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In an aticle entitled "With the Cougar Hounds," printed in Scribner's 1 Rooseoelt orbit all living things would die, and such an earthquake take place as would completely put the Italian catastrophe in the shade. Just as interesting is the prognostication of M. Camille Flam-marion, one of the greatest liv-ingpscientists. After many years grieved at the outcome. Mr.

Roosevelt's prowess as a "hunter was proved on a smaller scale in other states. He has been in the sport in Maine, New-Hamshire and in Virginia. Men I who live io the woods and track game for a livelihood unite in saying that Mr. Roosevelt is the best speci- The Hunter men of the genuine hunter that nent 8,,. believe will be the the twenty-fifth century come a-ever came out of civilization.

end of the worId That eternaj crow the path of the comet Belia, he HUNT 0) His life. of how the world will which crossed our line a few i lion. It was somewhere near Keystone ranch. The dogs had brought a lion unexpectedly to bay. The young New Yorker had no time to shoot Whether he had a gun at the time the witness does not tell.

But Roosevelt leaped from his saddle and plunged a bowie knife into the vital spot of the lion. The animal grunted once. It was his last A picture of the ex-assembly man when he was on in 1886 i3 interesting the nlains at Uiisiun chased two ciure. ne nau yurcnaseu iwo -i II- 1 3 I ranches near Medora He ZllJlt mere was some iaiK mat ne was dressed Except, as he told a dude After the dinner the a friend afterward. I wore gold host nvited hig te to his dis.

rimmed spectacles and had ajplayof bearsIdn3. He picked toothbrush His shirts were; outonea3hi3 favorite, because Hue flanne ls overalls cost he explained it was the firgt $1 a pair His hat was a som-l bear he had shot When one of brero He never earned a hip hunte WM agked why the gun, but when out for game he, rAaA Rcowolf ho ra Will Csm Akl. Cat-Mil's Saturday Journal. The terrible catastrophe in Italy which caused the inhabitants of the ill-fated city of Medina to believe that the end of the world had come only a foretaste on a small wal nf whaf man mi. end is in the opinion of many matter for scientific investiga tion.

and it is curious that the ki; i. ku a- the most (fa, earthquakver mil vycn aiiu iijr mj piece's in known, an earthquake that will wipe all life from the globe before the actual destruction of the earth is complete. The late Grant Allen firmly be- that the world would en by, the c3' of the earth eventu- ally giving way beneath the col ossal weight above it; and Abe Dupin, one of the greatest scien- tists of France, believes that doomsday will begin with a war that will eoelop the greatest nations in Europe, this being followed by a plague the like of which has never been known, culminating with an earthquake that will practically shake the world to pieces. Mr. H.

G. Wells, whose scien prophecies are well known, is, however, of a different opinion. The world will end, he declares, by its becoming entirely frozen over. It i3 a well known fact that every year more ice ac- i i i-' ill short, many millions of tons of ice in excess of that of the year previous settle about the earth's extremities each year, and in Mr. Wells' opinion this will gradually extend until the whole world is frozen over and everything is thus destroyed.

Several scientists are of opinion that we shall perish by fire, and this old world of ours with i Nikola Tesla. the ereat1 is convinced that the! atmosphere of the world being so fully charged with electricity. the result will be a gigantic ex plosion by spontaneous combustion, when the world will be entirely encircled with flame which in the space of a few seconds will destroy all life. Two of the world's greatest scientists firm'y aver that the eJ of the world will be brought aboit by astronomical conditions. Take Professor Marienburg, the noted Austrian student.

In his opinion the earth will fly from its orbit and come in contact with One Of the Other planets that may chance to be in a direct line. The earth being comparatively small, will, of course, get the worst of it, and split into fragments at the collision. But, of course, direct- ly the world swerved from the i i i ha3 a at the conclusion that the world will in ajJ" un "lis occaMon. place; a I greater than the earth, a shock lmr be expected whic cpected which, he cal- to- than the shock caused by the col lision between two trains, each traveling at 65 miles an hour. Cot An Optnin That Was a Great Surprise.

