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Hall lo the Jam Of i.'arly morn, 

 I 16 Kistng Sun ! 



Far from i.nr native land, 



O'er stormy ocean's roar, 

 We v., brought no trump bnt u peaceful pipe, 



Which sounds no note of war- 

 Then liat our carol blithe, 



Xor seek to ao us wrong ; 

 In ns yon see no enemy, 



The pioneers or song ! 



if, in its Inland state, 



Our colony you shield. 

 We'll peal our thanks in after years 



From many a fertile Held. 

 Manhattan's maids sliall hear 



Our widely warbled strain ; 

 Our tales of love, by dell and grove, 



Shall cbeer the western swain I 



No nagging wings ore ours, 



Our voiceo clear and sweet, 

 And soaring high, from earth to si J", 



"Tis thus our ting we greet ! 



Cmokjs— Mouut, mount tlie azure heights 

 Our carol Is begun ; 

 Hail to the dawn of rosy morn, 

 Hall to the Kislng Sun ! 



It may also interest our readers to know that the above 

 beautiful poem was revised by William Henry Herbert. 

 The author of it is Mr. It. W. Hume, of Long Island City, 

 who was for a considerable time engaged with Mr. W. H. 

 Herbert in the instruction of youth at the Iiev. I?. T 

 Huddnot's school ia Bloomingdale, who testifies to the cor- 

 rectness oE the above statement. 



It is a melancholy pity that the design to colonize the sky- 

 lark, the finest day songster of Europe, was not then accom- 

 plished. But, unquestionably, were the attempt made in 

 southern New Jersey or Maryland it could hardly fail to prove 

 successful. Unliks the sparrow, against which certain 

 charges are brought, the skylark i3 known everywhere as the 

 farmer's friend. Who will cover himself with fame by the 

 importation of some of these unparalleled warblers, and, by 

 following our suggestion, raise to his name a pyramid of song 

 as high as heaven and as enduring as nature ? 



The Twenty-Third RtaisiENT Ball.— The first ball this 

 season of the Twenty-third Regiment, after an interval of six 

 months, was held last Tuesday evening at the Brooklyn 

 Academy of Music, which was suitably and handsomely deco- 

 rated with gas jets, flowers, portraits and regimental battle- 

 flags. These Twenty-third Regiment receptions are among the 

 most agreeable social features of Brooklyn, and are always 

 looked [forward to with very pleasurable anticipation ; with- 

 out being pretentiously exclusive, they aro most happy in their 

 management, and uniformly prove the most successful evenis 

 of the Brooklyn season. The attendance the other evening 

 ■was very large and represented, not only the society of Brook- 

 lyn, but also nearly all the regiments of New York and Jersey 

 City. The great capacity of the Academy was severely taxed 

 by a brilliant gathering. The evening was one of thorough 

 enjoyment, and the order of dancing was not finished until 

 two o'clock. 



" Br. Carver, the marksmm, broke, with, his rule, one thousand glass 

 balls In an hour at Atlanta, Ga., last Friday." 



Statements of remarkable feats with rifle and shot-gun, not 

 only by Carver and Bogardus, but by some amateurs, have 

 been made so frequently the past year that they no longer 

 excite surprise or comment. Such feats are possible, and 

 the public sserns content in recognizing and accepting 

 the fact. Yet, consider how marvellous they are ! Con- 

 template the skill, dexterity;, unvarying accuracy of 

 aim, nerve, composure and endurance required to accom- 

 plish them. Does the reader realize the very brief measure 

 of time alloted to each discharge of the rifle when 1,000 hits 

 are scored in 3,000 seconds ? Of course some balls are missed, 

 aad these misses reduce the time allowed for each shot to a 

 minimum of 3£ seconds. It would take some potterers the 

 whole of this time merely to pull two triggers of an ordinary 

 gun ; but the professional shooter loatL, extracts, cocks, aims 

 and pulls the trigger, all in three seconds and a half '. How 

 quick and accurate his aim must be, scarcely ever to miss ! 

 What chance would a party to a duel have with such men, 

 firing at the word ? Coolness ! Crowds of spectators pressing, 

 people asking questions, careless persons pushing directly into 

 the line of fire, directions to be given to attendants, appeals to 

 the constables to preserve order and keep the crowd back— all 

 these obstacles and interruptions interpose to disconcert the 

 aim, andyotthe scores go on: hit — lilt; hit— hit; smash — smash; 

 break— break ; one thousand and more times in a u'nf/le 7tour. 

