Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Terms, ?4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. 
Six Months, $3. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1894 
VOL XLIII. — No. 2. 
No. 318 Broadway, New York. 
For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 43 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial. 
Strikes and Fishing Waters. 
Passports. 
An African Game Scheme. 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
Forest and Stream Yellowstone 
Park Game Exploration. 
Camp Life at Clear Lake. 
Ouananicne Notes. 
A Drive on the "Saulketche." 
Stories of Ezra— vi. 
Natural History. 
A Study of Daddy-Long-Legs. 
Serpent Suicide. 
Game Bag and Gun. 
Netting Wild Pigeons 
Deer In New Hampshire. 
Wisconsin Ducks and Deer. 
The Prospect for Quail in Ten- 
nessee. 
Non-Resident Sportsmen in 
. Arkansas. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
Fishing in Canada. 
Angling Notes. 
Boston Anglers. 
Salmon Feeding in Freshwater. 
Fishculture. 
Warden Mover's 'Good Record. 
Netters Brought to Terms. 
The Kennel. 
New York's Dog Shelter. 
Poisoning Dogs. 
The New Bloodhound Club. 
Points and Flushes. 
Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 
Dog Chat. 
Kennel Answers. 
Yachting. 
The Clyde Races. 
Open Courses. 
Vigilant's Passage. 
Club Races and Regattas. 
Yachting "News Notes. 
Canoeing. 
The A. C. A. Meet, 1894. 
Royal C. C. Cup. 
Canoeing Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Revolver Shooting in England. 
Rifle at San Antonio. 
Greenville vs. Excelsior. 
Rifle Notes. 
Trap Shooting. 
Another Method of Handicap- 
pin?. 
New England Shooting Associa- 
tion. 
Binghamton's First Annual. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Answers to Queries. 
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STRIKES AND FISHING WATERS. 
One of the minor inconveniences of living under the 
rule of a Dictator is the impossibility of knowing with any 
certainty whether one may go fishing or not when he 
wants to go and has planned to go. In ordinary circum- 
stances, and under a form of government such as we 
have been accustomed to, whose affairs are administered 
by a simple President, the intending sportsman tourist is 
required to take into consideration only his own personal 
inclination and such factors as the restraints of his busi- 
ness or occupation, the health of his family, the resources 
of his purse, the dates designated in his copy of the 
Game Laws in Brief, the schedules of railroad and steam- 
boat time-tables, and perhaps the responsibility and effi- 
ciency of his alarm clock. These permitting, and the 
"sign" being right, he packs his grip and goes. For the 
most part, all these customary conditions are determinable 
in advance, one may count upon them with reasonable 
assurance and may lay his plans accordingly. 
But under the new order everything is changed, and 
one must take into account the whim, which no one on 
earth can predicate, of some crazy genius, who was never 
heard of before yesterday, and will never be heard of 
after to-morrow, but who for the brief moment is the 
mushroom autocrat of the hour. With the appearance of 
the Dictator, fishing plans are suddenly discovered to be 
all awry, and projected outings are thwarted by the will 
of the new ruler, who shuts down the railroads of the 
land, and who says to his subjects, stop, and they stop; 
and to his victims, stay, and they stay. 
Strike statistics, which have to do with roads tied up, 
and men on strike, and troops called in, and traffic sus- 
pended, and property destroyed, and human lives sacri- 
ficed, do not concern themselves with any enumeration of 
the hosts of fishermen who have been compelled to forego 
their contemplated outings during the past fortnight by 
the interruption of railroad travel; but the multitude of 
them is to be reckoned by thousands; and the aggregate 
of disappointment and inconvenience and bitterness of 
spirit is something altogether incalculable. 
There is a certain degree of comfort to be derived from 
what might be termed the philosophy of comparative 
misfortune, by the aid of which one may find alleviation 
of his personal sense of injury in contrasting his own 
hard lot with the harder lot of another. We commend 
this, for what it is worth, to those who have been robbed 
of expected holidays by the railroad strike. They may 
very well reflect that to be deprived of a fishing trip is 
after all but a trivial hardship when compared with the 
loss, discomfort and distress which have been inflicted 
upon other people. What the traveling public has suf- 
fered at the hands of these guilty leaders can never be 
told. The security and pleasure of traveling have been 
converted into peril and apprehension. Business engage- 
ments have been broken, family reunions deferred. Glad 
anticipations of home coming have given place to anxiety 
and suspense. Most cruel of all has been the delay of 
those who were speeding to the sick beds of loved ones, 
some hurrying for the everlasting farewells of the 
chamber of death. Surely if there be any lightening of 
our own troubles by weighing them in the balance against 
those of others, there is abundant opportunity for such 
comfort here. But the weak point of this philosophy is 
precisely like the weakness of much other philosophy 
ancient and modern, that it proves to be more satisfac- 
tory in speculative theory than in practical application; 
and the average man who has been cheated of his fishing 
will not be likely to find in it much compensation for his 
disappointment. 
PASSPORTS. 
Passports are so essential in Russia that Russian law- 
yers define man as a being made up of three parts — a 
body, a soul and a passport. If non-resident shooting 
and fishing legislation goes on in this country the time 
will come when the Russian definition of a man will be 
the American definition of a sportsman. 
the abstract, will begrudge it the dollar demanded of 
him. The secretary is Mr. Thomas W. Blacksione, Ac- 
comac C. H., Va. 
