Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 68

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 4, 1925—PART 5. Spearing Leopards From Horseback Is Most Dangerous Sport Expert Describes Animal as Deadly With Teeth and Claws, and Bold in Its Attacks on Homes. st dangerous sport in the |the hunters rode their horses into]idea that black powder shoots a ball|[this before I could apply disinfect- \3"3-“‘l\“;"“"-‘w‘l‘:fi&u'hm_:_ e Englishmen in India con- ’l)\tie clumps or stirred them up with fout of a gun better than smokeless|ants. The case was obviously one IsaaievenIIET i L the spearing of leopards |their spears. Capt. Sandblach of the [powder does. And the heavy smoke | Which needed care for some timie, 50 it 3 eback. this sport the |Royal Dragoons ter killed in the fis undoubtedly a protection if you are|J told the woman's relatives they Recoltections of problems. in’ dyna- wne white man who s distinguished | War), was doing this when a large |charged by a wounded anlmal. I|must take her to the hospital, about O et e above all others is Llsut. Col, J. C. |leopard jumped up under his horse's |have another theor supported by a|elght miles off on the main road. et 3 i tatta v one flashed Faunthre latc commissioner of |head, snarled at him and galloped |few Instances, that & tiger or leopard | She was a widow. Widows are not \ Tose Jind. 1 4id not In the least Lucknow, known to sportsmen on |away Wil not charge home if he gets two |rogardad as of much valye {n India X desire to he iminged on by a heavy snd both sfdes of the Atlantic as a fa- | [ Was on a thoroughbred Australian |barreis of black powder in his face|In olden days o Hindu widow used rapidly mov object. I therefore mous shot and daring hunter, Col. |horse. called Marquis, an ex-race horse, at very close range, to form part of the funcral pyre of Ttapped, off the path, behind 4 small f s carrain the (and well-known in the s ring, and | I fourd that the nullah was abeut | her deceased husband, but the brutal B About four tast TiEh: snd. atood for moving targets |80! a good start only about 80 yards|300 yards long and of the shape of an |2nd bureaucratic British stepped this \ | absolutely still. The leopard. keep- behind the leopard e light sandy sofl | elongated hour mlass. The villagers (custom. ; {ing to the path, galloped past {was excellent golne for a horse, but in | turned out and beat one end of the| IHer relatives were not atall anxious AR ¢ ‘.r’u,'_] 2 ”:,“ EREslonet {spite of this 1 did not overhzul the inullah down to the narrow neck near|to take her to the hospital Ier ¥4 tonchad Bim with my tife n Museum {leopard until after ing 400 the middle, where 1 took up my posi. [ brother-in-law sald, “Suppose we A 7\ e R e d Col. ¥ vards at full spead tion behind a tree. The beat began, | take her to the hospital, who (s go- X Z v XS Bot ua A Badinassed s Just when 1 was going to spear him |and after a time something made me | 0§ to bury her when she dies there? 3 2 awung wound and pat a 400 American [ Dhe “Jinked” sharply to the right and look over my shoulder, and I saw the | HOwever, T eventually perauaded / high veloc expanding bulict cd standing | squatted in a Mttle bt of thin grass |leopard, a big one, galloping over the |them to take her fo tho hospital, 2. . Blgh velosly, sxpeng el 1d collector of wild |%herc he was partly visible, Pulling |apen behind me. In order to get into | ending one of my own men with : 7 vards. which knocked bin ove {round my horse, I rode at him. As I waz | the other broad part of the nullah, |them to see that she arrived safely e reat to o ventiz steithe wol ; rgland, Col. Paunthorpe |SPearing he appeared to shift his po- | which was full of trees and