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NEW YORK, JULY 28, 1887. 



) VOL. XXIX.-N0. 1. 



I Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Bits of Talk. 



Drugs and Field Sports. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The All-Friends of the Black- 

 feet. 



Natural History. 



The Whip-Tailed Scorpion. 



American Forestry Congress. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Cherokee Strip— vi. 



Porcupines. 



Deer Hunting in Pike. 



Chat of Gun and Game. 



Hard Lines in the Adirondacks 



Missouri Beef Matches. 



Helpful Hints and Wrinkles. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Where Boston Anglers Fish. 



Memoiies that do not Fade. 



The Ghost of Standing Stene. 



Hunting in the Himalayas. 



Worm and Fly. 



Farmer Brown's Trout. 



Angling Notes. 



FlSHOULTURE. 



New York Oyster Commission. 



The Kennel. 



Am. Kennel Club Methods. 



Mastiffs at the Kennel Club's 

 Show. 



A Faithful Dog. 



Sterility in Bitches. 



Was the Dog Mad? 



A Rabbit Hunt by Moonlight. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Club By-Laws and Rules. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Philadelphia Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



W. A. C. Meet, Ballast Island. 



Transportation to Bow- Arrow 

 Point. 

 Yachting. 



Volunteer. 



Sailing of Thistle. 



Lake Ontario. 



The Shadow Type of Sloop. 



Cedar Point Y. C. 



Atlantic Y. C. Cruise. 



Halifax Jubilee Regatta. 



Shadow. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Niagara International Park Commissioners have 

 succeeded in removing all the disfiguring advertis- 

 ing signs save one, a legend setting forth the advantages 

 of a certain railway. This is painted on a board which, 

 one winter when the ice was just right, was placed in its 

 present position, where no one can reach it to remove it. 

 The commissioners are reported to have offered a liberal 

 reward for the removal of the offending sign. This ought 

 not to be a task beyond the compassing by Niagara rifle- 

 men. An explosive ball properly aimed would put the 

 reward in the pocket of the man holding the gun. If the 

 park regulations forbid the use of firearms, an exception 

 might be made for this occasion at a suitable hour of the 

 day. The shot would make the rifleman famous and he 

 would be gratefully remembered by Niagara visitors. 

 He might go further and organize a corps of sharp- 

 shooters, to go about the country, and with explosive 

 bullets annihilate advertising sign atrocities in other 

 localities. 



The intolerably hot and humid weather of the past fort- 

 night has interfered with many a projected fishing excur- 

 sion, anglers whom no ordinary weather can daunt being 

 content to sit around hotel verandahs and try to keep 

 comfortably cool. The heroic devotees of mid-summer 

 woodcock shooting have had a hard time of it in the 

 swamps this year. Moreover, the heavy rains have 

 effectually scattered the birds, so that poor returns repay 

 the hardships of the pursuit; and even if the fortitude of 

 the gunner holds out, to run a dog in such weather is 

 nothing less than cruelty to animals. When thermometer 

 and barometer combine they can do more effective game 

 preserving in a month than the strongest sportsmen's 

 society in the country can accomplish in a year. 



United States Fish Commission by Mr. James G. Swan, 

 of Port Townsend, Washington Territory, a Port Discov- 

 ery fisherman found a flabby starfish entangled on his 

 hook, and while taking it off, one of the sharp little spines 

 or prickles pierced the skin of his left hand between the 

 fingers. He paid no attention to it, but soon it festered, 

 his arm began to swell, blood poisoning ensued, and the 

 man died. 



In the other instance no such insignificant thing as a 

 starfish was the agency of destruction. Two residents of 

 New York city were fishing in a rowboat in Prince's 

 Bay, last Friday, when both were killed by a stroke of 

 lightning. This phenomenon of lightning striking a small 

 boat is one of very rare occurrence. 



Agents of the Forest Commission are inspecting the 

 State lands of the Adirondack region, and appear to be 

 making an honest effort to stop the depredations of lum- 

 bermen. In a number of cases evidence has been secured 

 to prove the guilt of timber thieves, and prosecutions are 

 to follow. It is high time for such measures. The harm 

 already done and destruction wrought cannot at once be 

 remedied, but it certainly ought to be practicable to put 

 an end to the work of forest cutting. 



The first edition of the April number of the Audubon 

 Magazine having been exhausted and constant demands 

 made for copies, a new edition has been printed. The 

 March number will also be rep inted to meet the demand 

 for it. The new periodical is taking hold; and in its own 

 special field is doing the work it was intended to accom- 

 plish. A rich store of bird lore is put into a volume of 

 the Audubon. 



The "merchandise shoots" at gun club tournaments 

 present some interesting collections of prizes. We re- 

 corded one not long ago where a fortunate winner took a 

 fish basket and a bottle of cologne. In the programme of 

 the Johnstown Gun Club, now before us, the prizes run 

 from repeating rifle and fly-rod to a pail of chewing to 

 bacco, a counterpane and a $2,000 accident insurance 

 policy. 



Anglers who may have information respecting desira- 

 ble points for fishing are invited to give through the col- 

 umns of the Forest and Stream particulars likely to be 

 of use to other anglers. 



"Uncle Lisha's Shop" is to be published in book form. 



The perils of angling have recently been illustrated in 

 two ways so diverse that they may well be contrasted. 

 In one case, which ia reported in the Bulletin of the 



DRUGS AND FIELD SPORTS. 



THE English are noted the world over for their sport- 

 ing proclivities; and in popular conception the typi- 

 cal country gentleman of Great Britain is in one way or 

 another a sportsman. From recently published statistics 

 it appears that the Englishman's penchant for consuming 

 patent medicines is about as strong as his taste for sport. 

