Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1900, by Forest and Stream Publishing Go. 
Terms, 
I A Year. 10 Cts. a Cory. 
Six Months, $2. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1900. 
1 VOL. LV.— No. 18. 
I No. 846 Broadway, New Yor 
. FOREST AND STREAM AT PARIS. 
The photograph shows the principal exhibit of the 
FaREST AND Stream at the Paris Exposition, which con- 
sisted of the lifty-three bound volumes from 1873 to 1899, 
shown in a handsome bookcase. Dr. Tarleton H. Bean 
tells us tliat the paper attracted much attention and the 
current' files Av'ere in constant demand. In addition there 
were shown a portfolio of illustrations which have ap- 
peared from time to time .as supplements, and a series of 
tlie vohimes published by the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company on outdoor life and field sports. 
The Forest and Stream was the only journal of its 
class to receive mention at the Exposition, and, as has 
already been announced, the recognition given to it by the 
judges was generous and gratifying. The awards com- 
prised a first prize. Gold Medal, a Bronze Medal^and two 
Honorable Mentions. 
Oi.-R ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENTS. 
We give to-day the first one of a series of four full-page 
illustrations which have been provided to accompany the 
first numbers of the months for November, December, 
January and February. The originals have been drawn 
for the Forest and Stream by Mr. Wilfred P. Davison 
and Mr. Edmund Osthaus, and the subjects will, we are 
sure, prove acceptable and popular, as reminders of days 
in the field. The titles of the four pictures are: 
Nov. 3. — In the Fence Corner. By Wilfred P. Davison. 
Dec. T.— When Food Grows Scarce. By Wilfred P. 
Davison. 
Jan. 5.— Quail Shooting in Mississippi. By Edm. H. 
Osthaus. 
Feb. 2.— In Boyhood Days. By Wilfred P. Davison. 
AN AGENCY FOR GAME PROTECTION. 
It has often been said by correspondents of Forest and 
Stream that no work could be undertaken which would 
accomplish so much for game protection as to extend 
the circulation of Forest and Stre.a.m among persons in- 
terested in shooting and fishing, in order that they 
might become interested in the subject, and read good 
doctrine. If every reader of the Forest and Stream will 
do u hat he can to bring .the paper to the notice of others 
interested in these subjects, he will be doing for game 
protection a work that will count. If, with a view of con- 
serving and increasing the game and fish supply, our 
renders will send in to us the names of all persons who 
are interested in these and kindred subjects, we, on our 
part, will do all that we can to increase the interest which 
ihe}' feel by sending out free numbers of Forest and 
STRE.^M containing special articles on the subject. 
WOMAN IN THE SADDLE. 
The question as to how a woman should sit a horse is 
gradually attracting — as it should — more and more atten- 
tion, and signs are not wanting that before long there 
will be a considerable proportion of the horsewomen 
of the country who v/ill insist on riding in the only 
rational and safe way. Already in most of the large cities 
— and certainly in many localities far from large cities- 
there are horsewomen who ride a man's saddle, and it 
is not to be doubted that this number will constantly in- 
crease. It is but a few years since the short skirt, 
variously known as the rainy day, golf or bicycle skirt, 
began to be worn by a few advanced women, and yet 
to-day it is so popular that most working women, and a 
very large proportion of shoppers in the large cities 
assume this garb when they go abroad. 
The matter of woman's seat on a horse comes again to 
public notice by a dispatch from Chicago stating that a 
woman there who had entered a number of horses at the 
coming Korse sh^w and expected to ride them herself In 
the ladies' saddle horse class, intended to ride a man's 
saddle; and that when this knowledge came to the horse 
show, authorities they requested her to withdraw her 
entries. 
Public agitation of this matter is all that is required to 
push the reform to the front, and all persons interested 
in seeing the change brought about will be glad that 
the question has come up again. The woman who has 
ventured to bring it up in this public way, and to the 
attention' of the class which is commonly denominated 
"'society," is to be congratulated on her courage. But 
then it has long been known that women make the best 
martyrs. 
Horseback riding is perhaps the most wholesome and 
altogether the best form of exercise that can be taken 
by man or woman, but in the larger communities its 
practice is limited by the fact that it is expensive, both 
as to time and money. In the country, however, this 
objection exists to a less degree, and everywhere the fond- 
ness for horseback riding is increasing. 
Of the world's population women are by far the cou:- 
servative part. They object to change, cling to the old 
things and wish to do to-day as their mothers did before 
them. To attempt to alter sentiments or customs among 
them is to undertake a task far greater than would be 
found in turning the thoughts of men into new channels. 
At the same time the views of women on many matters 
have changed so rapidly within the last few years, and 
the sex has made such long strides toward taking its 
place in many resoects on an absolute equality with 
man, that we may hope that within a few years the 
difference in standing which existed half a century ago 
will have largely disappeared. 
SETTLED. 
