged as soon as it saw
him. He hit it twice in the head with his
.45O double barrel as it came on, but neither
stopped nor turned it, his second rifle, a
double 8 bore, failed to act and the ele-
plant seized him in its trunk 1t brandished
him to and fro in the air several times, and
then planting him on the ground knelt and
stabbed at him with its tusks.
Grasping one of its forelegs he pulled
himself between them in time to avoid the
blow; and as it rose he managed to seize a
hind leg and chung to it. But the tusker
reached round and plucked him off with its
trunk and once more brandished him high
in the air, swinging him violently about.
He tainted from pain and dizziness. When
he came to he was lying on the ground; one
of his attendants had stabbed the elephant
with a spear, whereupon the animal had
dropped the white man, vainly tried to catch
its new assailant, and had then gone off for
some three miles and died
Hutchinson was frghtfully bruised and
strained, and it was six months before he
recovered.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10

ana gOOQ
Along the road we did not see habitations
or people; but continually there led away
from it, twisting through the tall grass and
the bush jungles. native paths, the earth
beaten brown and hard by countless bare
feet; and these, crossing and recrossing in
network, led to plantation after plantation
of bananas and sweet potatoes, and clusters
of matched huts.
In the afternoon, as the sun began to get
we'll beyond the meridian, we usually sailed
forth to hunt, under the guidance of some
native who had come in to tell us where he
had seen game that morning. The jungle
was so thick in places and the grass was
everywhere SO long, that without such
guidance there was little successful hunting
to be done in only two or three hours. We
might come back with buck, or with two
or three guinea-fowl, or with nothing.
Entering the Kingdom of Unyoro.
Ten days from Kampalla we crossed the
little Kaful river, the black, smooth current
twisting quickly along between beds of
plumed papyrus. Beyond it we entered the
native kingdom of Unyoro. 1t is part of the
British protectorate of Uganda, but is sep
arate from the native kingdom of Uganda,
though its people in ethnic type and social
development seem much the same.
We halted for day at Hoima, spread
out little native town, pleasantly situated
among hills, and surrounded by plantations
of cotton, plaintains, yams, miet and beans.
1t is the capital of Unyoro, where the king
lives, as well as three or four English Off
Gals, and Episcopalian and Roman Catholic
missionaries. The king, accompanied by
his prime minister and by the English COM
missioner, called on me, and | gave him 5
O'Clock tea he is Christian, as are most Of
his chiefs and headmen, and they are send
ing their children to the mission schools.
From Hoima we entered country COW
cred with the tall, rank elephant grass. The
first evening, as we sat in the cool, open
cane rest-house, word was brought us that
an elephant was close at hand We found
him after ten minutes walk; young bull,
with very small tusks, not worth shooting.
For three-quarters OF an hour we watched
him, strolling about and feeding, just on the
edge of wall of high elephant grass.
Although we were in plain sight, 80 yards
off, and sometimes moved about, he never
saw u.s. for an elephants eyes are very bad
He was feeding on some thick, luscious
grass, in the usual leisurely elephant fash
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10
SUNDAY oAPTrAL NEWS. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER d, 1912

then came, followed by Kermit, and by
the other gun-bearers. The country was
covered with tall grass, and studded with
numerous patches of jungle and small forest
In few minutes we heard the elephants,
four or Ave OF them, feeding in thick jungle
where the vines that hung in tangled masses
from the trees and that draped the bushes
made dark caves Of greenery. It was diff
cult to find any space clear enough to see 50
yards ahead Fortunately there was no
wind whatever.
We picked out the spoor Of big bull and
for an hour and half we followed it, kon-
goni usually in the lead. Two or three
times, as we threaded our way among the
bushes, as noiselessly as possible, we caught
glimpses of gray, shadowy bulks, but only
for second at time, and never with suffl-
cient distinctness to shoot.
The elephants were feeding, tearing down
the branches of rather large-leafed tree
with bark like that of scrub oak and big
pods containing beans; evidently these
beans were favorite food. They fed in
circles and zigzags, but toward camp, until
they were not much more than half mile
from it, and the noise made by the porters
in talking and gathering wood was plainly
audible; but the elephants paid no heed to it,
being evidently too much accustomed to the
natives to have much fear of man. We con-
tinually heard them breaking branches, and
making rumbling or squeaking sounds.
They then fed slowly along in the opposite
direction, and got into rather more open
country; and we followed faster in the big
footprints of the bull we had selected.
The Pursuit of the Wounded Bull.
Suddenly in an open glade Kongoni
crouched and beckoned to me, and through
a bush l caught the loom of the tusker. But
at that instant he either heard us, saw us, or
caught Whit of our wind, and without a
moments hesitation he himself assumed the
offensive. With huge ears cooked at right
angles to his head, and his trunk hanging
down, he charged full tilt at us, coming
steadily, silently, and at great pace, his
feet swishing through the long grass; and a
formidable monster he looked.
At 40 yards fired the right barrel of the
Holland into his head, and though | missed
the brain the shock dazed him and brought
him to an instant halt Immediately Kermit
put bullet from the Winchester into his
head as he wheeled gave him the second
barrel between the neck and shoulder
through his ear and Kermit gave him three
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10
some auburn chattered as they raced away

