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A FOX HUNTER'S TALE.
Professor John F. Draughon, of
Nashville, Tenn., who doubtless owns
one of the best packs of fox hounds
in this country, while talking with
several fox hunter friends recently,
told some practical jokes on himself,
What makes the stories more inter
esting is that Professor Draughon is
a man of considerable means, being
president of thirty husiness colleges,
the biggest chain of business colleges
in the world,
One of the stories related by Pro
fessor Draughon is as follows:
“One of my greatest pleasures—
perhaps my greatesti—is to take some
of my friends in my automobile with
the {railer attached—the former car
rying five passengers, the latter carry
ing fifteen or twenty dogs—and go to
the country for recreation.
“Some time ago I had an engage
ment with a party of gentlemen—
Captain T. M. Steger, his son Will,
J. J. Aaderson and Judge MeMor-
Tough—to go on a chase. They were
very enthusiastic in the matter, ex
becting to emerge from the chase full
fledged, experienced hunters. Wish
ing to get as early a start as possible,
and being naturally of a hospitable
disposition, I invited them to dine
with me. They declined my invita
tion, pleading impossibility to leave
their business as one eicuse, and a
fear that I would not give them
enough to eat as another; and as I
would have to go through town to
reach the hunting ground selected,
they vroposed to join me in town. I
agread to this, as also to the hour and
meeiing place they suggested. The
blace of meeting was on Broad street,
near the depot, at 6 p. m. I rushed
home, made the necessary prepara
tion. and drove hurriedly back to
town. stopping at the appointed piace,
'but as I arrived a little hefore the
‘time agreed upon, the colored boy
who looks after my dogs asked per
mission to ‘bum around town’ for
awhile, which was granted
“I remained in the car, whiling
a,way the time by watching the nu
mercus passers-by. In a few min
utes a traveling man, on his way to
the train, stopped and looked at the
outfit and me. He began to admire
the trailer attached to the auto, it be
ing, as he said, the first vehicle of the
kind he had ever seen or heard of.
He then began to notice the dogs,
asking, ‘Whose dogs are they?’
‘They are Professor Draughon’s dogs,’
I replied.l ‘How long,” said he, ‘have
You been working with dogs?’ ‘I
have been working with dogs off and
on all my life,’ said I. He next made
this inquiry: ‘Are you fond of hunt
ing?’ I replied: ‘I am very fond of
hunting.’ He then became more com
municative, furnishing, me with the
following particulars about himself:
‘While I am a traveling man, I am
also a member of a hunting club in
the North. Our club owns a kennel,
and we have some very fine hounds.
1 notice, however, a remarkable dif
ference between these hounds and
ours. Isee that Professor Draughon’s
houlgds are marked black, white and
tan, English style. They are the
most beautiful dogs I have ever seen.
I have no doubt but that the South
has better fox hunds than we have,
because Southern people know better
how to train fox hounds than we do.
‘And, by the way, do you know where,
Wwe could get a man to train our fox
hounds—some one who is fond of
hunting and has the Southern experi
ence in the work?’ I replied: ‘No, I
do not know where yYou could get
such a man; it is very difficult to get
a good man, one who understands his
business and who is reliable.’
“About that time the traveler spied
a brush lying in the car. Of course,
the brush immediately got all his at
tention. ‘You have a brush here, 1
see,’” said he; ‘and it is from a red
fox, too.” ‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘we always
carry one along for good luck.” ‘I
would certainly like to have that
brush,’ he said. T preserved a digni
fied silence in response to his implied
request for the brush; in fact, T was
rather opposed to parting with it. e
continued to admire it, however, say
ing: ‘lt is the most beautiful brush I
rever saw, and there is nothing I
would like better or appreciate more
than a brush from a Southern fox.’ I
could stand his importunings no long
er, so I said: ‘Take the brush home
with you. It is a fine one, but Pro
fessor Draughon has more at home.’