bushes. |and she eventually recovered i : Banjara. He had picked himsel Tedvicaten g Tysean St | sition, probably preparing to spring, and PR The people of the other village to / 4 ! but. was bleedicg profusel at '.u,””‘" Pe ',’"I Oxty 4 the spear passed over his back. Ife then HERE was time fofr only one shot PRI (the /second woORAR Bslonged 3; : \‘ n 11!8‘ on head and shoulders 7 - g : galloped off, but thix time was more iy p ¥ °t | simply refused to produce her. 1 \ i \ on ? ol it = dewcended from 4 (amlly dis- |Esliohed oft, Dut his lme waa more and as 1 pulled trigger I|marched on that day, but heard a All he said was, “If T had my Shed In civil and military life Ifs spine just behind the shoulder, kill- | thOuUght that 1 had missed him be-|week or so later that she had died, Sl 3 R, g s 7 { dog with me. this woul beother vas R D. 1.c Mim inatantly * ¥ thind, Just as sometimes when shoot. | no donbt from blood-polsening, B 0 happened.” The dog, of course, we amons as the author of nother time, near this same place, | IN& &t a fast-crossing bird one feele | 1 always used to go after & leopard | ) p ’ have scented the leopard in the bush ne QU srvite |yl were ple sticking, We had two of | IBStinetively that the gun at the mo- ( whenever 1 hoard of one. In one dis- A and would have given his maste as for 150 years or more |three clophants in the lne and cot.| MeNt of firlng s not pointed far|trict in which I was stationed there ¥ warning. The man had no ver : | (now Gen.) de Lisle of the Royal Drag. | *1OUBh forward. Examination of the | was, on the banks of the Ganges 3 A serious wound, and, being healtly bers of Ris mother's family were {0 0 O ing on an elephant with a | STound showed the mark of the bul- | River, & large tract of “kadir ), S i 3 3 ¥ jand in hard condition, ~recovercd ted for thelr achievements'in that {2508 VA8 SULORE on &p ol Ilwmm‘ turn- | 1“4 @nd as there was no blood frow |low-lying eountry, full of grass, d ; OF rapidih after belng treated with dis- ling "up, as he wanted to ihoot one. | that point up to the edge of the [awamp and tamarisk jungie. Leop. 4 infectants. A Three of us had gone oft and killed & | F4Vine whera the leopard had entered | ards were numerous th Above LN i : A / . % ox ) . boar and T was cantering back to the | 't L Was convinced that I had missed. | low-lying country was & belt of 3 | AS # man-oater, the leopard is mor ntesed line to change my horse, when two| <n¢ Villagers went around to the|ravines on high ground. When the dangerous than the tiger and vil_sprvice in 1892, bacame | A0 e e I e a leopard on | Other end of the ravine, in order ts nges came down in flood in the g A Sars Fonoh holdsr: A timor: s nEnls our SIX BTN Tates |ahead, crossing a sandy nullah, or ra- | yeg it UP from the reverse directlon |rainy season, the leopards wers 7 A, . 1 | \will avold human habitations, but a | . S paneh, | When they had gone ubout half way | swamped out of the low-lying ground 4 o4 | jeopard has no hesitation fn prowling thers was a lot of shouting and com- | and took up thelr abode in the ra- | & 3 Tl s snactinne ifed pniane a g aings wotlon, and 1t was evident that the|vines, where they could be tracked of the empire, some of them bers of the originul e joined the Light 1 gulloped after him to mark him / village. 1In this respect he toer emvalry “ 8 r leopard had charsed the beaters. e down and shet, as the cover con- X v resembles the African lic bad, in faect, knocked down one man | sisted only of small patches of thorny | 1 \ . 1 have never bee jand clawed him, though not ve:y|bushes and here and there a littls | country where one i |badly. I went and jooked in the|grass. 