October, 1919 
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and responsibilities could the people of this country 
realize their highest well-being and fulfill their obli- 
gations to themselves and to humanity, he set up 
ideals which it is not only a duty but a privilege to 
follow. 
A memorial to this man will not so much honor 
him as honor America and the citizens who raise it 
to him. A contribution to the Roosevelt Memorial 
will be, in the highest sense, a pledge of devotion to 
ideal citizenship. Checks may be sent to Albert H. 
Wiggin, Treasurer, Roosevelt Memorial Association, 
1 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
OCTOBER COLORS 
MOWHERE in the world is there spread out annu- 
ally for a few brief weeks such a spectacle of 
changing color as is seen in autumn over the eastern 
half of North America. Each year we admire and 
wonder at it and each year it seems new to us and 
more beautiful. 
If it lacks the striking color and variety of the 
tropical flowers, its softer tones and homely beauty 
make it — to most of us at least — far more attractive. 
Brown cornfields, dotted with shocks of stalks 
and yellow pumpkins, and wheat or rye stubbles, 
above which the gray ragweed rises rank, are full 
of suggestions of feeding quail, of quartering dogs, 
staunch points and the tense excitement of walking 
up to the birds. It is for such moments that we go 
abroad with the gun, but there are joys as real as 
these in the quiet contemplation of a scene in which 
no birds are found. 
Scarlet sumacs flame along the hedgerows and 
above these stands the orange frondage of gnarled 
and knotted sassafras. Back of the sumacs glow 
dull red leaves of hazelnut bushes and sometimes a 
dark cedar rising from the hedgerow is wreathed 
with the brilliant red of the Virginia creeper or the 
yellow of poison ivy or the paler foliage of bitter- 
sweet. 
In the swamps the soft maples have turned to 
orange, to change a little later to flame color; and 
then the topmost twigs will lose their leaves and 
over the whole swamp will seem to lie a gray haze, 
forerunner of the general bareness of early winter, 
when only the green of pine and hemlock will in- 
terrupt the universal gray. 
In the silent woods the eye meets a confusing 
maze of color. Leaves are losing their hold on the 
twigs and slowly fall to earth with a wavy, spiral 
motion. If a breeze stirs the branches the leaves 
shower down. The quiet black pools in the brooks 
are thickly dotted with yellow jewels. 
Although it seems so silent in the woods, if one 
stops to listen he will hear now and then the thump 
of a falling nut, the distant drumming of a grouse, 
the chatter of a squirre. or the faint call of some 
far-off bird. 
In the Rocky Mountains of the west the autumn 
colors are far less vivid. Deciduous trees are few 
there and the dark green conifers stand always un- 
changed, save for the tamarac which each autumn 
sheds its needles. Only along the streams are seen 
the winding yellow lines which tell of cottonwood, 
or in wet places high up on the mountainside little 
patches of changing aspens shine like sunlight 
against the evergreens and later turn to brown or 
orange. Sometimes a shrub of mountain maple 
makes a speck of vivid color, or in some forest 
burning a growth of fireweed shines red among the 
gray trunks and heralds the approach of winter. 
FOREST AND STREAM FOR NOVEMBER 
'’T’HE November number of Forest and Stream 
will have a number of interesting features. The 
cover will be a reproduction of one of Carl Rungius’ 
inimitable paintings — depicting a bull moose in the 
Canadian woods. H. A. P. Smith, ex-president of 
the Nova Scotia Guides Association, writes with 
authority on the proper way to call moose and M. L. 
Lochenour has written an account of hunting in the 
little known Allenwater country of Northern On- 
tario. Our old correspondent. Widgeon, has con- 
tributed one of his delightful reminiscences of duck- 
ing days on Barnegat Bay and Armour W. Barbour 
tells of his experiences with the wild-fowl of Long 
Island. Warren Miller has written an article on 
quail shooting in the south and Frederick A. Willits 
continues his serial on our water-fowl with an ac- 
count of sea duck shooting. Mr. Willits has been 
exceptionally well fitted for this work by many years 
of close study and observation. His love for this 
alluring sport is inherent, as his father is a well 
known sportsman and at the age of sixty is still 
active' on bay and marsh, while his grandfather, who 
died recently at the age of ninety-two, shot con- 
tinuously until his eighty-ninth year. Major C. H. 
Stigand, the well known African hunter, continues 
his natural history studies with an account of the 
Black Rhinoceros. Dr. Henshall’s autobiography is 
continued and Leonard Hulit has produced anothert* 
one of his fishing tales concerning the boy Matt, 
whose picture will accompany the narrative. There 
will be a number of short articles of interest and 
the regular departments will have their share of 
practical information, including an article by Charles 
Meakins on log cabin construction. 
VIRGINIA GAME SANCTUARIES 
WIRGINIA will soon have a system of game sanc- 
tuaries, if the plans of Commissioner of Game 
and Inland Fisheries, F. Nash Bilisoly, are carried 
out, the result of which will keep the state well stored 
without danger of depleting the supply of birds. 
Proceeding somewhat upon the principle that as 
the department’s activities for the protection of 
game and wild life are dependent for support upon 
the licenses collected from hunters. Commissioner 
Bilisoly believes it to be only right and proper that 
the hunters should have game to shoot. He there- 
fore proposes a plan which he thinks will be a prac- 
tical success and hopes to put it into effect in time 
to have the coveys replenished from the new stock 
he intends to put down in the preserves, scattered 
throughout the state, next Spring. 
It is the Commissioner’s idea to arrange with 
owners of tracts of from 200 to 400 acres, situated 
one in each of the 400-odd magisterial districts in 
the state, to give the Commonwealth exclusive shoot- 
ing privileges on such tracts, which will immediately 
be posted and the mated pairs of quail, 4,000 
of which he is arranging to secure from Texas, will 
be placed on these farms. Each of the owners of 
these game sanctuaries will be given police power 
as a game warden. 
The quail will be fed for the first few weeks 
on the preserve but allowed to go in the outlying 
territory, upon which they may be hunted. They 
will speedily learn the places where they are not 
disturbed and will return to them. The Commis- 
sioner holds that it is safe to allow a reasonable 
amount of hunting, for, until the coveys are broken 
up, the birds lead a family life and do not mate. 
