Show GENERAL BLISS AS ASA A HUNTER in snake sanke rolson antidote and its it general col zenas bliss who has just been made a brIga dIrge beneral erli in aho regula army was tor several years corn com mander at fort hayes iiames kansas cheru he be s wen well temp for or his bis many exceptional qualities lie was an enormously fat man weighing more i than pounds and had bad a proverbial I 1 good nature that lurks in avol evoi dupola dupois ile he was a great sportsman ead and a tile shot with both shotgun and rifle ila iiii loved to hunt prairie chickens and always went into the fields seated in a low barouche with a soldier for or a i driver when his dogs came to J point paint he would have the arh arher er put ahead ot of the dogs and flush 1 the game at which he would shoot without dismounting irom from the carriage it was a great privilege among the private soldiers to be permitted to go with the colonel as a driver he invariably varla bly had a comfortable comfort ablo supply 0 of snake antidote under one of the seats and was always careful to antidote the driver every time he anti antidotes doted himself at short distance dista uce offhand off oft hand shooting col bliss was undoubtedly the champion ot of the army the writer once saw him win every dollar in the pockets of the officers of his regiment at a picnic where shooting was made part ot of the program lie he put a silver hall dollar up in a forked stick at a distance ot of seventy five yards and offered to wager that lie could lilt lift it with an ordinary army rifle the young lieu tenants tell fell over each other jn in covering that bet and when n the gun cracked they lost it tickled the colonel so immensely ment sely that he spent all he had won and twice that sum over ta la getting these officers and certain friends from hays city a cumms extra dry supper there never was a regular gular re army om who possessed so much of the love ol of his bis subordinates as col bliss blis |