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f VOL. XXV.-No. 1. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Illinois Game Wardens. 



The Missouri Convention. 

 Thk Sportsman Tourist. 



Sport in the Sierras.— n. 



The Bucktail in Florida.— viii. 



From Toluca South. 

 Natural History. 



NighD Hawks Nesting. 



Sitting Grouse. 



The Birds of Michigan. 

 Qaub Bag and Gltn. 



A Htmt Around the Vineyards. 



Two Nights on the Dug-Way, 



Adirondack Deer. 



Bear Dogs. 



Illinois Game Warden Law. 

 Camp-Pire Flickbrings. 

 Ska and River Fishing. 



The Minnesota Lake Pai'te 

 Region. ; 



Large Month and Small-Month. 



I'hiladelphia NtiTes. 



Bass Hlboruation. 

 Fibhcblture. 



How to Distinguisti the Sex of 

 Carp. 



FiSHCULTURE. 



A Glance at Billingsgate. 

 The Kennel. 



Is the A. K. C. to Live? 



Crystal Palace Dog Show. 



The Irish Wolfhound. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 RrffLK AND Trap Shooting. 



Inter-Team Contests. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The N. G. A, 

 Canoeing., 



A. Cruise on the Taunton River. 



Lake Erie Oauoe Meet, July 18-3.5 



The A. C. A. Meet. 

 Yachting. , 



Puritan. 



Beverly Y. C, July -26. 

 Yacht Races on Lake Erie. 

 Bent Timbers and Yacht Cou- 



tiructiou. 

 Lake Ontario and Bay of Qi'iute 

 Greenwich Y July 27. 

 Answebs to (Jobrbspondbnts. 



PITBLISHEKS' DEPARTM\;NT. 



'^'■I will not change the terms of the surrender, General Lee, 

 but I will instruct my officers ivho receive the paroles to allow 

 the men to retain their horses and take them home to tvork 

 their little farms.''''— Gb, ant to Lee, 1865. 



"■I ha ve 'Witnessed sinoe my sickness just lohat I have wished 

 to see ever since the ivar — harmony and good feeling between 

 the sections. I have always contended that if there had been 

 nobody left but the soldiers, loo should have had peace in a 



year. and are the only two that I know of ivho do not 



seem satisfied on the Southern side. We have some on ours 

 ivho failed to accomplish as much as they xoished, or who did 

 not get warmed up to the fight until it was all over, who have 

 not had quite full satisfaction. The great majority, too, of 

 those who did not go into the war have long since grown tired 

 of the long controversy. We may now ivell look fonvard to a 

 perpetual peace at home and a national strength that will 

 screen us against any foreign complication. I believe myself 

 that the war was worth all it cost us, fearful as that was. 

 Since it ivas over I have visited every State in Europe and a 

 number in the East. I know as I did not before the value of 

 our institutions.'''' — G-bant to GtENEral Buckner, 188.5. 



Beneath the mounds at Arlington and on the sunny slopes 

 of Southern hillsides sleep the hosts who fell while the din 

 of battle was yet raging and the issue hung undecided. 

 The transcendent pathos of Lincoln's death was heightened 

 by the untimeliness of the fate which struck him down ere 

 yet h.is great heart could be gladdened by the coming of 

 good will after the strife of North and South. For the 

 great commander of the Union armies it was reserved to 

 witness the healing of sectional wounds and the final recon- 

 ciliation of sister States. Not less notable and worthy of 

 remembrance than that grim determination of Grant in The 

 Wilderness, "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes 

 all summer," and the concession of Grant at Appomattox, 

 "I will instruct my officers ... to allow the men to retain 

 their horses and take them home to work their little farms," 

 are the words of Grant at Mount McGregor, "I have wit- 

 nessed since my sickness just what 1 have wished to see 

 ever since the war— harmony and good feeling between the 

 sections." 



THE ILLINOIS CMME WAUDENS. 

