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— The judges at Berlin have awarded to the FOREST 

 and Stream a silver medal in recognition of the valuable 

 literature pertaining to fish culture, angling and natural 

 history contained in its first thirteen volumes. Accept- 

 ing the new honor with becoming modesty, we confess 

 to a pardonable pride in attaining the distinction thus 

 conferred upon us. The hound volumes of this journal 

 contain a vast amount of valuable material in the de- 

 partments which are its specialties, and from week to 

 week it is constantly adding to the storehouse of knowl- 

 edge and instruction. Deeds are always better than 

 Words, and therefore it may be unnecessary for us to 

 add that we propose to make the next fourteen volumes 

 of the Forest and Stream just as rich, as instructive, 

 and as entertaining as the first fourteen have been. The 

 award at Berlin is to he accepted not simply as a token 

 of past excellence, but also as an earnest of what is to 

 come. 



We publish elsewhere a full list of the American 

 awards, and commend a careful reading of the suggestive 

 details. The United States sent its exhibits to show to 

 the European world the resources and vast industries of 

 this Continent. It may be that the Berlin display will 

 also open the eyes of Americans themselves to the riches 

 of their own land. 



Indian Curiosities.— We have received from an In- 

 dianapolis correspondent a number of Indian curiosities, 

 which the owner wishes to dispose of. The articles con- 

 sist of a buckskin coat, ornamented with porcupine 

 quills ; a handsome tobacco sack j a fine redstone pipe or 

 calumet ; two Sioux arrows ; a number or stone arrow 

 beads, and a few human bones from the mounds of In- 

 diana. Any one interested in these matters should ap- 

 ply to this office for price and particulars. 



Connecticut Shad Fishing.— The close season for 

 shad Rshing in the Connecticut River begins Aug. 1st. 

 Late reports from Holyoke, Mass., speak [of very suc- 

 cessful fly-fishing there. 



—The latest phase of the " endurance " idiocy is the 

 attempt of a " Dr." Tanner to fast forty days in a hall of 

 this city. If the man dies, or becomes insane, as seems 

 probable, we hope to see his assistants indicted and held 

 for oomplioity in the affair. 



SUMMER WOODCOCK SHOOTING. 



THOUGH the progress which is made by game pro- 

 tection in this country is slow, and though its 

 friends have to work against many discouragements, 

 some steps in advance are being made each year. 



One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the 

 gradual spread of the sentiment in favor of abolishing 

 the summer shooting of woodcock. The necessity for 

 some protection of this species has naturally made itself 

 felt first in the older and more thickly settled States, 

 where game is least plentiful and gunners most numer- 

 ous ,- and hence we have seen Connecticut, Massachu- 

 setts, New York and New Jersey amend their laws so 

 that the woodcock should be protected, at least during 

 the nesting season. There is to us something so repul- 

 sive in the idea of destroying a poor mother bird, which 

 has under her charge a nest of eggs or a brood of totter- 

 ing, downy young ones, that we cannot understand how 

 any right feeling person can take the least pleasure in if. 

 It has been pretty clearly demonstrated that woodcock 

 rear at least two broods in the summer, if they are unmo- 

 lested, and it would seem that the shortsightedness of 

 interrupting the labor of reproduction, when it is but 

 half completed, must be apparent to any one who would 

 take the trouble to consider the matter. The woodcock 

 lays ordinarily four eggs, and her first brood is hatched 

 so early that we have seen, in advanced springs, young 

 ones able to fly well by the 25th of April. As soon as 

 the birds of the first hatching are able to shift for them- 

 selves, the old ones prepare their second nest, and the 

 young of this brood are usually out of the shell by July 

 1st. We have more than once seen, in years gone by, the 

 poor little things during the summer shooting, and been 

 moved to pity by their grotesque helplessness. 



