THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA Thursday, November 18th, 1900. THE HUNTING WOLF THEODORE ROOSEVELT fCopyright, 1523, by G. P. Putnam's Sona Published under arrangement with G. P Putnam's Sons, New York and London.) HOUGH 1 have npever known wolves to attack | hound, | and | of the dogs, and in less than a minute | one of the greyhounds ranged up and passed him with a savage snap that brought him to; and recover the whole pack rushed at him. Wenkened he was he could make no effective fight against so many foes, and indeed had a chance for but one or two rapid before he was thrown down and cempletely covered by the bodies of his enemies. Yet with one of these snaps he did damage, as a shrill yell told, and in a second an over-rash track-hound came out of the struggle with a deep gash across his shoulders, The worrying, growling, snarling were terrific, but In a us snaps | minute the heaving mass grew motion. ¢ross between a greyhound and a fox- and two others that were crosses between a greyhound and a | wire-halred Scotch deer-bound. Old | | man Prindle’s contribution to the pack | a man, yet in the wilder | | mongrels of great strength and fero- | portion of the far North. west I have heard them come around camp very | close, growling so sav- agely as to make one almost reluctant to leave the camp fire and go out into the darkness unarmed. Once I was camped In the fall near a lonely little | lake In the mountains, by the edge of | quite a broad stream. Boon after night- | fall three or four wolves came around camp and kept me awake by thelr sin- | ister and dismal howling. Two or three times they came so close to the fire that I could hear them snap thelr Jaws and growl, and at one time I pos- itively thought that they Intended to try to get into camp, so excited were they by the smell of the fresh meat. After a while they stopped howling: and then all was silent for an hour or 80. I let the fire go out and was turn Ing into bed when I suddenly heard some animal of considerable size come down to the stream nearly me and begin to splash across, first wading, then swimming. It was pitch dark, and I could not possibly see, but I felt sure It was a wolf. However after coming half-way over it changed #8 mind and swam back to the oppo “site bank: nor did I see or hear any thing more of the night m Five or six times on my ranch I have had sh always obtalnped by accident ways, I regret to opt oslite rauders iains or on ts at wolves and al- Often gay, missed. WI Sech own rite mitted our nevertheless a little stream whicl I saw him get on a thirty distant and walk slowly off with his eyes turned toward us The first shot smashed his shoulders and brough' him down. The wolf Is one of the animals which ean only be hunted successfully with dogs. however, do not take at all kindly to the pursuit. A wolf is a terrible fighter. He will a) pack of hounds by rabid snaps with his giant jaws damage himself; nor are the ordinary big dogs, supposed to be fighting dogs able to tackle him without special training. | known one wolf to kill a bulldog which had rushed at It with a single snap The true way to kill wolves, how- ever, is to hunt them with greyhounds on the great plains. Nothing more ex ¢iting than this sport can p imagined. It Is not that the greyhound lately pure blood of high for the purposes Once | had the good fort ness a very exciting hu acter among t ern Rockles house of 1 will eall . rards Most dogs, while suffering little have wmaibly be AIWAFS DecCessary 8 should be of ahso Prize often pre vinning dogs pedigree we use leas The worrying, gro |..y and marling were Lorrie at daggers drawn neighbor, n nearest mountain with his cross grained farmer, who may be known as old man | Prindle. There was one point, how ever, on which the two came together They were exceedingly fond of hunt Ing with hounds. The Judge had three or four track-hounds, and four of what he called swift-hounds, the latter In cluding one pure-bred greyhound bitch of wonderful speed and temper, a dun colored yelping aolmal which was a | blood runhing from its flanks, while | consisted of two Immense brindled | clous temper. As I was very anxious to see a wolf- | hunt the Judge volunteerd to get one | up, and asked old man Prindle to as- | sist, for the sake of his two big fight- | ing dogs; though the very names of the latter, General Grant and Qld Abe, were gall and wormwood to the un- | reconstructed soul of the Judge. Still | they were the only dogs anywhere | around capable of tackling a savage timber wolf, and without their ald the Judge's own high-spirited animals ran a serious risk of Injury, for they were altogether too game to let any beast escape without a struggle. Luck favored us, Two wolves had killed a calf and dragged It Into a long patch of dense brush where there was a little spring, the whole furnishing ad- mirable cover for any wild beast, Ear- ly In the morning we started on horse- back for th's bit of cover, which was some three miles off. The party con sisted of the Judge, old man Prindle, a cowboy, myself, and the dogs. The judge and I carried our rifles and the cowboy his revolver, but old man Prin die had nothing but a heavy whip, for he swore, with many oaths, that no one should interfere