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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 , 1910 . 
VOL. LXXV.—No. 21. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1910, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
RESIDENTS AND NON-RESIDENTS.—II. 
In other States than those mentioned in the previ¬ 
ous article on this subject, the hunter who pays the 
fee for shooting is assured that there is an abund¬ 
ance of game, and every facility is offered him 
to find and secure his fair share; it being also 
conceded that the commonwealth profits in other 
ways because of his visit.' He pays, in addition 
to the shooting fee, no small sum in transporta¬ 
tion, hotel bills, guide and boat hire; the total 
amount remaining in the State being far in ex¬ 
cess of the market value of any game he may 
shoot. To sum up, the State and its citizens 
receive from each non-resident shooter an amount 
that would purchase several times the number 
of head of game he is permitted to kill and 
take home with him. And yet, in some States 
the rule holds that, while the visitor pays for 
the privilege, he cannot take home with him the 
game he has secured at great expense and in a 
lawful manner. 
More common sense is needed in applying the 
laws we have, and not more laws. The enact¬ 
ment of a new law is too often regarded as a 
remedy for all evils heretofore existing. To 
make laws is one thing; to enforce them is quite 
another matter. Vast improvement has been 
made in a number of States, both in simplifying 
the fish and game regulations and in the manner 
of enforcing them; but in many instances the 
ideal conditions are still far from realization. 
Those States which follow common sense 
methods are attaining results, and when all is 
said it is results that count. They strive to im¬ 
press upon their people the fact that the game 
and fish laws are not a threat, to be held over 
the heads of all outdoor people, and that the 
successful warden is not he who goes about 
swinging a club and intimidating them with talk 
of fines and the jail, a man to be feared and 
hated. The successful protector is an instructor 
who mingles with the people, making friends 
for the cause, giving kindly advice to those who 
stand in need of it as well as those who seek it; 
who teaches the school children to protect the 
birds; who quenches woods fires and lectures 
careless persons who start them; who enlists the 
help of all good citizens in caring for the game 
in stress of weather and the fish in time of 
drouth; who punishes where punishment is de¬ 
served and reasons where that is productive of 
the greatest good. 
However, let our protectors be as perfect as 
they may, if the laws they are sworn to enforce 
be open to common ridicule, as many game laws 
now are, their work is often wasted or hindered. 
The remedy lies with the voters. Legislatures 
can remedy the defects, but will not do so of 
their own accord. The need of organized effort 
is everywhere apparent, and this effort, this pres¬ 
sure on the lawmakers, must come from sports¬ 
men’s associations. 
THE PABLO OUTLAW BUFFALO. 
The doubt suggested last week in our news 
columns as to the rights in the case of the Pablo 
buffalo does not in fact exist. 
It is quite clear that so soon as these buffalo 
escape from the custody of their owner they be¬ 
came once more fercc naturce and were then the 
property of no individual, but were and are 
solely in control of the State. 
It has been decided that once a wild animal 
which has been in control escapes, that it then 
and there returns to its feral condition. There¬ 
fore, as soon as the buffalo in question escaped 
from Pablo, that very minute he lost all claim 
to them, and since the law of Montana protects 
buffalo, neither Pablo nor anyone else has now 
the right to take them. These escaped buffalo, 
therefore, cannot be lawfully taken, and the 
Montana authorities are properly protecting 
them. If in one sense—because no longer amen¬ 
able to rope and horse, the authorities that rule 
the cattle range—they are from a different view¬ 
point not outlaws at all, for they are under the 
safeguard of the law. 
The Canadian authorities are not idle in the 
matter of adding to their buffalo herds. They 
have secured by purchase from the estates of 
Charles E. Conrad, seventeen splendid buffalo 
which are to be added to the big herd at Buffalo 
Park, Wainwright, Alberta. It will be remem¬ 
bered that it was from the Conrad herd that the 
buffalo were bought which the American Bison 
Society turned over to the United States for 
stocking the Montana Bison Preserve. This last 
sale leaves the Conrad herd numbering about 
thirty-five head, all of them in the pink of con¬ 
dition. These buffalo are much tamer than their 
relatives of the Flathead Reserve ever were. 
They have been regularly handled, summer and 
winter, and are accustomed to being driven from 
the summer range to a winter range and back 
again. When these drives take place, they com¬ 
monly pass through the town of Kalispel, and 
are therefore quite familiar with many of the 
sights of civilization. 
There seems every prospect that if Congress 
refuses to purchase buffalo for a few years more, 
all those in the country not owned by the Gov¬ 
ernment or by public institutions wi’l pass over 
the border and be owned by the Dominion. A 
time may come, therefore, when the Lhiited 
States Government will be trying hard to buy 
back from Canada the animals that it refused 
to purchase from its own citizens. 
THE BOY SCOUTS. 
The boy scout movement, which seems to have 
taken a strong hold on the public imagination in 
England and America, is a movement in behalf 
of character building during the formative period 
of the lad’s life. It is, as we are told on another 
page by Dan Beard, who originated the idea, an 
effort to establish in the boy a sense of respon¬ 
sibility—a sense of what is due from him to the 
living creatures with whom he is brought in 
contact. There is about it—and very wisely— 
nothing of competition. The boy is responsible 
primarily to himself; after that to his leader. 
If the element of rivalry or emulation comes 
in, it is only in so far that each boy scout 
wishes to do as well or better than his fellows 
in the worthy aims that have been set before 
him. In other words, each desires to struggle 
toward higher things. 
The fundamental thought of the boy scout 
movement is to start the lads in the right direc¬ 
tion. The boy is full of impulses good and bad, 
and he is as easily led in one direction as in the 
other. Excite his enthusiasm and he will follow 
blindly. As a part of his enthusiasm the boy 
is intensely loyal—as loyal to a good leader as 
he might be loyal to his “gang.” Properly di¬ 
rected this loyalty means devotion to his land, 
a constantly deepening interest in whatever be¬ 
longs to his own country—patriotism. It should 
make of the American lad a better and stronger 
American, and of the English boy a better and 
stronger Englishman. 
The scout law as set down in the literature 
of the boy scouts is that a scout must be honor¬ 
able, loyal, useful, friendly, never a snob, courte¬ 
ous and helpful, kind to animals, obedient to au¬ 
thority, cheerful and thrifty. Surely, if every 
boy were taught to be all these things, and prac¬ 
ticed them all through his life, this world of ours 
would be a very different place to live in. 
On the other hand, the idea is in no sense in 
opposition to other organizations; it is not mili¬ 
tary, nor is it sectarian. Boys of all faiths may 
belong to it provided they possess and practice 
those manly qualities which should belong to 
everyone, no matter what his creed may be. 
Moreover, in the practice of scoutcraft, each lad 
is encouraged to perfect himself in the pursuit 
to which he is most inclined, or for which he is 
most adapted. He is urged to develop along the 
lines of least resistance. 
Since the boy is father to the man, anything 
that helps to better the boy tends to make him 
in after years a better man, a better member of 
his own community, a better citizen of his coun¬ 
try. 
The movement as it has been started seems 
to deserve every encouragement. 
