Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1894. 
VOL. XML— No. 23. 
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SNAP SHOTS. . 
"The Gallionsand Flota joyning here all sail hence 
with the King's treasure to Spain." So read the old 
charts showing the course of the Spanish treasure ships 
from Mexico up through the Florida Gulf and across the 
seas to Madrid. On any map of the United States, 
along the great rail line and water lines convergent to 
New York, one might write that here the mails are 
bringing the good things from angler and shooter and 
sportsman tourist for the delight and entertainment of 
Forest and Stream readers. And more than ever of old 
the King of Spain was deserving of his treasure is the 
reader of Forest and Stream worthy of the best that can 
be written and printed for him. 
Week by week we are sending out a sportsman's journal 
filled in all departments with a fund of reading marked 
by freshness, variety and generous measure. "Week by 
week, through the new year just ahead, the Forest and 
Stream will be kept up to the standard already attained; 
perhaps it will be above that standard. Old subscribers 
frequently assure us that as it grows older the paper 
comes more and more nearly to their ideal of what a 
journal should be for the sportsman of America. Need 
we add that the ideal held by its editors is higher still ? 
We note with interest that Rev. Dr. J. McClusky Blay- 
ney, of Frankfort, Ky., has come out high-hook in the 
Natchaug competition for the biggest string of fish caught 
in a day. The Doctor won his gold piece with the muscle- 
testing and record-smashing score of 3661bs. of large- 
mouth black bass, taken in the Twin Lake waters of 
Wisconsin. We are pleased to know that the prize went 
to Dr. Blayney, for had some one else caught twice as 
many fish that feat might not have been so creditable as 
was the Doctor's, since he threw back into the water all 
but a paltry half dozen of his fish. A prize for biggest 
score can hardly avoid being an encouragement to foolish 
and sinful waste; such incitement is radically wrong in 
principle; and no reward of the kind should be offered by 
any one anywhere. In this view we have reason to 
know Mr. Chaffee quite agrees with us; and he tells us 
that this particular prize will not be offered again. 
The case of Judge Jonathan Dixon and others charged 
with shooting ducks illegally in New Jersey has been put 
in train for trial in February. The mills of the gods 
grind slowly, but the game wardens do occasionally see to 
it that the grinding is exceeding fine. 
In a Brooklyn divorce suit the other day the husband 
testified that by reason of his domestic troubles, once 
when starting off on a fishing trip, he had hoped that he 
might never return home alive. Now there was a man 
to be pitied. Half the fun of a fishing excursion is bring- 
ing home the fish for the admiration of one's wife. If 
anything might cause an unhappy husband to repent of 
his longing to die away from his family , it would be a 
big string of bass or trout. But perhaps this poor fellow 
had no fish to show and so did not dare face the music. 
There is something in that, too. 
In our comments last week on a certain case of flagrant 
crookedness at the trap, we made a deduction in the first 
paragraph not strictly logical and hence not strictly just; 
and we have a respect both for logic and for fairness. 
Instead of deducing from the single acknowledged 
instance of dishonorable action the conclusion: "From 
all of which it appears that when this particular indi- 
vidual is engaged in a trap-shooting match the affair is 
not a straight and square competition of skill between 
sportsmen, but is an underhanded manipulation of the 
score," we would have been more logical and just had we 
said, "the affair may be not a straight and square com- 
petition of skill between sportsmen, but may be an under- 
handed manipulation of the score." When a man makes 
a record by one piece of underhanded work, the pre- 
sumption thereafter is that he will repeat it, and yet on 
any given occasion he may not be other than straight. 
Most men find solid satisfaction in showing the tangible 
testimonials of their luck in the field. They are not sat- 
isfied with the mere catching of fish or bagging of birds; 
they must bring them home to distribute to friends. 
This is one reason why the non-export fish and game 
laws bear heavily where they make no distinction between 
game carried out by sportsmen as trophies of amateur 
skill and game shipped to market by professional shoot- 
ers. The purpose of these statutes is excellent; their 
practical enforcement results in benefit bo the game 
supply. But there is a happy mean between unrestricted 
traffic and absolute prohibition of game carrying by 
sportsmen. Some privilege should be accorded the 
sportsman, but not unlimited license, for there are those 
whose greedy instincts require curbing. Eastern sports- 
men who go West, to make pot-hunters of themselves 
there, and kill barrels of birds and put them in cold 
storage to be smuggled, to Brooklyn say, in the winter, 
should have their thrifty schemes smashed by the laws 
and the wardens. 
A bookkeeper in a New York bank having made away 
with over $350,000 of the funds of the institution, a Bing- 
hamton correspondent of the Evening Post of this city 
makes the horse-sense suggestion that the stealing could 
not have been carried on year after year had the book- 
keeper been sent off on vacations. "In the country," he 
writes, 
"it is customary for bank clerks to take a vacation annually, at 
which time the bank keeps open for business just the same, and the 
books upon which the clerk who is away has been working are in use, 
and if there are any secrets locked up in them, they are pretty sure to 
be divulged." Probably, he adds, this New York bookkeeper "was 
not fond of angling, or of the mountains or seashore during the 
heated term, as most bank clerks of nine years' experience are. 
