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the way in, and who had been obliged to leave us at the 
end of the first week in camp. Did you ever run across 
people when away from home, and perfect strangers, 
people from whom you had no moral right to expect 
more than civility, and yet who used you so well as to 
make you almost ashamed of your own relatives? Well, 
that's the kind of people we went to, perfect strangers, 
and came away glad to call friends. In fact, anyone we 
met showed us the greatest kindness. That sort of 
thing makes a vacation kind of pleasant to look back 
upon. 
One thing I noticed with much regret was the local 
feeling in regard to the game laws, or rather the officers 
appointed to look after their enforcement. Never did I 
get into a section where there was such a general expres- 
sion of the utter unfitness for office, as was everywhere 
heard regarding the game wardens in that part of Maine, 
and from their methods of enforcing the law as told by 
any number of reputable persons, the contempt in which 
they are held would seem well merited. It was said that 
this feeling was so strong that the wardens dared not go 
in the woods alone. My only acquaintance among the 
Maine wardens was Steve Lowell, of the,Eangeleys, a man 
who would command the respect of any one coming in 
contact with him, and the drop from honest old "Steve" 
to what specimens we saw was striking, to put it mildly. 
We only saw one evidence of dogging and that on our 
way out. A party of four drove up in front of a hotel 
with five deer under the seat and two bounds in their 
laps. No conclusive evidence that they had been dogging 
of course, but such an open defiance of the laws of the 
State was disgusting. How a party of men calling them- 
selves sportsmen could parade the evidence of their law- 
lessness in such a brazen manner is astonishing. What 
influence can they expect such an example will have on 
the local hunters who see outsiders coming out of the 
woods with such a palpable disregard for their laws. 
Hal. 
NORTH CAROLINA GAME 
The game laws in North Carolina have had an excellent 
effect. The people of the State, especially in the western 
section, are law-abiding people and it is rather a peculiar 
fact that they have insisted strictly and invariably that 
the game laws be carried out to the very letter. The re- 
sult is that the game in the mountains of western North 
Carolina is much larger than it has ever been before, and 
the general opinion is that the bird crop, so to speak, is 
much larger than it has ever been before since the war. 
It is no trouble whatever^to flush a dozen coveys within a 
half -day's hunt, even in the section surrounding the city 
of Asheville. The birds have been taken care of, and those 
who have posted their plantations are just now in the 
position to offer the visitors to Asheville splendid quail 
shooting. The first flight of woodcock has just taken 
place. The lowlands along the French Broad River are 
said to be teeming with this splendid bird, and the hun- 
ters are anxious to get a shot at them. The law forbids, 
however, any shooting in western North Carolina, of 
woodcock or quail until Nov. 1. The mountaineers bring 
the news that there is a large quantity of pheasants all 
over the mountain ranges, and a larger number of deer 
to be seen this fall than in a long while. Mr. E. P. Mc- 
Kissick, manager of the Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, 
tells us that he can offer the best class of shooting as he 
has privileges on a number of plantations around Ashe- 
ville, being somewhat of a sportsman himself he is pre- 
pared to take out parties on his private hunting places on 
the plantations around Asheville and in the Great Smoky 
Mountains. 
The Swananoa Hunt Club of Asheville has been recently 
resuscitated. Col. Cox, owner of the Battery Park, has 
just completed a magnificent club house on the grounds 
of the hotel, which he has given to the Hunt Club; and 
besides this he has built a country club house for the club 
four miles from Asheville on the French Broad River. 
These two houses will be elegantly fixed up. The club 
membership is 100, and there is a pack of 35 hounds, most 
of them having been bought from Rodman and Meadow- 
brook hunt clubs. Mr. J. S. Churchill of New York has 
been elected master of hounds, and the Hunt Club will be 
a great success. During the winter it will give a number 
of balls which will be the most prominent social func- 
tions to be held in Asheville. 
Down on the Marsh/ 
Wabasha, Minn., Oct. 27,—Hoo, wha-who, wa-who, 
who-are-you, was the cry that greeted me in the dusk of 
evening not long since as I was putting the finishing 
touches to my abode down in the woods by the wild rice 
marsh. Stepping out of the tent I recognized my large 
round-eyed friend sitting on a limb not far away. 
"Nev*r mind who I am," I answered, "I've known you 
and your ancestry for many generations back, for not a 
year out of twenty-five have I missed camping in this 
marsh; and I never harmed a feather of your heads." 
