wg SARI pe an Ey ae re, ty res wa camel tol hs ba era Jaron ei = ee . sca AI es tae MaMa Cite F er z oa = Folp tnap Birt, ee en ; A fee’ eve it Matas oa te tin } itd " : a Behe if eee ay ihe Poe Wht, Nivel isin. Ce . yaa A FOREST AND Sh ee A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. ~ Anetinc, SHootinc, tHE Kennex, Practica, Natura History, ~ PisHCcULTURE, YACHTING aND CANOEING. AND THE INCULCATION IN MEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY INTEREST | IN OUTDOOR RECREATION AND STUDY: VOLUME CL. JANUARY, 1898—JUNE, 1808. PUBLISHED BY THE FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY ‘NEW YORK — 508 ES ee oe FOREST AND STREAM. ’ INDEX---VOLUME L. EDITORIAL, PGBe- NATURAL HISTORY. Page. Page.| War and Yachting ........cecceeeeceneenees 341, 361 Page. | Arms, The Right to Bear.....scsssessesnees 107, 149 AQUATIUM.... +... 2c ee eee ee ee eee e eee e ee 261, 281, 301 \Waaketalinayes akerel Jhiisebkale a oaoqkannccarmt copper enadads 461] Alaska Wildfowl and Game.......cccsceccecees 984 | Belknap County League ...........-.:-- ere SOD: RASCH CITLTOTIIN, oe ts ateetete BYe same ius stele bares aye eres ote ate Sole ritlemecs. Elomee Rh ah See estate MIRE: Aan cs (iat Wiesavaaecwar INibelststiingh ala ujih Aha Weaenh den oaadedena 486 | Black Buck in Muzzleloader Days.......... ah Big. Audubons at Auction 1... ¢ceeeeseeeese veers eees Al IW iolveswan deb Ountiesaln sh ratitdlenn sii hina seems 41] Antelope, Pronghorn (portrait).........:e.sss.-- 203) ebltie sGrous 6 ob Malach eee u ye vatee on sseer eer 224 Austrian Shooting Statistics...........:-+-+-20-- LOAN SS aiPenarSHeyTUS) TEE TES 4 siege oo cestutews = Me cae one ee 101, 141, 181 | Audubon and his Journals .......cececceceeseeees 364 | Boone and Crockett GLU eee eats sae ee ee 44. Baltimore Dog Problem..........+-+-..:s+cesees 441 Adib ons SOClehys onc. tee netee neta ann ninns 164, 424 BostonePscpo siti Oneaner aera: aaa eE EERE 208, 267 Birds of Gloucester.....-+s0eesssesseeeeesereees 221 ater. ee fle, Bele Ree we meta cate ee, Ag6N\BayorAtains bp vranr ewes: 191 $202 sacqcy eae naete 145. Ieyepewetel Sh) Cnet le sey oa ane sadn oooodonge sacri 421 THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. Bird Atlosts «UNA W eae eons Ae. nh Qoeneel ENG) |) leiktel& Cent {Syosehaker IYopouel (ORRBIE Gon uodonenceodaunane B28 Brute and Human......ssseeseeseseeeseeseeee ease BOLI Arivonidacky (arly Snider et ene eee 519 | Birds of Village and Field ........ceceseeseeees 423) By Way .of Illustration sii0c.csassse-.- «evi eneys 45. Butfalosimr Montana Geee sess sne- nee nesencnee nae GUM SL att oe init Ee Tate ie oe, ee eae 399 | Bluebirds and Robins Winter in Connecticut...205 | Calibers ................00005 pith otthraatte eee 488. Camp Ways......-.esseecsnrsceeeeteecete ter tcnes 161 Appomattox Apple @ree s....ssseeesstaevese ees: ZOD MM Siket opie eet et dain obenk suaddbhs dosh sngeesaants 344) | Caribour ean ams -Giebec aes. ceesne ees seen 445, Canadian Indian Earnings...........seeeeeeeeeee 361 w Ws ybestile GUS Ce tint oTRe TR 1 bm onmnhnOnner esi nee 506 | Chestnut-Sided Warbler ........ccccceeeeeeceee ee 283 | Chamois and Stag Hunting ................:,...487 Catskill Mountain Trout Weights...,..........- 401 Nd sere MANES TORCH ENG STON ash Ube twenty seshagyn 517 | Colorado Audubon Society ...... PAAR Pt AAAAT 4044 @hickanianp aus Gulla nase naan iy enneneetenneen 446 (GOING HERO VSEEN Foanoa hata. Mepis des ier nogeso PUB prep /oee Mape seas tl ere I Gt Oud AGN Ba ey 449 | Compass Points ...secscssseenseeereeusecseeeees 5 || Cold Storage and the Game Laws .............. 207 Conduct in the Wo0ds....s.secreserererer sees 361 | Boy, Just About a.....42, 62, 82, 102, 143, 182, 202,] Congress and the Birds ...........ss0sesseeee es 263 | Colorado Game Law Invalid ............e.0.08 489 Congress and the Game..........-++-eeseeeeee eee 81 299, 282, 362, 382, 403 | Decrease of Wild Life ...........cseeeeeeeeee ees 325 ; Colorado Game Wardens and the Utes.......... 27 iD erebrates, [kort Onesie apres oeaeobenadon 3 44 CC Pevtaplaly TBUy inte Soy acctinedie teaseial dol akocl al 62 | Eagle and Deer .....csceeccessesseeesetees+ 305, 445] Colorado Mountains .......scissccesseceeeeeenes 26. Dogs in a Deer Country....sseseeeeeeeeeeeeeees ES1il Gam) sof dnworCranlkese ae acl ae sent 202, 222, 242 | East African Mammals....204, 223, 263, 304, 423, 444] Congress and Game Protection ................ 107 DGS aitiMOIES ey hens so Wats atiss(- seit cere eareeantasre 141 sep» “all asO ui bencnagaeya tame esp sige aeea es RIN 122) Elliott’s Game Birds ..,..,...ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 104 | Cow Moose Killing in Maine ............. 64, 109. Fads and Field Sports.,.....c0.-0.2++-eese eee ee 81 GhestiitRids& Aachen eee Sabena 423 | Field Columbian Museum .......... oan bears nae 43H Giirmiareky E Gatton waaseeseeeea ae pat tlie tenets en 29) Farmers and Game Laws...........ss.sseeeeees 121 | (Clonmedeldsy HPS sh Oe 6 hradbtadddoddtcagtueudrunanouded 924 | Fox Squirrels in City Square............02---+00- 325 | Currituck Sound ........1:sssseceseseeeesesaees 405. TRH) ADiseene tore Ieper orn an ose oC Goud Ds 161 Covetoutoast avitty eeearalceserta eee ete ees 442 | Glance at the SparrowS.......csseeececeeceeeeeees AAAS | (uanaetr MALT bE | See ciel an a aleeseee reat cL ee hele ey ee 285. Prednis Mirra pROW.STLe rit. sie eveveea is) tre sels codiya tay ects 301 Ways with the White Goats....c.cscsesesceceeees 513 | Goose Half-Breed Infertility arated inateverktace teeeees 25, 48| Darling, Jonathan ...... eee Hrobhithnese Acne 45. Wa Slit trees NC CLEAUIOUL mitts ste niseentta tie ey enn ee rarer 121. GE. PAW Sacietin be clk. oe eco selene chommraaect TAs eGrovise. WNttiag mine esses atten erie unre eee Spl | JOKE SCO EO Aerwocs utinomen Anite aon fe nn hee ee, ee 99, IbiegaReer aearGl INEM Okan schorrane aceaeenods TEE | Spvenemae thar atine. Seis. aingl JEL o- nnmrpmasmnaneinanaree 182 | Hippopotamus Vanishing .............+eeeeee eee ONE) Deters esi: Hattie trt ncn ia odie attaenes 167 - Florida Deer Hunting in 1564..........+.+.+044- 18? | eyening om the James ssss.s.es:+-+ 1: SAR ad. g9.| Juan Fernandez Wild Dogs .......ssceessseerees 1221 )Deerwekter Hirsteaa ee sess henaa aes BOP RT Asp ap: 245. * Forest AnD StREAM Jubilee Number............501) Fate, Erte iM Aa seu Et NMED enti eal oe ive | Nilzbssbrtalkyy UNIese oun gonahScocns souuonboLsEeeaES sa0 404 | Deer Hunting in Wisconsin .......,..0.0000--005 285- FOREST AND STREAM Plank........cceseeceecreees IAL || Grtgmamsat amp Slee TekSeoHily ea auce oun aehoneece 510 | Man-o’-Warsmen’s Pets .......--+0,seeeceeeceeeee BEVIN 1Dyerere SIRENS. ddan sonHanen in, yaduys btebnotite 26. IBOresic INSSOAWES! Apo agunl \oneene eee e334 00 on SLES AD TG Ir ors ie Oe nn UME UURI ch dues La, aoarane 989 | MarmosSets, Care Of .secesseeceee ete ee tenetceeares $45 |) Deter bani OCiCenuas te ve aaanvarmaher nian eee 186. Game Protection a Public Trust................. 2A Grave, Elumble: sdscee sees: Wi add ones 492 | Mole and Agriculture ..............seeeee sees eee TIES} IONE SS59 ooo odunnocnsSodsoaBOnsaN 57s Ba dea sania alenenet 264. Game Supply Fluctuations.........ssssseees sees 241 | Gray Squirrel, Day with ......csccesceeseeeeeeees 162 | Mountain Sheep of Boston Exposition ......... AGS NLD 1iGkesorcitic El aywilcSe ance saat ee eee ee 108. Government Game Preserves.......-.-+-.0sssse0s 61] Hark Back ....... A les Aedes RAPE ae 342 | Mountain Sheep Range ......... ohne s seek 366 | Duck Shooting in Connecticut ........0........ 284. (GRIER IDNINOESIS 5 ope snogogoeh Sasa anes a smaNe 381] Ho, for the Wilderness of Maine! .........e0+0- 402 | Muffins and Ragamuffins ............ Wh ity nea Me G80) lEmie AASsociathons saiees sect an nate ee Recife hae 488, Hammond, S. Hees.seeeeeeesee sees ee tet ee eee e es 421 | trow the Doctor Shot his Deer.......:.cseseceee 82 | Music and Dog ....-1..- sees ee eet e eee eee esos GAN | Warten sari diner Ox betigara kee este sts epee nee tare 124: Hoar Bird Bill ...-..ee se eeeee ieee sees eee ee eens 261] Tce Architecture ..........000- Meth tend Fy fm 162 | Nelson’s Mountain Sheep .........s+++seeee esos 24 | Florida and the Plank ...............4. Cece en ees 287 Holberton, Wakeman 2... ..is. sects cece es ewenee 41] Tdyl of the March (poetry)......ccecseereeesrees GON | MNKscieslsiupd eros: TERI! AA nan Ahobeencorsnncesan> os ARE] | Okereiveee RORGEEINT 5 56 bon bosrttac dicnid oa sur Gtr. Bodh 244. Hunters, Red and White........ DBO OSD LEE OR i 4811 "Tn Gti ‘Massa tren, eens) psennceaseanckpkeeptn aes 505 | New York Zoélogical Society.........------.-+.. 184] Foxes and Grouse ....................... 147, 184: Wilintots JASSOciatiOn ohana 5 odes aiesine cite ASI Gkertehidaneentud Big Fish Regions....,...0....000- A699 | UNotessoteccutask am bl ecu nm steele Rarer ene mult!) dope daljoarie Iavenc(aiis, 2 aa oaekqnacenetneececdy. 225) Amdian Camps ier. ssccs esses en eee oss ere etenes 61] Lex Talionis (poetry)......ccccecseeeerverseseess AGRO dittesw ot them ieldh neces seer aL paiey ae eeee Dit || (Gaye AS IATA 40) oe genannononcesedaadtereuee 29) Interstate Commerce Law .....2+2seeer esses ess 461! Little Assinaboine’s Charge ....c.ccsecceseeeeees 142 | Partridge from Mexico ........ Weeaietnans 2a 268 | Game Iaws on dome Ago q.teinsoteae ones nesaqen 166) ljgtlesovorsy deltas: JB, Joopsapabcyyyonsaood af ec otte Si Logs, Course of the ......ccsesscesssseeesscees+-322'| Passenger TENEERKOINS ay Shpall bo ruceagrnnd sia 3045 0b Garden! cof Ecler. wanes ennie ets hee eeneseeeees 406; League of American Sportsmen............++-.. Sliliviarquez sland esas auatmurerueecsarrers 328, 343] Philadelphia Zoo ............0.,e0ee-ees Toe attrac APA WiGrandsRapidsm Great Week paves sass eleetan 483: Weainesand !PrivatemParkese sss cenaciys stile ete 201 | Mountain Goat Hunting.......-.0ececreceseeesees aie || WPaensebes; WWRIGE oe ee Laan secon bogoes S65, 404) Green Mornitatte Na tess, wevessee tenses cee ene 287 ities Gites" ee a ey cade ioe teies nine steered 281, 301] \fiushrooms Pach ite anininMte eS: 327 eee Rte: LESPH|| Tal ovaMWES MESS AAR Gg aconsun mend ScorkMctast eRe StI Oh EPA {| AG arcoystcye a DoW SS EMERSON eyes aan GAO AB AMAA bye A 226 Nybakebokes Gilntey IMIGBIE stObk UM oA pogunss seduuusddoD Ok 41 Peninar al eloadonse ee lassos Adliceotneen ccna eee oe eel [evo Kahne: WiVEhepul Saban aoonnnoonaneanane nea ii. || AGartonbiSe: ISIE NAST Aoemegaoaaeoanin vepeetetes Pre: Sh 827 Massachusetts Rod and Gun Club............... Bail || ieexravenetavalleyavall 5 ancyqnmasaconcoc 1. J oN AE eo Coy|| iceman, (Cavell, IReibahohaesy es et oooneaaanqo oo oatod 204a|Giunss © ldieancie\ eye a aste et atten eeeeteee ve 24 Wulessenanones, IDKes, (Geo, AW snes asnanecobsoonne 341 | North Carolina Wild Tckey Sie WaT oe Be A) Siento, “Sesconccougadscaccepssene set: ee rer HM IG unis ches IOUT eens ee: cel, Mery Na caer t ty. eat 346 WManimesotas slinicdian «Gascon ttre nn Enre nee 441 | Okeechobee ...cecsceccssces aids 277: Be PESGAMEGtialces min) WOStaun Rica ets erat we Cah eh wee ee eee SE] (ele b€esle lyn’ Lje- fake ee pp LEE ERR hth mle h he cssrrrd 446; MVieishiroomas! See Ait) aero a Pet enn Serta epese 481 | Pamola Le ea i Te PL Ja idees DAeSparnowsmiae MGontitlenernts seer. vee setter aioe 685) Elis pol Ehunt -c cme parse ecisetaaet on et cee pee ee 425 National Fisheries Congress..................005 LOWS) GE anslun Revere ones: eee Rete oe ee oct ae eS 449 | Sparrows Winter in New York ................. 240)5).|) IONiaonES VERNSOYONEUGKCNOP ss ees enn Ae A: pee LAS INHETE WIBRebhGhoRecWemseun one wre micten rete erie oxen co oesttaben Ay) 421} Penobscot River (poetry).........-.-++ Lites: SYD { qstaiincerly IeGl Ada Gn ch oe noddson Arie ci 6, 48, 123, 204 | Illinois Game Protection ...........0s..s04 arated AST New York Game Law............ 201, 241, 261, 301} Platt-eye cok cats: de ane to a UO ED Mebslaesmoahts ata S@iwlbonibbae: 35 5aqn4e nonce 144, 164, 204 | Interstate Wardens’ Convention ................. 1453 New York State Association...........:+++ss005 401} Podgers’ Commentaries ............-..05- epee 122 Awesieimotaran: INR AAA HAGA SAAS S A491 Aono coaedan O84al lin® athe? wWROCKT Esmee cede aed eee 106, 124 Ian Worle qSiialife’ Ieweriinen5bh6 350 sseeres tan 000 811 Random Shots re ee OR ea Waldcat in the Aidirondacks .:..),-)r.eenesss sees als || Woz Dhehovaeh aborel Inllesay os oncaacn shane oo one ke 496: New York Zoological Society.............+4-+ eel Raspberrying in Danvis ...............+.0.- 508 NWatllrol (Gkenesier SShmObmi ob bso emrro cea onanrtanen ude 244 | Jackson’s Hole and the Park ........- 308, 328, 369 Nuisances Summarily Abated.................+.. 21 | Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman......... TOBA Wald Goose Watalityaenecsesnan en areneeeenae cts Soni acksomcs) sElole | Pilla w.seuyamyen nites 8, 127, 184 Retands eaiideebear slat Se atveten ica nee etree 221 | Reminiscences .......-.. Rn Saad oat Ah et 14 Bills BVWalc eee COnSerlbeunme conte iriiriendeiter me OAAAL Jatrray aricle LOCAL ASS 2. dette Reiner api iete ee ante alee 386 IROLomace probe ciOne rer hr pen ee ert set etna GAL TRG aq sepobes couenagononnaesougungHohunceon = 24 | Wisconsin Hawks and Owls ...............----.: ANevitel | Upebersdl ss, Ubi, qqave: hewn tol ge amped bon Attic cee bese 426 IPeisamoiey Ikbatse Teoiheniceitin Ad hone + -goeuanonesso> DAT Raa ale basherel ollamy:, trestles: Mentone vcd at ee ue ZA ANaoibetrbal SIMONE Bocoanee pede deere ey Ade cee acad 345 | League of American Sportsmen ................ ga Ravo lites; sa sme (Gravemesanaci cms tap ert ereeeieras 281 | Samoa Sport ......... ARATE AR AAA. coda doctect cas Fl Se VWOOMCOCKESMOtStT wwe ese sete nie ements 44, 105, 164 | Long Island Deer Situation ................0.0:. 225, IRC STOMM OMI Fines Aeaeogagnotiunhd dood aondM hei PAL) Sretamnarales- ILApateh Sana aanassops cca notioagatonte te .102 | Yale University Gifts ..... phehercispsqesn totpeacheeyaie 5 Ssuielome, Rance sRitle, \Vitlietien yas sense wes wee 229. Road Making wel ek Mt A DopOEocuabods 141 | Shiftless Jim Tracey ....... Pa Rimi kesta ey 517 | Yellowstone Park Notes .........cscsssseeeceeees 94 | Loveday, Warden, and the Chickens.......... 48, 87 Sealimeos Awardse aicenhuniknnncemee tases ieee 461 Sea wei bree conte eet hace hos og ate a ete et ee sah os 482 Maine and New Brunswick Game ............. 267 excell MLOkie iu fovaley, Saag UO A Naked gt einai herd ce Sual || "Sthesin. Sines ac acdesy onion iar akseyrcoswepoggtictecs 363 Maine and Non-Residents .......c.e-ceseneeteess 84 Sxommey “IBhsersl Ie yoomake® SS o SK eh yan baohaoonsuennessn 461 | Summer Love (poetry)....-++e+eeee eee e eset eeeee 282 GAME BAG AND GUN. Wkemine [Co tmontSSiorn IRE SO pr none ee deeon sos 64 Site IBanwaveioxce Ikthwee Jehd eat oe aan Acgeed ogoo nos 381 | Tenderfeet in the Adirondacks ........eeceeeees agaaleAtdannieand ints s\Vittalcet men cieem yee eeenece attest ie AM Newb oke> Iie UUinealih, Soon eeteaannonsaAnonsy acs euus 107 DimeVianyicmakenCoumbinyas etuteametn inet GPaL | Terai (CWE: soho daddinn roan sooodanboubeoeodene | Matias ARERAS Ahead taqh dA asadosononccutesnun 45 | Maine Game Conditions ...........2.e-20ses000-- 225 AS lieie Seb ganes ABUL BRAGG Ae Gyn orden Wes tea ine 81 | Uncle Gid’s Christmas Tree ......s..sseeseeerese 992 | Adirondack Guides’ Association .........-..:-- 105 | Maine Game Revenue ............000. hee aye 184 Witesewersl (Sieaisces UPisiee (Cionantmbisstorol -oepl Pl, UL, AWOL |) \worvemmtterm, TSES osenarngo ce anesdecdocadadedeceeocass 462] Adirondack Preserves .........-..0++-+++-+<+s! 2. 406q | avlatinese Gtiidese eres nia. 7) oo ae ep eieoiemers nls IPL AIS Vest, sbanlyaDaysuiny eee ss eccene come cr a wae ANE | (Peamie GSlaloyoieariss (Ohaeen a5 kbc dbondoroabosdsuess 205 | Maine Hunting Tax DWValton’s So mpleats -Aame ergs Urals secretes 361 | Yukon Notes ......-+. A963. 300) 862. 8a. 40e: ASQ UAlAckarn Game. wae iii use ns eigen dgieeeme ence eect EUP\OMIRIIS IWKO@SS cea cnnsonndnageonerrontass ik - on Hy. FF > Ta at ff ( ; F 7 | INDEX. 3 Page Page. THE KENNEL, Soar MMaiie Season severryssyy se seene brian Ree: PAL LaMkapesabee MID Yt ber ad LEYS 6. (rye ycroen orrewcecee) Cm RLS LEA Anesth 231 Page. | Hobson ..... SCR MOOT ve peralcteieafsiahiils setae ATR Maine Sportsmen’s Association ...... oon Pee O: (Rloniiaea estos: Wisinit or us Waelelss-fr sires rh ale 231! Alabama Field Trials Club......... PEt By alr Shl) ieshine Aaganog Bet Ee RO LCOr Laan team nYoenp-er sot 174. Manitoba Game Interests .......,......s++s00=- 326 | Flow Gently, Sweet Outlet (poetry)............ AO aA ed y Unt gimme CrtTeL Ws pipe v eeomeeseteberss oa crenal ciel Wotalt Visio ace conse aye © Bile. || Latrepid) feye teers « SAAC BOOAbt er nasbs coneg: 177 Manitoba Game Seasons .......sees eee eee ees +. .207 | Fly-Casting Tournament .....ecceseeees 52, 90, 110 ' American Dachshund Club.........0..0-+- 875, 454) Jarvis? Report) wi.s,sccecseeaes Hee oeodec 214, 334* WHAWMSI ENVIS fein h 34d eee ot eee A tesa cesPvR Pacey ese 268 | Fly-Fishing, New Sort Of ......cee.s.seseeessease 490) VAT EniGHh) INenMel libs 4.4 ssneeseted vsreowlr sete BIR TREMOLO overdensity atta ele ume ate teehee rcre mente 175* Maryland (Graken DEN LAST ASHAA GSS Sb DgC IOC es te PAE || Jeihie, TRUS IRGISHhaRe SOP be Golnto dour uodurmtiy datan oe 31 | ATMEniCd ee Daniel Cliatb aceon ene = prs eres 152, 232 | Knockabouts ...,..... 16*, 37, 74, 94, 182, 154*, 252, Massachusetts Association ................00.005 (iulel| Webmeboy=G Uy cee tock so reer aa mer eteetd vn OEE cea eit ioee 31 | Hea OLe OAD DOTUSLOL CN aay rpetsicc celia a + sletriyicttias 493 254, 295. Massachusetts: Game Law .....c.se eee ences 207 | Grand Rapids Ply-Gasting......4............... ARDY iE GHiMmibltltanprtn nite sacs stlaciite dein en tatgaratieeeast fe Peal eNnocisdowse MAGIL sess s nantes sl csiles sasad Hetero 15. Massachusetts Rod and Gun Club .............. TBOE| b Gmaetnr OO Caelealccd ey vas hse eeee cle thy genset ey oa ele frase HONE OSLGIE SHO Wa tteett te ai teterausaiel niet a iaefine ropes Tze || Maho RG OS ae asenanoclanee tka ddedergnacadescon 194* IMeissamore, si (GeOm Wis cess t sates ae ss ees uleues Sh8) || IShenwzlshayse Shope Kealbvsteyee Oye noche cogucuue vy 4. BET Neimbbaichyskelle Ube ACdkbioy «$0 Qaerryjocecorki hace cc eats G4 Msilfegren: ss Letter Gi. saasst vines emits were tlen ener 21L Megantic Club Banquet .......:.c..cc veces cee SBP | UshireletereeeMBAewal fee A cdnuadigotd hd. bnbinedatd orth dy PAL MCeugs, Atayel Siete, Ueleubboysls| os ons aM anea sO Aa obo DTA |PMLUMCIQe LT, 4 pipdeve vers heres sr ve vasad es veneehere 134 Minnesota Indian Case ........e..00e Otio e ROET ALE Velilioksaionm, WWEMamutsb np onngogngoauarose ccd sides Sie lm@hamiptoi: Ustalcesnuniny) saetenavciaulnweelacnwon 93 | Measurement ....15, 74, 114, 183%, 154, 193%, 214, 232, iulievgnederwiG)tGhom IDikekeWee BocsenO nce AaeEeGnnA tune 9 | Hudson River as a Salmon Stream ......... ROMS e MON CANALS Wend svecesehanet tats ie eee ree ere ces 433 234*, 236, 271, 293%, 47. Moose Calling in the Daytime ...............-- APUG /OBeRapeennmoyar to) SNareiihere ¢ shore qanunrt gol ssingtes ote abih [AC linnersh foeTilohi a ey otchechsGugubtler Ca uondo thd oe VB: || RS te FenZhe etch OC AAnERUDDURSeEREDrOceener | n.6 coc 415: IMonbhansciba (Gyophe Jabbonwibnve: ou yonderaetidadaphooe AO || Wg Wibkeatine Maken? Teeside Gaioeiiaw non menoboonoo spun cca || (ClausGhinernowore, hols ucsconecunkelaoCUnereasey iH BON EM OUMELS A CTIIgT Re” sperwoiteylystysy) tvs ale aera veaetieeer er lileerieLats 355: Marsirat a WeWeaGy Teens wats chieeee sda eiiadens SUAS || Whibiedesbaver atop Wzneadae ica wifi o5G 8 Attapore LIS RGM SeALCL ME SMT DILORSe wivedctnee edi uL hud Pee bed 181 | New Yachts ..ccccveesvseeeveceeess 15, 195, 215, 395 National Park Notes ........ccccccccuseeevevnenes SEs lekwentuUck NEEL ESOMO dive MucheR ee AL restores: ot SAL (PEMD aeNUGELIM Saas y¥oe inthis eelsiea cietresneyciot gare Owes 191 | Nougatine 2... cee ieee este eee ee cee seen eet eeeeeees 194% Whale Rah DEW 5 intend eaier hy tee a naaoot nor (Bel) Shnyesmstaye, Wrewm. yh erie beagedraeedeteinie 29, 41] Continental Field Trials Club.........-....- 92, 470 | One-Design....15, 16%, 35, 36%, 154*, 175*, 177*, 193, New Brunswick Notes ........ccs.esscssseee: 8, 149 | Landlocked Salmon in Maine ...,........s.s.00s Con pital: ae oe y DANS SU Pen x! ON SND Soe 454 835%, 393% Newfoundland Caribou ..............ceeeeeeeeeee DUS: Mnalces Pinte nmerOLEChiGn: bhikihicccs: «eyes. . cuales «soles nL Eze | PLD CES RPAH Cite Raita etnies «Senet led Niza sects 392 | Coal to Callao (poem). +... s.cseecseee sess eens 35%: ENewoniork (Gate: Weayn sachet carps wtiee eee ce ea kre cy 267 | Lake George Black Bass ............cesas 231,291 | Dogs and “Show Rules... ..cbscs css s nee cee e secs 153 | Portugal International Races ........+.......45- 271 ENE WomeNGOF Me MOAR ITE sim Sees tees dsldss Ale Claret 488") Lake Trout, Large .........sersess ree hvac som ADSH OO es eande SEG Dac Wah rennis hier ithein ns at aenege¢ 73 | Quarter-Century of Yachting ...............++..520 Niagara Palls Duck Shooting’ ..............0... AdGE MISITICaUIDTGSSITE PEE, BERR Eneeee incor s iticstihd Ear aaaete Til |] Whos, AD kane GlNveeran tele oo een Aaa Ob ae 133, Dos 44 QUINCY CUP srsrereeeeeeeseeeerecensees 252, 414, 43€ PNG te MGUIGTLEES surtsntetstttrtntim eect eels «reece eae TAH | WARN ovis Shophy mob ick Ae Clemo ic uceens OOS DOSS MMMUdwi coterie smelt tphhhi nde sta: Mepraa tre! 414 | Raceabouts ..iseeesessseeeseeseee sree seers 132, 474 Night Watch in the Adirondacks .........0....., Nie eNicirien ie Omtes PNOLESe wari: fan 4 Aedes Samcsae let SSBMbIDickae IN Sle TGtetes AMAR ALi tah tate GOOIre, ks cc 913 | Rainbow wo seciereeeeee cree eee ener nee es 434 Non-Resident License ........scssssacscceueneees 205 | Massachusetts Association ..........cesceeesees 151 | Dog, Ordeal by..... BC PPOPE A LAY cect. aa teap A hates 49g | Recruit (Splacher) s...sesecccsecseceeeen tere eees a3 uiioavle)italimen eaves, salen k cae te jh Ate GTM eNuacsachiseni meno item oe wet e nee sayy anne ese A2Rsn EMDop@iwirersy HRIMUTSLOtsulypacus sees ss cas ceded te gg | Republic sss. se eee ere reece eet e eens 5S Ontario National Fark .....c.ececeseseeeeeeeeees AR Vert ieee at APO... 0 oete, Poy Pee SaaeAn2 easiol: BAT EG Stortes auc, sosthvdn ta voneQoes nadies ihpiveve ee eee: 353 | Royal Nova Scotia 18ft, Class......sesssseeeeee 393 Rpt te dala mal Sine | MAM eats ka qiele ylelasy wahalegrsnsssiactesivcsionie: 407 | Men I Have Fished With: IYaN= 334 FR walet oy tay gr ry acsearle sree eaechhicmide eet gq | Saunterer .sscseeeeees eee eeee eee ee eee eeen es 135, 354 EEC OSC SMALE TOLLEY Gen RMN RERER EERE omits 244 Isyeeoironrtell IDI agree be IDO. LA boc AMmE ELEY GOd MN Garcia eos aeeaine sana, Leecher neste tea aay 15 | Schooners, One-Design .......+.s0s.+4: 15, 36%, 41, Pheasants in New Jersey... ......cccsccceee eens 48 WE Eee Bilaclctor dy eats cotaststt ave tive ds esp terien éu, 0 LHS PEON ATES tale ueepieam weer cette. so: fatter thls peuuren ie 113 | ScOw Type vrsveeceeeeseseceeeerreeres 255%, 295, 316: Pheasants, Mongolian, Raising ......-.......... 87 | Michigan Fishing .......cccececeeeucececeneeeeass ABD. | Boxe Writhy NPAT tba boven cairns oq babsh ve vioaale’s 113 | Seawanhaka Challenge Cup...... 75, 154, 176, 195,. Perelcenele RAVER uAsho desstuitetss Guuns ef his eos SAG (ides SMA seantel. Warde enpoceseen ene oman AieGandotar NVRMMSkroP is bite clicctth cites soso ees 469 UD Plumed Knights of the Forest ................. 85 | Minnow Casting for Bass ..........c.:sessseeees AVN) (Cioprtkobat Stam (Olas sooaone ah bbhecoorbouer 153 | Seawanhaka Knockabouts.......37, 94, 193, 335%, 394 ferinem@hickens pAlphay = enhnaenceWeslends chess 108 | Moosehead Lake Streams ............... Pa NeeES 2230 MElorses weve tin erity «Oh mentes-eeede 1k tek one eee eed g92. | Seawanhaka Race Committee .......+-s+.seseees 14 Her anie wOhiGkenss: d= OWA stenoses cctersneeeee 44g RMS CAO Cea Seah tale hiss, eiier cones. csean sau dd SEO 2B nl] TSbyahtorhwolber 4 ete oonnoage buono UebA Boo 213, 232 Seawanhaka Special Committee ........+...+5+++ 472 Pulpit Gpakelyesve JAMA Gl Casey dss ppepe shen: eiuete ehiie| PANS Semel eC lhedey Coe ettec cobb oonbucborobugasueponos TBR] WGalsjabaven.! Tan oheetbaher orig ee sahy sean he aie scbodcos 15 | Sportsmen’s Exposition ......seeeeeee tes eeeeees 76: Boperileandithesilistiong 22.4 -nses0e42ceeteneg snes 9| New Jersey Fish Interests (....:.sccseseseenees 12| International Field Trials.............+ Tapers dom Wr nORs E-cblis eincone-teee nears arin acne gy thy Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman.6, 145, 265, 424 |] Nova Scotia Trout Fishing ....... Bias 5 baa 452 Towa Field Trial Association....................o12 SEOVES eevee eeeeeee nese eens etre neues 156, 194, 315, MOOR INNER So adda gad AAS hOooSsopEoeooUH OE AUBY) | COkouesicks, Weike TAHA Go ooconcgseonqaonytnnenae 492] Kansas City Show............. BPE AAS AA Saedianeed 113 | PATA veeeeeese nese tere bere eer etree este eee tee eens 17 Shooting and the Golden Rule .........0..00000- 48 | Pearls of Fresh Water ........0c00ccs0eeees 458, 469 | Kennel World........cccccseccsecceceeeereeneees 333 | Timber, Government Tests)...++-.sserversseyesnns 56 PIOUS WACKOSSe Tes OMOW. 8: 4s sisleetlsaieutuureteriee dss. Bel [a Rertel te peceomoSeick iret soe ie EEE AEG aan Dann aeT & AAS ViamitGbassiieldweltrralserdsscses aes paea rele meeioas 493 | Lime Allowance ...... ss eeeeeee esses ees + +39, 132, 135 Shots Remembered ............ 2.17 SPE conan HUE) | | DEREIES CIM So Seon Soni oo dud Sache Con ern HP Oy Ns, ACN WUE Lmucayoyotbmehn Ise AO Ge: HooAoaabhomen ea arerinerende 374 Torpedo Boat Destroyers ..........eeseesee ees 314* ES SOMDi cert OU deca Leeel mis dceee dcov ever 167 | Pickerel in ArkansaS f.csseceseevecvececceuceues 491 | National Beagle Club...........0...000005 B75, 392 | UMCAS vrrereveeererec estes ees eee eee eee eee eens 36%, 415 Small Bores and Big Game ...........0.:000005 Ss aioe ole A EM PAR on gee 0) 330, 405, 440) National Produce Stale. -.¢.¢.lseusss+sce-+ecess 939 | Vimeta eeeeeeereeeeeeeeeee ersten een tenes eres tees 55 “Some Love to Roam” (song).......-++e.0e0e00- 464] Pike in the: Connecticut ...2..ccssesceeeeeeeees:B73 | New York Show...cscsccesscceeues 98, 113, 174, 190 | ViStl -.s.e cesses ee cette nee et etter eter eee eees 157, 415. Sportsmen and Sportsmen.......sccececeeceeeees daeleeorotae ini shine: Radish AONE Shs Ciera ier eeee 34, 374 | Wistlamt sees eect teeter eee teen e teens 215. Sportsmen’s Exposition, New York............. 64 Fishing Around Washington ...............0+- HIS RPacitiomeCoast wlnialoyeyery) vastus etc hee 153 War and Yachting ......++..s0.ss0. 342,303, 375, 382: 2. Tele ieee ea 386 Trout Near Washington ...s.cascvereseseaues- Bil, ipaovishtsWRiritzy mt savrasnsnceeneaces Sh oesed sentient 270 | YAMPA wesc ee sees e tere eee eeeeeeeeeer ees 55, 116, 174: Tennessee ING LOSauasneeiep iy ites cite aie Meyer mitt 286 (ONTATUEICO So rerntatelels atsleriisesioes 44 ndstav sleet dee eitiaveis inte S| Rerencir sos aicee\ lett nap iim tesscr tate we seein terra 15 | Yorkshire One-Design Class ........2....-0.004 473* Siem ary a@lcd) (Grose ss sss weet ces ecaaretriy sae 408 Eats Cae WO OMe Grete, ote ore here hs Savers abihaste Glote aud tise wens SU) TENORS KeP AEM ERS NOT uteri ooo doo bb COsnane § 53 Wowdiny aialil WasnarGbar aan. puto oo daecaestoe 247 ONGRRTO RG NY ERS ae Achat ORAL AAAS no apeppoeeonggn TDN) Ue H oats. BLS id nn he nan cures lene torescseres en is 153 Clubs and Races. oko te oe aes ea as ne # ae ee OAS OO ECU LEO LED DALE posots pe ate Ene SPARE OG MOC Cer Ee coed cidcner. Me ANT OTIG AREA BaP este asc seisledee sake LEA AR APES Seley 116. — ariel Ca Re a eee ag is Se ae be D seetstntts te hiers Lettre G Nene ayaa pe es Gand Mews ei leheaer Aerie ely stent teeeiectt one ZU ONMASIETICICH Ee wee SrA L GAGA oem ae eee 177, 215, 471, 496 niSinginteoant 2 BSTC AS h NOT er EMD rae ee phe Shoutalteseh SYMON eLetter otic eremce MPN KPO OE CELINA CLES || IbeMnnhentonae het auane ehhh hfihte aces «sites. Cuban wets Coe BN sp Mlerasediyg uns wel semen sete nob afeleleta cv tes 108 Chub at Five-Mile Run .............e.0.00000- Pole este Serta de uGl ib vee seers scar aeleebeiviets an rerccent attics 34 | Beverl 5 Beara itis resi lien esse astueeieeies des deuce Sat |. ysis. WWWaage eddies 969 | U. S. Field Trial Club See OnP pera oro RRR Oke Lt DESC CSTs 41S Steere er ere e een eee 4 : PEP een eee eee en eee een ees Brgikilymy Mpeincen es etestarlslosiee neyo ke Pages 23 Yellowstone Park Transportation .......... np aallsy/ (Clneon av VeNiVEnUOIS ET WAG 4 wt od eomocdoosOntod win ati do 349 | Western Field Trial Association............... STaM ABET Cote, ih ae ant saeco rere ane ve lak Beorbliti| eS pirite SOMn ivi oe bye etre: eva ys Ose 247 pe a aes Oia: OH RARE AE PIO oo EB OAR OCHA 30 | Westminster Kennel Club..........00e0000esees 53 | Bunker Hill DerrinCe Mob —an A 3 RoR oE Rene IRONS SS AHO Oe Sua doen ence anerertroeAlaor BBE || ZaSok ab aclsmisa hu gtecalondte tics eee te One 312 S Iselaleavakdl SOUS cBresesoad os ceconmaansosideddacnen 448 pie i Se ridin ee a a tai Bi cA Ait *” ede eee ae IDROWEL DSMOMMATLOUTLO] yee ee gate cellelsielcteldeleieigittices 168 Liki da ie PAE Aan) ate en Aue ' SEA AND RIVER FISHING. Rainbow Trout for New Jersey .......+-...+505+ 91 YACHTING. i aie rea i oa ek ae Batted ob unnacuesens i: eer adv ee see Ne tosonsitoch a ae (Illustrated articles marked thus *.) Columbia i tn An eae CALC oe Aa sesh enterica vO AOL iho ae gk ee eee west fey aeeng q aeaies ? Grima HY eee zy peel esa CLL ee yx IVEY) Kefosesamidanetel INA 64 si pnancenmuse rns icc eon 177, 494 : S s POGtEY) ibs geet Heer eretoerreereet se 408 | American Y. C. Knockabout .......... 16*, 74, 154* | Corinthian, Philadelphia o...23.¢..-.+0..c.ss.e. 456 _ LBigoxa}ioddoyetesntah nn AN Ae era ee 287, 309, 329 | Salmon in Bangor Pool ...........seeeseeeeseees PAN | etNSH(ONS ACH EROIST oth, seem ee: he MOM Aarne ceed kee ul TY) | IDXS SCONE ac Thane ab ARAnG asbean Sassinterr, 494 pug EEEE segrectysreld Pebvesrnraeeeeceees ..346, 388 | Salmon Problems Up to Date ........-.-.....04. Dies ebeltasts orig lin @lassuwe wewutenalinkeedeecdaet te 176" | Gilberts Bar .......... 37, 116, i177, 232, tay cee Pickerel, Pike, Muskalonge .............;++..> 4H OMS SOLES peTk de tL CCOLE Se reriyidiy reer ntn eee ttt tarts eae 432 | Books: Gravesend Bay ....¢...++<0++0+ 13 Cialalss gaavol [Bie Sa 5,, doktor 4 ent an ae 497 | Sea Fishing Near New York .......cceeeeseeee: 289 (he yretixeceel Gok: ei sided sec ncccte ee ane eh iat Las Ietaecenileets «cee. MMM eaekel ea op RSS A Rasen th Wee Hii) || Siemil IIS, 2 een sroneeadanand desose socnounee 70 ACkOAUENIOmes caaaerentiarnnnuestiiat sees clears #36 | Harlem Re ee AWN 5: ce 186 (CHENOTONES. soc cdgndanddantterin ts, bu dnoeedant obeness isals)| \Meteverde UNIGHNe JEKobome: Gant eramunounte snus soreopee leans Subj] UMICGVOKEVE EMSAM: < espyUiabcichetttaenntoncucivenercrertste oar 395 | Harvard IL he ONE eg aii JIBS: Jones ieee a 55 eae ee ee 346, 388 Sportsmen’s Exposition, Boston ............... 231 NaraiaiGuneunidce kre. ve a ematen Nerepe sea eere | Merete) lanl 59 a eee erie Sua? if Ze acest ir rw the ..... 429, 450, 466, a AR PRA RSS ASTER RE OGM TS nea ioe get me Watebiaii JELzRI XO DORA AGRmoohee ee: cuanwonconeutinde 457. OE Oa a raat ie ae at See oe ae ink meee speech ateen at ehr thes gre SU. iste || Thelleveusl Iballge BA, Ne acrtiiewwenssenanannansece sane 1S : Ateroy ee She shy aes ae HAY | VrsiebaieKonyneterds| shor IW enbste) LO AAS Aaa anacrerseone sane AGU | (Calomet Meayelnye IO ksoeabianeyal Ca Cpa ancadekedndineter Boot Walter ace tea nt thd MERE Aer ee ete ene ee 17 Bass, Running Down .. .... sta tenet, add be f(D MADEN EO LOFSY eye TES OrtciGhipcvaare Oe Gt oobi Re eee DUSIUN) (CERRO YONG! Woes peer cer nent TOBE ae IA anes eran Sap eae | TARY LOLONE to nea Abs Sec tic ee whee nen ety Sele ry date 35 Ea@ einai baie 5. enbenn nea Sete a adele ten aan AOC RAGDOMeME TOUT OD cl piaetslss cerca reliaz ed silicates SUT RCE SGN eh Jodhoboc bon hath Eee ener ea ak CATED [cherie aa Reis rs eaeg a thet ae caer OLA oie ae let nd Ae 195. a beeree Pe ccmlcnanebet natn. 228, 268 cee chai JEielatiin TAM RMe Aeneid Ta eB OR PTI (CIENANEES 46 pa pameeoobSbanagtbirtd essen titysheeee nerets Bley. VOUS) litera (Cie 6 sot hoohbsnaconmnnacMecdensenonadaeoe 116 TENG SS) Wey, TSleeraltbems, Qe tee eee eae nereris an AL POU INECOLRCY Se asercc,cesstseits saystee eel slecian make 391, 46 S POT a HL RSOS reo ANEp 35 4 ieee Ge rere a Oi a eee Shaan be biotin: a a ae aay esc NE oe a Larchmont Pe as ae Gre oe 172 ERED NS SSCS 6 ae Ra tooo 22 eae DREE poe Er: 2 eta e Bie Re Ne ae Chee e eee reese eee Massachusetts Y. R. A. ....15, 35, 37, 185, 232, 256, ee i nyo SNR SNL ota ee AML 50 ee eee SUE ELA IG OR Opn 5 DOS OSS OLE ONO AE fy GSE Gevtinen de hitmireter wai crete ore rd cst ieee at Grete ts 55 394, 414. (Ciyelabists Wilgoymantse Ctr ee tet HOR RRR Bhima Aine anaes nl 2 Triton Clu IEMOE Sos atidederdsadoh odartkeunta ay: TUISES! i ichi : Canada Sonne TENGEN ee See en peice doosone iv Airoxene tS amelie Aor epee ee eee eee oee oop 287, 309 th ies of a Calm 175 sel ot pak OMAR” Sem LT es icoelitind ae ea ee ed rN STi browne, ssp erienGe , wacsieidsesscdeniens , ; 290 Memories of Pons fee RES JO Fs AE TEARS ge an aa ia ere ae eo Pu LI ee 3 sabiki ere tte coe ies RN a mE a g Days...... foo", 2 : 10 i IMIG ARCS ~ 90 Ura dorian coe nn anmonom perk edo 457° See esse eens eetersescecreecessees OL P PTOUL Pecubarities .. 6... ccc eee tec e ete eee e eae PEBSS cH! INNS SPINS Agadnecoouddanuienncharnorronditl ley Tae CHS tea D EMERG 4 Gon ated BAA RNA eer eSee Pain pln a 912) Trout Waters and Trout Weights .............. 413 IDOE aaa nc pAre ON) ECHO UNI 335 | Norwalk ............-. iat ore arPD = hotwtnee etree n Fila on 2 i Bef 9 r 2 * ae (Geis Mhaverd dee Peed ee Reae noe ened 391, ee Seite ek pe weet rene eeees seer sages ie Ri apepgs Ts RACE oes c seen s ee 215, ee Oceanic Bean cod hace syed yet tae bom RR 456° eer i ies if iz Oe Fatwa Hh ply Ms a eae ee a Be Nea lp viele a clelels og i = hrough the Sound on an Oyster Pee 59, nectar ASS toe ater crct omen Mie ith othe kee 1358 E.. pak ey aad ek Pics sons bon bi oo hae a Apataheeine a ee ee JS alse USI Phiten takers econo scdert oops opodéanpanonns 2565 aid baah cic eit : Weert SS Letter iss ceeee eee e cece tect e eee ee 236 | Plymouth oo... cc cee eeseeeeeeeeceseseseeess ATL, 495° ‘Dry By OHishinom Seeker Perl ee.r ae ae. ener 398, 348, 370 || Virginia Men and Fish, Some ...3.............0. OD lBsanneescore {OGY aoe onano de bot boboeooaip bane BAIS, PPBEE™ | (Ohnretecns Ost nya, 05 SoM AA AQSHEG AHRAMARR OMB EA SA A50 457 ‘Fishculture, leandhie JORGE: OE oa ncgdiammiounaan ie is | Nealon ts, Nase TRIS A Soar Gn epeedanpedhhdore Syed |p IrabaeISGESIS! Aer deh ac onadadeann kote) 15, 200%, 295, 316 LOREHRANEN® yt oaaugoodncbhAg Plo Ueuts 1 hatroror ethane 2h He UIT TiS Banthaee EMG acces ban sbaaeone suede 499 | Washington, Fishing Around (see Potomac).... 11] French One-Design ............5....020-.0es0aes TYAS || (Rictels ILeite Bed det eisai onda Nee M Ln eee EN oy 117° re henicse Garonesse IPP Pre LE ERE R Eten cna: fal, Bil || Wallies Weitere (Sibrelkrds) Asay oct Sn eh enue ueAeas AQGs Genethoersheia hin woah seer cae {Seon aanass ASAP A ITO ee GATT. <4cacictajetacietses alco tees sol ees a dels ae 236; Fishing in Forbidden Waters.......s.cccecccecee. TUG | | NWotomanesoversenblieee IBENSEY yaa ed acon cnanen ce aaaccudenre mide |i Gaksekorsingat elie St Bre hsb oh benaabopnmotre cme cOBAOAA AGE gUBEIS | Ba] Ori tat GL Ie ert owl eerecesteertrricisiv qcnerehacte ak shoe nenaie iG PAs Wishing Pleasures and Advantages ..........-.. bront || AWShonitsie TPES ubROWES. Cy noog ab. so uerionebe aseeano es PSK) XGrotelkein (CibORY os ana gacoanedAsannoinasionsdanectoucu 157 | Royal St. Lawrence.......++« Soren 185, 154, 176, 415 Florida Fish and Fisheries ........... Nar wa. A sechey | | AWS estavbenees Iestslovarwtlinnitey 5h en wee contin se cad.erinis ens pou 18 bihstercrmeal won roaacice. cb eet) Sunt Oy aren TRB. || eekieriitetes 45 anachicunnn ateeotaon AS vere 195, 455, 494 (Tilers TO kee a tbenn ee Peer ad een) PR eliconsazandh Yoni MORMON Ob A a58 Gonmpomerenoo ce Soe UOM mit Mesto ADH OOLEG estas weieaiah dace aclseeereets 154* | South Boston c.cccccecscertces Pepe RG op bhoel 471, 495, 4, INDEX. RIFLE RANGE’ AND GALLERY, WhAon scene ene ota 97, 185, 256 Brooklyn-Louisville Match ~ Cincinnati Rifle Association....56, 76, 216, 237, 299, 316, 356, 396, 435, 474 Boston Competitions ays blir, aes TO | Abegrsrectienes eg IMEKOy Se eainenronauaunngduons sn 4 2809 | PREtERC ESS WM ISGRELVOIU | site atest rierstereectee ante tereatend atetels 78 | | Bedford Iexoyab novel (Cithal (Okt o4 oncennonnone 240, 274 } Interstate at Wilmington .........:.....ese ees BAS) || ARS dale yoehteHyM Fo onpoc nooo sucomomonooee eeu wad 11s. Bellows, Walls (Gun. Gliubseseaseeranetne reas 496 , John F. Weiler Gun Club.......... USO Hath BPW Apisi || IRbuseons (Enbioy (OlWbtoS Bosc séuscncadamceascascbasons aT leveiike- WMissxe! (Gisnah *Cihetiticc « besonongascaoandanwocacs 499 | IKansas City Shoot.......:..... aetna 417, 436, 488 | Rockaway Point Gun Club ........2.s.2.s02+0000 356 Bison Gun C@lubs.-.1...1.seae 197, 218, 239, 274, 320 | Kentucky Shotgun Club.................05 397, 476 | Rosedales vs. Guelphs...........--. 278 ates 38) niBite: SkibbonerGut, —Gluibean suet osname Eee: 39) | Keystone Shooting League .........,...0050-e 0s at! || Ieibkelah ISKoibes Sllakofers oAgodedoGhececodeea nya -aaG4 475 . | Boston Gun Club....98, 140, 159, 197, 220, 240, 275, ) Kling vs. Starkloff.......... cc. bce sects eee eee 100 | Schenectady Gun Club..........0.-.02+222e2seeee 60. 299, 320, 360, 379, 398, 420, 440, 459, 478, 500, 527 | Knowlton vs. Marshall ...................-.00-- Aise|| Stesnosa, KGhsio. “Gillies aes oreo oe ecceten geen no aoal 197 | Brockton. Gun Glib ees nen BO0N 319s 48000 blo || leaucaster, lea, slicapaletuuiim ebatet pe niceilsn ines 474 | Seattle-Rod and Gun Club................. 260. 215 Buffalo Audubon Club...... 239, 259: 280, 320, 340, Jeikely-Dicksom Match 0. .iiciisestcestascts needle 19 | Sergeant System......... seotthela att nets ete e eset sees 179 Bie STON alin 460, 480) heb) | mlamiteds (Gine Clibytes.asescasmnersce tt saneeeee e459 | Sherbrooke Gun Club.......... PRs tesastleke 218, 480 (Qeyornesil (Crime (Cabhor (Nhs aan yiidondde ndadadpaedecn 478 | Lincoln Gun Club ............... 100, 160, 318, 356 | Shooting, Is there too Much?................+0.. 20 Carteret Gun Club....... capitan alain 25 Ae LAGE 2S R095 Se Meith] om ROCK MNIOtESs nriacraiestt sstetee eter teetststrsees neers 138 | Shooting, More Varied Styles......... 139, 179, 218 | Catchpole Gun Club......... 59, 79, 98, 320, 339, 379 | Lowell Rod and Gun Club..................+.++- 2OADE |PASSNGKS Oly IMG. SONI e dogod ena ooh GaGa Aa oa 140, 179 Centredale Gun Club........... Pale sPeByiy sive 25ire |p We tg eC MER TASS feye ea oh aly Lacie elo ratetn cio 275 | Sistersville Gun Club.......... 60, 158, 198, 217, 258°: Chambersburg Tournament............... eee 479) || Macon. Pornantvent, eaeeescsueicnn net serra Aire BEY |) teaaitol colts Jetoniitehoe * pert ondnceeisn sd bieeetnnc cae: 160. CharliessBiidccsee Shou te einen tee Ae Ab Se A191 Nalloner svsi, Vic Alester tans shaded ce sue ane deepaees 258 | Small Charges, Effectiveness of.........--....0..- 140 Cheyenne vs. Dotiglas.....csssscccceecscercscess S60r| eNlanwachnirersteAeentsees.ucesscser yes sun «uieeey 100) |psodius sRod@and Gung Glitbes eee: eee enn 380 (Glisten (Grete Oia yaa jtiano sasosendueanssod 279 | Memphis Gun Club ....... BYE, PUB BHC Reh 25l7 1) Srorsebonem alle: (Enbrel (Ciibloy ann qaceeamassanadonen 218 | Cleveland Tournament ...cccccccccccccceece Bie, pe MScpbeeke: (eniees (CI yt ude cattooonobsonmocan 359 | South End Gun Club, Reading............0...4-- 60 Cobweb Gun Club............eeeee ee 57, 140, 320, 398 | Midway Gun Club ..............5 AS a SER Rone oa Bey [ts@istdetercat WoKybovel WOGO% ss nonneotoo gcd eacoedvecoucdnr 239 Gorivyae Gtiiaee Glib paceeipisaster ete clases ie erecteceterre 480 | Milwaukee Gun Club ...........,....s0ceseaees Bad) |] Shey Shown Syst, UM Ss oon nodes ote ooo ou ouuen da 78 Dansville Gun Club....78, 119, 188, 160, 200, 220, 239, | Minier Gun Club ............ sees sees eee e eens AP eSte Ouse Wout Tia seer ernie eee 359 259, 275, 320, 340, 356, 378, 417, 459 | Momte Carlo ..........................5...... ibbsy AB}y| Siebamainsecs WeAdoyeacboms Seo brsocononsonenoascndds 118 Danderhig Simoes: INE koooone ob gaseduqanenc ee 60 | Missoula Rod and Gun Club...... PPB BEYE, APTN fashseoetarton aych A Cskesontootis: anean ga soddcdace Retenaiine 140 iDkbhovoyat® TEsohot (ONG Ob 66 son agen sa yoeopoubeontasasdce 525 ) Missouri State Shoot ..............05. II Garey Listy [releases DUNS AnnontonmoarsiAcAchu4rebee Asan enna: 240 IDYStoyaneyes Esha eho Ua onnaoddabrne adore: 420, 474, 525 | Mountain State Gun Club 22.01. 0. ccceeeseset eee 180 | Den-Gatiges 02sec een sees nneseseecissamieielycinivie 420 Dirpont sero pliveaiaaeeen eae eee Pentre ear A0s;)Mortey- ws eBanksaiee semen Ged eis eee 356 | Territorial Gun Club Tournament............ 217 BMOod, Parke. eee ee 159 | Mount Shasta Gun Club............eseeeee esses 258 Toronto Junction Gun Club............... 420, 499 Ulto ste ee CET STICeS reared there ed ee one 908 | Nebraska State Shoot...........secuscececvsveces Agfa AbensomathonSahe Sri tencnoncaannaeean Abe sate cy 359 Elliott-Murphy Match........csscceceesseeseseess Ait eNicaimdorgt, JERS, Peo). oorobonboonnecanieondotomo coc 21Reedinape Around! Biattaloy Weegee tater cuit see 59 TByanyerealkal (Gabel {ONO eyo spasaoncesbossuodbondon 938 | New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association..60, 196 Trap Around Pittsburg.............-.+.-.... 60, 79 hayes. (Ghbin (CUI. ereiconinsmianndddbinbrors 380 380, 460 arap-Shooting, Klondicitis ........-..sssseeeeees 258 DEPRES: GME Bh ui icesch hia etearsea ce cin ed» 339 ) New Jersey Trap...58, 78, 99, 120, 189, 159, 180, 196, Trapping English Sparrows.............+-10++s. 380 Fitchburg Rifle and Gun Club............. 360, 500 218, 238, 260, 275, 296, 318, 338, 357, 377, 397, 420, Uxbridge Gun Club........... 379, 398, 417, 480, 499 Florists’ Gun Clithyyssesea,sensenreeennne es 80 476, 500 , Walley City Gun Club........... 78, 878, 417, 437, 500 Porest. City Gtin Club .i......easseesseeeecs ees 960'| New York German Gun Club 2..+.55...0.060-5.- SOG Marwick Cun (Olu uanssane eee eee 60, 198, 478 Poe Aakers Ohaitie ahsagsuogs aepeodtehcasadecaeonas 378 | New York State Association....39, 419, 440, 498, 526} Washington Heights Gun Club......... 100, 197, 274 Fort Smith Gun Club....359, 380, 397, 418, 440, 458, | Oil City Gun Club.............. ec eee seen eee ee 180 | Washington Park Gun Club................. 99, 340 ASD SON 5274 |e Olathes Gru Cini parcnn ses ayien yee ames sean eter TiN Gige nN aettelose. CErseok (Cibo way 4 Shon gas Anas adnernnorae 520 (Citsinincavaral (Ghote (Cite jo caenanen Pian n tale 298, 320 | Old Reliable Rod and Gun Club................. 380 | West End Gun Club Tournament ............... 220 Grand American Handicap......... IKI, TBH PAA atch|| (Chon, WE IONESH cit aan naaosen dose poboecusnguls 49 | Western Items ........--.. Leen ee eee nee eens 240 276, 299, 358 | Oneida County Sportsmen’s Association. , .275, 338 | West Virginia State Sportsmen’s Association...499 Gian deioteh Gipw atiaeuncer detec tiee tn tone 160 | Cn Long Tsland....57, 80, 98, 118, 139, 159, 198, 218, | Western Shooting Association .................. , 459 Grand Rapids Tournament .........cseesesseeeees 499 | 238, 260, 275, 296, 317, 387, 858, 377, 397, 420, 487,| Western Traps....59, 99, 120, 137, 158, 196, 219, 240, Greenbush Gun Club.........ccsesseeseeees 119, 197 476, 498, 527] 257, 274, 298, 318, 338, 358, 378, 398, 418, 439, 469, Grecnmoods STGP Ech oot eennurennc eee Ara) || (Oyssstentayee MGiGe, KOMEN. boo tosh soener en jnenanséna: 476 ‘ 477, 498, 526 (Crechwillesuicameshootmenne VAs Shi de Oe eee 60 | Oswego Gun Club Tournament...... Pee oh AR AVVeate Plastis sO Ot. mlenbeeessteean saat eert se 93 GuneStocks Compassmerneorns sia sinister 140 | Owego Gun’ Club.............-..0.05- Pao 219 | Wide Open Shoots .......seeeeeee seen scene eee sees 178 Hamilton Tournament ...........esseeeee She os, Ibi) Meeps aye IB Weie 5 OBR RK acon gadndonoonona 975) Wm. T. Smith Gun Club..................397, 500 Handicapping Novelty......... BL bh 78 | Parmelee vs. Gilbert ........0-...s00.s00e0e- 280, 296 | Wolstencroft-Bartlett Match...................., 37 Harrisburg Shooting Association ..............- (St). Wetelbione GENS Neto UG oper ACCU ecm pew atest reed erat 959 | Worcester Sportsmen’s Club.......... 239, 275, 360 FOREST AN STREAM. A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE ROD AND GUN. “TERMS, 94 A YEAR. to CTs, A Copy, ( six Monrus, $e. { VOL, L.—No, r NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY i) 1898, ; Na, 346 Hie teins Naw York. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. ‘The address label on the wrapper shows the date of the close of the term for which the subscription is paid. The receipt of the paper with such dated ad- dress label constitutes the subscriber’s receipt for money sent to us. Subscribers are asked to note on the wrapper the date of expiration of subscription; and to remit promptly for renewal, that delays may be avoided. For prospectus and advertising rates see page iii. THE FISH COMMISSION AND THE LAW. WHEN the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries was established in 1871 and was put under the direction of Professor Baird, he stipulated that no salary should attach to the office of Commissioner. That great- minded man and devoted public servant strenuously in- sisted that the position should be one which should have no attractions for the politician, He clearly fore- saw and foretold that if the place were a salaried one it would be converted into political spoil. He served as the first Commissioner, doing the work of the office in connection with his other duties in the Smithsonian In- stitution and the National Museum; and it is known that his arduous devotion to the public service in these three several fields shortened his life. But in course of time, as developed by Professor Baird, the work grew in ex- tent until it could no longer be performed in connection with other duties. Accordingly in 1888 the independent office of Fish Commissioner was established by law, and was made a salaried position to be held by one engaged in no other branch of the public service. Marshal Mc- Donald was the first Commissioner under the new sys- tem. He had come into the service under Professor Baird; and he administered the office on the old lines which had been established by his predecessor. Under McDonald the Commission was free from political in- fluences. Following his term came the fate foretold by Professor Baird. The United States Fish Commission is now looked upon as the legitimate spoil of politicians, to be farmed out by the President at the dictation of political bosses. A crisis has now come in the Commission’s affairs. A -new head is to be appointed. It had been the hope that -the President would intrust the commission to a person »competent to administer its affairs on the broad ground «of public interest, and without regard to politics; but, as ~we said last week, it is announced to be the purpose of ‘President McKinley to nominate for the place of United ‘States Fish Commissioner a West Virginia politician ‘named George F. Bowers, who, being ignorant of fish -and fisheries, is unqualified for the position and a wholly sunfit person to hold it. The selection is made at the -dictation of Senator Elkins, who is intent upon reward- ing Bowers with a government place in return for ser- ‘vices Bowers has rendered him in his political cam- ;paigns. The nomination is one which we trust may not be ap- ;proved by the Senaté’ Committee on Marine and Fish- ‘eries, nor ratified by the Senate. The appointment, if -made, will be not only a betrayal of public interest, but a direct violation of law. The revised law providing for a ‘Fish Commissioner was approved by the President Jan. 20, 1888; and reads: “Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Rep- resentatiyes of the United States, in Congress assembled, ithat Section 4305 of the Revised Statutes of the United ‘States be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: “That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a person of scientific and practical acquaintance with the fish and fisheries to be a Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, and he shall receive a salary at the rate of $5,000 a year, and he shall be removable at the pleasure of the Presi- dent. Said Commissioner shall not hold: any other of- fice or employment under the authority of the United States or any State.” By the statute then the Commissioner is required to be “a person of scientific and practical acquaintance with the fish and fisheries.” The appointment of a persom not so qualified is a violation of law. Mr. Bowers is not so qualified; his appointment would be a distinct violation’ of law. It. is inconceivable that the Chief Executive should be persuaded by political pressure thus to set at naught the laws he has sworn to uphold and defend. We cannot believe that the Senate Committee on Marine and Fisheries will sanction such an appointment. There are men now in the Senate and on that Committee whose just pride it is that they had part in creating the Com- mission and establishing it upon the sure foundation on which in the past it has grown in public usefulness and has merited and received public recognition and confi- dence. We appeal to them now to defeat, by the with- holding of their approval, this scheme to overthrow the Commission and degrade it to political plunder. Such degredation means its ruin. Make the sole test of ap- pointment the personal fitness of the appointee as pre- scribed by law. THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Asout a month ago the managers of the New York Zoological Society submitted to the Department of Parks the society’s plan for the development of its Zo- ological Park, At the same time, preliminary studies for nine of the most important buildings to be erected at the expense of the society were also submitted to the Park Board, The general and final plan of the Zoological Park showed the locations of the buildings, ranges, dens and other inclosures for animals, together with the rocks, ponds, entrances, walks, roads and pleasure grounds. ‘Other detail papers were shown, more fully amplifying the general scheme as presented on the large plan. The society states that neither time, labor nor expense has been spared in the effort to make these plans as nearly perfect as human skill and knowledge could make them. In addition to the advice obtained from the best zoological gardens of Europe, the planning of the so- ciety’s park was carried on with the advice and criticism of no fewer than six expert zoologists, among whom were Mr, Arthur Erwin Brown, of the Philadelphia Zo- ological Society, and Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, Germany, whose experience in the precise work under consideration made their recommendations of the great- est value. The purpose originally announced by the so- ciety has been always kept clearly in view, so that the keynote of the present plan of development has been the utilization of the natural features of the grounds to the actual wants of the living creatures that are to be fur- nished with homes there. The development has thus been a work of adaptation rather than of creation. The area of the Park to be devoted to animals has been laid out with special regard to providing for the needs of those species and at the same time to make the collection most easily and comfortably accessible to the public. Besides the zoological experts who have assisted the society, several most expert landscape architects, en- gineers, surveyors and architects have been engaged, each in performing some part which should make complete the project in hand. Two surveys have been made, one geographical, in which are located the forest areas, clumps of timber, trees and often rock exposures; and one topographical, in order to arrive at the levels for drainage, water supply, pond excavation and similar work. Very shortly after the plans had been submitted to the Park Board they were approved without any modifica-. tion, and the society is now preparing to go to work so soon as it shall have obtained the funds required to enable it to enter upon the work of construction. The society needs to raise the sum of $250,000 within three years, but when $100,000 has been secured a city appro- priation of $125,000 becomes at once available for the groundwork of the Park—that is to say, for excavations, preparing walks, lakes, water supply and drain pipes and building of necessary fences. The funds provided by the society itself are to be applied to the erection of build- ings and to the purchase of collections. Subscriptions to the fund of the society already amount to about $65,000, and other contributions are greatly needed, in order that the whole amount may be on hand in ample time so that preparation may be made for beginning the work of im- proving the Park at the earliest possible moment next spring. A gift of $5,000 entitles the giver to be called a founder of the society, while a gift of $1,000 constitutes a patron and $200 a life member. Besides such large sums, smaller ones are greatly de- sired. Annual membership in the Zoological Society costs $10, and it is on the dues received from these mem- bers that the society must depend for its ordinary run- ning expenses. This country should furnish to the New York Zoological Society many thousand annual mem- bers, and these should not be residents of New York city only, but should be scattered over the country at large. The society's work will not be by any means altogether local. Rather it will be for the whole eonti- nent. When it is remembered that the Park of the society will be the largest in the world—four times as large as the largest in Europe—that it will be devoted in large meas- ure to the exhibition and perpetuation of many species of North American large game now. threatened with ex- tinction—it would seem to be the pleasure as well as the duty of each patriotic citizen of America who can afford it to contribute his small part by joining the society, and thus forwarding the good work which it has on hand. The list of annual members now numbers 540. It ought to be ten times as large. The Forest AND STREAM will take pleasure in further- ing the good work to be done by the Zoological So- ciety by supplying to any reader interested in the subject further information in regard to it. together with sub- scription blanks or any literature that may be desired. SVAP SHOTS, It is gratifying to be able to publish the letter which comes to us from Jackson’s Hole, with its assurance that the great majority of the residents of the Hole are opposed to the illegal capture of elk in the snow for ex- port to the East, by speculators who, in their eagerness to exploit the live elk industry, have not hesitated to defy and violate the laws of the State. The attitude of oppo- sition of the Jackson’s Hole Gun Club and others is most commendable, but what we fail to understand is the existence of the sentiment expressed by Mr. Simp- son and at the same time the successful catrying out of such brazen work as that of the Moose Head Ranch ex- port of elk. If the people of the Hole are really opposed to this raiding of their game supply, why do they not prevent and stop it? They have the law on their side, and while the law itself would not amount to much if there were no sentiment to back it up, the combinatien of the law and public spirit would close the railroads to any more live elk consigned to Eastern speculators. We publish to-day generous extracts from the report of the New Jersey Fish and Game Commissioners. The document illustrates what can be done by a well or- ganized force actively in earnest in making the game and fish laws of some meaning and effect. No State in the Union presents a better example of reform in this respect than New Jersey. It is not so many years since it was the rule there for everyone to be a law unto him- self with respect to gun and rod and seine and dip net. When the commission was reorganized and a force of game wardens provided, and the administration of the service was intrusted to a competent board of commis- sioners and to a determined and indefatigable chief pro- tector, a tremendous and far-reaching change was wrought. To-day the New Jersey system of protection is being carried on effectively and well. Public opinion is making pace with the new order of things, and pro- tective sentiment is gaining strength continually. The success of the protective work is due in large measure to the intelligent performance of duty by State Fish and Game Protector Charles A. Shriner, of Paterson. The account of the ascent of Mount Katahdin in Maine is not only an entertaining story of mountain climbing, but is extremely suggestive of the unappreciated and un- developed mountaineering resources which New Eng- land offers. It is, of course, only human nature to neg- lect home resources and to cross oceans to distant Alps or continents to the Rockies, but where one favored per- son has the time and means for such undertakings there are thousands of others who might achieve the peaks of the Appalachians, the Alleghanies and the Blue Ridge. lf the realm of Pamola were truly appreciated in Bos- fon as it should be, a road would lead from the Hub to the summit of Katahdin as well worn as an elk trail in the Rockies. The Appalachian Club in the East, and the Mazamas in the Northwest, are doing a most com- mendable work in making known the mountaineering possibilities of America, There is room. for a thousand more clubs. Mountain climbing is one of the most ex- hilarating of outdoor recreations. It is destined to grow in popularity, = 2 Che Sportsman Convist. ~Pamola, An Ascent of Mt, Katahdin, Maine. Pamo.a, the evil spirit of the mountain, has reigned many old men’s ages, and the winds and clouds are his willing servitors at all times. The lightnings crash and the thunder rolls at his command; great clouds descend from the snow-capped peaks and envelop the unwel- come visitor; stormy gusts assail him, and his wigwam is bombarded with great ice missiles until he flees in ter- tor from the anger of the offended spirit. At night the mountain sides are patrolled by Pamola’s dogs, and woe to any unwary traveler who chances to be found there. When the enmity of the master of the mountain is in- curred, it were the wiser plan to stand not on the order of going, but to vacate. From the supreme peak of Mt. Katahdin Pamola often hurls great boulders down the mountain side, and the thunder of their mad, hurtling flight can be heard reverberating in the peaceful valleys for a great distance irom the mountain. -All these things were unknown to us, and from our ignorance we sul- fered much hardship, ; The legend of Pamola is an old one, and has been told around the fires in the homes of the Eastern tribes for many years, yet-we children of the pale faces knew it not. And thus it was that we approached Ka- tahdin with laughter and with song, without due rever- ence to Pamola. With little thought. of the hardships and terrors in store for those who fail to bow to the dark master of the mountain, we left Cloud Camp at noon one November day and began our climb up the Russell trail on the north side of Katahdin. Our mountain party was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Madison M. Tracy, of Staceyville, Me.; Miss Sybil Wilson,of Cherryfield, Me.; Miss Alice Young, of Sherman- Mills, Me.; Mr. F. J. Tracy and Frank L, Tracy, of Staceyville, and Mr: and Mrs. F. E. Wolfe, of Somerville, Mass.; and our inten- tion was to climb Mt. Katahdin for the beautiiul scenery, and incidentally some of us cherished secret hopes of caribou and moose. For a quarter of a mile the Russell trail is of compara- tively easy ascent, then comes a sharp rise, with a brief breathing spell at a flat place a few rods up, and aiterthat just plain climbing. To a good woodsman a 6olb. pack is an easy burden over an ordinary trail path, but one soon feels a solb. “‘tuffet’” on a mountain trail. The ladies started bravely, with a small hand-bag and shoulder- strap. One of them volunteered to carry the camera and all started with jackets, and one or two shawls were taken. Before the first half mile was traversed four packs on as many strong pairs of shoulders were aug- mented by four hand-bags, sundry shawls, coats, and on one a camera and a frying-pan hung harmoniously side by side. aie: Up the steep trail we climbed, through a forest of black growth—hemlock and spruce predominating. Beside the path grew ferns and arbutuses and mosses, over which the ladies breathed deep encomiums. Across the deep valley and up the side of Turner Mountain was a bright band of sunlight, but the crest was screened by a soit white cloud. We were not yet high enough, how- ever, to get even a glimpse of scenery, excepting the dark green patches on Turner’s broad side. Mountain brooks, purling and cold, crossed our trail at intervals, and the tempting invitation to drink was sel- dom refused. A brief rest was taken now and then, but it was always followed by the toil up the steep incline. An hour of this work, and the singing and laughter was hushed; there was no surplus energy then. Besides it was chillier, a mist was settling down, and presently a cloud came around the mountain side, and the leaders were swallowed up in its damp folds, and we were momentar- ily separated from the slower climbers of the party. This was Pamola’s first card:-to lose us in a cloud, Ten minutes’ climb in silence with the ranks well closed up brought us above the cloud, but owing to the density of the forest we could not see much of the sea of vapor as it floated down below us. There was no more sunlight now, and in a short time a few scattering drops told of the approaching rain. The wind howled dismally through the trees,and soon the rain came on in dead earnest. We decided that it would be the better plan to make camp and remain for the night. The mountain was so steep that there was no place where we could pitch the tent, had there been am open space to make camp. Therefore we were forced to push on up the trail and make camp at the first place where we should find a good “chance” for wood and water. Darkness was closing down on the mountain, the rain had turned to sleet, and the gusts of wind carried the icy sheets in our faces with stinging force. The ladies showed signs of exhaustion, but never a word of com- . plaint was uttered. At a turn in the trail we sighted a clearing ahead, and a few minutes’ climb brought us to the open space, which proved to be a “blow-down,’”’ where great tree trunks were lying in a giant windrow along the mountain side. It was at once agreed that camp must be made there. Water was sure to be near at hand, and wood was at our feet. It was necessary to scoop out a level space on the slope for the tent. The fire was to be made in front of the small plateau, and in a few minutes we had the tent pitched and a fire feebly spluttering beside an Dry wood was scarce, but an old hemlock yielded enough splinters to make a cheerful blaze, and soon the big pile of logs heaped on began to burn and give out some warmth. ‘ The storm increased in violence, but the little tent stood firm, and was good protection for the ladies. A bed of boughs was out of the question, for a thick coat- ing of ice covered everything exposed to the storm. The poncho blankets were spread on the wet ground, and the bedding and shawls thrown down on them. Night had fallen now, and our camp-fire cast a ruddy slow on the surrounding forest. The wind swirled madly though the blow-down, and gathered myriads of sparks from the fire and carried them eddying away across the gloomy space below. But l FOREST AND STREAM. there was warmth in our camp-fire, and the tetit flica were thrown back to catch the full benefit of it. From beneath the wet folds of the tent came the sound of music, and we came to the conclusion that if the ladies could sing about “sunshine” under such conditions as those we would be able to get them over our Chilkoot and to the summiut of Katahdin. Preparations were made for supper, and Madison mixed and baked some excel- lent bread before the fire in the driving storm. Warm bread, tea, broiled partridge, good butter and dough- nuts made up our bill of fare, and it was a cheering re- past. After supper the ladies sang more songs. “Tenting out To-night” sounded very pretty, but there was an awiul amount of reality crowded into our surroundings that made the song sound different from when it is sung at home by the fireside. Then Mr. F. J. Tracy, who has been in the vicinity of Katahdin and the Wissattaquoilk for many years, and is a yery Nestor of woodcrait, told us part of the legend of Pamola, but reserved the whole story until we should be in more pleasant surroundings. He probably feared . KATAHDIN jjan. 1, 1808, = 4 = tions he must have been disappointed. As the night wore on, & lonely fox from somewhere on the side of Turner barked out his harsh cry, and was answeted by a neigh- ber far away deep down the valley. The sound was weird, and seemed entirely disproportionate to the size of the red marauder, : : Toward morning the storm ceased, and the cloud that had hung over us during the night drew away to the south. The wind blew up crisp and cold; the watchers dozed, and the fireman nodded at his post,, The gray dawn crept over the nrountaim, and soon the sunlight tipped Katahdin’s peak and crept down toward Camp Coimfort. - A ‘shout from Frank brought the drowsy campers from the tent, and a scene of indescribable beauty greeted them. The forest was transformed into a fairy- land, Every bough and twig was covered with ice, and the effect was matyelous. From the treetops where the sunlight first touched them a mullich jewels sparkled and scintillated, their prismatic colors quivering and gleaming from their lofty heights. The trail above and below was a veritable bower of loveliness, LAKE—MT. KATAHDIN IN THE DISTANCE. Photo by Mr. F. E. Farnsworth. the whole story would discourage us. During the partial recitation of the story of Pamola there was an interrup- tion. A small black dog, which had joined the party during the day, had been welcomed as a mascot, and his coming counted as a good omen. The dog had appeared on the southern shore of the Wissattaquoik near the Ka- tahdin Lake trail, and had boldly plunged in the river and swam across to join us. To-night the dog was rest- less, and at times would utter a low growl and moye stealthily away in the darkness. It was during one olf these trips that he received a terrible fright and dashed down the trail irom above the camp and hid in the tent. After howling piteously, he curled up in the corner and remained there until nearly morning. When asked what had probably frightened the dog, Mr. Tracy said laconi- cally: “Pamola’s dogs.” About 3 o’clock in the morning we heard a frightful scream coming from the mountain above. It was a blood-curdling cry, and one to try the strongest nerve. With a blazing brand held aloit and rifle in readiness, our two bravest men ascended the trail, but were unable to locate the origin of the long-drawn-out screams. After daylight the dog was found tooyds. up the trail, his head crushed by a blow and a long ugly gash in his side. He had indeed encountered one of Pamola’s “dogs.” (Probably a loup cervier.) A. After listening to the brief sketch of the famous Da- kota chieftain’s career, some of the ladies evinced a de- sire to sleep, and wrapped in shawls and blankets the tired ones tried to get some needed rest. It was agreed that we should stand fire watch during the night, as it would be necessary for some one to keep chopping wood and replenishing the fire. None of us got mtich sleep, however, as the bed clothes and shawls were damp and the ground was cold. The only comfortable posi- tion was to sit upright and face the blazing fire. A few stories were told in whispers, but most of the time we sat in silence, gazing into the burning embers beneath the great forelog. There was no abatement of the storm, only the alternating sleet, snow and rain. Thenoises in the dark forest were continuous and weird. The wind whistled always a doleful anthem through the tops of the tall hemlocks, and ran from that down the gamut to the shriller shrieks through the spruce and cedar shrubs. Then, as if to make the effect more drama- tic, a lull would come in the storm, the sleet beat less fiercely on our fragile house, the wind cease its shrieks for a moment, then a sound like the crash of a cannon, sometimes followed by several similar reports in quick succession, and then silence, heavy and oppressive. Of all the sounds of the forest, that of a tree falling in the night is most impressive. Something deep and subtle in the working of nature. Be the night windy or calm, the trees fall, and to the camper the sound is always an awesome one. We were glad our camp was located where there was no danger from falling trees. Ii Pamola sought to frighten us by these demonstra- After listening to the exclamation of delight for a minute, Frank interjected: “It’s all very nice, but wait: till it begins to melt.” When it did begin to melt we found that the rain of yesterday was but a shower cam- pared with the water dropping from the trees. cided to make a trip to the upper spring, where we had intended to camp and take what duffle we could with us and return for the ladies in the afternoon. After spending a couple of hours drying bed clothes and making up our packs for the day, we started up the trail, Mr. Tracy taking the lead, as on the previous day. Our intentions were to clear the trail of serious obstruc- tions, so that the ladies could get through. We began by chopping out a few smaller trees that had fallen across the path, and cutting the limbs from the trunks of larger ones that blocked our way. Half a mile from Camp Comfort we found hundreds of large trees blown’ across the trail in such a tangle that it was next to im- possible for us to get through without an immense amount of chopping. The blow-down reached up the mountain side for nearly a mile, and to have forced our way through would have entailed infinite labor. Slowly and reluctantly we retraced our path and broke camp. After bidding farewell to Camp Comfort we beat a hurried retreat down the mountain side te our base of supplies at the old deserted McLeod camp, After a brief council we decided to reduce our packs ta a minimum weight, leave the tent and start for the South Basin by the McLeod trail. It was real restful to hear the ladies talk about how little they could get along with. They agreed to make one small handbag do for the whole party, and to cut down on all! luggage. After making up the new packs and stopping a few miinutes to boil tea, we started for the South Basin of Katahdin. As compared with the mountain path of the day pre- yious the going was easy. Through beautiful open woods for a mile, crossing a fine mountain brook on a footlog thrown by some philanthropic woodsman, then we entered the finest growth of spruce in the vicinity of Katahdin. It was a veritable great black forest, car- peted with a soft, velvety moss. Every moss-grown boulder was the jardiniere for ferns of infinite variety mosses and ground plants that were a delight to the eye. The sun was highin the southern sky, and here and; there where the bright beams sifted down through the_ treetops the picture was one of exceeding loveliness. All hearts were light now, the trail was easy and the weather superb. Could it be that old Pamola was mollified? We wondered if it would not have been far better to have sacrificed a dog as a peace offering before we attempted the Russell trail. But surely the Great Spirit was smil- ing on the climbers to-day. i When. far up the trail on the mountain side we peered through a rift in the deep green of the treetops and looked on the calm, unruffled surface of Katahdin Lake. Jt was miles away and thousands of feet be- neath us, yet it looked as if a stone might be dropped We de- ~ Jan. 1, 1898.] FOREST AND STREAM. 