The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-18
TRAPPIEG--II.

Last week l was telling the story of trapper who had accidentally step red into a bear trap, and it may be remembered that I discontinued at the point where the man had tainted, over- come with cold and hunger and the agony he had suffered. By the nler- est chance, lIe was found, soon after daylight the next morning, buried un- der the snow, all but his red cap, which the strong wind had cleared and left as the one mark to indicate where he lay.
 At first it was thought that he was dead, but after he had been taken out of the trap, some signs of life were found. and hIs rescuers carried him back to camp, and worked over him until a doctor was brought to the place. They saved his life, but he lost the leg which had been in the trap, besides several fingers and toes which had been so badly frozen that they had to be amputated. In short, it was but the wreck of a man who finally left the camp, to be supported by charity for the rest of his life. But his experience had done one good thing for him: it had softened his : heart towards the creatures of the i woods. He knew what it was to lie in steel trap all night, and he spoke l of trapping with shudder.
 If the public thoroughly understood the extent of the cruelty which att tends the trapping of wild animals, 1 there'd be mighty few furs worn," he +n yr1n nd hn uHHASs ssNJn decent woman, nor man either. for that matter, would order a garment which it was known could only be procured by the infiiction of brutal 1 cruelty; no one has the right to call l for. such fearful sacrifice on the part of Q living creature, except perhaps in a case of life and death"
 1 I spoke last week of trappers who did 8 small business, and who were thus able to visit their traps once a day. But professional trappers, who 1 set lines of hundreds of traps, cover
 ing many miles of territory, very of- ten cannot visit them more than once
 a. week. Knowing what a captured an imal may suffer in one night, try to | imagine the desperate straits of a 1 trap until it dies. And they do not die quickly or easily as rule, these har- l dy, vigorous people of the woods.
 When I see people wearing furs, l sometimes wish that they might see some of the sights which any one may see by tTaveling with a trapper for
 a week. When they had seen a few of the harmless dwellers of the forest
 lying in the clutch of steel traps, with
 limbs torn, stretched or broken, and
 with their innocent faces distorted with pain, with hatred for the one creature
 who brings them to this pitiful condi | ton, wonder how many of them would care to adorn themselves with gar.
 ments which have thus been paid fol
 in the misery of others.
 | Few people seem to know the exten
 of the trapper's gruesome trade in this i country alone. There are thousands
 of men engaged in it-thousands ot
 men who, for living, put to the tor. l ture from g. few dozen to several hun
 dred animals during the cold season
 of every year. The majority of these
 men are very ignorant, many of then
 barely able to read and write, theil
 chief literature consisting of one ol
 more of the numerous papers ant
 magazines devoted to trapping and the 1 fur trade in general. Most of then
 are not over-sensitive when they take
 up the work. but, by the daily perpe
 tration of cruel acts for profit, they
 come to have not the slightest regard