(Dec. 14. 1888. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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to another, or through a State, of anything which is or may 

 be the subject, of inter-State con 



THE HUNTER AND TRAPPER. 



T N the dusk ami hush of th« woods, 

 -*• Far away froni the hauuts of mou, 

 Xi.w o'er the steep mountain slopes. 



Now deep in some darkling glen • 

 I D '■ '*, and 1 pitch my camp. 



Alone in the wilderness, 

 Where ne'er human voices may ettrse, 



Or human lips may bless. 



My home is a wide, humble place 

 Without facade, or column or dome. 



So sumptuous hall to Invite, 

 No marble, palatial home, 



lied and groin**) lofty roof. 

 No svalli reaffli nflfiol with art. 



By home i 



at base of a rock. 



With the 



wild vines and mosses 



O'er which 



an imperial on',: 



Its shelte 



t- majestic hath throw 



» pure, mc 



rry brook runneth by 



It prattle 



s and talks to me long 



s with perpetual song ; 



And the hark o 

 Aud no bettei 



i free a 



t.ln' 



of a 



It 



inta-i 



at will. 



E forests I plunge 

 Id cliffs of the hill, 

 of the deer, 



of the 



Tti the depths 



And scale rt 

 L follow the tr 



The panther I seek 

 And I dare in his can 



The tusks and the c 

 My iron-tooth'd snap-trapi 



For the beaver, the otter 

 By the she 



Or fast 1: 

 1 know not a sorrow or care, 

 , Remorse, or regret or despair: 

 1 rejoice in the vigor of health, 



And piiie not for honors or wealth. 



Isaac JIcLella: 



Ink, 

 t-friug'd lake 



In several cases this 

 lation of a State, not dire 

 its regulations, bin relatu 

 lies ot citizens, and only 

 the operations of coinm 

 citizens wiiliin its t.erri.o; 



In Ibis case, as has her 

 be killed bv everybody, w 

 h game to become the 

 and at the same lime di 

 Of til ■ same to am- otlle 

 Sec. 8 of Article 1 "of the 

 vid.es that "the Congress 



'gulate commerce 

 eral States, and with I 



eral.ii.ns given herein I think it. is in violatioi 

 ."ision and is, therefore, unconstitutional and 



id down — "the legis- 

 eommien e, rar any of 

 Ids, dnlies and liai iii- 

 nd remotely affecting 

 bligatory force upon 



bW allows wild duck to 

 rithin the season, and thereby allows 

 • Bubj.ecl oi uaffte and commerce, 

 inelly prohibits the transportation 

 •I State, I -it. ncd iii violation of 

 i Federal Constitution, which pro- 

 l shall have power * * * 

 th foreign nations, among the sev- 

 Indian i; ibes?" From liic consid- 

 U h pro 



direction the dogs went, and that's a deer, by George," cries 



some, niic, and I 



stopped, and K 



pound bur-k v.il 



DEER HUNTING IN VIRGINIA. 

 riTH a companion, I set oui Briirhl and early one room- 

 ing in lasl November to drive from my home in Bel- 

 viihre. N, C, ninety miles, to the hill couutrj of Greenville 

 county, Virgin 



w 



projected < 

 thc'Chow 



lit'ul deer 

 cover, ; 



dv to 



spring I 

 shells in 

 panion, to hoi 

 in cveiy dircctii 

 going about nin 

 with head a lilt 

 tanccaway I th 

 and I threw my 

 afterward, as fj 

 ing through tl 



Hunt. Having 

 Hiver, at the Wl 

 issthe road at n 

 ic shell. 



n the 



i- tin 



eat: bi 



11; 



i and had mv gun out of c 

 business. Bidding Steve N— , my corn- 

 horses, I crept into the swamp, peering 

 bra glimpse of the sleek hides After 

 yards from the road, J saw one of the deer 

 > one .side, watching mc. Being somedis- 

 ■lu to get nearer, but the animal started, 

 a to my face and fired. Immediately 

 noke cleared away, 1 saw a deer bontur- 

 .1 at a break-neck puce. 1 followed on 



THE INDIANA NON-EXPORT LAW. 



