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THE RICHMOND PAIXADITJII AND CUN-TEUEGIIAM, SATUIIDAY, JUIiY 10, 1909.

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HE black-tail's great curiosity Is one of the dlsad-

II I vantages under which It

Minn jju uw uviv ouufgle "for existence, compared to the white-tail. The latter, when star

tled, does not often stop to look round; but the former will generally do so. The first black-Mil I wer killed was obtained owing solely to this peculiarity. I bad been riding np along the side of a brushy eoolle, when a fine bock started out some thirty .yards ahead. Althoughso""ciose, my first hot; a running one, was a miss; when a. couple of hundred yards off, on the Tery crest of the spur up which be bad run, be stopped and turned partially round. Firing again from a rest, the bullet brake his hind leg far up and went Into his body. Off he went on three legs, and I after him as fast as the horse could gallop. He went oyer the spur and down Into the valley of the creek from ' which the coulie branched up, in very bad ground.

My pony was neither fast nor sure

footed, but of course In half a mile

He stopped and turned, overhauled, the three legged ' deer, which turned short off and over the side of the hill flanking the valley. Instead of, running right up on it I foolishly dismounted and began firing; after the first shota miss it got behind a boulder hitherto unseen, and thence over i the . crest. - The pony meanwhile bad slipped Its hind leg Into the rein; when, after some time, I got it out and galloped up to the , ridge, the most careful scrutiny of which my practised eyes were capable ' failed to discover a track on the dry ground, bard as granite. A day or two afterward the place where the carcass lay was made known by the vultures, . gathered . together from all

parts to feed upon It. , When fired at, from a place of hiding, deer which have not been accustomed to the report of a gun will often appear confused and uncertain what to do. On one occasion, while hunting In the mountains, I saw an old buck with remarkably large, horns, of curious and beautiful shape, more symmetrical than In most instances where the normal form Is departed from. The deer was feeding in a wide, gently sloping valley, containing no cover from behind which to approach him. We were in no need of meat, but the antlers were so fine that I felt they Justified the death of their bearer. After a little patient waiting, the buck walked out of the valley, and over the ridge on the other side, moving up wind; I raced after him, and crept up behind a thick growth of stunted cedars, which had started up from among some boulders. The deer was about a hundred yards off, down In the vaMey. Out of breath, and overconfident, I fired hastily, overshooting htm. The wind 1lew the smoke back away from the ridge; so that he saw nothing, while the echo prevented his placing the sound. He took a couple of jumps nearer, when he stood still and was again - overshot 'Again he took a few jumps, and the third shot went below him; and the fourth just behind him. This was too much, and away he 'went. In ' despair I knelt down .. (I , had ! been firing offhand), took a saaey aim well-forward on his body, and teed, bringing him down, but with small credit to the shot, for the bullet had gene into his hip, paralysing his hind-quarters. The antlers re the finest pair I ever got, and form magnificent ornament tor the hall; but the shooting is hardly to be recalled with pleasure. Still, though certaiajyjvery bad,. It waa not quite as

discreditable as the mere target shot

would think, r I have seen many

crack marksman at the target do quite

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as bad missing when out In the field, and that not once, bat again and again. I have never made big bags myself, for I rarely hunt except for a fine head or when we need meat, and If it can be avoided do not shoot at fawns or dees; so the greatest number I have ever killed In a day was three. This waa late one November, on an occasion when our larder was running low. My foreman and I, upon discovering this fact, determined te make a trip next day back In the broken country, away from the river. We breakfasted hours before sunrise, and then mounted our horses and rode up the river bottom. The bright prairie moon was at the full, and waa sunk la the west till It bung like a globe of white fire over the long row of jagged bluffs that rose from across the river, while Its beams brought into fantastic relief the peaks and crests of the buttes upon our left The valley of the river Itself was In partial darkness, and the stiff, twisted branches of the sagebrush seesaed to take on uncanny shapes as they stood In the hollows.

