Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal oe the Rod and Gun. 
Terms, ?4 a Yeah, 10 Ore. A Copt. I 
Six Months, 82. j 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1896. 
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VOL. ZLVL— No. 22 
No. 346 Broadway, New Yore. 
For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page viii. 
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I NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING 
Present Entrance on Leonard Street 
THE LOST MAN. 
Last summer a party of fishermen were encamped in 
the wilds of the New Brunswick forest, sixty miles from 
Boiestown, the nearest point to civilization, when in the 
darkness of the night, coming no one of them knew 
whence and going no one knew whither, emerged a wan- 
derer who proved to be demented. One of the party, our 
frequent contributor, Mr. Frederic Irland, secured a 
photograph of the wanderer and sent it to us with the 
story of the strange incident for publication. Mr. Irland's 
story of the lost man was printed in our issue of Dec. 14. 
It brought out shortly afterward a communication from 
another correspondent who wrote from Massachusetts 
that he also had come upon the lost man on the upper 
Millnoket Lake in the extreme northern part of Piscata- 
quis county, in Maine. He too had secured a pho.to- 
graph, and this we printed in our issue of Jan. 4. 
Now comes a letter, published in another column, from 
Miss Ada Cams, of New Cumberland, Ohio, in which she 
tells us that, having seen the photograph reproduced in 
our issue of Jan, 4, she has recognized the portrait as 
that of a brother who some time ago left his home in New 
Cumberland, and has since been heard from infrequently, 
as going from place to place, and in a condition of mind 
which makes it clear that he is insane. She adds a par- 
ticular request that if any other readers of the Forest and 
Stream shall come upon the unfortunate man they shall 
communicate with his family. We suggested in our note 
accompanying the second photograph of the lost man, that 
because of the wide reading of Forest and Stream, it 
would not be surprising if the publication should lead to 
his identification. It is perhaps not too much to hope 
that if the wanderer has not already passed beyond hu- 
man help, this appeal by his family may restore him to 
them once again. 
ADIRONDACK DEER. 
The laws enacted by the last Legislature of New York 
State, shortening the time daring which deer can law- 
fully be hunted with dogs or by the use of jack lights, 
will no doubt accomplish something toward lessening 
the slaughter of these animals in the Adirondack region. 
Every additional protection for deer will contribute some- 
thing to the increase in their numbers, and the sum of 
these protective influences is already being felt in certain 
sections, where the deer are apparently increasing. 
It may be well to remember that the passage of these 
bills by the Legislature is mainly due to the energy and 
persistence with which they were advocated by the Hon, 
Wm. Cary Sanger. Early in the session the importance 
of this subject was called to Mr. Sanger's attention by a 
committee of the Boone and Crockett Club appointed 
more than a year ago, and he was quick to see the bearing 
of the matter on the welfare of a large section of the State. 
Members of this committee urged the views of the Boone 
and Crockett Club on Game Law Committees of the Leg- 
islature at hearings held in Albany, while Mr. Sanger was 
insistent in the Assembly and was aided by Mr. Malby in 
the Senate, so that at last the bills passed both Houses, 
though not in the shape in which they were introduced. 
Gov. Morton, in his message to the Legislature, had 
strongly recommended greater protection of our deer, 
and when the bills came to him he promptly signed them. 
The enactment of these laws cannot fail to gratify a 
very large number of persons who, in the face of many 
discouragements and defeats, have labored long and faith- 
fully for the better protection of Adirondack deer. All 
persons who are interested in that region are to be con " 
gratulated on the passage of the bills. They are good eo 
far as they go, but it must be confessed that they do not 
go very far. They will accomplish something in several 
localities, and their influence will be good; but after al 
they are mere drops in the bucket. 
The passage of these laws chiefly through the efforts of 
Mr. Sanger, and in the face of great opposition, is a per- 
sonal triumph for him and for the club which he repre- 
sented rather than the triumph of a principle. Until the 
repeal of that provision of the New York game law which 
practically opens the market to the State for the>sale of 
game throughout the entire year, there is not much hope 
of effective game protection within this State. An organ- 
ized effort must be made to restrict the sale of game to 
the open time. Not until this shall have been done, and 
the law enforced, can the game of New York State be 
protected. 
It is unfortunate that the mischievous game bills 
brought before each Legislature could not all be opposed 
by the same forces which secured the enactment of these 
three game bills. 
INDIAN HUNTING RIGHTS. 
The United States Supreme Court on Monday of this 
week rendered its decision in the case of the Bannock 
Indians, in which was involved the rights of the Indians 
to hunt at will on the unoccupied public lands without 
regard to the game laws of the State of Wyoming. 
It will be remembered that in July of last year certain 
Indians from the Bannock reservation in Wyoming in- 
vaded the country in the vicinity of Jackson's Hole on an 
expedition for elk. The hunting of elk was at that season 
prohibited by the laws of the State. The people of the 
neighborhood turned out to drive the Indians back to their 
reservation, and made the most of the opportunity to 
shoot down some of the unresisting and defenseless 
savages. After having thus taken the law into their own 
hands and inflicted the penalty of capital punishment for 
misdemeanors which the law punishes only by fine and 
imprisonment/ the Wyoming authorities took the case 
into court, to determine the actual rights of the Bannocks 
as secured to them by the conditions of their treaty with 
the Government. The Indians had always hunted out of 
season and in defiance of the laws governing the white 
residents of the State; and appeals to the Indian Bureau 
had been met by the statement that the conditions of the 
treaty were such that the Indians could not be restrained 
from hunting at will on unoccupied public lands. The 
determination of the existence or non-existence of such a 
right was made the point of issue, and the case was car- 
ried up to the Supreme Court. 
