FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Atgust 8, IS^H 



lliinlc that to be deprived of access to its columns would be 

 something like leaving a fish on the bank to gasp its Hie out 

 for want of water. 



I hope the close of the tenth year may he but the begin- 

 ning M B longer and still more successful eareer to nil con- 

 cerned; and trusting that its course in future may he as 

 square and honest with the brotherhood of anglers, the 

 lovers of the dog and gun. and all who seek health, sport 

 and recreation in the woods and on the waters, as alias 

 been in thepast, and that the editors, "rod. gun, and paddle," 

 may live long in the land. 



I subscribe myself very truly yours, 



Kingfisher 



Camf of the Kinofisbers. Michigan Norlli Woods, July SO. 



A CHANGED PUBLIC SENTIMENT. 



Editor Event am! Stream: 



The approaching tenth anniversary of the establishment 

 of the Forest and Stream may afford a fitting occasion 

 for those who have profited by 'its instructions, to express 

 their congratulations for the success which has attended its 

 efforts to elevate the standard of taste and study of the 

 sportsmen of our country. They have opportunities to study 

 the natural history of the objects which they capture with 

 the rod and gun which others cannot have, and the tone aud 

 style of their correspondence shows that they are improving 

 these opportunities more and more. The legislation which 

 has been enacted in so large a proportion of the States for 

 protection of game and fishes and the disposition to enforce 

 these laws, testify to the excellent influence which is being 

 exerted in this direction. The voice of the pot-hunter is 

 being silenced in the presence of a more elevated sentiment 

 among true sportsmen, who would not kill the goose which 

 lays the golden egg. 



"The support eiven to fisheulture and the information on 

 this subject spread abroad, has been of incalculable value. 

 not only to the sportsman but to the community at large, 

 Continue your eft'oits. and may they be attended with the 

 same salutary influence in the future, is the ardent hope of 

 Joun Dean Caton. 



Ottawa. 111.. July 18. 



A NOTE FROM THE SMITHSONIAN. 



Dear Forest and Stream: 



Accept my hearty congratulations on this interesting oc- 

 casion — the 'completion of the tenlh year of your prosperous 

 existence. May you live to enjoy many more such decades. 

 •without decadence to your prosperity. If, as they- say, 

 success be not open to criticism, then you cannot be eriti 

 cizuil. You have taken and held the surest road to success, 

 which is, to just keep on deserving it. Now that two lustra 

 have passed over your head, you have illustrated your des- 

 serts in a clean sheet, an honest sheet, and an interesting one. 



You doubtless have many pleasant words from your 

 friends respecting each of your departments. I am, of 

 course, especially interested in your natural history columns. 

 Let me say how fully I appreciate their merit, and the care 

 you have taken to bring and keep them abreast of current 

 scientific literature. 1 have to refer to them constantly in 

 my own writings. 



"For myself personally, 1 need not say how friendly and 

 agreeable our relations have always been, for that goes with- 

 out saying; but the occasion calls up it little matter which 

 very likely you have forgotten all about. Go back ten year--, 

 when you were a couple of months old, and see who claimed 

 part paternity. The first I heard of you was when 1 was 

 sitting on a log on Turtle Mountain in Dakota, readin 

 very characteristic letter from Hallouk announcing your 

 arrival; and shortly afterward 1 found that my enthusiastic 

 friend had sworn half the child on me, as you may see by 

 referring to Vol. I. No. 8, Oct. 2, 1873. 1 am afraid that I 

 did not do as much for you in those days as i ought to have 

 done, but am too proud of you now to he likely to neglect 

 you in future. But nobodv is necessary to you now ; perye 

 modo. 



With best wishes, sincerely yours, Elliott Goiter. 



