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Falls appeared later with a brood of twenty 
chicks. The cock took charge of these when 
they were about a month old and the hen nested 
a second time. Later her nest, containing ten 
eggs, was found deserted, the bird having fallen 
victim to some marauding mink, skunk or pot¬ 
hunter, a creature equally bad. 
It is largely due to the efforts of the Black 
Hawk County Game and Fish Protective Asso¬ 
ciation, composed of city sportsmen and farmers, 
that the fields and woods are being stocked with 
foreign game birds and to date results are very 
gratifying, it being quite probable that with the 
natural increase fully 500 of these exist to-day 
in various parts of the county. If the next 
Legislature can be prevailed upon to enact a 
law protecting the nearly extinct prairie chicken, 
in a few years there will again be thousands of 
useful game birds in the land, and plenty of 
sport for legitimate huntsmen. 
TUNA LURES. 
Thomas McD. Potter has invented a way of 
attaching flying fish bait when fishing for tuna 
that should prove a boon to the hard working 
angler. The usual way of attaching the flying 
fish is to hook it through the lips, so that it will 
run smoothly in the water. 
Now, it is essential, when the tuna are not 
hungry, to "skitter” the flying fish along the sur¬ 
face, and to make it jump into the air so as to 
attract the tuna's attention, so that curiosity, if 
not hunger, will make it take the hook. Potter 
passes the hook through the mouth of the flying 
fish and then down on one side of the gills, in 
such a manner that when the bait is trolled in 
the water, it is constantly forced away from the 
launch. The resistance acts in precisely the 
same manner that wind pressure on a sail sends 
the boat along in a different direction, and the 
angler merely by holding his line steady is en¬ 
abled to make the flying fish “skitter” and jump 
in a most lifelike manner. 
In the ordinary way the angler is forced to 
use his rod to make the bait “skitter, and this 
is a tiresome back-breaking process if kept up 
for any length of time. 
Another device for the same purpose, said to 
be the invention of F. H. Reed, of Oklahoma 
City, was used last season and this by George 
Farnesworth, the boatman at Avalon, who has 
the largest number of tuna to his credit. Farnes¬ 
worth was willing to take out an angler on the 
basis of getting him a strike from a tuna or 
no P a y- 
The device used was a kite arrangement. The 
boatman held the string of the kite, from the 
latter ran a line which was attached to the flying 
fish bait in such a way that the latter kept at the 
surface and “skittered’’ and jumped in a way 
that often proved irresistible to the flying fish. 
It was, of course, necessary to pay out a great 
deal of line in order to get the kite action. 
The plan has been kept secret for a long time, 
but word comes that it is to be given out for the 
benefit of anglers generally.—Los Angeles Ex¬ 
aminer. 
FIREARM SALES IN FRANCE. 
If a bill recently presented in the French 
Chamber of Deputies to restrict the sale of re¬ 
volvers and ordinary pistols is enacted, it will 
have a decided influence on the importation of 
small firearms. 
It is proposed to prohibit peddlers as well as 
merchants keeping bazaars from selling pistols 
of any kind. Gunsmiths alone will be authorized 
to make such sales and even they may not de¬ 
liver the firearms except at the houses of pur¬ 
chasers. The licensed dealers will be obliged 
to keep a special register in which to inscribe 
the names and addresses of pistol buyers. This 
record must be shown on demand to any agent 
of the law. It is provided that transgressors 
can be summoned to a police court and fined 
$19.30 to $38.60. In case an offense is repeated 
the punishment will be one to five days’ im¬ 
prisonment. 
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