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'V Sara censure,- critic all ar mar made:
' ; Taks hackneyd Joke" from Miller, rot by rote,
With Joat enough of learnlnf to mlsquot; .
'A mind well aklll'd to find or force a fault,
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Shrink not from blasphemy 'twill part for wltj
. Cart not for feeling, past -four proper Jest;
. And stand a critic, bated yet careaaed.
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WHAT THE JOURNAL, IS DOING.
; Within rtmr 'fiff weeka the people of Portland wUl have vUlbH
evidence .of the anbatantlal Improvement which are being made In the
plant and equipment of The Journal The new pre, which R. Hoe St Co,
the makers, pronounce one of the finest they have ever turned out, waa
ahlpped from New Tork last Thursday, the ltthNnat, Two new linotype
machine, of the lateat design, are also on their war-end wUl be added
to the battery which the paper already baa. .
With tncreaeed faellitiea. laroer accommodation will be required, and
on er about April 15 The Journal will move Into the quarter
now oooupled by ' the Portland Qaa Company at the northeaet
fcorner of Fifth and Yamhill atreeta, oooupyina the entire frontSg on
Yamhill, to and Inoludina the present business office of the paper, ae well
as the frontage on Fifth street.
' These Quarters will be ao arranged as to afford ths publlo an oppor
tunity to ae a, modern newspaper preaa, equipped with all the latest
Improvements which Ingenuity has been able to devise. In daily operation.
Preparations for the Installation ot the press bav already begun.
-i The Portland Qaa vuw rfuycato th enla ;about AprU 15,' or
perhaps a Utile) later, and will move to- its new location at the MUtnessl
i i corner of Fifth and Tamhlll otreeu. In the meantime the Work of pre- ,
' paring- suitable foundaUons for the new preaa are being pushed as rapidly
'as poasible'-.:'? -.."; ..;' , '. " '
' The Journars new home will be ebmmodieus, aoeessible and equipped
with every convenience both for its patrona and for its employes. Every
thing will be provided that may be neocasary for the publication of the
best newspaper of the Northwest. 1 .
The outlay required. for the Improvements now under way is very
: large, but It Is amply JusUfled by the progress which The Journal has
already made. , The, generous support accorded by the people of Portland
and of the stats has mads The Journal an assured success and' Us future
t bright with promise. That the evidences of public confidence which'
:ft has received are not misplaced will be demonstrated even more fully
lb an ia the "paat. . : ...-. . ' i
The additions to its plant which are so soon to be installed are but
part of the improvements which have been arranged. "With the advent
of its new press, The Journal will Inaugurate THE BEST news
SERVICE EVER KNOWN' IN THE N0RTHWE8T. The world's news
. will be presented to Its readers fully, reliably and attractively. A special
i news service has been secured which will far excel that ot the antiquated
1 press association. ,
. The aim of The Journal ia to excel, all oompetitora, and this aim will
-saoon be achieved, r
THE TABASCO COLUMN.
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of Area lately I had better be hunting a
safe place. .
Rooaevelt atarta Welt April 1.
Te. U!" shouted Farmer Brown.
"I am oft, for Taooma town."
Editor ' Journal The following I have seat to th
Oregonlan for M. W. cott, who will, of course, not
publish it : ; , "
' BUMK'ER. On. March l0t.
Oregonlan, H W. BcotU Blr Bo, you did not want
to be United States SefcUorT I have never In my life
heard a politician, or you, aay "No" without meaning
laa. vCaa you tail tna of one Inatanoe to the con
trary T XUring the last two rears I have tola you many
truths, and I have asked you In vain to print the truth.
