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olsh. Musical Festival Recently held at Pliila- 
"was, in many respects, a remarkable gathering ; 
u e for its rare musical excellence than for the char- 
.j/t tlie participants. “ Tlie bone and sinew of the as- 
B ' lijge were the coal-region miners aud workmen.” 
T n; with their city compatriots, have preserved to 
tla .’"children, and for their children’s children, the lan¬ 
guage of their native land, and have cultivated not only 
a love for music, hut the science of it, to a degree that 
enables them to present grand choruses with wonderful 
precision and effect. The language that looks so hard 
to American eyes in print, when wedded to the Welsh 
national airs, produces fine musical effects, marked, how¬ 
ever, more by force than liquid sweetness. The singers 
themselves were nearly all miners, or members of miners’ 
families, though there were choirs from the larger cities 
of the anthracite region, which combined the hardest un¬ 
derground toilers with men and women who have had 
better opportunities for musical culture. The feature that 
marked all the singing, even of the combined choirs, 
where 1,300 singers joined in the national airs of Wales 
and America, was that there were no laggard voices 
taking their cue from other singers. From the youngest 
to the oldest—and there was probably a range of fifty 
years of difference in the ages of the singers—each un¬ 
derstood his or her part, and sang it with a will, guided 
by the baton of the director, to whom all paid strict at¬ 
tention. Such results could not he reached if the Welsh¬ 
men of Pennsylvania had not well maintained the na¬ 
tional love of music as something more than a sentiment. 
That they have done so was shown by the presence in 
the choirs of whole families of miners—the husband and 
wife, with the children, the mother attending, in some 
cases, with a child in her arms. The large county choirs 
that competed for some of the prizes have had few oppor¬ 
tunities for rehearsal. They are made up of a large 
number of the smaller choirs and glee clubs organized 
in the mining towns ; but music is so thoroughly studied 
by all the singers that they can unite together without 
rehearsal, and sing with even better effect than many 
well-drilled choruses composed of less skilled vocalists. If 
any part of what lias been said by philosophers of the re¬ 
fining influence of music is true, these cultivated Welsh¬ 
men should serve as leaven for the whole anthracite 
region. It certainly is true that these lovers of music are 
the reverse of the rough characters who have heretofore 
been accepted as typical miners. A more orderly, good- 
natured, bappy-loolting set of singers is seldom seen at 
any public gathering.” And yet, by one of the strange in¬ 
congruities of human nature, these very philosophers who 
reason about the refining influences of music are all at 
fault. The musician who entrances an audience, and 
sends a thrill through the vast multitude, repairs, after 
that audience has dispersed, to the nearest lager beer 
saloon, and there, with huge schooners of this gross 
drink, and amid the heavy fumes of cigar and cigarette, 
relapses from the artist into the coarse boor. Music may 
have etherial and refining influences, hut many of the 
world’s most famous musicians have been the reverse of 
gentlemen. 
Death of John Hargreave. —It is with feelings of 
sorrow that we have to announce the death of John Har¬ 
greave, the well-known Philadelphia cricketer. This 
melancholy event, caused by typhoid fever, took place at 
Ids late residence in Wister street, Germantown, on Sat¬ 
urday morning last, at 5 o'clock. The deceased was a 
weaver by trade, and was only sick about one week. At 
the time of his death he was only 29 years of age ; a fine 
athlete, wirey and supple, he was all that could be de¬ 
sired in a representative of the “manly game. - ’ The 
family name of HaTgreave is hut a synonym of good 
English cricketers, there being in all six brothers, who all 
have reputations as goof players. John Hargreave was 
the acknowledged leader of his brothers in this respect. 
