Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 14, 1887. 



i VOL. XXVIII.-No. 35. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Mr. Parker's Deer. 



Ethics and Experience. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Pioneer Fishing. 

 Natural History. 



On the Tongue in the Hum- 

 ming Bird. 



Chewink. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Trip of the Gun Club. 



In the Cherokee Strip.— iv. 



Porcupine Hunting. 



Gun and Game in Germany. 



New Hampshire Game Inter- 

 Mr. Parker's Deer. 



Hunting Rifles. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



On the Macedony. 



Ethics and Experience. 



Salmon and Trout. 



Angling JLiterature of America 



The Sliding Loop. 



Notes from Alaska. 



Angling Notes. 

 Fishcultube. 



The Fisheries of Japan. 



The Kennel. 



Am. Kennel Club Methods. 



Beagles for Work and Show. 



English Kennel Club's Show. 



The American Mastiff Club. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Riple and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Decoration Day Trophy. 

 Canoeing. 

 Calla Shasta Camp. 

 New Constitution of the A.C. A 

 The Western Meet. 

 Passaic River Meet. 

 Canvas Canoe Building. 

 Transportation to Bow- Arrow 

 Point, 



A. C. A. Numbers and Racing 

 Emblems. 



"The Old Canoe." 

 Yachting. 



Uniform Racing Rules. 



Columbia Y. C. Regatta. 



Rhode Island Y. C. 



The Loss of the Wave. 



The Capsize of the Mystery. 



Titania— Shamrock Match. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



MR. PARKER'S DEER. 

 f"|"\HE criticism in these columns last week on the alleged 

 killing of a deer in the Adirondacks in June by A. 

 M. Parker, of Putnam, Conn., is met by the rejoinder 

 from Mi - . Parker that his story was only made up, and he 

 did not kill the deer at all. Our criticisms were expressly 

 conditioned on the presumption that Mr. Parker's account 

 of what he had done was "a true bill." We are quite 

 willing to accept his present statement that he did not 

 kill the deer, which in the Patriot he said he killed; and 

 that he did not violate the law, which in the Patriot he 

 alleged he had violated. 



This, however, does not fully relieve him of the odium 

 attaching to those paragraphs of his letter to the Putnam 

 paper. "A law-abiding citizen" who boasts that he has 

 committed a misdemeanor may save liimself from jail by 

 swearing that his boast was a lie, but he cannot reconcile 

 the boast with good citizenship; nor can a camper who 

 brags that he has killed a deer out of season make good 

 his claim to holding sportsmanlike sentiments by confess- 

 ing that his brag was only a piece of ' ' woodland romance. ' ' 

 It is the duty of a good citizen not only to obey the law, 

 but to encourage obedience in others as well; in like man- 

 ner a sportsman — a member of the class which profits by 

 wise game laws — is bound strictly to conform to them 

 himself, and to treat them with such decent respect as 

 shall encourage obedience to them by the community in 

 which he dwells. 



No right-minded sportsman can deliberately treat the 

 deer or grouse or bass or trout law as a farce, even in his 

 home paper. If by reason of his ability to write an en- 

 tertaining letter from the woods, as in this instance, he 

 has an opportunity to discuss game protection at all, it 

 should be to commend it to his readers as worthy of their 

 support and co-operation. His own deeds, profession and 

 standard of morality in this should be above reproach. 



"We do not believe Mr. Parker to be so morally obtuse 

 that after considering this point he will not fully agree 

 with us in it ; and the Forest and Stream will quote 

 with pleasure from the Putnam Patriot any statement 



Mr. Parker may there make to explain to its readers that 

 his story of deer killing and law breaking was manufac- 

 tured, as well as to demonstrate to them his regard for 

 game laws of the States he visits for a summer outing. 



ETHICS AND EXPERIENCE. 

 T^HERE appears to be a perennial and unfading inter- 

 est in the discussion of that branch of angling 

 ethics which has to do with the use of worm, grasshop- 

 per, bug or grub, when the trout refuse those styles of lure 

 which originate in the glass showcases of tackle shops. 

