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j VOL. XXVI.— No. 7. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Songs or Feathers? 



A Railroad to Cooke City. 



The Massachusetts Association. 



The Deer Hounding Bill. 



To the Walled-In Lakes.— xiv. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Dry Hunt. 

 Natural History. 



The Audubon Society. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Antelope Hunting in Dakota. 



A Hunter's Paradise. 



State Game Protectors' Reports. 



A Virginia Game Score. 



Sentiment Against Hounding. 



Massachusetts Association. 



American Rifle Trajectories. 



Club Rules. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Adirondack Fishes. 



The Trout of Sunapee Lake. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Land-Loeked Salmon in N. Y. 



Fishculcure at Blooming Grove 

 Park. 



Short Lobsters. 

 The Kennel. 



The Crystal Palace Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Springfield Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



The Trophy and A. C. A. Dues, 



The Double Centerboard. 



A Struggle to Windward. 

 Yachting. 



Atlantic. 



Yacht Stoves. 



The Philadelphia Tuck-Up. 



The Cruise of the Coot.— xv. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE BEER HOUNDING BILL. 



THE Game Committee of the New York Senate gave a 

 hearing on the bill to repeal the anti-hounding law last 

 Tuesday". A brief report of the meeting is given elsewhere. 



No new arguments were advanced by the advocates of the 

 repeal. They repeated their stock plea that the deer must 

 be hounded to be made shy, so that the still-hunters cannot 

 get them. The real motive of these men being selfishness, 

 they studiously conceal this by pretending that they want 

 only to protect the game. Notwithstanding that their asser- 

 tions of pretended facts have been exposed in these columns 

 as preposterous and intentionally misleading statements, 

 they stick to the "shy" argument on the principle that it is 

 "a good enough Morgan until after election." They back 

 up their side by the most grotescme assertions. For instance, 

 last Tuesday one man stood up and actually told the com- 

 mittee that the unarmed stiil-hunter sometimes went out 

 into the woods, and coming upon a deer, caught it and 

 choked it to death. It is allowable to fight the devil with 

 his own weapons, but with what weapons, pray, can one 

 combat an advocate of deer bounding who talks in that 

 fashion? 



There is one point which all the hounders who spoke last 

 Tuesday studiously ignored. They told about the poor 

 invalid sitting on a log forgetful of his bodily ailments while 

 listening to the enchanting music of the hounds; but they 

 failed to tell what happened when that music suddenly 

 ceased; they drew the curtain before the final act; they tried 

 hard to concentrate sympathetic attention on the poor inva. 

 lid on the log, and to divert it from the deer being butchered 

 in the water. They dare not face the facts. They do not 

 and cannot meet the proved fact that the end of a chase by 

 dogs is the death of the deer — driven into the water and shot 

 at close range, clubbed or drowned. They dodge the proved 

 fact that deer are surely killed in this manner, in localities 

 where they could be taken in no other way. They dodge the 

 fact that hotel keepers like Paul Smith advocate hounding at 

 the instance of and for the benefit of rich city guests, who could 

 get venison in no other way. They dodge the fact that the dogs 

 are employed as a sure thing, i. e., sure to get venison. And 



talk about the unlawful butchery of deer by crust-hunters 

 and the unlawful killing of deer in their yards in winter, and 

 attempt to bamboozle the committee into believing that this is 

 still-hunting. They harp on the terri ble results of j ack-shooting, 

 but studiously avoid the fact that they have expunged the 

 very good anti-jacking clause from their bill, because they 

 hoped thus the more readily to get their hounding clause 

 through, and because they really do not care whether jack- 

 ing is forbidden or not; but are more than glad to make a 

 bargain with the jack-shooters, whereby the latter may have 

 license to get all the deer they can in the first part of the 

 season, provided the hounders can get what are left. In 

 short, it is by one pretense and another, the hollow ness of 

 which is perfectly evident to every fair-minded man who 

 knows anything about the Adiroudacks and deer hunting, 

 that the advocates of the anti-hounding law repeal are mak 

 ing their campaign. 



