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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 17, 1911. 
Even if you got away without his seeing you, 
and had been gone fifteen minutes, he would 
be after you on the jump. He was a good 
hunter. As soon as he saw a bunch of ante¬ 
lope, he would go toward them and stop and 
feed around. All one had to do was to lie be¬ 
hind a brush, and Billy would keep bringing the 
antelope closer and closer, until he thought he 
had them in the right place. Then one would 
do all the shooting he wanted for that day. 
“We always had a red rag tied around Billy’s 
neck, and we all knew him by that wherever we 
saw him. But one day some tenderfeet came 
along and shot poor Billy, and had the 
impudence—and ignorance—to fetch him up u o 
the ranch and ask, ‘What kind of an animal’ 
that was. The woman there told them what it 
was in pretty plain language, and with tears 
that lasted for some time. The men were out 
working, and the pilgrims thought it' best to 
move on as soon as possible—I guess perhaps 
the best thing they could have done. 
“If the ranchers were permitted to raise game, 
that would help to preserve it, and a small piece 
of meat comes in handy in summer time. After 
a while the game would become domesticated 
and every one would be able to have a taste 
of it. “E. B. G.” 
Archers to Hunt Big Game. 
A dispatch to the New York Times from 
Atchison, Kan., says: 
James Challis and Z. E. Jackson are going hunt¬ 
ing in the wilds of British Columbia armed only 
with bows and arrows. They expect to go after 
mountain lions and grizzly bears if the oppor¬ 
tunity should arise. 
“I expect the most enjoyable time of my life 
on that trip, - ’ said Mr. Challis recently. “I am 
sure we will enjoy hunting with our primitive 
weapons more than the man who can stand a 
mile away and bring down a deer or a bear with 
a big express bullet. There is the same differ¬ 
ence between hunting with bow and arrow and 
with a rifle as between catching fish with a fly 
and in a seine.’’ 
Mr. Challis and Mr. Jackson will leave Atchi¬ 
son July 7 for Seattle. There they will be 
joined by Harry B. Richardson, of Boston, who 
ho ds the word’s archery record, and William 
H. Thompson, of Seattle, also an expert archer. 
From Seattle they will sail up the coast of British 
Columbia 400 miles, and when they have reached 
a point which appears favorable for hunting, they 
will go ashore and push into the interior. 
A large supply of arrows which the party will 
take has been made here at odd times during 
the last spring and winter. 
Train Hits a Moose. 
At Woodstock there is a Canadian Pacific rail¬ 
road locomotive to-day with a badly broken front, 
says a press dispatch from Ottawa. When the 
night express from St. Stephen was en route to 
Woodstock, the locomotive struck a giant bull 
moose which had apparently been driven out of 
the woods by forest fires. The moose was killed 
and the repairs to the locomotive wiil cost $i,coo. 
All the game laivs of the United States and 
Canada, rexnsed to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
The Newspapers and Bird Protection. 
It is gratifying to note the continually grow¬ 
ing interest in bird protection and the greater 
attention that is being given to it in the news¬ 
papers. A recent example of this appears in 
Puck of May 24 last. 
Puck, though called a comic weekly, has long 
been a force for good in the land and its 
strong pictures and keen satire have helped to 
remedy many abuses. In the issue named, it de¬ 
votes its middle two-page colored cartoon to 
a picture entitled, “The Woman Behind the 
Gun.” A fashionably dressed woman wearing a 
hat crowned with egret plumes is aiming a 
gun at white herons in trees, on or near nests 
containing eggs or young. The birds aimed at 
are wearing the plumes known as aigrettes. 
At the woman’s feet is a pile of dead and dying 
birds of various sorts and two dogs, labeled 
French Milliners, are bringing dead birds to the 
heap. 
Of course the idea is that the fashionable, or 
would-be fashionable woman, by her purchase of 
the spoils torn from dead birds, is destroying 
them as truly as if she shot them with a gun. 
The Louisville Courier Journal recently de¬ 
voted nearly a column to suggestions about 
bird protection, pointing out that the true way 
to lead the American youth to protect birds is to 
educate him. This is a part of the work already 
being done by the Audubon Societies, and it 
should be constantly extended. Col. Watterson 
says in part: 
“Ingram Crockett suggests that schools 
might aid the Audubon movement to protect 
song birds by teaching children to love such 
songsters as the redbird and woodthrush. 
