The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

therefore, on the clean and sports
manlike rifle A heavy gun loaded
with a slug or with buckshot is what
they carry. The guides have marked
the whereabouts of deer They know
every runway. They post each man
as close to the trail as possible
often not much more than fifty feet
away from where the deer is sure to
go.
The hunter" doesn't even walk
through the woods. He is carried to
the, spot in a canoe and helped to
make himself comfortable, generally
being treated even to a seat. The only
luxury he may not permit himself to
enjoy is that of smoking.
Now, deer that is run by the
hounds goes fast, but it doesn't re-
quire an extraordinarily good shot to
hit a buck weighing two hundred
pounds with handful of shot at fifty
feet distance.
| Yet lots of them miss the buck
even then. And as the guide wishes
to satisfy his patrons, he must get
even the poorest, b1indest and most
blundering of shots his venison. SO
| he repairs to the shore of lake and
the deer is driven by the dogs till it
takes to the water. Then the guide
and hunter tumble into boat and
the guide rows right on top of the
swimming brute. Mr.. hunter" NAV
now shoot it from a distance of any
where from twenty-five to five feet,
or, if he be particularly atrocious
shot, he may press the muzzles of his
gun against the side of the animal and
blow hole into it.
! 1t is we'll known that scores of deer
used to be c1ubbed to death in the
water annually by "sportsmen" and
not shot at all, in the lake country
of the Adirondacks while bounding
was permitted.
Still-Hunting, the True Ars.
/ With the hound eliminated, the deer
are safe from all except the best of
hunters till the snow carpets the
| ground and gives the less skillfu1 ones
a chance to creep through the woods
without raising a thousand echoes
and to see deer before they fall over
lit.
Still-hunting is the only hunting
! that civilized man who isn't looking
for meat to eat should care for. Once
he kcan say truly that he is a good
'lstilB Bhunter it means that he can walk
/ the forest trails like panther, that
i his muscles are equal to those of the
! deer itself in endurance, that he mas
the eye Of wild creature, and that his
IgTerve has remained proof against the
Iassaults of nerve-tearing civilization
Such man will be content to hunt
day after day for a month to get the
one or two deer that he is allowed to
take by law in one season He is a
hunter, not a butcher He will have.
seen perhaps ten, perhaps two score,
that month. And he may not have
fired shot till he dropped the select
ed crowned head at last
| Year after year will see new safe
| guards put around the American deer,
and those timorous souls who fear
that the magazine and automatic rifles
will sound the knell of our remaining
game may take heart The rifle doesn't
do the hunting; and so long as the law
compels man to still-hunt deer and
limits the number he may take in
season, the deer will continue to -four
ish.
Deer Appear to Be Increasing.
be beconnit1o more plentiful each vear
In the thicllv settled Fmnire State
New York an official record ;c tant
of the numher of deer shinned o,t pf
the woods Tn the seaso, IF Iooo 90
were TRANSFORMED In IooI tbs 6a,reo ,o
show Io6a In 1000 AZ wera car.
red Fxnerience shows '15 tba+ +he nm,
Her az deefS Stille6 81 the woods ;s fo,,r
times T s,,sf1 1berTsh;nned o1f Thus
tl,s ar,rs,aiss lS;11;rG IF daer +, Me,n
York VStafe afol,e5ssSat least four thon.
sand, and fl1eSreT,6rts show thar there
are IS ores deer ff1an ever
OnlL Lone Island. within two hours,
rfdegbv trai1f from, the CIV H.11 of
the city of New York two hundred
deer are killed every year.
A curious fact is that the sizes Of