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game laws. If if does, however, a permanent, if reduced, 
revenue will be better than a larger, but transient one, It 
will not pay to "kill the goose that lays the golden eggs." 
The Sportsmen's SIiow.5 f* 
The managers of the coming National Sportsmen's 
Show at Madison Square Garden announce that exhibits 
will be presented by leading railway lines reaching those 
sections of the country where big game still abounds, and 
where lakes and streams still }'-ield an abundance of game 
fish. From Maine to Florida, and from Virginia to *Pie 
prairies beyond the Mississippi, the resources of the 
country, from a sportsmen's standpoint, will be most at- 
tractively and comprehensively represented. Should ar- 
rangements now in hand be completed, the game treas- 
ures of the Indian Territory will be shown in a manner 
that will surprise even those who know something of this 
section. . . 
At past expositions of the Sportsmen's Association the 
State of Maine has been so prominently represented as to 
overshadow the efforts of all other sections, with the sin- 
gle exception, perhaps, of the Adirondacks. The Adiron- 
dack League last year made a superb exhibit, and so prof- 
itable and substantial were the results that the same or- 
ganization will this year send down even a greater and 
more comprehensive exhibit than was its predecessor. 
Maine will this year make an exhibit that promises to 
eclipse that of 1899. Supplementing the Maine and Adi- 
rondack exhibits, and distinctly of the same class, will be 
the exhibit to be made by the railway companies whose 
Hues penetrate Florida. This exhibit will embrace not 
only the game resources of the State, but will be thor- 
oughly tvpical of its physical character. 
Another exhibit that will recall many pleasant recollec- 
tions to sportsmen in the vicinity of the Metropolis is 
being arranged by Mr. Oscar Hesse, of Red Bank. In 
its day, Barnegat Bay has furnished some of the best 
sport ever enjoyed by Eastern duck hunters, and its re- 
sources are still' great enough to attract hundreds of New 
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania sportsmen every 
season. Mr. Hesse refuses to paint an advance picture of 
ins exhibit, but promises something that will revive old 
memories in the hearts of all Barnegat Bay duck shooters 
who see it. . 
Boone and Crockett Club. 
The annual meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club 
was held at 6:30 on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 20, at 
the Metropolitan Club, New York. Nearly fifty mem- 
bers were present. The business transacted was chiefly 
routine. The most interesting of the committee reports 
was that of the game protection committee, which, in 
view of the conflicting reports coming from the Adiron- 
dacks, with regard to the manner in which the game laws 
are enforced there, determined to find out for itself how 
the law was regarded. Tliis independent investigation 
showed that in certain sections of the North Woods the 
game law is a farce. There are other sections, however, 
where, owing to the hearty co-operation of the residents 
and of the local guides, the provisions of the law are en- 
tirely respected. 
Oflicers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: 
President, W. A. Wadsworth, Geneseo, N. Y.; Vice- 
Presidents, Charles F. Deering, Illinois ; W. B. Devereux, 
Colorado; Howard Melville Hanna, Ohio; William D. 
Pickett. Wyoming; Owen Wister, Pennsylvania. Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, C. Grant La Farge, New York ; 
Executive Committee, Winthrop Chanler, Chairman; 
Lewis R. Morris, A. Rogers, Henry L, Stimson. Madi- 
'ion Grant. Executive Committee, George Bird_ Griimell. 
New York; Theodore Roosevelt. Albany, N- Y. 
The meeting was followed by the dinner, and this by a 
description of the Harriman Expedition to Alaska by Dr. 
C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey. The 
talk, which was illustrated by a great number of lantern 
slides, was greatly enjoyed. At the conclusion of the 
talk, remarks on game, forest and fish preservation and 
on legislation bearing on these subjects were made by 
Governor Roosevelt. 
The membership of the club, which is limited to 100, is 
full. 
^^^^^ Cttrritucfc Dticfcs. 
Currituck, N'. C. Jan. 20.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
We have had a cold snap at Currituck, lasting about ten 
days, which gave us some good sport in the beginning_ of 
it; but the birds soon became so thin that we had to give 
it up for a few davs. One of the old Palmer Island Club 
members shot 162 geese in one day. This is the largest 
bag I ever heard of at Currituck. This club, founded 
some thirty vears ago by Capt. Nat Palmer, have given up 
their lease and will disband at the end of this season. 
