Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, 
Copyright, 1902, air Forbst and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1902, 
( VOL. LIX.— No. 12. 
I No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
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THE APPALACHIAN PARK. 
"A'T the annual meeting of the Appalachian National 
^P&^k Association, held in Asheville, N. C, on Wednes- 
*d?ty of last week, the secretary, Dr. C. P. Aiiibler, pre- 
■' sented a report of substantial progress for the year. Just 
"what an active system has been followed for pushing the 
-Appalachian Park project into publicity and keeping it 
•there, may be inferred from the statistics of the year, 
which show that the secretary sent out more than 42,000 
pieces of printed matter, making a total since the work 
was undertaken of nearly a million pieces; and" more than 
1,300 personal letters. The result of the year's propa- 
ganda gives substantial cause of satisfaction. Opposition 
which existed on the part of large lumber corporations 
has been overcome, and many of the largest and most in- 
fluential lumber organizations have declared for the Park. 
As has' been recorded in these columns, the bill to provide 
the reserve was not pressed at the late session of Con- 
gress, because it was feared that the immense appropria- 
tions made for other purposes would endanger the meas- 
ure. But there is reason to believe that the matter may 
receive favorable consideration in the short session in 
December. 
It is a pleasure in recurring to. the Appalachian Park 
to note, as we have noted before, the public-spirited and 
efficient services performed in its behalf by Dr. Ambler. 
The setting apart a region of forest for the benefit of the 
country at large, now and in the future, is one of thqse 
undertakings which, while of the highest public import- 
ance, must in the nature of things depend for success 
upon individual initiative and execution. Without some 
one man so intensely interested and so patriotic in the 
highest and best sense of that much-abused term that 
he will give unstintingly of his thought and time and 
labor to doing the actual work, we should never see the 
realization of such an undertaking. 
AUTUMN'S ANTICIPATION. 
The days of the year have come, charming days to 
sportsmen, when there is a crisp coolness in the breezy 
air ; when there are, from the master hand, free touches 
of glorious reds, yellows and browns spread here and 
there on the landscape; when there is a rustle of falling 
leaves which whisper that the reign of summer is ending ; 
and when the fancies of the sportsman lightly and 
blithely turn to thoughts of dog and gun, game birds, 
open fields and woodlands of pleasant memories. As his 
eye rests upon the landscape with its touches of fall 
coloring, he notes that the general green color is faded 
and washed out, with an approach to the sere where the 
frosts nipped hardest, all in sharp contrast to the deep 
fresh green and summer flowers of a few weeks ago. 
The game birds, in sympathy with the year's fruition, 
have quite or nearly attained their full growth, and are 
garbed in coats of many colors, each bird a gem to delight 
the eye and to evoke a craving for possession. 
The season and the opportunity combine to reawaken 
memories of the past and to excite purpose for the future. 
The sportsman resolves to go a-hunting. Even if he 
knows that he cannot go, he tries to delude himself with 
the belief that he may go after all, and thereupon he en- 
ters into all the discussions and preparations with the 
same earnestness of those whose going is a fixed certainty. 
There are many grave deliberations as to guns and dogs. 
The experienced sportsman takes time by the forelock. 
If he have not a gun, he consults his friends as to which 
can be obtained at the most reasonable price consistent 
with useful service, and the pleasure of him who gives 
the advice is UQ less by a single jot than the pleasure of 
him who receives it. Localities are canvassed as to their 
present possibilities; country friends, resident on the 
scene of future pursuit, are written to for advice con- 
perning the §Wpply } th^ best routes are decided upon 
by which to journey to and fro, and last, but not least, the 
friends most available from whom to beg or buy a dog 
of usefulness afield, are carefully considered and decided 
upon. 
At no stage in a sportsman's life can he better put a 
friend to the test of true friendship than in the beginning 
of the hunting season, by asking for the loan of his 
friend's best trained setter or pointer. A friendship 
which will withstand such a shock is better than fine gold. 
Nevertheless, solid and majestic as is such friendship, it 
is far the wiser part to refrain from subjecting it to the 
test too many years in succession. 
But all the details of preparation on the one hand, and 
all the ardent anticipations of sport afield on the other 
hand, all stimulated to the highest pitch by the most 
favorable reports from the game section, confer a material 
Ijenefit in themselves, for, if the outing should prove a 
failure as to the bird supply, there has been for the time 
being a wholesome diversion from the cares of business, a 
renewal of neglected friendships, a fighting of battles over 
again, and all the successes possible as a matter of antici- 
pation. If the outing, on the other hand, is a success, it 
is not only a pleasure and material benefit in itself, but 
also an event which makes good biography and material 
for retrospection in later years. 
EYES AND SEEING. 
It is chiefly by the use of our eyes that we learn things. 
This is trite enough, of course;, yet do we all of us 
appreciate what it means? 
The newborn infant, staring at vacancy with goggle 
eyes, sees no more than the blind puppy ; but with' time — 
like the pup — it learns to use its eyes and with proper 
training to get the most out. of them. The babe learns to 
recognize things, to estimate distances, to avoid dangers, 
to journey comfortably. After a season, as its intelligence 
increases, it learns to read and begins to acquire knowl- 
edge from books, but for the average man, during at 
least the earlier part of his life, this book knowledge has 
little meaning unless it conveys some mental picture — 
unless the reader can mentally compare the things he 
reads of with. the things that he has seen. 
