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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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CHARLES IJAT.I.OC li, Editor. 



Ax Fkesoo.— We received a brief visit a few days since 

 from Dr. Chas. J. Kenworthy, of Jacksonville, Florida, popu- 

 larly known as "Al Fresco," a gentleman whose efforts in 

 behalt of his adopted State have been fully recognized by 

 residents and non-residents. Dr. Kenworthy has acted as 

 the special representative in Florida of Forest and Stream 

 ever siDce he took up his residence there. Through the book 

 known as Camp Life in Florida, and through the columns of 

 this paper, he has probably done more than aDy single man 

 to promote agriculture and settlement in the State, and to 

 hold up its attractions and advantages to invalids, tourists 

 and sportsmen. 



We have now on hand two more papers by Dr. Kenworthy 

 which will be speedily printed in our paper, being the third 

 and fourth of the series entitled "Marooning." These 

 charming sketches are descriptive of the scenery and sport to 

 be found along the coast and among the Keys of the Penin- 

 sula,and contain much information altogether new and attract- 

 ing. The Doctor will continue his explorations during the 

 coming winter, and our readers are promised the benefit of 

 them. 



A Yachtsman's Opinion. —A gentleman -well known in Can- 

 adian yachting circles writes : " I must thank you for your 

 two last articles, viz., ' Corinthian Sentiments' and 'Is the 

 Sloop Seaworthy?' It is my belief they are just the thing and 

 much wanted, as we have been gradually drifting into a style 

 of yacht altogether unfit for actual service ; a fact which has 

 been proved so often of late." 



THE HARVARD-OXFORD RACE. 



THOUGH the proposition of sending an " right" from 

 Harvard University to England to row Oxford has been 

 mooted, it is still so early to consider the question that the 

 probabilities of anything definite, being arrived at for some 

 time yet are exceedingly slim. There are so many obstacles 

 the way that an arrangement, unless by accidentally good 

 fortune seems almost out of question, and we do not expect 

 to see an American eight on the Thames for a long while yet, 

 much as everybody is anxious all of a sudden, after Colum- 

 bia's Iriumph at Henley, to see our former defeat by Oxford in 

 18G9 fully avenged. Hardly, however, has the matter been 

 broached than a number of claimants to the championship of 

 America spring up all over the country and claim the privi- 

 lege of going abroad to show their British cousins that they 

 don't know how to row. If their anxiety to pull were only a 

 test of their skill we would be the last to cry: Caution, gentle- 

 men, one swallow does not make a summer and one victory 

 does not make us masters in the art of rowing. If Harvard 

 has an inordinate desire to try her luck again with the best 

 men of England's Universities let her go and win or lose up- 

 on her merits, always providing Oxford will be able to accom- 

 modate ttem, or they Oxford. But what connection the 

 championship of America has to do with the matter we fail to 

 see, and why every crew that wishes to pull some foreign club 

 must needs first go picking all over the country demolishing 

 claimants to the championship, with or without a claim, is 

 logic which it is hard to divine. If foreigners jump without 

 reason to the conclusion that every itinerant American crew 

 holds the title to the championship of this country it is because 

 the wandering crews have too often sought cheap glory to be 

 reaped from every thin disguise of a championship resting on 

 no sounder foundation than that of a record of many years 

 past, when different men were seated in their boat and when 

 a variety of "ifs"and " buts" were strained to their utmost 

 to make out a case where none existed. The offhand manner 

 in which the Shoe-wae-cse-mettes were labelled with the 

 championship of America, because forsooth they managed to 

 reach the line ahead of a couple of fair crews in a country re- 

 gatta, will not be repeated by a crew of such standing as Har- 

 vard would be likely to send abroad. By this time the Eng- 

 lish press has learned to look to American sporting journals 

 for the record and rank of their visitors and not to trust the un- 

 professional, or local papers in which the great American 

 spread-eagle is sure to get the better of the bucolic reporter's 

 wits, and send off some boat load of barnyard heroes to 

 flaunt tne red banner of American championship in the face of 

 the unsophisticated foreigner. Let sporting papers in this 

 country give the cue and it will soon be sent broadcast over 

 the British Isles that the crew about to land upon their hos- 

 pitable shores is undertaking its work upon its own responsi- 

 bility; and if victorious.let us have modesty enough not to lay 

 claim to aught else than we deserve — an individual victory and 

 nothing more. 