 Our angling columns have of late recorded the experience 

 of several correspondents, some of whom have always 

 been unreclaimed devotees of the worm, and others only 

 recent backsliders from the ranks of fly-fishermen. 



Perhaps the subject is one that will never be wholly 

 set at rest. Fishing is fishing, and there is fun in it for 

 the man at the big end of the rod, no matter whether it 

 be a fly or a worm at the other end. This, more than 

 anything else, is to be said in praise of angling, that its 

 charms and rewards are not to be monopolized by the ad- 

 herents of any one particular code of ethics. He enjoys 

 it who hauls by main strength on a hand-line the drum 

 from the deep sea; and so does the holier than thou angler 

 whose highest felicity is found in casting his fly of correct 

 color, with rod of correct weight, correct twist of wrist, 

 and correct carve and distance and splash, and crossing 

 of the arms upon the breast and rolling up of the eye, 

 after the manner of the Pharisee. One fisherman enjoys 

 catching fish and telling how many he caught and how 

 big they were; another acts the pantomime of casting and 

 tells how scrupulously careful he was not to violate a 

 single precept of his fly-fisher's Koran. 



Perhaps the ideal angler will be found somewhere be- 

 tween these two extremes. But after all each one to his 

 taste, so he takes the good things bountiful nature affords, 

 uses them with reason and moderation, and with it all 

 clears his brain and expands his lungs and hardens his 

 muscles. In these days, when the mercury is up among 

 the 90s, blessed is he who can go fishing at all. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 T~\OGS imported for breeding purposes are admitted free 

 of duty, as are other animals. Oath is required of the 

 importer as to the purpose of the importation. This oath 

 has been frequently violated, and in some instances glar- 

 ing frauds have been perpetrated. It has been shown 

 that of the eleven thousand horses imported from Canada 

 last year, all of which came in free of duty, on this oath, 

 the great majority were brought in for the purpose of 

 sale only. On the Rio Grande border herds of sheep are 

 fraudulently admitted in the same way, only to be shorn. 

 It will be remembered that Barnum secured the free ad- 

 mission of Jumbo by such an oath, and we never knew 

 that there was any ground for questioning his good faith 

 in doing so. The Treasury Department has intimated 

 that in future the law will be enforced more stringently 

 than it has been, but the importation of dogs will proba- 

 bly not be affected thereby. 



The New York law relating to exclusive hunting and 

 fishing privileges in territory set apart as a private pre- 

 serve, and making trespassers liable in exemplary dam- 

 ages, has in the past extended such privileges only to the 

 owners or lessees of the lands. At the last session of the 

 Legislature this law was amended by extending its opera- 

 tion also to individuals and societies leasing the exclusive 

 hunting and fishing rights only, but not leasing the land. 

 As the custom of securing exclusive sporting rights on 

 land and water is extending, such protection has been 

 found essential. This amendment originated with the 

 Brooklyn Gun Club, whose members having leased 

 the shooting rights on a number of contiguous farms 

 on Long Island and having stocked the lands with 

 quail, found themselves, as lessees of sporting privileges 

 only, unable to protect their game from trespassers. To 

 secure such an amendment might appear a simple 

 matter, but when the bill had passed one branch of the 

 Legislature and was taken into the other, it was amended 

 so as to exclude Long Island from its provisions, by an 

 enterprising member who saw his chance to make a dicker 

 on it, and the bill coming from Long Island could not 

 be made to apply to Long Island until this dickering 

 politician had agreed with its promoter to support some 

 of his own little bills. That is the way game legislation 

 is juggled at Albany every year. 



