Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1908 bv Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1903. 
( VOL. LX.— No. J 9 
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'^'^The sale of game should be prohibited at all seasons." 
NAILS DRIVEN IN 1903.— No. III. 
IDAHO. 
Act or March 11, 1903.— Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful for any 
person or persons, company or corporation, or the agent or em- 
ployee of such company or corporation, to sell, offer or expose for 
sale or have in his, its or their possession for the purpose of sell- 
ing or offering for sale, any species of fish protected by this act, 
or any part of a carcass of any of the animals mentioned in this 
act at any time of the year. 
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. 
Among the many possessions in which Americans 
take a peculiar and just pride is the Yellowstone Park. 
Nowhere in the world, so far as known, is there any 
combination of natural beauties and of natural wonders 
so^ marveicus as to equal this. Niagara is stupendous ; 
the Grand Canon of Colorado awe-inspiring in its 
vastness ; gej^sers and hot springs in various portions 
of 'the world are mysterious and wonderful. But here, 
m the Yellowstone Park, we have a combination of 
prairie and mountain, lake and I'ock peak, ab3'smal 
cafion and volcanic spring, which makes the region 
literally, one of the wonders of the world. 
The wisdom of the National Government in setting 
apart this region as a National pleasuring ground has 
been vindicated a thousand times. Nor was argument 
ever needed to support this wisdom. At the same 
time, it is astonishing to see how few Americans know 
what the Park contains, and it is perhaps not too much 
to say that — except among the residents of the States 
which border on this reservation — the Yellowstone 
National Park is better known in Europe than it is in 
America. This should not be so. 
The recent visit to the Park of President Roosevelt, 
and that charming writer, Mr. John Burroughs, calls 
renewed attention to the reservation. The time for 
their trip was wisely chosen, for, as the readers of 
Forest and Stream know, the wild things of the Park 
can be seen to better advantage during the winter than 
during any other season of the year. 
The visit of these eminent gentlemen to the Park was 
a source of the greatest pleasure to them. It is, not 
given to many lovers of nature to be able to rub 
shoulders with elk and antelope, and mule deer, and 
buffalo and mountain sheep. Usually the views had 
of these animals are too fleeting. 
A visit to the Yellowstone National Park is an ap- 
proach to nature, and if he who visits it is so situated 
that he can leave the beaten track of tourists and 
wander off by himself among the green timber on the 
side of some towering mountain, he finds himself in 
actual contact with nature. 
It is but little more than thirty years since the bill 
creating the Yellowstone National Park passed Con- 
gress, and yet to the generation that is now growing 
up we venture to say that the history of this bill is 
largely unknown. 
The first discovery of the Yellowstone Park region 
was made by John Coulter, one of the party of Lewis 
and Clark, who, toward the close of their expedition 
returned again to the mountains; but the story that he 
brought back to the little village of St. Louis was dis- 
credited by all who heard it except his old commander. 
Capt. Clark. "Coulter's Hell" became a by-word, and 
Coulter was regarded as one of the most picturesque 
liars of the early part of the nineteenth century. It 
was not until 1869 that a party of travelers from Mon- 
tana visited the region of the Park, where they saw 
such wonders that when they returned to the settle- 
ments they dared not tell of them publicly, lest their 
reputation for truthfulness should be forever destroyed. 
In the year 1870, a party of leading citizens of Mon- 
tana, among whom were N. P. Langford, Gen. D. H. 
Washburn, Sainuel T. Hauser and Cornelius Hedges, 
started for the Park and saw far more than had been 
seen by any one who had previously been there. On 
his return Mr. Langford wrote a stirring account of 
the region, which was published by Dr. J. G. Holland, 
then editor of Scribner's Magazine. While this party 
was on the ground, in what is now the National Park, 
Mr. Hedges Suggested "that there ought to be no 
private ownership of any portion of that region, but 
that the whole of it ought to be set aside as a great 
National Park." 
On the lecture platform and in the press Mr. N. P. 
Langford urged this action by Congress, and Mr. 
Hedges also wrote freely on the subject. The matter 
was taken up by the Hon. W. H. Claggett, delegate 
from the Territory of Montana, who, in consultation 
with Mr. Langford, drew the bill, which afterward 
passed Congress, setting aside the Park as a National 
pleasure ground. 
In the hurly burly of the American life of to-day 
events of momentous importance follow each other in 
such quick succession that they no longer make any 
adequate impression on our minds, and it is gratifying 
to see that recently public acknowledgment has again 
been made of the important services of Mr. Lang- 
ford in securing for the American people what is one 
of their most precious possessions. To him more 
than to any man alive we owe this possession. 
In the dozen years that followed the setting aside 
of this reservation, there have been many attempts by 
private persons and corporations to use this public 
property for private gain. Railroad people, hotel peo- 
ple, lumbermen and men of many other trades have 
striven to make money for themselves out of what be- 
longed to the people as- a whole. In the defense of 
the Yellowstone Park, the Forest and Stream, for 
more than twenty years, has done its share. And to- 
day the rights of that reservation are so firmly estab- 
lished as to be in little danger. 
CITIZEN AND SPORTSMAN. 
The terms ,good sportsman and good citizen are 
interchangeable. Not every good citizen , is a good 
sportsman, but every good sportsman is a good citi- 
zen, and his conduct in the field, as out of it, may be 
judged by the civil standard not less than by that of 
sport. In estimating the character of the actions of 
those who go afield, we are prone to give undue prom- 
inence to the quality of sportsmanship and too little 
to that of citizenship. The first is largely conventional, 
the second is very real. 
