Cottfaktktioiis of the CadL-IV. 
pTh£ Cadi and his family were early risers. Hopie Jarie rfitist 
Beds rise early to prepare the humble meal and attend to the 
lutiue labors of the day, and the good Cadi rose early, both 
Icause that the mornings were too insufferably hot to lie 
led, and that he was too amiable as a gentleman and a husband 
I .interfere with his wife's industrious habits, so necessary to 
B livelihood. Nevertheless, when the family and guests met in 
Ib piorning, "after the events narrated in the last chapter," as 
lie five-cent novelist is wont to say, there was a certain con- 
laint exhibited by all, and the conversation was fragmentary and 
Ible. Yet Hopie Jane had settled down into her steady round 
I daily drudgery, patient, taciturn and amply solaced with snuff, 
l& storm of the night before having for her cleared up the 
§mestic atmosphere for many weeks to come. 
■Breakfast, though simple and frugal, was rather solemn on 
mt particular morning, and even the children showed moments 
pen they were apprehensive and quiet for a whole minute at a 
Erp, notwithstanding that Hopie Jane attempted a few carols 
l a voice consisting of three or four harsh notes all out of tune, 
Ir benevolent purpose being to establish that cheerfulness which 
►is so distressingly absent. 
§The good Cadi «at at the head of the table as became him as 
|rd of the castle. At his right, looking demure and sweet- 
er all women look either sweet, sweeter or sweetest — sat his he- 
lved wife, while Moke and Ephraim sat on his left on chairs, 
fcng benches reached down each side of the board table from 
|c dignataries enumerated, for the use of the children, who se- 
■red the desirable seats by clawing, elbowing, pushing and 'snarl- 
|g in their general scramble to be nearest the food supply, much 
ler the manner of the doings of the old-time Scotch border 
larauders, who acted as they listed, 
"Because the good old rule 
Sufficeth them — the simple plan, 
That they should take who have the power, 
And they should keep who can." 
the four dignitaries had cheap coffee, fried rabbit and corn 
ne for breakfast, while the children had corn pone and butter- 
ilk straight, which they had also for dinner and supper, and 
re blooming and strong, notwithstanding their simple diet. 
PATCHING UP EXPENSES, 
telle Cadi's court sought the shady side of the house after 
eakfast. Hopie Jane and the eleven children soon trooped by 
the cornfield, and there was a visible lessening of the constraint 
rthwith. 
'Gadzooks," said Moke, "what a raft of children you have when 
fej are all together." 
'Yes," replied the Cadi, reverently, "the storks have been 
.untifully kind to me. Most poor people consider a big family 
hardship, but it is a blessing to me in my invalid state to 
Ve them to assist in making a living for me." 
Pipes were now lighted, and a 'drink of cider brought around 
em that mellow atmosphere in which all shone socially at their 
St. 
After considering the weather prospects for the day. Moke 
id: "Cadi, I allow as how I will take more interest in trap 
ooting, now that you are barred from the shoots; for there is no 
ie in the" club who can shoot very well, and I allow as how I 
tl. win some money, or at least win enough to pay my shooting 
ipenses." 
"Why do you consider it necessary to win your expenses?" 
lerjed the Cadi. "There is quite as much of a wolfish purpose 
winning your expenses at a shoot as there is in my purpose 
win enough to pay for my tobacco somewhere else." 
"I don't see it that way," said Moke. "I only shoot for 
fart, and if I only make my expenses, I win nothing and have 
ily sport." 