some auburn chartered as they raced away
among the branches.
Christmas day we passed on the march.
There is not much use in trying to celebrate
Christmas unless there are small folks to
hang up their stockings on Christmas eve,
to rush gleefully in at dawn next morning to
open the stockings, and after breakfast to
wait in hoping expectancy until their elders
throw open the doors OF the room in which
the big presents are arranged, those for
each child on separate table.
The Fate of the Elephant Poacher.
Kermit and usually got two or three
hours hunting each day. We killed sing
sing waterbuck, bushbuck and bohor reed
buck. AT the bushbuck camp we met
number Of porters returning from the
Congo, where they had been with an ele-
phant poacher named Busherri-at least
that was as near the name as'we could make
out. He had gone into the Congo to get
ivory, by shooting and trading; but the wild
forest people had attacked him, and had
killed him and seven of his followers, and
the others were struggling homeward. In
Kampalla we had met an elephant hunter
named Quin, who had recently lost his right
arm in an encounter with wounded tusker
Near one camp the head chief pointed out
two places, now overgrown with jungle
where little villages had stood less than
wear before. In each case elephants had
taken to feeding at night in the shambas and
had steadily grown holder and holder until
the natives their crops ruined by the depre-
dations and their lives in danger, had aban-
doned the struggle, and shifted to some new
place in the wilderness.
We were soon to meet elephant ourselves.
The morning of the 18th (December) was
rainy; we struck camp rather late, and the
march was long, SO that it was mid-after-
noon when Kermit and | reached our new
camping place. Soon afterward word was
brought us that some elephants were near
by we were told that the beasts were in
the habit of devastating the shambas, and
were bold and truculent, having killed man
who had tried to interfere with them. ker-
NIT and | at once started after them, just as
the last of the safari came in, accompanied
by Cuninghame, who could not go with us
as he was recovering from bout of fever.
In half an hour we came on fresh sign
and began to work cautiously along it. Our
guide Withholding savage with blunt
spear, went first. followed by my gun-bear-
er, Kongoni, who is excellent on spoor
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10
more shots before he slowed round and dis

more shots before he slowed round and dis
appeared
There were not many minutes Of daylight
left and we followed hard on his trail, Kerr
init leading. At first there was only an oc-
casional govt Of dark blood; but soon we
found splashes of red froth from the lungs;
then we came to where he had fallen, and
then we heard him crashing among the
branches in thick jungle to the right.
In we went after him, through the gath
ering gloom, Kongoni leading and close
behind, with the rifle ready for instant ac-
ton; for though his strength was evidently
fast falling, he was also evidently in savage
temper, anxious to wreak his vengeance be-
fore he died.
On we went, following the bloody trail
through dim, cavernous windings in the
dark, vine-covered Jungle; we heard him
smash the branches but a few yards ahead,
and fall and rise; and stealing forward Ker-
NIT and slipped'up to within dozen feet
of him as he stood on the other side of some
small twisted trees, hung with a mat of
creepers.
put bullet into his heart, Kermit fired;
each of us fired again on the instant the
mighty bull threw up his trunk, crashed
over backward, and lay dead on his side
among the bushes. A fine sight he was a
sight to gladden. any hunters heart, as he
lay in the twilight giant in death.
Welcoming the Safari.
1t was pleasant to stride along the road
in the early mornings, followed by the sa-
fari, and we saw many a glorious sunrise.
But as noon approached it grew very hot
under the glare of the brazen equatorial sum-
and we were always glad when we APP
preached our new camp, with its grass
strewn ground, its wckerwork fence, and
COOL open rest house.
The local sub-chief and his elders were
usually drawn up to receive me at the gate,
bowling, clapping their hands and uttering
this long-Irawn e-h-h-s; and often banana
saplngs or branches would be stuck in the
ground to form avenues of approach, and
the fence and rest house might be deco
rated with flowers of many kinds
Sometimes we were met with music, on
instruments of one string OF three strings,
of ten strings-rudimentary hddles and
harps; and there was much more compli-
Gated instrument, big and cumbrous, made
of bars of wood placed on two banana
stems, the bars being struck with hammer
as if they were keys; its tones were deep
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10

