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Forest and Stream. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1894 
No. 
VOL XLHL— No. 4. 
318 Broadway, New York. 
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CONTENTS. 
Editorial. 
No. 80.781. 
May the President go Spring 
Shooting? 
Snap Shots. 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
The Prescription. 
Down the Florida Coast. 
Natural History. 
Watching a Grouse Drum. 
Winter Home of the Barren 
Ground Caribou. 
In Washington Wilds. 
Camp-Fire Flickeringrs. 
Game Bag and Gun. 
Quail Packing. 
Bay Birds at Martin's Point. 
Big Game in Chicago's Suburbs. 
The Pennsylvania Association 
Sea and River Fishing. 
On the North Shore of Lake 
Superior. 
Why He Was Glum. 
Feeding Habits of Trout. 
Angling in Tasmania. 
Black Bass in Kankakee. 
Boston and Maine. 
Lake Minnewaska. 
News from the Fishing Waters. 
Angling Notes. 
Fishculture. 
A Menace to the Yougbiogheny 
River. 
Fishculture. 
Protection in Ohio. 
The Kennel. 
Show Beagles as Field Dogs. 
Death of Champion Bracket. 
Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 
Points and Flushes. 
Dog Chat. 
Kennel Answers. 
Yachting. 
Vigilant's Races. 
Plain Common Sense. 
Fair Play for an American 
Yachtsman. 
Yachting News Notes. 
Canoeing. 
A. C. A. Meet. 
W. C. A Meet. 
Canoeing Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Lyman Time Limitation System. 
Dominion Off-Hand Rifle Asso r 
ciation. 
Revolver Shooting in England. 
Rifle Notes 
Trap Shooting. 
The Interstate at Louisville. 
Big Shooting at Baltimore. 
Granville Gun Club Tournament. 
Carver Defeates Elliott. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Answers to Queries. 
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No. 80,781. 
If you will examine your revolver you will see that it 
is numbered, probably way up in the tens of thousands. 
Every revolver turned out by reputable houses has its in- 
dividual number. When a revolver is sold the manufac- 
turers invoice it by this number, and thus they can tell 
when it leffc the factory and where it went to. This sys- 
tem made a vast deal of trouble for a New York lawyer 
the other day and led to his indictment for perjury. 
The trial of a case in one of the courts of this city on 
April 24 last had wound up with a shooting affray be- 
tween the parties in interest, and the supposed assailant 
in the disgraceful affair was put on trial in the present 
month, charged with assault with intent to kill. In be- 
half of the defendant Lawyer M. J. Stein testified that 
on the occasion of the affray of April 24 he had wrested 
a revolver from the hands of some one who was in the 
act of firing it at the defendant. The revolver, a Smith. 
& Wesson, was produced in evidence, and Judge Mar tine, 
before whom the case was being tried, recorded its num- 
ber, which was 80,781. 
The District Attorney thereupon telegraphed to the 
manufacturers to learn on what date revolver No. 80,781 
had left their works. They consulted their books and 
found that it had been shipped to Messrs. Schoverling, 
Daly & Gales, of this city, on June 16, which was over seven 
weeks later than the date, April 24, when Mr. Stein testi- 
fied he had seized it in a New. York court room. This 
statement of the manufacturers was corroborated by the 
records of the consignees here, who had received revolver 
No. 80,871 on June 18. The shipping clerk of the makers 
and the receiving clerk of the receivers appeared in court; 
and together they made out a very black case against Mr. 
Stein, who nevertheless stoutly asseverated that he had 
taken a revolver in the scuffle of April 24, had locked it 
up in his safe, and believed it to be the one produced in 
court. On the testimony of the clerks an indictment for 
perjury was found against him. It was testimony that 
could not be impeached; the evidence supplied by the man- 
ufacturers' system of numbering their arms was impreg- 
nable. The revolver which Mr. Stein produced in court 
and swore that he had had in his possession in New York 
city on April 24, he could not have had, for it had not 
left the factory of the makers in Springfield until June 16. 
Nevertheless, and this is the most satisfactory part of 
the story, Mr. Stein was not guilty of perjury. He was 
simply mistaken as to the identity of the revolver seized 
on April 24 and the one shown in court on July 2. He 
found no difficulty in showing by ample testimony of 
witnesses that he actually had taken a revolver from a 
person in the court room on April 24, and he finally made 
himself believe, and the District Attorney believed with 
him, that the arm No. 80,781 had been substituted for it 
by some third party, without his knowledge. The indict- 
ment was therefore dismissed, and Mr. Stein went forth 
from the court room, as the presiding judge declared, 
without a stain upon his honor as a man or as a lawyer. 
Let us trust that No. 80,781 may never inflict upon any 
other a more lasting injury than it brought upon its first 
victim. 
MAY THE PRESIDENT GO SPRING-SHOOTING-? 
Considered from the standpoint of right sportsmanship 
is it permissible for the President of the United States to 
go shore bird and duck shooting in the spring of the year? 
The question is suggested by the notes of a Virginia cor- 
respondent, who writes of his own spring- shooting at 
Currituck, and recalls that President Cleveland visited 
the same waters for bay bird shooting last May. It is a 
question which will be answered promptly and decidedly 
in the negative by one class of shooters, and quite as 
promptly and vehemently in approval by another class. 
This means that spring-shooting ia a practice as to the 
merits of which the sentiment of sportsmen is by no 
means uniform, and the most that can be said is that Mr. 
Cleveland as a spring shooter is a good sportsman in the 
estimation of those who believe in spring-shooting, 
and an unworthy sportsman in the eyes of those who con- 
demn it. 