1 shot a number of leopards | 5 perfect safety leave the ca nuilah and found some blood spots. |on foot in these ravines. i ; : horses, etc.. tathered ich showed that the leopard had “ wouou g without protection, but cen wo / my Arst bui] | 4 FEaR Toibiled byiny O muet e | THERD were some Bansaras (Gip- | - £ a goat killed among sportsmen in India that one | #i€5) ina village in the neighbor- | / i 0t not BONd Nuarmad Deaters atear| Bo0Z, U ho Hhed e (rack down the i o7’ / g A T o dangerous nimal when wounded, | 100Pards for me. ¢ maln occupa- | | SEE g = a hi {1 this is done, some one fs 4imec: |tlon of these men was to keep down | | 4/ : } i verat mstances there certaln to get hurt. If the animal | the wild pig, which abounded in the ’ A, P ¢ {/ ! ity OF vt dney | Sets away wounded. it is the duty of | SVAMPY Bround along the Ganges and X 4 fo . B | Soliowing _thowr owner | the sportsman himself to follow it up, | 3amaged the villagers' crops. They | p 7 : thy aftho Hillaikes 18 the ® |, ¥ollowing wounded carnivora on|U¢d to run them down with dogs and I think & leopard can 9u | foot was never one of my favorite SPear them. The villagers pald for i : times. I was much annoyed to think| A Wild boar which is held up by that I had unwittingly allowed the |1Ve or six dogs. jumping around, I'bentersto. wo 't whes the leopard | PATkIng and snapping at him. will sit | was wounded, It was ~up to me to|d0Wn to protect his hind quarte. d o st find: Hiva mnd fnian o o can be approached from behind and UL, . . j / T river). I thereforc atarted down tha mid- | f"“‘r“r-‘"r”Al Myl dim- 3 v 4 ! hac facked o die of the ravine. The cover was no Janjaras, were | 7 / 3 & ¥RLY UALTOW Tiils [Sory tHisk 31 wia o o5 Pas mot ne-looking men and wonder- | Ze of AR had taken refuge in s | trecs with Tow branches with & nurm. | runners. were very careful of | 7 ; : thorn bushes at the er BY LIEUT, (OL. 4. €. FAUNTHORPE, < {ber of green bushes growing under|their dogs and did not as a rule / ‘ 7 soodiglodl gt bl 'C.B. B, A.D.C A |them. T wes carrying my gun at the | !3Ke them out when thers wae & steen Lanks shout fey i i 1 2 hip and had just got under a low | 'copard ab . ! f ¢ 4 was impossible "'x:"w“ 1imal hunters and branch of a tree when from a small| One day we located a very large | £ gielly £ Slones miere 'y 1 ave & thorough di bush, just {n front of me, the leopard | !*opard some thorn bushes in & | y / . and move about. | pards. 1 share that | o ring at me with the usval grunt. |SMall. deep ravine, which had two 4 elephant to the top wh with me Is & roar. | or; 1 thought he would break | y loaded my twelve bore aled o J T had & vision of him in the air,|UP one branch and went and stood on | hort ecartridge in the tted heasts over 2 . right above me. with outstretched |the bank. but when the Banjaras and a ball cartridge in |olaws and waving tail, and Just had|@roused him by throwing etoues into | | fired the shot cartrid of the World War | LIEUT. COL. J. C. FAUNTHORPE, |time to fire the gun from the hip {n|the thorn bushes ho ran up the other | | the bushes. ot than $0 leopards and | LATE COMMISSIONER OF LUCK. = face while in the air, He must|branch and got away unseen i | Some of the shots evidently | | District I once had a leopard right up on top of my elephant head, which must have been a cor siderable shoek to the ut (el | Y [ [ ; than a 3 he Muzaffar | pastimes, but it has to be done tome. Fthem, and they ate the pig. & 7 . R {than a tiger. In the Muz: | good many since NOW. INDIA: SOLDIER. COLLEC- have swerved while actually in the| W€ lra-k'(d him in ln[evn!e heat, “\.