Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1901, by Forkst and Stream Publishing Co. 
RMS, $i A Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 
Six Months, |2. ) 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, ISOl. 
VOL. LVII.— No. 24. 
No. 846 Broadway, New York 
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The Christmas Number of Forest and ^ 
wM.ream for 1901 will be of the character of ]J 
those of past years, a notable colleftion of 
sketches and stories. The following is a list 
of the titles and authors : 
In Lusty Manhood. 
Charles Hcdlock. 
■Selling the Beards Hide. 
Charles Stewart Davison. 
A Man o' the Woods. 
Fayette Duriin, 
Sea Rack. 
William Edward Aitken. 
Casey^s Wildcat. 
Francis Moonan. 
The Tale of the Laula Hunt. 
Llewella Pierce Churchill. 
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If you get the paper from a newsdealer 
you should take the precaution to order in j| 
advance. ^ 
A. gfenwine sportsman mttst possess a combina- 
a of virtues, which will fill him so full that no 
wn can be left for sin to squeeze in. He must 
an early riser — to be which is the begfinning- of 
virtue — ambitious, temperate, prudent, patient 
toil, fatigue and disappointment; couragfeous, 
tchf ul, intent upon his business, always ready ? 
iident, cool, kind to his dogf, civil to the gfirls, 
i courteous to his brother sportsmen. 
J. Cypress, Jr. 
THE EXPORT OF GAME. 
k. CORRESPONDENT Writing On the general subject of non- 
tort laws says, in a letter which will interest a con- 
rable number of shooters : 
know of three cases in Michigan where large numbers of ducks, 
le and sora have been fed to the hogs because they could not 
aken out of the State as presents to friends. A few birds were 
ight home in trunks by the gunners who killed them, while 
owners' clothing came in boxes and barrels. This season a 
id controlling large preserves, who for years has sent to friends 
enls of ducks, has been obliged to give it up owing to the law. 
'retaining a few of the best points for his own shooting, he 
nitted his neighbors to occupy the rest of the preserve, with 
result that between 4,000 and 4,500 ducks were slaughtered, 
ly of these were sold for a mere song, and a great many were 
Rn away. 
does seem to me that a person going to the expense of keeping 
arge preserves should be permitted to fetch out at least what 
he has with him. And that some way might be suggested by 
h the game should be protected, and yet owners of preserves 
lid have some rights to what they shoot, on the land which 
protect. ' ' 
here feems to be much reason in the complaint brought 
vard. The Forest and Stre.-\m has long contended 
, within reasonable limits, the sportsman should be 
tiitted to carrj'- from one State to another the game 
ch he has killed, provided he accompanies it. The 
ruction of game by the visiting sportsmen to be taken 
le is not an important matter, when compared with 
killed by market-hunters and shipped as freight or 
■ess from ^.ny State to centers of population. The 
Dege enjoyed in Maine of bringping from the State 
als kill^ by sportsmen— while sometimes abused to 
some extent — is not believed to have any effect on' the 
game supply. 
It is natural that after years of license in the free traffic 
of game, laws should be passed which are unnecessarily 
stringent, and that such laws should in some cases bear 
hardly on the individual. The obvious purpose of the 
game laws is to secure the greatest good to the greatest 
number, and these non-export laws have undoubtedly 
operated to considerable extent to reduce the wholesale 
slaughter of game. There appears to be no good reason, 
however, why the regulations should not to some extent 
be modified in favor of those visiting sportsmen who wish 
to bring out a limited quantity of the game they kill. 
It is to be regretted that many States have not yet 
passed laws limiting the number of birds to be killed in 
a day and a season. Such limitations should everywhere 
prevail ; and with this system the privilege of bringing 
out a certain quantity of game may safely be accgrded to 
sportsmen from without the State. 
Such a provision, however, should be carefully guarded, 
for it is open to abuse by unscrupulous persons. Cases 
of evasion of the non-export law, such as cited by our 
correspondent, are constantly occurring and being de- 
tected, and so long as laws remain on the statute book 
they must be strictly enforced, or else they will be re- 
spected by no one. 
When a person goes on a long journey for game and is 
successful in the quest, he finds high satisfaction in bring- 
ing home something to show for it, and to share with 
his family and friends. That is part of the pleasure and 
the reward; and unless there are sound reasons for 
denying him the privilege, it should be granted to him. 
There are not such reasons. The very fact that in some 
States the export of game and fish in limited quantities 
accompanied by owner is the system in successful opera- 
tion, indicates that it might be the system everywhere. 
Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, has introduced 
anew the bill to establish the Appalachian National Park, 
and a similar measure has been introduced into the House 
by a member from Tennessee. The latter bill provides 
that the park shall be named the McKinley National 
Park, in recognition of the friendly attitude of President 
]\IcKinley toward the measure in the last Congress. 
