Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 17, 1889, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1880.-~TWENTY PAGES. ' ®° UNION SEWING MACHINE Think of this! Success Attends Our Efforts! The public appreciates our reduction in prices and our force is kept busy waiting on our customers. means a saving of from $15 to $20 to the purchaser of a sewing machine. This is not to be wondered at when it To the wife or mother it means a sum that will buy a wrap or dress for the winter, clothing for the children, or useful piece of furniture. To the working man it means a saving of one week’s labor. to spend $15 or $20 unnecessarily in the purchase of a sewing machine. return from it whatever. we sell cheaper than any of our competitors. Economy isthe road to wealth, and you You can much better afford to spend it in recreation t We employ no canvassers, but give you the benefit of the commission usually paid to canvassers. Our machine is first class, and it will pay you to investigate our claims. perhaps some cann ot afford han to get no For this reason UNION SEWING MACHINE, OCffice, 1807 and 1802 IEFlo~vward Street. MEN WHO GIVE THE GRIP, ‘What They Doin Their Lodge Room Privacy. CARE OF THE DEMENTED. Shall the Canadian Pythians of the Uniform Bank Use the Tactics of the Canadian Militin, Erc., Ete Bishop Ussher. Awong all the eminent men whom Pyth- jans delight to honor, but few stand higher n the estimation of members of the order than the subject of our sketch, says the San trancisco Pacific States. Bishop Ussher claims descent through a long line of dis- tinguisbed ancestors from that paladin of medieval knighthood, Richard Nevilie, that great Eurl of Warwick, whose power in the England of his day lea to his being called the “King Maker,” and whose varied for- tunes are 8o graphically described by Bulwer in his novel, “The Last of the Barons.” - The subject of our sketch was born in Dublin in 1545, and while yet a child he was brought over to the United States. Ho was enabled to receive o liberal oducation, the particular bent of his reading bei.g toward the study of medicine. Arriving at man’s estate, he entered upon the practice of his profession at Aurora, Ill., and for ton years devoted himself to it. During this time he joined the great order of which he after- ward became 80 conspicuous an ornameut. At the end of that time he took up the study of theology, devoting himself so assiduously to it that he soon became qualitied to take holy orders. His natural ability, coupled with his zeal in his sacred vocation, soon gained him dis- vinction and rapid promotion, and at the Canadian synod of the Reformed Episcopal ohurch in 1832 he was elected bishop and pluced in charge of tho diocese of Canada and Newfoundland. His principal claim to distinction us a knight is from the fact that he is the author of that crowning glory of Pyinian ritualism, the amplified third de- gree. However it may have been criticised or modified, the work will ever remain a monumeat of learning and beauty to the credit of 1ts right reverend author, Brother Ussher rapidly rose in the of the brethren in Illinois, and in 1§ elected supreme representative of his grand jurisdiction. His elevation to such an ex- alted position in the church bas also broad- ened and enlarged s views over the field of humanity, and bis love is still as warm and his sympathy as _keen for the worlk of our great order us when ho was able to take & more active interest in 1ts affairs. K. of P, Lily division will give a series of parties on ‘Thanksgiving Christmas eve and New Year's eve, at Goodrich hall, ‘The boy and girl Kuights of Pythias are having a rumpus over the creation of a new annex to be called the Pythian Sisters, says the Ohio State Journal. Alrcady a lady has formed nn ovder called the Pythian Sister- hood, from which the horrid men are barred out. Knight Hill gets up the Pythian Sis- ters, to which the wicked men are admtted, Hence, the “row.” We know nothingof the merits of the case, but we want to be on the same bench with the girls. \We have always been that way. There are now four lodges of Knights of Pythias in the Hawaiian Islands. "A move is on foot to induce the supreme lodge to sanction the use of the Canadian military drill, by those divisions of the uni- form rank which are in Canada, It is claimed by those high in authority among the mem- bers of