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In the lamt code passed by the
late session of the Legislature, and
oon to become a law, there Is a sec
tion which permits the sale In open
market of China pheasants that .have
been mixed In captivity, upon permis
sion being- given by the State Game
Warden. It has a proviso that the
birds must bo pinioned when young,
which operation Is described later on.
This means that Oregon's most fa
mous game bird, the China pheasant,
may now be served at your Sunday
dinner or placed on the menus of the
better ciass of hotels and restaurants
of Portland. At first thought many
supporters of better game protection
looked upon this amendment with dis
favor. They were quickly won over,
however, when It was made plain to
them that the sale of domesticated
Kamebtrd Indirectly protected the wild
same. This has been strongly advo
cated by James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculture; National Association of
Audubon Societies; State Game Com
missioners and the American Breeders'
Association. This last-named associa
tion is an organization whose purpose
Is to study the laws of breeding and
to promote the improvement of animals
by the development of expert methods
of breeding, and lias many Influential
members Interested In restocking and
protecting game fields.
Become a Special Industry.
A recent bulletin issued bv the Pe.
partment of Agriculture savs: "The
Krowth of the industry of raising game
for market, like cattle and poultry ll
manifested In legislation In several
states during 1U07. Ten states now
have such provisions In their laws
and the production and marketing of
domesticated game seems destined to
become an Industry that will demand
more and more recognition In future
legislation. W ith proper means of Iden
tification provided, so as to prevent
evasion of the laws prohibiting traffio
In wild game, there would seem to be
no reason why this industry should
not be encouraged In every possible
way.
Chief reputy Game Warden B T
Livingston, of Idaho, a recognized au
thority on game protection, advocates
the sale of domesticated game in the
open markets, under proper restric
tions, each g,ame farmer to pay a
yearly license of 100. Mr. Livingston
claims that every hand-reared or do
mesticated game bird sold lessens the
chances for some hunter to break the
law. This license would perhaps work
a hardship on the small breeder
To permit wild game to be sold on the
market leaves the way clear for "not
hunters to make quiok work of exter
mination. Utiles, the annual Inroads
upon the rapidly decreasing game birds
of America are checked, shooting, as a
healthy recreation, will soon be a thing
of the past in almost every state of the
Union. The health, crops and woods, as
i Prt" of many extensive
localities, are today seriously menaced
by the extinction of game birds. From
reliable ornithological authority we have
the statement that were all bird ltfe de
stroyed. In ten years the face of the
earth would be uninhabitable.
The China ring-neck pheasant has be
come a valuable asset to the State of
Oregon and Is claimed by many to have
no superior as an all-round game bird
Stories Told
(Copyright by Estelle Klauder. 1909.)
Empty Splendor.
JVTTHEV ASTOR WILKS. the son
I In-law of Airs. Hetty Green, has
endeared, himself to the great woman
financier by his simple tastes.
"Astor Wllks." said a hotel-keeper
of New York, "sneers at ostentation.
I remember when we opened our new
rococo dining-room. It was. I admit,
rsther empty the first week or so. Mr!
Wllks. during that empty season,
dropped In one night for supper after
the play.
"I approached him, eager for a com
pliment on our bright new splendor.
11c nodded curtly and said:
"'Truly magnificent. Thirty tables
for every customer." "
A Take.-la.
Senator S. A. Httelson. of Chicago,
the father of a bill to brand married
men with some distinguishing mark
r title, for the Senator's statistics
."how that many married men masquer
a.le as bachelors in vacation time.
"My statistics." said Senator Ettel
"" to reporter. show a need
for a brand. Married women are suf
ficiently branded by the 'Airs..' and the
wedding ring; but the difficulty is to
find a good brand for married men.
"They do need It. though. Some of
them are as unprincipled as the jail
birds Harvey Flynt used to tell about.
"r i nt was a Lancashire mill hand.
He did a month in Jail, and on his re
turn home a friend met him and said-
" 'Hello. Harve! Aw've ne'er seen
thee many a long day. How are tha
Koing onr
" h. fair. Aw've been doing a
month down at Preston, tha knows
"'How did tha like it?'
" th. not so well.'
" "How's thatr
" "Well, the very first day theer
somebody calls out In next cell!
"W hat has tha for tha dinner?"
alj!Aw aunK out- "Bread an' waiter's
" "He says. "Aw've ham and eggs
heer. Fass tha bread through hole in
wall. Aw ll gie thee a dip In."
" "Well?"
"Well what's tha think? Aw ne'er
got ma bread back.' '
Wemea aad the Stage.
