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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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We have yet to liear of a tame deer that lived out its 
days in peace. In its natural wild state every man's 
hand is against it; domesticated, its chances for survival 
are small. Only the wealthy could give adequate protec- 
tion to a favored pet of the deer kind. 
As remarked before, it is only when reared in his 
bosom, as the Arab's steed in his >ent, there is a bond of 
affection between man and the beast only second to the 
human affection. 
About a year after I had parted with it I heard that it 
was being mistreated by being confined in a pen, and I 
rode a dozen miles one day to rescue it at any cost. I 
knew she would follow me home. The poor creature 
had been removed in a wagon fifteen miles from home, 
and had returned in the general direction to within six 
miles in an air line, but had' attached herself to a farm- 
house as headquarters in her wanderings. She was 
gradually working out the problem of where her home 
and friends were, as I believed then and still believe. 
I have tolerably authentic information that she was shot 
by a hunter when not more than two miles from home, 
although I never saw her after I started to school in 
the fall more than a year before. 
The day I went to find her I saw the place where the 
deer had been penned, and it was a sorrowful sight to 
me. She had walked round and round a narrow in- 
closure until a deep trench had been worn. But she had 
been released from this confinement — to a creature of a 
deer's spirit worse than death — ^and that day could not be 
found about the place. I never saw her afterward. Pity 
for her sad fate serves to keep in memory this beautiful 
and devoted creature, and the wish is framed in my mind 
that men would seek less to destroy the innocent, de- 
fenseless beings that abound in our fields and forests. 
To me it is more pleasure to see wild creatures disport- 
ing under the greedwood tree than the savage delight of 
laying them lifeless The woods that afford pleasure to 
the lover of nature would be barren indeed without the 
charming animal life that abounds so freely where man 
has extended his dominion least. 
Finally, it is but just and right to have regard for the 
rights of every living thing; and as man is given do- 
minion over the creatures he should temper his power 
with justice and mercy. 
"Who knoweth the spirit of a man that goeth upward 
or the spirit of a beast that go'feth downward to the 
earth?" ' Norman Price. 
Marlinton, W. Va, 
New Hampshire Birds and the Boston Market. 
Hudson Center, N. H., Nov. 4. — The bird shooting 
(especially the grouse) has riot been what was expected 
up to the present time. Large bevies were reported as 
late as Aug. i from every section of the State, but from 
Sept. 15 (our opening day) up to the time of writing we 
can learn of no large bags being taken. 
We regret to say that there has been more complaints 
of snaring in the southern part of the State than for 
years. A number of parties. have been convicted and fined 
heavily, fines being paid and prison sentences suspended 
during good behavior. The cause for this increase in 
snaring, in our opinion, is the high price paid for grouse in 
the Boston market, $2 per pair, which is the highest price 
we have ever known to be paid for them. One of these 
parties arrested and being convicted after paying his 
fine, said "That he set snares enough in one day in '97, so 
that when he went to them the ncKt day h^ toolf from 
them seventeen grouse." 
One of the most difficult measures we have to guard 
against during the session of our Legislature is to keep 
a" snaring bill off our statute books. We think that if Mr. 
Kinney, of Worcester, Mass., would take into considera- 
tion the fact that they allow them to snare in Massachu- 
setts, and as I understand give the right to others, he 
would agree with me that this, with an open market, is 
the reason of the decrease of game in both Massachusetts 
and New Hampshire. We are at the present time more 
strongly of the opinion than ever before that if the sale of 
game is not stopped it will be but a. short time when there 
•will be very few game birds to be protected, N. W. 
Bird Notes from Massachusetts. 
WoRTHiNGTONj Mass., Nov. 6. — 1 never saw birds as 
scarce as they are this year. I have shot but four grouse, 
and all the gunners say the same, that they find but few 
birds. We do not find our best woodcock covers along 
the rivers, but on high ground among alders that have a 
few springs in them. I have never found many wood- 
cock in July, but have always found them and their nests 
on high, dry ground. 
I saw an article in Forest and Stream a few months 
ago about night hawks, and in it was one thing that sur- 
prised me very much ; it was that the night hawk "always 
has its nest on flat rocks" (or something like this; I have 
not the paper at hand). Now when a boy I found hun- 
dreds of their nests, and never found one on a rock or 
stone, but always found them among the cobble or flint 
stones washed out of the river, as we have them along our 
rivers. A. C. S. 