The cold was stinging, and we let our

willing horses gallop with loose reins, their hoofs ringing' on the frozen

ground. After going up a mile or two along the course of the river we turned

off to follow the bed of a large dry

creek. At its mouth waa a grem space of ground much cut up by the hoofs of

the cattle, which was in summer over

flowed and almost a morass; but now

the frost-bound earth was like wrln

kled Iron beneath the horses' feet Behind us the westerning moon sank

down out of sight; and with no light but that of the stars, we let our horses

thread their own way up the creek bottom. When we had gone a couple of

miles from the river the sky In front

of our faces took on a faint grayish tinge, the forerunner of dawn. All In

the valley was yet dark when we

reached the place where the creek be

gan to split up had branch out Into the

various amw and ravines from which

it headed. We galloped smartly over the divide into a set of coolies and

valleys which ran Into a different creek, and selected a grassy place

where there waa good feed to leave the horses. My companion picketed his;

Manitou needed no picketing.

The tops of the hills were growing

rosy, but the sun was not yet above the horizon when we started off, with

our rifles on our shoulders, walking

in cautioua silence, for we were in good ground and might at any mo

ment see a deer. Above us was a plateau of some size, breaking off sharply at the rim into a surrounding

stretch of very rough and rugged coun

try. It sent off low spurs with notch

ed crests into the valleys . und about

and its edges were indented, with steep ravines and half circular basins, their sides covered with clusters of gnarled and wind-beaten cedars, often gathered into groves of some size. The ground was se broken as to give excellent

cover under which a man could ap

proach game unseen. .

At last Just as the sun had risen.

we came out by the mouth of a deep ravine or hollow cut in the flank of the plateau, with steep, cedar-clad ides; and on the crest of a jutting pur not more than thirty yards from where 1 stood, was a black-tail doe, half facing me. I was in the shadow.

and for. a moment she could not make

me out, and stood motionless with her

head turned toward me and her great

ears thrown forward. Dropping on my knee. I held the rifle a little back of her shoulder too far back, as it proved, as she stood quartering and not broadside to me. No fairer chance could ever fall to the lot of a hunter;

but, to my intense, chagrin, she bound

ed off at the report as If unhurt.

disappearing instantly. My compan

ion had now come up, and we ran up a rise of ground,' and crouched down beside a great block of sandstone, in a

position from which we overlooked the

whole ravine or hollow. After some minutes of quiet watchfulness, we

heard a twig snap the air was so still

we could hear anything some rods up the ravine, but below us; and immediately afterward a buck stole out

of the cedars. Both of us fired - at once, and with a convulsive spring he' rolled over backward, one bullet having gone through-Ms neck, and the other probably mine having broken hind leg. Immediately afterward.

another buck broke from the upper edge of the cover, near the top of the

plateau, and, though I took a hurried

shot at bint, bounded over the crest

and was lost to sight

We now determined to go down Into

the ravine and look for the doe, and as

there was a good deal of snow; in the bottom and under the trees, we knew we could soon tell If she were wounded. After a little search we found her track, and walking along it a few

yards, came upon some drops and then

a splash of blood. There being no need to hurry, we first dressed the

dead buck fine, fat fellow, but with mall misshapen horns and then took up the trail of the wounded doe. Here, however. I again committed an error.

and paid too much heed to the trail and too little to the country round about; and while following It with my

eyes down on the ground in a place

where It. was faint the doe got up bo me distance ahead and to one side

of me, and bounded off round a corner

of the ravine. The bed where she had lain was not very bloody, - but from the fact of her having stopped so soon, I was sure she waa badly wounded.

However, after she got .out of the snow

the ground was as hard as flint and

It waa impossible to track her; the val

ley soon took a turn, and branched

Into tangle of coolies and ravines. I

deemed It probable that she would not

go up hill, but would run down the

course of the main valley; but as it waa bo uncertain, we thought It would

oejr ua beztiaJook far &Wjdear.