He was among the first in the eleven of the Germantown 
Cricket Club, and as a safe batsman and brilliant field 
was unsurpassed. Of late years he has always been 
selected to play on the All-Philadelphia eleven, and on 
every occasion he fully sustained the high opinion formed 
of him. The principal matches in which he took part 
were, against Grace’s team in 1872, when he secured the 
second highest score; Canada, and the British officers, 
in 1875 ; the Australian team of 1878, and against the 
Irish and English elevens of last season, In 1877 he stood 
head of the list in the batting averages of his club, with 
34-27 obtained in 13 innings, his century of 104 being of 
this year. For 1878 he was fourth, with 15-5, the result 
of 10 innings, and last season ho retained the same posi¬ 
tion, with 15-3 for 8 innings. Although several of his 
brothers have reputations as bowlers, we do not remem¬ 
ber ever seeing Hargreave handle the ball. With the 
death of this fine young fellow Philadelphia loses one of 
her first cricketers, and the Germantown, one of its 
best players. His death will be mourned by many. The 
funeral tookplace on Tuesday, and the body was interred 
in Ivy Hill Cemetery. 
—W. D, Chapman & Son’B fishing tackle factory, at 
Theresa, N. Y., was burned Friday night, Loss $10,000. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
Migratory Quail,—W e make the following extract 
from a private letter, written from Mount Air, Fairfax 
County, Va., dated December 16th, and referring to the 
introduction of the migratory quail into that county :— 
I take great pleasure in congratulating you, and the 
other gentlemen interested in the enterprise, upon the 
fair degree of success which has attended it. 
The birds, twenty-five in number, when liberated, were 
evidently in remarkable health and vigor, and, with the 
exception of two of tlie cocks, took wing immediately, 
making a flight of about one-fourth of a mile, and spread¬ 
ing themselves widely over an excellent cover. In order 
to secure for them tiie utmost protection, as well as to 
keep myself informed of the localities they might select, 
I took every occasion to give publicity to the fact of their 
introduction, and also a description of their peculiarities 
of form, plumage, and habit. I am gratified in saying, 
that, so far, I have heard of only one of them having 
been shot, and that case I am sure was purely accidental. 
At this time I can speak confidently of the existence of 
five coveys of sixteen to twenty each, all within a radius 
of about a mile of tlie spot where the birds were turned 
out; and as some of the birds have been frequently seen 
at other and more distant places, I am led to think there 
may be many more than those already mentioned. Our 
winters here are usually so short and mild, I think it 
likely many of them will remain ; but, in any event, the 
present success fully justifies the belief that our covers 
will soon he amply stocked with them. 
Hounding ys. Still-Hunting. — Burlington, VI., Dec. 
15 th.—Editor Forest and Stream :—I read with pleasure 
an ai'ticle in your valuable paper of Dec 11th, headed as 
above. I think our Maine friend hits the nail on the 
liead and drives it home when he uses the term, selfish 
still-hunter, for some of them are not only selfish hut 
brutal. Myself and party have had twenty-seven hounds 
killed by still-hunters in the Adirondacks'the past twelve 
years ; some of them brutally killed. It is a cowardly, 
mean act, for a man to revenge liimself upon a poor 
innocent hound, doing his duty and master’s bidding, by 
shooting him, and, as is sometimes the case, wounding 
and leaving him to suffer and die. I have hunted in the 
Adirondacks for the past fifteen years nearly every fall, 
and have not violated the law except in one particular : 
one June, while fishing, I killed a deer for eating. I 
believe in making a law for the whole, not for any par¬ 
ticular class of men, and then enforcing it. My experi¬ 
ence in hounding deer is in perfect accord with that of 
the gentleman in Maine—that if no other kind of hunting 
was done deer would increase. If a party of six or eight 
men kill a deer each day, hounding, they are doing well, 
while the average is far below this. The same number 
of men still-liunting will kill five times the number. 1 
have still-hunted some ; but for genuine sport, give me 
a good party arid good hounds, and others may still-hunt 
that wish to ; but let the dogs alone. Give us a law for 
all; a stringent law that will protect tlie noble deer 
against tlie infernal slaughtering in summer; by torch, 
and crusting in February and March. The law as now 
on the statute hooks Of New York is good enough if en¬ 
forced, with one exception. I think the time for killing 
deer should not begin until September 1st or 15th, and 
should close December loth. The mode of enforcing the 
law is wrong. Instead of appointing local game con¬ 
stables, and offering a part of the fine money to the in¬ 
formant, an appropriation should be made by the State, 
or a fund raised by sportsmen, for the purpose of em¬ 
ploying good men to see that the law is enforced—men 
who would not ask nor give favors. They should be 
paid a good salary, that they could and would give their 
time to "the cause.' They should not be appointed from 
nor near the places they are to guard if they are expected 
to enforce the law. Night hunting in June, July and 
August by torchlight is increasing at a fearful rate, and 
at the present rate of slaughtering this poor, innocent 
creature, five years will use them -completely up. In my 
judgment four deer out of five are killed in the summer 
months or deep snows, when it is against the law. 
