trouble with insomnia. And going into 
the woods made of him a rabid hunts¬ 
man. He is equally at home whether 
in quest of the feathered or furred 
game, and has become a crack shot. 
Quite a wonderful achievement when 
it is entered into consideration that Mr. 
Smith had not fired a gun twice until 
he was seventy. 
This young-old hunter relishes a fif¬ 
teen mile hike when still tracking a big 
bull moose. In fact many of his 
younger companions in the woods ex¬ 
hibit greater fatigue after a long and 
arduous tramp than the hardy old 
hunter from Ohio. A singular phase 
in the hunting experiences of Mr. 
Smith is, that he has been using the 
same rifle and shotgun ever since he 
made his first trip into the big game 
district of eastern Canada. And he 
avers he will continue to use the same 
firearms until each is lost or damaged 
irreparably. 
When Mr. Smith made his first hunt¬ 
ing expedition at the age of three score 
and ten, his wife, who is still living, 
expostulated with him for what she as¬ 
serted was suicide. His relatives and • 
cronies also sought to dissuade him 
from his intention to spend three weeks 
in the Canadian woods so far from 
home. They felt the experiment would 
be his undoing owing to his age. But 
he was adament and rejected all en¬ 
treaties and was unmoved at all 
threats. Now he predicts that provid¬ 
ing some disease does not carry him off 
or he does not meet with an accident, 
he will be spending several weeks in 
the woods seeking the moose, deer, bear, 
wild ducks, wild geese, partridge, etc., 
each year until he is ninety at least. 
The oldest man to go hunting moose 
and deer as well as birds, in the woods 
of northern New England and the mar- 
itine provinces was Jeremiah McLeod, 
who killed a big bull moose when 101 
years old. Mr. McLeod is now 102, and 
will apparently live some years yet, 
although his mental and physical facul¬ 
ties have deteriorated somewhat during 
the past year. Mr. McLeod lives on 
the international border in the Maine- 
New Brunswick section. He has been 
a consistent hunter for the past sixty- 
five years. In that period he has killed 
sixty-five bull moose, and the same 
number of buck deer. He has also 
killed hundreds of bears and estimates 
the number of his wildcat victims at a 
thousand. Birds by the thousands 
have fallen before his prowess with 
the shotgun. 
As an illustration of the skill that 
still is evident in this remarkable man, 
he brought down a bull moose in 1922 
with two shots. The moose was about 
forty yards away and heading for the 
woods. Mr. McLeod had seen the huge 
animal, although his eyesight is defec¬ 
tive, and he was not wearing his eye¬ 
glasses. He is fond of saying face¬ 
tiously that the moose intended to live, 
hut when the animal struggled to its 
feet after dropping from the wounds 
inflicted by the two bullets, it imme¬ 
diately collapsed and died when it saw 
the man who fired the shots. 
Mr. McLeod has had some hectic ex¬ 
periences in the woods. He has been 
attacked by wildcats and by wolves in 
the days of yore and in the present de¬ 
cade. He has been turned on by 
wounded bull moose, and has had a 
number of narrow escapes from death. 
He asserts he will now rest on his 
laurels as a huntsman, claiming he is 
now too feeble to continue as a hunter 
of moose and deer. He may once more 
take a fling at bird shooting, but he 
says he prefers the moose hunting, be¬ 
cause of the greater risk. Although 
he insists on saying his marksmanship 
now is poor, he has been able to out- 
shoot many young men at flying targets. 
And his intuition is largely responsible, 
for he can barely discern the flying 
targets in their ascent and descent. 
William J. McNulty, . 
St. Johns, N. B. 
AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL 
STATES TO FOLLOW 
Dear Forest and Stream: 
We are making an urgent entreaty 
for the PROTECTION and APPRE¬ 
CIATION of the wonderful plant life 
of which we are the inheritors. 
A KNOWLEDGE of the DESTRUC¬ 
TION that is going on through the 
ruthless picking and wasting of the 
lovely wild flowers that are by Nature 
given us in such bounty MUST END 
this Devastation. 
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! 
Some of our most cherished blossoms 
are rapidly becoming extinct. Realiz¬ 
ing the havoc that our sojourners to 
the Country and our Automobilists, 
with their carloads of happy people 
enjoying the sunshine, air and flowers, 
we BEG them 
To LEARN TO ENJOY AND NOT 
DESTROY. 
No one with a love of BEAUTY in 
his heart can destroy anything that is 
BEAUTIFUL. 
Help us to keep our roadsides and 
cornfields fringed with our NATIVE 
PRAIRIE BLOSSOMS and the Rural 
Country as primitive as possible. 
The Flowers by the WAYSIDE will 
breathe pure and simple thoughts into 
the hearts of our great AMERICA. 
SPARE THE WILD FLOWERS. 
LET THEM GLORIFY THE EARTH. 
For several years the Wild Flower 
Preservation Society has been advocat¬ 
ing before the State Legislature the 
passage of a law protecting certain 
wild flowers that are fast disappearing. 
During the last session, a BILL was 
enacted which went into effect the first 
of July, 1923. 
Thus ILLINOIS becomes the SEC¬ 
OND State wise enough to PROTECT 
her PLANT RESOURCES. 
Mrs. C. L. Hutchinson, 
President Illinois Chapter 
Wild Flower Preservation Society of 
America. 
A BILL 
For An Act for the Conservation of 
Certain Wild Plants in the State of 
Illinois. 
Section 1. Enacted by the People of 
the State of Illinois, represented in the 
General Assembly: Any person, firm 
or corporation who shall, within the 
State of Illinois, knowingly buy, sell, 
offer or expose for sale any blood root 
(.Sanguinaria Canadensis), lady slip¬ 
per ( Cyprepedium parviflorum, and Cy¬ 
prepedium hirsutum) , columbine ( Aqui- 
legia Canadensis), trillium ( Trillium 
grandiflorum, and Trillium sessile), lo¬ 
tus ( Nelumbo Lutea) or gentian ( Gen - 
tiana crinita and Gentiana Andrewsii ), 
or any part thereof, dug, pulled up or 
gathered from any public or private 
land, unless in the case of private land 
the owner or person lawfully occupying 
such land gives his consent in writing 
thereto, shall be deemed guilty of mis¬ 
demeanor, and shall be punished by a 
fine of not less than $10.00 nor more 
than $100.00 and costs. 
Section 2. All prosecutions under this 
act shall be commenced within six 
months from the time such offense was 
committed and not afterwards. 
This became a law July 1, 1923. 
NOTES ON ELK 
Dear Forest and Stream: 
The mornings are cold and frosty 
and the rutting season for elk is here. 
We can hear bull elk bugling on the 
ridges and we see elk and deer on every 
trip we make into the hills. Recently, 
Mrs. Miller and I were out taking pic¬ 
tures when we heard a bull bugle. As 
I was busy waiting for a certain cloud 
effect so that I could get a good picture, 
I sent her over to where I had heard 
this elk and she got within forty yards 
of nine big bulls. They were wallow¬ 
ing in the mud in one of those small 
ponds that you so often find in this 
country near the top of a mountain. 
Some of these bulls still had some of 
the velvet hanging to their horns. 
There has been sufficient rainfall this 
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