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It may be probably concluded that Moses^ who 
I told you before writ the book of Job, and the 
prophet Amos, who was a shepherd, were both 
angflers; for you shall in all the Old Testament 
find fish-hooks, I think, but twice mentioned: 
namely, by meek Moses, the friend of God, and by 
the humble prophet Amos, Concerning: which 
last, namely the prophet Amos, I shall make but 
this observation : that he that shall read the hum- 
ble, lowly, plain style of that prophet, and com- 
pare it with the higfh, glorious, eloquent style of 
the prophet Isaiah (though they both be equally 
true) , may easily believe Amos to be, not only a 
shepherd, but a good-natured plain fisherman* 
Which I do the rather believe, by comparing the 
affectionate, loving, lowly, humble epistles of St, 
Peter, St, James, and St, John, whom we know 
were all fishers, with the glorious language and 
high metaphors of St, Paul, whom we may believe 
was not, I^aak Walton, 
JUBILEE NUMBER. 
The issue of June 25 will complete the Fiftieth Volume 
of Forest and Stream; and the event will be fittingly 
marked by making that a Jubilee Number, filled to over- 
flowing with good things. It will be notable for sttore 
of good reading and wealth of illustration, A prelimin- 
ary notice to the trade has already assured for this special 
number a wide demand. It will have a large circulation 
among those who are not regular readers of the paper, 
and for this reason will have increased attractions for ad- 
vertisers. Special advertising rates for the Jubilee Num- 
ber will be sent on application. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The efforts made by the Chicago Audubon Society to 
put an end to the wholesale trapping of song birds near 
that city seem to have met with success. For some time 
the Society has been collecting evidence against the live 
bird dealers, and last week Game Warden Loveday, ac- 
companied by one of the directors of the Society, visited 
one of the bird stores and there seized all the native birds 
that were to be seen, and took them into court. The 
seizure is of special interest because it appears to have 
been made under that provision of the law which for- 
bids possession, a point which judges have often ignored 
to the great injury of the cause of protection, since it is 
most difficult to obtain actual evidence of capture, though 
often easy to find game illegally in possession. The case 
against the bird man came up on Friday, June 3, and the 
live bird dealers were well represented- in court. The 
claim was made that many of the seized birds, well 
known as Illinois species, had been captured in various 
other States, in some of which these species are not 
known to occur; but the judge, after hearing both sides 
and consulting tlie decisions on the points in question, 
turned over the seized birds to the game Avarden. This 
decision, in favor of the Audubon Society, will no 
doubt encourage it to further efforts in behalf of its 
laudable objects. 
During the recent Canadian negotiations at Washing- 
ton regarding the Bering Sea pelagic sealing, the fact 
was developed that the industry has so fallen off that at 
present only two Canadian vessels are engaged in it; and 
Canada, relieved of the responsibility of indemnifying a 
large fleet of sealers, is now willing to assent to a pro- 
liibition of the practice altogether. A protocol was 
signed whidM * formally agreed to the subjects, to be 
submitted to an international commission looking to the 
suppression of pelagic sealing. In other words, this is 
4m abuse which h^as wroijshi; its awn. cure. The draia 
year after year upon the Bering Sea seal supply has 
been so tremendous and so persistent that the stock has 
been exhausted, and the industry has become unprofit- 
able. And how much old-fashioned human nature there 
is in the preseiat amiable willingnesis on the part of the 
Canadian sealers to give over a pursuit which no longer 
pays. 
Every recurring fishing season demonstrates anew the 
foolishness of investing in department-store tackle. It 
is only the greenhorns and gudgeons who are taken in by 
the specious bargain advertisements and the deceptive 
talk of the ignorant salesmen in these dry goods estab- 
lishments. Poor tools in any trade, occupation or sport 
are an abomination, and most emphatically is this true of 
angling. It is a good rule to get the best you can afford 
of rods and lines and other equipments; and if limitation 
of means compels you to make choice of cheap goods, 
remember that in dealing with regularly established 
angling outfitters better service can be had for the same 
expenditure of money than at irresponsible department 
stores. The department stores are necessarily irrespon- 
sible as to tackle; their stock is put in as one line among 
a hundred, where cheapness of first cost is the most 
essential factor in the business, and its selling is intrusted 
to clerks whose absohrte ignorance alone absolves them 
from the charge of downright dishonesty in their mis- 
representations as to the character and quality of goods. 
Confidence in the staying power of one's rod is an es- 
sential factor of pleasiu'e in fishing, and such confidence 
one may feel only after having tested the rod by experi- 
ence, or by reason of faith in maker and seller — ^the con- 
fidence which attaches to the products of those houses 
whose names are as household words with readers of 
Forest and Stream. 
Among the curious conditions .growing out of the war 
may be noted one by which salmon in Canadian streams 
are destined this summer to fall victims to the Spanish 
fleet. The tackle dealers report that there is an unusual 
movement toward the salmon rivers, the new recruits be- 
ing of anglers who in ordinary seasons indulge in salt- 
water fishing at the various coast resorts where they ac- 
company their families. This year, however, the women 
are in such dread of visitation by the Spaniards that they 
refuse to go to the seashore; and the men, while scouting 
the notion that Spanish ships will venture within a thou- 
sand miles of our northern coast, yet gratefully enough 
seize the opportunity to get some salmon fishing. 