His gratitude was overwhelming.
‘With all my heart I thank you,’ he
said. ‘I shall preserve this brush as
long as I live.” Then, taking a quar
ter from his poecket, he handed it to
me, with these words: ‘Here, my
man, take this and buy you some ci
gars to take with you to the chase.’
It is needless to say that T was visibly
touched with such liberality, He then
took from his pocket a card, and,
writing in the left hand corner the
name of the kennel club of which he
was a member, he handed the card to
me. ‘Now, here is my name, with my
‘address,” said he, ‘and I want you to
remember it. If you ever get out of
a job just write to me or to the club
whose name is on the card. This is a
recommendation from me, and will be
accepted as such by any member of
the club. , My train is now about due
to leave, and I must go. Good-bye.’
He was gone before I could thank
him, but on the chace that night I
smoked to his memory.”
ON SIGNAL WATCH.
It Is customary for a man-of-war to
fire a national salute (twenty-one
guns) wheneéver she enters a foreign
port. The port acknowledges the sa
lute, gun for gun. This time in en
tering Yeddo Bay we were requested
to waive the salute, probably because
we come so often it is like one of the
family coming home to dinner.
The Emperor’s birthday was so
} very similar to 365 other festivals an
nually celebrated in Tokio that it is
‘not worth chronicling. 1 saw their
royal highnesses, the Emperor and
the Empress—Dbut so have millions of
others, and the pageant impressed me
less than a little affair of my own
that subsequently occurred.
I was on signal watch on the after
bridge; an ordnance officer four feet
away - stood looking shoreward
through his binoculars as the admir
al's barge rowed straight for the ship.
At the proper moment he command
ed: ‘“‘Bugler, call the guard.” Then
all the red tabe required to get an
admiral aboard was unwound. This
accomplished, Lieutenant Dorn came
at me fairly foaming at the mouth,
“What are youdving on that bridge?”’
he roared.
“I am on signal watch, sir.”
“Then why did you not report the
admiral’s launch coming?”’
‘“Because you saw it, sir.”
“Because I saw it! What right
have you to say I saw it?”
“I saw you looking at it through
your glasses, sir.”
“You.don't know that I was look
ing at the admiral’s barge; you have
no right even to think what I am
looking at. Your duty was to have
reported to me what you saw coming
toward the ship. Failing to do, you
shall answer cn Saturday morning. I
put you down for carelessness, diso
bedience, neglect of duty and inso
lence.”
I swallowed my heart and my rage,
as I have done many a time and oft
since I have worn this aniform, and,
in faney, saw myself go down into the
brig for thirty days. The brig means
handcuffs or ankle irons, a diet of
two hardtacks and a tumbler of water
three times a day, with full rations
every fifth day. I have seen men
come out of the brig looking like the
end of a forty days’ fast in a monas
tery. I have seen men in for three
days wearing double irons. They
looked like pirates. Their crime was
smoking out of hours.
* Toreturntomyown case. On Friday
night Lieutenant Dorn sent for me
and gave me akindly talk, winding up
with the promise that he would make
a sailor out of me. I was on the
shore list for the next morning, but
for reasons of my own tarried on the
ship. This same officer, noticing me,
agked why I was there. I answered:
““Broke, sir.”
He told me to go to his room and
where to find $lO, which I was to
take, get ashore as quickly as possi
ble, and not to forget to return it on
the next payday. — From “Three
Years Behind the Guns,” in St. Nich
olas.
CAUGHT IN PRAIRIE ‘BLIZZARD.
“Last Sunday was the twentieth
anniversary of the great blizzard of
1888 in Nebraska and Northwestern
Towa,” said G. D. Riggs the other day,
“I was living in O’Neill, Neb., at the
time and had just left the office to g 0
home to dinner when the blizzard
struck. '
“I started to cross the street to a
drug store, but when I reached the
other side I found myself half way
down the block from my destination.
