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in hopes that branches will this' summer be estab¬ 
lished in botli Halifax and Guysboro counties. 
1 he two most influential. branches are in Yar¬ 
mouth and Annapolis counties, established some 
years ago, and amalgamated then into the pres¬ 
ent Provincial League. The objects are self¬ 
protection, the control of wages, duties and the 
inculcation of sane ideas of game, forest and 
fish protection. The results have been excellent, 
and the influence of the association for good is 
likely to be incalculable in future, for if you 
days on Canadian soil and employs Canadian 
guides or boatmen. The trouble lies not so much 
with the fee itseif, for any good sportsman would 
cheerfully give his $5 under just conditions; 
namely, if he knew that the fee was collected 
from each and every foreign fisherman, and that 
the money was expended on the inland waters 
for restocking, the punishment of offenders, etc. 
Unfortunate’y this cannot justly be said to be 
the case in Nova Scotia, for while the fee is 
pretty generally exacted in some few regions, 
pay, or placed the amount of the fee in a lawyer’s 
hands, to be paid over only under protest, and 
in ail cases the foreigners were not bothered for 
their money. It is to be hoped that the Ottawa 
authorities will either drop the law or administer 
it justly and consistently. As to the ethical side 
of asking a fee to fish in waters which are pro¬ 
tected and restocked in such a wretchedly in¬ 
adequate manner, everybody is entitled to his 
own opinion. Edward Rreck, 
President Nova Scotia Guides’ Ass’n. 
A FINE SPECIMEN OF THE STONE SHEEP. 
Courtesy of the British Columbia Bureau of Provincial Information. 
would preserve the garden you must go directly 
to the gardener. The association is flourishing 
and growing. The authorities know its value 
and the chief game commissioner is one of its 
most enthusiastic admirers. Every summer it 
holds a most interesting series of sports, con¬ 
sisting of canoe races, shooting with rifle and 
shotgun, log rolling, log cutting, swimming and 
fly-casting. This year they will take place at 
Yarmouth in the latter part of July. 
It is our object to protect the public from over¬ 
charging and incompetence, as well as to turn 
out guides who are efficient, respectful without 
being servile, clean in body and speech, hard 
working and cheerful; in a word, men with 
whom it is a p’easure to go into the woods. 
A great deal of dissatisfaction was caused last 
year by the Canadian law which demands a fee 
of $5 from every foreign fisherman. This fee 
to be remitted if he remains thirty consecutive 
notably in Yarmouth county, it is not enforced 
at all in most parts of the Province, nor can 
anybody find out how much money is raised by 
this fee, or how it is expended. Under such 
circumstances it is little wonder that many for¬ 
eigners are dissatisfied. 
There is another bad side to the matter: the 
several under-agents have thus far interpreted 
the law at their own discretion. For example, 
at one port the agent insists on the fee being 
paid when the foreigner lands, even if the latter 
assures him that he will remain all summer. An¬ 
other satisfying himself that the foreigner is re¬ 
sponsible, or an old frequenter of the Province, 
lets the man go without paying. These many 
inconsistencies are bad for any law, and lead to 
annoyance, on which account the law is very un¬ 
popular among hotel men, guides and others de¬ 
riving profit from the tourist trade. Cases came 
up last year in which the foreigner refused to 
Politics. 
Hendersonville, N. C., April 26 .—Editor 
Eorest and Stream: In my last letter, in men¬ 
tioning our new county game law, I neglected 
to tell you of a queer provision of it: “It shall 
be unlawful for setters and pointers to run at 
large during the close season.” It is a mis¬ 
demeanor and punishable by both fine and im¬ 
prisonment, in the discretion of the court. I 
keep, and always have kept, my setter or pointer 
from running at large; but in our county there 
may be a dozen of these dogs, while there are 
hundreds of curs, hounds, etc., that this law 
does not reach, and many of these dogs are 
half starved, yet must eat. 
Is this not “a daisy of a law?” As Artemus 
Ward would say: “Why is this thus?” And I 
would reply: “Politics!” 
Ernest L. Ewbank. 
