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' V - 8..s.^i a . •* * '•'•TT f: m .-/ i o n in y Lord Delamere &'t !&V ft/'/ Foremost among the great hunt- authorities of the English speak- world is Lord Delamere. Be is 'Credited with being the heaviest Jrill- i r Jr in the party which bagged the I Record number of African lions some . , f e w y e a r s a g o . I n E a s t C e n t r a l A f - vfe ; tica his prowess is familiar to every justive. Not long ago a locality beset. nth lions sent a delegation four v ' Hundred miles to call on Lord Dela- p'*-"-1, * *.fnerc to ask him to come and wipe ' - /put the destroyers of their rat'le. In > / ^ 4his article he vividly contracts the h -theory ynd practice of lion hunting S7-iajp*» the region which Ex-Prtsidcnt U;:' /jfcoOseveit will invade. HE best place of lion tracking lever saw lasted five full hours and la so memorable In sev­ eral respect* that I purpose to use it as an introduction to that general method of lion bunting. Two of my mea got badly mauled by . Hon, so our camp had to stop where \ "> . It was till they could be move.'!. After } ; J, time one of them was able to walk about with his arm in a sling, and the , 4&ther was getting on well, so one night v ? 1 decided to leave the big cf,mp next ;:&&y and go with two or three camels j-to some villages only a daj's march pjtway. Early the next morning Ma- pjiomed Noor, the headma*, started |%ith the camels. I stopped behind to fj*et some breakfast. Just a* we were ; . going to follow, a camelman, who had % ,1 gone up the river-bed close by to get f^ome water, came running back to say that a lion had been down to drink I i /.r*'; ,;iit one of the shallow sand wells in the tk" .^fljtffht I started at once with Abdul- } ' tah and two other trackers, telling my pony boy to follow on as soon as he >*|pouId get the pony saddled. When $ f ; '^racking, I have always found it the jws,. :.^best plan to have the pony led some V distance behind. The boy ought to flhave no difficulty in following the £ tracks of two or three men and a f **;•. tislion, and if the pony is kept close \$ • ;tap, it is sure to stamp or blow its f„ ; $ose at the critical moment. /. _ When we got to the well there was f N" ;"'Jthe spoor plain enough in the sand, h. f.i i>ut rather blurred by some rain which ^ fiad fallen at daybreak. This made | i; i tracking a little difficult after we ' * ,^eft the river-bed, but when we had ' followed it slowly for some distance, h t-> ,4 ,r5we came to a place where the lion had » •$a*n down under a thick bush, evi­ dently to shelter from the rain, as the jspoor after this was quiet distinct on ! tcu of the damp ground. This [-•; • jmade us think we were in for a short I„ ; (V,, track for it mast have been light * . j j , ,*when the lion went on again from and Hons generally lie up short- m- fv hill again; but here, TOO, we were dis­ appointed, and gravitated back to where we had first lost the spoor. We knew that the lion had not gone straight on, nor had he turned back; he must "have gone along the top of the ridge and thee crossed into other stony hills where is was hopeless to try to track him. Abdullah, who is never defeated, said there was a big river-bed further on in the direction in which the lion was going. It seemed a very slender chance, as he might have turned off anywhere in between, but it was the only one, so off we went. We were evidently in luck that day, for we had only gone about a quarter of a mile when we struck the spoor. The lion seemed now to have made up his mind as to his direction, for he kept on straight down the middle of the river-bed. The sun had come out from behind the clouds, and in placeu the sand was very deep, so that wo were not sorry when at last the track led into a little island of bush in the great flat sand. There was no doubt the lion was at home, for on casting round no sign was perceptible of a track coming out. The island, raised a little above the river-bed, was formed of a mass of thick-tangled bush and creepers clustered round a few big trees. The water coming down the river after heavy rain had washed it roughly into the form of a triangle, the apex of which pointed up the river. Prom this point the sides widened out to the other end, wnic-h was about thirty yards broad, the whole length being somewhat under a hundred yards. Driving the Lion to Bay. The shape made it ; n easy place to drive, for a little way out from the quite unable to move. All the life in him seemed concentrated in his eyes, which glared at us furiously. Another shot put him out of his misery. The first shot, p very bad one, had grazed the spine Just in front of the withers; another quarter of an inch higher and it would have missed altojc uier. This lion was quite maneless, ex­ cept for a few long hairs on each side of the neck, and his teeth were worn down quite short, so he was evidently very old. He was in very good condi­ tion, notwithstanding, but his stomach was quite empty, which accounted for his going so far before lying up. We had to stop at the main camp for the night when we got there, and did not follow up our