Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Terms, $+ a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy, 
Six Months, $2. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1898. 
j VOL. LI.-No. 3. 
| No. 346 Broadway, New York."(^ 
The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium of entertain- 
ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen. 
The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its 
pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- 
garded. While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion 
of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of 
correspondents. 
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particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page iv. 
Not only does a thorough love and enjoyment 
of traveling by no means interfere with the love 
of home, hut perhaps no one can thoroughly enjoy 
his home who does not sometimes traveL They 
are like exertion and rest, each the complement of 
the other; so that, though it may seem paradox- 
ical, one of the greatest pleasures of travel is the 
return, and no one who has not traveled can 
realize the devotion which the wanderer feels for 
Domiduca, the sweet and gentle goddess who 
watches over our coming home. 
Sir John Lubbock. 
PRIZES FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS, 
The sportsman tourist of to-day is an amateur photo- 
grapher, and the camera has a recognized place in the 
outfit of the field. The results of successful snap shots 
often constitute the most cherished mementoes of an out- 
ing. In recognition of the important place held by 
amateur photography in its relation to sports of the field 
and i prairie and mountain and forest and stream, this 
journal in 1892 gave a series of prizes for meritorious 
work with the camera, and the result was an interesting 
collection of photographs, many of which were repro- 
duced as half-tone engravings in these columns. 
We propose now to renew the offer of a series of 
cash prizes for such work, the prize list being more lib- 
eral than of those given before. The conditions are as 
follows : 
The prizes will be divided into three series: (1) for 
live wild game; (2) for game in parks; (3) for other sub- 
jects relating to shooting and fishing. 
(1) For live game photographs three prizes are of- 
fered, the first of $50, the second of $25, and the third of 
$10. 
(2) For live game in parks, for the best picture, a 
prize of $10. 1 1 j Sll] 
(3) For the best pictures relating to Forest and 
Stream's field— shooting and fishing, the camp, camp- 
ers and camp life, sportsman travel by land and water, 
incidents of field and stream— a first prize of $20, a sec- 
ond of $15, a third of $10, and for fourth place two prizes 
of $5 each. 
There is no restriction as to the time nor as to where 
the pictures have been made or may be made. 
Pictures will be received up to Dec. 31 this year. 
All work must be original; that is to say, it must not 
have been submitted to any other competition or have 
been published. 
There are no re'strictions as to the make or style of 
camera, nor as to size of plate. 
A competitor need not be a subscriber to the Forest 
and Stream. 
All work must be that of amateurs. 
The photographs will be submitted to a committee, 
who, in making their award, will be instructed to take 
into consideration the technical merits of the work as 
a photograph, its artistic qualities, and other things be- 
ing equal, the unique and difficult nature of the subject. 
Photographs should be marked for identification with 
initials or a pseudonym only, and with each photograph 
should be given, answering to the initials, the name of 
sender, title of view, locality, date and names of camera, 
and plate or film, 
SOME MAINE SCHEMES. 
It is manifest that we shall look to Maine for innova- 
tions and developments in game protective methods; 
Commissioner L. T. Carleton demonstrated as much 
in his address at Kineo last Tuesday. Mr. Carleton's 
brain teems with ideas in this field. He has recently 
sent out to the guides for their consideration a series of 
proposed measures embracing a close time on moose for 
a term of years; a prohibition of killing cow and calf 
caribou at any time; a law restricting the killing of deer 
to a single one for each hunter in a season; prohibition of 
the sale of partridges; a non-resident license fee for big 
game hunting, the proceeds to be devoted to protective 
purposes; a restriction of fish taken in a day to less 
than the present limit of 25lbs. ; a law compelling sports- 
men from out of the State to hire licensed guides for big 
game hunting or for fishing; a law permitting the kill- 
ing of one buck deer for'food purposes in those remote 
sections of the State where they are not hunted during 
the season, the places to be named by law, during July, 
August and September, on payment to the game fund 
of a fee of $10 for each deer; a division of the fish and 
game commission, to make one game commissioner and 
two fish commissioners; a reservation of Mt. Katahdin 
and surrounding territory to be closed absolutely the year 
round, as a breeding ground for moose and caribou. Add 
to these a plan to compensate farmers for damage done 
to their crops by deer, and another to give sportsmen the 
privilege on payment of a fee of shipping game unaccom- 
panied by the owner. 
Whatever may be the immediate outcome of these pro- 
jects, all and singular, their discussion demonstrates 
that game protection in Maine is in the control of those 
who are alive to its importance, and that it is an interest 
which has an assured and secure place in the domestic 
economy of the State. 
If the licensed guides are human they may be depend- 
ed upon to endorse most enthusiastically the proposed 
regulation that every visiting sportsman shall give one of 
them employment. This requirement and the one which 
calls for non-resident licenses are in line with the im- 
portant place designed for the licensed guide in the 
perfected protective system. Every guide is to be a 
game warden, and every visiting sportsman, however in- 
nocent he may be of wrong intent or incapable of go- 
ing astray, will then have in the person of his guide not 
only a master of woodcraft to lead him on the game trail, 
but a moral guardian as well to keep him in the straight 
and narrow path of rectitude, as blazed by the game law. 
In short, the visiting sportsmen will be under surveil- 
lance from the time he crosses the Maine line -until he 
emerges therefrom. 
