TJIUIWDAY, JULY 0,1908.
THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
N RIFLE MATCHES
But College Boys Don't
Enough Practice
Get
HARVARD AND YALE TRY
Several of the Universities in the
Went Have Recently Affiliated With
National Rifle Aniociatlon Much
Enthusiasm it Shown.
I WASHINGTON, D. C, July 8
Tiie entry lint in the littcr-collcgiute
rifle shouting match, which took
jilucc at the WnkeliclJ, Maiachuett
rung, yf June 20th, was somewhat
umtf'mmm Kmy lour iiisiuuiionii
we rrpW'tiitc'li Harvard University
fcuin-Ui J institute 6f Techtiol
wir, tWfmity of Pennsylvania,' and
George Washington University. A
team had entered from Yale but did
not appear.
The question naturally arises, why
it it that so little interest is taken
among colleges in this branch of sport
m it does not take long to discover
the main trouble, It is a lack of facil
ities for practice. The students of
Yale must depend upon the courtesy
of the National Guard authorities of
New Haven for opportunity to prac
tice on the National Guard range, As
this range has been fully occupied by
the national guardsmen for sometime
pnt the Yale team was unable to
secure preliminary practice to warrant
their entrance in the competition.
The marksmen of Columbia College,
which won the Inter collegiate Indoor
competition last winter, have no place
for practice since the Crecdmore
range was closed. Consequently they
were also out of the game this year.
Cornell is in the same position since
the issue to their cadet battalion of
the new army rifle. The use of this
arm has been prohibited on their old
range as being unsafe owing to the
increased velocity. Princeton had a
good rifle club and was the winner of
the Inter-collejciate Trophy in 1905,
its first year in the competitions.
They were then using the National
Guard ranc at Princeton. This priv
ilege was later withdrawn with the re
sult that the Princeton rifle club went
to pieces and thus ended rifle shoot
ing in "Old Nassau,"
marksmanship is the difficulty in pro
curing arms and ammunition, which
cannot be issued to them tinder the
law, It is therefore necessary for
the students to purchase their own
arms and ammunitions, which makes
rifle shooting to them an expensive
luxury,
It is doubtful whether the rifle
teams from Harvard University, the
University of Pennsylvania and
Gcoregc Washington University
would have participated in the tour
nament had it not been for the fact
that a majority of their members
were also members of the National
Guard and received their arms and
their practice through this member
hip; The Wakefield match was won by
the George Washington University
team with a score of 725. Five points
better than fours. The day, of the
mutch was briht and sunny with the
temperature rather high, although
this was tempered by fitful gusts of
7 hid acroni the range from the left,
his made holding very difficult,
especially at 2K) yards, The winning
team shot with the Krag rifle, and the
University of Pennsylvania team,
which was second with a score of 687,
shot with the new Springfield rifle,
Harvard, using the Krag, came out
i third with a score of 687. The team
from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, which finished last, was
unfortunate in having lost two of
their best marksmen, who had depart
ed for their homes. They were also
handicapped in having the model
Krag with the 1901 flat sight. They
used Frankford reloaded ammunition,
issued to them by the Government.
This match between the colleges
was inaugurated in 1905 by the Na
tional Rifle Association of America,
which offered a handsome trophy to
be competed for annually. The con
test was held that year at Sea Girt,
and won by the Princeton team. In
1906 the trophy was captured by the
George Washington University team.
There was no contest for the trophy
in 1W7.
Several of the Universities in the
West have within the last year organ-.
ized rifle clubs and affiliated with the
National Rifle Association, so that it
is probable that by another year new
clubs will compete in the inter-col-legiate
match which may result in the
trophy going to the West, for the first
time since it was established,
With the National Matches at Camp
Perry, Ohio, but one month and a
half distant, military marksmen
throughout the country are daily
practicing on the ranges in competi
tion for places on the teams which
!arc entitled to participate in this great
ion, the scores this year will be in ex
cess of those at previous matches.
