EDITOR'S CORNER. 



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salia, was acting as guide for this party, 

 under a permit issued by the Superintend- 

 ent of the park. While it does no: appear 

 that he was present when the .deer were 

 killed, yet he evidently connived at the un- 

 lawful act, and his permit as a guide was 

 therefore promotly revoked. 



Captain Barton is a member of the L. 

 A. S., and all the other members will be 

 proud to know that they have a brother in 

 a position where he can do so much for the 

 protection of game and of forests. 



SAVE THE SQUIRRELS. 

 (From the Boston Daily Globe.) 



The wanton destruction of small game 

 in this country has already made grave- 

 yards of the woods in many sections. 

 The protest has become so loud that even 

 where the game laws do not forbid the 

 shooting of small birds and squirrels, boys 

 who amuse themselves in that way are fre- 

 quently reprimanded, and grown men who 

 do it are generally frowned on as being 

 engaged in small business. 



Even sedate people have nothing against 

 President Roosevelt's strenuous ways, and 

 when he engages in killing mountain lions 

 and other savage carnivora, it may be set- 

 ting a good example of courage and hardi- 

 hood for the rising generation ; but when 

 he encourages his children to go into the 

 woods and kill and torture harmless squir- 

 rels the head of the nation is setting a bad 

 example to the youth of the country. Here 

 is a sample from an Oyster Bay dispatch : 



"A little later Teddy and his cousins came 

 from the woods with their guns. They 

 had been out after squirrels, and each boy 

 had 2. The boys are good shots. They 

 would not think it sportsmenlike to hunt 

 with shot guns. They had small bore rifles, 

 and the trick was to 'bark' the squirrel. 

 The boys would aim to strike just under 

 the game, knocking it from a limb, stun- 

 ning and killing it without tearing the 

 flesh. It takes a good shot to do the trick." 



If a boy should indulge in such "tricks" 

 in Franklin park he would be denounced as 

 cruel and arrested if caught. The fact that 

 the park is a game preserve makes no dif- 

 ference as to the principle. Let the Presi- 

 dent bring up his boys to strenuous recrea- 

 tion, if he will, but he owes something to 

 the youth of the nation. 



A GUESSING MATCH. 

 We had a potpie at the last dinner of the 

 Camp Fire Club and asked the members to 

 guess what it was made of. Here are a 

 few of the guesses : 



Mud Turtle, Jack Rabbit, Kangaroo Rat, 



Owl, Coon, Possum, Prairie Dog, Tam- 

 many Tiger, Boarding House Goose, A 

 small bird at least 6 months old, with no 

 name; Side Hill Gouger, habitat, Yellow- 

 stone Park ; Ornithoryncus, or some kind 

 of cuss. 



Easy as rolling off a log, 



If it isn't cat, I'm sure it's dog. 



"Hair," "Hair!" Call the dog! for it has 



but one scent and that's a bad one. 



Of all the pies I ever tried 



This surely takes the cake; 

 It looks like hog or crow or dog, 

 It tastes like rattlesnake. 

 An elephant and a kangaroo, 

 A wild gazelle from Timbuctoo, 

 A porcupine of rosy hue 

 And a little piece of young goo-goo. 



And after all it was only Belgian hare. 



ADDITIONAL FOREST RESERVES. 

 President Roosevelt has recently issued 

 2 proclamations extending the Yellowstone 

 and the Teton forest reserves to such an 

 extent as to add about 6,000,000 acres to 

 these areas as originally created. Mr. A. A. 

 Anderson, one of the Vice-Presidents of the 

 L,. A. S., has been appointed superintendent 

 of both these reserves. We may, therefore, 

 confidently expect that the game laws of 

 the State of Wyoming, within which these 

 tracts are located, will be rigidly enforced. 

 This is an important step in the preserva- 

 tion of the big game of the Yellowstone 

 country, as these tracts now include a large 

 portion of the winter ranges of the elk, 

 deer, antelope and mountain sheep. That 

 curse of the West, the sheepman, will 10 

 longer be allowed to graze his flocks within 

 this territory, and the game will have a 

 much better show for its existence, dur- 

 ing the long hard winters, than heretofore. 

 President Roosevelt is entitled to the grati- 

 tude of every sportsman in the United 

 States for his prompt and decisive action 

 in this matter. 



W. F. Burrell, a wealthy business man 

 of Portland, Oregon, was recentlv arrested 

 for having prairie chickens in his charge 

 in close season. He was taken before Jus- 

 tice Hogue, of Portland, where he pleaded 

 guilty to the charge, and was fined $15, the 

 smallest penalty allowed by the law. Jus- 

 tice Hogue, for some unknown reason, re- 

 mitted $10 of this fine. If the truth could 

 be known, the fact would probably be re- 

 vealed that Mr. Burrell's wealth influenced 

 the judge in rendering his decision. It is 

 safe to assume that if some poor work- 

 ing man had been haled before Justice 

 Hogue on a similar charge he would have 



