Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 245, 12 July 1909 — Page 3

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UCLE SUM SHOWS IIIS STROUG ARM Strong American Fleet to Be Sent Into the Japanese Waters. TO WAIT MIKADO'S MOVE N REGARD TO DENOUNCING TREATY OF 1904 STATE DE- ' PARTMENT OFFICIALS ARE MUM ?N THE SUBJECT.

: Washington, July 12. Te announceInent of the political purpose In dispatching the Pacific fleet to the Philippines startled the state department, ton the surface at the state depart sent the attitude is that it is up to (Japan to make the first move to denounce the treaty of 1904 and which expires by limitation in 1911. It is Incumbent on either party in torder to abrogate the treaty to give tone year's notice. There is a well founded suspicion that Japan has already given this notice in order to hasken the settlement of the labor question on the coast, which is the crucial consideration in that convention. At the department they say diplomatically that the matter is not under consideration yet, although everybody iStnows that a tentative new treaty was Vdrawn in the time of Secretary Root and that this will undoubtedly be the basis of a new treaty if there should he one again with Japan. The most significant development In fehe Japanese treaty question is the sudden determination of Ambassador Takahira to go back home. It can be stated that the trouble which broke out 'between the Japanese and the Hawaiiana a month ago is not' the cause of the visit. No Time to Be Lost, But it can be Bald that the agitation In . Hawaii indicated to the Japanese government that the sooner the agree xnents were reached between the Un ited States and Japan on the mutual delations of the citizens to each other the better. This bearing directly on the question of a new treaty impelled the Japanese foreign office to send for Ambassador Takahira. All indications here are that the plan of reconciliation of the Japanese-Am erican labor troubles will be laid be fore the senate next December. The connection between the present agitation for a new Japanese treaty and the state department's constant communications to and from its consular offices In Manchuria on movements of the Japanese and Russians, with the sudden determination to have the Pacific fleet at its far eastern base Is not admitted for publication at either the state or navy departments. The well authenticated report, how-, ever, is that the dispatch of the fleet Is due to "Informal suggestion from the State Department." Added to this the Pacific fleet will have accomplished all its needs in the way of cruising and practice on the 'home coast by September, and it is not seriously maintained by naval officials today that the cruise to the Philippines is a physical necessity of the fleet' Will Remain Until March. The judgment of the men who are familiar with the purposes of the Government is that the State Department and Navy Department think it advisable that the large gathering of American vessels should be at the Pacific post continuously from now until the preliminary stages of the negotiations of the new treaty shall have been : passed. ''"- It is. believed that the fleet will remain in the Orient unti next March, but there is no limit to its stay, which will be dependent upon . the condilions just stated. As far as concerns Manchuria, and the demand of the State Department that there shall be absolute freedom of commerce without special privileges to Japan and Russia, American diplomats tonight point out that if the treaty between Japan and the United States is arranged amicably the Manchurian question will disappear of necessity. It can be repeated, however, that both the Japanese treaty and the present selfish policy of Japan and Russia with their privileges in Manchuria " were the controlling factors for the ending of the Pacific ships to Manila and that neighborhood The first vessels to leave San Fran- ' cteeo will be the armored cruisers. These powerful fighting machines are the ' Tennessee, Washington, California, South Dakota, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Colorado. Should the United States find it necessary or even advisable to place Itself la the attitude of making what it calls a demonstration these eight powerful vessels could be rein forced by the Milwaukee, St. Ixuls, Charleston, Galveston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Albany Denver and Chattanooga. The Pacific fleet is commanded by Rear Admiral Sebree. Serve Post Toasties Right from the box. Crisp, tender, delicious. Some people like good things Ask the grocer iPkg&t 10c and 15c

