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Show GUARDIAN OF GAME i ! Dr. Theodore S. Palmer Protects Pro-tects Uncle Sam's Preserves. ADVISER OF' LEGISLATURES Amusing Story of How A. Allen Parker and Allen Parker Obtained Their Lieutenants' Commissions In the Regular Army. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. Dr. Theodore S. Palmer Pal-mer of the government's biological survey Is the guardian of all the game of the United States. He knows every quail covert in the country, he can number the herds of elk in the western mountains, and he - knows every runway of the deer of the Adi-ror.dacks. Adi-ror.dacks. This physician-naturalist provides for the protection of the game in Uncle Sam's preserves, and sees to it that no poacher shall escape punishment. punish-ment. The doctrine of states' rights bars government action in the matter of law-making for any section of the country save territories, the national parks and the forest reserves, but this fact does not prevent Dr. Palmer from being the adviser-in-chief of nearly near-ly every body of legislators in the land when the game laws stand in need of revision. There is much game left In the United States, notwithstanding repeating re-peating firearms and the ease of access ac-cess to the wilds made possible by the rapid railroad extension of recent years. The Audubon societies, by arousing public sentiment, have done more than all the laws on the statute books for the preservation of the song birds, but the law alone, with strong men to enforce it, is responsible for the continued presence of the deer in the forest and the antelope on the plain. ception is not considered as one having hav-ing to do with officialdom, although curiously enough there are more ofll-, cials of government present at It thaa at any one of the four other receptions, to which the term "official" Is applied.; For the first time since he came to, America the Right Honorable James; Bryce, the British ambassador, led the line at the reception of the diplomats. diplo-mats. Mr. Bryce Is ranked in length, of service by Mr. J. J. Jusserand, the French ambassador, and by Baron Hengelmuller von Hengervar, who is the dean of the diplomatic corps. It recently has been rumored that the. ambassadors of France and Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary are to be recalled, and if this prove true it is probable that the representative of Great Britain for the first time In a good many years will hold the rank in position In Washington of the corps of foreigners. There also have been rumors that Mr. Bryce is to be recalled, but from the best Informed sources It Is learned learn-ed to be likely that he will remain here until the present ruling party in Eng'and passes from power, unless, un-less, of course. It should keep its place for a great many years to come. Something in These Names. What's in a name Is a question and a quotation in one which has passed into what the flippant call the class of the bromides. A good deal Is found , : to be in some names when one reads the list of the diplomatic representatives representa-tives of Austria-Hungary to the United Unit-ed States. The ambassador's name, as will be seen by a glance at it above, has a good deal to It, but It becomes a small affair when compared com-pared with the names of some of the subordinates in his office. For instance, in-stance, there Is Capt. Baron F. Preus-chen Preus-chen von und zu Llebensteln. naval attache. The wife of the captain baron carries the same name. Then there are Count Felix von Brusselle-Schaubeck Brusselle-Schaubeck and Ivan Csekonics de Zsombolja et Ianova. Then also, for fuller measure, there Is Secretary of Legation Stephen Hedry de Hedrl et de Genere Aba. Why the secretary spells Hedry, which occurs twice In his name, two different ways not even the attaches of the embassy seem to be able to tell. Tale of the Two Parkers. In the United States army there are two officers, one named A. Allen Parker Par-ker and the other named Allen Parker. These two men are not Dromlos In appearance, ap-pearance, though their names escape that fate by the bare breadth of one Initial letter and thereby hangs a war department story. When the Spanish war broke out A. Allen Parker was a senior at Perdue university, in Indiana. He volunteered volunteer-ed for service against the Spaniards, went to the front as a corporal of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Fifty-eighth Indiana infantry, and served out his enlistment with credit. After the war was over, A. Allen Parker felt a desire to enter the regular reg-ular army as a commissioned officer. Uncle Sam's forces were being Increased In-creased and the government had vacancies va-cancies for young men who had served against the Spaniards, who could get the proper recommendations, and who could pass the required physical phys-ical and mental examination. There were more young men who desired the positions than there were vacancies, and so. feeling qualified both by military mili-tary education and by his record to become a second lieutenant, Corporal A. Allen Parker asked the member of congress from his district to recommend recom-mend him for a commission In the regulars. The obliging congressman went to the war department and stated his c""nt's case. The war department looked up the Spanish war records and found that Corporal A AlleD Parker of Indiana had a most credit able record and the congressman was told that before long A. Allen Parker of Indiana