Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 7, 1887. 



I VOL. XXVIII.-No. 24. 



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CONTENTS. 



fiDtTORlAD. 



Mr; Parker's Dter. 

 A* tiflcial Targets. 

 Snap SllotS. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 

 Hunting Without a Gun. 

 Some Indian Songs- 

 Canoeing in Maiue Waters. 



Naturad History. 

 The Rattle. 



The Barbarous English Spar- 

 row. 



W'avs of Prairie Dogs. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Cherokee Strip.— M. 



Iowa Game and Fish. 



The Diamond Hitch. 



New York Game Protectors. 



The Right to Snare Game. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Cusk. 



Experience With Tackle. 



Memories That Do Not Fade. 



The Tournament. 



Tf outing in North Carolina. 



My First Trout. 



American Angling Literature. 



Big Trout; 



8«a and River Fishing, 



Trout at Moosehead. 



Rights of Pond Owners. 

 Fishctjxture. 



Hatching the Wall-Eyed Pike. 



New Hampshire Commission. 

 The KeInnei,. 



Am. Kennel Club Methods. 



The Dog for Big Game. 



Hounds and Their Atrocities. 



Dogs in Stud. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Decoration Day Trophy. 

 The Dayton Shoot. 

 Canoeing. 

 A Stern Chase. 



Cruising About Lake Cham- 

 plain. 

 Yachting. 



Larchmont Annual Regatta. 



Boston City Regatta. 



Cutter Weather. 



Something About Stewards. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



MR. PARKER'S DEER. 



IF he has presented a true bill, the individual who signs 

 himself A. M. Parker, in the Putnam (Conn.) Patriot, 

 of June 24, 1887, is one of those shameless braggarts who 

 break the laws when in the woods and then think it smart 

 to boast in print of their misdemeanors. This Parker 

 writes from an Adirondack camp, which, he. says, is 

 thirty miles from Cony's hotel on Indian Carry, Upper 

 Saranac Lake. He went in via Casey's, and if he has 

 not already gone out again, the game protector (if he 

 caies to take this hint) may intercept him there. His 

 camp companion is spoken of as Dr. Miller. The guides 

 are Ance Parsons, Marshall Brown and George Johnson. 

 Johnson appears to be like the average Adirondack guide, 

 ready to do whatever his "party" pays him for; and in 

 this instance he helped Parker in his law breaking. 

 Parker writes as follows: 



George and myself had quite an experience the other day at a 

 lake about ten miles from camp, where we had gone to fish and 

 hunt. Now although the law is on against shooting deer at this 

 season, it is a well understood forest law that a buck once in a 

 while straying across our path might possibly, I might say acci- 

 dentally, help to increase our camp larder and keep grim starva- 

 tion from the door. We fished until nearly evening and then, not 

 having the best of success, decided to try our hand with the rifle. 

 There was one big buck about a mile down the lake on the right 

 hand shore which I longed to possess. * * * W T ith noiseless 

 paddle we pass out from behind the point and follow close to the 

 line of shore in the direction of the big buck, only paddling while 

 his head is down and he is feeding, and at a snail's pace almost 

 approach nearer and nearer to the deer. We pass two does on 

 our way, approaching nearly to a shotgun distance to them before 

 they are aware of our existence on this mundane sphere, and just 

 to see them stand an instant and gaze in speechless wonderment 

 at the intruders of their forest home and then bound away into 

 the woods, seemingly 20ft. at a jump, well repays us for coming so 

 far from home. It is considered no honor in a sportsman to shoot 

 a doe at this season of year. * * * George's paddle made no 

 sound, not a ripple in the water, but it was tedious to sit so long 

 in one rosition without venturing to move a hair's breadth. The 

 end was slowly approaching, however, for when within a little 

 over a hundred yards, just a beautiful rifle shot, the buck sud- 

 denly raised his head and with startled eyes took in his danger, 

 his ears and horns in the velvet, for deer drop their antlers every 

 season, and high extended head forming a picture as indelibly 

 rooted upon our remembrance as If but a half hour gone by. All 

 the shakiness of buck fever has departed, and jn that second 



while he stood before turning to flee, the rifle rang out its sharp 

 report and without one struggle his majestic head drooped. The 

 rifle ball had passed through his right shoulder and reached his 

 heart, and with a splash lay in the water dead. * * * A feeling 

 akin to sorrow for the death of so kingly a beast possessed us, hut 

 with the thought that if not I, he would have fallen to some 

 other's bullet, came the exultation of our capture. George and I 

 "shook hands over the bloody chasm," and then lifted with all 

 our strength to deposit the buck in the canoe, and as it was fast 

 growing dark and we had a rough carry to get over, etc., etc. 



