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If* &£* 7̂ V % .'r'* "J -j t ' . ' ' ' ^ mhenrt plae Mlffi WILD WEST Hfi march of civilization has bo rap- Idly overrun the face of our globe that during recent years many of these places which were formerly little known, except to savages or wandering white hunters, are to­ day becoming thickly populated; while the native savage and wild for- In 1 ggme H11ILV uavo utDavK^ai ever from their ancient haunts. Qj? f.few countries is this more marked than in the fa- ; ^ tc ' mou8 Wild West of America. The hardy frontiers- v 'L"i men or backwoodsmen of a few decades past ?'A. •• would marvel indeed could they now see what 8 . it' jlamour of the wild west has departed forever. First came the lumbering ox wagons, with their once were the great rolling prairies or dense for­ ests of Wyoming and Montana. Gone for ever are the vast herds of buffalo, antelope and wapiti which roamed the boundless plains, gone also are the huge virgin forests, while the sorry remnants the Red Indian tribes whose ancestors hunted land fought in these fair lands remain confined in restricted areas, where the vices, diseases and ^•^SEtrong drinks of the white man are rapidly thin- "yj^'Sjnins their numbers. ' Across the prairies, In all directions; iftow ran ? .v^Kjiniles upon mtleb of railway lines, bringing with y'i. ' ^them their usual accoiBv 11, pani merit of settlers? . ' and over all the plaint- • , the hand of man is mar||> ed by means of nume*> " - v"0us inartistic wooden '.rp1*' ^dwellings, wire fenceB or irrigation ditches* stretching far as the eya > can see on either side. In the forests, too, hug* burnt areas, or desolate looking tree stumps, de-, note wherp fires and- axes have wrought the# ohavoc. Even the faP; famed cowpuncher, ra». splendent in his plctuiK esque costume, with lat» - soes hanging on his aa&- die and six-shooters pro­ truding from belt or pock­ ets, is a thing of the past, although here and there one encounters a pplendid youth, who smokes cigarettes while he . apes the manners and costume of his predeces­ sors, but who is often too idle to throw a rope, or totally' incapable of riding a bad bukjumper or of . using effectively the revolver which he proudly displays. In fact, if most of these modern tow- boys attempted to, draw his gun at an old-fash­ ioned saloon gathering in a "wide-open" town of the west, before he could touch the trigger he would have been as full of lead as a plum pud­ ding is ftill of raisins. For, alas! the glory and g . • /.? lhardy owners, emigrants and hunters, a race of •men, scarred and weather-beaten, fighting their way grimly, inch by inch, to open the new Eldo­ rado. Foot by foot they drove the Indians and ' game before them, and for years barely held their * own in these unknown lands. Then came that mighty factor, steam, and the steel roads with their high-powered locomotives, today conveying the settlers or tourists in a few hours across those once desolate prairies, to traverse which once took the old pioneer as many weeks to accomplish. In consequence, he who today sets out in quest of sport through such a country as Wyoming must be prepared for a series of rude shocks if he hopes to find anything approaching , the state of affairs there about which he has read In the books of his youth. 7 }' The splendid buffalo is extinct; but a few de­ cayed bones or relics of a skull, the last traces of an animal which roamed in countless thousands over the prairies, and were wantonly exterminated partly by hunters for their hides, and partly by settlers to make way for their cattle. The curious prong-horn antelope also has almost been wiped out in tilese district But the saddest of all, per­ haps, Is to see the present state to which the finest deer on earth, the American wapiti, has been reduced. This noble beast, which was for- merly a denizen of the open country, has been driven to seek refuge in the densest forests. Here It is hard Indeed for any number of them to ob­ tain sufficient food, and in consequence the type and size of their antlers shows a marked depre­ ciation in modern years. As every one knows, a harbor of refuge has been found for them by the "United States government in the Yellowstone park, and here the tourist may see, face to face, grazing in bands, the semi-tame remnants of the once vast herds of wapiti. Outside this sanctuary, on every side, aB soon as the season opens, each valley or pass which leads from the Yellowstone to the surrounding country is peopled with so- called sportmen, or meat-hunters, all camped and waiting for those unwary animals which may roam beyond the confines of their reservation. In these outlying districts, where a few cun­ ning bands of wapiti still survive, they have en­ tirely changed their habits during the early part of the season. Fbrmerly the herdB