THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S JOURNAL. 



Entered According to Aot of Congress, In the year 1831, by the Forest and Stream Publishing company, In the offloe ot the Librarian ot Congress, at Washington. 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1881 



CONTENTS. 



EditobiAIi : — 



Alexander MoBeley ; Tennessee is Behind the Age : The Old 

 Ked Booster 123 



The Sportsman Toubist :— 



Notes from Lake George ; Adirondack Notes ; Seymour's 

 Island ; A Reminiscence of the War 124 



Natukai, Histob* :— 

 Clogged Feet of a Young Partridge ; Habits of the Alliga- 

 tor ; Do Garter Snakes Eat Fish ? . . 125 



Game Bag and Gos :— 

 A Spring Hunt in Texas ; Wild Tnrkev Calls ; A Badly 

 Soared Man; Are They Monopolies? Wild Bice ; A Wild 

 Buck in Vickaburg ; Notes 126 



Be a and Biveb Fishing :— 

 An Iohthyophagist Comes to Grief ; Fishing Near New Or- 

 leans ; 'Gulf Fish and How to Cook Them ; A Pennsylva- 

 nia Besort ; Fishing at Beaufort ; Notes 129 



Fibuccxtube :— 



Fiaheultural Notes ; Carp in Kentucky 130 



The Kennel : — 

 Nebraska Field Trials ; Pennsylvania Field Trials ; Pennsyl- 

 vania Collie Trials ; Louisiana Field TrialB ; Our London 

 Letter ; Hydrophobia ; Treatment of Pet Sick Dogs ; 

 Notes.: 130 



BiftjE and Trap Shooting :— 



Slaughtering the Clay Pigeons ; The Canadian Wimbledon. 133 

 Yachting and Canoeing : 



Hull Yacht Club ; The Becent Steam Yacht Baco ; Livadia 

 Again ; The Old Wanderer 136 



Answers to Correspondents. 137 



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Superstition Lingers. — A man. in Massachusetts the other 

 day was bitten by a dog and dressed the wound with the 

 hair of the brute that bit hiin. It did not cure him. A 

 week's argument would not convince some people that the 

 flesh of the snake applied to the wound is uot a sure anti- 

 dote for rattlesnake bite. 



The Crbrdmoor Meeting. — The prospects are that, despite 

 the niggardly holding aloof on the part of the State authori- 

 ties, the fall meeling now in progress at Creedmoor will 

 record a fair success. Walnut Hill has sent her best shots 

 to make matters lively for the small bore home guard, 

 while the " woodchuck hunters" from the edge of the Adi- 

 rondack wilderness have come down to see if they can pick 

 up a prize or so from their metropolitan fellows in arms, and 

 if not, at any rate get a point or two on rifle practice. Penn- 

 sylvania sends a team for that State prize, and this only 

 makes the absence of New Jersey and Connecticut the more 

 conspicuous. With a promise of fine weather, there is every 

 indication of top scores, and next week the facts of tbe meet- 

 ing will be fully set forth in cold type and figures that can- 

 not lie in oui columns 



ALEXANDER MOSELEY. 



CHIEF among the employments congenial to old age, 

 Cicero cites the tilling of the soil and the pruning of the 

 vine. The peaceful pursuit of agriculture and the quiet of 

 rural surroundings have ever been counted a solace of de- 

 clining years. Many a man who has striven amid the toil- 

 some scenes of life has, Sir Lancelot-like, found contentment 

 at last in his garden. 



Our cities, the bone and sinew of them, are replenished 

 from the country ; and deep in the heart of the country-born 

 man ever flows the fond love for the scenes of his boyhood. 

 Its current may seem to lie buried and dormant, but when 

 some mighty convulsion comes it is revealed strong and full. 

 King David, sorely wounded, cried out for a drink from the 

 springs of Bethlehem, his childhood's home ; and one of the 

 most pathetic incidents in the long and weary struggle in that 

 darkened room at the White House was when the other day 

 the President begged to be taken back to Mentor, and forget- 

 ting the concerns of office and political life, talked of caring 

 for the old farm. 



Fortunate are they whose life is so ordered that they may 

 retire to rural life ; and thrice happy they who having realized 

 their dream of peaceful years are content 1 



The telegraph brought to us the other day tidings of the 

 deal h of a friend whose life of busy toil and commanding 

 influence had been thus rounded with a period of retirement 

 in a Virginia country home where, with the light cares of his 

 estate, the visits of old friends, and the pursuit of his favorite 

 pastime of angling, the days passed into weeks and the weeks 

 into months and years, until the years were merged at length 

 into that which is beyond. Here then was a man who, re- 

 tired from the world, had gratified his longing for a quiet 

 country life, and whose best eulogy is, that unlike an ancho- 

 rite, he had wrought well, had done his part, and in his re- 

 tirement from active duties neither forgot the world nor was 

 forgotten by it. 



Alexander MoBeley was born in 1 809, and had therefore at the 

 time of hiB death, August 30, 1881, more than filled the three 

 score years and ten allotted to man. For many years the 

 senior editor of the Richmond Whig, he had been for more 

 than half a century a leader of public thought and a moulder 

 of public opinion. Withdrawing at two separate intervals 

 from the active duties of his chosen profession, -he was led in 

 each instance by the vicissitudes of fortune to resume his 

 work, until some eight years ago, health and strength begin- 

 ning to fail, he again yielded to his longing for quiet and 

 seclusion and removed to a country farm, with humorous con- 

 ceit dubbing his abode "The Shanty." One reason which 

 influenced to the selection of this farm in Kent County, was 

 its nearness to Ashing ponds and angluig streams. Mr. 

