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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. s, 1907. 
The Season in North Carolina. 
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 27 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Secretary Bruner, of the State Board 
of Agriculture and Curator Brimley, of the State 
Museum, devoted several days immediately be¬ 
fore the holidays to their annual hunt at the large 
lakes. near Havelock, but the weather was so 
warm until the last day that they had extremely 
poor sport. The lands belong to James A. 
Bryan, of Newbem, and cover some 30,000 acres, 
including three lakes. There were a great many 
ducks and geese, but they were flying high and 
seemed to be wandering everywhere. The last 
day was intensely cold, a blizzard raging, and 
there was but little good shooting. The cold 
which then set in still continued and has been 
the most remarkable on record in this part of 
North Carolina during the holiday season, the 
temperature here at Raleigh Christmas day being 
14 degrees and the ice being an inch and a quarter 
in thickness. 
The collection of game birds of the State is 
being made absolutely complete, in order that it 
may be exhibited at the Jamestown Exposition. 
North Carolina will have a building there and it 
is quite probable that a section of this will be 
devoted to this particular feature. The num¬ 
ber of specimens already mounted is something 
over 200. The fish and the game animals will 
also been shown. 
State Auditor Dixon and State Treasurer Lacy, 
accompanied by several other sportsmen, devoted 
three days this week to hunting at Carteret 
Lodge, which is near Morehead City and about a 
mile from salt water. There are 20,000 acres in 
this preserve and it is owned by the Dukes of 
Durham and other very wealthy men, being in 
charge of Superintendent Hewitt. Some of the 
best shooting in the State is to be had there. 
A charter has been granted to a company which 
will have a very extensive preserve for game not 
far from Fayetteville, taking in parts of Cumber¬ 
land and Moore counties. There will be about 
40,000 acres in this, and it is understood that 
options have been secured on some other lands, 
which will either be leased or else taxes will be 
paid upon them for the shooting privilege. 
As yet no snow has fallen in North Carolina 
and birds have had a very easy time of it every¬ 
where, as there is plenty of food for them, not¬ 
withstanding the almost complete failure of the 
field peas. The shooting is very good at Pine- 
hurst in spite of the fact that the weather has 
in general been extremely dry. It is but telling 
the truth to say that the best shooting is going 
to be had in North Carolina in January and 
February. November, with the exeception of a 
very few days, was extremely unfavorable, there 
being a drought of remarkable length, while in 
December the days fit for shooting have been but 
few. Fred A. Olds. 
North Carolina Game Law. 
A committee of the active members of the Au¬ 
dubon Society of North Carolina has issued the 
following, call to those interested in the preserva¬ 
tion of birds and game in their State: 
“Despite the most earnest efforts of the State 
Audubon Society to foster and protect the birds 
and game of the State, certain species are in 
many sections being rapidly depleted in numbers. 
This condition is most certainly due in large part 
to the inadequacy of our present game laws. For 
example there are a great number of local laws 
whereby the open seasons in adjoining counties 
vary greatly, some counties not even protecting 
at any time, partridges, wild turkeys, deer and 
other game. Again, the open market for game 
during the closed season in most of the counties 
of the State offers an inducement for pot-hun¬ 
ters to ply their craft with great profit. 
“There are many who believe that the netting 
and trapping of partridges should be absolutely 
stopped, unless it be under permits for purposes 
of propagation on game preserves. At present 
only five counties in the State prohibit this des¬ 
tructive method of taking game. There are other 
points regarding the protection of game which 
should be brought before the attention of the 
coming meeting of the General Assembly. 
“In order that these matters may be fully dis¬ 
cussed and concerted action taken, a convention 
of bird lovers and those interested in game pro¬ 
tection is hereby called to meet in the Raney 
Library, Raleigh, N. C., on Jan. 17, 1907, at 11 
o’clock A. M. Delegates are looked for from 
every county in North Carolina.” 
Westminster Kennel Club Show. 
Mr. James Mortimer, superintendent of the 
Westminster Kennel Club Show, fixed to be held 
Feb. 12 to 13 inclusive, announces the list of 
judges and their assignments as follows : 
Roger D. Williams, Lexington, Ky.—Blood¬ 
hounds, deerhounds, greyhounds, foxhounds, 
Samoyedes, and whippets. 
James J. Lynn, Port Huron, Mich.—Mastiffs 
and fox terriers. 
Dudley E. Waters, Grand Rapid-s, Mich.—St. 
Bernards. 
B. Ulrich, Nuremberg, Germany.-—Great Danes 
and dachshunds. 
Dr. J. E. De Mund, Bensonhurst, N. Y.— 
Russian wolfhounds and Newfoundlands. 
William Arkwright, Sutton Scarsdale, England. 
•—Pointers, basset hounds, and retrievers. 
Major J. M. Taylor, Rutherford, N. J.—Eng¬ 
lish, Irish, and Gordon setters, Chesapeake Bay 
dogs. 
H. K. Bloodgood, New Marlborough, Mass.— 
Sporting spaniels and poodles. 
Thomas Cadwalader, Fort Washington, Penn. 
—Beagles. 
W. Ormiston Roy, Montreal, Province of Que¬ 
bec.—Collies. 
J. W. Morgan, Montclair, N. J.—Old English 
sheep dogs. 
Alfred B. Maclay, Westbury, L. I.—Dalma¬ 
tians. 
Henry C. Beadleston, New York City.—Bull¬ 
dogs. 
Theodore Offerman, New York, N. Y.—Aire¬ 
dale terriers. 
W. Freeland Kendrick, Philadelphia, Penn.— 
Bull terriers. 
C. G. Hopton, East Orange, N. J.—Chow 
chows, French bulldogs, Schipperkes, Chihua¬ 
huas, Italian greyhounds, Papillons, and miscel¬ 
laneous class. 
