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[Illustration: C. A. BOGARDUS
CHAMPION QUICKSHOT OF THE WORLD.]
ONE THOUSAND SECRETS
OF WISE AND RICH MEN
REVEALED
C. A. BOGARDUS
Champion Quick Shot of the World
1907
DE LUXE . EDITION . LIMITED
SPRINGFIELD, MO.
COPYRIGHTED
1898
BY C. A. BOGARDUS
REVISED AND ENLARGED
1907
FOURTEENTH EDITION
Transcriber's Note: This ebook does not contain any text that
matches "The Art Department between pages 132-133," as listed in the
Contents.
CONTENTS.
Chapter. Page.
I. Quick Shooting Records of C. A. Bogardus 7
II. Medical Department 10
Accidents and Emergencies--What to Do 19
The Mind Cure 24
Poisons and Their Antidotes 25
III. Ink Department 27
IV. Cosmetic Department 32
V. Live Stock Department 35
How to tell the Age of Horses, Cattle, etc. 39
VI. Hog Department 43
VII. Poultry Department 51
VIII. Chemical Department 54
IX. Miscellaneous Department 61
What to Invent, and How to Protect Your Invention 78
Candy--Directions for Making all Kinds of 85
X. Coin Department--Illustrated List and Tables of Values of
Rare Coins 95
Loisette's System of Memory 107
Useful Tables of Mnemonics 111
Facts Worth Knowing 121
Art Department between pages 132-133
Gems of Thought from Poor Richard's Almanac, etc. 135
Robert Burns 147
XI. Oratorical Department 149
Patrick Henry's Speech 149
Abraham Lincoln's Speech 152
Wm. J. Bryan's Speeches 153
Speeches of C. A. Bogardus 164
Address Delivered at Farmington, Iowa 165
Speech at Decatur, Indiana 169
Speech at Jacksonville, Ill. 174
What Next 189
ANNOUNCEMENT.
SPRINGFIELD, MO., August 28th, 1907.
TO THE PUBLIC:
In as much as the former editions of this book have been so well liked,
excepting the type being so small, it has been mentioned by many that a
correction in that particular would be well. I have revised and
enlarged the book and it now appears from larger type.
C. A. B.
PREFACE.
Agesilaus, king of Sparta, being asked what things he thought most
proper for _boys to learn_, replied: "Those things which they should
_practice_ when they become _men_." His reply was in perfect harmony
with the good judgment of mankind, and cannot fail to be appreciated by
all who have good common sense. If Agesilaus lived at the present time,
the question would most probably have included both boys and girls, and
undoubtedly his reply would be so worded as to apply to men and women.
Mankind, especially of the United States, has two great duties. First,
that of self-support and education. Second, that of governmental
support and national enlightenment. While I have thus divided man's
responsibility in two parts, it might not be improper to obliviate the
dividing line and say that man's duties are all under one comprehensive
head, viz.: "Mankind's duty is to man." However, in the preparation of
this volume the dividing line is recognized and two general departments
are presented; that of domestic or household economy, and national or
political economy. The former department is a compilation of useful
household formulas so arranged and worded as to form a neat and concise
household receipt book. Frequent reference to its pages will impart
such information as will enable the reader to save money and at the
same time enjoy life.
Department number two treats on social questions that are now knocking
at humanity's intellectual threshold for admission and solution.
Records show that less than one-thirtieth part of the time of man in
general is consumed in productive pursuits, yet some people toil
diligently three-fifths of their time and receive only a scanty living.
To assist in making clear the road to private and national prosperity
is therefore the motive which actuates me in the publication of this
book.
C. A. B.
CHAPTER I.
QUICK SHOOTING RECORDS.
From the time I was twelve years old I was considered a very fine shot
with a rifle, although I did but very little shooting, and, in fact,
did not know that I was any more than a common marksman; yet in any
contests while a boy I always won.
One day in June, 1884, while passing a shooting gallery, my friends
called me in for a match to pay for shots: I beat them all shooting, my
score was 11 consecutive bull's eyes, while none of my friends had made
half that score. The boys said I did well, to which I jestingly
remarked that "that was common shooting for me; just throw up an apple
and I will hit it." The apple was thrown up, and I hit it, which was as
much of a surprise to me as it was to any of the rest. I then borrowed
a 22-calibre Stevens rifle and practiced shooting at objects thrown in
the air, first shooting at tomato cans, afterwards at smaller objects,
and finally at marbles and various other small objects. By practicing
half an hour a day, within a month I could hit 70 per cent of the glass
balls which were thrown in the air. On July 4, 1884, I shot a match
with James Robinson, at Pratt, Kansas; conditions, 10 glass balls each
at 21 foot rise, he using a shot gun, I a rifle; I lost with a score of
4 to 6. This is the only match I ever lost with a rifle against a shot
gun. The trouble with me was, this being my first match, I was thinking
more about the stake money than the shooting. Besides the stake money
which I lost, I had to treat all the boys who attended the match; they
all laughed and had a good time at my expense.
