Mr. Otto Tosetti, of this city, had good fortune in his 
cent deer hunt in the Michigan north peninsula.^ He 
me across two bucks which were engaged in mortal 
mbat, three does standing by some 30 yards distant, 
n' Tosetti uses a .2S-caL Winchester, and with this little 
sapon he managed to kill both of the bucks on the spot, 
e.is now having their heads mounted here in Chicago. 
Mr. Fred M. Stephenson, of Menominee, Mich., is one 
the best all around sportsmen we have in the West, and 
e fall which went by without his having a deer hunt 
Ould be a very dull one for him. He was lucky, as 
iual, this fall, and on one day killed three deer within 
ss than five minutes, in one of those rare streaks of 
jod fortune which now and then befall a hunter. Mr. 
'Cphenson, by the way, is in Chicago' to-day, and if I 
'jieceed in catching liira. I am sure to get some thrilling 
Hories. 
■Mr. Alfred S. Laflin, of this city, is just back from his 
ijdge in the Manitowish country of Wisconsin, where he 
md his wife have been hunting deer together. Both Mr. 
^flin and his wife were fortunate, and each secured a 
jod head. 
Quail. 
I have not heard this week of any more of the phe- 
)menal bags of quail such as were reported last week, 
It I am confident the shooting has continued very good, 
ery many shooters are out on their Thanksgiving hunt, 
id of course even the Thanksgiving rabbit hunters will 
m across their share of quail. Every one tells me that 
ere is more and more land being posted in Indiana, so 
at good shooting territory is harder than ever to get 
to. This sort of thing no one should regret to hear, as 
ery posted farm is a game preserve. I hear that Neoga, 
I., Is the place where Drs. Carson and Miller made their 
-eat killing of quail, Mr. Oswald Von Lengerke left 
'.strday for a quail shoot at Wheattield, Ind., where he 
)pes to have some success. He was at Monterey, Ind., 
.rlier in the season, but was rather disappointed with 
e shooting there, although this is ordinarily very good 
lail country. 
My friend Elmer Bliss, of Saginaw^ Mich,, says that he 
is been out with his friend Mr. Baird, at points which 
think are along the Grand Trunk Railway, and in two 
lys the two guns killed twenty-seven partridges and six 
lall. 
A very sad accident happened near Grand Rapids, 
Ach., on Nov. 27. Gen. Israel C. Smith, of that city, 
hile out quail shooting in some manner entangled his 
in in the brush and accidentally shot himself through 
e head, with the result of instant death. Gen. Smith 
as sixty years of age, a Colorado' pioneer, a soldier in 
e Civil" War, a brigadier-general in the National Guard 
id a very prominent man in the affairs of liis native city, 
e has a son, Lieut. Fitzmorton Smith, in the regular 
■my, who is now at Manila. The sportsmen of Grand 
ap'ids are much distressed at this occurrence. 
Speaking of quail and quail shooting reminds one of 
le steady growth in importance of this bird in our 
/estern shooting plans. Little by little, and more and 
tore every year, Bob White continues his northward 
arch, following the little farms and the slashed-ofi lum- 
cring country, I fully expect to see this bird as far 
r)rth as the shores of Lake Superior. Thus a well-known 
tiren of Eau Claire, Wis., Mr. George F, Winslow, tells 
\c that twenty years ago, when he first went to Eau 
laire, there were no quail at all, and he lived there for 
vc years without seeing any o£ these birds. There are 
lore now than were ever known before, and Mr, Wins- 
iw mentions one bag of twenty-seven quail made by two 
uns this fall near Eau Claire. He says that the birds are 
ery hard to bag in that neighborhood, as a bevy once 
ut up at once heads for the nearest thicket, and that 
3untry is full of swanffjs and heavy cover. As Eau 
:iaire is not the northern limit of the quail by any 
leans, it may be seen how distinct is this northern ex- 
?nsion of habitat on the part of the quail, evidence of 
•liich is common in the reports of numbers of quail in 
1 her parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota in recent years. 
Ducks. 
The mild weather has kept the ducks lingering in this 
ititude very late this fall, and although the flight is of 
ourse gradually working South, we still have shooting 
1 such of our marshes as can furnish feed and water, 
hear that there are still some mallards hanging around 
~ox Lake, and also along the timber streams of In- 
iana. I should not be surprised to hear of good sport 
et at the Swan Lake Club, on the Illinois River. 
