EDITOR'S CORNER, 



a disgrace to Massachusetts. offer us protection ! Yes, such protect 



Charlton, October 27. The Charlton Fish tion as vultures give to lambs, cover- 



and Game Protective Association is prepar- • and dev0 uring them I" 

 ing for a big game hunt, the like of which ^ & 



has never before been known in Charlton, lhe despatch says, regarding; this 

 and possibly not in Southern Worcester side hunt, that it is an undertaking 

 county.— Special to the Worcester Tele- « t h e like of which has never before 

 ? rap " been known in Charlton." I should 

 Occasionally a good family finds it- hope not ! But it is too much to hope 

 self possessed of one black sheep that it may never be repeated. At this 

 member, who does all sorts of dis- l a te day there is absolutely no excuse 

 graceful things, and seems to bear no f or such a thing as a side hunt in Mas- 

 real relationship to his parents, or to' sachusetts, or in any other civilized 

 his brothers and sisters. Sometimes community. Apparently, it is neces- 

 the case of atavism is so strong that sary that every State in the Union 

 we behold in the 20th century a re- should enact laws prohibiting side 

 flection of the brutality of 300 years hunts ; for otherwise, like smallpox 



a &°- and hog cholera, side hunts will con- 



The side hunt at Charlton takes us t [ nue to t, rea k out where least ex _ 



back to the days of witch burning at pec ted, even as in Charlton, Massa- 



Salein, and proves that the ancient chusetts. 



spirit of ignorance and brutality is not My game hog register is g row ing at 

 even yet wholly dead in Massachu- an a i armmg rate> but it is built on the 

 setts, Had. a • side hunt occurred in expansive plan and room can be made 

 the Indian Territory, among the for all the names that may come> This 

 squawmen and Yahoos of Hartshorne, Charlton herd down in the fol _ 

 who recently assauted Colonel C. O. i ow i ng - order • 

 Shepherd in such a brutal and cow- 

 ardly manner, I should not have been Jfilo H. Nichols 1,064 



J • 1 u , .. • 1,1 • • Everett Pike 1,065 



surprised ; but it is both surprising s Graton ^ 



and painful to know that a large com- Frank Knight i'o67 



pany of native Americans, living in Warren J. Harrington 1,068 



enlightened Massachusetts, could de- £. F. Putnam 1,069 



11 , • Harry Stevens 1,070 



scend so low as to engage m a prac- Alan * on Burlingame ^ 



tice that is now condemned by all de- Andrew Burlingame 1,072 



cent men. I can understand how ig- Frank Myers 1,073 



no rant Italians from the mountains of ^. H - ^p^ n ' • l,0>7 ^ 



Sicily can believe it right to shoot ££rence knight' \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^\\\\%l 



every wild creature that can be found ; Alvin H. Clark 1,077 



but for men bearing such names as Jonas Bemis 1,078 



Pike, Holmes, Putnam, Knight, Clark, f^AY^n™™^ 1 080* 



Osgood, Gould, Hitchcock and East- A°rthur Whitcomb ".'.'.'.'.WW'.'. '. ...... '.'.\%i 



man, to a total of 80 or thereabout, to E. W. Blood, Jr 1,082 



engage in such a proceeding as the Paul Lucier ..: : 1,083 



side hunt described, is enough to bring £red Osgood 1,084 



A . ■ . \ ■ . . . ' jt 11 r William White 1,085 



the blush of shame to the cheek 01 any William LePrade 1,086 



American citizen. To think of such an John Hammond 1,087 



act of vandalism being committed by Frank Brown 1,088 



the Charlton Fish and Game Protec- Vernon ^tt^ 1,089 



tive Association ! Well may the wild p re(i Young WWWWWWWWWWW. '. . '. . . . . . 1,091 



creatures of Charlton exclaim, 'They Harry Foote 1^092 



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