FOREST AND STREAM. 



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GAME PROTECTION. 



New York Society for the Protection of Game— 

 Resignation of Royal Phelps as President. — The regular 

 monthly meeting of this Association was held last Monday 

 night at the residence of Mr. Charles E. Whitehead, No. 64 

 West Thirty-fifth street. The chair was occupied by Royal 

 Phelps, President, who read a large number of letters from 

 all parts of this and adjacent States approving of the active 

 measures taken by the Association for the Preservation of 

 Game, and requesting information for the guidance of 

 newly- formed clubs. The report of the Treasurer for the 

 past year showed a balance on hand after all disbursements 

 of $48 37 in cash, and $4,000 in United States bonds de- 

 posited with Mr. Phelps in trust for the Association. 



The most important business transacted was the election 

 of officers. Royal Phelps, Esq., who has filled the office of 

 President for twelve years with much honor and useful- 

 ness, and who has become not only beloved by the mem- 

 bers who have followed him as leader, but so intimately 

 identified with the Association that his name and its have 

 become, as it were, synomynous and corelative, announced 

 before the election that he felt constrained to decline being 

 President any longer. He was now approaching the al- 

 lotted threescore and ten, and his advancing years warned 

 him that he should curtail his engagements. He preferred 

 to resign from office now, while he was yet strong, so that 

 he might still devote his spare time to the interests of the 

 Association. The members endeavored to persuade Mr. 

 Phelps to reconsider his determination, but he firmly de- 

 clined a reelection. The following officers were then 

 elected for the ensuing year : Clinton Gilbert, President ; 

 Robert B. Roosevelt, Vice-President; Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, Thomas N. Cuthbert; Counsel, Charles E. White- 

 head ; Executive Committee, H. A. Fahenstock, Henry 

 Care< , and Stephen A. Main. 



The Committee on Amendments to the By-laws was 

 directed to co-operate with the Committee on the State 

 Association with the view of pressing the amendment 

 drawn up by the Association at the present session of the 

 Legislature. 



Charles Hallock moved a vote of thanks to the retiring- 

 President and the board of officers, which was so amended 

 by Mr. Whitehead as to place the resolution (so far as Mr. 

 Phelps was concerned) in the hands of a committee to 

 engross suitable resolutions expressing a proper recognition 

 of his services ; and Messrs. Hallock and Whitehead and 

 Col. Wagstff were so appointed by the chair. A vote of 

 thanks to the board of officers was then passed. Three 

 new members were elected . 



After adjournment, the members partook of a sumptuous 

 dinner of antelope meat, wild turkey, and other game 

 around the board of their generous host. 



Unclean Food.— If nothing else will induce pot hunters 

 to stop killing game out of season, possibly the following 

 fact, when known, will prevent people from buying and 

 eating them, and thus sroil their little game: The ground 

 has been covered with a heavy coat of ice and snow for 

 two weeks, entirely cutting the birds off from their ground 

 food. Under such circumstances they feed almost entirely 

 upon the leaf of the laurel. This leaf is rank poison to 

 man, and persons eating the birds are liable to suffer from 

 it effects. True sportsmen, instead of shooting birds 

 during such weather, are inclined to feed and care for 

 them. 



—The "London (Canada) District Fish, Game and Insec- 

 tiverousBird Protective Society," to which we have courte- 

 ously been elected an honorary member, is doing its 

 utmost to have the fish and game laws strictly enforced. 

 -During the past year, fines have been imposed upon various 

 parties. Its Secretary is B. C. Marshall, Esq. 

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A Swindling Scheme.— The "Mineral City Land Com- 

 pany," whose advertisement appeared in our columns 

 three weeks ago, is a swindling concern, and their whole 

 scheme is intended to defraud. We have the affidavit of 

 Mr. G. A. Dickerman, County Clerk of Guyon county, 

 Texas, in which the lands advertised are said to be loca- 

 ted, to this effect, besides several like assurances from our 

 friends in that section. We trust we have done no wrong 

 to any of our readers. 



