Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal-of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 

 Six Months, $2= t 



NEW YORK, MAY 10, 1888. 



1 YOL. XXX.— No. 16. 



1 No. 318 Broad wat, New Vork. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium of entertain- 

 ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen. 

 Communications on the subject to which its pages are devoted are 

 respectfully invited. Anonymous communications will not be re- 

 garded. No name will be published except with writer's consent. 

 The Editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 

 Only advertisements of an approved character inserted. Inside 

 pages, nonpareil type, 30 cents per line. Special rates for three, six, 

 and twelve months. Seven words to the line, twelve lines to one 

 inch. Advertisements should he sent in by Saturday previous to 

 issue in which they are to be inserted. Transient advertisements 

 must invariably he accompanied by the money or they will not be 

 inserted. Reading notices 81.00 per line. 



SUBSCRIPTIONS 

 May begin at any time. Subscription price, $1 per year; $2 for six 

 months; to a club of three annual subscribers, three copies for $10; 

 five copies for f 16. Remit by express money-order, regi ered letter, 

 money-order, or draft, payable to the Forest and Stream Publishing 

 Company. The paper may be obtained of newsdealers throughout 

 the United States, Canadas and Great Britain. For sale by Davies 

 & Co., No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill, London. General subscription 

 agents for Great Britain, Messrs. Davies & Co., and Messrs. Samp- 

 son Low, Marston, Searles and Rivington, 188 Fleet street, London, 

 Eng. Brentano's, 17 Avenue de l'Opera, Paris, France, sole Paris 

 agent for sales and subscriptions. Foreign subscription price, $5 

 per year; $2.50 for six months. 

 Address ail communications, 



No. 318 Broadway. 



Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 



New York City. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Serpent Venom Antidote. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Going to Guinea.— ii. 



Lake, Mistassini. 

 Natural History. 



Snake Bite and its Antidote. -I. 



Mountain Lions Climb Trees. 



Are These Mussels Edible? 



Which is the Wus? (poetry). 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Rifles for Small Game. 



The Monroe Marshes. 



Royal Hunting in 1520. 



Loading Tools. 



Yellowstone Park Petition. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



An April Day. 



Bass in the Potomac. 



Rochester Anglers. 



Sunapee Trout. 



Those Wary Carp. 



New England Angling. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 The Fly-Casting Tournament. 



FlSHCULTUHE. 



The Menhaden Question. 

 Hatching Codfish. 

 The Kennel. 

 Dog Talk. 



Nights With the Coons. 

 American Kennel Register. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Riele and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 Gallery Pistol Shooting. 

 The Trap. 



A Shooting Ground for New 

 York. 



Canadian Trap Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



A Cruise on the East Coast of 

 England. 



The Northern Division Meet. 



The Atlantic Division Meet. 

 Yachting. 



Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



HPHE army of didn't-know-it-was-loaded idiots and 

 ' careless handlers of firearms is increasing so rapidly 

 that any measure looking to a mitigation of the woes 

 inflicted by it is likely to be received with public favor. 

 Congress perhaps acted on this belief when it gave a 

 pension to the widow of Oscar B. Mills. It appears that 

 Mills was an engineer in the Navy, who was killed in 

 1873 by a neighbor who was trying to shoot an owl. 

 President Cleveland, however, returned the bill with his 

 veto, giving as a reason that death at the hands of a poor 

 marksman attempting to shoot an owl was not a case of 

 "disability or death in some way related to the incidents 

 of military and naval service." It will readily be seen 

 that if every man, woman or child who is maimed or 

 killed by the careless use of firearms is to be made a 

 beneficiary at the expense of the United States Treasury, 

 the surplus will rapidly be reduced. 



The case of the dead terrier Sir Colin, which took a 

 prize at the New York show in 1887, some time after his 

 demise, points a moral. The facts appear to be that Mr. 

 Campbell, having learned after the show catalogues had 

 been printed that Sir Colin was dead, wrote to the super- 

 intendent, asking permission to substitute another dog 

 for it. On reaching New York he received the necessary 

 permission and the dog Bertie was duly exhibited, judged 

 and given a prize. Now, a year later, the facts come out. 