‘u I‘lot\\fdl \\vho rvhlrgx:d re: wers iies aa’t| TOR OF WILD ANIMALS, AIDE- |41 &% Instead of landing on me. he | 00T 0 e *inally cama 1o 5| “SHE TURNED SO CLOSE UNDER MY HORSE'S HEAD THAT THE HORSE ACTUALLY JUMPED OVER HER» |PCitation. In a moment he was v re killed as 1 P TO KING GEORGE, |landed close to my feet on my right, | OVer ravines and finally cama to a{ “SHE TURNED SO CLOSE UNDE o Ui UL i e e T lientyion dapial She hatil Uit on > their native haunts, ,DL-L AMP TO l\] - “—=t__ .- |and as he touched the ground swerved | P!ace where the ground was so hard | top of the elephant's head wi it el e round and darted back into the|that we could find no more tracks.|jaras to go around and see if they | fo i« S he & ar av a Bizh | head almost in the mahout's face it is highly |down. He went patch of fairly | sy gy There were only three or four little [ could find any tracks. As they were |a 1 o 4 _flashed through | he had pot time to do any damiase, e | hewy about a hundred yards|™ ySglring my escape to the use of|bushes left in a depression between | wandering about, one of them hit | s 3 ¥ that if 1 fired & 1 when | g5 the bullet fro e Ieft barr ! around this and|yjacic powder, as the bullet did not|Uus and open, cultivated country. one of the bushes with his bamboo | 5 P toward me, g knocked him off as b v the open, in case he brokefpie" pim’ [ im with the lert| T $tood in a very exhausted state | stick and the lsopard jumped or s a0y only wou i ¢ e rellef of th grass. A wounded leopard | 1ot o ny ne picked him up|On the high ground and told the Ban- | him, knocked him dowy, worried hin : in which he is invisible was|gead later and I found that my first 1 with which I was in-|pyjjer, the one which I thought had x ake any chances. Ve onl¥|micoed, had gone through the fleshy had to wait for the elephants to come g RS TS 2 Y Name Vindicated, Mrs. Ferguson Tackles Job In another district 1 was in camp a leopard. unlike the Light Horse (Volunteer Cav-|one afternoon, at the base of the low s , wdictive, A wounded [alry) Regiment which 1 commanded, | hills which form the Southern range | eopard will fight to a finish pract!- |saw mi». n:m-mn "u'l'lm not see l'?;flar the Himalayas. 1 was listening BY NIRIAM FERGUSON. The woman who pre to m a woman geverned by tha mouthpiece of ¢ ¢ a ar 1 28 Justic ;;:; :u( A y every time, no matter how many ard and came up to join ¢|to repofts on the various matters o {poodle dog rather than a baby has|heme love would be a b commoniwealth— ¢ home was & ) a afling faith in God L to escape. Once |galloped through the grass where the | which a district officer has to mise GovernerElsct of Toaw Dover been ta v ke FYe than an obst m 2 to whicl 1 dedicated | and to grant us vindic renszed determina is fixed on |leopard was und next thing I saw |pi_nage. An excited villager rushed| I T was to vindicate my husband's|for the human race and the & v of| And politics is : to me. |my life, and where T had bee zht, and if a leopard ever gets hold, {was the opard sprawling = across |in with the news that a tiger had name that I entered the came.| womanhood, the anc ue posi- | For 10 years or pre usband, | in the service it ofiered And now the hard years of hu: aws and bites until its victim s [Hearsey's horse behind the saddie. But|killed two women on the hillside, paign for Governor of Texas.|tion of woman has heen altered [ the “Farmer Jim' he common| I have never Lesitat el over; the trying months o { e only hung on for a couple of strides|close to a path which led from the Wives and mothers. satisfied at|by modern, so-called militant views.