Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-25
J0hnSon'S AnodVne Eminent
A School for Sportsmen.

| We will not charge the following uu
| to Commissioner Carleton but it is re-
| ported on the street that the State
| game commission will recommend to
the next Legislature that schools for
| the instruction of the sportsmen that
annually visit the Maine woods in
search of game be instituted. The re.
cent unlawful killing" of so many
men in the woods this fall, has led
many to believe that large number
of the sportsmen became sportsmen
for the first time this year. If this is
the is case, it would seem to be abso-
lutely necessary that the green men in
the Maine woods be given an oppor-
tunity to learn the difference between
deer and a man. Now if schools
should be established. in charge OF
competent guides, who are familiar
with the game of Maine. it is believed
that the per cent. of manslaught ar
cases next year would be much
smaller. The school room might be
filed with mounted specimens of game
both fowl and beast and the guide
should learn little piece to speak to
his pupils, something like this:
Gentlemen, this is moose 1 call
your attention to the fact that this
particular specimen never wore a red
blouse or a drap hunting shirt The
specimen looks no mores like a man
than you look like the specimen.
Please note this particularly. This on
your right is fine specimen of deer.
You can kill this Is days earlier in the
season of hunting than you can the
moose. While this deer is nearer the
size of man, it looks no more like A
man than the moose does. Here you
see a caribou. This animal is about
half way between the deer and moose
IN point of size, and resembles the man
fully as much, and no more, than the
two beasts just shown you. Now
gentlemen, it has been stated that the
black bear, common to the woods Of
Maine, looks much like a man. 1t IS
not So The black bear resembles the
man about as much as the fishing
smack looks like an ocean greyhound.
At no time during the life of the bear
does it wear anything but what Ma
ture in her munificence provides. No
caught out in the woods in a suit IF
corduroy or brown duck. In 1897 a
man was mistaken for a partridge ana
shot in the feet, probably crippling
him for life. Therefore I show you
now a specimen of the partridge
family. They are really a pretty bird.
In fact they make prettier bird than
the man does, there are more feathers
on them. You will note this specimen,
which is of the average size is much
smaller than man. Now you would
not think for a moment that you
would take this bird far a man, but
you are apt to if you are not cautious.
history has proved that. All the
specimens that you see about you are
common in these woods. You may kill
them during a certain season of the
year. This is your first lesson You
will be required to come again for
three years and by that time you may
graduate from this institution and be
given diploma, setting forth that your
| instructors actually believe you can
tell deer, moose, bear and a
partridge from a man. Without this
| certificate of craftsmanship, you can
not hunt in the woods of Maine. Gen.
tlemen, you may now retire to your
| hotels"