Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-27

missed the shot. BY this time felt des-
perate, and decided for once to abandon le-
gltimate proceedings and act on the Ciceron-
ian theory, that he who throws the javelin
all day must hit the mark some time. Ac-
cordingly emptied the magazines of both
my rifles at the oryx as they ran across my
front, and broke the neck of fine COW. at
$50 yards
Six or seven hundred yards off the survi-
vors stopped, and the biggest bull, evidently
much put out, uttered loud bawling grunts
and drove the others round with his horns.
Meanwhile was admiring the handsome
dun gray coat of my prize, its long tail and
long. sharp, slender horns, and the bold
black and white markings on its face. Hard
ly had we skinned the carcass before the
vultures lit on it; and with them were two
marabou storks, one of which l shot with a
hard bullet from the Springfield
The oryx, like the roam and sable, and in
striking contrast to the Gland, is bold and
hard fighter, and when cornered will charge
man or endeavor to stab lion. If wound
ed it must be approached with certain
amount of caution. The Gland, on the other
hand, in spite of its huge size, is singularly
mild and inoffensive, an old bull being as
inferior to an oryx in the will and power to
fight as it is in speed and endurance.
The Amuzing "Shenzis."
had kept four kikuyu with me to accom-
pany me on my hunts and carry in the skins
and meat. They were with me on this oc-
casion; and it was amusing to see how my
roft al
mali the gun-bearers, Sinlba the sails and
Kiboko the skinner, looked down on their
wild and totally unciviized brethren They
would not associate with the "shenzis' as
they called them; that is, savages or bush
people. But the 'shenzis" always amused
and interested me; and this was especially
true on the afternoon in question.
Soon after we had started campwards
with the skin and meat of the oryx, we en-
countered succession of thunder storms.)
The rain came down in deluge, so that the
water stood ankle deep on the flats, the
lightning flashed continuously on every side
and the terrific peals OF thunder made one
continuous roll At first it maddened Ma
horse; but the uninterrupted blaze and
roar, just because uninterrupted, ended by
making him feel that there was nothing to
be done, and he plodded stolidly forward
through the driving storm.
My regular attendants accepted it with an
entire philosophy, which was finally copied
by the Kikuyus, who at first felt frightened.
One of them had an old umbrella which he
shared with crony. He himself was car
rying the marabou stork; his crony had long
strips OF raw oryx meat wound in a swollen
grdle about his waist; neither had stitch
on save the blankets which were wrapped
round their throats; and they clasped each
other in tight embrace as they walked
along under the battered old umbrella.
The Majesty of the African Storms.
In this desolate and lonely land the maj
csty OF the storms impressed on the be-
holder sense OF awe and solemn exaltation
Tossing their crests, and riven by lightning,
they gathered in their wrath from every
quarter of the heavens, and darkness was
before and under them then, in the lull Of
moment. they might break apart, while the
sun turned the rain to silver and the rain
bows were set in the sky; but always they
gathered again, nenacing and mighty-for
the promise of the bow was never kept and
ever the clouds returned after the rain.
Once as l rode facing Kenia the clouds
tore asunder, to right and left, and the
mountain lowered between, while across its