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BY JOHN ELFRETH "WATKINS.
NI.MRODS.. now taking down their
guns and planning Itineraries for
their regular Autumn shooting,
must look oxceedlnd sharp this season,
for the legislatures of 1907 v-ve been un
usually active In passing laws affecting
the shooting of game, big and little. I
learn from the Federal biological survey,
which maintains a clearing house for
such Information, that 180 statutes af
fecting game have this year been passed
by our states and the provinces of
Canada. Sportsmen In all of our states
except Georgia, Florida, New Jersey,
Nevada and North Dakota will have new
laws to learn if they wish to be on the
mfe side and escape fines or possible Im
prisonment. Automatic Guns Tabooed.
New acts prohibiting the use of "auto
matic guns" are among the most novel of
those passed this year. Hunters going
Into Pennsylvania, Ontario or New Bruns
wick will find serious trouble awaiting
them If they attempt to use these fowling
pieces of the magazine type, as those
commonwealths have Just prohibited their
use. Before another year has passed this
prohibited sons will very probably be con
siderably widened. In nea. ly every haunt
of the American gunner the voice of the
old-school sportsman Is raised against the
utomatlo gun. Bills to prohibit its una
liave this year been before the legislatures
f New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas and Wash
ington, 'and some of these states are
likely to pass such legislation next Spring.
Motor Boats Under the Ban.
The motor boat, too, has been started
upon the downward course of disfavor by
the old-scliool sportsmen. One of Dela
ware's laws of 1907 prohibits duck shoot
ing In Indian river or Rehoboth bay from
boats not propelled by oars, and this agi
tation will probably extend into other
states in the course of the months to fol
low. In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
boats, guns and decoys used in hunting
ducks In violation of law will be con
fiscated by the state.
New laws for the prevention of Hunting
accidents have also been passed and agi
tated this yesr. These are provoked by
the increasing number of casualties re
sulting from the poor aim of unskilled
hunters and the great range of the mod
ern rifle. The rifle is hereafter forbidden
deer hunters in New Hamphshire, and the
wistfui-eyed denlxens of the forext wilds
must be riddled by shotguns thaiAs to
those gunners who have been shooting
their guides and the numerous non-combatants
of the woods. Malue is agitating
a bill excluding firearms of all kinds from
Its woods during the entire cloi season,
and Minnesota has before its legislature
another prohibiting the use of tlrearms
within three miles of cities of 60.0U0 pop
ulation or more. One of Wisconsin's new
lams prohibits the use of rift- In hunt
ing waterfowl, except goose or brant.
Head-Hunting a Felony.
Big game of all sorts comes in for
increased protection under many radi
cal laws passed this year. Wyoming,
for example, has Just made headhunt
ing and tuskhuntlnfr a felony, and au
thorises the payment of 1300 reward
to persons detecting violations, it fur
thermore reduces the bag limit and
export limit of big game from two
carcasses to one.
Americans who go after big game up
in Alberta Province, Canada, must look
out for another novel law of this year
requiring that all heads f big game
be stamped by the Minister of Agricul
ture before being sold. This official
stamping will cost $5 apiece for heads
of elk, caribou, moose and wild sheep,
and 2 apiece for those of deer, ante
lope and wild goat. For each big game
trophy taken out of the province Jo
must be paid, regardless of species, and
$1 must be forfeited for each doxen of
birds exported.
This is all good law, and our own big
game states should take notice, for our
wild quadrupeds of the mountains,
woods and prairies are being ruthlessly
slaughtered largely to supply trophies
to wealthy persons possessed of the
rad for converting their houses into
zoological museums, suggesting the
prowess of the owner. However, this
year's laws show good progress on our
own part along many lines.
Saving Antelope, Moose and Elk.
Our antelope come in for some much
needed protection. They cannot be
hunted anywhere In Nebraska from now
on Indefinitely, and $130 Is the penalty
attached, while Texas will give the
same absolute protection until 1912. and
Utah until 1911. Colorado establishes
close seasons for them, and Manitoba
gives complete protection to females.
Colorado establishes close seasons for
both sexes. Antelope hunters may, how
ever, find a new opening fn Montana,
which now opens a season from Sep
tember 1 to December 1.