Canvasbacks have been unusually abundant for the past 
thirty days. More were killed on Christmas Day than 
have" been killed in one day for many years. Ruddy ducks 
cannot stand cold weather and have left us for some 
warmer clime. The black ducks and mallards also went 
away in a southwesterly direction, presumably to Redfoot 
Lake, in Tennessee, or Akaponoka Swamp, in Georgia; 
but thev Avill return now, as the weather is quite warni and 
open. I shot eightv-nine geese in four days by using live 
geese decovs on the ice. Quail are still quite plenty, and 
some good bags were made in this country last week, 
MoRK Anon. 
The New York Legislative Committees. 
Albany. Tan. 20.— As the Senate holds over from last 
year, the committee on forest, fish and game laws remains 
the same. Senator Brown, of Jefferson county, is the 
chairman. Associated with him on the committee are: 
Chahoon, of Essex; Malby. of St. Lawrence; Ford, of 
New York; D. F. Davis, of Kings; La Roche, of Kings, 
and Havens, of Suffolk. 
There is a new committee on fisheries and game in the 
Assembly. Axtell, of Delaware county, is chairman, as 
he was laist vear. The following members were also mem- 
bers of last year's committee: Hallock, of Suffolk; Davis, 
of New York; Doughty, of Queens and Nassau, and 
Beede, of Essex. The following are the new members Of 
the committee: Johnson, of Clinton; Irwin, of Washing- 
ton- Marson. of' Oneida; Dusinberg, of Sullivan; Maher. 
of New York: O'Connell. of New York; Holstein, of 
Kings and Sierns. of Kings. The new committee repre- 
sents the fish and game districts much better than last 
year's committee did. Mather. 
Tricks and Wrinkles. 
I SEEM to be alone in this idea of mine, for only one 
crood man— D.— thus far, had so much as crooked his 
finsrer. Never mind. I am going to stick. 
Most sportsmen smoke, and many like a pipe. Ask 
them what is the best thing to clean an old one out with 
fresh and sweet, and most every one will say alcohol. 
Not this one, thoue-h. T know something that beats it 
all hollow: so much that it would surprise you if you 
never tried it. What? Chloroform! The commercial 
is least expensive. Pink Edge. 
Hotels for Sportsmen. 
Person-S who are conducting hotels or camns in regions 
where there is good shooting or fishing should under- 
stand that the best way to make their places known to 
persons interested in these sports is by advertising in the 
FoRT.sT AND Stream. Snortsmen have come to depend 
on the hotels which are advertised in Forest and Stream, 
and registered in its Information Bureau, and the liotel 
keeners who patronize these columns are unanimous in 
declaring that thev receive most satisfactorv returns for 
the money invested 
Campbell McNab. 
A REPORT comes from Quebec that Campbell McNab, a 
Canadian guide well known to sportsmen, has been 
murdered hv Indians in the Squattock reservation coun- 
try. McNab was among the guides at the New York 
Sportsmen's Exposition of last year. 
More "Wild " ice for Foreigfn Waters. 
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
deliver to any common carrier, or for any common carrier to 
transport from one State or Territory to another State or 'terri- 
tory, or from the District of Columbia or Alaska to any State or 
Territory, or from any State or Territory to the District of 
Columbia or Alaska, any foreign animals or birds the importa- 
tion of which is prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts thereof 
of any wild animals or birds, where such animals or birds have 
been killed in violation of the laws of the State, Territory or 
District in which the same were killed. Provided, that nothinf[ 
herein shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or ani- 
mals killed during the season when the same may be lawtuUy 
captured, and the e-xpnrt of which is not prohibited by law in 
the State, Territory or District in which the same are killed. 
Sec. 4. That all packages containing such dead animals, birds 
or parts thereof, when shipped by interstate conimerce, as pro- 
vided in section one of this act, shall be plainly and clearly 
marked, so that the name and address of the shipper and the 
nature of the contents may be readily ascertained on inspection 
of tlie outside of such packages. Vor each evasion or violation of 
this act the shipper shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not exceed- 
ine: $200; and the consignee knowingly receiving such articles so 
shipped and transported in violation of this act shall, upon con- 
viction, pay a fine not exceeding $200; and the carrier knowingly 
carrying or transportins the same shall, upon conviction, pay a 
fine of not cxceccling $200, 
"That reminds me." 
