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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 23, 1895. 
( VOL. XLIV.— NO. 8. 
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ON A WAR FOOTING, 
There was tried in Chicago., some years ago a scheme of 
uniting the interests of sportsmen and game dealers in an 
association of the two. It was fathered by South Water 
street and the same journalistic elements which are now 
again working iu behalf of the street. The experiment 
was not a success— for the sportsmen. In any such ar- 
rangement their part must always be that of the mother- 
less partridge of the fable, in which the elephant, moved 
by maternal instinct, sits down on the chick, to keep it 
warm. 
Now that Warden Blow and his allies have come out 
flat-footed and under the thin disguise of a "compro- 
mise," show themselves bent on extending the privileges 
of the game stalls and ice-boxes and refrigerator cars, 
there is need of a clear understanding of the true atti- 
tude of sportsmen toward the dealers. They are now 
and must always be on a war footing. To act upon any 
other theory is to betray the cause of game preservation 
iu this country. No one who adopts any other principle 
can be trusted to direct legislation or enforce the law. 
SCHOONERS OF DEER MEAT. 
A choice bit of farce-comedy might be written on that 
Yankee skipper's escapade with his cargo of Maine veni- 
son. Putting to sea with several tons of game unlaw- 
fully exported, he reasoned to himself that the cargo was 
contraband, and he might as well make something on it 
as the Boston fences to whom it was consigned; and so 
he put into another port and set out to peddle it on his 
own account. Detected, arrested, and haled before the 
Boston courts, he was made to "give away" the pals in 
Maine, who had shipped the game to their pals in the 
Boston markets. It just happened so, that a Maine Fish 
and Game Commissioner, in Boston at the time, got wind 
of this schoonerizing of Maine deer meat; and our Bos- 
ton correspondent reports, having thus seemed the evi- 
dence he now proposes to institute proceedings against 
the shippers. This is the funniest part of the whole 
story, that the Maine authorities should learn by acci- 
dent in Boston of the exportation of schooner loads of 
venison from Maine ports. There is plenty of evidence 
to be had right in Maine — in Bangor, for instance, under 
the very nose of Commissioner Wentwortli — of the un- 
lawful exportation of Maine game. There is no necessity 
of the Maine Commissioners' going abroad to get home 
news of this sort. 
There is farce-comedy in this; but there is something 
vastly more serious as well. A condition of affairs ex- 
ists in Maine to-day with respect to the enforcement of 
the fish and game laws, for which it would be difficult to 
find any other explanation than one based on the theory 
that many of the wardens are vicious frauds. In what 
other way may we explain, for example, this wholesale 
export of game from Bangor, when the law says that it 
shall not be exported, and when the wardens are deputed 
to prevent its export? How shall we account otherwise 
for the fact that parties like Colonel Ziegler's, of Brook- 
lyn, can go into the Maine woods with a retinue of fifty 
men, and live on deer and moose out of season,[and;these 
wardens be unable to find them when told to go and 
hunt them up? ' * 
If the Maine Sportsmen's Association shall get its bill 
passed, an opportunity will be afforded to cut off the 
whole lot of these thievish wardens; and what honest 
men there are among them can then be appointed. With 
the brains and integrity and public spirit of the Associa- 
tion and its leaders who are behind the new legislation, 
Maine may indulge the hope that a time will come when 
her game authorities will not have to go to Boston to get 
news of schooner loads of venison shipped from her own 
ports. 
NEWS OF NIMROD. 
The London correspondent of the New York Times 
cabled to that journal last Sunday that Professor Sayce, 
searching in Asia Minor for new cuneiform inscriptions, 
had come upon a memorial of Nimrod, the son of Cush, 
the mighty hunter before the Lord. This is the first time 
that anything has been learned of Nimrod outside of the 
meager and curiosity piquing mentions in the Old Testa- 
ment. And it must be confessed that what the Times 
correspondent reports is most unsatisfactory. Professor 
Sayce, he says, identifies Nimrod "with Nazimuruda, 
and finds that he was the contemporary in Babylon of 
the Assyrian King, whose son restored Nineveh about 
fifty years before the exodus." That does not tell us 
what we all want to know about this oldest and most 
famous hunter of all history. What was his game, and 
how did he hunt it? Did he hunt for market or only for 
the fun of the thing? Did he kill his game in a truly 
sportsman-like 'manner, or was he in for hanging up all 
he could, in anyway he couid? These and a score of 
other details— just the data we require nowadays for 
estimating the standing and make-up of an aspirant for 
fame, as a mighty hunter — are the points we shall look 
for when Professor Sayce shall have deciphered his cunei- 
form record. 
Our Chicago correspondent characterized his story of 
the Blow bill, the other day, as one of the most impor- 
tant and sensational pieces of news in this field that had 
ever come out of Chicago This cablegram concerning a 
hunter whose great grandfather sailed the Ark is the 
most curious and unique bit of "sporting intelligence" 
of the nineteenth century. 
