The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-10

sCaieoso Tribune.
To civilized man there is only one
pleasure which is greater than his first
night in camp, and that is his first night
ont oft, when he has bath and a good
bed with frcsh sheets. This is enough
to establish the fact that It is only by
contrasts that the salient points Of
things are developed. II a man has a
good home and a good bed, and fur
race to keep the house at proper
temperature at all times, he ought to be
happy. Add to that good cook and q
happy family, and ho should desire to
stay in that place and enjoy IT. Even
If he wants a change and rest, ho
could find places equally comfortable
and easy OF access; but there are men
who got up from the breakfast
table and say to their wives,
snow, can't stand this sort OF thing
any longer" and the good little woman
knows that the spell is on him. He
goes of up staiss md gets out @ trunk,
and then from the depths of far.otf
closet he hauls down some disreputable
old clothes and Tugs out q gun and lot
OF rods and tly-cases and ammunition
and lays thcm tenderly in the bottom
Of the trunk. He gets "ashocking bad
hat and pipe which madam will not
allow in tho settled part Of the house,
and strange cases made OF canvas which
carry the charms and fetiches Of the
sportsman. Those he places in the
trunk. Ho then overhauls his exit. "
Hc sticks "fy hooks" up In rows in the
pillow-shams il madam 10 not looking
Ho puts tallow-covered cartridges on
tho lace bed-cover and then carefully
lays a heavy pair Of very greasy and
dirty cowhide shoes on his wifs's most
choice piece OF upholstered furniture
In the midst Of this in walks the lady
OF the house, the partner of his joys and
sorrows. In this case tho joys and sor-
rows do not mix. Madam says: "Now,
Jack-I think it is awful for you to put
those nasty old things on my bed-you
have no consideration" etc, etc, and
poor Jack transfers them to the floor,
while of fiounces the lady to tell the
maid that she must "go through that
room thoroughly, as Mr.. B. has been
pac king his. nasty old traps and has
nearly ruined everything"
Jack is ready and is driven off to the
station, where he bids Madam good
bye" and is rolled away, happy in the
knowledge that in few days he will be
sleeping on brush-heap with rude men
and surrounded by mosquitoes and
smoke, with tough, soapy bread and
black coffee for food.
NIolna, a-.Iotno - a 1aITy fniapA kbuk
"Alr:: 3. is such curious mamie goes
of up there and lives like a wild beast
Il do not understand it"
To develop your real sportsman, tho
environment must BIO favorable at a
very carly age. II he is favorably situ-
ated he becomes possessed of an un-
bounded enthusiasm and more tools
than dentist in his. A great many
people are now growing up in America
whose tendencies are an illegitimate
cross between an English battue and an
American summer hotel-they are a
sort Of ARRESTED development" between
true hunters and fishermen aud people
who are not financially able to buy n
country place. All such are spurious
and not 10 be considered seriously. The
genuine American lover OF the woods
did not gather his theories OF how to be
happy from shooting on his estates, !"
or proceeding against tigers with the
entire organized population OF an east-
ern principality or from diliettante lit
erature on how to do the thing SO that
"it will stand wash.
He first passed his boyhood in a
country wherethesquirrels we're pretty
thick and the trout would bite and the
old men were never :ceasing in telling
how they killed "the biggest buck !
eyor sat my eyes onto. He then tried
the AdirondacEs until they became in
tested with women and summer hotels.
Then he tried Maine, and Maine got
filled up with persons who wore two
peaks on their hats and ate their din
ner on table, and the guides became
servants instead of iwoodsmen. Then
he discovered Canada and the Rocky
Mountains, and away in the heart OF
their wildernesses you will find his
clark lcan-to" where the timber grows
the highest over the little spring, and
where the dude has ceased from troub-
ling and the cigarettes at rest" This
sportsman has got a moral mortgage on
little pond somewhere away of up
somewhere, and no won't tell you where
1t is because he don't want you to find
out.
You may not recognize this man OF
the woodsin New York or Philadelphia,
because lie has trained himself to be as
much like the rest OF humanity rs pos
sihlc in order that he may make little
money, so that he can 90 hunting once
or twice year and be his own natural
self for space. When the buds open
and the grass shoots, and the sunlight
thaws out his mind, he will manifest
uneasinoss and become unsettled. You
can begin to detect him then. He
won't caro- about the frost and thepeach
crop, or the candidates, or tho anarch-
lists, but will be morbid and go on in
coherently about brown-hackels, No. s
shot, and improved Winchester models,
and othor proftless subjects.
Late in tho season he COTS down his
double.barrcl and his rifle and begins
to oil slIon up. He takes out his pea
Jacket and his oil-tannod moccasins and
his jaeEers. he is constantly writing
lcttors, to "Sam Bushcraft, Mountain
Pine, 5iissoula county, Mont" or to
"Pierrc Antoine, Temistamang, On
tario, Canada" and receiving replies in
brown or yollow envelopes, signed with
his ~ mark. Why no becomes so in
terested in these half savage mon in the
waste place, only no can understand.
The curious person does not want to go
with madam to the White mountains or
the New England coast, bess off and