Show FISH AND GAME iiams looking at the noble savage from ha his natural aspect it seems galling not to say distressing that he should should be deprived of the sources whence he derives his food and raiment mainly to suit the convenience of the white man through whose advent he has been deprived of his forests and lands his home in fine nine his noble hunting grounds cat into shreds by railways and himself driven forth au an outcast on the world for and with is at least a condition of things the pale face is in the habit of repelling if he can non habet the invader appears on the silent scene and the struggle 3 for life begins unoccupied lands game g agle ahie running wild and fish in the streams acquire a value unknown hitherto in addition to increased demand forests are cut down and streams po and bountiful nature is handicapped in supplying nourishment for her children and so it happens that in these days legislative enactments are actually required to keep up the supply of food of this kind owin owing to the greater demand and enhanced value as compared with former days of fish and game gamo the noble redman still plying his vocation the engines of destruction bows and arrows spears ears hooks and lines seem to 7 tave have ave been discarded and the more destructive agents of the spoiler adopted these indians the rum and tobacco castaways casta ways of noble races have been known to sell as much as from two to three tons of trout to dealers in lish tish said to have been cau caught with hook and line but really destroyed by giant powder in view of the fact that thal there ane aue only oui oni y three or four reservoirs in the territory for the germination of this kind 4 of A fish the time must inevitably come round when trout instead of being the plentiful diet it is will be a luxury thus it is that for the sake of the small remuneration given to them these people regardless of the morrow would fairly stamp out of existence such articles of food rood as fish and game A letter read before the legis lativs council the other day plainly demonstrated that between morgan city and lost creek considerable progress is being made in this direction from miu twenty to thirty deer having been destroyed daily by these mighty hunters not for food but for gaffi gam doubtless at the instigation of dealers in these articles whatever our legislators may do in this matter their action should be reciprocated by neighboring states and territories no person should be allowed to take tish fish and game by any other than lawful means and no one who has done otherwise should be encouraged cou raged to cross a boundary line to dispose of his plunder ANGLER AN GLER |