The signs of the times, however, are not difficult to 
read. They indicate a growing sentiment against spring- 
shooting, a strengthened conviction of the unwisdom of 
killing migratory species of game on the way to its breed- 
ing grounds. They point to a time when spring shooting 
shall be discountenanced. In their excursions for game 
in the early months of the year, President Cleveland and 
President Harrison before him have done as sportsmen in 
good standing that which their successors twenty-five 
years from now may not do and preserve a standing in 
the craft. 
There remains another question which has just been 
raised in certain quarters, in connection with this May 
shooting trip of President Cleveland. It does not have to 
do with the sportsmanship of shooting at certain times 
and seasons, but with the propriety of shooting at all. 
May the President of the United States shoot birds for 
sport? That is an interesting consideration; it would be 
perhaps worth while to discuss it; and we shall. 
There is store for all who will have new life for the 
taking. He robs no fellow man, who breathes the balsam; 
he takes from another no joy of bird song, who listens to 
the hermet thrush; the outlook from the mountain brow 
is not less in expanse and in inspiration, though ten 
thousand look upon it; the glory of sunrise over the hills 
or of sunset beyond the lake is not dimmed because 
another beholds it. Here in the woods each may have 
the using of that which belongs to him and to all others 
as well, and by his using no one shall be made poorer. 
THE ' HEALING OF THE FORESTS. 
The story, which a contributor to our Sportsman Tour- 
ist pages so charmingly tells of his flight to a wilderness 
lake for rest and upbuilding, will be read by thousands 
with increased interest because in it they will find a 
faithful reflection of their own experiences. A fortnight 
or a month in camp will many a time do what medicine 
and prescribed regimen are powerless to effect. The 
mountains and the woods and the lakes are for healing 
and for strength. They give the change of scene, the 
diversion of the mind, the pure air for the lungs and the 
required physical exertion, which go to make the new 
man. If any one would discover the secret of the popu- 
larity and permanence and dignity of the open air wild- 
wood recreations of fishing and shooting, he may find it 
here. They are pursuits which have an abiding place in 
the esteem and practice of mankind, because generation 
after generation has proved their worth. 
Would that a like principle of inexhaustible plenitude 
governed the supply of game and fish; for, after all, it is 
the trout or the bass, the grouse or the deer, that lures 
men into the woods. One might say, indeed, that the 
stock of fish and game would be in no danger of impair- 
ment if each one who took of them would take only his 
fair share, leaving to others their own. The store, made 
good by nature, would be all sufficient, under a rightly 
devised and honestly respected system of protection. It 
is this phase of protection that gives to the subject its 
true importance. This is why no one may regard pro- 
tection from the narrow standpoint of his own personal 
selfish interest only, nor when in the woods may be in- 
considerate of the woods rights and privileges and 
blessings which belong to others. He does rob another 
who takes more than his reasonable share of the fish; 
and he shows himself an ingrate who kills game to 
waste. That which is certainly not to be lessened by the 
using, use without stint, and in so doing you shall work 
no man injury. That which must be enjoyed sparingly, 
do not squander in recklessness nor destroy in wanton 
waste. You are not the first seeking to benefit by the 
gifts of nature, nor are you the last. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The Senate Committee on Game Laws, authorized by 
the Ne\7 York Legislature to hold sessions throughout the 
State looking to a modification of the existing game law, 
consists of Senators H. J. Donaldson (chairman) of Ball- 
ston, John L. Childs of Floral Park, L. L, and Charles L. 
Guy of New York. The committee contemplates sitting 
in the neighborhood of Geneva in the first or second week 
of August: at Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks about 
August 15, and at Saratoga probably on August 28. Due 
notice of such meetings will be given through the news- 
papers, and the committee will be very glad to receive 
suggestions relative to the modification of the present 
game law at any of the meetings in question. Further 
information may be obtained by addressing the clerk of 
the committee. Mr. C. H. Burns, 27 Pine st., New York. 
In emulation of Dowe, who claims to have invented a 
bullet-proof coat, two Americans have come forward with 
materials said to possess the 5 same quality. As war 
equipments are not just njjfaf in lively demand in this 
country, we recommend the inventors of impenetrable 
fabrics to turn their attention to the perfection of a shot 
and bullet-proof blanket for cows and horses. There 
ought to be an extensive market for such a protector 
among the farmers who have so long suffered loss of live 
stock at the hands of louts and ruffians masquerading as 
sportsmen. 
Secretary Banks of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's 
Association expresses the opinion that Pennsylvania might 
profitably follow New York and provide for game protec- 
tion and trap-shooting as two separate though allied inter- 
ests. Of course it might; and so might all the other State 
societies which are now attempting in vain to combine 
both interests in one annual convention. 
The resources of nature as a healer are not more 
efficient in their application than abundant in their sup- 
ply. The blessed influences of the woods are generous 
beyond measure, andnot to be exhausted by the spending. 
It is instructive to note that the writer who is impelled 
"to advise his fellow sportsmen to put a final veto on the 
old-time plan of taking a male cook or attempting the task 
of doing the cooking by turns," and adds, "Take your 
wife or wives with you," judiciously employs a pseudo- 
nym. 
As soon as we can secure a photograph of the ' f Ness- 
muk" Memorial, which has been set up in the village 
cemetery of Wellsboro, we shall present an illustration of 
it, and make a final report on the memorial enterprise. 
Dr. James A. Henshall is now stationed at Tampa* Fla. , 
where he is engaged in making a thorough investigation 
of the fish fauna of those waters, 