 Why, the arms of the amateur would become so weak in half 

 that time that they would hang powerless by his side, the 

 muscles would swell and inflame, and the sufferer have to be 

 fed with a spoon for a week. Then think of the pounding and 

 percussion upon the deltoid and biceps muscles, and the 

 chest! What ordinary frame could endure it? But these 

 marvellous athletes, Carver and Bogardus, have not only sub- 

 mitted to the hammering for an hour, but Carver has stood it 

 for 7 hours, 38 minutes and 80 seconds (July 13, 1878,) and 

 Bogardus for t> hours, 13 minutes and 45 seconds (Jan. 3, 

 1878;. Both of the heroes arc still alive and enjoying the pur- 

 suit of wealth and happiness. Of fame each has hi "suffi- 



ciency full," unless pMfrtventure they step their feet into the 

 realm of miracles and impossibilities. 



Hereafter, when our readers see mention made of these per- 

 formances let them think on what we have written ; then 

 their estimate of the gentlemen will be much increased. 



GAME PROTECTION 



Kill tite Cats. — In another column a Maryland reader tells 

 us of a colony of wild house cats. It is not at all umsual for 

 the domestic cat to revert to a wild state. English game- 

 keeper are almost powerless to stay the ravages of these ani. 

 mals in the preserves. Our correspondent should have killed 

 the animals he discovered. They are very destructive to all 

 small game. This leads us to say a word about the cat, which 

 we believe to be a pest, to sportsman and farmer alike. One 

 cat will destroymore bin's in a season than a dozen boys with 

 shot-guns, and no fear of the game laws. Every farm has 

 from one to a dozen cats, and just in proportion to their num- 

 bers will the orchards bo full of worm nests, the fields with 

 grasshoppers, and everything covered with caterpillars. We 

 cannot have cats and insectivorous birds. Thoy cannot exist 

 together. We are convinced that these sleek pets of the 

 farm are altogether two expensive. Central Park night pa- 

 trols carry revolvers with which to shoot the hordes of cats 

 nightly infesting the Park to prey npon the birds and fowl. 

 If the farmer should follow their enample and kill the cats of 

 the nighborhood be would be abundantly repaid for the ex- 

 penditure of powder by flocks of worm-destroying birds, and 

 fairer harvests. The cat as a bird destroyer is utterly bad. 

 As such, kill it. 



^ Poind Nbts and Piib.se Nkts.— fcVraeyaf,, Dec. 13- Edi- 

 tor Forest and Stream : I can indorse Mr. Roosevelt's article 

 on pound nets in your issue of Nov. 28. There is necessity 

 of immediate attention to these destructive engines, and our 

 State legislators should see the necessity of prompt action. It 

 will be a hard fight in some of our Atlantic States, yet perse- 

 verance will accomplish it. I have been through the mill— I 

 write i'rom six weeks' experience in our State Capitol. Since 

 the law passed last winter in this State, although not as 

 stringentas we desired, the result has been the past season 

 the best fishing we have had for years, and letters recieved 

 from colaborers in the cause in other countries on our coast 

 admit the same. We apprehend no trouble in seeming all the 

 legislation we want next winter for fish preservation. 



Will not Mr. Roosevelt favor us in a future number 

 with his views on purse nets for menhaden, and explain the effect 

 of their extermination on bluetish ? This is the first fall in 

 my recollection of ten years that the menhaden and bluefish 

 have not approached our coast. We attribute it to the increase 

 of purse-net fishing. If you destroy the bluefish food will 

 they not seek other waters ? Kinsky. 



Pound Nets.— Mr. Editor : In your issue of the 5th inst. 

 appeared an excellent article on this subject, of which too 

 much cannot be said in opposition. A large portion of our 

 fresh water food fish comes from the great lakes, and if these 

 arc not protected they will certainly cease to yield their 

 harvest to hungry humanity. Take any of the many imoort- 

 aul bays that indent their shores, and you will find them'well 

 barricaded by these instruments of destruction. The proprie- 

 tors of many of the large fish houses on the coast encourage 

 many of the meu in their work of destruction, and while there 

 is no law to prevent, can we wonder why they look out for 

 themselves to the detriment of their fellow-men. To show 

 the avidity with which they seize an opportunity, I will relate 

 an instance that came under my observation a few years ago. 

