The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-07

hunting game which men usually find
nara TO get. She carries new Sharp
less powder using thirty-caiibre weap-
on and recently within week she has
killed half dozen black tailed deer.
She has adopted bloomers as a hunt
ing costume, but this has been done
purely as a. matter of convenience as
dresses are not compatible with the
thick sage brush Of the hunting dis
tr1cts. There is nothing masculine In
her manner, however, and when she
sits In her parlor at home there Is
nothing in her modest appearance that
would offer the least suggestion OF
mannishness.
She uses the soft-nosed bullets which
when they hit an animal, spread until
they widen half an inch in diameter.
The deer which she has brought down.
as rule, do not run more than twenty
yards, and many have died before half
that distance was covered.
She finds antelope hunting the most
interesting and exciting sport of all
and describes one Of her recent VIC
tories as follows:
Il took my pony and went away up
above the ranch, tethered the animal
and then went along a little bluff to
where l could look off across the open
country for long way. l brought my
field glass into play but could not see
a single thing. Then 1 went on
short distance further and scanned the
plain again. l had been out for per-
haps an hour and a half when L hap
pened to see a glimmer of something
over little hummOck not more than
100 yards away. 1t was just little
speck of brown that ] had seen and
l was not absolutely certain that l
had seen anything. but | cooked my
rifle and waited 1t seemed so long
waiting there that l had almost con-
cluded that I was mistaken. Sudden
ly, however, up went something on the
rising ground. Another jump and an
antelope was in sight, followed by four
others. l tried to catch sight or one
but they were so small in the sights
that they looked like little bits OF
rabbits. Pretty soon I pulled the trlg-
ger. The next instant they were gone.
But I put in another shell and ran
over to the top Of the rise and there
lay one dead The bullet had gone
into the back Of the head and torn a
fearful hole"
Mrs. f. Eugene Belden, Of Chelsea,
Maine is another recent addition TO
the ranks Of mattresses. Prior to last
July she had never handled q gun
She was proficient, however, in the use
of the revolver, but there her skill IN
the handling of firearms ended. Since
that time, however, she has been IN at
the death in a fox hunt, having killed
the elusive animal herself.
Her husband is a great sportsman,
and, while they were In New Hamp-
shire last summer he taught her the
use of the rifle. She took to 1t handily
and began by experimenting on bottles.
She improved 50 rapidly from the be-
ginning that early in October she ac-
companied her husband on a hunting
trip into the Maine woods She sighted
a deer while on the expedition, and,
without fear or Wavering, shot 1t
square in the shoulder. Elated with
every opportunity Of improving her
skill, and, shortly afterwards, went
to Paris Hill, Me, to try her luck at
fox hunting and rode in the fifth hunt
Of the Buckf1eld Fur club.
The result of the days sport was
that she killed the first fox, the biggest
one and the first ever secured by a
woman in the history Of the club. On
the day Of the hunt about twenty
members of the club were present, di-
vided into three parties.
In one party were Mr.. and Mrs. Bel
den and Mr. and Mrs. j. G. Emerton,
Miss L. McQuade and F. c. Mower, Of
Auburn.
When near the sign pole, one Of the
hounds started a fox in one of the
swamps AS the game seemed to be
coming toward them, the party spread
out. Soon Mrs. Beldens quick eye dis
covered a fox stealing up the hill about
forty yards distant. She fired in
stantly, holding her heavy double bar
relied gun at arms length without rest
ing. The fox tumbled dead, but she
was so afraid that he was not quite fin
isted that she emptfed the second bar
rel into his body, in order to make
sure.
She is inclined to rest upon her lau-