would be found grazing, or roaming through the low-lying, open parks, while throughout the day and night the forestB would echo to that melodious, whistling call of the bulls. But today, if a hunter seeks the Bo-called American "elk" he must perforce look in liferent places to those frequented by the old- time hunters. Far up, on the very edge of the timber-line, feeding and climbing almost like a mountain sheep among steep crags, and on the xerge of snow-line, we now find the few survivors of the splendid animals. And so terrified are they by the constant presence of their natural enemy man, with his innumerable camp fires and at­ tendant noises, that the bulls seldom dare give utterance to their challenging calls. So true Is this that the writer after spending many weeks during the past season in the wilds of Wyoming Only heard a wapiti whistling on two occasions*- and, moreover, throughout this period only saw . t>ne head worth shooting at, says C. E. RadclyHe fy In Country Life. It is true this was a noble head, . ^%nd one of the finest brought out of that country tor some time past, but the fcaptu^jk of this head entailed many weeks of hard work, many scores of miles traveling, and many thousands of feet hard climbing, in a country which a few years ago ' was teeming with good heads. In the same way the bears and big-horn sheep of the Rocky mountains have almost become ft thing of tfyfj past. Even the very numerous mule I MM Are Your Hands Wed! thinJu Bin in pata? Swe^nd pabotflMfcMf Performs Peculiar Stunt for Pub­ lic Amusement; State Re- to Pay for Him. car *32$ Bzia[& iviam&jtDz&m OUTF> v { ; > " il n- 4V deer have disappeared'from their former haunts, and in much-hunted localities are only to be found on the highest points where timber grows. Late in the season, when heavy snow falls, bands of wapiti and mule deer are driven from their - refuge in the Yellowstone park and move down to lower grounds in such places as Jackson's Hold or the valley of the Soshone river. Woe be­ tide these luckless wanderers if the open season is still in force, for at the bead of every pass lead­ ing out of the game reserve are armed bodies of meat-hunters, who shoot on sight old or young, male or, female, regardless of age, or sex, every deer that is seen. More shame is itto the au­ thorities who still permit Die sale of deer meat In the surrounding towns. Vast herds of deer congregate In the low groundB during severe winters, and many hun­ dreds of them perish for want of food. «It is no uncommon event for kind-hearted farmers to feed. numbers of wapiti from their stores of hay. But' the expense of this is more than these hard-work­ ing individuals can stand, and something sdrely should be done by the United States authorities to provide for the needs of these fine animals, which have been driven from their winter feeding- grounds by the settlers and their cattle. The modus operandi of making a trip after wapiti is too well known to need description. If undertaken early in the season by a sportsman who is well equipped with men and pack-horses, the expedition is rather in the nature of a pleas­ ant picnic. The climatic conditions in September and early October are generally perfect, while the absence of mosquitoes and other biting files make these regions appear a Paradise to one who has done much big-game hunting further northwest in the real wilds of North America, which are only now to be found in northern British Columbia and Alaska. But If a sportsman delays his trip until late in the faU, and then camps, as the writer has done, at an altitude of over ten thou­ sand feet, he will find the early frosts and snow make life in a tetft, even in Wyoming, rather cold­ er than is necessary for personal comfort. The way in which an American pack-horse can thread its way through dense timber, or follow a narrow, snake-like trail across dangerous rock slides, is little short of marvelous. It is an inter­ esting sight to see a long line of these sure-footed animals threading their way in single file along the face of a dangerous precipice, often treading in loose, rolling rocks, in places where one false step means a sheer drop of two thousand or three thousand feet into empty space. Yet it, is seldom that one falls off the trail. If this does happen, , the owner may bid goodby to his horse and all that he carries, since rarely anything but frag­ ments are found afterwards on searching the valley below. Strange to say, although the Wyoming wapiti have developed unwonted canning in seeking their living and feeding grounds, the are still com­ paratively stupid animals to stalk. Especially so is this the case with treveling bulls when they are running in search of cows. Then, by njeans of whistling in a very poor imitative style of die, bull's challenge, a soMtary bull can often be called up to within