The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 97

l'ujre 10 KXQUIKKi: HL'XUAV MAtlAZlM January IS, lfJ." CAPPY RICKS By PETER B. KYNE of In Which He Forcibly Shows the Advantage Taking a Careful Look Before You Take a Dangerous Leap. waa up, running bank full, with an eld, half-decayed and fomulleti log ramping Into the pond often enough to make life and the haraaacd luil on the liank watching for the unwelcome vlaitor. Hud lenly the moon rainu out from Ix'hlnd a black cloud nnd eaw log. He madu a run, drove hla plk pole Into the edge of the bunk.

anil, using II aa a pole vaulter lire hi pole, the old lumberjack fur out into tho pond, hoping to land on the log. claw hi way up with Ihe help of calk on hi hoot, bull the log for a minute, fend It off the shingle bolt boom, ride It In hud strand II. To Inm'a amaiement, for Ihe leap waa not such a long one and lie had made longer leap before, even though he was now past seventy he mlsaeil the log and went down In about thirty feet of eeunimy Hood water. He cuine up tinder the shingle, boom, bumped hi bald head, dove Now that I inn rctiird I dire nay Of coin so. IHiii had to have a mill my name ban born added to the lint of pond in lib to More lu uhlhKle boli.i.

profelnnal Juryinni. I thought of Ilia wood kiiiir Kot out the kblncle a the thintfa I could think of to e- bulla up country and floated them enpn that awful murder trial, but down a pleanant llttl utrewin which nolhlnK I could think of would do lan had dammed In a litllu valley In my deapnir I took the matter up whcr lm built hla ahiiialc mill. The with Captain tliko Murphy, my Tort altuatlon wa Ideal for profitable ahln-Capialn. tii'inufncturlnif until winter camu l'rale be. Michael wnu cuunl to the nd a f-w few fi et of rtiow covered enierttinrv.

It ai.pcara he knew Judije the country for mllea oti ruch side of thnt renin. Not that Dim had to lloat hi abiiiK'le bolt In It then. II dor tho world dflina In let an old man rest In peace? lout year I wa Chairman of I he Arbitration Hoard cf the Merchant' Exchange. I didn't want the Job, hut the Hoard of l'i-reetors appointed me anyhow an a tribute to my standing In the. cnm-Cnuntty, my knowledge of tradu ethics and sense of Impartial Ju-tloe.

As a result, I've spent Just day of the year listening to the bickerings of a lot of pln-hciidrd business nirti who gel acrapplng over nothing, and were too cheap or too cowardly to let a Judge of the Superior Court at'lttn the row for tin in. Kver iiiin'e I he new leaked out that I have to nil Intent arid purposes retired from active bueincr. a host of Individual hot connected remotely with me by lies of blood, business, frnnd-diip or Imwiuu acquaintance, apMar to hnve Jumped at the concliii-loii Dint the Ml' noon of my 1 1 to Khali he spent working for them. Whhh leads me. liit-vll" ably, to the conclusion tliil the hntd-cat work I have cvi done linn lccii dodging opportunities to take on odd Job for the alleged sheer Joy of accomplishment.

The Minn) tlint I had nothing to do mill was wishful to do It moved the Htenmshlp Managers' Association to appoint hit Hvccuilvo Chairman of the Htriko fommlit.c. w-llh the result Hint rmliinl lied planti a bomb under tin- ir seal of my limousine. It wa so nrrnnci'il that whin I ehoul'l Hit down on the cushion I'd be wafted to glory. Providentially, four young hoodlum stole my limousine for Joy rub- and 1I1.1 car wa Insured anyhow. It burnt.

I what wan li ft of 11 I got Into lite im'Miiiii'a nnil I. ml ho rent for ii'k. All my friend rame to congratulate tin on the miini'iiiou i eacapn and liny shook my bund mini It blur' and swilled up and oil mini I'Yrnu-on trounced ni" dreadfully golf. That week I hud to fight off Invitation tn speak at I he weekly lunch-eon of the Itotary Club, Hi" IikhI Inn of l.lona, the Klwanl t'llib, the Op" tlmliila' Club, tho Chamber of Commerce, the Merchant' and Manufacturers', the Hlcctrlcal Iicilcrs' A n-clatlon, the T. M.

C. A lb" inula of Col um bun and the Jewish Wclfaro Hoard. In the mldt of the l.a 1 1 1- my secretary telephoned In that a police-man wa out In the general office and desired an Interview ith inc. "Hhow the officer In." I told hr. "I Imagine It' about tutu- for me to buy a lot of ticket tn the Minimi Brand ball in aid of the widow' and orphan' fund of the l'ollci melt Protective Association.