 '"pHE system of game wardenship by ofticers appointed, 

 ^ supported and controlled by the State is making steady 

 advance. First tested iu New England, it was afterward 

 adopted by New York, and last winter the Logislatiu'es of a 

 number of States had the subject brought before them. The 

 Illinois Legislature at its last session passed a bill providing 

 for the appointment of ihree wardens for that State, 



This system has been tested far enough to demonstrate its 

 efficiency, provided only that proper persous are given the 

 wardenship. In this State there have been some capable 

 game protectors, and others "not worth their salt." And 

 where protection has failed to accomplish desired ends it has 

 been almost always the fault of the individual, and not of 

 the system. 



It is very gratifying that Illinois has taken such a decided 

 by advanced position. The Chicago market will afford abund. 

 ant scope for the very best efforts of the game protector 

 charged with watching the dealers there. The unequally 

 yoked sportsman and game dealer association organized a 

 few years ago never accomplished anything in the way of 

 stopping the illegal sale of game ; such an organized body of 

 men never could do anything effective against the dealers 

 in unlawful commodities. The new State officers, if upright 

 and pluckj''; will make a change there. 



THE MISSOURI CONVENTION. 

 I T is highly desirable that the game laws of contiguous 

 ^ States should be, so far as practicable, uniform. In no 

 other way can the many perplexing problems of the sale and 

 exportation of unlawfully captured game be solved. In sev- 

 eral instances efforts have been made to secure such uni. 

 formity. The subject received attention from the National 

 Sportsmen's Association ten years ago, but nothing came of 

 it, because the association paid more attention to trap-shoot- 

 iag; f^an to anything slse, and was too unwieldy to work 

 harmoniously and effecti ve!y . Au utLempt to make the Maine 

 and Massachusetts laws support one another failed at Boston 

 last year, because the market interest there was strong enough 

 to defeat the movement. Some correspondence once passed be- 

 tween the Michigan Sportsmen's Association and the spoils- 

 men of Minnesota and Wisconsin, but this also was without 

 any substantial effect. Another effort iu the same direction 

 has been inaugurated by the Missouri State Sportsmen's As- 

 sociation, which, at its annual meeting at St. Louis, June 2, 

 passed a resolution that "for the purpose of organizing a 

 permanent sportsmen's convention for the object of devisin 

 means by which we can have uniform game and fish laws in 

 all the States tributary to our State, the Missouri State 

 Sportsmen's Association call a convention of all the orgati- 

 ized clubs iu the States of Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, 

 Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Ohio, Mississippi, Alabama, Dakota, Colorado, New 

 Mexico, Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana, to be held in St. 

 Louis, Tuesday, Sept. 39, 1885, each club to have two dele- 

 gates." 



As the St. Louis game market is one of the largest in the 

 world, and draws its supplies from all the surrounding 

 States, it is very appropriate that the proposal to secure 

 uniform laws and their enforcement should have come from 

 St. Louis sportsmen; and it is reasonable to conclude that 

 the citizeus of all the States concerned will send their repre- 

 sentatives to the convention in September 39, to confer for 

 the common benefit. 



If properly managed this movement should prove success- 

 ful where others failed; and the gentlemen who have charge 

 of the arrangements may profitably acquaint themselves 

 with the experience of those who inaugurated the National 

 Sportsmen's Association. If results are to follow the St, 

 Louis convention, two principles must be observed; first to 

 confine the field attempted within such limits that the efforts 

 of the members may be directed to the accomplishment of 

 a well determined definite object, and second, to depend 

 more upon the quiet, earnest work of even a few men who 

 are interested in game and its preservation, than upon the 

 gathering of a laige number of delegates more interested in 

 trap-shooting than anything else. 



Present effort should be confined to securing uniformity 

 of laws in a few contiguous States. The tendency of many 

 societies in this country is at once to become "national.'' 