 There is no doubt that this was all wrong, but it is a per- 

 fectly natural result of the lax methods which have 

 prevailed in dog matters ever since the first dog show 

 was held in this country. It is the old story. Every 

 one that is a good fellow may have favors granted hirn. 

 The idea of conducting a dog show on business principles 

 never appears to occur to the managers. It is time an 

 end were put to this way of looking at things, but there is 

 no hope that the A.K.C. will soon change its methods. 

 We are not able to learn that Mr. Campbell was especially 



to blame in this matter, but Mr. Mortimer, who took the 

 responsibility for the substitution, certainly was. It is 

 the Westminster Kennel Club, however, which is really 

 responsible for the act of its agent. This body ought to 

 be disciplined, and a suspension from the privileges of 

 the A.K.C. for two years would no doubt teach them 

 and other dog show managers a much needed lesson. 



A story comes from Maine >that certain poachers who 

 anticipated the coming of the game wardens poisoned a 

 quantity of caribou and deer meat and left it where they 

 thought their pursuers would discover and eat of it and 

 die; and it is alleged that a lumberman did find this 

 meat, ate of it and was, at the time the dispatch was 

 sent, "dangerously ill." All of which is important 

 enough if true, but it sounds very much like the yarn in 

 Monday's papers about a Pennsylvania farmer who left 

 his plow to follow his dog into the woods and returned 

 within fifteen minutes, having killed a wildcat and a bear 

 and captured alive a fox and two coons. 



The American climate is responsible for a great deal, 

 according to the dictum of the average tourist who 

 skims over an edge of this country and then rashes home 

 to write his book on America and the Americans. What 

 shall be said of the American waters, when they develop 

 in the carp, brought to them from Europe, a cunning 

 and wariness quite beyond the ready invention and best 

 skill of American anglers ? Judge Caton, of Illinois, has 

 succeeded admirably in raising large carp, but he now 

 makes plaint that they are of no benefit to him, for he 

 cannot wile them to the frying-pan. It is now in order 

 for the enthusiastic carp culturists to extricate Judge 

 Caton from his dilemma. 



A meeting of shooters interested in providing a shoot- 

 ing ground for trap practice and tournaments in the 

 vicinity of this city will be held to-morrow, as noted 

 elsewdiere. The number of those who now shoot at the 

 traps and the number who would participate in the sport 

 if it were practicable are so large that a suitable ground 

 is sure to be well patronized. The meeting should be 

 attended by individuals and club representatives. Bos- 

 ton's Walnut Hill range has been very largely the means 

 of keeping alive the interest in rifle and trap in that city; 

 equally accessible grounds near New York would stimu- 

 late the same interests here. It is to be hoped that the 

 project of a shooting ground for New York may be 

 carried through. 



The long disputed case of the Monroe Marsh Company, 

 involving the validity of the club's claim to the exclusive 

 shooting privileges on a portion of the navigable waters 

 adjoining its property, has just been decided by the 

 Michigan Supreme Court in the club's favor. The es- 

 sential part of Judge Champlin's opinion is printed 

 in our Gun columns. The special point involved was 

 of the club's proprietorship in certain lands which at 

 one time formed a portion of the shore or marsh, but 

 have been overflowed by a change of shore line and are 

 now covered by navigable waters. Its title to this terri- 

 tory being determined, the club's property in the game 

 on that territory, i. e., the exclusive right to capture that 

 game, follows as a matter of course. A decision of simi- 

 lar import was recently given in a case involving the ri- 

 parian right of the Narrows Island Club of North Caro- 

 lina, 



The Hadley bill in the New York Legislature giving 

 the Forestry Commissioners power to lease Adirondack 

 holdings of not more than five acres, was defeated in the 

 Assembly last Tuesday, the opposition maintaining that 

 it would practically give over large portions of the pre- 

 serve to irresponsible persons. This is partly true, but on 

 the other hand many tracts of land would be leased by 

 individuals and clubs who would protect their territory 

 more efficiently than can be done under present condi- 

 tions by the State. On the other hand, the lands of the 

 State belong to the people, and there would be great in- 

 justice in giving over all the choice hunting and fishing 

 grounds and camp sites into the possession of those who 

 stand ready to gobble them up. Again, the actual re- 

 sults of the proposed system would depend in a great 

 measure on the personal character of the members of the 

 Forestry Commission. The exceptional authority granted 



to that commission would call for exceptional qualities 

 of integrity and unselfish devotion to the public in- 

 terest. 