Smithsonian. Jhstitutiuk, Washington, T). C'.. July 17, 



seasons their woods and streams, nor all city anglers and 

 shooters grown as thoughtful of land owners' rights as they 

 should, yet a feeling exists between the two classes far 

 kindlier* now than ten years ago. For this last happy 

 •hange especially, being 'myself a farmer of the third gen- 

 ■ration of farmers, and lor all the other changes I most 

 heartily thank FokbbtAnS Stream, which 1 know has in 

 a great measure wrought them by making the sportsman's 

 paper a family paper, wholesome 'and entertaining. That it 

 may continue in such good work, and its bands be upheld till 

 my" children's children tire the dust of earth, is the earnest 

 wish of Yours always, Awahsoose. 



Vbuhout, July IS. 

 ["Awahsoose" is Indian for "Bear",] 



• CANOEING IN AMERICA. 



Editor Forest and Sire, no: 



Canoeing in America wotdd have been very up-stream 

 work had not Forest and Stream given it a place in its 

 columns as current literature, years before we were able to 

 find a platform upon which to erect an American Canoe As- 

 sociation. 



I never made a toast in my life that was sentimental— my 

 humble efforts being given to scorching bread before the 

 camp-fire to appease a most matter-of-fact appetite after ten 

 hours of steady paddling in my canoe. But in honor of the 

 celebration of the ten years' life of our Forest and Stream, 

 I will propose this: Canoeing in America must, in future as 

 in past, depend on Forest abb Stream for its true devel- 

 opment. All success to the namesake of wood and river — 

 the Forest and Stream— so dear to all lovers of nature! 

 May ten times ten years find it as full of life as to-day! 



Yours, fraternally, Natuantee II. Bishop. 



Lake Geobge. Warren (Vanity, New York, July SI. 



FARMERS AND FIELD SPORTS. 



Dear Forest aial Stream: 



Can it be that ten years have passed since the real lovers 

 of the rod and gun, and of the blessed out-doors of forest and 

 Stream, were gladdened by the first appearance of a clean 

 .sportsman's journals As the years go, with one who has 

 reached the meridian of life, or journeyed till his shadow 

 starts behind him on the path never to he traveled again, 

 the time seems not half so long. But if he marks the p. nod 

 by the changes wrought in the tone of sportsmen's litera- 

 ture, and the feeling of respectable people toward those who 

 in the right spirit goa-fisbuig or a-shooting, he might well 



believe the years were twice ten, for a wonderfully great 

 change has taken place in both, 

 to the bygone sportsman's journal the record* of the 



cockpit and' 'the "roped arena" of the prize fight held con 

 -picuous places, hardly second to tln.se occupied by the 

 reports of what was done by honest anglers and honest 

 sportsmen. And in these last the bottle imp, loo apt !o 

 become a demon, came to the front so often that they were 

 liisgusted who were, willing to tolerate him 11 lie was kept in 

 the background. In most cases of difference of opinion 

 concerning any question of field sports, the disputants fell 

 to calling each other names, and convinced no one of any- 

 thing but that they were blackguards. In this class the 

 majority of people placed the many who cared to wet a line 

 or burn powder, and the few of such, in the class of ne'er- 

 do-weels. Especially was the farmer's hand against the 

 sportsman, as the sportsman's was against him. On the 

 one hand was a careless fellow who wrecked fences and 

 trampled crops, shot the quail the tanner had wintered, the 

 grouse he had watched, and caught the trout he had pre- 

 served. On the other a churl owning some acres of wood- 

 laud and rods of water course of whose goodness he would 

 not himself partake nor let others. 



In so few years has this been changed! 



The cock-fight and the prize-fight'reports have been rele- 

 gated to the journals which chronicle only bad things; the 

 bottle imp ha» almost disappeared from the account of whole 

 some pleasure trips, aud is only trotted out annually by the 

 "I'uuuy men," so well hit off in your last week's editorial. 

 The conflicting ideas of sportsmen are discuss, d courteously, 

 and no one, whose opinions are worth caring for, now thinks 

 a man must needs be a blackguard or a good-for-naught 

 because he recreates with the rod 01' the gun. 