Tou hare refused to do so- or to believe me, probably
becaue you were a solitlolan. Tou have claimed that
I waa not a responalbla pareoa. What la your Ideal
In the line of a responsible pareonf Is It the man who
repeatedly saia tnat be did not want to be usitea tstates
Senator, and who constantly denied having made the
allghtast -move in word a in deeda. or In desire to be
united states Senator, - and who at the same time
worked with ail the -political maohlnery'witb all the
muscles and brains at his disposal to become United
states senator, and who In the last moment or an ad
vanced mate of political agony called, "Brownell, help
mef Tea, when you felt your cold shoulders, and had
seen your ahama, your only axouae waa tbt It was
Brownell who did it. who made you call to help you
in your political distress. "
Say, Mr. Scott, you aeem to know so well the Bible
and Its meaning, was the act of Adam right or even ex
ouaable when he took a bite of the apple which Eva
had plucked and had offered htm to eat? Were not both
doomed to death? So with you and Brownell. You are
at the point to practically And out the truth of "Tou
might foot all the people come of the time, and you
might fool come of the people at all times, but you
can't fool all the peoplW ail the time." i
It has occurred to many minds long before to la that
the editor of the Oregonlan was morally unlit to be an
exponent of morals and a molder of public opinion to
wards a higher standard of a moral, social and relig
ious Ufa 'It haa been fait by all classes and by people
of ail creeda that the Oregonlan'a high horse and rough
shod editorials, on political, social, moral and religions
matters were gross insults and of a degrading char
acter to societies and communltlea.
Doea your own singular and progresalve dogma at
last teach you that you can sow cockle and therefrom
gather wheat? Ia this progressive dogma to supersede
the old, unchangeable dogma of truth? Is thia, what
we style political treachery, to call It mildly, your pro
gressiva dogma or religion? Two straight parallel lines
never crosa but the straight and crooked line, In spite
of all your progressive knowledge and your efforta of
many years, have met at last and proved that the old
dogma the etralght Una 1 unchangeable, aad that the
Oregonlan bring moral ruin, little by little, but In
variable, to all those who read It for pleasure, for pen
ance or by habit No one reads It with benefit
During your Senatorial campaign .Acts have proved.
notwithstanding all your denials, that you have worked
at least as hard and have done aa much to succeed as
all the other candidates' have dona besides surpassing
them In one point called in mild terms "political
treachery" by your attempt to bluff the publlo Into be
lieving that you did not want the Benatorship. Tours,
JvcKPH BCHEU
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- After the ewlf test wooing recorded for
many avyear, he young Sari of Tar
mouth Me captured the heart of Mia '
Thaw, th wealthy New Tork helresa,
T arm out h enjoy the dlatlnctloa of be- "
lng England's poorest nobleman. He I
anxious to hasten the marriage, and the
indications are that hla dealre will pre
vail. ,
All New Tork Is talking Of the spec
tacular wooing ot the young EarL
AN ANTE2LX) PC HUNT
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Paused a moment, then he said:
"I'm leaving the City of Grafters
For the City of the Dead."
: 7 FISHING FOR THE LABOR VOTE
1 .Leading Republicans are looking forward with no small anxiety to
' I the next , election In, this state," and ths possibility that when the votes
have been counted Oregon may be found In the Democratic column
exciting, their alarm. The loss of Oregon would be a serious blow to the
, Republicans, and plana are already .being discuesed to prevent such
' - catastrophe,' T-X-U 'h':X'- ' ;,
i The election of Governor Chamberlain was an unwelcome surprise to
t the party 'which had previously been dominant in thjs state. ' The labor
vote was a large factor in that result and will be equally important In the
' national campaign of 1904. The Republican leaders are fully alive to this
" fact and have entered, upon a policy of conciliation toward 'the worklng
'' men of the stats which it Is hoped may bring them to the support of the
i party of the. trusts and th monopolista .'" r
-t Y - The: word ha been passed to Republican editor , throughout the state
.' t that. everything possible must be done to capture the labor vote. This
Injunction was particularly Impressed upon the proprietor of Portland's
.newspaper trust, whose morning and afternoon Issue have In the past
I been distinctly unfriendly to the cause of union labor. They were warned
' that If they persisted In this attitude of hostility it would seriously Jeop
' j ardlze the party success next year.
