THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, FOKTLAU, JAMJAKY 17v 1'JUtf.
PORTLAND PLAYWRIGHT IS CLIMBING
STEADILY UP THE LADDER OF FAME
Jules Eckert Coodmim, Author of "Th Test, ",1a Which Blanche Walsh fa Starring, lub High Among: Creative Geniuses.
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BY I.KONK ""A-.-1 ItAKi:.
BIIK work of a PirtlnnJ-t.orn pliy-
I wrfKhi. Jnlrs Krkort Co.Minian. will
tw sti hrc o;irl" nrxt Sprlnc in
Tlifi T.st," in whirh I'.lanclic Walsh Is
starring this Sanson.
Mr, Gooilnian is now residing in Capri,
on of the li fly'iplantTs out from Napl'?.
wltere lio is i-niaP'l in writir.ir a play.
ttiiHt iias b''n I'orttrarteil for In' a Now
York mana'T.
I'rior to th n't'ont rartaqtiakf Mr.
POE AND HIS
January 19. 1809
v KRXKs-T V.". rtXKKKY.
BARKED from an alleged hall of
fame, and hawked at by the mous
ing owls of criticism, the name of
Kdgar Allan Poe , still "beacons from
the abode where the immortals are.
A century since his birth, yet his gen-,
lus Is beckoned to by the outstretched
hand of a succeeding century. -Of
neither his Imitator nor his detractors
an this much truthfully be said. Criti
cism In America, as in Byron's day. Is,
for the greater part. "ready-made."
Critics, like jackals, follow the lions,
and usually with entire respect until
th lions are dead.
There will nev. r be an approach to a
sensible consideration of Poe until we
forget both his personal failings and
his individual virtues. These affected
the persons he moved among during his
lifetime. They no more concern poster
ity than the blades of grass that wave
beside his tomb. He was a man who
created: therefore we are to consider
his creations. In his art he was unique:
la his. personality he was very like
many other men. They do not set any
stress in France as to a poet's chara'-'
ter. They do these, things ilirTercntly
l and with more sanenessi in Paris.
It has been claimed that Poe had no
friends. Criswold. his ghoulish biog
rapher, was not a friend, although he
masqueraded as one. Nathaniel P.
Willis was Indeed Poe's friend, kind.
Just and considerate. And Willis was
a gallant and a poetical spirit. A gen
tleman, though somewhat of. a dandy.
But what of that? Like many another
man who has drained the rup of friend
snip to its bitte:et dregs, Poe turned
-to his books for solace.
Eooka were hU chlrfest friends; in them li
Of tho (treat uplrlts who went down hk
stun. ' , .
Tt left upon th- m-un;ain tops ef Peath
A Hint that m.' t'in -cly. .
Poo wss nniqj". Was he a' great
lot? We who iaa mark where time
I . . .
I II t
if
Oooilman hail announced his intention ,of
leavii-s for Sicily, fortunately, however,
chamrlnir his plans a few days before
the calamity..
Jlii llnd Brilliant K coord.
Jnleg Kokert Goodman . l!as ' a record
that makes Interestinc re.-iilinc and his
steady rise on the ladder of success senis
to bear the utamp of the proverbial. lucky
shioii or attendant fairy podtnother. But
Jules1 Goodman has had his shar1 of hat
tics to fijht" nnd difficulties to overcome
CENTENARY
January 19, 1909
has passed the l')0th milestone beyond
hUn can say boldly. Yes. -The true
critics pf poetry those' who ' have
proved their right to the title by their
own creations have so adjudged, giv
ing their assent to the judgment of
time. In Kurope and'Amerlca. Poe's
greatest work in verse has ' been ac-
credited by the elect with the undying
beauty of great poetry. y.
Grant that many of Ms so-called
poems are facile and slight what are
they but the foothills to his mountain
peaks? Compare "To Helen" and "Is
rafel" with any two lyrics h" any Eng
lish poet hy any poet and they stand
the test.. Without passion, poetry is
impossible. These two poems prove the
assertion. Pure paseion. mark yo.u.
And there Is not an erotic line, not a
degenerate suggestion even.. in'Poe's
muse. But every line in these' two
deathless lyrics burns and quivers with
the divine lite, the lmmorfnt radiance:
Th light "llial nevr wa nn sea or land.