A. B. WlTHERELL. 
s The West Jersey Game Protective Society— Caw- 
den, N. J., Dec., 1879.— Editor Forest and Stream.—I 
notice in ycur last week’s issue, a Philadelphia disserta¬ 
tion upon game laws, etc., quoting extensively from the 
Act creating the above-named society. As many criti¬ 
cisms have from time to time appeared in several-news¬ 
papers, notably in your journal (as a special authority on 
such matters), as well as numerous New Jersey papers, 
and more Philadelphia and otherpapers in Eastern Penn-, 
sylvania. I think it proper to say something of the status! 
of the society. The Philadelphia ^papers and those below, 
notably at Chester, have occasionally expressed them-j 
selves in bitter terms concerning this society and its 
charter. Now it ought to he known that this society is 
purely a Philadelphia institution. It is true, two New 
Jersey sportsmen (brothers-in-law), one residing in 
Atlantic County and the other in Gloucester County, were 
the ostensible movers and authors in getting the charters 
and organizing the society, hut in reality the “ power 
behind the throne ” was and is within a Philadelphia 
sporting association. Originally there were several New 
Jersey members, hut before the first gunning season, tlie 
Philadelphia members outnumbered them ten, if not 
twenty, to one. In a year or two nearly every Jersey 
member dropped out, and it is reported that for two or 
three years past there has not been a single New Jersey 
member exoept the officers of the society. At all events, 
I was thus informed by a Philadelphia member who 
ought to know. Had the Pennsylvania papers known 
these facts, perhaps they would have bad less to say 
about tlie “selfish Jerseymen.” 
A word about their charter. Although I have read 
law somewhat I make no pretensions to being a lawyer. 
I have, however, heard some of our hest lawyers express 
their opinions concerning this remarkable charter, and 
all to the effect that the Act was clearly unconstitutional, 
and really one of the most absurd Acts passed for many 
years. It is well known also, that the provisions of the 
charter have been repeatedly violated by the society or 
its managers, and it is a wonder that any person pays 
them for the privilege of gunning in New Jersey, for (it 
is said by our lawyers) tlie society would not have any 
show in a Court of Chancery. 
"What have they done ? Our gunners say “ Nothing of 
account.” They have introduced a few small lots of 
birds, and distributed them among the personal friends 
of the managers in isolated, out-of-the-way places, known 
to tlie certain few, and where they were wont to repair 
on their Jersey hunting excursions. Our gunners say 
that the regular game laws of the State have never been 
moro wantonly violated than at the presen t time. A 
genuine South Jersey society is wanted. The W. J. G. P. 
Society is a New Jersey society only in name. 
Eepor. 
The West Jersey Association have at least shown a 
commendable activity in carrying out the law, whether 
it was constitutional or not. As there are doubtless two 
sides to this question, we shall he pleased to give all a 
hearing. _ ^ _ 
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attention to our commissions for new subscribers, a 
complete list of which is published elsewhere. There is 
always a satisfaction in performing a worthy work, and 
when such a labor is attended with a pecuniary reward 
tlie satisfaction is doubled. Those of our readers who 
may care to act as agents in extending the subscription 
list of the Forest and Stream may thereby win bothself- 
complacency and a substantial return as well. Our 
prize list is a liberal one, and we shall look for liberal re¬ 
turns from it. 
