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stream that sings to the soltudes and m
vites the fisherman to throw in a line
for its speckled trout.
The whole region Is a huntsman
paradise. In season he is allowed to help
himself to two elk. to bear without limit,
to deer, and sheep and antelope. The
hunting season is the fall, and the hardy
even defy the six feet of snow of the
There are hunters lodges throughout the
region and guides who will write
a guarantee of close-in shot at dozen
varieties Of big game. IT is UP to the
hunter to hit the mark
1t was here, one September morning,
that the writer stumbled upon big
game hunter from Chicago who had pot
ted two bears in five minutes and was
engaged in the undignified occupation of
turning handsprings.
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Jackson Hole was first settled by out
laws and by guides who plotted hunts
men into its wilds for fat fee. Many
Of these men have since become stockmen
and farmers. 1t has been found that
the region roundab bout is a good grazing
ground for cattle, and the lowlands may
be irrigated, thus supplying hay for
winter feeding. So the town of jackson
has planted itself in the middle of this
zenship congregate for the bit of a touch
of the outside world that occasionally
finds its way over the mountains. Maude
Adams, the actress has a ranch near
here and an uncle, who is in every re-
spect a typical frontiersman. runs it for
her.
And in the winter come the elk. The
herds of this prize game drift into the
mountains in Yellowstone Park and that
game preserve Immediately to the south
of it for the summer grazing. The sum-
mer food IL found at elevations above
5000 feet In the park no game is ever
shot. and outside the hunting season
is short The herds are SAFE With the
coming of autumn the SHOWS push the
herds gradually on the peaks and
plateaus are covered with four feet of
snow and the elk can find no food. They
push their ways into the valleys.
Occasionally there Is an especially Sc
we're season. Then it is that jackson Hole
becomes the haven of the elk. Long be-
fore Lewis and Clark, the first white men
i'm this region. pushed their way across
these mountains. the elk had known Jack
son Hole as haven When the seasons
were unduly severe. Here the SHOWS were
lighter and the winds pew with less Sc
verify. Here there was rank grass in
the marshes and life might be preserved
in all seasons.
But now the farmer STANDS IN the way.
The grass of the marshes has been cut
for hay and ricked up behind hlgn FENCES
former grazing grounds. Man creatures
chase antlered claimants away with
wicked pitchforks.
So a condition has arisen under which.
in bad seasons. the farmers are forced to
allow the elk to eat up all of their vaiu-
hon
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barnyards by the thousand. In the spring
of 1911 there were to be counted about
Jackson Hole the carcasseS of 10000 elk
that had starved to death. 8. y. Leek,
a resident of jackson Hole and the maker
of many rare photographs of elk. says
that he has walked for a mile upon, the
forms Of these creatures that had starved
To death.
When this happened III 1911 a mighty
cutlery went mp The fact that wild crc2-
lures in nature often face such condi-
tons and that such conditions are often
even needed to maintain the balance OF
nature was largely overlooked. The gov
eminent Was moved to make an appro-
priation with which to hny hay and feed
the elk whenever such conditions re-
CURED. Fifty thousand dollars was APP
propri:ited
Famine conditions have not come about
since and much of the money has been
spent in the distribution of the animals.
General conditions have been favorable
since the winter OF 1JIa and 1911. the
herds have waNed fat and their numbers
have increased. There is no way of know
ing just how many elk there are in the
Yellowstone and in the Jackson Hole
country. Estimates range as high as
$1,000 and as low as 15,GC0, but the for
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YOUNG ELK READY FOR SHIPMENT
have state game preserves. These are
usually in wild and wooded parts OF the
commonwealth and are carefully mar
shaled. 80 that native game may have
cape determination.
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Most of these preserves are stocked
with deer and such common game. Most
Of them offer favorable conditions for the
development of elk herds. 1t is into
these that the elk from Wyoming are
being introduced. So it happens that
these shy creatures look down into the
passes Of the Shenandoah that witnessed
the dash of Sheridan half century ago.
peep over the rim of the Grand Canyon,
or sniff the smoke of industry that rises
from the busy towns Of Pennsylvania.