If all the fanners have not taken to hunting pj 

 (as would they might), nor made free to all comers in proper 



MEMORIES. 

 Forest tl/nd Stream: 



With the sound of these words there comes to us. borne 

 ou memory's wings, the odor of hemlock and spruce, and 

 the subtle odor of terns and mosses— a perfume compounded 

 in nature's laboratory and unrivaled in its cool and refresh- 

 ing fragrance. We" feel its influence stealing over us as in 

 the times past we camped ou the lakes, when we have been 

 on the water all day; and in many a lonely cove where we 

 lingered, we saw underncathin the crystal, the ghosts of the 

 white birches lying in quiet rest, broken only by the ripple 

 from our bows'cs'we passed oyer, which seemed to disjoint 

 them in trunk and branch, as it swelled along; but no, the 

 illusion has passed, and again, as the surface is calm, the tran- 

 quil hush resumes its sway. And now, as the firehurnslow, 

 and the flickering flame lights the tall trunks aud flashes 

 them into ruddy contrast with thedark aisles stretehingaw ay 

 on either s'de. we see the glint ol fairy lamps, as the fire-flies 

 float through the dusk. Far up the Jake a loot) is calling, 

 and now and again the sullen plunge of a pickerel comes to 

 us faintly ou the night wind, but all is soothing and peace- 

 ful; and to complete the exquisite charm of our reverie, the 

 water comes in to kiss the little pebbles ou the shore with a 

 whispered swish! swish! swish-sh-sh' 



May Forest ami Btkbam still continue to exert the 

 wholesome influence that has breathed through its columns 

 in the past, .and may increasing "happy returns" reward 

 those wdio have striven to make: it the exponent, of so much 

 that is lovely in nature. Wii.mot. 



Sftrw York. '.July 27. 



AROUND THE FIRE LM GAMP FLOTSAM, 



"Beg your pardon, old fellow, 1 think 



7 was dreaming just now wh»n you spoke. 

 Tlie fact is the musical clink 

 Of the ice on your winc-goblfft's l>rlnk. 

 V chord <>£ my memory wolre." 

 As wafted to my ears from the roar and din of Gotham 

 came the sound' of the merry -making tit your decennial. 

 Ten years ago you were laid, new born, by the camp-lire ou 

 this very spot, and received your baptism in its glare, while 

 "The pine trees gathering closer in the shadows 

 Listened in every i 



as you made your grei 

 tiie'order which y»u Inn 



id took the oath of fealty to 

 Served so well. Since then, 

 on the same Spot, together We have seen the fires of ten 

 annual camps burn themselves out: as many times the path 

 to the old landing carpeted over with mosses: together we 

 have been bathed in dew and shower, and under the flicker- 

 ing torch, while the fire light rose aud fell, you have held us 

 spellbound with narratives of held and stream. 



Those old camp-fires! How their glamor hangs around 

 us through all these years, with jest and song aud laugh 

 from lips now silent in the dreamless sleep. Bravely as 

 ever burns the blaze to-night, but across the chasm of ten 

 years shadowy laces peer through the whirl of flame from 

 the opposite darkness and shadowy hands seem to lie. stretch 

 ing out to clasp pur own. Tjie pines whisper the olden 

 Story, the wavelets singthc same old song, and thegrayrocks 

 back the nightly challenge of the great owl— t he- 

 warder of the lone camper. Those barmeisof crimson and 

 green and gold ..till wave from rocky ramparts above, ram- 

 parts never to be settled by human leet, banners never to be 

 lowered to mortal foe. The harvest moon pours a flood over 

 (he wilderness, which ripples through the leaves upon the 

 bosom of the earth— the self same flood which, through the 

 July nights of ten years, has reared domes and temples 

 amid the trees, with here and there a ghost-like form to 

 startle the loiterer about the camp-fire. With the gray of 

 morning comes wafted up through the oocii tent the faint, 

 dream-like perfume of thi whit; lilies v lib all their olden 

 fragrance, bringing memories of SO many summers whose 

 flowers have faded away. 