The telegraph reports two salmon taken at Bangor last 

 Tuesday, and fair prospects for the sport, as the danger 

 of a high rise of water had passed. 



A copy of the first edition of Walton's "Angler" has 

 been sold at auction in England for £195; and the other 

 day a very imperfect copy brought £23. 



Entries for the Forest and Stream Decoration Day 

 Trophy match are coming in. The contest promises to 

 be an interesting one. The time for entering will extend 

 to May 31st. 



The offices of the Forest and Stream are now at No. 

 318 Broadway. In the confusion of moving some matters 

 of business may have been overlooked or delayed, and 

 for such we must ask the indulgence of our patrons. 



The Park petitions have been so numerously signed 

 that we are compelled, in order to print the names at all, 

 to adopt a more compact style of publication. The roll 

 of signers is a long one; the list will be continued in sub- 

 sequent issues. 



The "last buffalo" has been done to death so often in the 

 last few months, by so many different persons and in so 

 many diverse ways, that its further and repeated slaughter 

 will come within the category of those misdeeds classed 

 as cruel and abhorrent. The "last buffalo" having already 

 suffered so much now deserves a brief respite. 



One of the eccentricities or vagaries of ths game law 

 tinkerers of Ontario, was the seriously made proposition 

 to levy a tax on every deer killed anywhere in the 

 Province, a license having first been secured by the 

 hunter. The notion that any machinery could be de- 

 vised for enforcing such a regulation must have origi- 

 nated in a brain where there was little room for practical 

 game protective ideas. 



The American Kennel Club and the Hornell Kennel 

 Club have had a disruption and have suspended each 

 other. It was all about Mr. James Watson. At a meet- 

 ing of the American Kennel Club some months ago the 

 executive committee adopted a resolution declaring Mr. 

 Watson an unacceptable member. The Hornell Club 

 refused to send any other delegate; and at the March 

 meeting at No. 44 Broadway Mr. Watson again presented 

 himself as its representative. He was duly voted out, 

 and Delegate Peshall made one of his characteristically 

 intemperate and flighty propositions, that the Hornell 

 Club be suspended for two years, as a penalty of its con- 

 tumaciousness, but the more sober sense of the meeting 

 prevailed. At the meeting last Tuesday Secretary Vre- 

 denburgh read to the club a communication from the 

 Hornell folks, which was of a more or less derisive char- 

 acter. Whereupon the American Kennel Club arose in 

 its might and declared the Hornell Kennel Club suspended 

 for two years. Having in one way and another gotten 

 rid of the clubs which would not join in its little schemes, 

 the 44 Broadway ring, yclept the American Kennel Club, 

 will now have a smoother time. 



SERPENT VENOM ANTIDOTE. 



REFERENCE has already been made to the notable 

 series of experiments conducted by Dr. H. C. Yar- 

 row, Curator of Reptiles in the National Museum, in his 

 endeavor to discover an antidote for the venom of ser- 

 pents; and we have announced the important result of 

 these experiments. An antidote, Dr. Yarrow believes, 

 has been found in the fluid extract jaborandi, made from 

 the South American plant Pilocarpus pennatifolius. 

 Trials have apparently demonstrated the efficacy of this 

 injection when administered to mammals; but it has not 

 yet been shown to be of avail in the case of birds. This 

 result of the National Museum series of experiments is of 

 the utmost value to humanity, and it gives us great 

 pleasure to publish from Dr. Yarrow's pen the first 

 authentic and complete report on the subject. The intro- 

 ductory review of former experiments and of the literature 

 relating to serpent poison is given to-day; the full accounts 

 of the Washington tests will follow. 