“The fine wind driven snow flakes
filled the air so that I couldn’t see my
hand before me. I finally worked my
way back to the drug store, where
a number of other men had taken
refuge from the storm.
“School had just been dismissed for
the noon recess, and we knew that
nearly 300 children were out in the
storm. Securing long ropes the
crowd started out to rescue them,
We found them huvddled in doorways
and by the sides of buildings. The
children caught hold of the ropes and
were led to shelter by their rescuers,
whose sense of direction gradually re
turned to them. Every one of the
300 school children in the town was
got home in safety, :
“But seven school teachers were
frozen to death in the. country during
the blizzard, and thousands of cattle
died. The thermometer fell from
about the freezing point at noon to
twenty degrees below zero that night.
It was the worst blizzard I ever saw,
and I never want to experience an
other likeé it.”"—Des Moines Register
and Leader.
STORY OF A KEY AND DISASTL...
You may be interested to hear of a
thing which happened to me in Brit
tany last summer. I had to sign some
railway transfers before the nearest
British Consul, who was at Brest. I
locked up the papers and railway
stocks in a Breton cupboard as high
as the ceiling and very solid. I kept
the key in my pocket. When my cou
sin and I were ready to start I took
out the key and it would not open its
own cupboard. The servants came in
turn and tried in vain. We had to
miss our train to Quimper, which
was our first stage to Brest. Now
our village blacksmith was very
rough and ready, so the next morn
ing I said I would try the key myself
once more, before he perhaps ruined
my lock.
The key fitted perfectly and we
went. But, imagine, we found at the
station great placards posted up tell
ing of the awful wreck of the Brest
train the day before, and it was the
train in which we should have been
but for the obstinacy of the key. We
saw the carriages all fallen into the
river, and the dead and dying were
in the hospital at Quimper. We feel
this to be a preservation wrought
irom the next world that is so near,
—Mrs. Hodgson Pratt, in Light,
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Appliance For Keeping Cue Steady.
In playing billiards and pool it s
the cuStom of the player to crook
the index finger of one hand to use
&5 a holder and guide for the cue,
while the butt is grasped by the
other hand to make the shot. There
Is one decided disadvantage in this
use of the cue when the hand is damp
or moist from perspiration. The
moisture checks or retards the for
ward motion of the cue. Experts use
lotions to prevent this perspiration,
and other expedients have been
adopted for the purpose. The flesh
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delicate and accurate holding of the
cue. These objectidns are overcome
in the device shown here, which is
merely a sleeve or tube through
which the cue passes, and is encircled
by the index finger. The inner end
of the sleeve fits the hollow between
the thumb and finegr, while the for
ward end rests against the second
finger. The hand which hold§ the
cue does not come in contact with the
cue, so that any perspiration cannot
in any way retard the movement of
the cue. The exact amount of pressure
necessary to insure correct move
ment can thus be gauged with ac
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Would Help Music.
At a brilliant At Home” given by
a society woman a pianist of world
wide reputation was asked to per
form. When he had finished, the
lady’s young daughter was made td
sit down and play hernew piece. “Now
tell me, Herr ——.” said the fussy
mother to the great artist, “what de
vou think of my daughter’s execu
tion?” “Madame,” he replied delib
erately, “I think it would be a capital
idea.””—Argonaut. i
Because They Wouldn’t Cut Hair.
Owing to the vice-magistrates of
An B,v}m, Chung Pyeng and Kap San
not having yet cut their hair, the
Governor of the province has risen in
his wrath and has strongly requested
the Home Department to dismiss them
from their positions, — Korea. Daily
News.
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Trees and Lightning, 1
The trees most apt to be struck by |
lightning are those that conform most
naturally to the law of electrical mo
tion—that electricity moves along the
path of least resistance. Flammarion,
the great French scientist, puhlished
in 1905 a list of different kinds of
trees, showing the number of times
each species had been struck by light
ning during a given period. The
figures are: Fifty-four oaks, twenty
four poplars, fourteen elms, eleven
walnuts, ten firs, seven willows, six
beeches, four chestnuts, . but not al
single birch.—The Reader.
