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cockle shell, and you'll be arrested even if you do." 
"Arrested— how?" we asked. By way of answer he 
raised his eyebrows and held up a fat hand in eloquent 
warning. However, we carefully selected our channel 
from the bridge, and twenty minutes later were coming 
down stream toward the arches as cautiously as our speed 
would permit. People ran along the shore waving their 
hats and shouting to us to stop. The bridge in front was 
black with the crowd waiting to see the verruckte hng- 
lander upset. We reached the arch and recognized our 
channel. The water dropped suddenly in front of us and 
the canoe dipped her nose with it. We were off. Ihe 
bank and the shouting people flew past us in a black 
streak. I was just able to recognize one man, our 
pompous friend, standing below the bridge shading his 
eyes with his hand, evidently determined to get the best 
view possible. The roar of voices dwindled behind us 
into a murmur and a minute later we were out of sight; 
Ratisbon, bridge, whirlpools and townsfolk were things ot 
the past. We were not arrested, but perhaps the police 
arc. still trying to catch us. 
After this came a dull spell as we crossed the great 
wheat plain of Bavaria, winding for two days with many 
curves and little current. Every morning here the workers 
"in the fields woke us early, and praised the boat, and 
asked us the usual questions, and told us the usual false- 
hoods about the depth of the river,. the distances of the 
towns, the floods of past years, and all the rest of it. 
We made no halt at Straubing (Servio Durum of the 
Romans), or at Deggendorf, where the Isar adds its quota 
of mountain-gathered waters. 
Another day was very dismal— cold showers and storms 
of wind following one upon another. We crouched under 
bridges, trees and anything else that gave cover, paddling 
fast between the squalls to keep ourselves warm. Ihe 
plain of Straubing affords little shelter. Toward even- 
ing, however, the river made a welcome turn toward the 
mountains, and we camped on a high bank among clumps 
of willows with thick woods behind them. New potatoes 
dried prunes, and onions in the stew pot were points of 
light in a gusty and otherwise dismal meal We pegged 
the tent inside and out. All night the wind tore at it, 
howling; but a gipsy tent never comes down. The wind 
sweeps over it, and finding an ever-lessening angle of re- 
sistance, only drives it more firmly into the ground. 
Gradually, n6w, we were passing out of the lonely por- 
tions of the upper river. The country was becoming 
more populated; larger towns were near; railway bridges 
spanned the river; steamers and tugs raced down, and 
toiled up it. . 
A few miles above Passau we camped on an island, and 
were visited by an inquisitive peasant, who saw our 
fire and came over from the mainland in a punt. "Are we 
trespassing?" I asked. "No; the island's usually under 
water." This was all he ever said in our hearing, though 
he stayed with us, it seemed, for hours. Pie was a surly 
looking fellow in the roughest clothes, with trousers 
turned up to his knees, and bare feet. His curiosity was 
immense ; with arms crossed and legs wide apart, he stood 
and stared in silence with expressionlessfeatures. We 
had some villainous Black Forest cigars, bearing on the 
label the words la noblesse, which we sometimes used to 
get rid of obnoxious people. We gave him two. Know- 
ing nothing about the Greeks and those bearing gifts he 
nodded his thanks — and smoked both to the very end! 
Yet he never stirred, his eyes never left us. It was im- 
possible to prepare our frugal dinner under this merciless 
scrutiny. At length I prevailed upon him to go over for 
some eggs and bring them to us in the morning for break- 
fast. He left withouf'a word in his punt, and a sense of 
oppression seemed to go with him. But, just as dinner 
was over and we were settling round the fire to our 
tobacco, he suddenly reappeared. He had brought the 
eggs in his hat, and he was dressed this time in his Sun- 
day clothes! For an hour he stood beside the fire, answer- 
ing no questions, volunteering no remarks, till at length 
my friend went up, shook hands, wished him good night 
and straightaway disappeared into the tent. I did like- 
wise, and then the fellow took the hint and went. 