 In company with two others 1 was fishing on Black River 

 Bay (adjacent to Lade Ontario). It was in the middle of the 

 forenoon, when rowing along we struck a couple of pike, and 

 inside of a few minutes saw auothor party take three. AVo 

 did not stop to fish more, but kept on our way to camp. In 

 the afternoon the aforesaid party came in with a fine lot of 

 fish, mostly pike and bass. After a few hours he returned 

 from the village (Dexter) accompanied by a guide, who is em- 

 ployed by an ex-Senator from Oneida County mall his fishing 

 excursions in that vicinity. When they returned they in- 

 formed us a school of fish had struck in on the bar. By day- 

 light next morcingthe aforesaid guide appeared, accompanied 

 by a companion of congenial taste rowing a boat, the stem of 

 which was filled with a net, which they at once placed across 

 the bar. This guide is the individual who, a few years ago, 

 discovered the mass of bullheads in Muscalonge Creek when 

 cutting holes through the ice to set nets. But that was not 

 what he said he was cutting the holes for, according to the 

 accounts given in the papa's at the time, It is sucli men as 

 this who are doing the mischief, and unless a law is passed 

 soon to either stop or modify it, one of our greatest blessings 

 will be destroyed by an avaricious and ignorant few to the 

 misfortune of themselves and multitudes of others. In hopes 

 that our Legislature will take hold of the matter, I dedicate 

 this epistle to them, and remain yours, hopefull v, 



II. C. KiEK, Dexter. 



Maine. -Bath has a new game society, known a9 the 

 Sagadahoc County Association for the Protection of Pish 

 and Game. The officers are : Dr. O. A. Packard, President : 

 JameB H. Millny and A. G. G-oud, Vice-Presidents ; Charles 

 H. Greenleaf , Secretary ; George E. Newman, Treasurer ; S. 

 W. _ Carr, George E. Whitney, G. D. Willis, George H. 

 Nichols, E. B. Mayberry, Executive Committee. The new 

 society promises to accomplish a long-needed protective work. 



Nbw Yobk.— Shandaken, Ulster County, is to have a game 

 protective club. The members of this association will be 

 mainly residents of the township— fanners, etc.— who wish to 

 maintain and increase their stock of fish and game, and their 

 natural resources are such as to amply repay vigorous protee- 



— On the nth of December, Samuel Mason, David B. 

 Clark and Prank Haines, of Pine Hollow, Gloucester C N. 

 J., were arrested on complaint of an officer of the West Jersey 

 Game Protective Society, and taken before Magistrate Charles 

 SToung, of Newfteld, for snooding and trapping quail a ud 

 ruffed grouse. Having been found guilty, and not paying the 

 fines imposed, they were committed to the county jail at 

 Woodbury for twenty days each. This association is very 

 energetic, ana its efforts deserve approval 



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Fistt Protkction re Tennessee— Nashville, Deo, 13.— I 

 have just had an interview with Col. George F, Akers, one of 

 the Fi9h Commissioners of Tennessee, with regard to the 

 chances of the next Legislature, which is to meet here on the 

 0th of January, 1879. taking any action in passing such laws 

 as are necessary for the protection of flsb in our many streams, 

 ne iuforms me that our present Governor Porter, whose time 

 expires this year, in his message will strongly recommend the 

 passage of such laws, and that he has been assured by friends 

 of the Governor-elect Marks that he will indorse in his com- 

 ing message all that Governor Porter may say. Colonel Akers 

 is under the impression, from what he knows from different 

 sources, that the laws will certainly be passed. J. D. H. 



Michigan State Si-ortsmen's Association.— The annual 

 convention is set down for Jan. 21, 23 and 23. 



The Fish op ibb St. Laweekce.— Mr. R. H. Kilby, 

 President of the Fish and Game Protection Club of the 

 Province of Quebec, has called our attention to the following 

 circular issued by his society, and which is to be presented to 

 the Minister of Marine and Fisheries at Ottawa. The subject 

 is an important one, and justly demands the attention of the 

 Montreal society. It is to be hoped that interested game pro- 

 tective societies in the State of New York will take suitable 

 action for seconding the Canadians in their efforts to preserve 

 the young fish of the St. Lawrence, The petition reads as 



follows : 



Montreal, December, 1S7S. 

 To the Hon. the Minister of Marine, and Fisheries : 



We, the undersigned, dealers, sportsmen, citizens, and members of 

 the Pish and Game Protection Club of the Province or Quebec, haying 

 noticed that the food supply, in the form of Macs bass, dore and mas- 

 kinonge, furnished by the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Eivers, has year 

 by year been diminishing in quantity at an alarming rate, and believ- 

 ing that If certain measnres be at once instituted ant scrupulously 

 carried out the rivers alluded to will, In a few years' time, yield as 

 much as they have done in the prat, hereby respectfully submit onr 

 views, and pray that you will take them into your consideration .- 



1. To your petitioners proof does not seem wanting that the laws 

 affecting the taking of these species of Hah, at presont on the Statnt- 

 Book, are bat little observed; ilsh being caught at prohibited times" 

 and, m some Instances, kept alive in boxes or pounds to evado ule 

 laws until the season opens. 



