756 
FOREST AND STREAM 
June 14, 1913 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary. W. .T. Gallagher, Treasurer. 
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THE BOY AND THE DOG. 
There is no more entertaining column in 
the average daily newspaper than that in which 
the editor gives his readers a free forum in 
which to air their views on all conceivable sub¬ 
jects, from the mast-heading of a city hall flag 
to the solution of the dog problem. 
The dog problem in town, it need not be 
said, is for those who like dogs to maintain 
their dogs and live in amity with their neigh¬ 
bors who detest dogs. In congested centers of 
population the dog is not infrequently an occas¬ 
ion of bitterness and back-biting between very 
respectable citizens who otherwise would be dis¬ 
posed to keep the peace. 
In the country, where folks live under less 
restraint and without the vexatious friction of 
the town, the youngster who joys in the 
possession of a pet—blue blood or mongrel 
■—knows none of this heartburning which for 
his city cousin diminishes in some degree the 
satisfaction found in owning a dog. There is 
no truer friendship than that of the boy and 
the dog. There are no happier days to which 
the grown man may look back with a tender 
regret for their passing than the days spent in 
the old home fields with the faithful four-footed 
companion of youth. Confidence between boy 
and dog was perfect. The dog perhaps was not 
a thoroughbred and had come into the world 
minus a pedigree, but the boy accepted him for 
what he was, and in the blessed ingenuousness 
of youth may even have found an occasion of 
added pride in the dog in some characteristic 
which he now knows was highly to the animal’s 
discredit as determined by the bench show 
standards. 
And as for the dog. on his part, too, he 
took the boy for what he was, asking of him 
no more than that he should condescend to make 
of himself a demigod for unstinted confidence, 
affection and worship. 
If the scientists would devise a way to rep¬ 
resent the care-free happiness of boyhood days 
in some equivalent of foot pounds, the amount 
of it justly accredited to the companionship of 
boy and dog w'ould be expressed in many tons. 
VACATION TIME. 
We are now in the height of the outdoor 
season, and for a few months the consideration 
of the vacation soon to come will have a large 
share in our thoughts. 
It is a trite saying that each of us is at 
heart a savage, and desires, at least once a year, 
to return for a little while to the habits of those 
primitive ancestors who depended for support 
on the flesh of the beasts which they hunted, 
the fish w’hich they caught from the waters, or 
the roots and fruits yielded by the soil. This 
may be true, but whether it is so or not will 
probably never be known. It seems more prob¬ 
able that since the pleasures of life consist 
chiefly in its changes and its contrasts, so w'e, 
w'ho are civilized, who live in cities, towns, vil¬ 
lages, or at all events in houses, and are bound 
by all the restraints of civilized society, find our 
highest pleasure in escaping for a time from 
that society and the restraining fetters conse¬ 
quent on our ordinary close association with 
men. We long for a freedom unknown in our 
daily life, for an independence known only to 
natural things who wander at will, when and 
where they please, and who lie down and sleep 
at their own good pleasure. We long to go 
where we please, to stop when we feel like it, 
to eat when we are hungry and not' at set times, 
to lounge in camp in our oldest clothes.or with¬ 
out any clothes at all, to be for a little time 
our own masters. 
One and all the civilized people of the 
world are struggling in a race for such measure 
of wealth as shall give them absolute independ¬ 
ence, shall enable them to do precisely as they 
please. Not one of them ever attains the sum of 
his desires. The man who has become a multi¬ 
millionaire has formed the habit of making 
millions, and this habit has become stronger far 
than was his old desire for freedom, for a time 
when he could travel, could spend his days in 
fishing or shooting, or in studying natural his¬ 
tory, or could buy back the old farm where he 
was born and go there to be for the rest of 
his life a farmer. 
Yet. for a little time, each one of us who 
spends his vacation in the forests, or among the 
mountains, or on the seashore, who makes his 
fishing trip, his hunt for big game, or spends 
two or three weeks cruising on yacht or tiny 
catboat, is richer far than any of these multi¬ 
millionaires, for he is doing the things that he 
has longed for and looked forward to; he has 
thrown aside for a little while all sense of re¬ 
sponsibility, and has once more become a child 
with the child’s freedom from care, but with 
far more than the child’s capacity for enjoyment. 
Let him make the most of his good time. It 
will not last long, and a whole year may elapse 
before it comes again. 
OHIO GAME LAWS. 
The great big wholesome State of Ohio at 
last has come to the realization that many of 
its important game birds must be protected, and 
so has closed until 1915 the season on quail, 
ruffed grouse, pheasant and Carolina doves. A 
resident license now adds to the income for 
game propagation. Well done, Ohio, well done. 
Dicest of the new laws appears elsewhere in 
this issue. 
LESS WEBSTER AND MORE 
LEGISLATION. 
Come, now, men and brethren, let us reason 
together. Is it worth while, just because a 
shooter shoots more game than we think is fit¬ 
ting, to launch out in unbridled invective upon 
him and call him bad names? Is conformity to 
an ill-defined and fluctuating standard of game 
shooting of such transcendent moment that in 
the rebuke of its transgression we must say 
good-bye to the observance of good breeding and 
common decency m our speech to or respectmg 
our fellow men? Can intemperance in gain.^* 
killing be reformed only by intemperance in 
speech? Is the ‘'game hog” to be turned from 
his ways only by the unparliamentary vocabulary 
of a strenuous blackguard? We do not believe 
it. But if the promotion of game protection 
does depend upon publicly shouting bad names, 
most of us are in the position of the good old 
Quaker of the story, who, when he was spat¬ 
tered by mud in the street, called the street 
gamin to him and said, ‘T will give thee a penny 
to swear for me.’’ 
PROTECT THE FLOWERS. 
Protection is getting to be the habit in 
Pennsylvania. They have protected the small 
hoy from the deadly cigarette, the birds of plum¬ 
age against the ravages of the milliner, and now 
Prof. Marion Mackenzie has issued a circular 
praying for the protection of wild flowers and 
calling for legislative action. He names a score 
of the State’s beauties which he claims are in 
peril of extinction from their native haunts, 
among them many of the common variety. 
Conservation is a great blessing, but it does 
seem like carrying it too far to take away from 
the children, and grown-up city folk, who go 
afield now and then, the greatest joy of the out¬ 
ing, the plucking of a bunch of wild flowers, to 
take back to the heated city where flowers are 
found only in parks and florist shop windows. 
REVISED GAME LAWS. 
Just as fast as we obtain them, the 1913 game 
laws of different States will appear in Forest 
and Stream. Only important revisions will be 
printed, because of limited space. Complete 
amendments may be had by subscribers on appli¬ 
cation to the editor of Forest and Stream. 
Mrs. Norma Frederic Gibdoney, ore of the 
prettiest young women in the South, noted for 
her sportsmanship and prominent in social 
circles, has been appointed game warden for 
Mobile county to protect game birds and fish 
near her country home. 
This is the first known instance of a woman 
ho'ding such a position. 
The Arch Archer’of All. 
BY LONG BOW. 
Ilf bows and strings. 
Your poet sings. 
Of archery’s revival; 
And yet to me 
.\I1 praise should be 
For archery’s survival. 
My renown’d skill 
Forever will 
Make other efforts stupid; 
Each score a miss. 
For. note you this, 
4 am bold Dan Cupid. 
