Sept. 24, 1910.] 
483 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
We always carry 
shot guns and am¬ 
munition of every 
dependable kind. 
And as a rule 
prices at 
Philadelphia 
Sporting Goods 
Headquarters 
are decidedly satisfactory. Suppose 
you write for catalog “G”. If you 
can tell us what you have in mind 
maybe we can help. 
SHANNON 
816 Chestnut St. • Philadelphia 
LAW ENFORCEMENT IN INDIANA. 
The last of the depvities formerly employed 
by the fish and game commission have been 
discharged by George W. Miles, who recently 
succeeded Z. T. Sweeny as fish and game com¬ 
missioner and all men now employed in the 
field are on salaries. Under the old order of 
things, a commission deputy received $20 of 
the costs assessed against any person whom he 
arrested for violating the fish and game laws, 
and this fact led to arrests on trivial provoca¬ 
tions in numerous instances. 
The discharge of the deputies, says the South 
Bend Tribune, is the first important step in a 
movement started by Commissioner Miles to 
readjust the operation of the department along 
an entirely different line. 
“The purpose of the department, as I under¬ 
stand it,” said Mr. Miles, “is to restore to the 
woods and fields of the State an abundance of 
song and game birds, and to the streams and 
lakes an abundance of fish, and to supply pro¬ 
tection to the birds and fish against the fish and 
game pirate. It is not its purpose to use the 
deputies in the field as a means of collecting 
money either for the department or for the 
deputies. 
"Our new deputies have been given to under¬ 
stand that their standing in this office will not 
be bettered by an indiscriminate accumulation 
of records of arrests, but that on the contrary 
such accumulation will operate to interfere with 
the kind of records we desire to establish. Of 
course, the deputy who brings in a large num¬ 
ber of what we call ‘fish and game pirates’ will 
be credited accordingly, but the deputy who 
arrests first offenders, farmer boys and hunters 
who ignorantly trangress the law without in¬ 
tent to interfere with the workings of the de¬ 
partment will find that he is not benefiting him¬ 
self.” 
In Mr. Miles’ opinion, the thing most needed 
to make the work successful is the friendship 
of the land owners and the people of the 
villages and small towns who spend a great 
deal of time in the fields. Under the regime 
of the commission deputies, who depend on 
their share of fines and costs for their wages, 
this class of citizens came to look on the opera¬ 
tions of the law as unjust and. supported 
numerous attempts to have the entire law re¬ 
pealed. Mr. Miles takes the view that the law 
really exists for the benefit of this class of 
citizens, and that one of.the things which should 
not be lost sight of is the fact that its success 
or failure depends largely on what these people 
do either for or against it. 
By the fish and game pirate Mr. Miles refers 
to the fish and game law violator who studies 
the art of violation and follows it systematically. 
This class of persons, he believes, is the class 
which is instrumental in depleting the streams 
of fish and the fields and woods of game birds. 
The real sportsman, he says, knows the law and 
has regard for it, because he recognizes its 
value. The farmer and the farmer boy, and 
the hunter of the village or small town, he says, 
as a rule, are ignorant of the letter of the law 
and may transgress it, but not willingly or 
knowingly. 
It is the plan of the commissioner to deal 
leniently with the latter class of citizens. The 
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New York 
CHAMOIS GARMENTS 
Our Chamois Jacket is the lightest, softest, and most comfortable leather 
garment made. It is worn over your soft shirt and vest, sets fairly snug to 
the body, and when worn under a canvas coat makes an excellent combina¬ 
tion. You will be as warm as toast with this jacket and free to walk fast or 
work fast, or stay out without discomfort. They are particularly suitable 
for Trapshooters. 
No. 71. Men’s Jacket with three pockets. $ 12.00 
No. 71V. Men’s Vest “ “ “ . 7.00 
CHAMOIS SHIRT 
Sportsmen particularly favor this soft-tanned shirt because it gives them such 
free and unhampered movement, and still keeps them comfortably warm even in severe weather. 
Excellent for winter hunting. It is made the style of an ordinary flannel shirt with a soft turndown 
collar, and is made either regular or coat style. 
No. 71S. With two flap pockets.. $10.00 
Send for Catalogue No. 46—illustrates our complete line of Sporting Goods. 
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“Everything the Sportsman needs” 
15 (&. 17 Warren St., near Broadway - NEW YORK 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which his skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of “Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it original, 
because, as the chapters will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the 
forms of practice followed were his own. This then may 
be termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it 
was successful in his own experience, being here set 
forth simply and intelligently, it will prove not less 
effective with others. 
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