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floiOBETE W««
By HERBERT K. JOB.
lAuthor of “Wild Wtnga.’’ “Tbs Sport of game is a public asset, and any one
B ir d S t u d y ," etc.' P h o t o g r a p h » by tbs
who takes It for private use ought to
author.J
be willing to pay for the special privi
H E time baa come when. If we lege the moderate amount asked.
are to have any birds or wild
The policy of the National Associa
game left on thia continent, we tion of Audnhon Societies Is to make
must fight burd for it. Specie« special efforts at strategic points. So,
after species Is fndlng from existence
for Instance, at present New Jersey Is
right tiefore our eyee. The mUtlnery being made a center of effort. Massa
fa«l for the wearing of wild bird chusetts, Connecticut sn«^ New York
plumage, if not checked, would soon
muke our national domain hlrdleea.
Insect pests now cause a loss to agri
culture of «Sno.000.000 annually. E x
cessive shooting, particularly that In
the spring, is using up our fine game
species of wild fowl and Bhore birds
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IN MEMORIAM.
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Copyright, 1909, by American Pre»» Association.
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AT PEACE IN RIVERSIDE PARK.
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Are not «lone confined to Rural Free Delivery of mail
and the Telephone.
There ie another convenience which all
farmer« should have
and many do h a v e — a checking ac
count with a good hauk.
The poawseeor of such an account
avoid« the riek of having hie money on hie perron or about
hi« home where it ia in danger of fire and thieve«.
Hla bill« paid by check are not only a valid receipt, but
also a convenience in hi« home transaction« where very often
(ha neoeesary change for concluding settlem ent ie not at hand
THE D A LLE S
K j? id a y ,
By Captala F. A. MITCHEL
(Copyright, 1909, by’ American Press A b . o -
clation. j
- ‘‘My son." said the old civil w ar vet
•rap, “ I do not wish you to follow lu
my footstep. In the m atter o f war.
‘W a r,’ as Uenerul Shurina a said. Js
bell.’ ”
“But. father, think of the glory!’’
“T he glory often fall« where It does
not belong and is usually overrated. I
w ill tell you a
«lory to illustrate
my point.' Two
young men went
from our town
to t h e c i v i l
war. They were
friends and had
■Been sc b o o l -
mates. We will
call them Tom
Ford and Billy
C h a m b e r lin .
They were both
ordlunry y o u n g
fellows a m o n g
t h e i r associates
until t h e y be
came s o ld ie rs ,
and then they
were transform
ed Into prema
ture heroes. The
TOOK HIM TO covin. girls would have
nothing to do with the other boys, whose
civilian clothes seemed very common
place beside the uniforms. Tom Ford
was a tall, handsome fellow, and one
of the girls suddenly discovered that
she loved him. And she did. A girl
may be caught by the veriest tinsel,
but when once caught she Is caught
forever.
.»
"W ell, Toro and Billy marched away.
They did nothing but march and lie
In camp for awhile and began to wish
they could get into a light.
When
they did get Into a tight It had hnrdly
begun before they wished It were over.
A fte r a charge by the enemy Billy was
trying to find the remains of the regi
ment that had gone In under a perfect
alignment with flags flying, hut all he
could find were dead and wounded.
I ’asaing a wounded officer, Billy heard
him groan and, picking him up, was
about to carry biro aw ay when a vol
ley wns poured Into them. The officer
bogged Billy to drop him. hut Billy
wouldn't and amid a shower of bullets
took him to cover bellied a atone wall
“The officer die», a few houra later In
B illy’s arms. He begged Billy to ac
cept a handsome gold watch he wore,
and when Billy declined, snylng that
he might be accused o f rifling a dead
body, the dying man produced a pen
cil and paper and wrote down how
B illy’s bravery had got him to cover
nnd that he had given Billy his watch
In remembrance of the same. Only he
didn’t w rite Billy's name at all, for
Billy gave him another one. and this
1« how that happened:
“A fte r getting the officer to coven the
poor fellow ’s groan« were heartrend
ing and hie cries for w ater worse than
his groans. To get the horrible «ound
out of his ear« Billy aftkl he’d go and
And some water. As they were on
elevated ground, he knew there was
none, but he couldn’t stand the agony
any longer without a rest. He crossed
the field where his regiment bad been
cut up and suddenly came upon his
friend Tom Ford lying on his beck,
looking straight up at the peaceful
heavens. Tom'« front teeth had been
knocked out, and he had lost an eye.