' Th warning was heeded and a marvelous change has occurred. The
I 'Hews of the iabor-anion,-wiilch was formerly IgTiored try -the Oregonlan
, and the Telegram, is now eagerly nought by them. The criticism and
slurs, 'upon " organised labor in which they formerly indulged, are now
j rigidly excluded from their column. , Every effort Is being made to con
Vines ths workingmen that these organs are their f rlenda
,'" But this apparent friendliness 1 a mere ham, a bait to catch vote
" - and nothing more. Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Can the news
paper trust undergo a genuine change. of heart? Intelligent workingmen
wHUjot- be-decelvedr no-matter how specious the- pretenses jof friendship I
,nor bow plausible the arguments for political alliance.
When the Republican party and organized labor lie down together,
A labor will be inside.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
Almost every week that passe
brings fresh revelation of the poesl
bllltle of wireless telegraphy. The
publication on board an ocean liner,
while crossing the Atlantic, of a dally
paper with the news of ths world re
ceived by Marconigrams, was one of
the recent Illustrations of the practical
results which may be obtained. Liver
pool advices' tell of two veel which,
while 70 mile apart, got Into com
municatlon by mean of wireless teleg
raphy and carried on a game of chess
for seven hours,
A still more Interesting application
of Marconi's wonderful discovery Is
soon to be made by the New Tork
Central Railroad, which propose
Install a ayntem of wireless telegraphy
uion Its fast train to Chicago, the
"Twentieth Century Limited." Ex
perlmental tests are to be . made for
two months, and If the results are
satisfactory. It Is highly probable that
the' system will come into general use
upon railroad trains
This Is not the first attempt to
employ wireless telegraphy for com
municatlon with moving trains. It
wan tried on a small scale a few
months sgo by the Grand Trunk Rail
way, and passengers on a train run
nlng a mile a minute were enabled to
talk with a given station while the
train covered a distance of IS miles,
this being the limit of the strength of
the Instrument used. The exoerlment
demonstrated that the use of wireless
telegraphy on trains Is perfectly feasi
ble. It only remain to be seen
whether"lt Can be made Xt practical
and commercial value. This will prob
ably be determined by the tests on the
New Tork Central.
- - THE WABASH INJUNCTION. .
, The injunction' recently granted by a Federal Judge at St Louis,
"restraining the employe of the Wabash railroad from going on strike,
has been th subject Of criticism all over the country. The Journal
quoted recently the comment of Judge Tuley of Chicago, one of the
v ablest and most respected jurists that city haa ever had, and his outspoken
condemnation of thia Judicial usurpation of power ha met with widespread
.; approval. .''
' The Wabash Injunction, of course, did not prohibit Individual employe
f the road from resigning their positions, but wa directed against a
' concerted action by the labor unions to which the' men belong. But if the
'' president or executive body of a union is to be forbidden from ordering a
' strike,' would he not also be forbidden to advise the men to return to work?
r And if the courts can be invoked In behalf of the employer, has not
- ths employ the same resource? Why should not a corporation be enjoined
from employing non-union men, or compelled by injunction to grant an
- increase I of wages?
., Judge-mads law Is exceedingly dangerous. The people have reserved
to their representatives in Congress and in state legislatures the right of
enacting the laws, and when this province is invaded by. the Judiciary the
consequences jpust be serious.
Employers who resort to such questionable aid from the courts must
. remember that the day may not be far distant when the workingmen of
the nation Win have the political control and when the Judges will be of
their, selection.! When that time cornea the, precedents established now
under -the ascendancy of the capitalistic class, will prove a boomerang.
Buch victories as that won by the Wabash railroad win then be found
to bs exceedingly costly. . . i ,., -
The argument should appeal to intelligent men Of every class, whether
they belong to the etas of the employers or to that Of the wage-earner.
Th Democrats of the First Congressional District have no cause for
fclscourageroent in th present situation, v There Is every indication of a
keen factional fight ever the Republican nomination, while ths Democrat
r harmonious and united. "' ',
"MAN INDIFFERENCE."
It' all up with unfortunate man.