By the exercise of a careful scrutiny of all matter prof- 

 fered for publication in this journal, we have hitherto 

 avoided being imposed upon. In this case, however, we 

 confess to have been humbugged. We at first declined to 

 receive the advertisement, but .accepted it at last when we 

 found that journals older, and, we supposed, more saga- 

 cious than our own, had printed it. The "Mineral City 

 Land Company" wins, and we aud others lose. That is 

 tne "head and tails" of it. 



Fond of H-H-H-Hunting. —Last week we received 

 from Hallowell, Me., a club of subscibers whose names all 

 begin with an H, The coincidence was explained by an 

 accompanying statement that the party were all fond of 

 Sh-h-h\m{mg. 



The Winter in Bermuda.— A letter from Prof. G. 

 Brown Goode, of the Smiihsonian Institution, who is 

 spending the winter in Bermuda, says.— 



' 'It is very pleasant here, though we have felt the same 

 com weather here which you have had at the north. We 

 save not seen the .thermometer below 54 degrees, however. 

 fJ^S ls not very good at present, but I have already add- 

 ea twelve new species to the fauna." 



Thirteen steamers now ply between Jacksonville ajad 

 Saudford, oa the St. Johns river, 



Florida Notes.— It is said that much the larger num 

 ber of visitors to Florida, this year, are people looking for 

 a permanent home there. Nearly all our Florida exchanges 

 complain of the scarcity of cottages to rent, owing to the 

 increasing demands of newcomers. 



So much freight has accumulated at Fernandinafor New 

 York, that the last steamer was unable to receive it all, and 

 left quite an amount on the wharfs awaiting shipment. 



The Detroit Free Press says that Mrs. A. T. Stewart has 

 taken the whole floor of a hotel in Jacksonville, Florida, 

 and proposes to pass most of the winter there. 



Those visiting the Indian river this season will find Capt. 

 Wm. II. Sharpe's Hotel, at Sand Point, a very pleasant 

 place to stop. 



Hon. G. C. Brantley recently bought the Brock House, 

 at Enterprise, and Messrs'. Bodine & McCarthy, late of the 

 Green Cove Springs Hotel, have contracted to run it this 

 season. The house is now open for the reception of guests. 

 It is one of the most charming places in Florida. 



Sportsmen say there were never so many ducks on the 

 the upper St. Johns as at present. 



Mr. Wm. B. Astor, of this city, is having a royal time 

 among his many friends in Jacksonville, Florida. Some 

 pleasing entertainments have been given on his splendid 

 yacht Atlanta, anchored in front of the gay and festive 

 winter resort, Jacksonville. Mr. Astor is investing quite a 

 slice of his large fortune in that State. 



The Norwich Courier says: "Florida seems to be the 

 Utopia of Connecticut people. Three Norwich families 

 have gone there to settle within a week, and we hear of 

 others in different parts of the State. 



— The average mid-day temperature at New Smyrna, 

 Florida, for the mouth of December, according to the re- 

 cord of our correspondent, Maj. George A. Allen, was 60°. 

 Highest, 79°; lowest, 44°. Lowest at 7 o'clock a. m. (Dec. 

 2d) 29°; at 9 p. m. M J . 



—"Whitney's Florida Pathfinder," for the season of 

 187G-77, is now ready for distribution. Parties desiring 

 an instructive and valuable Florida Guide, will do well to 

 send 25 cents to the office, 66 John street, for it. 

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SALUTATORY. 



THE title we have chosen for the new department of 

 our paper will define with all necessary explicitness 

 the subjects to the discussion of which it will be mainly 

 devoted. We have always been fortunate in being able to 

 number many ladies among our friends and allies. The 

 means by which we attained to so desirable a result may, 

 we believe, be explained in a few words. While endeav- 

 oring fully to illustrate the hunter's camp, and all that per- 

 tains to it, we have never forgotten his home and home in- 

 terests. In bestowing a certain share of our attention upon 

 these matters we have inevitably touched upon much 

 which comes under the ken of ladies. There has always 

 been a great deal in our columns which we would fain think 

 must have had some attractions for them— the priestesses 

 of that temple at whose altars we would be regular and 

 recognized attendants. Natural history has, or ought to 

 have, the same interest for the fair as for the sterner sex. 

