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Show The Hunting Season. Appropos of the hunting season that is soon to begin it is in keeping that careless hunters should be warned against some of those things that occasion oc-casion severe accidents and result In deaths. Before getting into a wagon it is no moro than common prudence and foresight fore-sight to remove the shells from one's gun. It Is also but the task of a moment. mo-ment. If the horses should run away, If the wagon should break down, If the shooter should slip and fall In getting get-ting In or out, there is no possibility of death from tho discharge of his gun. If the same precaution is observed when crossing a fence, there again ca,n be no "accident" from the gun. If one keeps one's gun pointed in ho air or entirely away from the person of others even it the gun should bo dls-charg dls-charg d when in hand, there again conic' le no accident. If the gun Is placed against a tree, the cartridges being first withdrawn, and if the dog knocks it over or it falls down from any cause, thero can be no accident. If the shooter takes care to know absolutely what kind of animal Is moving, he cannot by mistake shoot a man for a deer. It is quite as easy to think that a deer Is a man as to think that a man is a deer. "Walt till you know definitely; then you will not afterward af-terward have to tell what you thought, with the added knowledge that a man does not remotely look like a deer and that all regrets cannot restore a life. In short, the matter of "accident" jnay depend on tho matter of care and foresight more than on tho unforsecn. Think about these things, and think about them before and not after. |