The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
Poo's' prose furnished material and,
ephemepar ame for a number'of writ
ers since his time. -His -own critical
Judgment as 'to his Contemporaries has
been almost exactly confirmed by the
Judgment 'of years. But great as this
work indubitably, is, it falls short of
his greatest poems as the crest of a
wave rises aboveits base.
When shall -Poe be Judged by a jury
of his peers? In this wojld. never. Imi
tative work, such as, the lesser art of
the singer, the reader, the musician
and the actor, may be,,listened to and
criticised according to' Individual pref
erence. Bi to bring to purely creative
work to poetry, written, music, paint
'lng and sculpture a criticism' tbat Is
worth anything, a man or a woman
should be able to point to some creative
effort along the same lines, however
crude or eommonplace. Kveryone is
entitled to an opinion: but ciltlclsm
nnd opinion are . as separate as the
poles.
Poetry was a passion witli Poe, He
before he reached the goal at which he
has aimed for years.
Ills school record alone shows close ap
plication and rnplti success. He was
irraiiuated In his teens, from, the hlh
school and Jater from the Portland Acad
emy. Then he went to Harvard and took
his degree. While-there he had the ex
ceptionally splendid opportunity of study
ing Italian renaissance In literature mi-der-
Charles Kllot Norton, during Dr.
Norton's last year of work In Hartard.
I-rfUer Mr. Ooodman attended the Colum
bia L'niversity , in New York, where he
took special work in dramatic literature
under Brander Matthews.
served as Dramatic Critic.
For several years Mr. Goodman was
dramatic critic' for Current literature,
was identified with the In-amatic Mir
ror and later associate editor of the Bo
hemian Magazine. He is a remarkably
accomplished Ilnpuist. speakinR. French.
Italian. German1. Spanish. Norwegian and
Hebrew. Recently lie has assisted In the
translation of "The. Test" into the Ital
ian language and tts presentation th that
tongiltt is heiliff; eagerly looked forward to.
His Hrst work In Portland was a criti
cism of Mrs. Leslie Carter's presenta
tion of Du Barry, at the opening of the
Columbia Theater, for a year follow
ing this he sent dramatic criticisms to
several coast papers in connection with
clever articles on the drama in the East
Has Written Many Sketches.
He is--tue author of several small
sketches and stories that have heen
adapted to the stage, prominent among
which Is the vaudeville sketch, 'Striking
of A Match.'' which he wrote for Charles
Hawtry.
To Mr. Goodman is given the unusual
distinction of having had three plays
produced during one season: this was
last Kali, when "Jhe Man That Stood
Still." with Ix)iiis "Mann as star. "The
Ttst." In which Blanche Walsh is ap
pearing, and "The JtiKht to -I-iive." which
Is being produced by the I.arry-Giffin,
company in tho east, attained promi
nence simuVUtjUeously. Mr. Goodman
spent about nine months on "The Test"
and nearly a year'xHi constructing "The
Man Who Stood Still." The latter was
tried out In Chicago, under the title.
"The New Generation." which was later
changed to Its present name, on account
of Its similarity to "The Regeneration."
so declares In "the preface to his little
volume And he adds that In happier
circumstances he would have devoted
more of his life to this, the passion,
and not' the preference of his nature.
What "circumstances repressed his
noble rage"? What curbed the fine
frenzy of his truly poetic spirit?
' ' ?.
Poverty! Earning his living by his
pen, he was compelled, to -turn to the
manufacture In prose of the grotesque
and the gloomy, the bizarre and the
Jiorriblc, while poetic dreams, like the
luring grapes of Tantalus, hung shim
mering out of.h.Is reach.
What possible difference does it make
what manner of man Poe was? Char
acter rightly counts in its place, but
neither for nor against the work of a
poet. Character, like beauty, may in it
self be genius. But as well Judge of the
nightingale's melodies', by Its plumage
as measure a poet's songs by the
morals he weais.
The quality of "Israfel" and "To
IPelen" is aktn to that poignancy -of
perfection noticeable in Keat's "Ode On
a Grecian Urn," or the choicest stanzas
in Shelley's "To a Sky-I.ark." The -lines
,"To Helen" have the remoteness, the
solemn beauty of the oracular, as
though Intoned from mythologic tem
ples, mid still. Dodonian woods, with
sea-surges to chant in rhythmic unison.
