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[JULY 20, 1907. 

his 
doing just this work. He throws up gun 
i from 
on an imaginary bird which starts the 
corner of one picture frame and flies across to- 
ward another picture frame, and quickly con- 
sidering the distance of the bird and the angle 
at which it is flying, he cuts loose at 1t—in 
imagination, The result of this daily practice 
shows when he gets out among the birds. 
The satisfaction that one gets from mak- 
ing successiully a few difficult shots pays very 
well for the trouble that is involved in this 
practice, 


Results of Protection. 
ScHenectapy, N. Y., July 6.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: About four days ago a nice doe 
came into the southern part of the city and was 
chased by some boys which frightened it so that 
it ran through a wire fence and into a stone wall, 
which broke its neck. It was a fine deer, weigh- 
ing about 160 pounds I should judge. Upon 
advice from the authorities from Albany we had 
it buried. There are several more in different 
parts of the county, and when you recollect that 
we are at least forty miles from the nearest deer 
forest it is remarkable. I think their appearance 
is due to forest fires in the north woods. 
The other day I was walking in the 
when I saw a red squirrel with a young song 
sparrow in his mouth. 1 gave chase and he 
dropped the young bird, which was about halt 
eaten. J sat still and after a while spotted him 
in the bushes. I went very carefully toward him 
and discovered that he was at another nest, which 
woods 
contained eggs. I made up my mind this time 
to put him out of business for good, so getting 
a stick I crept up on him and discovered that 
the poor thing had one front foot shot away 
and could not climb, so was foraging his din- 
ner on the ground. I did not have the heart to 
kill him, but drove him a good way off trom 
the nest. 
I am happy to say that there has not been an 
arrest for song bird shooting so far this year 
and only one other arrest which was for trap- 
ping bobolinks. Phe offender got off with a 
fine of $10 and he was not a foreigner either, but 

a native born citizen. 
Ramon asks in your paper where the bobolinks 
are? Tell him to come to Schenectady and I 
will show him any number of them. The reason 
they are here is that we gjve them protection. 
After about five years of good hard work in the 
game protection line we have brought bird killers 
to realize the fact that it is dear work to shoot 
birds in this county, and in consequence the 
birds are here in goodly numbers again. 
| heartily agree with your Bennington, Vt., 
correspondent, Harry Chase, who expresses my 
sentiments exactly when he takes the stand he 
does about spring shooting and carrying guns i 
woods when on camping tours. There are some 
men who seem to return to savagery the minute 
they are away from civilization and get a gun 
in their hands. All they think of is to kill any 
living thing in sight from a farmer’s hen to a 
poor inoffensive chipmunk. Dorp. 
Death of Aurthur Neumann. 
Mr. ArtHUR NEUMANN, whose death occured 
recently in London, was one of the best known 
big game hunters of modern times. Indeed, J. 
G. Millais, the artist-sportsman, who was _ his 
close friend, says he was the greatest of all the 
elephant hunters. On two of his trips alone he 
secured ivory which he sold. for $25,000. Al- 
though he was so badly gored by a wounded 
elephant on one occasion that one of his lungs 
was nearly torn out, Mr. Neumann often re- 
gretted that the regulations prevented his hunt- 
ing them longer. He wrote many articles for 
the British press, and one book, entitled, “Ele- 
phant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa.’ To 
some of his best friends Mr. Neumann expressed 
the hope that he could die fighting one of the 
great beasts he hunted so often, but this was 
not to be. 
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any newsdealer on order. Ask your dea’er to 
supply you regularly. 
The Old Guard. 
Mr. O. H. Hampton, whose portrait we re- 
produce herewith, was born in 1844 in a log 
cabin in the thick woods of eastern Indiana, the 
oldest of six children. He came of ancestors 
who were fond of frontier life and was a born 
lover of dogs and guns. There was game on 
every hand, but there was not money enough to 
buy a bar of lead nor any time to spare from the 
desperate struggle for a bare existence. The 
summers were spent stubbing bare toes against 
roots, stepping on thorns and thistles, and he 
says he never had a full set of toe nails on 
either foot from May till October, and thought 
he was in luck if he got through a summer 
without more than one stone bruise on each 
heel. In the winter it was three months in 
the district school, and the rest of the cold sea- 
gon at work in the woods and clearings. He 
was a son of*devout Quaker parents, and it was 
the dream of those good parents that their first- 
born should some day fill a professor’s chair 
in college, and also be a shining light in the 
ministry of their church. 
He made an honest 
OO. . 
A Member of 
HAMPTON. 
“the Old Guard 
effort to follow the straight and narrow path 
laid out for him, and for ten years taught 
school and tried to let shooting alone. He suc- 
ceeded fairly well in both efforts until he was 
twenty-seven years old, at which time he was 
given the position of principal of a Quaker 
school in a village where the surroundings were 
pleasant, and he felt that perhaps he had: done 
well to have given up the gun, but there was a 
man in the village who had a setter dog, and the 
teacher was invited to spend his Saturdays in 
pursuit of the quail which were plentiful in all 
that region. The dog and his owner were both 
good fellows, with the result that by the next 
quail season the teacher had two bird dogs of 
his own. 
Before the end of the second school year he 
called the school committee together and told 
them that he was not the man they wanted be- 
cause he could not honestly teach some of the 
doctrines which they insisted he should teach. 
The following September he went with a friend 