What President Roosevelt thinks of the Appalachian 
Park plan may be inferred from the paragraphs of his 
^lessage which have to do with the forest reserves. We 
print the.se paragraphs in another column, and commend 
them to careful reading as a well-put statement of the 
principles upon which the American people must base 
their action respecting their great forest possessions. It 
worth while to recall here, too, another declaration 
uttered by Mr. Roosevelt when he was Governor of New 
York. Speaking of national parks, he said : 
This is doing for the common people what the rich are doing 
tor themselves; it is an evil of our times and this nation, that rich 
men and rich men's clubs are buying up choice tracts of game and 
forest lands and shutting them up from the common people. In 
England the people are accustomed to that sort of thing, but in 
this country they are not, and should not be. 
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The note from Mr. C. M. Stark concerning the actions 
of the New Hampshire deer, furnishes additional con- 
iirmation — if any were needed — of the well-known fact 
that animals have a foreknowledge of the weather which 
is denied to most human beings. Persons who spend 
much of their time out of doors have frequent occasion 
to observe this. Often in winter before a spell of severe 
weather there is an unusual flight of migratory northern 
birds. Wildfowl, which love to linger as long as pos- 
sible on northern waters, are apt to disappear just before 
the hard frost which closes the bays, lakes and streams. 
Previous to a heavy snowstorm the ruffed grouse will be 
found to have taken refuge among the branches of the 
evergreen trees. In the Western mountains the deer and 
elk start from their summer to their winter range shortly 
before the first heavy snowfall. 
Nor is this knowledge confined to wild animals. Even 
the domestic birds and beasts of our farms often show by 
signs which are readily noticeable the approach of stormy 
weather; while in some mountains of the West — especially 
in New Mexico and Arizona — ^the wild range cattle, which 
during the summer spend their time far up the mountain 
side, may be seen 15! autump stringing down in long lines 
toward the hot plain, and the ranchman or cowboy who 
sees them knows that but a few days will elapse before 
the summer ranges will be buried deep in snow. What 
the barometer is which tells these creatures, which we 
call dumb, that the weather is about to change and that 
their own comfort requires them to provide against the 
storm, we do not know. It is one of the mysteries of 
nature which as yet no man has penetrated. 
Capt. John Pitcher, the Acting Superintendent of the 
Yellowstone National Park, has been highly successful in 
conciliating public sentiment, promoting good feeling 
among the people living in the vicinity, and thus winning 
their sympathy and active support for the protection of 
the game. When the vast extent of the Park territory 
is considered, with the inadequate force available for its 
policing, we may readily understand how essential to 
the welfare of the Park game is the co-operation of the 
residents in the discouragement of poaching. There have 
been periods in the past when, by reason of antagonism 
existing between the Park administration and the people 
living on the outskirts, the game destroyers had practical 
immunity, because there was no public sentiment to de- 
nounce and expose them. The conditions are now 
changed. Public sentiment is strong in support of game 
protection, and powerful to suppress poaching. In thus 
having enlisted the co-operation of the people, Capt. 
Pitcher has accomplished more for the welfare of the 
Park than he could have done with a redoubled force of 
troops if the old feeling of antagonism had prevailed. 
The stock of elk in the Park is largely in excess of the 
food supply available on the winter range. The conse- 
quence is that in the winter vast numbers of elk perish of 
starvation. In other words, the game is over-protected. 
Under these conditions a way might be devised for 
utilizing a portion of the over-supply for the restocking 
oi elk ranges elsewhere which have been cleared of their 
native stock. Under proper official supervision numbers 
of Yellowstone Park elk might be transferred to other 
parts of the country, and thus the Park be utilized as a 
permanent source of supply. In the same way a system 
might be devised for the transfer of quail from the Indian 
Territory, under the supervision of duly constituted Gov- 
ernment agents, to the several States where the stock has 
been destroyed. These great game-breeding preserves 
which belong to the people might well be thus exploited 
for the benefit of the people. 
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The only rule for everybody everywhere and always is : 
"Don't shoot until you see your game, and see that it is 
game." That focbids shooting at a patch of color that 
looks like deer; it forbids shooting at a moving object 
which has not absolutely and unmistakably beyond possi- 
bility of error been identified. No man in our time will 
level his gun on the last de^r or the last moose in the 
woods; others will be left for him, even if over caution 
permits some to get away. It is far better to miss one or 
a score or a thousand by waiting to make sure, than to 
kill a fellow sportsman. 
Here is a suggestive statement showing the compara- 
tive amounts of reading matter (exclusive of the adver- 
tising pages) given by the largest of the four-dollar 
monthly magazines and the four-dollar Forest and 
Stream. The computation is based upon the type surface 
covered, but the actual difference in favor of the Forest 
AND Stream is much greater than is here shown, because 
of the difference in the sizes of type used. 
The foiu--dollar magazine per year 77,280 square inches 
The four-dollar Fokest and Strkam per year. .165,984 square inches 
Thus it is seen that Forest and Stream gives more 
than twice the amount of material contained in the 
magazine. 
And, then, it is Forest and Stream reading. 
But suppose that after all the planning and traveling 
and tramping and trailing aad watching, you get no ^eer— ^ 
is the hunt a failure ? It may be, and also it may not be. 
For one instance of empty-handed coming home from a 
fruitless deer quest, which yet gave abundant reward, read 
the story tdd by H. oa the following page, and £r<>m i% 
draw the moral that it h not all of hunting to kill game, 