Another hearing will be given by the committee in the 

 Senate Chamber Tuesday afternoon, March 16, at 3 o'clock. 

 We take this occasion to warn those who are interested in 

 preserving the deer of the Adiroudacks, that unless they 

 take measures to provide incontrovertible evidence to dis. 

 prove the statements of the repealers, which will be made at 

 that meeting, the deer law will be repealed. The clubs and 

 associations which have taken a stand against the repeal, 

 should send representatives to the hearing with such statis- 

 tics and facts as they may command. 



There is abundant sentiment in favor of the present law 

 to defend it, could that sentiment only be expressed to the 

 Committee and the Senate. The advocates of the repeal are 

 working assiduously because they want to have deer hound- 

 ing next season ; they must be met by a like activity unless 

 the people of this State are content to let the case go by 

 default. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION 



THE Boston game market is the "dumping ground" fo r 

 most of the game left on the dealers' hands at the close 

 of the season in other States. The Legislature of the Bay 

 State has for years been under the domination of the market 

 moneyed interests of Boston whenever game legislation has 

 come up. The Massachusetts Fish and Came Protective 

 Association has made repeated attempts to secure more sen- 

 sible and more just laws, but they have been balked every 

 time by the dealers. So we still have the beautiful spectacle 

 of the market men gathering in great stores of game, trade 

 in which is declared to be illicit by some of the States whence 

 it is shipped; and holding this game at such prices as may 

 suit their fancy. Because of the better laws of neighboiing 

 States the Boston men have a monopoly of the trade. They 

 can be extortionate if they choose, for they are not controlled 

 by any competition. They cannot make a pretense that their 

 game supplies benefit anybody except the rich. They can 

 not plead that public good demands the present outrageous 

 law, for the only part of the public now deriving any 

 good from the extended game season is made up of rich 

 gourmets, wlio willingly pay extravagant prices for grouse 

 and venison. 



In the report of a recent meeting of the Association, given 

 elsewhere, it will be seen that the society is persisting in its 

 efforts to secure better laws. The plea that the extraor- 

 dinary privileges now granted are in direct violations of 

 inter-state comity is worthy of consideration; it is not one 

 that will appeal very strongly to the class of customers who 

 now support the game dealers; but if properly presented to 

 the people of the State at large it ought to have some weight, 

 especially when it is demonstrated to the dwellers in the 

 country that along with the game from the West, sold in the 

 protracted open season, are scores and hundreds of ruffed 

 grouse snared in Massachusetts, and quail from their own 

 fields. 



The principle of the Golden Rule is less powerful than 

 that of self-interest. Let the voters of every county in 

 Massachusetts understand that when they make Boston and 

 tributary markets the dumping ground of western game, 

 they put a premium on their own game birds. This is a 

 rule which has been demonstrated over and over again. 



SONGS OR FEATHERS? 



IT was a very pretty lady who sat one June day on the 

 porch of an old gray farmhouse. The hop vines were 

 well on their way up the strings of pack-thread to the low 

 eaves, the lilacs brushed the windows with cones of blossom, 

 and the greensward sloping toward the road was dotted with 

 the golden disks of dandelions in full bloom and the misty 

 bubbles of those that bloomed a week before. She was a 

 kindly-looking lady, too, as well as a pretty one, and one 

 might well guess from the soft and tender expression of her 

 eyes that she would not purposely harm one of the humblest 

 of earth's creatures. A city-bred lady, one might be sure, 

 by the unsunned white and damask of her fair cheek, and 

 the fresh, half -surprised pleasure with which she listened to 

 the merry jingle of the rout of bobolinks in the meadow and 

 watched the orioles building their nests in the branches of a 

 great elm, flashing up with long streamers of fibrous bark 

 and shreds of ravelled yarn trailing behind them to weave 

 the coming babies' cradles of. How much a part of the per- 

 fect summer day these joyous singers and happy workers 

 seemed ! She could no more imagine a June without them 

 than a June without leaves and flowers. 



