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FOREST AND STREAM 
SAFETY FIRST 
You hear it everywhere. The 
Safety is one of the superior 
points of the “Gun that Blocks 
the Sears.” The Safety which 
makes accidental discharge 
impossible. 
established 1853 N. R. DAVIS & SONS, L ° ck 60517 ° 7 ’ Assonet, Mass. 
ALONG THE SHORES. 
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aglow, we learn of the fish and game conditions 
of the section. Our hosts also describing the 
lay of the adjacent waters and with grave mis¬ 
givings, predict calamity for us and disaster for 
our little cratt on the broad waters of the dis¬ 
tant beyond. 
On the shore of the moonlight river we bid 
our hosts—“Good Night”—and are soon back in 
catnip, in our blankets and in dreamland. 
The mist, chased by a gentle breeze is lifting 
and drifting off the river as we pull out the next 
morning. Off the bungalow we fire a parting 
salute to our friends, who appear at windows 
and doors and answer in like manner. The 
shot from one of their barrels, sprinkles the 
river astern as we wave and shout our final fare¬ 
wells. 
(To be continued). 
MARYLAND SEASON ENDS. 
Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 29.—Last Thursday 
saw the end of the hunting season in Washing¬ 
ton county and throughout the State of Mary¬ 
land. Under the new state wide law the season 
which began on November 10 closed the day be¬ 
fore Christmas. 
The season had been shortened considerably 
by the new law and it is said was far from being 
a successful one. Under the old law the season 
opened for squirrels on September 1, and for 
rabbits, partridges and pheasants and other game 
on November 1. It ended the same time as under 
the present law. In this manner the squirrel 
season was shortened about 10 days. 
While there were quite a few rabbits killed 
earlier in the season, yet, judging from reports, 
there were but few squirrels and partridges to 
find their way to the huntsman’s bag, and in this 
respect the season was a disappointment. It has 
been pointed out that the partridges have been a 
scarcity in Washington County for years past, 
and that this year was not worse than those of 
the past. The season’s success in hunting for 
squirrels was just what was expected—a disap¬ 
pointment. When the season for killing this 
wily little animal opened on November 10, the 
leaves were so far off the trees that it was use¬ 
less to hunt. When the leaves are off the trees 
no protection is afforded the hunter and the 
squirrel has all the opportunity to see an ap¬ 
proaching hunter. As a result the squirrel hunts 
the hole in the tree where he makes his home. 
Long before the hunting season opened reports 
HAWAIIAN FISHES 
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stripes of different colors around the body. The 
“flag fish” has blue stars on his head and red 
stripes on its body. 
By way of contrast to the beautiful fish, there 
will be a tank occupied exclusively by octopuses 
or devilfish, which are pretty neither of form nor 
coloring. The largest of these unlovely creatures 
has tentacles two and one-half feet in length, but 
is a pigmy in comparison with the great cephalop- 
ods that could be exhibited if there was room for 
them. A collection of sea turtles may also be in¬ 
cluded in the exhibit. 
Pending the arrival of the “rainbow fish,” the 
tanks intended for their occupancy are being tried 
out, with fish taken from San Francisco bay. By 
this means will be ascertained the existence of any 
poisonous matter from the tank linings and its 
source removed before the more precious tenants 
are installed. Each tank will be equipped with 
sand and coral rocks from Honolulu harbor. In 
fact, nothing is to be left undone that could pos¬ 
sibly make the transplanted fish feel as if they 
were still in their native waters. 
There will be other piscatory exhibits at the 
Panama-Pacific Exposition, but none to rival in 
eye-tpleasing splendor the one in the Hawaiian pa¬ 
vilion. Oregon will show how salmon are cap¬ 
tured and canned along the Columbia river, Wash¬ 
ington will display the fish life of Puget Sound 
and its tributaries, and the United States Bureau 
of Fisheries promises to have the most exhaustive 
show it has ever attempted at an international ex¬ 
position, including two live fur seals, from the 
Pribyiloff Islands, and other specimens of marine 
and fresh water life, that will be distributed be¬ 
tween thirty large tanks and three pools, to say 
nothing of fish hatcheries in actual operation. 
But each of these exhibits is entitled to a sep¬ 
arate story. 
came to Hagerstown that the law was being vio¬ 
lated and that squirrels were being killed. Peo¬ 
ple took the view that if they were to kill any 
squirrels at all they had to do it before the leaves 
fell from the trees, and for this reason the law 
was probably violated. 
What interfered with the hunting season 
probably more seriously than anything else was 
the outbreak in the county and state of the foot 
and mouth disease, which led to the proclama¬ 
tion of a quarantine by the Governor and the 
forbidding of hunting with dogs. This caused 
great inconvenience to hunters, and little game 
was bagged on account of their inability to use 
dogs to find the game. The ban on hunting with 
dogs was received here with much regret by 
sportsmen. Lovers of game see in the present 
cold spell and snow the death of many of the 
remaining partridges in the county. This kind 
of weather has always been hard on game here, 
and particularly on partridges. With the ground 
covered with snow the birds cannot obtain food. 
At the same time it has been so extremely cold 
that with no shelter afforded it is feared that 
many of the birds have frozen. This has hap¬ 
pened many times before in this county and ac¬ 
count, in a measure, for scarcity of game here. 
There have been times, however, where persons 
living in the country have taken care of the 
birds, feeding them and giving them shelter. In 
many cases the birds hardly ever stray from the 
farm and in this way are cared for throughout 
the winter, and remain on the same place very '( 
often during the summer and fall. Sometimes 
hunting on those farms is prohibited by the 
owner, and in this way the birds increase in 
number. - 
DANIEL BOONE GUN CLUB. 
Marthasville, Mo., Dec. 29, 1914. 
Cold weather and a hazy sky with a wind from, 
the back made the targets difficult to break at 
the Daniel Boone Gun Club shoot at Marthas¬ 
ville, Mo. Fourteen shooters faced the traps in 
the first event, of which there were five at 10 tar¬ 
gets each. C. Kite had a remarkable score of 
49x50, missing his thirty-ninth bird and won the 
gold quail pin donated by the DuPont people. 
Mr. Harbaner, a visitor of the Warrenton, Mo., 
Gun Club, was high with 45x50, who with Mr. 
Wilson, our former secretary, drove down in the 
cold to shoot with us. The following were the 
scores made: C. Kite, 49x50; Wm. Haibaner, 
45x50; A. F. Ahman, 43x50; Otto Pronstrup, 
43x50; G. Lichtenberg, 42x50; J. Wyatt, 40x50; 
J. Mutert, 39x50; E. E. Suhre, 39x50; O. Berg, 
37x50; F. H. Suhre, 36x50; J. O. Wilson, 33x50; 
R. Gardyne, 20x40; W. Gardyne, 10x20; F. Koel- 
ling, 4x10. E. E. SUHRE, Sec’y. 
FORD HIGH GUN. 
Manoa, Pa., Dec. 26.—Ford was high gun at 
the Meadow Spring Gun Club here to-day with 
89, winning a spoon. Other scores were: Coyle, 
87; Williams and Sloane, 85 apiece, and H. H. 
Roberts, 74. With a handicap of 4% Williams 
captured the club spoon by breaking 44, and 
Sloan, for high actual shot in 50 also won a 
prize. 