"You deceive yourself, good Moke," retorted the Cadi, in his 
<jst suave tones. "If you cannot afford to pay for your sport, 
fp cannot afford to participate in it. To shoot for sport costs 
oney, and if you get your shooting for nothing, some other 
How or fellows are paying for it. You are patching up your 
iort at some one's else expense. You say you cannot afford it 
herwise? Then you cannot afford it at all, any more than you 
,n afford to keep a yacht, or a game preserve, or any other 
atter of sport which is beyond your means. If you go to 
theater, or a baseball game, or the circus, you pay for your 
:ket and feel when you come away that the entertainment has 
mpensated you-for the outlay. You go a-fishing, and at the end 
the day you feel that the time has been pleasantly spent 
hether you caught anything or not; that is to say, if you are 
e right sort of angler. And yet, when it comes to shooting, 
>u seem to feel that by some hocus pocus you should make 
ime one else pay for your shooting. Now, when you shoot for 
oft, you should pay for your sport; but when you put your 
oney against some one's else money, you are a wolf then in your 
tie way quite as much as others may be in a big way; and when 
ju lose you should not howl at your losses, and should not 
cupy the ears of the world with the disappointing results of 
»ur own doings. When you lose, some other fellow is making 
s expenses as you would be if you won and he lost. Admit 
at you are a little wolf, and ask for a handicap to put you 
j an equality with the big wolves. So long as you shoot for 
Oney, without a handicap, just so long will you be skinned; for, 
£ou bar the experts, the next best class, which is one still far 
lead of you in skill, will then be the experts, and so far as 
iu are concerned you will be no better off than you are now, as 
assured you when I told you 'it's a matter of teeth' some weeks 
:o. If we try to establish a handicap, the objections would come 
m the experts, which woidd be a most conclusive vindication 
a handicap being the right thing." 
'It is impossible to handicap the shooters of targets, owing 
their numbers, irregular shooting, etc.," replied Moke. 
"It is quite time enough to say that it cannot be done after 
e> attempt has been made," replied the Cadi. "There never yet 
as any sweeping reform but what the impossibility of it was 
ost earnestly pointed out beforehand. All progress means 
lange, and change means wreckage of some things, which we 
flieve in, are habituated to, and which perchance are to our 
fm financial advantage. What established sport is there which 
not a handicap? Yet the desired reforms cannot be made so 
adily as if we had a national association." 
THE GUNSMITH'S DELIGHT. 
j£phraim had been listening with a great deal of attention, and 
i broke in with the remark: "I believe that 1 will again join 
l(fhe shoots for sport, and if I can raise money enough I will 
I^e a new drop put in my gun stock, and I believe that it will 
iprove my shooting." 
"More fallacy. As near as I can recollect," said the Cadi, 
MHi have had something done to vour gun a<fer every shoot, 
ith a whimsical belief that the change would improve your 
tooting. You have had the stock made shorter and made 
lorlgef a number of times; you have had ct Monte Carlo hump put 
on and taken off; you have had the trigger pull made easier and 
made harder; you have tried different guns and different chokes, 
and different this, that and the other thing, .every time that you 
have fallen below your average for awhile, with the most un- 
accountable belief that in some mysterious way a change in the 
gun would improve the faults which are within yourself. An 
eminent gunsmith a few days ago told me that if it were not 
for the crank who was always having his gun altered and added to 
he would have to give up his business." 
"That sounds all right, Cadi, but some of the best> shots that 
you and I know have had changes made in their guns," retorted 
Eph., with a manner which indicated that there was no more 
to be said. 
"Very true," replied the Cadi, "but those men had a change 
made to" accomplish a definite purpose. There is a need to 
change a gun if it does not fit right. A fault of that kind needs 
correction. But the whimsical changing this and that on a gun 
every time the shooter makes a bad showing is absurd to the 
last degree. A few shooters will not see any error in them- 
selves. The fault of their poor shooting is either in the puller, 
the traps, the shells, the targets, the background, the gun, the 
pattern, the what not — anything other than themselves, although 
the gun, shells, etc., ,may be the same with which they have 
done good work on previous occasions. If the shooter would sink 
his silly vanity and recognize that his' failure is due to a very 
simple cause — that is to say, that he points his gun wrong — he 
would make a great gain toward improvement. No amount of 
gun tinkering will compensate for the shooter's errors. Pointing 
the gun right always shows well in the scores; excuses, never. 
