The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-10

contribute $25 to nourish Mckinley
graft on a Populistic scion. The North
Dakotan may gun for so cents But
though you are man and brother from
dear Sister Minnesota's domain just
over the imaginary line, you must put
I'D or shut up" and keep your gun
muzzled, even though it be the best
breachloader in the country. Hence
the above address, and tears; for OF
course, it is but natural to feel that
the forbidden fruit hanging In Eden
over the line must be more juicy and
desirable than what one has to hand.
I stopped off here because I heard
that chickens used to be abundant that
sIoughs were numerous with plentl-
full crop of ducks in every one OF them.
This may all be very true, and, as to
the sloughs and ducks, is a fact. But
In hunting ducks man proposes but
the weather maker disposes. SO Tar the
good days for duck shooting have been
few and far between, owing to the most
unreasonable warmth and general July
ness of the weather. Nor have there
been any chickens bagged this year to
sneak Of, because of the heat and In
tense dryness Of the soil. There was
no scent, dogs would range over acres
and acres of the most likely ground
ground where year after year coVles OF
birds were certainly found-and never
a. covey found unless the dogs blunder-
ed into and flushed them. To human
beings 1t was q wearisome state Oh
affairs. but to well-bred, well-trained
CANNES it was a source OF as much
grief as to man whose eyesight had
suddenly failed him. They did not
know what was the matter, and their
self esteem was lowered we'll nigh to
suicidal point. Potterine! false-point-
ing! flushing! Pshaw! paresis must be
Imminent. and no well-educated dog
can contemplate paresis with satisfac-
ton. But it was not paresis or any
other old thing of that kind, but just
lack of semitic ground was too dry
to hold the tell-tale faint of the Light
treading footsteps that trampled the
heath" And so men were Disguised
md disappointed and exc the dogs, Tor
nothing is so demoralizing to a we'll
lntentioned, ambitious dog as inability
10 find birds; he knows something is
wrong, but knows not what, and be-
PONIES discouraged.
That there are plenty of ducks here
is evident by a bag made by three
guns on Sept 20 at Cormorant lake,
about nine miles south Of this place,
when, from daylight to dark, 297 ducks
of sorts-both kinds Of teal, spoon
bills, mallards, redheads and few
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES brought to bag.
The day was stormy and clustering,
and such weather has the same dis
turbing effect upon wild fowl as upon
the Irishman's pig, who becomes ''on-
aisy in his moind' when he hears the
wind whistling around the common
domicile. The flight was good through
out the day, the guns were loaded with
straight powder, and the wagon box
was full of game as g result. Last
Sunday evening again was rather
blustery and two guns got seventy-two
ducks, mostly redheads, with some
canvasbaeks and teal The first was
e remarkable, the latter very good
bag for an evenings flight, showing
the possibilities of this part Of the
country to supply hunters feast I'M
der favorab bic circumstances.
But as to my own success: The less
said about that the better Arriving
here at 4:G7 p. m. L heard there was
fair pass within one and one-quarter
miles Of town, SO unl1mpered ana
tramped off. The pass was ideal-two
long sloughs, thickly rush-grown. with
an open strip of water along the side
of each, joined by short creek and
with a neck Of good solid ground be-
tween them. Instinctively, the right
point of action was selected, and the
vigil commenced. 4 faint air, hardly
worthy OF the name Of breeze, came
from the south, whispering sleep
Well' to the drowsy reeds, who barely