Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1901, bv Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1901. 
Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. | 
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( VOL. LVII.— No. 15. 
I No. 846 Broadway, New York 
ILLUSTRATION SUPPLEMENTS. 
We give to-day the first picture in a new series of 
the ilhistration supplements which have come to be a 
feature of the Forest and Stream. "First Around the 
Home Mark" is a spirited yachting scene, which goes 
happily with the illustrations of the America's Cup races. 
Other supplements of the series will be printed: 
Nov. 2.— "The Start." A field scene by Edm. H. 
Osthaus. 
Dec. 7.— Mr. and Mrs. Bob White. A portrait of the 
quail by Edwin Sheppard. 
IN CONDITION AND OUT. 
The value of physical exercise is in a general way 
fully appreciated by all, in so far as it concerns the best 
health, strength and beauty of the human body, and 
thereto the best workings of the human mind. Sports- 
men, in particular, are sensible of its beneficence. 
Any form of diversion which brings the bodily and 
mental forces into pleasing activity, in a new form and a 
new environment, differing from those of the regular 
workaday life, contribute to the recreation and restoration 
of mind and body. 
However different may be the forms of sport, one from 
another, their good effects to man are alike in kind. 
Thus, whether one fishes for the alert and cunning trout, 
casting the fly diligently and deftly to every conceivable 
point of which line, rod and wrist are capable, or whether 
one walks sturdily over hill and through valley with gun 
and dog, or whether one sniffs the bracing sea air from 
the deck of a yacht, the benefits to the individual are the 
same — that is to say, diversion of mind into pleasant 
channels, and exercise of body to its general benefit. 
But the average sportsman, he who may be classed as 
belonging to that large, earnest and desirable group called 
amateurs, takes his exercise, in practice, in an extremely 
intermittent way. As a rule, by him sport and business 
are kept sharply distinct both as to time and practice. 
When outing time comes there is an unearthing of rods or 
guns, and when vacation time ends, there is a hurried . 
storing away of them till they are needed again. The 
two times generally are months apart. There thus is an 
abrupt transition from business to pleasure, and vice 
versa. 
For this reason, at the commencement of an oiiting 
which imposes physical exercise, there is a general loss 
of skill and physical condition. In the commencement 
of his outing, the sportsman finds that he is awkward of 
body, slow of eye and unready in mind. About the time 
that he has, in his practical work, trained his hand, eye 
and mind so that rod and fly are manipulated deftly as 
he desires, or the gun swings promptly as eye, trigger 
finger and hand work harmoniously in the common pur- 
pose to kill the bird, the outing is ended. Starting in 
thus with a depreciation of skill, there is the added hard- 
ship consequent to the unprepared condition of the body 
for extra effort. 
The average sportsman follows a business routine much 
alike day in and day out from one outing to the next. He 
takes no preparatory exercise to condition him for the 
active and prolonged efforts on stream or in field. The 
consequence is that, in the first few days, whether he 
walks through field or forest, or fishes from bank or boat, 
or rides horseback, his muscles are sore, and his efforts 
for some days thereafter entail much discomfort of body 
or actual suffering, according to the degree of soreness 
and weariness. Coincidentally there is a lack of skill to 
disappoint or disgust him. All the weariness, soreness 
and loss of skill could in a large measure be guarded 
against by keeping up physical exercise during the busi- 
ness season. 
By daily exercise the dexterity of the hand is main- 
tained, the muscles are kept in condition for prolonged 
effort, and the eye and mind are kept keen and alert in 
their decisive judgments. There is thus a general ability 
of the powers of mind and body to work in part or in 
whole, as the circumstances may require. 
Particularly true is this of the sportsmen who have 
arrived in the middle years of life and who, when in- 
active, are prone to accumulate weight. 
He whose girth is greater than his shoulder measurg- 
mea\, begins his outing with paii^s an<J discomfoft tha^ 
would end his sport were not the love of it, to him, 
greater than the fear of pain. It is ttnwise thus to make 
business and exercise so distinct and separate. If during 
the season of business, the sportsman would ride awheel 
daily, or practice regularly with dumb bells or clubs, or 
take long walks, or row, swim, shoot at the traps, etc., 
the benefits of exercise, to mind and body, would then be 
constant, the beginning of the outing 'season would be a 
season of pleasure instead of one of bodily weariness and 
pain, and when a man reached middle life, he would not 
need any pretexts for quitting his favorite sport. 
DREDGE AND DYKE. 
In his report on "Sea Coast Marshes of the United 
States," one of the special reports of the U. S. Geological 
Survey, Prof. N. S. Shaler estimated that the total re- 
claimable area of marsh between New York and Port- 
land, Me., probably exceeds 200,000 acres ; that the money 
value of the lands when reclaimed would be $40,000,000, 
and that the cost of reclamation would not exceed a fifth 
of that sum. This means that the lands would be converted 
from marsh wastes into truck and farm lands. It is a 
commercial proposition. Lands which will yield a large 
financial return upon the cost of conversion will not 
permanently be left to lie idle. And this means that 
shooting grounds which have been hunted over by gen- 
erations of American sportsmen will be closed to the gun- 
ner of the future. It is a process which has been going on 
from the beginning all along the Atlantic coast and inland. 
Some of the most famous shooting grounds of this coun- 
try, such as the Drowned Lands of New Jersey, have 
yielded to the dredgers and drainers. There is one com- 
forting thought, however, for the shooter who would not 
see the wild lands subdued wholly to the dominion of 
the man with the hoe : Prof. Shaler's estimate of 200,000 
acres of reclaimable lands does not include all the shore 
shooting grounds. After engineers shall have rescued all 
they can there will still remain many square miles of terri- 
tory which will defy their skill and remain for genera- 
tions a field for sport. 
THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL PARK. 
The proposed establishment of the Appalachian Na- 
tional Park, as has been stated in these columns, in- 
cludes the purchase and setting aside of a mountain area 
in North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia 
and northern South Carolina. The two chief considera- 
tions upon which the Appalachian Park is asked for 
are (i) that the preservation of the forests which now 
cover the mountain area is absolutely essential to main- 
tenance of the water supply for the southeastern United 
States; (2) that the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge 
make up one of the most popular health resorts in the 
country, and the conditions now giving the region this 
character should be perpetuated for the benefit of the 
people of the country at large. On the other hand, there 
are no insuperable obstacles, no serious complications, no 
grave objections to the plan. All the several States in- 
terested have, through their Legislatures and other au- 
thorized representatives, expressed not only their con- 
sent to the assumption of control of the proposed forest 
reserve by the National Government, but they have urged 
Congress to act in the matter. The timber lands may, for 
the most part, be acquired for the purpose on reasonable 
terms, and in the case of particular lands not otherwise to 
be secured the right of eminent domain may be exer- 
cised. 
During the last session, President McKinley sent a 
special message to Congress, recommending its favor- 
able consideration of the report of the Secretary of Agri- 
culture on the park project ; and Senator Pritchard intro- 
duced a bill to appropriate $5,000,000 for the purchase of 
the lands. This bill was favorably reported back to the 
Senate by the Committee on Agriculture and Forest 
Reservations, but, like many another measure in both 
houses of Congress, it failed to receive attention in the 
closing days of the session. 
The Appalachian Park scheme is, therefore, in the 
position of a national undertaking which is without active 
opposition and requires for its execution only the atten- 
tion of Congress. This, we believe, may best be secured 
for it by following the suggestion of Senator Pritchard, 
^hat all the enlightened friends of the plan should make it 
their duty to communicate with their Senators and Con- 
gressmen, in order that when Congress next assembles 
and the subject shall come before it, the members may 
be cognizant of the wide public interest felt in the park, 
and may therefore be all the more ready to take up the 
matter and put the plan into execution. 
MORE ON AN OLD TOPIC. 
The treatment the gunner from town receives in the 
country depends very largely upon the gunner himself. 
The first rule to assure friendly relations and a pleasant 
time is a recognition of the rights of the landowner upon 
whose territory the game is found. If the game is worth 
having, it is worth asking for. 
A half-dollar in silver will go further than much 
vociferous and lurid argumentation and expostulation. 
It does not always work successfully to stand too stub- 
bornly upon one's right to shoot, whether or no. 
If shooting privileges were arranged for on the same 
business basis that is usual when one is negotiating a 
dinner or a lodging for the night, we should hear less of 
the irreconcilable conflict between the sportsman and 
the farmer. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The charming sketches of Samoan outdoor life written 
by Mrs. Llewella Pierce Churchill have been arnong the 
popular things published in Forest and Stream, and we 
have had frequent inquiries for them in a more perma- 
nent form. It is a pleasure to know that a selected num- 
ber of these papers are to be included in a volume which 
Mrs. Churchill is preparing for the press, and whose title. 
"Samoa Uma," in English "All Samoa," is significant of 
its comprehensive scope. It might also be called the real 
Samoa. Like every other people on the face of the earth, 
the Samoans are interesting to others only if the barriers 
of reserve have been broken through, so that they may 
be seen and described truthfully as they are. Mrs. 
Churchill enjoyed unusual opportunities to study the real 
Samoa during the years when her husband, William 
Churchill, was our consul there, and as her Forest and 
Stream contributions have abundantly demonstrated, she 
has a vivacious and graphic way of describing what she 
sees. The book will have an added interest because of the 
fact that over the picturesque islanders here described the 
flag of the United States now floats. The new volume 
will issue from the press of the Forest and Stream Pub- 
lishing Company, ' 
The two notes from two Canadian fishing overseers, re- 
specting the non-resident angling license, demonstrate the 
ambiguity of the text of ths law. Mr. Wood, of Ontario, 
tells us that the term "temporarily domiciled" is inter- 
preted in that Province as covering visitors who are 
boarders and who employ local guides and boatmen. 
This is precisely the interpretation that had formerly pre- 
vailed in Nova Scotia; in that Province the practice, in 
some localities at least, had been to regard visiting anglers 
lodging in Canada and employing Canadians as exempt 
from the license requirement; and it was in the sudden 
change of a new interpretation and a new practice that 
the injustice lay. Clearly, a regulation which is sus- 
ceptible of so widely varying interpretation, and which 
may all of a sudden be resorted to for the imposition of 
such treatment as that accorded to Mr. Townsend, is not 
in keeping with the rest of the Canadian fish and game 
code, which is lucid and readily understood. We repeat 
what we have said before, that if the Canadian Provinces 
elect to tax American sportsmen, that is for them to 
say; but if the intention is to exact a tax, the require- 
ment should be expressed in plain English, to the end 
that injustice may not be done to the non-resident who is 
sincerely intent upon complying with all the requirements. 
Mr. James Dickson, Ontario Land Surveyor, has writ-- 
ten an interesting monograph on the "Game Fields of On- 
tario," in which he describes the game resources of the 
Province and discusses in an intelligent way measures for 
their conservation. He writes from a wide experience, and 
a careful study of the subject, and has contribnted a 
really valuable paper to the literature of game protection. 
We quote in our shooting colnmns his discussion of the 
settler's plea that he should be permitted to kill game 
the year around. 
