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FOEE ST AND STEEAM. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Fnir.ri and Aquatic Sports, Practical natural 
History, Fish Culture, the Protection or Game, Preserva¬ 
tion of Forests, and the Inculcation in Men and Women of 
a Healthy - Interest in Out-Door Recreation and Study : 
PUBLISHED BY 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY. 
NO. Ill PULTON STREET, NEW YORK. 
[Post Office Bon 2832.1 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY !, 1880. 
To Correspondents. 
All communications whatever, intended forpubUcatlon.mustbe 
accompanied with real name of the writer as aguaranty of good 
Kffi addressed to Forest and Stream PuuLisniNO Com¬ 
pany. Names wilL not, be published if objection be made. Auony- 
mous communications will not be regarded. 
Wo e-nnot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us wtih 
brief notes of their movements and transactions. 
Not hing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 
retnitel to us is lost. _ 
Trade supplied by American News Company. 
OUR NEW YEAR GREETING. 
W ITH the advent of the New Year it has-been the 
custom of the Forest and Stream, in times gone 
by, to pause with its readers for an expression of grat- 
ulation in review of the past and of good cheer for 
the future. To day we thus extend the salutations of the 
season as, leaving the pleasant paths of the year which is 
gone, we cross over into the border land of that undis¬ 
covered country through whose fields and woodlands and 
hesjde whose streams lies our way in the months to 
come- And perhaps it is most fitting that for a brief 
moment we should lose our editorial identity to assume 
the more comprehensive personality of the whole great 
fraternity of sportsmen, that, speaking for them and with 
them, wo may here pay a passing tribute to that graceful 
and facile pen and the ready sympathy with all that is 
best in sport, which together have made the Forest and 
Stream to-day the approved representative of the devo¬ 
tees of manly sport and recreation iu America. To con¬ 
ceive the plan of such a publication, and to mature 
the conception into its present goodly shape, is a nota¬ 
ble achievement of journalistic success. 
In succeeding to the management of the Forest and 
Stream , we cannot refrain from expressing our appre¬ 
ciative recognition of the magnitude of the labor already 
performed in thus bringing the paper to its present 
standard, and of the consequently exacting demands of 
the task now devolving upon ourselves. The years al¬ 
ready told have been uniformly years of most gratifying 
progress. To the satisfaction afforded by the contempla¬ 
tion of tins success in the past is added the assurance of a 
like onward course, and a broadening of our field-in the 
future. • 
The several departments of this paper are under the 
supervision of competent specialists, whose work wifi be 
marked by the same thoroughness and painstaking cure 
which now make of these parts a perfect whole. With 
scores and scores of correspondents our relations htve 
never been happier than they are at present; and in ac¬ 
knowledging the valuable services already rendered we 
may express the earnest trust that these favors may still 
lie continued to tbs mutual satisfaction and benefit of all. 
To each and every one, to correspondents and con¬ 
tributors, to regular subscribers and to chance readers, 
we wish a new year of pleasure in the Forf.st and 
Stream, and this wish is seconded by the genuine ambi¬ 
tion of our editorial corps that the rich promise contained 
in our past and present may be more than fulfilled in c ur 
future. 
VALEDICTORY. 
I T has transpired that new duties and responsibili¬ 
ties require the editor of Forest and Stream 
to give place to other management. . This step has 
not been, taken without due consideration. From the 
outset I have contemplated the time when other 
interests might compelme to retire from active labor on 
the paper, though I confess I bad hoped to remain nomi¬ 
nally at the helm always. That time seems now to have 
arrived. Engagements of paramount importance call me 
elsewhere. Nevertheless, my heart and sympathy will 
remain with my pet project; and although it is fated 
that I must leave the beaten paths which my constant 
feet have so long trodden, I feel that there is a field of 
usefulness still open where the effort to please and in¬ 
struct, so long ago begun, may be continued. To be 
more explicit, since some may require it: I am now en¬ 
gaged on a new book ; besides, it is my purpose to devote 
some attention to my enterprise in Minnesota, where I 
have a county town which bears my name, and in the 
summer to visit tlie North Pacific and the intermediate 
country, taking a trip to Europe in the fall. All this, 
Deo volantc. It is proper that I should undertake foreign 
travel before infirmities and gray hairs multiply, as my 
friends must admit. If they will but revert to my 
early announcement, they will also read what I then 
wrote, namely, that I undertook to establish a clean and 
wholesome sportsman’s journal by the earnest solicita¬ 
tion of others, and not wholly of my ownfree will. To 
do so I abandoned a life of ease and semi-indolence, and 
the present successful results have been attained only by 
large pecuniary sacrifices. To the editor personally the 
paper has not been remunerative. That it is freighted 
with large promises of emolument to future proprietors 
is positive. If we are to believe our own convictions, 
and the assurances of friends, there can be no doubt 
that it is already a complete success, morally and .finan¬ 
cially- It has realized the aim of its proprietor, an¬ 
nounced at the beginning, to inculcate in men and women 
a pure love for natural objects, and to stimulate a higher 
literature of manly sport. 