Ho she allowed the policeman in and ho served a notice on me to appear In Judge flrady's Court at 10 o'clock next morning to be examined for duty aa a Juryman. Urndy I hey to the name coun cil of tho Knluhla of Colutubu ur aotliethiiiK and bo knew llrudy'a weakne. Thut ii-hl he rout lit over to my lioiine a female greyhound and formally preenied to to nie. "Now. then, II r.

Hick," he fcxaurcd me, "win you to to Court tomorrow link III Honor t- ro-u you on the thnt you hnve prelna- private hualtiexN that alniply muat be niti ii'li il to. He'll ak you hat your private buelnen and you tell liim ol1 bcultnte to let il be known In open Court, for fear III may think you're flippant, lie will Inalut on however, an then you tell hhn flunk ly th it your favorite greyhound, Tlppemry lb-lie, out of shannon fjmi. elie by lltnlii I about to have piipplea and don't want to be ntU'k on July duty. Th JiiUko will look Inter. Kti-d and ank you what doir tin' pup are by and )cu tell bint the fath.

In ild llappparee. Ill Honor la innd about cre liouiid.i; ho Iiiin four In IiIh bm-k yutd atid not ono of tin four worth dime. Thnt re-houiiil lulk will muke you a blood-brother of him and he'll excuxe you ao you run lake him over to your hi'iixe for a look in Tlpperary Itelle. He can fill lie doexu'l aw Indie you nut of a pup, because I've proinlaed all of them. And I'll b'i buck for Tipperary liellu In the mornluK." Tim J'lilne did thi nnd I have hern drnwn IT the l-'ederal (Irand Jury, which I a three month' chore, but I in worrying lonitcr.

1 will put the link of excuKlnir me up to Captain Michael J. Murphy and ho will me out. (it hit wine nm not iet-out-able. S'li inlnl man, Murphy. Ho look before he leapa.

He aiea lip the altuatlon and cieate hi own opportunity, then by merely taking advntitaKO of the opportunity he rgct what he Roe after. Which remind me of what ruy old friend, I 'an Kerrlitun, once did. Iian wa one nf the wild Irleh who bank cav-d In and preelpiiuted old timber Into the nid turrt nt, and thee windfall moved hIoiik until they turned Into the main atieain that.fed Imn'a mill pond. Tbia atream would. In a few hour, develop Into a rauiux rivliM hiirliiiK bilge ok Into linn' ehlnuln boom, threatening to break the boom lou and arud hU precloii atorc of ahlnitle boll on the down river to the i'uciilc tt.

till aih'h oci-aiiion Pmi alwaya had a ani( of river hog out on his dug- it and went down." file bolt boom, with pike pole, ready to Jump every wild log that came charging Into the boom, ride them In to aboru nnd at rand them where they could not ponxltily be menace. Jian waa alwaya an worried while the freahet wa on thnt he alwaya up r-lutended thi Job hlmnelf. Well, there came brlirht" moonlight winter night and Chinook blowing tudlly nil do. The river Sanl Itlvrr, spotted deer and sanibur were numerous. A big pack of wild dog, anld to he to orwKu strong, appeared there and In a few month absolutely cleared these Jungle of every living anluinl.

No doubt many deer left the locality, but Ihe pack must have killed a great number of deer. After that they turned their attention cat tin and ere reported tn have killed 49 or They then entirely disappeared. The fact that wild dogs do not in-creasu In number until they become nuineroii a to destroy all game, combined wllh the fact that they will Sometimes absolutely disappear from locality where they have been very abundant, lead mo to suspect that they may be subject to soma contagious or Infection disease, such as distemper or possibly hydrophobia. Iloth wolve nnd Jackals are known get hydrophobia. A park of wild dog will run down The also of a vessel would seem best conveyed to the bindsmnn' mind tho term "grosa tonnngn," but this term doei not as ono might suppose, represent avoirdupois tons.

It Is culiln contents the bulk obtained by dividing tho number of cubic fert under a ship's decks by 100. A hundred cubic feet of ship space I considered one ton for measurement purposes. Tim weight of material In a ship has nothing to do with her gross tonnngn. I''or Instance In tho giant Cunurder Aqtiltanla thcro are 37,000 of material, but hor gross tonnage Is tli.ei" ton. The difference Is that the figure represents avoirdupois tons nnd tho other cubic tons, atarled In tho MicbiKan wood fifty blow off the Japan current In that year ago a a lumberjack.