the order in Cauada, thatthe use of the America drill, us now enforced by the supreme lodge, is detrimental to the progress of the uniform rank, as the majority of the members, as_woll as of prospective candi- dates, aro identified more or less wich the volunteer forces of the country, and are de- sirous of becoming moro acquainthd with the tactics in uso there instead of devotin, their time and energies to a system of flrll“. which is entirely different. s ‘The advocates of the change argue that the uniform rank 1s so popular in the United States because the tactics in use conform to the army tactics, and the same popularity would follow the rank in Canada if the change were allowed, Where the Canadian divisiona appear in public they are compli- meunted for their fine appearancé, but at the same timo there are expressions of disap- wroval because the American drill 1s used. M, 8, Tangler temple, N. M, ., will hold a fes- tival at their Kuaba on the 20th inst., at which time a large number of candidates will be conducted across the burning sande to the sheltering dome of Tangier. where they will be made true sons of the prophet, There are now & total of tfty temples of the Mystic Shrine n the United States and Canadu. The oftice of the imperial recorder, Frauk M. Luce, is now at room 211, 167 Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill. Moolah temple, of St. Louis, B. F. Nelson, potentate, at the' November meecting will ar- range for a grand occasion, when the lurge pumber of novices in waiting may cross the hot sands and have the order of the nobility conferred upon them in full form, El Kalir templo, of the Oasis of Cedar R.&ldl. Ia., has sent out circulars to all of obles requestiog their photozraphs and sutographs for filing in the archives of the temple. The supreme council has issued a roster containing a cowplete list of the members of the various temples throughout the country. The O. G. club, au offshoot of the Mystic BShrine soclety, and consequently a branch of bigh masonry, has just been incorpor the Ohicago Inter-Ocean. Tho tivle 0. G." 18 a secret, and is wu order founded in the East Indies aud brought to this country two years ago. The ritual and formula are taken from the book of the Persians. ‘There are only two states in which the newly fim"od society Intenas to establish lodges in the United States—one in New York for the eastern, and oue in Chicago for the western, erecting a club house next year, and it has tuken temporary club rooms at 17) Washing- ton streat, Chicago A. F. and A. M. Grana Secretary Christopher G. Fox an- nounces that the meeting of the gencral grand chapter will be held at Atlafta, G on Wednesday, November 20, ‘The head- quarters will beat the Kimball house and special rates on all railroads have been ob- tained for all wbo way desire to attend. Missouri will be represented. The geaeral grand council roysl and secrat masters will meet the day previous, The District of Columbia, which surrounds the city of Washington, the smallest geo- graphically of all the grand jurisdictions, contains the large number of 8,026 Masons. The grand lodge of Scotland was erected in 1736, St. Clair of Rossline beiug electod nrst grand master. It 18 now clear of debt and owns funds of various kinds amounting t0_£40,000. The grand lodge of Pennsylvania is the oldest in America, It claims to date from 1782, which, 1f valid, is four years prior to the grand lodge of Scotland. A. 0. U W, Judge Finletter, of Pennsylvanis, has made a decision that will futerest tho mem - bers of ail beneficial societies doing business in that state, says the Sprig of Myrtie. The decision is to the cffect that insanity is not a sickness or disability which entitles a person to benefits, The case was one ugainst the Expressman’s Beneficial association, where payment of sick bevelits were refased, tho plea sct up being that the charter prohibited payment of benefits in case of insanity. Judge Finletter's decision was based upon the evident purpose of the incorporators of this special organization as implied in tho words of the charter. The decision will interest the thousands of mem- bers of similar societies in Penn- sylvania snd cause them to cxumine the charter and organization of the associa- tions to which they belong. The question is un important one and may becowe a subject. of consideration in other societies and other states, . Though the verdict way be said to establish a precedent applicable to other ben- eficial societies, the standing of a lunatic will depend in each upon the language of its by-laws and constitutional rules. 