The other conditions under which the
elk finds itself in new surroundings IS
when handled directly by the federal
government. The United States itself Is
sponsor for certain game preserves IN
national parks and forests. These are
under the administration of the central
government, just as Is Yellowstone Park
itself. Into them are being introduced
the elk. 1t was in this way that the elk
and game preserve in Oklahoma. and
there. under conditions rather strange
10 them, came to fit into new nome IL
is the federal government that Is looking
after the herds that have recently been
transferred to the national forests of
Arizona, where, in the high mountains,
they find a home more like that from
which they came. In Glacier Nauonai
Park there are also elk. but to their
number are being added others from the
big herd.
The home of these elk is the widest
and most romantic region in the United
States. Ii is most remote from the toot
or the locomotive, most unspoiled by the
the west, as 1t was known to the from
tiersman OF a generation ago This region
is known as JACKSON Hole. 1t lies just
south or Yellowstone Park. and Is a
IeaShed only after much travel and
mountain climbing
Here. for two decades after law and
order had been spread like a blanket
over the rest of the far west, outlaws
were won't to fee and find security from
not overzealous sheriffs' parties.
trip of $50 miles by stage and pack
train from Rock Springs, on the Union
Pacific, brings the hunter into Jackson
Hole from the south. similar distance
Travelled from the north reaches the wilds,
with Yellowstone Park as gateway.
Forty miles over the Teton range. one OF
the most magnifcently rugged of the
Rockies. is the town of st. Anthony, in
Idaho, which is actually on the railroad
Jackson lake is at the head of the
valley, and here the reclamation service
is putting dam across its mouth to
store its surplus flow for irrigation. The
Snake river runs through the forty miles
OF the length OF the valley, q crysta
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man thought that when such deposits
went to the joints man had rheuma-
tiSm. When they went to the kidneys
he had kidney trouble and stones in
the urinary organs, and when they
lodged in the arteries they produced
what is called hardening or the ar
teries. In the same way when such
deposits coated the nerves they pro-
duced sciatica.
AT the same time had been studying
about the Dead sea, the Great Salt lake.
and other bodies of water which have no
outlets. They are, you know. all salt
The Dead sea is one-fonrth salt and the
Great Salt lake is loaded with salt. Well.
ii occurred to me that my body was
much like the Dead sea. and that IL
needed less salt coming in and plenty OF
ways to get the salt out. | knew that
distilled water was pure, and with
the free perspiration | always have
thought that if | drank plenty of IL |
might get rid of some of the salts which
were covering my sciatic nerves. i tried
drinking il. and it worked like charm
Within a short time my sciatica left
me- and | have been free from rheuma
tism from that day 10 this. ] have kept
UP my drinking of distilled water. and
attribute my almost perfect health
largely To it When ] am IN the city
get il at the regular water supply stores.
and when | am at Baddeck | have lit
tie teR-dolar still with which | make
what | need.
referred to this talk last night. and
then told DR.. Bell OF my own experiences
with distilled water. which We're the re-
suit OF his story l told him how when
I left for Africa | had been urged 10
drink nothing but mineral waters. and
how for the first four months of my trip
I did so. | started in at Gibraltar with
drinking a well known French mineral
water. and kept this up during my
travels in Morocco. Algeria. Iunssia and
Tripoli The water contained consider
a BILE salts. and The result was that when
/ got to Egypt, my system was In ter
Cairo doctor and asked him what was
the matter He replied that | had been
taking in too much salt through that
water and he advised me to drink only
the juice of the Nile. then told him
about DIR. Bells theory. when he replied:
DIR. Bell is just right. All water which
passes through the earth has more or
less organic or inorganic substances in II.
and being already loaded. il cannot take
up the salts OF the system. Distilled water
is different. Ii is pure and ii sucks up the
salts like sponge. 1t is a magnet which
draws the salts to il and there is no
doubt but that it IS good for rheumatism.
To complete the story, when returned
home I found one of my friends afflicted
with rheumatism. and persuaded him to
try the cure. He did SO and within r few
weeks he We'll. ! recommended II
to Gen. James T. Du Bois. who had
Just been appointed United states min
lister to Colombia, and who was almost
wild with neuralgia. / persuaded him to
turn on the distilled water and he was
able TO proceed to his post. I could
mention several others. and / suggest the
prescription to my rheumatic readers.
