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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1904. 
j VOL. LXIII.— No. 81. 
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MONOLOGUES OF KIAH. 
It was a raw, rainy day in camp. The duress imposed 
by the bad weather occasioned some grumbling. All day 
the light was of a twilight sombreness. Not a rift in the 
murky sky afforded hope of a return to sunshine. Inertia 
anl glumness dominated. Late in the afternoon, Reuben 
Green became more cheerful and therefore more talka- 
tive. He started thus : "This was the kind of day our 
party of four encountered when we started on a big-game 
hunt in the fastnesses of the Cascade Range at its 
northern part. That now is several years ago. All the 
members of the party, excepting myself, were experienced 
and successful hunters of that famous region. We, how- 
ever, were alike well armed and equipped. Our main 
quest was for silver-tips"— "Excuse me for interrupting 
you," Kiah broke forth, eagerly, "but while it's on my 
mind let me tell you that you just now hit on a word 
which has been swirling through my head all day. Just 
a moment more to tell you about it. The matter of tips, 
all kinds of tips, it seems to me has become a serious 
question. It concerns everybody. Now, take my own 
case for example — tips have almost ruined me. I have been 
figuring them up all day, and they amount to enough to 
yield a living income if I had had sense enough to invest 
them in some good stock that appreciated about 600 per 
cent, instead of throwing them to the birds. Of course, 
a tip is supposed to be a gratuity, given for some nominal 
personal service, or for some real service, for which he 
who serves is already paid. However much, at their in- 
ception, tips may have been considered as gratuities, they 
long since have passed into the domain of extortion. In- 
deed, in the fashionable hotels and restaurants, the man- 
ner of extracting tips from a recalcitrant guest borders 
close on blackmail, as by tilted noses and hostile looks the 
attention of other guests is directed to him. The double 
phase of character exhibited concurrently by a fashion- 
able waiter is of things fantastic. He commonly serves 
in all the effulgence of evening dress. In speech and man- 
ner he affects a refined suavity and solicitude in behalf of 
his victims, and yet he. is so debased and lost to all self- 
respect that, before the public, he will extend his hand for 
a humiliating paltry gift, and, if it is not forthcoming, 
will assume the manners of a disappointed cur. Still, the 
tippee has embellishments. He whose esteem is measured 
by tips, has a graduated scale of thanks corresponding to 
the size of the tip. For 25 cents he displays a weary 
resignation and mute forbearance. For 50 cents he will 
give a dainty nod and address you as Monsieur. For a 
dollar tip he will pour you another glass of water, will 
tenderly help you with your hat and overcoat, and bid 
you a respectful good night. A peculiar feature of tips 
is that the more you buy the more you are supposed to 
pay the waiter for that privilege, so that while you are 
purchasing from his employer you are paying the waiter 
a commission also. Still, there is a difference in waiters. 
There is a pleasure in tipping a really skillful waiter, but 
what I dislike is that I have to tip whether I am in the 
humor or not, or else take my place on the waiter's 
black-list, which signifies that every waiter in a restaur- 
ant makes common cause against the free American 
citizen who refrains from tipping one. And yet there is 
a great deal in a name, for graft and tip, while having 
certain differences in practice, have much that is common 
in principle. As a peculiar phase of a parasitic develop- 
ment in a profitable business, it is an interesting study. 
There is no more reason why I should fee the waiter who 
serves his employer in serving me than I should fee the 
street car conductor, the grocery clerk, the postman, etc., 
except at Christmas time. Strange to relate, if it were 
not for me and others like me who dine in restaurants, 
the waiter would have no vocation at all as at present. 
One may be penalized lightly for a first offense, but_let 
the offender come athwart the outraged waiter a second 
time and he will find the elaboration of slow service, 
scraggly dishes and ill will. So it is with my barber, the 
baggageman, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick 
maker— but those are some of the reasons why I enjoy 
camp life, with its independence and freedom, so much 
the more. But, Rube, you began to tell about your bear 
hunt. Tell us the rest." 
"Oh," Rube replied, "that's so long ago since I began 
the story that I have forgotten all about it." 
BREAKING OPEN PACKAGES. 
Deputy Game Warden John Buckley, of Milwaukee, 
has been carrying things with a high hand in his search 
for fish unlawfully in course of exportation from the 
State. The Wisconsin statute prescribes that it shall be 
unlawful for a transportation company to carry out of 
the State any trout caught in inland waters, or any other 
game fish, except that twenty pounds in weight, or two 
in number, may be exported under certain restrictions. 
It is further provided that any shipment made in viola- 
tion of the provisions of the law may be seized, confis- 
cated and sold by any game warden "in a manner pro- 
vided by law." The law, Section 22, Chapter 312, of the 
Laws of 1899, prescribes that it shall be within the power 
of. every officer charged with the enforcement of the laws 
protecting fish and game "to examine and open any pack- 
age in the possession of a transportation company, which 
said package he shall suspect or have reason to believe 
■contains contraband fish or game." Under the authority 
thus conferred, Warden Buckley has entered the trains of 
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company and has 
forcibly seized trunks, valises, grips, and other packages, 
and broken them open, only to find in numerous cases no 
prohibited fish or game in them. The company has pro- 
tested to the local officers and to the Attorney-General, 
but has been unable to put a stop to the conduct of the 
warden; and finally has taken the question to the courts. 