.Of "The Raven," it has been so
mauled over by , beslavering flattery
and berated by cberant enmity that
it may seem objectless to treat of it at
length. Poe's own description of its
mechanical, creation I shrewdly .suspect
was a sheer cynicism a baiting, of
popular ignorance. But the lines are
undeniable music, and quite as suscep
tible of a myriad interpretation as
Browning's most labyrinthian poetic
puzzles. ,,
Poe struck one false note in "The
Raven." One word was flung In to
make rhyme, and possibly alliteration,
which Is obviously tho wrong word.
.When he wrote:
Thrilled me. filled me with fantastic terrora
never felt before .
He missed, by one word, , writing ' a
great and a true line. (
Had he written:
Thrilled me. chilled me with faatulU
terrora novar fait bafora.
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which was being presented by Arnold
Daly.
Jules Goodman's tplays cover a field
heretofore given little attention. In a
sense they are- problem plays. i that
they are intensely human, and after all
is said and done, life Itself and the dally
routine of things is only a problem play.
We each act out. and live to the end. ah
individual problem playon the stage of
life. The complexity; of conditions so
engulf us. and our poor little ideais and
personalities, that it is little less than
absurd to talk of the simple life.
.s to the Simple Life.
While it is true we retrogress easier
than we. rise, still the simple life, as it
is Writ large in .the annals of modern
literature in general, and Kra Albertus
in particular. Is of small potatoes and
few in the hill.
To return to Jules Goodman, one might
say. with safety, that the term genre,
as applied to a painting, is particlarly
apt In describing his clever delineation
of the lives of rhe Bowtry characters
and their existence. v
The atmosphere of all his plays is de
cidedly that of New York. He deals
chicllv with the lowei East Side, the new
Bowerv in its process of evolution, not
the old Bowery that has so long been
in evidence greatly through the police
courts and the reports from the Island.
Treats Subject Seriously.
He is the first author and playwright
to take this- subjec t and treat it wth
seriousness and dignity. He does Hot
handtA it iii the cheap near-humorous
nielodmrnaiic style so long in vogue with
people who write- of the seamy side of
the great metropolis, but he gives it a
character, a dignity and-s.erious vein that
Is orfslnal and capable of vast possi
bilities. , x . f
Mr. Goodman will remain abroad dur
ing the rest of the Winter and will prob
ably return to New York next Fall. His
wife.-who was Miss Mai Plouks, of Ne.w
York, is a very bright and charmins
woman, who takes great Interest in her
talented husband's work. Mr. Goodman
Is a son of tho late N. Goodman, and is
a brother of Joseph and Maurice Good
man, of Portland. He has two sisters.
Mrs. George P. Alexander and Miss
Ksther Goodman, living here, and an
other. Miss Rose Goodman, who resides
In New Y'ork. -
He would have recorded the exact im
pression he seeks, but falls to convey.
View "The Raven" In any light, how
ever, its fascination remains. The long,
sonorous lines, the alliterations. th
double rhyming, the deep chime of its
mournful refrain all Invest it with
music and mystery. Taken as a drama,
"Tho Raven" bears the unmistakable
stamp of genius. It can be divided into
acts, by stanzas? am "situations." ac
tion, dramatic effect, and a most telling
finale at' the conclusion is apparent.
Poe's genius was essentially dramatic.
Hi blank-verse efforts in playwriting
indicate this trend: but gaunt necessity
drove him to hack-work. And so we
have in America but one high dramatic
achievement in blank verse, so far as a
play is concerned. I refer to the
"Francesca dl Rimini" of George 11.
Boker.
'
From the hilltops of contemplation it
Is easy to look back and see how the
limitation of Poe's time cribbed, cab
ined and confined him in his native
land. Poetry in America in his day was
largely a dilution of the more placid
nf the Ensrlish Doots. So his fiery
fdreams were quenched," for the nonce,
by the icy indifference of his surround
Jngs. It is paradoxical to mourn over Poe's
sorrows, since without them he would
not have climbed the .heights. Health
and wealth are not conducive to the
production of poetry. Men's natures
must go through the fiery furnaces of
sorrow and privation before they can
feel deeply:
For the mark of rank In nature
I capacity for pain;
'Xis the anguish of the atngel
Makes the sweetneFs of his atrain.
