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Imperial Pnss
Saturday. Auguat 17, Till,
GAME PRESERVING
TIII.KK wan a time, not ho very long
ago, when hunting wan the chief
a iii u seme nt of the KngHftli aristocracy i
The country squire prided himself on
hit thoroughbred hunter* and hound*,
and the care with which hit game wan
preserved for the pleasure of him self
and bin friend*. Thin tradition was
handed down from generations long
deid. When Kugland vra»a*yct partly
unclaimed wildcniCAN, hunting wan in
fact a M|x>rt lit for kings; for it takes
an much bravery to risk death by the
hungry jaws of a pack of wolvc* or a
tierce wild boar as in the form of an
arrow or the stroke of a battle-axe.
Hut this time did not last very long.
The life o| the noble was too precious
to be risked in this fashion; and ho,
when governing |>owcr became more
valuable to the laud than mere brute
strength, hunting gradually came to
be more or less ««f a farce, with all the
danger taken out of it. There was
just enough risk in riding to hound* to
make it the moftt popular of all sports;
and jiint enough skill wan required to
shoot pheasant** or hares to make the
huniueftA a little more serious than
play.
As time wore on, therefore, the pre
serving of game became a serious mat
ter for the Knglish aristocrat; for the
land was becoming thickly populated,
and manifestly, if everyone were al
lowed to shoot game there would be
none left to *hiK>t in a little while, and
then where would his sport be? He
still clung to the idea that there was
somehow more amusement in shooting
at a live creature than in aiming at a
mark, and that the former occupation
was m«»re essentially that of a gentle
man. The feelings of the animal were
not considered. Compassion for the
victim wan held to be womanish and
unmanly. , All such sentiment was
put utterly out of the question.
We have, therefore, two factor** in
the situation disregard for the sti-fier-
i ii^ s of animals, and a conviction that
their slaughter was a business pecu
liarly fine and manly. Mark the effect
of thin on the public sentiment of Eng
land. In the first place, game laws
had to be passed, nfakiug it unlawful
to kill, trap, or snare animals of the
varieties desired to be preserved. This
wan not all. Forests had to be kept
for the purpose of a Hording this game
its natural home, in the case of ani
mals such as the deer or wild boar.
Early in Kuglish history the result of
preserving can be seen, for as far
back as the time of William the Con
queror the destruction of poor folk's
huts for the making of the "new for
est* roused anger and bitterness
among the English peasantry. There
was said to be a curse upon the forest,
of which the death of William Kuftis
while hunting there was alleged to be
a result. That wan one of the first
effects of the belief that the sport of
hunting was more valuable than the
welfare of living 1 beings. The poor,
who kill animals for food only, were
driven from their homes and into
towns in order that nobles might have
the "M|*>rt"of prolonging- the death of
the animal by chasing it in the ortho
dox fashion.
This tradition continued unbroken
for almost a thousand yearn. Within
the memory of persons now living,
nivii have been imprisoned for shoot ing
or snaring a hare to feed their starv
ing families. The landlord's sport
was worth ho much to him that it was
in his eyes a crime that the |x>or
tenant should interfere with it even in
a cufttf «>f life and death. He was ho
pohi»eh»ed with the idea of the ini|M>r*
Imperial ipicoo
tnucc of prrnrrviiiK gtimeto be *hot by '
lii it i •*«■! f niid hi* friend* that he left the
care of hi* tenant* to middlemen whone
only Interest wn* to make an ituich It
they could out of I»•>t Is parties. He!
paid more attention to thoroughbred
mil malt than to the condition of hi*
pt-anantry; It wn* more Important in
hi* eye* to li«- a k'i,.,.i shxt than a i;«.«.*l
landlord. ' It i* a Clirioui fact tliat any
Hort of iiiiuecenHary cruelty sec mi to
prcvcrl the whole nature of a man
»ooner or later. Thin does not apply
to tin* canning of »U fieri tig for a good
purpose i The Micce**fiil Mir^eon in
often a illoiit tender-hearted man, un
willing to inllict a single Heedless
pang; the itoldlcr in at hi* best when he
never sp«-nds a life needlessly, and
spare* Htiflering whenever it in *afe t'j
do no. J ln 1 when a itiau begins to
loone night of the useful end to be ac
hieved- when the vivUectiotiiftt be
comes iiitcrcntcd in hi* work for its
own nakc, or the soldier is possessed of
the lust of battle for the mere *»ake of
killing then that man begin* to de
generate. The aristocracy which made
sp«»rt an end in itself— that is, took dc
light in the mere killing of harmless
animals made their estates a byword
and reproach. Lawn were passed for
bidding the farmer to kill the hares
that ravaged hin crops; today in parts
of California the farmer is dented the
right to protect hi* crop which in being
ravaged by the deer, facing in bands of
50 to VA>, and almost totally destroying
everything before them. It is not yet
the time of year when the sportsman
cares to leave the city to chase the deer
and the fanner must therefore sit up
at night, after his hard day's work, to
'scare the animals away.
THEIR DESCENT TRACED FROM ADAM
Popular interest in Albert Judsoti
Fisher's unique lovestory, "A Daughter
of Adam," in the Ladies' Home Jour
nal for August, has been increased
tenfold .since it became known that the
genealogical part of the story is not
fiction but fact. Not only is the mar
velous line of decent, traced through
121 generations from Adam and Eve,
absolutely genuine, but also the family
names of the characters are the names
of real jieople, for the line is actually
that of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith Sar
gent of Chicago, and Mrs. Sargent was
formerly Miss Francis Moore, <»f War
ren, Khodc Island. Kven stranger still
is the fact that, as shown in the story,
Mr. and Mrs. Sargent had the same
ancestors eight generations back.
Talking against lynching seems to
have resulted in increasing, instead of
diminishing it, which is another proof
that anything 1 can be popularized if
given enough advertising.
Solid qualities of integrity, of thor
oughness, should outweigh in v girl's
estimate of a man mere superficial
cleverness and brilliancy.— August
Ladies' Home Journal.
Thi'.kk was a lively time on the Huf
fulo Exposition Midway when the
shows tried to open on Sundays in de
fiance of the police. The police won.
A Pleasureville, Pa. woman in an
attempt to frighten away burglars shot
her sister in the hack. A pistol in the
hands of an inexperienced person is
about as deadly as one supposed not to
he loaded.
The thirty Chicago retail merchants
who have combined to run a big de
partment store evidently believe that
the department store has come to *tay.
Late reports Indicate that many who
went to the Klondike for gold found
starvation.
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Flowing Wells 28 miles
Blue Lake 8 miles
.Cameron Lake Camp 1<» mile*
Monument 220 16# miles
Salton River 20# miles
West Mesa 27 ' V miles
Kast Mesa 28} i miles
Alonio Mocho 30*4 mile*
(Jardener's 36*» miles
Seven Wells 43.V miles
Salton Crossing 47,' i miles
Cook's Wells 51 •» miles
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