Ke, ke-ke, Ice-he, kar-ke-war, said another not far away. 
"Yes, it's war. War on ducks, but not a war of ex- 
termination. Quality, not quantity, is what we are after 
and a few fat mallards will fill the bill. Now, keep up 
your racket all night. It's music to my ears, as a cow- 
bell would be to one when lost in the wilderness. We'll 
get a Forest and Stream plank and put it up in the tree 
for you to hoot and dance around on; and on it will be 
inscribed 'No shooting for market and no spring shoot- 
ing.' " 
"Them's my sentiments." And as the darkness came 
on I could hear my big-eyed friends talking the matter 
over. H. B. J. 
To Make Small Shot Shoot Like a Ball. 
Saranac Lake, N. Y.— I have just finished reading Mr. 
Wilkins's experience with the lion in the White River 
jungle and have often read of sportsmen meeting large 
game when they had only bird shot to shoot, and thought 
that I would mention that providing one has time to fix 
it a shell loaded with small shot can be made to do good 
work at 30yds. Take jack-knife and cut around the shell 
between powder and shot, not quite cutting all the way 
through the shell, and shoot from the cylinder barrel. 
The front half of the shell will leave the barrel with 
the shot held between the wads and cardboard and will 
bore a hole its exact size through an inch board at from 
20 to 30yds. like a single ball without a shot scattering. It 
would make bad medicine even for a lion. L. O. Crane, 
The New Jersey Duck Cases. 
Paterson, N. J., Nov. 3.— Editor Forest and Stream: I 
presume that it would be of interest to you and your 
readers to know exactly the points on which Judge Dixon 
and others endeavor to escape the penalty for having shot 
ducks from a steam launch in Greenwood Lake. I pre- 
sume the New York papers have informed you of the 
motion made by Warren Dixon in behalf of his father 
and the other defendants, this motion being to dismiss. 
The motion was refused by the justice, whereupon War- 
ren Dixon handed the justice writs of certiorari carrying 
the cases to the Supreme Court, of which Judge Dixon is 
a member. 
The points of iaw insisted upon by Warren Dixon and 
Mr. John Harding, counsel for the defendants, were the 
following two: 
First — That the justice had no jurisdiction. Sec. 36 of 
the game law of 1893 provides "that such justice of the 
peace, district court or police magistrate in any city, upon 
receiving proof by affidavit or affidavits of one or more 
persons of the, violation of any of the provisions of this act, 
is hereby authorized, etc." Counsel claimed that Justice 
Senior had no jurisdiction as he had no proof. The affida- 
vit on which the warrants were issued set forth that the 
affiant, the warden of the county, "on information and 
belief," swore that the law had been violated. Counsel 
contended that the justice must have absolute proof of 
an offense before he can issue a warrant. 
Second — That the complaint did not state where the 
offense was committed. The section of the law violated 
reads as follows: 
That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sail for, to 
shot or shoot at any goose, brant or duck from any boat or boats, 
vessel or vessels, propelled by steam or sail, etc. 
The language of the complaint is that the defendants 
did "in the State of New Jersey, county of Passaic and 
township of West Milford sail for wild duck and shoot at 
one wild duck." Counsel claims that although it is ap- 
parent that it is charged that the sailing for was done in 
West Milford township there is nothing to show that the 
shooting at was done in New Jersey, or anywhere within 
the jurisdiction of the courts of New Jersey. 
When Reuben Wells, one of the accused, was arraigned, 
he laughed at the matter and told the justice that he 
would send him his check for the fine and costs at any 
time he saw fit; as the justice himself said, Mr. Wells 
pleaded non vult. But Mr. Wells said that he would do 
as the others implicated did, and so his case has gone to 
the Supreme Court. 
Only one of the cases against De Graw was certified to 
the Supreme Court, that being the case in which he is 
charged together with Judge Dixon and the others. On 
the other case counsel made a motion to dismiss on the 
grounds stated above; this was denied by the justice and 
the case adjourned for one week. Counsel in this case 
has expressed it as his intention to fight the case in the 
Common Pleas. From the number of witnesses produced 
by the warden, counsel apparently feels convinced that 
De Graw will be convicted before the justice, wherefore 
counsel deems it better to try the case on appeal before a 
court of which Judge Inglis is one of the three judges. 
A Massachusetts Side-Hunt. 
