FROM THE CAME FIELDS. 



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you will find that the game wardens were 

 not idle during 1902. 



Agent, Game Society of Nova Scotia. 



regulate the same by police regulations, and 

 can, if they see fit, forbid the use of fowl- 

 ing pieces to destroy game or can tax the 

 privilege of using them. 



A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION SET- 

 TLED. 



I have noticed in Recreation on differ- 

 ent occasions letters from readers express- 

 ing their opinion on the gun license ques- 

 tion, especially on that of boys under 18 

 handling guns. Such people seem to forget 

 that they were boys once themselves. It is 

 not the small boy with the Flobert rifle who 

 kills so many of the birds. The per cent 

 killed by boys is small when compared 

 with the per cent killed by the big 

 overgrown boobies who run loose over the 

 country, call themselves wing shots and kill 

 birds just for practice. I am not taking 

 into consideration the large number of 

 birds killed for the millinery trade. Why 

 jump on the small boy? 



As a sportsman I am not opposed to a 

 small license on guns, but as a citizen of 

 the United States I am bitterly opposed to 

 it, and I do not think such a law would be 

 constitutional. This is what the constitution 

 says : "Amendments to the Constitution. 

 Art 2. A well regulated militia being neces- 

 sary to the security of a free State, the 

 right of the people to keep and bear arms 

 shall not be infringed." If a gun license is 

 not infringing that right, please tell me 

 what is? 



If a gun license law were passed by the 

 Legislatures of the different States, some 

 would have a small fee, while others would 

 have it as much as a gun is worth, as 

 in the case of the non-resident license, and 

 so bar out the poor man. The non-resident 

 license is an outrage on our liberty. Of 

 course I do not think non-residents should 

 have the same hunting rights as residents, 

 except on public lands, and there one man 

 has as much right as another. If the States, 

 and especially the big game States, would 

 follow the example of Colorado it would 

 be better for all concerned; that is, put a 

 license on every head taken out of the 

 State. I do not think any hunter would 

 object to that. 



E. R. Forrest, Washington, Pa. 



I referred this letter to Hon. John S. 

 Wise, one of the best lawyers in the United 

 States, who answers thus : 



The provision of the Constitution of the 

 United States quoted by the writer has 

 been held to be a restriction on the powers 

 of the national government, and not on 

 those of the several States. See State v. 

 Shebby, 90th Missouri, 302; Andrews v. 

 State, 3d Heisk (Tenn.), 168; 165 Amer. 

 Rep., 8, and Miller v. Texas, 153, U. S. 535. 

 The States, having complete control of the 

 game and fish within their borders, can 



A NEW CAMP STOVE. 

 718,412. Portable Knockdown or Folding 

 Camp Stove. Frank Bach, Jr., and 

 Eli Crotteau, Phillips, Wis. Filed Aug. 

 21, 1902. Serial No. 120,500. (No 

 model.) 



Claim — 1. A portable stove comprising a 

 base-plate provided with upstanding side 

 and end flanges, side and end plates, and 

 top plate, said top plate having inverted-U 

 flanges on its sides adapted to engage the 

 upper ends of side plates, all substantially 

 as described. 



2. The combination in a portable knock- 

 down stove of a base-plate provided with 

 side and end flanges, side plates hinged to 

 the base-plate, a top plate having flanged 

 sides adapted to engage the top edges of 

 the side plates, and end plates attached to 

 the ends of top plate and having flanges 

 adapted to engage the ends of the side 

 plates. 



3. The herein-described portable knock- 

 down stove, comprising a flanged base-plate, 

 side plates hinged thereto, a top plate hav- 

 ing inverted-U flanges on its sides adapted 

 to engage the top edges of the side 'plates, 

 and end plates hinged to the ends of the 

 top plate and provided with flanges. 



4. In a portable knockdown stove, the 

 combination of base-plate, A, having up- 

 standing side and end flanges, a a' , sides, B 

 B, hinged to the base-plate, pivoted legs, C, 

 so constructed that when in a vertical posi- 

 tion they will brace themselves against the 

 corners of the base; end plates D, D, and 

 top plate E, said end plates and top plate 

 being hinged together. 



A SUMMER CAMP IN MICHIGAN. 

 June 3, 1901, George W. Marks and I 

 left Ann Arbor for Manistique where we 

 arrived the 5th. We hired a team, drove 

 25 miles North and camped on the Indian 

 river in Schoolcraft county. We staid 



