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Show "Teddy" and Buffalo Bill. President Roosevelt, after the close of the campaign, will go to Wyoming for a big game hunt In the Big Horn country. In company with William Cody of Wild West fame, and several gentlemen gen-tlemen from England, such at least being be-ing tho schedule announced. The American Amer-ican people, and more especially the sportsmen of the American people, will not begrudge President Roosevelt his yacation. He has earned It. In the month of October he Blgned an order, at the request of Secretary Hitchcock, setting set-ting aside as a Government reservation, reserva-tion, three Islands of the Mississippi river Delta, In the great sea marsh, to be held as a preserve and breeding ground for tho native "wild fowl, under un-der the charge of the Department of Agriculture. The reserve will be called the Breton reservation, nnd Its establishment estab-lishment will, no doubt, make President Roosevelt unpopular with the market shooters who killed 300,000 ducks there last scason. Of course, but few ducks breed so far south, yet this winter harborage har-borage Is a most excellent thing. The Idea should be duplicated In North Dakota Da-kota and Minnesota, where tho result In actual breeding would be greater. The people of America, already deprived of so much of their original out-of-door heritage, ought to have given to them. Inalienably and forever, large bodies of land, large tracts of forests and waters and marshes. There will be sportsmen ond outdoor men after us the more, the better for America. It Is a good statesmanship states-manship to preserve and provide for them. The President who shall use his best endeavor In annually Increasing the areas of Its national parks and reserves re-serves for this patient, prodigal, unthinking un-thinking people of ours, will deserve well of that people's remembrance now and In later years. November Field and Stream. |