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Resorts for Sportsmen. 
HUNTERS’ LODGE! 
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Nursing vs Dosing. 
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of-Sorts Dam. Puppies Diet, ^"ing Diarrhea Con- 
Exercise. Common Ailments. 1 eet “ ln 8- , larrl N c . f 
vuTsions Epilepsy the 
Earf er Mange. The Nervous System. Abscesses. Colic. 
Worms. 
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Tt describes the old-time Indian and the Ind * an 
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The Story of the Indian. 
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be. Now we must hold at an estimated distance 
f Tth h e e rifle g man shoots at a distance estimated 
at six feet from the bullseye, he will rind that 
few shots will be in the four-inch space he was 
trying to hit. If an archer is compelled to esti¬ 
mate his distance from the gold instead of aim 
tog at a point, .he will find h,s score much 
poorer. The estimate is as bad for the arclier 
as for the rifleman. ... , 
What Mr. Van Dyke says about pulling the 
trigger applies as well to loosing the string in 
bow shooting. Neither must be done with a 
jerk. A one-pound pull on the trigger is bette 
tha S n o jn archery; a better loose is obtained, and 
in shorter time, by shooting a heavy rather than 
light bow provided always that the arc ier 
not using' a bow too heavy for f him In 
using a "bow of too few pounds pud, the 
string will not leave the fingers so quickly and 
smoothly as it will if the bow pulls more In 
one case the string has to be helped off, so 
to speak- and in the other it pulls itself oft 
when given the slightest opportunity; less time 
is consumed, and with less chance for the 
archer to give a lateral, or an up, or a down 
direction to the a rrow. _ 
A SPORTING PARADISE. 
Thfre is a fascination about an island some- 
how:“„d> J'wavs suggests f ^ n /S'o4 
rented “life'a small island off Cornwall but it 
™ urxsi &, to b„rf d se a e * 
one in the market, half a million acres of moor, 
loch and river, full of salmon, deer, grouse and 
sn i De \ thousand salmon, averaging eighty t 
ten pounds are caught annually in the prmcipa 
river and a hundred and fifty stag are shot in 
the largest forest. It has a capital, Stornoway 
drainage Vs^noS’ olfma^r ^ofnships 
sr.is? t a “Vto„Vori„ ro tod|s,f y 7 in 
Harris tweeds. The castle has forty bed rooms 
and a grand ball room, and was built by Sir 
Tames Matheson, uncle of Major Matheson, w 
waTrts to sell, who spent the best part of a mil¬ 
lion in buying the island building the castle, 
Planting trees making roads, and so on. Now 
for a mere matter of £300.000, together with 
quite a nominal rent to the Crown, anyone can 
become owner of this little private kingdom. It 
is a regular sporting paradise, and alluring t 
those who can afford such a capital outlay. . 
Talking of islands, G. A. M. Buckley has just 
bought the small isle of Shuna, off Argyllshire, 
which used to belong to his maternal ancestors, 
the Macleans, who sold it in 1815 for £10,000. 
Mr Buckley has bought it back for £4.000, near¬ 
ly a century later.—The County Gentleman. 
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\ district twenty miles beyond Chelicamp, m 
the far northwest of Cape Breton, has a terrific 
plague of mice. The whole country swarms 
with the destructive creatures. The mice have 
burrowed underground and excavated a netwo 
of subterranean roads. , 
They began their destructive work on the hay 
crop cutting it as it stood in the fields. When 
that’was stored they attacked the grain and the 
forty farmers there have saved only seven 
bushels. They attacked the potatoes and the 
diggers on opening up the drills find little, more 
thin the stem of the larger potatoes.kftmthe 
ground. The mice have carried their work of 
i destruction to the woods and are stripping th 
bark from the saplings,, and now they are enter- 
1 ing houses, cutting their way through the walls 
and threatening to destroy clothes and household 
^No 1 remedy is in sight. The people have been 
digging pits to - entrap them, but in spite ot 
myriads destroyed in this way there seems to be 
no abatement of the plague. The farmers are 
afraid to use poison for fear of polluting tl 
streams and wells from which their cattle derive 
their supply of water. 