I do not care to review my labors here, or to blazon 
iny achievements before the world. The thirteen vol¬ 
umes with their precious contents, which now lie piled 
before me, are a sufficient testimony and a good enough 
monument. The advanced status of sports as they now 
exist in America and challenge the Old World, has been 
wholly attained since the inauguration of Forest and 
Stream, and we believe has been largely promoted and 
determined by the efforts of this journal. Rifle Practice 
and Rifle Ranges, Bench Shows, Field Trials, Polo, La¬ 
crosse, Archery, Ball-Trap Shooting, the installment of 
Bergh and the purity of the Turf, and above all the uni¬ 
versal establishment of game clubs and systematic game 
protection, have all been instituted and made fixtures 
during the incumbency of the editor of this paper. For 
some of these he reasonably claims authorship and pater¬ 
nity, Above all, the name and dignity of the Sportsman 
has been elevated. He is now accorded a respectable and 
honorable place in the community, and his powers for 
usefulness and good are fully recognized. 
It is superfluous, perhaps, to spend words in parting 
with a devoted and beloved constituency, who have done 
so much by their offerings and their contributions to 
make the paper what it is, and the value of whose sub¬ 
stantial encouragement is gratefully acknowledged. To 
the officers of the army in particular, more than to any 
other class, is the editor directly obligated for notes and 
records of important discoveries in geography and natural 
history, which they have gathered in inaccessible places 
which even the persistent collector has not reached. 
There is scarcely a frontier post which has not its repre¬ 
sentative of Forest and Stream. Professional writers, 
whose offerings are always in demand at highest prices, 
have constantly contributed their essays gratuitously and 
voluntarily. Government officers and foreign Ministers 
have snatched an hour from their manifold duties to drop 
us a line or a sketch. Rough backwoodsmen have con¬ 
quered their modesty and sent us, in homely phrases, but 
kindly spirit, valuable notes which have fallen within 
the scope of their observation. And so, uniting all the 
desultory parts, we have created a consummate homo¬ 
geneous whole, which is the pride of the editor and of all 
his co-workers. Furthermore, I should fail of my 
bounden duty did I neglect to acknowledge the very 
valuable editorial assistance rendered in the earlier life of 
the paper by Mr. Barnet Phillips, whose unceasing and 
honest efforts contributed in a very great degree to its 
success, and who did more than any other man to stimu¬ 
late rifle practice in America when it was in its infancy ; 
also to Win. M. Tileston in the middle years, and latterly 
to Clias. B. Reynolds, who still remains. 
There is at least one occasion in every man’s life when 
it becomes most painful to say “ adieu,” and that occa¬ 
sion may not happen at the end. The editor has grown 
up so intimately with his friends during the*past six 
years and a half, and lias been in such constant commu. 
nication with so many of them, that it seems like sunder¬ 
ing family ties to close the door behind him. With many 
he has enjoyed pleasant passages by field and si,real, 
and there are others whose still unaccepted invitations 
are likely now never to be filled. On his files are hun¬ 
dreds pf personal letters, valued heretofore as friendly 
tokeni, but now to be carefully cherished as precious 
links in the chain of old memories. Possibly they may 
servt to bind some lasting friendship. Comforting also 
is the consciousness that no serious enmities have been 
incurred, despite the trying character of the ordeal. Cer¬ 
tain it is that it is not in the nature of sportsmen to quar¬ 
rel, Gunners seldom do—anglers never I Anglers are 
not wranglers. I have always found the middle path of 
comfort and success to lie in a disposition and earnest 
purpose to deal justly with all, and give partisanship no 
handicap. 
