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directions. Two or three skirmishers were always in ad- 
vance, and nothing escaped their vigilant tyes. 
The dry waterway was some forty yards broad, and was 
dotted here and there with a small clump of under- 
growth or a Cottonwood tree which interfered but little 
with my view. Within thirty minutes there gathered 
within my view between 350 and 400 quail, of whom only 
fifteen or twenty could drink at one time. The thirsty 
waited their turn with impatience, and frequently two 
cocks wottld meet near the water and fly at each other 
precisely like a couple of bantams. 
While intent upon this scene, suddenly a picket, 
perched near the spring, uttered a quick note of alarm, 
and the whole bevy ran for cover. 
Simultaneously there appeared, first a hare making 
cautiously for the water hole, and about twenty feet 
from him, screened by some weeds, a large sized, pow- 
erfully built wildcat. Just before reaching the water the 
hare stopped, reared up and looked carefiilly in every 
direction. The cat lay perfectly still, glued to the earth. 
The intensity of its emotion was displayed by a blood- 
thirsty glitter of the eye, and an uncontrollable tremor 
of the short, stumpy tail. The hare, seeing no danger, 
went forward and began to drink. In a few seconds he 
hopped away a few feet and again scrutinized the sur- 
roundings. A second time he returned to the water, this 
time with his rump directly toward the cat. Feeling per- 
fectly safe he drank long and deep. I was so interested 
in the spectacle that I spoke involuntarily: "Now, Bob, 
is your chance." But the stupid cat spoilt the play. He 
lay hugging the ground instead of advancing and spring- 
ing. 1 he hare having finished returned the way he came, 
wi-ih the cat pursuing him behind the screen of weeds. In 
about five minutes the cat returned, evidently disappointed 
of his quarry, and crouched in the edge of a thicket near 
the spring. 
The quail now began to emerge from their hiding 
places. I expected the cat to stalk them, but he paid no 
attention whatever to them. 
At this juncture I suddenly lost interest in both cat 
and quail, as on the opposite side of the canon, some 
hundreds of yards away, I saw a deer cross a narrow 
opening in the high brush. His direction was toward the 
spring, and after ten or fifteen minutes he crossed an- 
other opening some two hundred yards away. When 
fifty yards nearer he exposed himself fairly and I fired 
my little .30-30 carbine. He turned and plunged along the 
hillside, giving me another shot. After a couple of jumps 
he stopped, collapsed, and rolled heavily down the steep 
hillside into a buckeye thicket. Roeel, 
Mantifactufe of Fifearms in Lfegfe. 
Liege, Belgium, Oct. 14. — The manufacture of fire- 
arms and guns in Liege has steadily increased since 
18S0, and the exports thereof have increased in like 
manner. The exports to all countries during recent 
years were as follows: 
Francs. 
1898 15.000,000 = $2,895,000 
1899 16,500,000= 3,184,500 
1900 18,000,000= 3,474,000 
4901 19,000,000= 3,667,000 
'the United States is one of the principal markets for 
the firearms product of Liege, especially for guns cost- 
ing under 25 francs ($4.82). Grades beyond that price 
being subject to a high duty in the United States, a 
large exportation of the better qualities is prevented; 
nevertheless, the demand from the United States for 
the higher grade of guns is greater at present than at 
any previous time. 
I am reliably informed that certain manufacturers 
turn out a large quantity of guns having imitation Da- 
mascus barrels attached. This, however, cannot in any 
way injure the reputation of the firearms manufactur- 
ers, most of whom are thoroughly reliable in the qual- 
ity of their products. 
In the year igoi the export of firearms and gun bar- 
rels to the United States amounted to about 2,800,000 
francs ($540,400), and in 1902 to over 3,000,000 francs 
($579,000), the proportion of gun barrels and firearms 
being about equal. 
In the last ten years the production of Damascus 
and steel barrels has increased, the annual production 
being about 500,000, of which about 100,000 single and 
160,000 double barrels were sent to the United States. 
The Damascus gun barrel is made principally at 
Nessonvaux. eight miles from Liege, but in this con- 
sular district. 
