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may save what are left, and protect this 
valuable source of food supply for future 
generations. And yet there are so-called 
“sportsmen” who shoot gulls, Mother Carey’s 
chickens, loons, grebes, and every other 
strange-looking bird that flies along the 
streams. We wonder why! 
The reasons why wild life should be con¬ 
served are many. It has an economic value, 
either to maintain Nature’s balance, to de¬ 
stroy insect enemies, or for food supply. 
We will exclude the reason which some of 
us feel—the picturesque side—or what a 
still smaller number consider the rights of 
animals. For did not the great God make 
us all, and for reasons equally clear or in¬ 
explicable, as the case may be? 
T HE economic value of wild life is in¬ 
estimable. We cannot be spraying 
and grubbing all the time. God gave 
the bjrds and lesser creatures to do it for 
us. Game animals, birds and fish are a 
cheap and constant food supply. Former 
Governor Glynn, of New York, emphasized 
this in an eloquent plea for wild life in 
his message to the New York Legislature 
in 1914. Dr. Kalbfus is making the same 
plea to the Pennsylvanians. Further than 
that, he believes that hunting makes men 
better, develops manliness and self-re¬ 
liance. The hunter is a good shot and 
can be counted on in time of war. Pre¬ 
serve the sport of the chase and you will 
aid preparedness. 
The picturesque side appeals strongly to 
a few. What is a wilderness without the 
cry of a bluejay, a mountain lake without 
the melancholy call of the loon, or a vast 
sky-scape without an eagle majestically 
soaring near the apex of the blue dome? 
Lucky are those who have heard the howl 
of a wolf in a mountain solitude, or the 
roar of the panther, reverberating like peal 
after peal of thunder from the topmost 
ridge of some craggy height. The Duke of 
Argyll would never allow an eagle to be 
killed on his Scottish estate, as he recog¬ 
nized the regal bird as carrying out the 
justice to dumb brutes is obtained, will the 
hunters and forest fires have left any alive? 
N OW, how to conserve the remnant of 
wild life that is left in Pennsylvania. 
It can be done, but Nature’s methods, 
not man’s, must be followed. We must 
approximate original conditions. First of 
all, stop forest fires, which destroy the 
breeding and nesting grounds. Our able 
Forestry Department is making rapid 
strides in that direction, but public opinion 
is needed to secure the Department the 
proper appropriations for extinguishing 
fires. Secondly, put an end to all bounties 
for the destruction of the miscalled “pred¬ 
atory” animals and birds. Let all the wild¬ 
cats, foxes, hawks and owls live, and en¬ 
courage them to do so. Bounties have 
been paid in Pennsylvania for two hun¬ 
dred years, with game becoming scarcer 
all the time. 
It has been amply established in Euro¬ 
pean countries that game will not repro¬ 
duce itself naturally in regions where the 
predatory creatures have been destroyed. 
(Concluded on page 190.) 
A NEW “LIGHT WEIGHT" 
IN THE BAMBOO CLASS. 
OU can have a new “light weight” in 
your tackle outfit this season, in the 
shape of a two and one-half ounce 
trout fly rod which one of the most famous 
American firms of rod builders, after 
months of experiment and preparation, is 
placing on the market. 
The demand for lighter tackle is insist¬ 
ent. It is an encouraging sign, for it 
demonstrates that the sentiment of “play¬ 
ing the game fair” is grbwing. As the cir¬ 
cular describing the rod says : “We have 
had to respond to the skilled sportsman’s 
demand for lighter and still lighter tackle.” 
The difficulty of making a rod of the 
weight of the one illustrated, and putting 
into it real durability and dependability, 
may be conceived even by the amateur. 
This is How the New Little Beauty Looks. 
harmony of nature. And in that harmony 
we come near to all that is godliness in 
life. 
Then there are the rights of animals that 
have appealed to fair-minded men since 
the dark ages, so admirably described by 
Lecky in his “History of European Morals.” 
We have no more right to wantonly kill 
beasts or birds than kill our fellow man. 
•But in' Europe, human life is cheap, con¬ 
sequently it is a far cry to appeal for jus¬ 
tice to the lesser creatures. But the de¬ 
mand will live on in the few, until ani¬ 
mal life can exist side by side with 
Pennsylvanians as it does in India, where 
wild animals and birds mingle with people 
in the hill towns. But when universal 
Nothing in the way of strength has been 
sacrificed. The rod is wonderfully lively, 
strong and graceful. It is built of six 
strips of the finest bamboo, clear down to 
the delicate but strong needle-light tip, and 
is finished with German silver mountings 
and imported steel wire guides. Its length 
is seven and one-half feet. Of course a 
rod of this weight, or lack of weight, is 
not suited for the heaviest fishing, but at 
the same time it will be a delight to the 
angler for trout of the average size, and 
embodies a sporting proposition that the ; 
skilled angler will be glad to adopt. 
The makers are the well-known Divine 
Company, of Utica, N. Y., and the price 
is $25. 
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Recommended by Hunters, Campers, Physi¬ 
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