In the decision handed down on Monday the Court holds 
that "the intent of the treaty must refer to the time when 
it was executed, and could not be construed to interfere 
with the laws of a State, erected into being by act of 
Congress subsequent to the exemption of the treaty, 
which contained no reference to the terms of that instru- 
ment." 
The decision was read by Justice White. In a dissent- 1 
ing opinion Justice Brown holds that the decision of the 
Court violated the terms of the treaty between the Indians 
and the Government; and it is more important, he argues, 
to maintain our treaty faith with the tribe than to pro- 
tect the game. 
The finding of the Supreme Court will in all probability 
put an end to the conflicts between Indians and whites 
respecting game* Agents in charge of the Bannocks 
and other tribes will hereafter have no excuse for 
granting the Indians permits to leave their reservations for 
hunting in the summer time. The Indian hunter will be 
subject to all the limitations and restrictions imposed by 
the statute. In Wyoming big game may be killed only in 
such amount as may immediately be used for food, and 
only males may be taken. This will forbid the killing of 
elk heavy with young, a pi actice which has been common 
with the Bannocks as with other tribes. 
THE PHANTOM FUOHS. 
The achievements of one Johann Fuchs, an armless 
sportsman, whose doings with rod and gun have been 
recounted with much parade of particulars in the daily 
press, excited our interest to an unusual degree; for after 
having read of the manner in which the maternal duck's 
efforts in Alaska are balked and come to naught, and 
other kindred recitals wonderful in their beginning and 
in their ending vacuous, it was a pleasure to read of the 
truly marvelous as an offset to the truly sensational. 
Briefly told, the illustrious Fuchs was born in Baden 68 
years ago, thus inconsiderately depriving this land of the 
honor of his paternity. His youth and early man- 
hood were spent in fishing on the Rhine. Coming 
to America he took up his abode at Milltown, N. J., 
where he secured employment in a rubber factory. In 
an evil hour the arms of Fuchs were crushed in a large 
grinding machine, necessitating the amputation of the 
left arm at the shoulder and of the right below the elbow. 
To the stump of the left arm a hook was fastened, and 
with this and his remaining elbow and his head he be- 
came quite dexterous in manual accomplishments. 
As his stipend of $1 per diem was continued thereafter, 
whether he worked or not, he exercised forbearance in 
nstituting a suit for damages, but a few years ago, as his 
emolument was cut down, he paid less attention to work 
and more to fishing, in which art he is said to be con- 
firmed, and will sit out alone all daylong in the sun wait- 
ing for a bite. In all particulars he is independent of 
others. In rowing his boat he grasps the oar with 
the stump of his right arm, presses it against his cheek, 
which he bends over to meet it, and by wriggling his 
body is able to move the boat. He holds the fishing rod 
under his armpit, allowing enough to project behind to 
balance it. He baits the hook with his mouth. His 
greatest trouble is encountered when the hook accidentally 
becomes fastened in his clothes. 
In shooting, Fuchs places the gun at his shoulder by 
means of the hook attached to the stump of his right 
arm; within reach of his mouth when the gun is in posi- 
tion are two strings fastened to the triggers; taking one in 
his teeth and jerking his head back at the proper juncture , 
the gun is discharged. He is a good shot and often kills 
rabbits at sixty yards, and many of them in a season. He 
loads the gun, drives the powder home with a ramrod 
(which he forces with his elbow and withdraws with the 
hook), loading with great precision and dispatch. 
Such is an abstract — feeble at best, as an abstract must 
needs be — of the life and doings of the armless Fuchs. 
What could be presented with a more touching combina- 
tion of the pathetic, the industrious? What buoyancy 
under adversity, mind transcending matter. With hands 
on he avoided work and fished. Hands being gone, he 
fishes the more. He baited the hook with his mouth, 
presumably using a spoon. He held the rod as best he 
could. He pulled the trigger of the gun with his teeth 
and was a deadly rabbit shot. At last here was a sports- 
man with an impulse which neither misfortune, nor ad- 
versity nor work could deter. 
But we wished to pay homage more directly to so 
worthy a celebrity. His identity was worthy of being 
verified specially. In an age when the fabulous ahd the 
sensational so often predominate, it was discreet to give 
Fuchs the benefit of all doubts as to his doings and his 
identity. So we wrote to the postmaster of Milltown for 
information concerning Mr. Fuchs's sportsmanship. Alas ! 
there is no Fuchs. There is in all New Jersey no man 
without arms who puts helgramites on his hook with his 
teeth, who shoots a gun, who fishes, who saws wood. It 
is a fable. 
Fuchs, the wonderful, is but an airy phantom, a crea- 
ture of the fake makers, a product of the fancy. 
THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
The title "Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mam- 
malogy of the Agricultural Department" is one which 
for clumsiness and obscurity it would be hard to equal. 
Notwithstanding the load which the Bureau has thus 
long staggered under, it has succeeded in setting on foot 
under the able management of Dr. C. Hart Merriam some 
of the most important biological work that has ever been 
done in this country. Congress in its wisdom has seen 
fit to change the title of the Bureau, and it is now to be 
called the United States Biological Survey, a dignified 
name and one which has a meaning and which expresses 
just what the Survey is doing. The field work of this 
Survey for the year 1896 has already begun. 
