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Nov. 23, 1912 
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The appeal of this picture should awaken a response in the 
hearts of every real lover of camp life. You have doubtless 
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TELLS OF HABITS OF RHINOCEROS. 
The rhinoceros is, with the giraffe, the hip¬ 
popotamus, the gerrenuk and the camel, one of 
Africa’s unbelievable animals, says a writer in 
the American Magazine. Nobody has bettered 
Kipling’s description of him in the Just-so 
Stories—“a horn on his nose, piggy eyes and 
few manners.” He lives a self-centered life, 
wrapped up in the porcine contentment that 
broods within nor looks abroad over the land. 
When anything external to himself and his food 
and drink penetrates to his intelligence he 
makes a flurried fool of himself, rushing madly 
and frantically here and there in a hysterical 
effort either to destroy or get away from the 
cause of disturbance. He is the incarnation of 
a living and perpetual grouch. 
Generally he lives by himself, sometimes 
with his spouse, more rarely still with a third 
that is probably a grown-up son or daughter. 
I, personally, have never seen more than three 
in company. Some observers have reported 
larger bands, or rather collections; but lacking 
other evidence, I should be inclined to suspect 
that some circumstance of food or water rather 
than a sense of gregariousness had attracted a 
number of individuals to one locality. 
The rhinoceros has three objects in life—to 
fill his stomach with food and water, to stand 
absolutely motionless under a bush and to imi¬ 
tate ant hills when he lies down in the tall 
grass. When disturbed at any of these occu¬ 
pations he snorts. The snort sounds exactly 
as though the safety valve of a locomotive had 
suddenly opened and as suddenly shut again 
after two seconds of escaping steam. Then he 
puts his head down and rushes madly in some 
direction, generally upwind. As he weighs 
about two tons, and can, in spite of his appear¬ 
ance, get over the ground nearly as fast as an 
ordinary horse, he is a truly imposing sight; 
especially since the innocent bystander gen¬ 
erally happens to be upwind, and hence in the 
general path of progress. This is because the 
rhino’s scent is his keenest sense; and through 
it he becomes aware, in the majority of times, 
of man’s presence. His sight is very poor in¬ 
deed; he cannot see clearly even a moving ob¬ 
ject much beyond fifty yards. He can, however, 
hear pretty well. 
The novice, then, is subjected to what he 
cajls a “vicious charge” on the part of the 
rhinoceros, merely because his scent was borne 
to the beast from upwind, and the rhino natur¬ 
ally runs away upwind. He opens fire; and 
has another thrilling adventure to relate. As 
a matter of fact, if he had approached from the 
other side, and then aroused the animal with a 
clod of earth, the beast would probably have 
“charged” away in identically the same direc¬ 
tion. I am convinced from a fairly varied ex¬ 
perience that this is the basis for most of the 
thrilling experiences with the rhinoceros. 
BIG PEPPERMINT FARM. 
When Prairie Farm, near Saginaw, Mich., 
came into the possession of the present owners 
about nine years ago. its 9,500 acres were prac¬ 
tically all marsh and largely covered by water. 
Immediately engineers prepared plans for the 
draining of the land and for its protection from 
floods. 
Three dredges were built and twenty-five 
miles of dikes constructed, including a cross 
dike through the middle of the farm to protect 
the lower half. Ditches fifty feet wide were 
excavated on each side of the dikes, and at 
the present time the works of reclamation and 
protection are completed. 
A pumping station is located at the west 
side of the farm at the middle dike, making 
it possible to pump out both sides in case of 
rains or floods, and a railroad has been built 
into the center of the farm to care for the 
numerous products. 
As it now stands, says Popular Mechanics, 
it is a scientifically managed farm' of the best 
modern type, with 4.000 acres actually under 
cultivation, to which it is planned to add 400 
acres each year. There are 1.250 acres of pep¬ 
permint. this crop being exploited in two dis- 
