EDITOR'S CORNER. 



SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS FOR 3 YEARS 

 AND 10 MONTHS. 



Read the deadly parallel columns: 



1895. 1896. 1900. 1901. 



January ... $379 $723 $3,205 $3,903 



February.. 256 693 2,151 3, 20 7 



March .... 300 1,049 1.9*9 3 7™ 



April 342 645 L570 2,760 



May 292 902 1,377 2,303 



June ...... 307 770 971 2,016 



July 345 563 854 2 > 00 ° 



August .... 306 601 1,262 2,245 



September . 498 95 1 M64 x '940 



October ... 438 969 1.842 2,227 



November . 556 1,054 2,060 



December . 652 1,853 4,742 



$4,671 io,773 23,741 

 Last year's figures for October were 

 hard to beat but you see we have raised 

 them $385, and still the good work goes on. 



Mr. Guthrie says: "No true sport can 

 stand for such journalism." 



"True sport," eh? If Mr. Guthrie calls 

 such slaughter as that true sport, he is as 

 seriously in need of the civilizing influence 

 of Recreation as the other fellows are. 



ANOTHER SQUEAL. 

 " Here is a copy of a letter just received: 

 Ledru Guthrie, 



Attorney-at-Law. 



New York, Nov. i, 1901. 

 Mr. G. O. Shields, 



23 W. 24th St., City. 

 Dear Sir: My friends have been li- 

 belled and disgraced by your article on 

 page 360 of November Recreation, and I 

 have been instructed by them to begin an 

 action against you for damages. Judge 

 Fisk will be here in January, at which time 

 I want to take his testimony. I will call 

 on you the first time I am up town, and 

 see what you want to do about it. Perhaps 

 we can settle it out of court, but I am in- 

 formed the article is a lie, as to number 

 caught, time consumed in catching and as 

 to kind caught. No true sport can stand 

 for such journalism. 



Yours truly, 



Ledru Guthrie. 



ANSWER. 



I should be glad to have the readers of 

 Recreation look at the fish hog picture on 

 page 360 of November number and then 

 write me whether or not the men shown 

 therein have been libelled. Later this 

 question will probably be left to a jury 

 to determine, but I should like to know, 

 meantime, how my readers view it. The 

 men shown in the picture disgraced them- 

 selves by taking the fish, and still further 

 by having themselves and their loot photo- 

 graphed. They squeal now because they 

 realize the truth. They should not have 

 been so eager for notoriety. A man fre- 

 quently gets more than he wants of a cer- 

 tain thing. 



CUT IT SHORT. 



He who was Ernest Seton-Thompson has 

 done a wise act in dropping the last sec- 

 tion of his name, and is hereafter to be 

 known to the readers of Recreation and 

 to the few other people in the world, as 

 Ernest T. Seton. 



There are some thousands of other men 

 and women in the world who would earn 

 the gratitude of all busy people if they 

 would follow his example, in a measure. 

 In some cases this could be accomplished 

 by simply writing initials instead of string- 

 ing out Christian names. The courts have 

 decided that a man's name is his own prop- 

 erty and he has a right to do as he likes 

 with it; but when he asks busy people to 

 waste time, and ink, and type, and paper, in 

 reading or writing out or setting up and 

 printing 3 or 4 names, that is different. 

 Some of the people who are lying awake 

 nights trying to devise ways and means of 

 making people talk and write and print 

 their long names should consider some of 

 the illustrious examples of the past. Sup- 

 pose, for instance, that U. S. Grant, R. E. 

 Lee and J. G. Blaine had always written 

 their names Ulysses Simpson Grant, Rob- 

 ert Edward Lee and James Gillespie 

 Blaine, and suppose these men had insisted 

 on other people wasting time to spell out 

 these names or talk them out. These men 

 would never then have been known and 

 honored and revered as they are. They 

 cared nothing about their names. They 

 were doing great things, and they left it 

 for people to talk about them or not, as 

 they saw fit. The name cranks should 

 remember that 2 of the greatest 

 men America ever produced habitually 

 wrote their names G. Washington and A. 

 Lincoln. They were too busy doing great 

 things and thinking great thoughts to fool 

 away time in even writing out George or 

 Abraham. If the would-be great people of 

 to-day would condense their names, people 

 would speak them oftener and remember 

 them longer than they will in their present 

 continued-in-our-next shape. The world 

 will be glad to forget these people whose 

 names have taxed their minds and their 

 memory so seriously, as soon as the owners 

 thereof are dead. 



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