One of two sisters who lived together was suddenly taken with a lung attack she feared was serious, says the London Telegraph. Shi therefore sent for a special and asked her doctor to meet him. Talking over his coming with her sister, she said, "Mona, I wish I could know Sir Henry real opinion. Neither he nor Dr. M.

will tell us if there is anything really wrong, but I would much rather know." Her sister replied. "Don't worry dearest; you shall know everything, for 1 will go down to the dining-room and stand behind the big oak screen and listen to every word they "And will you ind tell iuu luajr teijr uuiuc, utdicoi, I will tell you every word." "Even if I am not to get well? Even then, dearest," promised the loyal Mona. The hour for the consultation arrived, and the sister went to the dining-room, and standing behind the great oak screen, en sconced herself and prepared to listen. 'By and by the two doctors were heard descending the stairs, and a moment later they came into the room. Walking over to the fireplace, the specialist sank into an easy chair, and the local doctor sank into another.

Then followed a moment's silence, broken by the specialist, who leaned a little forward. "My dear M. he said. slowly, as he looked across at his colleague, "of all the ugly worn-en, tliat't the very ugliest woman I've ever seen in my life." "Is she?" replied the local doctor; "you wait until you've seen her sister Mr G. Fritu.

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cows and I am fr the first time offer in 7 days as a three year old. the vice president told that the dogs which were employed in hunting bobcats climbed trees in chasing the game. But it was added that thfe trees were dwarfs and thus it was easy for the dogs Co get into the branches. This happened in the northwestern) part of Colorado. In his three weeks hunt in the Rocky mountains the vice presi dent killed four brown bears.

He also bagged fourteen mountain lions, some of them having gone downinder his knife. At a farewell dinner to nis hunters and several guests the eastern hunter appeared in a frock coat One of the hunters said it wa3 all right, as he had proved himself .7 1 10 tliem' Lbutt1wa3 I 5 him that he had i 1 r. i i he first for. at. that time plied: "He never growls.

He is just. He is always ready for anything that we plan. And he knows when to put on a white shirt and when to take it off." After the Vice president had returned from this his last trip western hunt, while he was ask- 1 In New York teeth, lie told the following to prove that he had: The wood of the stock of my gun was the hardest known. You couldn't drive a tenpenny nail through it with a sledge hammer. See these marks in the stock? Well, they were made by the teeth of a lion.

If I hadn't had down his; the gun handy to ram throat, that fellow would have kined me. bv the irreat bear. "it wasn't the biggest lion I ejther, but he was the fiercest wild animal I have ever run against, and you know I've anA inio i iiiiri nnn rnir 2 1 ai iua luiun uic uhc inav'irib the marks of his teeth on the fitock 0f this rifle-was the tenth killed. "We killed fourteen of the lions altogether, and I got twelve out 0f the fourteen. That was a nrettv irood record, wasn't it? The biggest lion killed was a whopper.

Say, you wouldn't be lieve me if I told you how big! that fellow was. "He weighed 280 pounds, and I got him with a straight drive shot at 200 yards and an 'elevation of 50 feet I will show you where I plunked him right between the eyes. That was the prettiest shot I made. When we went to measure that chap and weigh him the fellows who had been hunting lions in the Yampa country for twenty years said he was the biggest lion they had ever seen, and I guess he was. "It was a bully good thing that I got him at the first shot at that distance or he would have made as it interesting ior me, as he was headed right my way." The hurit in Mississippi in 1902 afforded more amusement than game.

The dogs went astray. There was some wrangling' between the white and blacks. The denizens of the tangled wood were flushed. The trip was enjoyable in every way except in the way that was desired. But the big hunter from the west, as Mr.

