March 4, 1911.] 
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A New Conservation Magazine. 
The first number of American Conservation 
bears date February, 1911. It is the organ of 
the National Conservation Association with head¬ 
quarters at Washington, D. C., and its aim is to 
work singleheartedly for the conservation of the 
resources of this country. 
The number opens with a letter from Colonel 
Theodore Roosevelt, to American Conservation, 
and this is followed by some pages of editorial 
by Gifford Pinchot. Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, Di¬ 
rector of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, contributes 
an exceedingly interesting and informative article 
entitled, “Saving Miners’ Lives.” He points out 
the danger of coal mining, the fact that the acci¬ 
dents which occur are in large degree prevent¬ 
able, says that the creation of the National 
Bureau of Mines by the last Congress was a 
step forward in the effort to reduce the number 
of deaths through accidents. 
Hon. Robert G. Valentine, Commissioner of 
Indian Affairs, asks, “Is the Indian worth con¬ 
serving,” and illustrates his article by a num¬ 
ber of beautiful pictures by the young halfbreed 
artist, Richard A. Throssel. Within the last few 
years efforts stronger than ever have been made 
to teach the Indian to be self-supporting. Ra¬ 
tions have been cut off, day schools established, 
the Indian has been put to work and the end to 
his pauperization seems in sight. Down in the 
Southwest about 300 young Indians are earning 
from $2 to $3.90 a day in railroad shops. 
Lion. James Wickersham tells very interest¬ 
ingly about Alaska, “A Land of Opportunity,” 
and Logan W. Page, director of public roads for 
the United States, writes of the “High Cost of 
Hauling,” showing that it costs more to carry 
the farmer’s wheat to market than it does to ship 
it from New York to Liverpool. 
The first number of American Conservation, 
printed on coated paper and very beautifully il¬ 
lustrated, promises great things for the future, 
and we may feel certain that its high standard 
will be maintained. It has a work to perform, 
and under the able and patriotic head that di¬ 
rects it, it will perform this work well. 
Arthur W. Vandiveer. 
One by one the hunters of the old school are 
passing away. The experts of the old days of 
the muzzleloader shotgun and the patch rifle will 
soon all be gone beyond the great divide. 
Arthur W. Vandiveer, a keen sportsman of 
the old school, recently died at his home in 
Wabasso, Fla., in his sixty-first year. He was 
born in Miami county, Ohio, July 4, 1850, and 
was left an orphan at the early age of five years. 
Forty years ago last Christmas he married Miss 
Laura Groby, who, with a daughter, two sons 
and two grandchildren, survive him. Three 
years ago he removed with his family to Florida, 
settling at Wabasso. 
Mr. Vandiveer was an expert wing shot and 
has always held his own at all kinds of shoot¬ 
ing. Among those who have hunted with him 
in Ohio are the well known trap shots, Ed. 
Rike and Rolla O. Heikes, of Dayton, Ohio. 
The shooting companions of his later years were 
his sons, Charles and Clarence, the latter a fre¬ 
quent contributor to Forest and Stream. 
Mr. Vandiveer was long a reader of Forest 
and Stream and greatly enjoyed it. Not three 
hours before his death he requested one of his 
sons to read to him from some of the back num¬ 
bers which hold a prominent place in the library. 
Death of Edward S. Lentilhon. 
Edward S. Lentilhon died at 9 o’clock Satur¬ 
day morning, Feb. 18, at his residence in Phila¬ 
delphia. 
Mr. Lentilhon had been failing very much of 
late and his death was scarcely unexpected by 
his friends, although the end came very sud¬ 
denly. He was only about fifty-five years old. 
He was formerly assistant secretary of the 
Hazard Powder Company, but for several years 
past had been assistant secretary and also one 
of the assistant treasurers of the Du Pont Com¬ 
pany, which dual positions he filled at the time 
of his death. He was in his office as late as 
Tuesday, Feb. 13. Funeral services were held 
at his Philadelphia home this morning, and later 
in the day his body was taken to New York 
where it will be laid in the Kensico cemetery. 
Grazing Examiners for National Forests. 
A new Government position is disclosed by 
the announcement of the United States Civil 
Service Commission in Washington of an ex¬ 
amination which will be held Feb. 23 and 24 
to find three grazing examiners for the Forest 
Service. The positions will pay a salary of 
$1,200 a year at entrance. 