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HISTORIC SUBMARINE BOAT,
Constructed by the Confederates for the Defenseé of New Orleans in 1862,
Now Abandoned Under the Walls of the Olld Spanish Fort,
~As N, Hall, Louisiana, in Leslie’s Weekly.
| . Gambling Part of Religion.
| A missionary lay beside a campfire
'of birch logs in the Maine woods,
sSmoxing a black cigar and watching
i\his guide grill trout.
i “Speaking of gambling,” the mis
~slonary said, “I know of a sect that
‘regards it as a religious duty, like
fasting or prayer.
l “This sect is the Hindus. They cne
fdgy in each year gamble like mad
from sunrise till sunset. The day is
' the festival of the lamps, a day sacred
‘to Lakshun, the goddess of wealth.
A tremendous lot of money changes
hands in Lakshun’s honor.
“All this gambling is done to test
the financial success that will attend
on each person throughout the year.
If a gambler loses he knows a year
of hard luck is ahead of him. If he
wins he knows he may expect a
twelvemonth of prosperity.
. “‘Strange to say, a good deal of
cheating accompanies this religious
gambling.” — St. Louis Globe-Demos
crat.
- He Didn’t Have a Dollar.
He didn't have a dollar, he didn't
have a dime; his clothes and shoes
looked as though they had served
their time. He didn’t try to kill him
self to dodge misfortune’s whacks.
Instead, he got some ashes and he
Jfilled five dozen sacks. Then next
he begged a dollar. In the paper in
the morn he advertised tin polish
| that would put the sun to scorn. He
kept on advertising and just now,
‘suffice to say, he's out in California
at his cottage on the bay,—Mecca
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EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH
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Doubtless,
“Do you helieve in an actual devil
who rules over a burning lake?”
“Sure.”
“Then how do yon suppose he tor
tures his vietims?”
“He probably asks them if it is
hot enough for them.”-—Houston
Post,
BUTTER BEANS, SNAPS, SOUASHES,
CORN AND TOMATOES TILL FROST
THERE 1S NO EXCUSE FOR ANY FARMER NOT HAVING THEM--GE™
READY NOWTO HAVE THE BEST GARDEN OF YOUR LIFE TIME IN 1908~
[T WILL MEAN MORE HEALYH, MORE HAPPINRSS---WHAT T 0 PLANT,
s 2cme garden is too much neg
lecled averywhere by farmers, and
the Southern tarmer is no excention,
Except in the trucking sections of
the coastal country one finds vegela
bles few on the tables of the farm
ers. We have no objection to the
Black Eye peas and sweet potatoes,
and cven collards, but in a climute}
where one can have a plentiful sup
ply of all sorts of vegetables there isl
no cxcuse for having only these and
a few roasting ears from the corn!
fields. |
Then in going through the country
in late summer we find the gardens
that were planted in the spring grown
up in weeds and the dead corn sialks
standing even in the village gardens.
There is no excuse for this, for we
can by a little forethought keep up a
constant supply of the best vegeta-l
bles, '
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Asparagus For Example. — How
few farmers have an asparagus bed!
And yet there is no crop more easily
grown. Make a piece of land very
rich with mabure worked in deeply
and sow the seed in rows four feet
apart and thin out to two feet apart,
and the very next spring vou can cut |
some to eat, and if you keep the bed{
well manured every fall it will iu-(
crease in product year after year. Do
not bother about transplanting roots,
for you can get asparagus quicker
from the seced. :
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And Why Not Have Snaps, Butter
Beans and Roasting Ears Till ¥rost?
