THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1898. 25 BIGGEST KANGAROO DRIVE OF THE YEAR -In Australia-

In the colonies and besides fulfillingthe right and left wings usually contrive, object of Its originators in decimating to keep the frightened game within the immense mobs of the squatter's bounds and thus they rush on to the arch enemy it supplies a splendid day's ambuscade in front of them. sport to all lovers of the gun. The After Ihad taken up my position I method is fashioned on very similar had not long to wait in order to gratify lines to the great "rabbit drives" held my sporting Instincts. In the San Joaquin Valley. The kan- First came a hare toward me, rush- garoo drives though are far more ex- ing like the wind. But Ilet him go by citing and sportsmanlike. and also a number of others. The These drives are of frequent occur- movement of these animals was a clear rence, and In some parts of the colonies indication that the big game had begun of New South Wales and Queensland to move and Istood ready with both It is quite possible to be present at an barrels of my gun "cocked." organized drive at least once a week. Almost before Icould realize itIsaw Of course these drives seldom yield any a big kangaroo jumping toward me. large numbor of kangaroos. For thope He came like a cyclone, easily covering one must go to the outlying districts, from 15 to 20 feet at every leap. where drives are not frequent. Bang! The last drive in which Iparticipated But my first shot missed. \u25a0was in a locality that cost me two days Then Itook careful aim with the to reach. There had been no previous other barrel and pulled the trigger just drive over the land for six months and as he was in front of me. The shot kangaroos were so thick that dozens of caught him in a vital spot and over he them were always In sight as we rode rolled and lay dead. along the highway. The country, con- Before Icould load again Iwas fair- eequently, was as bare of vegetation as ly surrounded with frightened 3000 kangaroos.. Parliament, designed to if blight kanga- dead the Australian the had struck it. roos. Hundreds of them were plain secure their act get up in I COULD NOT LOAD TO STOP That was our score at the last extermination. That To a drive like the one pro- sight. It was hard to tell which one FAST ENOUGH TME PROCESSION OF KANGAROOS kangaroo in Ipar- is known as "The Noxious Animals posed was a big undertaking for to at they drive which Act," the shoot and were hard to hit ticipated just before I Aus- Destruction and under its pro- settlers. There were nearly a hundred they jumped BOUNDING ME. left knights because here and there PfJST ago. far visions an internecine war is ruthless- of the trigger present and and bumped into one tralia a few weeks As ly waged all year round against two another as they been driven out of the forest and the to the "topnotcher." After drivers and drank without stint Britisji beer NEARLY the about hundred beaters or drivers. looked for a safe place to get In deeper as Icould learn this was the these depredators. place of through drivers had to go and scare and shooters exchange felicitations an- and American lager, and smoked our The meeting was at the hos- the deadly line of shooters. out ones. arranged, gr. atest number ever killed in a single The sole offense of the kangaroo is pitable homestead of a wealthy settler, the timid other drive is and so on all pipes, and felt as happy and contented By this time the kangaroos had got The sport now was not so exciting, day long till the dusk of evening puts as man can. day in the history of the country. Us- that he eats too much grass. The rab- famous for his success in entertaining within range mortal a teeming of all the hunters and but there was Just as much fun In it. an end to the day's sport. The carcasses of the dead kangaroos unlly when about 500 are killed it is bit is like offender and in his visitors on such occasions. The un- nearly a guns were the young pasture in dertaking costly hundred pouring It was more of a competition to see The number of kangaroos a man can in these drives are usually skinned and considered a pretty grood day's work, millions eat off was for it Involved the out a leaden hail of springtime, filling death. The bang- who would kill the most kangaroos. killin one of the drives depends large- sold to dealers. The bodies are used are put to the like the recorded of 300 hungry stomachs at an ing of the guns was as dragged game game may and when over a thousand plague of locusts, leaving vast areas of al in incessant as a Each hunter had his ly on luck. The not come for different chemical purposes. The almost national event. fresco lunch the forest. battle and the field in front was rap- Into something of a heap, so that all near one may all he are quite valuable death itis a So pastoral lands nothing but a panorama Early in the morning all hands met and another have hides and make you can imagine how we we idly pilingup with doad kangaroos. could see his prowess. can do to "position" a quality. felt when of desolation. A kangaroo will eat as at the settler's homestead. At a given my position load. So counts shoes of fine day. much as a sheep and a good signal the In Icould not load fast Late In the day there was nothing for a good deal. It was a glorious day. The sun counted the results A the will drink whole cavalcade moved off enough to stop the procession at but stragglers. driv- day nearly brightly what