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California coast, on which animals the 
State Game and Fish Commission had de- 
clared a war of extermination. A num- 
ber of professional hunters had been em- 
ployed and sent to the islands, at $3 a day, 
with instructions to kill every seal they 
could find. Several hundred were slaugh- 
tered before the order from Washington, 
stopping the work, reached California; 
but the great herd was saved. 
The League has “accomplished” many 
other important “achievements,” but the 
foregoing is sufficient to prove the utter 
puerility of the editorial prediction of the 
Ancient Defender of Game Hogs. 

FOR A MINNESOTA NATIONAL PARK. 
In June RECREATION was printed an ap- 
peal from Charles Cristadoro, a member 
of the L. A. S., for a national park which 
it is proposed to establish in Cass, Itasca, 
and Beltrami counties, Minnesota. 
The importance of this movement can 
not be over estimated. The rapidity with 
which the big game mammals and the 
water fowls of this country are disappear- 
ing has alarmed every true sportsman and 
every lover of nature. The total extinc- 
tion of many of these species within 5 
years is absolutely certain unless prompt 
and energetic measures are taken for their 
preservation. The only sure means of sav- 
ing these creatures is by the formation of 
great state or national preserves and 
breeding grounds, where they may not be 
hunted. 
Mr. Cristadoro has outlined, in an elo- 
quent and effective manner, the plan of 
work most needed on the part of league 
members in order to induce congress to 
pass a necessary bill, early in \its next ses- 
sion. It now remains with you, members 
ol the 1A. >S., to. do your ‘part. “Wetsno0 
man imagine for a moment that it is not 
necessary for him to make a personal ap- 
peal to his member of congress. Do not 
excuse yourself on the ground that enough 
letters will be written without yours. On 
the contrary make up your mind that 
yours shall be one of the first to go in. 
~ Make the appeal so strong and so effective 
that your representative can not forget it 
when the measure comes up. See all of 
your friends who are interested in game 
preservation and have them write him also. 
Show him that this matter is of vital im- 
portance to his constituents and that in 
order to serve their best interests he must 
act favorably on it. 
Petitions will be sent out from this of- 
- fice by the thousands, later, and members 
of the league will be requested to circulate 
_ these for signatures, and then send them 
in. At present, however, we must inaugu- 
rate a campaign of personal correspond- 
ence that will compel congressmen to act 
promptly, 
£ “$2.00 FINE AND 6 MONTHS’ IMPRION- 
MENT.” 
“That is what faces the dealer who puts 
anything else than pure lemon and orange 
juice in yourlemonade or other beverages. 
Insist on seeing the lemon squeezed in 
your presence.” 
So reaus a big yellow placard that has 
been riding up and down New York for 
some weeks past, in the L cars. Appar- 
ently this is an extract from a New York 
statute, and if the statute is worded as 
awkwardly as the foregoing notice, then 
there is a big chance for blackmailers to 
reap a harvest from druggists, restaurant- 
eurs, saloon keepers, etc. 
If you order a glass of lemonade, and 
the vender does not put in some orange 
juice, as well as lemon juice, you can have 
him arrested and fined $250 and sent to 
prison for 6 months. If you order a 
glass of orangeade and he does not put 
in some lemon juice, as well as orange 
juice, you can have him arrested and pun- 
ished for that. If you order a glass of 
cider, and he does not put in both orange 
and lemon juice, you can have him 
cinched. If you order beer, whiskey, 
chocolate soda, raspberry - soda, ginger 
pop or plain soda and phosphate, and the 
dealer does not put in both lemon and or- 
ange juice, you have a cause of action 
against him. 
This is not written with a view to put- 
ting adventurers and blackmailers on to a 
good scheme, but merely to caution ad- 
smiths and lawmakers as to the necessity 
of using good English when preparing 
copy. 

The Newfoundland parliament has 
amended its game law. Hunting licenses 
are now isstied to non-residents, as fol- 
lows: 
A license entitling the holder thereof to 
kill and take 2 stags and one doe caribou 
shall be issued: on the payment of a fee of 
$40; a license to kill 3 stags and one doe 
caribou, $50; and a license to kill 5 stags 
and 2 doe caribou, $80. A license of the 
first class shall hold good 4 weeks from 
date thereof; a license of the second class 
6 weeks, and of the third class 2 months. 
Non-resident guides can not now be 
employed in Newfoundland. 
Open seasons on caribou are July 15th 
to October Ist and October 20th to Febru- 
ary Ist. 

Another fish dynamiter has taken a dose 
of his own medicine. Alden Deets, of 
Canal, Pa., was frightfully injured by the 
premature explosion of a dynamite car- 
tridge, which he was using in French 
creek. He was in a boat and had just pre- 
pared the dynamite to be thrown over- 
board, but it went off a little too soon. 

