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MORE Has Been Overlooked Ly t-f ft t it F FIGHTING w HKTIIKR It be ,he (harm of .uountnln Jieak etPDially cap j'rd willi snow or ruggod fast nPSR i?olati;d almost bovoml tiiirriMii pow( r to ppuptra'..'; wliftlirr It 1 rn watcrd deep and blue aul Httll or mountain torrent dashlnK madly toward tlip sa: whether it lie wlldness and aolltiidc and foret or a quiet nook where men can "think and think and think;" whether it he beauty and frji Kianio of tlora or the enroling of hir .Is in the early twilight hours; whether it be ihe rush of the fleet-footed deer frightened hy the camper's. Lellowfhn hound of the taking of the magnificent mountain trout with lino and fly. thai mo-it attracts and charms and fascl'i ates. Oregon can safely go against the world since the great unknown country "Down Where the Wallowa Flows" his been connected Willi civilization and opened to the inspection of critical and educated eyes. When the people of Oregon shall conio 10 realizes that right at their vei y doors, as pan of their wonderful common wealth in furt. lies a Switzerland which cxivpt for tradition and the Swiss, o-n-Switz.rland's Switzerland. new an-' fas-inatiivg throb of pride will swell the heart of every true Oregiuijcii. Wlrn the rugged pt ture.squene.--R of the Alp-:, with mountains and valleys of splendor rare, with lakes as blue and as clear 11s the doticate hand of Divinity could make them, with a peojde large-hear:-.! anil earnest and progressive. Wallowa promises to carry the fame, of Oregon to the remotest parts of the earth where men enjoy beauty and pursue pleasure. Meanwhile the people of the mr; liw cstern states will ho conipell-l to reward the great mountain rcgi .n as their summer playground: their inccca when the .call ol the wild is heard. Great Country Wallowa lies in the extreme north eastern corner of Oregon, east of the THE MIGHTIEST HUNTER OF MODERN TIMES (Continued from First Page of this Section. ) river to drink, was seized under water bv an immense crocodile, which, having ail the advantages of its own element, gradually succeeded in dragging the land Kiant to deep water and there drowning him. Yet it was Selous who a t ta-ked nuch a rhinoceros and found himself plunged in an adventure that still ranks as something almost incred ible to naturalists. Armed with an old four bore, muz zle loading elephant gun, ho found him self confronted by a huge bull rhino, which came at him head on. He fired at the bend, between the eyes. "When I fired." he writes, "the rhi noceros' legs seemed to give way under it and It' just sank on the ground and then, rolling On its side, lay quite mill. "My four ounce bullet had made quite a larg-e hole in tho front of Its head, into which Lan(l several of my Kafirs pushed our flngerj as far as they would go. "We went to the nearest tree, some (50 or 70 vards away. and. after resting my two elephant guns the oije still unloaded against its stem, returned' to cut up, what we believed to be the carcass. "One of mv Kafirs, by name Soga, a big strong Makalaka, at once plunged his assegai into the body of the pros trate rhinoceros and commenced to cut through the thick skin, pulling the Made of the assegai toward him with a sawing motion. "When Soga had made a cut about two and a half feet long in its side, the limbs of the rhinoceros began to move spasmodically, and It suddenly raised its head and brought It down again with a thump on tUe ground. "From Hint moment It commenced to struggle frantically, and was evidently fast regaining consciousness. I shout ed to Soga to trv to stab it in the heart before it got on Its legs; but, as he only made a very foeble attempt to do so. I ran, and snatching the assegai from him, endeavored to stab the struggling animal to death myself. But It was now fast regaining strength, and with every effort to rise It threw up its head and brought it down on the ground again with a thump. "I managed to plunge the heavy as segai through the cut In its akin and deep Into the side, but with a audden, spasmodic movement It broke the shaft in two. leaving a short piece attached to the blade sticking In Its body. "In another moment It was standing -on lis legs, l.ut Kept reeling about like a drunken man."' Selous" loaded gun. when he secured ft. missed fire. While he was mill 'trying to brirtg thev other Into action, the rhino. h avs. "started off In a a'ralght line, putting on more pace at THE ABOUT ManyGreat .Opportunities '!' f'f I J ' , V 0.4 ( - 44 "J1 Blue mountains and West of the Snako river. Isolated because of Its rugs "1 character and distance from thorougli fures of trade and ( commerce, the dis trict was doomed to lie dormant for years after couptry adjacent had res ponded to the call of the husbaudma i, But last year the railroad, the pionc?r of development, the sentinel marking the mileposts of progress, lnvcdod thn quiet recesses of the valley, and thn shrill cry of the locomotive was he-ird at the foot of the towering mountains. Wallowa was on the map. Larger than half a riozn of the New England states' yet populated by BTit a few