HUNTING x m ' -BEER N OfiMe BY XlEP THZCBOIUS RCOSGVBLT

fCopyrlsht, UK, by O. P. Putnam's Sons. Published under arrangement with O. P. Putnam's Sons, New Tork and London. LL kinds of hunting on y horseback a n d most hunting on horseback is mm done with bounds tend " to bring out the best and rf3e9) manliest qualities in the sBasaBasaBW' . tMAH nrk AllAf tvATTt aasaa v uu . vvw iuv "- and they should be encouraged in every way. Long after the refleman, as well as the game be bunts, shall have vanished from the plains, the cattle country will afford fine sport in coursing bares; and both wolves and deer could be followed and killed with packs of Drojjerlx.-traincd bounds, and such sport would be even more excit lng than still-bunting with the rifle. It is on the great plains lying west of the Missouri that riding to hounds will In the end receive its fullest development as a national pastime. But at present It is almost unknown In the cattle country; and the ranch man who loves sport must try stillhunting and by still-hunting is meant pretty much every kind of chase where a single man. unaided by a dog, and almost always on foot, outgenerals a deer and kills it with the rifle. To do this successfully, unless deer are very plenty and tame, implies a certain knowledge of the country, and a good knowledge of the habits of the game. The hunter must keep a sharp look-out for deer sign; for, though a man soon gets to have a general knowledge of the kind of places in which deer are likely to be, yet he will also find that they are either very capricious, or else that no man has more than a partial understanding of their tastes and likings; for. many spots apparently just suited to them will be almost uninhabited, while in others they will be found where it would hardly occur to any one to suspect their presence. Any cause may temporarily drive deer out of a given locality. Still-hunting, especially, is sure to send many away, while rendering the others extremely wild and shy, and where deer have become used to being pursued in only one way. It is often an excellent plan to try some entirely different method. A certain knowledge of how to track deer is very useful. To become a really skillful tracker is most difficult; and there are some kinds of ground, where, for instance, it is very hard and dry, or frozen solid, on which almost any man will be at fault. But any one with a little practice can learn to do a certain amount of tracking. On snow, of course, It is very easy; but on the other band it is also peculiarly difficult to avoid being seen by the deer when the ground Is white. After deer have been frightened once or twice, or have even merely been disturbed by man. they get the habit of keeping a watch back on their trail; and when snow has fallen, a man is such a conspicuous object deer see him a long way off, and even the tamest become wild. A deer will often, before lying down, take a half circle back to one side and make its bed a few yards from its trail, where It can. itself unseen, watch any person tracing it up. A man tracking in snow needs to pay very little heed to the footprints, which can be followed without effort, but requires to keep up the closest scrutiny over the ground ahead of nim, and on either side of the trail. In the early morning when there is a heavy dew the footprints will bet as plain as possible In fbe grass, and can then be followed readily; and in any place where the ground is at all damp they will usually be plain enough to be made out without difficulty. When the ground is hard or dry the work is very much less easy, and soon becomes so difficult as not to be worth while following up. Indeed, at all times, even In the snow, tracks are ck-iefy of use to show the probable locality in which a deer may be found; and the stillhunter Instead of laboriously walking aiung a trail will do far better to merely follow it until, from its freshness and direction, he r,y?s confident that

Mrs. William B. Leeds Has Interested King of England

The following cable dispatch which appeared in the Chicago Record-Herald yesterday will be of local interest: Mrs. William B. Leeds' friends in Paris are whispering lhat it is more than likely that some day society will be astonished by the announcement that she is to bear one of the greatest English titles. When King Edward passed through Paris on his way to Biarritz he sent, as usual, for Cartler, a famous jeweler, to bring his choicest gems. In the lot was a perfect black pearl valued at 350,000 francs ($70,000), a big price even for a king to pay too big, perhapsfor although he talked about it King Edward went to Biarritz without it," When he returned some weeks later he again sent for Car tier. "I wish to see that wonderful black pearl, again," he said. "It has been bought," the distressed jeweler explained. "Who bought : it? What sovereign was before me?" asked Edward. . Mrs. Leeds Beats King. Cartler shook his head. "It was a lady," he answered "an immensely wealthy American lady." -Mrs. Leeds of New York." Then it was Cartier's time to be astonished, for King Edward said: "Why that la the lady who had the trouble with the customs at New Tork about her pearls. The jeweler confirmed this, amazed that the king should remember the In-