=—Sow now the first Valentine beans
and as fast as a row is fairly up sow
another, and so on till late August,
and you will have snaps all summer
till frest. Plant some Adams Early
corn, and as soon as it shows plant
some Mammoth Sugar corn or Stow
ell’s Evergreen, and then save your
own seed. Homegrown seed will al
ways be best. Plant a succession of
corn, too, till early August and have
corn till frost. Plant Wood's Bush
Lima beans, and keep the green podg
well picked, for if they are allowed
to ripen they will stop blooming, hut
they will keep bewring if well picked.
The tall Dreer's Lima bean is the
best of the large Limas for the South,
and is best grown by planting in rows
and thinning to two feet apart and
then using some’chicken netting for
them to run on and not bothering
with poles. : ‘
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Oniong and Beets, — Sow seed of
Tait's Queen onion very thickly to
ake sets for planting in ‘the fall to
Dfi-gyaow) z‘?&. ;M :f
very thickly, A piece of bed six by
ten feet will hold a pound of seed,
for the little drills may be almost
filled with the seed, the object being
to get sets no larger than a small
marble. Sow Early Eclipse beets and |
scatter a few radish seed along the
rows to mark them and to come out
before the beets need thinning., The
Blood turnip beets are sown at same
time for later use. The half long
beets ean be sown in July after some
early crop is off, These will be fine
all winter if the soil is thrown to the
rows late in fall,
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Try Some Egg Plant, Parsnips and
Salsil'y.~Piant White Spine cucum
bers in well manured hills for table
use now, and later in July plant more
for pickles. Egg plants are too little
grown in the South. It is too late to
sow the seed, but you can get plants '
cheaply from the seedsmen and set
them in May when the ground is,!
warm, and then keep the potato bugs |
picked off them and you will have a/l
dish that any one will appreciate,
Sow parsnips and salgify in July.
These make their best growth after
the weather gets cool and will Brow |
all winter. They are sown in the |
spring in the North, but in the South |
they are apt to get woody and run to !
seed in late summer it sown ou."l_':.;
Salsily is commonly called oyster |
plant, and the bolled roots mushcd;
up and made into fritters are very |
much like nysters, Then the galgify
and parsnips give vegetables in win-]
Lions For the Pope,
Emperor Menelik's present to the
Pope. of two fine African lion cubs,
male and female, has arrived safely
at Rome. The lions staried from
Addis Abeba in . Abyssinia on New
Year’s Day,
Shortly after tiiey reachec the des
ert region on their way to Alexandria
a lioness took up the trail behind the
caravan. She followed i for more
than a week, making repeated efforty
at night to get through the lines of
the soldiers to the captive animals,
whose presence she was evidently
aware of. BShe only dropped the pur
suit when the caravan got out of the
desert and into the comparatively
thickly inhabited regions on {he out
skirts of Egypt.—New York Sun.
i Feminine Notes.
Paderewski’'s wife recently paid
'87500 for four live chickens.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is said to be
New York’s best woman bridge
player.
King Victor Emmanuel expressed
the wish that Migs Elkins should
have no dowry. ’
Mrs. Sage granted an appeal of
little girls and gave back a house she
had bought of their father,
The craze on the part of American
women for marriage with titled for
eigners is causing amazement in
England, ]
| ter and make o variely with the Black
' Eye peas and hominy.
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[ Watermelous and Cantaloupes, of
Course.~Every farmer should have
,’some cantaloupes and watermelong.
i but these are better in a patch to
themselves. Any old sandy hill will
make watermelons if the hills are.
well manured, and the drier the land
' the more juicy the melons, strange.to
Isay. Cantaloupes need stronger -
{ ground and well manured hills or
frows. The Jones and the Mclver are
the best watermelons for home use
and the Kolb Gem for shipping. For
cantaloupes, plant Rocky Fords and
Hackensack.
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‘ Okra, Parsley and Pepper.—Then
for gumbo soup, plant a few okra
lsood. The White Velvet is the best.
