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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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flying- toward me came a large wild turkey, which drop- 
ped in the grass neair a small black oak bush. Marking 
down to the stopping place of the turkey, I took one 
load of 000 out of my right barrel and put in a load of 
4's and started after the turkey, which had concealed it- 
self in the grass near the bush. There it stayed until 1 
was within about 30 yards of it, when it ran out 
flapping its wings to rise in flight, and 1 gave it the 
load of No. 4's, which nearl}^ knocked it over; but it 
straightened up and rose from the ground, and I then 
gave it the load of 000., which badly crippled its flying; 
but still it kept on the wing. I was nlnning after it try- 
ing to insert another cartridge in the gun, which'^I finally^, 
accomplished, and stopped io shoot again, when the 
turkey came to the ground, and on approaching it I 
found I had a fine fat young gobbler of about 15 pounds. 
The tail part of the body was badly torn with the large 
shot, and when the bird was drawn it was found that a 
No. 4 had passed clear through the heart, and nearly 
through the body had passed several more No. 4's. 
I gathered game and gun together over nty shoulder, 
and went up the slope to its crest toward which I had 
seen Lowie running. Arriving there I called him several 
times before he answered, and he then came to me from 
the far "Side of the crest, and said, "Is that my turkey 
you have there?" My reply \yas, "No sir; this'is mine. 
MHtere is yours?" He then stated that he had come upon 
a flock of three feeding under some persimmon trees 
in the draw, and that as they rose in the air he had drop- 
ped one dead upon the grass, and had broken the wing 
of another one, and had followed it trying to catch it, but 
could not. We went to the place where he had seen the 
turkey fall on the grass "dead," as he said, but could find 
no trace of it, although we hunted over about an acre 
of ground. When we had to give up the hunt, he looked 
so longingly at my turkey that I said, "Lowie, do you 
think this is your turkey?" "Well," said he, "I shot one 
and we can't find it, and I don't remember hearing you 
shoot." But on my insisting that he go with me to "the 
bush, I pointed out where I had seen mine alight, and 
gone with me to where it fell, he gave up and said "Well 
this is the first time I ever hunted wild turkeys, but if I 
ever drop another turkey I'll pick it up, and I'll never 
run another one with a broken wing, for after it got 
.started a little piece I don't believe a horse could have 
caught it." 
While my persimmon fattened turkey was filled with 
the ripe-frttit of the persimmon tree on which it had been 
feeding, mixed with the small sweet chinquapin and white 
oak acorns, it was the most toothsome and delicate 
flavored game it was ever my lot to enjoy: and when I 
think of it I often regret that I did not insist that Lowie 
should go and see the place where my turkey died, for 
if he had seen it he could never have had any reason to 
even think I had "swiped" his turkev. W. R. 
license which must be paid for the privilege- But in the 
reasonable prices of the guides, the entertainment they 
gave, their faithfulness and skill as moose hunters, the 
hunters feel that a part at least of the $60 they paid for 
licenses is accounted to them. Special. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
New Brunswick Moose, 
Boston, Dec. 22.— Some 6f the la e moose hunting by 
prominent sportsmen has been done the past season un- 
der difficulties. Dr. G. A. McAleer, one of the best 
known of Worcester sportsmen, and W. T. Farley, a 
Boston hunter who gets his big game every j^ear, are "just 
out of the woods of Nova Scotia. They went after moose, 
and they got them, but tUty had a rather hard time, chiefly 
on account of the weather and the remarkably deep snow. 
They reached Annapolis by steamer without particular 
adventure, and were met by their principal guide, A. D. 
Thomas, with a team, and taken fifteen miles, to Milford, 
where Mr. Thoinas entertains sportsmen and summer 
boarders. The moose hunters found his place comfortable 
beyond their expectations. Milford is up toward the head 
waters of the Liverpool River, a stream that is becoming 
noted among Boston sportsmen for its trout and salmon 
fishing. 
Their moose hunting camp was about fifteen miles 
further in, between Liverpool Lake and Frog Lake. Part 
of this distance was made by a team, with their camping 
traps, etc., on board, but the road proved to be a terribly 
rough one, even for a sled. Mr. Farley believes that 
there were rocks enoitgh buried under the snow there to 
ballast all the rest of the world, and they are of all sizes, 
from cobblestones to boulders. Their feet found the most 
of these rocks, down through 2 feet of snow, or deeper, 
if you desire it. Not knowing where the rocks lay, they 
could not be avoided, and the wrenching their feet and 
legs got they will remember for a long time. They were 
glad to lie in camp and rest for the first day. The camp 
was pretty comfortable, formerly used by lumbermen. 
