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slaughtered by one gang. The hides of deer killed in the 
spring bring a few cents more per pound, and men there 
are who would kill a doe and suckling fawn for the 
smallest price. 
These facts are well known among the manly guides of 
St. Lawrence County, but they, in their lonely lives, do 
not wish to incur personal enmity of a savage character by 
informing or prosecuting, deeply as their hunting is thus 
injured. A strong, organized power is needed, backed by 
honest men, furnished with means, and aided by fair and 
fearless legislation. They must not threaten, but punish; 
not compromise but enforce full penalties, and not only do 
defense of game in the woodland, but ou the tables of 
epicures, permitting no law of hospitality to excuse defiance 
to the laws of nature. 
The movement needs the aid of all, and if a new organi¬ 
zation will rally a class of influential men who arc not 
tempted out by the attractions held out by associations now 
existing, no one should object to an additional one, that 
men of different tastes may reach one end and work out 
one common cause for mutual benefit. 
Your correspondent is confident that a new organization 
will be useful, and not diminish the value of any. One 
that will bring from retirement men of great scientific 
skill, naturalists and close observers; men who have ad¬ 
vanced the knowledge of the times and seasons of game, 
and those who have done such infinite service in multiply¬ 
ing our fish so wonderfully. Those, too, will respond, 
who, in the interests of manufactures and navigation, feel 
the importance of forest fed streams and renewed supplies 
of timber, and the intelligent farmers, who are more than 
ever ready to influence legislation favoring forest culture. 
Let various forms of appeal get to all classes, and there 
will be but litttle time before new interests are awakened 
and new influences gained. 
The movement deserves success, and will win it, and few 
questions will claim more general interest than those that 
will develop in Field and Forest law. 
Yours truly, Woods. 
“L. W. L.” writes from Cazenovia to the Syracuse 
Courier warmly advocating the promotion of a new Game 
Protective Society in this State, “not rival nor in any way 
antagonistic to any other society, but one that will hold 
meetings for the one single purpose of learning how best to 
promote nature’s free gift of fish and game.” He says:— 
“Such an association is the American Fish Culturists’ 
Association. Their meetings are made of infinite interest 
by the presence of men from all parts of the Union, and 
from the Canadas, and no lack of enjoyment is felt that 
trout or grayling are not brought in tanks from Michigan, 
and fastened on to hooks, leaving the fisherman to show 
his skill or lack of it- by landing or losing the fish thus 
placed at his command without any exercise on his part of 
woodcraft, or courage or endurance.” 
In reply to this letter another correspondent in same 
paper endoises the views expressed in the following 
words:— * 
“It embodies sentiments that every true sportsman will 
appreciate, and I trust an army of men whose ideas are 
fully up to his, will assemble in Hew York upon the call 
of the ‘Fish Culturists’ Association,’ and form an organ¬ 
ization.” 
Our Missouri correspondent supplements his letter of 
last week with the following note:— 
Hannibal, Mo., July 18th. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
In my letter of last week respecting National Convention, 
I wished to be understood to say that I believe it would 
have been more satisfactory to the sportsmen of the 
country had the New York State Association indorsed or 
adoptecl the call issued by the New York City Association, 
as that call leaves the date and place of meeting to be dis¬ 
cussed and decided upon by the sportsmen at large, and 
expresses a willingness to be governed by the will of the 
majority, and does not , as is the case with the State Asso¬ 
ciation, assume to name the time and place. I would be 
much pleased to see success attend the effort, but must 
confess that I see little hope that the State call will meet 
with success, especially as there seems to be a want of 
harmony existing in regard to it between the sportsmen of 
the State in which the call was made. 
The sportsmen of the west are not so well organized as 
those of New York, and require more time to prepare for a 
meeting, on the action of which so much may depend, and 
it would be folly for a few sportsmen from various parts of 
a State to attend such a convention without instructions 
and without conference together, so as to insure concert of 
action. G. W. D. 
