EDITOR'S CORNER. 



AS THE LAWS SHOULD BE. 



Mr. W. S. Lyne, Danville, Ky., asked 

 me to submit a draft for a game law for 

 that State. 



I fear my views regarding a good game 

 low for your State would not meet the ap- 

 proval of the majority of your sportsmen, 

 and possibly not your own views. 



Since you ask me to suggest a form for 

 such law I will name these as the essential 

 points that should be embodied therein: 



First, the sale of game and the shipment 

 of game out of the State should be pro- 

 hibited at all times. 



The open season for shooting all kinds 

 of game should be limited to 2 months — 

 October and November. Then it should 

 be made a misdemeanor for a man to be 

 found in the fields or in the woods with a 

 gun during the close season. That fact 

 should be taken as prima facie evidence 

 that he has violated or is attempting to 

 violate a game law. 



No man should be allowed to kill more 

 than 10 quails or other game birds, or 

 squirrels or rabbits in any one day. No 

 man should be allowed to kill more than 

 2 deer or 3 wild turkeys in any one year. 



No man should be allowed to kill any 

 song or insectivorous bird or bird of 

 prey at any time during the year, except 

 Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, and 

 the great horned owl. 



It should be made the duty of all sheriffs, 

 deputy sheriffs, constables and deputy con- 

 stables to arrest and prosecute any per- 

 son charged with the violation of a game 

 law, and in case any such officer should 

 refuse to so arrest and prosecute when re- 

 quested, and when supplied with evidence 

 by a citizen, he should be subject to a fine 

 of not less than $50 and costs for such 

 neglect of duty. 



Several States have enacted laws em- 

 bodying these points. Perhaps no one 

 State has placed all of them on its statute 

 books, but the various features are in- 

 cluded in the acts of the different legisla- 

 tures. When all States enact and enforce 

 such laws, then game will rapidly increase 

 instead of decrease, as it is doing now. 



A POSSIBLE PEST. 

 It seems that Los Angeles, Cal., has gone 

 mad on the subject of Belgian hares. Some 

 30 or 40 large rabbitries have been estab- 

 lished there and half the people in the town 

 and surrounding country are breeding 

 hares, to a greater or less extent. A large 

 trade has been built up in these animals, 



both locally and in other States. Many 

 shipments have been made from Los An- 

 geles to the Middle States, and even to 

 New England; and Southern California is 

 in a fair way to become as famous for the 

 production of hares as of oranges. 



And now the question arises, Have these 

 people caught another tartar? May not 

 the Belgian hare prove as great a nuisance, 

 in time, as the English sparrow? May it 

 not prove as great a plague in this country 

 as the English hare has in Australia? Yet 

 neither proposition seems possible because 

 the hare would be an easy mark for shoot- 

 ers, and there is such a vast army of these 

 in the United States that they may be 

 trusted to keep the Belgian hare from over- 

 running the country. E. S. Babcock, 

 manager of a hotel in Coronado, Cal., and 

 his coterie of chums, who frequently kill 

 500 to 1,000 ducks in a day, should be able 

 to keep down the hares and give decent 

 sportsmen a show at the ducks. 



HE BEFOULS HIS OWN NEST. 



George H. Webber, for some years in the customs ser- 

 vice in this district and for a long time stationed here 

 met with good luck in every venture he made until he 

 was known as "Lucky'' Webber; but up to that time he 

 had not tried matrimony. At Mount Vernon, January 

 31, he made a venture in matrimony which, according, 

 to accounts, broke his lucky spell. Since that time he 

 has lost his position in the customs service and after a 

 honeymoon of 6 weeks, the following appeared in a 

 Seattle paper: 



"If the courts should grant divorces on such flimsy 

 grounds as this there would not be a young married 

 couple in King county within a year," remarked Judge 

 Benson, in the superior court, with grim sarcasm, in 

 deciding the divorce case of Minnie E. Webber vs. 

 George H. Webber, adversely to both parties. After 

 less than 6 weeks of married life the young husband 

 and wife came into court demanding a dissolution of 

 the bonds of matrimony. The judge lectured them 

 and sent them home. The groom looked dissapointed, 

 and the bride wore a grievous frown. But there was 

 no help for it, and out of the court room they went. 



Mrs. Webber in her complaint alleged that they 

 were married January 31. Everyday since the wed- 

 ding, she alleged, they had auarreled continually, and 

 she was satisfied they could never live together in 

 peace. 



Webber filed an answer in which he admitted every 

 allegation of his wife's complaint. — Port Townsend 

 Wash., Leader. 





• ' The game hog is not in the least changed by 

 abuse." — Editorial in the A. D. G. H. 



Hence it is much better to pat him on 

 the back and tell him what a "nice gent" 

 he is. At least, so says his defender. 



Have you sent in your contribution to the 

 Lacey watch fund? If not, you should do 

 so at once. 10 cent ante, 25 cent limit. 

 Stamps are good. 



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