Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 18, 1893. 



j VOL. XL.— No. 20. 



) No. 318 Broadway, Nbw York. 



Editorial. 



About Natural Rights. 

 Delmonico Dainties. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Daavis Folks.— y. 



Natural History. 



► One of Natui-e's Tragedies. 

 ' ElPinolillo. 



3 Some Feathered Scalawags. 

 ■ A Habit of the Horned Toad. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Game's Winter Home._ 

 On a Sycamore Root. 

 Notable Shots.— xi. 

 A Small-Bore Rifle Cartridge. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



On the North Shore — iv. 

 Property Rights in Trout. 

 Books ia Running Brooks. 

 The Kingfishers in Canada. 

 Angling Notes. 



Forest and Stream in the World's 



Fan-. 

 The Maine Ice. 



The Kennel. 



San Francisco Dog Show. 



CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 



Toronto Dog Show. 

 World's Fair Show. 

 U. S. Field Trials. 

 Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 



South Boston Y. C. 

 The Seabury Works at Nyack. 

 New Yachts. 



American and British Designers. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Eastern Division Meet. 

 Marine and Field Club Regatta. 

 News Notes. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 

 Rifle Club Doings. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Saratoga Tournament. 

 Ohio League Tournament. 

 Savannah Tournament. 

 Oskaloosa Tournament. 

 Chicago Traps. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



/^or Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 443. 



The Forest and Stream has a much larger circulation 

 than any other journal in this country in a corresponding 

 field. Its subscription list is for the most part made up 

 of permanent subscribers — men who read the paper year 

 af t^r year. Established twenty years ago as a paper for 

 the sportsman in his home, this journal has been and is 

 fulfilling precisely that purpose. To-day it is read by the 

 sons of the first generation of its readers, being handed 

 down and maintained as a cherished family institution. 

 Never in its history has the Forest and Stream been a 

 medium of more sohd value to advertisers than it is in 

 this present year, 1893. No one feature reflects and de- 

 monstrates more clearly the solid and dignified position 

 occupied by the paper than does the solid and dignified 

 character of its advertising pages. 



cows; the calves of his own cows he may not peddle for 

 veal under a prescribed age. If his cows or horses fall 

 sick of certain maladie.«, though the stock is his own , he 

 is compelled by law to destroy it. All these and more 

 regulations are enforced upon the individual, and whether 

 they are complied wdth gladly or grudgingly, no one ever 

 dreams of holding: out against them on the strength of 

 "natural," or "individvial" or "property" rights. It is 

 only when game or fish is concerned, that we heai" any- 

 thing of rights. Yet in principle, foundation and opera- 

 tion these statutes are all alike; they are within the 

 "police power" of the State, a system admirably described 

 by Judge Cooley in these words: 



"The police power of a State, in a comprehensive sense, embraces its 

 system of internal regulation, by which it is sought, not only to pre- 

 serve the public order and to prevent offences against the State, but 

 also to establish, for the intercourse of citizen with citizen, those rules 

 of good manners and good neighborhood which are calculated to pre- 

 vent a conflict of rights and to insure to each the enjoyment of his 

 own, so far as is reasonably consistent with a like enjoyment by 

 others." 



In its application to game and fish the police power pre- 

 scribes that the individual may do with them what he 

 will, but only so far as the common interests shall permit. 

 If it be against public policy to market trout in close time, 

 the individual must forego his own personal interests for 

 those of the community. He may not set up any plea of 

 a natural right to do otherwise. 



ABOUT NATURAL RIOHTS. 



Since the close season sale of trout is for the present a 

 dead issue in the Massachusetts Legislatm-e, it would be 

 hardly worth whfie to prolong discussion of the prin- 

 ciples involved; and it will be time enough to consider 

 our Cape Cod correspondent's scheme of tagging artifi- 

 cially reared fish, when the trout itidustry shall have 

 assumed greater importance than it appears likely to ac- 

 quire for years to come. . 



The wisdom and justice of the law forbidding the sale 

 of trout in close season are not to be determined, how- 

 ever, by a consideration of what om- correspondent terms 

 the trout culturist's "individvial right." The statute has 

 its basis in public policy; and the interest of the commun- 

 nity must be held paramount with respect to fish and 

 game in precisely the same way as it is with respect to 

 other subjects of legislation. 



