Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1896. 
j VOL. ZLVI.— No. 12. 
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THE "FOREST AND STREAM" INDIANS. 
Perhaps the most noteworthy of the exhibits on view 
this week at the Madison Square Garden is the Forest 
and Stream's Indian camp. It is especially noteworthy 
because it is the real thing, the exhibition in New York 
to-day of a little piece of the old "West— brought 2,500 
miles East and carried twenty-five years back in time. 
Here is seen the old-fashioned skin lodge with the fire 
burning on the ground in the middle, the beds ranged 
around the walls and the door covered by the skin of a 
wolf — a medicine animal among many buffalo eating 
tribes. Behind the lodge stands the tripod which sup- 
ports the medicine bundles and the sacred Thunder Pipe, 
which is of great antiquity. On the other side of the 
lodge stands another tripod on which hang the arms of 
the owner of the lodge; his bow and arrows, his shield 
and his lance, his raw-hide rope, his riding whip and 
other arms and implements. Scattered on the ground 
are skins of wolves, coyotes, mountain sheep, mountain 
lions. These are all either tanned or to be dressed for 
clothing. 
Still further north is the sweat lodge, a frame of willow 
twigs woven into a bird-cage like structure. On the 
ground within is the place for the fire, where the stones 
are heated, and the painted skull of a buffalo bull. In 
this sweat lodge the members of the war party will take 
their medicine sweat before they start on their expedition 
of difficulty and danger. Before they do this, a fire is 
kindled in the lodge and the stones heated; then the 
frame is covered with robes or skins and the members of 
the party creep under them and sit about the fire, the 
leader of the party carrying his pipe. Water is thrown 
on the hot stones and a thick steam t rises. Then the 
leader lights his pipe and smokes to the sky, to the ground 
and to the four cardinal points, and then he blows 
the smoke toward the bull's skull, and prays to the 
buffalo bulls, saying: "O, bulls, hear us this day and 
take pity on us. As you are able well to lead your people 
where you think they ought to go, so let me lead these 
my people in the right way and to success; as you are 
strong to run over whatever is in your way, so let us run 
right over our enemies when they are before us; as you 
have swift feet to run away when you are attacked and 
made afraid, so let us all, if we are attacked by too great 
numbers, have the power to run swiftly, so that we may 
escape. Accept this smoke which we offer to you and 
hear us now as we are setting forth to meet danger." 
Then the waiting warriors join in the prayer, "Hear us; 
pity us." More water is thrown an the hot stones, the 
men offer each some sacrifice, it may be a part of his 
body, sacred songs are sung, and when the ceremony is 
over the party starts off on its way to war. 
One of the most interesting articles in the camp is the 
tanned robe, on the flesh side of which Young Bear Chief 
has painted his coups — in other words, has written the 
history of the important events of his life. In the early 
days he was a great warrior, and on this skin he has set 
down in pictograph the account of all his important war 
journeys. Here are pictured the camp3 that he has stolen 
into by night, the horses that he has taken, the enemies 
that he has killed; and these pictures, if they could be 
translated and written out by a master of English, would 
form a volume which for interest and excitement would 
far exceed anything that civilized man can imagine. It 
is the true story of a brave man whose sole delight was 
war, and whose sole occupation in those old days was the 
war path, going or returning. 
It is impossible here to give even a brief catalogue of 
the interesting old-time implements and relics which the 
Forest and Stream camp contains. There is in it noth- 
ing new, nothing made for trade. Each article has been 
used a thousand times and has its own interesting history. 
To wander through this camp >nd see these old things 
brings back again so vividly the old days, which some of 
us think were the best days, that it is almost more of a 
pain than a pleasure tO do so. 
, THE NATIONAL ZOO. 
In our columns last week) attention was called to a law 
which greatly hampers the National Zoological Park at 
Washington,fand will always retard its growth and devel- 
opment. Congress, which appropriates the money for the 
support of this Park, provides in its appropriation bill that 
none of this money shall be expended for the direct en- 
1 argement of the collections, and forbids its juse for the 
purchase of animals, although permitting the payment of 
transportation charges on specimens donated to the insti- 
tution. As a result of this provision it is very difficult for 
the Garden to secure any except native American species. 
Now and then, it is true, some showman or menagerie 
keeper may loan an elephant, a lion or a hippopotamus to 
the Park, but such loans are likely to be withdrawn at 
any time. It is but a short time since a splendid hippopot- 
amus — loaned to the garden, and which had been there 
for a year or more, and about whose temper and physical 
condition much was therefore known — was sold for 
about one-third its real value. If funds for the 
purchase of this specimen had been available it 
would have made a most desirable addition to 
the National collection. But although Congress de- 
clines to allow animals to be purchased for this Park, it 
does not forbid the reception of gifts, and an opportunity 
offers itself here for a wealthy man to spend his money 
in a very interesting and delightful way by purchasing 
from time to time desirable specimens and presenting 
them to the.Garden. There must be many wealthy resi- 
dents of Washington who are in a position to help these 
collections in this manner, and such persons after having 
made their gifts to the Garden will always have the 
specimens which they have presented under their own 
eyes, where their condition can be watched and their 
progress noted. The excellent health enjoyed by the 
animals confined in the Washington Zoo warrants the be- 
lief that such generous action would have its reward. 