Only by regular practice can you become a good class shooter, 
Excuses to yotir friends, explanations to all who will listen, 
tinkering of your gun to the end of time will not make a good 
shot of you in lieu of correcting your .own errors with proper 
practice. A plaster on your corns would be quite as relevant. 
However, 1 see Hopie Jane coming back, and perhaps it would 
MAYNARD P. ROACH. 
President Worcester Sportsmen's Association, 
be better to move over to the lodge out of her sight till later 
in the day," said the good Cadi. 
The lodge, which was set on sections of log at each corner, was 
a plain board cabin, in size about 12 by 20, which the Cadi reserved 
as a sleeping room for his guests, and incidentally as a store 
room for old harnesses, saddles, jars of preserved tomatoes, etc. 
Cracks of varying width yawned between the boards of the floor 
and walls; therefore, so far as the exclusion of noises was con- 
cerned, it was the same as if the frail structure did not exist. A 
cheap corn-cob bed was the only furniture. It pleased the fancy of 
the good Cadi to dignify this primitive cabin with a good title. 
THE ROOSTER HANDICAP, 
An oak tree, spreading its rugged limbs protectingly over the 
roof of the lodge, was a living testimonial to the truth of the 
old adage that every rose has its thorn, for Hopie Jane's large 
flock of hens and chickens used it for a roost at night. The 
pride of the flock was a large, awkward, fool Cochin China rooster, 
which the Cadi had named De Reszke, and which had a full 
coarse voice, very rasping to the ear of visitors, and rather given 
to flying off into weird discords when he tried to crow too loudly 
and ecstatically, as was his wont every half-hour of the day and 
night, either on his own motion or in answer to the clarion 
challenge of. the neighboring roosters for a mile around, receiv- 
ing therefor the twittering plaudits of all the home hens, just as 
if he were a real Paderewski of a rooster. 
They were hardly seated on the shady side of the lodge when 
the giant rooster, with his admiring train, strutted up close to 
Moke and saucily turning his head askew, scanned him imperti- 
nently with one eye. Moke remembered the exasperating crow- 
ings of the night before, supplemented with the uneasy gruntings 
of the hogs, which slept under the floor, and the irritating disturb-, 
ance when one would scratch his back with great power against 
the sill, making the frail lodge quiver and heave from ridge pole 
to floor; for the hogs, too, rested badly, the night being hot and 
the fleas viciously active. Moke looked at the rooster with no 
kindly feeling, but he modulated his voice and said mildly: "Cadi, 
what would you take for that rooster?" 
"None of your business. Do you see that road? That leads 
to your home!" and the Cadi pointed his finger accordingly. 
"No offense in asking the price of a rooster, I hope?" ven- 
tured Moke in a humble tone. 
"That depends," said the Cadi, with something of his usual 
affability. "I am rather touchy on that subject sometimes. I 
had a dude from St. Paul, who was staying with me last fall, 
shooting and fishing, and as he expressed it 'living close to nature,' 
although one day, when the meal and bacon gave out, and we 
had no supper, he said very sauciiy to me that it was getting a 
little closer to nature than he expected. The dude and I were 
smoking much as you and I are now, when the father of De 
Reszke walked up much as De Reszke did just now, and the 
dude said, in a dreamy sort of way: 'Cadi, that's a lovely bird,' 
and his face seemed to shine with admiration as he noted the 
beautiful mottlings and pencilings and polished surface, to say 
nothing of the full majestic curves of the whole body. 
" 'There's not another like him in a day's journey,' I replied, 
for I was truly proud of that aristocratic fowl. 'I don't think I'd 
care to sell him to anyone except you.' 
" 'What will you take for him?' he said sweetly. 