thousand people tjiere is plerty of opportunity for development in Wal lowa. The great open rangts iipjn whicli have fed for many years great bands of cattle and flock of sheep, ara yielding to the all of the husuundm-'n and the natural resources of the country, except its scenery, are l)lng developed slowly. An awakening 10 the possibilities of the section as a to-ir-Ist resort Is being felt, and the suc ceeding decade will see a determined effort to place the magnificence of th valley and mountains before the world in a most striking and convincing man ner The highest point in the I'.ountTln ranges is Kagle Cap. towering to inits 15.00(1 feet above sealevel, covered with snow since ages agone. The elevation of the valley is about 400(1 feet with an atmosphere, healthful, exhilarating. From the mountain tops to the valleys beliw any desired altitude and climatic condition can bo readily secured The Forest Reserve In the Wallowa N'atloal forest, com prising 1,1 50.240 acres of the most val- uanie limneriana in eastern Oregon. ar to be fourd the most pict uresque sp.-ts in all Wallowa. The forest reserve winds like a great horseshoe around three sides of tl e valley extending ir.tj every step; and. although we ran as hard as we could, we never overtook It." Among the most enthusiastic of his admirers has always been Mr. Roose velt himself, the former president's re paid having led him to extend to Mr. Selous the invitation for the hunting which has brought his unerring eye again into the field of African game. Most of us know what Haggard has had to say, in a variety of volumes, regarding trie fictitious Quartermaln. but few have had the opportunity to read what Mr. Roosevelt thinks of the man who is now trudging with him In the deep shadows 'of the African for ests. What Mr. Roosevelt 'wrote. In En comium of him ns the author of his "African Nature Notes," and generous ly dated "The White House, May 23, 1907," was in reality an extensive, re view of lie man and his work, such as only an ardent admirer and enthusias tic friend could have been moved to write, and. Indeed. It would almost seem, from that time, as though his acquaintance with the great Nlmrod was what determined him upon devot ing practically a year of his life to emulation of the African hunter's deeds in the wilderness. "Mr. Selous," the occupant of the White House wrote. "Is the last of the big game hunters of South Africa: tho last of the mighty hunters, ' whose ex perience lay In the greatest hunting ground which this world has seen since civilised man has appeared therein. "There are still many happy hunting grounds to be found by adventure lov ing wilderness wanderers of sufficient hardihood 'and prowess, and in Central Africa the hunting grounds are of a character to satisfy the most exacting hunter of today.' "Mr. Selous Is much more than a mere big game hunter, however; he is by Instinct a keen field naturalist, an observer with a power of seeing and of remembering what he has seen; and, finally, he is a writer who pos sesses to a very marked apd unusual degree the power vividly and accur ately to put on tiaper his observations. 8uch a combination of qualities is rnre indeed." It was in this way that Mr. Roose velt referred to the fact- probably un known to nearly all Americans that this is not Ihe rlrst occasion, on which he himself has .hunted in Africa, fdr he iVmarked. apropos of the subject of protective coloration:. , ''When a boy, shooting on the edges t)f the desert In Egypt. I was im pressed with the fact that the panrt grouse, rosy bullfinches, sand lark and sand chats all, in the coloration of their upper part,- harmonized striking ly, -with the surroundings, while the bold black and white chats were pe OREGON 'SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY THE WD1SIDERS A or Outings in Tkis Lovely Section rVnere All Manner of Scenic Beauties Exist, Ready for tKe Tourist TV JvmtVaf jr.. is,, TO 1?' It 4? S7f 'J ' i C I'nion and Kaker covintles as well as occupying a large part of Wallowa. This reserve was set aside last year for the protection of its timber resources and lis game and fish. Ample suneryision is maintained over the forests. IS super visors being employed to protect the culiarly noticeable, and yet, as- far as 1 could see, held their own as well in the struggle for existence." The common tastes and interests of the two hunters now allied ita Africa af ford thctn ideal companionship and, what Is more, are likely to Inure mark edly to the advancement of the collec tions of specimens which Mr. Roosevelt hop-s to bring home with him. Mr. Selolis' presence is largely due to the fact that Mr. Roosevelt, In his quest for the extremely rare Inyala antelope has hopes that the exceptional experience and knowledge of his ally will bring him within reach of it; and that. In fact. Is one of the prime rea sons why Mr. Selous consented to take the field again with his friend. The story Mr. Selous tells of his own search for that rare and beautiful antelope equals anything Haggard ever imagined of Quatermain. and. most in teresting of all. it actually happened to