Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 30, 1882. 



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T-JSE miTWE VIEW OF THE MAT) JI. 

 ■P HENRY HALFORD has made to Earl Brownlow, 

 *3 Ike President of the National Rifle Association of Great 

 Britain, a report upon the late International Match, and in 

 iinnllier column we give it entire. It is short and to the 

 point, and of course very unlike the extended report of the 

 American (cam captain. It is much easier to write the 

 ttory of a victory than it is to mix apology with explanation 

 after a defeat ; so the task of Col. Halford was simpler by 

 far than that of Col. Bodine. He proceeds in a matter-of- 

 fact way to give names and dates, with the figures of the 

 Batch, and then draws the very safe conclusion that the 

 (access of the Britishers was due to their superior rifles and 

 immunition, and to the more lengthened experience of the 

 men. To the latter due weight ought to be given; and the 

 mperior rifles were the natural result of the experience 

 which many years 1 practice on the range had brought about. 

 Tie- wretched incapacity of the American rifles to do the 

 Work imposed upon them grew out of the fact that those 

 who were using them had no way of knowing how poor 

 i'.hey were. No rifleman could shoot a dozen shots at Wim- 

 Hiorj with a match rifle, stuffing it with a heavy charge of 

 flirty powder and without cleaning, before he would be sur- 

 Ktinded by n group of experts who would laugh him away 

 loin the filing points. And yet this is precisely what the 

 jVnierican team set out to do, and the performance upon 



- 'i I il. Bodine looked benignly. The result came in the 

 brushing defeat administered to the Americans. 

 I We are sorry to see a tendency towards hypercritical 



Gadim: of Col. Bodine's unfortunate effort in the reporting 

 line. He did indeed criticise the British rifles as really 

 Kvc the military grade, and .lealiy "special" in the ordi- 



m acceptance of that term us applied to military. Col. 

 i 1 Iglne ri . lil ly explains how a very excellent system of long- 



jJK<* military practice has been fostered at Wimbledon, 



Etbal by a liberal expenditure of time and money the 

 i immakers, aided by the British riflemen, have pro- 



' ; : ' title with which this match was fought. Col. 



: "l'" tya that Wimbledon shooters and armorers had 



"produced a long-range gun for a special purpose," and in 

 this lie is perfectly correct. There is no intimation in the 

 American captain's report that he considers the British 

 rifle to have been prepared for this match, and yet Col. Hal- 

 ford, in a. foot note to his report, it will he seen, first mis- 

 quotes the language of Col. Bodine, and then proceeds very 

 doughtily to demolish the fabric of his own creation. Col. 

 Bodine did not say the rifles were gotten up "for the 

 special purpose," but in talking of Wimbledon practice 

 generally, said that there was a special class of shooting at 

 Wimbledon, and properly chides the American marksmen 

 for their neglect of this particular style of target-shooting. 

 It was in this special line of work that the British Associa- 

 tion challenged the Americans to meet them, and without 

 much thought whether they were prepared for such an 

 unequal contest or not, the American marksmen accepted 

 the proffer of a match, with what result the world is familiar. 

 There was a spirit of pluck and manliness about the accept- 

 ance which has never been properly acknowledged either 

 by British shooters or press, and now with a palpable mis. 

 quotation and a misinterpretation it is time to pause for an 

 explanation of some sort. 



Sir Henry Halford seconds the suggestions of the Amer- 

 ican Board for the allowance of wind-gauges on the rear- 

 sigiil of military breech-loading rifles. In this he is correct, 

 for it would be the height of inconsistency for a match to 

 be shot at Wimbledon next year with rigid, antiquated 

 sights, when the army regulations on both sides the Atlantic 

 permitted the use of a shifting sight, As well have a 

 contest with cross-bows in lofty contempt for all late im 

 provemeuts. 



Tub Lsdja.na Non-Export Law.— The Indiana game 

 law forbids the exportation of game killed in that State. 

 The Tollestou Gun Club, composed of gentlemen who reside 

 in Chicago, own a tract of land in Lake county, Indiana. 

 Some of the members have been arrested under the non- 

 export law, for having carried to their homes in Illinois 

 game killed on their grouuds in Indiana. The case will 

 shortly be tried at Valparaiso. The interests involved on 

 either side are such as to render it probable that this case 

 will be carried to the court of last resort, The note export 

 law was enacted as a remedy for the depletion of game by 

 market-hunters who sold their game outside of the stare. 

 As against them the law was much needed ; its working has 

 been satisfactory; and it is, therefore, certainly in the inte- 

 rest of Indiana sportsmen to show thelaw'scoustitutionality. 

 On the other hand, the Illinois sportsmen naturally regard 

 it as a hardship that they cannot bring home the trophies of 

 their skill, shot on their own land. The result of this case 

 will be awaited with interest, for the principles involved 

 are of importance not only to Indiana, but also to Colorado. 

 Connecticut, I)a,kota, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne- 

 braska, counties iu New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin 

 and Wyoming, in all of which non-export game laws obtain. 

 The Tolleston Gun Club case is referred lo in another 

 column. 