2. It appears to your petitioners that the most destructive practice 

 of all Is the capture of ash by means of nets during the spawning sea- 

 son in and contiguous to tbe entrance of certain small si ream-j which 

 may be termed breeding rivers ; and should this practice be persisted 

 In yoar petitioners feel convinced but one Inevitable result will follow 

 viz.: onr large rivers will speedily and completely be depleted of the 

 Ilsh named. 



Tour petitioners would alBo humbly suggest that the following 

 rivers be preserved as "breeding rivers," and absolutely closed agaluBt 

 all netting, not only la the streams themselves, but within three 

 quarters of a mile of the entrances thereto, viz., the Chateautruav 

 Beaadette, Salmon Elver and North Elver; and, also, that saohlteDS 

 be taken to enforce the laws as will effeotuilly pat a ston to the 

 netting of flsh during the breeding season, In or near to the other 

 tributaries of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, notary e amom> 

 which are the Elver St. Louis, Riviere Rouge and the Kigaud 



That to enable your Department, as well aB the members of the club 

 to have a more perfect knowledge and supervision of tiio net flihera ' 

 It Is desirable the law be so farther amended that a list of all licences 

 granted for nets, to be used in the Province of Quebec, be forwarded 

 to the Secretary of the FlsH and Game Protection Club at .Montreal 



Your petitioners now, therefore, humbly pray that-as the=e species 

 of fish ordinarily spawn so nearly about the same time, as they swi-i 

 in the same waters and can be caught by baits almost Identical In their 

 character-the laws regulating their capture be the same for all • and 

 would recommend that the close season for rod and line fishing 'com 

 mence April 1 and terminate May 23, and for net fishing to commence 

 April 1 and terminate June 15. S commence 



CLOSE SEASONS FOR FISH AND 

 GAME. 



In a majority of the States the close seasons for everything 

 but wild fowl commence on January I. For the benefit of 

 our readers we reprint in this issue a revised table of close sea 

 sons. 



Alabama.— Deer, April 15 September 15 : fowl, Auril 1 



to October 1 ; quad April 1 to October 1 , wild turkey Apr 1 

 to Sep ember 15. These provisions relate only to the countlea 



Molnle Choctaw Monroe, Clarke, Washington, jg Z in 

 Marengo, Lowndes, Sumter, Escambia, Hale, Dal as Mom '- 

 gomery and Greene. ' l 



CALiFORSiA.-Salmou, August 1 to September 15 • salmon 

 trout, November 1 to April 1 ■ shad, April 1 to DeeemberTl 

 trout, November! to April 1; Mountain sheep , o!k°do or 

 antelope, until March 80, ISH3 ; deer (buck on v) November 



1 to Ju y 1 ; wild fowl and quail, March 15 to SmtaSSSi? 

 except in Lesson, Plumas and Sierra counties ? in Ken, tr 

 dmo and Los Angeles counties, April 1 to AuLmst 1 • ounar - 



Colouado -Elk, buffalo, deer, antelope, mountain sheen 

 and bison, January 1 to September 1 pinnated grouse 

 pheasant and prairte hen or grouse, November 15 to Octo- 



CoNNEOTiocr.-Black bass, May 31 to July 1 (in Connect! 



cut and Farmmgton Rivers maybe taken at any time? Si 

 mon, none taken under nine pounds ■ shad June ^ in m.,™i 

 15 ; trout, July I to April irl, quail SS ^S 

 cock, January 1 to October 1 j wild fowl, May 1 to Septem' 



Delaware. -Rabbit, partridge and pheasant in Kent and 

 Sussex counties, February 15 to November 1 ■ in New Ca,M,, 

 county, January 1 to November 1 , woodcock, Janulryl to 



Florida.-No law for fish except one requiring non-resi- 

 dents to procure a license: doer, April 1 to September 1 no 



Ldaiio-FowI in Ada county, April 15 to September I ■ 



quail, February 1 to November t ; ruffed i- L, ' T V l j 



to October 1; snipe, May 1 to A,.V„s 15 ; g ^ "itSe ™ J&J 

 ruary 1 to October 1 • woodcock, Jj&wtf 1 to S,P .nlher 1 

 Indiana.— Deer, January 1 to October • wihi 4 \ i * -, 

 15 to September! q „ ai ], ,L, miy ' wLm -l " in^?^ 

 grouse, February 1 to October!; woo S ", nuary? 2 

 July 1 ; wild turkey, March 1 to September 1 ' Y lo 