 Moseley was much devoted to the pursuit of angling, and made 

 many excursions among the streams in the vicinity, He was 

 deeply and intelligently interested in fishculture, having 

 served with success as one of the first Fish Commissioners of 

 his State; and his fondness for angling increased with his 

 years and with the opportunities for gratifying the taste. His 

 last years were spent in this quiet way. at "Tbe Shanty," 

 caring for his farm, writing letters and carving curious pipes 

 for his many friends. Last winter there came from him to 

 the Forest and Stream office, with an article which was 

 published at the time, a box of these fantastic creations of 

 his leisure hours, and one of them lies before us on our table 

 as we write. We shall cherish it with his letters as re- 

 minder of the kindly heart and friendship of Alexander 

 Moseley. 



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General BtrBNsiDE.— The death of General Ambrose E. 

 Burnside on Tuesday morning last at his residence in Bris- 

 tol, B. I., recalls the fact that he was the first President of 

 the National Rifle Association. He held the post but a short 

 time, other duties so engrossing his attention that he could 

 not devote the care to the subject of rifle shooting which he 

 considered should be paid to it. He appreciated earlier per- 

 haps than any other officer of the army the general lack of 

 efficiency in the art of marksmanship among the rank and 

 file of the regular army, and took every occasion to urge a 

 more thorough system of drill and practice in that direction. 

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TENNESSEE IS BEHIND THE AGE. 



THE State of Tennessee has a fish commission composed 

 of good men who have the interests of the State al heart 

 and have done some work at their own personal expense. But 

 they are now powerless because of the lack of funds at their 

 disposal. Why the Legislature ever created a board of com- 

 missioners and then gave them nothing to work with is a co- 

 nundrum which we cannot answer. The fact of their giving 

 the Governor power to appoint the board shows that they 

 realized that something of the kind was needed, but perhaps 

 they thought that somehow their mere appointment would 

 cause the fish food of the State to increase in some manner, 

 without further action. 



Writing at this distance, we are not certain that it is the 

 Legislature which is to blame for this state of affairs ; but 

 that the blame rests somewhere is apparent. It cannot be 

 possible that the law-makers of this State want the benefits 

 of fishculture argued before them at this late day, a course 

 which appears as unnecessary to us as it would be to circu- 

 late tracts among the farmers on the benefits of cultivating 

 their lands. Certainly the State has public wat<-rs which at 

 one time supplied the people with a portion of their food and 

 which can be made to do so again, if properly stocked and 

 protected from destructive modes of fishing and during 

 spawning seasons. But we need not enter into argument on 

 this question— the day for that has passed. The battle has 

 been fought and won, and those who ridiculed fishculture a 

 dozen years ago are silent now in sight of its triumphs. 



We have been moved to write this on account of the des- 

 truction of the carp in some parts of Tennessee by drought, 

 when a small outlay could have saved them, if the Fisn Com. 

 missioners bad possessed the means. These carp were reared 

 in the National carp ponds and sent to Tennessee at the ex- 

 pense of the Government. The Tennessee Commissioners 

 were at some personal expense— not to speak of their time- 

 in distributing the fish, which have since grown rapidly. In 

 one pond in Sumner County there are several thousand of 

 these imported fish dying from the extreme drought, which 

 is drying the pond. There are certain mottoes, such as 

 " saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung," and the one 

 relating to pence and pounds, which might profitably be 

 placed before the eyes of the law-makers of Tennessee. 



THE OLD RED ROOSTER. 



BEFORE the days when tbe rage for Asiatic fowls filled 

 the land with great coarse specimens of domestic fowls 

 which do not mature under two years old and then are stringy 

 and tasteless, there existed the old-fashioned red rooster. A 

 cheerful fowl was he, combining the qualities of gallantry, 

 domesticity, beauty and excellence for the table. He is 

 gone ! Not a specimen is extant in any of our museums. 

 He has disappeared before a desire for improvement, which, 

 so far from being a real benefit, has displaced a good fowl by 

 Mongolian hybrids until not a barnyard has been spared the 

 pollution. 



In place of the gallant fellow whosenot distant kinship to the 

 sprightly and toothsome game fowl gave him a brightness of 

 eye and feather and a hardness of wing, we have awkward, 

 fluffy mongrels whose hoarse attempt to crow is a burlesque 

 on the clarion challenge of the old red. These big-footed 

 interlopers are fibrous when brought to pot andstiingyon 

 the platter, and as for fat, you might as well try to fatten a 

 threshing machine by running oats through it. The young 

 generation of Americans do not even know the bird of which 

 we write, but those of our readers who have left forty or 

 more milestones on the road of life behind them can call 

 him up well. 



The old red rooster never was guilty of the gross ill man- 

 ners of the Asiatic fowl. He never found a worm and ate 

 it himself after calling his harem to first look at it ; but he 

 ever summoned the nearest pullet to the feast and chuckled 

 to see her enjoy it. When a strange dog entered the yard 

 he never fled ignominiously to save his cacass, leaving the 

 females of his family to their fate, as the Cochins and Brah- 

 mas do, but presented a bold front to the enemy and fought 

 for them. 



Alas I poor fellow, you have gone before the imported 

 hordes of chanticleers, as our song birds are destined to dis- 

 appear before the European sparrow, and your place is filled 