That summer shooting is thoroughly wrong in princi- 

 ple is acknowledged by all the best class of sportsmen ; 

 but more than such an acknowledgment, and more than 

 laws prohibiting the so-called sport, are required to pro- 

 tect the birds. Good laws are enough to protect wood- 

 cock from the respectable portion of the community 

 duriug the close season ; but what the birds require is 

 protection from a portion of the community not so re- 

 spectable. No self-respecting sportsman intentionally 

 violates the game laws, but there are plenty of men call- 

 ing themselves sportsmen who do not hesitate to kill birds 

 out of season. We have the names of men in New York, 

 Connecticut and New Jersey who call themselves, and 

 perhaps think that they are, gentlemen, who have killed 

 woodcock this summer. 



It is a part of the business of the true sportsman to use 

 every effort to educate this law-breaking class up to 

 his own level. It will be slow and difficult work, but 

 we believe that it can be done, 



The farmers and land-owners will of course be on the 

 side of the law in this case. They have grass and grain 

 fields which they do not wish to have trodden down and 

 ruined ; and many of them know by experience what it 

 is to have three or four men and as many dogs tramping 

 through the high grass, looking for some unlucky bird 

 that has been driven out of the swamp into the meadow. 



Besides the salvation of the woodcock and their preser- 

 vation till fall, the protection of the young ruffed grouse 

 must be considered. The men who will sboot the brood- 

 ing woodcock, warm from her nest, will not hesitate to 

 knock over the chicken grouse, which will lie sometimes 

 until the dog catches them in his mouth, and which,if they 

 do fly are bo easy to hit that a ten year old boy who could 

 not kill three out of five ought to be soundly spanked. 



The laws, as they stand in the four States above men- 

 tioned, are very well, and if they could be enforced 

 would do a vast amount of good ; but until the people 

 generally have respect for a law it is hopeless to attempt 

 to see its provisions carried out as they should be. We 

 do not wish to be understood as saying that these laws 

 are all that they should be, but they are vastly better 

 than what we have had before, and if enforced would do 

 no end of good. 



People in America, misled by the abundance of its 

 game, have until recently imagined that our game mam- 

 mals, birds and fishes could never be exterminated. The 

 consequence has been that where one article has been 

 penned on the preservation of game, fifty have been 

 written telling how to kill it. The wholesale destruction 

 of our game within a few years past, the extermination 

 of the buffalo, and the depletion of our trout and salmon 

 streams, are slowly awakening the people of this country 

 to the fact that some active steps must be taken if the 

 next generation are to carry and use rods and guns. It 

 is encouraging to see papers like the Herald take hold of 

 a question of this kind, and we take pleasure in quoting 

 a portion of a recent editorial, as follows :— 



The ordinary sense of any man of sportsmanlike in- 

 stinct should protest against shooting young birds and pre- 

 venting the natural increase of the finest game bird of the 

 Eastern States ; but neither sense nor respect for the law, 

 which in New Jersey forbids woodcock shooting in July 

 and August, can prevent a mere stupid slaughterer from 

 dragging bis dog and his gun wherever anything to 

 sboot can be found. There are two ways of discouraging 

 j r shooling of New Jersey's woodcock, most of 

 which are taken by men from New York— one is for 



leading sportsmen here to make the practice unpopular 

 by '-cutting" those who indulge in it, and the other is for 

 Jerseymen to turn informers and have the offenders ar- 

 rested and punished under the law. 



This New Jersey bill, which was passed mainly through 

 the efforts of Messrs. Geo. S. Duryea, of Essex County, 

 and J. Gill, of Orange, N. J., would if enforced make New 

 Jersey again what it once was— the paradise of fall wood- 

 cock shooters. We commend the Heralds suggestion to 

 our readers. 



Yale's Victory,— The crew which Yale turned out 

 this year was a great improvement upon her late repre- 

 sentatives in point of weight and condition, and so 

 once again victory perched upon her banners, the first 

 time in four years. The course was well marked out, and 

 the police kept it clear of boats, giving a fair opportu- 

 nity for the universities to do their best. The race was 

 rowed over the New London course, on the Thames, 

 July 1st, to a fair crowd of spectators and the usual con- 

 gregation of yachts and craft of all description. The 

 Yale crew broke an outrigger just after starting, and the 

 race threatened to come to naught but for the sensible 

 provision which permits the umpire to recall the boats 

 and start them over again. At the first mile Yale went 

 ahead, and it soon became evident that Harvard was 

 overmatched, the lead being rapidly spun out, Yale win- 

 ning amid the frantic cheers of the spectators assembled 

 in 24m. 37s., with her opponents some ten lengths astern. 