Gifts to this institution would live and thrive for a long 
time, to give pleasure to the public and to be objects of 
especial interest and delight to their donor. 
DR. NICHOLAS ROWE. 
After a long and painful illness, Dr. Nicholas Rowe 
died at his home in Chicago, on Tuesday, March 10, aged 
54 years. 
Dr. Rowe's youth was spent in the Barbadoes; he came 
to the United States and graduated in medicine, but his 
tastes and inclinations being more for the sports of the 
rod and gun, he abandoned medicine for the profession of 
sporting journalism. He attained some fame as a writer 
under the nom deplume of Mohawk before he began his 
editoral career in the year 1876. From that time till his 
death he was specially identified with the action and 
development of the sporting world as it pertains to the 
healthful pleasures of land and water. He was a mem- 
ber of many kennel and shooting clubs, and was a liberal 
contributor to their success. He was one of the most 
widely known of American sportsmen. Personally he 
was a gentleman of fine presence and great personal 
magnetism, and hi3 executive ability was of a high 
order. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The effort which the Massachusetts Fish and Game 
Protective Association is making in opposition to the de- 
mands of the market dealers is regarded with an interest 
as widespread as is the territory from which the game is 
drawn to supply the Boston commission merchants. 
Boston has long had the undesirable repute of being a 
port of entry for goods contraband in other cities and 
States. It affords a market for game after the markets 
elsewhere have closed. We published last week the very 
intelligent and convincing argument made by Mr. J. Rus- 
sell Reed before the legislative Committee on Fisheries 
and Game. The enactment of a law limiting the sale of 
game through the open season as it prevails in Massachu- 
setts would be a distinct gain for game protection. 
A press dispatch from Denison, Tex., the other day 
recorded the feat of a Kansas man who in one day had 
killed 151 quail over a dog, "the greatest record at quail 
shooting ever held in the' Southwest," and it was asked 
who could beat this quail shooting. Our notion is that 
almost any industrious Kansas shooter could beat the 
record, if he went about his work under proper conditions; 
but he would not be obliged to travel to Texas to accom- 
plish the feat. If one is to shoot quail for the purpose of 
making a big score to brag of, the more expeditious 
method is first to have the birds trapped, crated and 
brought to the scene of operations. Score shooters of 
quail would do well to adopt the customary methods of 
trap-Bhooting. 
General satisfaction was expressed when Florida adopted 
a law last winter limiting the number of quail an indi- 
vidual or a shooting party might take in a day, for it was 
anticipated that the statute would tend to discourage the 
inordinate record-hunting destruction of birds by guests 
of Florida hotels. Something may have been accom- 
plished by the law in checking the abuse, but record 
shooting is still in full sway at some of the West Coast 
hotels, and pains are taken to chronicle the fact that 
some new record hunter has outdone all who went before 
him. In every one of these cases, of course, the breaking 
of the record means the breaking of the law as well; but 
the law apparently is the very last thing for a quail 
shooter to think of in Florida. 
The Maine courts have decided, in the case of the ninety 
carcasses of venison shipped by schooner to the Boston 
market last winter, that the game having been killed 
legally might lawfully be shipped from the State. This 
decision was given before the rendering of the decision 
by the United States Supreme Court in the Connecticut 
export case. The result of that case was such as to make 
certain that if the existing Maine law does not answer 
the purpose of making game export a punishable 
offense, a new statute may be drawn which will effect 
this. We ought all to be grateful to Mr. Geer for his 
distinguished services in the cause of protection. What 
Mr. Geer has done is no less valuable because of the fact 
that the result was not in the least of his own seeking. 
His name will long be remembered with gratitude. 
The importance of the Geer case decision, because of 
its probable effect upon game protection, has had very 
general recognition, and the report of it as given in full 
exclusively in .the Forest and Stream last week has 
aroused great interest and given decided encouragement 
to workers for protection. As we have pointed out, this 
decision indicates the direction in which effort should be 
expended in shaping legislation. Here we have a law 
which the highest authority says will stand the test. 
There need be no more half-hearted prosecutions under a 
non-export statute because of apprehensions respecting 
the attitude toward it of the courts of appeal. There can 
be no appeal. 
We are so accustomed to note the constant diminishing 
of our game covers that we fail to give heed to the fact 
that wild nature is continually reclaiming her own from 
the dominion of man. A recent writer in Garden and 
Forest records that having driven through most of 
the hill districts of western Massachusetts in re- 
cent years, he has constantly been impressed by the 
extent of the areas which have reverted to wood- 
land, and which promise to remain wild and uncul- 
tivated for generations to come. 
