WEALTH ON WINGS 



surplus, his interest in the good-will of this going 

 institution. It is fair all round and equally fair 

 for all. 



The framers of shooting regulations under this 

 law hit on the same geographical differences which, 

 before now, have made trouble under our twofold 

 form of government. They made their compromise, 

 oddly enough, practically along what we might call 

 the Mason and Dixon Line, and divided the country 

 into two zones, practically along the latitude of the 

 Ohio River, naming the group of the northern zone 

 by states and that of the southern zone in the same 

 way. 



In broad simplicity the dates for killing wildfowl 

 were made the same for all the states in the northern 

 zone ; and a different date, uniform for all states in 

 the southern zone, was established, in view of the 

 fact that migratory birds advance southward some- 

 what with the season. For instance, after the birds 

 have left Illinois altogether they may be most abun- 

 dant in southern Texas. The harvesting date would 

 not be the same in both sections. So, following a 

 broad common sense which looked toward the wip- 

 ing out of a number of confusing local dates, the 

 National Government put its hand to a sort of Mis- 

 souri Compromise which is very apt to stick. 



Perhaps many of the men who actually voted for 

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