F._ A. Feeling, Charlestown, Mass.—Boston 
terriers. 
John Sergeant Price, Jr., Chestnut - Hill, Penn. 
—Irish terriers. 
B. S. Smith,_ Closter, N. J.—Welsh terriers. 
T. S. Beilin, Minneapolis, Minn.—Scottish, 
Roseneath, Skye, Bedlington, Dandie Dinmont, 
black and tan, Yorkshire, and other toy terriers. 
Mrs. Reginald F. Mayhew, Clifton, S. I.— 
Pomeranians, Pekinese spaniels, Griffons, Brux¬ 
ellois, and pugs. 
Mrs. W. W. Hadley, New York.-^English toy 
spaniels and Japanese spaniels. 
“In The Lodges of the Blackfeet.” 
It is expected to issue in January next, in book 
form, the work which, under the above title, ran 
through many numbers of Forest and Stream 
and made a sensation. The book in permanent 
form will be published under another title, “My 
Life as, an Indian,” and over another name, 
that o-f J. W. Schultz. We are prepared to re¬ 
ceive orders for the volume and we expect a 
great many. Here is a story which our readers 
justly recognized as a very remarkable one. The 
scene, laid on the plains in the picturesque times 
of the buffalo chase, and of war with hostile neigh¬ 
bors, is vivid and animated. It is history, yet 
history full of romance. It is a tale whose faith¬ 
fulness is soon recognized by every reader. The 
editorial note by which it is prefaced says : 
“The book has extraordinary interest as a 
human document. It is a study of human nature 
in red. The hunter has penetrated through the 
veil of racial difference and misunderstanding 
and has got close to the heart of the people about 
whom he writes. Such an intimate revelation 
of the domestic life of the Indians has never be¬ 
fore been, written. The sympathetic insight every¬ 
where evident is everywhere convincing. We feel 
that the men and the women portrayed are men 
and women of actual living existence. And while 
in the lodges on the Marias, the elemental pas¬ 
sions have fuller and franker sway, we recognize 
in the Blackfoot as here revealed a creature of 
common humanity like our own. His are the 
same loves and hates and hopes and fears. The 
motives which move him are those which move 
us. The Indian is the white man without the 
veneer of civilization.” 
The price of the volume, which will be illus¬ 
trated, will be $1.50. 
“Jack, the Young Canoeman.” 
Among the books published last autumn was 
another one of the “Jack” series by George Bird 
Grinnell under the above title. Mr. Grinned has 
written a series of these “Jack” books which deal 
with the adventures of the hero in various por- , 
tions of the western country twenty or twenty- 
five years ago. These books treat of outdoor 
life and are full of natural history, hunting ad¬ 
venture and reminiscences of 'the earlier west. 
The present volume describes the adventures 
of Jack during a canoe voyage along the const 
of British Columbia. Of it the Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer says: “It is filled with information about 
outdoor life, which, however, is so artfully dif¬ 
fused as to- leave unabated the interest aroused 
by the numerous adventures of Jack and his lid 
friend Hugh Johnson, two Vancouver Island 
Indians and the famous cobbler naturalist of 
British Columbia.” The story is a wholesome one, 
which can be recommended. 
It is illustrated by sketches by E. W. Deming, 
and by reproductions of photographs. Price $1.25. 
A Sailor of Fortune. 
Under this title, McClure, Phillips & Co. have 
issued the personal memoirs of Capt. B. S. 
Osbon, which were brought together by Albert 
Bigelow Payne and published in Pearson’s Maga¬ 
zine. Our readers will recall Capt. Osbon’s 
stories printed in Forest and Stream —especially 
his dog stories and a tiger shooting adventure— 
which appeared a year or two ago. 
The life of which this volume tells has been 
one of stirring adventure. The volume is thrill¬ 
ing and gives us many intimate details of a 
sailor’s life in many waters and of the Navy in 
the Civil War which are of great historical in¬ 
terest. 
Capt. Osbon was born in 1827 and is still alive, 
hale and hearty. His adventures commenced 
early, for as a boy of eleven he ran away from 
home and began his sea life on the Hudson, be¬ 
coming “a towpath engineer” on the canal west 
of Troy. He first saw salt water on a pilot boat 
in New York harbor, went to sea as a cabin boy 
before he was fourteen, and from this time on 
was by turns whaler, trader, Arctic voyager, 
officer in the Argentine Navy, lecturer and 
reporter, but always sailor. It .would be hard to 
name a quarter of the globe that he has not 
visited, and wherever he went, he kept his eyes 
wide open and strove to carry away something 
that was worth holding on to. It is this that 
fills the story with interest and excitement. 
At the beginning of the war, Capt. Osbon took 
part in the second attempt to relieve Sumter. 
Lie was present at the taking of Port Royal and 
was later on the flagship with Farragut when 
he passed the forts at New Orleans and up the 
Mississippi river. At the close of the war he 
was engaged to create a navy for Mexico, Presi¬ 
dent Juarez, then just installed as the ruler of 
that country, haying authorized Gen. Carvajal to 
secure an American officer who was competent 
to create and command a fleet. But while Capt. 
Osbon received his appointment as Admiral, and 
even took command of the single river steamer 
which then constituted the Mexican navy, the 
times were too troublous and Capt. Osbon pres¬ 
ently resigned. And so with up and down ad- j 
ventures the years passed to the time of the 
Spanish War, in which Capt. Osbon discovered ij 
the Spanish fleet at Curacao-. 
The style of the narrative throughout the book 
is simple, but wonderfully vivid and attractive, 
and the volume is one which is deserving of a 
real popularity. Price, $1.50. 