The new non-resident license law of South Dakota un- 
cttled the plans of a good many shooters who had been 
1 the habit of going out there. We may instance one 
arty of Wisconsin gentlemen who formerly shot at Dry 
,ake, near Watertown, S. D., and who last fall killed 
>ver 1,500 ducks there. Although these gentlemen have 
neir boats, decoys, etc., stored at Watertown, they did 
ot go out at all this fall. They said the law had grown to 
e too strict, what with a shooting license, a twenty-five- 
■ird limit and a clause prohiibting the taking of game 
ut of the State. This latter clause I myself consider to 
>e the most unjtist one to be foimd in any of our game 
aws. and I have been told by former wardens of Wis- 
ons'in and Michigan that they would never take up any 
ase against shooters who were taking game with them 
nd not using it for market purposes. This clause of the 
ndiana law, as was reported long ago in these columns, 
/as shown to be invalid, and shooters have always 
irought their game out from that State without giving 
he matter anv thought. .. .. . . 
Verv often shooters who go out to the far West after 
lucks overlook better things close at home. Thus I may 
nention the good fortune of Messrs. George F. WinsIow 
nd Charles Smith, of Eau Claire, Wis., who -shot this 
all at Bear Lake, only sixty miles from home, and who 
lad verv good fortune. They killed seventy mallards and 
bout forty or fiftv redheads and other ducks in the course 
)f four days. Bear Lake has n rice bed of about 2.000 
cres, and this fall it had large numljeri; of wildfowl feed- 
rig there 
The ^vood"coGk• (Sdcnifi to be growing, ver? scarce ift this 
lart oi the West. About the best woodcock ground we 
lave in this region was along-- -the low country near 
rrempeleau. Wis., on the Mississippi River. The Beef 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Slough country of the same district was formerly very 
good. This year the woodcock crop seems not to have 
been so good as usual, and a bag of six birds is the best 
of which I can learn. 
Buffalo. 
It seems that we are to have some buffalo meat offered 
for sale in Chicago in this coming holiday season. Mr. 
D. F. Carlin, administrator of the Dupree estate, of 
Pierre, S. D., is reported to be preparing to kill several 
iDuft'alo out of the Dupree herd, stated to be held on the 
Cheyenne River. The carcasses will be shipped to Chi- 
cago for retail at fancy prices. It will probably be the 
first- buifalo meat seen here for some years, 
Indians. 
Mr. Thomas R. Roddy in the winter lives in a flat in 
Chicago. In the summer time he lives in a wickiup with 
the Winnebago Indians, of which tribe he was elected 
chief. Mr. Roddy has just returned to Chicago, and he 
says that next summer he will take to the Paris Exposi- 
tion a party of fifty Indians recruited largely from the 
Winnebagos, with representatives from other Western 
tribes. Mr. Roddy is said to have the finest collection 
of bead belts in the world, -and he purposes putting this 
collection on exhibition here before long. 
Big Bass. 
The two biggest bass which I have seen this year are 
shown mounted at Von Lengerke & Antoine's here. One 
of these was taken by W. A. Sharp in the Lauderdale 
chain. It is a big-mouth and weighs 5 pounds 15 J4 
ounces. A yet larger bass is that taken by Mr. H. E. 
Wiley, of this city, also a big-mouth, which is reported 
to have weighed 8 pounds. It is a shapely fish, and I 
should take it to have come from the Madison Lakes, al- 
though I do not learn where this fish was caught. 
Biz Muscallonge. 
One of the finest muscallonge which has come into 
Chicago this season is that shown mounted at the transfer 
office of F. Parmelee, a handsome fish, stated to have 
weighed 42 pounds and to have been taken near Minoqua, 
Wis. 
Pine, 
Col. J. S. Cooper, of this city, was in Washington, 
D. C, this week, as enthusiastic as ever over the Min- 
nesota National Park idea, and he reports that there -vvill 
certainly be a bill introduced in Congress this winter for 
the establishment of this park. 
Meantime, the medical men of Minnesota continue their 
determined movement to save the standing pine of the. 
Leech Lake country. They purpose forrning an organiza- 
tion to purchase and leave standing this pine timber, it 
being their idea that this is the best health resort in the 
NorrhAvest and should be maintained as it is. Among 
the medical men prominent in this work are Drs. H. M. 
Bracken, L. M. Crafts. R. O. Beard, J. W. Bell, J. H. 
Dunn, J. T. Moore, A. W. McDonald, George Eital and 
F. A. Gunsmore, of Minneapolis, with Drs. A. W. Gun- 
ning and C. L. Green, of St. Paul. It is sincerely to be 
hoped that something will come of this movement. 
