FOREST AND STREAM. 
759 
May 9, 1908 ] 
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PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
The International Limerick War. 
Pokts, near-poets and plain rhymsters are watching 
.vith interest the international fight now on for limerick 
supremacy. The United States has entered the lists 
igainst Great Britain. The popularity of the limerick 
icross the water resulted in hundreds of contests for 
vhich cash prizes were given, but no such contest was 
ittempted in this country until the announcement of 
'Old English Curve Cut” of its limerick contest for 
May. June and July of the present year. 
Prizes aggregating $3,000 in cash and $750 in presents 
lave been offered free to the contestants, and every one, 
ree of any charge or consideration, may enter the in- 
eresting and fascinating competition. 
It is expected that the “Old English Curve Cut” con- 
est will bring to light a number of original and clever 
Limerick smiths.” 
The cold, windy weather which has delayed the first 
ishing trips of so many anglers is not wholly without 
ts advantages, since the delay will give them an op- 
>ortunity to inspect the Jack Frost Fly Book manu- 
acturcd and sold by If. J. Frost & Co., of 90 Chambers 
;trcet. New York city. Messrs. Frost & Co. are manu¬ 
facturers and jobbers of fishing tackle, and, among other 
hings, make the Kelso Automatic Reel and the Kelso 
ilrand of lines, rods, leaders, flies and hooks to gut. 
They send out their catalogue to the trade only. 
*VHERE THE OPPOSITION COMES FROM 
Theke is no doubt that people have frequently 
tsked themselves how it is that woodcock are 
;hot in July or why birds are shot at all during 
he nesting season when there is such determined 
tnd apparently unanimous opposition all over 
he State to the practice. The answer to this 
question was head in Trenton during the past 
veek when Chancellor Pitney argued in favor 
M killing nesting or egg-bearing birds. We give 
Chancellor Pitney credit for having come out in 
he open where critics may get a fair show at 
lim. Hitherto he has been content to advocate 
•pring shooting after the manner of lobbyists, bv 
alking to members of the Legislature on the 
juiet. Now he has declared openly and we 
enow now why members of the Senate did not 
•are about voting in favor of bills demanded 
from all parts of the State. A majority of the 
senators are lawyers, and they are not likely to 
iisoblige a mighty judge in perhaps the only 
natter in which they can place themselves under 
ibligations to him. 
Mahlon Pitney is not only the chancellor of 
he State, but he is also president-judge of the 
~ourt of Errors and Appeals, the “last resort 
n all matters of law and fact” in the State of 
N’ew Jersey. As such his dicta are deserving 
if attention. As “the last resort in matters of 
aw and fact ’ Judge Pitney has frequently dis- 
ibused people of previously conceived notions, 
ind he certainly did so the other afternoon in 
Trenton. For instance, he decided that there 
•vere more ducks in New Jersey than ever be¬ 
fore, when sportsmen all over the State have 
leclared that there are so many less than for¬ 
merly. He declared that our native quail were 
nigratory, thus overruling the declarations of 
Widubon, Wilson, Bonaparte, Chapman. Stone, 
~oues and other ornithologists whose decisions 
iave hitherto been respected and regarded as 
correct. We know that the European quail are 
nigratory. and that quail brought North from 
Southern States frequently return to where they 
were taken from, but the statement that our 
oative quail are migratory is something entirely 
lew, but it is the law of the land, for the presi- 
lent-judge of the “last resort in all matters of 
aw and fact” has so declared. 
Another peculiar feature of fish and game dis¬ 
cussion in Trenton is the “butting in” of the 
'>• P. C. A. It is argued that it is cruel to kill 
lesting birds, or birds about to give life to 
™ n g- , That is true enough, but let us ask, 
What is the object of the abolishment of spring 
shooting?” Evidently in order that there may 
ie more birds to kill, more birds to wound, that 
hey may die in misery and pain. Scientists and 
•portsmen tell us that for every bird we do not 
naim or kill in the spring we may kill or maim 
» dozen or so in the fall, the object of the law 
'eing to increase the total of pain and misery 
if animal creation. Just where the S. P. C. A. 
>eople come in as far as the abolishment of 
; pring shooting is concerned we fail to see.— 
aterson Chronicle. 
K^ennel Special. 
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month Gilt-edge references. ARTHUR 
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Maine. • ^9 
FOR SALE-TWO YOUNG RED FOXES, ALIVE. 
Apply to G. W. ROBERT, Mastic, L. I. 19 
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A Digest of the Statutes 
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