7The numn- ber of persons interested in the principle in- volved is of course very large, and if an ap- peal shoula be taken against the association, its progress in the highest court will be fol- Jowed with special interest, particularly by the poorer classes who have supported these organizations 8o liberally. ‘The report of the supreme recorder shows that the membership in the eutire order is 225,316, and in Nebraska it is 6,150, orth Omaha lodge, No. 159, was inst i tuted Thursday by P. G. M. W. James W. Carr at Goodrich hall on Saunders street. ‘There were forty-five charter members, and they were a fine looking body of men, nearly all being young and vigorous. About two hundred visitors were present from Omaha, Union Pacific, Herman, Gate City and South Omana lodges. The handsowe bvaovners of Omaha, No. 18, and_ Union Pacific, No. 17, were suspended 1n the lodge room,the former at the master workman’s station and the lat- ter at the foremau's station. The degree team of Union Pacitic lodge was present,and gave au exhibition Arill in tancy movements before proceeding with the exemplification of the work. Their work was excellent in every respect, and was heartily After all the candidates hud expe: oat aad come out u little the worse for wear, the election of ofticers resulted in the follow- ing being chosea: Dr. W. S, Gibbs, P, M. W.; C. H. Rurey, M. W S, 8. Watt, 1.5 0. A. Benson, O.; G. J. Sternsdorf, Rec.; J. J. Gibson, Fin.; W. M. Osborne. 3 J. M. Adaw Rickarde, O. G. Trustees: . A, Swunders, . Diilon, W. Kerr. Dr. W. S. Gibbs, representative; C. H, Rurey, alternate; medical examiner, Drs, C. A, Sprague, J. V, Cornish, G. S. Miluer, W. S, Gibbs, After ail the efficers had been duly in- stalled aud a number of other necessary de- tails completed, those present adjourncd to the hall below, where tae sisters, cousius, aunts, ete., of the members had congregated and the remainder of the evening was de. voted to tripping the light fantastic in the most approved wanner, A very pleasant in- terruption was caused by the master of cerc- monies announciug Supper in the banquet room, to which all repaired with appetites whetted by their terpsichcrean exercises, After satisfying the wants of the inner man dancing was resumed and continued until the ‘‘wee sma’ hours.” During the evening Past Qrand Master W. Carr and Pust Mas- ter Patten explained to those present the operations and vrinciples of uhe order and also informed the ladies concerning the mys- terious doings which had taken placeup- stairs and satistlod their curiosity regarding the strange noises they had heard during the ovening, Another lodge to be known as Myrtle lodge is being organized in the north part of town, in the neighborhood of Sherman avenue. There will be a publio oficers of Hesperian encampment, No, 2, the evening of December 5, Grand Patriarch I P. Guge, of Fremont, will be present and conduct the cereinon J. 8. Hoagland, of North Platte, has been appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Major General Sloan, of the division of Mississippi, with the rank of Licutenant cotonel. The Oddfeilows' home at Unionport, N, Y., is free from debt sud has a cash capital of $5,500. It 18 supported by a yearly tax of 25 ceuts per capita upon 1'.5.500 wembers of the order who created the institution. The home, now three years in successiul opera- tion, roven a great blessing to many. Twenty-eight feeble, aged and destitute members of the fraternity find comfortable shelter therein, und several applications for admission are now under consideratoin, State lodge No. 10 visited Keystoue lodge No. 135, last Tuesaay. Mewbers from No, 20 and No. 2 were also prescat, aud the even- ing was passed In a very pleusant soclable Wiy, D of R, 1vy lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, will give @ full dress ball and banquet at Goodrich hall on the evening of Decemver 6. The grand lodge officers and the officers of the Rebekah state convention have signified heir intention of being present, The Kul: Opposad, ‘Fue proposed fair of the Ladies' guild has come to a temporary staudstill. This is ‘instituted at Graud Island by owing to a decision of Grand