camels till the next day. I have described ttiis track rather at length because It is a good example of many similar days. Perils of the Man Eater. My first experience in tracking lions was early in 1892, and the night be­ fore was rather an exciting one. After hunting elephants unsuccessfully for about a month, we were on our way south, when we arrived one day at some villages where the natives had been very much bothered by five lions which were said to be still in the neighborhood. A girl had been killed two days before, and an enormous amount of damage had been done among the sheep and cattle. The first day we camped there two of our party had shooting zerebas made at the vil­ lage to which the lions generally came, and just before sunset they went off there. I tied up our two donkeys just out­ side the camp, on the chance that the lions might come and look us up. Just after dark we were having dinner in the tent when there was a scuffle out* We had a shot or two at the sound, and the beasts, whatever they were, went away. As at that time we knew nothing about lions, we were not quite sure that they were not hyenas after all; but Abdullah stuck to it they were lions, so we got our beds and lay-down one on each side of the opening, just behind the fence to watch, hoping that the brutes would come back. Nothing further happened, however. At daybreak we sallied out to se® if by any chance we had man­ aged to hit a lion, but, we only found two or three dead hyenas. One of these brutes had been partly oaten; we thought at the time by other hy­ enas, as it was still too dark to make out tracks. We came to the conclu­ sion we had made idicts of ourselves, and had been shooting all night at hyenas, and we did not feel any the better when our friends came back from their night at the village and told us we had probably frightened every lion out of the country by our bombardment. Reading the Lion Tracks, Abdullah Ftill Insisted that there had been lions round the c&inp, and a little later we found the Spoor of one big lion by the body of the half- eaten hyena. The ground was very stony and there were no other tracks to be seen, but one lion could hardly have dragged the donkey and heavy barrel away so quickly, so there were probably more. The other hunters had got hold of a man at the village who said he knew where the Hons always lay, so they went with aim. Soon after they left, Abdullah, who had been hunting about, came and told me that he had picked up the track of one lion on soft ground a lit­ tle way from camp, and that We ought I shot, but so badly that 1 wasted seven bullets at different ranges without touching her. The first six did not seem io annoy her at ail, but the last hit the ground just under her teeth, and either the bullet so close, frightened her or a stone hit her, for she sprang off with a snarl and a flourish of her tail and, putting on the pace, in a minute or two ran clean away from us. I was terribly disap­ pointed and annoyed with myself, and I thought of course, that everything was over for the day after all this shooting; but Abdullah, who was al­ most weeping, hardly gave me time to get my wind a little before he rushed me back again. As we ran round the place where we had first seen the lioness, a fine lion appeared walking slowly out of another thicket towards us. As I shot, he turned and plunged thorugh an opening in the bushes to our right We ran round an outstanding bush to head him if he broke out, and met a lion facing us. Just as I fired I heard a moan to the right, so I was sure it was not the same lion. This one staggered away at the shot and fell stone dead close by. Death of the jungle Lord. Abdullah called up Jama and the pony boy, and they socn had the hide off and tied on the pony. I thought all the time that Abduli&h knew all about the other one, but as he seemed to be going right home, I asked him if we had not better go and look, for it, and he replied that it was the same lion all the time, and that I had missed it the first shot. I did not feel quite sure about it myself, but the moan in the bushes could only have come from a wounded beast, so I told him we had better go and look any­ way. He evidently thought it was waste of time, but when we got back to where the lion had been hit we soon found some blood, and going quietly down a little path between the "irgin" bushes we came round a cor­ ner almost on top of the Hon. He was stone dead. I was very pleased at scoring off Abdullah, as he had shown such' evident disgust at my shooting. We met one of our party on our way back to camp, and told him he might run across the lioness if he followed our track back to the place we had come, from. Aji hour after we got back to camp lie came galloping up, having seen two lions, curiously enough both males, and had shot one with a better mane th&n either of mine, I have at Another time described 1^ PLUNGED after the sun rises; hut this day roved an exception, because it was P,. "' cloudy and cool through the forenoon. Sf.Vv Trailing the King of Beasts. The spftor now led us along a sandy wh<!re we could follow it as fast ^ jas We could walk. When it turned off 9-^ : into th% bush we quite expected to see ' %% '7jthe lion at any moment; but not a bit tiVt- "it-'-he wandered about through %. .' f^endleas clumps of mimosa a: d "irgin" t';l* ^bushes, as U he did not mean to lie ylup af alL 1 The traefc at last M us down a jtittlft sandy watercourse, which It fol- fslowsu for seme distance. Up to this time we had had no real difficulty la making it out, but now came our i 5* ^ first serious check. The nullah turned p ^ '/ off along the side of a stony ridge, and, instead of going along it, the lion had turned up the hill. We had got the general direction thn the lioa had been going in, but this was no good to us, as on casting iorward in the same line to the bottom of the J ,, other Bide of the ridge where there was some sandy ground, we could find BO sign of his having passed in that >,>, **„ direction. We spent some time hunt- ^ lug about, growing less hopeful as time went on. A man following a trail by sight certainly has an enor- fgi:> mous advantage over a hound hunting it by nose, because time is of no particular object to him, and every direction can be tried in turn. After making out cast forward we# went back to the little water-course, and 't&y:. •j, ffy; point one could easily command the side, and it was, evident that some- whole of it The lion was almost cer­ tain to break out of one of the sides towards the bush on the banks of the river-bed, in Which case I should get an easy broadside shot If we fol­ lowed the track info the place, the noise we were sure to make would be very likely to get the beast on his legs, and he would sneak out at one side as we went in at the other, es­ pecially as the water had left a lot of dead sticks along the edges, over which it would be Impossible to walk quietly. Abdullah also said that from the way he had wandered about this lion must be very hungry, and would sleep lightly. These considerations decided us to drive. I posted myself with Abdullah a few yards out from the point, and the other two men, hav­ ing collected some stones, began throw­ ing them in at the far end. Abdullah was right about this lion sleeping lightly; for at the first stone there was a growl and a crash in the bushes and then, for a minute or two, not a sound. The men started to walk down, one on each side, shooting and throw­ ing in stones, i was watching them, and wondering what had happened to the lion "'hen there was a faint crackling just in front of us, and he appeared at the point of the island. Although we were standing withip a few yards of him, and absolutely in the open, he did not see us. He was facing straight towards us, and was so close that I did not like to fire at him as, on receiving the bul­ let, he would be very likely to plunge in the direction he was going and be into us; nor did 1 want him to come any closer; so, as he stepped down on to the shod, I moved my riflo up towards my shoulder to attract his at­ tention. He saw the movement at once, stopped dead, and turned his head sharply towards us. For the fraction of a second I thought he was going to be startled into charglag, but he plunged off to the left with an angry snarl at us over his shoulder. As he passed I pulled, and he skated along on his stomach and fell down a little ledge in the sand. This slewed ap?i: * > followed that down for some distance, I him round, and he lay facing us, hoping that the lion had turned down I spread-eagled on the sand, evidently tiling was attacking our donkeys. It was pitch dark, and we fired several shots in the direction of the sound before me discovered that the attack­ ing beasts were hyenas. We did not mind having a donkey killed instan­ taneously by a lion, but we had not bargained for the poor beastB getting mauled by hyenas, so taking a lamp we went out to see what had hap­ pened. My donkey had got off with a nasty bite in the hollow of the hind leg above the hock, and we had him taken into tne camp at once. The other was completely disembowelled and must have been killed instantly. We could not find any dead hyenas, but we were pretty sure that om or two must have been hit. Seeing that if the lions did come to the dead don­ key Mere would not je much chance of hitting them on so dark a night, we pulled the carcass right under the skerm or fence round the camp, and, to prevent hyenas dragging it away, tied a rope to one of its legs, and passing it over the fence, fastened it to a heavy water barrel inside the oijmp. We sat up for a bit and got a few shots at hyenas, and then we we at to bed, telling the sentry to keep a sharp lookout and to let us know if lion* came to the carcass. flome time after I awoke to find AUdu-lah bending over me, with my rifle la his hand. He was frightfully excited; and ail I could get out of him wan "Libah, sahib, llbah!" ("Lion, sir, lioh!") Jumping up 1 rushed out Just as my companion fired two shots into the darkness. The first thing I saw when I got to where he stood was that a great piece of the skerm round the camp had disappeared, leaving a broad gap. I could not for a moment think what had happened, and