Tiic South. 
News comes froin the famous and favorite sporting lo- 
cality of Rockport, Tex., that the Gulf Coast in that vi- 
cinity has within the week been visited by the severest 
storm ever known there. Great injury was done among 
the small shipping, and anxiety was expressed for hunt- 
ing parties out in schooners along the coast. Ex-Mayor 
Holland, of .St. Louis, and Mr. E. H. Green, president of 
the Tarpoi? Club, of Aransas Pass, were among those out 
in schooners at the time of the storm; but as no disas- 
ter t'-> their craft is reported at this date, it is to be- pre- 
bum.ed ihar they made port safely. 
Mr. D. Flowerree, of Helena, Mont, is in Chicago 
this V eek on his way to his winter home at Fort Me;^er, 
Fla.. As index to his intentions with the quail, etc., it 
may be stated that Mr. Flowerree has purchased iu Chi- 
cago wove than $ico worth of shotgun ammunic'on. 
My friend Mr. Fred Merrill, of Milwaukee, writes me 
that he and his brother Dick will soon start South on 
their regular winter hunting trip. Among other things 
Mr. Merrill goes on to say: 
"We hope to migrate to the Texas coast very soon to 
try and sJioot a few ducks. Don't expect to quarter our 
fall Dakota hunt (the best in fifteen years, especially on 
m.allards). We will meet Jim Bludworth, and he and our 
man will sail his new boat, just built this year after his 
own practical ideas for cruising in shallow water along 
the coast. How long we will stay with him. depends en- 
tirely on how good the duck shooting pans out. Have 
sent down quite a bunch of reds and sprigs or "tin pail" 
decoys, and if we get a duck for each decoy we will have 
several days' good shooting. If duck shooting is poor 
I will go to Los Angeles, Cal., and vicinity. Dick will 
probably stay by Texas, as he likes the room and freedom 
of Texas better than the glorious climate of CaHfornia. 
He is a little sore on Florida, and thinks it is a land of 
frozen oranges and broken promises on ducks. Dick 
prefers a good blind and a good duck flight to doing the 
hotel piazza act in a gameless country. 
"If I do go to California I will not do a great deal of 
shooting, it will be a case of some fisliing, mostly golf, 
tennis, riding and driving, same as last winter. I am a 
little afraid of golf — played it long enough to find out that 
it is a dangerous game for a single man who is fond of 
freedom arid shooting. With the right partner a man is 
liable to lose interest in mallard flights, :i gauge wads, 
chilled shot, pattern and penetration. My trip is liable 
to be a miscellaneous one. Among other things I will 
take a pair of waist-high waders and a head waiter's suit 
for modern life, and will try to get some fun out of what- 
ever is going on." 
Mr. Merrill's fears are well grounded. Let me beg 
him to be very careful about golf, especially to e.schew the 
gislf girl. 
Which is Called Didymoa. 
I have read with much interest the comment on "bi^ 
bags of ducks" which appears in last week's FoRESt . 
AND Stream over the signature of that entertaining wri-- 
ter who signs himself Didymus. I imagine that most- ol 
467 
us practically agree with Didymus in the matter of big 
bags of game, yet the duty of a newspaper man is to 
make known the facts. I take it that the accounts as 
printed were actual facts, though it is only strictly accu- 
rate to say that the news was obtained from friends of 
the shooters and not directly from the shooters them- 
selves. Sometimes when you go directly to headquar- 
ters you don't get any news at all about such things. Both 
of the gentlemen criticised are good friends of^mine, and 
although that does not set up sanctuary for .them, I am 
inclined to believe that did Didymus know them both he 
would have stayed his hand. I do not absolutely know 
that Mr. Howe killed sixty birds all in one day, but I 
will say that if any club shooter ever earned the right to 
do so, then that man is Mr. Howe, for a more lovable soul 
never stood on earth. Mr. Howe is an old man — a very 
old man — and he led the Tolleston Club in their long, 
plucky, expensive fight in the interest of reputable sports- 
manship on the fateful Tolleston Club grounds. These 
gentlemen have never made any bluster, and you never 
hear them speak of their lawsuits or their bags of game. 
Indeed, I presume they would rather that both were kept 
out of print, whether the one or the other be small or 
large. Abner Price is a younger man than Mr. Howe, 
yet still past middle age, and as fine a fellow as ever Was. 
I would not say anything for or against him, because he 
is stout and husky; but the man who raises his -voice 
against F. A. Howe raises it against all Chicago, Neither 
Mr. Howe nor Mr. Price would make any reply to com- 
ment of this sort, yet I should not be surprised were Mr. 