That Old Bear Story. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In the column of "That Reminds Me," in your issue, 
of the 20th, J. P. T. propounds a "problem for W. W. 
Hastings, Pine Tree or some other of the old boys" in 
the shape of recollections of "An Old Bear Story" in his 
Third Reader. 
I am one of the old boys referred to. Is it possible we 
are so old? I hadn't realized it till startled by J. P. T. I 
can't answer all his questions about that bear story, but 
I remember it well, and on me also it made its vivid im- 
pression. 
It was in "The Progressive Reader," and I think J. P. 
T. is right in referring it to the third of the series. 
The series came as an unprecendented innovation in the 
Uttle brick school house up on High street, in old Bas- 
cawen, N. H. 
All previous classes, so far as any one knew, had read 
in "Town's Readers." Those readers were the very foun- 
dation and substructure of English literature. All classes 
could repeat diem by heart before school days were fin- 
ished. The lower classes heard the reading of the higher 
ones, and so came to the higher books entirely familiar 
by ear with every selection in them. And no one dreamed 
of this as a disadvantage. We did not have to be amused 
by our lessons in those days. It wasn't "child study," it 
was child studying, and with might and main, too. It was 
no lolling back in a patent seat, while the teacher passed 
a panorama before our passive seWes. It was sitting up' 
on a hard bench and learning by dint of energetic en- 
deavor how to get the meaning, unassisted, from the 
printed page. 
But to return to the readers. There came a time when 
the "prudential committee," moved by what impulse I 
never knew, legislated that we were to have the "Pro- 
gressive" series, and "Town" was dethroned. There was 
consternation and wild rebellion. Could we give up those 
consecrated "pieces" — "Hafed's Dream" and all the rest? 
It was unbearable sacrilege. When, last sum_mer, I met,, 
doAvn on the rim_ of the Grand Canon of the Colorado, 
my old friend Mr. Locke, superintendent of schools of 
Saco, Me., we copped lines and verses from "Town's 
Fourth Reader" hy the half hour, and agreed that the dis- 
placing of them by anji-thing else whatever was sacrilege. 
He knew his "Town's Fourth Reader" as I did, He 
could begin a quotation anywhere, and I could com.plete 
it, and he never failed to answer my return challenge suc- 
cessfully. This stam_ped him as "a gentleman of the old 
school." 
But the "Progressive" readers came in in spite of pro- 
test, and, strange to say, interested us as we never sup- 
posed new matter could. No one dreamed of admitting 
i]-\^t the new readers were as good as the old. They sim- 
ply couldn't be. Nothing could be. I wouldn't admit 
to-day that the "Progressive" readers were to be men- 
tioned in the same day with "Town." 
But how we revelled in them! And that bear story! 
There was a wild note of pathos in it which mournfully 
thrilled me for hours, as I brooded on it. Does J. P. T. 
remember "the death cry of the Shawano warrior," who 
died with his knife in the grizzly's heart? I dare say I 
could recall manj^ another story in the "Progressive" 
seiies if any one would sound the first note for me; but it 
is a fact that at this m.oment I can bring to mind nothing 
but this bear story. And I am as curious as J. P. T. to 
know the rest of the story and who wrote it. Surely 
some one of the brethren will have a "Progressive" reader 
and will give us all the information the book affords. 
This old book business takes a powerful hold on me. 
You will remember how, not long ago, Mr. E. Hough 
had a great time hunting up an old book dear to his boy- 
hood. 
I came near airing my own romance and quest of a 
book then, but didn't quite do it. If we unearth the 
truth about this bear story, I shall be encouraged to call 
for help. And, by the way, since J. P. T. is also a Boston 
man, I wi.sh he would just call me up on the 'phone some 
day, "127 Oxford" will do the business, and much 
obliged to you. Forest and Stream. It won't be the 
first time, by many, I dare say, that your good offices 
have brought men together who may have errand with 
each other. C. H. Ames. 
There is a man living here whom I meet every day, 
and he always is smiling and jolly; but he has lost all 
his ambition, because, as he sj-ays, ".A. lady he was en- 
gaged to went away with a walking bank." Jack hunts, 
fishes and tends a little patch of ground, which his neigh- 
bors' chickens dug up as fast as he planted. _ He got a 
fine needle and some silk, and some small shipping tags 
and some corn. That evening the owner found his brood 
had a shipping tag attached to the bill of every bird on 
which was written. "I have fed these blamed chickens 
on garden seeds all the spring; it's your turn to feed 'em 
now." 