[Observations made in the Laurentides and among the 
Hampshire Hills in Massachusetts and in the Green 
Mountain range usually discover the nesting places of 
the night hawks on the gray rocks. Practically there were 
no nests, the eggs being dropped on the bare surface. But 
the beds of old moraines or bars in rivers afford nest- 
ing places equally secure from notice, the eggs being 
scarcely distinguishable from pebbles. — Ed.] 
Stack to Post with Hand Shot Off. 
Altoona, Pa., Nov. 3.— Fainting from loss of blood and 
in terrible pain, Telegraph Operator Howard Lowman 
stuck to his post for six hours to-day at Garway Station, 
which is at a lonely spot on the mountain. Lowman had 
fired at a squirrel and his gun burst. He telegraphed to 
the superintendent : "Left hand shot off ; relieve as soon 
as possible." Asked if he could hold out to take care of 
trains until afternoon^ Lowman replied that he wovikl 
stick to his post mini relief came. When a train reached 
Garway the crew foimd Lowrnasi hall~cori§ciGUs=-=*JJew 
lYork World.- 
Thc New York League. 
As the date for the annual meeting of the New York 
State Fish, Game and Forest League is approaching, we 
wish to urge upon all clubs, associations and organiza- 
tions within this State who are interested in the protec- 
tion and preservation of our fish, game and forests, who 
are not already enrolled in the league, the great desira- 
bility of joining hands with us in order to secure yet 
more united effort in ,the attainment of these objects. 
The initiation fee of $5, including, as it does, the dues 
for the year commencing on the first Thursday after the 
first Monday, in December, when our annual meeting- 
takes place, gives to each club of fifty members or less 
the privilege of sending two delegates to the annual 
meeting, and where the membership is over fifty one 
additional delegate is allowed for each additional fifty 
members or fratcion thereof. 
At present the game laws of our State, while by no 
means perfect, are in very much better shape than they 
were a few years ago, and we claim with reason that the 
league has had a most decided influence in helping to 
bring about this improved condition. 
The constant tinkering by the Legislature with the 
game laws is, however, a serious menace to fish and game 
protection. Bills are constantly being introduced which, 
aiming to grant exceptional privileges to certain locali- 
ties, create a general feeling of distrust and seriously in- 
terfere with the enforcement of good measures. 
The careful weighing of the merits or faults of pro- 
posed game legislation by the persons most interested, 
the indorsement of what is deemed desirable and the op- 
position to what is deemed objectionable, is, after the 
election of officers for the ensuing year, the main busi- 
ness that comes before our annual meeting, and after the 
adjournment of the said meeting our legislative and law 
committee keeps careful watch of all proposed legislation 
affecting the game laws. Applications for membership 
should be made to the secretary, who will furnish blanks 
and information. Robt. B, Lawrence^ Prest. 
Ernest G. Gould, Sec'y. 
Sbneca Falls, N. Y. 
In New England. 
Boston^ Nov. ii. — The late flight of woodcock along 
the Massachusetts coast towns has been better for the 
gunners than usual. Not all have taken note of the fact 
that the weather has been unusually fine and warm for 
several days; just the weather to cause the "flight birds" 
to linger. Some good bags have been made, however. 
Mr. W. H. Reed was out election day, and found that 
others had also cared more for trying the woodcock than 
voting. He got one very fine bird. His hunting com- 
panion got two, while the day before he got three. Mr. 
R. L. Jones, out the same day, bagged three birds, and 
Mr. P. T. Murphy got four. This they all consider good 
shooting on fall flight woodcock. Partridges they started 
in fair numbeirs, but the best dogs in the world cannot 
approach them so as to give the gunners a shot. They 
are off before the dogs get near enough for the gunner 
to catch more than a fleeting glimpse. Gunners say that 
they grow more and more wary each year. 
Maine hunters continue to return with glowing ac- 
counts of deer and moose met and slain. Now and then a 
big black bear is brought home to Boston. One was sent 
to Clinton Market the other day. said to have been taken 
by a hunter from this State. The salesman had a chance 
to let it, to hang up in front of a market, for $1 a day, but 
preferred to sell it for $30. 