Professor Huxley—Will He Come? —The death of 
Agassiz left avoid which is certainly hard to fill. The trite 
expression used in regard to monarchies or their represen¬ 
tatives (more true theoretically than practically), that “the 
king is dead—long live the king,” hardly applies to those 
who govern the realms of science. Few men in this world 
could assume the position which Agassiz so well occupied. 
We see it noised about in this country (we are inclined to 
think without much authority) that Professor Huxley is 
likely to be the successor of Agassiz at Harvard. A reflec¬ 
tion of this news comes from the other side. Nature asks, 
“Are the English universities so poor in money that they 
can or must allow Professor Huxley to go to America in 
order to find leisure for work? It would require nothing 
but the will for either Oxford or Cambridge to offer Hux¬ 
ley two or three thousand a year without any way suffer¬ 
ing from it.” 
Without being in the least desirous of beggaring Eng¬ 
land of one of its richest prizes, we must say that we would 
only be too glad if we could have the borrowing of Pro¬ 
fessor Huxley for a limited period. Professor Tyndall’s 
visit to this country did something more than simply give 
our people an idea of what careful study meant—it im¬ 
pressed on them the necessity of securing among us some 
of the leading minds of the world and freeing them from 
the pedagogic trammels of teaching, to allow them, with 
ample means at their disposal, to work at their leisure in 
the more hidden mines of scientific wealth. 
Flattering, then, as maybe even the rumor that Mr. Hux¬ 
ley is to come to us, we are inclined to think that our hope is 
simply the father of the thought; but what we have to 
•add is that no man in this world is fitter to follow in the 
footsteps of Agassiz than is Huxley. 
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The Noank Naiad. —At last the crowning glory of our 
collection has come to hand. The Comanche scalp may 
shake his gory locks in vain, the aboriginal skeleton may 
rattle his bones unheeded, the fin of the Megalops, the 
sword of the sword fish, the curious antlers, the hyperbo¬ 
rean snow shoes, the pelts and skins of strange animals, 
which decorate our halls, have now, figuratively, had their 
day, for the Noank mermaid (vulgaris); or Gullops Pisecoen- 
sis (scientific), has eclipsed and thrown them in the shade. 
This wonderful ichtliyoglical specimen, which it took the 
entire corps of the United States Fish Commissioners at 
Noank to obtain, and which was not finally captured until 
the steamer “Bluelight,” with all steam up, was hitched to 
the line, has arrived in New York. As it is against scien¬ 
tific ethics for the finder to name any newly discovered fish 
or comet after himself, we fully appreciate the courtesy 
which delegates to us giving a title to this marvellous 
Noank fish. After mature deliberation we have christened 
it the “Noank Naiad.” Should we ever drop the pen, and 
take to other realms of usefulness, as, for instance, that of 
impresario of a travelling show, the Noank Naiad will 
be our great card. Great minds must have their relaxations 
at times, and a little bit of a lark, or a funny fish, when 
prepared by the Noank party, is fully appreciated by the 
Forest and Stream. The specimen sent is wonderfully 
attractive, and no less than fifty people have already in¬ 
quired about its name, some of them leading fish cultur¬ 
ists, and we have been asked whether we thought “eggs 
could be procured for propagation in fish ponds, as the fish 
would be so pretty.” 
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Interesting to Aldermen.—A very reliable corres¬ 
pondent at Warrington, Escambia County, Florida, (an 
officer at the Pensacola Navy Yard,) sends us clippings 
from the local papers relating to the capture of a monster 
sea-turtle outside the bar. We quote from the Pensacola 
j Republican of 27th June:— 
“Ou Thursday, as the steam tug C. C. Keyser was com¬ 
ing up, Captain Fauria discovered a battle progressing be¬ 
tween an immense turtle and three or four sharks. Capt. 
F., with his crew, took a hand in, and effected the capture 
of the turtle and brought it to this city. His turtleship 
measured 6 feet 6 inches in length; 6 feet 7 inches from tip 
to tip of flippers, and 8 feet 4 inches across the breast. Its 
weight was twelve hundred pounds.'” 
