Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Yeab. 10 Ots. a Copy, i 

 Six Months, $3. t 



NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 29, 1892. 



( VOL. XXXIX.-No. 13 



I No. 318 Bkoadtvay, New ^ork. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



After Supper. 



Woman in the Far North. 



Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Oe '^ps of the Kingfl^hers.-xn 

 A (Jumper's Diary. — iv. 



Natural History. 



The Panther's Leap. 

 Skin Parasites of M'cp. 

 The Eagle and the Baby. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



The Indians' BufEolo Piskun. 

 Chicaeo and the West. 

 New Hampshire Game. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 

 Casnal Mention. 

 Put-In Bay Bass Fishing. 

 The Kennel. 

 Kingston Dng Show. 

 Grand Rapids Dog Show. 

 Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 

 California K. 0. 



The Kennel. 



Central Field Trial Derby En- 

 Irish Setter Field Trials. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 

 Aluminum Naphtha Yacht 

 Mignon. 



White Bpar Lake and Lake 



Minnetonka. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



A Short Pi,nn. 



Amendments to the Constitu- 

 tion. 



Aluminnm Canoes. 

 Detroit Boat Club. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Zettler Rifle Festival. 

 Trap Shooting. 



The luter-State at Auburn. 



The Great Saratoga Annual. 

 Answers to Queries, 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page v. 



JLLUSTBATED SUPPLEMENT. 

 The first one of the series of four illustrations of Amer- 

 ican wild animals, that of tlie Panther, was given as a 

 supplement with our issue of Sept. 8. The second one, 

 the Ocelot, will be given as a supplement next week, 

 Oct. 6, 



AFTER SUPPER. 



They are certainly the most delightful hours of the 

 day — those after supper. The preceding ten or twelve 

 have very likely been hard ones. To breast steep moun- 

 tain sides, to clamber up ledges, to wade through fields of 

 snow, to creep across slide elopes, and all the time to face 

 the fierce hurricanes that sweep over the mountains, is 

 exhausting work. Or perhaps the men have been travel- 

 ing through the timber, struggling with refractory pack 

 animals, fighting their way through thick willows or 

 alders, or chopping through down timber. If the trail 

 has been especially bad, an animal or two may have 

 rolled down the mountain side, and two packers have 

 had to climb down to where it stopped, take off the pack, 

 carry the bundles up to the trail, lead up the animal, re- 

 pair damages and repack the load ; or they have had to 

 cut loose the packs from some horse or mule which has 

 mired down, lift up and drag out the beast from its oozy 

 bed , and then repack. These are some of the light labors 

 indulged in by the traveler with a pack train in the 

 mountains — exercises which tend always to keep his 

 health good, his muscles strong, his appetite voracious, 

 and his temper, while on the march, brittle to the very 

 verge of breaking. They also tend to the use toward 

 one's animals of language which is not commonly heard 

 at church sociables. 



After supper, however, the occurrences which during 

 the day's march seemed so trying, no longer trouble the 

 travelers. Stretched out about the cheerful camp-fire in 

 easy, if ungraceful, attitudes, the men are at peace, even 

 with the worst of the pack animals. Incidents which six 

 hours before made them feel that they would enjoy cut- 

 ting the throats of some of the wretched mules, seem 

 now, by contrast with their present comfort, the best of 

 jokes, and they laugh heartily at the recital of the mis- 

 haps of each unlucky man or beast. He must be a churl 

 who can growl on a full stomach, with the immediate 

 prospect before him of half a dozen pipes, followed by a 

 good warm bed. 



After supper has been cleared away and the dishes 

 washed, there follows a season of the idleness born of 

 supreme contentment. At first there is little talk, and as 

 little motion, for no one is willing to do more than to 

 reach into the fire for a coal with which to rekindle his 

 pipe. 



As digestion proceeds, however, energy begins to re- 

 turn. One man commences to write up his hasty notes 

 for the day, another repairs a rent made in his clothing by 

 some stout branch, which would neither bend nor break; 

 I a third proceeds to cobble his shoes, while each adds 

 something to the general fund of entertainment by story, 

 reminiscence, joke or allusion. Where the right people 

 are a^ssociated in these after supper hours the conversa- 

 tion is often very entertaining, and if it could be taken 

 down as spoken, would furnish many a chapter of ab- 

 sorbing interest to woodsman and naturalist. 