him then. Just as. If his luck holds good again. It may be happening now to Mr. Roosevelt. , Arriving at Laurenco Marques, on Pelagoa bay, in September, 1S6, Mr. Selous sailed up the Maputa river to Amatongaland, where, at the Junction of the I'sutu and Pongolo rivers, the Maputa proper begins. Here, at the trading store of Mr. Wlssels. he saw several horns and skins of invala, evi dently recently killed. After several days' journey, leading a caravan of na tive women carriers, the only labor ob tainable, he came "upon the fresh spoor, or tracks, of what were undoubtedly inyala. He had crept about in the brush for an hour when at the further side of a glade, he beheld an inyala doe. "I could see no other animal near her." Mr. Selous states, "and as I re quired two specimens of Invala does, the one for the British and the other for the South African museum, I lost no time in firing at the animal in ques tion, which I saw drop instantly at the first shot. "But, even as she did so, there ap peared in her place or very close to where she had stood, a great, biack, shaggy form, which, indistinctly as I could see It in the deep shadows of the busli, I knew was a male invala the first that my eyes had ever looked on In the flesh: "Mv rifle was a single barreled one, and before I eni. fire the shot that might make That rare and beautiful beast mine, I had to open the breach of my rifle, take another cartridge from my belt, slip it Into the chamber, close the breech again, and then raise the rifle to my shoulder and take aim. "All this meant time and no is-. Would thn Inyala, which stood like a statue beside the dead pody of his mate, give fa i1' 'Ah it t J7u( . different sections from fire and from injury throucii excessive pasturage. Harvey W. Harris is supervisor, with offices at Wallowa. The reservation of the forest by the government does not have the effect of closing the district to tourists or camp me the few seconds I required to take his life, too" 1 little thought he would, but he did; and as I raised my rifle once more, and took a quick but careful sight on his dark shoulders, 1 felt, as 1 pulled the trigger, that he was mine. "As tin- report of the rifle sounded, he plunged madlv forward, and was In stantly lost to sight in the thick scrub. But I felt sure he carried death wit -i him. and so it proved, for w- found him lying dead not 20 yards from where he had stood when the bullet struck him. The fatal mlssle ha. I passed right through his shoulders, and having expanded on Impact, had torn his heart to pieces." These antelopes, now- much depleted In number, even within the few years that have elapsed since Mr. Helous secured- his specimens, are about seven feet, six Inches In total length for the adult male, and three, feet, four inches high at the shoulder, elegant and ro bust In form, with horns marly two feet In length, twisted and huxlng verv sharp, polished extremities Mr. Roosevelt's hopes of securing n pair or more are greatly encourage. 1 by the aid of Mr. Selous. of whom he believes, hs did Cap'n Cuttle of Jack Bunsby. "If anybody kin, he kin." ERRORS IN PRE CISION THE flower vase has stood In one spot year in and year out. and it is undoubtedly a misdemeanor to disturb it; but your visitor did not know that: And the casement she opened for fresh air is the one you always Veep hermetically sealed; and that was an other breach of etiquette. And certain window shades are never raised nor low ered. And certain chairs are never out of certain nooks. And the cushions and tidies which she disarranged she ad justs in some other way that is totally, at variance with yours. And at the table the guest lias little Ideas of her own and the salad Is dished up in a different fashion when she vol unteers to serve: or the butter Is a noveltyr or the "shakers" and knives and forks are not to th plummet lino of your housewifely precision. Efery where, no matter how much of a pink of perfection and how thoughtful and careful your visitor Is, wherever she lounges, or treads, or emplovs herself, or enjoys, there is a trail, of disturbance or difference, of -her way from yours. TTiat is, there will he' a trail of dif ference and disturbance If yon let these variations in the domestic regime get on your nerves. And that appears to be MORNING. MAY 23, 1909. OF KhVGtt ON. WTY K4 ers, flu the other hand the plan Is to preserve the natural beauty and gran deur of the country for the enjoyment of tint people of future as well as present gem-rations, giving every lover of na ture and of sport an opportunity' to get away from the "madding crowd" for a the case at present or you never wopld have (pounced so unmercifully upon the pretty aso and removed It froin thft hull stand to the parlor mantel, its ac customed place. And you never would have approached the unused casement, or the shades that are a fixture, and with nervous haste reduced both to their old estate. And you would not live on tenter hooks, pushing the chairs Into the rightful cor ners, placing cushions at the same obi angle, and fussing over all the small de tails at table, or in the kindly volun teer