the' deer ETih stfne'paitreinar space r ground, and then hunt through it, guiding himself by his knowledge of the deer's habits and by the character of the land. Tracks are of most use In showing whether deer are plenty or scarce, whether they have been In the place recently or not. Generally, signs of deer are infinitely more plentiful than the animals themselves although in regions where tracking is especially difficult deer are often Jumped without any sign having been seen at all. Although still-hunting en foot is on the whole the best way to get deer, yet there are many places where from the nature of the land the sport can be followed quite as well on horseback, tban which there is no more pleasant kind of hunting. The best shot I ever made in my life a shot into which, however, I am afraid the element of chance entered much more largely than the element of skill was made while hunting black-tail on horseback. We were at that time making quite a long trip with the wagon, and were going up the fork of a plains river in Western Montana. As we were out

of food, those two of our number who usually undertook to keep the camp supplied with game determined to make a hunt off back of the river after black-tall; for though there were some white-tail in the more densely timbered river bottoms, we had been untfble to get any. It was arranged that the wagon should go on a few mils, and then halt for the night, as it was already the middle of the afternoon when ws started out. The country resembled in character other parts of the cattle plains, but it was absolutely bare of trees except along the bed of the river. The rolling hills sloped steeply off into long valleys and deep ravines. They were sparsely covered with coarse grass, and also with an Irregular growth of tall sage-brush, which in some places gathered into dense thickets. A beginner would have thought the country entirely too barren of cover to hold deer, but a very little experience teaches one that deer will be found in thickets of such short and sparse growth that it seems as if they could hide nothing; and. what is more, that they will often skulk round in such thickets without being discovered. And a black-tail is a bold, free animal, liking to go out in comparatively open country, where he must trust to his own powers, and not to any concealment, to protect him from danger. Where the hilly country joined the alluvial river bottom, it broke off short Into steep bluffs, up which none but a Western pony could have climbed. It is really wonderful to see what places a pony can get over, and the Indifference with which it regards tumbles. In getting up from the bottom we went into a wash-out, and then led our ponies along a clay ledge, from which we turned off and went straight up a very steep sandy bluff. My companion was ahead; just as he turned off the ledf and as I was right underneath him, his hqrse, in plunging to try to get up the sand bluff, overbalanced itself, and, after standing erect on its bind legs for a second, came over backward. The second's pause while it stood bolt upright, gave me time to make a frantic leap out of the way with my pony, which scrambled after me, and we both clung with bands and hoofs to the side of the bank, while the other horse took two as complete somersaults as I ever saw, and landed with a crash at the bottom of the wash-out, feet uppermost. I thought it was done for, but not a bit. After a moment or two it struggled to its legs, shook itself, and looked round in rather a shame-faced way, apparently not ia the least the worse for the fall. We now got my pony up to the top by vigorous pulling, and then went down for the other, which at first strongly objected to making another trial, but. after much coaxing and a good deal of abuse, took a start and went up without trouble. Fer some time after reaching the top of JLhe. Muffs v.-e rode along without Klng Edward was staying at Hotel Bristol in Paris and Mrs. Leeds was at the same hotel. 'When King Edward heard this from Cartier he sent the jeweler to Mrs. Leeds with the request that she permit him to see again the black pearl, as well as the other pearls in her remarkable collection, including the $340,000 necklace that had caused her most annoyance at New York. King Examines Pearls. In a little while Cartier was back with Mrs. Leeds' pearls, and the king spent , many minutes examining them. When Cartler returned the gems to Mrs. Leeds he took this message from King Edward: "Would Mrs. Leeds' little boy like to play with King Edward s dog?" Presently Cartier came back again with the dog, and on the massive silver collar was the inscription: "This is the king's dog." Mrs. Leeds played with the king's dog all the afternoon, and when the animal was sent back to his royal master there was a note of gratitude from the mother of Mrs. Leeds' little boy. Then came an invitation from the king (an Invitation is a command) to visit London; the king would be delighted to see her there. Mrs. Leeds changed her plana. She went to London. She has seen the king on several occasions, and it ; is believed here that some day England will be her home. It is said that King Edward has taken a great fancy to her and wishes that her immense' fortune could be allied to a great title. -

