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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Dhvoteo to Field aitd A<jua^ 

 FiMi;CoT,TrjM, THi Protect 



tflD THE INCULCATIOH DfM 



m Odt-ooor Recreation t 



o Sports, Practical NATUitij. History, 

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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1877. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, whether relating to ousineBs or literary 

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All communications intended for publication mnst be accompanied with 

 real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 

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Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited 



Wo cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 



Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor ns with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to tbe other ; and they will 

 and oar columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 

 patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 

 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 tbe legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 

 tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 

 ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 

 terras ; and nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 

 may not be read with propriety in the home circle 



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 CHARLES H ALLOCR. 



Editor and Business Manager. 



DON'T YOU FORGET IT. 



— On the 1st of May next the office of Forest and Stream 

 will he removed back to its original quarters, 103 Fulton 

 Street. 



Otje Auvebtisehexts. — "Readers will do well to scaD our 

 advertising columns at this spring season, when winter ad- 

 ots disappear, to be replaced by others which ap- 

 peal to summer requirements. A great variety of objects are 

 n sated. Many business men are under the impres- 

 sion that Forest aot Stream is a good advertising medium 

 only for sportsmen's goods — guns, dogs, fishing-tackle, and 

 the like — but a casual glance at its columns will discover that 

 than thirty-two distinct interests are represented. 

 AVe enumerate boats, boots, books, clothing, carpets, disin- 

 fectants, dogs, fishing-tackle, fish culture, farms, guns, 

 gymnasia, horses, horticulture, houses, hotels, house-furnish- 

 ing, insurance, jewelry, lanterns, liquors, music, medicines, 

 natural history,' jioultry, periodicals, rubber goods, railroadB, 

 soap, steamships, steam yachts, taxidermy, tobacco, and 

 ' these general heads embrace a great many kindred 

 branches. 



Those who have tried us generally hasten to assure us of 

 the very material service we render; and the very, best testi- 

 mony afforded lies in the fact that many of our advertisers 

 pave stuck to us from the beginning of our publication. 

 rt that this is as good a general advertising medium 

 ua any in t-ho country. Lot the incredulous try it once and 

 i hemselves. 



— The new and elegant steamer C. H. Northani takes her 

 place on Monday, April 2d, on the line between New York 

 and New Haven, leaving Pock Slip at 3 p.m. This will be 

 welcome news to travellers, as this steamer has always been a 

 favorite. 



Nine vessels of the Long Island Fishing fleet which saile'd 



for the Newfoundland Banks last November are. missing and 



to be lost. Their names arc the John T. Ryder, S. 



.Lie : Saunders, Fannie Eves, Emma Hurd, J. P. 



Crook, Ceiia Bernard, W. F. Merckle, and E. D.'Baldwin. 



" Jam satis nlvis atquo dirao prandinia Mlsit Pater." 



THE morning breaks clear and unclouded. A million ra- 

 diant gems glance and sparkle from each blade and 

 budding leaf. The air is soft and balmy, the fragrant odor 

 of woods and fields comes full and fresh to the nostril. Na- 

 ture again assumes her most bewitching attire. Can romance, 

 or poetry, or art, or p inting ever adequately express to im- 

 agination or senses the soft beauties of an early spring morn- 

 ing in the country? How we pity tbe lot of those who are de- 

 barred from its pleasures! Those who have but rarely or but 

 once experienced an early morning tramp at such a time, 

 should hold it as the greenest, freshest spot upon the tablet 

 of their memory, until the opportunity shall arise for a sec- 

 ond enjoyment of this delightful privilege. 



But to the ardent and enthusiastic admirer of thel great 

 works of the Creator alone can these scenes come back with 

 all the fervor and veneration of idolatry. 



We Bhoulder our collecting gun and start out. How 

 bracing the air is ! It seems tis though there were no limit to 

 our physical capabilities. It gives an additional elasticity to 

 the- step, a clearer tone to the voice. It seems to throw a 

 sweeter music into the metallic tones of the woodthrush, 

 wafted by the gentle zephyr from the valley. How sweet falls 

 the musical cadence of the favorite little blue bird, as ho envois 

 forth his song to the new-found spouse in the orchard noar by. 

 We descend the slope. The full-toned note of the red-winger] 

 blackbird is heard far below in the cattails, where he and his 

 mate are engaged in the construction of their water-locked 

 home. We enter the woods with their tall chestnuts and aut- 

 lered oaks The distant bark of the grey squirrel, too shy to 

 show himself, and the incessant chattering of his impudent- 

 little congener, the red cousin, as he chafes iu furious tones 

 at the intrusion, are the sounds that first strike the ear. Now 

 and then a golden-winged woodpecker sounds his hammering 

 through the vistas of the forest, as he sends the chips flying 

 right and left from the door of his' future abode ; and per- 

 chance a woodcock may startle you as he whistles up from 

 under your very feet. These are the voices of the woods, links 

 of a golden chain which serve to bind us uearer and closer to 

 nature and her God. The remembrance of such scenes is 

 truly delightful, and the anticipation of like pleasures to 

 come again makes life on dark days bright. 