The applicants must be men, at least twenty 
years old, and possessed of at least one season’s 
experience in handling range stock, together with 
at least one year of technical training in specified 
botanical studies. 
New Publications. 
The Conservation of Natural Resources in 
the United States, by Charles R. Van Hise. 
Cloth 8vo., 413 pages, illustrated, $2 net. New 
York, the Macmillan Company. 
Collected in compact form we have in this 
volume the substance of twenty lectures given 
by the author at the University of Wisconsin; 
papers printed in Government reports and in 
various magazines. So large is the scope of 
conservation that it is necessary to treat it under 
separate departments. Part I, therefore, treats 
of mineral resources; Part II of water; Part III 
of forests; Part IV of land; and Part V of 
the conservation and mankind. Each subject is 
treated exhaustively and all its branches referred 
to in proper order, making the book one of great 
value. 
The Airy Way, by George A. B. Dewar. Cloth, 
253 pages, $1.75 net. New York, the Mac¬ 
millan Company. 
In the main this is a book of flight. Its theme 
is the magic and mystery of the master-feat in 
all nature. Though here and there the author 
touches on some of the authorities, old and new, 
who have written of natural flight, he treats the 
subject in a wholly new light. The author has 
been watching for many years the wing feats of 
birds, bats and insects. Among others the feats 
of the swift, the swallow, the rook, the herring 
gull, the saddleback gull, the black-headed gull, 
the golden-crested wren, the woodpeckers, the 
fritillary butterflies, the emperor butterfly, dragon¬ 
flies, syrphi flies, bees, the pipistrelle bat, and other 
species of its kind. Though the book touches 
on many other things of the open air, this theme 
is never lost sight of, and though it will natu¬ 
rally be read by the large body of people in¬ 
terested in aviation or artificial flight, is no 
severe technical book. It is perfectly simple, 
written throughout in the simplest English. 
The Old North Trail, or Life, Legends and 
Religion of the Blackfef.t Indians. By 
Walter McClintock. Illustrated with eight 
colored plates and many cuts in text. Price, 
$4. The Macmillan Co. 
In Mr. McClintock’s interesting volume, which 
deals with a land of myth and legend, there 
is a world of interesting matter for people who 
love the out-of-doors. His introduction to the 
Blackfeet—the Piegans—came through William 
Jackson, well known to the older readers of 
Forest and Stream as Billy Jackson, or Sik- 
sikakwan, which, being interpreted, means the 
Blackfoot man, the name given him on their re¬ 
turn to his relatives, the Piegans, who did not 
know him until after the end of the Indian 
Wars in the Southern country, when the Chey¬ 
ennes and the Sioux had been at last subjugated 
and dispersed. 
Mr. McClintock lived for several seasons on 
the Cutbank River on the Blackfeet Reservation 
in Montana, and was, in fact, finally adopted by 
Siyeh, the camp crier or herald of the Piegans, 
a man of importance in the tribe, and the pos- 
sesser of a beaver medicine bundle. From Siyeh 
and from many other friends, whom Mr. Mc¬ 
Clintock met in his successive visits to the reser¬ 
vation, he heard many traditional stories, many 
beliefs about religion, birds, animals, flowers, re¬ 
ligious and other tribal ceremonies, and heard 
and set down many songs. To the students of 
Blackfeet literature, many of these versions will 
be new, but it is obvious that of such variants 
there are many, and that all of them should be 
recorded. 
The book is a delightful story of life in a 
beautiful country, with vivid descriptions of 
scenery, of plains travel and mountain hunting, 
and of life among Indians as they were ten years 
ago. It deals with these people from the human 
point of view, seeing them as they really are as 
fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and friends, 
with all the simple kindliness and affection of 
a people still primitive and more or less un¬ 
spoiled. It is interestingly told and full of life. 
The volume is interesting reading for all out- 
of-door people. There is especially a detailed 
description of the ceremony of the medicine 
lodge, which the author calls by the common 
name “Sun Dance,” used in the medicine lodge 
ceremony among the Sioux to the South. 
It is to be regretted that apparently the author 
did not have an opportunity to see his proofs, 
for some of the Blackfeet names are misspelled, 
though near enough right to enable anyone fa¬ 
miliar with them to know what is intended. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and nozv in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
