Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 20, 1913, Page 2

PAGRE TWO THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA,, MAY 20, 1913, L SOFQIQE 2 F VRO L0 FOEQ 2O OE OO CPCatds | g ? Perhaps a burglar or & fire has not {nvaded your home, but if they should, they would get all of your money and valuables. Do not be one of those who lock the stable after the horse is gone, but put your money where preparations have been made for protecting it, not only from fire and burglary, but from your own extrava- i AFE barnk. gance. It will be SAFE in our bank BRINGING DotroUhant el SHBLS: S a rule the public generally know or hear very little about sport in Roumania. Many people, thcrefore, are sur- prised to learn that in the for- ests of Moldavia there exist today sev- eral species of big game, most of which are the largest of their kind now living in Europe. The list of game {8 by no means a small one, containing as it does red deer, roe- deer, chamois, bears, wild boar, wolves, lynx, foxes and wildcats. On one large private estate, which is well known to the writer, you can find all ' | these animals with the exception of it | chamois. The red deer here are noto- # | rious for the size of their antlers, '1{ which on the average exceed even those now found in the Carpathians. #i 1 The rcedeer, too, can boast of horns f."{ which put to shame the best heads %’jl from Austria aud Germany. Also the brown bears grow to a size which is seldom apprca hed by any other Euro- pean bear. And the reader can certify this statement by glancing at a photo- graph which accompanies this article, and depicts a roadside scene when the writer recently encountered a travel- ing troupe of bear trainers. It is wor- thy of note that the largest bear in this group is only a female, and, as every sportsman knows, the males grow to a far greater size. Animals Are Large. But above all animals the giant wild boars of Roumania stand in a class by themeelves. So much larger are the old boars there than speci- mens found in other parts of Europe that one is almost inclined to classify them as a distinct species. It is probable that the abnormal size of the Roumanian big game is owing to the fact that the woods there '| are 8o rich in natural feeding grounds. For here in the vast forests are count: less acres of beech and oak trees, while the open glades are densely clothed with luxuriant grasses and wild flowers which often reach to the helght of a man's shoulder. In sum- mer time the mountain slopes are thickly strewn with a profusion of wild fruits and berries, so dearly be- loved by bears. So dense are the for- ests that it 1s seldom possible to ap- proach game other than roedeer or chamois by stalking them. Conse- quently it 1s only during winter months, when big drives are organ- {zed, that much shooting is done. But during the past summer the writer and a friend happened to be staying on the finest estate for big game in Roumania. Their real object was a fishing expedition; but a steady se- quence of many days' rain having turned the rivers into a state resem- bling pea soup, in desperation it was decided that they must kill something. Hence one morning, when a forester reported that wild bears were numer- ous and much in evidence by their nightly depredations on his beat, we determined to move our quarters from a comfortable house and betake our- selves to the woods, where we pro- posed to try what the Americans call “still hunting” for boars. Since this method was somewhat unorthodox, First National Bank OF LAKELAND O QPOBO OO BOOr T Tri0HIHOH LHOR0RCKRCRCRAROCHOBCHCCECHCHCROROHORCHCRCHON) g R Long Life of Linen along with goud laundry wolk s wiat ¥0u aro leoking for aac that .« just what we ary giviag, Try wa Lakeland Steam Laundry | Phone 130. West Main §t MANY HAVE SEEN] The Accumulation of a Life Time { 3 SWEPT AWAY In One Short Hour - FIRE A Fire Insu- rance Policy a Beneficent_Restorer! HAVE YOU ONE? Y. Z. MANN & WHENWE FURNISH YOU @& STATIONERY THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD.~ is a Ruthless Destroyer! Raymondo Bldg. Room 7, Phone 80 “S! great sportsman, was rather skeptical GRAVED BY A A N . CORRECT about our chances of seeing game. Having requisitioned the services of two pack ponies, and accompanied by a couple of foresters, we set out on a short trek of about six miles to a spot where an old abandoned log cabin, on the edge of a forest clear ing, appealed to us strongly as a good camping ground. Since my compan- ion, S——, and myself were both old campaigners, it was not long before camp was fixed up, and towards even- ing we wandered off to take up posi- tions near to the place where the boars fed at night. Battle With Mosqultoes. For some two hours we waited mo- | tionless, save for our enforced move- | lmenls to repel the attacks of count- i less mosquitoes which suddenly ap- | peared in such numbers and were so | vicious that they reminded us of! I many menths which we had spent in | | former years on the shores of Alaska| | and Siberia, combating by day or lnight the onslaughts of these pests. | Soon after the sun had sunk to rest| ! beyond the highest peak away on the | | Hungarian frontier our ears were re- MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS LOUISVILLE, KY,U.S.A. WE ARE THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. Full line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Engraved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, Toys, Etc. LAKELAND BOOK STORE. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND ¢ 'LDER Will fernish plans and spesifleations or will it v wx; plans ane spesifentions furzished BINGILOWE A SPECIALTY Lev mo a2sw Jou dome Jakeland hemes ! Rave vailt LAKKLAND, Phone 267-Green FLORIDA "y 7l y/ Y TN THL BAG jolced by the sound of two heavy ani- mals moving slowly through the for- est. There was no doubt, from the noise of cracking sticks and the rustling of dead leaves, that two boars were coming leisurely through the wood, rooting up the ground on the way. They actually passed up wind of us and within thirty yards of where we sat, breathlessly waiting be- hind a dwart spruce tree, but so dense was the thicket at this point that neither of us could detect a move- ment in the brushwood. We had, however, the consolation of knowing the boars were making in a straight line for where S—— was sitting, and would probably afford him a chance of a shot. Then all was silent again for a while, until suddenly a rifle shot echoed from hill to hill, and was quickly followed by another. Filled with great expectations, we pushed our way through the brushwood to where we found S—— using decidedly strong language, and ruefully regard- ing the blaze on a small sapling which showed where his first bullet had struck, and thus proved the means of saving a big boar's life, since a second barrel at a running pig in such dense timber was naturally hopeless. Alas for vain regrets and lost opportuni- tles, it 18 always thus with the big heads, or the monster fish, which we lose; and S——, who had seen wild boars in many lands, declared that this was indeed a big one. Since the shots had probably cleared the neigh- borhood of game for a time, we wend- ed our way back to camp. At two o'clock next morning we were astir, and after a somewhat early breakfast took up our positions on the hillside, long before the rising sun appeared. Several hours' waiting, and more battles with mosquitoes yielded no sign of bears. Finally the forester persuaded us to climb to the mountain top, where we could take up positions while he and his assist- ant would walk along the hillsides and attempt to move some bears which might make for the higher ground. We had not been waiting long be- fore a fox trotted up to within a few feet of my position and remained listening for a while, unti! finally he was allowed to pass on his way un- molested. Soon afterward from far below in the valley came wild shouts from one forester, and it afterwards transpired that two very big boars had jumped up close to him and brok- en back in the wrong direction. In a short time the man himself arrived breathless from a steep climb and ex- plained as best he could that he had seen a boar go into a thicket below us and thought it might be possible to get a shot at him. Although feeling very dublous about our chance of see- ing the boar again, I was induced to follow the forester in a wild scramble down a steep hillside, falling over rocks, and into bunches of brambles or nettles, as we went. Finally we reached a spot at which the second forester had been keping observation on the place where the boar had been seen, and shortly after entering the thicket this man seized my arm and, pointing to some dark object under a tree sald, in Roumanian, “Pig, shoot.” Now, the object in question might have been a rock, a pig or anything else, but it surely was no part of the tree, and although it 1Is strongly against my principles to shoot at any- thing unless I can clearly distinguish what the object is, I decided to break this rule once, and so fired. Sure enough, it was a boar, but the bullet only grazed his side, causing him to jump forward into an open space be- tween two trees. Alas! poor pig, this was fatal, for a second later another bullet passed through his heart, and my first Roumanian boar loy on the ground. Bless Her Dear Heart! Newedd—Did you sew the button on my overcoat, love? Mrs. Newedd--No, darling, I could- n't find the button, so I just sewed up the buttonhole. Hazarding a Guess. “There's something grotesque about Pilkins. I don’t know exactly what.” “Ahem! Have you ever seen his wife?" —— e ——" 1 4 —’ YOU'RE SURE If you build with CEMENT Sure of a lasting goed job—one that will cost least; reduce repair costs, look Lest, wear longest. Let us give you figures on your job—show you why it's best to get the quality material we supdly. Do it now! Praiapasiadll LAKELAND ARTIFICIAL STONE WORKS - H B. Zimmerman, Prop. AN RN B SOLDFOPOIIBOHOFOTOHRIULD -The I’rotessions' S DR. SAMUEL P. EMITE SPECIALIST. 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