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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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MASSACHUSETTS GAME LAW. 



CHAPTER 276. An act for the better preservation of 

 birds and game. 

 Section L Whoever takes or kills a pinnated grouse at any time, 

 or a woodcock between the first day of January and the first day of 

 August, or a ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, between the 

 first day of January and the first day of October, or a quail between 

 the first day of January and the fifteenth day of October, or a wood 

 or summer duck, black duck or teal, or any of the so-called duck 

 species, between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of Sep- 

 tember, shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars for every bird 

 bo taken or killed. 



Sec. 2. Whoever takes or kills a plover, snipe, sandpiper, rail, or 

 any of the so-c died shore, marsh ot beach birds, between the first 

 day of May and the fifteenth day of July, or a wild or passenger 

 pigeon, or a gull, or a tern, between the first day of May and the first 

 day of October, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars for every 

 bird so taken or killed. 



Sec 3. Whoever buys, sells or has in possession any of the birds 

 or animals named in this act and protected thereby, during the time 

 within which the taking or killing thereof is prohibited, whenever 

 or wherever the aforesaid birds may have been taken or killed, shall 

 he punished by a fine of twenty dollars for the birds protected by 

 section one. and ten dollars for the birds protected by sections two 

 and four : provided, however, that any person, firm or corporation 

 dealing in game may buy, sell or have in possession quail from the 

 fllteenth day of October to the flint day of May, and pinnated grouse, 

 wild pigeons and any of the 60-called shore, marsh or beach birds, or 

 of the so-called duck species, at any season, if not taken or killed in 

 this Commonwealth contrary to the provisions of this act. 



Sec. i. Whoever takes or kills any wild or undomesticated bird 

 not named in sections one and two, except English sparrows, crow 

 blackbirds, crows, jays, birds of prey, wild geese and such fresh- 

 water and sea fowl as are not named in sections one and two. or wil- 

 fully destroys, disturbs or takes a nest or egprs of any wild or undo- 

 mestlcated birds, except of the birds herein exempt from protection, 

 shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars: provided, that any person 

 above the age of twenty-one years, having a certificate from the game 

 commissioners, or from the president of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, to the effect that such person is engaged in the 

 scientific Btudy of ornithology or collecting in the interest of a scien- 

 tific institution, may take the nest and eggs of, or at any season take 

 or kill, any undomesticated bird, except woodcock, ruffed grouse and 

 quail; but nothing therein contaiued shall be construed to authorize 

 any person to enter upon private grounds without the consent of the 

 owner thereof for the purpose of taking nests or eggs or killing birds; 

 and provided, further, that the game commissioners and the presi- 

 dent of the Boston Society of Natural flistory may at any time revoke 

 any certificate they have, respectively issued. 



Sec. 5. Whoever takes or kills a gray squirrel, hare or rabbit, 

 between the first day of March and the first day of September, or 

 within said time buys, sells, or offers for sale any of said animals, 

 shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars. 



Sec. 6. Whoever takes or kills a game bird or water fowl, hare or 

 rabbit, by means of a trap, net or snare, or by the use of a ferret; and 

 whoever, for the purpose of taking or killing a game bird, water 

 fowl, hare or rabbit, constructs or sets any traps, snare or net, or 

 uses a ferret; and whoever shoots at or kifls a wild fowl or any of 

 the so-called shore, marsh or beach birds, with or by the use of a 

 swivel, or pivot gun. or by the use of a torch, jack or artificial light, 

 or pursues any wild fowl with or by aid of a sailboat or steam- 

 launch, shall bo punished by the One of twenty dollars. 



Sec. 7. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall be game com- 

 missioners also; and their authority, personal and by deputy, shall 

 extend to the protection and preservation of birds and animals in 

 like manner as to fish. 



Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of every officer qualified to sei-ve crim- 

 inal processes, to arrest without warrant any person whom they 

 shall find taking or killing, or who has in possession birds or animals 

 contrary to the provisions of this net; provided, however, that per- 

 sons engaged in the business of regularly dealing in the buying and 

 sellingol'game as an article of commcrcu, shall not be arrested with- 

 out warrant for having in possession or selliug game at their usual 

 place of business. Any officer who neglects or refuses to enforce 

 the provision hei-ein contained shall be punished by fine not exceed- 

 ing twenty dollars. 



Sec. 9. All lines accruing under this act shall be paid one half to 

 the complainant and oue half to the city or town in which the 

 offense is committed. 



Sec, 10. Whoever takes, carries, sends or transports any of the 

 birds or animals protected herein, out of this Commonwealth, the 

 said birds or animals having been illegally taken or killed within 

 this State, shall be punished by fine of twenty dollars. 



Sec. 11. Uhapter ninety-two of the Public Statutes, chapter thirty- 

 six ot the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and all 

 acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 

 Approved June 10, 1886. 



Abolish Spring Shooting-.— The New Albany, Ind., 

 Daily Ledger remarks: "Forest and Stream is paying a 

 good deal of attention to the subject of spring wildfowl and 

 bird shooting. Sportsmen will indorse this old and reliable 

 sportsman's paper in its efforts to stop the merciless slaughter 

 of birds in the spring of the year. Forest and Stream de- 

 votes its attention to encouraging State legislation against 

 the nefarious destruction and says that Congress has no 

 authority on the subject. It may be right in this, but that 

 is a question. If Congress would pass such an act pub- 

 lic sentiment would sustain 'it and the courts would in all 

 probability uphold it. It is worth the trial at all events. It 

 would take a long time to get the necessary laws passed by 

 all the States, while a bill could be put through Congress in 

 a few days. Every man who loves the rod and gun and the 

 buoyant health and genuine sport they afford, will lend his 

 aid to any intelligent effort toward protecting fish and game. 



Old Time Arms.— The sale of the B. Homer Dixon cabi- 

 net of arms and armor which was held in this city last week 

 included long-handled weapons, maces, martels, battle axes, 

 crossbows, guns, pistols, locks, powder horns, spanners, 

 bayonets, and miscellaneous objects. A wheel-lock pistol 

 of 1575, bearing several engravings, including^tbree coronets, 

 sold for $310. A wheel-lock patronel gun of 1600 was sold 

 for $91, while a wheel-lock musket of the sixteenth century 

 brought $51. A match lock caliver with a beautifully inlaid 

 stock, was knocked down at $115, while a match-lock mus- 

 ket of 1600 sold for $55. A military flail, or holy water 

 sprinkler, with a chain and a spiked ball attached, brought 

 $58. B 



Mississippi.— Huntington, Miss., June 8.— We have the 

 finest prospect for quail the coming fall it has ever been my 

 lot to chronicle. This place is situated on a very high bank 

 of the Mississippi, and nas been exempt from overflow since 

 1882. "We had an abundance of the feathery tribe last fall, 

 and but few hunters, owing to a scarcity of good dogs. One 

 can see the quail in every direction ; while passing through 

 the fields it is nothing uncommon to see a dozen males 

 together. The females are just now bringing out their 

 young. The forests are full of squirrels. It is nothing un- 

 common to see a huntsman returning with two or three 

 dozen after a half day's hunt. Fishing has not been good 

 this spring owing to the water being high so long, keeping 

 the lakes and bayous filled.— L. 



