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Editohluj Angling Ethics. — Now that Congress is 

 taking a rest, the country comparatively safe for a sea- 

 son, and the next campaign not yet "booming," the Ohio 

 editors have turned their attention to the discussion of the 

 ethics of angling. The particular issue at stake is the 

 comparative excellence of the fly and the angle-worm. 

 The editor of the Dayton Journal, as we infer, has been 

 off on a fishing expedition with the Miami Fishing Asso- 

 ciation, of which he is the honored president. We further 

 infer, from the one-sided evidence which has come to our 

 notice, that his string of trout was so great as to demand, 

 in the interest of his own fair name and fame, a defence 

 of the methods of fishing employed, said method being 

 worm and sinker. Thereupon the editor of the Cleveland 

 Leader, in a number now before us, urges that a box of 

 wriggling worms and a big string of trout are offences 

 second in enormity only to election repeating and stuffed 

 ballot boxes. Calling the Cuvier Club of Cincinnati to his 

 support, he further contends that the only method of trout 

 fishing, which may be legitimately pursued by a gentle- 

 man, a scholar, and a newspaper editor, is fly-fishing. 



Our Cleveland friend is undoubtedly correct ; but. while 

 we admire his cogent reasoning, let us warn him that he 

 is avowing on the angle- worm question advanced views, 

 which, while eminently becoming in a journal like the 

 Forest and Stream, are, if not equally becoming, at least 

 not equally safe for such a paper as his own. And, un- 

 less he is prepared to suffer ignominy for his principles, 

 we counsel moderation. Hie angle-worm is a hobby with 

 some men. It is always dangerous to trifle around the 

 heels of a man's hobby -horse. The angle-worm moreover 

 is a hobby of venerable age, which has the traditions of 

 the fathers on its side, Men cling with barnacle tenacity 

 to their traditions ; it has always been a perilous under- 

 taking to inaugurate any fundamental reform. The 

 Cleveland man may well sit down and count the cost he- 

 fore committing himself further. Happy man, if the 

 angle-worm, needlessly set foot upon by him, shall not 

 rise, transformed into a dragon, to snap up his artificial 

 flies and swallow himself in its maw ! 



Meanwhile we are rejoiced to km iw that Ohio editors 

 go a-fishing. We are confident that their papers are more 

 breezy and better humored in consequence. Editors' 

 duties are such as to demand now and then a " week off." 

 A day in the woods is worth more than a two-column 

 circus ad. _ 



Col. J. B. Oliver, late of the Florida. New Yorker, 

 is preparing a book on Florida— its climate, products, re- 

 Sources, etc. The author is competent to treat the sub- 

 ject. 



The Moral of Base Ball.— The game of base ball, 

 which long ago won deserved recognition as the national 

 game of the United States, has of late years no less de- 

 servedly acquired notoriety as a national disgra.ee. From 

 the hands of amateurs the game passed largely to the 

 control of professionals ; and for very logical reasons. 

 The professionals so conducted it as to bring it into very 

 bad repute. When large sums of money were at stake 

 individual players and clubs were bought up ; the game 

 was jockied and otherwise conducted with more or less 

 " crookedness." 



There has come a change. Base ball professionals have 

 found '•crookedness" less profitable than square, honest 

 dealing. 



The game, as a business, is conducted by certain stock 

 companies, who select their nines of salaried players and 

 derive their dividends from the gate-money and from bet- 

 ting upon the results of games. That club draws the 

 most gate-money which maintains the highest position in 

 the annual series of contests for the championship. 

 Hence it; is better in the long run for a club to win a good 

 position, and to hold it, thanit is for it to suffer unneces- 

 sary defeat, now and then, by selling a game. Individual 

 players have also found that skill and fair dealing, which 

 insure high-salaried positions, are surer and safer means 

 of livelihood than " crooked " dealings and the betraying 

 of their clubs. In short, honesty is the best policy, as 

 much in base ball as in the newspaper business or auy 

 other business. 



