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"DOGGIN" .A. Reminder of Jiruest Mciiaffvy, in After all bas been done and said there is something in the primitive savagery of a boy that outkeens the savor of later days. I sometimes think of that when waiting by a good pointer as he "stands" a bevy of quail and I can step forward with breech-loader ready for the birds to burst from cover. It in grand sport with a trusty friend along to hour one's explanation of how easy shots arc missed. Days in the cornfields and brush, down in the little "slues" between the field and ?round old i orchards and along fences and creek bottoms after "Hub Whit?." Hut sometimes i,hc frantic rush of a "cot tontail" will dart by a dog's nose, the dog standing steady as a rock and not minding it. The canines of other days hadn't that pointer's control not the lank hound and the two non descript curs with which I used to go "doggin" rabbits in the Missouri hills. As the invironmcnt is bent the boy is inclined, and there in Nodaway County we were inclined to huut. A mile from town on one side the prairies lay and in the early summer they were red with wild strawberries. To the north and northwest was tho timber, heavy and threatening, and with many squirrels and rabbits in its mazes. Tho men hunted prairie chickens, turkeys and deer mainly, but we boys went "doggin" rabbits. A "doggin" trip was usually planned Friday night to be put into execution the following Saturday morning early. There was a council of war and the biggest boy generally ruled the roost and laid out the route to bo taken. Kubc Swearingen always led us, be cause his father owned the hound that wo took along, and also because Bubo could lick cither of us. This hound was a sad-eyed, long-eared animal, that had one of the most cavernous appetite ever known in dog dom. lie could cat his weight in mixed truck every twenty four hours and never gain a pound for it, either. He was a bay brute, with a high bari tone voiot? and four tall legs. lie was a past prime rabbitcr, though, and held on a cold trail liko a boy's tonguo to a frosty pump handle. Oscar and Juno were tho other dogs, and they were just yallory dogs ?pe^ky fighters, small and ablo to worm through brush piles slicker than a blacksnake. The hound's namo was Henry Clay and whenever Henry "hollered" it meant rabbits. Ho would drag himself lazily along until we got to the woods and then bo would sniff a little at the leaves and tip-toe around, gettiug more aud more interested all the time, and finally he would soratch back a bunch of soil with his hind feet and look up diago nally with that long, sharp head of his. At last he would let out a moan that was half a yawn and half a yelp, and then wo knew that he had got tho scent. And then Oscar and Juno would "scrougc" in between his legs and bark and "rassie" around in the brush aud presently a frantic rabbit would emerge from a hiding plaoc, and with fierce, joyous yells of "There ho goesl" the trio of boys would rush forward and the dogs would stretch out in a frenzied line after tho rabbit. Henry Clay usually ran th^^i into brush piles or hollow logs, and cither way it was suicide for the rabbit. If the prey scudded into a brush pile old Henry would lope up and smell around a few seconds and then givo a tell-talo bay that said as plain as daylight, "Here he is! Oop-oop!" Then llube would get up on tho brush pile and Randolph and I would tako up posi tions around the pile and then wo would let Juno and Oscar squeeze in and interview the rabbit. Each of us boys Lad a ? tick, and what with Henry Clay and his willing mouth, the sharp teeth of tho two "yaller" dogs and our clubs tho rabbit had his "own doin's" to get away ?rom us. If ho did man age to run tho gauntlet it was merely a caeo of a ohaso to another brush heap and "encore" by the ontire com- j pany. A certain amount of this was bound to discourage the most ambitious rab bit. As for Henry Clay, he never tired in tho woods. I'll give him that credit, anyway. And the two smaller dogs forgot evcrythin pertaining to fatigue in the mad energy of t'm> chase. As for boys, why up to 20 their sinews are all steel and whalebone, and it's yonly when thoy get in bed that they <TAf. firorJ. Rn \?)ien wn sont. ''Aa<??;?" <=>-- ?- ? ? -- - ?-OB'" it certainly great sport. The rab bits v ere outlawed anyway, as their specialty was young apple trees and "garden sass," so we were nevor hin dered in our operations by even the crustiest of tho fanners. It was a comparatively easy matter to got fif teen or twenty rabbits in those" days, and we never quit until nightfall. Bain or shine, the hunt Went on. RABBITS. Boyhood Days. (In- ('liiroj/o llecord. Cold or hot, we never backed down when tin.