Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-23

The Hartford Couranf somehow does not
seem to think much Of hunting, As man
Is art. Hear the way it goes on
Ii Is noble sight to see a man who
weighs two hundred pounds going out with
a scattering shotgun to kill bird Of a
size that it requires six to make him a meal
lIe thinks he has frlflled all the conditions
of honorable manhood when he shoots that
bird aS he calls it ION the wing. never
thinking how he would like TO have some
superior being" say a Woman's Rights
Woman, shoot him some day when he is
running to catch the cars. Perhaps he is
perfectly fair. Perhaps the rheumatism
that he gets by plodding in the swampS all
day and standing in the cold wind ought to
be considered by the bird fair offset to
death and pot-luck which Is its portion.
But the most unmanly, not to say, a the
English do, beastly thing, Is the - trap
ping - Of birds and other animals for the
purpose of shooting them afterwards for
sport This is carried to such an extent by
the Bold Britons that the society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals ars asking
parliament to prohibit it. They catch in
traps lot of pigeons, put them in sack
and tumble them about for n considerable
time after without food, and then put them
into cage in the middle of 4 field with
half dozen men standing with guns at
different points waiting to blow the birds to
fragments, when the string IS pulled and
the poor things try to escape. Those heroes
nobly fire at the rising flock. and they are
rewarded by the smiles of the fair ladies
who assemble to witness their manly
sports. Next to a warrior there is nothing
a woman likes 50 much as hunter. There
is something fierce, awful, fascinating about
hunter-especially abouta pigeon-shooter,
when the pigeons are Gagged.
| TuE ALDERMAN OF HIS NATIVE VILLAcE.-A
letter from Nashville to the Cincinnati Ga
.efte is as follows:
Ex-President johnson is here, snulEng the
political breeze for some official position,
( doubtless. Mr. johnson is still elastic in
step and firm in carriage, although age is
clearly getting a hold of him, as evidenced
| by his gray locks and the clearly defined
crows feet at the outward corners of his
/ eyes. | fancy, too, that can discover
tinge of disappointment in his countenance.
He occupies his old room No. 5, at the Max
well House, where he receives his friends
and talks over the past, and, it is whisper
ed, also plots for the future.
Mr.. johnson, as to personal bearing, is,
among the human species, something what
the eagle is among birds. He seems to be
conscious of his sown superiority. When he
is not on exhibition on - state occasions, -"
| he moves through the crowd and along the
street in a stately yet becoming manner,
and if he meets an isolated stranger looks
him in the face as if he expected to be re-
eognized. If the party fails to speak, he
passes on in silence, with perhaps a slight
inclination of the head. Iobseryed him at
the Maxwell House the other night. He
came down from his quarters into the re-
ception room hall ; and walking through
went out into the portieo, continuing on to
the extreme end, and stood for some time
alone in the darkness, evidently wrapped in
thought-the broodings, doubtless, of MS
disappointed ambition. 1t is said that he
has never become satisfied with becoming
President in the manner in which he did ac-
quire that position, but desires yet to reach
the place by popular vote.