 The Kennel has supplied as many favorites, and a far 

 greater number of pets, to ladies than it ever did to men. 

 We might go further and assert that ladies are amongst the 

 most deeply interested readers of the tales of deeds by flood 

 and field which appear in our weekly hunter's feast. 



In proposing, therefore, to open our columns to themes 

 and discussions which will both secure for us a more hearty 

 welcome into the home circle, and confirm the friendships 

 we have formed among our fair readers, we make no 

 departures from the aims we have consistently followed. 

 We simply extend them. While appealing directly tola- 

 dies we hope to be regarded with all the greater interest 

 by gentlemen. A gentleman's paper should also be a la- 

 dies' paper. Whenever it touches upon interests which 

 come under the halo arching the portal of home, or more 

 broadly those affecting society, it asks a welcome to both . 

 There are, however, many topics of peculiar interest to 

 ladies, and falling within the most restricted boundaries 

 of our special province. Take for example the many 

 games and outdoor sports in which ladie3 indulge, and the 

 many others in which it would be well for them to engage. 

 Of the former we need only mention boating, archery, swim- 

 ming, cricket, croquet and billiards, although the list 

 might be considerably extended. We seldom meet ladies 

 near the pools where the trout and salmon lurk; yet who 

 ought to follow the "gentle art" more enthusiastically than 

 they? Whose hand could more more deftly trail the sub- 

 tle fly than woman's? We stop here in the meantime, 

 upon the threshold of a wide subject. It covers all the 

 disputed questions of female education, and woman's phys- 

 ical as well as mental development. Even were we to re- 

 strict ourselves to the former we should still have an 

 abundance of themes for our weekly chats in the parlor or 

 by the fire. Society has done much to ruin the "human 

 form divine," as exemplified in woman, which might be 

 remedied or prevented by the inculcation of a little com- 

 mon sense upon the subjects of exercise and pastimes, or 

 by a course of training by the brook, or with the sculls 

 for each "season" in Vanity Fair. 



"Something there is more useful than expense, 

 And something previous e'en to taste— 'tis sense." 

 The lines are Pope's, and it would be well for those who 

 undertake to bring up tfce young of either sex: to keep 



them in mind. One other explanation we would 

 make in regard to our treatment of the edu- 

 cational qualities affecting ladies. It has been the 

 too prevalent custom to create in what we may call the 

 average mind a feeling of nausea in reference to all such 

 discussions. We mean to guard against such a danger by 

 refraining from physiological and otherwise mysterious re- 

 searches, in order to prove that certain exercises are bene- 

 ficial. If the common sense to which we have referred 

 does not satisfy any man or woman that horseback riding 

 or swimming is a healthy exercise for his or her daughter, 

 there must be a lack of that perception which is required 

 to appreciate physiological arguments. To advance them 

 would, therefore, be a useless expenditure of ammunition. 



If we turn from these subjects to those of a more general 

 home interest, we are again brought into a wide and fruit- 

 ful field. It is so wide, in fact, that in every direction we 

 see no bound but the horizon. We do not mean by that 

 that home represents the meeting of earth and heaven. 

 Unfortunately such a statement might, in some cases, be 

 contested. We refer to the sirtple, prosaic fact that the 

 array of matters affecting home is practically limitless. We 

 shall not be limited by those things pertaining to the table, 

 nor by those others which belong to the beautifying of the 

 home. But as we have said, we see no limit on any side. 

 We cannot be expected to be more explicit. 



Another matter to which we shall feel it our bounden 

 duty to give occasional notice will be the proper sphere of 

 woman in the world. Her endeavors in many of the arts, 

 sciences and professions have compelled a certain recogni- 

 tion. We find the names of Bonheur and Thompson 

 among artists, of Eliot, Sands, Strickland, Browning and 

 of a thousand others among authors; we find woman in the 

 church, at the bar, in the medical profession, on the oper- 

 atic and dramatic stage, in journalism, on the lecture plat- 

 form, in many of the industries, both artistic and mechan- 

 chanical. We find them in nearly every walk into which 

 they can force their way. They are to be regarded among 

 the workers and reformers of the world — and let that clos- 

 ing statement be our best reason for providing something 

 for their special entertainment and instruction. 