We noted at the time of its adoption a foolish ordi- 
nance of the Livingston county, N. Y., supervisors, 
requiring non-residents to take out a fishing license with 
a $10 fee attachment. This un-American law was an 
outgrowth of spite. Certain citizens of that county had 
been prosecuted for violations of the fishing laws, and 
as they alleged the prosecution had been instigated by 
persons who lived in adjoining counties. They were irri- 
tated and devised the non-resident rule to "get even." 
As might have been anticipated, a regulation having no 
better justification than this could not be sustained by 
the second thought of the community and naturally 
enough it has proved a dead letter. Foreigners from 
Monroe and other neighboring counties are not required 
to have their passports viseed before fishing in Livings- 
ton. We congratulate the people of that county that the 
American spirit has thus triumphed over a reactionary 
sentiment worthy of Russia. 
Virginia has modified the non-resident discrimination 
affecting non-residents shooting wildfowl in Accomac 
and Northampton counties. Under the old law non- 
residents were forbidden to shoot wildfowl any State 
tide-waters except in Accomac and Northampton, where an 
exception was made in behalf of those who shot for 
pleasure and not for profit and were under the guidance 
of a resident. The modified statute now in force retains 
the general provision forbidding non-resident shooting of 
wild geese and wild ducks in the State at large; but it 
permits non-residents to shoot in Accomac and North- 
ampton without restriction other than they must be mem- 
bers of the Eastern Shore Game Protective Association, 
and must comply with its by-laws. 
This Association, chartered by the Legislature of 1894, 
has been formed for the purposes, as set forth in its char- 
ter, of procuring and securing enforcement of a wise and 
judicious system of laws for the preservation of the game 
of the Eastern Shore, restocking such portions of the 
shore as are depleted of game, offering rewards for the 
killing of game-destroying animals and birds, the encour- 
agement of an interest on the part of the people in pre- 
serving of the game laws and informing upon and secur- 
ing the punishment of the violators of such laws. The 
initiation fee is one dollar and the annual dues are one 
dollar. If the Association shall in any measure accom- 
plish the worthy purposes of its formation, no visitor, 
whatever opinion he may hold a» to non-resident laws in 
AN AFRICAN GAME SCHEME. 
They are undertaking in South Africa what we are 
accomplishing in America with our National Park, to 
preserve from extinction representative species of indig- 
enous game animals, Africa has commonly been re- 
garded as the home of an innumerable and inexhaustible 
supply of wild animals, but the principle holds in Africa 
as everywhere else, that no native stock can withstand 
the encroachment of civilization and of indiscriminate 
pursuit. The immediate prospect is that without some 
measure to arrest the present rate of destruction, many 
species will follow the quagga into extinction. 
Europeans have been mainly responsible for this condi- 
tion, and it is altogether fitting that Great Britain should 
now be considering a remedy. A provisional committee 
of British sportsmen and naturalists, called to provide a 
plan of protection for African game, proposes that a soci- 
ety shall be formed which shall have for its object the 
preservation of small herds of each of the thirty-five to 
forty distinct game species which appear to require such 
intervention. The scheme provides for an inclosed tract 
of 100,000 acres, surrounded by a fence of wire, this to be 
strengthened by a hedge of live thorn on the outside. 
The eland, koodoo, roan and sable antelopes, hartebeest, 
zebra, blue wildebeest, reedbuck and other game still ex- 
ist in the district where the preserve is to be built and 
could be driven into the inclosure, while the preserve 
could be stocked with the captured young of other 
species. 
The progress of this African enterprise will be watched 
with keen interest the world over. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
In the Santa Barbara Press last month there appeared 
an account written by Dr. Lorenzo Yates of the killing 
of two female, or young, mountain sheep, on the Fern- 
dale Rancho, near Santa Paula, in Ventura county, 
southern California. The last published account, so far 
as we recollect it, of the killing of a bighorn in this 
neighborhood, was in the Forest and S- tream in 1887, the 
animal, having been killed by the late Israel Miller, a 
jeweler of Santa Barbara. The killing of these two 
animals shows that there are still a few mountain sheep 
in the coast range in southern California and, of course, 
it is well known that they occur in small numbers still 
further to the south, in the mountains of Lower Califor- 
nia. It is greatly to be wished that steps might be taken 
to preserve these few remaining individuals of one of our 
finest game animals. The specimens told of by Dr. 
Yates appear to have been killed in May or June, and 
their destruction at such a time was a violation of the 
game laws of the State. 
"And then the air about there was blue," usually and 
conventionally concludes the story teller when he has 
described how the tackle parted at the critical moment or 
the gun hung fire. The statement is a paraphrase 
intended to convey in a jocular manner an intimation 
that somebody swore vehemently. It is a variation of 
the common expression that one "swore a blue streak." 
Its use in field sketches might be traced, perhaps, to the 
days when Dr. Faustus went fishing with Mephistopheles, 
for between them they had a way of making the air blue. 
From that time to this, chroniclers of the adverse fortunes 
of the sportsman have not failed to envelop him in a halo 
of profanity in the moment of his chagrin. The supply 
of this blue air is to all appearances inexhaustible; but we 
have long suspected that the average reader of field litera- 
ture would quite cheerfully get along without it. 
The term of Forest and Stream's publication has 
been notable for the development of artistic and mechan- 
ical processes. It would have been impossible twenty 
years ago, by any method then in vogue, to produce such 
realistic pictures of wild life as are given in our game 
illustrations in current issues. The plates from which 
these pictures are printed are made directly from the 
photographic negative, without the intervention of the 
artist's pencil. They are faithful representations of nature; 
they show the real thing as the sunlight paints it; and for 
that reason, it need hardly be said, they are a thousand 
times more satisfactory and valuable than any drawing 
would be. 
