EDITORIAL WANDERINGS 



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CHANGES IN NEW YORK LAWS. 

 The Fisheries and Game Committee of 

 the Assembly has taken favorable action 

 upon five game law amendments as follows : 

 Foster, prohibiting the taking of muskal- 

 lunge less that twenty inches in length ; 

 Wade, regulating the size of nets used on 

 Lake Erie; Beebe, forbidding the taking of 

 ducks, geese, brant a*nd swan in Monroe 

 county, except on Thursdays, Fridays and 

 Saturdays of each week, from September 

 15th until December 1st; Wade, making 

 close season for black and grass squirrels 

 in Chautauqua county from December rst 

 to October 15th, and Mr. Wadsworth, per- 

 mitting the use of set lines in Hemlock 

 lake. 



will be sent to the governor, and it is prob- 

 able that a delegation made up of men 

 from various points along the fishing rivers 

 of the State will go down to Springfield 

 and lay the case before his excellency. 



VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FORMED. 

 A meeting for the purpose Of organizing 

 an association for the protection of game 

 in Virginia was held at Danville on Feb. 

 15th and plans were discussed. The meet- 

 ing was called by P. J. Flippen, James R. 

 Sheppard, John W. Jones, E. W. Warber- 

 ton, Henry E. Byrd, L. T. Christian, Robert 

 V. Owens, G. L. Bruffey and W. O. Wat- 

 son. 



TROUBLE TN ILLINOIS. 

 The fight which the anglers and sports- 

 men of Illinois are making on the fish com- 

 mission will be carried to Governor Deneen 

 at Springfield. The petitions in circulation 

 asking the new governor to appoint men on 

 the commission who will enforce the laws 

 as they now exist have been numerously 

 signed and they have been scattered all over 

 Peoria. When the proper time comes they 



WHAT DOES MERRIAM SAY? 



The members of the state legislature of 

 Wyoming are puzzled with the problem as 

 to whether or not sage hens eat and de- 

 stroy grasshoppers. If it is decided that 

 they do, it is expected that a law will be 

 passed prohibiting the killing of sage chick- 

 ens for a period of five years; if decided 

 they do not, chances are favorable for the 

 present law remaining unchanged. 



In Lonely Splendor 