Gradually aecium of the Northwet what the ho moved Weal, following the de- Indian call a Chinook. hen a Chl-markatlon line of the merchantable nook alrlke a anow-covered country timber and eradually adding to hi anew melt like lee cream on a bankroll. Finally he nettled In a hotel rane. and nf courae. when the county In Western Washington and t'hlnnok atruek Iian'a country every put up a ahlnnln mill.

litllu atream became a roaring torrent. thirty yard under the ahingle boom to shore, mine up like an otter nnd yelled to one of hla men: 'Uegorry, how I come to mlaa that one. I dunnn. I must be grttln old. Mother o' Muse, there another log, CHinine a pike-pole." Ho grabbed a pike-pole from tha man.

mndo another long, running leap for the log, missed It, went down out of sight, rnme up under the ahingle boom, awam aihore and saw another log coining In to the boom. "All hnnds at this yelled. 'They're romln' In bunches. 1 can't handle thim all. lie the Knck o' fnehel.

how 1 mii-red that aeconri one 1 dunnn, at all. at all. yukk! Some-bndy giniuie another pil.e-pole." Somebody gave hi in one and ngaln hr made leap for that log. And tig'iin he missed It and went down, by the time he baJ swum under the boom to shore he wn pretty well used up. And the first thing he saw wa number log.

There It wa. big and black mid forbidding, coming In to boom hron. Nido on, like II two predecessor. "Ilem.rry," pntiled Inn. "I'm all In.

Homebody elue'll have to tako that wan on." "What one?" hi foreman demanded. "Why. Hint wan. ye Idject," yelled Pan "Can't ye see It?" "If a moonllKht night." anld the "and what you've been Jumping at Isn't a log at all." "l'or the love o' heaven, what I It, then?" howled Dan. "It's the abadow of your ahingle mill amoke-atnek on tho pond.

I an." the foreman answered. "Now, then, let that be a lesson to you. You're not young a you used to he. so after thi' you'd better take a look before you leap." "I'm like Pan Kerrigan, anr-fering from the delusion and Illusion of age. so hereafter, when thcrfo puddle-spirited bird start finding new Jobs for me and refuse to tahp my excuses, I'm Just going to turn the excuse factory over to a younger and brainier man, and let It go at thai." (I'lipyrlMht by Feature Pymllratc, Inc.

All flight ItvmTved. ItepruOucllun I'rohlblteil "-00, any deer and they have often been seen chasing even the biggest deer, tho snmbur and the swamp deor. and I believe that they prefer to hunt big and heavy stag probably these aro more easily run down than tha younger and lighter one. They In-variably attack animals In the hind quarters. Tho natives say that they will oven attack a tiger.

I know of no authentic Instance of this, but they will undoubtedly attack Icoparda. Mr. I H. Clutterbuck, nf the Forest Hnrvlce, who I keen naturallsl und an accurate observer, told nio that he was once going through the forest nnd sow some wild dogs chasing- a leopard. Tho leopard took refugo In a tree, whero Clutterbuelc shot him and also shot several of the dogs, and on examining- tho leopard found that It had several gushes or slashes fn-fllcted by tho dogs' teeth on hla hind quarters.

Wild dog' puppies aro sometimes taken alive. They live In holes In the ground, In dense forests, and their lairs are difficult to find. They are very difficult to renr and nlmoat Invariably dlo hen quite qnung. Clut-terbuck succeeded In keeping one nllve and I saw It when It wa about half grown, but il was then perfectly wild and savage. I bcllevo that the Indian wild dog Is almost Impossible to tamo In this he la quite different from tho wolf and the Indian fox, the cubs of which aro quite easy to rear and beconai very tamo In null a abort tlmo.

I remember a police ofllcer who had full-grown wolf Hint was quite tame and used to nccnmpnriy hi wlfo on her walk Juat like a dog, though the mners of small children In the station looked on It with disfavor, ns they Also did on two half-grown leopards which I had at tho tlmo, tC, 1S5, Mi'trnpulll'in Newspiinsr Service. IIMIIIIlMIIIIIHHtHIHIIHMIMIIMIIIHMllHOIliaiMflllIMHimiMIIimHIOIimiMItlMHOItMIIIHMI tllOOmOMIMMmMMMIMOtlMKtMMOOmHtMMMMMMMtMMMOHHMIOIMMmM POISED ON A CLIFF IN AN ELEPHANT'S PANIC hill and saw a hyena go Into a hole. Till hole wa unite hullow, nnd when I went up to It Ihe hyena rushed at me with mouth open, wearing a moat unpleasant expression. Whether he wa trying to hlta mo or wa merely trying to get away I do not ki-ow, a I shot him at a range of about one yard. The Indian wild dog (the Red Iog of Kipling's Juniilo Itookl I not a true dog at all, but a quite dlntinct specie, They are most Interesting iinlmals and extremely destructive to game and sometime to rattle.