3 ee i ee — Ee ee ee into its azure depths. A week before this very forest had looked like a mere stubble field, relieved here and there by a stunted bush. But that was viewed from the lake. How broad and important the blue lake had pais then! How insignificant and small it looked now! “a - Late in the afternoon the packs had grown heavier and heavier, the sun perched on Pamola’s eyrie peak for a brief moment, and then plunged down and left our side of the mountain in the deep shadow. Far away in the east were undulating peaks still tipped with the sun’s golden rays, but the valleys had taken on a somber hne of evening. It became evident that we must push on faster or night would overtake us on the mountain side, where it would be impossible to camp. Wood and water we must have, also fr boughs with which to build a lean-to and make up the “field bed.” All were worn and weary from the extraordinary labor of the two days and the lack of rest at Camp Comfort. Suddenly the shout, “Water ahead!’ came from the advance guard, and it was taken up and echoed joyously by the weary toilers in the rear, But the water was not there, to our great disappointinent. Instead of the pretty little lake we expected to find there was nothing but a mere puddle in the center of an acre or so of bar- ten rocks, no chance for wood or level space for camp. Signs on every hand showed that at some seasons the whole clearing was covered with water. Here we found our first sample of the famous “pucker brush.” A fringe of this remarkable growth surrotinded the clear space. A strong breeze was blowing down from off the moun- tain, and it was easy to see how the wintry gales could bend and gnarl the bushes into a stunted growth. But the remarke uly twisted and burled limbs and roots were nothing short of wonderful. Trees that in the more pro- tected depths of the forest would have been tall balsam firs were here stunted and dwarfed by the perpetual bat- tle with the elements. Their roots reached far down into the crannies of the rocks and grasped and clung on for life to the little nourishment to be gathered from the sparse earth yards below. Above the limbs blow straight out and flatten down, spreading and matting to- gether in a tangled matted mass. But the “pucker brush” here was but a mere imitation of that to be found on the mountain top, where trees of a century's growth are less than 5ft. high, and their limbs have grown out over yards of surface and interwoven with limbs of other trees, the whole forming an impenetrable barrier to all who would pass. Even the caribou, that powerful mon- arch of the mountain, knows the fate that awaits him if he runs into this entangling mass. As has been proven hundreds of times, the caribou prefers to face the death- dealing rifle of the hunter than to try to force a way through the trackless “pucker brush.” The only time a caribou has been found there is when he has jumped ~ there to die after receiving a mortal wound., The light in the clearing showed that we would have an hour more to travel before dark, and after a brief rest the caravan moved on, There was no hard wood there and a good big camp-fire was needed, for the night was a cold one. The deep shadows of the forest were gloomy enough, and we were glad that the trees liad “bled” some after they had been spotted by the axe of the pioneer who blazed out the trail, for the white spots were necessary in the semi-darkness. Here we marched with the ranks closed up, and many words of encouragement were necessary, for the ladies were near- ly exhausted. Fortunately the trail was comparatively easy as the level of the South Basin was reached, and we were even then inside the lower rim of the immense crater. Silently we plodded on over the soft, velvety carpet of deep moss. Night had fallen and the outlook was gloomy, but > Pa : 3 Around the edges of this bat on the south was a fringe of tall dead grass, while on the north side the forest came down sheer to the edge of the bat. This was to be the scene of the strangest phenomenon “ te PAMOLA the basin from the bleak north peak and sang a solemn reqiliem through the treetops, and from somewhere out in the blackness of the night an owl hooted his slow, melancholy call. Hovering before the new-born camp- PEAK—SHOWING THE MONUMENT. Photo by Mr, F. E. Farnsworth, any of tis had ever witnessed. Down through this open space a stream of ice-cold water flowed. At that time the stream was about 2ft. wide and gin. deep. It was afterward recalled that the ladies easily stepped across it. When we crossed the bar and entered the woods we found a fine level spot surrounded by plenty of hard wood. Some old dead stumps would furnish dry wood, and white and yellow birch would go to make a hot MT. KATAHDIN FROM Photo by Mr. F, E. Farnsworth. once more from the leader came the shout, “Water ahead!” and a second later the sharp, ringing blows ol the axe showed that camp was to be made at once. Plunging down a sharp incline for 3oft. we emerged into an oblong clearing of about five acres. It proved to be a sandbar and was nearly level. Across on the other side, at the lower end, was a group of boulders. NEAR ABOL CARRY, fire and warming embers late in the night. Then, too, there were splendid fir balsams near at hand to furnish “feathers” for our bed and broad boughs for the lean-to, and, though it isn’t generally known, fir trees, when lib- erally piled on, make a good fire and give out intense heat. ' The night was cold and the wind swept down through fire the ladies were bundled in shawls and blankets, while over their heads grew a slanting roof of feathery boughs, and soon Dewdrop Inn, as the new camp was called, was an established institution. A roaring fire grew up around a great root-wadded stump. As the ruddy flames climbed on high so the spirits of the campers rose, and soon the forest was full of the melody of song and an excellent supper was quickly on the fire. Frank made a great flaring torch of birch bark and by the light of it was throwing trees and cutting them into lengths for the night’s fire. Taking two tin pails and a torch, Madison and I went for water, not forgetting to take a cup along, for we te: membered the stream was shallow and narrow, We were greatly surprised to find, instead of thetiny brook we had stepped across, that the bar was nearly covered with water, and already a lake had been formed that covered several acres. In the morning there was fully 4ft. of water in the clearing and about four acres were sub- merged. In addition to this a smooth glare of ice coy- ered the unruffled surface of the lake. We named it Lake Mystery, and it still remains a mystery to us, for we made no attempt to find the cause of the strange ac- tion of the water. It might have had a commonplace solution, and I didn’t propose to spoil a good story by idle investigation. After supper, when the logs were heaped high on the camp-fire, and everybody had settled down in a com- fortable place, we told Mr. Tracy of the transformation of the dry sandbar into a beautiful lake, and asked him for an explanation of the strange occurrence. After a few moments of deep thought this master of woadcratt replied slowly: “I am going to tell you the legend of Pamola, then you can draw your own inferences.” Then, as we sat looking dreamily into the embers at the front of the fire, watching the salamanders of imag- ination come and go, or idly followed the snakelike dart- . ing of the sparks as they rose from the crackling blaze until they faded out in the blackness above, we heard the story of Pamola’s wild love; heard how this red Lochinvar of the forest claimed and rode away with his bride; of the wild pursuit and subsequent haunting of the mountain. The weird story was graphically told, and the narrator held his listeners silent and intensely interested to the end. Briefly sketched and from memory, the legend was this: The chief of a tribe of Penobscots who dwelt in the East was the father of a wonderfully beautiful daughter with whom all the eligible youths of the tribe were desperately in love. Pamola, a young chief from a tribe in the West, said to be Dakotas, came East and was welcomed in the wigwams of the Eastern Indians. - Pamola, the young, handsome Western warrior, met the Penobscot maiden, and succumbed to her charms. The chief’s daughter reciprocated, and affairs progressed so smoothly for the Dakota chieftain that great jealousy developed in the breasts of the Penobscot warriors, and. at their instigation Pamola was soon banished from the 4, Penobscot grounds. The bravesdemanded that the chief's daughter should marry one of her father’s tribe, and a iavored one was finally chosen. javored one was finally chosen; and the people gathered for the wedding feast on the shores of Lake Chestnkook. For four days while the marriage ceremony lasted there was much celebrating and feasting. On the even- ing of the fourth day the consumination was to come, but the proceedings were interrupted by a sound like that of a thousand horses’ hoofs beating on a stony moun- tain trail, Nearer and nearer came the thunderous noise, When suddenly there bounded in the midst of the revel- ers a form of giant proportions. It was Pamola in the war dress of his tribe, his gaudy war bonnet falling eraceiully over his shoulder and reaching nearly to the sround, Quick as a flash he snatched the bride-to-be from the group of Indian women who surrounded heér, and ere the Penobscot braves could recover from their astonishment the Dakota warrior had remounted his waiting charger and, like all Lochinvars of all legends, bore the girl away. But the Penobscots were not overawed by Pamola’s brilliant dash, and they at once started in pursuit. They were astounded, however, to find that but a single war- rior had ridden to their camp, for the hoof beats of Pa- mola’s steed had rolled thunderously down the valley until it sounded like a vast number of warriors, The pursuit was hot, and so furiously did the Western warrior ride that the sparks from under his horses’ hoois blinded his pursuers. Pamola had started straight for the mountain, as if Katahdin had been chosen by him as a safe retreat ftom his enemies, When the Penobscots reached the foot of the mountain they were at once confused by the loss of the trail. Sud- | denly they were assailed by an awful storm. (Clouds en- veloped them, and they wandered about. for days. ' The chiefs at length decided that Pamola was in league with the evil spirit. Or perhaps Pamola>was-himself the evil one. The latter thought unnerved them, and the pursuit was abandoned, and the Penobscot maiden was leit to her. lover, though her loss was mourned by her people fur many winters. Since then Pamola-has reigned over the mountain, and the highest southern peak» has borne his name. The daughter of the Penobscot chieftain was said to haye been seen in the vicinity of the south basin in the attitude of deep mourning. “Ihe Indians, it is said, have believed that all manner of eyil things happen to those who come to Katahdin, and defy the magi of the mountain. For many years the Indians of the Eastern tribes avoided the mountain and even the lake that bears the same name. When Fly Rod made the ascent of the mountain last summer she took with her Miss Josephine Francis, a full-blood Penobscot, and it was said that Miss Francis, who is the daughter of the famous guide of Debscon- eaque, Joe Francis, was the first Indian maiden to go on Katahdin. During the recital of the legend the wind had blown shower after shower of sparks toward the lean-to, and was now coming in a steady gale from the south. Just as the story was finished our raconteur arose, and looking through the treetops at Pamola’s towering peak, wrapped in a mantle of snow and glistening in the moonlight, he said: “If the wind holds fair from that quarter a while we shall hear some of Pamola’s salutes before morn- ing.” Scarcely had the words been uttered when from the mountain top came a sound like.the crack of doom; the roar of mighty artillery, and then a frightful rumbling like that of thunder, crashed nearer and nearer until it seemed that the very earth trembled and recoiled from the coming shock; the crashing of mighty timbers, a splash like the bursting of a waterspout, the hissing and seething sound of boiling waters, and then silence— silence awful and oppressive. The faces of the women were drawn and pale; the three men to whom the forest is an open book sat silent and unmoved, gazing into the fire. Presently the elder turned toward the inquiring faces and said: “That is the music of the mountain, Pamola’s greeting.” Then he added, with assumed Nestorian caution. “Never speak disrespectfully of a spook, especially when he has you hemmed in by a wall of water.” The noise that had frightened us tenderfeet was but the displacement of some great boulder near the top of the peak, which for some cause, presumably the warning in- fluence of the south wind on the frozen earth, loosened its grasp and came tumbling down the steep declivity, bringing other large rocks down with irresistible force. Near the bottom of the basin the giant rock had torn through the narrow strip of timber and plunged into the little lake near the base of the south peak. “And now, my modern children of Israel, let’s go and see what manner of a Red Sea these boys are talking about,” and taking a brand from the fire our entertainer held it aloft and we marched Indian file down the narrow trail to the lake, The torch shed a mellow light out on the limpid waters of Lake Mystery, and a murmur of surprise came from the little group on the shore. The water was siead- ily rising and the bar was already covered. Suddenly the torch was thrown with a whir. It hissed and sizzled in the cold water of the lake. We turned quickly toward the mountain. It was our first clear view of Katahdin from close proximity, and the snow-clad crests, bathed in the cold white light of the full round moon, made a picture of indescribable grandeur. Katahdin, old as the earth, calm, cold, immutable. What enduring centuries had that frowning wall of gray stone towered there! What scenes had it witnessed! What of the days, century on century ago—ten, twenty thousand years perhaps—when the crater was not as it is - now; when the molten masses were spouted skyward, when those great rocks had been thrown upon the peaks, white with the heat of a million furnaces of that hell below. But Katahdin of to-night stood in solemn, frigid, aus- tere silence. With the awsome picture indelibly en- eraved in our memories, we slowly returned to camp. No one spoke; all were too much impressed with the nocturnal mysteries of the mountain. Several times during the night we were partially awak- ened by the rolling of great boulders down the mountain side, but the thunder of their trail came to ears dead- 1 FOREST AND STREAM, ened by fatigue, and the sounds died away in slumber- ous echoes down the depths of the great, dark, silent yalley below. Standing fire watch at Camp Crater in the heart of the mountain, surrounded by the primeval forest, and amid such magnificent scenery, was an experience that will not soon be effaced from memory. When the morning first streaked the eastern sky with a leaden gray, then burnished it into a bright gleam of beaten copper, the snow-white mist rolled down the moun- tain side as the lazy foam recedes with the ebbing tide. The sun rose clear, and the day bid fair to be the bright one we had hoped for. Not a cloud hung over Katah- din’s towering peak. It was the rarest day of the autunin month. A hasty breakfast was prepared, rifles were seen to, cartridge belts were filled, and preparations made for an early start, as there was a great day’s work ahead. The ladies yoted unanimously not to try the ascent that day, as they needed rest, and the prospect of a hard days climb ’mid the snow and ice was too much for them. It was decided that Frank should stay at camp and straighten things owt there during the morning, and he was to go down the trail to the base of supplies for sey- etal things. we had forgotten. This left the climbing party reduced to. three: Mr. F. J. Tracy, his son Madison and the writer, We had seen such an abundance of signs of game since we left the Wissataquoik River that nothing was thought of it, but there was unmistakable evidence that a large moose had come within a few yards of our camp during the night. The whole basin seemed to be full of game. A small sapling, which I took to be ‘striped maple,” near the camp had been stripped of its bark for 3ft. Madison said it was moose wood, and that a. moose had barked the tree during the night. This was within r5oit. of the camp-fire, which burned brightly all night. Yet they tell us that Mr. Alce Americanus is shy, and - will give camp-fires a wide berth. We found “moose works” in every patch of hard wood in the basin. Hoping we might walk up on a moose before we reached the foot of the slide, we went silently up the little brook. In a few minutes we came into the Appalachian trail. The Appalachian Club camp at the basin lake has entirely disappeared. From the lake the south peaks looked gloomy and cold; the gray walls, towering. sheer thousands of feet, were impressive and grand. North Peak, however, was touched by the morn- ing sun, and the snow glistened and sparkled with glow- ing brillianey that was but a foretaste of the blinding glare to come when we had reached the summit. About midway between the extremities of the summit were three long “‘slides” that reached from the tableland down far into the timber on the mountain side. Jt was up one of these slides we intended to climb. After fol- lowing the trail through the woods a few hundred yards we turned abruptly to the right and came to a rocky run, which in the spring time and wet seasons is prob- ably the bed of a roaring mountain torrent. A hundred yards up this run we struck the first snow, the big rocks being covered with a thin coating of it, and this with the ice made the footing uncertain. Now and then we came to pools of clear, limpid water, ice cold and sparkling. The recollection of a drink from one of the pools at least will be lasting, No attention was paid to the lapse of time and how long it took to reach the timber line or the tableland is not recorded. Just before the timber line was reached we again turned to the right, left the slide, went through the brush about 75yds. and came upon a new and much larger slide, Here the earth was of a brighter hue, and the general appearance of the rocks and trees on the edges of the barren track indicated that the avalanche had occurred in recent years. From the top of the moun- tain, reaching to a hidden point in the forest, was a wide swath of desolation. The story was easy to read here. Some day in the early summer a few years back, after the snow and ice had melted under the warming rays of the sun, a sniall mass of snow, ice and debris away up near the summit let go its grip and started to slide off the face of crea- tion. Then suddenly the mountain echoes had been awakened by the roaring, shrieking, grinding noise of an avalanche moving down in irresistible fury, sweeping all before it. Great rocks had been ground to powder. Trees of scrub growth and giant firs alike went to join in the onrushing mass of booming, howling ruin. When it was all oyer and the gray cloud of dust had floated off up the valley there was but a path of naked rocks and bare earth where the great boulders, moss covered and venerable, and the shady undergrowth had been. The track of the avalanche was a good stairway now, and up over its rugged steps we clambered. Leaving the timber land far below, we toiled onward and upward, pausing now and then for breath, or to look to the right — or left for better footing. A friendly rifle barrel thrust down now and then from above and a firm, steady pull helped over some difficult places. Just before reaching the top we rested on a flat boulder and took a long look down Sandy Stream Valley. From no point can be had a better or more impressive view of Pamola’s peak, grim and gray, than from the slide. At the foot of the declevity nestled the forest of the basin, a half dozen little lakes looked like saucers of water in a bed of evergreen, and from near the center of the group came a thin blue line of smoke curling above the tree- tops at Dewdrop Inn. A placid sheet of turquoise still further down was the Katahdin Lake; then further over were the familiar peaks and ridges of lesser mountains. Away off in the distance were-a dozen dots of white, huddled together in a pic- turesque group, while to the south of them a tiny black object crawled in sinuous curves onward, slowly and silently like an insidious serpent on its prey. Watching intently through the glass, two vapor-like streams came from the head of the crawling thing, and—voila! Those white dots are a city, and that shake is a railroad train. A Bangor & Aroostook train was rapidly approaching one of the liveliest cities in Penobscot county—Patten— thirty-five miles away. But too much time was being lost there, and a scene of far more grandeur awaited when the summit should be reached. At the top of the slide a hard scramble placed us on the comparatively [JAN. 1, 1898. level surface of the tableland. About a mile of plateau sepatates the two high peaks of Katahdin. This space is about half a mile wide and is almost entirely covered with the low tangled growth of “pucker brush.” Near the eastern side is the only trail that runs through this matted mass of limbs, trunks and roots. The trail is but a foot or two wide, and through this pass of death must pass the caribou who is so unfortunate as to be found on the south peak of the mountain when the mer- ciless head hunter comes to Katahdin to kill what he can- not carry away. And through it they will come, though death stares them in the face; they know that the only ~ road off the mountain is through the plateau trail, and they prefer running the gauntlet of rifles to a leap into the impregnable brush that in itself means hopeless en- tanglement and perhaps death there. Through the glass we scanned the surface of South Peal, No living object was visible, There were no tracks in the snow, and there were no caribou over on South Peak. The only chance for caribou then was that possibly a herd might be feeding on the side of North Peak, Mr, Tracy started across the tableland toward the South Peak, while we worked around toward the North pos keeping a sharp lookout for the game we hoped to nd. We had gone possibly half a mile, clambering over great snow-covered boulders. Sometimes the crust would break and let us down knee deep, again a treach- erous skim of ice would give way beneath the foot and the crash that followed was not conducive to perfect still- hunting. It was just after one of these adventures that Mad gave a subdued, warning cry, and before I could arise and extricate rifle from camera he had fired. Serambling hastily around from behind a big boulder, I saw just disappearing over the brow of the divide a magnificent bull caribou with a handsome pair of antlers. A hasty snap shot -sent a shower of snow and ice about his head as he rounded a big rock and went down the - incline. Madison got in a second shot, but with no bet- ter luck. It was an exciting moment, and one well ~ worth the climb. Hurrying to the top of the ridge, we waited to get a glimpse of the disappearing game. “They will come in sight right here,” said Mad, point- ing to a clear space to the northwest. “There are five of them; three of them with horns, too. They will go off the mountain down there where you see that point of woods,” A few seconds later these three statements were veri- fied by the caribou. With the glass I could easily make out the antlers on three of them when they came in sight where my friend and guide had indicated. They were making straight for the point of woods, and they were still running like mad, so far away as to be invis- ible to the naked eye. When the last one had disappeared in the woods over the side of the mountain, I said: “There they go; good luck to them; we never touched a hair.” The woodsman lJooked inquiringly at me, and it was evident he did not understand the sentiment. This ended the hunting for the day, and we were at leisure to enjoy the scenery, for the rest of the day was spent in roaming over the mountain top. And such scenery! From our snow-capped theight we could see the whole ““Sportsman’s Paradise” at our feet. The day was still clear, not a cloud to mar the line of vision. Below us lay a colored map of rare beauty. Close to the base of Katahdin the deep rich green of the forest merged off in the distance to lighter hues, which marked the hardwood timber ridges and told of bright autumn leaves and good hunting grounds galore. The myriads of lakes nestling in the forest lay clear cut and blue in their dark settings of trees. The familiar lakes anil streams stood out in such bold lines that no difficulty was made in finding and identifying them. From Alle- guash to Jo Mary, from Moosehead to Nicatous, Gosse- ia Landing to Dacy Dam, the ol! landmarks were all there, . Large lakes like Chamberlain and Chesuncook were easily distinguished by their shape, but the smaller sheets of water, such as Umbazooksis and Cauquomegormis, Mopang or Sabao, might easily be hidden by some mountain or hill, and be lost to view or merged into the collective topography of the panorama. , Down in that quiet forest below, along the shores of the placid lake, or beside the roaring falls and quick waters of rivers, were the camp-fires of many sportsmen. We could not see the smokes of a hundred camps, but we knew they were there. The great silent forest below on all sides were filled with game, but that, too, was shut out from view. Moose, caribou and deer were there in bog, swamp and timber ridges. We knew that the bears, foxes and the sly Loup cervier were there by the score. - But forest, lake or river gave no sign of life; over all hung a peaceful silence that was restful to the soul. One could realize why men came here from the hurry and worry of the commercial world for a period of rest be- side some camp-fire far from the btisy hum of men. Before we knew it the sun had swung from south to west, and was casting a broad band of shimmering gold across Moosehead’s lower bay preparatory to a glorious departure after a glorious day. To the east of the moun- tain the stn had long set, and now it was almost dark in the deep yalleys there. One more lingering look around and we knew we must hutry from the mountain ere darkness overtook us. The western sky was a broad band of crimson, blend- ing upward to a delicate pink and on into pale purple, Night was fast creeping over the mountain and by the time we reached the slide it was totally dark. The moon soon came out and shed her pale rays over the snow-covered furrow down which we were sliding, stumbling and rolling. Camera and rifle quarreled yio- lently here, but bumps-were unavoidable. Pamola stood at out right, looking even more austere tinder the cold white tays of the hunter’s moon than under the noon- day’s sun. : Half way down the slide before we reached the timber lines Madison leaned his rifle against a rock, and mak- ing a trumpet of his hands gave out the prolonged cry ‘of the woodsman. Instantly the echo was thrown sharply back from the south peak, and then it came from the northern side loud, but soft and musical. The sound rolled down to the basin and through the valley to Dew- Jan. 1, 1808.] FOREST AND STREAM. 5 drop Inn, whete Frank sprang to his rifle and sent a salute roaring back, but it came to us a subdued crack. Then his answering call, clear as a clarion note, rolled up over the treetops to the slide, and it was full of deep melody. This welcoming cry from beside our own camp-fire seryed to bring us to the realization that we had been out since early morning. We had had nothing but ici- cles and frosted snowballs to eat, and even that light diet palls on one after a while. The pangs of hunger spurred us on now, and we speculated as we tumbled down the rugged path on whether or not Frank had brought up a piece of his“vengeance’from the lower cainp. But deer meat or dough gods, we wanted to get to it. “Chaw-dog” or “flippers” would be as good as par- tridge when we got to camp. Straight down the rugged path of the avalanche we slid. Once into the woods we cut across to a focky run and decided to follow it down, and Madison was right in saying it would take us near our camp. It was dark in the overhanging woods where the moonlight did not penetrate, and some bad stumbling was otir portion there. Halloos from camp sounded nearer and nearer, until we decided to cross the brook and make a bee line for the Dewdrop lean-to, which was reached after ten minutes’ hard scramble through the brush, Kew and short were the stories told around the camp- fire that night. The ladies had not been idle during the day, for there were many more feathery boughs in the bed the second night, and less of the wintry blast whis- tled through the roof of the lean-to. Besides this they had done some exploring. Sybil had guided the others through the woods to the Appalachian trail, thence to the basin lake, and she had taken her rifle along to pro- tect them, Then, too, she had hopes for a shot at a moose or a bear. But no such good luck attended her. Frank had returned from the lower camp and had a fine lot of wood cut, so that standing fire watch was not such labor as on the previous night; but who stood the watch neither Madison nor myself are able to say. The morning dawned cloudy and cold. There was no hope of going on the motintain that day, and as events proved, there was not a day in the next ten when the weather would permit-a trip to the mountain. We had been fortunate in getting to the basin, and catching the only day in weeks when Old Sol and Pamola smiled in unison. As the dark clouds swept over the peak and rolled down the valley in smoky wracks they smothered all vis- ions of caribou and blotted out the chance for more pic- tures. The thought that a rain was blowing up was an un- pleasant one. Dewdrop Inn was not designed for a winter camp. The fir boughs would keep out about as much rain as a lawn tennis net, and even the best lawn tennis net will leak in a heavy rain. We estimated that that roof of fir boughs would leak for four days after the rain had ceased. It was unanimously voted to break camp and go down the mountain to the lower bivouac, where we would be more comfortable when the coming storm should break. Breaking camp is almost always a sad task, and Dew- drop Inn was no exception. We hurriedly made up our packs, somewhat lightened as to provisions and because we had burned up considerable bedding when the fire watchman slumbered while the flying sparks set the bedclothes on fire, and started down the trail toward Lake Mystery. Looking back toward the camp-fire, the usual little blue wreath of smoke arose like a hand waving a last farewell to us as we moved slowly away. Frank had swamped out a new trail around Lake Mystery to the north side, and thence turning south struck McLeod trail, over which we retraced our steps down the moun- tain side. , The dry weather must have had a startling effect on the trail, for it was at least two miles shorter on the down trip. The waiting for good mountain weather at the base was without incident worth recording here. It is enough to say the fair weather never came. We had been away from Staceyville ten days and were running short of provisions, when we decided to go out of the wilderness. From deserted Mcleod Camp we drove down the pictttresque valley between the Black Hill and Turner Mountain. We followed the bed of the beautiful South Branch of the Wissataquoik, where were hun- dreds of pools delightful to the angler’s eye, for they are Swarming with handsome trout, and further down the river there were salmon over the spawning beds in schools of hundreds. This is not a game story, nor was it a hunting party; but our hunt at Jim Tracy’s camp, near Dacy Dam, was one long to be remembered, It netted four deer, and they made a handsome showing on the back of the buckboards. With a light fall of snow in the lowlands one moose at least would have lost his horns. He is in the woods yet, but to say more would be telling, and he will be bigger and have a finer pair of antlers next fall, A splendid supper at the Hunt farm, eaten from real white dishes, and a night’s rest in a good bed, were events of the return. With such a brave and patient quartette of the fair sex, who displayed such fortitude under the hardships our ladies experienced, a trip to the mountain could not fail to be a success whether made with or without the approval of Pamola. FRANK E. WOLFE. Boston. = A Large Rangeley Trout. R. N. Partsu, of Montville, has on exhibition in the center window ot Porteous & Mitchell’s store a mounted brook trout caught by him with a fly in the Upper Dam Pool, in the Rangeley Lakes in Maine. The fish is the largest brook trout ever caught with a fly in the United States, and is a handsome sight. The catch was made by Mr. Parish while on a fishing jaunt Sept. 23, this year. The weight of the trout is olbs. t1oz. The fish will be shown at the sportsmen’s exhibition at Madison Square Garden in January next, and is sure of a prize—Cooley’s Weekly, Norwich, Conn. dlatuyal History, Roosevelt’s Wapiti. Cervus Roosevelti, a New Elk from the Olympics, HART MERRIAM. [From the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.] For many yeats naturalists have known of the pres- ence of elk in the Olympic Mountains and other ranges along the Pacific coast, but until recently no specimen, so far as [ am aware, has found its way to any museum. BY €, When in the Olympic Motintains last August I arranged with two trappers who had established a winter camp in the deep canyon of Hoh River, at the north foot of Mt. Olympus, to secure specimens as soon as the animals had put on the winter coat. The first of these—a fine old bull with massive antlers—has now arrived and is safely installed in our National Museum. Dr. J. G. Cooper, in his report on the Mammals of the Forty-seventh and Forty-ninth Parallels, published in 1860, states that the elk was abundant in the dense forests of the Coast Range, and adds: ‘An intelligent farmer, who formerly hunted elk in New York State, told me that he considered these a different animal, being much larger and haying larger and differently formed horns” 1. In the same yolume George Gibbs states that “Judge Ford, long a settler in Washington Territory and an enthusiastic hunter, says that the elle of the Pacific coast is not the elk of the plains, but has a larger and coarser head. He has been through life familiar with game and is positive that they are different animals’ 2, John Keast Lord, in his “Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia,” published in London in 1866, says: “The Wapiti on the Oregon coast grows much larger and differs in color from the animal found on the inland mountains.” Dr. James C. Merrill, Major and Surgeon, U_S. Army, informs me that he also has seen numerous heads and antlers of the Olympic elk, all of which were distinguishable at a glance from the common species. In the Oregon exhibit of the World’s Columbian Ex- position at Chicago, in 1893, were several mounted heads of this elk. They were examined by Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, who told me that they differed from those of the Rocky Mountain animal in being black and in having antlers with relatively straight beams and an irregular cluster of points at the tip instead of the usual incurved terminal prong, “Wild liderness Mr, Roosevelt, in his entertaining Hunter,’ describes the Rocky Mountain elk or wapiti as . “not only the most stately and beautiful of American game, but also the noblest of the stage kind throughout the world;” and adds: “Whoever kills him has killed the chief of his race, for he stands far above his brethren of Asia and Europe.” These remarks must now be transferred from the common wapiti to the Pacific coast animal. Last summer, when engaged in field-work im the Puget Sound region, I saw several heads and a few hides of this elk, and was surprised that such a superb species had remained so long undescribed. I deem it a privilese to name this splendid animal Roosevelt's wapiti. It is fitting that the noblest deer of America should perpetuate the name of one who, in the midst of a busy public career, has found time to study our larger mammals in their native haunts, and has written the best accounts we have ever had of their habits and chase. Cetvus Roosevelti sp. nov. Roosevelt’s Wapiti. Type from Mt, Elaine (on ridge between heads of Hoh, Elwah, and Soleduc rivers) near Mt. Olympus, Olympic Mts., State of Washington. ; “ Type No. 91579, male ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Coll. Collected Oct. 4, 1897, by Hans and Chris Emmet. General Characters.—Size large; head and legs black (probably only in winter pelage); skull and antlers massive; beams of antlers telatively short and straight, with terminal prong aborted. Description of type specimen (which has nearly completed the molt from fall to winter pelage).—Face from between eyes to nose-pad, sooty blackish, somewhat grizzled on cheeks with golden brown; eyelids black, surrounded by area of pale fulvous, incom- plete anteriorly; rest of head and neck brown, becoming black along median line, and mixed black and reddish on top of head; back and sides a peculiar grayish brown with incomplete dusky stripe along median dorsal Jine; breast and belly dull reddish chestnut; legs and feet sooty black, with space between hoof and dew claws fulvous, the fulvous reaching up a short distance along median line posteriorly; forelegs abruptly black from body to hoof, with a nar- row fulvous patch on inner side of forearm; hindlegs and feet sooty black, the black on inner side of thigh reaching up nearly to groin, and on posterior aspect reaching nearly to rump in a band 40-50mm. wide, which curves slightly outward on each side of lower part of rump patch; rump patch pale dull buffy-fulvous, deepening be- tween thighs to pale tan; throat grizzled black and dark golden brown, becoming darker anteriorly, with a narrow median beard (about 80mm. broad) of pale fulvous, beginning opposite the angle of the mouth and sharply defined anteriorly and latterly by a blackish border, spreading and fading posteriorly; chin and Jower, lip blackish, with a sharply defined wedge-shaped mark of buffy fulvous on each side of median line, its base at anterior edge of lip, its apex directed posteriorly. Metatarsal sland (situate 160mm. below heel on outer side) a conspicuous oval patch of reddish ful- vous about 80mm, in length, inclosing a white central stripe 35mm. in length, and surrounded by the black of the leg and foot. Cranial Characters.—The skull of Cervus roosevelti, compared with that of C. canadensis from the Rocky Mountains, is much larger, broader and more massive. The frontals are not only conspicu- ously broader, but are very much flatter, giving the cranium a dif- ferent profile. The muzzle is also much broader. The cavities in front of the orbits, on the other hand, are decidedly smaller. Measurements of Type Specimen.—Total lJeneth, measured in flesh, 2490mm. (8ft. 2in.); tail in dry skin about 80mm.; ears in dry skin: from base posteriorly 225mm., from base of opening 208mm. Antlers: Spread 990mm. (3ft. 8in.); length of left beam from burr to tip 1050 (41%4in.); circumference just above burr 285mm. (1144in.); least circumference above bez-tine 190mm. (714in.). Antlers.—The antlers are large, heavy and relatively short, with the terminal prongs aborted, so that the total length from burr to tip is about 500mm. (nearly 20 inches) less than in well-formed antlers of the Rocky Mountain elk. The brow, bez, trez and fourth tine are similar to those of the ordinary wapiti, but above the fourth the antler is flattened and sub-palmate and ends in two or three short points, the tips of which reach only slightly above the tip of the fourth prong, Whether the aborted condition of the terminal part of the antler in Roosevelt’s wapiti is the result’ of long residence in the dense Pacific coast forests, where long antlers would be inconvenient, or is indicative of closer 1. Pacific Railroad Reports, Vol, XIT., Pt. IT,, p. 88, 1860, A 2. Ibid., p. 188, - relationship with the stags of Europe and Asia, which riormally carry somewhat similar antlers, is an interest- ing question. Among some black heads in a taxidermist shop ity Victoria I saw one, said to have been killed on Van- conver Island, in which the terminal prone of the antlers is much longer than usual, approaching the normal con- dition of the Rocky Mountain animal. But it by to means follows that the antlers in question belone ta the head on which they were mounted, for many taxi- dermists have a reprehensible habit of gratting handsome antlers on handsome heads irrespective of zoblogical or geographical obstacles. During the past three months { have seen more than a dozen mounted heads of ellc, deer and antelope bearing hotns which the taxidermists admitted were selected from stock in hand, without refer- ence to the heads on which they grew. Other Specimens.—In the taxidermist shop of L. F, Richolt & Co., at Centralia, Wash., I examined a yery beautiful hide of a wapiti killed in winter in Chehalis county. The color of the back and sides was a benutiful clear bluish gray, with a tint suggesting lavender, and the legs where they had been cut off were abruptly black. The amount of black on the head varies consid- erably in different specimens. Probably part of this variation is due to age and part to season, All of the adult winter heads were black ftom nose to ears, with more or less black on the neck. Some had/the entire neck black, the black reaching back to the/breast and neatly to the shoulders. The development of the mane seems to be much as in the Rocky Mountain wapiti. Geographic Distribution —Rooseyvelt’s wapiti inhabits the dense coniferous forests of the humid Pacific coast strip from near the northern end of Vancouver Island southward through the coast ranges of Washington and Oregon to northwestern California. In 1860, according to George Gibbs, it followed the coast “ail the way down to San Francisco” (Pacific Railroad Reports, Vol. XTI., Pt. IT., p. 133). This is a very natural distribution, cor- responding with that of many other species. Through the agency of man the southern part of the range has now been cut off, but just how far [ am unable to say, Mr. Charles H. Townsend, in his important ‘Field Notes on the Mammals, Birds and Reptiles of Nofthern California,” published in 1887, says that the wapiti “still exists in moderate numbers in Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties, along the upper courses of the Eel, Elk and Trinity rivers. Two large elk were shot in Humboldt county in December, 1885, and brought to Eureka, where I saw them” 3, But the southern limit of its range is of far less conse- quence than the eastern limit, for the important question is, Do or do not the ranges of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast wapiti come together? Apparently they do not. Some of the old reports state that the Pacific ellk formerly inhabited the Cascade range in Washington and Oregon. But even in this case the Cascades are separated, except at the north, by the full breadth of the Great Basin and Plains of the Columbia. North of the Columbia River the forest region of the northern Cas- cades is practically connected with that of the Rocky Mountains by means of the timber-coyered parts of southern British Columbia and the Colville Indian reser- vation of northern Washington. But this region, so far as I can learn, is not, and never has been, inhabited by ell. Mr. John Fannin, Curator of the Provincial Mu- seum at Victoria, tells me that while elle are common on Vancouver Island they do not occur anywhere in British Columbia except along its eastern border in the Rocky Mountain region. At the time of my visit to the Olympics the latter part of August the elk had been recently driven out of the upper Hoh and Soledtuc canyons by Indians, and the numerous tracks seen were ten days ot two weelcs ald. Well-beaten trails followed the crests of the higher ridges and traversed the principal valleys. Many of these trails, with little labor, can be made available for horses, and afford almost the only means of penetrating the region. Mr. W. A. Perry has published the following account of the way Indians kill elk in these mountains. He says: “The principal Indian method of hunting the ell in the Olympic range is by driving them over precipices. Se- lecting a well-known spot on a well-traveled elk trail, they will lie in wait for weeks, until a band appears com- ing down the mountain. The place usually selected is one where the trail curves arotind’some great rock, just at the edge of a precipice a hundred feet or more in height. A scout, stationed high up the mountain, gives notice of the approach of a band, and then the Indians mass at the lower end of the curve, while others conceal themselves above the curve, As soon as the band passes the latter, they spring to their feet, rush down the trail, yelling and firing guns. The Indians at the lower end of the curve do the same, and the elk, finding themselves surrounded, leap over the cliff and are crushed on the rocks below” 4. 8. Proc. U. §. National Museum, X., pp. 168-169, 1887. 4. “The Big Game of North America.” Edited by G. O. Shields. p. 53, 1890. bed | Concerning Compass Points. Editor Forest and Stream: I must confess to a good deal of skepticism regarding the rules given for finding the cardinal points when lost in the woods. For in deep evergreen woods the sun has very little chance to affect the growth of moss on the trunks, or to cast-a shadow which would promote the growth of ferns or other shadow-lovinge plants on the north side of the trunks; as for the hardness of gin, that depends on its age; and then how is one to see through the thick roof of the boughs above him in what direction the tops bend, even if authors agree on that. Some will share my doubts, but many more will not; and now to settle the question, let every believer, who is so situated that he can do so, go out in the middle of a woods so large that the light of the open cannot be seen, accompanied by a friend who will blindfold him and lead him about until he has quite lost all idea of direction, when the blindfold shall be removed and he be left to find his way by the rules laid down. But he shall not have. running water nor the known trend of ledges to guide him. Try it and report, AWAHSOOSE, * The Red Squirrel. CHARLESTOWN, N. H., Dec. 17.—Editor Forest and Stream: Thanks to Mr. Arthur F, Rice for his defense of this merry little fellow, whom he well designates as “the Puck of the Woods,” instead of the “devil incar- nate,” as sonie people have been disposed to classify him. When I was a boy I used to shoot him, and eat hit, too; for although rather small game, three or four fat ones helped to fill up the gaps in a squirrel pie if the requisite number of gray ones were not forthcoming. Some of your correspondents write of a squirrel “mud- dle,” which may be very good, and probably is; but I never happened to eat one, A “squirrel pie’ is made just like a chicken pie, and is full as good, “only more so.”’ Skin and dress your squirrels, quarter them nicely, sav- ing the hearts, livers and kidneys, parboil them properly, season with pepper and salt, a little onion, a little salt pork, and a dash of sweet herbs; put them in a deep balk- ing pan, with both bottom and top crust, and bale till the top is well browned; and the dish is equal to the famed venison pastries of the days of Robin Hood! [ will not insult it by comparing it to the productions of a famed New York caterer, of whom hundreds write who never entered his doors. I admit that the red squirrel sometimes robs birds’ nests, so do the crow and bluejay and yarious other birds, but I do not believe that he ever acts as a veteri- nary surgeon for the gray ones, though he is a pugna- cious little fellow and will claim and hold “the right of way’ from the bigger gray one in the woods any day. That he is a good provider I well know, for I have often seen him hiding nuts, and if it had not been for Stanstead’s letter in this week’s Forest AND STREAM, | would have sworn to one of them having hidden a haltf- peck of shelled beech-nuts, which a companion and I once found in a hollow hemlock, more than sixty years ago. I am inclined to believe yet that it was a squirrel’s store, for it was at the base of a steep, rocky knoll of some forty or fiffy acres extent, with a fringe of tall pines and hemlocks around its base, while the higher ground was covered with oaks, beeches and chestnuts. It was a great haunt for squirrels of both kinds, and was one of my fayorite “happy hunting grounds” in my younger days, as it was only about a mile from the village, though that mile was straight up hill. I used to get lots of gray squirrels there, and one morning shot five before breakfast. After I got to be sufficiently ex- pert to feel sure of getting as many gray ones as | warited, if it was a good place for them, I let the red ones alone, for I love to see them prank and frolie on the oaks, and hear the saucy chickaree. J cannot hear it now, but I can see them qtiver, from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, and know that the music-box is in operation. They are favored inhabitants of our village street, where they race around among the tall elms and maples, mostly living in some hollow butternut, of which there are many standing back from the street among the houses and barns. There was a family of them, half a dozen years ago, in an old butternut close to the house in which I then lived, and from which I was turned out in a snow-storm one winter morning; and they used to amuse us yery much with their antics. A big elm made a convenient tramway from the butternut to the roof of the house, where there was a hole somewhere by which they got in among the rafters, and they used to bring their nuts in there, and the people who slept in the upper chambers complained bitterly of the racket they made at night. One wear one of them got very tame, and when I sat on the doorstep, smoking, would come within a few feet of me to hide nuts under the plank walk which led from the doorsteps leading down to the gate, Another year my wife called me to the window one morning to look at one which was stamping and quiver- ing and apparently scolding at a great rate at the mouth of their hole. This kept up for some minutes, when there appeared the head, and then the body, of a yery wee one, and at last it came out and joined its mother, who was evidently calling it out for its first lesson in outdoor exercise, and it was not many days before they were racing about in the trees together. You may think this “4 great boo for stich a small colt,” but I love to see the little scamps about, and would not have them exter- minated for anything. Those letters from “that boy,” which Mr. Raymond S. Spears sends, are capital, and although I have seldom fired twice at a squirrel, | can appreciate the efforts of a beginner, as I have had mich the same experience. I began on squirrels with a rifled pistol, made by Robbins & Laurence, at Windsor, Vt., to which a country wheel- wright had fitted a light, crude stock, and although I got to be “sure death” on red squirrels and chipmunks with it, I did not attempt to try it on any bigger game. It is a number of years since I shot a squirrel now, and I never expect to shoot another, but I have ‘had many a happy day in the woods with them, first with my brother, and then teaching my boys, and if I could only recall the details of the different tramps, I might make quite a chapter of experiences out of it; but the taste and inclination for the sport have gone with the ability to climb the rocky hillsides. In fact, I think they began to go earlier, for almost the last gray squirrel I saw in the woods came up within toft. of me as | sat on a rock, under a young oak in its fall color, which just matched my duck coat, and, keeping one eye on me, ransacked the leaves for nuts till I happened to move, when he was off like a bullet. I had been so interested in his motions that I did not send a charge of shot after’ him, nor have I pulled trigger on a squirrel since. Von W. Foxes or Birds? Mapison County, N. Y.—Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue for Dec. 4, Mr. Willard H. Sullivan, of Clinton, Me., thinks it is too bad to countenance the trap- ping of foxes. Does he view the subject from all sides? Has he an over supply of grouse in his neighborhood, enough for the hunters and the foxes too? It seems to me we must choose between the birds and rabbits and the foxes, and I believe the majority of sportsmen would prefer the birds and rabbits. Foxes are protected during the autumn months in this and a few other counties of PGR EST ASIN) ScMess Aus this State. If the object of this protection is economy for the farmers in destruction of mice, etc., perhaps it is right; but if it is in the interest of the few fox hunters as against the many bird hunters, 1, for one, protest. Mr. Sullivan thinks the foxes will be gone in twenty-five years. I doubt it, They hold their own only too well here. STEPHEN R. LEronarp, Gane Bag and Gun. A Nebraska Day. Wymore, Neb., Dec. t0.