FRANK c. CARPENTER.
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and has brought the hundreds OF millions
of the human race mouth to ear. refer
10 DIR. Alexander Graham Bell. whose IN
vention of the telephone has wrapped
network OF quiverng iron nerves about
the globe and brought mems souls TO-
gether.
The actions OF DIR. Bells mind that cui-
minated in the telephone were completed
more than generation ago. That m
vention was patented in 1876 and the
concept then brought forth will continue
10 work and grow as long as time shall
last
Ever since then the same mind has
heen working along inventive and scien-
tiac lines. Ii has created many new
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the name Of DR.. Bells summer home at
Baddeck. Nova Scotia, and hence the
name of the journal. This journal is is
sued in typev-riting, and there are only
five copies One of these copies goes to
the records of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton and the others are distributed in
different places. SO that there may be no
danger of loss by fire or flood.
This digest has now been issued for five
wears. and the work already comprises
thirteen volumes. each OF which Is as
thick as the ordinary law book, having
pages as large as those OF an old family
Bible. Each volumes contains .OO pages.
and roughly estimated. about 2OO,OtH
words In the whole thirteen volumes
there are more than 2,GD,GoO words and
these represent the condensation OF the
workings of DR. Bell mind for the past
five years only. In addition are the
wears preceding, constituting altogether a
mass OF material the contemplation of
which makes the mind of the ordinary
man buzz like an electric fan
/ wish | could show you these books.
The thirteen volumes comprise the work
ing OF Dr. Bells mind after he had pass
ed the Dr. Osler period. Take. for in
stance volume II. giving the last three
months of 1900. The index to the volume
covers twenty pages, and the subjects m
clude. among other things, experiments
on aerial navigation. ideas as to the
scientific breeding of sheep. and as to the
utiliza ton of waste heat, suggestions for
A new metric system for the United States,
experiments on preserving foods in
paraffin notes on eugenics and the de-
tailed biological history of cat.
J.
As | looked over this book. ! asked d..
Bell as to whether his mind worked as
well now as in the past. He replied:
Il have never felt stronger intellec-
tually Ny mind has greater power or
concentration than it ever had. It seems
to be quicker. and it does not tire along
the lines in which ! am interested.
sometimes work for eighteen hours at d
stretch"
Later in the conversation ! asked DR..
Bell as to his habits of work. He follows
the same program he has always used.
His afternoons and evenings are devoted
to social and business engagements and 1t
is only some hours after dinner that he
begins his intellectual work. His best
work is done at night and he tells me
that his mind is at it's brightest from mid
night on. He is then free from Interrupt
tons and can give his soul to abstract
thought and scientific invention. Until
very recently he has not gone to bed until
o'clock in the morning. and his present
time of retiring is little after 3. He
sleeps from until 10 or IL and finds that
this is all that he needs He sleeps out of
doors. He has an Open-air porch back OF
his library. and he uses this as his bed
room. He has no trouble in sleeping.
Notwithstanding the porch is right over
a playground where a little Montessori
school of boys and girls are making
the usual noises of children rang
ing in age from four to eight years. He
says that the noise affects him much the
same as that of sleeping car One gets
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Distributing the Elk
Is One of Uncle Sam s
Numerous S c h e m c S.
All States Will Be Al
lowed a Certain Num-
ber-Best Example OF
Saving the Vanishing
Game-How Govern
ment Cares for the AMI
mails During Severe
Winters.
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The Burden.

A PRoPOS of one type of American
family, Or. Charles L. Aked said IN
San Francisco:
..Smythe IS OF this type. \ man said 10
me about him:
".Is Smythe i'm business for himselfy'
For himself? said i. No. sir.
Smythe is not in business for himself.
Smythe is in business for an eXtravagant
family that is at present occupying the
royal suite in a twenty dollar day At
lantic City hotel. /"
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- RATTrJDE, generally speaking.
is about as elusive as that
- fountain of perpetual youth for
which Ponce de Leon looked SO
long. But that there Is such a
thing as gratitude one person in Wash
inyton will affirm, a person. incidentally.
whose word can be accepted by the en-
tire nation That person is Vice Presi-
dent Marshall As for the gratitude in
question, it is contained in about forty
letters, each bearing that stamp of sin
cerity which is SO rare, especially Ill con-
nection with prominent men.