Master W. H. Buarger, of Hebron, who has issued a mani- fosto centaining a far-fetched ruling based on the article in the digest, which prohibits any lodge or encampment from holding fairs or any entertainment, where there are games of chance, rafflos or any similar method of raising money. *‘Just what connection there is between a society composed of ladies, who are, individually, members of Revekab lodges,” said an Oddfellow, “and a lodge such as is contemplated in the digest, is something which no one, not endowed with Rreat penctrating power can porceive. While there is no doubt that the temporary monarch has a perfect right, under the digest, to make such a ruling agamnat a lodge as a body, it 18 u question of an entirely dif- ferent character which he brings under this ruling. The mere fact that this, or any other band of ladics, seos fit to organize themselves into a guild, and give fairs or any other entertainment, is a matter which does not concern the grand master aud over which he has absolutely no control. It mat- ters not whether the mouey 8o raised 1s to be contributed toward the establishment of an Oddfellows’ home or to any other worthy charity. Mr. Barger has overstepped the limits of his authority'and has taken it upon himself to interfere in a most unwarranted manner with the private affairs of those who are, for a very brief scason, subject to his rulings, howaver narrow-minded und bigoted they may be. It 18 surprising thata man who has been elevated to the highest office in the grand lodge should display such a short-sighted policy as the virtual squelch ing of an enterprise which couid only resuit in good to the order and ore which was in- tanded to contribute to the support of un in- stitution which would accomplish the highest. object of Oddfellowshin—the care of the sick and needy. The fact that the grand lodge bas not officially declared, in 8o muny words, that an Oddfellows’ home shall be established, 18 no argument,_in favor of the grandmaster's decision. The grand lodge, by its uctiou in appointing a committee 1o ivestigate and report on the best means of establishing such an institution, has shown apurposeand a desire to take such official action, and the intention of the ladies' guild was to take time by the forelock and be in a position to give substential encouragement to the project. It is to be hoped that his bigh mightiness may see the errorof his ways and repent enough to reverse his de- cision for the sake of his repatation, as such an arbitrary ruling cannov but be detri- mental to the good of the order and to the force of auy future decisions he may make. While the ladies, in obedience to the dic- tates of the grandmaster, will refrain from wny violation of this ruling, they will hold the fair as originally contemplated, but will devote the proceeds toward tho relief of the sick and distressed 1 the city. Tho date will be changod to some time after the hohdays. Royal nun A special meating of Frontier council, Royal Arcauum, of Cedar Rapids, was held in their hall on Thursday, November 15, George Ker, of Union Pacific council, Omaha, deputy supreme regent for Ne- braska, paid a visit to the council and the wembers turned out in full force to receive him. Deputy Ker reports tinding the affairs of the council 1n a very prosperous condi- tion; they have a good averuge attendunce and a mice sum to the credit of the council in the bank. The council has a good set of officers, and although the town has four or five other secret societies, the Royal Arca- num more than holds its own. The mem- bers are fully alive to the fact that they are part of one of the finest organizations in the Jand und take great interest to advauce its cause. Brother Alex McQueen was elected repre- sentative to the union meeting to be held Council Bluits November 21 and 22, under the auspices of Fidelity council, of thut city. The council report to hold their annual reception in January, whicn event is always Jooked forward to as one not to be missed by the zens of the town. A new council of the Royal Arcanum was Deputy Supreme Kegent George Ker, on Tuesday, November 12. The Knights of Pythias gave the new council the use of their lodge room. Deputy Ker was ably assisted by Brother C. H, Conner, of Northwestern Council, Chicago, who filled the oftice of deputy supreme guidé to the satisfaction of all lnru-enu Brother W, H. Hrevoort, of Ante- ope Council, Lincoln, was pressed into ser- vice 1 conferring the degrees, and filled with honor the chair of vice regent. It was expected thav 1. A, Walter, of Union Pacific council, Omaha, would be present but he sout o telegram saying ho was detained, A letter of congratulation from Kcarney coun- cil was reccived and read to the new council. After the institution the following ofticers were elected and installed: Regent, George H. Mosher; vice regent, Henry Schuttfeldt; pust regent, Dr. Sumner Davis: secre lnr{. 