We have seated ourselves to notice the movements of a 

 small gathering of newly arrived warblers. How graceful 

 they are in the sunlight as they flit suddenly from twig to 

 twig in and out of the cat-brier thickets; their colorings how 

 harmonious, the shades so delicately blended. How deftly do 

 they seize the unfortunate insects which their eyes skillfully 

 detect. We secure a few specimensjmd move to the meadow 

 below. Now " faint from further distance bom " is heard the 

 shrill whistle of the noble meadow lark, as he wildly pursues 

 his consort over niirsh and meadow. As we cross the moor- 

 land, a bittern flaps lazily up, and with a hoarse croak flies a 

 short distance, then settles down again to his marshy home. 

 From the partially submerged meadowland the little sand- 

 piper, the tiniest of the species, darts up and zigzags off high 

 in air, imitating in his evolutions the movements of his more 

 formidable relation, the Wilsons snipe. Passing again to 

 higher ground, the bursting, bubbling notes of the bobolink, 

 the champion songster of the meadows, salutes the ear from 

 every sMe. Now to the right, now to the left, and again im- 

 mediately overhead he glides. Again is he seen in wantou 

 and swift pursuit of his modestly dressed lady. Suddenly he 

 pauses in his hot chase, and floats slowly down with up- 

 stretched wings and dangling feet, pouring forth his gushing 

 song as though the small compass of his body were wholly in- 

 adequate to tbe task of expressing his full feelings. 



Wrapt in unspeakable thought we gaze upon the scene. 

 Far beyond us the giant woods, thrown athwart the sky, form 

 a fit setting to the intervening picture. The air is vocal with 

 the music of a hundred sounds. The orioles, with their clear 

 whistle, are high up in tulip and buttonwood. The robin's 

 song re-echoes from hill and dale. The piping of the quail 

 sounds cheevily from the hedgerow.- The dull drumming of 

 the partridge, the soft cooing of the wood-dove, the low mur- 

 muring of the forest rivulet, the sleepy whisperings of the 

 pines, all blended in one sweet monotone, serve gently to lull 

 the spiri t into sweet repose. T We memm. 



—There is so much game in California, and- so many gun- 

 ners shooting around, (hat the Pacific Lije prints each week 

 a regular Department of Hunting Casualties. 



SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN. 



OBSEBS r ATION has led to the conclusion, that all who 

 claim the title of "Sportsman" are not entitled to the 

 name. The terms sport and sportsman are not synonymous, 

 although many would like to have them so. The gentleman 

 sportsman is as widely removed from the genuine "sport" in 

 point of respectability, as the field of action is higher and 

 nobler. No doubt they who follow the various branches of 

 out-door sports, from the highest and most respectable to the 

 lowest and most thoroughly degraded, consider the more 

 perfect types of their respective branches the only true, pure, 

 and perfect beings worthy of the name sportsman. 



We of the rod and gun are not behind in the above particu- 

 lar; we claim the title, and claim it honestly, and can prove 

 (to our own satisfaction at least) that we who love to shoot 

 and fish have some in our ranks who are sportsmen "par ex- 

 cellence" in the full and perfect usage of the term. We are 

 not all such; far from it. To simply be able to kill ten 

 straight birds from a plunge trap does not fill the bill; nay, 

 nor to kill three out of five shots at quail, woodcock, or ruffed 

 grouse the season through, is the standard. Do not even the 

 "pot-hunters" the same? Neither does it consist in that 

 dexterity at fly-casting or bait-fishing that insures the fullest 

 creels. None of these. Our sportsman is a different being. 

 You won'tjilways find him attiredin broadcloth or a "Hola- 



bird"suit. He is not necessarily secretary or president of 

 high-toned sportsman's club. No; it takes something be- 

 sides wealth and position to form this being. Then what is 

 he? what are the competent parts of this rare subject of 

 which we are writing ? 



We will answer — not by giving a prescription for his 

 "make up," for he is not a manuf, • el article. He will 

 not develop under "blue glass," but blue sky will help him 

 on amazingly. The true sportsman is a spontaneous article — 

 born so as it were. With his first ideas his love of nature 

 shows plainly out, and with coming years the development 

 goes on until, with experience added to experience, he steps 

 forth full full fledged, the first of his kind. He must be a 

 gentleman in every respect, be he in camp or court, polite, 

 civil, always looking to the welfare of others. He must ever 

 carry about with him that "something" that to even the 

 casual observer bespeaks the gentleman though he open not 

 his mouth. 