Our luck, however?" sec mifd very deservedly to have ended. We tramped on. aa swiftly as was compatible with quiet for hour after hour; beating through the valleys against the wind, and crossing the brushy heads of the

ravtees. somettsaes close togetner. ana sometimes keeping about hundred yards apart according to the nature of the ground. When we bad searched

all through the country rouua tne neaa nf the creek. Into which we had come

down, we walked ever to the next, and

went over it with equal care and pa

tience. The morning was now wen

advanced, and we had to change our method of hunting. It waa no longer likely that we should find the deer feeding or In the open, and instead we looked for places where they might be ernected to bed. following any trails

that led into thick patches of brush or

young trees, one of us tnen nuaung through the patch while the other kept watch without Doubtless we must have passed close to more than one deer, and doubtless others heard us

and skulked off through the wick rover: bnt. althouch we saw plenty of

signs, we saw neither hoof nor hair of living thing. -

We lunched at the root or a great clay butte, where there was a bed of snow.

After lunch we hunted until the

shadows began to lengthen out, when w went hack our horses. The buck

waa packed" behind good old Manitou,

who can carry any amount or wetgnt at a smart oace. and does not care at

all If a strap breaks and be finds bis

load danalinar about his feet an event

that reduces most horses to a state of frantic terror. As soon as loaded we

rode dawn the valley into which the

doe had disanneared m the morning.

one taking each aide and looking into

every possible lurking place. ine odd were all aealnat our finding any

trace of her; but a hunter soon learns

that he must take advantage of every chance, however slight This rime we were rewarded for our care; for after

riding about a mile oar attention was attracted bv a white natch ha a clump

of low briars. On getting off and looking iu it proved to be the white rump

of the doe. which lay stretcneu out Inside, stark and stiff. The ball had

gone la too far aft and bad come out

on the opposite side near her hip, making a mortal wound, but one which allowed her to run over a mile before dying. It was little more than an ac

cident that we in the end got her; and

my so nearly missing at such short

TAFT TAKES IIMID

III TARIFF MIXUP WITH MUCH VIGOR (Continued From Page One.)

gation of the party to the place of a minority opposition. v Fortunately the president does not believe the conditions which now exist, and which promise prompt and steady improvement, require the high rates which mark certain features of the senate and house bills. The' president does not lose eight of

the fact that as a result of the application of the pruning knife by his cabinet ministers the cost of government

for the next fiscal year.will be reduced

substantially and it will be his policy in succeeding years to keep the expenses well within the aggregate of revenues which the government will collect.

Taft Wants Free Coal and Iron. The president is understood to be

urging free raw material within the limits of the Republican protection

principle. He would like to have iron

ore admitted without duty. If he could get it he would want free coal, but unfortunately the house has

placed a countervailing duty of 67 cents a ton upon this commodity while the senate has fixed the duty at 60 cents.

The president must be content

therefore, with the senate rate. Mr.

Taft has expressed himself in favor

of free lumber. The house, however, put a duty of $1 a thousand upon this material, while the senate increased the house rate to $1.50, which is 50 cents below the existing rate.

The president is in favor of free

hides, which have advocates, but the

senate restored the Dingley rate of 15 per cent., The silk and cotton schedules are so involved as a result of the change of duties from ad valorem to specific dutieB that it Is impos

sible for the president or anyone else

to say at this moment what their effect will be.

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Local Golf Team Defeated

Dayton Country Club Here Yesterday.

A PROFESSIONAL MATCH

The buck was packed behind.

range was due purely to carelessness

and bad judgment

Neither of my shots had so far done

me much credit; but at any rate I bad

learned where the error lay, and this

is going a long way toward correcting

It I kept wishing that I could get an

other chance to see if I had not prof

Ited by my lessons; and before we

reached heme my wish was gratified

We were loping down a grassy valley.

dotted with clumps of brush, the wind

blowing strong in our faces, and dead

ening the noise SMde by the hoofs on

the grass. As we passed by a piece of

broken ground a yearling black-tail

buck" jumped Into view and cantered away. I was off ftfaaitou's back in an instant The buck was moving slowly.

and was evidently soon going to stop

and look round, so I dropped on one knee, with my rifle half raised, and

waited. When about sixty yards off he halted and turned sideways to me.

offering a beautiful broadside shot I

aimed at the spot just behind the shoul

der and felt I had him. At the report

he went off. but with short weak

bounds, and I knew be would not go

far; nor did he. but stopped short,

swayed unsteadily about and went over on his side, dead, the bul!e$ clean

through hi body.