|peopls, had confided me his po. my husband, the o roman’s campaigning are past. O ir fight ,{and then fell off into the grass and was | plains to two or three little hamlets home, may have wondered why I|The hand that rocks the crad | titical ‘cares and his ambitions for the | § reumstances du j at for justice ende ot to like {shot from an elephant by the © Wholin the low hills. He sald It was about [1cft a woman's natural household |still the eharacter-molding | citizenship to be served. Yet, ne term of office as gove E victory, and though Gover much. ink 1 kad criginally wounded him. ¢ horse |2 mile away world to tackle a man's job—the |the woman who siand i 4 the final crisis came, allowed to vindicate b inew | Wil not again be the first lady of tl |was not badly hurt | A horse was rapidly saddled and I|biggest job in the largest State of|And with these convi at b m of myself in the role of polit evously le had b \ State, she wiil the happiest— Wardrop of the He ry Dhad|rode quickly up the path with a rifle|the greatest country. Tt was not|I have alwavs belioved that 4 i . My hobby had been my fic 3 His impeachment perhaps the happiest woman, < & wore unpleasant experience. While be {in hand. After going about two|because I wanted fame or power. |and motherhood help h ambitian was simply to m a | cq of my r for offl ¢ and governor in the world |was plg sticking one day a leopard|miles, I met another villager and|Man suffrage had falled us: woman | hinder the swor 1 an Lhappy home for my family. My chief|that he had done no wron [ roouTHigHt IS, £ Tritnd Biates ) makes the|was secn and pursued. Wardrop, a|asked him if he knew anything about | suffrage was forced to assert itaelf as | achieve {purpose in life had been to properl srerificed 9 iy B At dangerous. very fine horseman and well mounted, | the women. ~He sald, “Oh, yes,|the only means of redeeming the| Therefore when I entered the race|rear my children and to be 2. re n an effort t ght Eyndicate. Al rights resorvod.) eopard’'s teeth |Spea b and w trying to liold him | the tiger killed two women and{name of Ferguson. for Governor of the State of Texas |helpmate to the husband who has a lieart bled during his trial: yet| In mext Sunday's Star: “\ Won- poisonoue, |down with the spear until sol has eaten the whole of one, leav-| Seven years ago my husband was|T felt that my experience as “gov- |wavs been my pal. n in our darkest hours, when fair- s Campaigm for Vindication treated with strong dis- |else could come nd finssh h ing only the bones, and has partly|ynjustly removed from office. The | ernor a household and as al To me the polls wers sacred as the e friends were desertin " Fergum tly alws {lecpard iz rather like an animated |caten the other one™ He added that|stigma of his impeachment hung e{piece if india-rubber, full of eteel|I should find the bones about half & |over us We were determined. to | springs. {le farther on. vindlcate our position in Texas. And [ springing at Wardro, sank his toeth | elastic, 1 Fods ARORRER. ewe. ek of | (he ok cimPaiEn had forever closed Preparatlons or serving e Clipse O the un {in his thigh, pulled Lim off his horse |more and finally met some men rom | wiian’Dolitieal anginesring rectrylnod and started to finish bim off the ground. ' the village to which one of tha! i’ POl & 5 e erra A e 1,“,:\',"6;,,:‘:’ \:4‘-‘\“';:;5:(“.,,"“ 2m2:,[°"1‘:-’y‘,]£(;:ipzi‘:.gd..:;",h::‘Dcmocrmr primary ticket. (Continued from First Page ) its surface, just entering the total|Europe, will be in a position to see|tween the planet Mareury and t antly rode up and distracted tho &t |the twe women had been out aathe| i W & mother, Bven more—e — phase at about 8 o'clock Central time. |at least some portion of the lunar|sun undiscovered planetary bodic s cntion of the leopard from Wardrop, [ering wood of cutting grams on the | Srandmother. My ‘bright-eved tittie) iU TN T T | UThiC total phase of the ectipse will R oo tna taop of thelun. | exist AINiIBIN an eolivho wuve s s P e Teopacd thon. Soreng ot Talbor | Bilrnae o M ETen "8 | Srandson. whom 1 love better than |to elapse be 75, perhaps, will | be Visible throughout a strip of land | For those localitics that have Moun- | entist a suspicion of their exister ut the leopar v;.