would receive notification to present himself before a board of officers at Fort Sheridan for examination examina-tion for his commission Wrong Man Was Notified. Back in Indiana Corporal A. Allen Parker waited for six weeks and heard nothing. Then he went to his congressman, who was home on a visit, and told him that he feared thai the war department had been forgetful. forget-ful. The congressman went back to Washington that night, and, going straight to the department, asked why his constituent. A. Allen Parker, had not received orders to take his examination. People Like Frequent Elections. The Republican and Democratic national na-tional committees have held their meetings in Washington. The presidential presi-dential campaign is on. The political activities of the American people are practically ceaseless. National, state and local elections follow one another--,- in unbroken round. It is held that in short terms of office lies the greater safety for free institutions. It has been asserted and argued to the limit of patience and endurance that the campaigning times, with their attendant excitement, coming as they do with barely a space between, tend to the breaking of the health of the business life. Prosperity, however, has been so generally a part of the country's coun-try's history that little heed is given to the complaining cry. The fear of a possible instability of Institutions that might follow a change has outweighed out-weighed the fear of a possible but temporary tem-porary commercial instability. In Massachusetts, where, because of the supposed effect of a traditional habit of thought, the people might be expected to look with favor on a long tenure of public office, the governor gov-ernor of the state is elected for one year, and, until recently, the mayor of Boston also held office only for a twelvemonth. Massachusetts and Boston Bos-ton are not weaklings commercially. Naming Presidents a Great Game. The recurring talk of a term of six years for the president and the talk of life terms for senators, Is probably but talk for talk's sake. Anything that has politics for a basis Is of Interest Inter-est to the live American, and in the i pursuit of mild excitement proposl- tions are advanced for v. hich the advancer ad-vancer couldn't get a vole not even his own. American politics deals largely In futures The naming of presidents Is done so many thousands ol times before be-fore the convention days that figures cannot keep the count The question ques-tion of U::' tnullltude tint witnesses the oath taking of a president on the platform east of the capital is: "Who will lake the oatt four yen's fro'iti day?" There are some thousands of individual members of the multitude who will be quick to give a iswer, and each can back the given name with reasons that he believes all convlnc- The military secretary told the congressman that Parker had not only been ordered before an examining board, but that he had passed his ex amination and was now a full-fledged second lieutenant of Infantry stationed at the Presidio In San Francisco The congressman was as dumbfounded dumb-founded as a congressman ever allows himself to be. He said that if Parker of Indiana was in the army be was leading a dual existence. Then they went to the records and there they found that Allen Parker, a ! corporal of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Six-tieth Indiana infantry, had written the war department and expressed a desire de-sire for a commission The officials had thought that this Allen Parker was A. Allen Parker, the congressman's friend, and Instanter tbey had ordered him to Fort Sheridan Sheri-dan for examination. He passed, was commissioned by the president and confirmed by the senate and reached his California post within a month, and all this as a result of a short letter let-ter saying that be would like the job of a second lieutenant The Indiana congressman succeeded in getting a commission for Corporal A. Allen Parker, but it took three months, and Allen Parker, the lucky, ranked his Indiana namesake 100 flies ! on the lineal list. I Bryce Leads the Diplomats. ! The president and Mrs. Taft have just held their first official reception of the year. The New Year's. day re- lng. it Is a great game and II makes for safety There never has been a lime since Washington was Inaugurated In the city of New York when the concerns of legislation, no matter how vital lo the country, have been strong enough to keep politics and the matter of the presidential succession out of the people's peo-ple's minds The American thrives on politics proof enough, perhaps, that it Is a healthy food. A president la to be nan ed next summer by one or the other of two conventions. The campaign has been In progress ever since the election returns re-turns were In on the November night more than three years ago that saw the election of William Howard Taft. The presidential campaign Is always on Just a little more so In the present Instance because of the personality of the executive, because of hla statement state-ment of "never again" which some of the people won't believe, and because of the Issues, which In a sense have divided the Republican party Into two factions though unfortunately enough, classes might be the better word. His Idea. Mr. Homebody- 1 see you keep copies cop-ies of all the letters you write to your wife. Do you do it to avoid repeating repeat-ing yourself? Mr. Faraway No. To avoid contr'.-I contr'.-I dieting myself. New York Globe. |