Roosevelt was called, made a host of friends, and the old guides who had promised so much were i i i IMMHIMI "Ex-Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt shot a 1,250 pound grizzly bear In Dakota yesterday." This item was printed in the newspapers Dec. 20, 1881. In view of all that has occurred since that date, and thinking about what is liable to take place in Africa and Egypt in the twelve months ahead, the item looks insignificant. But it 13 an intimation to the jungles of the hunter who is soon to enter the lairs of the ferocious. The story of the killiag of the Dakota grizzly is worth retelling, for it was writ-( ten by the ex-assemblyman in a letter to one of his friends.

Condensed, it is as follows: Air. Roosevelt and his cowboy struck a hot trail not far from the ranch cabin. As the trail got hotter even the ex-assemblyman became excited. He heard a growL Instantly he brought his gun to "present arms." His eyeglasses clutched his nose in a grip. He saw the gnzzly forty feet away.

(Here follows the correspondent's description of the scene.) The ex-as3embly-roan looked like the Roosevelt who in the Chicago Convention shook his fist at William Walter Mr. Phelps had a moment te-! fore ordered Delegate Roosevelt to sit down. In the hunt for the grizzly the cowboy had got a bead on. the game when the ex-assemblyman yelled to him: "Here let that bear alone. That's my bear.

I'll shoot you if you shoot first." The bear sat up on his haunches and took notice. It was his last look. Bang went the gun of the ex-assemblyman. Down went the bear. The language addressed to the cowboy by the next president rankled in the cowboy's breast.

He reproached the bear killer for the words. What followed was characteristic of Roosevelt He apologized. Not only that but he presented him with his rifle, holsters, corduroy breeches which had been the envy of the cowboy and threw in the horse. If a little incident like this was worth putting on the wires and afterward into a letter what may the public expect when the hunt in Africa is under way? SOME "FIRST" SHOTS. All the incidents of the western hunt of Theodore Roosevelt at different times would fill several books.

In fact, they have been told in books. A few of the will suffice here. He got his first buffalo in 1883. He was established in Maltese ranch in the Bad Lands of Dakota. A newspaper man who wa3 out there and knew every foot of the cour.ry described the ranch when he said "it stretched from hell to Texas." The first night out the horses were stamped by a bunch of buffaloes.

The next day Roosevelt dropped his first bull. He was so elated with his success, that according to a witness, he fairly danced with jjlee and on the spot handed Joe Ferris a fifty dollar bill. Came the time when Rosevelt was to lay low his first mountain If you have backache and urinary troubles you should take Foley'! Kidney Remedy to strengthen and build up the kidney so they will set properly, ats serious kidney trouble may develop. Sold by all Druggist. i Now comes thehuntof his life.

His plan to travel 9,000 miles in the recesses of Africa and in Egypt has excited the comment and expectation of the" continents. The undertaking, no matter what the result be, is stupendous. The party that will invade the depths of the African jungles will consist of 200 to 450 men. The cost of the equipment of i ne cost oi tne equipment or i those who will go from the United! States will be about $3,000 a man. The outfit for the expedition will be made up of tents, guns, am- munition, rations, khaki, and leather hunting suits, waterproof bags for clothing, medical supplies, surgical apparatus, sleeping bags and every known type of hunting and skinning knives almost such a supply, on a small scale, as would be required by an army that invades a new country.

In fact, many of the articles will be such as no army ever required. The tents' will be green, because white tents show African game where to attack their enemy. Four types of guns have been provided for the hunt For. the vario'i irame that w'H ious weapons, or the elephant there is a weaoon that will fire a lead slug over; a half inch thick two inches long. It is the shock caused by this slug that stops the elephant The most deadly gun carries a bullet weighing 200 grains.

It has a muzzl velocity 2.000 feet a second, striking a blow of 2,000 pounds. It is the nignesi type in emergency arm lone distance weanon. 1 his isi the gun that the ex-president i will have put in his hands by the 1 head gun carrier when the big hunter from the United States meets his first menacing game. ineitinary proper Deems at Naples. lt traverses historical (ground.

