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FOREST AND STREAM. 
{[Nov. 9, 1907 


Providence Revolver Club. 


SOME strenuous practice came in a bunch as the time 
draws near for the championship cup match on the 9th, 
and many of the boys showed tack of practice, and had 
aithculty in making Satisfactory connections with the 
bull at the S50vd. Ime. his match calls for 50 shots in 
one hour, and those who were not entered in the contest 
enjoyed the scene wherein watch: 
hung near the shvot- 
ing windows, and nervous shootérs 
tried to put up good 
scores with the terrible shadow of an overtime forfeit 
hanging over them. 
The indoor range went into commission also, and sev- 
eral new members are struggling with the mysteries of 
artificial. light and sundry weapons, and begging that 
when about to fire some of the seasoned shooters will de- 









sist from letting off a 45 when they teel that they could 
have nit the bullseyes. 
However, some of the revolver cranks will have an 
experience In a ‘ew weeks. \\e learn that the Boston 
Revolver Club has secured an indoor range, and intend 
inviting us down to a match with them on their own 
range. Jt will be a good trip, and the Hub boys will 
find’us there, personally, if not with scores. 
Revolver, dlyas., Standard: aAlmy 87, 86, 86, 84, 85, 82, 
85, 83, 83, ; Argus 8: ), 77, 90, 78, 90, 89, 78, Parkhurst 
85, S1, 8,84, 84, 87, 85, 83, 85, SU: Eddy 84, 85, 78, 81, 84, 
78, 81, 81, 79, 80; Hurlburt 76, 85. 













Revolver, i5yds., military: Argus 45, 44. 
Revolver, 2 +, Standard, reduced: Nash 83, 82, Sv, 
$4, $2, 80; Parkhurst 74, 85, 85, 85. QV: Coulters 75, 72, 72, 
74, 79, 72, 68, 71, 62, 76, 75, 73; Parkhurst 47, 46, 48, 49, 47, 
47, 48, 48, 58,* ;_ Eddy 47, 47, 45, 46, 48, 45, 47, 47, 46, 46; 
Argus 48, 47 », 50,* 45, 49, 49, 45; Almy 48, 47, 47, 47, 48, 
17, 48, 47, 48, 48: Nash Huriburt 43, 48, 45, 46, 45; 
Wing 44, 40, 42, 46, 42, 42, 42. 44 
*Clean strings 
Krag match, 50vds. (miniature oad, reduced target): 
Bowlters Voce de cannes 24 1 61 22 21 22—65 
Melee: rus Sas oe ee 19 23 22—64 22 20 18—60 
Parkhurst SAE pera ; 16 22 20—58 21 21 17—58 
Rapid-fire, 5 shots; 20-second | Parkhurst 9, 22, 
Coulters 19, Hurlburt 19, Miller 17 
Rifle practice, 50yds., 10-sl strings: Powel 46, 46, 
44, 44; Norman 46, 45, 45, 44; Nash 45, 45 
"Rifle practice, 35yds., military rifle:’ Jefferds 40, 40, 
13, 41, 38 ilters 45, 45, 43, 46, 48, 45 15, 45, 42, 45, 
15, 44, 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New Yorx.—At Armbruster’ a \ 2, the follow- 
ne scr were made: 
Revolve 50yds.: 
I Hay 7 010 § 10—91 
7 > § 9 J 10—R5 
v MY 9 10 16-—92 
) 10 ) 410 10 9 K—Y93 
1( 10 ‘ ) ; 7 10 910 8—90 
7 10 910 9-87 
v Danke OD 9. 682 
a 5 Ss 7 710 8—82 
6 ss 9 b 979 
\ H Isbe 0 Mtl, ae. ( 8 91010 TFT T7—S8 
9 7 6 ) 93 7 9 10—84 
10 g 710 9 6 7—85 