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AFTER DINNER. 



[Ma4i/ and Misfress Loij—At (he Table— Time, Weening of Wedding 

 Day Anniversary.) 



Mistress — I can hardly realize that another year of our 

 married life has passed away, and that upon this of all 

 days in the year you and I should be sitting here alone and 

 not one of the children with us. 



Master— It does seem a little hard, but all will be right in 

 a few day s . The boys will all be home for Tom's birthday, 

 and we must get up a special St. Nicholas for the occasion 

 to make up for his absence on Christmas Day. 



Mistress— Still, it is dull without them -the second 

 anniversary of our marriage we have spent and them all 

 absent. But what do you propose giving on Tom's birth- 

 day ? 



Master — I have a good many things in my eye, but the 

 question of their distribution rather puzzles me. 



Mistress — Tell me what they are and I may help you. 

 I have seen some presents too. 



Master — They are very nearly all books. First comes 

 Scribner's wonderfully fine illustrated edition of Dr. Hol- 

 land's "Mistress of the Manse." The illustrations are by 

 Mary A. Hallock, Thomas Moran, Alfred Fredericks, Ed- 

 win A. Abbey, Helena DeKay, and others. To say that 

 they are exquisite conveys no idea of their beauty or of the 

 wonderful harmony between the artibts and the poet. In 

 other respects the style of the book is of the best kind. ^ 



Mistress— You say nothing of the poem, nothing of the 

 soul within so fine a body. 



Master — No, and for this reason that to none could 

 "The Mi-stress of the Manse" be more appropriately given 

 than to the mistress of our Table, Hearth and Parlor. I 

 did not wish to destroy the interest of the tale for yon. 



Mistress— Tell me a little, a very little. 



Master— Well, I may try, though it is no easy matter to 

 tell you a part of a story. It is a tale of love, home, 

 patriotism, war and death, and is, moreover, told with a 

 pathos and strength that mark poetic genius of a very high 

 order. There is a refinement about everything written by 

 Dr. Holland which makes us feel that we" are in the society 

 of a scholar of clear and lofty mind and a warm heart. 



Mistress— Tell me about some other book? 



Master— There is Harper's edition of Coleridge's "Rime 

 of the Ancient Mariner," illustrated by Dore. It is one of 

 the most superb volumes of the season, and is in my opin- 

 ion, also, one of the most suitable gift books. 1 will not 

 say much of the wonderful Rime, because it is in the first 

 place familiar to all the world, and in the second, very 

 little can be said of it with safety. 



Mistress— And what of the artist's work? Is it equal to 

 his Wandering Jew ? 



Master— In my opinion it is superior to anythirg Dore 

 has hitherto given us. In Coleridge's company he is seen 

 at his very best. To the realm of the supernatural to 

 which one almost shrinks from following the poet, Dore 

 leads us with the strong hand of a guide, familiar with all 

 its horrors and terrible shapes and versed in the ways of its 

 fantastic occupants. Dore shows power, aud in that word 

 my opinion of the work may be summed up. 



Mistress— I bought, a few day's ago, another book of 

 Harper's "Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving," by Mrs 

 F. Henderson. 



Master— Was today's dinner cooked according to its 

 reeeipt? 



Mistress— No, and don't be sarcastic in speaking of that 

 dinner. It was cooked with a heavy heart, and that is 

 worse than a bad fire. 



Master— I didn't mean to hurt you, especially on such 

 a day as this. The dinner was good enough for two old 

 married folks. But tell me something about the book 



Mistress— It's author is a very sensible woman, and the 

 book is first rate. She aims less at originality than ex 

 celleuce. Some of the receipts are contributed bv her 

 friends, Mrs. E. L. Youman's, Mrs. Gratz Brown and 

 others, and even the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been 

 prevailed upon tp tell what &e fcuows about the baking q£ 