Moose , cannot be shot at any time
in Wisconsin hereafter, according to
this year's law, and Manitoba gives
complete protection to females. Up In
Nova Scotia moose hunting la to be
miowea only during October and No
vember, except on Cape Breton Island.
where it is to be forbidden entirely
until uio.
Elk hunting is hereafter forbidden in
Utah until 1911, and Colorado has ex
tended the same absolute protection to
ine same year. Manitoba's new law
protects all females, and Alberta-Province
establishes close seasons for all.
The threatened extermination of these
noble quadrupeds has been due largely
to "tusk" (antler) hunters, and the bio
logical survey, intrusted with the
prosecution of illegal interstate com
merce In game, has in the past var
confiscated scores of elk tusks. Wyom
ing especially has lately suffered In
this wsy, despite its close season and
export limitations for these animals,
and its Legislature recently memorial
ised the "Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks'" to discourage the use of
elk turfts among its members.
Mountain Sheep and Caribou.
The mountain sheep, another victim
of the vandal, cannot be hunted until
1911 In Utah, and 1912 In Texas, ac
cording to this year's laws, while
Colorado has extended its absolute pro
tection for four more years, and Al
berta has decided to keep up the bars
until 1909 not only for mountain sheep,
but for mountain goat
Caribou also receives increased pro
tection from this year onward in the
Canadian provinces. Newfoundland
prohibits hunting in a certain region
on Grand Lake, where many American
gunners have lately gene, and Mani
toba forbids the hunting of females.
In NovaScotia the sale of caribou Is
forbidden until 1910.
Our fast-vanishing buffalo cannot be
hunted hereafter in Manitoba, one of
the last hunting- grounds left. In New
York an attempt to aid in preserving
this noble creature failed this year,
when a bill carrying an appropriation
of (20,030 for the establishment nr
herd of buffalo In the Adirondack Park
was veiooa by tho Governor.
Many New Laws Affecting Deer.
Deer hunters will
fronted by a veritable labyrinth of laws
passed this year. In Vermont hereafter
every one killing a deer must exhibit the
ueaa to ine nearest deputy game warden
or be nicely fined for his negligence. Wis
consin prohibits the hounding of deer
and the possession of dogs In. hunting
ur minoar camps within the deer coun
try. Maine limits each lumber camp to
uoer per season and individual resl
dents to One Tier season. NehrflnlrA ffr.
bids deer hunting Indefinitely on penalty
of J1O0 fine, and Tennessee until 1911.
North Carolina forbids hunting until 1910
in 17 counties, and Wisconsin indefinite
ly in 16 counties. Maine gives increased
protection in certain localities, and Texas
reduces the bag limit to three deer
season. Pennsylvania's new law, passed
this Summer, prohibits the shooting of
any except male deer with horns that
can be plainly seen. A doe, fawn or
spike buck cannot be killed only bucks
wnose norns are developed. This law Is
purposed to protect mankind as well as
the deer, since statistics show that hun
dreds of men are killed in the woods by
nervous hunters who, on seeing the brush
move, blaze away at it, and thus Increase
the coroner's business vastly. Greater
care 1 will be taken now that hunters
must hold back their fire until certain
that their target is a male deer with
corns.
New Fields for Deer Hunters.
Good news for the deer hunter comes.
however, from New Hampshire, where a
season has been opened in the southern
half of the state; from Montana, where
the season has been lengthened 15 days:
from New York, where the season will
open two weeks earlier, or on September
16; from Oregon, where male deer may be
shot after July 15. instead of August 15.
and from South Carolina, where the sea
son has been lengthened in Dorchester
County.
Utah's new law permits residents to
shoot two deer each in October, but non
residents are not permitted to shoot
them at any time.
Deer have become a nuisance to farm
ers In some states, where herds come out
of the woods and destroy crops. Bucolic
citizens who have thus suffered enter
tain small respect for the protection
laws. For their relief special legisla
tion has tills year been passed in Rhode
Island. Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and New Brunswick, permitting them to
be shot for the protection of crops. In
Rhode Island crops can thus be protect
ed only under permit of the Secretary
of State, while Vermont provides for the
payment by the state of damages done
by deer. New Brunswick . permits the
use of shotguns In protecting crops tnere-
from. -
Sir. Squirrel and Bre'r Rabbit.
