Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1897. 
J VOL. XLVin.-No. 17. 
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Fly-fishing- migfht be styled tlie poetfy of ang- 
ling. It is as swpeMoi* to fishing with a sqttifming^ 
filthy worm as true sculpture is to gravestone- 
making, or as the work of the artist is above that 
performed by the man who whitewashes your 
kitchen Ceiling* Any fellow can impale a miser- 
able worm upon a hook, and, by its writhings, 
entice a fish to nibble at it. But it requires a 
quick eye, a tranquil nerve, and superior judgment 
to cast a fly so as to deceive the wary trout. I do 
not object to taking fish with a worm, for food, 
if hard pressed, but for sport — never! There is 
nothing disreputable in fishing with a worm ; by 
no means. But I do not enjoy that sort of thing ; 
therefore never engage in it. Bodines. 
WATERS OF THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. 
The New York Legislature has appropriated §30,000 for 
the purchase of islands and other plots of lands in the St. 
Lawrence Elver district known as "the waters of the 
Thousand Islands " to be held as public jjossessions, for 
the convenience of anglers and other pleasure seekers. 
Owing to the rapid conversion of hitherto wdld and unoc- 
cupied land into summer homes, the number of available 
camping spots where the tisherman may go ashore to cook his 
fish and eat his lunch has so diminished that the lunch 
problem has become most serious and perplexing. 
The Thousand Islands fishing custom is for the angler to 
be rowed to the fishing grounds by his boatman guide, to 
fish until the lunch hour, and then to go ashore to the 
nearest convenient camping ground, build a fire, and have 
lunch. But of late years, with each recurring season, one 
has been obliged to go past spots formerly open to all, and 
to row further and further before a place could be found 
where to go ashore would not be to trespass on private j)rop- 
erty. Judiciously expended for suitable sites, the appro- 
priation will in large measure remedy all thii, and the 
convenience and pleasure of angling and boating in these 
waters will be materially enhanced. 
In taking this step, New York is cooperating with the 
Canadian authorities, who, on their part, have undertaken 
to reserve for a like public use, certain islands lying on 
their side of the line. LTltimately the two countries will 
have an international park, where, by virtue of mutual 
concessions as to seasons and other conditions, the anglers 
of the States and of the Provinces may enjoy some of the 
finest fishing on the continent. As is known, the Ontario 
authorities have in past seasons exempted this district 
from the operation of the non-resident angling license law, 
and the exemption will continue in force this year. For 
the benefit of Canadian boatmen, who have been accus- 
tomed to row American anglers from the American hotels 
to the fishing grounds, the Anglers' Association of the St. 
Lawrence Eiver sought to secure an amendment of the 
aP.en labor law, so that the Ontario boatmen might not be 
interfered with. A bill to this efiect was introduced in 
Congress by Hon. Chas. A. Chickering, of Copenhagen, 
and was passed, but President Cleveland vetoed it. Prob- 
ably a renewed effort will be made to secure such, a, modi- 
fication of the present statute, 
dred and nine wounded in floating to less than forty-nine 
killed would mean that for every one deer killed in float- 
ing more than two must have been wounded. 
THE PAPER gun: 
Great are the improvements that have been made in 
firearms within the past sixty years. From the invention 
of the percussion lock down to the latest, perfection of 
breechloading and repeating arms, the art of gunmaking 
has attained such cheapness and excellence that it seems 
almost^mpossible to go beyond. - ,, 
Iron and steel have been worked into all manner of 
combinations and twisted into all contortions that can 
give strength and most exquisite figure. Actions and maga- 
zines have been perfected till there is nothing left to ask 
for in ease and celerity of loading and firing, and all at a 
cost that makes it possible for men of moderate means to 
own guns of a quality that were once only within the 
reach of the wealthy. So it has come to pass that every 
one who cares to own one has a good gun, and if the 
shooters were equal to their weapons there would be no 
game left. 
But far more effective than any achieved combination of 
iron, steel and wood is the paper gun, a weapon at' the 
command of every one who can wield a pen; for it is 
cheaper than the cheapest, though it bears the name of 
every good maker. 
It never misses fire, never its mark. In vain the wiles 
of the ruffed grouse, in vain the startling upburst of his 
thundering flight. Of no avail the woodcock's thridding 
of the alder copse, the snipe's zigzag course over the sedgj' 
lands, the wildfowl's headlong speed before the piping 
gale — down comes each at the noiseless and smokeless 
discharge of the paper gun. So falls the bounding deer, 
the cliff-scaling mountain sheep, so the charging moose 
and the savage grizzly when his hot breath is almost in the 
face of the intrepid hunter, and so falls the painted 
Indian at the moment his tomahawk is lifted to strike his 
victim. 
Notwithstanding the improvements that have been 
made in the iron gun, it is possible that they may be 
carried still further. Eamrod and hammer have been 
eliminated, and so perhaps may be lock, stock and barrel, 
and ideal proverbial rapidity attained. But there is 
nothing left to be desired in the paper gun; it has reached 
perfection. It is infallible, and he who fires it is always 
an unerring marksman. 
A DEER JACKING RECORD. 
