Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 3903 by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. 
Six Months, |2. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 2 B, 190S 
; VOL. LXI.— No. 4, 
No. 846 Broadway, New York 
CONCERNING TECHNICAL LANGUAGE. 
The whole trip was marred, complained a disappointed 
mountain sheep hunter, by the profanity and vulgarity of 
the guides. They swore at the hotseS packed and un- 
packed, and cursed them On the tfail and off of it, by day 
and by night; and this was exceedingly aggravating to 
mild-mannered citizens, who, , as a fule, are used to iio 
liarshei- language than that employed by elevated railway 
guards. The complaint was feelingly made, but there was 
no good reason for it, because the profanity of the guides 
might have been suppressed on the start if the employer 
did not like it. As the head" of the expedition he had 
the option of deciding whether or no the trail should be 
lined with oaths, and if he elected that it should not be, 
all he had to do was to say so. 
The time to say this is on the start. If the guide is a 
reasonable man, and most guides are reasonable, he will 
cheerfully defer to his employer's feeling about profanity, 
even though he may mentally deride it as foolish squianl- 
ishness, and he will readily undertake not to sweaf mofe 
than is absolutely necessary. The packer of a RoCky MoUti- 
tain pack train and the mild-mannered tenderfoot from the 
East may dii?er as to the necessity of swearing at all; 
and however well-intentioned the packer may be, there i^ 
always a likelihood that in the course of the trip some 
exigency will arise Avhich will appear to him to demand 
the use of certain technical terms. The eniployefj under 
such circumstances, if he, too, be a feasotiable man, will 
look upon this occasional strong language evoked by the 
strenuosity of circumstances as Something quite dlffereilt 
in its nature from the continuous, needless and frivolous 
profanity in which many navigators of pack trains ai'e 
accustomed to indulge. For common and constant swear- 
ing on the trail and in camp there is absolutely no excuse, 
the employer is under no obligation whatever to bear with 
it, and he may put an end to it before it has had a begin- 
Leading a double life. 
Di^fe and one make two. The man who leads a doubh 
life gets twice as much out of life. That is the mathe- 
matics of it. The principle is demonstrated in thousands 
of examples. 
As a peculiar searcher out of men's lives the Forest 
AND Stream has cognizance of a host of individuals 
whose leading of a double life is not fully appreciated by 
their fellows, and indeed in some instances is hardly 
suspected. They are the average men who make up the 
community, toilers in various branches of work, engaged in 
trades, professions and business. The world knows them 
as workers, the Forest and Stream knows them as play- 
ers; for their double life is that of the outdoor 
world, the stubble, the trout stream, the bass lake, the 
quail cover, the moose country. 
While they may be of many callings and stations in the 
life that is seen of all men, in the double life, that is to 
say, the play life, they find themselves more nearly on a 
level. In camp the distinctions which prevail in home 
Surroundings are largely ignored. As men get back to 
iiature they draw more closely together. The artificial 
gradations and distinctions are forgotten, just as the 
most conventional man. of affairs at home may in the 
woods be the one who looks most like a tramp. 
To repeat the proposhion, he who leads a double life 
gets a double portion of the good there is in life. Be his 
hobby the rod or the gun, the paddle, or the tiller, he has 
in it a resource which yields rich returns. 
The two lives are not to be measured and compared by 
the relative proportions of time devoted to each. One 
may apply himself to work for all but a scanty fortnight 
or week, yet shall the brief play spell, counting anticipa- 
tion and retrospection, make up much also of the months 
not actually surrendered to it. 
The business or professional laian who is most devoted 
to his work and most strenuous in his prosecution of it 
is very likely to be the most absorbed in his sport when 
he turns to that, the most eager and devoted fisherman 
on the stream, the most tireless cruiser, the most perse- 
vering hunter. The qualities of industry, application, 
singleness of purpose, energy, enthusiasm and perse- 
verance, which make for success in the home life, are also 
present and active and controlling in the double life— the 
play life. Tliese are the compelling forces which make 
one tote duffle on a carry until he drops from sheer in- 
Rhility to go another step; which make one buck against 
the tide until the point has been founded at the expendi- 
ture of the last ounce of pull in the rower's arms. 