0, L. Kuwtley; collector, Monroe 5. Kidder; treasurer, Walter W, Thompson ; orator, J. W, Thompson; chaplain, Homer B. Hateh; guide, C. T. Watson; warden, 13, J. Togers; sentry, Dr. Grenwalds trustoes, A. S, Patrick, B. I, Rogers and Dr. Davis, The new council starts with about twenty members, but as they are all good workers they report to have a number of ap- plications ut the next meeting, Tlio namo of sland Council was adopted and it promises to be one of the most prosperous councils in the state in a short time. There will bea lurge union meeting of representatives from Iows and Nebraska, on November 21 und 22, under the auspic Fidelity council, of Council Bluffs, S of St Shakespeare lodge, No. 217, Sons of St. George, will give one of their very enjoyable sociables at their lodge room iu Arcanum all, 1514 Douglas street, on November 80. 'he entertainment will include refreshments and dancing, G. A R. The Ladies' Rellef corps of Custer post No, 7, G. A. R, will give another of their entertaining musical and literary soiries on the 26th inst., at G. A. R. hall on Fifteenth street. The entertainment will conclude with A supper and dance. L O ¥ Court Eclipse No. 167, Iudependent Order of Foresters, will give their third anuual ball at Metropolitan hall on Tucsday, De- comber 10, St e Loy Memorie Within my brain thore is a little cell For fairios fit, Wherein somo twenty years of mem'ries dwell, Just think of it! A curious colony, as he will say Who will but think On wental records built up day by day Aud link by tink. They slcep, these elphins, whon the sun is high, High overhead, But when at night for sweet, sweet sloep I sigh, They come instead ! There is the mem’ry of the girl to whom I presscd my suit, And there, 'midst wany memories of gloom, Her father's boot ! Here is her song, fresh still from her sweet throat My soul to thrill! Aud here, with much, indeed, o *‘fresher” note, v dear gas bill! v Here is the boy T fought inolden days— Some forty rounds— (I rather court his fricndship now —he weiglis Two hundred pounds! Here is the choir in which--God help me!—I To sing essayed; And here the stretcher on which passers-by My fragmonts laid ! Hore ara the fish 1 cauzht some time ago, (Thoy look like whales, ) Thew weight! They average twenty pounds or 80 (Without the &cales.) Here is the flat piano overhead, Ar upper flat, Aud “towzer” who on trowsers oft has fed, (And mine at that!) Here is the tragedy in which 1 played The title role., (Oh! how thelanghter of theaudience preyed Upon my soull) Here come some stanzas, sovlful, genius- lined; Who wrote them? T (They’ve boen by fifty editors declined. 1 con’t know why.) But one amongst them all who did not say, I might not hoe. (The grocer brought that copy here to-aay Around some soap!) And here—most dreadful memory of all In vory trath— An antique jest—made at a full dress ball In Adam’s youth! And now a thousand jumbled mem’ries crowd, But void of shape, For I, enrobed at lust in drowsy shroud, n slecp escape. OLIVER GEORGE JAVA. Omaha, Neb, HOW TO KEEP A CAT, You Cut Off Its Tail and Bury 1t Under the Doorstey Alady in the northwest section has recently taken possession of an old house, suys the Washington Post. To her great sorrow she found the place overrun with rats and mice. Rats and mice of the wariest and most suspicious kind. too. Traps were set in profusi but in vain. She dared not use poison for fear the rodents would die in the walls, by her old maminy, a colored woman of ample proportions and great age, +1 don’t know what I am to do, Maum Becky, with these rats and mice,” said the lady in despuir, *Wat matter wid er cat?” “But we have no cat, and before we can raise a kitten large enough to catch rats they will have eaten us out of house. and home.” “Wat matter wid sen’ Jim out ec alley, ketch strange cat? Plenty catin alley. Nobody keer *hout one cat.” “But what is the use to talk such non- sepse, Maum Becky? A strange cat wouldn’t stay in the ¥muu‘u five minates, if Jim wouldn’t catch one.” “*Miss Lizzie, Maum Becky ’sprised "n’ shame’ to year you talk so. Is I done raise youup f'um 1il’ baby, 'n’ sce you mar'id 'n’ a house ob yo! ,own, 'n’ den year you 'fes sech ign'unce? Not kip strange cat in ’e house minute? You don’ know how kipstrange cat in house? Lemme tell you an’ don’ you neb- ber furgit? Fus’ you kevch de cat, Len yer tek er ol* boot laig, ’n’ put de cap head fus’ down de boot laig. 