The unmarried women of the town of
Guilford, England,1 SaveormedT asd
clety whose object is "to promote man
indifference among women" and to
"assist young women and those older
In years ' to" withstand ' temptations to
enter the marriage state," - ;
What have President Roosevelt and
other exponents of the race Suicide
theory to say about this, latest and
worst menace to the perpetuation of
mankind? It is Impossible to estimate
the proportions to which the new
movement of the man lndlfferentlsts
may grow. All our anglomanlao sis
ters and cousins and aunt will be
eager .to follow the example of the
spinsters of Guilford, and then what
will the poor men do ?
The emergency Is so serious that
President Roosevelt really ought to
call another special session of Con
gress to take steps' for the defense of
the American men. If he is true to
the principle of protection for our in
f ant Industries, now Is the time to
show It. '
Tars roxTS' xmov.
New comes from Berlin that the poets of that lo
cality have formed a combination to restrict produc
tion and maintain prlcea -'The Lyrical Poets' Union"
Is the nam by which this organization 1 known. Sev
enty members of ths craft constitute the home charter.
fThey demand a minimum wage acale of 12c per Una
We are not Informed whether this la a "flat rate" or
whether there ia a "sliding acale." It aeema to u that
dactylic hexameters, owing to their length and diffi
culty, should command at least 28c a line aa a mini
mum living rata - W , can understand how iambic
tetrametera can be turned out for 12c or even 10c a line
Indeed, we are personally acquainted with men who
have produced them for as low aa 7c a Une but the
long . raetera and the more difficult tanaas, such a
ths Locksley Hall meter and the elegiae districhs
affected by Mr., Longfellow, should be paid for at a
much higher rata . .
The Idea of a poets' union or trust we don't know
which to call It, doe not appeal to us. It la a good
thing in theory, perhaps,, but we are afraid that It will
fall tbxoueh in practice. Not that we have any per
sonal Interest In the, matter, as we never pay for
poetry, except by special contract ' But if we were
regular buyers of verse we doubt If a trade union among
the noets would disturb us very greatly. . Th editor.
too, would comblha Iifdeed, poet a have long auspected
that the editors are combined against them already.
At any rate, the demands of the sonnet-smiths would be
refused, and a strike Would be the result This, it
seems to us, would be the only desirable result of the
system. If the strike would actually mean a cur
tailment In the output of sonnets, and a lessening of
activity In the spring poem foundries, we can't get
away from tjie idea that It would be a mighty good
thing.
The trouble is, there, would be "scaha" in this, as
in every trade. We have seen the work of some of
these "scabs" already. They would never Join any
union; because they work, not for pay, but for glory,
So long as this state of affair exist, the poetry busi
ness must remain In a state of commercial chaoa
The supply muat exceed, the demand to an extent un
paralleled in any other branch of Industry. Atlanta
Journal. .. "
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OsT A SOVTaTXaUr STXAXBOAT. ,
A strike among negro roustabouts on a Southern
river boat wa a thing ao unheard of that when our
boat arrived at Naahvlll and ths "crew" formulated
It "demand" the consternation of that transportation
company was amusing.
Th boat' crew does not unload th vessel at the
home port It Is employed for the round trip only; ao
when the boat reaches Nashville all are . discharged.
Ths boat Is unloaded by another set of men and reload
ed also o f? vi-..ia,.Mr,,J,,rw
was all don without incident, but when another-era W
waa to be hired for th boat no one would work., Im
mediately upon arriving at NaahvUle our crew had
'made a break" for uptown. Soon every "river rat"
knew that the limit of human endurance and abuae had
been reached and at last the negroea had struck. They
demanded the discharge of the mate, av ponderous In
dividual, as agreeable and hospitable to his white pas
senger aa he wa brutal and Inhuman to his negro
roustabouts. They demanded, , also, better food and
mora of It; better facilities for aleeplng and an oppor
tunity to sleep. They also demanded the abolition of
the gad and the club with which they were beaten and
knocked about The company refused everything and
offered instead an Increase In wage from $1 to $1.25 a
day. Finally the mate offered to realgn, but as the
only other licensed mate In the city was more objec
tionable even tnat he the complaint against him wa
withdrawn.