The ereninge o£ Buch travelers are not long. Those 



who have worked hard during the day need rest at night, 

 and unless among the company there is some story teller 

 of unusual powers, who can hold the attention of his audi- 

 ence, blankets are unrolled and bsds made up within a 

 couple of hours. Then, the last pipe lighted, the men 

 stand up gathered close about the fading tire, and talk in 

 low tones, and a little later their quiet, softly breathing 

 forms lie about the smoking ashes. 



W03fAN IN THE FAB NORTH. 



Travel in the far north has hitherto been attempted 

 only by men, but the year 1892 has witnessed the break- 

 ing up of this monopoly. Early last summer Miss 

 Elizabeth Taylor started from Winnipeg for the MacKen- 

 zie River delta, and from this expedition she has just re- 

 turned. Miss Taylor is by nature a traveler and by 

 education an artist and is greatly interested in natural 

 histony. She started on her trip alone, and made it alone 

 successful to the end. She is the first woman explorer 

 that has ever ventured in to the Polar regions on her own 

 account, and with an amount of pluck and steadfastness 

 that would have done credit to a strong man she has 

 carried out her programme and completed her round 

 trip to the far northern forts of the Hudson's Company. 



Of the results of her trip we can as yet know only in 

 a general way. This much may be said, however: Her 

 sketch book is full of draM'ings, which are not only of 

 great historical and topographical interest, but also of a 

 very high order of artistic merit. In spite of great dis- 

 advantages and continual suffering from coarse food, 

 incessant attacks of insects, ill health and sleeplessness 

 induced by the perpetual daylight, she has averaged 

 over a drawing per day. 



Her sketches are only a email part of the results 

 achieved by this indefatigable girl-Greely. Her diary is 

 as full as her sketch book, and her notes on the different 

 aspects of nature are full and of great value. They are 

 moreover admirably corroborated and amplified by some 

 hundreds of photographs taken by herself. 



In addition to all this Miss Taylor has made a consider- 

 able collection of natural history specimens, and when 

 her results are in shape for publication, an unusually in. 

 teresting contribution to our list of works on the Great 

 Lone Land will have been made. 



OUR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS. 



No recent new departure of the Forest and Stream 

 has been received with more favor than the amateur 

 photography competition recently instituted. O ur friends 

 tell us that it was a happy thought thus to encourage 

 camera work in this special field, and to offer to amateur 

 photographers a welcome opportunity to share the pleas- 

 ure of their achievements with others of the great fra- 

 ternity of sportsmen. By calling into service the half- 

 tone engraving process it has been found practicable to 

 present on the printed page excellent reproductions of 

 some of the photographs, and others will follow. 



Now that so many are returning after the vacation of 

 1892, we hope to receive some of the camera trophies of 

 the outing. The conditions of the competition have been 

 printed on a slip which we shall be glad to send to any 

 address on request. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



Last spring, it will be recalled, State Game Protector 

 Brown seized a large quantity of game unlawfully stored 

 in the establishment of the New York Refrigerator Com- 

 pany. Recent developments have shown that the pro- 

 tector was given his information by certain dishonest em- 

 ployees of the Refrigerator Company, who had made 

 away with some of the game in storage, and had promp- 

 ted the seizure with the hope that, in the confusion which 

 ensued, the stolen game would not be discovered. In this 

 they were foiled, however, and the thieves were duly 

 lodged behind the bars. An esteemed correspondent 

 complains that our columns have made no mention of 

 these later developments, presumably because they de- 

 tract from the lustre of Protector Brown's achievements. 

 Such a view may be taken, though we do not share it; 

 nevertheless the incident is not without its instructive 

 moral, which is that any employer who is conducting a 

 clandestine business and is engaged in systematic evasion 

 of one set of statutes cannot expect from his employees a 

 ■very high moral standard nor respect for., other statutes. 