West Chelmsford, Mass., Oct. 31. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Thinking it might interest the readers of Forest 
and Stream to read of the result of the twenty-first 
annual hunt of the Tyngsboro Gun Club, of Tyngsboro, 
Mass. , I inclose a list of the game killed during the three 
weeks the hunt has been in progress and which was 
brought in on the evening of Oct. 27, the last day of the 
hunt. To one who has been conversant with these hunts 
for several years it seems like an unnecessary slaughter, 
and contrary to the interest of true sportsmanship and 
to the interests of lovers of hunting. During the three 
weeks of the hunt so much is destroyed by decomposing 
and so much is thrown away finally that the game is 
being fast exterminated in our section, and it would seem 
uselessly. 
Why would it not be a good idea to abolish such hunts, 
and permit the game to develop and increase, and as the 
years roll along we should all see the good results of such 
action by securing more and better game. 
Incidentally, let me say, that the above-mentioned hunt 
was for a supper, sides being chosen, and the losing side 
to pay for the supper. The game killed consisted of 4 foxes, 
3 minks, 6 coons, 1 crane, 49 partridges, 1 weasel, 29 
woodcock, 6 ducks, 37 hawks, 4 owls, 1 kingfisher, 325 
crows, 35 gray squirrels, 47 muskrats, 262 jays, 2 snipe, 
65 red squirrels. . H. A. F. 
Fox Up a Tree. 
I have heard the question of foxes climbing trees dis- 
cussed for fifty years, but very few believe that they will. 
I have claimed that the gray fox would when pressed by 
dogs, but not until recently did the opportunity occur to 
settle the question without any doubt. 
On the night of Oct. 11 David Quinlan, William Wat- 
son, C. IT. Fowler and myself, with two dogs, drove from 
Getty Square, Yonkers, N. Y. , out to Bryn Mawn Station 
on the New York & Putnan R.R. When let loose the dogs 
immediately took a trail of what we supposed was a coon. 
After about three-quarters of an hour's run the supposed 
coon treed. The tree was a straight, perpendicular one, 
about 30ft. high and stood in a pond of water waist deep. 
One of our party stripped and walked in the water to the 
tree, and shot the supposed coon, but when the shore was 
reached with the game it proved to be a gray fox. This 
settles it. P. 1J. Fowler. 
A Report from New Jersey. 
Allenwood, N. J. — The prospects in and around this 
section are about as follows: Owing to the scarcity of 
nuts, gray squirrels are so greatly scattered through the 
timber that their number seems to be much smaller than 
commonly, or else they are much scarcer than they have 
been during a number of years back, for I have still- 
hunted with rifle very carefully for them several times 
and have succeeded in getting at the most only from two 
to three each day. According to the reports of local hun- 
ters and others besides and also according to my own ob- 
servations, quail and rabbits are far more numerous than 
has been the case for several years. Pheasants are about 
as plenty as commonly around here and also over in the 
adjoining county (Ocean). So taking it altogether the 
prospects for gunning this fall are rather above the aver- 
age. A. L. L. 
A Generous Louisiana Game Supply. 
Burnside, La., Oct. 30.— This is going to be a remarkable 
season for game m this section of Louisiana. The spring 
and summer have been very dry. ruinously dry for every 
crop except the quail crop. The quail have hatched out 
two broods almost without exception, and there has been 
a large crop of peas, so there has been plenty of food to 
make the birds fat and strong. I will not be able to do 
any shooting until after our grinding season, then I anti- 
cipate some very fine quail shooting. The weeds will be 
killed down by then, and the weather cooler for the dogs. 
A letter from my friend Dr. Perkins of North Louisiana 
tells me that the crop of quail was never so large as this 
year, but the weather is so dry that little work is to be 
gotten out of the dogs as yet. Last year I shot for three 
miserable, cold and rainy days with him on his farm, and 
notwithstanding the weather, we managed to bag some 
150 quail. Then too,, the birds were found mostly in the 
woods, which made the shooting rather difficult. I am 
looking forward to great days of shooting with my old 
cylinder bore quail gun up at the Doctor's place. 
I also hear that there are plenty of quail in the parish 
of New Iberia. In fact • there are plenty all through 
Louisiana this season. Snipe I don't know so much about, 
as I have not had an opportunity to get into any snipe 
country; but a letter from Mr. Walter Anderson of New 
Orleans tells me that on the 13th he bagged 43 snipe at 
Chef Menteur. Some fine snipe shooting was had last 
March by Anderson and myself over in Acadia Parish. I 
am not posted as to ducks yet; but see a good many hang- 
ing up in the market, mostly bluewing teal. 
