The herald., 1894-01-03
rHs PRESERVATION OF CAKE.


ton. In this everybody is Interested,
and, while the HERALD does not believe
in re-enacting the English game laws in
America, it doea believe that there
should be some means OF defending the
deer, elk and antelope as we'll as the
game birds. from the predsceous incur
sions of men who shoot birds for the
restaurant tables and the outcasts who
cohabit with squaws in the northern
part of this state and shoot deer for
their hides and horns.
The English game laws of England
are relic OF the feudal period and pro-
vide that although man may pay rent
for piece of land, he acquires no privi-
lege beyond growing cabbage, corn o.
potatoes on that land; and if that man
shoots hare or pheasant on that land
he is sent to jail for it, just the same as
if the shooting had taken place on some
body else's land. In 1929 boy named
John Daley was banished from Ireland
to Botany bay for shooting hare on a
piece of land for which his father paid
an annual rental OF SO los per acre. On
his release from duress young DALEY
married the daughter OF an ex-convict,
snd the result OF that union WAS Will
lam Bede Daley, the greatest lawyer
and the foremost statesman ever born
south OF the equator. In 1885 the queen
rendered him the order of knighthood
as reward for his distinguished serv-
ices, but Daley declined it. There is
comment on English law for you.
Between all such laws az those and
the present lax manner OF shooting
game, there should be some happy me-
dium. Certainly, no intelligent Ameri-
can would send man to Jail for shoot
ing half-g grown quail in order to sppease
the pangs of hunger. But there should
be some law to punish men like the
English globe-trotter who, in 1885. went
to Belknap Springs in Oregon and shot
five deer in one afternoon. leaving their
carcasses to rot on the ground. The
laws against treapass are wholesome and
should be enforced on all occasions. II
man desires to shoot on your lands, it
do so. II thing is worth having, it is
worth asking for and in polite manner,
at that. Your professional hunter sell
dom cares TO do that. however. He
claims that this is free country to all (;
therefore he climbs your fences to take
the chances of killing your horses or
locating q galena vein in one OF your
cows.
The writer has observed that will
game is always abundant closely ada
cent to preserves. Take the Santa Anita
rancho, where shooting is strictly for
hidden on account OF danger to the val
liable horses that are bred there. Just
outside the Santa Anita boundaries ia
the best quail shooting in this county
simply because no preserving is wholly
effectusl. Birds will escape, and the
public get the benefit thereof.
Just 80 at the east. The salt meadows
between Newark and Elizabeth, in New
Jersey, furnished large share OF the
game consumed in the New York mar
ket. Now you cannot kill quail, snips
or duck within ten miles Of those towns,
because there was never any attempt at
preservation there. But go down on
Long island, where the Belmonts, Van
dsrbilts, Lorillards. Minturns and others
have located their preserves, and there
is good shooting to be had all through
those pine bsrrens, Just as good as forty
years ago. The cause of this ia obvious.
The preserved grounds of the New York
millionairss have served as hatcheries
for the open lands.
It does seem ss If, when a man buys
land and fences it in. he should have
the exclusive say as to who shall cross
his fences or open his gates. Give
us fair and equitable preserving law,
like that of New York; and you will
hear of no complaints about the de-
crease of wild game in our midst even a
century hence. With miles of sterile
mountain businesses, and morasses that
are not likely to be drained in hundreds
Of years, there should always be an abun-
dance of quail and wildfowl. With re-
gard to deer and elk, the problem is a
more difficult one.
Some years ago a man was travelling
through Siskiyou county with rife
in his wagon. Seeing an old man seated
on the porch of his cabin, he asked:
Daddy, is there any game around
here?''
"Yaas." replied the pioneer; "the
boys gets down to the store at the cross
roads and has a game OF poker every
once in while. 'Taint as lively as it
used to be, though"
"Oh, confound your gsmbling," said
the other. "Are there no deer nor
bears about this vicinity ?''
Bar? Deer? Yaas, OF course, lots of
'em. Why in thunder didn't you say
meat in the frat place?"
There's the key to the whole situa.
ton. The people who came to this
country prior to 1870 lived SO much on
the product OF the rifle that they called
everything 'mest." And until the
blood OF the pioneers becomes con-
sideraDly thinned down by immigration,
it will bs hard work to convince people
that bear, deer, antelope and elk are
game and worthy OF preservation as
such So far az bears are conceruad