There are in Putnam, as the Forest and Stream hap- 

 pens to know, right-minded anglers who can go into the 

 woods without leaving their respectability behind them. 

 They should reason with these Adirondack tourists on 

 their return, and if not successful in inculcating moral- 

 ity, at least strive to arouse a sense of local pride which 

 shall for the future deter Putnam June deer killers from 

 heralding their achievements in Putnam papers. 



There are two classes of game law breakers, one, 

 those who are ignorant of the law and thoughtless, the 

 others who know the law well enough but deliberately 

 violate it. Neither class is excusable. For the first ignor- 

 ance of the law cannot be plead in extenuation. In this 

 year of grace, when a person takes firearms to kill some- 

 thing, it is his business first to learn if the game may be 

 killed lawfully. In default of such investigation his un- 

 seasonable shooting is culpable. 



It does not compare with the acts of the second class of 

 men who, as this Parker, know the law perfectly well, 

 but instead of regarding it, find a spice of satisfaction in 

 killing game and defying the law at the same time. 

 These fellows are not sportsmen. They were not born 

 with the instincts of sportsmen. They have not acquired 

 the sentiments of sportsmen. They can never be sports- 

 men. They have nothing with the guild. They belong 

 outside. A thousand pairs of antlers to their score and a 

 thousand trout added to that could not make them sports- 

 men. When they get themselves up in hunting suits and 

 hire a guide to wait on them, they are only parodies 

 strutting about in a rig that does not fit them. When 

 they write of their prowess and herald in their home 

 paper their woodland abominations, no sportsman nor 

 self-respecting, law-abiding citizen finds anything very 

 pleasing in their vaunting reports of misdemeanors com- 

 mitted. 



As the two classes are different, so are the remedies. 

 Your ignorant, thoughtless June deer killer may be 

 taught better; and then he will do better. But your 

 intentional game law violator can be cured by nothing 

 other than a moral regeneration, and to achieve that is a 

 task of such magnitude as to be indeed well nigh hope- 

 less. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Helena (Mont.) Independent of June 22 prints a 

 Washington dispatch, which states that J. W. Shively , 

 who gives his address as Brainerd, Minn., has written to 

 Secretary Lamar asserting that the National Park is in- 

 fested by a lot of robbers, cut-throats and thieves, "who 

 are now engaged in slaughtering Rocky Mountain sheep 

 by knocking them down with clubs while they are stuck 

 in the deep snow in the mountains and unable to escape." 

 The man referred to as authority for this statement is a 

 deaf mute, who entered the Park about June 1 and went 

 as far as Norris Basin with Henderson, once an assistant 

 superintendent. Here there was some disagreement about 

 the price of transportation, and Shively left Henderson 

 and walked back to the Hot Springs. After leaving the 

 Park, Shively made a complaint, charging that an 

 attempt had been made to rob him at Norris Basin. An 

 investigation showed that there was no foundation what- 

 ever for the charge. No special comment is needed on 

 the charge that mountain sheep are being clubbed to 

 death. Ovis montana in June is fairly well able to take 

 care of himself, and is not likely to be run into the snow- 

 drifts. It is thought by those who are in a position to 

 judge that Shively's troubles arose wholly from his own 

 in firmities. 



