The sun., 1897-12-05
4 SIGH FOR THE GUIDES OF OLD.
Vow the Beiier In white Buckle 10 Dead, ana
There 10 No more PIetureaaueneau

sARANAC. n. Y, Dec. 3.-"This is tho twenty.
nth anniversary or my first visit to the Adjron-
dacks. said Boston man who is having two
big buck heads mounted here as souvenirs of
the present hunting season, "and nothing
IN this whole country has interested mo SO
much as the evolution of the guide. He 10 more
picturesque in appearance now, but am old.
fashioned enough to believe that the guide
frat know twenty-five years ago was more In
teresting. The guide Of to-day looks like stage
reproduction OF what the amateur hunter be-
lieves guide should be- He dresses for the
part every bit as carefully as tho show cowboy
OF the Southwest, and he charges you three or
four dollars day for being picturesque. don's
mean to say that he is not useful. because he is,
but he can't entertain you with old.fashioned
tales and theories that made the original guide
in this region Q perpetual Joy at the camp fire.
There was no railroad through this country
then. and any man who suggested the possibility
of ono would have been laughed out of camp. II
was a journey TO remember to get in to Paul
Smiths In the good old days. You felt at the
end Of your journey that you had accomplished
something TO be proud of. and you had. for the
roads were rough. The guides were content to
earn dollar or dollar and half day. and
they didn't depend on guiding to support them
all the Eyear around. Old Ike Hope was my
man, and he was a good type OF his class. Ike
had cleared nearly four acres around his cabin.
and although the soil wasn't promising he man.
aged to wrest some crops from 1t. Ike was long
and thin, with sunburnt face. framed In strag-
Cling white whiskers that were hung on his
ears and draped under his chin.
"'They are a great protection to tho throat
was his invariable response to camp jbes abous
them Ike wore homcspun trousers tucked into
the tops Of his heavy boots. "A coarse blue shirt
anS Sa e D9rR Ss the
hsii he'd never seen q steam engine IT was asa purs
than any French chef in the world. There was
no style about him and no one had ever told him
y" Ike believed in lot of things that you will
that. trotting around somewhere in these woods,
| was big white buck, the king OF big herd. and
"'I never have seen that white buck myself
he would say; but ! have known woodsmea
sS viii SSsys Ave Gsy sas
that he is pure white, with n big spread OF
horns. Why hasn he boen shot Well thers
arc somc men who say That 1t 10 bad luck 0
shoot white buck and there are others who
have tried and missc% him Thry say N.Y. that moth.
know about that, but II J. ever get crack 1t
him Will SEQ what lead win do
white buck. / have hear: other gnidcs tnk
about white deer and white bucks so much III
was a freak deer that was gray. IL not white.
| ike was a great Metholist, and at night
| when big fire was blazing in front OF our le"n-
10 he would sing hymns IN voice tntt mast
| have frightened every animal wiihin hthlns
| distance. lie WAS intensely curious about i"s-
| ton. He knew the story o. he hos'on tea part
| and when admitted 10 hm one night lh'i l
| had mover Inspected Bunker lii'lor its mont
ment felt thoroughly ashamed O' myself. I"s
| was an AmCrl an to the backbone. hnd
| he told me that mis- father had come from loN u
| East. have never had n guile like him since
| no died. though there were Other guides tninny
his contemporaries who we're Just ~ m, resll'l:
"When tho Adirondacks became a fai -,
many men OF wealth the guides were spolie I.
| They discovered that tho Average amHis ir
| sportsman was willing 20 make th,m nan -
some present II they would paddle MIN up 10
| deer. The guides Increased their wages 50 tl
| they might make enough in the Hcds"n tn - ~
| port themselves in dlene,s for the rest o! 'h'
year. They began 10 rig themselves oHt- IA
picturesque hunting tosS such ~ hhI hfh
| been seen before he advcu; OF ihe C'y sro s'
| men. Ny guide This prc'nut s"leon kne" M" y
| about Boston than Hi'. 1'+ NJ ih'h "A
| white burRs. .inG u' h,H uUl', &c. % 'i-le r
| cord.AlS. ne ~ smotern "ul ''yu, q, ND llrrs
| was no relief IN hIt ,OaN cf- - "l. m"h prt nF
| the old s pr ate, ,n ,ur. San ucl.N'n n
| white buck, were thnHr ~ ,U9 a Or NJ OF hlIy-
| thing milIcr than high Wines and tucked Their
! komespun trousers into their boots.