-vr:” s fnd ® Dably a leopardees with | MY O%D 1ife, will some day be a man, | UBU! 2 j’l, Sar 1S210, Derhap, -h | YATYINE from 80 to 110 miles in width | tain time the eclipse will end between | To verify the susplcion is ¢ bit;him.severely in:the wrist, pulled him{leopard=—nroprsly I wanted to Eive him the right to say, | 2ome localities Seain experience such | 41555 a line drawn eastward through | 7:30 and 8 a.m. The sun is @oing (6 | of sstromomil o s £2 s horss Pa0 danensiig S e T - . i the finger of scorn was ever pointed | & SIEht as that they will behold Janu- | 00 2 "0l “Eolkills and Danbury, | be darkened when 1t thass arc present, the plancts must b heavy cover close by i . ¥ i - {at him for his grandfather's u ¥ > i The eclipse will be its pes bae n e nd v st In apite of hiving bis I s dis- leopard attacked them, cla¥-|fortune, that in revuke to that im- | ery 18 vears the sun and moon | The hands of clocks along Fifth|tween ::d‘:»vnnd“inn'rln:]k "E»:"y._::x;:\ Py (xu?.’,"uf'{?.'.’i'u; l'lfl‘ the dtacove fiteoten immsdincoly, Wiesguon) Yae i B S s anc | Prachment his grandmother had been |are in position o give us the same | avenue, New York cits, will point|It will be tetal for Toranta and 1o | e o e sun that the discov. lald up) in_the hospital for soversi|sy biting the gecond onelelected to office by the great people | kind of eclipse. This is ed the o a little after 9 am. as the total | going to bo completely over there at | zling HEht of the sun i | montHE with - bleud soning and The latter had apparently|of Texas. The good name of my |Saros perfod or cvels and would bring D commences, & partial ob-|a few minutes past 8 in the morning. 3 early died. His thigh swelled up to and been overtaken by the|childron and my children's children |about total eclipse rv 18 yes : > trie : rbout three times its normal size and | jeopard. The men said the animallyas ae stake for an 1 ty we it placing his name on the scuring of the sun having started.an | 1In the Eastern States, as well as at h earlier. For a liner in mid- | Montreal, the sun will hava risen ba- | A T every total eclipee of 1ad to be gashed open in nine places|pad bitten about two pounds of flesh| Thera s no incentlve as strong|for th that each eclipse he moen will be eompletely | fore the be, n f 1h e, | i strong v n the m will L mpletely | fore the beginning of the eclipse, A myaterlous cerona or R A horaroret et This was 10 doubt 20 €X3& | or an determined as mother love, The 120 degrees of longi- | eovering the sun at neon, and finaliy | which may be expected at a fow min- °! : b 3 The seccond woman had|eagle and her mate fight fearlessiy west of the preceding|to the north of the Shetiand utes bofore 8, reaching its maximum |Tadiancs surroundsOld Sol @ leopards off e horse been taken to another village { for their voung. Nature {s the same urr ought then to have | the eclipse will culminate at about § and ending botween 10:15 | brief moments that he is complste iting amusement, but involves cor I told the men to bring both women |, mother-hearts the world over; it| clipse come back after [down of this sho - {and 10:43, E covered. Although first mention. ble risk to horse and rider, and{to my camp for treatment imme-| no defeat and it dares every-| or a timekesper were to stand at|DY observers at the beginnin mended as a ¢ toldiately. The woman who had been| this does not happen, for | some point of carth with a stop watch | the second century, coronas have men with large families de- | clawed across the face was an un-| il the Supreme Court of Tesas | the cclipse zone is at the same time | ~NITIES to the west of the Rock and should start his chronometer | Probably always been a part of t ton them. It you can kill oripleasant sight as the leopard's claws |, yjog my husband’s name from the|moving either northward or. south- are going to miss this part -| when the central eclipse begins in|event. Amd still this brillicat halo y, for by the time the sun ha the heart of Minnesots, 1 hour and 48 | Femains a puzzle. Does the corona cripple the leopard with the frstihad raked right through her face |pajior before the last primary, 1 had|ward by several hundred miles. The | grap spour, you are lucky. To look for &|removing onc eyelid ang cutting | #ppearcd above their eastern horizon [ minutes would tick by before the |shine becauss it is burning or is & |the clocks of New York will have |final disappearance of this progres. | Part of its radiance due simply % | been happy and satisfid at home.|present eclipse has moved (o the f1¥ wounded ore in the grass or | through the bridge of ber nose. It & { passed 10:30 and the eclipse will be- [sive drama in the islands to the|® Power of reflecting to us the ir 2 eor|Though & believer in woman suf-| west since its last Saros return in tier cover, in which ¥on ;Im'no'.‘ soe | \‘hfi‘inr‘lg‘\’lul mess. Her 1ips Wer€| g 00 1 had veted only as a duty te | 1907, when it was central over the ting, e ) him at & distance, is stmply asking|cut 1o rags my State. Had not this supremel|deserts of Turkestan: while 18 vears [ o2y Y00 17 porth of Scotland. A longer periode. | cAndescent gases in thes sun? W for frotible. I & seas. sayway,| I returnid fo camp and preparad | oricis come. after Jim's unjust re- | bofora that it was In the mid-Pacte | 255, 0] e Sesples 5 e B IERe S R ana L DRI S S OF W) iy Kre e ws se It you can| disinfeotants, but no one arrived Un" | moval from office—when all doors had [and a. little more to the south. States to the east of the Laramle | clapse from the begfaning of the par- | ably Eolng to see It at this special parrow EsAps| a otk the clawad fads s branghe | peen closed to him, and no way re-i yor the coming eclipse of 1925 the | Plains, Pikes Peak and Albuquerque, [ tial covering of the sun at the east. | eclipse DAt s & Dacianly sifadite Some vil-|in by some of her relations on a |Mained but for me to take up the|gyy will rise at the headwatcrs of | with eastern Canada and Central|ern slope of the Rockles unti]l for | COronet but as an irregular glav 2 oy 8o ‘ {burden and carry on—I would he at|ihe Mississippi River in_Minneceota, | America through the Canal Zone; | Europe the moon finally slips entirely | Of light that reaches out near ths D from about | charpoy, or string bedstesd. When | PUrden and cory on-i would he at 3 ta, | Ame i 1 : SL LIERt AL sestiice oubmes the b ovted , me ay as . not far from Lake of the Woods, with | those in ships on the Atlantic, with [from off the solar surface. e g e e o e e they i housewite, and there would bS 1o |tho moon alrcady covering most of | the Deoples of Britain and Some. scientists belleve that be- | Streamers, ene on the right wido and and calves was In u|wae getting dark and they were ;’:;gnfmumor_ : 2 Pl e el LR T B the village. 