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FOREST AND STREAM 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company 
Chas. A. Hazen, President Charles L. Wise, Treasurer 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary Russell A. Lewis, Gen. Mgr. 
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BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE STARS. 
All outdoor people are interested in the stars. 
Who’ has better opportunity of observing them 
than the men and women who spend their vaca¬ 
tions in the open, far from the smoke and dust 
that obscure the gorgeous pageant of the 
heavens? He who has not, amid the solitude 
of Nature, observed the majestic sweep of the 
constellations and planets, has missed something. 
But while the beauty of the starlit night may 
thrill the observer, appreciation can come only 
through actual knowledge of the great star 
groups, and familiarity with them. To locate 
and pick out by name some blazing marcher 
across the sky, ought to afford as much pleasure 
as the capture of an angler’s prize, we will say, 
or the consummation of a successful hunt. 
Forest and Stream takes pleasure in presenting 
on another page, through the courtesy of its 
neighbor, “The Scientific American,” a night sky 
map for August and September, together with an 
accompanying descriptive guide which will enable 
anyone to read the heavens during this month 
and in September. Put this copy of Forest and 
Stream in your equipment when you go into the 
woods; study it occasionally; your pleasure will 
be enhanced; the horizon of the heavens, and 
your own as well, will be broadened. 
WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE AND GAME PRO¬ 
TECTION. 
Capitola, California, July 8, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Forest and Stream, as the pioneer sportsman’s 
publication to advocate and to continuously hold 
before its sportsmen readers the vital necessity 
of prohibiting the sale of game everywhere, will 
doubtless find a certain news interest in any word 
from California—which state is threatened, not 
only with the repeal of recently enacted no-sale- 
of-game legislation, and which result may be ac¬ 
complished by the success of the referendum upon 
ihe said legislation, but also by an initiative—the 
petition for which is now in circulation, and the 
provisions of which, if successful, will throw open 
the markets to the unrestricted sale of all game 
fish and of every species of wild game not pro¬ 
tected by the Federal Migratory Bird Bill. 
These measures, which were openly and ad¬ 
mittedly fathered by the most notorious of the 
game-law-violating game dealers of San Fran¬ 
cisco, and for the very Obvious purpose of profit¬ 
ing by the sale of game during the Exposition 
year, have achieved an unaccountable popularity 
among the rank and file of the gun users of the 
state and there is grave danger of their carry¬ 
ing at the general state election next November. 
The California State, Fish, Game and Forest 
Protective League—which is the one active state 
protective association in California—through its 
Publicity Department, has flooded the entire state 
with no-sale literature and with personal letters 
of appeal to the influential people of every com¬ 
munity and has received its most encouragement 
from a source least expected—the club women f 
California. These are a mighty political factor 
and are almost unanimous in their disinterested 
desire to preserve to the state what little wild life 
remains to it. These, although deriving no profit 
of sport or pocket from the pursuit of game, 
have unselfishly pledged their united and con¬ 
tinued opposition to any movement looking to its 
sale, and have officially declared, through the 
adoption of no-sale-of-game resolutions at their 
annual state convention, their willingness to 
sacrifice, in large measure, their use of game as 
food, that the living wild things of our forests 
and fields may escape the merciless and devastat¬ 
ing slaughter of the conscienceless market gunner. 
However much abnegation we may find among 
the feminine voters of the state, very little of this 
quality is evidenced in its casual male game-eat¬ 
er, and we find this element playing up to the 
professional game killer regardless of anything 
other than his right—seldom or never to be ex¬ 
ercised to buy game in the markets. 
The unrestricted sale of game during the Ex¬ 
position year will decimate our wild game life to 
nearly if not quite the vanishing point and we 
appeal to Forest and Stream to sound the note 
of warning to its many sportsmen readers in this 
state, that a hard and bitter fight is before them 
if they may hope to retain a sporting use in the 
game of California, and their present culpable 
indifference must give place to active and united 
effort if the rapidly growing pro-sale sentiment 
is to be checked and the commercial interests are 
to be withheld from securing the commercial use 
of every faunal feature of cur state. 