A native foreat guard once told mo thnt he had been attacked by a pack wild dng ind hud Cs apod by getting up Into tree, which they then sit round for some time. I personally hi I leva that these wild dogs had in Intention jf attacking lihn. but wero acting out of curiosity. They aro at time extremely bold and display very little fear of human "And again he missed for be didn't. He had hla winter' aupply afn In the mill pond.

What he had to fear wa Ihn warm wind that bi Ing. I saw five or six one dny trotting nrrna a piece of open grout and in their midst waa a small wild pig, also trotting. The dogs showed no disposition to attack the pig, nor did the pig show any fear of thedog.t They passed quite close to me and I succeeded In shooting one. A pack of wild dogs when ehtiilng another nntinal glvo tongue, probaM calling to e.ich other. The sound I i Unmistakable one, bjt doe not in the leant resemble the bark of ii dog.

I have aeon It slated that when a pack urotnc an animal which they Intend to run down they will send snmo of Mielr number on ahead and drive th Animal tow aid thi outpost, which then take tip tho chase. In tho ab aence of rellnhln I am In- to recard this statement a rather doubtful. Tho red dog Is most destructive to game. In the eastern portion of the foreat division which borders on tha "I lend weight" Is not what at first It appear! to be the weight of a ship In avoirdupois tons as she stands In dock. A small cargo boat can have a proportionately greater "dead weight" than a big liner.

"Dead weight" represents the avoirdupois tons a ship can lloat In addition to her own weight. For example, It 1 llko tho weight of tho water that can be put Into a tank to fill It up. It Is not tho weight of tho tank and tho Water combined, that Is "displacement," or the weight of water in avoirdupois tons dlsplnced when a elitp I fully loaded. Displacement la tho Indicator which prevents the overloading of the ship. to so a to In as ton down In front of a amall herd of antelope.

He aut down and watched them. The wolf drove the antelope over a ditch und out of tho ditch another wolf aprang at them. I do not remember whether the aecond wolf caught the anlrlopo or but my Informant wa quite reliable and I accept thi atutemenl na proof that wolve will act In combination when htinting. Wolves In India are regarded pests, and a reward I given by the Government for tfiolr doatruction, aa also for man-rating tiger nnd leopard. In Northern India there I a trlbo of gypalca called "Kanjar.i" ho make a specialty of smoking out and killing wolves In their earth and bringing them to the local district olllner for reward, and there I no doubt that these people very often draw rewards on head and akin which are not thoo of wolves at all.

It Is, as a matter of fact, very difficult to tell tbe fkujl of a Wolf from that of a large dog, tho big pariah" or "pi -dog" which ono finds In the Indian villages. Tho dog, of course, I really of the wolf tribe. Another dodge the "Kanjurs" have la to kill jackals, stuff out tho head with chopped meat, and pull out a lot of the hair. They then ullow the counterfeit to decompose considerably (hoping thus to avoid a rlosa examination) and produce tho faked-up Jackal as a young wolf. Careful examination of the teeth, of course, discloses the fraud to anyono who ha ever compared the skulls of a Jiekal and a wolf.

The Indian hyena Is grnciiilly con-aldercd, nnd la, a nneiklng nnd Cowardly animal, and even when ridden down and speared does not, as fur as my expcrUmcQ roc, try to attack: but remember ono Instatico when i w11 stalking on foot In some locKy MMHHIHIlmMMMMMmtlHIIMIMtlOMINMMmitltMflllMIMMMMIIIIttllM Terms About a. Ships Measurements How largo I a ship? This question doubtless often enters tho mind of landsmen who cannot by means of tho nautical terms "dead weight," "gross tonnage," "net tonnage" and "dls-plucetnnnt," cotijuro up a mental pic-turi of the slxo of vessel. When an unlnillatod person hears thnt a now ship Is to have a gross toiiiiiiao of, say, 40,000 tons ho naturally Infers that these figures represent what tho vessel would weigh If she wero placed on a gigan-" He pair of scale. When he Is told further that the same craft dend Weight of 15,000 (on puzzle il. has a ho la.