 The annual expenditure for game licenses amounts to 

 £178,403, while the sum paid for licenses by manufac- 

 turers and venders of nostrums is £179,071, the slight dif- 

 ference being in favor of the latter. Now if the Govern- 

 ment statisticians would undertake to determine the 

 relation between the shoot ng license purchasers and 

 the nostrum consumers, some profitable deductions 

 might be drawn concerning the hygienic value of field 

 sports. It is certainly not to be presumed that the classes 

 which participate in shooting and hunting in any degree 

 make up the army of those who support the pharmacists. 

 There is a well recognized antipathy between drugs and 

 field sports. Scores and hundreds and thousands of men 

 have learned the curative properties of the wilderness . 

 and the magic healing of the waters. The ruddy glow 

 which comes of tramp with gun and dog, and the tan 

 and bronze which come of days afloat, are tokens of 

 health nature-given and not to be bought in a drug store. 



We have no game licenses in this county, nor is there 

 any way of estimating the numbers of the army which 

 tents in summer camps and tramps in autumn fields and 

 winter woods; so the proportion of field sportsmen to 

 medicine consumers cannot be computed. One thing, 

 however, is certain, with every succeeding year Ameri- 

 cans are coming to a better understanding of the health- 

 fulness of woods life; particip tion in it is increasing at 

 an astonishing rate, and its beneficial effects are more 

 widely distributed than ever before. 



BITS OF TALK. 



I.— DOG TALK. 



THE talk came around again to dog stories— it had a 

 way of swinging in that direction when the Major 

 was present— and in reply to the question "Can dogs 

 talk?" the Audubon Secretary gave his view in about 

 these words: 



"To this it may be replied that neither dogs nor other 

 creatures, excepting man, are competent to intelligent 

 discussion of metaphysics or palaeontology, but not only 

 are they capable of communicating then* own simple 

 ideas to each other, by speech and otherwise, but a dog is 

 capable of so modulating his voice as to convey informa- 

 tion on quite a small range of subjects to an observant 

 master. I spent the greater part of my life in India, and 

 a good half of that time in camp, and when the dogs 

 barked at night then- voices warned me whether this dis- 

 turbance was caused by a man, a dog, by cattle trespass- 

 ing, or by wild beasts lurking around the camp, as unmis- 

 takably as language could do; the voice was modulated 

 to depict the emotion to which the intruder gave rise, and 

 long experience enabled me to interpret it with confi- 

 dence." 



"It appears to me to be a foolish question," said the 

 Major. "Everybody who ever owned dogs knows that 

 they can talk, just as all other animals talk, in their own 

 way." 



"For instance?" suggested the Man from Long Island. 

 "Well, to give you one of a thousand, there was my 

 dog Trim — " 



" 'My Old Dog Trim,' the one that you tell about in your 

 book?" inquired the Fourth Talker. 



" No, a little red Irish setter, the first one that ever I 

 saw. I owned him long before I owned the other Trim. 

 I think the first one knew the most. One day I'd been 

 out hunting patridges; we had been at it a longtime, and 

 I w^as tired and hungry. I missed Trim after a while, 

 and couldn't seem to make him hear me at all: so I went 

 over to a farmhouse to get a bite, went into the kitchen, 

 and there was Trim, just clearing away the remnants of 

 what must have been a square meal. ' Been feeding my 

 dog ? ' said I to the woman of the house. ' Oh, yes,' she 

 answered, ' he came here and told me he was hungry, and 

 I gave him something.' Now, maybe that dog didn't 

 talk; I don't say he did, but he knew enough to make that 

 woman understand what he wanted ; and it is not every 

 dog, not even a field trial winner, that will quit work and 

 go to a strange house to ask for lunch. It takes pretty 

 good sense — dog sense or man sense — to make yourself 

 welcome betw r een meals at a farmhouse kitchen." 



"Did she give Trim's master anything to eat?" asked 

 the Man from Long Island. 



" Trust him for that," put in the Fourth Talker, " the 

 Major would get it if there was anything in the cupboard. 

 But to my mind in this case the dog's telling the woman 

 he was hungry was not so creditable to him as her under- 

 standing the dog was to her. Among themselves other 

 animals talk just as intelligibly as mankind. I was 

 watching a robin out in Orange county — " 



"I presume Trim was a remarkable animal in his way," 

 said the Man from Long Island, choking off the Fourth 

 Talker's robin story, which he had heard before. 



"Remarkable! Why, there wasn't anything that dog 

 didn't know or wouldn't do. He understood everything 

 that was said to him. 'Trim, you're dirty,' would send 

 him straight out of the house to the brook for a bath. 

 That dog could count; he always knew how many birds 

 were killed in a day's hunt. When we would get home 

 after the day's shooting and I would take the birds out, 

 he would manifest the greatest impatience until the last 

 one was out; and you could not fool him about it, either; 

 he knew how many there were in there, and though I 

 often left in the last one and pretended the bag was 

 empty, he knew better. When they were all laid out 

 and the family w T ere called in to see them, Trim would 

 gloat over the display just as much as I did, and he took 

 particular pains to let them all know that he had helped 

 do it, too. When the game was hung up, if any of the 

 neighbors came in of an evening, Trim would wag his tail 

 and start for the game, and if he had used the best Eng- 

 lish in the world he couldn't have told us any plainer that 

 he wanted to take the caller to see the birds." 



"Dogs can count; there is no question of that," was the 

 opinion of the Man from Long Island. "My father ran a 

 farm and a country store at the same time, and it was 

 the business of a big dog, Watch, to guard the store and 