This happened at a place called Pleinling. Another 
thing also happened there. On the smaller of the arms 
which our island divided the river was a weir. With 
empty canoe, and dressed in shirt and trousers, we prac- 
ticed shooting this weir next morning. The day was 
hot, and our other things were meanwhile drying on the 
bank. The silent peasant came over to watch the pro- 
ceedings, and with him came a picturesque old fellow, 
most talkative and entertaining, with white hair and a 
face like Liszt's. When he saw us preparing to shoot 
the fall he was much excited. "Have you wives and 
children?" he asked shaking his head warningly. I went 
over first while my friend took the camera, and got his 
picture a second before the canoe plunged into the foam 
and upset. The old fellow, whose name was Jacob Meyer, 
was not in the least put out. He leaned on his scythe 
and watched me struggling in the water with the over- 
turned canoe without making any effort^to help. After- 
ward, when we gave him a noblesse, he took a lean, dirty 
little purse out of his pocket, and said, "How much am I 
to pay for it?" And when we promised to send him the 
photographs he asked the same question again. 
Some hours later we reached Passau, a few miles from 
the Austrian frontier, and this last glimpse of. Bavaria, 
after traversing its entire breadth, was the sweetest of all. 
But only from the river itself can you see the quaint old 
houses leaning over at all imaginable angles; the towers 
and crooked wooden balconies; gardens hanging from 
the second stories; walls with ancient paintings dimmed 
by wind and weather; and decayed archways showing 
vistas of tumbling roofs, broken chimneys, and peeps of 
vivid blue sky at the far ends. The picture it made in 
my mind as we paddled through it in the late afternoon 
is uncommonly picturesque— a jumble of gables, towers, 
bridges and the swift muddy Danube rushing past it all in 
such tremendous hurry. 
Half a mile below, the Inn poured in from the Tyrolese 
Alps and carried us into the finest gorge we had so far 
seen. The newcomer brought cold air with it, and we 
swept into the gloomy ravine between high mountains 
with something like a genuine shudder. More and more 
swiftly ran the river as it compressed itself with an angry 
roar into a few hundred yards' width and swirled into the 
hills raging at the indignity thus heaped upon it. It 
became very difficult now to choose camping places, as the 
stream fills the entire gorge, leaving only narrow ledges 
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at the foot of the heights where a tent can stand. Upon 
one of these ledges, broader than the rest, we managed at 
length to land. A projecting point of rock sent the water 
flying out at a tangent into midstream and formed a 
strong backwater below it. Into this we contrived to 
twist the canoe's nose and on a little promontory, covered 
with yellow ragwort, we pitched our tent. It commanded 
a view for two miles up the ravine with the sinking sun 
at the far end. A boy was tending half a dozen cows 
among the scanty bushes; a queer little imp with wide- 
open blue eyes, who watched us land and prepare our 
camp with no signs of fear or surprise. We gave him 
cherries and chocolate, and he stuffed his mouth with 
one and his pockets with the other; then he came and 
stood over our fire and warmed himself without invitation, 
as if it had been made for his special benefit. A quaint 
little figure he cut with his pointed, feathered hat and 
big eyes. He told us that his name was Josef, that he 
lived two miles further on, went to bed every night at 9 
o'clock and got up every morning at, 4. Then he took 
off his hat, said good night, and vanished into the bushes 
after his cows. 
The sun set in a blaze of golden light that filled the 
whole gorge with fire; but when the glory faded, the 
strange grandeur of the place began to make itself felt. 
The ravine was filled with strange noises, the wooded 
heights looked forbidding, and the great river rolled in a 
sullen black flood into the night. 
Next morning we passed a big rock in midstream with 
a shrine perched on its summit; and just beyond it we 
entered Austria and visited the customs at Engelhartzell, 
a village on the right bank with an old Cistercian monas- 
tery behind it. There was no duty to pay, and we raced 
on past the mountain village of Obermiihl, and out of 
the gorge into a fertile and undulating country basking in 
the fierce sunshine. 
Neuhaus, with a fine castle on a wooded height, and 
Aschach, with a view of the Styrian Alps, flashed by. The 
river from here to Linz is full of history, and its muddy 
waters have more than once borne crimson foam. There 
were bloody fights here during the revolt of the peasantry 
of Upper Austria. Aschach, in 1626, was the insurgents' 
headquarters where (as also at Neuhaus) they barricaded 
the Danube with immense chains to prevent the Bavarians 
from assisting Count Herberstein, the Austrian governor, 
who was shut up in Linz. When in flood the Danube 
escapes from this narrow prison with untold violence. 