B illy bent over him. and the eigh t If
he had not been made sick of w ar al
ready, certainly completed hla horror
Urn.
of It He epoke te the wounded man,
« t o Oil «ot appear to (nee<al«a
at a terrible rate. The Labrador duck
long ago became extinct, and the wood
duck, our most beautiful native water
fow l, w ill soon be lost unless mess
ores are taken to stop I t The beau
tifu l little teals and other One edible
ducks are vanishing from the eastern
parts of the United States. Every one
knows how about tw enty years ago
the Immense hordes o f wild or passen
ger pigeons widen used to darken the
sky by their multitude were finally
exterminated. Jest In the same way
baa the Eskimo curlew disappeared,
which used to leave I-abrador by mil
lions and aptiear along our Atlantic
coasts In great flocks In early fall.
Its companion, the celebrated golden
plover, is rapidly approaching the s«me
fate and with It the sickle hilled cur
lew. the two gixlwlts. the eastern wll-
let, the upland plover and the piping
plover. In fact, all our shore birds are
In danger. Except In the south and
west there are hardly auy left.
Home say that w ith the growth of
population this is bound to be the case.
SO BINO WOOD DUCK, O N ! OF OUR DIHAP-
PKARIMO Hl'lXlKH-
have recently made spring shooting Il
legal and have enforced u llceuse fee
- - TS-rtfWii
ou hunters, nnd New Jersey, It Is ear
nestly hoped, will follow ault In pass
ing the similar bills.
The w riter haa Juat been giving a ae
"Let us have peace!” The words more precious ^rew
ries of free illustrated educational lec
When from Grant’s lips they bads our hatreds cease.
tures along thia line throughout the
North, south, from hearts to brothers’ hearts they flew —
state and had the experience of not
“Let us have peace!”
meeting a single objection Jo his pro
gram and arguments. Apparently the
A
only opposition comes from certain dis
SU sal warrior! In one sentence was revealed .
tricts along shore which are really
The heart of gold behind that visage grim.
standing In their own lig h t This Is
No deed he did upon the tented field
also true In various other states. The
greatest destruction occurs In the
More honored him.
southern states. Louisiana, however,
r
has taken a splendid stand and. under
Today I saw his tomb. From discord free,
the lead of the president of Its fish and
I felt one spirit through the land Increase.
game commission, Frank M. Miller, la
The sword is sheathed! ALbva has her victory!
n vking herself a model for all her
neighbors to follow.
And he has peace!
A ..
I f states and communities realised
JAMES A. EDGERTON.
the value of game as a financial asset,
they would protect and preserve It
with intelligent care. An illustration
BOYS DEFEND A BRIDGE.
THE UNKNOWN DEAD.
In point is the experience of the little
community of 000 people at Moriches They W»r» In Charge 6f Thair Tesch- There sr» grav«» that 11« in th» for»»t
bay. Ixmg island. Because there Is
•rs, Gray Headed nt mister».
deep,
some reasonably good duck shooting-
An order came from General Lee
There are grave» on the plain slons,
only In autumn, rn lu d -■ aportsmen'a for every alck nnd wounded man who Where the fallen »oldiora calmly »l»»p
club has located there, bought real es w as'able to report nt Staunton river
'Neath th» plain board marked “U n
tate to the value of $100,000 and ex bridge, ns General Cortz with 2,760
known.”
pends each year at least $3,600 direct men wan advancing to burn the
ly in that community. The local hunt bridge," writes n survivor.
ers can get about 36 cents in the mar
“Colonel Farrington put HTc Tff com
ket for each duck they shoot, but for mand of the artillery.
A fter telling
each duck shot by the club the com yach mnn what I expect,si him to do
munity receives $3. It pays to have and how to do It I received an order
good bunting, and this is true of any from Colonel Farrington to report nt
other locality.
once to hla headquarter«. 1 found he
I t is high time, too, for all Intelli wished to bold ft council of war. Dur
V
gent women to refuse to Wear wild Ing our talk tw’o nnd I think three
bird plumage In their hats. It Is a old gray headed ministers reported
mere matter of blind fashion, decreed
In Paris by a male oligarchy, and ta
both wasteful and cruel. Every algret
or osprey worn by a lady means that
she has caused a brood of young to
starve to death to gratify her vanity.