From almost every range the news
comes that great numbers huve quali
fied as marksmen and that the scores
arc almost perfect. One of the most
remarkable scores is that of Capt.
Stewart A. Wise, ordnance officer of
the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts
National Guard, who made 70 conse
cutive bullseyes at the Bay State
Range. At 600 yards he scored 51
bullseyes,, and 10 at 1000 yards and 9
itt 800 yards, all in succession. His
tenth shot at this last range struck
"CHICKLET8."
If the mother hen Las been properly
dusted, ahe ami the chicks will come
off the nest without lice. As nits
on the ground in front of the target tut rmove (,r from the cWck,
for thirty minutes, for the lice not kill-
00 TRY AGAIN.
When th, hns rofusa to lay
And thorn's nothing wims to pay
And you to sad and mad and blue,
Don't' forgot the old refrain
Just to try and try again,
for you'll got thors u you do.
When th clunks mash all the gg
And sit upriKtit on their leg
And you're mad enough to swear,
Now's th time to hear the train
Brother, try, oh, try araln;
Just try and you'll not despair.
C. M. B.
"poor ammunition."
Much enthusiasm over rifle practice
is being evidenced
Pennsylvania, the
authorities there placing this feature
above all other work, Many of the
company captains nave ottered trop-'ahell. Thus you gorge them, and tbey
hies and cash prizes for excellence in , die with white diarrhea. Remember
rifle practice this season, with a, tbey attlp (lay old chicks 1,000 mile
i t m 4 . r ( fr tir,Atr Tkn a nlaan r skin
vie wot stimulating and keeping up """ '"" .v.u
the interest.
ed would be chased off on to the peeps,
W'iieu the chick creep under the ben
in the State of i "e ug will creep off the chicks. You
National Guard ' mak nM ln cL,ck" b
I lore rony-eigni uoura nave paHscu.
i . , xney imve not uigestea toe yoiit wnica
they absorbed, before breaking; the
A Pet Bear.
Hears unless hungry or abased are
good nntured animal and make amus
ing puts, "When I was ln the revenue
service nt Alaska," said a lieutenant, i
"we had a pet bear on the boat, and
we called blin Wlneska. Ho used to!
climb to the erosntrees, going up hand
over hand by the ratlines. One day be
ventured out on the yardarm, and
there ho Blayed. We had to get ft rope
and haul him down. Once he vaulted
over tliw bend of our Chinese cook and
went Into the lockcm. where ho heljM.il
himself to augur and butter. We hnd n
tackling made for him, much the aame
as n harness of a pet pug, and we
would drop Mm overboard, with a rope
attached, to take his bath. Once be
lauded In a native laf and nearly
frlghtoucd the occupants out of their
wits. He was as pluyful as a kitten,
and, although ho sometimes disobeyed,
he was never treacherous or unkind.
When ho was lost or hid himself, as he
often did, we would look ln the dark
till we saw two little balls of Are.
These were his eyes and gave bltn
away every time."
1 sah
I
"WUEBES HI BBOODEB T
London to Berlin without a crumb and
never mind It Give them water and
grit at ones and keep them on dry
floors for two weeks If you do not
want gapes.
The brooder chick should start with
out lice, but some poultrymen never
fumigate the brooder or set it ln
an infested place. The greedy English
sparrows often carry lice to the peeps
and ln return carry off the feed.
These lousy pests steal half the feed
on some plants, and back yard fanciers
lose more. Thanks to our big tiger
cat, who snoozes with one eye open out
among the brooders and on the wire
pens, we lose no feed to the pirates
Before Tom came we set up a staffed
owl among the pens. The sparrows.
Another handicap to the colleges military tournament. If reports re
ind universities In excellence in ceived here can be taken as a criter
Pwe Food.
All our wines and li
quors are guaran
teed under the Pure
Food Law.
She Carried a Parcel.