Cntc.uio, Dec. 5, 1882. 

 Editor Forest and Strmm: 



Since you have lately given prominence to certain prose- 

 tiiiion-. iii the Circuit Court of Lake county, Indiana, of 

 members of the Tollcston Club, of Chicago,' for carrying 

 out of the State same killed by them u; on the club grounds 

 in Indiana, and as the question involved is of interest to 

 sportsmen genera'ly, 1 send you a copy of the opinion lately 

 rendered by_Judge Field, in the case of Judge Knicker- 

 bocker, under which the informations have been quashed in 

 all the cases and the defendants discharged, 



1 am not advised of any oilier decision upon the validity 

 of this particular statute, bin a similar law enacted bv the 

 Legislature of Kansas has been held by the Supreme Court 

 of that State to be unconstitutional upon substantially the 

 grounds stated in this opinion, and ii need hardly be said— 

 at least to the legal membersof our sporting brotherhood— 

 ihat this opinion is fully sustained by the various deeision? 

 of our Federal and State courts on the general subject of 

 the regulation of inter-State commerce. N". 



The following is the opinion as reported in the Lake 

 canity (1ml.) 8tw: 



In this case lie prosecution is based on Sec. 207 of the 

 act concerning i ublic offenses-, which reads as follows: 



"It. shall be unlawful for any raihoa i company, or other 

 conunou carrier, their officers, agents or servants, or any 

 other person or persons, to transport, carry or take beyond 

 iIk liini'- of, this State, or receive for the purpose of trans- 

 ■ lying or Caking beyond the limits of this State 

 un y *" * * wild duck * * * and any such railroad 

 company, express company, or common carrier, tlieir 

 agents, officers or servants, or any other person or persons 

 violating the provisions of this Section, shall be fined in any 

 sum nol more than one hundred c'ollars, nor less than ten 

 dollars for each offense so committed. 



It is charged thai. John C. Knickerbocker on the 2oth of 

 September, '82, unlawfully transported such game from this 

 county to Chicago, Illinois. 



The motion made by defendant to quash the information 

 raises, among other questions, the constitutionality of the 

 foregoing law It will be observed that another provision 

 of the same act makes il unlawful to kill wild duck at any 

 lime "between the 15th of April and the first day of Sep- 

 lemlKT in any year," thereby making it lawful for any per- 

 son to kill ami possess such game during the time not thus 

 prohibited. The unlawful transportations charged being 

 v. itiiiu lie- period in which the law permits the killing of 

 such game, and there being no averment to the contrary, 

 i he pre; umption arises that the ducks were lawfully killed. 

 Thus the question is raised, can the Legislature after em- 

 powering persons to lawfully kdl and possess such game 

 prescribe the disposition of il? In other words, after con- 

 ferring absolute title and possession of such game, can the 

 State then turn about and prohibit the transportation 

 thereof? 



