sea 
and with the fly, inchiding some good sport with the 
taking of trout for breeding purposes. The}' left the 
taking of trout and sahnon for spawn-taking with the 
men, and are satisfied that good work will be done at the 
hatcheries. The stewards left the various camps Nov. I, 
but care-takers will be on the groimds all winter. Mr. 
and Mrs. D. C. Pierce and Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Rohbin- 
son were at their camps at Chain of Ponds, and were to 
remain till after the first of November. Mr. II. VV. San- 
born is also at the preserves on a lumting trip. Mr. 
ITarry B. Moore has a hrtnting party in charge for the 
Maine woods. In the party are R. H. W. Dwight, Charles 
M. Howell and Leroy S. Brown. Tiiey go to Iloleb, on 
the Canadian Pacific, and found it last 3'ear one of the 
best of big game grounds. Mr. F. A. Jones, of Boston, 
has had great success in the Sottcl (or Sawtclle) Brook 
region, eight or nine miles from Shinn Pond and twenty- 
one miles northwest of Patten, Me. This is the cele- 
brated region where Mr. W. C. Harding and Mr. Theo- 
dore Ripley got the grand old moose last year, already 
described in the Forest and Stream, and concerning 
the taking of which an account was published in a recent 
number. Mr. Jones inade the trip with his brother. C. 
W. Jones, of Augusta. Me. They wore red hats and rod 
sweaters in order thait they might not be "mistaken for 
deer." They tracked their first big moose into a swamp, 
where he stood waiting for them. .VI1-. Jones says that 
the big fellow paid no attention to the guide whatever, 
but gazed Avonderingly at his red costume. He gazed too 
long and unwisely, giving Mr. Jones time for an excellent 
shot. His two deer were easily secured, and with them 
he .started for Boston, leaving his brother in the woods, 
as he had not then secured his mouse. But he also was 
successful a day or two after, securing his moose and two 
deer. Mr. Jones remarks "That when the guide pointed 
the moose out to me he was standing in plain sight, in a 
good light. His burnished hair shone brightly, but soon 
began to bristle, either with fright or rage. I stood for 
a moment in w^onder. Didn't he look big! 1 could have 
sworn he was bigger than a church and higher than the 
steeple — a sight that paid for the wliole trip!" 
Mr. W. C. Harding has been out with dog and gun into 
the woods of Winchester and Woburn. He found several 
flocks of partridges, one or two of eleven or twelve each. 
Partridges arc reallj^ more plenty than usual in the woods 
not far from Boston, doubtless the result of market 
hunting having been .stopped last year. Men were giving 
their whole time to hunting these birds for the market 
before the law was passed preventing their sale. Now 
their occupation is gone, and partridges have shown a 
wholesome increase. Mr. Harding saw very few quail, 
and I have the same report from other Boston gunners. 
Special. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The Arm of Illinois Justice. 
Chicago, 111,, Nov. 2. — The arm of justice in the State 
of Illinois seems one of considerable longitudinal exten- 
sion, when we come to reflect that Illinois is a State that 
has not been able to get a quail law on her statute books 
after several months of serious endeavor to that effect. 
She does, however, have a non-resident license law, and 
is able to use $10 bills which come from Iowa, Missouri, 
Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Hitherto it has been the 
course of most States carrying non-resident license acts 
among their laws to take such $10 bills as came without 
much exertion, and not to push the matter too curiously in 
case of reluctance upon the part of the hunter to pur- 
chase the proper license. So far as one is advised at this 
moment, there has never been an instance of a State un- 
dertaking to follow up a hunter to his home in another 
State, and to extract $101 from his pocket to pay for a 
license which he ought to have purchased, but did not. 
Early this week Governor Yates, of Illinois, issued re- 
quisition papers on the Governor of Kentucky for the 
apprehension of three men named IMeacham, Aaron and 
Cartwright. It seems that these gentlemen live in_ Ken- 
tucky, but came to shoot in the lower part of Illinois and 
returned home without ever having procured the proper 
hunting license. Whether the Governor of Kentucky 
will allow his erring children to be brought back to this 
State is a matter of some doubt, but should he do so and 
should the extraordinary precedent thus be established, 
what £1 trembling there would be in the boots of many 
sportsmen who have gone into other States, evaded the 
non-resident license law, and returned to the bosoms of 
their families, carrying about their hearts the glow of 
satisfaction at a deed well performed ! I can number 
among my acquaintances several gentlemen who have 
been out this fall and who have come back without haying 
taken out licenses in the State where they were hunting. 
