Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-05
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE! SUNDAY, JULY s. 1896.

THE OMAHA i
lowish glare. where there be ragged. tower
Ing peaks OF the mountains, the ripping
bosom OF lake, colonades of trees in the
forest, or the frothy, rushing surface of the
trout stream. When the night shuts down
and the weary stream waders or hunters
gather about the hosritable, glowing heap TO
relate the experience of the day, after a
bounteous repast, there Is no place on
earth can hold a candle to 1t. What funny
stories, what brilliant repartee and Brobdig-
nagian fabrications about the size OF the
trout that got way or the elk or bear en-
countered; what glorious tales of former eX-
petitions and what a glorious pipe and
what matchless whisky. And then after
the last Jack pot has been played. what
songs the mountain winds sing in the leafy
canopy. how bolsterous gurgles the stream,
how mariginOus the murmur of the lake,
how sweet the breath Of the marjaram, and
lonely and chill the howl of the wolf or
quayering scream of the mountain
lion. The pickering freight peoples
the mysterious environments, you
see faces faded and gone these
many years, you live again some happy
day, when suddenly, as a charred ember
falls, you appreciate the depth Of the solt-
tude, and how distant Is man and how
near is God. The mountain wilderness Is
a great tongue speaking constantly to the
heart, melting one to knowledge OF him
! SUI duu I TtNtTtuCp lOT lue Fdllti' wv
in the solitude of the desert nor on the
mighty ocean do you more scnsibly realize
the one great Presence that perVades all
loneliness. In the mountains, with the tow
ering peaks for a worshiping temple, your
heart expanding. your thoughts rising un-
fettered, you behold Him., face to face. You
surrender yourself to the influence of the
hour and scene. From the starry heavens
and the solemn landscape breathes the in
visible presence. and from the depths of
Vnnr heart mngt rise nm ingnlrAttOn OF I'M
bounded faith and love.
Dr.. ". r. Blakesley, the popular and
congenial surgeon of the Erie railroad of
Forest City, Pa, who has made many hunt
ing trips to the mountains with DR.. Gal
braith and other friends Of this city. and
who, by the way, Is one of the best wing
shots in the country, has recently applied
for a patent to cover his new woodchuck
separator, which promises to be a grand
success. The good people of Susquehanna
county are to be congratulated upon the
ingenuity of the doctors invention. DR.. c.
X. Cole of Helena, Mont, Prof. r. II. Reed
of Columbus, o., and Hon. Polk Palmer of
Susquehann1. Pa, concur with the doctors
Omaha friends in its practical utility. The
object of the separator is to Gull out all
the Anticipated and crippled chucks from
the young and innocent offspring and edu-
cate the same in modern ways; or, in other
words, will organize a class which will be
known among the farmers of Dundaff as
the New WoodchuCk. l will be able TO
give readers OF The Bee a complete history
of the haunts and habits of the modern
woodchuck through the Doctors kindness
ere many moons, l hope.
Within the past two years at least one
half of the wild buffalo that yet remained
in the wilds OF remote Texas and the Ma
tional park have been killed off by poachers
and shameless market and hide hunters,
G. Nrc "a tnaant ptEp arm M n nnnrt Aeon M ~ r |
that this statement is approximately cor
rect. 1t follows that of the millions of the
great animal which played an important
part in the history of the struggle to eX-
tend the frontier Of civilization, not more
than 100 are surviving on the North Amer
lean continent, outside of the few specimens
which are TO be found in the geological
gardens of our own and other cities. The
herd in the region should be
captured and placed in the National ZOolog-
ical park at Washington, where they would
be fully protected, is the opinion of the
residents of that region. Doubtless they
would increase sufficiently to allow the
starting of small herds in various parts of
the country, and thus save the race from
becoming as extinct as is the dodO or the
pterodaCtyl. There is more than mere SEN
timent in this suggestion, and the buffalo
is just as worthy of preservation as is any
thing else that is identified with our mar
velous development. o
The cheap target agitation has reached
this section of the country in a mild form,
and is being talked about considerably by
those who patronize the trap. While there
is no immediate outcome in sight, it is
highly probable that a radical change will
be made ere another shooting season rolls
round. The question has become a leading
one with the Chicago trap shooters, who
found that at their recent state meet the
3-cent target rate more than equaled their
purse winnings. Charlie Budd, the great
Des Moines expert, says:
Il am not yet ready to say that | shall be
behind a 1-cent target shoot this season, but
still that is not among the impossible things,
and this tournament may be held at my
home, in Des Moines, la. The shooters are
beginning to feel that 3 cents is too much TO
pay for targets when the price per thousand
is as low as it is on targets today. Now you
may not think 1t, but | want to tell you that
you can hold a shoot and throw targets at /
cent each and make money out of it. II you
don't believe this | can prove it to you with
figures. | will say that in a three days
shoot, with the proper number of traps, ]
can throw 16, 900 targets a day. On this
basis l will take in $3.50. can have 100
shooters present. | figure the expenses of
running the shoot, reduced to bedrock. about
as follows, these targets being applied to well
furnished and we'll equipped grounds: Tar
gets bought in car lot, $3.50; trappers, $45;
pullers, $1S; scorers, $24; other office and
ground expenses, $44; total, 1881, which is
all it will cost me to run a three days shoot,
AS I have taken in $3.50, you may say that !
have 500 that | am ahead of the game.
Now, you are all the time talking about
giving the amateur a show. / will explain
to you just how the amateur will get a
show In my shot. The usual plan, with
Scent targets, we will suppose, is to make
the entrance in a twenty-bird event $3.50
to SO. When | throw targets at ! cent l am
going to save the shooter 2 cents on each
bird. or 40 cents on each entrance. If |
shoot eight events during the day ! save
him SO 20 out of his entrance during the
day. Now, when | say | have saved this
shooter this SO or 81 a day, / mean that |
actually save it; | leave 1t in his pockets,
and he does not put 1t up at all to be shot
as he must on the old Scent target basis.
On that old basis, when he did put up his
money he only had his shooters chance to
win 1t, or a part of 1t, back again in the
purses, and to do so he was obliged to com
pete successfully with all the crack shooters
who had entered on the same basis as him
self. / can't make the amateur shoot as
well as the professional, perhaps, but | can
save the amateur and all other shooters be-
tween SO and 81 a day actual cash, money
Is left in their pockets. OF course,
In doing this | don't make so much money
for myself, but | am not holding the tour
lament for that purpose, but for the good
Of shooting"