EDITOR’S CORNER. 
Atttress alt Weller’ 
WINCHESTER. : 
REPEATING ARMS €8, 
NEW HAVEN, CONN; 
449 

applications carefully decided that it would. 
not be well to allow these 23 Winchester 
traveling men to belong to the League. 
The secretary was, therefore, instructed to 
drop from the rolls the names of 7 of the 
men whose names had already been placed 
thereon, and to return to the other 14 men 
the sum of $1 each which they had remitted 
with their applications. 

I am still getting large numbers of let- 
ters written by the Winchester Company 
to readers of RECREATION and which are 
forwarded to me. While the Winchester 
people insist that they do not intend to 
make an automatic gun, yet they defend 
that slaughtering machine vigorously. The 
burden of Mr. Bennett’s song is that the 
automatic gun is up to date; that it is the 
highest type of shooting iron thus far in- 
vented, etc. Dynamite is up to date, too, 
but when a man uses it to fish with the law 
steps in and lays an iron hand on him. 
Viewed from the standpoint of a man who 
wants to kill everything in the country, the 
automatic gun is a big improvement on any- 
thing heretofore produced, and for that 
reason its use on birds should be prohib- 
ited by law. 
The so-called sportsmen of Iowa have 
succeeded in defeating a bill introduced in 
the legislature of that State last winter, 
aiming to prohibit the shooting of wild 
fowl in spring. The same men have also 
killed a bill which aimed to provide a close 
season on prairie chickens for 3 years, in 
order that they might recuperate from the 
effects of the war of extermination which 
has been waged against them for many 
years. All real sportsmen will regret this 
action, and it is hoped these latter may 
succeed in passing an anti-spring shooting 
se at the next session of the law-making 
ody. 

Does any reader of RECREATION know the 
present whereabouts of A. L. Meigs? If 
so, I should like to have his address. There 
are indictments pending against him in 3 
States for obtaining money under false pre- 
tenses, and I should like to be able to put 
the sheriffs of the respective counties in 
which he did this work on his trail. 

“Did you notice the perfume as she 
passed ?” 
“Yes, she is probably a Colognial Dame.” 
—Exchange. 