MXBTEKS' TOT7QK ZZPEBXXSOB.
Stewart French, superintendent of the Blue Jacket
Mining Company, in the Seven Devils' District, and
George Nestler, a miner In his employ, had an experi
ence last week that they will never forget while their
lives last saya the Seven Devils Miner. They started
on snowshoes in the mornmg -to visit a mine on Snake
River, about nine miles distant, where Mr. French had
several men employed. (They1 reached the mine in due
season and, after transacting their business, started
to return to their camp. -
About 4 o'clock Nestler gave out, and as the weath
er waa intensely- cold, he - became cold- and -numb- and
wanted to lie down and sleep. Mr. French took him
on his shoes and attempted to carry him In that man
ner, but he would go to-Bleep and fall off. Darkness
came on and hour after hour Mr. French struggled
to keep hla' companion awake and preventing his free
King to death. V' ' "
Nestler became delirious ana sr. jrrencn couia no
longer do anything with him. 't, He left Nestler and went
to search for assistances. He round a negro miners
cabin and he accompanied him to the place where
Nestler had been left He had disappeared, but was
found nearly 1.Q00 feet below where he had been left
He had stumbled and fallen until he had reached th
bottom of the gulch. After hour or Herculean exer
tion, more dead than alive, tney reacnea tne cabin.
Nestler1 face arms, hands and limbs -were- badly-fros'
en, but It 1 thought that with proper care he will not
Buffer the loewof any membera -
The snow was from eight to nrieen leet oeep on tna
mil thev were traveling over. Mr. French was com-
polled to take off his snow shoes and flounder through
the -deep snow 10 rescue nis companion.
Mr. French's feet were oaaiy zrosen, nis neeis
being raw and cracked open, and hla ankles very much
swollen. . He went to weiser, wnere ne received med
ical attention. It Is thought he win recover from hi
terrible experience without any permanent injury.
The lowest negro dena of the city were aooured till
4 o'clock In the mortolng to And negroea to man the
boat. Next day the police Were called to the rescue.
Negro leaders were bribed to come on board and sample
the meal to be served. "Say, nlggahs, dey done got
real coffee on dat boat, dey have, now fo' shuah," was
the report carried back. Whisky In jugs was brought
on board and negroes were enticed to come and have
a drink. Several came and - drank and ate a square
meal and then ran and jumped off the boat, laughing at
the captain and the mate. Finally each negro coming
on board waa retained by force and the few whom the
company could trust were cent out to bring other
In to have a drink. At the last those who could be
enticed near the boat were aelzed bodily by the "trusty"
negroea and brought on board by force. When -he
thought he had 18 the boat captain suddenly and with
out sounding bell or whistle pulled out from the shore.
But even with this trick one negro Jumped Into the
river and awam ashore, .leaving u with a kidnaped
crew of 17.
. Tha boat comoaniea have their nerroea thorouarhlv
imbued with the Idea that the minute the boat starts
they have "shipped with the crew" on government
waters and are amenable to the laws of the United
State governing the desertion of a vessel on the high
eas. Most of those negroes believed they would, be
shot by the United States government If fhey deserted
the boat before making a round trip. Trapped, as they
were, the new gang accepted the situation and dropped
Immediately into the time-honored customs of the
river. , '
The strike, whether "successful" or a "failure,"
from the viewpoint of "strike statistics," worked a
transformation In the conduct of the mate and gang.
boss toward the negroes. The whip was not in evi
dence on the Journey up to Evansville. Only once,
when a negro failed vto Jump from the staging to land
before the boat bad stopped, was any one struck by the
mate, but this time the fellow was knocked Into . the
water. -There was little or no cursing them, their rood
was better and they were given more time for Bleeping,
though no better accommodations.
