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a business sense; we have other reasons. The 
people buy these railroad tickets because it 
increases their health and leads to the general 
improvement of mankind that comes from the 
life out of doors and the communion with 
nature. And that is of great value to the human 
race. 
“The man with his family will go to the woods 
for a few days; little parties are going to the 
forests on Sundays. They want to get under 
the trees. . They don’t have picnics on the bare 
prairies very often. Do everything you can for 
the forest and encourage its improvement. All 
mankind likes to be there; whether it is only 
because of the birds with their songs and plum¬ 
age or to get out with a gun after the game, or 
to catch the trout and black bass of our lakes. 
All is created for and will have a beneficial 
effect upon the human race. 
“One of the best things that could be done 
for our people, to keep them out of the insane 
asylum, where many of them are from over¬ 
work, is to bring our children up strong and 
healthy. Let. them get out in the woods. Let 
the mother take the children down to the lake 
shore, or to the picnic ground. That is one of 
the great values of forestry, gentlemen. It is all 
right to talk about its commercial value; there is 
a commercial value and an esthetic value as 
well.” 
DESTRUCTION OF WOLVES IN VAN¬ 
COUVER ISLAND. 
In a recent article on the subject of game 
protection in British Columbia, I mentioned the 
fact that a movement was on foot to get the 
head bounty increased on timber wolves and 
cougars, or panthers, as the great cats are 
locally called, writes Col. Andrew Haggard to 
the London Field. When I wrote the bounty 
was only $5 a head for wolves and $7.50 for 
panthers. Since Feb. 1, last, in a great measure 
owing to the representations of Mr. Bryan 
Williams, the Provincial Game Warden of 
British Columbia, the rewards for the destruc¬ 
tion of these game and sheep-destroying wild 
beasts have been substantially increased. The 
Provincial Government have authorized the pay¬ 
ment of $15 a head for the present,andalready the 
beneficial results have been largely apparent. In 
the immediate neighborhood of where these lines 
are penned no sooner was the increased bounty 
made known than people who had never before 
taken the trouble to go out of their way to hunt 
and destroy the pests set to work in earnest. 
One farmer had four wolves within a week, one 
of them being an enormous brute, whose tracks 
had been seen up and down the road in the 
snow or the mud during the whole of the winter. 
Just what he has done since I have not heard, 
but I know that he has bagged some more of 
the black and grey timber wolves with which 
this eastern part of Vancouver Island is in¬ 
fested. Three or four panthers have likewise 
been destroyed already in the neighborhood of 
Cowichan Lake, to the head waters of which 
magnificent sheet of water four young fellows 
of my acquaintance will have started on an ex¬ 
pedition to shoot, trap, and poison wolves and 
panthers before these lines will have been 
written many hours. As one of them, although 
young in years, is as clever at trapping as he 
is a good shot with a rifle, I expect within a 
week or two to learn that the packs of wolves 
that have been frequently seen hunting deer on 
the shores of and into the lake will be largely 
depleted in numbers. 
Although, I suppose from the quantities of 
deer on the island, I have only once known of 
the wolves hunting a man on horseback in this 
vicinity, on no less than three occasions during 
the last twelve months I have known them to 
pursue friends or acquainances of mine carrying 
the carcass of a deer, being attracted by the 
smell of the blood. On each of these oc¬ 
casions the hunters have escaped, warned in 
time by the howling of the wolves that they 
were on their track. Twice two of the sports¬ 
men, each carrying portions of the same deer, 
just contrived to reach a little log shack on the 
mountain, around which the hungry brutes re¬ 
mained baying all night. The third escape, that 
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