But the fact remains the same MI.
Marshall has lasting testimonial of
the appreciation of some forty people.
And it is a testimonial. the story Of
which makes interesting reading. But
inasmuch as it is concerned largely WIN
children, the tale should be unfolded
child-faShion.
Well. once upon a time Mr.. Marshall
went to Arizona. To be exact, the time
was lust after November ) last. Further
more. to use the words of his secretary,
it was Immediately after losing his job
as governor and prior to his assuming
his job as Vice President.
However. he went to Arizona to ma
rest and quiet. While there he happeHfe s'.
upon Scottsdale. 1t can be taken LOT
granted that Scottsdale isn't any too
large for the reason that IL Doasls VI
but one schoolhouse, from the ueeeiIp
tions Of which contains but Two rooms
At any rate Mr. Marshall's interest CEN
tered about this primitive seat OF iear IL
ing. He visited the school and there ne
found Miss Grace Lopt. word OF en-
PLANTATION here is really necessary cess hsa S Mlss
Lopt was an fastener VINO S.d aa c.E s9ad
with her all the eastern ideas OF euuea
ton and was endeavoring to Apply tneiil'
but the rude implements at manu- n.a NJ.
it almost impossible. This was pasu :.
instill in the infant minds of her charges
certain lessons on natural history.
X X
The family cat, or even the houee
hold dog, familiar birds, etc, are mat
tiers that can be easily explained aio
ed by the fertile imagination OF smali
children, but when an attempt Is Hnaue
to describe the various species OF pros
native to this country as a Wno!e "
is another matter Miss Lopt was deal
ing with native Arizonans, Who' willie
they knew their own birds. were very
skeptical as regarded those tnat Hvsu
elsewhere. To say that Miss Lopt mao
trouble is but stating the case injury.
And then Mr. Marshall happened alons.
both in ScottSdale and this particular
schoolhouse in question
Mr. Marshall Immediately became IN :
terested. He talked to the children ana
Miss Lopt, and learned from her what
she hoped to do. But time and tlde 40
not wait for even a vice presidential
candidate Time moved, and tide swept
Mr.. Marshall from Scottsdale. SUISSE
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used to it and the mind takes no note
of 1t.
This program for six days of the
week goes on regularly, except when
DR.. Bell becomes especially interested
in some subject. AT such times he may
not go to bed at all, but will continue
his work until he has completed that
stage of his thought or investigation.
He may work far on into the day, go
ing for hours without sleep, and then
sleeping for many hours at a stretch
10 make it up.
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WANT to tell Soa
something about
[ h Q intellectual
methods of one Of
the greatest men
of all times, to give
YOU a peep. as IL
were. into that
wonderful mind
which. as far as
human speech is
concerned, has an
initiated distance
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We All Know Him.

I UDGE GARY. I'm his testimony at the
steel trust investigation. said of a
steel man who had gone under:
Hes one of those men who are always
seeing where they could make fortunes
if they only had some more money 10
lose"
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ItREE vacationists

ItREE vacationistS
were the other day
riding horseback
I b r o ugh Yellow
stone Park when
they bumped into
a herd of 1000
elk. Those ami
mails. true to in
stinct. stampeded,
and the vacation
lists. true 10 the
conduct of their
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/ have said "for six days of the
week" He has one day in every seven
which is entirely devoted to his own
intellectual existence. separate and
apart from every other human being
At Baddeck he has a sort Of retreat
consisting of an old houseboat which
he has erected on posts. and which is
hidden away far in the woods. He has
similar retreat in a cabin in some
woods which are easily reached from
Washington On this day he leaves the
madding crowd and goes off by him
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things which are known and has pro-
= duced others which will come 10 light
when its wonderful records are publish
ed. In 1ss: DR.. Bell was one Of the
priIpe factors in the creation of the
graphophone 4 little later on he or
!aniZed the movement for the teaching
III speech u the deaf along the lines OF
visible speech. invented by his father.