Manufacturers report that many American houses 
buying from Liege factories do so through agents, and 
say that it would be more advantageous to importers 
to deal directly. 
James C. McNally, Consul. 
Game Protection in North Carolina. 
Greensboro, N. C, Dec. 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Bird and Game Warden W. J. Weatherly, who works 
under the direction of the Audubon Sociey of North 
Carolina, made in the express office at Greensboro a few 
days ago, three seizures of patridges which were being 
illegally shipped out of the State. One package contained 
thirty dressed birds, the contents of the other two 
amounted to seven and one-half dozen undressed bird?. 
They were sold at auction. 
The birds Avere packed in egg crates with two layers 
of eggs on the top of each box. The packages were 
billed as eggs and were being shipped to produce dealers 
in Washington, D. C. Two of these shippers have since 
been convicted and fined $20 each and costs, and at this 
writing Weatherly is out with a warrant looking for the 
other man. T. Gilbert Pearson^ Secretary. 
Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 5.— There is much interest both 
on the part of bird lovers and sportsmen as to the first 
year's work of the Audubon Society of North Carolina. 
Special inquiries were made of the secretary, Gilbert 
Pearson, of Greensboro, as to the results of the year's 
work under the law enacted by the last Legislature. By 
the persistent efiforts of the society's wardens along the 
coast during the past summer the colonies of gulls, terns, 
and skjiTimer?' (^orm or flood gulls) wre for th^ firsv 
time in fifteen years unmolested by plume hunters. As 
a result of this protection, about 2,000 young birds are 
known by the wardens to have been reared. 
There is a marked difference as to the duck and goose- 
hunting in the eastern waters this season. Secretary 
Pearson says the first attempts in Currituck to hunt 
ducks at night were stopped by a warden, and the guilty 
persons, two of thein, were fined $20 and costs each. He 
says since then there has been absolutely no "fire-light- 
ing" in that county, according to reports made to him. A 
northern visitor, writing to Forest and Stream from 
there confirms this statement. Reports just received 
from Dare county say there is no fire-lighting there. 
Currituck and Dare counties contain the most important 
duck shooting waters in this country. 
Many resident and non-resident sportsmen there are be- 
coming members of the Audubon Society, after seeing 
the work it is doing. Twenty-six game wardens have 
been appointed throughout the State, and now hold the 
Governor's commission. They are doing a really won- 
derful work toward creating a better sentiment for bird 
and game protection. Thousands of warning notices have 
been posted and 50,000 leaflets distributed, these telling 
of the game laws. There have been four convictions for 
violating the Audubon law regarding the killing of song 
and insect-eating birds, and within the past 90 days there 
have been twenty-three convictions for violations of the 
game laws, such as killing before the open season, ship- 
ping partridges out of the State, etc. Three seizures of 
partridges which were thus being illegally shipped have 
been made and two convictions resulted with heavy fines 
and confiscation. A warrant is out for the third person 
engaged in this traffic. F. A. Olds. 
Illicit Shippings of Game. 
The annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture 
gives the summary of the year's work of the Biological 
Survey in the enforcement of the Lacey law, as to the 
shipment of game: 
' The cordial co-operation of the Attorney-General and 
State officials has enabled pi'ompter disposition of cases 
arising from the illegal shipment of birds and game than 
ever before. Thirty-five such cases, involving the ship- 
ment of 3,729 birds, were reported to the Department, a 
decrease of four cases and about 1,300 birds from those 
reported during the_ preceding year. Since the passage 
of the act 40 convictions have been secured in cases pass- 
ing through this Department, and about 20 cases are still 
pending. Efforts have been concentrated upon one or 
two Etreas in the West, where illegal shipments seem to 
be especially frequent in order to secure more satisfac- 
tory results with the limited means available. Illegal 
shipment of game has been very frequent in the past, 
and various methods have been adopted to conceal the 
character of the shipment. The violators of the law 
have, however, been driven by increasing insecurity in 
their illegal trade to new devices. Thus, a consignment 
recently seized in the Northwest disclosed game birds 
concealed in bales of hay which had been forwarded by 
slow freight. In the attempt to curtail these illegal ship- 
ments, I have been much aided by the co-operation, 
cheerfully and cordially given, of express and railroad 
companies, and there is reason to believe that illicit ship- 
ments can, at comparatively small cost, be reduced to a 
minimum and the great iijroads they make upon the 
game of our country checked." 
