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FOREST AND STREAM 
Vol. LXXXII. No. 17 
Sailing For Ladies .By W. R. Gilbert 
Senate May Lop Off Funds to Enforce McLean Law 
The New Jones Bill — What it Provides . By Peter Flint 
The Southwestern Handicap .By Edward Banks 
Trapshooting . 
Trapshooting in England 
Winter Wild Geese. 
A Journey Through the North Country. 
By Heman Blackmer 
Chum and 1 Go A-Fishing.By O. W. Smith 
Charles Hallock—An Octogenarian. 
Editorials. 
My First Tussle With the Dry Flies . . By Herbert Janes 
Protection for Fingers .By G. L. Nichols 
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taxidermists in this city to be mounted, as the 
writer knows, at all seasons of the year. 
Section 120 further permits the destruction of 
the nests of these birds, the necessary result of 
which is to lessen further their destructive num¬ 
bers. Now, the word “game” has been judi¬ 
ciously determined to mean all fish, birds and quad¬ 
rupeds of a wild nature fit for human food, and 
our statute tells us exactly just what game and 
fur-bearing animals we must never kill, unless 
we have a license so to do. It enumerates, as 
all know, deer, varying hares, cotton-tail rabbits, 
black, gray and fox squirrels (whatever the last 
may be), together with the beaver, raccoon, sable, 
skunk, mink, and muskrat among the protected 
quadrupeds. 
Now there are a few well-known game and fur¬ 
bearing animals that have not yet been placed 
under the shield of our statute law, like the red 
and black fox, bear, wildcat, weasel, red squirrel 
or chickaree, woodchuck, chipmunk, flying squir¬ 
rel and the corn-destroying hedgehog, upon 
which last animal in many counties a bounty has 
been placed as well as upon the bear and pan¬ 
ther, the last being now practically extinct, is, 
therefore, negligible. 
In the same manner as with game birds and 
animals, the legislature may during its present 
session extend the hunting and trapping license 
system into the domain of fisheries, in which case 
it will license the taking of those fish that may 
now only be caught during certain seasons, and 
leave the plebian perch, sun fish, sheephead, bull 
pout, eel and sucker to take up the spare time of 
the average day or night unlicensed angler when¬ 
ever he wants “a mess to eat.” 
The Gun in Camp. 
There are men who refuse to go camp¬ 
ing unless a gun of some sort is included 
in the equipment. Ninety-nine times out 
of a hundred this is a foolish practice. 
There is nothing to shoot during the sum¬ 
mer season, and so far as protection to life 
is concerned, the chances are that the 
camp axe will answer all purposes, in the 
remote contingency that some marauding 
animal stumbles into camp—which he 
won’t do of his own accord. A gun in the 
woods in the summer time is a temptation, 
if not to illegal use, at least to careless 
shooting, and the possible injury to some 
fellow being, either of the party or within 
range of a stray bullet. We are not speak¬ 
ing now of the little .22 target rifle, which 
may afford amusement without much dan¬ 
ger, but of the heavier weapon designed 
for different use. Leave the rifle and the 
shot gun at home in the summer. If you 
wander within the precincts of a Federal 
or Dominion reservation, the wardens will 
take your gun away from you or seal it 
up, and at best it will prove a nuisance on 
the carries or portages. If you must go 
armed, tote a revolver, that is, if you know 
how to handle and use one, but a club is 
better after all and even that is unneces¬ 
sary. 
It is therefore earnestly suggested that a new 
section be enacted by the legislature at once to the 
general effect that nothing contained in the law 
shall prevent the having of guns in the home for 
the defense of person or property, the shooting at 
targets, or hunting or shooting any bird or quad¬ 
ruped not now protected by the statute law of this 
State. This will put an end to much of the pres¬ 
ent confusion leading some otherwise law-abiding 
citizens to make interpretations of the law differ¬ 
ent in some respects from those given out by the 
legal advisers of the conservation commission, 
which, the former claim, are not supported by the 
real meaning of the statute nor by common 
sense and good judgment. 
CANOE CLUB ALONG ALLEGHENY PREPAR¬ 
ING FOR COMING SEASON. 
The officers and chairmen of the more import¬ 
ant committees of the Western Pennsylvania 
Canoe Association, who will have charge of the 
canoeing and boating activities are: Commodore 
Frederick Richardson, of the Keystone Canoe 
Club, Verona; vice-commodore, H. L. Beech, of 
the Azetc Canoe Club, Oakmont; treasurer, R. G. 
Stroud of the Oakmont Boat Club; secretary, 
James MacKay, of the Minnetonka Canoe Club, 
Verona; chairman, athletic committee, W. G. 
Goldman, Keystone Canoe Club, Verona; chair¬ 
man entertainment committee, J. D. Orr of the 
No-Kix-Go Canoe Club, Oakmont; chairman, 
membership committee, H. J. Steeb, Ecalap Canoe 
Club, Oakmont; and chairman, regatta committee, 
Frank Graf of the Algonquin Canoe Club, Verona. 