then it struck me that when the carcase had been dragged away the water barrel must have got bitched against the inside of the lnterlacod mimosa boughs and the whole lot had gone to­ gether. It was frightfully dark out­ side, and we stood peering out for some time without being able to dis­ tinguish anything; but after a few minutes we could hear something ANGRY SNARL. to follow it. At that time none of us knew much about tracking, and we had had such bad luck after the ele­ phants that we did not think much of our shikaries, and I did not think it was much good, Abdullah persuaded me and I went. After we n&d followed the track for some distance I quite caught his enthusiasm, and when the single track was joined by three oth­ ers, I was divided between delight at the prospect of having four lions all to myself and the thought that per­ haps I had more on my hand? than I could manage alone. After a track of about an hour we came in sight of two or three big thickets of "irgin" bushes surrounded by open mimosa scrub ana intersected by narrow paths. My second shikari at that time was a very tall fellow, called Jama, with enormous feet. Sev­ eral times during the tri&k Abdullah had turned round to pitch uito him for making such a noise, and now he con­ fided to me that "Jama walk all same cow," and th&t we had better leave him behind here with the pony and boy, as the lions were sure to be in the place in front of us. Knowing nothing about it, I agreed and went on with Abdullah. We were walking quietly along the outside of one of the thickets when Abdullah suddenly clutched me by the arm and pointed towards a tree standing on the edge of the bush yards off. The tree was divided into two towards the bottom, and the sun was throwing the shadow of a bush on the ground inside the hollow. .This was where Abdullah was point­ ing, getting more excited but I could make out nothing at all, until a great yellow beast moved suddenly out of the shadow and slipped away on the far side. I fired from the hip, letting off both barrels into the tree. We rushed round to the other side of the thicket just in time to see a fine lioness come out I could not get a clear shot at once, and when I did, after running some distance, I was shaking so that I could not get on her at all, and missed. She kept lobbing along just ahead, every now and then stopping to look around and show her tearing at the flesh quite close by. teeth at us. Bach time she stopped two different methods of hunting lions. One of them ccjuld hardly be called a method at alf, as it depended on news brought in by natives as to where a lion had actually been seen. The second plan consisted of tying up a donkey for a bait, and sitting up to watch at night A much more in­ teresting way of hunting lions than either of these and a very success­ ful one ir the native shikaries em­ ployed are any good, is this process of tracking them. A lion lies up in some cool, shady place for the day, unless the Bky is overcast and the sun cannot get out, when he will oc­ casionally be found hunting at any hour. If you can strike his spbor of the night before there is a very good chance of following it up to where the lion lies, Bhottld the ground be suitable. There is no form of hunt­ ing so exciting as this. When the spoor Is found there is generally nothing to show if you have struck it early or late in the lion's wander­ ings, so that it is quite a chance whether it leads you for hours over all sorts of country, or whether, after half a mile down on a sandy river bed or path, it turns off into a thick patch of reeds or bush close by, where the lion is iying. It is extraordinary how the excitement grows as time goes on, and still you keep the track some­ times very slowly, where only now and then part of a footprint can be seen on a soft place between the stones, at other times as fast as you can walk over soil where the track is visible many yards ahead. And when the spoor Is lost and minute after minute goes by while you cast about vainly in every direction, how wretched you are, and how quickly your spirits rise again when a low whistle or snapping of the Angers an­ nounces that one of the trackers has bit it off furthef on! At last certain signs show that you are getting near the end; the trackers take off their sandals and tuck up their loin-cloths under their belts, lest a corner flapping in the wind should scare the lion. For the first time you take your rifle from the native who has had charge of it and, with your head shikari carrying a second rifle, steal forward until tie Hon is sighted ot ringed in a small clump of bush. Then, when all is over, and the skin ib being taken ou, how pleasant It Is to sit in the shade, listening to the excited talk qf the natives, and let­ ting your nerves quiet down again after the hopes and fears of the mo.