l! uns provision of the law is to be upheld it must be on 

 i in theory thai it was enacted to protect this class of game 

 within the State. But how does the shipment or transport- 

 ation of "dead ducks'' (lawfully' killed) protect this class of 

 game? The question itself suggests, t.ic fallacy of protecting 

 living ducks within our borders by prohibiting the Shipment 

 of dead ones. The only effect would be to confine the traffic 

 in such property lo this State, To absolutely prohibit tin- 

 killing of such came at all times would as an incident thereof 

 prohibit the transportation, and such legislation would 

 doubtless be upheld. So too, legislation prohibiting the 

 transportation of such game during the season made un- 

 lawful 10 kill it, for this would only indirectly and remotely 

 interfere with inter-State commerce. It has been held by 

 repeated decisions that no State can pass a law which will 

 uiroaUy interfere with thefree transportation from one Stat 



thinking 1 had probably wounded, and would get smother 

 shot, but vain hope. The deer, after which 1 was chasing, 

 was"agoner;" and sadly I retraced my steps, wondering 

 what Steve would say wiien 1 told him I bad made a clear 

 miss. Wheuiol.al my very feet, as I passed ihrough a 

 rtei se "gallberrv" thicket, lay the deer I had shot dead, with 

 s.'ven buckshot °tb i ough the head. 1 had been chasing its 

 male, not seeing in the dense thicket thai my shot bad told, 

 Aud .just here! will say that the shell wiib which I shot 

 the deer had been loaded for a squirrel. 2J drams 

 powder, loz. No. 4 shot, I had taken out the No 4 shoi 

 ami put in No. 1 bucks, onlv nine of thein, however. Thus 

 ii will be seen that at a distance ol forty yards, 1 bad killed 

 a fine youug buck with a charge of 2J drams of powder and 

 nine No. 1 buckshot, the shot passing through his h 

 !iit rely Calling to Steve, we soon hod the deer strapped 

 on behind the buggy and jogged on lo Muiii'cesbnro whel'i 

 we left our deer. 



We arrived at our destination kite Satin-da} evening, and 

 Monday morning early were ready for business. Calling 

 his dogs after an early breakfast Mr. Wyche took us to oifi 

 stands, and, with a partiug injunction to "be on our look- 

 out," left us and went in the drive. Very soon the do; 

 had started, but the dm-r. a doe and lawn, ran directly 

 away from us; so we missed getting a shot. The dext day 

 we drove down to Hicksford, where our host introduced 

 I o several as whole-souled, jolly hunters as man ever mi 

 and a grand hunt was at ouc'e organized. On Ibis oceasi 

 I had the pleasure of taking a shot at a Hying deer — a 11 

 doe. She came "full tilt" across an old field with the do 

 in full view, and you know bow a deer can run. She w 

 doing her level best, 1 bad lml a few seconds in which to 

 'do my thinking;" ray gun went up, and as she passed at 

 thirty yards I pulled the trigger, killing her instantly. 

 Twelve of the buckshot out of the fifteen in the gun passed 

 entirely through from one shoulder to the other. Charge, 

 three drams powder, fifteen No. 1 buckshot. Two other 

 very fine deer were killed that day by some of the Hicksford 

 parl'cs. But the grand hunt of the week was reserved for 

 the next day. When after going about three miles out 

 from the village we were placed on our stands and the great 

 Nimrod, Jim Powell, went into the drive with the hounds. 

 Tin ough i be courtesy of our entertainers we were given the 

 choice stands; the noted Willow Oak fell to my lot. 



"VV e had been waiting but a short time when the "music 

 of the hounds" broke upon our ears, bearing directly dc 

 upon us. My gun is at full cock, and 1 am listening for the 

 "thump and bound of the antlercd buck," when, whang, 

 goes a gun to my left. Still the hounds continue in full cry 

 until out of hearing; but, hark! hounds are coming again 

 and my "heart is in my throat," when, bang, bang, bang, 

 go three guns to my left, and soon all is quiet except the 

 toot-toot-toot of the driver's horn. This mea.is, come in, so 

 1 sadly shoulder mv gun and retrace uTv steps up the road, 

 Where the shooting has taken place. Getting my horse 1 

 am riding rapidly along when a sharp, hello I from a little 

 distance in the woods, calls me to a ball, and I turn aside a 

 few rods into the woods where, congregated around some 

 object, stand the gentlemen who were placed upon the un- 

 certain stands. Walking up to them, they make way for 

 me. and there, prone on the ground, lies truly a monarch of 

 the Virginia forest, as noble a buck as I ever beheld, full 

 anilercd. and as sleek and fat as a stall-fed calf. 



"Well!' I exclaim, "who did thai?" 



"Capt. Briggs shot him first." was the reply, "but Mr. 

 Atwill and J\Ir. Cato both shot afterward." 



