Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1899.

admirer of America and Americans who, he told Mi?s Ku.-sner, he admired for the'.r Intelligence and Independence. "You do not bother about what other nations think," he raid. "It will Interest American editors,' 5ald Miss Kussner. "that everything affecting Ruila or the Czar's family appearing In the prominent American newspapers finds lta way to the Czar's desk and is read by him. Ills familiarity with American affairs and Americans ot note Is remarkable. The Czar spoke warmly of Admiral Dewey, discussing his career with great Interest, and saying: 'His victory at Manila was a splendid achievement. The Czar Is not enthusiastic concerning our American operations in, the Philippines. He seemed to think we had our hands full there." Miss Kuspner is contemplating a tour around the world. PRACTICE-IVOItlv OF ATIIMITi:?.

Americans Stretch Their MukIm nt the Queen Clab. LONDON, July 13. Holccmb J. Brown, William A. Beal and W. J. Ilolloway, of the American University athletic team, under the care of Trainer Lathrop, practiced this morning at the Queen's Club. The combined teams made their first appearance at the club this afternoon. They had a number of trials. In the first sprint of fifty yards. C. Dupee (Yale), D. Bordman (Yale), P. J. Qulnlan (Harvard) and F. A. Blount (Yale), competing, Qulnlan won In five and three-fifths seconds. Another fifty-yard sprint between Dupee, Quinlan and Blount was also won by Qulnlan in Si seconds. William FIncu (Yale) and J. W. Hallowell (Harvard) started in a 120 yards hurdle race. Hallowell won In 151-5 second?, but the two men were so near a dead heat that It was difficult to tell the winner or which Wfis the better man. Then F. Z. Hoppen (Harvard) did the 129 yards hurdle, paced by Hallowell, on the outside, in 15 4-5 seconds. Morse (Yale), Daly (Harvard) and ll&rrington (Harvard) tried broad Jumping in order to test the ground and performed very creditably, though the distances were not measured. Clarke (Harvard), Foote (Harvard) and Palmer (Yale) Jogged a couple of miles. Ten members of the Oxford-Cambridge team did a little dilatory work. While It Is too early to discriminate between the contestants, the Englishmen do not appear to be in as good condition as the .Americans. Bevan (Cambridge), who is slated for the long jump, is manifestly out of condition. The Americans, all around, are younger and lighter, but they are in excellent form. It would be difficult to imagine a more charming picture than the Queen's Club grounds presented this afternoon when the blue and crimson ribboned American university athletic tearas made their first appearance upon the scene of next week's contest. It was a typical Engiisn day with balmy air and a half clouded sky, which combined to make athletics a pleasure. "The Queen's Club is undoubtedly the most complete athletic grounds ever seen," said Manager Wendell to the correspondent of the Associated Press. "We know the charms of Travers island and Bergen point, but nothing could equal those of the Queen's Club. It is delightful to know that the Oxford and Cambridge managers appreciate our desire to free amateur sports from the charge of professionalism. The attention paid us here has exceeded anything we could de.'re." Walter Camp, the college athlete who accompanied the teams across the Atlantic out .of personal love of sports, watched the events to-day and expressed satisfaction with all the arrangements and the form of the Americans. "1 do not know what next week may do," said he, "but there is every Indication now that the Americans will entrtr the contests in the finest of form and ready to meet their opponents fairly and squarely, irrespective of results. This is the charm of amateur sports, which we are fighting no hard to impress upon the American public The only fault we find is that the publie, anxious to see the best, fastest and Strongest of all things, has not learned to differentiate between amateur and professional sport. We are rapidly overcoming this, and frequent contests in England will do much to bring about the right result which amateurs In both countries so much desire." The presence on the grounds of half a core of the Oxford and Cambridge teams added to the Interest of the afternoon. C. N. Jackson, the honorary treasurer of Oxford, and Captain Hunter, of Cambridge, were presented to the Americans and assured them of the sincerity of the Knglish welcome. The English athletes refrained from any performance until the retirement of the Americans to Brighton, when they indulged In a number of creditable tests. S2cretary Becks, of the Queen's Club, who i maklne everv effort for the success of the contests, expressed great delight at the prosTft of successful games ana snowed tne is sociated J:ess correspondent the arrange ments that bad been made for tne accommodation of the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York and other notable people who will witness the contests. The fact that the English sprinters run with the rieht hand on the inside of the track, the opposite direction of the Ameri cans, is regarded ty many as a serious handicap upon the latter. Mr. Wendell says, however, the Americans will be put on train ing In that direction and he thinks the ques tion of direction wm maae no materia uu ference. ItlOTrVG AT CHERBOURG. Ontrasre "by Marines, "Who Stripped a. Woman of Tier Clothes In the Street. "CHERBOURG. July 13. Early this morn ing more arrests were made owing to the police station being besieged by a party of marines, who demanded the release of their comrades. The windows of the station were broken. Soldiers with drawn swords pur sued men who engaged in tearing down lanterns after the national fetes. The rioters In several places attempted to provoke the Infantry by insulting cries. The troops, how ever, remained calm. Many people were wounded during the rioting, but there were no fatal cases reported. The riotous ma rines, among other things, stripped a woman naked in the middle of the streets, in spite of the efforts of the populace to rescue her. Among those injured were a number of Infantrymen. De Deanrepalre to De Curbed. PARIS, July 15. At a Cabinet meeting to day the minister of war, General the Mar quia de Gallifet, announced that the presi dent of the Rennes court-martial" had de cided that M. De Beaurepaire, the former president of the civil section of the Court of Cassation, would be allowed to appear only as a witness on questions the Court of Cassation referred to tne court-martial, and that he would not be permitted to formu late fresh charges. . Mmr. Dreyfus Sees Her Hnsband. RENNES, July 15. Maltre Demange in terview Captain Dreyfus to-day from 10 o'clock until 1, after which Mme. Dreyfus islted her husband for several hours. On leaving the prison she was greeted by sev- . WEATHER FORECAST. Shorrers To-Day rrobably Fair Throughout Indiana on Monday. WASHINGTON, July 15. Forecast for Sunday and Monday: For Ohio and Indiana Showers on Sunday; probably fair on Monday; light to fresh south to southwest winds. . For Illinois Partly cloudy Sunday; fair Monday; west to northwest winds. Loral Observations on Saturday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a, m.. Z) SO 71 SS S'east. Lt. rain. 0.07 7 p. m..2.7i 75 S3 S'west. Cloudy, u.14 Maximum temperature, S4; mlninlum temperature, ey. Following Is a comparative statement of the temperture and precipitation July 15: Temp. Pre. Normal 78 0.14 Mean 7fi Departure from normal 2 0.21 0.07 Departure since July 1 25 l..w Departure since July 1 2& 7.43 Plus. C. F. R. WArPENHANS, Local Forecast Official.

Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Cairo, III 74 tW SS Cheyenne. Wyo 50 7 r,; Chicago. Ill 6S W 74 Cincinnati, O 70 1 Concordia, Kan 6 so Si Davenport. Ia 72 M M Ies Moines, la M K; 7K Kansas City, Mo 70 7S 7t Little Rock. Ark 72 91 Memphis, Tenn 75 12 84 Nashville, Tenn 72 -) North Platte, Neb s m w Oklahoma, O. T 70 S2 Omaha. NV fA K4 7.; IMttsburg. Fa M Pi ?' Rapid City. S. D W 7 Salt Lake City, Utah .... 54 W Si St. Louis. Mo 7 RS M Springfield. Ill 74 SI H) Springfield. Mo 70 M SO Ylcksburg. Miss , 7ft Si fti

enty Rennes society women who had assem

bled to testify their sympathy with her. . WOXT .MISS CnOKER. Londoners Anxious to Ciet Itld of the Tammany Chieftain. Copyright. 1?:, by the At?oclatl Press. LONDON, July 15.-Accordlrig to the Man-cf-the-world, the midweek edition of tne Sporting Times and recognized sporting authority, Mr. Richard Croker returns to New York in August. The paper add3 that Mr. Croker has signally failed in his avowed object of "knocking the stuffing" out of Tattersall's ring, and that when he returns to the United States "he will not be missed." The rale of Ilaggin's yearlings at New Market on Thursday attracted much attention and realized ld,7ZO, averaging 121. In only one instance was a really good price reached, namely, l.SGO guineas for a Gold-finch-Fleurette colt. The late Kruce Sea ton's American yearlings averaged 12 guineas". On Thursday a number of yearlings were bought by Purcell Guilpin, who will train and race them here lor William C. Whitney. Truth says: "There has been a great deal of crazed brained trumpeting about Amer ican yearlings. A mighty iiusg was raised about a large consignment of yearlings f"crn the United States, old at New Market last autumn, when high prices were realized. but not one of the animals which then changed hands has won a race so far, and appear to be practically worthless for racing purposes. When asinine enthusiasts indulge in laudatory rant about American horses because Lord Beresford won a number of important races with animals from the United States, they forget his horses were all bred by Mr. Lorillard, who has the finest stud in America." THE ALASKAN DISPUTE. Comments of the Saturday Ilevlevr, a Jingo Newspaper. Copyright. 1S39, by the Associated Press. LONDON. July 13. There Is a recrudes cence of anxiety regarding the Alaska dis pute in political circles, though the general public does not attach much Importance to the matter. Jingo newspapers like the Sat urday Review grasped the opportunity to re-air their anti-American proclivities. The Review thinks that as the time for the pres idential nominations approaches President McKlnley may "find the Cleveland prece dent ovejtemptlng and launch an arrogant Alaska message against England, the result of which would be very different to the success attending tne enezueia. Aiier assorting the Canadian desire to finally decide the matter by impartial arbitration. while the United States demand a tribunal which will be either a farce or unlikely to settle anything, the Review says: "We can not concede more to the united Mates wunout Canadian acceptance, and our own ex perience in that direction does not give much hope of the efficacy of concessions, -even If we do." In conclusion, the Review remarks: "If the Anglo-Saxon entente does nothing to modify the American attitude toward Alaska, it will have proved more useless and evanescent than the bubbles of the champagne on which it floated Into existence." Notes from the South Seas. VANCOUVER. B. C. July 15. News from New Guiana concerning gold mining there is decidedly discouraging. Dysentery, disappointment and destitution are doing their work among the unfortunate men who, in search of gold, rushed to such an inhospitable climate. The steamer Isabel brought back to Queensland eighty miners, many of them destitute, some of them dying, others more or less pick. " Tidal waves have caused great damage to crops in the Caroline islands. The drought is still terrible In the pastoral country of New South Wales. Fifty per cent, of the stock is dead. A fall of earth at Bundabeer water works, Adelaide, killed six men and Injured two others. A Victorian tobacco expert Is endeavoring to get a reduction in freight for tobacco leaf, to enable the colonial product to be landed in London as cheaply as the American. The Shamrock's Sails Damaged. SOUTHAMPTON, July 15. The cub challenger Shamrock went for a spin this morning in Southampton water. When the yacht was returning from the Warner lightship in a good southeasterly breeze, her main thoat or peak halyards carried away, and she had to be brought up into the wind. She returned here under easy sail. It was learned to-aiight that the Shamrock's mishap is of a trivial character. She was trying a lighter set of running gear aloft as an experiment and it was apparently unable to stand the strain and the mainsail came down by the run. Nons of the crew were injured, though some of the men. had J mi . . el narrow escape, j ae yacni nus not oeen docked, but remains moored off the llythe pier. Heat Drives Londoners to the Country LONDON, July 13. The weather during the week long has been tropical, beating ail records for twenty years past, and the heat has given a final blow to the waning season. Every one is hurrying to the country. Even the Americana who were here in sucii numbers last week are scattering over the continent. The most picturesque and enjoyable event of the week was Princess Louise's garden party at Kensington Palace, where most of the leading painters, musicians and. actors mingled with royalty and the aristocracy. Over one thousand invitations were issued. Cable Notes. Lady Salisbury is making good progress toward recovery. A magistrate yesterday ordered the destruction of fourteen tons of rotten fruit seized in the boiling room of Sir Thomas Upton's jam factory at London. El Liberal, of Madrid, of yesterday, announced the discovery of a deficit r.f 2,7r0,pesetas in the accourts of the Northern Railway Company, due to embezzlement. The evening papers contradict the report. Judgment was given at London yesterday In the long ponding application of Sir Robert Peel to sell his family heirlooms for support of himself and family. The court directed the sale of plate valued at $10,ooo, but refused to denude Drayion manor of historical heirlooms valued at jr-oO.OOO. CORPORATE TAXATION. One of the Topic Discussed at a Meeting of A'evr York Hunker. ALEXANDRIA BAY. N. T., July 15.Frank M. Eastman, of Harrisburg. Pa., addressed the New York State Rankers Association here to-day on the Pensylvania system of taxation for State purposes, with special reference to the taxation of banks. He described the taxation laws of Pennsylvania at considerable length and severly criticised the methods of taxing corporations in New York. Judge John R. McPherson, of the United States Court, eastern district of Pensylvania, spoke on "Suggestions Concerning Corporate Taxation." Judge McPherson discussed the Pennsylvania tax system minutely and advocated Its adoption in case of a change In New York's methods. He declared himself in favor of exempting banks from local taxation except on real estate. At the afternoon session W. S. Wltham, of Atlanta, Ga., addressed the convention upon "Branch Banks." Mr. Wltham was brought from the South by the New York bankers because he is president of over twenty banks in his State. He described the system on which branch banks were started in Georgia. He stated that these Institutions were all Independent, one of the other, and- maintained that this was the rlsht method to manage them. He enumerated the advantages of such institutions as follows: "There is no capital stock to pay tax on. they increase the deposits of the parent bank, tney save a con$ueraoie nmount of expanse, they meet the political demands in keeping rural districts supplied witn cash that would otherwise be concentrated In cities. It is almost impossible to create a run on these country hanks. Some discussion followed upon this subject. Thfl association adopted the following res olution: "That we approve and ak the adoption by Congress of the following rhar.ces In our currency laws; First, that all the obligations of the United States b paid in gold coin, standard value. econ. that legal tender notes when redeemed by th government shall rot be reissued except on deposit of sold c?tn. Third, that national banks shall be allowed to take out notes to the nar value of government bonds deposited with the treasurer of the United States at fiJ. r.U A f I -