The Drtnctoal load on the way up was hogsheads of
tobacco, weighing 1,200 pounds each, which were loaded
from sloping banks, held back In -rows by main force
by the negroes a most dangerous, awkward and man
killing method (er lack of method) for doing wdrtc,
Large quantities of clear oak lumber, billed ' for Chi
cago, were also loaded from time to tlma I doubt If
the full extent, of Southern hardwood possibilities has
been realised by our furniture manufacturers.-
It 1 impossible to understand why a company that
makes clear of all expense, by it own admission, from
1400 to $1,200 a week on each boat should not have de
cent facilities for handling Its freight upon any other
theory than that it makes absolutely no difference to
the proprietors how hard or dangerous the labor imposed
upon the negro roustabout The government la build
ing lock on the Cumberland and the river will soon
be navigable the year around. When that la true better
condition should be demanded, in . exchange for these
heavy expenditures by the federal authorities. - . ,
"Andrenalln" Is a new compound
which will keep life in a dog after
his head is cut off. It efficacy is to
be tried upon decapitated public "of
Willis L Moore of the United States
Weather Bureau, has been elected a
member of the Royal Meteorological
Society of Britain.
Swam! Frlgunatita of the Rama Klr
ahna Monastery pf Calcutta haa ar
rived In San Francisco on a three-year
pilgrimage around ths world, -
a- yy
Switzerland would be hard to beat 4a respect to -th
mixture of races and tongue In the rank and file of the
army. This gives considerable irouoie iodine military
authorities. An amusing Instance occurred recently at
Fallenstadt recruiting station In tne case or a guard
consisting of five men. : The lieutenant In command
poke German only; the second, a sergeant spoke Ital
ian only: the third, a corporal, spoke French and Span
ish; the fourth, a private, could speak French and Qr-r
man: while the fifth, a private, . couia spaas: French,
German and Italian a, babel of language, truly, and
enough to puzzle even a profeor. When the lieuten
ant had to give an order to, th sergeant the last-named
man had to Interpret it for him: when he wished to
communicate with the corporal he had to requisition
the linguistic service of the fourth man, and o on.
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Thomas' K. Bruner, for IS year secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture of North Carolina ha been
appointed superintendent of special , exhibit - In th
World's Fair Department of Agriculture by Chief F.
W. Taylor., Complete special exhibit will be mad
of several Important farm crops and their products.
These are sugar beets, oorn, cotton, lice, tobacco. '
Some one must be left in charge of large consign
ments of freight deposited on the river banks, and so
the company has "agents" living all along the river.
In one case a white man and his wire looa alter the
boat freight They are paid S3 a month, $38 a year,
and are given bouse rent I ascertained that the house
could be rented for S24 a year and could be built for
$800. - These people-"tend '- a. trucK paten of about
five acres "on shares." As the noats may come in at
any time night or day, and a people may call to get
or deliver freight at any time, these "agents'? cannot
do anything else to increase their income; in ract, there
Is nothing else to do. Ethelbert Stewart, in Chicago
Newa
The giant locomotives some time ago adopted by
the Northeastern Railway Company lor wonting the
heavy mineral traffic from the Durham coal field to the
iriipneRa and West ' Cumberland districts are regularly
hauling 40 laden coke wagons over tne rennins Chain,
despite the heavy gradient, the line at the, Btainmore
summit ' near juroy ; oiepnen, tLiiaiuing au aiuiuus-oi
1,378 feet above sea level. The number of empty wagons
for each lecomotlve has within the last few day been
Increased to 40, which gives an average train length of
nearly a quarter of a mile.
The Bolivian government ha Issued a handsomely
printed pamphlet of instruction to it World' Fair
Commissioners upon tho selection sad preparation ' of
Bolivian exhibits. Ths catalogue of article include
plants, vegetables, fruits, forest and mine products, tex
tile materials, bird and valuable anlmala '
rOUOWED HIS, BXABCPXB. ' '
Hall Cains' . youngest son, Derwent showed his
mother a snapshot of .a -scene taken on the occasion of
Kins Edward' last visit to the Iale of Man. The boy
was a prominent figure in the picture, and Mr. Cain
said In a shocked tone: "I'm surprised to see that you
kept your hat on. Th other gentlemen ar bare
headed." - "Ail except the King, mother." he-corrected.