service, if you were not allowing your nerves to run away with your sense. Kven suppose your visitor were the most troublesome sort, and she is none of this, the disarray of your Inures and Penates, the disregarded statutes, the routine disturbed will be o' short dura tion and nothing vital is involved. While on the other hand there is an opportun ity to profit by her taste. There is a chance to compare notes and learn some thing new. and perhaps more artistic, or serviceable, or helpful and convenient than the customs and routine you have Indorsed for years. You can always get ideas from a guest; even the dullest visitor In a sn ciul wav more than repays for your hospitality hy bringing a new expres sion of personal taste into your house. The new expression may he faulty, and it may be far more inartistic and clum sy fhan yours, hut this only brings into new found luster the old ways after vonr guest has disappeared. But the emphatic point to remember Is. not to allow vour delightful tran sient guest to upset your nerves. Over look the small disarrangements. Or, most tastefully and unobtrusively re store order according to your fashion. Or. best of all. do not notice In realitv. F.njoy yourself naturally In accord with new ideas! States Neglect Immigrants. From the New York Tribune. One respect in which the states have not kept abreast of the federal govern ment Is In dcdlng with Immigration. The 1'nited States treats the Immigrant as a problem'up to the time he is land ed. Then Its lurisdlt tion ends. The states Ignore the problem be presents from the time he is landed. The fed eral authorities have this commission er and inspectors to see that only fit Immigrants are permitted to come to this country that the criminal, the diseased and the pauper are excluded. But the states allow the immigrant to shift for himself once he in in this country. They dj) nothing, practically, to sen that be goes where lit? is most needed and has the best opportunlt v. They let him gravitate helplessly to th big centers of population, where he in not needed. The fetleraV government sees to it that he is a fit man, and then the stat neglects to. Bee that the fit man has a fit environment. 4 ' WALLOWA ,. .8-1 j IV 1 f !. 5. 1 ': 1 brief period at leist and enjoy outdoors to the full-st. extent. The great timber belt In the moun tains has been the home of wild animals which have been the. bane of stockmen from the earliest days. The government, in setting aside the reserve, also under took to exterminate the cougar, wild cat, mountain lion and wolf, in which effort hearty cooperation has been ex tended by the settler in every part of the country Hundreds of the deadly prowlers have been despatched, and the runre has been practically saved from the pest of many years. "Billy Meadows" An Interesting experiment in the de struction of wild animals was the con struction of a specially built fence around the "Billy Meadows," by the department of the Interior In 1907. This pasture, which Is supposed to be fenced animal tight, covers nearly four'sectlons of land or 25)0 acres, and is located 35 miles from the town of Wallowa. The fence Is built with the purpose of pro tecting stock from any wild animal strong enough to do damage, and In the nearly two years of Its service but one bear and no other animals of conse quence has bet n able to pass through or !)vfr it. The skin of Mr. Bruin i used as a rug hy Joseph C Carper, hunter on the reserve under pay of the government. But the great attraction of the Wal lowa is Wallowa lake, a few miles from Joseph, the terminus of the railroad. And such a body of water! Beautiful, placid in sunshine, turbulent in storm, magnificent always. With cliffs tower ing hundreds of feet perpendicular here, with banks dipping to the water's eugo there, with tiny mountain streams pour- RELEASE THE NERVE TEN-SION-By C ara Reese T1 HE second hoot is not going to drop on the floor oerhead. So, back mi your pillow, startled one. breathe a sigh of relief, release the nerve tension; the second boot Is not going to drop on the floor with noise enough to waken the dead, ns did the first one Because the lodger has remembered; he has suddenly remembered that there are other people in the house besides himself; or he may have but one leg and there is no sceond piece of boot leather to drop Anyhow, lie down, let go the grip on the nerves, surrender the leash that has In an instant put your strength to tho test, while all faculties are straining to a keen scent of danger; relax a bit. The second boot Is not going to drop and knock down t lie plaster, and jar t lie chandeliers, and nyke the pictures tremble. There Is no need, therefore, of losing further sleep, of sitting up right, or of waiting, waiting, waiting for something that is not going to happen; go to sleep. It is the expectancy of shock that causes the nervous wrecks. It is the quick attitude of attention that makes inroads on strength. It is the holding fast to the strain, the grouch, the dread, when the occasion for such has passed, t fiat breaks up. breaks down, completely uses up the most vigorous constitution. There