ENGINEERING AND FISHING. 
'OtjR frequent contributor, Mr. J. A. L. Waddell, of 
Kansas City, Mo., is known to the readers of our angling 
columns as a Successful tarpon fisherman and angler for 
other big game fish. Mr. Waddell is one of the most 
distinguished bridge engineers of the United States, and 
has undertaken enterprises also in Mexico, Cuba, Canada 
and Japan ; for his work in Japan he has been decorated 
by the Mika<lo. Engaged in important work in bridge 
building in various parts of the country, he enjoys the 
rare good fortune of finding opportunities of indulging 
in his favorite recreation in connection with his profes- 
sional duties. His engineering enterprises in Mexico have 
borne fruif for tarpon fisheniien in the series of articles 
on tarpon fishing written out of his experiences there. 
Oil the way to and from British Columbia, Mr. Waddell 
has found opportunity to test the rainbow trout; and 
while on professional visits to Nova Scotia he has drawn 
attention to the possibilities of the sport of tuna fishing 
in Atlantic waters. Mr. Waddell is the author of several 
authoritative works on bridge engineering, and, as might 
be expected, his fishing papers are intensely practical. 
They have less of the poetry of angling and more of 
the useful, Instructive and definite description of tackle 
and Modes of fishing; 
It need not be added that Mr. Waddell is a strong ad- 
vocate of the value of field sports from a purely business 
and professional point of view. He believes in play as a 
necessary complement of work; and not only does he 
pi'aCtiCe the doctrine, but on occasion he preaches it and 
ui-ggs it upon the younger meii in the. profession. We 
have before us ±n addfe.Ss delivered by Mr. Waddell to the 
graduating class at this year's commencement of the Rose 
Polytechnic School. The burden of the address is to cele- 
brate industry, application, study and work as the essen- 
tials of professional advancement and success; but with 
all these the value of recreation from toil is not forgot- 
ten. One of the concluding paragraphs may well be 
quoted as having application to other professions than 
that of the engineer : 
By this time you all have probably come to the conclusion that 
you have been listfeniiig for the last half hour or ttiofe to an old fogy, 
who thirlks that there is nothiflg in life wofthy of consideration 
but wotic, wofk, wofk, and who Cail talk on nothing but technical 
subjects. If this be so, 1 by no means blame you, for you would 
seem to have feasoii on your side; nevertheless, you would be 
entirely in the wforig, because 1 am a firm believer in legitimate 
relaxation of every kind, and in a man's getting all the pleasure 
he can out of life, terhaps, too, 1 could talk of things that are 
far from technical, such as hunting the great game of the Rocky 
Mountains, canoeing on lake and stream, the shooting of rapids, 
travels in foreign countries, gunning for wildfowl in the marshes, 
sports afield with dogs and gun, flyfishing for trout in the 
streams of the far North, and struggling with the gallant tarpon 
on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico; but it was not to discuss 
such subjects as these that your president brought me here, so I 
shall desist, only remarking that the more you mix these things 
and other sports and amusements in with your work, the better 
will it be for you both physically and mentally, the longer will 
you live, the more will you accomplish, the more satisfactory will 
be the results of your work, the better men and citizens will you 
become, and the more interesting and agreeable will you prove to 
all with whom vou are thrown in contact. 
War and hunting occupied a large part of the life of 
earl}^ man, and much of the literature of the earliest times 
is devoted to these two subjects. Examples of this occur 
so frequently that it is hardly necessary to specify those 
which are more familiar, but it is interesting to note that 
the very earliest written chronicles had to do with sub- 
jects which concern Forest and Sti4eam. The British 
Museum has recently published the "Annals of the Kings 
of Assyria." These are translations of the cuneiform 
texts and have to do with the lives of the Ass3'rian mon- 
archs, some of whom lived more than a thousand years 
before the birth of Christ. They are largely records of 
wars and victories, and of the renewing of the lands laid 
waste by the incursions of enemies, but incidentally there 
are stories of hunting. For example, we are told that 
Tiglath-pileser I., one of the first of the As.syrian kings 
to reach the Mediterranean, went sailing for a pleasure 
trip from Arvad, in a Phoenician ship, and during his sail 
slew a great dolphin. The reigning monarch of Egypt at 
that time, who may be supposed to have been one of the 
immediate successors of Rameses III. of the twentieth 
dynasty, sent in this same Tiglath-pile,ser I. a crocodile 
and also a great animal called pagutu, which seemed to be 
unidentified. We may suppose that these animals may 
have been sent alive, or if dead, they must have been -em- 
balmed for the long journey with the art for which the 
Egyptians were so famous. 