Cijmate fob Invalids.— We are in frequent receipt of 

 inquiries from persona who are in search of the climate best 

 suited to their particular needs. As a rule we are compelled 

 to decline giving advice on the subject. Much as it would 

 be a pleasure to direct such inquirers to the object of their 

 search, we are not warranted in assuming the great respon- 

 sibility which attaches to giving advice on the subject. A 

 climate which maybe life to one consumptive will prove 

 death to another. Because one man has found a marvelous 

 cure in the Adirondack*, or in Minnesota, or in Florida, it 

 does not follow that all other persons, though afflicted with 

 a like complaint, will find there a like cure. It is more 

 than folly for invalids to go off into an untried climate with- 

 out first having obtained the advice of a competent physi- 

 cian, who knows both the condition of the climate and more 

 than can he learned by general hearsay of the climate, to 

 which he sends his invalid. Too often is it the case that 

 the departure from home is delayed until the patient is so 

 prostrated that he cannot endure the rough life that he may 

 be compelled to live in the woods. We can cite from per- 

 sonal knowledge scores of just such cases, 



Quail for Montana.— It is proposed by the Montana 

 Game Association to import quail into that Territory. The 

 Legislature has passed a law protecting the birds for five 

 years, at the end of which time it is hoped that the little 

 Eastern favorite may have become a permanent addition to 

 the game supply. 



TEE COXTEVI'LATIVh: i) VNJWrEK. 

 rpHIS time it happened at Belleview, a Pennsylvania 

 ■*- town. The man who proposed to catch fish with 

 dynsfnite was Adam Porsythe, and the victims of his 

 dynamite angling proclivities were his own family. 



From the newspaper reports it appears that a party 

 of miners, who were visiting Forsythe, proposed to go fish- 

 ing. But the old-fashioned method of bob, hook and sinker 

 and one fish at a time they voted altogether too slow. They 

 knew of a much better plan, which was to go dynamiting. 

 The miners had some of the explosiye material with them 

 and used it quite successfully, killing about, five hundred 

 pounds of fish. Some of the people living in the neighbor- 

 hood, who saw this wholesale slaughter of fish, protested 

 against it aud threatened to prosecute the men; but as they 

 were very poor nothing was done. These kind-hearted per- 

 sons may now comfort their souls with the reflection that if 

 they had persisted in their objections to the use of 

 dynamite as "fish bait" they might have averted the calam- 

 ity which followed. For having procured a quantity 

 of the explosive, Forsythe determined to try the sport 

 Himself. The miner Fleming, who sold him the dyna- 

 mite, saw that be was perfectly ignorant of the nature of 

 the explosive, and directed him to thaw it out. Forsythe 

 ecordingly went home, placed the dynamite in the oven to 

 'thaw out," and went off to his work, leaving his wife and 

 children at supper. The dynamite ".thawed," the stove was 

 blown into a million pieces, the house wrecked, the eldest 

 hoy "thrown a distance of twenty feet, where he was found, 

 in a hole in the yard. He was horribly mangled and died 

 about two hours after the occurrence. Mrs. Forsythe was 

 cut aud gashed in a most frightful manner. She had been 

 sitting close to the stove and thirty pieces of iron struck her 

 in different parts of the body. She cannot possibly recover, 

 Robert Forsythe, seven years did, was terribly cut about 

 the head and body, while Willie, the youngest of the boys, 

 escaped with slight cuts in his feet. Poor Forsythe is al- 

 most crazy about the affair, and constantly exclaims that he 

 is to blame for the disaster. He attempted to commit 

 suicide, but was prevented," This is, it must be confessed 

 a melancholy termination of Forsythe's first attempt in the 

 contemplative pastime of dynamiting. 



High explosives are thrown around too promiscuously. 

 There is something lacking iu our law when an ignorant 

 man can be furnished with such a tremendous engine of 

 destruction as this Forsythe carried home to put into his 

 oven. For the awful calamity that followed lie was less to 

 blame than the man who furnished him the infernal "fish 

 bait," The distribution of dynamite ought to be controlled 

 just as that oi' strychnine is restricted. There ought to be 

 a law by which the man who hands over dynamite cartridges 

 forignoraul men to "thaw out" in the stove at home, can 

 be held responsible for the effects of that thawing. In 

 short, we want in America such a law as they have in 

 France, where the sale and use of dynamite are under the 

 control of the authori ties. Then we should have fewer such 

 ghastly fishing exploits as that of the unhappy Forsythe. 



Amateur Photography.— We have received from Mr. 

 Harry Babcock, of San Francisco, Cal., a number of photo- 

 graphs taken by him while on a summer hunting trip in 

 Northern California. That country is rich in scenery of tho 

 grandest description, and the views are most picturesque, 

 Among the number is one of the McCIoud River fish-hatch- 

 ing establishment, the first, photograph of it ever taken. 

 Others are of Mt. Shasta and vicinity, the set, being one of 

 the handsomest collections of amateur photographs ever 

 seen by us, and demonstrating anew the capabilities of this 

 capital addition to the camp outfit. 



Tins Gamf, Seasons. — In response to numerous requesls 

 we shall publish in our next issue the tabulated schedule of 

 the open game and fish seasons printed in our issue of 

 July 20. It will be found of value as a reference at this time 

 when the close of the open seasons is approaching. Friday, 

 Dec. 1, marks the expiration of several of the seasons, as 

 follows: The pinnated grouse season in Illinois, Iowa, 

 Kansas and Minnesota; the ruffed grouse season in Maine 

 and Minnesota; the quail season in Minnesota and Nebraska; 

 the deer season in Massachusetts. Nevada, Michigan, New 

 Hampshire, New York and Utah; the woodcock season in 

 Maine; the wild turkey season in Nebraska, 



Thanksgiving Turkey Shooting is to be prohibited by 

 law in Massachusetts. Thus do the degenerate children of 

 the. present^depart from the ways of the fathers, 