And now, after a long and laborious trick at the helm, 
with the good ship piloted safely beyond dangers into the 
clear open sea, with favoring breezes and courses laid 
true, I transfer my trust to my successors with the best 
grace possible, and wish them “good speed.” Forest 
and Stream has been my especial charge for nearly seven 
years, and knowing from a long editorial experience, 
which dates back to the year 1853, what obstacles and 
mischances beset the voyager, I feel a natural solicitude 
for its future welfare. I trust, however, that it will at¬ 
tain. under its new management, a more enviable position 
and a more enlarged sphere of honor and usefulness than 
ever before. 
Boys, good bye! 
Fraternally yours, 
Charles Hallock, 
{rgr Hereafter the business address of Mr. Charles 
Hallock will be at 61, Broadway, Room 33 ; Post-office 
box 3,156.__ ^_ 
SUCCESS IN JOURNALISM. 
T HE life of any newspaper or periodical is a precari¬ 
ous one at the best. Statistics bIiow that but one 
of every fifty publications started becomes permanently 
established. Either they are not needed, or they do not 
meet the requirements ; and if there should be a demand 
and place for a special publication, it can even then se¬ 
cure success only by a great outlay of labor and capital, 
and a persistent struggle with rivals and opponents. 
A journal may be said to be permanently established 
when its income exceeds its expenses, and when its hold 
upon the public is so strong that it need not feel apprehen¬ 
sive of new competitors. From the very beginning it has 
to be, carefully nurtured, directed, and guarded, as much 
from incapacity and dissension within, as from enemies 
and assailants without. Probably more ventur.es are 
wrecked by the first cause than by the latter. To secure 
success, a journal must press itself into notice by the 
moral force of itB own merits, ingratiate itself into 
favor and be able to hold the interest and esteem 
of its patrons. At all times during its'puberty it is 
liable to the mischances and diseases of adolescence, 
and even when grown to sturdy maturity, some false 
step or injudicious measure of policy or economy may 
suddenly check its growth or give it a blow from which 
it will not recover. Patrons are capricious. Like a 
school of fish feeding, some unseen movement may 
frighten them, and they disappear altogether. 
It has been the good fortune of the Forest and Stream 
to attain what may be considered perfect success. It lias 
a constituency of its own whieh cannot be alienated ex¬ 
cept by some rash action, or error of management. 
Many of its patrons have been with it from the begin¬ 
ning, and lent it constant encouragement and aid. 
Rarely, if ever, has a journal been blessed with so devo¬ 
ted a following. It only remains now for it to hold its 
vantage ground and signal success will continue to fol¬ 
low it. _ a ( ^ 
The Sweet Singers of the Coal Mines,— It is one of 
the blessed qualities of music that it may dwell in the 
heart of the humblest—not the artificial music of the 
schools always, but the music of nature. None are so 
lowly that they may not have it in their souls. Some of 
the nations of the earth who toil the hardest and the 
longest sing and dance the most, too. In all this broad 
country of ours there is no class whose toil is more se¬ 
vere than the workers in the coal mines. Thousands of 
these people are Welshmen. The Welsh love of music is 
proverbial. They carry the old home songs around the 
world with them. In every Welshman’s heart is a re¬ 
sponsive chord which answers to their notes, Not long 
ago there was a story in the papers of a Welshman, 
a miner, who had committed murder in Wales, and had 
fled to this country. A shrewd detective of Scotland 
Yard bought him a bag-pipe, and strolled through the 
coal regions of Canada and the Northwest, playing his 
tunes and keenly noting his hearers. He knew the 
man’s love for music, and that, though a murderer, he 
had not stifled this part of his nature. Finally the de¬ 
tective with his tunes found his way into Pennsylvania, 
and there, one day, in the crowd of listeners, he found his 
man. We never doubted this story; for if one had 
invented the tale, he might just as easily have made the 
(ienoument a happy one. 