Squirrels are protected by new laws of
this year In California, Illinois. 'Indiana,
Massachusetts. Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont. Maine gives these rodents
complete protection for four years( New
Hampshire forbids the shooting of 'grays i
Forth to Slay
Animals and Birds
Automatic Guns and
Motor Boats
Are Now Under
the Ban in Various
Localities
until 1913 and Vermont closes a season
for gray squirrels specifically. California,
on the other hand, opens a gray squirrel
season. Indiana removes Its protection
for rabbits, and Pennsylvania lengthens
its raoDic season to open October Id.
To encourage propagation of game or to
provide for the establishment of game
preserves several states have this year
enacted new laws. Massachusetts pro
vldes for buying on Martha's Vlnevard
i lands to be useu as a state preserve for
ine neatn nen and sets aside a part of
auuuiesex fens as a zoological park.
California provides for the setting aside
of private lands as game preserves. Penn
sylvania establishes In Its forest reserva
tions state game preserves, which are to
be nine miles in circumference and 25
miles apart. A perpetual close season
for both game and birds is to be pro
claimed in each, and those who enter with
either guns or dogs may abandon hope
' escaping a heavy penalty. No one will
be allowed to even enter them during
the close season for game. Alberta prov
ince aiso establishes two game preserves.
New Laws Affecting Guides.
Hunters going Into Canada this Fall will
find a number of new laws affecting
guides.- No Yankee guides will be per
mitted to hunt in New Brunswick no
non-resident guides whatever, in fact
but, whereas the number of hunters per
mitted to employ one guide has hitherto
Deen nve. It has been reduced. to two all
of which will be very Drofltable to the
New Brunswick guides. But under the
new law they must make a report to the
autnoruies or each game animal of each
species killed by their parties. The non-
resiaent guide Is to be discriminated
against also by Newfoundland, where his
license Is Increased from $26 to 150. Nova
Bcotia provides a M guide license.
Non-resident gunners will themselves
find many new legal obstacles in our own
states. For the first time they will be re-
quirea to pay tor the pleasure of shooting
a $15 license In Texas and Alabama; $10
in California. Connecticut. Massachu
setts, Michigan, Rhode Island, South Ca
rolina and Utah. The New Brunswick
authorities gallantly provide for the re
turn of the license fee of ladies accom
panying hunting parties If they kill no
game. Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and
uaianoma are the only areas left In the
United States where non-residents are
free from license, and even residents
must in 21 states and territories pay small
fees for hunting licenses Alabama. Cali
fornia, Connecticut, Tennessee and Utah
establish these this year for the first
time. Connecticut and Maine this year
Impose special licenses of $15 upon alien
hunters, as has been done before in other
states.
Many New Dock Laws.
Our bird hunters, too. will fln a
plethora of new game laws to assim
ilate before taking to the wilds. Ducks
are the most favored class of feathery
bipeds in the grist of this year's legis
lation. California absolutely prohibits
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from 100 to 50 the number allowed in
possession at one time, and Connecti
cut forbids Spring shooting of all
water fowl. Maine will hereafter al
low only 10 ducks to be taken out of
the state. nH IK... r.r I... v
ported only upon payment of a fee of
$5. But duck hunters will this year
find the ban let down somewhat by
Pennsvlvanla. Main an tj
Sire, which have lengthened their sea-
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m One Day's 5port. Lower Perd d' Oreille, "Raver. Idaho
sons, the first named going so far as
to abolish the bag limit.
Quail are given Increased protection
In Tennessee, Wisconsin," Colorado,
Connecticut, Kansas and New Hamp
shire. In Washington and parts of Or
egon they cannot be hunted until 1912;
in Connecticut until 1911. Michigan and
Kansas prohibit gunning for European
partridges for five and six years, and
Maine forbids any one taking more
than six partridges out of the state in
any season. Ontario, however, opens
a three months' season, which will at
tract many American gunners.