A year from that day she was sitting there again. The 

 same blue sky bent over her, with the fleecy flocks of clouds 

 drifting across it. The hop vines were crawling toward the 

 eaves again. The scent of the lilacs was in the air, the dan- 

 delions starring the sward with gold, and the silver balloons 

 ready to sail away on the first breeze. But where were the 

 birds? Only two or three bobolinks scattered their song over 

 the wide acres of the meadow, and one oriole, atilt on the 

 swinging limb where the weather-beaten, tattered nest of last 

 year dangled, sang a heartbroken call over and over again for 

 the mate who never came, 



"What can have become of all the birds?" she asked her 

 husband, who came strolling out with his book and cigar. 



"The birds? Ah! Well, my dear, I think I saw one of 

 them on your hat last winter, two or three score of them on 

 the hats of your friends, and ten times as many in the milli- 

 ners' shops. And you miss them? Well, 'you cannot have 

 your cake and eat it.' If you must wear birds' skins in your 

 hats, you will have to do without their singing and their 

 pretty ways, for all that I can see." 

 And he fell to reading and smoking and she to thinking. 



Fire Bugs. — We recently reported the conviction of a 

 Maine incendiary, who had poisoned the cows and fired the 

 barn and house of a game constable. This was his way of 

 taking revenge for prosecution as a deer hounder. State 

 they rant about making deer "shy." They pose as philan- j Game Protector Armstrong reports a similar case of revenge- 

 thropists, spending their time and money in chasing Adiron- ful incendiarism by an Adirondack deer hounder. This is 

 dack deer to make them "shy." They purposely confound ( the class of North Woods residents who demand permission 

 still-hunting with crusting and killing deer in yards. They to hound. 



A RAILROAB TO COOKE CITY. 



TO permit a railroad to enter the Yellowstone Park is to 

 overthrow all the good work that has been done toward 

 protecting that beautiful region. Its lands have been re- 

 served from settlement by private individuals. Are they 

 now to be thrown open to enrich a corporation? We have 

 pointed out the evil results which are sure to follow the 

 building of a railroad in the Park : Settlements within it, the 

 game driven off, the forests burned, the brooks and springs 

 dried up, and the volume of the rivers diminished. 



These are serious, they will be deplorable, calamities. Are 

 we prepared to face them? Certainly not, unless some great 

 public benefit is to be gained in return. There is in the pro- 

 posed Cinnabar and Clark's Fork Railroad no advantage to the 

 public which is at all commensurate with the inevitable evils 

 which will follow its construction. There are other routes, far 

 easier and better, which will give the mine owners of 

 Cooke City and Henderson Mountain a ready way to the 

 Northern Pacific Railroad. 



The route from Cinnabar up the Yellowstone, East Fork 

 and Soda Butte Creek will be a difficult one to build. An 

 enormous amount of rock work will have to be done, for the 

 soft sliding tufa which constitutes a great deal of the canon 

 walls is treacherous material, and is likely at any time to 

 slip down in vast masses and destroy a great deal of com- 

 pleted work. There are also heavy grades on this line, which 

 can only be overcome at great cost. The road can be built, 

 no doubt. In these days of engineering triumphs almost any 

 thing is possible, but it will be a vast undertaking, will be 

 slow and enormously costly. 



On the other side of the range there are three practicable 

 routes from the mines to the Northern Pacific R. R. One of 

 these is down Clark's Fork, another down Clark's Fork for 

 part of the way, then crossing over to Rocky Fork, and 

 down that, while the third is down Stillwater. The first two 

 are long as compared with the third, and in one or two places 

 present heavy grades. That down Stillwater, however, pre. 

 sents such striking advantages that there can be no doubt as 

 to its desirability over all others. With the town of Still- 

 water as its initial point and Henderson Mountain as its ter- 

 minus, the length of this railroad would be only fifty-six 

 miles. There will be on it no very heavy rockwork, and the 