Their guides, Mr. Thomas, mentioned above, and Thomas 
Canning, of New Grafton, proved to be all that 
could be asked for. They hunted under difficulties for 
three days ; such difficulties as finding the lake they wished 
to cross only partly frozen, and being obliged to go 
around through the deep snow. But they kept up their 
courage, for there were moose signs. The fourth day they 
were hunting on the divde between Frog Lake and Bear 
Lake. There were signs of moose, and big ones. The 
tracks were fresh, and the hunters and both guides were 
moving forward with great caution. Suddenly Mr. Farley 
saw what might be a big gray rock under the trees that 
were loaded down with snow. It moved. "Shoot !" whis- 
pered the guide. Mr. Farley did shoot. It was at a big 
moose lying down. It jumped up only to receive a volley 
of rifle bullets. It was quickly down. Another moose 
was up, and both hunters were shooting at him. Quickly 
he was down. A third one Avas up. The rifles were turned 
upon him in less time than it takes to tell it: This one 
fell also. In less than a minute thirteen shots had been 
fired, eleven of which were accounted for in the three dead 
moose — a big cow and two small bulls. The game laws 
of the Provinces permit of the killing of cow moose, 
though had Dr. McAleer and Mr, Farley known that it 
was a cow they first fired at, they would not have killed 
it. The moose Avere lying down in woods so thick and 
loaded with snow that antlers could not have been seen 
even if the big moose had carried them. 
It took four days of the hardest of work with snow- 
shoes and toboggan to get the hind quarters and hides to 
camp. The guides would haul the toboggan, wearing 
snowshoes, while the hunters pushed behind. The 
hunters believe in moose hunting as the king of sport. 
They are thoroughly pleased with that part of the country 
for the king of gaRie aninjals, except possibly the $30 
What One Bullet Did. 
Chicaoo, Til., Dec, 13. — I was down at St. Louis this 
week, and there met Mr. Horace Kephart, the authority 
on rifles and rifle shooting, who at the time I met him was 
just back from a good long trip down in Arkansas, where 
he put imo practice a new one of his theories as to the 
rifle and how she is shot. He and a friend wandered out 
from camp the first morning after they struck their hunt- 
ing ground — ^where, by tlie way, they were all complete 
strangers — and while they were, still but a short way from 
the camp, they saw two nice deer standing in easy range. 
They fired almost at the same time, and each killed his 
deer, the bullet in each case striking the deer in the neck 
iitid ranging back, making a dead shot of it on the spot. 
They thought this was a good beginning, and went back 
to camp very happy; but though they hunted faithfully 
for two weeks after that, they never saw another deer. 
They had other game, however, to make things interest- 
ing, and took pleasure in exploring the vast wilderness of 
forest that lay about them. One of their par^y was afraid 
to go a hundred yards from camp, since he always got lost 
promptly as soon as he was out of sight of the tents. One 
morning he made bold to get half a mile from camp, and 
to make sure of getting back, he made arrow marks along 
the "lizard road"w,hich he was traveling, so that he could 
retrace his footsteps without trouble. Mr. Kephart came 
across these signs, and at once divined their import, and 
in order to impress upon his friend's mind the great im- 
portance of having his directions under his hat instead of 
on the ground, he carefully reversed all the arrow marks 
and made them point the other way. The maker of the 
guide posts did not get back to camp till pretty near the 
next morning, and said then that he never had seen the 
roads so full of guide marks as he had that day. 
On such a trip the question of camp outfit is a very 
important one. and this time Mr. Kephart says they solved 
the problem of what to take by each fellow's taking what- 
ever he wanted to. One man had along a fine set of re- 
loading tools for a lo-gauge shotgun, but no shells for it. 
and indeed no shotgun. This Avas a sample of the precau- 
tions taken to aA^oid being caught unprovided with all 
needful articles. Of course, some one migh; have .strayed 
into camp and given this hunter a No. 10 shotgun down 
there in the woods with plenty of .shells for it. What, un- 
der such circumstances, must have been the feelings of a 
man who found himself unprovided with the proper re- 
loading outfit? 