Wild Turkey and Prairie Chicken.
The fast-disappearing wild turkey,
so highly esteemed for Thanksgiving
and Christmas dinners, can no longer
be hunted in Colorado, while other pro
PAY THROUGH COLLEGE
IwoGirls Make a Comfortable Income Baking a Rolled
If V B ARB Pay'" our way
ly through college by making
w" and selling rolled wafers,"
explained the larger of two young women
who were busy setting to rights a small
apartment on the upper West Side when
visited by a New York Sun reporter.
"This is the third year that we have de
pended on rolled wafers ana we are about
as sure of success as a business man who
has an established trade and orders
ahead covering nine months.
"Both my friend and I have to earn all
the, money we spend. When we first
came to New York to go to college we
had only enough to pay our expenses for
that one year. Our plan was to take a
year at a time, working between whiles
until we finished the course.
"During that Spring we were invited
out to a luncheon. The hostess was a
woman I had met several years before
in the South. At the luncheon she men
tioned the rolled wafers she had eaten
on my mother's table and said what a
nice addition they would make to a
luncheon It one could only get them in
New York.
"After we returned home that evening
my friend asked me If I knew how to
make rolled wafers. Of course I did.
Every girl brought up in the South by a
mother who takes pride in her house
keeping picks up "such knowledge as
nthking rolled wafers and beaten biscuit
without being taught.
My friend suggested that I send home
for a wafer iron and that we try making
them for sale. As our hostess had ex
pressed her willingness to pay any price
for them I thought we might as well
make the venture.
When the wafer iron came we made
three dozen wafers and sent them to
that, woman. I wrote her a note saying
they were made by a friend of mine, and
as she had expressed a desire to have
some, I had suggested sending them.
The price was stated on the box so there
could be no mistake.
"The messenger returned with a most
enthusiastic note of thanks, and besides
sending a check for those delivered she
added the price of 10 dozen more. She
very frankly stated that she did this to
make my friend feel herself under obliga
tions to fill her order.
We were glad enough to fill the ob
ligation, you may be sure. When we de
livered those wafers I decided to make a
clean breast of . the matter and let her
into our secret.
I have always fancied that she
guessed it from tne very first, though
she had too much tact to say so. My
telling her the truth was. I am sure, the
best move I could have made. She not
only gave us orders for wafers to be
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tective measures are provided by
Illinois and Texas. The thinning of
the prairie chicken's ranks has caused
Texas to forbid its hunting for seven
and Missouri for three years, while
Wyoming and Kansas make their pro
tective laws more strict; but here
again Ontario comes to the rescue with
a new open season of three months.
New Hampshire's new law alms to in
crease the life of the killdeer, Bar
tramian sandpiper, wood duck and
Wilson snipe, while Massachusetts
comes to the relief of the gull, owl,
eagle and even the hawk.
Nongame Birds Protected.
In fact, one of the signs of the times
is the Increasing esteem for non
game birds. West Virginia, Alabama
and South Dakota decree this year that
used at all her receptions, but exerted
herself to get her friends to order also.
"We made enough that Spring to buy
our Summer clothes and what was
much more to the point, we booked
orders enough for the next Autumn and
Winter to convince us that we would
be warranted in coming back to col
lege with no other means of paying
our expenses. My friend advised us
to do it. She said she was sure we
could make enough to pay expenses.
If not more.
"Do you know that that has proved a
great danger to ua both? We can get so
many orders and always see where we
can use the money to advantage that
it has been hard for us to refuse orders
nu tuunns ourselves to enough to oc
cupy us during our spare moments. We
made up our minds from the first never
to neglect our studies for the sake of
making a few dollars to make our ex
penses, but not a dollar more.
"As you see, our apartment has three
rooms and a kitchenette. We were told
that it was the cheapest way to live In
,w Tork nd hav found it so.
"Of course, we do our own work,
that Is except laundry work. Now that
we have all the orders for wafers that
we can fill we have found that it takes
leas time to make wafers enough to
pay for our washing than to do It
ourselves.