"I watched him. and when I aaw that he didn't tak bis
hat off I kept mine on, because, of course, he knows
better han any, one els what's tho right thing to do." J
Th trapper consented to let hi trap go' for a day"1
and Join us in an antelope hunt A large band of ante
lop had bees ms the day before out In the direction
of Little Juniper. Big Juniper and Llttl Juniper are '
about IS mile apart on th Oregon 'desert They rise
a few hundred feet above the plain, and from the faot
that a runty growth of Juniper grow oa th southern
Id of the two mountain they were given th nam..
of th growth. .Th sheepmen who come and go with .
th winter Reason ar the only peraona to visit this!
region, except sua ' occasional trapper. The antelop '
hav bean reduced to a few band In Oregon and they :
iuu nin iuuna in iaia,tuie moi isolated por
tion of the stata A band at to and 60 1 .often seen
here, but tha sheepmen - rarely ever molest, them, a '.,
in monotony or tne desert and the constant case, re
quired to protect the sheep from the coyote take 'out -a,
hunting spirit that require long 'travel on foot and -'
great, fatigue to make a success. For an, antelop is '
nver killed without grat effort and untiring patience. -..;-.'.-;,.S';t"'-'.',-..'"''
Ooenn-Hik rials. .' .'',''".' i'r''
'' Wa started out on foot at dawn, each armed with m
long-rang repeating ride The party consisted of three,'
the trapper, sheepman and myself. - We had to get out
of the everyday sheep range before we expected to find
the anUlope, and thia required about live mile" walk.
Soon after aunria ws were well out on the desert and '
were searching th country in every direction through ,
a strong pair of field glasses for th antelope. We ooq
cam to where they had been the previous day and th
difference In their track and that of the aheep were
easily explained by the trapper and sheepman, in th
fact that th antelop tracks were longer and generally
larger than those of the aheep. While the desert ap
peared, to be a level as a floor for raliea In every
direction, yet upon traveling oyer It and watching ob
Ject upon it tbls waa easily discovered not to be true.'
The Country lie In rises and'falla They were a grad
ual as the ewells of the ocean.
. The ascent and descent were so gradual that on
might travel several mile before reaching any percep
tlble, change. In altitude. But the fact that a landmark
iwlll appear plainly at one polnthnd gradually dlaap-
.Tear like the mast pf a ship on the sea as one gets .
farther from It soon convince one that the desert Is
not level. These low points have been designated as
swaie oy th stockmen throughout the country.
Antelope aTa, Sheep I . .
A the un rose higher object began to appear at
many points on the plains. It waa the center of th
I many directions In th distance. ' Boms wars rlna
enough to distinguish them clearly through the glasses,
while other looked like a moving ma of anow. But
the statue-like form of the herder and his faithful dog
by hi aid could alway be distinguished from other
object.
"Ain't them antelope T" Inquired the trapper, looking
rough the glasaea toward Little Juniper, passing th
glasses to th sheepman.
"Nope, sheep," replied the sheepman, after glancinar
through the glasses for a moment
"Let me have a loolt" and after searching for soma
tlm with th assistance of my companion I found
claimed at onca ' -
"Nope; mov too alow." said the aheepman.
"Tou are right they are aheep," aald the trapper
upon examination. ' "There la the herder and hi dog
ovr to th right."
W passed on In a fast walk, (topping occasionally
to examine the plain In every direction.
"It I easy enough to tell the antelop from sheep,"
aid the sheepman.
'Tea only have to watch them a second," replied ths,
trapper. "What Is. that over to the left on that riser"
he pc-ntlnued. examining an object through his glasses
critically. "I believe they are antelope," he said aa he
handed the glasses over to the sheepman.
Oasa Sighted.
"Tou are correct They ar antelope," replied ths
sheepman.