who has fought his way to the front, aDd who will rule with 

 imperious sway until he becomes old and in turn is ousted by 

 a younger and more vigorous rival. John Burroughs dilates 

 delightfully upon this characteristic of the bovine race in one 

 of his late essays, " Our Rural Divinity ;" and it is to be seen 

 every day in our poultry-yards, where, no matter how many 

 may be the number of the birds, one cock invariably assumes 

 the leadership. He must keep fighting to retain, as he had to 

 fight to win, his prestige; for younger and ambitious cocks 

 are growing up, but he generally wins. If he loses, however, 

 whether or not his life, goes with his defeat, the conqueror not 

 only takes his sceptre but his whole harem. The same condi- 

 tion of things exists among ducks, especially those grumblers, 

 the Mandarins, who are always fermenting a row in the 

 aviary. 



In allusion to this matter we find some instructive stories and 

 wise comments in the Rev. J. G. Wood's latest work, " Man 

 and Beast." This pleasant and accurate writer points out the 

 analogy between these barn-yard birds and human, especially 

 in the less civilized ages and portions of the world in the ex- 

 ercise and profit of tyranny. " Substitute human beings for 

 birds," says this author, "and the country at large for the 

 poultry yard, and the resemblance is exact. There are many 

 petty chioftains, but among them is sure to be one more 

 mighty than the rest, who holds his place by superior force, 

 either of intellect or military power. If challenged by one 

 of the inferior chiefs and is victorious he retains his post, 

 while if he is vanquished his conqueror takes his place, his 

 property and his wives. And it is another curious point that 

 whether with men or birds, the members of the harem seem 

 to trouble themselves very little about the change of master." 

 The Scripture history of the Jews is full of allusions to this 

 custom among the Oriental nations at that time, as, indeed, it 

 still is for the most part. David bad no hesitation in taking 

 possession of the household of the conquered Saul, wives and 

 all ; and afterward, when Nabal died, after his defiance of 

 David, the latter, as a matter of course, appropriated to him- 

 self the subjugated wife and servants. Similarly, when Ab- 

 salom rebelled against David he publicly took possession of 

 his father's harem as a sign that he had assumed the kingdom. 

 The putting to death of Adonijah by Solomon, and the ban- 

 ishment of his supporters, with confiscation of their property, 

 belongs to the same class. This obtained not among the He- 

 brews alone. It was regarded as a most noteworthy act of 

 magnanimity on the part of Alexander, when, having con- 

 quered Darius, he was polite to the women in the retinue of 

 the fallen hero, and declined to adopt them into his own 

 family. A thousand more examples might be drawn, both to 

 show how constantly tyranny is manifested among all classes 

 of animals from lowest to highest, and how close is the 

 parallel between brutes and men under the control of this 

 domineering disposition. In both there is a single despotic 

 ruler who allows no rival ; and in both an attempt to gain the 

 affections of one of the harem iB tantamount to a challenge 

 for sovereignty, and is treated accordingly. 



And Axoterr.— We have received the first number of a 

 new eight -page sporting paper printed in the German language 

 simultaneously at Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis, en- 

 titled " The Western Shooting find Hunting Gazette." It has 

 an engraving of the American wild turkey, which is just in 

 season for our coming Thanksgiving festival. 



TYRANNY : BRUTE AND HUMAN. 



AMONG the many traits of character common to man and 

 the lower animals is the spirit of tyranny— the oppres- 

 sion of the weak by the stroDg. In man this is most often, 

 perhaps, exercised by strength of mind ; but in many of the 

 animals it takes its most obvious form, the strong going to 

 the extent of killing and eating the weak, even though of the 

 same species. There is scarcely an animal to be found, if we 

 watch closely, who does not manifest some form of tyranny 

 where it is able. Even the insects show it. Beetles will 

 assault one another in the fiercest way, and compel submission, 

 or forbid access to a morsel ut food which the stronger one 

 has obtained. In the London Daily Nt.ics two or three years 

 ago, a writer who had been at the Brighton Aquarium gave 

 a detailed account of the wrangling among ihe hermit-crabs, 

 which, as everybody knows who has observed them at all, are 

 exceedingly pugnacious little rascals. These crabs have 

 recourse to the cover of a whelk or other shell, into which 

 they back, and which thus serves as a protection to their Boft 

 and weak hinder extremity, leaving their mailed heads and 

 formidable claws out at the front door to resist all intrusion. 