Pavld Pelasco was in his best mood
t a dinner at the St. Regis preceding
his vacation his first vacation in -0
long, hard years.
Mr. Melasco, in the reurse of a
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Besides his gameness and delicate flesh,
he is unquestionably one of the most or
namental of the game birds.
Professor, w. T. Shaw in his superb
book. "The China, or Denny Pheasant in
Oregon." says: "To know the pheasant
well, one must live with him throughout
the year. He Is a bird of moods, influ
enced by shifting conditions and passing
seasons, of which there are for him, in
reality, but two the open and closed.
Within a few days after the law says no
more shooting, he becomes bold and fear
less, even to the extent of sharing the
food of the barnyard fowls in Winter,
though always reserved and suspicious!
In the brush of the lowlands or from the
open meadow comes his two-svllabled
call in the stillness of the evening twi
light. Prom his roost among the grass
or sedge tussocks, or the great moss
covered branches of an oak. he springs
away into the gloom with a startled cry
Throughout the long, dry Summer the
young are reared by the female, until the
days of Autumn come, the male mean
while frequently greeting you by the
roadside with a glance of curiosity min
gled with reserve, standing a moment.
by Prominent Raconteurs
learned review of barefoot dancing,
problem plays, and such like outcrop
pings of stage history, smiled and
said:
"It may be true, as some have
claimed, that immoral plays are due
to the (inmoral taste of woman. "Yes.
that may be true; but. gentlemen, did
you ever watch at the theater an eld
erly, staid, perhaps somewhat unpre
possessing wife, brooding over a hus
band a little younger than herself?
These wives, surely, are no support
ers of the immoral stage spectacle.
"Such a wife sat in one of my thea
ters during the production of a drama.
The heroine, a beautiful girl, said at
a dramatic moment:
"'Merciful heavens. I am undone!'
JThe wife rose hurriedly.
" 'Come. Clarence she . murmured
sterniy. 'We've had enough of this.
I'm not going to have you drinkln' in
any Salome dance or dlsrobin' act." "
One of tbc Signs.
Lady Constance Stewart Richardson,
at the supper following one of her
barefoot dances in New York, praised
the dress of American women.
"You do dress well." she said. "But.
then you are so intelligent. You are
so quick to feel, in the air about you.
the signs that tell whether you look
your best or not."
"What are these signs?" a young
girl asked.
"Oh. they are various." said Lady
Constance. "My manicurist, for in
stance, told me one this morning. She
had on a new Easter gown, and when
I praised it she said:
" "It Isn't becoming, really. I know
it isn't becoming. Three gentlemen
in the shop this morning, after hand
ing me dollar bills, waited for their
change.
A Salted Gold Mine.
Senator Bailey was discussing the
fist fight that two Washington wait
ers fought in their rivalry over which
should have the honor of serving
him.
"Oh, well, I den t blame those boys "
said Senator Bailey. "They showed
the proper spirit the spirit which
understands that things wortn having
must be striven for. They weren't
like Vincent Cressley, of Copiah Coun
ty. SDd whenever I go back they shall
be my waiters in alternation.
"Vincent Cressley celebrated one
Easter morning by going for the first
time In his life to a horse race. He
was s, feehle-mlnded fool, and his com
panions easily persuaded him to stake
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erect in all h,s br.ghtness of wloraZTSSSfcE 'Yh ' S ' , , 1
ducklns an Instant later to steal silently 1 h I iff l, .' H 1 ,: ' l
away among the grass." iifsHxPSr .- VS I N . " 1 - I: s ' 4" A
The China pheasant hen is very prolific " I III! , I J B I A "iS"1 V " , ' , 1
n captivity, laying usually about 0 egg& - 3 t-t T-S" -V. f . ' 4
n a season. One hen, however, has been " f '" - S B I if -S - Z . fe " . -
known to lay 104 eggs in one season. It J',V01 III I ll I ll III 1 1 III I Mil """"'i l llU I - ZZ" &$L&!i 4 $ . V,, j
is claimed, by those who have become ex- 1 II I III ll V iflZZ" , Wri "! " J
pert in their handling, that they are X. .onTOTI k4 x tZ ' - Ul03 t ,M
easier reared than chickens. The eggs .VS - ' ' M iwTK . IpV - & A
are remarkably fertile, the birds are not ' " , , !I I I S , AZ.' ZS "k- wSftV -w
subject to disease, and reach a market- V . ' 1 I , E4 - if T tl ' i
able size In half the time required by 9T" s J Uil H iSSCl 3 rO"' t I
chickens. I J tffZ S 4 l I Vd $ I L" VHI"- I -
During Incnbation. . IX Mkh 4 ' & Si I I I $ AN . 4 -I T,J -SS?? VS "J
In hatching the pheasant eggs best
results have been obtained by placing
them under common hens, small ieri nr
Bantams, preferred. The nests are made
on the ground, thus imitating nature as
nearly as possible, and each nest pro
vided with a trap door, in the manner
shown in the accompanying illustration.
