The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
Warning to Fluntsmen
and the Romance Of
a Tender Young Man
Editor of The virgirians

Editor of The Virgirian.
Sir,-Yesterday being a legal holiday. the
fields and forests were crowded with men behind
the gun, the running streams with men with
hook and line. This is written in a spirit of
friendship and with sadness. Every hunting club
along the borders of the Chickahom!ny has It's
crowd. all mill ponds where once the boys when
carving their grist TO mill, would also carry a
fishing pole and little can of angle worms TO
spend the idle hour to catch the pretty silver
now bought and controlled by clubmen from the
city. Yesterday and for days past was heard
the popping OF guns from daybreak until star
light. Thousands of squirrels are being killed,
and perhaps other game. Black Creek Magis-
terial district has a fearless game warden IN the
person of G.. w. Moran and two justices OF the
peace, who have had several arrested and hned.
something which has done much good. NOW
there is more game than for twenty years. ana
this is known by the pot hunter and idle negro,
and they seem to defy the law and make threats
against the game warden and officials But this
will not dampen the feelings OF the officials.
Two unusual scenes were witnessed by this scribe
a few DAYS ago. One was that of a young rural
mail garfield. A. Marston, Jr. AS he drove
up TO the p~ostofnce after his mail all could see
the sadness on his face, while in his eye stood
a tear. What is the matter, Allen?" asked
the postmaster. You look so sad LOOK
here said the young man as he put his hand
in his pocket and took from it four little half
starved squirrels. II saw them this morning
crying for their dead mother that had been shot
by some one and the poor little things starving.
AS tenderly as a mother would for her infant
he secured a bottle with a rubber nipple and
warm milk and soon had new life put back in
@RP& $1,000
man can be seen than young Allen Marston.
Some young lady will be made happy II she can
claim this young man who has a heart so fuh
of human kindness for the dumb creature. He
will certainly make a home happy.
Another such scene witnessed was that OF a
flock of a hundred and one little partrtdges. all
punched up together, calling for their dead pa
rents that had been killed by the hand OF a
heartless huntsman or by some prowling dog or
fox. This little brood is being cared for by a
young lady who has put them with a hen and
her little chicks, and is being tenderly cared for
with prospects of full-grown birds.
Those huntsmen will keep a man on watch
for the land owner and game warden. and. at a
signal understood, will fee to some secluded
spot. only to repeat the ofense before the war
den gets two hundrd yards away. Some day
they will be landed. and they will certainly get
all that is coming to them.
The game season does not open before Novern-
Der list. BY that time the gaae will. be- well
grown. Few land owners will object to a mans
hunting If he will only ask the privilege, but
they have rights that shall be respected.
So It Is hoped that those who read this may
know the feelings of the land owners, which is at
fever heat. and nearby is a beautiful new county
Jail and much work needed to be done on the
public highways.
Now heed the warning before 1t is too late
that which you sew, you must expect to reap.
Nav Kant county Va A WRIGHT