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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 25, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
Edward C. Locke, President. 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THANKSGIVING. 
How many sportsmen will, on next Thursday, 
sit with family and friends at a dinner of wild 
turkey provided by them in the good old way, 
with the rifle? Not many; in fact, very few 
of the great army of sportsmen will be able to 
supply game of any sort. Not that the occasion 
need be a less happy one for lack of the tradi¬ 
tional wild bird, and yet, in the homes of thou¬ 
sands of men this one regret will serve to mar 
an otherwise perfect dinner. Some men will 
have as a good excuse, lack of time to hunt any 
game, much less turkeys. Others may try but 
fail because of scarcity of quail or grouse or 
even rabbits, while those who can actually 
tell of hunting turkeys on Tuesday or Wednes¬ 
day will be fortunate if success crowns their 
efforts, and they can carve and serve the grand¬ 
est of game birds to be found anywhere in the 
United States. 
Whatever the piece de resistance may be, the 
day should be one of thanksgiving for the 
sportsman, for in addition to the other good 
things of this life, he may be thankful that all 
is not lost in the cause he advocates, and that 
conditions generally have reached their lowest 
ebb and are improving. All of the game is not 
gone, not every stream and lake is depleted, and 
with the steady improvement in shooting and 
protective methods, there is promise that there 
may be more game in the future than during 
the recent past. Hence, while still further im¬ 
provement is desirable, conditions are not so un¬ 
favorable as they might be. 
THE IAON EXTERMINATOR. 
Some one has aptly called Paul Rainey's Afri¬ 
can hunt spectacular, for he is accompanied by 
a moving picture equipment, a pack of hounds 
and a large number of natives. Evidently there 
is a press agent, also, but no censor, as the fol¬ 
lowing cablegram to the Times shows; 
Paul Rainey, the American sportsman, with R. B. 
Woosnam, a game ranger, last Saturday killed twenty- 
seven lions in the game preserve near Kapiti, and a num¬ 
ber of others outside the closed area. The hunters 
employed Mr. Rainey’s pack of Russian bear hounds to 
find and round up the quarry. 
Evidently the mighty hunter has improved 
with practice. In our Sept. 2 issue we referred 
to his statement that in thirty-five days' time his 
party had killed twenty-seven lions, and now he 
and a companion accounts for twenty-seven “and 
a number of others” in a day. 
This is great work and grim work. Perhaps 
Mr. Rainey has set out to wipe the quarrelsome 
lion off the African map and supply the long- 
suffering and overworked Smithsonian staff with 
rugs enough to cover all the institution’s floors. 
Perhaps he trundles a machine gun along with 
him, to obviate the fatigue of carrying a rifle, 
and, as he said, “make the pastime more pleas¬ 
ant.” 
A number of American hunters have visited 
Africa in recent years. Some of them have 
shot a few animas for trophies or food for 
their men, or both; others have taken more 
than their share. So far the authorities have 
been patient and even indulgent, but if many 
records like this most recent one are made, a 
radical change may be expected. 
WOMEN GAME PROTECTORS. 
Many readers will remember that Mrs. Buf- 
fum, of Roswell, New Mexico, was long one of 
the territorial game wardens. The wife of a 
sportsman, and herself devoted to shooting and 
outdoor life, she is also a lover of birds, and 
earnest in their protection. 
So far as known, she was long the only woman 
game warden in the country, but recently Mrs. 
M. Sheppard Bell, of Monkton, Md., was ap¬ 
pointed deputy game warden of Baltimore 
county. Mrs. Bell is also a gunner, and last 
year took out a gunner’s license which she again 
applied for, and received, this year. She is 
keenly interested in game protective work and 
is a member of the Baltimore County Game and 
Fish Protective Association. Believing that she 
could help along the work, she recently con¬ 
sulted with Dr. A. C. McCurdy, chief game 
warden of Baltimore county, in whom she found 
a sympathetic listener. The matter was brought 
to the attention of Governor Crothers and the 
appointment followed. 
It is a wholesome state of things, and quite 
in line with many other activities of the sex, 
when women are sufficiently interested in game 
protective work to be willing to take part in 
the actual field work, which is often hard and 
discouraging, but which, after all, is at the foun¬ 
dation of all game protection. 
In the United States District Court in Nor¬ 
folk on Nov. 14, Judge Waddill rendered a de¬ 
cision affecting the Virginia game law relating 
to the shipment of game. LTnder this law it is 
possible for a visitor to take out of the State 
certain game killed by him there, and for a resi¬ 
dent to ship certain game out of the State as 
a present to friends. The number is restricted, 
and all game so shipped must be exposed to view 
and labeled. Shipping game to market was in 
this way stopped, but it seems that the super¬ 
visors of Princess Anne county permitted market 
hunters to ship game out of that county. When 
the case came up before Judge Waddill it was 
argued that the action of the supervisors was in 
violation of the interstate commerce laws, which 
prohibit the interstate transportation of articles 
not legally transportable in interstate commerce. 
This contention was denied, and the Virginia 
market hunters believe that the judge’s decision 
will permit them to resume the shipment of 
game. 
* 
An investigation of the traffic in plumage or¬ 
dered by Secretary Wiison has just been com¬ 
pleted. The result shows that from Los Angeles 
and San Francisco to Chicago the trade in bird 
plumage for millinery purposes was very limited, 
apart from Chicago, where aigrettes were being 
sold in large numbers. Preparations have been 
made looking to the more stringent enforcement 
of the laws restricting the plumage trade. 
As New York city is the receiving and 
distributing point for practically all the plum¬ 
age brought in from foreign countries, the 
Shea law, prohibiting sale and possession in New 
York of much of the plumage now used for mil¬ 
linery purposes, is one of the most important 
measures relating to plumage ever proposed for 
adoption in the United States. As New Jersey 
has adopted a similar law, it will not be possible 
to evade the New York law by transferring their 
business to Jersey City or other points adjacent 
to New York city. 
It is said that the 1,400 whales captured in the 
North Pacific this year produced a larger quan¬ 
tity of fat than is usual, and no doubt there are 
old residents of that rocky coast who therefore 
conclude that the winter will be a severe one. 
When there is a large crop of hickory nuts in 
the woods, and the squirrels are found to be 
gathering them in, some one is certain to con¬ 
clude that the squirrels anticipate a long and 
severe winter. We have often observed that the 
squirrels’ activity in this direction is largely 
governed by supply, for the demand seems ever 
present with them. 
r, 
Dissatisfaction prevails in Southern New 
Jersey over the woodcock open season. Open¬ 
ing day there was Nov. 15, whereas in the 
northern counties the season opened one month 
earlier. Reports of the migration of the birds 
before mid-November were numerous, and in¬ 
deed their scarcity in all counties was marked. 
Last year the unusual number of woodcock seen 
lent color to the belief that they were increasing, 
but it is difficult to lay down any set rule as to 
these mysterious game birds. 
V : 
Anglers who employ cork floats may be in¬ 
terested to know that the fishing tackle trade 
utilizes a considerable portion of the supply of cork 
marketed annually. Portugal last year exported 
70.000 tons of cork wood, worth $4900.000, a 
tremendous quantity, it will be understood, when 
it is known that a truck load of cork is a com¬ 
paratively light one. 
