Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1901, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1901. 
VOL. LVI.— No. 19. 
No. 846 Broadway, New Yor • 
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Mt. Francis Cttrle told me howe one Dr. Bullein, 
the Queenes kinsman, had a dogge which he doted 
on see mttch that the Qtieene understanding of it 
requested he wowld graunt hir one desyre, and he 
shottid have whatsoever he would asfce. She de- 
ma«nded his dogge; he gave it, and "Nowe 
Madam/* qwoth he, "jois promised to give me 
my desyre.** "I will," qttothe she. "Then I pray 
yotf give me my dogge againe.** — Manning- 
ham*s Diary, J 603. 
the Torest ana Stream's Platform PlanK. 
The sale of game should be prohibited at all seasons." 
NAILS DRIVEN IN 1901.— No. VI. 
ARIZONA. 
Chap. 57, Laws 1901.— Sec. 17. Every cold storage company, or person 
keeping a cold storage warehouse, or tavern or hotel keeper, restaurant or 
eating house keeper, market man, or any other person who shall at any 
time sell, or expose for sale in this Territory, any hide, head, horns, or 
meat of any male or female deer, antelope, elk, mountain sheep or moun- 
tain goat, or any carcass of any wild turkey, dove, quail, bob-white, par- 
tridge, pheasant or grouse, or of any wild duck, goose, brant, snipe or rail, 
or any brook, mountain or rainbow trout, or any black bass, strawberry 
bass or crappie, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 19. Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed 
to prohibit the importation and sale of fish and game from other States 
and Territories. , 
"PICTURES FROM FOREST AND STREAM." 
Thiety-two of the full-page pictures printed from time 
to time as illustration supplements to Forest and Stream 
have been selected for publication in book form under the 
above title. A preliminary announcement of this has 
already been sent ont, and the response has been such as 
to indicate that the projected volume will be given cor- 
dial welcome. 
The scope of the collection is fairly comprehensive; the 
subjects include the reproductions of Audubon's bird por- 
traits; big-game pictures by Rungius, field scenes by 
Osthaus, hunting pictures by Deming, shooting and fish- 
ing pictures by Davison, and yachting scenes. Every care 
will be taken to insure for the volume the highest artistic 
excellence, and to make it in paper, presswork and bind- 
ing a creditable contribution to the literature of the field. 
A list of the plates will be found on another page. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
Mr. Mooney's paper xcontrasting the difference in con- 
ditions surrounding the field naturalist in the day of 
Wilson and our own time is supplemented by the note of 
Mr. Manly Hardy, who points out the yet more marvelous 
changes in the conditions of woods life which have been 
developed within his own personal experience. Hunting 
and -fishing exploration, the collecting of natural history^ 
specimens, and every phase of travel, work and life in the 
wilderness, has been ameliorated by the develop- 
ment and perfection of equipment. The sports- 
man of the twentieth century is by no means of necessity, 
nor indeed often voluntarily, the Spartan that his sports- 
man father was before him. To go camping is not now 
necessarily to go roughing. Life in the wilds has shared 
the softening influences which have made modern living 
in so many material ways more luxurious and less strenu- 
ous than in the old days. Whether we of the present with 
all our conveniences get any more satisfaction out of it 
than did our fathers in their cruder way is an open ques- 
tion. The old-timer, who regards with indulgence the 
ease and comfort of these later days, would be apt to 
maintain that with all the hardship of the woods life as 
he knew it, there were rewards quite as full in their com- 
pensation as any we may find. 
We are constantly talking of the rapid advance of 
civilization and the lessening of the wilderness on this 
continent, but there yet remains and will remain for 
many years to come an immense area of unsettled country 
to the north of the United States. The director of the 
Canadian Geological Survey says in his latest report that 
there are more than 1,250,000 square miles of unexplored 
land in Canada, or in other words, a territory comp^'ising 
one-third of the entire Dominion. Here the sportsman 
will long be assured a hunting ground wide enough in 
its game resources to tempt exploration and exploitation. 
In the early future extensive areas of this Canadian 
wilderness, which are now practically inaccessible, will be 
opened up by railway enterprises, and new and rich 
fields will be made accessible to the hunter and fisherman. 
One of these roads, the Algoma Central, is now building 
north from Sault Ste. Marie, and will have for its terminus 
Moose Factory, on the shore of Hudson's Bay. The 
purpose of the projectors is to develop the rich mineral and 
forest and agricultural resources of the country ; awaiting 
the coming of the rails there are immense deposits of iron 
and copper and forests of valuable timber. ' Much of the 
country to be opened to travel is stocked with game. Elk 
and caribou abound, with wild geese and wild ducks, and 
fishing waters; and the man of rod and gun may com- 
placently regard the new road as one in part projected for 
his own special benefit. These new opportunities come at 
a time when the game resources of other regions have 
been destroyed — resources which once appeared to be as 
abundant and as inexhaustible as these. Profiting by the 
example of the United States, which has permitted its 
game to be destroyed, the Canadian authorities may well 
take measures to prevent the reckless killing of game in 
these newly opened regions. Properly husbanded the 
stock will last for generations. 
Governor Odell has vetoed the appropriation made by 
the Legislature this year for the purchase of Adirondack 
lands to be added to the State forest holdings. As a 
reason he submits that no settled programme has been 
adopted for the comprehensive -treatment of New York's 
forest land problem, and until such a plan shall have been 
determined upon the Governor disapproves the further 
expenditure of public funds in this field. This conclusion 
doubtless is based upon a careful consideration of the 
subject, and it will be accepted as sound, in particular 
by those people who have knowledge of certain very 
questionable transactions on the part of the forestry board 
in the past. But the acquisition of forest lands and the 
conservation of the water supply are two interests of 
transcendent public importance, and interests which de- 
mand and should be given immediate attention. 