—Editor Forest and Stream: I take pleasure in reporting the fact that my old friend Dr. H. A. Given has got his second sight. And as this subject must interest all sportsmen, I am going to tell the story as it was told to me by the Doctor, and as cor- rected and youched for by disinterested witnesses. When I got home from court last Saturday evening I found the tollowing note from the Doctor, which had just arrived: “Dear Mac: Now that you are too old to shoot game for yourself, | know you will appreciate having a friend who can shoot it for you. I was out hunting to-day and got thirty-eight quail, forty-six cottontails and one jack rabbit. You and Aunty come down in the morning and stay all day and we will have a feast, and I will tell you all about it—Doe.” i Now I had planned to spend that particular Sunday with Nessmuk and Kego-e-kay. Besides, I felt a little hurt because Doc had gone hunting without me. But I remembered that he always liked best to go hunting with some one that he could beat shooting, and that made me feel a little better; and I could not have gone if he had invited me, because I was in court defending a young man who had promised to marry a young lady on the first Monday after Lent and then had changed. his mind. Ordinarily a man who never changes his mind is a fool. But a man who promises to marry a young woman on the first Monday after Lent, and then changes his mind, is a fool, too. And then I thought of the dinner, and then that I should hear Doc tell how it was done. That settled it; we would go. Stinday came, and this is the story: We had a week of unusually rough weather, ard the ground was covered with 5 or 6in. of snow; but on Friday the weather had begun to moderate, and the prospect was good for a fine day on Saturday. On Friday afternoon Ben Skinner, a young farmer living about four miles from town, had * called at the Doctor's office with a box of loaded’ shells. and it had been arranged that Doc and his son Fred should drive out in the morning and hunt on Ben's farm. They reached the farm about 9 o’clock the next morning, Ben had put the wagon box on the bobsled and had filled the box with hay, and Doc mounted on top. Now, as Doc is about the size and shape of Col. A. G. Courtney, this way of htinting just suited him, and away they went for the fields. Then the fun commenced. They first struck a little patch of unmowed land in a draw, and it was alive with rabbits. Fred walked to handle the dog Tommy. Ben drove the team. Doc got on his knees so as to handle the gun to advantage, and commenced operations, and in a few minutes twelye rabbits were retrieved and in the sled, Doc allowed his gun to cool; then the team followed a flock of quail that had flushed and scattered in the snow, Tommy worked them wp, and Doc saved thirteen of them, Then he rested and let his gun cool again, and they started for another rabbit patch. And to make a long story short, these performances were repeated un- til the hundred shells that Doc had taken and Ben’s twenty-five were exhausted, and Doc was just getting warmed up to his work, They had thirty-eight quail, forty-six rabbits and one jack rabbit. being gone, there was nothing left to do but retreat in good order. Ben announced that he had killed his winter’s pork a couple of days before, and that they would go to the house and have dinner. And as they drove along Doc was heard humming an old darky song which sounded something like this: “Vou can talk about yer wahtermelon, red as any rose, With the black seeds a-stickin” in the sides like crows, With the core a-comin’® clean out to de rine, But oh, I’m longin® for de hog-killin® time. When they arrived at the house dinner was ready, and in the center of the table was a large platter well filled with pork spare ribs and backbone. Mrs. Skinner told them that the one that could eat the most backbone should have a piece of pumpkin pie, and Ben says Doc ate so much backbone that he didn’t want any pie, Two or three times during the story Doc had said, “T thought of you every minute, Mac, and would have given a dollar if you had been along;” and I said as calmly as I could, “Don’t mention it; go on with the story.” ; : When dinner was over they hitched up and drove home. The rabbits and quail were all skinned and dressed, and hung in the smokehouse to freeze over night. Now | hope no one will get the idea that Doc is a eame hog, just becausé he got a well-filled game bag or bobsled; for he is not, and those rabbits and quail, with the exception of enough for our dinner, were all tied up in little bundles and sent where they would do the most good and be appreciated. A man who will get up at all hours of the night and visit the sick, and furnish the medicine to those not able to buy it, without any prospect or hope of ever being re- paid, will never be a game hog nor any other kind of a hog. The story had been told, and the Doctor’s wile callea us to dinner. I will not attempt to describe the dinner in detail, but to give a general idea of it may note that we had celery, pickles, and cold slaw, quail and rabbits and rabbits and quail in all the latest styles, from raw on the half-shell to the common every-day fry, and we had mashed potatoes, milk gravy, sweet corn, and coffee and cake and pumpkin pie. There is no other country on letter day in memory’s calendar, The ammunition ~ [JAN. 1, 1808: earth where the pumpkin pie grows to the size or has the fine flayor that it does in Nebraska. Atter dinner we had the story with vatiations and more in detail; how sometimes he got two quail at one shot and then one quail at two shots; and how’the quail looked as large as turkeys to him, and how all his misses were dtié to Ben’s careless driving, or his gun haying a bunch of hay on the end of it, or the quail getting up at the wrong time and the gun shooting too close; how many somersaults some of the rabbits turned when the gin cracked, and how some of the jack rabbits that he did not get ran so fast that the shot just played along be- hind them; and how in one or two instances he could hear them whiz long after they were out of sight. ‘Just before starting for home I said to Doc: “TJ sup- pose, now that you have your eye again, that you will take part in the Grand American Handicap next spring?” j But Doe said: “No, I will not put my skill against brute force. I saw that shell, 3%in. long, that the U. M, C. Co. sent you as a sample of the shell used by Tom Marshall when he won the championship last spring. That shell is the outgrowth of the rule that allows the shooter to put his gun to his éye before he calls ‘pull,’ First came the rule, then the recoil pad, and then the long shell, and slkall don’t count for anything now. It is no wonder they find it hard to keep up the interest in trap-shooting. Then, how would I look with my gun to my eye and trying to twist myself up like Fred Gilbert or make a face such as Prank Parmelee makes? No, I shall buy me a new gun with rifle sights, and content myself shooting game for my friends who are too old to shoot it themselves. Take two or three of these tablets with you, in case you should have a touch of indigestion to-night,” And so we said good-night, and noted another red- A, D. McCanniess. Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman,— VIII. (Continued from Vol, XLIX,, page 486.) Mr. Ati once told us of a woodcack that he had seen walk out of the cover to a board that lay on the ground near the edge, when the bird deliberately mounted upon it and strutted just like a gobbler, even making the same hissing noise at the finish; and in a few minutes this was repeated, when the bird walked back into the cover. As this was entirely new to both of iis, we chaffed him not a little about it, but he stuck to it and solemnly assured us that he had witnessed the performance just as he had described it to us. For my part, I thought that he paraded this woodcock before us as a very good match for the one that we had seen on the fence, but I took no stock in the strut, especially as all the books upon natural history with which I was ac- quainted were silent upon the subject. Time went on for a year and & half, and I had nearly forgotten all about Ethan’s tale, when I was forcibly and very pleasantly reminded of it by the very same bird, for, owing to the reasons given aboye, I have my doubts that more than one bird ever performed the feat. One warm, pleasant day in early April I took my rod and started for a favorite spring-hole at the head of a noted trout stream, thinking that perhaps I might coax a few of its winter residents to accompany me home. Artiving at the place of operation, I limbered up the rod and very carefully crawled to my fayorite stump, within easy distance of the pool, where I took my seat and quietly waited until the fish should be over their fright, in case I had disturbed them while picking my way over the shaky bog. I had sat there perhaps ten minutes, when from behind a bog some 5oft. in front of me Ethan’s woodcock proudly stepped out on the strip of wood that bordered a small pool, and marching broad- side toward me, with head thrown proudly back, droop- ing wings and expanded tail, he actually strutted for all thé world like a turkey cock. Then he stood still for a few seconds. when he again moved forward and disap- peared behind a bog. I was too far away to hear the hissing sound mentioned by Mr. Allin, but I have no doubt that it has been heard by him, as.in every other respect the performance was just as he described it, I was deeply interested—in fact, so absorbed was I that I left my rod and went to the spot, approaching it yery carefully, hoping to obtain a sight of the bird and again witness the performance, but IJ failed to find him. Before glancing at the tracks of the bird in the mud I saw that he had, during the latter part of his parade, ‘scraped the surface of the mud with his drooping wings, for there was a distinctly drawn line in the mud on each side of the footprints more than a foot in length. Now I do not wish it understood that I make any claim of any nature in connection with this matter. I merely de- scribe the occurrence just as I saw it, and as this and the one described by Mr. Allin are the only ones that I have ever seen or heard of, notwithstanding patient search and persistent inquiry, I do not feel like taking the responsibility of stating as a fact that this a habit or instinct of the entire family, nor will I even guess at it, for we already have far too much guesswork in matters of this kind, so I just jot down a description of something that greatly interested me, hoping that some more for- tunate observer may be able to penetrate the mystery that surrounds the life of this royal bird and give us the facts in the case without any scientific guesswork. T was oncé shooting in the “tan yard” cover in Bland- ford, Mass., when my dog pointed a woodcock which I flushed, and as I fired it tumbled near a thick-topped pine tree that was about toft. in height. Just at this instant a grouse rose near me and started to fly back, but L whirled and had the satisfaction of seeing it strike the ground some 25yds. distant; and I started for it first, as it was not quite dead, and I did not wish to haye the dog retrieve it. While gathering the bird I was joined by a farmer friend, a thorough sportsman so far as trout were concerned, but not a hunter, although he had been my companion upon several occasions and appeared to enjoy the sport immensely, although he meyer car- Jan. 1, 1898.) ried a gun. After a cordial greeting he gladly accepted an invitation to join me and we started in the direction of the woodcock, but 1 had not mentioned that I had killed it. When we came neat the place I motioned the dog on and she came to a point near the foot of the pine tree that I have mentioned, when my friend at once started to go around, as he had been accustomed to do, in order to flush the bird for me, and was nearly under the pine and I had opened my mouth to tell him that the bird was dead, when out from the top of the tree fluttered my bird, which was only slightly wing-tipped and could fly fairly well; so I again drew a bead on it and again brought it down amid his exclamations of surprise that we should find woodcock in trees and that the dog could point them just as well as when they were on the ground. I was also not a little surprised, as this was the first instance of the kind that I had éver seen. Aiter I had explained the case to him he soundly rated me for spoiling so good a story as this would have been, and said that he had more than half a mind to ignore everything in connection with the affair, except just the simple facts just as I had seen them. But I had no fear of this, as he was ane of the most honest and truthful men that I ever met; and I have always felt pleased with myself in that I resisted the very strong impulse to keep silence, as such a tale told by a man of his character might have reached wrong ears and ere this, in cold type, have stared me in the face as a new fact in natural his- tory. _ I learned, however, through the landlord, that he did so far pander to the depravity as to tell the tale just as it appeared to him, and then, after listening to the com- ments of the wondering crowd, he would give the expla- nation to the disappointment of all and the disgust of those who “had often seen the same thing.” I was in this cover one day with Mr, Coe of Worces- ter, when my dog came to a point not ten rods from the pine tree mentioned above, and as it was my turn to shoot I walked in front and flushed a woodcock and had it covered and was about to pull, when a grouse rose near, and as I saw that 2oft. would put him safe behind a thicket I swung the gun onto him and bowled him over just as he was disappearing. Then I again put on to the woodcock and tumbled it also, making a very neat double—a shot, as Mr. Coe said, to think of with pleas- ure when shooting days were over. Rather a curious incident occurred the first time that my farmer friend, mentioned above, went out with me. There was a bit of good-looking cover upon his land, and I called at his house and asked permission to shoot there. Cordially granting my request, he remarked that I was the first hunter he had ever heard of who asked permission to shoot on any one’s land (this was thirty years ago), as it was the custom for every one to shoot where he pleased. He then asked me to sample his cider, and as I had not the slightest objection he led the way into the house and we were soon on the best of terms, and I am pleased to say that we have been very good friends ever since. -Aiter partaking of the cider I gave him an invitation. to accompany me, which he accepted, and we proceeded to explore the bit of cover I have mentioned, but without finding anything, when he proposed going to a birch cover where he had seen both woodcock and grouse; and after a half-mile tramp we arrived at the place, which has since proven to be the yery best coyer in all that section. The dog being sent on, she was soon on point to a woodcock, which I flushed and killed. My com- panion had watched the proceedings with deep in- terest and at the crack of the gun he broke shot, and rushing to the place where the bird had fallen, stooped to pick it up, exclaiming “I’ve got him!” and actually erabbed a fresh bird that he could have held, but not expecting to find any resistance, somehow it struggled free and with a startled whistle mounted straight in the air; but my second barrel brought it safely down again, and it struck the-ground not Ioft. from where it started from. My companion, as soon as the bird doubled up, prepared to spring for it, but as he afterward explained, upon glancing to the ground to see that the footing was all right his eye fell upon the first bird, which he picked up and then made his rush, and securing the other one, was soon at my side with animated countenance and sparkling eyes, asserting that he had never had such fun in his life. After this ] began his field training and soon had him steady to wing and shot, and found him to be an excellent companion, but I could never induce him to catry a Stin nor to take a shot with mine. He would always shake his head and say that he had had enough of gun to last him as long as he lived. As he evidently disliked the subject, I asked no questions until we had been out together seyeral times, when one day he made an allusion to the matter, and in response to my request for the story he told it in about this style: “You must know by the trees in my yard that I am fond of cherries. When I was a boy we had only one tree, and I usually had my share of the fruit; but the birds used to bother me, and I tried every method that 1 could think of to keep them away, and succeeded fairly well, except that one pair of robins would pay no heed to the scarecrows I set up, but helped themselves whenever they wished. Well, this went on until the summer that I was fifteen, when these birds built their nest in an apple tree just back of the house; and as the cherries began to ripen they feasted on them pretty much all the time: I was wild over it, but could do nothing, as father thought everything of the birds and would not let me touch them. So I brooded over it in silence until one day, when father went away, I resolved to put an end to my troubles. I took down the old gun, and putting in pow- der and shot enough to do the business up in good shape, I climbed the apple tree until I was about on a level with the nest, upon which the old bird was sitting, and resting the gun across a limb and taking a good aim at her head, which was about 6ft. from the muzzle, I pulled trigger; and when I came to I found myself hanging by a broken leg in the fork of the tree, with the blood streaming from a deep cut in my cheek and my shoulder so sore that I thought it smashed all to bits; and, worse than all the rest, that blamed robin was perched on the very top of the cherry tree with not a single feather harmed. So you see that I have good reason for refusing to have anything to do with a gun.” SHADOW, - [To0 BE CONTINUED. | FOREST AND STREAM, CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Wew Yeats and Old Years. CHrcaco, Ill., Dec, 24,—At this holiday season of joy and mirth, when all the world is squaring up accounts and getting ready to tackle another year, when half the world is happy because it thinks the other fellow is foing to settle, and the other fellow is langhing because he thinks it a joke that he should be expected to settle— in this time of peace and good will to everybody who has made us a present or who we hope is going to make us one pretty soon, how seemly it is for man to pause and take an inventory of joys! After all, the chief joy in life is perhaps this: It might have been a lot worse than it was! We can nearly always, 1f we are in the least philosophical, have this joy with us. It would be much worse if there were no For- EST AND STREAM. The man who is broke is not so bad off as the man who is in debt and broke too. There is always room for joy, if you want to look at it that way, And why isn’t that a good way to do? It is only the old plucky doctrine of never-say-die which has put wood on many a wood-pile, and saved many a man from ennui and /’eltschmers. There are a great many things to give any sort of man Weltschmers, except a newspaper man, and it-is some- what the fashion nowadays to think that the new years are not as good as the old years. I confess that 1 now and then at this season of the year wish I were a boy again, with red mittens and copper-toed boots, and just setting out for a rabbit hunt such as we tised to take in the old years. It is pretty bad to be shut up in the city, with only a vacation every weelc or so, but it might be worse. The snow we see nowadays, more especially in the city, is pretty dingy, but it might be worse. I saw some rabbits piled up in front of a store this morning, and they looked pretty bad, but they might be worse, though they were priced at five cents each. In short, this world is pretty much the same world it was a long time ago. It still has snow, and rabbits, and boys, and it is by no means so bad as it may be rashly pronounced to be by those who wrongfully think they have come to the end of the world. There isn’t any end, She's round, and about alike all the way around, though better in the portions where there are rabbits and snow. At this season we have few gatne birds left legal ex- cept the rabbit, but what more could we ask? Almost all over the United States the rabbit is to-day ripe and accessible, It is not bad fun to hunt rabbits, but is best when you can borrow a boy with red mittens and copper toes and watch him have the fun. So long as felicity such as that is possible on earth, this globe is no failure, no matter what experts on worlds say about it. Hail! then, to the Rabbit and the Boy, the proper combination for the New Year season, haying whom the world is not so bad but it might be very much worse. If, now, there were no rabbits and no boys, how sad and unpleasant would be the winter season. We used to kick the rabbits out of the snow, where they sat cuddled up in the grassy brush patches, and we shot them as they ran; or Dad did. And if Dad missed, the old bird dog usually managed to retrieve the rabbits anyhow. We had not heard of field trials then, and didn’t know it was improper ior a dog to retrieve. We always encouraged the dog in such laud- able endeavors, and this made life a continual source of pleasure to the dog when he was out rabbit-hunting with tus. When it began to snow he would come into the house and look at the gun and ask to be taken out rabbit-hunting. When the old gun was taken down, and the ramrod rattled in the pipes, how the old dog would leap and howl! He was a very rude, improper dog, untrained and.coarse, I fear, and not gentlemanly and calm and meek, as I am told a dog should be now; yet as I look back, and again look around at the dogs of to-day, I am disposed alimost to say that there might be worse dogs than those of the past! In those days we never heard of a ferret; and indeed I may say that I never got down to ferreting yet, for, bad as I am, I might. be worse. Yet I hear that of late years and in poor rabbit country, where the law of supply and demand is in sway to the detriment of the rabbit supply, some folks use ferrets. More than that, I learn that this fall a man up in Wisconsin has invented a sort of rabbit scarer which is worse than a ferret. He simply tales a long piece of wire cable, Jess than an inch thick, and fixes to it a carpenter's bitstock, so that the cable can be insinuated and revolved into the uttermost ends of a rabbit’s burrow. On the end of the wire is a bulb in which a nice little fire of sulphur and brimstone can be fixed up for the rabbit if he isn’t scared enough in the first place. How faris all this from the days of red mittens and copper toes and the minzzle-loader and re- trieving dog! Let us not be too curious to examine more into such devices. I fear they will next exterminate the Boy. Such thoughts do not appertain to this season of optimism. : Rabbits and Food, Some six or more years ago I suggested in the col- unmins of Forest AND STREAM what was to me at that time at least a new idea in rabbits, and more especially jack rabbits; namely, that some of the big rabbit drives of California or elsewhere should ship their rabbits to the poor of the large cities. Since then the same idea has been put in force, and “Parson Uzzell’s” annual jack rabbit hunt in Colorado, with its consequent shipment of thousands of the big rabbits to the cities, has become one of the Western fixtures. This year the sixth annual hunt was held at Lamar, Colo., and 130 men were regis- tered for it at $1 a head. It is comment on the side of human nature which loves to kill, when it is noted that men came from Boston, New York and other East- ern points, all the way to Colorado, to help kill jacks “for the poor.” The annual charity ball at Lamar was a great success, 4,756 jack rabbits being killed. The weather was cold, 6 below zero, but this did not chill the proceedings. At Las Animas, Colo., they also had a big battue this month, and slew their thousands, many of the rabbits finding their way to the cities. It seems also that Gov. Leedy, of Kansas, has got the jack rabbit food idea, and 7 has offered to send any number on to New York city to feed the poor, provided that some one will pay the freight. Sumner county, Kansas, paid a 3-cent bounty on jacks this fall, and counted 11,000 scalps in a month. Some 200 persons held a drive in that county and killed 600 in one afternoon, using hounds and clubs and guns, Jt is well nigh impossible to exaggerate the numbers of jack rabbits slaughtered in such drives, and it is stated that the big battues are a necessity if farmers are to save their farms. How colossal such operations, com- pared to the red-imitten days! Then we killed a little bit of a creature, and if we got two dozen a day we were happy. Had we at that time heard of a party going out and killing 4,000 or 5,000 rabbits, each as big as a half dozen of ours, we might haye been polite, but I fear we would haye been incredulous. Had I told my father I had read such things, I think he would have given me double duty on Sunday school for a while, Yet here they are, true! Not that I would exchange the rabbits of the old years for those of the new, but simply to call attention to the fact that the world is not retrograding in the size or number of its rabbits to any alarming ex- tent, And perhaps there were boys with red mittens on that Colorado hunt, boys who shot guns loaded with what I have known a daily reporter to call “nitrous’’ powder. In the old days our powder made a most de- lectable roar and shed a pall of gloom athwart the land- scape; and at night, when we washed out the old gun in the basin in the kitchen, what an odor there was to the “cleanin’s!” Let us cease such reminiscences, and again evade comparisons, the more especially as remi- niscencing makes people grow old! Vindicated, Denyer newspapers have come out with page reports from the committee appointed to look into the killing of the Ute Indians by game wardens in Lily Park, which affair made so much stir at the time last fall. The com- muttee reports that the wardens are entirely vindicated, Of course. The press agent of the Utes has not vet been heard from, ° Woman Warden in Colorado. Miss Annie Metcalf, of Denver, Colo., has been ap- pointed a game warden by Commissioner Swan. This makes two wotnen wardens in the United States, Mrs, Warren Neal, of Michigan, being the first thus appointed. A woman warden should be harmless if properly treated, but if things do not suit her, beware! This is an extract from Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” but is not of- fered as empirically established. Results of a Side-Hunt, The Sentinel, of Monroe, Wis., has the following little story of the results of a side-hunt lately seen in that part of the State: “A great hunting match was pulled off at Oregon and vicinity recently, in which forty-six men, twenty-three on a side, headed by Captains Will Pritchard and Will La- mont, took part. Two hundred rabbits and a lot of other game was captured. Jamont’s side won out by a great margin. The other side tried to get even by shoot- ing the sparrows that cluster about the stock yards. One hunter shot at a rabbit and killed his dog, ete.” This is art. Observe the suspended interest which hangs about the little word “etc.” What was it that was killed in that ‘“‘ete.”? What sort of a gun is it that kills a dog and an “etc.” at one shot? Methinks this is weird. A Clear Game Law. Tt seems they are having trouble over their game law in South Dakota, the main trouble with it being, so far as I can discover, that it doesn’t allow everybody to kill everything all the time. Regarding this I read: “The stattite passed in 1893 was practically the re- enactment of sections 2,379 and 2,384, inclusive, of the compiled laws, and all other statutes in conflict were repealed. In this re-enactment the Legislature absolutely prohibited the killing of large game up to the ist day of September, 1896, and after that date there was no prohi- bition upon the killing of large game, In the enactment of last winter ome of the provisions was intended to make every fifth year a closed year, and the first year so set was 1900, The rest of the provisions of the law bear directly on the manner under which large game may be killed in the open years after 1900, but only apply to the years preceding that time by implication, and do not bear directly on the years before 1900, After that date, though, the statute 1s yery explicit, and hunters in this part of the State take the position that the law does not affect them at the persent time.” ~ [ trust this is all perfectly clear, Lead-Poisoned Ducks. Out in Oregon they have this month discovered a number of mallard ducks which have met death by lead ‘poisoning, they having swallowed shot picked up in their feeding on such much-shot waters as Foley and Jewett lakes. One man found shot on the gizzards of five out of six ducks that he examined. The Oregonian exploits the discovery, It is not news. The first publication of this was made in the columns of Forrest anp STREAM some years ago. It was first pointed out to me by Bully Griggs, a noted market shooter at Galveston, Tex., and > it was later discovered independently by one of the mem- bers of the Forest and Stream Publishing Co. at Curri- tuck waters, N. C. The matter received editorial men- tion at the time. Good Railroad. The Southern Pacific Railroad refused to ship a con- signment of illegal deer hides sent by the Southern Oregon Pork Packing Co. to Kahn Bros., of Portland, Ore. The latter sued to recover value of the goods, and the railroad set up in defense illegal killing of the game from which the skins were taken, stating that the goods were falsely labeled as furs, but were discovered to be hides. As soon as the nature of the consignment was known it was declined. The Coutt upheld the railroad against the cheeky firm which had asked it to break the laws to its commercial advantage. If we had a few more 8 railroads like that, the whole question of game supply would be settled for this country in twenty-four hours. Tf no game were illegally shipped from the Northwest, the Northwest would be a perpetual haven for sportsmen. On Same Train will do. The Circuit Court at St. Paul has decided that if the hunter be upon the same train with the carcass of his deer, he is legally “accompanying” it to its destination, and need not be in the presence of the carcass. This is in the case of Phelps against the State Commission of Minnesota. The case will be taken up. Elk Numerous. Elle are reported very numerous this winter in the Jackson's Hole country, in spite of great mortality last winter. In the Sun River countty of Montana skin hunters have been butchering large amounts of game for the hides, more especially elk, but some deér and sheep, the latter haying been driven down by heayy snows. Plenty of game is reported near the boundary line between Lewis and Clarke and Teton counties. This is just south of the Blackfoot Reservation country, where Mc- Clresney and I went in last winter. Many mountain sheep are reported to be in that region now, 3ft. of snow having fallen in the mountains. Will Test Law in Michigan. W. O. Holden, of Traverse City, Mich., served yenison lalled legally, but served after close of the season, He was prosecuted and waived examination and will make a test case. One of the greatest principles of the law as applied to game protection lies under this ques- tion. It means that the cold storage man may ply his trade the year round, if Holden may sell his legal-illegal deer. There are legal precedents on both sides. Illinois has the Magner case, declaring it illegal to haye such fame in possession after the close of the season. Let us hope Mr. Holden loses his contention. Along the Mississippi. A great deal of illegal fishing has been going on along the Mississippi River in this latitude. One lot of 20,000lbs. of illegal fish was taken near La Crosse in two days this month. This week the wardens and county sheriit raided the spear and net fishermen and broke up their shanties. Nine men were arrested, but the jus- tice let them go with a rebuke. This was at La Crosse. At Prairie du Chien, a week earlier, two wardens cap- tured 4,000lbs. of illegal fish and burned two nets, arrest- ing M. Wing, Charles Kimball and D. Sapington. Calis a Halt on Deer. Major Baldwin has isstied, at Guthrie, I. T., orders forbidding the further hunting of deer in the Kiowa, Co- manche and Wichita reseryations. Offenders will be prosecuted. A large amotnt of venison came to Chi- cago market when this Indian Nation country was in- vaded by the white hunters, but of late the supply has dwindled very much, and the Territory has been pro- trounced shot out by many men who formerly found it a superb game region. If the order above noted shall serve to bring back a portion of the old abundance it is a good thing. Max Middleton’s Preserve. ' Years ago I reported in Forrest AND STREAM a quiet hunt in Indiana, where Fred Donald, of the C. & E. Railroad, took a party of us down to servia in his special car. We had an awiully good time, and I wish we were all there right now. Our guide at that time was Max Middleton, a tall and hard-walking Hoosier, who took us around and showed us where the birds were and how to get them, Now I read in a local news- paper that Max is going to start a quail preserve down there, putting ont about fifty dozen quail, which are to be supplied by E. V. Patterson and C. C. Hess, of Chi- cago, two sportsmen who have for a long time been shooting about Servia, and who have viewed with dis- may the decrease in the supply of birds at that point. Max is going to take charge of the work in hand, and will put a copper band on the leg of each quail, and asks each man who kills one of his copper-fastened craft to report the fact to him so that he may have a notion about the progress of the experiment. The region about Servia is a good natural quail country, and 600 birds added 'to the native stock ought to make it well sup- pled within the next two years, unless one of the capri- cious Indiana winters should make trouble. Last Thing on Non-Residents. The last thing on the non-resident shooter question comes from Attica, Ind. Down there the local men are much troubled with outside hunters, who come in to shoot and ship game. An organization has been formed which will ask the next Legislature to make it a misde- meanor for any person to kill game in any county of which he is not a resident. The Attica Ledger says in tegard to this: the prolessional sportsman, and it is time now for the common people to have a chance.” A great many men will at first thought decry this ac- tion of the Attica men, and say they are selfish and only want it all for themselves. Suppose that is true, we are but little better, for we only want it all for ourselves. That is about the situation in all game law matters. We are all striving and scheming to get game laws which will keep the other fellow out and let us in. This Indi- ana measure, should it ever be put in force, as it of course never will, would be‘really a good one, and all sportsmen ought to encourage it, not for unselfish but for purely selfish reasons, A great many men want to break into the Yellowstone Park and kill all the game there, but they are not allowed to do so, and the Park remains one of the biggest elk hatcheries in the world. Every posted farm in America is a good thing, and no shooter ought to kick at it. Every posted county is a good thing, and we are foolish if we kick at it. Every posted State is a good thing, and we ought to be wise enough to see it, and selfishly wise at that. The most selfish thing we can do is to make the game laws as strict as possible in every locality possible. ‘The trouble with us all is that we spend too much time herding the grasshoppers off of the other fellow’s farm for fear he saw seven. “All legislation has thus far been for - FOREST AND STREAM. will get a shade the best of us in the benefits of nattire. It would be better to allow any fellow to hatch more hoppers, Grizzlies and Buffalo, Mr. J. W. Schultz writes me from the Blackfoot Reser- vation that he has struck a snap in bears, grizzlies at that, and moreover the ‘white grizzly,” the sort that Lewis and Clarke describe as having been strictly bad medicine in their time. He says an old trapper has put him on to this locality, and that he thinks it good for several grizzlies before he gets done with it. Mr. Schultz also adyances the striking news that cow- boys have seen eight buffalo in the Bad Lands near the Round Butte this summer, The Round Butte is about sixty mules below the mouth of the Musselshell. Noth- ing is said about any haying been killed. This sets me thinking about the statement made by Gokey at Dawson last fall, that he knew where he could find four buffalo. There may be a few such head hidden in the Bad Lands region, A New Wolf Poison. Mr. Schultz has a word to say about a new sort of wolf poison, which I think will be a novelty to even the average old-timer. Fle goes on to say: ‘‘Antelope are quite plenty again on the eastern part of the reservation, Wolves are plenty, or perliaps more numerous than ever, Saw three to-day from the house, and yesterday my son Eyery one in the country is getting rid of the hounds—and you know we had as fine ones as were ever bred—and going back to strychnine. A wolfer on Cutbank is using a new poison—simply the paper wrap- pet which comes on dynamite sticks. His brother, a Butte miner, sends him any quantity of them, and he scatters them out around old carcasses, etc. The wolves eagerly eat them, as they are greasy, and soon “turn up their toes.” Big Game from the Bad Lands, The press dispatches of Dec. to announced the dis- covery in the Bad Lands of Dakota, fifty miles east of Rapid City, of an elotherium, found by Prof, O. C. Far- rington, of the Field Columbian Museum, of Chicago. Since that date the head of the elotherium has really been brought to this city by Prof. Farrington, who is preparing it for mounting. The head is about the size of that of a rhinoceros, and the jaws are large, heavy and full of strong, sharp teeth. The eyes are set well back and are large and prominent. The trophy is much valued by the museum. For a long time ranchmen in that part of Dakota have been missing sheep and cattle. E, Hovuax. 1206 Boyce Buriprne, Chicago, Notes from New Brunswick. THe hunting season of 1897 in New Brunswick is now on its last legs. Old Father Time has plugged it in the ribs with his .30-30, and it has only eight more days to run. ; Dr. Heber Bishop, the well-known American sports- man, founder of the Megantic Club, and friend of the human race, returned to-day from a fortnight’s rambling in the region of the Crooked Deadwater. With him came the carcass atid head of a large bull moose, which the guide estimated to weight 1,000lbs. For a moose of this size the horns were small, measuring 43in. from tip to tip. One shot from the .30-30 did the business. The weather Was moist and clammy all the time the doctor was in the woods, which almost made the snow-shoeing synony- mous with profanity. On the last day of his stay at the Deadwater the doctor saw eight moose and started a flock of filteen. He says the moose were really too plentiful for successful still-hunting, as it was almost im- possible to follow a track without running into other tracks and jumping the game right and left. The doctor adds that he has seen as good himters as Henry Braithwaite, but never as good a woodsman. This makes the fourth party Henry has piloted this fall to gore and glory. The first party sectired three moose and wounded another; the second brought out a moose, two caribou and a bear; the third and fourth scored a moose each. It is reported, but I cannot positively vouch for this, that Fred Pitman, who went hunting with Arthur Pringle in the Northwest country, was summoned home before he had completed his hunt, and that he brought otit two fine caribou. Mr. C. C. Hills, of Cleveland, is still encamped in the White Wilderness, on the headwaters of Tobique River. His guide is Adam Moore, of Scotch Lake, York county. At last accounts Mr, Hills had not scored his moose, but had obtained his full complement of caribou. On Friday last Donald Loggie, of Newcastle, one of the finest marksmen in Canada (the only man, in fact, who has ever twice carried off the Governor-General’s prize at Ottawa), boarded the train at Ludlow in a very cheerful irame of mind. In his hand was the old Martini rifle which had so often led him to victory at the butts; in the baggage car was a big moose and a caribou with antlers like the nest of a fish-hawk. Mr. Loggie had with him as guide Gower Price, of Ludlow. Eight men with axes and one man with a Winchester rifle stood around a bear den at Scoullar Brook, near Blissfield, the other day. The man with the Winchester rested his nervous system on top of a stump and fired twice into the den, He said he could see the glare of the bear’s eyes. This may have been the truth, for the bear soon came ott of the den and started nor’-nor west. The eight men with axes started to chase the bear when they heard a shout from the man with the Winchester and discovered that another bear had come out of the den and was making for the sunny South. A warm dis- cussion then took place between the man with the Win- chester and the eight men with axes as to which bear they ought to chase. That was seventeen days ago. They are still discussing the subject. John Howie, of Hanwell, found the carcass of a deer in the woods the other day, which had evidently been’ killed by some wild animal. Thinking the guilty party might return to the scene of the tragedy, Mr. Howie set a steel-trap. The next day he found a lynx in the trap that weighed, after he had been pacified with an axe, Pillone | 3 Among the people who are compiling caribou statis- tics in the Doaktown country are Robert Walcott, of [Jan. 1, 1898. Cambridge; E. W. Forbes, of Milton, and Richard C. Storey, of Brookline. All of these places are in the region known as Massachusetts. _ Mr. Randall Henderson, of New Haven, Conn., who in September last, when camping on Miramichi Lake, performed the almost superhuman feat of failing to find his moose, has come back for a hunt upon the snow. He will make his headquarters at Fullerton’s camp on the upper Dungarvon. Three young men with vigorotis imaginations and a grtidge against the barber—to wit, Ellis Smith, Coles Dugan and Humboldt Sharp—have just returned from the headwaters of the Tobique and Nepisiguit. They brought out a moose head and report that they saw many moose and caribou. They also brotight otit 75lbs. of _ heavy rocks which they say are full of gold, They claim to haye been where no white man ever was before, and to have found a motntain about 6ooft. high which is very rich in minerals. They intend to return in the spring atid commence mining operations. ao FRANK H. RIsTEEeN. FREDERICTON, Dec. 24, The Jackson’s Hole Etk. Jackson Hote Gun Cuupg, Jackson, Wyo., Dec. to.— Editor Forest and Stream: The inclosed clipping is self- explanatory. The questions involved in this elk con- troversy are just as you state them. The Moose Head syndicate, headed by one Glidden, are thus engaged, and evidently backed up by the State officials. I live in Jackson’s Hole and am one of 300 residents, and 99 per cent, of them are against the capture of game or its shipment. The organization to which I belong has done everything possible and has plead with the State offi- cials and those in power, to prevent the capture and shipment of game, but with no effect, and Glidden has said publicly that he obtained his permits (and he claims many of them) by purchase, and these statements of Glidden’s are now in the forms of affidavits and will be forwarded to the Governor. The people of this valley are as a rule against anything tending to destroy the game interests. We have fought by every power the Moose Head Ranch shipments, and shall continue to do so. If we have not any support of the county and State officials, we have the support of a good people at home and the public opinion of the good sportsmen of the whole country is, we believe, with us. These elk, as others in process of probable capture, are so many less of the wild game of Wyoming. I am.of the firm opinion that any further capture of game by Glidden or his subordinates will meet with the resistance of all persons in this valley who are opposed, as a matter of principle, to the capture of game, and who are opposed to the legalizing of the unlawful capture of elk, as in the recent case. FOREST AND STREAM is right in the matter of protest against the capture of wild game for speculative pur- - poses; and your subscribers and friends here give you credit for making the stand you haye. We feel confident that you can do great good to the game interests. You yoice the sentiment the people of this valley entertain, that the Moose Head Ranch syndicate and Manager Glidden must quit the business of catching elk, even if backed by the State and county officials; and the people of this valley will irom now on be heard upon this im- portant principle of game protection. Tf it was only the number shipped, it would cut sinall figure; but it is the hundreds killed by exposure and chasing that threatens the game of the native ranges. To-day, as I look out on the immediate hillsides and see , the bands of elk, and feel confident that the people of this valley will not voluntarily disturb them nor fire a shot to kill one of them tntil another game season comes, I can imagine nothing more unjust than that a special favorite can procure a permit to capture them. Wm. L. Stmpson. The clipping referred to by Mr. Simpson is from the Evanston, Wyo., News-Register of Nov. 20, and is written from Jackson: : “The Jackson’s Hole Gun Club had a business meeting last evening. The balance of the indebtedness, $269, was paid to the contractors, and the club building, valued at $850, its cost, now belongs to the gun club. R. E. Miller was duly elected president to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wm. L. Simpson in June last, “Strong resolutions were recently passed protesting against the recent issuance of a permit to ship elk out of Jackson’s Hole, especially after the reading of a copy ot a letter to a deputy game warden, which in part is as follows: ““Fred White, deputy game warden, Jackson, Wyo.: Section 15 prohibits the capture of any game animal. I shall not give a permit to any one hereafter to ship ani- mals for any purpose whatever. li the shipping is stopped there will be no object in catching and con- fining them. You must attend to the party who has confined 150 head of yearlings. If he don’t liberate the elk at once, arrest him and prosecute him before the nearest justice of the peace, You can inform the people who are in the shipping business that I will not give any more permits to any one under any circtimstances.. GUSTAVE SCHNITGER, State Game Warden,’ “The question of a reasonable and proper protection of the game has thus received a pretty stiff upper cut from the powers that be. But let it be understood that notwithstanding the setback the greater majority of our people will still continue to hold views which are pos-_ sible for the game’s protection, and as iime rolls on we intend to be heard upon this particular subject, and some one will have to explain. We are against legalizin™ the wanton capture of wild game by the issuance of a permit to sell the same. We think that Jackson Hole affords the nicest, neatest and most compact organiza- tion in time to put some views forward, and let it be said now that no one blames a person for pocketing a few thousand dollars out of the game, if the officials will permit it. It’s the principle of the thing we contend against, and we say now that until they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges we shall -not plead to their jurisdiction. Hence, doubtless, many may conclude we live as honest men.” Jan. 1, 1808.] FOREST AND STREAM. 9 Quail on the Elkhorn. Tr was a glorious day in October, with nature dressed -in her richest and ripest colors. November’s chill had not yet touched the air, it did not know whether to rain or not, the sun was just shining through a sort of bridal veil of mist, and all nature seemed to be just waiting and resting, when my genial friend Charley Snider, of Oakdale, and I, behind his big iton-gray, started for the Elkhorn bottoms. Muggins, a well-trained Irish setter, was snugly ensconced in the rear of the buggy. The big iron-gray took us at a lively rate for a few miles, when, as we neared the river, the ground became more broken and was covered with low plum bushes and small, scrubby oak trees, interspersed here and there with tall prairie grass and weeds. We had not uncased our guns and were within a hundred yards of the river, when our conyersation was cut short and hopes aroused by that peculiar whitring sound of Bob White when he has company and becomes alarmed for their safety; and there to the right, not 3oyds. away from iis, were at least three dozen little brown beauties, some of them running like madecaps for the thickets and others standing still in open-eyed wonder and uttering their “chic, chic, choo.” It is needless to say we stopped. We hitched to the fence and got Muggins out of the buggy and set him to work. The birds got up quickly and at long range, among the scrub, and we only got one; bit they flew only a short distance, and we marked them down the best we could and tollowed. We were passing through a space a little more open that the rest, when Muggins pointed beautifully, a strong bird got up be- tween us and flew high against the wind; there was one report, but the bird went off unhurt. In the act of reload- ing we discovered we had both fired at the same instant at the bird and both had missed it. The birds crossed the Elkhorn and we found an old scow and tried to follow, but could not launch our boat and had to give it up. ; We again took to the buggy and soon found other coveys, as they were quite numerous, but the gound was very dry and the dog seemed unable to trail except very fresh scent. We drove over to an old deserted house, where we heard them calling, and killed three almost in the dooryard as they got up from under a big cotton- wood. The cover for this class of game birds is excellent in the Elkhorn bottoms, and we must have sighted 150 birds, but owing to the dense undergrowth and the necessity for quick shooting—and, 1 might say, bad shooting—we only got about a dozen. But then we had an excellent four hours’ sport, and as we drove home in the dusk of gathering twilight we could hear the familiar call from a dozen little throats in as many thickets, “Bob, Bob White,” Epwarp M. Ames. Prorta, Ill. Montreal Club Dinner. From the Montreal Witness, Dec, 22, 1897. THIRTDY-NINE years ago, when this Province was teem- ing with game, a few sportsmen, evidently far-seeing, formed themselves into a club for the protection of this game, and of the fish, determined that as far as lay in their power to prevent it no oné should meddle with either out of season, thus guarding against extermination. The club has since worked ahead in a humble way, de- pending entirely, until recently, upon its membership fees, its whole history being one oi wonderiul work for limited means. Four years ago a turning point was reached, the Hon. Mr. Flynn becoming so impressed with the amount of work the club was doing that he gave them a subsidy of $200, which was doubled the following year. The Hon. Mr. Nantel increased the subsidy to $800, and as much or more was expected from the pres- ent Minister of Crown Lands. The annual dinner of the Fish and Game Protection Club was held last evening, at the St. Lawrence Hall. The dinner was an excellent one, and well served. Those who gathered round the board were Dr. J. T. Finnie, president of the club; Messrs. L. Z, Joncas, Colin Camp- bell, Dr. Charles McEachran, Dr. C. W. Wilson, Dr. W. H. Drummond, Mr. Duncan Robertson, Dr. D. D. McTaggart, J. P. Roche, Dr. H. M. Robertson, Messrs. Harry K. Martin, Henry W. Atwater, Albert D. Nelson, J. B. Tressider, George E, Drummond, J. Stevenson Brown, J. S. Ibbotson, W. L. Maltby, Major W. C. Trotter, Messrs. James Cochrane, W. J. Cleghorn, Albert Laberge, W. E. Bradshaw, George Van Gilder, T. A. Emmans, W. ©. Doods, Ansell Leo, Thomas C. Brain- erd, Major George Horne, one of the founders of the club; Mr. F. M. Alley and others. Dr. Finnie gave the toast of “Fish and Game Inter- ests,” and explained the objects of the club. Dr. Brain- erd, in responding, spoke of how the settlement of Canada ana the whole of America was due largely to these interests. He related how the club were striving to enforce existing laws themselves. They had fallen on better times lately in securing the sympathy and co-operation of the Government. Their work was well worth the appreciation of the Ministry, and besides the yearly income of $25,000 already derived from fish and game, and that might be increased twenty times, there was the large gain to the people in food and pleasure. The present membership of the club was about 200; they had no debts, and they had $600 in the bank, so that their prospects were never brighter. The Hon. Mr. Joncas responded to the toast of “Our Guests.” He declared that the work of the Fish and Game Protection Club was worth more than the work of all the 150 or 160 game wardens in the Province. Mr. Parent was disposed to do well by them, and while as the latter’s representative he could not promise any- thing, he would say that if it rested in his power the subsidy would not be $800, but much more than that. Mr. Joncas said that three-fourths of the suggestions made by the club would be adopted in the new law. For one thing, no company would be allowed to express moose, caribou or deer from one province to another that did not bear the license or tax tag. This should stop the wholesale slaughter. It was suggested to pre- vent the hunting of woodcock by stopping its sale. Then dealers who had fish or game in their possession would be obliged to offer proof hereafter that such was not caught out of scason. They wanted not to interfere with the trade, but with the poachers. The present Minister of Crown Lands was well disposed, Mr, Joncas said in conclusion, to stand by the club, for the latter could do for $5 what cost the Government $50. He didn’t want to touch on politics, but it was notorious that where a man caught poaching was represented in Parlia- - ment by a Liberal, he not only could get his fines re- mitted, but sometimes his costs paid as well. “The Ladies” and “The Press” were also toasted. Tt is unnecessary to say that with the talent present there was also an enjoyable programme, Among those who contributed were Dr, Robertson, Dr. McEachran, Dr. C. Wilson, who rendered some of Dr, Drummond’s prettiest things, and Dr, Drummond himself, who gave a poem composed for the occasion, the opening verses of which are as follows: ©, ma ole canoe; w’at’s matter wit’ you, an’ w’y was you be so slow? Don’t I work hard enough on de paddle, an’ still you don’t seem to go, No win’ at all on de fronte side, an’ current she don’t be strong, Den w’y are you lak lazy feller, too sleepy for move along? “T ‘member de tam wen you jump de sam’ as deer wit’ de wolf behind, An’ brochet on de top of de water, you scare heem mos’ off hees min’. , But fish don’t care for you just now at all, only jus’ mebbe wink de eye, Por he know it’s easy git out de way w’en you was a-passin’ by, “Aiv who's your horse, too, but your ole canoe, an*” w’en you feel cole and wet, Who was your house, w’en “im upside down an’ onder de roof you get? Wit? rain runnin’ down ma back, Bapteme, till I’m gettin’ de rheumateez, An’ I neyer say noting at all, moi meme, but let you do jus’ you please. i “©, dat’s lonesome ting hear de gray owl sing up on de beeg pine iree, An’ many long night she k’ep me wake till sun on de “‘est”’ I see. An’ den you come down on de morning for start on some more voyage, An’ only t*ing decen’ you do all day is carry me on portage,” Boston Sportsmen in Maine. Boston, Dec. 27.—Last week was a dull one for the Maine big game hunters, and the season is likely to close with less of game killed than is usually the case. There has been a Jack of fresh snow, while the little on the ground has been covered with a noisy crust. This condi- tion has sent several Boston hunters home empty- handed. No moose haye been landed from Maine for more than a week, though Dr. Heber Bishop is back from the Provinces with a handsome one. He is still the champion moose hunter of the country. Only a few deer have come to hand of late, and no caribou. Mr, H. S. Fisher, with his hunting partner, F. Wight, came out of the Maine woods a week or two ago with two deer apiece. They went to Matawaumkeag station, on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, and thence twelve miles by team to South Moluncus, where they were taken in charge by A. S. Knight, a settler at that point. The hunters are greatly pleased with the treatment they received at Uncle An- drew’s. Deer they found to be remarkably plenty. They could easily have got more than their legal quota had they desired to do so. They found Uncle Andrew to bea genuine son of the region, who met them at the station with his team. When neating his premises the hunters were struck with the appearance of a handsome girl of 17, hauling wood with a fine pair of horses. They called Uncle Andrew’s attention to it. ‘Yes,’ he said, “she’s my daughter, and as good as gold; helps me a great deal.” The hunters found that the young lady is noted for handling a team of horses, as well as for good sense and kindness to her father. Doubtless she can shoot, and has taken her legal share of big game this fall. Florida hunting and fishing parties are the order of the day among sportsmen who can afford it, and have exhausted the season in Maine, Still there are a few par- ties yet in the Maine camps. Allerton Lodge, Moose- lucmaguntic Lake, has been inhabited for a couple of weeks with a party headed by Dr. H. H. Haskell, of Newton. Billy Soule’s Cupsuptic Camps have also been full of hunters. His tame deer—the pet of all the guests this summer—has escaped. It was allowed full freedom, and did not seem to care to take to the woods, but sud- denlydisappeared. It had a blue ribbon about its neck, and it is hoped that no hunter has destroyed or will de- stroy it, The tame deer that Capt. F. C. Barker has had at Bemis this season has been taken up to Rangeley, the property of the captain’s little daughter. SPECIAL, Match Safe and Landing Net. Wituineron, Del.—Editor’ Forest and Stream: We dont all have opportunity to hunt New York for a waterproof match-box, as Dr. F. M. Bauer says he did (FoREST AND STREAM, Dec. 4). If he loses his, or some other gunner wants one, he can do as I did two years ago, and again last night. Take a Winchester 12-cauge brass shell. U. M. C. smokeless, same gauge. Put the two together and you have a metal box that will carry twenty-five “searchlieht’ matches—no patent. Here in Wilmington we can buy a repair kit for bicycle tires, in a brass nickel-plated case, that is about the same size as the shell, for 5 cents. These cases make good match-safes. A landing net is troublesome to carry irom home to camp. I take the ordinary net in my pocket, cut a maple or birch fork, warm the branches, turn them together and tie, cord the net onto the frame, and when through with it cut the cord, put the net in my pocket and hang the stick up for the next man. abe The FOREST AND STREAM is put to press each week on Tuesday. Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the latest by Monday, wnd as much earlier as practicable, throughout the world. Explode the cap, dig out the paper from an © THE MAN IN THE CLOCK TOWER. Nort for a long time have J seen anything that pleased ine so muclht as that letter of Lew Wilmot’s in Fornsr AND STREAM the other day, telling about his visit ta town. He lives in the coun- try, you will remember, and to him, as to most country people, it was a real vaca- tion to get into town, for with all of us, wherever we may live, it is the change of scene, surroundings, people and ways that makes the real recreation and _ restful- ness of a vacation. It is the novelty that diverts the mind. For me, when I do get away for a hunting trip, the good of it be- gins the minute I ect on the car and the tel- egraph poles flash past the windows. ‘Why do you go shooting?” folks have asked me, Why did Lew Wilmot go to town? The answer is all in one word, and that one word is “change.” And was that not delicious when Wilmot wanted the trolley cars to go slower, so that he might read the signs? None of the other passengers appeared to care about the signs. They were blase on signs. They proba- bly knew them all by heart. The hundreds of thousands of people who rush through the great canyon of Broad- way which the Tower overlooks are for all the world like the people Mr. Wilmot encountered in the trolley cars, Every mother’s son of them is in a tremendous, elbowing hurry to get there; and the signs by the way are the last things in the world they give any attention to. But would not it be better for most of us of we went a little slower, and took more time to see things? It must be forty years or more that I read Bunyan’s “Pilsrim’s Progress” (and to tell the truth I never read it through, although in those days Bunyan was more of a staple than now), aiid about the only thing I remember vividly is the story of the Man with the Muck-rake. There was a picture of him, with back bent over and eyes fixed on the ground, busily engaged plying the rake in the mud. When we come to think about it, you and I know many a man with a muck-rake, who is everlastingly at it, while somewhere the wind is whispering through the pines and an old grouse is booming on the hillside. Adam and his Musket, I was interested the other day in some notes by Mr. John B. Champlin, on anachronisms in art, where painters had ascribed to certain periods ways and things unknown at such times in the world’s history, and he cited as one of these discrepancies an old picture of Adam in the Garden of Eden shooting ducks with a musket. This excited my curiosity, and I wrote to Mr, Champlin to tell me where the print could be found. He politely informs me that he cannot recall the work in which it is contained, but his impression is that it is an old Dutch Bible. Perhaps this is one of the things we hear about, but never see. Can any one of my readers, who may be specially versed in old Dutch Bibles, put me on the track of the Adam with a musket? Sportsmen’s Row. Looking downward two blocks south on Broadway, I can see the colony of great houses which deals in sportsmen’s goods, whose names are household words in the countries which have houses, and whose products are familiar to the grasp of civilized and savage man * Before the large plate windows groups form, melt away or increase, as the ceaseless current of humanity, with its swirls and counter drifts, flows through the greatest channel of the greatest American city. There is something fascinating in the array of modern firearms in the great windows which the male beholders cannot resist gazing upon, or going within and owning such as they fancy if their purses warrant it. But firearms are not all, for there is every appliance for physical culture and recreation—bicycles, outdoor games, and the appurtenances of all sports by land or water. Appropriate costumes for all are offered, The modern guns, with their prepared ammunition and rapid action, are in sharp contrast to the clumsy weapons of our forefathers, or rather of our grand- fathers, at least those of such of us as are grandfathers ourselves. And methinks there were brave men in those days as there are brave men now, but somehow the dis- cipline necessary in making a trained brave man must then have been much more severe, else they never could have done stich execution with the old flintlock guns in the struggles against the fierce animals of the wilderness and the fiercer savages. It was no trifling matter to hold the old flintlock rifle steadily in the calm pastime of shooting at a mark, much less then was it easy to man- -ipulate it in time of danger. There were a series of com- plexities between the pulling of the trigger and the flight of the bullet, The man took aim, pulled the trigger, and the hammer bearing the carefully shaped flint took a majestic sweep, struck the steel, uncovered the priming pan, sparks flew, the powder in the pan flashed, igniting the powder in the barrel, and then the bullet began its flight. To stand with a single-barreled flintlock, facing a grizzly bear or a hostile Indian, and holding the rifle aimed steadily till all the ignition chain of events fol- lowed in due order, from the pulling of the trigger to the flight of the bullet, required a fortitude, patience, confidence and bravery that in the use of the modern arm is not required, even if it could be found to exist generally. } Armed with a rifle instantaneously responsive to his wishes and with capability of sending shot after shot with accuracy and quickness, the modern hunter, facing 10 the grizzly or anything else, is daring less than did his grandfather, who, armed with his simple weapons, faced like perils, And the latter was braver than was his grandiathers who used the bow and arrow, for they faced not the great dangers of the chase in the manner of the hunter whose arms were of fire. But those are none the less related to Sportsmen’s Row, for the array of shotguns, breechloading, in all sizes of bores, beautifl in design and finish, and the rifles, in hundreds of varieties, from the tiny .22 up to the largest of calibers, are but the latest stage in the ap- plication of principles in use by our daddies. And yet, while the principles remain much the same, the mechani- cal application of them is at present incomparably above all of the kind that has preceded. In beauty, scientific precision, excellence of material and cheapness, the mod- ern firearms are unrivaled and unequaled. As I gaze on the colony of sporting goods and gun houses on Broadway, I can see that they are in the very center-of a circle whose compass is the circumference of the earth, There one could arrange for the arms for an army—trifles, swords, bayonets, machine guns, with ammunition to match the giins and the needs of a na- tion. The equipment large enough to strain a nation’s treasury, or one for the small boy, which, with abtind- ance of ammunition costing but a few dollars, can be alike readily obtained. Men drop in betimes and speak casually of killing bears in the mountains or forests, or ruffed grouse in the dense woods, or quail and rabbits in the fields and brush—of sport everywhere throughout the land with rifle and shotgun. ; And another class is equally earnest in the sport of the rod, and they too drop in and tell of killing tarpon in the Southern waters, or trout and bass in the streams and lakes, and all kinds of game fish in all the known waters of the world, And they gaze with interest on tackle which is light enough for sport in catching the smallest game fish, or large enough to kill the greatest fish with- in the powers of man to attempt successiully, and they buy of it. Men come and go. To the casual observer they merely walk in and out, and do not differ from other men who do likewise as to the hundreds of other stores which line Broadway. And yet they are a class distinct in their views oi life, in their knowledge of nature’s secrets, in being more or less inured to dangers, hardships and pri- vations, and in being skilled in the use of weapons, whether in their use as a matter of sport, personal de- fense, or in the service of the nation in time of wart’s need. How few who pass through Sportsmen’s Row realize that its radii are worldwide! The Preserve Question. I read the contributions of Didymus with much pleas- ure. He is a sound writer, but last week he went off on a tangent and landed where there is no footing—this on the preserve question. He deprecates the ownerships and growing ownership of game land and water by wealthy clubs. Did Didymus stop to consider that A, B and C, sportsmen of wealth, have quite as good right to use their land for a game preserve as D, E and F., farmers and gentlemen, have to use their land for agricultural or stock purposes? Further, did he stop to think that unless A, B and C had some use for the land they would not have bought it? Did he consider the benefit that G, the seller, derived from the sale of land that otherwise would be unproductive to him? Did he consider that selfishness is the basic principle of society and progress? Every man who labors, or invents, or trades legitimately, bene- fits himself and the community as well. The working of the hammer, saw, loom, etc., has a selfish origin, yet where would we, who selfishly need their products, be without them? And more to the point directly, which is the more selfish, he who establishes a preserve under all legal and equitable conditions, or he who poaches on the preserve or opposes its establishment with the very selfish end in view that he may take things of value with- out price or responsibility? It is one of the first prin- ciples of common sense, as it is of law, that a com- plainant should come into court with clean hands. The Gun and the Night Stick. There is a certain weak phase of human nature, mani- fested by a class of individuals, which impels. them to display any power which they may have at command, whether the same be moral or physical. Thus the brand new politician must needs assert his authority and lord it over any of his unfortunate underlings, if he happen to belong to the class whose egotism has not a proper counterbalance of sense. To the same class belongs the man who points a gun at his fellow man, that he may enjoy to the full his temporary accession to power. To the same class belong. the policemen. who only want - Opportunity to club their prisoners or inoffensive citizens, as opportunity offers. The deaths and injuries from the malicious or wanton clubbing of prisoners in New. York have reached such a magnitude that the Board of Police Commissioners is seriously considermg the matter of taking away the night sticks of policemen, as was done under the administration of Chief Byrnes. And yet it is a conspicuous feature of every case that the offender has good excuse or was innocent, in manner like to that of the man who “thought it was a deer,’ or who ‘didn’t know that it was loaded.” The remedy is alike in both cases, namely, take away their weapons. Common sense, public safety and the general welfare would indicate that the man who cannot carry a club without abusing its use, and the man who cannot carry a gun without killing -or maiming his fellow, should not be allowed to go armed at all. Dennis A. Janvrin and his Horse. Writers, whether of history or current events, search in all available nooks to obtain instances of the devotion of the lower animals to man. They vie with each other in making a marvelous event of a simple matter. Thus the world reads one day of the heroic deeds of a dog in saving a Sleeping family from death by fire, another saves a boy or a family from drowning, or leads a rescuing party to save the little ones lost in the wilderness. Man’s affection for the lower animals rarely has an inning, and yet to his affection many breeds owe their existence. There is something of more than passing pathos in the FOREST AND STREAM. tale of Policeman Janvrin, of New York, and his horse. They had labored together ten years, taking good and ill together. Janvrin had ridden no other during the last ten years of his twenty-two years’ service, and he had become much attached to him. Last year the horse died. Without the friend who responded to the lightest touch of his hand so well, whose speed could overtake the Heeing lawbreaker, and whose courage and strength were ever to be relied on, the seryice had lost all its charm and value to him, so he asked to be retired under the twentv-vear service act, and he being a good officer, it was done, but reluctantly. And now he comes to the Police Board making application for his old office, plead- ing that the needs of life press him to ask for reinstate- ment in the only calling which seems open to him, and itis probable that his application will be favorably passed upon. But the horse which is in the spirit land where good horses go will gallop on ridefless. THe Man in THE Crock Tower. Wheeling. Communications for this department are requested. Anything on the bicycle in its relation to the sportsmumn is particularly destrable. A November Night. Editor Forest and Stream: With gun and game bag strapped on my bicycle, I started at 3:30 P. M., Noy. 18, for Hopkins Creek, fif- teen miles north of this city. We had a severe wind and rain storm the day before, and I thought that I might find a few ducks in the creek. A young iriend of mine had put up a rox12 camp on the lake shore at the mouth of the creek the past season, and had given me a key with instructions to use the camp whenever [ chose. The camp is abott a half mile from the main road and is reached by a farm road: running through an orchard and strip of woods along the lake shore. At the farmhouse I got a small pail of milk, and remounting my wheel with the pail in one hand, rode to the woods, which was as far as I] could ride with one hand. When nearly through the woods I took my gun from its case, and putting a few shells in my pocket, leit my wheel and started out to recon- noiter for ducks. It was now § o'clock and nearly dark, and they should be coming in if there were any; but after a careful search | failed to find them in the creek, but with the aid of my glass I could see birds out on the lake, which was quite smooth. Returning for my wheel, I pushed it to camp, on the opposite of the creek. Although the creek is eight to ten rods wide within 5oit. of the lake, at present there,is no apparent outlet, the space between being at least 4it. higher than the water each side of it. This is caused by the low water of the lake, A few years ago I had to use a boat to get across the outlet. Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence are said to have high and low water once in seven years. On reaching the camp, which is about four rods from both lake and creek, and from 15 to 2o0ft. higher, I found plenty of large wood on hand, and going down on the beach I gathered a basket of dry, fine foodwood, with which to start the fire to prepare my supper of hot wieners, boiled eggs and coffee, which with the good farm milk appeased my appetite. While leisurely eating I noticed that the light from the lamp was waning, and I found that the oil was out. I found a glass-inclosed oil can, which from the weight I thought was about half full, and extinguishing the last gleam of light from the lamp I took both outside the camp, in case I should over-fill the lamp. As I do not hear, it was all guess- work with me, and when I tried to light the lamp I found no oil in it or in the can, Well, there I was alone in the dark with my supper unfinished. I opened the front doors of the stove, but that did not throw much light on the subject (supper). With the aid of about a dozen matches I finally found a dish of grease, probably what had been left of a coon roast a week or two before. I also got a strip of cotton cloth, which I immersed in the fat, and laying the end over the edge oi the dish ap- plied a match to it, and I had quite a good light. After supper I thought it might be well to lay in another basket of the dry wood from the beach, in case of change in the weather, On going outside it was so dark that I could not see to get down the bank, but away to the north across the lake I could see the reflec- tion of the light above the city of Toronto. Securing my newly made light, ] managed to get down to the beach and gather the wood, Aiter taking a quiet smoke I arranged one of the woven wire beds and turned in for the night about 7:30 o’clock. This was the earliest “soing to bed” I had done for many years, and it was not an easy matter to get asleep. I think it must have been two hours later before it happened. When next I awoke it seemed as if it must be morning, but on striking a match and looking at my watch J found it was only 12:30. I went to the door to see what the weather was; the Toronto light had disappeared, also the lake, and I could not see my hand before my face, but I could feel that there was a dense fog. I went back to bed and lay awake for another hour or more, when I again looked at my watch. It was 5:30. I lay until 6 o'clock, when on opening the door I found the ground covered with snow, which was still falling. And there was I. filteen miles from home with my wheel; but that did not worry me much, I started the fire, prepared and ate breakfast, and then with the glass took a look out on the lake and creek for ducks. On the opposite side of the creek I saw something moving through the water, but could not make out what it was. Getting gun and shells and walking up the road a short distance, I came to the creek. Just as I stepped out of the woods a duck started up, which I winged with the first shot; and as I saw no more get up I killed it with the other barrel. I then went back to the camp, and getting a boat, paddled up and secured my game, which proved to be a white-winged scoter. - While in the woods I had seen fresh rabbit tracks, and [Jan. 1, 1898. after waiting some time without seeing more ducks I started for the rabbit, and had followed-the tracks not more than ten rods when I started him up, but made a clean miss. I had used my first shell of gold dust powder, and it was probably too quick for the “old boy; possibly it might have been the rabbit that was too quick for him. After following the tracks for a short time I got just a glimpse of the game as it went into a brier patch. The tracks led me back to where I had first started him, under the corner of a rail fence in a brier patch. Walking around it, I saw that he had not gone out, and going back to the fence I gave it a kick, which started him out and into a hole about 5ft. away. I might have got him out, but thought 1 would leave him for another time. IT was now near the camp of Dr. E. N. S. Ringueberg and Artist Raphael H. Beck, and I had promised the doctor that I would see if the camp was all right. Some vandals had broken down the back door, and on going inside I found things scattered about the floor. I had never been inside the camp before: but I knew that the owners had not left it in such condition. I reported to them on my return home that afternoon, and they went down the next day. They found that the thieves had taken two suits of clothes, all the towels and table- cloths, knives, forks and spoons and all the canned goods, and the looking-glass, The camp where I was staying had been broken into a week or two'belore, probably by the same party, and a clock, looking-glass and some clothing taken; a reward has been offered for the arrest and conyiction of the parties, I returned to camp about to o’clock, put it in order, strapped gun and game-bag on my wheel, and at 11 o clock I was on the lake road headed tor home, where I arrived in time for dinner. This trip would haye been impossible with a wheel, only that there is a side path from here to Olcott, thir- teen miles. I rode over it on Monday afternoon of this week and found it nearly as good as in the summer. i J. L. Davison, Locxrort, N. Y., Dec. 16. The Wheel and the Sportsman. WHETHER the wheel will ever become a recognized shooting and fishing adjunct is a question time alone can solye. An occasional correspondent in FOREST AND STREAM quotes pleasant and successful experiences in which his wheel figures as the vehicle used to reach the sporting grounds, but in these cases the conditions al- Ways prove just right, and we fail to hear of the fellow who got caught in the rain, punctured a tire or had his wheel stolen and had to walk in, Of course shooting from a wheel is a physical impossibility, for the haunts of game are not along the cinder path or the traveled highway; and even were one so lucky as to Hush a bird along the road, the handle bars require too much atten- tion to make it possible to manipulate a stn eyen with one hand. No, I don’t think the bicycle will ever be- come a popular means of transportation for the shooter. With a light rod and basket it is quite possible for the fishing wheelman to visit some favorite stream some miles away and enjoy a day’s sport that would be impossible were he obliged to walk, and expensive if he hired a team. We all know of streams winding through pleas- ant valleys, with a good road following the windings, where one might spin from one good pool to another, and have a most delightiul trip, always presuming that it won't rain and that no accident happens to the ma- chine or rider. But to the sportsman who has given up actual shoot- ing the wheel is a pronounced success. He can visit the haunts of game, lean his silent steed against a fence or convenient stump, steal thtowgh the cover, mark the flight of grouse or woodcock, watch the nimble squirrel in his home tree, fill his soul with sylvan sights and sounds, remount his wheel and spin to and beat another cover, and haying had enough return to his business with but little loss of time, and find himself a better, healthier man, with no blood on his hands. Yes, the wheel is a great thing for that sort of a sportsman, and in my opinion is bound to work stich reforms in the ‘ranks that the all-absorbing question of game supply . will be satisfactorily solved. SRI MYE Ma, IE, DANSsVILLE, N. Y. Bicycle and Partridge. Editor Forest and Stream: : The following singular incident, in which the bicycle appears as a factor, was related to me by my friend Dayis, a gentleman of unquestioned veracity. Early in May, Mr. Davis was riding along a lonely road on his way to a trout stream (for what purpose may be easily euessed), when he espied a partridge step irom a thicket about 50yds. ahead. Evidently the bird’s intention was to cross the road, but catching sight of the bicycle and rider she paused, with upstretched neck, as if puzzled at the rapid and noiseless approach of the strange-looking object. When the machine got within a few feet her natural shyness reasserted itself, and she started, putter- ing with affright, for the opposite cover. But so long had she delayed, that by a little extra effort on the pedals Mr. Davis was able to force the machine almost upon her; and following a sudden impulse, as she darted into a brier patch fringing the road, he sprang from his wheel into the thicket, pulling the weeds and briers in a mat down | around her and pinning her to the ground, so that he soon had her in his hands. It was a full-grown hen par- tridge, in full possession of its strength and faculties, and when released, after a few minutes of captivity, took wing with all the speed and vigor characteristic of its species. This is a new “bicycle record.” CornisH, Me. TEMPLAR, The FOREST AND STREAM is put to press each week on Twesday. Oorrespondence intended for publication should reach ws at the latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practiciuble, Jaw, 1, 1808. | Sea and River Hishing. Fishing Around Washington. Cockpit Pool. Tuirty miles south of Washington the line of the Washington Southern to Quantico, a branch of the Pennsylvania Railway, crosses Powell’s Creel, an inlet of the Potomac not much over a mile in length, affected. by the tides, into which drains a little run almost dry in seasons of drought. On the south side of the mouth of the creek is the old Cherry Hill Farm, many years ago owned by Capt, Dunnington and now by his heirs. It was once a plantation of considerable importance, but is not now cultivated, and the name is all that is left to remind the yisitor of its once celebrated orchard, When the railroad was projected to Quantico, Capt. Dunnington, whose land was a little abrupt where the road cut through it, purchased from the adjoining farm the site of the present station and siding, and gaye it to the railroad, and the name, by which it is still known, to the station—-Cher ry Hull. A little to the south of this station a ait makes an out into the Potomac, called Cockpit, on the charts as well as locally, though in days gone by the north cove off the point was always known as Rose Bay, and a few old rivermen remember the side hill which forms the second bank when it was a mass of roses. This was in 1860 and before. It is a wilderness now, of great trees and underbrush, and looks far more like the primeval forest than a ruined rose garden. The river off Cockpit is an excellent seining ground, though the shore has not been rented for a year or two, Forty years ago planters from long distances in the interior drove here regularly to get their season’s supply of herring for their families and slaves, and the shore privileges were very valuable and rented for thousands of dollars. Late in the season it is a famous point for rockfish, and will no doubt in the future, as it has in the past, furnish employment, revenue and food for fishers plenty. The base of the point is wide, low and swampy, and in some yeats great snipe shooting may be had here, and nearly always a woodcock or two. A mile to the south of this the railroad bed, crossing the mouth of a little run, dams the stream and makes a pool some fifty rods long and half as broad, with a narrow, bushy, in- accessible swamp in the back ‘ground, The culvert outlet through the roadbed is so high’that only spring tides from the river can enter. This pond, known as Cockpit Pool, has been for sey- eral years full of the Lucius reticulatus, the green pike or pickerel of the Eastern waters, and throughout the South called the jack. These fish come up out of the river on the high tides in the spring, in the spawning season through the high culvert, and} holes in the swamp and use the pool for a playground. They were discovered by the trainmen, who saw them disturbed by the rumbling of the passing trains, which, jarring the spongy bottom, always sets the jack to wildly jumping. Of course, it was not long after that some enterprising angler had taken a good string and was _ bragging of his catch, and the pool has since had many visitors. The writer's introduction to this hyena of the water was at this place in 1894, and we have frequently since taken as many as it was convenient to carry to the sta- ‘tion, a mile and a quarter away. Distances are measured with an india rubber tape-line after a day’s fishing, and weighted with the paraphernalia of bait fishers, which we have always been here since nothing was to be ex- pected but the pickerel, and we only learned to take them with a fly toward the close of last season. At the south end of the pool, where sand from the adjoining hill is washed down, the sunfish or tobacco box, as they are called here, are pretty numerous, and large, and though the swamp discolors the water to the shade of porter, these are remarkably highly colored, their rainbow tints being far brighter than those taken from the river. The mouth of the culvert, discharging its brown flow into the river, like all fresh runs, is a favorite feeding place for small perch and minnows, and the water mocca- sins feed and breed and winter about and under the culvert, and of a sunny morning in the spring dozens may be seen sunning themselves on the great stones of the riprap work which protects the roadbed. On the occasion of our last yisit it is no exaggeration to say that within a radius of ten feet forty were in sight at once. There were ten less in the colony that night. This fish-eater is’the natural enemy of all fair fishermen. Three hundred yards to the north of the pool a fair spring trickles trom the sandbank alongside the track. This road running south to Richmond is a great high- way for tramps, and all day long stragglers, tattered and torn, sometimes barefoot, stop by to rest and watch the proceedings, thankful for a bite or smoke, or even a fresh- caught jack with which to join some brother knight of the road and go snacks for the next meal. One sat on a tie end, on this last trip, and told oi his love for fly-fishing, and of his many days of enjoy- ment of this sport on Northern streams, where the trout hide, when he was seeing better days; but as he mourned he had “got on the road somehow and some- how couldn’t get off.’ The bare suggestion that the hobo is an evoluted fly-fisher was a shock, but for lack of corroborating circumstances he was set down as simply a horrible example of too much old-fashioned bait, and the fly discharged of any further responsibility in the matter. However, there is no denying there is something of the yagrant in all our natures, and the man who takes to the woods for his pleastires is apt to get a little closer to these wounded deer than the “fat and greasy citizen,’ as he has been called, who turns his back upon the misfortunes of his neighbor. The view from the high roadbed is yery fine from this point, covering a grand sweep of the Potomac from Indian Head for ten miles south, with always a bay steamer in sight, or the white wings of some sailboat, imprisoned here, breed and feed in the _it is the male bass that grace to call a FOREST AND STREAM. 11 Hitting by with wind and tide or tacking ahd creeping against them. With a small fly, on a No, 10 or t2 hook, any number of small perch, yellow and white, may be taken on the river side of the roadbed, when the water is anything better than molasses. These perch make excellent bait for the pickerel, so that under ordinary circumstances and -conditions of the river it is unnecessary to carry bait to this place. The pickerel is well armed as to mouth, but his ee low is tender enough to make the spiny dorsals of the perch less palatable than the minnow, and old pickerel fishers advise trimming the dorsals with a pair of scissors, and there is no question it makes a difference in the readiness with which they respond, But it seems crttel, even if there is no sensittyeness in the fins, as is sometimes claimed, and the fly-fisher is quite ready to throw bouquets at himself for his im- proved method, that does not require a resort to such questionable practices, Fishing for jack is different from taking any other fish with bait, He seems to seize the minnow by the tail and make for cover, possibly to escape his companions, who would probably rob him if they could. Stories are told of two pickerel with a snalce stretched between them like two chicks with a worm, After a few minutes the fish can be felt jigging the line as if getting a Idling hold on the body of the minnow. After another rest he quietly turns the minnow and swallows it, head first. All this takes time, and just how much scarcely two writers agree upon, and after reading them all one is more unde- cided than before. David Foster, in the Scientific Angler, in 1882, said “A minute or two should be allowed him to gorge it.’ Thomas Best, in 1802, said “Wait five minutes for the pike to pouch? the minnow before striking.’’ Charles Bowlker, in 1774, about “half a quarter of an hour.” Fisher, in 1835, “eight or ten minutes.” Little, in 1881, said ten minutes. Rey. James Martin, in 1854, thought about a quarter of an hour. The Anglers’ Magazine, in 1796, said a half hour, and suggested laying the tod down while one might smoke a pipe full of tobacco. In Blakey’s “Hints on Angling,’ 1846, the pile’s feeding and capture is told metrically like this: “At last he stops, and sinking deep, Seems for ten minutes fast asleep, In sweet indulgence lost; Il wake him soon, as you will see, And let him know that verily, He’s dining at his cost.” One of the record catches made at this pool was by Mr. Hart, a first-rate fisherman, who is inclined to be methodical, and haying watched a pike gorge a minnow in a tank at the World’s Fair, found that it took him on that occasion just seven minutes. He now pulls out his watch when he gets a strike, and at the end of the sey- enth mintite raises his fish. It is pretty safe to guess that ii he has not gorged it by that time he never will. Of course he did not get them every time, but he secured more than any one else that day. Another day here the best catch was with the spoon, but this is more uncertain since, fishing as one must from the slope of the railway embankment, one is always in sight, and this keeps the fish too deep to rise well to the suriace for spoon or fly, and, besides, the bank rises behind so abruptly as to sadly interfere with the casting of a spoon—worse with a fly, and eyen to some extent with throwing a minnow. To add to the embarrassment, a network of telegraph wires on leaning poles come down so low as to occa- sionally hang up the tackle. To see a cork, sinker and wriggling minnow woven in and out, and wrapped around a half dozen telegraph wires, is a very interesting sight to everybody but the luckless owner, who usually audibly wishes the wires were “not so high.” Henry TALBorr. ANGLING NOTES. “Hatching Black Bass.”’ ‘UnbER this head a New York newspaper publishes an article with a Grand Rapids, Mich., date line that will surprise fish breeders who have been im the business any considerable length of time. That we haye short memo- ries was illustrated in my presence within the month when im a public place ten men were asked the name of a defeated candidate for Governor of this State, who had been defeated within twelve months previous. Not one could recall the name. This black bass article is another illustration of a short memory on the part of the writer. It appeared in a Sunday newspaper only two weeks ago, and reads in part as follows: “The State of Michigan has just completed the stock- ing of the new bass ponds at Mill Creek, and now begins some of the most important work ever attempted in the way of artificial propagation of fish in the United States. The artificial raising of bass has been attempted many times in various States, but it has remained for Michi- gan to make a success of it atid show that it can be done. * * In spite of all experiments and scientific work, it has never been possible to replenish by artificial means the great inroads made by the thousands of fish- ermen upon the supply of black bass in the inland lakes and streams, and unless something was done the stock must sooner or later become very scarce.” The article goes on to say that one of the Cominis- sionets has solved the problem; that when he went on the board he was informed that black bass could not be hatched artificially... He then bought books on bass and studied the habits of the fish, and examined the reports of the experiments, and finally met a Commissioner from another State, “who was also convinced that bass could be hatched artificially.” Then he discovered that “sets on the eggs,” and. finally he put in practice what the newspaper writer has the “modified method of artificial propaga- tion.” Now it is not in the least probable that the Commis- sioner named in the article authorized any such statements regarding his allesed discovery, or has made any such claims as he is credited with in the newspaper article. The method described is not that of hatching black bass artificially, mor is it a new discovery. It is quite possible that it was new to the newspaper writer, and in his en- thusiasm lis zeal ran away from the facts, Black bass haye not béen hatched artificially, and in making this broad statement I am fully aware that a few eggs have been taken in the States of Michigan and Missouri, and to obtain the milt from the male bass it has been necessary to kill him, so that the operation can- not be called hatching the eggs artificially. Even in the experiments _ referred. to it has been a most difficult matter to obtain the few eges from the female blacle bass. The method related in detail in the Grand Rapids article is to put the adult bass in a pond, and when they have paired and spawned and the yotng are hatched the parent bass are removed and the fry are allowed to remain and are fed until] the time comes for their dis- tribution. This is not a new discovery, for it was prac- ticed fifteen years ago; at least it was made public in 1882 by Major Isaac Arnold, Jr, United States Army, who did exactly the same thing at the Indianapolis, Ind., Arsenal that is now exploited as new in 1897. Upon referring to Major Arnold’s various communi- cations in the Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission for 1882, I find that he maintained his black bass rearing ponds for three years previous to that date, or from 1879. He placed the mature bass in his ponds and when the young were hatched he removed the old fish and left the young in an inclosure of their own. More than once I have read Major Arnold’s record of his experi- ments, but upon reading them again to-day I find that I had_forgotten all about one of his observations, which is this: “The male presses the ova from the female by a series of bites or pressure along her belly with his mouth, the female lying on her side during the opera- tion. The male ejects the milt upon or over the roe from time to time, and the spawning process lasts for two or three days.” (Qn one occasion the late John Mowat asked me what I believed to be the use of the hook on the jaw of the male salmon, and I replied that I thought it was for use at spawning time in the manner described by Major Arnold in the case of the black bass.) In July of 1882 the U, S. Fish Commission sent a mes- senger to Major Arnold’s black bass rearing ponds and obtained 5,000 fry of that year’s hatching, 300 yearlings and a few two-year-old bass, and transported them to the Central Station in Washington and afterward to North Carolina, where they were planted, the entire journey being accomplished with slight loss to the fish. Some ten years ago, I should say, Mr. Samuel Wilmot, then Superintendent of Fisheries in Canada, wrote me of rearing black bass in a similar manner, the difference being that each pond contained btit one pair of hass. Since that time this method has been practiced exten- sively by the U. §. Fish Commission, by the Tuxedo Club, and elsewhere for all that I know; anyway, it is not a new, discovery, and it is not hatching black bass artificially, for the adult fish deposit their own eggs, 1m- - pregnate them and hatch them naturally, and man after- ward rears such of them as stirvive cannibalism, to which young bass just hatched are very prone. The newspaper writer in Grand Rapids has forgotten these facts that I have touched upon, if he ever knew them, and he will thank me for refreshing his memory, that sim- ple justice may be done to Major Isaac Arnold. Vacuum Dtessed Lines. The notes that I am writing to-night appear to have a flavor of ancient history about the most of them, occasioned perhaps by the storm outside, which turns one’s thoughts backward rather than forward; anyway I will charge it to the storm and the retrospective wind howling around the corner of the house. Something like twenty years ago—this paper was then published in Park Row, I remember—I wrote an article in FOREST AND STREAM about dressing fish lines. Mr. Hallock suggested it to me to try various oils and dressings on both silk and linen lines, and I did so, with the result that most of the experiments were dismal failures. Mr. Walter Brackett, the Boston artist and salmon fisher- man, then gave me samples of lines that he had dressed, and T was discouraged, for I-had never seen anything like them, nor have I since until very lately. I got all sorts of lines with all sorts of dressings, each one claim- ing to be the best, but not until | possessed silk salmon and trout lines dressed in a vacuum did I obtain the best. The first that I heard of vacuum-dressed fish lines was in connection with Mr, Frederic M. Halford, and the best lines I haye seen are dressed by the "Halford pro- cess,’ though I cannot say that he was the first to sug- gest this method of dressing, but assume that he was. The lines are soft, and have the appearance of being made of rubber and seem to be almost transparent. I have used them but one season, but that is enough to convince me that there are no lines that can equal them for fly-fishing. They are double-tapered, and they are expensive, costing a guinea for 35yds ; but they can be backed with a cheaper line, and when one end is worn out and the tapered portion used up the line may be reversed on the back line. There are several grades of vacuum-dressed lines, for I haye seen them as cheap as $2 for 4oyds. of level line. This brings me to the point of this note: how vacuum fines are dressed. Mr. Geo. M. Kelson has written an article in Land and Water on the subject. The line and the dressing, which must be linseed ofl specially boiled for the purpose, are placed in a receiver and the air ex- hausted by an air pump, which permits the dressing to penetrate to the very core of the line. Mr. Kelson tells us that lines were first dressed with a single cylinder air pump, but this did not sufficiently exhaust the air, and a pump with double cylinders is now used. The line to be dressed must be coiled in the receiver without a twist in it, for he says that dressed with a twist in it and dried the twist remains. With the line packed in the receiver the oil is made hot and poured over it until it is covered. The receiver is then placed on the brass table of the air pump and a glass vessel inverted over it, the rim of the latter coated with candle fat to insure perfect contact and the pump is put in operation: “Bubbles will quickly appear on the surface of the liquid, and when they reach within ‘in. of the top of the tumbler’ (which I have called receiver) “suspend operations. Left in that state 12 for.a few hours the bubbles gradually disappear, but I expedite matters by admitting a little air, the weight of which crushes the froth instantly and sends the oil into the line then and there. The next move is to pump, as before, time after time, for at least one hour. Repeat the business for at least twelve hours. Afterward the pump need only be worked morning and evening for four or five days, and allowed on every occasion to remain with valye closed. At about that period it should be impos- sible to bring forth the sign of a bubble, even in the shape of a bead.” When the air is exhausted as thoroughly as the pump will exhaust it, and the oil has penetrated to the very core of the line, that is called the first process or body dressing, and the line is removed and stretched, in the open air if possible (and the best time is late autumn so the line will not dry too quickly), to be treated by sec- ond process. When the line is stretched begin at one end, and with the finger and thumb of the right hand press the oil gently from the line, walking backward, and permitting the superfluous oil to drop from the finger into a glass held in the left hand. “A month or six weeks later, according to the weather, choose a fine day and start on rubbing the line, so that in due course it is made smooth enough for the second process to take good effect. Rub the surface of 2 or 3ft. at a time with the fingers, working backward and forward. Repeat the dose twice during the next month. Upon the occa- sion following this procure a piece of thick felt, sprinkle it with powdered pumice stone, double it, place the line in the pad so formed, and now rub in accordance with these directions. The object here is to rub in such a way that the roundness of the line is preserved and not made oval in shape in any part. To do this, spin or roll the line between the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, while the short length is submitted to the back- ward and forward treatment pretty much as _ before. * * * The student who regards this business as too tedious may rest assured that it is impossible to get an ideal dressing—one that will last for years and years and never ‘knuckle’—by any other known process.” Mr. Kelson is careful to impress upon the operator who is dressing a line that the oil in the line must be- come perfectly dry before it is polished, and here is the polish and the manner of applying it: “Procure a 10z. phial, and into three-quarters of an ounce of pure spirits of wine put a teaspoonful of the best copal varnish. Shake the opened bottle so filled against the ball of the right forefinger, spin the line to and fro with the left fingers, as in the latter method of rubbing, and with the wetted finger working backward and forward proceed to cover a few inches of it all around. Repeat this per- formance quickly until a length of nearly 3ft. is moist- ened. Then, while the spinning continues, rub that much smoothly and evenly backward and forward be- tween the finger and thumb, and so proceed by degrees from right to left throughout the entire length of the line. In two days give a second coat, and when quite dry the line is fit for use.” I presume that the average American sportsman, after reading Mr. Kelson’s precise directions—but Mr. Kel- son has a way of being precise and minute in his direc- tions—will conclude that it is certainly easier to buy a line if it does not cost more than $25; and in one sense that is true, but there is not the satisfaction in using a purchased line that there is in dressing one’s own line if one has time to do it and it turns out all right. So far as I can judge, the lines that I have—that is, the Haltord-dressed lines—are as perfect as any lines can be. One of them was mounted—backed with a smaller and cheaper line—and tied by Mr. J. J. Hardy before it was sent to me, and I have giyen it some hard work since I received it, and it is as smooth and soft and pol- ished as when it arrived. I cannot say the same of other and cheaper vacuum-dressed lines that I have. I must say, however, that I think the salmon lines of the best class are too finely tapered, tapering as they do from C. and D. to H. A. N. CHENEY. New Jersey Game and Fish Interests. THE annual report of the new Fish and Game Com- missioners is an interesting and most ereditable exhibit of a year of great activity in the enterprise of restocking the waters and the game fields, and in the enforcement of the law. Under the direction of the Commission, Messrs. George Pfeiffer, H. P. Frothingham, Parker W. Page and George L, Smith, with Charles A. Shriner, of Paterson, as the very efficient State Game and Fish Protector, New Jersey has-taken its place in the front rank of those States which are husbanding their re- sources of fish and game. Several years ago New Jersey established a fish- hatching station for the propagation of fresh-water fish, more particularly brook trout, but the conditions proved to be unfavorable and the hatchery was abandoned. The Commissioners report that owing to the establishment of large trout hatcheries as private enterprises they have found it now practicable to purchase fry more cheaply than they could be produced at State hatcheries, and during 1897 there have thus been secured for distribution throughout the State 50,000 half yearling trout. _ The experiment made in the latter part of 1896 of introducing adult pike-perch from the Great Lakes dem- onstrated the feasibility of the plan, and in 1807 the Commission secured a large number of these fish from Lake Erie, also Jarge numbers of channel catfish and white or silver bass. Of the pike-perch 35,000 were put into lakes of Middlesex county; the transfer of the bass was less successful, the remnant after the long journey having been placed in a reservoir of the Passaic Water Co., and in Cedar Pond. The Delaware River received 300 adult channel catfish and Greenwood Lake 100. There is a constantly increasing demand for black bass to be used for propagation, and the Commiussioners re- port that they have had much difficulty in supplying the fish, owing to the fact that there is no market where they can be bought, nor are they so plentiful in any of the waters of the State that it would be wise to diminish the native supply. Fortunately, through the assistance of Vice-President Hobart and Goy. Griggs, a contribu- tion of about 2,000 black bass has been secured from the United States Fish Commission. FOREST AND STREAM. The necessity of providing food for the increase of fish in the fresh waters has been given attention. Large numbers of bait fish have been taken from the Oak Ridge and the Clinton reservoirs and deposited at Greeén- wood Lake, and through the courtesy of Commissioner H. O. Stanley, of Maine, 250,000 eggs of land-locked smelts were secured and deposited in Lake Hopatcong, Greenwood Lake and the trout streams of Sussex*county emptying into the Delaware River, Culver’s Lake, Big Swartzwood Lake, Long Pond, Iliff's Pond and Stru- ble’s Pond. . The introduction of ring-neck pheasants has proved a decided success; 343 of the birds were purchased early in the spring, and reports show that they have thrived. This chapter of the report was given in full in our issue of last week. Attempts to acclimatize the Southern quail having proved failures in so many instances, it was deemed best to secure birds from the West. Late in the spring 1,032 Western quail were purchased and distrib- uted in lots of from 50 to 00. It is thought that the establishment of the Audubon Society of the State of New Jersey, with headquarters at Plainfield, will result in the creation of a public spirit in the spread of protection of song and insectivorous birds. Members of the society are pledged to a declara- tion of purpose which discourages the use of feathers of any birds for ornament except those of the ostrich and domestic fowls, or the destruction of birds and their eggs. The society will strive to secure the establishment of a bird day in the State, The life membership fee is $1, except in the case of teachers and pupils, who may pay 25 cents. All the money thus secured has been used for the publication of leaflets instructive as to the habits and economic importance of birds. The book entitled “The Birds of New Jersey,” pre- pared by Chief Warden Shriner and published by the Commission, has been in large demand; and has very generously fulfilled the object of its publication, which was to disseminate useful knowledge concerning birds, and thus create a public sentiment which should insure their better protection. So great was the demand for the work ‘that it was found necéssary to issue a second edi- tion, and many applications have been received from outside the State. The book is sent out at a nominal cost of $1. Ornithology as treated in this publication has been added to the list of studies in a number of schools, and the suggestions contained in it have led to the ob- servance of Bird Day in connection with Labor Day in eighteen of the twenty-one counties of the State. A suggestive fact noted in the report is that while in former times a few htndred copies of the fish and game laws were found sufficient, there were published in 1807 no less than 100,000 copies in various forms for distribu- tion throughout the State. Under these circumstances, it is pertinently suggested, ignorance is a poor’ plea for violators to urge. The past year has been no exception to its prede- cessors in the number of complaints coming from Bar- negat Bay and the violations of the law there; and no other part of the State has been subjected to so much vigilance and attention on the part of the wardens, Nevertheless, no progress of any importance was ei- fected. The blame can rest only on the shoulders of those who should be the most interested in the enforce- ment of the laws. Repeatedly the most energetic and best qualified wardens were sent to Barnegat, but the efforts there of these men who had been successful in breaking up violations of the law in other parts of the State proved of little avail at Barnegat Bay. The of- fenders there haye formed a clique and have brought to their assistance a large number of the hotel proprietors and residents, the very men who in past years have cried loudly for a better enforcement of the law. It was abso- lutely impossible for a warden to procure a boat when his errand was known, and he could not depend on any one thereabout for assistance. Those who complained of the depredations of poachers, and who declared that they knew of violations of the law, absolutely refused to give any evidence or clew on which the wardens could work, The frequent presence of wardens on the waters of the bay undoubtedly had a deterrent effect on the lawbreaking element, and your Commission does not believe that the fact that there were no prosecutions was attribtitable to any lack of determination or skill’on the part of the wardens. Fortunately, Barnegat Bay is the only locality in New Jersey where the whole community seems to be on the side of the lawbreakers, and willing to suffer for the misdeeds of a few. The suggestions contained in the report respecting changes in the law are given in the full text. The Game Law. The present law for the protection of game and fresh- water fish has now been in operation for two years, a long enough time to determine its value. Owing to the difference in the latitude of the extreme northern and extreme southern parts of New Jersey, and the conse- quent difference in the habits of animals in the two ex- tremes, it is manifestly impossible to enact any measure which will satisfy all the residents of the State. The ex- periment of dividing the State into two sections has been tried twice, but no two succeeding Legislatures approved of it. A law dividing the State was in force in 1895, but it was repealed by the following Legislature, which placed the present law on the statute books. So much fault was found with this law in all parts of the State that the last Legislature undertook to make a change, but so diverse were the views of the Senators and As- semblymen that an agreement was arrived at only dur- ing the last days of the session of the Legislature. The act had been so amended that a number of important particulars had been omitted, notably protection for English pheasants. The act partook of the nature of a general law as well as of a two-section law, and before it was ready for final passage its original provisions had been so altered that interest in the measure was lost to a great extent. North New Jersey had asserted its claims to have a law such as would be indicated as proper by the climate and existing conditions there. The southern part of the State, where the seasons are frequently two or three weeks later than in the northern part, had in- sisted on a later season. The rivalry between the two sections of the State produced a measure satisiactory to neither. Gov. Griggs declined to approve of the act, a. [Jan. 1, 1898. and so the law of the previous year remained in force. The conviction which prevailed a year ago that the law was inadequate to carry out the purposes for which it was enacted, has been intensified, and there has been a general and continued demand all over the State for the enactment of a measure making a uniform season for all woodland and field game. This can be accomplished only by a modification of the demands of interested per- sons in different parts of the State. If the gunner of the north will agree to open the season for woodcock and partridge fiiteen days later than a date such as might be indicated by the climatic conditions, and if the gunner of the south will agree to cease shooting quail and rabbits fifteen days earlier than his demands have msisted upon for some years, a uniform season might be secured. A two-section law, while it might satisfy the people in Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and Atlantic, and at the same time be acceptable to the people of Sussex, Pas- saic, Morris and Bergen, would be unsatisfactory to the large area of territory lying between these two tiers of counties. A law opening the season for woodland and field game on the 1st of November and closing it on the ist of January would be acceptable to the people in the southern part of the State, but it would be objected to in the northern part, as it would prevent altogether the killing of woodcock, which have moved southward before the first open day, and because it would mean the killing of hundreds of rabbits and quail in the deep snows which frequently precede the holidays. A law opening the season on the 1st of October and closing it on the Ist of December, while agreeable to the interests of the gunners in the northern part of the State, would meet with serious objections in the southern part, where some kinds of game have not yet matured suffi- ciently by the rst of October to make them proper tar- gets for marksmanship. A law opening the season on the 15th of October and closing it on the 15th of Decem- ber would properly conserve the interests of the whole State. It would satisfy the middle tier of counties, and although the gunner of the north would lose fiiteen days at partridge and woodcock and the gunner of the south would be required to cease his sport after rabbits and quail fifteen days earlier than his desires would dictate, both would have the consciousness of knowing that a law subserving the best interests of the State and prop- erly protecting game had been agreed upon. Such a law would be comparatively easy of enforcement. The pres- ent law is open to the serious objection that there is some kind of game open to be killed from the Ist of July to the 1st of Januaty, thus affording the violator of the law an excellent cloak for his unlawful acts. Al- though the law suggested above would reduce the num- ber of days in which game may be lawiully killed, there can be no doubt that it would so increase game as to more than-counterbalance the restriction placed on the length of the period. Your Commission feels confident that a law of this kind, once placed on the statute books, would not be disturbed for many years. ‘The Fish Law. The introduction into the waters of this State of pike- perch, white bass and channel catfish, more extended reference to which is made in another part of this report, will necessitate some changes in the laws relating to the taking of fish in the fresh waters of the State, It is but reasonable that some kind of protection should be afforded to these strangers. To prohibit their taking for a number of years would involve hardship-on the angler who is seeking for other fish and who could not avoid taking the new species. It would perhaps be impracticable to establish any close season for the taking of the catfish, as all kinds are angled for in the same manner. . Slightly extending the close season for pick- erel and embracing in it the pike-perch, would afford the necessary protection for the latter, and the white bass would be amply protected if the same protection were extended to it which is now accorded to the black bass. For the better protection of the game fishes, a slight change in the law pertaining to the capture of the intfe- rior fishes is indicated. At present the flaw permits of the spearing of suckers, eels and carp; but this provisioti of the law is frequently abused by persons who spear everything the light of the lantern may disclose in the water. Violations of the law of this nature are palpably difficult of detection. If the law were changed to pro- hibit spearing altogether, but permitting the use of eel pots under reasonable restrictions, we feel confident that it would tend to the better protection of the game fishes without in any way reducing the opportunities for dimin- ishing the number of eels and catfish. Although the black bass is firmly established in the waters of the State, there is a continual menace to the proper multiplication of these fish by taking of them at night. Nearly all other States have enacted statutes pro- hibiting the taking of black bass between 9 o'clock in the evening and sunrise the following morning, and the enactment of such a measure in New Jersey would un- doubtedly: be attended by good results without in any way interfering with proper sport. Deet. In the-southern part of this State there are still vast areas of uncultivated lands suitable for the habitat of the wild deer, and these animals would have continued to flourish were it not for the ever-increasing army of hunters. Last year your Commission requested the pas- sage of a law establishing a close season for five years, thus enabling our indigenous deer to increase in number and affording your Commission an opportunity to add to their number by importations from the West; and your Commission would again most strenuously advo- ~ cate the enactment of this measure this winter. The law for the protection of our song and insectiyor- ous birds is in anything but a satisiactory condition; the law prohibits the taking of all kinds of insectivorous birds, and strictly construed would prohibit the killing of many species of shore birds now considered legitimate - sport, for nearly every bird is more or less insectivorous. A law mentioning by name all the kinds of birds which it shall be unlawful to kill would be more just to the sportsman and also to the agricultural interests of the State, which depend in a great measure for their success on the destruction of noxious insects. Such a law would Jan. 1, 1808.] _» i also restrain the tapacity of the -pot-hunter, who slays birds for the mere sake of killing, or for the purpose of supplying the millinery market with ornaments, the gath- ering of which inflicts lasting injury on the whole com- munity, There is one other section of the general fish and game law to which your Commission desires to call ‘parent than ever. especial attention. Of late years game clubs and individ- ual sportsmen have secured by purchase or lease large tracts of woodland and large areas of water for their own exclusive use. According to the present law the fish and game wardens of the State are required to look after the protection of these property rights as far as private streams and ponds are concerned, The law in relation to trespassing with guns is not enforced by the wardens under the statute, the latter leaving all protec- tion of private lands to the owners and their agents. This condition of affairs is anomalous, and it places a burden on a public officer apparently not contemplated by other and similar enactments. Your Commission would accordingly suggest the eliminating of the tres- pass law from the general fish and game law and placing it in the same category with laws pertaining to the pro- tection of private property. Menhaden Fishing. The Menhaden Act:—The beneficial effect of the law which restricts the taking- of menhaden from the waters of the State adjoining the eastern boundary is more ap- For many years menhaden steamers plied their avyocations along our shores without Jet or hindrance of any kind whatsoever, and a tair estimate of the number so engaged was over sixty: An act prohib- iting the taking of menhaden was violated daily during the season, the presumption being that the act was un- constitutional, a view of the law taken by eminent coun- sel, Your Commission caused the constitutionality of the act to be tested, and the result was that the Supreme Court declared the act to be valid. Not desiring to in- terfere with the judicious taking of menhaden, but anx- ious to afford them such protection as might be indicated by the circumstances, your Commission stiggested the passage of an act providing for the licensing of steamers engaged in the menhaden business, the scale of license fees being governed by the tonnage of the vessel. Two years ago, immediately after the passage of the act, thirty-two steamers were granted licenses, about one- half the usual number seen along our coasts. Wardens were instructed to be diligent in the work of watching the steamers and seeing to it that none but licensed steamers took menhaden. The expense of the license and the vigilance of the wardens has further redticed the number of menhaden taken, for_during the year just past only twenty-two steamers availed themselves of the provisions of the menhaden act. The number of sailing vessels licensed during the first year of the operation of the law was nine. A similar ntimber was licensed last year, indicating that the taking of menhaden for bait has not decreased. As to the menhaden taken off shore, it is evident that less than 25 per cent. are now taken when the total volume of fish taken is compared with that of three ot four years ago. Pounds, ‘Pound Nets.—Your Commission in its two previous reports has pointed out the evils attending the indis- criminate slaughter of fish by means of pound nets along the coast. The evil has not abated in the least, and dur- ing the past year thousands of tons of fish were de- stroyed withottt any adequate return. Your Commis- sion does not suggest the wiping out of this industry, no more than it did two years ago the wiping out of the menhaden industry; but would strenuously urge the pas- sage of some restrictive legislation. Fortunately this year the pound-net fishermen cannot urge the argument advanced last year in their interest, that they had in- vested their capital in nets, and that any limitation might work hardship. An attempt was made last year to pass a measure ab- solutely prohibiting the maintenance of pound nets. The pound-net men asked the Legislature to give them an- other chance—they wanted one more year and then they would be satisfied. This plea for clemency probably de- feated the measure. Taking the pound-net men at their own word, so abundantly and vociferously given in the halls of legislation last year, they certainly cannot object to a restrictive measure this year; for your Commission desires nothing more than to subject them to such regu- lations as may conduce to a continued supply of fish for years to come. : Inland Tide Waters.—The most complicated laws o the statute books of New Jersey are probably those gov- erning the taking of fish in the inland tide waters. A large number of these waters are not governed by any law whatever, but others make up for this oversight on the part of past Legislatures by having a number of special enactments, In some instances what is lawful on one side of an imaginary line is on the other an offense punishable with imprisonment. In one water dynamite may be used to kill fish; in the water in an adjoining township it is unlawful even to take crabs. Unfortu- nately it is a matter of difficulty to agree on a general law governing all tide waters, as the interests are diverse in different localities. Your Commission would, how- ever, suggest, in the event that no general law can be agreed upon, that such of the present enactments be re- pealed as are worthless at the present day, thus ridding our statute books of a great deal of undesirable lumber. The Delaware River—The Legislature of 1897 passed a comprehensive law pertaining to the taking of fish in the Delaware River, every section of the méasure having met the approval of the Fish and Game Commissioners of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. The Penn- sylyania Commissioners agreed to use their endeavors to secure the passage of the law by the Pennsylvania Legis- lature, but unfortunately their efforts were of no avail. The measure which had been passed in New Jersey would accordingly have been of no avail, and so it was filed away in the State Library by Gov. Griggs without his approval. The Pennsylvania Legislature will not be in session this winter, and consequently no relief can be secured to the fishermen of the Delaware from the bur- densome énactments which have been from time to time placed on our statute books. In the interests of these 13 FOREST AND STREAM. fishermen it is to be hoped that better success will attend the work of the Pennsylvania Commission next year. : Protection to Sturgeon,—For the past three years there has been on the statute books of New Jersey an act for the protection of sturgeon, providing that these fish should not be taken from the 3oth of June to the 31st of December of each year. The act contained the usual clause providing that it should not go into effect until similar measures had been adopted by the Legisla- tures of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Pennsylvania passed the same law last year, but Delaware took no action until this year, when the law was enacted there. The Sturgeon Fishermen’s Association and all others in- terested in keeping alive an industry which annually turns a great many thousands of dollars into the pockets of the hardy fishermen who make a living by taking fish in the Delaware had for some time hoped for some such action on the part of the State of Delaware, and it came none too soon; for the high price of the fish and its roe during the past few years had induced a number of mis- guided people to take them at all times and seasons. With the protection accorded to the fish by this salutary legislation it is but natural to expect that the sturgeon industry will continue to flourish for many years. As Told in Rhyme. Syracuse, N. Y.—Editor Forest and Stream: To most of those who fish in the waters of central New York and hunt for gray squirrels in the woods of the same terri- tory my subject is a familiar figure, for Prof. Ernst Held has whipped every stream and knows every likely tree within a wide circle of country of which Syracuse is a center. Many of his vacations have been spent at a quiet little resort in the lake region, where his taste for sport could be gratified to a reasonable extent and where his lovable and gentle nature made many friends among the visitors and inhabitants of the country round about, Like all trout fishermen, he was wont to keep his haunts a mystery to the curious. A professor at each end of the tackle is a strong combination, but even that sometimes fails. A light basket had its story of experimenting on nearby streams, but if it contained a goodly mess of scarlet-spotted inmates, a tale of long tramps and wan- dering afar was sure to account for the success. Once he surprised the houseful of summer sojourners by bringing ina plump 2lb. beauty; and was besieged by the crowd to know where and how the prize was caught. When the storm of questions was at its height he grave- ly said: ‘Well, now, I’ll tell you all about it. I didn’t catch him at all. I simply gathered him. He was out picking strawberries for his luncheon and I picked him for my dinner,” and to prove the truth of the story he opened the fish’s mouth, which was seen to be filled with wild strawberries. Upon his return each day he was constantly greeted with, “Well, what luck to-day, Pro- fessor?” until one time when appearances were all against him, evidenced by a broken rod and other signs which we all know how to read, when, in reply to the usual in- quiry by a very attractive young lady, he agreed to tell his story after dinner, and this is the way he did it— MY FISHING EXCURSION. I made a trip, a stream to whip— Z Where plenteous trout in frolic skip— Before—ahem!—TI took a sip, A fever-ague-killing nip. Thus fortified, I let her slip, My fishing boat, a tiny ship, Down North Branch Moose, where river’s lip With kisses laves a sandy strip, There speckled beauties flop and flip, And took the fly with eager leap, Oft filled the basket at my hip. But joys are fleet, “twixt cup and lip,” A proverb old, “there’s many a slip.” Crazed by mosquitoes’ bloody grip, I rose and lit my pipe, to keep Those bloodhounds off—meanwhile my whip I’d thrown across the seat midship, Just then—alas! my naughty snip Of boat made a preposterous dip. I balanced—staggered—made a slip— A seatward fall—a crash—‘Oh! Rip Van Winkle, saint of woodman, keep My soul from swearing, lest a heap Of savory words befoul my lip; And would that mend my broken tip?” Thus cried I, while from out the deep The biggest trout made leap on leap And dared me with a saucy peep Of wistful eyes to catch and keep Them if I could! A splintered tip Ts the memento of this trip. _ An artist of no mean ability, a musician whose talent is widely known, a true lover of nature, and on the stream, in the woods or in the drawing-room always the same unselfish, modest gentleman. Such is Ernst Held, and that he may live for many years to enjoy the sports he loves and to brighten the lives of all with whom he comes in contact is the hearty wish of those who know him. W. A. B. Worth Carolina Trout. THE trout fishing this year in Watauga, Mitchell and Ashe counties, N. C., is reported as being of rare ex- cellence. These counties lie between two great mountain chains, one of which is the Blue Ridge, and there are numerous streams, all of which are peculiarly favorable for the habitat of the trout and peculiarly well supplied with that gamest of fish. May and June are said to be the best season for sport. The FOREST AND STREAM ts put to press each week on Tuesday. Correspondence intended for ‘publication should reach us at the latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. Che Aennel. Fixtures. BENCH SHOWS. Jan. 6.