Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1902, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1902. 
j VOL. LVIII.— No. 16. 
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When any speak to thee stand up. Say not I 
have heard it before. Never endeavor to help 
him out if he tell it not right. Snigger not; 
never question the Truth of it —The School of 
Manners, or Rules for Children's Behavior, 1701. 
THE DUTY ON CANADIAN GAME, 
We stated the other day in reply to a correspondent, 
who had been taxed on a moose head he was bringing 
home from Canada, that such a duty was provided in the 
Dingley Law, and the fact having been questioned, we 
have procured an official statement, which is printed in 
another column. 
The wisdom of a law which imposes a duty on the 
heads of foreign game is something beyond conjecture. 
Its natural effect, of course, is to discourage the importa- 
tion, which means the killing of the game by American 
sportsmen. But most of us who rightly *think that we 
have reason to deplore the scanty stock of our own 
moose, are quite content to see the man who is convinced 
that he must have a moose head, go across the line to 
get it. A moose killed in Canada means one moose the 
less killed in this country; and the customs regulations 
should be framed with a view to encouraging the hunter 
to seek his head in Ontario and Quebec. As a foolish 
protective measure, this moose tax provision is on a par 
with the duty on lumber, which is working for the de- 
struction of our forests. As a game protective expedient 
the game head duty might well be removed. Mr. Lacey 
now has before Congress a measure to remedy that provi- 
sion of the Dingley Law which absolutely prevents the 
importation of the eggs of game birds. If Mr. Lacey 
would put in his bill a clause exempting from duty the 
heads of foreign game, he would add still further to the 
gratitude American sportsmen already entertain for him 
for his distinguished service in their behalf. 
GENERAL WADE HAMPTON. 
The death of General Wade Hampton last week has a 
peculiar significance, for it removes the figure that for 
more than half a century had been most prominent in 
South Carolina, and who was the type of a class enor- 
mously influential for good and high things. Yet this 
class has now quite disappeared from the public view, not 
because its members have all passed over to the majority, 
but because they "have been thrust aside by the hurrying, 
bustling spirit of modern times and a new South. 
General Hampton was born in Columbia, South Caro- 
lina, in 1818, of one of the wealthiest families of the 
State. He was reared in that old school which taught 
the men of his class that they were natural leaders in the 
community, perhaps its natural rulers. Of this class, a 
majority felt deeply the grave responsibilities which rested 
on them, and endeavored to fit themselves for their work. 
They were studious, thoughtful, honorable, punctilious in 
their courtesy and careful of the rights of others, whether 
those others were their equals, or poor white trash, or 
their bond slaves. Incidentally, of course, they were 
sportsmen, and took their pleasure with horse and hound 
and gun and rod. 
Of this social condition General Hampton was a type. 
It is said that at the beginning of the war the Hamptons 
owned 3,000 slaves, but notwithstanding this, General 
Hampton opposed the extension of slavery, and believed 
it a bad thing for master and man alike. At the beginning 
of the war, General Hampton organized a body of troops 
known as the Hampton Legion, which he led to frequent 
victory. He was several times wounded, became the 
chief cavalry commander of the Confederate troops, and 
finally Lieutenant-General. 
At the close of the war he adapted himself as rapidly 
as was possible to the new conditions, and devoted him- 
self to helping his people. In due time he was elected 
Governor of the State, and afterward sent to the 
Senate, where he served for twelve years, when, at 
the age of over seventy, he was swept out of his position 
by the extraordinary revolution of political sentiment 
represented by the present Senator Tillman. 
Undoubtedly the greatest services performed by General 
Hampton were those which immediately followed the 
war, during the so-called reconstruction period, when he 
did so much to make life easier for his own people. Yet 
it was no small service to Americans and to the South 
that during the almost forty years that have elapsed since 
the war, General Hampton has stood as a splendid ex- 
ample to the Southern youth of what an old-time South- 
ern gentleman should be. 
Perhaps there never was a keener or more enthusiastic 
sportsman than General Hampton, and it is but a few 
years since, while riding furiously to hounds, his animal 
fell with him, crushing his foot so that his leg had to 
be amputated. The younger sportsman, whether of the 
North or of the South, may profitably study the life and 
public services of General Hampton and model his con- 
duct on them. 
THE SALE OF GROUSE. 
Our latest advices from Albany were that the bill to 
prohibit the sale of grouse killed in the State was still 
before the Governor. It is only an expression of the 
sincere conviction of every thoughtful person cognizant 
of the actual state of affairs to say that Governor Odell 
should not hesitate to set his hand to the measure. 
The conditions are such as imperatively to demand for 
the ruffed grouse more protection than it has at present; 
and the sensible way to give it such needed protection is 
to remove the agency which is doing more than all others 
to destroy it. That agency is market-hunting. Close the 
market, stop the sale, and the stock will recuperate. 
This is not theory; it is the actual working of cause 
and effect, as demonstrated so convincingly in Massa- 
chusetts. There, when because of the persistent and un- 
relenting pursuit by the professional snarers, who took 
the birds for the Boston market, the supply had reached 
a low limit, the Commonwealth adopted a three-years' 
prohibition of the sale of the bird. The effect was mani- 
fested in the first season following the operation of the 
law by a vastly increased supply, and this condition has 
continued. In many sections of New York, as in the 
covers referred to by Mr. Wadsworth in another column, 
the grouse is practically a game bird of the past; and 
individuals and associations are seeking to make good the 
void by the importation of the Mongolian pheasant. 