As a result, Court Commissioner Hugh Lyon, of Mil- 
waukee, has issued an order restraining Warden Buckley 
from searching baggage for fish or game unless the bag- 
gage shall be seen to contain such material carried in 
violation of the law. The grounds upon which the rail- 
road company claim that the game warden should be 
restrained is that the section of law which gives him 
authority to search baggage without a warrant is in con- 
flict with Article 4 of the amendements to the Constitu- 
tion of the United States, which reads: "The right of 
the people to be secured in their persons, houses, papers 
and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures 
shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but 
upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, 
and particularly describing the place to be searched, and 
the persons or things to be seized." It is also claimed by 
them that the game seizure provision is in violation of 
Section 11 of Article 1 of the Constitution of Wisconsin, 
and that therefore it is null and void. 
THE LONG ISLAND DEER HUNTING. 
The Long Island deer hunting this season has not been 
all that the anticipatory fancy of its participants painted 
it. The open days were four, the first two Wednesdays 
and the first two Fridays of the month ; and though there 
was the usual mob of shooters a less number of deer was 
scored. This may be explained by two reasons, first, that 
the deer when alarmed took more precipitately to the pro- 
tected estates where they were safe from pursuit; and 
scond, that private grounds were more thoroughly policed 
and there was therefore less chance for trespass upon 
them. 
Deer hounding on the Island is followed in a way 
which in every other part of the State is forbidden. No- 
where else than on Long Island are dogs permitted for 
chasing deer. The procedure there is for the hunters to 
take posts along the line of the drive, many of them 
securing positions in the night that they may be ready for 
the break of day; and as soon as daylight comes the 
drivers put the dogs on the trail and drive the deer past 
the hunters amid a fusilade of rifle ball and buckshot. 
The Long Island deer are semi-domesticated creatures 
which have a certain degree of confidence in their human 
co-tenants of the soil, and they do not always promptly 
recognize the meaning of the opening uproar of men and 
dogs and guns. But a deer is by nature no fool, and after 
the frightening and enlightening experience of the first 
day, the Long Island animals are shy and alert and wary 
and wise enough in their own way to stay in the grounds 
of the South Side Club and on other protected territory, 
where they are secure from pursuit and know that they 
are secure. 
As for this Long Island deer hounding, it is not deer 
hunting. There is a grave question if the time has not 
come when it should be done away with, or perhaps there 
is no question about it. Long Island deer should be ex- 
empt from this annual raiding by a mob of men and dogs. 
If there are more deer in the country than the people 
living there care to have, the surplus stock might well 
enough be taken up by the game commission and removed 
to the Catskills and the Adirondacks. As we have said 
before, this Long Island deer range might be utilized as 
a valuable source of supply for other parts of the State 
where there is room for deer hunting. The Long Island 
performance "between daylight and sunset on the first 
two Wednesdays and first two Fridays after the first 
Tuesday of November" is too much like a massacre of 
domestic stock. 
THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ELK. 
It has long been known to a few persons that in the 
San Joaquin Valley of California there remains a rem- 
nant of the vast herds of elk that in the days previous to 
the gold find roamed that great State, furnished food to 
its inhabitants, and shared the pasturage of the wild cat- 
tle and horses which formed the wealth of the Spanish 
settlers. These herds were practically exterminated many 
years ago, but there remain on the lands of Messrs. Miller 
and Lux, the great cattlemen, a few head which, through 
the wisdom of the proprietors of. the soil, were protected, 
and, if they did not increase, at least remained stationary 
in numbers. Messrs. Miller and Lux are broad-minded 
men, and two or three years ago offered to present to the 
general Government this band of elk, provided the Gov- 
ernment would furnish a place for them and remove them 
to it. This generous offer was, we believe, first made 
public by Dr. C. Hart Merriam at the annual dinner of 
the Boone and Crockett Club in January, 1903. 
For two years efforts have been made to secure from 
Congress an appropriation sufficient to provide a home for 
these elk while they should be held under fence and under 
the eye of the proper protecting officials. Singularly 
enough the chairman of the House Committee on Agri- 
culture has been opposed to the appropriation of funds 
sufficient to properly carry out this project. A small sum 
of money has been appropriated, however, a paddock 
inclosing not far from four-fifths of a square mile has 
been built in the Sequoia National Park, and at this 
present writing the elk are being gathered up to be re- 
moved to their new home. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, the 
eminent Chief of the Biological Survey, who has been 
constantly working at this matter for a number of years, 
is now in California and is superintending the transfer. 
It is believed that these elk represent a species hitherto 
undescribed, and quite different from the elk that 
formerly roamed the plains from the Mississippi westward. , 
In habit they are reported to be somewhat similar to the 
old-time plains elk, living in the open country often 
among the tules of the marshes, and rarely visiting the 
timbered foothills. It is to be hoped that before long we 
shall know more about them. 
One of the elements of the characteristic piquancy of 
the Forest and Stream is found in the wide range of 
its correspondence, which comes from every quarter of 
the land, and often brings to the common fund some local 
peculiarity of sentiment, wisdom or speech which has for 
the rest of us an agreeable twang of novelty. There, for 
instance, is the word "fiste" used this week by Mr. Mor- 
phew who writes from Arkansas. When the proofs came 
back from the printer this word was queried on the mar- 
gin. The proofreader evidently could not find it in his 
dictionary. Yet the term "fiste" or "fice" or "fyse" — for 
it is spelled in all these ways — is by no means uncommon in 
the South. It is a good old English word, meaning a 
small dog, or cur, and has lingered in many sections ofj 
the South; and we believe is still current in New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania. Mr. Morphew's use of it shows that 
it is a part of the Arkansas vernacular. 
