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FOREST AND STREAM 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company 
Chas. A. Hazen, President Charles L. Wise, Treasurer 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary 
22 Thames Street, New York. 
CORRESPONDENCE:—Forest and Stream is the re¬ 
cognized medium of entertainment, instruction and in¬ 
formation between American sportsmen. The editors 
invite communications on the subjects to which its pages 
are devoted, but, of course, are not responsible for the 
views of correspondents. Anonymous communications 
cannot be regarded. 
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STATE ORNITHOLOGIST RESIGNS TO 
ACCEPT NATIONAL WORK. 
Herbert K. Job, for four years State Ornitho¬ 
logist of Connecticut and Lecturer of Ornitho¬ 
logy of the Connecticut Agricultural College, 
announces his resignation of these positions, 
having accepted an opening to do similar work 
along national lines. His researches in economic 
ornithology, particularly in the propagation of 
game-birds and wild-fowl, and his educational 
work, have attracted widespread attention, enlist¬ 
ing the backing of some of the best known men 
in America. The National Association of Audu¬ 
bon Societies, the pioneer organization in Amer¬ 
ica for the conservation of wild birds and game, 
now the strongest and best financed of its kind, 
has recently organized, under a special fund, 
“The Department of Applied Ornithology,” and 
has elected Mr. Job “Economic Ornithologist in 
Charge.” This department will be a national 
bureau of practical service and information for 
all who wish to increase, attract, or propagate 
wild birds or game, instructing applicants by 
correspondence and supervision, and also through 
free illustrated bulletins or pamphlets giving full 
details of practical method. 
Mr. Job began 'this new work on August 1, 
and now resigns because he is unable to give to 
Connecticut more time than to other states. He 
has given to this state a large amount of time 
and effort, which work is outlined in his formal 
resignation, and more fully in a report about to 
be issued. It is to be hoped that someone com¬ 
petent to continue this needed public service can 
be found who is willing to bestow upon it the 
time and effort necessary to make it of interest 
and value to the public. Mr. Job has rendered 
the state and the birds commendable service. 
WHY EVERY CALIFORNIA SPORTSMAN 
SHOULD VOTE FOR NO SALE OF 
GAME ACT ON NOVEMBER THIRD. 
Legislation for the year 1913 procured the 
passage of a law commonly known as the No- 
Sale-Of-Game Law- This law received the sig¬ 
nature of the Governor and should, thereupon, 
have become of full force and effect; but imme¬ 
diately upon its passage all those who profited 
by the killing, sale, serving or transporting of 
dead wild game became active in opposition and 
its operation was held up through the medium 
of a referendum which is to be voted upon at 
the next general State election in November. 
The provisions of the law prohibit the sale and 
shipment of all wild game, except wild geese 
and rabbits; but permit the sale of ducks dur¬ 
ing the month of November only. 
To circulate their referendum petition effect¬ 
ively, and to cloak their commercial motives 
while doing so, the instigators of this nefarious 
attempt to divert a natural State resource of 
stupendous financial value to their trade uses, 
organized an association which—'with inconceiv¬ 
able effrontery—they designated the People’s 
Fish and Game Protective Association. The 
idea of forming this association originated with 
one John F. Corriea, a fish and game dealer of 
San Francisco; a man who has been arrested 
(either personally or by representation) twenty- 
one times for violation of fish and game laws. 
All the notorious game law violating fish and 
game dealers of San Francisco became mem¬ 
bers ; were assessed heavily for initial expenses 
and the People’s Fish and Game Protective As¬ 
sociation got off to a flying start and immedi¬ 
ately began to do business for business. 
Encouraged by their success in securing (by 
fair means and foul, and all within the City and 
County of San Francisco) the requisite number 
of names upon their petition to make their refer¬ 
endum a ballot certainty; encouraged also by 
the promise of financial support from the hotel 
ancT restaurant interests—which interests wished 
to profit by the serving of game to its patrons 
during the Exposition year—they cast about for 
means to make permanent their temporary clutch 
upon the money represented by the wild life 
belonging to the people of California. The ini¬ 
tiative presented this opportunity, since a law 
initiated and passed by the people directly can¬ 
not be amended or abrogated by act of the 
Legislature. 