It is a curious fact that an individual wiU submit to re- 

 strictions uiJon the use of his various possessions and never 

 whimper; but when limitations of a similar character are 

 put upon his vise of game and fish, he cries out that his 

 ' 'natural rights" have been invaded. Men talk about their 

 natural rights to fish and shoot as if these particular 

 natural rights were more sacred and more inviolable than 

 any other natural rights, for instance the j)rivilege of nudity 

 enjoyed by Adam and Eve. In an earlier stage of social 

 development, it was man's natural right to strut abroad 

 stark naked; but the crank who should uisist upon pranc- 

 ing around in exercise of that natural right to-day would 

 very quickly find himself in jaU or the lunatic asylum. ■ 



In fact natural rights, and property rights, and indi- 

 vidual rights are modified, limited, narrowed and re- 

 stricted in a thousand and one particulars; and with 

 respect to lands and houses, and horses aud cows and 

 calves, quite as much as v/ith respect to quad and par- 

 tridges and trout and bass. The land owner who resents 

 statutory int n-f erence with his use of the trout reared in 

 his ponds, proclaiming his natural or individual right to 

 do as he wiU with his own, forgets that he is subject to 

 law in the enjoyment of all the rest of his property. His 

 grain he owns, yet he may not convert it into whisky. 

 If a dairyman, he may not feed his own cows on swill, 

 nor put water from his own well into milk from his own 



DELMONICO DAINTIES. 

 Ninety- seven times out of a hundred, when Forest 

 AND Stream writers wish to make it understood that the 

 hotel or camp cook served good food, they tell us that "it 

 would have done credit to Delmonico," "Delmonico was 

 nowhere," or the happy partakers "had never tasted a 

 better dish even in Delmonico's." The conventional Del- 

 monico standard of culinary and gustable excellence ap- 

 pears to have been given vogue a quarter-century ago; 

 similar allusions to it may be found in the Sjnrit of the 

 Times sketches of that period, and so generally has it 

 been adopted that it is commonly appealed to even by 

 many who in all their lives have never been within five 

 hundred miles of the famous restaurant. As a matter of 

 fact it is said by the initiated that there are a dozen or 

 more places in New York where one may find better 

 cooking than at Delmonico's; but it is probable that for 

 another quarter-century to come the meal which proves 

 so appetizing because eaten with woods zest will be her- 

 alded as worthy of Delmonico's, 



There is another side of this, of which we know less, 

 but that is only because we have not the gift of reading 

 men's hearts. In the wilderness Delmonico's stands for a 

 paragon of good cookery; in town it is often the wood- 

 land meal that holds the exalted place in one's estimation. 

 Who may doubt that, if we might read the thoughts of 

 him who vainly strives to coax a relish for city restaurant 

 delicacies, we should discover him sighing for the savor 

 of those robust viands which appeased the appetite of that 

 October night, when one heavy foot was dragged after 

 the other, until the fire glow gladdened his eyes and the 

 savory odor of the venison greeted his nostrils. 



use of this animal for driving. Such a law was deemed 

 necessary because the escape of criminals was often ac- 

 complished by their being driven beyond the border in 

 moose sledges. In our own country, for the last hundred 

 years, moose have been occasionally used for driving, 

 and in the "Western States of late years it has been quite 

 common to see a moose at a county fair trotting a match 

 against a horse. Not very long ago such an exhibition 

 was given at one of the Nebraska fairs. The night before 

 the trotting there had been a heavy rain storm, and the 

 day following was sultry and extremely hot. The moose 

 and the horse trotted one heat, the former coming in a 

 little bit ahead, animals, drivers and wagons being 

 splashed to the eyes with mud. At the close of the 

 second heat, the horse was seen trotting nobly toward the 

 judge's stand, but the moose did not appear at the turn, 

 and it was discovered a little later that on coming to a 

 pool of water on the track about half way around the 

 circle, it had refused to go further and had lain down and 

 wallowed in tbe mud. Of late years tame moose have 

 become so common that it seems that there should be no 

 difficulty in getting up a team for driving purposes if any 

 one desired to try the experiment. 