A live deer is a valuable piece of wild flesh; a dead deer 

 is worth but a trifle as venison. Sportsmen's guides 

 recognize this principle, and when they can manage it — 

 and they generally have no difficulty in doing so — they 

 will keep the deer alive as long as possible and just out 

 of the way of the sportsman. As long as the would-be 

 deer slayer's courage does not ooze out nor his ambition 

 tire, they will keep him in pursuit of that deer; and then, 

 it may be after all, save it for the next man. If by un- 

 toward accident the guide's "party" actually kills the 

 deer after all, it is not at all beyond the bound of possi- 

 bility that the guide who goes into the brush to find the 

 game may report it lost, then return to the place the 

 next day, secure the antlers and sell them to his next 

 "party" to exhibit as a trophy of prowess. This explains 

 the mystery of how A, who is a fairly good shot, goes 

 home from the North Woods with no tangible evidences 

 of his skill; while B, whom all his friends know to be an 

 arrant duffer with firearms, has a fine pair of antlers to 

 prove that he covered himself with glory. It explains 

 also how the thrifty guide manages to get paid twice 

 over for a dead deer. 



Through private advices from the Yellowstone National 

 Park it is learned that on the night of July 4 the coach 

 running from Gardiner, Montana, to the Mammoth Hot 

 Springs, in the Yellowstone Park, was "held up" by two 

 masked men, who are said to have obtained from the 

 passengers the magnificent sum of $16.50. It is not 

 thought that the robbers were the old time road agents of 

 early days, but very commonplace "pilgrims," ordinary 

 highway robbers in fact, and it is hoped that before long 

 they may be arrested. This occurrence only lends em- 

 phasis to the oft-repeated calls for a form of government 

 for the Yellowstone Park, a call to which Congress has 

 for years refused to respond. We are not informed as to 

 who were passengers on the coach which was robbed, but 

 we earnestly hope that a part of this $16.50 came out of 

 the pocket of some member of the next House of Repre- 

 sentatives. If this should be the case, the advocates of a 

 Park bill would be likely to have one more strong friend 

 in the next Congress. 



The remarks of our correspondent "Special" on the 

 stream-strippers who clean out New England waters are 

 eminently sensible and to the point. Hotel men in all 

 the more frequented summer resorts patronized by 

 sportsmen are coming to a recognition of the wisdom of 

 preserving the natural attractions which brings patrons 

 to the hotel. It has taken a long time for the average 

 landlord to see this, and perhaps he does not see it yet; 

 but yet there are many hotel men who are wise enough 

 to encourage decency in this respect, if not for its own 

 sake, at least for the sake of their own tills. There are 

 still to be found those who provide a compost heap for 

 the superfluous fish caught by their guests, as at some of 

 the west coast hotels of Florida, but in New England and 

 the West a wiser rule prevails. 



In his paper on American angling writers in the Lon- 

 don Field, copied in our columns last week, Mr. Charles 

 Hallock wrote: "I suppose that the undisputed pioneer of 

 American angling literature, pure and simple, is Charles 

 Lanman, who came as one crying in the wilderness as 

 early as 1848." From that time to the present Mr. Lan- 

 man has added sketches and volumes to our angling 

 literature, and in these latter years the spring gushes 

 forth not a whit less pure and sparkling than of yore. 

 The paper on "Pioneer Fishing," from Mr. Lanman's pen, 

 in another column, is from one of his forthcoming books, 

 and will have added interest by reason of Mr. Hallock's 

 reference to him. 



A Colorado correspondent, whose statements are entitled 

 to great respect, tells us that since the passage of the law 

 forbidding the marketing of game and fish a change has 

 been wrought in the attitude of men who formerly made 

 a business of hunting and fishing for the market. They 

 see the wisdom of the law and indorse it. If such a 

 change could be wrought all through the West the ques- 

 tion of game protection would be in large measure 

 settled. 



Michigan has a new law forbidding deer hounding. 

 The subject has been agitated for a number of years, the 

 proposed law being opposed each year by the Michigan 

 Sportsmen's Association. Dr. F. M. Wilcox, of Rochester, 

 Mich., was one of the most earnest advocates of the 

 measure, 



