Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 18 9 8 
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'■'■The sale of game should be forbidden, at all seasons. 
— Forest and Stream, Feb. 3, 1894. 
No drink insures better health, and produces a 
more equable tone throughout the whole system, 
than the exclusive use of unadulterated water, 
nature's gift, the only beverage to which all ani- 
mated creation instinctively resorts to quench the 
natural cravings of thirst. Dr. Elisha J. Lewis. 
PRIZES FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS. 
The Forest and Stream offers prizes for meritorious 
work with the camera, under conditions which follow: 
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. 
(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 restrictions 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 pther 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. 
THE CARE OF FIELD DOGS. 
One's dog contributes much to the success of a day's 
sport afield, and much more to its enjoyment. Without 
the dog, the sportsman finds but little to shoot, even 
where game is plentiful; and the sport further is then 
divested of its chief charm. In his- swift stride, the dog 
in a day covers miles of field and fen, brush and brake, 
hill and vale, giving a touch of life to the scene in his 
efforts to seek game, and thereby to serve his master. 
His keen nose, ever alert for a scent of the quarry, de- 
tects its presence however cunningly it may be con- 
cealed, and in his canine manner he rejoices when able 
to inform his master of its whereabouts; and he enters 
with as much zest in the efforts to capture as if it were 
a matter in which he was chief instead of subordinate. 
The game being killed, he retrieves it from brush or 
briar, mud or water, with as much patient industry and 
enthusiasm as -if he were on the neatest lawn. For a 
day of the hardest toil, his heart beats in delighted 
response to a word of praise or a pat of approval, and in 
this his reward is amply found. 
At the end of the day, the good dog would fight for 
his master if need were, although he has had much 
the most laborious part of the sport for his share, for to 
him has fallen all the labors of seeking or pursuing. No 
selfish ambition nor hope of reward impels him in the 
role of companion, servant and defender. He serves his 
master because he loves him and enjoys the sport. 
His master may walk homeward at the end of the day 
with heavy steps, yet the dog may be still more weary. 
Pleasant pictures of the dog galloping across great 
fields, or swiftly seeking in nooks and corners, or stand- 
ing spiritedly on beautiful points, fill the shooter's mind, 
yet rarely does he think that |he good dog has a stomach 
that needs good food after such labors, and bones that 
need a good bed in a good, warm, comfortable place 
for their comfort and recuperation. The nerves and 
stomach of the dog have their needs when he is making 
pretty pictures in beautiful landscapes, and if he could 
talk or write he would describe his enjoyment of a good 
meal at the end of the day as feelingly as does his master. 
Yet many a good sportsman, from pure thoughtless- 
ness maybe, sits by a comfortable fire in the evening 
toasting his shins, and contemplating happily the incidents 
of the day's sport, while his poor dog lies shivering on 
the door step, with a stomach filled with scraps of any 
food that was left over, and fed to him perhaps by a hand 
other than that of his master. 
Be considerate of the dog that has worked for you at 
his best, be that work good or ill. In his way he 
has done his best according to his light. It requires but 
little effort to make a dog comfortable. All he needs 
is enough good food, a dry, comfortable place to sleep 
in, and his coat and feet kept clean, dry and free from 
mud and burrs. 
As to the food, it is an easy matter to take a supply 
of dog cakes when one goes on a hunr away from home. 
The local butcher shop will afford a supplementary sup- 
ply of food, for dogs when at work should have an 
abundance of animal food. Put no faith in table scraps 
for your dog at work. Consider him as a companion 
to be provided for by forethought, not by chance. If 
circumstances should so combine that the dog's food 
is not available, divide your own meal with him. 
The most flagrant ingratitude against the dog is in the 
neglect of his sleeping quarters. Sportsmen who feed 
their dogs well are many times thoughtless as to whether 
the dogs are comfortably housed or not. In warm 
weather a dog needs no attention in respect to sleeping 
quarters. In stormy or cold weather he requires 
shelter and comfort quite as much as does his master. 
