EDITOR'S CORNER. 



IT IS COMING OUR WAY. 



The change in public opinion as to the 

 protection of game and fish and song 

 birds within the past 2 years is little short 

 of phenomenal. From every State and 

 every county in the Union letters' and 

 clippings from newspapers come to my 

 desk announcing this wonderful change of 

 sentiment on the part of all classes of 

 people. Men who travel through the 

 country North, South, East and West 

 come into my office and report that they 

 hear everywhere people denouncing game 

 hogs, fish hogs, song bird destroyers, and 

 millinery traffic in bird skins. 



A single instance will suffice to indicate 

 the widespread and far reaching effect of 

 Recreation and the L. A. S. in this par- 

 ticular. A friend who spent 2 weeks at a 

 large hotel on the coast of Maine, in Sep- 

 tember last, told me guests were registered 

 there from nearly every State in the Union, 

 and scarcely an hour passed that he did not 

 hear some of them discussing this topic. 

 Many of the guests went fishing at fre- 

 quent intervals, and it was a common thing 

 to caution a party starting out with rods to 

 quit when they got enough. Other guests 

 were scouring adjacent woods and fields 

 with guns or rifles. All these were ad- 

 monished as to the necessity of limiting the 

 bag to a reasonable extent. My friend said 

 that whenever any angler caught half a 

 dozen birds or a dozen -trout he quit fish- 

 ing; or, if he continued, he put back all he 

 caught. One party of 3 men from some 

 backwoods district, who had not been 

 reached by our missionary work, caught a 

 big string of bass, went to the local pho- 

 tograph gallery, stood up alongside of their 

 string, and had their picture taken. Not 

 a day passed during the next 2 weeks that 

 someone about the hotel did not comment 

 unfavorably on the conduct of those men. 

 Many of the guests expressed the wish to 

 get hold of a copy of the photograph and 

 send it to Recreation, together with the 

 names and addresses of the fish butchers ; 

 but the photographer would not sell a print. 

 Everybody agreed that Recreation ought 

 to have an opportunity to show those men 

 to the world in their proper light. Several 

 of the guests told the offenders, in vig- 

 orous English, what they thought of them 

 and what would be their lot if Recreation 

 got hold of one of their photographs. 



This is simply one of the thousands of 

 reports that, as I have said, come to me 

 from every point of the compass. 



Recreation and the League will keep 

 up the crusade until every man, woman, 

 and child, white, red, and black, in this 



broad land, shall feel the force of the 

 good teachings, and until the slaughter of 

 the innocents shall cease. 



Do you realize the value of the offer I 

 am making, of a scholarship in the Rough 

 Rider Military School? Here is a chance 

 for a young man or boy to get a year's 

 schooling with board, clothing, bedding, 

 and everything else he needs, free. This 

 offer is open to any number of young men 

 who may see fit to compete. The scholar- 

 ship is offered to the man or boy sending 

 me the largest number of yearly subscrip- 

 tions on or before April 1, 1901. Competi- 

 tors who may not be successful in securing 

 the scholarship will not lose their time, for 

 they can select any premiums on my list to 

 the full value of the subscriptions they may 

 send in. Some active young man will win 

 this prize as the result of probably less than 

 a month of lively work. Will you not try? 



Prof. Henry F. Osborn, Vice-President 

 of the New York Zoological Society and a 

 member of the L. A. S., has been ap- 

 pointed to succeed the late Prof. O. C. 

 Marsh as palaeontologist of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey. Professor Osborn will 

 have charge of the vertebrate palaeontology 

 of the survey, especially with reference to 

 the completion of the monograph for 

 which illustrations were prepared under the 

 direction of Professor Marsh. 



This issue of Recreation contains 32 

 pages more of reading matter than usual, 

 making an aggregate of 112 pages of text 

 and pictures. 



This is more than Scribner's, Harper's 

 or the Century run, yet they sell at 25 to 

 35 cents each. 



Flave you read the article on pages 282 

 and 283 of October Recreation ? If not, I 

 will esteem it a personal favor if you will 

 do so at once. Then I will esteem it a still 

 greater favor if you will send me your dol- 

 lar for membership in the L. A. S. 



Away back in '95 or '96 a reader of 

 Recreation in New England suggested 

 the formation of a League for the protec- 

 tion of game. Will he please write again, 

 giving full name and address? 



Will K. C, who recently sent me a 

 marked copy of Pearson's Magazine, kind- 

 ly send me his full name and address? 



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