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Oct. 31.—At 2628 Broadway, the Association rat 
following scores were made to-day: 
Revolver, 20yds.: B. F. Wilder 91, 88, 
85, $5, 85; M. Hays 85. 
JE. 
CHRISTENING A NEW RIFLE. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
For the last few years it has been my cus- 
tom, when a new small rifle was put on the 
market, to try one. One spring some years 
ago, a new .38-55 rifle was advertised in For- 
EST AND STREAM, and liking its looks, I could 
not resist the temptation to get one. I sold 
my old 7 pound .44-40 and bought a .38-55 
magazine rifle 714 pounds weight. 
After a time I received a potal 
the rifle was at the express office in Loomis, 
and told the Oroville mail carrier to pay the 
charges and bring the rifle Tuesday. Tues- 
day evening I went down to town, as a couple 
of friends had agreed to come up with me to 
spend a few days, and sure enough there was 
my package, 
Next morning the boys drove up, and we 
soon loaded our traps in. I got in and ded 
my saddle horse behind. We had crossed the 
Okanogan, and were going along quite mer- 
rily, when we rounded a point and saw my dog 


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card stating 
Frank standing in the road. 
attention, and 
those coyotes.” 
I called the boys’ 
one said, “Oh, look at 
Sure enough there were two, 
and they were watching the dog. One of the 
boys jerked out his rifle, threw a cartridge in, 
and when the driver pulled up the team he 
shot, and down went one of the coyotes, shot 
through, tod far back. It soon scrambled to 
its feet, and I told Frank to catch it. He 
ran up to it, but the coyote was all right on 
the snapping end, and made a dive for the 
dog whenever he could. I ran up and shot the 
coyote through the head with my revolver. 
soon 
The coyote had the mange, as the hair was 
all off its tail. We left it by the roadside and 
went on. 
We saw a number of grouse, but we did not 
shoot any. We reached the mill at1 P. M. I 
began to prepare dinner, My helper, Indian 
Joe, came over, and carried the things into the 
house and wanted to open the box to see the 
new rifle. He soon had it out, and thought it 
very nice, and declared he would sell his and 
get him one just like mine. 
Next morning early, as soon as we were 
through breakfast, we hitched up and drove 
up on to the base of Mount Bonaparte, about 
four miles from the mill. We Were going 
along through an open pine glade, when we 
saw a blacktail doe about four hundred yards 
away. She stood and looked at us for a few 
minutes, and 
then she bounded off up the 
mountain and was soon out of sight. We 
drove on to an old pitch snag, and left our 
team. After caring for the horses we sep- 
arated, agreeing that whoever came in first 
was to make a fire. 
[ kept up to the left of a lone butte: one of 
the boys went to the right, the other kept to 
the center. The snow was about a foot deep 
and crusted some, which made the traveling 
hard and noisy. I had not gone far when | 
saw a deer lying down. It was up to my 
right; the wind came quite strong from my 
left. I kept on, intending to get around be- 
yond the deer, so.that, if I did not get a shot, 
I could drive it toward the boys. 
I soon saw that there was a band of deer, 
and. counted seven. They heard me and were 
watching, but I kept on around, and was so 
far away that they did not get up. I kept on 
until I thought I was far enough, and then 
started to cross the small divide. TI had gone 
but a few steps, when a big buck jumped up 
and made straight for the band that I had seen 
lying down. I ran a few steps, when I saw 
them running up through a thicket. They 
stopped, and looked back, and I fired two 
shots in the hope that I could turn them 
toward the boys; but it was no go. The old 
doe in the lead was bound to go with her head 
to the wind. I went over to see where I had 
hit. The first shot had struck a willow limb 
about an inch in diameter, and the second had 
cut a little tamarack nearly in two. 
_I then kept on toward the left, and soon 
Frank 
struck a scent, which I followed for 
nearly a mile, and as I was nearing the 
canon that comes down from Bonaparte, I 
knew Frank saw game. 
I was standing on 
the bank of a small c 
anon that put into the 
main one. I spoke to Frank, but he did not 
move or pay any attention to me, but kept 
looking across the cafion. I must have stood 
there for ten minutes, when I saw a big doe 
step out. from behind a fir,on the opposite 
side of the main cafion. I raised the rear 
sight of my rifle to the top notch, sat down, 
took good aim and fired. At the crack of the 
rifle she dropped and slid back down into the 
canon, I thought there might be more, so [ 
waited quite a while and watched until I be- 
came tired. Then I crossed the first little 
canton, where I’ saw two fresh beds. Frank 
had seen the deer jump up, and as one jump 
took them into the thicket, I had not seen 
them. 
A few more steps brought me in sight of 
where the doe had stood when I shot, and 
there stood the fawn. I lowered the sight two 
notches and shot at the fawn offhand. At the 
crack of the rifle it bounded away, and in a 
few yards was out of sight. I went down, 
crossed the cafion, and cleaned the doe. 
was very fat; her kidneys 
covered, and the 
inch thick. 
fat on 
her brisket. was : 
I went to where the little deer hd 
been standing, and there found plenty of ha: 
and in a few jumps blood began 
on both sides, and in less than 
yards, there it lay dead. 
killed deer for the last fort 
remember to have made tw 
to spurt o 
me any more satisfaction than those two. 
I had been in too much haste w 
home with the rifle to attach to 
scope sight, and as my 
so much, it was with difficulty that I cou! 
distinguish tle notch in 
After dressing 
e 
straight for th 
had enough for 
isfied, and would keep be 
smelled the gam 
to him that wa 
and then |} 
reached the sled, 
friends, who had 1 
not seen anythi1 
and 
the small deer 
led, all I co 
S 
camp, much pl 
had been 
sled. 
one time. 
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1g. 
it my tel 
eyesight has change 
the rear sight. 
the small 
On 
Struck a very strong scent, but 
deer, 
the 
I starte 
way Fran 
He ha 
When I reache 
as helping himself t 
, but as I had left my rifle at th 
uld do was to scar 
[ returned in two hours and foun 
Lew Witwmor, 

