maybe since, but not with great recent success in 
this state. 
Lawyer Harris also fails to say that in the trial 
which resulted in acquittal the testimony o'f the 
states experts on deer was not accepted, or that 
the express tag records on the dead baby deer 
showed that the weight of the animal was con¬ 
siderably less than 75 pounds. 
This letter is not intended to supply you what 
Mr. Harris omitted. It is to respectfully sug¬ 
gest to you that an attorney in the case, and the 
president of the club which entertained the de¬ 
fendant, can hardly be expected to tell more than 
one side of the story, and that the other side 
is certainly entitled to a hearing. Also that his 
conclusions from the verdict, that Pennsylvania 
will not stand for a game commission which tries 
to enforce the law without fear of clubs of mil¬ 
lionaires, is very much wrong. Pennsylvania will 
stand for no other sort of a game commission. 
The Game Commission last year bought over 
one hundred deer from a private preserve in 
Clearfield County, the abode of Mr. Harris and 
his club, for stocking four closed counties. At 
the urgent request of Clearfield county sports¬ 
men, who were all right, some of those deer, in¬ 
tended for closed territory, were turned loose in 
Clearfield county, upon promises galore that they 
would be protected. Several of them were shot 
as soon as the season opened. Dogs ran others. 
A justice of the peace, trying a dog case, had the 
confession of the owner of the dogs that a deer 
was run. A proper complaint had been made and 
a deputy game protector had all the evidence 
needed. There had been many complaints from 
the same neighborhood. That justice o'f the peace, 
although the law makes a fine mandatory, accept¬ 
ed the confession and discharged the defendant, 
in Clearfield county they can find no way to get 
at that justice except that the judge prom sed to 
call him into court and reprimand him. 
That is the sort of influence exerted by the 
Harris crowd. That is the backing given a deputy 
game protector who tried to enforce the law. We 
could give you other instances to show what 
brand of persecution is handed out to “hunting 
camps of reputable citizens, clean sportsmen, and 
men who have never been charged with any vio¬ 
lation of the game laws.’’ We are their neigh¬ 
bors and we know how they protected the deer 
the state bought for us and gave to them be¬ 
cause we were good enough spo tsrnen to agree 
to it. 
That will be all about that. We expect Penn¬ 
sylvania to revise its game laws this winter. Get 
in the game and help. That will atone for this 
Harris stuff. There are 300,000 licensed hunters 
in the state and 100,000 more who are exempt 
as owners of lands. They are getting together 
with the game commission a r d Will ask for the 
legislation they want. It is a big state, and lots of 
room for argument on seasons, bag limits and 
other regulations, but no room for knocking the 
game commission or for wasting space and tears 
over things like this Dickinson case. The doctor 
is all right but if the sportsmen of the state list¬ 
ened to some people it would not be five years be¬ 
fore the public at large would be paying the bills 
and clubs like his would have all the hunting. 
JOHN E. GABLE. 
President, Johnston Camp, United Sportsmen. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
PENNSYLVANIA SPORTSMEN. 
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lation that will permit the acquirement o’f sur¬ 
face only or the expenditure of more than $5 
per acre, to get the land in fee simple. 
The counties in the western end of the state 
also furnish the greater proportion of the hunt¬ 
er’s license money, and the men who are paying 
this want to see the state establish “protected 
areas,” if necessary, on leased lands in large 
areas to which all hunters will have access. In 
the centers of these large areas the game can be 
propagated 'by the game commission for restock¬ 
ing the covers about and planting in other sec¬ 
tions where the game is depleted. 
To co-operate with the fish, game and forestry 
departments in this phase of the work and that 
of properly planting fish, protecting streams 
from pollution and dynamiting and enforcing the 
laws, it is necessary that strong, active local or¬ 
ganizations be built up which will have a voice 
■in determining the general policies of the state 
departments through a state organization and 
which will be enabled to advise and help the va¬ 
rious state commissions in reference to matters 
concerning their respective districts. 
United Sportsmen Split. 
The United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania are 
practically split asunder through disagreements 
between the president and members of the or¬ 
ganization in the southeastern, central and west¬ 
ern counties. The following three out of four 
directors elected have resigned: H. E. Brcoks, 
Jr., of Pittsburgh; H. F. Ward, of Washington, 
and P. J. Little of Ebensburg. The other di¬ 
rector, E. A. Weimar of Lebanon, has not yet re¬ 
signed, so far as the western camps have heard- 
An effort is being made to secure a strong 
representative from each county on the first state 
governing board of the new organization, and it 
is expected that at least half the counties will be 
organized by April 1, as the intention is to 
place several field organizers at work without 
delay, 'because the legislative program is im¬ 
portant and pressing. 
The new organization proposes also to take 
the qualifications of candidates for the appoint¬ 
ments to the 47 new game protectorships, and 20 
new fish wardenships that the Legislature is ex¬ 
pected to create, and to insist on the appoint¬ 
ments of high class men who know the woods 
and the streams and whose honesty and sports¬ 
manship is beyond question. It is expected that 
there will be at least one game protector in each 
county and the local organization of the league 
in that county will be expected to recommend 
the proper man for the place. 
The question of an adequate and thoroughly 
safeguarded bounty system is also to be taken 
up and the new organization will see that money 
is provided to pay bounties and that the boun¬ 
ties on the wild cats are increased to the point 
where it will be made worth while for residents 
of mountain districts to engage in hunting down 
systematically these pests which are killing 
hundreds of deer and turkeys and thousands of 
grouse and rabbits every year. 
All in all, the new organization promises to fill 
a long->felt want for a live, active, fighting or¬ 
ganization for wild life protection and to ex¬ 
tend over the state and accumulate a member¬ 
ship of at least 100,000 in a few years. The 
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dues will be small and government plan such 
that every member will know what is going on 
in the organization and will be given definite 
work to do to help along the cause and will 
have a voice in its affairs. 
GROW GOLDEN SEAL. 
Speaking of plants that may be cultivated with 
little trouble and with profit to the grower, a 
writer tin Green’s Fruit Grower advises those who 
have a bit of unused woodland or underbrush to 
plant golden seal. He considers it one of the 
most remunerative of plants to raise, and says 
that it requires very little care. 
The roots of this plant sold fifteen years ago 
at thirty cents a pound. The price has steadily 
advanced; the root is now worth five and one- 
half dollars a pound, and the dry leaves and 
stems now sell for twenty-five cents a pound. It 
is one of the most widely used drugs known to 
the modern pharmacopoeia. 
At the end of three years, you can sort out the 
mature roots from the young ones, and wash and 
dry them for sale, while you put the young roots 
back in the ground. At the end of three years 
the grower has a yearly crop of roots, and, be¬ 
ginning with the first year, he has a yearly crop 
of leaves and stems. This is one of the crops on 
which there is an absolute certainty of a market 
that will run after you as soon as any golden 
seal buyer knows you have the goods to sell. Go 
and ask your druggist, or your doctor, about the 
value of golden seal. 