Would it not have been better for the bank to have invited their 
bookkeeper to take a vacation of ten days or so, at least annually?" 
Certainly it would have been better. Every bank clerk, 
and every other financial clerk, should be fitted out with 
a fishing rod and sent off every year when fish are biting. 
And if any should protest that he cares naught for fishing, 
let his employers look well to his accounts. As Launcelot 
says — or as Shakespeare might have made him say, for 
the bard was an angler himself — the bank clerk that hath 
no love of fishing in himself is fit for steals, defalcations 
and flight, by night. 
If a cashier or a clerk buys Forest and Stream on his 
way home, that is a good sign; there are multitudes of 
them among its readers to day; and we never yet heard 
of one of them who was not very ready to leave his 
accounts to others while he went fishing. In fact, there 
was a bank that went under because o I the dishonesty of 
its responsible managers from the president down, and 
the only person who came out of the wreck with clean 
hands was one whose name has long been familiar as a 
contributor to our columns. Does not Walton character- 
ize the fishermen of to-day quite as truly as he did those 
of .his own time when he speaks of honest anglers? And 
do not enjoyment of the gentle art and a clear conscience 
go hand in hand by the brookside? 
Why must daring young American sportsmen go to 
Africa in search of perilous adventure in the wilds, 
while there is our own Indian Territory, with the re- 
doubtable Bill Cook and his gang to make it interesting 
for them. It used to be in the tame days of yore, that 
shooters who ventured into the Territory, in despite of the 
law forbidding white men to hunt there, found a mild 
flavor of excitement in their liability of being run out by 
the authorities. Now there is open to them the wilder 
exhilaration of a brush with outlaws and renegades; and 
the bold young fellows who hold that it is creditable to 
imperil one's life in pursuit of sport have a capital chance 
to show their mettle. If they should fail to draw Cook's 
fire, they certainly would that of the opposing forces; a 
man who has been in camp a week or two looks enough 
like an outlaw to be shot for one on sight in a country 
where outlaws are known to have their habitat. 
This is the time of the year when some one comes to 
the front with a proposition to tax game. They say in 
Massachusetts that the new law there laying a tax on 
bicycles is so unpopular as practically to be ignored in 
the cities. Does any one opine that a gun tax would be 
any more popular? 
The case against Edgar Howell, charged with having 
violated the order of Capt. Geo. S. Anderson, superinten- 
dent of the Yellowstone National Park, byre-entering the 
Park after expulsion from it, was dismissed when it came 
before the United States District Court in Cheyenne. 
The court held that a person could not incriminate him- 
self by disobeying the orders of the superintendent. So 
we shall never know judicially what the Secretary of the 
Interior intended as to expelled persons from the Park. 
There is satisfaction all around that now there is a law to 
cover such cases, a law clear, explicit, and we rejoice to ' 
say, having a capital effect. 
A story comes from St. Paul that a carload of eighty- 
two saddles of venison was shipped through that city on 
Nov. 26, on its way out of the State to the Chicago mar- 
ket. The Minnesota law forbids export; and this case is 
interesting because, if the facts are correctly reported, the 
unlawful shipping was accomplished only by sharp work 
in eluding Game Warden Andrus and his subordinates. 
While two deputy game wardens were watching the car 
in the North Minneapolis yards, reports the Pioneer-Press, 
"it was switched at a rapid rate of speed up through the 
yard, where the venison was transferred to another car 
and started for Chicago. They believe that is what was 
done, because when the car got to North St. Paul, where 
Game Warden Andrus was waiting for it with a search 
warrant, it was found to be empty." 
The bright side of the protective situation in Minnesota 
is told within those quotation marks. The market pur- 
veyors do now and then get their illicit plunder to 
market, but they have to cudgel their wits to accomplish 
it. When they find it necessary to shuffle cars about and 
to hustle the meat from one car into another, one thing 
at least is certain, the laws are not dead-letters. Game 
Warden Andrus is not a dummy, nor asleep; nor do his 
search warrants always prove a sesame to empty cars. 
Under his direction the enforcement of the game laws 
has been brought to a high standard of efficiency. He is 
doing a grand work for his State. Of what the Minne- 
sota system is and does, we shall have more to say. It is 
a magnificent object lesson. 
Some one came in last Tuesday to know if anything 
could be done to arrest the progress of a proposed match 
at trapped quail. As quail are now in season we assume 
that they may be shot from the trap, if any one has a taste 
for such work; but it is low business; and no one with a 
spark of field sentiment in his breast would stoop to it. 
If these trap-shooters of quail belong to a gun club they 
ought to be drummed out of the ranks. 
There is no longer in this State any such office as town 
game constable; it was abolished when the present game 
code was adopted; but in spite of this town elections are 
enlivened by the races of candidates for the office, and 
the individuals elected assume authority to act. In 
numerous cases the town game constable proves to be an 
unconscionable scalawag, who uses his office as a cloak 
for his own lawlessness. Once in a while a State game 
protector gets after one of these fellows and rounds him 
up for shooting or fishing out of season. 
We shall be glad to send to any address, which may be 
given us, of a person interested in the field of Forest 
and Stream, one of our Silver Bullseyes, 