The scheme of compelling non-residents to take out 
hunting licenses in order that the shooting may be un- 
der more direct control by the authorities is an applica- 
tion to the wilderness of certain metropolitan cafe sys- 
tems. In one of the gorgeously appointed noonday 
lunch establishments of New 'York it was formerly the 
custom to lay out on the counters in tempting array the 
sandwiches and cakes and pies and slices of watermelon, 
to which each patron helped himself and for the portion 
of which consumed by him he was supposed to pay the 
reckoning as kept only by himself, and with no other 
watching than his own conscience. A fair trial of the 
method demonstrated that under such conditions not all 
the food consumed would be paid for, and when the loss 
by dishonesty became too large to be borne the system 
was abandoned, and each patron was checked, the honest 
man along with the thief. 
Human nature is very much the same in the city and 
in the woods; if there were not dishonest men to abuse 
the confidences respected by their honest fellows, we 
could reduce our police force, dismiss our game wardens, 
do away with restaurant checks and go hunting without 
licenses. In fact, human nature is more so in the woods; 
for persons who would not dream of cheating when put 
upon their honor in a city lunch room, who would give 
up their car fare when overlooked by the conductor, and 
square themselves with the world to the last cent in the 
ordinary routine of life, will go into the woods on an 
outing and thieve without compunction. This is, of 
course, largely a matter of education. We have not all 
been taught to . think of the rights of others in the- game 
and the fish; and the wrong action is more often thought- 
less than a deliberate intention to defraud. The more 
clearly the taking of fish and game shall come to be re- 
cognized as being what it actually is, a privilege and not 
a right, so much the more adequately shall we realize the 
obligations which limit our enjoyment of the privilege; 
and so much the more careful shall we be to observe 
while gratifying our own pleasure the obligations we owe 
to others. 
ADIRONDACK FLY CASTS. 
The angler who strikes the happy medium in the use 
of artificial flies usually carries something like fifty 
varieties — a sufficient number to make an excellent as- 
sortment possible — and believes in adding to them when- 
ever a new fly of probable merit is found. He con- 
cedes that there is truth in what extremists on both 
sides claim, and acts accordingly. He usually has a 
few flies which are prime favorites, and under ordinary 
circumstances these are given the preference at the out- 
set. If there are no natural flies on the water, the cast 
which he originally selects is retained until a valid 
reason for shifting is discovered, and the capture of a 
single trout will be considered a sufficient indorsement 
of the fly taken to cause its retention for hours. Of 
course, if the trout are feeding on any particular kind of 
flies he notes the fact as readily as any one, and hastens 
to match them as nearly as possible; but he objects to 
experimenting too much and dislikes to change his com- 
bination unless the advisability seems very plain. 
Every experienced fly-fisherman realizes the fact that 
the exercise of caution and the manner in which flies 
are handled are of even greater importance than the 
flies themselves. A poor fly well cast is sure to be 
more effective than a good one awkwardly placed. 
Some anglers have certain flies for certain seasons, 
while others have favorite combinations for different 
times of the day, state of the weather, direction and 
force of the wind, roughness of the water, etc. The 
matter of locality too is one which sometimes forces 
itself upon the attention. The trout in some of the 
Adirondack lakes are remarkably fond of the May fly, 
shad fly, day fly or eel fly, as it is known locally, and the 
angler who has by observation discovered their weakness 
tempts them with the flies known as the drakes. There 
are times when they will scarcely look at another fly, 
and it is rarely during the summer season that they will 
decline to rise to a drake. In one of these lakes the 
green and yellow drakes are especial favorites, and the 
writer has repeatedly had excellent success with these 
flies when others have utterly failed. 
Small flies like those of the English make are not the 
best for use in Adirondack waters. The wilderness trout 
seem to prefer something more substantial, and- a fly 
of good proportions will almost invariably do better 
work than a diminutive one. Many anglers use the 
very largest size that is made for speckled trout fishing. 
Salmon and bass flies are of course too large for brook 
trout, but something perhaps half or two-thirds that 
size will frequently come in play for big fish. Among 
the most popular artificial flies used in the Adirondacks 
are the coachman, professor, red or scarlet-ibis, black- 
gnat, March-brown, yellow-May, white-miller, grizzly- 
king, Montreal, green-drake, Seth-Green, Reuben- 
Wood, queen-of-the-water, royal-coachman, alder, Puf- 
fer, great-dun, Proctor, soldier-palmer, and the red, 
brown, black and gray hackles. 
Notwithstanding all that has been said or can be said 
regarding the effectiveness of the various artificial flies 
there is nothing that will induce a trout to bite if he 
does not want to, and if he is real hungry and unsuspi- 
cious he will rise to almost anything that imagination 
can stretch into the semblance of a fly or bug. It is 
only when his appetite is not really acute, and he is a 
trifle undecided whether to rise or not, that the advan- 
tage of a large assortment of flies is likely to become 
most apparent, for among the many one may be found to 
tickle his fancy. 
While the artificial fly is considered to be quite the 
thing for taking the trout of Adirondack waters, and 
there are many successful anglers who disdain to use 
any other lure, it is probably a fact that the eclectic 
fisherman, or the one who, throwing prejudice to the 
winds, does not hesitate to utilize bait or fly as circum- 
stances seem to warrant, will in the long run take the 
greatest number of trout and the largest ones as well, 