I took th glasses and soon discovered how easy
it was to tell the difference between th anlmala at a
distance where the mere motion of th animal could
be distinguished. They did not look any larger than
mall lambs, but their quick movements to the right
snd left appeared like sun-flashes, and th entire band,
which afterwards proved to consist of between 60 and
CO, were in motion like so many ants. Their head were
bobbing up and down and they were as restless a play-1
ful children. Over to the right about the same dis
tance, was a band of sheep. A -glance through- the
glasses at these showed a marked difference. They
were as steady as a stream and poured along the plain
In a continuous body. The experienced has no trouble
In telling the difference between these animals and
antelope. It matters not how great the distance.
forming th Plans.
It was estimated that the antelope were at least
five miles from ua and to approach them on the plain
wa an utter Impossibility. How to get within gun
shot range was th question. The country lay before
ua in a alight decline, and taking a course ss if giving
the antelop a wide berth we started out again. W
had not gone far until the animals had disappeared
from view by reason of an elevation between us and
them. Then we stopped to form the plot It wa easily
seen that by following the awal which we were row
In to the left we would come up within a mile or half
a mile of the game unobserved, should they remain In
the aame place while w were walking the four and
a half miles between th two points It was the only
course to pursue, except that ' It was suggested that
the hunting party should split
. Preparing aa Ambash.
It wa suggested that the trapper and I should go
up the swale toward ths animals and that th sheep
man would go across ths ridge far to the right of them
and that by making a circular trip around the other
ids they would run into the range of the other two
rifles. '
I had little faith in ever aeelng the antelope again,
unless I should accompany the sheepman, and this waa
consented -to. We hadJiot . walked, mora. than, a mil
until the trapper had disappeared from view In hi
rapid walk up the swale. When we reached the top
of the ridge the sheepman placed the glasses to his eyes,
but the antelope were nowhere to be found,
"Oona!" he exclaimed, "and there 1 no telling which
oourse they took."
. "I know it," I replied. "They ar too wild. On
might walk himself to death on these plains and never
get within less than five mile of an antelope."
Blngl Blng! Blng! Blngl Blng! B lng r rang out
a half dosen rifle shot over in the swale to the left
"If the trapper" shouted the sheepman, and h
rushed away in a hurry.
: I followed with the statement that he had not killed
anything and that there was no use running; but kept
at tha sheepman's heels.. .-
. W soon reached the trapper's side and found that
he had killed two of the anlmala outright and woundedV
another. The bodies of the slain antelope were plaoed ,
close together and a pocket handkerchief tied to a. sag Av
bush close by,
"What is that for?" I inquired.
: "To keep the coyotes from molesting them while
trail down the wounded antelope," was the reply. ."A
coyote will never come near a rag or other article
placed on the plains by a human hand so long as (hers
is a sufficient amount of air to keep it In motion.'4
A Trail of Blood.
War soon struck the trail of the , wounded animal
and easily followed It by It blood. "If It ever turns
out from the main band we will Boon find It" said th
trapper. "When the wounded animal finds . that It
cannot live any longer It always leaves the main band
and eoon drops dead," . .
We followed It until late In the afternoon, but It
never left the main band, and now that we were IS
miles from camp, w turned our course in that direc
tion. - -
. It was long after dark when we arrived In camp, but
not too late to mount a horse and lead another with a
pack saddle on it to the place where the antelope had
been alaln and bring the carcasses In that night.
Fried antelop steak, next morning was considered '
a rarity In the sheep camp, and all paid it a solid
compliment ,- :
BCliiail'mO TAXTOKnrg.
The tailor who cuts to fit his customer now studies
anatomy with a, much care a he studies spring pat
terns in cloth. .
. Charts are prepared for him, giving the oommon 1
name of each section of mankind's anatomy, and thus,
instead of becoming acquainted with the "fovea axil
laris," he Is merely shown the hollow under the arm,
while the "tibial indentation'' becomes the hollow under
the knee. ---.; :, -: .
. Anatomical charts, showing a skeleton In three posi
tions, are sold by a West End. London, firm, and ar -
much In demand among tauor who out alota on a
cientlflo basis. " - , s
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