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again ied the Eastern colleges in the Intercollegiate Rifle 
Shooting League’s tournament at the end of the second 
week’s competition. Harvard made the second best 
score of 926, against West Virginia’s 821. Other results 
were: Princeton University 924, vs. North Georgia Agri¬ 
cultural College 907; Maryland Agricultural College 833, 
vs. Delaware College 778; University of Pennsylvania 
867, vs. New Hampshire College, 817; Louisiana State 
University, 898, vs. Norwich University, 884. 
The best individual score was made by A. P. Ed- 
minister, Massachusetts Agricultural College, who 
scored 196 out of a possible 200. 
DEER IN MAINE. 
A SPIRITED argument is going on between the 
hunters and guides just now as to whether or 
not Maine’s deer population is increasing or 
decreasing, and there is a wide difference of 
opinion on the subject, although the fact that 
nearly 200 deer carcasses were brought to 
Bangor in one day in November and more than 
100 on several days recently would seem to show 
that the game is plentiful in some sections of 
the State. 
Emery Swett, of Oxbow, a registered guide, 
says the deer are decreasing because of wanton 
slaughter by some of the visiting hunters and 
the killing of hundreds by logging crews for 
food. The law allows each woods camp to have 
six deer in a season, but Swett says that he 
has often seen as many as a hundred skins 
around a camp in one winter. The crews cut¬ 
ting ties for the railroads are the worst offend¬ 
ers, says Swett, and in Aroostook county there 
are fifteen or twenty of these crews at work 
every winter. 
On the other hand. Chairman Wilson of the 
State Eish and Game Commission declares that 
Maine has all the deer that can find a living in 
the woods; that if there were any more deer 
some of them would starve to death, and in his 
opinion he is supported by Tim Pollard, chief 
warden. Pollard says there are more than 
there would have been if none had been- shot in 
the last three years. 
“The deer,” says Pollard, “get into herds and 
locate yards for the winter. In the early part 
of the season they get along all right, but with 
the big storms and the deep snow comes trouble. 
1 he animals soon eat all the food within reach 
—the small branches and twigs, and when that 
supply is gone and they cannot cruise around 
in the woods because of the deep snow they 
starve to death.” 
“Why,” ’said Commissioner Wilson, “last 
week a guide named Turner, who operates all 
over Maine and has just returned from a trip 
to Canada, was at my camp in the Rangeley 
region and gave it as his opinion that we ought 
to allow people to shoot more deer than now 
because there isn’t food enough for all we have. 
He said he could take me up into Aroostook 
county and other game regions and show me 
hundreds of carcasses of deer lying around the 
swamps where they had died of starvation.” 
Exactly,” said Pollard, “everything has been 
p^ten up clean and they’ve nothing to live on. 
ihat IS why I say that there are more deer in 
Maine to-day than there would have been had 
not a deer been shot for the last three years. 
Any great increase in numbers would have 
general famine, disease and death.” 
Both officials agree that there is plenty of 
game of all kinds in the woods except caribou, 
which animals left Maine some years ago and 
nave never returned, except in a few cases close 
to the Canadian border, where a few have been 
seen from time to time. Moose are more plenti- 
tul now than at any time in the last ten years, 
and receipts at Bangor are ahead of last year’s 
at this time. 
Warden Pollard says the caribou will never 
come back to Maine until the deer leave. Many 
years ago the deer left Maine and then the 
caribou flocked in. Caribou are rather dainty 
and they would starve to death in a State where 
100,000 or more deer are greedily devouring all 
the food that tempts the caribou appetite.—The 
Sun. 
DIVIN’ EOR ’EM. 
Two inexperienced anglers went fishing one 
day. One sat down on the pier, while the other 
stood. Just before beginning operations they 
made a wager with each other as to who would 
make the bigger catch of fish. They had been 
fishing for about half an hour with little or no 
success, when John, who was standing, lost his 
balance and fell off the pier. As he went head¬ 
long past Dick, the latter gave a yell, and said: 
“Hi, John, if you are goin’ to dive for ’em, the 
bet’s off;”—Anglers’ News. 
A PROTEST. 
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prove. The vast growth of cities, the fabulous 
wealth in them that they read about, the ridicule 
of country life that has been published in news^ 
papers every day for generations—all this has 
overawed our masses and driven them to rely 
only on the artificial and to look up to it as a 
sort of heaven. 
If one of them acquires wealth, he rushes away 
from the natural as far as he can go, will not 
even take a walk, and the doctors reap a harvest. 
If he decides to have a house and grounds, he 
cuts down all the fine forest trees, grades the 
land by contractors to stupidity level, and buys 