DECEITFUL.

As a preliminary to the golf contest

between the local club and the Dayton Country club at the Country club links, yesterday afternoon, a professional match was played between A. O. Herr of Cedar Rapids. Joe Nichols of Dayton and James Herr of this city,

who is the professional at the country club. This match, which was for a

small purse was won after an exciting

contest by the local man. Mr. Herr established a record for the local links, making nine holes on the first

round in 34 strokes, and the second in

35, making his record for the 18 hole

course, 69.

The Dayton club was not nearly in

as good form as the locals and were defeated by the score of 31 to 14. The local players won in nearly every Instance. Mayor Burkhardt of Dayton, was the honored guest and he proved

I to be an excellent golf player. The

professional scores are as follows:

A. G. Herr

First Round ...4 3433533 634 Second Round 2 5 443435 535

Total 69 Joe Nichols

First Round ...3 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 636 Second Round 34444445 739

Total.. ..' 75 James Herr

First Round ...4 5344545 539

Second Round 45244545 5 39

Total 78 The scores made in the match be

tween Richmond and Dayton were as follows:

Palmer 0; Hibberd 3. Canby 1; Seidel 2. Nevins 1; Wilson 2. Reynolds 0; Stratton 2. Spear 0; Dill 3. Barker 0; Braffett 3. - j Greene 0; Hutton 3. Edwards 0; Poundstone 0. Rike 2; Waldrip 1. ' r Kidder 3; McGuire 0. Jones 2; Comer 1. Tucker 0; G. Bond 3. Stevens 2; Dr. Bond 0. i Soliday 0; Swayne 2. Keifaber 0; Harrell 3. V Schwab 0; Gaar 3. Burkhardt 3; Holmes 0.

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1 TOTALSHI)TDOWII Stand Taken by Minors May Mean Close of Soft Coal Mines. REDUCTION IS REFUSED

Philadelphia, July 10.-A total shut

down of the soft coal mines of Central Pennsylvania is threatened as a result of the stand taken by the United

Mine Workers of America in refusing ot accept the 11 cent reduction offered in the proposition of the bituminous

coal operators. Patrick Gllday, president of district No. 2, of the Mine Workers, says that the board will not recede from, the position taken a month ago when the operators' agreement was first turned down. The conferences held so far between the miners and operators have proven fruit-

Deception of any kind is intolerable.

So is unnecessary labor. Some people

deceive themselves, but do not de

ceive yourself into believing that you

can do without rub-a-lac. If you do

not use it, perhaps it is because you

are a little bigoted, but then if you

ever try It you will gel over thati Ev

erybody does. Try it.

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WORKING FOR PRIZE

Milton, Ind., July 10. Beal Wil

liams, the little boy of Cambridge City, who is working for the $800

prize, given by the Saturday Evening Post, was in town yesterday, and states that he sold 700 Saturday Evening Posts last week. He is expecting the prize. ,

Th. Tim. to Break It. There Is an anecdote in some volume of French theatrical memoirs narrating an experience of Mile. Clalron. the great tragic actress, with a pupil of hers, a girl of strong natural gifts for the histrionic art, but far too frequent and too exuberant in her gesticulation. So when the pupil was once to appear before the public in a recitation Mile. Clalron bound the girl's arms to her side by a stiff thread and sent her thus upon the stage. ' With the first strong feeling she had

to express the pupil tried to raise her arms, only to be restrained by the

thread. A dozen times In the course of

her recitation she was prevented from making the gestures she desired until

at the very end she could stand it no

longer, and In the climax of her emotion she broke her bonds and swung

her hands to her bead.

When she came off the stage she

went humbly to where Mile. Clalron

was standing In the wings and apolo

gised for having snapped the thread.

"But you did quite right r said the

teacher. "That was the time to make the gesture, not before!" Liverpool

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