—Wilmington Kennel Club's show, Wilmington, Del. E. W. Jester, Sec’y, Jan. 17.—Brunswick Fur Club’s ninth annual hunt, Barre, Mass. Bradford S. Turpin, Sec*y. Feb, 15—New England Kennel Clil’s fourteenth annual show, Toston. James L. Little, Sec*y. 7 Jan. 18.—DButterly Bench Sliow Association’s show, Grand Rap- ids, Mich. Miss Grace H. Griswold, Sec’y. Feb. 21.—Westminster Kennel Club’s twenty-second annual show, New York, G, de I’. Grant, Sec’y. ; F Aeon 1.—Mascoutah Kennel Club’s show, Chicago. L, Lincoln, Sec’y. March 9.—St, Louis Kennel Club’s third annual show, St. Louis, Mo, Wm. Hutchinson, Sec’y. March 15,—Northwestern MKennel Minn, E. D. Brown, Sec’y- FIELD TRIALS. Jan. 10—U..S. F, T. Club’s winter trials, West Point, Miss, W. B. Stafford, Sec’y. Jan. 17.—Continental-P, T. Club’s trials, New Albany, Miss. W. S. Bell, Sec’y. an. 24.—Pacific Coast Iield Trial Clib’s trials, J. M. Kilgarif, Sec’y. Jan, 24.—Champion Iield Trial Association’s Champion Stake, Tupelo, Miss. W. B. Stafford, Sec’y. Peb. 7.—Alabama Field Trial Club’s second annual trials, Madi- Club’s dog show, St. Paul, Bakersfield, Cal. son, Ala. FI. IK. Milner, Sec’y. Dogs as Drait Animals.—IIl. Frankfort, Mr. F. H. Mason, Consul-General, Frankfort, re- ports: For anp AGAtwst Drarr Docs.—Although the use of dows for working purposes in this city ana district of Hranktort dates from medieyal times, the subject is ene concerning which public opinion is still somewhat Sharply divided. ‘Lhe Germans are second only to the English in their general love of dogs for their higher attributes—fidelity, purity of breed tor the purposes of Lunting, watching over property, and as the faithful, devoted companions of humankind. By a large propor- tion of German people the use of dogs as drait animals is held to be an unworthy degradation of an animal clearly intended by nature for nobler purposes; and Ludwig Beckman, in his two handsome volumes, “Races of Dogs” (the standard work of its kind in the German language), makes but one reference to that portion of the subject, which may be quoted as a fit ex- pression of the higher sentiment of German people on the subject: “The use of dogs as draft animals should, on account of unavoidable abuses, be prohibited by law in all civil- ized countries, as has long been done in England.” Down to 1866, when Franklort ceased to be a free city, wagons and carts drawn by dogs were not allowed to enter the city gates, and were to a much greater degree than now under the ban of public disapproval. But to a large majority of people here, as elsewhere, life is a struggle which requires the practice of every form of economy, and to the tradesmen and shopkeepers in vil- lages, or even large cities, market gardeners,butchers, milkmen, beer and wine merchants, laundrymen and peddlers of fruit and other country produce, the dog that watches by night and works by day is a cheap and most efficacious substitute ior the horse, or rather for the kind of work usually done in other countries by don- keys, which are practically unknown in Germany. KEGULATIONS.—Recognizing this fact, the municipal government adopted in 1884, and has since carefully en- forced, a comprehensive code of regulations for the li- censing, annual inspection, and general surveillance of dogs used as draft animals, and under the system thus established the number of dogs so used in this city and district has largely increased, and their general condition and treatment visibly improved. In accordance with this code, each owner of a work- ing dog is required to present the animal for inspection before the chief veterinary official of the district once each year, at a date specially fixed by announcement for each precinct—usually during the early spring. On such occasions the owner or a responsible agent must appear in person with dog or dogs, their harness and wagon in perfect order, and driye up and down before the veterinary, who then examines the animal and its certificate of the previous year, and if all is found satis- factory a new license is granted, good for one year, unless reyoked, in which the age, weight, sex, domicile, ete., of the dog, and the maximum load which it is per- mitted to haul are carefully stated. If a dog is sold the license must be presented at headquarters and the trans- fer entered on the record. The certificate must be always carried by the driver when working the dog on the public street or highway, where it may at any mo- ment be called for by a policeman, and if not forthcom- ing the delinquent is subject to a fine; or if the dog is found to be sick, overworked, underfed, or in any way seriously abused, the license may be canceled and the owner disqualified for the future. BREEDING.—There is in this portion of Germany no race of dogs which, like certain species in Holland and Sweden, aré specially bred and used for working pur- poses. Any large, strong, healthy dog will do, and may be trained to work in harness. Those usually employed for this purpose are not pure-bred animals,but monegrels, either of no definable race or derived from crossings of the Florentine, St. Bernard and other breeds with the Deutscher Dogge, a large, short-haired species, which may be called the parent race of working dogs in this country. The dogs in actual use therefore vary consid- erably as to size, and are of all canine colors—black, brown, gray, yellow, brindle, white, tan—usually short- haired, but sometimes with long, silly coats and show- ing the markings and general characteristics of the span- iel. There are a few establishments in the country near Frankfort where dogs are bred for hunting, watching and working purposes, but usually those used as draft animals are reared and trained by the peasants or vil- lage tradesmen, who afterward use them. TRAINING.—Training begins at the age of one year, and is a very simple process, The young dog is har- 14 FOREST AND STREAM. nessed up to a cart with an older and well-broken one, and being by nature tractable and obedient quickly takes to his work. No distinction is made as to sex, except that a slut is exempt by law during the gestative period and may not be worked. Harwness.—The harness is simple and of one preyail- ing type—a broad strap or breast collar of leather, pass- ing round the breast and tapering backward about 3ft. on each side, thence lengthened by cords, as traces, which are attached to the whiffletree. The collar is held in place by a simple backband and girth; the latter Leing unbuckled permits the harness to be slipped over the dog's head and removed. The leather muzzle which all dogs, in or out of harness, are required to wear at all seasons when outside their owners’ premises, serves as bridle and completes the working gear. Wacons.—Wagons are of two general classes—four- wheeled, which are usually drawn by two dogs and are used almost exclusively in the country or remote vil- lages, and two-wheeled carts, with long shafts or han- dles, which are held by the driver, who guides and bal- ances the vehicle while the dog, hitchéd to an iron brack- et projecting downward from the floor of the cart, trots beneath. A board about 2 by 3it. in size is required by law to be carried along, and when a stop is made is laid on the ground for the dog to lié upon. In winter the same code requires a blanket to be provided to cover the animal when at rest in harness. STRENGTH.—The load that can be transported by a eart of this kind, guided by a skillful driver and drawn by one healthy, well-trained dog, is somewhat surpris- ing. The license of each animal states the maximum burden that he may draw at from 200 to 3o0olbs., but this restriction, especially in the country, where the police are less watchful, is often disregarded, and a load of 500 and eyen 6oolbs. ts not unusual, and on the smooth, hard level roads that are common in this country a dog will usually go as far and work as many hours per day as his master who guides the cart. Tue Doc Likes His Worx.—From all that can be observed or learned from inquiry, the dogs, at least those used as drait animals in this region, take to their work with entire willingness. Nothing is so irksome to the canine spirit as to be confined in the kennel or left at home when the master goes abroad. Any sign of preparing the cart or wagon for a sortie affects the wotking dog mtich as the sight of a gtn or shooting costume, agitates a setter or foxhound. Tf left at home while the cart is taken to town by hand, he is apt to howl disconsolately until it returns. Once harnessed, he trots to his place under the wagon, and when used on a milk route or other uniform service he learns the way and the place and average duration of each stop as well as his master, in whose absence he guards the wagon and its load with a fierce fidelity, which no wheedling can corrupt or fatigue impair. Rarely under ordinary circumstances does a dog have to be urged to greater exertion; if spoken to at all, it is usually to re- strain him from drawing the cart faster than the driver cares to walk. Tax.—The annual tax on-working and other dogs in Germany is $3.57, besides which the owner pays 47 cents for the inspection and certificate which are made and issued by the chief veterinary official of the city or district. Lire or A Drarr Doc.—A dog reaches his full strength at about three years of age, and thenceforward until his ninth year he should be at his best; but with good cate most of them are capable of good service until fourteen or fifteen years of age, and instances are not rare of dogs twenty or even twenty-five years old doing their daily task with cheerful alacrity. _MaIntenance.—Their best food is meat, but besides this they eat bread, specially prepared biscuits, in which a small proportion of coarse meat is included, and the general refuse of the family table, which in the case of most peasants 1s neither profuse nor specially nourish- ing. A good trained dog three to four years old is worth in this neighborhood from $12 to $15; especially large and well-bred ones may bring $20 or even mote, particularly when they combine good working qualities with those of a diligent and courageous watchdog, and of such a one the peasants haye a saying that, day or might, his work is never finished. It does not appear that working usually affects the temper of a dog or makes him cross or vicious, except in defense of his own wagon, which he is usually ready to protect from inter- ference at all hazards. Concrusion.—Putting aside the sentiment which dig- nifies the dog as a noble animal, worthy of no baser ser- vice than hunting or guarding the person and property of his master, it is difficult to'see in the working system, as practiced under carefully enforced regulations, as in Germany, any ground for ‘reasonable objection, either by reason of direct ill treatment or the theoretic abuse that is perpetrated when a dumb animal is converted to a use for which it was not intended by nature, That an animal so tractable, faithful and easily trained as the dog, which at his best costs but a comparative trifle, eats the refuse of the peasant’s table, and hauls a load of eight or ten times his own weight twenty or thirty miles per day and guards his burden by night, is not well and properly employed in such service, would probably be hard to prove on any but the extreme hypothesis that all work is degrading. Hamburg. W. H. Robertson, Consul at Hamburg, reports: Breep.—In Hamburg and its environs dogs are very extensively used as draft animals, and as the authorities haye prescribed no restrictive measures against the use of any particular breed or size of dog for this purpose, almost every kind of fair-sized dog is employed. In most cases, however, it will be found that cross-breeds of Ulmer dogs and Danish hounds are selected for all sorts of small wagons and hand-carts. The animals are not subjected to any special course of training, but ate broken in for their work by their individual owners, according to the latter’s own ideas. Harness.—lhe harness almost universally used is light and of the simplest kind, consisting either of leather or closely woven jute. A strap or band, which is held in position by a cross strap over the back, passes from the dog’s breast to an ordinary pair of traces, which are fastened to a light singletree. This latter is attached by means of a chain to the bottom of the cart or wagon. Wacons.—The wagons which these dogs are required to haul are of almost as great a variety as are the breeds of dogs; and it is quite wonderful what heavy loads the dogs are able to pull without apparent difficulty. Opnjections to Drarr Dogs.—There is very little doubt about the fact that these draft dogs are of great assistance and a source of considerable saying to the small tradespeople, peddlers, costers, etc., whose loaded carts are too heavy for one person to pull or shove alone, and who cannot afford to buy and feed a horse. On the other hand, however, the general opmion prevails, and I confess that, after much personal observation, I fully share the same, that the use of dogs as draft animals is a cruelty. I have noticed that the people become especially at- tached to their draft dogs, who are their constant com- panions in business, and that they treat them well as a rule. The dogs themselves aré the very hardest work- ers, and enter into their work with far more spirit and yim than most horses. It is a frequent sight to see their masters obliged to constantly restrain them from pull- ing. It is sometimes very pitiable, however, to see them pulled out of shape by overwork and overloading. Their crooked legs, nervous temperaments, blurred eyes, and tender feet tell their tale of fidelity and suffering. They ferociously protect the cart and its contents dur- ing the absence of their masters, and seem to feel a per- sonal interest in the business. I took occasion to interview the Hambure Society for the Prevention of Cruelty ta Animals on this subject, and learned that dogs which are used as draft animals are seldom able to stand the work more than five years without their spines becoming affected, and that such draft dogs as are from time to time brought to the dog hospital of the society for treatment are generally be- yond recovery. peatedly requested the Hamburg government to forbid the use of dogs as draft animals, and that, although its efforts in this direction had thus far proved absolutely. unsuccesstul, it intended to continue to use its best ef- forts to have the practice abolished. Members of the society must bind themselves not to purchase anything from tradespeople who deliver their wares in carts hauled by dogs. The International Field Trials. CHatHam, Ont.—Editor Forest and Stream: Seeing a letter in your last issue from Mr. W. W. McCain ve the late International Trials, it strikes me that it would ease my mind if I also had a few words, I have nothing to say as to the Derby, as I did not see it run. Nor did I see the first heat in the all-age. I hope Mr. McCain has not me in his eye when he speaks of the fayored few. I beg to tell him that the favors that I have received in the field trial line haye been like shot from a blunderbuss—very scattering. I think Mr. McCain has just cause for complaint in not haying his bitch called again, after being told to bring her along, as the rules say the judges shall, alter the first series, announce which dogs they wish to see run again, and the order of running them. I think, however, he is wrong in thinking we go in for too wide range. With one exception I don’t consider that any of our dogs ranged too wide. Some of them may have ranged too wide in cover, and I will concede that it is just as bad a fault for a dog to range too wide in cover as it is for him to have too contracted range in the open. Wide in the open and close in cover is what we want in our country. Mr. Hough is rather hard on Cleopatra, although I acquit him of any intention to be other than fair. In the heat between her and Dash, he says: “Later Clo made her worst blunder in a heat otherwise brilliant; on bare cornfield she made game, roaded, cast about and came to a point, but the bevy was walked up thirty feet back of her, and she must have passed fairly through it to have got where she was. This bad locating of birds seemed hard to explain, and Mr. Wells admitted he did not see how she could have done it.” My idea of the piece of work was this: Clo was seen on point sey- ety or eighty yards ahead in a cornfield, near the fence, on the other side of which was a bush, on a bevy which had evidently just run into the field to feed and were scattered about feeding when she came onto them. I ordered her on to flush, going with her, and together we faitly walked through them, she crawling with her nose touching the ground and moving her head from side to side. When we had got through some one behind flushed them, and Mr. Hough will remember they got up very scattering. The birds lay like stones, as they will frequently on bare ground. They had run all about the place, saturating the ground with scent, which, coming from all quarters, prevented her locating any one bird. Had it been a single bird she would have probably followed it accurately to a flush. Had I adopted the American plan of leaving the dog on point, tramped ahead and flushed the birds, instead of taking the dog up with me, in the way introduced by Mr. Brailsford, and since followed by so many American professionals— although they objected to his doing it when he ran in the Eastern—she would haye had credit for a good point instead of a bad flush, as the birds were not more than twenty or twenty-five feet from her first point. Again, in the latter part of his account of the Lock- Clo heat, he gives Lock credit over the bitch, saying: “Tock jumped the fence, made a straight run for the woods, and at once jumped into a second bevy point at a log and brush pile, doubtless on Clo’s bevy, though she was now working off to the right away from the bevy.” Iclaim my little favorite to be a good bird finder, but she cannot find birds in two different places at the same time. This is practically what Mr. Hough is penal- izing her for not doing. The bush was full of scattered birds from the night previous, and both dogs were doing all that could be asked of them in different places. Mr. Hough was with Lock. I cannot agree with Mr. Hough that Lock required no handling, as at one time it re- quired the united efforts of one of the judges and. the handler to stop him from flushing a bird Clo was point- I was also told that the society had re-. -that a professional alone can give them. [JAn. 1, 1808. ing. When they finally got him dropped he was within a few teet of the bird. ; IT am glad Mr. Hough gives Clo some credit as a meat dog, as on one occasion he flushed a quail and a horse over her point. It was no fault of hers that he had a reputation to redeem, and would not rest satisfied until he had an opportunity. He did not mention, how- ever, on which kind of bird he wished to begin. If on the former, I shall be glad to give him an opportunity when next he visits us; but if on the latter, | must ask him to defer the test until some time when we meet out West, where bronchos are cheap. That is, if I, as on the last occasion, am to furnish dogs and game. I have no objection to Mr. Hough or any one else haying whatever kind of dog suits them best. [ like a good dog, let him be big or little, long or short hair. (1 came near buying a pointer lately, but, fortunately, got over the weak spell.) But if Mr. Hough or any one else having a kennel of dogs intended entering them, he would likely pick ont the best, irrespective of size. I haye had some good big dogs, but a great many more from medium to small. I think you will find fifty good small animals to one good big one, whether in man, dog or horse. Of course there is no denying the old saying that a good big one will beat a good little one, and as to the meat dog I am willing to admit that bird finding is the most important part of a bird dog’s work. I am considerable of a meat man niyself when I start in—just returned trom three days at the quail—bag, roo—and will not have a dog that is not a good bird finder; but combined with bird finding I want as much beauty as I can get, also as much speed and style on point. Im fact, I want a high-class dog, one whose action is perfect, and who points with spirit and animation, stopping in whateyer position he catches the scent. JI would rather see such a dog make one point than one of Mr. Hongh’s ordinary meat dogs make a dozen. , I go into the fields for pleasure, and the dog that gives me the most of that article is the dog I want, whether he wins at field trials or not. Some men measure the day’s sport by the size of the bag. J think more of the dog work than I do of the birds. Still I am not averse to a well-filled bag when birds are in good order. The writer of the editorial on “Professionalism in Field Trial Clubs,’ in your last issue, mentions the Eastern and Northwestern as the only clubs that have not allowed the professional element to have a say in their management. I beg to inform him that the Inter- national has never had a professional as member, and our trials are the only ones in which the amateur handler has much of a chance. Of course, even with us the amateur is handicapped, as he has to compete with dogs trained at such odd times as his business will permit, against dogs that have the regular day-by-day training But he can nevertheless indulge his fancy without much outlay, Our prizes are sinall, but so-are our entry fees. W. B. WELLs. Monroe, Mich.—Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue of Dec. 11 appears an article entitled “The Inter- national Field Trials,’ signed W. W. McCain. -As he has failed to introduce himself and cannot agree with the decision of the judges nor with the inferences of the reporter, and so freely gives his own views as an author- ity, a slight introduction on my part may not be out of place, as he believes in the spirit of fairness in every- thing connected with field spoft. At Windsor, on our way to the trials, we were intro- duced to Mr, McCain and rode to Chatham on the same train with him. In his conversation he stated that he was entirely ignorant of how field trials were con- ducted, never having seen or attended any. As to his remarks as to the age and experience of the judges, I know positively that one of the judges, at least, would be younger if he could. As to the experience, neither the reporter nor the judges were novices in attending field trials, and if people can become perfected in any- thing without experience, why do they study profes- sions ot learn trades, even if they do possess very old heads on very young shoulders? As I followed up each heat in those trials, observing and discriminating carefully, and after reading Mr. Hough’s report and Mr. MecCain’s statement, 1 am forced by personal obseryation to agree with the former, and consider his report as being very fair and impartial, while the statements of the latter are as misleading as the imaginative points made by his dog in the field; and IT am not surprised, after seeing such an exhibition of false pointing and chasing, that Mr. McCain should entertain the idea of crossing the greyhound and barzoi for a suitable dog, and think he can safely risk the experiment without injury, as an almost failure to point birds and an entire failtire to catch them leaves any sportsman in an unpleasant position in the field. In reference to his question, before commencing the all-age stake, whether point work or bird work was to be considered, the answer was, “All was to be consid- ered.” This did not imply that every time his-dog came to a halt and he lustily called it “point” and nothing found should be considered bird work. We fully agree with him that in this heat there was much point. work, quite as much as in any heat we recollect to have seen, in finding and truly pointed birds once only by his dog. The lusty manner in which Mr. McCain called “point” at every halt of his dog, and the fertile excuses made for her errors, gave evidence of an aptitude for becoming, with age, an expert field trial handler. After the con- clusion of this heat the thought of what a young Irish- man once said to me came forcibly into my mind. In speaking of an aunt, noted for her excellence as a housekeeper, he said: “She could get up a decent meal of victuals out of nothing at all.” For, aside irom her very limited range, she had the faculty of doing the most pointing on nothing at all visible, in rapid succession, that I ever recollect to have witnessed, making an ex- cellent display barren of results. How Mr. McCain could state which was the best heat in a competition which he left before being finished, can only be credited to his great power of imagination, with which his dogs and their owner seem to be most bountifully supplied. ~ Joun DAVIDSON. [We desire to call Mr. Dayidson’s attention to the Jan. 1, 1898. ] FOREST AND STREAM. 15 personal turn, unwatranted by the issue, which he gives the discussioin, though he undoubtedly does so from mistaken inference. For instance, taking the first two paragraphs of his letter, he assumes that Mr. McCain did not introduce himself, in the face of the fact that the latter signed his letter properly and gave his address, and he further assumes that Mr. McCain wrote “as an authority,” whereas he only wrote as any one might write, gave his data for his reasons, and submitted them for public consideration. In respect to the matter of “age and experience,” there was no personal application to it, nor any purpose to depreciate it, Also, Mr. Mc- Cain’s manner of handling his dog was entirely outside the issue. The subject matter is hardly touched upon. We call attention to this from a friendly intention to keep the parties to the discussion in correct lines, that they may discover any errors if any exist, and give in- formation which may be of value in adding to the beSt knowledge of conducting trials. But any letters devoted further to personality will not axpear. | Pretense and Merit. Sr, Aucustine, Fla.—Editor Forest and Siream: Um elad to see that youre directing your able energies toward the field-trial question, for I have always looked upon field trials as the silliest thing connected with Sporting matters. They settle no question of superior- ity, for nearly everything depends on luck, It is simply dogmen’s business. : During my life I have found the very best of dogs in every part of the country with no more pedigree to boast of than a second-hand polecat. I can give two instances that are prominent in my memory. In the early days of Chicago I used to hunt oyer about as ugly a liver-colored setter as I ever saw made up, but he understood his business thoroughly, and he had a nose that seemed infallible. On one occa- sion his master and I were shooting quail in a thick growth of pin-oaks with the dead leaves all on, and no one of my shooting days has left a brighter spot on my memory. It was afternoon and we had found no birds, when we met a market-shooter who told us there were plenty of birds close by us, but he’d defy anybody to kill them in such a place as that. He had them scattered all over the woods, and though the leaves were so dry that we made noise enough to wake the echoes, that dag made a stanch point on nearly every bird. We would each select a stand where we thought the bird must show itself to one or the other of us, and then the dog would put it up. We had only part of the afternoon to shoot in, but we got between twenty and thirty, with very few misses. Another remarkable dog was a rather unprepossessing black pointer bitch, owned in this city. A New York -club millionaire came down here to shoot—as many others did before the game was exterminated by the wood-loafer—and his splendid dogs were fortified with field trials and mile-long pedigrees, His companion and guide was the owner of the black pointer, and the club man was shocked when he found her master was going to take her out with them; but during the day she found every bevy that they raised, and did all the work of pointing and retrieving single birds, The club man, who relied on pedigrees, wanted to buy her, though he said he’d get heartily laughed at if he took her to his club. He kept raising his offer till he got up into the hundreds, but the animal was not for sale. Drpymus. Homing Instinct in Dogs. Editor Forest and Stream: I saw an article in a recent number of the Forest and Stream, by your contributor, “The Man in the Clock Tower,” hooting at the idea that dogs find their way by instinct. While it is not my wish to enter into a controyersy with your able writer—his opportunities for Observation from such a yantage point are too great— however, with your permission, I will spin a short yarn about a dog that did get home, and without the aid of the usual $25 reward. Some years since I bought a foxhound in Sunderland, Vt., some sixty miles from here as the crow flies, He was expressed to me in rather a light box, and natur- ally, in an express car, so that he had no opportunity of becoming familiar with the route. Perhaps 1t might have been two weeks afterward that I turned him loose, thinking he needed exercise. Subsequent events proved that he did. He was seen on my place about 2:30 in the afternoon (Sunday), and the next thing I heard of him was in the form of a postal card from Merrett Bent- ley, his former owner, saying ‘Trump came home early this morning” (Monday), so that he evidently wasted very little time inquiring the way. What was this—in- stinct? A BELIEVER IN It. leas and their Abuses. In regard to killing the fleas on Sallie’s dog Maudie still another suggestion comes, this time from Mr. J, H. Pierce, of Hebron, W. Va., who says: “A dime’s worth of oil of cedar applied will eradicate fleas and not injure dog or hair. Of course, quantity re- quired will depend on size of dog; but ten cents’ worth will kill fleas on a pretty big dog. If Sallie has any cats T would not advise her to use it on them, as I tried it on a cat of mine once and the next morning poor Tommy's toes were turned skyward. Take liquid and drop in small quantities all over the dog.” E, Houeu. 1206 Boyce BuiLpine, Chicago. POINTS AND FLUSHES, A brief note from Mr. F. O. de Luze, treasurer of the Westminster Kennel Club, informs us of the death of the club’s famous pointer dog, King of Kent (Priam— Kent’s Baby). He was famous both as a bench show winner and as a sire of field performers of rare merit. In respect to the latter he had no equal in America. Rip Rap is his most famous son, and heads the list as to age and fame, King of Kent was whelped Jan. 12, 1886, and was bred by Mr. Fred Warde, Tutsham Hall, Eng. His death imposes a great loss on the pointer interests of - America, The Mobile & Ohio Railroad has issued a circular let- ter, instructing its agents to assist sportsmen as much as possible by carefully and promptly handling their dogs, camping outfits, etc., and rendering all the service they can. Dogs and camping outfit will be carried free in ‘baggage car, as is customary, provided that they are de- livered to and received from the train baggagemen at the baggage car door, To field trial visitors tickets will be sold at the rate of one fare to West Point and Tupelo. As the Union field trials have been abandoned and the championship event has been changed to New Albany, Miss., the Tupelo rates are now of no advantage to vis- itors. This road has always been exceptionally gener- ous in its dealings with sportsmen. The daily press recently announced that an enterpris- ing gentleman was bound Newfoundland-ward to pur- chase 500 dogs of the Newfoundland breed for the pur- pose of Klondike transportation. He will not have quite so much difficulty in finding a well-bred Newfoundland dog as he would in finding an Trish wolfhound, but by the time he secures 500 of the genuine brand he would need a good section of the Klondike to pay the expense, and he would not secure them in Newfoundland at that. Ganaging. American Canoe Association, 1897-98. Commodore, F. L. Dunnell, Brooklyn, N. Y. 2 Sec’y-Treas., C. V. Schuyler, 309 Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Bayonne, N PURSERS. P Atlantic Division, Wm. M. Carpenter, Main street, Sing Sing, Central Division, Laurence C. Woodworth, Gouverneur, N. Y. Eastern Division, F. J. Burrage, West Newton, Mass. Northern Division, Edgar C. Woolsey, 37 Charles street, Ottawa, Can. Annual dues, $1; initiation fee, $1. ——— ae - Western Canoe Association, 1895-96. Commodore, C. F. Pennewell, Detroit, Mich. Vice-Gommodore, Nat. H. Cook, Chicago, Ill. Rear-Commodore, E. H. Holmes, Milwaukee, Wis. Sec’y-Treas., W. D. Stearns, Detroit, Mich. ‘ 3 t Executive Committee: R, M. Lamp, Madison, Wis.; C. J. Stead- man, Cincinnati, O.; F. W. Dickens, Milwaukee, Wis. The Royal C. C, THE autumn meeting of this club was held at the club house on the Island, Teddington Reach, on Nov. 13, and was better attended than any similar meeting held for many years past. were elected officers for the ensuing year: Com., H. R. H. the Prince of Wales; Capt., Mr. George Herbert; Mates, Messrs. B. de ©. Ouincy (sailing) and E. W. Lewis (paddling); Purser, Mr. C. J. Wright} Cook, Mr. F. FP. Tuckett; Auditor, Mr. O. V. Cooke; Secretary, Mr. A. C. Hamerton; Committee: Messrs. W. Baden-Powell, J. A. Nicholl, F. A. RodewaldR, F. Lawson, Guy Ellington, C, C. Lyman, C. H. Cooper, W. Stewart, J. P. Clarke. From the report which the secretary read it appeared that the whole amount necessary for the erection and fitting up of the club house had been found on debentures, and that the club was, with with that exception, now free from debt; that the number of new members elected during the year was equivalent to those elected during the two preceding years together, and far exceeded the average number over a period of years. } A proposal by Mr. R. F. Lawson that the words in Rule 24, com- pelling a racing canoe’s rudder to be hung abaft the stern, should be omitted was lost, as was an amendment to the same that an under-body rudder should be capable of being lifted above the keel line while the canoe was lying afloat. The motion by Mr. Percy Nisbet, “that with the object of uniting canoeists, and in view of the expected visit of members of the Sydney C. C. to England in 1898, this meeting instructs the secretary to put himself in commu- nication with the honorary secretary of the British Canoe Associa- tion, and endeavor to come to a mutual agreement whereby the Royal C. C. tace week and Jiritish Canoe Association meeting should be held at the same time and in the same vicinity next year,” was declared by the chairman to be out of order. A sugges- tion by him to the mover that the object in view might be attained by an amendment to the next motion as to venue was not adopted. The question of venue was discussed at great length, and several places were proposed—Oulton Broad, Hythe (near Southampton), Bembridge (in the Isle of Wight) and Plymouth. Of these the sec- ond and third received most support, and the final vote favored Bembridge, where a mect will consequently be held next year for the sailing challenge cup and principal races. The next motion, which was in the form of a recommendation to the committee in framing the programme, was by leave of the meeting withdrawn. A motion by Mr. Linton Hope as to canoe- yawls was also withdrawn, and Mr. Baden-Powell’s motion for a hew classification for canoe-yawls—“That eanoe-yawls be classified by rule worded exactly in like manner to the cruising canoe class, but all dimensions therein being taken at half more, 7. ¢., multi- plied by 1.5, and adding after ‘sleeping space’ ‘between two bulk- heads,’ and a footnote that all canoe-yawls now complying with the R. C. GC, rule be admitted without time allowance, so long as not altered in hull dimensions’—obtaining the requisite majority, was declared to be carried. Motions by Mr. B. deQ. Quincy were carried for the following matters: Subscription for membership is raised from £1 to £1 Is.; power was given the committee to appoint subcommittees for spe- cial purposes, with power to add to them members of the club though not members of the committee, The quorum for an ordi- nary ot special meeting was fixed at ten, and the majority neces- sary to carry a resolution at such a meeting must be at least two to one; oan the duty of settling dates, classes and courses for races, and of making such other rules and regulations relative to the same, was cast upon the committee; other motions having in view the restoration of rules for racing based on the Y. R, A. Year Book were on a division lost, as was also a motion for the meas- urement of depth outside in the cruising class being increased from lft. from either end to 2it. At the close of the meeting the chairman invited Mr, P. Nisbet to informally discuss the motion as to a joint meet with the B. C A., and a lengthy and somewhat acrimonious discussion took place; but, as no resolution binding on the B. C. A. could be passed, the matter dropped and the meeting came to an end after lasting four hours and forty minutes.—The Field. A, C. A, Membership. Aflantie Division. George D. Terry, New York city. William R. Simpson, New York city, The FOREST AND STREAM 78 putto press each week on Tuesday. Correspondence intended for ‘publicatic: should reach us at the latest by Monday, amd «ses mut earlier as practicable. The following . Machting. A SPECIAL meeting of the Y. R. A, of Massachusetts will be held on Dec, 39 at the American Flouse, Boston, to consider several amendments, the principal one being that relating to time allowance, It is proposed, by way of a compromise, to give allowance to the extent of one foot to all existing boats for the year 1898, abol- ishing all allowance after this year. The Burgess Y. C., at a recent meeting, decided, after a discussion of the matter, to vote against the further retention of allow- ance; this club voted for allowance at the previous meet- ing. The One-Desien Schooner Class. Tue proposed class of one-design cruising schooners has taken definite shape and promises to be a success; the idea having at- tracted a number of yachtsmen who are interested in something that affords room and comfort, The design has been completed by 23. There is nothing whatever of the fin or freak types about the Messrs. Smith & Barbey, and was on view at their offices on Dec. proposed yacht, but she is a thoroughly modern craft in the matter of sheer and long ends, with 65{t over all on a 1|.w.1. of 46ft, an easy S section on a beam of 16ft. and a draft of but 6fl. 6in., a moderate- ly raked sternpost running down from the heel of keel, with erdi- nary rudder hung on it and a fair sweep from heel of keel to fore end of the l.w.|. and on into the fore overhang. The centerboard is so nearly below the floor as to avoid all interference with the in- terior arrangement, which is very good indeed; there is a long but low trunk cabin, giving full headroom, the main cabin makes up two berths on each side, with Sofas in front, and there is a zood stateroom on starboard side. The passage is just to port of the centerline, leaving space for toilet room and second state- room; at its fore end it turns so as to give direct access to a room for the captain. The forecastle and galley are roomy and well arranged. Though of but forty-six feet l.w.], with the modern, full lines and Jong ends and fairly light wood construction, the internal ac- commodation is about equal to that of the old type of schooner of 60ft Lw.l. The. sail plan is handsome and shipshape, propor- tioned for the Sound in summer, but of moderate area. During the present weel: estimates will be had from builders, so that the exact cost may be known. This will certainly be very much under the cost of a single yacht built to a private order, and offers a chance to yachtsmen to possess a thoroughly good modern yacht at a low first cost, with a certainty that she will hold her sale value for an indefinite time. If organized as a racing class, as the intention now is, the boats will give excellent sport among themselves, none the less so from the fact that they draw four feet less than the limit of draft adopted Jast season, and conse- quently are capable of cruising service in ait parts of the Sound. It is desirable that immediate arrangements he made for building in ordet that the boats may be ready by the opening of the season, the design is practically completed and in a very short time the committee will be in a position to award the contracts. Those in- tending to join the class should do so at th eearliest convenient tending to join the class should do so at the earliest convenient Jones, 180 Center st., New York. The Fin-Keel in Cruising Types. New York, Dec. 20.—Editor Forest and Stream; Answering [fin de Siecle, it seems to me that the sins of the fin are as nothing compared with the sins of the mén that have used it in a stupid way; surely the type is not to be blamed because designers build light displacement boats under the impetus of a rule which favors the type; neither are they to be blamed if on Lake Ontario the new 22ft. class develops as great an abortion as yachting has yet seen, Tt will give me pleasure to submit a couple of designs for the class, one showing a fast boat and the other more of a good boat, but before doing so shall wait for a complete set of the rules. Concerning the 21ft. knockabouts there are four points in the pub- lished description which seem very unfortunate. First—"The fin shall not be counted in the required weight of ballast, and no fin shall be less than Vin. in thickness.” Irom my experience the fin shall not be less than 144in, in thickness, and | think ought to. be counted as a part of the required weight of bal- last, as otherwise if an owner puts in a good-sized fin he will haye to carry considerable displacement to float it. Second—‘‘Not over 400sq.it. of actual sail area shall be in the mainsail.” This sail plan will be unobjectionable when whole sail js carried perhaps, but will be very awkward to reduce and preserve a decent balance. Third—There are a lot of restrictions about freeboard, size of timbers, planking, etc., also in regard to equipment of various kinds, all of which would be entirely unnecessary if a requirement Sees te had been made and a bétter yacht would haye re- sulted, - Fourth—It seems to me a mistake of policy to make any differ- ence in ballast between the keel or centerboard boats, as such a difference will tend to produce a boat of less displacement. It makes me extremely sad to see the endless amount of time spent by various yachtsmen on an attempt to secure a wholesome type of boat by means of roundabout restrictions, which can only indirectly perform their purpose. Witness the tremendotis amount of work pérformed by W. P. Stephens in the tables of scantling submitted to the Lake Y. R. A., and adopted by them, which are good for but one type of boat, and which are totally inadequate to make a strong boat of the kind that the rules adopted favor. I maintain that the very best results for yachting would be obtained both in design and construction if a certain displacement and sail area were required for each load waterline length of yacht, this length to be measured when the yacht is inclied between an angle of 30 to 45 degrees. With such a rule absolutely everything would be accomplished that all of the rules that have been suggested could accomplish, and many additional desirable features brought in. Geo. Hrrz. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. Mr. Stuyvesant Wainwright, of the American Y. C., so well known in connection with the races of that club, has been dan- gerously ill at his home, Milton Point, for several weeks, but is now improving, There is something decidedly novel in the idea of a yacht de- signed in Brooklyn, N. Y., laid-down and framed in St. Louis, Mo., shipped in a box to Brooklyn, and erected and completed there. This, however, has recently been done in the case of a cathcat 27 ft. over all and 9ft. beam, a deep craft, with outside metal keel and a roomy cabin. She was designed by her owner, in Brooklyn, the drawings were sent to Fred Medart, the yacht and boat builder of St. Louis, and the enrire frame, including garboatds and sheerstrakes—in fact, everything but the balance of the planking, the deck plank and the cabin house—was got out, fitted and erected in St. Louis, and then knocked down and erated for shipment, the weight being 1009 Ibs. After reaching its des- tination the frame was again set up, everything going together properly, the fastenings were driven and the yacht was completed very satisfactorily. The photos of the work show a very strong and light frame. Mr. Medart makes a specialty of this sort of work, furnishing complete frames for any kind of steam or sailing yacht, with all parts fitted and rabbets cut; crated for shipment to any point. At a meeting on Dec. 18 the Victoria Y. C., of Hamilton, Ont., resolved to recommend to local clubs in its vicinity the adoption of the following rule: “Im all local races in the 27ft. and 23tt. classes, the area of immersed midship section be 20 and 12 per cent. respectively of the area of parallelogram of beam by dratt, includ- ing draft of centerbeard when lowered to its lowest point.” This excludes from the races the scow type of racing centerboard, such as Bonshaw, winner of the Brigger cup this year. At the annual meeting of the Atlantic Y. €. of Boston, on Dec. 14, the following were elected: Com., Edward W. Dixon; vice- com,, John F. Hayden; sec., E. F. O'Donnell; treas., M. J. Finn. Com. Dixon has he'd the office for eight years in succession. Fly, knockabout, has been sold by W. ©. Gay, of Boston, to a Providence yachtsman. Mr. Gay may build a 21ft. knockabout un- =r the new limit of 600sqft of sail. “The Lawley & Son Co. has an order for a steam yacht of 117ft ever all, 95ft lw.l., 16ft beam and 7ft draft, to be designed by Mr. George Lawley. She will be built of wood. 16 The report last week of the sailing of Tampa was incorrect. She did not leave City Island until Dec. 22, towing to New York and out by the Hook. : Margarita II., steam yacht, A. J. Drexel, arrived on the Clyde on Dec. 20, after sailing on Dec. 6 from Philadelphia. Katrina, cutter, has been sold by George Work to Robert. Tod, through Messrs. Tams & Lemoine. She will be altered to a yawl. The American Y. C. Knockabout Class. TuRouGH the kindness of the designer, Mr. B. B. Crowninshield, of Boston, we are enabled to publish the lines and details of the new 25ft. knockabout class just established by the American Y, C., of Milton Point, in connection with other of the North Shore clubs. The class is intended to provide a generally, usable yacht of such size as to give a good cabin with full standing room, and at the same time fast enough for the Sound in summer, with its frequent light airs. It is the intention to race the class regularly through the season, in which case, though competing only against each other, the class as a whole will be open to comparison, in oint of speed, with some very fast yachts in the regular classes. t is of course out of the question that a special class of this kind, with accommodations as a leading feature, can equal in speed the purely racing boats; but at the same time the promoters of the class are desirous that the boats shall be fast enough to hold a fair place in the regular open club races, and not to bring up the rear. The design of Mr. Crowninshield was selected by the committee in charge of the class from a lot of seven, submitted by Messrs. Crosby, Ferris, Hill, Lawley, Stephens, and Gardner & Cox. The committee included Messrs. Stuyvesant Wainwright, F. Bowne Jones, A. Bryan Alley, N. D. Lawton and E, Burton Hart. The fin-keel type was adopted as being faster than the normal keel type, and the centerboard was added on account of the shoal draft at Milton Point and other of the Sound harbors where the yachts will lie. The dimensions are as follows: Weneth; (overall, lehseutinne nee sien esaccaste es 37it. 10in, Wen sth VWs ecteeewmmeatines steve nen ae 25ft. Overange bow ak cee eeree alee seen eae > Site “Tins Overhang, stern ....... sheen esi . G6ft. 3in. Beam, extreme ..... . 9ft. 444in. Beata a wallee tthe wc moicitele aa cea iene ene tl Gi ememe Sit. Lin. ITCH OAT GENO Wereeratescsiplcnctictaecente teraaieoets sit. din. recboard? Teast i iiinies sessesiets tb eeatecyoetleee en 2it. lin. Hreeboatdi Steracnnectrs acts sana eter cede ate eee 2it, 4in. Wraith ill Bane dine neers mes ces nee eee 4it. 6in. Wrath, AvitireboOrrdi be acswiees steele a eee ee Sit. Gin. Displacement? o2. lu since eases sich sere nane ee 12,6001bs. Bey Se oceans taal statatalong oie eeha)atstslstatsiene atelectasis 5,6001bs. Area lateral platrecgetceswee ste Pinte pee tan ceennn 84.60sq. ft. Mast, from stem at liw.l...... ee cece eee see aee ft. 3in. Mast, deck to upper hounds..........seeseenes 34ft. 4in. BOWS IAlt, weO UL Ole Claes tstetste le nalen ete feito ees eeeeeea pened 2tt. Gin. Bowspuit: *bey ord Wle wal. cesiesslacee bona settee Sit. BOONES hey slssaa ate atlas 5 Casas etait eee 30ft. 10in. GETS. shied aidtete tests beter aad ogee te ea Bieroltes be es 17ft. 2in Hoist of mainsail ....... ie ote eee Maree 22ft. 4in. Miairsail aneaven iss sq eiases es acstsste eanehiin ears 635sq. ft. MPITIDS cade cele take raters a oases eG ab tyeen os GG |enicte Teen epet omens 165sq. ft. AL A is5onpd86 pate Chad maga Niel dab saath rst 800sq. it. There is good room forward for a man or boy, berthed in a ham- mock cot, and abaft the galley and w.c. is a space of 10ft. for the cabin, with a headroom of full 6ft. The floor and lockers are’ of good width. On the port side the locker is continued aft beneath the deck so as to make two berths, or sleeping three in all in the cabin. There is ample provision for ice, water, and the usual extra lockers for stores, clothes, etc. The cockpit floor is 8in. above the L.W.L., with scuppers, and there is a wide seat within the cockpit coaming, with plenty of deck room on the counter. The con- struction is simple and strong, a bent oak keel being used, with outside fin of oak and ballast of lead. The centerboard will be of mahogany. The specifications call for thorough workmanship, and a complete finish throughout. The short bowsprit is an innovation in a knockabout, but it adds materially to the shipshape appearance of the yacht. The design conforms to the restrictions of the Bos- ton Knockabout Association. The contract has been awarded to Frank T. Wood, of City Island, at $1650 for complete yacht. ’ | Rifle Range and Gallery. San Francisco Rifle Clubs, San Francisco, Dec. 13.—The weather conditions at Shell Mound Range yesterday were good. Several clubs finished their medal shoots ior the year. : Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club.—F. O. Young covered himself with glory by making the following two 3-shot scores in the Bush- nell medal contest: 1, 2, 2—5 and 2, 1, 14. This was done at 200yds. on Columbia target, off-hand, with a Pope barrel. Scores of the Day.—Pistol, re-entry matches, open to all comers, b0yds., Columbia target, Gordon Blanding pistol medal and cash prizes, 3-shot scores: A. H. Pape, 12, 13; C. M. Daiss, 7, 9, 11; F. O. Young, 11, 15. Diamond pistol record medal and cash prizes, 10-shot scores: C. M. Daiss 60, J. E. Gorman 83, 35. Achille Roos .22 rifle medal, ladies’ trophies and cash prizes, 5- shot scores: Mrs. C. F. Waltham, 11, 14, 15. Pistol, class medals, for members only, one 10-shot score with Piss champion class: Dr. L. O. Rodgers 49, C. M. Daiss 51, A. ape 51, ; First class: F. E. Mason 48, M. J. White 52. Second class: G. M. Bailey 63. Third class: A. Hinterman 74, A. H. Cady 94, C. F. Waltham 106, Mrs. C. F. Waltham 168. : Rifle, re-entry matches, open to all comers, 200yds., Columbia tar- get, F. H. Bushnell rifle medal and cash prizes, 3-shot scores: F. O. Young, 4, 5; A. H. Pape, 10; Dr. L. O. Rodgers, 15; O. A. Bremer, 15. Wm. Glindeman military medal and cash prize, 10 shots, Creed- moor count: E. Jacobson 47, C. F. Waltham 42. Rifle, one 10-shot score with rifle, champion class: A. H, Pape 538, F. O. Young 64, F. E. Mason 78: : First class: I. Jacobson 59, O. A. Bremer 80, A. B. Dorrell 80, Third class: A. Hinterman 86, B. Jonas 104, C. F. Waltham 113, C._H. Cady 164. San Francisco Schuetzen Verein, 20-shot scores, champion class: A. H. Pape 482 rings; first class,N. Ahrens 416; second class, not filled; third class,O. Lemcke, 392; fourth class, J. Lankenau, 893; -best first shot, J. Tiedeman, 24; best last shot, J. Utschig, 25. Germania Schuetzen Club, 20-shot scores, champion class: First, Dr. L._O. Rodgers, 426 rings; second, F. P. Schuster, 424. First class: First, J. Young, 379; second,H. Hellburg, 370. Third class: C. F. Rust 421. Fourth class:D. Salsfield 376. Best first shot, D. B. Faktor, 24; best last shot, C. F. Rust 25.. ROEEL. Crap-Shoating. Leading dealers in sportsmen’s supplies have advertised in our columns continuously for almost a quarter century. Ii you want your shoot to be announced hete send in notice like the following: Fixtures. Jan. 18-20—Hamilton, Ont—Grand Canadiaii Handicap. Live birds; $1,000 guaranteed. For full information write secretary, H. Graham, American Hotel, Hamilton, Ont., Can. Jan. 26-27.—Orange Lake, Newburgh, N. Y.—Tournament at Pine Point. Open to all. First day, targets; second day, live birds. Feb. 15-19.—Hot Springs, Ark.—Second annual midwinter tour- nament. First four days, targets; last day, live birds. $1,100 added money. Programmes ready Jan. 15. Send your address for one to Jno. J. Sumpter, Jr., Box 111, Hot Springs, Ark. March 15-18.—Utica, N. Y.—Tournament of the Oneida County Sportsmen’s Association. Live birds and targets. Open to ail, enry L. Gates, Pres. k March 22-24.—Elkwood Park, Long Branch, N. J.—Interstate As- sociation’s sixth annual Grand American Handicap. 25 birds, $25, extra; $1,500 euaranteed to the three high guns; $600, $500 and $400; all surplus added, . FOREST AND STREAM. | [Jan. 1, 1808. wy JAN. I, 1808. | ces ean Be arch 29-April 1.— Reading, Pa.—Annual tournament of the lisylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of independent Gun Club, of Reading. A. Knauer, Sec’y. iril 4-7._Baltimore, Md.—Annual spring tournament of the Bal- ire Shooting Association. Geo. L. Harrison, Sec’y-Treas. ne 15-17.—Cleveland, O.—Fifth annual tournament of the leland Target Co. Bluerocks thrown free of charge. Profes- ils and manufacturers’ agents barred from programme events. ne 20-24.—Rochester, N. Y.—Annual tournament of the New | State Association, under the auspices of the Rochester Rod (Gun Club. Live birds and targets. | | Deo ee | NEW JERSEY. Forester Gun Club. c. 25.—The Forester Gun Club had a very pleasant little Wt to-day. Seventeen events were shot off, all at 10 targets, t Nos. 18, 14 and 17, which were at 20 targets. bnts: 123 45 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ming .....c00e Ge See bie (at atre eee tie ots Feet ALS LO Gh end ming ...-...... CES OG SN ar) ooo ES Toot Ber TaN aide ONE INST stg fe WN veces au et Abel MVEA fc erere tastes ctre se Ou OP trues Be, aot Cee ele ee eT, oS SSebeees Sdobog ath babes. of goon eeeattwce ce HME ey atheist jammins ....... bs ti Hh ee Ae | eas) dial}, ty ee ta Rr ote. cre uel fy eet ante ctedda amen ane 10114" Gy (5e10 ee err ahi hep Pate hee CA CEN ABE ol ete unt OL Be rds eT H. E. WINANS, Sec’y. The Elizabeth Shoot. [2s 22.—The management of the Elizabeth Gun Club’s tourna- was not favored by the weather on either of the two days of loot that ended to-day. The unpropitious state of the weather e early hours yesterday undoubtedly had a good deal to do | keeping down the attendance to the vanishing point. It d like snow and it felt like snow all day, although the sky iilear up for a bit about midday. + first day’s programme was exclusively for targets. Owing to jw shooters being present, the programme was dispensed with, ome fancy sweeps decided. Nos. 1 and 2 were at 25 targets, t rule, $1 entrance, targets extra, two high guns. Nos. 3 and le two 25-target events, unknown angles. The money in No. 1 ilivided between Brewer and Banks on 23 each; the same two led the money in No. 2 with U. M. C., Jr., as a side partner, ree scoring 21. In No. 3 Brewer and Coleman divided on 22 » Beveridge, who shot for birds only, being high man with 23. jo. 4 Brewer again took first with 28, Banks taking second with i (L0-target event, snipe shooting, was also decided, Van Dyke ig first alone with 10 straight. Second money was cut up fen U. M. C., Jr., Woodruff and Banks on 9 each. In this each man walked parallel with the traps l2yds. from them out » field. Hecarried his gun on his shoulder. The puller called k,” and then pulled any trap he wanted to, the target going | behind, in front of, or away from the shooter. This makes ry like field shooting, and was quite a novelty in the way of shooting. Out West, in Chicago, this style of shooting is ' fancied, and there is really a good deal of fun in it. = targets were thrown most erratically, the traps having been for a long time. Some targets went away up into the sky, ) others skimmed low over the ground. Under the circum- bss, Brewer’s shooting was very good work indeed. Van Dyke Ine cold, raw air considerably, and his shooting naturally suf- }in consequence. U. M. C., Jr., was not in his best form; in fhe has struck-a rut just now that he feels it hard to get out Perhaps he is a little stale, and needs rest, although his ap- jnce scarcely warrants such a suggestion. Ow are the scores in the chief events shot on the first day: 1, 25 targets, expert rules, one man up: . a? 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KNOCKABOUT, No. 2, same thing: Hudson Gun Club Brew erence onus oaietaeee ine 0 —2 i ‘ : : paar ot i i Ht TAH HL Dec. 8-—The Hudson Gun Chub, a young but energetic organ {ORS ie{Ole | pote Mine teen a Ren ec he 41101 14111 1011 14011 1011421 zation in Jersey City, held its monthly shoot at Marion this after- Warn Dives Me a CRS a NS W111 11101 10011 01111 0101119 noon. The club event is at 25 targets, unknown angles. Chas. ECEETIee: Li we, ae ey een 00011 10111 10111 10111 0110016 Banta and De Long tied for first on 18 out of 25. Scores in this RAINS Bean SN uae a. Nos. 8 and 4, 50 targets, shot in two sweeps of 25: ee Brewer .....0.0++: WUT AOI TONiiooni—46 Banta ---. eevee ce ereeee essere tones TEETER CEE EERE: Beveridge .......1111111111110101111111111100111111 1111111 10001011143, HOCK. ««--s-seseeeessseeeseeetesessseneseees FEAT ELITR REE Coleman yae . -111.01111010711111111111110011011111111111011111101—42 Va D eee aA | Oot el RT INT OY Sig 0001101111011 aN 9 Banks ...... - -1101111111110111111001111111111111 001000 111111111—42 AN YG onsets n sees essere nest eereees SE ELECT OORT Mare Van Dyke ........ 11110011111111010111111110011 111191101711 10001111—41 GR ess SESE ERECT THRITARG LTT TUF INE Cy aie nean le 01100001110111111011111011110011111011111010011101—35 Sy Ee SAT ST SR aI Pea to as ; ; ; (DFS ID pvaRS Steen Ae Ay \isegs AD Aanncngnacood- 1101010011111010111011111—18 In dull, cold weather, with a slight snow falling, nine shooters Giaete F 1100110110011010101101110—15 entered for the main event on the programme. This was a 20-bird — Bothroyd w..c.ccccecceseeceeeeeeeseeee see + +0100000021011100011111110—13 handicap, $10 entrance, birds extra at 25 cents each. J. L. Brewer Wright ........ccccccsesssseeeveeeeeeeeees 0110111010111100111010111—17 and Coleman, the young Pennsylvanian, were the straights, each man scoring his 20 birds. Henry Koegel (one of the 24s in last year’s Grand American) and Aaron Doty, of Paterson, N. J., each scored 19. There being no 18s, third money was divided between three 17s. Jno. J. U. M. C. Hallowell refereed this race. Event -.No. 1 was a 7-bird race, $5, two moneys, all at 30yds. Coleman and Fairmount divided first money, Charlie Zwirlein and Chris Wright (Christie) dividing second money. No. 3 was a miss-and-out, $2 entry. The scores follow: o. 2, handicap. No. 1 No. 3 J L Brewer, 32... .. 22222222202022000002 20 9... 2202 nee cteeeers Golemany 29" Sans: 221121222221 2121223220 = 1121222—7 2112210 IX Drove, Ws oe soane 12120212212121212222 19 2102101—5 11222222122122 K Henry, 30........ IPAPARERP PAPA IRPA Po ees 0 ene edna os C Zwirlein, 30 ...... 22201201112222222202 17 22021216 .............. A Woodruff, 29 ....212211211222120202*2—17 1111002—5 22222222222291 W Christie, 29 . . 22200222022222222222 17 221*222—6 220 G Fairmount,29 ....22222102112021202202—16 2222122—7 22221112212222 W Hassinger, 29 ...02211122012121102021—16 ....... 0 eee n eee vee ees Doty 4, Christie 1. Another miss-and-out, $2 entry, resulted thus: Fairmount 5, Christmas Shoot at Red Bank. Dec. 25.—Below are the scores made to-day in two individual matches shot on the grounds of the Riverside Gun Club. Both matches were very close, Hesse winning by 88to Watts’s 80, and Cooper defeating Hank White by 42 to 41. Hesse, Cooper and White used Walsrode powder; Watts used E. C. Scores were: Match, 100 targets, unknown angles, $100 a side: O Hesse ..... 0111011101101111110111101101101111191111111111111—42 11110141111101110110010111111110001111111111111111—41_ 83 W Watts ..... 191.0009901919919111101191111111011111111101111 01145 101101011110011.01011101011111111011111101110100011—35—80 Match, 50 targets, $25 a side, known traps, unknown angles: Tal (0p WWAobhes- non se 111111014.01111101011110111111011111111110011111101—41 J Cooper, Jr...... 1191100111111111011111101111110011111011111110011.1—42 Sweeps were shot as below, all events being at unknown angles: - Events: dee for tp On SBiventse 123 4 5 6 Targets: 101015151010 ‘Targets: 10 10 15 15 10 10 Throckmorton SeSat 0) 9 Ss '@! VEliesse; fac aes 91011 8 10 E Cowort ...... Oy th a, Sh Bh ABD Creyohose toa ou 10 8111210 9 J Cooper ..:::.: ToOalt A208! Ely VWihiitte: Sse er: iN i fe) ID aB RRA soon ie (a se WP ) WCeH ow Toole eo 56d Go RG Sel eles i Bergent esos i rans i BEC Ueeall fecoe Yeo Ui con 5 J Cooper, Jr.... 910121210 9 H Maryott...... PU a fr Sts W ‘Watts ....... 10 9141210 9 Jas. Cooper, JR. Other events, all at 10 targets and at unknown angles, were also shot during the afternoon. Dec. 25.—The Hudson Gun Club had a shoot at Marion on Christmas Day. The shoot was fairly well attended, about half of the members being present. The day was fine, but the wind blew directly across the traps, making shooting somewhat difh- cult. After the regular shooting was over live-bird shooting was indulged in by some of the members. The birds were furnished by Mr. Bock, and were a fair lot. Events 12 3 4 5 Events: eZee oes Targets 1010101010 ‘Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 JEOVEN Sp oat tyne Oo 5 8 5 fe) delSieiueysve= AGaAAAR AG o5 Goeduas 2D [RRB Shas aed By BW We MY AWN Anan anse> os De Wo Be S3 IREMnIShOl Gas sa oeaaad Sty a5 Wyovorlenefosl Ganssnae on ihe 2 ess Pfiffenberg ........ (St aekedies Lh Gee NAPEADNE Th aon data on DP ade ee es (Goetz pee mets Wand Me ia: Yio By os TOF Ube sida fqoaate Ae Boat Gh Lh JEU EWEAMES Sencgnssons O) 3 teh Gh hh Wena IDSiialet Aonocaned Ao hel wiftessae IEATONGNSY co aa Roan onbon BP Baru ogee WENT ousgspgadcos inh ah oa Ad 4 Worn cect ee 2s me Kell evaere cui idetemch ieee 5 IMICIEIFOR? Sceemenons ac By fr A. L. Hueues, Sec’y. The Buffalo Team Championship. Burrato, N. Y., Dec. 21.—This afternoon, on the grounds of the Audubon Gun Club, the first of a series of three live-bird shoots for the team championship of the City of Buffalo took place. The prize will be a handsome silver cup emblematic of the sport, and is a beautiful piece of work. The individual scores were as follows, each man shooting at 15 birds: Audubon Club—F. D. Kelsey, 15; C. S. Burkhardt, 13; E. C. Burkhardt, 12; total, 40. Cazenovia Club—F. N. Alderman 18, Dr, Woodbury 12, R. C. Stacey 10; total, 35. 