- hunt had been arranged. And wc three made a close corporation out of it and no one was allowed to participate in our hunts but ourselves. Of course, all firearms were strictly prohibited in these hunts, a::d indeed there was no need of any. When Henry Clay got the bearings of any particular rabbit nine times out of ten the rabbit would have saved time sim ply by lying down and giving up. It was almost a certain thing that the combination would get him. Tor the hound very seldom lost tho trail, the 'curs could stand the going, and the j boys never let up until the rabbit wilted. A boy's cruelty may bo thoughtlessness or a trace of the origi nal .stone age gentleman. Hither way . it is there, and he cannot understand the line gradations between the murder of tho Thanksgiving gobbler and the 1 slaying of the defenceless rabbit. Tho latter, indeed, might sometimes j getaway. Hut for a selected holiday turkey there was no chance on earth. * When a rabbit betook himself to a ' hollow log we used to chop him out or twist him out. Chopping him out was when the hole in the log was too crooked to admit of poking in a stick j to twist him witu, or when the rabbit got up into a log beyond tho reach of tho sticks. We would put our ears to ' tho log, pound it, and finally locate tho unfortunate cottontail. And when this was done the light axe in j the hands of Rube solved the problem j speedily and the rabbit was added to his mates. It was cruel, of course, ^ from a humanitarian point of view, j If wc could twist tho rabbit out we simply stuck a split stick into the hole uutil wc reached the quarry and t then got a purchase on him with the split end and persuaded him to come out. Whenever wo ran a rabbit into a cornshock we would rip tho shock to pieces liko Indians and out would bounce the rabbit, with Henry Clay and Oscar and Juno in hot pursuit, . and generally someone of tho proces sion nabbed him. Such a pandemo- j niuin of yells and scouts, with the ( barking of tho smaller dogs and tho j ^ baying of the hound to add to the music. Rube Swcaringen used to kind of forget that ho was tho boss, and when we got into a scrimmage or 1 that kind it was every ono for himself . and woe to the rabbit. Squirrels wo didn't care much for. Occasionally one of the curs would nip a fox squir rel which had' ventured too far from his home tree; but, generally speak ing, wo didn't bother with them, i Thoic Missouri rabbits wero big fel- 1 lows?long-legged, rangy and of excel lent staying powers. But we wero too j much for them, and never a Saturday in the late fall season and early winter that wo failed to get a good bunch. Wo kept tho dogs hungry whilo we were hunting, for to feed them would have been to destroy their usefulness. They all knew better than to try to eat a rabbit after they had killed ono. That would have meant a good stiff licking, administered on the spot, and Ilube wasn't afraid to waltz right into Henrj Clay if he had ever tried it. He did try it once and I think old Henry never forgot it. Kube just naturally grabbed up a big "chunk of brush" and wore it "plum out" on him, as he expressed it. And that settled the rabbit eating issue right there. Oscar and Juno had been olubbed out of such notions when they wore puppies. It was hard to say which enjoyed it the most, tho hoys or the dogs. Oscar used to turn more than a dozen "summersets" every morning we went to the woods. Juno would run around in a cirole and Henry Clay would bay when wo got to the timber until you would havo thought he would split his throat. Coming home wo would string tho rabbits ou a sapling and trail through the town with the admiring comments of old and young following us. That was not tho least of the fun, I can tell you. And rabbit pic, and stewed rab bit, and fried rabbit, and rabbit roast ed and luffed was also something not to be sneezed at. So, although the latter-day hunting has its elegancies and its soience of hand and eye, of brain and musole, more complicated to win success, I do not ask anything better than to be 11 years old again aud go "doggin" rabbits with Rube and Randolph, Oscar and Juno and that old, reliable standby, Henry Clav. Tho best I***Ie liv*** i""do *,/* DoWitt's Little Early Risers. They never gripe. Evans' Pharmacy. ? Tho population of tho State of Now York, as officially announced, is i 7,268,012, as against 5,997,853 in 1S90. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are dainty little pilla, but they never fail to cleanse the liver and invigorate the ayatem. Evans' Pharmaov. W. 0. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Cond acted by the ladies of the-W. C. T. U. of Andereon. S. C. The Or.at Need of Temperance Commit? tee Work. It is said that the consumption of intoxicating liquors in this country, especially among women, is largely on the increase, and that t*?:'c ia danger of social drinkiog regaining the place it held in the days of our forefathers. Our annual liquor bill is one billion dollars?almost one hundred dollars for each family. If this sum were given to a :'ian in Ave dollar gold pieces he migi:t walk round the earth at the equator three times and drop jnc at every step. The average annual consumption of liquor for each man, woman and child io the United States is fifty-six gallons of beer, four of whiskey, and one of wine. San Fran cisco also consumes in ouo year a j quantity of beer sufficient to ?ii a liugc cask, in which the famous battle ship Oregon could easily be floated. The saloons of our country, allowing eleven feet frontage for each, would line both sides of a street reaching 'rom Washington, D. C, tu Kansas L'ity, Mo. Each year these dens of iniquity graduate and turn into the street six hundred thousand drunkards, )f whom one hundred thousand are joys from sixteeu to twenty years of ige. In view of these terrible and ap palling facts every Temperance Socie ,y in our land should appoint an ear nest Temperance CommivUee that will esolutely do its utmost to promote .he cause of iempcranco. Not long jeforc her death Frances K. Willard sent out the following stirring ap peal to members of Temperance Com nittccs: "Only a clear brain oan think God's houghts after Him. Only a steady land can glorify the divine Carpenter jy faithful industry. Only a heart inhurricd by artificial stimulants can jo loyal in its jove towards Christ and lumanity. I beseech you to be inces sant and ingenuous iu your efforts to each total abstinence for the sake of read, hand and heart and to take as pour watch-word "Home protection ind tho liquor traffic must be destroy jd." Create a sentiment for temper luoo and against intemperance. Do pour best to create a public senti nent against tippling. Come out fair ind square for total abstinence. Let t be known that you are a positivo ;nemy to the saloon and the tippler. Don't minco matters?come right out ind oppose intemperance in every 'orni. Urge the young ladies of our .own not to keep company with a poung man who drinks?unless their iS80ciation with him is to win him iway from drink habit. Alcohol is a 'oc so deceptive, so insidious, so pow erful that men who use it, even in Moderation, daro say they are safe. Axel Gustafson, tho eminent author )f the Foundation of Death, says: 'We want the abstinence that is vol ?ntarily imposed upon himself by nan, under tho serious conviotion .hat intoxicating drinks are evil. These arc wise words, worthy of con sideration. Every effort to secure pledge signers should be accompanied jy a campaign of instructions on the subject. The instructions shou'd bo llooe such lines as these: 1st. The na tu i o of alcohol. 2nd. The effects of aleoholio drinks ju tho organs of the human body. 3rd. The failure of aloohol to pre vent diseaso or prolong life. 4th. The inability of alcohol to sus Lain the system in extreme heat or cold. 5th. The danger of moderate drink ing. 6th. The poverty, crime, insanity, ind immorality resulting from the use if liquor. Promote the cause of temperance- in Lho Sunday Sohool and Churoh. In* a luiet way the Temperance Committee aan exert a powerful influence in the looal Churoh by securing temperance teaching in the Sunday Sohool, the placing of temperanoe books in the li brary, the circulation of temperanoe papers among the Sunday Sohool scholars, the preaching of temperanoe sermons by the pafetor, and tue using of unfermented wine at the commun ion table. Mrs. W. A. Ciu .?man. Cures Contagions Blood Foison.? Trial Treatment Free. It is especially the deep-seated, ob stinate cases that B. B. B. cures. It matters not if the doctors or patent medicines have failed to our*b,B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) always prompt ly reaohes tho poison and roots out and drains it from the system, heals every sore or pimplo, stops hair from falling out, and cures tho disease so the symptoms oan never return. B. B. B. cured K. P. B. JoneB, At lanta, Ga., of contagious blood poison; had copper colored eruptions all over tho body, excruciating aches and pains in bones and joints, falling of the hair, sore throat. His troubles resisted the treatment of the most noted doctors, yet he was completely cured by ten bottles of Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B) llobert Ward, Maxoy, Ga.. suffered from secondary and tertiary blood poi son, face and shoulders a mass of cor ruption and sores; bogan to eat into tho_ skull bones; eleven bottles of B. a. B. sompieceiy ourcd him. If you have eczema, canoer, scrofula, risings, brih, ulcers, then B. B. B. will make t ppvfeot cure. T;ial treatment freo by writing B^od Balm Co., 880 Mitchell street, Atlan ta, Ga. Describe your trouble and we will iucludo free persona! medical ad vice. Over 3,000 cures by B. B. B. Hill-Orr Dru? Co., Wilhite & Wilhite, and Evans Pharmacy. Not Dried Currants. "Mother wants a pound of dried currants," said a little girl, who came into tho learned grocer's store in Eighth avenue. "I hain't got a dried currant in the store and there hain't none in the city," replied the learned grocer. 