FOREST AND STREAM 
$12 
A Realistic Painting. —Mr. Gerard R. Hardenburgh, 
of New Brunswick, N. J., who is well known to many of 
our readers, exhibited in our office last Tuesday an oil 
life-size painting of, a pair of ruffed grouse, or pheasants, 
illustrated from a new standpoint of artistic view. The 
two birds stand on the qui vine, yet do not seem flus- 
trated. There is something in the wind, plainly — some 
sportsman and his dog just oyer the bush, not seen, but 
fairly suspected. The old hen shows implicit confidence 
in her pinioned lord, and the lord himself is positive of 
his ability to whirr away out of danger at the right mo¬ 
ment. We have no doubt, however, that the instant 
they lift themselves clear of the ground they will be 
dead birds. As it is with these grouse, so it is with hu¬ 
mans. They think themselves fairly out of the woods 
when it is not even time to whistle. Death comes to us 
when we te.st suspect his presence ; hut if we could only 
see ourselves at the instant of demise, as others see us, we 
should be impressed with the conviction that the taking 
off was nun - of our own folly than a deliberate device on 
the par i of the enemy. There are few painters who suc¬ 
ceed in presenting the real so faithfully that the ideal 
stands behind it like a shadow in the sun. Mr. Harden- 
burgi), we think, is one of those to be congratulated. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
Elephantine Game I'.. ' •••?.—The Elephant is 
going to join the Dodo, One Sheffield, England, cutlery 
firm alone used the ivory of 1,36!) elephant tusks last 
year. Tins means that the elephant is being rapidly ex¬ 
terminated for the ivory of his tusk. The subject is at¬ 
tracting serious attention, both among ivory dealers and 
in countries where this huge beast is invaluable as a 
means of locntniuluh-and transport. 
Migratory Quail.— We request those associations and 
individuals who imported the migratory quail last spring 
to send ns reports of the success of their importations. 
We are desirous of collecting data for the benefit of a 
great many other people who are hesitating whether or 
not to send for more birds this year. Our readers who 
may have any information about the nesting, hatching, 
and farther movements of the birds are requested to send 
in as full accounts as possible. Did the birds nest ? Were 
new broods observed ? Where were the birds seen last? 
What wero their habits ? How are the importers sat¬ 
isfied ? 
Early Game Laws—W e pUWllsh herewith a copy of one 
The Tuif to Parmachene Lake. —An unusual haste 
in the preparation of Die matter for the Forest and 
Stream last week was the cause of several typographical 
errors in the excellent sketch contributed by Mr. W. H. 
Bobbins, To relieve the writer of an undeserved charge 
of carelcssnessj we make these corrections: — For black 
swallows, lva 1 bank swallows ; viparia, read riparia; toll 
road, vend tote road ; our being out, read one being cut; 
Bilge, read ridge ; three rounds, read three pounds : Aims 
balsamea, read balsamea : Ohandiere, read Clian- 
diere ; liis track, read her track ; some slata, read some 
elate ; be tula, luiea, lenta, papyvacea, read betula, lutea, 
Ionia, and pnpytacea ; guelder rose, read guelder rose : 
Vitmrnm ;j epulis, read Viburnum opulis; elapased, read 
elapsed; our trapper, read a trapper; our canvas canoes, 
read Dicir canvas canoes; patch of maiden hah - fern 
(Hcraelewn innotum), read patch of 'maiden hair fern 
( Adia i) turn pedatum). 
Children's Am Society. — C hristmas will be all the 
happier for ourselves when it comes, if we have given 
our sh;< i-c towards making the day a happy one for others. 
The Children's Aid Society is one of the many New 
York City charities which are doing a good work. If 
any of our friends, either in the city or in the country, 
feel moved by the kindly impulses of the season to con¬ 
tribute money, clothing, or food to the little waifs who 
sleep in the cold nooks And oorners of Die Metropolis, 
they niuy seucl Bueli contributions to Mr, S. C. Brace, 
the secretary. No. 19 East Fourth street. Wo can per¬ 
sonally vouch for the proper disposal of such gifts. 