All Po suffered, sinned and repented
was merely incidental, so far as his
poetical work is concerned. Hard as
It undoubtedly was, grinding torments
to his, sensitive fiber, agonizing to those
whom he loved and cherished it was
the inexorable will of fate, the making
a poet out of a man.
Poe was so flagellated by chance and
misfortune that It was an Irreparable
Toss to the world. Time was what ho
craved: time to devote to poetry. For
iits mood was attained at what cost
who shall say? and he was poised
for high flights. Even stray lines in
his lesser poems read llpe Sapphic" frag
ments In their, intensity, however dif
ferent as to trend.
A dirge for hor the doubly dead, in that she
died so youns.
The life within hr yellow hair, but not
within her eyes.
Scattered all through his poems are
these evidences of his genius, like rays
of purest light serene. Lines that have
the signet-royal of impassioned imag
inings. And what is great poetry but
crystallized imagination?
The centenary of Edgar Allan Poe,
which occurs January 19. is a triumph
al one. Despite the buzzing of negli
gible critics, . despite the adulation of
those who mistakenly see genius in his
every line despite praise or blame,
the man's name an defame endure and
will continue to endure. .
Reject, if you like, all of his prose.
Time rejects nearly all' prose eventual
ly. Set aside his miscellaneous writ
ings, essays and criticism. Reject if
you choose "The Raven, "Bby many con
sidered. Ills masterpiece. Put aside
every line he wrote excepting "To
Helen" and "Israfel." and you. have in
these two poems that , perfection of
beauty which makes- immortal tho
marbles of Phidias and Praxiteles, and
the dramas of Shakespeare. I.yrie
heart-beats, these- tw poems, which
shall strike through tile crusts of dead
centuries and awake responsive heart
beats in whatever worlds may be.
Do not d-oubt this. Already the sol
emn chimes of fame ring out for him:
already Pbe's name is bugled from Par
nassus by tho herald of a century. "To
Helen" and "Israfel" granting Poe
these, and he needs no more, as Gray
needs nothing but his "Klcgy Written
in a (Country Churchyard," to answer in
his stead.
Poe's triumphs are his own. and ex
amples of the highest art, the most
exquisite of .lyric poetry, the most en
during in beauty art In the sense that
cannot die. . Art which, out of sheer
mortaj travail of sul and .spirit, was
born to live again and again . and
again, so long as men are touched and
moved by the beautiful and 'pure.
All passes: Art alone. .
Kuduring stays with us.
1 The bust outlasts the tUrfuie;
The coin, Tibi-rluF. ' -
EQUITABLE
GAME LAW
A Vigorous Plea for the Farmer Boy
as Against thee iaine Hog.
HALS EX. Or.. Jan. 14. fTo the Edi
tor.) Oregon has a'Game Hog Game
I -aw but it doesn't protect the game.
The baiting and slaughtering of the
duck goes bravely on and as far as
the ring-necked pheasant.', the game
hog clause is the principal factor in
making ilsem scarce. Someone may
ask, what do you mean by a game hog
gajne law? Perhaps I liad better ex
plain. F0ur years ago the would-be
sportsmen got together and asked for
an amendment to the'game law which
in effect says: "Here you non-shooters
you must do without ducks and pheas
ants all the year round, and you bird
raisers, I. e., you farmers, yon must
kill no pheasants out of season. You
must sell none during the open season,
but you must furnish range and feed
for these birds whether you want to
or. not.'" The would-be sportsmen
claimed they wanted -to protect the
game.- Of course they did, they wanted
the game protected so they could shoot
it. .
The- proposed amendment became a
law and the would-be sportsmen
wagged their tongues and looked wise,
but the country gunners could not see
It that way and replied in effect:
"Gentlemen, you have given us a game
hog game law and we will out-hog
you. Since we cannot sell the surplus
we will eat it. and we will not wait
till the 15thlay of November to do
Ki.ilr ir m,,. -aliooHnD- A a heretofore.
but we will begin while the birds are
young and tender. Tiie result is me
shooting out of season has more than
doubled within the past four years
and the decrease ln number of the
ring-necked pheasant has been about
the ratio of J 6 to 1.
No one regrets the scarcity of ojr
game birds more than the writer, ye"
there Is some, consolation in knowing
that the class legislatlonists have at
Inst got a dose of their own medicine.