Everywhere the villages bear witness of its path, though 
most of them lie far away from the banks. High up upon 
the walls lines show the high-water marks of previous 
years with the dates. "A single night will often send us 
into the upper stories," said a woman who sold us milk 
and eggs ; "but the water falls as quickly as it rises, and 
then we come down again." She took it as a matter of 
course. 
The shores became lonely again and our camps were 
rarely disturbed. One morning, however, about 6 o'clock 
we heard some one rummaging among our pans. Then 
something stumbled heavily against the tent, and there 
was a sound of man3^ feet and an old familiar smell. We 
rushed out, to find ourselves in the center of a herd of 
about fifty cows. One had its nose in the provision 
basket; another was drinking the milk and standing in 
the pail of water; a third was scratching its head against 
the iron prop of the kettle. Their curiosity was in- 
satiable; every time we drove them off they returned. 
While my friend was frying the bacon and I was per- 
forming ablutions lower down on the river bank, a 
squadron swept down upon us unexpectedly by a clever 
flank movement, and one of them whipped up my paja- 
mas near 1 the tent and ran down the shore with them on 
her horns. My friend dared not leave the bacon — and I 
was in nudis! It was exciting for the next few minutes. 
In blazing heat that day we came to Linz, the capital 
of Upper Austria. Below it the Traun and the Enns 
flowed in, and the Danube became a magnificent river 
rolling through broad banks alternately wooded and cov- 
ered with crops and orchards; and how, too, we begin 
again to see vineyards, of which Bavaria had seemed 
bare. 
[to be continued.] 
— § — 
Cincinnati Rifle Association. 
Cincinnati, O, — The following scores were made m regular 
competition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading Road, Feb. 2. Weather, Cold and 
clear; thermometer, 18 degrees; wind, fishtail, 4 to 8 o'clock. Con- 
ditions, 200yds., off-hand, at the Standard target: 
Honor. Medal. 
Pavne 89 87 84 84 81 10 10 7—27 10 W 6-26 
Speth 81 86 82 82 87 8 7 7—22 4 6 8—18 
Gindele 80 87 81 . . . . 8 8 8—24 8 10 7—25 
Strickmeier 85 84 81 80 80 8 8 8—24 9 8 9—26 
Odell 84 82 80 70 68 7 8 10—25 7 5 9—21 
Lux 84 80 78 77 69 9 5 9—23 10 7 8—25 
Drube 84 73 6 8 6—20 
Bruns 83 76 71 ... . 8 8 9—25 5 9 7—21 
Roberts 82 79 78 76 76 10 5 9—24 9 5 5—19 
Nestler 80 80 78 77 76 9 8 8—25 10 6 10—26 
Trounstine 79 78 76 74 .. 10 7 6—23 9 8 8—25 
Hoffman 79 76 71 69 67 9 7 4—20 6 4 8—18 
Uckotter 74 69 69 66 66 6 4 10—20 9 9 6—24 
Weinheimer 73 72 67 67 67 6 5 6—17 8 6 4—18 
Hofer 70 63 61 60 56 5 6 9—20 9 7 6—22 
Rifle at Shell Mound. 
San Francisco, Jan. 27. — Yesterday was a fair shooting day at 
Shell Mound range, and a large attendance was present. J. E. 
Gorman did some very fine work with the pistol. The writer 
greatly admires the marksmanship of Mr. Gorman, and doubts 
whether he has a superior in the world with revolver and pistol. 
Dr. Dudley Smith, a crack shot of the Smith & Wesson Pistol 
Club, of Springfield, Mass., attended the range as the guest of the 
Golden Gate Club, of which he will become a member should he 
locate in San Francisco. He made some excellent scores on the 
pistol range. 
Scores of the day: 
Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club handicap rifle shoot: M, F. 
Blasse 213, 211, 205; A. B. Dorrell 210; W. G. Hoffmann 224, 220. 
Glindemann trophy: M. F. Blasse 204, J. Kullmann 208, W. G. 
Hoffmann 221, A. B. Dorrell 226, F. E. Mason 227. 