Our correspondent remarks:—“I had not the,opportunity 
of seeing him, but a boatman friend of mine assured me 
that he would weigh as much as represented, and an ex¬ 
perienced fisherman, captain and owner of a fishing smack, 
told me that he has seen them lying asleep upon the water 
of size sufficient to weigh a ton. It was what the fisher¬ 
men call a “ridge back,” from rows of spiky protuberances 
fore and aft its back. The boatman, who saw him carried 
to Pensacola, homorously informed me that a prominent 
mill-owner in the city had bought the back shell to lighter 
off lumber from his mill to the shipping in the bay.” 
The Indian War. —We are indebted to Captain Sander¬ 
son, Fort Sill, Indian Territory, for large photographs of 
Kiowa, Comanche and Witcliita Indian girls, in full pan¬ 
oply of paint, blankets and natural adornment. Our at¬ 
tention is called to the marked difference between the 
abashed, half-friglitened look and simple dress of the wild 
Comanches, and the more than gross belongings of the 
Witchitas, who have become depraved by contact with 
civilized white men. 
The Captain also sends us a series of articles upon the 
domestic and roving life of the Comanches, the first of 
which we shall publish at earliest convenience. 
Through the same correspondent, whose letter is dated 
July 11th, we gather the following items of interest con¬ 
cerning the Indian war now rapidly developing, it is feared, 
to formidable proportions:— 
“These Comanche letters referred to above, may have more 
interest now than at any other time, for my friends are 
off on the war path in earnest. A regular confederation 
has been entered into between Comanches, Kiowas and 
Cheyennes, and probably some Osages. Already they have 
killed some twelve or fifteen people near the Reservation 
and a painful rumor now comes of a wdiole settlement on 
Medicine Lodge Creek, of thirty-one men, women and 
children being massacred, it needs confirmation, and we 
all hope may prove untrue; still there is no doubt of a gen¬ 
eral Indian war on the part of these Indians, the Arra- 
pahoes being the only large tribe not disaffected as yet, 
though an unwise course might send them also. 
Of the Chiefs mentioned in my letter, Tosa-weeth, Essa- 
habet, Assa-to-yet, Horse Back, and Quirty Quip are the 
only ones here and friendly, and the most of Horse Back’s 
and Quip’s followers have joined in the war. It is a sad state 
of affairs, without the shadow of an excuse, and is the 
natural result of a totally inefficient and ignorant treatment 
of a subject that is a shame and disgrace to our people,” 
Shoe Packs and Moccasins. —One of our advertisers 
sends us the following appreciative testimony of the value 
of our journal as an advertising medium. We acknowl¬ 
edge the courtesy conveyed in his note, and also the receipt 
of the shoe packs, both of which, we are pleased to say, fit 
us exactly. The shoe pack No. 2, is not to our liking, 
however. It is merely a waterproof brogan or laced boot, 
whose utility would be confined to slushy or muddy roads, 
or marsh, where the foot did not sink deeper than the in¬ 
step. For ordinary use we prefer an ordinary laced boot. 
Mr. Good has two other varieties, however, either of which 
are vastly preferable and are modeled from the Canadian 
shoe pack; they are made with either full tops or half tops, 
and have a pliable waterproof foot, without laces, easy to 
wear and much like a leather stocking. With a broad sole 
of one thickness of sole leather, to protect the bottom of 
the feet on stony or stubby ground, and to ensure dura¬ 
bility, we should prefer them to the genuine beef skin of 
of the Kanucks:— 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
After a much longer delay than I anticipated I send you to-day by ex¬ 
press a pair of the No. 2 Sportsmen’s shoes, of which I beg your accept¬ 
ance, and hope they will prove satisfactory. The delay has been caused 
partly by the excellence of your paper as an advertising medium, having 
received orders from nearly every State of the Union faster than I antic 
pated or was prepared for. 
Allow me to say I am very much pleased with the Forest and Stream 
and consider it indispensable to every sportsman. Frank Good. 