This has been a most remarkable year for squirrels. 
Where have they all come from? They have been killed 
by the hundreds around here. I have been out four morn- 
ings and have shot sixty-five; the swamps are overrun 
with them. But with our dense foliage and the gray 
moss it takes, a keen and practiced eye to make out a 
squirrel; so it is not so easy to make a good bag of them 
as one would think. There are some deer sign to be seen, 
and one very big track we have noticed, and when we 
have had a rain and some cold weather we hope to have 
a good chase after his highness. 
Strange to say I have seen some bear tracks; we don't 
often see bear down here. There is a big dogwood 
thicket on the edge of the plantation that a bear or bears 
have almost demolished. The bears climb the little dog- 
wood trees until by their weight they bend them over or 
break them; then they sit around on the ground and eat 
tho berries from the broken tops. We have no bear dogs. 
So I don't think we will kill one next winter; I hate the 
idea of trapping the poor beast. Wildcats we have, 
a plenty of them, and we will have some glorious chases 
with our young pack of hounds. We have lost several 
hounds from rattlesnake bite; this has been a great year 
for rattlers, for there was no crevasse to drown them out. 
And there have been a good many alligators and they are 
quite partial to dog meat. 
The outlook for sport this winter is very fine. 
W. P. M., Jr. 
Preparations for Camp Nine. 
Sand Lake, Mich.— The author of "The melancholy 
days have come," could never have been a lover of the 
sports of the field and forest, for as our open season for 
deer approaches (Nov. 5 to 25) one would judge by the 
animated looks and consultations among the boys of our 
party, that melancholia enters very little into the spirit of 
the occasion. 
You will learn by listening, that the rifles have been 
tested to the satisfaction of the owner, the camp stove set 
up to ascertain its qualities as a baker, the tent over- 
hauled and the hole in the northeast corner neatly 
patched, application made for hunters' tickets, and all of 
us forgetting for a few days the work and worry of 
eleven months of the year, are looking forward to the 
period of glorious sport which for eight consecutive sea- 
sons we have enjoyed together. 
The barrel of Northern Spies are ready, another of 
potatoes, cabbage, beans, etc., and those will be sent 
ahead by freight. Our cook will join us at Reed City, 
and leaving home at 8 A. M. we will be settled and will 
take supper in camp the same evening. 
The stories of that old camp in Lake county would fill 
a volume, and every hill and jack pine grove could tell 
of wondrous running hits at forty rods, and more of 
humiliating misses "dead still" at six. 
Thanks to our protective laws, the deer are still plenty 
in portions of the Lower Peninsula, and will increase if 
the law against hounding is observed. One more should 
adorn our statute books, providing that no game or game 
fish should be sold. Deer carcasses are now being bought 
by the hundreds in the Upper Peninsula at five cents per 
pound. 
Last season was our most successful one, our party 
scoring eleven deer and one bear. We will write again 
on our return. Jim, 
[We shall be glad to receive the promised report.] 
Central New York Shooting Notes. 
Ithaca, N. Y.— Gray squirrels have been more plentiful 
in central New York counties the present year than for a 
number of years. Court Bellis, of this city, is credited 
with a score of twenty-one grays and one black squirrel 
in a single day's outing at West Danby. From six to fif- 
teen may be put down as an ordinary day's shooting. 
Local gunners assert that not in a good many years have 
English snipe been found in such large numbers as at 
present. The marsh gunners, however, are not enthusi- 
astic over the duck shooting at this end of Cayuga Lake. 
The unexpected so often happens in gunning pursuits, 
as in other pastimes, that Mr. Art Miller, of this city, 
calmly tells me, with the air of a man who considers it 
an everyday occurrence, that one day recently, while in 
quest of the elusive squirrel tribe in the wilds of Danby, 
he picked and ate wild raspberries from a bush on which 
were found blossoms in profusion and unripe and ripe 
berries in plenty. All this in mild, middle October days. 
M. Chill. 
Still-Hunting. 
Thb need of a good still- hunting boot aside from the Indian mocca- 
sin, has long been felt, and it will therefore be good newB to many 
hunters to hear that one has at last been supplied. " The advertise- 
ment of this boot will be found elsewhere. It i8 made on the princip e 
of a moccasin, but with durable soles of tanned cowhide, which by h 
new process are rendered soft, flexible and waterproof. As this Ooot 
possesses the good qualities of the moccasin without its disadvantages 
it is sure to prove very popular.— Adv. 