NEW YORK'S "BLOW BILL:' 
Always with the convening of the New York Legisla- 
ture, the citizens of the State are called upon to exercise 
renewed vigilance and activity to restrain that body 
from doing the mischief it is capable of with respect to 
fish and game. What with the constantly recurring 
schemes of the party which happens to be in power, to 
debase the fish commission and the protective force to 
the level of political machinery, what with the silly and 
selfish plottings of individuals and local cliques for 
special privileges, and what with the demands of the 
dealers for enlarged license to sell game and fish, those 
who are really concerned for protection always breathe a 
profound sigh of relief when the session adjourns. 
There is now before the Legislature a measure intro- 
duced by Mr. Wilks, which strikes at the foundation of 
the present market law. It proposes to add a new sec- 
tion as follows: "Sec. 249. No person shall be deemed to 
have violated any law or ordinance by reason of his sell- 
ing, exposing for sale, transporting or possessing, or at- 
tempting so to do, the body, or a part of the body of any 
wild animal or bird in the close season for such animal 
or bird, provided it be proved by him that said wild ani- 
mal or bird was killed outside this State." 
There are two reasons why that section ought not to 
be incorporated into the law, reasons so cogent and in- 
volving such large interests that they should impel every 
individual sportsman and every association of sports- 
men to protest promptly and emphatically, and to make 
the protest heard by their representatives at Albany. 
The first reason is that the bill means an open game 
market the year around. That means the sale all the 
year of game killed in the State of New York. 
The second reason is that it means also the sale all the 
year of game, killed in other States. 
The New York Wilks bill is only another Illinois Blow 
bill. 
New York cannot afford to have a market for her own 
game open ah the year. She cannot afford to have a 
market for the game of her sister States open all the year. 
With a law of this kind it would be impossible to check 
the market sale of game killed in New York, even if we 
were to have a force of protectors appointed and retained 
in office by reason of their fitness for the work. It would 
be all the more certainly impossible, when we shall have 
a force of protectors appointed, and retained for political 
purposes, as it is the intention of the leaders now in con- 
trol to appoint and retain them. 
PIONEER LIFE. 
There died in Lynn, Mass., last week, a man who had 
witnessed from a rock in Nahant the fight between the 
Chesapeake and the Shannon in 1812. That is a period 
which to most of us seems as far off as the days of the 
Pilgrim and Captain John Smith; and yet we venture to 
say that the first years of the century have been brought 
perceptibly nearer and made very real to every one who 
has read the interesting reminiscences of George Smith, 
printed in our last two and present numbers. "Pioneer 
Life in Maine" is a title not sufficiently broad for these 
recollections, for they have to do with Connecticut and 
Pennsylvania and Ohio as well. Moreover, there is in 
them something of the spirit of the pioneers of every 
Frontier Settlement and Plantation and Territory and 
State. Who can have read that story of the setting out 
for Ohio, the parting of the sons from father and mother, 
the saying of those "everlasting farewells," without 
recalling the scene of the old shoemaker and his wife 
going forth from Danvis, bound- for the far-off 'Hio? 
They were men— and women— of high courage, and 
brave and patient and filled with faith and hope in the 
pioneer settlements of those days. And there are just 
such men and women in the forefront of civilization to- 
day. "It is a true story," writes a Maine correspondent 
of Mr. Smith's recollections, "and just an every day 
record of the struggles of many of our first settlers in 
most of our Maine towns. 1 have heard dozens of men 
and women tell of just such struggles and many much 
harder. In the town of Holden the first settlers located 
six miles from the river, in order to get high land for 
corn; and for years had to carry their corn on their 
backs six miles over very swampy ground to the river, 
then in a boat five miles to the grist-mill and then back. 
Even now many of om back settlers endure many hard- 
ships which few dwellers in town can realize." 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The Dingley bill, which proposed to allow all the fur 
seals on the Prybilov Islands to be killed unless Great 
Britain consented to join in preventing pelagic sealing 
has met with opposition before the Ways and Means 
Committee of the House. It was discussed in committee 
when objections were raised that the measure would be 
in violation of our treaty with Great Britain, and would 
contravene the contract with the North American Com- 
mercial Co., which has the right to kill a stipulated num- 
ber of seals annually. On Monday last, Chairman Wil- 
son of the Ways and Means Committee, reported a bill au- 
thorizing the President to negotiate with Great Britain, 
Russia, and Japan, for a commission to investigate the 
question, and meantime to conclude a modus vivendi 
with those governments for the preservation of the seals. 
If such an arrangement cannot be concluded, the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury is authorized to kill every seal on 
the Islands. 
Triton, a Berlin society for aquarium and terrarium 
culture, has taken a new departure. A prize of $250 will 
be awarded to the inventor of a process for destroying 
the parasitic animals of the aquarium without injury to 
the plants and fish. This subject interests not only 
growers of aquarium plants, but especially fish culturists. 
The only successful means of killing animal parasites of 
fishes in the World's Fair aquarium was the free use of 
salt in the tanks. Fungus was destroyed by the use of 
salt and carbolic acid. 
The segregation bill, which proposed to cut off from 
the Yellowstone National Park a great slice from the 
northeast corner, with other lesser slices on the north, 
west, and south, has been adversely reported by the Com- 
mittee on Public Lands of the House of Representatives. 
The reasons given by the committee, which have often 
been urged in Forest and Stream, are convincing, and 
set forth very clearly the dangers which would threaten 
the Park were any such action taken a3 was^proposed^by 
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