DR. Alexander Melville Bell. and TO
certain extent those OF ms eminent
grandfather Alexander Bell. who was an
authority on phonetics and defective
speech,
a+sr san On Bell took up the lnNes-
tieatiou of matters relating 10 aerlai night
bringing forth new basic principles of
construction which have been of great
va,,,e 10 aviation. In addition he has
,,.,da Investigations and discoveries along
many other lines. his work concerning
which has never been published. MS
mind. in short i N Intellectual dynamo
driven at an enormous voltage oS what
seems 10 be perpetual notion
| have seen some Of the first "orhlnss
az this mind in model which aleXaiidei
Graham Bell made when boy, OF q ~aA
and rubber mouth, which Wouiu speniN
and pronounce the word Mamma re
VAS working at an invention OF multlpleN
biography with wires attuned 10 the o.
taves of the piano, when he discovered
the telephone. and his mental actl'ts
has continued from that time unli now.
lie is now a half dozen years beyond tnal
age at which DR.. Osler says all WORKING
men should be chloroformed. but his
mind today is brighter and better than
ever.
The records Of mind like this are OF
inestimable value. Dr. Bell began 70
make them when he was inventing the
telephone. and it was the dated RECORDS
he had kept which enabled him to estab-
lish beyond doubt his priority of lnven-
ton. This showed him the value of such
records, and from then until now ms
mind has as ii were. been before the
moving picture camera OF his note BOOKS.
and its actions are filed away for the fu-
ture He has kept records and Eotes OF
everything that he has thought or exper-
imented upon since that time. and these
notes now fill several hundred volumes.
giving the complete story, as it were. OF
his intellectual life.
1 spent great part of a recent night
with DR.. Bell in his library. and during
my stay took look at these books. They
are full of photographs. diagrams.
sketches and figures. Some Of the work
has been taken down by his secretary
and written out by typewriter from these
stenographic notes. but there are thou
sands of pages in the fine penmansflp
Of DR. Bell himself
Within the past five years the manu-
script volumes have been condensed into
a series of digests. which have been is
journal. which DR.. Bell calls The Benin
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Gratitude i'm the Shape of Forty Scr@wl@d Letters


gave 10 the school. / would like to
shake hands with you at the Scots
dale school again. L Will close Tor
now. Yours truly. Robert Hurd.'
And this. evidently from Robert
brother:
II thank you very much for the ami
NAL books you sent to us. L think they
were about the best thing you could
have sent us. When will you be out
to Scottsdale again? Yours truly, BY
ron Hurd.
The letters came in two parts. one,
containing the foregoing, WAS from the
older children. bat the other collection
makes up for any lack OF worded APP
probation in the number 81 drawings
contained The little tots OF the
Scottsdale school were unable 10 cH-
press their appreciation IN words. 80
what better way than TO draw PIE
lures of the animals that they found
in Mr.. Marshalrs books? Consequently,
they adorned the pages of their let
tiers accordingly.
From the frequency with which the
meadow lark is depicted it is safe 10
assume that they were receiving III
formation about that bird at the time
of writing But while there are several
meadow larks, in various attitudes and
stages of possible recognition. othe.
birds and animals are also shown. one
pupil. Mitte Nanderhood, depicted
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And the elk are showing themselves
good travellers and cosmopolitans. In
the first place they are not difficult to
capture. Their experiences in famine
times have taught them the virtues Of
well cured hay and they like il rs 81
delicacy even when the grass is album
dant. The men who have their dis
tribution in hand keep seductive
amounts of hay about certain cor
rails and the herds come in and sur
reptiticusly feed upon II. Some of this
hay is usually on tho inside of cor
raj that has unusually high walls. II
often happens. when there is an order
in for elk, that the gate of the corral
silently closes while the wild crea lures
are browsing inside and thus captives
are made
The CO ptured elk arc then crowded
into n still smaller pen in "A corner OF
the big one. Here they arc held for
some time, while they make the &C
quaintance of their captors, receive
food from them and grow less afraid
OF them Finally. If there is yet snow
on the ground sleigh is backed up