PROF. DELAGE’S EXPERIMENTS. 
“HAVE my 
a knowledge 
Yves Delage in 
bonne, Paris, rey 
respondent of The New 
cannot presume 
proved some 
further than that 
“And yet,” 
tell? 
great discovery. 
that the microbian theory, with 
ing 
inve 
terest only to the t 
may open up 
some 
channel in another. 
search is indispensable, although 
his 
eating 
York Times. “That 
_to say. I have certainly di 
hitherto accepted theories, bu 
am 
not prepared to go. 
resumed the professor, 
These little observations of 
he modestly described five years 
vestigation] may be the starting 
experiments brought us nearer tY 
of the origin of life?” said Pro 
laboratory at the Sork 
a query put by a cor 
Who would have suspected 
echnici 
This is 
produce immediate results.” 
Prof. Delage 
through his expe 
latent life by cher 
has come 
riments in 
nical 
the lines laid down by an 
Prof. 
Loeb, of San 
quire into the life 
action, 
why laboratory re- 
it may not 
intO prominence 
the stimulation of 
Following upon 
American savant, 
Francisco, decided to in- 
history of one of the com- 
monest of marine creatures, the sea urchin. At 
maturity this crustacean is about the size of a 
small orange. 
The outside of his 
adorned with rows of tiny 
off the shell into 
ribs of a melon. 
ternating with the 
jects suckers, whe 
a rock or any other convenient holding ground. | 
and moves about in search of food. 
five d 
shell 
Through minute holes al- 
se knobs the sea urchin pro-| 
rewith he attaches himself to 
he affects delicate tinges of 
and although one cannot ex 
telligent looking, 
green and brown, 
actly call him in- 
he is nevertheless entitled to 
respect as a really select specimen, one of the 
few chosen out of many that are called, for 
nature has decreed that of every thousand sea 
urchins born in the depths of the waters, at least 
nine hundred and ninety-nine shall be cut off 
in the flower of their youth, and not one 
reaches maturity without escaping enemies in- 
numerable. Otherwise, as Prof. Delage ex- 
presses it, the whole bed of the o 
be carpeted with sea urchins. ; 
scarcity of eggs for the purposes of the scien- 
tific investigator. 
Prof. Loeb showed 1 
could be made to 
cean would 
Thus there is no 
ong ago that these eggs 
develop without the assist- 
ance of the male parent; but the development 



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Yet he was not saifj 
aring off to where h 
I had to use some languag 
more forcible than elegan} 
le came in and stayed there until 
where I found one of m 
nade a good fire. 
I took one of the horse 
went to get my deer. 
them a big black eagle w 


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consequences, could grow out of Pasteur’s! 
stigation of tartaric acid? 
tio There is always’ 
the possibility that a discovery, 
apparently of ip-? 
an in one field of science,/ 
apparently unconnected" 
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