South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-28


science and Of philosophy and one
may partake thereof and grow healthy
anu strong in learning and content
ment. But TO feast and 10 grow happy
and be satisfied, aye. that is the rub
IL Is the tale of the wild-land trails
that tones up the mental system and
puts 20 route the malignant case Of
intellectual dyspepsia.
Law aside now for a little while
the cares OF the day and hearken to
q tale OF the wild-land trails. For
get the war and the grOcer's bills;
forget rent and achs and ills; draw
the curtain on all OF that and gaze
out along "A snow clad way and on
into the silent depths OF the big woods
DO all OF that and hear the tale of
how Charley WOOlman broke the law
and killed two deer with one shot.
Scene. The forest clad reaches Of
northern Wisconsin in the month of
SGyember, I , years ago. Cast. q. X.
WCOlman Alex. Smith, William ..
Jackson. William Stull. one game var
den and one greyhound.
The call Of the month Of NOvembe
in the northern woods Year after
year that call was heard and was
needed by Charley WOOlman and his
companions Of the wild-land trails.
The month OF November when winter
reaches forth and gives the first real
signs OF the conquest he has planned
the northern woods where only the
fttest survive the winter conquest.
And so il was that when this par
ticular month of November approach
ed there were many conferences be-
tween Charley WOOlman g. Co. and
much cleaning OF guns and much
packing and much forgetting of home
ties and all of the time they rea-
% ugfI N ~ ID
igan this year where we must needs
pay S25 license money and also much
good coin for freight charges Not at
ali We Will 90 TO Wisconsin where
tie license is not known and where
venison and baggage are carried
gratis on passenger tickets"
Now there are four others who trav-
eled with this party 20 the forests of
Wisconsin, and they. with c. X. Wool
man, are the only ones of the COM
pany now living. These four were:
Judge Iucius Hubbard of South Bend,
Mark l.. Brummitt. Dan White and
Mr. Burchim. all of New Carlisle.
There still remained two days before
the hunting season opened when the
party OF eight arrived at the little
station Of Gable i'm bayfield, county,
and there il was that they were taken
i'm charge by a sympathetic game
warden who straightWay laid the plans
the deer and the bear.
con- the FIRST day after arriving at
Gable the game warden took the New
Carlisle detachment in charge and
piioted them To a camping ground II
miles north of Gable. ON the follow
ing day he took Woolman x co. in
charge and. with their bag and bag
gage G3 pieces of baggage it Was) and
with his own companion a maEnif-
cent hound. ne led them forth on the
road 20 a camping ground eight miles
south of cable.
The road of course was only
primitive forest way and the load of
baggage was heavy so that there was
ms exceeding of the speed limit. Tir-
ing OF the slow travel. Wooiman and
Jackson went ahead, with only their
shotguns. TO see what sport they could
have along the way
There was two inches of snow on
the ground a great white blanket
smothering whatever little complaints
the big forest might perChance have
made against the winter. Here and
there internnnable rows of tracks
twisting and turning about the bases
of the giant beeChes told the story
of rabbits i'm night time revel. Now
and then a bird of the winter woods
fluttered away among the barren
branches and occasionally the hunt
ers brought down a peasant in its hur-
ried flight through the underbrUsh.
For the first five miles the road led
Through the hardwood timber and in
that distance WOolman ana Jackson
counted 23 deer tracks crossing the
road to one side and To the other.
Finally. however the hardwoOds gave
way to cottonwood and pine and others
OF the softWoOd species and then for
the last three miles of the journey no
sign OF deer tracks appeared.
The camping place was located by
a spring near giant pine which
learned like a watchful sentinel over
the waters of the NamakagOn river,
The river at that place was about the
width and the depth OF the St Joseph
river at south Bend. 1t was the mid
die of the afternoon when Stull and
smith and the game warden arrived
at the chosen spot with the camp
equipment and the work OF preparing
for the night was gotten under way.
But meanwhile Woolman and Jack
son had talked the matter over and
they had decided that the game war
den had used bad Judgment in locat-
ing the camp at that place far from
where the last deer tracks had been