A keen lover of nature must he be, drinking in all her 

 sublime changes; finding a pure delight in watching the 

 various little minntife of the varying seasons. He must 

 recognize in looking up through nature, nature's God; find 

 beauty in the clouds and music, in every rippling stream; 

 the carol of birds must be to him the sweetest melody on 

 earth and every opening flower a type of loveliness. Also 

 somewhat of a naturalist and botanist must, he be — ever on 

 the alert for specimens of rare animals and plants, besides 

 having a trace of ichthyology and taxidermy in his composi- 

 tion, and a sprinkling of geology. So we havo the mechanical 

 ' 'make up" of the true sportsman. 



But it is to be his moral "make up" that we must look for 

 more striking peculiarities that go to distinguish him from 

 the ordinary run. Many who lay no claim to the title are 

 adepts in the sciences above enumerated, and nothing more 

 — mere scientific machines, who, although giving much use r 

 ful information to the world, could not be sportsmen if they 

 would. We see happy combinations of science and true 

 sportsmanship occasionally refreshing from their very rarity. 

 Let us consider then "Audubon." A simple mention of his 

 name is all sufficient. Every intelligent reader of this paper 

 has but to hear that name to be thrilled with the thought, 

 that at least one purely scientific man has lived who was a 

 thorough sportsman. 



Such a man must be a keen observer and a close student; 

 little things as well as great must be noticed by him , and the 

 "reason why" as assiduously studied, be the object a burning 

 mountain or the simple changing color of a leaf. It is under- 

 stood that he will know how to shoot and fish to edification, 

 for versed as he is in natural history and ichthyology, the 

 habits and haunts of game and fish are as an open page to 

 him, and knowing these, what is simpler than to profit by the 

 knowledge ? 



But one of the grandest attributes of his character is his 

 sociability. How it shines forth in the wilderness, brighten- 

 ing up the camp with its beaming effulgence. No one gets 

 homesick or blue when your true sportsman is around, al- 

 ways ready withsome diversion to drive away dull cure. He 

 is always busy; the camp he represents never lacks for com- 

 forts; the larder is always full; the fire bums with good, dry 

 wood (he don't depend upon a guide); the bods of balsam 

 boughs look very inviting in their softness; there is a rack 

 for the guns, a store tent, and you might live in that little 

 camp a whole season, providing our sportsman stayed and 

 ministered to you. 



Your true sportsman may be a baokwoodsman, partly 

 forced by circumstances and partly drawn by love to erect 

 cabin in the wilderness, and hew out from the primeval 

 forest a living and perhaps a competence; or a simple guide, 

 born and brought up far from the haunts of men, a veritable 

 "Natty Bumppo" in whom 'there is no guile— a sportsman by 

 nature, his home wherever night overtakes him, his compan- 

 ions his hound and rifle, his church the green aisles of God's 

 cathedral. "Who could help being a pure sportsman under 

 such influences ? 



Many who read this have found just such types described 

 above, and almost envied them their free, wildlife and thor- 

 ough knowledge of the gentle science of woodcraft. 



But the true sportsman is also found in our great cities and 

 busy towns; he fills the best positions, and fills them most 

 successfully. In the pulpit, at the bar, in the sanctum, the 

 office, and the warehouse he shines forth. At home he is 

 genial and kind. Secure his friendship and you will find 

 him a friend indeed. 



We don't believe a thorough sportsman can be depraved. 

 He must have elements in him that will lift him up and keep 

 him up. If a man loves nature and enj oys out-of-door life 

 it is hard for evil to get hold of him. He rises superior to 

 petty strifes and bickerings, and shows himself to be 

 ■rN&ttir&'s own nobleman, friendly and irank, 

 A man with Ma heart iu bia hand." 



GAME PROTECTION. 



New York. — The Dausville Sportsmen's Association have 

 had 25,000 brook trout placed at their disposal by Beth Green, 

 and have appointed a committee to visit the State Hatching 

 House when the fry are ready for delivery. The Association 

 has also a large number of live quail, to be turned out when- 

 •'. er tin. ., eat her will permit. At the last meeting a motion 

 was made and adopted that the different clubs of the 

 er.nntTvle conferred with preparatory to taking measures 

 for organiSdi . i I ounty Sportswenlfi Association, and that a 

 . . , _■ ,:-]. fciveclxtbs to consider the 



subject be held ■-•- rtauirl Morris on Wednesday, April 1th, at 

 three u'eloci e. sc. 



The Nashua Fish and Game Club, which has for its object 

 the stocking of ponds and streams, with 

 teotion of game and fish in close seasqn, and the instruction 

 of its members in the study of the habits and peculiarities 



