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DANGEROUS JOKES
PLAYED BY HUNTERS.
Deer Shooters Tried to Show Ip a
Vieitina ir.iiKliohiuan.
Prom the Detroit Free Press.
Some twenty years ago there was a
party of deer hunters, made up large
ly of politicians, doctors, lawyers and
bankers, with a couple of railroad men
thrown in, that made its record in the
upper part of the lower peninsula. The
rallying point was at Detroit and the
camping ground was reached after a
ten-mile ride from a little station on
the Mackinac division, then as new and
rough as the proverbial Jordan road.
There was one big cabin for the par
ty, built after the manner of pioneer
residences, nearly one entire side being
taken up with a fireplace into which
great logs could be rolled as a supply
of heat as well as the most cheerful
light that ever brightened scenes of
festivity. There were guides, cooks,
guns and dogs, for the abundance of
game prevented any legislative effort
to conserve it.
There was great slaughter of deer,
for money gets game as It gets pretty
nearly everything but insured happi
ness and salvation. Because of the
tipping of guides they led their em
ployers to the best runways and
brought down many a doe or buck for
which some tenderfoot in professional
or financial life was given credit. I
never knew one of them that did not
afterward swell like a pouter pigeon
ns he related with a Nimrod had
forced fame upon him. The long even
ings were given over to story, song,
smoking "irrigation" on a temperate
scale—and jackpots. Some of the lat
ter were equal to the lifting of an
average mortgage, and none of them
diminutive enough to Justify the piker
In taking more than one hand an
evening.
On Thursday of the first week out
It was snowing and blowing in a way
to make the glow of good cheer the
more enjoyable by contrast. About 10
that night there was a great pounding
at the door, and with the cold blast
that entered iwon throwing open the
hospitable portal, there also entered a
big, young man dressed in rich brown
corduroy which was palpably new, pol
ished knee boots and a Scotch cap and
tassel to match the clothes. He did
not at first appreciate that he had en
tered a company of gentlemen instead
of a backwoods inn or the gathering
place of loggers. He shouted out or
ders for drinks, something to eat,
someone to clean his wet gun and
a bed.
It added to the impression made by
this conduct that he had the English
drawl, then far less common than now,
and displayed a languor of movement
entirely out of keeping with the evident
health and vigor with which he was
blessed. After blinking his eyes until
they were accustomed to the light, and
hearing the mock expressions of anx
iety to do his very bidding, he said:
“Aw! gentlemen, pawdon. Extremely
sorry. Had no thought, don’t you see,
of running into so noble a herd of stags.
Can I crave your, ah, entertainment
after so annoying a blunder?’’
Of course he was taken in, refreshed
and invited into the game that had
•waxed the warmer because of the cold
outside. He was successful enough to
win considerably beyond his losings,
and nothing in his manner suggested
that he understood what was meant by
the repeated "F. and W for which
two or three of the party were respons
ible in expressing their opinion of the
way in which fortune was treating him.
The abbreviation of “fool for luck”
never seemed to touch him and he
played to the worth of his cards until
there was a breaking up for the night
by mutual agreement.
There were some crack shots in the
party, notably two. One may be call
ed Jones, who was from Ft. Wayne,
Ind., and the other from Zanesville, 0.
They dubbed the strapping young fel
low a dude,” and when he proposed
moving on the next morning they were
the loudest in opposition. I suspected
them, but awaited developments. I
heard Brown tell the big youth not to
shoot until he knew what he was
shooting at and then Jones gave the
advice to wear that tassel on his cap
high, as it would lessen the chances of
his being taken for a deer.
In that day's hunting the stalwart
stranger—let hifn be Smith—had the
tassel shot off his cap, his pipe shot
out of his mouth and a cigar cut in
two. by a bullet after the pipe was
useless. He never called for help,
came in saying that he had a “grand
day, doncher know?” and dismissed
his losses by saying he fancied that
some novice must have taken him for
a deer. Jones and Brown were clearly
disconcerted.
That night Smith cleaned up half
a-peck in checks and currency, either
because of luck or superior playing,
for there was no question of manipu
lating the cards. He had brought down
three deer, proved one of the best en
tertainers in the crowd and taken the
money. The next morning he had on a
stalking cap of the same brown cor
duroy, lit a pipe exactly like that
which had been destroyed, had his
“man” All every canteen with some
prime whisky and started out through
the snow with as confident a stride
as any man in the party.