Ottawa Rives Scenery.— Those of our readers who 

 are seeking for a new and engaging route of summer 

 travel are referred to the advertisement in our columns 

 of the Ottawa Navigation Company. The steamers of 

 this line run through from Montreal to Ottawa by day, 

 and the whole route is a succession of beautiful rapids, 

 precipitous cliffs, forests, and pastoral landscapes. For 

 1 50 miles above the city of Ottawa the scenery is wilder, 

 more primitive and picturesque. The Twin Mountain 

 lakes vie with Lake George in beauty, and are full of 

 bass. On the upper river, above Pembroke, are lakes 

 filled with speckled trout. Those who like to ran rapids 

 can have then fill of enjoyment here. The coming 

 months of August and September, the latter in particu- 

 lar, are especially charming, when the foliage is tinged 

 with the brilliant hues of autumn. We know of scarcely 

 another route in Canada which we can recommend more 

 heartily. The Parliament buildings at Ottawa, which 

 overlook the river from a perpendicular cliff 120 feet high, 

 constitute one of the chief attractions of the route, and 

 for their massiveness and beauty of architecture justly 

 command the pride of Canadians. The trip from Ottawa 

 to Montreal is only $3.50. 



Our Archery Department. — We take great pleasure 

 in announcing that the Archery Department of the Forest 

 and Stream is under the supervision of Mr. Will BT. 

 Thompson, whose eminent fitness for the position is a suffi- 

 cient promise of its excellence and high standard, The 

 columns devoted to this popular sport will from week to 

 week contain articles similar in character to that in the 

 present issue. No archer can well afford to be without 

 the paper. Our readers who are followers of the sport 

 will confer a favor upon their friends by directing their 

 attention to the Forest and Stream. 



Noted Cricketers.— We were pleasantly surprised yes- 

 terday by a call from the Powgs brothers, Walter and 

 Richard, formerly, if not now, well known as the foremost 

 of English cricketers. They arrived on Saturday last in 

 the City of Berlin, and will presently visit Virginia to look 

 after their log cabin near Farmville, which they have not 

 seen for three years. There were a few quail left around 

 there when they broke camp, which they hope the ne- 

 groes in charge have not potted. 



Carrier Pigeons.— Six birds were liberated at Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, at 5:30 a. M. last Sunday morning, the winner, 

 Mr. O. W. Dormer's red checkered cock Boss, reached its 

 coop in Williainsburgh, at 11J Monday morning. The 

 second prize winner. Mr. J. Van Opstal's blue checkered 

 bird Swiftness settled down to its coop in New York city 

 at 3:50 P. M. Monday, This was the longest flight ever 

 attempted in this country, four hundred miles, air line. 



The World's Fair in 1883.— The great International 

 Exposition, which is to be held at New York in 1883, the 

 centennial year of the ending of the war for independ- 

 ence, promises to exceed in magnitude the Centennial 

 Exhibition of 1876. The growth of the United States and 

 the development of our resources and industries during 

 even so short a period as that of the eight years wliich 

 will have elapsed between the two exhibitions, warrant 

 the expectation that the World's Fair of 1883 will surpass 

 any other event of a similar character ever held. 

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Personal.— We much regret to record the death of A. 

 A. Mowry, Esq.. at his residence in Putnam, Conn., on 

 the morning of the 28th instant. He was an accom- 

 plished and much beloved gentleman, a thorough sports- 

 man iu all departments, and a superior rifleman. 



Three of a Rikd. — Considerable space was recently 



devoted in the newspapers to three entertainments, all of 

 which transpired within a fortnight of each other; viz.: 

 a wash bowl combat between a tarantula and a scorpion, 

 presided over by the citizens of Bonanza City, Nov.; a 

 sickening fight between a bull and a hear in a Pike county, 

 Penna., pit, witnessed by the heathen, male and female, 

 of the vicinity ; and a New York city prize fight from 

 which the police deferentially withheld their presence 

 until a becoming amount of gouging had been done. Do 

 ttot confound these separate encounters. The wash bowl 

 belongs to the first one, not to the last, 



GAME PROT ECTION. 