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always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
New Y<rk, and not to any individual connected with the paper. 
The Game Laws in Brief. 
is the standard authority of fish and game laws of the United 
States and Canada. It tells everything and gives it correctly. 
See in advertising pages list of some of the dealers who handle 
the Brief. 
^Z. i Cuvkr Club's Annual 
Around the festive board once more 
We greet each Cuvier Son, 
All bound together by the tie 
Of fishing rod and gun. 
Clasp hands together in our joy, 
Ring out the sportsman song— 
The feast is spread, now drink the toast, 
For merry j-ears and long. 
—Virginia G. Ellard. 
There may be some who, hearing of the Cuviers only 
when their annual banquet is announced in the papers, 
may think that this is the main object of the club. This 
is by no means the case, the banquet is simply the round- 
ing off of a year's hard work, and is held at a time when 
the members may enjoy some of the fruits of the club's 
determined efforts in the protection of game, and spend 
a few hours in pleasant social intercourse. 
The causes which have made the club the success and 
power which it is are the preservation of fish and game 
from certain annihilation by those who are either 
thoughtless or mercenary, in the interest of the food sup- 
ply of future generations, and to afford healthy and 
pleasurable sport in hunting and fishing; the collection 
of specimens of natural history, and the exhibition of 
the same in a museum for the education of those inter- 
ested in the study of nature, and forming an additional 
attraction to the city. The club is also ready at all 
times to aid in forest preservation and the propagation 
of fish and game. 
Of late years the club has undertaken the scheme of 
interesting the pupils of the public schools in the work. 
Money prizes have been offered in the three different 
grades for essays on birds and bird life. This plan has 
awakened much interest, and the club has received about 
520 essays ; these are read and prizes awarded by com- 
petent judges. Residents of the suburbs and hilltops are 
unanimous in saying that song birds are very much more 
numerous since the inauguration of this plan, and that the 
tiierebjjr has cfeatecl a smaU army ol proteoto:rs of 
bird life. The Audubon Society holds its meetings at 
the club rooms, the museum is free to the public, and the 
club, in every way possible, encourages the study. 
It is the wish of the Cuvier Club to extend its field of 
usefulness. It especially wishes to make it educational 
in a marked degree for the benefit of the public and .the 
public schools, and therefore desires many additions to 
its library and museum, and a more thorough protection 
to fish and game. The club is now overcrowded in 
museuni, library, banquet hall, and in all its departments, 
and wishes to erect a building which shall contain a 
museum of treble the capacity of the present one, a large 
lecture room, music room, reception rooms, and a ban- 
quet hall capable of comfortably seating 500 or more. 
There are about 450 members on the rolls, including 
some of the best business and professional men in the 
city. In the past few weeks about fifty new names have 
been added. The club is vigorous in its efforts to en- 
force the game laws, and has prosecuted about twenty 
cases so far this season, securing convictions in the 
majority of cases. Having briefly stated the objects of 
the club, and still more briefly referred to the work it is 
doing, some reference to the annual banquet, the thirtieth, 
held on Nov. 24, is in order. 
The officers of the club worked hard to make this 
occasion a success and their efforts met with a full re- 
ward. Those having general supervision were Alexander 
Starbuck, president; Judge Peter F. Swing, Henry 
Hanna and P. E. Roach, vice-presidents; W. J. Lawler, 
secretary. A special committee consisting of A. J. Con- 
roy, chairman; J. M. Kennedy and George Gerke, had 
charge of the banquet. The invitation committee was 
composed of E. G. Webster, chairman; J. H. Plibben and 
H. A. Verhage. The house committee consisted of 
Luther Parker, chairman; G. W. Trowbridge and J. A. 
Burgett. Max Basse, the chef, has served many dinners 
for the club, but never did he serve a better appointed or 
more perfect one than on this occasion. 