"I thought that he was talking just to be a-talking, and that it 
was all talk anyway, much rhe same as shooters frequently chal- 
lenge each other, so I said: 'O, I don't know, about 50 cents 
would be a fair price, i reckon.' I expected to hear him laugh 
at the good joke of such a fine bird selling for 50 cents, but he 
handed me that amount, which I took without a thought that he 
was serious. 
" 'That rooster is mine now, noble Cadi, isn't it?' he quietly 
asked. 
'T was game myself, although I wouldn't have taken the best 
?25 you ever saw for that bird, so I said, 'Of course it's yours, but 
I'll give you a dollar for it if you will sell it back.' 
" T bought that hullabaloo bird because I have a particular use 
for him. Cadi. Pretty thing, isn't it?' Then he turned to my 
oldest boy and said: 'Ike, catch my rooster and I'll give you 
50 cents.' When the rooster was caught, he gathered its feet and 
wing tips all in one hand, while with the other he choked it 
till jts eyes turned red, then walking to the chopping block he 
cut off its head with one blow of the axe, and threw its body to 
the hogs, He then sat down as ca.m as you please and said to 
me: 'Cadi, do you believe that rooster will crow any more of 
nights now?' " 
"Not in a thousand years," commented Moke, 
"Not a solitary hoot," said Ephraim. "No more than you can 
shoot, since we have decapitated you with that manufacturers'' 
agent's handicap." 
Bernard Waters. 
Worcester Sportsmen's Club. 
Worcester, Mass., Sept. 5.— The Worcester Sportsmen's Cluti' 
tournament to-day was well attended, ana among ilie crack shoi.s. 
were} Leroy, Imager, Vvheeier, Dickey, Anison, Puck, Gntthh,. 
Root, Bowktr, Davis, Sneii, Coffin, fturoank, 
Leroy broke 147 Out of the 150 oi the programme and won the-' 
hof-ehand bun. Leroy shot a Remington gun and C M. C. am- 
munition. Everything in connection with the shooting went 
smoothly. E. Oarland was. in charge of the cashier s office.. 
Mrs P. Roach, president of the club, who is very popuiar among; 
the shooters, kept everybody in good humor and made himself, 
useful m many ways. Ihe scores: 
Events: 1 2 ! 
_ Targets: io 15 n 
Davis 12 10 24 
Puck 10 14 9 22 
Wails 7 14 9 22 
Burbank 7 13 
McLellan 
liucklin .. 
Buck 
Root 
10 
Bain 
Getclu 
Stacy 
Gleason 9 10 7 .. 
Slade 5 11 8 .. 
5 6 7 
8 9 10 
10 15 20 10 25 10 
150 
10 16 19 10 M 
10 
147 
9 13 17 
10 24 10 
141 
10 13 lis 
9 24 10 
137 
a U 17 10 Z4 10 
140' 
.. 25 
9 
10 13 19 
9 25 
8 
139i 
10 15 18 
9 21 10 
135> 
5 12 IS 
10 20 10 
132; 
9 12 17 
10 22 
7' 
129) 
10 11 16 
8 22 10 
130) 
9 14 18 
8 12 19 
S 21 10 
125 
6 12 14 
8 19 
9 14 19 
9 19 
's 
101 
10 11 17 
7 .. .. 
S 21 
6 13 18 
8 .. 
8 23 
'h 
122 
7 14 11 
10 18 
7 
111 
8 12 17 
8 .. 
8 
7 .. 12 
5 17 
9 
7 11 14 
8 .. 
5 7 
7 .. .. 
5 .. 
3 .. .. 
5 6 
W arren 5 . . . , 
Hanson 8 10 . . 
Kinney . 
18 9 
4 .. . 
7 12 18 
4 11 2 . . 
Campbell [ 3 9 5 16 6 5 9 . . 15 
Hoyl 
9 .. 
Brown 8 22 8 12 16 6 24 8 
Bugam 
5 .. 6 
7 
Kennicut 9 
Tolman , io 
Jones 5 [] "| 
Roach ,. . . .,13 
A. W. Walls. Sec'y'. 
Brockton Gun Club. 
