EDITOR'S CORNER. ; 



IN SELF DEFENSE, EH? 

 Doctor and Mrs. James Martin, of Bos- 

 ton, camped near Spednic lake, Maine, in 

 October last to hunt bear. A dispatch 

 from Vanceboro states that Mrs. Martin 

 occasionally hunted over the line into New 

 Brunswick. On her return from one of 

 these trips she encountered a bull moose 

 which she says disputed the trail with 

 her. She tried to "shoo" him away, but 

 he would not be "shooed." She said he 

 came at her and she climbed a tree to get 

 out of his way. Stranger still, she claims 

 to have taken her rifle up the tree with 

 her. The moose still pursued her, and she 

 says that in order to save her life she re- 

 luctantly shot and killed him. When sure 

 he was dead she came down, and darkness 

 having come down too, she started to build 

 a fire near the carcass of the moose, with a 

 view to camping there over night. A 

 search party found her, and later a New 

 Brunswick game warden found her. She 

 was taken into court and fined $100 for 

 killing a moose without first having taken 

 out a hunting license. This story will 

 prove highly amusing to all who know the 

 wild, timid nature of the moose. 



POST CHECK CURRENCY. 

 The proposed Post Check Currency 

 would do away with the cumbrous money 

 order machinery. A man can make out 

 his order wherever he likes and it is pay- 

 able only to the person designated. It 

 saves time, expense and loss and is at once 

 the most convenient, practical and sensible 

 measure the wit of man has yet devised. 

 One would think that its simplicity and 

 safety would commend it at once to the* 

 postal authorities, but men in official posi- 

 tion become so attached to old methods 

 that they insensibly cling to them and per- 

 sistently fight all innovations. It is pre- 

 cisely this class of men that the Post Check 

 system has had to fight, but the members 

 of Congress ought to be above such petty 

 and feeble considerations. They ought to 

 regard the measure as one fraught with 

 inestimable benefit to the business inter- 

 ests of the country. I trust Congress may 

 look at this from the high plane of states- 

 manship and not be influenced by the ob- 

 jections of interested parties. 



HE IS ALL RIGHT ON GAME PROTECTION. 

 That President Roosevelt reads Recre- 

 ation carefully is shown by the following 

 extract from his recent message to Con- 

 gress : 



Legislation should be provided for 

 the protection of the game, and the 



wild creatures generally, on the forest 

 reserves. The senseless slaughter of 

 game, which can by judicious protec- 

 tion be permanently preserved on our 

 national reserves for the people as a 

 whole, should be stopped at once. It 

 is, for instance, a serious count against 

 our national good sense to permit the 

 present practice of butchering such a 

 stately and beautiful creature as the 

 elk for its antlers or tusks. 



Such an appeal as this from the Presi- 

 dent should remove all objection to Con- 

 gressman Lacey's timber reserve bill, and 

 it should be passed by the present Congress. 



Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., has 

 lately established a Department of Arch- 

 aeology, and has appointed W. K. Moore- 

 head, an old time contributor to Recre- 

 ation and a thorough sportsman and scien- 

 tist, as curator. Mr. Moorehead invites 

 readers of Recreation to send him any 

 Indian relics they may have which they do 

 not care to keep. These will be safely stored 

 in the Academy Museum, labeled with the 

 names of the donors, and further credit 

 will be given in the annual reports of the 

 Academy. Stone or copper axes, pipes, spear 

 heads, vessels, and all kinds of bead work, 

 etc., are desired and will be thankfully 

 received. 



Some weak kneed man writes from 

 Lockport, N. Y., to Secretary Rice a tale 

 of woe about game law violations, and says 

 he would like to have the League prosecute 

 the offenders. He had not the courage to 

 sign his name to his letter, so it went into 

 the waste basket, where many anonymous 

 communications go every day. All readers 

 of Recreation should have learned by this 

 time that no communication can be con- 

 sidered in this office unless it be signed by 

 the writer. Names of complainants are 

 held confidential in all cases where re- 

 quested, but I must know from whom a re- 

 port comes before I can act on it. 



Recreation reaches me regularly, and I 

 watch anxiously for it as for the coming 

 of an old friend. The August number 

 was on the ill-fated "Morgan City," which 

 sank off the coast of Japan. But not even 

 old ocean could keep Recreation from me. 

 After a delay of 3 weeks I received it, in 

 readable condition, though wet, and smell- 

 ing of bilge water. 



Recreation is the best magazine I 

 ever read. A. L. Martin, Otego, N.Y. 



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