WALTER R. WELCH, Fish and Game War¬ 
den of Santa Cruz Co., Cal. 
[It is mighty gratifying to know that woman’s 
suffrage is in favor of non-sale of game and in 
its preservation. We have an example of the 
individual woman’s power in the Mrs. Russell 
Sage’s purchase of Avery Island for bird life, but 
this is the first instance whereby wild life has 
been given a practical demonstration of the help¬ 
fulness of woman’s vote in matters of interest to 
sportsmen. Let us hope both female and male 
voters in California will work unceasingly to 
keep California from committing the awful 
crime hoped for by the market hunter on the 
Pacific Coast. Congratulations to the women and 
the red blooded man of California—Editor] 
THE DOG IN THE CITY. 
We do not believe in the mad dog proposition 
other than to think that any dog would get mad 
(using the term as a synonym for angry) at 
being housed in a city. The city is no place for 
a dog nor has the dog any place in the city; 
neither is good for'the other. It seems to us 
that an ordinance should be passed in every city 
of over fifty thousand inhabitants, prohibiting 
the keeping of a dog, either lap or man’s size. 
This would relieve the heat and noise-crazed 
animal from the imaginary charge of being 
“mad,” relieve the feelings of the parents whose 
children needs must find their recreation in the 
street and add considerably to city sanitation. 
We love the dog sufficiently to realize that the 
city puts an unfair strain on him and our 
humanitarianism goes further in that we know 
the city dog puts an unfair strain on city 
parents. A city ordinance would relieve both 
man and man’s best friend. 
FOREST AND STREAM CUPS. 
Great is the competition for Forest and Stream 
trophies among hotels where they are placed for 
the big fish, trout, bass, pickerel, lunge, tuna and 
other varieties of salt and fresh water fish. A 
twenty-fiive and a half pound pickerel already 
is high for one trophy, a five and a half pound 
bass and a four pound trout appear on other re¬ 
ports. The. silver cups, with no subscription 
strings attached, are found only in first class 
hotels, where we know fishing to be of the finest 
and we recommend to Forest and Stream read¬ 
ers, these hotels, list of which appears fre¬ 
quently in Forest and Stream. Just bear in 
mind one salient feature of this trophy contest. 
It is absolutely free. There is no entrance fee, 
nor any other string. The only requirement is 
that you be a registered guest at one of the 
fifty or more hotels where cups are offered. Suc¬ 
cess to your cast. 
GAME PROTECTOR DEFENDS HIMSELF. 
Ticonderoga, Aug. 3, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
On pages 11 and 12 of the July 4, 1914, issue 
of the Forest and Stream, “A Sportsman” of 
Port Henry, N. Y., holds forth with an abusive 
tirade against the local Game Protector’s so- 
called blunders in Crown Point. 
I have been the local game protector for the 
past four years and claim to know somewhat of 
the doings in regard to the enforcement of the 
Conservation Law, and I deny that there have 
been any such happenings as related by “A 
Sportsman.” I deny that there has been any 
boy fined for taking bass. I also deny that the 
local game protector ever arrested a man under 
the Sullivan law and confiscated his gun. It 
seems as though any lawyer even with a half an 
ounce of brains ought to know that game protec¬ 
tors have no jurisdiction under the Sullivan law. 
The “unkindest cut” of all is the dialect that 
“A Sportsman” attributes to the local protector. 
While the local protector does not claim to be 
a college graduate or even a lawyer, he does 
claim to speak the English language. 
We game protectors are human and do make 
mistakes, but I again deny that any such thing 
has happened in Crown Point since I have been 
game protector, and I call upon “A Sportsman” 
to prove his statements or apologize to the local 
protector. Also come out and sign his name to 
his letters like a real sportsman. 
F. G. THOMAS, Game Protector. 