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Cert.mn sportsmen of Memphis, Tenn., who own club 
houses in Arkansas, have undertaken to test the validity 
of the new Arkansas non-resident shooting and fishing 
law, which, by depriviiig them of the use of their prop- 
erty for the purpose to which it is devoted, has virtually 
confiscated it. In a suit brought by Mr. W. B. Mallory, 
of Memphis, recently decided. Judge Allen Hughes, of 
the Circuit Court at Marion, held that the non-resident 
prohibition is tmconstitutional. He said: "The right to 
acquire, hold, and enjoy real pi'operty in this State is one 
of the privileges guaranteed to the citizens of any State 
by Article 4, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United 
States, which provides that the citizens of each State 
shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of 
citizens in the several Slates, as well as the provisions 
of the fourteenth ametidment, which guarantees to all 
persons within the State the equal protection of the 
laws." 
The real estate principle here involved introduces an 
element more complicated than the simple right, of hunt- 
ing and fishing. The cited provision of the Constitution 
has frequently been brought forward as applicable to the 
overthrow of non-resident shooting and fishing laws, but 
this interpretation of it has not received the sanction of 
the courts. The point that to forbid the non-resident 
owners of a shooting lodge to shoot is thus to render 
his property valueless to him,, is one which, we believe, 
has hitherto not been passed upon. 
A Washington woinan was sitting in her yard at home 
one day last fall, when a wolf, which had escaped from 
the National Zoological Gardens, jumped over the fence 
and bit her. She has now brought suit for damages in 
$300 against Dr. Baker, of the Smithsonian Institution, 
who is the Curator of the Zoo. The case will be tried in 
the District Superior Court. It would appear that Dr. 
Baker had a good defense in the simple plea that the wolf 
was not his, and he was not respoiisible for it. The 
familiar principle in eases like this is that when a wild 
animal escapes from the control of one holding it in con- 
finement, it thereupon at once ceases to belong to him; 
resumes its status as ferce naturcB, and is the property of 
no one until recaptured, when it becomes his who takes 
it. At the time when this wolf bit this woman, it was 
not the property of this man. As a wild animal at large 
its ownership was in the State ; that is to say, iii the Dis- 
trict of Columbia; and the woman's suit should be 
brought against the District authorities. Dr. Baker's de- 
fense is better thata an alibi. 
Among the innovations in the Adirondacks this year is 
a traveling gospel wagon, carrying an evangelist, an or- 
gan and a stock of soiag books and Bibles into the isolated 
sections. The outfit is sent into the woods by the Baptist 
organizations, and the plan of campaign extends through 
the summer and autumn into the winter. Outdoor meet- 
ings will be held in remote places, and sportsmen camp- 
ing iii the vicinity will be given a cordial invitation to at- 
tend. The Adirondack enterprise is not unlike the travel- 
ing gospel wagons sent out into the mountains of the 
South from Berea College. 
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How vitally the interests of Adirondack hotels are con- 
nected with the forests, and what forest fires mean to 
those interests, is well illustrated by the action of hotel 
men this year who have been at much expense to dissem- 
inate published statements that the stories of fires were 
exaggerated, and that the scenery and forests about them 
were unscarred. The destruction of the surroundiiig for- 
est would be a hotel calamity little short of the Imrning 
of the hotel itself; iiideed, in some cases the owner, if 
given his choice, would lose the building rather than the 
woods; one could be replaced, the other not. 
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The reports that certaiia of the North Woods fires were 
of incendiary origin have been proved true in court. At 
Glens Falls last week two men accused of having set fire 
to the Adiroiadack forests in May, were convicted atad 
sent to prison, one to Dannemora for not more than four- 
years, and the other to the Elmira Reformatory. 