3 Bison Club—Foxey 11, Bauman 11, Garrett 8; total, 30. In the sweepstake event at fifteen live birds Kelsey scored 16 straight, Mack and Cooper 14 each and R. H. Hebard 13. The second of the team contests will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 4, at the Bison Club grounds. / ; On New Year’s Day the Audubon Club will hold an open all- day target shoot, and $50 in cash prizes will be given away. All shooters are invited to participate. en ee ee Some New Year’s Day Shoots. Below is a list of special New Year’s Day shoots that we have been asked to make mention of: Newark, N. J.—South Side Gun Club. Targets. Newark, N. J.—East Side Gun Club. Live birds. Marion, N. J.—Endeavor Gun Club. Targets. Secaucus, N. J.—North Hudson Rod and Gun Club. Live birds. Bridesburg, Pa.—Philadelphia Trap-Shooters’ League. Targets. ee ee Junction, Pa.—Keystone Shooting League. Live irds. Harrisburg, Pa.—Harrisburg Shooting Association. Live birds and targets. Buffalo, N. Y.—Audubon Gun Club. Targets. Schenectady, N. Y.—Schenectady Gun Club. Pigeons and spar- TOWS. Colorado Springs, Col.—Pike’s Peak Gun Club. Targets. Olathe, Kan.—Olathe Gun Club. Targets. We hear from Hot Springs, Ark., that Jno. J. Sumpter’s prepara- tions for his big mixed-shoot Feb. 15-19 are progressing rapidly. Judging from the numberof letters he is receiving now, and also taking into consideration. the fact. that there is no big shoot scheduled for this winter, John Sumpter says that he expects to have in the neighborhood of 100 shooters present on the above dates. He also says that if there’s only two or three present; “‘that $1100 added money goes all the same.’ Speaking about his shoot last year, Sumpter says: ‘‘Last year lots of the boys would have attended my shoot, but they lost their rolls at Santone.” Quite a lot of truth in that last remark, Mr. Sumpter. Further down in his letter, Mr. Sumpter says: “I know you are a strong advocate of the Rose system, but I’m going to give a money shoot; and as a recompense to the amateurs will tax the experts that 50 cents extra, and divide the proceeds among the amszteurs.”’ Owing to the copy of the programme of the Hamilton, Ont., Gun Club for its shoot Jan. 18-20, that was insended for us, having been misplaced in the mail, owing, probably, ro the rush of Xmas matter, an extended notice thereof cannot be given in this issue. We have, however, on previous issues, described the main features ot the events scheduled-for the tournament. Amateurs should re- member that: “Every known expert or professional shooter must get into first or second place in the target events, or he will not be entitled to any part of the money.’ Next week we shall ti. and review the programme a little more thoroughly; but we woula ad- vise all those who purpose attending this shoot to write to Mr. H. Graham, the club’s secretary, American Hotel, Hamilton, Can., asking for a programme. The Forest and Stream Publishing Co. are the largest publishers and importers in America of Books on Out- door Sports. Their illustrated descriptive catalogue will be sent free on request. Jan. 1, 1808.1 FOREST AND STREAM. 19 ‘ DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. iar e.-| (> Club secretaries are invited ta send their scores for publi- cation in these columns, also any news notes they may care to have printed. Ties in all events ture considered as dit- vided unless othermbise reported. Mail all sweh matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Coinpany, 8/6 Broadway, New York, The invitation issued by the Endeavor Gun Club, of Jersey City, N. J., for its New Year’s Day shoot reads as follows: “‘You and your friends are cordially invited to be present at our annual ‘jollification shoot,’ Jan. 1, 1898. It is our intention to have a good time on this Occasion, and shall take pains and care to make our friends feel at home and enjoy their outing. We will slacken the speed of our famous far-throwing traps so as to make shooting as easy as practicable, Our programme, as will be seen, is not one that will destroy the lining of pocketbooks, and consequently it ig not a professional game. The prizes we offer are of the very highest quality, and will be shot for under a handicap.’ ‘he pro- gramme calls for 175 targets, with a total entrance fee of #7, There ate two prize handicap events, Nos. 9 and 10, on the programme, a 20 and 25 target event tespectively. No. 9 is for a handsome silver mounted toilet set, while the prize in No. 10 is donated by a member of the club. The other events are all interesting ones, with entrance fees at “popular prices.” For a few months Charlie Hebbard, late of Elizabeth, N. J., and also late of the Empire Target Company, has been lost to our view. At last we haye heard from him. Part of his advices run as follows: ‘We have our target biildings completed, and will be ready to manufacture the ‘White Flyer’ by Jan, 1. When I say that we haye the finest and most complete plant for the pur- pose in the country, I am not telling any ghost story.”” As Charlie himself used to be fond of saying, “You can’t keep good people down; they will break 25 straight sometimes!” Hrom which we judge that Mr. Hebbard and the ““White Flyer” will probably be yery much in evidence during the coming season. The programme for the Keystone Shooting League’s New Year’s Day shoot at Holmesburg Junction, Pa., is as follows: 20 birds, $10, $75 guaranteed for first money; $50 guaranteed for second money, and $25 guaranteed for third money, Class shooting, En- tries to be made by Geo. E. Pack, 137 N. Second street, Philadel- phia, accompanied by $2.50 forfeit, on or before 10 A. M. day of shoot. All entries received up to that hour will be acted upon by the Handicap Committee; all other entries will shoot from the 30yds. mark. Tandicap Committee—Wm. M. Pack, Harry Thur- man and H. L, David. For every two entries above 15, there will be an extra class with a purse of $20. Shooting starts on arrival of 12.01 P. M. train from Broad street. Late comers may shoot up until 2 o’clock. The fever of match-making and match-shooting which has broken out recently in Chicago has occurred sporadically elsewhere. Dr. J. L. Williamson, of Milwaukee, Wis., has deposited a forfeit in the hands of Oswald von Lengerke, of Chicago, to bind a challenge issued in the following terms: To shoot a 100-bird match for $100 a side with any live-bird shot now resident in Chicago. At present we have not heard of any acceptance of the duetor’s challenge. Dr. Williamson will be remembered well by those who took part in the Grand American Handicap of Mar.n, 1897; he and his Cashmore gun were responsible for 24 out of 25 from the 30 yards mark, his lost bird (his tenth) falling dead out of bounds, The programme for the shoot at Orange Lake, near Newburgh, N. Y., is not ready for publication, but, judging from what we haye heard of its contents, the Newburgh boys and Neaf Apgar’s friends are going to make it one of the most enjoyable times pos- sible. The dates are Jan. 26-27, and the shoot itself will be held at Pine Point, on the lake, where Neaf holds out. Ice-boating has already started, so that it is about a moral cercainty that all who go to the Jake for a shoot can have some good ice-boating into the bargain. Live birds and targets are to be used a; this tournament; targets on the first day; live birds on the second day. , The Oneida County Sportsmen’s Association, whose home is in Utica, N. Y., claims the dates of March 15-18, 1898, for “a grand open shoot at targets and live birds.” The club will throw targets from a magautrap. Live birds will he trapped by means of the underground system. Mr. H. L. Gates, president of the associa- tion, writes: “With our new clubhouse and grounds we will be able to give a splendid shoot, even if the weather. prove unpleas- ant, Our new grounds are substantially completed and are the finest in the country. We hope to be able to add a liberal amount of money to the programme; and we also hope that all our friends will make it a point to be with us on the above dates.” It seems a pity that the Keystone Shooting League of Philadel- phia should arrange a live bird shoot for New Year’s Day, as the counter attraction of the Philadelphia Trap-Shooters’ League's monthly meeting at Bridesburg, Pa., is bound to be a great factor in'keeping away many who would otherwise like to attend the Keystone’s shoot. The Trap-Shooters’ League’s tournament wilt be held under the auspices of the Frankford Gun Club, and will draw in the neighborhood of sixty to seventy shooters to those grounds. Open sweeps will be kept going all day, a separate set of traps being reserved for the league team race, which commences at I p. m, The Sistersvillé, W. Va., Rod and Gun Club will hold a shoot on New. Year’s Day. The programme consists of 12 events, as fol- lows: Three 10s, seven 15s, one 20 and one 25, or a total of 180 targets, at an average entry fee of 10 cents per target. All purses divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent, Targets thrown from a ma- gautrap at 2 cents each. The Sistersville Rod and Gun Club is a live organization, and the secretary, Ed. O. Bower, promises that the club will make it pleasant for all who attend its shoot. Every shooter will sincerely condole with Mr. W. P. Mussey, of Chicago, on the great misfortune that has just overtaken him in the total loss of his magnificent billiard halts and fixtures. Com- ing as it did a day or two before Christmas, makes it all the more regrettable, as Christmas under such circumstances could scarcely be a merry one for Mr. Mussey. Wishes for a “happy New Year’’ may be under certain conditions nothing more than a formality, but the wishes for a prosperous 1898 that are sent to Mr. Mussey from New York are something above 18-karat. The dates for the fifth annual tournament of the Cleveland Tar- get Company are June 1517. Blue rocks will be thrown free of charge all three days of the shoot. Professionals and manufac- turers’ agents are barred irom programme events. We believe, howeyer, that Paul North, on behalt of his company, the Cleve- jand Target Company, issues a general invitation to that class of shooters to be present, and offers to throw them all the targets they want to shoot at free of all charge. The dates for next year’s circuit in the Kast are growing rapidly, Hlere’s the list to date: March 1513, Oneida County Sports- men’s tournament, Utica, N. Y.; March 22-24, Interstate Associa- tion’s Grand American Handicap, at Elkwood Park; March 29- April 1, Pennsylyania State Shoot, at Reading, VPa.; April 4-7, tournament of the Baltimore Shooting Association. Four consecu- tive weeks and no long jumps between points either! We are not quite sure whether J. S. Fanning went to his home on the Pacific Slope for Christmas or not. If he did, however, we are quite sure that the warmth of the reception accorded “Gold Dust Jack’ by his many iriends and admirers in San Francisco would make the freezing temperature, reported to have visited that city, innocuous so far as Hanning was concerned. Fanning has been East two seasons, 1896-97, and has more than held his own during that period. Charlie Zwirlein has issued the invitations for his shoot on Wednesday of this week, Dec. 29, on stout cards. On the back of the card is a capital half tone of the shooting house and score at his grounds, Yardville, N. J.; and, moreover, the photo was taken when Charlie himself was at the score. The black setter, Nig, is also in evidence, while it seems to us that we can recognize George One-Barrel Cubberly in one of the other figures in the photograph. B. A. Bartlett, of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, is not going to let W. H. Wolstencroft retain his title to the “expert ule championship of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania” without shooting for it. Bartlett has challenged Wolstencroft for the same, and the result should be an interesting race. Mr. Bart- lett’s forfeit of $25 has been received by Forest anv Srream, and Mr. Wolstencroit has been notified of our receipt of the same. Jno. J. Sumpter, Jr., of Hot Springs, Ark., has challenged George W. Clements, of Pine Bluff, for the diamond charm em blematic of the target championship of the State of Arkansas. Mr. Clements has accepted the challenge, but has as yet been unable to fix the date, althongh it is believed that the match will be shot some time in January. The conditions are 50 targets per man, un- known angles. ag Se at ed ‘The two days’ shoot at Mhizabeth, N, J., Dec. 21-22, was conduct- td under the depressing cotiditions of bad weather and meager at- tendance, The chief feature of, interést in {he whole slioot was the advent of young Mr, Caolenian froin PernsylVaitia, who showed that he knew how to break blue rocks and kill live birds: Mr, Coleman dies not Seem to be much over 20 years of age, andisslight of build and of only moderate height. He handles his gun with great pre- cision, and is said to be very hard to beat in the field. It now looks as 1f he was going to be quite as bad mediejne at the traps. The Baltimore Shooting Association comes to the front again with the announcement of its annual spring tournament, April 4-7, Without knowing a thing about the programme, we can safely assert that this tournament will be just as pleasant a gathering as all similar shoots of this association haye been in the past. Jim Malone and the home manavement always haye a good idea as to whiat i boys want. There are some good shooters, too, in Bal- timore i. D. Fulford has been showing a great improvenient in his form recently. This improvement is not merely on targets alone, but is particularly marized on live birds. On Dec. 14-16, the last two days of the Limited Gun Club’s shoot at Indianapolis, Ind., he scored 56 out of 67 pigeons shot at. His single lost bird, how- ever, came just at the wrong time, as it robbed I. D. of a well- deserved straight im the Grand Central Ifandicap. J ulford is shooting a Remington gun, Schultze powder and uses U. M. C. factory-loaded ammunition all the time. Paul R. Litzke writes us that W. W. Mecllhany nas lost his only child, a boy of six years old, who died quite recently. In conse- quence of his sad loss, the match for the live bird championship of Kansas, in which Mr, Mellhany was a prineipal, has been im- definitely postponed. Mr, Mellhany 1s a prominent shooter in the South, and has many friends, all of whom will learn of his bereavement with deep regret, A finer day for trap-shooting in midwinter than Christmas Day, 1897, could hardly have been provided, if made to order. Jn this section, at least, tht air was clear and crisp, while the bright sun and blne sky made it an ideal winter’s day. As a consequence, the annual patherings in front of the traps of many of the clubs in New Jersey and New York were more than usually large. The Endeavor Gun Club will have an interesting all-day shoot at iis grounds, Marion, N. J., on New Year’s Day. It issues a gen- uine and hearty invitation to all its friends to be with it on that date. Carl von Lengerke, of 318 Broadway, can give all the in- formation that may be required concerning the programme for the shoot, ete, As already announced, the Buffalo, N. Y., Audubon Gun Club will hold a target shoot on New Year’s Day. The club will add $50 to the purses, and will only charge 2 cents each for targets. The programme calls for 140 targets, with a total entrance fee “for all day” of $7. Four moneys in all events, except in event No. &, 25 targets, when there will be five moneys. Mr. H. M. Heflich, president of the North Fludson Rod and Gun Club, writes that his club will hold a live m1rd shoot on New Year’s Day, commencing at 1 P, M. The shoot will be held in the Secaucus Polo Grounds, Secaucus, N. J, Electric cars from Ruth- erford, N. J., pass the entrance to the grounds. All shooters will be welcome, ’ Will Park in Sporting Life for Dee. 25 has published a diary of the chief performances in the trap-shooting world during the year of 1897 so far as they haye come under the notice of the sporting press. The diary is complete and shows that Mr. Park has ex- pended a lot of time in its compilation. Rolla Tleikes has accepted Charlie Grimm's challenge for the cast-iron badge, and has named the date on which this champion- ship emblem shall be shot for. The date 1s Jan. I, and the place is Dayton, O. May the best man win, and may they both be in their “usual good form!” Mr. W. C. Hadley, of the Rochester, N. ¥., Rod and Gun Club, wires us that the dates for the New York Srate Shoot at Roches- ter will be June 20-24. The shoot, of course, will be held under the auspices of the above club. The Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting Association wil hold a liye-bird and target shoot on New Year’s Day. The club inyites all shooters to attend, and promises them a good time and a plenty of shooting. Dec. 28. Epwarp Banks. The Indianapolis Tournament. Inpranapouis, Ind., Dec. 20.—The first live-bird tournament of the Limited Gun Club, held Dec, 13-15, has passed, and goes into the history of trap-shooting as a marked success. The result was largely due to the energy of Mr. John M. Lilly, who, as chairman of the tournament committee, and manager of the meeting, did about all of the work, With a little assistance from the secretary, he drew up the programme which attracted the visitors, and ar- ranged the handicaps. All other preliminary work was done under his direction. The quality of the birds created a mild sensation. In all a few more than 1,000 pigeons were trapped, of which but two were non- flyers, and a scant half dozen required the use of flush ropes. As a lot they were pronounced by Gilbert, Marshall, Powers, Budd, Fanning and Fulford the best they had. ever seen in a two days’ shoot, while among them wereenany which beat the best of hold- ing. The weather was unfavorable to the flight of birds, as it was dark and withont a breath of air on both days devoted to pigeons. First Day. ‘The programme called for four events at sparrows, each of 29 birds, #6 entrance; 10 per cent. of net purses to be given to five high guns at close of day; 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 per cent. and bal- ance of each purse divided 35, 30, 20,15 per cent., class shooting. The scores follow in tabulated form. A cold wind from the north- east made many incomers; 1 2 38 4 £Shotat. Killed. VCMT r Hiya (atditlsleietvusteiamen sienna e 0b RAE 19 18 20 18 80 15 J eWeeRE Bop unpre ate lees Dep tace ite 199). 80 76 (Gillette Bag arPurersrree eiidectitecentae 19) IRs 19) 19 80 75 Fulford ...... Bare rithm Micha ee 18 18 19 18 80 73 Ti BiLitlp we tanita eid Bf St ERS 18 19 18 18 80 73 DIT Brdvecenee aera Sisusecteustas alk Tee UUat ale wal ae aks) 80 64 SPD esitel Gf feylet eretites one ap ai renenonottey ea. ae aye ak ath 80 15 Hallowell ........ pre Renn EAT Ent TREE 17 15 14 60 46 (GUESTEE sore to Ate ste Pate eee 17 16 #18 17 80 68 POWETS 2.0 ..2.005 Cer tete tha ea PUT ESE Ser RNY clr alg 80 70 Tscie gees rrreentts See cag ea wan a 17 18 20 19 &0 74 Norris ........ MaAL yt Rees heen ceeeoe mhonmelss &) 67 TACs bs We SPT ear ee ee 16 18 15 14 80 63 WN Ewsee Wi eeRUE NEES he naan a stn 5 Alf 60 48 Beek iis iiss Det hte near aaa 15 16 16 18 80 65 AWiferoreh eee ee Ee Tene Cer ae 15 14 ih 17 80 61 Marshall ........ Syfischieeie eee ct eee 15 13 17 14 80 bo Ap Ae ane 20 15 16 16 20 80 66 20 5 up Bie WG 20 16 popteesd eee rrr irwret coher tlre pisces LEC Ln aa. an lB 20 13 Heikes won first average, $10.20, with 76 out of 80; Gilbert, Me- Murchy and Bartlett, each with 75, divided second, third and fourth moneys, which paid them $6.80 each; Rike with 74 won fifth, $3.40, The first 800 sparrows were trapped in one hour and three-quar- ters, and the average, without any rushing, was 400 per hour, This rapid work is possible only with THill’s seli-closing traps, five sets of three each being placed in line and the walk-around system adopted. ; Extra miss-and-out, $1, nineteen entries: Gilbert 6, Powers 6, Jones 6, Ross 6, Wood 5, Fulford 4, Clark 4, Holliday 4, Beck 3 Rutledge 3, McMurehy 2, Marshall 2, Heikes 1, Norris 1, Du Bray 1, Fanning 0, Budd 0, Bartlett 0, Parry 0, © Second Day. The programme called for two events, both at pigeons; 7% birds entrance $7, five high guns, and 10 birds, entrance $10, five high guns} price of birds included in entry fee, In the first there were twenty-three entries, of which eight killed straight, and drew $16.05 each, In the second there were twenty-two entries, and five straight seores which paid $35.20 each. e scores follow: E Seven Garland Gilb@tt 5. ds vevectropen QeCROLI—T DriDTe_ every ryt eee ble 1212021—6 MeMurclty scvccicnecsesd®*1*21—4 Rutledge oy .ccreey 0. --1021001—4 Ushi thal Oe ewe ee pos! 1122229917 Robinson ..cscereenss+-0221021—5 Bannitig .cis....c.s01.,2281122—7 Beck A sted sity aan ere aba 9 LhGM epee ES oee nie hbecoce Q291001—7 Heikes .........00000+.-0220222—5 Du Bray ....... de POQND2B—G Lait iiepasaters snus pLOOO0T—2 OUCIS- ae Peet dectls DODO 7 Wike@ waasianee vert atnieyoogeeou—o VIGO) Siac uiinieyennyy te 2222722 —f Tem pigeons, entrance $10, all guns at a0yds.; Gaplittdsyrk .oseo. 2O21IOI22AI— B Wood ....- eres ,0021222200— 6 Young ..... uct pods 2122220222— 8 ‘Tripp --ssseversees-1101220202— 7 Maresiralli Bosse. 2209992999 70 Bartlett .......+.+«.1202222221— 9 Rowers: wuss s.e> 2211222122 10 Coofier .......-.4 ,. 1222111201— 9 Gail bare speyaaaira nein Q222222209--10 Beak ..... so oe 2122012221— 9 MeMurchy ........ W2BP TONER — Ofertas eye cell oe 222222292210 ATIC eee ete 1021222212 § Rutledge ....,...... 1221112001— 8 Dell arunit commensal erie L122022712— 9 Riker yo. esp eeeer nese 1**1022222— 7 Teebabiap ith | Se RA ee ere 2211222221- 10 Trimble ..........9 1014110222— & sibs sreveernes se coh 2222210222— 9 Shipley ...-....+..- 0100011212— 8 IN Yori RAR SRF Ane - TO eI oN lite eee eo ren ee 2220101120— 7 Extra, miss-and-out, #5, sixteen entries: Fanning &, Wood 8, Nor- ris 8, Beck 6, Bartlett 4, Rutledge 0, Gilbert 8, Pulford 8 Heikes 7, Powers 6,MeMurchy 4, Marshall § Tripp 8 Young tf, Du Bray 4, Budd 3. Those with § diyided and drew $8.70 each. Third Day. Grand Central Handicap, 25 pigeons, entrance 525, birds extra, eight high guns, 25, 20, 16, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 per cent. Nominations closed Dec, 9, with a list of eighteen who had paid the forfeit of $10. All of them made their ante good—l beg pardon, I seem to be mixing the terms used in the hotel game with those of the shoot, A Jarger entry had been expected, and the club is still wonder- ing what was the mattér with the good pigeon shots of Kentucky, Ohio and the Smoky City. Vhe programme was just to their lik- ing, and we regret they did not give us a chance to entertain them. The race began at 9:20 A. M.; and was finished in four hours. The birds were so good that eyeryone stayed out of doors to see what the next one would be like. As will happen in a 25-bird race, some got the best of the drawing, and in this case Mr. Fanning, the winner, was a lucky man. It is but fair to say that he killed in good style the few hard ones, and it is quite likely that on this day ne could haye gone straight had the luck of the draw been against iin. Capt. Bartlett was the first to drop out on 3 losses, and it was on his 4th bird. All three of them were hit, and two of them dead out. It became known later in the day that he had got his shells mixed, and was using sparrow loads with No. 10 snot. Under the 3-bird rule all dropped out but Fanning 25, Fulford 24, Budd 24, Norris 23, Powers 23, and came in again to fight for the three places not filled. Gilbert, who was out on the 12th round, Garland on the 19th, and MceMurchy on the 23d, were the only ones to kill out straight, and they quit with 22. Under the division as adyertised the winners were paid as fol- lows; Fanning $112.50, Fulford, Budd $78.75 each, Powers, Norris $42,75 each, Garland, MeMurchy and Gilbert $31.50 each. On the 11th round only the first four named were straight, and they then agreed to pool, so they each got $78.20, instead of as shown above, The scores follow: Sy) ae eS a ie, aN ee 112002022220 IXolanirdsyoond, payee A Aone ewe pee Snel 02222221100120 PG Veen pe ceased elelers nett tistas eterae eu ate 220222222222%2222"20% Riba OA ered © reece Sabo beter 21012012122222202212220 Lev eho begeiy aks WO ee bite TS OMe aos ae 1222222222222122221121122—25 I ay cig EP OAH liel Ree te ea ese e ot ing ee 2222222011122222202222121—23 WO Olam en rnnn sc jhe Oe) AB AEE EE tra ir 20222222222022222"0 CATS ER hla BM nO aioe teenage A 1111012022221222220222222 —29 STS TAT cry esce tag teste peices tort cae ler care ee 22020220220 I APCLEL ESOS s, CaN elena toes eae ene ey Unb. 02**210 De NUT wt ge hiv eA eT eS SEs 2122222012122*22291222%12—22 TAM Merr ASTI Gare ae Ses ye nb uobrn rye 2PUPRPRUEbe yee Dipti |) ASTUTE a bis alee Bera Otay Senne oMn eer 12211111 2111122222%222009 94 Te EULESS hk. pee atat ol sacy RRR ETH H pt ttsedee 82 ta 2222222122101212222121121—24 WFATSITA LE SUS pent cree etic me ene 122222022220222209220 PO WAS HOU. aprenielt ae Tree etal need 221222222292902212222229% 99 BI 3hhis | PPS eee Ie meee a eres ean 2*0)2222222211022220 (it Het st care ae ee oe eon a a iT Ora 222220*222202222222229929 39 Extra, 7 pigeons, entrance $7, two moneys, 6G and 40 per cent., class shooting, fifteen entries: Marshall 7, fuiford 7, Gilbert 6, Tripp 6, Bartlett 6, Norris~6, Heikes 6, Powers 6, Budd 6, Beck 6, Cooper 5, Wanning 5, Wood 5. Marshall and Fanning, with straight scores, drew $25.20 each. Those with 6 divided second money and got $4.20 each. - Ixtra, miss-and-out, $3, ten entries: ‘Tripp 9, Powers 9, Gilbert 9, Bartlett 9, Waning 8, Beck 3, Marshall 2, Buad 1, Holliday 1, Heikes 0, ’ Straights paid $4.65, Notes. The trade was represented by R. O, Heikes and BG. A. Bartlett, of the Winchester Arms Co., the former shooting E. C. powder and the latter Du Pont; E. D. Fulford, with a Remington gun, Schultze powder and U. M. ©. ammunition, which he advertised by display posters as well.as by his good shooting; Fred Gilbert, with Smith gun and Du Pont; Jack Fanning, giving Gold Dust powder a boom where it had been untried; C. FE. Willard, of the Colts Arms Co., who shot well on Sparrows considering his lack of practice; J, J. Hallowell making friends for himself and the U. . C. Co.; Harvey MeMurchy, who was pleased to see four Smith guns placed in the main event; C, W. Budd, with Parker fun and Hazard powder, and our oldest and best friend A. W. du Bray, of anes Bros, ‘ hhe prominent amateurs were Mr. C. N. Powers, Hon. Thomas Marshall, C. A. Young, Ed Rike, Ed Norris, O, P. Garland and Geo. W. Wood. R. L. Trimble, of Cincinnati, representing Du Pont and Hazard powders, came a little late, but stayed to the end. Mr. Hallowell, while shooting sparrows, had his gun dented by a blow from another gun in the hands of one of the shooters and was thereby preyented from finishing the programme. Upon the finish of the Grand Central Handicap, and while all were at dinner, Mr. Marshall, speaking for the visitors, thanked the club and the Managers for courtesies extended, and complimented them upon the handling of the tournament, and the possession of such beautiful and well appointed grounds. It was urged that there could be no doubt of the success of an- other like tournament next winter, and support was promised if the meeting was made to extend over a full week. GVGS is Interesting Match at Orange Lake. Newsurcnu, N. Y., Dec. 23.—The weather to-day was nasty and Taw, a strong nor’wester driving snow squalls before it that looked prettier than they felt. Such conditions were not favorable for the pigeon match between FE. C, Likely, of Highland Falls, and A. K. Dickson, of this city, both members of the West Newburgh Gun and Rifle Association, which was set for to-day. The match, which came off at Pine Point, Orange Take, has been talked of for a long time, with the result that there was more than a fair attend- ance of spectators, despite the bad weather, The conditions were uy pyeaurds per Tah ae Aiea ae to pay for the birds. Capt. . C. Higginson looked after Likely; our former secretary. V erie teicitte care of hee te Pei ee Mien Among those present were J. B. Ilalsted and Bill jerce Peekskill; also a party from Highland Falls, Pi tip Haan being Mr. Stevens. The birds were good strong ones, but nearly all loitered at the trap at first, the snow squalls bothering them, Jas. 5. Taylor acted as referee; David Brown as scorer. Dickson shot strongly after the 50th round, running 43 without a miss Double-figure runs were: WLikely, 13, 11 and 16; Dickson, 16 and 43. Likely shot well in his first and third 25s, but fell down in his sec. ond and fourth series. Scores were: 4 Trap score type--Copyright, 1697, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co- TTATTEAILSNAE Tt AatsNasvyarR ay EC Likely....222211232222220222922999999 94 TN IL AYE ANS oa tee atataaat 012221 **932222990909920 15-49 SLEYAESTTET ARTF ING K Yttoto 1*21322222219991995 "9 bo 50 99 RSNSAPLATKTTPI | ARSe] asa] 207120270220201*00223011 2 1¢—91 “3 AATARES ll AtoselaaKnnaatrt A K Dickson.02222222222229229%999% 99999 TALTLARAAART YR RK ADAAT ova 22225%323032292492908 9490 m FPEREESTORPIN OS ATYATY RT Ce B211122222359229299%5 90 9°09 on VYNSRNSSR TNCE SLE TF Asa .. 2222 APAASPPDZL222 0A 2D D & yom 99 miele | R. T. Manbown, 20 WESTERN TRAPS. Mussey’s Hall Destroyed by Vire, Cuicaco, Ill., Dec. 24.—At ten minutes before # o’clock yesterday afternoon fire broke out in the Tossetti Cafe, 106 Madison Street, #his§ city, and in less than an hour thereafter the upper floors, con- taining Mussey’s magnificent billiard rooms, the finest m America, and one of the best known sportsmen’s rendezvous in America, were sacked and ruined. Whis morning the front of the building is a mass of ice, and even at this hour, twenty-four hours after the fire broke out, hose lines are playing on the ruins, which still burn and smoke, At the bottom of the interior pit ot the building lie two-score of the finest billiard tables in the world, with a wealth of ivery, and with pictures, furniture, ete., footing up a total of some $35,000. Against this is an insurance of some $25,000, which latter must also be offset against a loss of holiday trade, whose profits would run much over $100 a’day. Billy Mussey is to-day busy among insurance people, and a couple of hundred shooters, fish- ers, and other sportsmen aré homeless and at large upon the streets. It is early to announce any plans aboui the continuance oi the business, but | heard a few moments ago that already a new room is in view, and that as soon as possible the public will be in- vited to a new hall. As the old building at 106 will be rebuilt, it is likely that Mr. Mussey will in due time be back in his old quar- ters. He had just added an extra floor to his table space, and had fitted this second room up with lavish expenditure, giving the Chi- cago public two large rooms superbly equipped, The tables used were specially made and cannot at once be replaced, but any one who knows Hilly Mussey and his ambitions about his business knows that he will never rest until he is as well fixed up in every detail as he was hefore the fire, This may take time, but_it will be done, and then the homeless shooters and fishers of Chicago may again be at peace. ’ , The hall of Parson Hilly Mussey was a place unique in the con- cerns of sport in this country. More shooting matches have been made there than in all the rest of Chicago, and more gossip and news of the shooters came there than to any place in the West. di you did not know where to catch a trap-shooter, address him at Mussey’s, Chicago, and you caught him. Many of the anglers and field shooters also dropped in there, and the better-class sports- men of many lines made it a trounding-up point. Any day would See the tables crowded, and the chairs also full along the room sides, and any man wanted was sure to be there, the place being practically a club without a fee or dues, and one elegantly comfort able. : R . Jt was at Billy Mussey’s that there was located the famous safe with its eyer-open door. Alas! the old safe is now about forty fathoms deep under the ice, though it will rise again, let us hope, with the hinges unhurt. In the old days of Chicago, when we were having a little fun now and again with the pigeon shooters, the front door of Billy’s safe was about the hottest place in Chicago. Things were a irifle warm around there this week and last week, and we were in a way to have a little fun, until the advent of this unlucky fire brought Billy a Christmas present of disaster and set things of sporting nature second to those of business.’ Of course all the races which Billy might otherwise have shot will now be set aside, even if for no other reasons than those of business. At the time of the fire both the halls were full of people, and these thought there would be no trouble, and that the fire would soon be extinguished in the lower floor and basement of the res- taurant where it had broken out. Three-quarters of an hour after the fire began some fireman broke a gas pipe in the basement, and the whole lower part of the building was flooded with gas. A heavy explosion followed, and then all was up with 106. Some forty-seven persons were hurt, many of them seriously, by the force of this explosion, but these were chiefly persons who were standing on the street near the building watching the fire, and who were blown about when the whole front of the sidewalk was lifted out and a stream of fire gushed into the air. In the halls on the second and third floors no one was hurt seriously, though the cashiers, -Messt's. Sweet, Barstow and “Gene Day, had narrow enough runs for the firemen’s ladders, aiter tarrying in the attempt to save some of the ivory and the cash. oil Organ, one of Billy Mussey's stanchest friends and steadiest patrons, carried out a few boxes of balls in his arms, but left his new overcoat inside the hall. When he started back it was too late to save the coat. One of the porters had a narrow squeak of it, but so far as can be learned no sportsman known to the public, nor indeed any oc- cupant at the time in the halls, received any serious injury, The fire occurred just around the corner from the Forrest anb STREAM office, AJ] the evening the street was full of the black smoke of the fre engines, All the street cars for the West and Nerth diyi- sions of this big city were absolutely stopped all night. It seems to have been Bully’s idea, if he had a fire, to have a good big one. A great nuinber of readers of Forest AND STREAM in many dit ferent parts of the country will read with regret the destruction of a place familiar to them, and will hope for Mr. Mussey a speedy restoration of his business in a proper home, this to be made in duplicate of the old place as soon as may be possible. The Chicago Challenges. On Monday of this week the gentlemen eariier mentioned as being desirous of shooting a race with the regular team in the intercity race met and formally resolved that they were prepared to shoot such a race, They signed their names as published two weeks ago in Forest AND STREAM, to wit; W. W. McFarland, T. P, Hicks, R. Kuss, Ed Steck, Silas Palmer, and published in a local paper the “news” of their willingness to shoot. Meantime there was published long ago in Forest AND STREAM the formal acceptanee by the original and regular teayn of the proposal of these gentlemen for this race. This counter-acceptance, or coun- ter-challenge, does not appear to carry much significance, there- fore I fear there will be no race between the teams. At the same time Tom Hicks and 5i Palmer printed in the american Field, of this city, their acceptance of the individual challenge of W. DP. Mussey, printed two weeks ago in the Times-Herald, a Chicago daily, in which he offered a 100-bird race, $100, to any of these gen- tlemen who wanted to shoot the regular team. All this was taken up last week in ForEsT AnD STREAM, and not much mews of in- terest attaches to it at this date, as the time set by Mr. Mussey for the acceptance of his challenge had long ago lapsed, and his tor- feit money had been returned to him by the Times-Herald. It is father curious what could haye been the motiye of these gentle- meén, to wait so long, to try to change the conditions of the chal- lenge (as was sought in the Kuss acceptance), and then finally to post money with quite another paper, where the challenger had not posted his money nor addressed any challenge. I shall not accuse any one of these gentlemen of wanting a little easy noto- riety, for I should not think any of them disposed for that sort of thing, but if any of them was really looking for a race was it not easy, natural, and in accordance with all the rules of sporting rocedure, to just cover the money at the office where the chal- enger had his up? Why go to the office of another local paper? Were the acceptors afraid that their money would be lost else- where? Wow, if they really did want to shoot, they should either haye gone to the Times-Herald office, or to 106 M adison street— they all knew both addresses—and settled the matter with a word. But if they did not want to shoot, they took just the right way to make it appear that they did not, by going over to the office of the American Field, where the doings were enshrouded in compar- atiye secrecy both before and after the publication of their ac- ceptance, Of course I suppose all these gentlemen really did want to shoot, but I am just saying they won't get to shoot, for the aboye yery reason. | hope they will know better next time. I asked Mr. Mussey what he was going to do about this acceptance printed in a different paper, and in the interyiew he said: : “Do about it? I shall of course do nothing at all about it. I don’t know anything abont it at all. If any one wanted to shoot me a race, there were the terms and the money up, why not agree at once? Jf any man had come in here and said a word to me, he could haye gotten the same terms as were openly published, [ held the thing open five days extra for the sake of appearances, but now it is getting toward the end of the year, and I shall he so busy I shall not haye time to think of shooting matters. *As to the publication in the American field,” continued Mr. Mussey, “I don’t know anything about that. I haye not read that aper for five years; don’t know what it is printing, and of course bi ‘don’t care what 1t is printing about these challenges. If any of them wanted to shoot, they had their chance all right, but what they may see fit to do elsewise and elsewhere is matter of indifference to me,” t . d Tam sorry about all these mistunderstandings, which do nothing to cement the shaky brotherhood of Chicago shootingdom. We were all in hope some of these races would come off, and that we should see some fun here once more, where things have been dull as a directors’ meeting for to! these many years. Of course none of these gentlemen would care to offer or urge a race on Mr. Mus- sey now, at the time of his business trouble, for they would be too sportsmanlike for that. About all the lesson one can find in the little matter is that there is no official organ of the trap-shoot- img cult in Chicago, or if there is it isn’t located in the Masonic Demple by several majorities. Yet good, clean sport may flourish without an official or officious organ. Let me beg to offer this general rule of sport: If you are honing to get at a fellow on a sporting proposition, get to his money, or get to him quick as you can. on’t go at it in the most roundabout way, but the most direct way. It leaves a better impression and is more apt te be suc- FOREST AND STREAM. cessful. In this case, however, no one is injured except Billy Mus- sey, and his is fire loss only, We shall all be dwelling here in (Chicago) harmony again before many moons. More Challenges Among Cracks, Heikes and Grimm are to shoot again, and Gilbert and Elliott are to shoot again, What a narrow, circular competition, and how de- yoid of genuine sporting interest or sporting news! ‘This is the quickest way to kill these trophies—perhaps I should say the quick- est way to bury the stove-lid badge, which is already dead, even if Roll Heikes does use it t6 fry eggs on just now, Can’t some one scare up a contest at the traps with a finish that is a finish, and not a divide, a split or a circular arrangement, with no variety and no end to it? ‘this intercity shoot was a little fun, and if it had brought out new competitors for some of these more prominent trophies it would have been a still greater week we had here in Chicago. But to do it all over again, at Dayton on New Year's Day, at Kansas City on some later day—what’s the news to it if the same men shoot all the time? Why not coax out new men? it would sell more goods, if it comes to that. For my part, if 1 knew where I could find a real good Christmas dog fight to-mor- row, where some two dogs wouldn’t diyide the purse or challenge each other over again, I believe 1 should make tiat part of my cele- bration, such being my old-fashioned ideas of sporting Principles and such my notion of a Roman holiday. The difference between the day of Rome and the day of modern trap shoots is that then some- body got licked, and now nobody ever does get licked. I want to see some one licked once at the trap score, This is barbarous, Roman, foolish. Yet think how we respect the old gladiators, even though they are dead! After a couple ot those ducks had tangled up, the tellow that was licked never cnallenged back for the badge. All he wanted was a place to lie down and be quiet.. Of course I don’t want any of our good folks killed just because they have lost a race or so, but they might he down and be quiet, and give the amphitheater a look at new talent now and then. aS the gladiator said to the boss of the show, “Colonel, there are others.” The Williamson Challenge. On last Tuesday Dr. J. L. Williamson, of Milwaukee, isstied challenge at large to any shooter resident in Chicago for a race at 100 live birds, $100, racé to be shot in Milwaukee at the National Park grounds. At this writing no acceptance of this challenge has been made. You can come into Chicago now and carry off any kind of a proposition you like. We are weary and cast down, Give us a chance to forget Kansas City. If Dr. Williamson cared to come down here to shoot, we might get up nerve enough to find a man to trot him a heat or so; but when we think of how many pigeons he would kill on those grounds in Milwaukee, we shudder, and get goose meat on our collective Chicago spine. It is not likely the doughty blonde will set avictim to come to the Cream City. iE. Hovex, 1206 Boyce Buitpine, Chicago. Cuicaco, Dec. 25.—The Garfield Gun Club, of Chicago, held its second amonthly contest at Watson's Park, Burnside Crossing, Ill,, to-day. The event was attended with success, and many shoot- ers who were not members of the club were present. ‘The day was cool, with a strong wind from the right quarter and an over- cast sky, and many good birds were sent out itom the two sets of traps used. The regular medal contest was at 20 live birds from five traps, 30yds, rise, and members not in atténdance in the previous con- test were allowed to shoot up one back score. Following are detailed scores of medal contest: FETS S aly dk eve nett aache t 20212110212222222222 18 EF Liddy 20221020022222212122 16 N Nusby + 01210122221120211220—16 os alnex 205 - -210211*2022122220200—14 Dr Shaw : 22220)212212112111221-19 D Russell 11021010100211010000—10 A Pte Ae 8 oedema esd Ad pa Sp LL ELS OOS? 20122212220022221122—17 TAPES (444203445 ctebiett a TES AARP BAG 111.200011021*1010222 13 SHON CITIES Ca tenevitete eee eee Stitt tines ceeh lac. 122122200*00201000*2—10 ERatirarnart Perera Ree pare AASB KEP 21112221*11*01011112—16 MUINGAS ET V4 «5 stig He EEE AAR ROLLE EL mnie 11200220101221101121—15 Von Lengerke ....... veevete Dace SIS KK A 22020220222220222222- 16 Relibiignie haseesanen hes ee cael: 222202020*2121121211—16 *Von Lengerke ..... A eee TU DECORA ABS 2222222"*222220299"22 AT aol Wl rbnsrychsl aoe oe See ewe uN iveaveys ER IRAE BS KBE 10021212101311210112—16 * Back scores shot up to-day. 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Mussey, by reason of the disastrous fire that destroyed his place of business, the following gentlemen, who either challenged Mr. Mussey, or who accepted his challenge, withdrew their challenges, and sympathize with him in his loss, Their names are Thos. P. Hicks, Silas Palmer and Ralph Kuss, Elgin Gun Club. The Elgin Gun Club, of Elgin, Ill, announces a target tourna- tment to be held on its grounds at Elgin, Ill, on New Year's. Day—Jan, 1, 1898—to be governed by the American Association rules, and to commence at 9 o’clock A. M. Three moneys divided in all events of twelve starters or under, and four in all events of over twélve starters. A, C. Paterson, Audubon Gun Club, of Chicago. Dec. 18.—Below are the scores made to-day by members of the . Audubon Gun Club. Felton, Bissell, Rice and Amberg tied on highest possibles. Scores: Gillespie; ces ayeiiies eo eh ean pene anie «see eee 110002212211112 12-9 14. 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Morris, 4 ......210221221220002—11 415 )02222900202101— 9—4 13 Hollester, 2 ,...211141012111211 14345 = 1112111 20111113-14 9 35 (JAN. 1, 1808. Is there Too Much Shooting? A Frew days ago we heard the following remark: _ “The trouble is there's too much shooting, What 1 mean is that a fellow goes out to shoot nowadays, whether it’s a tournamént or an ordinary club shoot, snd wants fo be shooting all the time, He’s not satisfied with less than 150 shots for an afternoon, or 200 for a day. iA few years ago we'd go out for a Saturday afternoon’s shoot and take along fifty or seventy-five shells, and if we fired them all off, we’d think we'd had a jolly good time. Then on Sunday we'd Bey to work and load up another fifty or seventy-five for next Sat- urday,”” : The above remark came home. It’s a fact that at the present time an ordinary programme for a tournament calls for 165 shots; sometimes the number scheduled amounts to 200 or more. The object of a club should he to please as many shooters as possible; and we conclude that when the management draws up its pro- gramme, it takes this fact into consideration, and fixes the number of targets according to the popular taste. The next conclusion is therefore that the majority of shooters want to fire off their guns as often as possible in a given time. Speaking from actual ex- perience, we would say that this was the caSe most certainly at present. Y Wants Smaller Programmes. The party who made the above remark was arguing in fayor of smaller programmes of events, with more variety in the styles of shooting, and more time for social intercourse. It’s a fact that at an “up-to-date tournament,” with its two or three sets of traps, there’s very little time between shots. Conversations, if of any length, can very seldom be finished without interruptions, from the squad hustler. It is business all the time at most shoots. Squads enter “for all day” and march to the scote like trained bands. It’s bang-bang-bang tntil the scorer calls “Out”; then comes a grouping around the score board; the man with “20 Straight” sticks ont his chest; the man who has “got ’em all—but five or six’? looks dissatished. Then comes the putting up of the guns, the marking down of the Scores on the pocket score board; the “How many have you lost now?" ete. By the time that’s all over, in pops the squad hustler with his “No. 1 squad, you're wanted on No, 2 set of traps. We're ready for you right away.” And so it goes on until the programme’s ont. Of course there is the obvious retort: ‘What are you kicking about? You needn’t shoot unless you want to.’ And right there is the pith of the whole matter—you do “want tol” There’s a fascination in it, an excitement m trying to get that straight and beat ont so and so. If there’s going to be any shooting, you want to be in it. Clubs Want to Throw Targets. Then it suits the club. The more you want to shoot and will shoot, the more targets will be thrown during the day, and the more money will it rake in to pay the expenses: If you are a con- tributor, and not any kind of a manufacturers’ agent, you can fizure up at the end of the day somewhat as follows: 200 shells at $2.20 per hundred, $4.40; paid entrance fee for all day (at the rate of 10 cents per target) $20. Total, $24:40; this does not include fail- toad, hotel, or any other expenses. With so many good shooters up in the crackerjack’s class now, a man has to shoot an abnormal gait to hope to clear his expenses, whether it is the Rose system or any old system that is used. What chance Goes the contributor get to draw down any money? Ask Fred Gilbert what he did last spring. z A good friend of Forest Anp STREAM, who lives way down in Florida on Hobe Sound, took the trouble last summer to figure out the division of the purses in all the events shot at the Yew York State shoot at Auburn this year. Te figured the purses both under the Rase system and under the “old system.’ The results Were So astonishing that we verified them to satisfy our curiosity, His figures showed that there was yery little difference between the two systems so far as the Wolves’ set of traps were concerned; and it was at that set of traps that one found the shooters who ate tend for the most part the tournaments of to-day; that is, tourna- ments other than State affairs, or “professionals batred.” With- out going back over the figures again. we venture to say that there. was hardly a man who shot through every event on the three days. of the shoot on the Wolves’ set of traps who made enoush money over and above his entrance fee to eyen pay for the cartridges he. used. If this was so with the top-notchers, what was it with the 85 per cent. man? Trap-shooting is Expensive. Without going into the question of the cost of attending ane taking part in the tontnaments any further, let us for the sake of argument take it for granted that it is an expensive sport for the average shots. And let us also take it for granted that the averape shots cannot afford, or do not care to stand, repeated assaults upom their pocketbooks to the tune of $15 to $25 pet day. What then is to be done to get them to come out to shoots, not once a year, but two or three times? The party whom we have quoted at the head of this article was of the opinion as stated above, that programmes should be shorter, and the shooting made more varied and consequently more inter- esting. Unknown angles, rapid-fire, is most certainly monotonous to watch, especially with a squad of crackerjacxs breaking 96 or 97 out of 100. Of course if you cut down the programme you cut down the “added money” if any is offered; and you also cut down the chances of a club getting out whole on the shoot. Would a programme something like this draw shooters fogether? One 25-target event, one 20-target event, and two events at 15 tar- gets each, all at unknown angles; two events at 15 targets, Novelty rule; and two events at 15 targets each, expert rule, oné man up. The above programme calls for 125 targets, Put the entrance fees at the average rate of 10 cents per target, or $13.50 “for all day.’’ With twenty entries as an average, this would make a total: of © 2,700 targets thrown in the programme events, or a receipt for price of targets at 2 cents each of $54 to pay for about 3,000 targets and the cost of running the shoot. Would Not Draw the Sharks. Beyond question, such a programme would not draw out the men who shoot for what there is in it, There'd be no banking of $2,000 a year of “contributors? * money by following such shoots. But wouldn’t there be lots of fun and gocd sport at such a shoot? And, gentlemen, yon who manufacture and sell ammunition and guns and targets, wouldn’t such shoots react beneficially to your in- terests hy recruiting the ranks of the trap-shooters from those who would sit and watch the shooting of such a programme, but who wouldn’t travel 100yds. to see nothing but a lot of men going through over and over again the motions 2t known or unknown angiee rapid-fire? : There's food for thought in what welve stated, and we can see that there’s a lot more to be said upon the subject, both pro and con, There's plenty of room for argument, and probably we shall get it, Answers ta Correspondents. No notice taken of anonymous communicatic Rs. Brooklyn.Has the law forbidding “jacking” any kind of game in Maine been repealed? Has the law forbidding the killing of cow RBERE in Maine been repealed? Ans, WNeither has been re- pealed. Arkansas.—Does the Arkansas non-export law in “Game Laws in Brief” refer to fish only? I was required to pay this tax two years ago for Shooting quail at Weiner. Ans, Na; the export of both fish and game is forbidden. Stray Pigeon.—Should you receive inquiry through your paper for carrier pigeon, gold ring set in enamel, with figures 1895 W. 12 on, infortmation could be received by corresponding with the writer, C. GC. Tunnington, Fremont, O. PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. “Sunset Limited’? Annex from New Orleans, THe annex to Sunset Limited will resume service from New Orleans on Jan. 4, 1898, leaving New Orleans every Tuesday and Saturday thereafter, making tonnection at that point with the Limited tram of the Southern Railway from New York and the East. The Limited will consist of Pullman latest, drawing-room, sleeping car and Sunset Limited dining car, The southern ronte is the most delightiul this time of the year, The route lies sonth of the snow line, and is free from snow and excessive cold. 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AN EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION, Aw extraordinary resolution was adopted by the Amer- ican Society of Naturalists, at Ithaca last week, declaring it to be the sentiment of the members of the convention that the position of United States Fish Commissioner should be filled only by a competent scientific man. Ordinary every-day common sense suggests that the Fish Commissioner should be a competent scientific per- son. ! Approved business principles demand that he should be a competent scientific person. Those who established the Commission and directed its cotrse in the early years of its usefulness contemplated that at the head of it should always be a competent scien- tific person. ' The law providing for the office of Commissioner re- quires that the President shall appoint to it only a com- petent scientific person. The extraordinary character of this resolution of the naturalists at Ithaca then is that, with common sense, accepted business axioms, and the letter of the statute itself all requiring these qualifications on the part of a Commissioner, any such expression of opinion should have been called for. It was demanded only by a most extraordinary situation. The President proposes to hand over to an incompetent and ignorant individual a great public trust; and this is in violation of the law. At such a juncture it was well for the Society of Naturalists to take the action it did. The sentiment expressed at Ithaca should be indorsed and re-echoed from every quar- ter of the land, until President McKinley shall compre- hend that his proposed naming of a West Virginia pol- itician to be United States Fish Commissioner would be as much a defiance of public sentiment as of the law. SOME ONE ELSE'S RESPONSIBILITY. WritEers—and talkers too for that matter—are accus- tomed to speak of sportsmen as if they were a class apart from all other men, possessing qualities and character- istics which are peculiarly their own. Thus the true sportsman is said to be generous, kindly, hospitable, highly bred, truthful, the soul of honor; in fine, one of those noble men of nature of whom we often read, and whom we sometimes see. If we are to believe the writers alluded to, all these qualities pertain to the “true sports- man” by reason of his sportsmanship; in other words, because a man is fond -f shooting, fishing or yachting, he is therefore raised on a pinnacle above his fellow men. Could anything be more ridiculous than such an assump- tion? To tell the truth, the sportsman is just a plain, common man, and the fact that he finds his highest pleasure in shooting, fishing or yachting has nothing in the world to do with his mental or his moral attributes. If he pos- sesses those qualities which catise a man to be liked and respected, he will be popular; if he is by nature a cur- mudgeon, his sportsmanship will not save him from the condemnation of his fellows. His being a sportsman is only an incident of his life. Sportsmen are just as human as printers, drygoods clerks, railway engineers, doctors, lawyers and actors. In no way is this better shown than in the way in which they strive to place on the shoulders of others the respon- sibility for their own acts. For many, many years the game of America has been disappearing with constantly increasing rapidity, and the reason, as is;well known to everyone, is because the wild birds and animals are shot off by civilized man more rapidly than they can increase. The number therefore grows constantly less. It is seldom, however, that we hear an acknowledgment ‘of the part of sportsmen in the game decrease. Hawks, owls, wildcats and pot-hunters are cheerfully denounced for their share of harm. There has been invented that absurd story about the Indians of Alaska, who were said to have ruined the duck crop, and were roundly cursed for it. Next year we may expect to hear that the Klon- dike miners haye invaded the breeding grounds of the fowl and so have caused our bags to become lighter. But whatever the cause of the game destruction, it is seldom we hear any confession of complicity in it. The gunners of the North say that it is over shooting by the people in the South; those of the East declare that the destruction takes place in the West. But what of the great army of gunners spread over this country who pursue the wild creatures for nine months of the year? What is it that they kill? What of the thousands of guns and the millions of cartridges turned out each year by our factories and distributed over the land? What about the man who says, “Why, I used to go out every day except Sundays all through the shooting season, and I always got from twenty to forty birds a day; and now I am lucky if I get three or four. Where have the birds gone?” Or the other who says, ‘“Why, I used to get a hundred can- vas in a day and now I can’t get twenty-five. I don’t see what has become of them.” It is time that this shirking of responsibility ceased and that shooters should face the situation and acknowledge that the reason that there are no birds to-day is because they haye killed them off. We can’t have our cake after we have eaten it. Unless some strict system of presery- ing on a large scale is inaugurated in America or our coverts are stocked with exotic game, a time will prob- ably come when our native species will become so scarce in many localities that field shooting will almost entirely cease. When that takes place the birds will slowly in- crease again, but they will probably always be kept down very close to the vanishing point, and the time is likely to come when the quail, the partridge, the prairie chicken and the woodcock will be birds as little known to the average gunner as the wild pigeon is to-day. SVAP SHOTS. An electric wire case was determined in the courts the other day which has a bearing on fish nets. An electrical power company having been notified by the Mayor of New York to remove its overhead wires, unlawfully main- tained, failed to do so within the prescribed time, and the wires were thereupon cut down by the Commissioner of Public Works. The company then brought suit in the Supreme Court to compel the restoration of the wires or to recover damages. The court found against the plaintiff, and dismissed the complaint, holding that “the company had no right in the first instance to string its wires, or thereafter to use them, and not having availed itself of the opportunity to place the wires in the sub- ways it was the duty of the Commissioner of Public Works to remove them, as being a public nuisance and constituting a source of danger to person and property.” “Tt is a well settled principle of law,’ Justice McLough- lin said, “that an injury to or destruction of property necessarily incident to the exercise of the jurisdiction to summarily abate a nuisance interferes with no legal right of the owner, and is not violative of the constitutional prohibition against depriving the owner of his property without due process of law. Therefore any injury which plaintiff sustained by reason of the wires being removed from the streets by the Commissioner of Public Works is not actionable. When cut down, it was his duty to remove it, and thus clear the street of obstructions.” The same principle has been laid down by the United States Supreme Court as applying to the summary de- struction of illegally maintained fishing nets. The New York statute makes it the duty of protectors “to seize, remove and forthwith destroy any net, pound or other illegal devices for the taking of fish or game found in or upon any of the waters or islands of the State where hunting and fishing with nets or other illegal devices is prohibited of illegal, and such nets, pounds or other illegal devices are declared to be a public nuisance, and shall be abated and summarily destroyed by any protec- tcr, and no action for damages shall lie or be maintained against any person for such seizure or destruction.” It was contended by owners of certain destroyed nets that the Legislature was without constitutional authority thus to sanction the destruction of property “without due pro- cess of law;” but the Supreme Court held that the pro- vision was well within the police power of the State, and in effect that the due process of law defense did not apply — to the summary abatement of a public nuisance. Those net fishermen in the West who are planning to test the same principle in the courts may save themselves counsel fees if they will read the decision as printed in full text in our columns at the time. The attainment of Mr, Charles Hallock’s proposed sys- tem of an uniform game season for all State. lying within certain zones of latitude and longitude would be a great stride in advance; but until the time comes when such an ideal plan shall be feasible effort may well be directed toward securing at least an tniform law ior each State. The New York League put on record the other day its opposition to local legislation, and another movement in the same direction is now to be credited to the Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Associa- tion, which has prepared and submitted for discussion a bill to make uniform seasons for the State. In local legislation Maryland is easily ahead of any other State. Hardly two adjoining counties haye identical seasons. The laws have been framed not always to comply with common sense, but sometimes to defer to local jealousies. Theoretically the dates of a close season ate determined by a consideration of what will best answer the practi- cal purpose of the protected period, which is immunity and security for the game in the breeding and maturing season; and as the birds on one side of a county line have substantially the same nesting habits as those of birds on the other side of the line we might expect that the season most propitious for one would be likewise suited to the other. On the contrary, we find almost as many diverse seasons as there are county divisions; and under such a system the enforcement of the laws has been found most difficult. The diversity of seasons and regu- lations renders it comparatively easy for offenders to evade conviction, and moreover there. is a disregard of the statutes because of a public perception that such an inconsistent code cannot be based on reason. The State Association rightly considers that the first and most im- portant end to be sought in amending the laws is such an wniformity as shall simplify their enforcement and comimand for them the support of public respect. While there may very well be maintained differences of opinion respecting some of the details of the proposed measure, the principle of a general law for the State should be warmly encouraged, and we trust that the efforts of the Association in this direction may be crowned with suc- cess. As is the rule with all reforms, the enforcement of the game laws in New Jersey has been accompanied by nu- merous newspaper exaggerations and malicious lies, manufactured by those who have sought in this way to bring the service into disrepute. One of the most fla- grant instances of this nature is cited by the commis- sioners in their report. It was the publication by several newspapers of a story that four innocent girls had been arrested and convicted for having caged robins in their possession. For this we are told there was not the slightest foundation in fact. The persons actually con- victed and fined for taking robins were two Italians, who had for a long time been engaged in capturing birds, which they carried to New York and sold. The in- nocent girls were purely the product of fancy or mali- cious imagination. Whenever the newspapers come out with tear-compelling head lines and sympathetic stories of poor men sent to jail because, being ignorant of the law, they have captured song birds to while away in their humble homes the dreary hours of widowed lives, we may be reasonably certain that the New Jersey game wardens have at last brought to book some persistent violator of the law, for whom they have long been lying in wait. A series of five special postage stamps is to be en- graved for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha next summer, and Postmaster-General Gary has invited suggestions for suitable designs. The series might very well show objects characteristic of the several stages of Western history. For primitive days the buffalo or the antelope would answer most admirably for the first stamp; then the tepee of the Indian, the pack train or a prairie schooner, the log cabin or sod house, and finally the locomotive or steam plow or reaper. Any of these would lend themselves to the purpose very effectively. 