Suppose the Governor of North Dakota, Minnesota or 
Wisconsin should begin to get busy and send out requisi- 
tions for some of the leading citizens of Chicago who 
have been shooting where it "did not cost anything," 
methinks that would be one of the biggest jars that ever 
happened in the shooting world. 
It all goes to show that the game laws are growing^ in 
importance. Perhaps we cannot make a requisition stick 
just yet, but if we can scare a few hundred fellovvs who 
think that a requisition may stick at some future time, or 
under some future Governor, we are doing that much 
more toward a proper respect for the game laws, which, 
of course, ought to be respected just as much as any other 
class of laws upon our statute books. 
Common Sense as a Law. 
It is not a correct attitude which presupposes that every 
citizen is anxious to break a game law, that he has con- 
demned such laws or that he is careless in regard to 
their benefits. Upon the contrary, there is a very large 
and swiftly growing class of citizens who prove their 
right to the title of citizen in its best sense by using 
their own love of justice and sense of fair play by setting 
up a game law of their own, in the absence of any such 
law being set up by the professional law makers who are 
hired to attend to such ihatters. In regard to the actual 
status of the Illinois quail law. every one_ of us, from the 
Attorney-General down to the commission men. is en- 
titled to his own guess, and there seem to be many opin- 
ions as to the law or lack of law and the bearings of 
the same upon the quail supply of Illinois. Meantime in 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
very many, and, indeed, in the majority of the better 
shooting districts of this State, the sportsmen, farmers 
and others, have tacitly set up a law of their own. 
Nov. I is the quail law in Illinois this year, pretty much 
as it ever was, statute or no statute. There come in 
reports from very widely separated parts of the State to 
the effect that tlie farmers arc standing together for Nov. 
I as the quail date, and that the sportsmen in the outljnng 
communities have banded together and made it unpleasant 
for those who have shown a disposition to ,go out and 
shoot quail ahead of the accepted date. There may be 
different definitions of the word "law.'" Under all the 
wisdont and all the foolishness and al! the omissions of 
our Legislature, there .seems to be resting that law which 
is born of united comnion sense on tire part of the Amer- 
ican people. Our good folk were agreed that we needed 
quail in Illinois, and hence needed a law. We have had 
one. Next year there will still be quail a-plenty left in 
this- State. 
Effect of License. 
The foregoing may be qualified by the statement that we 
are going to have much more shooting in the State of 
Illinois after Nov. i than has customarily been the case. 
This Indiana non-resident license law is going to throw 
thousands of guns into Illinois for quail shooting this fall 
who would otherwise have gone to Indiana. This will 
constitute a heavy tax upon the quail crop of this State, 
and without. doubt there will be more quail killed by shot- 
guns in this State between now and Dec. 20 than have 
been killed in any year of the last twenty. This will 
prove more dangerous to next year's quail supply than 
the deplorable omission to place a quail law upon the 
statute books of Illinois. At Custer Park, 111., there has 
been some early quail shooting, but I cannot learn that 
very many communities have done nuich "sooner" shoot- 
ing this fall. 
Ducks. 
As to the duck flight, no one in the world, or in this 
part of the world, at least, knows where in the world it is. 
Perhaps some of the south-bound birds have slipped below 
this latitude, but hardly in any very great numbers, and 
the likelihood is that the Northern flight is still far to the 
north. The weather is simply heavenly for all purposes 
except those of duck shooting, and all the Northern 
waters are open, so that the iiirds can live in peace and 
plenty. We may have a stornr any day. and in that case, 
should it mean a freeze up north of here, we ought to 
have a sudden and very heavy flight of wildfowl. There 
are a few birds — teal and more ordinary species of marsh 
ducks, hanging about some of the clubs like the Tolleston, 
Swan Lake and Hennepin, but the wise ones of those 
clubs are holding back for the "big shoot" which they 
know will come a little later. 