'ull de cat hin’ laigs, fioo de straps, des’ s0 he kyarn’ use ne glaw. Den you put cat haid un'r yo'ahm, so, an’ walk baclk’aird to de firs’ step.ob po’ch. Den tek er kyarvin’ knife er a_sclssors 'n’ snip off er tip er cat tail!’ Den tek yo finger v’ dig il hole pp’t step 'n’ bury tip e tail in ’e hold, Fg’ God, dat cat nebber leave er place. sp long dat cat tail stay in ‘e hole,” R An Alien Grave. James Buckham in The Independent, He always hoped the native grass might blow And field Howers blossom on his quiet grave, Aad ancieat murmuring elms above bim wave, And orchards drift his couch with summer BLOW. 'Twas sweet to think that there his mortal trame Should sleep with kith and kin, and mosses gray Blot out the record of his little day, And hide the modest letters of his name. He died a stranger in a distant land, Unwept and unbefriended and alone; And bere, unmarked Ly sacred urn or stone, His dust lies, mingling with an alien strand, Sleep, friendless clay, thy final hope denied, Nov let thy lonely couch disquiat thee; For thou, who wast the man, are spirit free, And where thou wilt thou mayest now abide, Her kitchen was presided over | SHOOTING ALONG THE BEAVER A Brief Disquisition On the King of Game Birds. AN UNCOMMON GOOD SEASON. A Trlo of Omaha Nimrods Make a Splendid Bag — Descriptive Ac- count of the Bunt—A Pair of Fine Dogs—Beautifal Work, The psesent season is undoubtedly proving ons of the best for quail known in this section fora good many yeavs. From all parts of the state reports have it that the birds have not been so plen- tiful in yeavs, and the large consign- ments received daily at the commission houses amply verify these reports. There are agood many birds even with- in o radius of twenty-five miles of the city, and fair bags have been made by sundry parties. This is quite an astonishing fact when it is taken into consideration that for the past seven or eight years in this particalar locality this incomparable little feathered beauty has been the next thing to extiu The time was however, when this vvas famous ter tory for Bob White, and no species of game birds was more common or nplentiful, or throve so well. But six or seven years ago they began to decline perceptibly, and there arose o general complaint among the bon vivants of this ety that there were acres of toast lying around loose with- ont the sign of a quail upon i The causes of the decrease of this grand bird ave various. Firstand fove- most is the fact that Nebraska has never had any sound legislation for the protection aud preservation of her game, and such as she had has nover boen enforced. The quail that are illegally served up the city restaurants under various aliases all through the close season can- not be held . personally responsi- sponsible for not nesting and inereasing their d. Then again, the market hunter and the hawk tribe have bhad much to do with the almost total exticpation of the quuil in this section, and both evils need at- tention. Yet I caunot conscientiously advocate the extermination of the hawls, for T am too much a loyver of the birds, and the hawk is not a worthless fellow by any means. They are the implacable foe of the whole ophidian and destroy rats and mice in numbers all through the long months. And then again, the s beautiful and as gracefu) a eaves the air, a true concom- i of the wildwood scenery that would be sadly missed by all who appre- ciate nature in all her fullness. But to go back to the quail. 