An expedition has started form the University of Mich- 

 igan for exploration in the Philippine Islands. The party 

 consists of Prof. J. B. Steere, whose chair in the Univer- 

 sity is that of Zoology ; Messrs. Worcester and Bourns, 

 students ; Mr. E. L. Moseley, of the Kent Scientific Insti- 

 tute, of Grand Rapids; and a native of the islands, who 

 came from there with Prof. Steere when he returned from 

 a former expedition. It is proposed to spend fifteen 

 months in study of the flora and fauna of the Philippines, 



Much of the time will be spent on Mindanao, the south 

 ernmost island of the group, next to the largest, and 

 whose interior has never been explored. It is anticipated 

 that the results of the expedition will add very much to 

 our knowledge of the islands. In his former stay there, 

 Prof. Steere discovered thirty-nine new birds, which were 

 named by Prof. R. B. Sharpe, of the British Museum. 

 The Forest and Stream has arranged for a series of let- 

 ters from one of the members of the party. 



The many friends of Professor Spencer F. Baird 

 will be glad to know that he has improved in health suf- 

 ficiently to go to Wood's Holl, where he now is. Two 

 months ago he was seriously ill and went into the Adiron- 

 dacks, leaving Profs. Langley and Goode in charge of the 

 Smithsonian and the National Museum, and Maj. Fergu- 

 son, Assistant Fish Commissioner, in charge of the other 

 work. The Adirondacks did not agree with the Professor, 

 and he returned to Washington a month ago. At that 

 time the newspapers published rather exaggerated ac- 

 counts of Ms illness. Although better, he has not yet 

 resumed work. 



All things come to him who waits. A faithful rifle 

 bearer, who has gone annually for seven years to the 

 Adirondacks for a panther, declares that he will keep it 

 up for seven years more, and another seven, if necessary, 

 but a panther must fall to his aim. There are two or 

 three noted panther and wolf slayers in the North 

 Woods who for a suitable consideration ought to be will- 

 ing to lead this enthusiast to the game. A skilled panther 

 hunter is not apt to divulge any knowledge of this sort 

 without being duly rewarded; for the bounties accruing 

 from a carefully protected pair of panthers count up. 



Wolves are said actually to be on the increase in the 

 North Woods. Most of the Adirondack wolf stories when 

 sifted prove to be based on fiction. The average wolf 

 turns out to be a smooth-tailed specimen. That there are 

 genuine wolves in certain parts of the range is quite true; 

 and this despite Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt's theory that the 

 Adirondack mongrel deer hounds are an efficient force of ■ 

 four-legged police to rid the country of such varmints. 



One day last week a Passaic, N. J., boy chmbed out on 

 the limb of a tree overhanging a canal after a bird's nest. 

 He secured the prize but fell into the water and waa 

 drowned. The moral of this is that if small birds are to 

 lure small boys into deep water, the small birds should be 

 exterminated forthwith. 



The second series of the Decoration Day Trophy matches 

 were shot July 2 and 4, and the scores are given in our 

 trap columns. There are new ties for the Trophy and 

 first and second money prizes. The ties for the Trophy 

 will be shot off; the others may be shot off or divided. 



Ji ever there be pleasure in turning to records of wood 

 and field and stream life it is found in these days when 

 newspapers are filled with war talk and partisan 

 harangues. There is at least one weekly in whose pages 

 politics have no place. 



ARTIFICIAL TARGETS. 



TRAP-SHOOTING artificial targets is a sport that is 

 booming, and the wiseacres who used to tell us that 

 there could be no lively trap-shooting except at live birds 

 are beginning to see that they did not know all about it 

 after all. The professional alarmist?, who were wont to 

 beat the tocsin and tell us that any legislation against five- 

 bird shooting was but the entering wedge and meant 

 nothing less than the entire abolition of field sports, are 

 coming around to a calmer view, and we hear little of 

 their rant. 



The New York State Association for the Protection of 

 Fish and Game at their last tournament employed artifi- 

 cial targets in the place of live pigeons in all matches 

 where live birds were not called for by the deeds of gift 

 of certain prizes. It is probable that by another year the 

 entire shooting will be at artificial birds. At its recent 

 convention in Sioux City the Iowa State Association went 

 so far as to discuss the adoption of a resolution forbidding 

 live-bird shooting at future tournaments. The vote showed 

 that the delegates were about equally divided, the resolu- 

 tion being lost by a single vote, 



These are indications of the tendency of the times, 

 The substitution of clay and tar and plaster for live birds 

 means an increased participation in trap-shooting, 



