EDITORIAL WANDERINGS 



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FINE HIM FREQUENTLY. 



Editor Recreation : 



The only way to stop the slaughter of 

 game in this State is to prohibit the sale 

 of it. See this clipping. M. A. M. 



Spokane, Wash. 



"BILLY" NORMAN PAYS A FINE. 



W. S. Norman, manager of the Hotel 

 Spokane, pleaded guilty in police court 

 yesterday to having venison in his pos- 

 session out of season and was fined $10 

 and costs. Mr. Norman claimed that 

 the game had been killed in Idaho. 

 If Mr. Norman is fined frequently and 

 often, it is safe to say that he will soon find 

 it profitable to become law-abiding. But 

 what of the thoughtless men who tempt 

 hotelkeepers by offers of absurdly high 

 prices for unlawful food? The producer 

 and the consumer should both be punished, 

 as is the case with the receiver of stolen 

 goods. 



BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 

 "oscillations and camp kettles." 



It will interest all sportmen to know that 

 one of the very best woodsmen in this coun- 

 try is Mr. Frederick K. Vreeland, America's 

 foremost expert in wireless telegraphy and 

 translator and joint author of Maxwell's 

 "Theory of Wireless Telegraphy." 



The first part of this book is a translation 

 from H. Pomcare of Miaxwell's "Theory and 

 Hertzian Oscillations" ; the second part is Mr. 

 Vreeland's "Principles of Wireless Teleg- 

 raphy," and both parts are fully illustrated 

 by the neatly drawn diagrams of Mr. Vree- 

 land. 



I have seen Mr. Vreeland in the Rocky 

 Mountains, fished with him in McDonald 

 River, botanized with him in the valleys of 

 the West, hunted with him in the forests 

 of Maine, climbed to the top of old White 

 Cap with him, canoed with him on Moose- 

 head Lake, and a better all around young 

 sportsman I have never met, a good shot, 

 a keen observer, a practical naturalist, a 

 botanist well known to fame and a thorough- 

 bred sportman. I do not as yet clearly see 

 the connection between Hertzian's oscilla- 

 tions and camp kettles, but it must be there. 

 At any rate, I advise all readers of Recrea- 

 tion interested in electrical theories and in- 

 ventions to read Vreeland's book. — McGraw 

 Publishing Co., New York. 



"mary's garden/' 



It is probably the beast man in me that made 

 me rebel at the title of Miss Frances Duncan's 

 book, "Mary's Garden and How It Grew." 

 Somehow it suggested to me one of those 

 prim little books once known among the 

 children as Sunday School books. 



They were all small books, with pasteboard 

 rovers and drivel inside, that even the most 

 docile Sunday school scholar never willingly 



read. But when I opened Miss Duncan's 

 book I immediately admitted to myself, and 

 now do so to the public, that my first im- 

 pressions were erroneous and prompted by 

 a masculine mind, which rebelled because 

 this delightfully instructive book was named 

 after Mary in place of Tom, Bill or John. 



The story is interestingly told and is filled 

 with garden craft from cover to cover. It 

 is written for children, but we all come 

 under that head when the exact age limit 

 is not specified and almost any one of us 

 older children will find information of the 

 most practical kind in "Mary's Garden" 

 which cannot fail to be of service to us in 

 our own gardens. The author, Miss Frances 

 Duncan, although still a young girl, has 

 spent some time as manager of one of the 

 best known nurseries in the United States, 

 and she now occupies an editorial position 

 on "Country Calendar," but the reason she 

 occupies space in Recreation is because she 

 is a clever writer, a good camper, a good 

 shot and as plucky a girl as ever carried a 

 gun. 



MR. BROWN'S STORY. 



There is a "been there" look to Mfr. Bel- 

 more Brown's illustrations in this number 

 of Recreation and the breath of the glaciers 

 fans our face as we read the simply told tale 

 of adventure. However, it is not Mr. Brown 

 the artist, nor yet Mr. Brown the writer 

 to which we wish to call the attention of 

 the readers of Recreation. His pictures, 

 drawn from sketches really made in the land 

 of the black sheep and his story, written 

 directly from his notes taken on the trip, 

 speak for themselves. But to the novice 

 in the strenuous life of adventure in new 

 and raw countries this narrative is of price- 

 less value, inasmuch as the carefully given 

 details of the story supply the reader with 

 hints of great importance to one outfitting 

 for a similar journey, and, to the naturalist 

 the observations of Mr. Brown on the habits 

 of the black sheep are deeply interesting 

 and instructive. There is perhaps but one 

 man in all the world better informed on this 

 subject than Belmore Brown, and that is 

 Mr. Andrew J. Stone, the Audubon of Arc- 

 tic America, the discoverer of the black 

 sheep and for whom it is named. 



Editor Recreation : 



Please tell me the proper name for the 

 Texas jack rabbit. 



Wm. Andrews. 



The scientific name of the Texas jack 

 rabbit or jack hare is Lepus Tex-i-an'us. 



Editor Recreation : 



Can you give me the address of some 

 parties who buy live wild animals, or any 

 one who is in the market for a pair of live 

 foxes ? 



Fred W. Wieland, Duluth, Minn. 