n KEAN and stingy-those were
N the failings Of Cy Bilks. The
neighbors used to come into
the post-ofice, which is my place of
business, and tell me about 1t. They
said it was natural, the same as his
being 50 ugly.
They said that nobody could be as
mean and stingy-or ugly, either-as
Cy was, ON his own hook, and nobody
could deny that Cy was ugly. He had
plenty of bones and whiskers, but he
didn't have enough flesh to cover his
bones and nourish his whiskers.
(, Sam Elder said he guessed that was
whore Cy's strength lay-n his
whiskers, because there weren't any
sikns Of 1t anywhere else.
Yet. - I say. mean and stingy, and
not poor and hairy. were Cy's failings.
The money he made was not his own
gain half az much as 1t was the loss of
others. He raised corn by the toll OF
his starved horses rather than by the
sweat Of his brow, and all the animals
on his place looked abused and for.
lorn.
Cy had q daughter. and, although
no one might believe it. she was a
pretty and winsome girl a. ever
lived. After her mother died, Sadie
came in for cooking and sewing and
hoeing corn and making hay, but thai
didn't make any difference to her
She was just ~ pretty and good
uatured a. ever.
But Cy wouldn't let his daughter
ret married. He said he couldn't At
ford to let her get married. and leave
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
NEW RULING IN NAVY.

All young officers In the navy viii
hereafter serve at least one year on
gunboat duty. according to new Plan
OF detailing announced at the navy
department.
The navy department regards gun
boat duty a. highly Important. be-
cause the sunboat officers are thrown
ON their own resources to larger ex-
tent than on the battleships and moro
quickly learn self.reliance and conn
dence in their own abilities.
In the future the period OF duty for
all gunboat Officers, except the COM
mander. will be one year. At the end
OF this period they will be ordered to
the battleships and armored cruisers.
With this new system q greater num-
Der Of officers will have the advan-
tage Of gunboat training than II now
the case. The officers will have, while
on gunboat duty, larger individual re-
sponsibilities and range duties. 1t
10 expected the new plan Of one year
details will make gunboat duty more
popular, as such assignments will not
hereafter mean long separation from
tho feet.
A number Of ensigns Of the class
of 1911 are now being detailed to the
gunboats. This gives them distinct
advantage over their classmates not
70 detailed, a. these ensigns imme-
diately become watch and division Of
ficers. with quarters In the wardroom.
For this reason. only those who have
proved special efficiency at sea in the
last year are being chosen. At the end
Of the year they will return to the
battleships.
1t is expected that the same policy.
somewat modified, will also be applied
to the destroyers. In this serv-
ice, however, young oncers will be
allowed to remain two years II they
choose.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
WON'T PAY WARDEN q.

The Atlanta prison COW, whose in
discretions caused two hours debate
in congress several months ago, and
changed the wording Of $450.000 ap-
preparation bill, stirred Comptroller
of the Treasury Tracewell the other
day to write long legal opinion al to
her conduct.
The cow wandered out Of her pas
ture and ate up all the neighboring
farmers turnips. She was impound-
ed and Warden Meyer paid two dol
lars out OF his own pocket to get her
free. He could not collect from the
government because the auditors here
disallowed the claim.
Congress failed to remedy the situa-
ton, 30 that Meyer could get his mon
ey back, and the comptroller the
other day added another chapter BY
handing down a decision that the ex-
penditure was an illegal one that the
government could not repay. The
warden will make another appeal to
congress for his two dollars.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
DANGEROUS Story.