And if his clerks occasionally make away with a batch 

 of the illicit stock, that is precisely what might be antici- 

 pated. 



Reference was made the other day to the questionable 

 constitutionality of those laws which provide for the 

 summary destruction of dogs on which taxes have not 

 been paid. In Connecticut there is another statute re- 

 lating to dogs which, if not unconstitutional, is very un- 

 reasonable and unjust. It provides that "all dogs found 

 doing or attempting to do any mischief , when not under 

 the care of any person, may be killed." In the Hartford 

 Coiirant we find notice of the recent case of Siramonds vs. 

 Holmes, which has been decided by the Supreme Court. 

 The plaintiff's valuable dog was found by the defendant 

 lying asleep upon a bed of young plants in his garden, and 

 he shot him. The court held that what the dog was doing 

 was "mischief" within the meaning of the statute, that 

 the right to kill it was not affected by the consideration 

 of its value as compared with the value of the property 

 destroyed or injured, and that it did not affect the case 

 that the dog was a registered one. 



It may be worth while, because not uninstructive, to 

 note one point in the case of Rev. Dr. Thomas and his 

 unlawful deer, to which our Chicago staff correspondent 

 has been giving deserved attention. The most serious 

 menace of the Wisconsin deer supply Dr. Thomas finds 

 to be in the killing by outsiders for shipment to market 

 in other States, and he would favor a law restricting this. 

 It happens that there is just such a statute, which de- 

 clares it to l)e unlawful to kill deer for export from the 

 State. If in spite of the statute deer are killed and veni- 

 son is shipped from Wisconsin by the ton, this may be 

 explained by the reasonable supposition that every market 

 hunter in the business follows Dr. Tliomas's own con- 

 venient device and reasons out to his own individual sat- 

 isfaction and exculpation that the Wisconsin deer law 

 does not mean what it says, or at least does not apply to 

 him. 



In a recent number of Nattire Cyril Frampton asks for 

 the origin of the idea that snakes sting. Fi'oude, in "The 

 English in Ireland," writes: "The clergy started as if 

 stung by a snake." Archdeacan Farrar, in "Darkness 

 and Dawn," uses the metaphor of snakes stinging. Sir 

 Thomas Browne in "Vulgar Errors," says that snakes 

 and vipers sting, etc. , etc. , is not easily to be justified. 

 Thomas Lodge says that people called Sauveurs have St. 

 Catherine's wheel in the palate of their mouths, and 

 therefore can heal the sting of serpents. And Prov. 23: 

 38, declares of wine that "At the last it biteth like a ser- 

 pent and stingeth like an adder." We should think that 

 this was getting back pretty well toward the "origin of 

 the idea." 



What shall be done with the man who talks politics in 

 camp? Of all woods pests he is the one most aggravat- 

 ing, least deserving of tolerance, to whom no mercy 

 should be shown. Taking into account the harassing 

 nature of the nuisance, the extent of the victim's suffer- 

 ing, the remoteness from society and law, the immunity 

 from interference by peace oJficers, the extreme improb- 

 ability that one would ever be called to account for 

 taking the law into one's own hands and executing sum- 

 mary vengeance— under all these conditions, what special 

 form of lynch law ought one to adopt? 



The Vermont Fish and Game League is manifestly plan- 

 ning a campaign in the next Legislature looking to fish 

 protection and propagation. Secretary John W. Titcomb 

 has sent out from Rutland a note of incjuiry asking the 

 members of the next Legislature these questions: "Are 

 you or the residents of your town interested in the pre- 

 servation and propagation of fish for restocking the public 

 waters of the State? Are you interested in the enactment 

 of good laws for the protection of fish and game? Will 

 you lend your influence in the Legislature to a furtherance 

 of the above subjects? 



Because of the Columbus celebration on Oct. 13, the 

 date set for the meeting of the executive committee of 

 the New York State Association for the Protection of 

 Fish and Game, it has been deemed advisable to postpone 

 that meeting. It is probable that it will go over until 

 after election. The date selected will be announced in 

 our game columns nest week. 