GAS-BELT INVESTMENTS

IXDIAXAPOMS NATl'RAL GAS COMPAMKS FA It BEHIND OTHERS. Looks as If This City YVonld Freeze Affuln !cxt Winter Terre Haute Assessments Raised. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Julylo. Notwithstanding all the discouraging reports sent out with reference to the failing ga9 supply, more money is being expended and invested In the Indiana gas field than there has been for six or eight years. The Indianapolis companies are about the only ones not making extensive preparation to furnish their consumers with gas next winter. Other companies are investing their profits freely. An entire new gas system, costing nearly 530,000, is being put in here, with two other competing companies. The gas syndicate which furnished Chicago Its natural gas is doubling its line to the Western metropolis with a large pipe line. In Grant county the same company is erecting a $23,000 pumping station. In the railroad yards of Hartford City are piles and piles of eight and ten-inch pipe belonging to the Fort Wayne Gas Company. On the edge of Delaware county the Ohio and Indiana Pipe Line Company has two lines of ten-inch pipe laid on top of ground and ell the lines are new. The demand for gas pipe has been so great that the price of pipe has nearly trebled In the past six months. There is no disputing the fact that the pressure has been steadily decreasing, but not to any alarming extent or any greater ratio than in previous years. INDIANA OBITUARY. 3IaJ. Benjamin Gregory, One of the 31en "Who dinned Morgan. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., July 15. MaJ Benjamin Gregory died this morning at his home in Zionsville, of paresis. He was born Nov. 23, 1823, in Alleghany county. New York, and his parents settled in Eagle township In lS.a He enlisted in Company F, Tenth Indiana Infantry and was soon commissioned major in recognition of his bravery at Mill Spring, Ky., where he captured a rebel banner. In the following August he left the army on account of sickness, but the next year organized for home service the One-hundred-and-second Indiana Volunteers. When Morgan raided the State Major Gregory was one of his warmest pursuers. While in this service he was commissioned colonel, which position he held until 1864. In August, lSfi.1, he entered Company F, One-hundred-and-thirty-fifth Indiana, from which he received an. honorable discharge In the fall of ls4. After his military career he returned to Zionsville, where he engaged in the hardware business until 1SU. In 181)0 be was engaged in gold mining interests in Mexico and made two trips to the City of Mexico. Major Gregory was identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Zionsville G. A. R. post. He was twice married and leaves a family of several children. The funeral will be held to-morrow at 2 p. a Reason Jlell. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., July 15. Ex-Auditor Reason Bell, who has been at the point of death some time, died this evening, aged sixty-five years. He served as county auditor sixteen years. Mr. Bell was the eon of Reason and Sarah Datnell Bell and was born in Washington township Jan. 1L 1834, being the first white child born in Torter county, then comprising what is now Porter, Lake and Newton counties. His parents came to Indiana in 1822 and was the third white family to settle in this county, locating In an unbroken forest. At the age of eighteen he entered the oliice of the county auditor as deputy, serving five years, a&d in 1Ss07 was elected auditor and re-elected, serving eight years. Dec. 23, 1S57, he married Delia A. White, who survives him. In 1870, he was again elected county auditor and was re-elected, serving again eight years. He was chairman of the Republican county central commitee several times and was secretary of the Fremont-McKinley Club in lStKJ. Mr. Bell had passed all the chairs of the Odd Fellows' lodge and encampment. When a boy he lost his foot In a threshing oiiiuian-u cicvcu w in t C3. lie icaic ix 1 i&c and Ave children, all of whom are prominent in business and social circles. Isaiah Hale. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DUBLIN, Ind., July 15. Isaiah Hale, aged seventy-eight years, a wealthy farmer, three miles north of Dublin, died to-day of dropsy. He was a pioneer of Wayne county, and was a member of the Radical United Brethern Church of this place. He leaves a widow, one son, Charles Hale of Milton, and one daughter, Mrs. Gilien or this place. FLINT GLASS MEN PICNIC. Afternoon of Sports "While Waiting? on Committees to Report. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., July 15. The flint glass workers' International convention did little work to-day, adjourning at noon, after a morning session, at which no action of importance was taken. The convention is still waiting for committee reports. At noon there was an adjournment made until Monday morning. A picnic was Indulged in this afternoon at West-side Park by the dele gates. There was dancing during the after noon and evening, 'lhe baseball game between Kast and West delegates, with President Smith as umpire, resulted in a tie. 5 to 5. with the game called on account of darkness -in the tenth inning. Following this there were tub and boat races. Presi dent Smith besting Vice President Hinckley In a boat race. This was followed by sack races, donkey races and other siports. Presi dent Smith announces to-night that the del egates will not cet away from Muncle be fore Friday of next week. The report from the green glass workers' international meet ing at Atlantic City last night, to the effect that it had voted not to amalgamate with the other trades, caused a sensation In the meeting here, and telegrams were exchanged between Presidents Smith and Hayes, to the effect that the matter had not yet been acted on. and the report made an erroneous impression. New Glass Trust Nearly Ready. Special to the Indianaxolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 15. Last Tuesday a meeting of the directors of the American Glass Company was held at the office of the trust, at Pittsburg, and Wednesday night fifteen of the leading mov ers of the new trust went to New York city, where another meeting was held Thurs day. The new trust has applied for a charter and it will be known as the American in-dow-glass Company. The charter will be granted before Aug. 1 and it Is believed the new combine will be formed the ilrst of next week. Another advance of 5 and 10 per cent, on window class is anticipated imme diately after the trust is lormed. EDITORS GET A DUCKIXG. Downpour of Rain Mars Their Ontina nt Winona. WINONA LAKE. Ind., July 15. No regu lar sessions were held to-day by the In diana Republican Editorial Association and the editors spent the day in attending the entertainments of the assembly and enjoy lng their outing as much as possible on such a rainy day. A large number of promt nent Republicans are attending the meet ing, among whom is Lieutenant Governor Haggard, of Indiana, formerly an editor himself. Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett. the noted colored lecturer and reformer, occu pied the platform at the assembly to-night. She lectured before an immense audience on the subject of "Social Prejudices." AN UNNATURAL SON. William Louden Refuses to Receive and Bury 1II Father's Dody. Special to the Indlanaiolla Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., July 13. -William Lou den, reputed to be wealthy and until rernt ly a member of the lirra of Brockman, Lou den & Tompkins, well-known contractors. to-day refused to receive from the American Express Company the remains of his father. Albert Louden, who died in Paraaould.