seeing anything. VThen ft 'was possible, we kept one on each side of a creek, avoiding the tops of the ridges, because while on them a horseman can be seen at a very long distance, and going with particular caution whenever we went round a spur or came up over a crest. The country stretched away like an endless, billowy sea of dull-brown soil and barren sage-brush, the valleys making long parallel furrows, and every thing having a look of dreary sameness. At length, as we came out on a rounded ridge, three black-tail bucks started up from a lot of sage-brush some two hundred yards away and below us, and made off down hilL It was a very long shot, especially to try running, but, as game seemed scares and cartridges were plenty, I leaped off the horse, and. kneeling, fired. .The bullet went low, striking in line at the feet of the hindmost. I was very high next time, making a wild shot above and ahead of them, which had the effect of turning them, and they went off round a shoulder of a bluff, being by this time down in the valley. Having plenty of time I elevated the sights (a thing I hardly ever do) to four hundred yards and waited for their reappearance. Meanwhile they , bad evidently gotten over their fright, for pretty soon one walked oat from the ether side of the bluff, and came to a standstill, broadside toward me. He was too far off for me to see his horns. As I was raising the rifle another stepped out and began to walk towards the first. I thought I might as well have as much of a target as possible to shoot at, and waited for the second buck to come out farther, which he did immediately and stood still just alongside of the first. I aimed above bis shoulders and pulled the trigger. Over went the two bucks! And when I rushed down to where they lay I found I had pulled a little to one side, and

the bullet had broken the backs of both. While my companion was dressing them I went back and paced off the distance. It was just four hundred and thirty-one long paces; over four hundred yards. Both were large bucks and very fat, with the velvet hanging in shreds from their antlers, for it was late In August. The day was waning and we had a long ride back to the wagon, each with a buck behind his saddle. When we came back to the river valley it was pitch dark, and it was rather ticklish work for our heav ily laden horses to pick their way down the steep bluffs and over the rapid stream; nor were we sorry when we saw ahead under a bluff the gleam of the camp fire, as It was reflected back from the canvas-topped prairie schoonHi ttqa hardly so much at twitched. er, that for the time being represented home to us. This was much the best shot I ever made; and it is just such a shot as any one will occasionally make if he takes a good many chances and fires often at ranges where the odds are greatly against his hitting. I suppose I had fired p. dozen times at animals four or five hundred yards off, and now, by the doctrine of chances, I happened to hit; but I would have been very foolish if I bad thought for a moment that I had learned how to hit at over four hundred yards. I have yet to see the hunter who can hit with any regularity at that distance, when he has to judge it for himself; though I have seen plenty who could make such a long range hit now and then. And I have noticed that such a hunter, in talking over his experience, was certain soon to forget the numerous misses he made, and to say, and even to actually think, that his occasional hits represented his average shooting. One of the finest black-tail bucks I ever shot was killed by lying out in a rather unusual place. I was hunting mountain-sheep, in a stretch of very high and broken country, and about mid-day, crept cautiously up to the edge of a great gorge, whose sheer walls went straight down several hundred feet. Peeping over the brink of the chasm I saw a buck, lying out on a ledge so narrow as to barely hold him, right on the face of the cliff wall opposite, some distance below, and about serenty yards diagonally across from dm. He lay with fate legs half stretched oat. and bis head turned so as to give me an exact center-shot at his forehead; the bullet going In between his eyes, so that his legs hardly so much as twitched when he received It It was toilsome and almost dangerous work climbing out to where he lay; I haw never known any other individual, even of this bold and adventurous species of deer, to take its noonday siesta In a place so barren of sli, earzsr rr. fl'fT.gtt. of access