They were unlike the cat — ^they never came back. 
Pink Edgs. 
Where the Exterminating^ Peregrinator has not 
Peregrinated. 
The Kissimmee River route has been the subject of 
much descriptive writing, and it certainly lends itself 
to literary treatment. It is an extraordinary river in 
many respects — in its narrowness, in the rampant growth 
of water plants along its low banks, in the unbroken 
flatness of the landscape, in the variety and quantity of 
its bird life, in the labyrinth of by-channels and cut- 
offs and dead rivers that beset its sluggish course, and 
above all in the appalling incredible, bewildering crook- 
edness of its serpentine' body. There are bends where it 
takes nearly an hour's steaming to reach a spot less than 
100 yards ahead of the bow. On either side, as far as 
the eye can reach, lies the prairie dotted with small ham- 
mocks. Occasionally the bank rises a few feet to a 
ridge of hammock, and here the steamers inake a land- 
ing. The hammocks are generally occupied by some 
sturdy stockman. Three steamers make regular weekly 
trips to Bassinger and return, the voyage lasting about 
five days. By road the distance to Bassinger is thirty 
miles, by lake and river it is 172 miles— some say 175 
miles. — Kissimmee (Fla.) Valle3'-Gazette. 
James River Docks. 
PiiuTii Ambov. N. J., Jan. 18. — A recent letter from 
Belch & Bro., City Point, James River. Va.. says: "We 
did not kill very many ducks during the cold snap. There 
was so much ice in the river we could not get abottt. 
Yesterday (Jan. 10) was the first day we were out with 
the battery in two weeks. We killed forty yesterday and 
thirty-two to-day. We have killed a few canvasbacks. 
To-morrow we are to take out a party of gentlemen from 
New York — W. P. Young and brothers. 
"Think there will be good shooting right along till 
spring. We don't have to go away down to Tar Bay now. 
The ducks are rising higher up the river. We killed the 
forty yesterday right abreast of the steamboat wharf." 
J- K. 
Mr. Charles Gilchrist, of Port Hope, Ont., tells us 
that through Forest and Stream he has sent shipments 
of wild rice to Scotland and England, His orders for 
home waters were far beyond the supply of the 1897 crop. 
The Lacey Game Bill, 
Following is the text of Mr. Lacey's game bill, H. R. 6634, as 
redrawn, with amendments and introduced in the House of Kepre- 
sentatives Jan, 17. It was referred to the Committee on Interstate 
and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed: 
A Bill to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, 
rohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game 
illed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That tbe 
duties and powers of the Deoartment of Agriculture are hereby 
enlarged so as to include the preservation, distribution, introduc- 
tion and restoration of game birds and other wild birds. The 
Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to adopt such meas- 
ures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act 
and purchase such game birds and other wild birds as may be 
required therefor, subject however, to the laws of the various 
States and Territories. The object and purpose of this act is to 
aid in the restoration of such birds in those parts of the United 
States adapted thereto where the same have become scarce or 
extinct, and also to reg;ulate the introduction of American or 
foreign' birds or animal's in localities where they have not hereto- 
fore existed. 
The Secretary of Agriculttire shall from time to time collect and 
publish useful information as to, the propagation, uses and preser- 
vation of such birds. 
And the Secretary of .Agriculture shall make and publish all 
needful rules and regtilations for carrying out the purposes ot this 
act. and shall expend for said purposes such sums as Congress 
may appropriate therefor. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for anj person or persons to, 
import into the United States iiny foreign wiid animal or bird 
except under special permit from the United States Department 
of Agriculture. Provided, that nothing in this section shall restrict 
ihe importation of natural history speciments for museums or 
scientific collections, or the importation of certain cage birds, such 
as domesticated, canaries, parrof? or such other species as tbe 
Secretarv of Agriculture may designate. 
The ifnportation of the mongoose, the so-called "flying foxes" 
or fruit bats, the English sparrow, the starling, or such other 
birds or animals as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time 
to time (ieclare injurious to the interests of agriculture or horti- 
culture is hereby prohibited, and such species upon arrival at any 
of the ports of the United States shall be destroyed or returned 
at the expense of the owner.. The Secretary of the Treasury is 
hereby authorized to make regulations for carrying into effect the 
pr«7vision9 of this section. 