Promptly at 5 o'clock the members and invited guests 
began to arrive and were met with a hearty welcome ex- 
tended by President Starbuck or some other member of 
the committee, shown to a table, presented with a menu, 
and, with the cordial words "Enjoy yourselves," left to 
the care of the waiters who were ready to attend to their 
wants. 
The reception hall of the club house was decorated 
with roses, chrysanthemums, smilax, evergreen and potted 
plants. Over the door leading to the banquet hall was 
the word "Welcome" in Virginia laurel and immortelles. 
In the banquet hall the decorations consisted of ever- 
greens festooned along the wall, and from the ceiling 
palms, ferns and potted plants placed about the room, 
and in the rear, facing the entrance, a lai-ge floral piece 
with the words "Thirtieth Annual" was suspended from 
the ceiling. Silver and cut glass gleamed and sparkled, 
and, with candelabras, cut flowers and fruit, formed the 
decorations of the tables. The museum and library were 
also used by the banqueters and were decorated with 
flags, evergreens, palms, ferns and flowers. In the 
library a large table was spread and here the members of 
the famous Pelee Club met and enjoyed the interchange 
of their fishing experiences in past seasons, scarcely less 
than the material entertainment offered by the menu. 
Stringed orchestras were hidden behind screens of palms 
and ferns, in both the banquet hall and museum, and ren- 
dered popular music during the evening. 
At every table hunting and fishing were the topics of 
conversation, and the guest who could not tell at least one 
experience was not in it. Some of the fish caught were 
record breakers, and some of the shots made would cause 
a champion to turn green with envy, but when a crowd 
of sportsmen get together a httle drawing of the long 
bow is expected and is excusable. Some of the older 
ones present had fished in about every State of the 
Union, and in all the best Canadian waters, and had 
caught every species of fish from minnows to tuna, and 
it goes without saying their reminiscences were intensely 
interesting. Others had hunted every kind of game which 
wears feathers, fur, or hair, and were not behind in their 
stories of adventure. Altogether it was such a gather- 
ing of sportsmen as is rarely seen. Bonasa. 
CiNCINNAII, O. 
Angling in Japan. 
Manila, Philippine Islands, Oct. 30. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: At 8 A. M., October 16, 1903, three of us, 
fwo Americans and one Japanese, started in jinrikishas 
from Taipeh, the modern capital Formosa, or Taiwan, 
to_ go to the house of a wealtliy ..^ntleman about eight 
miles up the river which runs WWM~^h the valley of Tai- 
peh. The way led through a 1^^''iful and fertile coun- 
try, the valley covered with th* fecond crop of rice and 
the hills with the famous Formosan tea shrub. 
After luncheon and after photographing some head- 
hunting savages we found there, we proceeded to fish for 
salmon trout, at an altitude less than 250 feet above sea 
level, and in latitude about 24 deg. 40 min. north, prac- 
tically in the tropics. The temperature of the stream was 
about 70 or higher, and the water was well aerated. This 
stream, from sixty to one hundred yards wide, is clear 
and full of rapids and riffles. We used Japanese tackle, 
horse-hair line and horse-hair leader (the latter consist- 
ing of one strand only), a bamboo rod and a most deli- 
cate palmer tied on a small barbless hook. The rod is 
decidedly good, and weight for weight is stronger, and a 
better caster than our jointed rod. It rarely weighs over 
four ounces — ^inine weighed about two — but the line is 
practically worthless for casting, as we understand the 
term. The fly is perfect, but the hook lacks strength, 
and the fish when hooked ma}'- easily detach itself in a 
current or an eddy, or by fouling the line. We all know 
how it is done, from our experience with pin-hook and 
thread in the brooks at home. 
The Japanese, however, have another method of fish- 
ing, which may be as new to some of our readers as it 
was to me. It is quite successful. They catch one fish 
in any way they can, and then fasten the line securely 
through its upper jaw, passing it through the roof of the 
mouth and out at the top of the upper jaw, well in front- 
of the eyes ; and then attach through the body - of the 
fish not far in front of the tail, a horse-hair, to which is 
tied a three-pronged barbless hook, which trails in line 
vfith tiie fi^h and a ff w ipcfecs behijid, wbile it is's}ow% 