Indoors Archery. —The gallery rifle shotting is more 
extensively participated in by city riflemen than out-of- 
doors range shooting. There is every reason to suppose 
that archers will practice a great deal during the winter 
mouths in indoor galleries. We shall be pleased to re¬ 
ceive aod publish scores of this winter work. If the dif¬ 
fluent clubs would make their ranges, targets, and other 
conditions similar, the reports of the work of each would 
become interesting by comparison with others. 
Ourporp.ivo op the Spirit,— Our indefatigable con 
temporary, ike Spirit of the Times, is preparing for an¬ 
other especially su tractive Christmas number, of which 
the chief feature will be a story by Wilkie Collins. The 
Spirit is always particularly vivacious and sparkling at 
these Holiday times. 
Live Quail Wanted for Stocking.—T here are sev¬ 
eral prominent gentlemen who wish us to aid them in 
procuring live quail. Several hundred birds are required. 
We shall look for assistance from any of our correspond¬ 
ents. _ m , | r _ 
—The female pedestrian barbarity is now being on- 
acted again at the Madison Square Garden, this city. 
America is the only country in the world low enough in 
the scale of civilization to tolerate these brutalities. 
Where is the Mew York representative at Albany who 
will win honor for himself by carrying through a bill to 
suppress these indeoencies? 
A Pedestrian Lunatic.— Just after the woman’s walk 
began at the Madison Square Garden, this city, last Mon¬ 
day morning, a man by the name of Patrick Smith, 
dressed in a suit of his wife’s clothes, bounced into the 
track and ran rapidly around amid the shouts and laugh¬ 
ter of tlie crowd. On his breast he wore the number, 33. 
He was overtaken by a policeman and taken to the 
Twenty-ninth Precinct Station-house. He iB a lemon- 
peddler by trade, and is said to be a lunatic on. the sub¬ 
ject of walking-matches, imagining himself to be a 
greater pedestrian than Rowell. Why did not the police 
take the whole gang, male and female, around to the 
station-house? __ 
—Mr. William F. Duerr, Orange, N. J., offers for sale 
puppies out of his bitch Gypsy by Sensation. 
of the earliest game statutes published iu America. Can 
any of cmr legal friends send us anything of an earlier 
date ? The law, as given below, is copied by a corres¬ 
pondent from the town records ol B ’.ford. New York, in 
which it was entered in 1O0S by the town clerk, together 
with other laws passed at the same time. Bedford then 
belonged to the Colony of Connecticut, It is exceedingly 
interesting, as showing the early date at which the ne¬ 
cessity of game protection received attention in Amer¬ 
ica;— 
“ An act passed at a Generale Court, held at Hartford, 
May 13th, 1698, and continued to May 25th, Post Meridien, 
by adjournment. 
“Whereas the lulling of Deer at unseasonable times 
has been found very much to the prejudice of—(word 
left out.—W. H. B.) Having been hunted and destroyed 
in great numbers, they are very poor and of little value, 
and their increase greatly hindered, be it enacted by the 
authority of thiB Court, that if any persons whatsoever 
within this Colonie, from, and after the fifteenth of Jan¬ 
uary. One thousand, six hundred, ninety and nine, till 
the fifteenth of July, One thousand, six hundred, ninetie 
and nine, and so from the fifteenth day of January to the 
fifteenth day of July following annually ever hereafter, 
shall any way whatsoever kill any buck, deer, or faune, 
such person or persons shall forfeit the sume of twentie 
shillings for the first offence, fortie shillings for the sec¬ 
ond offence, and three pounds for the third offence, and 
so for every offence after. One moietye thereof to the 
publick treasurye and the other moietye to him or them 
shall iufonnorsue for the same in any Court of Record. 