The American counsel before tha Bering Sea Tribunal 

 of arbitration have presented a novel contention respect- 

 ing the property rights of the United States in the seals of 

 the Pribilofl" Islands. They argue that the seals breed on 

 American territory; that when they leave this territory 

 and wander away hvmdreds of miles upon the high seas, 

 they have always an animum revertendi, a "disposition to 

 return" to the breeding grounds; that because of this ten- 

 dency to come home again they are the property of the 

 United States; and that as such property they may be de- 

 fended against capture the world over, even when outside 

 of the recognized jurisdiction of this government. This 

 is ingenious reasoning; but if it were accepted as sound, it 

 would upset our game and fish laws and turn things topsy- 

 turvy. Under such a ruling, for instance, the wild ducks 

 bred in Canada and migrating south in the autumn, but 

 always with an animum revertendi, a disposition to return 

 to Canada in the spring, would be the property of the 

 Canadians; and if a gunner down in Virginia or North 

 Carolina should shoot any of them on their way down or 

 back, Canada would promptly demand reparation; and 

 for every Canadian duck killed on Currituck we should 

 have an international incident on om- hands. We would 

 all rejoice to see the Pribdoff seals put under United States 

 protection, on land or on the high seas, but when it comes 

 to applying such logic to ducks, the opposition would poll 

 a large and enthusiastic vote. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



Now that the United States Supreme Com-t has sus- 

 tained the validity of the Anti-Chinese Act, we would like to 

 have a ruling from some competent body on the constitu- 

 tional aspects of the non-resident tag law made by the 

 Supervisors of Yates county, N. Y. This enactment de- 

 clares that it shall be unlawful for any non-resident of 

 Yates county to shoot game in the county without having 

 obtained from some justice of the peace a $10 hcense "for 

 the privilege of so doing." The penalty is |25, and the 

 Yates county folks are even less generous than the Dor- 

 chester covmty, Md., people, for there is no such conces- 

 sion to aliens who have married into the tribe; you have 

 to pay the |10 even if your wife was a Yates county girl. 



In a brief note accompanying a reproduction of our cut 

 of the moose in harness, the English Land and Water 

 says that this is the first time it has ever heard of a moose 

 in shafts. The statement, of course, springs from a con- 

 fusion of names, the moose of America being the elk of 

 Europe. It is sufficiently well known that centuries ago 

 the elk was quite commonly used for driving in Norway 

 and Sweden. So common was its use, in fact, that a law 

 was at length made forbidding under heavy penalties the 



If we were to accuse Messrs. Lawrence, Butler & Ben- 

 ham (fur dealers of Columbus, O.) of having stolen bodily, 

 hoof, hide, hair, horns and hump, our White Goat, from 

 the illustrated supplement of Feb. 3 last, they would per- 

 haps retort that they had not committed theft, since there 

 can be no larceny of wild game. Nevertheless we ven- 

 ture to say to Messrs. Lawrence, Butler & Benham that, 

 having appropriated our goat illustration for use in their 

 advertisements in the May magazines, they have shown 

 themselves decidedly unpatriotic in labeling it a "Japan- 

 ese Angolia." The white goat may not be a phantom of 

 beauty, but all ugly as he is, we cherish him as a true-blue 

 American institution, peculiar to the crags and peaks of 

 our own wild and wooly West. There is nothing Japan- 

 esque about him, not even his pose; and no good citizen, 

 unless having an invoice of furs to work off under a fancy 

 name, would shear his owm land of the white goat's glory 

 to give it to the heathen. 



A correspondent who relates that he went into the 

 mountains from Ovando, Mont., and near Fish Lake 

 within a daj' and a half slew a doe, a buck, another doe 

 and her fawn, and two cow elk, then refrained from 

 shooting any of the two dozen deer subsequently encoun- 

 tered, because he was "glutted with the sport" — and did 

 not care to kfil more than he could give away. Let us be 

 thankful that some line is drawn, even by the glut- 

 tons who must be glutted ; and that, as Charles Kingsley 

 might have phrased it, of butchering big game as of all 

 other carnal jjleasures there cometh satiety at the end. 



As an adjective "doggy" is quite bad enough, but 

 "dogly" is worse. In due time we shall have "pugly" 

 and "Skyely." 