Wheeling and fishing are alike in this, that each pur- 
suit, practiced in different ways, may be made to yield 
its pleasures diverse in character. There are riders who 
ride for speed, and there are fishermen who fish for 
count. The scorcher answers to the score fisherman. The 
satisfaction found by the one is similar in kind to that 
found by the other. With scorcher and score fisherman 
alike it is the prodigiousness of the performance that 
tells. In securing the gratification thus afforded, each 
misses some of those saner and more substantial pleas- 
ures he might find if he rode or fished in another way. 
The scorcher has the exhilaration and exultation of 
speed, but one whose back is bent, head bowed over the 
handle bars and gaze fixed on the ground has no eye 
for the things about him. He is the jockey on the race 
course intent on crossing the line in the lead, not the 
pleasure driver on country roads. Your humped 
scorcher might scorch his thousand miles and never 
catch the inspiration of bursting bud, of the flush of the 
clouds at sunset, of the beauty line of the curving river, 
of the note of the wild bird singing hy the roadside. 
No more shall such reward be his whose angling soul 
is intent only upon the dozen and the score, the ounce 
and the pound achievement of his day on the water. 
Scorcher and score fisher are alike in this also that 
they are eager to attract attention to themselves. The 
scorcher rejoices in making a spectacle of himself; and if 
there were none to behold the score of the count fisher- 
man, nor any to be astonished at the telling of it, he 
who makes it would be robbed of a large share of his 
satisfaction in the feat. 
Aside,> ^however, from the admiration or envy thus 
sought to be arous,ed in other people, both scorcher and 
score fisher arelregardless of the rest of the world; each 
alike is indifferent to the rights of others. In his mad 
rush the acorclier imperils the Siecuri^ si other wheel- 
men and of pedestrains alike; for man, woman or child 
who gets in his way he has as little heed as a wildcat 
locomotive, If the spirit of the count fisherman be less 
rude in expression it is of the same essence, and lodges 
in a breast devoid of consideration for other anglers who 
may come after him. 
The old song "Some Love to Roam," quoted by Mr. 
Fred iMather in his "Men I Have Fished With," has been 
called for so often that to-day we print the words and 
music. The name of the author is unknown to us. 
The value of Walton's Angler as an investment was 
illustrated at the recent Ashburnham library sale in Eng- 
land. For the first five editions of the Angler in the 
original state. Lord Ashburnham some years since .paid 
$300. For the same books at the sale the price brought 
was $4,000. 
New York once had a fish commissioner who took it 
upon himself to instruct the game protector in this city 
that the law forbidding the sale of reed birds was not to 
be enforced. In presumptuousness this action is outdone 
by Governor Voorhees, of New Jersey, who advises cer- 
tain farmers that they require no change of the law 
forbidding the snaring of rabbits, since, if they violate the 
statute and are fined therefor, the Governor, "exercising 
my authority, would at once remit any fines so imposed. 
I believe," he adds, "if this were generally known, the 
farmers would remain content with the law: as it is." 
We should think as much. If a law which. does not suit 
may be broken with impunity, he would be an unreason- 
able farmer, or man in any other occupation, who could 
object to it. What Governor Voorhees preaches here 
is simple anarchy. The merits of the rabbit killing law 
itself are of little moment contrasted with the more vital 
question whether the executive may proclaim lawlessness. 
A game statute differs from no other in the obligation 
of respect it lays upon the good citizen. If a given law, 
whether applying to rabbits or what not, is unwise or un- 
reasonable, the only proper remedy is found in repeal. 
K State Governor who withholds approval of a repealing 
act on the declared principle that repeal is unnecessary, 
because he will protect violators of the statute, is un- 
worthy to hold the office. 
The United States Supreme Court has just decided four 
cases in interstate commerce which have a relation to the 
importation and sale of game from other States. Two 
of the cases had to do with the Iowa and South Carolina 
liquor laws and the other two with the New Hampshire 
and Pennsylvania oleomargarin laws. The point involved 
in all the cases was whether an article imported into a 
State, in the course of interstate commerce, becomes 
subject to the State law the moment it crosses the State 
line, or whether the jurisdiction of Congress as regulat- 
ing interstate commerce extends to the article until it 
reaches the consignee. The court held that the imported 
articles are not subject to the State liquor or oleomargarin 
statutes until they have reached the consignee; but that 
immediately thereupon the State law prevails, and the 
article may not be sold, given away, nor transported con- 
trary to statute. The decision is a most important one in 
its bearing on game protection. The principle has al- 
ready been firmly established by the Supreme Court 
that a State may forbid the export of its own game; this 
new decision sets at rest the question whether the State 
may also forbid traffic in game brought in from another 
State, without regard to its sale ini original packages. 
The Supreme Court has thus overruled a recent Penn- 
sylvania court ruling that in the original package import- 
ed game was not subject to the law of the Commonwealth. 
■ With these important principles so clearly defined by 
the court of last resort in this country, we now require 
onlv statutes based upon them to restrict the sale of game. 
It is one of the disappointments of an outing to travel 
far into the wilderness to pitch one's tent on a favorite 
camping ground only to find that another has come in 
ahead and pre-empted the site. The woods, it may be 
true, are free to all; and the mere occupancy of a spot 
even for season after season gives no title; and yet one 
comes to feel a spirit of proprietorship and to resent in- 
trusion as trespass. One particular grouhd is endeared 
to the memory; one feels at home there; and if one^^e_ 
robbed of it by another the chagrin is hardly different 
from that resentment which is engendered ,bj invas,io;p 
sA actual legal rights. 