and his dogs to western Iowa, which at that 
time was a paradise for the lover of dog and 
gun. The greatest three vears of his life, he 
says, were spent there. years of 
They were 
splendid health, abundance of game and a rea- 
sonable amount of time to after it. He 
would be there now if a call to take care of the 
declining years of aged parents had not pre- 
vented. 
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* The last twenty-five years of Mr. Hampton’s 
life have been spent in a traveling business 
which allowed frequent opportunities’ for hunt- 
ing in many parts of the country, and he has 
fully lived up to his privileges. His wanderings 
afield have extended from . Florida to Lake 
Superior and from the Black Hills to Texas. 
He was one of the early contributors to Forest 
AND STREAM and has given its readers many 
sketches of his days afield, which were so 
graphic, that reading them was almost as good 
as living them. 
He is still in good health and travels ex- 
tensively in a business way. 

Deserved Praise. 
Port RicHmonp, N. Y., July 12—Editor Forest 
and Stream: .The Court of Special Sessions 
for the second division of the City of New York 
deserves mention in your leading periodical, be- 
cause of their willingness to enforce by fine or 
imprisonment the statutes of the State of New 
York relating to the protection of fish and game. 
Adverse criticism of courts and their presid- 
ing officers for miscarriages of: justice, for 
flagrant violations of their oaths of office, for 
discriminations because of the ramifications of 
political interests are common to-day, and it is 
refreshing to find a court that is so consistently 
guided by the spirit of the law and whose judg- 
ments are fair alike to the people and their 
opponents. : 
For six years I was charged with the duty of 
prosecuting all criminal offenders in Richmond 
county, New York, and since the expiration of 
my terms I have prosecuted numbers of viola- 
tions of the fish and game law, at the request of 
the local authority, and I think I am qualified 
to say that this court deserves the commenda- 
tion of all sportsmen and nature lovers, not- 
withstanding the fact that probably no one of 
the justices ever thinks he is doing anything but 
his sworn duty. To perform a duty honestly 
and willingly is rare enough, however, to de- 
serve praise. Two or three years ago I sent a 
bill to Albany making it a misdemeanor to 
“hunt rabbits or hares when there is snow upon 
the ground.” It became a law and last Febru- 
ary the local protector, Edgar Hicks, caught a 
violator, and | afterward prosecuted the case to 
a conviction and fine. 
The defendant had shot at the hare he was 
pursuing in the snow, but did not wound or 
kill it. Nine courts out of ten would have dis- 
charged the prisoner or. suspended sentence on 
a conviction, on the ground that it was a trivial 
matter to just shoot at a rabbit; that he had not 
actually got the rabbit, but the explanation to 
the court was that snow-tracking is the com- 
monest and most deadly. means of rabbit pursuit, 

_and therefore the most dangerous from an eco- 
nomic standpoint. Though  non-sportsmen 
themselves, the court was broadminded enough 
to look at the question from the sportsman’s 
viewpoint and sustained the arrest and prose- 
cution by inflicting a fine. The deterrent effect 
of that fine could not be overestimated, and the 
snow-trackers became much less industrious 
and exceedingly wary. 
Last week a “short”? lobster-catcher was con- 
victed and fined $25—a proceeding which will 
probably save for the honest lobster-catchers 
hundreds of good size lobsters, for there: is 
more virtue in punishment than hope of reward, 
and few lobster men will continue to take 
chances as between the profit of fifty “shorts” 
and a $25 or $50 fine. lake toh ae 
. Deer Raised for Market. 
Onry about a couple of miles from Stella is 
one of the most unique industries in the State. 
Browsing about in perfect contentment in a 
deer park is a herd of beautiful deer. This deer 
park consists of fifteen acres, and at present 
there are seven deer on the premises, eleven 
having already been sold this season. The 
young deer are sold each year and bring $35 a 
pair. Mr. Roseberry has been raising and sell- 
ing deer for fourteen years, having as many as 
twenty-five on hand at one time.—Kansas City 
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