There was an imp in the woods that
day. As Jones went sneaking through
the brush a tuft of hair was deftly
shot from his chin whiskers. An hour
later a bullet flecked the ashes from
his cigar. Brown suffered a puncture
of one coat tail and saw his tobacco
pouch cut half in two when he was
drawing the puckering string. He had
a bead on a fine buck when it was
brought down by some other hunter,
*nd when he came to the finish
Smith was there doing the blood let-
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We very often hear com
- ™- 1 mon expressions, like,
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>r that Southern city has the prettiest
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ooking more carefully after their phys
cal health and well - being than they
iid in ante-bellum days. Although the
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bilities during war times, yet they were
reared in luxury and without that care
for physical culture, health and strength,
that is given to the modern thought
to-day by Southern women. They recog
nize too, that to be beautiful, one must
have health, Woman’s health depends
essentially upon the organs strictly
feminine.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, the great specialist
in women’s diseases at Buffalo, N. Y.,
says that a woman must be well balanced
in health to be beautiful. By this he
means that all parts of the body must be
healthy, that the blood flows evenly and
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body. If there is inflammation, ulcera
tion, or a catarrhal condition in any part
4>f the body, this takes away from the
proper amount of blood in other parts.
The surroundings of the woman play an
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posed to bad air in ball rooms, factories
or office, when sh* is over-worked and
subjected to great mental strain and
shock, she is pretty sure to get pale and
to have great loss of blood, or it may be
that certain functions which should be
regular stop altogether. Asa result of
this also tne young girl becomes very
nervous, and all kinds of results follow.
To regulate the functions and put the
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possible condition, the young women or
a woman passed the girlhood days
should take a tonic made entirely from
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eyelids, inability to concentrate mind or
ting- and begging "pawdon” because
he happened to be first.
No had to explain to Jones and
Brown. They knew that they had
tried to have fun with Smith, and
that he had turned the tables on
them. It was a game that couid not
be safely carried on. and I put up a
Job with Tim, one of our smartest
guides, meeting him Just outside
camp.
■‘l've shot a man,” he groaned as he
staggered into the presence of the oth
ers. "It’s stone dead he is fominst us
to the south. It's not one of yez, I’m
thinkin’," as he rolled his eyes about
the circle. I got back into the dark
to hold my sides, but the others were
too much excited to note the Hiber
nian.
”Yis, gintlemin, I mistook the bowl
of his pipe for the nose of a deer and
shot. I’ve not been able to find the
body, but it's him or his ghost that we
SAVAXXAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1904.
attention, languor, depression, a craving
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must be looking for. There’s sure
been strange doin’s in the woods this
day. and I’m for lavin’ if they ©on
tainue.”
“So am I.” was my comment. ‘‘Jones
Brown and Smith have all had narrow
escapes, and the guide, Tim, says that
he has dropped human game.”
“Ah!” said Smith. “I maybe ouening
pie confession at the wrong end, don
cher know; but I’ve done some trick
shooting myself to-day, and I assure
you it was only to convert a couple
of gentlemen who think, I fancy, that
I am new to the sport. We had far
better drop it, for the surest eye and
nerves might suddenly be stricken."
Jones and Brown confessed and
apologized. Smith’s man produced
some more of the old goods and Tim
owned that he missed the man he had
shot. The next day witnessed some of
the most remarkable target practice I
have even seen, the three practical
jokers being the bright particular
stars. We Americans can Justly claim
more good shots than any other peo
ple in the world, twit Smith was cer
tainly there with the goods, and that
night he was the moat popular man in
the damp.
Who was he? A titled Englishman
visiting in Canada, and Just taking a
look at the States, "doncher know.’’
He had shot big game all over the
world, and you never saw a gentle
man hunter who was not the salt of
the earth.
CASE LIKE HELEN KELLER’S.
