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RECREATION. 



HON. WILLIS VAN 



DE VANTER, 



Assistant Attorney 



General. 



HON. C. VAN COTT, 

 Postmaster, New York City. 



any future violations of the game laws by- 

 men in this branch of the service be 

 promptly reported to the board. 



Judge Willis Van De Vanter, Assistant 

 Attorney General of the United States, 

 may well be termed a typical American 

 sportsman and gerwtleman. He is equally 

 fond of the rifle, rod and gun, yet he never 

 destroys life merely for sport. Governor 

 Richards tells me that when hunting in 

 Wyoming last fall he saw 5 deer run by 

 General Van De Vanter, within easy rifle 

 range, and that the General did not fire 



at them because he could not see horns on 

 either of them. At the same time the 

 camp was without fresh meat. 



Later, on the same trip, the General 

 killed a bull elk and declined to shoot at 

 another, though subsequently he saw sev- 

 eral with better heads. There is true, high 

 minded sportsmanship for you! 



And good, stalwart Cornelius Van Cott 

 has joined the League, too. Every one 

 knows him as the Postmaster of the City 

 of New York. And he is giving us the 

 best postal service we ever had. He does 

 not say much about his accomplishments 

 as a shooter or an angler, but he is fond of 

 the woods and of the wild creatures that 

 inhabit them. He wants to see these pre- 

 served, and that is why he is with us. 



When such men as these are willing to 

 put their shoulders to the wheel and aid 

 in the great work the L. A. S. is doing 

 why on earth should anyone else hesitate? 

 Yet there are a million men in the United 

 States who pose as sportsmen who have 

 not yet shown their willingness to aid in 

 this great work to the extent of $1 a year! 

 It is now time for every man on this con- 

 tinent who loves Nature and her works 

 to join this League and aid in saving the 

 birds, the mammals, the fishes and the 

 forests from threatened destruction. 



Send in your application at once. 



CAUGHT BY ACCIDENT. 



Several years ago, when fishing in the 

 Gunpowder river, I pulled out a white 

 perch hooked in the manner shown in the 

 accompanying photo. My idea is that the 

 fish had already taken a hook from some 

 former angler, had missed being hooked 



by me, and that my hook, slipping along 

 the snood in its mouth, caught in the loop 

 of the hook already embedded there. This 

 photo was not taken at the time, but only 

 reproduced to show the manner of hook- 

 ing. Wm. H. Fisher, Baltimore, Md. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BV WM. H. FISHER 



A PERCH HOOKED IN GUNPOWDER RIVER, MARYLAND. 



