FOREST AND STREAM. 
Jime 2, igoo.J 
One of said comrades was a i6-bore, single-barrel, rauzzle- 
'.oading shotgun. This gun was undoubtedly the most 
.aluable piece of propert}^ possessed by any mortal at 
that time. It didn't cut any of said value off when some 
cranky fault-finder, who was trying to make light of a 
boy's possessions, would call my attention to the lath nail 
which Iseld the barrel on the stock, or to the top of the 
hammer that was not there, or said he 'would be afraid 
he would cut his fingers on the muzzle,' or that it needed 
a new tube, or laugh at the cheek piece, which looked 
like a shut cellar door. The designer of this arm evi- 
dently expected it to kick, so he made the stock about 
3 inches wide at the butt. After my attention had been 
called to this, I seldom said anything, but would put it 
over my shoulder and walk off, followed by the third 
member of this combination. This was a setter dog. He 
was a hummer. In fact, he was the only real dog that 
ever was. He was white where he wasn't brown, and he 
didn't know there was any such a thing as a pedigree 
of a dog, and neither did I. In fact, I don't know whether 
he ever had a father or not, but if he did, that sire had a 
son to be proud of. He would tree a squirrel or chase 
a rabbit, or help dig a mink out of a drift. He would 
bring everything to me that I, or any one else in his 
sight, killed. We three were a trio that was dodged by 
every living animal, including the farmers, within a radius 
of five miles of the little town which was our base 
of operations. I didn't know then that a prominent 
feature of dog etiquette was to be steady to shot. It was 
a great pleasure to me to see a quail or a dove drop, be- 
cause I knew that if he was only winged he wouldn't get 
over 6 feet before Dash would be where he fell. This 
dog was a retriever, and don't you forget it. We would 
walk five miles before daylight to get to Dickinson Lake 
for the morning duck flight, and during the day I would 
nearly starve, having eaten all the lunch I had started 
with before I got to the lake, but I would kill three or 
four ducks and would always find some party there who 
had a few ducks down, he couldn't get because he didn't 
have a good dog. He would offer me half of them if I 
would let my dog. go in and get them, but I would give 
him and his dog a glance of contempt" and walk on along 
the rushes, taking good care, however, to get the exact 
location of his dead ducks before I walked. After awhile 
I would go back, and if he had gotten tired of waiting 
and gone, I would get a clod and throw out toward the 
ducks, and then the dog would do the rest. I have made 
some remarkable bags in a morning's shooting for a boy. 
"I thought I taught that dog all he knew, but since then 
I have figured it out that I had the wrong one sized up 
for the teacher. 
"But the reason I write this letter is to let you know 
that I believe I am about to enjoy the ownership of a 
dog which will nearly come up to the standard set by the 
old dog. I say nearly, for I don't expect anything to 
ever break even with old Dash without Divine help. Now 
I own the sire of the puppy whose portrait I inclose, and 
his pedigree covers a sheet of paper about the size of the 
delinquent tax list of a Kansas countj', and he is about as 
good as a dog can be nowadays, after he has the usual 
amount of time put in on him, making him drop to shot, 
charge and divers other things that are expected of bird 
(logs, which, were unknown to me and Dash. But it is the 
puppy of which I want to speak. Now I feel real sorry 
to think that this pup will have to be taught to charge, 
drop to shot and other things that fall to the common 
lot ot up-to-date dogs, realizing what a wonderful future 
is before him, if he could fall into the hands of a real live, 
energetic country boy of about fifteen summers, who pos- 
sessed a single-barrel muzzleloading shotgun. 
"At the time this picture was taken (last month) this 
puppy was less than two months old. A friend of mine 
was shooting a target gun in the yard, and winged a spar- 
row, which fell by the edge of the hot-bed you see in the 
picture. The pup was Wcft)bling around and crawled up 
on the glass, and just-^s he got on top caught sight of 
the bird, and there he is. The gentleman immediately laid 
down the gun, and went into the house, got the camera, 
and getting around so he could get the terrace for a back- 
ground, took the picture. You will notice the stone wall 
oil the left, and the shadow of a limb of a tree just back 
of the pup. It is the stanchest point I've ever seen so young 
a dog make, and I take pleasure in sending you this picture, 
as I feel that there is no one else who can so fully realize 
what an elegant "boy's dog" this fellow could be made 
under the proper conditions. He is a liver and white 
pointer." 
Two Stories from Texas. 
Mr. Omer H. Porter, of this city, travels a great deal 
and shoots in all parts of the country from 'Bexas to 
California. Following the Forest and Stream tips, he 
has tried both Rockport and the Galveston country, where 
there was such good snipe shooting six or eight years ago. 
Mr. Porter to-day said that he could see no future for the 
ducks in any part of America, and he considers the jack- 
snipe a doomed bird. He had very poor sport in his last 
Texas trip, and is looking for a better country. 
On the other hand, I just have a letter from my 
friend, Oscar Guessaz, of San Antonio, Texas. He says : 
•'The entire Southwest is covered with green. The dry 
streams are things of the past. The San Antonio, Salado, 
Medina, Leona, Medio and Rosillio rivers are again run- 
ning as they did fourteen years ago. Our fish are coming- 
back. This country will have the biggest crop it ever 
did. and the shooting will be much better than you ever 
saw it." Of these two pictures let us hope that the latter 
will prove the more accurate. 