The laugh is on one of the attend
ants at the Congressional library at
Washington. Ouo of the rules is that
uo one shall lie allowed to carry a par
cel of any kind Into the building. One
day a tnll young woman appeared at
the door, and when the attendant saw
that she had a parcel under her arm ,"" ' v- "
be told her that It was against the ! rbIn8' a blnl9;, chippies, wrens and
rules for her to take It with her. She cne"7 hMs Sobered In the plum and
demurred and pronounced the rule ox heart tiws and did some tall cuss-
haurd. There were certain parcels , ,Q an? threatened that .long eared low
that people should be allowed to carry ! ,th di,re calaml bu mre faltn'ul
with them, and so forth, and so forth. the majority of policemen, he
n, ,i, . i..t..t .!,, i. . stood to his duty, and not even the
iiiil i hit in nil iiiainiiii i nil l hit in mi r-ii- r
fieo hfl ruin nn.i ihnt r!i would hnv cicUe of a Juicy hen tempted
to leave the imrcel with him until she i
bim
catno out. That settled It. The young
woman deliberately opened the parcel,
took from It three pairs of black stock
lugs that she evidently had Just
bought, and, hanging tbem over her
nrin, she gave the attendant the paper
In which they had been wrapped, say
ing: "There, please keep that until 1 come
out. I have no parcel now."-Chlcago
News.
And the birds fled.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
Don't be surprised that the poultry
man asks for cash ln advance, lie
does not know you any better than
you know blin, bnt it is to be hoped
that you will not know him worse aft
er he knows you better.
"Does thunder kill chicks in the
shell?" Answer: Does It kill chicks in
the shell to fire off a shotgun right be-
side a nest? We've done the latter,
What Audiences Believe, j and the eggs hatched. "Is thunder a
The light suddenly went out during ! million miles away worse?" Thunder
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A panic was In prospect However, 1
shouted out: "Ladles and gentlemen,
I am about to perform a most.niarvel
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Sure enough, there was heard a slow.
The Audubon society is after the
cats for killing the birds and wants a
bounty put on them. Don't care if they
do kill off the cat chicken killers. Say,
are all the members of that society
married? Must be. They certainly do
beat the cats.
Many of our poultry friends are
keeping fox terriers. They are holy
terrors to rats, minks, weasels and
skunks. An Indiana crank declares
his two bobtnlled pups can lick an
elephant. Rats! Males are selling at
shiHUIng sound quite appropriate, al- J 10; females, $5.
though it was made by the fat stage ne clamor of the claimants for the
manager, who was shuffling across tire ! credit of originating the dry feediug
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method Is greater than that of sacred
writ where seven women laid hold Of
one man. But Aristotle (384 B. C.)
discarded It because his ancient hens
got fat and lazy.
"Mother, may I go out to swim?"
asked little Willie Drake of his heu
ma. "No, my darling drakie. You will
get the curls In your pretty tall spoil
ed, the life guards are not on duty, and
this Philadelphia water Is neither boil
ed nor filtered." Tadpoles!
The rnseiil who kept nonlaying culls
to sell rank eggs for spring hatching
when any old feather bed lays got it
where tho hatchet caught the rooster,
lie formerly had a bonanza, but high
priced grain and nonlaying culls
knocked him out May his tribe great
ly increase-down there.
The farmers are sprucing upon tur
key stock. Buy the best, and they'C
do the rest. Prices for birds descended
from fifty pound gobblers and thirty
pound hens: Old torus, $10, $15, $25;
young toms, $8, $10, $15; hens, old or
young, $5, $8, $10; breeding flocks, four
and five hens, $35, $45, $60. Seems
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Will some of our farm and tovn
friends tell us why they keep mon
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this: In November, December, January
and February fifty White Leghorns
laid 1,030 eggs and fifty mongrels laid
865 eggs, a difference of 6G5 eggs.
They were housed and fed alike. A
Leghorn ate 85 cents' worth of feed for
the year and a mongrel 03 cents'
worth. Which pays? Better wake up.
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