New trade members were secured. New and 
larger assessments were levied. Newspapers 
were subsidized, and, with blare of trumpets, 
their initiative petition was presented to the pub¬ 
lic. This initiative proposed to remove all mar¬ 
ket sale restrictions from all our native wild 
game, and its effect, if approved, would have 
been the loosing of thousands of market gun 
ners to comb our forests and fields for delicate 
provender ,wi)th 'which to feed the expected 
hordes of Exposition visitors. But this last at¬ 
tempt to divert the property of the people into 
the bank accounts of the Corrieas, the Chiges, the 
Gianninis, the Sportonis and the Campodonicos 
of the fish and game trade died a-borning,— 
died miserably because the clubmen and the ul¬ 
tra-fashionables of the State’s sportsmen belated¬ 
ly awoke to a realization that these alien bird- 
butchers threatened Sport, and their frantic pro¬ 
tests sent the hotel and restaurant interests 
scurrying to cover; to repudiation of their prom¬ 
ised financial aid to the association, and to pub¬ 
lished disavowal of any sympathy with it or with 
its purposes. 
The trail of Trade slimes across the face of 
every attempt to remove the safeguards placed 
about our fast vanishing wild life species; but, 
in few instances is it so obvious as in California. 
Well, the sale-of-game initiative is dead. It 
existed barely long enough to achieve its birth- 
cry, and attention is paid to it here merely to 
illustrate the lengths to which the game trade 
will go if encouraged by even partial concessions. 
Its parent, the misnamed and misbegotten Peo¬ 
ple’s Fish and Game Protective Association is 
also dead—as a body; but its constituent parts 
are very much alive, and these only await the 
encouragement of your negative vote upon their 
non-sale-of-game referendum to re-unite and 
force from the next Legislature a law to give 
them all their initiative petition asked for; a 
law permitting their appropriation for profit of 
the entire wild game supply of the State of 
California. 
A ‘‘WHERE TO ” NUMBER FOR DUCK 
HUNTERS. 
Mr. Duckshooter: 
Your inquiries as to where to go ducking, 
cost and other matter pertaining thereto, are 
getting too numerous for personal reply, so, if 
agreeable to you, our issue of October twenty- 
fourth will be devoted to ‘the cause of the wild 
fowler. We will give you plans and specifications 
to build a sink box and a Barnegat or sneak 
boat. Trips will be outlined giving routes, hotels, 
guides and cost therefor. Open season in each 
state for wild fowl will be shown together with 
laws governing duck shooting. The issue will 
be meaty enough to enable any man to get his 
bag—-if he can shoot straight—and we even will 
help him to point his gun. If you aren’t a sub¬ 
scriber, keep your weather eye on the news-stand 
as this number will be greatly in demand. 
THE WINTER CAMP FIRE. 
Above the mountain, bleak and bare, 
Below the noisy slream, 
The few soft snowflakes in the air 
Are diamonds in the ruddy gleam 
That flashes from my fire. 
And, from the blaze, bright, silvery lines 
Flit in and out among the pines. 
Sorrow and pain are put to flight, 
And all the cares and fears of night 
Are laid upon the pyre. 
But at the charmed circle’s bound 
Grim Winter stands, with icy hands; 
And from the barren, frozen ground, 
Their lair, leap darkness and despair. 
Threatening now, and now deciding, 
Never stops their ghostly gliding; 
Never ends their awful moaning, 
Triple curses oft intoning. 
While, anon, their goblin shrieks 
Are re-echoed by the peaks. 
Thus, with eyes foreboding danger, 
Keep their watch upon the stranger. 
Up to heaven leaps the flame, 
And the spectres, put to shame, 
Backward fly. From the sky 
Softly steal, with many a blessing, 
Shades of dreamland. They, caressing, 
Bring lotus and Falernian wine, 
Olympian nectar, all divine. 
And, while I sleep, they vigils keep, 
Till, from the valley, rosy day 
Has chased the sprites of night away. 
SHOSHONE. 
