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RFC RE A TIOX. 



become a law, more's the pity. It would 

 be a great satisfaction to know that these 2 

 butchers had been apprehended and fined 

 $100 each for killing these noble animals. 

 It would be a still greater satisfaction to 

 know they had been sent to prison for 10 

 years. 



Don't forget that the New York Zoological 

 Park will be ready to receive tenants such as 

 birds, mammals and reptiles, early in June. 

 I want to establish a Recreation series of 

 specimens running through all these families 

 and it must be made a monument to this 

 magazine and its readers. Contributions are 

 therefore solicited from friends of Recreation 

 and I hope the responses may be liberal. 



Each contributor will be given personal 

 credit for any specimen sent in, both on the 

 cage label and in the Society's records, and it 

 will be an honor to any man or boy to be thus 

 recorded. 



In order to avoid duplication write me be- 

 fore shipping your specimen, giving full in- 

 formation regarding it, and I will get instruc- 

 tions from the Director of the Park. 



The Washington legislature has passed a 

 law making the fish commissioner ex-officio 

 State Game Warden. The present incum- 

 bent of that office is A. C. Little, of Ta- 

 coma. He is a hustler and is doing excel- 

 lent work in the cause of game and fish 

 propagation and protection. He secured 

 during the last session of the legislature sev- 

 eral amendments to the state fish and game 

 laws, which will afford much better pro- 

 tection to the fish and game than heretofore. 

 That state is to be congratulated on having 

 at the head of its fish and game machinery 

 so efficient and so energetic an officer. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



The Erie Railway Company has issued 

 an exceedingly interesting and useful book 

 entitled. "Fishing on the Picturesque 

 Erie." It contains a detailed directory of 

 the different waters along the Erie line in 

 which good fishing may be had, and gives 

 acccurate information as to species of fish 

 found in each. 



Here are a few samples: 



Parker's Glen, Pa. 103 miles from New 

 York. Round trip fare $4.40. Delaware 

 river, Twin lake. Walker lake. 



Shohola, Pa. 107 miles from New York. 

 Round trip fare $4.70. Delaware river. 

 Walker lake. Montgomery lake, Washing- 

 ton lake. Highland lake, Shohola brook, 

 Panther brook, Stoney brook, Half Way 

 brook, Beaver brook and Little Mill brook. 



Lackawaxen. Pa. 11 1 miles. Round 

 trip fare $5.00. Delaware river, Lacka- 

 waxen river and Mountain lake. 



Mast Hope, Pa. 116 miles. Round trip 

 fare, $5.50; Delaware river, Simm's pond, 

 Campfield pond, Mast Hope creek, Grassy 

 Swamp brook, Ten-Mile river. 



Narrowsburg, N. Y. 122 miles from 

 New York. Round trip fare $5.45; Dela- 

 ware river and Ten-Mile river. 



Cochecton, N. Y. 131 miles. Round 

 trip fare $5.60; Delaware river, Lake Hunt- 

 ington and Tyler's brook. 



The book is full of valuable data and 

 every angler in the East should have it. 

 Write D. I. Roberts, G. P. A. Erie Ry., 

 21 Courtlandt Street, N. Y., for a copy, 

 mentioning Recreation. 



White flour bread, eaten, will make the 

 eater's skin white. Arsenic, eaten, will do 

 the same. But "my love is a rose in a 

 garden of lilies." White bread may give 

 one the whiteness of the lily, but at the 

 same time may banish the rosetint of 

 health. I went with a friend into a fami- 

 liar New York restaurant a year ago. 

 There was a new face back of one of the 

 counters, among the waiting girls. "That 

 girl's rosy cheeks tell the story of a new 

 arrival from over the sea." Her sister had 

 served there, and her cheeks, when she first 

 came over, had been as beautifully tinted as 

 the new arrivals, but the bloom had flown, 

 as a frightened bird from its bush. 



Travel throughout Ireland and Scotland 

 as I have done ,and you will observe 2 

 things: First, that the distinguishing 

 characteristic of the young men and young 

 women is their complexion; the tint of 

 rich red blood mounting' to the cheeek "as 

 a rose in a garden of lilies," and second, 

 the almost utter absence of white flour. 

 When you come back to America, and note 

 the almost utter absence, comparatively 

 speaking, of wholesomely prepared whole- 

 wheat flour, and the everywhere-abounding 

 presence of the done-to-death white flour, 

 the cause of the sickness and ill-health and 

 increased mortality among our people is 

 immediately apparent. 



Such flour as that prepared by the Frank- 

 lin Mills Co., of Lockport. N. Y., is a 

 priceless blessing to all who are wise 

 enough to profit by it. If any one is de- 

 termined to be ghastly, let him put the 

 white flour ghastliness on from the out- 

 side, and not develop it from the inside at 

 the expense of life-giving red blood. 



Hetterman Bros. Co., Louisville, Ky., 

 have lately put out a new brand of cigar 

 which they call the Von Gull. Doggy men 

 will recognize this as the name of a noted 

 pointer (A. K. C. S. B. 43,719), whose field 

 trial and bench winnings extend from 

 Mississippi to Manitoba, and from '95 to 

 '98. 



This famous dog is a son of the great 

 Kent Elgin and traces his lineage back 