1t isno difficult task to account for their plent fulness this fall,us the past summer wis one of the most perfect for nidifieation and hatching that has been known in twenty vears. One continuous spell of exquisitely lovely weather, with nolong drouths or ex- cessive wot periods, but a uniform tem- perature and geueral meteorological condition especially calculated for fecundity in the birds. That they did not allow the golden opportunity to pass unimproved is testificd to in an emphatic way by the many large covies to be found in the timber and the stubble in all parts of the state., Last winter, too, was an open one, and. about all the bivds that were in existence were left over, provi- dentially it scems, for the purpose of restocking our thickets and fields. George W. Loomis, chief clerk in General Manager Holdrege’s office, Webb Joslyn, roadmaster, and Frank Parmelee imvo just returned from a very successful hunt down in the Beaver valley. They had elegant luck, and as the weather was phenomenally delightful, the plensure of their outing was commensurately intensified. Warm and bulmy, even a trifle sultry long about noonday, & cumbersome top-coat wasn’t to be thought of, and even a shooting jacket was deemed superfluous, They camped in alittle grove of maples, fifty yards from the piver, a baldric of silver sand stretching from their tent down to the water’s edge, It was along in the evening, and the waters wore u dark green polish, with an in- termingling of shadows, full of sprinkled light, which made the out- look entrancing, The canvas was quickly up, the dogs fed and chained, and the next moment the beautiful 8pot was alive with culinary operations, and the grim trees listened to the song, of the grid-iron and sauce-pan, instead of bird and ripple. Of course the hunt~ ers ate heartily. The pure an of the conntry, the exercise, and—I hardly know what it is that gives men such an appetite when hunting—and ~ keeps them on a sort of famished outlook all the time. The very oxerciso of eating seoms o give vne a fresh longing to stull hiwm- self, and Parmalee’s stomach on such & trip resembles the bottomless pit more than anything else I can think of just now, After the evening meal the hunt- ers betook thémselves 1o cigars and comfort. Colonel Parmelee lolled against the tent’s upright, Loomis oc- cupied a campstool 10 & brown hollow, while Joslyn lay on the flat of his back, with his boots planted against an old Anak of tho valley, as if determined to push it out of his w Their talk was ight and lazy. The dyine sunlight spread soft and dreamy upon the burnt grassy here, sprinkling atself away amon the red und yellow leaves, and then striking shimmering aisles off into the woods. The jay-bird flitted from this branch and that, and the oc- casional burk of o squirrel eame shrilly from the darkening timber. Before them stretel the glittering white and sombro gray of the slumbering river, The next morning they were off bright and eax “*Dash’ Loomis’ red setter, and Jock, Parmelee’s pointer, vously about the gunners as off down the valley. were not long in reuching a broad stubble field. A short time later, they espied Dash down tho creek’s shore to the left, trotting along at a brisk pace with his nostrils dilated and his shapely head well up in the air. Alveady he had winded the bir IFol- ez quickly in his wake the hunters soon gratified to sce his head go down, his tail switch from side to side in a highly excitad manner,and his tawny body moving in and out fr among the rag-weed and Span needles that grew along the crest here in great exuberance. slower and slower, until suddenly he came to a stop, and stood, statue-like, as still as death, “Steady Dash!? The next instant Loomis and Parme- lee wel behind him. and squaring themselves toward the woods—they kuew the birds would fly that way-— Joslyn, who couldn’t hit "a barn door with a base ball bat, was told to walk them up. He had taken but a half-dozen steps, when whir! whir! whir-r-r-r, and the whole bunch, twenty-five at least, were in the air, minus three which dropped, neatly killed,by the two gunners. Joslyn, too, got in both barrels, and he said he crippled four birds, but how he knew, of course, no one couid tell. Dash, good dog, he never broke fire, but raised to his feet, and scomed to be marking the birds down as they drooped here and there all about in a sparse growth of underbush near the timber. Jock, the pointer, came galloping in from the far side of the field, where he had beea X i ad the next moment both energetically at work. Well, for an hour the hunters most exhilarating sport with this covey. At the second flushing thoy scattered far und wide throngh the wood, and when any one got a shot 1t only at a