a few yards of the hunter. The writer and his guide have thus been enabled to follow a bull for two miles through the forest, answering his repeated call at intervals, until finally they have come face to face a few yards apart, la * forest glad*. Tke boll, wider such conditions, undoubtedly thinks he is being fol­ lowed by a hated rival, but how any wild animal which has such a highly trained ear that it can distinguish between a twig broken by the human foot and the ordinary noises of a forest can yet be misled Into thinking the whistling of a human being 1b the call of another Will is a mystery which 1b beyond the understanding of man. Doubtless, before it is yet too late, the authorities in charge of the TTnited States game departments will awake to the danger of extinction which today threatens the game of those world-renowned Rocky mountain districts. „ But with a curious incon­ sistency they have long ago passed a law pro­ hibiting the sale of game, etc., in their most dis­ tant territory of Alaska, where often it is impos­ sible for a resident to obtain any other form of fresh meat And yet in a land nearer home, where flocks and herds of domestic sheep and cat­ tle abound, we see the sale of game still allowed, and a consequent number of professional meat- hunters working destruction among the noblest specimens of the deer tribe now left in the face of the earth. TEMPLE OR PRISON? A marvel of human existence, the very opiwsfte of that which is to be found in this country, is the life of the ascetics of India, whose religious pen­ ances and self-punishments are described and il­ lustrated in the December number of the National Geographical Magazine. In this country, as in­ deed in most civilized countries, we are doing all that we know how to do to help these wonderful bodies of ours to do their work. We are teaching children how to care for them that they may es­ cape sickness and live long. We urge ourselves to take exercise that every part of the body may be kept in good working order. We avoid extreme heat and cold, shun injury and establish hospitals to make repairs of the human body when it is broken or diseased. We hold to the theory that the human body is a temple which we Injure at our own peril. Bnt the ascetics of India, not only do none of of these things, but do the very opposite. They think of the body ffs a prison of the soul for which they would have release. So they punish it, wound it by walking or lying on spikes, abuse it by burning, distort it so as to make permanent and helpless cripples, of themselves, put ex­ traordinary and needless burdens upon it refuse it food and water, and in a score of other ways abuse it. The men who do these things are not few; the number of them is put at 6,000,00<^-- enough to people Ohio at its present density. Here in America, we talk of religious fanati­ cism, but a glimpse at the lift of these so-called "holy men" at India must satisfy anybody that those who know only the American brand of it know it not at all.--Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. WORKS ONCE A WEEK •bath AmeHean Speolee la Added to Kansas Collection of Rattlesnakes, 'l Gila Monsters and Other More or Less Verlle Reptiles. Topeka, Kan.--The state pf Kansas is willing to pay out a few hard dol­ lars for dead snakes and birds and animals to be stuffed and kept in the museum, but when it comes to paying a single dollar for a live boa con­ strictor, the state balks. The execu­ tive council, composed of the gover­ nor, attorney general, secretary of state and state auditor, has refused to pay one good round dollar for a real South American boa constrictor, A few days ago a carload of bananas waa received- by one of the Topeka commission houses and just as the clerks were preparing to pick up a bunch of bananas one noticed the snake's head sticking out It is not unusual to find tarantulas and poison­ ous spiders from the tropics in ba­ nanas but seldom are Bnakes found. A council of war was held and the men in the cold storage room put a sack around the bunch of bananas and then drove the snake out and later transferred the reptile to a bot­ tle. Then the snake was brought to Mrs. B. B. Smythe, curator of the GOBS Ornithological collection in the state housfe, and Mrs. Smythe bought the boa for one dollar to add to the col­ lection of rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and other more or less virile reptile® kept in cages on the fourth floor of the state house. The boa was only 27 Inches long, but he is lively and happy, and people who have read about the crushing powers of the boa are continually coming to the state house to'see the little fellow work. He only works about once a week, though, and there are always plenty of mice and birds caught by the small boys for him to demonstrate upon. The snake watches a mouse run