Hints in Case of Accident.— Brooks ville, Fla.— Two 

 deer hunters, Messrs. Willie T. and Walker, had nearly 

 reached home on their return from a recent hunt, when 

 young Walker rode up on the left side of Willie T. with the 

 remark, "Let me see your gun." The gun was across young 

 Tucker's saddle, the muzzle pointing toward Walker, who 

 caught it by the muzzle with his right hand and pulled it 

 across the saddle pointed toward his left arm, two inches 

 from the shoulder, the arm being bowed in the act of reining 

 up his horse. By some means the hammer of the right hand 

 barrel caught in the pommel of the saddle and fired the entire 



contents (twenty-one small buckshot) into his arm, shooting 

 it almost entirely off and severing the main arteries. Young 

 Tucker very successfully corded the arm and begged Walker 

 to remain where he was very quietly, till he could go for 

 assistance, but this he declined to do, fearing to be left 

 alone. He mounted and dismounted three times on his way 

 home, which loosened the cord and caused him to lose a 

 large quantity of blood, from which he died seven hours 

 after. Now a bit of advice : Should a companion get shot 

 in the arm or leg, do not be afraid to open the wound (it will 

 not cause him the least pain), but go right into it, strip the 

 clothing from around it at once, and possibly you can see 

 the artery, and tie it up. If not, by pressing your thumb 

 about on the limb you can stop the flow of blood, and then 

 put a small pebble in place of your thumb, tie your handker- 

 chief around over the pebble, insert a small stick or pocket 

 knife and twist till the flow of blood has ceased entirely. 

 Many men have lost their lives from not having a proper 

 knowledge of such things. — Sheephead. 



High Ballistics. — Editor Forest and Stream: If a rifle 

 were carried to a great height, say 20,000 feet above the 

 earth's surface, and discharged earthward, the ball would 

 owe nothing of its initial velocity to gravitation and would 

 decrease in speed with the expenditure of the propelling 

 force, until it reached a point at which its velocity would be 

 precisely what it would have acquired in the same distance 

 had it been dropped from the hand. From that point it 

 would be subject to the force of gravitation and increase in 

 velocity until it touched the surface. Its terminal speed 

 would be the same as that of a similar ball dropped from the 

 hand (provided the height were sufficient for the exhaustion 

 of the propelling force) but in consequence of its higher 

 iuitial velocity it would reach the earth sooner. — Archi- 

 medes. 



! ! ! — Wm. Snider, of Sugar Grove, O., had taken down an 

 old shotgun with the intention of going squirreling, and 

 blew in the muzzle, holding the hammer back with his foot 

 to see if it was loaded. His foot slipped off and ???!!! 



Illinois Prairie Chickens. — Ought the season for pin- 

 nated grouse in Illinois to open Sept. 15, instead of Aug. 15, 

 as at present? 



Bears. — The Forest and Stream's grizzlies at Centra 

 Park receive daily through the month of June. 



Axlen's bow-facing oars can be attached to any boat in 5 minutes. 

 Try them. Little catalogue free. Fred A. Allen, Monmouth, 111.— Adv. 



"That reminds me." 

 184. 



THE "foxing" incident of Mr. Seton's deer hounding ex- 

 perience, as given in your issue of June 3, reminds me 

 of something of the same sort in one of our own excursions. 



Several years ago, trout fishing with a friend on a small 

 stream which ran through rather thick forest, we struck the 

 stream about two miles from its entrance into a millpond, 

 intending to fish down to the pond. It was arranged that 

 my friend should commence fishing where we struck the 

 stream and fish down. I was to go down about a mile and 

 commence to fish, and was to place a noticeable stick mid- 

 stream so that he could leave off fishing where I started and 

 follow down stream Until he overtook me. I marked my 

 starting place as agreed, and carefully fished down for about 

 half a mile. Not getting very much fishing, I gave ud and 

 concluded to wait for my friend to come along. After wait- 

 ing some time I hallowed in the direction as loud as I could 

 for several times. Getting no reply and feeling tired and 

 sleepy, I concluded I would lie down by the side of a big 

 maple with the root of the tree for my pillow, and have a 

 sleep until he came up. I stood my fishing rod up against 

 the same tree on the opposite side, so my friend would be 

 sure to see it if he did not see me. When my friend came 

 along he saw my rod standing up by the tree but did not see 

 me. He, thinking I had gone out in the woods for something 

 and had left my rod there as a signal for him to stop, he sat 

 down on a log not over ten feet from me, lighted his pipe, 

 and went to reading a book he had with him, the maple tree 

 being between us. After a while I awoke, sat up on the 

 ground, and looking up stream for my friend, wondering 

 what had become of him. I again shouted a tremendous 

 shout— his name— up stream. My friend dropped his book, 

 his pipe fell out of his mouth, and he looked at me as if I 

 was a ghost just risen out of the earth. I was also frightened 

 to see him so close to me and hear him speak so unexpectedly. 