And if any persons offending as aforesaid shall not have 
wherewith all to pay their fines, they shall, for their first 
offence, worke ten days; for the second offence, twentie 
days ; for the third offence, thirtie days, as shall be di¬ 
rected by the authority before whome the cause shall be 
heard and determined, to be imploded for the uses before 
mentioned. And if any venison skinne or skinnes of any 
buck, dear, or faune, newly kilted, shall at any time or 
times iu the aforesaid months, wherein they are by this 
act prohibited to be killed, be found with or in possession 
of any person or persons whatsoever, such person or per¬ 
sons shall, to the extent of this act, beheld and accounted 
in the lawe to be guilty of killing deer contrary to the 
intent of the act, as fully as if it wore proved against 
such persons by sufficient witnesse viva voee, except such 
person or persons doe bring forth who was the person or 
who were the persons that kilted the same. The deputies 
from the severall townes are appointed to inform the In¬ 
dians of this lawe that do inhabit in their respective 
townes, and to indeavour to procure their consent and 
inguagement to observe the same, and to take the names 
of all those Indians that doe inguago their observance 
thereof.” 
STATE RIGHTS, POT HUNTERS AND 
JERSEY BLUE LAWS. 
W HAT is game protection? It is preventing the 
killing of game out of season, that is, during the 
mating and breeding time, and while the young are 
reaching maturity. 
It also looks to the prevention of useless slaughter of 
game in season, and that it be only taken in a sportsman¬ 
like manner, not by snares, nets or traps, but by rod or 
gun, and then in such a manner as to prevent the exter¬ 
mination of the game or fish. 
Generally, game protective associations procure live 
game to distribute for breeding purposes, in order that the 
quantity of game may not he diminished, or to introduce 
some new variety of game. 
The various game protective associations differ widely 
in their work, some being just what they are named, con¬ 
fining their work to a rigid enforcement of the laws, pro¬ 
secuting those who sell or kill game out of season, and 
endeavoring to have good game laws enacted for their 
several States. 
The Philadelphia Game Protective Association (of which 
the writer is a member) is such a one ; making little or no 
effort to distribute live game, its duties being to endeavor 
to have proper game laws enacted, and rigidly enforcing 
them, 
Some game protective associations are managed on the 
“turkey and crow” principle. Oh I yes, they treat all 
alike. Give them their choice, * ‘ they will take the turkey, 
you will take the crow,” or if you prefer “you may 
liavethe crow, they will take the turkey.” They want all 
the shooting, you may stand by and see them shoot. 
The advocates of some of these associations will argue 
with you to convince you of their fairness to all, and tell 
you how much they are doing to protect game, and 
would have you to understand that they mako no distinc¬ 
tion of any account between residents and non-residents. 
Such is not true and they know it. 
The ’West Jersey Game Protective Association (of which 
the writer has been a member for years) no doubt has 
done much good in various ways, but to say they make 
little or no distinction between residents and non-resi- 
denta of the State is false. They make all the distinction 
it is possible to make. 
The fee for a non-resident member for the first year is 
$5, thereafter each year it is f 3. The payment of |3 by a 
resident of the State shall constitute continued member¬ 
ship. But—and here is where the point comes in—any 
resident of the State of New Jersey may shoot or fish 
over the length and breadth of the State without becoming 
a member of the association, just the same as if the asso¬ 
ciation didjnot exist, while a non-resident must procure 
a license or be fined for every game bird found in liis pos¬ 
session. It is no more obligatory for a resident of 
New Jersey to join tlie association in order to shoot game 
than it is obligatory for him to subscribe to the Forest 
and Stream. He may join them if he wishes, but is not 
required to do so. The non-resident must procure a 
license or stand the consequences. Such are the facts, 
and so the lawreads; aboutas much.difference as can well 
be made. 
The West Jersey Game Protective Association, how¬ 
ever, only has jurisdiction in the counties of Camden, 
Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic, and Cape 
May. 