with his big dogs, fo by themselves would “make wolf sicker than a Our shaggy ponies rack galt over the The two big d master, grim they surely feel Ive-mile 88, gs an 4 | tied 4 i ’ nn : rack-QoUunas were bottoms of the the dry watercourses. At last we reached a somewhat deep er valley, In which the were harbored. Wolves lle close In the day- filme and will not leave cover if they can help it; and as they had both food within knew It was couple would Was a cou or four owth of wolves we this and water ‘4 that The valley most unlikely be gone, hundred ya~ds sie of broad and three times od with a ash and dwarf els underbrush tween he gave his rifle, with two greyhounds a n and cedar, thorny choking the Posting the cowboy, to whom as oug spaces be on one side of the upper end, and oid Prindle two th others on left at the to guard against the poss! ) ack r y Into the thi man with . opposite side, while 1 lower end bility of th Judge hir pear me and to let them fin wns olf es breaking the the track h big dogs n ’ lowed to g power of = were sure baying of ence wot ter and = wolves Oo pause of unde JOrRes entered the t t We | eagerly looking t morning from the thik horseman and ghaowed that the tra ping on a minutes with his he sat ess on our | rough the keen fresl wi a clamorous baying ket In which both the dogs had disappeared hounds had struck belr quarry and were run hot For a couple of r 1 Ri i the scent we could not be quite certain which the game going to break. The hounds ran zigzag through the brush, as could tell thelr baying, and once some yelping and a great row showed thal they had come rather closer than they had expected upon at least one of the wolves In another minute, however, the Int ter found it too hot for them and bolted from the thicket. My first no tice of this was seeing the cowboy who was standing by the side of his horse, suddenly throw up his rifle and fire, while the greyhounds who had been springing high in the alr, half maddened by the clamor In the thicket below, for a moment dashed off the wrong way, confused by the report of the gun. 1 rode for all I was worth to where the cowboy stood, and In | stantly caught a glimpse of two | wolves, grizziedgray and brown, which having teen turned by his shot | had started straight over the hill across the plain toward the mountains three miles away, AS soon as | saw | them | saw also that the rearmost of | the couple had been hit somewhere in | the body and was lagging behind, the | WAY was we by the two greyhounds were racing after it; and at the same moment the track- hounds and the big dogs burst out of the thicket, yelling savagely as they struck the bloody trall. The wolf was hard hit, and staggered as he ran. Ia did not have a hundred yards' start | The less and the dogs drew off, save one or two that still continued to worry the dead wolf as It lay stark and stiff with glazed eyes and rumpled fur, No sooner were we satisfied that it was dead than the Judge, with cheers and oaths and crackings of his whip, | urged the dogs after the other wolf, two greyhounds that had been with old man Prindle had fortunately not been able to see the wolves whet they first broke from the cover, and never saw the wounded wolf at a'l, starting off at full speed after the un- | wounded one the instant he topped the He bad taken advan- | crest of the hill tage of a slight hollow and turned, and now the chase was crossing us half a mile away, With whip and spur we flew towards them, our two greyhounds stretching out In front and leaving us hounds and big dogs running after them just abedd of the horses, Forto- nately the wolf plunged for a momen” hollow and again us a little beushy back, and into a doubied this gave before he could | | was worth something to him | taken to the family with ROM 10WA TO SECURE WIFE THE LASS A LITTLE TIMID, BUT YET WILLING WILL LOOK NEW HOME OVER Accompanied the Man to lowa Where She May Say the Final Word-—In- teresting Romance~~Their First Meeting. CAME F A few west inquiry the and made week ago a man from arrived at Beech Creek for Mrs. Amanda Shearer, widow, This lady had been the house keeper for John FP. DeHaas at the Bellevue until the day before the man appeared on the He siderably disappointed when he that the lady had gone to Mill Hall and told Mr. DeHaas to hurry and drive him where she was, as his time He was | whom Mrs. Shearer was temporarily visiting, and there they met for the first time, It appears that the gentleman came east after considerable a scene WAS cone- | found correspondence and an exchange of photographs, the im- portunity coming through relatives of Mrs. Shearer residing in Jowa, who are neighbors of the gentleman. The lat- ter seemed In no hurry to get back west after he met Mrs. Shearer and time did not seem to be worth so much as it did before he found her. He is a man 65 and 60 old, speaks with decidedly cent and is reputed to ow Iowa and in Mrs between years German ac a farm in ithwestery n vn another Howey Kansa or Experience in the manu- facture of Gasoline means much to the motorist. In the use of Waverly Brands _ 76°— Motor Stove— chance to see the end of the chase from | yhounds which the pursuit distance behind they and then with a tre mendous race the little bitch ran past him and