The sitting hens are let off for 30 minutes
each day. at a regular hour, for feed,
water and a dust bath, after which thev
are shut up on the nest for another M
nours. The young pheasants hatch on
In the third race a dollar on a sixty-to-one
shot.
"The horse won.
"When the bookmaker gave Vincent
his winnings, the silly fellow couldn't
believe his eyes.
" 'Do you mean to tell me, he said,
'that I get all this for my one dollar?"
" That's what you do," said the
bookmaker.
"Vincent's look was like Slnbad's in
the Valley of Diamonds.
" "By ginger, he muttered, 'and I
never knowed it! Say, how long has
this thing been goin' on?'"
The Lesson.
Professor Charles Zueblin, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, was discussing at a.
dinner the Easter myths and legends of
the world.
"The legends that are beautiful and Im
mortal." he said, "have in them truths
that we all. according to our kind, take
home. This is true In likewise of im
mortal works of art Pictures, poems,
songs. For different people they have
different messages."
"For instance?" said a young girl.
"For Instance. ' smiled Professor Zueb
lin. "in my native Pendleton some of the
mothers used to cut the children's hair.
They did it with shears and a bowl. The
operation was often painful, and the re
sult was never elegant.
"In Sunday school a Pendleton teacher
once told her pupils the tragic storv of
Samson and Delilah. Then she turned to
a little boy.
" 'What do you learn; Joe. she said,
'from the Samson story?'
" 'It don't never pay.' piped Joe, 'to
have a woman cut a feller's hair.' "
Good at MultipMcatlora.
The Countess Pierre de Coldirodi, at a
dinner at the Colony Club in New York,
sneered at the resolution, recently adopt
ed by the Woman's Club of Evanston,
that women should learn boxing.
"These Evanston ladles," said the
Italian novelist, 'think that, a boxing
woman would get more respectful con
sideration at the hands of thieves, of
flaneurs or mashers, -as you say and
of husbands.
"But that idea is all wrong. Woman
will never be a boxer. And the idea that
a knowledge of pugilism would Improve
her condition is similar. In Its absurdity,
to an idea expressed recently by my little
daughter.
"My little daughter is a friend to read
ing and a foe to ciphering. ' In natural
history she succeeds, but in the simplest
sums she fails.
"Looking up, the other day. from a
f Allows Propagation 1 I ; . , i .. I.
of the Great Oregon Game I Oi-- - -, I
1 1
; 7f- rt '$Sh dt
work on the Australian fauna, she said
to her governess wistfully:
" 'I wish I was a rabbit!'
"Why. my child?"
" "Because this book savs they multiply
with extra w-nary rapidity." '
Finished.
Lawrence Mott. the young and talented
millionaire novelist, has been making a
study of New York life. From the ro
mance of the Canadian wilderness Mr
Mott purposes to turn in his next work
to the romance of a great citv's slums
At a dinner at his White Plains man
sionthe mansion from which, with reck
less bravery, he drove a gang of burglars
last month Mr. Mott said of his slum
studies:
"Swear-offs. I find, don't refer solely
to alcohol any more. There axe now
opium swear-offs. cocaine Injection
swear-offs, cologne drinking swear-offs
and so on.
"But a man with a bandaged arm
wanted to establish a new swear-off the
other day. Entering a Magistrate's Court
ne said to the clerk:.
" 'Swear me off. Two years.
" "Booze or drugs?' asked " the clerk
reaching languidly for a form.
" 'Neither. Carpet-beatin",' said the ap
plicant. 'To save my wife half a dollar
on her housecleanin", I undertook to
beat the aettin'-mnm y,,-t.. v , ,
. . , . , - ' -vu-uiuaaa last
night, and here I've wrenched my shoul-
" "-use sixteen dollars a full
week's work. On second thoughts, make
that for life.' "
The Difficult-.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is an anti-suffragette.
She has joined the anti-suffragette
organization. the National
League for the Civic Education of
Women. At a luncheon the other day
she said:
"'It isn't possible for women to do the
Same work as m-n Hav In -J A
. ... c&.,u uav oul,
in good weather and In foul. For in
stance, wnac woman could be a postman
out in all kinds of weather and at all
hours, walking miles daily?"