Consider, for an example, the meadowlark episode 
in which Rector Craig of Omaha is concerned, apply- 
ing to it the principle that one who goes shooting 
should be a good sportsman — ^\vhich is to say a good 
citizen. Having been wont to kill meadowlarks in 
the gentle springtime in Virginia, Mr. Craig took a 
notion the other day that he would like to renew the 
sport with the birds in Nebraska. Now it would have 
been the part of good citizenship, as a preliminary to 
April gun practice on nieadowlarks in Nebraska, to 
have consulted the Game Laws in Brief, or, not hav- 
ing that useful little manual at hand, to have taken 
counsel of some member of the parish who was wise 
in such matters, and to have learned whether under the 
game law meadowlarks were legitimate quests. This 
was the plain, simple precaution called for by ordinary 
everydaj' practical common sense. And common sense 
is an important factor in good citizenship, which is to 
say good sportsmanship. 
Having neglected to exercise a rational prudence in 
determining the lawfulness of meadowlark shooting, 
Mr. Craig found himself in the extremely unpleasant 
predicament of being under arrest for violation of the 
game laws. This was a situation further to test one's 
good citizenship. A good citizen will recognize his 
individual amenability to the laws of the land. He will 
be governed by an intent to observe the law; and when 
he discovers that through ignorance he has violated 
it. he will, though it may be with sore chagrin and 
possibly some secret resetitment of the unpalatable 
dose, take his medicine like a man. He will not rant 
and roar that he is a peculiar person above and be- 
yond the law. He will not give out loud proclama- 
tion that his arrest and punishment were outrages on 
an innocent because ignorant lawbreaker. He will not 
bluster a determined purpose to fight the law to the 
last ditch, and to make it hot for the minions of the 
law who have had the audacity to treat him as if he 
were a common person over whom the law had con- 
trol. 
Such talk on the part of individuals brought to book 
for game law infractions is by no means uncommon. 
The Omaha rector is only a new illustration of a type 
we have always with us. There was the former Con- 
necticut Adjutant-General, who conceived that his ad- 
jutant-generalship relieved him from the application 
of the Maine law forbidding the taking of fawns; and 
there was the Brooklyn Doctor of Divinity, who fancied 
that his exalted position in the community gave him 
license to kill Connecticut quail in close time. These 
people are familiar. Their talk is cheap. It avails 
them nothing. In the end they pay their fines, just as 
do other offenders caught in the act. The only profit of 
their boisterous contumaciousness is in the wider pub- 
licity their cases acquire, and the more emphatic and 
instructive the public lesson taught — the lesson that 
the game laws are made for all alike and all alike are 
subject to them and must obey them or pay the penalty; 
and that obligations of good citizenship are as binding 
in the field as out of it. 
INHOSPITABLE ARKANSAS. 
There has long been friction between the resident and 
the non-resident on Arkansas hunting grounds. Clubs 
made up largely of Memphis and St. Louis memberships 
have acquired extensive tracts in Arkansas, either buying 
the land outright or leasing the hunting rights, and have 
constituted preserves from which the native hunter was 
excluded. The Arkansan has retaliated by imposing a 
hunting tax upon the visitors ; but this has not been suffi- 
cient to remove the ill feeling between the two classes. 
Now Arkansas has resorted to the heroic measure of for- 
bidding any hunting by a non-resident. The new law, 
which has just been signed by Gov. Davis, provides that 
"it shall be unlawful for any person who is a non-resident 
of the State of Arkansas to shoot, hunt, fish or trap at 
any season of the year." 
A number of well-known Arkansas sportsmen, among 
them J. M. Rose, Esq., of Little Rock, vainly endeavored 
to settle the matter by excepting the clubs from the 
operation of the non-resident law, and making it apply 
only to the pot-hunter. Just at the critical moment a 
certain non-resident appeared on the scene and unwisely 
tried to bully the Legislature, and thus undid the work 
of the mediators ; and at about the same time two Mem- 
phis men made an eviction of a large party of Forest City 
hunters from Mud Lake, claiming that they owned the 
lf.ke, when in fact it was a meandered lake and they 
owned only to the bank. These two things were the im- 
mediate irritants which caused the bill to be adopted. 
This is a severe blow to the non-resident members of 
Arkansas clubs who have investments in club houses and 
outfits. It is sincerely to be regretted that a compro- 
mise could not have been effected. As matters stand now, 
the non-resident will be kept out, at least until the next 
session of the Legislature which will meet in 1905. 
Paul B. Du Chain u, the well-known explorer and 
author, died in St. Petersburg on April 30. Born in New 
Orleans in 1838, Du Chaillu went in early life to Africa, 
where his father held an American consular appointment 
in the Gaboon. In 1855, in the course of an exploration 
of 8,000 miles in the wilds of Africa, he discovered the 
gorilla, his account of which was at first received with 
incredulity by the scientific world, though subsequently 
substantiated by the discoveries of other travelers. He 
was the author of "Exploration and Adventure in Equa- 
torial Africa," and other works on Africa ; "The Land 
of the Midnight Sun," "The Viking Age," and other 
works. He was an indefatigable traveler, and at the time 
of his death was pursuing a long-planned study of Rus- 
sia. Paid Du Chaillu was a most entertaining com- 
panion, and '^^j was a persqnality that won and he\d 
friends. 