But save these, have the years wrought no change? 

 Have you, and we, oh Forest and Stream, been dwellmg 

 in a land "where it seemed always afternoon?" the '-hollow 

 lotus land," careless of mankind? No; toil has been our 

 portion, but while the years have brought furrows to our 

 cheeks, to you has come an undying youth, a youth to cheer 

 and bless tis alike by the blazing anthracite of winter and 

 the roaring log-fire of our summer outing under the canopy 

 of the stars, . 



From the latter we greet you, oh wizard of mountain and 

 of lake, greater than he of the Round Table or the Alham- 

 bra. Around that genial blaze what has not your wand in- 

 voked whom In, it not summoned? Choice spirits from the 

 bloom of the tropica-, from "wastes that slumber in eternal 

 snow," from lonely camps in forest lakes, from the . Resti 

 goueho to '"Where the loud swift Oregon through sunset val- 

 leys rolls." these throng around us at your bidding. How 



they gather ou rock and log about the camp-fire while we 

 hear anew the story of the ' 'Cruise of the Nipper," the doings 

 in the "Camps of the Kingfishers," and from that other camp 

 on the Larriweep, until almost involuntarily we rise and doff 

 our hat to "Nessmuk," make our bow to ''Kingfisher/' salute 

 "Yo" and '"•'liadow," and "Piseoo," "Wells." and the score 

 of worthies gathered around, grasp the hard warm hand of 

 'II. P. U.."" bearing the laurels of Hermosa who, had not 

 late forbidden, would be silting in the flesh here to-nighl 

 with us, aud last, but not the least, the misguided man of 

 your staff who feeds with the Ickthyopliagoi and dreams 

 drpams which would have made the world worn Dante 

 shudder. 



And now as the camp- lire dies out they fade away, and 

 you and I are alone. The rising night wind rustles your 

 leaves, and there is a muffled sound which suggests the dig- 

 nity which you feel 1he years have brought. W'c make our 

 deep obeisance, and in the shadow of the pines, OB the spot 

 where first we met, in the glow of the fire, by which you 

 have so long been our companion, we hail you, tender you 

 our fairest wishes, and crown you on your natal day with 

 our love and cheer. "Oh king", live forever!" 



From the shadowy group just faded away c ft 



amen, and upon our arm we bear yc-m to our tent, we to 

 slumber, you to gather anew what you may of "Camp Flot- 

 sam." ' Wawavanda. 



WILL THAT TIME EVER COME? 



Mj/ Dear Forest aiaJ Stream: 



The near approach of the tenth anniversary of your ex- 

 istence awakens in my mind a consciousness of the fleetni ss 

 of time, and revives many interesting and pleasing incidents 

 of the last decade. 



When I first took you in my arms you were an infant with 

 a doubtful and uncertain future, and" truly, in the Words of 

 the old maternal adage, we could only "hope for the best." 

 though prepared for the worst, You had the measles 

 whooping-cough, and all such infantile necessities; but you 

 were skillfully nursed and came through it oil, and have 

 long since had your eye u-el It cut, thrown off your swaddling 

 clothes, and now stand alone, an infant no longer; for many 

 years you have been a recognized power in the land, and as 

 such we "veteran" subscribers now greet you every week. 

 Ten years ago we essayed to contribute a little assist; ■ .,-. ne 

 to-day you have outgrown Che need, if it ever existed; and 

 we only turn to you for information instead, for we frankly 

 confess that from your pages we have learned more of tlie 

 geography oT our country, more of its fauna and the finny 

 inhabitants of the beautiful waters than all the knowledge 

 ol these subjects we had acquired previous to your birth, 



You have given us entertainment during many hours when 

 we would seek to relieve tlie mind from the monotony of 

 business, but could not go a-tishing, or when it was close time 

 with the game. 