Ark., July 13, Mr. Louden refusing to pay the express charges of JLo. Mr. Louden received a telegram lat Thursday from Dr. F. M. Scott, of Paragould, that his father was dead. He was asked what to do with the remains and telegraphed back to send them here. The express company offered to deliver the casket at his home to-day, but he refused to receive It, and Local Agent George Hibbs telegraphed the superintendent of the company at Indianapolis asking what disposition should be made of it. The companj' placed the corpse In J. D. Emmons's morgue, and Agent Hibbs has orders to bury it at noon to-morrow if Louden still refuses to do so. Albert Louden was a candidate for countv treasurer on the Democratic ticket in 187?, but was defeated, and, broken up financially, he left the country and had not been heard of since. William Louden offered to bury his father if some one would pay the express charges. Cnpt. Lee Linn's Death Confirmed. Sreoial to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., July 15. Mrs. Lee Linn. whose husband. Captain Linn, Is dead in Cuba, returned here this morning from Indianapolis, where she was yesterday when the telegram came from Col. Brewster, quartermaster of the United States array, at New York, announcing the death. Colonel Brewster notified her that he had forwarded full particulars by mail and the arrival of the letter to-morrow Is anxiously awaited. The death of Captain Linn has been th chief topic of conversation on the streets here to-day, he having for a quarter of a century been one of the most conspicuous residents of Wabash. When ordered to reEort for duty in New York last March, ha ad Just left a sick bed and his constitution

was in no condition to, stand tne rigors or life In the tropics. Two weeks ago he wrote h.'s wife from the transport Burnside that he had suffered a sunstroke, but had recov ered and welgned -riore than he ever did. This is, the last word she ever received from him. It is the intention, if lt is possible to do so. to have the body brought to Wabash for interment, though if he died of yellow fever, which prevails in Santiago, the authorities may not permit it. Corporations Favored by Assessors. Speolal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 15. The County Board of Tax Review has been very busy for a few days readjusting the assess ments of property in the township in which Terre Haute is situated. The board found that the township assessor had fixed the rate for. lots and improvements in the cen tral part of the city at a very high figure. but had left those on the outside at the old valuation. There was also delay in reporti ng the assessment on corporations. The board is raising the latter considerably. There has been a very strong demand in the city for an increase on such property and especially on that of corporations which have public franchises. The board has ncreased the assessment of the waterthe street-railway company from $134,000 to $250,000. The street-railway property was sold only a few days ago for ItfO.OOO cash value. Indianapolis Bicycle Thief Caught. Special to the Indlanaxoll8 Journal. TERRB HAUTE, Ind., July 15. Henry Duncan, of Indianapolis, aged twenty-two. was sentenced to from one to three years in the Reformatory for stealing a bicycle from the fair grounds Thursday night. He was loading it on a VandaJia freight car when a switchman discovered him. It has since been learned that he has a police record in Indianapolis and that a week ago he stole a wheel from in front of cne of the newspaper offices. This latter wheel he had crated and was about to ship to Indianapolis to "Frank Ward." one of his aliases, when it was found by Its owner. Duncan was here visiting a relative at the time. The police believe that he stole a number of wheels during the State encampment of the G. A. It. in May, at which time al?o he was here and when a number of wheels were stolen. He has served a term in the State Reform School. Fined for Shooting- Sweetheart. Speolal to the Indianapolis Journal. PARIS, III., July 15. Judge Sellar sen tenced Milton Daily, who shot Miss Lientz, as he claimed, accidentally, to pay a fine of $100 on the charge of assault and battery, and $25 for carrying a concealed weap on. Dally had been repeatedly repulsed by Miss Lientz, when he sought to pay his at tentions to her. and the shooting occurred while he was walking behind her. Judge Sellar told Dally that he was going the road that leads to the-penitentiary. Judge Sellar intimated that if the-arrangements now under way should be-- perfected for Daily's enlistment in the regular army the Judgment would be set aside. Dally went to Terre Haute to-day to make application for enlistment. HooHier Wheat for Paris Fair. Special to thd Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. July 15. Walter Ratliffe, of this city, waa some time ago desig nated to select one-third of the grain ex hibit that Indiaca. will make at the Paris exposition. His pWt to select consists of one bushel of wheat, one of rye and one of buckwheat. He has selected a bushel of new Columbia wheat grown on the farm of Clem Uaar. near this city. It was taken from the yield of twenty-nve acres of experimental wheat which gave an average yield of forty-live bushels and nine pounds to the acre. Warrant for Failure to Stamp Checks Special to th Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 15. A war rant has been issued by United States Com missioner HIggins for the arrest of A. C. McBride, of Freedom, Owen county, who Is accused of drawing money from bank on his individual account on unstamped checks which, as a township trustee, he has the right to use. The war revenue law exempts checks of public onicers from the Z-cent stamp tax, and the charge against McBride is that he misuses his privilege as a town ship trustee to draw money for his personal account. Shot by Mistake for Rnrsjlar. Special to thr. Indiana is Journal. VINCENNES. Ind.. July 13. Hugh Mc Mahan. a motorman, was shot and fatally wounded last night by Peter Saeger, who mistook him for a burglar trying to break into the house of Albert Wheeler, a mail carrier, who lives next door. McMahan ciaims that he was passing the house when shot. There seems to be a mystery about the case. If McMahan were In the yard it is probable he wa only peeping In the win dows, with no Intention of breaking In. Ho is an industrious young man and single. Strange Death of a Miner. Special tt the Indianalia Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., July 15. George Lawton, employed as driver on the night turn at mine No. 1, Brazil Block Coal Company, was struck on the head with a large rock in the main entry last night and rendered un conscious. When takun from the mine he regained his senses and told how he was hurt, but while being taken home he grew worse and died when but a few steps from his residence. He was thirty-six years old and leaves a wife and three children. Decntnr Without Light. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., July 15. During the storm yesterday the city's electric light plant was damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars. The city will be In dark' ness each night for a week. Last night the downtown district looked like a village forty years ago. Candles, oil lamps and old lanterns were brouRht out by the merchants, while many were forced to close their stores at 6 o'clock. Another Fourth of July Lockjaw. Special to the Indlanajolia Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 13.-Clifford Felts, aged twelve, son of superintendent of the poor farm, was accidentally shot in. the hand July 4th. The wound healed and the boy did not suffer until this morning, when he waa awakened with severe pains and the muscles of the jaw were set. Physicians were called and pronounced it lockjaw. He cannot recover. Man and Team Killed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LINTON. Ind., July 15. During the elec trical storm this evening Floyd Underwood and William Moulding, living three miles west of here, driving a cultivator through their farm, were struck by lightning. Mould ing and two horses were killed and Under wood Injured. A barn on John Taylor's farm was struck and burned to the ground. - . ! V Huncock County Dig Wheat Crop. Special to th Inilanaxolls Journal. GREENFIELD, Ind., July 13,-Hancock county has probably the greatest wheat crop ever known. The total acreage was 41.125. and several fields hava yielded more than forty . bushel an acre, with thlrtr