Whatever may be the character of the new bird, whether 
or not its presence means the driving out of the grouse, of 
one thing we are assured — no bird can take the place of 
the old partridge; nor would grouse shooters willingly 
exchange the American bird for the imported substitute. 
Much more sensible than the restocking depleted covers 
with pheasants would be the adoption of such measures 
as would assure the perpetuation of the native bird ; and 
the most efficient, certain and speedily effective expedient 
to accomplish this end is to protect the grouse from the 
market-hunter. We sincerely trust that the bill passed 
by the Legislature to secure this end may by Governor 
Odell's signature become the law. 
THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM. 
The bill introduced by the city authorities, authorizing 
them to make a contract with the New York Zoological 
Society for the care and management of the New York 
Aquarium was signed a few days ago by Governor Odell. 
A meeting of the Board of Managers of the Society was 
had on Monday last at the office of the president of the 
Society to consider this subject and decide on the general 
form of contract to be made with the city. The whole 
subject was explained in some detail, and Mr. Wilcox, 
one of the Park Commissioners of the city., addressed 
the meeting and expressed his satisfaction that the Society 
had been persuaded to undertake this important work. 
This satisfaction will be shared by all who are inter- 
ested in the public welfare of this city. Such an arrange- 
ment as is to be made will take the Aquarium out of 
politics as wholly as the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
and the American Museum of Natural History are out 
of politics, and will result in its being managed with an 
eye single to the public good, just as those institutions 
are managed. Their success and the success of the 
Zoological Society's park in the Bronx are a sufficient 
guarantee that the work will be well done. 
Until the contract with the city has been signed and 
the Aquarium formally turned over to the Society, no 
choice will be made of a director for the Aquarium. It 
is purposed, however, to secure for this very important 
position a man thoroughly equipped in all respects not 
only to manage the institution, but to direct investigation. 
He is likely to be assisted by an advisory committee, con- 
sisting in part of members of the Executive Committee of 
the New York Zoological Society, and in part of scientific 
experts who are familiar with aquarium work and with 
marine and fresh-water life. It is altogether probable, if 
nothing unforeseen happens, that in the course of time we 
shall have here in New York, either as a part of the 
Aquarium, or in connection with it, a biological station 
which may rival in interest, importance and service to 
science some of the most noted biological laboratories in 
the world. 
It is interesting to see how rapidly the New York 
Zoological Society is taking hold of and accepting the 
responsibility for different forms of work which hitherto 
have been quite neglected in this city. Its field is a wide 
one, and it is filling it well. 
The Society still needs additional annual members, for 
it is from a fund made up largely from the dues paid by 
these annual members that additions are made to its col- 
lection of animals. The fee for annual membership is 
$10, and all persons interested in the wild life ought to 
belong to the Society. Its membership is by no means 
confined to residents of New York, but includes resi- 
dents of many States of the South and West. Persons 
desiring to become members of the Society may have ap- 
plication blanks forwarded to them on request to the 
Forest and Stream. 
A NEWFOUNDLAND GAME REFUGE. 
The recent opening of the Newfoundland interior by 
the construction of a railway, which has made the hunt- 
ing grounds more easily accessible, and has introduced a 
greatly increased number of caribou hunters, has prompted 
a fear that the stock would not suffice for the demands 
made upon it. A commission was appointed last year to 
consider the situation and suggest remedial measures, and 
as a result the Newfoundland Legislature has now pro- 
vided for an exempt zone where no caribou may be killed. 
The law reads : 
The Governor in Council, upon the recommendation of the 
Minister of Marine and Fisheries, may define the boundaries of a 
tract or section of land in this colony along the line of railway 
from Goose Brook to Grand Lake, extending five miles on either 
side of the said line of railway, and shall publish such definition 
of boundaries in the Royal Gazette and one other newspaper pub- 
lished in this colony, and from and after such publication it shall 
be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill or pursue with intent to 
kill any caribou at 'any place within the boundaries so defined. 
This is an adoption in Newfoundland of the game 
refuge system which has proved so efficacious elsewhere, 
and the same good results secured from other refuges will 
here be attaine d. . 
The inclosing of immense tracts of lands in the North 
Woods for private parks and game preserves is narrowing 
the area open to free fishing and hunting to such an 
extent that some of the guides see, or believe that they 
see. the time when there will be no open country, and 
their occupation will be gone. And so they talk much 
foolish talk, averring that when they can no longer enjoy 
the unrestricted freedom of the woods they will turn in- 
cendiaries and burn up the country in a conflagration 
of revenge. This is foolish talk, not because such a 
course might not sate the desire to "get even," but first 
because the men who indulge in such threats will never 
carry them out; and second, because instead of harboring 
such thoughts, these very self-same guides might more 
profitably be studying to adapt themselves to the changing 
conditions of the country in which they live, and prepar- 
ing themselves to make the roost of the new opportunities 
of a livelihood the new conditions will bring to them. It 
is true that the field of guiding may become restricted; 
but there will be other occupations quite as congenial and 
quite as profitable, and therefore quite as much to be 
desired and prepared for and adopted. 
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W r e regret to announce the death of Frank Mason, who 
was for a number of years connected with the business 
department of the Forest and Stkeam., 