Winged time is a bird of such rapid flight that no snap- 

 shot can arrest her, anil when our joints become to* stiff Hi 

 joint our rod and our eyesight too nun to follow the dear old 

 dogs and see a point (do you see the point Vl we shall then 

 depend solely ou you for' our comfort and support. And 

 though we place that day thirty years hence, yet we feel as- 

 sured that you will then be, ae-now, still in yqjjryonth and 

 increasing vigor. 



When that time arrives, may you be able to lell me that 

 through your influence "the. work of protection is peifecte.d, 

 poaching and pelting tire unknown, the birds hatch their 

 brood molested, tie- trout and bass are abundant in all our 

 waters and take the By everyday." 



That the Four- may never become exter- 



minated is the devout wish of M. 



Boston. Mass., July 24; 



OP I) AND NEW IN VIRGINIA. 



'■,■ tfrtMd Sfnoio 



I learn that Fouest AMD 8.TKEAM will soon be ten years 

 old. Accept my congratulations. May you live lobe ten 

 times ten ami "then same." I know that I but voice the 

 sentiment of everv sportsman in America who has enjoyed 

 the good fortune that has befallen me of reading your excel- 

 lent paper almost continuously since its birth, when I say 

 that it has no superior in appearance nor matter, original 

 and contributed. I owe you a debt of gratitude I can never 

 repay, for many pleasant and profitable hours jpeii 

 perusing its columns, and were I to undertake to enumerate 

 the great good it has accomplished in the way of improving 

 our sporting dogs, preserving the game of the country, en- 

 lightening its readers in ;dl matters pertaining to field and 

 aquatic spoils, the interchange of experiences between well 

 informed men on all the various subjects embraced in the 

 ample scope of its purposes, 1 would consume more space 

 than you would be willing to give me. How many pleasant, 

 lasting and life-long friendships have been established 

 through this medium. While your readers have 

 benefited, enl'ghiened and entertained, it must surely bring 

 a supreme satisfaction to you, Mr. Editor, and tho - mxv 

 have preceded yon, in look upon the success ofyour enter- 

 prise and the 'great good you have accomplished. 'May 

 VQU live long and prosper." is the hearty wish of mysell, 

 and will, no doubt, be echoed by every true sportsman in 

 this broad land , . , 



The actual changes which have taken place U3 Virginia in 



the last decade, in the mode of following the spoi tS oJ ! 



and water, have not been veiy marked, line, lie; into, 

 duel ion of breech loading arms, the cheapening of good guns 

 of American manufacture, and improvement in the bre> 'Is 

 of 'our sporting dogs is quite apparent. The number aud 

 of the nn n who now go a-hunting and fishing 

 have perhaps undergone a greater change thau anything 

 else. Formerly it was not considered -exactly the thing' 

 for a business man to he seen with dogs and aims and fishing 

 tackle and men of that class, if they indulged l.icii' pro- 

 pensity for those sports at all, did it "on the sly." The 

 hunting wagon was brought up to the back gate at unsea- 

 sonable hours, aud the tackle or hunting outfit 

 into it, the dogs spirited out of town by a "fifteenth amend- 

 ment," and the spoilsmen silently stole away like ' 



Now everything is different. Professional men and busi- 

 nessmen, when 'their occupations allow of it, b 

 their hunting clothes, seize their iireceh-Inaucrs. ana defi- 

 antly mount into the wagon or board the Train, while Don 

 aud'Dash ami Fleet rush madly alougtbe street, or look com- 

 placently out of the vehicle, as if pitying the stay-at-homes. 

 Much, if not all, of this is due to the sensible and well-timed 

 articles which have appeared in the Forest AND StBEAM m 



the last ten pears. Sensible men have come to lie la 



siun that innocent recreation is quite as harmless, morally, as 

 ,rid discussing your neighbors' affairs, 8 o 