bushels an acre the average on many farm?. The county will average seventeen bushels, giving a total of 6?9.142 bushels, counting out for seed and bread 143.142 bushels, it will leave k,000 bushels for market. Bryan will hve a hard time on the 2th convincing the farmers that they are calamity stricken.

Old Monon Employe Stricken. Fpo! to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD. Ind., July 15. John McMahon, aged seventy, is lying at the point of death from a stroke of apoplexy. He has been in tho employ of the Monon for years and is known by nearly every employe of that compuiy. His brother, James McMahon, died from the same cause about a year ago. Indiana Notes. irtichard Mathews, aged ten. residing near Gveencastle, fatally shot himself yesterday wnne out hunting. The son of Isaac Underwood, a farmer. residing five miles east of Sullivan, was in stantly killed by lightning yesterday afternoon. He was at work in a lieid and had taken shelter under a tree. B. F. Simmons, a Richmond ice dealer and liveryman, is disposing of his property and planning to go to Cuba to engage in the manufacture of ice. It is said that the island has but one ice factory and that is controlled by the government. The Midwav Oil Company has filed arti cles of incorporation with the Blackford county recorder for a capitalization or 000. This 19 the company which recently purchased the oil property of E. C. Storms in Washington township, this county. The northern Indiana and Ohio Saengerbunds will hold their grand saengesfest in Wabash Aug. 20 and 21. The conclave or German musicians will be attended by sev eral thousand people, valuable prizes win be offered for the best singing and invita tions to attend have already been accepted bv societies in Toledo. Lima, Findlay, Springfield, Mansfield, Fort Wayne, Logansport, Lafayette, ieru. Jdicnigan uuy, Aiuncle and Anderson. The Wabash Maennerchor has the affair in charge. A grand street parade is one of the features. SYNDICATE NOT FORMED. Movement to "Corner' AH the Cattle In Texas May Fall. AUSTIN, Tex., July 15. The big Texas cattle syndicate being formed for the pur pose of controlling the cattle market in Texas, la not sailing in smooth water at present. Charles Loving, the promoter of the scheme, leaves next week for New York to try to secure all the financial assistance promised when the scheme was first originated for a half million dollar corporation. Rumors that the organization of the syndicate would be in violation of the Texas anti-trust law caused all the New York capitalists to back off from the proposition. This has delayed matters considerably. Some of the big cattle dealers, who had given options up to July 1 on their cattle, have refused to extend the options for the reason that cattle are going up. The syn dicate- tried to cover New Mexico and Texas, Rnd in doing so undertook too big a Job, which has resulted in its formation being seriously endangered. It is now thought that it may be organized on a smaller scale, with a capital not exceeding J20.000.000, but the premature exploitation of the plans before has seriously retarded the progress of the scheme, and it will have to be worked all over again with few chances for success. MRS. BEX WAII "WAXTS A PARROT. Curious Wish of an Old Indian Wom an in the New York Slnms. Jacob A. Riis, in New York Evening Sun. Old Mrs. Hen Wan is sick and she wants a parrot. If there seems to be anything in congruous In the two things, put it down to old age, if you like. They are the poigrant facts of her lonely life, and likely the final ones, for she cannot in reason last much longer. She Is very old and very lenely and sho wants a parrot. WTho will give her one? Whoever will need be" quick about it, for the old lady is even now hav ing a neighbor make out her last "paper," which Is a notice to everybody to keep away when the great change baa come and her garret Is still, until her frlend3 of the Charity Organization Society, Mrs. McCutcheon and the others, have been sent for. "Them Board of Health fellows." she saye, with the least touch of resentment in her gentle voice, "they might take and sell my things to buy cigars to smoke." Ben Wah Is not the old lady's name. though it sounds like that. Neither am 1 to give her address, for she wants one parrot, net a whole lot. She wants peace even more than she wants the parrot, and to send a stream or curious people to worry her is farthest from my mind. Let it be enough to say that she occupies an attic in one or the old down-town buildings that once harbored tho wealth and fashion of New York and are now given over to the crowa. me auic is much better than a sweltering tenement room. In spite of the neighboring skyscrapers the wind blows through, and of the rlre-escape the old lady nas maae Doin rarm and garden. A DOtato plant In a box represents the farm. The crop from the ore vine would keep the old lady a week. It is all dead against the ordinances that forbid lumbering uo the flree&capes. but the ordinances may go to gra.ss. mt. nen wan is not to be molested on any occount. hue is the widow of a French Canadian Indian, believed by her neighbors in the oia nouse to have been a mighty chief in his day. He died much more than a generation ago and his widow came to the States to sell beads. She traveled far and wide, and it was during those davs of lonesoma Journeylngs that she onco saw the parrot upon wnicn ner mind now dwells. In the end she was stranded In this city and hero some years ago Mrs. McCutcheon found her in dire straits. Since then she has had a friend, and she has returned the friendshin. They have not forgotten the Christmas, up In the Charities building, when the old lady came hobbling up the stairs with a bundle under her arm. lt was for those who were poorer than she." she explained. In lt thev found a lot of blankets and woollens from better days made over by the old widow Into children's garments after the primitive fashion of her day. She cast her mite into the treasury. A few days later when I visited her in her garret I found her sitting by the window and watching the sun sinking in me west with a look of real grief on her honest face. Her tobacco had run out, and she had not money enough to buy a paper with. I never enjoyed giving a Christmas gift as I did buying her a paper of smoking tobacco, and I don't believe she ever en joyed receiving one as much. Perfect con tentment sat upon her face as she staffed her clay pipe and said with a little smile: It is no disgrace to be poor, but lt is sometimes very inconvenient." And now Mrs. Ben Wall s days are nearlv numbered. The doctors say they are, and she Is setting her house to rights by slow degrees. Death has no terror for her. though the board of health fellow has. Her memories have long been the bifrcest nart of her life. She cannot weave her mats any more, and tne nours are dragging slowly. All the loneliness of her dreary life is rent up In the de.ire for a companion to share them, something living, with a voice, and that will not come in and go away again ano leave ner. bo, when I asked her what I should bring her back from a vacation trip, she said it bashfully enough a parrot. A green, or a red and white, it didn't mat ter, so long as it was a parrot. I have not got a parrot, and I do not know where to get one. But I have no doubt there are plenty of people who would be glad to do this kindness for the old widow whose whole life was kindness to others. So, if anyone has a parrot, green, or white and red, and will send it to Mrs. McCutcheon, of the Charity Organization Society, Twenty-second street and Fourth avenue, he will sweeten Mrs. Hen Wah s last hours. It would be absolutely impossible to put a parrot to better use. Found Mangled on Railway Track. VALLEY CITY. N. D.. July 13. The maigled body of Howard H. Craig, eergeant of the Sixteenth United States Vol unteer Signal Corps, was found on the railroad track four miles east of Jamestown, with strong indications of murder. The crime was evidently committed for the purpose of robbery, but the man's discharge papers were still on tee body. He was a native of St. Louis. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July IS. Howard H. Craig was a telegraph operator and formerly worked here. His widow Is now in this city. Craig's parents live at Jefferson City, where his father is an omcer in the state penitentiary. Craig was twenty-four years old. and enlisted in the army from St. Louis. Depew Jury Dtunarreed. CINCINNATI, July 15. The Jury in the case of Joseph Depew, charged with murdering James Patterson, a noted local politician and prize fighter, disagreed and was dismissed this afternoon. Depew was remanded to Jail. His case is not bailable and he must remain in Jail some month before securing a new trial. Silk Indutry Depressed. NEW YORK. July 15. The Phoenix llk mills at College Point, R, I., which employed more than 30) hands, has shut down tor an lndemiite period on account or ae pression in the American silk industry. Beautiful Complexions by Fainar Champlla's Liquid Pearl, 50c. pink or white. JJeii&ntxui, marvelous results: narmie

