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FOREST AND STREAM 
Nov. 2, 1912 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary. S. J.-Gibson, Treasurer. 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
PAINTINGS OF ANCIENT TIMES. 
A little more than a year ago Forest and 
Stream printed an illustrated article describing 
some of the paintings of animals made on the 
walls of caverns in Southern Europe by the men 
who made and used tools and implements only 
of stone and bone. Some of these paintings 
then figured showed a high degree of artistic 
skill and are altogether wonderful. 
Last summer another French cavern with 
paleolithic mural engravings was discovered near 
St. Girons, in Southern France, by Count Be- 
gouen, of Toulouse. The walls of the great 
cavern, which is very difficult of access, were 
adorned by figures of half a dozen horses, a 
number of bison, a single reindeer, and some 
other figures, as yet not identified. The drawing 
of the reindeer has a special interest as showing 
the existence of that animal in this southern 
region at that time. 
As it happened, Prof. Henry Fairfield Os¬ 
born, of the American Museum of Natural His¬ 
tory, and George Grant McCurdy, of the Pea¬ 
body Museum of Yale University, were in France 
at the time, and being advised of the discovery, 
visited the place and were shown through the 
cavern by Count Begouen. On this visit other 
drawings and sculpture were found. 
The cavern is one of great beauty and will 
be protected by Count Begouen, who is the 
Mayor of the Commune in which it is situated. 
Absolutely unknown heretofore, it has yet 
been previously visited, for at one point during 
the first visit Count Begouen and his sons dis¬ 
covered a name with the date 1689, and at an¬ 
other point a name and the date 1701. They 
found also a small pit which seemed to have 
been recently dug in the search for primitive im¬ 
plements. 
It is a matter of great interest that Prof. 
McCurdy, who has given us the first summary 
of these ancient mural paintings, happened to be 
so near the spot at the time of this discovery, 
and was able almost at once to be on the ground. 
FORESTS NEED PROTECTION. 
The Department of Agriculture has recently 
issued a statement declaring that for some years 
past forest fires in the United States have caused 
an average annual loss of seventy human lives, 
the destruction of trees worth at least $25,000,000 
and the loss of stock, crops, buildings and other 
improvements amounting to many millions more. 
It is very desirable that careful statistics on this 
point should be made public, for the reason that 
Congress seems unwilling to make adequate ap¬ 
propriations for the proper care of the national 
and other forests, and their effective protection 
against fire. 
It is difficult to understand the mental atti¬ 
tude of certain Western representatives in Con¬ 
gress. Notwithstanding the fact that it is espe¬ 
cially the Western country that has suffered the 
greatest losses from forest fires within the past 
few years, these representatives bitterly oppose 
appropriations looking toward more effective 
forest protection. If we recollect aright it was 
a Congressman from Idaho—where only two or 
three years ago there occurred terrible destruc¬ 
tion of human life, private property and forests 
—who most bitterly opposed every movement 
looking toward better control of fires. 
Even among the representatives chosen by 
the American people to enact their laws, the 
growth of intelligence in some matters of this 
kind seems deplorably slow. Nevertheless, if 
slow, it is. we believe, steady, and before very 
long it is likely to become a force strong enough 
to cause the enactment of laws, and their en¬ 
forcement, which will save much life and much 
property. 
FOREST AND STREAM’S PLATFORM. 
Our neighbor, Forest and Stream, asks; ‘‘Have 
you observed the improvement in I-’orest and Stream?” 
We have. It seems to be waking up. We fail, how¬ 
ever, to observe that it is aware how rapidly the game 
is being made abundant irr many places and how soon 
the markets will be filled with cheap game. Does 
Forest and Stream still favor the prohibition of profit¬ 
able propagation? Does it still stand on its old platform 
prohibiting the sale of desirable foods? Does it still 
believe that one or two shots in a week or in a season 
are enough to satisfy the demands of sport and the 
makers of arms and ammunition? 
The above observations are from our neigh¬ 
bor, “Game Breeder.” Our only rejoinder is that 
we are glad our editorial mite has done some¬ 
thing toward making possible the honest state¬ 
ment, “How rapidly game is being made abund¬ 
ant in many places.” Had it not been for the 
herculean efforts of conservationists, of whom 
Forest and Stream has been the mouthpiece, the 
quotation would have been paraphrased thus: 
“How rapidly game is being made scarcer every¬ 
where.” Editorially, on the question of game 
protection, bag limit and open season, Forest and 
Stream stands exactly where it has stood since 
Aug. 14, 1873—for moderation. 
Forest and Stream is specially edited to 
make it a high class publication. Its various 
departments are prepared with this idea in view. 
“SPORTSMAN.” 
More or less fanciful distinctions have been 
drawn between the “sportsman” and the “sport.” 
We venture a new one. In the woods the visit¬ 
ing angler or shooter is commonly called a 
“sport,” and his guide speaks of him as “my 
sport.” Now a good working distinction be¬ 
tween a “sport” and a “sportsman” is this: A 
“sport” is one who goes into the woods in charge 
of a guide to show him the way, finds the game 
and tells him when to shoot. A “sportsman” is 
one who goes into the woods by himself, or with 
a cook, finds his way and his own game, and 
shoots his game when he knows that it is game 
and not a man. The “true sportsman” is one 
who goes into the woods with a guide at $3.50 
a day, and shows the guide the way around and 
leads him back to the trail when he gets lost. 
And the “true sportsman” of this type is not 
unknown in the Maine woods. 
The State Department has transmitted to 
the Japanese and British Government checks in 
payment of the amounts appropriated by Con¬ 
gress at the last session to enable the Secretary 
of Commerce and Labor to pay those Govern¬ 
ments, under the fur seal treaty, the sum of 
$200,000 each for the abandonment of the fur 
seal industry in the Bering Sea and North Pacific 
Ocean by the respective nations. This treaty was 
negotiated between the Governments of this 
country, Japan, England and Russia to prevent 
the threatened destruction of the seals. How 
well the work of reclaiming the seals is pro¬ 
gressing is evidenced by the report of the Bureau 
of Fisheries, which states that the seal pack is 
the largest in approximately fifteen years with 
the possible exception of one year. The bureau 
shows that there are 90000 more seals in the 
rookeries up in the Bering region than there 
were last year. Of this number the females have 
increased from 39,400 to 81,934. This large in¬ 
crease in numbers is attributed by the bureau to 
the suspension of pelagic sealing and poaching, 
over which such a bitter controversy has been 
waged in Congress during the past 
The Open Road. 
BY ROBERT PAGE LINCOLN. 
O, the winding road shall take me 
Out into the fields unhampered, 
And the glorious day shall make me 
Free of heart and free of mind. 
There shall be no sun-ways pampered 
By the mock illusion born us. 
And the song of birds shall ease me 
When upon the sod reclined. 
I shall hear the breezes whisper 
Tender notes among the flowers, 
Feel the soft requiem of vesper 
Fall upon the twilight hills. 
I shall wander to the sunset, 
Where the gold is hoarded lavish, 
Far into the land of dreaming 
On the quiet shores of peace. 
There no more to bend in slavish 
Toil throughout the weary hour. 
Only that which is and seeming 
Stirring with the stately trees. 
Then for me the brooks will murmur 
And the night will find me quiet, 
Where the stars look down upon me 
In between the boughs of fir, 
And the evening hour from riot 
Of pure gold make labor free. 