Without quoting the whole law, which of course, would 
take up too much valuable space, we insert enough to show 
how the law reads:— 
'‘Supplement to an act entitled “ An act incorporating 
the West Jersey Gtame Protective Society,” 
Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey, that hereafter any person or 
persons, non-residents of this State, who shall kill, 
destroy, hunt or take any doe, buck, fawn, or any sort of 
deer whatsoever, or shall kill, destroy, hunt or take any 
partridge, moor-fowl, ruffed grouse, commonly called 
pheasant, pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, or other 
kind of grouse, quail, woodcock, Wilson or gray snipe, 
reed bird, rail bird, or rabbit, at any time, or shall catch 
any speckled brook trout or speckled river trout at any 
time within the counties of Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, 
Salem, Cumberland and Cape May, iu this State, without 
complying with the By-Laws of this Game Protective 
Society, then the person or persons so offending shall 
forfeit and pay the sum of fifty (50) dollars each, for each 
and every offence, and may he proceeded against in any 
county of this State wherein such person or persons may 
be arrested, or wherein such offence shall have been com¬ 
mitted, and in default of the payment of the forfeit 
money, with costs of prosecution, any person or persons 
so offending shall lie in the common jail until the same 
shall be paid; one-half of the forfeit money shall be for 
the benefit of the person prosecuting for the same, and 
the remainder paid to the collector of the township 
wherein the conviction may be had, and all acts or parts 
of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repeated : 
Provided, that nothing in this aot shall prevent residents 
of tlrls State from taking game or fish, subject to the ex¬ 
isting laws of this State. 
1 ‘ Any person or persons, non-residents of this State, 
wishing to kill, destroy, hunt or take, at any time, any 
game as provided for in the seventh section of the “ Aot 
incorporating this Society,” shall first become members 
of this society, by payment of the membership fee to the 
Secretary, receiving a certificate of membership, signed by 
; the President and Secretary, and seated with the corpor¬ 
ate seal of said Society. 
“ The Membership Fee in this Society shall be $5 for the 
first year, and thereafter $.3 for each succeeding year, for 
non-residents. The payment of $3 by residents of this 
State shall constitute continued membership.” 
The game laws of Delaware are worse than those of 
New Jersey, being barbarous and tyrannical, partaking 
more of some of the European or Oriental despotism than 
of part of a free republic : the State laws and also the 
particular ones applying to the Delaware Game Protec¬ 
tive Association being full of the “non-resident of the 
State” and of “forfeiting gun, dog, etc.,” together with 
“ lying in the common jail until the same shall be paid," 
the latter being a poetical expression common to Dela¬ 
ware State laws in general. 
Any resident of the State of Delaware may shoot or fish 
without a license from the Delaware Protective Associa¬ 
tion just the same as if the Association did not exist, but 
every non-resident must procure a license from them or 
be liable to arrest and imprisonment. 
If the Delaware Association required a license for all 
residents who shoot or fish, they would have a princely 
income, for in every farm-house there are from one to 
half a dozen guns ; the master of the place has one, every 
hired man has one, even down to the “cub of a boy” or 
small nigger who brings in tlie corn cobs for the fire; 
each one has a gun, even if it is only a $3 jiot metal 
painted possum-tail barrel. 
The writer of this article has spent much of his time iu 
the State of Delaware, and all his father’s family are and 
always have been residents of the State, so he is pretty 
well posted in Delaware affairs. 
To read the game laws of Delaware we would imagine 
the State was surrounded by savage hordes waiting to 
rush in with dog and gun and exterminate all the wild 
fowl and game birds throughout the State, and that even 
the citizens themselves were in danger. 
The writer of this agrees with “ A, of Poughkeepsie,” 
that their laws are semi-barbarous, as their game laws are 
supposed to apply to at least decent people and not to 
thieves or criminals. 
The laws relating to the Delaware Game Protective As¬ 
sociation are modeled after those of the West Jersey As¬ 
sociation, as see below:— 
“ Section 6. That hereafter any person or persons, non¬ 
residents of this State, who shall kill, destroy, hunt, or 
take any doe, buck, or fawn, or any sort of deer whatso¬ 
ever, or shall kill, destroy, hunt, or take any partridge, 
moor fowl, ruffed grouse, commonly called pheasant, 
pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, or any kind of grouse,, 
quail, woodcock, Wilson or gray snipe, reed-bird, rail- 
bird, black duck, gray duck, sprig-tail, teal duck, mallard 
or any other kind of wild duck, or any wild goose, swan, 
brant, or other wild fowl, or any hare or rabbit, at any 
time, or shall catch any speckled brook trout or speckled 