FROG HUNTING.

Where the Ratrachlan Ia Found and How It Is Captured. Chicago Record. The bullfrog and the meadow frog have a hard time of it. They are pursued and persecuted by various enemies. The snake family are partial to frogs, and the subtle raccoon is also a frog-eater who gathers in. the nimble batrachians and places them where they will do him the most good. Boys, dogs and men complete the list of the frog's destroyers. The reason for the capture of the solemn-voiced croakers is that their hind legs, or "saddles." as they are called, are particularly delicious to eat. Frogs' legs are found on the bill of fare In every first-class restaurant, and they would tempt the appetite of the most confirmed anchorite. Broiled frog-saddles are much more delicate and toothsome than the most carefully selected spring chicken. Frogs are found in the marshes and lakes and In ponds and wet, boggy meadows. Sometimes they are caught on a hook by fishing for then with a piece of red flannel, which seems to excite their wrath when it is waved before their noses. The adage regarding "a red rag to a bull" seems to hold good in the case of a bullfrog. But the two most common ways by which the hunters take the frogs for the market are by spearing and shooting. Spearing frogs Is an art, and is practiced in the marshes and around the shallow shores of the lakes, where frogs are plentiful The hunter must necessarily be a light-weight man, or a boy, considering the craft he employs In the business. This is a canoe- or the smallest or lightest possible duck boat, pointed at bolh ends, and able to run smoothly in a few Inches of water. A double-bladed paddle is dipped into the water from side to side, and the little boat glides over the water as smoothly as a water bug. The hunter sits In the center of the boat and conducts operations from the right side. He has a small box in front of him and a short sharp-bladed knife lying on the box. This knife is used to cut off the saddles as the frogs are brought into the boat. The spear used by the hunter is very light and with a shaft fully eighteen feet long. At one end of the shaft is fixed the spear, which has three small barbs, each with an arrowehaped head, which prevents the frog from slipping off when transfixed. The shaft or pole of the spear is usually of pine, sometimes of cane, and is absolutely straight and symmetrical. It is balanced with the fingers and thumb of the left hand and propelled by the fingers and thumb of the right hand. The spear slides along the balance guides of the left hand without leaving the hand and can be drawn back readily by that hand after the throw Is made. The boat Is sent noiselessly along the shallow stretches of water by light tips of the paddle, and as the hunter nears where the frog is floating in the water he stops the boat with a turn of the paddle. The spear Is then raised, adjusted and literally sighted at the frog. The stupid quarry la meanwhile looking "all eyes" at the hunter. Nothing but the top of his head showing above the water denotes that a frog is floating there. The spear is darted toward and under the frog with a "whlsh" as it slides along the fingers and thumb of the left hand. It strikes the water with a sound of "chuck," transfixing the frog's body, and Is then brought back quickly by the left and right hands until the frog is Just over the box in the boat. A swift stroke of the knife, and the "saddle" is severed and Is ir the box. The hunter may have seen two or three frogs quite close together, and if hz Is an adept with the spear he will harvest them all. one after another, without their taking alarm. Tho best of tools and the lightest of boats Is required and the hunter must have years ?. xerience to be able to handle the long, light spear with accuracy and comparative silence. Splashing will spoil everything. Frogs are not speared excepting while they are in the water, and a skillful hunter can pick up five or six dozen frogs in a day easily when they are at all numerous. Skill with spear and paddle and a knowledge where the best places are- for the game are requisites for success. A "crackajack" vith the spear will get a frog ninety-nine times out of a hundred. The frogs He about in the very shallow water, and the coming in of a very light boat does not seem to alarm them. Frog legs are sold in the marKet according to slzo and by the dozen. Shooting frogs Is quite another matter, and requires skill with the rifle and patience In stalking. The bullfrog on the bank is quite another party from the bullfrog in the pool, and he views with the utmost suspicion any attempt to cultivate his acquaintance. When alarmed he will launch out into space and aive aown inio ne water with a more or less resounding "plunk," according to his size. He is morbidly alert to approaching footsteps, and is willing to vacate a nice cool spot on the edge of a pond or lake at any time when he hears a man or boy approaching. So that stalking him succesazuiiy requires a keen eye and some knowledge of the wily fro?. Just as his stupidity in the water is apparent, so is his sagacity on land patent to his fees. Sometimes there will be a dozen frogs squatted along one little stretch beside a pond, and usually as one leaps into the water the rest follow, one arter another, with hollow "plunks until ins snore is pare. To shoot them befcre thev lumn Is the trick, and to do this from the bank requires a cautious approach. They should be shot through the head, as they are extremely tenacious of life, and often jump Into the water and sink if shot through the "body. The best way to get them with a rifle is to shoot them from the water, wading along at the edge of the shore, a little ways out, and shooting them as they sit on the bank. A 22-caliber rifle Is amply large enough for this kind of shooting, and short 22's or even the- half-size bulleted caps can be used. A man should have rubber knee-boctr or hipboots for this kind of wading and mutt move slowly in the water, keeping a sharp look out for his game. In the spring and summer days frog shooting is a sport which will af ford considerable amusement, besides giving practice with the rifle and loafing around In the midst of pleasant surroundings. At the lake's edge the kingfisher patrols. now clattering along over the bullrushes and now perching on a dead limb ci a stake in the water. The hillside oaks throw a veil of shadows to the ripples and an occasional splash tells where a black bass leaped for a roving dragon fly. The surface of the lake. alternately smoothed and ruffled by the winds and flecked by the sun and shade, is an ever-changing picture, framed by the massive hills. The creak of the row-lock announces a passing boat and a lazy buzzard draws inky circles high up In the blue. The sun shines in drowsy meadows where katydids cling to the grasses, and down in the woods the spirit of slumber folds Idle hands and dreams the long day through. If you want frogs for bait and what more tempting bait can be offered to a bigmouthed bass? you must take them alive. This will require a small linen sack and the "know how" of live frog catching. Meadow frogs are your game now, and you will rind them in little boggy, damp spots on the hillside, or deep in the woods in grassy "sloughs" that lie In the timber. There you will tind the meadow frogs ready to be caught. They can Jump about seven feet at a clip, and to catch them by hand requires an ej for distance and some practice. It is pretty good fun surrounding a lusty meadow frog in tall grass and trying to grab, him between jumps. These frogs make excellent bait for the big-mouth bass, and if the linen sack is kept wet they will live and be lively for several days. The bullfrog Is not good bait, being too large to be engulfed and too heavy to cast successfully when at his full growth. It is a pity to shoot and spear the true bullfrogs, for their somber bellowing in the evening is one of the oddest sounds in nature. When the dusk threads of the twilight are woven in with the afterglow of the west the bullfrogs sound their sonorous chorda, which reverberate along: And over the reeds and rushes, far-reaching down the right. Long ago. they say, when Pan was driven from the marshes, he called the frogs to him. They were his favorites. TRAP SIIOOTIXO. A Game That Requires Skill Rather than Sportsmanship. Ernest McGaffey, In Chicago Record. Trap-shooting is an ancient pastime, and honorable, so its devotees say. I have noted Its peculiarities for many years, and it has grown to be an institution which is apparently firmly fixed. Its various rules and regulations now would fill volumes and its technicalities can be considered competently only by an expert. It is not my purpose to discuss by rule and law the so-called sport of trap-shooting, but to give a general outline of the game and leave the Judgment to the reader. It Is bst called a game, for It does not require sportsmanship but skill, as pin-pool or billiards requires skill. A man can become a "shark" trap-shot without going Into the woods or fields for a day. At the same time lt should he borne in mind that many thoroughbred sportsmen and crack field shots shoot at the traps at both live birds and targets. In the old days when I saw Bogardus, Fred Krb. Andy Meaders and others shoot at the traps, live birds meant wild pigeons. Judy, of St. Loui, furnished many hundreds of live wild plreons to the tournaments and practice snoots In those days.