The shooters whp went out into North Dakota and up- 
per Minnesota seem to have met a very good flight of 
ducks, but in some parts of North Dakota the geese are 
not yet down. Mr. George Cook and party, of Chicago, 
who are just back from a three weeks' trip in North 
Dakota, killed 600 ducks, but found no goose shooting at 
all. Mr. Cook had a weird experience with one canvas- 
back, which was shot eight times by the party, and then 
had to have its throat cut before they could kill it. It 
was an enormous canvasback, and every one supposed it 
would be something princely on the table. In reality, it 
appeared to be the toughest old fowl that ever defied the 
softening influence of the basting spoon. Mr. Cook says 
he never saw so big a canvasback in his life, nor one 
alike so hard to kill and so hard to eat. 
Quail. 
The exodus of quail hunters began Oct. 31, and the 
first of next week will see a great many guns afield. 
There is reason to believe that the season will be shorter 
than usual — that is to say, that the bevies will be broken 
up and their numbers cut down in less time than is ordi- 
narily the case. We have as yet had no frost to lay low 
the heavy vegetation, but there are some parts of this 
State where the cover is not too heavy to admit of good 
work with dogs to-day, and in all such places the guns 
will be making merry music for the next few days. 
Around Bloomington, 111., there is still good quail shoot- 
ing to be had, but the wise ones say it is best to go out 
about thirty miles one side or the other of that thriving 
community. Mr. W. P. Mussey left for Bloomington 
and will shoot there for a few days. 
A much-touted place is Neoga, just this side of the 
large town of Effingham. Drs. Carter and Miller made 
their tremendous bags of quail last year in the vicinity of 
Neoga, and this and other successes of a similar nature 
have started every one for that point this fall. Oswald 
von Lengerke is going down there to-day for a whirl. 
Last fall we found the farms close to Effingham very 
closely posted, and I would council every one to go a 
little beyond Eiflngham, and get off at Watson. Here 
Mr. William Green can be chartered, with a bird dog, and 
a very practical one at that, and if any one wants to 
make a quail hunt, I hardly know how better to direct 
him. At least this was a good tip la.st year. This is a 
good way down in the State, perhaps too far for many 
Chicago shooters. It is safe to go almost anywhere 
along that same railroad from fifty to a hundred miles 
south of this city. Ramsej'. still further down in the 
State on the Illinois Central line, is one of the best quail 
points in lower Illinois. 
A part of the country which is not very much visited 
by Chicago shooters is the corn belt along the Mississippi 
Valley, bordering, for instance, on the upper county or 
so of Illinois. In the hottom lands and along the little 
creeks which come down from the benches of the bot- 
toms through the farm regions, there is some very good 
quail shooting to be had. It is an odd thing, but mo^t of 
our shooters seem to go either north or south for their 
shooting and fishing. The east and west belt is niostly 
patronized by those who want to make long trips far out 
into the Western States. 
The Okaw bottoms of lower Illinois are in a good 
shooting country. The C. & E. I. Railroad passes through 
some very good quail country, and its officials will be 
willing to give more specific advice, no doubt. 
Out of Springfield, 111., in almost every direction be- 
yond a radius of a dozen miles, there may be found good 
quail shooting, and between the two legs of the Illinois 
Central system, at about that distance from Chicago, there 
has always been a good grai.n country, where Bob White 
has increased and multiplied^ 
_ The Kankakee Valley, both m Indiana and Illinois, is 
lined with farms, and there is quail shooting practicallv 
th ronghout its length. Remember always the license law 
in Indiana. 
Doves. 
Mr. J. V. Clarke, president of the Hibernian Banking 
As.sociation. of this city, is just back this week from a 
day's dove shooting near Columbirs. O. He and a friend 
killed 14s doves on their hunt. They .shot -in the corn- 
fields. IVtr. Clarke says that the shooting was very easy, 
so that he did not miss any bird at all, although he killed 
over forty to his own gun. The shooters stood up in the 
tall corn, and the doves feeding on the fields would come 
along close to the tops of the corn, and not flying at any 
very great speed. Mr. Clarke conceives the idea that 
dove shooting is easy work, something in regard to which 
very many shooters will differ from him. A dove geared 
up to about 180, coming down wind in its search for food 
or water, is a far harder bird to stop than the Bob White 
quail put up ahead of a point. 
Mr. Clarke says that the Ohio sportsman hardly dares 
to call his soul his own, as the Farmers' Leagues have 
practically made some sections of that State air tight. 
