Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
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} NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 4, 1894. 
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VOL. XLHL— No 21. 
No. 318 Bboadwat, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial. 
Snap Shots, 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
How the Season Opened. 
A Day with the Old Dog. 
Grouse and Men. 
A Memory of the Antarctic. 
Natural History. 
The Field Mouse and the Spider. 
Wild Pigeons. 
Black. Squirrels Supplanted by 
Gray. 
Came Bag and Gun. 
Chicago and the West. 
TexaB aad the Southwest. 
A Sea Turn at brant Bock. 
Pluck and Grit. 
Duck Shooting at Wapanocca. 
In Autumnal Covers. 
New England Game Grounds. 
Stop the Sale of Game. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
Good-bye, Sweet Stream. 
Those "Bed Trout." 
Angling Notes. 
Bomance of Two Ponds. 
Texas Tarpon and Bass. 
The Kennel. 
New England Field Trials. 
Eastern Field Trials 
Northwestern Beagle Club F. T. 
Beagles Shot 
Foxhounds at Providence. 
Dog Chat. 
Yachting. 
Model Yachting. 
The Centerboard. 
Lord Dunraven'a Letter. 
Society of Naval Architects 
and Marine Engineers. 
Yachting News Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
New York Schuetzen Corps. 
Zettlers in the Gallery. 
Bifle Notes. 
Trap Shooting. 
Kleinman the Champion. 
Truly Cnampionship Form. 
Eastern New York League 
Tournament. 
Effect of Wadding Material upon 
Performance of Shotguns. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Answers to Queries. 
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SNAP SHOTS. 
We suspect that Hon. W. S. Soule, a member of the 
present Vermont Legislature, is a sportsman who at some 
luckless period in his field career has been done out of the 
fox he was following by another hunter's slipping in and 
killing it ahead of him. That such an untoward inter- 
position may not happen again, at least not under sanc- 
tion of the laws of the State, Mr. Soule has prepared a 
bill, which the Legislature is now considering, to this 
effect: 
Sec. 1. That any and all wild game in this State shall hereafter 
belong to and be the property of the person who first finds and starts 
said game, so long as said person finding and starting said game con- 
tinues in actual pursuit thereof, with or without dogs. 
Sec. 2. Any person shooting or otherwise capturing any game 
started by any other person, so long as the person finding and start- 
ing said game is in actual pursuit thereof, with intent to deprive the 
person finding and starting said game of his ownership thereof, shall 
be subject to a fine not exceeding three dollars and costs of prosecu- 
tion, to be paid to the treasurer of the town in which the offense is 
committed, and be liable to the person finding and starting said game, 
in an action of trover for the actual value of the game so taken, with 
costs of prosecution. 
The bill has been referred from the Committee on Game 
and Fisheries to the Judiciary Committee for considera- 
tion of the legal principles involved, and it is expected 
that the committee will report upon it unfavorably. 
Legal principles aside, there is much to be said in sup- 
port of the measure, and much against it. One's sym- 
pathy spontaneously goes out to the hunter who, after 
long and arduous chase, at last beholds his prey clutched 
by some lazy lout, it may be, who has undergone no hard- 
ship of the pursuit, but has just been lucky enough to be 
in position to intercept the other man's game. On the 
other hand, does not Mr. Soule impose altogether too 
severe a strain upon human nature, when he requires 
that one shall refrain from taking an offered shot at game 
simply because some one else has started the animal? 
Even so, a shooter is not going to stay his hand at thought 
of any three-dollar fine and action of trover — not if he is 
possessed of that gunning instinct which causes one on 
occasion involuntarily to take aim with an umbrella or a 
walking stick. 
And then there is to be taken into consideration that 
ever present and potent element of chance. Suppose, 
for instance, that the man, to whom the game may be 
driven by the pursuer, does withhold his fire; there is no 
certainty that the original hunter will surely hit it when 
he shoots; his bullet may go wide of the mark and the 
game will disappear. If a person cannot make good his 
title to a deer when he shoots at it, how may he be given 
title to it before he ever gets within shot ? 
Again, in any given case of pursued and pursuer and 
interception by another, there might be re-enacted the 
old story of the hare and the hound — both run to a stand- 
still, with the hare just ahead of the hound, and neither 
able to advance another inch; under such circumstances 
would not the other be justified in making the game his 
own? 
If Mr. Soule's bill shall become a statute, we may look 
for some interesting cases in Vermont courts when the 
bear hunters shall go to law. The sympathy of court and 
jury would almost certainly be with the plaintiff de- 
frauded of his bear pelt, but a smart lawyer for the 
defense might make out a good case on a number of 
points. He might show to the satisfaction of the jury (1st) 
that at the moment defendant shot the bear at the top of 
the hill, plaintiff was at the foot of the hill, sitting on a 
log, and clean pumped, and powerless to continue the 
chase, while the bear was still going at a good pace; or 
(2d) that defendant killed the bear in self-defense; if he 
had not killed the bear the bear would have killed him ; or 
(3d) defendant didn't know it was loaded, and the killing 
was accidental; or (4th) the bear killed was not the ani- 
mal pursued by plaintiff, but another one which plain- 
tiff's bear had routed out from cover, plaintiff's bear 
having gone on into the next county. 
The homicidal fatuity of the hunter who shoots at a 
movement in the cover thinking it game, and discovers it 
to be a human being, is not confined to any one locality. 
Last week our record was of a Long Island hunter who 
had thus killed a companion, mistaking him for a deer. 
