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Show SPORT OF HUNTING. j An Omaha doctor ,in speaking to delegates at the annual con vention of the American Humane association, said that the instinct t-i kill, which is the basis of all hunting for sport, is a relic of the !' stone and be advocated drastic legislation l'nr total suppression of the. destruction of harmless birds and beasts. The doctor is in part right and yet, as a general proposition he is wrong. Much of the hunting and fishing for sport is primarily to draw the man who stays indoors much of the time out into the open. The game obtained is used as food and affords an appetizing i hange from Ithc cvery-day menu. Many families raise chickens and kill them to supply the tabh with relishable meal The real sport helps to stock the wilds with grouse and other birds and the streams with fish, in order that the game may be plentiful and serve to supply a pleasing change of foed In the neighborhood of Ogden the sportsmen are planning i great sanctuary for migratory birds, where the birds may be protected. pro-tected. They also were the prime movers in making Ogden canyon and all the mountain range facing Ogden. from North Ogden canyon can-yon to "Weber canyon a sanctuary for harmless wild animals, and, in framing their regulations, they have forbidden the use of firearms in all that region. The greatest friend of wild game is the true sportsman who, a Ecw times in a season, goes out on a hunt, and kills, not with an axe as does the owner of tame chickens, but with a gun He aims to make possible the perpetuation of the aine birds, and he never oversteps the bounds prescribed by the law of reproduction |