The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01

lieQHenLers oL the woods were invited
TO ten their tauest stories. 1t turned
out that the stories were not quite
so unbelievable as might have been
expected after the slurring remarks
made by General Barnes. who pre-
sided about the veracity Of hunters in
general and tl5se who were to address
The Aldines members In particular,
says the New York sun.
General Barnes invited the Rev DR..
Henry Van Dyke to open the contest
by telling a fish story DR.. Van Dyke.
who has hunted everything from pork
90 moose in the north woods and is
also a famous fisherman, said.
.In company of publishers. business
men. writer's of fiction and other per-
sons with large imaginauons Qaugh-
teri the man who tells the lrst story
has a mighty poor show. Those who
follow him have an altogether Unfair
chance 90 Wrestle with their con-
sciences before they rise TO speak
Uaughter) ind myself invited to
provide a fish course and to be con-
tent 90 let the roasts and game follow.
] don't exactly know what is expected
OF me.
'You may know the story of the
Agricultural person who went into a
photographer shop in town and said
he wanted = picture took The pho
tographer asked him:
VIII you have a vignette"
WAL no.. said the farmer, I don't
care FOR anything 90 drink now, but
after the operation is over leetle bit
might brace me up some. (Laugh-
ter)
"The photographer explained that a
vignette was a head and bust portrait.
Oh said the customer. Guess j
don't want one, anyway You see, I'm
havin this took for a lady out i'm KAN
sas who s thinkin OF marryin' me. and
I kinder guess shed like 10 have a
view of my whole system. prolonged
laughter)
III am TO speak Of angling-whioh
in the classification of sports is set
down as division /. section A, subhead
a. class G)-the only sport that has
given a classic to literature. 1 do not
feel obliged 90 defend It against the
charge of cruelty which is made
against those who hunt any of the
animals which have been designated by
an all-Wise and INSCRIPTIONS Provi-
dence for mans pursuit (Laughter)
7 am thinking of writing a book with
the title. wild Animals That Have Re
NHNA 10 NHN"H ANN. NNAN NNaN many
distinguished sp0gtsmen who might
join with me In the composition of such
a book Gaughter)
'There is a great deal Of nonsense
talked by those who oppose hunting as
cruel The only sane view 20 take. 10
seems Co me, Is this. The humane hunt
er or fisherman, and by that ! mean the
gentlemen sportsman, provides for the
animals be takes "a brilliant and noble
end 10 their lives which would other
wise terminate miserably by starva-
ton or lingering sickness. (Laughter)
] mean IT, The fisherman who kills
his fish when he lands it,. the hunter
who shoots 20 kin and dispatches his
quarry as quickly as he may, they are
tia real humanitarians. These animals
were made for mems support Men owe
them a speedy and a noble end 20 their
lives.
"But I take it that you did not come
60 me for "a lecture, but 20 tell you
some of the adventures of a fisher
mans life.
"a year or two ago I was i'm New
Brunswlck I'm September i'm the neigh
h0rhOod OF the 18th Of The mOnth-on
the safe side Of the l5th-Wlth a friend
who went out TO kin big game and
took me along to- provide the camp with
fish. / had occasion 20 point out 90
him the advantages of fishing over
hunting HE hunted for seven days for
one great stake and got nothing. my
rewards though small came with
some regularity and frequency.
Along toward the end of the week
he suggested that so over 20
Moriarltys pond. which was about
forty miles above the mouth Of the
river and not so very far from our
Camp--QbseIVc my deduiteness. of
course you can all ind the place from
this descripton-to see what sort of
fishing there was there. He could not
spare either of the hunting guides, so
Z took with me Joe, the cook, and an
ancient Sc0tchmau who had lived all
mis- life in the woods Z took the pre-
caution t0 carry along a rifle, on the
chance that we might find a fish so
large that it would be necessary TO
shoot lt before it could be landed
eve found the pond a shallow piece
of wErer about a mile and a quarter
l0ag with @ mud bottom and sur
rounded with low bushes. We found
a biz of meadow on one side of the
pond suitable FOR a camp. AS we
walked along the muddy margin Mac
kept looking at the ground. 1 sup
pose for traces Of fish that had come
out ON shore, Laughter) Once ia a
while he exclaimed All. man. but
there was a big one, and would point
Co tracks very like those of "a large
COW. We settled down on bit of
meadow with "a couple of small birch
trees. handy for climbing purposes
should a fish become TOO aggressive,
and waited for the fishing to begin.
Joe had brought along a tremendous
.Nn Cd
thing used on a fishing trip. lLaugh-
terl Bat he said be had spent the last
winter near his brothers moose yard
and that he was going TO use it 90
make the noise that a lady moose
makes when she expects callers u
was a beautiful clear moonlight night
Ife lifted the horn 90 bis mouth and
30 began 90 let out fearful and Won
derful sounds.
'BOo-oO-hoC-oot Boo-oo-hoo-oo"
Right away from over the top OF
the ridge came an answering call
can him again, joe I said. You
see BE- was too dark 20 fish and 10 was
just as well TO have some FUN any
way. Joe called again. Then came an-
other answer but from Way the other
side of us. lie called again. There
were two answers. Then up at the
head of the pond there was a crash
ing of The underbrsh and big bull
moose went into the water with a
splash ar big as though a new man.
of-war had been launched. A minute
later a COW moose and two calves came
down through the woods right behind
u.s. Then there was another splash
farther along the pond. and another
and we realized that there were si1
moose 30 that pond.
ere was pitch dark now. The moor
had been clouded over You couldn't
See 10 save your life Wen. I sat there
fwaiHnF for the fishing To- Begin fol
some fifteen ar eighteen hours laugh.