| Show eo o 0 00 eo I 0 0 O OI Oll 0 O 0 II C o O J 0 C 0 08 0 80 JO 0 0 ao 80 iii IF fF ic r TOC THE TRE I He WERE vv ti t tl 1 TO HURT HUNT FOR BiG GAME GAMEr GAMEtt E r tt of ot our chief magis magistrates i lilting for t r big t and his ills evident Intention to Indulge In the sport aport of or hunt hunting huntIng ing lag It whenever opportunity otters offers the lu ellon has hall aris ani arisen en In as 18 to the Held he would have ilave to tu In Invade Inva vade vaile va lu In illS hit prospective search and again It if he would It tt In to make It worth tile the trou trouble roil I ble ide That President la is a true sportsman and perhaps th the most mOlt thor thoroughgoing one that ever ver occupied the tue presidential chair there U Is no room for tor doubt He lie has bee h repeatedly shown that ho he believes with Do den to hunt la In Ir ur vr I Thin tee M the doctor duto fur lor t A few tew of oC his hU predecessors shared with him this tills opinion notably our lint pres president ident Washington who WM ws 1111 an so ardent follower after Atter the time hounds and nd dearly loved lov to hunt hult In III his stalwart youth when surveying the time Indian country he helu lu t no lun to a deer a wild or a n bar biar anti and when In his Imis lat let latter latter letten ter ten years yeats he settled BH as a a s planter at Mount Vernon Vernoll hors horses horeS s and hounds were his 1111 fa to favorite I companions Some of the th early presidents were Irene athletic some ome were wert I I mighty men of oC war but nun fl of ot them has hall left a better belter record than Washing Washington ton for Dr achIevements achievement In the field and Ind forest In later times time boUt both and Cleveland were Indefatigable Ind In hunting small game the utter latter now seeming to make It his hi tl nut lint not one of them It Is II sate safe te I Ito to say uy hiss has III shown hown such uch a for the tue thes s seamy nty side of ot hunting bunting life for the tile thereal thereal real rough and tumble at attendant upon the pursuit of ot larger Ir f game me as ClA the occupant of ot the th presidential chair To revert to the question with h this article ol as to the range und ond abundance of Americas big game gains at Ot atthe the present time and ammO lla Its availability for Cor forOne One cne who like the tho president may not leave lve the tile country during his hia term of ot the opinion ut ot experts Is to the tite effect that Ihal there Is I enough and nOli to to satIsfy the most vaulting am nm ambition Time Times have hav changed since Inee his thU country awoke to 10 tho the extinction Lion tion of ot our game supply arid and paned laws lawi for tor Its III preservation OnO Once was wn the time when any ny pot hunter who chose choKe could tally sally III and Shoot nit nil he could coull find within atilt and at any Halon of or the year yr without regard to the th condi condl condition I ton tion of the th Kume or the natural laws I I which width he violating EV Kv EVery Every ery flIt has hall a carefully worded game law Jaw I antI and lOOn anon there thore will 11 b be It U Is hoped a enactment framed for fur forthe forthe the Llma of game rame ill all II over oer the ill It Is U patent to any anyone one even though not a that hut there is II more mort game faille In the thc wintry today loday than thrum there has hAa be n in n many litany year e re 1111 only th the small birds been ed but the time unee un such luet aj as 8 groue rou duck luck wild gee It anti and wild Foreign specks apfel ut been Imported nod and let loot loo house such m a the and Chi Chinese Chinese nese ness pheasants dial have multiplied greatly mati and will noo U afford ItJi sport lI rt under Judicious loul restrictions rc As AI to deer moose caribou the wild lId quadrupeds as big bli bt game generally the of man not back so IU far Car M rn to recall lu 11 great abundance ih he writer can r when ho he h might have hunt lIan a week for d de deerin rIn N Nt New w for tor in flailing even l the e sign of or foe ont one but tOd Y they th are re to Q o In certain putts alts of ot Maine and nn New that they tile tho are aro familiar ob oh In lii II the lie woods und and secluded med mead owe OilS even coming up u to open fields to ta feed with the cows cos It ii Is no mere omens figure of ot to say that some seine ferment have havu to protect thom outlying fields contiguous to forest land with shotguns from the tho wild deer d r that lint Invade them for tor such luch a n condition has actually come corne cometo corneto to 0 puss Almost any man with a weeks vacation can lila hlo himself to the of Maine anti bring back at nl least one aile user deer lr even avon though he never may have sighted a n elite rIll In his life lite In lii Maine In fact the time hunting of ot big game IUM hu been reduced r to an exact scIence for tOI the woods are w so full tull of or guides and I the guides KI so full tull of ot game law lore loro that I Ithe the wayfaring man even evell though he ho be bea a fool cannot fall to procure procuro all he ut wants In one way or another The rite Maine Mottle season AIOn I for tor moose Is be lie between between tween Oct 15 IB Dee Dec 1 I the catch limited to one bull moose for or each ench per person person I son Ion for tor de r Oct Dot 1 1 to I 1 Dec ee c IS 15 two to each hunter bunter must InuIt be employed I and ami no AD game lain may be transported out of ot the state by the shoot shooter er Caribou are said to 10 be he very velY numer ous but they tile Ihl are protected in Ma Main Maint I no tilt till Oct 15 Ii 1905 1901 If It it were po for tor our aur president to take n a trip to Newfound land he would there find this first cousin to the reindeer as numerous as ns In a It when on their semi semiannual semiannual em I annual migrations amid might If It he hecho cho chose chote e weary himself with the tho slaughter tar ter So niso In New Brunswick