 A little explanation on both sides reconciled each of us, and 

 we left for our buggy. H. 

 Port Rowan, Ont. 



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THE PRESIDENT AS AN ANGLER. 



ALOCKPORT, New York, correspondent, who was a 

 schoolmate of President Cleveland, writes us that the 

 latter's angling proclivities were developed at an early age. 

 The published report of Mr. Cleveland's recent angling trip 

 to the preserved waters of Fish Commissioner Delawder, 

 near Deer Park, has called out the following reminiscence, 

 related to a correspondent of the New York Times, by Mr. 

 Charles B. Andrews, Superintendent of State Buildings in 

 Albany : 



"Half a dozen of us floated down the river from Buffalo 

 one day," said he, "fishing for bass. Cleveland was in the 

 party. The water was so clear that we could see the fish 

 twenty feet below us on the bottom, and we were having 

 fine sport pulling them in with our hand lines. Somebody 

 suggested that we drift down Grand Island and eat our din- 

 ner on the grass. Before we finished our meal we began to 

 discuss the organization of a permanent fishing club. We 

 agreed upon it then and there. The membership was to be 

 limited to twenty-five and every other week we were to have 

 a fishing trip down the river and a dinner. We became the 

 'Jolly Reefers,' and by that name we were known around 

 town. The most of us were married men. Our wives saw 

 much to criticise in our name, It suggested to them such 



an extravagant picture of sociability, especially when they 

 saw it in cold type, that we could not resist their appeals to 

 have it changed. Grovers's uncle, Lewis F. Allen, owned 

 a pretty little island near the Canadian side of the river, and 

 Grover persuaded him to sell it to us, It contained about 

 40 acres of land and was one of the prettiest spots along the 

 river. We bought it for about $4,000 and then formally 

 organized the Beaver Island Fishing Club, of which I was 

 elected president. The other charter members of the club 

 were Grover Cleveland, Robert L. Hayes, now Auditor of 

 the United States Express Company in New York; Joseph 

 Fairchild, long the Register in Bankruptcy in Buffalo; John 

 D. Shephard, a large iron manufacturer, and Warren S. 

 Miller, a lawyer. 



"Then we built a handsome clubhouse, costing something 

 like $10,000, and there the members and their wives would 

 come and live a week at a time. This was along in 1869 and 

 1870. After I had been president two or three years, Mr. 

 Cleveland was elected to the office. We had regular fishing 

 days at which every member was expected to be present 

 Each man had his boat and oarsman, and, trailing them 

 along behind a steam yacht, we started for the scene of the 

 day's sport. This might be up river or down river, as the 

 Commodore of the clay might indicate. Before starting we 

 always elect a Commodore and Secretary. The former had 

 absolute control of the movements of the party for the day 

 and the latter kept a score of the day's catch. This kept the 

 kickers in line, and you know that there are some men 

 who, if the crowd happens to want to go to heaven, will in- 

 sist on going the other way. The commodore settled all 

 that. I am not sure, but I think Cleveland was our first 

 Commodore. When we reached the fishing ground every 

 man got into his boat and commenced to fish for all he was 

 worth. 



"We had a table showing how much the catch was worth. 

 For instance a muskallonge counted 100. black bass and 

 yellow pike 20 each, blue pike and pickerel 5 each, and rock 

 bass and perch 1 each. The Secretary as fast as the mem- 

 bers brought their catch aboard the yacht made the account, 

 giving each man credit for his day's work. At the end of 

 the season prizes were given to the man whose total count 

 was greatest, to him who had made the greatest catch in one 

 day, and to whoever had caught the largest fish. Mr. Cleve- 

 land got the prize one season for catching the biggest fish, 

 and another for scoring the greatest catch. He captured 

 several fine fish poles and reels' in this way. Yes, he was as 

 lucky in fishing as he has been in everything else, but then 

 you want to remember that he attended strictly to business 

 when he sat down to it. The President used to be a pretty 

 good fisherman. He never got excited, and nothing seemed 

 to ruffle his temper. It takes considerable skill to land a 

 good-size bass when he starts upward from the river bottom 

 in the attempt to shake your hook out of his mouth. If he 

 can travel faster than you can haul in your line the chances 

 are that he will slip you. Whenever we heard anybody in a 

 particularly strong voice exclaim 'You rascal,' we knew Mr. 