22 Che Sportsman Canrist. Cherry. The Book of the Boone and From “Trail and Camp-Fire.” ye Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Crockett Club. New York; 1897. I HAD spent a good many hours one October day on the Snake River plains searching for antelope, and it was well along toward nightiall when Rubber Boots and I pulled up before the door at the ranch, and I dismounted, leaving Boots to.the care of the packer. The day had been raw and cold, and I hurried into the house and to the great open fire. J was a little blinded by the light at first, and turned all my attention to the fire, only re- plying to the usual question of “What luck?” addressed me by my companion. I was unaware of the presence of a third person until I heard a strange voice say, evi- dently in pursuance of a conversation which had been interrupted by my entrance: “For those biggest trout bait with gtasshoppers, shove your raft out from the shore, and when they take, just let em take, and sit down on your raft, and you are in for a run around the lake.” Looking in the direction from whence the voice pfo- ceeded, I observed for the first time a tall, Jank, but pow- erfully built man, standing with his back toward me. threw some more wood on the fire, and as it blazed up, and seemingly in acknowledgment of my subdued laughter, a grizzled face was turned toward me, and its owner added, “but of course you don’t want a very big raft.” _ This was my first acquaintance with Cherftfy, an ac- quaintance which has ripened and become closer with years, and on which I have never ceased to congratulate myself. Whateyer I may know of woodcraft and hunt- ing is due largely to his tuition. For many years we have roughed it and smoothed it together; found game and found none; and day in and day out he was the best part- ner it has ever been my good fortune to meet. He pos- sessed the invaluable faculty of always being around when he was wanted, and was ready for whatever might turn up, from trout fishing to Indian fighting; he had an inexhaustible fund of good humor; was always on the alert, game to the core, and willing to endure any hard- ship. Cherry was a born sportsman, and a living ex- hibition of the noblest innate rulés of the art; but he had his foibles and weaknesses, and of these only I speak. I think his greatest failing was the careless manner in which he handled the truth, often with ludicrous results, not the least humorous feature of which was his own entire obliyion of them. As a youngster, I imagine Cherry’s education had been sadly neglected, and one of his queer conceits was to hide his evident deficiencies in this respect. It was de- cidedly a case where silence was golden, but he much preferred fighting in the open to ambuscading in that fashion, and was never known to cotfess his ignorance of any subject under the sun. For instance, one year when we arrived for our annual hunt, we were met at the railroad station by Chérry and the other guides with a pack outfit, and journeyed from there to a small frontier town where our supplies were awaiting us. On reaching our destination, we went directly to the post-office, to inquire for any mail that might have arrived, and Cherry accompanied us. The postmaster gave us our mail, and with it a letter which he had had for some time, the ad- dress on which was not clear, and asked us if we could make it out. We were unable to do so, and were about to hand it back, when Cherry said perhaps he could tell something about it, As he could neither read nor write —a fact well known to all of us—we were somewhat sur- prised at his request; but in nowise abashed at the wit- ticisms which it provoked, Cherry examined the letter very minutely, scrutinizing it carefully from every pos- sible point of view, and finally handed it back to the post- master with the utmost gravity, remarking that “the devil himself could not read it.” _ When we reached Cherry’s ranch we found. that his pattner had just returned from a trip to the nearest rail- road station above, and had brought back a telegram -and letter for Cherry. He as well as Cherry was unable to read, and Cherry brought the telegram to me, asking that I should read it, stating, by way ot apol- ogy, that he “could read books and letters, but he hadn't got along quite as far as telegrams yet.” The letter was typewritten, and this he also asked me to read, remarking that he could read “what had been writ in a good common school hand, but that letter had been writ most awful 23 One of Cherry’s most elaborate essays at fiction was what would be known on the stage as “‘the story of his life.” ’ This narrative he imparted to me while we were snow- bound in camp together up among the foothills. The bear signs in our section had become rather poor, and a snowstorin affording us a more favorable opportunity, we. started out to take advantage of it. But the storm proved to be rather more than we had bargained for, and after two days of travel, during all of which time it con- tinued to snow, we made as good a camp as possible, and in the loneliness and solitude that prevailed during that time Cherry took me into his confidence. Many of his stories derived too much of their charm from Cher- ry’s picturesque manner of'telling to be successfully re- counted, and others were imparted only under the pledge of secrecy, but sufficient may be here set down to illus- trate his varied career and the resources of his imagina- tion. Cherry was about sixty; long, lank, and not exactly what might be called a handsome man; as he sat by the camp-fire and related this veracious narrative, the result was impressive as well as ludicrous. He had been born in Texas; was a bit hazy as to location, but, as he put it, “by crossing the Rio Grande twice, and then going be- tween a butte and a sand hill, he could strike the old homestead in the center every time.” But whether he followed his back track or not, he said, it would be easy for him to get there when he struck Texas; everybody down there knew the place. As a matter of fact, it was on his father’s ranch that old Noah had built the Ark; it was famous on that account, and about everybody in the State had been there at one-time or another to look at the place, and to secure a few chips as souvenirs. He FOREST AND STREAM. recalled the days of his youth, when evil times came not, and he could travel eighty or ninety miles a day easily, always on the run, up hill and down; how, when he was fourteen years old, he had left his father’s house to go to work on a cattle ranch, and when, after six months, word came to him that his father’s fortune had been lost in an unlucky speculation, he had returned and emptied out of his -ockets $80,000 in gold, which had tided his father over, and sayed the family from degradation. - He also told me that his name was not Cherry, but Ryan, and that he had two brothers, one of whom had beconte ~ known to fame as Doc Middleton, the notorious road agent and confidence man, while the other had acquired a scarcely less enviable reputation under the pseudonym - of Dick Turpin. The reason why he had himself as- sumed an alias was one of the things imparted to me in confidence. He had left Texas many years ago and jour- neyed to Montana, where he had started a'‘ranch, and in- troduced a breed of horses which he said had since be- come known all oyer the world under the name of Suf folk Punch. Of this stock he had some 80,000 head, be- sides the ordinary breed-of horses, cattle, sheep, etc. As fortune smiled upon him, he had “done society” a little, as he expressed it, and, wishing to marry and settle down, had paid court to the fair daughter of a neighbor- ing cattle king. While, from Cherry’s- account, the at- tractions of this young lady were not such as would en- title her to pré-eminence among her sisters in the capi- tals of the effete East, they seemed to have secured for her decided precedence in her own circle of society, and suitors came from far and near. While Cherry was far too delicate to go into details, he gaye me to understand that his attentions were not uniayvorably regarded — by: this damsel, and that he might long ago haye been set- tled down to a happy matrimonial existence with the ob- ject of his affections, had it not been for his prospective father-in-law. .Why the stern parent objected was not quite clear, but he did so, and finally his animosity at- tained to such a pitch that Cherry thuueht it. safer -to leave the country, as the old gentlemen was a dead shot and afflicted with a villainous temper. Being offered the alternative of migrating or of making a target of himself if he remained, he chose the former, and was forced to depart on such short notice that he was compelled to leave behind him his. 80,000 Suffoll Punches, his ranch, and everything else of value he possessed. Up to the time of this conversation Cherry had not succeeded in retrieving his. fortunes, but lived in the daily hope of doing so, and, indeed, according to his own accotint, Dame Fortune had so often and so unexpectedly taken a hand in his affairs that I should not be surprised at anything that might happen. I never read an account of some new western Monte Cristo that my thoughts do not instinctively turn to Cherry, as the possible possessor of this hastily acquired wealth. He could travel the whole road from poverty to wealth and back again in less time than any man I ever heard of. The storm having blown over in a couple of days, we broke camp and started for the ranch, and on the way ran across the tracks of an enormous grizzly, and, as luck would have it, caught up with him, and, haying a fair shot, I killed him almost where he stood. As we were taking off his hide, Cherry told me about the last one he had killed, and as the story progressed, I began to feel that this one was only a cub in comparison. Accord- ing to this narrative, while he and his companion had been trapping on the upper waters of the Gros Ventre two years before, their trap had been set and been sprung, but the bear had somehow managed to escape. The same thing happened a second, and then a third time. Exasperated at such unbecoming conduct on the part of the bear, Cherry and his companion resolved that they would have him at any cost, and they set a spring gun by the trap, and also a spear with a dead fall, to pierce the wily animal’s back. The next morning they found that the trap had been sprung, the gun had gone off, and the spear lay buried in the ground, but the bear had evi- dently escaped without a scratch. This was too much for Cherry’s companion, who insisted upon taking up the death-dealing apparatus and letting the bear go, but Cherry pleaded for one more trial, and the next morning was at the trap as the sun rose over the hills, to see what had been the result of his last experiment. He found everything just as it had been left the day before. Ap- parently the bear had either risen later than usual, or had secured his breakfast elsewhere at less personal risk to himself. So Cherry, after examining his rifle, made him- self as comfortable as possible behind some bushes, and waited. Morning passed and noon came, and still no bear; but shortly after the sun passed the meridian, there was a crashing among the underbrush, and there came into sight what I judge, from Cherry’s account, must have been not a grizzly bear, but one of those antedi- luvian monsters known as a cave bear, which were the terrors of our prehistoric ancestors. Cherry was an old campaigner in bear hunting, and not easily dismayed, but the sight of this tremendous brute as he came leaping toward him, clearing the intervening fogs at a single bound, and making the earth tremble at each sticceed- ing jump, was so startling as to make him turn “s00SE- flesh” all over, so that, as he expressed. it, “you could have struck a match” on any part of him. Realizing that discretion was the better part of valor, Cherry, like Brer Rabbit, “laid low,” and with bulging eyes watched the bear as he finally landed with one hindfoot square in the number six trap. This would have doomed an ordinary bear, but not so this one, and with the most intense aston- ishment Cherry watched him with the greatest delibera- tion press down the springs with his front feet, and then open the trap with his disengaged hindfoot, and step out, apparently little the worse for his experience. Up to this time Cherry had been so much interested in the bear’s operations that he had forgotten all about his rifle, and it was not until bruin had dodged the spear and started to make off with his booty that he remem- bered it. He got in two shots on the bear then, but seemingly with no other effect than to put him into an extreme state of irritation, and in this disagreeable mood he started for Cherry on the run. The situation was certainly precarious. Cherry tried another shot, but, as ill-luck would have it, the cartridge missed fire and the ejector refused to work. In the next second or two Cherry thought of all those things in this world that he should have done, but had left undone, and of all those jan. 8, 1808.] es other things which he should not have done, but had done}, but the instinct of self-preseryation was still strong within him, and an open tree-trunk presenting itself at this opportune thoment, he made a dive for it. It had been felled to the ground in some terrific battle of the elements years before, and Cherry got into it just in time to feel ‘the bear’s claws tickle-the soles of his boots, as he jammed himself into its farther extremity. Do the best he could, this was as far as the bear could reach, He was baffled for a moment only, however, and then Cherry felt his impromptu habitation suddenly elevated into the air and borne along at a rapid rate. Working himself down to the opening again, he found that the bear had picked the log up on his shoulders and was making for .a large beaver pond about 300yds. distant, from the steep bank of which he dropped it into the water, and then sat down to lick his wounds and await develop- ments. Foreseeing what was coming, Chetry had taken such precautions as he could to keep his rifle dry, and as the log floated high enough out of water to enable him to breathe after the first ducking, he set to work to remove the obstructing cartridge; but it was slow work, and he labored under great disadvantages. Mean- time the bear grew impatient, and evidently decided to force the fighting, for he walked out on the dam and tore a large section out of it. The pond draineéd rapidly, and to his horror Cherry soon felt the impetus of the current drawing him with ever increasing rapidity into the clutches of the bear, who was at the opening, bal- ancing himself on three legs preparatory to reaching for his yictim with the fourth. When Cherry reached this point in his narrative I took a good look at him, to see if he was really present in the flesh, so completely did he seem to have closed. every avenue of escape. But it seems a new cattridge did go home finally, and as he made the last cut with his skinning Icnife he told me that that hide brought him $60 green. Apparently no adventure ever happened to Cherry that did not remind him of some parallel instance in which he had figured, usually of a much more dangerous and exciting character, One year, while we were hunting in an extremely rough and broken country, we came across a good-sized bear, and finally, after a hot chase, brought him to bay on a narrow trail running around a huge cliff, where we killed him. His death struggles sent him over the cliff and to the rocks below. All of these circumstances brought yividly to Cherry’s mind an ad- venture which happened to him some years before, while hunting bear in the Sierre Madre Mountains. The coun- try was rough and almost impassable on horseback, and finally he came to such a place that he was compelled — to dismount and seek a trail- with a high bluff above him and a precipice below, and had reconnoitered this fer some distance, when he saw, rounding the turn ahead ot him, a -huge California grizzly. He had leit his rifle behind him, so hastened to make a retreat in good order, but on turning the curve behind him he beheld to his horror another. grizzly. coming in the: opposite direc- tion, For thousands of feet, so it seemed to Cherry, the cliff rose above him almost perpendicularly, and the de- scent into the canyon below-was just as steep. Most men in a similar predicament would haye ceased to think of the affairs of this earth, and concentrated their at- tention on the next world; but not so the resourceiul Cherry. Short as was the time for deliberation, his fertile instinct was equal to the occasion. With the rapidity of a lightning-change artist he proceeded to divest himself of his clothing, which he tossed over the cliff, and then, throwing himself on all fours, he pro- ceeded to meet the advancing grizzly. In those days, as he explained, he was a most poweriul man, and coy- ered with a superabundance of hair. This latter acted as his disguise, and, putting on a bold front, he awaited the approaching grizzly, which growled and showed his teeth as he came up. Cherry did likewise, They drew closer, and putting their noses together both bristled up and growled louder and fiercer. The bear sniffed at Cherry, who returned the compliment. The bear pawed the earth; so did Cherry, and then, with bristles erect and a parting growl, each went his way, with an occa- sional snarl and a look backward, until the next turn hid them from view. As Cherry was whittling a stick and putting some sand on it, preparatory to sharpening his skinning knife for removing the hide of the bear, he remarked that that was about as close a call as he had ever had; but, as he stated with an air of apology, he knew it was all right, “because it was November, and March is the only month that counts for me. I always notice that if I manage to get through March I always live the rest of the year.” While not an admirer of Indian character in general. Cherry paid the “sincerest form of flattery” to one of them in the person of Jago, and at one time this trait of his came near getting all of us into trouble. The last year we were together the Indians, always more or’ less dangerous, were especially treacherous. They would get together in small raiding parties, and swoop down on defenseless cattlemen, disappearing as quickly as they came, and leaving a trail of murder and desolation wherever they went, until finally the Government had to send several troops of infantry and cayalry to protect the lives and property of the settlers. ne day our party surprised one of these murderous bands and made them all prisoners, and were marching them to the nearest army post, when, at a given signal, they made a break for liberty, Most of them escaped; a few did not, Some time afterward the State authorities sent an agent to inquire into this part of the “massacre.” as the - ‘New Journalism” styled it in flaming headlines. Know- ing he had been in our part of the country, we instructed Cherty to be most discreet, and not to Doast, as was his wont, over the Indians he had accounted for. As a matter of fact, he had not accounted for any or thei. Tt was not long aiter this that a stranger rode up to the ranch, and, following the hospitabie custom of the country, Cherry hailed him and invited him in. Some twelve or fifteen of us were sitting outside the door at the time, most of us young fellows, and the agent, as he turned out to be, nodded in our direction and asked Cherry if those were all his, Cherry took a look at the throng gathered in front of the house, and then, turning on the agent, asked him, in a tone of undisguised con- tempt, “if he took him for an incubator?” He soon got on the good side of Cherry, though, by telling him that [Jan. 8, 1808. FOREST AND 23 STREAM. “HEAD OF MOUNTAIN SHEEP. Killed by Mr. George Gould in the Peninsula of Lower California. he had heard what a good shot he was, but during the dinner that followed adroitly remarked that he supposed that the Indians whom Cherry had had in charge had escaped. Up to this time Cherry, who had all the time been eager to give a full account of the entire transac- tion, had managed to restrain himself, but this slur on. his ability as a marksman was too much, and, in spite of all our winks and nudges, he came out with an em-- phatic “No, sir; not much, they didn’t; not by a d——d sight.” Anything could be questioned but the accuracy of his faithful rifle. I do not know what the agent reported, but am certain he could have had the entire - band of Indians satisfactorily accounted for if he had remained long enough in Cherry’s society. We took care, however, that he did not. It was the year that young Robert Ray Hamilton was ‘lost that Cherry’s pride received its quickest fall. The horse that Hamilton had ridden was found on the bank of the river not far from our camp, with the saddle overturned, an antelope strapped on behind the cantel, and some river grass clinging to the stirrups. In the hope of finding his body we built a log canoe for the ‘purpose of searching the river. Men- accustomed to handling a boat were requested to step out from the motley crowd gathered on the bank, and among the first of the volunteers came Cherry, with the remark that “he was born and bred in a boat.” We shoved out from the shore, and began poling along the shallow stream. All went well until we struck a deep and stag- nant pool, when Cherry suddenly dropped his pole, and, peering over the side, gasped out: “Boys, we have got - to turn back; I can’t see no bottom here.” Nor could he be induced to get into an upright position again and ~ eouee work until the bottom was ouce more in plain sight. One of my most amusing experiences with Cherry happened that same year. Reports of remarkably good shooting had come to us from the other side of the range, and, hoping to participate in it, we decided to . cross, although it involved a trip of some 300 miles in the dead of winter. We had almost succeeded in reaching the foothills, when a blizzard from the north struck us with such severity that for four days it drove us before it southward. The country back of us was in such condi- tion, and the cold so intense, that we then decided to strike out fof a town about ninéty miles distant, to rest up and supply our larder before again venturing into ~ the mountains. After two days of forced trayeline we reached the town, and gave an eager welcome to the first place of - entertainment we could find, leaying our horses outside. © The latter did not relish this arrangenient, and soon be- came restless, so that Cherry finally decided to take - them to the outskirts of town and make camp, where we were to follow him later. to luxuriate in the comfort and warmth of the hotel, when we were startled by a series of piercing yells and curses almost outside the door, and, recognizing Cherry’s We were just beginning ~ Probably Nelson’s Mountain Sheep. voice, we rushed out, vaulted into our saddles, and drove our horses pell-mell around the corner. The sight that met our eyes was sufficiently exciting to cause all of us to hurry to the rescue. Our pack horses were bucking about in every direction; some running away; some tangled up in the wire fences, and in danger of serious injury; and some on the ground, thrown by their loos- ened lash ropes. Cherry was afoot, the bridie of his horse in one hand and his six-shooter in the other, The cause of all this commotion was a trolley car, which had sud- denly burst around the corner with the usual clanging of the bell and pyrotechnic emission of sparks. When we arrived on the scene, Cherry had the motorman cov- ered with his revolver, and was bawling to him at the top of his voice to “take his wagon into another street.” This order not being obeyed with suificient alacrity, he fired a couple of shots across his bows as a warning, which confirmed the motorman and his fares in the im- pression that a hold-up was in progress, and the last | we saw of them they were scuttling across lots to a place of safety. We hastily got our outfit together, and started at once in the ditection of the old ranch, con- cluding that, after all, there was no place like home. Cherry listened patiently to our remonsirances as we rode away, but was evidently not placated, and declared defiantly, as the town disappeared behind the hills, that “No Christian soldiers, with their church-bells ringing, could travel up the same canyon with his pack horses. Not if he saw ’em first.” It must not for a moment be, assumed from these stories that Cherry was at all deficient in courage, and nerve, and daring. Far from it. And while he was not what is known as a “bad man,” and had no private graveyard, yet many a Western bully has round to his cost that, underlying that childlike and amiable sim- plicity of character, there was a stratum as hard as flint, © and which struck fire as readily when dealt a blow. Un- less the traditions of the frontier are at variance with the facts, there are several people registered in the next world on Cherry’s introduction. According to one of these stories, Cherry and a number of trappers and cattlemen were gathered at a rarich one winter evening exchanging yarns, as was their wont, and everything was peaceiul and amicable enough until the advent of a tough citizen from the foothills, who came in just as Cherry was relating some of his expertences, to which the newcomer took most decided objections. Cherry stood his abuse and ridicule as long as possible, and, finally, when it became unbearable, resolved, rather than have trotble, to leave, and was in the act of mounting - his horse ‘when this bully, who was of enarmous size and strength, dealt him a terrific blow on the head, which nearly rendered him insensible. He then followed - up this cowardly advantage with several more of the same kind, after which he dragged Cherry back to the house and threw him on the floor, as an example of what others might expect who incurred his displeasure. He had made a very grave mistake, however, in giving Cherry this brief breathing spell, for it enabled him to pull himself together and collect his faculties, One of his eyes had been rendered useless by a blow it had received, and the other was nearly blinded by the blood which flowed from a cut on his forehead; but as soon as he was able to distinguish his antagonist he made for him with a rush. Seeing him coming, the bully drew his revolver, but before he could pull the trigger Cherry was upon him, and before the others could interiree, had they been so disposed, had killed hitn with his own weapon. I happened to be present at a little tragedy in which Cherry took part, which caused the death of a famous horsethief and his partner, and which well illustrated Cherry's coolness and nerve. He had known years be- fore in Montana a man by the name of Murphy, who at that time was acting as foreman for a large cattle company, and afterward got mixed up in some one of the numerous border frays which were continually aris- ing, and the other side getting the upper hand, he was forced to leave. While en route south he fell in with a man by the name of Spalding, who had some 200 head of horses with him, which, he assured Murphy, were all “good” stock, and offered to give him an interest in them if he would help to get them to market, and this proposi- tion Murphy accepted. Shortly after this they fell in with Cherry, who was returning from a hunting trip, and Spalding made the same proposition to him, which was also accepted. The very next night a band of horse- thieves, or sheriff's deputies—they never knew- which— stampeded their outfit, and made off south, They suc- ceeded in recovering the greater part of the stock, but, fearing further depredations, and being near Cherry's ranch, decided to winter the stock there. During the winter a trapper from the north, who stopped over at the ranch for the night, told Cherry that the horses had been stolen, and that Spalding was the man who had done it. Cherry questioned Spalding on' the subject, and, much to his and Murphy’s surprise. learned that the charge was true. Cherry was for washing his hands of the whole outfit, but Murphy de- cided to see it out, and, chiefly on his account, our old © guide concluded not to interfere, but to allow the stock to winter on the ranch and let matters take their course. The winter was almost gone before anything further was heard of the stock; but the latter part of March word came to Cherry that a strong Montana posse was headed ” for the ranch. Even then he and Murphy took no meas- ures to disassociate themselves from their suspicious company, but decided to stick together and take chances. Our party was camped on the river, about two miles below the ranch, and one morning in April we heard’ the posse go by on the gravel bank below, and by the time our horses were caught and saddled we heard the shooting in the distance. We found out afterward that Spalding had gone to the cow barn about the time the posse arrived, and the leader met him at the door as he came out. He was at once covered with revolvers and ordered to surrender, but instead he jumped back into the barn and opened fire with both his guns. The odds against him, however, were too heavy, and he was shot down where he stood, but not until more than one’ poor fellow had been sent to his long account. Spalding was riddled with buckshot, and a fusillade of Winchesters ‘ was kept up long after he was dead, so that we had to bury him in a blanket. -Murphy, hearing the shooting, grasped his rifle and started for the barn, but just as he opened the door of the ranch a bullet imbedded itself in the wood near his head, and sent the splinters flying into his eyes. Dazed and blinded for the moment, he put his hand to his eyes. and half stepped, half fell back into the doorway, and the man who had fired the shot, thinking he had killed him, raised himself from behind the mound where he was hidden. Quick as a flash, Murphy killed him with his gun at his left shoulder, and almost in the same in- stant shot through the heart another of the deputies, who incautiously showed himself in another direction. Then he stepped into the open, and called out that he would fight them one at a time, or surrender, but even while he spoke a. bullet struck him in the back. He turned to face this new foe, but was struck again and again until he reeled and fell; but eyen then, thotigh shot through in a .dozen different places, he continued to use his rifle, and when they got to him the mag- azine was empty. The posse had surrounded the ranch when we rode up, and commanded the occupants to step forth. Cherry was the only one. As he came out of the door he was ordered to throw up his hands, while forty deputies covered him. He had his hands in his pockets; started to obey the order; drew them half way out; hesitated; shoved them back, and finally crossed his arms on his chest. The order was repeated, but Cherry, looking about him, first at the posse con- fronting him with leveled rifles still smoking from their recent execution, and then from the bodv of Spalding to the body of his friend Murphy, both riddled with bul- lets, he deliberately put his hands back in his pockets, and, turning to the sheriff, said: “These hands will go ~ up for men, not for murderers.” Cherry will be sixty his next birthday. Lewis S. THOMPSON. An Amphibious Affigator. A Boston lady stood on the deck of the Ocklawaha. - steamer in Florida, notebook and lorgnette in hand, asking ponderous questions of a darky roustabout. “Ts the alligator amphibious?” was one of her ques- tions. sae : The darky scratched his head; he was a bit puzzled, as there had been more corn-pone than dictionary in his bringing up, but his quick wit and natural logic did not © desert him as he replied: - “T reckon he am, mis’; he done bite yo’ shuah ef yo - monkey wid him.”—Youth’s Compantion. Sue had just returned from a visit to Boston. “Is it _ true,’ asked an acquaintance, “that there is an air of culture and educational refinement plainly noticeable in the speech of Boston residents?” “My dear,” she replied, impressively, ‘even the owls around Boston hoot “To whom!’ instead of ‘To who!’ as they do in the West,’ Exchange, ‘ 24 A Requiem. I went home the other night, pulled off my shoes and traded them for a pair of slippers, got comtortably set- tled in a big chair by the fire, and started in on a new book. The first chapter told about New Year’s Day— it didn’t say a word about the Old Year—and here I was living in the last days of one that was dying, and dying fast. Out of doors I could hear the wind hustling the falling snow here and there, covering the unsightly spots and blotting out-the scars of earth that the Year’s glass- ing eyes might close in peace. -I fell to-wondering how’ the Old Year felt about dying. -It had lived™its allotted time; did it grieve to go? At its birth the hour of its. passing had been decreed. Unlike the various ‘life ‘that’ quickened its existence, it knew to the hour its final de- cease. Was the Old Year leaving a heartacher Was there ~ sadness and a longing for a few more days of life—or did the world make merry over the birth of days to: follow—was it off with the old, on with the untried newr Finally I resolved on the morrowto see howthe Old Year felt about it,. It was to be the last day, Where could I get the nearest to old ‘97? Not in the crowded walks of the busy town, There there was no sorrow; the bells too’ quickly pealed out the new King’s birth. No, I would watch for once under the shadow of the pines; and mourn with nature in the midnight hour. - So on-the following evening, just as the shadows crept in and settled on the. busy streets, I started for the woods. - Out through the paved walks of the city, just as the lights began to show, just as the day of toil was ending. How cold it was; how blue the sky, with its dancing lights— worlds that had seen the birth of centuries. Now I was out of the city; the woods stood sentinel on either hand; the white carpet was laid; the moon furnished the shad- ow dancers; the wind played a weird tune, and moved- to the music the birch and maple balanced to their shad- Ow partners on the snow,: : I climbed the fence at-the roadside and struck -out across the field, resolved -to climb the mountain side, now showing dark against the sky. Just here in this little clump of birches one day last fall a woodcock met an untimely end; it was such a woodcock as artists put on canvas. How different the spot l«0ks by moonlight. I was standing just where Rex had stood on that day when the leaves. were falling. Just there was where the woodcock flushed. I could almost hear again the whistle . and the wings; but alas! it is now only a memory: of ’97. I-climbed the hill and atlast stood under a giant pine, who. had. stood so well his winter vigil that the snow found no chance to thrust beneath his guard, and the ground was bare. Beneath me the lights twinkled in answer to the stars. The little lake shone like an opal at the foot of the mountain. Nota sound broke the still- ness of the night, and save for the sad face of the moon T knew of no mourner but myself for the Old Year. Woods and fields where my dogs and I had -spent red-letter days lay at my feet. I could see here a spot and there another where the heart had quickened; I could almost fancy the dull boom of the double barrels, the rush of wings as the bird went on, I heard the music of the hound on a far-away hill, and I followed my own footsteps home with the red pelt. And ’97 was dying; these were but memories. What of ’o8? It was a hazard of fortune. Then from field I turned to fireside, and my heart failed me—how could I let the Old Year go; only I could see the face that saw the year be- gin; what to her or me was 98? But now as I pondered the shadows fled. The moon hid her fair face behind a cloud, I heard the sharp bark of a fox on the hill behind me, The pond at my feet flung to my ears a dull boom as the ice settled; and a sudden chill came on the air as the forest sighed a gentle breeze. I took out my watch; the hour stood midnight. I knew the Old Year was dead, and as if to mock the jangling bells from the city told me the Child was born, the King was dead. Long live the King. Nox-ALL, FircusurG, Mass. ; Podgers’ Commentaries. San Francisco, Dec. 29.—I have no bear stories to relate, because there are no bears nowadays hereabouts except Monarch, the big grizzly out at the Park zoo, although when first setting foot .on these shores I . might have found his counterpart in a wild state on the very ground this. big fellow now occupies.as a captive. Neither have I any tales of fishing or shooting to tell, the obstacle,to. the pursuit of the same being that metal- lic attachment to the ankle and the other end to that eaken conscience set forth in a cut in the FoREST AND Srream’s ‘Chained to Business.” Fortunate friends ag- gravate me by sending me a pair of canvasbacks or a 20lb. salmon, and I fear I am not properly grateful. It does stir one’s most diabolical fiendishness to have word sent with the birds: “If you want any more say so. Jim and I did very well on our two days’ shoot—300 between us and mostly canvasbacks.” This is no idle talk either; for the boys have universally made good bags so far this season, and the market-shooter has got in his work, resulting in our market being heavily stocked, reducing mallards and canvasbacks to 50 cents a pair. And to think that a man whose weakness is the gun and rod has to sit by and endure all this, and all within a couple of hours’ reach, is enough to make a person swear or get some one to swear for him. That became my duty once - when fishing on a stream one time up in old Connecti-_ when fishing on a stream one time in the State of Con- | necticut with a clerical friend who stood on a slippery log. Just as he had a strike of a big trout his feet went out from under him and in he went, ker souse. I hauled him out and said: “Parson, don’t you-feel like swear- ing?” find doing it for me, I shall feel obliged. There are oc- casions when the relief it brings is justifiable.” Try cracking a hickory nut and hit your thumb instead, and see. , ; We have had, and are haying, an exceptionally good season for game, thanks to the efforts of our game war- | dens and the ‘consequent restrictions of the usual slaugh- ter by market hunters, although by no means entirely effective. » >} “Tndeed I do,” he sputtered, “and if you don’t - rt - record. FOREST AND STREAM. Netting and big-bored guns still get in their deadly wotk, as demonstrated by the piles of ducks—wagon- loads, I may say—to be seen in our markets almost any day. It is a wonder that there is a duck or quail left in the country. Now comes in our salmon fishing, fine sport being had with rod in all our streams emptying into the ocean, into which the fish run after the first rains, and here your humble servant, who claims to have been the first person to take a salmon on the coast with a fly, must sit by and see the fishermen coming home of an evening . with a back load of 20-pounders, the result of the day’s Sport. The fish are generally caught with a feathered spoon, however, as most of them do not even yet believe salmon in our waters can be caught with the fly, and do “not try it. The spoon is more reliable, California is a pretty good country yet for the sports- man, although nothing to what it was in early days. The march of improvement and great increase in popu- lation and shooters has in a measure driven the game away or exhausted it. In the early days, say forty years ago, there were elk by the hundreds within twenty miles of the city, and a deer or a grizzly could be bagged _ where roses and japonicas are now perfuming the air; An old schooner captain tells me that on one occasion in sailing up the straits where the Navy Yard now stands. he struck a band of elk swimming across the straits, so- numerous that he could not get through them, and had to lower sail and wait for them to pass. Of course this_ was before the advent of the hateful Gringo and gold- seeker had spoiled one of the most beautiful countries of — the Lord's footstool. Talk about Africa! it could -not hold the proverbial candle to what this country was be- fore the discovery of gold, with its millions of elk, deer, motntain lions,, and that king of beasts, the grizzly, compared to which the African lion is a pigmy. T are but a few left now—now and then one back in the inaccessible mountain ranges. He has retired before civilization, like every other good thing. I have referred several times to the numerous expedi- tions that have fitted out here to search for buried treas- ure on Cocos Island, which, legend hath it, was the favorite resort of gentlemen pirates. I think I gave an account of six or seven. Since then two. more have joined the ranks of the credulous, and even a British man-of-war, Altogether they must have dug over nearly every foot of poor old Cocos and put it in good farming condition. Many of the expeditions declare they almost found it, but just as they were certain of success provi- sions gave out and they had to abandon the ‘search. . All sorts of expeditions coritintte to be fitted out to sail to the South Sea Islands. ©ne consisting of 100 men botight a vessel and sailed for an island reported to be | inhabited entirely by women who were crazy to get married and sighed for the male element. In due time the island was found, but so far from the ladies being languishing maidens, they were fotind to’ be provided each with a gentleman with a ring in’ his nose and a spear in his hand, and showihg a lively disposition to boil, fry and roast such of the’ expedition as they could induce to land. In this the females joined. The story that they were glad enough to welcome white men was true enough, but they wanted them grilled or in an Irish stew. The expedition was finally shipwrecked and straggled back by ones and twos, as they could beg passage from occasional vessels. Now we have another expedition of miners bound for the Solomon group to search for gold. It is surmised that if they land none will live to return, as the Solomon . Islanders are known to be about the toughest lot of gen- tlemen of the whole South Seas.’ Their appetites are wonderful, and they pick the bones of a white man so clean that a crow would starve on what they leave. PopGERS. dlatural History. eee ee Nelson’s Mountain Sheep. SomE time ago Dr. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the Bio- logical Survey, described under the name Ovis nelsoni a new species of mountain sheep from Mexico, The speci- men on which’ this description was based was a female secured by Mr. E.. W. Nelson, of the Biological Survey, a well-known explorer,- who seems equally at home whether voyaging in a kayak along the shore of the Arctic Ocean or penetrating the densest tangles of the swamps of Central America. ‘There are many sportsmen who, on general principles only and without any definite knowledge of the subject, deride this new species, and are disposed to lump all the native motintain sheep of North America under the single name Ovis canadensis, instead of counting as four different species O. dalli, O. stom, O. canadensis and O. nelsoni. The male of Ovts nelsoni is not known to the natural- ists of the Biological Survey, yet we believe that in the head of a remarkable ram, killed in 1894 in the peninsula of Lower California*by Mr. George H. Gould, a mag- nificent example of this form is to be seen, Readers who attended the Sportsmen’s Exposition in 1895 will recall a superb sheep’s head exhibited in the © space of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. This was the specimen referred to. The committee of the Boone and Crockett Club, consisting of Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell and Archibald Rogers, who measured the heads of big game on that occasion, gave the girth of the horns of this head as 16%in., the length 42%4in., and the spread 2534in. They said of it, “Tt is on the whole the finest head of which we have any Tt will be observed that for their length these horns were somewhat slender, and further, that their sptead' is greater than is usually seen in the mountain - sheep, although ‘it is well known that in these animals individual variation is quite marked, This, then, seems to be characteristic of this head—light, slim horns, with an outward twist greater than is commonly seen in the mountain sheep of the middle Rocky Mountains. It may be that this is characteristic of the male of 0. nelsonz. here ~ _in the peninsula; There are four: Jan. 8, 1898.] The country where this specimen was taken is the yol- canic desert of Lower California, far south of the United States boundary line. In that country there are said to be not a few sheep, but it is a region almost waterless, and on that account very difficult to penetrate. It is this sheep whose head is the cover stamp of the second volume of the Boone and Crockett book, en- titled “Hunting in Many Lands,’ in which volume is found a delightful account of Mr. Gould’s Lower Cali- fornia hunt. The cover stamp referred to gives a better idea of the lightness and outward sweep of horns on what we are disposed to, believe to-be the only known male head of this nelsoni than does the accompanying illustration, The two figures should be studied together. We reproduce from Mr. Gould’s article entitled “The Gulf of Cortez” the following description of the country in which this sheep was found, and of the incidents im- mediately connected with its capture. Mr. Gould says: “We were now approaching the true desert. This term is not restricted to the broad level sand wastes along the Gulf, but includes the arid and waterless mountains ad- jacent, and this must be borne in mind when the Mexi- cans-tell you.that sheep are to be found in the desert, “Wee passed the last of the bruishy hills, and crossing a small divide came over slopes of volcanic cinders to a lit- tle Wwater-spot with dwarf willows and grass. This was our hinting camp. The country through which . our route had lain heretofore was altogether granitic, though one. could see. hills apparently of stratified material in the ~ distance. - Toward the desert we met beds of.conglom- erate ‘and trachyte and mountains covered with slide- * rock: tinging flinty-like clinkers from some great volcanic furnace: Ana _ “The*vegetation had-somewhat changed. There were more Cactus,particularly the fleshy. kind called venaga, though-T noticed with. surprise the absence of the great fruit-bearing cactuses, the Saguarro and Pitaya, all along our route. The Spanish daggers were very numerous, as _ were also Mescal plants, both of these forming veritable thigketsiineplacess= = 4 Se" a = “This makes the third variety of wilderness encountered First.and best, the pure barrens; second, the brushy hills-and:- plains covered with sage,.greasewood and buckweed; third, this spike- bearing volcanic region, and fourth, the appalling desola- tion of the acknowledged desert. BA ivy “The moment we had unloaded and watered our animals Anastasio and I set out to look for deer. Anastasio wore the spotted and tattered remnant of a frock coat once green, given him by an Englishman, of whom I shall say more latet. He had guarachis, or sandals, on his feet, bare legs, a breech-clout, and on his head a reddish ban- danna handkerchief in the last stages of decay, and as he peered over some rock, glaring long and earnestly in search of game, he reminded one of those lean and wolfish Apaches that Remington draws in a way so dramatic and so full of grim significance. “Anastasio was fifty-one years old and had no upper in- cisors, but the way he flung his gaunt leathern shanks over those mountains of volcanic clinkers, armed with the poisoned bayonets of myriads of mescal, cactus and Spanish dagger, was astonishing. “T told him that I was not racing, and that he would scare the game.: In fact, he did start one little fellow, but he said he always saw the game first, and for this day I was quite powerless to hold him in; so I decided to re- turn to camp’before dark... This. disgusted . Anastasio greatly. ‘In this-way we-shall.neyer kill” said he. -‘We are going to suffer from. hynger.’ I assured“him that we had plentiful supplies, but-he -had. come for «meat... Un- bounded meat had been the chief incentive for his trip, and hungry he was determined to be. “The next day J. B. set out early with the red man. I arranged camp, and two or three hours later took’what I supposed was a different direction, but soon encountered the pair returning. J. B. had a painful knee, and An- astasio had started his racing tactics and kept them up until. J. B: was quite lame. : “The Indian reported that he had seen sheep. J. B. had used the glass, without finding them, and then Anastasio captured it and looked through the wrong end, nodding and saying he could count five, very big: This, I am sorry to say, was false and affected on Anastasio’s part, and J. B, was skeptical about the sheep altogether; but I knew how hard it was to find distant game when you don’t know exactly how it should appear. To reach the supposed. sheep the mountain must be climbed and the crest turned, for the wind permitted no other course. -J. B. did not feel up to the task, and I directed him to camp. Anastasio and I climbed for about four hours, and reached a position whence his sheep would be visible. He stared long, and said he could make out one- ewe ly- ing down under a juniper. I tried the glass. He was right. His unaided sight seemed about equal in definition to my field glass. On this occasion he declined to use the - glass, We could get no nearer unseen, and though the _ distance was very great I decided to risk a shot. ~“T fired in fact two or three shots at the ewe, alarming her greatly, when from beneath a cliff which lay below us a band streamed out. Two big rams started off to the right, Anastasio and I tan down a bit, and I trieda long shot at the leading ram. The distance was great, and the run had pumped me a little. I missed. The second ram was still larger. He stopped a moment at 15oyds., and I dropped him. Anastasio grunted satisfaction. I swung to the left, where the rest of the band was journeying, sighted at the shoulder of a young ram and fired. The ball passed through my intended victim, dropping him, and entered the eye of a yearling ram who stood behind, — thus killing two rams at one shot—a most unusual acci- dent. “The rest of the band were now quite distant, and though I fired several shots, at Anastasio’s desire—he said he wanted a fat ewe—none took effect. . : “T cleaned the sheep and skinned out the big head. An- aStasio took one small ram entire on his back, supporting - it by a rope passed over the top of his. head, and I with the big horns started down. It was 1 o’clock. The head might have weighed 35lbs. fresh. It grew to weigh 1,500lbs. before dark. Stumbling down through the slide- ~ rock with legs full of venomous prickers, I passed below ~ camp without noticing it, and was well on the other side, when I thought I had gone about far enough, and shout- ed, J, B.’s voice answered across a small hill, and I / Jan, 8, 1808. ] FOREST AND STREAM, 28 nn ee ee found that he had never found camp at all, but had found a water spot, atid wisely decided not to leave it without good reason. “T scouted a bit to the west, but found unfamiliar coun- try, and as the sun had set we were seemingly about to stay by that water all night, when I turned around and saw a pale column of smoke rising above the crest of the tidge against the evening sky. “At once we marched around the ridge, and as we rose over the divide we saw the whole hillside flaming with signal fires. Our dear old Anastasio had become alarmed, and set fire to fifteen or twenty dead mescals in different places to guide us home. God bless a good Indian! “The next day I spent the morning in washing, resting and ‘cutting spikes out of my legs. Anastasio packed in the second small ram, and ate ribs and slept. Then, in the afternoon, we got the rest of the big fellow down. Anastasio, to make his load lighter, smashed off the shanks with a stone, although he carried a knife in his _ belt—a striking trick of heredity.” Yellowstone Park Notes. Mammotu Hot Sprines, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., Dec. 190—This morning a team and three men started out to bring in a soldier who froze to death be- tween the Lake Hotel and the Thum). The news came in last night. As neatly as I can learn the story it is this: The soldiers stationed at Snake Riyer and Mud Geyser have an arrangement to meet on the 15th and 30th of every month at a cabin on the West Bay or Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, to exchange mail, reports, etc. Two men started from their station at Mud Geyser, spent the first night at the Lake Hotel, starting from there on the morning of the r4th at about 8 o’clock with the ther- mometer several degrees below zero. The distance be- tween the hotel and cabin is nineteen miles. When’ out about ten miles one of the men found himself giving out, anid, knowing he could not make to the cabin, started to return. The other soldier, Private John W. H. Davis, of D Troop, Sixth Cavalry, determined to push on to the cabin. This was in violation of very strict orders issued by the commanding officer. The orders are that no one man shall make a snowshoe trip alone; that there shall never be less than two together, and that if one has to turn back or stop, the other man must stay with him. These orders haye been in force since the spring of ’o4, when the Forrst AND STREAM Expedition reported the man lost between Riverside and the Lower Geyser Basin. The man who turned back spent the night in a cabin on Bridge Bay, getting back to the Lake Hotel next morning with his fingers, ears and toes frosted a bit, reporting to Fort Yellowstone by telephone. Capt. Er- win, the commanding officer, ordered two men from another station over to investigate. The men _ started out as soon as possible, and very near the 12-mile post found Davis frozen stiff, his snowshoes sticking up in the road. It seems almost impossible for a man to lose his life in such a way in that country, as there is any quantity of dry wood and timber all along the road. He could not have been so careless as to be without matches! I will try to get all the particulars later. Capt. Erwin has had reported to him thirty-two buffalo as seen by his scouting parties. He was unable to get away on our photographing trip to Soda Butte, and had to give it up until next spring. To-day I saw in Gardiner Canyon five mountain sheep, not quite close enough for a picture. Quite a number of coyotes have been poisoned in the Park lately, and fresh poison is put out every few days. Very large bands of elk are seen by the Cooke City stage driver all along the road from the springs to Soda Butte, I saw about fiiteen antelope on the flat across Gardi- ner’s River as I came down. One of the scouts reported as having seen Saturday about 750 elk on the ridge in the Swan Lake country. Elk, antelope and mule deer are close in to Gardiner, south and southwest of the town. Very few of the ante- lope have come out of the Park lately. Only a few have been killed in Montana. E. Horer. r Infertility of the Half-breed Goose. PROVIDENCE, Ky., Dec. 20.—Editor Forest and Stream: I notice in a recent issue that Shaganoss would like to know about the infertility of eggs of hybrids from com- mon domestic and wild goose (B. canadensis). Waving from experience been familiar with the raising oi these half-breeds, I can say that they will not hatch. The male hybrid retains the red feet of the tame goose, while the female has the dark color of the wild goose. Head of female also darker than male. Some of the geese in this flock are over thirty-five years old. |MelkencE: Ancona, Ia., Dec. 29.—I notice an inquiry by Shaga- noss in regard to the hatching of the eggs of the half- breed geese. My experience has been that stich eggs will not hatch. I have tried the experiment many times and the result has always been the same. I do not think that the Canada goose should be classed with the goose tribe, as the bird is more like a swan. If the “tame goose” was crossed with the white-fronted or snow goose I have no doubt that the eggs from the birds of that cross would hatch. Joun G. SmituH. In reply to Shaganoss in FoREST AND STREAM of Dec. 25, 1897, | would say: In 1869 I was in Sullivan county, Mo., and I became acquainted with a family named Dell, Passing their place one day on my return home from Scottsville, I saw a flock of the biggest geese I ever saw anywhere.. They were peculiar in color, too, being much darker than the ordinary domestic goose. I called to one of the Dell boys and asked him whether or not he would sell me some eggs of those geese. He said he would, but that they would not hatch. I told him then IT did not want them. When I got home I told my uncle about the geese, and that young Dell said the eggs were sterile. He said: “You are not: the first person taken in by the Dells’ mule geese. They are a cross between the tame goose trap was put into the hole, secured by a chain. and the wild goose. One of the older Dell boys wounded two wild geese, one a gander, the other a goose, and they kept these with their tame flock and raised geese by crossing both ways. The two old wild geese either? died or were killed, and those big geese stay by them- selves, as you notice. They do not go with the tame geese, and are a great curiosity. Their eggs will not hatch. The boys used to disbelieve this, but old man Dell gave me some of the eggs, and I tried them: Those crossed geese are mules—the eggs are sterile.’ J don’t know whether or not the wild geese above were Branta canadensis or not, but I often heard people speak of “Dell’s big mule geese.” AMATEUR, The Linnean Society. REGULAR meetings of the Society will be held Jan, 11 and 25, and public lectures will be delivered in the lecture hall of the American Museum of Natural History, Sev- Peer street and Eighth avenue, New York, as fol- ows: Jan. 6, public lecture, Daniel Giraud Elliot, “Cats ang the Lands they Inhabit;” illustrated by lantern slides, Jan, 11, Ernest Seton Thompson, “The Summer Birds of the Yellowstone National Park,” continued from meeting of Dec. 14, Jan., 25, W. K. Parmelee, “Notes on;the Habits of Turtles, with Particular Reference to those Species found within Fifty Miles of New York City;” illustrated by specimens. Feb. 3, “From Vera Cruz to Mexico City,” by Frank M. Chapman. | March 17, “The Mammals of North America,” by Ern- est Seton Thompson; illustrated by views ftom nature and from original drawings by the lec\urer. April 7, “Protective and Directive Coloration of Ani- mals,” by C. Hart Merriam. WALTER W. GRANGER, Sec’y. AMERICAN Museum or Naturat History. Trapping an Eagle. THE capture of an eagle three miles from-Brownstown, — W. Va., by Geo. Handley, Will Walker, Ed Smith and Jas. Bullington was effected in quite an unusual way, and it was not a less peculiar habit of the eagle that oc- casioned his capture. The above-named men while searching for maple trees observed for several days an eagle fly to a lofty poplar, alighting every time perhaps not over roft. from the ground and then disappearing from sight. The curiosity of the men was awakened. Accordingly they went to the tree, and one of the men climbed to the roosting place of the feathered king, which to his surprise was a hollow place about ift. deep. They then conceived the idea of trapping him. A common rat A man by the name of Ross, living near, was trusted to keep daily watch of the eagle, and was soon rewarded by dis- “coveting that his majesty had been trapped. After a fierce struggle the bird was firmly secured and borne tri- umphantly away. He measured 7it. from tip to tip of wings. As the men did-not care to keep the carnivorous pet they sold him to a circus proprietor for $11. N. D. Exttne. Muskrat in a Store. A FEW days ago my dog, that, by the way, is fond of rats as game, got scent of something in Brinker Brothers’ ‘store, in Central City, W. Va.. which proved a flat-tail rodent instead of the kind of rat so much inclined toward the habitat of man. It was about half-grown. It puzzles us to know how and why he got there. He probably came from a ditch running along Railroad avenue, about half a Square from the store; but that a muskrat had his resi- dence in the heart of the city was a thing hardly dreamed of. Maybe he was a little truant, and fell into the bad company of his predatory cousins and got into trouble, as did dog Tray for the same reason. N. D. E. Game Baq and Gun. Blackbuck in Muzzleloader Days. At the_latter end of the 60s I was living at a station in central India, the country around which was well stocked with small game. There were also a few ante- lopes (A. bezoartica) and gazelles (G, bennetti), but ‘these had been so incessantly hunted during the preceding two years by the officers and men of a Highland regiment that there was much difficulty in approaching within 200 or 300yds. of them. By hard work I had succeeded, during the cool season, in bagging twenty, besides a couple of tour-horned antelope. The hot weather was commencing. Most of the ducks, snipe and quail had migrated to northern regions, and the partridges and hares were breeding. Sportsmen therefore had given up small game shooting for that season. After a few weeks of quiet life the monotony began to be insupportable to myself and a friend named B., in the battery of artillery to which we belonged. We therefore applied for a week’s leave of absence and arranged.to go to a Government rest-house for travelers (called Dawk Bungalow), thirty-three miles distant, where we heard there were, antelope which had not been wiuch worried by hunters. , - I hired two camels, loaded them with my tent, cook- ing utensils, some tins of preserved soup, a few bottles of beer, .etc., and sent them forward to await our arrival at the bungalow. ~ . In order to avoid a long, slow ride in the heat, we each . borrowed some horses-and distributed them along the road so as to have a fresh mount about every eight miles. Before daylight next morning we had some tea, and started. The road was kept in good order for the Gov- ernment mail-carts to travel over, but on each side of it finished the thirty-three miles without fatigue in rather less than three hours, arriving at the Dawk Bungalow before the sun became too scorching, .The country through which we had passed was cultivated in places, the intervening parts being covered for miles together with low btsh jungle of acacia and cornel thorn, or with, tall srass bleached by the sun-to a light yellow tint. After breakfast we went out to look for game, B, was a first-rate performer with his 12-bore _muzzle-loading shotgun, but was unaccustomed to a rifle. I dent him, a Westley Richards carbine, .45-bore, taking a_cartridge of thin, tough paper containing 55 grains of powder and 4oo of lead. The bullet lay, for the greater part of its length, in the grooving, and the rifle was the most accurate breech-loader of that time. (es- pecially at long ranges), with the exception of the Ameri- can Maynard, which was superior in calm weather up to T50yds. - For myself I had a double, muzzle-loading, two- grooved rifle carrying round-belted balls of 17 to the . pound, with 55 grains of powder. The barrels, like those there was a narrow belt of ground rather less hard, along ~ which we rode at a steady, hard gallop, only stopping to transiet the saddles on to the fresh horses. We thus pulse and clarified butter (called. ghee). _ of most of the old rifles in England, had been put to- gether for light powder charges, and 1 could not use more without throwing the bullets 5 or Gin. apart at Iooyds. With 55 grains it was very accurate, but of course the trajectory was high, being nearly 6in. for the first 1ooyds., up to which distance it carried with the fixed rear sight.. There were folding leaf sights for rs0 and 200yds, : ! Many .of your younger readers who: have tsed only improved modern rifles, sitch as the .40-60 ot .45-70 re- peaters, may think that a large proportion of shots must have been wasted with bullets making such high curves in their flight. With men who hunted:at long interyals this was the case, but those who were in constant prac- tice with their rifles were nearly as certain of hitting their mark at ranges up to about 11oyds. as they would be with the modern weapons. The very necessity of aiming higher or lower, to allow for the curve of the bullet, at all objects beyond 30yds., made hunters much better judges of distance than they now are, so that, even when firing at running game, the requisite allowance was made almost instinctively. It is at ranges between 120 and 2ooyds. that modern rifles show their superiority in the most marked manner. With the-above-mentioned two-groove I had killed sevy- eral antelope and gazelles at distances up to 200yds., but had lost many through the bullets going over or under their chests. When the distance was correctly judged, I never used any rifle at game shooting which excelled it in accuracy. W. Greener, the father of the present gun- maker of that name, and Chapman, in his book on “The Improved American Rifle,’ both write very disparag- ingly against two-grooved rifles, but every sportsman who has hunted with them, or whose narratives I have read, has spoken of them in the highest terms. The country all round the Dawk Bungalow was a wide plain, intersected with shallow, dried-up water-courses, and with a range of low, rocky hills in the distance. It was cultivated in patches, from which the crops had been reaped, and the intervening ground was covered with low prickly bushes, tufts of dry grass and a few wild date palms. : B, and I started, each with two coolies from a neigh- boring village, in order that they might carry back any game that we killed. We separated so as not to spoil each other’s sport, and after walking some distance I noticed a gazelle in a clump of bushes 7oyds. away. I always, made it a rule to kill something at the earliest opportunity on every. shooting excursion, for the purpose of supplying the native seryants with flesh food. It was a pleasant change for them, and made them more cheer- ful when living only upon their ordinary diet of flour, t I therefore dropped the gazelle in his tracks with a.shot through the shotilders, and, after the little animal. was cleaned, one of the coolies carried it.on his head to the bungalow. The most convenient mode of preparing a small deer or antelope to, be carried in this way is to slit open the space between the tendon and bone above each hock, push each. fore leg from the opposite side through: the hole, and preyent the uppermost leg from slipping back by passing a sharp-pointed stick like a skewer through the arm close above the knee. A piece of string tied round all the legs where they cross will fix them still more firmly, and sometimes it is advisable to fasten an animal’s head to them, thus preventing it from swaying about. Most-coolies prefer carrying a weight on their heads if it can be made compact.enough. . After, walking about two miles more I saw a fine blackbuck with splendid horns, and managed to stalk to within tooyds., when he began to move preparatory to breaking into a gallop, The bullet struck in the shoul- der rather too high, probably grazing the under part of the spine. The buck dropped on the spot, but as he continued struggling while on his side I feared he might get on hislegs, so-ran forward and put the bullet of the . second barrel through his brain. The stun was, by that time, so hot that after cleaning the buck and helping the coolie to carry the carcass to the bungalow I took a cold bath and énjoyed a few hours’ rest: Late in the afternoon.B. and I went out again in sepa- rate directions. I found another blackbuck, and ap- proached within 90 or 1ooyds., when he moved away in an oblique direction, but stopped for an instant to look back at me. I made a bad yet very successful shot, aim- ing at the root of the left ear. On returning to the bungalow I found that B. had been unlucky: He had seen some antelope, but could not approach within fair range, which was not surprising, considering that he was inexperienced in stalking. He was too good a sportsman to fire at game several hun- dreds of yards distant, for the mere chance of killing, or more likely, uselessly wounding an animal. | The blackbuck is usually found in places where there is little cover, but-if not made too wary by having been frequently shot at he can generally, be stalked to within 100 or 150yds. by a hunter who does not mind walking on hands and knees, or dragging himself along with- his elbows and toes in thé dry beds of streams and behind low bushes. This is, of course, hard work under a blazing sun, and trying to a man’s temper when, as is often the case, the gfound:is strewn with, dead thorns. They are sometimes in places where the cover is better 26 . and can then be shot*with less trouble. They must be _-hit-in a vital spot, for if the bullet passes through the _baek ribs or abdomen they are liable to run out of sight, -and if a leg be broken they will sometimes gallop for miles. I have known some sportsmen who followed on horseback and speared them when a leg was broken, but I always waited for them to lie down (which they will soon do if not pursued), and then stalked them again. The part of the chest which must be struck to insure -bagging, even with a .450 express ball, is not more (at the utmost) than 6in, deep and 8in. wide, including the spine. The first buck I eyer killed appeared behind some tall bushes, when I was walking across an open plain. He gave me a fair standing shot at 20o0yds., but although the bullet of the two-grooved rifle went clean through both shoulders he ran about the same distance through the bushes before dropping. - On another occasion I fired at a buck facing me rsoyds. distant. The bullet (1oz. in weight and driven by 62ers. of powder) struck almost exactly in the center of the breast, passing out through a hind quarter; yet the _animal turned round and disappeared in the bushes. By carefully walking exactly against the wind J found him lying dead 80 or rooyds. further on. (Several kinds of deer or antelope always run, if possible, straight against the wind when wounded, and I have repeatedly recovered them by following in the same direction when there was no bleeding or any track visible.) Occasionally on bare, ‘open plains, I have succeeded in approaching within shooting distance of a herd of antelope by walking slowly round them as if intending to go past, while looking in any direction except toward them, and stoop- ing down like the native cultivators, as if pulling up weeds, every time the animals showed signs of uneasi- ness. On occasions like these the hunter must be yery careful not to go for even an instant out of their sight im a ravine or behind a rock or tree. If he do so, the herd will suspect an ambuscade and gallop away. But to return to the narrative: On the following morn- ing B. and I went out soon aiter davbreak, and nearly in the same place as on the preceding evening I found another buck and obtained a standing shot at about tooyds., killing him in has tracks with a bullet behind the shoulder. it In the afternoon I went out again, B. walking to some likely-looking ground in an easterly direction, while I went toward the rocky hills in the north. While passing over some cultivated land I noticed a herd of antelope quite 5ooyds. away. They at once became alarmed: and started off, many of them, as is their habit when fright- ened, repeatedly springing perpendicularly 8 or roft. into the air.- - Not very long afterwards the sound of a rifle shot came from the east, and in a few minutes the heads of some animals appeared over a Swell in the plain, moving rap- idly in.my direction. There was no place for concealment except a slight hollow, in which I sat down. My head and shoulders were above this, but the cover of my pith helmet and my clothes of thin cotton being all dyed with the slate color called in India khakee, there was not much chance of being noticed when keeping perfectly still. One the animals came at a gallop, a herd of ten or twelve gazelles leading, and a fine blackbuck some yards in the rear going with the long, lurching strides the speed of which is so deceptive until you. try to follow on a fast horse. They passed obliquely at about r150yds., and raising the rear leaf sight for that range [ saw the front bead on the shoulder swung forward until it ap- peared the buck’s own length in front or his nose, and pressed the trigger. The bullet, as I aiterwards found, struck at the rear edge of the right shoulder and passed out in front of the left, the buck galloping about 6oyds.” and falling apparently dead. J had no idea that any man was in sight, but a native who had been hidden behind some large trees close by suddenly appeared and began - running towards the buck, which at once showed signs of life, struggled to his feet and commenced walking away. Not knowing at the time where the bullet had struck, I rushed forward to within a short range and fired the second barrel, hitting the back of the head be- tween the ears. Although animals which drop im their tracks some- times rise to their feet, this is the only instance I can remember of one. doing so after running some distance before falling. ; B. met me at the bungalow and said that he had shot a gazelle with the Westley Richards carbine, but lost him and had also narrowly escaped killing a native who was cutting grass a long distance beyond. The man called out in terror, and B., on going to where he was sitting, found that the bullet, after drilliing a hole in the gazelle, had passed through the man’s hair close above one ear. (On.a subsequent occasion when standing on the border of a wide, sandy plain I killed a jackal with this carbine when using the leaf sight for only 1s5o0yds., yet the bullet knocked up the dust quite 800yds. further on. Bullets with hollow points I had not then heard of, and ’ ‘therefore discontinued using the carbine for game shoot- ing, being afraid. of injuring some herdsman in charge of cattle or goats, who might happen to be out of sight in the jungle.) On the. following morning we sent the servants with the tent to.a camping ground several miles on the road toward home, B. and myself trying our luck once more in the country around the Dawk Bungalow. After walk- ing a long distance I came upon a blackbuck about, 100 yds: away and.had an easy shot at his shoulder. At the report of the rifle he bounded perpendicularly fully 6ft. and gallaped away untouched through tie trees, while I was too astonished at having missed to fire the second barrel before he had disappeared. When reloading I found that the 150yds. leaf sight had by some accident been raised, so that the bullet had passed several inches above the animal’s shoulder. j While returning to;the bungalow I suddenly saw what appeared-to be a’ beautiful, calm lake close in front, and could not-feel convinced that it was only a mirage until T looked back and found that there was a similar re- semblance to:a lake. The illusion was so periect that the bushes, tufts of tall grass and’ palm trees were all re- flected upside down as if on real water, ; ‘ After breakfast B. and J rode to the camping ground, . the heat having become so interise that, although the tent had a double roof, we were glad during the middle FOREST AND STREAM. of the day to keep our heads cool by frequently pouring water over them. ‘Late in, the afternoon [ strolled over a plain covered with thorny bushes and masses of gneiss rock 6 or 8ft. high, I found a herd of gazelles with one buck antelope among them. He appeared to be only 3 years old, for the horns had but three spiral twists, while the air was just beginning to turn a black color on the sides of the chest. I fired at tooyds., when the gazelles galloped out of sight, followed by the buck, who soon lagged behind, evidently hard hit. Creeping through the bushes I had a shot at the same distance as before, when he ran off in quite a lively manner. Following for some distance, I obtained a third shot, also at rooyds., and with a similar result. For the fourth time I stalked within sight and found him 80 or ooyds. away. At the moment when the hammer of the Jock was falling he saw me and darted forward so that the bullet, instead of hittine the shoulder, went through a little below the kidneys. The buck then cantered away, and, passing out of the bush jungle, dis- appeared oyer a ridge of ground nearly halt a mile dis- tant. I followed as quickly as possible, and, walking cau- tiously to the tor of the ridge, found him lying down about zoyds. away with the head still erect. His back being towards me, I aimed between the ears, but only succeeded in digging out one horn at its base. This stunned the buck for a moment, so I held down his head by the remaiming horn until the coolie hurried iorward and bled him. Even then he retained so much vigor as to kick at the man and tear the sleeve of his cotton jacket ftom wrist to elbow. I never saw another im- stance of such extraordinary vitality, and am quite un- able to account for it. The first three bullets had struck not more than 2in. from each other, forming an equi- lateral triangle at the rear edge of the left shoulder. We rode to another camping ground on the following morning, and on the day after returned to the canton- ments, having bagged nothing more except a couple of gazelles, which I shot as food for the native servants. A native tanner preserved the skins as well as could have, been done by the best English taxidermist, and stuffed the four uninjured heads very cleverly, using the hollow bottoms of wine bottles for the eyes. J. J. Meyrick. ENGLAND. Two Deer Hunts. Editor Forest and Stream: ; How slowly the time seems to pass to the boy, espe- cially those who are fond of hunting and outdoor sport, before he gets to be a man. Then again how swiftly it passes after he has crossed the summit of life’s divide. It is now more than forty years since I killed my first deer; it was in the winter of 1855, in Doniphan coun- couny, Kan. Some Missouri hunters were after a deer and ran it so close that it came to the river, which was blocked with ice. I was hauling logs when I heard the hounds coming toward the river, and ran and got my squirrel rifle, and ran down below town, and I[ saw the deer coming across on the ice! It came otit near to where I was standing on a log. I bleated at it, and when it stopped I fired at its heart, as near as I could tell, and at the crack. of the rifle it jumped very high and started to run. I reloaded the rifle as quickly as I could, started after it, and in less than 5oyds. found it dead. It was but a few minutes before there must have been a. dozen men and boys there, but not one was so happy as J. Soon the men and dogs began to congregate on the opposite side of the Missouri, but the ice was not safe, and they were much disappointed at losing their game. Well, that poor little miserable deer was dragged up to our house, skinned and divided up among our neigh- bors. And yet it all seems to haye been only a few days ago. There may be some people leit who got a small piéce of my first deer. As I have given the story of this first one, let me tell of the last. I was at Oro when Mr. Snyder said that if I would stay all night he would go home with me and take a couple of days’ hunt. We prepared plenty of wood, so we could get an early start in the morning, and when the clock struck 4 I turned out and started the fires in both stoves, and while I got breakfast he fed our horses, and just as day was breaking we left the house and started for Mount Bonaparte. When we reached the base we saw quite a lot of fresh sign. Here we separated, Mr. S. going up the right fork of the mill creek. while I kept up the left. .L had not gone far when I came across where two old bucks had been having a fight, and for several hundred yards they had cut up the snow completely, and I saw where one had been down a number of times. Here Ef tied my horse, as the tracks were so fresh I expected I could overtake the deer before they reached the thicket or lay down for the day. Soon Franixc scented some. 1 kept on and hunted very careful, yet saw nothing only fresh tracks. Finally Frank lost the scent we had been following, but I kept on in the direction | had come to the first big thicket, and not liking to wailow through hundreds of yards of brush as thick as wheat I kept up. to the left a short distance, and soon crossed the track of a yery' big buck. From Frank’s actions I knew it was very fresh. . It went down quartering to my right. but as | had often been through on that route I kept on up, and when I came out into the opening I started down to see if the buck had come out. I had gone but a few steps when I heard him break cover down to my right. Soon he came out of the thicket about 250yds. below me and was making for a small ridge near the bank of the creek. I knew he would stop when he reached the top, if he did not stop sooner. He passed out of sight ior a short dis- tance, and was trotting when he ascended the small rise and stopped and turned broadside. I had guessed at the distance, and adjusted my telescope for the top of “the ridge; had sat down in the snow and was resting the rifle against a small black pine; so he had just fairly - stopped when I had the telescope on him, and placing the perpendicular hair straight up his foreleg and the horizontal one along his back I pulled the trigger, but he never moved. I was certain I saw snow fall from a bush beyond and above him, so I threw in another car- tridge and placed the horizontal hair straight with his belly. Again I fired, and at the crack of the fifle he jumped forward, and I was certain from his movement Jan. 8, 1808. ] _ he was hit. I went down, and when I came to. go over the ground I thought I had over-estimated the distance a little; | had put the sight tor 7ooyds. On reaching the spot. I found quite a lot of hair on both sides of his tracks. I followed him up for at least tooyds., and expected to find blood every step, but saw not a drop. Soon I came to where he had rin against a small dead bush, and about 2oft. beyond he lay dead; but not a single drop.of blood could I discover. On drawing him I tound the bullet had madé but two small holes, and had passed through only a little above the heart. It was the first metal-patched bullet I had ever killed a deer with. . Yet, oh, how different were my feelings! Instead of feeling proud, I felt remorseful to think I should have killed such a fine animal just to please a neighbor, Lew WiLmor. In Colorado Mountains. Tuis season [ decided to take my outing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, among old friends where I had lived from 1888 to 1894. In company with my father I lett my home in Pennsylvania on Tues- day, Aug. 31, arriving at Laramie, Wyo., the following Friday. Next morning we started on our stage journey over the North Park stage line, the driver being an old friend and hunting companion of former years. We arrived that night at Pinkhamton, Col., after a ‘fifty-mile drive. There we were met by my old friend and neighbor “Elick” Hilton, whom I was rejoiced to see after an absence of three years. After resting there that night we proceeded next day to Elick’s ranch, twenty-eight miles distant, situated in a picturesque spot in the Rockies along the Colorado and Wyoming line, where we were to spend our vacation. Being at an ele- vation of 8,200ft. and in a cool climate, the only prodtc- tion of the soil is hay; and that being harvested late, the ranchmen were not yet through haying. We turned in and helped Elick to finish haying. The morning after the haying was completed, Elick hitched a team to a light wagon and drove about three miles up into the mountains, where we found a park suitable for picketing our horses. Then we proceeded into the mountains, where I found myself on familiar grounds I had hunted over years ago. Only those who haye experienced the gratification of traversing old hunt ing grounds after years of absence know the pleasure I felt. During the day’s tramp I had the satisfaction of seeing four fine black-tail deer, and got one shot, but missed. Some of the others of the party saw some, but when evening came we all met at the wagon without any yenison to take home, After that we spent some time taking in sights at different points of interest near the ranch, during which time Elick went to the station— Pinkhamton—to meet a nephew of his, Will Coolidge, of Wisconsin, who was also out for an outing. He also had to make a trip to the store, which was thirty-five miles away to get provisions, etc., preparatory to goimg out camping. At last Elick got his trips made and work arranged, and Friday morning, Sept. 24, Elick, Will, father and myself made a start for camp with a lumber wagon loaded with two weeks’ provisions and camp outfit, hay- ing also two saddle horses with us. We had previously selected for our camp ground a small park up in the mountains about eight miles from the ranch, where there was choice feed for the horses, water such as is only found in small mountain streams, and abundance of wood, the mountains being heavily timbered all around us. We reached the camp ground about 4 o'clock, after driving over roads which to the average Eastern man would seem almost impassable with a wagon. : Tt being a place where there had never been a camp. we found abundance of fresh deer signs, and while three of us went about making camp father took a short stroll down the creek. In a little while we heard two: shots. and directly he came in and said some one had shot not far from where he was, and he saw two deer running away. Presently an acquaintance came by camp, Saying he had killed a buck down where we heard the shoot- ing. He was camped about two miles from us. An hour before dark I took a stroll up the creek, and Will went in another direction. Half a mile above camp T saw a bunch of five deer feeding and moving about, but too far away for a shot. As they were moving away from me I crawled after them as fast as their big eyes would permit. Finding that they were getting away from me, and having only a little daylight left, I fired at one as I saw it walking through an opening, but missed. I went back to camp at dark a little out of conceit of my shooting. After it was quite dark we heard two shots in quick succession, and soon Will came in saying he had been watching a path and had seen a deer and shot at it twice. Next morning we were up early, and just about the time we were ready to start out to hunt it commenced raining, and early in the forenoon we came into camp well soaked, without. seeing any game. After dinner Elick started for home, leaving us one horse in case we might have venison to pack in, After getting fairly out on the road he let two of his horses loose, supposing they would go home; but they were met by a party coming into the woods, and the people, supposing they had gotten loose from some one, tried to catch them, and they being driven off the road, lost their way and didn’t get hom on schedule time. The next day being Sunday, we let our guns rest. Monday morning dawned bright and cool, and was an ideal day for hunting. We each took a separate route. IT was determined on going several miles westward to a place where I used to find plenty of elk, and had a faint hope of finding still a few leit. Act 8:15 1 the morn- ing | was making my way through a heayily timbered and partially swampy place, when I-saw a deer running from me. On my going a few steps ahead to get a better view of it another one started to my left, making a circle | around me, then turned and started down through the ~ woods past me at right angles with the way I was going. ~ Sighting an opening ahead, I waited for it and fired as it jumped through, breaking both hind legs at the joint above the knee, something which I had never before done in all my hunting, and by no means a creditable [jan. 8, 1808. shot, but it was the best I could do, and the game was dispatched as speedily and humanely as possible. J continued my journey westward as far as I intended going without seeing any fresh elk sign, although there had been guite a number in during the summer season, T traveled through the woods until 4 o’clock in the evening, when I sighted a deer running, but it had only heard me as I went through a thick patch of brush, and after running some distance it stopped and started walk- ing back along the side of the mountain, something over 1ooyds. below me, trying to discover the cause of the disturbance. I could only get glimpses of its ears and head at times, and at last it stopped with only its-ears visible. Making a quick calculation where its neck was, IT shot, then listened and heard the familiar thump, thump! and at once counted that deer out of my list. Going down to the place as nearly as I could judge, [ looked about for tracks and saw, to my happy amaze- ment, a fine deer lying on the ground giving its last kick, with a bullet hole through its neck, There had been two deer instead of one, After dressing it 1 went to camp, where [ found a deer hanging on a pole. The report of the others for the day was as follows: Will saw five deer and killed the one I found hanging at camp. Father saw four deer, two of which were large bucks with fine antlers. He succeeded in getting four shots, and displayed good hunting craft in getting a shot at one lying down, but never having shot at a deer before, and having a strange gun with Lyman sights, which he had never used before, his eyesight being dimmed with age, and a combination of circumstances against him, he failed to get his game, and unfortunately no more such good opportunities came his way. The next forenoon we packed the two deer into camp, and after dinner loaded them on the horse, and I took them down to the ranch. I found that the two strayed horses had not yet come home, and for several days after that I devoted most of my time to hunting horses, The heavy rains immediately after they got away made it difficult to find any trail of them. Finally I found a very dim trail of them about a mile from the road, and after. following it part of two days came upon them in a windfall, where they could not find their way out. Dur- ing this time I was stopping part of the time at the ranch and sometimes at camp, whichever was nearest to me, haying plenty of venison to eat at both places. T was much disappointed to find the elk fast disappear- ing from that locality. Only one was killed near there during my stay, where there were many wagonloads brought out each season only a few years ago. Will killed one more deer, besides trapping a number of marten and a fox, making it altogether a very en- joyable outing, and one which will be fresh in our mem- ory many years. - The motning of Oct. 10 we took our last look at the erand old Rockies and turned our faces eastward, ar- riving at home Oct. 16. I cannot say enough in praise of that section of country as a place to have a general good outing. Boarding can be had at very low rates at the ranch houses, within easy reach of good deer hunt- ing, the finest of trout fishing, duck shooting and plenty of mountain grouse, with an occasional bear to keep up the interest, for we saw some very fresh signs. EMERSON CARNEY. Maryland Game Law. Battimore, Md., Dec. 29.—Editor Forest and Stream: I beg to submit to your Maryland readers two bills which have been carefully prepared by the executive committee of the Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Asso- ciation. These bills will be presented at the next session of the Legislature at Annapolis. Our Association is very anxious to present these bills in a satisfactory shape, and I hope that any suggestions as to changes may be sent to our secretary, Dr. Geo. W. Massamore, No, 334 N. Charles street, Baltimore, Md, Bill to Protect Game. It is the opinion of the State game warden, who acts through his deputy game wardens scattered all over the State, and of the members of our executive committee, that the game laws cannot be properly enforced unless there is absolute uniformity in the open season over the State. For this reason, with the exception of Garrett and Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico counties, a umi- form shooting season from Noy. 1 to Dec. 24 has been given for pheasants, partridges, woodcock and rabbits throughout the whole State. Garrett county, on account of the mountains, has been given an open season from Oct. 1 to Dec. 1, and Somerset, Worcester and Wicom- ico Counties, as they are affected by their proximity to the ocean, are given an open season from Noy. 15 to an. 15. ! It ie ihe experience of all persons who are endeavoring to enforce the game laws that if the shooting season opens on different dates in adjoining counties, partridges, etc., are always killed in the closed counties near the county lines, and if the offenders are detected and _ar- rested the story is always told that the birds were killed in the adjoining open county, “just over the line,” and it is nearly impossible to get a justice to impose a proper fine on this evidence. Again different dates in adjoining counties very often cause the birds in the county which has the earliest sea- son to be nearly exterminated by excessive shooting. For example, if shooting should commence in Baltimore county on Oct. 15, sportsmen from all the surrounding counties and from Baltimore City, all eager to begin shooting, would crowd in, and many more of the imma- ture birds would be killed within the first two weeks. of the season than would be the case if the season opened uni- fortily with other counties. The fact that adjoining coun- ties have different dates also causes constant changes at each session of the Legislature, and this greatly adds to the difficulty of properly enforcing the laws. The executive committee after a great deal of inyesti- gation determined to. abolish [summer] woodcock shoot- ing if possible, for the following reasons: First—Because all the best naturalists of the country-: are of the unanimous opinion that in Maryland woodcock rear a second brood in June and July, and it would be therefore folly to shoot breeding birds. © FOREST AND STREAM. Second—Because it is the opinion of the game warden and all sportsmen who have investigated the subject that great numbers of young partridges are killed in Septem- ber and October by men, generally shooting for the mar- ket, who pretend that they are hunting woodcock. Wood- cock always remain in Maryland until the middle of November, and afford the best sport in the autumn. For the same reason pheasant and rabbit shooting has also been forbidden until partridge shooting is permitted, Recognizing that boys should have an opportunity of learning to shoot, the committee determined to permit in its bill the shooting of robins, doves, larks and flickers from Aug. 15 to Dec. 24. This action is open to the criticism, however, that it may be used to cover up the alleged killing of game birds. The shooting of wild ducks, etc., is prohibited from April 10 to Noy. 1. Squir- rels can be lalled from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, and reed birds. rail birds and blackbirds from Sept, 1 to Noy. 1. The provision now found in many of the county game laws prohibiting the killing of inoffensive birds has been made general over the State. The bill, however, authorizes the destruction of hawks, crows, crow blackbirds and English sparrows at any time. Bill to Protect Fish. Black bass, brook trout and rainbow trout can law- fully only be taken with a red, line and hook, baited with bait or tied with the artificial fly. Black bass cannot be lawfully caught anywhere in the State (excepting in the Potomac, which is under a spe- cial law) between April I and July 1. Brook and rain- bow trout can only be caught in Garrett, Allezhany and Washington counties between April 1 and Aug. 15, and in the other counties between March 1 ard July 1. After weighing a great many fish and consulting many fish- ermen, both amateur and professional, including whole- sale and retail fish dealers, the committee decided upon the following lengths below which it is made unlawful to talke the respective kinds of fish: Black bass, pickerel, wall-eyed pike, or California salmon or pike-perch, 12in.; brook trout, 6in.; rainbow trout, 8in.; white perch, 7!4in.; yellow perch, 9in.; pile, 15in,; rock or striped bass and taylor, tun. All fish must be measured from the end of the nose or snout to the end of the caudal fin or tail. The bill makes it unlawful to catch diamond-back ter- rapin measuring less than 5in. on the under shell. A careful investigation made by a subcommittee of eastern shoremen showed conclusively that large numbers of small terrapin are annually destroyed by being confined in pounds during the summer. The diamond-back ter- rapin is rapidly disappearing, and it is evident that unless they are given a closed season, as with bass, they will soon disappear. All efforts to raise them in confinement have been utter failures, and the present system of fen- cing them in pounds merely results in large numbers of small, undersized terrapin being caught in the summer and held in unhealthy confinement, where a large per- centage die. The bill therefore makes it unlawful to catch terrapin of any size or to confine them in pounds between April 1 and Noy. T. : The provisions of this bill which are of the most gen- eral interest and value to the great majority of fishermen of this State are the sections which are framed to prevent the outrageous destruction of small perch, rock, etc., by seine haulers, principally in the waters of Baltimore and Harford counties. Investigation shows that tons of these fish are annually left to rot on the shores or are hauled away for manure after the marketable fish have been culled out, The practice at present is to haul the seine on dry land and permit all the small fish to die while the large ones are col- lected. In this way for one marketable fish which is used for food a dozen small perch or rock are wasted. It is perfectly practicable for the fish which are caught by the seine to be culled over in water not less than r2in. deep, and by the exercise of little care the fishermen can prevent the death of the small fish. The bill there- fore makes it unlawful to land a seine in less than 12in. of water, and it is further made unlawful to so fish a seine that the small unmarketable fish perish. This will prevent the use of these delicious food fish for manuring purposes. The present excellent Fish Commissioners have already recognized the fact that the supply of perch has begun to fail, and last season the Commissioners be- gan to place perch in the bay. It will be an absurd illus- tration of the old saying “saving at the spigot and wast- ing at the bung hole” if the Commissioners spent large sums of money in placing perch free in the bay, and the public permits these same young fish to be caught and used for manure before they arrive at a marketable size. Gro. Dospin PENNIMAN, President. The Megantic Outlaw Taken In. Henry Lapoucszur, the alleged game poacher of Me- gantic county, arrested by Detective .Gladu, of the Na- tional Detective Agency, near Spaulding, on Wednes- day last, is in gaol at St. Joseph de la Beatuce, awaiting trial there before Judge Angers on the goth inst. He has already confessed having killed a number of deer-in excess of the statutory limit. In a remote and almost inaccessible region, the prisoner had been credited by some of the country folk with the possession of all the virtues, dash and bravado of a Robin Hood. A supposed haughty contempt for the lawmakers and the police and a capacity to shoot unerringly helped magnify a prom- ising romance, terminated abruptly by the officers of the Montreal Fish and Game Club. Dr. Finnie, president of the club, instructed Mr. Gladu to spare no efforts in running Ladouceur to earth. The detective engaged the services of Joseph Renaud, a well- known ‘carter. They entered the wilderness on the 14th inst., as hunters, and ingratiated themselves into the con~ fidences of the country folk, Gladu had a canteen in his outfit, and how well he succeeded with his liquid is evi- denced by his success. The runaway of a countryman’s horse and the detective’s search for it brought him to the dwelling of Joseph Boulet, perched high on the moun- ‘tain side. The hour was midnight. A rap brought La- douceur to the door. The hunter soon enjoyed good cheer with Gladu, whom he took for an American hunter, Gladu then left, agreeing to return next day. He mean- 27 while hunted up Renaud, his assistant, and at dawn they proceeded to Boulet’s house, Ladouceur gave them a warm reception, and after bargaining he agreed to sell two caribou carcasses lying in the barn, to Gladu for $10 each, and agreed to supply seven more at the same price, He boastfully related, so Gladu states, that this season he had made twenty kills with twenty-one cartridges. When pretending to produce the cash Gladu and his assistant, at a preconcerted signal, jumped on Ladouceur, and, clapping the handcuffs on his hands, made him a prisoner, The hunter was too dumbfounded to offer re- sistance. A heavy dagger was found in his possession. seen says he is not exactly the terror he is described to ec. Six other caribou carcasses belonging to Ladouceur were discovered in a hut in the bush twenty miles from the scene of the arrest—Montreal Star, Dec. 27. The Colorado Game Wardens and the Ute Indians. Report of the Commission. Denver, Col., Dec. 28.—Editor Forest and Stream: On Oct. 24, 1807, a posse of State game wardens came in conflict with a camp of White River Utes on Little Snake River, in the western part of Routt county, Col, The affair caused much controversy, and it was claimed by many that the wardens were guilty of murdering the’ In- dians. The Governor of Colorado appointed a commission consisting of D. C. Beaman, of Denyer; Charles E. Noble, of Colorado Springs, and Joshua Walbridge, of Steamboat Springs, to investigate and report on the facts. The commission spent fifteen days in the investigation, visiting the scene ot the conflict, taking the evidence of the wardens and settlers, and then proceeded to the In- dian Agency in Utah and took that of the Indians. Their report has. been submitted, and shows that prior to going into Colorado to hunt the Indians had been informed by- the agent that they had no right to do so in yiolation of the law, and that they would be atrested by the wardens; that the Indians paid no attention to the warning, and neatly 200 of them went into Colorado, and on their ar- rival said to settlers that they were not afraid of the war- dens or the “Buckskin Police,” as they called them, and that each cartridge was good for a “Buckskin.” | The wardens, ten in number, and two unarmed citizens came upon a camp consisting of twenty-seven bucks, squaws and pappooses, but only six or eight bucks and a few squaws were in camp at the time. The wardens found forty or filty fresh deer hides, sey- eral beef hides and two fresh deer carcasses in the : camp, and alter about three hours’ parley with the In-: dians, endeavoring to have the bucks peaceably submit to arrest or leave the State, which they refused to do, the wardens undertook to arrest them. The Indians re- sisted, one trying to shoot a warden, but the gun being knocked aside the bullet hit a squaw on top of the head, inflicting a scalp wound only; the Indian then’ clubbed his gun and knocked a warden down, while two more Indians made an attack with knives. The wardens: opened fire with their revolvers, their Winchesters being on their horses, and killed two of the Indians and wounded a . squaw in the arm who was shooting a revolyer at the wardens. The report finds that the Indians inaugurated the con- flict, and that from an attempt to arrest the Indians it was instantly resolved into a question of self defense by the wardens, ° The report states that while these White River Utes inherited the love of hunting, the same blood probably transmitted the instincts and disposition manifested in the Meeker and Thornburg massacres, and concludes that branch of the case as follows; “Tt is no doubt true that in many respects these Indians are simple and uneducated, and in argument are entitled to have the benefit of their simplicity and ignorance, This they were awarded to the full limit.~ But there is no rule entitling an Indian in a physical conflict to any advantage over a white man, or requiring the latter to take greater chances of injury or death simply because his assailant is an Indian. “While it is cause for regret that any blood was shed, we conclude that after the first hostile assault by the In- dians the wardens were not bound nor required to await a further or successful attempt to kill or injure one of their number, and that in the conflict referred to the war- dens committed no offense against the law.” It is said that the Indians disregard the game laws wheneyer they come into Colorado by killing deer at all seasons, and pay no attention to the limit or number pre- seribed by the law. The report also shows that in these annual incursions into Colorado the Indians terrorize and insult the women; and kill the settlers’ cattle, and says that as the object in removing the Indians from the reservation originally was to open it to settlement and undisturbed occupancy by the whites, the Indians should not be allowed to coime into Colorado at all. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs also sent an agent to investigate the affair, and he has reported in substance the same as the Colorado commission, so that it may be regarded as settled that the Indians were responsible for the conflict. D. C. BEAMAN. Quail in Louisiana. Operzousas, La., Dec. 21.—The cover has been so rank up! to the present time that it has been a disagreeable thing to attempt to shoot. Birds are plentiful this year. and some good bags have been made. The breeding season last summer was excellent and there is now lots of feed for the birds. We have had very few snipe and. ducks; in fact, snipe and duck shooting in this country are practically a ihing of the past. In the future all our shooting will have to be confined to quail. Shooters are increasing so rapidly, and modern guns, shells, powder, ‘etc., are coming into use so much that it will not be many yeats before quail will be as scarce here as in many Eastern States. ANG CHICAGO AND THE. WEST. | The Clock Stopped. 7 | | Cuicaco, Ill., Jan. 1.—It, is a singular fact,. which I . advance apropos of nothing in particular, that this morn- ing when I arose to begin the pleasures of another year I found that the clock of the household had gone on strike, had folded its hands and quit work. This in itself is nothing wonderful about even an eight-day clock, but the odd feature is that the hands were folded at precisely 12 o'clock midnight (I had heard the hour of t1- struck: as I sat near it reading). Some, of my friends find in this a sign of great ill fortune, and advise me to sell the clock and take out more life insurance, but this is ob- viously foolish advise, and I find rather in this an omen of distinct good fortune and an indication of:a perpetual high noon of good luck for the: next twelve months. I think if I understood. this game of policy I read about in the papers I should go out and play it for twelves, with a certainty of breaking the bank. Whether this course would or would not be a wise one, and whether or not | the clock should be held justified in stopping at this weird hour of midnight on New, Year's eve, are questions which might perhaps best be referred tothe “Man in the Clock Tower,” who should be passing wise in’ matters of this sort. My own explanation, of the occurrence is that, following some line of obscure communication be- tween the mind of man and the matter. of things such as we do not yet fully understand, the clock simply followed a mental impression of my own, .I remember saying to myself, as I looked at the bright new face of Forest AND STREAM in the New Year’s number, “She struck twelve this time,” Which I submit to be a fact. .Not that she can’t do it again. I suppose the clock overheard the re- mark and perhaps misunderstood it. . Snow, The other day, to continue my household words, when I arose in the morning, I found my sleeping room about half full of:snow. -It lay in a big heap in one corner on the tessellated marble floor, andcoveréd up to some depth the rich color of the Oriental rugs, 1. say nothing of specking a few objets d’art and getting in my slippers some. It is one of my-theories that a fellow ought to sleep as near out of doors as he can, and-in this case the snow came in through the window-to help out-the realism. For a moment I thought of the pine woods, ofthe Yel- lowstone, the Rockies, but sat down, sad at the contrast. In the city you turn on the steam and are sick;'in the woods you hustle quaking asp and are’ well.;*In the woods you take your snowshoe to shovel-srow out of your bed or your house, but in the city you haye-to get a dust pan, and ne’er a pine bough near for'a broom. ‘Law me! how I did wish it was the real snow of the mountains, that morning, and not this second-hand city snow. Not that we should blame it, for it was probably doing its best. she eal PND Pg Sr ce. I have often had: occasion in these colunins: to speak of the*yirtues ofa winter vacation trip, not one to’ be spent in the house, but out-of doors in camp. Really winter is the healthiest time of year, and the time when one can have most fun out of doors. At no fime is exercise so beneficial to the physical man-as in the-cold and purified air of the winter woods, and moreover he is obliged to take his exercise then whether he wants it or not,-as our good mothers used to take us‘by the nose-at thé time of sulphur or “spring medicine”-and force us to swallow it willy-nilly, Ato time are the woods so beautiful as in winter, when they are white -and clean-starched’ in na- ture’s laundry, and at no time is it so pleasant to go hunt-. ing or:just go walking. Although the winter season is usually closed to the hunter of our ordinary game, hé may turn trapper or naturalist, or: perhaps -be lucky - enough to hunt where his conscience’ need’ not ‘suffer. Then, as he goes abroad’ over the ‘clean ‘surface of the earth, there lies the record ofit-all written before him. He can tell, though he be a tenderfoot,'tlie nuinbers -or the nature of the game the cotintry holds; and so:his hope may rise—indeed, undulyrise; for to the observer of the tracks in-the snow it seems sometimes that the animal that made:them must be then-ana there present, or very - near at hand.’ @nly by: long practice may he know -by a look how far away 7s the’ deer of the lynx‘or the mouse or the rabbit which made thé marks in-the snow. It is a vast, bewildering, fascinating cryptogram that nature writes on the snow for:man:to-try to-read. Under it He the commonplace dead leaves, ‘which now you have forgotten with all signs of decay, seeing about you only the _deathless evergreens’ and the whiteness which - predicts no_green and no“decadent yellow. — —--~ »*-- Under it lies* the ‘earth, ‘with its’commonplace foot- '_ marks worn in so deep ‘that the rain cannot wipe thém out. by the: steam radiators now. Under it lie the old’ trenches of the camp-fires, and the chips and cuttings, and the bottles and tin -cans—gone utterly now, so that the world is new and all quite your own to discoyer, . You, see few camp-fires now, and you ‘have no. danger .from.wandering bullets inthe woods. You hear.no talking..or shouting of tenderfeet in the woods, for most,of the tenderfeet, thank heaven, are home HS It’s your own world,, and yours only because it is winter and because the snow has come. How silent and lovable itis, with only the chirp of some strange bird, the creak of’an ice-laden tree, the jn.€aw. of a jay or the croak of a crossing raven.’ You see | jdar,chear far, breathe far. You cannot suspeét corks or _.can-openers., Strangest of all,-you are-quite ‘happy and’ _.. comfortable. You are not cold. .You have found-a new -. world, and a new man to inhabit it—a.man,-perhaps, who will thenceforth think far less ofityips cut and dried, to places cut, and dried? with guides,cut.and dried, and. Vis sport mapped out for him, and; his work all doné for um, and after all is said his fun had for,him_ by some one Ise. As against the pleasures of a,Summer, or fall trip, tose of a winter trip are as Hyperion, to,a,satyr, as ten — .o one, as dollars to doughnuts; or-anything else which is conyentional and convincing= by, way of comparison. This statement should not rashly be set down as wrong until fully proved out by practical experience. For one, when I tell the beads of my trips of tnany years, those which mark the winter camps are biggest and brightest of them all. Let no man sit down and shiver. Let no man say that when he falls in-the water. nothing of the principle at stake. the advent of the ice closes the sporting year, for it but begins the best of it. ‘The cap and tunic and the belt and snowshoe are as legitimate equipment as the bloody can- ‘Vas coat. It is by no means necessary always to be kill- ing. What is necessary is to be a man, im every way, and the physical man seems to have got here a little the best of us. What is necessary is to be a man unmindful of nerve tonics and spring medicines when the snow has gone, a man with lungs not full of smoke and soot,,. and with a brain not full of kinks and hatd knots when the grass comes green again. The terrors of win- ter, forsooth! Rather let us speak of the terrors of steam- heated houses, with tessellated floors and objets d’art. Vhat’s what is the matter with thiscountry. Look at Gaul, Jumping Carp, A few weeks ago I reported an occurrence at Fish Lake, Ind., where large schools of fish, supposed to be Carp, were seen leaping all over’a part of the lake. My recollection..is that-1 spoke rather doubtingly over the carp supposition, as I had never known that the carp was a leaping fish. Now I am glad to say that I have reason for changing that lack of knowledge on the habits of the carp. Yesterday Mr. E. F. Daniels, president of the Tolleston Club, of Chicago, came into the Forest AND STREAM office and took up this question of carp breaking water, referring to the publication of the afore- said incident. : “I have no doubt at all that the fish were carp,” said he. “For a long time I thought that the carp never rose above the surface, and usually kept on the bottom, but - last fall I learned otherwise. My little son and myself were walking along the bank of the Little Calumet River, ° on the grounds oi the Tolleston Club, and stopped for a moment at the dam, below which lay quite a good-sized pool of water a few feet in depth. In some manner the dog which accompanied us slipped and fell into the pool, splashing and swimming about for a moment. As he splashed in a number of other splashes arose all about him, and over a dozen good-sized carp sprang clear out of the watér, all headed not from but toward the dog, which might naturally have been frightened at them. The boy screamed out, for he thought his dog was going to be eaten up. Of course the carp sank at once, and after | that the water was so muddy I could see nothing. I don’t know why these fish should have shown this pecu- liar action, but I do know they were carp, and that they leaped high above the water, showing clear and plain.” This is one of the most curious things I ever heard about the carp. At first thought it would appear that the despised fish were showing pretty game qualities when it tries to eat a live dog, but this is hardly a fair explana- tion of the singular actions.’ Eyeryone has seen how fish in a hatchery pool or an aquarium will plunge for a cen- ter where they think food has been thrown or where it customarily is thrown, and very likely this may have been the explanation of the conduct of the carp, whether they had ever been fed at that point or not, A bass will swim at once toward a ripple which it thinks is caused by a frog, and the bigger the splash your live bait makes the better for your catch. Perhaps it is so with carp, though I must confess they must have more nerve than I ever credited them with if they swim toward a whole live dog All this is contrary te the commonly accepted idea of these fish, and hence it is very interesting. ‘The Tolleston Lawsuits. Mr. Daniels told me that the last suit against the Tol- leston Club had been taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the club hopes to win, though the detision can hardly be expected in less than a year or two. By error of the attorney the club delayed this ap- peal over sixty days, and thus temporarily lost possession .ol the land in litigation, the famous Clough tract of about 600 acres over which so much trouble has arisen. The Indiana Supreme Court held that Clough could hold ground to the center of the stream, and not be confined by the edge of the marsh. Of course this allowed Clough to take out all that part of the dam which was on his land; and half the dam being gone was the same as no dani at all, though the club left its half standing where it was. Meantime the club has left about 1,700 acres of its best marsh, and it has devised a way of flooding this by windmills and ditches. Tolleston Club by no means intends to abandon its rights or its property in this much-contested shooting ground. The locality is very dear to many of the older memibers of the club, to say So far as the ‘principle of preserve protection is concerned; the fight of this club is one of great public interest in sportsmanship. - Though Tolleston Club has always been quiet and has avoided notoriety, its fight is really the fight of all sportsmen, and all sportsmen must hope for its final victory. Michigan Partridge and Quail. Mr. W. C. Held writes me interestingly about Michi- gan partridge and quail: “The article which appeared in Forrst anp STREAM a short time ago, describing your hunt in Michigan, proved quite interesting to me,” he says, ke I was in a locality this fall which I call a good par- tridge country, it being nothing unusual to start from forty to sixty partridges in a day’s tramp. ~One day I bagged sixteen from 1 o’clock to dusk. Where birds are so plentiful 1 never care to hunt all day. One could start from the house at 9 A. M. and return home by 3 o’clock and have all the shooting one could wish for. ; “I carried my camera with me most. of the time, and often would take a snap at the dog while on point and then bag the bird when flushed, but frequently the birds would. not lie long enough for one to get a shot, either with gun or camera. . ; “IT made a shot this fall which I think will not be re- peated by me very soon. A bevy of quail flushed at the edge of a black ash swamp. I fired at a single bird and killed it, the dog retrieved it, and I then went over to a little ridge where the birds had scattered. When I reached the place I ordered the dog on, when he suddenly came to a half point and then picked up a dead bird. I sent him out again and he brought another, and he went out twice more, each time bringing a dead quail, making five with Jan. 8, 1808. | the one shot: Another singular thing was that all of the five birds were males. “I.think our quail shooting should not commence until Nov. 1, then one would get nothing but fair-sized birds. Now the shooting commences Oct, 1, and some of the birds are too small and easy to shoot. One of our. shuot- ers says he flushed several bevies in October that looked like bugs.” 2 : si. . : Gave him a Watch. The deputy game wardens of North Dakota made State Warden Geo. E. Bowers a Christmas present of a hand- some gold watch, with a suitable inscription within the cover. The shooting public might also very welt give Mr. Bowers at least a vote of thanks for his very able work of the past season, which has helped the shoot- ing for all who have sought the big open preserves of thé prairie State, The Game Wardens’ Convention, The game wardens’ convention at Chicago on Feb. 7 bids fair to hold a considerable interest. We shall have here the wardens of Minnesota, North Dakota, Wiscon- sin and Michigan at least and probably others. The question of ‘game protection was never before so widely advertised or wisely agitated as it is now. ' The Vindication, Im regard to the “vindication” of the game wardens in the Ute killing affair in Colorado there seems already to. be cropping out a slight divergence of belief. Rev. M. W, Reed; of Denver, proposes to take up the matter at.a later date, as soon as He has access to the official report. The Salt Lake Tribune in the course of editorial comment’ on the commissioner's report says: “This recommendation, if carried out, would make the Indian a nondescript, neither fish nor fowl nor flesh; he could. neither hunt according to his hereditary rights and treaties with the Government, nor exercise the same prerogatives as an American citizen. Altogether, Mr. Reynolds’s report is a marvel of sophistry and careful avoidance of facts—totally at variance with the testimony which he forwarded with it, . “In reading the testimony of the wardens and Indians, and according to those present when the latter were ex- amined, there seems ho justification whatever in his as- sumption that the Indians fired the first shot. All of the wardens say that they think that such was the case, but none of them—not even Wilcox—asserts so positively, while, on the contrary, all of the Indians are unanimous in their statement that they were not only the last to attempt shooting, but that their arms were where they could not reach them. Altogether, while the report is a disappointment in that it appears to give only the Col- orado wardens’ side of the story. it is quite as much a surprise, as impartial treatment was expected.” Work of the Wardens. - At Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 24, a box of ducks con- signed to Ender & Ender, of Chicago, was seized by warden Garn after it was received by the Pacific Express Company, the game being confiscated and sold. At Mt. Vernon, Ill., Dec. 29, warden Slocum arrested W. C. Merritt, Henry P. Price, of Bellerive; Geo. Canip- bell, A. McCreary anu B. F, Goosetree, of another town, aii on different charges of violation of the game laws. Warden Slocum is trying to stop the illegal shipping of quail from that section to the markets of Chicago. - At Pueblo, Col., warden McLean and deputy Willi- ford made a regular round of the butcher shops and stores, and confiscated a large amount of illegal game, givine it to the charitable institutions of the place. should call this sort of thing yery much better than our Illinois way of selling this game at auction. The selling of such game puts money in the pocket. of the warden, and so pays him for his work, it is true, put it is a very, risky clause this to haye in any law, for it makes an ugly loophole. It was under this confiscation and sale clause of our law that the once famous suits: were brought against H. Clay Merritt-in the Kewaunee game cases— probably, the worst bungled prosecution that ever hap- pened under any game laws. Had Merritt been fined and the birds, given away or destroyed, the whole matter would have been well ended, with no charges or counter charges of any sort leit possible. (Merritt appealed from the Appellate Court to the Supreme Court of the State, which has recently affirmed the lower court, thus finally defeating Merritt and upholding the old Magner case of Illinois, often cited on this question, which holds that game cannot be legally held in possession after the close of the legal season, no matter how or where obtained.) At St. Paul, on Dec. 23, Henry Merrill Peck was-fined $30 for having in possession three illegal partridges: The Stock Growers Convention of Colorado advertised a big barbecue, after the fashion of the old days. In the old days it was permitted to have elk and antelope direct from the country round about. Not so. to-day, and though the elk were shown to come from a private herd, Commissioner Swan at once started queries about the dozen barbecued antelope which were placarded as part of the feast. ; en In Ohio the farmers are kicking about tne rabbit law, which they say should allow them to hunt rabbits all the time. The plea is put forward that the rabbits eat the raspberry bushes. Yes, methinks I see a flock of rabbits, each with a long, thorny festoon of briery raspberry vine hanging out of his mouth and marching across the _ country like an army of invasion. Let us be protected against the rabhits. They are kicking in Indiana, near Muncie, because the hard winter has killed the quail in thousands. A coat of ice has covered. up the fields, and the quail are taking to the stacks and barns. This is the way quail are thinned out suddenly sometimes, and the matter is indeed one for'regtet. — Ln ; i Not contented with having the worst game law on earth, so far as oppression to the sportsman is concerned, Towa is beginning to talk of farmers’ leagues similar to those recently formed in portions of Ohio, The Lemars Sentinel takes up this subject, saying among other things: “The town hunter is usually a pot-hunter,” But is he? And is he after all a whit better or worse or dif- [Jan. 8, 1808. ferent from his fellow who lives on a farm? One is as good as.the other, and they ought to respect each other ~ and each other's rights and preferences, all subject to the law. The farmers havea right to make these leagues. - The “town hunters” have a right to break into them by so strong a showing 6f a sense of justice and courtesy _ that the farmers shall feel themselves helpless to resist a reasonable request. And every closed farm, every closed * State, isa game hatchery. EK, Houex. 1206 Borcr Buripine, Chicago. Close of the Maine Season. Boston, Jan. 3, 1808:—The last week of the Maine big game season was a poor one for the hunters, A little snow in most sections, afid this frozen to a crust, made hunting extremely difficult. J. H. Jones tried the deer a few miles out from Buckfield last week, but they could ~ not be reached. Mr. Jones has not yet got over a shock to his nerves, received from the nearness he came to a terrible accident. His brother carried a new rifle, with “expansive bullet.’ This they resolved to try on a target, as they came up the railroad track from a hunting trip. A log with a white spot on it showed well from the track a number of rods ahead. This Mr. Jones took good aim. at and pulled the trigger.- Some fault in pumping in the shell caused the weapon to miss fire. While he was fix- ing the trouble, preparatory to trying again, a Canadian- . Frenchman got up from behind the log. He had stopped. to light his pipe out of the wind. Had the rifle done its work the terrible “expansive bullet” would have nearly torn him in pieces. No more shooting at targets for Mr, Jones till he is sure of what there is behind them. Mr.-J. Humphreys and Mr. S. T, Morton came back to Boston Saturday from a week’s hunting in Aroostook county. They brought no deer, but considerable expe- rience with cold weather and attempting to approach big = game over a crashing crust. A special from Bangor sug- gests that for the entire season about 7,500 deer have been killed in the State, with 250 moose and 100 caribou. Of this game two-thirds have been transported by rail, of which there is a fast time record, The other third is estimated,.and doubtless the estimate is too low. . The, record of gamestransported over the Bangor &. Aroostook for the efittire-season, with the exception of the-last day, is as follows: ery Oct. Nov Dee. Total ne BHA eR Cee nn Hariri sya tis 1,246 1,023 Byae 2,640 “Moc