Another gentleman of the pariy-had a rifle which wa.s 
in use Avith shells that did not altogether fit it, and one 
evening was trying to extract from the chamber a shell 
Avhich had a wrong or imperfect head, Bang! the rifle 
went up through the roof of the tent. Nothing so serious 
about this, if you get u.sed to it, but here Avas the singular 
ill fortune of the victim of this accident. His coat Avas 
hanging on the line . stretched above his head along the 
top of the tent as a dr3dng line. The bullet cut exactly 
seven holes through the coat as it hmig folded, missed a 
gold Avatch by only the fraction of -an inch, cut a hole 
through the top of "the tent and through the fly. although 
it Avas just rainy enough to make a dry tent A-ery useful, 
and then completed its work by boring two neat holes 
through the stovepipe outside of the tent. AH of which 
would seem a hard shot to duplicate Avithout malice afore- 
thought. 
Phenomenal Game Year. 
It has been a phenomenal game year for the West, there 
is no doubt of that, though just Avhat the reason for it 
may be is something not easily determined. Our quail 
season for Illinois ended day before yesterda}'. and it was 
the best quail j-^ear Illinois has had within recollection, 
perhaps and very probably the best she ever had. How 
many birds Avere killed in grand total in this State it is 
impossible to guess, but there was hardly a party tliat 
came back unsuccessful No one had a complaint to 
make or any excuses to offer. The season end 4 with 
thousands of birds left over. This is a good augur for 
next year, though it is not conclusive argument that the 
coming season Avill be as good as this, or half as good, for 
there are many factors entering into the game crop every 
year. 
Indiana has yet a few days to run with her quail season, 
and the shooters of this season are making the very best 
of that fact. There is no talk of any falling off in the 
quail supply in that State, barring the fact that the birds 
are older now and harder to get. 
Growth of the Preserve Idea. 
The growth of the game preserve idea in the middle 
West is a very pronounced one. The last tendency in 
this direction seems to be in the direction of upland pre- 
serves. At first the duck shooters Avere the only ones 
who cared to attempt preserAnng any lands, and their early 
preserves Avere the easier bcause of the more AVorJiles'i 
character of the marsh lands that they used, Avhich were 
not of great value for agricultural purposes. Nowadays 
the better class shooters who can afford the luxury are 
turning toward preserves for quail and other upland birds. 
The notion of securing the shooting rights from owners 
of large bodies of land seems to be a popular one. I 
knoAv of two enterprises on foot this winter, one of 
Chicago parties and one of Michigan men, for getting 
control of the shooting rights OA^er some big tracts. The 
Chicago men have their agent down this week in Indiana 
looking over a certain big body of land, about 10,000 acres, 
upon Avhich they Avill perhaps attempt to secure the rights. 
This is in a region A^er}' well knoAvn, and should the 
project go through, the lucky men Avill be very much to be 
congratulated. The Michigan men have in view a tract 
of about 25,000 acres, located in Mississippi, in Avhat is 
thought to be a very good region, for game of different 
species. It is A^'ery much to be hoped that both enter- 
prises may go through successfully^ for each stich big 
body oi land 5^1; ?^s'.4e for st^ockiiiiig^ i^u.r^es is a great 
benefit to the local supply of birds in the country round 
about. Give the public its cake and it Avill eat it, that is 
pretty well proved in the light of past experience. Regu- 
late this cake business a httle, and we all have something 
to eat for many a year to come. The preserve idea is not 
an American one, and it is not intrinsically a democratic 
one or even a good one. It is only a compromise, and a 
necessary one. We seem to have come, in this rapidly 
groAving Western country, to a place Avhere Ave are obliged' 
to choose between two CA-ils. No preserves, no game. 
Some preserves, some game. We can not ahvays count 
itpon as good open shooting as has been general this fall. 
Had the game crop been less, the establishment of many 
large land holdings devoted to the rearing and saving of 
game birds Avould have been no detriment to the average 
man Avho cannot OAvn shooting rights, but to the con- - 
ti'ary, a benefit. Neither upland birds nor Avater fowl 
can be strictly confined within the limits of a preserve. 
Buffalo Meat for Christmas. 
^ The following dispatch from Helena, Mont., to a 
Chicago daily paper shows that the buffalo is not al- 
together a failure in captivity. At the price of $800 a 
head the curly cattle Avould appear to be good property 
to have in the family, though it seems a pity that any 
of these animals should be marketed under any circum- 
stances, even for the President's holiday, until their 
mimbers shall be far greater than they are to-day. The 
dispatch does not state the present numbers of the Allard 
herd, reading as below: 
"Helena, Mont, Dec. 20. — ^President McKinley will 
have for his Christmas dinner a buffalo roast. Several 
Aveeks ago a local butcher piu'chased ten of the animals 
from the Allard herd in the Avestern part of the State. 