"Ves." replied Jim Powell, "so they did, but they sbol 

 him running by them, giving them his side, while Capt. 

 Briggs shot square at his breast, and il you can find a shot 

 hole anywhere except iuthe breast, I'll treat." 



And 3"0 il was; I hero u as no sign of bis being hurt except 

 in the front, and the shot was awarded to Capt. Briggs. 



"But who tired Hie first, gim? The one, I mean, when the 

 first pack passed," 



"Oh, that was Briggs too, he's hud all the luek this morn- 

 ing." 

 - "Did he kill?" 



"Don't know." replied ihc Caplaiu , "1 fired full at ; his 

 broadside as he passed me, and think be was bard hit, but 

 he ■.w-oi away likfi the wind with the dog< to full cry, huj 1 

 think they hushed up rather suddenly." 



"Oh! von didn't touch him," from several. 



'•Don't know, but think I did." -aid the Captain. "This 

 old muzzle-loader don't fool me often." 



"Hello! who are those fellows coming down the road, and 

 what have (hey got in their buggy?" 



"Why, that's yctrng look who has a farm over in the 



on after the dbgi 



r one da., mil 



ek the 



aud 

 200 

 No. 

 nile, 

 d he 



i hi 



Miight him. This was 

 ve were not. satisfied, 

 uig Ihc brace of 

 ,ve made an other 

 but we fell that 

 be deer up lo a 



clear spring of 

 m. each hunter 

 id to take home 



darkey's cabin, where there Was a good 

 ,tcr. and there dressed and divided tl 



• jvi'er fully as much venison as hi Qfl 

 with him. 



i n ... xi morning was appointed for us to start on out re 

 turn homeward. Bui before leaving, our kind friend aud 

 liosi. Mr. Waller "Wyche, insisted on our taking stands on 

 Some runways back of his farm, where be would try to give 

 us another shot, as Sieve bad not "burnt, powder" since 

 leaving home. So, going out to the place designated, he 

 put the dogs in. and away they went in an opposite direc- 

 tion; and after remaining on the stand for seven.! hours, a 



young man called 

 come back,'' and "we'd as v 

 iugtohim. 1 paid no fuit'.iei 

 ting ■■' Shot) an I wjas about 

 cla'inalioii from (be young 



caused mc to nun and '■■ 

 swampy branch, and was g 



shoot a deer o;i that trip. 



"Well." saa! Sieve when 1 lold him "how near" 1 bad 

 come lo bagging another deer, "I'm glad of it; you've done 



narked thai the "dogs had 

 go hone/' Standing talk- 

 tention to the chance of get- 

 retrace iin steps when an ex- 

 an, who' had just come up, 

 ash" wciii a tine doe in the 

 : before I could get my gun 

 id so was my last chance to 



well enoug 

 While on ibis 

 iVaicd (o shoot, 

 opposite direotio 

 ll.-'ving no cln 

 for home. Ii In 

 bospilable. clev 

 whom I a sociat 

 fortune favors n 

 crwanl again in 

 brown and gold, 

 fashioned" bunt with bounds and tlr 

 gun, I would recommend Greenville c 

 and should he desiie congenial comps 



taking my luck into consideration." 

 d I. saw a drove of wild turkeys, but 

 deer might thereby lie frightened in an 



g more that day, we started 

 »• lot lo meet a set of more 

 1 hunt', is than those with 



ciMe 



. 1 shall be found v 

 333, when the n 

 who r 



county, "Va., and if 

 iding my way thith- 

 mt on their livery of 

 vish to have an "old- 

 mueli decried shot- 

 inty,Va.,asthe place, 

 •hip and exper- 



I. I would advise him by all means to "scrape' ac- 

 quaintance" with Messrs. Walter Wyche, Ben Wyche. 

 "i.im" Powell, "Billy" Powell and several other gentli men 

 of Ihe village of Hicksford and vicinity. He will find 

 diem til-stelae g..'Utl.'inen in every respect, full of fun, 

 and "ready to hunt at any lime." 