 The day was unfortunately marred by the regretable ac- 

 cident to Mr. Lincoln, Fresident of the New London and 

 Northern Railroad, and Mrs. Apple ton, both of whom 

 were killed by being thrown from one of the cars form- 

 ing the "movable grand stand," wliich accompanied the 

 racing boats over the tracks of the road running along 

 the shore. The Yale crew is as follows : — 



Bow — John B. Collins, St. Joseph, Mo., '81, 21 years, 

 170 pounds. No. 2— Philo C. Fuller. Grand Rapids, Mich. , 

 '81, 23 years, 167 pounds. No. 3— Frederick W. Rogers, 

 Lexington, Mass., '83, 31 years, 176 pounds. No. 4 — Na- 

 thaniel T.Guernsey, Dubuque, Iowa, '81, 23 years, 1,7 

 pounds. No. 5 — Louis K. Hull, Lebanon, Conn., '83, 20 

 years, 180 pounds. No. 6— George B. Rogers, S. S. Lex- 

 ington, Mass, '80, 23 years, 186 pounds. No. 7 — Charles 

 B. Storrs, New York City, '82, 20 years, 180 pounds. 

 Stroke— Harry T. Folsom, Orange, N. J., '83, 20 years, 

 172 pounds. Average, 21J years, 176 pounds. Cox- 

 swain, Mian Yew Chang, Han Shan, China, '88, 20 years, 

 90 pounds. 



Toe Team Abroad.— Word comes that the team under 

 Col. Bodine intend sailing for home on the 20th in?t. 

 They have done well ; better than the most sang 

 pected of them ; and now everything is clear to the con- 

 test for the Palina next year. The Irishmen have shown 

 themselves experts of no mean order, but they have bi en 

 defeated by a team which was not considered as the most 

 homogeneous and therefore the strongest that could have 

 left our shores. Sir Henry Halford, if he will give up 

 hobnobbing with irresponsible parties, who have not the 

 right to contract for international matches on behalf of 

 America, and devote himself to the organization of a 

 team to visit America in 1881, will find himself fully en- 

 gaged. He has the whole kingdom to pick from, and 

 with such a high model as the recent winning average of 

 over 213 set at Dolly mount no second-rate marksmen can 

 hope to find places on the team of either nation. If 

 there should be any backing out on the part of Sir ilenry 

 or his men it can only be set down to fright after seeing 

 the American scores made last week. 



TEXAS Jack.— Our brief mention last week of the 

 death of " Texas Jack," at Lcadville, Col., June 27th, 

 must have recalled to several of our readers their Rocky 

 Mountain campaigns, spent in company with this noted 

 guide and scout. In the summer of 1878 a party of New 

 York gentlemen made an extended trip, under his leader- 

 ship, and their very enjoyable experience were at the time 

 detailed in our columns. " Texas Jack," whose l 

 was J. B. Omohundro, had long been noted for his frontier 

 exploits, where the most of his life was passed. His nick- 

 name, by which he was better known than by his real 

 name, was earned years ago by his exploit of conducting 

 a cattle drive from Texas to Colorado. 



In 1876 he was employed in Gen, Crook's campaign j 

 against the Sioux, and when the Indians were defeated ] 

 he rode with the dispatches 325 miles in six days, display- 

 ing great pluck and endurance, eluding the hostile In- 

 dians on the way and sending the news through to the. 

 New York Herald twenty-four hours in advance of the 

 military authorities. 



In 1878 he came East, and while in tins city El 

 called at our office, always showing himself a g< l 

 in his bearing, and quite the reverse of the blustering 

 plainsman, which he was depicted to be on the bill pos- 

 ters of his traveling theatrical company. " Texs 

 was buried with military honors at Leadville, 



— The London World thinks that the reason so mat 

 young men nowadays walk like crabs, is a conseqnen 

 of their perpetual wobbling on the bicycle ; and it sa 

 that the appearance is known as the " bicycle back." - J 

 this promises ill for the Boston bicyclers. 