Ther» «r» grave» where no praysr was
ever heard
Nor sound of th» muffled drum,
But their dirg» ia sung by the forest
bird,
While the wild be»» drowsily hum.
3?
fie was breathing, so Billy knew he
was not dead, but he was disfigured.
“ Billy now had two wounded men
on hla hands. H e went back to the
one he had left to see 11 he was dead
He fouud him still alive, and It was
then that he gave Billy his watch. He
asked Billy his name to put It in* the
paper he wrote.
A sudden thought
struck Billy. I t occurred to him how
his friend, Tom, would appear to his
girl disfigured as be was, and he
thought he might do something to help
the matter. H e told the officer to put
In Thomas Ford.
The officer did as
he was asked and
soon a fte r drew
his last breath.
“As soon as the
officer was dead
Billy h u r r i e d
back to F o r d ,
w horn he found
In the same con
dition as before.
Billy shoved the
watch rolled In
the paper with
the w ritin g Qn It
Into Ford's pock
et, then carried
him to s tempo
rary hospital and
left him to he
taken care of by
the s u r g e o n s .
Boon n fter this C A M S UVOW TO K
FO RD.
DOV.N1 WOOPPKCKRR, RISING CREST, STUB
he found the rem
HKKKINO FOB U B U B S.
nant of his regiment and wns plugging
hut I t^ s not so. It la not the case In
away again at the enemy.
“Now, Billy didn’t really think much old England, and It need not be so
The present conditions are
of anything he had done. It never oc here.
curred to him that there was any largely due to past Indifference, blind
bravery In carrying the officer to ness nnd unchecked greed. The mai-
re can be «topped and the a|>ecles
cover. He had done the same thing
before and had not considered himself which we still have can be saved if
a hero. But he thought the Incident only the American people w ill arouse
might be appreciated for more than It to their responsibility.
Just now we are really beginning to
was worth by the folks at home end
make Toro’s girl stick to him If Ton) do some sober thinking about “the con
recovered. Tom did recover nnd, hav servatlon of the national resources,”
ing no remembrance of the wmtcb and which has become one of the great
paper in hla pocket, concluded that ha themes of the present age. Birds and
must hnve aaved some one and had | harmless wild game are aaauredly one
the memory of It all obliterated by hla of the nation's moat valuable assets.
The public la beginning to see 1L
wound.
"Torn weut home and was discharged. Sportsmen, agricultural Interests, lov
Billy fought on to the close of the war. ers ’ of wild nature, are becoming
Many organisations have
when he went home to find Tom • aroused.
much lauded hero. H e hnd married been and are being formed to save the
his girl, who was wild birds and game, among which la
v e ry p r o u d . of the great National Association of Ao
BLACK BKLTKD PDOVBR.
dubon Societies, w ith local organisa
him.
“ Billy w as de tions in nenrly every state of the The traffic Is blotting out’ s priceless
lighted
at
the Union. It Is doing a tremendous edu national asset, turnlug billions of In-
success} of hla cational. protective and legislative se<it peets loose upon the nation’s har
ruse, for, yup work, w ith the policy o f selecting cer vests, vandalising the f a i r , face of
see, he k n e w tain strategic things to do and making the national domain, destroying song
Torn would n' C<J great efforts to pnt them through.
and beauty. Surely It la time to call a
something In llcO
A t present two of these paramount halt.
________________
of his eye and Issues are the stopping of spring shooi
his teeth, though n g and a collecting of a license fee
SWIFT TRANSMISSION.
Billy didn’t ex from nil hunters by law In each state.
p e c t t h a t M a The custom of shooting wild fowl and
own carrying « ■bore birds on their spring migration An Important Federal Improvement Fee
New York.
wounded man for M irth Is one of the principal causes
a few seconds of their extermination. It Is simply - r. A ft» r a delay of nearly twelve years
would result lu •Uicklnl to kill nature’s selected breed- work will be begun this summer to
c o v e r in g
h is tag stock at this time. The traffic sb- connect the New York custom bouse
friend with the •Olutcly cannot stand the gun tariff and the appraiser’s stores with pneu
halo of heroism levied upon It. There Is nothing to be matic tubes for the transmission of
for a whole life said In Its favor. I f persisted In this letters. Invoices aud other official doc
time.”
whole clsas of game birds win In time uments relating to the entry of Import
P V T T H E W ATCH 1 5
“And did Billy disappear. Many states have stopped ed merchandise at thia p o rt It Is es
FO R D ’S PO CK ET.
never regret that It. and each state which continues to timated that the new system will ex
he had turned this hftlo over to nn- •D ow It la making itself a stumbling pedite greatly the delivery of gooda to
other T’
Block In the path of progress and in Importers
The president has signed the bill ap
“Never, H ad he kept It for himself juring its neighbors by weakly yield
he would have lived under a feeling ing to greedy and Ignorant clamor on propriating $100.000 for the installs
that the work perform«*! wns entirely the part of a few who. after all. are tlon of the tubes. There will be two
tubes, so that there w ill be no inter
Incommensurate w ith the lifetime of but a small minority.