New Authority op Supervisors.— We have been at 

 some pains, from time to time in the past, to define the 

 power of Comity Supervisors in its relation to the gen- 

 eral game law of this State. Under the old law, super- 

 visors were empowered "tomakeany regulations or ordi- 

 nances protecting other birds, fish, or game, than those 

 mentioned" in the act; and without endorsing such limi- 

 tation of authority, we have always insisted that the. 

 language employed could only warrant special county 

 legislation affecting such buds, gama, ami fish, as were 

 not provided for in the general statute. The chief diffi- 

 culty under this provision arose hi cases like lids : A cer- 

 tain stream became almost depleted of trout ; to pre- 

 vent total extermination of the fish a law prohibiting 

 their capture for a term of years was imperatively needed. 

 and the supervisors enacted such a law ; but the impa- 

 tient angler claimed that such enactment was illegal, and 

 that he might fish in the open season, in spite of all the 

 supervisors in the land. Or, again, new fish were, intro- 

 duced into certain waters, where protection for a term 

 of years was absolutely essential to their successful cul- 

 ture. The county supervisors had no authority to pro- 

 vide such protection, and to secure the enactment of spe- 

 cial provisions at Albany was found to be a tedious and 

 sometimes hopeless undertaking. That the law as itstood, 

 in regard to this point, was insufficient, has been demon- 

 strated again and again, and [the necessity of a change 

 has been long felt by intelligent game protectors. We are 

 glad to note that such an amendment has beeB made in 

 the new law, of which Section 37 reads ; 



It shall belawfulfor the Board of Supervisors of auy 

 county, al iheir annual meeting, to make any regulations 

 or ordinances protecting other birds, fish or game, than 

 those mentioned in this Act; and also for &e further 

 protection of such birds, fish, or game, as are in this Act 

 mentioned, except wild deer, and to this end to prohibit 

 hunting or fishing in particular localities or waters lying 

 wholly within their respective counties for limited pi rlods 

 and during certain months of the year, and to prescribe 

 punishments and penalties for the violation thereof, and 

 adopt all necessary measures for thfc enforcement „[' Mlr |i 

 punishments and the collection of such penalties; and 

 such ordinances and regulations shall be published in the 

 papers in such county in which lie- session laws are pub- 

 lished, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the 

 office of the clerk of the county. 



This we judge is a sufficient reply to several correspond- 

 ents who have just written to us upon this long-vested 

 question. Supervisors' ordinances adopted prior to the 

 passage of the act (June, 1870), are not legalized by this 

 section ; but, to be binding, must have been adopted at a 

 later date. 



While necessary and desirable, for the reason which we 

 have already stated, it is plain that so many county ordi- 

 nances, conflicting with the State law and each other, 

 add to the perpexity of the sportman who would conform 

 to them— if he was only sure he knew just what they 

 were. 



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A CONNECTIC UT Q UANDARY. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



I want to ask you a question. As you of course know, 

 the game laws of Connecticut are iii very good shape, 

 in fact as nearly perfect as we can, at present, hope to 

 make them. Woodcock, quail and ruffed gri 

 protected until October 1st, but i In a yem b somei ctions 

 of the State no one pays the siighest attention to the 

 law, Some individuals have been shooting woodcock 

 since the middle of June. A well known restaurant 

 keeper of New Haven has been buying and selling them 

 since that time. A "sporting man,'' a market gardener, 



I believe, in East Haven, has 1 ing since June 



20. I am told on good authority that members of the 

 sportsmen's clubs in New Haven. Stamford, and Norwalk, 

 are shooting as regularly as the series! pol bunters. A 

 Norwalk man who is very fond of sending his large 

 scores to the papers (I can give his name) made a bag 

 of twenty-seven woodcock about the first of July. Many 

 respectable men, who last year observed the law. angered 

 by the impunity and impudence with which the members 

 of sporting and game protection clubs shoot, out, of season 

 have themselves commenced to kill the birds, There is 

 no attempt at concealment of the facts among these 

 men. They say that they must either break the law 

 or lose all the shooting. They would be glad to refrain 

 if others would. 



The Ariox Society.— This well known sooia 

 promises a delightful re-union and festival to-wghi i 



West Brighton Beach. Coney Island. The festival will 

 Commence at 4 o'clock P, M., and last as long as any one 

 remains to enjoy it, The New Yorkancl Sea Beach trains 

 and the Prospect Park and Coney Island railroads will 

 run all night. 