This talk about the constitutionality of non-export 
game law is corning to be somewhat wearisome. The 
last case is that of Mr. Douglass Dyrenforth, of Chicago, 
and his Wisconsin muscalonge. The Wisconsin statute 
forbids the export of fish taken from inland waters, ex- 
cept that two fish (or more if not in excess of 20 pounds) 
may be carried out of the State when accompanied by the 
owner. Mr. Dyrenforth was taking some muscalonge 
home to Chicago, and. according to the published re- 
port, was quite within his right as to the limited amount 
he was carrying. The fish were seized by a Wisconsin 
warden, and Mr. Dyrenforth has sued to recover $5000 
damages. In the event of the court's upholding the 
warden, Mr. Dyrenforth announces that he will bring suit 
to test the constitutionality of the anti-export provision. 
To value two Wisconsin muscalonge at $2,500 apiece 
is. of course, to put a moderate and conservative price on 
them, reckoned from the standpoint of the angler who 
caught them; and we shall all hope that the whole sum 
sued for may be recovered, or at least enough of it to soothe 
Mr. Dyrenforth's outraged feelings, which, it is evident, 
come high. But what shall be said of a proposition at this 
day to test the constitutionality of laws forbidding the 
export of game or fish? For the point is no longer 
subject to test. It has already been tested and settled 
by numerous State coOrts and by the Supreme Court of 
the United States. In the case of Geer vs. Connecticut 
this very question was at issue. The Connecticut statute 
forbids the export of ruffed grouse. Mr. Geer, a game 
dealer, bought some grouse, which by purchase became 
his property, and carried them to New York. When 
sued for the penalties, he contended that the birds having 
by purchase become his property he might do with them 
as he pleased. When the case got to Washington the 
Supreme Court found against Mr. Geer on this point. It 
held that the game of a State belonged to the State, and 
the State might prescribe conditions both as to its capture 
and as to its disposition after it was taken. The State 
might thus provide, as in the case under consideration, that 
the game might be taken only for the purpose of con- 
sumption within the State. Under these circumstances it 
would be impossible for any one to act[uire in the dead 
game any absolute property right which would war- 
rant his doing with it other than the State had provided 
might be done. So as to these Wisconsin muscalonge. 
The State owns the fish ; it may forbid the taking of 
them at any time for any purpose, or it may permit their 
capture at certain times for certain purposes. The author^ 
ity which prescribes the purpose of taking and the dis- 
position after taking is identical with that which pre- 
scribes the times and the modes of taking. We do not 
hear any one affirming that he has a constitutional right 
to catch Wisconsin muscalonge when, where and how 
he pleases; but that contention would be just as reason- 
able as the common one that a person may do what he 
pleases with his fish after he has captured them. 
Undoubtedly there are certain constitutional questions 
involved in the game laws which it would be worth while 
to test, but this one of game export does not fall within 
the category. It has been settled already. And because 
it is settled talk about settling it over again will end in 
talk. The talk will probably continue far into the next 
century, for it is talk of a kind that soothes the feelings 
of the victim of the law. When one has had his fish taken 
away from him or has been compelled to pay a fine, it 
mitigates the severity of the penalty if he can set him-^ 
self up on a pedestal and contemplate himself as an 
aggrieved and injured citizen shorn of his constitutional 
rights. 
CALIFORNIA QUAIL FOR THE APPALACHIANS, 
It has more than once been suggested in Forest and 
Stream that the plumed partridge of California, better 
known as the mountain quail, might do well on the higher 
slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, in North CaroHna, 
and possibly further south. Until recently, however, no 
one especially interested in the region appears to have 
given much thought to the matter . However, we learn 
now that Mr. Chas, Hallock. Dr. A. K. Fisher, of the 
Biological Survey, and Manager Hayes, of Sapphire. 
North Carolina, have taken the matter up together, and 
that there is a prospect that something may be done 
about it. 
In connection with this, it is proposed to introduce on 
the southern slopes of the same mountains some blue 
quail from the Rio Grande, which will be fed and shel-. 
tered in winter. These birds are easily domesticated. 
Mexican children are said to use them universally as 
pets, and they are said to constitute a considerable part 
of the food of the people in some localities. 
Of course these last are birds of a dry region, and seem 
to prefer a country where the rainfall is very slight; but 
on the other hand they have been introduced in portions 
of British Columbia— a country of great precipitation— 
and there have done well and greatly increased in num- 
bers. There seems no obvious reason why they might 
not do equally well in North Carolina, and if not there, 
at least in South Carolina and Georgia. They are not 
cold weather birds and would be easily winter killed. 
Projects such as this are equally interesting to sportsmen 
and to naturalists. 
TALKS TO BOYS. 
We shall begin in our next issue the publication of a 
series of "Talks to Boys," by Mr. W. G. De Groot. To 
those who know Mr. De Groot it is not necessary for us 
to say that for the authorship of such a series no one 
could be found better equipped than he by long experience 
in the field, thorough sportsmanship and sympathy with 
the youngsters of to-day, who are to be the sportsmen o£ 
to-morrow. The papers will be highly practical in charac- 
ter, and we shall miss our guess if they do not find readers 
of mature years as well as among the boys. 