 Cleveland had lost his. fish just as he had got him to the 

 edge of the boat. I'm rather loth to believe that the Colonel 

 took first prize for catch the other day. Still, the President 

 may have been engrossed with other thoughts than those of 

 a purely piscatorial nature." 



CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 



CARP LAKE, MICHIGAN. — XV. 



THE second Sunday in camp was a pleasant contrast to 

 the first one, and it was spent in a becoming manner, 

 by the girls at least. However, as the evening drew on, 

 some fish found their way to the camp by following a couple 

 of the boats, the stringers hanging over the sides having 

 somehow beguiled them into paying us a visit, but it is not 

 necessary to these chronicles to point out the Sabbath-break- 

 ing culprits that took their places at the supper table in 

 abashed silence under the reproving eye of gentle Mother 

 Jim. Some trout there were, too, I believe, that were toled 

 across the lake to camp, but not even these in all their 

 spotted glory could gloss over our departure from the trail 

 of righteousness, and the culprits for their offending were 

 sent to bed in disgrace. But the morning — and "a mess o' 

 them spotted minners" — softened Mother Jim into a forgiving 

 mood, and they were again taken into favor under a promise 

 to do better in the future. The promise was given, however, 

 with a mental reservation, and broken the very next Sunday, 

 with much the same result, as Mother Jim had about made 

 up her mind that it was a waste of time and breath to try to 

 turn us from our sinful ways. 



Breakfast disposed of, the boats were bailed out (Couturier's 

 boats were of the leaky variety and a source of much (dis) 

 comfort), tackle selected, and in short time the camp was 

 deserted, save by (he philosopher, who was left to air the 

 bedding, concoct a camp kettle of new-fangled bean soup 

 that he had expended much serious thought on, and devise 

 new schemes for the entertainment of neighbor Horton's 

 pigs. 



The boats returned late in the afternoon, each with some 

 fish, but the sport had not been as good as we had expected 

 with the coming of fine weather; but we had enough for the 

 camp and a dozen or more for our neighbors, who were 

 always welcome to the day's catch except a few reserved for 

 home consumption. . 



The next day was spent in much the same manner, old 

 Ben and the skipper, however, putting in most of the day in 

 "rounding up" a fresh supply of speckled frogs, as the 

 menagerie box would barely furnish bait for another day's 

 fishing. 



Wednesday morning opened out blazing hot, and the shade 

 of the big popple seemed to promise so much more comfort 

 than an open boat under the broiling sun, that the girls 

 decided to stay in camp and make life a burden to the phil- 

 osopher by helping Mm to get up a famous dinner, in which 

 "rozberry pie," doughnuts, rice pudding, with real rice, and 

 green apple sauce were to be included. The programme 

 once decided on, the philosopher was called on to produce 

 the materials, and the campaign against his peace of mind 

 f®r the day was opened, with Mother Jim at the head of the 

 column to direct Die movements of her command. 



A boat coming down the lake a mile away, the oars glis- 

 tening in the sun as they rose and fell in steady measure, 

 scarcely attracted the attention of the old campers as they 

 lounged in the shade, undecided whether to fish or not to fish ; 

 but when it approached within twenty rods and headiog for 

 the landing, a hair-raising yell, between the scream of a 

 locomotive whistle and the screech of an untutored child of 

 the forest with his hide full of "unrectified wrath," startled 

 the camp into sudden life and commotion, for nothing "on 

 the face o' this livin' airth" could produce such a melodious 

 mingling of discordant sounds except "Old Knots." 