a glorious day's shooting deal more water, and water is exceed- in the direction of bound- to shoot The On the when 3000 were shone out and was not too And of the haunts of the ing animals in front of me. Kanga- ers had scoured the country and even killed one man scored 97 and another warm. The drivers did their work was. ingly valuable in the dry season. Were kangaroo. it they roos were on all sides of me and kept gone after those that managed to get scored only 10. It's just as a man gets well and at the conclusion of the day's In the of sport there are not killed off the country' would At a certain point the shooters, armed pouring out of whole realm be valueless in a few years. Hundreds with shotguns, dismount the forest in front through the lines. By evening Idon't the chance to shoot. sport those of us who t»elon— ed to the probably few pastimes that offer so and take up seemingly in an endless stream. Itook believe there were a dozen kangaroos On such occasions that Important house party headed our horses for the of thousands must be put to death their positions at the direction cf the no except at wile a field for the perfect gratifica- every year the expense is captain. shots those that came near left in the district that we had shot branch of all expeditions, the commis- homestead. The majority of drivers and of this This is in as nearly a straight enough me to absolutely sariat, Is well tion of one's sporting instincts as a quite an item to the settlers. line as possible, for be sure over. looked after. At this and shooters assembled at the spacious the men standing about of killing. Once or twice Istopped When the drivers came up each big one a large wagon from the home- woolshed and there, to the music of a kangaroo '•drive" conducted under For these reasons the destruction of seventy yards apart. Iwas fortunately to kangaroo given rest and each time a kangaroo went shooter gathered his trophies of the stead had brought great hampers of concertina, played tunefully by a sheep w^ll appointed auspices. Of course the is not a mere matter of a position that commanded a grove shearer, sport to the lordly settler, but a matter good view past me. battue and a tally was kept of the tempting viands. Ata shady in they danced with the selec- there is not the same element of dan- of the entire country. Hav- For about an hour this sort of thing number each had slain. Usually there the ample forest all hands and the cook tors' daughters who had come from far legged of self-defense. The state comes to ing stationed me the captain me ger In confronting the long den- aid, partially told to kept up and then there was a lull. The is a sweepstake on the result of the spread themselves out on mother earth and near to help wind up the celebra- the settlers' and indirect- remain there and await results. game easy course, goes izen of the Australian forest as there ly, by paying so much per dozen for The drivers that was to get at had all day's shooting, which, of and ate and enjoyed the good things tions of the day. T. M. of grizzly; meanwhile separated is in following the trail a kangaroo scalps, and for hares and themselves from the shooting contin- but the fun is faster and more furious rabbits' ears. This reward furnishes gent, moved toward the feeding and the exciting incidents more con- sufficient inducement to a very numer- grounds of the marsupial and there stant than Is the case.* ordinarily, in ous band of persons to devote all their arranged themselves in semi-circular the pursuit of other game. energies to the capture of scalps and form at from fifty to one hundred The harmless looking kangaroo is ears. yards apart. By yells and NEW shouts MOTOR BICYCLES THAT GOOVER FORTY MILES AN HOUR engine and one of the national pests of the Anti- The most effective of destruc- a running fire of stockwhips they turn two most wonderful motor bicycles In the world are owned In Paris that show that, given a straight smooth track and the machine working podes. He is rated with the native tion and the one that is th'nning the the place for the time being into a veri- and San Francisco respectively. The latter machine, which belongs to at forced draught, the express train willfind the petroleum tricycle a danger- dog, the hare and rabbit, the English ranks of the kangaroo almost to the table pandemonium, Fair, more of two. At ous matter speed. see on one these test trips which, and animals of Charles L. is the wonderful the least It is rival in the of To Fournier of fox (transplanted here), all of roint of extermination Is the famous every kind located within the? sphere credited with being able to make greater time. The Paris machine Is a sight never to be forgotten. He flies along with bulging eyes fixed on including the kangaroo, are especially kangaroo "drive." This moans of de- covered by the drivers fly in aU is owned by Henri Fournier, who is credited with being the greatest the ground over which he Is flying, hair streaming m stroying pest universally direc- THE honored by being named in an act of the is adopted tions. But the men on the extreme rider in the world. the wind and the puffing motor working at such a Charles L. Fair's motor bicycle arrived in the city from Paris only a few speed as to make one tremble to think of the fate days ago. He says that he has not yet ridden it, but knows that it is capa- of the rider should any untoward accident cause a ble of running at the rate of fifty miles an hour over