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Show LXIT.IIJII.N.UION AltltLSlKD. It was a wise and timely proceeding on tho part of the i;overnmnt when It set apart tt corner of the public do. main to be dedicated and held to tho perpetual away ol nature undellled. The frontier was long since swept away aud pteoe by piece tho erosive hand of clvllltlon Is supplanting tho wastes with productive fields, Tho next generation will find no wilder-niaa wilder-niaa within our borders that cannot be crossed In a day or loss, unless wo exclude ex-clude the National Turk In the northwest north-west corner of Wyoming. It It not to bo said that It will continually maliitulu all the physical conditions with which nature luvosted It, nor that lit chief features In the flora aud fauua departments depart-ments will undergo nu chatigu or diminution; for already are there some of tho convenience! of 111 : lorn life wlthlu the broad area, and the outposls of clvllttatbn havu drawn up well ulgh to Its borders. Thou who havo little regard for law and r.onu at all for sentiment have very frtquently piled the nefarious avocation of (Kiaoher within tho preserves, nnd they do so yet, not becauie there Is morn or belter ifsoia thero than elsewhere, but because, we presume, that dls position In man which Incites him to do that which liu is forbidden to do to eat of the fruit which Is denied him even though luferlor to that on other trees, Is uot yet worked out of us although al-though the cxierUnco of the great beginning as an example and thu teachings and admonitions of ull tho Intervening centuries us precepts are plainly aud constantly before us, II Is gratifying to learn that poachln j Is on the decrease in the Yellowstone park. The government has provided pro-vided the usual safeguard of n game-keeper game-keeper who Is constantly on the alert, but he Is not ubiquitous and lilt watcluara Is wide and in-ptclous. in-ptclous. While ho Is 111 one corner anybody can speud h day In the opposite oppo-site ono and that la usually about as much time as the nverago tportsmau wants In ono locality. Doubtless with thecomlng seasons nnd the number of those who aru wllllug to run the risk ofa predatory vltltto thu park increasing increas-ing by reason of thu drifting around of settlers, mote thorough precautions will bojmilutalnei aud whatever is needed to continue primeval conditions us neatly as posslblu I e adopted. In Utah u have, perhaps, roinu men of the klud apoken of, but wu nlso have some of a dl-posltlon exactly tho -evcise. While tho former urn reek, lug to obliterate all tracts of former .vlldness as relates to everything lu nature, the latter aru making ellorts lu prrsf and If poltle perrfliitlM sj-ne of ths dldtlNftlvely Indigenous features. We have a lullalo farm at Lake Point, tome twenty-flve mil" west of this city, where about n doren of these animals roam unlettered and unmolested. Unless such Immediate contsct with clvlllntloii (hall prove detrimental, thero would scuu to le no reason why they should not prmpvr aud Increase. It Is to bo ho;d lliey will. They are certainly an Interesting In-teresting nnd alhetlo rpcctarlo. Probably there are not so many ol their race auywhero clso In the world, or perhaps we ought to say In North America, since they have never beoii found nny whtro else. They havo bteu hunted, driven, slaughtered and nil but exterminated; Indeed, except for the humane and publlo-splrlled action of the gentlemen who got this bird together, It Is quistionablulf there would now be so many of them alive all told and mother yotr or two woulJ rco tho last of tho species. I'erhaps they do uot realise how sadly unique thtlr position Is, nnd perhaps they do; who can tell " |