Howe reported incorrectly, as the Tolleston bags are 
secret things. I give the news because I am a newspaper 
man. 
As to Didymus' statement that all duck clubs ought to 
have a limit to the daily bag, I agree with him perfectly. 
I stood out for a long time for a limit in the Horicon 
clubs, and that was finally established, much to the detri- 
ment of one or two local members who were shooting for 
the market under cover of a club membership. The Wau- 
ponaca Club, of Memphis, Tenn., has a limit of fifty 
birds per day. I think such a daily limit should depend 
largely upon the conditions, and be better determined by 
those advised of the conditions than by us, who must 
pass upon the thing off-hand. Personally I do not care 
to kill more than twenty-five birds per day myself, limit 
or no limit; but perhaps every one does not feel just that 
way himself. Indeed, I think that Didymus and I will 
preach a long while to ears more than partially deaf. 
The task is that of reconstructing human nature. "Do 
you suppose?" asked a friend of mine the other day, "that 
I am going out into Dakota and pay all the expenses of 
the trip, and pay a license fee on top of that, and then not 
kill more than twenty-five birds a day? Certainly I will 
not; but I will go to where I can get some show for my 
time and money." 
This is much the story of the average shooter. It is 
so rarely that he gets an opportunity for sport that he finds 
it hard to stay his hand when the occasion comes. It is 
human nature which is cleaning out the American game. 
I presume I have done as much writing against exces- 
sive slaughter of g?ime as anybody, but I could never 
see that it had much effect. The sort of news to print 
in a sporting paper — the sort of news which attracts the 
attention of everybody, Didymus included — is news about 
good game country and good bags of game, I have much 
distaste to say it, yet I do believe that if the circulation 
of the FoKEST AND Stream were confined to good people 
like Didymus and myself, who sincerely are opposed to 
slaughtering game, and sincerely in favor of a daily limit 
to the bag, the aforesaid circulation would be but a tithe 
of what it is to-day. Does Didymus shoot? Was he 
ever on the marsh when the flight was on and the birds 
were working well? Is he a good clean shot? Does the 
blood run pretty hot in his veins? My faith, when I 
begin to ask these questions of myself, I can remember 
chiefly that .part of my childhood's prayer which says: 
"Lead us not into tempation." E. Hough. 
480 Caxton Building, Chicago, III. 
The Kaiser at Windsor. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
A New York daily, referring to the hunting trip of the 
Kaiser and the Prince of Wales in the Windsor pre- 
serves, after detailing the numbers and kinds of game 
killed, viz., 178 pheasants, I partridge and 328 rabbits, 
goes on further to state that the Kaiser used a magazine 
Mauser rifle. 
It is fair to assume that out of kingly courtesy the 
Kaiser was allowed to kill practically all the game. But 
he did so, if properly reported, with a .30 smokeless rifle. 
Now did he do it ? If the pheasants were "treed" perhaps 
he blew their heads off one by one. As to the rabbits, they 
do not tree when a dog barks, but on the other hand run 
like the very devil, and not always in the open either. 
Therefore, if we credit the Kaiser with blowing off the 
heads of his pheasants, we on the other hand must realize 
that the rabbits were killed while hustling through the 
cover. It may be well enough for Buffalo Bill, Dr. 
Carver and Annie Oakley to knock glass balls to 
smithereens with shot cartridges, but when it comes to 
knocking over skyrocketing pheasants and balls of fur, 
going through the brush like a streak of lightning, with a 
rifle ball, it's t-ime our Yankee tifle experts "took notice." 
Charles Cristadoro. 
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 2o.. 
It has long been a mystery how the young of the Aus- 
tralian duckbill (or .duckbilled Platypus, as it is often 
called) succeed in obtaining milk from their mother. In 
this peculiar creature the female is unprovided with teats, 
the milk glands merely opening on the surface of the 
breast by a number of minute pores. Quite recently an 
observer has found out that when the young duckbills 
■want to suck the mother throws herself on her back, when 
her offspring mount upon her breast and press the aper- 
tures of the milk ductg with their beaks. The milk there- 
upon commences to flow and is received in a groove on 
the breast of the parent, from which it xs scooped up by 
the beaks of the young ones, just as ducks ladle up the 
water out of a ditch.— R. Lydekkex. 
The Forest AND Stream ia put to prws ««e^ weeic pa Tttetday. 
Correspondence intended for publication thouM reacb nt st the 
latest by Monday and as much eariier as practistblc; 