and andin In fact tact throughout almost tho time entire frigid section of ot North America In New Hampshire mose caribou I mend ami elk are at present absolutely pro but deer cheer may bo bu shot until the tue of December in n Vermont ermont also moose and are arc prohibited ll and deer may mil be bo taken with horns only time the Pl last ten days lS In October And Amid so 80 on through the list of ot states By lly carefully arranging his tours a 11 hunter with unlimited time at nt his din dis disposal may ma Indulge In his hla sport aport through throughout lout out the fall und and winter To fo do BO so how over he must travel tim tho breadth of ot tho the continent and be on the alert against being snared by the time various and conflict conflicting lag ing In game laws lawI Time are then thon deer leer moots moose e and either caribou or elk In all nil the northern tiers of ot states anti and an ami abundance of ot the hit first named through throughout out the central and southernmost Deer In fact tact may bo be found tolerably abundant within a 11 few te hours ride of or Washington and wild turkeys have been heen sighted almost within range of ot the capital c dome One Ono may tell from a n perusal of ot tho the game laws lows Just what game Is or ought to tn be b abundant In any any curtain certain state or In our western states State for tor ox Mip inid tho the list lilt is swelled by the addi addition tion of antelope e elk mountain sheep und goat and anil Infrequently the tho almost bison or buffalo We Wo can cnn per lien perceive llo we think why Mr were ao so careful to head hend off orf their bobcat dogs when they struck out after a deer Instead of closely following the trail of ot cougar or wildcat because the he Colorado laws lans forbid the hunting of ot big game gam with dogs nt at all nIl President has hns already shot all aU sorts sorta of ot game gamt big aM cen hunted the terrible grizzly In his lair hair and brought down the fierce fn from the pinyon in which he lie sought refuge from his un unerring unerring unerring erring aim olm To assume to toil tell him where he ought 0 to go for game would seem a n work of or supererogation for tor the tho w writer liter though he lie himself IC has hai hunted various animals In many l feels teel that he could sit alt ut at athis his feet feat and learn lentil much that he ho never knew before However there may be bo others who are aro not so fully tully Informed ns OS OSho ho and aM who would like to hie ide them themselves selves seh 8 away awny to the haunts of ot the tha larger same game without time In preliminary nary Investigation To such the tho writer would say get gel a digest of at the he game gamu laws lairs In study tho time situation carefully It will be found that there thore are aro aIm largo large numbers of ot deer doer almost every evey everywhere whore where I moose caribou elk cUe antelope Hocky mountain t sheep heep and goats to tobe be found ro fo In localities now or else elson in intile tho tile near future nUll lint U It will vIII be seen that the tho length and aM breadth of our land there thet Is on nn awakened appreciation of ot tho ho necessity for tor game pres preservation and that already time the benefi beneficent cent Influences of ot conservative legisla legislation le lion tion lire are being universally felt It 11 Is no longer every hunter for tor him himself self and amid tho the devil take the hinder hindermost hindermost hindermost most but every ever Intelligent hunter is 18 for Cor tho the enforcement of ot game gamo laws enacted for tor the preservation of ot animals I which otherwise might soon eoon be extinct Now for tor example take the bison or buffalo of et which only a L few fow years ago millions ranged tile the th plains At A l the present time but a 1 few tow small herds are aro In existence probably less les than titan COO GOO In Inthe Inthe the tho grand total and these havo been prevented from extinction only by being placed in III a state of or confinement and becoming There Is Isone Isone Isone one herd on tho ho CorbIn estate in New Hampshire another In the tho Yellowstone National park and some few ew Individuals tails in various zoological parks parka as at nt Philadelphia New York and Washing Washington ton Even I v n such bloody butchers as n 11 Buffalo Bill anti and Buffalo Jones who have slaughtered their thousands and boast boasted ed of ot It now declare In favor tavor of ot the conservation of at the buffalo lest he be become como come extinct There will not bo be any hunting of ot the buffalo then for many nanny years yeats to come for tor there thero are tower fewer specimens now In existence of ot all tho the mommy many millions re reported reo reported ported portell not nut many years yearn ago than thero hero are of or the tho aurochs of at the tho czars Lithuanian Lithuanian anian forests and the timo famous wild wll cat cot tie now preserved In Great Britain For l or bear boar black or brown one ono 1105 only to resort to the wilder portions of ot our northern forests to the tho berry patches on tho lie slopes of at hills or moun mountains loins tal ls and to the tho dense canebrakes of at ofha tha tho ha south The Tho Hockles are aro still to bo be depended upon for tor a n grizzly now and ond then lion as on the tho he old uld hunters call him being yet et existent exl and amid If It rt tt great greal greater grealer er Or variety Is in desired ono one may go co to Alaska and amid have a n try ry at tho the newly din dis discovered covered Kodiak bear and ond the tha glacier Pc les Ies which havo have not yet ot been hunted quite gulte to extinction In the tropical re no regions glens gions of ot the United States Staten such audi ns as Ha Ito Hawaii wall waIt and Porto there atc are no large wild animals at all oil except a B tow few do ilo domesticated species that have turned Indian and taken to the woods 0 O WOODSON |