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even to the most sure-footed climber. This buck was as fat an a prise sheep, and heavier than any other I have ever killed; while his antlers also were, with two exceptions, the best I ever got. Three men sat down at a restaurant table. "Bring me a very rare steak," said one. "I want a rare steak, too," said the second man. "bat I want it very rare. Just have the sides seared a little, and let the blood run oat of it." Then the third man said. "Bring me a rare steak from an animal which has not been killed, but just crippled. ROBERT ADAM"- - He Created a New Era In English . Architecture. Robert Adam (1728-92) was to English architecture what Benvenuto Cellini was to that of Italy. He was architect to the king, beloved st court, a member of parliament, and it was said of him that he "could not help adorning all that he touched." Those of the English people who dwell in Adam houses prise them as rare jewels. Adam Introduced into English architecture a lightness, delicacy of touch and charm of proportion which It had never before possessed and which gave his name to that splendid period of archltectare the style of which lasted over a century. Everything in a house, from the panel In a celling to the vases and gilt wood tripods and branches for lights, from hangings at the windows to a woman's hairpin holder. Adam designed himself. Adam got his rich, beautiful and distinctive style from the rains of the Emperor Diocletian, at Spalato. As a finish to interiors be. conceived the idea of using figure In relief upon walls, colored and adorned according to Raphael's Stanze painted fiat upon the walls of the Vatican. His idea was as bold as its result was beautiful. He also adopted Pompeiian styles of decoration. "Adam was artist as well as archi tect, and his walls, ceilings and interior adornments are marvels of harmonious colors," says an architect. "He employed no less personages than Angelica Kaafman and Zuccht to paint many of the panels and medallions let Into his ceilings, and it was his habit to have carpets woven to match the pattern overhead and harmonize with the color there employed. The keynote of Adam's style Is 'movement,' combined with perfect artistic fitness, and it is peculiar for Its grace and statellness." New Tork Tribune. VERY HAPPY EVENT Milton, Ind., July 12. The beautiful country. home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Wallace, three miles south of town, was the scene of a very happy event in a surprise party on Mr. Wallace. The occasion was Mr Wallace's sixtieth birthday and his wife and daughters arranged the happy gathering. The company consisted of the members of the U-Go-I-Go club, a social organization composed of residents of the south settlement and also from town. The evening was spent at cards. Refreshments were served. Will Wallace was born on the homestead farm, and was the son of John and Elizabeth Wallace, who are both deceased. "ordVr" Gold Medal Floor If your folks are Dmickity about tblr victual. SalXYAm ct Apt

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ask the first man she met on the street to become her husband for a consideration. He was to receive part of the property, but they were never to live together as man and wife. The first man sh-s accosted gave hia name as John Russell. He listened to her strange request and said he would fulfill his part of the bargain. A marriage license was secured and before an hour hsd passed they had become man and wife. They parted at the door of the mag lstrate's office and never met again. She declared In court yesterday that she had discovered that Russell was an assumed name and on this ground the decree of anulment waa granted. 8 rait: For Peter's aonetlte trr twklnc biscuits made of Gold Medal Flour. have JPtodMirogj IK and skimping it Is never found in our; work. We always use the best materials and everything that la necetw sary to make auteat and Al job of anyi work we may do. Our workmen are' expert in the line of plumbing and! heating and the work ia always satisfactory and the prices fair wheat done by Atlantic Too o. Phcno 1215 GRANULATED Ofl y - - - - viUVwv Jdy 12 to 17 vtth a CCc Phcno 1215 t7

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