-n- ing. You ride home to camp with tfye lion skin behind your saddle, while one of your men after another gives his version of the morning's proceed­ ings in a hunting song. On the other hand, when 3rou get a shot, and miss after a long and difficult track, it seems as if any number of lions killed in the future wlil never make up for the loss of this one, which is always the biggest lion, carrying the finest mane you have ever seen. The ride home to camp is then a silent one, as no lion means no sheep for the men, and they are correspondingly down­ hearted. The first thing to be done in track­ ing is to find fresh spoor. Natives will often bring news of spoor, but unluckily the average villager's idea of a fresh track is rather hazy. I have several times gone a long way to find at the end a track several days old. On one occasion two natives arrived, saying there were fresh lion tracks iai a rivar-bed, luckily not more that half a mile from camp, but when we got there the fresh lion tracks turned out to be the spoor ©f two hy­ enas, at least a week old. The spoor of the large spdtted hyena is rot unlike that of a lioness on certain ground, but the difference can easily be told, because a hybna has claws like a dog, whereas the re­ tractive claws of a lion are always sheathed and leave no mark. The beet way to find spoor Is to look for it yourself with good trackers. Should there be any villages near camp which lions have been in the habit of raiding it is very necessary to get there as early as possible in the morning. If once the large flocks of sheep and goats and herds of camels which have been shut un in the vil­ lages all r.ight are let out, the ground all about is a mass of ind.stfnguish- able footprints, and every rath from the village Is choked with long strings of beasts going off to their feeding grounds. Hitting off a lion's spoor under these circumstances is almost impossible, and the dust raised by'the herds is very disagreeable. Besides villages, any well in the neighborhood is a good place to look for spoor. If a lion is about there ought to be no difficulty In picking up his spoor within a day or two. Baffling Ways of the Jungle Folk. Rather curious coincidences are sometimes brought to light by spoor. Not very long after the date of the story just related, one of our party went to a place where two lions had been killing regularly, and sat up two nights for them with a donkey as bait The lions must have left the district for a day or two while he was there, as there were no fresh tracks to be found anywhere about. The day after he came back to camp I happened to ride out in that direction. Soon after we started we came on the spoor of two lions, which led us along a path till we came to the shooting zereba. The night after he had left, the liona had walked over the very spot where his donkey had been tied up in the middle of the path. A little later, again, I happened to be at a place where he had camped a few days before. A lion roared near my camp several times in the night, and next u porning I heard he had taken a sheep from a village close by. We picked up his spoor in a river­ bed near the camp, and after follow- lng it for some distance came to some wells. The lion had drunk twice, and between the drinks had laid down under the fence of a shooting zereba, which had been made to watch, the water. After drinking the second time he had gone away. Now and then when tracking you come across places where lions have killed, and if it is on sand or bare soil, you can tell everything that has happened almost as well as if you had seen it. We were camped once on the edge of a river-bed and thick covert ran right down to the back of the camp. One night there was a tremendous scuffling in these bushes, so in the morning I went out to see what had been going on, and found that two lions had been chasing a warthog, which had just saved its bacon by getting underground. It must have been a very near thing, as the lions had ploughed great fur­ rows in the sand at the mouth of the hole, showing they had pulled up pret­ ty sharp. Warthogs generally go to ground when pursued, and as there is no second opening to the burrows, and presumably no chamber at the end where they can turn, they always go in backwards. This has actually been seen by sportsmen who have been riding after them with a spear. I should think this pig can hardly have had the time to do this. Perhaps he got jammed in head first, ss he re­ fused to be smoked out when we tried it. By permission of Longman*. Green 4b Co., New York. (Copyright, 1909, by Benj. B. Hampton.) Agitation regarding the pay of French military officers has had some effect, for the minister of war has asked for an extraordinary credit of $400,000 to supplement the pay of the officers, which has not been increased since 1870. In that time nearly every grade of state official has had his sti­ pend raised, but the sub-lieutenant has had to make both ends meet as best he could .with six francs a day and the/lieutenant with eight NEW STRENGTH FOR OLD fS©' Evtry Bay , Backache. x Hospitable. She--And did you enjoy your Af­ rican trip, major? How do you like the savages? He--Oh, they were extremely kind- hearted ! They wanted to keep me there for dinner. THEY WORK A BLUFF A pennlle3(s man, who strutB about la fine clothes, making people think he Is a man of money and position, is practicing the art of