must be repose, a relense from strain, an allowance for recuperation and recovery from sudden test, or dam age will result. Summon quicklv whei the alarm is sent in from substation to central, but just as quickly disperse, scatter, tranquillze when the brain chief decides that the alarm is "false," or when the small blaze is over. It is the top notch excitement, tension, expec tancy, maintained Indefinitely, that kills. You have been on a strain now longer than Is creditable; you have been holding your breath and your percep tions "at attention" without much re spite; your ears are strained to the limit of sensation, and for what? Merely waiting until the second boot falls, and encouraging a lurtd Imagination that not even the second may be tho last; there may be four legs, or six legs, or eight in the room above, with heavy boots Kchedulcd to drop thunderirtgly at stated intervals. "Nonseijse; go to sleep. One piece of sole leather is recorded Wlto a thump, never mind about the rest. And the same way with bricks falling down the chimney: once startled to alertnese the "once" should be enough; and the aame way with chicken, one aqua wklng "dull thud,'', and silence should be ali-euffi-cient; you know what Jt raean; then A Paradise for Dportsmen to Enjoy. . EAGL CAP 15,000 i?T lug down here and a. mighty cascade there, with its water pure as crystal ana cold as drippings from a snowbank, with its view of mountain and valley and ri"er and town what more mag nificent picture could be painted by the master hand'.' Wanted to Know the Fact. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. When the policeman told Patrick Col lins that he was before the court, Mr, Collins felt his way up to the rail and stood there, his hands upon it. His head was completely wrapped in bandages. Just one little peek hole was left, through which a gleam of light pene trated to the inner Collins. He turned his head sidewlse, like a battered fend very dissolute robin, and peered at the magistrate. "You are charged with disorderly con duet. Collins," said the court. "I know It." Mr. Collins was under stood to mumble. "I want to be held for trial." "You- want to be held for trial'.'" gasped the court. "Why not plead guilty now, pay a dollar fine, and go away free?" "Nup. ' said Collins, straining lan guage through the colths. "Nup, I want be Iried." "And in the name of the Great Chief Tammany why?" asked the court. "Hecause," said Collins through his) swollen Hps." "the last I can remember was when I was standing peaceful like on a corner. Then the next thing I can; remember two doctors was sewing me together so I wouldn't fall apart before I got to court. I want to bs tried and hear the stories of the witnesses. That's the only way I'll ever find out what come off." cotton in your ears for the rest of the performance; save your nerves. And because one blow has been struck, at your fireside, your affection, your af fairs. Is no reason why you should b at nervous attention for the rest of your life. Recover yourself, release nerve tension; only one boot shall drop to the floor; there is thought! ulnesa overhead. In Africa. From the Chicago News. ("arollne Kirkland. in her book on, "Some African Highways." writes of night in the Dark Continent: "There la nothing so bblack as an African night, and I think that it is because the earth, being a deep red, offers no reflection to the fatnt starlight such as we get in other lands. Instead it swallows up what Blight glow there may be and gives to the darkness a dense, velvety quality not to be found anywhere else. Overhead the stars glare more brilliant ly than in northern latitudes, but they seem to cast no light, and the night is palpable, suffocating, appal Ing and filled with nameless horror which is quite indescribable. , In a single sentence the same writer gives a forcible idea of the sleeping sickness: "While there Is nothing acute ly distressing about this manner of dy-' Ing. nothing to equal the terror of other vital diseases like cancer or tubercul osis there Is something peculiarly sinister in the slow, stealthy, irresla tihle approach of death whose course no known remedy can stay or alter.'" Of African lions Miss Kirkland writes: "As a rule il Is only the old lions who attack human beings. They grow too decrepit to be able to catch the more agile antelopes who are their lawful prey, so, goaded by a hunger which ae cannot wither or lessen, they pounue on unwary mortals." Woummi's Citovra. From the Philadelphia Bulletin. In a recent divorce caaa in fteotland It was testified that a lady searching her maid's trunks found .it0 pair et her own gioves therein. -'"' "Abroad," said a dealer anent Ho happening, "It Isn't unumwl for a woih'I of faahion-to have 2o plr f lov.. At the sale Of rt ,' "-!' things yr ?0i0 Pir i-" new, were put up. ' , ' "You glovea are cheaper abrmid. Over there you H Py a dollar for an tide that would eost yei l and a blf here. But aside from pthat, for-wn women incline to go in more for a and boote. too -the fv Tim t-n elgn woman la lifcelr b letter 'n: i and booted than per American aiia,-," a: V