This week it is of a Texas wild turkey hunter, who killed 
his comrade for a gobbler. In this case as in other wild 
turkey hunting casualties we have noted, the two men 
were calling for turkeys, heard and answered one another, 
each believing that the other was a real turkey, and both 
ready to shoot so soon as he could locate the sound; until 
at length seeing the cane shake one caller did kill the 
other. The victim was thus the victim of his own skill 
in simulating the note of the bird. 
It would seem as if after having killed a companion 
by mistake for a deer, one would have no stomach for 
deer hunting; yet the papers recorded last week that the 
Long Island man who had fired into his human victim 
was out the next day following up the game. 
Is it not about time that somebody took steps to put an 
end to the abominable cruelty practiced upon the hounds 
kept in the Adirondacks for deer hunting? The hounders 
have a notion, very likely well founded, that if the poor 
brutes are tied up short in filthy kennels, and deprived of 
food and drink until nearly dead, they will make a better 
chase when put on the trail. This of course is not true of 
all North Woods deer hounders, but it is true of very 
many of them, so many, in fact, that the sum total of the 
hideous cruelty is appalling. The question of deer hound- 
ing with respect to the deer is not involved; it is simply a 
question as to whether a lot of human brutes shall be 
longer allowed to outrage decency by inflicting these 
horrible sufferings, all in the name of "sport," and in 
a stage of civilization when we have humane societies to 
look out for the .dumb creatures that cannot speak for 
themselves. Gen. D. H. Bruce, president of the New 
York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Game, is also, we believe, an officer of the Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; he would not be going 
outside of his legitimate duty as an official of either of 
these organizations if he should look into this particular 
phase of Adirondack cruelty, and take measures to sup- 
press it. 
Minnesota sportsmen are talking of anew State Associa- 
tion with headquarters at St. Paul. The originator of the 
movement is Mr. Wm. L. Tucker of that city, a gentle- 
man well known to us as sincerely and disinterestedly 
concerned for the more efficient protection of fish and 
game. Associated with him is Mr. W. P. Andrus, 
the executive agent of the Fish and Game Commission, 
and the one man to whom more than to any other Minne- 
sota owes its splendidly devised and effective system of 
protection. There is ample occasion for such an associa- 
tion as Mr. Tucker plans, to work in concert with Mr. 
Andrus and the official force of wardens. One practical 
field of effort for the association will be to promote a pub- 
lic sentiment in support of the game laws; and to this end 
the membership must not be restricted to sportsmen alone. 
Mr. Tucker has the right idea and expresses it in a letter 
to the Pioneer Press; 
The gentleman sportsman, who devotes much time to the pleasures 
of field sports; the professional and the business man, who enjoys the 
companionship of his rod and gun during his all too limited vacation, 
and the farmer, whom we all recognize as the real propagator and 
protector of much of our game; all must take an active interest in 
all that tends toward the protection of the sport he loves, and should 
take pleasure in assisting in any movement that will secure this to 
him. 
It should be our aim to cultivate ihe good will of those who make it 
possible for us to enjoy these pleasures, knowing as we do that there 
is an underlying antagonism to game legislation from those who con- 
sider game laws as made .for the benefit of the city sportsman alone, 
who in the open season comes into his territory and ignores him. I 
must particularly dwell on this point in the attitude of the general 
farmer toward the city gunner. We all know that there is oftentimes 
justice in this show of resentment. Many a city gunner goes into the 
country; shows little regard for a proprietor's rights; at times abus- 
ing courtesy shown him; fills his bag, It may be, and without so much 
as a "thank you," returns to the city and leaves an enemy to the 
whole class of gunners, where he should have made a friend. 
. A co-operative game society, having its members in all parts of the 
State, coming in daily contact with our friends and antagonists, will 
surely the more strengthen the bonds of the one and weaken the bar- 
riers of the other. 
This to my mind is the keynote for a successful State Game Protec- 
tive Association. 
Minnesota sportsmen are invited to correspond with 
Mr. Tucker, whose address is St. Paul. 
Our notion is that when-Game Warden Shriner, of New 
Jersey, offered the other day to end the prosecution of 
Judges Nixon and Inglis, if they would give him their 
word that they had not hunted ducks illegally, he opened 
a wide door for them to walk through; and the presump- 
tion is that if they were innocent of the charge and were 
good sportsmen they would gladly avail themselves of the 
warden's proposition. 
An esteemed correspondent in the South complains that 
he has taken on so much flesh that because of his ponder- 
osity he finds field shooting downright hard work. We 
know an enthusiastic trout fisherman who because of 
increasing avoirdupois was compelled to give up first 
fishing from land and then fishing from a boat, for he 
was so heavy that no one dared venture out in a boat 
with him. A harsher ill fortune has overtaken a New 
York man, in whose behalf the Charity Organization 
Society has just published an appeal for work and wages. 
This unhappy victim of his own greatness has been long 
out of employment as a book keeper only because em- 
ployers are averse to engaging the services of a man 
weighing 300 pounds. 
The members of the Vermont Fish and Game League 
held their annual dinner in Montpelier on Wednesday 
evening of this week. The League is one of the most 
energetic and useful associations we have, and it has 
actually accomplished great good for the fish and game 
interests of Vermont. Its moving spirit is Mr. John W. 
Titcomb, who has rendered good service in the Fish and 
Game Commission. 
The sportsmen of Marquette, Mich., headed by Mayor 
Kaufman, of that city, have organized the Game Protec- 
tive Association of Marquette, the ultimate purpose of 
which is to secure better laws and a better enforcement 
of them for the Upper Peninsula. The new association 
offers a local center for the formation of an organization 
to cover all of northern Michigan, and Secretary M. E. 
Asire, of Marquette, invites correspondence from indi- 
viduals and clubs in other localities, 