bluff. Bluff, to be explicit, is the art of making much out of little, of causing people to think year brains or your ^oslttaa jnuch greater that they really are. One would have thought that an art like this belonged to human beings, be­ cause it requires sobae intelligence to Muff successfully. Tit maay tnembers j of the insect world are just as smart and effective at bluff as men. Take caterpillars. Now, a caterpil­ lar is one of the most defenceless creatures in creation. As a general rule--for there are a few exceptions-- it cannot bite, or kick, or strike, or sting. But its enemies are so numerous that It is compelled to resort to some trick of self-defense, and as it no weapon, it practices bluff. T^a'caterpillar el the lobster xaoth . • • : • • • • > . ' - - r toad* a life of incessant bluff. While very tiny, it looks just Hke an ant Later on in life, when it is too big to pretend to be an ant any longer, it takes to sitting on leaves with its hid­ eous brown head and its bulging tail stuck upright over its back and its front legs projected forward In such an attitude of menace that spiders and ichneumons dare not venture near. "That must be a dragon," they would say if they could speak. "If I go near it it will surely tear me to pieces." Yet more closely they would discover that it was a defenseless caterpillar, capa­ ble only of wriggling when attacked. The caterpillar of the common moth is another master of the art of bluff. When born it looks like a tiny scorpion, and no respectable spider or ichneu­ mon attempts to attack it. An It grows bigger it develops a violet saddle down its back and a decoration round its face something like a monk's cowl. Out of its tail proceeds two long horns. When approached by an enemy or If they IumS the sense to look a little Uooched by human hands It Instantly sits bolt upright, turns Its dreadful- looking face on its tormentor and shoots out of the top of each born a waving scarlet, sting-like thread. As a rule the eaemy retreats in great fright, believing it Is about to be pounced upon, bitten and stung to death. Yet, in sober truth, the artful caterpillar is practicing bluff. Its ter­ rible face Is a "false alarm," for it can­ not bite or strike hard enough to in­ flict a wound, and the two sting-like scarlet threads wave about in the air withoet ejecting any polsojfc V.. ...... 1|... . The thousand-leg is another defense­ less creature that relies on bluff. In this case all the bluff is in its ugly legs. Considered as legs, they are weak, ungainly limbs, easily broken and frequently In the creature's way when it tries to crawl through crev­ ices. But all the world is afraid of those legs. Qirls and boys run away from them, and every insect thinks that It must be an uncommonly ferocious and terrible bug ta have, such frightful limta. ; „ ,•* . •• Mrs. Joannah Straw, S26 Nortfc Broadway, Canton, S. D., says: "Fof - _ _ three years I suf* f e r e d e v e r y t h i n g ^ with rheumatism h| I my limbs and a dull, ceaseless aching 'i my back. I wa|t w e a k , l a n g u i d , broken with head* V4-; aches and spells, and the klt^ ney secijetiona wer#:V ; thick with solids. was really in a crife. teal condition when I began with ' Doan's Kidney Pills, and they certain ly did wonders for me. Though I aij| * 81 years old, I am as well as the aveafeal age woman of 50. I *©fk well and slsap well.*' „ i Sold by all dealers. & ceaits% "host * Ebater-Milburn. Co.. Buffalo. N. X % ^ ' * ' • ' . PROVED 'POINT BY HOLY WRlf S Granddaughter of Gladstone Proved 8H« Had Not Read Scriptures for Nothing. • Miss Dorothy Drew, who was pre£ % aented at court a few days ago, wai^;?1 the favorite granddaughter of the lat^ | W. E. Gladstone, and among thli^ stories told of her childhood days is | ? the following: One morning she re^- ;. fused to get up, and, all other thing#!'.!-;' failing, Mr. Gladstone was called t^,j,£ her. "Why,, don't you get up, child ?" he asked. "Why, grandpa, didn't you tell me to do what the Bible says?" replied Dorothy. "Yes, certainly." "Well, It disapproves of early rising--says It's a waste of time," rejoined the child. Mr. Glad­ stone was unable to agree, but Doriv othy was sure of £er ground. "You lia. ^> ten, then," she said, in reply to his * exclamation of astonishment, and, taking up her Bible she read Psalm 127:2, laying great emphasis on t^e words: "It Is vain for you to rise ttftv;; early."--'Tit-Bits. PROOF POSITIVE. "Do you really love me, George?" "Didn't you give me this tie, dear?" "Yes, love. Why?" "Well, ain't I wearing it?" ^ Judge Will Wait and 8e* An earnest plea was made by Attor­ ney Charles Pettijohn to Judge Pritch- ard of the criminal court for leniency to a client who had entered a plea at guilty to larceny. The burden of the attorney's argument was that his cli* ent was the father of twins and was tempted to theft in order to feed the mouths of the infants. "Yqur honor, I will say frankly," said Mr. Pettijohn in closfhg, "that if I were thel father of twins and needed food for my family, I would not hesi­ tate to go out and steal It." 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