mpose small bag limits on game-slaughter.

She must resolutely stop the sale of all wild game.

She must stop the killing of female deer, and of bucks with horns
under three inches long.

She must stop killing gray squirrels and doves as "game."

She should not permit the beautiful wood-duck to be killed as
"game."

She should accord a five-year close season to grouse, and all shore
birds.

She should rule out the machine shot-guns which gentlemen can no
longer use in hunting.

She should adopt at once a comprehensive code of game laws, and clean
her house in one siege, instead of fiddling and fussing with all these
matters one by one, through a series of ten long, weary years. The time
for puttering with game protection has gone by. It is now time to make
short cuts to comprehensive results, and save the game before it is too
late.

WASHINGTON:

The state of Washington still flatters herself that she has all kinds of
big game to kill,--moose, antelope, goat, sheep, caribou and deer.
Evidently this is on the theory that so long as a species is not
extinct, it is "legal" and right to pursue it with rifles during a
specified "open season."

The people of Washington need to be told that conditions have greatly
changed, and it is now high time to put on the brakes. It is time for
them to realize that if they wait any longer for the sportsmen to take
the initiative in securing the enactment of really adequate preservation
laws, all their big game will be dead before those laws are born! Every
man shrinks from cutting off his own pet privilege.

Some of the game laws of Washington are up to date; and her big-game
laws look all right to the unaided eye, but are not. Her bird laws are a
chaotic jumble of local exceptions and special privileges. As a net
result of all her shortcomings, the remnant of a once fine fauna of big
game and feathered game is surely being _exterminated according to law._
A few local exceptions will not disprove the general truthfulness of
this assertion.

Ten years ago a few men in Seattle resented the idea of outside
co-operation in the protection of Washington game. They said they were
abundantly able to take care of it; but the march of events has proven
that they overestimated their capacity. To-day the wild-life laws of
that state are only half baked. Come what may to me, I shall set down
without malice the things that the great and admirable State of
Washingt