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[from our special correspondent.] 
T HE latest excitement has been contributed to the sen. 
sation-loving public by the fertile pen of Mr. G. A. 
Sala, who, as special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, 
is ever on the watch for the opportunity of making a suc¬ 
cessful hit, which may afterwards prove the basis of two 
or three lucid leaders. Wandering about the “black 
country” in the Staffordshire districts, he got into the 
company of some of the miners and pitmen, who turn 
their high wages, obtained by periodical strikes, into those 
channels of pleasure which end in coarse brutality. The 
scene of action was a coal cellar far from the cognisance 
of the lads in blue, who might have put in a disagreeable 
appearance, and on this occasion the piece de resistance of 
the evening was a fight between a man and a bull dog. 
There is, however, nothing new under the sun, and al¬ 
though the spectators probably thought they were wit¬ 
nessing something entirely fresh, yet the same thing was 
done by the notorious Jack Myton, who used to drive his 
tandems, cart and all, over turnpike gates at least fifty 
years ago. There was also the negro, who used to wrap a 
coat round his arm and present it to the most ferocious 
dogs, and when they had seized it was accustomed to grip 
their noses so savagely between his teeth, that they were 
often ready to beat a retreat when he released them. 
Taking up the thread of the discourse, we have also a 
monkey, who, when matched against the fiercest of the 
canine species, armed only with a ruler, used to vault 
lightly on to their backs, and methodically proceed to 
whack them heavily over the head till life was extinct 
Of course, the “D. T .,” as the paper is called, enlarges on 
the inhumanity of the proceedings, for the man and dog 
were both chained to the ring, and the battle was not of 
the milk-and-water order. But, joking apart, though the 
man did beat the dog off with his fists, it might have been 
a serious matter. Perhaps there is some truth in the story 
of the dutiful son, who, when the bulldog pug seized his 
ancient parent by the nose, cried out excitedly : “You 
maun’a pull the poop off, father; let ’un taste bluid, ’t will 
be the makin’ on hm.” 
The Manchester dog show, though not of the grand 
dimensions which the Crystal Palace boasted, was a very 
good one as far as quality went, and the north country 
men excel in terriers, the black and tans with cut ears and 
whip tails being about the best which England could pro¬ 
duce. Unfortunately the Lancashire people do not think 
anything of tampering with, or as a more slangy parlance 
elegantly phrases it, “ faking” their dogs, but in order to 
make tan markings appear more bright, or (in the fox- 
terrier class) the ears to drop more neatly, without the 
least compunction, though it amounts to a direct fraud, 
they convert with caustic a pink nose into a black one, or 
file down teeth, and rosin dog’s sterns. Mr. Price, who 
judged the toys, was of course scarcely on the look out for 
these malpractices, but immediately after the judging no less 
than three of the prize winners were disqualified, for being 
painted, the proper test having been applied by a veterina¬ 
ry surgeon. A new feature in the day’s entertainment was 
the lecture given by Mr. Fleming on Hydrophobia, many 
owners and breeders of celebrated prize dogs occupying 
the platform. Mr. Fleming has written a book on the 
disease, pronounced by the Field to be the best published, 
but on this occasion I failed to detect any large amount of 
originality in his discourse, and indeed he seemed to me to 
advocate precisely the same precautions when bitten as I 
myself advised in a late article in this paper. A reward of 
£500 has been offered for the best essay on the subject, but 
the conditions of the competition are not yet forthcoming. 
The Wimbledon meeting has had some hot weather to 
contend against, but that is better- than rain. The Lords 
and Commons match was won by the hitter, the condi¬ 
tions being 15 shots at 500 yards. Five men on each side. 
The Lords were: Marquis of Lome, 65; Earl Walde- 
grave, 63; Earl Ducie, 57; Earl Grey, 36; Lord Gifford, V* 
C., 40; the total score being 261. The Commons included 
Hon. R. Plunkett, 69; Mr. D. Fordyce, 69; Mr. Malcolm, 65 ; 