single bird, held staunchl by one dog or the other, and you depend upon 1t but few succecded in es- caping either Parmelee or Loomis, and even Josiyn grassed one occasionally. Out of probubly twenty shots they bagged fourteen birds, which, consider- ing the nature of the ground they were shooting over—logs, brush heaps, viney thickets, mossy hollows and tangled Ccops was better than could well be pected. Growing tired of the labovious w of beating up the woods, the do whistled in, and they trudged bi the stubble again, leaving the scatteved had and hidden birds calling timidly and” plaintively to cach other back in the shadowy woods. Dash had not worked up over soventy-five or a hundred yards of the stubble before he came to astand, It was evident that it was a single bird that had flow back from the woods, and Loomis walked quickly up and past, the dog, and the next instant, with a peep and a flutter, poor Bob burst from out a tuft of vellow grass and made a vain attempt to again rench cover, Loomis only broke his wing,and striking the ground he started like a brown streak for a clump of cat- briars off a score of yards or more. Dash glanced up into his master’s face, and his master said “go fetch,” and with an eager whine he made for the fleeing bird. It reached the briars and ran into them. However,it was hurdly a minute before the dog emerged from the brush with the bird in his mouth, and trotting up to his master laid it at his feet, Again they started across the field and had reached the furthermost cor- ner, wherve about an acre remained in sod, thickly strewn with underbrush, blackberry bushes,wild grape vines and small saplings. Here the hunters jumped another fine covey, making the sccond one for this same field, but ag Parmelee had allowed Jock to get out of shooting range, and as he was mak- ing considerable fuss in getting through the reticulated masses of brush and vines, the birds flushed and uobody got a shot, Toadd to the hunters’ vex- ation they flew off to the right, and were marked down in an adjacent field of standing corn, where the shooting was both difticult and unsatsfactory. How- ever, they succeeded in adding some twenty more birds to their bag, when they left in disgust and crossed over to the Williams wood, skirting the river. Here the hunters put in the balance of the day,and when it came time to think of cum;\); they counted up, and eighty- seven birds was the sum totul of their kill, Finally they started for camp, both exhausted and hungry., Dash and Jock, too, seemed to have lost much of their bounding spirits and trotted alon contentedly atthe hunters’ heels, Sud- denly Dash gave his drooping earsa prewonitory flop, stood still a second, then leaped upon a huge log thut lay stretehed across their pathway,and stood there on adead point. Parmelee and Loomis mounted the prostrate monarch themselves and endeavored to locate tne birds before flushing, But it was useless, and Parmalee jumped down among the weeds on the opposite side, and fovstantly from beneath the very log itself came a peculiar whistle, and the next moment a big, plump wood= pock was describing a parabol ovor the ow-growing hazel an sumach. It was asnap shot, but the Colonel made it and Dash brought in the bird, In & hatf honr more od ors were 1 re the tire 'S wer S hanters we The noxt day and tt etitions of this, und when, on tho even- ing of the 8d the nimrods concluded to return to the eity, an invoico of {heir lllml.lshn\vcd 11 quail, 19 ducks and 23 rabbits, ANDY G. V. GRISWOLD. Haar 2 he nesxt wero rep- . How Kar O o Some experiments in judging distance by sound were carried out on Saturday lust by one of the brigades of the Metro- politan volunteers, says the London Aife. 'This branch of military tactics is quite a new departure in volunteering, and one which, if itisto be made of service, will require more than an ordinary amount of practice. It was flrst explained to tho men that sound travels at the rate of 1,100 yards in three seconds, and on this basis they were to estimate the distance at which some rifles were being discharged in the darkness. - The answers at first wore very wide of the mark, som» of tho men being as much as 150 yavds out in their caleulations. With a little practice, however, a great improvement wus shown, many of the men guessing the distance exactly. 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