From the Blacfcfoot Country. 
I have just heard from Crosby Boak, that ingenious 
mountain driver who took our party into tlie Two Medi- 
cine country of the Blackfoot reservation when Mr, Mc- 
Chesney and mvself were the guests out there of Joe 
Kipp, J. W. Schultz and Billy Jackson. Mr. Boak is 
now at Adell, la., visiting his relatives. It %yas his 
brother-in-law, Mr. Thompson, who called at this office 
and brought the word that Boak is alive and well and 
spoiling for another hunt. I should have thought that 
Joe Kearney pretty nearly took all the walk out of him the 
time we went out to the railroad by moonlight, but one of 
these days we may all round up again somewhere. I think 
Boak could get more out of a team in deep snow than 
any driver I ever saw, and his linguistic attainments left 
nothing to be said, except for U3 to add that those were 
"our sentiments." E. Hough, 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
Wyoming^ Vermin. 
MoRGANTOWN, W. Va., May i8. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Saratoga Sun, of Saratoga, Wyo., says that 
the amoutit of $25,000 appropriated by the last Legisla- 
ture for the extermination of predatory wild animals is 
now exhausted, and no more State bounties will be paid 
by the different counties until another appropriation is 
made. All the cattlemen in the Laramie district have 
banded together and have formed the Laramie Plains 
Live Stock Protective Association. Money is collected 
from the stock raisers according to their resources and 
expended in bounties on predatory wild animals in much 
the same way as the State appropriation. 
Mr. Wlutehouse, the secretary of the Association, re- 
ports for March that thirty-eight bounties have been 
paid at an expense of $95- 
Emerson Carney. 
Game in the AUegash Countfy. 
P.\TTEN. Me. — From the Maine woods many rumors 
have been circulating that deer and partridges died off 
to quite an extent, owing to deep snow and heavy crusts, 
hut such is not the case. I have just returned from a 
two weeks' trip to Chamberlain and Telos lakes, head- 
waters of the Allegash River, and can assure sportsmen 
that deer are as plentiful as ever. Partridges have not 
wrintered so well for a long time, and with a good spring 
for hatching they will next season give the best shooting 
that has been had for ten j-ears. G. W. C. 
The Lacey Law. 
This is the text of the Lacey bill as it passed Congress and 
has been signed by the President: 
An act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, 
prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed 
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 the 
duties and powers of the Department 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 
measures as may be necessary to carrj' out the purposes of this 
act and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds as may 
be required therefor, sutiject, 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 ex- 
tinct, and also to regulate the introduction of American or foreign 
birds or animals in localities where they have not heretofore 
existed. 
The Secretary of .\griculture 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 need- 
ful rules and regulations for carrying out the pui-poses of this act, 
and shall expend for said purposes such sums as Congress may 
aporopriate therefor. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to 
import into the United States any foreign wild animal or bird 
except under special permit from the United States Department 
of Agriculture: Provided, That nothing in this section shall 
restrict the importation of natural history specimens for museums 
or scientific collections, or the importation of certain cage birds, 
such as domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other species 
as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. 
The importation 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 declare injurious to the interest of agriculture or horti- 
culture is hereby prohibited, and such species upon arrival at any 
of the ports of the United States shal^ 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 
provisions of this section. 
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 Col- 
lunibia or Alaska, any foreign animals or birds the importation 
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 nothing herein 
shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or animals killed 
during the season when the same may be lawfully captured, and 
the export of which is not prohibited by law in the State, Terri- 
tory, 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 commerce, 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 the outside 
of such packages. For each evasion or violation of this act the 
shipper shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not exceeding two 
hundred dollars; and the consignee knowingly receiving such arti- 
cles so shipped and transported in violation of this act shall, upon 
conviction, pay a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars; and 
the carrier knowingly carrying or transporting the same shall, 
upon conviction, pay a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars. 
Sec. 5. That all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any foreign 
game animals, or game or song birds, the importation of which 
is prohibited, or the dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any wild 
game animals, or game or song birds transported into any State 
or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or 
storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be 
subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or 
Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same 
extent and in the same manner as though such animals or birds 
had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be 
exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original 
packages or otherwise. This act shall not prevent the importation, 
transportation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured 
from the feathers of barnyard fowL 
429 
Toledo Gossip. 
'^Notcs and News Anent Fishing in Ohio and Wichigm. 
The bass fishing on the reefs adjoining the bass islands 
in Lake Erie has been unusually good this spring, and 
some excellent catches have been reported. The most 
serious enemy to the bass is the trap nets which are 
planted on the reefs, where it is difficult to anchor the 
pound nets, but the legislative committee which investi- 
gated the question of fish protection last winter were con- 
siderately blind to the workings of this recent and effective 
ally of the commercial fishing interests. 