a good road. The ma- spill. Fournier seems to know no fear when gofng chine is one of the latest produced in Paris and the trials of It that Mr. like the wind on these risky trips. By constant SOLDIERS DIE Fair saw were entirely satisfactory. Being an expert on mechanics Mr. Fair practice he has become an expert in the manipu- OFHOMESICKNESS. is fully capable of judging of the qualifications of a lation of the petroleum tricycle, and will turn a forty-five deaths from nostalgia, or hopelessly severed. Thomas Holmes (Church machine by making a careful examination of It. curve while going at the dizzy speed of homesickness, of England miles an recklessness of a homesickness, in the American Nostalgia, or Is merely Temperance Society's Police Court Incredible as it may seem this wonderful motor hour with all the a form fifty-five pounds. boy. army at Santiago have been re- of melancholia. As in all the In- missionary) hastened to visit her. He bicycle of Mr. Fair's weighs only sanities, more than one factor usually found only used considerably in Its conatruc- His performance suggests the grave danger ported by General Shafter to the — her a shadow of her former But aluminum is accompany as acts as a cause hence the necessity for self—eyes dim, mind wandering, that would trips such his on a TWOWar Department. Both of these knowing heredity still but road where similar machines are dashing along. power in the and antecedents with a little of the old vigor which The for the propulsion of the machine Is level, road, cases, remarkable to say, occurred of the patient. The enforced absence so often by a gasoline or naphtha motor which Fournier alone on a smooth with brought her into the hands of supplied small no no same regiment, the Second Massa- from home may simply act as an excit- the police. adjusted 0"i the forward part of the bicycle. The one to kill but himself, and machine the ing is own, is sight sufficiently We presume that cause; there may be far deeper- Events pass so quickly may tubing is ab'iut the Bize that was popular in the to smash but his a chusetts Volunteers. causes, grave that it thrilling. Multiply the sight by ten and the diagnosis in these cases was care- seated such as constitu- be necessary to tell some that Jane United States during the '97 season. All adjust- tional defects, that act as the real basis Cakebread ments valves are in the front of the machine imagine that number of Fourniers fully and accurately made by the mili- holds the record of appear- and mounted on flying automobile tri- more for the disease. This is especially true ances before metropolitan magistrates near the handle bars. tary surgeons, yet we should like cases reason is perma- on charges supply gasoline a cycles, and the spectator cannot important in in which the of drunkenness and disor- The main of is carried in light on this Interesting and nently lost or life itself sacrificed. Some derly tank under the seat. Small quantities of the fluid help thinking that this would conduct. Her total appearances a sure method study. races, or peoples, are supposed to be es- were nearly 300, and she was are exploded in the igniter, thus fur- make novel and the never out of committing suicide. The daily reports show that pecially liable to this disease: the in- of prison for more than a day or so at nishing motive power for the engine are suffering much habitants of mountainous countries, a time for years. which propels the fly-wheel, from But there can be no doubt troops at Santiago about fifteen Lady that the motor cycle has and various Infections, for instance, are said to suffer unduly. Henry Somerset very kindly took her which the motion is communi- but from the climate Swiss are to cated by a rubber band to come to stay. It is now a especially typhoid, malarial and yellow Hence the said furnish in hand and put her in one of her the practical machine although remind us many examples. So also rustics are homes at Reigate; but one day Jane driving wheel. An ingenious de- re, and this fact should prone beyond vice permits the free use high in price and hard to psychoses are not more to suffer than the inhabit- wandered her boundary, found of improvements that the profound ants of towns. a public house, v the handle bars for steer- handle. But or caused and fell. She never will be constantly made infrequently associated with The observation of nostalgia among took a great quantity of drink; but a ing purposes with- by some infection. Typhoid soldiers is by no means new or recent. few glasses out risk of disturb- from now on and a man form of had their effect, and the will not have to be o and malaria] puisons especially have Baron Larrey, the eminent military sight of a policeman in uniform put ing the connection. role, is surgeon of the Napoleonic wars, wrote her on If the machinery mechanical and bi- been noted in this and so true her mettle. She always gave cycle expert in or- strictly on this subject in his surgical memoirs. her age as 62, and was proud should fall the this that in order to arrive at a of her bicycle may der to ride one of to In our own country observations were memory of titled and people she be scientific diagnosis it would be well other by pedals them. In less than of made in the late Civil War. Calhoun had known. But her memory worked years sure whether any obscure form nostalgia failing; now is the way. five they are be wrote on as a disease of field her delusions as to being heir- in usual very