RETURNING! YOUTH. I am seventy yean ounEr," said Oliver Vcndcl Holmes when they asked his age. True enough. He was young; because his heart was young; bis step was firm; his eye was his was d his appetite was good, and above all so was his digestion. No man should be old before hts time because of a weak stomach, sluggish liver, shaky nerves and flabby muscles. There is no need of it. Dr. Pierce's Golden Meiical Discovery cures these things. It brings back youth to the feetfe because it brings back keen appetite and good digestion. It tones up the liver, puts oxvgen and life into the blood, and solid strength into the flesh and muscles. It contains no alcohol to inebriate or create a morbid appetite or craving for stimulants. I have never felt better in my life than Ida now," savs Charles lluawick, of Lenox, Macomb Co., Mich., in a remarkable letter to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, Jf. Y. -1 have taken Dr. Pierce'a Golden Medical Discorery right along. X can now walk quite well with a cane and hope to throw even that away before long, and as I have had to use crutches for nearly two years, X think I am doing fine. X do not cough now and 1 can eat and sleep like a school boy. I thirk X will have to change my mind about 'Patent Medicines,' as I never had much faith In them; but you murt know that I hare been treated in two hospitals and by three doctors besides, and received no benefit; so I think your medicine is the only medicine for me. There is nothing in the urorld for constipation like Dr. Pierce's rieasant Pellets. They should be taken in conjunction with the ' Discovery,' whenever any disease is complicated with that dangerous condition. Nothing else that may be offered in their place will accomplish what they will. And their relief is permanent. Write to Dr. Pierce for free advice. but the practical extermination of the wild pigeon cannot be laid at the door of trapshooting for all that. The rule then in shooting live bird5, both wild and tama pigeons. was broadly stated, "gun below th elbow and bird on the wing." That is, the stock of the gunthe butt-end of th stock, as a matter of fact was dipped below the elbow of the shooter and the gun was brought to the shoulder as the bird ros-e ih winir This stvlft coDied the usual position of a hunter iu the Held, and was 'graceful and natural of pose. The present style diners very mucn, ana airaosi uy uiia way of shooting "goes" now. The traps were of two kinds. There were the old-style, barbarous plunge traps, which tossed a bird up like a bunale of rags and made snap shooting possible with a number of shooters. These traps stood a couple oT feet or so above the ground, and at the word "pull" the pigeon would be shot out of the trap into the air by the working of a spring. It was a bad method of trap shooting, whicft finally disappeared. Live tame pigeons were used piiiiclpally in these traps, and, as in all trap contests, luck was often an important factor In the tournaments. One man might draw easy birds and another man hard ones. And with the boundaries at fifty or eighty yards and 1 recollect tha eighty-yard boundary best it was often the case that one man might kill twenty-five birds straight and his opponent kill, say. twenty-three, and the man killing twentythreo win because all of his birds dropped Inside of bounds, while the man killing twenty-live had, say, three birds fall deau out of bounds. A tamo pigeon which has been well fed and lightly handled iseble, if of the "blue rock" or some other hardy breed, to carry off a lot of shot. Suppose a straightaway bird with a good wind behind him Is flying from the center trap. Shooter No. 1 tires both barrels at such a bird, centers or covers the bird's flight almost exactly, and yet the strong wings ol the pigeon, aided by the wind, carry him a loot or two outside of the boundary line. Now suppose a similar bird Is loosed for shooter No. 2 and ne brings the pigeon down Inside the boundary line with a broken wing, 6hooting raggedly and not holding "dead on," as his opponent did. lie Is credited with the bird he gets down, although his shot was a poorer one than that of shooter No. 1. whose bird fell dead Just out of bounds. The match and tournament shooting is done now from ground traps. Now as to the ethics of the game, lt is quite a "sporty" or gambling game. You usually shoot at least for the price of th birds, unless . you are merely practicing, your opponent. If losing, paying for the birds you both shoot at. Often you go into a shoot with several others, putting, in say, a dollar or two, and the purse may be divided with as much money as may be .agreed upon between the shooters. Aa a matter or cold, hard fact, the pigeons are as much the instruments to gamble with aa the dice in a dlcebox. But it is not true that lt is more cruel to shoot live birds from ground traps than lt is to kill quail over . pointer or phoot ducks on a pass. It is the taking of life, true enough; but the pigeons are used es food. At the tournaments the birds are usually well taken care of, both because they are wanted to b in good flying trim and because the men who engineer these tourna ments are almost lnvanaDiy gennemrn. have attended many tournaments ana oa novcf imii ntrtnni handled cruelly. The men who attend the shoots would not per mit of anything savoring ot wamon cruei-.