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been nil, and indeed very little appreciable harm has been 

 done by any men who have merely hunted in season for 

 trophies. The real damage has come from the professional 

 hunters and their patrons. In a wild frontier country it is too 

 much to expect that the settlers will not occasionally kill meat 

 for their own use, though every effort should be made to 

 educate them to the knowledge that a wapiti or deer free in 

 the woods will, by attracting tourists, bring into the neighbor- 

 hood many times as much money as the dead carcass would 

 represent. The professional game butchers, however, have no 

 excuse of any kind. They kill the animal for the hide and 

 for the flesh. Moreover, the horns are strikingly ornamental 

 and are freely purchased by a certain class of wealthy people 

 who wholly lack the skill and hardihood necessary to those 

 who would themselves be hunters, and who have not the good 

 taste to see that antlers properly have their chief value as 

 trophies. Nothing adds more to a hall or a room than fine 

 antlers when they have been shot by the owner, but there is 

 always an element of the absurd in a room furnished with 

 trophies of the chase which the owner has acquired by pur- 

 chase. Even less defensible is it either to kill or to put a 

 premium upon the killing of this noble and beautiful creature 

 for the sake of its teeth. Yet the habit of wearing elk's teeth 

 on watch-chains and the like has been responsible for no small 

 amount of slaughter. The Audubon societies have done use- 

 ful work in trying to prevent the destruction of song-birds 

 and waders for millinery purposes. It would be well if some 