 This gentleman's attention was attracted to a great commotion 

 among the hermit-crabs in a certaiu tauk, and he kept his eye 

 upon them. Suddenly, one of the number, a large specimen, 

 whose adopted dwelling was of somewhat narrow dimensions, 

 gave chase to a small crab which occupied a shell much larger. 

 The little one, apparently quite alive to the sinister intentions 

 of his big pursuer, took to flight, and struggled to escape 

 until the effort became hopeless, dodging around and behind 

 the oysters, in and out of every shelter in the most amusing 

 way. At length he was overtaken, and then a regular pitched 

 battle ensued. The little one resisted manfully, but was 

 finally overcome, the more bulky combatant succeeding at 

 last in forcing his claws between the body of his weaker op- 

 ponent and his shell, and with most frantic exertion, in turn- 

 ing him out. Then followed an exchange of shell. 



Here was manifested a keen discernment of the size and 

 kind of shell which suited him on the part of the larger one, 

 a determination in following it up, and a perseverance in the 

 bard fight by which he possessed himself of his neighbor's 

 house, that are not at all different in kind from human 

 qualities. 



Tyranny is invariably seen among gregarious animals, the 

 herd or flock being always under command of one individual 



GRAND DEER STALK OF THE BLOOM- 

 ING GROVE PARK ASSOCIATION. 



By Oub Special Kepoeter. 



Puns County, Pa., Nov. 5, 1878. 



Thirty good men and true, fully armed and equipped, left 

 the Erie Railroad Depot on Friday morning last in a spe- 

 cial car, to take part in the grand hunt which had been ad- 

 vertised to take place on the following day, in the breeding 

 preserves of the Association. The following are the names : 



Roland Thomas, Dr. A. Russell Strachan, 0. A. Grymes, R. 

 Redmond, W. F. Wharton, Louis Snyder, T. W. B. Huitbes, 

 D. G. Croly, late of ihe Graphic, E N. Johnson, Cttl G. W. 

 Wingate, T. F. Durant, M. H. Hums, J. T. 13nrn=, Mr. 8. M 

 Nash, Dr. F. J. Bumstead, E. Walliseb, P. Van Valkenburgb, 

 all of New York; F. Hardy, Otto Francke, F. L. Fames and 

 O. Hallock (Forest and Stheam), Brooklyn ; H. F. Ander- 

 son, Bahway, N. J.; T. Clarke, of Philadelphia; J. M. 

 Stellenwerf, of Islip, L. I.; N. B. Bumslead, Boston ; Count 

 B. Mouzelly, of Paris, France ; E. O. Beach, of the New 

 York Sun; C. M. Ogden, N. Y. World; and two dog- 

 handlers. 



The day was bright and sunny, the air bracing, and the 

 promise of sport assuring. The beautiful scenery along the 

 line of the Erie Railroad, especially through the valleys of 

 the Delaware and Lackawaxen rivers, was much enjoyed. 

 The party reached Millville, on the Honesdale Branch, about 

 one o'clock, and after a substantial meal provided at the Club 

 Halfway House by Mr. John Deming, found comfortable 

 transportation to the Park, seven miles distant, where they 

 arrived in the middle of the afternoon. The road to the Park 

 was built by the club last spring, and is most excellent. The 

 first two-and-a-half miles follow the valley of Blooming 

 Grove Creek, one of the finest natural trout streams in the 

 world, broken into falls, rapids and pools, for the entire dis- 

 tance, and affording many views of wild and charming sce- 

 nery. It is crossed four times by bridges. Only 

 three small shanties aie passed. The whole route 

 is through a forest whose primitive beauty has been much 

 impaired by timber-cutters, and great open spaces nf scrub oak 

 cleared by the forest fires which 'seem to run over i , 

 periodically. Within a mile of the Oltlb House, about 000 

 feet of ascent have been overcome, and the summit haying 

 been reached, a most extended view is obtained in oee direc- 

 tion across the intervening valley of apparently unbroken 

 forest to blue hills 8ntl mountains In the far distance. In 

 another direction down in the valley close at hand reposes 

 Beaver Lake, and glistening through the trees '' 

 ters of a mile away may be seen the blue waters of 

 Lake Giles, where the Club House is located on an eminence 

 of about one hundred feet. Strangers are always agreeably 