-. These shoot do not have any reminder of field Fporta. There is the crowd, the field, the traps, and a monotonous calling of Ready; pull! 'ins pigeon goes up or oui, to the right or left, or cornea in toward the shooter. There is the crack of the gun snd that is about all there Is to it. If the bird gets away from the man at the trap there o Ta poncroll fi lnt of hl!h whackinflT OUtelders near the grounds who are laying for mm, ana ne na in&i unuei w run ueiui he is safe. The shooter is nrmay pianiea on solid ground or planks. He knows thnt his bird will rise from one of five ground traps at a distance of, say, thirty-one yards from him. This is the usual maximum distance, but sometimes an extra yard or two is added for an expert. And different marksmen are graded all the way down to twentyfive yards, according to their supposed ability with the gun. Us than vnn hav rln t v nt nnlUL tnurh smell of powder, heaps of exploded shells, a constant repetition or ivre you reaay VviU Tinn. hire! "Dead bird, lost bird" snd various remarks by the spectators. You do not have the woods and fields, the cover, m II 9 A AftA A marsn or stream, a ner bib uoi me ieno moments, as on the lake when the canvasbacks come in Mutely to the decoys, or the mallard drops down 'to the pond hole in the rtmber where you are "calling" him. There Is not the beauty of November woods, and no hurtling rush of the quail or ruffed grouse through thick cover thrills you. No green stretches of marshland or meadow and the erratic Jacksnipe twisting up from short grass or tussocky hog with his startled "scaipe, scalpe." There is not th "roadlng" of the bevy, the dogs drawlr gradually to the point, and finally standing rigid as marble. All the beauty of forest and lake and the loneliness and wlldne are absent. Just "Heady. lulL Bang, bang! Dead bird." I repeat there Is nothing more cruel In, trap-shooting, so far as I can see, than In field-shooting. What is sauce for the trapshot is sauce for the field-shot. Live-bird1 shooting helps some to acquire proficiency as a field shot, but not very materially In my Judgment. The first-class duck, quail, snipe, woodcock and ruffed grouse shooter can kill pigeons from a trap after very brief practice. But a first-class trap shot who has not hunted In the field would be h "lobster" in heavy woodcock cover or over the decoys on a windy day on the rnarh. The positions a man finds himself obliged to shoot from when kneeling In a boat or a "blind." or tangled up in a thicket, are something fearful and wonderful. He los not hive the firm footing to stand on, with arms extended and an easy pose. And there is no "Heady, pull!" about it. It Is usually Just when you least expect it that the woodcock darts out, and when a duck comes whizzing over the decoys at sixty yard, going with the wind, he discounts pigeon for speed and eluslvene?. Ground traps are of different styles, but are usually made to fall apart, and the bird files out as the trap falls. Sometimes he has to be stirred up before he starts. The trars are placed in a line in front of the shooter, and he stands facing the center trap. If a bird stretches his wings he is technically considered to be on the wing. This was th rule when Bogardus and Irb shot a match at one hundred live wild pigeons each, years ago. I saw Iiogardua cut down quite a number of birds that were simply "yawing" with thir wings, their feet being on the ground. The opportunity for thus taklnf advantage wa open to both men. . Shooting at tsrsrets with the shotgun began in my experience with the old rotary trap, now out of date and discarded, at glass balls. Then came the clay saucers, called "pigeons. "b'ackblrds." fclu rock1 and other names. This is a sport well calculated to Increase the dividend. on stock ia the different powder companies. No bird ever flew like a clay pigeon unless It was the dodo. The sport is harmless, and lt it quite a trick to break saucers right along. The good field shot sometimes disgraces himself trying to keep up with a filrly foo4 saucer shooter, t

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