'But I know what you want, Sissy, and i've got 'em." The learned grocer brought forth a box of the little, sticky, sugary, gritty currants, and which is used in fruit cake, plum puddings, mince pies, buns aud the like. "Why, them's 'em," exclaimed the little girl. "Yes, them's 'em," assented the grocer, "and if the Grecian maiden who trod this particular lot of 'em into ship shape had used a little water or even a feather duster on her feet be fore she began there wouldn't be so much grit in 'cm as there is. She must have been having a regular hoe dewn or. the classic sauds before she began to dance on this box of fruit. There, sissy, tell your mother sho must bathe 'cm in several waters be fore she uses 'cm, or she might just as well put a lot of sandpaper in her fruit cake. And tell her that they ain't dried currants, either." "What's the reason they ain't dried currants?" demanded a disputative customer when the girl had gone. "They ain't dried currants any more than they aro dried pumpkins," re plied the grocer. "Tho reason they ain't dried currants is that they weren't currants before they were dried. Good reason enough, ain't it?" "Yes," said the customer, less dis putative than ho was. "But what does everybody call them dried cur rants for, then?" "'Cause they dou' i know any bet ter," said tho learned grocer. "They'll go right on coming in here and asking for dried currants just tho same after I tell 'em why they ain't dried cur rants as they did before." "What should they ask for, then?" inquired the customer. "If any man should oome in here and aBk for dried corinths," replied the learned grocer, "he would not ne cessarily be a gentleman, but I'd bet on him being a scholar. Dried cor inths is what you should ask for when you want this little sugar-coated, gritty raisin, for it's a raisin, pure and simple." "How's that?" the customer want ed to know. "Because it was a grape before it waB dried," said tho grocer, "and if raisins ain't grapes, what are they?' "But you s?id these were dried cor inths," persisted the customer "What's a corinth, anyhow?" "A corinth is the smallest grape that grows," replied the learned gro cer, "and it lost its name years and years ago because it was gradually corrupted into 'currant,' which became also the name of the acidulated little berry of our garden, which you might dry from now until Gabriel sounds his ho7n without getting it nearer the condition of a raisin than a pea is. This little grape grows all over the islands of the Grecian Archipelago, and was first exported from Corinth, and that's what gave it its proper name. The bunohes don't grow much bigger than a stem of red currants, aud they are so full of sugar that when they are picked and dried in the sun they actually seem to melt and run together like gumdrops, and it takes a lot of care and work to sepa rate them again. After they are separated is the time when tho Gre cian maiden gets her work in on 'em, for it is ono of her pleasant da.ies to jump on a heap of the sticky stuff w?tb her bsre fest until she bss com pressed enough of tho little raisins to squeeze three boxes of them into one. No hydraulic pump could do it better. If it could wo wouldn't have the sand and grit tho maiden's feet mingle with tho fruit, and without that no dried corinths are genuine. "Still, I shall expect folks to come in here right along and ask for d-ied currants just the same," said i.he learned grocer, as he went to wait on a new customer.?New York Press. Yon Know What You Are Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and ^Quinine in a tasteless fr m. No Cure, No Pay. 50o. ? "Why is it wicked to out ou horses' tails?" asked tho teacher. "Because what God hath joined let no man pull asunder," came the quick reply. 'r Don't Use a ReMg&rator it is kept clean with GOLD DUST Washing Powder The taint of decaying particles of food is absolute poison. LOADED SHELLS Of all kinds, loaded with any size of load. SMOKELESS SHELLS, At only 50c. per box. Two Solid Gar Loads of Loaded Shells Have been received by ua this season. We would like to furnish you your Loaded Shells for Christmas. 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