—We have published a handsome and highly orna¬ 
mental colored Forest and Stream poster, which we 
will send to sueh of our friends as will put it up in a 
conspicuous place, where it may be seen and read by all 
men. ^ _ 
—The Florida New Yorker, now published monthly, 
devotes much attention to the various Southern resorts, 
considering especially their climate as adapted to the core 
of pulmonary diseases. 
NATURAL SCIENCE AT THE CAPITOL. 
The following appeared in the “ Kansas City Review of 
Science and Industry ” for December, 1879. 
Hyperia in the Nectocalyx of Ahyla Pentagona. — Edi¬ 
tor Review. —Will you put this little bit of information 
in your next number? 
The life of Hyperia and its brood in the barrel-shaped 
body of a dead Doliolum is well known. Such Doliola, 
with Crustacea within, are often taken in pelagic fishing. 
The larger Nectocalyx of a Siphonophore AbyJa Penta¬ 
gona may replace the Doliolum. I have frequently cap¬ 
tured, in my fishing on the Piedmontese coast, in South 
France, specimens of sueh Abyloe with Hyperia and 
brood within. The upper and smaller Nectocalyx of tlie 
Ahyla was always detached. This Nectocalyx, of course, 
never reached the dimensions of a large Doliolum, hut 
it forms a perfect little house for the crustacean and its 
young. Only one end of this Ahyla house of Hyperia has 
an opening, which is the natural' entrance into the bell 
cavity. J. Walter Fewkes. 
Cambridge, Mass.,'Nov. 12 th. 
The astounding statements contained in the foregoing 
article have attracted the attention of our law-makers in 
Washington, and for that Teason, no doubt, the three 
weekB of the second session of the Forty-sixth Congress 
just ended, have not been marked by any of the exciting 
debates which many expected. No political question, at 
least none yet presented, can compare in importance 
with “Hyperia in the Nectocalyx of Ahyla Pentagona.” 
The following letters to Professor Fewkes, from some 
of the most erudite and learned members of the House of 
Representatives, will bIiow the interest aroused by the 
article above quoted in the minds of those hest qualified 
to grapple with, the problem presented. Kentucky and 
Tennessee appear to have been first awakened to the ne¬ 
cessity of prompt action. But our genial and accom¬ 
plished townsman and representative, as was to be ex¬ 
pected, puts in an early appearance and shows himself 
qualified to take a prominent part in the coming struggle. 
And we learn that Maryland and North Carolina are be¬ 
coming deeply interested, as we may show in some fu¬ 
ture number of our paper, if our readers evince that in¬ 
terest in the subject that its importance justifies. 
Washington, Dec. 15 th, 1879, 
My dear Sir :—For many years I have devoted most of 
my leisure to pelagic fishiug, invariably using the Hype¬ 
ria and brood as bait, and have rarely failed to take a fine 
string of Doliola, with an occasional specimen of the 
larger Nectocalyx, of the Siphonophore Abyla Pentagona: 
hut when I have related my experience in this branch of 
piscatorial amusement to my brethren of the rod, my 
statements as to the avidity with which a Doliolum will 
rise to a Hyperia have been received with evident in¬ 
credulity. 
Iam, therefore, delighted to learn that you have ac¬ 
tually found the Hyperia and brood iu the barrel-shaped 
body of a dead Doliolum ; and would ho greatly obliged 
to you if you would send me an affidavit oiubodyingyour 
statements as published in the December number of the 
Kansas City “ Review of Science.” 
1 do not wish to flatter you, my dear sir. Indeed, I 
would not “ flatter Neptune, for his trident, nor Jove for 
his power to thunder,' 1 for I do not wish to thunder, and 
have no earthly use for his trident. But you will permit 
me to say that your researches in crustacean architect¬ 
ure have brought the human family under obligations to 
your enlightened zeal which worlds could never repay. 
The philanthropist can now sleep in peace, soothed by 