Gold medal rifle shoot: F. E. Mason 227, 229. 
Silver medal rifle shoot: C. M. Henderson 219, 212 220, 214: 
F. H. Bushnell 212, 201; A. C. Thode 177, 194, 186, 199, 203: A. B. 
Dorrell 227. 
Handicap pistol shoot: G. W. Hoadley 88, S8, 87; J. Kullmann 
82, 83, 73, 68; W. F. Blasse 80, 85, 80, 85;. T. S. Washburn 89, 89, 
90, 91, 86; J. E. Gorman 97, 96, 95, 95, 95, 9L 
Handicap revolver shoot: P. A. Becker 87, 84, 86, 83, 86, 82, 8S, 
84; G, W. Hoffmann, 87, 84, 79; J. R. Trego 82, 79; J. W. Tomp- 
kins 80, 78, 78, 75,. 77; J. kullmann 78; F. H Bushnell 78, H. 
Hinkel 79; G. W. Hoadley 86, 82. 
Gold medal shoot: W. F. Blasse 83, 80. 
Silver medal: H. Hinkel 81, 79. 
San Francisco Schuetzen Verein monthly bullseyc shoot: E. 
Stebn 141. J. C. Waller 227, J. D. Heise 254, Herman Huber 294,. 
F. Pape 341, F. P. Schuster 396, A. Pape 526, George H. Bahrs 
580, J. Gcfken 610, E. Goetze 615, A. Mocker 637. H. Zecher 670, 
B. Hensel 734, John Beuttler 775, H. Meyer S76, E. Doell 881, 
F. Boeckmann 984, D. B. Faktor 1053, L. Bendel 1157 William 
(joetze 1167. 
Germania Schuetzen Club monthly bullseye shoot: D. Salfield 
171, Herman Huber 269, John Beuttler 390, A. Gehret 485, H. 
Sweiger 615, D. B. Faktor 660, O. Bremer 714, J. Gefken 741, F. 
Brandt 938, A. Jungblut 966. 
German Schuetzen Club yearly competition for trophies; best 
3-shot scores: A. Gehret 72, D. B. Faktor 71, F. E. Mason 70, A. 
Pape ii. F. P. Schuster 70, E. H. Goetze 69,' N. Ahrens 68, Otto 
Bremer 69, Louis Bendel 67, Herman Huber 65. 
Competition shoot for Siebe- Faktor trophies; best 10-shot scores- 
A. Gehret 230, F. E. Mason 221, D. Salfield 224, Otto Bremer 
220, A. Pape 217. Robbl. 
Ii you want your shoot to fee announced here send a 
notice like the following: 
[Fixtures. 
Feb. 11-12.— Wolcott, N. Y.— Winter target tournament of the 
Catchpole Gun Club. E. A. Wadsworth, Sec'y. 
Feb. 12.— Ossining, N. Y.— Lincoln's Day clay-bird shoot of the 
Ossirung Gun Club. Shooting begins at 11 A. M. C. G. Bland- 
ford. Capt 
Feb. 12.— Paterson, N. J.— Contest for E. C. cup, emblematic 
of target championship of New Jersey, between Capt. A. W. 
Money, holder, and Wm. H. Weller. of Newark. 
Feb. 12.— Paterson, N. J.— All-day tournament of the Jackson 
Park Gun Club. 
Feb. 18-20.— St. Edward, Neb.— St. Edward Gun Club's annual 
tournament. 
Feb. 22.— Louisville, Ky.— Jefferson County Gun Club's tourna- 
ment. 
Feb. 22.— Akron, O.— Team shoot of Akron Gun Club. 
Feb. 22.— Albany, N. Y.— West End Gun Club's bluerock tourna- 
ment. H. H. Valentine, Sec'y. 
March 31-April 5.— Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo.— Grand 
American Handicap at live birds. Ed Banks, Sec'y, 318 Broadway, 
New York. 
April 8-11— Olalhe, Kan.— Kansas State Sportsmen's Association's 
annual tournament. 
April 15-17.— St. Joseph, Mo.— Missouri State Amateur Shooting 
Association's annual tournament. F. B. Cunningham, Sec'y. 
April 22-25.— Omaha, Neb.— Nebraska State shoot H. S. Mc- 
Donald, Sec'y. 