They met a little difhculty in their own brief experience, 
but were treated decently after all by the farmer who 
figured in the matter. It seems that over large tracts of 
that part of the countr3' the farmers have signed an agree- 
ment to allow no shooting whatever on their lands, so 
that when a farmer .hears guns anywhere near him, he 
knows that it is shooting done without permission, and all 
he has to do is to get over and make trouble for the 
shooter as promptly as possible. Mr. Clarke says that 
they saw very many quail during their day's shooting, 
but did not molest them, as it was against the law to 
do so. 
Mr. Ernest Freeman and his friend, Mr. Mitchell, of 
this city, left early in the week for a quail and dove shoot 
somewhere to the south of here. They were rather lean- 
ing toward Evan.sville at first, but may switch off toward 
Watson on the Illinois Central. 
Game in tbe East and 'West. 
Once in a while I read about the delights of wood- 
chuck shooting with the rifle in the New England States, 
and the installation of the woodchnck as a big-game 
animal has always seemed to me to be one of the awful 
things in sportsmanship. Yet what right has the West 
to find the mote in its brother's eye? Out here we are 
beginning to shoot nrudhens in the place of ducks, and not 
only shoot them, but cat them. A few years ago the 
finger of ridicule was pointed at any shooter lately arrived 
in this country who had the hardihood to expose openly 
in his bag a number of these insignificant fowl. To-day 
shooters come home and tell about good times they had in 
mudhen battues, in which a line of boats worked up a big 
body of these fowl and everybody took a hand in the 
shooting. Tlien again you will hear a fellow statiirg that 
he has brought home a few inudhens "just to try them, 
you know." The shooting-resort hotels have got far be- 
yond that. At first they served mudhens surreptitiously. 
Now they do so openly and do not care who knows it. 
Presently we shall not only be shooting mudhens out 
here as an accepted form of sport, but eating them as a 
prized article of diet. Surely the times have changed 
when Fox Lake, III., once famed for its canvasbacks, now 
prides itself upon its mudhen shooting! 
How to Plant Wild Celery. 
Mr. Joseph B. White, of W\ater Lily, North Caro- 
lina, writes \try entertainingly of matters in the Cur- 
rituck Sound country, giving definite and authentic 
advice in regard to the best way to plant wild celery. 
Mr. White'^ advice in this matter will prove of value 
to the very many sportsmen who have not had good 
luck in their attempts to introduce this favorite duck 
food in club preserves. Nearly all tlie clubs along the 
Illinois River which have tried to introduce wild celery 
experienced difficulty in getting, good results on this 
plant. Mr. White's advice and his generous oft"er to 
be of assistance as he can to sportsmen, bespeaks him- 
self the sportsman that he is. His letter follows: 
"I noticed your inquiry about wild celery. I hardly 
think it is to be found in such abundance anywhere in 
America as in Currituck Sound. I have been experi- 
menting during the past summer for some friends, and 
find if the seeds are gathered in June and planted in 
any depth of water from six inches to ten feet, ir will 
bring forth a fine crop of celery in August. It grows 
very rapidly and if hottom is soft, it is very hardy and 
strong. The crop at Cnrrituck is so heavy this season 
that in many places — even in six to eight feet of water — 
one can hardly push or pull a small boat. Clubs or in- 
dividuals wishing to grow wild celery should secure the 
seed in June and sow as soon after as possible if desired 
for duck food in the fall. Or it can be had in Septeni- 
ber, October and November for the spring, but if once 
started it soon spreads and may be transplanted at any 
time. 
"I can put any friend of Forest and Stream in tlie 
way of obtaining the seed, and will be glad to answer 
a reasonable number of letters if I can be of any ser- 
vice to a brother sportsman. Respectfully. 
"Joseph B. Wtttte ' 
E. Hough. 
Hartford T3uilding, Chicago, 111. 
Alabama Quail and Ducks. 
Htjntsville. Ala., Oct. 20. — Quail are plentiful now 
in Alabama. The Tennessee River at the Mussel shoals 
is teeming with ducks and geese, stopping over on their 
southward flight. Foxes are abundant, and the welkin 
nightly rings with the melted music of the pack in pnr- 
stiit of swift-footed Reynard. Joiix, Jr. 
New Yotk Pautfidge. 
Smithville Flats. N. Y.. Oct. 26. — The shooting is 
very good in this vicinity. Two sportsmen from New 
York and mvself killed fortv partridges and woodcock 
last week. _ P. A. Purdv. 