around about as a cat does, but all the time it moves its body a little nearer.' Then suddenly there is a quick flip of the body and the mouse Is caught in the coil, and its life crushed out almost instantly. Notloed the Snake's Head. The snake holds the mouse for sever­ al minutes and then coats it with slime and proceeds te swallow the animal whole. A mouse Is plenty tor the snake for several days. The members of the executive coun­ cil were invited up to see the snake perform the other day. They watched the snake get his breakfast. Then Mrs. Smythe presented the bill for one dollar for the snake, asking the state to pay for the reptile. "I don't think we ought to allow live animals or snakes to be brought into the state house," said the gover­ nor. "They might frighten children," said Charles Sessions. "That'B Just like bull lighting/* said Earl Akers. "I move we disallow the bUV said Will Davis. "Motion carried," said the gover­ nor, and Mrs. Smythe is out one dol­ lar Bhe had paid for Mr. Boa. The state house Janitors, maybe, were the real cause of the refusal of the state to pay the bill. One day last summer some one told a Janitor that one of the rattlesnakes had escaped and for a week every janitor jumped whenever a piece of paper rattled be­ hind them. ' They protested to the executive council against allowing the boa to remain in the state house. PARAOOXICAL CAR*. "I see wher^ the workers on gloves want the tariff kept on them." "Yes; isn't It odd?" "Why Is it oddr rTo ask congress in the matter of gloves to kSep hands off." ? Mother ef Parliaments., The palace of Westminster, in jtfeich the British parliament m^eta. Was begun in 1840 and coi 1867. It was designed by'< Berry, an eminent English] jjitod coat £3,000,000. It si ate of the old palace, whi< •fcroyed by fire in 1835, and] •Dd ornate building in 3othic style, covering altoi area of about eight acres. the river it presents a vei adorned and effective faced* northeast corner Is the clock tower 320 feet in height, resembling the clock tower at Bruges. Above the dome over the central hall, a spire rises to the height of 300 feet; and the Victoria tower, 340 feet, sur­ mounts the royal entrance at the southwest corner. The central hall, which 'is entered by St Stephen's porch and St. Stephen's hall built above. St. Stephen's crypt a portion of the old building, separates the house of peers, which, along with the portion of the building, from the house of commons, to which the eastern por­ tion is assigned. Bank ef England Frauds. Although a liberal employer, the Bank of England has not always been fortunate in its officials. Little more than twenty years ago the chief cash­ ier was summarily dismissed. In 1863 several employes were implicated in a scheme for circulating notes forged on general paper stolen from the mills royjj! jycnjatef - ,afc Laverattjefca. A still, pore serious frand was perpetrated in lf<to by Rob* ert Astlett,- one of the cashiers, who managed to extract exchequer bills to the value of nearly $1,000,000. He e» eaped with a term of Imprisonment. Rather Hopeleee. ' - -»"If Opportunity should knock on your door, do you think you would profit by her visit?" f "I'm afraid not Somebody else al­ ways steals my newspaper. What chance would T have with O] tuaityf" HORSE ATE THE NAILS; SUIT New Jersey Man Blames Carpenter's Careleeenese for the Loss of Steed. Badls, k J.--Salt was brought in the Camden district court the other day by William Bishop, Jr., to recover $600 damages for the loss of a horse, because the animal died from eating nails. The defendants in the euit are Walter Wright and Thomas B. Wright, executors of the estate of Charles Wright, and James Dill, a contractor. Bishop Avers that on January 20, 1913, Dill was sent by Wright to repair a roof on a barn on the premises teased to Bishop by Wright. Dill, he alleges, carelessly dropped nails in the haymow and the horse ate them with the hay and died ae a result* Music Cased the Pain. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.--Too weak to stand an anesthetic, Stephen Kian- astsky, was lulled to sleep to the tune Pf "Highland Fling" while Dr. John N. Bassin repaired an artery in the boy's band. A ten-year-old girl 'played the piano. Favorite Frescnptloii i H. Bmt, of Bryant, Ksbon Co., Va, eheawanHneooM hm,my back was weak, and sad ooold not aUep at night. Suffered with ajftaBdevary month wocM bare ipeD* and hare to stay bottke efyovr Ikvorite Pmcrtptioa' and one vial of yoer' Can now de my work for six in family, and feel like a new Jt ie the best medicine in the world for women. I recommend it te all; and many of them have bean greatly benefited by it. PUEAAANT PEXXJCES l«lkw liver Hist FIRST DAYS OF PHOTOGRAPHY Painters Feared Dlecovery Would Do Away With Demand Tor Prod" ucts of Their Art. Perhaps It Is difficult fufty to un­ derstand the panic into which the fol­ lowers of the art of painting were thrown on the discovery of photo­ graphy, since to use the place of the two arts is so thoroughly assured and so assuredly separate. But we must remember that to an unphotographed age the art of painting necessarily meant something quite different from what it means to our own kodaked gen­ eration. "Figure to yourself," cries a writer, in shrill excitement in the Moniteur Universal, January 14, 1839, "figure to yourself a mirror which, af­ ter receiving your image, presents you your portrait, as indelible as a paint­ ing .and much more faithful!" And in rendering the image of nature, how immensely significant becomes the language of the bill which was intro­ duced before the French chamber to pension M. Dagu6rre: "To the travel­ er the apparatus of M. Daguerre would became a continual and indispensable necessity. It will enable them to fix their impressions without having re­ course to the hand of a stranger."-- Annie Nathan Meyer, in the Atlantic. EACH IN A DEPENDENT MOOD Much Truth in Season's Greetings Ex­ changed Between Mr. Bjinks and His Employer. Our friend, Mr. Bjinks, works as an underling In a real estate office. His returns haven't been very promising of late, but then neither have the re­ turns of anybody else in the office. And the boss has been worried. Wednesday morning Bjinks met his boss as he was starting out to work. "I wish you 'a merry Christmas!" said Bjinks. "That depends on you, sir!" answer­ ed the boss, without smiling. Next morning Bjinks met his boss again, but the latter was in a better mood. "I wish you a happy New York!** said the boss. "That depends op; you, sir!" faltered Bjinks, respectfully. SCALP TROUBLE FOR YEARS 268 Harrison St., Blyrla, Ohio.--"My case was a scalp trouble. I* first no­ ticed Bmall bunches on my scalp which commenced to itch and I would scratch them and in time they got larger, forming a scale or scab with * little pus, and chunkB of hair would come out when I would scratch them off. It caused me to lose most of my hair. It became thin and dry and life­ less. I was troubled for over ten years with it until it got so bad I was ashamed to go to a barber to gat my hair eut. "I tried everything I could get hold and , but received no ears until I commenced using Cuticu- ra Soap and Ointment when the scale commenced to disappear. The way I used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment waa to wash my scalp twice a day with warm water and Cuticura Soap and rub on the Cuticura Ointment I received benefit in a couple of weeks and was cured in two months." (Signed) F. J. Busher, Jan. 28, 1918. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address poet- card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."--Adv. Looking Forward. Griggs--If you continue In the way you are managing your business It will be a long time before you are able to draw a comfortable income from It. Twiggs--Yes, I know; but by that time the Income tax probably will be abolished.--Springfield Union. XT&ny Children are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Break up Colds in 24 hours, relieve Feverish- new, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the bowels, ana Destroy Worms. They are so pleasant to take children likethem. Used by mothers forB4year«. At all druggistM. 26c. Baiuple rnuilrd FKKK. , A. B. Olmsted, Le Koy, H. 1". Aiv. Compromise. 'He is one of those near-vegetari­ ans. "What is a near vegetarian?" "He never eats meat except when s is invited out." Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills are solo with and without soluble sugar coating. They regulate the bowels, invigorate the User end purify the blood. Adv. Boston 81ang. "Good Joke, eh? Are you next?" "Yes," --id the Boston man, Ta contiguous." A simple protection against dangerous throat affections are Dean's Mentholated Cough Drop*; 5c at Drug Store*. One thing the baldheaded man can never understand 1b why the world should respect gray hairs. Dm Soman Ky« Balaam for willing amt mUod In eyea and inlMwMloa of orsa or agrellda. Adv. It's the unexpected that often hap­ pens, even when we bring it on our- •atves. Putnam Fadeless Dyes db net stala the kettle. Adv. Pennsylvania haa liLQQO teafelMBiBd- «d women. WESTERN CANADA The opportunity of securing homesteads of 166 acres each, the low priced lands of Manitoba.^ Saskatchewan and Alberts, • soon passed. Canada offers a hearty weks fas the Settler, to the man with 3k family looking for a borne; to tba farmer's son, to the renter, to all trho wish to live under better conditions. Canada's pain yield In 1911 la the talk of the world. Luxuriant Grasses give cheap fodder for large herds; cost of raising and fattening tor market is a trifle. The sum realized for Beef. 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