The ring-necked pheasants are now' so
scarce that a closed season of two, or,
three years now talked of Is certainly
needed.- Will a closed season make the
birds more plentiful? Yes. provided
i-oamnahle laws. But if
we don't the country gunners will do
Just as they have been doing for the
past lour years. nn n., ' "
bird to eat they-will kill it. provided
they can' do so. Yes, exactly.
But now the question arises, .shall
.. . . h oumo for the benefit
we V ' " L " 1 ' 1 " ,
of every ' citizen? A majority of the
people will promptly say yes Well,
then if we want the ring-necked pheas
ant 4o become plentiful we must make
It an object to the farmer boys to let
It alone during ciosea a""""- " " '"
.i.o.htr nir -nf the blrd3 by
the city sportsmen which occurs dur
ing the j rst tenuuy ----
season. We must nave a. nc-.j
V; to nrotect the farmers from
country and city poachers. The open
season must bo made later and shorter.
faTe enough to .Iv-youn" hac.
for their lrves anu
fornr to the supply- Limits hoMd be less
than at pre" J . ' 1 ;va
r.SVS' limit in Possesion
game dealers exempt- , - - - -
1101 and 1910 we could have ti day s
1 anu oniv. sav from
shooting on m ' .,
November 10 to November -0. w th .t
cachrc, kfued the limit. 0 for
each- female ring-ne r ---
killed before October L. "V-
become plentiful within
the next two y"-. th- open e.on
vV.houW "v again begin the shoot
lmr of the ring-neck before October
1" and for 'the reason that birds are
loo easily killed, too many half-grown
oirds that haven't sense enough to get
away. Shooters
the temptation to 5i"" '-- -
great to allow the shooting before that
ST. i may as well say right here
,a?ln IsVthe shooters of this . pre-'
net made an effort to cut off the
first 15 days of the open season on
upland birds. Had fM- become a law
the ring-necks would be plentiful in
thl WiUamette Valley. As for water
fowl we should have a closed season
of three or four years on the. wood
dock as thev are fast decreasing all
over the United. States and Oregon
8Un3otTcltbyT,rePc1ent Issue of the
Fven?ng Telegram that the Fish and
Game Association will try to amend the
garni law as follows: Open season on
S from September 1 to- December
1- limit 50 ducks per week, sale pro
hib ted; upland birds, September 1 to
December 1. limit 10 birds per week.
FhootTng of female pheasants prohi
bited The proposed amendment on
ducks would rob most of the counties
south of Portland of any duck shoot
fng. Linn County has no ducks te
sneak of until about December 1.
EPThe amendment to the bird law is
actually astounding. One season of
l would extermlnate.the ring-necked
pheasant In the valley. Some of the
Hng-necked hens are still setting on
their nests at that time and some of
the younjr cannot fly- The young will
tne youi.g ; . nne-th rd crown
not average iu" -
and no one can tell a male from a fe-
male until they are unswi v.
IgnoVance of the. real condition, is
"ahe'Fish and Game Association cer-
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fainlv is lesting. hut if the people of
Multnomah want it that way they may
have it in Multnomah (tlicy don t) hut
not here In Linn. We would have an
open season on ducks from November
15 to February IS of the following
. ...itw n .if r,f "r, iltu-ks Di-r
week, sale allowed (only r.O per cent
as many per season to the gunner)
with a penalty of J- pel niicii i"i
.w.t lrlllrl ..Hove the limit. e
also ask bounties on the pests which
destroy annually nearly a mucn H"
as the hunters. On cougars, mountain
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$3; weaslcs $!'; crows 5 cents. No
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a v.'t c-vtns lmve a commercial value
and the trappers are after them.
Some one will say tnai to an-w ..n,
sale of game will exterminate it. They
tell us that the pheasants were B''i"s
scarce in some parts of the valley
prior to 1!04. To this we only need
to replv. it doen't matter what be
comes of the bird after it is killed:
the point is to restrict the killing.