I lind that deer are becoming more abundant in this 

 part of North Carolina than they have been for a long- 

 while. Since returning from Virginia, seven fine deer 

 and four bears have ben killed within a few miles of Bel- 

 videre. A fine doe was seen to cross the road about a mile 

 from this place a week ago. Coon being notified of 

 ibis. I immediately went in pursuit, but having none but 

 young bounds, failed to start her, and on my way home, I 

 bad the inisoilune lo break my gun slock by merely tap- 

 pingii lightly against my horse, proving conclusively that the 

 makers "i' gun-- are ii"i caleful always to put good wood 

 In tie- stocks of tb'ir wares. This was a beautiful stock, 

 but. made directly across grain, and broke as short off as 

 a "pipe slein." with not much more jar than would have 

 been required to break a slate pencil.' 



I fitid quail still quite plenty, but getting wild, as they are 

 being hunted considerably. 



Several men from the North are in this section, break- 

 ing dogs for other parlies at so much per head, and "pot- 

 hunting" for pleasure and profit. I object to "posting" 

 land for the purpose of keeping hunters off. but T think we 

 will be compelled to do so in self-defense, as it is said the 

 aforesaid "potters" no not have a covey so long as a bird 

 lives. The end aad outcome of such hunting is apparent 

 to all. and we intend taking steps to put a stop thereto. 



Wildfowl on the Cnnitnck Sound are said to be unusually 

 :1 many are being killed. I want to take "a 



•ous, and many are being 

 whole day's hunt" soon after quail, and will give you some 

 account of i he outcome. A. F. R. 



Bet.vii,khe, Perquimans county, North Carolina, Deo. 4, 1882. 



EXPERIENCE WITH WILD RICE. 



TN the fall of 1880 I sowed one half bushel of wi d rice in 

 two places in one of the ponds of this town (Plymouth, 

 Me.). It came up thick, but only a, few stalks bore. seed. 

 The water rats desl roved one bed. In 1881. I" sowed five 



In one pond it came up 

 appeared before reaching- 

 re is quile a sprinkling ot 

 ill mud hole on the farm, 

 splendidly. It seems to 

 owing wild on the Sabas- 

 . and some distance 

 1 have no 



bushels, part in each of 



late, and all except a fev 



the surface, in another pond there 



seed stalks. I sowed some in asmal 



in six inches of water; it grew B 



grow best in shoal water. It is gro 



tacook, between Newport aud Deli 



up the outlet of the ponds where I sowci 



doubt but that it is growing in many places in Maine in its 



native state, as but few persons about here know what it is 



when they see it— II. S. T. (Plymouth, Me,, Dec. 4). 



About four yeais ago our club procured some wild rice 

 and sowed it, in the lakes and marshes on our Shooting 

 grounds on the Chariton Hiver. The first, year it came up 

 tolerably well, second year a very little came up, and the 

 third year none at all. It seems to be a failure here Blaek- 

 birils are very numerous here, and I think had something 

 to do with annihilating it, Lei us hear from others. — Bor- 

 der Rttpfian (Macon, Mo., Dee. 5). 



The Ontario government has appropriated X250, at the 

 request of the Fish aud Game Protection Club, of Montreal, 

 for the sowing of wild rice iu the duck-feeding grounds 

 throughout the province. The club adds $100 from its own 

 funds', and will superintend the sowing of the vice. 



Wno Knew .Iok Call.— 1 notice that a contributor men 

 tiohsJOe Call, the athlete of Northern Jfaw York, I had 

 never seen bis name In tore, but remember well how our old 

 neighborhood cooper used to entertain us youngsters with 

 the exploits of Joe Call, whom he knew in bis youth If 

 there is any one living who knows much of this noted 

 strong man, a "gret John JUdd" of his day, it would be well 



WOlth telling ilfFOKEST and Stueam.— Awahsoose. 



