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in 30 years. Had the dull witted individual 

 who shot the animal contrived to capture it 

 alive, a feat not impossible, it would have 

 brought a fabulous price. 



Herein lies the pity of it, that notwith- 

 standing the wide educational effort put 

 forth by humane people, nature lovers and 

 scientists, to protect and preserve rare ani- 

 mals and birds, still the average man or boy 

 tan not repress his desire to kill every rare 

 or beautiful thing in the animal world. The 

 rarer and more beautiful, be it cardinal 

 bird or blue heron or silver^ fox or white 

 deer, the surer its fate. Herein we con- 

 fess our uncivilization or mal-civilization, 

 for the Indians regarded the white deer 

 with reverence and preserved it. How 

 much pleasure might have been afforded if 

 this snowy vision of grace and harmless- 

 ness could have been allowed to live year 

 after year in the Adirondacks, tamed per- 

 haps so as to haunt the neighborhood of 

 camps and hotels, where thousands could 

 have enjoyed a glimpse of it. Perhaps it 

 is impossible for some persons to believe in 

 beauty until they slay it. 



If our rare and beautiful animals and 

 birds are to survive for coming generations 

 to admire, it must be through the practice 

 of individual forbearance, as well as the 

 dissemination of sensible and enlightened 

 ideas.. 



C. H. Crandall, New Canaan, Conn. 



A CONVICTION IN MALONE AT LAST. 



An important case, from the standpoint of 

 public welfare, was that of the People vs. 

 Wm. B. Trowbridge, Jacob C. R. Peabody, Sau- 

 telle Prentiss, John Rork, and Alvah Bennett. 

 The 3 former are city men who went to the Adi- 

 rondacks to hunt, and the latter 2 were their 

 guides. They organized a hunt at Grass pond in 

 Brighton, going into camp there, where they re- 

 mained 8 days. Four dogs were brought into 

 camp, among them 2 beagles. The men claimed 

 they were hunting rabbits with the dogs, but it 

 was proved that they killed one rabbit and 2 deer. 

 The penalty for taking dogs which will run deer 

 into a forest which deer inhabit is $100. The 

 jury found a verdict for 5 penalties against the 

 parties, covering 5 separate days, amounting to 

 $500. The deer were killed in the open season, 

 the offense being the putting out of dogs in the 

 woods. It is so seldom that verdicts for penalties 

 in game law cases are rendered that this one 

 should receive more than ordinary notice. It 

 appears the dogs were not of the kind usually 

 employed in hunting deer and this verdict should 

 prove a warning to those who take into a forest 

 bird dogs and rabbit dogs which will run deer. 

 Wardens Pond and Vosburgh deserve much credit 

 for the manner in which they worked up the evi- 

 dence in this case. There have been many com- 

 plaints of dogging deer in the Adirondacks, but 

 it has been difficult to secure evidence. ^ Hotel 

 men and others interested in the protection of 

 game should make the work as easy as they can 

 for the protectors by furnishing them with in- 

 formation, for only by the insistence on the part 

 of everybody who loves the woods that the laws 

 shall be observed, can these sports be preserved. 

 This verdict is a great victory for the State in a 

 difficult and complicated case. — Exchange. 



e has long been known as a hob 



bed of law breakers and it is indeed gratify- 

 ing to learn that at last a herd of Malone 

 swine hf.ve been rounded up and the mem- 

 bers thereof compelled to liquidate. Sev- 

 eral strong cases have been made up by 

 friends of game protection in or about 

 Malcne within the past few years and pre- 

 sented to the officers for action, but these 

 officers and the attorneys in that town have 

 declined to prosecute people whom they 

 term their personal friends. It seems that 

 the men named in the foregoing article 

 have no influential friends in or about Ma- 

 lone and so they caught it in the neck. 

 Now that an example has been made I trust 

 that no more favors may be shown to law 

 breakers in that vicinity because of friend- 

 ship or political pull. The law should be 

 no respecter of persons. The banker or the 

 mill owner or the railroad officer who vio- 

 lates the law should be dealt with exactly 

 as the farm laborer or the woodchopper is 

 when he goes against it. — Editor. 



PRAISE FROM SIR HUBERT. 



I have lived 77 years and now wish to 

 speak to my younger fellow sportsmen in 

 behalf of that great little magazine Recrea- 

 tion. In my time I have read most pub- 

 lications devoted to the sportsman's life, 

 but Recreation is far above all others. Its 

 noble work will be more and more fruitful 

 as time advances and its doctrines will be 

 endorsed by all before many years. Through 

 its efforts the game which a few years ago 

 seemed doomed to extermination will be 

 preserved. 



I think it was in the fall of 1857 that I 

 killed 92 prairie chickens with a muzzle 

 loading gun without being called a game 

 hog, for that word was then unknown. 

 Game was in such abundance, that pot hunt- 

 ing was a paying business and an honorable 

 occupation. It was about 7 miles North 

 from where the town of Minerval now 

 stands that I built my shanty, which I oc- 

 cupied 18 years with no one but a fugitive 

 Indian for a neighbor. 



Brighter heads than mine discovered 

 that something should be done to profect 

 game. Consequently Recreation was born 

 and the League of American Sportsmen 

 was formed. Its arguments soon convinced 

 and converted me. From an old pot hunter 

 I became a protectionist. I must admit that 

 I still approve of spring duck shooting for 

 the good reason that it is all the duck shoot- 

 ing there is in this locality. We have 

 no water here in the fall and you 

 know we all like to have a little of the pie. 

 Nevertheless, I must sav Recreation is the 

 greatest of all magazines for sportsmen. 

 I wish it success to the limit and hope it 

 will soon be found in every home in the 

 United States. Good-bye, dear friends, in 