Messrs. F. E. Whiting and W. LI. Woods, of the Boston 
Herald Company, are just out of the Maine woods from a 
successful deer hunting trip. They went to Jo Merry 
Lake, and found deer very plenty, but still running mostly 
to does. They tried for bucks, but had to be satisfied 
with a couple of does each. 
Still no traces of the missing hunter Knight, lost in the 
woods off from Bemis, Me., have been found. A posse 
of searchers, to the number of 500 or 600, was raised in 
the towns and cites below, and forwarded by train last 
Sunday. Though forming in line and marching over every 
rod of ground, no traces could be found. Another search- 
ing party is to hunt to-morrow, while a number of ex- 
perienced guides are searching the woods individually 
every day. Men well acquainted with the woods in that 
part of the country say that there is little chance that he 
will ever be found alive. They believe that he has been 
injured in some manner, and died either from his injuries 
or hunger and exposure. It is also suggested that the 
falling leaves may have covered his body to the extent that 
searchers would not see it unless actually stumbling 
over it 
Boston, Nov. 13. — Shore ■ shooting at the best points 
along the Massachusetts coast is improving. Black duck 
are coming into the creeks and inlets and the gunners are 
making some good bags. At Chatham better shooting is 
reported, with good shooting at Monomoy. Coot shoot- 
ing is beginning at both these resorts, as well as at Annis- 
quam, Plum Island and all the points along the north 
shore. Old and experienced gunners expect this sport to 
be at its height within a week. 
Gunners who go to Maine have been holding back of 
late, waiting for snow. Fallen leaves and dry weather 
have made the hunting of deer very hard for a couple of 
weeks, with the result that fewer deer have been taken, 
according to Bangor and other game shipping point re- 
ports. It is even stated the month of November thus far 
is behind a year ago in the amount of game shipped out of 
the State, though October was considerably ahead. Snow, 
which is at hand already in some sections of that State, is 
expected to change this, however. Still, over thirty 
Boston hunters have brought deer out of Maine, via Ban- 
gor, the past week, with fully as many more to the ci"edit 
of sportsmen living outside of Boston. To these num- 
bers may be added as many more deer brought out from 
other sections o£ Maine. Among the number of hunters 
several ladies are noted, with deer to their credit, 
.A.fter a close time of ten years, Waldo county. Me., has 
been thrown open to the htmting of deer during the month 
of October, In that tirup it is stated that about fifty deer 
were killed. It is also understood that the same month 
will be open ,to deer hunting next year, although it is in the 
power of the Fish and Game Commissioners to prevent 
hunting there, if thfey believe that the supply of deer is 
endangered. 
I. N. Goldsmith, of Boston, has returned from a hunt- 
ing trip to Cedar Lake, Aroostook county, with two deer. 
He was accompanied by W. I. Wood, of Portland, and Mr. 
Germaine, of Fisherville, Mass. Both got two deer. 
Dr, Heber Bishop, of Boston, will start the 20th on a 
second trip after Canadian big-game specimens for the 
Paris Exhibition. He will be accompanied on this trip 
by W. S. Hinman and C. C. Williams, both of this city. 
Dr. Bishop's object is to add to the beautiful specimens 
he secured on his first trip, early in the season ; the horns 
then being generally in the velvet. This trip will be for 
fine specimens with fully developed antlers. His permit 
from the Canadian Government allows him to take game 
for the Paris Exhibition at all seasons. He designs to 
lay out the exhibit there in the form of a forest, with the 
mounted specimens placed in the most natural manner. 
Special. 
The Adirondack's Northern Slope. 
"Very well, John, we will visit you about, Oct. 20 if 
all goes well, and we thank you very much for the kind 
invitation." 
Thus began our annual preparation for a hunt and rest 
in the Adirondacks, as John invited us to spend our vaca- 
tion with him at a camp where he employed some fifty 
Frenchmen cutting pulp wood on contract. The 20th 
came very slowly, but at last it did come, and we boarded 
a train of the narrow gauge Chateaugay Railroad at 
Lyon Mountain, and after a slow ride of about thirty 
miles greeted John at Peet's Camp. 