She smiled.
woman postman would compare
with a male one as the beggar compared
with the millionaire.
" "You've got no grounds to envy me '
saldi the millionaire t t . v.- . ... '
' utBS' . A vo
got Just as many troubles as you have.'
No doubt yer right, boss. said the
beggar humbly. "But the difficulty with
me is, I ain't got nothin' else.' "
I" I'rnlxe et Bnd Weather.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the United
Slates Weather Bureau, said in a recent
letter that bad weather did men good.
The struggle wit.i snow blizzards, cy
clones and hot waves sharpened their
minds, gave them backbone.
""New England's weather " is the
worst," he said. "But those northwest
winds of the Maine coast bring down
the invigorating fresh air, and New Eng
land provides the stamina of the Ameri
can nation..
"They are. the New Englanders, such
optimists. On a Spring nay I watched
two little girls, one from Washington
the other from Dark Harbor, playing at
housecleaning.
"On a line in the garden they had all
-the carpets and draperies and rugs of
their doll's house hung to air. when
the Washington girl's bad-boy brother
came and gave the line a jerk, and up
set all those pretty things in the dust.
"The Washington girl began to cry
with rage and despair, but the little
New Englander she briskly gathered up
the scattered treasures, smiled and said:
" 'Oh, never mind. Let's play Jimmy
was a high wind.' "
Waiting for the
Right Man
Persia's Future Not So Hopeless
as Generally Believed.
PORTLAND, April 10. (To the Edi
tor.) I have perused with great interest
your remarks about the failure of the
revolutionary movement in Persia, and I
would like to add a few remarks to your
editorial. You say that "the fortunes of
war in miserable Persia have finally
turned against the people and the gov
ernment is enjoying its revenge for their
resistance."
This is not exactly so. The St. Peters
burg telegram announced that the Royal
ist troops are again in occupation of Ta
briz; and supposing tbe telegram spoke the
truth, it would only demonstrate that the
is i - ?
Nationalist movement in the Province of
Azerbaian has collapsed. We know that
in Teheran the authority of the Shah in
Shah Mohammad All is upheld by the
swords of Colonel Liakhoff s Cossacks.
But a glance at the map will show us
that Teheran and Tabriz are not the
whole of Persia: in fact, they are only a
very small part and the successes of the
Cossacks in Teheran and the Royalists
in Tabriz can have only little effect upon
the fortunes of war in the remaining
provinces of the Persian Empire. From
Astrabad to Resht. from Isfahan to the
shores of the Persian Gulf the writ of
the Shah in Shah's authority has ceased
to run and sovereignty is dying a natural
and well-deserved death. Any desperado
from the free mountains, any fighting
Anjirman with courage and ability can
proclaim a practical dictatorship in the
outlying; provinces, and Mohammad All
with all his Russian-drilled Cossacks will
not be able to quell such a rebellion.
Persia is simply waiting for the right
man. and the right man will undoubtedly
appear before very long on the Caspian
stage.
Is there any reason why such a man
should not appear?
Among the leading classes of Persia is
a good strain of ancient Central Asiatic
Mongol blood, and the spirit of the Mon
golian Khans is not yet dead. A glance
through the annals of history will show
us that the rise of the individual Mongol
conquerors., such as Genghis Khan.
Tlmour the Limper. Bajazet. Baber and
Akbar, has always been unheralded and
unforeseen, has always occurred in the
hour of need. Just as Genghis ' Khan,
the rough herdsman from the shores of
Lake Baikal, annihilated with one swift
blow the- great Northern dynasty and
made the Golden Khan his vassal, Just
as he Invaded the Kwaresmlan Empire,
the Persia of those days, and humbled
the Seljuk Mamelukes who were then the
Shahs, just as he established the rule of
justice, tolerance and equity on the ruins
of the great Khanates which he had de
stroyed, so a modern Mongol conquista
dor, a reincarnation of one of the thir
teenth century Tartar chiefs, may appear
any day on the Persian horizon and
startle the world and the Associated
Press correspondents with epoch-making
news. For we must never forget that
Asia is the true home of democracy, and
that nearly all the prominent men pf the
Mother Continent have been self-made
men. Most of the great rulers of A3ia
and North Africa have been Mamelukes,
slaves pure and simple, who worked their
way up to the highest step on the ladder.