Brockton, Mass., Sept. 5.— The weather here to-day was very 
hot, yet a goodly number of the amateur trap-shooters took a 
lively interest in the sweeps, merchandise and charm shooting 
while their friends turned out in good numbers, fully three-score 
and ten. Grant shot a professional gait, .944 per cpnt : Allen 
.875 per cent.; Worthing, .821 per cent.; Barrett, .813 per cent. 
Ihe next shoot will be on Sept. 17. 
Merchandise event, 25 targets, unknown angles: Allen 25, Grant' 
25, Barrett 25, W. Woodard 23, Stanley 25, Stork 21, Worthing 23, 
Donaghue 25, Scott 25. LeonarcK17, W. Murdock 22, Taylor 25v 
Turner 23, Carr 25, Thayer 22. 
"Watch charm event, 25 targets, unknown angles: Scott 23, Allen 
25, Donaghue 21, Worthing 25, Murdock 25, Turner 18, Leonard 
25, Grant 24, Barrett 23, Carr 24, W. Woodard 25. 
Events : 123456789 10 11 
Targets: ' 10 10 15 10 25 10 25 10 10 10 10 
Grant 9 9 11 . . 24 . . 20 7 10 9 9 
Allen 10 6 12 8 23 8 22 10 9 10 9 
W Murdock 5 4 11 8 15 5 38 6 .. 2 5 
Donaghue 7 8 7 7 18 3 14 , 
Taylor 7 9 11 7 21 4 . . 7 8 , . . . 
Stork 4 8 13 5 17 3.. 9 6 9 8 
Scott 9 8 7 8 21 . . 19 
Leonard 9 7 11 8 9 3 22 7 8 7 7 
Barrett 9 10 12 7 22 9 19 7 7 8 8 
W Woodard '. 8 8 . . . . 16 . . 18 . . . . 6 6 
Worthing 9 11 8 20 7 23 
Carr 9 11 9 21 8 17 4 
Stanley 13 .. 23 .. 7 Si 
Turner . 4 16 .. 11 .. .. .. .. 
Toss 3 . . , . 
Thayer 5 , 14 
A. A. Barrett, Sec'y. 
Schenectady Gun Club, 
Schenectady, N; Y., Sept. 5.— Each was a 15-target event, $1.25 
entrance, five moneys, in the Labor Day shoot of the Schenectady 
Gun Club: «* 
Events: 123456789 10 11 12 13 
Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 
Pequin 12 7 8 13 9 11 8 8 8 10 10 10 10 
Weeks , 11 9 8 12 10 11 10 10 14 11 13 10 11 
Bancroft 5 9 6 10 6 9 7 9 7 6 7 4 , 
Lyon 7 7 11 8 7 6 10 11 9 10 3 . . . . 
Levengston 14 12 15 15 14 14 15 13 15 14 12 14 12' 
Huyck 11 9 8 10 10 11 8 10 9 10 7 . . . 
Smith 11 13 13 13 14 13 12 12 14 13 13 13 12 ' 
Berg 13 8 7 11 14 10 11 9 11 11 10 11 6; 
Wallburg 11 11 12 10 11 12 12 10 11 12 9 11 8; 
Valentine 11 13 7 12 10 13 9 13 11 8 . . 
Arnold 13 15 9 15 11 14 13 11 10 12 11' 
Jordan 14 13 15 14 14 15 14 13 15 11 13' 
Herman 8 14 12 13 7 12 1112 fi 
Lefever 12 11 15 13 31 13 13 11 12 
Schoeneigh .. ., 6 6 9 6 .. 
Match between Smith and Arnold, $1 a side and price of birds ■• 
Smith 21, Arnold 19. 
Match between Wallburg, Smith and Arnold, 5 pairs, $1 a side 
winner take all, low man to pay for birds: Wallburg 7, Smith 9*' 
Arnold 5. 