"Our kitchenette is all that is neces
sary for-light housekeeping. Rolled
wafers? Oh rolled wafers are only
sponge cake batter baked in wafer
irons the lightest of light housekeep
ing. "That is our one and only trouble,
getting good wafer irons. I have neves
been able to find than v...
York, eo both of us made a business to
nunt them that first Summer when we
returned home. w Kmio-h , .
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women who had several pairs or who
. " . " u'naT mem. we now have
six rjalrs. but nniv ii,... . .
- ve cauea
satisfactory.
'Both wafer a.nA waffl. t- .
proved by use. All th iiti. . , "
are worn off or disappear and then thVy
"One person can easily handle three
wafer Irons. It --i . .
both cook at the same time. Yes per.
haps we might if all six of our irons
were as good as we would like
"We do use th th-.. i .
but mostly for making corn wafers for
our own use. Vn, ,
. . ii lucai a rougtt
iron Is not so objeotionable. as the batter
aoes noi sacs as easily as cake batter
Sometimes we malta ni.in i . .
. . nuci wacers
to order, but not often. It Is only when
none shall be hunted. One of the odd
laws is a new one of Hawaii providing
protaotlon to birds beneficial to for
esta. An echo of the pure-food crueadt
which will interest the ears of gun
ners Is sounded in new laws in In
diana and Idaho restricting the cold
storage of game, and a very wise on
in Kansas forbidding the placing ol
undrawn game in cold storage. Other
novel laws are one in -Alabama pro
viding that the game commission be
elected directly by the people, and an
other, by Idaho requiring the state
warden to Investigate means of de
stroying noxious animals. South Caro
lina places the protection of its game
into the hands of the state Audubon
Society, and gives it the powers of a
game commission.
Washington. D. C, Oct- 5.
ON WAFERS
. Southern Delicacy.
our customers wish a change from the
rolled wafers.
"As our first order for this season is
to be delivered before 6 o'clock tomor
row, you see we haven't returned to town
any too soon. That Is the way the or-
der was given, for the afternoon after
our arrival as early in September as
we could return.
"We have an order from that man ha
is an old bachelor for every afternoon
that we are in town. Three dozen rolled
wafers, and I have ieard that he eats
two dozen himself.
"As it only takes seven dozen a day to
keep us going comfortably, you see we
don't have to have many besides that one
order to reach our limit. All goods are
paid for on delivery, so we have no
trouble about collecting.
"The two children of our laudress de
liver for us and return with the money
for each order. I can't see why it would
not be a good business for somo one or
more women here in New York
"Everybody, so far as I know, would
like to have rolled wafers for teas or
luncheons. There is nothing more dain
ty, and I have yet to see the person who
Is not fond of them. Our trouble at home
was to get enough.
"It is the same way here. Ladles from
whom we get our orders complain that
they never have enough. One woman for
whom we make ten dozen a day on the
days which she is at home to her friends
complains that she never has enough to
last the whole afternoon, that it has be
come a standing Joke among her friends
that those who want to get wafers must
come early.
"Even bef husband has fallen into the
habit of leaving his business earlier in
the hope of being in time to get a few
wafers. With such complaints as these
always coming in, I see no reason why
an enterprising woman shouldn't make a
snug little sum by supplying fashionable
teas with rolled wafers."
A Western Apologue.
Puck.
X knoircd a cuss called "Lonesome Dan,"
Born slmlet-eyed an' tripger-qulck.
The ne plus ultra hold-up-man -
A woolly wolf from Bitter Creek.
Ha took his toll on every trail
An' always dodged the rope an' pn;
At last h stopped the V. 8. Mall
n' ssy! but there wus doln's than
To make a buckskin bronco laugh!
Where 'once he stood is Jest a dent, .
An' over that the epitaph.
"He bucked agin' the Government."
Perhaps our laws were made to break
With open scorn or crafty stsalth;
Perhaps 'tis Impious to make
A curb to check deftant Wealth:
Yet. men of iron, eke of coal, -
Tet, mighty magnates proua or spoil,
O corporations void of soul,
O salntlv John exudinr oil.
Your Uncle Cam Is meek and mild, '
But e'en his patience may be spent;
So. take this indv from a child
uon t Duck agin' ths oovarnment. "