That insufferable nuisance the German carp continties 
to increase in the western portion of Lake Erie with 
alarming rapidity. Although only introduced in 1893, 
more than three and a half million pounds were taken last 
year, and the average prices from the lake to the whole- 
sale markets was about one-eighth of a cent per pound. 
During the season just closed, many tons have been sold 
to various local fisheries at Sandusky, Port Clinton, and 
Toledo, at from $2 to $4 a ton, and during the last two 
weeks of the season many tons brought direct from the 
lake were dumped on the refuse fish scows. Large num- 
bers were sold during the dull season for less than one- 
tenth of a cent per pound. On the Monroe marshes the 
carp are working serious injury to the wild rice, on which 
they are said to feed largely in the spring, and the farmers 
are retaliating by forking them out of the water and using 
them as fertilizing material. 
Major W. R. Leflet, formerly a Toledo newspaper 
man, and a skillful fisherman, has established a novel but 
successful minnow farm on his place on the banks of the 
Ottawa River, some four miles below the city. Last fall 
the Major dug in his orchard, a short distance from the 
river, a pond of about an acre in area, and deposited in 
it something less than 200,000 shiner minnows. The water 
in the pond is in the neighborhood of 10 feet in depth, and 
it is kept constantly fresh and aerated by a supply drawn 
by a windmill from the river itself. This spring the 
Major has been able to fill all reasonable orders for 
bright, live minnows from 3 to 6 inches in length, while he 
has on hand a large crop of minnow fry from spawn cast 
by the original stock. Good minnows are always salable 
the season through at a dollar a hundred, so that it needs 
little figuring to establish the fact that a minnow farm 
may be readily made a profitable investment. By the 
way, the Major is also developing a plan for growing carp 
minnows for bait purposes — about the only good use to 
which the creatures can be put. 
Messrs. Noah Swayne and W. J. Walding, of this city, 
are members of the famous Triton Club, of Canada, and 
early in August will start on a fishing tour into the 
extreme northern portion of its 500 square miles of terri- 
tory. They go equipped for a six weeks' trip. 
A day or two since the writer had a heart-to-heart talk 
with Judge J. M. Kenyon, of this city, on the subject of 
the Sable River and its trout fishing. The Judge finds 
his chief recreation, when he is imable to go fishing, as an 
amateur i-od maker, and at other times he is engaged in 
administering justice in our city courts. He was found 
in his workshop occupied with a new rod, having just 
returned from a stay on the greatest of the Michigan 
trout rivers, which included the first two weeks of the 
season. 
It will doubtless be a comforting statement to those who 
are chained to business that the number of fishermen on 
the Sable thus far this spring has been greater than in 
any previous season in its history, while all the accom- 
modations of its principal camps are engaged for every 
day up to the first of July. 
Among the parties on the river during the opening 
weeks were those of A. C. King, of Chicago, which in- 
cluded H. Gait, of Canada, and four others; J. B. Flan- 
ders, of Toledo, and ten others ; Messrs. H. F. Allen, Geo. 
Smith and W. C. Jacus, of Buffalo; a Mr. Smith, of 
Jackson, and five others; Mr. Avery, of Detroit, and four 
others, and Clarence Brown, of Toledo, with a party of 
seven from this city and Columbus, O. These were lo- 
cated at the main camps some thirteen miles down from 
Grayling (as the river runs), while still further down 
were scattered innumerable tents, occupied by parties 
hailing from all accessible localities between New York 
and the Rocky Mountains. The Detroit club house, some 
two miles lower down, held about fifty fishermen. 
The first days of May, the beginning of the open season 
for trout in Michigan, were cold and raw, with decided 
frosts nearly every night. The Sable is an ideal stream 
for fly-fishing, the finest open stream in the State, but 
it is astonishing how soon after the first of May the 
fish become educated. Schools which on that day are as 
verdant as any yearling, in the course of two or three 
days' training become as shrewd and wary as a four- 
year-old.. Hence, it is the usual experience that in the 
first two or three days, the tenderfoot, who invariably 
fishes in the middle of the stream, gets as many trout as 
the adept, but after that it is different. 
The Michigan law makes the minimum length of the 
legal trout 6 inches, and a careful estimate shows that 
there were in the neighborhood of 7,000 trout of that 
length and over shipped out during the first two weeks 
of the season by the fishermen at the main camps, saying 
nothing of those consumed by the fishermen themselves. 
Several of the more expert anglers on the stream this 
year, including Judge Kenyon, had a voluntary regulation 
of their own. under which they returned to the water all 
fish under 8 inches. These men, however, are the ex- 
ceptions rather than the rule. It is a singular thing 
that some of the principal guides, if not all of them, are 
opposed to raising the limit, on the ground that fishermen 
under any change of that kind would get fewer trout, and 
in their disappointment would fail to return to the stream 
another year. An attempt was made in the State Legisla- 
ture last winter to raise the limit to 7 inches, but the 
farmers in portions of the State hnving small trout 
streams opposed the change, alleging that the fish in sucK 
streams did not grow much more than 7 inches, and that 
their own chances for taking trout were thus practically 
destroyed. It may be said, on the other band, that the 
law as it now stands is rigidly enforced, and the wells 