The next day after my shoot with Robinson, I sent to P. Power & Son, of
Cincinnati, for a 32-calibre Winchester repeating rifle. I continued
practicing with the Winchester for about six weeks, when I challenged
G. W. Washburn of Kingman, Kansas, to a match. (Mr. W. was at that time
champion of Kingman County.) He to use a shot gun at glass balls from a
Moles rotary trap, 21 yards rise, I to use a 32-calibre Winchester,
balls from a straight trap, 10-1/2 yards rise, 50 balls each. In the
toss up I won and preferred to shoot second. The score was a tie on 47
balls; we shot the tie off at 10 balls each; again we tied on ten balls
straight. The match was continued at 10 balls more each. By this time
things had become a little exciting. Over $1500 was bet; many were
betting $4 to $1 against me, thinking that I would lose my nerve and go
to missing. Mr. W. walked to the score for the third time and broke 9
balls out of 10 shot at; it then came my turn to shoot, and I hit nine
balls in succession when I was interrupted by a big fellow who offered
to bet $25 I would miss the 10th ball; this bet was accepted, and it
turned out that the fellow had just spoken in time to lose his $25, for
the 10th ball had not got eight feet from the trap when I broke it. I
won this match with a score of 67 against 66 out of 70 balls shot at. I
then went to shooting at glass balls with rifle against a shot gun, and
in the past 20 years I have competed against 206 good trap shots and
have not lost a match. I will mention only a few of them. In the summer
of '85, in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, an expert shooter came over from
Cold Water, Kansas, to shoot with me. We had a match at target,
distance 90 feet, with 22-calibre Stephens rifle; he used globe and
peep sight, I used open sights. The score stood in my favor 114 to 107
out of a possible 120, at a quarter-inch bull's eye. The next day we
shot a match at 100 glass balls, he using a shot gun, I a rifle. The
score stood 99 to 94 in my favor. I will mention a match which I had in
Omaha, Nebraska, in August, 1886. There was nothing very striking about
this match because of fine shooting; I only mention it to show how
unfair people sometimes are toward strangers. I have forgotten the
man's name, but he was a barber working on Tenth street; he held a
championship medal that he had won in Dakota with a Winchester rifle at
glass balls. He challenged me to shoot three matches: First, 100 glass
balls hanging still from the limb of a tree, fifty yards distance.
Second match at 100 balls, 10 yards rise, thrown by hand. Third match,
each to shoot 100 glass balls laid on the ground in a circle 200 feet
in circumference, balls two feet apart, shooter to stand in the center
of the circle, the one who broke the balls in the shortest time to win,
but neither of us was allowed more than 133 shots in which to break the
100 balls. I had heard a good deal said of this man, over Nebraska
everywhere he was spoken of as a fine shot, and in the first match I
was really afraid of being beaten, for I never had practiced a great
amount at stationary targets, but on the whole I was not afraid, for
the party who won two out of the series of matches was to be declared
the winner. In the first match I broke 100 balls in 206 shots, while my
opponent broke 82 in the same number of shots; this made me easy winner
of the first match. In the second match all kinds of tricks were
resorted to, to beat me. My opponent's friends tried to rattle me by
offering to bet that I would miss certain balls, but when they failed
in this, the party throwing the balls would first throw a ball four
feet high, then one 20 feet high, while my opponent's were thrown
uniformly. Notwithstanding the fact that I was treated very unfair, the
score stood a tie on 83 balls out of 100. In the third match at 100
balls in shortest time, I won easily, breaking the 100 balls in two
minutes and three seconds, shooting 127 shots, while my opponent broke
61 balls in 133 shots, time four minutes, forty-two seconds. In Fort
Smith, Arkansas, March 21, 1889, I shot on time at 100 glass balls
against five men with shot guns, I using a 32-calibre Winchester rifle.
I broke 100 balls in ninety-five seconds, while the five men broke 100
balls in three minutes and two seconds. Ravena, Ohio, July 4, 1890, I
broke 250 glass balls in four minutes and sixteen seconds. At Newark,
N.Y., July 4, 1891, I broke 81 glass balls in seventy-four seconds, 31
of which I broke in sixteen seconds, which is far the best record ever
made with a rifle. In all of the matches I had assistants to load. I
have hit 39 44-calibre cartridge shells out of 110 thrown up, 67
22-calibre cartridge shells out of 110 thrown up. The most difficult
feat I ever performed was hitting 7 balls thrown up at one time. This I
did at Shelby, Michigan, October 24, 1889, using a 44-calibre
Winchester rifle loaded with shot cartridges. On July 4, 1893, I hit
1000 wooden balls with 22-calibre Marlin rifle in 17-1/4 minutes, which
is 9.25 minutes quicker than the feat has ever been accomplished by any
other person.
I have thrown an object into the air and hit it 12 times before it
struck the ground, I using an automatic shot gun.
In concluding this article, I will suggest to those learning to shoot,
that as a workman is known by the kind of tools he uses, it is equally
true of the marksman. In order to do good shooting a good gun must be
used. As a repeating rifle I have never seen the equal of the Marlin,
model '92. When the gun is kept in good repair, used with well loaded
cartridges, it is absolutely sure to repeat, a thing that I cannot say
of any other repeating rifle. Although others are good, I consider the
Marlin the _best_.
C. A. BOGARDUS,
_Champion Quick Shot of the World._