1 got a Don\'}z«fra‘,d that the “tiger” would smell But there la an intangfble powar - - - - v - = - = ~ s ~ S e R et out, taking along with me | the blood of the wounded woman and | it there |s op intang'ble bower % ¥ 3 3 i 8 S 3 = 3 R e iy Soapondi o zun, with some ball cart-|would attack them. - | we seldom know—and whether it fs whab a8 b A . A eclipse to the next, and astronomers ed with black powder. On examination 1 found that thes | W¢ seldom know-and whether 1t 1o 3 - o : 3 : Aot XN e uon gun with a big charg ad plastered up the unfortunate s I whme pouluoné Iflhd % % X 3 i : F S hathen It Biay ot rotEie: wder and o spharical bul. | lady’'s wounds with a thick paate | Pl " N6 uhlcokedifor feanors ¥ 2 E i Qut through the corona flash bril of tobkeso snd other Seub. | SRISES NP UE R 00N ee ue Tom 128} \ / " : lant ved hydrogen flames, callet as one can shoot with it more | stances. Tt took & lot of bufiu“ SEiden 1 ety otk ne o b R $s Uane oed Ivaregen damas, | called quickly than with a rifie. | have an|with warm water to remove al ’o £ fally Toucide thutihay becors i : e . o e ey nd urges us to new things. And £ ; the various outer envelopes or la) | §iadenty & Rousewifs found heraelf| ’ 4 | ers of the sun. The scientiats can | face to face with a trick of this thing » K | observe these characteristics of the we call destiny; it was a question of P F | sun itself on any clear day by means casting gside the peaceful, happy 3 % ¢ 3 |of the spectrohelingraph which photo situation of a wife and mother, to| 3 : %, ¢ graphs the prominences around the become & political candidate in e y y sun by limiting the light to a series | battle that meant ;‘he Vlhldrlclllog { \ o"rnh‘:':\:o:ltm Bl miteay ! wife, an \ \ eill co f cot \;,;: ;’:n’:'l!\’.e! thigehouss { i siderable amount of scrutiny in order | There is nothing unusual in j 4 / to outline ita exact shape agains: | woman's loyalty to ber own, ¥ 3 the brilliant background of the solar quality is natural, inborn; It s t y H e 2:7::;\!.1::\41“1.0'!“:15\1" stil) more pre- | woman. What populated ‘the Weat, : S s 7 ol Ma wise. © L et | what built cities In the wildern I B0 y ‘c AL | Was It not the courage of men—and i 5 which eclipses would seem to hav | the faith and loyalty of women? Pol. 5 f ¥ b 3 g :lfll‘\ b‘l!lfid u({’ot" l-‘:(‘ '-E!bfl_‘l‘ : |itica s the woman's frontler today. i 5 ave been saved to science by long And the granting of woman®suffrage i d journeys on the part of enterprising | han not changed woman's mission or : & stronomers who have transported nati Itk 1y increased her not only telescopes, photographic ap- {oBporta "to Better 3 : ; aratus and s much more of their opportunities to better perform her { : i : paratus a8 h J r | miseton. . 4 equipment &s they could carry, bu i g o 4 aven food and tents Into remote cor ' AM not what could be termed a St . -3 # 2 8. i : l\m«‘;l‘":: llrlumt:;llhb:o;(AIDT:‘.:n:h{“ o “new woman." Perhaps 1 am more ; : : : s AN I | oracen dvenlunt s ot uolas abust: Jasn ik trine etbtashloned. 1 ilieve ! ’ West Africa have seen some of thase IDOMERY EY. OF 8 WomH ey ! o ¢ 5 ’ exoursions during the past 50 vears theit of hdr Uirishen” _1ReEY ; £ v s . Is it astonishing, then, that when licve that uer first and most cacred | . : 3 k) R n S Srning e (AL Shen [place 15 at home and that her duty | - : - A Tor tha Benafit of ons of the wmos u.lahe's xocd wife and 4 eonsoten il - : : g %] |populous regions of carth, sclentists tious mot! "y !0“;’)\‘ pstuate the rlt‘!v‘ % ke % 3 6 ’ should ask for a cessation of wo fo o Nerighuoe {8 the "d("','”.' il S o S5 or the few precious moments during et eftisensnin by mutataining sn| WATCHING THE FCLIPSE IN A PAIL OF WATER. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING A RECENT which it will last? M e Ny ECLIPSE 1N PARIS. SUCH A METHOD OF OBSERVATION GOES BACK THOUSANDS OF YPARS | (cemsmigtt, an 10 Uniies seas ‘| HAD A VISION OF HIM IN THE AIR, RIGHT ABOVE ME." ome BEING CONNECTED WITH SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT ECLIPSES. | e e Rltain . Al ights reserved'y