Senator Malby's bill to prohibit hounding in the 
Adirondacks for another term of five years Has become a 
law. The actual operation of the anti-hounding system 
has abundantly demonstrated its wisdom. We have ex- 
pressed the opinion that by the end of the new five-year 
term local sentiment in the North Woods will be in sup- 
port of a perpetual prohibition of hounding. Despite 
the active opposition of guides and other residents now 
existing, the gradual growth of a feeling in favor of 
the law may not be questioned. 
In the several seasons of the y^ar there comes now and 
again some one day, which by reason of the air or the 
sky or the clouds, or by a subtle, indefinable and indeter- 
minable something, carries one in thought to some far- 
away scene and fills him with a longing for it. Some- 
times fancy thus is led in autumn to a mountain, from 
whose brow one has looked out upon a wide stretching 
landscape of wondrous beauty, and again the suggestion 
coming in the spring time is of a camp site by the lake, 
with the soughing of the pines overhead and in front a 
vista of water and distant shore. Whatever the picture 
that rises thus unbidden, and though it be as fleeting as 
it is abrupt, we are grateful for it; and happy is he who 
can resolve on the instant to make good in actual seeing 
once again the reality. 
For many years Mr. T. Southwell, of Norwich, Eng- 
land, has annually given to the public notes on the seal 
and whale fisheries of Great Britain, and the twentieth an- 
nual installment appears in a recent number of the 
Zoologist. He reports that the season's catch for igoo 
included 17 whales, 632 walruses, 3,453 seals and 145 
bears. The total value of this catch is estimated as $150,- 
000, as against $190,000 in 1899. The animals of the 
northern sea are being exterminated. The right whale 
has practically disappeared from the Greenland seas, and 
the seals are disappearing as well. The author adds : 
"The destruction year after year of a very large propor- 
tion, often virtually of the whole brood and of a large 
number of old seals in addition, congregated in a limited 
area, must inevitably tell in course of time, and sooner or 
later reduce the breeding pack to such an extent that 
they would be no longer worth pursuing, and even lead 
to their final extermination. This has doubtless, to a very 
large extent, been the case. The British vessels have 
quite abandoned the pursuit, and what there is left of 
the Greenland sealing is now quite in the hands of the 
Scandinavians, whose more economical outfits enable them 
to continue the struggle long , after we have been driven 
from the field." 
We recorci to-day the sixth nail for 1901 driven into the 
Forest and Stream's Platform Plank, and other States 
are to be heard from. The principle of stopping the sale 
of game is receiving recognition everywhere. In the 
not remote future it will be the all-prevailing rule. 
A common stock argument with advocates of an open 
game market is that invalids hanker for grouse and quail 
and should not be compelled to depend upon the chance 
generosity of sportsmen to satisfy their longing for game. 
It is true that there are . invalids whose finical appetite 
may be tempted with game; but where one marketed quail 
goes to an invalid's room, a- thousand go to game , eaters 
who are healthy and robust. The consumption of game 
b}'- invalids is so small as to be a negligible factor in the 
consideration of the subject. The invalid as a game con- 
sumer has been overworked; it would be graceful, not to 
say merciful, on the part of the market advocates to give 
him a rest. 
Opposition to an anti-sale game law on the ground that 
it is class legislation in the interest of sportsmen as a 
class against the rest of the community is silly. It is of a 
piece with all the other opposition to game laws 
which is based on the "class legislation" pretense. The 
whole scheme of game protection has been assailed from 
time to time as class legislation, but in this country there 
is not the slightest reason to justify the charge. Sports- 
men who use the rod or the gun are not from a class dis- 
tinct from the rest of the community any more than are 
ihe players of golf or the young men who take red-headed 
girls driving behind white horses. .Game laws are en- 
acted and enforced to preserve the game stock, that it may 
not perish from the land, and if a law forbidding the sale 
of grouse and pheasants and venison is essential to accom- 
plish the end, then such a law is in the public interest. 
Perhaps no sportsman in America has ever been so 
well known as the Englishman, Henry Wm. Herbert, 
whose pen name was Frank Forester. Mr. Ruthven 
Deane, of Chicago, has devoted much time and effort to 
gathering up information about Forester, and relics b£ 
him and the notes which he has recently printed in Forest 
and Stream are very interesting. It is hoped that any 
one possessing data concerning Forester, pr any letters 
or other manuscript from his pen, or knowing of the 
existence of any portraits of him, will make them public, 
either through the Forest and Stream or by communicat- 
ing with Mr. Deane. 
At the instance of the Acting Superintendent of the 
Yellowstone National Park, Montana has made a close 
time for a term of years on antelope. As was set forth 
in these columns some weeks ago, the chief purpose of the 
law is to afford winter protection for the Park antelope, 
which gather on the Gardiner Flats, on the southern edge 
of the Park, and thenec stray over into Montana, where 
many have in past years been killed. Arizona and Nevada 
have also just adopted a long term of protection for the 
antelope. 
Mr. Charles Hallock has republished from the Forest 
and Stream, as a brochure dedicated to the National 
Geographical Society, his biographical notice of Dr. 
Robert BeU, of the Geological Survey of Canada. It is a 
record of achievement and high public service, and well 
deserves this separate and permanent form. 