The green soft pods van be cut and
dried and kept for making soup in
winter. Rvery housekeeper likes to
have some parsley for dressing
‘dishes. Sow a row or two of the
Green Double Curled sort. Mint
comes in handy, even in prohibition
places, for making mint sauce for
lamb in spring. A few roots set in a
{ damp, out of the way place will keep
]you & supply. Then the good woman
[of the house wants mango pickles in
the fall. Sow a few seed of Ruby
King pepper in bed and transplant to
rows three feet apart-]atex'.a If you
like hot pepper sauce, sow some seed
of Tabasco vepper. These will grow
| six feet high and give a great crop
of little pods, and they will make vin
egar hot enough for a toper,
Of course you sowed some garden
peas in February, but if not, you can
still sow some Premium Cem peas,
and can again sow some in late Au
gust for fall use, {
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Be Sure to Have Tomatoes and
Squash AllSummer.—Tomatoes every
one wants. For very early ones you
had better buy the plants unless you
have some glass ahd a hotbed or
frame. But in the South it is neces
sary to sow a late crop as the early
ones are apt to play out in the heat
the last of June. Sow the seed in
May and transplant after some early
crop. Then in the late fall when the
vines are full of green fruit and frost
threatens, gather the tomatoes and
wrap each in paper and pack in boxes
and put in a cool place just where
they will not freeze, and bring out a
stew at a time into a warm room
where they will soon color up. X
| have had tomatoes to slice in this
Patty Pon i el e
Radish and Sage.—ln, September
sow some Chinese Rose-Colored Win
ter Radish seed, and as the weather
gets cold mulch the rows with coarse
manure and you can pull nice rad-
Ishes all winter, for I have done it
winter after winter in Raleigh., Then
you will want some sage at hog-kill
ing time for sausages. Sow some seed
in a bed and transplant after gome
early crop a foot apart and you can
cut it green to the ground in the
tall, and have enough for the neigh
borhood when dried in the shade,
Then if any one wants the plants, sell
them and sow seed again next
spring, for the young plants are bet
ter than the old bushes. j
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Make Your Garden Worle All Year
Round,—ln sghort, have a garden and
’kocp it at work all the year round,
' Then it you will get a few hothed
sashes and make a frame for them
'you can have fresh headed lettuce to
eat all winter, parsley and radishes
and French carrots. A sarden kkept
at work all the time and abundantly
Isupph’ml with manure and fertilizers,
and by having a good large garden
[ you can supply the home market wlth'
nlce vegetables and at least pay all
?lhu cost of what your family eats,
The garden kept at work and kept
clean will not hreed cut-worms, for
they breed in the weeds and trash
‘h:ft in the common gardens in the
ceuntry.—W, I". Massey, in The Pro
’ gressive Farmer, o
In Desserate Mood,
“Why dldn't you remember that it
was Satan who tempted you into that
scheme of grati?”
“"Because it wasn't,” answered the
'man who was being investigated,
‘ "Bometimes I wish it hac heen an eg
pert like Satan instead of thoe bun
'::;liug amateurs who got me into all
"this publicity.”—Washingion Siar.
| Workingmen's Homes.
\\ Tha city government of Milan has
|vu.‘ed to appropriate 21,150,000 for
the construction of further series of
§lmus::.’-; especialiy bullt for WOrßing.
men and their familiez, and the mu
nicipal loan office (the city puvwn de
partment). will give $160,000 out of
its profits toward the same prrpose,
Jottings About Sports.
Of late yachtsmen have wondered
why the public does not take as live
ly interest in the sport afloat as it
did a few years back.
Coach Courtney, of the Corneil
'Varsity crew, has discovered a new
'Varsity rowing star in . A. Stevens,
a junior in the College of Law.
New Orleans papers announce the
beginning of a campaign to abolish
horse racing in Louisiana. The names
of many well known men in that city
are signed to a petition now being
circulated for presentation to the Leg
islature. v