As for the licensing of hunters, with ■aptloo of service In either direction.
praise it. evoked."
All that now remains ta the permis
“But, father. I f Billy has n son Isn't moderate feea. It la the approved way
he entitled to the halo by Inheritance7” te secure revenue to employ wardens sion of the city authorities to the open
This permission
“Oh, yes! You’re entitled to Its re and enforce the game laws. Twenty- ing of the street«
The tube«
four states are trying It «uceessfully. w ill be granted fesdlly
flection.**
“Father, why ha«« you never told and no state which has tried it has w ill run from the custom house through
me this before ?"
aver given It up. From the proceeds Battery place, to Washington street and
This la one of the minor tragedies ot thereof they finance game commissions tbance to the appraiser's wfrefaouse at
the great conflict which have been sod make effective the warden serv Washington and Christopher street«
For many years the official docu
overshadowed by the record of great et to«, introduce new game stock and
events. There are many like It still even pay back Into ths state treasury meats have been excbangal betweea
unwritten, «11 breathing th« spirit of
- I " » of moooy. The prinetpto^f the two govarumant,. buildings bg
Heed not if the falling drops great our
ears
As w» deck each lowly bed.
God’s cloud» are weeping »orrewful
tears
O'er th» graves of the unknown deed.
“FIBR V ’W Ai^D FAHI I”
that they were there With their a, tiool-
boys to help save the brklsr.
" It occurred to me at om e thilt this
was our chance, nnd I advised Colonel
Farrington to put the bo.t a In the
breastworks on the other side o f the
river, the river being behind them nnd
the enemy In front of them. The colo
nel agreed at once. Tlve ministers I h >
-
pnn to protest on account of the age
nf the boys. T h e colonel asked If they
lid not come to help save the bridge,
ind he Insisted U|x>n their bolding their
josltlon.
"The rest o f the command was then
placed in brenstworks on tho south
«Id« of the river. 1 then went nt once
back to the artillery. I hnd scarcely
ranched It when I saw the enemy come
aut and form In line of buttle to charge
:he bridge, four times our number. My
heart went out to those hoys. I opened
lire on the enemy nt once with the four
n n s nnd did nil the harm I could. I
Tried to make them think that we hnd
i large force In their front. At this
(line the order ou the other side was
elven to charge.
Down came 2,600
men on those boys and disabled Bol
sters. Not a word did we hear from
the boys until the enemy were within
• bout 200 yards of them, when one of
rhe dear old ministers sprang upon the
works and gave the order, ‘Flro low
• nd fse tr The little fellows swarmed,
jp from the ground like ‘yellow Jeck-
rts.' I do not know thnt they* killed
many, but the result was that the en-
im y waa rdpulsed and as badly fright-
>ned as I ever saw.
•T h e bridge was esved. and In my
lodgment Mted by the praacbera god
to«f
’ ’I T ’TftvJI ’* * '
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’■ «V a »,!,,
Narva of a Wound»d Boldisr.
One ilny nn army surgeon wa» dreos-
Ing the wound of a soldier who had
been shot In the neck near the carotid
artery. Suddenly the blood vessel gave
' lot r r
eo!"
wny. and Just as quickly the surgeon
thrust Ills finger Into the bole to etop
the flow.
-
.
“D octorsaid the soldier, “what does
that mean?”
“It means death.” said the surgeon
calmly.
“How long can I live?** asked tke
soldier, whose mind was perfectly
Hear.
i
“ U n til I remove my finger," sold the
doctor.
The soldier asked for pen end pop««
wrote hla w ill and an affectionate lot*,
ter to his wife and when the last Uda*
waa done said quietly:
U
«Let it fUt”
The aurgoon withdraw hla tBMBU
tha Wood raahod out»
to h
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