Rare Old Book TelU of Afflicted Girl
Who Could Talk.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
At a recent sale of ancient English
books held in Milwaukee Cashier Grant
Fitch of the National Exchange Bank
bought a small package which he has
discovered to be a valuable publica
tion of the seventeenth century. It is
a small book, with this legend:
ommend it
to any sick
woman; it
builds up the
general
health and
surely cures
troubles pe
culiar to
the sex.”
’’ suffered
‘or eight
months with
Vtoubles pe
culiarly femi
fdne, which
(uused a
g reat weak
ne s s all
through my
entire body,
■with faint
and dizzy
spells,”
writes Mrs.
V. B. Pierce,
Pres’t House
keepers’ Eco
nomic Club,
327 North
Summer St.,
Nashville,
Tenn. "I
kept getting
weaker and
weaker.
Tried several
medicines
that claimed
to be ‘ sure
iure’ for
female
troubles, but
I found them
absolutely no
• good. But
Some Letters, Containing an
Account of what Seemed most
Remarkable in Traveling Through
Switzerland, Italy; some parts of
Germany, etc., in the Years 1685
and 1686; Written by G. Burnet,
D. D.
The writer publishes a running de
scriptive account of his travels and
observations and one of the most re
markable as well as one of the most
interesting accounts given is one de
scriptive of the remarkable achieve
ments of a child who was practically
deaf and dumb. Some of her achieve
ments suggest the marvelous acquire
ments, as the result of years of care
ful education, of Helen Keller of the
present day. In its odd style and with
the use of the old-fashioned long "s”
which is like the “f” of the present
day, the story os 1685 says of this
child:
And since I am on the subject of the
changes that have been made in na
ture I shall add one of another sort,
that I examined while at Geneva:
There is a minister of S. Gervais. Mr.
Gody, who hath a daughter that is
now 16 years old. Her nurse had an
extraordinary thickness of hearing; at
a year old the child spoke all those
little words that children begin fully
to learn at that age, but she made
no progress; yet this was not observed
till it was too late, and as she grew
to be 2 years old they perceived then
that she had lost her hearing and was
so deaf than ever since, though she
hears great noises, yet she hears noth
ing that one can speak to her.
But the child hath by observing the
motions of the mouths and lips of oth
ers acquired so many words fhat out
of these she hath formed a sort of jar
gon, In which she can hold conversa
tion whole days with those that can
speak her own language. I could un
derstand some of her words, but could
not comprehend a period, for it seemed
to be a confused noise.
She knows nothing that Is said to
heV, unless she sees the motion of their
mouths that speak to her, so that in
the night, when It Is necessary to
speak to her, they must light a candle.
Only one thing appeared the strang
est part of the whole narration. She
hath a sister, with whom she has
practiced her language more than with
any other, and In the night, by lay
ing her hand on her sister’s mouth, she
can perceive by that what she says,
and so can discourse with her In tihe
night. It is true, her mother told me
that this did not go far and that she
found out only some short period in
this manner, but It did not hold out
very long; thus this young woman,
without any pains taken on her, hath
merely by a natural sagacity found out
a method of holding discourse, that
doth in a great measure lessen the
misery of her deafness. I examined
this matter critically, but only the sis
ter was not present, so that I could
not see how the conversation past be
tween them in the dark.
Inasmuch as one of the most mar
velous achievements of Miss Keller
after years of painstaking Instruction
and practice with her constant teacher
and companion, Miss Sullivan, Is read
ily and easily to read the lips of the
speaker, this remarkable case In the
seventeenth century becomes a most
Interesting instance of similarity in
achievement 200 years ago.
—Dr. E. Q. d’Erf Browne, explorer
in the orient for the British National
History Society, has been visiting the
St. Louis Fair, where he caused great
commotion among the Asiatics con
nected with the shows and industrial
exhibits. Dr. Browne speaks twelve
oriental dialects, besides as many lan
guages, and whenever he appeared in
the fair grounds he was received with
noisy demonstrations of welcome. One
day, when surrounded by a crowd of
Asiatics, he spoke half a dozen dif
ference dialects in as many minutes
In reply to affectionate greetings.
—"Do you think a man’s importance
is measured by his pocketbook?”
‘‘Certainly not," answered Senator
Sorghum. “A pocketbook couldn’t
hold enough to amount to anything.
It's the bankbook that counts.”—
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