As we grow older, we learn to use our eyes in different 
ways according to the conditions of life which surround 
us. The city dweller, familiar with the surroundings of 
a closely built-up neighborhood, is at home in the city, 
but knows little of the scenes and surroundings of the 
countr3^ If he visits the country, he finds that he lacks 
the sense of direction and easily becomes lost in swamp or 
thick woods. He does not know the trees, the flowers, the 
birds or the mammals which he sees, and if he asks ques- 
tions about them, and is given their names or other in- 
formation by some one better informed, it makes little 
impression on him and he forgets at once. Transplant 
him to the country and let him live there for a year, and 
his knowledge of these things will enormously increase. 
The average man learns to use his eyes for one set of 
observations, and this is true of all men, whether their 
pursuits are in or out of doors. The hunter, scanning 
the horizon for game or scrutinizing the ground for 
"sign," does not regard, and probably does not see, the 
vast number of other interesting things that are visible. 
The botanist goes along with his eyes fixed on the 
ground looking for low-growing plants in the meadow or 
among the underbrush, while the ornithologist has his 
eyes in the air among the tree tops, and the geologist 
looks at the rocks at his feet, or the distant buttes, and 
is blind to all beside. 
There are two sorts of men who habitually travel with 
their e3^es wide open, and see most of the things that 
are to be seen. These are the trained field naturalist and 
the Indian. The first sees alike bird, beast, flower, shell 
and rock, and beside this views with delight the charm 
of the landscape. Perhaps there is no one who takes so 
much, pleasure in his walks abroad as he. No step that 
he makes is without its interest, and there are few per- 
sons before whom so wide a field of pleasure is open as 
the naturalist. 
The other man whose powers of observation are highly- 
trained is the Indian. His whole life is given to observa- 
tion, to the noting the signs of the forest, and the prairie, 
since- it is by noticing these signs that he exists. 
A writer has said, "Like the wild bird and the beast, 
like the cloud and the forest tree, the primitive savage is 
a part of natuj-f , He is in it and of it. He studies it all 
through his life. He can read its language, it is the one 
thing he knows. He is an observer. Nothing escapes his 
eye. The signs of the clouds, the blowing of the wind, the 
movements of birds and animals — all tell to him some 
story. It is by observing these signs, reading them and 
acting on them that he procures his food, that he saves 
himself from his enemies, that he lives his life." 
It is a happy circumstance that the rising generation 
are being taught more and more to use their eyes, to 
observe the facts; of nature which are constantly taking 
place about them, and, in some measure, at least, to apply 
these facts to the great lesson of the development of life 
v,'hich within the last fifty years has been explained to us. 
One of the chief charms of the Forest and Stream 
is that the contributions which it contains are written by 
men and women who have been trained to observe nature 
and wild life, and are able to tell vividly and attractively 
about the things they see. It may be hoped that the 
readers of Forest and Stream are training up in their 
turn a generation which shall see things even more clearly 
aiid with a greater breadth of view than did their fathers. 
HONEST ALL THROUGH. 
"The honest man is honest all through," wrote Presi- 
dent Faunce, of Brown University, the other da}' in a 
discussion of college students cribbing. That means, 
among other things, that an honest man is honest in the 
woods, as well as out of them. 
The woods test of honesty is searching and severe 
a man be not "honest all through," he is ven 
be dishonest when the great forest shuts h^ 
from the conventional .surroundings and x ' 
fluence of his accustomed every-day life. • 
This immersion in the woods is a ma ' 
some of the Avondrous transformations , . 
It relaxes the set face, smoothes out 
from the brow, gives brilliance and pu 
erect carriage, expanded chest, light 
does all this gracious renewal, regen 
not grudgingly and hesitatingly and ] 
generously and in full measure. This ' 
woods life, the element of it which ca' 
wilderness of green fields and odor'^ 
waters as among the most blessed her:, 
But there is another side. Upon C. 
a host of those who go into the wood.^ 
ings have a certain malign spell wh, 
the all-through-ness of their honestj 
from home, in the woods, answerable; 
bound by none of the customary rest' 
association with, their fellows. And 
stances, if a man be not honest all th ^ 
going to jack deer, or put out a houno 
provide a mess of trout. And he is { 
self to himself — ^^for he surely will ac 
self, be it ever so lightly — by a vev, 
reasoning. "The game law is all j 
way," he will say to himself, if he ' 
after he has got what he wanted, "hi 
for a fellow here in the woods. N 
ever suffer because I have that ven^ 
deer more or less, what does it amo 
I hadn't got it, some one else would. ^ 
nobody's business, and beside, no ot 
anything about it." : 
It is precisely because there are ca?- 
this fashion, and act accordingly, c . 
even the arguing, that the Adirona, 
spoiled of their deer, as the corresp 
from Old Forge tells us they are. T| 
killed in violation of the law, out of s^^ ^ 
and by hounds, are killed by deer h',' J, 
are not "honest all the way through.' 
Apropos of the transfer of live quaj 
another, the fact has been called to c t ' 
California the law forbids the exports 
and other game, except for the purpos 
and the right to transport for the purpos 
or for scientific purposes, must first be c 
in writing from the Game Commissioir 
Board of Fish Commissioners. This is a ' 
able system, and one which might a^ 
adopted in some other States. 