A Yale undergraduate had been hav-
Ing a fairly lively time OF It during his
summer vacation. He was invited out
to dinner with his mother, and he was
seen to get bit nervous when she be-
gan one Of her favorite stories. This
concerned the burning Of their home,
on which occasion the sons watch,
left on a bureau, was found ticking In
the ruins after the house had been
destroyed.
At the conclusion Of the story the
college boy jumped up abruptly and
left the room with his handkerchief
over his face az II suddenly seized with
nose bleed. He did not return for sew.
eral minutes, by which tine the con-
versation had drifted.
After dinner the ''undergrad's" chum
asked the significance Of the move.
III tell you. but nobody else" said
he. when mother told that story !
was afraid she was going to ask me
to show the watch"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
GRADUATES sHUN MINISTRY.

A remarkable decrease in the num-
Der OF Protestant ministers gradu'
ated from the universities Of the coun-
try is shown In q current report OF
the United States bureau of educa-
ton.
1T 10 plain" says the report, that
educated men no longer seek the cloth
10 they did when the nation was
younger. 1t may mean much or little
that the percentage Of ministers
among the. graduates Of typical COL
leges has declined from q proportion
Of so to 20 per cent. to less than 10
per cent.
An examination of the figures COL
lected at the close Of the nineteenth
century from 81 representative COL
leges discloses the fact that the min
istry takes between I'VE and six per
cent Of the university graduates.
which marks the lowest point for that
profession during the two and one
half centuries Of American college his
tory.
Between the years 1896 and 1900
only S65 divinity students were gradu-
ated from 81 representative colleges
and universities, or 50 per cent OF the
total number graduated, which was
over 14,478.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22

Church. Lexington. Va.
The wedding Is the sequel Of TO
nance begun when the groom was re-
jected by a daughter Of his bride.
Announcement of the engagement
Of Miss Dorothy Mclean. daughter
Of the bride. to Mr.. Randolph, the
bridegroom. was made In August. 1909,
and was later Cancelled.
Harold Hellyer. next door neighbor
and childhood sweetheart, had become
a constant caller on Miss Mclean and
within a year she married Hellyer.
The Tilted man continued calling at
the Mclean home. and the fact that
he 10 in the early thirties while Mrs.
Mclean is nearly forty-five. served to
allay notice. The wedding came a. a
surprise. ..,..g..f.z.-+.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
The VandaI.

Senator Depew was deprecating at
Saratoga certain contemplated
changes in the Constitution.
ITO break up the venerable Consti'
tuition like that" he said with a smile.
"smacks of vandalism, and recalls
Tom Tunkin to my mind.
"Tom, travelling in Italy with q
friend, said one DAY In Naples:
"'Well, we've dune Naples thorough
ly-Aquarium and Arcade, Pompeit
and vesuvius. Lots get on to Flor
ence.'
""Oh, the deuce With Florence his
friend growled. There's no cafe life
there. nor nothin'.'
"'Look here said Tom 1unkln
sternly, a man tours Europe for some
thing a little bit more elevating than
cafe life. I'm going on TO Florence II
I 20 alone. I've got to get chunk on
of Michael Angeles famous statue Of
David for my souvenir collection.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
TO Oslerlxe Boosters.

Harry NJ. Lamon, in charge Of the
poultry division Of the bureau Of AMI
NAL Industry Of the department Of az
riculture, recommends the Oslerixa-
ton of all roosters after the spring
hatch. He thinks that II his advice
is followed, the cost Of eggs and con-
sequently the high cost Of living. will
be considerably reduced.
Mr.. Lamon has found, after many
experiments. that infertile eggs are
best for food, and will keep longer
than fertile ones. BY confining. killing
or selling all male birds after the
breeding season, Mr.. Lamon says the
farmers OF this country will prevent
an annual loss Of $15,ooo.ooo in eggs.
The statement made by Mr.. Lamon
is cheering news to the poultry keep
ers of Washington, whose ROSTERS are
under ban Of the health office.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
His Idea Of Sunday.

Albert was solemn-eyed. spiritual.
looking child.
Nurse" he said one day, leaving
his blocks and laying his hand gently
on her knee. nurse, is this Gods
day."
mo, DEAR" said the nurse, this Is
not Sunday; It is Thursday"
I'm so sorry," he said. sadly, and
went back to his blocks.
The next day and. the next, in, his
serious manner, he asked the same
question and the nurse tearfully said
to the cook:
THAT child Is too good for this
world"
On Sunday the question was repeat
ed. and the nurse. with a sob in her
voice, said: Eyes, Lambie. this 10
Gods day."
Then where is the funny paper7"
he demanded.