Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-27
THAT HORN CHAIR.
An Attractive Bit Of Furniture in the
Game Department.
II Has The Power Of throwing One Into Past
Scenes.

| in the sporting lne. He can see all thu
| scenes that these curiOs and mementos
In the fish and game department repre-
| sent ANA for the time he looks as upon
| one vast panorama of the hunting fish
| ing and other scenes that are there
spread out before him. each being repre-
scented by some one token of it all.
This seat is endowed with powers su.
pernatural 1t cannot be electricity, for
horn is not supposed TO be an excellent
conductor Of electricity and this seat that
| occupies place very near the desk Of
| Commissioner Carleton, is made up en-.
| tirely of horns The antlers of the buck
| deer have furnished the entire material.
| They are joined together by screws and
| all rest upon four large horns A seat
| has been placed in the hollow and is COW
| cred with Il light plush
| Sitting upon this novelty that many "A
millionaire would like to possess, one lets
| his mind wander to things in the sporting
| line. He is gifted with a second SIGHT,
and instead of being a foresight il is a
hindsight. and it represents the scenes
at the time all these curios were collect
ed
on the very left one can place his
hands on three deer heads These ami d.
mails can be seen as they browsed along
by the side Of the path to the water
where they were headed on the early
morning They can be seen as they step
to the water to drink. and then one feels
his heart fiutter as the next scene is de =
picted; the hunter raising his rifle and
for a moment spellbound by the sight,
hestates. Then there is a sharp crack
and the deer leaplng high into the air.
fails dead.
Under the heads is the body OF baby
fox curled up cunning,y Here one Is lei
to the scenes of the field in the summer
with the little foxes gamboling about.
Over on another side Of the room is an.
other fox Of large size ana in this ami
NAL can be seen the hunt. lhe scurryiny
fox as he darts from one open to an.
other is seen and close behind is the
hound or hounds baying. If it is winter
the huntsman can be seen coming out on
snow shoes. Il short time afterward ready
to shoot the animal when the opportunity
offers.
The great baby moose standing over
five feet high and as large accordingly
has history of the hunter Of inexperi
ence who IS out in the Maine woods an
sees a large lit seems so to him) form
come along in the bushes. He thinks It
Is an immense moose and he fires bring
ing down his game. His exultation
knows no bounds. for the guide who has
been with him tells him it is a good year
ling moose. His cxultaton is greater at
this time than it is later when the ami
mai arrives in Bangor and Warden Neal
seiZes the carcass and arrests the owner
who Is for time in trouble. but is finai-
ly let off with a light fine on account Of
his ignorance OF the law The person
VINO knows of this case cannot look at
the baby moose, apparently so very large
without thinking OF the example it was
to all other hunters. That baby is nov
a sample for hunters to look at and be
ware of shooting anything of the size.
Up near the ceiling is the ferocous
looking animal reputed to be the largest
wildcat ever shot in Maine 1t is in re
atty Il specie Of a lynx as the tassels on
the ears will show. Nevertheless t
makes it lose none of its fierceness, even
knowing it is not wildcat 1t re
quires no imagination whatever to pic
ture this animal as he must have looked
as he skulked alorg for a time and then
i'll the tree crouched to jump upon his
prey. There is a picture taken of the an
imal since he has been mounted in this
crOuching position looking ready to
spring. so that the background is OF
scrasgy trees and the one he is on is of
the same size one cannot associate an
animal OF this sort with Il pretty grove
1t is always with thick growth of al
How.
down lot of windfals. SO great is the .
deceptive qualities of the picture that
progressive newspaper man of the east
ern part of the State sent it along wit.
an article saying it was the only wild (
cat ever photographed from real life, am I
the metropolitan paper published 1t, be- I
lieving it to be 50.
The great Candelabra tipped with electric
light bulbs. made as it is from the wide /,
spreading antlers of the caribou, and as
ISOLATED with the caribous head over be
yond. leads one off to the DOGGY section of |
Maine where the caribou frequent in |
small numbers. Caribou hunting is OFF !
for five years. one must not imagine /
too much in this lire. However. it used |
to be great sport. though probably no
greater than that of shooting deer, even |
though the caribou is a larger animal. |
Near by is the head of the caribou shot |
by Ely Rod" Crosby. the head belong |
ing to the animal which is said to have |
been the only one ever shot by woman
in Maine.
The immense turtle does not represent |
one of the resources of the State but 1t
leads one to think of the Doggy sections
of the ponds and the banks of the rivers. |
The great panels on the walls contain
ing trout and landlocked salmon, together
with perch and black bass under the con
vex glass, probably appeal to Commission
er Carleton as greatly as anyone. He
was the one who is responsible for their
being there That immense landlocked
salmon is the one with which he fought
50 gloriously in the waters of SebaSo.
The many minutes of the fight could be
recited by Mr.. Carleton and his guides
as they played the noble fish. The click
of the reel and the swish of the fish and
the paddle is almost audible as one looks
at these fish and then at the samples of
the fishing gear. together with few pic
lures on the subject. Here are the square
tails from Grand lake and Rangeley, the
bass of Great ponds. and Speckled beau
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