 The only successful way to make such an association as this 

 national in influence as well as in name, is to begin with a 

 scope adapted to its present power, and then, as its strength 

 increases, to enlarge its sphere until in time it may include 

 all the States, 



The committee intrusted with the arrangements of the 



meeting have issued circulars to gun clubs in all of the States 

 named, and anticipate a very large attendance at the meeting 

 of Sept. 39. Among other attractions offered will be a trap 

 tournament of three or four days duration, and the St. Louis 

 exposition will then be in progress. These entertainments 

 for the attending sportsmen are well enough^ in their way, 

 but not likely to attract the men whose influence and perti- 

 nacity must carry through the movement if it is to succeed. 



As the representatives from the several,Sfcates are to come 

 from sportsmen's clubs, the members of these organizations 

 should see to it that the delegates selected are such as have 

 shown themselves interested in the work of game protection, 

 even though they may not be brilliant shots at the ti-ap. 



The progress of the St. LodSsioaovement will be watched 

 with deep interest, and the wise establishment of a perman- 

 ent organization for the purposes named, will be hailed with 

 satisfaction. ' 



The chairman of the committee is H. C. West, St. Louis, 

 Mo. 



The American Kennel Club, — That there is pressing 

 need for an association to guide and control kennel matters 

 in this country, no one at all conversant with the subject 

 will for a moment deny. Our correspondent, Mr. Wade, 

 whose communication appears in another portion of this 

 issue, seems to have some doubts that the American 

 Kennel Club will accomplish such a mi,ssion. It is to be 

 hoped that these doubts are not well founded, and that the 

 association has before it a long career of usefulness, and 

 that the members of the club will prove equal to the occasion 

 and at their next meeting so perfect their organization and 

 the rules that the most captious critic will be silenced. This 

 is a very easy matter to accomplish. All that is required to 

 place the association upon a firm footing and to make it a, 

 power in the land, is a straightforwAid course of action that 

 shall commend itself to every one as being above all things 

 fair and just to all. There is much of promise for the future 

 of the club in its action in the past in correcting mist'akee 

 that have been made. The greatest drawback to its useful 

 ness has been the lack of deliberation that has characterized 

 its actions, notably in the hasty adoption of its first set of 

 rules, and in the hap-hazard manner in which the com- 

 mittees on standards were appointed. In the future all 

 matters coT5ling within the province of the club should 

 be carefully con.siilered so that they may be wisely decided; 

 and the interests of nO- individual or clique should be 

 suffered to override the rights of others. Then we may 

 look to see the American Kennel Club what it ought to be, 

 second to no association of its kind in the "vv 



Wny Will They Be Silly?— Why is it li . ^ u . - ; 

 newspapers cannot find matter enough to fill their columns 

 without repeating from one to another silly stories of toads; 

 that have lived thousands of years, sheep that kill snakes by 

 breathing upon them, snakes that sing like mocking-birds, 

 and all the other unnatural features of animal life born of 

 the weak-brained scribblers? The singing snake story 

 started with the New York Herald, and is going the rounds 

 of our exchanges. When there are so many facts and 

 principles of animal Ufe that might be published for the 

 instruction and profit of the public, it is a great pity that 

 these lies should have such currency. 



The Indian Troubles.— It was said in these columns 

 the other day that the cause of the threatened Indian out- 

 break would probably be found in the aggressions of the 

 cattle men. Such has proved to be the facts. There is mani- 

 fest at Washington an intention to see justice done in the 

 case, and after the long record of the Government's shilly- 

 shallying policy with boomer invaders of Indian reservations, 

 a different policy will be welcome. 



The Ballast Island Canoe ]VJ[:|j|T gave most gratifying 

 evidence of the growth of the canoeing interest in the West. 

 The formation of a Western association was accomplished, 

 and this will doubtless prove a useful jin^influential body. 

 If the Western and the American associatfons unite in some 

 way, as we hope they will, the combined organization will 

 be quite unparalleled in size and strength by any amateur 

 sport association in the country. 



Kill Your Fish When C aught.— It is humane. The 

 fish are better eating. If the fish are not big enough to kill 

 then throw them back into the water and give them a chance 

 to grow. Remember that all fishing is not to cease when 

 you yourself get through. 



Index to Volume XXIV.— With this number is pub' 

 lished the index to Volume XXIV. 