It is an easy matter to provide a comfortable place for 
him to sleep in. If in a prairie country, there is always 
an abundance of hay for bedding. An old log stable with 
cracks in it which the dog can jump through is not 
proper shelter. Old boards and sticks cari be placed 
inside after the manner of a lean-to, and all well covered 
with hay on the outside, and plenty of hay for bedding 
on the inside, will be as comfortable quarters as any dog 
would desire. If there is no stable or corn crib or suit- 
able building for the dog, drive some stakes in the 
ground after the manner of a tepee, and cover them with 
three or four feet of hay; if there be neither hay nor 
stakes, take the dog in the house. If, at the end of the 
day, he is wet, let him dry out thoroughly before the 
fire; and if his coat is full of burrs, a good comb and a 
iew minutes' effort will remove them. The feet particu- 
larly should be freed from mud or burrs, special atten- 
tion being given to the toes. Thus cared for, a field 
dog wilj work with more spirit, prove a better compan- 
ion, and live a longer and more useful life. 
tale which reflects experience answering to our own, or 
of the class we may compass. We enjoy the common 
incidents if they be not commonplace; "and simple hap- 
penings, if only they be not trivial. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The author of the story of a cruise down the Wisconsin, 
of which the first chapter is printed to-day, sent with his 
manuscript a deprecatory note suggesting that his were 
not the remarkable experiences and exciting adventures 
which are supposed to furnish material for the most en- 
tertaining literature of the field. But such supposition 
re well founded in part only. Most of us do relish in 
our reading a certain proportion of the lively element 
of thrilling situations, hazardous exploits and hairbreadth 
'scapes; but since our lives are for the most part made up 
of less enlivening and more commonplace incit*. its, and 
even our pleasures are more likely to be placid than 
wildly exciting, we are quite apt to be pleased with a 
Indeed their simplicity is one of the qualities which 
give abiding charm and compensation to the sports of 
rod and gun. Angling was the contemplative man's 
recreation in Walton's time, and such it is to-day. It 
takes us to the woods and the waters, reveals the 
curious ways of nature, and introduces us to the woods 
folk. The attractions of fishing may thus be simple 
in the extreme, but thousands of devotees testify to the 
satisfaction found in them. Were it otherwise, did our 
enjoyment of outdoor sport depend upon making long 
journeys to foreign parts, or going up and down the 
earth in quest of thrilling adventures, the opportunities 
now so generously open to all would sadly be restricted. 
In our home fields we may recognize and admire the 
familiar "primrose bv a river's brim"; while but to a 
fortunate few is it given to pluck the orchid glowing in 
tropical forest or the edelweiss amid Alpine snows. 
We regret that in the printed report of the recent 
hunting casualty in the Adirondacks, upon which we 
commented last week, an implication should have been 
contained that the hunters were employing hounds for 
chasing deer, a practice forbidden by the law. It is due 
to Dr. Currier and to his son, whose lamented death 
was recorded, to say that no hounds were used; both 
were too good sportsmen to violate the game law them- 
selves or to permit its violation by others in their em- 
ploy. The alleged hounding was an imaginary detail 
invented by the daily press reporters; it had no basis in 
fact whatever. No more had most of the other imagin- 
ary particulars given by the newspapers, notably the sen- 
sational report printed by the New York Herald, with 
its insinuation that Dr. Currier himself might have fired 
the fatal shot, and its statements respecting his presence 
with the hunting party and his actions at the time. It 
is sufficient to say in absolute contradiction of all such 
accounts, whether they were direct statements or cruel 
and infamous insinuations, that at the time of the acci- 
dent Dr. Currier was not accompanying the hunting 
party, but was in camp a mile away. 
It' is a great pity that the stray specimens of rare ani- 
mal life discovered here and there in unexpected quarters 
should not have immunity from pursuit by men with 
guns. There was that doe in Columbia county of this 
State, a district where the deer has long been extinct. 
A correspondent . tells us in a note to-day how the 
creature was done to death in the excitement of the mo- 
ment by two men who chanced upon her. To have 
looked for anything else on their part might have been 
asking too much of human nature, for the unexpected 
apparition of the deer doubtless stirred every drop of 
their hunting blood, and the quick action which followed 
was as natural and as inevitable as is the sudden 
scramble of a troop of performing dogs when some one 
throws a sausage on the stage. 
A fate as summary as that of the Columbia county 
doe befell the eagle discovered and killed by Walter 
Sumpter, of Valley Stream, Long Island, last week. 
The eagle is in this region a rare bird, so infrequently 
seen that the chance sight of one always adds interest 
to a landscape and commands admiration. Long Island 
is continually advertising its native attractions for city 
folks, and exhorting the people of the town to come out 
and enjoy the country at so much per week with special 
rates for the season. These same city folks pay money 
to provide a menagerie in the Central Park, where they 
may go to gaze upon forlorn specimens of eagles in 
cages; and" it is reasonable to assume that they would be 
gratified if, when they go down to Long Island, they 
could watch the majestic soarings of free eagles in the 
upper air. Yet Long Island views with astonishing com- 
placency the destruction of its few remaining eagles, and 
the local paper records Sumpter's violation of the game 
law without a hint of protest. The Valley Stream eagle 
killing has been so publicly advertised that Chief Protec- 
tor Pond should find no difficulty in punishing its per- 
petrator. 