This can only be done by maklns the
shooting season short enough to con
form to the supply with heavy penal
ties -for Wiling beyond tho limit. It
is sheer Idiocy to tninK inai i.limk.
bovs will kill nothing out of season
unle it .will pay to let the game
aloneT Almost every farmer in tins
valley feels as though the birds on his
own land are his own property and
neither logic nor legislation will have
any effect on the bird raiser here,
i - h amount of hirds killed for
the market the last 15 days of Novem
ber, 1901 to 1904; it was less man one
day's shooting each for the city siHirts-
rtf ii'oiilnni ilrecroti. I have been
told that Portland has more than 20(10
shooters. I-et us allow that there arc
1000 in the Willamette Valley. Ten
birds per day to the shooter would
give 10.000 birds for one any s snoot
ing. In 1901 the market hunters killed
,ir;,. the sellincr season between
5000 and 6000 upland birds. In this
valley 50 per cent of these were native
pheasants and grouse. Say. T.O'iO rinc
pecked pheasants were marketed.
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on a'blue woolen stocking, the place wa badly
poisoned from the dye. A great tore formed and
tsr years no one knows what I suffered w ith the,
place. I tried, it seemed to me, everything I had
ever heard of but I Kt o relief and I thought I would
have to ro through life with an angry, discharging
sore on my leg. At lastl began the use of S. S. S. ,
arid it was but a short time until I saw that the
place was improving. I continued it until it ac
moved all the poison from my blood and made a
complete nd permanent cure of the sore.
.'50 Kavy St. , Brooklyn, N. T. JN0. ELLIS. ,
A CANCEROUS ULCER.
I had a large sore or nicer on mv face and nothing
1 tried would benefit me. It befall with, shooting
pains and soon the itching was terrible. At first it
discharged a watery fluid which soon changed to
one of thicker composition and the pain became
very severe. It was nearly as large as a dollar and
terribly inflamed in U the surrounding par's. It
had been there so long and growing worse all the
time, I became very much discouraged and alarmed.
At last I began the use of S. S. S. At first the
ulcer &eemed to get worse, but I soon found that the
poison was being removed from the blood and I con
tinued to takcS. S. S. It was not long before I
noted a decided improvement and I kept up the use
of the medicine until I was entirely cured of -:.is
cancerous ulcer. This has been some time ago and
there is no sign of a return of the trouble.
Gary, Fla. ' MRS. W. A. WRIGHT. .
P0IS0KED FROM INSECT BITE.
' Wilmington, IT . C.
From the bite of an insect I was poisoned and had
a drcadlul sore on my ankle and took different
treatments with no benefit. 1 was induced to try
S. S. S., and after a few bottles it cleared my
system and cleansed my blood and cured the sore.
Sly mother took it for rheumatism, with success.
I cheerfully recommend S. S. S. where a blood
emitter is reeded.
109 South irst St. CHAS. 8. PRIDGEIT.
and" then the place will hal of its
removing the causes which produce.
Where did tho ring-neck come from?
Why, fmir precincts in the south half
of i.lnn County f urnlslitd nearly all
of these birds. The game dealers ot
Shedds in 1001 shipped between 1100
and 1200; llalsey shipped over 1400;
say 2fi00 all told. In 1902 tho number
of birds shipped from llalsey to mar
ket was 13 to the gunner. In 1904 it
was less than 11 to the gunner. How
ever, more was shipped from here in
1904 than 1902 and more birds left
over for seed at the close of the sea
son in 1902.
Almost every man in this precinct
admits that tfce birds had a great deal
of protection ' on account of the 15
days' sale, and no protection at all
since the sale was prohibited. As re
gards tho city sportsmen, many of them
are splendid foUows and are willing
that the non-shooters have a chance to
buy a little of the game which they
cannot kill. They arc willing to make
the shooting season short enough to
conform to the supply of the gani". and
every fair-minded man knows that this
is the proper thing to do.
Tn conclusion will say that I have
written this at the request of the coun
try Kunners of this vicinity. I am a
farmer and alsoj a pu liner. T am deep
ly interested In the protection of tlio
Oregon game. During- the past 13 years
I have killed no game out of season,
and for the past seven years have killed
no China hens except two hy mistake
in the month of November. I would
like to see the game so plentiful that,
cvervone could get some of It. This
valley ought to raise 100.000 birds for
the market each year, and could do so
If we would give it the proper amount
of protection for a few years. I will
close with the expectation of receiving
a red-hot reply. Come right on. I am
loaded for bear and will give $100 in
gold coin to the man that can give one
logical reason to show why the non
shooters should do' without game in
order that tlio shooters may have an
abundance.
For the ample protection of our game
and nn equal distribution of the same,
provided wo allow it to be killed, 1 am,
voitrs very truly. T. A. I'OWKl.b.
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