The Forrest City times., 1912-01-26
GUARDIAN OF GAME
Dr. Theodore s. Palmer Pro- tectS Uncle Sans Preserves.
ADVISER OF LEGISLATURES
Amusing Story of How 4. Allen Parker and Allen Parker Obtained Their lieutenants' Commissions In
 the Regular Army.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

mer of the governments 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 Adj rondacks
 This physieian.ra provides for the protection of the game in Uncle Sans preserves. and sees to | that no poaeher shall escape punish meat. The doctrine Of states rights bars government action in the matter Of law-making for any section of the country save terri oTies the national parks and the forest reserves. but this fact does not prevent Dr Palmer f.om being the adviser.in-chie of 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 re beating firearms and the ease of ac- cess 10 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
 Tale Of the Two Parkers.
 In the United States army there are two officers. one named A Allen Par. ker and the other named Allen Parker. These two men are not Dromios in ap pearance. though their names escape that fate by the bare breadth of one Initial letter-and thereby hangs war department story
 When the Spanish war broke out A. Allen Parker was a senior at Perdue university In Indiana He volunteer ed for service against the Spaniards, went to the front as a corporal of Company A. One Hundred and Fifty eighth Indiana infantry. and served out his enlistment with credit
 After the war was over. A Allen Parker felt desire to enter the reg ular army as a commissioned officer. Uncle Sans forces were being in- creased and the government had va cancies for young men who had served against the Spanfards. who could get the proper recommendations and who could pass the required phys ical and mental examination There were more young men who desired the positions than there were vacancies. and so, feeling qualified both by mill tary education and by his record to become a second lieutenant. Corporal Allen Parker asked the member of congress from his district to recon mend him for a commission fin the regulars.
 The oh1iging congressman went to the war department and stated his clients case. The war department looked up the Spanish war records and found that Corporal A Allen 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 examina- ton 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 that the war department had been forget. ful. The congressman went back to Washington that night. and. going straight 10 the department. asked why his constituent. A Allen Parker. had not received orders to take his exani- nation
 The military secretary told the congressman that Parker had not only been ordered before an examining board, but that he had passed his ex animation and was now full-fledeed second lieutenant of infantry stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco.
 The congressman was as dumb. founded IS a congressman ever allows himself 10 be. He said that if Parker of Indiana was in the army he 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 Six. tieth Indiana infantry. had written the war department and expressed a de sire for a commission
 The officials had thought that this Allen Parker was A Allen Parker the congressman's friend. and instanter they had ordered him to Fort Sheri. dan for examination He passed was commissioned by the president and confirmed by the senate and reached his California post within month and all this as result of a short let. ter saying that he would like the ioh of second lieutenant
 The Indiana congressman succeeded In getting a commission for CornoraI A. Allen Parker. but it took tbree months, and Allen Parker. the lucky. ranked his Indiana namesake 100 files on the Hneal list