May 6-9.— Interstate Park, L. I.— Interstate Association's Grand 
American Handicap at Targets. Edward Banks, Sec'y; Elmer E. 
Shaner, Manager. 
May 13-14.— Enid, Oklahoma Territory.— Oklahoma Territorial 
Sportsmen's Association tournament. 
May 13-16.— Oil City, Pa.— Annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the Oil City 
Gun Club. F. S. Bates, Co:<. Sec'y. 
May 14-16.— Charleston ; S. C— The Interstate Association's tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Charleston-Palmetto Gun Club. 
W. G. Jeffords, Jr., Sec'y. 
May 20-22.— Ottumwa, la.— Iowa State Sportsmen's tournament. 
May 20-22.— Elwood, Ind— Annual tournament of the Zoo Rod 
and Gun Club, of Elwood, Ind. 
May 20-22.— Wheeling, W. V a.— Fifth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia State Sportsmen's Association; added money and 
prizes. John B. Garden, Sec'y, Wheeling, W. Va. 
May 21-23.— Springfield, S. D. — South ^Dakota State Sportsmen's 
Association tournament. 
May 30. — Schenectady, N. Y.— Spring tournament of the Schenec- 
tady Gun Club. E. L. Aiken, Sec'y. 
May 30-31.— Union City, Ind— Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club. O. E. Fouts, Sec'y, 
June 3-5. — Cleveland, O. — Tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters* 
League, under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Co. 
June 4-6.— Memphis,, Tenn.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club. 
June 9-13.— Rochester, N. Y.— Forty-fourth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Game. 
June 10-11. — Muncie, Ind. — Indiana Trapshooters' League's annual 
tournament. 
June 17-20.— Warm Springs, Ga.— Annual Interstate tournament. 
June 18-19. — Bellefontaine, O.— Silver Lake Gun Club's annual 
tournament. Geo. E. Maison, Sec'y. 
June 25-26. — Raleigh, N. C— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Raleigh Gun Club. Jas. I. John- 
son, Sec'y. 
July 16-18. — Titusville, Pa.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Titusville Gun Club. T. L. 
Andrews, Sec'y. 
Aug. 13-14. — Brunswick, Me. — The Interstate Association's tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the Brunswick Gun Club. L, C. 
Whitmore, Sec'y. 
Newark, N. J. — South Side Gun Club target shoot, every Satur- 
day afternoon. 
Chicago, Jll.— Garfield Gun Club's live-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds, West Monroe street 
and Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec'y. 
CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 
Feb. 5. — Interstate Park, L. I. — S. M. Van Allen's cash prize 
shoot at 20 birds, $10 entrance; handicaps 28 to 33yds; high guns; 
$75 added. 
Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.— Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
L. L R. R. Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Cafe and hotel accommodations. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for pub- 
lication in these columns., also any news notes they may 
care to have printed. Ties on all events are consdered 
as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such mat- 
ter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. 
Mr. John S. Wright announces an all-day target shoot, to be 
given by the Brooklyn Gun Club on Feb. 12, at Enfield -street, 
near Liberty avenue, Brooklyn. Competition commences at 10:30 
o'clock. There are eight programme events, of which three are 
prize shoots, handicap allowance in the form of misses as breaks. 
The events are at 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 targets; entrances varying 
from 50 cents to $1. There is a total of 145, with a total entrance 
of $5.60. Moneys divided 50, 30 and 20. No shooter may win more 
than one prize. Targets, at 2 cents, are included in all purses. 
Lunch free. Any one may shoot for targets only. 
Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, manager of the Interstate Association, in- 
forms us as follows: "The work in connection with the office of 
manager of the Interstate Association has grown to such an extent 
that it will occupy all of my time during the year 1902; consequently I 
will not be in a position to accept the management of tournaments 
other than those given under the auspices of the Interstate Asso- 
ciation." 
K 
A reckless disregard of the loading instructions which pertain 
to the use of nitro powders is not an uncommon occurrence, but 
the common errors sink into insignificance when compared to 
the coquetting with eternity as set forth in the communication 
of the E. C. & Schuhze Gunpowder Co., elsewhere in our trap 
columns. 
