. son. 
EDITOR'S CORNER. 
ZOO SPECIMENS ARE COMING IN. 
The following additions have been made to 
the RECREATION group in the New York Zoo- 
logical Park, since last report : 
Sept. 28 Lynx maculatus—Wild Cat. One specimen 
presented by G. O. Shields, New York. 
Oct. 10 Bascanium constrictor flaviventris—Blue 
Racer. One specimen, presented by Percy Selous, 
Greenville, Mich. 
Let us have a larger list for the next issue. 
Can you not send in a specimen of some 
kind? 

Police Judge Treadwell, of San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., recently fined Henry Mitchell, 
a game dealer, $150 for having in his pos- 
session a lot of wild ducks, in close sea- 
This is said to be the heaviest fine 
ever imposed on a California dealer for 
a similar offense, and if all magistrates 
everywhere would make a record of this 
case and emulate Judge Treadwell’s ex- 
ample, whenever offenders come before 
them, they would receive the gratitude of 
all good sportsmen. Verily a Daniel has 
come to judgment, and his influence and 
his example will prove of far-reaching 
effect. It will no doubt be many a day be- 
fore another San Francisco dealer will 
offer game for sale in close season. 

Lieut.-Col. Philip Reade, an old time 
and valued contributor to RECREATION, 
who did excellent work in the Cuban war 
as an aid on Gen. Lawton’s staff, and who 
returned from Cuba in July, has been as- 
signed to duty as Inspector General, De- 
partment of Dakota, with headquarters at 
Ft. Snelling, Minn. Col. Reade’s duties 
in this capacity will require him to travel 
over a large portion of the Northwest, 
which will certainly be agreeable to him. 
He saw many years of service in that re- 
gion during the Indian wars, and it will 
please Phil. to be able to ride over the 
plains in a Pullman sleeping car, and with- 
out having to dodge bullets. 

On a recent Sunday morning I saw 39 
cameras trained on the Dewey arch at one 
time, and this is no exception to the dis- 
play made there every Sunday since the 
aren. was puilt <In’ fact 2 great > many 
pictures of the arch are made every day, 
but more on Sunday than on any other 
day, because of there being less traffic 
es the street at that time than during week 
days. 

Patrick McGinley, of Simpson, Pa., went 
out shooting on a certain Sunday in Sep- 
tember. Deputy Sheriff Purdy heard him 
and, summoning Constable Gilby to his 
aid, went in search of the shooter. They 
caught Pat with a rabbit in his possession, 
477 
the shooting of which, at that time of year, 
is prohibited by the state law. Pat was 
taken before the local justice and bound 
over to the court in the sum of $500. As 
he could not furnish a bond he was sent 
to jail. He will have plenty of time there 
to make up his mind as to whether he will 
violate the game law again. The chances 
are 10 to 1 he will not. 

The Southern Pacific Railway company 
has instructed its dining car conductors 
and other employees not to buy fish or 
game killed in close season; and this 
would be an excellent step for all railway 
companies to take. 

She (looking up from her newspaper): 
“T see the collector of customs has seized 
another lot of dresses belonging to some 
woman coming home from Europe.” 
ro Waele? 
She: “Well, I think they should change 
his title and call him the collector of cos- 
tumes.” 

It only costs $1 to please a man ora boy 
a whole year. RECREATION does it.  $r1. 
BOOK NOTICES. 
C. M. Russell, the cowboy artist, has is- 
sued a series of 12 drawings illustrating 
the past and present life of the Western 
Indian, which is unique in its way. The 
drawings are full of life, action and real- 
ism, and bring up vividly to the mind of 
every old-timer on the frontier scenes that 
were common 30 years ago, but which no 
man will ever witness again. 
Mr. Russel was born on the great plains’ 
and has ridden them from Mexico to Brit- 
ish Columbia and from the Missouri to the 
Cascades, on almost every trail. He has 
imbibed the real feeling of the red man 
and of the frontier white man. His pic- 
tures are an epitome of the West in its 
wildest days, and a copy of his book should 
have a place in the home of every man 
who is interested in the history of that 
great country. 
It is published by the W. C. Ridgley 
ae Co., Great Falls, Mont., and sells 
at $s. 


“Jess, or Bits of Wayside Gospel,” by 
Henry Lloyd Jones, is an extremely 
wholesome book. It has a most elevating 
tone and tends to lift men above the sordid 
drudgery and wretchedness of this world 
and to put them in closer touch with the 
world beyond. It illustrates most for- 
cibly the fact that life is not a dream, but 
life is filled with realities and responsibil- 
ities which we must meet. Published by 
the Macmillan Co., 66 Fifth Ave, New 
York. $1.50, 