They cost $800 each when they were unloaded at the 
slaughter house here. They Avere killed and dressed 
last Aveek, and to-day the butcher Avdred the President 
asking him if he wotdd accept a roast. The President 
replied that he Avould, and this evening the butcher ex- 
pressed him a choice one. The meat is being sold here 
at $1 per pound. Some of the animals after they were 
slaughtered and dressed Avere shipped to butchers in the 
large cities East. The herd from which they came is 
the only one in the State." 
Fafce Taxidermy. 
I was over at the shop of W. C. Kaempfer, the Chicago 
taxidermist, this week, and while there had additional 
eA'idence as to the accuracy of the old saying that there 
are tricks in all trades except our own. Mr. Kaempfer 
tells me that there is a certain class of persons who are 
subject to the record disease in the purchasing of speci- 
mens, and these persons are sometimes victimized by un- 
scrupulous dealers in this line of trade, as in many other 
lines. The other day a big grizzly bear rug, belonging to a 
Chicago gentleman, Avas brought in for remounting. Its 
owner bought it some time ago out at Salt Lake, and 
])aid $2,50 for it. It Avas thought to be a fine specimen of 
the grizzi)' hide, measuring up into enormous figures. 
Mr, Kaempfer said that Avhen it was unrolled it covered 
the Avhole floor, and he thought it Avas the biggest hide 
he had ever seen. When he ripped the cloth off the 
face of the hide, however, he discovered that the hide 
had been increased in apparent size by letting in patches 
cut from other hides. This increased the length and 
breadth of the skin very much. The head Avas stretched 
out and mounted very big. There had been scA^eral cubits 
added to the stature of this bear, and the AA'hole thing had 
been done so cleverly that it could scarcely have been 
detected except by an examination of the inner side of 
the hide. The bear had been well skinned and so had 
the customer. 
Out in Davenport, loAva, there is a mail by name of 
Dr. Palmer, Avho has started in to make a big collection 
of horns and antlers. Not long ago he heard of a 
phenomenal set of elk antlers, somewhere down in Texas. 
The measurements were such that he felt he had to have 
the horns, no matter what the cost. The cost was $800, 
and they were sent forthAvith. It so happened that in 
shipping the horns were sprung a little bit, and, somewhat 
wonderful to relate, the main shaft of one of the antlers, the 
beam running up above the brow points, shoAved a fis- 
sure, slanting diagonally across it for some distance. 
Close examination showed that these antlers had been 
increased over a foot and a half in size, by the artistic 
letting in of a section from another horn. The job was 
excellently done, though the Avorkmen could afford to 
do it excellently, at the price. There is some comfort 
in saying that the purchaser in this case got his money 
back. 
It is said that the committee on measurement of heads 
and horns at one of the sportsmen's expositions in Ncav 
York discovered a moose head which had had the frontal 
bone sawed and wedged apart a couple of inches or so 
in the mounting. This is a very simple Avay of making 
a record specimen. An inch or tAVO does not seem A'er3'' 
much, but it is a good deal on the end of one's nose, as 
the proverb says, and it is a good deal in .so close ? 
matter as the measitring of rival specimens. 
The Sportsmen's Show at Chicago. 
-So Chicago is to have a sportsmen's exposition. This 
matter has earlier been annoimced in the columns of the 
Forest and Stream. Within the past week the organi- 
zation of the International Forest, Fish and Game Asso- 
ciation has opened its offices and taken up the active 
work of getting together the exhibits and of carrying 
out the enormous detail connected with the successful 
completion of such an enterprise. The sportsmen's show 
is no experiment in the East, and it cannot be called 
an experiment in the West. The success of this ex- 
))osition is a certainty here in Chicago, for Chicago is 
notoriously a good "shoAV tOAvn," and it is notoriously 
full of persons who haA'e interest in outdoor matters. 
The organization which will carry on this exposition 
is a combination of some of the best gentlemen and most 
thorough going sportsmen of Chicago. The full list of 
officers and directors is as follows: James H. Eckels^, 
President; F. C. Donald, First Vice--President; Richard 
E. Follett, Second Vice-President and General Manager; 
John R. Hoagland, Secretary; Harold F. Mc- 
Cormick, Treasurer. Directors— James H. Eckels, 
D.anald. A. A. Sprague, Geoyg;e A,. Th>OTU.^> 