My chum being well acquainted with this section of the 
woods and with the choppers, I was at once "made ac- 
quainted" and ushered into the long log cabin, where 
the pipes I had brought with me were given out and a 
general smoke was indulged in. In an hour we were 
ushered into an adjoining camp, called the "hash" camp, ■ 
where a rude table with seating capacity for twenty-five 
stood literally loaded with hearty food — ^baked beans in 
tin plates, boiled potatoes in the "jacket," fried pork, 
stewed venison, roast partridge, bread and butter, cakes i 
and relishes. 1 
After supper we again retired to Camp "Smoke," I 
where the evening was spent in story telling, playing | 
"chips" and smoking. 
The next morning Old Sol came beaming over the 
mountain tops, starting Jack Frost from the valleys in j 
the shape of banks of mist, a sure indication of a perfect /; 
day in the woods. After loading our game ba.gs with i 
lunch we started on our first day's hunt. We fairly ' 
crept up the mountain side among the beautiful virgin f 
forest trees, down valleys, across ravines, coming to deer J 
tracks occasionally and frequently flushing a partridge to ' 
keep our circulation good. !] 
Is it true with all hunters that when they are hunting ^ 
for deer plenty of small game is flushed, and vice versa? 
This has been my experience. When hunting for deer; 
there seemed to be a quantity of birds because you did ^ 
not want to shoot them. Thus we spent the forenoon 1 
without even starting a deer, to our knowledge. So, re- 
solved to pick what birds we could rather than go to 
camp empty handed, we sitcceeded in bagging ten nice 
plump partridges and also in working up a most raven- 1 
ous appetite for supper. 
The next was another beautiful day — so still a shot 
could be heard to echo and re.echo from hillside to 
valley, the extreme quietness broken only by an occa- 
sional chatter of the squirrel or shrill yell of the bluejay. 
This morning we again started early and went in the 
opposite direction from the day before. We had gone, 
scarcely a mile up the side of a steep mountain when, on 
looking across a deep ravine, what was our agreeable sur- 
prise to see five nice plump deer busily engaged in pick- 
ing their breakfast from a clump of raspberry bushes. 
My chum singled out the one he was going to try for and . 
I leveled on the next in size. After a whispered "One.i 
two, three," away went our bullets and away went some^ 
of the deer. Only three went far, however, and I am 
not quite sure but they are going yet. The other two 
stayed. Mine dropped in his tracks with a bullet in his 
heart and his companion floundered about with both 
shoulders broken. Another bullet put an end to his mis- J 
ery and also satisfied our desire for deer this season, we 
both having resolved five years previous to shoot only 
one deer each per season under any circumstances. 
Twelve o'clock found us in camp with our game, thanks 
to John and another good man. After dinner we went' 
out for birds and succeeded in bringing home four more 
partridges and a few ducks. 
It is a lamentable fact that hounding on the northern 
slope of the Adirondacks is still indulged in — in fact, only 
one day of the ten we spent in the woods passed without 
the barking of a hound, and some days two or three 
were heard. Is there no way to stop this unlawful slaugh- 
ter to deer? 
There seems to be a general impression among sport-' 
ing gentlemen that the poorer class do not care how soon 
game in the Adirondacks becomes extinct, or they would, 
not violate the law so much. This is not true, however.' 
The poorer class — those who have homes in the vicinity 
of the mountains, who are industrious and in every way 
worthy citizens — mourn the loss of deer more than any 
one else. It is the "tough" hunter who is too lazy to; 
work for a living and who has come to think the woods 
are his own, who does the slaughtering, without regard 
to man or his law. Is there no way our game warden 
can put these fellows to flight? Has he constables 
enough, or what is the matter with our wood detectives? 
Being a native of the Adirondacks, I am sure I am not 
alone in feeling as I do, but that I voice the desires o' 
many. G. W. Hilliker. 
Adirondack Deer Hounding. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have just read the letter written by a friend of Game' 
Protector Beede, which was called out by my communi- 
cation to Forest and Streaai thfce ■yv<ieks back, and notej 
the threat contained therein to have tti«? suljpwnaed to fur- 
nish e^^de^ce because 1 hSkve ovi^r ^Tp d|ired to call 
attention to the way the hounding "L fj^en evaded 
in Essex county. Tf Mr. Seed&^av^tjg i>iff>^14 of this 