A SHOWING as suggestive as was ever put on record- in 
official reports relating to shooting is contained on that 
page of the New York Fish Commission report for 1895 
which gives statistics of deer jacking aa practiced at Big 
Moose Lake, in the Adirondacks, for the season of 1893. 
The figures are contributed by H. H. Covey, who expresses 
the opinion that if the deer are to be kept up to their 
present standard and numbers both dogging and jacking 
must be prohibited. Mr. Covey's record gives the number 
of shots fired, the number of deer wounded and the number 
killed. It is shown, for instance, that during the season 
one man fired nineteen shots, wounded seven deej-' and 
actually killed two; that another fired fourteen shots, 
wounded four, got one; another fired, twelve shots, 
wounded five, kiUed two; and so on down to the hunter 
who shot only twice, wounded two and got none. The 
totals figure up two hundred and nineteen shots fired, one 
hundred and nine deer wounded, forty-nine killed. Those 
killed are not to be counted among the wounded; the 
wounded were in addition to the kiUed; they "all left 
blood, but could not be found, as they were shot while 
floating." 
It is not clearly stated that all the two hundred and 
nineteen shots were shot in floating. If they were, the 
totals would show that as conducted at Big Moose Lake the 
practice of deer floating yields a proportion of one hundred 
and nine w^ounded to forty-nine killed; or, in other words, 
that before one deer is killed two others must have been 
wounded, with ten extra wounded ones in a season for 
good measure. If some of the forty-nine deer were killed 
by hounding or still-hunting, the proportion of one hun- 
SNAP SHOTS. 
By the death of Henry Hope Sewell, the sportsmen's 
fraternity of Quebec has lost a valued and highly esteemed 
member. He was a sportsman of the first rank, pure in 
heart and life, a lover of the woods and everything in 
them, "just such a man," writes one who knew him well, 
"as Forest and Stream would have its readers to be, and 
so far as it can helps to make them. An honorable man 
in every walk of life, the memory of 'Hope Sewell' will 
long be fresh among his fellows. In a whole family of 
sportsmen of the highest type he was facile princeps, until 
a' mysterious and incurable malady deprived him of the 
use of the sturdy limbs that had so often carried him to 
the haunts of the caribou or followed the birds on the 
banks of the St. Lawrence. 'I like to work for my flsh' 
was an expression he once used, and it gives an idea of his 
character as a sportsman." 
What a forum is the Forest and Stream for the man 
with old-fashioned and newfangled notions about the 
many interests of the sportsman's world. It is the inten- 
tion to make it a free forum, where every one may. have 
his say, if only he be sincere and honest in intent and 
parliamentary in manner. It might be a very stupid forum 
if it were held to the expression of any one man's views 
only, or if both sides of a question were not given scope of 
expression ; or if only those views and suggestions and 
projects were permitted to be heard which the editorial 
judgment might indorse as wise and sensible. What 
would become of that interminable gun talk about the 
stove of the country store of winter nights if someone 
oracle knew it all, delivered his say-so and. reduced the 
rest to silence? And where would be the charm of those 
nights of lounging about the campfire, with the stars 
peeping down through the pines, if only one were allowed 
to do the talking? Our ambition — surely a most laud- 
able one — to reflect the sentiment and thought of 
the sportsman's world, prompts us then to open 
our columns to .all. And so it is that about once 
in so often, say at recurring periods of eighteen or 
twenty-four months, we make room for the man who ad- 
vances the sin argument as applied to snaring partridges. 
Briefly stated, this is, that to enjoy such means or oppor- 
tunities as may enable their possessor to hunt grouse for 
sport is a sin; and to be so poverty-stricken as to be obliged 
to shoot or snare grouse for sale is righteousness. It then 
fdllows thatas the righteous shall inherit the earth the 
grouse are for the market snarer; and if the sportsman con- 
tends that he should have some privileges too, this is only a 
manifestation of his original sin. If anyone shall deem 
that we misrepresent the position of the defenders of the 
"poor^man" snarer against the "millionaire" sportsman, 
we beg of him to reread the arguments advanced in recent 
numbers in defense of the partridge snarer's God-given 
right to follow his bent. 
Our fishing columns contain some extremely interesting 
statistics of New Hampshire fishcultural stations. The 
State has eleven hatcheries, which are equivalent, popula- 
tion consi\iered, to more than one hundred for New 
York. With all her natural supply, and with all her arti- 
ficial restocking. New Hampshire nevertheless has found 
it necessary to adopt legislation forbidding trout fishing 
for market as an industry to be pursued on her streams. 
The simple truth is that no State fish-stocking machinery 
can begin to repair the drain made by the market fisher. 
The sale of wild trout should be prohibited everywhere. 
Another industrious individual who ought to be ban- 
ished by legislation or by public censure, is the fisher for 
count and brag. Now that the fishing season is coming 
around again, we may expect to be confronted by the 
apparition of this creature and his back -load of fish at the 
country tavern, whose host vainglorioufly puts him forth 
as a living advertisement of the fishing resources of trout 
and bass waters. In one "virgin wilderness" after another 
the "trout hog" has flourished, and then the places that 
knew him know him no more forever, for the good 
reason that he has wrought their ruin, and they no longer 
tempt his stupid, unworthy and brutish ambition to score. 