Persia has been in worse straits in the
historic past and from a strictly Persian
point of view there is absolutely no need
for intervention, except financial help,
such as has been given to Egypt, Turkey
and China in the past. From the political
point of view of the Russian and British
statesmen, a certain amount of interven
tion is desirable since the interests of the
' -won i ivi i a. aj r5
suffering, trade being paralyzed on all
iwo countries ana oi .British. India are
the 23d day. and their deposition is t,
immediately leave the nest, hence the
added advantage of having the hens
locked up. When the young birds are H
hours old they are removed, together with
the mother hen to brood .coop, similar to
the one shown In the cut. where they are
kept for three days. After they learn their
foster mother's call they aro pinioned ami
given their liberty, retaining the old hen. ,
When frightened they will run off into the
tail grass and hide, but never fall to re
turn to the coop. The process of pinion
ing consists of clipping off. with a pair
of sharp scissors, the last joint- of both
wings when three days old. This injures
neither the looks nor the breeding quali
ties of the bird, but renders them un
able to fly. -
Pheasants have been reared on an ex
tensive scale near Corvallis for about
six years. Over 3010 China pheasants
were shipped from there in 1908, going,
principally to other state game comrats-l
sloners, rod and gun clubs and private :
preserves, all for breeding purposes, of .
course. Such purchasers frequently want'
to buy the birds in the proportion of four. '
five or six hens to one cock. This leaves'
the breeder with a lot of extra cocks. ,
and It is probably these young cocks thae'
will be sold on the market in Portland
to those who desire to pay 91.50 or $2
for a Sunday dinner.
" A wi-se provision in this law Is that all
pheasants must be shipped alive, and.
none sold during the open season. The'
photograph' shows the manner in wnlth '
live pheasants are shipped.
What greRte.- paradox than a domesti
cated wild bird, and only a few years
ago it was claimed that you couldn't
raise a China pheasant.
the chief routes. Hut intervention is
nearly in all cases followed by occupa
tion, and occupation would lead to many
complications, would lead to much mis
chief. I believe it is best to let the Shah
in Shah and the Persian people settle
their own quarrel in their own way, even
if trade suffers a temporary setback. In
time, perhaps in the near future, a true
leader of the Persian people will oust
Mohammad Ali and exile him t a pleas
ant home on the banks of the Seine: and
If then Great Britain and Russia should
be willing to lend the aid of financial ex
perts, the way would be paved for the
establishment of a "Mejliss." a parlia
ment which could work in complete har
mony with both sovereign and people and
regenerate ancient Persia.
Intervention at the present ' moment
may appeal to Gladstonian humanitarians,
but it. would bo a olundcr'and a failure:
it would undoubtedly lead to the creation
of new factions and thus plunge the un
happy country into still greater anarchy,
into a still deeper financial morass. . You
say that something must be done for
Persia; this something is very easily
put into words, and still more easily ac
complished. Let Persia alone, and do not forget that
the United States, as well as England,
have had their bloody civil strifes without
"something" having been done through
the Intervention of foreign powers. There
may be. as you say. monstrosities In Te
heran and in Tabriz, but I repeat that in
the other provinces the Shah's authoritv
has utterly collapsed, and the fact tha
the Deria Begi. the very fount of Per
sian dignity in Bushire. has been held Uii
on his way to the coast, illustrates mos
forcibly that the Shah is powerless tin
cope with the revolt and that in time this
revolt will spread to the capital and an
nihilate the Cossacks of Colonel Liak
hoff. Then the Shah in Shah will, have
to join the "Kings in Exile," and the
monstrous rule of another royal wastrel
will die a natural death.
There have been and there are many
monstrosities and iniquities in the
history of the European and the Ameri
can Aryans. Let us remind the public
of the actual application of torture in
Austrian Lombardy not over 70 years
ago: of the merciless expropriation of
Polish landowners and peasants legalized
of late years by the Prussian Chamber;
of the periodical outrages against negroes.
Chinese and other foreigners in our own
country; of the treatment of inoffensive
nuns and Sisters of Mercy seven years
ago in republican France.
Let us think of all these parallels and
then let us stop talking of Persian mon
strosities and the duty of the human race .
to intervene.
H". M. M'KERR-KASTAN;
vr" Jficholaa Is really an Oldenburg, al
though he Is accepted as a Romanoff. Jf his
SSnfiTe.r.e to irc"l through the plti.
? V! ""J " ,U11 be found that the founder
i a u iut-:iirjviij. jdUi In
f?JTJJ T.V thw n""y accepted -ruls. It ia
u-acea through, th feminine line.
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