inflicted a vicious bite In the He whirled around his jaws clashed The taken up nt crept until wearby had first then but a Nearer thes two gre were al were wit} » 1} ten yards ham a top and those of a sprun though bh fust big beast's ike like v - bear-trap, but quick was she was quicker and savage in an ime his fight at on cleared Lis rush other moment he rest full speed. a speed which only that of but ain greyhout st | nd though he was nf kept turned around exceeded: secon 1 feints he watching | ¢r ¥ the grevh 2 pinned the beast ck and The c ther Jump but rising by ma wolf shook himself free, catching one dog by the ear and tearing mif off Then he sat down on his haunches and the greyhounds ranged the around him twenty yards forn ing a treat, though dare him However, was at han ® In another moment Old Abe and General Grant came running up at headlong speed and smashed into the wolf I® le of battering rams. He rose on his hind legs lke a wrestler as they came at him. the grey hounds rising and bouncing up and down like rubler ball I could just see the wolf and the first big dog locked together, as the nd made good bis throat-hold. In another moment over all three tumbled, the greyhounds and one or two of the track -hounds Jumped in to take part in the killing occupied the wolf's attention and took cleverly the threw im complets over wel on It In an stant in strength the it iN meelves some off, rng which forbade his re they themselves did not touch the end e A cou niso | "a one while all the punishing, while in a trice one | of the greyhounds, having seized him by the hind-leg, stretched him out, and the others were biting his undefended belly. The snarling and yelling of the dealer will supply you. Waverly il Works Co. Centrai R. R_ of Pa. Train Schedule Reliefonte ¥ r ee] 2 . 7M T AA 4 - leave M ¥ Leave I Ww £1 FANCY PRICES HALTED. gore merchants at once began to re- celve cars of potatoes from other dig- tricts and the price dropped from $1 to 65 and 70 cents ¢ which Crop w actually ome dis- be pur cent a pound, Danish whed i Lock Haven and hucksters who Ing fancy prices on pot ter, and who claimed that butter would sell at 50 cents a pound In port, Juet received a sud ) Potatoes were at $1 a b ihe weeks ago, but grocers duce dealers ed car after elsewhere, and are selir 65 to 75 Express farmers pated realliz- atoes this win says f d Cabbag antic ¥ 3 . 1H BCarce in » county may ’ ’ # low as one llams py f cabbag have den far sbbage tail here retalling . BOE Shipment of Apples. in that city have receiv ’ ris car of t purchased at in and pro Heavy rove expo re of Bnvye- il mt pped out ght on ibers g them now an markets, from the anna cents | § which the market ddied 1 pound, iter, wis eit ipply on of es asked, fu . 1e} Saturday when pe abou Y 48 low at 2h Practically the sam sented themselves in cents i men In company with cer- f put up a big bluff, BOING your conditions pre- ock Haven, but | eb) FIFTEEN [IEADAGIES CURED FoR 10* BY Movers TIEADACHE TABIETS FOR SALE BY ALLDEALERS eR ¢ . 3 x best Three : Y ¢ Desi manpuiact oll - id ma , Dollar Stoes they could mike. * Pubber Shoes aticowledge no equals alt the price Ave just sg red ’ $ ote th WOMEN'S STYLES MEN'S STYLES or MINGLE'S SHOE STORE, BELLEFONTE, PA, Say Foods Order one package, either Puffed Wheat or Puffed Rice. will know the whole story. Hear what your folks say when they taste the gigantic grains. ask for more. Do this tomorrow—order the pack- Do it to learn just how age now, much you are missing, Hosts of housewives have already done this, and been glad that we told them to do it. The Lig dogs more than | worry made a nolse so flendish that it | was fairly bloodeurdling: then It grad ually died down, and the second wolf lay limp on the pianln, killed by the | This wolf decidedly unassisted heavier dog rather wae and sinewy feet and longer fanms Prof. A. H. Espenshade and Dr. Gil), of State College, represented Penn Htate at the Inaugural of Dr. W. A. Hhanklin as president of Wesleyan university, at Middletown, Conn, last week. Both gentlemen are gradustes of this Institution, taller | than either of the big dogs, with more | These are the foods invented by Prof. An- derson, and this is his curious process: The whole wheat or rice kernels are put into Then the guns are revolved for sixty minutes in a heat of 550 degrees, sealed guns, mendous, Puffed Wheat—10c That fierce heat turns the moisture in the grain to steam, and the pressure becomes tre- Now, “I Will Try These Shot from Guns” And their folks have been glad. Then vou For no other cereal foods can com- pare with them. None are even half See if they $0 good. The result is this: Those folks last month served seventeen million dishes of these delightful foods. Can you doubt that you are going to like them as well as the rest of the world ? One package will tell. Puffed Rice—15¢ Then the guns are unsealed, and the steam explodes. Instantly every starch granule is blasted into a myriad particles. The kernels of grain are expanded eight times. Yet the coats are unbroken, the shapes are unaltered. We have simply the magnified grain, One package will tell you why people de- light in them, Order it now. Made only by The Quaker Oats Company
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