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RECREATION, 



The nail has been hit on the head and the 

 screw driver lias found the slot in the 

 screw. Now drive them both home — into 

 the head of the market hunter. Laws pro- 

 hibiting the sale of game for a term of 

 years — say, 10 — are the one and only solu- 

 tion of the problem of game preservation. 

 This will go hard with epicures, but they 

 can afford to eat something else. Mean- 

 while, a sportsman can have a fair shot at 

 a fair quantity of game without having to 

 go over coverts that have been potted and 

 ground raked to a finish. 



The L. A. S. must now include in its 

 membership men who represent millions of 

 capital. Most of these are, doubtless, gen- 

 uine sportsmen, who might possibly be in- 

 duced to further a subscription for the pur- 

 poses of game protection. 



To get a bill through Congress which 

 prohibits the sale or purchase of game 

 birds and animals in the United States ex- 

 cept for propagating purposes, money, wit 

 and energy will be or would be necessary 

 in good sized chunks. It is a subject I am 

 deeply in earnest in. 



W. P. MacHenry, Syracuse, N. Y. 



WATCH FOR LAW BREAKERS. 



We still have much to do in molding sen- 

 timent for our cause. In this we are being 

 successful. We are winning many friends, 

 and the public is beginning to see the ne- 

 cessity, from business and other points of 

 view, of protecting and propagating game 

 and fish. We have a year to work before 

 we can ask for new laws, and in that time 

 we must enforce the laws we have and lay 

 plans for securing such amendments as we 

 need to make them better. 



The League has done good service in 

 stopping illegal killing, and in punishing 

 offenders. Many reports come in showing 

 this. Let the good work be kept up. 



The close season is now on. From this 

 time until spring is hard on deer. Keep 

 a close watch and let no offender escape. 

 Reports show that deer are more plenti- 

 ful this year than usual. Let every mem- 

 ber of the League and every good citizen 

 do all possible to prevent killing during 

 the close season, and thus let the increase 

 in numbers continue. 



Ask your friends to join the League. I 

 have copies of the constitution, and. other 

 matter, which I will send to any one ask- 

 ing for them. 



L. A. S. NOTES. 

 I am heartily in sympathy with the L. 

 A. S., and agree with you when you say 

 the creation of public sentiment will be- 

 come a greater factor in the orotection of 

 both game and song birds than will strict 



statutory laws. However, from personal 

 experience, I find the enforcement of our 

 laws, such as we have, tends to create a 

 better sentiment. I have attempted to en- 

 force the law in this neck of woods, with 

 special reference to the city hog who re- 

 spects neither farmer nor game. I have 

 put into our county treasury over $250 in 

 fines within the last 8 months. At no time 

 since I have known the county has there 

 been greater respect for our game laws, nor 

 more wholesome sentiment for enforcing 

 the same. 



Last night, in connection with the State 

 Deputy, I confiscated a ton and a half of 

 under sized fish ,as well as a quantity of 

 black bass. Of course, proper prosecutions 

 will follow, and this tends to make things 

 as they should be. 



R. S. Woodliff, Jackson, Mich. 



Captain Thomas Perry, U. S. N., Secre- 

 tary of the Lighthouse Board, has lately 

 joined the League. This is a most impor- 

 tant acquisition, and, as already stated, 

 the Lighthouse Board has issued an order 

 to all the lighthouse and life savii -7 crews 

 in t he United States to obser e strictly 

 the game laws and forbidding the men to 

 take game of any kind in close season. This 

 is a most important action, and will result 

 in a great saving of game. Many of 

 these crews are stationed at points re- 

 mote from settlements, and certain of the 

 men have been in the habit of hunting with 

 jack lights, and shooting by moonlight or 

 twilight, in such ways that the game stood 

 little show of escape. It now remains for 

 any reader of Recreation to report to this 

 office any further violation of laws commit- 

 ted by the life saving crews or by light- 

 house keepers. On receipt of any such re- 

 ports I shall promptly transmit them to the 

 lighthouse board, and the perpetrators will 

 be punisheM. 



Dan Beard, the well known painter and 

 illustrator, has become a life member of 

 the League. So have Abram G. Nesbitt, 

 Kingston, Pa., and C. F. Emmel, of Van- 

 dalia, 111. If the hundreds of other well- 

 to-do members of the League could only 

 realize how grateful the officers are for 

 these substantial contributions to its cam- 

 paign fund they would all send their $25 

 checks at once. A year hence we shall 

 have all the money we need, but to-day 

 we need a barrel of it to be used in pros- 

 ecuting law breakers, patrolling sparsely 

 settled districts and in the dissemination 

 of wholesome League literature. 



Let every man in the League who can 

 spare $25 send it in and have his name 

 placed high on the roll of honor. 