“The suggestion seems eminently a proper 
one. We have law enough upon the statute 
books to encourage ornamental birds and song 
birds to multiply and replenish the woods and 
fields, but there are comparatively few parents 
who set about in the right way to teach their 
children not to enjoy killing them. W’hipping 
a boy who is caught with a murdered oriole or 
catbird in one hand and a flobert gun in the 
other teaches him deceit and rebellion rather 
than humanity and a love of wild things. If he 
were taught in earlier years why he should not 
want to kill birds whose presence adds to the 
charm of life in the country, and even to a cer¬ 
tain extent in cities, he might grow up with a 
mental attitude toward them that would render 
it as unnecessary to correct him during the 
flobert gun period of his life as it is now ineffec¬ 
tive to do so. 
"The success of the boy scout movement 
shows how a little tact and intelligence may 
divert the overflowing energies of lads from 
destructive to constructive channels. Might not 
the introduction of a simple course in natural 
history as a part of the curriculum in grammar 
schools and high schools, with a view to im¬ 
planting a love of useful and ornamental birds 
and a desire to destroy pests, prove efficacious 
as a means of protecting many varieties of birds 
that are declared to be not only harmless and 
attractive, but also beneficial to agriculture as 
enemies of insects? 
“It is not the fault of the freckled-faced youth 
in knickerbockers that he goes about robbing 
nests and killing birds. The fault lies with 
those who have failed to train him by some 
method more effective than merely laying down 
a criminal code and telling him what the pen¬ 
alties are, and that they will be applied without 
mercy if he violates its provisions. 
“How attractive the suggested course in 
natural history might be may be easily imagined. 
The beauty of the plumage or notes of the va¬ 
rieties of birds found in the region and their 
functions as insect destroyers might be dwelt 
upon in the elementary course. Popular errors 
as to the destructiveness of certain varieties of 
small birds of prey might be corrected with the 
progress of instruction. For example, most 
of us were taught a generation ago to regard 
all hawks and owls as our natural enemies, but 
naturalists now find that some of them live 
chiefly upon field mice and other undesirables 
and rarely, or never, attack the poultry yard. 
“The popular idea that wild life must naturally 
give way before civilization is a popular idea 
only in Western countries where there has been 
no moral forces operating to prevent the ex¬ 
termination of species of birds and animals that 
should be encouraged to survive and allowed to - 
multiply unmolested. The schoolboy who 
shoots a cardinal with an air rifle or flobert gun, 
or kills his neighbor’s tame squirrel with a 
stone, is not vicious, but he is ill-educated. His 
energies are misdirected for lack of wise direc¬ 
tion. To educate him properly would do more 
good than all of the law that could be piled 
upon statute books by legislators who take no 
interest in such laws and enact them in response 
to the activity of members of Audubon societies, 
upon whom they look as harmless but imprac¬ 
tical persons who should be humored, although 
the measures they are backing cannot be taken 
seriously.” 
For One Commissioner. 
Boston, Mass., June 10 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Yesterday Governor Foss sent to the 
Legislature a message advocating the uniting of 
forestry, fish and game work, and placing it in 
charge of one man instead of three commission¬ 
ers and a State forester, as at present. He ex¬ 
presses a willingness to approve appropriations 
for these purposes equal to the amounts appro¬ 
priated last year for the two departments, but 
no more, refusing to approve the appropriations 
now pending. He says the Department of Fish¬ 
eries and Game involves an annual expenditure 
of $62,000, of which $47,000 is used for the en¬ 
forcement of laws, including the pay of fish and 
game wardens. The policy of this commission 
in raising forest seedlings to be transplanted to 
furnish shelter for game birds he regards as of 
doubtful expediency, and if valuable it would 
seem better, he says, to carry it out under the 
direction of the State forester. 
His expert examiner, C. H. Scovell, finds no 
reason for the continuance of a three-headed 
commission on fisheries and game, the nature 
and scope of whose work he considers such that 
it would be well administered by one competent 
man. The Governor declares that he concurs 
with the examiner’s opinion and recommends the 
reorganization of the board of fisheries and 
game. 
Mr. Scovel lays much stress upon the State’s 
neglect thus far to employ fire wardens as well 
as wardens for the enforcement of fish and game 
laws, and declares that it would seem reason- 