either of these diseases is present in service, ess The construction likely to be and Jeters noted this affection to a great fortune has vanished as common as such eases. as among the evils of youthful enlist- and she imagines and adjustment of the cases occurred in that she Is in the ordinary wheel. The fact that two ments. Claybury Asylum for the purpose of the whole machine the same regiment points possibly also Itis a remarkable fact that the some- protecting the other inmates. Is of the most per- to the influence of imitation or sug- nostalgia fect and accurate when bicycles run especially what extensive literature of Ifshe hears a cry from any of them gestion. In all the psychoses, is almost entirely French. Many mono- she starts up attempts description. Every at a speed of forty- forms insanity, and to leave her bearing an hysteria and the mild of graphs have been written In that lan- bed, but falls back exhausted. Strange- runs as five miles hour this factor is now well known to be guage on subject. Tho American, ly enough, smoothly as the a clear track will We need only recall this she did not recognize the e absolutely sometimes active. English and even German literature is face or voice of the missionary. She works of a watch b the of folie communique that comparatively meager. said: you and there is scarce- necessary, so that cases in- This will seem "No, are not Mr. Holmes. have been put on record. In these to a proof to He promised to me ly a jar even when with locomotive en- a disease has been be some readers that the take out of here." the engine is run- gine pace will have stances mental Froiirh have more of the "mal dv pays" She rambles incoherently praise to be communicated from a pa- haye — Lady in of ning at several to come a special known highly per- than other nations Just as they Henry Somerset and Mr. Lane, tient to another susceptible psy- C, hundred revolutions track for the wheel- three sisters were .ire snld to have more of the other Q. the stipendiary magistrate. The men, Bon In one instance choses. But to our mind it is rather an doctors say her end is near. a minute. Should a desirablt involved, the first having imposed her this machine prove improvement that the Epidemics indication that they have greater liter- CHARLES L. FAIRS NEW FIFTY-/VULES-AN-HOUR that will be welcomed HENRI FOURNIER AND V\\S PORTY-FIVE-MILES- delusions upon Others. ary activity among the curiosities of The value of the electric light as a all is claimed of hysteria are too well known to need saver of time and money is strikingly BICYCLE. for it there is no by all lovers of AN-HOUR WHEEL. medicino. ____^______more than mention. illustrated in the average doubt but that in a the wheel. The at- however, time occu- very many more of them brought speed The fact, that the two cases pied by ships in passing through the short time will be to the Pacific Coast. talnment of the named by the bicycle seems to be In the hands the army at Santiago were so rap- JANE The machine that Henri Fournier has been thrilling Paris with for some of Henri Fournler, who has become known as the king of automobil- IB explained CAKEBREAD'S Suez canal. With the electric light petroleum tricycle kind, may idly fatal can probably only be the Journey is accomplished in eight weeks past is a of the Dion-Bouton with a one- lsts. What Fournler does not know about the petroleum tricycle aa on theory the patients were and-a-half horse-power machine, and averages forty kilometers an hour. The well be omitted from the wheelman's the that DYING DELUSIONS minutes under twenty hours. Without easy education. possibly much reduced physically by light thirty-one m chine he uses is comparatively light, of manipulation and powerful. From all parti of the world Fournier is receiving letters in regard to the hours and twenty- motor one horse-power, exposure and infection. The mere sep- CAKEBREAD has been fre- four minutes is the time usually re- Itis fitted with a of from to three its hill climbing motor cycles. Even governments have written to him in regard to supplying promised speed capabilities being gauged thereby. The big and heavy them. one day nearly two aration from home on what quently written up in the penny qvlred. and automobile soldiers with On his mail amounted to hundred he a military expedition carriages have trouble in mounting hills, but the lowlyand Dutch barn style letters. While many of the questions asked are frivolous the majority show to but short as "the most wicked wo- goes hardly seems sufficient in itself to have dreadfuls Every one must do Just so much of tricycle puffing right up to the top and its rider is In no wise af- that the writers are doing some deep thinking before buying a motor cycle. caused such untoward results. The man in England." The other day weeping: those who are spanked often- fected with fatigue in the taak of making the ascent. Americans have no conception of the interest taken Inmotor cycles in Europe. cane is different with the poor emigrant JANEthe report spread about low side est when young have least cause for Fournier Is in deadly earnest in hia determination to attain a speed of They are really quite common on the roads of France and England, while all who feels that all the home ties are London that she was dying, and Mr. crying when grown up. forty-five miles an hour. He has made a series of teats with his automobile those in the United States can be counted on the fingers of your hand.