It reaches into dark and mysterious places that are the habitat of the ppecies mentioned in holy writ. There are depths where the atmosphere is foul with poisonous miasma, forests that breed insects that are veno mous. According to present plans a- bot six months will be spent in the fastnesses of Uganda. That's where the dwarf Negritos shoot arrows steeped in poison at any who invade their country. WHAT HE MAY SLAY.

Questions have been asked ever since the expedition was planned as to what the mighty hunter from the United States may kill. His license limits him to two male elephants, two rhinoceroses, ten hippopotamuses, twenty-one antelopes pf various species, two earth hogs, two' earth wolves, ten chevrotains, two coloSi or other fur coated monkeys, two marabou storks, two aigrets, two ostriches and one chimpanzee. In addition, he may slay, without license, lions, lionesses, male cape buffaloes, leopards, crocodiles, reptiles and any birds ezcept vul tures. He may not kill zebras, giraffes, female or young ele-; ph ants or Johnston's okapi. Of i these he hopes to bring back a tpecimen of the latter animal, for in spite of flaming circus pos-1 ters, not one of this type has ever been seen outside of the always had a short Winchester rifle.

When his eastern friends visited him he gave them advice as to how they were to treat cowboys and poachers. The plainsmen were fond of him, for he acted as if he were one of them. One Fourth of July they asked him to make a speech. When 'i tnv natives came a distance of fifty miles to hear him. That speech is talked about yet by those who are alive.

When the Spanish-American war was declared and it was known that Roosevelt was to take a hand in it, nearly all Of the cowboys who knew him out west enlisted in his command. No fear when he jungles that he will hesitate to! travel any pah that leads to the game. Once when he was in the west he planned a hunt in a cer- tain section. He was told that a Dart of the road was a path of ti twofeet wide and that it ran a-j long the edge of a precipice 2, 500 feet deep. He made the trip, while some who were with him hesitated.

When he was living on the ranch at Chimney Butte, near uiiiiiiiitk a xj- L.1IU1. aa, wiai Medora, he had, in the words of one who lived with him, "enough experiences in his hunts to fill all the newspapers in the country." BOAR AND BOBCATS. One of the incidents of that time has a humorous coloring. Mr. Roosevelt had an idea that he would like to bring down a wild boar, a species of game that roamed with freedom in that section.

Senator Proctor of Vermont and Colonel Bill Morrison of Illinois were the guests of the eastern hunter and he invited them to the chase. The party went into the thickets. A four legged animal crossed the path of Senator Proctor. He yelled to Roosevelt that the specter was a deer. Colonel Morrison also called attention to a deer.

The New York hunter insisted that what they saw was a wild boar. While the dispute was, being waged the animal crossed the path of the New Yorker, and he lifted his gun and blazed away. He brought down his game. It was a wild boar. The guests of Mr.

Roosevelt did not go out with him again. It was while Vice President Roosevelt was in the west on his I -t x. JERSEY CALVES AT AUCTION Great Overflow Sale of High Bred Jersey Malesjand Females at Auction at GREENSBORO, MAY 4, J909 My barn Is now full of Jersey ig heifers from the great bull Trevath General; he by General Man- out of Trevarth's Puritan; General Marigold by Major Polo, out of gol. old Id Mary Idafold. tent 23 lbs of butter Polo by Glynllyn Boy out of Massev Polo, the butter queen of the Jersey race, milked in 7 days 354 lbs of milk that made 30 lbs, 6J ox butter.

Cows sired by this famous bull are now milking in my herd and every one are No. I cows. Sale begins st one o'clock P. M. Bids by mail will be placed in the hands of competent men and treated with the utmost fairness.

For particulars address, JOHN A. YOUNG, Greensboro. N. C. wilds of Africa..